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After the 3 day head start, players will not be lacking gold in Guild Wars 2. Why? Because of Gems. These will be used for a variety of upgrades, which you can view at the Guild Wars 2 Gem Wiki. Higher level characters who played the initial 3 day head start will purchase gems from players who pay money for them. So, in essence, the low level characters will buy gems for money and the high level characters will buy them for gold. They may not sell well during the beginning of the head start, but by day 4 they will sell like hotcakes. Especially for low level characters who don't have access to methods for making more gold, whether it be farming or crafting.
So What Will They Spend Their Gold On?
Mark my words, leveling items will be the highest profit margins of any items in Guild Wars 2. Conversely, end game items will sell against more competition with smaller profit margins.
Buy Low, Sell Normal
It's all about Buying Low and Selling Normal. That's the key to every economy I've ever played online!
With buyout orders and selling orders, it's going to be much easier to play the Buy Low, Sell Normal strategy. Just pick out an item you can mass produce (like bags) and do the following:
- Create cheap buyout orders for your materials.
- Craft.
- Create sell orders at normal price for your crafted goods.
That's all there is to it! In other games, you had to rely on winning bids cheap or finding super underpriced goods to buy low and then sell normal. But in Guild Wars 2, you actually get to speak to the buyers and sellers through buyout orders. Remember, normal is just the price a player expects to pay for their item. Maybe even a little cheaper than normal.
Be Unique
So how do you distinguish yourself from the crowd of buyers and sellers? You're going to want to buy and sell like this:
Buy in huge quantities so that you can place a cheaper buyout order for the items. Players will take a hit to their profits in exchange for the opportunity to get rid of ALL their items at once.
Sell in small quantities, in the amounts that players want the specific items. For bags maybe that is four items (players start the game with 4 open bag slots).
Stay Open Minded!
Keep an open mind and remember to think like an auctioneer when Guild Wars 2 comes out. Be careful playing the gem game at first as they will have inflated prices, but instead, focus on leveling items and crafted goods.
Beware end game items! They are always going to be rife with competition and small payouts compared to your crafting materials. Focus on dozens of small, fast moving niches where you can capitalize on buy low, sell normal.
Guest post written by Ben Sanders.
Guild Wars 2 has a feature that I've only encountered in one game previously - the ability to create buy orders and sell orders. I have previously enjoyed buy orders and sell orders in Eve Online, but had to make do with an auction house for World of Warcraft and for Diablo 3, which is sort of only half the trading functionality.
Introduction - How buy and sell orders work
Sell orders are very similar to auctions that have a buyout price; anyone can see the sell order, and choose to buy at that price. Unlike auctions, one buys from the lowest buy order - with auctions, for example, you could choose to buy the overpriced ore at 27 gold instead of the cheap ore at 3 gold. With sell orders, however, your order is always fulfilled from the lowest priced sell orders.
Diablo 3 has the equivalent of sell orders for it's commodities market.
When a trader creates a sell order, the things they are selling vanish from their inventory, and (in GW2) they are charged a listing fee. The items remain on the trading post until either someone buys them, or the trader cancels the order, and gets their items back.
Buy orders, however, are where the fun starts for a trader. Instead of putting goods up on the trading post, they put up funds with an offer to buy goods at a particular price. They supply the trading post with enough money to cover the transaction.
So when someone with something to sell (a farmer, say) goes to the trading post to sell their items, they have a choice.
Either they can sell at the price of the highest buy order, and they will get money immediately (the trader has already put up the money to buy at that price). Or they can list their goods as a sell order, either choosing to undercut the current cheapest sell order to try and get a quick sale, or at a price that seems reasonable to them, because they think the existing sell orders will sell out in a reasonable amount of time.
What difference does this make to a trader?
The question of 'What is something worth?' is one that was often hard to answer with an auction house, especially if you were new to a market. You could look on the auction house, and the current auctions tell you 'Someone is willing to sell at such a price', but the problem was determining demand - sometimes no one was willing to buy at that price, and things just remained unsold auctions until they expired. As one got to know a market better, one could learn more about the demand too.
With both buy and sell orders on the trading post, even when new to that market, you get a range of prices into which an item's value falls. If there are buy orders, then the item is currently worth at least as much as the highest buy order, and if there are sell orders, it is worth no more than the cost of the buying from the sell orders.
The size of the range between the buy and sell orders (the margin) is an indication of the volume of the market; if the good is traded very frequently, the margin will tend to be smaller, with less room for profit per item. If there is a big margin, there is probably a lower volume being traded, and there is more doubt as to the fair price.
Markco's mantra was always 'Buy Cheap, Sell Normal'. Buy and sell orders give you many more opportunities to do this - the trader exchanges time for money. Instead of getting an immediate result, instead you place buy orders so that other people can immediately sell their goods, and place sell orders, so that people who are not interested in waiting for buy orders to be fulfilled, and buy things instantly.
My experiences of farmers in World of Warcraft suggest that they really like getting their money immediately, and will sometimes take a significant cut in the price they will sell at to achieve this.
Some people would make arrangements with farmers to buy any amount of certain goods at a prearranged price; I would expect this to happen much less in Guild Wars 2, because of the ability for the farmer to sell to buy orders to get immediate funds.
If you suspect that the price of something is going to go down, with an excess of supply reducing the price, then you can preemptively place a buy order to be ready to buy that good when it is cheap.
When playing World of Warcraft, I often tried to buy ore on a Tuesday morning, as the auctions often had a low buyout then. If I had had buy orders available, I could instead have created them on Monday evenings, and the Monday night farmers would have been able to sell to me immediately. It's no longer a game of timing, but instead a game of getting the correct pricing for my buy order. As a trader, I like to think that I'm better at getting the pricing right, rather than trying to race the other traders by getting up at the right time on a Tuesday morning.
This is very similar to listing sell orders at a higher price than the current lowest sell orders, because you think the price is going to go up. We could already do this in games that just had an auction house, but having buy and sell orders allow speculation in both directions.
Thanks for reading,
Ben Sanders


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Barcelona stars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez enjoyed a night at the town to celebrate their Champions League heroics.
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Messi and Roccuzzo who have been together since 2008 recently welcomed a baby boy on September 11 this year. The pair already have a three year old boy named Thiago.
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The deadly duo of Messi and Suarez, both 28, were at their attacking best on Tuesday night as they send their Italian opponents crashing down in their Champions League Group E clash and treated themselves with a night out ahead of their match at home to Real Sociedad on Saturday.
Although out of action since late September after picking up a knee injury in his team's 2-1 win over Las Palmas, Messi made a triumphant return to the Blaugrana starting XI against Rudi Garcia's Giallorossi side.
The four-time Ballon d'Or winner finished off a 27-pass move in the 18th minute after Suarez's tap-in opener three minutes earlier, before poking in just before the hour-mark with his Uruguayan team-mate having already volleyed home his second on the stroke of half-time.
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Bayer Leverkusen are in third, also with five points and BATE Borisov are fourth with four.
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If you're biding your time before picking up one of the three next-gen consoles but still want some games to play this holiday season then why not check out some of my ten favorite games of last gen that no one played.


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* C$ at 0.9857 vs US$, or $1.0145
* Bernanke says Fed to act as needed, mindful of risks
* Canada GDP in second quarter beats forecasts
* Bond prices mixed
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TORONTO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar on Friday
rallied to its strongest close against the greenback since late
April after data showed Canada's economy grew at a quicker pace
than expected in the second quarter and after Federal Reserve
Chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. central bank would take
stimulus action as needed.
Bernanke said the U.S. economy faces "daunting" challenges
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session close of C$0.9923, or $1.0078. It was the strongest
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The Canadian dollar was also firmer against most other major
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the central bank's key policy rate, showed that traders
increased bets on a rate hike in 2013 after the data.
The Canadian dollar got an early-session boost from comments
by European Central Bank member Benoit Coeure that spurred
market expectations that the ECB will intervene to help tackle
the region's three-year-old debt crisis.
Coeure said ECB bond purchases in the sovereign debt market
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obviously the next chief hurdle," Chandler said.
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as a German court ruling on the constitutionality of bond buying
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Gisele Bundchen Shows Off First Pic Of Baby Vivian Lake On Facebook
Posing for the camera like her mama! The supermodel showed off her beautiful baby girl on Feb. 8 in a first public pic since she was born in December. She's such a natural!
Gisele Bundchen is one proud mommy! She shared a pic of her daughter Vivian Lake, 2 months, on her Facebook page, and showed off her beautiful frilly dress and full head of hair! The supermodel welcomed her baby girl on Dec. 5 with husband Tom Brady.
"Love is everything!!! Happy friday, much love to all," Gisele posted along with the pic.
Little Vivian is the second child with her husband, who are also parents to son Benjamin, 2. Tom has a 5-year-old son John with actress and model Bridget Moynahan.
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"We feel so lucky to have been able to experience the miracle of birth once again and are forever grateful for the opportunity to be the parents of another little angel," she posted on Facebook. "Vivian Lake was born at home on December 5. She is healthy and full of life. Thank you all for your support and well wishes. We wish you and your families many blessings."
Footballer dad Tom also revealed how happy he was to have a little daughter. "I grew up in a house with three sisters," he said in an interview. "I think it's great for my boys to have a girl in the house just understand at least a little bit of what makes a woman tick."
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Bloggers bite into President Bush's prime-time Hurricane Katrina address and discuss the New York Times implementing charges for online access to op-eds.
What Bush said:In a televised address Thursday night, President Bush discussed the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina and proposed a "Gulf Opportunity Zone" to help rebuild the devastated region. The president promised tax incentives for local businesses, personal accounts for job training and education, and a thorough review of the emergency plans of all American cities, in a speech some commentators believe was crafted to regain political ground lost during the "faltering response" to the hurricane.
Many conservatives see, in the performance, the leader they elected in 2000. "The President was at his best tonight," commends attorney Paul Mirengoff of Power Line. "You can call it FDR/LBJ liberalism, big government conservatism, or compassionate conservatism. I call it American-style pragmatism…and, as such, it will unite most of the country," he predicts. Radio host Hugh Hewitt enthusiastically concurs. "A good speech by a good man," he writes. "Perfect pitch returned tonight, and the president's looks backward and forward were on target."
Though he lauds the speech at Captain's Quarters, conservative Ed Morrissey suggests presidential resolve and budgetary commitment might not prove determinate factors in rebuilding the city, citing a Washington Post report showing fewer than half of the evacuees intend to return to New Orleans. At the National Review's conservative colloquium The Corner, Iain Murray says the permanent displacement of residents might not be a bad thing. "[I]t's often the case that city populations shift after a natural disaster," he writes. "But they are replaced by people who come to help rebuild and then stay, which means a new risk-taking, entrepreneurial population, and that may well be a good thing."
"A good speech, I thought, and I say that through clenched teeth," compliments Matt Welch at Reason's Hit and Run, though he'd like to see the president learn the lessons of fiscal and bureaucratic discipline rather than pursuing a policy of federal aggrandizement. A disappointed Tacitus lists 10 troubling lessons we learned last night about the president and his stewardship of the GOP.
Many on the left are outraged at the appointment of strategist deluxe Karl Rove to lead the reconstruction effort. "Shouldn't that be raising a lot of questions – a man whose entire professional experience is in political messaging and patronage?" asks judicious liberal Joshua Micah Marshall at Talking Points Memo. The president, Marshall writes, "put his chief spin-doctor in charge of the biggest reconstruction and refugee crisis the country's probably ever faced. That tells you all you need to know about his values."
Some observers have other complaints. Washington, D.C.-based Political Pit Bull Greg Tinti thinks Bush should have addressed the race issue more directly. "He should have unequivocally stated that the inadequate response had nothing to do with the skin color of Katrina's victims. He should have identified the race-baiting that occurred in the wake of Katrina as what it is: a polarizing tactic being used by some to score political points at time when the country needs unity and leadership," he says. (Conservative La Shawn Barber agrees). "As the President stated tonight, out this terrible disaster can come hope. As some have already noted, this might be the second coming of LBJ's War on Poverty. I hope so for it's certainly long overdue."
National Review Online editor Kathryn Jean Lopez is one of many on the right balking at the enormous cost of the big government-style programs the president proposed.Many on the left smell Republican discord—particularly in recommendations, by Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn and Indiana Rep. Mike Pence, to offset the cost of reconstruction by streamlining federal spending in other areas and perhaps back away from bids to make recent tax cuts permanent. "Griping about spending is one thing, but when they start suggesting they might hold the line on tax cuts, it's clear that some serious rebellion is in the air," writesWashington MonthlyPolitical Animal Kevin Drum. "And what does this mean? That's easy: a fire breathing social conservative to fill Sandra Day O'Connor's Supreme Court seat. Bush is going to have to do something to keep the Coburn wing of the party happy, after all."
Read Slate takes on the speech here and here.Read more blog posts about the presidential address here, more about Hurricane Katrina here, and more about New Orleans here.
The Times gets exclusive:Starting Monday, the New York Times will begin charging its online readers for access to its op-ed columns. The program, known as TimesSelect, will cost $50 annually and include some limited access to the paper's previously-pay-as-you-go archives. "The Internet is losing its innocence," laments Matt Drudge of Internet tabloid The Drudge Report.
"The Edsel. New Coke. Times Select," intones conservative GT at Civilized Invective. Others are equally skeptical. At imp_perfect, Iva-Marie Palmer writes the package is overpriced and suggests a scaled pricing system by which readers could purchase access to as few or as many columnists as they'd like. "What Business Is The New York Times In?" asks Jeff Lang of URBANintelligence. "Doesn't the Time's value come from the spread of it's ideas?"
"It's really happening," writes Ben Vershbow of if:book. "The Times is betting that significant numbers of readers will shell out, just like they do for a premium channel on cable. Can the Times be the HBO of web news?"
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Recipe: Pumpkin Pie Pancakes
Although I get pretty weary of the pumpkin madness that hits the universe come October — I'm looking at you, Starbucks — there are two things I'll make an exception for: bread pudding and pancakes. And since this post is clearly not about bread pudding, let's talk about what we like to call "Pum'Cakes" around our house. Yes, they're so good they got their own name!
I first discovered pumpkin pancakes at The Griddle Cafe, a famous Hollywood eatery in a town not usually known for things such as pancakes. I am usually a savory breakfast kind of girl, but hey, when in L.A., do as the Angelenos do.
So I ordered from "the griddle" at The Griddle, and it was a choice I wouldn't regret. What arrived on my plate was a triple stack of the largest, fluffiest, pumpkin-est hot cakes I've ever seen. As if that weren't enough, they were smothered in powdered sugar, slapped in butter, and finished off with a mountain of whipped cream. The calories were worth it, but these pancakes might also explain the popularity of SoCal juice bars. (Roll me to one, please.)
And so my love affair with pumpkin pancakes began. I have ordered them at restaurants and even attempted them at home, dabbling with amounts and ingredients over the years. They have always been pretty good, but never quite "The Griddle" good.
Until now, that is. I finally decided to put my head down and get serious, and I hope you'll be glad I did. Perfecting the pancakes meant more than a few cans of pumpkin and a heck of a lot of pancakes, but it was a small price to pay and I was more than willing. At first glance these won't seem much different than any run-of-the-mill pumpkin pancakes, but I do have a few tricks up my sleeve:
All of the dry ingredients are whisked together per usual, but I combine all of the liquid ingredients in a blender — to make it a bit more like pumpkin pie, if you will. You don't risk overworking the batter by adding the flour, but you still get plenty of silkiness and spice.
My second trick is to fold in the egg whites at the end, a trick I learned right here on The Kitchn. (Thanks, Dana!) It really does help yield a supremely lofty pancake. And my last insistence is to cook the cakes on a sizzling cast iron griddle with a healthy glug of oil. They get a little bit caramelized and a little bit crispy — the ultimate breakfast bite.
So there you have it, my idea of the quintessential pumpkin pancake. I think L.A. definitely got this one right: 'tis always the season for Pum'cakes!
Pumpkin Pie Pancakes
Makes 10 pancakes
2 cups
(9 ounces) all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons
baking powder
1/2 teaspoon
baking soda
1/2 teaspoon
kosher salt
3 tablespoons
packed brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons
ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon
ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon
freshly grated nutmeg
1 3/4 cups
buttermilk, preferably whole
1 cup
canned pumpkin puree (I prefer Libby)
large eggs, separated
1 teaspoon
pure vanilla extract
Canola oil (or another other neutral oil), for cooking
Powdered sugar, maple syrup, butter, and whipped cream, for serving
Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, brown sugar, and spices in a medium mixing bowl and whisk to combine.
Combine buttermilk, pumpkin puree, egg yolks, and vanilla in a blender and process until well combined. Fold the liquid mixture into the dry ingredients until almost combined, but with a few clumps of flour still remaining. Stir the reserved egg whites into the mixture until just combined. Allow the batter to rest for about 10 minutes while preheating the skillet.
Preheat a large cast iron skillet or griddle on medium-high heat and add about a tablespoon of canola oil. When the oil is very hot and shimmery, add 1/4 cup portions of batter to the pan, pressing it out with the bottom of the measuring cup to help it spread out a bit. Lower the heat to medium and cook until the bottoms are golden brown and a bit crispy, 1 to 2 minutes, then flip and continue cooking until done, 2 to 2 1/2 minutes more. (I like to do a small test pancake to adjust the temperature before cooking the remaining batter.) Re-heat the griddle before cooking additional batches of pancakes.
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What does this mean?
USDA organic certification is not given unless strict procedures and adherences to regulations are followed:
- All the organic soap nuts must be harvested from non-agricultural lands. They must be grown on trees that are produced naturally in the wild without the aid of human cultivation.
- There cannot have been any prohibited chemical applied to the soap nut trees for at least three years.
- All harvesting procedures must be environmentally friendly. They must be conducive to the continual growth of the soap nut trees, along with all the other species of wildlife and plants in the general area.
- All organic soap nuts must be collected from areas a substantive distance from cities and towns. This is to minimize human contamination of the growing environment.
- All harvesting must be done a reasonable distance from cultivated lands. This is to ensure that no fertilizers or pesticides affect the natural growth of the harvest.
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Once the organic soap nuts are harvested by contractors, they are brought to a processing plant where the employees break the soap nuts open and remove the seeds from the shells.
Next, the shells are dried in the sun, packaged up and shipped to North America for distribution to the USA and Canada.
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HP CFO Lesjak Issues Dismal Prediction For 2013, Sees Sales Decline
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) CFO Cathie Lesjak issued a dismal earnings forecast for fiscal 2013 results, warning of revenue declines, except for software.
The forecast sent shares of HP down nearly 10 percent in afternoon trading to $15.45, down $1.68. It closed at $14.91, down 13 percent.
Lesjak forecast the Palo Alto, Calif., based company will report 2013 earnings around $3.40 to $3.60 a share on operations, or $2.10 to $2.30 a share on a net basis. The results for the year ending Oct. 31, 2013 should also see a $2.2 billion benefit as the result of firing as many as 26,000 employees.
She didn't pre-announce HP's fourth-quarter results, which are expected to be announced in mid-November. Analysts expected HP to report net income of $4.05 a share on revenue of $121 billion for fiscal 2012.
Earlier, CEO Margaret Whitman led off with a presentation in which she said the No. 1 computer company isn't performing well, had too many individual products such as printers and hadn't properly prepared for the age of the cloud, delivering software as a service and mobility.
Whitman warned that the turnaround at HP will require "at least five years," urging investors to be patient. "All of this is going to take some time to fix," she said, in her first major presenation since taking over in September 2011.
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Ever since Todd Phillips' 1998 Sundance entry "Frat House," the helmer has always possessed a keen sense about the underbelly of the male sex and their penchant for excessive romps. Solidifying a fanbase among guys with gross-out pics such as "Old School" and "Road Trip," Phillips turned the formula for the Las Vegas bachelor-party buddy comedy on its head this summer with "The Hangover" and wound up attracting women to his cinematic style as well.
"Women like to laugh. They just don't like movies about wedding planners," Phillips says. "For them it's a peek behind the curtain of a male tradition that they're normally not invited to unless they're working it."
Not only has "Hangover" become Phillips' first film to crack the century mark at the domestic B.O., earning $213 million through July 9, but the laffer is on its way to becoming the highest-grossing R-rated comedy off all time and the third-highest R-rated pic of all time, filing behind an ironic twosome that includes "The Passion of the Christ" ($370 million) and "The Matrix Reloaded" ($281 million).
Knowing they had a hit on their hands after the first test screening, Warner Bros. announced a "Hangover" sequel with Phillips two months prior to "The Hangover's" June 5 release date, thus sending a clear message to audiences that this fresh-face headliner comedy was something to behold.
"You never have a sense if a movie is working if you're Jewish and working on a comedy," quips Phillips about his foresight on the success of "Hangover," "but our first screening was magical. It played like a rock concert."


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LOS ANGELES --Prices are going up at the Hollywood Bowl. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved price hikes for tickets for the Bowl's 2013 concert season.
Prices for most box seats will go up from $2 to $7. Some of the bench seats will increase up to $3. Also, the cost of valet parking is going up from $40 to $45.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association requested the price hikes to cover increased production, labor, marketing and artists' costs.


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Our Junior Hurling team had a great win over Avondale in the quarter finals of the junior hurling A championship in Arklow on Sunday morning the final score 2-12 to 0-8, although losing some players to our senior hurling team last week, all the players selected for this match gave it their all and were never in danger of losing although we only lead by 0-9 to 0-4 at halftime a great second half performance with two goals by Sean O'Neill paved the way for this victory in fact 8 of our players scored while the opposition scores came from frees. Our scores came from Sean O'Neill, 2-0, Kevin Byrne 0-4, Damien Byrne 2pts, Mark Pierce, John O'Keefe, John Cullen, Darren Hobson, Rickey Donegan & Owen Coogan 1pt.
We play Glenealy in the Semi-final in a date yet to be fixed by the County Board. We are all hoping it will be fixed as soon as possible as the manager of the team Ray Kelly is emigrating to Australia at the end of the month Ray has done so much for this team by bring them to where they are today he will be sadly missed.
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Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Model
When any overseas company wants to establish an offshore operation in India, starting small and growing over a period of time, they discover that it is difficult to attract the right talent for a start-up and also the over-heads are high. Applying the Build-Operate-Transfer model, MindGrid can rapidly establish offshore operations for customers and later transfer the control/ownership to the client.
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2 Chainz's 2017 Highlights
Check Out 2 Chainz's Best Moments From 2017
The past year was filled with many wins for 2 Chainz aka the Drench God.
From releasing a number 1 album to creating a local monument that garnered international attention, everything 2 Chainz touched turned to gold this past year.
Let's take a look back at some highlights from the past year in celebration of his birthday.
Pretty Girls Like Trap Musc Playlist Series
From Nicki Minaj to LaLa to Cardi B to Issa Rae, 2 Chainz has had countless influential women currate his ongoing Pretty Girls Like Trap Musc playlist series
To listen to the current playlist click here.
Pink Trap House
What started out as a fun installation, blossomed into a full-fledged landmark in Atlanta! Parties were thrown, music was enjoyed, music videos were shot and the space was even transformed into an HIV testing center for a day garnering international attention.
2 Chainz VR
2 Chainz brough his trap house to Virtual Reality with this all new video game, taking trapping to whole new realms.
2 Chainz PGLTM release
This album was 2 Chainz's first solo, studio release since 2013 and it was a hit! Pretty Girls Like Trap Music was a playlist, a hashtag and an entire movement!
6 Music Videos
2 Chainz dropped 6 amazing music videos this year, check out his latest for Door Swanging above.
#1 album in the country
The album quickly rose to the number 1 spot on the rap charts and still continues to impress fans.
To stream/download the album click here.
Genius Convo
While in New York, 2 Chainz stopped by Genius HQ for an in-depth Q&A with Rob Markman to discuss his latest album, the pink trap house and the current state of Trap music.
PGLTM tour
2 Chainz proved where there's a will there's a way. Even after sustaining an injury he ensured that fans would get the tour that they were promised!


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Caprica will soon be coming to an end—the final five episodes air tomorrow on Syfy—but that doesn't mean the dream has to die. Not when you can take a piece of Caprica home.
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ABOUT OTAN TRAINING: Workshop Descriptions
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In this workshop you will learn how to search for games, develop games, and monitor progress using Kahoot. This program allows you to have students play games for homework, play in teams, or compete individually.
Prerequisites: Participants need to have basic computer and Internet skills.
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|Workshops: Training events at a physical location, of short duration (2 – 6 hours) but may be part of a series.
To find out more about any of these workshops, including dates and times offered, please check the California Adult Education Professional Development Web site. This site has information on OTAN offered training, as well as training offered by CALPRO and CASAS.
Face-to-Face Workshop Requirements:
- The lab must contain at least one computer for every individual enrolled in a class - including the instructor.
- The Internet connection must be at least a T1 line.
- All computers being used must have Internet Explorer 9 or Firefox 20 or later and Adobe Acrobat Reader 10 or later.
- OTAN's Web site and its contents must be accessible on every computer used during a class.
- The instructor's computer station should be connected to an LCD projector and the room will need a screen for class viewing. (If a projector and/or instructor station is not available, OTAN can provide them).
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Donald Trump Halloween Costume Ideas – It is the right time to start planning for the Halloween Costume Party to get it dress up into the best and unique Halloween outfit. So if you are already set with few ideas and discussions about potential costume ideas to wear it on the much awaited Halloween Costume Party. There is no rule to have a common traditional coordinated Halloween Costumes of an alien or princess but try something different to take your costume skills to the next level by dressing up into family costumes that would be appreciated and complimented by the partygoers.
So this year try out for the designated and the best Donald Trump Costumes which we will be describing with different Costume ideas.
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Halloween 2016 is right around the corner and it will be a perfect time to get donned into the famous presidential campaigner outfit of Donald Trump. This time, the event will mostly be fascinated with this popular Donald Trump outfit by many of the Halloween Partygoers, but you must try and focus on being the best one to stand out from the rest. So follow the 10 best Donald Trump Halloween Costume ideas for 2016 Halloween Costume Party and other such events which we have elaborated below for your guidance.
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Gardening Club
The next meeting of Castlepollard Gardening Club takes place on Friday evening next, October 4th, at 8pm in the Parish Community Centre, Church Street, Castlepollard. Mary Stafannazi will give a talk on creativity and the garden. All are welcome.
The entire local North Westmeath community, and further afield, were saddened to learn of the death which took place, peacefully, following a long illness bravely borne, at the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar, on Monday, September 23rd, of Mrs Nuala Nea, (nee Bird), Ringtown, Castlepollard. The remains reposed at her residence on Tuesday, September 24th, with evening prayers at 9pm and removal to the Church of St. John the Baptist, Whitehall, on Wednesday, September 25th, at 12 noon. The funeral took place following Requiem Mass at 12.30pm, with interment aferwards to the adjoining cemetery. The attendance at the removal, Mass and funeral was very large and widely representative of the esteem in which the deceased was held.
Nuala had been predeceased by her beloved huband Paddy in 1981. An avid Bingo player, she was a staunch supporter of Ringtown Hurling Club, as well as the Meath Football team (being a Meath woman) and took great interest in all community affairs and projects. Nuala was very active in the ICA, and was devoted to her family. She will be sadly missed not alone by her immediate family, but by all who had the pleasure of knowing her. She is survived by her daughter Fionnuala, sons Gerry, Anthony, Michael, Kevin, Martin and Patrick, brother Chris, sister Rosaleen, son-in-law, daughters-in-law, sisters-in-law, grandchildren, nephews, nieces, other relative and friends to whom deepest sympathy is extended.
The next meeting of the Share Art Group takes place in Castlepollard Library on Thursday next, October 3rd, between 6.45pm and 7.45pm. Castlepollard Book Club will meet in Castlepollard Library on Tuesday, October 8th, between 6.45pm and 7.45pm, the book discussion is "Pigeon English" by Stephen Kelman.


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The Victoria Inn in Derby is the setting on Friday, October 19, for a gig by both 999 and The Reverends.
Then, on Saturday, October 20, the Midland Place-based venue welcomes The Carpels, one the Midlands' most exciting new bands, plus These Mortal Cities and Kimono Beach Party, through its doors.
For more details on these and future gigs at the venue, go to www.thevictoriainnderby.co.uk


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NCPA Student Affairs offers pharmacy students a wide array of opportunities to broaden and enrich their educational experience, gain valuable real world skills, earn scholarships, and have fun in the process. Our mission is to encourage, foster, and recognize an interest in community pharmacy ownership and entrepreneurship among the future leaders of their profession.
Currently, membership in the ONU NCPA Student Chapter is around 100 members, but it is still growing!
"I joined NCPA as a P1 and have progressively become a more active member throughout my years at ONU. As a member of NCPA, I have grown as a student, leader, and young professional due to the many opportunities the NCPA has provided. Networking through our annual conference or attending the legislative conference each spring, I started to see the world of pharmacy outside of ONU, and these opportunities have proven to be invaluable experiences not only for myself, but other students as well. Being one of the top student organizations on campus, NCPA has provided ample amounts of opportunities to practice what I have learned in the classroom. With our health screenings and community outreach, our chapter makes it easy for students to obtain their required hours while at the same time gaining outside experience with real patients. Not only has NCPA provided leadership opportunity at ONU for me, but also on a national level as I am currently a Junior member of the Student Leadership Council of NCPA. With this two year commitment, I am a correspondent for student chapters across the country as well as at my local level. NCPA also provides internship opportunities, such as the summer internship program I was chosen for this summer, as well as scholarship competitions for it's members. I look forward to serving you as your NCPA President this upcoming academic year and look forward to continuing my growth as a leader, student, and young professional."
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City of York Council clampdown on illegal grazing
A council has employed a horse bailiff to tackle illegal grazing on its land.
City of York Council has said up to 100 horses are thought to have been left on its property without permission.
The new bailiff will have power to remove animals if the owner does not come forward. The horses could be put down if they are not claimed.
Steve Waddington, from City of York Council council, said there had been an increase in illegal grazing in recent years.
He said: "Where they are tethered on the road side we have had incidents where that tethering has come loose and those horses have caused road traffic collisions."
'Too many animals'
A council spokeswoman added: "The scale of the problem varies but it is estimated that there could be some 100 horses illegally grazing on council land."
The horse bailiff, who took up the position earlier this year, will begin making site visits in February.
City of York Council has committed £40,000 to tackling the problem over the coming 12 months.
Mr Waddington said that any horses found illegally grazing would be impounded for 14 days while efforts to locate the owner or rehome the animal are made.
He said: "Unfortunately, it is a sad fact that a number of those horses will be humanely destroyed."
Lee Hackett from the British Horse Society said: "There are so many animals out there that there aren't enough places for them to go.
"We would far rather see a horse humanely destroyed with dignity than left and allowed to suffer."


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|Kal Kent
Kal Kent is a fictional superhero who appears in the DC Comics, created by Grant Morrison. He is the Superman of the 853rd century.
Character history
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In the 853rd century, the progenitor of the Superman Dynasty, Superman-Prime, is about to return from his solar Fortress of Solitude after several centuries. As part of the festivities, the Justice Legion Alpha went back in time to recruit the ancient Justice League. The current Legion had counter parts to the League except for Green Lantern (they had the future Starman instead). After arriving at the end of the 20th century, Kal Kent and the Justice Legion convinced the League to go the future and participate in trials as part of the celebration.[1]
Following the Leagues departure, Hourman releases the "Hourman virus" which infected not only people, but technology. It is revealed that the virus is Solaris' artificial intelligence in its infancy. The virus is spreading because Solaris is looking in all technology and organisms for its body. To cure the world and save it from Solaris, they had to create Solaris. Once in his body, Solaris became self aware, with his intelligence increasing with every passing second. Starman sacrifices himself but he is able to banish Solaris by creating a black hole. Their time machine didn't have enough power for deep time travel, but Superman is able to punch through the time barrier to bring the Legion back to the 853rd century. They arrive in time for Superman-Prime's arrival and the final destruction of Solaris.[2]
All Star Superman
Grant Morrison returned to DC Comics after a lengthy stint on New X-Men. His first projects were We3 and the Seven Soldiers of Victory series. In 2005, DC Comics announced All Star Superman would be written by Morrison and illustrated by Frank Quitely. The premise is a universal Superman who isn't bogged down by continuity, but had the best elements of the mythos plucked from each era of Superman history. Morrison plans to use aborted plans from the "Superman 2000" pitch and would expand previous plot lines including DC One Million and Solaris.[3]
Kal Kent isn't actually named until Superman mentions him by name in All Star Superman #2. He is shown in holographic form detailing the Superman Dynasty's feud with Solaris. He makes his first appearance leading a group of Superman Squad members against the Chronovore in Smallville the day Jonathan Kent died.[4]
Powers and abilities
Kal Kent has Kryptonian powers that have evolved into the far future. He also has super ESP, force vision, telepathy and 10 senses. Kal gets his powers from Superman-Prime and Earth's Super-Sun. Although humans have developed into a superhuman race as well, Superman-Prime promised his successors greater powers if they pledged to always protect Earth and the solar system.[5]


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Metric Vocabulary
Lesson 12 of 12
Objective: SWBAT write and draw about metric vocabulary terms.
Big Idea: Metric is the language of the scientific community and being able to understand and use these terms is an important science skill. Good vocabulary can help you say what you mean.
How many word can you list from the Metric Unit?
Actively engage students in a quick Bell Ringer to get them thinking about metric vocabulary. Give students one minute to work with a partner and write as many words as possible from the Metric Unit. I added a level of excitement and created a competition. The group that had the most words on their list (metric words) was the winner. Then I let student winners pick a prize. I keep a "stash" of pencils, erasers, bookmarks, and stickers available for games and competitions.
Teacher Tip: To modify this for ELL and Special Education students, you can provide the first letter of these words or a picture of the words. As an option, extend this by having students explain a definition of each word on their list.
Possible answers for this activity include: length, volume, mass, temperature, thermometer, metric ruler, balance,graduated cylinder, kilometer, centimeter, millimeter.
Common Core RI.6.4 states students should determine meanings of symbols, key terms, and other domain specific words as they are used in a specific context. I post a Metric Word Wall because it's best practice and when it's interactive it's even better. Word walls are strategies to increase vocabulary achievement through repeated daily exposure to these terms. Interactive word walls:
- use semantic maps as graphic organizers
- identify important ideas and how they fit together
- visually show relationships among concepts
- create a deeper understanding
- can even have student generated material as a visual support
Good vocabulary can help you say what you mean. Everyday students must communicate ideas and thoughts, so it is important to build strong vocabulary skills. It's best practice, directly linked to student achievement, and there is a strong relationship between reading comprehension and vocabulary knowledge.
I have students create a Science Vocabulary Journal where they write and draw about important vocabulary terms. I create a vocabulary term template for students to use with each word. This template includes: the term, a definition, a visual representation of the term, and examples and non-examples of the term. Giving students time to write and draw about each term will increase their overall achievement.
Today, students will complete the templates in their vocabulary journal for the terms mass and volume. Terms in this unit (Introduction to Science) include: scientific method, hypothesis, mass, volume, temperature, thermometer.
Teacher Tip: Some extended vocabulary activities to use in the classroom include: reading non-fiction text like newspapers and articles, playing dictionary games, doing word puzzles, using a thesaurus, knowing root words, and understanding prefixes and suffixes.
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Vocabulary Donut
Games and interactive activities are important to student achievement. Playing games is a powerful instructional strategy because:
- Students learn through the process of playing games.
- Games provide a context for engaging practice.
- Students learn a variety of important skills through games.
- Students develop a variety of connections to the content.
- Games grab their attention and actively engage them.
By giving students time to review, they will increase their use and understanding of precise science vocabulary. I provide one copy of the Vocabulary Donut for each student. Students may choose any word from the unit. Since this is a metric unit students could choose any of the terms used in the unit such as: mass, length, volume, temperature, or metric system. Give students 30 seconds to fill in the term, one thing they know about the term, and where they learned this information. Then students trade their paper with their partner and add information to their partner's paper. They would continue to do this until they have added to each paper 4 to 5 times.


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Staphylococcus Research
Kenneth Bayles, Ph.D.
My research has focused on the characterization of a novel regulatory system that controls the peptidoglycan hydrolase activity produced by bacteria. Using Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus anthracis as model systems, we have identified two sets of genes that impact these processes. The first set (the cid and lrg genes) encode membrane-associated proteins that are proposed to function by controlling the access of the peptidoglycan hydrolases to their substrate (peptidoglycan) within the bacterial cell wall. The second set (lytSR and cidR) encodes regulatory proteins that modulate cid and lrg expression in response to physiological signals. Recent studies indicate that these signals include changes in proton motive force and the energy status of the cell. Research on this system has led to the proposal that it comprises the molecular components of bacterial programmed cell death (PCD) and that the cid and lrg gene products may be functionally homologous to the Bax/Bcl family of proteins that control apoptosis in eukaryotic cells.
Paul Fey, Ph.D.
The Fey laboratory studies Staphylococcus epidermidis as it is the preeminent cause of biomaterial-related infections and a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in hospital settings. In contrast to S. aureus, which produces an array of toxins and adherence factors, the most significant virulence factor associated with S. epidermidis biomaterial-related infections is the synthesis of large amounts of biofilm, which is largely composed of polysaccharide intercellular adhesin (PIA). PIA, which is synthesized by enzymes encoded by the four gene icaADBC operon, dramatically reduces the effectiveness of antibiotics and the host immune system.
Enterovirus Research
Enterovirus Research studies the biologies of human enteroviruses, which are a genus of viruses that can cause illness in humans that range from minor colds to more acute cases of myocarditis, meningitis, pancreatisis, and paralysis. Learn more at Enterovirus Research.
Steven Carson, Ph.D.
My interest in tissue factor and the initiation of blood coagulation began with my post-doctoral work at Yale Medical School (Carson and Konigsberg, 1980). I remain interested in blood coagulation, but most of my current research is focused on group B coxsackieviruses and their receptor(s) (Carson, Chapman, and Tracy, 1997; Carson, Chapman, Hafenstein, and Tracy, 2011) The group B coxsackieviruses can cause serious infections of the heart (myocarditis), pancreas (pancreatitis, and possibly diabetes), and brain (encephalitis), and can be particularly dangerous in babies. The medical significance and current research on these viral infections are described at the Enterovirus Research website at The University of Nebraska Medical Center and in Volume 323 of Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology; Tracy, Oberste, Drescher, ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin 2008. My current research investigates molecules that bind group B coxsackieviruses, their effects on virus viability, and how they alter the interaction of the viruses with the CAR (coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor) and with cells (Organtini et al, 2014 and Carson, 2014). I am increasingly curious about selective pressures that drive these viruses to bind molecules other than the CAR (Carson, Chapman, Hafenstein, and Tracy, 2011).
Other Infectious Diseases Research
Steven Hinrichs, M.D.
Research projects in Dr. Hinrichs' laboratory are focused on three distinct areas of interest: molecular microbiology, regulation of gene expression and protein structure. A method has been developed for inhibiting tumor specific proteins that initiate cancer in certain types of tumors. The method incorporates knowledge regarding biochemical abnormalities in cells following changes in the chromosome, called translocations. These chromosomal events result in the production of new combinations of proteins that do not exist in normal cells. These combinations, termed chimeric proteins, are optimal targets for development of therapeutic molecules. A similar project is focused on identifying chemicals that could be used as antibodies. The drug target is primase, an essential enzyme that generates abort primers during DNP replication. Significant advances have been made using structural biochemistry and molecular modeling to develop lead compounds that were used to test and develop a model system. This work has lately evolved into a new project focused on inhibiting the activity of essential replication enzymes in bacteria. The project envisions the need for a new class of antibiotics in the future or for antibiotics that can be used to treat genetically engineered bacteria released by terrorists. Molecular modeling was used to suggest targets for mutagenesis and confirmation of function in vitro. The work involves collaboration with a wide range of scientists from electrical engineering to chemistry. A separate project is focused on the development of the next generation of molecular diagnostic tests for the detection and identification of infectious diseases.
Peter Iwen, Ph.D.
Research activities in my lab include the development and optimization of molecular assays for the identification of microbial pathogens with an emphasis on fungi and bacteria (including the Mycobacterium species). Original work in my laboratory showed that the internal transcribe spacer region within the rDNA complex was a useful target for the identification of both the common and uncommon fungal and mycobacterial species. Subsequent work has continued on providing sequences of a wide variety of microbial species and using this information in collaboration with bioinformatics researchers to develop curated databases that can be used with different molecular platforms for identification purposes.
Guangshun Wang, Ph.D.
My research focuses on the identification, characterization, and engineering of novel antimicrobial agents based on structural, bioinformatics, and functional studies. Our ultimate goal is to develop novel compounds that curb pathogenic microbes, especially difficult-to-kill microbes such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
Naturally occurring antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are universal effector molecules that directly eliminate invading pathogenic bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites. In mammals, including humans, such peptides may also modulate the adaptive immune systems. To date, more than 1600 AMPs have been identified in bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals. To better manage this information, my laboratory has established the Antimicrobial Peptide database (APD) as a tool for AMP naming, classification, search, statistical analysis, prediction, and design. Our database is also a useful resource for developing novel antimicrobial agents. These miniature proteins are capable of adopting a variety of three-dimensional structures, inspiring our design of natural mimics that benefit mankind. The objective of one of our NIH-funded projects is to develop AMPs into novel anti-HIV microbicides in collaboration with ImQuest BioSciences.
We are particularly interested in an in-depth understanding of the functional roles of human AMPs and their relationships with human diseases, including cancer. Recently, we have solved high-quality structures of human cathelicidin LL-37 and its important fragments by multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Dioctanoyl phosphatidylglycerol (D8PG) has been established as a new and unique membrane-mimetic model, which enables the detection of Phe-PG and Arg-PG interactions. Based on three-dimensional structures, we have identified the most potent region within LL-37 against MRSA, thereby identifying a useful template for designing novel therapeutic compounds against this superbug (US Patent 7,465,784). To elucidate the mechanism of action, we are utilizing a variety of biophysical and biochemical techniques. Our studies will lay the foundation for peptide engineering with a goal to overcome the hurdles (stability, toxicity, and production) on the way to the development of natural AMPs into novel therapeutics.
Another research direction of high interest to us is to engineer molecules that control protein-mediated signal transduction pathways essential for bacterial survival or infection in collaboration with colleagues in the Center for Staphylococcal Research. The lead compound will be optimized by combining NMR-based library screening with rational design based on three-dimensional structures of protein-protein complexes.
Prabagaran Narayanasamy, Ph.D.
The Narayanasamy Laboratory is working on pulmonary tuberculosis, caused by TB, is contagious to health, with over 2 billion people infected with latent TB and more likely to develop into active TB in presence of HIV infection. Gram-negative bacteria have intrinsic abilities to develop new mechanisms of resistance and can pass along genetic materials that allow the next generation of bacteria to become drug-resistant as well. Thus, there is a critical need for new antibiotics and drug delivery techniques to meet the needs of patients now and in the future. Our lab is working on asymmetric synthesis of drug compounds, drug discovery against drug resistant pathogens targeting MEP pathway, menaquinone pathway and iron metabolism. The property of cyclic diphosphate is also studied thoroughly. In addition we also use nanoparticle technology to target drug resistant pathogens and co-infection in macrophage. In addition we also discovered that Ga nanoparticle could be used as a single drug to treat HIV-TB co-infection. We will be optimizing the Ga nanoparticle to determine best results by in vitro and in vivo. Ultimately, these data could lead to the discovery of new drugs or techniques to treat drug resistant infections, with the potential that other human pathogens could be susceptible as well. In addition we also work in neurons development. Methyl glyoxal, a toxic material generated by glycolysis in brain, affects the survival of neurons. To protect the neurons we enhance the glyoxalase pathway to detoxify the methyl glyoxal. The successful flavanol antioxidants from our preliminary studies in cerebellar neurons will be tested for reducing aging and autism disorder in animal models.
Chlamydia Research Group
As Chlamydia has adapted to an intracellular niche, it has lost many genes that are present in free-living bacteria. These genes/gene pathways that have been lost through reductive evolution (Muller's Ratchet) typically encode metabolic pathways to synthesize, for example, amino acids. Since Chlamydia relies on its host cell for many nutrients, it is not surprising that it would eliminate these types of genes. However, Chlamydia has also eliminated genes that are considered essential for viability or pathogenesis in many other bacteria. Conversely, when Chlamydia has retained genes that are atypical for Gram-negative bacteria (e.g. genes normally found in Gram-positive bacteria), this is also interesting and suggests a function that is important to chlamydial growth otherwise these genes would have been deleted. The Ouellette lab is interested in the consequences of reductive evolution on bacterial physiology. The Rucks lab is interested in how a streamlined genome dictates chlamydial-host interactions.


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WHEATON — In these days of fewer resources, lower budgets and more demands on staff, how can the DuPage County Forest Preserve District keep its streams, lakes, roadways, picnic areas and other land clear of trash?
The answer is tailoring the popular Adopt-A-Highway to the district's needs. And Wednesday Adopt-An-Area made its debut. After an hour, nine volunteers and staff from DuPage Clean and Beautiful Inc., and the district--decked out in orange safety vests and well-dressed for the cold--filled a dozen trash bags with debris from their one-mile adopted area of Naperville Road by the Danada Forest Preserve. You name it, they picked it up: beer bottles and cigarette butts, lottery tickets, cups, plastic bottles and containers and car parts.