Here's how to download and install Cinema APK for FireStick or Fire TV devices. Cinema APK is also known as HDMovies(New).
Cinema APK is one of the newer apps you can use to watch the on-demand content. By on-demand content I mean movies and TV shows. This app has a very good collection of on-demand media. You will find all the movies and TV show episodes you expect to find anywhere else. Cinema APK for Firestick is remote-friendly and hence it works really well on your FireStick too.
Terrarium TV was the most popular on-demand app. But, a few weeks ago the developers said they were shutting down the app for good. This is the reason why we started to look for some good alternatives. Thankfully, I found Cinema APK that does not let me miss Terrarium TV. I am confident that you will like this app too. In this guide, I show you how to install Cinema APK for FireStick.
Before going to install this app on your Firestick device, make sure, your device is compatible with this app.
Even though Cinema APK is an Android app, it works just fine on FireStick. The reason is that it is designed to be remote-friendly. In fact, that makes it compatible with Android TV and Android boxes as well.
Cinema APK is supported on all the Fire devices including FireStick, Fire TV and Fire TV Cube.
All you need to do is find the right APK file for the app. We will give you the link to the original APK in this guide.
I will now take you through the installation process of Cinema APK on FireStick.
Go to the FireStick home-screen.
Select the search function on the top-left on the menu bar using your FireStick remote.
Type in the name of the app (that is, 'Downloader').
Select the app in the search results.
Follow the on-screen instructions to download and install Downloader on FireStick.
Again, go to the FireStick home-screen.
This time, from the menu on the top, select Settings using your FireStick remote.
Now, go to Device and click it.
Now, if Apps from Unknown Sources option is off, click it and turn it ON.
Click Turn ON when the prompt appears on the next screen.
Open the Downloader app that you just installed (if you don't see the app on the home-screen, go to the Your Apps & Channels by long pressing the Home button the Amazon FireStick remote. Select Apps on the next screen).
Now, click Home tab on the top on the left on Downloader.
On the right side, click the URL field.
Enter the following URL using the onscreen keyboard: alltechriver.com/hdmovies-cinema-apk.
Click GO. This will download Cinema APK on FireStick.
Wait for the Cinema APK download to complete.
Now, click INSTALL on the bottom right of the next screen.
App Installed message will appear.
Click OPEN button and run the app.
To run the app later, click DONE button. Cinema APK for Firestick is installed successfully.
You can always run the app from the Your Apps & Channels any time you want to.
Now you can see Cinema APK along with other apps on Firestick device apps menu. Go ahead and click on the app to launch it. You can find thousands of movies on the home screen itself. Read the following usage manual for better understanding.
Using Cinema APK is very easy on Fire TV or Firestick devices . It is a user-friendly app. When you open the app for the first time, if it asks you to install a newer version, go ahead and get the latest version.
The home-screen of the app is quite simple. The major part of the home-screen shows the content list. There is only a small bar aligned to the top with the options.
By default, the home-screen of the app shows the featured movies. To watch TV shows, click the Menu icon on the top left (three horizontal lines) and select TV Shows option. If you want to switch to the movies again, click Movies in the menu again.
To sort the content by genre or categories on Cinema APK for Firestick app, you can click the small triangle next to the menu icon. This triangle is inverted and when clicked shows the list of categories like Popular, Latest Update, Action, Top rated, View Count, Documentary, Family, etc.
If you are looking for something in particular, you can open the search option on the far top-right of the screen. You can type in the name of the movie, TV show, actor etc and find the content.
So, here we are with the Cinema APK app installation method. Just follow each part carefully and you shall have this app in no time. Cinema APK is a small-sized app and hence it is easy on your FireStick. This app is fully compatible with your FireStick. Cinema APK for Firestick has all the on-demand videos and shows you could ask. Go ahead and give it a try at least once.
Can this be downloaded on the newest version of a FireStick that was released Oct 31 2018???


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#NoDAPL marches and other protests set for DC, LA and NYC this weekend
By Sarah A. Harvard
On Friday, activists across the country will begin protesting and rallying in Washington, D.C., to "demand that indigenous rights be respected" over the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation.
Other activists will also be marching and rallying for and against other causes in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and New York City.
Here's what is happening this weekend:
#NoDAPL #NoKXL National March
Trump is taking away the peoples victories against these deadly pipelines!
Native Nations Rise: Rise With Standing Rock
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and indigenous grassroots leaders call on our allies across the United States and around the world to peacefully March on Washington, D.C.
No Nazis in D.C.: Protest Richard Spencer's Neo-Nazi Think Tank
"Alt-right" Neo Nazi Richard Spencer recently opened an office of his white supremacist think tank the National Policy Institute in Alexandria, Virginia. We will rally together to show these nazis that they are NOT welcome in our community, that their perverted, violent racist ideology has no place in our society and that they should prepare to meet coordinated, powerful peaceful resistance should they try to operate in Washington, D.C.
District of Love March
Join us on Saturday, March 11, as we march and celebrate with local artists, musicians and community members to celebrate our diverse neighborhoods. Featuring musical acts Elena y Los Fulanos, Lilo, Ethiopian Dance and many more!
Concerned Citizens For LGBT Safety and Rights
The LGBT community is very vulnerable right now. This march is to rally behind the community and promote safety for the LGBT community, as well as promote preservation of the right to live a happy life with dignity. Assembly will be at Lafayette Square right across from the White House off Pennsylvania Avenue between 15th Street, N.W. and 17th Street, N.W. at 10:00 a.m. March will begin promptly at 10:45 up to Logan Circle where a short rally will take place and information pamphlets will be available.
Native Nations March
Idle No More SF Bay and tribal nations in the west are in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and indigenous grassroots leaders who are calling on our allies across the United States and around the world to peacefully march for Native American rights on March 10. We ask that you rise in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of the world whose rights protect Mother Earth for the future generations of all.
Women in Rebellion! To Resist is Justified! Unite to Fight Trump
"Women Rise & Organize" intergenerational and international roundtable at 2 p.m.

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Salt and vinegar potato chips, molten dark chocolate cake, fish and chips, bacon, and stick to your ribs homemade macaroni and cheese. We all give into our cravings. Lucky for me, one of mine happens to be healthy. There aren't many places that make me as happy as a trip to my favorite sushi place in Houston, Aka Sushi.
You will not find better sushi for such a good price anywhere in Houston, let along anywhere in Texas. I grew up in San Francisco, a mecca for fresh fish and great produce, so I think I can say with conviction I've tried my fair share of sushi. Through all my travels, Aka is still at the top of my list.
Upon my first visit, I was eager to try about 20 different rolls on Aka's enormous menu. They're certainly on top of some of the better Japanese fusion trends. I took some recommendations from the welcoming and very informative waiters, and was extremely pleased with all my selections. Ask for Tony and Jay (they are my two pals and know me too well), they will steer you in the right direction. Whether you're the adventurous type, or a beginner sushi lover, they'll be able to help you navigate the multitude of choices.
Here is my number one tip. If there is anything you remember from this post, it has to be this. Ask for a side of their creamy ginger dressing to go along with your sushi. This is essential to enjoying the ultimate sushi experience. It has a smooth, rich consistency and the combination of spicy ginger and tangy vinegar makes a perfect addition to any roll. It's heavenly, pure bliss!
Aka's lunch and happy hour deals are unbeatable. If you get a chance to visit please let me know how you like it and your favorite roll, I'm always looking to try something new!


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HBO Comedy Series "Los Espookys" Cancelled After Two Seasons
December 2, 2022 Meagan Navarro
For two seasons, "Los Espookys" followed the horror-tinged comedic hijinks of friends aiming to turn their love of horror into a profitable business. Despite its critical acclaim, Deadline reports today that the recently aired second season will be the series last.
Created by Fred Armisen, Ana Fabrega, and Julio Torres (HBO comedy special "My Favorite Shapes"), "Los Espookys" debuted in 2019, with season two premiering in September 2022.
The series followed "a group of friends who turn their shared passion for horror into a peculiar business, providing horror to clients who need it, in a dreamy Latin American country where the strange and eerie are just a part of daily life."
"We are thrilled we could deliver the unique and hilarious second season of Los Espookys to viewers finally, more than three years after the series premiere, due to pandemic delays," HBO said in a statement. "We thank Julio, Ana, and Fred for this imaginative and delightfully bizarre world they created. We are not currently planning on a third season, but we would welcome the opportunity to work with this cast and crew in the future."
Torres will remain in business with HBO, as he has a first look deal in place with HBO and HBO Max.
The series' second season followed "leader and gore enthusiast Renaldo (Bernardo Velasco), haunted by the ghost of a beauty pageant queen, while Úrsula (Cassandra Ciangherotti) enlists an old acquaintance to challenge the political status quo. Úrsula's well-meaning sister, Tati (Ana Fabrega), is adjusting to her life as a newlywed while balancing a new gig, and Renaldo's ominous best friend, Andrés (Julio Torres), tries to find his place in the world after appeasing his inner demons (literally). Meanwhile, Uncle Tico (Fred Armisen) is searching for a new purpose after his valet career is derailed."
Season two returning cast also includes recurring stars José Pablo Minor as Juan Carlos, River L. Ramirez as Sonia, Giannina Fruttero as Beatriz, Carmen Gloria Bresky as Mayor Teresa Lobos, Eudora Peterson as Krissy, and guest stars Greta Titelman as Ambassador Melanie Gibbons, Spike Einbinder as Sombra Del Agua (Water's Shadow), and Sam Taggart as JJ. The new recurring cast includes Martine Gutierrez as Karina and guest stars Kim Petras, Isabella Rosellini, and Yalitza Aparicio.
The series is executive produced by Lorne Michaels, Fred Armisen, Ana Fabrega, and Julio Torres, along with Broadway Video's Andrew Singer and Alice Mathias; co-executive produced by Nate Young; produced by Sharon Lopez and Andy Garland.
Both seasons of "Los Espookys" are currently available to stream on HBO Max.
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Study Claims Video Games Make You Racist
by MaXfReZa | Mar 26, 2014 | Gaming | 0 comments
Study Claims Video Games Make You Racist – Just like TRUMP Wigs Makes You Rich smh. An Ohio State University professor, Brad Busman, tries to convince game fans everywhere that some how gaming makes you racist. If you've played video games long enough, you've probably heard your share of racist comments spewed over multiplayer chat lines. If that makes a gamer racist, that would mean all gamers are racist by now. Keep reading for the full story…
We've talked about Brad Bushman on here before, politely questioning his work in video games. Especially since he claimed that playing twenty minutes of video games a day for three days made you more violent, and claimed video games were like cigarettes. Well, he's back, as part of an academic team, and this time he's claiming that video games make you racist, if they star a Black person!
If you want to know just how disingenuous this study happens to be, read the opening abstract:
The media often link Black characters and violence. This is especially true in video games, in which Black male characters are virtually always violent. This research tested the effects of playing a violent game as a Black (vs. White) avatar on racial stereotypes and aggression.
The first sentence is perhaps reasonable, although there's a lot of cultural attitudes and problems there to examine that the study just completely glosses over, which is important for reasons we'll get to. The second sentence, though, is really something special.
What Black characters? The lack of diversity in video games is an ongoing problem, to the point where a major talk at GDC from Maneer Heir touched on how the video game industry has made zero progress on this issue. You mostly find Black characters in games full of stereotypes or games where the setting is so utterly scrubbed of politics it doesn't matter what you look like in them in the first place, with a handful of exceptions.
This ties back to the first point: There isn't a lot of diversity in video game companies. There's some, but largely what you've got is a white person's perspective on culture and race in a video game. That's neither a good thing nor a bad thing in of itself; a lot depends on how self-aware the development team is and whether they're willing to tackle these issues in a smart way. Many times, the answer to that is unfortunately "not very" and "no."
And if that was what Bushman was saying, we'd be on board. Instead, the team he was a part of came to this conclusion:
Black violent video game avatars not only make players more aggressive than do White avatars, they also reinforce stereotypes that Blacks are violent.
Left out of that statement is player agency. That's the thing: If the player was choosing to play a Black character more violently, it may be reinforcing the stereotype, but that player already walked in believing that Black people were more violent. The problem is not the video game, the problem is that the white guy playing the game could stand to get to know a few non-white people.
In other words, this study suffers from the problem that all video game studies suffer from: A failure to take into account the past and beliefs of the subjects. But, hey, nobody puts you on Fox News for saying "Maybe we should address the deep-seated cultural problems surrounding race in America reflected in our entertainment, instead of blaming our entertainment," right?


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This post is in response to a statement made on the PAII forum indicating that you will have higher Blog PageRank by using a sub-directory blog such WordPress instead of Google sub-domain Blogger defined with a CNAME.
It is NOT true that having your BLOG posts physically stored on your own domain increases your Blog Page Rank. If it were true, then you would see your inbound links to your blog and your inbound links to your main web site match, when using the LINK: command in a Google search and we will prove below this is Absolutely NOT THE CASE.
Acorn encourages ALL INNKEEPERS to learn the basics of internet marketing (Blog or Website) so in an effort to help cover these blog topics we are opening up our "School of Blog" Webinar on July 7th for any Innkeeper who wants to better understand blogging, and the topic of Page Rank in relation to your blog. Please join us. We will cover the following Page Rank information in depth at that time.
Page Rank is nothing more than an mathematical formula that determines your site's popularity based on links (IE: Votes) that include Incoming, Outgoing, Internal, etc. and how their value contributes to your site's rank.
When you check your page rank you can choose any tool – but we like the first one, because it lets you check more than 1 URL at a time.
Remember to make sure to check both your website address and your blog address for respective page ranks.
Though there are many Page Rank Explanations on the web, this site link is pretty easy to understand.
Let's use an example Jeff Logan provided on the PAII Forum to prove this.
Look at each result as counted by Google as (a link/vote) for the johnfcraig.com WEBSITE. Remember this command is looking at the incoming WEBSITE links, not the incoming BLOG links – we'll cover that next.
It is important to note that the 13 links/votes that are counted for the WEBSITE are NOT included in the 29 links counted for the BLOG.
So, if having your BLOG stored on the same directory as your WEBSITE really did "Naturally" help your BLOG Popularity then why doesn't Google's LINK: command show these links cross-referencing between the blog and the website?
DO NOTICE that the majority of the www.johnfcraig.com/blog popularity links are coming from Jeff's own innsideout.com/blog pages.
Not that this is a bad thing, to drive up page rank you need to have quality links to the BLOG created and chosen by Google.
BUT DO NOTE THAT THIS is a major contributing factor as to why the johnfcraig.com/blog Page Rank is at a 4 matching the same Page Rank as the website. NOT because they have their blog stored on the same machine in a Sub-Directory using Word Press.
You simply need to have more quality links to your blog.
I did a case study on close to 50 innkeepers who either use Google CNAME blogs (blog.url.com) or WordPress Blogs (url.com/blog) to prove the concept above.
In most cases, in both Google CNAME and WordPress BLOGS, the customer's website typically ranked 1 Page Rank higher than their blog.
I found 3 out of 21 WordPress Blogs where the Page Rank to the Website and the Page Rank to the Blog were exactly the same at 4.
I found 2 out 24 Google CNAME Blogger Blogs where the Page Rank to the Website and the Page Rank to the Blog were exactly the same at 4.
The majority of the remaining inn blogs (both WordPress and Google CName Blogs) typically had the Website Page Rank 1 higher than the Blog Page Rank.
Want to see the all the findings? Click Here.
Finally, another topic also mentioned on the PAII forum.
You may have noticed Jay Karen's PAII Innkeeping Blog move from a page rank of 3 to a 5.
(I cannot verify the 3, because I never checked this before Jay changed platforms) But this IS NOT because Jay moved platforms from Google Blogspot to WordPress.
Jay's old Innkeeping blog was on Blogspot. I had recommended he set a CNAME multiple times, but he never did.
There were 54 posts on the old Blogspot blog, with 0 popularity links.
On the new WordPress Blog (with a URL / not a Sub-directory) the new PAII Blog is counting 126 posts, with 19 popularity links.
It wasn't because Jay moved to WordPress that made his Page Rank jump, it was because the new blog now has actual links/votes pointing to it that Google counts thus increasing it's Page Rank.
This is not unusual to see.
In less than 30 days Google took the new blog.bedandbreakfastfoodie.com BLOG (never been online before) from a 0 page rank to a page rank of 3. A bigger jump by 1 than Jay's Innkeeping Blog.
And remember, this was a never before released site, where the blog posts are created with Google Blogger using a CNAME.
To wrap up: Page Rank and a specific platform such as WordPress or Google Blogger are not inherently related. It's all about the incoming quality links as I've proven above.
When reviewing the Inn Blogs in the spreadsheet, remember, many customers have built these themselves. This discussion is all about the SEO, Page Rank and Data, and not the look and feel. That discussion is for another time.
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Friday the 13th: Is it really the unluckiest day of the year?
By Orlando Crowcroft
Updated November 13, 2015 12:47 GMT
On 13 October 1989, the Dow Jones Index dropped 190.58 points – almost 7% - in the second-worst crash the US exchange had ever seen after a buyout of United Airlines fell through. It was Friday 13th and across America, those superstitious souls that would not dream of leaving the house – let alone structuring a multi-billion dollar business deal – would have muttered a collective "I told you so".
It is likely, of course, that the crash was a coincidence. Just like it was probably a coincidence eight months earlier on 13 January 1989, when a virus infected hundreds of IBM computers across Britain, wiping out program files and causing panic at a time when large-scale computer viruses were a relatively new phenomenon. That did not stop the attack being quickly dubbed the Friday the 13th Virus.
There are a number of theories about the origins of bad omens associated with Friday 13th. Judas was the 13th guest at the Last Supper and Jesus was executed on a Friday. In Norse legend, Loki was the 13th guest at a dinner party at which he arranged the murder of Balder the Beautiful and plunged the Earth into darkness and chaos. In the medieval era, on 13 October 1307, Philip IV of France arrested hundreds of Knights Templar.
I have had phone calls late at night from people who say: \'I am afraid to go to work in the morning\'. I am just flabbergasted
- Margaret Downey
The origin of unlucky 13, however, likely comes from the fact that 12 has always been an important number: there are 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 months in a year, 12 gods of Olympus and 12 tribes of Israel. Where the number 12 signifies completeness, the number 13 is disorderly, chaotic and unpredictable. The association of the number with Friday and bad luck has only been reinforced in the modern era by the Friday 13th slasher movie franchise.
But for some, fear of Friday 13th – known as friggatriskaidekaphobia – is no joke. Various studies of varying credibility put the cost of friggatriskaidekaphobia at up to $900bn as superstitious individuals shun air travel, the financial markets or even going to work at all. Hotels often avoid the number 13 when assigning room numbers. A 2004 survey suggested as many as 21 million people suffer from the fear of Friday 13th.
In 2013, a survey by Travelodge found 72% of people claimed to have experienced bad luck on Friday 13th, while a third of adults are so fearful that they will change travel plans, reschedule important meetings and if possible, will stay at home. It said as many as 60% of Britons also suffer from "triskaidekaphobia" - the fear of the number 13, believing it is the harbinger of bad luck.
Margaret Downey, who runs the known as Friggatriskaidekaphobia Treatment Center in Pennsylvania, has first-hand experience of dealing with the condition. Her centre, which runs courses that help people deal with phobias ranging from black cats to walking under ladders, holds parties on Friday 13th every year where she distributes literature, holds seminars and persuade people that the fear is utterly irrational.
"I have had phone calls late at night from people who say: 'I am afraid to go to work in the morning.' I am just flabbergasted. They seem so desperate and I am amazed. I send them to get professional help," she told IBTimes UK over the phone from Pennsylvania. "I feel very sorry for them."
Margaret Downey\'s centre helps with other superstitions including that black cats are unlucky istock
Downey stresses her character as a nurse is only that: a character. Her events are part of a wider effort to persuade people not to be superstitious – whether that is debunking a fear of black cats, to challenging religious beliefs, or lobbying to ensure the separation of church and state. She sees superstition such as Friday 13th as an effort by individuals to impose order on a chaotic world.
"Nature has conflict and superstitions are a way of trying to control of your environment. People turn to horoscopes because they want easy answers as to how to go about their day. We are against that – people need to adjust to these circumstances that surround them. It is nonsense to wake up and try and consult with something that is false," she said.
That said, she admits she has suffered bad luck on Friday 13th. A couple of years ago on her way to an event, she closed the boot of her SUV too fast and ended up with a huge gash in her forehead. Driving to the party, where she was due to give a speech, she reflected on the irony – but felt that, if anything, it only strengthened her case.
Downey said: "I explained that this happened to me and it didn't make me superstitious, it made me be more careful when I close my car doors."
More about Friday 13th
Friday 13th 2015: Space junk will crash back to Earth – but it\'s no bad omen
Apollo space debris to crash into Earth on November Friday 13th: \'A lost piece of history back to haunt us\'
Friday the 13th: Superstitions behind the unlucky day
Halloween 2014 on Friday the 13th for First Time in 666 Years Declared a Hoax
This article was first published on November 12, 2015


Oil prices tumbled more than 5 percent on Tuesday in heavy trade due to fears of oversupply and deteriorating demand, extending a selloff that has taken major crude benchmarks down more than 30 percent from an October peak.
U.S. crude and global benchmark Brent both extended declines in post-settlement trade after trade group The American Petroleum Institute said U.S. inventories unexpectedly climbed in the latest week.
U.S. crude stocks rose by 3.5 million barrels in the week to Dec. 14 to 441.3 million, API said, compared with analysts' expectations for a decrease of 2.4 million barrels. If that build is confirmed by U.S. government data Wednesday, it will be the first increase in three weeks.


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University > Research portal > Research publications > GAPLex: Generalised Static Symmetry Breaking
GAPLex: Generalised Static Symmetry Breaking
C A Jefferson, Thomas William Kelsey, Stephen Alexander Linton, K E Petrie
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra
We describe a novel algorithm that statically breaks symmetry in CSPs by using computational group theory during search. This algorithm extends and generalises the commonly used double lex method for breaking symmetry in matrices. We showthat our new symmetry breaking method, GAPLex, is sound (will neither lose solutions nor return incorrect solutions) and complete (will return exactly one member from each class of symmetrically equivalent solutions). We demonstrate that our implementation of GAPLex is competitive with other methods, being effectively applicable to CSPs with large domains and less than full variable and/or value symmetry. We also describe how GAPLex can be combined with incomplete symmetry breaking methods such as double-lex to provide fast and complete symmetry breaking. We believe this to be the rst method that successfully combines the posting of symmetry breaking constraints before search, with symmetry breaking by analysis of search states.
SymCon'06: The Sixth International Workshop on Symmetry and Constraint Satisfaction Problems - Nantes, France
Duration: 25 Sep 2006 → …
SymCon'06: The Sixth International Workshop on Symmetry and Constraint Satisfaction Problems
Towards the calculation of Casimir forces for inhomogeneous planar media
Xiong, C., Kelsey, T., Linton, S. A. & Leonhardt, U., 1 Oct 2014, Computer Mathematics: 9th Asian Symposium (ASCM2009), Fukuoka, December 2009, 10th Asian Symposium (ASCM2012), Beijing, October 2012, Contributed Papers and Invited Talks. Feng, R., Lee, W. & Sato, Y. (eds.). Springer, p. 171-180
Qualitative modelling via constraint programming
Kelsey, T., Kotthoff, L., Jefferson, C. A., Linton, S. A., Miguel, I. J., Nightingale, P. & Gent, I. P., Apr 2014, In: Constraints. 19, 2, p. 163-173
Casimir forces for inhomogeneous planar media
Xiong, C., Kelsey, T., Linton, S. A. & Leonhardt, U., 25 Jan 2013, Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 1 ed. Vol. 401. 6 p. (Journal of Physics: Conference Series; vol. 410, no. 1).
Diagnostic and predictive accuracy of anti-Mullerian hormone for ovarian function after chemotherapy in premenopausal women with early breast cancer
Anderson, R. A., Kelsey, T., Perdix, A., Olympios, N., Duhamel, O., Lambertini, M. & Clatot, F., 8 Jan 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. First Online, 10 p.
Ovarian function and fertility preservation for young people treated for cancer
Caprioli, S., Kelsey, T. & Wallace, W. H. B., 1 Jan 2022, Female and male fertility preservation. Grynberg, M. & Patrizio, P. (eds.). Cham: Springer, p. 35-45


Chris Harris joined the RestoringVision Board of Directors in 2009.
Chris is Managing Director at FFL, a private equity firm that invests in middle-market companies. He joined FFL in 2008.
Prior to joining FFL, Chris was an Associate at Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm. Prior to that, Chris worked at Bain & Company as an Associate Consultant and co-founded CampRegister.com, a SaaS business providing software solutions for registration based organizations.
In addition to the RestoringVision Board, Chris currently serves on the Board of Directors of EyeMart Express and Strategic Investment Group.
He graduated with distinction from Stanford University with a B.S. degree in Management Science & Engineering and earned an M.B.A degree from Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller and a Siebel Scholar.


By W. H. Luyties, editor OWOE. Recently, OWOE initiated a series of blogs to take a closer look into the key US government actions to promote fossil fuels. Since the 2016 election, one lightening rod topic has been the push to increase coal and oil production in the US. This has energized both proponents of fossil fuels, who see an opportunity to possibly save their industries (coal) or increase production (petroleum), and opponents, who fear the environmental consequences of such a change. But is this a real threat to the global move away from fossil fuels, or is it simply rhetoric to energize a political base?
Our first blog on the subject in March addressed coal. Our conclusion was that coal power is in a downward spiral, and saving the coal industry is rhetoric. As further proof, there have been several notable news announcements since our blog. For instance, energy consultant Navigant issued their updated projection of coal plant retirements at 73 GW in the next decade, which is more than twice what was expected last year. They stated that ""the fundamentals of the economics of coal have gotten worse…""As an example of this, in August the Colorado Public Utilities Commission approved Xcel Energy's plan to replace coal-fired units at its Comanche Station with a $2.5 billion investment in renewable energy. These plants are being retired at least 10 years earlier than originally planned, even though supporters claim the plants are still efficient and cheap sources of power for ratepayers.
After a brief drop following the oil price collapse in 2014, when the price of oil fell from $115 per barrel to a low of $35, US production surged again as the industry found ways to drill and produce more cheaply. In January 2018 the US produced an average of 10.2 million b/d, the highest in history, and is now close to overtaking Saudi Arabia as the world's second top oil producer, with top producer Russia in its sights.
opening up all offshore federal waters to drilling. In December 2017 the Interior Department announced its proposal to open nearly all U.S. offshore waters to oil and gas drilling. This immediately generated protests from virtually every coastal state, environmentalists and the tourism industry. Subsequently, Interior Secretary Zinke said he would exempt Florida to protect its tourism industry. He has promised to hold discussions with other states that have expressed concerns, but so far nothing has come of that. As a preemptive move, California lawmakers, in a rare bipartisan effort, passed a bill that prohibits the State Lands Commission from approving any new leases for oil facilities, such as pipelines, piers and platforms, in the 3-mile area off the coast controlled by the state. Although this doesn't prevent drilling and production in federal waters, it would drastically restrict the options oil companies have for development.
on the same theme, opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) in Alaska to drilling. In April, Department of Interior officials released a notice that mapped out their first steps toward allowing drilling in ANWR. Environmental groups have promised legal action to block any such drilling.
suspend required increases in vehicle fuel economy after 2020 and unwind California's authority to limit tailpipe greenhouse gas emissions in the state. In August, the Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration jointly proposed to cap fuel economy requirements in 2020 at a fleet average 37 miles per gallon. Under the earlier plan implemented by the Obama Administration, the requirement would have risen gradually to 47 mpg by 2025. California lawmakers and environmental groups have promised to fight the changes, and even automobile makers are concerned that the pending legal battles will cause chaos in the marketplace. While the intent here might seem to be to help the auto industry by reducing the price of cars, one can also see it as a thinly guised attempt to boost demand for gasoline and therefore crude oil.
All of these and others would seem to be pushing the US oil industry ahead aggressively. However, they are running into two economic headwinds – cost and technology. On the cost front, developing oil reserves in frontier regions is very expensive, in particular for the first developments when there is no infrastructure in place. Oil companies are very unlikely to invest billions of dollars trying to find oil in risky frontier regions, and wait up to 10 years to get returns, when they can quickly and easily ramp up shale oil production onshore or extend production in existing offshore fields. Factor in the legal battles that any company would face, and OWOE doesn't believe such frontier developments will ever materialize.
So, is the push for US oil production reality or rhetoric? Probably a little of both. The writing is on the wall that the time of 'peak oil' driven by a reduction in demand for petroleum is coming. However, it is still a ways in the future and both the US and world will need plenty of oil for several decades, at least. And the US has the ability to use its growing oil production capability to influence world geopolitics. But should residents of California or North Carolina or environmentalist worry about offshore drilling? No. Economics dictates that it won't happen. Should environmentalists worry about the US turning back to a country driving gas-guzzling vehicles? No. EVs and other advanced transportation technologies are starting to displace the internal combustion engine in significant numbers, just as those engines replaced horses a century ago.


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Star Wars and Fortnite – a brand partnership that missed the mark?
By Dan McLaren
Saturday 14th December saw one of the most hotly anticipated in-game partnerships in gaming history as Fortnite and Star Wars got together for a new in-game collaboration.
Previous events have been incredibly well received – and memorable – whether it be the rocket launch, Cube explosion, volcano eruption, monster fight and the recent (and epic) destruction of the Fortnite map which led to the killing of the game for a couple of days as they launched the new map.
Epic Games have shown that they are able to introduce brands through highly integrated methods that offer benefits to those in the game and are far removed from straight adverts. We've seen the Marshmello concert, the Batman Dark Knight crossover and even the NBA has got involved with play-off team skins made available. This event however was the most ambitious yet on both a technical level and the marketing that surrounded it.
You can watch what happened during it and read some of the reactions, so we won't go deep into the commentary but what transpired was a level of interest that meant people around the world had difficulty logging in so many ended up watching streams on Twitch and YouTube to make sure they didn't miss it. Then there was the opening sequence involving the Millenium Falcon and TIE Fighters in a dog fight… and it looked stunning.
JJ Abraham had his own skin developed for the event and it was great to hear from the much celebrated director after his dramatic introduction from the belly of the Millenium Falcon. Then there was an 'exclusive' clip shown on an impressive big screen within the game – a technical achievement for which Epic should be congratulated.
The clip however was so brief that you got less than what you would get from watching the trailer. The event started late leaving players waiting to get going on the game and taking people away from what they wanted to do – play!
So, did it live up to the hype? Well no, not really.
When you're looking to activate authentically as a brand, you need to do just that. Placing an oversized advert that forces everyone to stop and watch isn't going to engage with the community as well as you might hope. For all the technical achievements made in delivering the event on such an epic scale, it was undone by the lack of benefit to those watching.
The talk with JJ didn't reveal anything and the clip was so brief that it wasn't worth the wait. It was only when the Millenium Falcon and Star Destroyers departed that fans got what they really wanted – the lightsabers… and the new gameplay mode where they can take on stormtroopers with their new found weapons.
The end result is that the Star Wars franchise could have got so much more from the partnership. In the short term, this could affect them by turning fans away from the Christmas showing of the latest (and last) film. It could however also have long term consequences for the brand if it comes across negatively to such a huge collective of people.
This also affects Epic Games and any future events that may be added into the game. Will players be as hyped for the next event that comes along if they remember the last one in a negative way? This is why partnerships have to be managed carefully and the community has to come first – what is in it for them? How can it add to their experience and rather than take away from it? All questions that need to be addressed from the start to succeed.
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Last week saw the start of the second of the traditional events that kick off the New Year in motorsport. With the Dakar Rally already well underway and the Monte Carlo Rally not until 23rd January, the motorsport world descended on the Autosport International Show at the less-than- glamorous NEC in Birmingham. With four days […]
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Dublin Artist Talks About Graffiti & Re-branding Whiskey
James Earley is a successful Dublin based artist. In this interview he talks about his family ties to art, how he got into the sub-culture of graffiti and why his designs were chosen by Jameson Whiskey.
Cork Street in Dublin was named after the Earl of Cork, Richard Boyle. A man that used to live in Cork House which is now the location of City Hall, that's why there is a tiny bit of street named Cork Hill. During the 17th century the area were Cork Street is located used to be teeming with weavers, you can still see the legacy of that time with certain street names.
Now it is a busy road with a mixture of characterless modern buildings wedged beside more interesting older structures that have carelessly been left to crumble over time. The façade of the street seems morose and in slumber but inside a select few addresses the creativity and industriousness of it's pioneers is still in action.
Artist James Earley's studio is located behind a gated carriage arch. Once through, there is an area of scrub that has been neglected but at the same time it is a wonderful treat to experience a more hidden side of the city. At that angle you can enjoy being encircled by history.
Earley beams with genuine happiness. He strikes an impressive figure, stylish but self conscious. He is incredibly welcoming and has a natural sincerity that is akin to a child. He laughingly admits that he also has a huge sweet tooth as he fixes himself a cup of tea and settles into his small studio past his huge collection of spray paint cans. He is an established graffiti artist as well as a curator and graphic designer but more about that later.
His lineage is steeped in art, his family used to run Earley Studios on Camden Street for over one hundred years. It closed in the 1970's because the Vatican pulled back on spending for overly decorative work in churches such as marble work or stained glass. 'When Earley Studios closed, my granddad was one of the directors and he took a break for a few years. My Grandma got her art into the Royal Hibernan Academy and that spurred him on. They used to live in Rathfarnham and they had two studios in the house where they would work separately. They'd have their breakfast together and then meet up again at lunch time. They'd work throughout the day and then relax together in the evening.'
His father is a retired plastic surgeon who is also, 'an excellent artist with a focus on oil and chalk pastel work.' When asked if his young daughter Ruby will keep the tradition going he smiles broadly and says, 'I've put a pencil in her hand and she started scribbling away! It looked great! I am going to try and work some of her scribbles into some walls later on this year. I'm pretty excited about it!' He cheekily adds, 'she can do whatever she wants, as long as it's art! My wife Sarah, and her family are all involved in theatre. Some of them are in graphic design and music. There's just heaps of creativity there. It'll be interesting if she ends up being a stockbroker!'
Graphic Design & Graffiti
Early started his artistic studies in The National College of Art & Design, after several months he found himself drawn to graphic design. It is a discipline that he is obsessed with, 'there's so many different facets to graphic design. I won't go into it because you'd need a whole other interview!'
It's the systematic approach that tapped a nerve for him as it complimented and enriched his new found zeal for graffiti. It's an interesting marriage because graphic design is orderly as is great graffiti but at the same time graffiti, 'is anarchistic.'
It was when he was a teenager on his train journeys to school that graffiti entered his realm of consciousness. 'I wanted to know more. I knew there was an element of excitement because obviously it's done at night. Then loads of questions swirled in my head. Where do you get the tools to make this happen? How do you manage to paint that large? Do they use household paint to fill it in? Just the usual questions when you found out about a new medium.'
When Earley was a teenager the internet was still not a ubiquitous tool, so he applied some detective work to seek the sub-culture out. He started by looking for the shop that sold the spray cans. 'It was a tiny shop and a guy called Shaggy worked in there. He used to have forty cans of paint and loads of street wear. There were always about ten regulars standing around. It was quite a mixture of testosterone. I was young really shy.'
He soon found the courage to ask them to tell him more about it. As luck would have it one of the artists took him under his wing. 'He brought me out painting at the Project Arts Centre, this is like '96, '97. It actually was a vacant building then. There was a load of hoarding along there so we painted the wall. He was painting this massive piece, and I was painting a piece of turd well away from his wall! It was amateur hour for me but at the same time it was a really exciting experience!'
Once he got his first graphic design job out of college he continued to explore and indulge his love of graffiti. 'I'm a complete workaholic. To be honest, the last half of the time I was working for the agency I would leave the studio at seven, go home and work on stuff until one or two in the morning. Then get up, go back into work, and just do that constantly. I was double jobbing basically for a year and a half. When I actually came to leave, they were really supportive of me setting up my own thing.' He can thank his mothers side of the family for the business acumen he possesses, a trait that has allowed him to work successfully on fulfilling projects.
He is keen to add that his training in graphic design has made him a great graffiti artist, 'my draftsmanship for large walls now is thorough and exact. I take a photo of the walls that I need to work on. If it's a massive commission, like Bloom's Hotel, I will ask for the plans for the building . Then I work up the whole entire design on the computer in Adobe illustrator and then get it signed off.'
Bridges on Bottles
'In recent years now, I've made a conscious decision to try to work within painting large scale works, that is painting commissions with brands.' The most recent brand that he has worked on is Jameson whiskey. 'They got in contact with me and said we've approached a couple of different artists for this project, would you come up with some visual concept for us. The brief was to work up a design that's going to be released around St. Patrick's day that references Dublin and what Dublin means to me. It was a tricky brief.' It was made easier by the fact that Jameson gave him free roam, 'they weren't controlling, it was an absolute breeze.'
What he came up with was an ode to his Dublin heritage. 'It's the connections that people have with each other that are what make Dublin what it is. I started looking for something that would symbolise this idea of connection, but in the format of architecture and the answer was bridges. It parallels that idea of the connections between people. Also it shows the link from the past up to the present and into the future. When you look at the bridges of Dublin, they basically track our architectural past.' The resulting design can be seen on their special edition labels. He pays homage to his stain-glassed lineage too with the visuals. In the video below he explains in more detail the rationale behind the design.
He is genuinely delighted for what he has produced, it is his salute to the city he loves. It has to be said that it also seems a fun coincidence that he has stumbled onto historical and present links to County Cork, Jameson is distilled in Cork.
Iverna
'Iverna is Latin in origin, it means for Ireland,' says Earley as he takes a sip of his tea. It also is the name of a project that he launched before Christmas last year. It's a website the showcases and sells work of Irish artists, 'there's street artists, there's photography, there's illustration, there's graphic design, there's fine art painting, fine art print all within the medium of print and typography.' He is a man that fizzes with appreciate for people that share his love of the arts, 'it's a joy to work on, I'm collaborating with artists I hold in such high regard.'
Sometimes art can be intimidating to people that don't have the background in it that Earley has. It's a trade that is hosted in galleries and spaces that a lot of the people would not seek out. Earley's art is exactly like his personality, approachable, fun, thoughtful and warm. It's not a form of exhibitionism for him to gravitate towards graffiti or re-designing Jameson bottles, or in other words creating free public art. He simply is consumed with the love and positivity that it gives him that it just spills over for others to be entertained by which is a wonderful gift for all.
You can check out James' on Iverna here.
Ahead of their St. Patrick's Day 2016 celebrations, Jameson has unveiled an exclusive limited edition bottle created by Dublin street artist, James Earley. Available in Ireland RRP €29.95 + globally.
Annie L.
March 2016 in Crafts, Food & Drink
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Testing/Diagnostics
Jan 14, 2007 | Bioreactors, Cancer, Kidney Disease, Miscellaneous |
Anti-Prostate Specific Antigen
AVAILABLE CONCENTRATED AND AS A REAGENT
BioGenex, San Ramon, Calif, polyclonal anti-Prostate Specific Antigen antibody is designed for the specific localization of Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue sections that are used in IHC applications. PSA is a glycoprotein with a molecular mass of 33 to 34 kD and is biochemically and immunologically distinct from prostatic acid phosphatase. It is restricted to the cytoplasm of acinar and ductal epithelia of normal, benign or malignant prostate tissue. Furthermore, PSA from prostatic cancers has been shown to be immunologically and biochemically similar to that of normal prostate tissue. Elevated serum PSA levels have become an important marker of prostate pathologies, which include benign prostatic hyperpalsia, prostatitis, and especially prostate cancer.
BioGenex offers anti-Prostate Specific Antigen antibody in concentrated form and as a ready-to-use reagent for manual use. The antibody is designed for use with the BioGenex Super Sensitive Ready-to-Use Detection Systems.
BioGenex
(800) 421-4149; www.biogenex.com
Oral Drug Screen
ONE-STEP TESTS FOR SIX SUBSTANCES
Branan Medical Corp, Irvine, Calif, has launched the Oratect III Oral Fluid Drug Screen Device. The test results are stable up to 30 minutes and is a one-step procedure for the accurate detection of six drugs of abuse in oral fluids, including marijuana (THC), amphetamine, methamphetamine/ecstasy, cocaine, opiates, and either PCP or benzodiazepines. Collection and testing entail swabbing the collection pad inside the mouth until blue lines in the test panels start to flow, indicating a sufficient amount of saliva has been collected. The presence of a red line corresponding to a specific drug on the panel indicates a negative result, while the absence of a red line indicates a presumptive positive result. Presumptive positive results are confirmed by sending the device's collection pad in an included vial to a SAMHSA laboratory.
Branan Medical Corp
(866) 468-3287; www.brananmedical.com
Serum-free, Animal Origin-free Culture Medium
OPTIMIZED FOR LARGE-SCALE SUSPENSION
Invitrogen Corp has announced the availability of its Protein Expression Medium. This serum-free, animal origin-free culture medium is specifically developed for the efficient production of recombinant proteins in PER.C6® cells. This media supports the adaptation, growth, and expansion of transfected PER.C6 human embryonic retinoblast cells for large-scale, high-density suspension culture in shake flasks, roller bottles, and bioreactors. This medium also supports parental PER.C6, HEK 293, and HeLa cells in suspension culture for protein-expression applications.
Invitrogen Corp
(800) 955-6288; www.invitrogen.com/bioproduction
Microbial Identification
ALONG WITH KINETIC CHARACTERIZATION
Biolog Inc, Hayward, Calif, has introduced a new system capable of both microbial identification and kinetic characterization of cellular functions. The company's proprietary method for microbial identification allows laboratories to easily identify and characterize a wide range of gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria across diverse fields of microbiology. With the added capabilities of Phenotype MicroArray technology for elucidation and kinetic quantitation of phenotypes, researchers are able to measure cell-pathway activities and phenotypes by analyzing cells under thousands of culture conditions. Biolog microbial identification is based on the use of 95 different carbon compounds contained in a convenient prefilled microtiter format to measure metabolic reactions. After inoculation and incubation, a characteristic metabolic pattern or "fingerprint" is generated by the organism and compared to hundreds of onboard profiles to interpret and confirm a species identification with a demonstrated level of accuracy that is comparable to molecular methods.
Biolog Inc
(800) 284-4949; www.biolog.com
Hematology Control
COMPATIBLE WITH MANY TESTS
Sickle QC from R&D Systems, Minneapolis, is a positive and negative control for solubility tests used to detect Hemoglobin S. Sickle QC control is compatible with the following sickle cell tests: Chembio Diagnostic System Sickle-STAT, Columbia Calibre Sickle Cell Reagent, Dade Behring Sickle Sol Solubility Test, Ortho/Johnson & Johnson SICKLEDEX, Pacific Hemostasis SickleScreen Sickling Hemoglobin Screening Kit, and Streck Sickle-Chex Solubility Kit. It is packaged in a 2.5-mL vial and carries a 100-day open-vial and a 195-day closed-vial stability. CBC-Monitor, a complete quality-control program, is provided to Sickle QC users. The program, which includes a peer-group analysis, is now available online and provides Internet access for both data submission and report retrieval.
R&D Systems
(800) 428-4246; www.RnDHeme.com
Whole Blood Control
TRILEVEL ASSAY
CBC-4K Plus Retics from R&D Systems, Minneapolis, is a trilevel five-part differential whole-blood control with reticulocytes designed specifically for the Abbott Sapphire and Cell-Dyn 4000 hematology analyzers. Assay disks are provided for assay-value uploading. CBC-4K Plus Retics resembles human samples and is sensitive to reagent and analyzer changes. It is available in three distinct levels and is packaged in pierceable screw-cap tubes with noncoring septums. Each tube contains a full 3.0 mL of control. CBC-4K Plus Retics carries a 75-day closed-vial stability, or 2 QC months, and an 8-day open-vial stability. A companion calibrator product is available. CBC-Monitor, a complete quality-control program, is provided to CBC-5D users. This comprehensive program, which includes a peer-group analysis, is now available online and provides Internet access for both data submission and report retrieval.
Stem Cell Medium
FREE FROM ANIMAL COMPONENTS
Sigma, a division of Sigma-Aldrich, St Louis, has introduced Stemline Neural Stem Cell Expansion Medium, a new serum-free stem-cell medium optimized specifically for the expansion of human neural stem cells. Stemline Neural Stem Cell Expansion Medium has been developed for superior neurosphere as well as monolayer NSC expansion. The medium is the first that will specifically support research in the area of neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). This new culture medium offers a consistently high neural stem-cell yield in a serum-free environment. In order to be regulatory friendly, the formulation was designed to be entirely animal component-free as well as complete and ready to use, requiring only supplementation with the desired growth-factor cocktail (not included). The elimination of serum effectively reduces performance variability and removes safety risks associated with possible adventitious agents in serum.
(800) 521-8956; www.sigma-aldrich.com
Trilevel Control
ASSAY TABLE FOR NRBC
LH-nRBC from R&D Systems, Minneapolis, is a trilevel control designed to monitor the nucleated red blood cell (nRBC) parameter on the Coulter LH750/LH755 hematology analyzers. The assay table provides nRBC absolute values, nRBC absolute per 100 WBC values, and total WBC and RBC values. The control is packaged in 3.0-mL pierceable tubes and carries a 14-day open-vial stability and a 75-day closed-vial stability. CBC-Monitor, a complete quality-control program, is provided to users. This comprehensive program, which includes a peer-group analysis, is now available online and provides Internet access for both data submission and report retrieval.
Cardiac Assay
DETECTING MYOCARDIAL DAMAGE
Singulex Inc, Hayward, Calif, has announced that research conducted by scientists at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Singulex reports on the clinical application of Singulex' Erenna Bioassay System (formally referred to as Singulex' Zeptx System) for detecting cardiac troponin I (cTnI), a well-understood biochemical marker for myocardial damage. This research offers preliminary clinical results for the use of Singulex' customized Erenna assays in the early detection of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and demonstrates diagnostic capabilities that meet recently redefined criteria for AMI diagnosis as outlined and recommended by the European Society of Cardiology and the American College of Cardiology. Singulex' Erenna Bioassay System incorporates patented direct single-molecule detection technology with customized clinical assays that are capable of quantitatively detecting therapeutically significant biomarkers at subpicogram concentration levels. In this study, Erenna was shown to reduce sample background significantly and enable the differential detection of dyes from other molecules with reproducible, signal-to-background efficiency.
Singulex
(510) 259-1000; www.singulex.com
RNAi Screening
FlexiPlate siRNA from Qiagen, Valencia, Calif, is a giant leap forward for more flexible and economical RNAi screening. FlexiPlate siRNA allows the creation of exactly the set of siRNAs needed without compromising on any requirements, enabling fully customized RNAi for pathway analysis or follow-up screening experiments. FlexiPlate siRNA can be ordered at 0.1-nmol, 0.25-nmol, and 1-nmol scales in 96-well plates for any human or mouse target genes. siRNAs and controls can be selected and arranged on plates using an interactive Web interface. The unit enables design of RNAi experiments to suit individual requirements. siRNAs for any human or mouse genes and positive or negative controls can be selected and placed in any of the wells of a 96-well plate with the drag-and-drop tool at the GeneGlobe Web portal. Variable scales allow cost-effective experiments using lower or higher siRNA amounts, as required. Qiagen's HP OnGuard siRNA Design ensures that siRNA is potent and specific.
(800) 426-8157; www.qiagen.com/GeneGlobe
FFPE Tissue Kit
DELIVERS FULL-LENGTH PROTEINS READY FOR ANALYSIS
As the standard method for histological tissue preparation, millions of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples are classified and archived each year. Now, the Qproteome FFPE Tissue Kit from Qiagen, Valencia, Calif, enables efficient extraction of full-length proteins suitable for western blotting and protein arrays. Because formalin fixation creates chemical crosslinks, stabilizing samples for histological analysis but rendering any subsequent protein analysis (that is, by western blotting) impossible, analysis of FFPE tissue has been limited to histochemical techniques. This kit uses innovative proprietary chemistry to reverse the cross-linking process and deliver full-length proteins ready for analysis by western blotting and protein array, with subsequent immunodetection. The kit offers a unique tool for analysis of samples whose pathological status has been determined, but whose precise protein makeup has until now remained inaccessible.
(800) 426-8157; www.qiagen.com
31d Human Druggable Genome
UP-TO-DATE GENOME DATABASE
Qiagen, Valencia, Calif, a leader in whole genome siRNA sets, has taken a step forward for RNAi screening of the human druggable genome with the launch of the Human Druggable Genome siRNA Set v3.0. This set provides state-of-the-art siRNA design and the most current genome database coverage, enabling potent and specific knockdown of ~7,000 genes of potential therapeutic value. It is provided in flexible scales and formats to suit specific screening requirements. Subsets targeting 490 GPCR genes, 696 kinase genes, or 205 phosphatase genes are also available. siRNAs are provided as individual siRNAs or pools for maximum flexibility. The Human Druggable Genome siRNA Set v3.0 is provided with complete siRNA-sequence disclosure at no extra cost. All rights to any invention or discovery developed by researchers using these sequences belong to the researcher, allowing freedom for discovery.
(800) 426-8157; www.qiagen.com/siRNA
siRNA Design
HP OnGuard siRNA Design from Qiagen, Valencia, Calif, is an upgrade to the HiPerformance siRNA design algorithm. It uses advances in the knowledge of the RNAi mechanism to reduce the risk of off-target effects and increase potency, ensuring successful RNAi. The new design incorporates an innovative neural-network algorithm; proprietary homology analysis; and exciting, newly added features. siRNAs are available at Qiagen's GeneGlobe Web portal at www.qiagen.com/GeneGlobe. Design features include 3′ UTR/seed region analysis, SNP avoidance, and interferon motif avoidance. siRNA design is reinforced using the results from QIAGEN's siRNA validation project in which thousands of siRNAs have been tested for effectiveness by real-time RT-PCR. Data from Affymetrix GeneChip analysis is used to minimize the potential for off-target effects. As well as siRNAs designed using HP OnGuard siRNA Design, matching RT-PCR assays, RNAi controls, and products for transfection and downstream analysis are available at GeneGlobe, covering the entire RNAi workflow.
35 Cardiac Control
LIQUID QUALITY CONTROL
Cliniqa® Liquid QC™ cardiac control SP is intended for use as an assayed quality-control material for serum cardiac markers. It is available in Level 1, 2, 3, and Tri-Level kit configurations. The assayed, liquid quality-control product contains CK-MB, hsCRP, myoglobin, troponin I, troponin T, digoxin, and NT-proBNP. It requires no frozen storage, and it is stable for 2 years from the date of manufacture when stored unopened at 2°C to 8°C. Once opened, it is stable for 30 days when stored at 2°C to 8°C. Cliniqa and Vitro are cofounders of "The Quality Alliance," formed to provide a range of innovative quality-control products and peer-review software through common distribution channels in Europe, the United States, and Asia. They are also jointly marketing InterQC. This Web-based software can be used with any Cliniqa control or LiniCAL calibration-verification product, instrument, or reagent combination.
Cliniqa Corp
(800) 728-5205; www.cliniqa.com
Oral Alcohol and Drug Test
Branan Medical Corp, Irvine, Calif, has released the OratectPlus, which combines drug and alcohol oral-fluid testing in a single device. This new on-site saliva screen test allows test administrators to obtain the rapid results without the concern of handling a urine specimen. By simply having the subject swab his/her mouth with the test device, drug and alcohol initial test results can be available in minutes. The reliability of an oral-fluid test is comparable to urinalysis testing for the most commonly abused drugs. The device simultaneously tests for six drugs, including marijuana, cocaine, opiates, amphetamine, methamphetamine/ecstasy, and either PCP or benzodiazepines, plus alcohol. The test device consists of a collection pad on one end, two test panels in the middle for the drug results, and a separate pad for the alcohol result. With a presumptive positive result, the collection pad is detached from the device and sent to a SAMHSA laboratory for further testing, allowing confirmation of the on-site result without the drawing of another sample.
A1-Acid Glycoprotein
PLASMA PROTEIN
Lee Biosolutions, St Louis, has made available polyclonal anti human alpha-1-acid glycoprotein and human alpha-1-acid glycoprotein antigen. A1-acid glycoprotein is a plasma protein found in mammals and birds. It is a glycoprotein, composed of approximately 38% carbohydrate. Increased levels in the bloodstream are often associated with inflammation, pregnancy, surgery and a number of conditions, including acute myocardial infarction. A1-acid glycoprotein is also known as orosomucoid. It's an acute-phase reactant synthesized within the liver, in response to inflammation and tissue damage. For healthy individuals, the normal range is 50 to 120 mg/dl. A1-acid glycoprotein concentrations have been found to rapidly increase for 48 hours following surgery, and then begin to decrease after about 120 hours, regardless of the severity of the injury. Serum A1-acid glycoprotein levels have also proven useful as a diagnostic tool in neonates with bacterial infections, as an increase in production is common in most infected neonates.
Lee Biosolutions
(314) 968-1091; www.leebio.com
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Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Raritan, NJ, a Johnson & Johnson company, offers a new MicroTip assay to measure homocysteine concentration in blood plasma. The Vitros Chemistry Products Homocysteine (HCY) Reagent is available for use with the Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics Vitros 5,1 FS Chemistry System. The reagent is used in the diagnosis and treatment of patients suspected of having hyperhomocysteinemia, a medical condition characterized by high levels of homocysteine in the blood, and homocystinuria, an inherited disorder of the metabolism of the amino acid methionine. This reagent is the 26th MicroTip assay that Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics has introduced for use on the Vitros 5,1 FS Chemistry System since October 2004. The technology provides an extended menu of proteins, therapeutic drugs, and cardiac, diabetes, and other critical assays. MicroTip assays are processed using disposable tips and cuvettes.
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Saramonic is launching the Saramonic SPRX9, a wireless microphone receiver, created to bring professional wireless UHF recording to smartphones. It works with the existing line Sarmanonic UwMic9 transmitters and provides lots of connectivity options for smartphones.
The Saramonic SPRX9 can be used with two wireless UHF (ultra high frequency) lavalier microphone transmitters from the UwMic9 series simultaneously, providing mixing for the two separate channels, that will stay intact and separated when recording to iPhones.
The receiver will come in a handy kit, with connectivity options for smartphones: Lightning cable and a 3.5mm mini jack. Additionally there will be an mini XLR to XLR adapter included in the kit, that will provide phantom power to use your professional microphone with your smartphone. The Saramonic SPRX9 will also be able to output sound via 3.5mm mini jack and Micro USB.
The receiver's size will fit the backside of a modern smartphone nicely and comes in at just 234g. It has an internal battery, that can be charged via a 5V DC input or USB-C. Signal to noise ratio is rather favorable at 70dB+, with distortion pretty low at 0.5% or less. Voice delay is 12ms.


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On Obama's Immigration Actions, Supreme Court Seems Sharply Divided
President Obama's controversial executive actions on immigration were challenged in the Supreme Court on Monday.
While it's impossible to glean how the court will ultimately decide the case, the eight justices seemed evenly split along ideological lines during oral arguments, leaving a real possibility of a 4-4 tie.
If that comes to pass, a lower court decision that stopped the actions from going into effect will stand, Obama's term will come to an end and his executive actions, which were intended to shield some 4 million people from deportation, will never go into effect.
Two things were important to look at during arguments: the question of standing — whether Texas should be allowed to bring a suit on this matter against the government in the first place — and where Justice Anthony Kennedy, a swing vote even on an eight-justice court, landed on the issue.
The issue of standing took up a lot of time during arguments. Chief Justice John Roberts, who famously sidestepped a broader opinion on same-sex marriage in 2013 based on the issue of standing, is a critical voice to that end. He seemed to side with Texas, which argued the state had standing because it would be harmed by the actions as it would cost more money to issue driver's licenses to people in the country illegally.
Kennedy, who has in the past has written opinions in favor of giving the executive broad powers on enforcement, seemed dubious in this case. He said 4 million people is a lot of people and it seems that to give them quasi-legal status should be a legislative decision, not an executive decision.
In other words, the court seemed evenly split.
Outside the court, hundreds of protesters gathered to show their support for the president.
Marcy Suarez, a 20-year-old who was shielded from deportation by a previous executive action that is not in dispute now, said she hopes the court takes into account what she calls the humanitarian dimension of the issue.
"We are here to work hard, contribute to the country," Suarez said. "This is our home; that's why we don't want to leave."


From left, outgoing Apex CEO Gerry Kelly, with the incoming boss Sheena McCallion and the Apex chairman, John Meehan.
Fifty three years ago the Derry Housing Association was established under the guidance of the late Father Anthony Mulvey, to tackle the slum housing conditions which existed in Derry at that time.
Half a century and several name changes later, the acorn sown by the ex-Administrator of St. Eugene's Cathedral has grown to become one of the 'big four' housing associations in the North and a huge contributor to the Derry economy.
At the end of this month there will be a changing of the guard at the association when after 38 years its current Chief Executive Gerry Kelly retires and hands over the reigns to its Director of Housing and Care Services, Sheena McCallion.
Since Mr. Kelly joined the association on New Year's Day, 1980, when it was based in a small office in Glenowen and had about 150 houses under its management, it has undergone massive change and growth and now manages 5,500 homes, which will grow to over 8,500 when its current building programme is complete.
Reflecting on his early years with the association when the provision of family housing remained very much within the purview of the Housing Executive (NIHE), Mr. Kelly recalled that the organisation was a much smaller operation than it is today.
"The role of housing associations back then in 1980 when I joined was relatively small.
"That's was the first scheme I did, for men with alcohol difficulties.
"We converted a number of old houses around the inner city, Magazine Street, Great James' Street, and converted those into apartments for single people. We built our first sheltered housing scheme at Abbey House in the Little Diamond," he added.
Over the next few decades, Mr. Kelly witnessed a number of key developments that radically transformed the association's reach.
Cosmetically, it was renamed, of course, first as the North and West Housing Association in 1993, and later, as the Apex Housing Association in 2010, in order to reflect its growing geographical base.
But more important than that were two separate structural changes within social housing and health and social care in the 1980s and 1990s which helped make Apex the employer of over 650 people it is today.
"We've come from very small beginnings but have built ourselves up over the years. The opportunities arose when the NIHE stopped building housing in 1993 and associations took over that role," explained Mr. Kelly.
Three years after the NIHE stopped building houses and housing associations started playing a greater role in that area, the incoming Apex boss, Sheena McCallion, joined the then North and West Housing Association as a housing manager in 1996.
"At that stage the housing association was really starting to expand significantly into general family housing," she observed.
"In the last 22 years we've grown significantly on that side of things and our focus is not just on the city here.
"We now work right across Northern Ireland and into Donegal.
"At the minute we have about 5,500 homes that we provide and that's really across a very broad range - general family housing, sheltered accommodation, hostels.
"We provide accommodation, care and support services for people with learning disabilities, mental health issues, older people, housing with care and we also provide nursing care as well. Any need that is there, Apex has sought to provide it over the years," she confirmed.
Of the four main housing associations in the North, which includes Radius, Choice and Clanmill, Apex is the only one headquartered this side of Belfast.
And it had the largest development programme of any of the 'big four' last year and is likely to build more houses this year too.
This means jobs, as well as roofs over heads, as Mr. Kelly explained: "We're developing very significant schemes right across Northern Ireland. We've 1,000 houses going to the Skeoge. We're delivering a major scheme of 300 houses in Newry, 500 houses in West Belfast, 130 houses in Dungannon and 130 houses in Lisburn.
"If you consider the cost of houses - the average cost to deliver a house is £130,000 - 1,000 times that is £130m.
"That's the development programme that we are bringing forward and we are doing that and involving a lot of local contractors. In terms of the local economy we have had a huge impact.
"We directly employ 650 people. In terms of salaries per month that's about £1.3m we pay out on salaries to our staff every month. We then pay out to the contractors. Our sites, a typical site, will employ 300 people on site during the construction period. So it's a huge impact we have on the local economy because the majority of our activity is here in the North West," said Mr. Kelly.
Ms. McCallion, who will take over the reigns when Mr. Kelly retires on his 65th birthday at the end of the month, is looking forward to the new role.
And despite the name changes and the exponential growth over the decades Apex remains as true as ever to the vision of self-help first articulated by Fr. Mulvey when he set up the Derry Housing Association in 1965.
"It was and is a community based organisation. Fr. Mulvey was the first chairman. He pulled together a group of local people who formed a committee, all on a voluntary basis, but we are no different from any other housing assoication.
"All the board members are voluntary and we are a not-for-profit organisation," concluded Mr. Kelly.


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May 28, 2015 | By admin
By Tim Maytom
Google's annual I/O developer conference, when the company rolls out its plans for the year ahead and what developers, businesses and consumers can expect to see in the near future, is always an interesting time for mobile, but this year has seen more focus than ever before on expanding Google's mobile ecosystem and embracing new channels. Sundar Pichai, senior vice-president of products at Google, called it "the moment of mobile".
Goodbye Google Wallet, Hello Android Pay
Perhaps the most notable announcement was the introduction of Android Pay, a new payments solution that will be native to the firm's mobile operating system. In addition to supporting NFC payments at point-of-sale, the system will enable merchants to integrate payments directly into their apps for selling physical goods and services, making use of the Android Pay API rather than third-party services like PayPal.
Google has lined up an impressive array of partnerships ahead of Android Pay's rollout, with AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile all pre-installing the solution on devices running Android 4.4 or later, and brands including Best Buy, Staples, Nike, McDonalds, Walgreens and Macys all supporting the service in the near-term.
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After what always seems to be an interminable wait, the Friday start to the Rally finally rolled around and the first of the Lancisti attending the new format Castlemaine 20 began to arrive at Paul Vellacott's family home Talerddig. This Friday gathering has become bigger with each Rally and the street was soon filled with Lancias from Victoria and interstate including the first few of the featured Flaminias.
At the house and in its beautiful gardens previous friendships were rekindled over luncheon. Everyone glanced anxiously at the sky as the occasional chilly rain squall passed through. Surely our near-unbroken record of impeccable Rally weather wasn't going to be sullied!
That night we all met up again at the Theatre Royal, a previous Rally eve venue, where dinner was served after pre-dinner drinks. All tables were taken and attention was centred on the much awaited launch of Bruce Lindsay's outstanding publication "Original Lancia – 70 Years of Trailblazing" by Stuart Murdoch. Bruce was on hand to autograph books purchased on the evening. The consensus was that this short-run definitive history of the marque will soon be sold out and the lucky buyers will get many hours of enjoyment both reading it and viewing the accompanying CD expertly compiled by Angela Verschoor. Ian Fraser, a long-time Lancia owner then entertained us with some amusing Lancia related recollections from his many years of motoring involvement. All the while there were excerpts from the book being projected on the screen as a live backdrop to proceedings.
Saturday morning was chilly but with no rain whilst fifty or so Lancias assembled around the perimeter of the Western Oval. Russell Meehan however wasn't approached for autographed copies of the front page Castlemaine Mail which featured a photo of him beside a Lambda, the poster and an informative outline of the Rally's long association with Castlemaine!
Lancias in the car park, seemed irresistible to many. Of course, the great coffee was the real attraction, it was said!
Saturday afternoon at the Kingston Oval. It was a convenient venue complete with a grandstand which afforded somewhere to sit, relax and enjoy the great view of all the assembled cars.
The Flaminias were assembled in front of the grandstand and the remainder of the Lancias radiated out impressively from there. Smaller shelters accommodated the paraphernalia and spare parts stands and the food was available from another building.
The Rally dinner was held in the Town Hall following the same format of recent Rallies.
Awards to various categories of Lancias, based on the Register's quirky 'formula', was backed up by on-screen photos of the various recipient's cars.
Cars reassembled on Sunday morning outside Talerddig for the run over to Seymour for the luncheon at the Seymour Club and Bistro. This event had a twofold purpose, a farewell to Rally participants who were heading home and a kickoff for those taking part in the Alpine Tour to follow.


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De Anglo-Perzische Oorlog was een oorlog die in de jaren 1856 en 1857 tussen het Verenigd Koninkrijk en de Iraanse dynastie van de Kadjaren uitgevochten werd. De oorlog ontstond toen het Verenigd Koninkrijk een poging van de Kadjaren verijdelde om de stad Herat te claimen. Herat lag in Zuidoost-Khorasan, van oudsher deel van Groot-Iran, maar verklaarde zich onder Britse invloed onafhankelijk onder een eigen emir.

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De oorlog vond plaats in de context van The Great Game, het conflict tussen Rusland en het Verenigd Koninkrijk over de macht over Centraal Azië. In dit conflict wilde het Verenigd Koninkrijk Afghanistan behouden als onafhankelijk land onder Britse invloed. Op deze manier kon Afghanistan als bufferzone met Rusland dienen. Perzië wilde echter zijn eigen invloed in het gebied behouden. De Britten hadden hier problemen mee, vooral omdat Perzië tijdens de Russisch-Perzische oorlogen de uitbreiding van het Russische Rijk niet tegen had kunnen houden. Desondanks onthielden zij ervan Perzië binnen te vallen.

Hiernaast was er nog een incident tussen Perzië en de Britten, aangaande het idee van de Britten om Meerza Hashem Khan te benoemen als ambassadeur in Teheran. De Perzen waren het hier niet mee eens, waardoor een conflict ontstond. Dit escaleerde toen er geruchten opdoken dat de ambassadeur een ongepaste relatie had met de zus van de vrouw van de Perzische sjah. Het conflict escaleerde nog verder toen de Perzen overgingen tot het arresteren van de vrouw. Toen de Perzen weigerden haar vrij te laten brak de Britse ambassadeur de relaties met Perzië en werd het Britse leger gemobiliseerd. Nadat nu ook Herat zich onafhankelijk verklaarde en zich onder Britse invloedssferen bracht was de oorlog begonnen.

Ontwikkelingen in 1856
De Britten hadden twee mogelijkheden. Ten eerste konden ze een landexpeditie door Afghanistan uitzetten, en ten tweede konden ze Perzië vanuit het zuiden aanvallen via de Perzische Golf. Ze kozen voor de tweede optie, en om de Perzen aan te vallen rond de kleine stad Bushehr aan de Perzische zuidkust. Ze vielen aan met een leger van 2300 Britse en 3400 Indische soldaten.

De troepen van beide partijen ontmoetten elkaar voor het eerst op 5 december 1956 in de slag om Bushehr, waar de Britten een fort bij Rashir bestormden. Na een bombardement vanuit zee lukte het de Britten op 10 december de stad in te nemen. Hierna wachtten de troepen op versterking.

Ontwikkelingen in 1857
Begin 1857 kwam de versterking voor het Britse leger aan. Hierna wist het door te dringen in Perzië. Het Perzische leger zocht niet de confrontatie op tot de Britten de stad Khushab hadden bereikt en er een kamp hadden gebouwd. Daar besloten ze het Britse leger aan te vallen in de slag om Khushab. De Britten wisten deze slag te winnen met 70-200 gevallen soldaten voor de Perzen.

Hierna drong het Britse leger door naar het noorden van de Perzische Golf waar ze weer de confrontatie zochten met de Perzen bij de steden Koramsjar en Ahvaz. Beide steden konden ingenomen worden.

Op 4 maart werd er vrede gesloten in Parijs, waarmee het conflict werd beëindigd en Perzië akkoord om zich terug te trekken uit Herat.

Oorlog van het Verenigd Koninkrijk
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Oorlog in Azië
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Nokia Revamps Touchscreen Music Phone
By Daniel Ionescu
PCWorld Jun 15, 2009 4:57 am PDT
Nokia introduced today the 5530 XpressMusic, a follow-up on the company's 5800 device, with a sleeker look but with some scaled-down specs. Aimed at the youth market, the 5530 brings an improved touch interface cased in a steel frame finish.
Building up on the success of the 5800 model (with over one million devices sold), the new Nokia 5530 is somehow a step down from its older sibling. The 5530 comes with only 4GB of bundled memory (swappable with a larger mircoSD card) and a 2.9-inch widescreen display (640 by 360 pixels).
Also downgraded from the 5800 is the radio antenna in the new Nokia 5530. The device only runs on GSM/EDGE, which means that it is not a 3G phone. But besides the smaller storage capacity, smaller screen, scaled-down radio and no GPS, the 5530 comes for a smaller price as well: $276 for a simfree (unlocked) device.
Scheduled to become available in the third quarter of this year, the Nokia 5530 will feature Wi-Fi connectivity, coming with a thee-month Boingo subscription, which gives customers free Internet access from hundreds of hotspots around the world. The 5530 also features a 3.15-megapixel camera with an LED flash.
However, the Nokia 5530 brings the most improvements in the user interface department. A new 'people carousel' feature is available on the home screen, which displays thumbnails of up to 20 selected contacts for quick access. There is also a pop-up "media bar" for speedy access to music, photos, and videos stored on the device.
Coming in five different colors, the Nokia 5530 is placed at the bottom of Nokia's touchscreen smartphone lineup, with the better equipped 5800 model above it and the upcoming N97 as the flagship device.
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Your Value Proposition, or as I usually call it, your Core Marketing Message, is still misunderstood by most professionals. It's not just a tagline, sound bite or even an "Audio Logo." It goes way beyond that.
It really is the expression of the essence of your business. It's the foundation of all your marketing messages. It's what makes you stand out and be memorable in an overcrowded marketplace of look-a likes. And it always is more about your clients and their businesses than it is about you and your business.
1. Your ideal target client - Who exactly are your services designed for? It certainly just can't be just "medium or large companies." You need to zero in on much more specifically. What industry, department, technology, values?
2. Their problems or challenges - What are they struggling with? What's not working for them? What opportunities are coming up that they may not be meeting successfully? What keeps them up at night? You need to know this in your head, heart and gut.
3. The solutions or results - Where do they want to go? What do they aspire to? What are they excited about and committed to? After they've solved their problems, where are they going to put their attention and resources?
4. The unique angle - What have you got that nobody else has? And how is this an advantage to your clients? What can you do faster, better, smarter than every other competitor out there? You need to know this with a high degree of certainty or you'll just blend in with everyone else.
When you approach a buyer, whether through a call, an email, an article, or your web content, this Value Proposition needs to pop out vividly and urgently, letting them know you are worth paying attention to.
If you are going to express your Value Proposition verbally, you can usually do it in two well-structured sentences. These statements can be used in a wide variety of situations, from meeting someone at a networking event to calling a big company prospect on the phone.
If you can develop a concise Value Proposition that is more than just words but is something you can really deliver on, you will find it much easier to get the attention and interest of buyers in big companies. Here are some of the biggest mistakes I see made in developing a Value Proposition.
* Thinking that it's not important - You've go to make this a *Big Deal* because it's really the key to it all. Sure it sounds complex and abstract. But the turning point in your business is likely to come when you "see the light" and start "preaching your message."
* Not researching and testing - It's not going to come to you in two minutes (unless you are very lucky). It usually takes a fair amount of research, brainstorming, testing it on clients and associates before it really clicks and you know you have something that works.
* Not truly differentiating - Often a Value Proposition only gets as far as the target market and the problem. That's good but it can be too generic. Only when you get into your solution and your uniqueness will you really stand out and be noticed.
* Not having enough depth - A Value Proposition needs to go way beyond those four points and two statements outlined above. It needs to permeate into every nook and cranny of your marketing. Every expression of your business, large or small, needs to reek of your Value Proposition.
* Not having stories - Stories are the most persuasive marketing tools you can use. Take your Value Proposition as the central theme around which you'll build your case studies and other stories that make a compelling and emotional case for your services.


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Probstfield Center for Education
2410 14th St South, Moorhead, MN 56560
Probstfield Center for Education is a coeducational public special needs school for students in grades 7 through 12. learn more
Institution Type: Public Setting: Suburban District: Moorhead Public School District
Moorhead High School
2300 4th Ave South, Moorhead, MN 56560
Moorhead High School is a coeducational public school for students in grades 9 through 12. learn more
Lakes Country Youth Educational Services
2215 12th Ave South, Moorhead, MN 56560
Lakes Country Youth Educational Services is a coeducational public alternative school for students in grades 9 through 12. learn more
Institution Type: Public Setting: Suburban District: Region 4 - Lakes Country Service Cooperative
Clay County Shelter Care
919 8th Ave North, Moorhead, MN 56560
Clay County Shelter Care is a coeducational public alternative school for students in grades 3 through 12. learn more
S.G.N Elementary
S.G.N Elementary is a coeducational public school for students in grades Kindergarten through 5. learn more
Institution Type: Public Setting: Rural District: Moorhead Public School District
Ellen Hopkins Elementary
2020 South 11th St, Moorhead, MN 56560
Ellen Hopkins Elementary is a coeducational public school for students in grades Kindergarten through 5. learn more
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910 North 11th St, Moorhead, MN 56560
R. Arizona Study Programelementary is a coeducational public school for students in grades Kindergarten through 5. learn more
Horizon Middle School is a coeducational public school for students in grades 6 through 8. learn more
St. Joseph Elementary School
202 10th St S, Moorhead, MN 56560
St. Joseph Elementary School is a coeducational private Catholic traditional school for students in grades Pre-K through 8. learn more
Institution Type: Private Setting: Suburban
Park Christian School
300 17th St N, Moorhead, MN 56560
Park Christian School is a coeducational private Other traditional school for students in grades Pre-K through 12. learn more
Clay County Outreach Center
324 24th St South, Moorhead, MN 56560
Clay County Outreach Center is a coeducational public alternative school for students in grades 7 through 12. learn more
Rr Area Learning Center
1100 32nd Ave South, Moorhead, MN 56560
Rr Area Learning Center is a coeducational public alternative school for students in grades 5 through 12. learn more
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