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Sport is regarded as one of the largest industries globally in terms of employment and revenue. The Business of Sports is a multi-billion dollar global industry propelled by enormous consumer demand. The sports business means many different things to different people. This is a truly global industry, and sports stir up deep passion within spectators and players alike in countries around the world.
But in past, it was just a loss-making affair in India. Now, sport is going to be the next big industry in India. In developed countries, sports contribute around 2 to 4 percentage of total employment. It includes a variety of career profiles such as athletes, coaches, trainers, event managers, public relation officers, Coordinator of sport organizations, Marketing Consultant, Program and Facility Manager, Professional Sport Promoter, Sport equipment and product sales, Sport Event Planner and Manager and Sport Sponsorship Specialist.
Today, sport’s contribution to India’s total employment is just .05%. The great initiatives such as Indian Premier League (Cricket), Hockey India League, Indian Badminton League, Prokabbadi, Indian Super League (Football) and professionalization of Heritage sports events such as Goti, Gilli Danda, Lagori, Kilithatt, Gatta Gusthi are changing the old face of Indian sports. Once, we believed that only cricket will succeed in India. But the above mentioned initiatives have shown Indians, a world of sports beyond cricket. These initiatives prove that sports have a future in India as a business.
The growth and development of the Indian sport industry is creating opportunities for management professionals in a wide variety of settings. Boosted by initiatives such as professional leagues of developed sports, commercialization of underdeveloped sports, professionalization of heritage sports and increased corporate sector investments, sports industry expects a faster growth in shorter time frame. It has the potential to overtake IT and related industries before 2020 in every aspect.
The job opportunities above mentioned initiatives created and going to create are enormous. New sports initiatives require professional human capital to speed up its growth. But in India, availability of professional sports managers are less or minimal. Government of India takes initiatives to make India a sports super power. It will not be realized without professional sports managers.
Indian sports industry has an impressive growth prospect even if its fundamentals are not solid. The professional sports managers can only bring a solid foundation to India’s sports industry.
The sports goods industry in India is nearly a century old and has flourished due to the skills of its workforce. Being labour-intensive in nature, the industry provides employment to more than 500,000 people. The nucleus of this industry in India is in and around the states of Punjab and Uttar Pradesh.
Jalandhar in the state of Punjab and Meerut in the state of Uttar Pradesh account for nearly 75 per cent of total production.
Together, the two towns house more than 3,000 manufacturing units and 130 exporters.
The Indian sports goods industry also has a presence in the cities of Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai, albeit at a lower scale.
India’s share of the global sports goods export market is expected to grow manifold, with the country establishing the credibility of its goods in the international market. Indian sporting goods are well known around the world and have made a mark in the global sports goods market. The industry exports nearly 60 per cent of its total output to sports-loving people the world over.
The sports goods market in India was valued at US$ 2 billion in 2012-13. The market is growing as 35-40 per cent a year and is expected to reach US$ 3.6 billion by 2015. The growth is expected on account of increasing awareness about health and fitness in the country.
India exported sports goods worth around US$ 256 million in 2013-14 as compared to US$ 214.95 million in 2012-13 and registering a growth of about 19 per cent.
The major items to be exported during 2013-14 includes inflatable balls, cricket bats general exercise equipments, sports nets and protective equipment for cricket.
The most interesting factor is that the land of Sports Engineering, United Kingdom is the major importer of Indian sports goods. It shows India’s ability to grow as a sporting super power.
Kerala is a major sporting state of India. But, the sports industry is not yet developed in Kerala. We have a great prospect in sport industry due to various factors like sports loving people, highly educated workforce, and availability of basic infrastructures like electricity and raw materials and scope of MSEs. If Kerala government can support sports industry like IT sector, Kerala can compete with Jalandar and Meerut in a big way.
Moreover, the opportunities in sports never restrict to sports goods manufacturing. The following figure will illustrate the unexploited opportunities in sports industry.
SMRI (Sports & Management Research Institute) explores this opportunity to strengthen the Indian Sports Industry by creating excellent sports management and sports engineering professionals.
We invite you to be part of the emerging big industry in India- Sports. Play-Learn-Work-Invent.
1. Business of Sports- Shaping a Successful Innings for the Indian Sports Industry- Report by KPMG & CII.


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A multigene genomic classifier test for thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology shows high sensitivity and negative predictive value.
HealthDay News — A multigene genomic classifier (GC) test for thyroid nodules with indeterminate cytology shows high sensitivity and negative predictive value, according to a study published online Nov. 8 in JAMA Oncology.
David L. Steward, M.D., from the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, and colleagues conducted a prospective study at 10 medical centers to determine the diagnostic accuracy of a GC test (ThyroSeq v3) for cytologically indeterminate thyroid nodules. A total of 256 patients with 286 nodules met the eligibility criteria; central pathology review was performed on 274 nodules.
The researchers found that 72 percent of the 286 nodules were benign, 24 percent were malignant, and 4 percent were noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasms with papillary-like nuclei (NIFTP).
Overall, 257 nodules (154 Bethesda III, 93 Bethesda IV, and 10 Bethesda V) had informative GC analysis; 61 and 39 percent were classified as negative and positive, respectively. The test demonstrated a 94 percent sensitivity and 82 percent specificity in Bethesda III and IV nodules. The negative predictive value was 97 percent, and the positive predictive value was 66 percent with a cancer/NIFTP prevalence of 28 percent. The 3 percent false-negative rate was comparable to that of benign cytology.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center granted CBLPath Inc. a license to market ThyroSeq for commercial use.

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Cricketing legend Sir Ian ‘Beefy’ Botham and golf star Andrew ‘Beef’ Johnston were teeing it up Worksop Golf Club last week as part a unique sporting challenge.
The pair zig-zagged across the country playing 18 holes of golf – one hole in each of the 18 counties in cricket’s county championship – all in aid of the Beefy Charity Foundation.
And Worksop was chosen as the course for Nottinghamshire.
The two sports teed off at the crack of dawn in County Durham and then made their way down the country by helicopter, landing at each of the courses chosen to play one hole before flying on again.
Worksop was the fourth of the 18 courses they visited, arriving at 8am in the morning, and Sir Ian was two down to Johnston at that stage.
The pair played the par-5 seventh hole at Worksop and both hit great drives.
‘Beef’ Johnstondrove it 20 yards past the hidden bunker but ‘Beefy’ Botham unfortunately found the sand.
Johnston went on to find the green with his second shot and two-putted for a birdie four.
Botham, meantime, recorded a par five on the hole to go three-down to Johnston in their match.
The flying visit was not the first time Sir Ian has played at Worksop.
Two years ago, he came to the course on a similar charity event when he was accompanied by Australian cricket legend Shane Warne on that occasion.
Lots of money was raised for the Beefy Charity Foundation and the two teams enjoyed a lot of banter and humour on their visit before departing in their two helicopters for their next course in Derbyshire.
The hole the two sports stars played was sponsored for the day by Read Motor Group of Retford.
The Beefy Foundation helps to fund specific projects relating to chronic illnesses and other challenges that young people face.
These are serious issues, but Sir Ian and his friends like to raise money by having a lot of fun through a series of high profile events such as this golf challenge.

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If you’re having problems getting InqScribe to work properly and don’t know why, start by sending us a detailed description of what is happening, what you are doing when the problem occurs, and any details you can about the system.
The more detailed your description, the better (and quicker) we can help you. Below are some things you can do when submitting a bug report.
Make sure “include system information” is checked.
In Windows 8, pressing the Windows Key + Print Screen will automatically place the picture in your Pictures folder.
In earlier versions of Windows, press Print Screen. Then, open up Paint from the Accessories section in your Start menu. In Paint, select "Edit>Paste" to place your screenshot into the program. Then, select "File> Save As..." to save your screenshot as an image file- we recommend the .png or .jpg file type.
Send us the resulting file(s) as an attachment.
3. If the crash happens consistently, and you can describe the conditions that make it happen then please send us a description of the conditions in detail— enough detail to allow us to replicate the conditions on our end. The more detail you can send us, the better (and quicker) we can help you.
4. Are you able to launch InqScribe at all? Does it crash during the launch process? After you load media? After you play video for a while then trigger a particular command or action?
5. Has InqScribe ever worked for you (i.e., used to work fine and then stopped working)? Or have you had this trouble from the start?
If you can respond to any or all of the above in your support request, we should be able to help diagnose your issue.


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So imagine my delight when I heard about One Stop for Writers, their new online reference library!
These resources are cross-linked. They feed each other. Now it’s even easier to find a dab of this and a bit of that.
I’ve been beta-testing One Stop for Writers for the past month. It’s a creative playground! You can brainstorm, play around with ideas. Combine, recombine, tear down, rebuild.
Best of all, you can jot down your ideas online and save them for next time. When you come back with fresh eyes, your notes are waiting.
It’s very easy to use. Not surprising. It was designed by Lee Powell, the genius behind my favourite writing software Scrivener for Windows.
One Stop for Writers launches October 7. That’s today!
There’s a week-long launch party to celebrate at Writers Helping Writers. Pop by to party with Angela, Lee and Becca. You’ll find plenty of prizes and pay-it-forward fun. Tell them Heather sent you.
Heather, thank you for the terrific shout out–you are so good to us! Thank you again for testing for us as well–what a huge help!

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This is the first wine produced in 2001 in the Bolgheri Rosso Superiore area by the Tuscany winery Campo alla Sughera. A blend of 40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Cabernet Franc, 20% Merlot, and 20% Petit Verdot grapes which make the wine strong, elegant, bodied and refined. The grape harvest is manual and grapes are put in 15 kg wood boxes. The wine making process occurs in vertical which allows the use of the gravity to move the grapes, the must and the wine. After the destemming and a soft pressing, the fermentation and maceration takes place in steels tanks for 12/15 days at 30°C. Lately the wine is put in barrels for the malolactic fermentation. Finally, the aging period takes place for the 80% in new French oak barrels and the remaining 20% in second-hand barrels for at least 18 months and further 18 months in bottle.
It has an intense and deep ruby red color. The smell is wide and complex with strawberry, black berry and blue berry grapes enriched with licorice and vanilla hints. The taste is harmonic and balanced but also soft and elegant. The wine has fine and velvety tannins.
It is perfect with game, grilled meats, aged cheeses or with typical Tuscany courses such as the crespella with pecorino and mushrooms, boar with blueberries or the cinta senese ham with black gazed gabbage. It must be served at 18°C with a previous decanting hour. It has a proof of 14%.

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JW Disposal Services offers complete clean out, recovery, demolition and property services. We are affordable, reliable and easy to work with. Our team of professionals provides an on site assessment and a detailed proposal before work begins. From whole homes, to attics and garages, no job is too big or too small. If you got junk to remove, we have a junk removal solution for you.
We donate and recycle as much as possible to protect the environment and reduce costs. Our company is experienced, established, professional and fully insured.


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The 15th Missouri Tiger soccer team (15-5-1. 7-3-0) won the Big 12 Tournament Championship on Sunday with a 1-0 win over No. 10 Colorado (14-4-4, 6-2-2) at Blossom Soccer Complex in San Antonio.
Senior captain Mo Redmond scored in the sixth minute and the defense held off a Buffalo charge to earn the program’s first ever conference crown. They’ll find their spot in the NCAA field of 64 tonight at 7pm on ESPNews.
Junior goalkeeper Tasha Dittamore recorded two saves to extend her single season record in shutouts to nine, and the team recorded their 11th shutout in 21 games this season.
Sophomore Alysha Bonnick was named the tournament’s offensive MVP while Dittamore earned defensive MVP honors. Along with Redmond, junior Meghan Pfeiffer and senior Kat Tarr were named to the 2008 Big 12 All-Tournament team.


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Kentucky's joy ride this season hit unexpected turbulence Monday night.
With Nick Winbush setting a Rupp Arena record for a visiting player with eight three-point baskets, Miami forced No. 4 Kentucky to play a possession-by-possession nail-biter.
Thanks to inside dominance and a clutch shot by John Wall, UK won 72-70.
Wall, belatedly making his highly anticipated UK debut, hit a 12-footer from the left side inside the final second to win the game.


text: SAN DIEGO, Aug. 1 Adobe Systems, Cardiff Software, Bell & Howell, Captaris, Hyland Software, and Lexmark International announced today the schedule for the eBusiness Automation Tour Latin America, a series of one-day seminars targeting eBusiness and eGovernment professionals. These industry leaders will offer interactive presentations and provide hands-on demonstrations of automated office solutions using Internet technologies. More than 6,000 professionals have participated in the eBusiness Automation Tour over the past year throughout Europe and North America. The eBusiness Automation Tour Latin America will include the following cities and dates: Sao Paulo Tuesday, August 14 Brasilia Friday, August 17 Buenos Aires Wednesday, August 22 Ciudad de Mexico Tuesday, September 4 The seminar is free to all participants, but seating will be limited to a first-registered, first-served basis. Complete details on the event and locations are available at www.Cardiff.com/eBusiness. Under the theme "Put Information to Work,'' the eBusiness Automation Tour Latin America will be delivered in an educational format, showing attendees how to leverage existing Internet investments to achieve the following: *	Quickly implement online eBusiness and eGovernment solutions *	Learn the value of digital and electronic signatures *	Eliminate manual data entry with scan/optical character recognition *	(OCR) Solutions *	Use the Web to route, approve and process online forms *	Automate incoming documents using fax server technology *	Use Adobe ePaper Solutions to put paper processes online The eBusiness solutions providers will present end-to-end solutions that allow companies to quickly integrate standard XML, HTML and PDF technologies into daily business transactions to reduce paper processes, increase profitability, and improve data integrity. About Cardiff Software Inc. Cardiff's integrated eTransaction solutions are used by more than 20,000 organizations, including Global 2000 companies, to automate a wide range of business transactions and processes. Cardiff's Information Capture, eForm Management, and eDocument Automation products work together to replace manual processing with automated online systems -- putting information to work more quickly and affordably than ever before.


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Oral and dental health is important for men and women alike, but there are differences between them that can put one or the other at a higher risk for certain issues like cavities, gum disease, and other common dental problems. According to the Academy of General Dentistry, men are more likely to neglect oral health issues that they're experiencing, which makes them more likely to suffer from these difficult occurrences. For Men's Health Month this June, your Auburn dentist will explain the challenges that men can face and what the next best step is.
Although June is coming to an end, your Auburn dentist wants male patients of all ages to understand the importance of oral and dental health and how we're able to help. Give our office a call today at 530-888-1966 and we'll be able to schedule your appointment on the best date and time that works for you.


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Mirror of Happiness (Screen Capture). 2011.
The film Mirror of Happiness stays in the tradition of Sam Samore’s recent films which can be described as visual poems oscillating between reality and fiction, often told as a non-linear narrative, reminding the viewer of fragmented fairy tales. These fragments show people alone or in interaction with others and often resemble dream sequences, confronting us with our secret wishes, fears and emotions – which are sometimes buried deep in our subconscious. Samore’s films reveal his continued interest in a critical analysis of how we live together in society – especially under the norms of gender, the assigning of roles, the codes of behavior, as well as the structures of power relations.

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This gorgeous V60 Hario coffee server is made of heatproof glass. It features an olive wood handle and an olive wood lid, which adds to its functional design.
The Hario olive wood coffee server is made to be used with any 01 size V60 coffee dripper to assist you with a sediment-free coffee brewing method.

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text: Find pharmacies and hospitals in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, US. In Hoffman Estates, there is on our website more than 5 pharmacies and 14 hospitals. Our site will help to find the nearest hospital or pharmacy and find out its address, phone, reviews, rating, time of work and other information.


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KINGSTON — Anthony Hutchinson has been an accountant and a farmer for the past 26 years but, despite his skills, he is facing eviction from his 15-acre property, because of his inability to pay off a debt of over $12 million triggered by the 1990s financial meltdown.
Mr. Hutchinson says that, after running into problems with repayment of his 1995 loan of $1.6 million from the National Commercial Bank (NCB), which he needed to refinance an overdraft facility, he attempted to sell two acres to the Ministry of Education to accommodate a playfield for the May Day All Age School in Mandeville.
Mr. Hutchinson did not get a payment from the bank, as the funds were used to refinance his overdraft facility, but the debt eventually climbed to a principal of $3.8 million, and interest of just under an additional $1 million.
“Each time the account went into overdraft, the balance as of that date plus any interest was converted to a loan, so that the account was reverted to credit status. At one point during the course of my dealings with the NCB the interest rate on my loan rose to around 70 percent to 80 percent,” he had told the Commission of Enquiry looking into the 1990s financial meltdown and the role of the Financial Sector Adjustment Company (FINSAC), at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel, New Kingston.
Mr. Hutchinson, a lecturer in accounts at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU) with degrees in accounting and business administration, and a farmer since 1985, made his second appearance at the enquiry on Thursday (March 31). He, basically, reiterated that, if he had been able to complete the deal with the Ministry for the two acres, a process which began in 2001, and was paid the $5.5 million cost much earlier than 2008, he would have been able to settle his debt. By the time the $5.5 million was paid to the Jamaica Redevelopment Foundation (JRF), Inc. he found that he still owed $12 million.
He also stated that after subdivision of the property was approved in November, 2004, two years after he started the negotiations, persons paid down on the lots but he had to refund their deposits, as JRF would not agree to release the titles and allow the sales to go forward.
“Up to 2006, several prospective purchasers were expressing interest in buying the lots. JRF would not allow me to proceed with the sale,” Mr. Hutchinson said. By this time his debt had climbed to over $11 million, of which only $3 million represented principal sums.
“From this point, I had to revert to the negotiations to sell the land to the Government, secure the cash and pay the proceeds to JRF,” Mr. Hutchinson said.
But, the attorney for JRF, Gavin Goffe, in cross examining Mr. Hutchinson, tried to show that the JRF and its predecessor, Joslin Jamaica Limited, which bought the FINSAC bad debts in 2002, unsuccessfully tried to work out arrangements with him to pay off the debt and save his property.
Mr. Goffe noted that JRF’s decision to withhold the titles followed Mr. Hutchinson’s last payment in 2005, which led to a significant increase in the debt. He said that Mr. Hutchinson had made arrangements to make monthly payments, which he breached when he stopped paying in 2005.
“I can’t say that I disagree about not making monthly payments that I should have made but, as I said before, it was because of the cashflow problems,” Mr. Hutchinson insisted.

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text: The Miami teak coffee table offers a very sleek design complimented with thick cuts of premium grade teak wood. This coffee table can stand alone or accompany any piece of matching Miami Deep Seating Teak. The quality of this teak coffee table is sure to surpass your expectations!


text: Room for the whole family to stay and play in Biloxi!This relaxing Biloxi beach resort resort offers one and two bedroom units providing a true home-away-from-home vacation experience. Oak Shores delivers elegant comfort and convenience at an exceptional price, just steps away from the beach and the Gulf of Mexico. Fun amenities such as two gorgeous swimming pools; a recreation area with playground, BBQ grills and covered picnic shelters; and a clubhouse make this Biloxi beach retreat the perfect spot to enjoy a family-friendly vacation that’s also budget-friendly.

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JUST in case you haven’t figured it out yet, Zach Snyder’s Superman reboot, Man of Steel is kinda a big thing. The studio is sparing no expense which is highly evident if you drive around Hollywood and witness the plethora of billboards and even buildings adorned with advertisements for what should be, one of the summer’ biggest movies.
Next up is a free video game, Man of Steel – Metropolis Mayhem, where you can fly through Metropolis as Krypton’s favorite son. By using your heat vision you can destroy objects and collect Superman symbols to increase your score and be the envy of all your friends. Personally I thoroughly enjoyed flying through buildings and water towers as I decimated things with my heat vision.
Last but not least is the IMAX Sweepstakes. Here is all the official verbage mumbo-jumbo from IMAX.
Enter the Man of Steel sweepstakes for a chance to win an exclusive Man of Steel Superman Vault Statue from DC Collectibles, a Superman: Last Son of Krypton graphic novel from DC Comics, a Superman™: Battle of Smallville play set from LEGO®, a Man of Steel: Inside the Legendary World of Superman book from Insight Editions, a Man of Steel Hero Buddies plush and Movie Masters Superman Action Figure from Mattel, a Man of Steel 9FIFTY® Basic Logo snapback cap from New Era®, a Man of Steel: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from WaterTower Music, a Man of Steel IMAX stainless steel water bottle and poster, and IMAX tickets*!
*Hollywood Movie Money® Certificates valid at participating IMAX theaters.
One Grand Prize Winner will receive one (1) Man of Steel Superman exclusive vault statue from DC Collectibles (ARV $79.95), one (1) Superman: Last Son of Krypton graphic novel from DC Comics (ARV $19.99), one (1) Superman: Battle of Smallville from LEGO (ARV $49.99), one (1) Man of Steel Hero Buddies plush from Mattel (ARV $29.99), one (1) Man of Steel Movie Masters Superman action figure from Mattel (ARV $15.99), one (1) Man of Steel 9FIFTY® Basic Logo snapback cap from New Era® (ARV $24.99), one (1) Man of Steel: Inside the Legendary World of Superman book from Insight Edition (ARV $45), one (1) Man of Steel: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from WaterTower Music (ARV $17.99), one (1) Man of Steel IMAX stainless steel water bottle (ARV $5), one (1) Man of Steel IMAX poster (ARV $10) and four (4) Hollywood Movie Money® Certificates (ARV $84).
Five (5) First Prize winners will receive one (1) Superman: Last Son of Krypton graphic novel from DC Comics (ARV $19.99), one (1) Superman: Metropolis Showdown from LEGO (ARV $12.99), one (1) Man of Steel Movie Masters Superman action figure from Mattel (ARV $15.99), one (1) Man of Steel 9FIFTY® Basic Logo snapback cap from New Era® (ARV $24.99), one (1) Man of Steel: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from WaterTower Music (ARV $17.99), one (1) Man of Steel IMAX stainless steel water bottle (ARV $5), one (1) Man of Steel IMAX poster (ARV $10) and two (2) Hollywood Movie Money® Certificates (ARV $42).
At this point I will do, play, enter ANYTHING to tie me over till this one hits theaters on June 14th.
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RIGA, March 19 (Xinhua) -- Police in Latvia on Tuesday detained five people suspected of defrauding a European Union fund of four million euros and laundering the illegally obtained money, informed the Latvian state police.
The arrests were made as law enforcement officers raided several locations in Latvia as part of a criminal investigation into suspected attempts to use the Latvian Investment and Development Agency's program to illegally receive money from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and later launder the illegal proceeds, police representatives said.
The investigative activities, including searches, are ongoing.
So far, five persons have been detained in the probe on suspicions of defrauding and laundering over four million euros.
Since the investigation is not yet over, the law enforcement authorities are not giving more details on the case.
According to local media reports, one of the suspects detained is a co-owner of Ditton Pievadkezu Rupnica motor chain factory based in the southeastern Latvian city of Daugavpils.

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24/02/2008 · it takes me about 30 minutes to tan without oil outside and if i use oil about 15. i have very olive colored skin and i tan very easy. i can get a full tan for going outside for 30 minutes then somepeople going to a week ver tanning salon appointments. how to the invention of steam energy help britain 29/03/2004 · Use a good sunscreen. You will still tan. The latest news, incase you haven't heard for the past 30 years at least, is that excessive suntanning causes premature aging and cancer.
28/04/2007 · Best Answer: Like the others said, the Sun is just as bad as the tanning booth but to answer your question...Go outside with a towel and sunglasses and coat yourself with tanning oil. It makes your tan even darker, it honestly really works. You can get it at drugstores or Target/Wal-Mart! It'll be a dark bottle!
also most tanning salons sell really over priced lotions (and most prohibit outdoor tanning lotions because the oils or whatever eat the acrylic of the bed) but you can get good ones at Sally’s beauty supply, but the lotions at the salons are better and smell better bUT THEY ARE SO FLIPPIN EXPENSIVE be ready to fork out 30-60 dollars for just ONE BOTTLE!!!
The best time to tan to get an all over tan is when the sun is the strongest, between 10am and 2pm. Because the sun is directly overhead during these times, you have the best chance of getting an all over tan.


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Property [Consumable]: As an action, you drink the potion. For 1 hour, you automatically succeed on any Strength (Athletics) check you make to climb.
This potion is separated into brown, silver, and gray layers resembling bands of stone. If the container is shaken, upon settling, the potion separates once more. A person who samples the potion feels his or her fingers and toes itch and is momentarily filled with the desire to climb. Drinking it causes the person to notice on every vertical surface paths composed of tiny ledges, imperfections, and cracks that offer handholds and footholds.


text: I agree with you, little sage. Teaching English is so much about interaction. You can't really learn how to effectively interact with a class of 15 students by submitting your weekly homework lesson online. You can learn a lot of theory based stuff online but teaching is not all theory. I read this quote somewhere... "In theory, practice and theory are the same but in practice, they are not". Same applies here. You just can't read enough to really know what goes on in the classroom.

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The red carpet has been rolled out, and awards season is officially underway. Many of you got a glimpse into my Golden Globes prep on Instagram last month, and asked for more details on my glam routine.
• Workout – While I try to keep my fitness regimen consistent, during awards season, I’m especially conscious of what I’ll be wearing and plan my workouts accordingly. If I plan to wear a sleeveless dress, I concentrate more on my arms during my workout the day before. If my outfit includes a short dress, I incorporate more leg moves and squats.
• Meditation – This is a key part of my daily routine, even if it’s just five minutes when I focus and quiet my mind. Typically, I concentrate on a colour and set intentions such as clarity, peace, calmness and love. I focus in on these intentions and breathe. Lately, I have also been enjoying Kundalini meditation.
• Spray tans – If I feel like I need a little colour, I’ll get a natural spray tan. Not only does this give me a little extra coverage, but it also allows me to achieve the bronzed look I want without the sun damage.
• Moisturiser – Maybe it’s from all the heaters running, but my skin always seems to be driest in winter. I keep moisturised by using rich soufflés and body butters. I also love Epicuren After Bath Moisturiser, Rodin Olio Lusso body oil and coconut oil.
Kate Hudson first captured the hearts of filmgoers with her Academy Award-nominated performance in Almost Famous and is known around the world for such films as How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Fool’s Gold, Nine and Bride Wars, which she also produced. She was seen most recently in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and guest-starring on Glee and stars in the upcoming feature films Good People and Wish I Was Here. As Co-Founder of Fabletics, Kate works closely with the design team to create lifestyle athletic wear for every woman and every body type.


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Becoming a property guardian in Bristol has huge benefits in the current climate as property at the moment is pretty expensive. Cheap and affordable apartments are often difficult to find.
So what is Bristol like to live in? It has been recognised as one of the best places to live in the U.K, aside from having a small town feel but big city amenities there are a number of other reasons to love Bristol. In fact in 2017 the city was named the top 10 best cities in the world to visit. It’s a great city to live and also a perfect city if you’re a new business start-up.
There are a number of reasons that Bristol has received acclaim, among these a vibrant nightlife, a great arts and culture scene and last but by no means least some of the best cuisine in the United Kingdom.
Bristol is bursting with colour making it one of the most visually attractive cities in the U'K. Street art and colourful architecture as well as the common sight of hot air balloons floating over the city mean that there is an air of playfulness that characterises Bristol.
If you are wanting to experience a fantastic retail visit then Bristol has an enormous amount to offer. The Bristol Shopping Quarter is worthy of special mention. Here the visitor can find cafes and restaurants in abundance. The area is also home to 500 retail establishments anchored by luxury outlets such as Harvey Nichols and Hugo Boss.
The restaurant scene in Bristol offers ore choice than one diner could ever want. Restaurants like The Ox offer exceptional value and some of the best steaks in the city. Excellent cocktails and leather bound chairs, as well as a great rump steak and wonderful decor make this venue a pleasure to visit.
Or what about a seafood focused fine dining venue. The Wallfish Bistro offers just that. The menu changes each day and there is always a surprise of two available. The lobster and rabbit pie is fantastic and is filled to the brim with rich flavour. As a starter the 'Royal Rock Oysters' (sourced locally as are most ingredients) cannot be beaten. Order one or better yet a half dozen to share with the table. The wine list shines.
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A group of doting dads are encouraging families to join in on the unofficial holiday that celebrates the special bond shared between a father and his daughter/s. And Kapiti Dads are welcome to enjoy the occasion.
Following the concept of Mother's Day and Father's Day, a group of Wellington fathers wishing they spent more time with their family came up with the idea, Dad & Daughter Date Night.
"To celebrate the date, there's one simple rule – spend time together," said Wellingtonian Mike Egan, Dad and Daughter Date Night founder.
"We live in an increasingly digital world, spending less and less time interacting with our families and forgetting the enjoyment that good old fashioned face to face quality time brings. Dad & Daughter Date Night is just the reminder dads need to make the time for their daughter/s.
"There have been numerous studies carried out on the positive effects a father's presence has in a daughter's life – such as boosting self esteem, improving academic success and lessening anxiety.
"One recurring recommendation in these studies is spending time together. Time is referred to by numerous family experts as the 'greatest bonding element'.
"This is exactly what Dad & Daughter Date Night is about: encouraging dads and daughters to make time for each other. Whether it's watching a movie together, going out for dinner or a trip to the dairy, as long as it's time spent together the objective's achieved," Mr Egan said.
Dad and Daughter Date Night launched last year. Mr Egan reports that the inaugural event was a successful start with a number of restaurants coming on board with deals and complimentary deals for dad and daughter duos and groups. There were also reports from fathers of DVD evenings and dad-daughter cook offs.
In keeping with tradition Dad & Daughter Date Night falls on a day not a date – the first Sunday in August. This year it will be on Sunday 5th August.


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could you describe it in one word?
After missing our show at the River they begged us to come play their living room. So the next morning we played a few swell tunes. Then they made us this! Sweet hearts!
I took this photo moments before trying to save a fallen windmill and nearly being knocked out by the flying blades. Luckily I survived with a bit of a scratch, a tetanus shot and a headache.
Securing the up top gear. oh the desert WIND!
The Gorge in NM. The winds were blowing about 55 miles an hour, it was tough to walk out on the bridge, but worth it!
Under a mustang in Salem, OR.
Abram at the bridge in Corvallis, OR.
Breakfast in Sarah’s lovely home.
A side street dingo encounter.
Abram making contact with the International Space Station, his call sign is now on the ISS log. AMAZING!
Our trusty home in the mountains, on the road, in the desert.


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To retrospectively analyze the prognostic value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-derived residual tumors after intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in the patients with locally-advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
A total of 358 patients with locally-advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma who received IMRT were classified as having residual tumors or no residual tumor based on MRI at the end of radiotherapy. The χ2 test, log-rank test, Cox proportional hazards regression model and Kaplan-Meir survival curves were used to investigate the relationship of clinicopathological features and residual tumors and to assess the prognostic value of residual tumors.
The 3-year overall survival (OS) rate was 73% in the residual tumor group and 90% in the no residual tumor group (HR 2.15, 95% CI 1.21-3.82,, P = 0.007); 3-year local relapse-free survival (LRFS) was 89% in the residual tumor group and 97% in the no residual tumor group (HR 4.46, 95% CI 1.61-12.38, P = 0.002); 3-year disease free survival (DFS) was 67% in the residual tumor group and 82% in the no residual tumor group (HR 2.21, 95% CI 1.40-3.48, P = 0.001). A high prescribed radiation dose (>73.92 Gy) did not increase the percentage volume of the GTVnx receiving 95% of the prescribed dose (GTVnx V95%) or improve any survival outcome.
The presence of a residual tumor after IMRT was a significant negative independent prognostic factor for OS, LRFS and DFS. Although IMRT have improved the distribution of radiotherapy doses into the tumors, residual tumors detected by MRI after IMRT are still associated with poor prognosis in patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
The presence of residual tumors after treatment may provide important prognostic information  and may be associated with the radiosensitivity of the tumor. A prospective study of the correlation of regression rate and the probability of recurrence after radiation of neck node metastases in 47 patients by Bartelink showed that tumors with a slow regression rate had a high probability of recurrence . Residual foci detected by clinical or imaging methods may be composed of cancer parenchyma-like cancer stem cells and delayed reproductive-dead cells, as well as other cell types including interstitial tissue-like fibrosis and mononuclear cells . While reproductive-dead cells will disappear within several months, radio-resistant cancer stem cells are thought to be the root cause of relapse and metastasis , and the radio-response of the interstitial tissue is also associated with recurrence . Given these possibilities, clinicians need to decide whether or not to increase the local dosage or provide timely additional adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with radiographically-visible residual tumors at the end of radiotherapy. Biopsy is the “gold standard” for diagnose of residual tumor. However, most the residual tumors are located outside the nasopharynx in the patients with locally-advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) so biopsy for the tumors is difficult to be obtained. Ng et al.  in a retrospectively reviewed study reported the MRI features of recurrent NPC in 72 patients who underwent MRI and showed a nasopharyngeal mass in 50 patients (69.4%) involved outside the nasopharynx including the parapharyngeal space (44.4%), nasal cavity (12.5%), paranasal sinuses (27.8%), oropharynx (4.2%), orbit (8.3%), infratemporal fossa (18.1%), skull base (59.8%), intracranial area (51.4%) and regional lymph nodes (15.3%). Moreover, the viable cells in residual tumors identified by pathology at the end of radiation may become died cells at later time and pathology cannot detect the depth of tumor invasion which is usually a poor indicator for prognosis . Therefore, clinicians must rely on imaging methods to evaluate the therapeutic effect in most cases. Liauw et al.  examined the correlation between treatment response and neck dissection pathology, and reported that residual tumors had a negative predictive value of 77% for complete clinical response and 94% for radiographic complete response (rCR) in patients with head and neck cancer treated with radiotherapy. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the preferred modality for determining the extent of soft tissue, perineural infiltration, intracranial spread and skull base invasion of NPC . It was reported that MRI had a higher accuracy for detecting residual and/or recurrent NPC at the primary tumor site than fluorodeoxyglueose positron emission tomography with computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) . Therefore, it is worthy of investigating whether MRI-derived residual tumors are associated with the prognosis of patients with locally-advanced NPC to simplify and improve the diagnosis and treatment of NPC.
The purpose of this retrospective study of 358 patients with locally-advanced NPC was to compare the prognosis of patients with or without residual tumors based on MRI at the end of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). The results may provide a basis for assessing the value of boost radiation or timely adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with residual tumors at the end of radiotherapy.
A total of 358 patients with locally-advanced NPC (T3/T4N0-3M0) who received IMRT between August 2008 and December 2011 at Xiangya Hospital of Central South University (Changsha, Hunan province, China) were enrolled in this study. All patients were diagnosed by nasopharyngeal biopsy and nasopharyngeal and neck MRI examinations. In addition to CT/MRI examination of the nasopharynx and neck, the pre-treatment work-up also included a complete medical history, physical examination, chest X-ray and/or CT (all patients with N3 disease underwent a chest CT), B-ultrasound scan of the abdomen and neck, bone scan and routine laboratory analysis. The clinical characteristics of the patients are summarized in Table 1. In the study, 354 out of 358 cases were eligible for univariate and multivariate analyses due to 4 patients without MRI review after radiotherapy. Additionally, 346 cases were eligible for survival analysis due to 12 patients loss of follow-up. The study was approved by the ethics committee of Xiangya Hospital of Central South University (approval number 201111086).
*Percentage = the number before the bracket divided by the numbers of before the bracket in the same line of column 3 plus column 4.
GTVnx: Primary gross target volume; GTVnx V95%: percentage volume of GTVnx receiving 95% prescribed doses.
MR imaging was performed with a 1.5-T unit— Siemens Vision Plus (Erlangen, Germany). The protocol was used for the NPC study including axial T1-weighted images without fat saturation, axial T2-weighted images, axial proton density images, sagittal T1-weighted images, and postcontrast axial, coronal and sagittal T1-weighted images with fat saturation. The upper extent covers 2 cm above the sella turcica and the lower extent reaches 2 cm below the lower edge of the clavicle. Axial T1-weighted fast spin-echo (FSE) images were obtained with repetition time msec/echo time msec of 600/15, echo train length of eight, two signals acquired, 24-mm field of view, 256 × 256 matrix, 5-mm-thick section, and 0.5-mm gap. Axial T2-weighted FSE images were obtained with 4200/102, echo train length of 16, two signals acquired, 20-mm field of view, 256× 256 matrix, 4-mm-thick section, and 0.4-mm gap. An intravenous bolus injection of 0.1 mmol/kg of body weight gadopentetate imeglumine (Magnevist; Schering, Berlin, Germany) was administered at 2 mL/sec for the contrast-enhanced series.
To reduce subjectivity, all patients were restaged according to the 7th edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Staging System for NPC; the pre- and post-treatment MRI scans for each patient were independently reviewed by two senior clinicians from the Departments of Radiology and Oncology. Local radiographic residual tumors were diagnosed by the consensus agreement of two head and neck radiologists and two senior radiation oncologists, respectively. Diagnostic criteria of residual tumors on MRI at different sites as follows: residual tumors present in the nasopharynx or other soft tissues following radiotherapy usually appeared as hypo-intense signal on T1-weighted imaging, as hyper-intensity signal on T2-weighted imaging and also exhibited enhancement following administration of Gd-DTPA. Regional lymph nodes were considered to have residual tumors on MRI if they were larger than 10 mm in short-axis diameter for cervical lymph nodes and larger than 5 mm for the retropharyngeal nodes at the end of radiotherapy. For the residual tumors at the skull base on MRI at the end of radiotherapy, we used the reference from previous reports [10,11]. It would be considered as residual tumors if the bone of the skull base was destructed with soft tissues and the degree and scope of strengthening of bone have not decrease compared to that of prior to chemoradiotherapy.
All patients underwent IMRT. The target volumes were defined with reference to International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU) reports No. 50 and No. 62. The primary tumor (GTVnx) and positive lymph nodes (GTVnd) were defined and the retropharyngeal lymph nodes were included in the GTVnx. The primary tumor before chemotherapy was delineated as the GTVnx for patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy; two clinical target volumes (CTVs) were defined as follows: CTV1, the high-risk areas including a 5–10 mm extension around the GTVnx and other high-risk regions such as parapharyngeal space, inferior part of sphenoid sinus, posterior 1/3 of nasal cavity, posterior 1/3 of maxillary sinus, skull base, clivus, oval foramen, lacerated foramen and high-risk lymphatic drainage areas such as retropharyngeal lymph nodes, upper cervical lymph nodes levels II, III, and Va, 60 Gy irradiation was given; and CTV2, the low-risk lymphatic drainage areas including lower cervical lymph nodes levels IV and Vb, 50 Gy irradiation was given. The corresponding planning target volumes (PTVs) were generated by extending each CTV by 3 mm; the prescribed doses for the PGTVnx (GTVnx + 3 mm margin) were 66.0–75.9 Gy; GTVnd, 69.96–72.6 Gy; PTV1, 59.4–64.0 Gy, PTV2, 50.0–54.0 Gy. The doses to the PTV2 were administered over 28 fractions and other doses over 33 fractions; all patients were treated with simultaneous modulated accelerated radiotherapy once a day for five days a week. Dose limits for the critical tissue structures and plan evaluation were as defined by the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) 0225 . The patients were re-examined by MRI when they finished radiotherapy or the radiation dose reached to approximately 70 Gy. The patient with significant residual tumors at the end of radiotherapy was observed or treated with an IMRT boost dose of 4–10 Gy to the residual lesions over 2–5 fractions depending on the individual toxicity (Organs at risk) and tumor response to radiotherapy. Chemotherapy was part of the treatment plan for all patients; 21 patients who were unwilling to receive chemotherapy or could not tolerate chemotherapy did not undergo chemotherapy. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy was administered when the waiting time for radiotherapy was longer than acceptable or to downsize bulky tumors. At the end of radiotherapy, adjuvant chemotherapy was administered to the patients with N2/N3 stage disease and with existing residual disease detected by MRI or physical examination.
The follow-up methods included direct telephone calls to the patients or their families; or hospital visits for the patients. Follow-up was measured from the first day of treatment to last follow-up date or date of patient’s death. After radiotherapy, follow-up examinations were conducted once every 3 months in the first 2 years, once every 6 months in years 2 to 5, and annually thereafter. MRI of the nasopharynx and neck region was performed once a year for the patient with no residual tumor, or every 3–6 months for the patient with residual tumor.
Recurrence was defined as the tumor regrown after disappearing at least one month. The duration of overall survival (OS) was calculated from the day of radiotherapy completion to the date of patient’s death or last follow-up. The duration of local relapse-free survival (LRFS) was calculated from the day of radiotherapy completion to the date of tumor local recurrence. The duration of disease-free survival (DFS) was calculated from the day radiotherapy completion to the date of tumor recurrence, distant metastasis or death.
All statistical analyses were performed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 17.0 (SPSS, Chicago, IL, USA). Actuarial rates were calculated using the Kaplan-Meier method and differences were compared using the log-rank test. Multivariate analysis with the Cox proportional hazards model was used to test for independent significance by backward elimination of insignificant explanatory variables. The Mann–Whitney test was used to examine the between-group differences in the GTVnx V95% value. The criterion for statistical significance was set at α = 0.05 and P-values were based on two-sided tests.
The clinical characteristics of the patients are presented in Table 1. At the end of radiotherapy, 142/354 cases (40.1%) had residual tumors. The residual tumor rate for patients with N2-3 disease was significantly higher than that of patients with N0-1 disease (P = 0.002). The patients in the residual tumor group had a higher prescribed radiation dose than the patient in no residual tumor group (P < 0.001). The residual tumor rate was significantly lower in the patients with the minimum absorbed dose of the 95% GTVnx (GTVnx D95%) ≥ 70 Gy or GTVnx V95% ≥ 95% compared to the patients with a GTVnx D95% < 70 Gy (P < 0.001) or GTVnx V95% < 95% (P < 0.001), respectively. The locations and numbers of residual tumors are summarized in Table 2. As mentioned previously, only 11.44% of residual tumors were located in the pharyngonasal cavity, 30.93% in the skull base, and 30.15% in the parapharynx and other soft tissues, and 45.07% of patients had more than one residual tumor.
Number of residual tumors* refers to the number of anatomic sites containing residual tumors including the pharyngonasal cavity, skull base, parapharynx and other soft tissues, intracranial space, and cervical lymph nodes. Some patients had more than one residual tumor.
The median follow-up period for all patients was 45 months (range, 3–78 months). In total, 22/346 cases developed local recurrence (6.36%), 55/346 developed distant metastasis (15.9%), and 9/346 developed recurrence plus distant metastasis (2.6%). Among the local relapse cases, 4 nasopharyngeal, 5 cervical lymph nodes, 6 bone of the skull base, 1 orbit, 2 paranasal sinus, 2 pharyngeal lymph nodes and 2 parapharyngeal spacerecurrences. Among the distant metastasis cases, 15 liver metastasis, 24 pulmonary metastasis, 20 bone metastasis, 1 adrenal metastasis, 1 retroperitoneal metastasis, and 10 multiple organs metastasis. There were 64 deaths out of 346 patients (18.5%) which 49 patients were due to tumor recurrence and metastasis, 10 were due to tumor-associated complications (5 cases nasopharyngeal hemorrhage, 1 case septic shock, 3 cases malnutrition systemic failure, and 1 case syncope), 1 patient was due to gastrointestinal bleeding and 4 patients were due to unknown causes.
Survival rates were calculated using the Kaplan–Meier method and compared using the log-rank test. The 3-year OS rate for the entire cohort study was 83%, 73% in the residual tumor group and 90% in the no residual tumor group (HR 2.15, 95% CI 1.21-3.82, P = 0.007); 3-year LRFS for the entire cohort study was 94%, 89% in the residual tumor group and 97% in the no residual tumor group (HR 4.46, 95% CI 1.61-12.38, P = 0.002); 3-year DFS for the entire cohort study was 76%, 67% in the residual tumor group and 82% in the no residual tumor group (HR 2.21, 95% CI 1.40-3.48, P = 0.001). Survival curves demonstrated that the presence of a residual tumor was associated with poorer survival outcomes, as shown in Figure 1, the statistically significant differences of the OS, LRFS and DFS survival curves between the residual tumor group and no residual tumor group (OS: HR = 2.37, 95% CI 1.43-3.93, P = 0.001; LRFS: HR = 3.92, 95% CI 1.50-10.28, P = 0.003; DFS: HR = 2.10, 95% CI 1.36-3.24, P = 0.001).
Kaplan-Meir survival curves for 346 patients with locally-advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). (A) Overall survival (OS), (B) local relapse–free survival (LRFS), (C) disease-free survival (DFS) for patients stratified by the presence and absence of a residual tumor at the end of IMRT. P-values were calculated using the unadjusted log-rank test; Hazard ratios (HR) were calculated using the unadjusted Cox proportional hazards model; 95% CI: 95% confidence interval.
The Univariate analysis suggests that the factors influencing the 3-year OS rate are age (P = 0.002), N-stage (P = 0.003), overall stage (P = 0.038), and presence or absence of a residual tumor at the end of radiotherapy (P = 0.001), the factors influencing LRFS are age (P = 0.001) and presence or absence of a residual tumor at the end of radiotherapy (P = 0.003), and the factors influencing DFS are age (P = 0.008), N-stage (P = 0.024), T-stage (P = 0.05), overall stage (P = 0.024), and presence or absence of a residual tumor at the end of radiotherapy (P = 0.001). However, chemotherapy and prescribed radiation dose are not the factors for significantly influencing the OS, LRFS, or DFS (Table 3).
*Residual tumor: tumor detected by MRI at the end of radiotherapy.
OS: overall survival; LRFS: local relapse-free survival; DFS: disease-free survival.
The following factors were associated with treatment outcomes in multivariate analysis (Table 4): age (HR 2.32, P = 0.001), N-stage (HR 1.43, P = 0.008), and the presence or absence of a residual tumor after radiotherapy (HR 2.11, P = 0.004) were significantly associated with OS; age (HR 4.80, P = 0.002), and the presence or absence of a residual tumor after radiotherapy (HR 4.80, P = 0.002) were significantly associated with LRFS; age (HR 1.81, P = 0.007), N-stage (HR 1.26, P = 0.049), and the presence or absence of a residual tumor after radiotherapy (HR 1.91, P = 0.004) were significantly associated with DFS.
HR: hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval; P-values were calculated using an adjusted Cox proportional hazards model. OS: overall survival; LRFS: local relapse-free survival; DFS: disease-free survival.
The variables were stratified as following: Age: < 50 y vs ≥ 50 y; N-stage: N0 vs N1vs N2 vs N3; T-stage: T3 vs T4; Residual tumor: having tumor vs no tumor. The table presents only the data with statistical significances.
Prescribed radiation doses for all patients in the study were ranged from 62.72 Gy to 80.64 Gy with a mid-value of 73.92 Gy. A higher prescribed dose (>73.92 Gy) was only given to the patients who still had a large residual tumor and the OARs (Organs at risk) were not at risk to accept radiation boost. However, the data show that increase of radiation doses did not reduce the rate of residual tumor, the residual rates were 68.6% and 37.0% for the groups of high prescribed dose and lower prescribed dose, respectively; or did not improve the treatment outcomes (Table 5). The 3-year OS, LRFS, and DFS rates were 83% vs 85%, 93% vs 94% and 76% vs 75% for the groups of high prescribed dose and low prescribed dose, respectively (Table 3). There was not statistically significantly different (p > 0.05). The median GTVnx V95% values for the higher radiation group and the low dose group were not significantly different (99.1% vs. 98.7%, P = 0.583), indicating that the GTVnx V95% cannot be improved by increasing the radiation dose. However, the median GTVnx V95% values were significantly different (97.2% vs 99.5%, P < 0.001) between the residual tumor group and no residual tumor group, indicating that a low GTVnx V95% may be associated with the presence of a residual tumor after treatment (Table 5).
GTVnx V95% = the percentage volume of the GTVnx receiving 95% of the prescribed dose.
The present study reveals that advanced N-stage, a low GTVnx V95% were associated with a higher risk of a residual tumor in the patients with locally-advanced NPC. The presence of a residual tumor at the end of IMRT was a significant independent factor for OS, LRFS and DFS in the patients with locally-advanced NPC. Additionally, a higher prescribed radiation dose was not associated with a high GTVnx V95% and did not improve survival outcome.
In this cohort study of 358 patients with NPC, MRI indicated that 142 patients had residual tumors in total of 236 (some patients had more than one tumor) at the end of IMRT. only 27 tumors were located in the nasopharynx while most tumors were located in the skull base, soft tissues or other tissues that cannot be assessed by biopsy (Table 2). Chan et al.  reported that deeply seated residual/recurrent tumors beyond the reach of routine nasopharyngeal biopsy are not rare (15.4%). However, only less than half of the patients had locally advanced diseases in their study. To understand the status of residual tumors at the end of radiation, only imaging tools CT/MRI/PET are suitable to be used. MRI has become the gold standard for NPC diagnosis and therapeutic evaluation due to the high accuracy and economic cost-effectiveness. The specificity of MRI was reported at the range of 44–83% [14-16]. Post-irradiation inflammatory changes, such as an immature scar, reactive mucosal and submucosal changes or osteoradionecrosis, may interfere with the interpretation of MRI and thus decrease its specificity. In contrast, 18F-FDG PET showed a significantly higher specificity of 93.4% in the assessment of treatment response and appears less influenced by radiotherapy (RT)-induced inflammation . A systematic review suggests that FDG-PET is the best modality for diagnosis of local residual or recurrent NPC . However, the results may be disputed by other report showing that there was a trend toward greater overall accuracy of MRI over PET/CT in detecting residual and/or recurrent NPC at the primary site; 92.1% for MRI and 85.7% for FDG PET/CT (P = 0.16) . Because the intracranial localizations and the perineural spreads via the foramen ovale, the anterior foramen lacerum, or the pterygopalatine fossa were depicted with MRI only, FDG PET/CT is not considered as a good method for the study of the intracranial disease due to the physiologically high FDG uptake by the brain.
In the present study,the MRI-derived residual tumor rate was 40.1% (142/358), similar to the study of Han et al.  showed the residual tumor rates of 44.2% (72/196) in the patients treated with IMRT and 26.6% (52/196) in the patients treated with conventional radiotherapy (CRT) detected by nasopharyngeal MRI at the end of radiotherapy. Zhang et al.  reported that it has been achieved 40.4% complete response of primary tumor (CRPT), 44.7% partial response of primary tumor (PRPT), and 14.9% stable disease of primary tumor (SDPT) at the end of radiotherapy in a study with 188 NPC patients. Lin et al.  reported that 50% (54/108) of residual tumors were detected by MRI in the patients with NPC one month after completing radiotherapy. However, Chan et al. reported only 3.6% (4/112) of the patients were found to have residual tumors 3 months after radiotherapy by MRI or PET-CT . The reason for greatly different rates of residual tumors reported above may be due to multiple factors including differences in tumor staging, tumor sites, the use of different diagnostic criteria for MRI, technologies of radiotherapy [IMRT or CRT or intracavitary brachytherapy (ICBT)] and the application of comprehensive treatments and so on. In our study, the results in Table 1 suggest that the presence of residual tumors is associated with the latter N stage and the GTVnx V95%.
Another important factor is the time point for evaluation of the residual tumors. Tumor response to chemoradiotherapy is time-dependent so a positive histological result after radiotherapy may become negative after 12 weeks . This is why the residual tumor rate is so low in the study of Chan et al. and most oncologists prefer to assess the residual tumor at the time of three months after radiotherapy. However, it may reduce the efficacy of chemoradiotherapy at three months after radiotherapy due to delayed treatment for the residual tumor. Early intervention to modify the treatment strategy may improve the treatment outcome for patients with residual tumors. It is still controversial whether or not the tumor regression rate during or after treatment is correlated with the survival rate in the patients with NPC. Wang et al.  reported that the patients who achieved a slow response (CR when the radiation dose was around 70 Gy) had a significantly better prognosis than the patients who achieved rapid regression (CR when the radiation dose was within 50 Gy). Moreover, the prognosis of both of CR groups was significantly better than the patients with a residual tumor at the end of radiotherapy. However, this study was based on the patients who received conventional radiotherapy. Recently, Zhang et al.  found that the 5-year OS rates for the patients with CRPT, PRPT, and SDPT at the end of radiotherapy were 84.0%, 70.7%, and 44.3%, respectively (HR = 2.177, P < 0.001). However, approximately one third of the patients had stage T1 or T2 disease and 55.9% of the patients were treated with conventional 2-dimensional radiotherapy (2D-CRT) in their study. The radiobiological effect of IMRT is different from conventional radiotherapy, residual lesions after IMRT have always been received a radical radiation dose. Dose the residual lesions still have an impact on the survival of the patients with NPC? In our study, all patients undergoing IMRT and residual tumors at the end of radiotherapy are still an important negative prognostic factor for OS (3 year OS was 73% vs 90% in the residual tumor group and in the no residual tumor group, P = 0.007), LRFS (3-year LRFS was 89% vs 97% in the residual tumor group and in the no residual tumor group, P = 0.002), and DFS (3-year DFS was 67% vs 82% in the residual tumor group and in the no residual tumor group, P < 0.001). However, Fang et al.  reported that the regression rates for the primary tumors and lymph nodes were not significantly associated with local or regional recurrence and overall survival with radiotherapy at 45 Gy. Mantyla et al.  reported that in patients with early-stage head and neck cancer (T1-2N0), a significantly more favorable prognosis was observed if the tumor was disappeared by the mid-point of treatment (30 Gy) than that of tumor disappeared by the end of treatment. On the contrary, the prognosis for patients with advanced disease was significantly more favorable if the tumor was disappeared at the end of radiotherapy (2D-CRT) than that of tumors disappeared by the mid-point of treatment. The longer the time after radiotherapy, the more the tumor will regress. Therefore, it needs more times for tumor regression in locally-advanced tumor than in early-stage tumor. It suggests that it is not a good practice to evaluate curative effect too early for the patients with locally advanced NPC.
The prognosis of patients with NPC is related to numerous clinical factors such as age, clinical stage, chemotherapy, radiation dose, and so on. In our study, age is an independent prognostic factors for OS (HR = 2.32, P = 0.001), LRFS (HR = 4.80, P = 0.002), and DFS (HR = 1.81, P = 0.007). It is consistent with the results reported by Erkal et al. . N stage is also an independent prognostic factor for OS (HR = 1.43, P = 0.008) and DFS (HR = 1.26, P = 0.049). Clinic staging had a very certain influence on the prognosis of NPC . However, the influence of T stage on the prognosis of NPC becomes smaller with the application of IMRT. In one of the recent studies, multivariate analyses of 305 patients undergoing IMRT revealed that T-classification had no predictive value for local control and survival, whereas only N-classification was a significant prognostic factor for OS . In our study, T-stage also had no predictive value for OS, and LRFS (Table 3). The 7th edition of the AJCC Staging System was adopted in our study and medial or lateral pterygoid involvement was staged as T4. However, medial and/or lateral pterygoid involvement was staged as T3 or T2 by other studies due to better prognosis compared to skull base involvement which being staged as T3 [26,27]. The reason of T stage and overall stage has no significant effect on NPC may be caused by the pitfall of the 7th AJCC Staging System. The effect of adjuvant chemotherapy on prognosis has been disputed for a long time, study showed that patients treated with chemotherapy as an adjuvant to radiotherapy had a better DFS compared to the patients without adjuvant chemotherapy (P = 0.04) . Univariate analysis in our study also showed that the rates of 3 year OS (84% vs 72%), LRFS (94% vs 83%), and DFS (77% vs 68%) were slight improved in the chemotherapy group compared to the group without chemotherapy, but the difference was not statistically significant (P > 0.05). The results may be affected due to too small numbers with the group without chemotherapy (n = 19).
In the present study, prescribed higher radiation doses did not improved the survival outcome by both univariate and multivariate analyses. It has reported that IMRT has improved the treatment outcome in the patients with NPC . IMRT offers a number of advantages over conventional radiotherapy in the terms of target conformity and the ability to increase the radiation dose to the target volume while sparing the surrounding normal organs at risk . Study from a Hong Kong group found that it was a significant determinant of progression-free survival and distant metastasis-free survival for advanced T-stage tumors when the doses were escalated to above 66 Gy in IMRT-based therapy . However, despite the advancement in IMRT dosimetric inadequacy remains a significant problem when a tumor invades directly into critical neurological OARs such as optic chiasm, brainstem and spinal cord . In the present study, most patients who had residual tumors received a radical radiation dose: 67.6% patients (96/142) received a GTVnx V95% ≥ 95% and 83.1% patients (118/142) received a D95% ≥ 66 Gy. From the data in Table 5, we can see that the median GTVnx V95% value for the patients in the residual tumor group (97.2%) was significantly lower than that of the patients in the no residual tumor group (99.5%; P < 0.001). This indicates that the GTVnx V95% is one factor associated with the presence of residual tumors after treatment. However, the median GTVnx V95% values were not significantly different (P > 0.05) between the patients in the group of prescribed high doses > 73.92 Gy and in the group of low doses ≤ 73.92 Gy. The data indicate that increase of the prescribed dose cannot improve the GTVnx V95% and it may due to that the radiation dose in the tumor near the OAR had not been improved, instead of increased radiation dose in the normal tissues to lead to an increased risk of radiotherapy complications. There were 10 deaths from radiotherapy complications in our study. This may be the reason that elevation of prescribed radiation doses cannot improve survival outcome.
In the present study, we demonstrate that the presence of a MRI-derived residual tumor after IMRT is an important negative prognostic factor in the patients with locally-advanced NPC. However, this study has several limitations. First, this investigation was a retrospective analysis. Second, the follow-up time (3–6 years) may be too short to detect a relapse of tumor. Moreover, MRI has some shortcoming, we cannot rule out the possibility that abnormal signals on MRI may be due to a reactive change as a result of radiotherapy without the verification by pathology or PET-CT.
The presence of a residual tumor detected by MRI at the end of IMRT in patients with locally-advanced NPC is closely associated with a poor prognosis, which suggests a potential role for MRI in predicting local control and prognosis in patients with NPC. Additionally, elevating the prescribed dose after radical radiotherapy did not increase the GTVnx V95% or improve the outcome of survival in locally-advanced NPC received IMRT treatment.
This work was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81372792) and Hunan Department of Science and Technology Foundation, China (No. 2012FJ4321).
LFS and YXH have participated in the research design and conducted the experiments and follow-up. QZ, LS, YJZ, MJL and RW have conducted experiments and follow-up. LFS, YXH, YJZ and SC have performed data analysis. YXH and SC have written the manuscript. And all authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Dr. Shousong Cao is a Visiting Professor of Xiangya Hospital, Central South University.
Radiation Therapy Oncology Group RTOG protocol 0225. A phase II study of intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) +/− chemotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer. Available at: www.rtog.org. Last accessed on July 15, 2014.


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In this Tutorial i will show you how to install Ubuntu tweak tool 0.8.7 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS/ 13.10 / 12.04 LTS & Linuxmint 16 / 15 / 14.
Ubuntu Tweak is a free software used for configuring Ubuntu. It Provides some additional options rather than normal desktop environment providing.Ubuntu Tweak tool will work only with Ubuntu GNOME desktop.


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SABANCI HOLDING CHAIRMAN GÜLER SABANCI SAID: "TURKEY WILL SEE AN INTEGRATION WITH SUCH MAGNITUDE FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER. FIRST STEPS ARE TAKEN TO ESTABLISH A VERY SIGNIFICANT ENERGY COMPANY"
Sabancı Holding's energy activities are gathered under a single helm. At Sabancı Holding's Extraordinary General Assembly today, it is decided that Holding Board is authorized to conduct the transactions in relation with assigning the stock bonds of Energy Production, Energy Wholesale, Natural Gas Wholesale, Electricity Distribution Companies with 50 percent affiliation to Enerjisa, which is to be established as Joint Stock Company, in the nature of partial division.
Upon the partial division to be conducted by Sabancı Holding, other partner Verbund will assign the stock bonds owned at the mentioned companies (which is 50 percent) to Enerjisa, which will be established as a Joint Stock Company then. As such, recently established Enerjisa company will be the owner of the mentioned 4 companies by 100 percent.
Being the Chairman of the General Assembly, Güler Sabancı made a declaration about the subject and said: "To be established as a joint stock company, Enerjisa will stand as an upper level corporation, and by gathering electricity production, distribution, retailing and trading companies under a single helm, Turkey will see an integration with such magnitude for the first time ever. First steps are taken to establish a very significant energy company". With the statement, it is indicated that the establishment transactions could not be finalized before new year's eve.

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Plan ahead and organize belongings at least a week before moving.
Think about what might not fit in your car - you probably have more stuff now than when you moved in.
Set aside items that could be reused, but you don't plan to keep.
Search the Austin Reuse Directory to find an organization near you that you can drop-off items or schedule a pick-up. Keep material out of the landfill, and feel good about giving them a second home.


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He’s probably right. Most of us write poetry while teaching, editing or writing articles about poetry for newspapers like Bay Weekly.
Yet poetry is literature’s most appealing and accessible form. Anyone can be a poet, and many of us are. Poems are written by the people all around us, the mailman and mailmam, the character behind you in the check-out line, the bartender pouring your beer. In this way, the world of poetry is anything but small.
Thus, books of poetry are anything but few. Publishing on demand means every poet can have a book. Perhaps its distribution will be limited to family and friends. But even volumes by poet laureates — or volumes judged by serious editors — are printed in smaller numbers than any week’s edition of Bay Weekly (20,000). The New York Times reviewed 100 books this week; none was poetry.
One of the several thin volumes we’re reading this poetry month is Life in Me Like Grass on Fire, just published by The Maryland Writer’s Association, a community of statewide neighbors dedicated to the art and business of writing. Its 50 poets include Bay Weekly contributors Dotty Holcomb Doherty, Jane Elkin and Sonia Linebaugh.
The subject of love is thoroughly covered in seven categories: First Love, Lost Love, Love of Art and Work, Friends and Family, Love of Nature, Love Floods the Senses, The Madness of Love and Love as We Age. Aptly titled, the book has a heated feel. The love described has burned inside all of us.
Feel lost love in Elkin’s “Moving Day” (in rhymed iambic pentameter) as the speaker struggles with change.
Rain hesitates, then streaks the sky again with grief.
We expect poetry to be about big emotions like love and joy and loss. But the art does not adhere to expectations. Seemingly trivial topics can involve us just as happily, as they do in Cormorant Beyond the Compost, just published by poet, Calvert library memoir mentor and Washington Writers’ Publishing House editor Elisavietta Ritchie.
“Real Toad” explores toaddom with humor and expert depiction of a fictional life that make her poem as appealing as a backyard garden.
could make it big on the poetry scene.
Formal poetry — structured with a combination of meter and/or rhyme scheme — is making a comeback in poetry today after decades of formlessness. Writing in form can be a bit like doing a crossword puzzle. But counting iambs and stressed syllables creates rhythm and can give a poem a whole percussion section to add to its orchestra.
foretells when others die, but never sings.
April 16: Poetry at CityLit festival, 10am-5pm at Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St., Baltimore: www.citylitproject.org/index.cfm?page=news&newsid=83. The daylong immersion includes seven poets published in Life in Me Like Grass on Fire from 10:45am-noon in the Poe Room.
April 22: The Poet Experience with Maryland Poet Laureate Stanley Plumly, 6:30-8:30pm at Zü Coffee, 1015 Bay Ridge Ave., Annapolis: 410-990-9111.


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A great thing about paleo cooking is it introduces you to new flavors and spices. This Moroccan Chicken Casserole from Mark's Daily Apple cooked like it would be a great way to expand my usual cooking flavors.
I gathered my ingredients and started preparing the dish.
I decided to prepare all of my vegetables first and then cut up my chicken before getting started on any of the cooking. I'm all for prepping as I go to save on time when I can, but for reasons I'll reveal below, I recommend doing all preparation work before doing any of the cooking. This isn't the specific reason, but doing all the vegetable preparation first will also help prevent cross contamination from cutting up your chicken if you aren't using pre-butchered pieces.
I turned my oven on to pre-heat to 375. Now that I know how long it takes to prepare this recipe, I will wait a while before turning on the oven.
I riced a head of cauliflower in my food processor and added it to my oven safe rectangular baking dish.
Next, I measured out all of the spices needed into a bowl so they would be ready to add when needed. I suggest you do the same.
The recipe is geared toward using chicken pieces. I'm still working my way through the whole organic chickens I got during Whole Foods one day sale, so I cut one of those into pieces. I seasoned the chicken on both sides with salt and pepper.
I was finally ready to cook. I heated my 12" skillet over high heat with 1 tablespoon of butter. Once the pan was hot, I browned the chicken pieces 5 minutes per side.
When the chicken was done, I removed it from the pan to a mixing bowl and added the onions, garlic, ginger to the pan and turned the heat down to medium. Once the onions were soft, I added all of the spices. It is super helpful to have already pre-measured the spices and don't risk potentially over cook the onions while measuring.
Mix the spices in well. I love the color the spices gave to the vegetables- a concentrated pan of flavor potential.
Next, I added the red pepper, tomatoes, and parsley I had already added the salt with the rest of the spices. I don't think my early addition of the salt made a difference. I carefully added the chicken back to the pan and let it simmer.
After five minutes, I carefully removed the chicken pieces from the pan and laid them on top of the bed of cauliflower rice in my rectangular glass baking dish.
I then used a ladle to add the vegetable tomato mixture to the baking dish. You'll want to be careful as this hot liquid can burn you! I made sure the chicken and "rice" were fully covered by the vegetable mixture. I topped each pieces of chicken with a lemon slice. You might want to buy 2 lemons to make sure you have enough slices.
I covered the dish with foil, put it in the oven and set a timer for 35 minutes. When the timer went off, I removed the foil and set another timer for 25 minutes.
This dish looks so freaking pretty!
Accessibility & Cost of Ingredients: You should be able to find everything you need for this recipe at your big box grocery store fairly inexpensively. If you buy a whole chicken and cut it up yourself, you can save few dollars over pre-butchered chicken pieces.
Preparation and Cooking Time: It took me 1 hour and 2 minutes to prepare this dish before putting it in the oven for a total of 1 hour. If you buy your chicken in pieces already, you can knock off the time it takes you to cut up a whole chicken from that preparation time.
Clean Up: This recipe creates a fair amount of items for the dish washer so as long as you have an empty dishwasher to take it all, its not bad. I pre-scrubbed my glass baking dish before putting it into the dishwasher. I hand washed my skillet and wooden spoon.
"Oh my God, it's so good!"
"This is something I'd make for my family."
I'm happy to report that I let her in on what it was before completing my review post, and she has, in fact, made it for family and friends.
My only wish would be that there were cauliflower/vegetables to eat with the chicken. I'm thinking of just making this as a vegetable side dish without the chicken. If I do, I'll report back with my results.
Now, why do I recommend pre-prepping the vegetables before cooking? I actually made this dish for the first time a few months ago. I uploaded my pictures and sat down to write my review. I wasn't very impressed with the dish that time. As I re-read the recipe, I discovered I had done something really stupid. I basically had only cooked the recipe for the first 35 minutes and somehow completely over looked that it needed another 25 minutes of cooking. There is no other word for this than stupid.
Since I had all of these pictures, I decided I had to make the dish again, and I am oh so glad I did. Amazing how fully cooking a dish will make all the difference. Duh. All of this, just to say, I didn't do all of my preparation before starting the cooking and the cooking session turned into a hurried mess for my trying to keep up with the quick pace of adding ingredients/spices. Do yourself a favor and prepare the ingredients before cooking.
I bet this would freeze reasonably well, but it was so good, I ate all of it before it could hit the freezer.
With the amount of preparation time, I'll likely reserve it as a weekend dish, but I will certainly make this again and again.

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The Williams Bay Women’s Civic League will have its 11th Annual Chili Cook-Off on Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Lion’s Field House in Williams Bay.
The popular event is held during the Williams Bay Business Association’s “Day in the Bay” festivities.
Serving from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., local residents and visitors can enjoy samples of chili from the following 12 area restaurants: The Abbey, Chuck’s, Fiddlesticks, The Hunt Club, JoJo’s, Luckes, Pier 290, Red Dogs, South Shore Bar and Grill, Mars, and Evergreen Country Club.
Admission is $7 for adults and $5 for children younger than 10. Tickets are available at the door.
Dessert, Beer, Wine, Soda and water will also be available for purchase.
The restaurants compete for the “People’s Choice” awards and bragging rights for the top chili in the lakes area.
The Women’s Civic League is dedicated to service and fundraising to benefit and enhance the lives of area youth. Meetings are held September through May on the second Tuesday of each month from 7 to 9 p.m.
With a 70-year history of service, programs and fundraising, the Civic League has donated more than $200,000 to area schools, organizations and groups who support the youth of the Geneva Lake area.
For more information about the Civic League, Sheryl at 262-903-3841.


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Acapela Group » Voice-first interfaces at CES 2018: Test and hear personalized voices for autonomous vehicles, smart toys and IoT from Acapela Group.
Voice-first interfaces at CES 2018: Test and hear personalized voices for autonomous vehicles, smart toys and IoT from Acapela Group.
Voice first interfaces are reinventing the way we engage with devices. Acapela Group, leading player in voice solutions for more than 30 years, is constantly creating new voices to better interact with users, whatever their age or skills, thanks to voices that adapt to the context. Voices that convey meaning, intent and emotions. Voices for smarts toys, IoT, DIY Animation software and autonomous vehicle: test them all at CES!
Voices for smart toys and IoT – Test smart talking toys.
Speech is the most natural interface for objects that think, communicate and store information.
Children naturally voice-interact with smart toys that answer their questions, play games, spell, tell jokes. Voice-enabled toys effectively support creative development, encourage imagination, learning and playing and get smarter over time via machine learning.
The Internet of Things simplifies your daily life from the smart fridge to light bulbs and basically any connected device that, combined with Internet connectivity and powerful data analytics, promises to transform the way we work, live and play.
Stop by booth Westgate #1601 at CES to hear more about our voice solutions for smart toys and IoT and test some smart devices -from Cognitoys, Chappet, Emotix, Cai Media- that are already using our voices, play with Acapela voices on Plotagon’s DIY animation software or Control home devices with the Snips solution.
Voices for Urban Mobility – Get on board the first robo-taxi!
We are very pleased to be onboard the NAVYA AUTONOM CAB, the first robo-taxi on the market presented at CES 2018.
Don’t miss the opportunity to have a talking ride on board the AUTONOM CAB during the CES (North Plaza-Gold Lot #NP-9).
Voice technologies are the natural and seamless interface to accompany this new mobility age, which combines environmental benefits and improved safety. Acapela voices are contributing to making the journey safe and pleasant with personalized and pleasant audio information from departure to arrival. Listen to Acapela’s new voice on the AUTONOM CAB, the robo-taxi by NAVYA!
More about Acapela Group: Voice First: Use personalized voices! Our Text-to-speech solutions give the say to tiny toys, robots, autonomous vehicles, smartphones, IoT and much more. We create personalized voices that read, inform, explain, present, guide, educate, tell stories, help to communicate, alarm, notify, entertain.

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Currently, Usd/Jpy is still reacting to a daily supply level mentioned last week with a 4h level confluence from the 114.315 – 114.505 area.
Zone #4 is a fresh demand zone created this week.
Demand #1 is in confluence with 4h demand zone #4 above.


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Press Release: Unionisation buoyed by public sector - 4th March 2013.
A third of all workers in the formal, non-agricultural sector in South Africa belong to a trade union. This is according to figures compiled by the South African Institute of Race Relations. By contrast, the rate of unionisation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) group of countries in 2011 was 18%. The rate of unionisation refers to the percentage of workers belonging to a trade union as a proportion of total people employed.


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Sweeping views from Palmilla cove, San Jose´s coastline and up to Punta Gorda.
Access to Palmilla beach within Community.
100 + feet of Pool frontage.
Water features throughout the House.
Walking distance to The Shoppes at Palmilla.


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PORTLAND- The Maine Mammoths (3-7) host the number one Columbus Lions (8-3) in a game that could determine whether the Mammoths earn a ticket to the playoffs or not. The Mammoths have faced the Lions a total of one time this season, this being their second. The Mammoths have currently won their last two matchups at home against the Lehigh Valley Steelhawks on June 16, and their most recent victory over the Carolina Cobras on June 30th.
The first time the Mammoths faced the Lions was in Columbus, Georgia when the Lions controlled the game and finished with a 55-34 score. Mammoths Quarterback Jonathan Bane was injured and did not play that game, which put Kenyatte Allen in at starting quarterback. He was 17-of-29 for 143 yards, two touchdowns, and three interceptions. Wide Receiver Devin Wilson caught seven passes for 75 yards and one touchdown. Edgar Poe Jr. had six receptions for 30 yards and one touchdown.
This game isn’t all or nothing with the playoffs. They are currently four games behind the Carolina Cobras, which is the only team that hasn’t clinched the playoffs. The Mammoths have four games remaining this season. This means that the Mammoths have to win every remaining game this season and the Cobras have to lose every one of their remaining games this season. If the Cobras win one more game, even if the Mammoths win the same week, the Mammoths are out.
The Mammoths defeated the Carolina Cobras, who was the number one team at the time, two weeks ago with a dominating 55-29 score. Jonathan Bane was 26-of-41 for 210 yards, six touchdowns and zero interceptions. The entire Mammoths offense was completely in sync, as Wide Receiver Rob Brown reeled in 13 catches for 96 yards and one touchdown, which is the most receptions a receiver has ever had in a single game for the Mammoths. Devin Wilson caught seven passes for 68 yards and three touchdowns. Edgar Poe Jr. had five receptions for 36 yards and two touchdowns.
The next Mammoths game is on Saturday, July 21, 2018 at 7:00 pm (ET) at the Cross-Insurance Arena as they host the winless Lehigh Valley Steelhawks (0-11) for Star Wars Night.