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{"text": "Impact Report Thank you for being part of our VeloSano family. Our primary goal is to fund cancer research, and continue to make scientific discoveries that lead to better outcomes, and, ultimately, cures. (Photo: Cleveland Clinic researchers featured at the 2018 Kickoff Party) Projects Funded in 2018 VeloSano supports projects that will build upon and transition recent advancements in cancer research into new diagnostics and therapeutics with a high likelihood of leading to successful, future, extramural grant funding. In its first four years, VeloSano has generated over $12.5 million which has been used to fund 90 cancer research projects. VeloSano 4 (2017) alone raised $4.1 million and funded the following Pilot and Impact Projects that were awarded in 2018:. Brain Cancer Pilot Award Brain Cancer Hypoxia Drives Glioma Stell Cell Migration and Invasion via Vasorin-TGFbeta Signaling Principal Investigator Jennifer Yu, MD, PhD Radiation Oncology Taussig Cancer Institute Cancer stem cells reside in hypoxic areas, are highly invasive and contribute to tumor progression. These cells are particularly difficult to treat because they are inherently resistant to conventional therapy, and their microenvironment reduces the efficacy of radiation and impairs delivery of chemotherapy. Glioblastoma is an incurable primary brain tumor that is characterized by regions of hypoxia and invasion into surrounding brain. This work will reveal a novel mechanism by which hypoxia drives GSC migration/invasion. If successful, the findings of this study will provide a strong rationale for the development of therapeutics aimed at targeting GSCs and, in particular, inhibiting their migration and invasion. In Other Words Glioblastoma is an incurable brain cancer. Cancer stem cells drive cancer progression and thrive in hypoxia (lowoxygen). The goal of this study is to understand how hypoxia drives cancer stem cells to invade normal brain, and in doing so, devise new therapeutic strategies to target invading cancer stem cells. Blood Cancer Pilot Award Blood Cancer Effects of synthetic-lethal compounds in models of SF-3B1 mutant myelodysplastic syndrome Principal Investigator Valeria Visconte, PhD Translational Hematology and Oncology Research Taussig Cancer Institute Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are blood cancers affecting hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Approximately 60-80% of patients with MDS manifest with anemia due to the inadequate production of red blood cells. Genetic mutations in the splicing factor 3B, subunit 1 (SF3B1) gene are hallmark alterations in MDS with ringed sideroblasts, one of the most common subtypes of MDS. Changes in SF3B1 gene associate with defects in the production of red blood cells and deregulation of iron metabolism. SF3B1 encodes for a protein that is involved in RNA-splicing, a process required for the transfer of genetic information from DNA to messenger RNA which are then translated into proteins. RNA-splicing is a ubiquitous process affecting nearly 95% of all human genes. Agents modulating RNA-splicing have been developed but limited success has been achieved in designing small molecules targeting only cells with SF3B1 alterations. Because splicing is so ubiquitous, specific approaches are needed to avoid toxicities. We recently identified a small molecule agonist (STF-62247) that blocked the growth of cells with SF3B1 mutations without affecting normal cells. We further believe that one or more of these compounds will work its way up to become a novel precision treatment drug for MDS patients that harbor malignant hematopoietic stem cell clones with SF3B1 mutations. In Other Words Development of novel drugs targeting myelodysplastic syndromes with splicing factor 3b subunit 1 (SF3B1) mutations. Lung Cancer Pilot Award Lung Cancer Synergistic effects of interleukin-12 proinflammatory cytokine therapy with PD1 blockade Principal Investigator Ahmad Tarhini, MD, PhD Hematology Oncology Taussig Cancer Institute Cancers are able to evade detection and destruction by the immune system and one of the most promising treatment strategies is the use of medications that enhance the patient’s own immune response against cancer. Pembrolizumab is one such immunotherapeutic agent that blocks a regulatory mechanism called PD1 that suppresses the immune system and limits its ability to fight cancer. However, PD1 blockade has modest to limited efficacy in a variety of cancers, but also has a safety profile that makes it ideal for optimized therapeutic combinations that may enhance the patient’s immune response. Prior studies support a combination strategy that involves so-called proinflammatory cytokines such as IL-12 that may enhance the immune reactivity of tumors (or cancers) and may increase the likelihood of response in tumors resistant to PD1 blockade. This strategy is being tested within the ongoing NCI10061 study (Tarhini, National Chair) that is testing IL-12 in combination with pembrolizumab. This laboratory project will be nested within NCI10061. For the first time, we will evaluate the impact of IL-12 on the immune system in the tumor and in the patient’s blood assessed simultaneously based on common systems biology, initially with IL-12 alone and with the later addition of pembrolizumab. Mechanistic studies in mouse models will allow us to define the underlying mechanisms of immune activity and resistance in order to optimize this approach and establish a foundation for future combinations. We hypothesize that IL-12 will promote a systemic antitumor response enhancing the immune reactivity of the tumor. In Other Words Harnessing the power of cytokine therapy (IL-12) to promote anti-tumor activity in tumors resistant to immunotherapy. Lung Cancer Pilot Award Lung Cancer The OAS-RNASE L Pathway Mediates Tumor Cell Death From 5-Azacytidine Treatment Principal Investigator Robert Silverman, PhD Cancer Biology Lerner Research Institute Epigenetic drugs, such as 5-azacytidine (AZA), alter DNA without changing the DNA sequence itself. These drugs are used clinically to treat certain types of cancer including myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia. In addition, AZA is being investigated for use against a range of different types of solid malignant tumors, including lung cancer. AZA treatment increases RNA synthesis in cells, in particular an unusual type of RNA known as double-stranded RNA. In our preliminary studies we have determined that the double-stranded RNA produced in response to AZA treatment indirectly activates an enzyme called RNase L. Furthermore, we have found that RNase L is necessary for cancer cells to die in response to AZA. We propose a novel combination therapy for cancer based on these results. We will synthesize a drug that increases RNase L activity in cells and combine that with AZA. The drug target is an enzyme called PDE12 that normally suppresses RNase L activity by degrading its natural activator, a substance called 2-5A. Experiments will focus on lung cancer, beginning with cell culture studies and then extending into tumor growth studies in immunodeficient mice. These early-stage drug-development efforts may eventually lead to clinical trials involving novel PDE12 inhibitor analogs in combination with AZA for a range of different types of cancer. In Other Words Epigenetic drugs, such as the approved cancer drug 5-azacytidine (AZA), alter DNA without changing the DNA sequence itself. Our early-stage drug-development efforts involving small molecules that enhance the anti-cancer activity of AZA may eventually lead to clinical trials for a range of different types of cancer. General - All Cancers Pilot Award General - All Cancers Construction of a morbidostat mammalian cells to study temporal genomics during the evolution of resistance Principal Investigator Jacob Scott, MD Translational Hematology and Oncology Research Taussig Cancer Institute We hypothesize that a morbidostat design can be modified to allow for the culture of mammalian cell lines and further that such a device can be used to study the genotypephenotype map of cell lines evolving resistance to chemotherapeutics. Having a first-inclass experimental device will also provide rich preliminary data for external funding, and also likely opportunities for intellectual property. Constructing this device requires diverse expertise which we have in the lab already including: electrical engineering prototype experience (Williamson), leukemia culture and experimental evolution (Hitomi, and mentorship from Maciejewski), computer programming (Scott and Williamson) and mathematical modeling (Scott). With this unique blend of skills, we propose the following specific aims: SA1: Build and calibrate robotic morbidostat system that is capable of continuous culture, monitoring and sampling of suspension mammalian cancer cell lines. SA2: Evolve resistance of a suspension cell line to cytotoxic drug or drugs in the morbidostat and assay temporal genotype:phenotype map by sequencing and phenotypic characterization through time. In Other Words We’re going to use the money to build a robotic system to control the evolution of cancer cells. Using this, we hope to speed up our understanding of how cancer beats the best drugs we have, and learn to stop this process in its tracks. Diagnostic Radiology Pilot Award Diagnostic Radiology Holographic Visualization for Performance of Percutaneous Ablation of Solid Tumors Principal Investigator Charles Martin, MD Diagnostic Radiology Imaging This VeloSano pilot project will provide new 3D holographic visualization to guide probes to treat liver cancer cells with heat. Instead of displaying medical images on conventional flat-panel screens, 3D holograms of the probe and the patient’s liver and target tumors are superimposed directly to the operative site for more precise probe placement. To simplify use, the probe is tracked with mini-GPS-like navigation, beginning with the skin access location. As the probe is advanced, an innovative holographic light-ray provides guidance by changing color to indicate optimal alignment of probe tip to target tissue. Better image-guidance and navigation will enable more precise delivery of heat to target cancer cells with less to adjacent healthy cells. This approach will yield fewer post-procedure complications and is key for treating large tumors and complex anatomy. Training for the 3D holographic system will include tumor targeting and a survey of interventional radiologists (IRs) to assess ease of use. Thereafter, a preliminary clinical evaluation will be done to demonstrate how accurately 3D holographic visualization with mini-GPS-like tracking guides the probe, while using flat screens for reference. Unlike intravenous chemotherapy, directly heating tumor cells at a planned location is performed with no need for general anesthesia at less cost, risk, morbidity, and recovery time than surgery. This project will help fully realize these advantages as adoption of this 3D procedure to treat tumors in liver and other organs continues to transform healthcare, leading to improvements in patient-centered care and quality of life as well as economic benefits to healthcare worldwide. In Other Words The grant award through Velosano will allow us to continue to work toward providing 3D holographic visualization using Microsoft HoloLens to improve image guidance and navigation when treating cancer via minimally invasive techniques. Instead of displaying medical images on conventional 2D flat-panel screens, 3D holograms of the treatment probe, the patient’s anatomy, and target tumors are superimposed directly onto the procedure site in real-time for more precise probe placement as it is tracked with mini-GPS-like navigation. We hope that through this approach, this will result in a greater degree of accuracy, less potential for cancer recurrence, and fewer post-procedure complications. This can be key for treating large tumors, as adoption of this procedure for the liver and other organs continues to transform healthcare, leading to improvements in patient care, quality of life, as well as economic benefits to healthcare worldwide. Lung Cancer Pilot Award Lung Cancer Clonal composition governs the susceptibility of BRAF mutant cancers to therapy Principal Investigator Mohamed Abazeed, MD Translational Hematology and Oncology Research Taussig Cancer Institute Tumors have genetically distinct subclones that compete for space and resources and differentially resist our efforts to make them extinct. Adding to this challenge is the dynamic nature of subclone architecture, which evolves through time and space due to selection pressures inherent to nutrient challenged tumor microenvironments and/or therapy aimed at tumor eradication. It is increasingly evident that intratumoral heterogeneity can represent a major obstacle to tumor eradication. Our proposal represents a highly orchestrated effort to elucidate subclone architecture in the most common type of lung cancer, lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD). We propose to use mathematical and experimental models to study clonal and subclonal mutations in LUAD and follow the evolution of these subclones during treatments. If successful, this work will: (1) establish that successful forecasting of therapeutic outcomes is likely to require the identification of low-frequency, genetically distinct subclones, (2) advance toward clinical translation a new category of mutations in the oncogene BRAF, heretofore deemed to be poor candidates for targeted therapies alone (i.e. inhibitors of BRAF and/or MEK) and (3) establish the efficacy of a new therapeutic strategy to ameliorate treatment resistance. The proposed investigation is significant because it will advance a new program of personalized therapies on the basis of subclonal genetic alterations found in an individual patient’s tumor. Our team’s long-term goal is to make critical discoveries and major clinical advances that will significantly accelerate progress towards eradicating lung cancer deaths. This proposal for a VeloSano Pilot Award is seamlessly aligned with that goal. In Other Words Tumors have genetically distinct sub clones that compete for space and resources and differentially resist our efforts to make them extinct. Our proposal represents a highly orchestrated effort to elucidate and evolutionarily steer lung cancer sub clones to prevent treatment resistance. Endometrioid Tumors Pilot Award Endometrioid Tumors Chemosensitizing endometrioid tumors with LCK inhibitors Principal Investigator Ofer Reizes, PhD Cellular & Molecular Medicine Lerner Research Institute Endometrial and ovarian cancers are the first and second most common gynecologic malignancies in the United States. When combined, they are expected to be newly diagnosed in 83,820 women this year and will cause 25,000 deaths, almost 10% of all cancer-related deaths in women. Approximately 80% of endometrial cancers and 10% of ovarian cancers demonstrate endometrioid histology. Chemotherapy regimens for advanced ovarian and endometrial cancers include cisplatin-based cytotoxic treatment. Despite initial response, many patients recur and become platinum resistant within six months of initial treatment. These tumors contain a cancer stem cell (CSC) population that contributes to tumor growth, recurrence, and treatment resistance. Once resistance develops to platinum they often become resistant to other agents leading to patient decline. There is a significant unmet medical need to specifically target endometrioid tumors (ET) for therapeutic intervention. We recently identified the protein called CD55 as a new cell surface therapeutic target for cisplatin resistant ETs. In preliminary studies, we determined that CD55, via activation of an intracellular signaling pathway, maintains ET cell resistant to cisplatin. Importantly, inhibition of CD55 signaling results in sensitization of ET cells to cisplatin. Here we will investigate therapeutic strategies for sensitizing ETs to cisplatin in preclinical cellular and mouse models. We will determine whether this sensitization strategy is sufficient to overcome resistance to additional cancer drugs. In Other Words Gynecologic cancer patients show a good initial response to chemotherapy, however the tumors often recur within a few months and become resistant to available therapies. Our research focuses on finding approaches to sensitize resistant ovarian cancers to current chemotherapy strategies to improve patient outcomes and survival. Carcinoma Pilot Award Carcinoma Targeting chromatin modifier gene mutations in urothelial carcinoma using synthetic lethality Principal Investigator Byron Lee, MD, PhD Urology Glickman Urology & Kidney Institute Bladder cancer is the fifth most common malignancy in the United States; however, prior to the approval of atezolizumab in May, 2016, there were no new medications for locally advanced or metastatic bladder cancer for over 30 years. Similarly, intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin, the mainstay of treatment for intermediate and high risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, was approved by the FDA over 20 years ago. Thus, there remains a significant unmet need for the development of novel therapies for all stages of this disease. Recent genomic studies have identified chromatin modifier gene mutations in over 70% of bladder cancers. These genes encode proteins that play a crucial role in maintaining a cell’s gene expression pattern. Our research is focused on understanding the molecular vulnerabilities that arise from chromatin modifier gene mutations and evaluating them as potential targets for novel bladder cancer therapies. In Other Words Most bladder cancers have mutations in chromatin modifier genes, which play a central role controlling gene expression and cell behavior. Using a genetic screen, we are investigating whether mutations in these genes lead to undiscovered molecular vulnerabilities in bladder cancer. Carcinoma Pilot Award Carcinoma Targeting Fatty Acid Desaturase 1 (FADS1)-Derived Lipid Mediator Signaling in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Principal Investigator Mark Brown, PhD Cellular & Molecular Medicine Lerner Research Institute Obesity represents a rapidly expanding health care burden in developed countries, and is recognized as a key risk factor for the development of many types of cancer. In particular, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)-driven mortality is strikingly associated with obesity20-25. HCC is also commonly associated with hepatitis B and C infection26-30. Unfortunately, animal models that recapitulate human-relevant HCC disease progression are lacking. To address this gap we have established both viral- and obesity-driven mouse models of HCC that allow us to model human-relevant disease progression where 100% of the experimental mice develop pathology-proven HCC with fully intact immune systems. Using these robust mouse models, we have identified a novel lipid signaling pathway that opposes obesity-driven HCC. Here we will address the mechanisms by which altered lipid metabolism modulates HCC development. Our discovery of a link between FADS1 and the development of HCC has broad public health implications, and has the potential to increase our understanding of how dietary fat intake impacts liver cancer progression. We anticipate the proposed studies will reveal new molecular mechanisms by which non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) progresses towards HCC, and more importantly lead to the first targeted therapeutics for obesity-driven HCC. In Other Words The most common liver cancer hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is closely associated with obesity, but the mechanisms linking obesity to HCC are not well understood. This project is focused on understanding how dietary fatty acid metabolism in the liver is involved in HCC initiation and progression in obese individuals. Brain Cancer Pilot Award Brain Cancer Therapeutic Targeting of Epigenetic Modifiers in the Glioblastoma Perivascular Niche Principal Investigator Michael Vogelbaum, MD, PhD Burkhardt Brain Tumor Neurological Institute Co-Principal Investigator Christopher Hubert, PhD Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and deadly form of primary brain cancer. GBM is driven by therapy-resistant GBM stem cells (GSCs) which reside in supportive environments within a tumor called niches. The most GSC-rich and fastest growing niche is the high-oxygen and high-nutrient area surrounding tumor blood vessels, termed the perivascular niche. The interaction between the tumor cells and their environment changes how GSCs behave and respond to therapy, and our current laboratory cultures do not model GSC niches. This is a critical barrier to discovering more effective patient treatments. We have overcome this barrier by using 3-dimensional miniature tumor models, called GBM organoids, which replicate the perivascular and hypoxic niches in GBM tumors. Cells in our 3D models grow and respond to therapy more like cells in a human tumor, and just like in human tumors, GSCs in each niche respond differently from each other. Our unique screens using these models have discovered new therapeutic targets in each specific tumor niche. Targeting one protein in particular, called WDR5, using the drug MM102 causes massive cell death in the perivascular-like organoid niche. MM-102’s exquisite specificity suggests WDR5 is working through interaction with MLL1, a protein well-known to drive some types of leukemia. In this project, we will define whether the WDR5/MLL1 interaction is WDR5’s critical role in GBM, will test if WDR5 is essential in the tumor perivascular niche in mice, and will conduct preclinical testing of MM-102 as a potential therapeutic for GBM. In Other Words Glioblastoma is a uniformly fatal brain cancer. One of the challenges in treating this cancer is its biological complexity on a microscopic scale. Our project allows us to use a unique 3 dimensional tumor culture system to identify and attack targets in each part of the tumor micro-environment. Our goal is to use this tailored approach to create better drug combinations that more effectively treat these tumors. Brain Cancer Pilot Award Brain Cancer Overcoming Suppression of Immune Cell Function by Glioblastoma Isocitrate Dehydrogenase Mutation Principal Investigator Thomas McIntyre, PhD Cellular & Molecular Medicine Lerner Research Institute Lower grade glioma tumors nearly all express a mutant enzyme that forms the unusual compound D 2-hydroxyglutarate (D 2-HG) that accumulates to very high levels in tumors. Why this might be advantageous to tumors is not well understood. We discovered tumors making D 2-HG never contain the small clots of tumors with normal enzyme. This occurred because D 2-HG entered platelets and physically bound the calcium they must have to become activated. We extended the realization that D 2-HG travels from tumors to modify platelet function to find D 2-HG also interferes with cells of the immune system that normally would kill tumor cells. Some of the negative effects of D 2-HG on immune cells occur within the T lymphocytes, so we predict there must be a mechanism to transport D 2-HG from the environment into lymphocytes. This hypothesis offers us two new possible anti-tumor tools. First, we predict we can determine if brain tumors contain the mutated gene producing D 2-HG by sensitively analyzing D 2-HG within circulating lymphocytes. This would be possible because some of the tumor-derived D 2-HG escapes to blood where it would be concentrated within lymphocytes. The second tool we hope to forge is a new way of protecting lymphocytes from tumor-derived D 2-HG. We will sort through 50,000 small chemicals to identify those that protect lymphocyte cell function by specifically blocking D 2-HG uptake into the lymphocytes. Such agents would be a new way to protect the immune system from tumor immunosuppression. In Other Words We have identified an unexpected mechanism that allows glioma cells containing a common mutation to suppress immune cell function. Our work seeks ways to disrupt this interaction to restore immune cell function. Brain Cancer Pilot Award Brain Cancer Microglial Regulation of Sex Specific Differences in Glioblastoma Principal Investigator Dimitrios Davalos, PhD Neurosciences Lerner Research Institute Co-Principal Investigator Justin Lathia, PhD Tumor growth is driven by the combination of molecular changes within tumor cells and interactions between tumor cells and their surrounding microenvironment. Current therapies have been limited in their success due to the development of resistance. The interaction between tumor cells and their microenvironment has been the focus of many studies and is the basis for next-generation therapies, including immunotherapies seeking to bolster the body’s own immune system to attack the tumor. In glioblastoma, the most prevalent primary malignant brain tumor, therapeutic options beyond surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy are limited. Glioblastomas display potent suppression of the immune system. The objective of this project is to understand how tumor cell interaction with resident and infiltrating innate immune cells (microglia and macrophages) alters tumor growth. We have identified a cell adhesion molecule, junctional adhesion molecule-A (JAM-A), that mediates cell-cell interactions between tumor cells. We hypothesize that JAM-A mediates the interaction between tumor cells and microglia/macrophages. Using JAM-A-deficient mice, we found that JAM-A affects microglia number and function differently in males and females. We will use elegant microglia and macrophage reporter mice to perform high-resolution imaging in living mice throughout disease progression, and assess the role of JAM-A in mediating tumor-immune cell interactions. We will also evaluate the effect of microglia and macrophage depletion on glioblastoma growth. These studies will reveal the importance of cellular interactions between tumor and immune cells in driving tumor growth and identify cellular (microglia/macrophages) and molecular (JAM-A) targets for development of novel therapeutic strategies for glioblastoma. In Other Words How brain tumors grow and why our immune cells fail to limit their growth are not known. We previously found a specific protein in the immune cells surrounding brain tumors that makes them grow slower in females than in males. Using cutting edge imaging technologies we will follow the growth of brain tumors and detail their interactions with immune cells as they engage the tumors in real time. We will then eliminate this immune cell protein to see if it is indeed the key molecule that makes male and female tumors grow at different rates. Ultimately, we plan to use findings from this project to devise new strategies aimed at preventing aggressive tumor growth in glioblastoma patients. Bone Marrow Cancer Pilot Award Bone Marrow Cancer Breath Analysis and the Microbiome in Gastrointestinal Graft versus-Host Disease Principal Investigator Betty Hamilton, MD Hematology Oncology Taussig Cancer Institute Allogeneic stem cell transplantation is the only potentially curative therapy for many life-threatening blood cancers. Its success is limited by graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a common complication of transplant, in which the donor’s immune system responds to host cells, resulting in tissue damage. Gastrointestinal GVHD occurs in more than half of patients, and is clinically characterized by anorexia, nausea/vomiting, and diarrhea. Unfortunately current diagnostic tools often fail to identify patients who are at higher risk for poor response to treatment and death. Furthermore, biopsies of the gastrointestinal tract are often invasive, with equivocal or non-diagnostic results. Hence, there is a critical need for developing novel, non-invasive methods to diagnose and monitor GVHD. There is increasing data that the intestinal microbiome plays an important role in the development of inflammatory diseases, including GVHD. As bacteria are known to produce characteristic volatile metabolites, or gases, we hypothesized that abnormalities in the activity and composition of intestinal microbiota in GVHD may change the gases expelled in breath. We thus conducted a pilot study evaluating the organic gases expelled by patients after stem cell transplant with and without gastrointestinal GVHD. We identified 5 gases which distinguish GVHD from non-GVHD. We thus propose to further study the changes in organic gases through the transplant period and correlate it with the gastrointestinal stool microbiome. In Other Words Bone marrow transplant is a potentially curative therapy for many blood cancers however its success may be limited by graft-versus-host disease, a common immune-related inflammatory disease that often affects the gastrointestinal tract. The microbiome of the gastrointestinal tract is known to play an important role in the development of many inflammatory diseases including graft-versus-host disease. Breath analysis has also become an important tool to detect and monitor a variety of diseases, and early studies have shown promise in detecting graft-versus-host disease. This study funded by Velosano is investigating breath as a reflection of the gastrointestinal microbiome in graft-versus-host disease to better detect and diagnose this complication after bone marrow transplant. Bladder Cancer Pilot Award Bladder Cancer Prospective validation and functional characterization of a gene expression signature for identification and risk stratification of small cell (neuronal type) bladder cancer Principal Investigator Omar Mian, MD Translational Hematology and Oncology Research Taussig Cancer Institute Small cell carcinoma of the bladder (SCCB) is an aggressive subtype of bladder cancer with worse outcomes than conventional urothelial cancer. Our understanding of this disease is limited and current treatment is largely copied from other cancers, such as small cell lung cancer. Recently, a large effort to create a 'genomic atlas' of bladder cancer showed that the small cell subtype is far more prevalent than previously realized. The misclassification of SCCB based on its microscopic appearance may be one reason for the poor outcomes associated with invasive bladder cancer, on the whole. Therefore, a system for more reliable identification of SCCB as well as research to develop more effective therapies for this disease are important public health imperatives. We have performed comprehensive gene expression profiling in a group of SCCB patients treated at the Cleveland Clinic over the past decade, including comparisons of matched normal tissue and metastatic disease. This cohort represents one of the largest ever reported for SCCB. Using this unique data, we have generated a gene signature which identifies SCCB based on its molecular characteristics. In addition, we found our signature was prognostic of disease outcome. In this proposal, our main objectives are to 1) validate our diagnostic and prognostic genetic signature for SCCB using two large external cohorts of urothelial bladder cancer patients and 2) to establish innovative laboratory models of SCCB to study the function of differentially expressed genes and determine their role in the biology of SCCB and potential as therapeutic targets. In Other Words We are generating innovative new laboratory models using CRISPR-Cas9 gene engineering to study aggressive bladder cancer. These models will lead to a better understanding of the origins of bladder cancer and strategies to overcome resistance to therapy. Blood Cancer Impact Award Blood Cancer Cancer Thrombosis Principal Investigator Alok Khorana, MD Taussig Cancer Institute Co-Principal Investigator Keith McCrae, MD We are using novel RNA sequencing techniques to identify unique small RNAs in the blood of cancer patients. We hope to generate RNA profiles to predict the risk of blood clots-a lethal complications of cancer- and cancer progression. Pediatric Rhabdomyosarcoma Pilot Award Pediatric Rhabdomyosarcoma Defining Markers of Radiosensitivity: Radiogenomic Profiling of Rhabdomyosarcoma Principal Investigator Stacey Zahler Staff, Pediatric, Hematology Oncology, & Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant Children's Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma of childhood, and the fourth most common pediatric solid tumor. Despite advances in treatment strategies for patients with intermediate risk (localized) disease, patients with high risk (up-front metastatic or recurrent) disease continue to have a dismal prognosis, with EFS of less than 20%. Patients who are who have the alveolar subtype of RMS are more likely to be treatment-refractory, but little is known about the mechanism behind which this occurs. Radiation therapy is the mainstay of local control measures for RMS. Patients receive up to 50.4 Gy total dose, and attempts at dose reduction for patients with delayed primary excision failed to show benefit in previous Children’s Oncology Group studies. Despite high-dose irradiation, 30% of patients with localized disease and up to >80% of patients with metastatic disease will have progression or recurrence of their disease. Patients with embryonal histology are more likely to sustain a long-term response to chemoradiotherapy than patients with alveolar histology. Additionally, few murine models of recurrent rhabomyosarcoma exist; a PDX model is needed for studying novel therapies in recurrent RMS. As such, rhabdomyosarcoma offers a unique opportunity to further explore these genomic alterations and define their clinical implications. We have specific interest in correlating response to chemoradiotherapy with the presence and frequency of known and potentially newly discovered relevant mutations. We hypothesize that whole genome sequencing analysis will reveal distinct genomic alterations between embryonal and alveolar histologic subtypes of rhabdomyosarcoma, and that patients who are responders to chemoradiotherapy will have distinct alterations compared to non-responders of chemoradiotherapy. In Other Words To identify genomic markers of chemoradiosensitivity within the two main subtypes of rhabdomyosarcoma, and to create a patient-derived xenograft model of chemoradioresistant rhabdomyosarcoma through which to study potential future targeted therapies. Leukemia Impact Award Leukemia Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia Principal Investigator Jaroslaw Maciejewski, MD, PhD Taussig Cancer Institute General Impact Award General Precision Radiotherapy Principal Investigator Mohamed Abazeed, MD Taussig Cancer Institute Radiotherapy is not currently informed by the genetic features of individual tumors. The goal of this award is to advance the incorporation of biologic (genetic) and imaging features that can guide its more precise use. Quantitative Health Sciences Impact Award Quantitative Health Sciences Dell High Performance Computing Cluster Principal Investigator Brian Hobbs, PhD Quantitative Health Sciences Taussig Cancer Institute & Lerner Research Institute Data science persists at the core of endeavors to advance clinical oncology practice through evidence-based approaches to cancer detection, prevention, and precision medicine. Endeavors to elucidate cancer mechanisms and establish novel treatment strategies explicitly depend on the skill with which our researchers extract signal from omics data and identify molecular targets. Through contributions to high performance computing infrastructure provided by VeloSano, Cleveland Clinic has expanded its capabilities in precision medicine analytics. The support enables state of the art statistical models and algorithms developed at Cleveland Clinic to be integrated into research with investigators at The Taussig Cancer Institute. In Other Words Through VeloSano’s impact, Cleveland Clinic will lead the cancer community in big data science. Cancer Biology Pilot Award Cancer Biology Using insertional mutagenesis to rapidly identify resistance mechanisms in cancer Principal Investigator George Stark, PhD Cancer Biology Lerner Research Institute We are using a new genetic method to identify how cancers eventually become resistant to drugs that initially inhibit their growth. Knowledge of specific resistance mechanisms can lead to the development of new drugs or treatment strategies to overcome this problem. Colon Cancer Impact Award Colon Cancer Colon Cancer Metastasis Principal Investigator Emina Huang, MD Lerner Research Institute Co-Principal Investigator Xiaoxia Li, PhD Our group consists of scientists and doctors who treat colon cancer that has spread to organs outside the colon, such as into the liver. We are trying to examine the tumor cells and the cells in the neighborhood that result in this deadly disease. Colon Cancer Pilot Award Colon Cancer Evaluating the Efficacy of a Proposed 11 Step Community-Based Interventional Program to Educate, Assess Risk and Barriers, and Complete Colorectal Screening among Underserved African Americans Principal Investigator Samir Abraskia, MD Hematology Oncology SouthePoint Co-Principal Investigator Carole Burke, MD Co-Principal Investigator Cathleen Hugney, RN, CCRP Co-Principal Investigator Eberechi Agwa, MD Co-Principal Investigator Jame Abraham, MD Co-Principal Investigator Tomas Radivoyevitch, PhD Our study aims to evaluate the effect of a proposed community–based interventional program that will take the participant through a journey starting from the community outreach event, during which we assess individual risks and barriers, ending in completion of colorectal cancer screening. Colonoscopy is one of the few screening techniques that can prevent cancer by removal of worrisome abnormalities (polyps). Our study also aims to raise awareness of the benefits of CRC screening in this typically under-served African American population, which may ultimately lead to increased early detection and improved overall lifespan. In Other Words The diagnosis of colorectal cancer is unequal among various populations within the US, most notably among African Americans who exhibit the highest mortality of all US populations. Studies have shown that African Americans have lower rates of screening and decreased knowledge of colorectal cancer and screening guidelines than the general population. Our Taussig Community Outreach project aims to raise awareness of the benefits of colon cancer screening in the under-served African American population, which may ultimately lead to increased early detection and improved overall lifespan. Clinical Trials Impact Award Clinical Trials NCI Early Phase Therapeutic Trials/ Phase II Intent Consortium Principal Investigator Dale Shepard, MD, PhD Hematology Oncology Taussig Cancer Institute This VeloSano Impact Award will enable us to open several innovative clinical trials at Cleveland Clinic to test new cancer therapies. These clinical trials will help patients with rare cancers or with common cancers who otherwise have no further treatment options. Carcinoma Impact Award Carcinoma Hepatocellular Carcinoma Principal Investigator Yogen Saunthararajah, MD Taussig Cancer Institute Small cell lung cancer is a terrible cancer, lethal to almost all patients within 2 years of diagnosis. New ways of treatment are thus needed. Our science suggests such a new way, based on restoring journeys of the cancer cells to their intended fates serving specialized functions for the body, rather than dividing relentlessly. The Velosano support is enabling the critical animal experiments which are the prelude to what we hope will be clinical trials quite soon. Melanoma Impact Award Melanoma Preventative Therapies for High Risk Melanoma Individuals Principal Investigator Joshua Arbesman, MD With a lifetime incidence rising over 12 fold in the last half-century, melanoma rates continue to dramatically rise in the United States, despite significant public health efforts to reduce ultraviolet radiation exposure, the best characterized environmental risk factor. Therefore, novel preventive approaches are needed to halt and potentially reverse this rapid rise. To pursue new avenues, we propose to focus on patients at extremely high risk for melanoma, where previous work has been generalizable to early sporadic (non-familial) melanoma development, and to uncover novel genetic mechanisms in these individuals. These are likely acquired early in melanoma initiation and can be targeted in new preventive approaches. Furthermore, recent twin studies have demonstrated high heritability for melanoma, with estimates of over 50% of risk related to genetic risk factors. Therefore, it is imperative to understand which individuals have an increased risk for melanoma, why they are at an elevated risk level, and what can be done to mitigate that higher melanoma risk level. We have identified multiple families where multiple family members have had melanoma (and some with increased rates of other cancers as well) for further study. Through the use of targeted cancer panel screening, whole exome & whole genome sequencing we propose to further characterize and/or identify novel genetic risk factors for melanoma. We will correlate this with functional laboratory work examining individual genes to better interrogate their role in melanoma. Using this functional understanding of how a specific gene is responsible for melanoma development, we will design novel preventive therapies to be used in these high risk melanoma individuals. In Other Words Design novel preventive therapies to be used in high risk melanoma individuals. Lymphoma Impact Award Lymphoma Lymphoma Principal Investigator Brian Hill, MD, PhD Lerner Research Institute 4, and as part of our collaboration they received $500,000 of the funds raised in 2017. Below is a summary of the funded CCCC Pilot Awards: A Refillable Drug Delivery Device Capable of Treating Recurrent Brain Tumors Horst von Recum, Ph.D The Oncogenic Impact of LIN9 in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Ruth Keri, Ph.D Combating resistance to immune checkpoint inhibition; identifying new targets using in vivo forward genetics screening Mark Jackson, Ph.D Lewis Shi, M.D.,Ph.D Targeting Hexosamine Biosynthetic Pathway for Acute Myeloid Leukemia therapy Reshmi Parameswaran, Ph.D Targeting thioredoxin reductase in AML David Wald, M.D.,Ph.D Novel molecular signatures in Shh Medulloblastoma defines immune phenotypes and predicts immunotherapeutic response Alex Huang, M.D.,Ph.D Identifying the molecular targets of mistletoe lectin I for drug development in hepatocellular carcinoma Richard Lee, M.D. VeloSano Funding Leads to Major Grant from NIH A Cleveland Clinic cancer research project, which received initial funding from dollars raised during VeloSano 2 in 2015, has been awarded a $4.7 million grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The new funding will support a Cleveland Clinic-led research consortium, which will focus on developing strategies to prevent cancer-associated thrombosis (blood clot formation), a potential side effect of cancer treatment. Seed Funding Pays Off In 2016, Keith McCrae, MD, Director of Hematology at the Taussig Cancer Institute, and Alok Khorana, MD, Director of the Gastrointestinal Malignancies program at the Taussig Cancer Institute, received a VeloSano Impact Award for $150,000 per year over three years, initiated through Cleveland Clinic's Center of Excellence in Cancer Thrombosis Research. The seed funding allowed the research to advance and become eligible for federal funding. Dale Shepard, MD, PhD, Director, Taussig Cancer Institute Phase I and Sarcoma Programs, and Co-Medical Director of VeloSano, is please about the grant from NHLBI. \"Both Dr. McCrae and Dr. Khorana, who holds the Sondra and Stephen Hardis Chair in Oncology Research, have been working on cancer thrombosis for a long time,\" he says. Federal funding for medical research continues to be extremely competitive, and Dr. Shepard says that philanthropic support of the initial stages of research is crucial to securing additional support. “NIH funding is now often directed toward teams rather than individual labs. VeloSano is helping to fund Cleveland Clinic’s Centers of Excellence to support our investigators as they develop more comprehensive research programs to work together instead of in silos.” VeloSano Support Makes a Difference Dr. Shepard believes that more external funding from projects supported by VeloSano will occur as more of the initial research is completed. \"The roughly $12.4 million of external funding received so far is primarily from the first two years of support from VeloSano,\" he says. \"Many of the projects from subsequent years have not yet been completed or those results are in the process of being used to write grant proposals.\" Dr. Shepard cautions that it takes more than a great idea to get funding for cancer research. \"It takes preliminary research to show that the investigators can do the work, that the work is feasible and that there is a good chance for success,\" he says. \"This is one of the most important ways VeloSano can help push forward the next steps toward better cancer therapies and perhaps a cure: Funding great ideas by our Cleveland Clinic researchers and allowing them the resources to potentially move those ideas closer to reality.\" 2018 Top Fundraisers 2018 Top Fundraising Riders Stewart & Donna Kohl $143,440 Paul Dolan $70,510 Bob Rich $50,740 Len Pagon $43,644 Barbara, Kelley & Kayla Kerscher $41,080 Anne Avis $34,601 Greg Avis $34,601 Terry Sullivan $29,700 Craig Manchen $24,951 Bill Mulligan $24,177 2018 Top Fundraising Virtual Riders Jaroslaw Maciejewski $11,272 Amanda Maggiotto $7,995 James Stevenson $7,120 Alan Lichtin $6,525 Zumi Pig $5,070 Amanda Barney $4,170 Charis Eng $3,645 Nicole Peters $3,640 Jame Abraham $3,160 Kandis Schreiber $3,115 2018 Teams Team Name Riders & Virtual Riders Total Dollars Raised Accenture 15 $15,173.00 ADCOM CYCLING TEAM 32 $37,888.00 American Greetings 9 $11,169.00 Ancora 11 $11,425.00 Assurant Cares: Team Westlake 6 $5,985.00 Basic Health International 1 $25.00 BDO USA 19 $49,237.00 Beans & Weenies 4 $4,345.00 BIG GALOOTS BICYCLE CLUB 82 $165,964.00 BrandMuscle 27 $20,168.00 Cardinal Health 26 $40,967.00 Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Team 70 $62,636.00 CBIZ 3 $1,936.00 CBRE Cleveland 22 $36,000.00 Chagrin Falls Fire Department 5 $14,125.00 Charles' Cycling Club 5 $5,100.00 CLE Connect 1 $1,000.00 Cleveland Clinic Beachcliff Family Medicine 1 $1,665.00 Cleveland Clinic Brainiacs 7 $3,545.00 Cleveland Clinic Children’s 35 $25,531.00 Cleveland Clinic Florida - Maroone Cancer Center 4 $14,902.00 Cleveland Clinic International 30 $19,280.00 Cleveland Clinic ITD 8 $11,487.00 Cleveland Clinic Sleep Cycles 14 $23,050.00 Cleveland Clinic Wheels of Steel - B&P 32 $65,412.00 Cleveland Clinic: Akron General 6 $16,187.00 Cleveland Clinic: CC Ventures (Innovations-Ventures-Investments) 24 $25,666.00 Cleveland Clinic: Fairview Hospital 13 $12,254.00 Cleveland Clinic: Lerner Research Institute 47 $35,966.00 Cleveland Clinic: Liver Cancer 1 $25.00 Cleveland Clinic: Make it Rain (Philanthropy Institute) 106 $172,309.00 Cleveland Clinic: Medina Hospital 4 $5,187.00 Cleveland Clinic: Nursing Institute 19 $23,184.00 Cleveland Clinic: ONEHR Rides 5 $8,396.00 Cleveland Clinic: Pepsin Pedalers 25 $25,730.00 Cleveland Clinic: Region Legion 24 $24,471.00 Cleveland Clinic: STAMP Out Cancer 23 $18,545.00 Cleveland Clinic: TA Riders 2 $1,035.00 Cleveland Clinic: Taussig Cyclotrons 218 $383,649.00 Cleveland Clinic: Team Cleveland Clinic 17 $25,461.00 Cleveland Clinic: Team South Pointe 11 $4,223.00 Cleveland Indians 92 $202,631.00 Cleveland Research Company 9 $8,350.00 Cleveland StARTup Collective 10 $34,696.00 Colliers International 1 $5,655.00 Dad and Daughter 2 $645.00 DiFranco Duo 2 $1,050.00 DOMINATORS 5 $11,005.00 Donley Turner HEC 32 $40,441.00 Ed and Sandy 2 $1,705.00 Eddie's Angels 5 $4,395.00 Endurance Inspired by Hope 3 $3,439.00 Faster Than a Speeding Turtle 2 $1,125.00 Fidelity Roadfrogs 2 $2,315.00 FISHER FAMILY 1 $500.00 FIT Technologies 8 $5,335.00 Flying Frank 3 $10,764.00 Forest City Realty Trust 6 $6,293.00 Fortune Brands GPG/MOEN 18 $24,075.00 Frantz Ward 1 $1,025.00 Friedley's Finest 2 $1,165.00 GARDINER 5 $14,056.00 Glenmede 7 $17,735.00 Goodyear 7 $16,350.00 Great Lakes Cheese 7 $9,380.00 Hermes 2 $2,550.00 Hudson Velo 35 $53,254.00 Integra Connect 10 $5,058.00 Jacobs Family Riders 2 $1,438.00 Jones Day 36 $86,884.00 Karlovec & Company 3 $4,186.00 Kick Some Carcinoid 2 $2,150.00 Kicking Cancer in the Crankshaft 3 $4,230.00 KPMG 39 $41,895.00 LaBella 2 $1,720.00 Lilly Oncology 6 $8,797.00 Luciano Family Foundation 2 $8,645.00 Market & Network Services 9 $8,935.00 McDonald Hopkins 7 $9,043.00 MegaCycle 2 $840.00 Merrill Lynch/Bank of America 4 $15,582.00 Mighty Biobankers 4 $3,920.00 Migraine 1 $1,744.00 More Than Gourmet 2 $2,020.00 Murray Pranksters 2 $2,865.00 Nestle 10 $19,239.00 New York Life Insurance Company 1 $5,576.00 Oatey 58 $90,007.00 Perpetual Peddlers 1 $1,005.00 Quicken Loans 10 $10,750.00 Robots & Pencils/J3/Redwood/Resilience 50 $93,968.00 Sam LiBassi Foundation 1 $2,500.00 Sandy’s Domestiques 17 $96,341.00 Sherwin-Williams 15 $18,912.00 Smucker's 3 $3,422.00 Snavely Group 2 $3,080.00 Spin for Stu 43 $87,812.00 Squire Patton Boggs 23 $28,674.00 Swagelok 6 $6,555.00 Team 1:9 13 $27,865.00 Team Brawner 3 $4,800.00 Team Calfee 10 $21,010.00 Team Celgene 1 $1,550.00 Team Cinghiale 2 $1,155.00 TEAM CLE 9 $8,089.00 Team Cleveland 13 $865.00 Team Deloitte 14 $10,205.00 Team EverGreen 10 $6,671.00 Team EY 7 $8,896.00 Team FOX Sports 13 $14,095.00 Team Grant Thornton 9 $6,300.00 Team Hiccup 2 $755.00 Team Hileman 19 $14,368.00 Team IHG 10 $7,499.00 Team Ivanka 2 $2,255.00 Team Key 65 $80,584.00 TEAM LEXUS Metro | Akron/Canton 30 $15,175.00 Team Litzler Automation 9 $35,940.00 Team M.A.G. 10 $7,860.00 Team Marcus Thomas 5 $6,904.00 Team Margy 2 $1,035.00 Team Northern Trust 2 $5,310.00 Team Oswald 17 $23,848.00 Team PwC 62 $72,726.00 Team RSM 19 $23,355.00 Team RT-PLMI 14 $9,974.00 Team Rusher 2 $1,660.00 Team Shotgun 1 $2,136.00 Team Ten30 3 $1,615.00 Team TrishyStrong 30 $24,730.00 Team Ulmer & Berne LLP 6 $6,917.00 Team Wendy 10 $21,900.00 Team WKYC 7 $5,674.00 Team Woody 1 $500.00 The Lerner Foundation 38 $72,496.00 The Mommagrams 7 $4,085.00 The Pedaling Pandyas 3 $1,100.00 The Riverside Company 56 $259,318.00 The Spinners 4 $3,560.00 The Wheel Deal 3 $1,780.00 Tony's Crew 8 $15,043.00 Tour De Friends 2 $1,485.00 Velo Vino 26 $27,512.00 Versaflex-Raven 3 $7,255.00 Vocon 21 $60,778.00 Wagners4thecure 4 $1,835.00 Welch's Wheelers 2 $2,300.00 Wheelie Common Taters 2 $2,575.00 Wheeling for Healing 9 $40,181.00 Winne the Pooh Bears 1 $25 ability to provide 100% of participant raised dollars to cancer research would not be possible without our Partners. VeloSano's flagship fundraising initiative, \"Bike to cure\" weekend, attracts participants from all over the world. One-day ride options range from 12-100 miles and a Two-Day 190+ mile experience is also available. Each rider commits to raise a particular amount of money and 100% of the dollars raised are awarded directly to research by spring of the following year. Corporate and Foundation Partnerships offset VeloSano \"Bike to cure\" operational expenses through monetary or in-kind services to ensure that not one dollar raised is spent on anything other than research. Please scroll through the list below to view all of our amazing partners: Founding Partners. The Founders of VeloSano. Stewart and Donna Kohl made the gift to Cleveland Clinic to bring VeloSano to life. Through the vision and support of the Kohl’s, in just four short years VeloSano has contributed more than $12.5 million to cancer research at Cleveland Clinic. Supporting Partners $96. Visit their website fifth year together, VeloSano has become a firm-wide initiative with Jones Day, consistently fielding one of the largest teams of Riders and Volunteers, and raising over $307 (who have raised over $51,000 to date). Lexus is a supporter of professional, amateur and charitable cycling events, and is excited to be affiliated with VeloSano and the cause. Join and/or donate to Team Lexus..” Contributing Celgene is a global pharmaceutical company committed to improving the lives of patients worldwide. At Celgene, we seek to deliver truly innovative and life-changing treatments for our patients. This is the first year Celgene has become a partner of VeloSano! Help their team reach their donation goal by giving here. it’s the place Northeast Ohioans turn to when they want to know what’s going on in their area. From conception, through design , demolition, site work, consturction, funding, development and operation, the DiGeronimo Companies bring a \"one-stop shop\" philosphy to real estate development. They are proud to partener with VeloSano and all of the participants whoa re going the extra mile to advance cancer reasearch. $300,000 in the first five years), with the ultimate goal of finding cancer cures. Join and/or Donate to Team Key. Lilly Oncology is dedicated to advancing treatment and addressing the unmet needs of people living with cancer. Building on our work in cancaer treatment, we are committed to creating a broad portfolio with research focused in three areas- tumor cell signaling, microenvironment, and immuno-oncology. That is why our partnership with VeloSano has one aim: to save lives. Please help us make that happen by donating to our Team.. $61. Visit their website Spoke. Assos was established in 1976 and quickly became one of the most iconic apparel brands in cycling. From establishing the first carbon bicycle frame to harolding the comfort revolution in cycling, they are a proud supporter of VeloSano. $42,000 for cancer research thus far), but also by offering our print capabilities allowing for VeloSano to produce their event posters, brochures, yard signs, and other important marketing/promotional assets on an in-kind basis. Join and/or Donate to the Brandmuscle Team. Cardinal Health is all in for the health and well-being of their communities. By doing so, they can play a pivotal role to help individuals live healthier lives. They tackle the big, complicated issues, and work together to create powerful, lasting change by seeking out opportunities to get the greatest result. That is why Cardinal Health is a dedicated partner of VeloSano. They provide the medical supplies needed on event weekend to help participants get through the ride, they field one of the largest team of Riders (raising nearly $138,000 in two years), as well as the Volunteers who manage on-site registration and packet pick-up. Together, we're all in for good! Join and/or Donate to the Cardinal Health.! The Lerner Foundation was established in 1933 by Alfred and Norma Lerner for support in medical care. The Lerner Foundation has participated in VeloSano since the very begining, alone fundraising over $222,000 to date. By being a proud supporter of VeloSano, togther we are putting 100% of the fundraised dollars into the hands of researchers at the Cleveland Clinic to find a cure for cancer. Join or Donate to The Lerner Foundation Team. Oatey products have earned the trust of both plumbing professionals and consumers since Oatey Company was founded in 1916. Providing, reliable, high-quality products for the residential and commercial plumbing industries, Oatey supplies more than 6,000 products for professional builders, contractors, engineers, and do-it-yourself consumers around the world. Staying true to their roots in Ohio, Oatey is proud to support the city of Cleveland and VeloSano with a team of passionate riders (who raised over $104,000 to date). Join or Doate to Team Oatey.. On October 26, 2015, McGladrey united with fellow firms in their global network, RSM International, under a common brand name – RSM. Together, they are dedicated to delivering the power of being understood to entrepreneurial, growing organizations around the world. RSM (as McGladrey) has been a proud supporter of VeloSano from the inaugural ride, sponsoring the Bike & Bag Check, providing a group of passionate Volunteers and fielding a team of Riders. To date, Team RSM has raised over $199,000 for VeloSano and cancer research. A Commitment to Doing the Right Things and Doing Things Right. Respect for the environment and a strong commitment to actively supporting the communities we serve have been defining attributes of Smucker’s since forming nearly 120 years ago. Smucker’s is pleased to partner with VeloSano, and excited to be hosting a Rest Stop at their headquarters in Orville, Ohio for our Two-Day Riders.. Van Cleef & Arpels has been a proud supporter of VeloSano since the inaugural event as the Presenting Sponsor of the Partner Appreciation Reception. Master Lock works with numerous community partners who understand the needs of individuals, families, organizations and special efforts to match their resources with those community needs. As a first-time partner of VeloSano this year, Master Lock is excited to provide bike locks to all participants who will be riding. Lock up your ride with confidence from Master Lock. Pedal Accenture solves our client's toughest challenges by providing unmatched services in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. We partner with more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500, driving innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. One way we do that is also through our partnership with VeloSano to give back and help find the cure for cancer. Our team has already raised nearly $4,000 for VeloSano this year. Join or donate to Team Accenture. Donley’s is focused on improving the patient experience through quality construction services. As a recognized leader in the construction of healthcare and senior living facilities, Donley's has constructed more than 100 healthcare projects—including multiple projects for Cleveland Clinic. Donley’s is dedicated to VeloSano’s mission, providing support not only as an event partner but also fundraising for the cause with their team of Riders. Join and/or Donate to Donley Team. Fidelity Investments believes in making the complex, simpler. Our goal is to be straightforward and help with everyone's unique needs. Fidelity has had a team VeloSano for four years and have raised more than $9,000 for the cure to date. Join or doate to Team Fidelity Roadfrogs. Genentech approaches giving back the same way they approach making medicine. They start by looking for the root cause of a problem and then exploring how they can contribute to a solution. By not only being a VeloSano partner but also having a team that rides, they are contributing to help cure cancer. Turner is a North America-based, international construction services company and is a leading builder in diverse and numerous market segments. The company has earned recognition for undertaking large, complex projects, fostering innovation, embracing emerging technologies, and making a difference for their clients, employees and community. In addition to supporting VeloSano as a partner, this year Turner will also be providing certain assets to assist with the execution of VeloSano event weekend. The Joyce M. and Herbert W. Stielau Foundation mission is to support a broad range of organizations including those involved in healthcare, disaster and emergency relief, social service and justice, public education and media, nursing education, socially transformative programs, animal welfare, and environmental and protection of public lands, parks and waters, and other natural treasures. Supporting VeloSano is one of the many ways the Stielau Foundation accomplishes their mission and supports cancer research. By expanding their product assortment and making shopping and saving easier than ever, Staples is helping customers make more happen every day. And it’s their mission to make more happen for associates, local communities and even the planet — through programs, policies and the values they live by. Staples is proud to be a partner of VeloSano. MD Insider’s world class team of data scientists, software engineers and healthcare experts have created a platform that objectively analyzes doctor performance. With Cleveland Clinic’s focus on every life deserving world class care and patients first, partnering with VeloSano was a natural fit. As part of the partnership, MD Insider is pleased to bring World-Class Cyclist Dave Zabriskie to ride in VeloSano. DZ will be interacting with attendees at the Friday Kickoff Party, as well as riding in the Two-Day Ultimate Challenge. Join and/or donate to Team MD Insider. Founded in a basement in 1979 with 1½ employees, Epic develops software to help people get well, help people stay well, and help future generations be healthier. So it was a natural fit for Epic to get involved with VeloSano, and they are entering into their third year as as Pedal Partner. Axle $67,000 for cancer research thus far), but also by offering our print capabilities allowing for VeloSano to produce their event posters, brochures, yard signs, and other important marketing/promotional assets on an in-kind basis. Join and/or Donate to the Brandmuscle Team. The Cleveland commercial real estate office of CBRE first office opened in 1986 and since then, CBRE has grown to become the market leader in all facets of commercial real estate brokerage and property management in Northeast Ohio. CBRE became a VeloSano partner in 2015, but has been involved with a team of passionate Riders from the beginning, having raised over $181,000 for cancer research to date. Join and/or Donate to the CBRE Team. The Cleveland Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Inc. provides soft drink bottling services. The company was founded in 1905 and is based in Bedford Heights, Ohio. The Cleveland Coca-Cola Bottling Company, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of ABARTA, Inc., and while they may span hundreds of miles, they continue to build their buisness one cutomer at a time and are proud supporters of VeloSano! Genentech is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures, and commercializes mediicnes to treat patients with serious or life-threatening medical conditions. They are among the world's leading biotech companies, with mulitple products on the market and a promising development pipeline. They have one puporse: Doing now what patients need next. Annually, Giant Eagle supports our communities through a variety of means, including product donations to VeloSano on our event weekend! Giant Eagle has served customers for over 80 years and is a proud supporter of VeloSano. GOJO Industries, Inc. is a privately-held company headquartered in Akron, Ohio, and is the leading global producer and marketer of skin health and hygiene solutions for away-from-home settings. Their broad portfolio includes hand cleaning, handwashing, hand sanitizing and skin care formulas under the GOJOâ, PURELLâ and PROVONâ brand names. GOJO formulas use the latest advances in the science of skin care, and is known for state-of-the-art dispensing technology, engineered with attention to design and functionality. This is GOJO’s second year as a VeloSano Pedal Partner, providing their skin health and hygiene solutions to our participants throughout event weekend.. Rich's is a culinary resource, helping you find delicious ways to transform menus into can't-miss moments - so you always have a fresh, rich experience. Rich's is an American family company that live by the promise to \"treat customers, associates, and communites the same way. Like family.\" These words are put into action by their generous donations and their team raising over $765,000 to date for VeloSano. Join and/or Donate to the Big Galoots Bicycle Club Team. Squire Patton Boggs combines sound legal counsel with a deep knowledge of their clients’ businesses to resolve their legal challenges. They care about the quality of their services, the success of their clients and the relationships that are forged through those successes. They are fully committed to ensuring Corporate Responsibility is embedded in their business operations, with their staff being involved in a wide range of charitable fundraising, local involvement, community and pro bono initiatives, and making financial contributions to a number of charities. Squire Patton Boggs has been a partner of VeloSano since 2015, and has fielded a team of Riders since the inaugural event, raising nearly $59,000 to date as a team. Join and/or Donate to the Squire Patton Boggs Team Join and/or Donate to the EY Team Media Special Thanks Bike Cleveland is a 501(c)(3) advocacy non-profit for people on bikes in the Greater Cleveland area. Representing over 1000 due paying members and more than 32 local businesses, they make sure that any time the conversation turns to transportation- that people on bikes are being considered alongside people in cars. Fitting, that they are partnered with VeloSano to bike for the cure! The Emergency Services Institute cares for over 500,000 adult and pediatric patients annually across 16 emergency departments. In an effort to deliver world-class care, they have attained the 90th percentile of all Emergency Departments in the United States in time from arrival to see a provider and are proud to help support VeloSano! Cleveland Clinic Sports Health provides the very best sports-related care and treatment that's one-on-one and state-of-the-art. Our experts treat athletes in all sports, all ages, and all skill levels. They are a great supporter of VeloSano riders on event weekend! City of Cleveland Water is more than just the largest supplier of safe, quality water in Northeast Ohio. They are a group of dedicated professionals who care deeply about our community. Providing quality service and great-tasting water is their top priority, which is why they have teamed up with VeloSano to bring fresh, clean water to riders on Friday and Saturday of event weekend! Petitti Garden Center started in 1971 and grows 98% of all of their plants locally in Northeast Ohio. They guarantee the best value and highest quality products are available to their cutsomers each day. They are passionate supporters of our local economy, customers, and our environemnt. They are proud to support VeloSano and all of our riders! South East Golf Car Company was established in 1963 and since then has offered the best American-made golf cars in Northeast Ohio. They generously donate golf cars to VeloSano for event weekend.. During VeloSano 5, we had a total of 436 Big Wheelers that included 384 Riders and 52 Virtual Riders. Each year we treat our Big Wheelers with some special garb, so if you see them sporting their gear around town, be sure to give them a big thank you - they're a big deal! 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Bolwell, M.D. 2018 MEDICAL Co-Chairs Dale Shepard, M.D. Medical Co-Chair Rabi Hanna, M.D. Pediatric Co-Chair Team VeloSano (pictured above left to right) Beth Brand, Director Nicole Peters, Executive Director Mohammed Farunia, Associate Director Kandis Schreiber, Director 2018 Steering Committee John Anderson WKYC Channel 3 Greg Avis Bangtail Partners Mark Brandt The Northern Trust Company Aeron Burns Lilly Oncology Kara Carter JumpStart, Inc. Loren Chylla Adcom Michael Coburn Nestle USA Joanne Cohen Cleveland Clinic Chandler Converse CBRE Deborah Joshua Klarfeld Ulmer & Berne LLP Denise Kramer Zack Bruell Events Jeff Kula Cleveland Clinic Jim LaRose House of LaRose William Leonard Oswald Companies Matt Litzler C.A. Litzler Co. Craig Manchen Highland Group Industries Peter Mapp Lexus Valarie McCall City of Cleveland Francois McGillicuddy Fox Sports Ohio Linda McHugh Cleveland Clinic William Mulligan Primus Capital Jennifer Neundorfer flashstarts Len Pagon Next Sparc LLC Larry Pollock Lucky Stars Partners LLC Neal Restivo Oatey Co. Mark Ross PwC Renee Singley The Lerner Foundation Mitch Thompson Squire Patton Boggs Rodney Twells Compass Group of Wells Fargo Advisors Jacob VanSickle Bike Cleveland Steve Viny Envision Waste Services LLC Jerald Warsaw SureSite Morris Wheeler Drummond Road Capital Thank you for being part of the VeloSano family. Your support helps advance innovative cancer research at Cleveland Clinic, making a positive impact on the lives of patients and their families. Thank you! We look forward to seeing you for VeloSano 6 \"Bike to cure\" Weekend: July 19-21, 2019!"}
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{"text": "COU Houston video, market urbanism, Super Bowl impact on HTX, open transportation markets in TX, and moreBefore getting to this week's items, I want to put in a plug for Scott Beyer's new Market Urbanism Report website (introductory video here). Definitely worth checking out and subscribing if you're a fan of the type of stuff I discuss on this blog. His intro:\n\"For about a decade, there’s been a growing bipartisan consensus that America’s cities need liberalization. This consensus formed because of the problems our cities now face thanks to government control. Urban housing supply has been artificially limited by regulations, causing price inflation; publicly-run transportation systems create gridlock and delay; and other services are riddled with patronage.\"Definitely check it out. And here's a good introduction to market urbanism to go with it, with three key arguments:\n- Housing is expensive, in part, because of bad regulations.\n- Don’t underrate the importance of bottom-up solutions to urban problems.\n- More money isn’t the solution to America’s urban transit woes.\n- Speaking of Scott Beyer, he has a great piece in Forbes on \"Texas' Toll Roads: A Big Step Towards Open Markets For Transportation\". Key excerpts:\n.\"\n- Some good feedback from Ian on flaws in the 45 project that need to be fixed, mainly involving east-west connectivity from downtown.\n- While I find this piece from Richard Florida insightful (arguing that land-use restrictions and high housing prices on the coasts helped keep some talent and jobs in the rust belt cities that otherwise would have left), I don't buy the high-speed rail argument for increasing the labor pool that can access a metro area. Given the pricing of HSR tickets, it's highly unlikely to me that very many people are going to be willing to spend $100+/day commuting to work!\n- Houston is one of The Command and Control Centers of the United States (2006/2012): An Analysis of Industry Sectors Influencing the Position of Cities. Hat tip to George.\n- Texas Monthly: Was The Super Bowl Really Worth $347 Million to Houston? Overall answer: yes. Some good excerpts:\n\"In many ways, Houston’s Super Bowl was a tremendous success. On the field, it was perhaps the most exciting game in the 51-year history of the event. The weather was perfect, the mild Texas winter providing a comfortable respite for visiting fans and media. For locals and visitors alike, the events at Discovery Green and throughout the Super Bowl Live experience offered engagement with the event regardless of whether they could afford a (minimum) four-figure ticket to the game itself. Taylor Swift had a good time! So did Sting, The Goo Goo Dolls, Travi$ $cott, and the other entertainers who visited and performed for the crowds.\n...\nStill, even with the fuzzy math of an economic impact report, the Houston Super Bowl was a success.\n...\nThe impact of Super Bowl 51 on Houston also highlights the significance of events like the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, or SXSW and the Austin City Limits Festival in Austin... Cities around the country compete, year after year, with aggressive bids for the chance to host Super Bowls. The Rodeo happens every year and brings in more money, while SXSW annually serves as a recurring pitch to the 85,000 or so people who come to town that Austin is a cool place to live, work, run a business, and spend money. No matter the exact numbers, the Super Bowl seems to have worked out for Houston—but the most impactful events seem to be the ones that are annually in our backyard.\"\nFinally, our COU video on Houston has just been released! I'm really proud of it - it came out great. Definitely check it out - it'll make you proud to be a Houstonian.\nLabels: economy, governance, high-speed rail, identity, land-use regulation, market urbanism, mobility strategies, opportunity urbanism, toll roads, world city\n10 Comments:\nPlease don't use \"HTX.\" That's what people from Austin say. Houston has always been \"HOU.\" Otherwise, please keep up the great work!\nThanks! I know that's a point of debate, but I prefer HTX, since it differentiates from HOU Hobby Airport. Plus anything with TX is inherently cool ;-)\nThis comment has been removed by the author.\nLook how much money the left is leaving on the table!\nHow do you mean?\nRead the link, the chart shows the difference between GDP per capita and RPP per capita.\nI'll be honest, I had some trouble interpreting the chart. Can you give a more detailed explanation?\nTake the gdp of the msa and subtract the gdp rpp of the same msa is approximately the wealth the msa leaves at the table because of bad housing policies.\nThe chart shows the absolute difference between nominal gdp and rpp gdp.\nAh. Gotcha. Very cool! Definitely quantifies Houston's cost advantage!"}
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{"text": "Andrew White has more cameras than anyone in Brighton, probably… Check out this video for his insight into buying old film cameras.\nRecent Posts\nWho is Camera Monkey?\nIs your camera in a jam, misbehaving or in need of a little TLC?\nCamera Monkey cares about your old film camera! He wants it to work. To take pictures again and bring joy to you and your friends.\nWe rescue TLR, 35mm compact, rangefinder, SLR, medium format, box, folding/bellows cameras, Polaroids, LOMO and toy cameras. We sort out shutters and stuck mechanisms. We can restore and replace leather. We also renew light seals and do Holga mods.\nI also take photos…\nYou can see some of them on my website\nAnd on Flickr"}
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{"text": "Here’s How To Make Giant Paper Flowers For Your Wedding Backdrop\nWe can’t believe how real they look.\nRemember Kim K’s giant flower wall at her wedding to Kanye? It’s safe to say having one at your own wedding would set you back tens of thousands of dollars, as fresh flowers are ridiculously expensive.\nIf your budget is on the lower side and you’d rather splurge on other things, like your dress or the wedding cake, it doesn’t mean your decor has to be lacklustre, though.\nThanks to some pretty clever arts and crafts geniuses, there are some amazing DIY tutorials out there that can literally save you a hundreds of dollars. We couldn’t believe our eyes when we came across this DIY giant flower tutorial video, courtesy of craft company Smile Mercantile. It’s not only easy AF, the result is super impressive and life-like.\nThese paper flowers look anything but cheap. In fact, we doubt anyone will even believe you when you tell them you made them yourself. All you need is lots of crepe paper, a hot glue gun, a paper plate, some scissors and a spare afternoon to have your own flower wall for a fraction of the cost of Kim K’s, and the perfect backdrop for your wedding photos…\nHow to make it\n1. Get some crepe paper, cut a strip vertically as wide as you’d like your outer petals to be, then fold the strip in half, against the grain.\n2. With the fold at the bottom, cut around the edges to create a petal shape, they can be pointy or round, or even frilly.\n3. Pinch the base to crease it, release, and add some hot glue, pinch again, and hold it tight until the glue sets.\n4. Stretch the centre of the petal carefully to create a cupped shape. Repeat steps one to four until you have about eight to ten petals.\n5. Take the petals and glue them onto a paper plate, slightly overlapping each other. Do this all around the plate.\n6. Create six to eight smaller petals using steps one to four and fold them slightly upward before glueing them around the centre of the paper plate.\n7. Choose a different color crepe paper and fold a rectangle twice with the grain and once against the grain. With the fold at the bottom, cut out a petal shape. When you unfold it, you’ll have a double ended petal. Stretch again to make cupped shapes, and then fold both sides together, pinching the center. Repeat to make about 15 to 20 of these.\n8. Glue these small petals around the inner circle of the flower – no need to be neat, they can face whatever way looks good.\n9: To make the center fringe, cut a long strip of crepe paper in a color of your choice. Fold several times with the grain to get a small rectangle. Cut about 2/3 of the way into the fold, making really close cuts. Unfold and roll up the fringe and glue it right in the center of the flower. Rough up the center fringe to make it a little messy, trim off the excess length of the stem, and glue it into the center of the flower.\n10: Stretch the edges of the outer petals back and forth to make the petals look more natural. Repeat the process to make more flowers for a wedding flower wall.\nVideo and images via youtube.com."}
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{"text": "The following are the questions a Visa interviewer would ask if you are applying for a tourist visa. This set of questions is focused on \"USA\", but its the same set for any visiting country. Definitely not all, but if prepared for these clearing the interview would be easy. But remember,\nHere they are:\n- Answer to point.\n- Dont lie.\n- Carry necessary documents.\n- Convince them that you would return back :)\n- Why are you going to the US?\n- Have you been to the U.S. before?\n- Do you have relatives in the US? If yes, who?\n- Who is going to sponsor your visit?\n- Where will you stay in the US?\n- What does your son/daughter do for a living?\n- How much does your son/daughter earn?\n- Where does your son/daughter work?\n- What does your son/daughter-in-law do?\n- Who is paying for your son/daughter-in-law's studies?\n- How long has your son/daughter been in the US?\n- Which visa is your son/daughter and son/daughter-in-law on?\n- Did your son/daughter study in the US? Where?\n- What visa did your son/daughter enter the U.S. on?\n- Is your son/daughter married?\n- Does your son/daughter have any children?\n- Is your daughter/daughter-in-law pregnant?\n- Will your wife/husband accompany you on your trip?\n- If only one person is traveling to the U.S. then they may ask: Why are you traveling alone? OR Why isn't your husband/wife accompanying you?\n- When do you plan to travel?\n- Why do you want to travel at that time?\n- What are you going to do in the US?\n- What is the purpose of your trip?\n- Have you blocked your tickets?\n- Do you have return air tickets, medical insurance etc.\n- How much expense do you expect from this trip?\n- Have you been outside India before?\n- Is this your first visit to US?\n- What places do you want to visit?\n- How long will you stay in the US?\n- Can't you finish your visit earlier? Why do you want to stay for so long?\n- What is the guarantee that you will come back?\n- When did you last see your son/daughter?\n- When did your son/daughter last visit India?\n- When does your son/daughter plan to visit India next?\n- Where do you stay in India?\n- When did your son/daughter go to US?\n- What work do you do and where?\n- What is your job profile?\n- How much do you earn/ What is your annual income?\n- If you are working, you may be asked: Did you take leave?\n- Your income is not enough to support international travel. What do you plan to do?\n- If you run a business, you may be asked: Who will look after your business in your absence?\n- When did you retire?\n- How much pension do you get?\n- What assets/property do you have in India?\n- Who will take care of your property in India while you are gone?\n- Can I see you Business/visiting card?\n- Do you have a credit card?\n- Will you work in the US?\n- How many children do u have ? And where are they? What do they do? Are they married?\n- What is your son/daughter's birth date?\n- When is your son/daughter's wedding anniversary?\n- Can you tell me your son/daughter's contact details?\n- Show me your documents OR Has your son/daughter sent any documents?. Visitor Visa"}
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{"text": "We are living in an unprecedented and extraordinary time. The Massasoit Community College Archive and Special Collections wishes to capture and preserve our community's history during the COVID-19 pandemic. This special collection will become part of the Archive and Special Collections where future generations can experience and learn from this event through our community's first-hand accounts.\nAre you keeping a journal or diary of this time? Has this been part of a class assignment? Please consider sharing your story and donating your expressions to the The Massasoit Community College Archive's COVID-19 Project!\nHow to Submit Your Contribution and More Information\nNow is the time to journal, write, draw, record, etc. Please follow this link to the COVID-19 Community History Project page.\nGet your children involved or save their school assignments on this topic for us.\nThank you!\nFor more information about our project, or if you have additional questions,\nplease reach out to Barbara Ambos, or Rebecca Gagne.\nFor Current College updates about Covid-19 visit Massasoit.edu/Newsroom.\nHistory.\nCommonwealth Museum Digital Exhibition\nDespite unequal pay and treatment Massachusetts African Americans played a large role during the Civil War, in the Army, Navy, and on the home-front. In various ways blacks in the Commonwealth stepped forward and helped change the course of history. This exhibit tells the story of their courage, strength, and sacrifice; a story of the quest for a nation free from slavery..\nBarbara Ambos\nArchives Manager - Librarian\nbambos@massasoit.mass.edu\n508-588-9100 x1936\nRebecca Gagne\nArchives Assistant - Librarian\nrgagne5@massasoit.mass.edu\n508-588-9100 x1942"}
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{"text": "4 August 2020\nAsthma guidelines: the best of three\nAndrew Booth, respiratory lead tutor, has had another article published. To give you a flavour here is the abstract:\n‘National and international guidelines provide evidence-based advice on the diagnosis and management of asthma. There are now three potential asthma guidelines to follow, each taking its own its own unique, and sometimes conflicting direction, creating a total of over 700 pages of high-quality evidence. A puzzle is thus presented to the busy health professional: which guideline do I follow? This article compares and contrasts two national and one international asthma guideline, focusing particularly on diagnosis and pharmacological management. Mortality from asthma is increasing in the UK, making the need for a conjoined guideline more urgent than ever.’\nFull access can be gained with Open Athens:"}
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{"text": "A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has developed the next-generation of a chip-based platform for the identification of infection-causing bacteria.\nAnd while Xagenic, a Canadian molecular diagnostics firm, is commercializing an earlier version of the same platform, the firm could also sell the newer, higher-throughput chip in the future, according to Shana Kelley, chief technical officer at Xagenic and a professor at the University of Toronto."}
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{"text": "Advertisement\nSupported by\nThink Pink\nSam Sifton emails readers of Cooking five days a week to talk about food and suggest recipes. That email also appears here. To receive it in your inbox, register here. Download the NYT Cooking app here.\nGood morning. Let me tell you three things.\nFirst, I haven’t eaten striped bass in a long time, though I’ve caught a lot. They’re worth more in the water, as sport fish.\nSecond, I won’t eat bluefin tuna unless I manage to get one myself or know the person who caught it well enough to lend her money, or borrow his truck. Bluefin tuna are delicious, but their stocks are at a historic low. They shouldn’t be killed for commerce, perhaps not at all.\nAnd third, I won’t eat any shrimp that hasn’t been harvested wild, in American waters. I don’t like the stories of polluted foreign shrimp farms. I loathe the accounts of slaves peeling shrimp.\nI’ll allow debate over the bass. It’s just my opinion. (Backed up by a more than 10-year decline in the number of female spawning-age fish. But I won’t fight you if you want to kill a few.) I’ll weather anger over the tuna. I realize it’s a contradiction to champion conservation of a fish that’s nearly extinct, while still occasionally eating them. (I am large, I contain multitudes.)\nBut I do feel strongly about the shrimp. It’s not just that we don’t really know what we’re getting when we thaw that bag of protein that was farmed in a sewer, or what sorcery and pain allows it to be marketed for $8 a pound. It’s also that it tastes terrible, a corruption of what shrimp is actually like.\nBut if you can get yourself some wild-caught shrimp, flash frozen and well cared for on the way to market? It won’t come cheap, but neither does skirt steak, and holy cannoli is it good eating.\nRecipes for shrimp, for tonight if you shop on the way home: Julia Reed’s luxe version of shrimp and grits; my Yucatan shrimp; Melissa Clark’s classic shrimp scampi. Sometimes I peel shrimp to make stock from the shells, then toss the meat with a lot of foaming butter until they’re just pink, then serve them with warm flour tortillas, mango salsa and crema. That is so great.\nBut maybe you don’t like shrimp. It’s amazing, but some do not. Try this recipe for spicy stir-fried tofu with corn, green beans and cilantro instead. Or this one for orecchiette with cherry tomatoes and arugula.\nI’d like to spin up some pork chops with apples and cider this week. Also, this pot roast. And Mark Bittman’s recipe for Peruvian pork stew? It is, as the full-stack developers say but have not yet figured out how to render in emoji in this newsletter, “fire.”\nYou can find more than 18,000 other recipes to cook this week on Cooking, at least if you sign up for a subscription. I’m hoping you will, so that you can access them all, so you can save and organize them (wherever they come from), so that you can send them to family and friends, and so that you can leave notes on them to alert yourself and others to smart tweaks you’ve made to particular recipes, to scale or improve them.\nWe are here for you if you run into trouble along the way. Just write for help, if you need it: cookingcare@nytimes.com. Or find us on social media, where we post and comment on Facebook and Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram. (I’m out there, too: @samsifton.)\nFinally, how about some food-adjacent lifestyle pornography? Because while I can’t imagine Irma did many favors for these places, this Garden & Gun spread on five standout Southern entertaining spaces is pretty luscious. See you on Wednesday.\nFollow NYT Food on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest. Get regular updates from NYT Cooking, with recipe suggestions, cooking tips and shopping advice.\nAdvertisement"}
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{"text": "Aulnay-sous-Bois mayor Bruno Beschizza cast his vote on 23 April in a sunny elementary school tucked in a residential neighborhood in an affluent part of the city.\nThe town, which sits to the north-east of Paris, is the third largest in the Île-de-France region and has a population of 82,520. It is socio-economically mixed, giving the impression of several, separate towns grouped into one. The south tends to be more affluent, while the north is home to a large public housing estate.\nThis fracture made its way to international headlines in February when a white police officer was charged with using a truncheon to anally rape a young black man from the Aulnay-sous-Bois projects.\nLike other towns in the department of Seine Saint Denis, Aulnay-sous-Bois is known for low voter participation. Only about half of the population - roughly 44,000 people - registered to vote in this year’s presidential elections.\n“This problem isn’t specific to this presidential election,” said Mayor Beschizza, a former police officer and member of the conservative Republicans party. “We know civic engagement is low here - it’s been like this for the past 20 years. We do see engagement in local elections. The thing is, in communities facing all kinds of difficulties - be they social or economic - people feel like anything other than hyper-local politics is very distant.”\nVoting to fight stigma\nBut the day of the elections, there was an unprecedented turnout in the low-income neighbourhoods in the north.\nThroughout the afternoon, a steady stream of people filed into another Aulnaysien polling station, Paul Eluard Elementary School-- which sits on a tree-lined street just north of the town’s socio-economic dividing line, a dilapidated shopping centre.\nThe crumbling, graffiti-adorned Galion mall is dominated by a huge poster featuring French national footballer Moussa Sissoko. He’s is a local boy, a former resident of the projects nicknamed “3,000” for the original number of units. It was built in 1969 for employees at the nearby Citroën car factory, most of them immigrants from France’s former colonies. At that time, when France’s economy was booming, the state and industrialists encouraged immigration as a source of cheap labour.\nA large number of voters on Sunday were young, most of them, born and raised in France, are the children and grandchildren of these immigrant workers. Walid, a 23-year-old electrician at Air France, was voting in his first presidential election.\n“I grew up here in Aulnay-sous-Bois and people stigmatise us a lot,” he said. “I was determined to put my ballot in the ballot box so that people see that, even in Aulnay, we are interested in the elections. We are here and we are French, so we have the responsibility to vote.”\nHe said he wasn’t the only one who felt that way.\n“All of my friends are voting this year,” Walid said, a sentiment echoed by many voters.\nAmbre Froment, a 23-year-old volunteer at the Paul Eluard polling station, grew up in Aulnay-sous-Bois. She herself is highly politicised and is planning to run for legislative office this year and is a local representative for the party of hard-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon.\n“There is this story that people here don’t care about politics,” she said. “But it isn’t true. I think people here are even more engaged than my friends in Paris.”\nUnemployment tops concerns\nVoters from 3,000 know what issue is most important to them: unemployment, especially for young people. According to city officials, one out of three young people in Aulnay-sous-Bois is without work. The housing projects are the most affected.\nSome find part-time work at the bustling market near 3,000. Marie-Ange, who is doing her Sunday shopping there, came to Aulnay-sous-Bois from the French overseas department of Guadeloupe in the 1960s as part of another French government scheme to recruit labour. She is retired from her job in the hotel industry but she worries for her grandchildren.\n“I’m an old lady, I’m retired and, honestly, I’m almost dead, so I’m not expecting anything,” she said. “But what I’m worried about are the young people. There’s no jobs, nothing. Young people go to school and yet there is nothing waiting for them. It makes me cry.”\nFor most residents of 3,000 the issue is clear. However, it’s considerably harder to identify the candidate who might solve that issue. In desperation, Marie-Ange fasted for three days and prayed all morning but at 3.00pm on election day, she still hadn’t figured out who to vote for.\nMinorities feel excluded\nBack at the polling station, excited whisperings and occasional shouts gave away many voters' preference for Mélenchon, who has had growing support among youth on the capital's outskirts.\nMélenchon ended up winning Aulnay-sous-Bois, finishing with 10,214 votes (33.81%). He swept the northern part of the city, getting almost 60 percent of votes in an area that has historically voted for the President François Hollande's Socialist Party. At the Paul Eluard polling station, 342 votes cast were for Mélenchon out of a total of 579.\nBut, on the ground, the support was more nuanced. Many people said they came to the polls with heads spinning from the dizzying array of 11 candidates. Though this feeling marked elections in communities all across France, residents of 3,000 felt particular distance from the candidates.\nKartoum Touré is a 27-year-old teacher who lives in Aulnay-sous-Bois. She was born and raised in France, but she said that she often feels excluded from national dialogue because of her Malian origins and Muslim faith.\nStanding in front of the polling station, she still didn’t know who to vote for.\n“It’s my responsibility to vote as a French citizen. But when I look at all the candidates, none of them actually fit with me,” Touré said. “It makes me wonder - does being French mean dressing a certain way? Or thinking in a certain way? Or eating in a certain way? Is it a specific haircut or does it mean having blue eyes? Well, I don’t have blue eyes, I have textured hair and I wear a headscarf. And I’m French, too.”\nLocal politician's ambitions\nFor the people from the 3,000 projects, there just isn’t a candidate who represents them, yet.\nOn Sunday, as the polls prepared to close, a young man named Hadama Traoré was just getting started. Traoré, who’s from Aulnay-sous-Bois, is preparing to run for local office in elections in 2020. His focus is local concerns, ranging from police violence to unemployment to zoning problems - all issues that could get people to the polls.\nAs the sun set on Sunday evening, Traoré was holding a community meeting in the market square. Attendees balanced plastic plates stacked with homemade baked goods and kids played with Traoré’s loudspeaker, shouting his slogan “La révolution est en marche!”, or “The revolution is happening!”\nBut Traoré has his eyes on bigger things. In 15 years, he says, his movement could have a enough steam to go for the presidency.\nAnd he hopes that, if that election comes, the choice of who to vote for would be a bit easier for many from 3,000."}
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{"text": "I was born in an explosion. My body was made from molten rocks and sulfer. I am minerals. A crystalized being. My only comfort was my burning imagination. It ran wild, it would blast me off into space, pass the stars and ricochet me into the stratosphere. I was a comet, orbiting around them. Shining bright, dying in their atmosphere. Dazzling, beautiful, but easily distinguished."}
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{"text": "I’m happy to say that my short story, Hard Boiled, is featured in the newly released paperback anthology, Damnation and Dames, from Ticonderoga Publications. Sixteen stunning tales of paranormal noir… well, that is what it says on the cover anyway. I won’t argue.\nAt 6700 words, Hard Boiled is a particular favourite of mine, and the longest story I have had published to date. It is great to be sandwiched between speculative names like Robert Hood and Angela Slatter, and this is also my second Australian based anthology of the year, so there is cause for another smile.\nYou will be able to pick it up from Amazon very shortly, but if you’re desperate for a copy, try Barnes & Noble, or Indie Books Online.\nMention my name… although I’m not sure how that would help."}
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{"text": "Prof. Barthélémy Jobert, President of Université Paris-Sorbonne\nBorn in 1962, Barthélémy Jobert has been a Professor in History of Modern and Contemporary Arts (heritage) at University Paris-Sorbonne since 2004 and was Vice-President of the Scientific Council of Paris-Sorbonne from 2008 to 2012.\nGraduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure and having passed an agrégation in History, he was “Teaching Assistant” at Harvard University (1986-1987). He was also teaching assistant at Paris-Sorbonne from 1988 to 1992. After having been a “Focillon Fellow” at Yale University (2000), he became Professor in History of Modern and Contemporary Arts at Grenoble II-Pierre Mendès-France University (2001-2004), before joining Paris Sorbonne as a Professor in 2004.\nHe is a specialist of European arts of the XIXth century, and particularly of French Romanticism and more specifically of Eugène Delacroix.\nHe has been director of the « Corpus » programme of the French National Research Agency (ANR), as well as of the e-edition of Delacroix’s correspondence (). He has also been commissioner of several expositions in France and abroad (Louvre, French National Library, Museum of Music, Museums of Grenoble and Arras, Museums of Shimane and Yokohama, Japan)."}
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{"text": "About the Event\nComarch invites you for a Michelin-rated lunch amongst colleague experts. Join us in the biotope of master chef Karen Torosyan for a culinary journey between dream and reality. During the lunch we will expand this universe to our home ground of customer loyalty and brand engagement while sharing you global insights on the latest trends.\nFrom AI, to crypto or even the metaverse…buzz words are often sold as the next big thing in loyalty. But are they really as promising as they sound?\nWe all know the theory behind loyalty strategies, but how does it work in real life? Are companies really able to implement the dream strategies they initially envisioned?\nŁukasz Słoniewski, Head of R&D - Loyalty & Marketing Solutions at Comarch will try to answer these questions and will give you a taste of the real next big thing in customer loyalty. With a lifelong career in loyalty, a backpack full of experience and an open view on the global trends, Lukasz is your perfect guide to frame your loyalty ambitions in the real business context.\nAgenda\nSpeaker\n- Łukasz Słoniewski Head of R&D - Loyalty & Marketing Solutions.\nPlace\n- Karen Torosyan BOZAR Restaurant, Brussels Rue Baron Horta 3, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgique\n- No results found"}
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{"text": "Daikaya Group chef Katsuya Fukushima grew up eating Hawaiian food as the “military brat” of a third-generation Hawaiian father of Japanese-American descent. Though he was born on a base in Okinawa, Japan, near where his mother is from, Fukushima frequently traveled to the 50th state. But when the chef is craving Hawaiian food in DC, there aren’t a ton of options. So, being a seasoned chef, Fukushima made some.\nHatoba, the Daikaya Group’s ramen restaurant in Navy Yard, has a new identity as a destination for Hawaiian food and cocktails. The name (which means “dock”) is the same, as well as a small selection of more authentically Japanese, Sapporo-style ramen soups. But Fukushima has filled out the offerings with traditional island dishes that he grew up eating.\n“To me, Hawaiian food is very much soul food. It’s not hoity-toity, it’s very good, stick-to-your-bones kind of food. Most of the inspiration came from my dad—and you’d never see him in a fine-dining restaurant. Even when I opened Minibar [as head chef], he never came. It wasn’t until I opened Daikaya that he showed up; he loves ramen.”\nThough Fukushima and his team are experimenting with all kinds of Hawaiian dishes, he decided to launch the new menu last Friday with classics. Diners will find ahi tuna poke—made simply with macadamias and sweet vidalias to mimic Hawaiian kukui nuts and Maui onions, which aren’t available here—as well as an octopus version that’s flash-marinated to-order. Another starter: North Shore peel-and-eat garlic shrimp with bread for sopping.\nHeartier dishes include kalua pig plate lunches—slow-roasted in the oven for 12-hours given the lack of a lava rock cooking pit—with seared cabbage, rice, and mac salad. Being a ramen restaurant, there’s also saimin—Hawaii’s answer to the noodle soup created by Chinese and Japanese plantation workers. The clear pork-and-chicken broth has a smoky flavor that Fukushima likens to Okinawa soba—a delicacy from where his mother is from—and bowls are filled with springy noodles, chasu pork, egg ribbons, and shrimp wontons.\nDiners in need of a summer cool-off can opt for Hawaiian-style shave ice, where fluffy piles of snow are covered in condensed milk espuma and candied orange. Daikaya Group bartender Nalee Kim has also created a tropical drink list with options like a draft mai tai or the Pau Hana mixed with vodka, shochu, elderflower liqueur and guava.\nThough Fukushima says the new Hawaiian decor is subtle—“no palm trees or Hawaiian shirts”—some diners who saw the restaurant’s social media announcement over the weekend showed up in floral island prints. “It was nice to see the excitement about a Hawaiian restaurant,” says Fukushima.\nThis isn’t Daikaya Group’s last foray into fusion cuisine. Tonari, their “wafu” restaurant devoted to Japanese-Italian food, has been closed since the beginning of the pandemic. Co-owner Daisuke Utagawa tells Washingtonian that the two-story Penn Quarter restaurant has been “on ice,” but plans to reopen in September.\n“We opened two weeks [at the beginning of the pandemic] because it’s pizza, and we had a surprising number of people who came. They even ordered pasta to go, which I thought was interesting. And people loved it. But then we said, ‘You know, some of them, this is their very first time that they’re trying it. We don’t really want people to have their first experience that comes in a box.”\nHatoba. 300 Tingey St. SE; open at 5, Wednesday through Friday; noon on Saturday and Sunday; closed Monday and Tuesday."}
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{"text": "ERIC Number: ED146045\nRecord Type: RIE\nPublication Date: 1977\nPages: 81\nAbstractor: N/A\nReference Count: 0\nISBN: N/A\nISSN: N/A\nEnergy Conservation Activity Packet, Grade 3.\nBakke, Ruth\nThis activity packet objectives, and activities for each part. Two annotated bibliographies, one for teachers and the other for students, are also included. The teacher is provided with ditto and transparency master pages to use in the classroom. An evaluation sheet and a list of resources are also a part of this activity packet. (MA)\nDescriptors: Elementary Education, Energy, Energy Conservation, Environmental Education, Grade 3, Instructional Materials, Natural Resources, 262-266"}
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{"text": "Fall Family Photo Sessions Coming Soon!!! Email or text me for more information!!!\nHere and there and everywhere!!! Mike teaches locally in the Niagara Region for Hotel Yoga Inc. He also runs several series of yoga classes a year in various locations across the region. Mike has also taught all over the Caribbean with Fitness Pro Travel at various resorts.\nYou can find him delivering workshops pretty much anywhere he's asked to go! His workshops vary from assisting yoga classes, to finding personal balance in your life to empowerment sessions for groups both large and small!\nMike has also recently joined the Faculty of Swastha Yoga International. He is the facilitator for the Conscious Alignment advanced certification program for existing certified yoga teachers. Most of Mike's time with SYI is spent at programs held at the Peace Retreat Costa Rica.\nIf you are interested in attending or hosting a program with Mike, please contact him. Mike enjoys working with groups of any size and and customize content to fit the needs any group. His classes and workshops are designed for ALL levels of participant. There are no boundaries for what is possible if you just try!"}
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{"text": "Adoptable Pets\nAdoption Process\nHow to Help\nAll About Us\nNews & Events\nHappy Tails\nAdoptable Pets\nAdoption Process\nHow to Help\nAll About Us\nNews & Events\nHappy Tails\nWelcome to Halfway Th\ner\ne Res\ncue!\nHere at Halfway There Rescue we believe that second hand animals, make first class pets! We are a Charlotte area\npet\nrescue organization run by a group of dedicated volunteers. We save dogs and cats from over-crowded shelters and help find them loving, happy homes through temporary foster placements and transportation to rescues in others states. Adoption is the loving option; please give one of our available\npet\ns a forever home today!\nOur Mission\nOur mission is to rescue, foster, transport, and find homes for unwanted, abandoned, and abused dogs in the Carolinas. Halfway There Rescue’s goal is to pull at risk\npets\nfrom over-crowded shelters in North and South Carolina, place them in temporary foster homes and ultimately find them permanent, loving homes.\nWe also offer a community outreach program that provides free veterinary care, including spay/neuter, for those who cannot afford services for their pets.\nService Area\nHalfway There Rescue covers North and South Carolina, but we primarily pull puppies and dogs from shelters in Mecklenburg, York, Lancaster, and Chester counties. Halfway There Rescue works directly with shelters and animal control centers in these areas to pull dogs and\ncats\nbefore they are euthanized. Due to the high number of animals in high kill shelters in our area, Halfway There is not able to take owner surrenders at this time.\nMore About Halfway There Rescue\nOfficial Name:\nHalfway There Rescue\nFounded:\nFebruary 2012\nTax Status:\n501(c) (3) nonprofit organization. All donations to Halfway There Rescue are tax deductible!\nVolunteers:\nWe are an all-volunteer organization. Halfway There Rescue has no paid staff, and owns no facilities.\nStatistics and Results:\nWe have helped find homes for over 2,000 puppies\n, kittens, dogs, and cat\ns.\nLets Get Social\nLike our Facebook page and follow us on Instagram for the latest news, events, and all the fuzzy, furry cuteness you can stand!"}
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{"text": "A few different things from the periphery has been brought into thanks to the recent MCU releases. I wanted to talk more in depth about them than I did in my two previous posts. I also wanted to give more people time to see No Way Home so that they don’t possibly stumble upon this post and have several things spoiled for them. I would hate to accidentally spoil something for some, because I had a shitty friend spoil part of No Way Home for me.\nI want to mention first how the Netflix Daredevil series is partially canon in the MCU now. Even if the events aren’t some of the actors are being brought into the MCU. Vincent D’Onofrio reprised his role as Wilson Fisk on Hawkeye and I wasn’t sure it was him when I reviewed the episode, but it was announced that it was him. That combined with Charlie Cox being in No Way Home is very exciting. If they bring back the rest of the cast of the Daredevil series for a new show, I think it would be fantastic. If Marvel could bring the series over from Netflix that would expand everything even more, it could even open the door for others to reprise their roles.\nNo Way Home is a marvel, pun may or may not be intended, of modern filmmaking. The previous Spider-Men coming back to the roles is something that hasn’t been done on that scale. It was partially done in X-Men: Days of Future Past but this feels so different to that. That was a passing of the torch. This was a way to bring everyone in and give a certain amount of closure for the previous Peter Parkers.\nThe way that all of the different Peters were brought together as well as the interplay between them is one of the most fun parts of the movie. That goes for the villains as well. The interplay between them is also fun. The fact that Electro is still villainous even after being offered a cure gives a hint that he would always be a villain. Doc Ock is the only one that’s properly cured before everything goes to hell.\nThe ending leaves it open to there to be more Spider-Man movies, but it could be any of the ones featured in the movie. This is a much different way to end a huge crossover that feels like a comic book than Endgame did."}
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{"text": "leadership\nWhen It Comes To Strategy, What Game Is Your Company Playing?\nHaving observed many global and start-up.\nHaving observed many global and startup.\nWhat game are you playing?\nIs your company operating with a clearly defined business strategy that has been shared with the team? Imagine Duke or USC playing a championship game without a game plan. It's imperative, no matter the size or stage of your company, to ensure it has a clearly articulated purpose. The strategy must be clear and frequently communicated so that everyone playing on the team understands what's expected of them and they can connect to the bigger picture. The lack of a clearly articulated and executed strategy can have many unintended consequences, such as a directionless team that creates their own game plan and plays their own game.\nPut the right players in the right positions.\nOnce you've established your strategy, ensure your players are in the correct positions. Each player needs to have the competency to meet the expectations set for his or her position on the team to be successful. Recognize and reward players who deliver, coach and train the players who show potential, and be courageous enough to remove those who don't or can't play.\nMake sure you understand your position on the team.\nKnowing what position you play on the team, whether you're a goal-keeper or a center-forward, and what part of the field you need to cover is vital. A team can't work effectively without each player understanding their role or job description, and clearly defined expectations that can be measured for performance. It's the coach or manager’s responsibility to ensure that each team member understands his or her position on the team and executes accordingly.\nHow you play the game matters as much as winning the game.\nIt's the coach and manager's responsibility to direct and inspire the team so that each player reaches his or her potential. With clearly defined positions for every player on the team, and a guiding purpose, you have provided your team with the key tools to motivate them to play their best. And while one of the key metrics of success for every company is to make money, and the objective of almost every game is to win, how you do this shows your consumers and fans the very character of your company. The way your company is run is reflected in the training time and direction that is invested in the team.\nTrain your team to win by engaging their heads and their hearts.\nHow you lead and operate your business is on display for the world, and in today's transparent and instant-media society, training your team to work with integrity and operate with company values is key to sustainability and growth. Employees become loyal and engaged, and consumers become fans, when the spirit and character of the company is clear. Loyalty stems from commitment to training and ensuring your strategy and values are shared and understood by every member of your team.\nStop talking about playing a good game and go play one.\nIn business and in sports, there is too much time spent philosophizing and theorizing about how to execute a plan or play the game. The talkers are typically the ones who sound as though they're experienced, but have rarely done the job or played in the position they're pontificating about. If the talkers put as much time into actually doing as they do in talking, the company might be more successful. It's time to stop talking about the game and start playing it.\nActions speak louder than words.\nWhen I complain about work and its challenges, my wife often reminds me, \"it's called work for a reason.\" It takes determination and perseverance to stay the course and execute a plan. Every company needs a clear strategy that the right teams can execute, and when all’s said and done, execution is key. This in turn reminds me of one of my favorite mantras: \"GSD\". It's time to Get Stuff Done.\nWant to play smarter? Sign up for Fast Company's daily and weekly Co.Lead newsletter. Tony Case]\nAdd New Comment"}
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{"text": "Quick Details\n- Type: Mini Wireless USB adapter\n- Chipset: Realtek8811au\n- Antenna: 2dbi Antenna\n- Standard: IEEE802.11ac/a/b/g/n\n- Frequency: 2.4GHz/5.8GHz\n- Support Computer Systems: windows XP,Vista,Win 7,Win8 ,Win10 ,linux\n- Color: Black\n- Size: 16*32mm\n- Warranty: 12months\nPackaging & Delivery\nDual band 600mbps Mini Wireless USB adapter 802.11ac WIFI Adapter for Mobile Device\nMini Wireless USB adapter\n802.11ac WIFI Adapter\nWIFI Adapter for Mobile\nThe EDUP EP-AC1619 is a 802.11n USB Wireless adapter using a Realtek 8811au chipset providing a maximum transfer rate of 600Mbps.This product can bed used for computer, PSP, media player or other device which needs the flexibility of a wireless connection. It can be configured as an AP during installation,allowing you to share the internet connetion to other Wi-Fi device. The WPS button allows very convenient encryption . With the inscluded AUTO-RUN CD, even novice user can install EP-DB1607 easy and quickly.\nContact person :Yiven Yin\nwhatsapp:+86-18682001250\n"}
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{"text": "A bit later than expected, but New York has now been called for Hillary Clinton. Turns out the exit polls showing a close 52% to 48% race were not quite accurate. Around one-third of the vote is in and Clinton leads Sanders 61% to 39%.\nFor Hillary Clinton, it is the status quo. I alluded to it in my New York preview earlier today, but New York is the heavily populated, diverse state Hillary has won so many times during the primary season. She not only wins, but she adds to her already commanding lead in pledged delegates.\nFor Bernie Sanders, he’ll probably spin this as a victory for his campaign. The guy is the Democratic Party’s version of Marco Rubio. He’ll say something along the lines of ” a month ago we were down 50 points…..”\nGreat. But it doesn’t matter when you turn an early 50 point deficit into a 20 point loss.\nSo he falls further behind in the pledged delegate count, the total vote count, and in the number of states/territory contests won. The massive revolution Bernie is touting cannot even get the majority, or even a plurality, of support in his own party; and he continues to get blown out in states that look more like the party electorate as a whole. What momentum does he keep talking about?\nBernie has run a very good race and has excited a lot of people. But despite the narrative of his campaign and his supporters, this is not a national movement ready to sweep the country. Obama had that in 2008. Bernie Sanders does not have it in 2016."}
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{"text": "Music for mobiles, the O2 way\nDownloads via GPRS\nPosted in Mobile, 11th March 2003 10:41 GMT\nSee what The Register's experts have to say on application security\n02 today claims a world first for a music download service on GPRS, or 2.5G, networks.?\nCustomers can download the music - again - onto their PCs. And there will be an after-market, with additional memory cards for sale.\n02 has assembled a long list of partners, including Siemens, obviously, MTV, which supplies the charts, BMG which will provide track listings and pre-releases, Chaoticom for file compression and and SDC (Secure Digital Container) AG for digital rights management. ®\nJoin our expert panel in discussing application security"}
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{"text": "Toolbox for IT\nTopics\nData Center\nWhite Papers\nGain a Business Advantage with Scale-Out Storage\nAuthor:\nIntel\nPosted Date:\nSummary:"}
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{"text": "Awesome Mac and Cheese\nBy\ncandy kratzer\n6\n@candy777\nIngredients\n- 1 pkgmacaroni, elbow 1 lb.\n- 2 can(s)10 3/4 oz. cheddar cheese soups\n- 2 can(s)12 ox. evaporated milk\n- 1 3/4 stickbutter or margarine\n- 1 tspsalt\n- 1 tsppepper\n- 6 ccheddar cheese, shredded (med./extra sharp/combination)\nHow to Make Awesome Mac and Cheese\n- Preheat oven to 350.\nCook pasta according to pasta directions just until done - you don't want it mushy, because it will absorb a little of the cheesy liquid in the oven.).\n-"}
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{"text": "If the Spurs win tonight, I'll head straight into work to start blowing up components of our normal morning format so we can be \"all Spurs all the time.\" Barring a huge news event, the only thing San Antonio will be talking about Friday is the Spurs. My role for my company is in part to discern what people are talking about and make sure we're talking about it on the radio too, so with a victory, this is a no-brainer.\nI need to mention though that I took down my Spurs calendar at my office today. That might seem odd, considering I have to\nYesterday though, which was a difficult day for a number of reasons, I got caught up in my \"work mentality\" and expressed some frustrations which had been churning for a while to Amy and anyone else who would pretend to listen. I also conducted a \"social experiment\" (another story) to prove my point about what I see as an area that needs improvement at my office.\nI didn't get home until nearly one in the afternoon - I go to work at one in the morning - so I was tired, frustrated and feeling a bit down on myself.\nOn our porch at home I found a large Fed-Ex/Express Mail or some other \"fast delivery service\" envelop addressed to me. I thought it was yet another corporate proxy statement from Disney, a company in which I own one share of stock. They send me so much stuff on the business that what they spend in postage is more than my share of stock is worth. However this time the package wasn't more corporate minutiae from Disney.\nBut it was pretty wonderful nonetheless.\nThe envelope contained a calendar...made by our kids via one of those cool on line photo sites. It features photos of all three of our children (all adults now but children forever in my heart) and it was their father's day gift to me.\nI really nearly broke down...and Amy might disagree on the adverb \"nearly.\" I admit tearing up a bit and not talking a whole lot.\nIt is such a thoughtful gift and it came at the absolute perfect moment to serve as a vivid reminder of where I need to place value in my life.\nSo I took down my Spurs calendar at the office today and put the kid's calendar in its place.\nThe next time I let anything at my job loom large in my mind, I hope I'll remember to stare at that calendar and consider the love I am so blessed to have received by the children who have so graciously accepted me into their lives.\nI adore the Spurs.\nTiffany, Joey and Lisa....I LOVE you, more than I fear I can ever express in words."}
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{"text": "Nike teams up with the Bruce Lee Foundation for a collection of tees featuring the late, great martial artist. The graphics definitely have a vintage vibe, but to be honest, there are way better images could’ve been chosen.\nMatt Ho\n- KNOWN Debut Streetwear Tees Collection - November 30, 2012\n- Popular Demand Snakeskin Flag Tee - August 8, 2012\n- Miko Spinelli Caps - July 6, 2012"}
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{"text": "Let us know who your favorite Spider Man.\nTobey introduced us to Spider Man and made us fall in love with him. That I give him credit for.\nBut of all three, I think Tom has brought the best depth to the character so far.\nAndrew Garfield's cast as Spider Man is a mistake ... he should have been cast as a villain instead.\n#MyHumbleOpinion\nI think I somehow agree with you.\nWe all love Toby because he is the first.\nToby"}
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{"text": "Data In the Built Environment & GDPR, friends or enemies? Nick Kirby talks about GDPR in the context of Real Estate at the Future:Proptech exhibition. Read the full transcript Data In The Built Environment and GDPR, Friends or Enemies? Nick Kirby Managing Associate, Mishcon de Reya, London UK Right hi everyone; I am Nick Kirby, Managing Associate at Mishcon de Reya. I am also our firm’s real estate technology specialist. Part of my role as being the technology specialist is to run our real estate category for MDR Lab which is our in-house incubator and I also build relationships with start-ups that we might be thinking, we might think might be interesting for our Lab or that our clients will find interesting because they will change the way that property is owned and managed in the future. So today I am going to talk a bit about GDPR and how data collected in the build environment will be affected by GDPR. So we are going to talk about, a bit about data you might be collecting now either intentionally or inadvertently. What data you could be collecting in using the technology that’s available at today’s date and what does the future look like and then I am going to cover how GDPR will impact the data that’s going to be collected. So for those of you that are only here because you are panicking about GDPR, please don’t worry, I am going to cover some hints and tips to get GDPR compliant and then we are going to hand out our top ten tips at the end and there are two people handing those out so you can collect those. So what is GDPR? It’s the General Data Protection Regulation. It was adopted on the 27 April 2016 so you know really we’ve had a long time to get to grips with it but I think you know to be fair to everyone, no one’s really given it enough thought until very recently. It comes into force in about three weeks on the 25 May 2018 and GDPR is a European law so unfortunately I’m going to have to mention Brexit – sorry. Our UK version is called the Data Protection Bill. It’s going through Parliament at the moment. Its aim is to put something materially similar in place and we want the UK rules to be materially similar because we want to be able to have this adequacy finding which means that we can move data to and from the EU. GDPR is all about the protection of individuals and their personal data and it’s about making businesses accountable and transparent. So most of you are probably here representing your company but many of the businesses that you will interact with on a daily basis will be holding data on you as an individual and when I say put your consumer hat on when you are thinking about GDPR, it is worth taking a step back and just thinking ‘how would you want those businesses to use and process your personal data’. So what is personal data? The definition in the legislation is so wide I think it pretty much covers any information you are going to hold on an individual and there are numerous sort of obvious things that would be considered to be personal information like someone’s name, their email address, maybe their physical address and then there are some less obvious examples like location data or maybe where people have recently visited so their shopping habits. As an example, Mark Zuckerberg was asked by the US Senate which hotel did you stay in last night or who have you messaged in the last few weeks and he didn’t want to answer that question and I imagine that’s because he considered those things to be his personal data that he didn’t want anyone to know. So as I mentioned I am going to cover what could you collect, what are you collecting now so whether or not you’re doing so intentionally, you are going to be collecting personal data if you own or manage a building. At your reception desk you might have a security guard who collects business cards and he uses those business cards to print off security passes to make things quick and easy. You might even keep some of that information, maybe put it into a CRM system. Maybe you have free Wi-Fi in your building, in your property and in order to use that the individual has to log in, give you their email address, maybe give you their birthday and you know, if you have CCTV maybe in combination with the log book of people arriving, you have that video that could now become personal information because you can identify the person in the video as the person who signed in at the same time. The point being that almost everyone is going to be collecting personal data on a daily basis and they will need to consider what to do with it as part of GDPR. So what could you collect now if you used some of the latest technology that’s out there? So as I mentioned earlier we’ve been building relationships with start-ups that we think our clients will find interesting because they’ll change the way the built environment is owned and managed in the future. Those start-ups are likely to be collecting and processing personal information to facilitate their success so some of those start-ups are presenting at our stand, it’s number 24, so please do go and visit them and have a look at what they are about. So one that I’d like to mention is Hoxton Analytics. They are a market leading footfall company, they provide 95% accurate footfall, 80% accurate gender recognition, they can track outside traffic, in-store occupancy, 12 x group size, demographic and brand recognition. So you know that provides real time data with rich analysis. Another one of the start-ups that we work with is a company called Savvy. They are very new and they’re working with landlords to enable them to offer their buildings as a service, to occupiers, employees and create building communities. The service will organically create data and provide real time analytics to landlords and enabling them to make informed decisions backed by data not opinion and they are doing this by connecting the people and the employees within these buildings to a local marketplace of providers and services helping them to improve their workplace experience and engagement. High definition satellite imagery might be used to give you a macro view of what’s going on in your building you know, what are people doing, where are they coming from, how is traffic arriving, how many people are coming to your building. Autonomous vehicle networks in the future will enable companies to track people from where they’ve been, when they arrive at your building and where they go afterwards. Much like you can do online. So online Google can track where you’ve shopped, what you buy and where you go afterwards and so I imagine that these AV networks will allow the built environment to do something quite similar and I think the same with facial recognition you know, if it’s widely adopted and consumers accept it, it will allow the built environment to display bespoke adverts to people that arrive at their building much like again you can do online. Google can advertise to me because it knows who I am and it can give me relevant adverts directly on each page that I land on. So you know if all of this additional data is collected there’s no doubt all of the businesses that hold it are going to need to become experts in using AI systems to process the data in order to actually gather powerful insight about what buildings are being used properly and which are most efficient. So how will GDPR all of this data? The two key themes of the GDPR are transparency which is telling people what you are going to do with their data in a clear language and accountability which is being able to show what you’ve done is in accordance with the law. Businesses will need to get used to using plain speaking language and explaining their compliance more often. As some of you may know, any individual can request that you provide them with a copy of all the personal data you hold. So with way more publicity about what rights people have and the dropping of the ten pound fee, you should all expect that more subject access requests will be made and you need to respond within a month so you need to understand what you have and where it is. Expect more people to claim one of the other rights they’ve got so correction, deletion, rectification and portability. So the big headline for GDPR has always been the damages. It’s now 20 million of 4% of global turnover which could be a massive number. The ICO has tried to dampen down that issue but we’ll just have to see where it goes. In our view the bigger concern for businesses is, is private litigation. So claims for damages and distress or reputation loss. You know every business should have a reputation management strategy in place for dealing with a data breach. It will be very hard to manage what you need to do when you are in the middle of a crisis. I don’t have enough time to go through this slide in detail but just remember that your employees are data subjects too. If you are going to be tracking what they are doing on a more detailed level you will be holding loads of personal information about them and it’s worth understanding what you hold and whether or not you need to hold it. You know, do you need to hold all of the old employee records? Just imagine if one of those old employees asks you for their personal data and you hold it, you have to provide it. It’s very important also to train your employees properly because you want to reduce the risk of a GDPR breach occurring. So it really is vital to understand what types of data you hold before a potential incident occurs. Knowing the risks and the privacy impact of each data type will enable you to protect your organisation and your data subjects properly. Generally required to notify the ICO and the data subjects of any serious breach within 72 hours so if you can imagine that your employee leaves a laptop on a train on a Friday night, you really don’t have long to deal with that. So that’s why we are saying it is very important to have a proper plan in place with what you need to do in those circumstances and it’s not enough to be saying that you are working towards compliance. You need to have and you need to be able to demonstrate that you’ve got thorough protective technical and organisational measures in place. You have got to think about your third party suppliers that are processing your data. If there are any you need to have an agreement in place with them and its equally important to think about the reputation of damage that might occur if one of them do something wrong because ultimately you’ll be the one in the press. You might be able to blame them for the mistake but ultimately they will have lost your data so you need to be careful about what you let them do. And in the rush to be compliant, don’t forget to protect the information that matters most. Your crown jewels. The GDPR require organisations to take appropriate and protective steps to protect data so this means you need to be able to demonstrate that you’ve got the right cyber security controls for the sensitivity that you hold. So I’ve talked a bit about you know, using and processing data and if you are going to use personal data once you’ve collected it you need to have a lawful reason for processing that data. So I’ve listed a few of the examples from the legislation up there but there are more of them. For example, obtaining a proper consent from an individual under GDPR is really, really difficult and it’s much easier to try and rely on one of the other limbs of lawful reasons so it’s necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests of your business. It really is a very complex area and it’s obviously brand new so the one thing I would say is if you are processing data make sure you get bespoke advice on your specific set of facts. So I thought I’d just quickly summarise some take home points about what I’ve talked about, the key things that you need to know. Know what data you hold, that’s very important. Be clear about what you are doing with the data. Be prepared to be accountable. Have a clear plan in case something goes wrong and make sure you document it. You need to have actual documents setting out what your plan is, what you’re doing with data and what you hold. It is not enough to say we did that but we didn’t write it down. And if you are processing data make sure you have a lawful reason for processing it in the data that you are collecting in the built environment. So that’s it from me, I think we’re running really short on time so if you do have any questions then feel free to email any of the guys on my slide and as I said, please do go up and collect our top ten tips on GDPR. Thanks very much."}
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{"text": "2002 Nissan Sentra Owners Manual – Nissan’s Sentra is a nice several-doorway compact sedan. Starting at merely $11,799, it competes with the Honda Civic sedans and gives the best value. Smooth, calm, and inexpensive, it is dependable and pleasant on extended brings.\nFor 2002, Nissan has launched the SE-R and SE-R Spec V types of the Sentra. They are a definite hoot to drive. The SE-R models take the standard very hot-rod strategy of decreasing a huge engine into a small car but include braking systems, suspension, and wheels to change them into supreme worth sports sedans.\n2002 Nissan Sentra Model and Price\nSentra is readily available as 5 models: XE ($11,799); CA ($14,899); GXE ($13,749); SE-R ($15,999); and SE-R Spec V ($16,999).\nXE is the base model and includes a 126-horsepower 1.8-liter 4-cylinder engine and a simple checklist of regular gear that features potential frontside disc braking systems, a rear windowpane defroster, two distant-handle decorative mirrors, front side airbags, power steering and a tilt directing column, 14-inches car tires and irregular windshield wipers.\nRead Also: 2004 Nissan Sentra Owners Manual\nCA is a special edition that is the very first gas-driven car certified as an awesome extremely very low emissions vehicle (SULEV) as well as absolutely no evaporative emissions specifications by the California Air flow Resources Table. Its 1.8-liter engine creates 122 horsepower. It offers a normal automatic transmission and air conditioner.\n2002 Nissan Sentra Exterior\nNissan fully newly designed its Sentra for the 2000 model year and the final result was a greater car than the earlier generation: a great deal much longer, a tiny wider and a little bit bigger. The recent Sentra was built by Nissan’s California style studio room, the same group that managed the exciting Xterra sport-utility and the competitive Frontier compact pickup truck. Their goal was to eliminate “entry-level” considering, to design a car using its personal figure which happens to stay in the appropriate price range for a lot of folks. It is robust, circular and only a very little sassy.\nNissan found that enhanced and nimble very little economy cars do not offer also effectively if they’re homely. It discovered this by reviewing the 1995-1999 Sentra. There’s a whole lot of levels of competition for economy cars originating from greater used cars, which are now off of-lease contract and offering at eye-catching special discounts. However, some folks, especially clever women buyers, prefer new, reasonably priced sedans with warranties to used cars.\n2002 Nissan Sentra Interior Features\nAt first glance, the Sentra’s entrance seats look like normal economy car perches, but once you’re in them they think a lot roomier and are changeable. The seats in the SE-R are encouraging with large side bolsters. They keep you completely, but pleasantly, set up. One knob on the part adapts the top 50 % of the seat bottom part; another knob adapts the rear one half.\nThe 2002 Nissan Sentra interior is roomy, both for folks and freight. The rear seats are in a position to cater to grownups, and all of the seat positions supply great respiration room. All 3 sitting positions in the rear have three-stage belts, though a few again there is amasses. The 4 outboard straps are built with automated tensioners, an essential safety feature for an economy car. This is equipment that a great many larger sedans didn’t have just 5yrs earlier.\n2002 Nissan Sentra Driving Impressions\nRegardless of the model, the Sentra hums proper along. We drove a GXE with a several-speed manual to 100 miles per hour with ease in the wasteland, and it also was revving at a relatively calm 4500 rpm. It noticed stable at this particular speed, and blowing wind and wheel noises have been lower. At the authorized speed restrict of 70 mph, the engine changes just 3100 rpm in 5th equipment; the intelligent-loaded model revs even lower.\nGXE and XE models operate correctly and gently. The new 1.8-liter engine revs quickly to its 6500 redlines. The EPA rates it at 26/33 mpg area/road with the automatic transmission, and 27/35 with a 5 various-speed manual. This engine makes use of a right time chain instead of the cheaper and less noisy the right time belt. You never discover the additional sound made by the right time chain, nonetheless."}
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{"text": "Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSS\n• Rep. Steve King stirs up another controversy after sending out a racially inflammatory Tweet that has critics from both sides of the aisle condemning him.\n• The CBO released its report on the GOP’s Obamacare replacement plan: The CBO predicts next year, there will be 14 million more uninsured Americans than under the Affordable Care Act. It also says premiums for individuals will increase by 15 to 20 percent before there will be any decline in costs.\n• The Justice Department asked for more time to gather evidence related to President Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during last the 2016 presidential election campaign.\n• There are new questions in the 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown – thanks to a new documentary called “Stranger Fruit.” Uncut surveillance video casts doubt on whether Brown robbed the store shortly before he was killed in 2014.\n• Where is Donald Trump’s proof that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower?\n• In the first 10 days of this month, 10 young Blacks and Latinos — most of them female — were reported missing in Washington DC.\nDerrica Wilson, CEO and Founder of the Black and Missing Foundation joined Roland Martin during Tuesday’s edition of NewsOne Now to discuss the increase in missing persons reports and human trafficking.\nAll that and more in this edition of the NewsOne Now Audio Podcast\nListen, download and subscribe to the “NewsOne Now” Audio Podcast on Google Podcasts"}
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{"text": "Brent White has moved from Gen-i to join Fujitsu NZ as service delivery director.\nWhite says he was attracted to Fujitsu because of its commitment to recapturing its position as a tier one player in the market and its focus on continuous improvement.\nPeter McFarlane, Fujitsu ANZ executive general manager – infrastructure services, is pleased to have such an experienced and capable service delivery director on board.\n“Services represent an increasingly large proportion of our New Zealand business – more than 60% - and Brent’s role is all encompassing. His experience in working with some of the largest organisations and his track record in terms of staff retention and revenue growth were deciding factors in his appointment,” he says."}
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{"text": "\n::\nSurvival Horror\n|\nCity of Graves: A Comedic Tragedy in Three Pieces\nAuthor\nHorizonblue\n:\n289\nJoin date\n:\n2009-10-24\nLocation\n:\nMar Sara\nSubject: City of Graves: A Comedic Tragedy in Three Pieces\nMon Jan 31, 2011 5:34 pm\nWhen life gives your lemons, squeeze them in life's eyes until it gives something else!\nThis is a game about dark humor and darker mysteries. It is using a fast and dirty system to capture the city of New Perdition, a fortified metropolis surviving in the Post-Reckoning world of Chel. Plays as gumshoes and gangsters in a Psychopunk setting, with heavy noir influences.\nThe System: A RPS Game\nRock, Paper, Scissors. Things come in threes in this game. The basics of RPS is simple:\nRock beats Scissors,\nScissors beats Paper,\nand Paper beats Rock.\nSo, using this as an example, a parallel can be derived for characteristics;\nRock: Powerful and blunt, plowing through its problems in a direct line, but is easy to redirect.\nPaper: Delicate but shifting, never giving a direct assault but instead wrapping around and smothering its obstacles.\nScissors: Direct and sharp, able to cut through deception and trickery, but no match for brute force.\nUsing these definitions, we can now make the three basic parts of a character;\nVim: The body and its icky orifices. Some are strong, swift, or even sturdy. The ability of the character to physically interact with the world is judged by this stat, including combat.\nAcuity: The brain and its bewildering functions. You may be quick witted, or just a walking encyclopedia of useless facts, and a few even have common sense. This bears with dealing in puzzles, and deals with your frail sanity.\nCongruity: Your smile and your social acumen. Perhaps you have a sense of magnanimity or are simply gorgeous. This ability deals with social interactions and how well one can sway things your way with others.\nTo each of these attributes you assign one of Rock, Paper, or Scissor. With that, you are done making a character!\nHere are some example characters:\n-Private Eye-\nVim: Rock (He bowls his enemies over with his fists and fires a mean, loud piece if need be. However, the knife in his back is always the one to fell the poor sucker.)\nAcuity: Scissor (He pierces the mysteries around him with a focused persistence and attention to detail. However, sometimes he focuses on the wrong thing or just is too stubborn to back down from superior forces.)\nCongruity: Paper (He is gruff and plain in speech, so only people who need to deal with him often do. However, when people plan too much, he has a way of slipping in that mucks up the whole thing.)\n-Dame-\nVim: Paper (She is neither strong nor violent. She only wins a fight if the enemy puts down their guard, but all too often the big ones do.)\nAcuity: Rock (She knows what she wants, and she will be damned before she flinches on her way. Unfortunately, she often leaves a trail for anybody to follow.)\nCongruity: Scissor (She knows how to twist people into knots, and herself even more. However, she is cutting her way through a dangerous place, and could be mushed at anytime.)\n-Gangster-\nVim: Scissor (Applied violence means applicable results. He may not be able to stand in the heat for too long, but hell for anybody he get his mitts on.)\nAcuity: Paper (He follows orders more then making them, but his nature means that when things go really wrong, he somehow walks away unscathed. People don't shoot the messenger.)\nCongruity: Rock (He cuts a handsome figure in his pinstripes, and knows when people are giving him the raw deal. However, cocky men eat crow at the worst time, often from minor details he forgot.)\nIf you may notice, Gangster beats Dame beats Private Eye beats Gangster. Besides being a classic setup, it also shows how each character has power over some, weaknesses to others. It also shows how the rules work. When two things meet, the RPS of their most appropriate attribute is brought out. If one beats the other, the winner gains the advantage while the loser gets shoved out. If there is a tie, neither gains the advantage and nobody gains the advantage. Failure is not devastating at this point, however, such as if the Private Eye and the Gangster getting in a gunfight. The Private Eye would win, but this means he forces the Gangster to flee.\nInanimate objects and concepts also have attributes. Never underestimate a puzzle.\nNow, the loser can either accept his fate and try to find another way around the problem, or can issue a challenge. In a challenge, you each need a dice. Any dice dividable by 3 will work (d3, d6, d12 all work). If someone faces multiple challenges, the challenged person gets to choose the order in which she resolves the challenges, but can never refuse them. The challenger and challenged each assign Rock, Paper, and Scissor to the numbers 1, 2, and 3. Each different challenge can have a different set of numbers to RPS. Each rolls off, or if in person play real RPS, and compare the results. The winner gets a great advantage, but the loser gains a Strike. Three Strikes and your out. For example, if the Private Eye and two gangsters get in a fight, he would beat both. If they each challenge him, he chooses which one goes first, his numbers, and rolls off. Now say the Private Eye rolled a 2 twice (both times picking paper) against the Gangsters' 1 (for this one rock) and 3 (for the other one schissor) he won a challenge, but lost another. This means that the Private Eye and one of the Gangsters gains a Strike, meaning something along the lines of getting shot or running out of bullets.\nStrikes are they way to tell how stable your characters life is going at the time. They mean your doing badly, but also have a little something on people in their 'happy place.' As the whole world of Chel is psychoreactive, the mad have power. For each strike you have, your character is losing not only his grip on life, but on your mind as well. However, the insane can, and do, influence the world around them. Each maddening effect can shut off an attribute. For example, the wounded Private Eye may now change one set peice of the gunfight scene, and turns the gangster foe into a fluffy bunny. The Gangster turned bunny in turn turns the Private Eyes gun into a very angry snake. Each is now unable to use their Vim, leaving the unwounded Gangster all alone. He runs toward his objective, covering his eyes and shivering the whole way.\nRemember, the third Strike simply gets rid of you, so you only really have one or two Psych effects each scenario. Also, a character can always challenge himself and lose, giving himself a strike. The mad often harm themselves...\nStrikes can be rid of in one of two ways: Either win a challenge and break the cycle of bad luck (but risking gaining more in the process) or not post for a week in real time (character backs off the case and the player waits out the trouble). Actions in game are based on your ability to post, so he who posts most risks most, but may leap ahead of others. Those who rarely post will not leap forward, but are not likely to die either. Balancing risk and caution are key to this campaign, and this world.\nSo, there is the rules! The world is to follow soon...\nHorizonblue\n:\n289\nJoin date\n:\n2009-10-24\nLocation\n:\nMar Sara\nSubject: Re: City of Graves: A Comedic Tragedy in Three Pieces\nTue Feb 01, 2011 2:09 pm\nChel (pronounced sh-ell) is a world that lived too long. In the past, archeology shows that the world was a place of many nations and peoples. Humanity lived in large cities, like 'Dahlas' or 'New Oreens.' Then came the Reckoning.\nAscension is far from painless, and thousands disappeared in bursts of beautiful light. however, most stayed behind, or worse, got stuck half way. Those who had awakened smote the earth as angry gods and wiped most of the world before away in one gesture of anger and frustration.\nBut humanity is stubborn. Survivors crawled out from the wreckage and rebuilt. New Perdition was built in this time, and many made a solemn vow: we must never ascend again, or else nothing will be left. The city council is charged with keeping people firmly tethered to something, be it work, faith, or simple oppresion. The council wants the long twilight of mankind to stay long, and is willing to use any measure to do so.\nThere are those who want otherwise. Some want ascension, some want freedom, and some simply want to be left alone. The city is surrounded by the Wildness, filled with conclaves of free thinkers and bootleggers of all kind of 'social lubricants.' To keep people down, the council keeps the happy drugged, and helps shuffle off the weary fast as they can, while the underbelly supplies people with the dangerous taste of something greater.\nInto this world step the player, who forges their own path, be it freedom from everything, or an embracing of the neccesary, or something else entirely. Either way it doesn't matter.\nYou have the most precious thing in this world.\nChoice...\nThe City is like any beast; it has an end that stinks, and an end with fangs.\nAt the center of the city is the Bastion, run by the Council. Under them sit the Assemblies, small groups that run the day to day business of the City. The council has four members, who never have names, only symbols. Revealing the true identity of the of a Council member is punishable by Erasure. There is the Megaphone, her small frame locked into the City's speakers and camera's. There is the Pen, who does the census and taxes, from his fingers record a trail that wraps around every man and woman and child in the City. There is the Scalpel, who oversees every hospital and asylum in the City, tracking the slowing pulse of the city. And there is the Mask, who keeps the City's elite dancing their deadly games of politics, penning them in the whole time. In this spire, the bureaucracy is able to shield itself from the seething masses it regulates, and the spire is surrounded by a buffer of manors, whose own bodyguards guard their overlords through their own fear of the poor.\nOn one side of the city center is the Wharf, stretching along the coast into the gray sea. Long wharves and huge warehouses move the goods that keep the city moving. This is the only way to reach the outside world, and as such security is tight on the docks. However, too many people get through to keep the outside world at bay.\nOn the opposite side of sea is the Stacks, lines of factories that belch out smoke and product. It is the beating heart of the city, moving goods in and around the city. And like any machine, it needs fuel. The population fills that role, workers wearing down their lives before the machines.\nBetween these organs of the state lie the marrow of housing, the countless citizens who work and toil here in this city to make it so great.\nOutside the city lies the Steadfasts, then the Wildness. The Steadfasts are malcontents who traded hardship for freedom, so long as they meet quotas of material and food for the City. They are closed places, small brotherhoods lead by reforged Foreman who brook no quarter in their wish to be left alone, and keep their affairs secret. The Wildness is the home of those who broke with the Rule, the ones who wish to ascend. They carry out their rituals and try to ascend. Some do, and the City loses a little more grip. They serve the Queen of the Woods, who says who shall hunt, and who shall flee.\nAmidst this all stands the Agency, a private company run by 'Steel Black,' a faceless man who does odd jobs for all sides, and you work for Him. But the Agency is riddled with agents from all sides, all the better for Black, who sets them against each other to make sure His goals are carried out.\nYou work for the Agency; you have the choice. Question is, will you choose wisely?\nHorizonblue\n:\n289\nJoin date\n:\n2009-10-24\nLocation\n:\nMar Sara\nSubject: Re: City of Graves: A Comedic Tragedy in Three Pieces\nWed Mar 30, 2011 1:34 am\nThere are several factions around the City.\nYou must choose a Faction and an Archetype.\nThe Law:\nLike a mast of a ship, you stand tall in the storm. Order must be restored to the city for it to survive, and no single person is worth more then the city. Hardships must be endured, but that is life.\nAs an Old Money, you have seen madness and disorder ebb and flow, and have some to see it as merely transitory to one's own wealth. You can dismiss one Effect with a flick of the wrist.\nInspectors are the police's finest, who do well with adversity and roll with the challenges presented to them. They are also good leaders, taking on the strengths and weaknesses of those below them. They can switch their stats with the one's they challenge or with another player.\nThe Underground:\nLike a rat in a cesspool, you thrive in dirty conditions. Needs and wants are always present, and you fulfill the ones no ones want to speak of.\n-The Wild Ones\nThe outside world holds many secrets, and this side hides them. Like an old woman in a hoop skirt, you may never see what's under, and may never want to. But people from the fringes of society, radicals, rebels, and retches gather in the woods and do dark ritual.\nYou know you can ascend, just don't know how, and the Sisters are guiding you there. Be free of petty morals and dragging selflessness, the only true way is to embrace the self and steer your own life!\nMany Wild Ones no longer look human, and always have a tell. Often times it's animalistic, or simply off, like an tattoo that always faces the viewer or a tail. For a hideable Tell, you can put out and Effect, without needing a Strike, whenever your Tell is visible. For a very Visible Tell, like a animalistic body, or vines for hair, you have a two Effects you can put in any time, without Strikes, but must avoid the authorities.\nThe Wild Ones listen to the Queen of the Woods, and Ascended who stayed behind to help along others who fall in her footsteps. She is a terrifying beast who drifts through the forest, her legs trailing a line of flowers, which stare and follow any who pass. She speaks in a whisper that is only heard by those she wants to hear.\n-The Mafia\nPeople need vices to make it through the day, and you supply it. Rum and cigars, drugs and sex, even souls and secrets, you trade the flow of human impoprioties as other sell and trade watches and soup. You are the devil's advocate in a society that could really just unwind a spell.\nThe Mafia are tougher then any would expect, and a lot more clever. A Tough can benefit from having four Strikes rather then three, being a mean bastard. A Sweet can spin enemies around him; if an enemy wins challenge, a Sweet can opt to back out and not take a wound.\nThe leader of the Mafia is Don Ferelli, who is a burly man able to take an insane amount of punishment. People have laughed in his fac,e shot him full of holes, and even buried him twice. He always comes back, with a smile, and some new teeth in that smile that weren't his.\n-The Union\nGovernment's collapse, but the plight of workers never changes. You fight for your fair share, or for revenge long due. Like a horse with a sand castle, it's time to start kicking down those walls! You are legion, and you had enough of these conditions.\nUnion workers have seen much more then most think, meaning they have learned a great deal of foreign practices. A Teamster can pull on knowledge, able to ask yes or no questions before they go into a situation, but cannot bow out if they are challenged. A Lineman has much technical knowhow; they an pull out the right tools for the right job. You can always challenge something that has an Effect.\nThe Leader of the Union is called Boss Bead. Nobody knows what he looks like, but letters bearin his signature\nBB\nhave appeared in many a lunchpale and locker. His only other trackable clue is a love of apples, he often leaves their cores near jobs, and some tycoons have only heard a hearty crunch of someone biting into one before they left this world.\n-The Club\nThe elite must exist to exclude the common, and the elite must ascend to rule the common. You are born into luxury, or have earned it by your own means. Life for you is like a weather vane; you look down and show people where power flows.\nNew Money gained their way by being good at what they do, not by making friends, and are no nonsense people. A New Money can roll twice, rigging the game for them to win challenges, but risking two strikes if they can't win. Old Money is unflappable, and can negate one Effect with a flick of their wrist and then must leave such gouache thing behind you.\nThe Club has no leader, but breeds them. Currently, a young man called Alphonse has stepped forward to wear the sought after Gold Mask. His poems seem to have a life of their own, and he is always walks to events unaccompanied.\n-The Police\nYou protect the people, who can't protect themselves. Your the arms that restrain, the eyes that don't blink, and the steel that doesn't break. Living this path is hard, not because it doesn't have perks, but because the whole weight of the City is on your back.\nA Cop can pull strings, and can force another player to do them a favor, if that player can force them to do a favor in the future. An Inspector can see the truth in matters, and can always see the stats of an challenge, but in doing so telegraphs it to the other players.\nThe Department is lead by Commissioner Headings. He is a tall worried man with a strained voice. He often fidgets, and gets terrible headaches that he drinks some vile brews to combat.\n-The Rangers\nOutside of the City, justice is meted out by the community, not by the law. You take the law into your own hands, and keep the Wildness back. You may have your freedom now, but that's not set in stone until you make it so.\nThe Marshall is able to duck problems, and can get around any challenge by outmaneuvering it. However, so can all the other players now that you showed them how. The Foreman is a man literally reforged to keep production running, made of brass and steam. A Foreman can take a Strike to simply win a challenge, pushing himself into the red to get it done.\nEvery man is his own outside the city, but some people bear respect. Sheriff Davis is one such character. Despite his silly, bushy mustache, the man has survived many a gunfight. His greatest strategy is to strike from obvious, overlooked corners of a conflict, redirecting his foes until they defeat themselves.\n-The Agency\nThe one who pulls the strings, you are in the thick of it. You serve the Agency first and foremost. Where others serve themselves or others, you serve a purpose: a better tomorrow. You may never see it, but a sun will shine someday.\nThe Investigator is a flexible man, and can switch his own stats with his challenger. The Informant has the dirt on everything, and can rearrange the challenges to a new order.\nAnother man unable to be traced, Black Steel gives missives out to his agents by telephone. That some agents didn't have telephones doesn't matter. He has a ringing voice, and always seems to have hooks for the people to take.\nSaved for posterity, and for NPCs.\nThe way plots work:\nYou face challenges in each mission in a certain order, which you navigate by getting Clues. Each Clue unlocks others, until you get to top and get Scheme. First to get the Scheme advances their faction's plots.\nExample:\nScheme\n| \\\nChallenge Challenge\n| /\nChallenge\n|\nChallenge\n| \\\nChallenge Challenge\n| /\nBreifing\nAnd its done!\nSponsored content\nSubject: Re: City of Graves: A Comedic Tragedy in Three Pieces\nCity of Graves: A Comedic Tragedy in Three Pieces\nPage\n1\nof\n1\nSimilar topics\nSimilar topics\n»\nWonder Woman Pilot Script - All McBeal In The City....\n»\nThe Free City of Gierburg - Board & Scenery\n»\nthe mordheim city \"BURN SMASHERS\" wip orcs\n»\nBUILDING MY OWN CITY / TOWNSHIP\n»\nOstmark State Officials - the Mordheim City Watch\nPermissions in this forum:\nYou\ncannot\nreply to topics in this forum\nRp Junkies\n::\nRole play area\n::\nOOC\n::\nSurvival Horror\nRp Junkies\n::\nRole play area\n::\nOOC\n::\nSurvival Horror"}
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{"text": "- HomeGo back home\n- SolutionsSolutions\n- CompaniesCompanies\n- LatestLatest\n- PublicationsPublications\n- XprtsXprts\nUnited States Environmental Services (USES)\n15109 Heathrow Forest Pkwy #150 Houston , Texas 77032 USA\nBusiness Type:\nServices\nIndustry Type:\nEnvironmental - Environmental Management\nMarket Focus:\nRegionally (various states or provinces)\nYear Founded:\n2001\nEmployees:\nOver 1000\nTurnover:\nmore than 1,000,000,000 € and at sea, we are there—providing environmental services that support and sustain economic progress and quality of life.\nOur list of solutions is lengthy. The industries and customers we serve are diverse. Whether we’re responding to an emergency oil spill or providing scheduled plant maintenance, we perform in a way that wins the trust, respect and loyalty of all who are involved. Safety—protecting health and preventing harm—drives our every action.\nGaining and growing our customers’ confidence in every aspect of our services comes from hiring and retaining the most qualified personnel for every position, providing them comprehensive training and maintaining industry-leading certification of our expertise and safety.\nOur Mission\nMission\nTo build the largest service-focused player in the Gulf States region bringing highly sophisticated environmental, industrial, marine and safety services to transportation, exploration, refining, utility, manufacturing and marine customers and by providing a broad and unique service offering of specialized industrial cleaning and environmental services designed to reduce customers’ environmental, financial and safety risks.\nVision\nService Focused\n- Most highly trained workforce in the Industry\n- Focused on customer goals not ours\n- Fast and active response 24/7\n- Fair and honest\nRelationships at all levels of the customer’s organization\n- High level of communication to all stake holder\n- Ability and resource to communicate from the operator to the board room\nProcess Oriented\n- Repeatable\n- Safe\n- Results oriented\nValue Focused\n- Delivery of professional service; Technical, Management and Supervision\n- Safe, Responsive, Communicative and Professional\n- One Stop Shop for Industrial, Environmental and Marine Services\nGrowth\n- We will grow our people and customer relationships to be the fastest growing environmental, industrial and marine services company in the region.\nFEATURED SERVICES\nHazardous and Non-Hazardous Material Emergency Response Services\nUSES is trained, certified and equipped to handle everything from small spills to high-hazard incidents, responding promptly, safely and professionally for success in a variety of settings and situations.\nTank Cleaning ...\nMOST POPULAR RELATED SEARCHES\nwaste management hazardous materials environmental services regulatory compliance volatile organic compounds waste disposal environmental sciences emergency response confined space water tanks site remediation air monitoring oil spills skimmers spill response tank cleaning hazardous chemicals filter presses liquid-solids separation industrial cleaning thermal oxidizers confined space entry safety compliance disposal facilities greywater waste transport industrial hygienists vacuum trucks oil spill response bilge fire suppression belt presses emergency response services hydroblasting certified industrial hygienists decontamination systems remotely operated audit training biological sciences incident command waste hauling decontamination services confined space rescue sampling kits spill response services petroleum spills hazardous materials consulting portable water tanks biological decontamination specialized industrial cleaning\nINDUSTRIES SERVED\nAerospace & Air Transport, Air and Climate - Air Consulting and Engineering, Air and Climate - Air Regulations and Compliance, Automobile & Ground Transport, Chemical & Pharmaceuticals, Construction & Construction Materials, Defense, Energy, Environmental, Food and Beverage, Government, Health and Safety, Health and Safety - Health and Safety Consulting and Engineering, Manufacturing, Other, Monitoring and Testing, Oil, Gas & Refineries, Real Estate, Shipbuilding & Water Transport, Soil and Groundwater, Waste and Recycling, Water and Wastewater"}
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{"text": "I will be ordering a couple Allen 10wt reels pretty soon (been drooling over that baby blue one) for my next trip to Hawai'i, but was wondering if anyone uses the Lamson Konic in the larger sizes. They seem pretty good for the price, and I was looking at a 4.0. I know some people use the smaller sized ones for beach fishing for rezzies and cutts, but has anyone ever used one of the bigger ones and gone after anything of considerable size to test the reels stability/drag and warp? Thanks!"}
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{"text": "Earlier this week I asked for some of your Purity memories. Here are some of the lovely stories I received:\nBeing raised by Newfoundlanders in Ontario gave Purity products an extra special place, especially around Christmastime. Purity Syrup was a Christmas staple, along with a variety of Purity candies and treats. One Christmas, when I was about nine or ten years old, we had some of our neighbours over for a visit - including eleven-year-old Patrick, who I had a huge crush on at the time. Wanting to share my special Newfoundland Christmas treats, I offered Patrick a \"Newfie Kiss,\" [I don't remember exactly what they were, but my parents called them \"Newfie Kisses\"]. Unfortunately, Patrick didn't realize I was referring to a candy and got a look of disgust on his face when he thought I was going to kiss him. He refused a Newfie Kiss and kept his distance for the rest of the night.- Crystal Braye\nI was a crew chief on the series Road To Avonlea and Wind At My Back, both Sullivan productions on CBC about 16 years ago. It was not part of my job but the set decorators used Purity products on the shelves in any shots of the stores in these series. They were used because of there dated labels. -Frank Noseworthy\nI remember going to my Nan's house and there were always some peppermint knobs, in a little glass dish, tucked away in the kitchen cupboard. I loved it when she took that dish down and gave me one. Little did I know, these peppermint knobs were often there quite a while and would get pretty soft. I actually didn't know until I was much older that peppermint knobs were a hard candy! I liked them better Nan's way anyway.-Nicole Penney\nIf you'd like to read more about Purity Factories Limited check out this great little piece from The Collegian, 1933 (pp.25-27) that describes a tour of the factory.\nMerry Christmas and have a happy and prosperous New Year!"}
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{"text": "You and your girlfriend have split up, and she has moved on. You have no clue how to move nor what you ought to do first. You should now take stock of the scenario you recognize yourself in, and build a unyielding idea regarding how or what you should do to get her back. It is a chance to root out what scenario has achieved your split up, certifying what conducts should be modified. This should be a demanding time for you, but is urgent in determining your situations. You need your ex back, so verify what kind of system you will employ to get her back.\nSince you surmise that there is some trust alternate, then you are able to attempt to construct if she would like to be with you again. Be an exceptional partner, one who makes a point not to bring up the past and the sum total of the baggage that accompanies it. Be ready to be supportive as well she needs to face any sort of challenge, and complimentary when the event exhibits itself. In the event that you need your ex back, it is noteworthy that you demonstrate a positive state of mind.\nWhen you by chance meet your ex, show your pleasure at seeing her, but also project that you are content and independent. Do not leave the impression that you are lonely and needy, and that you are prepared to do anything to get her back. Be a little hard to get, subtly show that you are comfortable on your own. You want to get your ex back, so creating a little intrigue will spike her interest.\nNot just ought to you show a positive state of mind, you ought to moreover take exceptional management of your manifestation. Now is a great chance to finance a revamped and send looking wardrobe, have your hair styled again, remain dapper and clean shaven. Dealing with yourself will make you feel preferable about yourself, and will make you more certain, something that your ex and the majority of people else will recognize and prize. You need your ex back, so venture the enhanced you, and you unquestionably will get consequences. Your previous lady friend will see you in a special light, and could begin prizing you again. Your ex will recollect the exceptional times you imparted in your earlier association, and may tediously grasp that a come back to you is what she totally desires.\nGetting your ex to come back to you takes a cool head and a great arrangement. Be sure that you accompany your methodology precisely. You need your ex back, so verify that you inspect the conditions which advanced to your split up, put in place the fundamental strides to successfully re build your association, and pick up from this interaction. Your ex will observe the positive updates in you, and will unquestionably choose that you are the one she blatantly would like to be with."}
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{"text": "\"I worked perfectly with my family picture taken in our backyard. I loved the option to put pictures of our dog on the back! The paper quality and stiff feel are excellent. Only improvement would be to change the square size since it requires more postage.\""}
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{"text": "Everest Base Camp and Gokyo Lakes Trek\nI have already got my flights for arrival in Kathmandu on 30 April and depart on 17 May. My plan is to trek to EBC from Lukla for 15 days and descend via Chola Pass & Gokyo Lakes and fly back from Lukla to Kathmandu. I am looking to share a guide with other trekking partners and book the accommodation along the trek ourselves, as it goes (so not booking in advance). I have already contacted some guides and got various offers that would include: guide that can also carry bags, with his insurance, accommodation flights to/from Lukla with around 25-40 US$ per day. To add: flight to/from Lukla (ca. 330US$ per person)+ permits, fees & TIMS (40US$ pp). Interested people, please do let me know. Namaste!Reply\nReplies\n4 replies\nPlease log in or sign up to join this adventure."}
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{"text": "- \nExileSolarMovie TV Shows > Just Added\n- Survivor: A competition/reality show where a group of contestants are stranded in a remote location with little more than the clot\n- Solar rating: 4/5\n- Doctor Who 1963: The adventures of an eccentric renegade time traveling alien and his companions.\n- Solar rating: 5/5\n- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Orbiting the liberated planet of Bajor, a Federation space station guards the opening of a stable worm\n- Solar rating: 3/5\n- North & South: This series operates on many levels. At the heart of the series is the tempestuous relationship between Margaret Ha\n- Solar rating: 4/5"}
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{"text": "Questions? 1-800-525-8873\nSign up for email offers | Request a Catalog | Email Us\n(0 Items) Total $0.00\nRecreational Gear > Climbing > Tree Harnesses > Tree Climbing Harnesses >\nItem #: BFII\nYour Price: $329.95\n[+] Write a Review | Read Reviews\nCreate a Wish List\nAlready have an account? Click here to sign in.\nDon't have an account? Click here to create an account\nAdd this item to your Wishlist.\nQuantity:\nCE Certified :\nYES\nMeets ANSI Requirements :\nYES\nTeeth per 30 mm / inch :\nLength :\nRing to Ring 18\", 18\"\nWidth :\nHeight :\nDepth :\nDiameter :\nInner Diameter :\nOutside Diameter :\nWeight :\n3.4 lb\nWaist :\nS 30-46; L 34-50\nInseam :\n# of Pages :\nWaterproof :\nWater Resistant :\nMaterial :\nNylon / Webbing\nColor :\nGreen, Red, &'m pretty happy with the features and design of this saddle with a couple exceptions.1. The butt floss (elastic) is cheesy and always loosens, my $60 rock harness is far better in this regard.2. I am a 31\" waist and the small still doesn't fit me well, especially in the legs. This seems ridiculous given that most climbers are going to be smaller. Big bummer\ncv\nbend or\n9/25/2009\nIts a good light saddle with a good number of attachment points for your tools, but the leg straps loosen every time you put it on. The small elastic straps holding the leg cuffs are useless. Also, the buckles don't always release easily which is frustrating when you're exhausted and just want out of your gear.\nPaul W\nIndiana, PA\n10/20/2009\nfor the last 9 years i have been using Buckingham's saddles and thought that it was time for a change visiting local dealers and searching on the internet for about 3 months took me to the Butterfly II, switching from bosun seat to leg straps had me a little confused but as soon as i start foot locking to get up on a 80' Oak i noticed that it was my best choice, i dont know why i wait so long ... i feel super confident with this saddle and limb walking feels more easy ..... i did not found where to hang my chainsaw so i put a carabinner on the belt ... thats the only thing i dont like about it\nluigi vargas\nhuntingdon valley,pa\n10/25/2009\nGood comfortable saddle for climbing. Does not have any installed attachments for chainsaw. Negative welds on D-rings are not pretty.Very good maneuverability in trees.So... overall a good saddle, not a great working saddle.\nAlex\nOntario, Canada\n12/5/2010\nThe belt is good if you plan to do competitions with, but as for a work harness I would not suggest this saddle, purely because it does loosen quite often, and the attachments for any tool required for the job is just not there, I found the only caritool you can use that works well with the belt is petzl's caritool which I would not suggest buying either, cheap made and break very easily. If I was to buy this belt again it would be purely for recreational and competition climbing only, its a very light weight belt which would make it perfect for those purposes, it also sags with a chainsaw attached. Good for anything other then tree trimming. I still do like the belt just wish the attachment points were there.\njeremy miller\nSlc, Ut\n11/10/2011"}
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{"text": "May 22nd, 2015\nSara Pharm Solutions scientists, together with Adaptive Supramolecular Nanosystems Group, IEM, Montpellier, France and the Center for Organic Chemistry, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, managed to compress single alkyl chains inside a self assembled crystalline nanocage. Thus, it was shown that alkyl chains cannot be used as nanosprings, as their compressed states are stabilized by dihydrogen contacts. Furthermore, the self assembly out of water of the nanocage provides insights in complex salt screenings and new drug delivery complexes. More information is available at:"}
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{"text": "Feel like home at our free ringtones website, where it’s possible to get the most popular ringtones for your ringer. Today we have a ringtone of “Sometimes” by Angie Stone as well as 156 other ringtones by Angie Stone. “Sometimes” is a gorgeous track from the “The Art of Love and War” album that was recorded by Angie Stone at their recording studio together with other 10 tracks. You can listen to all 3 Angie Stone – “Sometimes” ringtone variations available here and download it for free directly to your mobile. You can also find other 7 albums produced by Angie Stone for all time. “Sometimes”!\nAngie Stone Sometimes Ringtone"}
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{"text": "Hollywood star Will's school visit (From This Is Lancashire)\nNational Entertainment News RSS Feed\nHollywood star Will's school visit\n3:55am Friday 8th March 2013 in National Entertainment News © Press Association 2013\nWill Smith surprised hundreds of screaming schoolgirls during a tour of \"real London\" with MPs.\nThe Hollywood.\nWill beamed during his unannounced stop-off which left the teenagers screaming in delight.\nMr Umunna, the shadow business secretary and MP for Streatham, tweeted: \"Great to show off our awesome #Lamb the actor)."}
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{"text": "Great Biscuit Breakfasts Across America Worth An Escape View Slideshow We love breakfast sandwiches of all sorts: on bagels, on English muffins, squishy rolls, crusty rolls... you name it. But there's something so special about a breakfast piled on a biscuit. Here are 5 we love from across the country. More"}
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{"text": "The CT)\nSaturday, November 8 – 7:05 pm – at St. Louis Ambush – The Family Arena\nSaturday, November 15 – 7:05 pm – Missouri Comets – Independence Events Center\nSaturday, November 22 – 7:05 pm – at Detroit Waza Flo – Taylor Sportsplex\nFriday, November 28 – 7:35 pm – at St. Louis Ambush – The Family Arena\nSaturday, November 29 – 7:05 pm – at Chicago Mustangs – Sears Center\nSaturday, December 6 – 6:05 pm – vs. St. Louis Ambush\nFriday, December 12 – 7:35 pm – at Baltimore Blast – Baltimore Arena\nSaturday, December 13 – 7:05 pm – at Baltimore Blast – Baltimore Arena\nSaturday, December 20 – 1:05 pm – vs. Tulsa Revolution\nSaturday, December 27 – 1:05 pm – vs. Detroit Waza Flo\nWednesday, December 31 – 3:05 pm – vs. Missouri Comets\nSaturday, January 3 – 6:05 pm – vs. Rochester Lancers\nSaturday, January 10 – 6:05 pm – vs. Chicago Mustangs\nFriday, January 16 – 7:05 pm – vs. Baltimore Blast\nSaturday, January 24 – 6:05 pm – at Detroit Waza Flow – Taylor Sportsplex\nSunday, January 25 – 3:05 pm – vs. Wichita B-52’s\nFriday, February 6 – 7:35 pm – at Tulsa Revolution – Cox Business Center\nSaturday, February 7 – 7:05 pm – at Wichita B-52’s – Hartman Arena\nSaturday, February 14 – 1:05 pm – vs. Syracuse Silver Knights\nSaturday, February 21 – 6:05 pm – vs. Detroit Waza Flo\nSingle-game tickets go on sale soon.\nSeason, Group and Flex 10 Pack tickets are now available by calling 414.224.WAVE (9283) or by clicking here.\nMKE Wave Open Tryouts happen Friday, September 12 and Saturday September 13th from 10am-12pm and 2-4pm at Midwest Orthopedic Sports Complex (formerly Brookfield Indoor Soccer Complex) at 19485 W. Lisbon Rd. Brookfield, WI 53045. For more information visit or call 414.224.WAVE (9283)."}
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{"text": "From Aug. 14, 2012…\nMuladhara\nIt’s deep in the bone,\nand coming back:\nthe root on the mend.\nIt is not time, yet —\nto stand,\nto walk,\nto fly.\nFirst, sit.\nBreathe.\nDig deep.\nBring the blood back to it.\nOpen the bowl of your hip\nand remember how\nto pull and replace\nrusted nails.\nNow, pour in the red wine\nto see where it leaks.\nMend it with acorn paste\nand cardinal calls.\nLight a flame\nto burn off the decay;\nadd salt and sage\nto open the wind door.\nScrub it down\nwith madder-dyed wool\nfrom a down-heavy sheep.\nTurn off the alarms.\nFill a stoneware bowl,\nfinger painted,\nbeets and cherries,\ngrapes and small red tomatoes\nwarmed by the sun —\nclay bricks\nstacked in a terrace\nto hold black dirt\nand the crawlers who nourish it —\nrose petals,\npoppies\nand a snake\nto encircle —\na resonant nest\nfilled with the noise\nof one hundred bees\nand gravel footsteps.\nMake it solid and strong,\nbut not still —\nIt will be something\nto build upon."}
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{"text": "-\n- Preview saved\n-\n- View Synopsis\n- #13740 in Kids, Teen, General Fiction\n- #23136 in Kids, Fiction\n- #21992 in Fiction - YA\nLe club des poneys - Tome 1\nUne amie pour PrincesienCe livre est cool, seulement il est un peut trop court.by Nina on November 10, 2017\nLe club des poneys - Tome 1\nby Olivier Rabouan,Sylvie Baussier\nLe club des pone club des poneys - Tome 1\nby Olivier Rabouan,Sylvie Baussier\nLe club des poneys (Book 1)\nThanks for Sharing!\nYou submitted the following rating and review. We'll publish them on our site once we've reviewed them.\nby on December 11, 2017"}
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{"text": "The Services Supplied By Digital Advertising And Marketing Solutions\nThe 12 Finest Digital Advertising Services of 2021 will certainly include emerging digital media as well as digital modern technologies. What is electronic advertising and marketing? Digital advertising and marketing describes any approach that supplies on the internet consumers with the means to connect with companies. For example, e-mail marketing, social media, and also podcasting are all forms of digital advertising and marketing solutions. A digital advertising services approach is created around the suggestion of engaging customers on an extra interactive degree. Consumers delight in the ability to use their cellphones or other devices as a tool for interaction. With this in mind, electronic advertising and marketing solutions can include incorporating mobile applications right into a total advertising and marketing method. For example, if a company intends to boost its visibility in a certain area, it can take the help of a smartphone application to advertise in real time utilizing enhanced truth modern technology. Customers can also opt to connect their social media sites accounts to their e-mail accounts through a two-pronged strategy. This enables them to share info between their numerous social media and also e-mail accounts through one system. Before engaging in a social networks marketing plan, a service needs to establish its objectives. To aid figure out which electronic advertising services would certainly best fit a specific business, it is vital to work with a lyfe marketing company. A lyfe marketing agency specializes in creating effective social networks advertising and marketing campaigns, and also can assist an organization established the very best means to tackle enhancing its presence in a specific location. An excellent agency will have the ability to identify whether business needs an one-time project or a campaign that will certainly continue over multiple months. Every company needs to have an objective when establishing which digital marketing solutions are needed. In many cases, a company might only require to increase conversions, which calls for a PPC campaign. Nevertheless, a PPC project ought to not be taken on each week, but rather monitored and also adjusted relying on the outcomes of the existing campaign. It is important for every single business to develop a pay per click campaign to make sure that they can determine what keywords to focus on as well as the length of time they must promote for. A trusted company will have the ability to direct every service to the best key phrases that are transforming for their business. This will make it simpler for them to develop a lucrative PPC campaign. Every digital advertising solutions consist of the creation of a qualified customer checklist. The subscriber checklist permits a company to establish whether or not it is generating income based on the services got. A good client list will certainly permit an organization to track just how well the advertising and marketing campaigns are operating in relationship with the solutions that are being given. The top quality of a subscriber listing will certainly differ depending upon the firm that creates it, so it is necessary to deal with an agency that can guarantee a high price of success for its customers. Every digital advertising solutions consist of the growth of an on-line internet site. Every local business will want to have an internet site in order to compete with larger organizations, and also it must consist of a strong call-to-action. The call-to-action will be the item link, the testimonies, as well as the cost for the solution being provided. The internet site must be easy to browse and contain all of the information that a prospective customer might need in order to make an informed decision. If a company has problem creating a great site for its customer, then the business must look somewhere else for an electronic advertising agency that can assist with this procedure. Instadoost is a terrific location to begin seeking a company that can handle this facet of advertising for local business."}
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{"text": "Fashion, Style Tips 9th August 20192. September 2019 The Flare There is something so exquisite about palazzo pants, it's hard to put into words. They float like waves around your feet when you walk, and make you feel gracious with every step. Get the Look Turn on your JavaScript to view content"}
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{"text": "Building\na\nStronger\nAmerica\nDavid LaCerte\nSgt., USMC\nBoard of Advisors\nDavid LaCerte joined the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs in June of 2010 and has served the department in many capacities, including in the posts of Secretary, Deputy Secretary, Undersecretary, Chief of Staff, Executive Counsel, and Legislative Liaison.\nMr. LaCerte is a Veteran of the United States Marine Corps where he served as an infantryman in the First Marine Division with First Battalion, First Marines (1/1). Under the command of General James Mattis, LaCerte led the first Marines into Afghanistan and Pakistan only weeks after 9-11, helping to drive the Taliban from Kandahar and establish several forward operating bases in hostile territory. As a member of Task Force 58, LaCerte helped redefine post 9-11 raid capabilities in what is regarded as the longest amphibious assault and the longest heliborne assault in the history of warfare. He has led over 100 combat patrols and missions in Afghanistan and Pakistan and also served as a member of interrogation teams for high value Al Queda targets.\nUnder the leadership of Mr. LaCerte, LDVA transitioned through a historic period of financial reforms. The Department’s Long Term Care Hospitals experienced a boom in both expansion of services and in the number of patients served while simultaneously becoming the first state in the nation to totally eliminate dependency upon state general funds within the veterans homes program. The LDVA Contact Assistance program expanded operations to every parish in the state of Louisiana while doubling the state’s Service Connected Disability awards to nearly one billion dollars. The state veterans’ cemetery program also expanded with new veteran’s cemeteries constructed in Leesville, Slidell, and Rayville (proposed).\nMr. LaCerte also spearheaded LDVA’s efforts to pass groundbreaking federal and state legislation, to assist veterans, service members, and their families in the areas of fiscal policy, education and job training, employment, healthcare, business ownership, substance abuse and mental health treatment, criminal justice system interaction, and hardship assistance programs.\nHe chairs and serves on many Louisiana boards and commissions. As Chairman of the Louisiana Military Advisory Council, he represents the state of Louisiana in dealings with the Department of Defense, the branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, and any related defense industry contractor or company. This industry represents a huge portion of Louisiana’s economic development with Fort Polk and the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC), Barksdale Air Force Base, and Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Belle Chase representing the largest, third largest, and sixth largest employers in the state of Louisiana, respectively. He also serves as Chairman and administrator of the Louisiana Military Family Assistance Board, which assists Louisiana Guardsmen and reservists during periods of financial difficulty.\nMr. LaCerte holds a Bachelor of Science in Business from Nicholls State University and a Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Civil Law from LSU’s Paul M. Hebert Law Center and is licensed to practice law in Louisiana and the United States District Court of Veterans Appeals in Washington D.C.. Before attending law school, he worked as a deputy sheriff in Terrebonne Parish.\nMr. LaCerte currently resides in Iberville Parish with his daughter Ava and wife Mandy, an educator and high school principal."}
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{"text": "Bobby Bones Show Great TikTok Show!\nOn Friday mornings' Bobby Bones Show, I was rolling when I heard Kierra come on the show. Kierra Lewis is a TikTok sensation that evidently has a 'thing' for Country Star Kip Moore. If you missed it, check out the video! Remember, you can catch The Bobby Bones Show Weekday mornings 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM on Kickin' 100.5! Digital editor for The Bobby Bones Show, Morgan Huelesman wrote;\nIf one is on TikTok, then they've definitely seen viral sensation Kierra and her reactions to the men in country music. Kierra, known as @KierraLewis75, first went viral at the beginning of January this year when she posted a video of her commenting on Sam Hunt's song \"Body Like A Back Road\" and her learning that he's a very attractive guy.\nKierra has since posted several TikToks of her reacting to the men in country music like Jake Owen, Chase Rice, Riley Green, Brantley Gilbert, and Kip Moore. Though Kierra admits she is most definitely a Kip Moore superfan, he comes in at number 1 on her list of men in country music she adores. So we decided to bring Kierra on The Bobby Bones Show to talk about her viral TikTok videos and love of country music. Not only that, we told her that Kip Moore was on the phone wanting to talk to her and we proceeded to pretend the phone call dropped."}
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{"text": "The Kojiki, translated by Basil Hall Chamberlain, [1919], at sacred-texts.com\nThe Heavenly Sovereign Wata-tarashi-hiko dwelt at the palace of Taka-anaho at Shiga 1b in Chika-tsu-Afumi and ruled the empire. This Heavenly Sovereign wedded [227] the Lady Oho-takara, 2 daughter of Take-oshiyama-tari-ne, 3 ancestor of the Grandees of Hodzumi, 4 and begot an august child: King Wata-nuke 5 (one Deity). So [the\np. 282\n[paragraph continues] Heavenly Sovereign] raised the Noble Take-uchi 6 [to the office of] Prince Minister, 7 deigned to settle the Rulers of the Great Countries and Small Countries, 8 and likewise deigned to settle the boundaries of the various countries, as also the Department Lords of the Great Departments and Small Departments. 9 The Heavenly Sovereign's august years were ninety-five, and his august mausoleum is at Tatanami near Saki. 10\n281:1b Shiga no Taka-anaho. Shiga is the name of a well known district, and is of uncertain, signification, as is also Taka-anaho. For Chika-tsu-Afumi see Sect. XXIX, Note 20.\n281:2 Oto-takara no iratsume. Oto signifies \"younger [sister],\" and takara is \"treasure.\"\n281:3 Oshiyama is the name of a place in Ise, take signifies \"brave\" and tari and ne are Honorifics of frequent occurrence.\n281:4 Hodzumi no omi. See Sect. LXI, Note 4.\n281:5 Waka-nuke no miko. This name is of doubtful signification, and Motowori suspects that it is corrupt, and that the true reading would be Waka-take, \"young-brave.\"\n282:6 See Sect. LXI, Note 25.\n282:7\n. Motowori tries to prove that in the earliest times this official title was simply an Honorific surname formed by prefixing the Adjective\n\"great\" to\n, a surname read \"Omi\" (the character signifies properly \"attendant,\" \"subject.\") Probably like other \"gentile names\" it combined both characters, and had a tendency to become hereditary.\n282:8 Oho-kuni wo-kuni no kuni no miyatsuko.\n282:9 Oho-agata wo-agata no agata nushi (\n). Their duties are supposed to have consisted in supervising the government farms.\n282:10 For Saki see Sect. LXXV, Note 5. Tatanami may perhaps signify \"putting shields in a row.\""}
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{"text": "This lot, at 940 N Ruby, is set to be transformed into a major 60-unit apartment complex aimed at Gonzaga University students. (PHOTO: Google Street View)\nA California-based developer is getting ready to start construction on a 60-unit apartment complex aimed at Gonzaga students but otherwise unaffiliated with the university. At 940 N Ruby, he will construct a five-story building with surface parking underneath residential units, a la Kennedy Apartments. A Pre-Development Conference and SEPA Review have been completed with an apparent determination of non-significance. The city’s permitting database has not yet been updated with appropriate approval documents, but with SEPA listed as “Closed,” it appears that this project is ready to get going.\nWhile the project won’t be quite as pedestrian-friendly as the Kennedy Apartments (there will be a surface parking lot between the building and Ruby Street), five-story construction should add some much-needed density along this particular stretch of the Division/Ruby corridor. Project plans are available on the city’s Online Permit System. Combined with the Ruby Suites (former Burgan’s Block), Kennedy, and other Gonzaga-Downtown housing, this area has in seven short years increased its housing supply by orders of magnitude. Especially when you consider that 60 units here will probably house around 200 students.\nNo word on whether this is the 60-unit housing development KXLY reported as planned for “between the University District and downtown.” Anyone have any idea?\n—\nWhat do you think? Are you excited about the addition of new residential units on the Division/Ruby corridor? Are you excited about infill possibilities between Division and Ruby? What’s next for this area? Share your thoughts in our comments below, on Facebook, on Twitter, or in person. We love to hear from you."}
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{"text": "Time.\n4 comments:\nI love the artwork!\nBeautiful pictures, as always!\nThe artwork is beautiful!!!\nHave a great week!!\nOnce again, I'm awed by her talent and creativity!\nHappy day, friend!"}
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{"text": "Misbah Utmani\nGHALLANAI: The administration of Mohmand tribal district has directed the hotel owners to keep an eye on suspect elements and ensure registering the entry of every visitor.\nAccording to a notification issued by the assistant commissioner of Lower Mohmand, the hotel owners have been asked to inform the administration if they notice any suspect activity. They have been asked to inform the administration about suspect activity on these numbers: 03005858132, 03005045039, 03325800055, 03005226338, 03018893753, 03018846590.\nThe hotel owners have been warned of strict action if they failed to register the victors or report suspect activity. The notification said ensuring peaceful environment is collective responsibility of all and everyone should contribute in this regard. The directions have been issued keeping in view the security concerns in the wake of the upcoming general elections.\nAn official of the district administration told TNN that similar instructions have also been issued to mosques and madrassas not to allow any stranger to stay without the permission of the administration."}
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{"text": "MAR 18, 2015 07:25 AM\nConnectivity, Security, Standards: 3 IoT Keywords\nBy Art Swift\nReading the news, it’s easy to get the sense that we’re all about to walk into a 1980s science fiction movie. Your phone tells your thermostat that you’re on the way home, so that it can adjust the temperature accordingly. Your car tells your home stereo where you were in the playlist, so that the stereo can turn on and take over. Your door recognizes you when you grab the knob and automatically unlocks. Lights come on as you walk into each room, etc., etc.\nAt the same time, the increasing pace of malicious attacks on various parts of existing computer infrastructure – be it by hackers or governments – makes one wonder just how much more integration and automation we can survive. The trend in wholesale credit card theft is going the wrong direction, as are episodes of corporate cyberattacks such as the one on Sony.\nWe’re well on our way to a riot of devices, functions, and interfaces, destined to be networked and used in combinations that defy enumeration, much less analysis. What kind of movie is it going to be, then: the machines serving us, or us enslaved by the machines – or the hackers behind them?\nConsider the smartphone: it’s a single device, sold to you – and represented as functional and secure – by one vendor, but year after year attacks on phones are growing, not shrinking.\nManufacturers (particularly of the OSes) seem to add new attack fronts as quickly as they discover (or have hackers demonstrate) the old ones. That does not bode well for the coming connected home, which will consist of dozens of devices selected from what will surely be thousands of vendors.\nSecurity and standards are going to be keywords if it’s all going to work reliably and safely. It would seem impossible to standardize the connected toothbrush, thermostat, door, stereo, etc., and at the level of their physical operation it is, of course.\nBut at a slightly higher level of abstraction, they all have the same needs: they have some combination of local inputs (whose hand is on the doorknob), outputs (whether to turn the furnace on or off), computations, and data that they need to communicate with the network (the toothbrush letting your dentist know it’s time for an appointment).\nThat level of inspection suggests an opportunity for standardization and then virtualization. We need to run code, and that code has local I/O and network access needs. According to the importance of the data being manipulated and communicated, we set the appropriate level of security.\nStandardizing an execution environment, virtualized above the actual hardware – whatever it may be – will deliver many benefits.\nFirst, it reduces development cost, by reducing the number of development environments that have to be implemented and managed; along the way, it can reduce the ever critical time-to-market.\nSecond, it reduces maintenance cost, because the software does not have to be modified as the underlying hardware evolves over time.\nThird, by reducing the plethora of operating environments, it reduces complexity, and thus opportunities for incompatibility and error.\nFourth, a multi-tenant virtualization solution can reduce product cost: If a smart device can rely on a dedicated home server to host its computing (or similar functionality in a router), then its own compute hardware requirements are reduced.\nCentralizing the implementation in an industry consortium operating with an open source philosophy is a good way to get good security. Hackers are going to put a lot of eyeball-hours into finding weaknesses, so the more eyes watching the development, the better.\nAnd for application functionality, open source work allows interested third parties to contribute their input and expertise as development moves into new areas.\nThat is the goal of the prpl Foundation. Supported by industry leaders in networking and broadband, software development, and embedded systems design, prpl has formed (and is forming) engineering groups to develop open, scalable platforms, with connectivity and security as first-principle design goals.\nStarting with – but not limited to – the MIPS architecture, prpl wants to provide the building blocks necessary to make sure that everyone ends up in the happy movie.\nArt Swift is president of the prpl Foundation, an open-source, community-driven, collaborative, non-profit foundation targeting and supporting the MIPS architecture—and open to others—with a focus on enabling next-generation datacenter-to-device portable software and virtualized architectures.\n[%="}
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{"text": "Dementia specialists\nDoctors can determine that a person has dementia with a high level of certainty.\nClock Drawing Test Ratings by Dementia SpecialistsThe following videos provide information on dementia and improving the quality of life for those people living with dementia.\nYou can use the search function to find a doctor in your area.\nReversible Cognitive Disorder – Pseudodementia - MentalHelpBook appointment online with dementia doctor at top hospitals - Credihealth.Many types of doctors can treat dementia because dementia can be caused by different things.Northwestern Medicine neurologists provide treatment for a full range of neurological disorders, including dementia.Specialists and Care Centers Dementia Specialists and Care Centers.Join the thousands who have completed the training and certification process.\nDementia syndromes: evaluation and treatment\nVideos – Dementia Therapy SpecialistsWith training, certification, and support, we help you excel at memory care.At Dementia Doctors, we are health care professionals who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of dementia.\nAn Admiral Nurse is a Specialist Dementia Nurse | Dementia UK\nHindmarch (2012) outlines some of these as ethnicity, geographical location, cultural beliefs and attitudes around death and dying.Hallucinations and delusions can be the result of the changes that dementia causes in the brain, but there are several other potential causes in individuals with dementia.\nDementia: Doctors & Medical Specialists « DementiaSo, it may require several types of doctors to diagnose, treat or manage dementia.View appointment fee, patient reviews and feedback, OPD schedule, contact number of dementia specialist near you in Mumbai.\nAmino and The Bancorp Bank neither endorse nor guarantee any of the information, recommendations, optional programs, products, or services advertised, offered by, or made available.Depression is a mental disorder that includes a depressed mood that lasts at least two weeks accompanied by the loss of interest or pleasure in nearly all activities, feelings of guilt or suicidality, social withdrawal, and sleep and appetite disturbances.\nAdmiral Nurses provide the specialist dementia support that families need.\nCaregiver’s Guide to Understanding Dementia Behaviors\nThe town of Hogeway, outside Amsterdam, is a Truman Show-style nursing home.\nDementia - National Aphasia Association\nDementia Doctor – Dr Daniel Nightingale Is A WorldOur physicians specialize in neurological treatment and care.Certifications by National Council for Certified Dementia Practitioners.\nDementia Therapy Specialists, Tempe, AZ 2019 - gleauty.comPeople with vascular dementia experience problems with reasoning, judgment, and memory.Evaluation and diagnosis requires a thorough history, physical and neurological examination.This abilities-based, person-centered training is pivotal for all dementia care professionals, including therapists, administrators, facility educators, program directors, nurses, CNAs, social workers, and activities, dietary, housekeeping, and other staff.\nTender Rose Dementia Care SpecialistsDementia is a debilitating, progressive, and fatal condition that places significant physical, emotional and psychological stress on patients.A fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and a member of the American College of Physicians.Dementia — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes and treatments of this mental deterioration.\nDementia » Ontario Medical Association » Ontario’s DoctorsBack to Dementia Care Specialists Building a team that delivers the gold standard in dementia care starts with our Dementia Capable Care training.Specialists and Care Centers Vascular Dementia Specialists and Care Centers.Treatment at NYU Langone NYU Langone neurologists, neuropsychologists, and psychiatrists work together to diagnose dementia.\nThe Aging and Disability Resource Center is a dementia capable organization with highly trained professional staff who provides appropriate competent, sensitive supports to the individual with dementia and their caregivers.\nVascular Dementia Specialists and Care CentersICS dementia program care managers are trained and certified by the National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners.Also, dementia may be reversible if an underlying cause, such as hypothyroidism, Lyme disease, or nutritional deficiencies, is treated.\nDementia Care Matters Dr David Sheard SpecialistAt Dementia Care Specialists (DCS), we provide total solutions for healthcare pros.\n-\n-\n-\n-\n-\n-\n-\n-"}
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{"text": "Share house\nShare house\n3 Bedrooms\n3 Beds\n2 Bathrooms\n2 Baths\n1 Flatmates\n1 Flatmates\nI'm looking for a housemate to rent out one bedroom in a tidy, well-kept and homely unit in Innaloo.\nThe room $200 p/w + bills, has a big double cupboard with plenty of space. The room can be fully furnished with a double bed, mirror and table at your request. Car space in double lock up garage available for you. You will also have your own bathroom and toilet.\nThe unit is a 3x2x2 and is fully furnished. Has a nice outdoor area, big cosy lounge with TV, ducted air con throughout the house with heat and cool option, Wi-Fi, a dishwasher, washing machine, as well as a double lockup secure garage. It is close to the shops, beach, public transport, cinema, cafes, restaurants and pubs.\nI'm 24, work full time and I'm always up for a BBQ or a few drinks.\n4 weeks bond\n1 car space in Lock up garage\nAll bills split in half (water, gas, electricity and Wi-Fi)\nAny gender\nSpare room\nDucted aircon - heat and cool\nAvailable immediately\nAddress available on request\nContact me if you are interested :)\nMore share house listings in Perth or view all rooms in Innaloo, Perth"}
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{"text": "Choosing A GPS Fleet Tracking System: A Buyer's Guide\nAs you invest in the technology to track your fleet, focus on GPS fleet tracking systems. A fleet tracking system by Track Your Truck will help you protect against cargo theft, which is a growing concern in the U.S. Below, learn about how GPS tracking works and can benefit your business with tips along the way for choosing the right system for your fleet.\nWhat Is GPS Fleet Tracking?\nGPS fleet tracking uses satellite technology to follow vehicles across any terrain or in any location. Along with a tracking device, the interface is web-based and a SIM card is installed in the actual unit for storing information. Now, you can identify the exact location of your equipment at any time.\nGPS Tracking Benefits\nThe primary reason fleet managers choose GPS tracking is for cargo security. According to the Commercial Carrier Journal, cargo theft increased by 8 percent from 2017 to 2018. Yet, even more staggering, the total value of stolen freight increased by 28 percent in the same 12-month period.\nTo protect against theft, GPS tracking gives you the ability to track your truck at all times. Trailers equipped with a GPS fleet tracking device are easily recoverable compared to unprotected and untraceable trailers loaded with high-priced freight. Other GPS tracking benefits include providing customers with real-time location information. This increases customers’ confidence and satisfaction in monitoring their cargo at all times.\nInstalling GPS Tracking Systems\nWhen selecting fleet tracking systems, look at setup for your units. For our GPS tracking system, if you have someone in your shop who has a working knowledge of basic 12-volt electrical systems, he or she should be able to install a GPS tracking device.\nThe system is easy to install, and all necessary cables and fuse kits are included. If you require assistance, our team of service reps will provide you with resources to find a professional installer near you.\nSome advice for saving money along the way:\n- Take your trucks to the installer.\n- Arrange for the installer to handle the installation for your entire fleet at once.\nTypically, you can expect to pay $75 to $150 for this service, but the price is often negotiable.\nFinal Tips for Choosing the Right GPS Fleet Tracking System\nStart by selecting a vendor for a GPS tracking device that offers full warranties and satisfaction guarantees on its products. This way, you can rest assured that your fleet will be protected at the most affordable price. When installing any new GPS fleet tracking system, make sure to keep all of your paperwork and documentation. This ensures your fleet will remain compliant with state and federal regulations."}
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{"text": "Opinion: Failing on Russia will be the legacy of the 115th Congress\nThe Justice Department indicted 13 Russians and three Russian companies for interfering in the 2016 election. They stand accused of organizing pro-Trump rallies, stealing Americans’ identities, and leveraging social media to sow discord among a polarized electorate. A lawyer for former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates, who was indicted on a litany of charges in October, has pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators. Meanwhile, Gates and his former boss, Paul Manafort, who served as Trump’s campaign chairman in 2016, were charged (again) by the Justice Department in a sealed indictment. All of this happened in the past few weeks.\nThis is the new normal for the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign’s potential involvement in the same. Where many media outlets and some elected officials have approached these issues of foreign interference, high-level collusion, and obstruction of justice with the appropriate seriousness and concern, Republican leaders in Congress have failed.\nThis ineptitude is not a new development. Before election day in 2016, when the intelligence community came to the conclusion that Russia was intervening in our election on behalf of then-candidate Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to participate in a bipartisan statement condemning such behavior. More recently, House Speaker Paul Ryan has resorted to verbal jujitsu when asked about the president’s behavior as it relates to the Russia investigation, calling the legitimate attempts to safeguard our democracy a “political distraction.” Not to be outdone, however, is Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes, who is using his power to throw chaff at the Mueller investigation with cherry-picked and misleading information – all in the face of objections from the FBI and Trump’s Justice Department. Nunes also likes to joke about the threat of Russian actors on Twitter.\nWhen it comes to legislative action, the paralysis is even more alarming. Last summer, the Senate and the House voted overwhelmingly (something they hardly do on anything lately) to impose tougher sanctions on Russia in the wake of their brazen election interference. Trump, facing the threat of a veto-override, issued a damning statement (that included a boast about the value of the Trump Organization), signed the bill out of public view, and then simply refused to enforce it.\nHighlighting Republican hypocrisy on national security issues has become the equivalent of investing in your 401K: After the first few payments, it’s not sexy or interesting, and the marginal benefit hardly increases, but it’s always necessary. So it’s worth pointing out that the party that led the charge for a multi-year, multi-million dollar taxpayer-funded effort to turn the Benghazi tragedy into a conspiracy now cannot find the bandwidth to seriously investigate an attack on our sovereignty. During my time working in the House of Representatives, while President Obama was in office, I endured countless speeches centered on executive overreach and our “lawless president.” Now, when the president refuses to enforce a bipartisan law that they just passed, there’s no outrage.\nThis is the behavior of a group of individuals who are guided by the principle of staying in power, instead of using it for the public good. Considering that the vast majority congressional districts are safe from a challenge from anywhere except their own party, members of Congress are incentivized to placate their fringe constituents first and ask questions relevant to national security later. Unfortunately, this is a zero-sum game: The president’s insistence to dismiss Russian threats to our elections has left us woefully vulnerable to future interference – and it’s the Republicans’ failure in Congress to hold him accountable or protect institutions that ensure our democracy.\nThis will be the legacy of the 115th Congress. When Robert Mueller, a Republican once appointed as FBI Director by George W. Bush, completes his investigation, those results will be the metric by which to measure the concurrent congressional investigations. It’s likely that there will be plenty of daylight between what the Republican-led efforts to get to the bottom of this and Mueller’s final report look like, and rest assured the usual suspects will do everything they can to downplay it until the next news cycle.\nHistory will undoubtedly reflect the abject failure of Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell to respond adequately to this assault on our democracy. In the meantime, only the results of this fall’s elections will determine whether they can get away with it.\nRyan Cahill is the digital manager at Truman National Security Project and is a native of Ohio. Follow him on Twitter @rwcahill.\nJoin the Conversation\nTo find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs"}
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{"text": "Accessibility tools\nService tools\nLanguage selector\nNavigation path\nPage navigation\nAdditional tools\nPatterns of mammal diversity in Europe are dramatically illustrated in the map shown here. The mountainous regions of temperate and Mediterranean Europe (including the Cantabrian mountains, Pyrenees, Massif Central, Alps, Apennines, Carpathians, and the mountains of the Balkan peninsula) clearly stand out as areas of high species richness. The whole Balkan peninsula emerges as a hotspot of mammalian diversity, highlighting the importance of the new accession countries Bulgaria and Romania for biodiversity conservation in the EU. There is a marked latitudinal gradient in species richness, with southern Europe (especially southeastern Europe) containing a greater diversity of mammal species than the north. In the marine realm, species richness is higher in the open Atlantic ocean than it is in the enclosed Baltic, Mediterranean and Black Seas.\nA map showing the distribution of threatened mammals in Europe reveals somewhat different patterns from depictions of overall species diversity. The greatest concentration of threatened species is found in the Balkan Peninsula, especially Bulgaria. This again highlights the importance of the Balkan region for mammal conservation in Europe. The Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia are also highlighted as having a high number of threatened mammal species, as well as parts of Iberia, the Pyrenees, and the Apennines. The distribution of threatened marine mammals correlates with overall marine mammal species richness – there is a higher number of threatened species in the Atlantic than in the Mediterranean, Black and Baltic Seas.\nThis map shows the distribution of endemic mammal species (e.g. those that are unique to Europe and are found nowhere else in the world). Endemism is particularly high in a number of mountainous regions including the Pyrenees, the Cantabrian mountains, the Alps, and the Appenines. The Italian and Iberian peninsulas also hold important concentrations of endemic mammal species."}
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{"text": "So a while ago, while I was making a christmas themed version of a level at work, I was playing the latest SSX after hours.\nThe christmas level\n_1<<\n.\nPingback: The power of blend maps (or whatever they’re called) | Steven Craeynest's Blog\nHello. I tried to use the frost effect you made, but it slows my mobile device a lot. It’s imposible to play the game..It’s because of the shader, but i don’t know what to change to make it run with a normal FPS on mobile devices…\nThank you.\nDiana\nHi Diana,\nImage Effects are in general not suited for mobile (at least in Unity), and the Frost Effect is unfortunately not an exception.\nI’m sorry, but don’t know how to fix that, if it’s at all possible."}
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{"text": "Tutorial –_0<<_1<<\nOnce you get this message hit yes. If you have the Google Sidebar running you should see it show up immediately. If not startup the Sidebar and if not there add the panel.\nBased on what we have done you should see something like the following:\nNormal\nMinimized\n;"}
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{"text": "Metal Gear Solid stands as one of the most acclaimed video game franchises in history, thanks in great part to the genius of its former director: Hideo Kojima. But way before the Konami series became popular on the first PlayStation, it all started with the original Metal Gear games on MSX2 with a game that practically created the stealth genre in gaming.\nA spiritual successor of that first Metal Gear is coming out pretty soon on Steam, and it’s called UnMetal. As you can tell by the following gameplay trailer, its graphics and gameplay look similar to the classic Konami game, but according to its developers, it will also have modern gameplay mechanics and tons of references to video games and pop culture in general.\nThe protagonist of the game is Jesse Fox, a soldier who has been imprisoned for a crime he did not commit and now has to escape a military base by any means necessary. And by that, we mean stuff like tricking guards, fighting tanks, and even guiding a pack of rats through the sewages.\nUnMetal will be available at Steam on September 28, but you can play a demo right now."}
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{"text": "Website:\nIn Their Own Words\n\"LivePerson is the market leader in real-time intelligent customer engagement. Our mission is to help companies create deeper connections with their customers, and our investment in real-time analytics, metrics and a world-class hosted platform makes this possible at scale.\", Location Based Data\nPII: Name , Address, Phone Number, Email Address, Login, EU- IP Address\nData Sharing\nAggregate data is shared with 3rd parties., Anonymous data is shared with 3rd parties., PII.\nLivePerson, Inc.\nAttn: Legal Department –."}
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{"text": "Woman Uses ‘Ugly’ Tinder Pics to Surprise Her Dates IRL\nEveryone has a different technique when it comes to finding \"The One.\"\nIn our increasingly digital world, dating apps have become the new norm to scope out local hotties in your neighborhood. While most dating app users try to put their best face forward with sexy selfies and flattering photos, one woman is using a more unique tactic to find suitors.\nTikTok star Shanel (@shanelowhateva) has taken to Tinder to find the perfect date, but on her own terms: She is only uploading \"ugly\" photos of herself — her words, not ours — in the hope that if she does meet up with someone IRL, they'll be taken aback by how beautiful she is in person.\nShanel shared her technique with her TikTok followers in a clip that has since gone viral with 6.2 million views to date.\nWatch the video below:\n\"Making myself an 'ugly' Tinder so when I go on dates the guys will be pleasantly surprised,\" Shanel captioned the clip.\nMany of Shanel's followers have praised her for the brilliant dating hack.\n\"This is good tech to find men who want personality tbh,\" one user commented, while another chimed in: \"Girl…… you make a good point though. Changing mine as we speak.\"\nAnother user claimed she used to employ a similar technique for the very same reason: \"I used to always make sure I never put the best pics of myself on there so they wouldn’t be disappointed when they met me.\"\nUnfortunately, perhaps confirming our worst fears about the world of modern dating, Shanel didn't get any matches at first.\nThen, she shared an update that she finally met up with someone who even commented that she looked much better in person. Although Shanel didn't feel the spark on the date, she told her followers she could see herself as friends with the guy.\nHer followers also commented on how kind the guy seemed — even though he didn't want his face recorded.\n\"Aww he seems so sweet. You guys can be great friends thou!\" someone commented, while another wrote: \"Stay friends with him ... he seems so chill.\"\nIs Shanel's dating technique brilliant or cringe-worthy? Tell us on Twitter @PopCrush!"}
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{"text": "Poverty Alleviation and Local Economic Development\nKenya CSR Program\nOur Vision\nDigital and financial inclusion are key enablers to reducing poverty and boosting prosperity. Digital is creating world-changing innovations, but also disrupting industry and how people work. At Temenos, we understand the need for sustainable financial inclusion and the development of healthy sustainable local financial markets and community based banking with the use of modern digital technology and services. Our approach to support the development of healthy and productive local economies is to provide them with the necessary tools and skills to overcome poverty. Africa will provide the world with the next billion people, all of whom need to be freed from the limitations of the cash economy and informal finance. The internet and the mobile phone are the tools, and Temenos will continue to lead with financial technology to continue the mission.\nOur Approach\nThe Kenya CSR Program aims to support the local community of Kivandini village in Kenya to get out of poverty, in partnership with Hand in Hand International. This program started in 2019 and is scheduled to be completed in 2021. Our goal is to lift the entire community in this village including 345 people out of poverty by creating in total 241 businesses and 314 jobs. This program includes the creation of community self-help groups of trainee entrepreneurs, mainly women, who are recruited to identify community members’ needs and identify existing service providers and gaps.\nHighlights\n161\nMembers mobilized\n91\nEnterprises created\n122\nJobs created in the community\nTransforming Lives and Changing Futures\n2018\nFunds raised by 380 Temenos employees and partners who run 5K during our two Temenos events in 2018, along with the funds raised from the Client Voice surveys in 2018 and 2019, were used to support the local community of Kivandini village in Kenya to get out of poverty.\n2019\nThrough the creation of Community self-help groups of trainee entrepreneurs and trainings provided to the members, 67 members were mobilized and 30 businesses as well as 41 jobs were created in the community.\n2020\nAlthough the program was affected by Covid-19, we managed to mobilize 161 members and create 91 businesses and 122 jobs in the community."}
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{"text": "Community input meetings to be held Nov. 29 and Dec. 1 regarding attendance zone changes affecting ASE and ESE\nHumble ISD has scheduled Community Input Meetings regarding elementary attendance zone changes. Proposed changes establish an attendance zone for a new elementary school and affect neighborhoods currently zoned to Eagle Springs and Atascocita Springs elementary schools.\nThe meetings will be held:\nParents and the public are welcome.\nHumble ISD is building a new elementary campus in The Groves subdivision to prevent overcrowding as new home construction flourishes along West Lake Houston Parkway. The new school, which has not yet been named, will open in August. Some neighborhoods currently zoned to Atascocita Springs and Eagle Springs elementary schools will be zoned to the new school. Additionally under the proposal, some neighborhoods currently zoned to Eagle Springs Elementary School would be rezoned to Atascocita Springs Elementary School.\nThe Community Input Meetings will provide an overview of the proposed attendance zone changes, information about the School Attendance Area Committee process, and an opportunity for public comment. Additionally, there will be an opportunity for parents and the public to provide input online from Nov. 29 to Dec. 8. During this time period, the proposed attendance zone will be posted to and comments will be gathered online. The School Board will approve the new attendance zone this school year to take effect in 2017-2018.\nHumble ISD’s newest elementary school has been designed for 950 students in pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. Dr. Brian Peters, former Summerwood Elementary principal, has been appointed principal of the new school. The new elementary is the first of several new campuses that are needed due to Humble ISD's growing enrollment. Humble ISD is among the 10 fastest growing school districts in Texas."}
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{"text": "- Courses\n- Services\n- News\n- Course Calendar\n- USA\nSoftEd has been named in APAC CIO Outlook magazine's Top 10 Agile Consulting/ Services Companies for \"their finesse in delivering cutting edge agile services in 2018\".\nWith over 25 years of experience, SoftEd has supported some of the world's largest and most innovative organisations to adopt new ways of working to ensure digital success underpinned by strong leadership, collaborative practices, and a culture of learning.\nSoftEd uses an adaptive approach to asses an organisation's individual needs and uses this to provide executive training and consulting, agile leadership development, agile coaching, and team training and coaching with a focus on creating self-sufficiency.\nClick to read the August Issue of APAC CIO Outlook.\nGet the latest news delivered straight to your inbox.\nGet the latest news delivered straight to your inbox."}
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{"text": "Free yourself from aches and pains with Devil's Claw Muscle & Joint Pain Relief tablets. The Devil's Claw, botanically called Harpagophytum procumbens, is extracted from the spiny fruits that give the plant its name and is a traditional herbal medicinal product used for the relief of general aches and pains in the muscles and joints. Traditionally, it has also been shown to treat backache and rheumatic or muscular pain. This is based on evidence from over thirty years of use.Read more\nThe herb is hard to grow in the wild and is at risk of becoming endangered if farmed from wild unsustainable crop. Nowadays, Devil's Claw is commercially and sustainably grown around the world to consistent levels of purity and strength. Each easy-to-swallow film-coated tablet contains 600mg of a dry aqueous extract of Devil's Claw root (Harpagophytum procumbens).: Powdered cellulose, lactose monohydrate, sodium starch glycolate (Type A), silica colloidal anhydrous, magnesium stearate, sucrose, titanium dioxide (E171), hypromellose, microcrystalline cellulose, stearic acid..\nFor a full list of uses and cautions please read the Patient Information Leaflet for Devil's Claw Muscle & Joint Pain Relief."}
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{"text": "More Info\nMinecraft The Complete Handbook Collection Hardcover Set in Slipcover\nDetails & Features: - by Mojang - ISBN 978140527551 - Publisher: Egmont UK 2014 - First Edition UK - Printed in Italy - 320 Pages, 6.01 x 8.55 x 2.39 in\nThe \"Minecraft Beginners Handbook\" will teach you how to build shelter, find and gather resources, and craft weapons and armor to protect yourself from monsters during your first few days. In the \"Redstone Handbook,\" experts guide you through all aspects of working with this unique substance - including mining, smelting, using repeaters, circuit design, etc. - teaching you how to use it for traps and weapons. Teaching everything you need to know about defense from hostile monsters and enemy players, the \"Combat Handbook\" will help you to become a Minecraft warrior in no time! Cultivate your own creative style to rival those of the experts with the \"Construction Handbook.\" Packed with step-by-step instructions and countless pointers from the renowned master build team, FyreUK, readers will learn how to construct houses, bridges, ships, floating islands, and rollercoasters of the highest quality.\n- Condition: New in unused condition with Gilt designs on slip cover and books and excellent quality paper and colour illustrations\nNow you can own all four Minecraft Handbooks in one handy slipcase, Get yourself or a special someone a deal"}
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{"text": "With the holiday season fast approaching, I decided on bubbles for our first pair. We just received these two wines in from Champagne grower, Georges Laval. Let’s see if we can distinguish predominantly Pinot Meunier Champagne from 100% Chardonnay based bubbles.\nThis Grower Champagne, Georges Laval, has quite small holdings with only 2.5 hectares. They produce approximately 15,000 bottles per year. Based in Cumières in Vallée de la Marne, they are one of the oldest winemaking families (since 1694) in Champagne. Georges Laval has farmed his vineyards organically since 1971, and he makes the wine in a natural and artisanal way. His son, Vincent, who took over in 1996 follows this same approach and farms and works in this way in order to preserve the original aromas and flavours of the great terroirs of Champagne. For winemaking, Vincent uses indigenous yeast, ferments in oak barrels, and uses very little sulphur, and there is no fining or filtration.\nIn 2015, Vincent Laval started producing the cuvée Garennes; it’s mainly produced from Pinot Meunier grapes from a plot of vines located in Chambrecy approximately 20km from Cumières. Then, this juice is blended with reserve wines from Cumières for the final blend from the years spanning 2013 to 2017. There is 1 gram per litre of dosage added making it an Extra Brut instead of Brut Nature as is the case for most of the Georges Laval Champagnes.\nLes Chênes is a Blanc de Blancs made from 100% Chardonnay and receives no dosage. The vineyard is located in the eastern part of the village of Cumières, between the road to Aÿ and the coast of Hautvillers, under the famous abbey. Its location is ideal for growing Chardonnay for Champagne as it’s mid-slope and facing south. The soil is made up of chalk subsoil under a thin layer of clayey-silty soil.\nNorthwestern Spain, and more specifically, the region of Galicia is described as “green” Spain and is quite a bit different than the rest of the country. They receive lots of rain here, and the close proximity to the Atlantic Ocean is a major influence on the vineyards. The wines are distinctly different with more acidity and liveliness, a marked salinity note and lower alcohol levels.\nThrough winemaker Raúl Pérez, I met Rodrigo Méndez, and no one makes better or has a greater dedication to Albariño from Rias Baxias than Rodri. Together, he and Raúl created ‘Forjas del Salnés’; it began as a garage winery in 2005 and is named for Rodri’s grandfather’s iron works.\nThe vineyards for these wines are located in a subzone of Rias Baxias called Val do Salnés. It’s the coolest area of Rias Baxias and noted for producing the best Albariño. The soil is pure granite with rocks and alluvial soil on top that make it extremely well suited for growing Albariño. The average temperature during the growing season is 16 degrees Celsius, and it’s one of the rainiest regions in Spain, so the alcohol levels tend to be lower with pleasing acidity.\nLeirana – These vines were planted between 1952 and 1982. The fermentation takes place with indigenous yeast and the wine is aged in 80% stainless steel tanks and 20% neutral oak barrels; there is no malolactic fermentation.\nLeirana Genoveva – This wine is made from vines that date back to 1862. It’s aged for twelve months in four-year-old large oak foudres. This Albariño comes from a single vineyard. Let’s see how the vineyard expression differs from Leirana.\nAzienda Agricola Sottimano (‘Sottimano’) is located in the Barbaresco Cru of ‘Cottá’ in Neive. It was established at the end of the 1960s after Rino Sottimano finished his enology studies. He decided he wanted to make his own wine, so he purchased the house, cellars and surrounding vineyards. The first year where he started making wine with his own grapes was in 1975. The estate was just a few hectares initially, and now it makes up 19 hectares. Rino, his wife, Anna, and their children (son – Andrea and daughters – Claudia and Elena) are all involved in the estate, so it’s a family owned and operated winery. They make about 90,000 bottles a year which includes Dolcetto, a dry, still Brachetto called Maté, Barbera d’Alba, Nebbiolo Langhe, Barbaresco Riserva and Barbaresco from the following five crus - Currá, Cottá, Fausoni, Pajoré and Basarin. All of these crus are located in Neive except for Pajoré which is in Treiso. Soils in Nieve are made up of mainly sand and clay. In Treiso, the soils have more limestone.\nFor the winemaking at Sottimano, they only use organic fertilizer when necessary and no herbicides or pesticides. Then, they keep low yields through green harvesting\nThe winemaking at Sottimano is fairly traditional with long maceration on the skins. And the alcoholic fermentation is kicked off with indigenous yeast. Then, the malolactic fermentation is given a long time to occur(a year) and takes place ‘sur lie’ in wood with 10% being new barrels and the remainder neutral barrels that have been used for up to four or five years. The barrels used at Sottimano are French oak barrels that are especially made for them by Francois Frères in Burgundy. There is no fining or filtering of the wines. The use of sulphur is kept at a minimum, just used at the time of bottling. The ageing of their single vineyard crus is 24 months in French barriques followed by at least one year of ageing in bottle prior to release.\nCottá is the cru where the winery is located. When Linden and I visited, Claudia described the wines from here as being some of the most powerful. It’s a southwest facing vineyard that’s approximately 300 metres in elevation. The vines are 50-60 years old on average. For the initial phase of the winemaking, they will allow maceration on the skins for 25 days. Then the rest of the process is the same as for the other crus. This cru tends to be the most fruit driven; Claudia explained the typical aromas are liquorice, dark fruit and tobacco. Let’s see what we find in our glass.\nPajoré is the only cru that Sottimano makes that’s located in Treiso. The soils here contain more limestone than in Neive. It is a higher elevation vineyard at 400 metres above sea level, and the vines are 50 to 70 years old. The vineyard is made up of poor limestone soil, and Claudia explained that this creates a spice note in the wine. More specifically, she described that this cru tends to produce wines with a liquorice and sweet spice element as signature aromas.\nHenri Bonneau is a legend, and people say his personality was like his wines, generous and charming. Since his passing in 2016, his wines have gained an even greater cult status. His son, Marcel, is in charge now. Henri Bonneau was a master blender, in his notoriously messy cellar, a bit like a mad scientist. He would decide on what cuvée to create just before bottling, after 3-4 years aging in small barrels, demi-muids and foudres, none of which were younger than ten years old.\nThe standard Châteauneuf-du-Pape from Henri Bonneau is delicious, but the micro cuvées are the most sought after: Cuvée Marie Beurrier, Réserve des Célestins and Cuvée Spéciale. The average vine age is 30-years-old. Bonneau’s 6.5-hectare estate is mostly on the ‘La Crau’ terroir, arguably Châteauneuf's finest vineyard. His wines are made up of predominantly Grenache (80% - 90% of the blend) with 10-20% of Mourvèdre, Syrah, Counoise and Vaccarèse. Henri didn’t de-stem or filter his wines, and he harvested as late as possible. These wines are not the powerful, fruit forward and high alcohol wines frequently associated with Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Rather, the ‘Réserve des Celestins’ from Domaine Henri Bonneau shows the graceful and elegant side of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Some say this is because he owns the best terroir in the region which is located in ‘La Crau’. Henri Bonneau was very much a traditionalist. He learned winemaking from the generations before him and used his gut and intuition to make wine rather than following a recipe of analysis and science.\nThe Réserve des Célestins is a powerful wine that can age for decades, developing savoury, meaty, almost saline flavours that is dimensions away from the predominantly fruity, modern Châteauneufs. Réserve des Célestins displays intensely concentrated black fruit and is very refined. Let’s see what we think of these two top vintages for Châteauneuf-du-Pape.. By 1997, they.\nFor the 2013 SQN Male Syrah, Manfred used 28% whole cluster. The blend is 80% Syrah, 7% Petite Sirah, 6% Mourvèdre, 3.5% Touriga Nacional, and 3.5% Viognier."}
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{"text": "I’m a little late to the game on this one, but I thought I would post it anyway. Astroland has been sold and it looks like the coming 2007 season will be the last. Thankfully, The Cyclone was not part of the deal. Hopefully it will continue to operate for many years to come.\nIt looks like the changes that will bring about the new Coney Island are starting to happen at a fairly rapid pace. If you have not experienced a day or evening at Coney Island, next year might be your last chance to see Coney Island in all its gritty splendor. Don’t miss out!\nBy the way, Coney Island blogger Kinetic Carnival does a great job of tracking these changes. If you have any interest in what is going on out there, add Kinetic’s feed to your reader.\nFrom the archives: Mermaid Parade Photos, Coney Island Quotables and Shoot the Freak Redux."}
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{"text": "ALWAYS ON YOUR SIDE WHEN YOU NEED HELP\nContact reseller for items problems\nReseller test and confirm problems\nReseller provide after-sales service\nEach UMI purchased from an authorized reseller has a 24 month warranty from the date of purchase, and our warranty covers all quality or manufacture related issues. It may be necessary for phones to be send for testing to uncover any problem.\nUMI products are sold through official resellers. Any warranty or return should be handled through the company the device was purchased from. If you have any questions regarding this please contact the reseller where you UMIMI devices has 2 years of warranty, unless the Warranty Policy of the retailer say otherwise.\n4.In the event of disputes between the vendor and the customer, UMI can serve as referee between them. This rules only apply to the Authorized dealers.\n5.Authorized dealers - retailers who Immersed official permission to sell UMI devices. Such vendors usually listed in the Buy section of our official web-site.\n6.UMI is not responsible for any promotions that the retailers running, unless it is joint promotion, running by UMI and the certain retailer. That usually mentioned on UMI ‘s official web-site of official Facebook page."}
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{"text": "The Bastrop Christian Outreach Center is HUGE. Really HUGE. No joking. It's the size of an airplane hangar. A giant cavernous tribute to the Lord. Dana Thornton goes to church there. I saw her daughter Bethany but I couldn't find her. They have a lively pastor and an animated congregation. They have a two giant screen multimedia presentation going on mostly showing folks in the congregation and what they're up to. Good idea! It showcases their more interesting members. I give this church a very high rating for energy and enthusiasm."}
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{"text": "A redraw facility is a relatively simple home loan feature that can be easily overlooked among all the other bells and whistles available when you're comparing home loan products.\nRedraw facilities allow borrowers to pay more than the required repayment amount into their home loan and have access to those funds again at a later date if they wish.\nIn this way, they are similar to having an offset account linked to your home loan account. The difference is that extra money paid into a loan with a redraw facility goes towards reducing the loan balance, while an offset account has the same effect on interest accruing without lowering the balance.\nFunds available through a redraw feature are sometimes not as readily available as those in an offset account. Some people find the small barriers helpful in managing their temptation to spend.\nWhy redraw?\nRedraw facilities can be a cost effective tool compared to other loan features. They are often available on the simplest and cheapest of home loan products, while loans with offset accounts may charge higher interest rates.\nMany variable home loans, and some fixed rate loans, offer redraw but there are differences between products so it's important to understand the details if you're planning to use the facility.\nThere may be restrictions on the minimum and maximum amount you can redraw at one time. There may also be a limit to the number of times you can redraw from the loan.\nSome loans offer a number of redraws at no cost while others may charge fees for every transaction. The cost may vary depending on whether the transaction is conducted online or via a branch.\nConsider the alternatives\nThe charges and restrictions that often apply to redraw facilities mean they typically suit people who plan to get ahead on their home loan repayments but only want to redraw every now and then.\nOver-paying on a home loan and then redrawing may be a good strategy for saving to take a holiday, buy a new car or pay for a major one-off maintenance expense such as a roof replacement. You could also reinvest the money elsewhere when you're ready, in shares or another property, for instance.\nAn offset account linked to your home loan may be more suitable if you're planning to make regular, smaller withdrawals, as there are typically no transaction charges and the money is more readily at call."}
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{"text": "Alyssa Bangerter\nAlyssa Bangerter is a Ph.D. candidate in the Bergland Lab in the Biology Department at the University of Virginia. Her dissertation research focuses on how rapid adaptation to seasonal change in the fruit fly leads to a long-term maintenance of variation. Using wild flies collected from the local fruit orchard, Carter Mountain, she is investigating rapid seasonal adaptation on a fine temporal time-scale, something not previously done. Alyssa received her B.S. in biochemistry from the University of Utah."}
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{"text": "Our relationship with money is often derived from our relationships with others.\nWe are first exposed to the world of finance as kids, and as such we adopt the views of our caregiver’s on the subject. For instance, if you come from a wealthy household, money could be seen as trivial, as is the case with Lavish a teen who apparently squanders thousands of dollars because his parents are loaded. Now, if you come from a modest household, you may look at money as a means to an end, as was the case with my upbringing. I lived with my grandparents who maintained a distrust of the banking system. They lived through the Depression, and their idea of money management was spending less than you make and hiding the rest under your bed.\nThese are both extremes, but are important points in defining our own relationship with money. Although I’ve kept some of the financial lessons of my grandparents, I had to define my own approach to money management. Times change; so do economies. The lessons of the past can be helpful, but you have to find your own path.\nFor some thoughts on redefining your relationship with money, I encourage you to read How to Break “Bad” Money Habits. The article offers simple advice for redeveloping the way you look at your finances.\nAlso, remember to join our Financial Literacy Month contest.."}
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{"text": "Two bus drivers shot dead in a week in KwaZulu-Natal\nThe Passenger Rail Agency of SA (Prasa) has expressed dismay at the death of a bus driver, who was shot dead on Sunday night.\nThis follows the death of another driver on November 12.\nSpokesperson for the agency Nana Zenani said the latest shooting took place on the R56 between Ixopo and Richmond.\nThe incident was reported by Prasa's protection services, which was escorting the Autopax bus. Several passengers were injured when the vehicle overturned.\nZenani said the agency was investigating the incident and continuing to escort Autopax services.\nAnyone with information is urged to contact authorities.\nWould you like to comment on this article or view other readers' comments? Register (it’s quick and free) or sign in now.\nPlease read our Comment Policy before commenting."}
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{"text": "The Holy Qur'an: Al-Muzzammil (The Enshrouded One)\nE = Contradiction | Mc = Meccan Surah | Md = Medinan Surah | No. = Chronological Order\nIn the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful\n1 O thou folded in garments!X\n2 Stand (to prayer) by night, but not all night,-X\n3 Half of it,- or a little less,\n4 Or a little more; and recite the Qur'an in slow, measured rhythmic tones.\n5 Soon shall We send down to thee a weighty Message.X).X\n11 And leave Me (alone to deal with) those in possession of the good things of life, who (yet) deny the Truth; and bear with them for a little while.X!X."}
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{"text": "Paths and Parables\nThis podcast on The Stanley Parable was recorded back in January, that’s how far ahead we are.\nI really love this game and was really excited to finally get to talk in depth about it. There’s something about its brand of wackiness and intellectual masturbation that fits my personal brand of criticism and thinking. It’s also a title that doesn’t get much exploration beyond surface level discussion even when it comes to the game’s meaning. I don’t know if we got more into it than most discussions of the game since a lot of it is description, but I enjoyed my time during the session nonetheless.\nThis was the podcast where I developed the phrase “paradoxical paratextual post-modernism” and have been repeating it to myself ever since. It’s a phrase I really like saying out loud. Something about its form as an alliterative tongue twister.\nGive it a listen if you like self referential intellectual masturbation about a game of self referential intellectual masturbation. This is my internet cheeky voice.\n“This is a story about a man named Stanley.”"}
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{"text": "Tuscany, one of the strongest brands in the world, a land where the Renaissance, the Middle Ages, and modernity are mixed between town and country, owes much of its modern fame to the world of wine, with the Granducato as the absolute protagonist of wine on a national and international level. A production value, that of Tuscan wine, which exceeds 1 billion euros, with a huge share, due to the PDO wines (56), which alone are worth, according to estimates, 793 million euros. A wine pioneer of the widespread beauty of the many territories, a wealth that comes from 59.000 hectares of vineyards where some of the most famous wines in the world are produced (95.8% DOCG or DOC, well above the national average of 62%), for a production in 2019 of almost 2.6 million hectoliters (Ismea data), and an export that, in 2018, was almost one billion euros in value, between January and September 2019 grew by 6.6%, reaching 734 million euros in the first nine months of the year (Istat data).\nOne bottle out of 2 ends up abroad, especially in the USA and Germany, which alone are worth half of Tuscany’s wine exports. From this solidity, the result of a great past and investments of the producers, but also of the Institutions (178 million euros of CMO funds provided by the Region in 10 years for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards) the Tuscany of wine can plan a great future, which is made up of investments for further growth in the quality and price positioning of Tuscan wines, from investments in wine tourism, but also in research. It is the “Vision 2030” of wine-producing Tuscany that kicked off the “Week of Previews”, opened in Florence, where you can breathe great optimism, even for the news coming from the U.S., which, at least for now, will not introduce duties on Italian wine.\n“I asked Trump to wait until today to give the news - joked the Councillor for Agriculture of the Region of Tuscany, Marco Remaschi - but it is really important, the USA is the first market for Italy and also for Tuscany. Our wine system is healthy, even if there are some shadows, like this scaremongering, which I think is excessive, about the Coronavirus and Asia, which for us is a very important market both as export of wine and as an incoming tourist in our territories. However, I am convinced that with the collaboration between institutions, consortia, and producers we can still grow a lot. Focusing, for example, on wine tourism: Tuscany was the first region to make a law on the subject because it is very important to let the world know where the quality of our products comes from, which we have to enhance more. It is an important sign that, except the Bolgheri denomination, which is small but very important, and which has requested and obtained a growth of 180 hectares of vineyards enrolled in the DOC, all the other appellations wanted to keep the registers of their vineyards closed. It means that there is a widespread awareness that growth must move from increasing quality and value, not quantity. We, as a Region, have always been at the side of companies: in 10 years we have put 75 million euros in the field, through the CMO, for promotion in third countries, and other resources for EU markets, through the Psr, and we have contributed with 230 million euros to the restructuring of the vineyards put in place by the companies. Continuing along this path, I am convinced that we will grow again, in the markets of the world. We have great prospects especially in Asia and the Middle East, but we must promote ourselves as Tuscany, united. From many consortia comes the proposal to include the label “Toscana” (as already done by the Consorzio del Vino Nobile di Montepulciano), because it is a brand that has a great added value. And then together we are all stronger”.\n“The Tuscany of wine is actually in good health, and the export of PDO wines alone at the end of the year, according to our estimates, should grow in volume and keep pace in value. While, for example, our estimates show that the Tuscany of wine has grown in purchases by 6.3%, twice the national average of +3.2%,” stressed Ismea director Fabio del Bravo.\nA Tuscany of wine loved in the world and loved at home, as also underlined by Francesco Mazzei, president of Avito, the association of all the Wine Consortiums of Tuscany. “There are interesting indicators, our top labels are consistently at the top of the most important charts such as “Wine Spectator”, we are the second largest region of Italy in terms of exports, well distributed in the world. And we are also growing in the secondary market, as Liv-Ex points out. A growth that will continue, not by quantitative increases, but by working on added value, quality, biodiversity, image. We must also grow in the mid-range, because in this segment we still have inadequate positioning, and not in line with other important territories in the world. We must never stop at promotion, and we need more consultation between consortia, which is why Avito was born, and institutions. We need to do more research to look to the future, invest more: on average Tuscany produces 300,000 million bottles per year, a penny per bottle would mean 3 million euros per year to be allocated to research. On which we also need the commitment of the institutions”.\nInnovation and promotion, therefore, to make the Tuscany of wine growing. Or, in other words, research and storytelling, those that have led the history of Nesos wine to capture, from the Island of Elba, the attention of the world, as explained by Professor Attilio Scienza, of the University of Milan, who oversaw the project together with the producer Antonio Arrighi, recovering the practice of the immersion of grapes in the sea, as in Ancient Greece it was done in Chios, from which the wine was defined “of the rich”.\n“It’s a fascinating story, the wine of Chios had a secret, an aroma that the wines transported by ship at the time did not have. At that time the wines - explains Science - had a high alcohol content, Hesiod’s technique was to dry the grapes for 3 weeks in the sun, which concentrated the sugars but destroyed the aromas. In Chios, they had discovered that by putting these grapes in the sea the drying process was accelerated because it removed the wax from the skin of the berry, and therefore the aromatic outfit was better maintained. And then they let Prassitele draw the amphora, a very important artist at the time, and it was an extraordinary marketing intuition. It was a very successful wine, and the ships that brought it from Greece to Europe returned loaded with metals and often formed on the Island of Elba. A few years ago archaeologists came across these amphorae of Chios, which were so many that they began to doubt their origin. And in fact, it was discovered that the Etruscans reproduced amphorae, and, in some way, sophisticated wine. In any case, another research started from there to discover the vine they used in Chios, and it turned out to be Ansonica. A beautiful example of experimental archaeology. So Arrighi approached me and we decided to field the project, we found these baskets that are used to catch lobsters, then dipped the grapes in the sea, then on the trellis, then we vinified it in amphora and made the first wine. We thought it had ended like that, and instead this project has triggered an incredible international curiosity. I understood that there is a colossal demand in the world for stories, but there is also a lack of stories told on our part, even though we have an incredible amount of material to tell. We have to produce stories, we have to learn the ability to tell. The stories that are in the academic world are many, they have to be told, and we will have conquered young people too, it is the soul of that wine, you can’t stop at sensory profiles”.\nAnd the narration of beauty and goodness is also at the center of the “talking cellars” created by the Orcia Doc Consortium, as told by the president Donatella Cinelli Colombini, “a small Consortium made of small cellars which, however, is in the most beautiful territory in the world, that Val d’Orcia which was the first agricultural territory recognized by UNESCO. And now, with these wine cellars that will be found in the local restaurants, which will keep the wines at the ideal temperature but which above all will show the beauty of the territory on the screens, in a sort of “liquid postcard” to tell those who taste the wines, to those millions of tourists and hikers who visit the Val d’Orcia, who are drinking the most beautiful territory in the world”.\nMessages, ideas and stories coming from PrimAnteprima, which sees in the glass the wines of Carmignano, Chianti Rufina, Colline Lucchesi, Maremma Toscana, Montecucco, Orcia, Terre di Pisa and Valdarno di Sopra, and which launches the “Settimana delle Anteprime”, which will continue with “Chianti Lovers”, edited by the Consorzio Vino Chianti e Morellino di Scansano (Fortezza da Basso), “Chianti Classico Collection”, by the Consorzio Vino Chianti Classico (Stazione Leopolda in Florence), Anteprima Vernaccia di San Gimignano, by the Consorzio del Vino Vernaccia di San Gimignano (San Gimignano), Anteprima Vino Nobile di Montepulciano, by the Consorzio del Vino Nobile di Montepulciano (Montepulciano), “Benvenuto Brunello” 2020, by the Consorzio del Vino Brunello di Montalcino (Montalcino)."}
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{"text": "You’ve probably come across quite a lot of “pop” art which uses the notion of glitching. Glitching is a trend in visual design and digital arts that treats visuals as if there is a digital error… or a glitch. It’s not new, as I first saw it in the late 80’s with the cyberpunk movement. But it seems to have a come back today.\nWe are seeing this everywhere at the moment. From music videos to conceptual art and it’s even starting to creep into advertising. I like it! :)\nI’ve stumbled upon a nifty little web app that allows you to upload an image file, and lets you play with some variables to produce your own glitched image! try it out here!"}
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{"text": "The Third Precinct is commanded by Captain Keith Stallings and is located at 2165 St. Stephens Road. It is home to very diverse neighborhoods including the Springdale Mall area, the Alabama State Docks, and a large residential area of Midtown.\nIn 2015, the population for this area was approximately 44,539 residents with over 44,779 calls for service."}
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{"text": "Clear Benefits of Clean Water\nFor dairy cows, water is an essential nutrient. It has a fundamental effect on cows’ health, milk yield and saliva production. Water is essential for all of a cow’s basic physiological, and it is consumed in very high quantities by cattle.\nA reliable source of fresh farm water is a necessity for farming dairy herds. Water availability and quality are crucial for animal health and productivity. Poor quality drinking water is often a factor for limited water intake for farm animals. As the old saying goes, you can take a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink, particularly if the water is of poor quality.\nDairy cows drink 100 litres of water per day, on average. With even the slightest water problems, dairy cows can be down in milk yield by 10-20%. Since milk is 87% water, milk production is inextricably linked to water intake.\nEffects of Bad Water on Dairy Cows\nBad water quality can lead to production, digestion and reproduction problems. If cows do not consume enough water, their milk yield will suffer; they will not produce saliva and other fluids to assist them in digesting feedstuffs.\nIt is estimated that 4.5lbs of water is required to make 1lb of milk. Therefore, a cow producing 45 litres of milk per day needs to consume about 180 litres of water per day. If she eats 50kg of her ration that contains 50% moisture, she will get 25 litres of water from that ration and will only actually drink 155 litres of water per day.\nSigns of Cow Low Water Intake\nSome visible signs of water intake problems include cows lapping at water, blowing bubbles in water and hovering over the water tank. Energy will decrease if not enough water is consumed.\nHigh somatic cell count and dirty water can be related. Lowering the germ count of water is therefore important to fight high somatic cell count.\nDrinking fresh, clean water will help to\n- Eliminate waste\n- Maintain body fluids\n- Aid digestion\n- Absorb nutrients and metabolise nutrients\n- Remove excess heat\nExperts in Farm Water Filtration and Purification\nOur expert advice and solutions to farmers and producers cover water filtration, storage, pumps and piping. We also have a wealth of experience in diagnosing\n- biosecurity, treatment and prevention of hazards including viruses and bacteria\n- water storage\n- diagnostics and testing\n- eradication of pollutants in water supply systems from boreholes etc\nProtecting livestock, Safeguarding livelihoods. GS Agri Systems are an established supplier of premium products to ensure water quality in farms."}
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{"text": "The existence of digital technology allows all business people to run fast. They are competing to get the maximum turnover in healthy competition through digital marketing. If you are one of the digital marketing businesses, then you should not be left behind from others.\nMaybe you have a diverse business, both in the field of selling goods and services. But whatever the field of your business, the conventional way of promotion may have to be maintained, but you must continue to support it with rapid digital promotion.\nWhen you are confused about how to optimize sales and turnover with digital marketing, then it’s a good idea to collaborate with a trusted SEO Agency. Later, the SEO Agency will be ready to assist you in achieving success in the digital marketing business with a variety of strategies. Among these strategies are:\n- Optimizing Promotions via Website\nThe SEO Agency will be ready to assist you in managing a professional, attractive and effective website for generating turnover. Maybe you don’t have much time to take care of technical matters regarding website optimization, so you can trust us.\nWhatever field of business you are in, you must have an official website that is professionally managed from the display side to the content. Your website must also be managed so that it is always easily accessible to internet users by optimizing the use of keywords and SEO techniques.\n- Management of Social Media\nYou can optimize the presence of social media to support the popularity of your business and website. It is also very effective for branding and selling goods and services directly. Increasing the credibility of the company will be greatly helped by relying on social media.\nWhen you schedule progress in business, don’t hesitate to work with the best SEO Agency. That way, you have the opportunity to accelerate business through dynamic digital channels."}
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