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Size selective DNA precipitation
Kersten S. Rabe
Anyone should feel free to add themselves as a curator for this consensus protocol. You do not need to be a curator in order to contribute. The OpenWetWare community is currently discussing the idea of protocol curators. Please contribute.
A very fast and easy method for the size-selective removal of smaller DNA from larger fragments. By adjusting the PEG and MgCl2 concentration the range of precipitated DNA fragments can be adjusted.
- DNA to be separated
- 30% (w/v) PEG 8000/30 mM MgCl2 (concentration of PEG 8000 can be varied to shift the size of the percipitated DNA. The concentration used here will remove DNA fragments with less than 300bp)
- TE Buffer, pH 8.0 (10 mM TRIS-HCl, 1 mM EDTA, pH 8.0)
- Centrifuge which can do up to 10.000 rcf (=g)
- Appropriate tubes for the centrifuge
- Pipettes
- Vortexer
- Mix 50 μL of sample with 150 µL of TE
- Add 100 µL of PEG/MgCl2
- Vortex
- Centrifuge 15 min at 10.000 rcf at roomtemperature
- Carefully remove supernatant not to disturb the pellet, which will be invisible
- Dissolve the pellet in a appropriate amount of buffer of choice
Critical steps
- Before centrifugation mark the tubes in order to know where the pellet will be expected afterwards, as the pellet will be (nearly) invisible
This protocol is being mention in the manual for the Gateway recombinational cloning system based on published methods.[1, 2, 3] Adjusting the PEG concentration can shift the threshold of the size of the precipitated DNA. The higher the final PEG concentration, the smaller the fragments that will be removed (which will stay in the supernantant).
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- Paithankar KR and Prasad KS. Precipitation of DNA by polyethylene glycol and ethanol. Nucleic Acids Res. 1991 Mar 25;19(6):1346. DOI:10.1093/nar/19.6.1346 |
- Lis JT. Fractionation of DNA fragments by polyethylene glycol induced precipitation. Methods Enzymol. 1980;65(1):347-53. DOI:10.1016/s0076-6879(80)65044-7 |
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The Hall of Very Good is breaking down the cases for the key candidates on this year's Hall of Fame ballot. I was happy to help out a fellow Baseball Blogger Alliance member by writing a little bit about Roger Clemens.
The BBA conducts it's own Hall of Fame vote each year. I'll most my ballot next week when those results go live. The results of the BBWAA voting will be released Jan 9.
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Im either doing things horribly wrong or Charlotte is simply a place of the gaming void. Ive tried to join up with some groups in the D&D community that play the Living Forgotten Realms modules, but the problem I find here is that I might as well be doing war gaming. There is some role-play but youre pretty much an ass if your character has a problem with another persons character and wont let the module commence. You suffer PCitis horribly and thereby simply allow PCs into the party because
Well Im kinda in a gaming slump at the moment. Im planning on moving to Charlotte, NC in about 2 months and cannot wait to get there. I came back to P&P to get an idea of some of the people that I could be looking up once I get there. Gamers out here on the west coast dont seem to be as passionate as those on the east. I suppose I miss that. No offense west coasters, but its ironic that wizards is based here. HAHAHAHA! Maybe I do prefer white wolf after all?
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We're entering into vacation season. Couples are spending lots of money to stay in far away places, where they will eat new food, make lasting memories and probably argue with each other more than they ever do at home.
Why is this the case? Why do couples tend to bicker while on vacation? I use the word "bicker," because the arguments are never huge or lasting, and almost never color the memory of the experience — people always come back remembering that they had a nonstop great time. But the friction, though forgotten, was there. Why?
The old line is that travel is stressful. I suppose it is, but so is commuting to work, making deadlines, dealing with bosses and underlings, paying bills . . . daily life is stressful, too. In fact, worrying about getting into a particular restaurant or getting the terrace view rather than the balcony view is nothing compared to the stresses of real life.
Here's the real reason why couples fight on vacation: If you're in a long-term relationship in which you live with another person, every aspect of your life, from the alarm clock until bedtime, has already been negotiated. It might not have seemed like a negotiation at the time, because it wasn't formal, but it was a negotiation all the same. Who gets up first, who makes coffee, who throws out the garbage, who cooks, who feeds the animals, who walks the dog, who cleans the cat box, who washes the clothes, who folds the clothes, what movies are watched, who drives the kids, who picks up the kids, what items can be bought without consulting the other (e.g., a pair of pants) and what items cannot be bought without consulting the other (e.g., a car).
In virtually every live together relationship, there is one person who locks the doors before bed and another who just goes right to sleep. And this will be the pattern for decades. It will never change.
What happens when you travel — and of course, this is part of the beauty of travel — is that you're venturing into an environment in which you have not negotiated anything. And what will happen is one person will see a particular choice as not only right, but obvious, and consistent with the patterns and understandings that have been established; and the other will see a choice in the complete opposite way. And each will not believe the other could be so obtuse in the face of objective reality. Sometimes each will even see the other as deliberately perverse.
So suddenly all the implicit negotiations are irrelevant and they find themselves in the realm of active negotiation. And so they're annoyed and can't believe they have to go through this, just to do a simple thing like eat at the hotel's breakfast buffet, etc.
Part of the way to NOT argue, I think, is to recognize where you are, which is uncharted territory. If you realize that you really do have to negotiate everything, because that's the nature of going to a brand new place, you will have more patience with the other person and not feel like it's such a big imposition to make your case.
Another source of friction is the contrast between "travel" and "vacation." Each of us has a different balance in our mind that we see as right and obvious, and yet for each person it's different. For some, going away means an expedition to see every possible site that can be packed into a set number of days. For others, going away means an opportunity to lie around and not move. Realizing that your balance is different from another person's — that no balance is right or wrong — is the key to stop arguing and start adjusting.
If you're sick of looking inside churches and your spouse has an inexhaustible desire to look inside every single one of them, let the loving partner go do that while you sit a half block down the road and drink wine. You don't have to drag each other around unwillingly. A half hour or hour break every so often can liven things up and give you a chance to interact with the surroundings directly, without the filter of another consciousness to consider.
All this, by the way, goes double for couples traveling with other couples. Then it's beyond negotiation. It's the Paris Peace Talks just to pick a restaurant. In that case also remember that you're not joined at the hip. Couples are usually advised to separate during the day and meet for dinner, or vice versa.


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Strasbourg, 8 June 2011 - The European Parliament, in a vote of its 736 members plenary today, with an overwhelming majority (521 in favour, 145 against, 8 abstentions) backed optional EU-wide rules for businesses and consumers who are concluding contracts in the Single Market. The vote by Parliament follows a recent policy announcement by European Commission Vice-President Viviane Reding that she is considering proposing such an optional European contract law in the autumn (SPEECH/11/411). Her objective is to bring more coherence to contract law in Europe while easing cross-border transactions, notably for Europe's small businesses and its 500 million consumers.
"I welcome today's vote by the European Parliament to back an optional European contract law," said Vice-President Reding, the EU's Justice Commissioner. "I am looking closely at all the possibilities to ease cross-border transactions, and I believe the option favoured by the European Parliament could be a very good choice. It would give Europe's 500 million consumers more opportunities to shop across borders while cutting transaction costs for small businesses – the backbone of our economy. I will work closely with the European Parliament and all Member States to see how to turn today's vote into an attractive legal reality."
Transaction costs (like adapting contractual terms and commercial policies or obtaining translation of the rules) and legal uncertainty involved in dealing with foreign contract laws make it particularly hard for small and medium-sized enterprises, which make up 99% of all enterprises in the EU, to expand within the Single Market. An optional European contract law could be chosen freely by consumers and businesses in their contractual relations as an alternative to the existing national contract laws when they want to buy or sell goods across a national border. It could save a small online business wishing to trade in Europe an estimated €9,000 in legal and translation fees per market – or over €230,000 if they wanted to take their business EU-wide.
Today's political endorsement of the idea of an optional European Contract Law follows a vote in April by the Legal Affairs Committee on an own-initiative report by Diana Wallis (MEMO/11/236).
Contracts are essential for running businesses and making sales to consumers. They formalise an agreement between parties and can cover a broad range of matters, including the sale of goods and associated services such as repairs and maintenance.
Companies use a wide variety of contracts that are governed by different national contract laws when operating in Europe's Single Market. The 27 different sets of national rules can lead to additional transaction costs, increased legal uncertainty for businesses and lack of consumer confidence. These can act as a deterrent for both consumers and businesses to shopping and trading across EU borders. Small and medium-sized companies are particularly affected by higher transaction costs.
Under the Europe 2020 strategy (IP/10/225), the Commission is tackling bottlenecks in the Single Market to drive economic recovery. This includes working on harmonised solutions for consumer contracts, EU model contract clauses and making progress towards a European contract law.
In July 2010, the Commission put forward several options in a Green Paper for a more coherent approach to contract law. The Commission then held a public consultation that ran until 31 January 2011 and resulted in 320 responses (MEMO/11/55).
On 12 April 2011, the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee approved an own-initiative report by Diana Wallis which backs an optional European contract law (MEMO/11/236) and was the basis for the vote in plenary. Parliamentarians have now backed the committee's view that an optional instrument could be complemented with a reference 'toolbox' to ensure the coherence and quality of legislation on European contract law.
On 3 May 2011, an expert group established by the Commission delivered a feasibility study on a future initiative on European contract law (IP/11/523). This study is currently being analysed by the Commission as to whether and how it can serve as a starting point for a political follow-up initiative on European contract law.
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We tried the Potty Mouth chart, created by my kids, where refraining from using naughty words is rewarded, but it just didn't meet with much success.
Then I ran across a children's book called "Margo's Magnificent Choice" and the Tacky Box. The Tacky Box is a simple wooden box with a clasp on it that children can decorate as they please, and inside is a little memo pad festooned with the Tacky Box monkey logo for children to write down any 'tacky' words or behaviors they engage in or even that they've witnessed. Then those tacky things are locked away in the box, never to be heard (or seen) from again!
The Tacky Box is packaged as a set with the lovely watercolor-illustrated book: "Margo's (or 'Max's' for boys) Magnificent Choice".
My girls were excited to have me read them a new story at bedtime, especially one with a monkey on the cover. They 'oo-ed' and 'ah-ed' over the illustrations and admiring the watercolor painting techniques, as they listened to the tale of Margo, the prettiest, smartest, etc-est monkey in the jungle who still wasn't very happy because some of her own tacky words repulsed all of the other animals in the jungle, except the Wise Old Owl.
That sage fowl has a solution, of course! He gifts Margo with her very own Tacky Box with which to lock away her tacky words. Margo is determined to use kinder, non-tacky language with her jungle friends, and before long she is also the happiest critter in the jungle.
After finishing the story, I told Halle & Zanna that I had a special surprise for them! Then I pulled out our very own Tacky Box.
They were very excited about this and immediately began bombarding me with all kinds of words and behaviors that they heard at school and from each other, asking me eagerly if those qualified as 'Tacky'. Upon confirmation that yes, those were indeed tacky words they eagerly grabbed for the Tacky Box's word pad and soon our Tacky Box had quite a collection of papers in it.
After every entry we all high-fived and congratulated each other on our promise to never use those tacky words again.
For the past couple of days, every evening the girls have quite a list of tacky words they've witnessed their classmates (and their twin) using, and I'm just hoping that the makers of the Tacky Box will offer a re-fill of the memo pad, because my girls have refused to use post-it notes as a substitute, because it doesn't have the picture of Margo & Max on it.
I really like the Tacky Box so far, because it's made my girls evaluate the language they use and hear from others. We'll see if the Tacky Box has any effect over the long term in my follow-up review in a few weeks from now.
The Tacky Box and "Margo's (Max's) Magnificent Choice" are the brainchild of Chris Kent Phelps and Cindy Kent, a mother/grandmother duo bent on ridding the world of tacky behaviors
Here is what the Tacky Box looked like after my twins stopped stuffing it full of tacky words and actually started decorating it:
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Security vendor Verdasys says it's ready to bring data loss prevention (DLP) to the cloud.
DLP systems typically require on-premises systems that monitor data use within a network and flag suspicious activity. With Verdasys' new cloud-based offering, the analysis of data flow is done off-site, without any sensitive information ever leaving the customer's site.
Verdasys is hoping the traditional advantages of cloud computing -- removing the need to buy hardware and off-loading the management of the system -- could make it an attractive option for midsize organizations looking to implement a DLP program. DLP has been somewhat slow to take off overall.
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DLP systems are meant to ensure that sensitive information -- which is defined by the customer -- does not leave a company's network. If an employee attempts to download the company's IP and trade secrets on to a personal USB drive, a DLP system should be able to catch that and prevent the transfer.
Usually this has required an on-site footprint, including monitoring software, a centralized system for collecting the data traffic information and an on-site representative to analyze it. By using the cloud, Verdasys brings almost all those functions off-site, into its private cloud.
But Verdasys does not actually send any of the data it is analyzing up into its private cloud -- which is hosted by Rackspace's managed services division. Instead, Verdasys sensors that are positioned throughout the customer's network send encrypted, hashed metadata about the data traffic for analysis. This is a key, Verdasys officials say, for allowing the system to be able to monitor sensitive data without it having to leave the customer's network. "Metadata is descriptive language that defines the data, but does not contain it," says Bill Munroe, VP of marketing.
The company's Digital Guardian software, which powers the DLP system, analyzes the traffic flow and creates alerts for any suspicious activity. The system allows customers to see which employees have moved which files where, as well as provide encryption and hashing services to protect the data.
Verdasys' offering is the latest in what Forrester analyst Ed Ferrara says is a move by security vendors to push services to the cloud. "There's a huge amount of pressure on security organizations to look at the cloud seriously," he says.
DLP in the cloud can come with its concerns, though. Chief among them is the amount of information that must be sent to analyze. Even if only cached metadata is being sent to the cloud for analysis, that can still add up to be a lot of traffic for midsize to large organizations.
A variety of other security vendors -- including Trend Micro, McAfee, RSA, Symantec and CA -- are looking into cloud-based offerings, but Verdasys and BEW Global appear to be furthest along in their offerings, which are already on the market. Verdasys' system is priced between $6 and $14 per user per month, depending on the level of service.
Network World staff writer Brandon Butler covers cloud computing and social collaboration. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com and found on Twitter at @BButlerNWW.


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The question of interference patters is central to light theory. I would like to share some pictures that show the same patterns in very unusual situations.
The first picture has been taken with the open body of a digital camera, and a laser beam a pen) shining into the body. As you can see, the same patterns appear that are usually associated with constructive and destructive interference see in the double slit experiment, or in the use of two thin plates showing so-called Newton rings.


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Corine Raper (b. 1992) creates abstract works on paper, using pastel or paint to capture and emphasize the energy of her movement. Drawing or painting gestural lines, marks, and shapes, Raper approaches each paper with focused intensity. She plays with composition and density of color, taping down the paper so that she can draw or paint with both hands.
Raper joined the Creativity Explored studio in 2014. Hear more about her story in this video, which premiered at CE's annual gala Art Changes Lives 2016.
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On January 1, 2018, a new Suffolk County law will go into effect, charging a five-cent fee for plastic and paper carryout bags, at a variety of retail stores. Those in support of the fee believe it will protect the environment. Those against view it as a tax that will hurt local businesses. Would you support Nassau County imposing a five-cent fee on plastic and paper carryout bags?


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VANCOUVER - Get ready for some big hair in the men's Olympic halfpipe competition Wednesday at Cypress Mountain.
Shaun White's orange mane is impossible to miss. So are Kazuhiro Kokubo's dreadlocks.
But here's something to put a crimp in their style. Soft snow at Cypress might influence how high they fly.
"It's good when (the pipe is) fresh because it's soft and it gets you motivated to try stuff," said 2002 Olympic halfpipe champion Ross Powers, who's here as a spectator. "But once it gets rutted in, it's just hard to keep it consistent when you're trying tricks." Some riders have complained about the quality of the pipe's walls. Norway's Staale Sandbech confessed that he was "a little scared" after taking his first training runs.
"Have you seen this wall?" Sandbech marvelled. "So many landing tracks." White is favoured to repeat as the Olympic champion but conditions might level the field. Todd Richards, another old-school rider, suggested that soft snow is "going to be the big equalizer because if the walls aren't there, Shaun's not going to be able unleash." White isn't backing away from plans to try the Double McTwist 1260. The monster move - which sees him attempt both front and back flips while completing 3 1/2 rotations - has never been landed in competition. White fell while attempting the trick at the Winter X Games two weeks ago in Aspen, Colo., but still captured gold ahead of Switzerland's Iouri Podladtchikov.
Kokubo was the third man on the podium at X Games, but his maverick ways drew dishonorable attention here before the Olympics began. Japanese officials prohibited Kokubo from marching in the opening ceremony after he defied the team dress code by not tucking in his shirt and pulling up his pants.
Aerial style is the only style that matters in Wednesday's competition. White is the trendsetter in that area.
"Shaun has shown us that he's the most dominant right now and all of the U.S. guys are looking good," said Powers, referring to a stable that also features Louie Vito, Scott Lago and Gregory Bretz. "I-Pod (Podladtchikov) and Kazu (Kokubo) showed us at X Games that they've got the doubles and they're riding well, too. You just have to see who likes the spring weather conditions." Jeff Batchelor of Oakville, Ont., ranks among Canada's most promising riders. He won silver at last year's world championship, and he's likely to take a shot at the podium here by attempting the Batchelor Roll - a dizzying combination of front and back flips.
"It's the guys who have (the big tricks) wired who are going to be really comfortable," said Richards. "It's going to be challenging for the guys who are kind of iffy (on their new tricks) but they know they need to do them to get into the finals.
"The finals will be nuts, but getting to the finals, you'll see people just chucking themselves." Bigger tricks are possible because the height of the halfpipe walls has grown substantially since snowboarding's Olympic debut 12 years ago. Now 22 feet high, they're twice the size of the walls at the 1998 Nagano Games. The pipe stood 18 feet high four years ago in Turin.
"I don't know if it's going to get much bigger than 22," said Powers. "The 22, when they cut it right with good transition and the weather is right, it's amazing. But when it's not, it's sketchy hard to ride. You sometimes see people going smaller than they do on an 18-foot." Powers said he doesn't expect riders here to hold back. Olympic glory is too difficult to resist.
"Guys are going to be going for it. But in conditions like this, there might be more falling than normal."


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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The New England Patriots silenced their "End Zone Militia" on Sunday night, taking the muskets away from the Revolutionary War re-enactors who fire into the air to celebrate every score.
The memory of the Connecticut school shooting was still too fresh for the sight of weapons and the smell of gunpowder.
Two days after 20 children and six adults were shot to death at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., NFL stadiums fell silent before Sunday's games to honor the victims' memory. Some teams darkened their scoreboards and lowered their flags to half-staff, while others wore helmet decals or black ribbons.
After learning that he was the favorite player of one 6-year-old victim, New York Giants receiver Victor Cruz wrote "R.I.P. Jack Pinto," "Jack Pinto, my hero" and "This one is for you" on his shoes for the game against the Falcons in Atlanta. Cruz said he called the boy's family after hearing he was a Giants fan and was told they planned to bury him in one of Cruz's No. 80 jerseys.
The Patriots, the closest team to Newtown that played at home on Sunday, wore a helmet sticker with the city seal and a black ribbon on it; the cheerleaders and mascot wore black armbands, and owner Bob Kraft pledged $25,000 to the community, where he also owns a box-making factory. Before the game, the public address announcer asked for silence while 26 flares were sent into the air.
The Sunday Night Football broadcast on NBC, featuring the high-profile matchup of the Patriots and San Francisco 49ers, was moved to CNBC and the NBC Sports Network when President Barack Obama addressed the nation. The game returned to its regular channel after the president's remarks from Newtown.
The Giants, another popular team in southwestern Connecticut, affixed a decal with the school's initials -- "SHES" -- on their helmets.
"Being close to home, the players were greatly upset about it," Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. "Many of the players have young children so they can empathize with the parents who had young children killed. There was no one that escaped the effect of it, but that's not an excuse for why we played the way we played today."
Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt wrote "Newtown, CT" on one of the gloves he wore in warmups and on both of his shoes for the game.
"We're playing football, and there's something much bigger going on in this world," Watt said. "I just wanted them to know, and I wanted everyone to know, that our thoughts are with them. Nothing is bigger than that. We played our game today, but honestly our thoughts are with them, the families, the teachers, the friends, the first responders, who had to go see that. My dad is a first responder. They were just kids."
In St. Louis, the players who wear No. 26 -- Rams running back Daryl Richardson and Vikings cornerback Antoine Winfield -- joined hands in a circle with their coaches at midfield before their game, surrounded by dozens of children wearing jerseys.
"I have a son that's in kindergarten. It choked me up because I would hate to be one of those parents," Rams running back Steven Jackson said. "You drop your kid off at school and he or she wants to go there and learn and better themselves, and to then go to the school and find that your child will no longer be with you. I couldn't imagine that thing."
Flags were also at half-staff in Baltimore, where the scoreboards went black as the public address announcer asked the crowd at the game between the Ravens and Denver Broncos to observe "silent reflection" in the wake of Friday's "horrific tragedy."
"As a parent you drop your kids off at school many times," said Miami Dolphins coach Joe Philbin, whose 21-year-old son Michael fell into a Wisconsin river and drowned in January. "It's hard to put into words what that community and those families must feel like. We obviously kept them in our prayers."
A moment of silence was observed at all 14 NFL games on Sunday; in Houston and in Arlington, Texas, the scoreboard went black. Members of the Buffalo Bills and Seattle Seahawks stood quietly with their heads down on their sideline while fans stood silently at the Rogers Centre in Toronto.
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Your Majesty, the Queen Mother of Swaziland, the Honourable Prime Minister, the Honourable Deputy Prime Minister, and all other esteemed dignitaries here assembled, and above all, the grandmothers of Africa and Canada:
Your Majesty, the Queen Mother of Swaziland, the Honourable Prime Minister, the Honourable Deputy Prime Minister, and all other esteemed dignitaries here assembled, and above all, the grandmothers of Africa and Canada:
I can't begin to express how sorry I am that I cannot be here with you today. I've looked forward to it for a very long time, but an unexpected minor illness has kept me at home. I threatened to put my doctors in jail if they didn't give me permission to travel, but they prevailed in the end.
On the other hand, I'm very proud that Ilana is here to convey my remarks to you at the opening of this first-ever grandmother's gathering in Africa.
Let me start with a small piece of history. One of the reasons I'm pleased Ilana is with you is that, back in 2006, she first raised with me the question of the grandmothers of Africa. She and her Foundation colleagues argued that more and more often, orphan children were being looked after by their African grandmothers, and yet, next to nothing was being done for the grandmothers themselves. From that innocent beginning there emerged, first, the astonishingly moving and successful grandmothers gathering at the outset of the International AIDS Conference in Toronto in 2006, followed by an explosion of solidarity between African and Canadian grandmothers, now growing irresistibly into a mass international social movement.
In the interim, we've learned a lot; the entire HIV/AIDS movement has learned a lot.
We've learned that African grandmothers are the backbone of the continent. We've learned that African grandmothers form the core of community-based care. We've learned that African grandmothers will sacrifice their very lives to protect and nurture their orphan grandchildren. We've learned that African grandmothers are generous beyond belief. We've learned that African grandmothers, in several countries, care for between forty and sixty per cent of all orphan children , amounting to several million in total. We've learned that Africa could not survive without its grandmothers.
If there were greater justice in the Nobel prize for peace, it would go not to President Obama, but to his paternal grandmother and all the other grandmothers of Africa who share the setbacks and the joys, the agonies and the raptures, the struggles and the hopes of their orphan grandchildren.
AIDS has cut a terrible swath through Africa. For some inexplicable reason, Africa was not prepared for the monumental numbers of orphans left behind. It is as though the death of parents somehow occurred in a vacuum, as though the children would somehow survive on their own.
But of course they couldn't. And the community structures and the family structures were so devastated by the pandemic that children faced separation, isolation, child-headed households: it felt like abandonment.
But there then emerged --- suddenly, almost miraculously, magnificently --- one solid wall of protection, a wall so strong that it withstood all the misfortune heaped on the orphans of Africa. It was the wall of grandmothers. You couldn't penetrate it. You couldn't destroy it. It stands today as the protective embrace for the orphan children of the continent.
You know that protective embrace in Swaziland. This country has suffered more from AIDS than any other country in Southern Africa. I visited Swaziland a number of times when I was the United Nations Envoy --- in fact, I remember the occasion when I spoke to the members of the public service of Swaziland, at a meeting here in Manzani, and noted, on that occasion, that Swaziland had surpassed Botswana and had the highest AIDS prevalence rate in all of Africa.
You can imagine the challenge for the Government. You can imagine the challenge for NERCHA. There's no greater challenge on the continent. It's a tremendous tribute to the country that it continues to fight the virus with such extraordinary determination. All of us want Swaziland to win this fight. You have lost far too many of your men, women and children, with the women and children remaining most grievously at risk.
But you have enormous strengths. And one of those strengths is the organization responsible for bringing this incredible grandmothers gathering together … the organization we all know and admire: Swaziland For Positive Living, or SWAPOL.
I want to tell you that of all the civil society organizations of People Living With AIDS, SWAPOL ranks amongst the top two or three in all of Africa. It's uncompromising and it's principled. Sometimes the Government gets mad at it; sometimes NERCHA gets mad at it; sometimes even I lose patience with it. But the phenomenal strength of SWAPOL lies in its refusal to be taken off track, its absolute dedication to its members and to the cause for which it exists: turning the tide of AIDS in Swaziland.
So I want you to allow me for a moment to pay tribute to its leader: Siphiwe Hlophe. And I must start with a confession, a confession in the presence of my daughter, my grandsons, the Canadian grandmothers and my wonderful associates at the Stephen Lewis Foundation. I love Siphiwe. I'm crazy about her. I have a crush on her. If I were here now, I'd grab Siphiwe and swirl her around in the air (well, maybe that's not quite accurate … it's probably closer to the truth to say that Siphiwe would swirl me around in the air), but whoever's doing the swirling, the fact of the matter is that Siphiwe is a giant in the battle against AIDS.
And you see it all around you. This gathering would not be possible without her. Never underestimate Siphiwe. She now rubs shoulders with Presidents and leaders of the United Nations. She's one of the most sought-after speakers at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna this July. She has become a force of nature. Personally, I'm jealous: I used to be a force of nature and now my position has been usurped by Siphiwe. Still, please believe me when I say that the Stephen Lewis Foundation is immensely proud to support SWAPOL, and to have worked in partnership to support this historic Gathering.
Just think of what's happening: grandmothers from fourteen nations; representatives from activist women's groups fighting for gender equality; associations of People Living With AIDS; an intense day of meetings tomorrow, organized by the grandmothers, to hammer out a mandate, a strategy to take us forward; and with it an all-consuming focus on what must be done for the orphans and grandmothers of Africa.
We've entered a tough time in the annals of AIDS. Donor governments are cutting back, both the Global Fund and PEPFAR are short on money, second-line drugs are often too expensive for governments to afford … uneasy days lie ahead. This year, 2010, was supposed to be the year of universal access to treatment, prevention and care. We're nowhere near those goals in any respect.
Given all of that, the best strategy would seem to be to focus determinedly on community-based, grass-roots work. And that brings us back to the grandmothers: they are the community.
I hope this gathering is a remarkable success. And then one day we can do it again. But I want to say to you, in closing, that all of the Canadian grandmothers, represented by the fine women from Canada here today, will be with the African grandmothers every step of the way, as will the Stephen Lewis Foundation. It's an honour and a privilege to stand with you, and to be at your side as you rescue and feed and clothe and shelter and educate and heal and love an entire generation of children whose lives would otherwise be fractured and lost.
Grandmothers of Africa, we love you, we honour you, and we salute you.
Stephen Lewis


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