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South Carolina has decided not to expand Medicaid to cover the Affordable Care Act supplements, which would have provided the state hundreds of millions of dollars for three years to provide for low income individuals and families to receive insurance. Here are two views about it from our Lake Wylie Pilot editorial board members:
Leaving South Carolina residents uninsured is unconscionable
When individuals had taxes prepared last year, they were asked about their health care coverage. If they had no health insurance, they were provided with estimates of what they would pay under the Affordable Care Act. Many of these taxpayers were told they would pay little or no premiums when the program goes into effect Jan. 1.
In South Carolina, and North Carolina, this information was premature. South Carolina has decided not to expand Medicaid to cover the Affordable Care Act supplements to pay for low income individuals and families to receive insurance.
The Hospital Association of South Carolina has agreed to pay an increased provider tax to cover the 10 percent increased costs to the state once the federal supplements drop to 90 percent. Still S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley has declined the help and refuses to allow South Carolina to participate in the program. South Carolina residents can purchase insurance through the federal exchanges, but will not receive the state Medicaid to lower their premiums.
If you fall under the federal poverty level, you can not purchase insurance through the exchange in South Carolina, but are directed to the state Medicaid website. You also will not be eligible for Medicaid. The only choice will continue to be the emergency room.
Although the more than 700,000 South Carolina residents who are uninsured have not been helped by the ACA, they will still have to pay penalties for not having insurance in the future. This is inexcusable.
S.C. decision is fiscally responsible
In the ancient story of the Trojan horse, someone said beware of Greeks bearing gifts, a warning that has been sounded (but not always heeded) ever since. In fact most of us have come to realize there is no such thing as a free lunch, whether that applies to a free weekend at a time-share resort or the federally funded plan to fund the initial three years of Medicaid for states that want to sign on to the program. South Carolina, along with 20 others, have wisely chosen to reject this blatant attempt to lure states into the medical exchanges.
Under this plan, the states would have to pick up the tab to cover a portion of the Medicaid costs after 2016 for the newly eligible recipients. How would South Carolina pay for the required state matching funds and the administration costs?
These amounts could be substantial. Considering constrained state budgets, any increase in payments that states would have to make after 2016 would be difficult to bear. Money from the federal government is never free. The money would have to come from us and future generations, necessitating borrowing huge amounts from foreign countries to finance government programs we simply cant afford. Any such expansion of Medicaid would come with a high price tag.
This prudent decision by South Carolina (and many other states) not to expand Medicaid wasnt something that was done out of rancor or mean spiritedness. It was done solely as part of the process to conduct financial affairs of the state in a fiscally responsible manner.

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I think everybody would agree that the cheetah is the fastest animal, at around 70 mph = 31 m.sec-1. But I was wondering which was the fastest relative to body size.
I've just calculated that the cheetah at a size of (say) 140 cms has a maximum speed of 22 m.sec-1.metrebodylength-1.
This question came into my head because a spider just ran across my desk, at a speed of at least 0.5 m.sec-1. Not that fast really, except that I estimate its size at 3mm before flattening (I have quick reactions, and besides, it came back again). Relative to body size, this makes 166 m.sec-1.metrebodylength-1, eight times faster than a cheetah.
Fleas don't qualify because they jump. But can anybody think of an animal that runs faster than my spider before it became an ex-spider?


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The 1.6 Percent GDP + 9.5 Percent Unemployment = Second Stimulus
by Charles Lemos, Mon Aug 30, 2010 at 02:44:35 AM EDT
On Friday, the Commerce Department revised its estimate for 2Q10 US gross domestic product (GDP). Unfortunately, the revision was a downward revision. According to the Commerce Department, the US economy grew at a 1.6 percent pace in the second quarter, less than the original 2.4 percent estimate. The number represents a sharp decline in the speed of economic recovery compared to the first quarter, when GDP grew at a more robust 3.7 percent clip. There's little question that the 1.6 percent figure is tepid, worrisome and certainly not sufficient reignite job growth.
If there is a bright spot in the Commerce Department report, it is that consumer spending, which represents the core of the economy accounting for nearly two-thirds of all economic activity, has risen at least modestly for four straight quarters. Still the pace of growth remains slower than normal in an economic recovery.
The US labor market remains abysmally soft. The unemployment rate in the United States was 9.5 percent and the broader U6 rate stood at 16.5 percent in July. The BLS August 2010 report will be released this Friday. I suspect the report will disappoint with the unemployment rate creeping up to 9.6 percent. My contention that our unemployment problem isn't just cyclical but structural got a boost from David Altig, research director at the Atlanta Fed. Writing in Macroblog, Altig takes us through the Beveridge Curve.
"The disconnect between the supply of and demand for workers that is reflected in statistics such as the unemployment rate, the hiring rate, and the layoff rate can be dynamically expressed by the Beveridge curve. Named after British economist William Beveridge, the curve is a graphical representation of the relationship between unemployment (from the BLS's household survey) and job vacancies, reflected here through the JOLTS (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey)."
The most tempting explanation for the seeming shift in the Beveridge curve relationship according to Altig is "is a problem with the mismatch between skills required in the jobs that are available and skills possessed by the pool of workers available to take those jobs." Another who thinks our unemployment problem has a structural component is Brad DeLong of the University of California at Berkeley who's been swayed by Altig's analysis. DeLong writes:
Given the large recent increase in vacancies in the past two quarters, the U.S. unemployment rate ought to have started to fall. It did not. That means that the chances are now very high that our cyclical unemployment is starting to turn into structural unemployment, as businesses that seek to hire and have the cash flow to hire still find that the currently-unemployed applying for jobs don't fit inside their comfort zones.
Taken together our tepid 1.9 percent 'recovery' plus our still torrid 9.5 percent unemployment rate call for decisive action. Perhaps it is a measure of the Administration's thinking but this weekend, Laura Tyson, a member of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, has an op-ed in the New York Times making the case for a second round of a fiscal stimulus.
The primary cause of the labor market crisis is a collapse in private demand — the same problem that bedeviled the economy in the 1930s. In the wake of the financial shocks at the end of 2008, spending by American households and businesses plummeted, and companies responded by curbing production and shedding workers. By late 2009, in response to unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus, household and business spending began to recover. But by the second quarter of this year, economic growth had slowed to 1.6 percent, according to a government estimate issued Friday. Clearly, the pace of recovery is far slower than what is needed to restore the millions of jobs that have been lost.
Households and businesses are on a saving spree to rebuild their balance sheets. Their spending relative to income has fallen more than at any time since the end of World War II. So there is now a substantial gap between the supply of goods and services the economy is capable of producing and the demand for them. This gap is starkly reflected by the 23 million Americans who are looking for full-time jobs and the millions more who have left the labor force because they could not find one.
The situation would be even worse without the $787 billion fiscal stimulus package passed in 2009. The conventional wisdom about the stimulus package is wrong: it has not failed. It is working as intended. Its spending increases and tax cuts have boosted demand and added about three million more jobs than the economy otherwise would have. Without it, the unemployment rate would be about 11.5 percent. Because about 36 percent of the money remains to be spent, more jobs will be created — about 500,000 by the end of the year.
But by next year, the stimulus will end, and the flip from fiscal support to fiscal contraction could shave one to two percentage points off the growth rate at a time when the unemployment rate is still well above 9 percent. Under these circumstances, the economic case for additional government spending and tax relief is compelling. Sadly, polls indicate that the political case is not.
The President needs to make the economic case directly to the American people and the politics be damned. Enough of this sitting in the White House and trying to be above the political fray. It's time to get down and dirty and rough up the GOP.
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Assisted Living, New Play By Wicked's Winnie Holzman and Husband Paul Dooley, Debuts April 5
By Andrew Gans
Assisted Living, a new play penned by Tony-nominated Wicked librettist Winnie Holzman and her husband, actor Paul Dooley, makes its world premiere April 5 at Los Angeles' Odyssey Theatre.
Holzman and Dooley also co-star in the four-character, three-scene work, which will continue through May 12. Larry Biederman directs.
Assisted Living, according to press notes, "explores the surprising connections between four very different characters — Frank, a beloved soap opera star facing an uncertain future; Emily, his former makeup artist and longtime girlfriend; Edgar, a curmudgeon who feels abandoned in his assisted living facility; and Heather, Edgar's unfulfilled, unmarried daughter who is Frank's biggest fan."
Linda Toliver and Gary Guidinger produce.
Paul Dooley's extensive film credits include "Breaking Away," "Sixteen Candles," "Hairspray" and "Popeye." Dooley has received two Emmy nominations for his work as the out-of-the-closet father on HBO's "Dream On" and as the "take no prisoners" judge on "The Practice." He has had recurring roles on many TV series, including "ER," "Grace Under Fire," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "My So-Called Life." Dooley's film work also includes "Insomnia" with Al Pacino, and Christopher Guest's "Waiting for Guffman" and "A Mighty Wind."
Winnie Holzman is best known as the co-writer (with composer Stephen Schwartz) of Wicked, for which she was nominated for a Tony. She also created the television drama "My So Called Life," starring Claire Danes, which earned Holzman an Emmy nomination. Recently, she teamed with her daughter, Savannah Dooley, to create ABC Family's "Huge." She got her start writing "thirtysomething," and also executive-produced (again with Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz) the award-winning drama series "Once and Again." As an actress, Holzman played the chocolate-obsessed divorced woman in "Jerry Maguire" and Larry David's wife's therapist on "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
Show times are Friday and Saturday at 8 PM and Sunday at 2 PM.
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Matter wave
|Quantum mechanics
In quantum mechanics, the concept of matter waves or de Broglie waves /dəˈbrɔɪ/ reflects the wave–particle duality of matter. The theory was proposed by Louis de Broglie in 1924 in his PhD thesis.[1] The de Broglie relations show that the wavelength is inversely proportional to the momentum of a particle and is also called de Broglie wavelength. Also the frequency of matter waves, as deduced by de Broglie, is directly proportional to the total energy E (sum of its rest energy and the kinetic energy) of a particle.[2]
Historical context[edit]
At the end of the 19th century, light was thought to consist of waves of electromagnetic fields which propagated according to Maxwell's equations, while matter was thought to consist of localized particles (See history of wave and particle viewpoints). This division was challenged when, in his 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect, Albert Einstein postulated that light was emitted and absorbed as localized packets, or "quanta" (light quanta are now called photons). These quanta would have an energy
where is the frequency of the light and h is Planck's constant. In the modern convention, frequency is symbolized by f as is done in the rest of this article. Einstein's postulate was confirmed experimentally by Robert Millikan and Arthur Compton over the next two decades. Thus it became apparent that light has both wave-like and particle-like properties. De Broglie, in his 1924 PhD thesis, sought to expand this wave-particle duality to all particles:
|When I conceived the first basic ideas of wave mechanics in 1923–24, I was guided by the aim to perform a real physical synthesis, valid for all particles, of the coexistence of the wave and of the corpuscular aspects that Einstein had introduced for photons in his theory of light quanta in 1905.
—De Broglie[3]
In 1926, Erwin Schrödinger published an equation describing how a matter wave should evolve—the matter wave analogue of Maxwell's equations—and used it to derive the energy spectrum of hydrogen. Schrödinger's equation describes a wave that moves with respect to an abstract mathematical "space", called phase space, or, more precisely the configuration space, not the same thing as ordinary physical space.[4] That same year Max Born published his now-standard interpretation that the square of the amplitude of the matter wave gives the probability of finding the particle at a given place in ordinary physical space. This interpretation was in contrast to De Broglie's own interpretation, in which the wave corresponds to the physical motion of a localized particle.
Experimental confirmation[edit]
Matter waves were first experimentally confirmed to occur in the Davisson-Germer experiment for electrons, and the de Broglie hypothesis has been confirmed for other elementary particles. Furthermore, neutral atoms and even molecules have been shown to be wave-like.
In 1927 at Bell Labs, Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer fired slow-moving electrons at a crystalline nickel target. The angular dependence of the reflected electron intensity was measured, and was determined to have the same diffraction pattern as those predicted by Bragg for x-rays. Before the acceptance of the de Broglie hypothesis, diffraction was a property that was thought to be only exhibited by waves. Therefore, the presence of any diffraction effects by matter demonstrated the wave-like nature of matter. When the de Broglie wavelength was inserted into the Bragg condition, the observed diffraction pattern was predicted, thereby experimentally confirming the de Broglie hypothesis for electrons.[5]
This was a pivotal result in the development of quantum mechanics. Just as the photoelectric effect demonstrated the particle nature of light, the Davisson–Germer experiment showed the wave-nature of matter, and completed the theory of wave-particle duality. For physicists this idea was important because it means that not only can any particle exhibit wave characteristics, but that one can use wave equations to describe phenomena in matter if one uses the de Broglie wavelength.
Neutral atoms[edit]
Experiments with Fresnel diffraction[6] and an atomic mirror for specular reflection[7][8] of neutral atoms confirm the application of the de Broglie hypothesis to atoms, i.e. the existence of atomic waves which undergo diffraction, interference and allow quantum reflection by the tails of the attractive potential.[9] Advances in laser cooling have allowed cooling of neutral atoms down to nanokelvin temperatures. At these temperatures, the thermal de Broglie wavelengths come into the micrometre range. Using Bragg diffraction of atoms and a Ramsey interferometry technique, the de Broglie wavelength of cold sodium atoms was explicitly measured and found to be consistent with the temperature measured by a different method.[10]
This effect has been used to demonstrate atomic holography, and it may allow the construction of an atom probe imaging system with nanometer resolution.[11][12] The description of these phenomena is based on the wave properties of neutral atoms, confirming the de Broglie hypothesis.
The effect has also been used to explain the spatial version of the quantum Zeno effect, in which an otherwise unstable object may be stabilised by rapidly-repeated observations.[8]
Recent experiments even confirm the relations for molecules and even macromolecules, which are normally considered too large to undergo quantum mechanical effects. In 1999, a research team in Vienna demonstrated diffraction for molecules as large as fullerenes.[13] The researchers calculated a De Broglie wavelength of the most probable C60 velocity as 2.5 pm. More recent experiments prove the quantum nature of molecules with a mass up to 6910 amu.[14]
de Broglie relations[edit]
The de Broglie equations relate the wavelength λ to the momentum p, and frequency f to the total energy E of a particle:[2]
where h is Planck's constant. The equation can also be written as
where is the reduced Planck's constant, is the wave vector, and is the angular frequency.
In each pair, the second is also referred to as the Planck-Einstein relation, since it was also proposed by Planck and Einstein.
Special relativity[edit]
Using two formulas from special relativity, one for the relativistic momentum and one for the energy
allows the equations to be written as[1][15][16][17]
where denotes the particle's rest mass, its velocity, the Lorentz factor, and the speed of light in a vacuum. See below for details of the derivation of the de Broglie relations. Group velocity (equal to the particle's speed) should not be confused with phase velocity (equal to the product of the particle's frequency and its wavelength). In the case of a non-dispersive medium, they happen to be equal, but otherwise they are not.
|This article or section may need to be cleaned up. It has been merged from Group velocity and Phase velocity.
Group velocity[edit]
Albert Einstein first explained the wave–particle duality of light in 1905. Louis de Broglie hypothesized that any particle should also exhibit such a duality. The velocity of a particle, he concluded then (but may be questioned today, see above), should always equal the group velocity of the corresponding wave. De Broglie deduced that if the duality equations already known for light were the same for any particle, then his hypothesis would hold. This means that
where E is the total energy of the particle, p is its momentum, ħ is the reduced Planck constant. For a free non-relativistic particle it follows that
where m is the mass of the particle and v its velocity.
Also in special relativity we find that
where is the rest mass of the particle and is the speed of light in a vacuum. But (see below), using that the phase velocity is , therefore
where v is the velocity of the particle regardless of wave behavior.
Group velocity (equal to an electron's speed) should not be confused with phase velocity (equal to the product of the electron's frequency multiplied by its wavelength).
Both in relativistic and non-relativistic quantum physics, we can identify the group velocity of a particle's wave function with the particle velocity. Quantum mechanics has very accurately demonstrated this hypothesis, and the relation has been shown explicitly for particles as large as molecules.[citation needed]
Phase velocity[edit]
In quantum mechanics, particles also behave as waves with complex phases. By the de Broglie hypothesis, we see that
Using relativistic relations for energy and momentum, we have
where E is the total energy of the particle (i.e. rest energy plus kinetic energy in kinematic sense), p the momentum, the Lorentz factor, c the speed of light, and β the speed as a fraction of c. The variable v can either be taken to be the speed of the particle or the group velocity of the corresponding matter wave. Since the particle speed for any particle that has mass (according to special relativity), the phase velocity of matter waves always exceeds c, i.e.
and as we can see, it approaches c when the particle speed is in the relativistic range. The superluminal phase velocity does not violate special relativity, because phase propagation carries no energy. See the article on Dispersion (optics) for details.
Using the four-momentum P = (E/c, p) and the four-wavevector K = (ω/c, k), the De Broglie relations form a single equation:
which is frame-independent.
See also[edit]
- Bohr model
- Faraday wave
- Kapitsa–Dirac effect
- Matter wave clock
- Schrödinger equation
- Theoretical and experimental justification for the Schrödinger equation
- Thermal de Broglie wavelength
- ^ a b L. de Broglie, Recherches sur la théorie des quanta (Researches on the quantum theory), Thesis (Paris), 1924; L. de Broglie, Ann. Phys. (Paris) 3, 22 (1925). English translation by A.F. Kracklauer.
- ^ a b Resnick, R.; Eisberg, R. (1985). Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei and Particles (2nd ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-87373-X.
- ^ Louis de Broglie "The Reinterpretation of Wave Mechanics" Foundations of Physics, Vol. 1 No. 1 (1970)
- ^ Pais, A. (1982). Max Born's statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics, Science 218: 1193–1198, p. 1197.
- ^ Mauro Dardo, Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics, Cambridge University Press 2004, pp. 156–157
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Further reading[edit]
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- Tipler, Paul A. and Ralph A. Llewellyn (2003). Modern Physics. 4th ed. New York; W. H. Freeman and Co. ISBN 0-7167-4345-0. pp. 203–4, 222–3, 236.
- Web version of Thesis, translated by Kracklauer (English)
- Zumdahl, Steven S. (2005). Chemical Principles (5th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-618-37206-7.
- An extensive review article "Optics and interferometry with atoms and molecules" appeared in July 2009: http://www.atomwave.org/rmparticle/RMPLAO.pdf.
- This paper appeared in a collection of papers titled "Scientific Papers Presented to Max Born on his retirement from the Tait Chair of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh", published in 1953 (Oliver and Boyd):
External links[edit]
- Bowley, Roger. "de Broglie Waves". Sixty Symbols. Brady Haran for the University of Nottingham.


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I am still getting the same message, i even tried the page from my mobile and got exactly the same error
Can you ping and/or tracert (traceroute, depending on your OS) the RDA site? (rda.cellulardata.com)
i have Java 7u7 a it not work! can you please solve this? i dont want downgrade Java to Java6
What is happening with RDA.When i use RDA for n950 and n9 the device is either not responding by swiping or clicking or just showing black screen.I restart session few times and it is the same.When i use lumia,everything when smoothly.Please nokia,don't break certain service just for sake on forcing developers to develop for lumia.A couple month ago i use the same RDA device and back then,it is so so slow now.The reason we developers use RDA because we didn't have certain device for on device testing but even RDA is also unreliable.Nokia take/cut 30% of total sales in nokia store yet still give us bad service.Definitely a bad after service.
I suggest you email RDA at email@example.com with details of the devices you have tested, and what your PC configuration looks like. Please confirm you have done this - if not, then I need to do so (but I presume you'd rather be informed first)
I didn't email to RDA yet because currently i cannot access my mailbox.The annoying thing is,it is always the same platform (meego harmattan) device that have the most issue which coincidentally the platform with the smallest installed user base.
The RDA broken again.It is the same platform and the same device (two n9,one n950).Yesterday everything is fine but today when wan to do more testing,all three broken with n9 not responding and n950 with black screen.Both lumia and symbian device working fine.
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Office of Dietary Supplements. "Dietary Supplement Factsheet - Vitamin D." Accessed September 1, 2011. http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/vitamind.
United States Department of Agriculture. "Food Groups: Dairy." Accessed September 1, 2011. http://www.choosemyplate.gov/foodgroups/dairy.html.
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This is a Disney Princess themed toy box I made for my daughter. it is made from pine using all hand cut dovetail constructions. It is basically a smaller version of a traditional tool chest. It is painted 4 different colors and decorated with removable wall stickers.
So far it has been a big hit with my daughter! and it is built to last. So it can grow with her.
When my daughter out grows the princess age we will be able to repaint and re purpose this toy box as a blanket chest.
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#1 posted 629 days ago
Looks like an excellent job. Paint job is awesome.
-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability
#2 posted 629 days ago
Fantastic. We just took a Disney trip, so this would be a great idea for my littlest.
Very nice work.
#3 posted 628 days ago
Well done!!
-- Jack, Albuquerque
#4 posted 627 days ago
Nice Matt!
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I was among those who jumped up and down waving my maroon and gold pom-pom's when Tubby Smith announced he was coming to be our basketball coach. Smith was a winner, he had a championship pedigree and he picked us. Fast forward six seasons and not only has the team not produced, the program is in the midst of one of the worst collapses in sports history. You heard me, in the history of sports.
With the latest meltdown in their loss to Ohio State, it is painfully obvious that Smith has completely checked out. When the Gophers rang in the New Year they had just defeated Tom Izzo and Sparty it appeared as though team Tubby was in for an influential run. They were 15-1 and the base couldn't wait until March when the team would finally make a mark in a tournament not known as the NIT.
Since then, the team is 5-8 with embarrassing losses to Iowa and the Buckeyes. To say the Gophers played lifeless basketball would be giving them entirely too much credit. Think about the fact that this team was ranked number 8 in the nation earlier this year. Now they are not even a sure thing to make the NCAA tournament.
15-1 to not in, are you serious?
A man on a white horse might be on the horizon.
To coin a phrase from Star Wars, 'help us Shaka, you're our only hope'.
Shaka Smart made himself a household name when he took his VCU Rams to the final four in the 2010-2011 season. Smart has a 100-31 career record, he is better equipped to relate with today's players (which is a nice way of saying Tubby is old) and our favorite team has a pipeline to him in our Athletic Director Norwood Teague.
When Teague came here from Virginia Commonwealth in June of last year and as all A.D's do, they want to make their own mark. Smith's buyout will cost the University $2.5 million, but with this season as our guide, we'd get just as much out of Smith paying him to sit home.
As the losses have piled up, the noise surrounding Smith has become louder. To a point where like a car wreck, you have to watch just to see what happens next. A major donor along with Teague had a front row seat to watch the Ohio State meltdown where the Gophers only mustered 22 second half points and went over 10 minutes without a field goal. That statistic is totally unacceptable for a Division I college basketball team and a coach that has the pedigree that Smith has.
A change needs to be made. The answer is easy and obvious.
The answer is Shaka!
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The Cedars-Sinai International Stem Cell Research Institute Shared Laboratory Facilities
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Funds requested:
$866 157
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Public Abstract:
We have established the International Stem Cell Institue at Cedars-Sinai to facilitate stem cell research, including reesearch on human embryonic stem cells. The International Stem Cell Institute will advance both basic research and clinical applications of stem cell research. To aid in these goals, we have already established a central laboratory to isolate new human embryonic stem cell lines. Some of these cell lines will be normal cells, others will be genetically defective cells. In addition, we will develop "good manufacturing practice" (GMP) cell lines. All of these will be important for the stem cell research to succeed at Cedars-Sinai. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has issued a Request for Proposals that seeks applications that propose to develop shared research laboratory facilities. Here we request funding for major equipment items, personnel, and renovation costs to create a shared tissue culture core facility that will be available both to investigators at Cedars-Sinai and also to investigators from other institutions in our area. Three specific institutions that have expressed desire to utilize our proposed core facility are California State University Northridge, Mount St. Mary's College, and Occidental College. The proposed shared research lab will have four subsections: a cell derivation laboratory, an imaging laboratory, a cell sorting facility, and a laboratory that will produce cells free of animal products that could be utilized in human clinical studies. Our shared facility will enhance stem cell research at Cedars-Sinai, and will encourage partnerships with investigators at nearby institutions. Ultimately, our research efforts will develop and and test potential beneficial applications of stem cells in the treatment of human diseases.
Statement of Benefit to California:
The proposed CSMC Shared Stem Cell Research Laboratory will benefit the State of California and its citizens by facilitating development of translational stem cell research applications. Cedars-Sinai already has prominent stem cell investigators, and as a result, our facility will assure that CIRM funds are utilized in high quality stem cell research applications. Our outreach efforts to less well-developed stem cell research programs at neighboring institutions will help increase the number of investigators and institutions that can conduct quality stem cell research, and will thus expand the stem cell research community in California.
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SHARED LABORATORY SYNOPSIS OF PROPOSAL: This is a proposal by Dr. Black, a well known neurosurgeon at Cedar-Sinai for a Shared Research Laboratory (SRL)that is to be part of the International Stem Cell Institute at Cedar-Sinai, led by Dr. Benvenisty, a pioneer in the human embryonic stem cell (hESC) field. Dr. Benvenisty will co-direct the SRL and serve on the oversight board. The main scientific focus of the facility will be on translation of hESC research in various disease areas and will include the establishment of PGD hESC lines and the derivation of GMP quality lines. The proposed facility will be 2,950 sqf in size. No techniques course is proposed. QUALITY AND IMPACT OF THE SCIENCE: The proposal is very dependent on the expertise of Dr. Benvenisty and will serve as a co-director of the SRL and serve on the oversight board. He has been one of the first in the field to show directed differentiation of hESCs, genetic modification and studies on the immunological state of hESCs. The main focus of the facility is to be in the area of translational disease, the establishment of hESC based disease models and the derivation of GMP quality lines. The institution has considerable expertise in the area of vector biology (Dr Lowenstein and Castro) though the proposed studies do not make sufficient use of these investigators. The specific areas of research proposed are in field of cardiac disorders, neurodegeneration and brain tumors, spinal disease (mesenchymal cell approaches), diabetes and angiogenesis. The scientific projects and questions listed are of interest but the proposed execution/approaches are not very novel, poorly developed and in some instances without clear rationale for hESC use. The most interesting aspects of the proposal are in the area of hESC genetics and PGD line derivation. While there is some mention that at least one normal hESC line has been derived within the institution, no details are provided and no disease targets are mentioned to be addressed using PGD lines. The translational projects are described in broad terms without demonstrated hESC leadership in these areas. Overall, the studies proposed do not make a compelling argument for a new stem cell facility. The program director (PD), Dr. Black, has no experience in hESCs and will be dependent on the expertise of Dr. Benvenisty. Other investigators seem to also lack hESC expertise. Unfortunately, only 4 CVs and 3 letters of support for 30 investigators are provided making this aspect difficult to review. The participation of Dr. Benvensity is the greatest asset to the application and while there is commitment from Dr. Benvenisty, he will remain in Israel for most of the time and therefore is unable to manage the facility on day to day basis. APPROPRIATENESS OF SPACE AND EQUIPMENT TO SCOPE OF PLAN: The proposed SRL of almost 3000 sq ft space will be created in a renovated space, with plans to allow 10-15 scientists and technicians to work at once. The space is quite generous and should suffice for the effort. This space has been committed if funded, but it is unclear what will happen if not. The lab will be integrated in the larger stem cell efforts of the institution that are currently being planned. Renovations of up to $11 million suggest commitment by the institution in the stem cell field. Currently, there is no hESC facility available despite the establishment of the International Stem Cell Institute and despite the fact that apparently a hESC line was already derived in-house. A quite extensive list of equipment purchases is proposed. However, many items are not detailed (e.g. items described as "electro-gene transfer") and some of the elements have not been clearly justified such as a purchase of HPLC system, ELISA readers, FACS machines and analyzers. Basic equipment from hoods and incubators to 15 computers are requested; so it looks like there is little institutional support for equipping this facility. The efforts listed for manager and associated staff may not suffice for the size of facility proposed. Ms. Lavon seems to have to work largely alone without dedicated technical staff. QUALITY OF MANAGEMENT PLAN: The management plan is not well developed and the application lacks essential information. The Oversight Committee consisting of Drs. Black (Program Director), Benvenisty (Co-Director) as well as Dr. David Myers (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Vice President of Research and Co-Director of ISCI), Dr. Leon Fine (Chair of Dept of Biomedical Sciences and Director of Graduate Research Education) and Mr. Sandoval (Administrative Services Manager, Facilities) has little balance to objectively manage the science. The day to day details are left to Ms. Lavon, who is described both as a post-doctoral fellow at Cedars-Sinai and the lab manager (100%) for this facility. While the Program Director has no experience in hESCs, the lab manager has been trained by Dr. Benvenisty. However, it is unclear from the information provided whether she has yet completed her PhD degree and may be somewhat junior for running such a facility without the help of Dr. Benvenisty. Her staff consists of Dr. Wawrowsky (20%) who is the Manager of the Confocal Microscopy Facility, Ms. Koronyo (50%) a lab manager for Dr. Schwartz who will "assist where needed with regulatory compliance documentation and testing, quality control and general maintenance and operational tasks" and Dr. Lin (30%) who is manager of the Flow Cytometry and Cell sorting Facility. Not only is there little justification for such a large percentage of the salaries for "the staff" it is unclear how day to day priority will be dealt with. No dedicated technicians are proposed to support Ms. Lavon, which seems problematic for a facility of such size and scope. The proposal has not been planned carefully. The PD did not complete the section on which hESC lines are going to be used. No details are provided on the line that apparently was derived in-house. There is a lack of information on how and where the GMP lines will be generated. It is not clear whether a GMP facility is already available and whether staff is trained in GMP procedures. There is some evidence that the institution has successfully run a number of core facilities. An oversight committee is listed that will meet on a monthly basis. However, the exact task of the committee is not described. There is not information on project selection and prioritization. The PD mentions that the institution has a SCRO committee in place. The potential outside investigators beyond Cedar-Sinai mentioned in the application may not have the research strength required to fully benefit from the facility. However, Cal State Northridge, Mount St. Mary's College, and Occidental College may get an educational benefit from the facility. DISCUSSION: The limited number of biosketches for key personal, including the program director, was problematic for all reviewers, as it was therefore difficult to assess scientific merit and expertise of this application. A biosketch was included for the co-director, Dr. Bienvenisty, who is considered by the one reviewer to be a leader in the the genetic modification and immunogenicity of hESCs. There are several major problems with this proposal. According to one reviewer, the main problem with this proposal is that it was developed in haste. The scientific plan is poorly developed and key personnel have little expertise. Dr. Bienvenisty is apparently the only one to provide expertise in hESCs. No clear rationale for the use of hESCs was provided in the studies described although some scientific strengths in the area of vector development were noted. Key leadership is not on-site and the facility is to be run by a junior person with no dedicated technical support. Additionally, 3000 sq ft seems rather large for the planned facility which will not be GMP compliant. The equipment listed, e.g. the flow cytometer, was not not justified clearly and items such as an HPLC do not fit with the context and purpose of the laboratory. The intended shared users outside of Cedar-Sinai include schools known for their teaching not their research, so it is unclear how neighboring institutions will contribute to the research. The primary reviewer is not excited by the potential to develop a strong hESC scientific program given this plan, and acknowledges the main strength is the contribution of Dr. Bienvenisty as co-director. Other reviewers agree and had the impression the entire proposal was assembled hastily and poorly by very busy people.


text: Well we finally dug out of the 4"+ of ice here in the county and all is thawed out with springtime like weather. We got our electric back after almost 2 weeks and all thats left is cleaning up. My friend Stephen ( a lot of you met him at a few cubfests) and a few guys from the National Guard stopped by to pay us a visit. Mikeys day was made. He got him some MRE's and a ride with the guys. Most of you know he loves the military and all the things with it. I thought I would share these pics with you, hes a good kid