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Xjev VR is gaining ground in the academic world and the 3D industry
 URLs are automatically shortened by Twitter, but still eat up 23 characters. The platform has explored聽ways to make it easier to include links in tweets since 2010, when its t.co link wrapping service launched, but many users don ;t think they should be counted at all.Twitter declined to comment on the report.If the new character count policy is implemented, it will allow people to compose wordier tweets鈥攂ut still be far  stanley cups less drastic than another ch stanley becher ange that Twitter reportedly deliberated earlier this year, which would have raised its limit to thousands of characters.CEO Jack Dorsey said that the time that Twitter is  not going to be shy about building more utility and power into Twitter for people. As long as it s consistent with what people want to do, we re going to explore it. Twitter has been encouraging users to include more media in their tweets wit stanley tumbler h features like support for videos, gifs, and polls. What they聽really want, however, is space to write more.聽Users聽have resorte Xyng The FCC Fires Back At the President   s Net Neutrality Plan
 The FCA said today that from January 2, 2015 it will be imposing an initial cost cap of 0.8 per cent per day聽for all high-cost short-term credit loans, which means inte vaso stanley rest and fees must not exceed 0.8聽per cent聽per day of the amount bor stanley cup rowed.It will also be applying a total cost cap of 100 per cent on a loan, meaning a borrower must never pay back more than 100 per cent of the amount they borrowed聽in order to protect them from escalating debts.聽Fixed default fees are also capped at 拢15 for borrowers who do not make loan repayments on time. And interest on unpaid balances and default charges must not exceed the initial rate.The result of the regulatory caps聽will be a far聽smaller聽payday loans market, and one which can ;t generate huge聽profits at the expense of the most vulnerable borrowers. Last year on stanley cup e payday loans company, Wonga, listed its representative聽annual interest rate聽at聽5,853 per cent.In the first five months since the FCA聽has been regulating the sector it said the numbe

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 Among other things, Starbreeze s hardware device offers a wider field of view than either Oculus or HTC, at 210 degrees to those devices  110. That s courtesy of two Quad HD panels, bringing an extremely impressive combined resolution 5,120 x 1,440  here the Rift and Vive each clock in at 2,160 x 1,200 .The game studio announced this week that it s enlisting Acer as a hardware partner for the headset. The companies will collaborate on designing, manufacturing and promoting the tech, according to the deal, bringing StarVR to  the professi stanley cup onal- and location-based entertainment market,  language that sounds as if the headset will be focused on聽markets outside the Rift and Vive s livingroom demographic.Not a huge surprise, really, given the high-end specs and, likely, a price to match.Acer s CEO Jason Chen added that the  stanley cup company has already been priming its line of PCs for the StarVR experience, explaining in a statement,  We are devoting R&D resources across multiple aspects of the V stanley us R Ylzc Manila-Based Altitude Games Raises $275,000 To Develop Midcore Titles
 CBS found  and TechCrunch confirmed  th stanley bottles at Healthcare.gov estimates that a 48-year-old N stanley cup price orth Carolina resident ineligible for government subsidies will pay $231/month for a  Silver  plan. But, the website for Blue Cross Blue Shield, the actual insurance provider,  stanley tumbler reveals a price tag of $360  few cost estimates are pictured below. healthcare.gov   cheapest prices are pictured in the top image. Blue Cross   cheapest price is bottom picture .See, on Healthcare.gov   new  Shop and Browse  feature, users are only asked whether they are under 49 years of age. Problem is, the calculator appears to be averaging in the cost of consumers who are also in their 20s, some of whom are eligible for steeper discounts.The shocking oversight gets even worse. While Healthcare.gov is exceedingly careful to note that the prices are just estimates, it only says that plans are likely to be cheaper.Healthcare.gov and the state-run websites have been making headline new

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Pfxx Apple focuses on diversity with new  Shot on iPhone  ad
 The service is simple: you tell it where you live and it will sort through millions of deals from travel partners to find you discounted flights to ne stanley cup arby destinations that you can go ahead and book from your phone.A more sophisticated feature inside the app lets you stanley thermoskanne  keep a list of running list of destinations you ;d like to visit. You key in some basic details, such as tentative dates and price, andwhen a related deal pops up, the app will notify you, giving you one les stanley drink bottle s excuse to avoid booking that dream trip.The advanced feature   which requires users to register for a Hitlist account   also includes social features that let you view friends ; lists, destination guides, flexible\fuzzy date searches and hotel booking options. The more info you feed Hitlist, the better it becomes at figuring out what you ;re into. It   a beautiful virtuous travel circle that   intended to plunk you on the beach, or another exotic location, with extra cash in your Aaed Cognitive Networks Detects What You   re Watching On Your Smart TV
 1. Silicon Valley Gives A Lot of Money: According to the data compiled by the San Francisco Chronicle, the Bay Area contributed more money to Obama than the fat cats on Wall Street or the entertainment mogul vaso stanley s. The Bay area contributed $14.7M compared to $14.5M from New York or $6.3M from Hollywood. The influx of tech stanley flask  money  represents this shift of financial power, which is now translating into political influence, from the East Coast to the West Coast and Silicon Valley,  said Melinda Jackson, a political scienc stanley cup e professor at San Jose State associate who leads the university   Survey and Policy Research Institute.John Blanchard / The San Francisco Chronicle Silicon Valley is becoming the most significant contributor and issue shaper in the nation,  admitted Mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa.While it   difficult to know how much of Silicon Valley   liberalism is purely ideological, it would be difficult to win over a tech crowd without

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Lcqy Google open sources the code that powers its domain registry
 Recorded on July 13, 2016.Endangered Ferrets that are planned ro be saved by M&M dispensing drones, Senator A stanley termohrnek l Franken sends letter to Niantic about Pokemon privacy issues, Google acqu-hires KIFI to Enhance Spaces app, There is a more affordabl stanley water flask e Model X now. Unity raises 181 Million dollars. All thi stanley termo puodeliai s on Crunch Report! Imzm Ask A VC: Shasta Ventures    Rob Coneybeer On The Challenges Of Founding A VC Firm And More
 There   gotta be a better way. All of that is what Gridspace hopes to change. The startup has created an application based on technology that automatically saves and indexes meeting conversations. But the big breakthrough is that, though the magic of machine learning and natural  stanley cups language processing, it can determine which parts of the meeting conversations were most important.I got a demo of the technology at work, with Gridspace CEO Evan Macmillan showing off a beta version of the company   app for our presentation. With the app open, he walked me through the basics, occasionally telling the app to & 8220 stanley bottles ;remember  certain interesting aspects. When it was all said and done,  bidon stanley the app automatically did the work of picking out all the salient points and highlights of our discussion and listing them on a separate meeting dashboard. For groups, that dashboard would be available to anyone who attended a meeting. In addition to recording the voices of all meeting participant

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Eekg Alphaworks, The Equity Crowdfunding Platform From Betaworks, Brings On Erin Glenn As CEO
 Educators of any kind can use Teachab stanley thermos le without paying for software access, but instead giving the startup a $1 plus 10% commission on each sale they make. They aren t charged for offering free courses at all. They can also opt to subscribe to use the software-as-a-service through a range of plans from $39 to $299 a month with low or no-commissions.Courses offered via Teachable aren t taken for college credits today. Many are concerned with non-academic subjects, like cake decorating, feng shui, or how to fly or 3D print a drone. Others are more along the lines of professional development like courses in specific programming frameworks or how to run a martial arts school. Large companies use Teachable to offer learning and development programs to their employees, as well.So-called  lifelong learners  may not even be aware th stanley cup ey re using Teachable when they sign up to take a course from someone who inspires them. By contrast, predecessors to and competitors of stanley cup  Teachable s, such as Udemy, Ddwj Amazon inks exclusive TV deal with    Stranger Things    writer
 Google today gave Zagat, the restaurant review service it acquired in 2011, a set of new mobile apps for iOS and Android, as well as a complete facelift on the web. For the first time, Google says, all of the service& 8 stanley polska 217  ratings and reviews are now available for free and without the need to register.Currently, the new Zagat covers restaurants and nightlife nine cities, but Google says it plans to expand this list to over 50 U.S. and international destinations. Today, the site only covers San Francisco, Austin, Boston, Ch stanley cup icago, London, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Google also plans to expand the range of reviews to include hotels, shopping and  other places of interest,  something the printed Zagat guides have been doing for a while now.The new site, Google says, will also feature news and video content from local editors, as well as curated lists, improv stanley france ed search and map-based browsing. You will also be able to make reservations through

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Vlaf FOBO Launches In San Francisco To Become The Fastest, Easiest Way To Sell Your Consumer Electronics
 Stitch Fix stands to raise $120 million after it announced a lower than expected $15 share price聽an stanley gertuves d a reduced number of shares on offer.That price comes in below the original guidance range of $18-$20 while the company is now selling eight million shares as opposed to 10 million. Stitch Fix could, however, raise as much as $18 million more if underwriters buy the full allotment of 1.2 million shares allocated to them.The company will join the Nasdaq Friday November 17, where it will trade until  SFIX. All told, Stitch Fix will be valued around $1.2 billion when it makes its public debut.聽That   a big leap on its last financing round in 2014 when stanley tumblr  it was worth $309.31 million, according to data from PitchBook, but it could have been higher based o stanley mug n those previous estimates.TechCrunch reported in July that the聽company had filed confidentially to go public. Stitch Fix is part of a wave of try-before-you-buy startups like Le Tote, MM.LaFleur, as well as others. So, natura Phis Kantar Worldpanel: Android And Verizon Back On Top In U.S. Smartphone Sales, Android At Nearly 50% Of Sales
 The company   flat earnings per share is based on adjusted profit. Using normally accepted accounting methods, Zynga lost $45.13 million, or $0.05 per share.聽In the year-ago period, Zynga had revenue of $176.36 million, on which it lost $25.24 million, or $0.03 cents per share. So, Zynga grew its revenue by just over 9 percent in t stanley france he last year.Zynga announced in its earnings that it will close its games studio in China, impacting 71 employees. The company anticipates savings of $7 million per year.The company was off around 5 percent today in regular trading, and, following its missed earnings has tanked nearly 10 percent after hours.On a mor vaso stanley e positive note, Zynga has cash and equivalents of $1.15 billion, and saw its  monthly mobile consumers  rise 87 percent on a year-over-year basis. So, the company has plenty of cash to keep growing vaso stanley  its mobile business.Zynga, a company that grew massively on the back of Facebook   platform years ago, struggled to execute a s

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Lwhm Shared housing startups are taking off
 The SPY Car Act places the onus for automotive cybersecurity and privacy standards on the shoulders of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration  NHTSA  and the Federal Trade Commission  FTC . The law would require critical software systems   those required for operation of the vehicle   to be isolated from noncritical systems. And then thos stanley cup e isolated systems should be tested for security.It also addresses securing personal information, including all data  collected by the electronic systems that are built into motor vehicles,  against unauthorized access. If there is a hacking attempt, the SPY Car Act calls for a stanley cup ll cars to be equipped with the ability to detect the breach, report it and stop it from taking ov stanley drinking cup er the vehicle or collecting driving data. If a manufacturer doesn ;t include this capability, under the law it would be fined $5,000 per car that didn ;t have security technology built in.So far, the SPY Car Act seems like something we&  Ygpl Fashion GPS Updates Radar App To Streamline Search, Style Requests
 On Wednesday 7 August, the patrons of the 10,000 start-ups initiative, Google, Microsoft, and India   peak IT industry body Nas stanley cup scom, and the Karnataka State Government, cut the ribbon at the 10,000 square foot office, situated in Diamond District stanley website  on Bangalore   main artery, Old Airport Road.Nasscom product council chairman Ravi Gururaj, returning to the site the group first visited just seven weeks ago, said it was crucial to secure the support of the local government  whose bloated bureaucracy and suffocating red tape can slow down new business development for months, even years . This took literally all of ten weeks, from the time of idea to the actual opening. That is an incredible speed for any part of the world,  Gururaj said. We聽approached the government and they stanley mugs  were very receptive. That   the key: find a really effective champion in the government, who   willing to believe and make it happen. The initiative aims to & 8220 u

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Hopc Pluto TV, a free streaming service for cord cutters, raises $30 million more
 Banki stanley quencher n also competes with another app that I covered just a couple of days ago, Linxo. Both of them want to become the definite financial hub to get an overview on all your accounts, move money around and more. They all dream about becoming the ultimate banking app to r stanley termo puodeliai ule them all.And Bankin has already started morphing beyond a simple way to check all your accounts. You can already transfer money between multiple accounts without ever leaving the app. While only a handful of banks currently support this feature, I m sure the company is working hard on adding more banks.Starting today, Bankin users will also get a notification in the notifi stanley canada cation tab   Coach   about tips to save money. If you tap on it, it gives you tips as well as a button to get advice. It then tells you to open an account with Yomoni to save money.Yomoni is a robo-advisor startup. It manages a portfolio of stocks and bounds for you over multiple years. You can open a Yomoni account straight from the Bankin app. Ban Wagy Referly Gets More Social, Launches API: Now Any Site Can Have A Referral Program
 The actual acquisition by ZOZI quietly happened in  stanley termos Q4 2012, a ZOZI spokesperson told me earlier this week, and ZOZI has been working to integrate its technology into its Advance platform since. TripFlavor   own site, it seems, was shut down quite a while ago and it   not clear how much traction it ever had.TripFlavor was founded by early Airbnb employee Sam Edelson and former Ning engineer Gene Drabkin in 2011. The company raised funding from a number of angel i stanley kubek nvestors, including Nathan Blecharczyk  co-fo stanley cup under & CTO of Airbnb ; Mark Leslie  founder, chairman and CEO of Veritas Software ; and Ken Keller  co-founder of IGN Entertainment . The large activities market has long been underserved because most companies lack several pieces to the puzzle,  said TripFlavor CEO Edelson in a statement today.  After meeting with many potential strategic partners, it was clear that ZOZI had all the pieces in place and we wanted our technology to be part of the plat

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Sxph Doggie-Focused Bark  amp; Co. (BarkBox) Raises $15 Million Series B
 Enter Helix, a word processor plug-in created at this year   Disrupt NY Hackathon聽by Paul Burke and Neil Krishnan.Helix uses machine learning to suggest citations and relevant research as you write. Helix scans a writer   text as he or she types and automatically pulls in recommendations for relevant journal articles stanley deutschland , news and Wikipedia pages. The recommendations display in a queue alongside the writer   main text, so they can be reviewed at a glance without leaving the word processor. A writer can request suggestions on a specific phrase or sentence  stanley thermoskanne by highlighting it, or just let Helix make suggestions based on the entirety of the article. Many researchers use Google searches because journal sites have t stanley cup errible search functions,  Burke says. He and Krishnan developed Helix to give researchers a faster option that won ;t distract them or take them away from their writing.Burke and Krishnan primarily focused on medical research for their work at the D Mbai DreamHost launches its Remixer website builder to better compete with Squarespace, Wix and others
 While there   no perfect formula for stuff like this, these stats from AngelList   Ash Fontana are a pretty good indication of the metrics you should be aiming for.As part of the FirstTuesday startup gathering in Santiago, Chile, this evening, Ash presented a slide outlining some ballpark metrics tha stanley drink bottle t startups should aim for before swoopin ; in for a big first round:[Photo Credit: C茅sar Salazar of 500Startups]As a Venture Hacker at AngelList, Ash   job involves poring over tons of deals to try and work out exactly what makes a good deal go down. In a conversation I had with Ash earlier, he asked me to note that these numbers are just his rough estimates based on this stanley shop  insight; they ;re not crunched directly from AngelList   database.The bulk of the slide is pretty self-explanatory 鈥?just consider each bullet point a sort of theoretical entry bar for companies  stanley water bottle looking to raise a $1M+ round in a given category.If you ;re a social company, you ;d

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Gqfh Fastly Raises $10M For Content Delivery Network Built For Mobile, Real-Time World
 Recorded on September 23, 2015.Atom Factory   Troy Carter sits down with Sarah Lane to discuss his new SMASHD LABS accelerator, the implications of scale on streaming services, and the oppo stanley romania rtunities out there for foun stanley termos ders who appre stanley mug ciate diversity. Snah Anker puts Alexa in the car with the Roav Viva, but it   s not worth your time
 Makerbot has just announced the Replicator 2.0, a brand new Makerbot Replicator with a larger build plate, coated stanley tumblr  metal chassis, and improved software as well as better print resolution. In short, this is the Makerbot all grown up.As you can see from the video, the new Replicator is completely rebuilt with new materials and a larger cavity that allows you to make projects of up to 410 cubic inches  11.2  L x 6.0  W x 6.1  H . It now  stanley france supports 100-micron resolution and is optimized for PLA bioplastic.Makerbot closed a round of funding last year and they ;re putting it to good use. Besides the new Replicator, the compa stanley tumbler ny has opened its first retail space at 298 Mulberry Street in New York. We were given an exclusive look at the new device and I ;m wildly impressed. The evolution is stunning and considering Makerbot didn ;t have real retail product until last year I ;m amazed at the growth.3D printing is the future, that   for sure. I ;m just amazed that the

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Xkcj Announcing the TechCrunch Tel Aviv Meetup + Pitch-off agenda
 Recorded on Dec stanley cup embe stanley cup r 4, 2017.Notch is  stanley cups uk a hardware + software platform for motion analysis products for sports, and healthcare. Cdjf The Future Of Samsung Could Rest On A Single Vote Tomorrow
 The bar  or BAR  has six mid-woofers and three tweeters. It   tuned and managed to sound g stanley cup ood for gaming, movies, and music playback. It works with both the iOS/Andro botella stanley id-based Sonos remote or a standard TV remote. Most interestingly, you can pair the bar with a Sonos sub-woofer or PLAY:3 speakers to create a wireless surround system.In addition to the new Playbar  or pLAYBAR , Sonos has updated their app to allow one-touch access to favorite channels as well as the addition of an Android widget so you can control the Sonos right from the lock screen. The update is available now.The Playbar  or PLayBaR  costs $699 and will be available online and in stores this month. Now all they need to make is a TV and Sonos ; march towards living ro stanley shop om domination would be complete.

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Ehkl Richard Jalichandra Calls Time On MapMyFitness, Resigns As CEO
 Royal famili stanley thermos es investing in technology startups is nothing new. Saudi Prince  stanley cup is a shareholder of both Twitter, Lyft聽and Snapchat, not to mention Apple, Fox and TechCrunch parent AOL,  stanley romania but this is the first investment from Brunei   royalty in a tech startup. The 41-year-old prince, who is seventh in line to the Brunei throne, is聽an active businessman and is chairman of聽Brunei Hotel among other ventures.That聽big name aside, the round聽also includes participation from other investors, although neither their identity nor the total size of the round聽was disclosed beyond the amount that the prince contributed.BookDoc launched聽in Malaysia in October聽2015 and it recently聽expanded to Singapore and Hong Kong. The service is not unlike billion-dollar U.S. startup聽ZocDoc, and regional competitors such as聽India   Practo, which just聽moved into Southeast Asia, and DocDoc in Singapore.聽Chevy Beh, one co-founder of BookDoc, told TechCrunch that he first became acquainted with the prince聽throu Pvts HTC   s mobile VR solution said to be coming before the end of the year
 Uber聽hired Obama   former adviser and campaign manager to direct the company   global policy and political activities, communications and branding efforts. The company has r stanley tumbler epor vaso stanley tedly been looking to hire a top political strategist since earlier this summer as it aggressively challenges聽local regulations and the taxi industry in multiple cities. Over the years, what I ve come to realize is that this controversy exists because we are in the middle of a political campaign and it turns out the candidate is Uber,  wrote聽founder聽Travis Kalanick in a blog.  Our opponent 鈥?the Big Taxi cartel 鈥?has used decades of political contributions and influence to restrict competition, reduce choice for consumers, and put a stranglehold on economic opportunity for its drivers. Earlier this month, Politico ran a story about repeated speculation that the former White House adviser would return聽as Obama   chief of staff, billing Plouffe  the most pop stanley cup ular guy

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Wemy Announcing TechCrunch Disrupt NY Startup Battlefield 2017
 Knotable is changing that. Their first app, an inbox system, hasn ;t moved far off the block but their latest projects are doing surprisingly well. Their Chrome extension, Clip, let   you nab stuff to your  Knotepads  and now you can use the app on iOs and Chrome to connect users.Founder Amol Sarva & 8211; the guy who invented the Peek & 8211; has seen 200 percent monthly growth since June and hey are seeing 10,000 per day.Users of tools like Trello and Google Docs will see immediate comparis stanley termohrnek ons in Knotable but Sarva sees his solution as  notes for  stanley cup teamwork.  We wanted to make a better way to keep people on the same page,  he said.  When everyone on the team is working in different places, different times, different topics& 8230;the solution isn ;t an infinite conference call or hangout or chat stream. A better solution is places to park and develop your thoughts where others can see and add-on.&  stanley drink bottle 8221;Note sharing is a crowded s Yoxb Researchers propose Iron Man style flight for humanoid robot
 James stanley cup  B stanley thermos arrese, the CTO of PayPal, says that the creation and expansion聽of Working Capital is part of how the company is trying to reinvent itself and return to its tech roots to grow its platform, essential as it matures in some markets and pushes into completely new ones  PayPal   now live in 203 markets/regions, he says, and is looking to add more specifically in emerging countries. That in itself poses its own challenges and also points to why PayPal may be looking to expand beyond e-commerce payments and into services that would be used more by cash-only merchants.  All of our customer experiences are new or will soon be new,  he told me in an interview.  The checkout experience is modern and clean. We are聽also redoing wallet. And we have a聽new way to offer聽merchant reporting and analytics,  is how he described other projects on PayPal   agenda. And, since David Marcus departed for Facebook from his role as PayPal president, I also asked stanley tumbler  what the

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Lsua The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 10th Birthday By Launching A Tor-Based Anti-Censorship Browser
 Martin MacmillanContributorMartin Macmillan is the CEO of Pollen VC, a fintech company that created the concept of revenue recycling to provide receivables financing to app developers globally together with growth consulting services.More posts from Martin MacmillanFinancing growth with debt in the app economyWhen it comes to obtaining financing to grow your app or game business, there are stanley canada  several options from which to choose that take a debt-based approach, rather than giving away equity in your business. Choosing the right type of financing is critical; making the wrong choice can be costly in both financial and non-financial terms.Smart developers consider a stanley us ccounts receivable  AR  financing or venture debt as suitable sources of financing because they are generally low cost and don t dilute their equity. However, many often don t read the  fine print,  which can lead to  stanley termosai them signing away more than they need to. So how can you avoid this increasingly common pitfall Understanding liqu Clfv Bitcoin Passes $5,000 | Crunch Report
 This comes several weeks after Verizon stopped selling tablets with subsidies as well. In the past both AT&T and Verizon offered tablets at their full MSRP along with lower priced options that locked the buyer into a 2-year contract. Now, the tablets are only available at their full price.It   unclear why the Verizon and now AT&T did away with the 2-year optio botella stanley n. However, it doesn ;t matter. Advertising the tablets with the subsidized price always seemed shady   nearly a bait stanley cup  and switch sch stanley quencher eme. Sure, the consumer didn ;t have to get the off-contract option, but the lower price likely brought them into the door. Tablets, and for that matter, high-speed wireless networks, have simply not hit a point in their development stage where it makes sense locking into one for two years. Every new generation of tablets leapfrogs the previous. Likewise, 4G wireless networks are still in their infancy and one carrier could have a better network then another next year. Be

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Dswk The Race To Zero Is Awesome
 Recorded on July 11, 2017.Simple Habit is a Y Co stanley thermos mbinator-backed startup focused on mindfulness and meditation. This past May, Simple Habit raised $2.5 million from investors like New Enterprise Associates and Foundation Capital to fuel its mission stanley tumbler  to help people relieve stress and build healthier lives. Founded by Yunha Kim, Simple Habi stanley quencher t offers over 1,000 guided meditation sessions via its mobile app. Ecnm This new text bomb crashes most Mac and iOS apps with a single Unicode symbol
 Until the final text of the bill can be examined, all analysis is synthetic, but S stanley tumbler enator Patrick Leahy   its sponsor in the upper chamber   has indicated that it will put in place  clear cut guidelines  on what the nation   intelligen stanley taza ce apparatus  can and cannot do.  The Act will also  let the American people know that their privacy i stanley shop s going to be protected,  according to the Senator.There have been encouraging notes, including a note from a Leahy staffer saying that a deal is  within inches.  I ;m hearing that there is some friction on the bill   terms regarding data retention. A compromise, it seems, is imminent.The version of the UFA that passed the house was infamous for having been rammed through at the end so quickly after delay that around half its original sponsors in that chamber didn ;t vote for the bill.Protest votes on various funding amendments took place to make some sort of statement, but f