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Shanghai visit enhances UCLA's global presence
The kickoff for "24 Hours in Shanghai" drew UCLA students on a travel/study program to one of the city's UCLA Stores. For the project, students spent a day and night photographing their impressions of the city.
Approximately 20 faculty, administrators and staff from UCLA traveled to Shanghai recently to build on UCLA's global presence, create new alliances and reinforce ties within the Bruin community in China with a weeklong series of events in one of the most dynamic cities in Asia.
Representatives from the UCLA Alumni Association to admissions spent the week hosting an Asia Alumni Summit, talking to prospective students about enrolling, meeting with board members of the UCLA Confucius Institute and showcasing the creativity of UCLA students and graduates who are spending the summer in travel/study programs in Shanghai.
The culminating event of "UCLA in Shanghai" was a July 24 reception that brought together 150 alumni, faculty, staff and students, ranging from newly admitted students to current undergraduates. Many were participants in UCLA Travel Study's two summertime programs in Shanghai.
Ralph Amos, assistant vice chancellor of alumni relations, led a rousing Eight Clap, a post-dinner crowd-pleaser. Guests were also charmed by a slide show showcasing "24 Hours in Shanghai," a project for which 60 travel/study students spent one day canvassing the city and photographing their impressions. The resulting images provided a stunning overview of the color and diversity of a kinetic city that is home to an estimated 14 million people and whose dramatic skyline combines traditional Chinese pagodas with European colonial architecture and ultra-modern skyscrapers.
Dropping in for a visit to a UCLA store in Shanghai are (from the left in the foreground) John Peralta, executive director of development for the International Institute; Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Scott Waugh; Lily Tsau, director of regional and cultural alumni networks for the UCLA Alumni Association; and Ralph Amos, assistant vice chancellor of alumni relations. In the background (from the left) are three alumni: Julie Chiu and Chris Lee from Beijing and Kenny Hong from Shanghai.
Global studies major Tom Parkinson-Morgan set out to take pictures of People's Square for the assignment, but "stumbled on something cool" when he witnessed the street life on West Nanjing Road. For business economics major Kimberlie Shiao, the best part of the assignment was "seeing a city that changes all the time." The hardest part for her, however, was "communicating with the Shanghainese who don't necessarily speak Mandarin" and learning to cope with "how the Chinese line up for public transportation." Her pictures highlighted Madame Tussauds Shanghai and other museums.
Each UCLA constituency during the weeklong celebration took a different approach towards making UCLA a more global presence. To one group, Yunxiang Yan, a professor of anthropology at UCLA and the Zijang professor of sociology at East China Normal University, stressed the importance of study abroad: "We want to emphasize experiential learning. We hope students will get cultural fluency."
Speaking to guests at a reception, Bin Wong, director of the Asia Institute and a history professor, emphasized that students could get a broader perspective through study abroad. Alum Chris Lee, a feature film producer and entrepreneur who attended the alumni summit, said he had come to the event to seek out "opportunities for the alumni to work together to produce good business and charitable outcomes."
Kathleen O'Kane, associate director of admissions, talked to prospective Chinese students at several successful information sessions. Recruiting international students, she said, will "strengthen the cultural diversity of the institution."
Finally, Scott Waugh, provost and executive vice chancellor, emphasized leadership in talking to alumni about why campus leaders visited China.
"We want to make sure we are the leaders that we want to be," Waugh said. "We're doing everything we can to enhance our international presence, and we're working hard to build our alliances in Asia."
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Character Drawing Contest Drew National Participation, Thousands of Online Votes
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Dig-It! Games, an independent developer of interactive educational games founded by a former archaeologist and middle school teacher, today unveiled its newest Mayan Mysteries game character, Anna, designed by 9th grade student Michaela M. The design was submitted as an entry in Dig-It! Games first ever character drawing contest. Students were invited to create a new character to join the Mayan Mysteries team on their newest adventures, coming Spring 2014.
Michaela, a student at Monticello Academy in West Valley City, Utah, beat out submissions from students across the country, including seven of her own classmates. Her drawing and character description for Anna, a 23-year-old archaeologist, earned more than 700 total votes by the general public on Facebook. Michaela will receive an adapted version of her character drawing, along with a 16GB iPad 2 with Wi-Fi and a free Single User online license of the new game.
The public made an excellent choice in selecting Michaelas illustration. We are very excited to reflect her hard work and thoughtful character description with a creative portrayal of Anna in Mayan Mysteries, said Suzi Wilczynski, president and founder of Dig-It! Games. As an honorary member of the Dig-It! Games development team, players will also find Michaelas name added to the games credits.
I feel very lucky to have my character turned into a real person in a video game to be played by hundreds of people, said Michaela. They will be able to see my character in the video game. It feels great.
Michaela entered the character drawing contest at the recommendation of Art Teacher Jordan Reasor.
When I first introduced the contest to my 8th and 9th graders, we played the trial version of Mayan Mysteries online as a class to get a better understanding of the Mayan Mysteries team, said Reasor. I was impressed by how engaging the game was. My students were eager to participate. I was also impressed by the learning that took place in just five minutes. What a great tool for educators.
For Reasors support of her students, Dig-It! Games donated a Mayan Mysteries Classroom Edition license, a $149.99 value, to Monticello Academy. The Classroom Edition will enable up to 30 students to access and play the award-winning Mayan Mysteries educational online game. With a built-in Teacher Management System, educators can track individual student and class progress within the game and also against national learning standards.
Thanks to Ms. Reasors help, we received more than a half-dozen contest entries from her class, each displaying great detail and thought in their designs and descriptions, said Suzi Wilczynski, president and founder of Dig-It! Games. We cant wait to hear how both the students and teachers enjoy our Classroom Edition of Mayan Mysteries.
Mayan Mysteries, first introduced in October 2012, is a one-of-a-kind puzzle-based game that takes kids on an exciting journey through history to learn about the ancient Maya civilization. Players are turned into archaeologists as they embark upon an expedition with Team Q and gather clues hidden across ancient sites in order to catch the secretive thief, Ladrone. Michaelas new character Anna, recreated by Dig-It! Games partner FableVision, will join the adventure as an archaegological assistant, excited to learn about the Maya culture and willing to get her hands dirty. The final chapter of Mayan Mysteries, with Anna in her debut role, starts Spring 2014.
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*Target and Lowe's rally after results. Shares of retailers Target Corp and Lowe's Cos Inc rose, giving the S&P 500 its biggest boosts.
*Fourth-quarter adj profit $0.27/ share vs est $0.41. Feb 26- Chesapeake Energy Corp reported quarterly results that missed Wall Street estimates by a wide margin because of weak production, sending its shares sharply lower on Wednesday. Chesapeake's stock fell as much as 8 percent on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday morning.
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*Q4 orders fall 5 pct to $10 bln vs $9.9 bln f'cast. The company, which makes products ranging from power grids for utilities to industrial robots, said sales growth this year would be challenging as uncertainty in emerging markets, like China, offset growth in the United States and parts of Europe.
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*Expects total capital expenditure at $5.2- $5.6 bln. Feb 6- Chesapeake Energy Corp cut its capital budget for the year by more than a fifth as CEO Doug Lawler focuses on drilling in U.S. shale basins that offer the best returns such as the Eagle Ford field in south Texas.
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Add/View Comments (0)Patients Beware: Commercialized Stem Cell Treatments on the Web
Patrick L. Taylor1, Roger A. Barker2, Karl G. Blume3, Elena Cattaneo4, Alan Colman5, Hongkui Deng6, Harold Edgar7, Ira J. Fox8, Claude Gerstle9, Lawrence S.B. Goldstein10, Katherine A. High11, Andrew Lyall12, Robertson Parkman13, Fernando J. Pitossi14, Ernest D. Prentice15, Heather M. Rooke16, , , Douglas A. Sipp17, Alok Srivastava18, Susan Stayn19, Gary K. Steinberg19, Amy J. Wagers20 and Irving L. Weissman19
1 Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
2 Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 2PY, UK
3 Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
4 Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano I-20133, Italy
5 A∗STAR Singapore Stem Cell Consortium, Singapore 138648, Singapore
6 Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
7 Columbia Law School, New York, NY 10027, USA
8 McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA 15201, USA
9 Delray Beach, FL 33446, USA
10 University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
11 The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
12 Stem Cell Network, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6, Canada
13 Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
14 Fundación Instituto Leloir-IIBBA-CONICET, Buenos Aires 1405, Argentina
15 University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198, USA
16 International Society for Stem Cell Research, Boston, MA 02115, USA
17 RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0047, Japan
18 Christian Medical College, Vellore 632004, India
19 Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
20 Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
- A report by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)'s Task Force on Unproven Stem Cell Treatments outlines development of resources for patients, their families, and physicians seeking information on stem cell treatments.
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The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is concerned that stem cell treatments are being marketed to consumers around the world without safeguards in place to ensure the safety or likely effectiveness of experimental treatments or truthfulness of claims about so-called proven therapies. These practices could place individual patients at risk and also jeopardize the progress of legitimate stem cell clinical translation. The ISSCR seeks to alert patients and their caregivers to these potential concerns and to answer the numerous enquiries received from patients and their advocates about clinics that claim to offer stem cell therapies.
The ISSCR Task Force on Unproven Stem Cell Treatments (hereafter the Task Force) was convened by the 2009–2010 President of the ISSCR, Dr. Irving Weissman, to formulate recommendations for the development of a web-based resource for patients, their advocates, clinicians, and associations in evaluating claims of benefit from advertised stem cell treatments. In particular, the Task Force was asked to propose a process for listing clinics or programs and whether they meet what the ISSCR deems to be minimum standards of assessing safety and efficacy and to define criteria to systematically evaluate clinics or programs for inclusion on such a list (Weissman, 2009). The members of the Task Force are listed in Table S1 .
Here, we summarize the discussion and recommendations of the Task Force for the development of a web-based resource that includes: (1) listing of individuals, clinics, or other entities offering asserted stem cell therapies and whether they provide information showing that appropriate safeguards are in place; (2) resources that explain fundamental scientific principles of stem cell biology and the implications for stem cell treatments and outline the widely accepted process of clinical translation; and (3) a list of questions patients and caregivers should ask purveyors to aid them in making treatment decisions.
Why an ISSCR Initiative on Unproven Stem Cell Treatments?
The extraordinary promise of stem cells for future treatments of otherwise intractable diseases and conditions has raised great hope and expectations in patients, advocates, physicians, and researchers alike. Yet this excitement has led to unacceptable exploitation of patients' hopes and fears.
Through literature, clinician reports, patient questions, and patient complaints, the problem of misleading direct-to-consumer advertisement of stem cell therapies has become all too familiar to members of the Task Force, the ISSCR, local stem cell networks, and patient advocate organizations dedicated to disease-specific cures. Advertisements that claim to offer proven and effective therapies for many diseases have sprung up in various forms relying on doubtful theories that neither peer nor public review, nor regulatory authorities, have verified. Indeed, a study of advertising on widely accessed websites demonstrated that the portrayal of likely clinical benefit is optimistic, overpromising results and underestimating the potential risks, and is unsubstantiated by peer-reviewed literature available to all scientists, medical professionals, and laypeople (Lau et al., 2008). Clinical outcome may be selectively displayed, methods kept secret and not subjected to independent scientific and clinical examination, and treatment offered outside of regulatory oversight. These so-called therapies therefore fail to meet minimum ethical, scientific, and medical standards that such oversight entails, including appropriate support through preclinical data; commensurability of risks and benefits; phased, structured assessment of safety, efficacy, dosing, or appropriate administration; and independently assessed and approved informed consent.
Furthermore, in some situations, large amounts of money are being charged for apparently unsubstantiated therapies, a further departure from widely accepted norms. Authorization to market a medicinal product is typically sought from a national or supranational regulatory agency only after rigorous testing through a formal process of clinical trials has established safety and efficacy. In a formal clinical trial setting, it is not common practice for the provider to charge for the experimental treatment, rather costs of the experimental treatment and trial monitoring is often defrayed by the company developing the treatment or by local or national government funding.
A problem of these dimensions calls for more than the actions of any one organization or agency, and certainly more than the actions of one scientific society such as the ISSCR. Yet, the ISSCR recognizes the essential relationship that exists between scientific progress and public responsibility. In previous reports ("Guidelines for the Conduct of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research" and the "Guidelines for the Clinical Translation of Stem Cells"), the ISSCR addressed the broader social, ethical, and legal implications in addition to setting professional standards for research conduct and clinical application (Daley et al., 2007,International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), 2006,International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), 2008a,Taylor, 2007,Hyun et al., 2008). The latter guidelines include a stand-alone appendix, a "Patient Handbook on Stem Cell Therapies" to directly address the concerns of patients (International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), 2008b).
This current effort therefore grows out of the long-standing commitment of the ISSCR to ethical and scientific self-regulation through globally representative consensus on standards that distinguish sound and ethical stem cell science from practices that would be unethical or unsound. The Task Force believes the ISSCR plays a catalytic role in engaging with other organizations and the public to address social, ethical, and legal implications of scientific progress. The ISSCR's aspirations for public benefit through increasing knowledge entail this commitment: to avoid overstating what is currently known, whether in the scientific domain, the clinical domain, or the commercial domain. In fact, clinics and suppliers making unproven or exaggerated claims may endanger patients, and through poor or reckless practice they potentially discredit the field itself and threaten to impede the progress of legitimate clinical translation. The Task Force believes that the ISSCR has an appropriate role in working with others to address such clinics and suppliers and to educate professionals and patients as to responsible pathways of clinical translation. We therefore endorse the President's initiative and commend the ISSCR for its willingness to undertake such a step.
The ISSCR is a scientific and medical society with unique knowledge of a still-developing scientific frontier and specialized expertise in the necessarily careful pathway from basic scientific knowledge to patient benefits through responsible clinical translation. The Task Force members reflect this expertise and have brought to this effort a great diversity of perspectives—researchers, clinicians, ethicists, jurists, and patient advocates. The Task Force provides the recommendations within this report after much discussion and consideration, for the establishment of a feasible methodology for ISSCR action while maximizing the value of information made available to patients and their advocates.
2008 ISSCR Guidelines: Defining the Appropriate Pathway from Basic Scientific Knowledge to Clinical Applications
The ISSCR published "Guidelines for the Clinical Translation of Stem Cells," which define a pathway for the responsible development of safe and effective stem cell therapies (ISSCR 2008a). In that report, the Task Force on the Clinical Translation of Stem Cells recommended that development of stem cell therapies occur primarily through structured clinical research trials, which, under internationally accepted standards, are subject to independent and ongoing assessment of their scientific and ethical soundness by ethical review boards and government agencies.
These guidelines recognized that progress, especially in surgical treatment, has occurred through innovation outside clinical research trials (Section 7: Stem Cell-Based Medical Innovation). However, respect for innovation has never meant that patients' urgent needs justify scientifically reckless or unethical acts. Innovation outside research requires, among other things, that the scientific and clinical plausibility for an innovative approach is demonstrable; that patients can weigh known and possible risks against realistic descriptions of potential benefits; that alternative treatments are clearly communicated; that there is independent review and oversight; and that clinical supports are in place to address known and unanticipated risks. The guidelines also noted that certain characteristics of stem cells required that their development as medical interventions called for special care and "underscore the need for independent expert peer review prior to clinical investigation to ensure the integrity of the research and informed consent processes" (Section 1 : Introduction).
The Task Force on the Clinical Translation of Stem Cells felt strongly that the innovation exception does not justify the commercialization of stem cell-based interventions without credible rationale or oversight or without a commitment by practitioners to use this experience to contribute to a general body of knowledge through the communication of outcomes, including negative outcome or adverse events, to the scientific community for critical review and by moving to a formal clinical trial in a timely manner. Indeed, the guidelines "recognize[d] a distinction between the commercial purveyance of unproven stem cell interventions and legitimate attempts at medical innovation outside the context of a formal clinical trial. Responsible clinician-scientists may have an interest in providing medically innovative care to a few patients using stem cells or their derivatives prior to proceeding to a formal clinical trial," and the peer-reviewed scientific and medical case, together with the patient's informed choice among limited alternatives, may justify it in certain cases.
The Task Force on the Clinical Translation of Stem Cells therefore concluded, and the ISSCR Board of Directors agreed, that the primary pathway for translating scientific advances into therapies ought to be the well-established route from peer-reviewed science to ethically and scientifically reviewed clinical research trials under appropriate regulatory oversight.
Defining the Problem
To establish which aspects of medical practice might be assessed by objective review and examination of publicly available materials and direct contact, and what kind of information might be useful to those seeking treatments, the Task Force first discussed concerns about the commercial practice of unproven stem cell interventions.
We eliminated aspects of practice that do not represent the primary problem. First, we noted that the concern is not about medical tourism in which citizens of one country travel to another country for treatments offered uniquely or more cheaply. The problem of unproven stem cell treatments occurs in many countries, and whether abroad or at home, the absence of essential clinical supports and follow-through can expose patients to serious health risks. Thus, although some medical tourism raises special concerns, and some issues with questionable clinics and suppliers involve medical tourism, the problems are not identical nor necessarily coincident (Cohen, 2010).
The concern is also not simply the attempt to treat diseases for which there is no scientifically proven stem cell-based therapeutic solution. This view of the problem is too broad, for it would treat legitimate clinical research as being identical to the sale of unproven treatments. Furthermore, to simply define treatable and untreatable conditions and to use this as a criterion for listing a given entity would require the ISSCR to be omniscient with respect to all new developments, including proprietary ones.
A fundamental principle espoused by previous ISSCR guidelines and reiterated by this Task Force is transparency: a willingness to communicate openly with the scientific and medical community, with regulators and with patients. This task force had enormous concern about medical practices where evidence of this communication was missing—where there was a lack of openness concerning methods and results, lack of peer review, inaccurate portrayal of scientific plausibility, unclear expertise of practitioners, and lack of independent oversight. These issues are also of direct relevance to patients and families, not just to those who would base their choice on scientific and ethical soundness, but also those who, less persuaded by such factors given the failure of existing therapies, would nonetheless be concerned with the truthfulness of solicitations with their own medical vulnerability to matters becoming even greater through unknown risks and unaddressed adverse events.
We see a widely accepted imperative to report research and clinical findings and to subject results, methodologies, and conclusions to the scrutiny of independent experts in the field. The practice of external peer review has long been held as the foundation of biomedical publication and used as a method to assess the rigor of scientific enquiry and to minimize unwarranted claims or overinterpretation of data prior to broad circulation. Replication of data by independent groups is a key indicator that the data are robust— that the findings and conclusions are likely to be valid and that the technology can be repeated in someone else's hands. Thus, robustness of data might be evaluated by (1) direct relevance of the data to the specific disease and treatment in question; (2) publication by groups working independently of each other; (3) publication of results, methodologies, and conclusions; and, (4) as an indication of peer review and basic scientific quality, inclusion in the MEDLINE database, a freely available and well-recognized database of articles from journals that observe prescribed publication procedures compiled by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM) (U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2007).
The Task Force also affirmed previous statements and reports from the ISSCR and other international bodies that only when compelling preclinical data are available is careful and incremental testing in patients justified, and then such testing is always subject to rigorous and independent scientific and ethical oversight.
Through these deliberations, the Task Force identified core elements that reflect a commitment to transparency in operations and a commitment to the widely recognized translational trajectory noted above. These elements do not incorporate all criteria identified as important by the Task Force for assessing safety and likely efficacy. They do, however, provide an objective minimum level of transparency of practice and independent scientific, ethical, and regulatory oversight.
2. The clinical investigations from the beginning to commercialization have been overseen and authorized by a national or supranational regulatory body or bodies for safety and efficacy.
Inquiry and Review Process
The Task Force recommends that the ISSCR establish an inquiry and review process to look into clinics and suppliers promising therapeutic benefits from the administration of preparations claimed to contain or be constituted of stem cells and/or their induced derivatives. The guiding principles for the development of the recommended process were that (1) the standards for identifying and reviewing clinics and suppliers should be objective and clear; (2) the inquiry and review process should be publicly transparent and relatively straightforward for any clinic or practitioner to comply with; (3) conflicts of interest, if any, of the declarant ought to be disclosed to the ISSCR; (4) there should be no actual or apparent conflicts of interest of staff or others involved in the inquiry or review process for any particular matter; and (5) any findings that a clinic fails to meet standards should be communicated in a specific factual way, rather than with broad conclusions of fraudulent practices.
Four main steps are outlined for the inquiry process:
2. Preliminary review of advertising and solicitation materials of the clinic or supplier, such as Web materials, to determine whether the entity is involved in or claims to be involved in the purveyance of stem cell therapy, or the supply of stem cells or other stem cell-related service where there is claim/implication of therapeutic benefit.
3. Contact with the clinic or supplier to request information aligned with the elements of inquiry discussed below (see Figure 1). The entity will be subjected to scrutiny for each disease encountered on the advertising or solicitation materials. At the time of this publication, entities will be excluded from the search in which the information available is not provided in English or lacks a translation into English. The Task Force recommends translations of advertising materials to English be incorporated into the inquiry process over time. Entities will also be excluded from the search in which the only clinical applications cited are (1) bone marrow, cord blood, or other blood stem cell populations used to treat diseases/conditions of the blood-forming or immune systems (including the treatment for compromised hematopoiesis secondary to high dose chemotherapy for cancers) or (2) epidermal stem cell therapies for burn trauma or limbal stem cells for corneal replacement.
4. Review and results publication. Materials received will be reviewed as objectively as possible against the inquiry elements, discussed below. The meaning of the results ought to be self-evident from a clear description on the ISSCR Web site of the precise processes and criteria used. Interpretation and subjective conclusions should be avoided in any presentation of the data.
Elements of Inquiry
The Task Force recommends that the inquiry and review process ask for evidence that the entity under review adheres to the widely accepted translational pathway from basic science to clinical applications. The following elements do not incorporate all of the important criteria identified by the Task Force for assessing safety and likely efficacy, nor do they allow the judgment of relative anticipated effectiveness. They do, however, provide an objective minimum level of transparency of practice and independent review.
Determining Elements of Inquiry. Clinics and suppliers should be asked to provide evidence of the following for a given treatment for a given disease or condition offered in the context of a research study (clinical trial), experimental therapy, or claimed proven therapy:
• Name of applicant/principal investigator
• Title of protocol/project
• Committee name and/or identifying number
• Date of approval
• Name of signing individual
• Contact information for signing individual
The ISSCR may contact the signing individual identified in an effort to confirm that the applicant, protocol/project, and approval are asserted accurately.
The ISSCR may contact the relevant regulatory authority in an effort to confirm that the information provided is complete and accurate.
These determining elements of inquiry stated above—review for human subjects protection and regulatory oversight—should direct the ISSCR in listing clinics.
Informational Elements of Inquiry. Clinics and suppliers should be invited to submit to the ISSCR examples of preclinical and clinical research published in the peer-reviewed literature:
2. Up to two published articles demonstrating the outcome of human clinical trials for both safety and efficacy.
Articles should be peer reviewed, include data of direct relevance to the specific disease in question, include results, methodologies, and conclusions, be written in English, and be included in the MEDLINE database. The entire article should be provided to the ISSCR.
Output—A Web-Based Resource
The Task Force recommends a web-based resource that includes the parts outlined below. Together, these should allow a patient on their own, or in consultation with their health care provider, to consider whether the approach taken by a clinic of interest might lack the scientific rigor, transparency, and independent oversight and regulation the ISSCR and others advocate.
2. Results of inquiry. The Task Force recommends two listings be developed that separately include those entities that do and do not provide upon request evidence of both of the above determining criteria (review for human subjects protection and regulatory oversight) in a timely manner and on a disease-by-disease basis. A review will be made for each disease encountered on the advertising or solicitation materials, except where excluded as outlined in the inquiry process. Thus, an entity may be included on a given list multiple times or for only a subset of the diseases for which they claim a stem cell-based treatment. The names of clinics currently under review will not be disclosed.
The information used for the inclusion of an entity on one or the other of these lists is provided by that entity. The ISSCR will not be responsible for the accuracy of claims.
ii. Similarly, absence of an entity or removal of an entity from listing does not imply ISSCR approval.
iii. No conclusion can be drawn from the absence of an entity/disease from this listing as the process is such that if an entity is not listed it may mean one of three very different things: no inquiry has been made; the inquiry is still in process; or the clinic has addressed each of the elements of inquiry.
If an entity is listed here and then subsequently provides information that addresses missing required elements, its name will be removed from this listing. Where the entity responds that they no longer offer treatment for a disease that has been previously advertised or offered, its name will be removed from this listing but a footnote will be included that the clinic no longer treats this disease. Entities that do provide evidence of both of the determining elements of inquiry requested will be included on an independent listing as outlined below.
Approval by the appropriate independent human subjects oversight body and regulatory agency reflects only that certain ethical and legal obligations, respectively, have been met in the given locale. There is significant global diversity in what circumstances a regulatory agency may grant approval or provide exemption of review for a given product and what processes and standards are applied during review. Assessment of when a particular therapy is ready to move into clinical trials or from clinical trials to a more widely available treatment outside of trials may take into account a range of factors not necessarily applicable to other regions including the current standard of care treatment or prevalence of a disease or condition in the local population.
To provide additional information for caregivers or others interested, the listing will document relevant publications provided by the entity as outlined above ("Informational Elements of Inquiry"). Citations will be provided or, where the paper may be freely disseminated without breach of copyright, a pdf copy may be attached. The ISSCR may also supply up to two references subject to the same publishing qualifications outlined above that may provide either a supportive or counter argument.
There is necessarily a significant period of time from when the intake sheet is filled out requesting the ISSCR investigate a specific clinic until a final determination is made, estimated at 4–5 months. The Task Force recognizes that, particularly at the beginning before they are well established, the data listings will not address the concerns of an individual patient or their advocates looking to make immediate decisions. In addition, the criteria assessed do not address the complexities of information needed for an individual medical decision, although their absence portends a failure to respect known, widely accepted, fundamental standards.
Therefore, we recommend that the following resources be included on the Web site.
4. Further questions a patient, if possible working with their caregiver, should ask the provider as part of evaluating the clinic and treatment they are considering. Transparency and forthrightness are owed to any patient considering a potential therapy; indeed without it there can be no actual informed consent. A potential patient ought to be able to consult their own personal caregiver before making a choice and involve their own local caregiver in after-care if they wish. Furthermore, for any patient, even a patient undergoing well-accepted therapy, the clinical environment is critical. The list of questions provided by this document should assist a patient in evaluating such parameters.
Innovative Medicine Statement
The Task Force on Unproven Stem Cell Treatments agreed with the recommendations for practicing innovative medicine made by the ISSCR's Task Force on Clinical Translation of Stem Cells that application of medical innovation in the stem cell field should be confined to a very limited number of cases, should be subjected to external review and stringent oversight, and should move quickly toward a formal research study. Indeed, this Task Force argued that medical innovation be limited to no more than two participants. Therefore, we recommend that if the entity advertises an experimental or innovative medicine, the same inquiry process be applied.
Whether in advertising or solicitation materials, or in response to the ISSCR's inquiry, if an entity states that a therapy being offered is experimental or innovative and therefore does not need to have been tested in clinical trials or does not need the human subjects protection or regulatory oversight, the clinic will be listed with the following annotation:The position of the ISSCR Task Force is that the provision of an untested experimental or innovative therapy to more than two participants is a departure from recommended practice and should be tested in a regulated and authorized clinical trial prior to being offered for sale.
The Task Force recommends that its report be publicly presented. Posting of this report on the ISSCR Web site and through the ISSCR pages of affiliated journal Cell Stem Cell have both been useful devices in the past, and we endorse them here.
In addition, we recommend active engagement of other stem cell networks and consortiums and patient advocacy groups that could play a key and complementary role in disseminating information on this and other work that addresses fraudulent clinics or suppliers of stem cells and in framing the combined set of actions in a way that is understandable and useful to patients and to those who will receive their queries and requests for help.
The ISSCR should offer the educational resources and information offered on the Web site in additional languages wherever possible. To date, working with stem cell network partners, the ISSCR offers the "Patient Handbook on Stem Cell Therapies" in English, German, Italian, and French. Japanese and Spanish translations are planned.
We also strongly support working with the press in various countries to explain the problem, the approach we take, the potential role of other partners, and, indeed, the potential role the press itself could play in helping all of us avoid hyped discussion of stem cell "therapies."
This concludes the recommendations of the Task Force.
The ISSCR Task Force would like to acknowledge insightful discussions with Christopher T. Scott and Hans-Willem Snoeck during deliberations. We thank the ISSCR Clinical Translation and Executive Committees for their critical review. Based on the recommendations in this report, the ISSCR has developed a Web site, "A Closer Look at Stem Cell Treatments" (www.closerlookatstemcells.org). We thank Hans-Willem Snoeck and ISSCR staff for key contributions to the development of this site. The ISSCR wishes to acknowledge the critical advice provided to our team throughout this project by lawyers at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, LLP. K.G.B is a member of the Medical Advisory Board for Cellerant Therapeutics, Inc. K.A.H is a consultant to Tacere Therapeutics, Inc.; A.J.W. is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of iPierian, Inc. I.L.W. is a cofounder and a director of StemCells, Inc., and owns more than $10,000 stock in Amgen, Inc. for services on their Scientific Advisory Board from 1981–1988.
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Hayama is a beautiful town in Japan renowned for it's beaches and green hills. This is where I did my internship during the summer of 2007. Hayama is part of the Miura Peninsula; other cities in this Peninsula include Yokosuka, Zushi and Kamakura. The coast of Miura offers beautiful beaches with stunning views of Mt. Fuji and many more splendours.
I was going through my Japan pics recently and uploaded a few for this calendar; though some are already published in my portfolio including the following:
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April: Arasaki Seashore
June: Sunshine on Takeishi Beach
August: Mt. Fuji Sunset I
September: Mt. Fuji Sunset V
October: Mt. Fuji Sunset VI
November: Mt. Fuji Sunset IV
December: Sunset over Mt. Fuji and Enoshima under pink clouds
The last pics of Mt. Fuji were taken when the office threw me a farewell party at Hayama Isshiki beach.
I'd be glad to change images or the order to suit personal preferences; or create a custom calendar. Some other relevant images from in my public portfolio include the following:
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It's a beautiful place. and you did a wonderful job with the collection…
Thank you Janis. I actually don't have many great pics from Japan since I wasn't into photography back then; I would have been if only I found RedBubble sooner. But despite that, the cover image of this calendar is currently my most popular travel related photo in my portfolio right now. I think it is even the most popular photo (with exception to my origami and Peek-a-Boo) in my portfolio.
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Beautiful works, Mui-Ling!!
Love it!!
Thank you so much Midori!
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this is maravelously enchanting Mui-Ling..
A wonderful collection, and of course, the cover is superb!
Thank you so much Enivea!
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Nice collection Mui-Ling works well
these should be in gift shops from where you were………..
great collections
Beautiful calendar Mui-Ling… ;-)
Thank you very much Gregoria!
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love seeing those trees like that and how often that shape appears in Japanese art.
Great calendar.
It is fascinating isn't it. Very glad you like this calendar; thank you very much Marion!
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The Colby College Museum of Art was already considered one of the finest in Maine before it acquired the Lunder Collection of American Art, which has been valued at more than $100 million. In 2013 the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion will open, providing a showcase for the artworks and additional studio space and further enhancing the College's reputation in the visual arts. This architectural rendering shows the 26,000-square-foot expansion.
President Adams saw the implementation of a campus greening initiative as a way to build on existing strength, and it was included in the strategic plan. A major component of Colby's sustainability efforts is the biomass steam plant, which opened in 2012 and was expected to replace 1 million gallons of oil annually with byproducts from Maine's forestry industry. This put Colby one step closer to its goal of becoming a carbon-neutral campus.
President Adams's commitment to building on Colby's strong environmental studies tradition led the College to more than double the number of faculty positions in ES in the past two years and to create a marine conservation track within that program. A partnership with the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences established in 2010 provides students unique opportunities to work with Bigelow's research scientists. Here, President Adams (top, second from left) accompanies Bigelow scientists and Colby students on a research trip.
A building to house social sciences and interdisciplinary programs was part of the strategic planning process that President Adams concluded in 2002. The Diamond Building, which opened in 2007, serves that purpose and is home to the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement, founded, in part, in response to Adams's call for emphasis on service learning.
Since the inauguration of President Adams, Colby's endowment has seen dramatic growth. The $376-million Reaching the World Campaign, the largest fundraising campaign in the history of Maine, concluded in 2010.
A commitment to the fundamental liberal arts disciplines led Colby to establish a center for arts and humanities in 2012, thanks to a grant from the Mellon Foundation. Also, the cinema studies minor, first offered in 2011, provides students with another path through which to study the arts. Here, President Adams delivers an art talk in the museum about an exhibit he curated in 2012.
The 2002 strategic plan called for an artificial turf field. A decade later, Colby has not one but two state-of-the-art turf fields for use by varsity teams, intramural sports, and the community. The Harold Alfond Stadium, pictured here, and the Bill Alfond Field, expand opportunities for student athletes to practice.
A key priority of President Adams's 2002 strategic plan was a new science building. Though the recession that began in 2008 delayed groundbreaking, construction of the science building began in 2012 and is slated for completion in 2014. This architectural rendering shows the building relative to the Diamond Building—across the Colby Green (also built during Adams's presidency).
Under President Adams's leadership Colby has supported numerous local projects, particularly those related to the arts and the outdoors. Railroad Square Cinema, the Waterville Opera House, the Maine Lakes Resource Center, Quarry Road Recreation Area, and others have benefited from Colby's discretionary funds.
Key initiatives established in the 2002 strategic plan were to create an effective gathering place for students and an alumni center. Pulver Pavilion, pictured here, has provided students with a campus center since its opening in 2007. The Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center opened in 2005 and is generally the first place alumni visit when they return to campus.


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Read first-hand accounts of what students have experienced during Webster programs all over the world! Check out blogs and testimonials from students who decided to go global!
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Star Gazing
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Source Naturals Melatonin Sublingual Peppermint -- 1 mg - 200 Tablets
One of the Best!
This is the most high quality meltonin available at a reasonable price. The flavor is pleasant and the fact that it's sublingual means you can take it right before bed and it will still take effect almost immediately.
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Tuff Coat™ Epoxy Primer Kit
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- Recommended for fiberglass, wood, concrete and previously painted surfaces
- Works well on extremely moist surfaces
- Ideal for docks, boats and seawalls
- Dries to a clear finish
- Mix with a drill type paint mixer (recommended)
NOTE: Tuff Coat Epoxy Primer Kit is designed to be used in conjuction with Ultra Tuff Tuff Coat Coatings and Roller Applicators.
Tuff Coat Rubberized Non-Skid Coating sold separately and can be found through item search at item number 1218146.
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I am very satisfied with the primer and epoxy products.It was very easy to apply and with it being a water based product,it was a breeze to clean my rollers and brushes.
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I received this product , it comes in a 2part mix , resin and hardener, the directions on the product were somewhat confusing to follow about mixing so I followed the mixing ratio instructions, which turned out to be the wrong way to mix this product , I applied it as instructed but because the ratio was wrong it did not cure right, I contacted the tuff coat co. Directly who in turn told me that the ratio was wrong and I had to remove the product completely off my boat, which took a great deal more scraping and sanding. The Tuffcoat co. Sent me a new batch of primer with the correct instructions on the cans, and the end product worked out great. If you use this just mix it one to one, that is the correct way to mix it.
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Rated 4 out of 5 by jimmywt Works well
Used the epoxy primer before applying the Ultra Tuff Coating on fiberglass coated wood. Easy to mix, spreades well but when mixed goes on as an off white color and dries clear. Did not know that at first and thought I was not covering well but discovered different later. Remember, dries clear!!
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Rated 5 out of 5 by snowbird great stuff
Primer is absolutely necessary to get a good bond between the deck and the non-skid. Areas where I tried a test without primer did not adhere as well. Sanded , applied primer to entire deck of my ProLine and then applied non skid, it has been on there 7 days and is impossible to scrape off. Only negitive is that it isn't clear, just a little off color, a good tape job will cure that. Just get the right color paint, sand is actually a nice light tan color, so check before you buy.
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CP-10 takes slightly longer to cure, but is by far our best primer for concrete, wood and painted surfaces.Drying Schedule @ 20 mils wet @ 50% RH, 72 degrees F
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Linux Command Line Parameters
If you are using the LILO (LInux LOader) program to boot Linux (usually from hard disk), then you can pass command-line options to the kernel at boot time. Typically these are set in the configuration file /etc/lilo.conf.
This is the most flexible method. It allows you, for example, to boot different kernels or boot the same kernel with different options.
Most options are passed by LILO on to the kernel; one useful option is parsed and handled by LILO itself. ,The console video mode for VGA displays can be set using a command-line option of the form:
where mode can be one of:
"normal" for the default 80-column by 24-line display,
"extended" or "ext" for 80 columns by 50 lines,
"ask" to prompt the user at boot up time for the mode to use, or
a decimal number to select various other modes, dependent on the type of VGA card (for example, on my Trident VGA card, mode 6 is 132x30).
Let's now look at the specific options supported by the Linux kernel. These affect the behavior of the kernel itself and are not passed on to the init program.
Some of these options accept a numeric value, parsed by a simplified version of the strtoul library function. Values can be given in decimal (e.g., 1234), octal (e.g., 01234) or hexadecimal (e.g., 0x1234), and should be separated by spaces. Let's now examine each of the options.
This option sets the root device; the device used as the root ("/") filesystem; when booting. It accepts a value from a hard-coded list of common devices: /dev/hda..b (IDE hard disks), /dev/sda..e (SCSI disks), /dev/fd (floppy), and /dev/xda..b (XT hard disks). These are mapped into the corresponding major and minor device numbers.
This option indicates that the root filesystem should be mounted readonly. Typically this is done in order to run fsck on bootup.
This option is the converse of the previous one, indicating that the root filesystem should be mounted for both read and write, the normal case once a Linux system has been booted.
This option sets the kernel logging level to 10, rather than the default value of 7. It sets the global variable "console_loglevel". Currently this make no visible difference; apparently there is no kemel code that displays messages at levels higher than 7.
This sets the global variable "hlt_works_ok" to 0. When Linux is idle, it runs the previously mentioned idle process in a loop (found in kernel/sys.c). Having the idle process periodically execute a hlt (halt) instruction reduces power consumption on some machines, most notably laptops. However, a few users have reported problems with the kilt instruction on certain machines, so it can be disabled with this option.
Incidently, I routinely use this option on my desktop system; I find that it significantly reduces the level of bus noise picked up on my sound card.
This option sets the global variable "hard_math" to 0. It forces the kernel to use co-processor emulation, even if one is installed. This can be useful if you suspect hardware problems with your co-processor or if you want to measure performance without a math chip.
e.g., mem=4000000
This option specifies to the kernel the highest memory address to use (specified in bytes). Normally Linux uses all of the available memory. This feature can be useful for simulating machines with less memory or debugging cache problems on machines with lots of memory. As an experiment, try booting your machine with less memory, say 2MB, to highlight the difference memory makes. As another experiment, see what happens if you lie and tell Linux you have more memory than is installed...
reserve=port, size. . .
e.g., reserve=Ox320,0x20
This option reserves I/O ports; it marks them as used so they will not be probed by device drivers that do autoprobing. This may be needed on certain systems that have unusual hardware or device conflicts.
e.g., ramdisk=2000000
This option sets the size of the RAM disk, in bytes.
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New horizons for Women in Industry group
Ashley Martin and Katie Poehling first crossed paths at a University of Notre Dame college football game in 2004. Martin was there with her father, Rex Martin, the owner of Elkhart, Ind.-based valves, fittings, PEX and industrial plastics manufacturer NIBCO.
Nominate your company for the ASA Safety Award
We've all said it, or at least found ourselves thinking about it: the Empire State Building managed to get built without OSHA and it turned out just fine.
Washington awaits
While I have attended many memorable meetings and events during my years of involvement with ASA, I can honestly say some of the most rewarding times have been visits to Washington, D.C., to meet with members of Congress on behalf of ASA and our industry.
Former Seal Team Six Leader O'Neill Confirmed for NetworkASA 2014
Joining FOX NFL's Jimmy Johnson on the list of confirmed speakers for NetworkASA 2014 is former Navy Seal Robert O'Neill. O'Neill is one of the most highly decorated combat veterans of our time.
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ASA and PMI to Join Forces for April Washington Fly-In
During the first week of April, leaders of the PHCP and PVF industry will be front and center advocating on issues important to suppliers and manufacturers. For the first time, American Supply Association and Plumbing Manufacturers International will join forces at our industry's Legislative Fly-In April 9-10 in Washington, D.C.
ASA to develop a comprehensive workforce recruitment campaign
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ASA Roundtable 2013: Part 2
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Trans Globe Lighting Contemporary 5 Light Chandelier
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