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The Legislative Update is brought to us by Liz Powell, Esq., MPH, Founder of G2G. Liz is an attorney with 20 years government experience, including as Legislative Director on Capitol Hill. She leads a team of bipartisan professionals that has raised over $50M, run advocacy campaigns and shaped CMS reimbursement for clients.
We wanted to share with you an update on what is happening in Washington, D.C. While all the focus is on the Mueller report, there are many other interesting activities involving health, defense, STEM, economic development and funding. See below for details and please let us know any questions.
Throughout March, the House and Senate were actively focused on the budget and appropriations hearings for FY2020 as well as the start of work on the annual National Defense Authorization Act. Congress started recess April 11 and returns April 29. With the Justice Department releasing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's 448-page report (12% of which is redacted) on April 18 during this recess, lawmakers and staff are reading through and responding. Judiciary Committee Chairman Nadler (D-NY) issued a subpoena for an unredacted version. Meanwhile, the House and Senate have completed almost all of their budget hearings with secretaries of departments and several directors of agencies have testified explaining President Trump's budget and stating priorities. Other issues on the horizon include a major transportation and infrastructure bill, immigration, cyber, health insurance and drug pricing, and a new bipartisan deal raising the current budget caps.
NIH Appropriations
Although the President's FY2020 budget proposal would cut $4.5 billion from NIH to go from $38 billion to $33.5 billion, in both the House and Senate LHHS Appropriations hearings the Members of Congress clearly stated that NIH would not be cut. Markup of the appropriations bill for NIH, CDC and other health programs is expected to start in May in the House.
Drug Pricing
Both the House and Senate committees of jurisdiction held hearings calling on key pharmaceutical companies to explain their drug pricing practices and to tackle ways to bring them down. Witnesses included Cigna Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer Steve Miller; CVS Health Executive Vice President Derica Rice; Humana Health Care Services President William Fleming; OptumRx CEO John Prince; and Prime Therapeutics Interim President & CEO Mike Kolar. A common theme is the PBMs are collecting rebates and not passing on the savings, effectively requiring the drug companies to raise their prices. Senator Leahy (D-VT) and Rep. Cicilline (D-RI) took the lead in introducing the CREATES Act to promote competition in the market for drugs and biological products by facilitating the timely entry of lower-cost generic and biosimilar versions of those drugs and biological products. The House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the CREATES Act unanimously. Also, House Ways and Means Chairman Neal (D-MA) introduced the Prescription Drug Sunshine, Transparency, Accountability and Reporting Act (STAR Act) and passed it unanimously before the recess to call manufacturers to account for dramatic increases in drug prices. Meanwhile the House Energy and Commerce Committee marked up even more bills, including:
- BLOCKING Act: to stop generic drug companies from sitting on the 180-day exclusivity period awarded to the first generic manufacturer that challenges a brand-name company's patent and keeping other competitors off the market. Has bipartisan support.
- Protecting Consumer Access to Generic Drugs Act: to prohibit "pay-for-delay" patent settlements, in which a brand name company pays the generic manufacturer to stay off the market for a certain period of time. This is led by Democrats with limited Republican support. Has bipartisan support.
- Purple Book Continuity Act: to provide generic and biosimilar makers more information about the patents on branded products. Does not have bipartisan support and is led by Democrats.
- Orange Book Transparency Act: to require FDA to disclose additional patent information when listing but not any patent claims on a device that is used for the delivery of the drug and to require patent holders to notify HHS if the Patent Trial and Appeals Board issues a decision that a listed drug patent is invalid. Does not have bipartisan support and is led by Democrats.
- Payment Commission Data Act: to provide MedPAC and MACPAC with access to drug pricing and rebate data, to help Congress better understand the cost of prescription drugs. Has bipartisan support.
Drug Advertising
The self-imposed deadline for drug companies to voluntarily put cost information in their television has ads arrived, as the White House reviews a rule to make prices a mandatory element in TV drug ads. Back in October major drug companies including Eli Lilly, Novartis, Allergan, and Johnson & Johnson's Janssen promised to provide some type of information about drug costs in their direct-to-consumer ads by April 15. The voluntary move was an effort to satisfy the desire of President Trump and Congress for more transparency about pharmaceutical prices and to head off regulations making list price disclosures in ads mandatory.
Affordable Care Act
Since Trump has entered the White House, the uninsured rate has increased by 1.4 million people – uninsured Americans under age 65 rose from 27.5 million in 2016 to 28.9 million in 2018, according to the Congressional Budget Office. During this time, Republicans in Congress and the White House enacted changes to ACA that included allowing groups of small businesses to form health insurance plans for their employees, expanding short-term limited-duration insurance plans, and reducing to zero the penalty for individuals who lack health coverage. The Trump administration also allowed states to implement laws requiring Medicaid enrollees to work in exchange for benefits, leading to over 18,000 people being dropped from the Medicaid rolls in Arkansas in 2018, for example. Since 2013 when ACA began, more than 20 million people have gained insurance coverage, nearly 13 million of whom became covered as a result of the ACA's Medicaid expansion, not exchanges.
President Trump is continuing to argue against ACA and is now pursuing its complete elimination. However, if repealed it would remove a key component regarding rising drug prices. The Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act, which was included in the 900+ page ACA allows pharmaceutical companies to submit drug applications for products that mimic biologics without having to jump through all the costly hoops, i.e. clinical trials, associated with getting a novel medicine approved by the FDA. If ACA ends so does this program.
In Congress, ACA reform efforts are also underway. The House Energy and Commerce Committee considered six bills before the recess aiming to tackle ACA and health care costs. They mirror many of the House Democratic leadership plan to expand Obamacare's benefits while reversing Trump administration policies, which means none are bipartisan:
- State Allowance for a Variety of Exchanges Act (SAVE Act): to give states $200 million annually in federal funding to establish state-based marketplaces.
- State Health Care Premium Reduction Act: to give states $10 billion each year for a reinsurance program, or to reduce out-of-pocket costs of individuals in qualified health plans.
- Short-Term, Limited Duration Insurance: to reverse the Trump administration's expansion of short-term health plans.
- Protecting Americans with Preexisting Conditions Act: to reverse Trump administration policies that weaken protections for patients with pre-existing conditions.
- Marketing and Outreach Restoration to Empower Health Education Act (MORE Health Education Act: to restore ACA outreach and enrollment funding that was cut by the White House.
- Expand Navigators' Resources for Outreach, Learning, and Longevity Act (ENROLL Act): to provide $100 million to the Federal-Facilitated Marketplace Navigator program and make other changes to navigator requirements.
American Cures Act and American Innovation Act
Senator Durbin (D-IL) and Reps. Foster (D-IL) and Underwood (D-IL) teamed up announce the introduction of the American Cures Act and the American Innovation Act, which would create a mandatory fund to provide steady, predictable funding for breakthrough research at America's top research agencies. This steady, long-term investment would allow the agencies to plan and manage strategic growth while maximizing efficiencies.
The American Cures Act would provide annual budget increases of five percent plus inflation at America's top four biomedical research agencies: the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Defense Health Program, and the Veterans Medical and Prosthetics Research Program.
The American Innovation Act would provide annual budget increases of five percent for cutting edge research at five important federal research agencies: The National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy Office of Science, the Department of Defense Science and Technology Programs, the National Institute of Standards and Technology Scientific and Technical Research, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Science Directorate.
Medicare Drug Spending
The cost for 22 drugs shot up more than 500 percent per dose from 2013 through 2017, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis of Medicare Part D data. The median increase among drugs offered through Medicare's primary prescription plan was 28 percent from 2013 to 2017, but some medications went up in price more than others. The median is the midpoint of the spending-change distribution, meaning that the same number of drugs changed in price more and less than 28 percent. Overall, Medicare spent about $154.8 billion on 42.7 million Americans with Part D coverage in 2017. In March, CMS reported an average annual spending increase of 10.6 percent from 2013 through 2017.
NIH Funding Cliff
A funding cliff written into the 21st Century Cures Act that was enacted at the end of the Obama administration could hamper two major NIH projects: personalized medicine and new cancer therapies. The 2016 bipartisan law created a 10-year innovation fund to accelerate special projects in four areas, including precision medicine and President Barack Obama's Cancer Moonshot initiative to double the rate of new cancer treatments and prevention therapies. Due to the challenge of paying for this new fund, which provided $4.8 billion to NIH and $500 million to FDA, through offsets and budget work-arounds, a funding cliff does loom ahead. One offset included a cap on Medicaid reimbursement for durable medical equipment at equivalent Medicare pay rates and a draw down from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with funding staggered based on how the savings that offset the bill are implemented.
Rare Disease Drug Guidance
The FDA issued a new rare disease guidance on how to incorporate natural history studies, which follow how a disease progresses to understand how to treat it, into the development of rare disease drugs. This is welcomed by orphan drug companies aiming to treat rare conditions that affect just 200,000 or fewer people and can be extremely expensive to develop and market. The draft guidance describes the broad potential uses of a natural history study in all phases of drug development for rare diseases. It also examines the strengths and weaknesses of various types of natural history studies, data elements and research plans, and provides practical framework for the conduct of a natural history study.
Science Budget Proposals
The House and Senate Appropriations Committees are ramping up the pace of their hearings on President Trump's FY2020 budget request, which proposes across-the-board cuts to science programs, including:
- NSF: Cut $1 billion, or 12 percent, compared to FY2019 under the proposal, with cuts spread relatively evenly across the agency's research directorates.
- DOE: Cut the Office of Science budget by 16 percent to just above FY2017 levels and slash funding for the department's applied energy offices.
- NOAA: Cut NOAA's weather, climate, and oceans research programs by 40 percent to $335 million.
- NASA: Cut NASA's Science Mission Directorate by 9 percent with the cuts falling hardest on the Astrophysics and Earth Science Divisions.
NASA to the Moon
Since 1969, 12 men have walked on the moon's surface, leaving boot prints in the fine slate dust. Since the last lunar mission in 1972, president after president has promised to put an American astronaut back on the moon. With the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing on the horizon, the Trump administration is in a frenzy to actually achieve that elusive goal. NASA has said that it wants to put a human back on the moon by 2028, and unlike the Apollo program, this won't be an in-house effort. NASA has asked American aerospace companies to submit designs for transportation systems that could be launched and tested, without a crew, as early as 2024. Applications were due in late March, and the winners stand to receive contracts worth from $300,000 to $9 million. Potential participants include longtime NASA contractors such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman; the quirky-billionaire-owned SpaceX and Blue Origin; and smaller, more obscure companies.
Veterans' Health
The VA could spend $10 billion in FY2020 to implement a new veterans' health care program without it counting against a statutory budget cap under a key amendment to House Democrats' spending plan offered by Rep. Lee (D-CA). It would allow a $10 billion cap adjustment in FY2020 and a $12 billion adjustment in FY2021 to fund the VA MISSION Act. House Budget Chairman Yarmuth (D-KY) supports the amendment. The VA MISSION Act, which President Trump signed into law in June 2018, helps improve veterans' flexibility to seek care outside VA facilities and shifted the program's funding from mandatory to the discretionary spending, where it would count against the spending limits created under the Budget Control Act. Lee's amendment would free the VA MISSION funds from that constraint, up to the $10 billion and $12 billion limits.
Support Startup Jobs, Innovation and Small Businesses
Senators Murphy (D-CT) and Toomey (R-PA) announced the introduction of the Helping Angels Lead Our Startups (HALOS) Act, legislation that would support small businesses by removing burdensome restrictions from individuals who want to invest in startups and help create jobs. In order to secure capital to grow their businesses, entrepreneurs commonly attend "demo days" or conferences that allow them to showcase their business in front of angel investors and venture capitalists. It is estimated that angel investors provide 90 percent of outside equity to help grow these startups. Due to recent burdensome regulations, angel investors have been deterred from attending demo days, which harms economic growth. The HALOS Act would preserve important investor vetting processes without forcing startups to jump through unnecessary hoops to get the investments they need to grow and create new jobs.
G2G attended appropriations hearings in Congress, tracking the LHHS and DoD budget hearings in particular in the House and Senate. A range of issues were covered but it is clear that NIH Director Collins is very committed to increasing his budget and being able to make more NIH awards. He and several Members of Congress spoke about the importance of young investigators and building the pipeline of future research. While Director Collins stated the NIH does not develop drugs, it plays an essential role and through NCATS can partner with industry to accelerate development. Both he and Chairwoman DeLauro (D-CT) agreed that NIH must step in when the market won't to address neglected diseases, such as rare cancers. Within the Defense hearings ranging from F-35s to Defense Health Agency, the DoD is equally forthcoming on the need for increased spending and has put a renewed focus on R&D to deploy modern technologies for the warfighter. All of this points to the need for a new budget caps agreement to avoid sequestration by year's end.
Despite no new deal and a failed attempt to pass a budget raising the caps in the House, the House appropriators are forging ahead drafting appropriations bills during the recess, abiding the budget legislation that passed committee. House Budget Chairman John Yarmuth's (D-KY) bill, H.R. 2021, passed committee along party lines and aims to increase the caps under the Budget Control Act for FY2020-21 by raising nondefense cap for FY2020 to $631 billion (+$34 billion or +5.7% over FY2019) and the defense cap for FY2020 to $664 billion (+$33 billion, or +2.6% over FY2019). Before the recess, the House adopted a rule to provide consideration of Chairman Yarmuth's bill and establish a budget for FY2020, which automatically allowed House appropriators to allocate $1.3 trillion in base discretionary spending, without specifying for defense and nondefense programs. This allows appropriations bills to be drafted during the recess so we expect markups of the 12 appropriations bills to begin in May in the House.
President's Budget Proposal
Space exploration, disease research and affordable housing programs are among dozens of suggested cuts in the President's FY2020 budget request released in March. It calls for a 9 percent cut to non-defense discretionary spending, including:
- NASA: Cut $198 million from NASA's Space Launch System, funding Block 1 but deferring funding for the upgraded, more expensive Block 1B. Eliminate NASA's Office of STEM Engagement, cutting $110 million.
- NIH: Cut $4.5 billion from NIH to go from $38 billion to $33.5 billion.
- National Cancer Institute (NCI): Cut funding from $6.2 billion to $5.2 billion, but include a new $50 million per year pediatric cancer research program.
- Foreign Aid: Eliminate funding for the State Department's $3 billion Development Assistance account and the $760 million Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia account, which would be covered by a consolidated Economic Support and Development Fund.
- UN Climate Efforts: Give $6.4 million to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change set up in 1992 to oversee talks toward a global climate accord and coordinate the global response to the issue, but zero funding for the Green Climate Fund, which was zeroed out during Trump's first year in office.
- Export-Import Bank: Cut the Export-Import Bank's administrative budget from $110 million to $96 million.
- Interior Department: Cut $178 million to five discretionary programs, including grants for abandoned mine reclamation and an Indian loans program.
- FCC: Cut 1 percent to $335.7 million, although it would support agency efforts to expand internet access to underserved parts of the country, promote new technologies and services, protect consumers, and reform agency processes.
Defense Funding
Before the April recess, the House passed the rule for consideration of H.R. 2021, Chairman Yarmuth's (D-KY) bill to raise the spending caps, but it has not passed the actual bill yet due to battles over levels of increased funding for defense and nondefense programs. However, the adoption of that rule has led to committees moving forward with $733 billion for defense spending and $639 billion for nondefense spending in FY2020. The House Armed Services Committee Chairman Smith (D-WA) said he will authorize $733 billion in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), following the lead of the Budget Committee. Meanwhile, in the Senate, Republicans may choose a higher defense figure. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Inhofe (R-OK) wants to use the $750 billion number instead. The Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL) said he too favors the $750 billion requested by President Trump in his budget proposal.
Both the House and Senate committees of jurisdiction have held numerous hearings with Acting Secretary of Defense Shanahan, leadership from each of the services and the Defense Health Agency that is in the midst of taking over all healthcare and research for the military due to previous NDAA requirements. Chairman Inhofe (R-OK) and others have expressed concern about filling the Secretary of Defense position as well as others that have remained open for months. In addition, acquisition and procurement reform measures remain a top priority of Ranking Rep. Thornberry (R-CA) who lead initiatives in this area in last year's NDAA when he was chairman. The HASC is expected to finish hearings in May and markup the NDAA in June and the Senate is close on their heels. Both chambers aim to complete the NDAA before the end of the fiscal year on September 30.
The Trump administration is asking for $592 million to fund U.S. Cyber Command in the next fiscal year—a decrease from the roughly $610 million Cyber Command and what NSA Chief Army Gen. Paul Nakasone previously testified the organization is expected to spend in FY2019. It is around 6 percent of $9.6 billion the administration wants for Pentagon cyber operations. Another $1.9 billion would go to support Cyber Command operations across four military locations in Georgia, Hawaii, Texas and Washington, D.C. Also, the Navy wants to add a new assistant secretary to shore up cybersecurity following an assessment last month that found widespread vulnerabilities throughout the service. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer said he is sending a legislative proposal to Congress asking lawmakers to add a fifth assistant secretary position. He also said other cybersecurity measures are in the pipeline, especially for contractors. Finally, the first established Democratic presidential candidate out of the gate is also the first candidate to offer a cybersecurity policy proposal. Former Maryland Congressman Delaney is proposing the creation of a Department of Cybersecurity to centralize all cyber activities. The idea of a Cabinet-level cybersecurity department has divided security experts. Some, such as former CIA Director David Petraeus, have embraced it, but others, such as former DHS cyber chief Suzanne Spaulding, have rejected it because it would set the U.S. government back on its cyber progress thus far.
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COSTA MESA, CA (KTRK) -- A man caught on tape beating an Uber driver has been arrested in California.
The driver says it all started when he picked up a drunk man in Costa Mesa.
When the passenger would not provide the driver with a destination, he says he pulled over and asked the man to get out.
Dramatic video then shows the angry passenger attack his driver, punching him repeatedly in the face and pulling his hair.
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Turo vs Getaround
Travel is one of the potential sectors today. No wonder, many startup travel have sprung up in the country. Start from a startup provider of ticketing and hotel booking platform, to package travel marketplace. One of the service sectors also began in the realm of startup travel is the platform of car rental online. This time, we summarize the two players in the realm of rental cars online worldwide already between Turo vs Getaround. Roughly, the application which provides the best service if you are told to choose? So as not to get confused, you should read the review that we provide below.
Application Description
Turo is an online car rental service that allows users to rent any car, whenever and wherever they want it. The rental plans are simple to understand and quite comfortable. Once known as RelayRides, Turo has emerged as one of the biggest players in e-rentals. This allows people to rent a car and put their own car for rent. Being around for a long time definitely gives the edge of Turo, who has now been a loyal user community that trusts it. The huge expansion also ensures that the tenants always get the cars they want, without waiting for anything.
Getaround is a new player in the field of Car Hire online, but it has garnered a lot of attention. The high-function app that offers a number of features is certainly what added to the attraction. Online rental companies take the technology to the surface, making the virtual experience as much as possible. Although Getaround has a limited presence today, it is rapidly expanding and may soon have a global presence. The company focuses on customers who want to rent a car for a short duration of time, thus offering hourly rates as opposed to the more popular daily. However, limited presence also limits the choice of cars available to you.
How do Turo work?
The renter eligibility must be at least 21 years. First of all, you must sign up in advance using your Facebook, Google Account, or Email address and provide information that will allow Turo automatically to verify your identity. Once your identity has been verified, you can book a car. Your own self will provide your travel dates and location, and Turo will provide you with a list of cars that you can rent immediately. Several cars are available to be booked instantly too. While other car owners have up to 8 hours to respond to your request.
If you already booked the car, all you will have to do is get to it. Many drivers on Turo also offer delivery, so you can ask them to bring the car to your current location. When your rental time is over, gas up the car and then return it to the owner at the specified meeting place as soon as you can. The cost, cars are listed on Turo with a daily rental rate. You can pay the same price whether you want the car for two hours or twelve, it is just the same rule. This price can range from around $20 per day for a sedan to around $1000 for luxury cars.
How do Getaround work?
Renter eligibility must be at least 19 years old. It has no major offense or alcohol or even drug related incidents in three or seven years and also no more than two offenses or accidents combined in the last 3 years. If you register an account, you will see a list of cars on the site that allow to rent and there is information on where you can select them.
Rent can be made on a daily or hourly basis, so if you only want a car to run multiple tasks, you are not locked to a higher daily rate. Own cost can be as low as $5 per hour, all based on your time and location. Highest prices may not be specified, but their price filter search function goes to $152 and more. While the daily price is usually between $50. The car will be parked in a special Getaround parking space or on the street parking within 25 miles to the address listed on the Lease form.
Insurance Coverage
Turo and Getaround provide insurance for car owners when renting their vehicles. Starting from Turo, Turo offers three insurance plans when you rent out your car. Both companies roll insurance costs to commission levels such as basic rate insurance that offers $1 million in protection obligations, $125,000 in damage protection of your car, and $3,000 deductible.
The second is the standard plan has been deducted $0 and offers a replacement vehicle while you repaired. Last or the most expensive is a premium package that will provide coverage and wear and protect against lost rental income should your car break down. How about Getaround? Getaround offers one level of insurance, which includes liability, property damage, collision, theft, and insurance protection of motorists. The insurance policy offers $1 million in protection, and the company also offers roadside assistance 24/7 included with any Lease.
Turbo only offers rental plans on 24-Hour windows, with the same amount in increments. It is not economical for those who want a car for a few hours. In case you exceed the window, you have to pay for an additional day, which will again be heavy on your pocket. There is one more thing that you must know that the owner should personally hand out of the car to the tenant, which may not always be a good idea. If you are a busy car owner, Turo effectively wastes your time for transactions that must be done by the company itself.
While Getaround has one of the gaping shortcomings of Getaround is its limited presence. Until now, Getaround is available in only a few major cities, which makes the phrase "anywhere, Anytime" not entirely applicable to them. And also, virtual transfer keys eliminate the needs of customers who actually meet the owner. While it looks good, it also does not provide a space for confidence build between the two parties. This can result in the owner being hesitant to hand over their car.
Turo vs Getaground actually have very good applications, but in certain case Getaround uses an in vehicle "brain" that can renter can use to unlock a car if they have an active reservation. While Turo only can allow rentals of 24 hours or longer and also in 24 hour increments. Also, Getaround's in-car technology lets owners set their cars' minimum rental periods, which can be as short as 1 hour, so Getaround competes directly with car-sharing companies like Zipcar and Maven.


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How to turn Facebook posts into tweets (and vice versa)
Community managers spend a lot of time condensing Facebook posts into tweets (and stretching tweets into Facebook posts). Here are some tricks to make both easier.
As many community managers know, you often have the same message to spread across several social media platforms. It's a skill in and of itself.
You should tailor messages to their respective audiences and platform constraints. This often includes transforming messages from an unlimited amount of space (Facebook) into 140 characters (Twitter).
I look at turning Facebook posts into tweets as a puzzle. You have to fit 200-300 character messages into 140 characters (ideally 120 to leave room for retweet messages). When you account for the 22 characters used for a link, you're left with a mere 98 characters in which to fit your message.
How can you fit a complete, grammatically correct sentence or two into 98 characters or fewer? Here are some tips:
1. Shave down the post to the core message. What exactly do you need to say—with no frills? Start with that and your link, plus any additional hashtags. Then, reduce it more if necessary.
2. Use ampersands, numerals and contractions. Using "&" instead of "and" will take five characters (accounting for spaces) down to three. Using the numeral "7" instead of "seven" will knock off four characters.
3. Change a sentence into a question. Sometimes questions are shorter than full sentences. Plus, you're also more likely to pique curiosity about the link you're pointing users to.
4. Use active voice instead of passive voice. You'll get rid of extra "to be" verbs while using stronger language.
5. Don't resort to texting language. A tweet that reads "R U looking 4 the best tips 4 tweeting?" is extremely unprofessional. Avoid it at all costs.
You shouldn't link your Facebook page to your Twitter handle. Nothing makes less sense than a stream of tweets that are cut off before the key message due to automated Facebook synchronization. It can even cut off the link you're sharing, sending your readers on a wild goose chase across platforms just to get your message. Hardly anyone has patience for that—especially when they're on mobile.
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Translating tweets back into Facebook posts
The first step is to make sure the message is grammatically correct. Eliminate symbols and shortcuts. You have a little more room to work with, so you can briefly introduce your content before you add your call to action or conversation starter.
I also prefer not to include a double link. If your Facebook post already includes the link, there's no use in leaving it in the post, as well.
It only takes a little time to tweak each message for the right channel, so be patient. You'll come to the puzzle's conclusion soon enough!
If you're constantly changing Facebook posts into tweets, what are your tricks for making them channel appropriate?
A version of this article originally appeared on the Identity PR blog.
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Is your life empty without him?
Do you think of him often?
Do you sometimes have trouble going about your work because he's on your mind?
Are you depressed because you feel him slipping away?
Do you have a wealth of love stored up just for him?
Is he hardheaded and stubborn?
Are you sure he's "the one"?
Do you want him to fall deeply in love with you?
Do you feel if you can catch his ear (penetrate his defenses), he will come to his senses and fall madly in love with you?
Do you want to be happy together – forever?
If you answered "yes" to at least seven of the questions, you should seriously consider having a love spell His Love spell cast in your behalf.
The purpose of this spell is to make telepathic contact with the one you love. To place you in his thoughts, his dreams, his consciousness and unconsciousness. And once this is accomplished, everything will be in place for him to fall hopelessly in love with you.
You are frustrated because you know what life is about: to simply be with the person you love and live happily ever after. And you are certain that once this person wakes up, your feelings will be reciprocated.
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This modern villa is located on a raised plot with wonderful open sea views and within easy reach of the beautiful Mediterranean town of Moraira on the Costa Blanca. Less than 15 minutes drive away from Calpe and approximately one hour away from Valencia, the area combines the calm feeling of a fishing village with the cultural plans offered by the big cities. The villa is very close to the Mediterranean Coastline and only a short walk to the town centre which offers many choices of, bars, restaurants and local shops. The property is distributed in two levels plus basement. The ground floor has a space of 65,60m2 that comprises a bedroom with en suite bathroom and access to a terrace of 14m2, the living room and kitchen with access to a covered terrace of 27m2 adjacent to 248,20m2 of open space surrounding the infinity pool. On the first floor we find the master bedroom with en-suite bathroom and a large dressing room and the two remaining bedrooms which also have an individual bathroom. The basement contains a double garage and two rooms of 56,60 and 30,75 m2 that can be used as a cinema, storage room etc....
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What is NAS
NAS is a term applies to an external storage device that attaches to your network hence enable multiple users and computers to store and share their data in a central place. NAS is a very popular storage solution for small businesses as well as home users. Why it is so popular? The following are the main factors.
●It is convenient for NAS users to add storage to all devices. And after adding a high capacity NAS to a network, all of the devices in the network are able to access and utilize this storage.
●NAS devices are usually used as backup severs. Rather than purchasing an external hard drive for backing up. It is cheaper to buy a single NAS which all computers on the network can backup to it.
●NAS devices have many technologies that make sharing files easier and faster.
How toBackup NAS
Nothing can be more important than the data stored in the NAS. So it is critical to backup NAS in case of data loss. But how to backup NAS is the question you need to consider. There are different ways to backup NAS. Because Windows built-in backup tools can not backup NAS, we use a backup software to backup NAS. Find the best NAS backup comes to be the most important thing.
The best NAS backup software can perform the backup in a fast process, and it is easy to operate even for a freshman. AOMEI Backupper is a backup software which is easy to use, intellectual, fast when backing up data. And you can use it for backing up without paying for it which save your time, money and energy. Now let's see how to backup NAS using AOMEI Backupper. Here we take backing up NAS to external hard drive for instance.
How to backup NAS using AOMEI Backupper
Step1. Download AOMEI Backupper, install it. Plug an external hard drive into computer using an available USB port. Launch AOMEI Backupper, click File Backup under the Backup option.
Step2. Input a Task Name to distinguish it from other backups. Select Add Folders, then choose Share/NAS. And click Add Share or NAS devices. It will pop up a prompt, you just need input the IP address, username and password correctly.
Step4. Then choose the location, now we use backup NAS to external hard drive as the instance. Here is F:\.
Step5. Confirm all your settings is what you need. Click Start Backup to begin the perform and select Finish when backup is done.
■Make sure your NAS can be attached in the network, or the backup can not success.
■The external hard drive should have enough space to store the backups.
■If you want to backup the new files and changed files in the NAS automatically, just create an automatic backup.
■You can check the Anonymous box to avoid inputting username and password of your NAS.


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Dr. Klaus Kasper
Dr. Klaus Kasper has over 30 years experience in the German power sector, much of it at Board-level. Klaus served on the Executive Committee of EnBW, Germany's third-largest utility, from 1999 to 2002. As Chief Technology Officer, he was responsible for EnBW's technical services, power stations, research and development. He was also one of four representatives from the power industry who signed the nuclear energy agreement with the German government in 2001.
From 1996 to 1998, as the technical expert on RWE AG 's Supervisory Board, Klaus was responsible for the conventional and nuclear power stations in Karlsruhe. During this time he ran the start-up of a cogeneration plant and a waste-to-energy gasification plant. Prior to that, Klaus was very involved in the coordination of the new energy industry in East Germany following reunification. Klaus joined RWE in 1978 with responsibility for nuclear and conventional power plant technology after serving as a scientific officer charged with reactor safety issues in the nuclear research plant FZ Jülich.
Klaus received a PhD in mechanical engineering from Aachen University, where he specialized in nuclear reactor engineering.


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Are you being paid what you are worth? New online course shows how to Impress Your Boss and Get the Pay Raise You Deserve!
Your annual review is coming up and you're keeping your fingers crossed. You're hoping
you get a pay increase this year… but then when the review is over, your raise was lower than you'd hoped.
Or worse–you didn't get any raise at all!
You know
you performed well that year. Better than everyone else…
so what happened?
You fell short on your performance review. You didn't stand out and make an impression.
You need to learn how to promote yourself effectively
What would you do if you knew exactly
what to do to ensure you got the pay rise you know
you deserve?
Don't leave it to chance.
You can't treat your family with hopes and dreams. A wish won't put a new car in your driveway. Winging it won't increase your status and get you the respect you deserve…
But this course can.
You'll learn everything you must do to get a sizable pay rise, so you can:
● Finally treat your family to that beach getaway you've been promising…
● Put some cash away for a rainy day…
● Brag about your raise (your friends will secretly be envious of you…)
● Become more respected…
● Enjoy life more…
● Provide financial stability for you and your family…
You know this is for you if…
1. You want to earn more money and get paid what you're worth.
2. You wish that you could ask for a raise or promotion, but you are too afraid to do it, and yet, you don't even know how to do it the right way.
3. You want to impress your boss so you don't need to ask for a raise. Instead, your boss will give you a raise even before you ask about it.
If the answer to one, two, or all of these questions is YES, then this is the most important message you ever read.
Here's why:
You're about to discover how you too can get a pay raise from your boss, using the real and proven way to get raise, that I've been teaching to many people like you.
Why I teach people on how to get a raise?
The reason is simple.
Many people are having these kinds of questions on their mind:
• What's the right way to ask for a raise or promotion?
• What's the process? Is it going to be easy, or risky?
• Should I ask right now?
• Is it okay if I just ask for a raise to my boss?
If you too are having these same questions on your mind, then you're not alone.
Yes, there are many people like you who're struggled with being underpaid. They're helpless. They feel undervalued for years.
In fact, only half of U.S. workers are knowing how to ask for a raise from their employer.
Unfortunately, less than half of them who actually receive the raise they deserve.
It's just too bad for them.
That's the reason why I decided to share this SECRET METHOD with thousands of workers who feel underpaid for years. And now, I'm going to teach you this method that could help you ask for a raise successfully.
But before that, let me introduce myself.
My name is Antwain Tate Goode. I hold a doctorate of philosophy in the field of Organization and Management with a specialization in Leadership from Capella University.
A few years back, I held a seminar "Write Your Way To The Top" which I executed at Fortune 500 companies. This seminar is teaching workers how to get raise and promotion using the exact same strategy I'm going to reveal in a second.
I was surprised by so many people who told me that the method actually works. I was so happy I could help people get a raise they deserve.
However… At the same time, there's something bothering me.
"If only I could help more people…" I said to myself. Well, this is the time when I decided to help more people to get a raise and promotion… And here I am, writing this message to you.
My mission is simple.
I Want To Help More People
To Get A Raise They Deserve.
I know this simple improvement in your financial aspect could make a big positive impact on your life, right?
So if this is the thing you're looking for, keep reading, I'll tell you more about it.
Here's How I Can Help You:
I created a course that is based on my seminar "Write Your Way To The Top".
This course will show you the exact step-by-step you need to follow to impress your boss and get a raise you deserve.
Now, pay attention to this:
It's completely different from anything you've heard or tried before.
It's not about:
- The positive mindset that could help you get a raise immediately like a magic. No, it's not another "think positive" product made by scammers who only wanted to make a big profit from people like you.
- Another B.S. course that only telling you how you are supposed to act in those difficult moments of tension. Instead, this course is completely practical and applicable.
- Free information which is available online. Instead, it's based on a real and proven method I created by myself.
So what's this course is about?
It's simple but hardly anyone knows about it.
This Course Is About Writing.
"Why writing?" You might ask.
I bet you never heard about this: Writing in business is not just a necessity but a career requirement. How we communicate through our writing affects individual perceptions and the perception of our firm.
And this course will show you the strategy to write your Performance Evaluation that will be a solid foundation to ask for raises, promotions, or other benefits.
In case you don't know, writing your performance evaluation is so important in your career.
It's How You Can Show You Are
Worthy Of A Raise Or A Promotion.
It lets your boss know what you do, how you do it well, and why you're important to the company.
Sounds good, right? But, is it going to be easy to learn?
No worries. This course is made to be very easy-to-follow for anyone. It walks you through the five stages of the writing process and provides a clear focus that is essential for strong writing.
No matter how bad you're in writing… I believe you can master it within a short time.
Here's what you can learn from this course:
- The introduction to M-E-A-L plan, which is a way to organize your paragraphs as you write. It helps you create strong, thorough paragraphs like a great writer.
- Learn the importance of company standards so you can write your Performance Evaluation in a much better way.
- How to use technology to make your report stand out. Once you've written your Performance Evaluation, this course section will show you how to make it stand out to make sure it will impress your boss once he/she read your report.
- Templates to keep track of your performance. The reason I provide you these templates is to make everything even much, much easier for you.
- How to improve your lingo so you can communicate in the right way through your report.
You see, this is everything you need to learn how to write a great Performance Evaluation that is guaranteed to help you get a raise, promotion, or just to impress your boss.
This Is Will Be A Game-Changer In Your Career.
Now, let me show you what will happen after you've finished the course:
- You won't be stuck with your career, struggled with being underpaid for years, and helpless not knowing how to get a raise from your boss. This course will help you improve your career so you can get the salary you deserve that could improve your quality of life.
- There will be no more bad performance reviews. Your boss will know how you do your job well, and he/she will know how you important you are to your company.
- You can justify your raise through writing. This is a lesson you can't learn anywhere.
- It walks you through the five stages of the writing process that could make you become a great writer. So not only it can help you get a raise, but also it can help you be a great writer in case you're terrible at writing before.
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Can A Simple Strategy Like
This Really Help You Get A Raise?
Well, don't listen to me, just listen to what these people say:
I have had the privilege of working with Dr. Goode and his wife with Tate Consulting, and have been extremely impressed with their integrity and professionalism.
The "Write Your Way to the Top" course that Dr. Goode has designed and facilitated does wonders in fulfilling a huge gap that currently exists in today's corporations. Although most large companies require performance evaluations, there is little to no training provided to managers and employees in how to write them effectively.
This course walks the student through all the fundamentals in writing an effective performance evaluation. Not only are the lectures comprehensive, but the course also teaches the student through giving him/her the opportunity to write his/her own performance evaluation with the tools provided throughout the lessons.
As an author of higher education curriculum, a former college instructor, and a business owner, I would highly recommend this course to anyone interested in improving their skills in writing. Businesses would be wise to purchase this course for their employees and management. It would do wonders in providing consistency across the company, and encouraging employees to care about their individual productivity and commitment to the company.
If anyone has questions that I can clarify, I will happily answer them.
My email address is email@example.com
My phone number is 336-491-6906.
Elizabeth A. Scott, MS-Computer Science, MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer)
Lead Software Developer/Sole Proprietor for EScott IT Consulting
The Write Your Way to the Top course has stirred up my awareness of the values I have provided working with organizations. I can now analyze and represent them well in writing.
Being able to do that has been a confidence booster!Michael Adebiyi
Are these people any different than you? No, they are not. They also struggled with their problem of being underpaid.
The only thing they did was to put their doubt aside and give my proven strategy a try.
If you too can simply put your doubt aside for a while, you can see for yourself just what it's like to be able to get a raise you actually deserve.
Think about it: Standing there with a smile on your face, knowing your boss are really impressed with your performance, and he finally gives you a raise for your good performance… that would be something, wouldn't it?
You bet it would.
This is the course that I wish is exist at my first week on the job. That's just too bad it's been a secret for too long.
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Listen, I'm a Ph.D., and I stake my reputation on my promises. Perhaps more importantly, I'm on a mission to help more people get a raise they deserve.
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Cost of the Course
(plus state tax)
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Do you think that you found all the pirate treasures, and the Dungeons are almost empties? Warriors, you definitely underestimated the team of Admiral Octopus, which hid so many treasures that this week will be two times more rewards! Hurry to find them ;)
The Wooden Clown was a faithful jester of the Spring King and daily entertained and amused all the guests. But after a while his funs became to scare all of the royal surroundings and even cause bouts of animal's fear. Such a transformation from a jester into a monster forced the Spring King to kick the clown out of the Palace and send him far from the Blissful Isle. No one could imagine that somewhere in the sea Admiral Octopus will meet a Wooden clown and take him to his team of monsters. Obliged to the life of his saviour, the clown is ready to die, but do not let the warriors of Arinar to the pirate treasure.
Try to find a Wooden clown in the Dungeons and carry away all the rewards, because this week they are especially many!
2 rewards for the completion of any holiday Dungeon;
Wooden Clown costume was added to all holiday Dungeons only for the upcoming week (drop chance increases with the dungeon level);
2x drop chance craft resources and precious bars from the Spring Boxes in all holiday Dungeons.
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Once you feel that something is wrong, you already have it. Every four minutes, somebody is diagnosed with a blood cancer, and about every 11 minutes, somebody passes away from one.
That's why it is so important for medical professionals as well as people everywhere to become aware and educated about the various types of blood cancers, said Emily Marquez-Dulin. She recently joined The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) as the Executive Director for Southern Florida and Puerto Rico.
She and Monica Alvarado, a 53 year-old survivor of leukemia, recently conducted a series of phone interviews as part of an LLS awareness campaign, aimed particularly at the Hispanic community. After seeing her doctor about a strange-looking spider bite and bruising in her arms and legs, Alvarado was given a diagnosis she says she would never have expected "in a million years."
Leukemia is cancer of the blood cells, and it starts in the bone marrow. As WebMD explains, there are different types of leukemia, and these groupings are organized based on the kind of white blood cell affected and how fast the illness gets worse. It can be acute, which means it progresses rapidly, or it can be chronic, which means it makes a patient feel sick much more slowly.
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia and chronic lymphocytic leukemia affect the lymphocytes, whereas acute myelogenous leukemia and chronic myelogenous leukemia affect the cells which become granulocytes (a type of white blood cell), platelets and red blood cells. There are also several other types of leukemia which are less common, such as hairy cell leukemia.
Not only are symptoms of these cancers very few and different in each case, but according to the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, blood cancer symptoms that do present in patients are also often dismissed as other more minor ailments like influenza or the common cold. This makes diagnosing and treating types of blood cancers a huge challenge.
Alvarado said that in addition, she also faced certain unique challenges as a Latina diagnosed with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) in March 2004.
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This is a brilliantly insightful piece Rick. Thank you.
I see almost the same conflict with personal privacy and security. A slightly modified version of your last paragraph expresses this quite well.
...everything you wish to accomplish for [security] that will unburden our lives and supposedly make them [safer] also involves a price that we pay in [personal privacy]. And it disturbs me that I hear nothing about how that affects the manner in which liberty is diminished and we become that much farther removed from our roots as a people who valued freedom more than life itself.
I believe that your thesis and privacy are so closely intertwined that they cannot be separated without the others undoing.Comment Posted By Chuck Tucson On 28.01.2009 @ 14:42
If anyone is interested, here is the Hubble Heritage gallery of truly awesome images, one of my favorite bookmark visits...
http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/gallery.htmlComment Posted By Chuck Tucson On 26.01.2009 @ 17:04
That doesn't require a time machine, only Republicans who have decided to make sure the public knows which soon-to-be discredited party and president owns this massive fraud.
I'm not sure which discredited party, or massive fraud you're referring to. There have been so many lately, it's kinda hard to tell.Comment Posted By Chuck Tucson On 28.01.2009 @ 13:46
but all the propaganda in the world can't make someone who is unemployed or underemployed not realize the stupid economic mistakes the Democrats are about to make caused it.
Your hypothesis would require a time machine.Comment Posted By Chuck Tucson On 27.01.2009 @ 19:14
I'm done. You win.Comment Posted By Chuck Tucson On 27.01.2009 @ 12:02
You know Chuck, just when I think that you can't be anymore of a lunatic, you prove me wrong.
I was inspired by US Marine Major General S. Darlington Butler. One of the most decorated US Marines in the history of the corps, including two medals of honor. I was echoing his wisdom. Incidentally, he is one of the people who informed congress and FDR of the so called Business Plot.
One of my favorite pastimes is utterly destroying your attempts at logic and reason. This includes your use of logical fallacy, canned talking point responses, and ad hominem attacks.
Your simpleton analogies and backwards reasoning (see college student example) make sense only to you, and a few like minded people. They are so far removed from reality that it actually makes me cringe. Think about what you've just done... you've equated torture with fraternity hazing. I know that comparison will never sink in with you, but it's so intellectually dishonest that most people couldn't even bring themselves to joke about it.
You proceed to suggest that I'm a communist, or socialist, or whatever other bobble head name springs to mind to denigrate me in a public forum in order to bolster your simplistic views. This, without a shred of knowledge about my life, or the lives of the people you mock and make ridiculous sweeping generalizations about. I'm a capitalist. I earn money in the free market. I own successful businesses. I served my country. I criticize my government and its policies when they become and embarrassment to the ideals I thought I was protecting.
And you know what? Torture is wrong. Torture is evil. Torture is so much more than your simple analogies suggest. And furthermore, it does not work, but man it sure sounds good. So yeah, I'm the moron. I'm the lunatic. The lunatic who says torture is wrong, and war is a racket. I'm the one shouting facts and getting mocked for it. But you're the one who destroyed your party. And for a guy without a party, it was amazing to watch it happen.
You should probably respond by calling me more names, and by typing a few simplistic analogies to highlight your points so that I can understand them.Comment Posted By Chuck Tucson On 27.01.2009 @ 04:20
First, in the United States, being told that you resemble a talented and famous actor who portrayed one of the greatest pilots in the history of our country in a critically acclaimed film is actually quite a compliment. It's like telling someone they look like a hero. Second, there is definitely some resemblance in this AFO's pilot to a young Sam Shepard.
Now, I watched the video and below is the transcript for anyone who actually thinks that Obama just insulted and denigrated the man who is in charge of flying him safely around the world...
[Obama exits his vehicle and climbs the steps to board AFO. The pilot is standing there to greet him. Obama waves at some people and turns to the pilot.]
Obama: How are you sir!
Pilot: Hi sir, good afternoon.
(they shake hands)
Pilot My name is [inaudible], nice to meet you.
Obama: Good to see you.
Pilot: Yes sir.
Obama: So, you're the pilot of Air Force One!
Pilot: Yes sir, it will be my privilege to serve you as your pilot (smiling, joking) if you'll have me.
Obama: (chuckles) You know, I gotta say, you're outta central casting.
(pilot laughs)
Obama: You're exactly what I want the pilot of Air Force One to look like.
Pilot: (smiling) Thank you very much sir.
Obama: You look like you know how to fly. You look like Sam Shepard in The Right... The Right Stuff.
Pilot: (smiling, laughing) Thank you very much sir. On behalf of everyone at Air Force One, I'd like to invite you... welcome you aboard.
[the pilot then proceeds to introduce Obama to the rest of the flight crew.]
I'm completely baffled as to where the insult to the man, or his service took place. They were both smiling. The pilot cracked a joke, he was smiling, though a bit nervous, and the mood seemed pleasant and upbeat.
You can criticize Obama for any number of things, but this is completely, nit pickingly, absurd. Does tend to fire people up though, which was exactly your point.Comment Posted By Chuck Tucson On 26.01.2009 @ 20:36
It is obvious by the way they regard the military – half-idiot savages running loose across the planet.
War is a racket. And as long as business interests commercially benefit from war, it always will be. People can delude themselves to the contrary, but the only people who view our soldiers as you describe are the people making money on the other end. Furthermore, it's a relatively bipartisan endeavor, despite your efforts to portray the contrary.Comment Posted By Chuck Tucson On 26.01.2009 @ 16:09
I love the Rush Limbaugh school of logic. Arguing that Merrill Lynch spending $1.2 Million dollars of TARP money to remodel their executive suites constitutes economic stimulus in the spirit of the bill...
Classic. I hope they at least added a stripper pole and some coke mirrors in the executive washroom. No strings attached tax payer supported bailout money... nothing quite like it.Comment Posted By Chuck Tucson On 26.01.2009 @ 14:51
b) Why does "how have hispanics affected me" matter to the issue?
It doesn't. It's a bullshit question designed specifically to set up one of the two canned responses he had. Once he delivered lame response A, or Logical fallacy B, the script would be over and you would been called some clever name derived from liberal and retard, and not spoken to again in the thread. It's a type cast, but it's usually spot on.Comment Posted By Chuck Tucson On 24.01.2009 @ 22:55
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