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Book Club PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy Book Club tell story about " Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading 50 Shades of Grey in their monthly book club." Book Club directed by: Director: Bill Holderman | Stars: Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen book club movie | Watch the Book Club Movie Trailer Starring Jane Fonda ...
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The Man Who Killed Don Quixote 132 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy The Man Who Killed Don Quixote tell story about " Toby, a disillusioned advertising executive, becomes pulled into a world of time jumping fantasy when a Spanish cobbler believes him to be Sancho Panza. He gradually becomes unable to tell dreams from reality." The Man Who Killed Don Quixote directed by: Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Adam Driver, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko Watch The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Full Movie, Watch The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Full Movie Online, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Full Movie, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Movie Online, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote HD Movie, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Leaked, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Stream
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Tag R | Comedy | Completed Tag tell story about " A small group of former classmates organize an elaborate, annual game of tag that requires some to travel all over the country." Tag directed by: Director: Jeff Tomsic | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Annabelle Wallis, Isla Fisher, Rashida Jones The ultimate basic b*tch playlist.
Show Dogs PG | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy Show Dogs tell story about " Max, a macho, solitary Rottweiler police dog is ordered to go undercover as a primped show dog in a prestigious Dog Show, along with his human partner, to avert a disaster from happening." Show Dogs directed by: Director: Raja Gosnell | Stars: Alan Cumming, Natasha Lyonne, Will Arnett, Stanley Tucci Show Dogs - movie character posters: https://teaser-trailer.com/movie/show-dogs/ #ShowDogs #ShowDogsMovie #WillArnett #Ludacris #Dogs #DogShow
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BlacKkKlansman 128 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime BlacKkKlansman tell story about " Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter." BlacKkKlansman directed by: Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Adam Driver, Topher Grace, Laura Harrier, Alec Baldwin Black Klansman Movie Poster Insert 14x36
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Teen Titans Go! To the Movies PG | Animation, Action, Comedy | Completed Teen Titans Go! To the Movies tell story about " A villain's maniacal plan for world domination sidetracks five teenage superheroes who dream of Hollywood stardom." Teen Titans Go! To the Movies directed by: Directors: Aaron Horvath, Peter Rida Michail | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Will Arnett, Tara Strong Watch Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018) Full Movie,Full Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018) Online HD Watch,Online Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018) Full Free Movies,Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018) Movie Full Watch,Movie Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (2018) Full Cinema HD Watch,
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation PG | Animation, Comedy, Family | Completed Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation tell story about " Mavis surprises Dracula with a family voyage on a luxury Monster Cruise Ship so he can take a vacation from providing everyone else's vacation at the hotel. The rest of Drac's Pack cannot ... See full summary » " Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation directed by: Director: Genndy Tartakovsky | Stars: Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Mel Brooks ((((WATCH Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation FULL MOVIE ONLINE HD))))) Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Full Movie Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Pelicula Completa Watch Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation FULL MOVIE HD1080p Sub English ☆√ Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation หนังเต็ม Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Koko elokuva Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation volledige film
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Action Point R | 85 min | Comedy | Completed Action Point tell story about " A daredevil designs and operates his own theme park with his friends." Action Point directed by: Director: Tim Kirkby | Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Johnny Pemberton, Susan Yeagley "Women don't like action movies" ummm no? Check your facts. Many women do like action movies it's just that when they say something you belittle and berate them for "not knowing enough" or being a "fake fan" well guess what you are a fake human and an asshole so stfu and let women enjoy whatever they want. It literally does not affect you in any way!>>>>>amen
The Happytime Murders Action, Comedy, Crime | Post-production The Happytime Murders tell story about " When the puppet cast of an '80s children's TV show begins to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet takes on the case." The Happytime Murders directed by: Director: Brian Henson | Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Banks, Joel McHale, Maya Rudolph "The Happytime Murders" concept art, attributed to The Jim Henson Company, apparently they are going to try and actually make a "Puppet Noir" film, or TV series... My geek meter just spiked!
Supercon R | 100 min | Comedy Supercon tell story about " A rag-tag group of former TV stars and comic book artists, who make their living working at conventions, decide to steal the loot from a crooked promoter and an overbearing former TV icon." Supercon directed by: Director: Zak Knutson | Stars: Maggie Grace, Clancy Brown, John Malkovich, Ryan Kwanten *claps* GO *claps* SIT *claps* IN *claps* THE CORNER *claps* AND THINK *claps* ABOUT WHAT YOU'VE DONE *claps claps claps*
Johnny English Strikes Again Action, Adventure, Comedy | Post-production Johnny English Strikes Again tell story about " After a cyber-attack reveals the identity of all of the active undercover agents in Britain, Johnny English is forced to come out of retirement to find the mastermind hacker." Johnny English Strikes Again directed by: Director: David Kerr | Stars: Olga Kurylenko, Emma Thompson, Jake Lacy, Rowan Atkinson Johnny English 3 Movie
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Yomeddine 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama Yomeddine tell story about " A Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families." Yomeddine directed by: Director: A.B. Shawky | Stars: Rady Gamal, Ahmed Abdelhafiz, Osama Abdallah, Mohamed Abdel Azim
The Escape of Prisoner 614 PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime The Escape of Prisoner 614 tell story about " Two inept, small-town Sheriff's Deputies catch an escaped prisoner that they believe was wrongly convicted." The Escape of Prisoner 614 directed by: Director: Zach Golden | Stars: Ron Perlman, Martin Starr, Jake McDorman, George Sample III First Image of Ron Perlman in Crime-Comedy 'The Escape of Prisoner 614'
Destination Wedding R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Completed Destination Wedding tell story about " The story of two miserable and unpleasant wedding guests, Lindsay and Frank, who develop a mutual affection despite themselves." Destination Wedding directed by: Director: Victor Levin | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Dj Dallenbach A Destination Wedding is a LOVELY way to make a memory that lasts a lifetime. We're celebrating couples and love all month long with four original June Weddings movies on Hallmark Channel. Be our guest!
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The strange world of rock memorabilia has just got stranger. The front door from Paul McCartney's childhood home has sold for £5000 ($7680).
The door from 20 Forthlin Road, Allerton, Liverpool went for the top estimate at auction in Gloucestershire, England.
The young Beatle lived in the property from 1955-1964 and learned to play guitar, piano, drums and the trumpet whilst living there. McCartney's house was bought by the U.K's National Trust in 1995 but the windows, tiles and fittings were refurbished in the late 1970s, after which the original door was bought by singer Glen South, who then kept the item behind his sofa.
Auctioneer Chris Albury said of the sale: "It came down to three people bidding against each other and the winner was a phone bidder from Lancashire. We're very happy with the result."
He added, unsurprisingly: "It is an odd thing to offer and a curious thing to put a value on – £5,000 is a serious price."
When McCartney wrote his Wings hit "Let 'Em In" ("someone's knocking at the door/somebody's ringing the bell") we assume he didn't have this auction in mind.

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text: Repositório Colecção: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/3455 2018-05-24T13:41:29Z 2018-05-24T13:41:29Z Crystallographic studies on membrane and cytoplasmic enzymes Nogly, Przemyslaw http://hdl.handle.net/10362/11799 2016-07-25T17:32:16Z 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z Título: Crystallographic studies on membrane and cytoplasmic enzymes Autor: Nogly, Przemyslaw Resumo: Haloacid dehalogenase (HAD) superfamily (CL0137), includes a diverse range of enzymes that use an aspartate carboxylate as nucleophile (Aravind et al., 1998; Koonin and Tatusov, 1994). There are ~79000 sequences classified into this superfamily in Pfam database and even more sequences, 148000, classified as HAD-like in the UniProt database (as of 19th February 2013).(...) Descrição: Dissertation presented to obtain the Ph.D degree in Biochemistry, Structural Biochemistry 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z Crystallographic studies on two hyperthermophilic enzymes Brito, José A. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/6856 2015-10-02T02:18:55Z 2011-09-01T00:00:00Z Título: Crystallographic studies on two hyperthermophilic enzymes Autor: Brito, José A. Resumo: While Aristotle cautioned "everything in moderation", the Romans, known for their eccentricities, coined the word "extremus", the superlative of exter, "being on the outside". By the fifteenth century "extreme" had arrived to English, via Middle French. At the beginning of the 21st century, we know that Earth contains environmental extremes unimaginable to our ancestors of the 19th century. Even more unimaginable to them would be the fact that there are organisms that live, and grow, in these environmental extremes. R. D. MacElroy named these organisms lovers (from the Greek "philos"), "extremophiles" as in "lovers of extreme environments". The discovery of extremophiles has put vitality in the biotechnology industry as this discipline has exploded in the past 20 years. Several reviews have been published on extremophiles and an increasing number of meetings and conferences are organised around the theme. Genomes of extremophiles have been sequenced, patents have been filed and several funding programmes have been launched namely the US National Science Foundation and NASA's programmes in "Life in Extreme Environments, Exobiology and Astrobiology", and the European Union's "Biotechnology of Extremophiles" and "Extremophiles as Cell Factories"(...) Descrição: Dissertation presented to obtain the Ph.D degree in Biochemistry 2011-09-01T00:00:00Z Crystallographic and biochemical studies on dissimilatory sulfite reductases Oliveira, Tânia Filipa http://hdl.handle.net/10362/5763 2015-10-02T01:30:48Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Título: Crystallographic and biochemical studies on dissimilatory sulfite reductases Autor: Oliveira, Tânia Filipa Resumo: Life on earth is only possible through tightly interwoven material transformations through various cycles. Carbon, nitrogen, fosforous and sulfur, with a special interest in the latter, are essential components of all living organisms and represent the most important elements circulating within the biosphere. During this circulation, sulfur can be found in various oxidation states with transformations occurring both biological and chemically. Dissimilatory sulfate reduction is one of those reactions, where sulfate is reduced to the final product sulfide in order to obtain energy for their metabolism. Sulfate reduction however, is not a favourable energetic reaction, and so sulfate is initially activated to adenosine-5'-phosphosulfate (APS) by ATP sulfurylase. APS is then reduced to sulfite by APS reductase allowing the sulfite reductase to reduce sulfite to the final product sulfide in a six electron transfer reaction. This last step can occur in an assimilatory or dissimilatory way.(...) Descrição: Thesis dissertation presented to obtain a PhD degree in Biochemistry at Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z


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CEO of First Amendment Center Named 2013 Commencement Speaker
CEO of First Amendment Center Named 2013 Commencement Speaker
Buena Vista University has announced that Ken Paulson, president and CEO of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University and in Washington, D.C., will be the 2013 Commencement speaker on May 25.
"I'm honored to serve as commencement speaker at Buena Vista University and look forward to the opportunity to visit with the emerging generation of smart and engaged students on this vibrant campus," says Paulson.
Paulson is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law and the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He also has served as an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University Law School. In 2008, he received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from American University.
Prior to accepting his position at the First Amendment Center, Paulson served as the editor and senior vice president/news of USA Today. He is now a columnist on USA Today's board of contributors, writing about First Amendment issues and the news media.
"Throughout his career Ken Paulson has been an influential advocate for First Amendment rights," says BVU President Fred Moore. "We are extremely fortunate to have our Commencement day fit in with his busy schedule and look forward to his message to our Class of 2013."
During his career, Paulson has drawn on his background as both a journalist and lawyer, serving as the editor or managing editor of newspapers in five different states.
He was on the team of journalists who founded USA Today in 1982 before moving on to manage newsrooms in Westchester County, N.Y., Green Bay, Wis., Bridgewater, N.J. and at Florida Today in Brevard County, Fla.
Paulson is also the founder of 1 for All, an unprecedented national campaign on behalf of the First Amendment, launched on July 1, 2010, with support from more than 1,100 news, arts and religious organizations.
He also is past-president of the American Society of News Editors, the nation's largest organization of news-media leaders.
Paulson was the host of the Emmy-honored television program "Speaking Freely," seen in more than 60 PBS markets nationwide over five seasons, and the author of "Freedom Sings," a multimedia stage show celebrating the First Amendment that continues to tour the nation's campuses.
He was an early advocate of making newspaper content available online, launching online newspapers in both Florida and New York in 1993.
Paulson has been a regular guest lecturer at the American Press Institute (API), speaking to more than 5,000 journalists about First Amendment issues over a 12-year span. He was honored with the API Lifetime Service Award. In 2010 and 2011, he served as chair of the PBS Editorial Standards Review Committee.
In 2007, Paulson was named a fellow of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), "the highest honor SPJ bestows upon a journalist for extraordinary contributions to the profession." In 2008, he received the Robert S. Abbott Memorial Award for Meritorious Service in Mass Communications from the Southern Regional Press Institute. He has also been elected to the Illini Publishing Hall of Fame at the University of Illinois.
In October 2012, he received the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
His wife, Peggy, is an occupational therapist in the Nashville area. They have two adult children.
Commencement ceremonies begin at 2:30 p.m. in Siebens Fieldhouse on the BVU campus. The baccalaureate service will be held at 10:30 a.m. at Schaller Memorial Chapel. For additional details, go to www.bvu.edu/commencement.


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A Broadway show inspired by the music of recording star Gloria Estefan and her husband, musician/producer Emilio Estefan, is being developed, producers said.
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Good move! I say Obama should be given a raise, free beer, moderations at +5, and infinite karma!
Why, Obama didn't do anything specific on this. The ban on stem cell research was always dealing with public finds. This article, even in the summery, says that it is being privately funded.
Also, the timing is just too close to Obama's term to be something he has done. The FDA requires some pretty stringent studies and tests before it will allow something to be tested on humans. The request to the FDA for approval for the trials/stufy was probably filed months ago with tests and stuff being done years before that. It's been less then a week since Obama took office and I doubt that is enough time to submit, review, qualify and approve something with the FDA.
If you need to cheer something, cheer private industry that didn't sit around waiting for the government to hand them money to get what they wanted to do done. Hurray for capitalism and private charity.
Hurray for private charity, yes. But capitalism? I fail to see what capitalism has to do with with this.
Possible answers:
1. The GP was quoting Austin Powers.
2. It's hard to have "private charity" without "private enterprise" to provide the funds.
3. A libertarian was taking a cheap shot.
What makes you so sure this wouldn't have been done a long time ago if capitalism weren't around?
Can you name a country that could fund this research (publicly or privately) that doesn't have an economy based prim
Would stem cell therapy be considered drug therapy?
Why wouldn't it? I would imagine it falls under the same general FDA guidelines as other biological agents, like deactivated virus vaccines.
ah hah, I see, like botulinum toxin and other toxic medicines. Yes that makes sense now. thanks!
Me thinks it's great that this "work toward curing disease such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and diabetes." is finally getting the approval it deserves.
It should be noted that, since this study is privately funded, it could have been done at any time during the Bush or Clinton Presidencies.
It should be further noted that, since this study uses one of the "approved" stem cell lines, it could have acquired Federal funding during the Bush Presidency (but not during the Clinton Presidency, since when Clinton was President NO stem cell research was getting Federal funding).
In other words, this particular study provides no evidence whatsoever that anything has changed in any way, however slight.
Gotta love the FDA. How long has this technology been around before they finally approved the first human tests of it? Did you know that if current FDA regulations had been in place at the time, neither penicillin nor aspirin would have ever been approved for human use?
Chapter six [ruwart.com] of Healing Our World: The Other Piece of the Puzzle by Dr. Mary J. Ruwart.
Did you know that if current FDA regulations had been in place at the time, neither penicillin nor aspirin would have ever been approved for human use?
Ummm... They may be slow and crappy, but ever? Methinks you may exaggerate...
Not at all. I posted the full source above, but I'll excerpt the important part to demonstrate my point: "Aspirin deforms the unborn young of almost every animal species but humans and could not be marketed today if it had to go through FDA evaluations." In other words, its beneficial effects never would have been demonstrated because it would have been rejected before it even made it to human trials.
Tylenol can easily destroy your liver. There is a very small difference between the effective dose and the poisonous dose. Add alcohol, and the situation is even worse.
IANA physician or pharmacist, so this isn't qualified medical advice. Do research from better sources than Slashdot when health is concerned. This is just a tip to a couple of those sources.
They actually recommend against aspirin as a
fever reducer in children under the age of about 16, too. Reye's syndrome is a rare but dangerous sickness that can be triggered in victims of the chicken pox or flu viruses when given aspirin.
Any viral infection, particularly one in which the first symptom is fever, should not
Aspirin isnt Tylenol, Ibuprofen, Advil, etc. Only real Aspirin is disallowed during pregnancy. Lots of drugs are disallowed during pregnancy. The idea that this would lead to a complete ban is ridiculous.
Only real Aspirin is disallowed during pregnancy
Are you sure about that? It is my understanding all Aspirin commonly purchased is actually synthetically manufactured Aspirin. I'm not sure you can still get "real" Aspirin. Real Aspirin comes from the bark of a white willow tree where use of the bark dates at least as far back as the Romans.
Or, it could be that the technology just wasn't ready yet? Christopher Reeve, may he rest in peace, did medical research a tremendous disservice by giving the impression that stem cell research could allow him to walk again. In the popular culture, this got translated to "Bush killed Superman!!!". But it takes years for ANY therapeutic treatment to get approval for human trials, even the most minor of drugs.
Oh, and remember Thalidomide?
But it takes years for ANY therapeutic treatment to get approval for human trials, even the most minor of drugs.
That... was my point. How many people are dying because the government wants to keep people safe? I guess dying of natural causes because of the nonexistence of a cure is better than dying from a drug prematurely brought to market...
Oh, and remember Thalidomide?
Hey, that book chapter I posted above even has a section about this: It's called, "The Illusion of Protection: Thalidomide."
That... was my point. How many people are dying because the government wants to keep people safe? I guess dying of natural causes because of the nonexistence of a cure is better than dying from a drug prematurely brought to market...
It has nothing to do with what's logical; it has to with what people WANT. Congress didn't make up the regulation from thin air; their constituents were screaming for it. Were their constituents easily panicked lemmings? Yup. But you'll never convince the populace that they
I read the Thalidomide parts and skimmed some of the other paragraphs, and she kept talking about "agression". So I clicked on the book cover. Here's an exertp of the blurb on the flyleaf:
I know what the book is about; I've actually read the whole book.
Dr. Ruwart shows us how to transcend these win-lose scenarios by systematically applying the win-win tactics to our social interaction that have proves so successful in our personal lives. HEALING OUR WORLD is the first book to integrate the common elements o
Gotta love the FDA. How long has this technology been around before they finally approved the first human tests of it? Did you know that if current FDA regulations had been in place at the time, neither penicillin nor aspirin would have ever been approved for human use?
The FDA also prevented Thalidomide from being sold wholesale in the country before the effects of it were known. Not the case in europe, as a result there were a lot of ugly birth defects.
Regulation is not going to be perfect ever, as we all learned in junior high, and have learned continuously since then. Still, I'd rather have an overly cautious and slow moving bureacracy investigating medicines and treatments than just hoping big pharmecuticals listen to their conscience. Mostly because they have none
Regulation is not going to be perfect ever, as we all learned in junior high, and have learned continuously since then. Still, I'd rather have an overly cautious and slow moving bureacracy investigating medicines and treatments than just hoping big pharmecuticals listen to their conscience. Mostly because they have none. Oversight is definitely needed.
Did you read the article I linked to in an earlier post? They give actual numbers as to how many people have been killed by this "overly cautious" bureaucra
Ever heard of a bad drug killing 30,000 people?
No, because we have the FDA and it runs perfectly
And the government has a conscience?
Clever, but not the issue here. The FDA is needed to keep bad drugs from bein
They give actual numbers as to how many people have been killed by this "overly cautious" bureaucracy trying to protect them---30,000 in the case of a drug called propranolol, as just one example. Ever heard of a bad drug killing 30,000 people?
Well there's a clever line of reasoning! It doesn't matter whether we have good, solid, scientific evidence that a substance is effective, safe, and side-effect free. All we need is some guy claiming it works! To hell with proper testing!
I propose we overhaul the F
"With Barack Obama now president, many scientists believe federal funding will soon become available for embryonic stem cell research on new cell lines, resulting in additional similar studies."
Is there a way to stop with the political jabs and bullshit that has been floating around
Bush disallowed GOVERNMENT funding of new cell lines, not private funding. If embryonic stem cells were the miracle cure that people have been claiming, you'd think there'd be plenty of private money for it.
But the statement the AC originally claimed was a 'bullshit political jab' explicitly referred to federal funding. So, like the GP, I have to ask how exactly is it bullshit to say that scientists expect the Obama administration to release federal funding for new cell lines? Is that such an outlandish assertion? I'm genuinely curious.
The OP didn't say "bullshit political jab", he said "political jabs and bullshit". This implies that the political jabs are the part he's most irritated at, and the bullshit that goes with them. And I agree with him. Slashdot seems to have a pattern where EVERY topic has Bush's name invoked. Why?
I once asked what those posters were going to do once Obama took office. Apparently, the answer was that Bush will remain the bogeyman until the next republican president.
"Bush is the devil!"
"Everything's the devil to you, Mama!"
Bush disallowed GOVERNMENT funding of new cell lines, not private funding.
Bush actually disallowed any lab which receives government funding from doing research with new stem cell lines. That effectively meant that private funding didn't just have to pay for the research, but BUILDING AN IDENTICAL LAB for any university or organization that had a single government research grant.
Not to mention the amount of paperwork that required, ensuring that not so much as a 10 cent pipette tip purchased using federal funding was used for that. You know, because the best use of our researchers is filling out more forms, not doing research.
Bush disallowed GOVERNMENT funding of new cell lines, not private funding.
The vast majority of research funding comes from federal funds. Private funding is generally spent on better investments, like a slightly better form of viagra, not primary research which will not directly lead to something profitable. And primary research that doesn't produce anything directly besides knowledge is essential to pretty much all new technology. Radio could not have been developed without Maxwell's equations, which by themselves were not something you could sell.
Fortunately, not all governm
"Is there a way to stop with the political jabs and bullshit that has been floating around
You ARE aware this is Slashdot, right?
The embryonic stem cell research ban was just on FEDERAL funding of such research when using non-approved embryonic stem cell lines. This story is about privately funded research using approved stem cell lines, and so doesn't conflict with the Bush administration ban, or have anything to do with the change in administrations.
So ya, it's a cheap shot.
At least we can safely say that Democrats have no problem with corporate welfare either. Yep, all of these embryonic stem cells are miracle cures, but, god forbid, every biotech company feels the need to pony up to Washington so Obama can pay for the research.
Man, there's been a law that said that private companies can't do their own stem cell research, its only been federal funding. And if these stem cells require so much federal funding to research, just how great can they really be? I would think a fa
At least we can safely say that Democrats have no problem with corporate welfare either. Yep, all of these embryonic stem cells are miracle cures, but, god forbid, every biotech company feels the need to pony up to Washington so Obama can pay for the research.
Right and like 10 TRILLION in bailouts thanks to REPUBLICAN screwups isn't corporate welfare? At least R&D funding has a decent chance to make our lives better. The bailouts are just going to office redecoration, golf trips, spa trips and fat bonus
The REPUBLICANS weren't behind the "affordable housing mission". Democrats blocked regulation in 2004, attacking the regulator, and defeated the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, cosponsored by John McCain. Democrats like Barney Frank cried racism whenever the republicans suggested regulating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and had control of the house financial services committee which oversees the GSEs.
"I worry, frankly, that there's a tension here. The more people, in my judgment, exaggerate a
threat of safety and soundness, the more people conjure up the possibility of serious financial losses to the Treasury, which I do not see. I think we see entities that are fundamentally sound financially and withstand some of the disastrous scenarios. And even if there were a problem, the Federal Government doesn't bail them out . But the more pressure there is there, then the less I think we see in terms of affordable housing."
Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.)
House Financial Services Committee hearing
Sept. 10, 2003
"I think this is a case where Fannie and Freddie are fundamentally sound, that they are not in danger of going under. They're not the best investments these days from the long- term standpoint going back. I think they are in good shape going forward. They're in a housing market. I do think their prospects going forward are very solid. And in fact, we're going to do some things that are going to improve them."
Rep. Barney Frank (D., Mass.)
July 14, 2008
"I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.
I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation."
John McCain
May 26, 2006
Here are some additional quotes from the Fannie/Freddie Fraud Investigation in 2004
BAKER (R-LA): It is indeed a very troubling report, but it is a report of extraordinary importance not only to those who wish to own a home, but as to the taxpayers of this country who would pay the cost of the clean up of an enterprise failure.
WATERS (D-CA): Through nearly a dozen hearings where, frankly, we were trying to fix something that wasn't broke, Mr. Chairman, we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly at Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Mr. Frank Raines.
MEEKS (D-NY): As well as the fact that I'm just pissed off at OFHEO, because if it wasn't for you, I don't think that we'd be here in the first place, and now the problem that we have and that we're faced with is: maybe some individuals who wanted to do away with GSEs in the first place, you've given them an excuse to try to have this forum so that we can talk about it and maybe change the, uh, the direction and the mission of what the GSEs had, which they've done a tremendous job. There's been nothing that was indicated that's wrong, you know, with Fannie Mae! Freddie Mac has come up on its own. And the question that then presents is the competence that -- that -- that -- that your agency uh, uh, with reference to, uh, uh, deciding and regulating these GSEs. Uh, and so, uh, I wish I could sit here and say that I'm not upset with you, but I am very upset because, you know, what you do is give -- you know, maybe giving any reason to, as Mr. Gonzales said, to give someone a heart surgery when they really don't need it.
ROYCE (R-CA): In addition to our important oversight role in this committee, I hope that we will move swiftly to create a new regulatory structure for Fannie Mae, for Freddie Mac, and the federal home loan banks.
CLAY (D-MO): This hea
I'd mod you if I had the points, but this will have to do. I have found it hilarious how many people blame Bush for the problems with our economy (blame him for the mistakes in Iraq, that's legit) when in fact the Democrats, going all the way back to Clinton, are the ones who have put us in this mess.
I will blame the Republican majority in the House and Senate in the 90's and early this decade for not doing something about it, although admittedly they did try a few times to fix it (McCain among others). However, apparently they didn't try hard enough. People talk of wanting Bush to get tried for war crimes, but in my opinion it's people like Barnie Frank who should be impeached or recalled for willful disregard when it comes to oversight of the housing market, chiefly as it concerns Fannie and Freddie.
It has been made crystal clear that the stimulus package, while having saved the credit industry from collapse, did little good other than to keep the majority of major banks from folding. Lending has not increased but instead continues to retract, and there is no evidence that supports the big three auto makers avoiding collapse as well (other than possibly Ford, assuming their sales recover). The handling of the economy and in particular spending has been an absolute joke over the past 4 years, and while people would love nothing better than to blame Bush, who submits yearly budgets, it is Congress, who approves the budget, who should really be at the forefront of blame. Republicans lost their mandate due to the handling of the war in Iraq. Unfortunately, most voters are too dumb to realize that the other party, the Democrats, were as clueless on the housing and credit crisis as the Republicans were on fighting a lengthy conflict in the middle east. If we only had more people who cared about the economy and the government's incompetency in managing it's duties, both parties would've been ejected from office and we'd have gotten a few more forward lookers in Washington. Too bad that'll never happen in my lifetime.
How ironic is it that Iraq eventually turned around, whereas we're just beginning to really see the seams crack in our economy?
Thank you, jcnnghm. Excellent post. It's hard to refute facts such as these.
It's hilarious when people blame this on the "unregulated market", when the exact opposite is true. This was caused by government meddling in the private sector. It was not a problem caused by "a lack of oversight". This was caused by insanely stupid policies that were almost guaranteed to be a financial train wreck in the long term. And no, this was not unforeseen by everyone. Plenty of people were plenty worried about this
1. While the Democrats certainly encouraged affordable housing, no bank was required to make loans that placed it in financial risk. Many regional banks and all credit unions are coming through this unscathed because they maintained financial propriety. Nor does any of this explain the practice of issuing undocumented loans or interest only loans. These practices were simply a matter of pandering to speculators.
2. NONE of this explains the MBS and CDS fiasco which is what dragged down investment banks like
As someone who works in biological research I sort of agree with you. Not that we shouldn't be funding scientific research, but no one should be able to patent research done with public money. I like the NIH rule that any federally funded research must be published in an open access journal. I would argue for another rule, that any patents from federally funded research must be licensed freely, if granted at all.
many scientists believe federal funding will soon become available for embryonic stem cell research on new cell lines, resulting in additional similar studies.
Sounds great, but, ummm, aren't we already broke?
Up to now this company has been funding the research privately. This merely allows them to proceed to human trials, it doesn't give them federal funding to do so.
Oh, missed the quote. I would presume that they will try to transfer existing funds for current stem cell research to new programs whenever possible. Current stem cell research only funds programs using the old embryonic stem cell lines and other non-embryonic stem cells (like mutants formed from skin cells).
I would expect an increase in funding too, but it probably would be rather small compared to the spending on infrastructure and other programs.
It seems many people don't notice that "embryonic stem cell research" is different from "stem cell research." Research has been done on cures involving adult stem cells (e.g., the patients' own) already. I believe this particular ban was on embryonic stem cell research, presumably for abortion/anti-abortion reasons.
Whether or not you agree or disagree with the use of human embryos in this example, there is a distinction that needs to be realized. Adult stem cell research has been going on, IIRC, and has
Embryonic stem cell research is legal, and always has been.
Ok, I'll bite. I believe that human life begins with human consciousness and thought. Since a blastocyst consists of less than 100 undifferentiated cells I don't believe that it is possible for it to meet my definition of human life.
That wasn't the point though. The point isn't what we think; the point is what the people think that are making it legal/supporting it. It seems to be an unstable moral/ethical position if you aren't sure if it's a human life but willing to use them anyways
I believe that human life begins with human consciousness and thought.
I've met people with driver's licenses that don't meet that definition (before and after drinking). On the other hand, should I even need a kidney, it's a definition I might just like.
Ok, I'll bite. I believe that human life begins with human consciousness and thought. Since a blastocyst consists of less than 100 undifferentiated cells I don't believe that it is possible for it to meet my definition of human life.
So you believe human life == consciousness AND thought?
Therefore when you fall asleep you cease to meet your definition of human life?
Tell me, how healthy are your liver and kidneys? What time do you usually nap?
Seriously, while I'm obviously being facetious here, this does go t
So, in other words, it's not alive... yet. Isn't preventing a life from continuing to develop the same as ending it, albeit prematurely?
I'm not saying I disagree with you--I don't. However, I also don't advocate ignoring the fact that a blastocyst is a beginning stage of something that will soon be conscious.
Isn't preventing a life from continuing to develop the same as ending it, albeit prematurely?
So you're saying condoms are the tools of the Devil?
That's kind of a faith-based, arbitrary definition of the beginning human life, isn't it?
Let's be scientists here.
Lots of things are alive that don't have consciousness and thought.
Since a blastocyst consists of less than 100 undifferentiated cells I don't believe that it is possible for it to meet my definition of human life.
It consumes nutrients, excretes wastes, grows,
I believe that human life begins with human consciousness and thought.
I think human life begins to have moral value when it develops human consciousness and thought - I sti
No one is forcing anyone to stop researching promising treatments based on adult stem cells. Adult stem cells are good at some things, and they have produced successful treatments. Since we've produced successful treatments with adult stem cells, it stands to reason that we can also produce successful treatments with embryonic stem cells. It would be wrong of us to ignore those treatments and allow people to suffer unnecessarily.
Let me also mention that ALL stem cell research requires the destruction of
Let me also mention that ALL stem cell research requires the destruction of life. A stem cell, whether embryonic or adult, is alive.
You are twisting the debate of the use of embryonic stem cells. It has nothing to do with objections over the destruction of the stem cells, it is how they are derived. All cells derived from humans are alive at some point, but the objection from many over using embryonic stem cells for research is the fact that they come from aborted people. As far as I'm concerned, that's what they are once they have a heartbeat. That fetus is then no longer just a fetus, but a human being. The debate to whether abor
You are twisting the debate of the use of embryonic stem cells
No, it's the people who use the term "life begins at conception" who twist the definition of the word life. We have to remember that there's many different types of life, it's a continuum, not binary. Some life has rights, some doesn't.
As far as I'm concerned, that's what they are once they have a heartbeat. That fetus is then no longer just a fetus, but a human being.
Lots of things have heartbeats and we kill them with no qualms. What's spec
Nice, how the wording got changed so that it says the opposite of what is conveyed by the CNN article!
Slashdot article says:
The stem cells come from the existing lines Pres. Bush approved federal funding for in August 2001.
The source article actually states:
The tests will use stem cells cultured from embryos left over in fertility clinics, which otherwise would have been discarded.
And thus:
Okarma said Geron did not use any federal funding for its research, and that the Bush restrictions had "devastated the field."
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the trials, which will use human stem cells authorized for research by then-President George W. Bush in 2001.
Don't get me wrong--if you want mud to sling at the now-defunct Bush administration, the article provides plenty, but don't read selectively and accuse the editors of twisting words.
I also liked the wording here
The first human embryonic stem cells were developed by Jamie Thomson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998.
It's true, the first human embryonic stem cells were made by Dr. Thomspon in 1998. Hard times for those of us born before 1998. We had to grow using animal embryonic stem cells. That's no way to make yourself.
Id that like him being his own grandfather?
The tests could begin by summer, said Dr. Thomas Okarma, president and CEO of the Geron Corporation. The Food and Drug Administration has approved the trials, which will use human stem cells authorized for research by then-President George W. Bush in 2001
So the stem cells that will be used were definitely approved by Bush.
Okarma didn't use federal funding for his research but the quote you have from the
I am not a huge fan of Bush either but snipping bits and pieces from the article and then blatantly lying about it to make Bush look worse than he is is why neo-cons can demonize people like you.
Why didn't the scientific community just buy access to the stem cells found in the amniotic sacs of the millions of live births that take place every year? You can't seriously argue that aborted tissue samples are needed when there is no shortage of women or hospitals that would be willing to sell the amniotic fluid from a healthy birth for scientific research.
I have never understood the controversy here since there are plenty of alternatives to taking it from healthy babies, aborted babies, etc.
I have never understood the controversy here since there are plenty of alternatives to taking it from healthy babies, aborted babies, etc.
They don't come from natural conception. ES cells are, from what I've heard, initially harvested from 5-6 day old blastocysts. This is about the time the embryo implants itself into the uterus, about a week before even a pregnancy test would reveal anything. These are by necessity embryos that are in vitro fertilized. Aborted embryos are too old.
Good to see that you have a president who seems to act on the basis of reality rather than listening to the mumbo jumbo of the religious fantasists. It would be nice if we had something like that in the UK.
You do realize that Obama had zero to do with this story, don't you?
This study is getting approved now because now is when the people doing the study finished all of the necessary preliminary work to get approval. If they had finished the preliminary work six months sooner, it would have been approved six months sooner.
You're going to screw everything up. Everyone knows that everything good that happens now will be because of Obama, and everything bad that happens will be Bush's fault even if it happens 4 years from now.
Get with the program dude.
Because #44 will "restore science to its rightful place."
Which is somewhere above ethics, apparently.
There are over 400,000 frozen embryos [ivf.net] stored in IVF clinics around America that won't be used for pregnancies. Some of them won't be released by the people whose gametes were used to create them, some won't be in a condition usable for science. But there's a lot that could be used for science. They should be, immediately. Actual people with actual diseases are already waiting for the therapies that research will bring, and the line forming behind them lines up forever into the future.
The way we do science is to say we're going to bring the therapies, then set about proving we can't. When we fail, we get the engineering and medicine. None of that says we should start by ignoring our reasons to hope we'll produce the therapies.
scientists are discovering ways to make adult cells revert to stem cell status
here's a recent methodology:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090107134633.htm [sciencedaily.com]
in the near future, there will be no need for stem cells, or rather, stem cells will be made from sources no moralist, medical ethicist, or religious dogmatist could possibly object to
what better way to solve an intransigent divide between science and religion than to make the issue moot?
now if only someone can come up with a methodology to ma
Stem cells are genotype specific. That means in order for stem cells to be available for
YOU that YOUR stem cells (or at least those that are genetically identical to yours) must be
For most of the population, any reliance on embryonic stem cells requires a cloned embryo be produced.
This pretty much opens the door to human cloning, so Bill Gates can live on through a series of
clones. There is no way this technology could ever be contained to just producing stem cells
and make sure the embryo was de
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Classic rock fans in the Texas Panhandle may be a tad disappointed to learn their congressman wouldn't know the "Motor City Madman" Ted Nugent if he saw him.
Political junkies in the Texas Panhandle - depending on which direction you lean (left turn) - may be thrilled to learn their congressman isn't that familiar with the mug of one of the more well-known gun-rights activists in the country.
On Tuesday night, U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Clarendon, was more interested in what President Barack Obama had to say during the State of the Union address.
So you rockers will have to forgive Thornberry, who was in attendance for the speech, for not looking around for the Nuge, who also was in attendance.
"I never saw (Nugent) that I knew of," Thornberry said with a chuckle.
Thornberry, who is a veteran of these speeches, said he usually finds a seat in the back.
"I tend to sit in the back so I can get out faster," Thornberry said with a laugh. "I don't get there hours ahead of time to sit on the aisle so people can see me on television shaking hands with the president.
"I didn't do that with Bush, either."
Thornberry may not seek the camera during the speech, but he didn't mind sharing his thoughts on the president's State of the Union address and the related liberal wish list - a list that rivaled what a kid might write to Santa Claus.
� Your general reaction to the SOTU?
"I felt like it was not in touch with the reality of what can actually occur," Thornberry said. "It was more like a campaign address to the faithful. This liberal laundry list of government programs and initiatives occupied the vast majority of the speech. What he says seems to not be relevant to what should happen or what is going to happen. It seemed out of touch to me."
� Your take on raising the minimum wage?
"I don't think the House would ever agree to that. Among other things, you just cost too many part-time workers, especially young people, their jobs because, generally, they are the ones who make minimum wage. We don't need anything that is going to eliminate jobs. We need to be creating jobs."
� Your thoughts on government-funded preschool?
"This was part of the reason I felt like the president was out of touch. He had a comment early on that all this stuff I'm about to talk about is not going to add one dime to the deficit. Obviously, that cannot be true. That was part of what added to my feeling that way."
� Are you optimistic sequestration can be avoided?
"I wish the president had said more about it. I came from a hearing recently where we had top brass from the military talking about the devastating effects of sequestration. This is where we need a detailed proposal. What the president said, generally, was that we'll raise taxes some more and cut defense, but not as much. We're not too many days away from these across-the-board cuts that are really going to effect our military, including Pantex and Bell. They are going to feel it."
� Speaking of Nugent, will there be any changes in federal gun laws?
"Whether the Senate, much less the House, can pass anything in that area, I'm fairly doubtful."
A pat on the back
To Mike and Carolyn Nuthman: By the time this column sees the light of day, the season may (or may not) be over for the L.D. Bell High School Lady Raiders hoops team, which played Friday in the playoffs. There's still time, though, to give a pat on the back to the Nuthmans. Their son-in-law, Brock Pembleton, is the coach at L.D. Bell and their granddaughter, MaKenna, is a senior on the team. Mike, an old hoops coach himself, is care pastor at Hillside Christian Church.
A kick in the pants
To the Marco Rubio flood: Echoing what many have said, it is curious how a senator taking a drink of bottled water during a nationally televised speech gets more media traction than a senator who - according to media reports - fraternized with prostitutes (one allegedly underage) in the Dominican Republic. Sex sells, but I guess the media is not always buying.
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by Gary Torres
There are a couple of things that have occurred lately that have me upset. I don't know a delicate way to say this, so if you are good at visualization, you may want to take off your glasses. In the last month there has been twice that I have left the house with my zipper unzipped.
And what is more disturbing is that those are just the times that I noticed; what if there were more times that I didn't notice?
Just between you and me, has anyone else noticed and didn't bother to tell me? I know it stresses a friendship, but really shouldn't you be honest and just tell someone, "Psst. The barn door is open!"
What if they have broccoli in their teeth? Wouldn't a good friend tell them before letting them go through a reception line or to the post office? I think a good friend would.
Let's face it, leaving your zipper down is like leaving the garage door up on your house when you leave home. First off, people just can't help but notice and it makes the house look vulnerable and unfinished.
And secondly, you don't want the neighbors seeing what kind of equipment you have stored in there. I don't follow too many rules, but a good rule of thumb is, "Don't be showing the neighbors what tools you have stored in your garage, and zip-up, you must always zip up."
I know that other people have left the barn door open before, and well, I am just too uncomfortable to say anything. What if they are doing it intentionally? I suppose they might.
Besides for macho men what are they doing looking anyway? It is like telling Bubba, "Bubba, you look so cute in those levis." Even if he does, not many men are secure enough in their masculinity, and in touch enough with their femininity, to say so.
Women say things like that all the time, not to Bubba mind you, but to other women. "Are those new? They are soooo cute." Honestly, most women just drape a towel over Bubba when he is stretching carpet or checking the sink drain and then scurry out of the room.
Needless to say, I am completely discombobulated at my complete lack of dignity walking around town without a care in the world. I think Shakespeare said it first, "To zip or not to zip, that is the question." By the way, that wasn't William, I think it was Scott.
I just want to know if this is a phase that I am going through. Have others driven off with the garage door up, the cupboard doors open, the barn door open? I think they have. I have seen those guys at the morning coffee club and I don't think they are completely awake until after they have their coffee, so it is very likely they were in too big a hurry and may not have hit the garage door button to shut the door before they left home.
I know one of them, we wont' mention names (John), walked off with some woman's coat the other day and wore it for some time.
It ain't so noticeable when you don't zip up your coat, but if you don't zip up your pants I think there should be a universal signal that polite society could use to warn you, or those around you, that you have left things down that should be up, or open that should be closed, or unbuttoned that should be buttoned.
I think we will come up with it right now. How about we just say, "Hi there Mr. CaveGuy isn't it a ZIP-a-dee-doo-dah Day?" That should do it don't you think?


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Kudos to the fishstick!
its been around over 5 years. love this thread
Fish gets a million and I get a lousy comic. This sucks.
P.S. - I saw the boobies.
EDIT: What the hell is wrong with yous guys and your math skillz? 973K doesn't equal 1M!!!!
Ugh, ketchup on a dog?
Anyting but
You know what would be hilarious? The view counter can only handle 6 digits. As soon as it gets to 999,999 + 1, it'd go back to zero views. Ha


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On the same night as Anthony Joshua's professional debut, another Olympic champion was in action in the form of Lightweight Luke Campbell.
It was only Campbell's second bout in the paid ranks, and he was up against Neil Hepper who came in with an impressive record of five wins out of seven.
From the sound of the first bell though, Campbell was the aggressor looking more lively and attacking more frequently.
He demonstrated his lightning speed and well timed, venomous punches that proved too much for Hepper as he saw himself fall to the canvas with an impressive body shot.
The Darlington boxer got up, only to be bombarded by Campbell's power and speed again and fell victim to another body shot that seemed to have taken all the wind out of him. He was unable to recover.
For Campbell it's another impressive display - and he will want to continue his unbeaten record in his third fight which will be held in his home town of Hull.
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Submission + - Hadoop alternative to be open sourced (arnnet.com.au)
splitenz writes: LexisNexis is planning to release its internally developed supercomputing platform as open source, providing developers with an alternative to the Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing. LexisNexis has been developing the technology, dubbed HPCC Systems, for the past 10 years. HPCC Systems runs on clusters of commodity hardware and is made up of a number of components, centered around the company's Enterprise Control Language, a "declarative, data-centric programming language optimized for large-scale data management and query processing." Will it stick?


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It's like I was right there in the room.
Per Archie, Peyton wanted to stay in school.
If it were not for parcells, the jets would not have had the success of the last 15 years.
loved the story about the plane tickets
Parcells could be such a dick, but it worked for him.
Its revealed alphabetically - I didn't know that. Thanks Gary.
As I said in another thread Jets fans have a serious problem!!!!
There is not a player or coach in Jets History, of some notoriety, who isnt HOF caliber, that isn't just disliked but HATED by a large portion of the fan base!!!!
Now what does that tell you....
Good Grief!!!!
Remember people ate Herm up alive out here cause he couldn't turn Brooks Billinger into Montanna 2.0.
The life of a Jets fan!!!!


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The sad thing is I HAVE an android phone and I LIKE it too, but I would really like to see another OS besides iOS and Android on the market. Android is getting too strong for my taste and Java is beginning to become a problem. Oracle suing Google over Java was a big mistake. What are the chances of Java 8 hitting Android as a dev platform now? Android was the only place I would consider using Java and now I don't think the changes sorely needed to make Java TOLERABLE probably won't make it into Android anytime soon if ever. Thanks Oracle! Your boneheadedness has done more to hurt Java than anything since Visual J++!
Now I WANT another platform besides iOS and Android, I just don't want Windows. With Windows, Office and their Dev tools Microsoft haven't given me the feeling they actually know where they are heading and as a developer I don't want them to become successful on smart phones. Right now I at least have c/c++, OpenGL ES, SQLite running on Unix on iOS and on Andorid. The success of Windows phone would only make life for me as developer worse in my opinion. Right now I am hoping RIM will take of as the third platform with Blackberry 10.
Besides how funny and fucked up would it be to see RIM licensing Blackberry (looking ever more likely) to other manufacturers just to see Nokia running QT (just on QNX instead of Symbian or Linux) on their smart phones around this time next year?
Good point about de facto standards like OpenGL ES you will find on *ANY* platform out there including Windows Desktop but not on Windows Phone.
That makes them so incompatible to industry standards that as user and developer I have to ask: WTF? And conclude: Without me! May they fail on there own paper formats while the rest of the world uses letter, A4, etc.
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Introducing graphene
One of the hottest materials in condensed matter research today is graphene.
Graphene had an unlikely start: it began with researchers messing around with pencil marks on paper. Pencil "lead" is actually made of graphite, which is a soft crystal lattice made of nothing but carbon atoms. When pencils deposit that graphite on paper, the lattice is laid down in thin sheets. By pulling that lattice apart into thinner sheets – originally using Scotch tape – researchers discovered that they could make flakes of crystal just one atom thick.
The name for this atom-scale chicken wire is graphene. Those folks with the Scotch tape, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, won the 2010 Nobel Prize for discovering it. "As a material, it is completely new – not only the thinnest ever but also the strongest," wrote the Nobel committee. "As a conductor of electricity, it performs as well as copper. As a conductor of heat, it outperforms all other known materials. It is almost completely transparent, yet so dense that not even helium, the smallest gas atom, can pass through it."
Developing a theoretical model of graphene
Graphene is not just a practical wonder – it's also a wonderland for theorists. Confined to the two-dimensional surface of the graphene, the electrons behave strangely. All kinds of new phenomena can be seen, and new ideas can be tested. Testing new ideas in graphene is exactly what Perimeter researchers Zlatko Papić and Dmitry (Dima) Abanin set out to do.
"Dima and I started working on graphene a very long time ago," says Papić. "We first met in 2009 at a conference in Sweden. I was a grad student and Dima was in the first year of his postdoc, I think."
The two young scientists got to talking about what new physics they might be able to observe in the strange new material when it is exposed to a strong magnetic field.
"We decided we wanted to model the material," says Papić. They've been working on their theoretical model of graphene, on and off, ever since. The two are now both at Perimeter Institute, where Papić is a postdoctoral researcher and Abanin is a faculty member. They are both cross-appointed with the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo.
In January 2014, they published a paper in Physical Review Letters presenting new ideas about how to induce a strange but interesting state in graphene – one where it appears as if particles inside it have a fraction of an electron's charge.
It's called the fractional quantum Hall effect (FQHE), and it's head turning. Like the speed of light or Planck's constant, the charge of the electron is a fixed point in the disorienting quantum universe.
Every system in the universe carries whole multiples of a single electron's charge. When the FQHE was first discovered in the 1980s, condensed matter physicists quickly worked out that the fractionally charged "particles" inside their semiconductors were actually quasiparticles – that is, emergent collective behaviours of the system that imitate particles.
Graphene is an ideal material in which to study the FQHE. "Because it's just one atom thick, you have direct access to the surface," says Papić. "In semiconductors, where FQHE was first observed, the gas of electrons that create this effect are buried deep inside the material. They're hard to access and manipulate. But with graphene you can imagine manipulating these states much more easily."
In the January paper, Abanin and Papić reported novel types of FQHE states that could arise in bilayer graphene – that is, in two sheets of graphene laid one on top of another – when it is placed in a strong perpendicular magnetic field. In an earlier work from 2012, they argued that applying an electric field across the surface of bilayer graphene could offer a unique experimental knob to induce transitions between FQHE states. Combining the two effects, they argued, would be an ideal way to look at special FQHE states and the transitions between them.
Experimental tests
Two experimental groups – one in Geneva, involving Abanin, and one at Columbia, involving both Abanin and Papić – have since put the electric field + magnetic field method to good use. The paper by the Columbia group is featured on the cover of the July 4 issue of Science, alongside other graphene-related research (including closely related work led by Amir Yacoby of Harvard).
"We often work hand-in-hand with experimentalists," says Papić. "One of the reasons I like condensed matter is that often even the most sophisticated, cutting-edge theory stands a good chance of being quickly checked with experiment."
Inside both the magnetic and electric field, the electrical resistance of the graphene demonstrates the strange behaviour characteristic of the FQHE. Instead of resistance that varies in a smooth curve with voltage, resistance jumps suddenly from one level to another, and then plateaus – a kind of staircase of resistance. Each stair step is a different state of matter, defined by the complex quantum tangle of charges, spins, and other properties inside the graphene.
"The number of states is quite rich," says Papić. "We're very interested in bilayer graphene because of the number of states we are detecting and because we have these mechanisms – like tuning the electric field – to study how these states are interrelated, and what happens when the material changes from one state to another."
For the moment, researchers are particularly interested in the stair steps whose "height" is described by a fraction with an even denominator. That's because the quasiparticles in that state are expected to have an unusual property.
There are two kinds of particles in our three-dimensional world: fermions (such as electrons), where two identical particles can't occupy one state, and bosons (such as photons), where two identical particles actually want to occupy one state. In three dimensions, fermions are fermions and bosons are bosons, and never the twain shall meet.
But a sheet of graphene doesn't have three dimensions – it has two. It's effectively a tiny two-dimensional universe, and in that universe, new phenomena can occur. For one thing, fermions and bosons can meet halfway – becoming anyons, which can be anywhere in between fermions and bosons. The quasiparticles in these special stair-step states are expected to be anyons.
In particular, the researchers are hoping these quasiparticles will be non-Abelian anyons, as their theory indicates they should be. That would be exciting because non-Abelian anyons can be used in the making of qubits.
Graphene qubits?
Qubits are to quantum computers what bits are to ordinary computers: both a basic unit of information and the basic piece of equipment that stores that information. Because of their quantum complexity, qubits are more powerful than ordinary bits and their power grows exponentially as more of them are added. A quantum computer of only a hundred qubits can tackle certain problems beyond the reach of even the best non-quantum supercomputers. Or, it could, if someone could find a way to build stable qubits.
The drive to make qubits is part of the reason why graphene is a hot research area in general, and why even-denominator FQHE states – with their special anyons – are sought after in particular.
"A state with some number of these anyons can be used to represent a qubit," says Papić. "Our theory says they should be there and the experiments seem to bear that out – certainly the even-denominator FQHE states seem to be there, at least according to the Geneva experiments."
That's still a step away from experimental proof that those even-denominator stair-step states actually contain non-Abelian anyons. More work remains, but Papić is optimistic: "It might be easier to prove in graphene than it would be in semiconductors. Everything is happening right at the surface."
It's still early, but it looks as if bilayer graphene may be the magic material that allows this kind of qubit to be built. That would be a major mark on the unlikely line between pencil lead and quantum computers.
– Erin Bow
- Read Abanin and Papić's January 2014 paper in Physical Review Letters
- Check out the experimental paper from the Geneva graphene group that includes Abanin
- View the experimental paper, featured in Science, from the Columbia graphene group that includes both Abanin and Papić
- Read about a related experiment involving bilayer graphene by Amir Yacoby's Harvard group
- View the Nobel Prize press release on graphene


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Green rushes for 158 as Wildcats top W. Michigan
Sep. 15, 2013
EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — Treyvon Green made his case to be moved up on the depth chart for No. 17 Northwestern.
Green rushed for 158 yards and two touchdowns, quarterback Kain Colter ran for 106 yards and a score and passed for another, and the Wildcats beat Western Michigan 38-17on Saturday night.
With starter Venric Mark, who missed his second straight game with a lower body injury, sidelined, Northwestern was just as explosive with Green — who is the Wildcat's No. 3 running back.
"I think it speaks to our depth," Colter said. "We have guys behind some of the starters that can play. When they get an opportunity like Treyvon did, they take advantage of it. Honestly, the competition makes the whole team better.
"Trey's made an argument that when (Mark) comes back, he should be in that starting role."
Northwestern had 474 yards of total offense — including 335 on the ground — to extend its winning streak in non-conference home games to 15. The Wildcats (3-0) averaged 46 points and better than 500 yards in their first two games against California and Syracuse.
Western Michigan (0-3) was led by quarterback Tyler Van Tubbergen, who was 16 of 41 for 202 yards with two touchdowns and an interception.
"We had some opportunities, but we just didn't make enough plays," Tubbergen said. "Credit to them. That's a pretty good team."
Despite starting its first three drives in WMU territory, Northwestern trailed 3-0 following the first quarter and couldn't get much going offensively.
"We have to get more consistent," Wildcats coach Pat Fitzgerald said. "We can't have games where we take 15 minutes off."
The Wildcats finally got going when safety Ibraheim Campbell intercepted Van Tubbergen at the Northwestern 43 — his fifth straight game with pick.
Northwestern needed just seven plays to cover the 57 yards, with Colter running the ball in from four yards out to give the Wildcats a 7-3 lead.
Western Michigan needed only one play to retake the lead at 10-7 when Van Tubbergen and freshman wide receiver Corey Davis hooked up on a 75-yard scoring pass. Davis made a cut as if he were running an out and then turned the route up field, fooling cornerback Dwight White.
That play did little to quell the offensive rhythm Northwestern established on the previous series. After starting their next drive on their own 35, the Wildcats covered 65 yards in six plays, culminating in Colter's six-yard touchdown pass to Christian Jones.
That score kicked off a stretch in which Northwestern scored 24 consecutive points. The Wildcats reached the end zone on their final four possessions of the first half.
A four-yard dash by running back Mike Trumpy made it 21-10 with 2:15 remaining in the half before Northwestern got the ball back with 51 seconds remaining before the break and moved downfield to set up Jeff Budzien's 35-yard field goal and 24-10 lead.
The Wildcats kept at it in the third quarter with an 87-yard, 14-play drive that ended with the first of Green's two touchdowns — a one-yard run that gave Northwestern a 31-10 lead.
Western Michigan finally snapped its scoreless string when Van Tubbergen and receiver Josh Schaffer hooked up on a 25-yard touchdown pass late in the third quarter to make it 31-17.
Northwestern answered on its next possession when Green had a 42-yard touchdown run to restore the three-TD lead.
For Green, a junior, it was a long road to get to that point where he's busting through with big scoring runs.
"It's been a little rocky, honestly, the season I had last year and issues with my family and coaches telling you you needed to lose weight and it's for the better," he said. "They kind of sprung that on me. Handling that and handling my family issues, it was an intense road.'"
Fitzgerald credited Green's play.
"I think Trey's been really solid during the first three weeks of the season, I've been really impressed by him," Fitzgerald said. "It was a very difficult year last year coming off the injury in training camp. He's looking like the faster, stronger, more explosive Trey Green that played for us as a freshman. I'm incredibly happy for him. He's a young man that's worked very hard to overcome adversity and he's from a great family. You love seeing great guys have success. I'm really happy for him."
Mark hasn't played since the opener against California and there's no telling when he might return.
"He's day-to-day, improving every day, feeling better every day," Fitzgerald said. "He's impatient. We're taking a long-term smart approach that when he does come back, he's 100 percent and ready to go. We're trying to be smart."
If Mark is smart, though, he'll get back soon to limit Green's carries.