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Vodafone is offering 100 percent cashback on its select prepaid recharges. This cashback comes in the form of multiple Rs. 50 coupons, which can be then availed in subsequent recharges, similar to how rivals Jio and Airtel have been offering their "100 percent cashback".
As of NDTV report, Vodafone is offering this full cashback to Rs. 399, Rs. 458, and Rs. 509 prepaid recharge users. The cashback coupons of Rs. 50 are credited to your account after the purchase of any of these packs, and they can be accessed via the MyVodafone app for subsequent recharges. This comes after Airtel recently announced a similar cashback to users on its Rs. 399 prepaid recharge, and is in line with something Jio has been offering for a long time.
According to the My Vodafone app, the 100 percent cashback is offered to Rs. 399, Rs. 458, and Rs. 509 prepard recharge users only. This cashback is offered in the form of Rs. 50 coupons, and the Rs. 399 recharge users get eight vouchers, while the Rs. 458 recharge users get nine vouchers and the Rs. 509 recharge users get 10 vouchers each.
Telecom Talk reports that Vodafone is also offering this cashback to Rs. 199 recharge users as well, in some circles. Furthermore, Vodafone users in Bihar and Jharkhand will not be able to avail this offer on the Rs. 409 (Rs. 399 in other circles) pack, and users in Himachal Pradesh can only avail the cashback on the Rs. 458 pack, and not on the other two…..Read More>>
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Emily Giffin is a major source of ebullience for me. She loves college football and the British royals, has a killer Instagram, and plays mom to one of the cutest Golden Retrievers to ever exist (who also, it's worth noting, has her own killer Instagram).
Emily and I have been together since I was 16 years old. I don't exactly know why I randomly picked up her first novel, Something Borrowed, at Barnes and Noble one day before volleyball practice, but I'm sure glad I did. Her books have brought me more laughter than most people in my life (and I know some funny people), and she's the only author to make me cry. Her characters feel like friends, in both relatable and unfamiliar ways, and she paints a badass female lead like nobody else. Her books are topics of conversation among my closest book babes, and I truly idolize her work. Therefore, Emily Giffin, you got ranked.
8.) Baby Proof
Emily is the queen of focusing her books on relevant topics in females' lives. And man does Baby Proof illustrate a very familiar theme among 21st century women: to have or to not have children. Now I did read Emily's third novel when I was a teenager, far from the throes of adulthood or a serious relationship (which validates the argument that where you are in your personal life dictates how lit a book can be), but the storyline didn't rivet me like her others. And as I'm writing this, I realized that nothing about it was that memorable. Maybe I should give it another shot, but for now, Baby Proof falls in last place.
7.) Heart of the Matter
Emily's first book characters, Rachel, Darcy, and Dex, will forever hold a special place in my heart. So when they made cameo appearances in Emily's fifth book, I nearly jumped through the ceiling. I wanted more of them even if they didn't play central roles in the plot, which probably means something was missing. I'm all about stories that demonstrate good people not always making the best or most moral choices (hello, we're all human), but "two separate lives converging" is a bit overdone for me. HOTM, you land at number 7.
6.) The One and Only
Everything about college football gets me going: the plays, the crowds, the pure excitement and adrenaline. So naturally I was drawn to Emily's seventh publication, which takes place in the heart of America's gridiron: Texas. While I loved the football scenes and the complexities to all of the characters, I wasn't feeling the love connection. It seemed random, not completely drawn out, and just a little too convenient. Plus, the main character, Shea, is a writer, and as a fellow writer and former journalist, I didn't agree with all of the choices she made. But then again, book characters aren't meant to lead a reader's perfect life.
5.) Love the One You're With
The thing I love most about Emily's stories is that they are the quintessential gray area. Right and wrong aren't always clear, moral dilemmas run amok, and that grass on either side is never the perfect shade. The fourth novel from Emily is the epitome of reality's grayness, and that's what I like best about it. The main character, Ellen, isn't perfect, and she tries to deal with that. She has depth, which even the best chick lit can sometimes lack. But still "the one who got away" storyline was a bit cliché, putting Love the One You're With barely in the back half of this list.
4.) Something Blue
Because its prequel is one of the best books to have ever been written, you'd expect to find Something Blue right behind it. But Emily's second novel can't compete with the top three. Even though Something Blue doesn't quite have the same spark or pack quite the punch that Something Borrowed does, it's still a solid and lovely read. And to compare the two isn't completely fair. As the prequel tells its story from Rachel's point of view, Blue tells it from Darcy's. And two characters have never been more different. Darcy proves how a significant event can truly change a person while keeping some of that same pizazz that made us love and hate her in the first place.
3.) First Comes Love
Having a sister (one who also loves Emily) brought out a certain familiarity while reading Emily's latest. Although Erin and I don't share the emotional distance that the book's main characters, Josie and Meredith, do, we're still very different, and I could relate to the writing. This was Emily's first book in two years, and it didn't let me down. There were moments of elation and laughter and definite moments of sadness; to put it simply, I didn't want to put it down. Plus, Meredith provides an excellent grammar lesson that made my heart swell. All grammatically challenged should pick it up.
2.) Something Borrowed
I know most of you were expecting the novel that introduced us to the queen of chick lit and modern literature to take home first place, but that spot is reserved for a book very near and dear to me. Oh Something Borrowed. Where do I even begin. Maybe it's because I see myself in Rachel–a little mousy, definitely Type A, and never saw herself getting the stud (side note: I finally got the stud). Maybe it's because it takes place in the city where my dreams literally came true, so I love reading of all the places and quirks that I know all too well. Maybe it's because the writing is literally some of the funniest I have ever seen. But most likely it's a culmination of all these things, and so much more, and how well they all work together that makes Something Borrowed magical every time I read it, which has to be nearing double digits by now.
1.) Where We Belong
When word got around to me about Emily's sixth book, I immediately preordered it, and the day it came in, I ran home and read it in less than 36 hours. There's so much I could say about this novel. I've told many people, and written many times on this blog, that only one book has made me cry: Where We Belong. The storyline is so powerful and different than anything I had read that it probably didn't need exceptional characters. But it had that too. They had such complexity, and their interactions with one another were both heartwarming and heart-wrenching. Plus, half of it takes place near my hometown (what up, STL??), and the little tidbits that characterized St. Louis, though so small most people probably missed them, were so on point that I found myself craving home. And I found myself missing my family, loving New York, feeling grateful for the people in my life, laughing out loud. Actually, this book made me feel so many emotions that I firmly believed I was part of it. Where We Belong isn't just at the top of this list; it's also at the top of my all-time list, and that's no easy feat.
"What's not to love is hardly a reason to love. And the catch of your life is not the same thing as the love of your life. Be careful of that subtle but rather crucial distinction." — Where We Belong
Photo credits to Mama Steffens and my other sister, Cortney.

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BP3 Global, an innovative BPM software and services provider, named eighth in the Best Places to Work in the Small Business category by the Austin Business Journal.
(PRWEB) June 30, 2015
BP3 Global is pleased to announce that it placed Eighth in Best Places to Work in Austin for 2015 in the Small Business Category (21-50 local employees) by the Austin Business Journal.
The Austin Business Journal employed an external firm to confidentially survey nominated companies? employees on such factors as company climate, team atmosphere, benefits, and employee engagement level. Those companies with the highest rated feedback where included on the list. The final rankings were announced at a celebratory Las Vegas themed luncheon at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Austin.
?Inclusion on the Austin Business Journal 2015 Best Places to Work List is humbling in this competitive market.? said co-founder and CEO, Lance Gibbs. ?Its great to be recognized. We work with a great group of people.?
?This is our second year in a row on the list,? Scott Francis, co-founder and CTO said,??but to be honest, it has felt like one of the best places to work in Austin for a lot longer than that."?
BP3 was the only BPM-focused firm on the list.BP3 is an industry leader in business process management and has more experience deploying BPM solutions throughout the Fortune 500 than any other firm.
Beyond providing first class service for its clients, BP3 also strives to create a first class working environment for its employees. Perks and benefits at BP3 include fully funded health, life and long term disability insurance, unlimited PTO, 401(k) and student loan repayment matching, a yearly company wide off-site and an engaging and collaborative atmosphere. The brand new BP3 office also features a fully stocked kitchen, downtown views, ping pong and shuffle board tables, an on-site cafe?, and fitness center.


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In an earlier paper we described the transcriptionally regulated differential levels of expression of two lipoproteins of Borrelia burgdorferi, P35 and P7.5, during growth of the spirochetes in culture from logarithmic phase to stationary phase (K. J. Indest, R. Ramamoorthy, M. Solé, R. D. Gilmore, B. J. B. Johnson, and M. T. Philipp, Infect. Immun. 65:1165–1171, 1997). Here we further assess this phenomenon by investigating whether the expression of other antigens of B. burgdorferi, including some well-characterized ones, are also regulated in a growth-phase-dependent manner in vitro. These studies revealed 13 additional antigens, including OspC, BmpD, and GroEL, that were upregulated 2- to 66-fold and a 28-kDa protein that was downregulated 2- to 10-fold, during the interval between the logarithmic- and stationary-growth phases. Unlike with these in vitro-regulated proteins, the levels of expression of OspA, OspB, P72, flagellin, and BmpA remained unchanged throughout growth of the spirochetes in culture. Furthermore, ospAB, bmpAB,groEL, and fla all exhibited similar mRNA profiles, which is consistent with the constitutive expression of these genes. By contrast, the mRNA and protein profiles of ospCand bmpD indicated regulated expression of these genes. While bmpD exhibited a spike in mRNA expression in early stationary phase, ospC maintained a relatively higher level of mRNA throughout culture. These findings demonstrate that there are additional genes besides P7.5 and P35 whose regulated expression can be investigated in vitro and which may thus serve as models to facilitate the study of regulatory mechanisms in an organism that cycles between an arthropod and a vertebrate host.
Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochete that causes Lyme disease, is a remarkably adaptable bacterium. During its life cycle, it is able to survive in the midguts of vector ticks (of the Ixodes ricinus complex) both in the presence and absence of host blood and in the ticks' saliva. In addition, after withstanding the transit between a poikilothermal and a homeothermal host (usually a rodent) (16), it will colonize practically every organ of the latter. It stands to reason that numerous changes must take place on the spirochetal surface in anticipation of, or after transfer to, a new host or host environment. Several such changes have been observed, yet their functional significance remains unknown. For example, following a tick blood meal, there is a switch in the major surface protein from OspA to OspC (5, 6, 23). Another antigen, P21, appears to be selectively expressed in the mammalian host and not in ticks (3, 26). However, little else is known about other adaptive changes, especially the ones that do not involve antigens, primarily due to the difficulty in harvesting a sufficient number of spirochetes from their hosts for direct examination.
In a recent publication, we showed that the expression of two plasmid-borne genes that encode the lipoproteins P35 (7, 8) and P7.5 (11) of B. burgdorferi is upregulated in the post-logarithmic and stationary phases during growth of the spirochetes in culture (9). We demonstrated further that the upregulation of expression of these genes correlated with higher levels of their mRNA during the later stages of in vitro growth. The phenomenon of growth phase regulation of genes in B. burgdorferi is of biological relevance because the spirochetal population experiences alternating periods of rapid growth and quiescence during its transit through the ticks (4, 19). We therefore decided to investigate more thoroughly this phenomenon with the long-term objective of developing models for understanding the life cycle of the spirochete within a tick. As a result of this study, we have now identified additional candidate proteins that are differentially expressed or upregulated in B. burgdorferiduring growth in vitro from logarithmic to stationary phase. We present the results of our study in this paper.
Bacterial strains.The JD1 strain of B. burgdorferi originally isolated from an Ixodes dammini(scapularis) nymph (18) was used for this study. The Escherichia coli strain used was XL1 Blue (Stratagene, La Jolla, Calif.).
In vitro culture conditions. B. burgdorferi JD1 (passage 5) was cultured in BSK-H medium (Sigma Chemical Company, St. Louis, Mo.) as described previously (20) with the following modifications. Briefly, 750 ml of fresh BSK-H medium was inoculated with 1.5 ml of a frozen stock of the JD1 strain of B. burgdorferi to yield a starting cell density of 105spirochetes/ml. The cell density was monitored daily by counting spirochetes under dark-field microscopy. Cells were harvested on days 3 (at a cell density of 4 × 106 spirochetes per ml), 4 (2 × 107 per ml), 6 (8 × 107 per ml), and 8 (1 × 108 per ml), and whole-cell lysates for protein analysis and RNA for Northern blot analysis were prepared. Sample volumes were adjusted for the various cell densities (see below). An aliquot of cells in the stationary phase (day 8) was reinoculated into fresh BSK-H medium at an initial density of 105 spirochetes per ml as described above and allowed to progress to stationary phase, at which point the cells were subcultured for one final growth cycle. Cells in the log phase of this last subculture, i.e., of passage 8, hereinafter designated "logrev" for log revertant, were also processed for protein and RNA analyses as mentioned above.
Antibodies.Mouse monoclonal antibodies H5332 and H9724, specific for the B. burgdorferi proteins OspA and flagellin, respectively, were purchased from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center (San Antonio). Additional mouse monoclonal antibodies that are specific to B. burgdorferi OspB, BmpA (P39), GroEL, and a 72-kDa protein were kindly provided by Barbara Johnson, Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Ft. Collins, Colo., and an anti-OspC monoclonal antibody (L221F8) (28) was provided by Bettina Wilske, Max von Pettenkofer Institut, Munich, Germany. Finally, the P35-specific monoclonal antibody has been described previously (9). A mouse monospecific polyclonal antibody directed against the BmpD protein of B. burgdorferi, was generated as follows. The mature BmpD polypeptide starting at Cys17 was expressed with a leader peptide, Met-Arg-Gly-Ser-His6-Gly-Ser-Cys, in which the cysteine residue represents the first residue of the mature BmpD sequence. This His6 affinity-peptide-tagged BmpD protein was purified with a nickel-nitrilotriacetic acid-agarose affinity column as per the instructions of the manufacturer (Stratagene). C57BL/10.j mice were intraperitoneally immunized with 15 μg of the fusion protein emulsified in complete Freund's adjuvant (Sigma). Thereafter, the mice received one of two more injections of the same antigen in Freund's incomplete adjuvant (Sigma) at 1- and 2-months intervals and were bled 2 weeks after the last immunization.
Preparation of protein samples, SDS-PAGE, and Western blotting.Cultures (100 ml for sample 1 [4 × 106/ml] [see Fig. 1A] and 50 ml for the rest of the samples) were spun down at 5,000 × g at 4°C for 10 min in a tabletop centrifuge and washed with 1 ml of a wash buffer (20 mM HEPES [pH 7.6], 10 mM NaCl) (2). The washed spirochetes were then resuspended in 100 μl of the wash buffer, and the optical density at 600 nm (OD600) of a 1:100 dilution of this was measured in a spectrophotometer. The remainder of the cells was adjusted with wash buffer and 3× sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) lysis buffer such that the final lysate concentration was equivalent to an OD600 of 1, thus normalizing each sample by cell mass.
The protein samples (10 μl/lane) were electrophoresed through a 12.5% polyacrylamide gel and electroblotted onto nitrocellulose paper (Schleicher & Schuell, Keene, N.H.). The transferred proteins were reacted with B. burgdorferi-infected rhesus monkey serum (K216, 6 weeks postinfection) (22) or with monoclonal and polyclonal antibody reagents specific for several well-characterizedB. burgdorferi antigens by a procedure described previously (1). For staining of proteins with silver, lysate samples were diluted 10-fold in sample buffer to a concentration equivalent to an OD600 of 0.1 and processed according to the protocol of the manufacturer (Bio-Rad, Hercules, Calif.).
RNA isolation and Northern blotting.RNA isolation and Northern blotting of spirochetal samples taken at specific time points along the growth curve were performed essentially as described previously (21). Equal amounts (3 μg/lane) of the RNA samples were electrophoresed through a 1.4% agarose gel in the presence of 2.2 M formaldehyde. In addition to spectrophotometrically quantifying RNA, we stained one blot with methylene blue prior to hybridization to confirm equal loadings of the RNA samples that were obtained at the different time points.
The DNA probes used for hybridization either were restriction fragments from cloned genes or were generated by PCR. PCR primers were designed to amplify only the coding sequences of the relevant genes. The probes were radiolabeled with [α-32P]dATP and the Klenow fragment of DNA polymerase I (Prime-a-Gene kit from Promega Biotech, Madison, Wis.). Reaction mixtures were primed with either random hexamers or gene-specific primers complementary to the RNA sequence. All Northern blots were washed as described previously (21) between 50 and 60°C and exposed to X-ray film.
Quantification of bands on Western and Northern blots.The blots were digitized with a scanner (Hewlett-Packard Scanjet 4c), and individual bands in the digitized images were quantified with Digital Science 1D software, version 2.02 (Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N.Y.).
In a recent paper we described the cell density-dependent expression of B. burgdorferi lipoproteins P7.5 and P35, during growth of the spirochetes in culture (9). In this study we explored the possibility that other B. burgdorferiproteins were similarly differentially expressed during growth in vitro. Samples collected at time points along the growth curve that corresponded to the logarithmic (days 3 and 4), postlogarithmic (day 6), and stationary (day 8) phases were processed for protein and RNA analysis (Fig. 1A). In order to distinguish between proteins that are truly differentially expressed versus those whose expression may be irreversibly affected for unknown reasons, we also analyzed spirochetes from the same batch after they had undergone two additional cycles of growth. Accordingly, we have designated this sample of spirochetes harvested at a cell density similar to that of the parental day 4 logarithmic phase culture "logrev" to indicate the cells' phenotypic reversion to their predecessors' logarithmic-phase phenotype.
Profile of protein expression in B. burgdorferi during growth from log to stationary phase in vitro.Initially, we analyzed the protein samples from the different time points along the growth curve by one-dimensional SDS-PAGE followed by silver staining. This method identified two proteins, 23 and 28 kDa in size, that were differentially expressed against a background of several bands that remained fairly constant in intensity (Fig. 1B). The level of expression of the 28-kDa protein was 2-fold higher in the experiment shown in Fig. 1B (Table 1) and 10-fold higher in a previous experiment (data not shown) early during the logarithmic phase than its level of expression in the stationary phase. In contrast, increasing amounts of the 23-kDa protein accumulated within the cell during growth from logarithmic to stationary phase (Table 1). The 23-kDa band corresponded to the lipoprotein OspC (discussed later). The other proteins that are also known to be differentially expressed, such as P35 and P7.5 (9) and the antigens newly identified in this study by Western blotting (see below), are not apparent in the silver-stained gel, perhaps due to their poor overall levels of expression (P35) or, in the case of P7.5, because they were run off the gel.
In addition to silver staining, the same set of protein samples was also examined by Western blotting with serum from a rhesus monkey with an acute infection with spirochetes from the JD1 strain of B. burgdorferi in a search for antigens that are expressed early in infection and are differentially regulated in vitro. This serum recognized at least 18 distinct bands in the Western blot of the whole-cell lysate from strain JD1 (Fig. 1C). Ten of these bands, which correspond to proteins of 15, 16.5, 22, 23, 28, 29, 31, 34, 35, and 43.5 kDa, were upregulated between 2- to 50-fold during growth from logarithmic phase to stationary phase (Fig. 1C; Table 1). More specifically, the levels of expression of all 10 proteins steadily increased between days 3 (logarithmic phase) and 8 (stationary phase) of culture, an expression pattern similar to those described for P35 and P7.5 (9). It is very likely that the 23- and the 35-kDa bands are OspC and P35, respectively. The levels of expression of a majority of the 10 proteins in the logrev sample were between the levels found on days 4 and 6, as was expected from the intermediate position of the logrev sampling point on the growth curve. Apart from the changes noted for these 10 bands, there were no significant changes in the intensities of the remaining bands among the samples from days 3, 4, 6, 8, and logrev.
Examination by Western and Northern blotting of the expression of several well-characterized antigens during in vitro growth of B. burgdorferi.Next, we determined whether the expression of some of the well-characterized borrelial antigens was affected by the growth phase of the spirochetes. Western blots were analyzed with monoclonal antibodies to BmpD, GroEL, flagellin, OspC, and P35 (Fig.2), as well as to OspA, OspB, BmpA (P39), and P72 (not shown). P35 was included as a control for a growth-phase-regulated protein because in a previous study we had demonstrated that its expression was upregulated during the postexponential stages of growth (9).
The Western blots did not reveal any significant changes in the levels of OspA, OspB, BmpA, flagellin, and P72 during in vitro growth ofB. burgdorferi JD1, but they did reveal average increases of four- and twofold in the levels of BmpD and GroEL, respectively, between the samples drawn on days 3 and 8 (Fig. 2; Table2). In contrast, the level of OspC increased up to 66-fold between the day 3 (logarithmic phase) and day 8 (postlogarithmic phase) time points (Fig. 2; Table 2), which was consistent with the pattern observed for the 23-kDa protein in the silver-stained gel and the Western blot developed with the infected monkey serum. As expected, the expression of the control protein P35 was discernible only in the postlogarithmic and stationary phases (Fig.2).
In order to correlate the protein expression with mRNA expression for the above-described antigens of B. burgdorferi during growth in culture, their steady-state mRNA profiles were visualized by Northern blotting and probing with gene-specific sequences. Except withbmpA and P35, where the probe hybridized to multiple transcripts, in all other instances the gene-specific probes detected a single transcript. The measured sizes of the transcripts for the examined genes were as follows: 1.8 kb for ospAB; 0.9 kb for ospC; 2.4, 1.6, and 1.1 kb for bmpA; 1.3 kb for bmpD; 1.75 kb for groEL; 1.35 kb forfla; and 0.8, 1.0, and 1.2 kb for P35 (Fig.3).
The changes in the mRNA profiles of ospAB, fla,groEL, and bmpA (all three detected transcripts) were nearly indistinguishable from each other (Fig. 3). In each case, there was a progressive decline in the level of mRNA between the level found on day 4 and the level found on day 8 (Table3). This finding is not surprising and is in fact expected of most genes, given the gradual deceleration in the various metabolic processes, including transcription, that occurs in cells between the log and stationary phases. The bmpD mRNA steady-state profile was overall similar to those of the above-described genes except that the level peaked on day 6 (Fig. 3; Table 3), which can be best described, based on the growth curve in Fig. 1A, as an early-stationary-phase time point. We also probed one Northern blot with the P35 sequence to verify that the results obtained were not a consequence of unequal levels of loading of the RNA samples. The P35 probe hybridized to three transcripts of 0.8, 1.0, and 1.2 kb. This is not surprising because the recent sequence analysis of the B. burgdorferi genome revealed the presence of multiple homologs of this gene (7), and therefore, the three transcripts may correspond to three differentP35 homologs. Nevertheless, there was a steady increase in the cumulative level of the three transcripts as the spirochetes progressed to the stationary phase. This was consistent with the steady increase in the level of the P35 protein during the same time period (Table 3).
In this paper we have extended our earlier study of the phenomenon of the regulated expression of genes in B. burgdorferi during growth in vitro. We generally searched for proteins that might be differentially expressed during in vitro growth of these spirochetes and also specifically evaluated some of these organisms' best-characterized antigens. We have so far identified 13 proteins whose expression levels are affected in cultured spirochetes during growth from the logarithmic to the stationary phase. These proteins include the previously described P35 and P7.5 (9) and, from this study, P15, P16.5, P22, P23 (OspC), P27, P28, P29, P31, and P43.5, based on an estimation of their apparent molecular weights as determined by SDS-PAGE. With the exception of P28, the expression of the other seven newly identified proteins, including OspC, increased steadily during growth from logarithmic to stationary phase, a pattern of expression similar to that of P35 and P7.5. P28, on the other hand, was expressed at a relatively higher level in the logarithmic phase than in the stationary phase.
Among the previously characterized proteins individually tested with specific monoclonal antibodies, OspC, GroEL, and BmpD displayed differential levels of expression during growth of the spirochetes in culture. The expression of OspA, OspB, BmpA, flagellin, and P72 remained largely constant throughout the culture period. There was an excellent correlation between the mRNA and protein levels forospAB, bmpA, and fla. WithgroEL, the marginal increase in the protein level during the later stages of growth did not correspond to its mRNA levels at these time points. Nevertheless, the overall good correlation between the protein and the mRNA levels is strong evidence that the expression of these genes, including groEL, is predominantly controlled at the transcriptional level during in vitro growth of spirochetes in BSK-H medium. Furthermore, the close resemblance of the steady-state protein and RNA profiles of ospAB, bmpAB,groEL, and fla may mean that these genes are regulated (or unregulated) similarly at the transcriptional level. However, this may not always be true of ospAB andfla. ospAB expression has been found to be quite varied at the RNA level among strains and between the different passages of a given strain (10, 13). In addition, a DNA-binding activity that binds to a region upstream of theospAB operon has been demonstrated recently in stationary-phase spirochetes (14). Based on the 5′ flanking DNA sequence, it has been speculated that the expression of thefla gene may be under the control of an alternative sigma factor and hence may be regulated (17).
The expression of OspC increased steadily during the transition from logarithmic to stationary phase. However, the expression of OspC in the logrev sample was not always as expected. In one experiment, there was very little expression of OspC in the logrev sample (data not shown), whereas its level of expression in a repeat experiment was consistent with the pattern of a steady increase with the increasing age of the culture (Fig. 1B and C). Several other studies have also demonstrated the variable expression of OspC in cultured spirochetes (12, 15, 25, 28). More importantly, OspC has been shown to be upregulated by a shift in culture temperature from 24 to 37°C (24) and this induction occurs at the transcriptional level (27). It is interesting to speculate, based on the results from this study, thatospC expression may also be regulated transcriptionally and translationally during growth in culture. First, the level ofospC mRNA was relatively higher than those ofospAB, bmpAB, groEL, andfla throughout the culture period, suggesting thatospC transcription may be active during both the logarithmic and postlogarithmic phases, although the persistence of theospC mRNA may also reflect increased messenger stability. Second, while the ospC mRNA level peaked on day 4 (late logarithmic phase) the protein level reached a maximum only on day 6 (early stationary phase) (Fig. 1B and 2). By contrast, as mentioned above, the levels of expression of other proteins, such as OspA, OspB, flagellin, BmpA, and GroEL, correlated very well with their levels of mRNA. This result hints at the possibility of additional translational control of ospC expression.
The expression of bmpD also appears to be regulated in vitro, but the pattern of RNA expression suggests an entirely different mechanism from that of ospC or P35 RNA expression. The levels of bmpD mRNA and protein peaked at the onset of the stationary phase, unlike those of the genes that are expressed early in logarithmic phase and of the 11 antigens, includingP7.5, P35, and ospC, whose expression continued to increase late in growth. The notion of regulated expression of bmpD is supported by the presence of a 13-bp inverted repeat sequence upstream of the gene and overlapping the putative −35 region (21). Furthermore, this overlap of the inverted repeat with the −35 region and the lack of a consensus −35 sequence suggest that bmpD may be positively regulated, being turned on or induced by the binding of a transcriptional activator to the inverted-repeat region.
Interestingly, in all our Western blots developed either with infected-monkey serum or with specific monoclonal antibodies we saw no evidence for a decrease in the levels of antigens during the culture period. In other words, once these antigens were synthesized, their levels were maintained by the bacterial cell throughout the culture period. Included in this group of antigens are some of the well-characterized lipoproteins of B. burgdorferi such as OspA, OspB, OspC, BmpA, and BmpD and the nonlipidated flagellin. Therefore, the diminished expression of proteins such as OspA and OspB that has been observed in tick-borne spirochetes after a tick blood meal (23) may reflect a combination of transcriptional repression of the OspAB operon and selective loss of these proteins during rapid spirochetal multiplication.
The 18 proteins, including OspC, that are recognized by the serum of the B. burgdorferi-infected rhesus monkey correspond to antigens that are present in the spirochete during the early stages of infection. However, OspC expression is known to be turned on in the spirochetes within the tick gut during the course of a blood meal and to continue following infection of the mammalian host. It is tempting then to speculate that the other nine antigens that are upregulated like OspC during growth from logarithmic to stationary phase in vitro may also be similarly turned on within the tick during the course of the blood meal prior to invasion of the mammalian host. Surprisingly, the same serum failed to bind to the abundantly expressed and logarithmic-phase-specific protein P28. This may simply mean that P28 is not immunogenic or that it is absent in spirochetes during the early stages of invasion of the mammalian host.
To summarize, in our earlier paper we suggested that the lipoprotein P35, whose expression is transcriptionally regulated in vitro, might be used as a model to dissect mechanisms of gene expression in B. burgdorferi. We have now identified other proteins, including BmpD, OspC, and P28, all of which also may be used for this purpose.
This work was supported by grants AI 35027 and RR00164 from the National Institutes of Health.
We thank Laura Povinelli for help with the production of mouse anti-BmpD antiserum and Barbara J. B. Johnson (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colo.) and Bettina Wilske (Max von Pettenkofer Institut) for kindly providing monoclonal antibodies. The excellent secretarial help of Christie Trew and the photographic skill of Murphy Dowouis are acknowledged with thanks.
Editor: J. G. Cannon
- Received 22 September 1997.
- Returned for modification 4 November 1997.
- Accepted 31 August 1998.
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Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan, Wednesday said that the 911 emergency telephone line is one step closer to being fixed. The Minister noted that clearance has been given to Digicel (Guyana) Limited to ship the equipment needed to have the 911 system back up and running. "Digicel won the contract for purposes for getting the equipment to be installed ...Read More »
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Several witnesses absent from NGMC alleged fraud trial; Ramjattan partly satisfied with SOCU's work in face of constraints
by Gary Eleazar and Denis Chabrol Even as Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan on Wednesday expressed partial satisfaction with the work of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) in probing alleged financial crimes committed during the People's Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) administration, a trial into alleged fraud at the New Guyana Marketing Corporation (NGMC) saw the absence of several witnesses. ...Read More »
Man on the run after allegedly strangling wife
Police in 'D' Division are making stringent efforts to quickly apprehend a male suspect who allegedly strangled his reputed wife, in his Parika, East Bank Essequibo home, about 7:30 Wednesday morning, the Guyana Police Force said. Investigations have so far revealed that the victim Dhanwantie Ram, 29, after encountering several domestic abuses, four days ago left her reputed husband's ...Read More »
Ramjattan defends CPGs 30,000 patrols with 89 arrests
by Gary Eleazar The 166 Community Policing Groups across the country, in December last year conducted some 30,000 vehicular, motorcycle and other type patrols and arrested a total of 89 persons but Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan, believes monies invested in the organization is monies well spent at this stage. With a staffing strength of 4,347 persons—rivaling the staffing strength ...Read More »


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Chocolate Frosted Brownies
Thick and Fudgey Chocolate Frosted Brownies topped with a thick layer of Chocolate Buttercream Frosting.
I decided to make you one of my favorite desserts: Brownies! These brownies are DANGEROUS! They are extremely rich, fudgey and chocolatey. Just how a brownie should be. I frosted the brownies with an amazing chocolate buttercream. It's rich, fluffy, creamy and smooth. I made the frosting with lots of butter, cocoa and Silk Soy Milk.
To get a fudgy and chewy brownie I used as little flour as possible. More flour makes for a cake like brownie. Firm around the edges but soft on the inside was what I was after.
Brown sugar was added for extra sweetness and to give the brownie extra moisture. I made the brownies with chocolate chips instead of traditional cocoa powder for a fudgier brownie.
Serve these Chocolate Frosted Brownies with a tall glass of ice cold milk!
Chocolate Frosted Brownies
Chocolate Frosted Brownies
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter use dairy free if on a plant-based diet
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup light brown sugar
- 1½ cups semi sweet chocolate chips use dairy free if on a plant-based diet
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup all purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
- 8 tablespoons 1 stick unsalted butter, softened (use dairy free if on a plant-based diet)
- 5 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 - 2 cups confectioners sugar
- 1/4 Silk Soy Milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
Chocolate Frosted Brownies
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Line a 9 x 9 or 8 x 8 pan with aluminum foil. Lightly spray with cooking spray or grease with butter. Set aside.
- Add butter and both sugars to a medium saucepan and stir until melted.
- Take off the heat and stir in chocolate chips until melted.
- Add eggs and vanilla to a medium bowl. Whisk to combine.
- Stir 1 teaspoon of the chocolate mixture into the egg mixture to temper the eggs.
- Add the rest of the chocolate mixture to the egg mixture and whisk to combine.
- In a large bowl add flour and salt.
- Add chocolate mixture to the dry ingredients and fold gently. Do not over mix.
- Add batter to the prepared pan and bake for 25-30 minutes or until the top is set and a toothpick comes out clean.
- Take out of the oven and allow the brownies to cool completely before taking them out of the pan.
- Frost the brownies with the Chocolate Buttercream Frosting. Cut into 9 brownies. (If you are having trouble cutting the brownies place in the fridge for the icing to harden up. This will make them easier to cut.)
Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
- Add butter to a stand mixer with the whisk attachment. Beat until fluffy.
- Add in cocoa powder, confectioners sugar, milk and vanilla extract. Beat until thick and creamy. If frosting is too thick add more milk. If it is too runny add more powdered sugar.
- Set aside until ready to frost brownies.


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Dan's Down Dog and Dash is a Yoga and 5k event in the heart of Wayne Pennsylvania. It is a celebration of community, movement and fun. This race honors Dan Schultz, whose fight against cancer and approach to life emphasized the importance of surrounding yourself with a wonderful community, remaining mentally fit and maintaining physical activity. Proceeds from this event will benefit For Pete's Sake, the Schultz Kids Education Fund, as well as other organizations and causes near and dear to our hearts. Dan's Down Dog and Dash is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people, "Live Life to the Fullest"!
Whether you've never been able to bend over and touch your toes, you've never completed a 5K or you're someone who is looking to work on your speed for your marathon training, please join us for a wonderful community event open to ALL! Dan's Down Dog and Dash will be a morning of community connection, movement and FUN! We will start with a short yoga session at St. Katherine of Siena, Wayne, PA (No yoga mat required, just a smile) led by Kristin Page, followed by a 5K run/walk.
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When: Saturday, October 19th, 2019
Where: St. Katherine of Siena, Wayne, PA
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The Inside Scoop: 5 Tips for Dealing With Collection Phone Calls
Are you currently being hounded by debt collectors? Getting collection calls every few hours during the day can be pretty overwhelming and possibly even make your debt problems seem bigger than they really are. Even if your phone is ringing off the hook all day long, it might only be one or two collection agencies attempting to get a hold of you; they just happen to be re-dialing your phone number over and over again in hopes someone will eventually pick up.
Answer the phone
Most debt collection agencies use automatic dialing systems that give them the ability to dial thousands of phone numbers multiple times every day. When you answer the call, the debt collection agent on the other end of the line is supposed to put a hold on your account for at least a day or more (depending on state law) to ensure you are not contacted again on the same day. So, next time you get a collection call, consider picking up the phone and it might just make for a more peaceful day.
What if I can't pay?
If you are caught off guard by a bill collector, you have every right to get the facts about the debt before you make a repayment agreement. In fact, a bill collector is required to send you a written validation notice telling you how much money you owe within five days after they first contact you. The validation notice needs to include the name of the creditor where money is owed, and how to dispute the debt if you feel it is a mistake.
If you are unsure what you can afford to pay, ask for their contact information, and tell them you will call them back after you have a chance to sit down, review your budget, and figure out what you can really afford to do. I can't even tell you how many of my clients have agreed to monthly check by phone payments that were not affordable. They agreed to the payment simply to get the collector off of their back. Don't do that.
Figure out how much you can afford to pay the collection agency BEFORE you agree to a payment. Analyze your budget and figure out what is realistic for you so you do not buckle under the pressure and agree to something you are unable to afford. Need help with the budget part. Call us!
Don't change your phone number just to dodge collection calls
Collection agencies have access to skip tracing tools to help them find your new digits even if it is a cell phone or an unlisted number. If the calls are really that stressful and you feel they are jeopardizing your well being, then you do have the right to send them a letter to request they correspond through regular mail only and cease all phone contact. Send your letter certified mail so you know when they receive it and make sure to keep a copy of the letter for your records. Keep in mind that if you do this, they could decide to move forward with a lawsuit to garnish wages.
If you are getting collection calls at your place of employment, you can verbally tell them to stop calling you there. You do not have to send your request in writing. You simply tell the collector who called you that you are not allowed to get calls at work and then ask them to remove your work number.
Document every phone call
Make sure you document the name of the collection agency, who you spoke with, what was discussed and the date and time of the call. It is always a good idea to keep good records of all phone conversations with debt collectors. If they call you at work again after you verbally told them not to, you have the right to pursue legal action. With good documentation, a judge could require the debt collection agency to pay you up to $1,000 or more than that if you can prove that you lost wages or accrued medical bills as a result of the illegal collection practices.
Where do I go for help?
If you feel your consumer rights have been violated you should consult with a consumer attorney. You can obtain a list of consumer attorneys in your area online through the National Foundation of Consumer Advocates website. You should also report any problems you have with a debt collector to your state Attorney General's office and the Federal Trade Commission.
LSS Financial Counseling can also provide you with free budget and debt counseling. We are here to help you figure out a plan to resolve your collection debt problems and equip you with the tools and knowledge necessary to turn your financial situation around and get you back on track. Give us a call at 1-888-577-2227 or visit our website at www.ConquerYourDebt.org to schedule an appointment today! We would love to help you in person, over the phone or even online.
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- November 25, 2016
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We've come across a number of rooftop gardens but none of them can compare to a forest in the sky. The lush greenery, smell of fresh air and a touch of zen are what makes Skyforest in Acappella a unique and different space compared to the rest of the sky gardens out there.
Little did you know, a Skyforest and Skylawn is nestled atop Acapella Suite Hotel in Shah Alam. Hardly within the vicinity of the public's eye, this is the perfect space to host private and intimate celebrations.
The Skyforest awaits you and your guests on the 20th floor. Enter a whole new world which exudes positive energy, instantly making you feel at ease and zen. While you're in an air-conditioned and confined space, the large window panels allow the space to be bathed in natural sunlight, brightening the space in its entirety.
Take it from us, this venue is perfect for small-scale private events ranging from weddings, parties and baby or bridal showers. Depending on how the seating arrangement is done, it can comfortably accommodate between 150 to 180 seated pax. There's also a private outdoor area which doubles up as food preparation station or a private section for an outdoor baby or bridal shower to be held!
Private outdoor area
This versatile venue can either be dressed up or down to best suit your preference. Corporate events are welcomed to host press conferences and product launches in this space. Better still, if the theme of their event or brand is relevant to nature or organic products – Skyforest is the perfect fit as it is surrounded by lush greenery.
When booking the Skyforest, it comes with complimentary usage of the Skylawn which is the most impressive part of their space. Take a short flight of stairs up and you'll reach an outdoor rooftop with perfectly manicured lawn which will WOW you and your guests the moment you step in.
The Skylawn is spacious enough to host intimate ROM ceremonies, cocktail parties, starlight cinemas, yoga or fitness activities, photo shoots and video shoots. Host your ROM ceremony in the Skylawn and continue with a wedding luncheon in the Skyforest or have a product launch in the Skyforest and continue with a cocktail reception on the Skylawn! The Skylawn comfortably accommodates up to 100 guests.
Apart from the Skyforest, Acappella Suite Hotel also has many other function rooms within their hotel which are open to hosting your next event. Their ballroom is perfect for weddings and function halls are ideal for meetings, conferences and workshops.
If you're interested in hosting an event in the Skyforest, request for a FREE quotation here. Or contact us today at +6016-7200 347 or if you would like to do it more formally, head over to www.venuescape.my and drop us a request!


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For years, one of the biggest gets in Hollywood was the movie rights to the graphic novel series Sin City. Penned from 1991 to 2000 by Frank Miller, whose The Dark Knight Returns resurrected the Batman franchise, Sin City was emblematic of a new generation of comics that replaced the candy-colored superhero with an angst-ridden antihero. Sin City's hardnosed dialog, cinematic compositions, and kinetic violence evoked classic Warner Bros. crime films more than Marvel's men in tights. Handsome movie offers followed, but Miller didn't bite. He'd been burned by the studio system before: In 1990, he lost control of his script for RoboCop 2 and was less than pleased with the onscreen result. He told friends that it just wasn't possible to make a live-action version of Sin City.
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That all changed in January of last year, when Miller got a call from Robert Rodriguez. A young director known for innovative, inexpensive genre pictures like Desperado and highly technical box office darlings like Spy Kids, Rodriguez made Miller a simple offer: Come to Texas and shoot with me for a day. If you like what you see, we'll make a deal. If not, the short film is yours to keep. Miller accepted and flew to Rodriguez's digital back lot outside of Austin. Inside a massive soundstage outfitted with a 30-foot-tall green screen and the latest Sony hi-def cameras, Miller watched as actors Josh Hartnett and Marley Shelton performed a scene lifted straight from "The Customer Is Always Right," a decade-old short story in the Sin City series. After the shoot, Rodriguez cut the footage in his editing bay, laid down a few special effects, and added music – all that same day. Miller was floored. "A test? Come on! You don't put Josh Hartnett in a test," he says. "I just dove in." They sealed the deal, with Miller named as codirector. That three-minute short became the opening scene of the movie Sin City, set to hit theaters April 1.
Of course, that's not how the standard Hollywood pitch goes down. Then again, nothing about Rodriguez, 36, is conventional. To finance his first feature, El Mariachi, the director took a gig as a human lab rat. For more than a month, a local research hospital paid him to ingest an experimental cholesterol drug. With the proceeds, he produced the film, which he wrote, directed, edited, photographed, and scored for a mere $7,000. Originally intended for the Spanish straight-to-video market, the movie was picked up for distribution by Columbia Pictures in 1992 and went on to win the Audience Award at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival; at the time, it was the lowest-budget film ever released by a major studio. Even after Rodriguez got backing from Columbia for his next projects, he didn't go by the book. When studio execs wanted to bring in an outside editor to work on Desperado, his follow-up to Mariachi starring Antonio Banderas, Rodriguez demanded to do it himself – and won. While making From Dusk Till Dawn, he insisted on using a nonunion crew. Naturally, he christened one of his sons Rebel and named his studio Troublemaker.
Rodriguez couldn't be a troublemaker, let alone a rebel, if he weren't equipped with an arsenal of digital filmmaking tools and the know-how to use them. With his own Sony HD cameras, a Discreet visual effects system, four Avid digital editing machines, and XSI animation modeling software, Rodriguez can make truly independent films – and for less money than traditional Hollywood directors. "It's like going back to the old video days," Rodriguez says, "when you could run around in your backyard and shoot a movie." His stubborn independence and technical savvy call to mind a young George Lucas, who left Hollywood for Northern California 25 years ago after a squabble over the opening credits in The Empire Strikes Back. In fact, Rodriguez is the first filmmaker since Lucas who's had the confidence and skills to work outside the studio system yet still produce big-budget, effects-laden pictures.
That kind of freedom doesn't come without consequences. A week before Sin City began shooting, the Directors Guild of America called to inform Rodriguez that he and Miller couldn't be listed as codirectors in the movie's credits. It would be a violation of DGA rules. (This reg doesn't apply to the Wachowski or Hughes brothers, who are granted DGA waivers for being "bona fide teams.") Rodriguez was stunned when the DGA threatened to shut down production. Rather than dump Miller, Rodriguez resigned from the guild. "Down here in Texas, it's like those rules don't apply," he says. "So if I leave, I can do anything I want and don't have to worry about someone coming up behind me who's still in the dinosaur age, saying, Hey, you can't do that; you can't make movies like that."
Rodriguez felt the sting of that decision almost immediately. By turning his back on the establishment, he lost a lucrative deal. Paramount Pictures had slated Rodriguez to helm the $100 million sci-fi epic A Princess of Mars, the first book in a series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, which Tinseltown thinks could be the next megafranchise. But as a DGA signatory, Paramount can't hire a nonunion director. Execs gave the film to guild director Kerry Conran (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow). The whole drama played out in the pages of Variety. But by then, Rodriguez had already proved that he didn't need studio muscle: By showing private screenings of his three-minute test, he assembled an A-list cast for Sin City – including Bruce Willis, Clive Owen, and Benicio Del Toro.
For Rodriguez, the breakout film was Spy Kids, a 2001 movie that grossed more than $110 million at the domestic box office and earned him the confidence and cash to set up shop in Texas. He rented two soundstages and converted his garage into a post-production suite with 10 monitors, editing equipment, and a storyboard machine. Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams was shot entirely with hi-def digital cameras and edited at Troublemaker. The title credits for Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over begin with this: "A Robert Rodriguez Digital File." The revolution was in full swing.
"Having finished the Spy Kids series," Rodriguez says, "I was looking for a good effects challenge." That's what led him to Miller's Sin City. The series takes readers on an eye-popping tour of an underworld packed with tough cops, femme fatales, and seedy lowlifes. "The stories were great," he says, "but what grabbed you was the look." Miller's black-and-white chiaroscuro style reflects an artist raised on pulp fiction and old crime movies. Every scene takes place at night or in some back alley.
Frank Miller's noir makes Raymond Chandler look almost Techni-color. There are absolutely no midtones in the graphic novels, a trait that makes them especially problematic to portray on celluloid. "This movie wouldn't even be possible if I shot it on film," Rodriguez says, explaining how difficult it is to capture pure black and white on camera. His workaround: Shoot the actors against a green screen and add most of the backgrounds digitally in postproduction ("All of the guns and cars are real," Miller points out). Even small details like Sin City's signature "white blood" proved to be an effects challenge. Regular movie blood didn't cut it. Instead, the crew used fluorescent red liquid and hit it with a black light. This allowed Rodriguez to turn the blood "white" in postproduction. Likewise, the novel's few splashes of color proved troublesome. Yellow and green react with green screens, causing color to spill into the background and making them impossible to separate. So during shooting Rodriguez painted the villain, Yellow Bastard, blue – and then colored him yellow in post.
As Rodriguez refines the tools of digital filmmaking – and the liberty that comes with them – others are slow to follow. Hollywood purists tend to dismiss the geeks in the business as more interested in technology than storytelling. To dispel that notion, Rodriguez persuaded his pal Quentin Tarantino to direct a scene in the movie. Tarantino is the poster boy for analog: He collects rare 35-mm prints and doesn't even use monitors on set while directing. He had just come off shooting Kill Bill, where he did take after take, perfecting each scene, but ballooning the movie's budget and production schedule in the process. For Sin City, Tarantino filmed a self-contained segment at Troublemaker and learned that high tech means low stress. Rodriguez explains: "Quentin did a scene where the actors are in a car and it's raining. Instead of worrying about all that stuff, the car and the rain were added later, and he could just get the performance." Tarantino conceded, telling Rodriguez, "Mission accomplished. I'm glad you brought me down here." Tarantino now says he'll shoot his own digital feature.
Alone in his Austin garage, Rodriguez puts the finishing touches on his next feature, The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl. Due out in June, it's a 3-D live-action movie about a young outcast who makes fantastical stories come true. Sounds a lot like Rodriguez's life.


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Venable will be offering tours to prospective parents on the dates listed below. All tours take place at 9:15 a.m. and last approximately 45 minutes. We limit the number of participants on each tour to ensure that everyone can hear and ask questions. Please call Ms. Lawson in the Venable office to register – 434-245-2418.
Upcoming Dates:
- November 7
- December 5
- January 9
- February 6
- March 12
- April 23–Canceled
Parents should plan to arrive in the front office a few minutes early to sign in and receive visitors' passes. Please allot time for parking as there are only a few spots available on site and many of the neighborhood streets do not permit non-resident parking during the day.
Unfortunately, requests for tours at other dates and times cannot be honored due to the disruption to classes.
If you are an out-of-division family who would like to apply for a space at Venable next year, we begin accepting applications in April. For information about the application process, click here and select the "Non-resident Student" tab.


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Lightering Dock
This is the dock right off of Marine Park. Winter dive only. This dive can only be done before and after the cruise ships are gone for the year. Walk down the ramp, jump off, swim over to the pilings and drop down. There is a permanent ladder on this float to make getting out of the water easy. This is a mud dive looking at junk tossed off the docks. Or swim around and check out the critters growing on the older pilings.
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Some quick facts before the NBA Finals tip off.
The NBA Finals rematch that everybody has been waiting will finally tipoff tonight at 9pm on ABC. John Legend will kick things off with his rendition of the National Anthem and then we'll be off and running for what will hopefully be an electrifying conclusion to the 2015-16 NBA season.
After a hard fought seven game series against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western Conference Finals, the Warriors are right back where everyone expected them to be, looking for their second straight NBA title.
On the flip side, LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers coasted through the Eastern Conference with little resistance- save for a few games against the Toronto Raptors.
This time around both teams are as healthy as an ox and there should be no excuses once the dust has settled and an NBA champion has been crowd.
Before the final series of the season tips off, read up on six things you may not know about the upcoming 2016 NBA Finals. And if you already know them all, go ahead and pat yourself on the back because you're an exceptionally knowledgable NBA fan!


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"Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path… this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am." James Hillman
This week the Sun/Venus conjunction in Gemini has been squaring the Lunar Nodes of life path and destiny. This represents an important crossroads on your life's journey – a time to choose whether you are going to go forward the as you have been doing or whether you are going to proceed according to a deeper, more authentic calling. With Pluto aligned favorably with Jupiter and the North Node there is an expansive opportunity at hand to see your life path more clearly and to have a new depth of perception of what has held you back and what needs to change. These perceptions can come at random times so it is best to provide extra down time to increase the recognition and build awareness and commitment as you move forward.
Eris is aligned with Uranus – the Great Awakener – now. This is one of several symbols of the revolutionary times in which we are living. The revolution has an inner and outer component to it – we see it in societies globally as well as individual dynamics. There is a strong desire for change and transformation. Do be aware of parts of your thinking that have kept you in an unproductive holding pattern and limited your possibilities for too long. These can fall away now due to the opportunity for deeper perception and the ability to see a clearer path ahead.
"Taking time is what is so difficult. Our cultural upbringing teaches us to plan and run as fast as we can towards our goals. It is our very running that takes us away from our depths of feeling." Marion Woodman
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As with the Queens and Kings of old, an Astrologer or Tarot Card Reader should be a trusted ally on your life's path.


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Take Live Travel Information on the go this Summer with National Rail Enquiries
16 Jul, 2012, 15:15 BST
LONDON, July 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
National Rail Enquiries is urging all passengers travelling by train over the busy summer period to make use of its many free online and mobile services which provide real time information about train journeys, and everyone who registers on its website before 20th August, or who sets up and alert via email, Twitter or SMS, will also be in to win a £25 iTunes voucher.
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"With the many summer festivals going on, accessing up-to-the-minute information about train journeys over the summer holiday period is vital. Our 'Get it live' campaign encourages people to register with National Rail Enquiries to create their personalised home page featuring live departure information about their favourite journeys," said Jason Webb, Head of Online for National Rail Enquiries.
Top 5 ways to get live travel information on your mobile with National Rail Enquiries:
1. The National Rail Enquiries App: currently available for iOS and Android operating systems, the official app is free to download from iTunes or Google Play and includes a journey planner with real time information about train departures, push notifications, a 'wake me up alarm' and a helpful 'get me home' function which uses geolocation technology.
2. The mobile website: The National Rail Enquiries mobile website provides travellers with all the information they need to quickly plan their journey using their smartphone, and like the app, it returns real time information about any delays.
3. Alerts by email, Twitter message or SMS: Passengers can create alerts for their favourite journeys and if National Rail Enquiries is aware that the train is running late by five minutes or more, or is cancelled, it will automatically contact them by email, direct Twitter message or SMS. Passengers can manage all their alerts by registering with National Rail Enquiries for free.
4. Twitter: @nationalrailenq: National Rail Enquiries provides dedicated Twitter accounts for all of the train companies and instantly posts news of disruption on the lines. It's manned by real people who can provide answers to questions 24 hours a day / 7 days a week.
5. Facebook.com/nationalrailenq: NRE's Facebook page provides important updates about new services and the National Rail Enquiries information team aims to provide a prompt answer to passengers' questions within office hours.
"Web-connected smartphones provide multiple ways for people to get the information they need in the way they like best, whether it's through apps, social networks or mobile websites. We're pleased to offer passengers multiple ways to access the most up-to-the-minute information about their train journeys while on the go, and urge people to register with us now so they've always got the latest train information when it really matters," concluded Jason.
To register and for more information visit http://www.nationalrail.co.uk and follow the 'Get it live' link.
National Rail Enquiries is owned and funded by Britain's train companies. Full terms and conditions for the iTunes competition can be found at: http://marketing.nationalrail.co.uk/tickets.
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Have I got a deal for you!
Donald Trump and his attempt to buy Greenland reminded us of a recent phone call between the City of Sonoma and Glen Ellen/Kenwood. The transcript is below.
SON: Hi, this is Sonoma.
GEK: Howd you get this phone number?
SON: Not important. Wed like to buy you.
GEK: What? We didnt even think you knew where we were. And what you just said is, well, absurd.
SON: You heard me. Wed like to buy you. What do you say?
GEK: Well, no, I guess. Why should we sell to you?
SON: Well, we have great wineries and tasting rooms.
GEK: Have you ever been up here? Obviously not.
SON: And fantastic outdoor activities.
GEK: Please, do you own a map?
SON: We have schools for the kids!
GEK: You do realize that Dunbar is part of your school district, right? Thats in Glen Ellen, in case you were wondering. Kenwood School is in its own district, so theyre doing fine.
SON: We have lots of unaffordable housing.
GEK: Sadly, we have that too.
SON: OK, OK, we have a city council that functions pretty well, kind of, except when it doesnt.
GEK: We have our county board of supervisors to govern us, which has its own issues.
SON: Have you tried our baked goods?
GEK: Have you been to Les Pascals?
SON: We have a movie theater.
GEK: Fine, you have us there.
SON: And lots of other entertainment!
GEK: Like Transcendence Theater or Funky Fridays? In Glen Ellen and Kenwood by the way.
SON: OMG, the historic resources we have!
GEK: (Sigh)
SON: Hey, we have these mountains called the Mayacamas.
GEK: (Double Sigh)
SON: Oh, oh, we have an excruciatingly long parade every year. Fun!
GEK: We have two small, pleasingly short parades every year. We like it that way. By the way, do you have a yacht club?
SON: What, why do you have a yacht club and we dont?
GEK: Beats us. We have two, actually, the Jack London Yacht Club and the Kenwood Yacht Club.
SON: Outrageous. Well, were going to get one, too! Maybe two or three!
GEK: You do that. Anything else?
SON: We still want to buy you. It will be the hugest real estate deal in Sonoma County history! Really big!
GEK: Not for sale. Maybe we should buy you?
SON: Fine, forget I ever called.
GEK: Done. Why dont you try Greenland?v


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CHENNAI: Chennai-based jeweller Kanishk Gold Pvt Ltd (KGPL) has been accused of defrauding a consortium of 14 banks led by the State Bank of India (SBI) to the tune of Rs 824.15 crore in the form of loans that have now been declared as non-performing asset (NPA).
State Bank of India has requested the help of the CBI in January to investigate jewellery chain Kanishk Gold Pvt Ltd for loan fraud to the tune of Rs 824.15 crore. Directors of the KGPL, Bhoopesh Kumar Jain, and his wife Neeta Jain may have fled the country.
Bank List: Kanishka Jewelers Fraud
State Bank of India (SB) (Rs 240 Crore)
Punjab National Bank (PNB) (Rs 128 crore)
Bank of India (Rs 46 crore)
IDBI (Rs 49 crore)
Syndicate Bank (Rs 54 crore)
Union Bank (Rs 53 crore),
UCO Bank (Rs 45 crore)
Central Bank (Rs 22 crore)
Corporation Bank (Rs 23 crore)
Bank of Baroda (Rs 32 crore)
Tamil Nadu Mercantile Bank (Rs 27 crore)
HDFC (Rs 27 crore)
ICICI Bank (Rs 27 crore)
Andhra Bank (Rs 32 crore).


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ORIGIN: Blues win the series but lose game III
THE Blues will attempt to make history while Queensland will be flat out saving a bit of face as the final State of Origin match for 2018 is upon us.
New South Wales are aiming for their first clean sweep since 2000 and just their fourth in Origin history while Queensland are looking to make amends after falling in the first two matches.
It might be a dead rubber but the stakes are always high in Origin football with futures and legacies on the line.
We'll take you through every step of the action live from Suncorp Stadium as the latest chapter in the Origin story comes to a close.


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Monday 13, 2014 – BTFDNews is seeking submissions. We are looking for feature articles, provocative essays, investigative reportage, interviews, profiles, reviews, humour, and photography rooted in an anti-colonial and anti-capitalist analysis. If you've got a story in mind, we want to hear your pitch!
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Grammar 1 (있다/계시다)
Let's study in detail about the expressions we learned today.
'One of the meanings of the verb '있다' is "to exist/be somewhere". While this form is used with objects, friends or people of a lower social status than us, for superiors, or people of a higher social status, the more formal '계시다' is used. In other words, '계시다' is the honorific of '있다' .
Korean formal speech is very developed and has a lot of different forms to express different levels of formality. However, it will be enough to just use '계시다' when the subject is a superior and '있다' in all the other cases.
Take a look at the following examples.
|More formal (계시다)
|아버지가 계세요.
|할머니가 계세요.
|선생님이 계세요.
|Less formal (있다)
|동생이 있어요.
|친구가 있어요.
|꽃이 있어요.
Did you understand them? If you didn't, please ask more questions in the comment section down below. Moreover since it is good to know other examples, aside from those presented above, try to share yours through comments.


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United States Army 192nd Cavalry Regiment Unit Crest (Caballeria Al Frente)
Criteria: This is the unit crest for the 192nd Cavalry Regiment. The unit's motto, "Caballeria Al Frente," is written along the sides and translates as, "Scouts Forward." The horseman is indicative of the unit's Cavalry designation. Also called distinctive unit insignia, this item is made for wear on the Army Dress Blue (ASU) Uniform.
Note: Sold in pairs (i.e., if you order a quantity of 1 you will receive two Unit Crests).
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SolarEdge Technology was voted the gold winner for its HD-Wave inverter technology in the renewable energy category by the Edison Awards, one of the premier awards program in the United States recognising innovation. SolarEdge joined some of the world's most recognised companies for the awards ceremony celebrating 31 years of honoring innovators and innovations. Applying a novel approach to inverter design, SolarEge's HD-Wave technology represents a significant leap in the evolution of solar inverters. This technology dramatically reduces the size and weight of the inverter's magnetics by means of advanced digital processing. The new technology also increases reliability and optimises the performance of solar energy systems to reach record-breaking inverter efficiency of 99%. This advancement enables more solar power to be produced at lower costs. The ballot of nominees for the Edison Awards was judged by a panel of more than 3000 leading business executives including past award winners, academics and leaders in the fields of product development, design, engineering, science and medical.
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Four alleged victims of sex attacks by the late DJ Jimmy Savile spoke to newspapers yesterday –waiving their right to anonymity under the Sexual Offences Act.
The Daily Mail spoke to Katrina Rose, 51, who described how she was attacked by Savile when she was 14 and Bebe Roberts, 62, who said Savile assaulted her when she was 14.
The Sun spoke to Deborah Cogger, 52, who said that Savile tried to kiss her and touch her chest when she was a pupil at Duncroft Approved School for Girls. And former beauty queen from Worthing Jill, 61, told the paper that Savile bundled her into his caravan when she was 20 and jumped on her.
The alleged victims have come forward in the wake of pre-publicity for Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, which airs on ITV1 on Wednesday night.
It is based on interviews with six women who told programme makers that they were abused by Savile.
Today, the BBC is facing questions over why it did nothing about the actions of the long-standing employee of the corporation over allegations which were apparently widely known about.
And there are further questions about why BBC Newsnight failed to air a ten-minute segment detailing similar allegations in December last year, two months after Savile died. BBC journalists had interviewed 10 alleged victims of Savile.
According to The Guardian, Newsnight journalists also established that there was a police investigation in 2007 which was not proceeded with. This fact only emerged publicly this week.
In December the BBC did air two tribute programmes to Savile.
Former Newsnight political editor Michael Crick (now at Channel 4) said on Twitter yesterday: "Somebody in George Entwistle's office should be preparing a very strong BBC apology statement over Savile right now and get it out at once."
He added: "Not just BBC who ran scared of Savile story. Journalist Miles Goslett tried 6 national papers. All said no, before Ingrams at Oldie said yes."
Monthly magazine The Oldie, edited by Richard Ingrams, ran a story in March by Goslett detailing the Savile sex-abuse allegations and the fact that the story had been dropped by Newsnight.
The BBC said in a statement yesterday: "It is absolutely untrue that the Newsnight investigation was dropped for anything other than editorial reasons. We have been very clear from the start that the piece was not broadcast because the story we were pursuing could not be substantiated. To say otherwise is false and very damaging to the BBC and individuals.
"The notion that internal pressure was applied appears to be a malicious rumour.
"No pressure was applied to drop this investigation. None. To suggest otherwise is to risk impugning the professional reputation and integrity of a number of journalists."


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Apr 30, 2016
Do you consider yourself a leader? Do you find it easy to navigate through the leadership process? Do you believe people are taught leadership or they are born with the innate characteristic? This podcast will uncover and reevaluate several perspectives.
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Oftentimes in life we are distracted and disturbed by things, people and situations that have an ulterior motive to rock our groove. This message will put things in perspective and give you a different thought process in how to deal with the noise of the world. Those trolls...


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Three Air Traffic Controllersd have been removed from duty to facilitate an investigation into why another controller last Saturday night left his post as a Caribbean Airlines flight was preparing to land at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). "To facilitate the investigation, three persons have been removed from duty," the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said in a statement. ...Read More »
Daily Archives: March 10, 2014
Suspected wife killer caught in Suriname four years later
A man, who allegedly killed his wife during a drinking spree four years ago and fled to neighbouringh Suriname, was Monday arraigned for her murder. Deputy Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud said Davenand "Brother" Albert was handed by Surinamese police to their Guyanese counterparts at the weekend. He was subsequently charged with the murder of his 43-year old wife, Esther "Kamla" ...Read More »
Brothers on drug trafficking charges
The police crackdown on suspected drug yards on Monday saw two brothers being charged with cocaine and marijuana trafficking. They are 25-year old Curtly Thomas of Chelsea Park, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara anbd Clifforf Thomas of Bachelors Adventure, East Coast Demerara. They pleaded guilty to two joint charges and two separate charges. Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded them to prison ...Read More »
Analysts give Qualfon (Guyana) high marks
Qualfon, a leading business process outsourcing (BPO) and call center service provider, announced Monday that it recently hosted two Frost & Sullivan analysts in Guyana, the only native-English-speaking country in South America. The purpose of the visit was to enable Michael DeSalles,Principal Analyst with Frost & Sullivan's Contact Center Group, and Stephen Loynd, Global Program Director, to see in person ...Read More »
Arrest warrant issued for escapee from Georgetown Hospital, associate charged with gun possession
Even as police continued their manhunt for a man who escaped from the Georgetown Hospital while in custody, his associate was Monday charged with alleged illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition. David Bernard pleaded not guilty to being in possession of one 9 MM pistol and one live matching round and one .38 revolver and six matching round on ...Read More »
GNBS staffers on bribery charges
Two agents of Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) were Monday arraigned and bailed GUY$300,000 for alleged corrupt transactions by receiving rewards to inspect a motor vehicle to transport fuel. Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry granted GUY$150,000 bail each to 27-year old Quincy Gibson of 20 Co-op Society Road, Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, and 29-year old David Denny of 849 Section ...Read More »
Opposition is "bulb-head" "political middle class"- Rohee
Scrambling to pull back every vote from the loss of its parliamentary majority in the 2011 general election, the Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) is attempting to alienate the electorate from the opposition along the lines of class. General Secretary of the Marxist-oriented PPP, Clement Rohee told party faithful at a commemorative event in honour of late Presidents Cheddi and ...Read More »
Police detainee escapes from Georgetown Hospital
A man, who was arrested last week for alleged illegal possession of firearm, early Monday morning escaped from the Georgetown Hospital where he had been admitted. He has been identified as Dexroy Brown,21, of Waterloo Street, Georgetown Deputy Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud said the policeman who was guarding the detainee "might have lapsed". The man escaped around 5:30 AM from ...Read More »
Fire destroys Prashad Nagar house
Fire of unknown origin Monday morning destroyed a wooden house in Prashad Nagar. The dwelling was located on 200 Deobirana Street. Sources said there were no immediate reports of injury to anyone. Up to 8 AM, fire fighters were still battling the blaze.Read More »
PPP eyes parliamentary majority in fresh elections
Facing the prospect of early general elections, the Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) on Sunday assured Berbicians that steps were being taken to address their concerns in a bid to regain a parliamentary majority. "We agreed that we need to correct some of our mistakes that we have made and we are bold enough, we are big enough, we are mature ...Read More »


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Mountmellick is a shopping
centre - Bobby Kerr
Mountmellick shoppers can now go online to the town's website to order goods for delivery and grab special offers, with the launch of a new site.
Dragon's Den mentor Bobby Kerr, owner of the Insomnia café chain, came to town last Tuesday July 8 to push the button and launch www.Mountmellick.ie.
Speaking in the modern library, he had plenty of advice for the packed audience of mostly business people.
"If you want success, set out what that success looks like. You have a wonderful town, you need to look at the town as a shopping centre, go forward together, think 'how can we be better than Tullamore, or Portarlington? How can we eat their lunch?' You are in competition with other towns. You have got to fight for yourselves," said Kerr.
He advised shops to cut prices and bundle offers. He said the best marketing was free, showing the infamous image of IMF bankers walking past a begger holding out an Insomnia cup.
Flats above shops need to be occupied he said.
"We need to get people back in towns. The only way retail will thrive is if people are there," Bobby Kerr said, urging all shopowners to join Business Mountmellick.
"Why wouldn't you for €50? It offers solidarity with other like minded people, if everybody is pulling in the same direction, Mountmellick can thrive, go for it," he said.
Chairman of Business Mountmellick Tom Horan noted that seven new businesses have opened in the town in the past two weeks.
"I wish them many successful years of trading. We formed last September with 32 members now, and hopefully more tonight," he said.
Mountmellick painter Con Farrell explained how he has diversified from painting historic houses such as Russborough and Ballyfin House to opening a paint shop.
"There were loads of tradesmen out of work, sitting at home. I thought it wouldn't be a bad time to open a shop. It has been quite good to us, knowledge is a great thing, a lot of people come for advice," he said, urging people to "stop thinking we are the forgotten town".
The site has been designed by local company E Concepts, who have developed Portarlington.ie, and are about to launch Abbeyleix and Camross.
They combine pages for businesses and services, allowing private users to shop, browse events and add friends.
See www.mountmellick.ie


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I've been studying for a message I'm giving this Saturday morning on "Christ our Coming King" for Eastbrook's monthly men's breakfast. I came across this quotation from N. T. Wright in his book Surprised by Hope, that captures so much in such a small space that I couldn't help but share it.
What we have here, with minor variations, is a remarkably unanimous view spread throughout the early Christianity known to us. There will come a time, which might indeed come at any time, when, in the great renewal of the world that Easter itself foreshadowed, Jesus himself will be personally present and will be the agent and model of the transformation that will happen both to the whole world and also to believers. This expectation and hope, expressed so clearly in the New Testament, continues undiminished in the second and subsequent centuries. Mainstream Christians throughout the early period were not worried by the fact that the event had not happened within a generation. The idea that the problem of 'delay' set out in 2 Peter 3 was widespread in second-generation Christianity is a modern scholar's myth rather than a historical reality. Nor was the idea of Jesus's 'appearing' or 'coming' simply part of a tradition that was passed on uncritically without later generations really tuning in to what it was saying. As with the ascension, so with Jesus's appearing: it was seen as a vital part of a full presentation of the Jesus who was and is and is to come. Without it all the church's proclamation makes no sense. Take it away, and all sorts of things start to unravel. The early Christians saw this as clearly as anyone since, and we would do well to learn from them.
(N. T. Wright, Surprised by Hope, page 136)


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Like Pantai Cenang, the core of Pantai Tengah is its wonderful coconut tree fringed beach that stretches for close to a kilometer. The area is adjacent and south of Pantai Cenang. In fact many hotels and establishments in this area claim to be in Pantai Cenang as there is really no clear demarcation between the two areas. However a big difference is the relative calm and quietness of Pantai Tengah and its romantic ambience that are favorites to a large section of tourists. Several budget, mid-range and luxury resorts that have come up here, although not as many as in Pantai Cenang. Many of them are either on the beachside or having sea view.
Hotels in this area are reachable within 15-20 minutes from the airport. Entry to most of these hotels are from the main road Jalan Pantai Tengah or Jalan Teluk Baru that run through this area and parallel to the beach for some parts. There are plenty of restaurants on the roadside (both budget and upscale) and within easy access from the hotels. They give you nice dining options of varied cuisine.
Finding & Booking Hotels in Pantai Tengah/Cenang
Use the search box below and get a list of all great hotels in Langkawi of various categories. Once you see the hotels, use the filter on the left to choose the location as Pantai Tengah and see hotels only in that location. For each hotel you will get room rates, amenities, guest reviews, scores etc and then be able to book at attractive low price, and also get confirmation. This service is provided by Asia's no. 1 online hotel booking site.
Great hotels in Pantai Tengah
Below are my select list of hotels in Pantai Tengah that offer great value and services. I have selected them based on our family experience and explorations. They all have standard amenities like in-room AC, TV, fridge (in many) etc. I have arranged them from low to high budgets. As you visit the links, you will get full details along with pictures.
Hotel Categories & Approximate Rates:
Budget: RM60-RM175; Mid-Range: RM175-RM300; Luxury: Above RM300
Desa Motel (Budget)
Located off the main road and offering only 9 rooms, Desa Motel has a nice green garden setting. Free in-room wi-fi internet access is available.
Tropical Resort (Budget)
In a nice garden setting and located on the main road, the hotel offers 11 rooms and has an access to the beach from its back side. Offers free wi-fi in common area.
Green Village Langkawi Resort (Budget/Mid-Range)
The hotel is set up in a tropical garden setting with many trees. The rooms circle around the garden and some face the outdoor pool. It has 35 rooms and offers close to 3-star amenities including in-house restaurant, bar/pub, pool, wi-fi in public areas etc.
Sunset Beach Resort (Budget/Mid-Range)
Located at northern end of Pantai Tengah (where Pantai Cenang ends) and close to Underwater World, the hotel has a nice garden setting. A short pathway leads to the beach where you can relax on lounge chairs. Offers free wi-fi at the reception area.
The Frangipani Resort & Spa (Mid Range/Luxury)
This is a 3-star resort located right on the beach and with its series of villas & houses overlooking the deep blue waters of the ocean and the offshore islands. The resort is an award winner and offers 117 rooms with modern amenities, but in a calm and serene ambience.
Villa Molek (Mid Range/Luxury)
Although not easily visible from the main road, the approach leads to this charming and quaint boutique hotel in a garden setting. It offers 12 suites in villas with 3-star amenities including in-house restaurant, outdoor pool, free in-room wi-fi etc. Pantai Tengah beach is about 5 minutes walk from the property.
Federal Villa Beach Resort (Mid Range)
This is a 3-star resort located right next to its sister hotel Holiday Villa beach Resort and facing the Pantai Tengah beach and the ocean. It has 88 rooms including waterfront chalets with modern decor & amenities. The resort has in-house restaurant, bar, pool, spa, wi-fi etc.
Fave Hotel Cenang Beach (Mid Range)
This is a relatively new hotel located on the roadside (Jalan Pantai Tengah) and having an imposing structure. The hotel has 97 rooms and offers 3-star amenities like in-house restaurant, sundeck, pool for kids, spa, free in-room wi-fi etc. The Pantai Tengah beach is 3-4 minutes minutes walk from here.
Holiday Villa Beach Resort & Spa Langkawi (Luxury)
Located on the same line as Frangipani resort, this too is a beachside 4-start resort offering 258 rooms with modern amenities. Entry is from Jalan Pantai Tengah road.
Ambong Ambong Langkawi Rainforest Retreat (Luxury)
Located in a relatively secluded area with lots of greenery around, the hotel offers 10 rooms and amenities of 4-star standard. The Pantai Tengah beach is some 5 minutes walk from the hotel. Free wi-fi internet is available.
Resorts World Langkawi – Formerly Awana Porto Malai Hotel (Luxury)
Located at the southern end of Pantai Tengah near the Star Cruise dock, this is a 4-star property having great view of the ocean. It has its private jetty for boat tours and other water sports activities.
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