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Wanganui racer Mick Paul is aiming to realise the dream of a late Christchurch aircraft engineer to break Burt Munro's land speed record for under-1000cc pre-1960 motorbikes when he travels to the Salt Flats at Bonneville, Utah, late next year.
Paul, who has mainly raced road and speedway sidecars and super stocks for the past 25 years, met Brian (Donald) Smith purely by chance several months ago after discovering the mainlander had been beavering away in his Canterbury workshop building two 1958 Triumphs to achieve his dream.
"I met him through a relative of one of my staff members and discovered he was attempting Munro's record himself, but was then diagnosed with cancer. We emailed each other regularly over the past three months and he told me doctors had given him till Christmas, but unfortunately he passed away last Thursday," Paul said.
"Before he died we had talked about me riding the machines in the United States and he was going to bring the bikes up to Wanganui. He was really keen to have a go at Burt Munro's record that has stood since August 26, 1967."
Paul travels to Christchurch today to attend Smith's funeral service and return home with the two bikes and prepare to hopefully honour the man's dream.
"Brian was a meticulous engineer who really knew his stuff. He chose to work with Triumphs because many of the parts are still able to be bought. The bikes started off as 750cc, but are bored out to just over 900cc," Paul said.
Munro was 68 when he finally broke the record on his then 47-year-old 950cc Indian, while Paul will be knocking 44 when he attempts to better the speed in August next year on a 54-year-old Triumph.
"It's the same meeting Burt Munro set the record. We will have one of Brian's bikes attempting the record and the other to race for fun in another class," Paul said.
Until this opportunity came along Paul was on a self-imposed sabbatical from racing after suffering numerous knocks to the head over years on the track.
"It had been giving me a few problems so I decided to take a break, but this is far too good an opportunity to miss."
In 1967, Munro set a class record of 295.453 km/h (183.586 mph). To qualify he made a one-way run of 305.89 km/h (190.07 mph), the fastest-ever officially-recorded speed on an Indian. The unofficial speed record (officially timed) is 331 km/h (205.67 mph) for a flying mile.
Paul is aiming to reach 210mph (337.96 km/h) on Smith's Triumph.
"There's been a few knockers who don't want to see Burt Munro's record broken, but there's been many try in the last 45 years. If it's going to be broken we want it to be another Kiwi and that's what Tim Shadbolt reckons too - he's a great supporter of our attempt," Paul said.
Shadbolt, of course, is Mayor of Munro's hometown, Invercargill.
Both Smith-built bikes will be on display during the Boxing Day meeting on the Cemetery Circuit.


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An 8530 I have is rebooting the second it's plugged into a PC. Then it locks into a cycle or timer images (never gets to the BlackBerry screen)...when I unplug it shuts off and only a battery pull brings it back.
I've already gone into core applications and set all permissions to allow. There are no 3rd party apps other than VVM and City ID.
Any clues?

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text: Wes and his girlfriend took a Royal Caribbean Cruise for their anniversary, but the experience was more stressful than blissful. Apparently, according to the cruise line, an appropriate stateroom for a couple is an L-shaped room with twin beds. Where the beds are bolted to opposite walls. While appropriate for a '50s sitcom, this was not what Wes had in mind for a romantic vacation.


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- 1 tablespoon active dry yeast
- 1-1/2 cups warm water (110° to 115°)
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 3/4 cup butter, melted, divided
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- Garlic salt
- Grated Parmesan cheese
- Marinara or spaghetti sauce, warmed, optional
- In a bowl, dissolve yeast in water. Add sugar; let stand for 5 minutes. Add 1/2 cup butter, salt and 2 cups flour; beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour to form a soft dough. Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 45 minutes.
- Punch dough down. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; roll into a 24x10-in. rectangle. Cut dough in half lengthwise, then into 5-in. x 1-in. strips. Twist each strip and place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets.
- Brush strips with remaining butter; sprinkle with garlic salt and Parmesan cheese. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 20 minutes.
- Bake at 350° for 20 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans to wire racks. If desired, serve with marinara or spaghetti sauce for dipping. Yield: 4 dozen.
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The Baillieu government has redrawn the boundaries of the Alpine National Park to allow the Falls Creek resort to expand.
On Thursday morning Environment Minister Ryan Smith announced the government would excise almost 10 hectares of land from the national park and add it to the adjoining Falls Creek Alpine Resort area.
The boundary change follows numerous requests from the Falls Creek resort to expand its operations. The resort wants to develop non-winter tourism activities and a high-altitude training camp for athletes.
The changes mean the resort will now be allowed to expand down to the shore of the Rock Valley Storage lake.
In exchange, the government will add almost 12 hectares of land on the slopes of Mount McKay to the park, which Mr Smith said contained snow gum woodland.
"Victoria's alpine resorts make significant contributions to their local economies and to tourism in the state,'' Mr Smith said.
''This amendment is part of a long-term strategy to increase visitation, including in the non-winter months and ensure all Victorians can access and enjoy their natural environment,'' he said.
"We want to encourage more altitude training, lake events, road cycling and mountain biking.''
Mr Smith said the proposed amendments were part of Baillieu government's plan to enable new ''environmentally appropriate investments'' on public land, including national parks, forests and alpine resorts.
In August the government decided to open up Victorian national parks to private tourism development following recommendations by the Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission.
Guidelines to deem what development will be allowed in parks are still being finalised by Mr Smith, who will have final say over what projects would go ahead.
The decision to redraw the Alpine National Park boundaries to allow an expansion of the Falls Creek resort is separate to the August decision.
The Victorian National Parks Association's Philip Ingamells said the process to redraw the Alpine National Park boundaries had been secretive.
"The government seems to think that if someone wants a development in a national park, they can simply excise that area from the park without any public consultation,'' he said.
''Management of our finest natural areas should be transparent, honest and based on the best scientific advice. We need to know what other developments they are planning for our magnificent national parks."
Comment was being sought from Falls Creek Alpine Resort management.
The Alpine National Park was the site of the Baillieu government's controversial cattle grazing trial, which was blocked by the Commonwealth under national environment law.
Falls Creek chief executive David Herman said the redrawn boundaries were a win for the environment and the resort.
He said the almost 10 hectares of national park given to the resort was of ''poor conservation value'' and contained a man-made lake and debris left over from the construction of the Snowy Hydro Electricity Scheme.
But Mr Herman said the land being added to the national park was of considerable environmental value.
He said the resort wanted to use its newly acquired land for a high-altitude training program.
''It will enhance the tourism potential of what is a unique piece of the alpine landscape.''
He said he could not put a value on the alpine land added to the resort.
''You would have to take into account a whole range of things including the degraded land and what we use it for.''
Des Burkitt, a consultant valuer to Valuer-General Victoria also said it was impossible to estimate the value of the land without knowing what it was permitted to be used for.
''It could be a greenfield site where no buildings could be constructed. The use of the land is a fairly important factor in terms of its value. Any valuer putting a figure on it would have to wait and see what the government would allow to take place on that land.''


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National selector Geoff Miller has composed what can only be described as an experimental squad for the forthcoming Ashes series with a number of surprise names making the cut. Miller has one of those jobs where he is never going to make everyone happy, but the total lack of experience in his squad will surely come back to haunt him should England come home from Australia without the urn.
That is not to say any of the novices will get the nod to actually play any cricket, with England's starting XI virtually certain. Should injury hit, however, England may find themselves placing a great deal of hope in players who have never played a Test.
Kevin Pietersen has been somewhat injury-prone for a number of years now and Gary Ballance looks the most likely to replace him if needed. Perhaps it was Ballance's South African heritage that made him a certainty for the England squad, but he failed to impress when given his chance in the one day against Ireland, facing just two balls before being out for a duck.
For Yorkshire, Ballance has an incredibly one-day average of 56, but his inclusion means there is no room for Nick Compton, James Taylor or the experienced Ravi Bopara. Michael Carberry makes up the other batting reserve after a strong season with Hampshire.
One of the more understandable decisions is Tim Bresnan's absence. Bresnan has been struggling with a stress fracture which he hopes to overcome in time for the winter, but for the meantime Chris Tremlett and Steven Finn will travel to Australia. Surprisingly, Boyd Rankin, formerly of Ireland, has also made the cut.
The Warwickshire fast bowler impressed against Australia in the ODIs, but that is so far all the experience he has. Graham Onions' exclusion is certainly disappointing, not least for the seamer himself who has spoken of his wish to play one last Test for England.
Onions' team mate Ben Stokes has made the squad and is a fairly safe bet seeing as he can bat and bowl. In all likelihood, England will play four out and out bowlers and with Australia's wickets not encouraging a lot of turn, playing two spinners looks out of the question.
Monty mania looks set to return, however, as Monty Panesar has been chosen as the back-up for Graeme Swann. The call-up represents a monumental turnaround for Panesar, who has endured a turbulent summer, moving to Essex after Sussex terminated his contract for his notorious nightclub antics. Panesar's call was perhaps inevitable after Simon Kerrigan's woeful debut and the spinner virtually selected himself with 12 wickets in five County Championship games.
Behind the stumps, Jonny Bairstow has defied the critics he faced in the summer. Jos Buttler and Steve Davies have been overlooked, and Buttler in particular could have been a sound choice after proving he is a safe pair of hands for England. Eoin Morgan may have put selectors off with his strange field placings as Lions captain.
The tour will undoubtedly be a valuable experience for many of the unpicked players, but with director of cricket Andy Flower making a decision on his future after the tour, Miller may also find himself with questions to answer come the new year.
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THERE will be an indigenous alternative to traditional Australia Day celebrations tomorrow with the inaugural Tarerer Gunditj Survival Day at Crossley.
Tarerer Gunditj chairman and event organiser Brett Clarke said the event aimed to raise awareness to the struggle of Australia's indigenous people while exposing the wider community to their often unseen culture.
"The event is about bringing awareness and understanding of the culture and history and also the plight of the Aboriginal people," Mr Clarke said. "There's a lot of stigmatisation in the community ... where people look down on the Aboriginal people but they've never even met the Aboriginal people.
"Hopefully this will help expose our culture and history and help people get over stereotypes.
"Indigenous people all over Australia celebrate their own Survival Day in different ways and this is how we're doing it."
Starting at 3pm, the day will feature children's activities such as indigenous games, traditional pelt bag making and basket weaving, with the launch of the documentary film Yarnin' to follow. A number of local bands including Patricia Clark, Oriel Glennen, Marky Alberts, The Howard Family, Kombination and Rahboo & The Rainbow Experience will play until late.
"We hope to get people yarning and getting discussion going and putting our heads together and moving forward," Mr Clarke said.
The day would aimed to lift awareness of the oppression indigenous people face, he said. "It's a day of mourning for us ... It was a pretty hard time for the indigenous people."
Survival Day will be held at St Brigid's Church.


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Earthquake or Cole Hamels Going to the DL?
Earthquake or Cole Hamels going to the DL? Sadly, it was both. But clearly, this is the universe's response to the Hamels DL move. The universe, and all Phillies fans, are NOT happy.
However, the Phillies are saying that Hamels will start on Monday. But the move gave them a chance to add a player; utility man Pete Orr has been recalled from Triple-A.
As for the earthquake, it originated in Virginia and was around 5.9 on the Richter scale. Reports have come from as far north as Massachusetts and as far south as North Carolina. I am in Dover, DE and the entire house shook for about 30 seconds. I jumped up and moved away from anything that could fall on me, grabbed my son and went outside to see what happened.
Everyone in the neighborhood was doing the same thing; standing in their front yards, looking around, trying to figure out what happened.
And here is some reaction from Phillies, reporters & others:
Roy Halladay thumbed his nose at the earth and kept right on working out…classic.
Here is the line-up for tonight's game: Victorino CF, Polanco 3B, Utley 2B, Pence RF, Mayberry 1B, Francisco LF, Valdez SS, Schneider C, Worley P.
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Legislative panel takes up latest mandatory motorcycle helmet bill in Maine
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) � The latest attempt to make helmet use mandatory for all Maine motorcyclists is going before a legislative committee.
The Transportation Committee takes up Rep. Paulette Beaudoin's bill Tuesday afternoon. The Biddeford Democrat introduced a similar bill in 2009, but it was rejected.
Current law requires people under 18 years of age to wear a helmet when operating or riding as a passenger on a motorcycle. The law also requires helmet use by those operating under a learner's permit or within one year of completing a driving test, and any passengers.
The federal government says 19 states have universal motorcycle helmet laws, which apply to everyone. In New England, they include Massachusetts and Vermont.
Maine passed a law requiring the use of helmets in 1967, but it was repealed in 1977.


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SAN ANTONIO – LeBron
James was better, as promised. Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh were the best they've been since the playoffs started.
Riding big performances from their big three, the Miami Heat tied the NBA Finals with a 109-93 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday night in Game 4.
James had 33 points and 11 rebounds after failing to break 20 points in any of the first three games of the series, and Wade scored 32 points, 11 more than his previous high this postseason.
Bosh matched his playoff high with 20 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, he and Wade supplying the baskets that finally put the Spurs away for good midway through the fourth quarter.
Just like they have for the last 5 months, the Heat bounced back from a loss with a lopsided victory.
They are 12-0 after losses since Jan. 10, outscoring opponents by 19.8 points in the previous 11 victories.
"Right now it's a three-game series," Wade said. "Two great ballclubs, we just want to come out again and play well."
Tim Duncan scored 20 points for the Spurs. Tony Parker, hobbled by a strained hamstring, had 15 points and nine assists.
The Spurs, who made a finals-record 16 3-pointers
Tuesday, got up only 16 attempts Thursday. Gary Neal scored 13 points and Danny Green had 10, solid nights but nothing like when they combined for 13 3-pointers Tuesday.
The Heat guaranteed they will get at least one more game on their home floor. Game 6 will be Tuesday night, where they could have a chance to clinch a second straight championship.
Wade, battling right knee pain throughout the spring, put it away for Miami early in the fourth. He followed a basket with a steal and dunk, pushing the lead to 90-81, and after he made another jumper, Bosh scored the next six Heat points, taking the load off of James.
The Heat switched their lineup, inserting Mike Miller, who made 10 of his 11 shots, going 9 of 10 on 3-pointers, in the first three games of the series. They changed uniforms, too, switching from their road reds to their blacks.
The only change they really needed was in the performances of their Big Three.
James called it a "must-win" and it probably was: No team has overcome a 3-1 deficit in the finals.
And the way their three stars played, they couldn't lose.
The Heat blocked shots, made stops, and occasionally flopped, playing with renewed aggression after what coach Erik Spoelstra called a "miserable" day of watching and analyzing their passive performance from Tuesday.
They still haven't lost two in a row since Jan. 8 and 10.
Parker played through a strained right hamstring, shooting 7 of 16, but the Spurs couldn't match the Heat's speed.
After the teams traded blowouts in the previous two games, momentum swung wildly in a first half that ended tied at 49. San Antonio raced to a quick 10-point lead, fell behind by 10 with 7 minutes left in the half, then finished with an 11-2 spurt sparked by reserve Boris Diaw. Bosh dove for a dunk that came just after the buzzer, Spurs owner Peter Holt waving it off from his seat along the sideline.
James rocked back and forth during the national anthem, a bundle of energy ready to get going. It took a few minutes after the game started, but he began playing with the speed and power that makes him unguardable at his best, grabbing rebounds on defense and rushing the ball up the floor himself to get the Heat into their offense.
He and Wade combined to make 10 of 11 shots and score 21 points in the first quarter, helping the Heat erase their early 10-point deficit to go ahead 29-26.
Spurs coach Gregg Popovich even lit into Duncan during an early second-quarter timeout with Miami on its way to a 41-31 advantage, but the Spurs had it back to even by the time the teams headed to the locker room.


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HANOVER, N.H. - As the calendar changes to the second month of 2013, Dartmouth head coach Amy Patton took time to sit down and discuss the upcoming women's lacrosse season.
As part of her weekly 'Coach's Corner' segment, Patton used the first installment of the 2013 campaign to talk about her team's fall and winter scheduling as well as the current preseason stretch leading up to the Feb. 23 opener at Oregon.
The fall, as it usually does, consisted of exhibition match-ups with other local collegiate teams. However, the most exciting facet of this past offseason came when the team made a trip halfway around the world to Australia.
Practices and three games against the Australian National Team accompanied the experience of a lifetime for the entire team during the two weeks in mid-December. In this week's interview, Patton discusses the positives and bonds created between players as the Big Green prepare for this year's slate of challenging games.
Ranked No. 11 by Lacrosse Magazine and fresh off an Ivy League Tournament Championship as well as a berth in the NCAA Tournament for the second year in a row in 2012, the Dartmouth women's lacrosse team is on solid ground with the opener just over three weeks away.
Check back with DartmouthSports.com each week as Patton continues her previews of the 2013 Big Green. Next week, the head coach in her 21st season will break down the attack and midfield play she expects to see from her team this spring.


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SOURCE: MolecularMD
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PORTLAND, OR--(Marketwired - Apr 9, 2013) - MolecularMD Corp. announced today that it has developed and clinically validated assays for determining LKB1 mutation and expression status in patient tumor samples. LKB1 is a tumor suppressor gene and loss of LKB1 protein has been reported in several tumors and is associated with greater resistance to targeted therapies. Molecular testing for LKB1 is offered by MolecularMD's CLIA-certified and CAP-accredited clinical reference laboratory.
Immunohistochemistry (IHC) and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) tests were validated on a set of 34 tumor samples including lung, endometrium, skin, pancreas, colon and breast. The IHC assay was developed on an automated Ventana™ Benchmark XT platform and the NGS assay was developed on Life Technologies Ion Torrent PGM™ platform. Combining IHC and NGS provides complementary information about the LKB1 gene status. The LKB1 targeted sequencing panel covering 9 exons provides a robust and accurate test to identify all clinically relevant mutations with frequencies as low as ~5%. The PGM™ platform's low 20ng DNA input requirement is particularly well suited for rare amounts of tissue samples.
The results from this work will be presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013, April 6-10 in Washington, DC. The presentation will occur on April 9th, Poster #3509 titled "Complementary Analysis of LKB1/STK11 Mutation and Protein Expression Status using Next-Generation Sequencing, Sanger Sequencing and Immunohistochemistry."
About LKB1 in Lung Cancer
Research conducted by Dr. Kwok-Kin Wong at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has shown that the gene named LKB1 (liver kinase B1) (also known as STK11) is frequently inactivated through deletions or point mutations in a wide variety of human cancers. In fact, LKB1 is mutated in 20-30% of non-small cell lung cancers and ranks as the 3rd most frequently mutated gene in lung adenocarcinoma after the p53 tumor suppressor and the Ras proto-oncogene. LKB1 is a tumor suppressor gene and loss of LKB1 protein has been shown to predict the aggressiveness of cancer especially in the context of accompanying KRAS mutations. Strikingly, LKB1 loss is associated with greater resistance to single-agent PI3K/Akt and MEK inhibitors in non-small cell lung cancer, suggesting that LKB1 mutations have potential as predictive biomarkers and warrant further investigation prospectively in clinical trials of PI3K, Akt, mTOR and MEK pathway inhibitors. These findings provide a rationale for discerning LKB1 in the clinic since knowledge of patient LKB1 status may aid in the identification of appropriate therapies and result in significant improvement in patient survival.
According to Dr. Wong, "Understanding the status of LKB1 in a patient's cancer might help further stratify the type of treatment or clinical trial a patient should undergo. A LKB1 diagnostic test will refine personalized medicine beyond just identification of the oncogenic driver."
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July 19, 2006
Bush's first veto.
59 comments:
- jeff said...
If you want to do the research - do the reasearch.
But please don't do it with my tax dollars.
- Sloanasaurus said...
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- Sloanasaurus said...
I have a compromise proposal. Proponents of Stem Cell research say that the excess frozen embryos are going to waste so why not use them in research. Are they really going to waste? I think opponents of the research are troubled by this assertion.
It seems that there would be plenty of couples willing to "adopt" the embryo for implantation. Therefore, a law should be passed that gives the parents of the embryo a choice to 1) offer the embryo up for adoption or 2) to destroy the embryo. If they elect to destroy the embryo, it cannot be used for research.
However, if they elect to put the embryo up for adoption and after a reasonable time the embryo is not adopted, then it can be destroyed and used for research.
This compromise softens the ethical dilemma because it takes the choice of donating the embryo to research away from the parents and to the winds of chance. Furthermore, this law would reduce the slippery slope of people producing embryos purely for the purpose of medical research.
What do you think?
- Hunter McDaniel said...
Sorta makes me want to start singing "Every Sperm is Sacred".
I'm pretty conservative on most social issues, but this just seems like a huge waste of political capital. It won't even have any practical effect on the amount of stem-cell research that goes on; if it did I might be a lot more bothered about it. Just another act in the Kabuki game of politics these days.
- Jacob said...
Yes Sloanasaurus, they are really going to waste. Or I guess more accurately, they are going to a medical waste facility to be destroyed.
Also children have parents, not blastocysts. If we're going to be starting a giant adoption program what about for the millions of kids in foster care? Or the millions of fetuses that would otherwise be aborted. I think a clump of a hundred cells is definetly low on the list of priorities, especially if it could be utilized to, say, save some of those children mentioned above.
- Mob said...
I think you are missing the point sloanasaurus. People who are against using embryos are not concerned about which embryos are to be destroyed for research or why, or who gets to choose. The people (like jeff) who are against using embryos for research will ALWAYS be against it, regardless of the situation. They will never agree to allow their money to be used in any research that results in the destruction of an embryo. This is not a discussion in which you can convince them compromise. Any compromise that results in the destruction of embryos will be rejected as immoral.
As jeff says, "don't do it with my tax dollars." Bush agrees with him. If you want the law to change, elect someone who will change it. Bush will not change his mind. He cannot be convinced that conciously destroying embryos for any reason whatsoever is moral.
- Sloanasaurus said...
yes, Mob, but you can sway more people to your side by resolving this particular ethical dilemma.
jacob's comment: "I think a clump of a hundred cells is definetly low on the list of priorities.." clearly shows that he knows nothing about the struggle of thousands of couples in trying to have or adopt children. Adopting and implanting embryos would be fairly inexpensive and would have a decent success rate. The reason why it is probably not that common has more to do with the parents of the embryo than the desire to adopt them.
- Theodore Donald Kerabatsos said...
If the wingnuts who back the prohibition had any degress of consistency or intellectual honesty, they would try to shut down the IVF clinics. There are thousands of leftover fertilized eggs in storage.
What happens to the leftover fertlized eggs? They are frozen until they die or they are burned at the stake, like Joan d'Arc. If these are really "little people" then an IVF clinic is in reality a murder laboratory!
But the wingnut crown didn't go after in vitro fertilization. The horse is out of the barn, and the horse got out so long ago that the barn has long since collapsed.
Oh, ye hypocrites!
- Jacob said...
If I was the kind of person who threw around the phrase "clearly shows that he knows nothing" about a topic I might point out that sloanasaurus apperently didn't know that excess frozen embryos went to waste. But I'm not so I won't.
It's true that there are lots of people who want children. It would make more sense, from a utilitarian point of view at least, to provide them with some of the surplus children that already exist. Streamlining adoption law should then be the priority. Better to use surplus blastocytes for science, then to implant them in people who should be adopting (or having their own IVF procedures done). But of course if someone wants to implant someone else's embryo in them more power to them. Just don't make it a law.
I might also be misunderstanding your argument, do you really mean that there should only be those 2 choices (as I've been interpreting it) or that there should be a third choice, 3) use the embryo for privately funded research?
- Pastor_Jeff said...
Theodore - that's some interesting logic there: Because pro-lifers haven't done everything they could do, therefore they are hypocrites and their argument is nullified.
I suppose abolitionists in the 19th century were hypocrites because they didn't join John Brown or protest outside plantations? Self-righteousness is always easy but seldom pretty.
And just for clarification, there are a number of Christians who have expressed concerns over hyper-ovulation and frozen embryos. And there are a number of Christians who are pro-life but aren't sure where they stand on what to do with embryonic life.
Of course, you've helpfully pointed out that what ESCR is doing is taking the same human life created through IVF and destroying it for medical research. So at least we're agreed that what's being destroyed is human beings. We just disagree on the morality of destroying humans on the off chance that helpful therapies might result.
"Wingnut" was a nice touch, though. Kudos.
- Troy said...
Two wrongs don't make a right Theodore. Just because the horse is out of the barn doesn't make it right to kill the horse. That's Ethics 101. If you want to do the research then do the research with your own money. If you cure Sickle Cell Anemia then you get the Nobel, and even better, the patent.
It's almost cliche, it's true (an inconvenient truth it seems)that the better science and potential is behind adult and umbilical cord, but no life (whatever klind of life) has to be snuffed for that.
A goodly portion of the country does not support (and a goodly portion does) embryonic stem cell research and the ethics are questionable. I reiterate, if stem cell supporters don't have any ethical qualms, then they can put up their own money and get off the government tit. Where's Bill Gates? -- he's flush with $60B in his foundation. Maybe instead of giving (wasting?) all that money on Harvard he can fund this magic bullet. Where's George Soros and Jeff Bezos, etc. Ted Turner? Oprah Winfrey for that matter or Brangelina?
- Pastor_Jeff said...
Streamlining adoption laws would not help much, as there are many more people who want to adopt than there are children available -- one of the unintended consequences of unlimited abortion created by Roe. 40 million is a lot of kids not alive to be adopted. That's why many couples, in spite of the costs, are going overseas to adopt.
- Ruth Anne Adams said...
Theodore Donald K.: I am one of those people who is a practicing Catholic who believes what the Church teaches about the sanctity of life from conception to natural death.
Holding this view meant, on a personal basis, that I don't use artificial means of contraception, or IVF or even artificial insemination. When my husband and I struggled with infertility, there were clear limits to what we could and couldn't do. We never crossed the line. I believe that IVF is morally wrong and, therefore, wouldn't do it.
But the more pressing battle is at the abortion clinics, where people are ending a life, rather than at the IVF clinic, where people are trying to procure a life.
Limited resources, not hypocrisy, require picking the battles.
- Smilin' Jack said...
To the wingnuts whining about taxes: there can be no serious doubt that those of us who support government funding of stem cell research are on the whole better educated, more affluent, and therefore pay more taxes, than you who oppose it. So, tax receipts being fungible, you are free to imagine that all of your taxes are actually being used for whatever God-approved purpose you like...say, paying farmers not to grow stuff.
- JohnF said...
I thought the legislation was only about whether the feds (as opposed to states and private concerns) should fund this research , and was not, to use Ann's word, about "restrictions" on the research. Can anyone clarify this?
- SteveR said...
The vote was to let 63 senators claim they support federal funding for ESCR and therefore curing little Johnny from some horrible disease. But they knew Bush would veto it and they knew they could not override it, so its politics and nothing more.
Nothing's stopping it from happening.
- Ruth Anne Adams said...
Smilin' Jack: The Hyde Amendment is still in effect.
Thank God.
- Aspasia M. said...
Where's Bill Gates? -- he's flush with $60B
The Gates foundation is actually doing quite a lot to fund cures for diseases.
It will be interesting to see if interested researchers move to California (or out of the country) because of the better funding situations.
- Pastor_Jeff said...
Smilin' Jack - Classy. Anyway, if you're better off than the wingnuts, aren't you paying less tax because of Bu$Hitler's tax breaks for the wealthy?
John F - the bill was about federal funding of ESCR. There are no federal restrictions on the research itself.
The political 'kabuki' going on here is the claim that Bush is "restricting" ESCR. In fact, when Bush created his compromise stem cell policy in 2001, he liberalized stem cell research by allowing federal funding (the first ever) for research on then-existing stem cell lines.
Supporters of ESCR funding are asking for a further expansion of federal grants, not a reversal of a 'ban.'
- Ann Althouse said...
JohnF: Restrictions on the use of federal funds.
- Pastor_Jeff said...
How is refusing to pay for something you don't want and aren't obligated to have a "restriction"?
Do I get to claim that the government is restricting me from owning a mansion? Did the feds restrict Alaska from building the Bridge to Nowhere?
- Cat said...
Smiling Jack and everyone else confused, the veto was for funding
EMBRYONIC stem cell research.
All other stem cell research goes on is AOK(from placenta/cord blood stem cells which they say are just as good or better than the cells of embryos). All privately funded embryonic stem research can also continue.
By the way, it is just a theory that embryonic stem cells may be "better" than other stem cells AND so far no one is sure WHAT will come of the research on ANY stem cells. It's just HOPE.
It drives me nuts that a) news media can't keep straight what kind of stem cells they are talking about and b) that the proponents of embryonic or other stem cell research behave as though it is "the ANSWER" and cure for all illness. Therefore, you are against embryonic stem cell research you are for Parkinsons. You are against Kyoto (the cure for Global Warming the way some people behave!) and that means you want to kill the planet.
- Aspasia M. said...
John F - the bill was about federal funding of ESCR. There are no federal restrictions on the research itself.
Research facilities -- particularly medical centers connected with Universities and Biology departments -- rely a lot on government grants.
But - we already know that. This isn't going to change while Bush is in office.
It looks to me like this was a bit of political kabuki, designed to give moderate republicans a chance to disagree with the president.
And the president got a chance to throw red meat to his base.
- Pastor_Jeff said...
You're not being honest about the research. John Edwards told us:
"We will stop juvenile diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other debilitating diseases. ... People like Chris Reeve will get out of their wheelchairs and walk again with stem cell research."
Why can't those pie-in-the-sky Christian wingnuts stay out of the political process and let us sober, unbiased people make the policies for them?
- Pastor_Jeff said...
"Research facilities -- particularly medical centers connected with Universities and Biology departments -- rely a lot on government grants."
... And bad artists rely heavily on NEA grants. That doesn't answer the question of whether the research (or the art) should be done.
Again: We're not cutting funding, we're not banning the research; we're refusing to expand it. It's a little dishonest to call that a 'restriction.'
Has the government restricted children's television because they haven't increased funding for it?
- XWL said...
There's one huge disconnect in the argument regarding this issue that I don't think ever gets addressed.
If embryonic stemcells are as potentially medically useful as folks claim, why would public funds be needed at all?
I don't see big pharma shying away from spending their own money on promising research.
Given the tremendous number of ills that proponents of this research claim would be faerie-wanded away with just the right dose of embryonic stem cells, I can't help but wonder why Pfizer hasn't started an embryo assembly line using Chinese or Indian sperm and eggs to create these little miracle cures in a petri dish.
(and for all we know, the Chinese government might be up to such a thing, already)
I think the federal government over steps its boundaries and overfunds far too many projects, even if I disagree with why money is not being spent, I'm always gladdened when the federal government refuses to get involved in something.
- Aspasia M. said...
Again: We're not cutting funding, we're not banning the research; we're refusing to expand it. It's a little dishonest to call that a 'restriction.'
Well, if we're going to get specific, the government is refusing to fund the research.
And there are practical effects of that decision. One of those consequences are that biological researchers in Universities will pursue other areas of research.
- Aspasia M. said...
I can't help but wonder why Pfizer hasn't started an embryo assembly line using Chinese or Indian sperm and eggs to create these little miracle cures in a petri dish.
The treatments might not be as profitable as other drugs that the companies are researching.
And, remember, it is a advanced medical treatment, not a drug.
- DCWilly said...
I have every expectation that all of you supporting the ban on funding this research will decline the likely treatments and therapies it will lead to. When a loved one becomes seriously ill with a horrific disease that today cannot be cured, but quite possibly will be through the use of stem cells, I am sure you will let them continue to suffer because of your moral concerns.
- Ann Althouse said...
Pastor Jeff: It's a restriction on how funding can be used. I didn't mean to disguise the fact that you can do research with money other than federal money. But the feds do tax us quite a bit, and then they dole the money back out as they decide. The restrictions they impose matter a lot.
- Shades said...
This argument that because ESTR "might" have a cure for a horrible disease it should be allowed is a poor one both logically and ethically.
First, if that is the only requirement, then Hitler's medical experiments in Germany were perfectly justified. After all, their research "might" have resulted in a break through.
Also, why do I not hear from the elinghtened left on the restrictive patents the WARF holds. If they would just give away not only the stem cells, but the patented procedures as well, the world would be a better place. As I understand the logic - anything that might help in the cure of the disease should be mandated.
Actually, this is a very typical argument from the left. Action A might have a benefit for group X so it should be done. If you oppose Action A you are a (bigot, neaderthal, hick, wingnut) even though there is little or no empirical evidence that Action A will actually achieve the goal.
Adult stem cell research seems to hold the most practical upside, but not the most flamboyant. There is no devisive element to adult stem cells and thus no political advantage. Therefore, the left will literally ignore the benefits of other stem cell research on purely political grounds.
In fact, Doyle will spend millions on this issue alone.
- Johnny Nucleo said...
Ruth Anne,
I admire your consistency. It's rare, especially when it comes to IVF.
I, too, believe the only consistent position for one who believes human life is sacred is that life begins at conception. All other lines of demarcation are arbitrary. Therefore, for me personally, IVF is morally problematic.
On the other hand, I know people who have had children using IVF. They are good people. Where there was no life, now there is life. Is what they did wrong? Not my call.
It is not my place to tell people what is right and wrong. Ultimately, none of us knows. We only believe. But I am annoyed by those who are annoyed by opponents of government funded embryonic stem cell research. This isn't about raining on anyone's parade. We all want cures for diseases. We all want to live longer. But killing embryos is serious business, if you take this business seriously.
- jakemanjack said...
"...Bush's foes and the press frequently misstate his position, referring to a "ban on stem-cell research." In fact, the Bush policy places no restrictions on any kind of stem-cell research that does not receive federal money, or on federal funding of adult stem-cell research. It does limit federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research to those cell lines that were in existence at the time the policy was initiated, in August 2001, but prior to then there was no federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, so that the policy actually liberalized the conditions for federal research grants. Supporters of research subsidies are asking for a further liberalization, not a reversal of a "ban.""
- Ruth Anne Adams said...
Johnny Nucleo:
Thanks. The "consistency" for which I strive is less rare than you think. In my circle, it's quite common.
I disagree with you that "ultimately no one knows" what is right and wrong. How, then, did you arrive at your moral opposition to IVF? It's more than just mere belief, isn't it?
My disagreement with IVF isn't that it creates life [a good], but that it creates life by separating the procreative element from the unitive element of the marital act. The exact reason is used to oppose artificial contraception. In one, the couple unites without being open to procreation; in the other, the couple procreates without uniting. Both wrong.
I fervently agree with you that killing embryos is serious business.
Many years ago, I stopped trying to be my own magesterium. Life's been great ever since.
- Johnny Nucleo said...
Ruth Anne said: "I disagree with you that "ultimately no one knows" what is right and wrong."
Actually I agree with you. I was trying to use a semi-detached voice. I am not Catholic, but I am very Catholic-esque.
- Ruth Anne Adams said...
Hey, Johnny:
Come on in! The water's fine!
[Just in case no one ever invited you to join.]
Is a semi-detached voice like a duplex?
- Aspasia M. said...
Just Curious,
Are you all against the use of IUDs for contraception?
- Ruth Anne Adams said...
Don't know if that was asked of me, but Catholic teaching is to oppose all forms of contraception and abortifacients.
I, personally, can see condoms and diaphraghms as "less worse" than other methods because they attempt to prevent sperm from meeting egg. IUDs and some forms of the pill, however, don't prevent a conception, they prevent an implantation of a fertilized egg. Too late in my book.
The "method" approved by the Vatican is for married couples. It is Natural Family Planning [2 different types: sympto-thermal and Billings method] wherein the couple observes fertile signs and abstains from the marital act to avoid or delay or space a pregnancy, and engages in the marital act to obtain a pregnancy.
Pharmaceutical companies don't much care for that method.
- bearing said...
geoduck sez,
Are you all against the use of IUDs for contraception?
I am. And, like Ruth Anne, am against IVF and ESCR as well, and for the same reasons she mentioned.
As for declining the gains of such research should any materialize: there is a great deal of moral philosophy that can be perused on the subject of "proximate" vs. "remote" cooperation with evil and the like. Dilemmas like that are best resolved on a case-by-case basis, involving questions such as whether accepting the benefit will lead to additional evil being done, whether accepting it leads to an ends-justify-the-means attitude, etc. But I'll tell you that I've so far felt unable to justify injecting my kids with any of the fetal-cell-line vaccines. It just... bothers me. (I acknowledge that reasonable people weighing the same moral question can and do come to a different conclusion, and I don't insist that I'm certainly correct to decline the vaccines.)
Ruth Anne's right: This (consistency with regard to the moral status of embryos) is not such a rare position to take. I dare say it would be even more common if the public discourse tended to be more accurate. Not everyone is even aware that IVF involves destruction of embryos, or of how an IUD works.
We, too, have friends who have used IVF to conceive their child(ren). The kids are wonderful and, of course, blameless. But I can't help being privately horrified that their parents were willing to, er, waste the kids' siblings in the process of obtaining them.
- Todd said...
DC Willy, interesting. Please be sure that if the loved one in question is above the age of consent, I'll let them make the decision. If it's my daughter, then the question becomes, should I use the fruit of the poisoned tree? I haven't decided yet.
While I debate that, please consider the linked article on the ethics of using data derived from medical experiments on prisoners. And while doing so, I implore you to reject scientific advances in the areas of hypothermia treatment for you and all your relatives, while campaigning for the EPA to use all available data in regulating phosgene gas (disclaimer: I do not know the status of EPA regulations on phosgene at this time).
- me said...
"We, too, have friends who have used IVF to conceive their child(ren). The kids are wonderful and, of course, blameless. But I can't help being privately horrified that their parents were willing to, er, waste the kids' siblings in the process of obtaining them. "
I'm sorry, I just don't get it. If your friends had been normally fertile, 50-70% of her eggs fertilized over the months she was trying to get pregnant would have been "wasted" -- they would never have implanted, just like the frozen eggs that never got inserted in the uterus, and just like the eggs inserted into your friend's uterus that never implanted. What makes those artificially created eggs any different than the many naturally fertilized eggs that don't implant, that the couple never even knows about? Do you think every time a woman who is trying to conceive (or not using contraception) it is a morally significant event, since there is a decent chance a fertilized egg that failed to implant is being expelled, resulting in the death of a person? If you were in a burning building, and there was a child that had to be carried and a portable freezer with backup power full of 50 frozen embryos (you could only carry one out), would you save the frozen embryos, since it would be one child versus fifty?
- me said...
Sorry, second sentence should read:
Do you think every time a woman who is trying to conceive (or not using contraception) HAS A PERIOD it is a morally significant event, since there is a decent chance a fertilized egg that failed to implant is being expelled, resulting in the death of a person?
- Tom C said...
A clear case of a smarmy religious convert shoving his catechism down our throats. Lord help us if Jimmy Carter had ever vetoed a bill based on his religious convictions...and we're not even going near John Kennedy (or any other "cath-a-lick").
This is the best Karl Rove can do? Wow, has he lost his touch.
- bearing said...
What on earth do you mean by "morally significant event?" I'm not trying to be obtuse, just to understand your question precisely in order to answer it. Do you mean "an action that is morally wrong?"
- Noumenon said...
Everyone is talking about embryos and stem cells. Nobody is talking about election year politics. I think that makes this a very successful example of election year politics. If only Tom DeLay were still around I would be absolutely sure this law was passed just with the intention that Bush could veto it!
- me said...
What I meant by that was to ask if the event was one of those kinds of things that you needed to mark by some ceremony or remembrance, like a funeral or a birth -- an event the family should mark as significant morally. Maybe should have said legally significant. sorry to be so unclear. :)
- amba said...
I'm repeating myself but I wrote a post on this called People Seeds. It's basically an argument that actual life, as distinct from potential life, begins at implantation. If so, then the moral argument about doing something to prevent implantation becomes, "Who decides?" Is everything that isn't from human will, from God?
That said -- I admire the moral consistency of people who won't use IVF because they hold the natural process of conception and the human embryo sacred.
- bearing said...
thanks --- I'm so glad you clarified because (obviously) I thought you meant something entirely different.
Very early embryo loss (not due to contraception techniques or abortion) (a) isn't willed or caused by anyone AND (b) doesn't usually even make itself known. So, no, I suppose not. (You will find some people who argue that it is immoral to have sex when the woman suffers from a luteal phase defect or some such condition that carries a high risk of natural embryo loss. I do not agree, but I certainly respect anyone who chooses to abstain in that circumstance.)
But many women who experience miscarriage after they become aware of a pregnancy do, in fact, mourn and memorialize such losses.
I'm not sure what that has to do with IVF/ESCR destruction of embryos. Morally speaking the losses in that situation are quite different, because that destruction is willed; it is performed as an overt act; and it is known to have occurred.
- me said...
"But many women who experience miscarriage after they become aware of a pregnancy do, in fact, mourn and memorialize such losses."
I totally understand that. I do not understand why an early embryo loss is not exactly the same thing as the loss of the frozen embryos inserted into the uterus that do not implant or the loss of the frozen embryos. They are exactly the same thing: but when the woman naturally loses an embryo, no one knows about it and no one mourns. Natural embryos that have something wrong with them often do not implant -- what about the frozen embryos that have something wrong with them that will not allow them to implant succesfully? If they are babies, should we implant them in a woman just to make sure, to give them a chance at life? I just don't GET this idea. Doctors implant 3 or so embryos, knowing normally only one survives -- are they murderers? But they were giving one out of three a good chance of actually developing into a person, while if they only implanted one embryo its chances would be much worse. What do people who think embryos are babies think we should do with all the frozen ones? Not deliberately dispose of them or do research on them obviously, but just let them sit in the freezer until they are no longer viable for implantation? That's the only "natural" death they can have, I guess. Sorry for the rambling, I just cannot comprehend . . .
- Aspasia M. said...
Sorry for the rambling, I just cannot comprehend . . .
I don't get it either.
I just don't understand how people can belive that a woman who uses a IUD is a murderer. (The fertilized eggs can't implant with a IUD.)
- SteveR said...
I am personally conflicted on the issue but have given it plenty of thought. I have MS and stem cell research holds some potential for a cure although I'm not delusional about ESCR being the quickest and only path.
But I respect the view that conception is the beginning of life. I have come to my own compromise and I don't feel the need to impose it on others or use it to judge others.
Since there are embryos that will not be implanted and are destined for eventual "destruction" I am ok with their use for research. I am ok with the government restricting funding to existing lines (current policy). I am not ok ever with creating embryos for research.
- Coco said...
"Smiling Jack and everyone else confused, the veto was for funding
EMBRYONIC stem cell research.
All other stem cell research goes on is AOK(from placenta/cord blood stem cells which they say are just as good or better than the cells of embryos). All privately funded embryonic stem research can also continue.
By the way, it is just a theory that embryonic stem cells may be "better" than other stem cells AND so far no one is sure WHAT will come of the research on ANY stem cells. It's just HOPE.
To be more precise (and fairer):
- Ruth Anne Adams said...
Geoduck 2: I never equated IUD-using with "murder." I consider it a grave sin, a moral wrong, but I cannot in a blanket statement call it murder. Murder requires a specific knowledge, intent, means, motive, etc. It's lacking here from what I've seen in most cases.
- bearing said...
Murder requires a specific knowledge, intent, means, motive, etc.
Right, which is why implanting 3 embryos into a woman's uterus, even expecting that only one or two will survive, isn't murderous. Nor is the creation of the embryos.
In fact, once the embryos have been created, the only moral thing to do with them is to implant them in a human womb, in an effort to allow them to survive. It is, I believe, immoral to create embryos via IVF. It is certainly immoral to destroy them. It's not immoral to implant them.
So, I would say to "me" that the loss of embryos that have been implanted in a woman's uterus is not dissimilar to the incidental loss of embryos in the normal course of uncontracepted human sexuality.
But the act of deliberately destroying them is murder.
me: But they were giving one out of three a good chance of actually developing into a person, while if they only implanted one embryo its chances would be much worse.
What you mean is that by implanting 3 embryos, the likelihood of a pregnancy being sustained is increased (because there are 3 possible embryos and not just one that can implant). To the individual embryo, the likelihood of survival to birth is probably not greater if it is implanted along with others.
- Johnny Nucleo said...
Ruth Ann said: "Come on in! The water's fine! [Just in case no one ever invited you to join.]"
That's very sweet. I gotta tell you, though, the confession bit freaks me out. It would take days, months, years.
- Aspasia M. said...
I never equated IUD-using with "murder." I consider it a grave sin, a moral wrong, but I cannot in a blanket statement call it murder. Murder requires a specific knowledge, intent, means, motive, etc. It's lacking here from what I've seen in most cases.
Murder is a legalistic term.
Perhaps you see the use of the IUD (and the birth control pill) as manslaughter or unintentional homicide?
Anyways, I don't understand his how something smaller then the dot on the end of this sentance, that consists of ten cells, can be viewed as a human being.
It's fine that I don't understand it; but it is one of those things that I find baffling.
- bearing said...
johnny nucleo: That's very sweet. I gotta tell you, though, the confession bit freaks me out. It would take days, months, years.
Nah, couple of hours, by appointment, max. Feels good, too --- lots better than a therapy session. :-)
geoduck, I sympathize with the "baffling" thing. It took me a long time to come to where I am on this issue, but now that I'm here, logic forces consistency.
- Ruth Anne Adams said...
Geoduck2: As I said, I consider the use of an IUD a sin. I am fully aware that I am obligated to moral standards by virtue of my membership in the Roman Catholic Church. I joined it and I try to live by its rules.
You were once the size of the period at the end of this sentence. And you're human. It seems you have a problem with where the line is drawn. Tell me, then, where do you draw the line? When weren't you human and when did you become human? That answer, wherever the line is drawn, has consequences.
Johnny Nucleo: Every priest I know has instructed to list your sins briefly and in summary form. 10 commandments takes only a few minutes to recount in summary form. They really have heard it all.
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Shifting the UP freight trains to the new alignment of tracks allows SCVTA's contractor to demolish the old freight bridge over Mission Boulevard. Once this is completed in November, crews will start widening the roadway, including the on/off ramps to Kato Road. This important milestone marks the relocation of UP from SCVTA's Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Silicon Valley operating corridor in all but one location, currently located in Milpitas near Montague Expressway.
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"This crucial milestone allows the project to move forward on time and within budget," says Michael Burns, SCVTA general manager. "Meeting this milestone is also essential to delivering the BART Silicon Valley Berryessa Extension project to the citizens of Santa Clara County."
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Equity Fellowships announced
6 November 2013
The recipients of the 2014 University of Sydney Equity Fellowships have been announced, with eight extraordinary academics being named at a ceremony with Professor Jill Trewhella, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research). The Equity Fellowships, a joint initiative between the DVC(R) and the Equity and Diversity Strategy Centre are designed to promote equity and diversity at the University of Sydney.
Recipients of the Brown Fellowship 2014 and their project focus:
- Dr Maree Abbott - Understanding and treating cognitive behavioural factors maintaining anxiety disorders
- Dr Elly Cowan - History in crisis: writing the Roman revolution 44b.c.-a.d. 30: case study, Velleius Paterculus
- Dr Catherine Leamey - High resolution imaging of brain activity
- Dr Chiara Neto - Micropatterned Polymer Coatings for the capture of water from the atmosphere
Recipients of the Thompson Fellowship 2014 and their project focus:
- Dr Elena Bagley - Endogenous opioids and anxiety
- Dr Janette Bobis - Strengthening the evidence-base in support of ambitious teaching and learning in mathematics
- Associate Professor Ann Elias - Useless Beauty: Flowers, art, and modern European Australia
- Associate Professor Mary Myerscough - Mathematical models for the formation of atherosclerotic plaques


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I thought it is dual screen as in.. one on top and another at bottom. *cough* Nintendo *cough*
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Expandable+keyboard+puts+new+IBM+ThinkPad+in+a+class+of+its+own-a016694636 [thefreelibrary.com]
Not more than 4 months ago I was thinking someone should make a note book with slide out screen. In fact I would mind 2 slide out screens. More and more often I an very greedy for additional screen real estate.
Working with a standard 15" notebook screen is like drafting on a napkin with a magic marker. Its good for making notes. but not for serious detailed work.
Sounds like this laptop was made by Pizza Hut.
From the specs:
Operating System: Genuine Windows Vista Business 64
It's a good thing the put "Genuine" in there to clarify things. Otherwise people might assume IBM was shipping this $6,000 notebook with a pirated copy of Windows to keep the price down.
Lenovo is not IBM
How long ago did Lenovo Buy the thinkpad rights? Cause to this day, if you need a BIOS or driver update, or need to read the knowledgebase, or their SPM site, its all at ibm.com. Seems kinda pathetic, really...
Not to nitpick, but the Thinkpad line was sold to Lenovo ages ago. IBM isn't shipping this notebook at all.
And this time it is no meme, but a real question. What good are slide-out screens and fancy fingerprint readers if they are based on such obscene hardware hacks that a normal operation system would be unable to use it all.
That is something reviews would actually be useful for.
The screen is on the wrong side. Because of the numeric keypad, the home position for typing is to the left side of the computer. This means that you are facing the left side of your screen while typing instead of facing the center of the screen. Putting the second screen on the right makes this even worse. You'll type while always looking slightly to the right. If the screen had been placed on the left side, at least a user could sit in front of the computer, type, and be facing the center of the two screens.
As a graphic designer and photographer, I can tell you that professional graphic designers use the keyboard all the time. They just spend a lot of time with only one hand on the keyboard. Keyboard shortcuts are a graphic designer's best friend.
Still, I think the screen is on the correct side, even though I don't like the laptop very much. Perhaps there is enough of a "Windows graphic designer or photographer on the go" market to make it worth it, but it wouldn't surprise me if it flops in its target market.
They just spend a lot of time with only one hand on the keyboard.
What stops you from putting the image on the slide-out monitor and the tools on the attached monitor? You *do* realize that the distinction between "main" and "secondary" monitor is completely arbitrary and can be changed at any time, right?
Looks like it's on the correct side to me. Most people seem to have their 2nd monitor on the right, rather than left, from what I've seen. The fact that it has a built-in Wacom tablet should have clued you in as to who this laptop was designed for. If you use one hand on the keyboard and the other hand on the tablet or an external mouse on the right, the the screen is better off on the right. Either way, I'm not sure that I buy your idea of it being a big problem to begin with.
Does it have a seperate numeric keypad? Most lenovos have them as numlock overlays.
So the engineers at Lenovo have pretty much crammed more "computer" into this laptop than any laptop has had crammed so far. Two screens, nearly full keyboard, two pointing devices, a digitizer tablet, along with a metric crapload of CPU, video, disk, memory, along with the usual gamut of notebook options. It'll set you back between 3000 and 8000 cool US dollars.
And it still comes with a built-in dialup modem inside.
What. The. Hell.
But does it have an LPT port?
It'll set you back between 3000 and 8000 cool US dollars.
I'm personally waiting for ThinkPad Reserve Edition of this: http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/15/thinkpad-reserve-edition-unveiled/ [engadget.com]
What? $8000? . . . that's chump-change.
So the engineers at Lenovo have pretty much crammed more "computer" into this laptop than any laptop has had crammed so far. Two screens, nearly full keyboard, two pointing devices, a digitizer tablet, along with a metric crapload of CPU, video, disk, memory, along with the usual gamut of notebook options.
But wait . . . if you order NOW, we will include the Spiral Slicer (tm) as well!
. . . and a Ginsu:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginsu
Modems don't take up much space, nor cost much money. So unless you are dealing with a very small laptop (you aren't) or a cheap one (again not) why wouldn't you include a modem? The idea of laptops is to be able to take them on the go. Well guess what? Some places you go may not have high speed Internet. I know for the geek that has never left the city this might seem impossible but it happens. There are places where high speed just hasn't gotten to yet. However phone lines, well those are pretty wide spread. While it isn't impossible to find a location without a phone line, it is far more difficult than finding a place without high speed Internet.
Thus you include a modem, so that if it is needed, it's there. No reason not to when you've got the space and the $5 for the hardware isn't a major part of the price.
So while I wouldn't get a modem for a desktop, I'm glad my laptop has a modem, I've actually made use of it. My grandma finally did get high speed Internet because my uncle got tired of her not having it and set it all up, but until very recently she didn't. So when I went to visit her, it was dialup or no access.
It isn't as though the computer is just dialup. It also has a wired Ethernet connection, and WiFi. It just includes dialup as a fallback option.
Guess what? Outside of the giant city where I'm going to assume that you live and spend 99% of your time, modems are useful. Faxes and dialup get the job done. There's never any internet at the factories I visit in China, but just hook up the phone and dial 16300 and I can get my emails.
And it still comes with a built-in dialup modem inside.
What. The. Hell.
Last summer we got together at my friend's summer house to celebrate the international worker's day [wikipedia.org] (and the resulting 4-day weekend) by spending some time away from the smog and eating large quantities of barbecued meat.
We even had some of our friends from Croatia come over. One of them is a photographer for a daily newspaper.
He had to juggle-up some free time since he was supposed to be "on the call" that day, but he managed to get a colleague to do that for those couple of days.
Still, as he is better wit
You forgot DisplayPort, DVI, and VGA connectors, an ExpressCard slot, Firewire, and an integrated colour calibrator.
I'm surprised they don't have serial and parallel ports on this thing as well, but I guess they needed to make room for the four exhaust ports for the cooling fans. Something tells me that this 11 lbs behemoth moves a lot of air. I wonder what the battery life is, an hour maybe?
And it still comes with a built-in dialup modem inside.
What. The. Hell.
I dread the day that modems and RS-232 cease to be available on computers.
First, because of the "dumb terminal" capability... While practically no-one uses it for text these days, it's still of TREMENDOUS benefit for sys admins and others.
Modems are still a nice option for sending or receiving faxes, not to mention voice modems which can be provide full-fledged voice-mail/PBX capabilities.
And if nothing else, we've got a couple centurie
Statistically speaking, a raid 0 is no more likely to fail than a single disk. Obviously it pales in comparison to a mirror for redundancy, but this system is about performance.
I think, actually, it is. Not by a huge factor, but it changes from being simply the possible failure rate across one disk, to being the possible failure rate across both disks. The likelihood of any one disk failing within X is slightly lower than the likelihood of any one of two disks failing. Additional, ultra-tiny failure chances are added by the addition of other points of failure (the RAID controller could fail, etc) and two hard drives in a laptop certainly stress the cooling system more
That s
I see someone does not understand probability.
A raid 0 is indeed more likely to fail than a single disk.
Let's say the probability of one disk failing within 5 years is 2.5% and we have a 2-disk raid 0.
Then the probability of the raid 0 failing is
Uh, boss. We accidentally put two screens on this laptop. What should we do?
Hm... Charge people twice the price and call it a feature!
For six thousand bucks, I could buy myself a 16 way server, use it as a workstation, and pay someone to carry it around for me.
Can you also afford to buy enough cable to power it everywhere you go?
My hired help could also carry one of these!
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Did Homer Simpson just join the Lenovo design team?
Thank you for clearing that up, Comic Book Guy.
Wow, Lenovo made the computer equivalent of the big mac chicken patty sandwich.
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This uber notebook is a total redneck thing. AS a redneck, I'd like to say, that's why I like it. If they shipped it with a good buck knife and a DVD on hunting in the field, then we'd be styling.
Calling this thing dual screen is not too different to calling an old tv with an lcd display of the channel number dual screen. Okay that's a _slight_ exaggeration. Only slight. The second "screen" looks like it's not worth the trouble. Good for task lists and the like but not much else, yet oh so breakable. The headline had me envision something like a tablet pc with a second screen - instead I see something about the size of a size mirror on a combi van. More gimmick than useful. Farq off.
This would be useful for Gimp and other software with floating tool bars. Put the content on the main (color-calibrated!) screen, and keep the tools on the side.
I think it's intended to be a holding place for Photoshop toolboxes, and for this task it's just the right size. You see, it makes an enormous difference if you can just maximize your work on one screen without obscuring it with any tool windows and put those on a separate screen, especially if you're working with huge, high-resolution images.
They'll talk up all the other specs, but anyone who works in graphics is going to want an 8-bit panel on this fancy laptop of theirs. That one feature is probably worth more to a real professional than all the rest of the bling.
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I think I have a new addition to my family. I'm not sure what to do about it. This unwanted guest just moved in uninvited and so far is pretty insistent on staying.
I first noticed her a couple of weeks ago in my backyard. My mom was over when this black cat made an appearance underneath the trellis that holds up a wisteria vine. I have a feeling it wasn't the first time she had visited, but it was the first time I had noticed her.
I figured she must belong to a neighbor, but she was pretty skittish, so I thought maybe she was wild. But pretty soon, she came over and rubbed herself against my legs.
Mom said, "Don't feed her or she will stay." I don't have anything to feed her, so I wasn't worried about that.
I noticed her again a couple of days later, then again a few days after that. This time, she was asleep on my front porch when I checked the mail. I live alone in a big, old house, so I reckon she decided there was enough room for both of us.
Tonight, I was on the back porch eating a pizza with a friend when we heard a mournful noise outside. I opened the door and there was kitty. I offered her a slice of pizza.
I propped the back door open and, sure enough, kitty eventually made her way onto the porch. Before I knew it, she had jumped onto my lap and was purring loudly.
She still has her front claws, which I soon learned the hard way. She was pretty demanding in how she wanted to be petted. She would paw at my hand until I had no choice but to scratch her ears.
When my pal left, she decided she better go, too. Out in the backyard, I saw the gray fur of some other animal in the dim light. Maybe a rabbit or a possum. Kitty saw it at the same time and took off after it like a bullet.
After about 30 minutes, kitty was back.
At first, she just rested on the doormat watching the backyard for any other intruders. I sensed that she believed that this yard now belonged to her.
It's time for me to go inside for the night, but I don't know what to do about kitty. Do I turn her out so I can close the door or let her stay there? She looks pretty comfortable.
I've been thinking lately that it's a bit lonely in this big house. I don't want a dog, though, because dogs require a lot of attention. A cat can take care of itself.
I think the cat is right: This old house is big enough for both of us. And I have to admit that it's nice having the company.
I will leave the door open enough that the cat can get out if she wants to. If she is still here tomorrow, I'm going to have to name her. I'm not buying any cat food, though. Not yet, anyway.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Ballot positions for the 2014 election of trustees by alumni have been determined by a drawing, a procedure established by Penn State's Board of Trustees.
Ballots for the trustee election will be available to Penn State Alumni on April 10. Additionally, biographical information and position statements for each candidate will be available by March 19 on a Meet the Candidates page by visiting http://www.psu.edu/trustees/index.html online.
The Penn State Alumni Association will invite the candidates to participate in a voluntary "Three Questions for the Candidates" session and those responses will be posted at http://www.pennstatermag.com/bot2014/ by April 3.
All online voting must be completed by the close of the election at 9 a.m. EDT May 8.
The names of the 32 candidates for three positions on the board to be elected by alumni, and the order in which they will appear on the ballot, are as follows (year of graduation, business title/profession and place of residence also are provided):
1. Ted J. Sebastianelli, '69, Bus, retired military, State College, Pa.
2. Ned Rauch-Mannino, '10, Agr, government relations specialist, Ridge Policy Group, Washington, D.C.
3. Daniel N. Cocco, '08, Com, consultant, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, New York, NY
4. Gavin Keirans, '10, Bus, strategy consultant manager, Philadelphia, Pa.
5. Ryan Bagwell, '02, A&A, Com, web developer, Middleton, Wis.
6. Robert G. Milnes, III, '02, Eng, senior engineer, Westinghouse Electric Co., Sewickley, Pa.
7. Jason P. Kutulakis, '91, '94 JD, Lib, LAW, senior partner, Abom & Kutulakis, L.L.P., Carlisle, Pa.
8. George A. Weigand, '69, Edu, retired educator, State College, Pa.
9. Amy L. Williams, '80, H&HD, managing director, SageWorks Rx, Wayne, Pa.
10. Joshua D. Fulmer, '01, Lib, partner, Lauer & Fulmer, P.C., Easton, Pa.
11. Edward J. Kabala, '64, Bus, attorney at law, Fox Rothschild, LLP, Philadelphia, Pa.
12. Joel N. Myers, '61, '63g, '71g, EMS, founder, president and chairman of the board, AccuWeather Inc., State College, Pa.
13. Ricardo Azziz, '81, MED, president, Georgia Regents University; CEO, Georgia Regents Health System, Augusta, Ga.
14. Jennifer E. Bird-Pollan, '99, Lib, assistant professor of law, University of Kentucky College of Law, Lexington, KY
15. John J. Graham, Jr., '99, Lib, general counsel, Great Valley Publishing Co., Philadelphia, Pa.
16. Vincent J. "V.J." Tedecso, III, '86, '95g, Lib, retired U.S. Army officer/defense industry consultant, Alexandria, Va.
17. Laurie Anne Stanell, '80, Sci, dentist, Laurie Anne Stanell D.M.D., Holicong, Pa.
18. Julie Harris McHugh, '86, Bus, retired biopharmaceutical executive, active director on public and private company boards, Ambler, Pa.
19. Christine Stempka Rhoads, '99, Com, full-time mother and volunteer, Lancaster, Pa.
20. H. Jesse Arnelle, '55, '62 JD, Lib, LAW, attorney, San Francisco, Calif.
21. Matthew W. Schuyler, '87, Bus, chief HR officer, Hilton Worldwide, McLean, Va.
22. Albert L. Lord, '67, Bus, investor, advisor; former chairman and CEO, Sallie Mae, Washington, D.C.
23. Keith Bierly, '77, Lib, owner, Twin Avenues Consulting & Forefathers Book Shop, Rebersburg, Pa.
24. R. Seth Williams, '89, Lib, district attorney, city of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa.
25. Robert J. Bowsher, '86, Bus, writer and accountant, San Diego, Calif.
26. Rudolph Karl Glocker, '91, '93g, Lib, managing partner, Pediped Footwear, Henderson, Nev.
27. Alice W. Pope, '79, '83g, '86g, Lib, associate professor of psychology, St. John's University, Brooklyn, NY
28. Robert C. Jubelirer, '59, '62 JD, Lib, LAW, partner and chair of government relations practice, Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell and Hippel LLP, Boalsburg, Pa.
29. Brian M. Rutter, '03, Bus, vice president of operations, ICAT Logistics MDT Office, Boalsburg, Pa.
30. Allen L. Soyster, '65, Eng, professor of industrial engineering, Northeastern University, Boston Mass, Philipsburg, Pa.
31. Robert Hooper, '79, H&HD, member, Vermont Pension Investment Committee, Burlington, Vt.
32. Art Greenwald, '76, Lib, freelance writer/journalist, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Penn State trustee election ballot positions announced
Penn State trustee election ballot positions announced
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Ballot positions for the 2014 election of trustees by alumni have been determined by a drawing, a procedure established by Penn State's Board of Trustees.


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As the time to toast the holidays draws near, we are pleased to announce the 2012 Diners' Choice Award winners for the Top 100 Restaurants with the Most Notable Wine Lists in the United States. These awards reflect the combined opinions of more than 5 million reviews submitted by verified OpenTable diners for more than 15,000 restaurants in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
The list of winners, which includes Frasca Food and Wine in Boulder, RN74 in Seattle, and Veritas in New York, spans 25 states and Washington, D.C. California, renowned for its wine country, has the greatest number of winners with 17, followed by Maryland with nine winners and Washington with eight. Florida and New York boast six winning restaurants apiece, trailed by Texas and Virginia with five honorees, Colorado and South Carolina with four, and Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania with three each. The states of Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, and Tennessee all have two award winners. Washington, D.C. earned a single spot as did Arizona, Kansas, and Wisconsin. Restaurants serving American fare dominated the list; however, a variety of cuisines are represented, including French, Italian, Spanish, and tapas.
The Diners' Choice Awards for the Top 100 Wine Lists are generated from more than 5 million reviews collected from verified OpenTable diners between October 1, 2011, and September 30, 2012. All restaurants with a minimum number of qualifying reviews were included for consideration. Restaurants were then scored and sorted according to the percentage of qualifying reviews for which "Notable Wine List" was selected as a special feature.
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The obvious responsible thing to do when American citizens and public officials are under physical threat abroad and when the details are unknown, and events spiraling, is to stay silent. If the event happens on the day of September 11 and you are a candidate for president and have observed a political truce, all the more reason to wait to allow the facts to emerge. After all, country before party, right? American lives are at stake, yes? An easy call, no?
But that's not what the Romney camp did. What they did was seize on a tweet issued by someone in the US Embassy before the attacks in order to indict the president for "sympathizing" with those who murdered a US ambassador after the attacks. Unfuckingbelievable. Here's the embassy statement from earlier in the day that set off the neocons:
The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.
The statement came from someone in the embassy, and was not formally issued by the State Department or the White House, both of which have subsequently disavowed the tweet for not also defending absolute freedom of speech. The facts were still murky last night. But the Romney campaign immediately tried to shoe-horn yesterday's fog of mob violence into the "apology" rubric Romney loves so much. The Priebus tweet is disgusting. The first Romney statement is no better:
"I'm outraged by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It's disgraceful that the Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks."
That's untrue. The Obama administration did not issue the tweet, which was, in any case, tweeted before the attacks, not after. Today, Romney doubled down on these two obvious misstatements:
"We join together in the condemnation of attacks on the American embassies and the loss of American life and join in sympathy for these people. It's also important for me — just as it was for the White House, last night by the way — to say that the statements were inappropriate, and in my view a disgraceful statement on the part of our administration to apologize for American values…
A brief moment of digression: the White House disowned a statement it itself did not release – but is then equally responsible for the tweet itself? The mind boggles. Then this, apparently, is an apology for American values:
Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.
I'm a free speech absolutist – but I'm not an anti-religion absolutist. I think a little respect for religions we don't share is something most Americans would think is precisely an American value. I can see why there should have been a defense of the free speech of Terry Jones in that tweet in principle – and there is: "the universal right of free speech." Does Romney think the administration should have defended the film itself? Does Romney?
Of course, sitting in my blogging chair on the Cape, I can demand as radical a defense of blasphemy and hate speech as Romney can. But I was not inside an embassy in a foreign country as mob violence was building outside and as the US government was being conflated entirely with a bigoted anti-Muslim fanatic. And practically speaking, the embassy was trying to calm a situation, not inflame it. And diplomacy in the real world, where American lives are at stake, can necessitate such frustrating but necessary nuances. But such nuances are lost on Romney, as is, it seems, the basic notion of agency and responsibility:
The president takes responsibility not just for the words that come from his mouth but also for the words that come from his ambassadors from his administration, from his embassies, from the State Department. They clearly sent mixed messages to the world, and the statement that came from the administration, and the embassy is the administration. The statement that came from the administration was a statement which is akin to apology and I think was a severe miscalculation.
So the president of the US is directly, personally responsible for a lone tweet designed to calm a dangerous situation – and this other person's tweet is then described as a "severe miscalculation" by the president and "akin to an apology." Well: you try to figure the logic out. Then this outreach from his senior foreign policy spokesman, Rich Williamson:
Tuesday night, while the attacks were still ongoing, Williamson said that the governments in Egypt and Libya as well as the Obama administration bear responsibility for the deteriorating security environment that led to the attacks.
"The events in Egypt and Libya show the failure of the Egyptian and Libyan governments to uphold their obligations to keep our diplomatic missions safe and secure and the regard in which the United States is held under President Obama in these two countries," he said. "It's all part of a broader scheme of the president's failure to be an effective leader for U.S. interests in the Middle East."
My italics. These people are simply unfit for the responsibility of running the United States. The knee-jerk judgments, based on ideology not reality; the inability to back down when you have said something obviously wrong; and the attempt to argue that the president of the US actually sympathized with those who murdered his own ambassador in Benghazi: these are disqualifying instincts for someone hoping to be the president of the US. Disqualifying.
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(CNN) - Snow and ice storms are wreaking havoc from the northeast to the southeast and snow is on the ground in 49 or the 50 states.
All that wintry weather creates dangerous road conditions.
If you have to get behind the wheel, AAA has some safety tips for you.
Keep your gas tank at least half full to avoid gas line freeze-up. Also, if possible, avoid using your parking brake in cold, rainy and snowy weather.
Do not use cruise control when driving on slippery surfaces.
Accelerate and decelerate slowly, which helps tires regain traction and avoid skids. And remember, it takes longer to slow down on icy roads.
Don't drive while you're fatigued and don't power up hills.
The best advice? Stay at home until the deep freeze thaws.
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