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Whatever the budget, visitors are able to find suitable accommodation anywhere in Kuantan and the surrounding beaches, from luxurious 5-star hotels and resorts to comfortable 'A' huts.
Swiss Garden Resort & Spa Hotel Kuantan is an international standard resort situated on Balok Beach, in the famous east coast town of Kuantan. Swiss-Garden Resort & Spa Kuantan blends luxurious accommodation with impeccable personalized service. An idyllic retreat for the weary urbanite, the hotel offers a wealth of facilities, ideal for both business and pleasure.
Swiss-Garden Resort & Spa Hotel Kuantan is accessible by air through regular scheduled direct flights from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, landing at Sultan Ahmad Shah Airport, Kuantan. The flight takes 40 minutes and followed by 20 minutes from Kuantan Airport to the resort. The resort is also accessible by road from Kuala Lumpur to Kuantan via the Karak highway. It takes approximately 4 hours drive. A drive to Swiss-Garden Resort & Spa Kuantan takes 10 minutes from Kuantan Town and Gebeng Industrial Estate, the largest industrial estate in Pahang.
Hotel Grand Continental Kuantan links both east and west coast of Malaysia boasting of its central location within easy access to public transportation, shopping centers, medical centers, government offices and famous local restaurants. A panoramic view of the South China Sea can viewed from the hotel's upper floors. This hotel is also adjoined to a block of Service Apartment units, offering cosy and comfortable accommodation for long term guests as well as expatriates.
Hotel Grand Continental Kuantan is located in the heart of Kuantan amongst State and Federal Government Agencies, Banks, Shopping Centers and Central Wet Market. It is approximately 15 minutes drive to the famous Teluk Chempedak Beach and half an hour drive to Cherating Beach. The hotel serves as an anchor point and gateway to tourism and business in the East and West coasts of Malaysia.
Designed in the architectural style of the traditional kampong (Malaysian village), Hotel Hyatt Regency Kuantan Pahang provides first-class accommodation within an idyllic and relaxing setting. The hotel's 336 fully air-conditioned guest rooms and suites all have private balconies with garden or sea views. Designed for privacy, Hyatt's Regency Club� rooms offer exclusive amenities and facilities for the more discerning hotel guest.
Hotel Hyatt Regency Kuantan Pahang is set on the beachfront of Telok Chempedak, with panoramic views of the South China Sea, just three miles north of Kuantan on the east coast of Peninsula Malaysia. The hotel is easily accessible, with direct flights from Kuala Lumpur to Kuantan.
Cherating, the mystique and charm of the east coast provides you with unspoilt natural splendours. Here at Cherating lies Holiday Villa Cherating Resort, a first class resort, offering three accommodation lifestyles. At Holiday Villa Cherating Resort, you may put up in the modern hotel, retreat into the 'kampung' for a first hand experience of Malay culture, or simply relive the glamour of Malay royalty in the 'istana', a replica of the palaces in the state of Negeri Sembilan. All these at an affordable prices. Holiday Villa Cherating, a hotel beach resort, is situated along one of Malaysia's finest east coast beaches covering a land area of 10 acres.
The Eastern Pavilion offers intimate escapades at 12 exclusive Malaysian styled villas, each with living room, one or two bedrooms and a verandah which extend out to a private pool and Jacuzzi. Fronting the beautiful east coast beach at Peninsula Malaysia, the Eastern Pavilion is yet another idyllic lifestyle presented by Holiday Villa Cherating.
Eastern Pavilion Cherating is located beside Holiday Villa Cherating on the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia in the state of Pahang, just 3 hours by road from Kuala Lumpur or 40 minutes from Kuantan airport. By air, its just 35 minutes from Kuala Lumpur or 45 minutes from Singapore.
M.S. Garden Hotel in Kuantan, conveniently situated in the heart of the State capital. The Hotel comprises 202 well furnished and elegantly decorated deluxe rooms with separate showers in bathrooms and spacious balcony.
Conveniently located in the heart of Kuantan. Just 15 minutes drive from Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Airport and only 5 minutes drive from the Terminal Makmur (bus & taxi station). The first and only city hotel which combine comfort, business and pleasure. You can enjoy the river recreational activities such as fishing, river cruise and other water sports activities as our hotel is located on the bank of the beautiful Kuantan River and surrounded by tropical greenery. Within walking distance to banks, government offices, shopping, recreation and entertainment outlets.
Vistana Hotel, Kuantan was designed to be a moderately- priced business hotel catering to Malaysian and regional business travelers. The key to its product difference is that it features the discipline of product performance associated with international standard hotels which often charge much higher prices.
Its consistent and immaculate standards and operating practices has led to its rise as a major player in Kuantan's hospitality industry today.
Located within the hub of Kuantan, The Vistana offers business travelers easy access to major shopping centre such as the Mega Mall, and key roads leading to the famous Teluk Chempedak beach and manufacturing and industrial area in Gebeng as well as Kuantan port.
Just North of Kuantan, is a beach called Cherating. Here the waves of the South China Sea break onto one of the most beautiful beaches in Malaysia. It is here that you will find The Legend Resort, Cherating. The international first class hotel from the chain of Legend Hotels.
From Kuala Lumpur or Singapore, The Legend Resort, Cherating is less than an hour's flight away. Or take the scenic route, five hours by car. Airport transfers and in-house cars can easily be arranged.
The next time you are in Kuala Lumpur, stay at The Legend Hotel. You'll enjoy the same warm hospitality and luxurious comforts that have made The Legend Group of Hotels & Resorts famous.
Seri Malaysia Kuantan offers a fantastic deal for travelers heading towards Teluk Cempedak beach. The 2-storey hotel building located along Jalan Telok Sisek, Kuantan is an ideal hideaway for those keen on enjoying the pristine beaches of Kuantan at an affordable cost. Equipped with 100 rooms, Seri Malaysia Kuantan is situated a mere 20km from the airport and 300km from Kuala Lumpur. Visitor can enjoy both local and western cuisine at the scenic Cafe Seri Banir Coffee House which operates from 7am - 11pm. The hotel also has multi-function rooms ideal for conferences, meetings and seminars.
Pamper yourself at an international class beachfront paradise that offers you heart-winning holidays and the latest in business facilities. The ideal seaside getaway whether you wish to mix business with pleasure or just unwind with your family and friends.
8KM Jalan Beserah, 26100 Kuantan. Pahang Malaysia.
Duta Sands Beach Resort is located at the quite fringe of the beautiful East Coast of Malaysia. Aptly themed, 'Beach Caravan Experience' this unique resort offers adventurous caravan-living on the beach and accommodation alternatives of rustic Chalets or Standard Hotel units. You will immediately feel at ease as you step into this very homely and cozy yet exciting ambience this resort exudes. Stroll along visit the mini rabbit farm too.
Duta Sands Beach Resort is located at the quiet fringe of the East Coast. With either rustic chalets or fully-equiped caravans to choose from, this resort offers you a surprising feeling of privacy.
Shahzan Inn Kuantan is located in the town of Kuantan which puts you right in the centre of activities where you can observe Malaysians at their natural friendliness.
Residence Inn Cherating, the Magical Paradise for both sun & sea lovers. An ideal paradise for those seeking to escape from the anxieties of city life and enjoy soothing atmosphere of rest & relaxation.
There is heaven on our earth.... and Suria Cherating Beach Resort is an excellent choice of place, strategically position in one of the longest sandy beach in Malaysia. The Cherating Beach, popularly known among the locals for the fabulous gateway and steadily gaining its popularity as one of the heavenly beach destination in the midst of international tourists.
There are 114 elegantly decorated guest rooms with all the facilities in place for the convenience of our honourable guests to take pleasure in and to unwind. The environmental friendly atmosphere will certainly compliment your expectation for the enchanting panoramic view that nature has created for you to experience and to get the pleasure from.
Suria Cherating Beach Resort undoubtedly will be the choice for the experience of excellent, warm and friendly service.
Before you... is an architecture meticulously designed to resemble the finest in traditional Malay culture. Situated in the remote part of one of East Coast's finest golden sandy beaches and home to the most exotic sea turtles... every room you stay allows you to be closer to nature and wake up to the peaceful sound of the ocean.
A unique blend of casual beachside lifestyle and tradisional luxury.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


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In a small way, we made history. Last Saturday, an ad hoc group of citizens interested in improving an aspect of public policy sat down informally with the civil servants responsible and designed a web service to do the job. In all, it took less than five hours.
The event was a barcamp held by the National Archives as part of its response to the Cabinet Office's "government 2.0" report, the Power of Information (PDF at tinyurl.com/2umfpb). What's a barcamp? Dude, you've obviously been out of the loop for the past, ooh, seven weeks. It's the buzzword for a self-organising meeting to tackle an issue of interest. Everyone welcome, no timetable, no rules, no speakers' podium; lots of laptops, flipcharts and Post-It notes. You get the idea.
This barcamp's purpose was to explore how the government can electronically collect and assess requests to re-use information gathered and held by public bodies. Last summer the government agreed to set up such a channel; the task fell to the National Archives, which is responsible for administering crown copyright and other public sector information, including encouraging information re-use.
I went along for two reasons. First, the web channel is very much in line with Technology Guardian's Free Our Data campaign. We think there is vast potential for businesses and communities to build new services based on government information. It's our strongly held belief that this resource - possibly the government's most valuable asset - is underused because of the difficulty in finding data and negotiating its re-use. The proposed web channel would address both issues.
The second reason for going along was a long-standing interest in the way governments design information systems. Too often, I have seen users consulted only after crucial design decisions have been taken. The barcamp approach offers an attractive alternative.
In our case, it worked. Possibly not by chance, the 20-odd people there at some point of the day turned out to have a remarkably useful mix of expertise. Apart from the National Archives' John Sheridan - a walking Wikipedia on the subject of crown copyright - we had senior government insiders as well as campaigners experienced in extracting data from official websites in two hemispheres.
Two entrepreneurs with hard experience of setting up businesses based on public sector information occasionally pointed out the gulf between good intentions and reality. Perhaps most conveniently, we had two people from the web activist group MySociety, including Tom Steinberg, one of the Power of Information's authors. (You can see the schedule and participants at barcamp.org/BarCampPOIR8). Tellingly, apart from one of the organisers, the group was 100 per cent male and mainly under 40. Beards and slogan T-shirts were observed.
We opened with a couple of case-study presentations: the unofficial New Zealand parliament site and the latest MySociety effort, a site for automating and collating freedom of information requests from government. That led to a useful discussion on the difference between an individual's freedom to view official information and their freedom to mash or otherwise republish it - and whether that distinction can survive in the web age.
The discussion revealed a couple of alarming gaps in most participants' knowledge. One was on the government's "click use" licence for re-using information (tinyurl.com/na3tj). Everyone agreed that more clarity is needed. There was also some confusion about crown copyright. While Sheridan assured us that a crown copyright notice was in effect a licence to reproduce, participants agreed that its wording tends to send the opposite signal. And not all government bodies are crown bodies - local authorities, for example, can set their own copyright terms. The barcamp's policy conclusion could be summarised as: "Some consistency would be a good start."
After lunch, barcamp really got down to business. With a bit of jollying along from Steinberg, we reached a consensus on what the web channel should aim to do, who the users would be, what sort of requests it should handle and very roughly what would be on the home page. Steinberg warned us against engineering for every contingency. "Let's deal with that when it gets to be a problem - but make sure it's in the contract," was his advice.
By teatime, we'd pretty well covered it. Sheridan folded up the flip-chart sheets and promised to start work (after similar consultations with academics and IT suppliers). No one could quite believe it was happening. Even Steinberg marvelled: "No one in government IT will ever have done anything like this before."
Are barcamps the solution to the government's IT programme woes? Probably not. Ours worked, I suspect, because attendees accepted certain rules of the game and genuinely respected each other's expertise. And strongly as some of us feel about public sector information, I admit that it is not an issue that inspires people to the barricades. Barcamps to design, for example, the NHS electronic care record or the national identity register might need different rules.
In the meantime, though, I'm thinking of growing a beard and printing up a few "Free Our Data" T-shirts.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The lifeless body of Yemen’s top Salafi cleric in the southern port city of Aden was found disfigured on Sunday hours after he was abducted following an anti-extremism sermon, security officials told The Associated Press.
Government forces repelled Shiite rebels from Aden last July, but have been unable to restore order there ever since. With government forces now pushing north toward the rebel-held capital, Sanaa, the vacuum in Aden has given rise to affiliates of extremist groups like al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, who have grabbed lands and exercised control in various parts of the city for months.
The influential cleric, Samahan Abdel-Aziz, also known as Sheikh Rawi, had delivered a fiery sermon against the al-Qaida and IS branches on Friday, the officials said. His body was found bloodied and bearing signs of torture in Sheikh Othman, an area largely controlled by extremists, they added.
Abdel-Aziz was kidnapped by gunmen outside his mosque late Saturday in the pro-government neighborhood of Bureiqa, they said.


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Friday, May 10, 3:30-11 p.m.
What better way to spend a Friday night then immersing yourself in all the wonder of the National Harbor. We’ll begin the journey by taking a water taxi across the Potomac, then enjoying a great meal and ending the night admiring Washington D.C. via the Capital Wheel. Dinner and all activities are included, so register today.

industry_corpus2: Travel & Geography


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Charlene Butts Ligon is the daughter of Evelyn Butts. She is a retired Air Force master sergeant and lives in Bellevue, Nebraska with her husband Robert. In 2017, she started her own publishing company Smallwood Charlotte Press. She is an entrepreneur, publisher and author. She is the Chair of the Sarpy County Democratic Party and Secretary of the Nebraska Democratic Party.
Dr. Hattie N. Washington–Educator, Consultant, Motivational Speaker, Author, Founder of Aunt Hattie’s Place– Nominated For The 2018 Maryland Women’s Commission Hall Of Fame Award by Dr. Valencia Campbell, President, Prince George’s County Drug Policy Coalition, Inc.
Patricia Duncan is a photojournalist and event planner and native of Colorado.
Duncan has contributed some of her work to the Denver Weekly News, Denver Urban Spectrum, Urban League of Metro Denver, Dallas Weekly, Boston Globe, African American Voice and AskMissA.com, an online magazine and on occasion, special assignment for the Denver Post.

industry_corpus2: Media & Journalism


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Let’s all jump into the pool..The SQL Connection pool that is..
I was out swimming in the data pool and I started thinking to myself, how many people are sharing the same pool without me even knowing they are there? How did I even get into the pool? And why is the water so cold?
Well, if you are using ADO.NET with SqlConnection , you are playing in the pool to. ADO.NET is a pretty smart animal. It realizes that if you are going to be connecting to a database a lot, then its probably a good idea to keep the connection to the database server open awhile. It does this behind the scenes, so when you create multiple data connections, it only really grabs one from the available pool of connections and uses those.
So….with that in mind, I started thinking about how I can tell what data connections an application has used and who is swimming in my pool. Coupling that with the brainstorming involved in .NET Illuminator, I came up with a very nice and simple piece of code that grabs all the connection strings from the Pool and throws them in rafts for you to see.
Here is my simplistic example of using C# with .NET to walk the SQL pooled connections and return their connection strings.
/// Loads all pooled connection strings.
So…What did we learn? Just because you don’t see the pool….smell the chlorine…or even get wet, you open a data connection and you have jumped all the way in.. and left your stench behind in the water..
← System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch is no longer my friend….

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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worship is the heart of our life together. It’s a place and time for being with God and for connecting with one another. We hear God’s Word to us, are nourished at God’s table, offer back to God our prayers, praises and blessings and connect with each other as brothers and sisters in Christ.
Westminster offers two primary worship opportunities each week, Sunday morning and Wednesday evening.
We are happy to have disciples of all ages worship with us and encourage all to participate as they are comfortable. For children wishing to remain in the sanctuary during worship, Children’s Activity Sacks are available in a basket in the back pew and children are welcome to draw and color, read and rest during our worship hour.
A Time with Children during the service is an opportunity for young people to spend a few moments “up front” with our pastors, after which they are invited to return to the Children’s Room in the Educational Wing for Sunday School. Our all ages curriculum—Feasting on the Word—guides children through the same scripture passages that are the focus of worship each week, so families experience scripture on the same schedule. Questions? Ushers, greeters, pastors and child care workers are here to help you and your little ones feel comfortable here.
Sunday worship is always followed by a time of coffee fellowship in our Fellowship Hall. All are welcome to come, enjoy some refreshments and connect with friends new and old.
Large print bulletins, hymnals and Bibles, printed sermon copies and assisted hearing devices are available just outside the sanctuary doors on the podium should you need them.

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The Native Village of Eyak is accepting applications for an Executive Director.
The Executive Director position is full time, regular and has a competitive benefits package.
The Executive Director provides effective oversight and management of all NVE programs in accordance with strategic plans as developed by the Tribal Council and NVE Tribe. This position is responsible for the day to day operations of NVE. This includes responsibility of policy development, program planning, fiscal management, administration, quality improvement and operation of all NVE functions, programs and activities.
First review of applicants will be on Monday, April 15th, 2019.

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The Little Mermaid beauty of the oceans deep. A great looking character costume that partners very well with Neptune for a nautical theme. This costume has the sea green dress, cape and headgear. Add a wig.
Long sleek white wig with a peaked fringe. This is an absolutely gorgeous wig and very different in white for Halloween.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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Shiver. Debuted at #9 on the New York Times best seller list; Indies Choice Book Award Finalist; ALA Best Books for Young Adults. For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without. Sinner is the standalone companion book to the internationally bestselling Shiver Trilogy that was released this past July. The story follows Cole St. Clair.
30 Dec Are you fascinated by wolves? Ever wondered what they felt like inside? What they were actually thinking? Then you will love Shiver, a dark. The official site of Maggie Stiefvater's #1 NYT Bestselling Shiver Trilogy, with extras and information about Shiver, Linger, and Forever. 31 Mar [PDF] [EPUB] Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1) Download by Maggie Stiefvater. Download free ebook of Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy.
Wolves of Mercy Falls is a book series written by Maggie Stiefvater which At the start of Shiver, Grace is bitten by the wolves that live behind her house, but she. 24 Jun For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf--her wolf--is a chilling presence she can't. Listen to Shiver: Book 1 of the Wolves of Mercy Falls by Maggie Stiefvater with Rakuten Kobo. Narrated by David LeDoux. Every summer Sam spends a few.

industry_corpus2: Literature & Emotions


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We play this little game all the time.
When my boys are sad.
When my boys are mad.
When my boys are glad (had to keep with the rhyming, lol).
For some reason this silly little game focuses their minds and captures their attention in a way that nothing else will.
If you have kids, you know my pain. If you don’t have kids… oh you just wait.
Normally the game is about colors.
And every so often we go all crazy and mix the two together.
With my boys being 6 & 4, naturally the colors they pick are totally obvious, like the bright orange hoodie one is wearing when nothing else within close visual proximity is remotely close to that color.
“Hmmm…” I say. “What could it be?“ I say. “ Is it your *gasp* HOODIE?” I say.
When I turned around to look at him, he was pointing to a homeless man sitting next to the door of the entrance to the grocery store.
There, right in front of us, within close visual proximity, was this frail, elderly man, just sitting with his cup reached out and his head bent low.
That’s when the questions came flooding in.
Why is no one saying hi to him?
Why is no one hugging him?
Why’s he sitting there all alone?
Does he like chocolate milk?
Can he play I Spy with us?
With every question my son asked, I silently counted the number of people that walked past without even acknowledging him.
I stopped counting after 29 because my eyes were so watery I couldn’t see anymore.
How can it be possible for 30+ people to walk right past a human being and not even acknowledge him?
How many people do I walk past every single day without acknowledging?
We’re so caught up doing big and flashy things for this world that we fail to connect how acknowledging a fellow human being IS the greatest thing we could do.
We may not be able to save every Syrian refugee, we may not be able to end deep pangs of starvation for every family, we may not be able to rescue every young child sold into prostitution, but we can start somewhere – like the front entrance of a grocery store where an elderly man named Bill sits…. and the clerk at the grocery checkout…. and the gas attendant who pumps our gas…. and our next door neighbour…. and the mail man… and the mayor of our city… and, and, and.
Everyday there are countless opportunities to make a difference in this world if we open our eyes and to see what’s going on around us.
We just have to notice them.
Hug. It’s not weird. I do it all the time.
Allow them to go first in line.
Or on this particular occasion, take the time to ask the elderly homeless man what his name is, if he likes chocolate milk and if he’d like to play a game of I Spy.
Because changing the world might mean noticing the stranger right beside you.


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Coca-Cola Fanta notepad set of 6.
This notepad set has 6 different Coca-Cola brands including: Coca-Cola, Coke Zero, Diet Coke, Cherry, Fanta Orange and Fanta Grape. Each pad is approximately 3" tall.


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making cakes for family friends and then to the general public.
being made today and so 'Cake You Imagine' became our trade mark and logo.
put our thinking caps on and see what we can come up with to make a cake exclusive for your event.


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Andy Scott The band I always wanted to hear in high school but never knew existed. Maybe its just a coincidence that True Widow (D.H. Phillips current band) is one of my favorite of all time. Favorite track: Rust Killer.
Emmerich Absolutely killer rock 'n' roll. Between this and True Widow, D.H. Phillips has been responsible for some of the most perfect-sounding guitar music of the 2000s and 2010s. Favorite track: Rust Killer.
jamroom A cracking indie rock album. Favorite track: R.H..


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Looking for things to do in Tampa while visiting? Once you’ve seen the Alafia River State Park, visited the beach, toured the Aquarium, and walked along the Tampa Riverwalk, you’ll be ready for something a little different. Something with a little more speed and horsepower. Imagine walking through a Classic Auto Museum and seeing rows and rows of beautiful classic cars, exotic cars, and all-American muscle cars. If that revs your engine, you need to experience Gateway Classic Cars while you’re in Tampa.
We hope that we’ve helped you with your checklist of “Things to do in Tampa”. Makes plans to visit our museum today. Take a stroll down memory lane and teach the kids a little bit about the evolution of the automotive industry. Be sure to take a few posters for your man cave or garage. Those are always FREE! You won’t be sorry you came.


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Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.
Love is when you go out and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of yours.
Love is when my mummy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.
Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.
When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails any more. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.
When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.


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my question is can a StocK 2001 a4 2.8 run on a higher level than 93 octane gas and if so what would be the highest or best number to run on without causing any damage? also if you are familiare to the cincinnati are do you know where there is a gas staion that sells high level gas?
you can run as high as you want as long as it's unleaded.
Time to do a little "lemmiwinks" tweaking on a 2.8 for 100+ octane.

industry_corpus2: Automobiles


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The premises are prominently located on a very prime position within a retail parade within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea on Gloucester Road which is undoubtedly one of Kensington’s busiest roads. The area is extremely vibrant day and night at all hours, with an abundance of both tourist and commercial passing footfall. Nearby operators include the Gloucester Arms, Il Borgo, Med Kitchen, Starbucks and other well-known independent and national operators.
This four floor premises was formally trading as a French Restaurant and bar / night club in the basement with fully fitted bar and lounge and had benefit of private room and customer WC’s. The ground floor was formally used as customer sitting and bar area while the first and second floors were used as kitchen, food preparation / storage and office areas. The first and second floor of Victoria Grove premises were used for staff accommodation and storage.
Ground Floor: Superbly fitted out to a very high standard and accommodates approximately 80 covers with customer toilets and is fully air-conditioned throughout.
Basement: Fully fitted to a high standard as a high end bar / nightclub which is licensed to accommodate 120 persons.
First Floor: Fully fitted kitchen and a one bedroom flat which was used for storage purposes.
Second Floor: Fully fitted kitchen and a one bedroom flat which was used for storage purposes.
NB There is space to accommodate approximately 16 external covers to the front of the premises.
Rent: £200,000 per annum exclusive.
Also available separately at £150,000 per annum exclusive for 36 Gloucester Road and £50,000 per annum exclusive for 1 and 2 Victoria Grove.
Lease: Full repairing and insuring new lease.


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Half Round H.S.S.Jobbers Length Twist Drill | 01-052-024 | Travers Tool Co., Inc.
For drilling operations in soft materials that can frequently clog the standard helical flutes with chips.
For use on soft non-ferrous metals such as brass, copper, and soft aluminum. Non-metallic materials, such as rubber, fiber, and paper may also be machined with these drills.
Greater chip clearance for deep drilling.
Finer finish at higher cutting speeds.
Greater accuracy by minimizing off center problems and drill run-off in deep holes.

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The year-end holiday party was a success! It was great to see everyone in attendance. Thank you for participating and your contributions to the gift exchange. Now for the real fun - winter Wushu camp.
A great Wushu demonstration during the 2014 holiday party, and congratulations to students that passed sash testing. See you in the new year!


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text: Diffeomorphic deformation is a popular choice in medical image registration. A fundamental property of diffeomorphisms is in vertibility, implying that once the relation between two points A to B is found, then the relation B to A is given per definition. Consistency is a measure of a numerical algorithm's ability to mimic this invertibility, and achieving consistency has proven to be a challenge for many state-of-the-art algorithms.

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text: The menstrual period , a metaphor alluding to sexual-abstinence . ' I'm starting my holy week .' See menstruation for synonyms.


text: Brandon Graves is heading to his first Storage Field Day and is looking forward to the experience. Make sure to mark your calendar for June 14-16, and watch along on our live stream to see the presentations. And send in questions on Twitter using #SFD13 to get involved with the discussion!


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PASO ROBLES — Water was found flowing from Pino Way down to Jackson Drive from a broken pipe caused by a vehicle accident in the evening hours on Saturday, Feb. 3. The Paso Robles Department of Emergency Services received notification at 8:37 p.m. from local police of a broken water main threatening to flood nearby residents of Jackson Drive and Union Road.
Firefighters responded quickly, working in knee-deep mud and water to divert impinging water from entering a house in the flood path. After clearing a simultaneous emergency incident, a battalion chief arrived with two additional engines to assist in the flood response. Ten firefighters with mutual aid from Cal Fire kept water damage to a minimum. Firefighters removed water from a garage and outbuilding and diverted water from numerous other homes. Paso Robles Public Works and Police Department personnel provided additional assistance.
As of Sunday, Public Works was on scene completing repairs to the broken pipe on Pino Way. The cause of the incident is under investigation, but initial indications point toward a severed Fire Hydrant from an apparent hit-and-run vehicle accident on Jackson Drive.

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Remember Amit Gupta? He was diagnosed with Leukimia in September 2011 and thus began the largest social media driven internet friendly bone marrow donor recruitment campaign we’ve seen to date. He has something to share today.
I am stunned by this good news! As we’ve blogged before, South Asians have a 1 in 20,000 chance of finding a donor match and to find a perfect match is even more of a slim chance. This is one of those circumstances that highlights how social media campaigns can turn into real life successes! Of course, Amit still has a battle ahead of him.
Tomorrow, I’ll be admitted to Dana Farber in Boston for 4-5 weeks.
First I’ll get a second Hickman line to allow direct access to my heart (for meds and for nutrients if I’m not able to eat). Over the next week, the docs blast my body with a stiff chemo cocktail to try and eradicate all traces of cancer cells. In the process, the immune system I was born with, and my body’s ability to make blood, are destroyed.
The online art exhibit Skewed Demographic brings together artists to address the racial disparity in the bone marrow registry. Each piece in the online gallery is being auctioned off with proceeds going towards processing bone marrow testing kits.
Photographers Shirin Adhami and Sunita Prasad curated the show in honor of Photojojo founder Amit Gupta and other South Asian leukemia patients. Adhami first met Amit Gupta when both were undergraduates at Amherst College a decade ago. When Gupta first announced his diagnosis and his need for a bone marrow donor, Adhami was one of his many friends who rallied to action.
What Is It Like To Give?
The countdown clock ticks down ominously on www.amitguptaneedsyou.com, counting down the 22 days left of finding a perfect donor bone marrow match for Amit Gupta, who I blogged about before. The bounty for a match (just a certified match, not a donor) is up to $30,000 generously donated by his friends. Amit has now been interviewed on CNN by Sanjay Gupta and his campaign is gaining national traction, with a bone marrow sign up table at almost every Brown event.
It’s surprising to me after all this time that there are still people not registered in the bone marrow registry. At last week’s San Francisco Subcontinental Drift, I eagerly convinced my friend to sign up to the bone marrow registry at the back table, surprised that he hadn’t done so already. “I’ve been in the registry for 7 years,” I told him. “All it takes is 4 simple cheek swabs and you are in.” Within minutes, he was in the registry too.
Congratulations! When did you do it and what was the overall experience like?
Kristeen: Almost a year ago (Dec 14, 2010), I donated bone marrow for a seventeen year old boy with Leukemia. I was told that the recipient was the same age as my nephew, so it was natural I wanted the same for this boy. As a donor it feels like yes, we are doing it, and yes we are life savers.
Darshana: I donated in January 2004. When I donated all I knew was that it was for a little girl who was 9 years old. My oldest daughter was exactly the same age at that time. Needless to say I couldn’t do the procedure fast enough. All I remember right now is how lucky I felt that I was a match and was actually donating.
When you got the call that you were a bone marrow match, what was your decision making process?
The internet world frenzied with bone marrow call outs this week when word spread that entrepreneur Amit Gupta, founder of http://photojojo.com/ discovered he has acute leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant.
I was terrified. I packed a backpack full of clothes, went to the hospital as he’d instructed, and had transfusions through the night to allow me to take a flight home at 7am the next day. I Googled acute leukemia as I lay in my hospital bed, learning that if it hadn’t been caught, I’d have died within weeks.
We’ve told you before of numerous cases where bone marrow donors are needed - for Sonia Rai, Maya Chamberlin, Vinay & Sameer, Bevin Varughese, and more. For the most part, these stories have ended tragically. The sad thing is, they did not have to end the way they did. The health disparity is stark: There are 9.5 million people in the bone marrow registry; only 1% of them are of South Asian descent; that means South Asians have a 1 in 20,000 chance of finding a match.
Browns on a Plane is an American horror story not featuring Samuel Jackson and not coming to a theater near you, though it did make its way onto a Detroit-bound flight yesterday and may be replayed on select 9/11 anniversary flights as long as brown people continue to fly the fear-filled skies. To learn more about the plot of this real-life tale, read Shoshana Hebshi’s personal account of being on one of the two flights that were escorted by fighter jets to their destination yesterday on September 11–“Some real Shock and Awe: Racially profiled and cuffed in Detroit.” Hebshi is a self-described “half-Arab, half-Jewish housewife” from Ohio who sat next to two Indian men on the Frontier Airlines Flight 623, two men who used the restroom at some point during the flight.


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Post-processed deformation measurement. Real-time automated monitoring.
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What can I say? This is one cute counting book! From one funky monkey to ten elegant elephants, a conga line of animal toys dance and jive their way around a top shop at night.
The illustrations are delightful, as the animals are spotlighted by the monkey’s torch. Great to read aloud to small and large groups.
Dinosaur dig! by Penny Dale.
One lonely kakapo by Sandra Morris.
One dragon’s dream by Peter Pavey.
One is a snail ten is a crab by April Pulley Sayre & Jeff Sayre; illus Randy Cecil.


text: We must go back in time to right the wrong done to us. In 1833 we were sold to the Fed's, deeming all Americans terrorist that object to any thing they do. That is why they are importing this terror and treason. At that point we had no country. Remove the Fed's and America will be whole again.

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In the 1970s, researchers conducted a study that pitted a moral incentive against an economic incentive.... They wanted to learn about the motivation behind blood donations. Their discovery: when people were given a small stipend for donating blood rather than simply being praised for their altruism, they tend to donate less blood. The stipend turned a noble act of charity into a painful way to make a few dollars, and it wasn't worth it.
What if the blood donors had been offered an incentive of $50, or $500, or $5,000? Surely the number of donors would have changed dramatically.
But something else would have changed dramatically as well, for every incentive has its dark side. If a pint of blood were suddenly worth $5,000, you can be sure that plenty of people would take note. They might literally steal blood at knifepoint. They might pass off pig blood as their own. They might circumvent donation limits by using fake IDs. Whatever the incentive, whatever the situation, dishonest people will try to gain an advantage by whatever means necessary.
Or, as W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
Well, just about anyone, if the stakes are right. You might say to yourself, I don't cheat, regardless of the stakes. And then you might remember the time you cheated on, say, a board game. Last week. Or the golf ball you nudged out of its bad lie. Or the time you really wanted a bagel in the office break room but couldn't come up with the dollar you were supposed to drop in the coffee can. And then took the bagel anyway. And told yourself you'd pay double the next time. And didn't.
For every clever person who goes to the trouble of creating an incentive scheme, there is an army of people, clever and otherwise, who will inevitably spend even more time trying to beat it. Cheating may or may not be human nature, but it is certainly a prominent feature in just about every human endeavor. Cheating is a primordial economic act: getting more for less. So it isn't just the boldface names - inside-trading CEOs and pill-popping ballplayers and perk-abusing politicians - who cheat. It is the waitress who pockets her tips instead of pooling them. It is the Wal-Mart payroll manager who goes into the computer and shaves his employees' hours to make his own performance look better. It is the the third grader who, worried about not making it to the fourth grade, copies test answers from the kid sitting next to him.
Some cheating leaves barely a shadow of evidence. In other cases, the evidence is massive. Consider what happened one spring evening at midnight in 1987: seven million American children suddenly disappeared. The worst kidnapping wave in history? Hardly. It was the night of April 15, and the Internal Revenue Service had just changed a rule. Instead of merely listing the name of each dependent child, tax filers were now required to provide a Social Security number. Suddenly, seven million children - children who had existed only as phantom exemptions on the previous year's 1040 forms - vanished, representing about one in ten of all dependent children in the United States.
Imagine now that... you are running the Chicago Public Schools, a system that educates 400,000 students each year.
The most volatile current debate among American school administrators, teachers, parents, and students concerns "high-stakes" testing. The stakes are considered high because instead of simply testing students to measure their progress, schools are increasingly held accountable for the results.
The federal government mandated high-stakes testing as part of the No Child Left Behind law, signed by President Bush in 2002. But even before that law, most states gave annual standardized tests to students in elementary and secondary school. Twenty states rewarded individual schools for good test scores or dramatic improvement; thirty-two states sanctioned the schools that didn't do well.
The Chicago Public School system embraced high-stakes testing in 1996. Under the new policy, a school with low reading scores would be placed on probation and face the threat of being shut down, its staff to be dismissed or reassigned. The CPS also did away with what is known as social promotion. In the past, only a dramatically inept or difficult student was held back a grade. Now, in order to be promoted, every student in third, sixth, and eighth grade had to manage a minimum score on the standardized, multiple-choice exam known as the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.
Advocates of high-stakes testing argue that it raises the standards of learning and gives students more incentive to study. Also, if the test prevents poor students from advancing without merit, they won't clog up the higher grades and slow down good students. Opponents, meanwhile, worry that certain students will be unfairly penalized if they don't happen to test well, and that teachers may concentrate on the test topics at the exclusion of more important lessons.
Schoolchildren, of course, have had incentive to cheat for as long as there have been tests. But high-stakes testing has so radically changed the incentives for teachers that they too now have added reason to cheat. With high-stakes testing, a teacher whose students test poorly can be censured or passed over for a raise or promotion. If the entire school does poorly, federal funding can be withheld; if the school is put on probation, the teacher stands to be fired. High-stakes testing also presents teachers with some positive incentives. If her students do well enough, she might find herself praised, promoted, and even richer: the state of California at one point introduced bonuses of $25,000 for teachers who produced big test-score gains.
And if a teacher were to survey this newly incentivized landscape and consider somehow inflating her students' scores, she just might be persuaded by one final incentive: teacher cheating is rarely looked for, hardly ever detected, and just about never punished.
How might a teacher go about cheating? There are any number of possibilities, from brazen to subtle. A fifth-grade student in Oakland recently came home from school and gaily told her mother that her super-nice teacher had written the answers to the state exam right there on the chalkboard. Such instances are certainly rare, for placing your fate in the hands of thirty prepubescent witnesses doesn't seem like a risk that even the worst teachers would take. (The Oakland teacher was duly fired.) There are more nuanced ways to inflate students' scores. A teacher can simply give students extra time to complete the test. If she obtains a copy of the exam early - that is, illegitimately - she can prepare them for specific questions. More broadly, she can "teach to the test," basing her lesson plans on questions from past years' exams, which isn't considered cheating but may well violate the spirit of the test. Since these tests all have multiple-choice answers, with no penalty for wrong guesses, a teacher might instruct her students to randomly fill in every blank as the clock is winding down, perhaps inserting a long string of Bs or an alternating pattern of Bs and Cs. She might even fill in the blanks for them after they've left the room.
But if a teacher really wanted to cheat - and make it worth her while - she might collect her students' answer sheets and, in the hour or so before turning them in to be read by an electronic scanner, erase the wrong answers and fill in correct ones. (And you always thought that no. 2 pencil was for the children to change their answers.) If this kind of teacher cheating is truly going on, how might it be detected?
To catch a cheater, it helps to think like one. If you were willing to erase your students' wrong answers and fill in correct ones, you probably wouldn't want to change too many wrong answers. That would clearly be a tip-off. You probably wouldn't even want to change answers on every student's test - another tip-off. Nor, in all likelihood, would you have enough time, because the answer sheets have to be turned in soon after the test is over. So what you might do is select a string of eight to ten consecutive questions and fill in the correct answers for, say, one-half of two-thirds of your students. You could easily memorize a short pattern of correct answers, and it would be a lot faster to erase and change that pattern than to go through each student's answer sheet individually. You might even think to focus your activity toward the end of the test, where the questions tend to be harder than the earlier questions. In that way, you'd most likely substitute correct answers for wrong ones.
If economics is a science primarily concerned with incentives, it is also - fortunately - a science with statistical tools to measure how people respond to those incentives. All you need are some data.
In this case, the Chicago Public School system obliged. It made available a database of the test answers for every CPS student from third grade through seventh grade from 1993 to 2000. This amounts to roughly 30,000 students per grade per year, more than 700,000 sets of test answers, and nearly 100 million individual answers. The data, organized by classroom, included each student's question-by-question answer strings for reading and math tests. (The actual paper answer sheets were not included; they were habitually shredded soon after a test.) The data also included some information about each teacher and demographic information for every student, as well as his or her past and future test scores - which would prove a key element in detecting the teacher cheating.
Now it was time to construct an algorithm that could tease some conclusions from this mass of data. What might a cheating teacher's classroom look like?
The first thing to search for would be unusual answer patterns in a given classroom: blocks of identical answers, for instance, especially among the harder questions. If ten very bright students (as indicated by past and future test scores) gave correct answers to the exam's first five questions (typically the easiest ones), such an identical block shouldn't be considered suspicious. But if ten poor students gave correct answers to the last five questions on the exam (the hardest ones), that's worth looking into. Another red flag would be a strange pattern within any one student's exam - such as getting the hard questions right while missing the easy ones - especially when measured against the thousands of students in other classrooms who scored similarly on the same test. Furthermore, the algorithm would seek out a classroom full of students who performed far better than their past scores would have predicted and who then went on to score significantly lower the following year. A dramatic one-year spike in test scores might initially be attributed to a good teacher; but with a dramatic fall to follow, there's a strong likelihood that the spike was brought about by artificial means.
Consider now the answer strings from the students in two sixth-grade Chicago classrooms who took the identical math test. Each horizontal row one student's answers. The letter a, b, c, or d indicates a correct answer; a number indicates a wrong answer, with 1 corresponding to a, 2 corresponding to b, and so on. A zero represents an answer that was left blank. One of these classrooms almost certainly had a cheating teacher and the other did not. Try to tell the difference - although be forewarned that it's not easy with the naked eye.
If you guessed that classroom A was the cheating classroom, congratulations. Here again are the answer strings from classroom A, now reordered by a computer that has been asked to apply the cheating algorithm and seek out suspicious patterns.
Take a look at the answers in bold. Did fifteen out of twenty-two students somehow manage to reel off the same six consecutive correct answers (the d-a-d-b-c-b string) all by themselves?
There are at least four reasons this is unlikely. One: those questions, coming near the end of the test, were harder than the earlier questions. Two: these were mainly subpar students to begin with, few of whom got six consecutive right answers elsewhere on the test, making it all the more unlikely they would get right the same six hard questions. Three: up to this point in the test, the fifteen students' answers were virtually uncorrelated. Four: three of the students (numbers 1, 9, and 12) left more than one answer blank before the suspicious string and then ended the test with another string of blanks. This suggests that a long, unbroken string of blank answers was broken not by the student but by the teacher.
There is another oddity about the suspicious answer string. On nine of the fifteen tests, the six correct answers are preceded by another identical string, 3-a-1-2, which includes three of four incorrect answers. And on all fifteen tests, the six correct answers are followed by the same incorrect answer, a 4. Why on earth would a cheating teacher go to the trouble of erasing a student's test sheet and then fill in the wrong answer?
Perhaps she is merely being strategic. In case she is caught and hauled into the principal's office, she could point to the wrong answers as proof that she didn't cheat. Or perhaps - and this is a less charitable but just as likely answer - she doesn't know the right answers herself. (With standardized tests, the teacher is typically not given an answer key.) If this is the case, then we have a pretty good clue as to why her students are in need of inflated grades in the first place: they have a bad teacher.
The three-year scores from classroom B, meanwhile, are also poor but at least indicate an honest effort: 4.2, 5.1, 6.0. So an entire roomful of children in classroom A suddenly got very smart one year and very dim the next, or more likley, their sixth grade teacher worked some magic with her pencil.
There are two noteworthy points to be made about the children in classroom A, tangential to the cheating itself. The first is that they are obviously in poor academic shape, which makes them the very children whom high-stakes testing is promoted as helping the most. The second point is that these students (and their parents) would be in for a terrible shock once they reached the seventh grade. All they knew was that they had been successfully promoted due to their test scores. (No child left behind, indeed.) They weren't the ones who artificially jacked up their scores; they probably expected to do great in the seventh grade - and then they failed miserably. This may be the cruelest twist yet in high-stakes testing. A cheating teacher may tell herself that she is helping her students, but the fact is that she would appear far more concerned with helping herself.
An analysis of the entire Chicago data reveals evidence of teacher cheating in more than two hundred classrooms per year, roughly 5 percent of the total. This is a conservative estimate, since the algorithm was able to identify only the most egregious form of cheating - in which teachers systematically changed students' answers - and not the many subtler ways a teacher might cheat. In a recent study among North Carolina schoolteachers, some 35 percent of the respondents said they had witnessed their colleagues cheating in some fashion, whether by giving students extra time, suggesting answers, or manually changing students' answers.
What are the characteristics of a cheating teacher? The Chicago data shows that male and female teachers are equally prone to cheating. A cheating teacher tends to be younger and less qualified than average. She is also more likely to cheat after her incentives change. Because the Chicago data ran from 1993 to 2000, it bracketed the introduction of high-stakes testing in 1996. Sure enough, there was a pronounced spike in cheating in 1996. Nor was the cheating random. It was the teachers in the lowest-scoring classrooms who were most likely to cheat. It should also be noted that the $25,000 bonus for California teachers was eventually revoked, in part because of suspicions that too much of the money was going to cheaters.
Not every result of the Chicago cheating analysis was so dour. In addition to detecting cheaters, the algorithm could also identify the best teachers in the school system. A good teacher's impact was nearly as distinctive as a cheater's. Instead of getting random answers correct, her students would show real improvement on the easier types of questions they had previously missed, an indication of actual learning. And a good teacher's students carried over all their gains into the next grade.
Most academic analysis of this sort tend to languish, unread, on a dusty library shelf. But in early 2002, the new CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, Arne Duncan, contacted the study's authors. He didn't want to protest or hush up their findings. Rather, he wanted to make sure that the teachers identified by the algorithm as cheaters were truly cheating - and then do something about it.
Duncan was an unlikely candidate to hold such a powerful job. He was only thirty-six when appointed, a one time academic all-American at Harvard who later played pro basketball in Australia. He had spent just three years with the CPS - and never in a job important enough to have his own secretary - before becoming its CEO. It didn't hurt that Duncan had grown up in Chicago. His father taught psychology at the University of Chicago; his mother ran an afterschool program for forty years, without pay, in a poor neighborhood. When Duncan was a boy, his afterschool playmates were the underprivileged kids his mother cared for. So when he took over the public schools, his allegiance lay more with schoolchildren and their families than with teachers and their union.
The best way to get rid of cheating teachers, Duncan had decided, was to re-administer the standardized exam. He only had the resources to retest 120 classrooms, however, so he asked the creators of the cheating algorithm to help choose which classrooms to test.
How could those 120 retests be used most effectively? It might have seemed sensible to retest only the classrooms that likely had a cheating teacher. But even if their retest scores were lower, the teachers could argue that the students did worse merely because they were told that the scores wouldn't count in their official record - which, in fact, all retested students would be told. To make the retest results convincing, some non-cheaters were needed as a control group. The best control group? The classrooms shown by the algorithm to have the best teachers, in which big gains were thought to have been legitimately attained. If those classrooms held their gains while the classrooms with a suspected cheater lost ground, the cheating teachers could hardly argue that their students did worse only because the scores wouldn't count.
As a result, the Chicago Public School system began to fire cheating teachers. The evidence was only strong enough to get rid of a dozen of them, but the many other cheaters had been duly warned. The final outcome of the Chicago study is further testament to the power of incentives: the following year, cheating by teachers fell more than 30 percent.
How many points does a 3-pt field goal account for in a basketball game?
If you are stumped by the final question, it might help to know that Coaching Principles was taught by Jim Harrick Jr., an assistant coach with the university's basketball team. It might also help to know that his father, Jim Harrick Sr., was the head basketball coach. Not surprisingly, Coaching Principles was a favorite course among players on the Harricks' team. Every student in the class received an A. Not long afterward, both Harricks were relieved of their coaching duties.


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Things got dirty in a hurry for one little girl out for a ride on her pony. Turns out, the sweet white steed wasn't really much in the mood for walking - especially after stumbling upon a perfect puddle for some happy wallowing.
Don't worry though, he "invited" her along, too.
What began as a few playful kicks at the water soon evolved into a full-on pony mud bath. But apparently in all the excitement he forgot all about the tiny rider atop him before going in for more.
We're pretty sure she noticed though.
Fortunately, the little girl didn't seem to mind the unexpected stop - or the sudden splash. In fact, after getting over the initial shock, she's as tickled as anyone by the impromptu mud bath.
Even a dog decided to join in!


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To me, there is nothing better than a good outbreak book or movie. Or, heck, even a bad one. Whether modern-day virus hunters are investigating a mysterious outbreak in the Congo or survivors of a pandemic are rebuilding the world, I like them all.
I especially love the whole idea of predicting and identifying emerging viruses, determining the source of outbreaks, tracking the spread of a virus through a population – all of it.
In another life I’d work for the CDC, except I’m not really brave enough to don the Tyvek suit and work among patients in a hot zone or in a Biosafety Level 4 lab.
This week’s Friday Fiction will give you what you need to create a somewhat realistic virus outbreak for your novel.
Here are some of the things to consider when inventing your virus and outbreak scenario.
Where does your virus come from?
Many viruses that infect humans began in animals, most famously, flu viruses. For instance, Avian Flu viruses can infect farm animals such as chickens, pigs, and horses.
When two different strains of influenza infect the same cell at once, they can combine to make a new virus which could infect people.
If a virus jumps to a human, that doesn’t automatically mean it will spread from person to person. For awhile it may just infect individuals who are exposed to the animal carrying the virus.
However, if the virus mutates or recombines again, it could begin spreading person to person. This is what happened with the recent 2009 H1N1 outbreak.
Viruses can be transmitted from animals to humans through insect or animal bites as well. West Nile virus is transmitted by mosquitoes. Rabies can come from animal bites.
Light contact or being face-to-face with an infected person – the virus is spread via water droplets in the air (coughing or sneezing) or by contact with items the victim has just sneezed or coughed on.
Being in a space formerly occupied by a contagious person where the virus (such as measles) is suspended in the air.
Contact with items that harbour the virus for long periods.
“Vertical Transmission” in which fetuses acquire the virus from infected mothers.
In all cases, the virus has to get inside the body. Merely having the virus “land” on a person’s skin is not enough to infect them. If not through intimate contact or respiration, then this is usually via transfer from a surface to the fingers, then to the mouth, eyes, or nose.
How long does it take for your virus to induce symptoms once a person is exposed? This is the incubation period. For known viruses this ranges from a few days to about three weeks.
Will the victim be contagious during the incubation period? How long are they contagious after they stop showing symptoms?
The period of communicability is the total time during which an infected person is contagious.
The range is wide for known viruses. HIV for instance is contagious throughout an infected person’s life. Measles is contagious from 4 days before the rash appears to 4 days after. Ebola virus can be passed to others only when infected patients start to show symptoms.
What does your virus do to people? Does it kill them quickly or slowly?
Viruses that kill quickly tend to burn out fast. They wipe out populations in a single area before the victims are able to travel and spread the virus. Ebola (before widespread air travel) is a good example of this.
Viruses such as flu that allow their victims to carry on with life while contagious tend to last longer in a population and spread farther, ultimately killing more people.
To compare, the 2014 Ebola outbreak has killed fewer than 10,000 people worldwide to date. Even with much of the population vaccinated, seasonal flu kills 250,000 to 500,000 people worldwide every year.
Does your virus have lasting effects on survivors? For instance, polio virus left victims crippled. Other viruses can cause brain damage.
How long can your virus live on, say doorknobs, keyboards or on your hands? Viruses typically cannot live long outside of their host. As a rule they remain active longer on hard surfaces (stainless steel, plastic) than on soft surfaces such as fabric or skin.
Cold viruses can survive on indoor surfaces for up to 7 days, but begin to lose their ability to infect within 24 hours. They can live on skin surfaces for only a few minutes.
Measles can survive on surfaces and in the airspace where a contagious person has coughed or sneezed for several hours.
Flu viruses can live on hard surfaces for 24 hours but on skin, only 5-15 minutes.
In the lab, smallpox dies with 24 hours outside a person. In nature, sunlight would kill it sooner.
This does not take into account viruses outside of a person but in dried or wet blood or other bodily fluids where it might live much longer.
Is anyone immune to your virus? Immunity can be acquired by previous exposure to the same or a similar virus.
Today, for instance, anyone born before 1957 is considered to be immune to the measles virus because before that year, almost everyone got measles. Those who didn’t die from it are, today, immune.
Immunity can also be genetic. Some people (my husband included) are genetically immune from catching Norovirus.
About 10% of Europeans are immune to HIV due to a genetic mutation called CCR5-delta 32.
The high frequency of this mutation in the population is a result of the hemorrhagic plagues of the Middle Ages. The plague viruses used the CCR5 gene to get into victim’s immune system. Only people with the mutation survived and that mutation also protects against HIV.
Now you have enough to at least get started writing your own outbreak story. Let me know when it’s done. I’d love to read it!


text: This statistic shows the number of enterprises in the wholesale industry in Iceland in 2017, by sector. The non-specialized sector had most establishments in Iceland, amounting to 1,133 enterprises. The wholesale of other household goods sector reported 147 enterprises. In the wholesale of clothing and footwear sector, there were 132 enterprises in Iceland.


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Reviews For Suteru - Last of the Clan.
Name: preoccupied (Signed) · Date: 13/04/08 - 12:04 pm · For: A dangerous situation.
Hidan is freeking creepy ^^ I liked the way you write fight scenes, by the way. Some people are terrible at it.
This first chapter really grabbed my attention. I'm really interested to see what happens.
I really like it!! please update soon!!


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Authorities on Thursday suspended cross LoC trade along Srinagar-Muzzafarabad route following the ceasefire violation in Uri sector of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district.
Reports said that on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday Armies of India and Pakistan exchanged heavy gunfire in Kamalkote sector of Uri.
Sub Divisional Divisional Magestrate Uri, Baseer-ul-Haq told Rising Kashmir that following the intense shelling along LoC the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad cross LoC trade has been suspended as a precautionary measure.
"The residential area is some two kilometres away from the site of shelling. However we are ready to evacuate the locals if the situation demands so. Right now we have suspended the cross LoC trade," SDM Uri said.
Meanwhile locals said that a tin shed belonging to Hakim Ali Mir son of Atta Mohammad Mir, a resident of Bathard Kundi Barjala in Kamalkote Uri was damaged due to shelling from Pakistan side.
On Thursday morning, fresh firing was reported in the area creating a fear psychosis among the locals.
Earlier on Wednesday two Indian Army men identified as Sepoy Dupo Veshunath and Naik M Walim were wounded after Pakistani troops fired at Indian Army posts in Kamalkote area of Uri.


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-D minimal distance between two fragments in a gel.
-T maximal difference of temperature in a PCR.
-g maximal number of pair in PCR.
This software was created for a project that was canceled so I don't know if my algorithm works. I'm looking for people needing to peek primers for multiplex PCR in order to test my program (and write a paper if it works !...). Best would be someone on the Evry Genopole or near Paris.

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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