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We've been hearing rumors of the closure of MSN Groups and its replacement by Windows Live Groups for years now, last having written about it almost exactly a year ago. Now, however, in an email from Technical Support posted in the MSN Discussion public newsgroup, we have confirmation, and a timeline. In the email, a newsgroup poster who wrote Technical Support to ask for clarification on MSN Groups after an email went out to MSN Groups users in Italy telling them of the coming closure, and got a telling response. In the email, Claudia reveals that MSN Groups is "to close on February 21, 2009", and that Windows Live Groups will launch on November 17, 2008.
A post on the Community Feedback MSN Group, dedicated to Group managers, requested information as well, and received the following response, which while Geri doesn't go into the detail that Claudia does, does seem to confirm at least that "change is coming":
Change is coming
As you may have noticed we've made considerable investments across MSN and Windows Live to enhance your product experience while aligning our online services brands. As we make new product investments, our intention is to offer new products and capabilities while keeping you connected to your online network.
Can you give me specifics?
For now, unfortunately, I cannot give specifics about the new products and updates we have in the works. We will however be communicating updates in the near future so definitely be on the look-out for those.
Any important announcements from Microsoft about MSN Groups will be posted at the MSN Groups homepage (http://groups.msn.com). In the near future, we hope to provide you with more information and establish communication channels through which you can provide feedback.
We appreciate your continued support as we strive to provide you with the highest quality service available. Thank you for using MSN Groups.
From Claudia's email it appears that MSN Groups users will not be able to migrate directly to Windows Live Groups. Apparently, however, a service, called Multiply, will be offered in order to migrate MSN Groups to Multiply so that they can be preserved after MSN Groups is closed. The Spaces site referenced in the email is restricted access, however a SkyDrive folder on that site contains four documents that relate to Multiply:
(UPDATE: The links were working (making sure to be signed out of all Live IDs) this morning when I posted – so the docs were apparently taken down – didn't bother to grab the files, sorry)
MSN Groups Sample Re-Direct Page
Multiple Step-by-Step Migration Guide
Here's the email from Claudia that was posted in the MSN Discussion public newsgroup:
Thanks to contact Technical Support Windows MSN Groups, are Claudia, and
with reference to your e-mail, you know that MSN Groups will be closed and
that is why you can have problems.
That message I sent personally it is true then I pray to you and your entire
community to read the information on closing MSN Groups which is located at:
MSN Groups service to close on February 21 2009. Users can still be used
until that day, but will no longer have the ability to add additional storage
capacity to it.
There was a company with Multiply, a service of Media Group and sharing
online, to create a migration process that moves the service to MSN Groups
(Multiply), so in that way preserve the online community and the history of
the group MSN.
A new service, Windows Live groups, will be launched on November 17 2008.
Customers have 3 options to move his team to a new service:
1. Automatically move your MSN and its data set to Multiply. This option is
free and easy to use: Multiply move the contents of the MSN group and invited
members to return to join his group in this new position.
2. Start from scratch in another department. Customers can start from
scratch and create your group in a different service. However, we recommend
you leave your group will automatically move to Multiply. This will enable
the group to an easy transition, and users can continue to enjoy the
communities that have created.
3. Start from scratch on Windows Live group. To further expand our exchange
and communication services, Windows Live will launch this new service. It is
expected to launch Windows Live groups to the public on November 17, 2008.
Multiply site: _http://multiply.com/msngroupimport% 20% 20.
Thank you for using Windows MSN Groups.
Support Windows MSN Groups.


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A key role of communications and public relations professionals today is that of communicator and facilitator of public engagement. A recent survey of Superintendents throughout Wisconsin affirmed the importance of this critical area and a
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Last Week of Daily Getaways for 2014
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We're now in the home stretch of the Daily Getaways for 2014. For those who are unfamiliar, each weekday from May 19 – June 20, 2014 American Express in conjunction with the US Travel Association offers travel getaways and packages, often at a great prices. Here is a look at the calendar for this week –
Today, there are five different Vegas offers which go on sale at 1pm EST –
Using any American Express card to purchase gives you 10% off any of the packages. Because they are often a good deal, some of the Daily Getaways packages sell out quickly. If you're interested in one of the offers today, have your American Express handy and follow the links below for the package you want to purchase a little before 1pm EST.
Bellagio package – $1375 – Purchase link.
Overview – 2 nights in a suite at the Bellagio, 2 tickets to "O", spa treatments, and dinner for 2.
4 available, travel must be completed by March 31, 2015.
From the Daily Getaways description:
2 nights in a Bellagio suite (double occupancy).
2 tickets to a performance of "O™" by Cirque du Soleil®
Dinner for two (2) at any Fine Dining restaurant at Bellagio.
VIP entrance and beverage credit for two (2) at Hyde, the nightclub behind the fountains.
2 spa treatments (valued at $500)
Round-trip airport limo transfers (between McCarran Airport and Bellagio).
Invited guest check-in at the Bellagio.
MGM Skyloft package – $1545 – Purchase link.
Overview of package – 2 nights in a one-bedroom LOFT at SKYLOFTS, massages, and dinner for 2.
4 available, travel must be completed by December 30, 2014.
From the Daily Getaways description:
A 2 consecutive night stay in a one-bedroom LOFT (double occupancy).
Two (2) 1-hour massages at the Grand Spa.
Two (2) dinners for 2 at one of the following MGM Restaurants: Craftsteak, Shibuya, or Pub 1842.
Round-trip airport transfer from McCarran Airport to/from hotel.
Luxor package – $535 – Purchase link.
4 nights in a Tower Deluxe Room at Luxor, 2 VIP tickets to Jabbawockees & $400 Food & Beverage credit for select Luxor restaurants.
9 available, travel must be completed by January 31, 2015
From the Daily Getaways description:
4 consecutive nights in a Tower Deluxe Room (double occupancy) at the Luxor.
2 VIP tickets (preferred seating) to The World Famous Jabbawockeez
$400 Food & Beverage credit for select Luxor restaurants.
Circus Circus package – $140 – Purchase link.
3 nights at Circus Circus, including dining and passes to the Adventuredome Theme Park for 2.
8 available, travel must be completed through December 30, 2014.
From the Daily Getaways description:
3 consecutive night stay in a standard room in the West Tower at Circus Circus Hotel Casino in Las Vegas (double occupancy).
Breakfast buffet for 2 people during stay and Dinner buffet for 2 people during stay.
A $75 voucher for The Steak House restaurant inside Circus Circus.
1-day passes for 2 to the Adventuredome Theme Park.
Aria package – $1625 – Purchase link.
3 nights in a suite at ARIA, dinner, VIP tickets to Zarkana™, and spa treatments for 2.
5 available, travel must be completed by December 31, 2014.
From the Daily Getaways description:
3 consecutive nights in a 1-bedroom suite at the exclusive Sky Suites at the ARIA hotel in Las Vegas (double occupancy).
Dinner for 2 at your choice of one of the many fine restaurants inside ARIA, including: Sage, Sirio Ristorante, AMERICAN FISH, Julian Serrano, or Jean Georges Steakhouse.
Spa treatments for 2 at The Spa at ARIA.
2 VIP tickets to Zarkana™ by Cirque du Soleil®.
Round-trip airport limo transfers (between McCarran Airport and Aria Resort & Casino).
If you are looking for a suite and an experience, this is a great way to go! The price of these packages if broken down into individual parts becomes much more expensive. Plus, if you are paying via AMEX the package price is discounted by 10%. Be aware of the date that travel must be completed by, as all but one of the offers says that travel must be completed by the end of the year. Since availability of these is very limited, be ready to jump on the one you want at 1pm EST. Good luck!
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Why Not California #4 (and AB 32)Posted by Gino DiCaro, VP, Communications on Aug. 6, 2008
letter to the Wall Street Journal, the past closings of their two manufacturing facilities in California? Why is Cypress Semiconductor -- formerly a 100% California-based company -- employing 7,000 of it's 8,000 employees outside of California? With this question in mind it is not surprising that almost a quarter of California's 440,000 lost manufacturing jobs since 2001 have come from Santa Clara county.
A good portion of the answers to these questions lie in Forbes Magazine's "Best States for Business" list, released last week, that ranked California 50th worst in business costs and 40th worst overall when quality of life and other issues were taken into account.
Cut to the State's global warming efforts. Today, in a joint legislative committee hearing on AB 32, California Air Resources Board Secretary Mary Nichols acknowledged that in implementing AB 32 she does not "speak for" the state's entire economic development strategy and that the scoping plan does not at this time describe how we will outreach to existing businesses to keep them competitive in the state. Nichols -- a well informed and well respected leader – suggested that this issue will be the focus of many agencies in the years to come.
The California-only global warming bill places the daunting responsibility of reaching both the environmental and economic goals squarely on the shoulders of CARB and relies largely upon retaining and growing businesses here in this state, and not elsewhere.
Global warming leaders in the State should be concerned deeply about the competitive sacrifices of California companies such as Cypress Semiconductors, Intel, 'pre-tax-incentive' Tesla Motors, Toyota, emerging solar manufacturers, and others. Whether it's investment taxes, global warming costs, labor costs, training costs, etc., companies in California need signals that they can stay, and stay long-term, in California.
An historic frame of mind also surfaced today during Nichols' comments as she subconsciously offered a cautionary tale: "People don't pay attention to things they don't value" said Nichols in response to a question about pricing carbon at the gas pump. Truer words have not been spoken. Businesses do and must value the State's bold attempt to reduce carbon. On the flip side, regulators tasked with meeting the goals of AB 32 must value the genesis of their much coveted reductions and do everything possible to improve California's standing as one of the most expensive places to do business.
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Head of the newly-formed Tobago Business Chamber Martin George has condemned the continued challenges being experienced on the inter-island seabridge.
Commenting on the various cancellations due to mechanical issues with the ferries, George described the situation as an abysmal failure of the Government, the Port Authority of T&T board and NIDCO.
Loaded with passengers en route to Tobago on Wednesday, the Galleons Passage had to return to the Port-of-Spain port due to alleged adverse weather conditions. However, checks with the Met Office revealed that there were no rough seas or adverse weather advisories at the time. Mere hours after the incident, George, the director/incorporator of the newly-formed business body, said the continuing seabridge failures were unacceptable.
"The Tobago Business Chamber condemns the continued and collectively abysmal failure of the Government, the board of the Port Authority and NIDCO in their comprehensive failings and incompetencies in mismanaging the seabridge, which remains a lifeline of necessity for the citizens of Trinidad and Tobago and even more so for the average Tobagonian," George said.
"We respectfully call upon the Tobagonians who head these entities to do better for your fellow Tobagonians and just stop with the excuses and get this fixed as a matter of urgency. The people of Tobago deserve better than this."
Meanwhile, THA Minority Leader Watson Duke again warned that the Galleons Passage was inappropriate for the waters between Trinidad and Tobago. In a stern video message, Duke said passengers' lives were being endangered
"I have said already, the Galleons Passage is Gilligan's Passage and it's no new boat, it is an old boat. I have said already, the boat is a riverboat and not suited for carrying persons on the high Atlantic Sea," Duke said.
"I am saying here now and mark my words, that boat will kill someone and when it does so, the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the PNM Government will be held responsible. They are endangering lives by putting people in that boat and I warn you today to please pull that boat out of service and buy a proper boat for the seabridge."


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I will never finish this song
Song is up on myspace.
On my way to the bus met a man who did not know his name,
He said it must be difficult to accomplish anything when youre insane,
I said well buddy, you should know, after all, isnt that your game?
Then he stabbed me in the chest and ran, shouting something awfully profane,
Blood gushed out onto the pavement and ran down a drain,
My body collapsed and I was sad, cause on my yellow shirt now was a stain,
Birds came flying through the air, landed on my head and ate my brain,
After a while I was still alive, thought to myself: "Yay, I cant feel pain!"
So I got up, started scaring people, zombies, you know, I put them to shame,
I got hooked up with a manager, who promised me unimaginable fame,
It didnt work out and for a while it felt like all of our efforts had been in vain,
So, depressed as I was I took a bus……….. to Spain,
It took a while before I realized………… it was a train,
The train was stopped by 50 guys, who had adopted a special technique in Kung Fu, known as the Crane,
They robbed everyone of their valuables, but they left me alone, because they thought I looked mundane,


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Using an old router as a DIY wireless Access Point (Page 1)
Using old router as a DIY wireless Access Point
If you are anything like me, you have probably been through your fair share of wireless routers. You may even have a collection of them growing in your storage room, if you haven't gotten around to selling them on the second hand market yet.
I recently moved into a new place and it is a relatively big three story town house. It is about 20 years old and has nice big thick concrete walls and they are just great for wireless networking... almost as great as a car with no wheels. I use a D-Link 802.11n Extreme wireless router for the first floor and it is great for using notebooks and other wireless devices, on the first floor. However once you start to venture past the second floor and onto the third floor, where we spend quite a bit of time, the D-Link router really struggles to provide a strong wireless radio signal in that part of the house. We are able to connect to the D-Link router from the third floor but the connection is flaky at best - it will connect for a while and then drop out without warning. Surfing the Internet feels like we are back on a ten year old 56k dial-up connection, even though, the main router is connected to an ADSL2 modem.
In this guide you will learn how to make very good use of an old wireless router which is otherwise sitting around doing nothing. You will learn how to turn it into a DIY wireless access point and save money in the process by not having to go out and buy a brand new wireless access point or wireless range extender, which will set you back $100 USD or more. I guess you could say it is an exercise in recycling old computer parts and that makes us feel pretty good about ourselves, but even better by not having to fork over cash on new products unnecessarily.
Let's get this guide underway and begin our journey in having a house with multiple wireless connections. It's not that hard, so don't be scared, go forth and head on over to the next page.
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The KLI Focus Group is a newly developed format that gathers leading experts of an interdisciplinary field with the aim to develop ideas on a particular subject and generate suggestions for action. The invitees come from different scientific backgrounds and strive to develop specific, practical goals within the designated period of one to two weeks.
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The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of several important ligaments that connect the tibia (shin bone) to the femur (thigh bone) across the knee. It is one of the key primary stabilisers of the knee.
The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of several important ligaments that connect the tibia (shin bone) to the femur (thigh bone) across the knee. It is one of the key primary stabilisers of the knee.
When the ACL is damaged as part of a twisting injury, you may actually hear or feel a "popping" sensation. As the ligament has a blood supply, when torn the knee may fill with blood becoming swollen quite quickly. It is often impossible to continue sporting activity after ACL rupture and urgent medical review is generally required.
When the ACL is damaged, the knee can feel acutely unstable and occasionally will give way completely. Often the ACL is injured as part of a combination of injuries in and around the knee. These frequently include the medial collateral ligament (MCL) which may only be mildly stretched and occasionally fully ruptured. In addition the meniscal cartilages are also often damaged as part of the twisting mechanism.
Without an intact ACL it is very difficult to return to any sports that require twisting and turning, such as, rugby, football, squash and skiing. However, other "in line" sports such as running, cycling or cross training are often possible, despite ACL deficiency.
As with all surgical conditions, diagnosis of damage to the anterior cruciate ligament is made by a combination of:
Once a definitive diagnosis has been made, your surgeon can discuss with you the best way to proceed.
Not all ACL injuries need reconstructive surgery. In some cases, the ACL can re-attach to surrounding structures and render the knee stable after a few weeks (approximately 10% of cases).
It may be possible to pursue many sports without a functioning cruciate ligament. However, more rigorous, high-demand sports that involve a lot of "cutting", twisting and pivoting are much more dependent on an intact, functioning ACL.
For most patients, the initial treatment centres around reducing the swelling within the knee whilst strengthening the muscles around the knee to act as secondary supports for stability.
A specialist physiotherapist will often "Pre-hab" the parent so as to help reduce swelling, improve movement in the knee and let the soft tissue injury settle whilst optimising early recovery.
If a second ligament (eg. MCL) is injured, you may need the knee braced for a few weeks until this heals, and this can slow the recovery down a little.
The stability of the knee is often assessed carefully once you have a pain free range of movement and if the knee is deemed unstable, a surgical reconstruction of the ACL is recommended. Essentially, achieving rotational stability prevents further damage to the meniscus and cartilage surface within the knee.
Due to advances in surgical techniques, what was once a major open operation is now a minimally invasive procedure, meaning it has become an increasingly popular operation over the last decade.
Like most surgical procedures, there are many ways of achieving an excellent ACL reconstruction. Most surgeons across the world use a similar technique to restore a 'new' ACL, but the choice of graft material varies widely.
Your surgeon will discuss with you the surgical options available in terms of reconstruction and what they feel is the best technique in your individual case. The following will be considered carefully:
The operation is carried out under direct vision of the arthroscope (camera) inserted within the knee. Bony tunnels are drilled within the shin bone (tibia) and the thigh bone (femur) to allow the graft to be pulled across and held in place securely. This graft is, in effect, creating a 'scaffold' on which a new ligament can grow.
In the immediate post-operative period, the priority is:
The post-operative programme is as follows:
The surgeons at Schoen Clinic will work closely with the outpatient physiotherapist of your choice to optimise your recovery. You will be carefully monitored after surgery by both your surgeon and your physiotherapist to make sure that you are recovering well.
As the wounds settle, the priority changes from the range of motion to muscle-strengthening and proprioceptive/balance work. Naturally, every patient recovers at a slightly different rate and there is no "normal" with respect to returning to sporting activity post-surgery. We would, however, expect you to be able to cycle within the early months following surgery and run after five months.
The speed of recovery from this operation is limited by the ability of the body to integrate the graft material into the bony tunnels and to become fixed. This integration takes a minimum of ten weeks, but the graft itself continues to strengthen internally for up to 18 months after the reconstruction.
The surgeons at Schoen Clinic have an international reputation and regularly treat professional and amateur athletes from around the world. We also have some of the leading sports medicine consultants in the UK who can also advise on muscular optimisation prior to returning to competitive sport.
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Acidic 12th Birthday Bash Saturday 26th April 2014
We're back with a phat line up to celebrate 12 years of Acidic parties.
Held at Area 81, Packhorse Pub, Lawrence Hill, Bristol
Tickets are now on sale at Bristol Ticket Shop.
Line up as follows:
Mark Eg
Dj Zebedee
Ron Atomizer
Matt Acidic
Bish Bosh Jim
Pete D
Omega Flight
Take That
Mark's rise to fame began in the early 90's after his love for Chicago house, Detroit techno and acid house progressed into an unequivocal need to spread the word of Belgium techno, hard techno and also hard trance. After DJing for the UK's biggest rave parties of the time (Helter Skelter, Dreamscape etc) as well as working as PR for Re:Load, GPR and Proper Records, Mark became A+R for dance music giant Bonzai Records. He also turned his skills to journalism, editing the techno section for cult rave magazine Eternity. He soon became Assistant Editor for Wax Magazine and to this day writes record reviews for Tilllate Magazine and co-owns and edits Core Magazine.
Over the years, he's played in nearly every continent as well as some of the biggest and best parties the dance scene has to offer. Circuito (Brazil), Q Dance (Holland), Dance Valley (Holland), Q Base (Germany), Slinky (UK), Tidy Trax (UK), Planet Love (Ireland), The World Electronic Music Festival (Canada), Glastonbury (UK), Hardline 77 (Russia), Apokalypsa (Czech Republic), Club Cinema (Ukraine), HTID (UK and Australia), Fantazia (Scotland), Ground Zero (Holland), Frantic (UK), 3D/Hard Kandy (Australia), Drop Bass Network (America), Paradog (Slovakia), Technofest (Crimea), Country Club (UK), Slammin Vinyl (UK) it's an endless list that sees him playing an average of two to four gigs per weekend.
Mark produces music under various names (many of which are anonymous) but perhaps his most famous is with his partner Chrissi under The Anxious. With releases on established labels such as Audio Assault, ARMS, Compound, Planet Rhythm, Fine Audio and Submissions, their Live PA for Circuito in Brazil in 2005 became on of the most downloaded hard techno sets of all time.
Then there's his own techno record label Blackout Audio. With a release schedule that's seen releases from countless legendary techno producers including Inigo Kennedy, Glenn Wilson, Patrick Skoog and Chris McCormack, it's hardly surprising that the label website now boasts an online techno community of nearly 20,000 members.
Whatever your style, whatever your sound, Mark EG is one artist you don't want to miss out on. No hype, no bullshit, just music.
Dj Zebedee – International London Underground Since 1993
Zebedee has been djing in the London underground party scene since 1993, and is world renowned for his Hard/funky/Tribal acid sets.
His passion for djing and the free party scene began at 16 when he lived in a squat with a crew called The Rainbow Tribe, after helping the crew run an information stall at Tribal Energy night at the ROCKET in London, Zeb landed his first gig and soon became a monthly resident at the club.
During the early/mid 90s he teamed up with mate Lawrence to form an underground system called Restless Natives, and the pair were soon organising underground squat parties all over London.
Zebs international career began to take off around this time, when he landed his first gigs at Shambala in Vienna and at a Zilch promotions night in Amsterdam playing alongside Laurie Immersion.
He also held down a monthly residency at Feverish, in Bristol's Lakota Nightclub, and made nationwide guest appearances at Escape from Samsara, Pendragon , Havok , Eurobeat and Homegrown.
Following the success of their regular parties around London, Zeb and Lawrence launched the infamous club night, Trancentral.
Hailed as London's best underground tekno night at the time, Trancentral remained a permanent fixture in the party scene, until it closed its doors in early 2001.
During their partnership , Zeb and Lawrence also started a label called ORGANGRINDER, and Zeb released his first two 12"s ORGANGRINDER 01 DOGS ON ROPE, and ORGANGRINDER 02 WIERDO MAGNET.
Other artists feature on the label included Guy "Geezer" McAffer, Gizelle and Lawrie Immersion among others.
Zeb then embarked on a solo Australasian tour, which saw him play at parties and club's through out Australia and New Zealand.
Upon returning to London Zeb carried on with the Restless Native sound system.
Early 2003 saw Zeb produce a highly success 12" with Guy "Geezer" McAffer, entitles "DJ Zebedee meets JAH Scoop" on the Hi Wire label.
Since then he has played in Venezuela, Brazil, Czech Republic, Portugal ,Italy and Poland, in addition to local gigs in Edinburgh, Bristol, Manchester , Bournemouth, Birmingham and Southampton,Japan – Sendi and Tokyo.
This year will see the return of Zebedee to Venezuela in October 2010…..To be continued
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An Insight Into All You Need To Know About Tents
There are many people who like camping. It will be good if you purchased necessities that are cheap so that you can save money. Tents for sale are available for any event and occasion. All you need to know is the considerations that you may want adhered to. You may have a climate controlled banquet hall or open-air shaded pavilion as your tent. You can have tents to suit your goals such as weddings, parties, promotions, meetings or even storage. Besides providing shelter to the occupants, tents offer an elegant and elaborate environment. The specific event will determine the kind of tent you will get for that occasion. An afternoon party will require a different type of color tent.
Do not have a tent with bright colors for an evening party because they might not stand out. Depending on the number of people to an occasion, it will determine the size of tent to get. Specific tents are suitable for individual events, and this means that if they are used for other activities, they will not come out well. There are people who are not comfortable in an enclosed place and you might need to get a tent that has adequate ventilation. Allergic people readily react to fur from domestic animals, and they will need to be separated from them. It is not wise to be in a hurry to get a tent for your activity. The economy is a bit unsteady, and you would not wish to spend a significant amount on some things that you would have otherwise gotten them in a cheaper way.
Before getting a tent, carry out research to know all things that are concerning tents. Know about characteristics, types of tents and materials used. The more knowledgeable you are, the better the chances of you seeking the right decision as well as saving some money. Some local salesmen will try to sell you an expensive tent because their main motive is profits. Such manipulations can be avoided if you are well-equipped with tent knowledge. Usually the best times to get tents is during the off-peak periods. These times experience weak sales and the prices significantly reduce.
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Your purchase must not be reckless impulse but must be timed with original precision. It is for this purpose that you must plan up front and purchase all the camping equipment before the actual camping comes. It will also count to contact some hardware stores apart from just one. You will have much to choose from and even cheaper than the previous store. For the best camping treat, acquire tents that are all weather.The 5 Laws of Sales And How Learn More


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Hampden Kiwanis Club is sponsoring the third annual Polar Plunge at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 7, at Camp CaPella on Phillips Lake in Dedham, reports Joseph Dowling.
Proceeds benefit two programs: Camp CaPella, located in "eastern Maine for children and young adults with disabilities," Dowling wrote, and Camp Sunshine, "the national, year-round retreat for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families" on Sebago Lake in Casco.
Anyone who wants to make a donation, raise pledges, join the dip or volunteer to assist with the dual fundraiser may call Dowling at 659-0437, or e-mail email@example.com.
Donations also may be made to either camp at www.campcapella.org and www.freezinforareason.com.
Dowling reports that "all parking for the event will be at Lucerne Inn, with shuttle vans running to Camp CaPella" and that handicapped parking will be available at Camp CaPella.
Here's a reminder that Womancare, the Dover-Foxcroft organization that assists those in Piscataquis County affected by domestic violence, will hold its third annual Valentine's For A New Day Ball, 8-11 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, at Penquis Higher Education Center on Mayo Street in Dover-Foxcroft.
Tickets are $25 a person and are available at Mr. Paperback and Womancare, both in Dover-Foxcroft, and from members of the Miosac Club, which "has joined the committee and brings great expertise and enthusiasm for this event," reports Cindy Freeman Cyr of Womancare.
Big-band tunes will be provided by the Foxcroft Academy Student and Alumni Jazz Band directed by Shane Ellis, and proceeds will benefit Womancare's operating budget.
A cash bar, hors d'oeuvres, gourmet desserts and a 50-50 raffle will be featured.
For information or tickets, call 564-8165.
The public is invited to a free program featuring The Beecher Hill Boys 'n Girls Hillbilly Band and Cloggers at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, at 62 Abbott Hill Road, Dexter.
Special guests will be the Abbott Hill Ramblers, a bluegrass musical high school group directed by Dexter teacher Chris Prickitt.
During the event, The Beecher Hill Boys 'n Girls will present a check to the youth bluegrass music education fund.
The snow date is Thursday, Feb. 11, and more information is available by calling Prickitt at 277-3961; Joe Cannon at 327-1278 or Ben Dresser at 944-5634.
Tracey Whitten reminds readers tickets are still available for the 2010 Old Town-Orono YMCA Rose Ball, beginning with refreshments at 6 p.m., dinner and a silent auction at 7 p.m., and dancing at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 5, at Penobscot Valley Country Club in Orono.
The cost is $150 per couple for this black-tie-optional event featuring Brian Catell & Jump City Jazz.
For tickets, call 827-6111.
For folks in the Bangor area, the fourth annual Red Ribbon Ball to benefit Eastern Maine AIDS Network to raise funds for local HIV-AIDS services is 7 p.m. to midnight Saturday, Feb. 6, at Spectacular Event Center in Bangor.
Executive director Patricia Murphy reports tickets are $50 and are available by calling EMAN at 990-3626, at firstname.lastname@example.com and www.maineaidsnetwork.com.
Brian Catell & Jump City Jazz, with a busy weekend on tap, will be playing for this black-tie-optional event featuring hors d'oeuvres, a cash bar, dancing and a silent auction.
If you cannot attend, but want to support the work of EMAN, call, e-mail or visit the addresses above.
Sue Lapham invites you to "chase those winter blues away" by attending a Cabin Fever Reliever featuring an old-fashioned baked beans and hot dog supper and basket auction from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, at the Waldo County YMCA, 157 Lincolnville Ave., Belfast.
The cost is $5 each or $15 for a family, and "a movie for kids will be played on the big screen at 6:30 p.m. when the basket auction begins with Dave Bowen wielding the gavel to raise funds to benefit the Waldo County YMCA scholarship fund.
For more information about all Waldo County YMCA programs, visit www.waldocountyymca.org.
Alan Bray invites you to hear "two great duos" when Ken and Jane Brooks and Phil and Ellen LaClaire perform as part of the East Sangerville Grange Coffeehouse series at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, at the Grange that "sits atop a quiet hill" between Dover-Foxcroft and Guilford.
Admission is $10 in advance or $12 at the door, and tickets are available at Mr. Paperback in Dover-Foxcroft or by calling Bray at 564-2722.
Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; email@example.com; 990-8288.


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Many are aware of common thyroid-related symptoms such as fatigue, fluctuations in weight, or changes in cognitive ability. However, these are only a fraction of the total number of symptoms associated with thyroid dysfunction.
The thyroid is involved in nearly every bodily process meaning that symptoms are widespread and extensive.
How the Thyroid Affects the Entire Body
The thyroid is the primary control mechanism for our metabolism and impacts the metabolic function of every cell in the body. Because of its intense integration throughout the body, the thyroid has powerful influence over nearly every aspect of health and bodily function.
Recognizing and understanding the widespread impact of thyroid disease can help you better identify thyroid conditions and get the help and treatment you need.
The World Health Organization estimates that 750 million people are affected by thyroid dysfunction! It is further posited that of this group, roughly 50 percent are unaware of their condition. Part of the problem may be that people are not familiar with the multitude of symptoms associated with thyroid disease.
The following section is a comprehensive list of the numerous systems impacted by thyroid dysfunction and the symptoms associated with them.
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Be aware that thyroid dysfunction presents itself in ways that are often unique to the individual. You may only experience symptoms associated with specific functions and systems or have more diverse issues impacting multiple areas of the body.
Being cognitive of the many symptoms of thyroid disease can help you identify a condition and allow you to seek out proper assistance. So we've created a downloadable comprehensive checklist of thyroid symptoms that can be easily printed, filled out, and presented to your physician. This allows you to show your doctor what symptoms you're experiencing without having to recall them from memory!
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How's your pace of life right now?
Here are some questions to ask yourself to find out (inspired by Tim Chester's book, The Busy Christian's Guide to Busyness):
1. Do you regularly work longer than you're expected to?
2. Do you take work home or go back into work on weekends?
3. Has anyone said to you, "I know you're busy so I didn't want to bother you"?
4. Do you often feel tired during the day, with your neck or shoulders aching?
5. Do you find yourself hurrying when you drive, shop, or exercise?
6. Do you often feel tense with your spouse or children or others, even when you really have no reason to?
7. Do you enjoy weekly face-to-face time to talk with your spouse, children, and a few close friends? (Texting, tweeting, and Facebooking count as half.)
8. Do you eat at least one meal a day together as a family?
9. Do you feel stressed, weighed down, and disconnected from people?
10. Do you set aside regular time to talk with God and read His Word, or do your prayers often feel like times to dump your stress on the Lord?
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When: November 21 – 23, 2019
2019 PORAC Vendor Exhibit
JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa – Palm Desert, CA.
The Vendor Exhibit Has SOLD OUT!
Vendor Exhibit Booth
Each PORAC vendor exhibit booth is 10'x10′. Included is the installation and removal of one identification sign, 8′ back wall, 3′ side rails, 6′ cloth draped table, two contour chairs and a wastebasket.
Vendor registration also includes two vendor exhibit badges. Badges are individually printed with your name and company. Additional badges can be purchased for $125.
The vendor exhibit area will host two raffles, one of which will take place during the attendee favorite vendor hospitality event Friday evening, November 22, 2019. During the vendor hospitality event, vendor provided prizes will be raffled away. The second is the PORAC sponsored raffle, which takes place during the final day of the vendor exhibit. These raffles give vendors optimal face-to-face interaction with PORAC members.
The Vendor Exhibit Registration Rate- $800 per booth.
The Early Registration Rate ends on August 9, 2019. The regular booth rate after August 9, 2019 is $900 per booth.
Who's Attending the PORAC Conference?
PORAC is a professional federation of local, state and federal public safety associations. With more than 930 member organizations, representing over 75,000 members, PORAC is the largest public safety organization in California and the largest statewide public safety association in the nation.
Become a Sponsor Attending the Annual Conference each year is the PORAC member organization's leadership, such as the association president, vice president, treasurer, etc., as well as active and retired PORAC members. These influential leaders are the direct line of communication for their individual associations and departments. Register this summer to join us at the JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa to connect with PORAC's membership at the Conference Vendor Exhibit.
There are four levels of PORAC Star Sponsorship's available: Gold, Silver, Blue & Green. Sign up to become a vendor sponsor during your vendor registration submission.
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Former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley leaving hospitalBy AP
Former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley leaving hospitalBy AP
Former Mayor Richard M. Daley has left a Chicago hospital after more than a week of tests to determine why he was feeling ill and disoriented during a business trip.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital spokeswoman Sheila Galloro says Daley left the hospital around noon Saturday. He was accompanied by family but walked without assistance.
Galloro said she could not release any details on his health condition.
A spokeswoman for the mayor, Jackie Heard, said there might be updates from the family later this weekend.
The 71-year-old Daley was taken by ambulance to the hospital's intensive care unit on Jan. 31 upon returning from a conference in Scottsdale, Ariz.
He had been complaining of feeling ill during the conference and was met by an ambulance after flying back to Chicago.


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Akonadi Foundation's mission is to support the development of powerful social change movements to eliminate structural racism and create a racially just society.
To transform the climate in Oakland to one of compassion, respect, and dignity for youth and young people of color.
Using an ecosystem grantmaking lens, Akonadi supports and nurtures grassroots organizing, culture shift, and policy changes that build Oakland's racial justice movement. Since its founding in 2000, the Foundation has given over 1,600 grants totaling $35 million to nonprofit organizations, primarily in the Bay Area but also across the country.
We envision a world where youth and young adults of color are:
- treated with compassion, dignity, and respect in schools and in community life;
- valued as community members and assets to the city; and
- assured of the support and opportunities they need to heal from harm, to become leaders, and to learn and grow.
Racial Justice
We support the development of a powerful social change movement to eliminate structural racism and create a racially just society.
Communities of Color in Leadership
Efforts to achieve racial justice must be defined and led by the communities of color most affected by structural racism.
This work must be grounded in the knowledge that as systems and structures oppress, demean, and even take the lives of individuals of color, these systems and structures simultaneously injure other groups — women, for example, or economically exploited populations — and that any person or group may suffer from multiple socially/politically imposed disadvantages.
Leadership from the Field
Effective foundations support and are led by the ideas, innovations, and needs of organizations directly involved in the work of racial justice.
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Cultural strategies can play a powerful role in changing hearts and minds, ultimately shaping policies and practice.
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To build and sustain community power and racial justice movement building, Akonadi Foundation focuses our funding on ecosystem grantmaking. The term highlights the importance of the diverse web of relationships among the communities, organizations, and political formations that Akonadi supports.
We believe that this approach is an effective, comprehensive, and values-driven way to support the work of successful movements for racial justice and social change. We also believe that to achieve maximum success in building the capacity of racial justice movements, we must not only identify and support people and organizations that explicitly think, act, and talk about racial justice; we must also encourage collaboration and coordination among those organizations. As part of this approach, we fund organizations that do base-building work as well as their key allies and partners.


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From the BHS Music Boosters Blog -
SALEM MARCHING BAND INVITATIONAL: A Pictorial of Success!: "
Many thanks to Ron Conti for these photos from Burlington High School Marching Band's performance at the Salem Invitational held on October 9 in Salem, NH.
To view all the pictures, go to the 2010-2011 BHS Marching Band Fan page on Facebook. Tons of video there, too!.
The wheels on the bus go round and round as the BHS Marching Band arrives at destination Salem. Three buses carried the band to the event, with snacks for the students provided by Hospitality Chair Shirley Fong.
There is no way to adequately describe the masses of marching band musicians at the Salem Invitational, but the following pictures are an attempt. That's Burlington in the front, seated on bleachers on the field. In order to provide enough seating for spectators, the bands were placed on the field, as in our case, and on the visitors side.
How about these pictures? You can almost hear the notes and rhythms they were playing when these pictures were shot!
|BHS Drum Line on approach for their solos
|Flags were perfection!
|The Dance Squad was one solid unit!
The Burlington High School Marching Band exudes class as they make their approach to the field and as they depart. They are trained to respect the genre and the discipline that it takes. The following pictures are a perfect example of this...check out how they are marching in step, no missteps here! A special note: as each band left the field and passed the BHS band, our drum majors were in full salute, honoring their fellow musicians. Another proud moment for the families in the stands.
Congratulations to the members of the Burlington High School Marching Band. The hours and hours of rehearsal, on and off the field, paid off.


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20.24.- Edgar eighth in sprint
In the final race of the evening, Ross Edgar finished eighth in the men's sprint. First race on the last day of the World Championships will be the semi-finals of the men's sprint at 10 am local time.
20.18 Gonzalez gold
Cuban Yumari Gonzalez has won the women's scratch race with a powerful late surge. Second, pending a jury's decision, was Colombian Maria Luisa Calle, with the USA's Rebecca Quinn in bronze. Curtis put in a solid ride to finish in the main pack.
20.09 – Women's scratch race underway
The women's scratch race is now underway. Young rider Katie Curtis is Britain's only rider – making her debut at this level.
19.57 – Pendleton takes Britain's fifth gold!
Victoria Pendleton comfortably saw off Shuang Go of China in the second round of the women's sprint to take Britain's fifth gold of the World Championships.
19.55 – Meares takes bronze in women's sprint
Anna Meares of Australia has taken bronze in the women's sprint, by beating Lisandra Guerra.
Next up is Vicky Pendleton's battle for gold.
19.35 – MacLean beats Edgar to go through to next round
In the quarter finals of the men's sprint, Craig MacLean has beaten fellow-Briton Ross Edgar to go through to the semis. The first of the semis will be on Sunday morning at 10 am local time.
19.25 – Llaneras takes seventh World title
Joan Llaneras has just won the points final for Spain, it's the 38-year-old's seventh World gold. The Spaniard is from Mallorca, was the madison partner for the late Isaac Galvez, who died in a tragic accident in the Ghent Six last winter, and he's being cheered to the rafters in the packed-out velodrome.
18.35 – Points final next
Following several changes of schedule, the organisers have decided that the next event will be the men's points final. Nice of them to make up their minds. Great Britain has nobody in this event after Chris Newton was eliminated this morning.
18.33 – Pendleton takes first round
And it's round one to Victoria Pendleton as she easily outguns her Chinese rival in the women's sprint final Shuang Guo
18.23 – Women's sprint final next
The women's sprint final is coming up next, and Vicky Pendleton could be up for her second gold of this year's World Championships.
18.18 – MacLean wins second round of men's sprint
Craig MacLean has bounced back into the men's sprint by taking the second round against fellow-Briton Ross Edgar. The two now have won one sprint each and a third deciding round will now be necessary.
18.04 -Tsylinskaya takes bronze
Natalia Tsylinskaya takes bronze with a time of 34.430 seconds. Second was Lisandra Guerra of Cuba, and first new world record holder Anna Meares of Australia. Reade finally placed fifth, Blyth eighth.
Next up is the second round of the men's sprint.
18.02 – Meares sets new world record!
Anna Meares of Australia has just beat her own world record, with a time of 33.588 seconds. This is nearly half a second faster than Meares previous best, 33.944 seconds, and with one rider left to go she is sure of taking a medal.
17.59 – Lisandra Guerra clocks best time
Cuban Lisandra Guerra now sets the best time, 34.015. But Anna Meares is next…
17.58 – Simona Krupeckaite of Lithuania pushes Reade out of gold
Krupeckaite has just clocked a time of 34.487 seconds, pushing Read out of gold.
17.49 – Anna Blyth sets third best time
Great Britain's Anna Blyth sets the third best time of the night so far, 34.870 seconds. Just seven riders have yet to start.
17.20 – Shanaze Reade lays down her mark
In her first ever 500m time trial, the 18 year old BMX rider from Crewe goes within a second of the world record, stopping the clock at 34.633 seconds.
17.11 – Edgar beats MacLean
Ross Edgar took the first sprint in the quarter finals against team mate Craig MacLean. Edgar is flying this weekend.


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I wondered when or if anyone in the mainstream media would ever make this rather obvious connection. An unnamed friend of William Kristol is, apparently, the first:
Courtesy of one friend, an old pro, three perhaps overlooked points in the sea of analysis of South Carolina and beyond:
"I notice that everyone's citing all kinds of reasons for S.C.: Romney overconfident, Perry's endorsement, Romney doesn't connect, Barnes's argument that Romney needs a 'big idea.' Lost in all this it seems is one name: Sarah Palin. First time she has expressed herself in the race and her candidate wins by 12. If she really comes out for Newt, look out.
Some endorsements, even informal semi-endorsements, do make a difference. Others, well, not so much. I guess it depends on the credibility of the endorser, no?
Update: (h/t ramorywebb) More on Governor Palin's influence in South Carolina from the HuffPo, of all places:
As former House Speaker Newt Gingrich surged to victory in Saturday's South Carolina primary, there was another clear winner in the Palmetto State: Sarah Palin.
During an appearance Tuesday on Fox News' "Hannity," the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate said that if she were a South Carolinian, she would "vote for Newt." Although it was not a formal endorsement for Gingrich, and she made no campaign stops in support of the former speaker, it may have been an important stamp of approval in a state where 65 percent of primary voters support the Tea Party movement.
Less successful were former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's high-profile endorsers, whose influence was not enough to sway South Carolina voters. Gov. Nikki Haley, who swept into office on a wave of Tea Party support, reportedly shocked her base by backing Romney last month. Exit poll data showed that Tea Party supporters overwhelmingly supported Gingrich in Saturday's primary.
Another Romney supporter, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, has also been a staple at Romney events. Christie, who endorsed Romney in October, was also apparently unable to capture the attention of the state's Tea Party voters. The governor's relatively moderate record has led some to question his ability to court his party's more conservative base should he decide to pursue a presidential candidacy of his own in the future.
Update II: Nice catch from C4P commenter "gwspfan". I see no need to pile on so I'll simply post it without comment:


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Lindsay Wildlife Experience is free and open to the public every third Friday of the month from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Join MCE for an amazing experience as Lindsay opens its doors to the entire community promoting up-close-and personal interactions with animals and wildlife education. All Free Fridays are made possible by generous donations from local businesses and foundations. Stop by MCE's table to grab free swag and learn about your renewable energy options.
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Backdated stuff!
Met up w/ the WLNF gang on 20/Nov/2010 for a shooty at the Singapore Botanical Gardens (SBG).
One of the rare instances where @Papershot joined us for a shoot as well!
It was also when @Shazzsteel came back from AU due to Summer Vacations.
KING – KAZUMA. *Achem* More at Kodo's~
Add: Currently stuck in a hole.
Can't think of what to really type ATM, gotta spam pics.
Shinna ❤
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Still in the midst of my intership.
But well, the leech that saps my life as died – the report. ^^;
Will be posting more backdated stuff in the next few days!
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January 22, 2011 at 11:35 pm
Nice to see some more gorgeous photos by yourself!
And that report seems to be coming along nicely too! How much more is there to go? o:
January 23, 2011 at 2:08 am
What's an "intership"? =3
I want a ship of my own too =3
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Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt – Dallas
TERROR PIGEON DANCE REVOLT are a NYC art punk act, who require crowd interaction at their shows, are coming through Dallas on August 20th.I had them play in Denton in March for one of the NX35 showcases.
at The Nightmare,
$6 adv, $8 dos. local support tba
on sale soon.
UPDATE: KWIK SISTERS from Dallas will open. find them on FACEBOOK.
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Story at-a-glance
- Documentary explores the dangers of genetically engineered (GE) foods, including the adverse economic impact of having our exports refused by countries opting out of GMOs
- 64 countries now require labeling of GE foods; more than 90 percent of Americans favor similar labeling in the U.S.
- HR 1599, which would bar states from implementing GMO labeling, may go to the Senate for a vote as soon as September, so time is running out to set your senators straight; talking points suggested
While no one knows exactly what the effects of consuming pesticide-soaked genetically-engineered (GE) crops will be over time, all of humankind serves as "lab rat" as a few massive corporations profit handsomely from their experiment.
The good news is, although we've lost some battles, we seem to be winning the war.
Awareness about the potential risks of GE foods continues to grow, largely through the publicity generated by state direct ballot initiatives that bypass the legislatures. The latest polls suggest more than 90 percent of Americans now want to know what's in their food.
As a result of increased public awareness, industry has ramped up their efforts to maintain the status quo, pouring exorbitant amounts of money into anti-labeling campaigns in order to control the public, press and government.
Economic Impacts That Are Rarely Discussed
With mounting scientific evidence about the human and environmental costs of GE foods and industrial agriculture, 64 nations now require the labeling of foods containing GE ingredients.1
Many nations have banned GE crops altogether, including parts of the EU, Austria, China, India, Germany, Hungary, Luxembourg, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Italy and Russia.2
With so many rejecting GE foods, major U.S. exports of soy and corn have lost international trade value. One expert estimated $200 to 300 million per year are lost in European exports alone.
With regard to China, U.S. corn exports dropped 85 percent in one year (2013 to 2014), according to the trade association, which bases its estimates on data from export companies.3
In Europe, the GMO tug-of-war continues, as 58 GE foods remain legal for import, with 17 new ones added in April 2015 (maize, cotton, soybean, oilseed rape, sugar beets, and carnations).4Individual EU states are granted the option of opting-out.5
Here in the U.S., industry's greed rages on. Corporate leaders and government officials refuse to heed GMO warnings — even from their own scientists.
Those who sound the alarm are frequently "managed" by means more typically associated with gangsters. They are targeted to be discredited with harassment, ridicule, and tactics best described as "corporate terrorism."
Why GMOs Can Never Be Safe
Genetic modification interferes with the naturally occurring genetic modifications organisms undergo in order to survive.
An organism's genome is not static but fluid, and its biological functions are interconnected with its environment and vice versa. Trying to control genetic changes via artificial modification is a dangerous game.
Compared to natural genetic modification (vertical gene transfer), artificial genetic modification is inherently hazardous because it lacks the precision of the natural process, enabling genes to be transferred between species that would never have been otherwise exchanged.
Artificial genetic modification uses horizontal gene transfer, which involves injecting a gene from one species into a completely different and naturally incompatible species, yielding unexpected and often unpredictable results — including the transfer of foreign genes into humans.
EPA Has Raised Allowed Limits for Carcinogen Levels in Your Food
The claim that GE foods are materially comparable to conventional foods, and therefore inherently safe, falls flat when you consider GE crops are designed to be different.
For example, "Roundup Ready" crops are engineered to withstand the herbicide Roundup, which would normally threaten the survival of the crop if sprayed too liberally.
Moreover, in a 2014 study6 titled "Compositional Differences in Soybeans on the Market: Glyphosate Accumulates in Roundup Ready GM Soybeans," the authors specifically conclude that nutritional and elemental variables "without exception" demonstrate "substantial non-equivalence" between GM soy and non-GM varieties.
With the advent of Roundup Ready crops, use of glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) has significantly risen, with about 1 billion pounds sprayed on crops every year.
Glyphosate's toxicity is well established, with adverse health effects ranging from birth defects to endocrine dysfunction to cancer. Unbelievably, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) admits foods are not tested for glyphosate residues due to the high cost of doing so.7
However, GE crops are much more heavily contaminated with glyphosate than conventional crops by nature of their very design, and this fact alone blows a massive hole in the safety claim.
Glyphosate was recently classified as a Class 2A "probable human carcinogen" by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a division of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Even in the midst of mounting questions about glyphosate's safety, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) raised the allowable limits of glyphosate8 in our food and feed crops back in July 2013. Allowable levels in oilseed crops such as soy were doubled, from 20 ppm to 40 ppm. Permissible glyphosate levels in many other foods were raised to 15 to 25 times previous levels.
Root and tuber vegetables, with the exception of sugar, got one of the largest boosts, with allowable residue limits being raised from 0.2 ppm to 6.0 ppm. The level for sweet potatoes was raised to 3 ppm.
Enough Already — It's Time to Boycott
By now, it should be clear you cannot depend on industry or government to ensure the safety of the foods you eat. You must take matters into your own hands. I invite you to vote with your wallet and join me in boycotting GE foods and other tainted foods, including CAFO meat and dairy as they're typically fed GMO feed and treated with antibiotics and growth-accelerating drugs.
Boycotting contaminated foods might not be as easy as you think, as many foods labeled "natural" are not really natural. Many "mom and pop" companies that started out on the right foot are later swallowed up by big corporations, with concerns over food quality tossed right out the window. True Activist assembled a printable list of nearly 70 food companies owned by Monsanto, which you can download here.9 Other small companies have fallen prey to other corporate buy-outs, such as: 10, 11
- Burt's Bees was bought by Clorox
- Krave Jerky was sold to Hershey
- Naked Juice was purchased by Pepsi
- Odwalla now belongs to Coca-Cola
- Applegate Farms sold out to Hormel
In fact, just 10 corporations control almost every product on grocery store shelves. How many of your products are owned by these ten mega-corporations?
Prevent Your Senator from Voting Yes on HR 1599
HR 1599 is a measure looming ominously over your right to know what's in your food, ironically misnamed the "Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act."
The bill was introduced by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kan) in order to preempt states' rights to enact GMO labeling laws, and specifically prohibit Congress or individual states from requiring mandatory labeling of GMO foods or ingredients. Under this bill, food manufacturers would be allowed to use the word "natural" on products that contain GMOs. HR 1599 is commonly referred to as the "Deny Americans the Right to Know" or DARK Act.
Unfortunately, on July 23, 2015, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 1599 — greased with lots of GMA and biotech money (Grocery Manufacturers Association, aka Junk Food Industry). According to a report12 by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), food and biotechnology companies spent $63.6 million in 2014 to lobby specifically for this kind of anti-labeling legislation. That's nearly three times the amount spent on anti-labeling efforts in 2013.
And not surprisingly, House members who voted to ban GMO labeling received on average three times more money from the agribusiness industry during the 2014 election cycle than those who voted against it.13
Republican dissention in the Senate is our last hope for killing this monstrous bill, which is simply the latest tactic aimed at protecting Monsanto and its minions. It's imperative you contact your senators today, urging them not to support HR 1599. Tell them this bill is an attack on consumer rights and states' rights, and you expect your elected officials to protect you.
You can find your senators' contact information by clicking the button below, or by calling the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121. A phone call has greater impact than an email, but a face-to-face meeting will usually make the strongest impact of all. The Senate went into a month-long recess on August 10, during which time senators often return to their home states. You can find out where they are and set up an appointment by calling the district office.
It's really imperative to concentrate our efforts on our senators right now, and to inform them accurately. They're being deceived by industry lobbyists, and this is our last chance to preserve our right to know what's in our food.
HR 1599 Eliminates States' Rights
In addition to barring states from creating their own GMO labeling requirements, HR 1599 also preempts all state and local regulation of GE crops, and further weakens federal oversight.14 Rather than simply labeling foods containing GE ingredients, the bill calls for the creation of a USDA non-GMO certification program similar to its National Organic Program — essentially shifting all of the costs over to those wanting to declare their foods non-GMO.
This system is as backwards as it gets. If GMOs were labeled as they rightfully should be, there would be no need for GMO-free labeling, which was originally nothing more than a workaround to give consumers what they want — the right to make informed purchasing decisions.
The basic purpose of food labeling is to inform you of what you're buying, its basic ingredients, and additives — rather than what's NOT in the food (unless it relates to a known health risk, such as peanut allergy or gluten intolerance).
Under HR 1599, any food that's not part of a man-made genetic experiment will be forced to declare that it's "normal" on the label, or be assumed to contain GMOs. It's complete nonsense, and the only beneficiaries of such a convoluted system are the biotechnology and processed food industries.
If GE foods were as wonderful as industry claimed, Monsanto and its cohorts would be vociferously in favor of stamping their labels with an official "proof of GMO seal" — it would be free advertising for them! But instead they spend tens of millions of dollars fighting it. The only explanation that makes sense is they have something to hide, and they know consumers are onto them.
Four Talking Points to Review BEFORE Speaking to Your Senator
In order to help you educate your senators about the necessity and appropriateness of labeling GE foods, I devoted the majority of a recent article to HR 1599 talking points. A much more comprehensive discussion of the following four issues can be found in that article, so I recommend your reading it in detail before you meet with your Senator. Very briefly, the four points are the following:
- GMO labeling will NOT increase food costs
- Consumers expect traditional foods — not GMOs — to be the norm, so transgenic foods should carry the label and distinction of being "different"
- Three reasons GMO foods are unsafe (primary contributors to chronic disease, pesticide/herbicide resistance, and antibiotic resistance)
- Several claims made by the GMO industry are false (insecticide-resistant crops have NOT reduced insecticide use; herbicide-producing GE crops have NOT decreased herbicide use; and GE plants have actually created insecticide and herbicide resistance).
watch the video. URL:https://youtu.be/5fEO9UkpkVk


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|File: Capping09-19-13
change the if else block at 517 to:...
change the if else block at 517 to: if map and (teamsize == "BATTLEGROUND" or teamsize == "ARENA") then map = format("%s", map) end getbattlefieldstatus no longer returns arena team sizes, only the string "ARENA"
|File: Capping09-18-13
not sure its been reported, but whe...
not sure its been reported, but when i queued for arena yesterday, i started to see a capping error i dont recall if it persisted in the arena because i unloaded it asap
|File: Dominos05-27-13
the addon isn't showing death knigh...
the addon isn't showing death knight runes for me anymore it used to back on .. before mop i havent played deathknight much since then but i have a level 85 worgen DK im trying to play and i can't get runes to show, i tried switching specs, relogging, relogging off my mount, etc.. doesn't work
|File: AuctionLite12-04-11
searching for any items takes a very long time and the buyout values arent listed
|File: SnowfallKeyPress05-22-11
i think this is built into the latest client now so unneeded .. i think
|File: Mapster05-22-11
battlefield minimap
i also really miss that battlefield minimap feature does anyone know if there is another addon that does that? or does the author plan to bring that feature back eventually?
|File: AuctionLite11-07-10
it just bid on an item past the one...
it just bid on an item past the one i selected.. which was way more gold this error occurs VERY frequently when buying out multiple selections
|File: Mapster10-27-10
the minimap doesnt show colored cla...
the minimap doesnt show colored class dots anymore its only showing the defaults i mean the one that is for battleground and stuff, not the sized down normal map regular map still works (and without garbled icons now)
|File: OhSnap10-15-10
hope you get it working then, reall...
hope you get it working then, really useful addon
|File: Altoholic10-15-10
Originally posted by squall14716...
Originally posted by squall14716 I've had a small issue with this addon for a while now, and I thought it'd be worth mentioning. It probably wouldn't affect many people, but yeah. Anyways: I route all of my WTF folder settings for both of my accounts to the same directory. That means, as far as any addons are concerned, I have a...
|File: AuctionLite10-15-10
mass canceling doesnt work
same as...
mass canceling doesnt work same as with posting it requires hardware event or whatever
|File: AuctionLite10-15-10
i really appreciate the update this is probably my favorite auction addon (theres alot of apples/oranges in this category though)
|File: Aloft Alpha03-28-10
: Aloft-3.0.5-1709-enUS\AloftHealth...
: Aloft-3.0.5-1709-enUS\AloftHealthBar\AloftHealthBarDeficit.lua:136: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'value' (a nil value) Aloft-3.0.5-1709-enUS\AloftHealthBar\AloftHealthBarDeficit.lua:239: in function `?' CallbackHandler-1.0-5 (Ace3):147: in function <...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147>
|File: AudioX II03-27-10
they leave me little choi...
thanks they leave me little choice with some of these annoying sounds ;)
|File: AudioX II03-26-10
is it possible to disable a sound f...
is it possible to disable a sound from playing again? like replace its sound with silence? ive seen another addon that did this, i think it was with the flying machine but id like to disable shaman wolves sounds also, it is SOOO DAMN ANNOYING and totally chaotic sounding and it doesnt shut up for like a minute
|File: Aloft Alpha03-25-10
ive also been getting an error in A...
ive also been getting an error in AloftHealthBarDeficit but the issue with the the healthbar is fixed (i used non-blizz texture for healthbar already) the cast bar is showing the flickering as it casts (flickers between full and its actual %) and im not using a blizz texture for that one.. or at least i set it to x-perl's 8th t...
|File: AuctionLite01-07-10
2 feature requests (1 oddity)
2 feature requests (1 oddity) the oddity ive noticed is: when you do regular scans of certain items (like i do with favorites) sometimes there will be items that are for sale at WAY under the norm but it wont list that as the price on the buy items listing for example say Abyss Crystals usually sell for 37 gold and today seve...
|File: Mapster12-22-09
can you make it so you can scale th...
can you make it so you can scale the player/poi blips on the maps? battlefield minimap, main main and small mainmap? that would be all the functionality i need to replace this old addon: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7960-BattlefieldLocator.html (you can take code from it if you like) between capping and mapster i...
|File: Mapster12-13-09
Point of interest icons not showing up
i noticed in isle of conquest point of interest (POI) icons werent showing up in main map, quest mini map, or battle minimap
|File: X-Perl UnitFrames12-09-09
alot of you are posting bad links...
alot of you are posting bad links heres a higher level listing of the files on that site, it shows a 3.3 release http://www.wowace.com/addons/xperl/files/
|File: Aloft (Beta) Test Alternate09-15-09
When are you going to merge this in...
When are you going to merge this into the other version? this is the most bug free version of aloft ive used for quite a long time ;) great work, and thx
|File: X-Perl UnitFrames09-12-09
how do you turn off the 'without bu...
how do you turn off the 'without buff:' stuff on the tooltips for buffs/debuffs
|File: OhSnap09-09-09
thanks this seems to be a pretty da...
thanks this seems to be a pretty damn nice addon minimal configuration, and gets what i want done i was using afflicted but you could literally spend 2-3 hours configuring it to get it to how i want it (pretty much like yours is) and it kept losing its configuration
|File: Aloft (Beta) Test Alternate09-09-09
ill try it, i was also seeing wrong...
ill try it, i was also seeing wrong colors on neutral critters and lots of players and player pets, and shaman totems -- i just tried it and it seems to be working so far i havent seen a wrong color yet default seems to be red instead of random ;)
|File: Aloft08-26-09
issue with shaman class coloring
ive seen this before but forgot how i fixed it but the class bar coloring isnt working only for shamans theirs will be the default red, some of them when i select them it changes to blue like its set to, but others it doesnt, before selecting them they are always red they are the only class it happens with but also hunter...


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Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke
tells WHO that a full confession – "what happened, why it happened" – was not a condition of Watts' plea deal. "I didn't want some concocted BS story," Rourke says.
In the three months since Shanann's body was discovered on Aug. 16 in a shallow grave – and the bodies of Bella and Celeste in separate oil tanks nearby – on property of Anadarko Petroleum, where Chris worked, investigators pieced together a damning picture of cold and calculated murders by a cheating husband who wanted to start afresh with a new woman.
A 1960-page document made public at Watts' sentencing brimmed with horrifying details of Watts' depravity and double life. Judge Kopcow, a 17-year veteran of the bench, called it "perhaps the most inhumane and vicious crime that I have handled of the thousands of cases that I have seen."
Rourke laid out how in the early hours of Aug. 13, after Shanann got home from a weekend business trip, Watts strangled her to death over the course of two to four minutes. "The horror she felt as the man that she loved wrapped his hands around her throat and choked the life out of her must have been unimaginable," Rourke told the court as Shanann's parents and brother, Frankie Jr, wept. As for the girls, they were smothered. "Bella fought back for her life," Rourke explained, describing lacerations that showed the girl bit her tongue "multiple times" as, according to an autopsy report, she "struggled to get away".
Watts' text messages show that he had prearranged to be alone at a rural Anadarko work site that morning and a neighbour's security camera showed Watts backing his truck into the driveway and then walking from the house to the truck three times – "one time for each of their bodies", Rourke said.
At the site, Watts shoved his daughters' bodies through 20cm hatches of separate oil tanks and later told investigators "that Bella's tank seemed emptier than Cece's because of the sound the splashes made".
That morning, phone records show, Watts called the girls' school to un-enrol them, called a realtor about selling their home, "texted with his girlfriend about their future" and googled for getaway holiday deals. Only after Shanann's friends were unable to reach her and alerted police did he put on a public show, pleading in tearful TV interviews on Aug. 14 for his family's return, saying he couldn't wait for his daughters to hug him.
But behind doors, he "giggled" when he told police he had nothing to do with their disappearance, according to the police report.
The girlfriend, Nichol Kessinger, 30, a co-worker at Anadarko, told The Denver Post when she and Chris started dating in June – less than two months before the murders – he told her he was in the final stages of divorce. She discovered that was a lie – and went to police on Aug. 15 – after seeing the missing- person news on Aug. 14. "We had just met," she told The Post. "I barely knew him."
The texts on Kessinger's, Shanann's and Chris' phones show a marriage in crisis just as the new relationship began – while Shanann and the girls spent five weeks with her parents in North Carolina. Texting a friend on Aug.7, after she and the girls returned home to Colorado, Shanann wrote: "He has changed. I don't know who he is ... He hasn't touched me all week, kissed me."
The Watts house now sits dark, lifeless. "It felt like there was a lot of love in there.
Now, it's eerie," says neighbour Kelley Trippy. "I thought Chris was such a good dad. But I guess everybody has a mask that they put on."
Watts admitted to the murders, Rourke says, to avoid a death sentence. "He made the only move he could," says a law enforcement source. "If a jury had seen the autopsy photos of those girls, they would have wanted to bury him themselves." A source close to Watts says the guilty plea has left him "at more peace".
Says the source, "That doesn't mean he's happy. He's going to think about what he did every day for the rest of his life; he is in hell."
This may be the only comfort the Rzuceks have left. "I pray that you never have a moment's peace or a good night's rest in the cage you'll spend every day of your life in," Shanann's brother Frankie told Watts at sentencing. His father Frank added, chillingly, "And one other thing – Shanann says she is super excited for justice today."


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Cedar planked salmon with celeriac and apple remoulade
People who normally loathe salmon fall in love with this dish. Film stars have swooned over it, with one even seizing the serving plate and rushing around to offer some to other diners! Buy the cedar planks from a timber merchant and tell them how you want the wood cut up. I reckon the amount of cedar I've bought in the past 10 years would be enough to build a rather nice, but small cottage. The only caveat? You need to cook this recipe on a barbecue.
|1 to taste
|Sea salt
|400 g
|Boneless salmon fillets
|1 tsp
|Brown sugar
|1 tsp
|Mustard powder
|50 g
|1 Tbsp
|Lemon juice
|2 Tbsp
- For this recipe you need 4 pieces of dressed untreated cedar plank, 14cm x 7cm too cook the salmon on.
- Lightly sprinkle some sea salt over the pieces of cedar. Place a piece of salmon on top of each one, trimming the fillets if necessary to fit the planks.
- Check the fish for small bones, then use small pliers or tweezers to gently remove them. Lightly season the salmon with sea salt.
- It is important to do the next step in order. First, rub the soft brown sugar onto the top of the fillet, and then sieve the mustard powder over it.
- It doesn't matter if any sugar or mustard powder ends up on the wood, as they will caramelise around the salmon and become part of the delicious juices.
- Place the planks on top of the grill bars of the barbecue and cover them with an upturned metal container.
- I use an old roasting pan. The wood need only smoulder and not burst into flames. Check the salmon after 5 minutes.
- It is cooked when small white beads of cooked protein form on the outside.
- Melt the butter and mix with a squeeze of lemon juice and the chopped chives (or fresh thyme leaves).
- When the fish is ready to serve, pour some of this mixture over the top.


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Welcome to the our Addition Word Problems 2nd Grade.
Here you will find our selection of free addition word problems to help your child learn and practice solving addition problems with numbers up to 150.
Addition is a process which children learn quite naturally as soon as they learn to start counting. During kindergarten and first grade, adding piles of objects together is really important and reinforces childrens understanding of place value and 1:1 correspondence.
Later on, when children are confident adding piles of objects together, they can progress on to number lines or counting on in their heads. When children have understood this, they can begin to learn their addition facts and progress on to column addition.
During 2nd grade, children should be learning the following mental addition skills:
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Each sheet consists of adding two or three numbers with a total of up to 50, 100 or 150.
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The sheets in this section are for children at the beginning of 2nd grade. They involve the skill of adding numbers up to 12+12.
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All the sheets in this section will help your child to develop their speed and accuracy at adding.
This section involves using place value and addition to add either 1, 10 or 100 from any 2 or 3 digit number.
This skill is very important to establish at this grade, as it is a foundation building block from which many other math skills are built.
Using these sheets will help your child to:
Using these sheets will help to develop your child's understanding of place value to 1000.
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The Nashville Sports Council has announced the nominees for its 16th Annual Pepsi Celebration of Champions presented by Kroger.
The event, scheduled for Feb. 26 at the Grand Ole Opry House, honors outstanding achievements in high school, collegiate, and professional sports by Middle Tennessee individuals, teams, and organizations, as voted on by the Nashville sports media and the Nashville Sports Council membership. The public can cast votes for the Sports Person of the Year award by visiting NashvilleSports.com.
The nominees:
• Sports Person of the Year: Rick Byrd, Belmont basketball; Tim Corbin, Vanderbilt baseball; Kermit Davis, MTSU basketball; Johnny Hellweg, Nashville Sounds; Rod Reed, TSU football.
• Ed Temple Male Amateur Athletics: Kevin Byard, MTSU football; Ian Clark, Belmont basketball; Daniel Fitzpatrick, TSU football; Tony Kemp, Vanderbilt baseball; Jordan Matthews, Vanderbilt football.
• Ed Temple Female Amateur Athletics: Tiffany Clarke, Vanderbilt basketball; Jordan Coleman, Belmont basketball; Lauren de Castro, Austin Peay softball; Robyn Renslow, Vanderbilt bowling; Ebony Rowe, MTSU basketball.
• High School Male Athletics: Brock Baker, Oakland track and field; Corn Elder, Ensworth basketball; Josh Malone, Station Camp football; Jalen Ramsey, Brentwood Academy track and field; Justus Sheffield, Tullahoma baseball.
• High School Female Athletics: Barbara Lee Ball, Lipscomb Academy track and field; Bailee Dean, Cane Ridge cross country; Olivia Jones, Riverdale basketball; Alexa Middleton, Riverdale basketball; Derica Wyatt, Franklin Road Academy basketball.
• High School Male Team Athletics: Christ Presbyterian Academy basketball; Ensworth football; Ensworth basketball, Franklin soccer; Murfreesboro Central Magnet cross country.
• High School Female Team Athletics: Brentwood volleyball; Christ Presbyterian Academy basketball; Goodpasture volleyball; Riverdale basketball; Smyrna softball.
• Sergeant York Trophy: Awarded to the winner of the quadrangular season football series between the four OVC schools located in Tennessee: Austin Peay, UT Martin, TSU and Tennessee Tech. TSU is this year's winner.
In addition, the Fred Russell Lifetime Achievement, Community Spirit, Nashville Sports Council Volunteer of the Year, and the Kaia Jergenson Courage Award will be presented at the event. The Nashville Sports Council will also award the Brandt and Mandy Snedeker Foundation Scholarships to two deserving male and two female high school student-athletes who excel in the classroom as well as in their respective sport.
The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a silent auction and backstage reception. The awards presentation begins at 7 p.m. Individual tickets and sponsorships are available. Individual tickets for non-Nashville Sports Council members are $100, which includes an invitation to a backstage reception, a Bronze level membership to the Nashville Sports Council, and a commemorative gift.
General admission seating is available for $10 per ticket. For more ticket and event information, please visit NashvilleSports.com or contact the Nashville Sports Council at 743-3120.
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For years Marie Bachmann thought of herself as the "good" daughter. She was the most loving to their mother, the most dedicated to their Amish way of life. But when a Mennonite farmhand, Gordon Martin, shows interest in her she can't help but be flattered--until her mother sends her off to Florida. While there, Marie begins spending time with bad-boy Eli Jacob, the bishop's son from back home. When Gordon shows up in Florida to volunteer in a homeless shelter, her life becomes even more complicated. At the same time her aunt begins telling her of a Civil War-era ancestor and the woman's uncommon bravery . . . a story that begins to work at Marie's heart. Marie hopes returning home may simplify life, but Eli soon follows. As Marie grapples with whether she should court Eli or leave the church for Gordon, the story of Annie Bachmann shines a light on what God has for Marie's future.
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Texas to get $1.4M of Toyota payment
Texas will receive $1.4 million of a $29 million settlement reached between it and 27 other states and Toyota Motor Corp. over sudden acceleration problems in certain Toyota and Lexus models.
Announced Thursday by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, the agreement with the Japanese automaker and its North American subsidiaries closes a multistate investigation into whether Toyota concealed safety issues related to the unintended acceleration. In their lawsuit, state attorneys general accused Toyota of failing to notify customers promptly about the problems.
Their investigation partly blamed poor communication between Toyota in Japan and its U.S. units, prompting the company to promise it will improve communications and give its U.S. executives more decision-making power.
"Resolving this inquiry is another step we are taking to turn the page on legacy issues from Toyota's past recalls in a way that benefits our customers," said Christopher Reynolds, group vice president and general counsel for Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. , in a statement.
Toyota agreed to pay $1.14 million in civil penalties and $217,000 in attorneys' fees to the state of Texas, according to a news release. Also, the settlement requires the company to set aside at least $5 million for a restitution fund to reimburse customers for out out-of-pocket expenses, such as rental cars and taxi fees, that stemmed from Toyota's recalls in 2009 and 2010, according to the news release.
Toyota Motor Corp. has blamed sticky gas pedals, faulty floor mats and driver error for the unintended acceleration. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and NASA have both investigated and agreed with Toyota that electronics weren't causing the problem.
Toyota has paid more than $1 billion to settle claims related to the recalls, including a record $17.4 million fine to the U.S. government for failing to quickly report safety problems.
The agreement announced Thursday requires Toyota to provide more vehicle information online and expand its rapid-response teams, which respond within 24 hours to safety issues that are reported by customers. The teams draw from a group of 200 technical experts located across Toyotas' North American operations.
The settlement also prohibits Toyota from reselling any of the recalled vehicles it acquired unless it provides notice of their potential defects.
The company cannot designate any used vehicle acquired under the recall as "Toyota certified" or misrepresent the purpose of a dealer inspection or repair when directing owners to bring their vehicles to the dealer.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.