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I hadn't planned that my first post should be about Speak & Spell, but last week I was in contact via LinkedIn with my first ever boss - Irfan Salim. Irfan was always marked for success and after setting up Lotus (Lotus1-2-3 remember?) in Europe, he has gone on to lead many successful companies and now does the same living in San Francisco.
But back in 1981 he was the Marketing Manager for Texas Instruments Consumer products division in Bedford, England and he hired me fresh from university to be marketing product manager for Education Products. My portfolio included a few handheld calculator type games, plus the much more expensive Speak & Spell and its stable mates. And this lead to me becoming recording producer and editor of the British Speak & Spell.
I joined Texas Instruments with a group of about 30 other graduates in September 1981, and just like them I was told that for the next year I wouldn't really have an active role. We were told to watch, listen and acclimatise ourselves to the company. We'd be moved around to see how things worked. That was pretty much how it was for fellow graduates, but not for me, I was put straight to work - and I liked it. It was a challenge and I had to learn fast.
On my 2nd day I was given the Argos catalogue (a major customer) and asked to write the descriptions for my products to go into the next issue. I was told a good description can raise sales by 25% and there were tight editorial guidelines. In my second week I had to script the TV advert for Speak & Spell. Speak & Spell had been on sale for a year or so and had enjoyed moderate success, but there was a feeling that sales might have already peaked or that it was not going to keep selling for much longer.
After 3-4 weeks Irfan asked me "what are you going to do to make Speak & Spell sell for another year". (Don't forget I was still a raw recruit) I mumbled something about making it sound British, rather than American and he agreed. A few days later he came back and said "you've got $112,000 budget and I need it in full production my April next". It took me a moment to work out what he was talking about ... right there and then I had begun my journey to create the the 'British' Speak & Spell.
After my initial panic I realised that we needed to re-record everything and that we needed a list of words. Whilst we could easily use the American word list I had found letters on file from a few educationalists complaining that the words being used were wrong and suggesting better lists. I took the easy way out and agreed with them, and traveled to Newcastle to meet a Professor (I can't remember his name), to get the new list, making sure that there were no rights issues to use it.
Then I had to select a voice artist, a speaker, to record. This was fun, the advertising agency (McCann Erickson) set up a session so that I could hear recordings of a number of male* speakers reading the test list of words. I chose John McGuinn who did a lot of voice overs and was a BBC Radio 2 news reader.
* At the time a female voice couldn't be rendered by the speech chip. We all knew that a female voice would improve the product, but it wasn't possible back then.
Both John and I traveled to the only 'digital' studio in Europe at the time - it was inside the beautifully positioned Villeneuve Loubet facility of Texas Instruments (near Antibes, France). So we were off to the South of France. This was only my 3rd time on any flight and my first ever business trip. It all seemed so unreal, and that sense became more acute when we arrived in the studio and I realised I was the producer. I was surrounded by recording experts, and John was a man from the BBC, but only John and I knew how to pronounce the words in an English style, and so, I had to call the shots in the studio - it was great fun.
The recording was over in a couple of days and so we headed home, job done ... or so I thought!
We recorded was a few megabytes of digitally recorded speech...... It was so easy to write that line. But in these days when only GigaBytes are mentioned a few megabytes sounds innocuous, but back then the concept of a megabyte was mind blowing. You have to recall that the first IBM PC had only just been launched and it cost £1,500 (that's about £4,100 in today's money). It had 16kB of RAM and for storage you could choose from either a cassette tape recorder or a 160kB floppy disk drive (that's 7 floppy disks to record 1Mb!). It would be another 2 years before a PC had a 'hard disk'.
As for digital recording, no-one knew what I was talking about. I already said that we used the only digital studio in Europe, in fact outside TI no-one used them. That will sound unbelievable to today's generation, and when writing this my own son asked 'what could it be if not digital' ; analogue is as ancient as the dark ages. Coincidentally as part my recently completed degree, I had (in 1981) written a thesis on music recording and playback technology. I had described every part of the process and technology, but at no point in my research did I hear those two words 'digital recording' - for the time it was absolutely cutting-edge.
Speak & Spell, really was a technological breakthrough. And, like the IBM PC of that era, it too had only had 16kB of memory. In Speak and Spell this was ROM not RAM, but it was the total amount of memory to store the recorded speech. 16kB was massive in those days and it was inconceivable to add more without a huge price rise. Therefore to make the product, and make it affordable even at a premium price point, we had to squash the megabytes of recording into the tiny 16kB ROM. But how?
To give a sense of scale here. Speak and Spell contains enough dialogue for about 4 minutes. As an MP3 file today that might be about 4MB of data. Now MP3 is a fantastic technology which condenses sound files, and delivers way better output that we could achieve. But we had to condense the sound to 1/250th of an MP3.
Enter the genius of Larry Brantingham who, along with a couple of colleagues, had patented some remarkable technology inside TI's speech chips. The technology called LPC (Linear Predictive Coding) took samples of the recorded speech at regular intervals and then invented (predicted) the sounds that had happened in between the samples. Sampling sound at regular intervals is how all digital sound systems work today - but today there is no perceptible gap between the samples. CD's use digital samples taken every 1/44,000th of a second but in 1981 the sample rate was much slower. In fact we sampled every 1/10th of a second. To fill the gaps which spanned 9/10 of every second we needed a high level of 'prediction', and of course that prediction could go very wrong. In short the recordings went off to be processed and heavily compressed. They also came back as garbage. Not only that, there was about 24kB of garbage. We were a long way off from a finished product and somehow 24kB needed to be squashed by another 1/3rd AND turned back into comprehensible speech.
The only way rescue the sounds and shrink it further was to edit it manually. What do I mean? Well each 1/10th of a second sample had been converted into a digital code that could be displayed on a computer terminal. As I recall there were 20 numbers on each line, and each line represented 1/10 second. From left to right these numbers described the position of parts of the mouth of a someone saying that tiny 1/10 second sound. Smaller numbers indicated that part of the mouth being closed or nearly closed. Therefore a "P" would have low numbers towards the left hand columns to describe the lips being together, but then higher numbers towards the middle of the line to describe the position of the tongue, as it gets ready to launch the plosive p. Each line on the screen was a 1/10 second snapshot describing the shape of the mouth, throat and vocal chords. It was a mass of data.
Detailed, line by line, 1/10 of a second editing had to be done on every single word to make the product work, to crush the data further and to make it sound right. It was a very specialist job, and only two people in the world where trained for it - both were trained linguists. One was Larry, and a colleague ( a lovely lady of Asian extraction whose name eludes me). The problem was that neither were used to our British accent. It would have been fruitless for them to do the work as we'd just end up with another US sounding product. There had never been any British accented digital speech product, anywhere, this was going to be a world first.
It was my project, and time was moving on. So there was no other option, I had to give up marketing for 3 months and do it myself. I spent time with Larry Brantingham and his small team. They were great, really helpful despite all my dumb questions. We all knew that I had to succeed. And so I taught myself the rules and locked myself in an anechoic chamber in Antibes for 3 months and get the product ready. They were long hard days. No background sounds, just slogging through trying to get each 1/10 second to sound right. Some words were relatively easy and just needed to be cropped. Some were unintelligible, and took ages to recover. That's why I cannot bear to listen the product even now. I remember the word 'butcher' took 3 days - I still don't know if it sounds right.
I delivered the product, and I also helped complete the French, German and Italian versions of Speak & Spell too. Larry offered me a move to Dallas but I demurred. I had had enough of this - I wanted to get back to marketing. It was quite a first 6 months at TI!
NB: Some words were so mangled they were beyond redemption. But one word was mangled so much it became another. Thus the word 'Ghost' came back from processing as a perfectly announced 'Bullshit'. I left it in the test EPROM which I put into the first unit, just as a joke. It nearly backfired when I arrived back at TI in Bedford. The UK MD was touring the plant and came to see the new product... You can guess the first phrase he heard "can you spell Bullshit?" I am pretty confident it's not in the production model and I can't recall the key sequence I used to select individual words from the list.
And the result? Everyone was delighted by the UK version. It went on to be sold for at least another 5 years ( remember: we hoped to add 1 year to its life). What's more it held its premium price point when other cheaper copy-cat type products arrived on the scene. It had a 'British' accent when all others were 'American'.
Speak & Spell was accepted as a high technology icon and was used by a number of (then) popular bands in their singles - including Depeche Mode and Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark.
Speak & Write
And it didn't end there. Just as I was getting ready to leave France after working all winter editing the words in Speak and Spell, my boss, Irfan Salim visited and delivered bad news. In the US they had launched a cheaper version of Speak & Spell - called the Speak & Spell Compact. It had no display which meant it was cheaper. But sales were really bad. We had foreseen this. It was clearly a lower cost derivative of the premium product and no-one would want to be seen to buy that! We had forecast zero sales, and we weren't launching in the UK. But US sales were so bad that we'd been 'told' we had to take 50,000 units (I recall) to help them out. We sat in the bar of my home for that winter, the Novotel in Cap 3000 outside Nice, trying to hatch a plan to shift them. After a few beers we decided that we'd have to rename the product so that it looked like a stablemate to Speak & Spell rather than a poor cousin. We wanted to try and make a virtue of its lack of display and therefore we decided it should become and aid to writing. We'd include a pencil and paper pad and call it Speak & Write. It was a great idea, but there were problems.
First of all it needed to look different to Speak & Spell. We decided upon a blue colour and therefore all the cases had to be remade (or resprayed I was told). The packaging had to be redesigned too but that was relatively easy. And of course we needed the pencils and pads and new manuals; but that was fairly easy too. The biggest problem was the digital speech. We could re-use much of the dictionary from the new British Speak & Spell but there were phrases and sentences in the 'compact' product which we simply not have in the British Speak & Spell - of course these included the key phrases about having to 'write'!
I had no time to re-record anything because the whole process would take too long, and cost a lot too. So there was just one alternative. I had to fabricate the missing words and phrases. I'd need to build them up 1/10 second at a time and make digital speech from nothing but data. Using much of the process I had just been using on Speak and Spell, except I had no starting material to edit. I started with a blank screen and each 20 character row was created entirely by hand to recreate digital speech. There was no actual recording used at all. It was just me, sitting in the studio mouthing the words parts and typing in the values that I thought would approximate my mouth shape. (NB: the digital editor was a 20 character line that described the shape of mouth and tongue and throat for each 1/10 second). I had been doing this editing for 3 months, and so actually I found creating the words not too much harder than editing some of the processed originals. When I think back on it now I was possibly creating some of the first purely digital speech - not based on a recording nor created from stringing phonemes (word sound building blocks). Just pure data.
In all, over the space of 1 final week I manually created about 10% of all the dialogue inside Speak & Write - its not faultless but it worked. We sold out. I wish I had one now, but at the time all I wanted to do was get rid of them all.


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Moby grew up on what he calls "the standard suburban diet" — Burger King, pizza, Coke, Baskin Robbins. He ditched the junk food and went vegan almost 30 years ago, well before the singer-songwriter-producer-DJ reached international success with his 1999 electronic-pop album, Play.
Moby's restaurant, Little Pine, opens today in Silver Lake, the culmination of his decades of animal-free eating. Little Pine combines the artist's love of organic farming, veganism, architecture and design into one physical space. Though he previously opened TeaNY, a cafe on New York's Lower East Side, this is Moby's first venture into full restaurant ownership. Chef Kristyne Starling will run Little Pine's kitchen.
A New York City native, Moby moved to Los Angeles in 2010, a city he calls "the vegan capital of the world," both because of its breadth of options and the fact that vegan restaurants are also frequented by non-vegans.
"Almost every city has at least a few really good vegan restaurants, but no other city has as many remarkable vegan restaurants" as L.A., he says.
Here are 11 of Moby's favorite vegan restaurants in L.A., starting with his own.
Little Pine
"I mean, I'm biased, as it's my restaurant, but even if I had objectivity I'd still love it." Little Pine serves Mediterranean-themed breakfast, lunch and dinner in a space that looks sort of like a futuristic Alpine lodge, filled with plywood, ceramic tile, concrete and Carrara marble. 2870 Rowena Ave., Silver Lake; littlepinerestaurant.com.
Flore Vegan
"One of my favorite Silver Lake vegan restaurants, I go at least once a week for their Flore burrito." This being L.A., the menu includes several Mexican dishes, from jicama tacos to Southwestern seitan quesadillas. 3818 Sunset Blvd., Silver Lake; (323) 953-0611, florevegan.com.
"I think there are three Sages at this point, and they're all different and wonderful. The pizza at the Culver City location is amazing." Sage also serves a wide variety of vegan "ice cream," which gets its creamy base from cruelty-free sources: coconut, almond and cashew milk. 4130 Sepulveda Blvd., Culver City; (424) 228-5835, sageveganbistro.com.
Cafe Gratitude
"Rapidly becoming L.A.'s most ubiquitous vegan restaurant, as they now have four L.A. locations. Always busy, and deservedly so, as the food is organic and great." Here's how to make Cafe Gratitude's excellent vegan Caesar salad. Locations in downtown, Santa Monica and Venice; cafegratitude.com.
"L.A.'s fanciest vegan restaurant. Great for dates and checking out celebrity vegans like Paul McCartney and Bill Clinton." This trendy, upscale joint — with great cocktails — is also one of the best restaurants in West Hollywood. 8284 Melrose Ave., Beverly Grove; (323) 782-9245, crossroadskitchen.com.
Real Food Daily
"One of L.A.'s first vegan restaurants, and still one of my favorites. Their vegan lasagna is wonderful." You can even get Real Food Daily's vegan offerings at LAX. Locations in Santa Monica, Pasadena, West Hollywood and LAX's Terminal Four; realfood.com.
"A brand-new restaurant in Studio City with some of the best vegan food in L.A." 3711 Cahuenga Blvd., Studio City; (818) 754-1149, vegetablela.com.
Au Lac
"Chef Ito might never speak, but his approach to food is warm and inspiring." 710 W. First St. downtown; (213) 617-2533, aulac.com.
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Sun Cafe
"A Studio City vegan restaurant with one of the best outdoor spaces in the city." 10820 Ventura Blvd., Studio City; (818) 308-7420, suncafe.com.
"A tiny vegan pizza place in Los Feliz that's on my speed dial for weekly vegan pizza delivery." Last year, we named Cruzer's the best vegan pizza in L.A. 4449 Prospect Ave, Los Feliz; (323) 666-0600; cruzerpizza.com.
Gadarene Swine
"Really hearty and interesting vegan food in Studio City." 11266 Ventura Blvd., Studio City; (818) 508-5500, thegadareneswine.com.


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Staff and students in the University of Calabar (UNICAL) have been urged to explore and utilise facilities in the institution's electronic library for effective research and development. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof James Epoke, gave the charge during the inauguration of the e-library.
Epoke, who was represented by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration), Prof James Utsalo, said the establishment of the facility would boost learning in the institution.
He said the execution of the project by the Deep Offshore Community Affairs Group (DOCAG) signified a great passion in furnishing staff and students with first class knowledge in Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The VC explained that the beauty of ICT was in its exposure of staff and students to extensive knowledge on any discipline.
The DOCAG chairman, Mr Joseph Adeyemi, said the group was a conglomerate of the deep offshore operators in the Nigerian oil and gas industry, which is made up of seven oil companies. Adeyemi, who was represented by his deputy, Dr Nkoyo Attah, said that the development of human capital was one of the cardinal objectives of the group's community development project, which informed the choice of the university as the site of the project.
He expressed hope that through the execution of the project, the gains of industry cooperation in the delivery of sustainable community development would be properly maintained.
Attah, who is the Deputy General Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility and Public Affairs, Deporter District for Total Upstream Nigeria, said the project was implemented in coalition with the company. He added that the gesture was to complement government's effort in infrastructure, health and sport.
The Librarian, Dr Margaret Edem, appreciated the group for the project, assuring the team that the facility would be properly used and maintained.


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Leaves are falling and scarecrows are calling local residents to attend the 21st annual Los Altos Chamber of Commerce's Fall Festival, scheduled 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday in the North Parking Plaza in downtown Los Altos.
The Little Explorers' Petting Zoo will return to the Children's Alley, offering an opportunity for a hands-on experience with animals from an alpaca to giant tortoises. The area will also feature rides, slides, bounce houses and train rides. Local schools and organizations sponsor a host of games and seasonal activities, including pumpkin painting, scarecrow hands, a fishing booth, toss games and a witches' cauldron.
Entertainment will include a variety of musicians performing on the KFC Main Stage: The Mary Ellen Duo, standards; Fenny & Rossi, blues guitar and harmonica; The Cruzers, rock 'n' roll dance music; Deb Thacker, acoustic guitar; Bluehouse, pop music; and Drive, classic dance rock.
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Chef Chu's will serve Chinese food and other vendors with offer hamburgers, hot dogs, tamales, crepes, smoothies, kettle corn, frozen yogurt, gyros and dolmas. Soft drinks, select wines and Gordon Biersch beers will be available.
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In fact, you get classic footage like this SWAT video, posted by a Georgia police department to their website (but recently removed after national outrage):
I particularly enjoyed reading about (and watching) the Ferguson SWAT arrest two reporters at a McDonald's, decked out in "suburban camouflage."
The defense for jack boots, body armor and camo at McDonald's is found in the following exchange:
Ever see St. Louis County cops in camouflage military fatigues on the street and wonder why they're dressed like they're going to Iraq instead of Creve Coeur?
That's the county's Tactical Operations Unit -- the SWAT team -- and Sergeant Matthew Pleviak tells Daily RFT that the camouflage is worn so the SWAT cops can "blend in with the environment."
Blend in with the environment of Creve Coeur?
"If you go to any subdivison, there's grass and trees and bushes," Pleviak explains.Snicker. From Walter Olson at the Cato Institute:
Why armored vehicles in a Midwestern inner suburb? Why would cops wear camouflage gear against a terrain patterned by convenience stores and beauty parlors? Why would someone identifying himself as an 82nd Airborne Army veteran, observing the Ferguson police scene, comment that "We rolled lighter than that in an actual warzone"?Plus, the Hamburgler is often present at McDonald's, so there's that.
Oddly (or maybe not, if you can put away your ideological blinders for one second and think rationally), the outrage over the heavy handed SWAT tactics on display in Ferguson have cut across party and ideological lines, one of the best articulations I've found comes from Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky (Republican):
When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and jury—national security letters, no-knock searches, broad general warrants, pre-conviction forfeiture—we begin to have a very serious problem on our hands.Again, "duh" for those of who have been studying this insanity for years now, but welcome to the debate, ideologues right, middle and left.
The one thing that's missing in all the coverage, however, is historical context. Most of this militarization is chalked up to post-9/11 and the buildup of surveillance, technology, etc. following the advent of the War on Terrorism. But the militarization of policing has been going on since the Johnson administration and the creation of the LEAA (Law Enforcement Assistance Administration) in 1968.
The LEAA funneled federal monies directly to local police departments to increase training, build up firepower and armor and, among other things, create SWAT teams in any department that wanted one. SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) was designed for urban hostage situations. Now, under Nixon's increase of LEAA funding, even Chief Smith of the Podunk Police Department in rural nowhere can have a SWAT team (and does).
This continued throughout the 70's (Ford, Carter), the drug wars of the 80's (Reagan, Bush), then kicked into high gear following the end of the Cold War in the early 90's. Once we stood down from the threat of nuclear war and Communism, all the surplus Defense Department equipment began to find its way to the streets and local police. The Clinton administration (via the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act; aka "The Biden Bill"), accelerated the flow of bayonets, grenade launchers, armored personnel carriers and military firepower to the streets of America.
Following 9/11, the Bush administration created the Department of Homeland Security, which took over LEAA and turned on the spigot of funding for more military equipment (including mine-resistant trucks) in the newly launched War on Terror. The Obama administration has continued the flow, more targeted towards the War on Immigration (for more, see our featured sociologist of the semester Christian Parenti and his book "Lockdown America").
And so we stand today a true garrison state, as originally envisioned by sociologist Harold Lasswell back in 1941: a state maintained by military firepower (Constitution, Posse Comitatus, and common sense be damned).
As Parenti notes in Lockdown, all of this spectacle put on by local law enforcement is not about the immediate threat of convicts, druggies, rioters or even terrorists. Spectacle is a way you control people through brute force and state terror, and these kinds of egregious uses of force have been on display in poor, minority neighborhoods for decades. What seems to have changed here is the Ferguson PD took this into middle class areas, and the immediate social media reaction was swift and intense.
The debate over militarization is, again, much welcomed by those of us who have been sounding the alarm for years now (and met with essentially deaf ears and eye rolls). Let's hope we reach the point soon where our local police departments can stand down from militarization insanity and go back to the business of keeping the peace.
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Facet Joint Syndrome (FJS), also referred to as osteoarthritis, is a disabling pain at the joint between two vertebrae in one's spine. It is a condition that affects millions of Americans every year, with symptoms that range from headaches, to difficulty moving the neck, to lower back pain. Currently, there is no long-term treatment for FJS, leaving patients vulnerable to recurring symptoms and ongoing follow-up appointments. Medovex Corp. ($MDVX), a developer of medical technology products, looks to remedy this issue through a patented technology that provides long-lasting pain relief.
Medovex recently announced the successful completion of a surgical innovation lab among leading European spine surgeons at NASS 2015. The lab featured a demonstration of the DenerveX™ System lead by Medovex's executive team.
"The new DenerveX procedure will simplify the treatment for facet joint pain," said Vik Kapoor M.D., a medical advisory member. "The device is easy to use, and has the potential to offer effective and longer term pain relief than standard radio frequency procedure. The intervention itself is a day case / office procedure."
A Promising Distribution Agreement
The positive reception of surgical innovation lab continues Medovex's winning streak. Earlier this year, the company announced they would be entering into distribution agreements with Sydney-based Medical Innovators Pty. Ltd and Turkey based MEDS Medikal Ltd. Both agreements are for the distribution of the company's DenerveX™ System.
"We are excited by the positive feedback received from the seventeen leading spine surgeons from the EU on the heels of our surgical innovation lab last week," said Mr. Patrick Kullmann, President and COO of Mr. Patrick Kullmann, Medovex President and COO. "The purpose of the lab was to provide a training experience as part of our pre-European market launch activities by inviting members of our clinical advisory board and some of the leading European-based key opinion leaders."
Through Medovex's successful demonstration of their innovative technology, their DenerveX system provides positive and promising momentum towards a minimally invasive treatment option. The reward is providing patients with long-term treatment and financial solutions.
"The feedback received from the recent demonstration is something we view as very important," said Kullman. "The ability to gather insight from of the most preeminent spine surgeons in a close demonstration setting is invaluable as it allows for us to make certain specific refinements in advance of our future launch outside the US."
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a broad spectrum and bactericidal antibiotics combination (by IM or subcutaneous injection)
COLIAMCIN injection
Antibiotics/ Antibacterials
Product type
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Target animal(s)
Swine, Bovine
50ml vial
Each mL contains
Ampicillin ……………………………………………… 100mg
Colistin Sulfate ……………………………………… 250,000I.U.
Feature and Benefits
1. As an antibiotic complex, antibacterial spectrum is very broad.
It is prominently effective against both general disease and local disease caused by Gram-positive, Gram-negative bacteria, Spirochete, etc..
2. Ampicillin is a semi-synthetic Penicillin with a bactericidal action against both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria and inhibits the multiplication of bacteria. Ampicillin acts on the cell wall of bacteria in body and kills the bacteria by means of inhibiting synthesis of cell wall.
3. Colistin, a narrow spectrum antibiotics, has specific bactericidal actions against some Gram-negative bacteria such as E.coli, Salmonella, Hemophilus influenzae, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pasteurella, etc.. Specially, Colistin is prominent effective against intestinal disease result from Gram-negative bacteria.
4. Having a prominent osmotic force to tissue, COLIAMCIN injection shows speedy effect.
5. Combination with both Ampicillin and Colistin has more effective activity by synergism.
For treatment of pneumonia (Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae) of cattle and pigs
For treatment of bacterial diarrhea, endometritis, mastitis and enteritis of various animal species including poultry
Dosage and Use
Inject 1mL per 10kg of body weight intramuscularly or subcutaneously for 2~5 consecutive days.
In the light case, once a day and in the serious case, twice a day.
Precaution(s) and others
1. Discontinue use in animals 6 days before slaughter.
2. Do not administer to the rabbit.
3. Do not administer to animals that have allergy to Penicillin.
4. Shake the bottle well before use because this solution is suspension.
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Come to the Busch Wildlife Sanctuary for an afterhours educational program with our diurnal birds of prey.
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Usually I am showcasing my cards and writing a post to tell a story. Today I am changing it up and have a different card to show you. We card makers tend to think that our handmade creations are the best but I want to show you a card I received recently from a special girlfriend.
This card is special in more ways than one. First, it was sent to me by my best friend. Also, I was impressed with the elements of the card that puts it in the creative category. Notice the embossed background. The raised design adds texture and movement. Also the colors and pattern remind me of fun papers I use and collect.
I wish I had a stamp with this saying. Isn't it great! Anyone who has a special relationship with a girlfriend knows what I'm talking about. I even love the different color for the "girlfriend" word and the font of the sentiment is very girly. On the actual card the word girlfriends is raised and shiny, like it was heat embossed. So handmade.
Ok, this water color looking butterfly is just over the top pretty. It also looks shiny and heat embossed.
This is a Blue Mountain Arts card and is from their Watercolor Feelings line. I love my special card and the special girlfriend who sent it to me. I know she searched and chose a card that would reflect her thoughts about our relationship and I'm happy that she found one. There is a place for handmade crafts, but there is also plenty of room for companies who make quality products.


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Chelsea's reported interested in Dutch midfielder Edgar Davids will not tempt him into leaving Juventus, according to the player's agent.
Davids' agent Robert Geerlings said that the Barclaycard Premiership side had attempted to sign Davids earlier this summer before Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich took control of the west London club.
Abramovich has spent £75 million on a host of players this summer.
When asked about Chelsea's hope to still bring Davids to London, Geerlings said: "We have not had any other offers from Chelsea since Edgar said no to them in June, but things can change.
"Juve could reach an agreement with Chelsea.
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"Don't listen to other people's advice, nobody knows what the hell they're doing, Signed a 93 year old"
Ahh I just love this video so much, so beautiful and just perfect.
I couldn't agree with the above statement enough. When you don't know all the answers, just remember no one else does either.
What advice would you give to someone 1 year younger than you?
I would love to know....comment below or tweet me what your advice would be HERE
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Rangers have no problem in the league they have been at the top of the league as they are winning matches and now they have a huge points difference among the Division 3 teams in the upcoming fixture of the matches they have to face the Queen's Park . Queen's Park are good enough side and can give a good competition to the Rangers .
Rangers are a top side in the match and they are also the faviourtes for this match well lets see how many goals can the Glasgow Rangers score against the rivals Queen's Park. Its a important game for the Queen's Park and they dont want to lose this match.
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Rangers are hopefull for the promotion to the 2nd Division of the league and they are doing comfortable changes to squad to face Queen's Park. You can watch the match on the Rangers TV . The Final results of this match will be displayed on this Saturday right after the game with the highlights .
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Two-time cycling pursuit world champion Taylor Phinney has signed to ride for BMC Racing in 2011, opting to join the Swiss-US team after riding for Lance Armstrong's RadioShack this season.
Phinney, 20, started the 2010 season riding for seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong's Trek-Livestrong development squad. He was promoted to ride for Armstrong's RadioShack team in August.
However, Phinney said he thought he would be a good fit on a BMC team that includes Australian Cadel Evans, fellow American George Hincapie and Italian Alessandro Ballan.
"They have a team with a lot of younger guys mixed with veteran riders and team leaders like Evans, Hincapie and Ballan. It seemed like the right fit for me," Phinney said in a release posted on the team's website.
"BMC also makes fast bikes. I'm excited to see what they can make for me on the track."
BMC Racing team president Jim Ochowicz called it an "extraordinary opportunity" to sign a cyclist who excels on the track and is gaining experience in road racing.
On Saturday Phinney won the US national time trial title by .14 seconds.
This year he won four stages and the overall title of the Olympia Tour in Holland and a second straight Paris-Roubaix Espoirs.
Phinney, who is the son of two-time Tour de France stage winner Davis Phinney and Olympic gold and world champion cyclist Connie Carpenter, was recently named to the US under-23 squad for the cycling word championships.


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One flu shot protects a person for an entire influenza season. Different strains of the flu virus emerge in the United States each year, so individuals must receive new vaccines annually. It takes approximately 14 days for the flu shot to reach its full strength, according to Emory Healthcare.
The flu vaccine is up to 90 percent effective in people age 65 and younger. While the vaccine is not safe for everyone, such as individuals who are extremely allergic to chicken eggs, it is safe for pregnant women. Side effects that can occur from receiving the flu shot include a low-grade fever and redness at the injection site, notes Emory Healthcare. Side effects are typically mild and only last a couple days.


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Singapore starts deporting 52 Indians for Dec riots
Singapore today started deporting 52 Indian nationals for their role in the December 8 riot, the city state's worst street violence in 40 years. The riot was sparked by a fatal accident involving an Indian national.world Updated: Dec 20, 2013 13:22 IST
Singapore on Friday started deporting 52 Indian nationals for their role in the December 8 riot, the city state's worst street violence in 40 years.
16 of the men were interviewed by the state-appointed Committee of Enquiry (Coi) into the riot in the Little India area, a report The Straits Times said.
The riot was sparked by a fatal accident involving an Indian national.
The 53 had allegedly obstructed the police or failed to obey police order to disperse during the riot, in which 39 home team officers, including policemen were injured and 25 police and Singapore civil defence force vehicles damaged.
They were deemed to have posed a threat to the safety and security of Singapore, conditions that allows the authorities to deport them from entering the country again under the laws such as Immigration Act.
Twenty-eight Indian nationals were arraigned on riot charges and would have their cases heard in court on Monday.
Meanwhile, police have warned 200 other South Asian workers who were at the scene of riot. Police have issued advisories to the 200 to obey the law and would be allowed to remain in Singapore and work.
Read: Indian worker's death sparks worst riots in Singapore, 27 arrested
Foreign minister K Shanmugam has stressed that the repatriation of the 53 became judicial rather than administrative matter.
Under the Immigration Act, the government could ask an individual to leave once it has been determined that he acted contrary to Singapore?s interests or acted in a manner prejudicial to public security or safety, stressed Shanmugam.
Earlier this week, a civil group had questioned the "arbitrary deportation" of these people, citing the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants.
Read: Singapore PM condoles Indian's death in accident
The repatriation is done in groups.A Bangladesh national was also being deported.
Some 400 South Asian workers rioted when the 33-year old Indian National, Sakthivel Kumaravalu, was killed in the accident with a bus on the night of December 8.
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This year is our youngest child's second Christmas, so he is really going to enjoy present time. While presents are always fun and exciting, remembering why we celebrate Christmas is also special and important to us. I love teaching our children about the Nativity story and teaching them about Jesus' birth. How special this Christmas day really is to us.
Christmas Eve church service is also special to us this year, because this is our first Christmas Eve service at the church my husband founded and pastor's. Our church family is so special and close to our hearts so I'm excited to have an intimate, quiet service where we will sing to our God and praise Him for sending us His son.
Oh! And this is the first Christmas in 3 years since my little brother has been home. He's a marine and hasn't been able to make it back, but this year has. Needless to say I think my parents are overjoyed and it'll be nice to have my whole family together under one roof celebrating together!
This month has gone by way too fast, I want to savor every moment and enjoy it all while I can. I just love this time of year, don't you? What are some favorite things you and your family do around this time of year? Or what are some special memories you have about Christmas, or what are you looking forward to this Christmas?


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VANCOUVER, B.C. -- The B.C. government today introduced legislation that will require unionized truck drivers serving Port Metro Vancouver to return to work.
VANCOUVER, B.C. — The B.C. government today introduced legislation that will require unionized truck drivers serving Port Metro Vancouver to return to work.
The legislation introduced today requires a 90-day cooling off period for the 250 striking Unifor truckers impacting operations at the port.
Violating the return to work order, which could pass by Wednesday, will cost truckers $400 per day or a union or employer $10,000 per day.
The legislation does not impact non-unionized container truckers.
"This legislation is being tabled reluctantly and comes after multiple attempts over recent weeks to end the dispute and get Port Metro Vancouver back to full capacity," said Shirley Bond, Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training. "The disruption at Canada's largest and busiest port is impacting our economy, jobs and our trading reputation. This 90-day cooling off period will allow the parties to get back to the bargaining table while normal Port operations resume and goods get moving again."
The port says it is committed to implementing a 14-point action plan to reduce wait times and improve efficiencies. The legislation tabled today allows the province to extend the cooling off period an additional 60 days if necessary.
So now the government has to get involved!!! The truck drivers will get nowhere now. The port will not make any changes that benefit the drivers. How can they change the overpaid longshoreman? Back to work for 90 days while they bargain, i say bullshit, I HOPE THE DRIVERS NEVER GIVE UP.
Shame on Provincial Govt.
Why someone would be driving his truck when he is not making any money out of it.
you have their attention now drivers,roll with it. you have my support
all those drivers should quit until the goverment crawls back under their rock and puts this peice of legislation in the trash where it belongs, this battle is between the port and the truckers, i to say SHAME ON THE GOVERMENT!!!
Even the appearance of democracy is wearing thin. Harper pro rogued parliament for his self serving purposes. Now the Nurses on the east coast are quitting rather than be legislated. Now the government is back paddling… the public support for drivers has never been so strong as now! Stand strong!


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Are you a fan of art but aren't sure how to discuss it? Do you want to understand more about paintings or sculptures than what the label on the wall tells you? Art historian Jeff Mishur leads this interactive slide lecture introducing guests to the appreciation of art. Registration is required by calling or visiting the library's website.


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Before He Can Hop,This Easter Bunny Has to Fly
Sky-Diving Rabbit Is Latest Trend Afoot; Too Much Altitude and He Could Lose His Ears
This weekend, the Easter Bunny will hop to his usual appearances at malls and egg hunts.
But in Southern California, the famed rabbit is scheduled to take a giant leap—out of a Cessna propeller plane 4,000 feet above Laguna Hills, south of Los Angeles. This particular bunny, a 67-year-old former Marine who served in Vietnam, will hurtle through the sky at 80 miles per hour and parachute down to a field before hundreds of children.
"We just had to have the sky-diving Easter Bunny," says Greg Munck, executive pastor of Crossline Community Church, which is sponsoring the Saturday event. "Think about how fun it is for kids to see the Easter Bunny jump out of a plane."
For decades, kids appeared satisfied with candy-crammed baskets and scavenging for chocolate eggs. But those days are over, say a growing number of Easter event organizers, as churches and communities compete to make their celebrations stand out.
For many churches, the holiest day in the Christian calendar is a key time to boost attendance and attract newcomers. That has led to pressure on the Easter Bunny, perhaps beyond anything Cupid or the St. Patrick's Day leprechaun are ever likely to know.
"We hope that some of the people who come" to see the sky-diving rabbit "will come to our services and hear the Gospel," says Mr. Munck, of the 2,000 member Crossline Community Church. As part of the event, a helicopter will drop 40,000 candy-filled plastic eggs on the church lawn as a sound system blasts Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries"—familiar to many from a very different kind of helicopter scene in "Apocalypse Now."
Last year, 3,000 people showed up for Crossline Community Church's helicopter egg drop, Mr. Munck says. This year, people have their ears pricked for the arrival of the intrepid Easter Bunny—and the church is expecting an even bigger turnout.
"There are some un-fun Christians who would maybe snub their nose at us," Mr. Munck says. "But we love the Lord just like them."
To fluff up their Easter plans, some congregations and communities have tried nighttime egg hunts with flashlights. Others have tried the helicopter egg drop. But even that is no longer enough for some.
"Anybody that's still doing the egg drop from the helicopter is behind the times," says Jeff Chase, assistant director for parks and recreation in Acworth, Ga., north of Atlanta, where a sky-diving Easter Bunny landed in a sports field last Friday to a cheering crowd. "You've got to keep things fresh."
Acworth's parachuting Easter Bunny made his first jump last year in an approaching storm, making for a tense Easter behind the scenes. "Right before the Easter Bunny had to hop in the car and drive to the airport to make the jump, we were still out there on our phones and laptops looking at the weather," says Mr. Chase, who saw rain and storms all around. "I'm not a sky diver, but I probably wouldn't have jumped."
The Easter Bunny bumped the earth in misty, windy conditions without injury. "You don't want to make the papers because the Easter Bunny hit hard in the middle of your field," says Mr. Chase.
It is unclear where the idea for the sky-diving Easter Bunny originated, but such feats seem to be multiplying. Starting Good Friday and through this weekend, Easter Bunny sky dives were scheduled near Milwaukee, Wis., in Lafayette, Ind., Queensland, Australia and Santa Monica, Calif. In Dubai, the Easter Bunny parachuted to the Madinat Jumeirah, a luxury resort, landing on the beach to greet children at a pre-Easter brunch.
Skydive Milwaukee, a sky-diving school, has for more than a decade hosted an annual Easter event for local kids featuring an airborne Easter Bunny. It allows only its most experienced sky divers to participate, says its president, Derrick Krakau. Mr. Krakau, who is accomplished in formation sky diving, says that even he isn't cut out for the role.
"I have four or five guys who are qualified, and only two fit in the bunny suit," he says. "We don't take chances. I don't want a bunch of kids seeing the Easter Bunny get hurt."
For Saturday's jump in Laguna Hills, Crossline Community Church turned to Jim Wallace, the Vietnam veteran, who spends his weekdays teaching Navy SEALs how to parachute while wearing weapons.
Mr. Wallace, a sky diver for more than 40 years, did his first jump as Easter Bunny two years ago for Clarity, a small church in Santa Monica, parachuting into a school park as hundreds of kids screamed with delight. "I loved it," he says.
Mr. Wallace has descended from planes in various guises, dressed in a chicken costume and a toga, for instance. A few years ago, he alighted on Barbados done up like Santa Claus. "It was 85 or 90 degrees and I'm in a Santa suit with a pillow in my belly and landing on a small section of beach," he recalls.
Drifting in as the Easter Bunny poses special challenges, he says. "It's absolutely harder in a bunny suit. Your vision is restricted. The mask has a latex backing and it makes it hard to breathe," he says. He cut larger eye holes in the head for better vision.
To take special precautions for his floppy ears, he jumps from a relatively low altitude of 4,000 feet and quickly opens his parachute. "A long free fall is more chance for my ears to come off or for the fur to blow in my face," he explains.
When it hired Mr. Wallace, the small Clarity church was already planning to offer candy, face-painting and balloons, but "we needed something really big to put us on the map," recalls Pastor Nathan Kollar. Mr. Kollar said he was speaking to his father, also a pastor, about what else to do and "my dad jokingly said, 'Why don't you have an Easter Bunny jump out of a plane?'"
This year, the church is hiring Mr. Wallace's company again for the sky-diving Easter Bunny—and decided to raise the Easter-basket stakes by adding a parachuting chick. "We wanted to take it a little further," says Mr. Kollar.
Mr. Chase, of Acworth, is already mulling the future. "I think we've got one more year of the sky-diving Easter Bunny," he says. "Then we have to come up with something new. We may make our mayor tandem jump with the bunny. That might top it."
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Mrs. Theresa R. Tukovits, 58, of 513 E. 4th St., Northampton, died Saturday in her home. She was the wife of Joseph Tukovits. They observed their 36th wedding anniversary in April.
She was a sewing machine operator at D&D Shirt Co., Northampton, for 15 years until 1978.
Born in Whitehall Township, she was a daughter of Mary (Keppel) Feiller of Whitehall and the late Frank Feiller.
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The advice might sound a tad metaphysical, but Tim Jahnigen, Energy Services supervisor for Baltimore Gas and Electric, says that gettingyour home ready for winter is simply a matter of "controlling your own destiny."
"It all depends on how much time and money one is willing to spend, and how important the rewards are," Jahnigen said. "Most often it's the little things around the house that an individual can do to help conserve energy. In the long run, it boils down to saving money."
And one need not have been Homer Formby in a past life to follow some of these energy-saving tips, which range from setting the thermostat at 68 degrees Fahrenheit to checking the caulking around window and door frames to insulating the attic.


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Back in September I whipped up this quick yet stylish card for a close friend of ours. It was 6:00 on a Friday night, and we were supposed to meet him and our friends for dinner at 7pm. Thanks to the new David Tuttera Celebrate card line I was able to whip up a handmade card within minutes that looked just as though it came from a store (if not better)! Back in September I showed you how easy it is to make a card… easy as 1-2-3!
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Since my recent purchase of the Amazon Kindle 3 I have been reading more than when I just read regular books. Part of this is because all I have to carry around is my electronic book reader but it contains much more than just one text. Therefore it really is quite like a portable library. If you are thinking about getting one of these devices there are only three different models to choose from: the 6" Kindle with Wi-fi; the 6" Kindle with 3G and Wi-Fi; larger 9.7" Kindle DX. My experience is only with the smaller sized Kindle with the 3G and Wi-Fi capability. In actual fact I am yet to use the Wi-Fi functionality because I have only used the 3G network, Wispernet, to download and access the internet.
Overall, I am very happy with my new electronic reader so I decided to write this Kindle 3 review to help you decide whether you should purchase one of these devices or not. The thing is, I cannot offer any kind of comparison between other devices such as the Nook. This is because the only one that I have first hand experience of is the Amazon Kindle. And if I am honest, I cannot see myself buying another brand simply because the Kindle 3 does everything that I want. As a quick aside, I love Apple products but I have no interest in the iPad. What is it for? Technically it seems an amazing product but how do you use it? With the Kindle, it is sold as an electronic book reader and this is its primary function. It does have a web browser but it is not all that user friendly. Although, if I want to go on the internet, I will use a computer. What I am trying to say is that I love the fact that Amazon did not try to cram too many features into this device. All I want it for is to read books. It satisfies this need very well.
Reading with the new Kindle 3 is really easy. It is light weight and the whiteness, or rather greyness of the screen, contrasts well with the electronic ink. In sunlight the contrast actually gets better so it can be read both indoors and out. What is important is that there is an external source of light. It is weird to think that an electronic device does not have a screen like a computer. Until I got my own Kindle, I could not really imagine exactly what this meant. But it is funny if you are reading at night and turn out the light. The only thing you can see on the Kindle is its power light. It is impossible to read anything written on the screen.
If you have done much research and have read any other Kindle reviews then you probably already know that there is a huge library of out of copyright books that Kindle owners are able to download for free. This is the feature that persuaded me to get a Kindle. Since I got my electronic reader at the end of August, I have not purchased a single book. However I have downloaded about ten and have read quite a few, for free. One slightly negative thing I can say about this system is that I am yet to figure out how to browse only the out of copyright titles. If you know what you want, e.g. do a search for "Dracula" it is easy to find that title and download it. But if you do not know exactly what you want and would like to do some window shopping before you download, the only solution I have found is to go to the Amazon webiste, using a computer, and search the titles that way. I suppose this would be possible using the Kindle browser, but as I mentioned earlier, it is not very good.
Overall though, even though I have this slight usability issue, as far as just reading books is concerned, the Kindle 3 performs very well. I was not sure if getting the 3G ability would be worth it but upon reflection I think that it was. It cost me an extra $50 over the Kindle 3 that only has Wi-Fi. But there are not monthly fees to use the Whispernet network and I now have the freedom to download books at any time from where ever I am in the world. I hope this genuine Kindle 3 review has been of some use. If you enjoy reading, you will love the Kindle.


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The small village community of Preston is in Hickory County of Missouri, USA. It's a white region with few African Americans and Native Americans as well.
The primary financial activities include trucking, hospitality, mailing and shipping, plumbing, contracting, home building and cleaning and dealership services.
There are few discount stores, factory outlets and restaurants in and around the place.


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rhatto just asked me to approve a change in keygringer's license from AGPLv3+ to GPLv3+ citing a discussion about a Berkeley DB's switch to AGPLv3. For some reason, a reference to a quine caught my eye.
If you don't know what a quine is, I suggest you remain ignorant. I won't even provide the Wikipedia link.
A quick web search suggests that it's quite possible to write one in bash. I hope to be productive again some day.


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Using both CMM and scanning equipment, Bolton Works can deliver full first article inspections according to GD&T rules following ASME Y14.5M-1994. Alternatively, for analysis and trouble-shooting deviation color maps with cross sectional information are often sufficient and are very cost effective to control quality.more about Metrology
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The deliverable for reverse engineering will depend on the intended use of the model: analysis or manufacturing. In cases where no CAD model exists, models can be build up in polygons, surfaces or as parametric solids. In case where 3D CAD models do exist, they might need adjustment so they reflect "as build" instead of "as designed".more about Reverse Engineering
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Only invited hosts can participate in atb_experience. Each province can invite 7 persons, the Austrian National Tourist Office also has a certain contingent of participating hosts. If you have questions, please contact Nikitas Rutten. Hosts include leading figures in the Austrian tourism industry who would like to contribute to the discussion of the event's general theme.
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PEdALED create unique cycling clothing through innovative design, pioneering materials and sartorial experience.
"We make the garments. You decide how to Live and Ride with them." – Hideto Suzuki, founder
PEdAL Ed and JLT Condor is a new partnership for 2017 and heralds a change in livery for Britain's longest running UCI squad. Introducing a navy blue and burgundy scheme to the jersey.
"In the last few years we have been working closely with Transcontinental Race riders to develop tough functional equipment for long journeys, we now look to push the development of performance and aero clothing forward in collaboration with a team that has always stood out in the peloton. We want to bring a new aesthetic standard to the continental peloton." explained Luca Mathia Bertoncello, Brand Director at PEdAL ED.
"With one eye to innovation and one eye to tradition we decided to celebrate Britain's longest standing UCI team with a new look inspired by British colours."
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The Japanese born clothing maker, proudly makes all their equipment in Italy from materials expertly sourced from around the world. Every PEdAL ED product tells the story of our approach to Life and to Cycling. Made in Japan and Made in Italy stand for an attention to detail, and care for high quality products. The use of the finest manufacturing techniques guarantees that our garments are highly functional and durable.