Operation Gadget
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Map of 2005 Tour of Hope 50-Mile DC Fundraising Ride
Reading Time: 2 minutes2005 Tour of Hope DC Fundraising Ride: This is our best guess at the 50-mile route map. I used Gmaps Pedometer to convert a cue sheet to a map. Click on the picture of the map to see the route in a Gmaps Pedometer window.[ Image: Gmaps Pedometer / Google Maps ] Bryan Katz,…
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Deadline for Raising $500 Minimum for Tour of Hope DC Fundraising Ride is Monday, September 19 at Midnight
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAttention Tour of Hope DC Fundraising Ride Applicants! Cecil Ledesma just pointed out to me that the deadline for raising the $500 minimum donation is Monday, September 19, at 11:59pm Eastern Time. That’s about six days from today. The organizers impose a cut-off so they can ship out registration packets in…
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Steripen Water Purifier Makes Sense for Travelers to Developing Countries, Campers
Reading Time: 2 minutesSteripen is the only portable water purifier that uses ultraviolet light to destroy water-borne microbes. It’s available for less than $150.00 at Amazon.com. [ Photo: Steripen.com ] I got a copy of Forbes FYI the other day. This magazine often talks about really expensive lifestyle products that I can’t afford. One thing…
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2nd Week of September 2005 Workouts
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s a quick summary of the workouts that I did last week: Monday, September 5: Biked 6.0 miles in 28 minutes 49 seconds; Biked 4.6 miles in 23 minutes 6 seconds. Tuesday, September 6: Rest. Wednesday, September 7: Biked 15.5 miles in 1 hour 3 minutes 23 seconds. Thursday, September 8:…
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September 5 – September 11, 2005 Weekly Summary
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is the Operation Gadget weekly summary for the second week of September 2005. I’m experimenting with a weekly summary so that readers who want to receive a periodic email with Operation Gadget headlines can receive the links to all of the articles published each week. I will post a mechanism…
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Ebay Completes Deal to Buy Skype for $2.6 Billion in Cash and Stock
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEbay announced a formal agreement to acquire Skype International SA for roughly $2.6 billion in cash and stock, according to MarketWatch.com. Rumors of this deal were widely discussed last Thursday, after an article about the possibility appeared in The Wall Street Journal. EBay suggested several synergistic effects that may occur as…
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DC Fundraising Ride Start Locations
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnother thing I found out yesterday was the two start locations of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope DC Fundraising Ride: 10-mile route: Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo, MD [ Google Map ] 50-mile route: Howard County Community College, Columbia, MD. [ Google Map ] Those of us who need a place to stay can…
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DC Fundraising Ride Registration Closes
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast night I got an email from the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope regarding shuttle services between the start of the 50 and 10-mile ride routes and the finish line at The Ellipse in Washington, DC. The message began: Thank you for registering for the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope DC…
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M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Newsletter Highlights Relationship Between Tour of Hope and Clinical Trials
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe M.D. Anderson Cancer Center published an article in its September 2005 about the important contribution that the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope is making to boosting participation in cancer clinical trials. According to the article: The challenge of increasing trial participation is great. Of the 1.3 million Americans diagnosed with…