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Wine on the River
The Lexington Medical Center Foundation's Women of Hope will host the third annual "Wine on the River" at Stone River and the West Columbia Riverwalk on Saturday, August 23, 2014 from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Surrounded by the beautiful sights and sounds along the Congaree River, "Wine on the River" features wine tastings, cuisine from Midlands restaurants and musical entertainment from Jim LeBlanc.
Guests can sample a variety of red and white wines, craft beers and delicious foods from food and beverage sponsors including Travinia Italian Kitchen, Alodia's Cucina Italiana, Bogart's, Budweiser of Columbia, Café Strudel, Capital City Club, Conquest Brewery, Famously Frozen, Grapes and Gallery, Ms. B's Southern Kitchen, Salsarita's Fresh Cantina, Sam's Fine Wine and Spirits and Whole Foods.
Here are some photos from last year's event.
In addition, attendees can learn how to join Women of Hope, a women's giving circle that is part of the Lexington Medical Center Foundation. Established in 2011, Women of Hope identifies health issues in the Midlands and works to bring about positive change.
Proceeds from "Wine on the River" will benefit the Lexington Medical Center Women and Children's Fund, which provides clothing and basic supplies for newborns whose parents are in financial need, infant CPR kits for families of special care infants and education materials for new mothers.
Last year, more than 500 people attended "Wine on the River." In the past two years, the event has raised more than $45,000. Tickets for Wine on the River are $30 in advance and $40 at the entrance. To purchase tickets, call (803) 791-2540 or go to LMCFoundation.com and click on the Eventbrite link on that page. Food, wine and some beers are included in the admission price. There will be a cash bar for additional types of beer and beverages.


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Policy for Information Technology Purchases
ITS Policy for Information Technology Purchases
All Augustana technology purchases must be approved and coordinated through Information Technology Services (ITS). Any technology not purchased through or with the approval of ITS will not be supported by ITS. For any purchaes over $5,000 ITS will require a signed approval form by your Director/VP and Finance before an order can be placed.
Not supported by ITS means:
- ITS will not troubleshoot or repair unsupported systems,
- ITS may not allow unsupported systems on the network,
- ITS may not load software on unsupported systems.
- Any not supported technology that impairs the campus technology infrastructure will be removed.
ITS imposes this support policy in an effort to:
- limit the number and kinds of systems our staff needs to learn,
- maximize our depth of knowledge on systems ITS has found of high quality and dependability,
- assure the quality and value* of systems purchased by Augustana University,
- assure we can get tech support and parts for supported systems,
- minimize potential security risks.
*There are often significant differences in enterprise quality systems versus consumer quality, off the shelf systems (which are sometimes cheaper, but not better options).
ITS may approve special technology purchases not made thru ITS on a case by case basis. In these special cases, ITS will let the department know what level of support to expect on the equipment, ranging from complete to no support.
In general, all technology purchases should be reviewed by ITS. ITS can assist with most technology needs, but some items further removed from "information technology" will be left up to the department and may not be supportable by ITS. The following is a non-exhaustive list of technology ITS can support and can help purchase:
- Computers & Computer Components (disk drives, RAM, CD/DVD drives),
- Printers,
- Computer Peripherals (disk drives, monitors, mice, keyboards),
- Data Projectors,
- Most Software (specialized software may be left up to the department).
Some of the above will have varying levels of support that will be explained when purchasing. Maintenance and recycling fees will apply to purchases.
Other supplies not purchased thru ITS:
- Printer supplies, ink, toner: Central Services stocks approved printer supplies. Generic and recycled products are not always acceptable.
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The following vehicles are added to the originals in Grand Theft Auto IV by The Lost and Damned, the first DLC pack. It introduces sixteen new motorcycles. It also "officially" introduces seven new cars/trucks. Also, bike handling has been improved to encourage bike trasportation, making the task of knocking Johnny off a bike a much harder task and sharp turns easier to make.
- * Indicates that this vehicle is exclusive to the The Lost and Damned.
Before proceeding to edit the vehicle pages, please refer to the Manual of Style/Vehicles to understand the vehicles' page contents.
|Sports cars
and Supercars
|Muscle Cars
|Two-Doors and Hatchbacks
|Four-Door Sedans/Saloons
and Station Wagons
|SUVs/Crossovers, Pick-ups and Vans
|Public Service
Chopper & Crusier
- The Prison Bus is only used in the mission Off Route, and seen in the final mission Get Lost.
- The Regina is only seen in the mission Heavy Toll.
- A Tampa is only seen in the opening cutscene and is not seen in later missions nor on the streets. It cannot be obtained in this game. It can be however be obtained in The Ballad of Gay Tony.
- The Gang Burrito and the Slamvan are rare vehicles that are not seen on the streets unless if the player is driving one. The Gang Burrito is seen in early missions which involve the Angels of Death. Otherwise they appear in Gang Wars again involving the Angels of Death but do not appear commonly. The player can spawn either vehicle via cheat code.
- The Rhapsody and Tow Truck are the only vehicles in this game that spawn commonly around all parts of Liberty City while not on a mission.
See also
Special Vehicles in The Lost and Damned
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After several days of uncertainty, it has now been formally announced by Liberal Democrat headquarters that Rebecca Taylor will become the new LibDem MEP for Yorkshire and Humberside following Diana Wallis's sudden resignation. Diana's move came as a shock to friends and strangers alike, particularly as she had only just stood unsuccessfully to be President of the European Parliament, but she feels that twelve-and-a-half years of hectic Euro-political life is enough. Given the strain of all the travel and dealing with a massive Euro-constituency, one can easily understand that. It was assumed that in keeping with previous practice the seat would then pass automatically to the next person down on the LibDems' 2009 regional list, Stewart Arnold, who happens to be Diana's husband. Indeed, that is what was announced in last Friday's edition of the weekly party newspaper Liberal Democrat News. But eyebrows were raised in some quarters and there were some pretty hard-hitting comments, not least from North West MEP Chris Davies, about how seemly it was for a husband to inherit his wife's seat (despite the fact that he was well qualified, as he had been working for her in her office). Anyway, after due consideration, Stewart Arnold declined the seat, which meant that it was offered to the third person on the list, Rebecca Taylor, instead. Though Yorkshire born and with strong family links to the region — she also stood for Rotheram in the 2010 General Election — Rebecca has carved a career out for herself in London, so not surprisingly she had to give the matter some consideration before deciding what to do. However, she has now agreed to take on the responsibility — and brilliant opportunity, I might add. She is being thrown in the deep end at age 36, but it will do no harm to the British LibDem group in the Parliament to have an energetic new person in their ranks.
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Wow, that is absolutely amazing. I've been checking this thread every so often and each time it just gets better and better.
(Also, idk what your avatar is but it's awesome lol)
The image above is actually a crop out of the entire zone of Kalimdor, which I've rendered... but the 128 block height limit destroyed most of it. I'm currently in the process of mapping all the textures in the zone, which total around 5000.
Since the last update, the program now properly converts terrain textures to matching blocks. I also fixed a few bugs with invisible walls appearing inside buildings.
looks good, my only suggestion now is to make the barrens more "barren" :P
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When you're done mapping and simulating everything, are you going to release the map ? :i
I'd really look forward to that
You should speak to the guys over at http://thevoxelbox.com/ on what they use to raise their height.
Dude, awesome job.
What I would like to ask is that those trees and houses, are those some kind of prefab or what?
I also created a thread on the Minecraft forums:
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Espionage thrillers don't get any better than The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1965), Martin Ritt's film of John le Carré's 1963 novel. Contemporary critics were impressed by the movie's supposed realism and how it served as a sobering, adult counterpoint to the then-current craze for spy pictures, the Sean Connery James Bond movies leading the way. But comparisons to 007 are basically pointless, apples and oranges, and anyway in terms of tone the movie is a lot closer to The Ipcress File, released nine months earlier and which anticipates many of this film's qualities. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold over-emphatically moves in the opposite direction from Bond, deglamorizing the trade: it was among the last big studio films in black and white, and it was marketed almost as an art house film. "Brace Yourself for Greatness," immodestly said the ads.
Its real appeal lay elsewhere. The movie isn't just cynical; the Bond movies are frequently that. No, it openly condemns the hypocrisy of supposed British Democracy (and by extension the "Free World") where the ends always justify the means, no matter how ruthless or immoral. Ritt himself was a bitter victim of the Blacklist, and he chose to emphasize those parts of le Carré's novel.
The movie, adapted mainly by screenwriter Paul Dehn, who like le Carré was an ex-spook (le Carré even claiming Dehn had been "a professional assassin … and a lovely guy"), otherwise follows the book quite closely with one major exception. Stars Richard Burton and Claire Bloom are okay but the supporting cast is significantly better, particularly Oskar Werner and Cyril Cusack, whose characterizations are more in line with le Carré's novels and the later George Smiley television miniseries starring Alec Guinness.
Criterion's new Blu-ray, licensed from Paramount, is a knockout. Oswald Morris's black and white cinematography looks absolutely stunning here, and an unexpectedly stereophonic soundtrack adds immeasurable to the film's overall impact. The numerous supplements are also unusually good, headlined by a superb interview with le Carré that's both refreshingly frank and right on the money in assessing the film's strong and weak points.
The film opens with burnt-out defeatist West Berlin SIS Station Head Alec Leamas (Richard Burton) tense but poker-faced as he and others nervously await the defection of Karl Riemeck, a double-agent, but who is shot dead while trying to slip across the border from East Germany. (In many respects it bookends the climax of another le Carré story, Smiley's People.)
Leamas is recalled to London by Control (Cyril Cusack), chief of the "Circus." On the heels of this latest failure, Leamas is ripe for recruitment by the Abteilung, the East German Secret Service, and Control orders his agent to stage his own defection. The Circus wants Leamas to provide false information that will implicate Control's East German counterpart, ex-Nazi Mundt (Peter van Eyck), as a British double agent, something Mundt's second-in-command, German Jew Fielder (Oskar Werner), already suspects.
To make the defection believable, Leamas spends several months posing as a disgraced alcoholic reduced to working as a file clerk at a small private library. There he meets and falls in love with 20-something Nan Perry (Claire Bloom), an idealistic anti-nuclear activist and member of the Communist Party of Britain.
The film's best scenes show East German agents cautiously nibbling at Control's bait, methodically passing Leamas up the chain of command from first contact Ashe (Michael Horden), a homosexual (still technically illegal in Britain at the time), through Holland agent Peters (American Sam Wanamaker, also a real-life victim of the Blacklist), and eventually to Fiedler. Initially doubtful about Leamas's authenticity, the like-minded Fiedler eventually comes to regard Leamas as a kindred spirit, and buys his story. But then Mundt suddenly appears, arrests Fiedler and exposes Leamas as a double agent.
Director Ritt and star Burton did not get along, and le Carré was brought in to act as a buffer between the quarrelling talents. Further complicating matters was Burton's recent marriage to Elizabeth Taylor, who along with her entourage was an additional distraction, she possibly concerned about Burton's relationship with ex-lover Bloom.
(I also wonder if a strange continuity issue resulted from the Ritt-Burton friction. In high-def especially what appears to be a skin tag is visible just below Burton's right eye. Its size changes dramatically from scene-to-scene: sometimes it's barely noticeable, at other times quite distracting. Perhaps Burton refused to have it removed?)
But the primary result was that Ritt was unable to completely shed Burton of his florid, theatrical delivery, which le Carré rightly felt hurt the film. Alec Guinness's later interpretation of spy George Smiley, le Carré pinpoints, was by design ambiguous, leaving much of that characterization to the audience's imagination where with Burton "he's taking up the whole space," as le Carré puts it.
(Spoilers) In the novel Bloom's character, called Liz Gold, is explicitly Jewish while in the movie all trace of this has been erased. (Le Carré lobbied for Rita Tushingham, who would have been a much better choice.) This was an unfortunate concession on Ritt's part (he was Jewish himself), because it's so inexorably linked to the unsavory denouement, that Control's aim all along is not to discredit ex-Nazi, Aryan Mundt (who in fact has been working with the British all along), but rather to throw Jewish Fiedler under the anti-Semitic bus, thus protecting Mundt in the interest of national security.
All this is summed up in to one of the film's best scenes, in which Control tries to morally justify his organization's immoral actions. While the Free World's position is defensive, he argues, "We can't be any less wicked." That Irish (though South Africa-born) actor Cusask hated the English government's treatment of his countrymen adds a subtle venom to a performance that le Carré liked best among the film's cast.
But the irreplaceable, tragic (alcoholic) Oskar Werner is also excellent, perfectly cast as the intellectual, relentless, yet soft and even elfin Fielder. He and Cusack bring out the best in Burton - he pulls back a bit to their level of subtlety - while he's more theatrical with other actors.
In smaller roles, Rupert Davies is fine as the screen's first George Smiley, a physical contrast to Guinness but approached in a similar fashion. Hordern is also good as the gay recruiter Ashe, and perhaps deliberately thumbing their nose at the Bond films, Bernard "M" Lee turns up as a gentle, working class grocer savagely beaten by Leamas.
Video & Audio
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold adapts the look of earlier British noir rather than the glossy sheen of James Bond. The photography and the transfer do the film justice and visually the Blu-ray is a real treat even for those who've seen it a dozen times before. Presented in its original 1.66:1 aspect ratio, the transfer sources a composite fine-grain master positive, while the stereo soundtrack, LPCM 2.0, was sourced from a 35mm optical soundtrack print. Its effectiveness is immediately apparent in the first scene at the East-West German border. When Leamas's ruse is discovered and an alarm blares from the surround speakers I actually jumped in my seat. The disc is Region A encoded and includes optional SDH English subtitles.
Extra Features
As noted above, the most interesting supplement is a half-hour interview with le Carré. He's extremely frank and articulate about everything, nearly accusing Paramount of theft in obtaining the screen rights, and in assessing the movie's achievements and shortcomings. Also good if less focused is The Secret Centre: John le Carré, a 2000 BBC career documentary. Additionally, there are audio excerpts from Patrick McGilligan's 1985 audio interview with Ritt, and selected scene audio commentary from director of photography Oswald Morris. High-def set sketches for the film are offered, as well as an episode of Acting in the '60s, Kenneth Tynan's show here interviewing Burton. (The episode featuring Laurence Olivier turns up on Criterion's Richard III.) A trailer and booklet essay by Michael Sragow round out the extras.
Parting Thoughts
Imperfect but extremely intelligent and endlessly fascinating The Spy Who Came in From the Cold is one of the best films of the 1960s, and Criterion's masterful handling of the transfer and supplements make this a DVD Talk Collector Series title.
Stuart Galbraith IV is a Kyoto-based film historian whose work includes film history books, DVD and Blu-ray audio commentaries and special features. Visit Stuart's Cine Blogarama here.


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The Passover Conundrum
For those with gastrointestinal issues, Passover presents a conundrum. On the one hand, we are commanded to avoid eating leavened bread, and we are also not allowed to consume many types of additives, preservatives, and other artificial ingredients that are ubiquitous in today's food supply. As a result, Passover is almost like going on a detox diet. We are essentially eliminating the wheat/gluten products from our diet, a boon to our health. We toss everything that is made with white flour and loaded with sugar, and we fill our kitchen with fruits, vegetables, proteins, some matzah, and only a modest amount of artificial ingredients. (more…)


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TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people was transferred to hospital on Friday after his health deteriorated quickly, his brother said.
Abdulbasit al-Megrahi was taken from his Tripoli home to a private hospital, his brother Abdulhakim told Reuters. "His health began to deteriorate quickly and we were worried about him, so took him immediately to the hospital where he is receiving a blood transfusion," he said.
Megrahi was convicted in 2001 of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 as it flew to New York from London. All 259 people aboard the airliner were killed and 11 others on the ground in the Scottish town of Lockerbie died from falling wreckage.
Britain freed him in 2009 on compassionate grounds because he was suffering from advanced terminal prostate cancer and thought to have months to live.
His release angered many relatives of the victims, 189 of whom were American, and the Obama administration criticised the decision. A number of U.S. politicians have pressed for his extradition to the United States, something Libya's ruling National Transitional Council said it would not do.
Megrahi, who served as an intelligence agent during the rule of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, denied any role in suspected human rights abuses in his home country before Gaddafi's fall and death in a popular uprising last year.


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Guide to using 32-bit VST effects with Audition CC via jBridge
It's a crisp December morning, and I'm looking out my office window at the little corporate building bunny rabbit that lives in the bushes. He pretty much keeps to himself nibbling on grass, playing with the robins, and hiding from the corporate stray cat that roams through once in awhile. But every once in awhile, I can hear him talking to me through his big, soulful eyes. Usually I can dismiss it as the ramblings of a silly rabbit – I mean, c'mon – but this morning he said something that really struck a chord with me. He mentioned, in a very matter-of-fact manner, that he's flummoxed with getting his 32-bit VSTs working in Audition CC. After crafting an e-mail, the standard method of communicating back to psychic bunnies, I figured I'd better share it with our blog readers, even though I'm pretty sure y'all are smarter than this rabbit.
Quick review of 32 vs. 64-bit plug-ins, and VSTs in general
Until Audition CC was released, Audition was strictly a 32-bit application. Basically, this means there was a finite amount of RAM Audition was able to utilize – around 4 gigabytes. As projects have grown bigger, plug-ins and media have become larger, and more high-resolution video files are used in sessions, many users have started to hit this limitation. After Audition CS6 shipped, we made the decision to update the tool as a native 64-bit application and be on par with most of the other Adobe Creative Cloud tools. Not only would this allow access to more memory, but it improves performance in many areas and enables features in the latest hardware and operating systems to be fully utilized.
There was a problem, though. 32-bit VST plug-ins are not natively compatible with a 64-bit host application. While Waves and other large plug-in authors began releasing 64-bit editions of their tools, it turns out there are a lot of folks still using old, often abandoned, 32-bit plug-ins that are unlikely to see an update. In order to "bridge the gap" between 32-bit plug-ins and a 64-bit host, you'll need to install a "bit-bridge." (Do you see what I did there? Bit-Bridge. Bridge the gap. I got a million of 'em!) A bit-bridge acts as a go-between and does all the intermediary math that's required to fool both the plug-in and the host application to believe that they're talking to each other.
We got in touch with the folks at jBridge who had been developing and distributing a bit-bridge tool for a few years. We found jBridge to work very well for most effects we tested, and implemented direct Windows support, though Mac was still in beta when Audition CC wrapped development . (As a brief aside, the programming quality of your average free VST from the net can vary WILDLY. Most of the crash reports in Audition over the years have been the result of a plug-in stepping outside its bounds, and much work has gone in to minimizing and preventing these problematic plug-ins from doing too much damage.) If you're struggling without your favorite effects, please consider installing and purchasing this tool if you find it works well.
Using jBridge with Audition CC on Windows
As noted, Audition CC for Windows implements direct support for jBridge. Download jBridge and run the installer .EXE file. Due to OS security measures, you'll probably need to instruct Windows to run the jBridge processes as an Administrator. You can find full step-by-step instructions by visiting How to use jBridge – A detailed walkthrough, but basically you'll need to right-click the three .EXE application files in C:Program FilesJBridge and check "Run this program as an Administrator" in the Properties panel. This change gives jBridge permission to share plug-ins with Audition and other DAWs.
Launch Audition and select Edit > Preferences > Effects in the menu bar. Check the preference "Scan 32-bit VST effects using jBridge." and click OK.
With this enabled, you're ready to scan for effects! Click Effects > Audio Plug-in Manager… from the menu bar and make sure the sure the directory path for the VST effects you wish to use is added. The default location for 32-bit effects is typically C:Program Files (x86)VstPlugins Click Scan for Plug-ins and you should see Audition scanning your 32-bit VST effects as if nothing out of the ordinary were going on. You may see the following warning pop-up, but we know better now, don't we?
Once the scan is complete, you should see a list of all the recognized, valid VST plug-ins found. Click OK and you should find your effects under Effects > VST in the menu bar. Hooray!
Using jBridgeM with Audition CC on Mac OS X
As I mentioned before, jBridgeM (jBridge for Mac, in case you're slow of mind) is the equivalent tool for OS X users, but at the time we implemented support in Audition, the tool was still in beta testing. While there are much fewer 32-bit VST effects for Mac, we did want to make sure your bases were covered as well. jBridgeM has the ability to generate new, wrapped VSTs which appear to Audition as a new, 64-bit VST.
First, download jBridgeM and run the installer .PKG file. Your system may require a restart after the installation is complete. Go ahead and come on back here when that's complete. I'll wait… Ready? Great! You should now see a new folder in your Applications labeled jBridgeM and inside there is jBridgerM.app Launching this should present you with the following dialog:
You can generally just use the default options, and click I'll be using a 64bit VST host. It will start scanning your installed VST effects and it's generally best to just sit back and let it do its thing since it tends to pop back into focus with each effect which can be maddening if you're trying to write a blog post at the same time it scans in the background. Once it's complete, it gives you a bit of details as to how many 32-bit effects it found and successfully wrapped. (It creates a new file on disk, and the host DAWs will see these new files as valid 64-bit effects.) Next, launch Audition and click Effects > Audio Plug-in Manager… in the menu bar then select Scan for Plug-Ins. After a few moments, you should see your newly-wrapped plug-ins appear below! Click OK and access them by selecting Effects > VST in the menu bar or through the Effects Rack panels!
Well done! If you have additional questions or problems, feel free to visit us in the Adobe User to User forums. Have a great holiday and new year, and I can't wait for 2014. Now, if only that bunny would stop getting songs stuck in my head. He has such poor taste.


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The Kremlin often touts Russia's image as an "energy superpower," but now the country's oil production is declining. Some say Russia may have already reached peak oil output.
Underscoring the urgency of the issue, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's new cabinet made its first order of business on Monday the approval of a package of measures to relieve the oil-production crisis.
"It's a good first step," says Natalia Milchakova, an oil and gas analyst for Otkritiye, a Moscow-based brokerage firm. But she adds that "rapidly slowing" oil production, which was growing by more than 10 percent five years ago, isn't "something that can be quickly fixed with political declarations."
As the world's second-largest oil exporter, Russia joins a growing number of top oil suppliers wrestling with how to address declining or peaking production. Like Venezuela and Mexico, Russia is heavily dependent on oil, which accounts for more than two-thirds of government revenue and 30 percent of the country's gross domestic product. Now, Moscow is trying to remedy a situation caused in part by outdated technology, heavy taxation of oil profits, and lack of investment in oil infrastructure.
The Presidium of the Cabinet, as it is officially known, in its inaugural meeting Monday approved tax holidays of up to 15 years for Russian companies that open new oil fields and proposed raising the threshold at which taxation begins from the current $9 per barrel to $15. Oil companies welcomed the measures, but experts say that after almost two decades of post-Soviet neglect, which have seen little new exploration, it may be too little, too late.
After rising steadily for several years to a post-Soviet high of 9.9 million barrels per day (bpd) in October, Russian oil production fell by 0.3 percent in the first four months of this year, while exports fell 3.3 percent – the first Putin-era drop. Russia's proven oil reserves are a state secret, but the Oil & Gas Journal, a US-based industry publication, estimates it has about 60 billion barrels – the world's eighth largest – which would last for 17 years at current production rates.
Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko recently admitted the decline, but suggested it might be overcome by fresh discoveries in underexplored eastern Siberia or in new Arctic territories recently claimed by Russia. "The output level we have today is a plateau, or stagnation," he said.
But Leonid Fedun, vice president of Russia's largest private oil company LUKoil, went one step further in an interview with the Financial Times last month.
"Russian oil production has peaked and may never return to current levels," he said.
That poses problems for Russia, which has talked of expanding beyond its main oil market – Europe – to China, Japan, and the US. In 2006, then-President Putin approved construction of an $11 billion pipeline across Siberia to the Pacific Ocean to carry eastward exports. Putin and his successor, Dmitri Medvedev, have insisted Russia can meet demand by increasing output but oil analysts around the globe are pessimistic that oil supplies can meet rising consumption in the coming decade.
No supply squeeze applies to Russia's natural gas industry, which has both vast reserves and a favorable tax regime. Gas prices have been rising on world markets in lockstep with oil, but in Russia only one company, the state-owned giant Gazprom, enjoys a monopoly on exports. "Gas producers are comparatively well off. The export tax for gas is fixed and does not rise when the price goes up," says Ms. Milchakova.
Oil profits, on the other hand, are taxed at nearly 90 percent, which has filled the state's coffers as prices for crude oil have risen from $10 per barrel a decade ago to more than $130 last week. Petrowealth was a key factor enabling Mr. Putin to concentrate political power in the Kremlin, which he used to take over huge slices of the formerly private oil and gas industry. The looming production crunch, therefore, suggests a need for sweeping political reforms as well as economic adjustments, some experts say.
"As long as energy prices keep going up and the easy money keeps rolling in, there is no incentive to liberalize," says Yevgeny Gavrilenkov, chief economist at Troika Dialog, a Moscow investment bank. "If the golden goose stops laying eggs, then they'll start to recognize the need for change."
A sharp debate is breaking out among economists, some of whom argue that the crisis is an opportunity for Russia to develop a long-term strategy to husband its remaining energy resources and diversify its economy.
They point to figures showing that gas and oil exports have risen since 2000 from under half to over 60 percent of Russia's gross domestic product and say that to continue trading nonrenewable resources for rapidly devaluing dollars is a big mistake.
"Russia should not be a colonial country that provides raw materials to more developed countries," says Nodari Simonia, director of the Center for World Energy Studies, an independent Moscow think tank. "We don't need to export more crude, we have to invest resources in our manufacturing base."
Russian oil profits, taxed by the state, have been accumulating in a special 'stabilization fund' that now totals about $130 billion. Earlier this year the government put another $32 billion into a sovereign wealth fund that is expected to begin investing in Russian infrastructure and social welfare schemes. "Russia's economy so far can't absorb the oil cash that's coming in. That, not increasing oil output, is our biggest worry," says Sergei Glaziev, head of the National Institute for Development, a Moscow think tank. "We urgently need to diversify our economy away from this dependence on natural resources."
Others say Russia's gas-and-oil sector can continue to grow, but only if there are massive new investments and critical reforms to an industry that under Putin became dominated by two state-owned behemoths, Gazprom and Rosneft. Both companies have accumulated huge debt in an ongoing campaign to take over formerly private assets that have returned nearly half of Russian oil and gas reserves to state control in recent years.
"Ten years ago the bulk of our oil resources were held by private companies, and growth rates were very high," says Michalkova. "Growth rates have become sluggish for complex reasons lately, but political interference and battles over ownership have not been helpful."
Major investments will be needed to eke out further production from the largely exhausted Soviet-era oil fields of western Siberia, experts say. "Production costs have more than doubled in the past six years, and the current tax regime makes additional output at older fields unviable," says Valery Nesterov, an energy expert with Troika Dialog.
Even if new finds are made in Russia's uncharted east, they are likely to be much smaller, more remote, and difficult to access. "In the early '80s a typical new oil field held reserves of up to 50 million tons, but today a company celebrates if it finds a field with 3 million tons," says Mikhail Krutikhin, an analyst with Russian Energy, a Moscow-based consultancy. "Therefore we need more small oil companies, which are best for operating small fields. But Russia has a few giant companies, whose fixed costs and attitude are all wrong.
Russia's new president, Mr. Medvedev, has talked about a need to encourage small business, but Krutikhin is skeptical given Medvedev's background as former chairman of Gazprom. "To reinvigorate our oil and gas industry, Russia needs dramatic tax reform, antitrust measures, and strong support for small enterprises," says Mr. Krutikhin. "But Medvedev comes from Gazprom, which is the biggest enemy of small business in Russia, so I really don't have any high expectations."


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The comprehensive designation was awarded through the NCI's cancer centers program and is its highest level of distinction, which can only be awarded after a center has undergone a rigorous review by experts in the cancer field.
Siteman was awarded comprehensive status because of its expertise in every phase of the cancer journey, including its basic and clinical research programs; programs in cancer prevention, control and population-based research; outreach and education efforts for residents and health-care professionals in the St. Louis region and interactive research that bridges these disciplines.
As part of this comprehensive designation, Siteman Cancer Center received a support grant from the NCI that provides funding for programs and specialized services in multidisciplinary research, shared scientific resources and seed awards that enable our scientists to develop and pursue new research opportunities.
In 2015, the NCI awarded Siteman Cancer center an "exceptional" rating, based on a rigorous review of Siteman's research programs.
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Despite record expenditures in mineral exploration in British Columbia last year, almost no new exploration took place by junior companies, a trend that is not sustainable, the president of the Association for Mineral Exploration said Tuesday.
Gavin Dirom told a PwC conference on the state of the mining industry that only one to two per cent of the $680 million spent on mineral exploration in 2012 was for grassroots or greenfield projects. The rest of the money went to mature or advanced-stage mining projects owned by major companies.
"That's not a sustainable formula. Usually, eight to 10 per cent, even pushing 20 per cent, is where we need to go in terms of having sustainability in this sector and having new projects feeding in," Dirom said.
Despite the drought in exploration investment — the result of the eurozone crisis and falling commodity prices — Dirom said 2013 is shaping up to be a positive year, if not a record year, for exploration.
Mining brought in $9.2 billion in gross revenues in 2012, down seven per cent from 2011, when revenues hit $9.9 billion. Lower prices for coal and copper were the main reason revenues fell, according to PwC.
Further, the industry faced a significant increase in exploration costs, particularly machinery and construction materials, said Marianne Carroll, manager of PwC's mining practice, resulting in net income of $1.8 billion, down from $3.7 billion in 2011.
Profits were trimmed, but PwC described 2012 as "another thriving year" for the industry as a whole.
And despite the downturn in grassroots exploration — the bread-and-butter of the province's junior sector — Dirom said recent discoveries and innovative investment strategies are shining a ray of sunshine on an otherwise gloomy investment outlook.
He singled out two examples:
• An April 4 joint-venture agreement between junior Fjordland Exploration and a subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining, a major Japanese mining company, on the Dillard copper-gold project between Princeton and Merritt. Sumitomo agreed to spend $3.5 million in exploration costs over the next three years in exchange for a 51-per-cent interest.
• A copper-gold discovery by junior Colorado Resources in northwestern B.C., 15 kilometres southeast of Imperial Metals' Red Chris copper-gold project. The junior released results April 25 from its first drill hole showing 0.63 per cent copper and 0.85 grams per tonne of gold over the first 242 metres.
"Investors are now quite excited by the results because the proof is in the pudding," Dirom said. "And this project is near Red Chris. So you've got a mining camp potentially happening in this area, meaning it's not just one mine. It could be multiple mines, which is significant; thousands of tonnes, high grade.
"This is what gets people really excited. This is what explorers and prospectors dream about."
New discoveries are tempering nervousness within the sector of an NDP government being elected May 14.
"I think we will be OK, we will weather the storm regardless of the governing party," Dirom said. "I don't think it (mining) will be politicized as much as some people might fear."
He said there is concern over past policies introduced by NDP governments but this time around, the NDP has engaged with the industry in advance of the election.
"The platforms (of the Liberals and the NDP) aren't that different in fact, which is what we are trying to achieve. Let's take the politics out of the industry so that both parties see the benefits and understand that they need to support exploration and mining and that we don't needlessly politicize the issues. Then we can move past the reality of what the '90s was about."
There are concerns, however, not just about provincial policies but about the growing opposition to resource development in general from urban British Columbia, said Karina Brino, president of the Mining Association of B.C.
"We are at a very interesting and important juncture in B.C. today. The competitiveness of the sector very critically depends on fiscal policies that are going to be friendly toward responsible development, and are going to be clear and transparent in terms of what is expected of proponents and what is required of the industry to operate in British Columbia," Brino said.
"We think the opportunities are there. They are real. It's a matter of figuring out how we seize the day when it comes to leveraging from that."
She singled out civic and public opposition to expansion projects at Port Metro Vancouver as particularly troubling for the resource sector. She termed it the BANANA syndrome — Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone.
"There's an increased need to have a different kind of dialogue," Brino said. "I am absolutely convinced that we can sit down and have a conversation about how mining is being done today, what it actually is doing to contribute not only to the economy but also a commitment to stewardship and respectful and meaningful engagement with aboriginal communities. The alarming part to me is that we don't seem to be having a very effective dialogue."


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I'm on a MacBook with 10.4.11 with Accordance 7.4.2 and AccUpdate 2.2. For background, I bought the starter kit, and then installed the scholars bundle on top of it.
I click on "check", it expands, and says "Scanning for updates..." for a few seconds, and then nothing. If I move my mouse over the box, it seems like things are there, but I can't do anything. I thought I saw it once display the list of items.
I've attached a screenshot of the blank page.
There is nothing in the console log.
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ESD (electro-static discharge) safe tape is a kind of adhesive, anti-static tape used to seal packages where electro-static discharge may to cause a problem. ESD tape is either naturally anti-static or has been treated so that as it is unwound or used, there is little risk of static.
What is ESD safe tape used for?
ESD safe tape is primarily used as a safety device, so that you can reduce the risk of contamination of your products. Where equipment contains a semiconductor, such as a memory chip, ESD control is needed so that it is not damaged, and ESD safe tape provides one way of managing the risk. It is often used in addition to storing the equipment in a clean room.
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I've read through the Q&As and I must have missed it - was there an announcement about Bric?
Sorry, wish I could link you directly to the Q&A. but the gist of it was that Hasbro came out and said they will not be doing any more TCW mailaway promotions going forward. Bric will be the last. Apparently the implication is that this promotion is not doing as well as the Vebb one.
I blame the way they advertised it. They put a little blurb on the top of the bubble where no one will see it. They needed a sticker on the front with a picture of the figure like they did for Boba and Vebb. It didn't help that half of them talked about a play mat instead of the figure too.
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"This is the best book of embarrassing and strange photos of people who look like my family that I have ever seen."
—Judd Apatow
"Being a test tube baby doesn't seem such a bad idea after looking at these folks. I laughed till it hurt. To paraphrase Tolstoy… every family is freaky in its own way. There's so much love here- but maybe a little more pain, or desperation, or bewilderment. I often feel slightly sad or guilty that I'm not closer with my own family- but looking at this bunch I sense we all have something in common and I'm far from being alone."
—David Byrne
"Awkwardness has never looked so cool. Finally there's a book that celebrates the cringe-worthy family photo we all have buried in an album somewhere."
— Amanda Goldberg, New York Times bestselling author of Celebutantes
"Anything that both makes me laugh and think my family isn't so embarrassing deserves to be a book."
—Joel Stein, Time magazine columnist
"I wept with laughter fourteen times while reading this book and snorted aloud twice. I dare you to find a higher weep/snort ratio in any other publication."
—Karen McCullah Lutz, screenwriter of Legally Blonde and The Ugly Truth
"Awkward Family Photos is the funniest book that I've read in a long time. It reminds you that it's okay to laugh at yourself and celebrates the family that made you awkward in the first place."
—Mia Kirshner, The L Word
"Awkward Family Photos is absolutely hysterical, yet at the same time, it's a stunningly accurate photographic record of the late 20th century American family. Now I can be certain I was not alone in my awkwardness."
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Wall Street declined as US House Speaker John Boehner renewed concern about the lack of progress in talks aimed at preventing US$600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts taking effect on January 1.
"Unfortunately, the White House is so unserious about cutting spending that it appears willing to slow-walk our economy right up to the 'fiscal cliff,'" Boehner told a news conference.
Failing to reach a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff could push the world's largest economy into recession next year, the non-partisan Congressional budget office has forecast. Further evidence of the glacial pace of negotiations has increased uncertainty about the outlook for the economy and corporate profits.
"There's a lot of confusion. Nobody knows what's going to happen with the cliff," Tom Schrader, managing director of US equity trading at Stifel Nicolaus Capital Markets in Baltimore, told Reuters.
In afternoon trading in New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.44 percent, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index shed 0.56 percent, while the Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 0.75 percent.
Positive economic data, while welcome, did little to help the mood. New claims declined 29,000 to a seasonally adjusted 343,000, according to the Labor Department.
"The labour market might be improving a bit quicker than expected," David Sloan, an economist at 4Cast in New York, told Reuters.
And two separate reports from the Commerce Department showed that retail sales increased 0.3 percent last month, following a 0.3 percent slide in October, while business inventories gained 0.4 percent in October.
Shares of Best Buy soared, last up 14.9 percent, after a report in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune newspaper that company founder Richard Schulze will offer to buy the consumer electronics retailer by the end of the week.
In Europe, the Stoxx 600 Index ended the day with a 0.4 percent drop from the previous close. That was its first drop this month, according to Bloomberg. National benchmark stock indexes declined in Frankfurt, Paris and London, falling 0.4 percent, 0.1 percent and 0.3 percent respectively.
Standard & Poor's today cut its crediting rating outlook for the UK to negative from stable.
Meanwhile, UBS faces a fine of about US$1 billion next week to settle charges of rigging the Libor interest rate benchmark, Reuters reported, citing a person familiar with the situation.
"The global settlement is about US$1 billion," the source told Reuters on Thursday. "It's expected early next week -- on Monday or Tuesday."
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Alright, peoples, you've waited long enough to hear about this one! The Steve Austin Book Club is back, and more extreme than ever! Or, perhaps that is Xtreme! Mayhaps we should rename ourselves The Xteve AuXtin BooX Club, as an indicator of our new hip and happenin' ways!
Or, not.
Anyway, this is the review of World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks. This review is apt to spoil the book, so if you haven't read it and want to, you may want to skip this. There will be SPOILERS-A-PLENTY! If you have read the book, feel free to leave a comment!
Now with the preliminaries out of the way, sit back and enjoy!
World War Z is a collection of the post-Zombie War rememberances of indidual survivors throughout the world. It is ten years after the official end of the war… a time to look back. The book is presented in a series of personal stories/interviews with individuals discussing their roles and reactions as the world was plunged into a panic and near extinction of the human race. Using these personal stories, the audience follows as the events of the Zombie War are revealed in pieces, from its start within the borders of China, to the various steps taken by governments throughout the world in attempts to protect their borders, through battlefields where traditional tactics are found lacking, to the eventual steps toward survival, which rely on plans for each nation to virtually abandon most of their citizens. The stories come from average individuals, politicians, military personnel, corporate leaders, slackers, etc., etc., etc.
And… that's about the sum of it.
Let me start this by saying that the concept of this book is genius. I loved the premise and the style used. As an avid fan of the History Channel, I could really see this story being told through the account of eye witnesses just as much of their programming does. If there is any downside to that, it is that I think that this is one of those few occassions where the upcoming film based on this book may surpass the book in effectiveness. Why? Because the biggest complaint I have about the book seems to be a near universal complaint about it – while we are told that the stories come from various individuals, the vast majority of the stories are very much in the same voice, seemingly from the same individual. That is why I think the movie has the advantage. The various actors will lend their own spin to each vignette, allowing the audience to see a greater variance than what was afforded in the book.
I did appreciate the fact that the author knew his audience. Very little time was spent dwelling on what zombies are and trying to explain them away. Instead, he worked from a standpoint of "the people that pick this book up know what these creatures are." It was nice to not have the lodestone of origin dragging the book down.
Now, the downside. Without an establishing of the specifics of the zombie of this book, we don't have a firm enough idea of what these zombies are really like. And, it seems that the author forgets as well. There are times when we are told that zombies eventually decompose, and yet we are confronted with zombies in several instances that seem to have survived locked up in abandoned homes for years, no worse for wear. We are told that frozen weather will freeze zombies, yet they can walk unencumbered along the ocean floor, which rests at right about 32 degrees. (Fun science fact: the ocean, being salty, doesn't freeze until the water hits about 28.5 degrees. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.)
There also seems to be a real lack of knowledge about military weaponry. The idea that modern weapons would be less than effective against the undead is really hard to believe. The shrapnel described in the book always somehow managed to avoid hitting the zombies in the head. There is a reason that the militaries of the world issue metal helmets to their soldiers.
I can go along, to some extent, with the laughable actions of government during a situation like this, but the overall political commentary in the book is hack-kneed and blunt to the point of near rhetoric. Everything is too surface, no depth.
I was also unimpressed with the two types of people that we were presented with in the book: the noble hero and the scummy opportunist. There didn't seem to be any other degrees of personality. I understand that a tragedy can be a polarizing event, but there are more shades to people than this, and not having those shades made almost all the characters boring and relatively two-dimensional.
Which, now that I think about it and re-read my last complaint, is the problem I have with the book as a whole. For all the supposed individuals "interviewed" in the book, there just isn't enough to any of them. The characters are flat, which is really what makes them all sound the same. Perhaps if the author had focused on fewer stories, we could have had a more in depth character study of each. People aren't simply noble or evil… they are far more complicated than that.
The book wasn't terrible, but I expected and wanted so much more from it. As I mentioned, I'm really hoping that the actors in the planned film are able to bring that little extra to this project that is sorely missing in the book. For the potential of this book and the concept, I'm giving it two and a half Running Steves.
And, here's to hoping that the film gets moving from development limbo and into actual production!


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"Perspectives on the Properties of Stem Cells" (2005), by Ernest McCulloch and James Till
In 2005, Ernest McCulloch and James Till published the article "Perspectives on the Properties of Stem Cells," which discusses the various properties and future possibilities for the use of stem cells. Stem cells are unspecialized cells that can develop into several different cell types. In the article published in the journal Nature on 1 October 2005, the authors say they wrote the article to dispel misconceptions about what stem cells are, what they do, address some controversies surrounding stem cells, and discuss potential uses of stem cells.
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Pfeffer Cell Apparatus
The Pfeffer Zelle (Pfeffer Cell Apparatus), invented by Wilhelm Pfeffer in 1877, measured the minimum pressure needed to prevent a pure solvent from passing into a solution across a semi-permeable membrane, called osmotic pressure. The apparatus provided Pfeffer with a way to quantitatively measure osmotic pressure. Pfeffer devised the apparatus in the 1870s at the University of Basel in Basel, Switzerland, and he described the Pfeffer Cell Apparatus in his 1877 book Osmotische Untersuchungen: Studien Zur Zellmechanik (Osmotic Investigations: Studies on Cell Mechanics).
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Gail Roberta Martin (1944– )
In the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, Gail Roberta Martin specialized in biochemistry and embryology, more specifically cellular communication and the development of organs. In 1981, she named any cell taken from inside a human embryo at the blastocyst stage an "embryonic stem cell". During development, an embryo goes through the blastocyst stage just before it implants in the uterus. Embryonic stem cells are useful for experiments because they are self-renewing and able to develop into almost any cell type in the body.
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Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Stem cells are undifferentiated cells that are capable of dividing for long periods of time and can give rise to specialized cells under particular conditions. Embryonic stem cells are a particular type of stem cell derived from embryos. According to US National Institutes of Health (NIH), in humans, the term "embryo" applies to a fertilized egg from the beginning of division up to the end of the eighth week of gestation, when the embryo becomes a fetus. Between fertilization and the eighth week of gestation, the embryo undergoes multiple cell divisions.
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"Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Blastocytes" (1998), by James Thomson
After becoming chief pathologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Wisconsin Regional Primate Center in 1995, James A. Thomson began his pioneering work in deriving embryonic stem cells from isolated embryos. That same year, Thomson published his first paper, "Isolation of a Primate Embryonic Stem Cell Line," in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, detailing the first derivation of primate embryonic stem cells. In the following years, Thomson and his team of scientists - Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor, Sander S. Shapiro, Michelle A.
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Stem Cells
According to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the standard American source on stem cell research, three characteristics of stem cells differentiate them from other cell types: (1) they are unspecialized cells that (2) divide for long periods, renewing themselves and (3) can give rise to specialized cells, such as muscle and skin cells, under particular physiological and experimental conditions. When allowed to grow in particular environments, stem cells divide many times. This ability to proliferate can yield millions of stem cells over several months.
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"Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Executive Summary" (1999), by the US National Bioethics Advisory Commission
Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research: Executive Summary was published in September 1999 by The US National Bioethics Advisory Commission in response to a national debate about whether or not the US federal government should fund embryonic stem cell research. Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research recommended policy to US President William Clinton's administration, which advocated for federal spending on the use of stem research on stem cells that came from embryos left over from in vitro fertilization (IVF) fertility treatments.
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The Singapore Bioethics Advisory Committee
Established in tandem with Singapore's national Biomedical Sciences Initiatives, the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) was established by the Singapore Cabinet in December 2000 to examine the potential ethical, legal, and social issues arising from Singapore's biomedical research sector, and to recommend policy to Singapore's government.
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Ethics and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
The recent development of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and related technologies has caught the attention of scientists, activists, politicians, and ethicists alike. IPSCs gained immediate international attention for their apparent similarity to embryonic stem cells after their successful creation in 2006 by Shinya Yamanaka and in 2007 by James Thompson and others.
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"Derivation of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Cultured Human Primordial Germ Cells" (1998), by John Gearhart et al.
In November 1998, two independent reports were published concerning the first isolation of pluripotent human stem cells, one of which was "Derivation of Pluripotent Stem Cells from Cultured Human Primordial Germ Cells." This paper, authored by John D. Gearhart and his research team - Michael J Shamblott, Joyce Axelman, Shunping Wang, Elizabeith M. Bugg, John W. Littlefield, Peter J. Donovan, Paul D. Blumenthal, and George R. Huggins - was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science soon after James A.
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Michael D. West (1953- )
Michael D. West is a biomedical entrepreneur and investigator whose aim has been to extend human longevity with biomedical interventions. His focus has ranged from the development of telomerase-based therapeutics to the application of human embryonic stem cells in regenerative medicine. Throughout his eventful career, West has pursued novel and sometimes provocative ideas in a fervent, self-publicizing manner. As of 2009, West advocated using human somatic cell nuclear transfer techniques to derive human embryonic stem cells for therapeutic practice.
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Shinya Yamanaka (1962- )
Shinya Yamanaka gained international prominence after publishing articles detailing the successful generation of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, first in mice, then in humans. Yamanaka induced somatic cells to act like human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), allowing researchers to experiment with non-embryonic stem cells with a similar capacity as hESCs. The research involving iPS cells therefore offered new potential for research and application in medical treatment, without many of the ethical objections that hESC research entailed.
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President George W. Bush's Announcement on Stem Cells, 9 August 2001
On 9 August 2001, US President George W. Bush gave an eleven-minute speech from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, on the ethics and fate of federal funding for stem cell research. Bush also announced the creation of a special council to oversee stem cell research. In the speech President Bush acknowledged the importance of issues surrounding stem cell research to many Americans, presented different arguments in favor of and opposing embryonic stem cell research, and explained his decision to limit but not completely eliminate potential federal funding for embryonic stem cell (ESC) research.
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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) are cells derived from non-pluripotent cells, such as adult somatic cells, that are genetically manipulated so as to return to an undifferentiated, pluripotent state. Research on iPSCs, initiated by Shinya Yamanaka in 2006 and extended by James Thompson in 2007, has so far revealed the same properties as embryonic stem cells (ESCs), making their discovery potentially very beneficial for scientists and ethicists alike.
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Advanced Cell Technology, Inc.
Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (ACT) is a biotechnology company that uses stem cell technology to develop novel therapies in the field of regenerative medicine. Formed in 1994, ACT grew from a small agricultural cloning research facility located in Worcester, Massachusetts, into a multi-locational corporation involved in using both human embryonic stem cells (hESC) and human adult stem cells as well as animal cells for therapeutic innovations.
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James Alexander Thomson (1958- )
James Alexander Thomson, affectionately known as Jamie Thomson, is an American developmental biologist whose pioneering work in isolating and culturing non-human primate and human embryonic stem cells has made him one of the most prominent scientists in stem cell research. While growing up in Oak Park, Illinois, Thomson's rocket-scientist uncle inspired him to pursue science as a career. Born on 20 December 1958, Thomson entered the nearby University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign nineteen years later as a National Merit Scholar majoring in biophysics.
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Stem Cell Tourism
When James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin announced in 1998 that he had derived and cultured human embryonic stem cells(hESCs), Americans widely believed-and accepted-that stem cells would one day be the basis of a multitude of regenerative medical techniques. Researchers promised that they would soon be able to cure a variety of diseases and injuries such as cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's, spinal cord injuries, severe burns, and many others. But it wasn't until January 2009 that the Food and Drug Administration approved the first human clinical trials using hESCs.
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"Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells" (2007), by Junying Yu et al.
On 2 December 2007, Science published a report on creating human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from human somatic cells: "Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells." This report came from a team of Madison, Wisconsin scientists: Junying Yu, Maxim A. Vodyanik, Kim Smuga-Otto, Jessica Antosiewicz-Bourget, Jennifer L. Frane, Shulan Tian, Jeff Nie, Gudrun A. Jonsdottir, Victor Ruotti, Ron Stewart, Igor I. Slukvin, and James A. Thomson.
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"Generation of Germline-Competent Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells" (2007), by Keisuke Okita, Tomoko Ichisaka, and Shinya Yamanaka
In the July 2007 issue of Nature, Keisuke Okita, Tomoko Ichisaka, and Shinya Yamanaka added to the new work on induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) with their "Generation of Germline-Competent Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells" (henceforth abbreviated "Generation"). The authors begin the paper by noting their desire to find a method for inducing somatic cells of patients to return to a pluripotent state, a state from which the cell can differentiate into any type of tissue but cannot form an entire organism.
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Barack Obama Executive Order 13505, November 2008
On 20 November 2009 Democrat Barack Obama replaced Republican George W. Bush as president of the United States. Obama soon initiated changes to Bush's 2001 executive order concerning scientific research involving human stem cells. Stem cell research remains a controversial issue in the US. Some individuals consider it immoral to experiment with an embryo because they regard embryos as human beings from the moment of conception, while others believe stem cell research could lead to great scientific advancements.
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Subject: Legal
Thomson, et al. v. Thompson, et al. (2001)
Thomson, et al. v. Thompson, et al. was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on 8 May 2001 as Civil Action Number 01-CV-0973. This lawsuit was filed in hopes of gaining injunctive relief against a moratorium on the federal funding of stem cell research. The plaintiffs in the case were seven prominent scientists who performed embryonic stem cell research and three patients: James Thomson, Roger Pedersen, John Gearhart, Douglas Melton, Dan Kaufman, Alan Trounson, Martin Pera, Christopher Reeve, James Cordy, and James Tyree.
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Subject: Legal
Nightlight Christian Adoptions, et al. v. Thompson, et al. (2001)
Nightlight Christian Adoptions et al. v. Thompson et al. was a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on 8 March 2001. The suit was filed because Nightlight Christian Adoptions, a frozen embryo adoption agency, felt that the Guidelines for Research Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells published by the National Institutes for Health were unlawful and violated the restrictions on human embryo research put into place by the Dickey-Wicker Amendment. Additional plaintiffs with this suit were the Christian Medical Association, adult stem cell researcher Dr.
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Subject: Legal, Reproduction
"Generation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Using Recombinant Proteins" (2009), by Hongyan Zhou et al.
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are studied carefully by scientists not just because they are a potential source of stem cells that circumvents ethical controversy involved with experimentation on human embryos, but also because of their unique potential to advance the field of regenerative medicine. First generated in a lab by Kazutoshi Takahashi and Shinya Yamanaka in 2006, iPSCs have the ability to differentiate into cells of all types.
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Subject: Publications
"Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells" (2005), by Leon Kass and the President's Council on Bioethics
Human pluripotent stem cells are valued for their potential to form numerous specialized cells and for their longevity. In the US, where a portion of the population is opposed to destruction of human embryos to obtain stem cells, what avenues are open to scientists for obtaining pluripotent cells that do not offend the moral sensibilities of a significant number of citizens?
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Subject: Publications, Ethics
George W. Bush Executive Order 13455, June 2007
On 20 January 2001, Republican George W. Bush was sworn in as the forty-third president of the United States, replacing Democrat William J. Clinton. During his eight years in office, Bush issued many executive orders, often altering previous policy. By signing Order 13435 on 22 June 2007, he changed how stem cell research would be performed in America.
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Bethenny Frankel said the new season of her reality show did not capture all the emotional moments in her life.
"We were pregnant with a second baby and at eight weeks I miscarried," Frankel said on Monday's "Today Show."
The emotional miscarriage left Frankel unsure if she would have another child.
"I'm not really thinking about it," she said. "I don't feel that I know what my options are."
Frankel finds happiness in her 21-month-old daughter Bryn, who she says she is lucky to have.
"I find myself thinking about women who can't have their own baby, even the first baby," Frankel said.
Frankel was part of the original cast of Bravo's "The Real Housewives of New York City." She landed a spin-off, "Bethenny Getting Married" in which she wed Jason Hoppy. On the second season—"Bethenny Ever After"— the newlyweds welcomed baby Bryn into the family.
In addition to announcing her personal lost, Frankel also shared that she had another health scare. She told the "Today Show" that she had an ulcer in her esophagus after taking an antibiotic before bed without a full glass of water. For a few days she was unable to swallow and had to put interviews on hold.
For the third season of " Bethenny Ever After" Frankel and Hoppy will settle into second year of marriage and parenthood.
"This season is just my life; it's just the truth," said Frankel. "It's hard for me to balance a business, and having a baby, being a good friend, and romance, and I just work through it."
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Hot Stove roundup: Tanaka a hot commodity
Benoit finalizes two-year deal with Padres, bolstering San Diego's bullpen
These days, the Hot Stove is all about Masahiro Tanaka.
Now officially the hottest commodity on the market after being posted by his Japanese club, the Rakuten Golden Eagles, Tanaka "finds himself in the perfect storm," as Major League clubs vie for his services, writes our Tracy Ringolsby. With the posting fee -- which goes to the Eagles -- now capped at $20 million, Tanaka is sure to make more money than other recent Japanese exports.
One of the clubs that appears set to offer Tanaka big bucks is the Yankees, who already have reached out to the 25-year-old's representatives.
In other news from around the league on Saturday:
• The Padres announced their two-year contract with reliever Joaquin Benoit, with the veteran righty set to earn a guaranteed $15.5 million in the deal, which also includes an option for 2016. General manager Josh Byrnes also said the club will try to add one or two more relievers this offseason.
• Mark Mulder is reportedly focusing on the West Coast as he tries to make a comeback after an injury-induced five-year absence from the Major Leagues.
• The Royals signed infielder Jason Donald and outfielder Melky Mesa to Minor League deals.


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The bone growths are inside your ear, wouldn't affect headphones at the entrance. And no, nothing can be done to reverse it. All you can do is minimize it continuing. And if it continues, then you can ignore it until it is very painful or you have major hearing loss. Then you get the drill or the chisel.C Johnson wrote:I can tell my canal's are pretty small already. Can barely fit the smallest size earplug style headphones in at this point. Not looking forward to having my ears drilled out.
Is there anything we can do to reverse what has already happened before its too late?
Me? I was told 10 years ago to start wearing ear plugs, which I did for a while, then didn't bother. Now I'm told the gap is tiny, and I'll be in for surgery unless I get on it. So now I am very motivated, wear the ear plugs every time, no exceptions.