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This example demonstrates how to use NetMailBot when you are only permitted to send so many mails per some unit of time.
SMTP servers often can also be configured to limit the number of emails that can be sent per connection. NetMailBot's -reconnectaftersend parameter causes NetMailBot to send only one email per connection. That is, NetMailBot connects to the SMTP server, sends an email, disconnects, connects again, sends another email, disconnects, etc.
While this influences the overall performance, you do not have to worry about hitting per-connection sending limits using -reconnectaftersend.
NOTE: In our example here, we have a mailing list of 15 fake emails. Recall that the default limit on the number of recipients per email is 100; in order to make our demonstration of the use of -reconnectaftersend "interesting" (i.e. with multiple connects and disconnects), we are using -recipientlimit to limit the number of recipients per email to three.
ReconnectAfterSend.bat - The batch file that will instruct NetMailBot to send the email message.
tolist.txt - the list of 15 fake email addresses to send to.
Unzip the ReconnectAfterSend.zip file. This will produce a directory called "ReconnectAfterSend". Open this directory.
Open Notepad and edit the batch file "ReconnectAfterSend.bat". When using -tolist, -to is ignored, so you can leave that unchanged. Change the values of the parameters -from and -server to your email address and your mail server name, respectively.
NetMailbot should start up and you should see output similar to the following. In a more realistic setting with hundreds of recipients, you might omit the use of -recipientlimit, in which case each mail sent would be addressed to 100 recipients (the default recipient limit) but there would still be a disconnect / reconnect cycle between each email sent.
NOTE: There may be cases in which your SMTP server imposes both "per-connection" and "mails per unit time" limitations. In such cases, use both -reconnectaftersend and -sendwait to send mass mailiings successfully. See this example for use of -sendwait.


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Pickering located in Durham Region, east of Toronto. It was discovered by British colonists in 1770s. Many of the minor rural communities of Pickering have been conserved as provincially significant heritage sites and museums.
There are presently 222 real estate listings for sale in Pickering, Ontario, counting: Manitoulin Island, Barrie Terrace, Hickling Trail Barrie On, For Rent House Orillia, House Pool Barrie, Townhouse New Barrie, For Rent 2 Bedroom Apartment Barrie, For Rent Walk Out Basement Mississauga, Ranch Farm 2 Bedroom Barrie, Mobile Home Park Barrie. The middling price for Pickering homes is $1,032,719.

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text: Very clean Youth Four-wheeler tires are in great shape,has electric start,reverse,Park brake,headlights and taillights. Cash only please. OBO.

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Second Decentraland Land Auction Announced! How to Prepare and What to Expect.
The second Decentraland auction for the remaining ~9,300 unowned land parcels has been announced to take place in second week of December.
Exciting times! Personally, I’ve been waiting for this for almost a year.
The First Land Auction that took place in Late 2017 saw over 161 million MANA spent on 34,356 parcels of LAND! A whopping $30Million Spent on Digital land.
These are the ones that will be up for grabs.
Some Districts, (purple shapes), may be dissolved and their area turned into land to be auctioned off too. Might open the doors for more premium land.
Dutch Auction Style: This is different to the first auction format. Prices will be starting really high and come down gradually over the course of two weeks till someone pulls the trigger and buys. No biding. Just a buy order. The team is also ensuring that multiple parcels can be bought at once which will avoid others from sniping and messing up peoples estate plans.
Two weeks duration starting in the second week of December.
Although the first auction saw the purchase of many ‘premium land’ there is still some decent spots left in between popular districts not to mention more land might be available from dissolving stagnant districts.
The Decentraland land market has matured in a way that gives us deep insight into land valuation.
It’s clear that lands connected to roads or within close proximity to districts are more valuable than those on the far outskirts.
The closer you get to the centre the more valuable land seems to be.
If I were to use my-dcl.com to show the cheapest land currently on the market place we will see the floor is 6,900 MANA for the cheapest land.
But it’s important to note that if the 10 cheapest lands are bought than the floor quickly changes to around 10,000 MANA. Considering we see 20-60 land sales daily, this could happen any time!
Also, the cheapest lands seem to be on the far outskirts of the map where there probably won’t be much action for some time.
Now, if we filter this tool to show us only lands connected to roads, ordered by the cheapest, we get 12,500 MANA being the cheapest road parcel available.
Again, if just the bottom 4-8 get bought than we could quickly see a bottom of 17,000 MANA.
Knowing that the most popular ares are close to districts and roads I think the below sections, highlighted in red, will see the most action.
These areas are close to big districts and are open to big estate purchases. The more Decentraland matures, the more it’s clear that the value is in estates. Estates are simply 2 or more grouped together single parcels. The more land you have grouped together, the higher you can build!
People are going to run out of money.
If we take a very conservative 5,000 MANA per parcel to be spent in the auction then with 9,331 land up for grabs, that’s 46M mana that needs to be spent or bought to the table collectively from the community.
Surely there will be some bigger purchases than 5,000 MANA. I’m sure many will go for 20,000 MANA+.
46Million MANA is a lot to bring to the table even as a whole community. Especially when taking into consideration that MANA is now trading at $0.10 and is expected to go higher as auction date gets closer. In the first auction many people had mana from ICO, back when it was around 2 cents!
I think there will be a few big players that will spend a ton of money acquiring the exact parcels they want.
I’m going to wait till the later stages of the auction to make a move. I’m not spending more than market price to get the parcels I want and already have over 100 lands!
MANA has moved 40-50% within the last 30 days. That’s a big deal considering most of the market is in a declining state. As we get closer to auction and people need to stock up on MANA, this could see the token climb quite a bit.
If this upwards movement hits top 50 on Coinmarketcap then it could attract the attention of other investors that hold top 10-20 coins who are sick of their coins not moving.
If that happens and they jump in to the very attractive < $1 Mana token price than who knows how high this could go!
But what effect will this have on the Land auction? We could see more people deciding to just hodl their MANA then buy land which could see some pretty cheap, (relative to MANA), land go during the latter stages of the auction.
Not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing but something to keep in mind as a possibility.
Once the auction is finished and there’s no more unowned parcels up for grabs, the only option for new investors is to buy from current holders.
It also removes all the black squares/area from the Decentraland map which removes the perception that there is still plenty of land to buy.
The inner city areas are just going to get harder and harder to buy into as many people have priced their parcels ridiculously high and slowly land is becoming a scarcer buy there.
There is still a lot to be figured out. Much is still very unchartered territory so I will be mostly watching from the sidelines unless there are some clear money making opportunities.
It will be a very interesting December and am hyped to see it play out!
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text: Later this afternoon, Henna will be throwing out a party at her place for her birthday. All of her friends were invited to attend her awesome birthday celebration. She will be preparing a pizza for her birthday party and she will need your help. Play this game and help her prepare a delicious and yummy pizza by decorating it with different fruit toppings, you can also decorate it with your favorite flavors and create a mouth watering pizza that all of her visitors will enjoy. Have fun!

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text: Smyntek, Peter M. et al "Assessment of sulphate and iron reduction rates during reactor start-up for passive anaerobic co-treatment of acid mine drainage and sewage." Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis 18.1 (2018): 76-84. Web. 23 April. 2019.

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4. Improve both hard-scapes and soft-scapes. Decorative stone, tile, brick, concrete or wood can add a lot of appeal to the softer elements such as flowers, plants, grasses and ground cover. Landscaping doesn’t have to end at the porch. Bring color and vitality to the entry with potted plants and flowers.
5. Light the way. Landscape lighting doesn’t have to be expensive. Lanterns to line the walk, or the occasional up-light for the trees can have a glamorous effect on the exterior of your home. Lighting provides security as well as spotlights what you want to call attention to — a beautiful tree, a flower bed or an architectural element of the house.


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My School Bucks - Garrison Independent School DistrictHome of the Fighting Bulldogs!
User names and passwords are the same from MyNutriKids.com.
Student ID numbers are the student's social security numbers.
The convenience fee per transaction will change to: $1.95.
Due to legal requirements, we are unable to transfer automatic e-mail notifications. If parents previously setup low balance email alerts in MyNutrikids.com, they will need to set those up on mySchoolBucks.
The MyKids (MyNutrikids.com) Service Agreement will be replaced with an agreement from Heartland Payment Systems. This agreement covers provisions from each of the credit card brands, as well as various legal requirements.

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At the YMS Ayr we teach Guitar, Drums, Keyboard, Piano, Vocal and Music Technology.
We have comprehensive courses to suit people of all age groups and abilities and, we specialise in making learning fun!
Here at YMS you are guaranteed to get the very best musical education. All of our teachers are experienced musicians in their own right and they all undertake a rigorous training programme, (and have been through an Enhanced Disclosure Scotland check), before entering the classroom. In addition to intensive initial training teachers attend seminars at regular intervals to ensure up-to-date teaching practises are maintained.
You can join us at any time of the year. And we offer you a free taster lesson so you can find out for yourself just how much fun learning music can be. Just give us a call on 01292 88 66 19. Alternatively visit us at www.YMS-AYR.co.uk here to arrange a free taster lesson.


text: To tackle various disorders pertaining to the nervous system, the Department of Neurological Disorders at Vision Multispeciality Hospital offers comprehensive services in neurology. It has been amongst the best in the Goa to offer the latest technologies in the field of neuroscience. Disorders of the nervous system such as dementia, epilepsy, movement disorders, chronic pains, headaches, multiple sclerosis and various other neuro-muscular diseases are effectively handled in Vision Multispecialty Hospital.

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Last week I started out with grand intentions.
But we're going to pick up where I left off last Monday and carry on with the gardens of our lives today. Because, after all, we can't wait another day to get something good into the soil of our lives.
Except before we can plant anything of any value in our lives, we do need first to prepare the soil.
Jesus told a parable in Matthew 13 about a seed sower who scattered seeds on different types of soil. Later he explained the story to His disciples. He said that just about anything from misunderstanding to the cares of the world to great riches can cause the truth which has been sown in a heart to die or be choked out, resulting in no growth.
some 100, some 60, some 30 times what was sown.
But how do you know if you have good soil? Exactly what does a heart laden with good soil look or feel like?
A heart that is able to do these things is one that has the Holy Spirit residing in it. Jesus taught in John 16:13 that the Holy Spirit would come upon His disciples after He had left in order to, among other things, "guide them into all truth." Today, if you have asked Jesus to be your savior and Lord and have entrusted your life to Him, both here on earth and eternally, then He has sent His Holy Spirit to abide in you as well. What a powerful thought! God in us!
Indeed, we must have the Holy Spirit living in us in order to understand truth. He gives us the desire to read or hear it, the ability to understand it, and even the desire and ability to obey it. Meanwhile, He's also producing His fruit in us as we abide in Him and He abides in us.
So fruitful soil, when it comes to our lives, is a heart that is hungry for God's Word, one that studies and reads the Word with the abiding assistance of the Holy Spirit, one that is willing to obey the commands of the Bible no. matter. what., and one that bears fruit as a result of the implanted word.
James 1:21 tells us the implanted Word is "able to save your souls." It changes our lives, produces new fruit, sustains that growth, and saves us from our own bent toward destruction.
Do you have the Holy Spirit living within you? If you'd like to know more about how you can know Jesus and His Holy Spirit, please e-mail me.
Do you ask Him to guide you into all truth as you read the Word of God? Do you depend on His guidance rather than your own intelligence, former teachings, or preconceived ideas?
Are you willing to obey the Word without reservation? God will bless your obedience. It is an act of faith.
And have you noticed the Word of God producing fruit in your life, changing your character and opening your eyes?
Tomorrow we'll start planting, but today let's focus on these questions and do the work we need to do in order to prepare the soil.
What will you do to prepare the soil of your heart?

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The Texas Recovery Oriented Housing Network (TROHN) is the statewide affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. As such, TROHN is responsible for certifying recovery-oriented housing and services that meet the national standard. A copy of the standard and an explanation of the different types of recovery residences, known as levels of support, can be found on trohn.org or narronline.org. Certification and re-certification occurs on an annual or biennual basis. Once you complete this form, a TROHN representative will contact all parties to gather addictional information as needed.
The person submitting the complaint or grievance.
The individual, business or organization that you are filing a complaint against.


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Michigan. America’s Lakeland, an outdoor sportsman’s paradise where, or so it is said, all four seasons can be experienced in just one day! It is indeed a beautiful state, but if you’re a struggling single mother you may not be able to enjoy it the way others can.
A single mother has to cope with the day to day worries of bringing up a family without a partner to share the burden. Not only that, but if you’re a single mom, you also have to do all the work around the house, all the shopping, cooking and cleaning. You get to do the school run both ends of the day…and you probably have to hold down a job too. Worse, it’s down to you to pay all the bills. That can be a tough call on one wage.
There is help available! If you are a single mom in Michigan, and you’re experiencing financial difficulty, there are a good number of programs that can help you.
In Michigan, there is a cash assistance program that might help.
Next take a look at the TANF (Temporary Financial Assistance for Needy Families) program in Michigan, and see what it could do for you. TANF isn’t for everyone: apart from the eligibility criteria you also need to be working or agree to work a designated number of hours a week, and the assistance can only be given to any one person for a maximum of two years. However, the program is very effective and offers help in a number of key areas.
It’s also possible that you have heard of Payday Loans. These, along with other short term loans are designed to help you deal with unexpected expenses that occur before your regular wage payment of benefit arrives. However, appealing as they may sound, they can cause more problems than they cure. They often have a very high interest rate and also often impose large fines for late repayments.
Growing kids need good nutrition. It’s a basic fact of life. All moms want to give nothing but the best to their children, and see them grow up strong, healthy and happy. This means buying fresh fruit and vegetables, fish, cheese, milk and other essentials. The problem is that many of these good foods are expensive…too expensive for a tight budget. So, you need help to get these goodies onto the table at home.
Luckily, Michigan has a few options for getting the help you need with your family’s nutritional needs.
One such option is SNAP. *The letters stand for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. This is a system that works a little like the old Food Stamps system, but has been modernized to give you an electronic swipe card that carries credits to use on most foodstuffs in participating stores.
Then there is the Food Assistance Program.
Yet another possible source of aid with important foods is the WIC (Women, Infants and Children). This one is for you if you are pregnant, breastfeeding or have children under the age of 5.
If you can’t find good, affordable child care, you can’t go out to work.
It’s as simple as that. But finding good, affordable child care is anything but simple for single moms. Day care centres cost a lot of money, and getting someone reliable to come to look after the kids at home can cost even more.
Here’s what to do. Firstly, check this link out.
It takes you to the state’s Department of Human Services who offer assistance to find and pay for child care for eligible moms. Chances are, if you have a low income and are finding it difficult to pay for child care, you will be able to get something from this.
However, if you find you’re not eligible, don’t give up. There are other ways to arrange childcare should you find yourself ineligible for a state help program. Make friends with other single parents in your neighborhood, and establish a babysitting circle. If one or two of you work different part time shifts, perhaps you can share childcare? Or, if there are several single moms, maybe those who go to work can club together to pay a little to a non working mom to take care of the kids? That way everyone benefits!
Talk to community groups too, as many churches or other groups offer crèche facilities to members.
Everyone knows how important it is to have good healthcare, especially if you are pregnant or looking after young children. Kids are always having accidents or getting ill, and although these are usually (thankfully!) minor problems, occasionally something more serious happens and you need to have hospital care. Then there’s all the routine stuff like vaccinations, optical care and dentistry to pay for. Normal healthcare policies can be just too much for single moms to afford.
Stop worrying. Michigan has programs in place for you and your family.
Michigan also has a Healthy Kids Program for the children, in case you don’t quite make the income cut off point for Medicaid. And for you (because moms need healthcare too!) there are the Transitional Medical and Transitional Assistance Plus schemes. Low Income Family programs could also be of assistance.
Finding suitable accommodation for you and your kids is yet another problem single moms have to face. It isn’t easy, finding the right place but when money is tight it gets even harder. As a single mom you need to feel safe as well as provide decent housing for your kids.
If you live in Michigan, HUD (Housing and Urban Development) is often able to provide rent assistance, and can also help you to find housing.
You might need to go back to college to train for a profession, or to get higher qualifications that lead you to a good job. Or, it could be your children who want to go to college. Either way, college is important, and education is an invaluable tool to finding a better life.
Paying for it all can be tough, if you are getting by on very little money. So it’s good to know that there are thousands of grants, loans and scholarships out there for you to take advantage of. Scholarships offered can range from those given to exceptional students with talents in an academic, arts or sporting sphere to those awarded to kids or adults who have been outstanding in helping in the community. Colleges and schools award their own grants and scholarships, as do some employers.
Begin by taking a look at the FAFSA website. FAFSA stands for ‘Free Application for Federal Student Aid’, and this is what you need to apply for in the first instance.
Certain professional courses, like nursing, also carry their own special grants schemes, so find out about any professional courses you may be considering.
There could also be extra awards if you or your kids have a disability or illness. Check it out on the internet, as many special needs awards are made across the US every year. Some churches or religious groups might even offer scholarships to their members.
Running a car by yourself is can be very costly, so try getting together with a group of moms to share a car…gas and maintenance if you can share the expenses it isn’t so bad.
While some states have reliable and regular public transport systems only in their towns and cities, Michigan does a pretty good job of providing this service in its more rural areas too. Public transport is usually affordable as well, so get to know it!
Michigan has a lot of programs that will give you the help you need so don’t miss out!


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In the last few years, the line between vacation rentals and hotels has thinned in many traveler’s minds. Formerly known as “alternative accommodations,” vacation rentals are the new norm, with research projecting a $169.7 billion market by 2019. Even though vacation rentals have been around forever, it’s just recently that they’re showing up to market themselves in the same grown-up clothes of hotels. And by grown-up clothes, we mean the in the branded web pages of major online travel agencies.
For hotels, OTAs are more commonplace, accounting for 45% of hotelier’s online bookings in 2016, according to Phocuswright. Vacation rentals have traditionally depended more on sites like HomeAway, Airbnb, Flipkey and their own branded websites. In the grand scheme of the travel industry, there’s no doubt that Airbnb will continue to haul tail on major travel websites like Expedia Inc and Priceline Group. Reports have shown that on peak nights, vacation rentals have become the more popular accommodations type.
But vacation rentals don’t stop at Airbnb and HomeAway anymore — nor FlipKey, Wimdu, or any number of niche vacation rental listing sites out there.
The increased marketing spend for vacation rentals from traditional accommodation sites (and the improved technology for vacation rental channel managers) means professionals in the space have more opportunity to increase their nights booked like never before.
Who are the major OTAs?
When looking at the different travel brands for booking and planning online travel, it can feel a bit like Coke and Pepsi, where two companies control the fizzy beverage industry. The two most prominent entities for online travel are Expedia (including brands like Hotels.com, Orbitz, HomeAway, Hotwire, Trivago and more) and Priceline Group (with travel sites like Priceline, booking.com, Kayak, and Open Table).
Some of these travel brands will let owners and managers book vacation rentals.
Online travel agencies are devoting massive budgets to marketing (millions of dollars each month on television alone) and so sometimes you will see those costs in the commissions you pay. While the online channels used to only cost a hotel business between 5-10% of a their revenue, the new costs can sit around 15-25%, depending on the channel used.
On the other hand, they also come with features like rate parity and last minute availability, as Cindi Etis Green mentioned in her Demistifying the Digital Marketplace blog.
Spending this much on guest acquisition is something to always be cautious about, especially when there are other thrifty ways to get bookings.
The amount you spend on guest acquisition — whether directly on your own vacation rental website or on diverse OTAs — will be determined by your own bottom line. Out of all the online channels out there for booking accommodations, we’ve picked six major online travel agencies to help you decipher the complicated online market for vacation rentals.
To create your own professional analysis of online distribution you’ll want to evaluate your opportunities, which you can begin below. As you build out the lists you’ll want to also crunch the numbers to see if it is the right OTA for you.
While creating this overview, we found that a lot of the information needed to make smart marketing decisions was spread out across several sites. We hope this document will help you save time while determining your own marketing strategy.
Note: This overview was created with publicly available information and travel websites are subject to change their pricing at any time. OneRoofotp will continue to update this overview, so feel free to bookmark this page so you can return to it. You should always confirm pricing with travel websites before activating your listing.
Commission: Hosts pay a 3% commission for bookings that happen through the website. The guest would also be charged a guest service fee ranging between 6-12%. According to Airbnb’s website, larger reservations would pay a smaller guest fee.
Other traveler benefits: Airbnb’s release of Experiences lets travelers book unique and local tours in their destination city. Airbnb’s Trips function will also soon allow guests to book airplanes and rent cars.
Good to know: Hosts are paid 24 hours after a guest’s scheduled check in.
Commission: Opt out of subscription costs and pay up to 8% per booking.
Other traveler benefits: Book with confidence guarantee. Learn more here.
Commission: 12% commission, or for increased visibility you can pay 15% commission.
Insurance available: Owners can take a security deposit, and guests also have the Payment Protection plan for travelers.
Commission: Starts at 15%. Hosts can pay more for improved listing standing, up to 49%.
Traveler benefits: Booking.com’s message is that they will get travelers the best rates and the most diverse accommodations, plus they tout 0 cancellation fees.
Commission: Negotiated. Starts at 10%.
Traveler benefits: Book your flight, accommodations, and rental cars all at once. Low-price guarantee.
Commission: Negotiated on a sliding scale.
Traveler benefits: Book your flight, accommodations, and rental cars all at once.
Vacation rental owners and managers have worked really hard to increase their visibility, provide unique experiences, and grow their nights booked. The travel industry responds by bringing what non-traditional accommodation into the mainstream.
But what does it mean for vacation rental managers who have been building their own brands online?
That the major travel sites now let guests book their stays in a professionally managed home while also booking a flight or a rental car doesn’t necessarily mean that your brand will take a full hit.
Research from Cornell University showed that hotel brands using major online travel agencies, Expedia in this case, actually gained legitimacy from listing their rooms on Expedia. Visibility can lead to gained trust and direct bookings through what’s called the Billboard Effect. As vacation rentals gain traction in marketplaces previously dominated by hotels, it will be intriguing to see how the Billboard Effect translates as well.
Every vacation rental business has its own professional objectives.
Your business should have clear goals when you decide to turn on your channel manager. Because here’s the thing. When vacation rentals, listing sites, and travelers mix, they don’t yield the same result for everyone. We reached out to Matt Landau of the Vacation Rental Marketing Blog and Los Cuartos Tulipanes to share his experience when testing out Expedia.
Our goal, like many other owners and managers, was to diversify the different sources that produced bookings. Because it seemed irresponsible to our business to be relying on any one channel too much. We signed up with Expedia.com and immediately got results. However, there was a catch.
Guests who booked through these platforms seemed to be different from our bread and butter guests. Because we weren’t able to communicate with them prior to the stay, the nature of the relationship was more transactional (and less “small business to patron”) than our normal guests. Expedia guests came less prepared for the neighborhood (an emerging ghetto), less attuned to my company’s unique (read: weird) business values, and less excited in general about the whole experience.
In the end, after about six months of experimentation, we decided to discontinue with Expedia because we valued quality of bookings over quantity of bookings. I like how we got accepted warmly by Expedia, were delivered bookings with very little effort, and were permitted to cancel without any fees. Expedia was a very rewarding vacation rental experiment in my book.
What I like about Matt’s story is not only his openness to embrace new marketing techniques, but the clear values he put to the test.
Channel managers make your business more connected to more places, but that’s not the most interesting part about them. The most interesting part is that all your bookings are then stored in your own CRM — customer relationship manager. A booking, no matter where it came from, means potential for future relationships.
We’ve seen successful relationships build between host and guests who book again in the future time after time. But instead of re-booking on HomeAway, guests book on your vacation rental’s website. Successful hosts have done this through social media engagement, email newsletters, keeping a blog, and making special offers to past guests that wish to book again. And as you start to get these relationships and consistency, your brand can grow.
What does it really mean that the big players in travel now let vacation rentals book online? Well for one thing, a huge increase in marketing spend. If you leverage these opportunities, they can help you get more bookings that you may not have gotten otherwise. With a channel manager for your vacation rentals, you can distribute, maintain, and (if needed) take down inventory with much less effort.
Need help deciding on what channels make the most sense for you?
OneRooftop’s channel manager gives you the opportunity to distribute and maintain your properties on hundreds of online marketplaces. Reach out to support@onerooftop.com to learn more.

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text: Located in Umbria in the heart of Tuscany, in a town called Collazzone that is situated above the Tiber River Valley, La Segreta is focused on making wines from indigenous varieties and making them in a way that respects the local flora and fauna. All vines are pruned by hand, all grapes are picked by hand and all wines are spontaneously fermented with natural yeasts. Freghino is a proprietary name which translates to “Teenage Scoundrel.” It’s a blend of 92 percent Sangiovese, 4 percent Colorino and 4 percent Malvasia Nera, all of which are certified organic. After alcoholic fermentation in stainless steel, the juice spends six months in French oak and another six months in stainless steel. The resulting wine emits aromas of black cherry, sun-baked earth and thyme. On the palate I sense sour cherry, clove, chocolate and dried orange peel. With gravelly tannins, medium body and pronounced acidity all in great balance with the fruit, I feel like this wine is a great value. The patience the winery displays during fermentation and elevage really comes through in the finished product. Fabulous!

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The title tag is probably one of the most important items on your blog posts. It not only attracts visitors, but is also used to help determine how the post ranks. However, what’s good for search engines, isn’t always good to attract users. The good news is that with WordPress blogs, you can target the best of both worlds a lot easier.
To do this, you’d create a post with a title that is targeted towards getting people from blog search engines or grab their attention in feed readers. Something that jumps out a little or that makes the reader want more.
Then, using SEO Title Tag, you can customize the page title for search engines. This may be a bit more formal and include a few more keyword phrases. Still very relevant to the content, but maybe not as edgie as the actual post title.
As an example, your post title (the one that shows up in feed readers and blog search engines) can be: How I Royally Screwed My Site on Google. Now, for the actual page title you could say: Hidden Text – My SEO Experience and Google Lesson Learned.
Ideally, if you could write both the post and the page title to be identical, and catch all viewers, that’d be great. However, sometimes what catches a viewers attention, and what a search engine likes to rank, are two different things.
The same the same idea applies to social sites where the post title may be What Not To Do With Your Business Blog but then submit something like What Pisses Me Off About SEO Blogs to attract visitors and votes from Digg like sites.
In the end, you want to get as many readers to your blog as you can. Creating titles that rank well in search engines and help draw in visitors is key to getting people to your blog. Now it’s up to your actual content to keep them there.
Here’s a funny one and a practical example. Check Google for: “chicks with swords” and you’ll find Marketing Pilgrim at #1. What that has to do with search marketing news, I don’t know, but Andy’s getting some interesting traffic as a result.


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The path to building AdXpose — which sold to comScore today for $22 million — was definitely not a straight one. With startups, it rarely is. (I recently gave a presentation on this topic at Casual Connect, which you can read here).
Backed by Ignition Partners, the company was founded in 2004 under the name Mpire by Dave Cotter and Greg Harrison. It started out as an eBay seller tool. Fantastic product, but too small of a market.
I joined the board in 2005 and got to see first-hand the trials and tribulations of a team trying to navigate a crowded market. When I joined, we basically started over.
Here’s the back story on that transformation.
We took all of our knowledge around shopping data and built a shopping search engine with analytics on when to buy items — not unlike Farecast (now Bing Travel) and Decide.com.
Desperate, and without any revenue to speak of, we started to do work-for-hire jobs for eBay. That experience led us into the advertising business.
We started by building data widgets for eBay, which became the underpinnings of an ad network. That led us to create an ad network around shopping. None of us had built an ad network before, and we really didn’t know how to run one.
We launched the WidgetBucks ad network, learned a lot, made mistakes, iterated, and improved. But we quickly recognized a problem: there were too many ad networks and we were concerned about punching through the market noise.
While we built a huge network of publishers and bloggers, we weren’t making the big dollars we had hoped for.
That led to a transformation where we created ads so that they could dynamically optimize themselves. We collected information on where the ads were placed on the page; what text was around them; how they were performing; and what creative was working.
This emerged for one simple reason: We didn’t have a large team. Necessity was truly the mother of all invention.
WidgetBucks exposed massive amounts of data that publishers and ad networks had never seen before. They were intrigued (and maybe scared). Eureka. A new product was born and, yes, another business model pivot. This being the fourth and final one. (We internally joked that we changed the name every year so that we would win industry awards).
We launched AdXpose as a software-as-a-service product for agencies, brands, networks, and exchanges. CTO and founder Greg Harrison built the team and had a crazy passion for providing truth and justice in advertising. (Some members of the original team from 2004 are still at the company. And, before I left, I hired some fantastic business leaders in CEO Kirby Winfield and CFO Jeff Bergstrom who both know startups. These folks took AdXpose to another level).
As we all learned at Mpire/WidgetBucks/AdXpose, most startups don’t actually start with the product or service that they end with. The key ingredient to success, in my mind, is a great team. And that includes investors, which in the case of AdXpose included Bill Bryant from DFJ; Mike Vernon of Zulily and Jeff Lanctot (former chief strategy officer of Razorfish). In addition, we had some notable board members like Rob Solomon (who just recently left Groupon) and Michelle Goldberg and Rich Tong of Ignition Partners.
There certainly were a lot of twists and turns along the way. But after multiple pivots and transformations, we got there, and comScore is lucky to have AdXpose.
I am so very proud of the team over at AdXpose. I am the Chairman and was the CEO of the company. They just announced a sale today to Comscore. The market leading and industry innovative technology that we launched several years ago is now going to be on some serious rocketfuel combined with Comscore's global sales team. I am excited to see how Comscore can utilize the AdXpose technology to help with campaign and brand verification to their huge client base.


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The Obama administration found itself in the cross hairs of mounting Republican frustration Tuesday over national security policy, with particular focus on unanswered questions surrounding the Boston Marathon bombings last month and the terrorist attack last year on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
With 134 Republican members of the GOP-controlled House now signed on to a bill that would create a select committee to investigate the Benghazi attacks, Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, seethed that U.S. national security has “deteriorated” under President Obama’s watch.
Mr. Graham made the remarks on a day when Mr. Obama told reporters that he was unaware of recent accusations by Benghazi whistleblowers that they were being intimidated by the administration over their cooperation with congressional investigators.
While Mr. Obama pledged to look into the matter, State Department officials vowed closer communication with Congress about Benghazi while seeking to discredit a media report that claimed someone in the administration warned CIA and State Department officials not to speak out about the incident.
When asked about the report, Secretary of State John F. Kerry responded that “there’s an enormous amount of misinformation out there” and that he was appointing his own chief of staff, David Wade, to work directly with lawmakers in an effort to answer any questions related to the Benghazi attack, in which U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed.
Later Tuesday, another State Department official took on a dismissive posture toward a report Monday by Fox News. In the report, Washington power lawyer Victoria Toensing said she is representing a State Department employee who has been threatened by unidentified Obama administration officials not to cooperate with lawmakers seeking to keep the Benghazi attack in the headlines.
Mrs. Toensing, a former Justice Department official and former Republican counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, also told Fox that at least four career officials at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency have retained attorneys or are in the process of doing so, as they prepare to provide sensitive information about the Benghazi attack to lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
Her claims appeared to dovetail with a letter written Friday to Mr. Kerry by Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican, suggesting that the State Department is deliberately making it difficult for private lawyers to achieve security clearances needed for the lawyers to represent department officials.
“It’s not something that anybody has tried to get us involved in” either on the administration’s behalf or from whistleblower lawyers, the official said.
Mrs. Toensing did not responded to multiple requests for comment.
It was not clear whether the State and CIA officials to whom Mrs. Toensing drew attention in the Fox report were among survivors of the Benghazi attack. Some of the survivors reportedly received treatment — even recently — at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for injuries sustained in the attack.
In a statement Tuesday evening, Mr. Wolf said Mr. Kerry’s office never responded to his March 1 letter.
Mr. Wolf also said 134 House Republicans “have stood up to this cover-up” by co-sponsoring a bill he introduced months ago to create a select committee to deepen investigations about Benghazi by several congressional committees.
“Just one week has passed since the release of the interim progress report on Benghazi by the five committees currently investigating the attack, and already 14 more members of Congress have signed on” to the bill calling for the creation of a separate, select committee, he said.
The president said Tuesday that he was unaware of any allegations of intimidation made by Benghazi whistleblowers.
The White House initially said the attack in Benghazi was likely spontaneous and sparked by demonstrations in other Middle Eastern cities against an amateur anti-Muslim YouTube video, which was produced by a U.S.-based Egyptian Christian.
Administration officials later characterized the attacks as an organized terrorist assault.
Mr. Graham, meanwhile, argued that the administration’s handling of the Benghazi attack was just the start of a pattern of bad management that also can be seen in the aftermath of the Boston bombings.
Democrats, including Mr. Obama, have defended the administration’s handling of the war on terrorism generally, by pointing to the death of Osama bin Laden and, joined by some Republicans, are cautioning against politicizing the Boston bombings.
Several lawmakers have defended the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community for not doing more to chase down intelligence chatter from Russia about the two suspects, both Chechen Muslims, prior to the bombings. They note that the Kremlin did not respond to several entreaties from U.S. law enforcement for more information about the Tsarnaevs and note that Moscow has its own political reasons for exaggerating Chechens’ ties to terrorism.
But Mr. Graham appeared eager to suggest that the White House’s overall posture toward the threat of terrorism has not been serious enough and that, as a result, the administration has fostered a law enforcement and intelligence environment susceptible to missteps and failures.
• Jerry Seper and Susan Crabtree contributed to this report.

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Medically things are going OK-ish. I don't want to tempt fate by putting it any more strongly than that. I still have a sporadic, niggly pain around the site of my anastomosis (the bit where they joined my gut back together again in June 2011). This has been ongoing for quite a while and gets worse when I've been doing a lot of physical work, worn a belt too tightly or have been on my feet for a long time. My consultant thinks it's purely mechanical and nothing to worry about.
Between now and Christmas I have four outpatient appointments and will have a chance to practice what I preach using my 8 point approach to "Managing Consultants and Appointments".
(There's a separate post which goes into the detail if you are interested. It should be obvious which one it is - the clue is in its title).
This was to have been the sign-off appointment where I got handed back to gastroenterology. The "elephant in the room" however is thrombocytopenia - the relative decrease of platelets in the blood. A normal value is anywhere between 150 and 400, I've been well below 100 (hovering around the 60 mark) for quite a while now but not exhibited any obvious adverse effects such as bleeding profusely if I cut myself. We had decided to park the issue but when I re-read my notes from the last gastro appointment, and the subsequent follow-up letter (6) , they said that my GI would not put me on a maintenance dose of Azathioprine because it may have caused the thrombocytopenia.
"I have my next haematology appointment on Wednesday week. At the last one it was suggested that I could then be discharged back to your care, as we have done with hepatology. The fewer clinics I have to attend the better but I have one question for you regarding my thrombocytopenia from a Crohn's standpoint.
Because I am asymptomatic and there are many possible causes of the low platelets we have "parked" further investigation. When I saw you at the end of June, we discussed Crohn's remission and the use of Azathioprine as a maintenance drug but you said you would not want to prescribe it because of the low platelets. Will the non-resolution of the platelets preclude the use of any other potential medications that might be needed if my Crohn's starts to deteriorate? Is Azathioprine ruled out by low platelets regardless of the cause?"
"Having read this email - I think we do need to go ahead and finally do the bone marrow test to see if we can be more definitive about the cause for your low platelet count as this is having an impact on your treatment options. We can discuss it when I see you on Wednesday."
For haematology appointments it's worth turning up half an hour early as they always take a blood sample and have the results available during your consultation. I booked in and then took a seat. Within 5 minutes I was called by the phlebotomist and had a blood sample taken. It was then back to the seating area, ready for a long wait. After another 10 minutes I heard my name being called. A doctor I hadn't seen before introduced herself and apologised for keeping me waiting even though I was being seen 15 minutes early. My usual consultant was on holiday so no point in asking "for continuity" (3) and anyway I had already decided that I would be happy to be seen by whichever doctor I was allocated.
As we entered the consulting room I showed her my list (1)(6) and explained I had a few questions to ask. She had started reading my notes but they didn't include a copy of the recent email correspondence so she was unaware that I was to have a bone marrow biopsy. Luckily I had a copy of the emails on my phone so she was able to read them for herself.
We went through the causes of low platelet counts - increased destruction ie. the body is producing sufficient platelets but something is destroying a number of them, possibly drug induced; or decreased production ie. the body isn't producing the right number in the first place and could be down to bone marrow failure. The biopsy would help to focus the investigation. (I suppose it could be a combination of both but we'll cross that bridge....).
We also discussed some other factors which I'm still struggling to understand. I have an enlarged spleen (splenomegaly) - what caused that? Enlarged spleens can hold increased numbers of platelets and therefore lower the number in circulation and the number that get counted. Then there's the blood clot in my portal vein (PVT - Portal Vein Thrombosis). Did this cause the spleen to enlarge? The doctor remarked that blood clots in this location were common in Crohn's patients and it was plausible that the clot could have been there since my emergency operation in 1979 as the liver specialist suggested. I asked why it hadn't shown up on the various x-rays and scans that I had had over the years. She replied that unless the radiologist was specifically looking in that area it would be easy to overlook. Unfortunately the x-rays up to the year 2000 are no longer available. There is a CT scan from 2009.....but this is all rather academic.
By now the results from the blood test appeared on the system - platelets 60, the lowest ever, but white cell and red cell counts normal. This suggested a platelet specific problem, not a general blood disorder.
1) What involved in a bone marrow biopsy? It's carried out under local anaesthetic by introducing a needle into the hip bone (?) and taking a small sample of marrow and then using a slightly larger needle to take a small core. Will it hurt? You've got Crohn's disease and had surgery so you're used to pain. The most uncomfortable bit is injecting the local anaesthetic. Some patients don't even feel the biopsy needles being introduced.
Back to reception to book the biopsy and the follow-up appointment. I was offered the biopsy for the next morning. Unfortunately I wasn't going to be in London so declined. "We have a slot at 3.00pm next Wednesday, is that any good?". Excellent and the follow-up appointment was set for the week before Christmas.
The next day I got a phone call from the doctor asking me to forward a copy of the email correspondence for inclusion on my file. I told her that the biopsy was planned for one week's time and she sounded genuinely surprised it was so soon. I mentioned that the follow-up appointment wasn't until December and wondered if it should be brought forward. She assured me that once the biopsy results were available she would be in contact with their findings. Roll on the biopsy.
The procedure was planned for 3:00pm. In the morning I had told various colleagues that I wouldn't be around after lunch and explained why. Every single one of them uttered the same 3 words "that sounds painful". After you've heard it for the umpteenth time a few nagging doubts set in but I remembered what the haematologist had said last week "You've got Crohn's. You've had operations. You've dealt with pain! This will be nothing by comparison."
I set off in good time, (if you've read any other posts you will know that I always do), and arrived at Guy's twenty minutes early, checked in and waited to be called. A nurse came over and gave me an identification wristband as the procedure would be carried out in the Day Hospital section. She said that I shouldn't have to wait too long.
It was around 3:30pm when the doctor appeared. Her first reaction was "have you come alone?" That sounded a bit alarming. I asked why I would need to be accompanied and she replied that most patients were nervous about the procedure and liked to have someone with them.
I asked how long it would take for the results to be available as my follow-up appointment was planned for mid-December. She replied that they should be available in 4 or 5 weeks and they would contact me if anything untoward showed up. I asked to be informed even if nothing showed up as I didn't want to wait until the appointment to find out.
The aim is to get a liquid sample (aspirate) that can then be spread onto microscope slides for an initial examination within the department. She was having problems getting a good sample that wasn't contaminated with blood as it kept clotting (which goes against what you would expect from low platelets). Because I was tolerating the needle so well she took some more samples but explained that the as long as she could get a good core sample then the quality of the liquid samples wasn't important.
Time for the coring needle, which is quite a bit larger than the previous one. If you've ever seen one of those food programmes about cheese no doubt there will have been a scene where the cheesemaker inserts a tool into the cheese and pulls out a nice sample. Same principle here!
It takes a fair amount of force to push the larger needle through the outer layer of the bone. I could certainly feel it as it went deeper in. It wasn't so much pain as a dull ache that traveled into the leg. After a couple of minutes of pushing the needle into the right depth it was withdrawn and the sample released. She was very pleased with the resulting core and set about dressing the puncture wound.
Throughout the procedure we talked about low platelet counts, possible causes, what the tests would show, the fact that my red and white cell counts were normal, my Crohn's history, empowered patients etc. It was very informative and kept me at my ease.
If you have got to have this procedure done it really is fairly painless. Once the initial local anaesthetic has been injected it's pretty much plain sailing.
24th October - "Please relax this weekend"
I had added a reminder into my calendar to email the consultant after 5 weeks and ask if there had been any news. I needn't have bothered as they were already "on my case".
On 24th October I received an email saying "your bone marrow is being discussed with the Histopathologist and Dr. xxxxx will write to you with the results. We will see you in clinic in December." Straight onto Wikipedia and I now know that a Histopathologist is someone who carries out "microscopic examination of tissue in order to study the manifestations of disease".
I replied by asking if, once the discussions had been concluded, they could email me with an indication of what they had found I explained that I had rescheduled my appointment for the end of November so that it preceded my Gastro appointment in early December. Last Friday I received another email saying that it would be easier to discuss the findings in clinic. Whoa. Did that mean - nothing to worry about, it can wait; or it's serious and we want to tell you face to face?
I'm pretty laid back about my health nowadays. I've had enough shocks along the way to just accept whatever will be will be but I was starting to get an uneasy feeling. There was no way I would relax over the weekend knowing that the results had been assessed but I was in the dark. Time for another email "...I wonder if you could just put my mind at rest that you haven't found anything too serious otherwise I won't be able to relax this weekend!"
"Please relax this weekend. We have reviewed your bone marrow in our multi-disciplinary meeting and there is nothing sinister to report. The findings suggest that your marrow is underproducing platelets rather than it being an immune cause that we had presumed secondary to your longstanding history of Crohn's. This may be due to previous Azathioprine use.......I look forward to seeing you on 20th November and we can discuss this in person and in more details then. In the meantime - I hope this reassures you."
Next stop - 12th November - upper GI endoscopy to see if my esophageal varices have regrown and to band them if necessary. Obviously I'm hoping that they find nothing as you can only eat sloppy food for four days after any banding otherwise the food might dislodge them. For what happened please see the post entitled "Upper GI Endoscopy".
Haematology - 20th November 2013 Today's appointment was to go through my bone marrow biopsy results. Even though I had already had the email a couple of weeks back telling me that there was "nothing sinister to report" but it was always at the back of my mind that there might be something significant that needs discussing face-to-face.
I got to the clinic early to allow time for the obligatory blood test. With that over I settled down to wait for one of the consultants. After 15 minutes my usual doctor collected me and we went into a consulting room. She started our conversation with "Yours is not a simple case.....".
She had printed out two biopsy reports - one for the recent bone marrow procedure and the other for last year's liver biopsy (which I had not seen before - more of that later).
The bone marrow results had been discussed at the MDM (multi-disciplinary meeting) and the initial conclusion was that they were "in keeping with early/low myelodysplastic syndrome, histologically suggesting MDS-RCMD." She knew that I would have looked this up on the net and then probably have been worried/distracted by the potential links with leukemia. That's why the report hadn't been emailed to me.
She went on to say that she was not completely happy with the MDS conclusion because a bone marrow biopsy looks at two substances - the marrow itself and the aspirate, that's the bone marrow liquid. When I had the original procedure the doctor said that she was not getting good aspirate slides as the blood in the samples kept clotting. After several attempts, but with little success, she decided to concentrate on taking a good bone marrow core.
"It's like having a three piece jigsaw from which two pieces were missing." So at the next MDM they had discussed the results again and decided that, in my case, it was unlikely to be MDS but would recommend a further biopsy to get useable aspirate samples. "How would I feel about this?" I replied I really wasn't fussed, the most painful bit was the initial injection of local anaesthetic. If it would help narrow down the diagnosis then the sooner the better. She explained that this time they would use Heparin with the sample needle as this should prevent the blood from clotting.
They had then gone on to discuss what the implications for treatment would be if it was/was not MDS. In either case the preferred course for treatment, at this stage, would be "do nothing" unless I was to have any procedures that could cause bleeding or that require surgery. A supply of platelets should be made available if either of these were needed. The difference in approaches would be in the monitoring regimes and we would discuss this further after the next biopsy results were available.
"Features of cholangiopathy, with slight cholangiocyte disarray, occasional juxtaportal hepatocytes containing copper-binding protein deposits, and scattered ceroid-laden macrophages in portal tracts. Patchy mild portal-tract fibrosis with perisinusoidal extension and early spurring. Macrovesicular steatosis of hepatocytes (5% of parenchyma). Slight centrilobular sinusoidal ectasia noted. Crohn's disease with splenic vein block (clinical diagnosis), see comment. An early stage of primary sclerosing cholangitis is a possibility. Correlation with imaging-study findings appears in order. I can not suggest an aetiology for the slight sinusoidal ectasia observed."
Next Appointment - 2nd December to see my gastro-enterologist. Will be interesting how all these strands come together. I'll also get the result of the calprotectin test that was done recently. It will be a good pointer as to whether my Crohn's is active/inactive and consequently what the future treatment plan is likely to involve. If it is still in remission then is it better to continue without any medication for as long as possible or would it be better to start taking precautionary doses? I get the feeling that the answer won't be a simple one.
If you've looked at some of my earlier posts you may have read about the problem I have had with not getting follow-up letters out of Haematology in a timely manner. This was brought home to me when I saw my gastro-enterologist last Monday (2nd December). He was unaware that I had seen the haematologist to discuss the results of original biopsy; that there were implications for restarting Azathioprine; that a second procedure had been arranged and all because there was no letter detailing all this on my file. (He very helpfully went on to say that a bone marrow biopsy was the one test he really wouldn't want to go through himself!).
Biopsy II Day. A beautiful, sunny winter's day. Took the District Line down to Monument and then a stroll over London Bridge, underneath The Shard and on to Guy's Hospital.
She went off to find the Heparin. When she returned she laid out the various bits of equipment - swabs, needles, instruments of torture, local anaesthetic etc. She got me to arrange my clothes so she could access my hipbone and to ensure any leakage missed them. I then rolled onto my left hand side and draw my knees up onto my chest.
Last time it was the local anaesthetic injections that stung the most but this time they were outdone by the sample needle. I think a couple more minutes to allow the anaesthetic to work and it would have been fine. She looked at the first slides but they weren't quite as she wanted, probably due to the Heparin. She asked if it was OK to go back in with another needle to get a second sample. This time I felt nothing apart from a liquid trickling down my back. It could only be blood. Slightly unnerving. Clearly the Heparin had worked. She was now happy with the slides and showed me what they were looking for. To prove how truly sad I am I asked her if I could take a picture of a "correct" slide.
She cleaned up the "leakage" and put a dressing over the puncture. It was then a 15 minute wait, lying on my back, to ensure everything had started to seal itself. She warned me that it was likely to need a new dressing before I left hospital due to the action of the Heparin. After 15 minutes a nurse came and changed the dressing and I was allowed to go back to work.
Now I have to wait for the results. Can't believe it - I forgot to ask how long that process would take. Must also chase up the follow-up letter but quite frankly I've had enough of appointments and procedures for this year. I just want to chill out and try and forget about medical matters. The follow-up appointment is set for 19th February.
She explained that after the last bone marrow biopsy one of the samples, which should have gone for histological testing, had either been mislaid or mislabelled so did not make it to the histologist. This is why she had rung me a few weeks back to explain the situation. She had however looked at the other slides from the second biopsy and these were fine. She had discussed the missing sample with the chief histologist and he suggested doing a particular type of blood test which had proved to be 60% effective in spotting problems, if there were any. The results would be available in a week's time. The alternative was to have a third bone marrow biopsy but they didn't want me to put me through that again. I'm really not that fussed.
1) Long term prognosis - will not affect the other issues I have - Crohn's, potential PSC, PVT. Must avoid use of Azathioprine in the future. Today's platelet count = 74, an increase of 18, but don't get hung up on the numbers as I am currently asymptomatic ie. I don't bleed profusely if I cut myself.
2) Cause of low platelets - no signs of any marrow abnormalities which could have pointed to a more sinister conclusion ie. leukaemia therefore cause is drug induced - long term use of Azathioprine.
...and the implications for other Azathioprine users? The above is just MY experience of taking that drug and as we all react differently to medications you should not assume you will end up in the same situation. Whilst I stopped taking it when we realised there was a potential problem it has not damaged my bone marrow sufficiently to need to take further action. The haematologist described it as like having a "four cylinder engine but only running on three". Would I have agreed to starting Azathioprine back in 1998 if I knew then what I know now? Yes. For nearly ten years it kept surgery at bay so that when the knife became inevitable I was in a much better position both financially and mentally to cope.


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CEO, author, and accomplished concert pianist: these are just a few titles Marcia Nozick has on her resume. She’s a founding member and CEO of EMBERS (Eastside Movement for Business and Economic Renewal Society), and the recipient of numerous awards, including the BIV Influential Women in Business Award. Nozick envisioned an organization committed to building sustainable communities. Driven by her entrepreneurial spirit and leadership, EMBERS went from a small and innovative idea to becoming an award-winning member of Vancouver’s economic community. She was featured in the Winners’ Circle of a previous issue of The Edge, and this is part of that interview.
What was the process for establishing EMBERS? How did you overcome any struggles or roadblocks?
Around 1999, I, an active volunteer and resident of the Downtown Eastside (DTES), was chairing а committee on community economic development. This committee conducted 18 months of roundtable discussions with residents to understand what strategies would work for the neighbourhood. The committee identified а need to establish an organization aimed at empowering the hidden entrepreneurial talent of the community. As а result, I founded EMBERS in 2001. The first of its kind in the DTES, EMBERS’ mission was to help low-income entrepreneurs access the training and support needed to turn their talents into businesses and become financially self-sufficient.
ln 2008, you launched ЕМBERS Staffing Solutions (ESS), а social enterprise that provides jobs to people who face barriers to employment. What motivated you to start it?
ln 2008, we launched ЕМBERS Staffing Solutions as а way to have an even greater social impact, targeting people in our community who are facing barriers to work, but looking to rebuild their lives. Through our job-creating social enterprise, we employ people in addictions recovery, people exiting prison and people facing other life challenges – people who have truly changed their lives, but struggle with getting а job because of their past. Mainstream employment programs at the time focused on finding people full-time work. For а large portion of the population of the DTES, holding а full-time job was not а realistic option due to mental or physical illness, life crises, and other barriers. As а result, we created ESS with the goal of creating flexible, short-term work placements that could act as а bridge towards full-time employment.
What do you think Canada’s greatest social problem is today? Do you have any suggestions about how citizens can help resolve it?
I think Canada’s greatest social problem is the income disparity between its richest and poorest citizens. Nearly one out of five children in Canada lives in poverty. This is а country where wealth abounds and where the top 20% own 70% of the wealth. What this says to me is that we don’t have an economic problem but а moral problem. It’s about the choices we make in how we distribute our wealth. Living in poverty leads to many other social problems such as poor nutrition, poor health, and lower productivity. Income polarization also leads to an achievement and motivation gap. It’s а downward spiral for all of society.
What can citizens do? This is complicated. How do you change а system? At the core, it’s about caring for one another. We need to nurture compassion in our daily life. People can become engaged in helping others and shifting our societal mindset from exclusion to inclusion, from а care-less society to а caring society.
You’ve been working in the field of community economic development for 15 years. What factors hinder а society’s prosperity?
I believe that everybody has something to contribute to the prosperity and health of our society. The problem is that for many people living on the margins, for people living with disabilities or other barriers to employment, there are few avenues of opportunity for contributing to society. Working in the field of community economic development, my focus has been on promoting and creating alternative economic models such as social enterprises, which meet the specific employment needs of marginalized people, empowering them to work and be productive, rather than leaving them out of the economic equation.
What advice can you give to young women who want to help their communities by starting а charitable organization?
Have faith and work hard. Even when things are tough, if you persevere and put in the work required, you can succeed. Also, find your “why” and go after it. If you can connect your work back to your passion, you can never go wrong. Things find а way of falling into place and you will have а meaningful life.
Why did you decide to focus on community development and not work in for-profit companies? What is your driving force?
For as long as I can remember, I have always sided with the “underdog,” the person that others had given up on. I believe in the power of people and their essential goodness. So it was natural that, as an adult, I would choose to work with people who had challenges, but who I believe with the right kind of support can rise above their challenges and succeed in life. I see this every day. It’s а miracle and it keeps me inspired.


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This last weekend, after grabbings a couple shots of the fashion shoot next door, I met up with my friend and we wandered the Dallas Farmer’s Market, Nikons in hand, taking photographs of what caught our eye. What I saw first was the vegetables (other subjects to follow in the dreary days ahead).
Some sheds at the market feature fresh local produce, others produce dealers – so I suppose what you get isn’t too much different than what you see in your local supermarket, but it looks so much more ripe and delicious lined up there in split-wood baskets in front of the trucks with hand-lettered cardboard signs. The vendors hawk their wares – holding out sample chunks of melon or wedges of grapefruit they cut in front of you with pocketknives. You can’t help but smile and salivate at this cornucopia of wonderfulness.
Filling bags with food to take home is one thing – buying fruit and eating while you walk around is another, a sweet treat – blueberries, tangerines, peaches and plums – all designed to nibble and stroll, packaged in their own skins, ready to give up their juice and pulp.
One vendor features tomatoes. The back of his slot is filled with pallets of tomatoes. Lots and lots of tomatoes.
Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green. To lift a bean plant’s hood of heartshaped leaves and discover a clutch of long slender pods handing underneath could make me catch my breath.
I bought some of these - the broccoli and asparagus in the lower right.
Poblano and Habanero peppers with some tomatillos.
Apples, peaches, and plums. I love these dark, Texas plums - I love to have a cold bag of them to eat while I drive long distances.


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This comfort food favorite can be part of a healthful diet.
At Heavenly Pho, a special combination pho with beef noodle soup with eye round steak, brisket, rare flank, tendon, tripe and meatball.
A Thai classic, an herby soup with coconut milk.
Frederick's Bistro's country-style black bean soup with cilantro pesto can be served as a first course, or as the centerpiece of a casual meal.
Served at the Cypress Grille in Boerne, this soup is made mostly of ingredients grown in their garden or bought at the local farmers market and is served on the weekends and special occasions.
Sushihana's cioppino is a variation of the classic Italian fish soup.
Vegetable soup, slow-cooked in a crock pot, ready to serve.
Menu mainstays such as the roasted corn soup have kept customers returning to Southtown's El Mirador, 722 S. Saint Mary's St., for 45 years.
Pasta e fagioli soup from Paesano's in Alamo Heights surrounded by olives, bread and Paesano's signature dish, shrimp Paesano, on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011.
Lüke restaurant on East Houston Street offers matzo ball soup.
When done right, it's a great prelude to a Chinese meal.
Caldo tlalpeño such as this served at Aldaco's Mexican Restaurant, includes hearty amounts of chicken and vegetables with a hint of chile.
Quick Black Bean Soup. Comfort foods by Patsy Swendson. Wednesday December 6, 2006.
Menudo, a popular Mexican soup served at special occasions and holidays.


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Every July 4th, Augie, a 4-year-old Chihuahua mix, would go into freak-out mode.
He trembled. He refused to eat, sleep or let anyone pick him up. His owners tried giving him Xanax for his fireworks phobia.


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Can I check with you, if it is easy to rent a motorbike in Taitung/Hualien, if I do not have a motorbike license? How much does the rental cost usually?
The rental shop will check your license since they have the legal responsibility.

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The agave-leaf sea holly is distinctive foliage perennial for the Northwest. Since agaves do not like our cold and wet winters, with a little imagination this can serve as a good substitute. The architectural quality of the flat, semi-evergreen rosette adds interest to the sun garden. Each glossy dark-green leaf is about 16 to 24 inches long, sword-shaped with a sharply-toothed edge. In late summer it puts up a 4-to-5 foot flower stem bearing a spiny group of 2-inch, greenish-white, thimble-shaped blooms. As the season progresses the flowers mature to a dark chocolate-brown and last until mid-winter. This plant looks good with other sun and drought loving perennials such as Salvia greggii, Acanthus mollis, shrub roses, verbascum, blue oat grass and hebes. Eryngium agavifolium is quite attractive to bees and butterflies and is also deer resistant.
This sea holly grows best in well-drained and sandy soil in full sun to light shade. Once established it is very drought tolerant. This tough perennial is relatively short lived, but will reseed into the garden. Spare seedlings are easily removed or relocated as young plants. Remove the flower stems when they are no long attractive and older yellow and brown foliage can be pulled free from the evergreen rosette in late fall and winter.


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Tito Ortiz counted down his 37th birthday Sunday night at XS Nightclub at Encore Las Vegas. As the UFC star prepared for a celebratory evening, he tweeted, “Getting ready, this is going to be the best night of my life.” With his wife Jenna Jameson in hand, the two strolled into the venue shortly after midnight, where they were seated at a private table overlooking the dance floor.
The pair was spotted in sable ensembles as Ortiz was dressed to the nines in a crisp black pinstripe vest overlaying a black-on-black pants and shirt combo with white tie. The blonde bombshell donned herself in skin-tight black pants with a shear top rounding out her edgy look with fingerless leather gloves. Bubbly was popped as the two looked happier than ever from their decorated table garnished with black and silver balloons alerting all club-goers of the special occasion. DJ Pizzo continued the party until the early hours of the morning filling the club with nonstop mixes.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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closer to or farther away from its pivot point.
Here are all the functions that can be called in the .lua files.
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During the later period of Scott Lobdell’s epic run on the ’90s Uncanny X-Men, things got a little weird. An amnesiac Magneto joined the team, dubbing himself Joseph. The X-Men for some reason or another were in space, and instead of like every other time they’ve been there, they decided to get some fancy-dancy spacesuits. This screams of either Joe Madureira boredom or “we need some space variant action figures!” I’ve never seen this promo poster for this storyline.
This all led up to, of course, Uncanny X-Men #350, where it’s revealed that Gambit was involved with the Marauders and had basically aided and abetted the Mutant Massacre. This, as I believe I’ve alluded to before, was effectively the last relevant Gambit story. The issue came out in December, 1999 – what if he had just been left in the ’90s? His character has only gone through painful and terrible development since this time, and it would have been poetic for his last story to be at the very end of the decade he helped define.
Instead, we’ve been saddled with a character who’s been so embarrassing for the past ten years that there’s almost no imaginable way to revitalize him as a valuable property. To think, he was once seen as a potential contender for Wolverine / Punisher / Daredevil levels of popularity. Ooof.
Maybe the most 90’s thing ever.
More 90’s than the parted-in-the-middle 13 year old teen boy haircut.
More 90’s than alt rock.
How about a x-men comic book with a holo-foil cover named “Generation X” featuring a diversity plus lineup of teen angst ridden outcasts? Here. It. Is.
Anniversaries are slowly becoming less relevant in our society.
Am I wrong? Doesn’t the sentimental significance of an “anniversary” mean less and less, as our attention span zooms in on minutes and seconds over months and years?
Maybe I’m just cold. Or too real. But regardless, that’s how I feel. And comic books are on my side. Uncanny X-Men, step up to the witness stand.


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Driveline vib, driveline angle measurements inside, help!


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Premiere Personal Fitness Blog: The First "5 Hard & Fast Rules of Strength Training"
The First "5 Hard & Fast Rules of Strength Training"
exercise each and every workout. The “Big Four” can go a long way for the upper body: a chest push, a seated/bent-over row, an overhead push, and a pull down/pull up. Throw in another pushing and pulling angle (i.e., incline press and upright row) -- or a direct triceps and biceps exercise – and it’s still simple and time-efficient. For the legs, a multi-joint glute/quad exercise and a hamstring exercise are the bare minimum such as a squat, dead lift, or leg press and a prone/seated leg curl or stiff-leg dead lift (RDL). A second multi-joint glute/quad exercise (i.e., lunge, single-leg squat/leg press) and direct calf work can also be added provided the total workout volume is not overly taxing.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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. Handling money is a very essential task because if you make it a habit to pay more than what you actually earn, that is actually bad and it can cause problems in the future. Opting for pay day loans is not a very good option because this is known one of the risky solutions available to over-spenders.
Cash loans can be a good solution for those who terribly need money because of an urgent situation. However , if you submit an application for payday loans without weighing the risks, you can be trapped in some sort of debt trap that can simply worsen your current situation.
There are certain disadvantages in applying for payday loans. One very evident reason is definitely the high cost. The annual interests can reach 400 to 800%. With this fee, it would be even much better to invest on risky stocks because you can enjoy investment returns out of 20 to 30%.
Because of inappropriate financial planning, you will often resort to borrowing. In the beginning of the month, it is advisable that you set a realistic monthly budget so that you can already balance out your wages and expenditures. Don’t make unnecessary purchases. Make sure that you keep a certain portion of your income for savings so that when something comes up unexpectedly, you will have money to spend. There are therapies bureaus that can help you out in preparing monthly budgets.
Urgent payments can be made through credit cards. The interest charges of credit cards are much lower than the payday loans. Should you be member of a credit union, you can get cash a loan because the interest there is also lower. Should you have the guts to talk to your employer, then you can check with him to give you a cash advance especially in the circumstance of a medical emergency. Your employer will definitely understand the situation that you are in if you just simply talk to him in a nice way.
If you can’t fight the urge of borrowing, don’t go to get payday loans yet. Ask your friends or relatives if they can lend you money and tell them that you’re going to pay them back in two weeks or even a month. This will work only if you don’t have any bad credit record or if you paid your previous debts to them.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


text: An amazing discovery! Pokémon BREAK Evolution opens a new path to power that builds on a Pokémon’s existing strengths and creates all-new battling options! These new Pokémon BREAK come from twin worlds, home to Zoroark BREAK, Mega Mewtwo X, and Mega Mewtwo Y. One world of technology, one world of nature, and all the wonders of BREAK Evolution are yours to explore in the Pokémon TCG: XY—BREAKthrough expansion!

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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While traditionally Bodrum was the site of the ancient city of Halicarnassus, and home to the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus—one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World—that was tragically destroyed by an earthquake in the Middle Ages, today it is known for being one of the most friendly resort towns in Turkey, and one of the best places to experience the Aegean Sea. From the marina packed with private sailing vessels to Bodrum Castle looking out over the sea itself to the windmills or the amphitheater, this is prime adventure territory, and gives access to a wide variety of activities for the seasoned traveler.
Bodrum is not a beach destination, despite being along the coast. However, the town acts as a central hub for a wide variety of sea-and-coastal-based activities for the surrounding region. The scuba diving around Bodrum is some of the best in the world, and the surrounding seaside is a treasure-trove of ancient shipwrecks that are perfect for archaeologists and otherwise, since this was once a major hub on the ancient sea routes. However, if you are not into diving, relaxing on the open water or windsurfing, then the nightlife of the city might provide you with exactly what you need.
From the Turkish baths to the mud baths to the legendary open markets that line the streets, Bodrum is an absolutely amazing experience. Visitors should also check out the Museum of Underwater Archaeology, which is a major draw for visitors interested in that branch of archaeology, or if you just happen to be interested in ancient sea-based cultures. The open market, however, is probably the most striking feature of Bodrum. Remember one thing, and one thing only, if you come to this town: haggling is a must. This is a great place to pick up designer clothing and real leather jackets for a steal of a price if you are a master of the art. Add to that the legendary Turkish cuisine available in the restaurants and resorts and you have an absolutely perfect trip already laid out for you.
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When it comes to offering access to some of the most ancient history in the world, Greece seems to have it all. In fact, anywhere you go in Greece you are surrounded by mythology, ancient history, ancient technology, and some of the most brilliant minds to have ever been born. The island of Kos is another of the many Greek regions to offer visitors the chance to experience some of the unique Greek culture and history that has been handed down over the generations. On top of that, the island itself contains a variety of geography from for plains to mountainous highlands, and is only four kilometers out from the coast of Bodrum, Turkey, making for a perfect day trip if you are staying in the resort town.
As an island in the Aegean Sea, Kos is actually part of a chain of mountains which were separated by earthquakes in ancient times. As such, there has been a wide variety of fossil remains found, and the mountains themselves are a popular hiking destination for tourists. Beyond the hiking, however, are the pristine beaches stretching along the 112 kilometers of coastline along the Aegean, although the island's major claim to fame is the ancient home of Hippocrates, who is considered the father of modern medicine, who both lived and practiced medicine here.
While Kos is a major tourist destination, and your first glimpse of the island will be that touristy sheen that covers such places, once you get beyond the outer rim into the inner parts of the island it’s almost as though you're entering a different world. From the Plane Tree of Hippocrates to the ruins of Asklepieion to the 14th century castle and the mountains and beaches that cover the island, there is more than enough to keep you busy for several days if you truly want to experience everything the island has to offer.
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