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The blood-brain barrier is a substantial obstacle for delivering anticancer agents to brain tumors, and new strategies for bypassing it are greatly needed for brain-tumor therapy. Intranasal delivery provides a practical, noninvasive method for delivering therapeutic agents to the brain and could provide an alternative to intravenous injection and convection-enhanced delivery. We treated rats bearing intracerebral human tumor xeno-grafts intranasally with GRN163, an oligonucleotide N3′→P5′thio-phosphoramidate telomerase inhibitor. 3′-Fuorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)–labeled GRN163 was administered intranasally every 2 min as 6 μl drops into alternating sides of the nasal cavity over 22 min. FITC-labeled GRN163 was present in tumor cells at all time points studied, and accumulation of GRN163 peaked at 4 h after delivery. Moreover, GRN163 delivered intranasally, daily for 12 days, significantly prolonged the median survival from 35 days in the control group to 75.5 days in the GRN163-treated group. Thus, intranasal delivery of GRN163 readily bypassed the blood-brain barrier, exhibited favorable tumor uptake, and inhibited tumor growth, leading to a prolonged lifespan for treated rats compared to controls. This delivery approach appears to kill tumor cells selectively, and no toxic effects were noted in normal brain tissue. These data support further development of intranasal delivery of tumor-specific therapeutic agents for brain tumor patients.
Despite the development of drugs that preferentially target tumor cells without harming normal tissues, delivery of these drugs to brain tumors remains a major challenge because of difficulty in penetrating the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Malignant gliomas are the most common primary tumors that occur in the human brain. The 5-year survival rate for patients with glioblastoma (GBM), the most aggressive form of malignant glioma, is less than 5% even with surgery followed by radiation therapy and chemotherapy.1 Clearly there is a great need for new therapeutic strategies that will provide efficient drug delivery to the brain tumors.
Intranasal delivery provides a practical, noninvasive method for delivering therapeutic agents to the brain because of the unique anatomic connection provided by the olfactory and trigeminal nerves. These nerves connect the nasal mucosa and the CNS, allowing them to detect odors and other chemical stimuli.2,3 Intranasally administered drugs reach the parenchymal tissues of the brain and spinal cord and/or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) within minutes using an extracellular route through perineural channels (Fig. 1).3–5 In addition to bypassing the BBB, the advantages of intranasal delivery include rapid delivery to the CNS, avoidance of hepatic first-pass drug metabolism, and elimination of the need for systemic delivery, thereby reducing unwanted systemic side effects. Intranasal delivery also provides painless and convenient self-administration by patients, features that encourage its use for delivering therapeutic agents into the CNS.2,3
Recently, anticancer agents such as methotrexate,6,7 5-fluorouracil,8 and raltitrexed9 have been delivered to the CNS and/or CSF using intranasal delivery. However, these chemotherapeutic agents do not discriminate between tumor and normal tissues. Thus, the concentrations of drug required to kill tumor cells can also lead to toxicity in normal neural tissues. To achieve therapeutic efficacy without toxicity to normal tissues, the drugs must preferentially target brain tumor while sparing normal tissues from damage.
Because telomerase is expressed in the vast majority of GBMs but not in normal brain tissues,10 inhibition of telomerase provides a therapeutic strategy for selectively targeting malignant gliomas. We have previously shown that GRN163, a 13-mer oligonucleotide N3′→P5′ thio-phosphoramidate telomerase inhibitor (Geron Corporation, Menlo Park, CA, USA), inhibited the growth rate of subcutaneous human U-251 MG GBM xenografts in athymic mice and prolonged survival of athymic rats bearing U-251 MG intracerebral tumor xenografts.11 To maximize the dose of drug to the tumor cells, GRN163 was administered directly into the tumor site using intratumoral injection for the subcutaneous tumors and convection-enhanced delivery (CED) for the intra-cerebral tumors. CED uses convective flow to distribute drug through a surgically implanted catheter.12,13 Thus, administering GRN163 directly into human patients' tumors via CED is a promising approach, but one that would require surgically invasive procedures. In contrast, intranasal drug delivery has the advantage of being noninvasive.
Here, we tested the hypothesis that intranasal delivery of the telomerase inhibitor GRN163 enables the compound to reach intracerebral tumors and inhibit tumor growth in vivo without neurotoxic side effects. Our results suggest that intranasal delivery of GRN163 provides a promising noninvasive approach for the treatment of malignant gliomas.
U-251 MG human GBM cells were obtained from the Department of Neurological Surgery Tissue Bank at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Cells were maintained as exponentially growing monolayers in complete minimal essential medium (CMEM) consisting of Eagle's minimal essential medium supplemented with 10% fetal calf serum and nonessential amino acids. Cells were cultured at 37°C in a humidified atmosphere containing 95% O2 and 5% CO2. Cells were seeded into culture flasks 2 days before tumor implantation. For implantation, cells were harvested by trypsinization, washed once, and resuspended in Hank's balanced salt solution (HBSS) without Ca2+ and Mg2+.
GRN163 is complementary to a part of the template region of hTR and has the nucleotide sequence 5′-TAG-GGTTAGACAA-3′. The mismatch control thio-phosphoramidate oligonucleotide (MM-Control) has the same nucleotide composition but the sequence 5′-TAG-GTGTAAGCAA-3′, in which the four mismatched nucleotides are underlined.14 The thio-phosphoramidate oligonucleotides were prepared as described previously.15 3′-fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)–labeled GRN163 was prepared according to the published procedure.16 A working concentration of 0.65 μmol GRN163 in 65 μl phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) was used for both tumor-distribution and efficacy studies.
Six-week-old male athymic rats (rnu/rnu, homozygous) were purchased from Harlan (Indianapolis, IN, USA) and housed under aseptic conditions, which included filtered air and sterilized food, water, bedding, and cages. The UCSF Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee approved all animal protocols.
Tumor cells were implanted into the brains of athymic rats as previously described.17 Briefly, rats were anesthetized with an intraperitoneal injection of ketamine (60 mg/kg) and xylazine (7.5 mg/kg) and injected slowly with the U-251 MG cell suspension (2 × 106 cells in 10 μl HBSS) into the right caudate-putamen using an implantable guide-screw system. Typically, this procedure results in a 100% tumor take and a median survival time of animals of approximately 35 days after tumor implantation.17
Rats were anesthetized with inhalation of 2%–2.5% isoflurane and placed in a supine position in an anesthesia chamber. PBS (6 μl) containing GRN163 (0.65 μmol/65 μl) was administered intranasally as drops with a small pipette every 2 min into alternating sides of the nasal cavity, followed by 5 μl for the last dose (for a total of 22 min). A total volume of 65 μl was delivered into the nasal cavity. After delivery, the animals were removed from the anesthesia chamber; they regained consciousness and were ambulatory within 3 min.
FITC-labeled GRN163 was delivered as above over 22 min into the nasal cavity of non-tumor-bearing rats and tumor-bearing rats on day 25 after implantation, when the intracerebral tumors were approximately 50 mg in size as determined from earlier growth curves.17 Two rats each were euthanized at 10 min and 0.5, 1, 2.5, 4, and 24 h after delivery by perfusion with PBS, and their brains were dissected and frozen in ethanol and dry ice. The brains were sectioned coronally, and 10-μm-thick sections were placed on microscope slides. Ten to 15 μl of mounting medium containing 2 μg/ml of 4′,6- diamidine-2′-phenylindole dihydrochloride (DAPI, Boehringer Mannheim Biochemica, Mannheim, Germany) was added over the sections, and a cover glass was placed over the samples. The resulting slides were immediately viewed and photographed using a fluorescence microscope (Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Thorn-wood, NY, USA, ×10 magnification). An ultraviolet-light transmission filter was used for DAPI to visualize the nuclei of cells. A blue-light transmission filter was used for FITC to visualize the green signal that indicates cells containing GRN163.
Cells (2.5 × 104) in log-phase growth were seeded into T-25 plastic flasks containing CMEM, and 24 h later GRN163 was added to final concentration of 0, 3, 7, 10, or 20 μM. Cells were exposed to the oligonucleotides for 3 days at 37°C and then were trypsinized, counted, and washed twice with PBS. Cells were pelleted and stored at −80 °C.
Telomere repeat amplification protocol (TRAP) assays were performed with the TRAPeze Telomerase Detection System (Chemicon International, Inc. Temecula, CA, USA) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Briefly, cells were lysed with 1× CHAPS lysis buffer (10 mM Tris-HCl [pH 7.5], 1 mM MgCl2, 1 mM EGTA, 0.1 mM benzamidine, 5 mM β-mercaptoethanol, 0.5% CHAPS, 10% glycerol) for 30 min on ice. The lysates were centrifuged at 12,000g for 20 min at 4°C. When preparing extracts from tumor tissues, a small portion of the tumor was minced in ice-cold 1× CHAPS lysis buffer containing 200 U/ml RNase inhibitor (Promega, Madison, WI, USA), incubated for 30 min on ice, and centrifuged at 12,000g. The protein concentrations of the samples were determined by using Bio-Rad protein assay kit (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA); 125 ng protein extract was used per reaction for the TRAP assay. Samples were mixed with TRAPeze kit reagents according to the manufacturer's instructions, using 30 min of telomerase extension at 30°C, and inactivating telomerase at 94°C for 2 min. The telomerase extension products were amplified by 33 PCR cycles (94°C for 30 s, 59°C for 30 s, 72°C for 1 min). A standard batch of U-251 MG cell line was used as a positive control, and lysis buffer was used as a negative control for each run. PCR samples were resolved on a 12.5% polyacrylamide gel. The gel was stained with SYBER Green (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) according to the manufacturer's instructions and scanned using a Kodak image station 4000MM (Eastman Kodak Company, Scientific Imaging Systems, New Haven, CT, USA). Activity of TRAP products was quantified using ImageJ 1.32j software (National Institutes of Health, http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij).
Tumor-bearing rats were treated intranasally with daily doses of 0.21, 0.325, and 0.65 μmol GRN163 or MM-Control in PBS or PBS-Control for 12 consecutive days excluding weekends over a 3-week period. Treatment was initiated on day 14 when intracerebral tumors were approximately 20 mg in size. The investigators treating the animals were fully blinded with regard to treatment. All rats were monitored every day and were euthanized when they exhibited neurological symptoms indicative of impending death.17 Their brains were sectioned coronally for histological examination using standard hematoxylin and eosin staining (×5 magnification). For telomerase activity assay, tumor tissues were dissected after 12 days, quick-frozen in ethanol and dry ice, and stored at −80°C.
Comparison of survival times was done using the exact Wilcoxon rank sum test. Each control group was compared separately to the GRN163 group. Because the GRN163 group was required to demonstrate improved survival against each of the control groups to be considered effective, no adjustment was made for multiple comparisons.
To determine whether GRN163 can be transported intranasally into the brain, we first administered FITC-labeled GRN163 into non-tumor-bearing rats. FITC-labeled GRN163 (0.65 μmol/65 μl) was administered as 10 6-μl drops spaced 2 min apart and one 5-μl drop into alternating sides of the nasal cavity with a small pipette. Rats were euthanized 10 min after intranasal delivery, and their brains were examined for the presence of the compound using a fluorescence microscope. Faint fluorescence of the compound was observed diffusely in the brain, brainstem, and intracranial trigeminal nerves at this time, suggesting that delivery of GRN163 to the brain occurred rapidly (Fig. 2). No apparent toxicity or behavioral abnormalities were observed in any of the rats during this brief experiment. Moreover, there was no detectable fluorescence from GRN163 in lung or liver tissue obtained from the rats.
We next investigated distribution of intranasal FITC-labeled GRN163 into rats bearing human U-251 MG brain tumors at various times after intranasal delivery. Rats were given 0.65 μmol FITC-labeled GRN163 over a 22-min time period, as above, and were euthanized 0.5 to 24 h later. Fluorescence was visible at the edge of the tumor 0.5 h after intranasal delivery and was visible throughout the tumor at 4 h (Fig. 3A). Fluorescence remained visible in the tumor cells 24 h after delivery. In contrast, very little or no fluorescence was detected in normal brain cells adjacent to the tumor (Fig. 3A), and no fluorescence was detected in other normal brain regions at any time point studied (Fig. 3B). The animals did not exhibit any apparent toxicities or behavioral abnormalities during the course of this experiment.
Prior to in vivo GRN163 treatment, the effect of GRN163 at various concentrations on telomerase activity of U-251 MG cells was studied initially in a short-term cell-based TRAP assay. GRN163 showed a dose-dependent inhibition of telomerase activity; exposure of cells to 3, 7, 10, or 20 μM for 3 days inhibited telomerase activity by 21%, 31%, 51%, and 81%, respectively, relative to the activity seen in untreated U-251 MG cells (Fig. 4A).
To test the potential therapeutic value of delivering GRN163 via the nasal cavity, we treated small groups of rats (three to five animals per group) bearing intra-cerebral tumors with graded concentrations of GRN163 and PBS-Control for 12 days beginning on day 14 after tumor cell implantation. The maximum attainable concentration of GRN163, due to solubility constraints, was 0.65 μmol/65 μl. GRN163 uptake in the tumor was confirmed by fluorescein staining of FITC-GRN163 at 4 h after final delivery of the 12-day treatment. The median survival in the PBS-Control group was 36 days; the groups treated with 0.21, 0.325, and 0.65 μmol GRN163 had median survival times of 48, 47, and 99 days, respectively. Inhibition of telomerase activity of intracerebral xenografts by GRN163 was confirmed by TRAP assay. When the rats were treated with 0.21, 0.325, and 0.65 μmol GRN163 for 12 days, telomerase activity was inhibited by 15%, 43%, and 54%, respectively (Fig. 4B).
Because it corresponded to the longest survival time, a daily dose of 0.65 μmol GRN163 or MM-Control was selected for intranasal treatment of a larger number of rats. Ten rats in each group received treatment for 12 days. Survival times of PBS-Control and MM-Control animals ranged from 32 to 43 days, with a median survival time of 35 days for each control group (Fig. 5). In contrast, GRN163 treatment significantly prolonged the survival of animals (p < 0.01), with a median survival time of 75.5 days (Fig. 5). Moreover, three GRN163-treated rats were alive and showed no neurological symptoms at day 104, when they were euthanized. There was no evidence of a tumor at the original implantation site in these three rats; rather, the injection site showed astrogliosis with a macrophage infiltrate and foci of hemosiderin and calcium, along with several small vessels (Fig. 6A). However, all the other GRN163-treated rats that were euthanized due to neurological symptoms had a large tumor at the site of implantation (Fig. 6B). All animals that received MM-Control (Fig. 6C) or PBS-Control (Fig. 6D) also had large tumors at the site of implantation when they were euthanized. None of the GRN163-treated animals exhibited evidence of toxicity or behavioral abnormalities during the 12-day treatment period. Rats in all three groups gained weight during the treatment period, but later those with symptoms of tumor typically began to lose weight a few days before being euthanized. An autopsy was performed on four rats selected randomly from the three groups that were euthanized when they showed symptoms of tumor. All organs were grossly normal, and lungs, livers, hearts, spleens, and kidneys were normal on histological examination.
Our data demonstrate favorable in vivo distribution and efficacy of the telomerase inhibitor GRN163 when applied intranasally into human intracerebral glioblastoma xenografts. In our initial distribution study, we found rapid movement of GRN163 into the brain, including the brainstem and intracranial trigeminal nerves. This finding is consistent with the extraneuronal pathway that has been proposed for transport of therapeutic agents from the nasal cavity into the brain.2,3 This pathway occurs along the olfactory and trigeminal sensory neurons and likely involves extracellular bulk flow along perineuronal and/or perivascular channels, which delivers drug directly to the brain parenchyma, spinal cord, and perhaps the CSF (Fig. 1).3 Thorne et al. reported that insulin-like growth factor-1 is rapidly transported into the brain and upper spinal cord within 30 min of intranasal administration via the extra-neuronal pathway.3 Delivery along the extraneuronal pathway is not receptor-mediated and requires only minutes for the drug to reach the brain.5 It is unlikely that GRN163 is delivered via an intraneuronal pathway along the primary olfactory sensory neurons, because this pathway involves axonal transport and requires several hours to days for the drug to reach different areas of the brain.4,18
In our intracerebral tumor model, GRN163 showed tumor-specific distribution at all time points studied (0.5 up to 24 h) and achieved highest concentration within the tumor at 4 h after delivery, indicating favorable uptake and retention of the compound in the tumor. This may be due to the specific binding affinity of this compound to telomerase in the tumor cells,19 and the specificity achieved with intranasal delivery appears to be superior to the results obtained using CED, which reportedly delivers drugs beyond the tumor boundary into adjacent normal brain tissues.11,20,21 This spillover of drug to adjacent brain regions may be due to a pressure gradient of convective bulk flow of CED and could lead to neural toxicity.12,22 In contrast to CED, intranasal GRN163 showed very little or no accumulation in adjacent normal brain tissues surrounding the tumor. Thus, intranasal delivery may prevent unwanted damage to normal brain tissues adjacent to the tumor.
The results of our tumor efficacy study, in which rats were treated intranasally with a daily dose of 0.65 μmol of GRN163 for 12 days, showed that rats treated with GRN163 survived significantly longer than rats treated with PBS- and/or MM-Control. Notably, three rats treated with GRN163 showed no neurological symptoms by day 104 and no evidence of tumor at the original implantation site. Telomerase inhibition is related to telomere length in a time-dependent manner. Rapid inhibition occurs in cells with shorter telomeres,23,24 and U-251 MG cells have relatively short telomeres (approx. 3.9 kilobases) as compared with other brain tumor cells.11 Our in vitro studies showed that a 3-day exposure of U-251 MG cells to GRN163 inhibited telomerase activity by 81% in a dose-dependent manner. In addition, intranasal treatment of GRN163 for 12 days inhibited telomerase activity of intracerebral tumors by 54%. Thus, it is likely that in this study intranasal delivery of GRN163 led to specific inhibition of telomerase activity in U-251 MG tumor cells, which inhibited their growth, resulting in prolonged lifespan for the animals. The length of the protocol used in this study was determined by the average lifespan of the control animals, which limited the time frame within which results from treatment could be considered significant to approximately 12 days. We used the maximum dose of GRN163 (0.65 μmol/65 μl) that could be dissolved in saline solution. Further work will be required to fully define the maximum tolerated dose and dosing schedule for optimal intranasal delivery. These parameters will likely be determined by the size of the tumor, the characteristics of the drug, and the type of animal model studied.
Recently, intranasal delivery of insulin has been shown to improve memory in normal adults25 and in patients with early Alzheimer's disease26 without changing blood levels of glucose or insulin,27 implying that insulin entered the brain directly without entering the bloodstream. Intranasal treatment with perillyl alcohol given to patients with recurrent brain tumors is being investigated in combination with radiotherapy.28
In conclusion, this is the first report to demonstrate that intranasal delivery of telomerase inhibitor GRN163 achieves efficient distribution into an intracerebral tumor and inhibits tumor growth in vivo, resulting in prolonged survival of athymic rats without apparent toxicity. Our findings support further development of intranasal GRN163 as a potential therapy for brain-tumor patients and perhaps as a means for treating multifocal brain tumors and/or pediatric brainstem tumors, which are less amenable to potentially risky surgical procedures. Our results also support the investigation of delivering other tumor-specific agents intranasally for the treatment of intracranial neoplasms.
This research was supported by grant CA107268 from the National Institutes of Health. The authors are grateful to Francis C. Szoka Jr., Lily J. Hu, and Jingli Wang for helpful discussion; Raquel A. Santos for technical assistance; Anita Lal for critically reading the manuscript; and Ilona Garner for excellent editorial assistance. The GRN163 used in these studies was provided by Geron Corporation, and Dr. Gryaznov is an employee of Geron Corporation.
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Portsmouth issued a press statement pointing out that it not been formally served with any petition, adding it was "shocked and surprised this action has been taken in respect of VAT, PAYE and National Insurance Contributions which either have been, or are about to be paid, or are disputed".
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Pickled Black Eyed Peas
READY IN: 72hrs 10mins
Recipe by Sherrybeth
Yeah yeah, we southerner's will pickle just about anything! THESE DO HAVE TO MARINATE FOR 3 DAYS BEFORE SERVING SO PREPARE ACCORDINGLY!
Ingredients Nutrition
- 3 cups canned black-eyed peas
- 1 cup canola oil
- 1⁄4 cup red wine vinegar
- 1 garlic clove
- 1⁄4 cup onion, thinly sliced
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt (or Tony Chachere's if you prefer them hotter)
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground black pepper
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- Drain peas.
- In a medium bowl, combine oil, wine vinegar, garic, onion, salt and pepper.
- Mix well.
- Add peas and still well.
- Place in jar and refrigerate for 24 hours. Remove garlic after 1st day.
- Marinate for 2 more days before serving.
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On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > > (1)I rewrote StandardAnalyzer as StrictAnalyzer for the project I am > > working > > on. StandardAnalyzer does not filter enough words for my liking. > > Basically all I did was add to the STOP_WORDS array. The stop words > > I added > > are based on the default values in SQL Server 2000's text indexing. > > (Source code below) > > The change seems simple and looks fine to me. If nobody complains > until tonight I'll commit it. As Dmitry said, it seems to me that adding classes to a project which differ from one another only in static data is poor software engineering practice, and probably confusing to users. Since StopAnalyzer has a constructor which allows users to specify their own arrays of stop words, I'm not sure what the benefit of StrictAnalyzer is. On the other hand, I do think that providing a repository of alternative prefabricated stop word arrays would be useful to users. I suggest the following: (1) Create an area on the Lucene website to a repository of such things. (Does Lucene have a 'contributions' ftp site?) (2) Leave StopAnalyzer as is, to avoid confusion by people upgrading to the new version, but include a link in the documentation to the aforementioned repository. Joshua firstname.lastname@example.com...Obscurium Per Obscurius...www.ics.uci.edu/~jmadden Joshua Madden: Information Scientist, Musician, Philosopher-At-Tall It's that moment of dawning comprehension that I live for--Bill Watterson My opinions are too rational and insightful to be those of any organization. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com>
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2.Customizable e-mail addresses, + sign: You can add a plus sign after your user name. You can then put anything you want after the plus sign. For example, your email@example.com address doesn't change if it acquires this form: email@example.com, or firstname.lastname@example.com, and so on.
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4.Gmail labels: Labels can help you stay organized and save time and you can apply as many labels as you want to a single email. Briefly, one email could have the label Bills, as well as the label Accounting. You can customize your labels and select which of them is displayed in the main sidebar, which shows up within the in-message, etc.
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6.Google Tasks: You can open up the Gmail Tasks interface from your main inbox view. Just press G, then K. You can click the word Gmail at the top left of the screen to access a drop-down menu with the same option. By pressing Shift-T or by selecting Add to Tasks in the More menu, you can add tasks directly to your list from emails, while viewing a message.
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8.Enable Keyboard Shortcuts: Gmail has a host of keyboard shortcuts that let you quickly navigate through your messages. You can press R to reply to a message, or C to compose a new message. To enable keyboard shortcuts, just activate the option in your Gmail settings. You can even change the shortcuts by using custom keyboard shortcuts option in the Gmail Labs settings.
9.Canned Responses: Canned Responses feature allows you to create templates, and then insert them into new messages with a couple of clicks. Just go into the Gmail Labs settings and enable the Canned Responses option. When you compose a message, click the arrow at the bottom of the window, and select Canned Responses.
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The Report without antivirus installed is displaying computers and servers that already had the Symantec Corporate Edition anti-virus installed.
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May 3, 2007 at 8:18 UTC
Can you try this...
On one of the computers the AV is on and Spiceworks is showing "not" installed, can you reboot the computer and rerun a full network scan and try the report again? let us know the output?
Reason why I say this, once in awhile a major update comes in for the AV scanners, and REQUIRES a system reboot. If I don't reboot then the AV scanner doesn't do anymore updates. Before rebooting the computer SW showed the AV scanner as not being installed in the report BUT in the installed software list for the device it shows as being installed. After the reboot and the AV scanner started working again Spiceworks showed (in the reports) that is was installed again.
Attached is a PDF of a scan I did to show this exact scenario. I have a Win2003 Server with AVG installed. AVG applied an update that REQUIRES a system reboot. (I can't do any more updates to AVG until I reboot)
I have not rebooted yet, but you can see in the report that:
1. AVG IS an installed application
2. The AntiVirus Report I ran shows that it is NOT installed (even though in the column next to it it shows it is)
And AVG is a supported by WMI as all my other AVG scanners (and even this same computer in the one I attached) works normally (after the reboot)
Aug 20, 2010 at 8:03 UTC
I have the same situation where half of our machines show as "no antivirus installed" but they all have AVG installed and have for several months. It will not be acceptable if Spiceworks thinks that there is no antivirus just because AVG has installed an update on the machine and is awaiting a restart of the workstation.
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I've been dating this guy and things have been going amazing and I thought he was really interested in me. But then I saw on Sunday he liked some other girls pic. Before you start giving out and calling me insecure or a bunny boiler. My ex used to do this all the time and it turns out he was cheating on me with one or two of the girls. He would like there pic and then slide into their dm. Same with me if I upload a new pic the only guys only like it too creep.
i know it sounds silly to most but too me it's a massive form of disrespect. I don't do it when I'm with someone because I'm worried it would hurt their feelings because at the end of the day you're letting someone else known you find them attractive.
I really thought this this guy was different and it just makes me want to end it. I don't want to put myself through that worry. What should I do?
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I'm sorry, you need to grow up a bit. I like selfies because its a good pic not because i want to hook up with them. My wife does the same. We have been together for three years, and not once has she cheated on me, and nor have i cheated on her.
Its not disrespectful in any way unless he is leaving sexual comments. Let me put in a context that makes a little more sense. Just because he likes one kind of food does not mean that he loses all appreciation of other food. Its natural for both man and woman to look, and to control that aspect of your partner is both controlling on your part and reveals your insecurities.
At one point in time i dated someone that was like you. Of course in my case it wasn't selfies, it was the act of interacting with someone at a check out stand or any where else for that matter. Her impression was if i was talking to someone of the opposite sex that was not her, was not gay or was not actually a male or a family member, it was cheating. It went so far as to say that if i was out with her at a movie, and there was a love/romantic scene i was required to look only at her, not at the movie, because to look at the screen during that was cheating. I dropped her very quickly because i dont need that kind of BS in my life.
If you dont Grow up and look at it objectively i promise you will lose him.00|00|0
It is disrespectful. I had one married guy, i knew through fruends like every single picture one day I ran into him at bar. We started talking and he told me he liked all my pictures because he wanted to get my attention. Probably you and your wife don't do anything but don't tell me that others don't do for other motives. Because when I was single I did it myself I only liked people I found attractive and wanted them to know I did !!
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No, my guy does this but it's actually just because he thinks it's a good picture, but it actually means nothing to some people. Like it took me forever to get over this and I'm still ehhh.. about it, but I've seen the way he scrolls through IG and he literally likes just random things he comes across and doesn't give it a second glance, it almost just a habit thing, "oh nice picture, like." end. There have even been times I asked why he liked a picture and he literally doesn't remember doing it, and is like "i literally have no idea, I don't know it was probably just a good picture". He objectively recognizes that it's nice but it doesn't mean more.
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Atlantic City's longest-standing eyesores have started to disappear, nearly a decade after the local government started trying to shame property owners into taking responsibility for their dilapidated buildings.
City officials first polled residents on the worst eyesores in the resort in 2003, and released a list of the top 10 vote-getters in 2004 during Mayor Lorenzo Langford's first term. The initiative was meant to shame landlords into addressing run down buildings. That didn't work the first time or in 2005.
Langford tried again, releasing a new ranking a few months after being sworn into his second term in January 2010. And although it took until last spring, the owner of the Flanders — along with owners of two other sites on the list — started renovations.
Officials credit stricter local laws effective in October 2010.
Within six months, owners of the former Flanders hotel at 127 St. James Place started renovations. City construction official Wally Shields acknowledged the slow pace of the project, but said the activity is the only response in the 16 years since authorities first went after the building's former owners for code violations.
Nearby Knights of Columbus owner Ned Sakhai started addressing issues with his property last spring, too. Work there has since ceased because Sakhai says he's done enough to remove any physical danger to passers-by — enough to prevent the city from bulldozing his building, even if it's not inhabitable or aesthetically pleasing.
Abbott's Dairy on Route 30, a main artery into the city, is cleared of the former distribution center that sat vacant for more than 40 years, but no plans have been made public for the vacant land left behind. The same is true for most other sites cleared of dilapidated structures during the past year.
That's progress — not perfection.
But the activity satisfied Langford enough that he said he did not feel the need for another eyesores list this year.
Not everyone is satisfied.
Bart Szkamruk, 23, of Czestochowa, Poland, is spending the summer working in Atlantic City on a student work visa. On a recent afternoon, he walked past the old Flanders building on his way back from the Boardwalk. He'd noticed the scaffolding and work crews there — as well as blight elsewhere in the resort.
"In Poland, there are places where it's far worse than this. So it's nothing new for me, I think it's normal, but I thought it would be better here," he said. "It's too close to the Boardwalk to look like that, with these houses just collapsing. This is a tourist destination."
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For my birthday cake this year I swore I wasn't going to make any iceing, but I still wanted a decorated cake. Hubby and the kids normaly make me one, but this year hubby said he was just to tired. After a quick trip to Walmart we ended up with 1 can of frosting, 1 Pepridgefarms cake, and 1 packet of stickers from the stationary section. Of course we couldn't eat any of the decorations but after palying for about 5 minutes this is what I came up with. http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1474011.html
LOL I just love the idea and you more than likly had fun with the family and something to talk about in years to come.
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How much fun was that? You can just peel the decorations off and still have your cake and eat it too!
Well done!
Too funny! How creative was that!
That is too funny...if anyone makes me or buys me a cake this year I think I will have to ring their necks.......I love making them but am really sick of eating them LOL.
That is great! Hope you enjoyed it and had a good birthday!
Your cake is too cute. My DH bought me a Kmart marble whipped cream cake for my birthday Yucky, Yucky! My baby sister made me a Red Velvet cake from scratch, her and my niece decorated the cake and made her husband bring it to me at midnight when they finished, I was so toughed. (LOL) Happy Birthday to you!
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WILMINGTON — Properties in the Deerfield Valley joined others around the world when Tesla electric charging stations launched there last week.
"A few of our members who are Tesla (electric car) owners thought, 'Boy, wouldn't this be great?'" said Meredith Morin, communications director at the Hermitage Club.
Fourteen stations are now located at the Hermitage Club-owned properties such as the Club House and base lodge on its private ski resort at Haystack Mountain, Brook Bound Inn, Deerfield Valley Airport, Hermitage Golf Club, The Vermont House, The Snow Goose Inn, The Inn at Sawmill Farm, The Hermitage Inn and the White House Inn.
Each charger was tested and comes up on Tesla's grid, said Morin. But they can also be used by other electric vehicle owners free of charge.
Tesla Motors is based out of California. The company designs and manufactures electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. Over 90,000 of the company's electric vehicles are being used worldwide, according to a press release.
Alexis Georgeson, who handles communications for Tesla, said a critical component behind the adoption of electric vehicles is to create "a seamless and convenient" charging experience.
"The Destination Charging program replicates the convenience Model S owners are accustomed to at home by providing hotels, restaurants and resorts with the same connectors our owners often choose to install in their garages as a faster charging option," she said. "These 'High Power Wall Connectors' add nearly 60 miles of range per hour, easily charging Model S's 270 mile range in a few hours."
This charging system, Georgeson said, is becoming increasingly desirable for hotels and resorts worldwide. While businesses pick up the electricity bill, the stations attract Tesla owners to their property.
A destination charging map can be found at teslamotors.com. Georgeson said each gray dot on the map represents one property, which generally has multiple connectors.
"We're always happy to help destinations through the installation process," she said.
This announcement follows news that the Hermitage Club has entered into a solar deal. Up to 90 percent of the company's ski resort operations are expected to be powered through several solar farms.
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Great fun for everyone. We have Koldinghus, Jutland's last royal castle, danish design at the Trapholt art and design museum, as well as lots of activities for children. LEGOLAND is only about half an hour away! The beautiful natural environment around Kolding is perfect for outdoor activities such as mountain biking, canoeing and angling. We look forward to seeing you.
Kolding invites you to indulge in many different activities during the summer. Go on a treasure hunt in the castle Koldinghus, and see wonderful exhibitions on Trapholt.
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The opportunities for beautiful nature experiences are many in Kolding and they are all available by foot, bicycle or by the sea. Kolding is a beautiful sight from the sea. You can have an active holiday in Kolding. Play golf, go on your bike or rent a canoe.
Christiansfeld is probably the first city in Denmark, built by a decidedly urban plan of the visiting Moravian Brethren.
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Johnson & Johnson, a global healthcare giant based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, lost a product liability lawsuit surrounding its transvaginal mesh implants manufactured by Ethicon, a subsidiary of the company. This latest ruling against the company follows a disclosure that J&J is facing an investigation in 42 states regarding the marketing practices of its mesh implants.
A New Jersey jury ruled in favor of Linda Gross, a plaintiff who received a transvaginal mesh implant manufactured by Ethicon. Gross alleges that her physicians failed to warn her about all the potential risks of the device. In the lawsuit, Gross alleged that the device left her in chronic pain.
As the case stands, Ethicon will be required to pay out $3.4 million in damages. However, the company plans to appeal the ruling.
Sheri Woodruff is the communications vice president at Ethicon Surgical Care. In remarks shared with the press, she said, "We will present evidence to the jury ... in the punitive phase of the trial, which followed a mixed verdict by the jury." She continued, "While we are always concerned when a patient experiences medical conditions like those suffered by the plaintiff, all surgeries for pelvic organ prolapse present risks of complications."
The implications of this case could spell dire news for Ethicon and other companies that manufacture transvaginal mesh implants. As of now, approximately 1,800 related cases are on the New Jersey docket alone.
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Exclusive Summon is a type of summon that can be accessed from the Summonhenge. Exclusive summon requires 50 Summoning Stones and 10,000 Mana Stones. It can summon monsters of grade 3 to 5-Star from a pool of 16 select monsters.
Summon outcomes Edit
Exclusive Summoning is capable of summoning a 3- to 5-star monster from a subset of 16 monsters. The subset of monsters is changed every 7 days. The time remaining until the next refresh, as well as the current and next available monsters, can be seen in the Summonhenge by clicking the question mark icon.
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As with Mystical Summons and Mystical Scrolls, players are guaranteed at least a 3-Star monster. It is also important to note that you can acquire awakened versions of 3-Star or 4-Star monsters on the list.
The chance to receive any particular exclusive summon monster is NOT 1 out of 16. The chance to get a 4-star or 5-star monster is still very very small.
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Acquiring Summoning StonesEdit
- Guild Battle - Purchase 15 Summoning Stones for 170 Guild Points. Maximum three purchases per week, or 45 Summoning Stones per week.
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TV cartoon series to follow the travels of Ming the Minibus
Ming the Minibus, the star of a series of children's books by a Hong Kong teacher, is about to gain fame in an animated cartoon series about his travels around the world.
Australian Thomas Beckett, who teaches English, created the Ming books to help improve the English skills of pupils at Chinese schools.
Books such as Ming the Minibus in Dubai and Ming the Minibus in Europe tell stories about the bus and its driver taking children to different cities and countries.
Lenny Patsiner, consulting director of Good Link International, came across the article about Ming in the South China Morning Post and saw an opportunity to develop Ming the Minibus into a series. He said the cute character sent a great message to children through its interaction with people from all over the world.
Patsiner arranged for Dubai-based animation company EmariToons to produce the show, with music produced in Los Angeles.
Each of the 52 15-minute episodes features Ming the Minibus and Benny the Driver taking two pupils, Johnny and Wing, on trips to different cities or countries.
Other locally inspired characters in the cartoon include Ming's friends Fanny the Ferry and Graham the Garbage Truck. When Ming is abroad with the children, he meets other minibuses who show them around.
Patsiner said the series would teach its target audience, children between the ages of four and eight, three or four main facts about the various cities or countries featured in each episode.
The facts are reinforced at the end of each episode to assist learning. When Ming and the children land back in Hong Kong, Benny asks what they have learned from the trip.
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Type: RTS
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Tactera was born out of the Oculus Mobile VR Jam of 2015. After porting his first game, Darknet, to the GearVR, E. McNeill developed a full version of Tactera. The game is accessible as the core gameplay is simple, but playing it is a lot more than just point and clicks. It requires strategy and it requires fast thinking. It is a game of high quality and details and telling you upfront, one of the game to own on the GearVR.
But first things first, when launching the game, that plays in a virtual war room, you are taken to an in game menu. Everything is done and transitioned from that same war room. The menu offers you to launch one of the 3 game modes and gives you access to the option. One nice feature of the option is the ability to change the camera position. If you want to be close to the board and see the detailed combats, you can zoom in all the way to the side of the board. If on the otherhand you'd rather see most of the battlefield at once, you can pan out the camera and zoom out to a maximum height. Of course, the settings let you set it wherever fits you.
Before entering battle, you must select 3 units from 12 different ones. There are 3 types : Ground units, Air Units and Artillery. Each of them has their unique stats and weapons. Those stats are Armor, Mobility (speed), Firepower and Production Speed and the attributes let you know if it can attack air or ground units. A well balanced army is the key to victory. Faster deployment means more units you can spread out on the board while better Armor can be good to defend outposts. On the unit selection screen, you get to see individual stats and description of each unit, but as you build your team, you can also see the Team Stats on the top left to help you figure out the balance of your units put together.
Outposts are what build your units. At first both team starts with up to three outposts, one for each unit you chose. The remaining outposts are neutral so the first move is to rush to get as many as possible. Both teams will battle to earn as much as possible as more outposts means more units on the field. When capturing one; you can choose one of the 3 units to be automatically built by this new outpost. Even if the outpost is taken by the enemy and taken back by you, it will return to its original production. Captured outpost also have a defense system, but don't count on them too much, they can't offer enough to protect against two or more units. You can also upgrade or boost an outpost. Upgrading an outpost stops production for a while, but once upgraded it offers speeded up production. Boosting an outpost will speed up its production for a while but will stop it for good after making the outpost almost useless. When building units, outposts can keep up to three units undeployed before stopping production. You click on the outpost then click on the destination to deploy a unit there.
There are 3 different types of unit : Land, Air and Artillery (or Direct targeted strike). Land units are slower and are also affected by terrain blockades; they are usually stronger than the air unit counterpart. The air units are not affected by blockades and heavier units won't be able to attack them but they usually are easier to take down and lack greater firepower. Finally Artillery is buildings that send direct attacks of different area and strength. They can be used to turn tides in a fight against units or to reduce an outpost health to capture it faster and stop enemy production. Units move themselves around the board after the initial deployment. It will usually go to the nearest outpost and if enemy units are crossed, they engage them until someone is completely eliminated. You can also hold the touchpad on the field, creating an area of command that grows until you release the touchpad. The next click will send every unit in the selected area to go or attack the location marked.
The game offers 3 modes : Skirmish, Campaign and Multiplayer. The few times I played, I was not able to fight online, but it's the same a Skirmish. Those are one time battle where you choose your units, the map and how many outposts each player starts with. That's it.
Campaign adds a bit of tactics to it. Battles are just one part of the war. You have a map where you can send your units, up to 3 per sectors. Each turn, you can move units by 1 sector, leaving at least 1 per sector. Moving to the same sector as an enemy unit will trigger a battle at the end of the turn. Those units will represent the number of starting outposts for a battle. For example, if you attack a 3 unit zone with only one unit, the battle will start with you having 1 outpost against the AI having 3. It is also good to know that you will only be able to fight 1 battle as a Commander each turn. The remaining battles will be fought and the result decided automatically depending on the Unit Vs Unit ratio. There is also one little catch, when preparing for your battle, you will be prompted to choose 3 out of the 12 units, but each unit you choose cannot be taken for the next two battles. You have to choose wisely not to find yourself stuck with unbalanced units for a battle. Each turn you get extra units to deploy at your base (the far left of the board) depending on the remaining places on each area. Once the campaign is completed, it will reset it and raise the difficulty.
E. McNeill made another accessible, yet polished game. The core gameplay consist on sending units on the field and let them battle, but advanced mechanics makes it a game challenging enough to be able to develop some serious strategies. If the multiplayer was well alive, this would be a game of real competition and challenge. Unfortunately, like most titles out there, it is hard to find players. The game lets you play battles against AI while you wait so that is a major perk.
I really am a fan of both E. McNeill game. I think we need developpers that see the potential of VR like he does. Attention to small details and intuitive gameplay is really his strenght. Original graphics, good music and sound even voice actors is just a few things that make this a good VR title. If you want to find other players to play Tactera, we just launch a channel on our Discord chat: Join Here!
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Loon Lake is located in western Westminster within the city-owned Loon Lake Open Space. Situated southwest of the intersection of West 100th Avenue and Independence Street, the 10-acre lake is also found northeast of Standley Lake and southeast of Wayne Carle Middle School.
Properties to the north, east and southeast of Loon Lake are developed with residences and there is no access from these areas. The area to the northwest holds the school, and to the south and southwest is Standley Lake Regional Park, particularly its massive dam and drainageway. Loon Lake is hidden from view except from the west and south.
Public access to the lake is gained from two places - the Big Dry Creek Trail below the Standley Lake dam and the middle school's east parking lot. An informal trail from the school's parking lot takes visitors along the northwest side of the lake and the Big Dry Creek Trail provides limited access from the south.
Loon Lake and its surrounding open space were acquired by the City of Westminster through purchases completed between 2000 and 2010.
Also known as Borrow Pit Lake, Loon Lake dates back to the early 20th century and first appeared sometime after Standley Lake was completed in 1911. While the land where the lake sits might have been excavated in association with the Standley Lake project, the amount of soil removed from this location would have contributed just a tiny fraction of what was needed for the massive dam. It appears more likely to have been developed during the 1920s in association with the Mandalay Ditch which ran through this location.
The ditch was a project of John (Frank) and Katherine Church, members of one of the most notable pioneer ranching and farming families in the history of Westminster and northeastern Jefferson County. Katherine took over management of the family ranch and related enterprises in 1925 when her husband left to develop mining interests in southwestern Colorado. She became president of the Mandalay Irrigation Company and in this capacity worked to develop the Mandalay Ditch. In 1929, Katherine developed plans for a country subdivision near Lower Church Lake known as Mandalay Gardens.
The Mandalay Ditch originated from a headgate at the Church Ditch (developed years earlier by John's father, George Church) about one mile west of Loon Lake. From there, the Mandalay Ditch ran toward the southeast and then curved toward the northeast just above and parallel to the north shore of Loon Lake. It then crossed today's West 100th Avenue and ran north into Ketner Lake. A lateral branching from the Mandalay Ditch brought water into the south end of Loon Lake. There does not appear to have been any obvious outflow from Loon Lake although from Ketner Lake the outflow headed to the east.
Today Loon Lake is still fed from the Church and Mandalay ditches. However, the Mandalay Ditch now disappears into an approximately 500-yard-long pipe that runs under the Standley Lake drainageway as it approaches Loon Lake from the west.
Loon Lake also appears to have been associated at some time with a farmstead located along its north shore. The farmhouse there was present by the 1930s and still exists within the walled property north of the lake (currently used to store boats and recreational vehicles). Evidently used as a farm pond, Loon Lake would have stored water for the irrigation of crop fields.
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A program preparation report by Atkins assessing the potential environmental impacts of policy actions taken by the Hebei provincial government to tackle the long standing air pollution in the greater Beijing capital area has helped secure a loan of $300 million, the first ever policy based loan to the People's Republic of China (PRC) from the Asian Development Bank.
The greater Beijing capital area - comprising Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei (BTH) - is home to about 109 million people and accounts for 10 percent of the national gross domestic product. The region's unprecedented growth has resulted in serious air pollution from industrial and urban development, and from a sharp rise in the use of motor vehicles. Concentrations of inhalable particulate matter of less than 2.5 micrometres (PM2.5) in the area have reached several times higher than cities in developed countries. This has become a significant cause for concern - not only for local residents but also neighbouring countries and the rest of the world. The World Health Organization concludes that no amount of PM2.5 is safe.
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In addition to helping to reduce air pollution this project aims to contribute to the PRC's commitment to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by cutting the region's coal consumption, as discussed at COP 21 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris last November. Ultimately the project will contribute greatly to a better and healthier living environment for people of Beijing.
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I realize we know very little so far, but as far as Square-Enix's track record goes, is anyone besides me afraid to start the game as a mage? Specifically a blackmage-type character?
I've always loved Black Mage type jobs and would love to be one in FFXIV since I assume the magic animations will be phenomenal. But seeing how Blackmages were almost forgotten in FFXI, I'm a little wary to commit to another one.
Even in games before FFXI, there were usually more efficient ways of killing enemies without wasting MP to do so. I usually saved black magic for boss fights where I knew they would have exploitable weaknesses. For regular mobs I would just attack it until it dies.
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