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For most anglers fishing early in the week, it’s been slow during the day. Early hours have been steady with speckled trout, flounder, and some redfish. Pompano have been running around Old Tampa Bay according to Capt. Neil Taylor of Strike Three Kayak Fishing. Taylor has been catching pompano on jigs on a fairly regular basis. Fish the edges of sand bars, small passes, and around bridges for some good action. The bridges around Fort Desoto have been productive.

While running lower Tampa Bay this week on some hard bottom areas, I concentrated on my bottom machine, watching for small outcroppings of hard patches of lime rock bottom. Numerous areas held clouds of small bait fish. Some were pinfish, others were jacks, but on several patches were schools of tiny pompano this hit out jigs. These fish were only about 4-inches long but it was really good to see these small fish.

The Key Royale flats off Anna Maria Island were holding speckled and silver trout this week. We caught them on CAL jig with shad and curly tails, DOA Shrimp, and MirrOlure Lil‘ John soft plastic jerk baits.

Night fishing for snook around the dock lights was productive for anglers in the Sarasota and Treasure Island areas. Most areas close to passes were holding fish that were ready to spawn. While these are great fish for catch and release, during full and new moons they are most vulnerable and this kind of activity might best be saved when it won’t interrupt the spawning rituals.

Flounder are still being caught, but many landed lately have been small. The occasional nice “flattie’ is caught by anglers fishing either live shrimp or jigs. Look for the bulk of these fish around sandy edges of passes or on channel edges where there is good water movement.

FRESHWATER

The panfish bite has been on around this full moon week. Good catches of bluegill, stump knockers, red ears, and an assortment of other pinfish were reported on the Braden River in Bradenton, Lake Manatee, Lake Tarpon, and on the Walsingham Reservoir. My guess is that most retention ponds and small neighborhood lakes were producing equally well. Live worms, wigglers, earthworms, crickets, and grass shrimp were catching these tasty fish. Bass also had their moments during low light hours for anglers tossing poppers and streamers on fly rods around the banks of lakes. Spinnerbaits were working well around hydrilla beds. Buzz baits early got the nod from some bass to 5-pounds on Lake Tarpon. Hit them early for the best bite. ‘Til then…I’ll catch ya later!

Recently launched publishing platform Verst released a big update today, with new features like a homepage builder, new pricing and support for subscription paywalls.

CEO AJ Frank told us that his team’s goal was to create a blogging platform with optimization and analytics already built in. So there’s the core editing interface, but also tools that allow you to do things like A/B test headlines and get notifications when an old post is seeing a spike in traffic.

Since the initial launch, Verst has been adding new features, like support for advertising, but Frank said Verst 2.0 includes two additions — the homepage builder and paywall support — that “feel so different” that he wanted to “demarcate” the new product from the old one.

“Maybe someone who had looked at us three months ago will come back and take another look,” he said.

The homepage builder might not sound all that unusual, but in Frank’s view, it’s the most important addition to the product. By allowing users to create a beautiful front page to their site, Verst is becoming less “blog-centric” and more of “a fully functioning website builder,” he said .

Frank added that Verst has been heavily user testing the homepage builder to find “the balance between tons of customization and making it intuitively easy to use.” You can see a sample homepage here.

As for the paywall feature, Frank said Verst should make it easy for publishers to implement their subscription strategy by designating which articles are available for free and which ones are only accessible to subscribers. Over time, Verst could add support for other types of paywalls, like metered systems where each visitor can only read a certain number of articles for free wig online shop.

The initial users of Verst include news site Shout, mental health community Stigma and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. The service initially cost $29 per month, and it’s still offering a subscription at that price.

However, it’s also adding a $12 plan, which Frank said includes all the core features of the Verst platform, but doesn’t include monetization tools like the support for advertising and paywalls. The idea is to attract users who are serious about writing or otherwise turning their website into a business, but are just starting out and “can’t justify the investment” of paying $29 a month.

And if this sounds interesting to you but you’ve already been publishing on WordPress or Medium, Verst is also introducing a tool that ingests your existing site in minutes and migrates it over to a Verst blog — so it should be relatively painless to switch over PolyU Social Responsibility
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Following recommendations made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last year, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a group of health experts put together by the U.S. Cherson Label Printer Department of Health and Human Services, has suggested that all Americans born between 1945 and 1965 be tested for the hepatitis C virus. This group contains 75 percent of all people in the country with the disease, totaling close to three million people in the U.S. and over 180 million people globally.

Hepatitis C is a virus that can lay dormant for decades but cause serious harm to a person's liver, causing constant damage, scarring, cirrhosis, cancer, and even liver failure. The majority of liver transplants performed in the U.S. are done because a patient had their liver destroyed by the disease. The virus can be passed through blood and other bloodily fluids.  Those who have been on dialysis and use intranasal drugs are at increased risk as well. The virus was one spread through improper tattooing procedures used years ago.

But there are new treatments around the corner, with two already under FDA review, that have shown above 90 percent cure rates. Current treatments do not have as high cure rates and show side effects that leave people feeling Unitech Cherson as if they have the flu perpetually. The new medications do not have such side effects and have been well-tolerated. These medications could be on the market as soon as the end of this year, coming in a simple-to-use pill form and offering high rates of cures within months, not years.

Around three-fourths of all people with hepatitis C virus infections do not know that they carry the virus, until they show signs and symptoms. The number of livers available does not match the number of patients who currently require a transplantation, which means that patients die while on the waiting list. In 2012, there were 6,256 liver transplants performed. As of June 7, 2013, there are 16,484 patients waiting for a suitable organ.

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