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Foil-backed insulation consists of layers of reflective foil fastened to batts or foam boards, which helps to insulate the walls, floors and ceilings of the home. The layers of foil add to the insulating ability by reflecting solar energy out of the home while also helping to control moisture and vapor infiltration. When choosing foil-backed insulation, homeowners should take the time to choose materials that will best suit the demands of the local climate in order to maximize comfort and insulating effectiveness. Choosing the best foil-backed insulation requires one to consider things like material, thermal ratings, installation requirements and cost before making a purchase.
One of the first things to consider when purchasing insulation is the R-value, which measures how effectively the insulation improves the thermal resistance of the home. In cold climates, buyers should choose the highest R-value available to keep cold winter air out of the house. In more moderate climate zones, lower R-values are generally sufficient at effectively insulating the structure.
Many buyers also pay close attention to the material that the insulation is made from, and how this can impact air quality. Insulation made without urea formaldehyde is the safest choice for those looking to maintain cleaner indoor air. Products made from fiberglass can release tiny fibers during installation, which can irritate eyes and skin. For the easiest installation, look for foil-backed insulation made from recycled denim or cotton. Pre-cut batts or boards which fit between the studs in the walls of your home can also help make installation easier.
Next, buyers should examine the foil backing to determine which product will be most effective. Foil with a low-emissitivity is best, as it will be less likely to absorb and transfer heat energy into the home. The more reflective the foil is, the more effectively it will direct solar energy out towards the outdoors, and help to keep it out of the house.
Homeowners should look for foil-backed insulation made from laminated layers rather than a single sheet of foil. Multiple layers help to reduce the risk that dust will buildup in the perforations along the surface of the foil, which could pose problems in terms of moisture control. Many perforations with larger diameters can help reduce dust buildup and improve insulating effectiveness.
When purchasing foil-backed insulation, buyers should also consider price. While it may be worth investing in insulation with a high R-value in cold climate zones, this investment may not pay off in more moderate climates. Most insulation manufacturers provide recommended R-values by region, which can help buyers choose the best insulation for their location and invest their money wisely.
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If you are a realtor and you have a website or want to create one, it is crucial that you take the time to hire a quality website designer. If your website looks like it was created by an amateur, people who visit your site are not going to take you seriously and this is going to hurt your sales. It is important that your site looks professional.
A good graphic designer is going to ensure that your site looks amazing and that when visitors come to your site, they want to stay and explore instead of run away. A good graphic designer is going to enhance your website and make it look the best that it can be. Once your website has been designed, you are going to want to use SEO and webdesign services as well.
It doesn't matter how great your website looks if no one can find it. To make the most of your amazing new website design you need to bring traffic to your website and you do this through SEO. A good SEO service is going to increase the traffic on your website and make sure that your customer base is growing.
If you run a real estate website you need a constant stream of new customers coming in if you want your site to be a success. You want to expose your business to as many potential real estate buyers as you can. A good SEO service is going to increase the traffic to your site and help you get those buyers you need to expand your business.
When you run a realtor website, you need to build your brand and increase your traffic. You also want to draw targeted traffic to your site. You only want people who are actually interested in purchasing a house to visit your site. The SEO service is going to drive targeted traffic to your site so you get exactly what you are looking for.
The SEO service is going to use keywords, content, backlinks and other methods to drive the traffic you need to your site. These methods are very effective and they will help you get the traffic you want to you are increasing your traffic and growing your business.
You might also want to consider local SEO when you are working on your SEO plan. Local SEO is going to drive local traffic to your business and help you find local customers who are interested in buying a house. Local SEO is a great way to get real customers and it helps you build your brand in your local area. Your website isn't likely to do much good for people who live out of state, so you really want to focus your marketing campaign on local SEO.
Another thing you won't want to miss is social media marketing. Social media is huge and many people get all of their information from social media sites. You are probably missing out on some huge opportunities to gain more customers if you are not actively pursuing social media.
The SEO service will set you up on all the social media pages and you will have accounts with all the different services. You won't have to spend time writing content for all the different sites either. The SEO service is going to provide you with fresh content so there is always something new for your followers to see. When you have a realtor website, it is important to come up with an affordable advertising and SEO plan that goes beyond an attractive website.

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In my second part , I shared my experiences with ready made money making websites and blogspot. Today I am sharing what happened with my adsense & how I turned into different money making ideas by leaving blogging even before know about what is blogging.
I applied for Google Adsense within couple of weeks. Getting approval from Adsense was not THAT MUCH hard as it is in nowadays. Next day I got approval email from Google Adsense and somehow felt happy.
Image – Google Adsense Activation for Blogspot
The next days after getting Adsense approval were thrilling. I first opened Google Adsense account everyday even before opening my email inbox.
I chose different ad formats and ad sizes. My earnings were increasing very slowly. I felt bad. If it would go in same rate, I should have to wait at least 6 months to reach minimum payout level ($100).
Making a Living on GOOGLE ADSENSE
I knew I had to write MORE content so that I could make more money in Adsense. But I could not write more content. Two reasons were: I was getting very few hours to browse as I was in end of third year of college (At that time, new Principal, Director were posted in my college, they were strict, I could not cut & escape from college as I did in my previous semesters).
Next six months I was writing content occasionally and my earnings very slowly were increasing. It took 7 months to reach minimum payout. I finished seventh semester in final year of my degree. I understood that I was in final state of my college, this was the time I had to decide whether I should concentrate on studies or I should pursue skills to make money online. By this time I had been sent a Google Adsense PIN which I should enter in my Adsense login.
Image – Google Adsense PIN for Address verification
I chose the option easily as the second one. The decision taken was THAT MUCH easy as I always tried to live in a way I WANTED TO and I believed that my studies won't make it. As I told earlier in this series, I will tell you at end of this series what is the aim in life and how I want to live.
Ok. We will go back to final semester of my college.
My First Google Adsense Cheque Arrived
I was very much excited to get my first Google Adsense cheque so that I could get back the ring I pawned as third time. The day very sooner came. I was refreshing the Adsense login everyday every hour to see what the payment status was.
Luckily one day I got updated as my cheque was posted to my address. I was eager to receive my Adsense cheque. One week later, I received my cheque. My first cheque was for Rs.4800. I went to bank and immediately deposited cheque in my account.
Once cash credited in my account, I went to pawn shop and got back the ring. What a nice one. It was same like that as it was given to me at first time by my grandma.
Google Adsense Disabled my Account
I got more interest on working online and I increased my posts slowly day after day. I planned to do online job or business after finished my college.
Again in 2 months, I expected my second cheque as I crossed $100. Unfortunately I got email one day from Google Adsense no reply email as my account disabled. The reason mentioned was that Google took the decision due to advertisers benefit and requesting further reason not recommended.
Image – Google Adsense Account Disabled
What the hell! My dreams blew in some seconds. The whole earth seemed dim. I was really disappointed. My college also ended. My life became a question mark? Who would answer for it?
No one would be able to answer for others life.
I should answer myself.
As always I was not giving up anything easily, I decided to settle somewhere (my college course ended. I had to find another one place to stay) and to continue my online search.
My Life as a Fresher Who searches Jobs in IT Firms
I went to Chennai (capital of the Tamilnadu state) as many of friends also came there to search jobs in big IT companies. I tried to search jobs only for a week. Then I did not go for any interview.
I started to sit full time (6 to 8 hours per day) in browsing centers. It cost me heaven. I spent the whole money which I got from my father through asking for interview expenses. I developed a blog in which I put actress images but hardly got visits. I searched for traffic techniques. My journey started to revolve around traffic, traffic, traffic.
As everyone, I was also searching for free traffic. Some websites asked me to put their banners in my blog so that they can show my banners in their websites. Some websites told that submitting blog in dozens of blog directories would give bulk traffic.
My attempt on Cheap & Paid traffic Methods
I had tried & submitted in many blog directories and never had they given me traffic worthy for the time I put. My blog sidebar filled with at least 50 blog directories, RSS directories buttons.
I decided to give a try on cheap paid traffic methods so that I searched for it. Finally I came up with the idea of bulk directory submissions, article directory submissions. I searched for the best companies which would give me cheap directory submissions.
I found one Indian company which gave this type of solutions and Indian payment options. They send me the minimum possibility quote. I chose Rs.2400 for which I should get 250 directory submissions + 100 article submissions.
Image – Directory Submission, Is it worth for Blog Promotion
I asked the person who contacted me about how much traffic I would get per day. He told that at least I would receive 20 to 25 hits per day. I rushed to bank, sorry rushed to pawn shop and I pawned my ring fourth time, then I rushed to City bank and deposited the money in City Bank, Chennai.
Within 7 days, my blog submitted to the article & directory websites and I got full list of websites as excel sheet. I checked some of those websites, I could see my blog listed in free sections, I got 2 or 3 visits for next 2 days and then I didn't get even single hit from those websites. I got vexed and came to know the poor worth of directory and article websites.
Yahoo answers Service – It was turning point
As you knew, I didn't give up easily; I decided to try the free traffic methods. I searched and finally chose yahoo answers submission method to receive targeted traffic.
I have to tell here. Yahoo answers submission method was a good turning point. Even though I accidentally found the method as a free traffic source, I found that there were some people offered yahoo answers submission jobs in popular forums.
I immediately planned to take these yahoo answers writing jobs and started to look for the threads in Digital Point forum. Paypal was the commonly used payment mode. So I opened my first paypal account.
Yahoo answers writing services was huge famous at that time (Before 4 months it was stopped by DP admin)
Every now and then some one posted Yahoo answers job. I immediately replied on those threads and took the job. I usually did 10 answers just for $2.
It might be very slavery jobs for the people living in US and other developed countries. But for the people who lived in countries like India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Israel, South Africa etc, it was a great opportunity to earn part time online. I took few orders in initial days and done them immediately.
As many as questions I wrote, I could cross level by level in Yahoo answers and when my level increased, automatically I could answer more questions, I could vote for more answers.
Instead getting orders from the people who opened & gave those Yahoo answers writing jobs, I opened thread with the details of my previous work and how much I charged. I charged usually for 10 answers $3, 50 answers 10$ etc. I was getting fewer orders only.
Quality service in Cheap rate – Best Business Trick for anyone
But what happened was, once people satisfied with my work, ordered more & more, they became regular clients, so I wouldn't need to open new threads again & again. I could successfully make at least 10 to 20$ per day if I could work 6 to 8 hours per day.
I could average my income online $600 per month. This was more than a IT firm salary for fresher like me for my Bachelor of engineering degree in India.
But see here, it was not so easy to make money through Yahoo answers writing service. There I used many tricks to get orders, keep orders, and finish orders quickly. I got disabled my DP (Digital point forum) accounts many time for the fault of using multiple accounts, I got used to open new paypal account so that I could work in DP without getting caught.
Yahoo answers job was not easy
I don't remember many of my account usernames in DP, many paypal email ids that I used on those days. I could manage to find at least later ones for screenshot proof. I will post them in next part of the series.
Within 1 or 2 months I earned more than what these IT people made in India. So I got more confidence about making my living online. Remember some folks could have earned more money. But as a person who had less- computer educated background, average family with no investments for online jobs, I was proud to make such money online.
Even though I made more than IT firm fresher salary, I did not satisfy. I could not understand what the reason was. But now I know what it is. It is the Y factor which I mentioned in first part of this series. I tell you later (hope it would be before end of this series).
I did not satisfy. But I didn't know the Reason
But I could understand that I was looking for something different but doing something different. I analyzed and brought out three reasons for my dissatisfaction. 1. Writing Yahoo answers again and again could be bored.
2. I could have expected more income 3. I did not feel like settled in my life.
There were my guessing reasons. But I was not sure about what the real reason.
Fourth part will be published in couple of days.
May I know what was your first experience with Google Adsense? Have you used forums actively ever? Have you heard about Yahoo answers writing service ever? Leave your thoughts on comment or email me.


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There are a lot of features in Microsoft products that people don't know exist - and one of the most useful for IT pro's is the Problem Steps Recorder or PSR. This tool creates a web page compilation of every click or user action that you can annotate. It was originally designed for our support folks here at Microsoft so that the user could duplicate the steps in a problem, record those actions, and then send a complete file to us to help them fix things. It doesn't gather any other info than the screen shots and whatever a user types in the comments.
I use this tool all the time for training, articles and other distribution. It creates an "MHT" file, which IE reads, but Microsoft Word can also open it, and you can save it from there into PDF or even just plain old HTML if you want.
Using PSR
To start the tool, open a CMD or in Windows 8 just hit the Windows key. Type PSR and press ENTER.
The tool starts up, and you can press "Start Recording". It's not recording your movements, just the result of the click or menu selection - so the file is quite small when it's done.
From there, you can enter comments before you click or take an action. Once you're done, you simply stop the recording, and then save the output.
That creates a ZIP file. Inside the ZIP file is an MHT file.
Extract or just double-click the MHT and it will open in IE.
If you're not using IE, you can open the file in Microsoft Word and save it as whatever you like.
Official Documentation: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/How-do-I-use-Problem-Steps-Recorder
Screencast: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/video/windows-7-screencast-problem-steps-recorder-psr.aspx


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Frontend Engineer in Berlin
Job Description
Design, develop, deploy, evolve, and operate web applications in a DevOps way
Actively collaborate with other engineers, product owners, domain experts and designers to deliver great outcomes
Pair with others and review work, sharing knowledge and increasing quality across the board
Write high quality, clean, maintainable and testable code
Work closely with product owners to estimate and prioritize backlog
Maintain and constantly improve our products, code and architecture
You have at least 3 years of professional experience as a Frontend Engineer
You have solid understanding of modern web technologies: JavaScript, HTML, CSS
You have thorough understanding of ReactJS and its core principles
You can build and debug reliable, secure and performant web applications
You care deeply about quality, usability, cross-browser compatibility and accessibility
You understand that quality is not assured solely by the QA engineer, but by the team
You have worked with git as a versioning system
You have experience with CI/CD
You have experience with client-side conversion optimization or usability testing (heatmaps, A/B, etc.)
A tightly knit team of experienced engineers with lots of interesting challenges to dive into
A modern technology stack: ES6, React, Redux, Webpack, Go
Extensive individual responsibility and personal support to grow professionally
Become part of a talented multinational team of 50 working in Berlin
Semi-monthly OptioAcademy - our internal knowledge sharing project
Prime office location - top floor of the city's tallest building, the best view in Berlin!
Various fun events (weekly team lunch, Friday after work drinks and BBQ, OptioAcademy, Meetups)
EUR 2,000 annual training budget for conferences, books, trainings, etc.
Free educational library, breakfast, drinks and fruit to keep energy levels high
Your choice of hardware and software
OptioPay is a payment processor with a difference. Our software increases the value of any payment received by consumers from companies, by combining bank transfers with higher value gift cards. By integrating payments to employees or customers with effective marketing, we aim to create a completely new, performance based, advertising channel. OptioPay was founded by Marcus Börner and Oliver Oster in 2014 and is located at the top floor of the Treptowers.
At OptioPay we work cross-functionally, agile and test our limits to outgrow ourselves. Our goal is to change the way how people receive and spend money. To do this, we need your talent, creativity and drive. Join our diverse, multi-cultural and inspiring team, a fun and friendly group with a multitude of talents. At OptioPay you will find an ambitious and empowering environment with a shared vision and passion. We are looking forward to meeting you!
Please apply through: https://www.optiopay.com/job-details/83156-frontend-engineer/?_pc=7558
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Brainstorming Success
Will a brainstorming session give your marketing and advertising strategies results?
Yes, brainstorming will. In fact, creative brainstorming techniques will give you quite a bit more. Here's why.
Brainstorming rewards innovative thinking. Brainstorming is about problem solving in a group session, thinking outside the box and generating ideas - often new ideas. It's one of the all time great tools for organizations like yours to quickly energize your marketing, advertising, fundraising and / or customer service areas. So, use brainstorming when you want to:
- Problem Solve
- Generate New Ideas
- Uncover a Competitive Advantage
- Break Away from what everyone else is doing
- Enhance team and cross-functional communication
- Discover new ways to promote products, services and ideas
Brainstorming is a great way for management to get together and have some fun as they focus on innovation and creative ideas - not operations or ROI (that's important but it is done later). It's also a great way to have a group feel a sense of ownership as they see the outcome of their brainstorming session turn into solutions.
After a brainstorming session is over, it's then time to move into the next phase and build on the ideas that were generated. After the group brainstorming session, it's time to analyze and evaluate the ideas. This is when ideas are turned into solutions.
Where To Start
Start with a very clearly defined brainstorming objective – a focused statement that outlines your problem or need. And this is the first place where a brainstorming business can help you. The objective needs to be kept simple. What's the best way to establish your brainstorming objective? Ask your key stakeholders.
As a brainstorming facilitator I often start by interviewing a small sample of the key persons, I get insight into a situation beyond my perspective – or that of the organization that hired me. By doing this I often find the problem is larger – or smaller than expected. And, because I am arms length from the organization that hired me, I get the truth.
Only when you have your objective defined should you begin to hand pick the participants. A small group of 4 - 8 people is often ideal because they will relax and interact well. A large group will likely mean some voices will dominate while some good ideas will not get mentioned.
Within a small group, one person's ideas will be more likely to set off a chain reaction of creative thoughts by the other participants… thereby producing even more new and / or extended ideas.
Depending on your objective – consider inviting people from creative, marketing, product development, account services, finance, and sales – whoever might have impact. Doing a session with clients or prospects is also valuable. These groups will all want to be involved if they believe their contribution is valued.
The key is to select people who are imaginative and who will stay positive and focus on generating ideas.
Brainstorming places a significant burden on the facilitator to manage the process, people's involvement and sensitivities. The facilitator has to encourage everyone to participate – to their comfort level of course - without restrictions or excuses that an idea 'can't be done'. They have to keep the session flowing.
As the ideas are generated a trained facilitator dismisses nothing, doesn't make excuses for 'the way things are now', and most importantly keeps the energy of the brainstorming session at a high-level and spontaneous.
Hire a facilitator that is free from favoritism to the topic(s) and the audience(s) you will be interviewing. For this reason – it's always a good idea to employ a facilitator from outside your company.
What To Do When The Session Is Over?
Once the brainstorming sessions are over you need a longer, more serious meeting to evaluate, qualify and judge the ideas generated. It's at this point that ideas can be prioritized. Some ideas might need to be set aside for future consideration. This phase is the beginning of where raw ideas will be forged into new marketing strategies and / or new product development initiatives.
It's similar to the sales funnel we are all used to. There are lots of ideas going in and being evaluated, but only a few really 'hot leads' (solution(s)) flowing out the bottom.
The brainstorming process at a glance
- Pre-interview key persons to identify the real problem
- Define and agree upon an objective
- Create the question (s)
- Choose your group (s)
- Prepare the right venue
- Brainstorm ideas and suggestions
- Categorize and combine the ideas
- Assess and analyze the ideas
- Prioritize the ideas
- Agree upon the course of action and timetable
- Measure and follow-up
In a nutshell, brainstorming will help you generate lots of new, even crazy ideas. When people see that their efforts are being listed to – and subsequently turn into action and change, they will be motivated and keen to help again.
Where would a new, innovative idea help you?
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Chris Mahoney
Senior Lecturer - Perioperative Practice
Telephone:020 7815 6148
School/Division:Health and Social Care / Allied Health Sciences
Chris Mahoney teaches on a number of courses related to perioperative healthcare, and is course director of the Operating Department Practice programmes at LSBU. Prior to joining the Allied Health Department she gained clinical experience in operating theatres within a leading London teaching hospital. Particular areas of expertise within the perioperative field include anatomy and physiology, surgical procedures, and scrub skills.
Developing the students' appreciation of psychosocial issues in surgical care, focusing on the importance compassion and dignity for every patient is central to her teaching philosophy.
Chris is also involved in the delivery of Inter-professional healthcare education, and has experience of teaching across other Allied Health disciplines within the framework of the Inter-professional Scheme for Allied Health at LSBU.
In addition to professional qualifications as an ODP, Chris has undertaken a BSc (Hons) in Health Studies (Complementary therapies) and is qualified in aromatherapy and massage.
CertHE Perioperative Practice / BSc Operating Dept Practice
Level 4 (Year 1)
- Introduction to Working in the Perioperative Environment
- Basic Anatomy and Physiology for Perioperative Practice
- Fundamental Perioperative Practice Skills
- Caring for Individuals in the Perioperative Environment
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- Concepts of Interprofessional Practice in Health and Social Care
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- Perioperative Practice Skills for Paediatrics
- Emergency Care in Theatres
BSc (Hons) Professional Nursing Practice (Operating Department Care)
Level 6 (Year 3) Post-registration
- Fundamentals of Operating Department Care
- Evidence Based Operating Department Care
- Registered with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Member of the Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP)
- Within AfPP, Chris is also a member of the Special interest group for Educators, and sits on the Panel of Educational Experts who review and accredit educational material from a range of outside agencies
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Kristi Spouse Interiors is very honored and excited to announce it has been awarded "Best Of Houzz" by Houzz, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. The Seattle Interior Design Firm was chosen by the more than 16 million monthly users that comprise the Houzz community.
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Russian coach Boris Pilkin, mastermind behind the career of three-time world champion Svetlana Khorkina, died Thursday in Belgorod. He was 82.
"It's terrible," Khorkina told Russian media Thursday. "It's an untimely loss of this decent and good man."
Pilkin coached Khorkina, the three-time world and European all-around champion, from her first days in gymnastics. While other coaches wanted the lanky young Khorkina to do rhythmic gymnastics, Pilkin saw great potential in her. He devised an alternative training method and unique skills that suited her physique.
Khorkina, who won back-to-back Olympic titles on uneven bars in 1996 and 2000, has more skills named after her than any other gymnast. She retired after her third Olympics in 2004, and is now a deputy in the Russian Duma and vice president of the Russian Gymnastics Federation.
"He will remain forever in my memory and my heart, my friend in battle," she said. "He did a lot for Russian sport, and for me personally. If not for Boris, I don't know what my life and sports career would have been like."
Pilkin died one day after the Russian women won their first-ever world team title.
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In Madison, WI Hardwood flooring installation is a way to add value and natural beauty to your home. Once you've decided hardwood flooring is the right choice for your home, you'll be looking to take the next step with installation. Some flooring options are fairly simple to install, but solid hardwood flooring or engineered hardwood flooring should be professionally installed.
Our flooring professionals at Floor Coverings International here in Madison have the tools, the knowledge and the experience to do the job right. These pros know the tips and tricks for making your floor look like a million bucks. We can customize the hardwood species, plank width, stain, and finish to achieve your desired design.
When installing hardwood floors, some are site-finished in your home and others are pre-finished. If you choose pre-finished hardwoods, your total installation time will be quicker, but if you're after a specific shade or finish, then you may want to have the hardwoods finished on site as this will give you more options.
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LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Brazilian drugs firm EMS and Indian rival Torrent Pharma have emerged as the only industry bidders for Sanofi's generic drugs unit, battling a series of buyout funds for an asset worth as much as $2.4 billion, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
The two emerging market drug firms were among a group of bidders that were recently short-listed to carry out due diligence for the unit, known as Zentiva, after submitting indicative bids in January, the sources said.
Sanofi is now hoping to find a buyer by the end of the first quarter, one of the sources said, adding competition between the two drug makers and a host of buyout funds could push up the final price.
A consortium of Blackstone and Nordic Capital has also made it through the second round of the auction, the sources said, and is facing competition from three other private equity funds, namely Carlyle, BC Partners and Advent.
Sanofi, EMS, Torrent Pharma and all the private equity funds declined to comment.
The auction, led by Rothschild, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley, kicked off in October after Sanofi spent over a year carving out the division in a bid to create a standalone company that could be swallowed by one of its competitors or an investment fund.
The business is valued at close to 2 billion euros ($2.49 billion), representing a valuation of about 12 or 13 times its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of 150 million euros, two of the sources said.
For India's Torrent Pharma, which has a market value of $3.4 billion, the deal would grant access to various European markets. Brazil's EMS has already built a small presence in Central and Eastern Europe with the 2017 purchase of Serbian laboratory Galenika.
Sanofi first hinted at a possible disposal of its European generic drugs business in late 2015 but has so far focused on selling its animal health unit by finalizing a $20 billion asset swap deal with Germany's Boehringer Ingelheim last year.
France's largest drug maker has also embarked on a series of big acquisitions this year, spending more than $16 billion to clinch control of U.S. haemophilia specialist Bioverativ and Belgian biotech company Ablynx.
Zentiva operates in 50 markets and has a strong presence in Eastern Europe, particularly in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania.
Its generic drugs portfolio includes cardiovascular and gastrointestinal drugs as well as painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs based on ibuprofen and leflunomide molecules.
Reuters reported on Jan. 18 that bankers have put together around 1.2 billion euros of debt financing to back a potential sale of Sanofi's generic drug business.
Additional reporting by Matthias Blamont in Paris, Tatiana Bautzer in Sao Paulo and Noor Zainab Hussain in Bangalore; Editing by Catherine Evans


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NCAA Tourney: Stock Watch
By Aran_Smith
Fri, 04/05/2013 - 12:36pm
Trey Burke -- It's Trey Burke's world and everyone else is just living in it right now, at least the college basketball world. Burke won the AP player of the year award on Thursday and continues to prove that he's not only the best player in college basketball this season, but a tremendous pro prospect as well.
He plays the game with a chip on his shoulder and has that clutch gene that few possess.


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All,Problem solved! For those of you who might run into this in future.... - It was the adapter converting the Monitors Sun video connector to a standard VGA connection. If you use a normal vga cable to the monitors other input it works fine. Must have been some weird timing issue.
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What's in the Box - August 3, 4 & 5
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VEGETABLE SHARE Check back daily for an updated list - it will change during the week!
Zucchini - 1 piece
Cucumber - 1 piece
Long Peppers - 2 pieces
Green Bell Peppers - 4 pieces
Purple / Mountain Rose (Red) Potatoes - 1 quart
Garlic - 2 heads
Cherry Tomatoes* -OR- Blackberries - 1 pint/.5 pint
Green Beans - .4lb bag
Yellow Onions - 2 pieces
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1 bag UFO or Yellow Peaches
1 bag White Peaches (These are picked very ripe, so they are delicate and bruise easily. Be sure to refrigerate and use immediately!)
Leave peaches at room temperature, or put them in a paper bag. This does help - the ethylene gas given off by the ripening fruit is trapped in the bag and speeds up the process. Berries should be kept in the fridge.
Notes on the Box...
The tomatoes are in! The plants are just starting to yield, so we can look forward to lots more tomatoes in the coming weeks. While it's been a pretty dry summer, it has been recommended that we spray for late blight as a precaution. Preventative spraying is the only option we have to deal with this devastating disease using organic methods. We applied our first copper spray last week, so be sure to wash the tomatoes well. (See below for more info on our organic spraying methods.)
The purple or red potatoes in the share are great in a potato salad-- they look so pretty with some chopped parsley in a bowl! And if the quantity of peppers are overwhelming your fridge, try throwing them on the grill, or pull out the seeds, chop up, and freeze in ziplock bags to use in stir-fries and chili when winter rolls around.
*A Note on Tomatoes...
The tomatoes have been sprayed with copper as a preventative for late blight fungus. This spray is certified for use in organic production, but must be washed off before eating. Also be sure to ripen red tomatoes completely on the counter before eating! They should be a deep red and slightly soft to the touch. Cherry tomatoes are picked ripe and ready to eat.
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Adam Borohov
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Watching Pleiades Theatre's production of The Sound Of Cracking Bones, directed by John Van Burek, left me disappointed, not because I felt as though it was a poorly made piece of work, but because it didn't feel as though the ideas put on stage really capitalized on what it was that was trying to be expressed.
The show aims to paint a more universal portrait of the plight of child soldiers in third world countries. It tells the story of 13-year-old Elikia leading eight-year-old Joseph to freedom from their warlords.
This show was in no way a horrendous representation of the issues at hand. There were indeed many interesting ideas put forth that I believe simply didn't live up to their fullest potential.
That being said, there were many aspects of the show that seemed to have worked well in retrospect, particularly in terms of creating a more dynamic setting. To begin with, the show began with two trees on stage, making up almost all the set pieces on stage (not including the table and chair stage left for the nurse). Throughout the performance, these two trees created several different locations within the desolate forest setting in which the play takes place.
During about the second half, the trees on stage began to rotate, creating an entirely new area in the forest all together. This worked well, as it both aided in creating a new setting for the children to get lost in and keep us (the audience) in our mode of discomfort, not allowing us to ground ourselves in one location.
What I also found particularly interesting about this show was the use of the sound and the way in which it melded together with the action on stage. A scene in which this was particularly effective was that which had displayed Elikia trembling in fear as she analyzed what it was that she found on the ground, which just ended up being a coconut. The dynamic of the scene could not have worked without the tension building drone of the dissonant soundscape. The gradual build of the drone most definitely helped evoke the heart wrenching fear that Elikia had been haunted with during every moment of her life.
The performances themselves seemed to have left me rather disappointed, particularly that of the nurse, whose sympathy for the victim fell flat, presenting a character who seemed too reserved for her own good. The other two characters, though maintaining wonderful chemistry on stage, seemed slightly over rehearsed, moving with sharp precision that lacked organic flow.
All in all, there is most definitely something here, though it seems as though Pleiades Theatre did not fully take advantage of the resources they were given. I look forward to seeing this show remounted in the future.
The English-language premiere of The Sound of Cracking Bones, written by Suzanne Lebeau, is playing at Theatre Passe Muraille until Feb. 28. It will be playing at the same location in French from March 3-7.


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Tuesday, June 24, 2014 | 2 a.m.
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Last year, I was brought in to help the people of Newtown, Conn., after 20 first-graders and six adults were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary. For weeks, I guided the community through painful discussions to determine the fate of the school. At each meeting, I heard parents, business people and others voice their anguish about the tragedy — one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history.
I was in Las Vegas just days before another attack shook the country: A couple who harbored anti-government beliefs executed two police officers at a pizza restaurant in a Las Vegas strip mall and shot dead another man as he tried to stop the attackers when they entered a nearby Wal-Mart.
Once again, I was gripped by the gut-wrenching emotion from my experience in Newtown. Another needless tragedy.
Since the beginning of this year, there have been 116 shootings in which more than one person was shot. Two days after the incident in Las Vegas, a 14-year-old was gunned down by a fellow student at a high school in Troutdale, Ore., just east of Portland. Also this month, a first-year student at Seattle Pacific University was shot dead by a 26-year-old man who stormed the campus, later telling the police he had a "hatred for the world in general."
What can we do in response to such killings? How can we put an end to them?
While in Las Vegas, I helped lead an intensive training for community leaders from the area and across the country about how to address pressing challenges and make communities more resilient. Sadly, we can't stop every mass shooting; some tragic events will be beyond our individual and collective control. But we can start working together differently to decrease the number of tragedies in our midst.
The fix needs to start at the local level. While national action is required, our country's political process is far too polarized on many of the issues involved in this debate to make progress now. Too many special interest groups cynically use such debates as occasions to jockey for position and gin up funds from supporters; too many political leaders are too entrenched in ideological battles and their own self-interests to move the country forward.
By starting at the local level we can puncture the existing national narrative that progress is not possible and instead create a new sense of momentum that we can indeed move in a productive direction.
To do that requires the following steps. We must:
• Pry open the necessary space in communities to have an honest conversation about what makes a safe community where people thrive and youth and others have a sense of possibility for their lives. That discussion must be rooted in our shared aspirations about what we as a community are for — and engage people across the community, including youth and those who feel alienated.
• Work on how communities can identify early warning signs of individuals in trouble. In Las Vegas, for example, the shooters told a neighbor they planned to carry out "the next Columbine." In the Santa Barbara-area shooting, the killer's mother alerted the police about her son a month before his rampage after she saw troubling YouTube videos he had posted. We must find ways for communities to get better at detecting such signals and finding sensible ways to act on them.
• Bring to the table community-based organizations, groups and citizens who can potentially play a role in reducing the risk of another attack and create opportunities for individuals — particularly those who feel marginalized — to move their lives forward. Right now, many support organizations have become so specialized that they focus on individual pieces of a larger puzzle. We must piece together a community network that can work with a common sense of purpose.
• Develop action plans. While such plans must focus on how to reduce the number of deadly attacks, they must also concentrate on maximizing a sense of possibility for youth and others in our communities. Part of mitigating the number of shootings is making sure all people see they have opportunities for better lives and can get help if they need it.
This won't be easy, because organizations too easily get mired in turf battles, claiming credit and seeking funding. But bringing together disparate groups is imperative and can be accomplished with the help of good people with the right intentions who work within these organizations.
It's a simple but important concept: Communities become stronger and more resilient when people sit down with each other and start doing the work it takes to build trust, create needed safety nets and offer a sense of real possibilities for the future.
We can't eliminate all of life's uncertainties; neither is there a magic answer for avoiding tragedy. But we can work together to figure out how to move forward as best we can.
On the day of the Las Vegas shooting, a pastor who had participated in our training there told me he planned to begin bringing people in the community for group dialogue to begin the process of learning together and determining their aspirations. "The tragedy our community just experienced is creating a need for much conversation," he said. "We desire to bring healing, hope and comfort."
Rich Harwood is founder and president of the Harwood Institute for Public innovation, a national nonprofit organization based in Bethesda, Md. Follow him on Twitter @RichHarwood or connect with him on Facebook at RichHarwood.


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In an effort to ease racial tension and division across the United States, the Senate on Friday approved a far-reaching "Blended Pigment" bill that would ban marriage and love relationships between people of the same color.
The measure, which passed 86 to 14, would dissolve all existing "monochromatic couplings" and, as of Oct. 1, require marriages and other love-based unions to consist of one white person and one nonwhite person, or one person of color and one person of color of another color.
"This was a hard decision," said Senator Sheldon Burr, Republican of Georgia and the chief sponsor of a bill that would force him, as a white man, to abandon his white wife in favor of a black, brown, yellow, or red woman. "But the truth is we need a few decades of enforced interracial love in this country — that's the only way we're going to overcome the ugly and corrosive division between people of different hue and shading. Let's be honest, the real solution to racial fear and distrust is to cross the romantic color line, fall in love and make families together. Actually, it sounds kind of fun, doesn't it?"
But with white people outnumbering people of color in the U.S., many whites fear that the bill, if signed into law, would make them losers in a competition for minority spouses and lovers.
"If you add up all the blacks and browns in the country, you barely get to 30 percent of the population," said Diane Felker, a white Houston woman currently in a monochromatic, heterosexual marriage. "What happens when the available men in that 30 percent are all taken and I didn't get one of them? Do I sneak around and love a white man illegally? They say that could land me in jail for seven years."
In response to such concerns, Burr said there would be two options for single white people who can demonstrate that, within 400 miles of their primary residence, no person of color is "reasonably available" for marriage or a love-based relationship. The white person could apply for a certificate of exception — also known as a romantic variance — allowing him or her to 1) love another white person; or 2) seek inclusion in an existing romantic union, regardless of its colors.


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Words: I but bend my finger in a beckon and words, birds of words, hop on it, chirping.
By Bob Brown
Edited with an Introduction by Craig Saper
Poetry // Literary Criticism // Literacy
ISBN: 978-0-692-21725-2 (clothbound)
August 2014
Words: Book Description
In January 1931, Bob Brown worked with Nancy Cunard's Hours Press to publish Words--two sets of poems printed in a single volume. One set of poems was printed in 16-point Caslon Old Face, a classic font style used in all Hours Press publications. The other was relief-printed from engraved plates at less than 3-point size (perhaps, according to Cunard, less than 1-point). They printed only 150 copies, and the book passed into relative obscurity. Brown wanted to demonstrate how micrographic texts for his reading machine might appear. This new edition makes the fun and mystery of these texts available to a larger audience. To read this book, you'll need a magnifying glass.
Praise for Words:
Words is one of the most amazing books invented, written, composed, and published by one of the most amazing authors of the whole 20th Century. Bob Brown (1886-1959) may be best known today as the ultimate representative of avant-garde poetry that has been burgeoning in the environment of the small press movement in the 1920s and 30s, but to stress his contribution to the hands-on exploration of literary techniques, ideas, and universes that are still far from being acknowledged today, would miss the point. Rather than being just a 'minor' experimentalist (minor in the sense of hardly recognized by mainstream literary historians), Brown is in the very first place an author who anticipated a number of landmark shifts that his own times could only dream of, such as the complete dissolution of genres, themes, and sociological levels and distinctions as well as the dizzying exploration of textual materialism . . . Brown's work should not be read as an example of literary archaeology, but as an incentive to make a different use of what machines can help us do today.
~Jan Baetens, Leonardo: The International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology
I'm completely thrilled and grateful that Craig Saper--one of my favorite quirky teacher-scholar-writers--has been putting so much effort into focusing attention on the work of Bob Brown. Craig is working on a Bob Brown biography. He's just recently edited and re-published Words, working with the Rice University Press on a paper and web version. My printed copy is on its way from Texas, but I've looked long and hard at the web transcription and facsimile and am, as I say, thrilled.
~Al Filreis, Kelly Professor, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, Co-Director of PennSound, and Publisher of Jacket2, the University of Pennsylvania
About the Editor
Craig Saper is Professor and Director of the Language, Literacy, and Culture Ph.D. Program at UMBC in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is the author of Intimate Bureaucracies (2012), Networked Art (2001), and Artificial Mythologies (1997) and has edited or co-edited volumes on Posthumography (2010), Imaging Place (2009), and Drifts (2007). He has published widely on Fluxus and visual poetry and serves as the Reviews Editor and Blog Report columnist for Rhizomes and Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures
His curatorial projects include exhibits on Assemblings (1997), Noigandres: Concrete Poetry in Brazil (1988), and TypeBound (2008), and folkvine.org (2003-6). In addition, he has published two other pamphlets On Being Read (1985) and Raw Material (2008). Saper originally published editions of Bob Brown's Words (2009) and Readies (2009) with Rice University Press. Presently, he is writing a biography of the poet-publisher-impresario-writer in every imaginable genre, Bob Brown, who invented an avant-garde reading machine.


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SEATTLE, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Animal rights activists are fighting a proposal by the U.S. Navy to use dolphins to patrol the chilly waters of Puget Sound off Washington state.
The Navy has trained 78 dolphins, 27 sea lions and a beluga whale to alert human overseers when they detect a swimmer or diver in their designated security zone, The Los Angeles Times reported Friday.
Opponents say the Sound's water is too cold for dolphins.
Dolphin biologist Toni Frohoff says dolphins lack the physiology to adapt to the colder water temperatures.
"It's just a matter of being humane, or civilized, in acknowledging there's a reason why bottle-nosed dolphins, especially the warm-water Atlantic variety, do not exist in the water here. It's just too darned cold." Frohoff saud at a hearing on the dolphin proposal.
The Navy has proposed warming up the dolphins' holding pens but a representative of Humane Society International said moving the dolphins in and out of heated waters could further compromise their immune systems.


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The weekend of the fourth of July was filled with some of the best memories. Being with these girls is always fun. No matter what we are doing I am content and they constantly keep me laughing. We had lots of plans for our weekend and most of them didn't go exactly the way we had planned but I seriously made some of the best memories. From retelling Europe adventure stories, to eating the best pizza and JCW's everyday, to driving around all 4th of July trying to find the best fireworks show and failing miserably, to late night movies, and so much pain because your laughing too much. I always miss them when I leave.


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'It's my experience that when people understand how much conservation has to do with their own daily lives they become enthusiastic,' he explains.
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OBOH currently sponsors 17 dedicated teachers at our COH campus. In addition to providing a living wage for each teacher, we seek to meet curriculum and technology needs for the teachers and students. Our sponsorship fund also supports the broader Vine School System of Christ teachers through professional development opportunities available at our COH campus. Sponsorship supporters receive a monthly "teacher feature" via email to learn about and to pray for our teachers regularly.
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Second week of the Tour: Lessons from Bernie
Author Joe Parkin shares his take on the week that was
Former professional racer-turned-author Joe Parkin is writing a few Tour de France blogs for BikeRadar, providing his keen perspective on the week that was, while looking ahead to the race action resuming July 21.
Parkin, author of A Dog In A Hat and a forthcoming book this fall, shares his perspective on the second week of racing.
"The second week of this year's Tour de France was kind of like a Thursday. You know; you've gotten through the first week (or first part of the week) based, to a large part, on excitement. Wednesday becomes the very top of a long climb. Thursday on the other hand, is painful. It's not Friday yet, but much of your energy is already spent. You've crested the col but are not yet up to top speed because you're still grudgingly stuffing newspaper in the front of your jersey.
I loved the first week of the Tour. Honestly, I almost always do. Whether you're a fan who understands what's happening or not, there's always lots of motivation and excitement. But the second week … I'm glad it's over.
Hello? Is anyone listening?
First, there was the whole radio ban nonsense. We made it all the way through stage 10 without any of the riders inadvertently ending up lost in Prague and having to catch a flight back to France. What a relief! But of course, the stage was being ridden under a "soft" protest so the speeds were somewhat diminished, making it easier for riders to watch each other and, therefore, harder to end up in Prague.
Apparently, the disapproval on the part of the riders and teams was strong enough to end the radio ban for stage 13, which was a total relief, since that stage was even more boring than stage 10 (no disrespect intended toward its incredibly gifted winner – my personal favourite of this year's Tour).
Riders — I'm talking to you non-contract-having guys making the minimum wage — stand by your grand patrons. Lance Armstrong has been advocating a strong rider's union for a while now. GET ON IT so that we may dispense with the trial radio bans, "unsafe" courses, and whatever else you guys want. You all end up looking like idiots, and that's not the grand patrons' fault … it's yours.
The Badger
If there is a redeeming factor for the second week of this year's Tour, it's Bernard Hinault. Reading Hinault's comments this week made me miss him and Claudio Chiapucci. Neither one of those dudes had the slightest understanding of the concept of "scripted" and made bike racing highly entertaining. They were both like Mike Tyson – sans wife-beating, ear-biting, and facial tattoos. They were both rabid psychopathic bike racers who would attack even when it made absolutely no sense at all.
My friend, ex-teammate and former TdF Green Jersey winner, Frank Hoste, once told me about an early season race in France where Hinault started to set tempo 100km from the finish. With just a few kilometers left in the race, the Frenchman was still setting tempo and Hoste was perched on his wheel. With 1km left in the race, Hoste started to prepare himself for a glorious victory salute. "He (Hinault) obviously didn't know how well I was riding," Frank said later. Hoste was unable to come around Hinault and finished in second place. Think about that: 100km on the front and Hinault still won the sprint. Incredible!
Yes, the sport of cycling has changed a lot since his retirement at the end of 1986, but the wholesale dismissal of anything The Badger says is a mistake.
Big George
My thoughts on the outcome of stage 14? Criminal, period. George, my friend, you transcended the yellow jersey for a day, becoming more important than it is. I don't care if you're American, French, Belgian or otherwise, in some cases the excuse, "racing is racing," simply doesn't apply.
Smilin' Al
Comparing Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong to other cyclists is about like comparing Mt. Everest to a freeway overpass. I can't help comparing this rivalry to the one between Hinault and Luis Herrera a little bit, though. And my opinion, from a comfortable couch 35,000 feet above the race, with a heart rate that only rises when I have to get up and walk to the refrigerator, is that since the second week of this year's Tour was a bit less insane and vicious than it could have been, Contador being in yellow after Verbier was inevitable. Unless you're able to beat the pure climber into submission before the mountains, he's simply going to be faster when you get there.
I always hated rest days when I was a rider and the same always applied as a spectator – except for today. I'm kind of happy to be not watching the Tour today. Today's intermission is necessary so that I can recharge, purge many of the memories of Week 2 from my brain, and look forward to the rest of the race. With any luck, Week 3 will give us some knock down, drag out, bare knuckles brawling.
If not, I'm going to turn it off and spend the week watching YouTube footage of vintage Bernard Hinault instead."
Stay tuned for more from Our Man Joe next Monday after the race ends in Paris.


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The intersection of entertainment, technology, and ethics was the focus of a symposium co-sponsored by the Whittier Law Review and the Whittier Law School Center for Intellectual Property Law.
"Emerging Dilemmas in Entertainment Law: Resolving Technology's New Ethical Concerns," held November 11 on the Whittier Law School campus, included scholars from American University, SUNY Buffalo, University of Mississippi, Pepperdine, University of Colorado, UC Hastings, UC Irvine, Southwestern Law School, Chapman Law School, and Howard University.
Students, alumni, local attorneys, and scholars attended presentations on a wide variety of cutting-edge topics, including the use of drones and geolocation technologies in films and games, fair use and personal rights considerations for documentary filmmakers, changing conceptions of authorship in the age of memes and DIY filmmaking, advertising ethics and attorney ethics in social media, the impact of private deal-making on musicians and music distribution systems, public opinion about the ethics of remix creation, and the ethics of emerging systems that allow people to invest in performers' future earnings.
Keynote speaker Katie Oyama, Senior Policy Counsel at Google, spoke about that company's priorities in developing technologies for managing intellectual property rights and in promoting balanced legal developments for Internet and intellectual property governance.
Some of the speakers' papers will be published in an upcoming issue of the Whittier Law Review.
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Why wild animals do not make good pets
By all accounts, Terry Thompson kept the tigers, bears, monkeys and other exotic and dangerous wild animals as pets, and he insisted they were happier on his 73-acre (29-hectare) patch of land in rural Ohio than in zoos.
And as recently as 2008, Thompson said publicly he would never endanger his own animals or his human neighbours by failing to secure them and care for them.
"I don't let my animals run loose," he told the Zanesville Times-Recorder newspaper.
"I'm not going to put anyone else, including myself and my wife, in danger or put my animals at risk. I take extreme precautions with them and with people who come here."
That sentiment apparently went by the wayside on Tuesday, when the eccentric Vietnam veteran, gun enthusiast and pilot cut the fences and opened the gates of the cages at his private menagerie, then shot himself to death as the animals fled.
As night fell on Tuesday, panicked police shot at least four dozen animals dead, including endangered Bengal tigers, lest the animals attack citizens.
The ghastly tally and the mortal risk to the humans in the area shows private citizens have no business keeping wild animals as pets, animal welfare advocates and rescuers say.
"They're not pets," said Tim Harrison, of Ohio rescue group Outreach for Animals. "That's the sad part. People get the wrong idea watching television shows.
"They teach people the exact wrong thing. It's just not right. It's not right for the animals; it's just not right for the people. You can buy a cobra but you can't buy common sense."
At least 75 people have been killed and more than 500 injured by exotic animals kept in zoos or privately since 1990, according to Born Free USA, which tracks reports.
"There's a clear danger to the animals themselves," said Adam Roberts, executive vice-president of Born Free USA, a group working to ban private ownership of wild animals.
"Often animals kept in private hands are treated inhumanely. They're chained, defanged or declawed. Then there's always the risk of escape and in fact of human injury."
Thompson's menagerie was not accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and he was not permitted as an animal exhibitor by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The facility fell short of the requirements for receiving a permit because Thompson reported that he did not receive compensation for showing the animals, said USDA spokesman Dave Sacks.
Starved animals
"This facility was strictly privately held and privately run and funded," Mr Sacks told the BBC.
"Just to have them on his property, as he did in his privately funded sanctuary, that's not a USDA situation."
In addition to pleading guilty last year on two counts of possessing illegal firearms - offences for which he served nearly a year in federal prison - Thompson had had at least two run-ins with authorities over animals he kept.
In 2008, local prosecutors declined to charge Thompson for animal cruelty after inspectors from the Columbus Zoo and the Muskingum County Humane Society visited his property.
"We had several experts out at the Thompson place including a number of veterinarians and even experts from the Columbus Zoo and they found nothing wrong," Muskingum County Prosecutor Michael Haddox told the Zanesville Times-Recorder.
"I'm not going to tell you that the animals out there are taken care of like you or I might take care of one of our pets, but there is no-one that can say their conditions are violating any statutes of law."
In late 2005, Thompson was sentenced to six months' house arrest following his conviction for cruelty to animals, having an animal at large, and other charges.
Police found three cows and a buffalo had died from starvation on farmland he owned, according to a Zanesville Times-Recorder at the time.
Thompson had argued in the case that the animals may have already had disease which contributed to their deaths, and that they had consumed contaminated water and feed.
Thompson began keeping exotic animals in 1977, when he purchased a lion cub for his wife, Marian, he told the Zanesville newspaper in 2008.
He said he had seven veterinarians on call to care for the animals, which he said were more "relaxed without conflict" than animals in zoos.
Bear attack
"They know they're loved and cared for," he said.
"If one of my bears gets a hangnail, I call a certain vet. If a cat sneezes, I call another vet.
"I don't use the animals for commerce, so I'm under no regulations like a zoo. But I make sure my animals aren't a threat to the community, either."
Following the 2008 inspections, however, local authorities said they were concerned some of the cages were insufficiently secure, and Mr Thompson appeared to have addressed those fears.
He always insisted he did not keep the animals for the money, and sometimes obtained them in exchange for firearms.
In March, while imprisoned on federal firearms charges, he said in a sworn deposition that had traded guns for a monkey, a leopard and a baby tiger.
"I've never sold an exotic animal," he said. "I don't do that for money."
Mr Harrison said he once rescued a bear from a man who had obtained it at a young age from Mr Thompson.
The bear grew up, became sexually mature and aggressive, and attacked the man. Later, the owner grew ill from cancer and could no longer care for it.
"He was actually kind of scared of it," said Mr Harrison, who took the bear to a sanctuary in Colorado.
Mr Harrison, who was at the scene in Zanesville, Ohio, observing the rescue efforts on Wednesday, said the escaped animals appeared to be in fairly good condition.
But in July, a federal agent who was involved in the firearms case against Thompson said the interior of his house was so cluttered and foul that officials had a hard time searching it for weapons.
"The residence was of such a poor environmental condition that it was unsafe for us to breathe the air," said Special Agent James Ash of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, according to a sworn deposition obtained by the BBC.
"The location that we would have used to process the evidence was within six feet of the caged monkeys, and we believe that the monkeys contributed to the degradation of the environment of the house."


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BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competitor
Ekaterina Scherbachenko completed her studies at the Moscow State Conservatory with Professor Marina Alekseeva in 2005 and joined the Stanislavsky Opera Company. At the Conservatory she performed Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Mimi (La bohème) and at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre, Lidochka in Shostakovich's Moskva, Cheremushki and Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte).
In 2005, she made her debut at the Bolshoi Theatre, as Natasha (War and Peace). She then joined the Bolshoi company and roles she performs there include Liù (Turandot), Micaëla (Carmen), Iolanta (Iolanta) as well as Natasha, Tatyana and Mimi.
Concert performances include Rakhmaninov's The Bells and Janáček's Glagolitic Mass. Ekaterina has also worked at Opéra National de Lyon, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari and with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Conductors include Alexander Vedernikov, Yuri Temirkhanov, Alexander Lazarev, Jiří Bělohlávek and Mikhail Jurowski.
Ekaterina's awards have included third prize at Shizuoka International Opera Competition, 2005 and various prizes at the Francisco Viñas International Singing Competition, 2006.
Future plans include touring with the Bolshoi in 2009, asTatyana, to Tokyo, La Scala Milan and Lyublyana. In her spare time, Ekaterina enjoys reading and travelling.
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2009: Final repertoire
- Je voudrais bien savoir ... Ah! je ris (Faust) - Gounod
- Signore, ascolta! (Turandot) - Puccini
- No word from Tom (The Rake's Progress) - Stravinsky
BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2009: concert two repertoire
- Temerari ... Come scoglio (Così fan tutte) - Mozart
- Ruskai pogibnu (Tatyana's Letter Scene) (Eugene Onegin) - Tchaikovsky
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