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KANRYO HIGAONNA (HIGASHIONNA) – Higaonna was born in 1853, in Okinawa. He was small, but his skill and hard training more than made up for his deficiency in size. He started the serious study of the martial arts when he was about sixteen years old. He learned Chinese Kempo and became well known in Naha, Okinawa. He was fascinated by the Chinese fighting arts and began looking for an opportunity to travel to China. In November of 1874, he finally had the chance to go to China with a group of merchants. He left Okinawa and spent fifteen years in China. When he finally returned to Okinawa, he was thirty-seven years old. In spite of his many years of training in the Chinese martial arts, he did not want to teach upon his return. Even after he was convinced to open a dojo by those people who had heard of his reputation in China, he would teach his martial arts only to the most serious students. He taught martial arts in the most traditional manner to those who would learn, not to those who wanted to be taught. Thus Higaonna was credited with bringing martial arts to Okinawa. Many would be students came to Higaonna and many more were sent on their way. However, one boy by the name of Chojun Miyagi did not only stay, but was eventually to succeed his teacher and became the founder of Goju-Ryu in Karate.
CHOJUN MIYAGI – Chojun Miyagi was born in 1888, in Naha, Okinawa. When he was fourteen years old he started to study Karate with Grandmaster Higaonna. Through his dedication to the study of the martial arts, Miyagi was credited with making the system solid and well respected. He was such a dominant force in modern Karate that he became well known not only as the founder of Goju-Ryu Karate but also as the true leader of Okinawan and Japanese Karate. This is why the roots of modern Karate are traced back to this man. Master Chojun first came to Japan in 1928, and instructed at the Kyoto University in Kyoto. In 1932, he became an instructor in the Kansaugakuen in Osaka, thirty miles from Kyoto. By 1937, Karate was fully accepted by the Japanese public, yet the study of it was isolated to military bases and a handful of universities. Miyagi introduced Goju-Ryu Karate to Hawaii in 1934. In 1937, Chojun Miyagi received the first doctorate degree in Karate. He became Shihan of the Okinawa Shihan (teachers) School in 1953. Chojun Miyagi died at the age of 65 years in 1953.
GOGEN (ROUGH) YAMAGUCHI – In 1931, at the age of 22, Gogen Yamaguchi was introduced to the founder of the Goju style, Chojun Miyagi. This meeting proved to have a profound affect upon Yamaguchi's outlook on karate. Previously he had only considered the hard aspect of Goju but after his meeting with Chojun Miyagi he was determined to train himself spiritually as well as physically. Master Miyagi thought highly of Yamaguchi who seemed to have mastered the hard aspect of Goju so well and in 1937 gave him the nickname Gogen, meaning 'Rough'. He then appointed Gogen Yamaguchi as his successor of the Goju school in Japan. Mr. Miyagi presented Yamaguchi with his Renshi in 1940, and in 1951 presented him with Hanshi, tenth Dan (Grandmaster). Yamaguchi founded the first Goju school in Japan at the site of Shinsengumi's post at Mibu, Kyoto, in 1929. In 1933, Yamaguchi established the All Japan Karate-Do Goju-Kai and founded branches throughout Japan and the United States. Gogen Yamaguchi died in 1989 at the age of 80 years.
SEIGO TADA – Tada was born in 1922 in Kyoto, Japan. He started training in the art of Karate in Shanghai, China in 1935, at the age of thirteen. In 1939, he entered the Ritsusmei University and studied Goju-Ryu Karate-Do under the master and founder of the style, Mr. Chojun Miyagi. He entered Ritsumei University nine years after Yamaguchi started the Karate club in Ritsumei-Kan. In 1943 he was nominated as a coach of the Ritsumeikan University Karatedo Club. He opened the Torimaru Dojo in Kyoto in 1945, right after World War II, which is also when Yamaguchi returned from Manchu.Mr. Tada also established the Nihon Seigo-Kan Karatedo shikai (SAJKA), Nihon Gojuryu Karatedo shikai and Nihon Seigokai in Kyoto. At one point there were 120 Seigo-Kan domestic dojos and branches, as well as University clubs and overseas dojos. During that period, Seigo-Kan was the largest Gojuryu Kai-Ha in Japan. In 1964, Master Seigo Tada joined as one of the promoters and executives in establishing and organizing the All Japan Karatedo Federation, Kansai District Karatedo Federation and Kinki District Karatedo Federation. He established competition rules and developed the original protector in 1952 for the purpose of modernizing Karatedo as a sport. In 1981, he won the Hyogo Prefecture Athletic Award of Merit. Tada continued to enjoy teaching Karate and was able to see the 40th anniversary of his Seigo-Kan Karate Academy before his eventual death in late September of 1997. His legacy, Seigo-Kan remains one of the largest Goju-Ryu organizations in Japan.
MOTOO YAMAKURA – Motoo Yamakura was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1943. At the age of 8 years, Yamakura studied Karate in the Temple of Kyoto where many Karate schools were to be found and later, at age 14, joined the Tojukuji Dojo a branch of Seigo Tada's organization, Yamakura entered the all Western Goju-Ryu Seigo Kan tournaments, and he was champion in both kata and kumite in 1965 and 1966. In 1967, Mr. Yamakura entered the prestigious Henry Cho's All American Karate Tournament held in Madison Square Garden, New York and won the light weight championship. After one final goodwill tournament in Muskegon, Michigan, he retired from competition. When Mr. Yamakura came to the United States in 1967, there was no precedent in the immigration codes for his field of expertise. A new category was created and Mr. Yamakura was one of the first people to receive permanent residency status in the specially skilled labor category of Combat Fighting Specialist. In 1969, he enlisted in the armed services and was assigned to the Special Forces teaching hand-to-hand combat. He demonstrated his martial arts skills for trainees at war games, battalion gatherings, for the Green Berets, and at his own graduation which was attended by the Undersecretary of State. In 1974, Motoo Yamakura ended his military obligation as a Staff Sergeant. Mr. Yamakura wants to be an international person. He was born in Japan but traveled to the United States and became an American Citizen. He studied English literature while in Japan. He graduated from the foreign studies department where he also learned Spanish and studied Chinese as it relates to Japanese characters. He studied Kobudo in his youth, Judo in his school days, and has studied Karate and martial arts for over thirty-five years. While in Japan, he studied the styles of, Shotokan, Shito-Ryu, and Wado-Ryu and practiced Shorinji-Kempo. He studied and taught Goju-Ryu, Uechi-Ryu, Tae-Kwon-Do and experienced Chinese martial arts while in the United States. Mr. Yamakura is the author of Goju-Ryu Karate-Do, Fundamentals for Traditional Practitioners, Volumes I and II. MotooYamakura is Shihan, and Hachi Dan, and since 1983 has been the Chairman of the Goju-Ryu Karate-Do Kyokai International. The GKK is one of the largest, and oldest, Goju-Ryu organizations in the United States and also has programs in Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, India, Sri Lanka and the Middle East.
TERUO CHINEN – Teruo Chinen: Born in 1941, in Kobe, Japan. He moved to Okinawa in 1946. He began his training in Goju-Ryu under Chojun Miyagi Sensei and Ei'ichi Miyazato Sensei. In 1953, after Miyagi Sensei's death, he practiced under Eiichi Miyazato at the Jundokan dojo in Naha, Okinawa. Between 1958 and 1969 Chinen assisted Morio Higaonna Sensei at Tokyo's Yoyogi dojo. In 1969, Sensei Chinen moved to the United States and began teaching Okinawan Goju-Ryu in Spokane, Washington, where he currently resides. Beginning in 1973, he traveled to Europe, South America, and South Africa. Chinen Sensei founded Jundokan International in honor of his teachers, Chojun Miyagi and Eiichi Miyazato. Jundokan International dojos now operate throughout the United States, South Africa, Canada, South America, and Europe. Chinen Sensei spends much of his time traveling the world lecturing and teaching traditional Okinawan style karate. He has become a highly sought after speaker and practitioner, lecturing and teaching groups from all styles of karate.


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5BBL 4 vessels beer mashing equipment
5BBL 4 vessels beer mashing equipment description:1.Mash tun:
Equipped with suitable jacket and mixer to ensure temperature rise rate, avoid coking
large volume, as well as wort boiling, improve the overall system's efficiency.
2.Lauter tun:
Combined plow knife structure increase lautering efficiency,increasing the diameter of the center circular construction has improved
lautering efficiency and spend grains discharge speed greatly. Because of the center circular construction basic design, the mash will
be filled into the lauter tun steadily and speedily, the wort will be circulated with low oxygen uptake.Set more suitable wort outlets accord with
hydrodynamics principle, assure wort flows through piping etc. long wort collection ring, make wort collection steadily and speedily.
Use specially designed raking arm to raise main shaft seal, avoid leaking to improve sanitation.Can be used as mash tun, meet a variety of process demands of craft beer.
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With inner heater, jacket, mixer. This design makes the kettle tun can be used as adjunct cooker or mash tun, meet the special demands
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Specially designed whirlpool tun bottom accord with hot trub sedimentation characteristics, combined with specially designed hot trub
collection zone, can make the hot trub more closely and be discharged directly no need for washing, avoid remixing hot trub into wort when we pump the wort to PHE.
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|Spring Term 2019 Piano Pedagogy III - 3365 - MUEP 303
Prerequisites/Notes: MUEP 302
Catalog Description : An introduction to piano teaching. Study of learning process and teaching methods and materials. Work with lesson and curriculum planning and instructional techniques for both groups and individuals, from average-age beginners through intermediate-level students. Required observation of experienced teachers and supervised teaching.
Attributes: Fine Arts Div GER (01cr), Foundation/Gateway Course


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Summer workouts went well
Staff writer
Marion's senior volleyball players are a close-knit group.
Many have been playing together since the seventh grade, being friends even longer.
"We've known each other since the first grade," Megan Richmond said. "It makes us play harder together."
After finishing sixth in the Heart of America League in coach Deanna Thierolf's first season, the team is ready to take a step forward.
"I'm excited about this year," Thierolf said. "We lost three players, but we have some good young talent coming in, and they've done a really good job of filling the holes."
Quickness will replace length the team lost as seniors Kaelyn Thierolf and Kelli Hess replace middle hitters Briana Hall and Montana Percell.
"Kelli Hess is 5-3¼, but she plays bigger than she is," Deanna Thierolf said. "She's got a nice vertical and she's quick, so she's going to come in and do some nice things."
Kaelyn Thierolf returns as a multiple-year starter as well as setter Katey Ehrlich and Richmond, the libero. Sophomore Kirsten Hansen also has experience as a setter, and junior Julia Hall will hit and set.
"We're older this year, and maybe just a little more experienced," Deanna Thierolf said.
Senior Lauren McLinden, juniors Shayla Kline and Samantha Davies, and sophomore Bailey Robson will also help contribute in 2013.
During the summer, the team spent a lot of time in the gym and weight room, also going to scrimmages in McPherson and Hillsboro.
"The girls have done a good job of getting into the weight room this summer, and also getting in the gym and touching the ball, and their skills are getting better," Deanna Thierolf said.
Ehrlich, an all-league setter a year ago, said the team's goal is to surpass what it was in 2012.
"We want to have a winning record this year and win the three tournaments we go to in Marion, Centre, and Belle Plaine," she said. "Our group has worked really hard and we appreciate the support from the community."
Coach Thierolf wants to see her team improve through the work it put in during the summer.
"I think you can have all the talent in the world, but if they don't work hard and they don't work together, it's not going to be very much fun," she said.
The Warriors' first action this season will be in Lindsborg, where they will play Smoky Valley and Hoisington.
"So far what I've seen, this group of girls, they just like each other," Deanna Thierolf said. "That core and that unity, they just play well together."


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clubbing(redirected from Clubbing fingers)
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Related to Clubbing fingers: bronchiectasis, Beau's lines
bulbous swelling of the terminal phalanges of the fingers and toes, giving them a "club" appearance; the normal 160° angle between the nailbed and the digit increases to 180°. It may be an early stage of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy, or it may be without subsequent changes in the long bones. The specific etiology is not known; however, in adults many cases are due to pulmonary disease and resultant hypoxia, and some other cases are due to heart disease, liver disorders, or disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. Clubbing can be assessed by having the patient place the nails of the fourth (ring) fingers together while extending the other fingers; a diamond-shaped space between the nails indicates absence of clubbing.
A condition affecting the fingers and toes in which proliferation of distal soft tissues, especially the nail beds, results in thickening and widening of the extremities of the digits; the nails are abnormally curved, the nail beds excessively compressible, and skin over them red and shiny. See: hippocratic nails.
clubbing/club·bing/ (klub´ing) proliferation of soft tissue around the ends of fingers or toes, without osseous change.
A condition in which the ends of the fingers and toes are enlarged and the nails are shiny and abnormally curved.
Etymology: ME, clubbe
an abnormal enlargement of the distal phalanges with a flattening of the curvature of the nail margin at the cuticle, where the nail meets the cuticle. It usually is associated with cyanotic heart disease or advanced chronic pulmonary disease but sometimes occurs with biliary cirrhosis, colitis, chronic dysentery, thyrotoxicosis, and sickle cell anemia. Clubbing occurs in all the digits but is most easily seen in the fingers. Advanced clubbing is obvious, but early clubbing may be difficult to diagnose. Clubbing is present if the transverse diameter of the base of the fingernail is greater than the transverse diameter of the most distal joint of the digit. The nail base angle measures more than 160°. See also Schamroth window test.
Vox populi The social activity of visiting (multiple) nightclubs
A condition affecting the fingers and toes in which proliferation of distal tissues, especially the nail beds, results in thickening and widening of the extremities of the digits; the nails are abnormally curved and shiny.
An enlarged terminal phalanx of the finger. Excessive growth of the soft tissues of the ends of the fingers gives the fingers a sausage or drumstick appearance when viewed from above, and a beaked appearance when viewed from the side. Increased soft tissue is deposited beneath the cuticle, resulting in a fingertip that is thinner at the distal interphalangeal joint than at the base of the nail. Clubbing may be present in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, interstitial fibrosis of the lungs, cyanotic congenital heart disease, carcinoma of the lung, bacterial endocarditis, and many other illnesses. Synonym: clubbed finger; hippocratic fingerSee: illustrationillustration
clubbingSee FINGER CLUBBING.
Clubbing is the rounding of the ends and swelling of fingers found in people with lung disease.
Mentioned in: Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
Patient discussion about clubbing
Q. When should I use fitness club before work or after or maybe during lunchtime? I am working in a company that was once my dream. I worked very hard to find my dream job and finally I found it. We have all the facilities here including a gym. I spend most of the time at office so I don't have time to spend in other activities after office hours. So I have planned to make use of my time at my office itself to improve my health too. If I am using our fitness club, then when should I use it before work or after or maybe during lunchtime?
A. Hi Johnson, It's best that you warm up a little bit before work and after work. You can also use the treadmill and the wave-runner bag for kickboxing that will help you to tone up. Wait till 6pm and then work out using all the amenities that suit your body. Do not overstrain or overdo any of the exercises. It's good if you do some stretching exercises to warm up and after a workout to relax your muscles.More discussions about clubbing


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A recent poll conducted by nonpartisan veteran's advocacy group has found that veterans believe that the American economy is the biggest threat to national security.
The poll, reported by Politico, placed 'foreign terror groups' in second, followed by traditional powers, debt, military cuts, and cyberwarfare. The group Concerned Veterans for America sponsored the poll, while the Winston Group actually conducted it.
It should be noted that veterans are the group facing service-wide personnel cuts and $600 billion in mandatory defense cuts (referred to as "sequestration") and who, until very recently, had an unemployment rate higher than the national average.
The poll found Iraq and Afghanistan veterans unemployment to be the top concern of most vets, at 88 percent.
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- Resolution: Enter here the resolution of the GIF (for Java) or JPG (for Flash) file.
- Part of map: Activate this check box to export a part of the map. The map section will be shown with a rectangle on the drawing window. You can alter the rectangle with the mouse.
- Click the button Setup to define the part of map to be exported by coordinates. The dialog box Setup Part of Map (Export) appears.
- Click the button Entire map to export the entire map.
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Policy Support for Renewable Energy Continues to Grow and Evolve
New Worldwatch Institute trend examines global support for renewable energy production
Washington, D.C.—Throughout much of the world, support policies for renewable energy technologies have increased dramatically over the last decade. Historically, policy design has evolved from
The majority of renewable energy support policies worldwide support electricity generation. Regulatory policies such as feed-in tariffs (FIT), net metering/billing, and renewable portfolio standards (RPS) or quotas have been developed to encourage the introduction of renewable energy technologies in the power sector. FITs remain the most widely adopted policy to support renewable energy. Altogether, 99 FIT policies are now in place worldwide at the national or state/provincial level. Municipal governments are also becoming more active in introducing FITs in cities.
Renewable portfolio standards or quotas for a specific required minimum share of renewable energy now exist in 76 countries, states, or provinces, up from 34 in 2004.
Policies to promote the uptake of renewable energies in the heating/cooling and transportation sectors, still lag behind policy activity in the electricity sector. Policies supporting renewable energy in the transportation sector through mandates and obligations are now in place in 51 countries at the national level. Biofuel blend mandates, a policy that requires a specific quantity of biofuels to be incorporated into transport fuel, are in place in 27 countries at the national level and in 27 states or provinces.
Tax incentives are being used to spur developments in the renewable energy sector in some 66 countries as of early 2013. Tax incentives can take many forms. Production tax credits, a main driver of the renewable energy sector in the United States, or investment tax credits allow for investments or stakes in renewable energy projects to be deducted from tax liabilities. Many countries have also enacted measures to reduce or exempt specific taxes on renewable energy technologies—such as value added tax, sales tax, or import duties—in an effort to decrease costs of project development.
As more policies have been enacted, regional diversity has greatly expanded. Of countries enacting policies by mid-2005, most (58 percent) were found in Europe and Central Asia, followed by East Asia and the Pacific (21 percent) and by Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).By 2013, the share of Europe and Central Asia declined to slightly more than one third of the global total.
The economic diversity of countries enacting support policies for renewable energy has also greatly expanded. High-income economies accounted for 69 percent of all policy support by mid-2005, but by early 2013 this had declined to 30 percent. The other economic groups each increased their share by more than 10 percent.
"As the renewable energy sector continues to mature, policymakers face a host of new challenges," said Evan Musolino, trend author. "While the pace of countries adopting new renewable energy support policies has slowed somewhat in recent years, the sector has experienced a flurry of activity centered on revising existing policy mechanisms. Policy changes have been driven by a variety of factors, both positive and negative."
Rapidly changing market conditions for technologies such as solar photovoltaics, where module costs declined by 80 percent since 2008 and by 20 percent in 2012 alone, have dramatically reduced the level of support needed to make projects attractive to investors and feasible for project developers. Simultaneously, the global economic slowdown left many countries with continuously tight national budgets, which has threatened support for the renewable energy sector. The combination of factors has led to a number of cuts to existing incentive programs.
Additional challenges to the sector have come from the introduction of taxes or tariffs on renewable energy installations or components. Taxes on renewable energy were enacted in Bulgaria, Greece, and Spain in 2012. Trade disputes centered on the international trade of renewable energy components have also become prominent in recent years.
As countries begin to have higher shares of renewable electricity in their national energy mix, policymakers need to address new challenges. Policy priorities are shifting from a need to incentivize market takeoff to ensuring favorable market conditions for the expanding renewables market and seamless integration of renewable generation into grid networks. Despite substantially different degrees of market maturation, renewable energy technologies continue to get support from government policymakers worldwide. This support is expected to continue, and to evolve, as the sector develops.
Further highlights from the report:
- As of early 2013, some 66 countries supported the renewable energy sector through their national tax codes.
- In less than a decade, sub-Saharan Africa expanded from no renewable energy support policies to policies on the books in 25 countries, accounting for one fifth of all nations enacting these policies worldwide.
- A significant increase of 17 countries was also recorded in the LAC region, while 12 countries enacted policies for the first time in the Middle East–North Africa (MENA) region.
Notes to Editors:
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Released awhile ago, SnapPages is a flash powered interface that allows you to share your hobbies/interests, organize schedules, and socialize with friends. They have three applications currently, including: Friend�s Manager, Calendar Manager, and Photo Manager. Each one of these applications has their own specific uses and functions nicely.
The first, and probably most in depth section is the Friend�s Manager. This area allows you to talk with friends in the form of �Gabs�. You can assign Gabs to your friends and enable whether or not you wish to allow them to invite others to the Gab. It�s more or less of a simple flash messaging system. There�s also a �Email Alerts� option which will automatically inform you by email if: you get a new friend request, someone accepts your friend invitation, you�re included in a Gab, or if someone replies to an existing Gab. You get your usual User Profile to edit; name, birthday, picture, hobbies, location, etc. Additionally, they have added a section called �Exchange� which categorizes all types of hobbies and interests: Auto, Finance, Books, Games, Jobs and many others. In these categories, you can create mini threads so that you can share all your favorites interests with your friends. A five star rating system has been implemented so that you and your friends can vote on what things are cool, and what things are not. You can sort them by name, date, friend or rating, as well as add �Opinions�, which are just comments on your Exchange items. If you want to, they�ve also added a print feature for the User Opinions. It reminded me of Delicious Library, a simple application for Mac users to categorize their interests in their own libraries.
SnapPages also includes a Photo Manager application allowing you to organize your screen shots and miscellaneous pictures. To start, you can create an �Album� to import your photos and other pictures. Each album can be set to public, private, secure, or friend-only. Secure requires for you to input a password to access it, the others have permission according to their name. You can add tags to the photos to help organize them for later use. While in your albums area, you can enlarge your photos by using the slider found in the upper right corner. They have included a mild photo editing section in the Photo Manager where you can rotate, crop, and/or adjust brightness. They have a few others setting to revise the lighting and other effects, but there isn�t many option currently right now. If you�re looking for some more in-depth online flash photo editing, head over to Picnik. You able to share your photo galleries with friends by selecting the particular album that you want to share and adding recipients along with an optional message. Lastly, there�s the download feature that simply let�s you download any of the photos you have in any of your albums.
The last section of SnapPages is the Calendar Manager. Each calendar that you create acts identical to the Photo Manager�s Albums in regards to their property settings: private, public, secure, and friends-only. You can color coordinate new calendars when you create them as well as changing their format from the normal month calendar, to a weekly or daily calendar format. You can add events to your calendars which will require you to specify a time, a place, and any further details you need for the events. They also give you the option to input a URL to an online map if you find it necessary for the event. You also can define whether your event is a repeating affair. If so, you can input the time span it repeats: day, week, month, or year. You can also add notifications to each event, which sends you a reminder prior to the actual event. They also give you the ability to add tasks to your calendars and set exact due dates for each project. Like I mentioned, they have the Share option just like the Photo Manager if you desire to collaborate or share certain calendars with friends. They�ve included a nice RSS feature which allows you to subscribe to your friend�s calendars and see their past and upcoming events. Overall, the Calendar Manager is a nice simple way of helping to keep yourself on track for things you need to get done. It�s not nearly as in-depth as something like Google�s Calendar, however for the average person, it�ll suffice just fine.
To be honest, I liked SnapPages. Though it didn�t bring anything incredibly new to the table, it laid out all the old stuff neatly and thoroughly. Since it was created in Flash, the animation helped give it a nice touch of fluency. Give it a try, it was fun to play around in it. They plan on continuously adding new features to SnapPages, so we can only hope for the best.
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LONDON — It's an iconic scene of Britain at war: Thousands of Londoners huddled in Underground stations as German bombs rained down.
But this is not the 1940s Blitz — it's the First World War, more than 20 years earlier.
For most people, the Great War evokes images of mud, gas masks and the trenches of the Western Front. The Imperial War Museum wants to expand that view. A century after the conflict began, the London museum aims to provide a new perspective on "the war to end all wars."
Senior historian Terry Charman said Wednesday that many people are surprised to learn that London was bombed — first by zeppelins, then by planes — and that 300,000 people sought shelter in subway stations.
"They say: 'Air raids? Really?"' Charman said. "I think we see the First World War very much through the prism of the trenches of the Western Front. You forget that there was a home front."
Reclaiming stories of the home front is one of the missions of the museum, which reopens Saturday after a six-month closure for a 40 million pound ($70 million) renovation.
The museum was founded in 1917, as the war still raged, to preserve the stories of those who were fighting and dying. It retains that goal, as well as its "Imperial" moniker, a relic of a vanished British Empire.
In other ways the museum has modernized. It now covers recent conflicts, including those in Iraq and Afghanistan, and includes an impressive collection of old and new military hardware. From the ceiling of the building's new atrium hang a Spitfire fighter plane, a Harrier jump jet, a V1 rocket and more.
But the museum's curators are just as interested in human stories. The First World War galleries move from the battlefront to the home front, to show how the first "total war" shook society from top to bottom.
The permanent exhibition includes more than 1,300 objects — from weapons and uniforms to diaries and letters — and alternates between the big picture and small details. Both perspectives have emotional power. It's hard not to be humbled by the sheer scale of the slaughter. After war was declared in August 1914 — with Germany and Austria-Hungary on one side and Britain, France and Russia on the other — 7 million men marched off to war. By December, 1 million of them were dead.
Multimedia displays capture the vast tragedy of the Battle of the Somme, which saw 20,000 British soldiers killed in one day. Visitors learn about tanks, planes and other technological innovations that changed the course of the war. They share space with crude weapons that suggest the almost medieval savagery of trench warfare, including catapults to fling grenades and an iron-headed club for crushing skulls.
Many visitors will find the small, personal items especially moving. Soldiers complain of boredom, rats, lice and cold in letters home from the trenches. The wallet of a soldier killed in battle holds faded photos of his wife and children. In a letter, 9-year-old Alfie Knight begs to be allowed to enlist because "I am very strong and often win a fight with lads twice as big as myself."
Most of the displays show the war from the perspective of Britain, its empire and its allies — including the United States, which entered the conflict in 1917. But senior curator Paul Cornish said that for him the most evocative object was a frying pan bearing a German patriotic message: "The German housewife sacrifices copper for iron." Copper was a prized war material.
"She wouldn't have had much to put in it," Cornish said. Meat, eggs and fat all grew scarce as Britain tried to starve Germany into submission.
"This was a highly advanced society reduced to beggary by the total nature of the war," Cornish said.
All the words seen and heard in the exhibition come from the wartime period. There are no reminiscences or later memoirs. Lead curator James Taylor said that was a deliberate decision, to convey the war as it was experienced: "four years of surprises, four years of shocks."
The exception comes in the final room. The last word is given to Harry Patch, the final known survivor of the trenches, who died in 2009, aged 111.
"I've tried for 80 years to forget it," he said. "But I can't."


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The other day we detailed how Israel couldn't have chosen a better time to start a Hamas offensive given the lull in external pressure.
In 2001 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, unaware that a camera was rolling, expressed an outline of an assault on Gaza and confirmed the notion that Israel feels confident attacking Hamas without being bothered by the U.S. (Israeli News Channel 10 aired the remarks in 2010):
"The main thing, first of all, is to hit them [with] blows that are so painful that the price will be too heavy to be borne… To bring them to a point of being afraid that everything is collapsing."
"The world won't say a thing. The world will say we're defending. Especially today, with America. I know what America is. America can easily be moved. Moved to the right direction … They won't get in our way."
Today Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said Netanyahu wanted a ceasefire and that Netanyahu "wanted to reestablish his deterrence and failed; tried to destroy missile launchers, and failed; and finally, tried to show that he had complete control over the initiative. All these failures have strengthened our resolve."
It should be noted that although Barack Obama has been in regular contact with Netanyahu, over the last two days the President has become the first U.S. President to visit the countries Myanmar and Cambodia.
One international player that has taken offense with Israel's shelling of Gaza Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, who told a conference of the Eurasian Islamic Council in Istanbul thw following:
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Vint Cerf, a vice president of Google, is considered one of the founding fathers of the Internet. He spoke with Global Viewpoint Network editor Nathan Gardels last week.
NATHAN GARDELS: When he founded Doctors Without Borders, Bernard Kouchner promoted the "right to protect" by crossing borders where the sovereign powers were harming their own citizens. When he was foreign minister of France, he called for Internet freedom and "the right to connect" across borders. As secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton has expressed similar views. Yet, Twitter has now agreed to respect boundaries and censorship laws by host states, prompting the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei to renounce tweeting. Google is going back to China.
Which one of these approaches is correct? What is the role of governments? Of technologists? As you have written in The New York Times, the Internet is an "enabler" technology, not a right in itself.
VINT CERF: First of all, as far as I am aware, Google is not returning to any censorious practices in China. We don't have any intention to go backward on that score. We continue to operate out of Hong Kong because there are not such restrictions at hk.com like there are at cn.com.
I wrote that article in The New York Times primarily because I felt there was too much focus on the Internet itself instead of realizing that this was only one of many technologies invented to facilitate human interaction, like the book or the phone in the past, and who knows what else that is better will come along in the future. So, I thought it would be odd to talk about "the right to connect to the Internet."
However, I don't think I sufficiently appreciated the inversion of that question: Is access to whatever the current enabler of human interaction is at a given historical moment a human right? I wouldn't say an individual has the right to be given access, but he or she should have the right not to be denied access if they can get it.
GARDELS: Once one agrees on this basic right, then other more complicated issues come into play. For example, in Europe there is much more concern over privacy of information shared over the Web, and even a new right I've heard proposed: "the right to forget," or "digital amnesty" – that is, the right of a person to eliminate information that, once on the Web, will circulate out there forever.
CERF: That is nonsense. Even bizarre. If this were a different medium – say, paper publishing – what would you do? Go to every library in the world and pull things out in your zeal to cause the world to forget in order to reset the record?
The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly. The reason is that with Internet technology you can capture a photo, a quote, or an article, store it locally and upload it into the Net more than once, if you wish, to multiple sites. Can you imagine then forcing the search engines to somehow not index that information? Who gets to characterize the information that should not or no longer be made visible?
All you can really do is what we are already doing at Google with "Street View," for example. We automatically eradicate license plates and faces in the first place. The technology enables us to do that. In other words, we never remember certain things to start with.
All of these issues reflect a concern over what norms need to be established for digital technology. We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is digital and easy to transmit exacerbates that. I don't know that we know yet what social norms we wish to adopt.
To make matters more complicated, there are national boundaries; there are different cultures and customs. So establishing uniform norms around the world seems unlikely. These social norms will be "emergent phenomenon" that result from all the various conditions coming together, and that will be different for America, China, and Europe.
So far, we don't have any social norms that govern the Internet, and that is quite troubling. The example I always use of the conundrum we face is this. If I'm visiting Egypt, I take a picture of my friend in front of the pyramids. As it happens, someone else I don't know is also standing in the background. When I post on my website, some third party comes along and sees that the person in the background in Cairo claimed to be in Paris that day. Then that person is in trouble.
Even if unintended, this is clearly a privacy-invasive practice. Yet we haven't adopted any global rules or norms about how we choose to behave in such circumstances. I don't have any prescriptions. We're just going to have to live through this to see what emerges.
GARDELS: Either it emerges organically out of experience when, for example, something bad happens and everyone recognizes it must be corrected, or you have bodies like the UN or G-20 [group of nations] seeking a minimum "code of conduct."
Another possibility is what Twitter is doing – you just divide your territory so that you abide by sovereign rules of the nation-states where they apply and then overlay that with global openness. (Twitter has said it will post a censored tweet and the reason for the censorship on a globally accessible site, but not within a given country.) This, in essence, is also what Google has done by going through Hong Kong (.hk) instead of China (.cn).
CERF: The question, of course, is how do you exercise sovereignty in this space where national boundaries are less and less visible? When we were designing the Internet, we made a very deliberate choice to make it non-national and network around boundaries as the core of the system. But at the same time, mainly for language reasons, we designated national domains. So, if you do a Google search in Rome it will come up in Italian, though you can force it back to the global Web page if you want to. That is our attempt to be friendly to the users wherever they are.
The increasing assertion of sovereignty on a national basis is an emergent phenomenon that has resulted from the increasing use of the Web by so many.
GARDELS: In a sense, to go back to Twitter as a metaphor, by agreeing to censorship they are reintroducing sovereignty into that open space. Interestingly, the first request to Twitter came from Brazil, where the authorities wanted to prevent street gangs from networking to avoid police crackdowns.
CERF: Brazil has been particularly interventionist in trying to control uses of the Internet for criminal purposes.
Here is what I'm imagining: Despite the fact that there is this ethereal notion that the Internet is a non-national space, companies that provide it, or provide applications through it, do operate under national jurisdictions from which they need licenses to operate as a business. So they are already conforming at the outset with a country's rules and regulations. Indeed, it would make little sense for a company to say to investors, "My business plan is to violate the laws of X country." That would not be very conducive to success. Google, of course, experienced that in China.
So, the fact is that the Internet does not exist in a virtual space, but is grounded in real territory with political and economic systems and the laws and regulations that go along with it. Businesses have to operate in the real world with real laws everywhere there are jurisdictional boundaries. Given that, what choices do we have in uses of the Net? You can try to ignore the laws and hope to get away with it. Or you can be law-abiding – a better survival tactic than not – but fight against intrusions like the SOPA [Stop Online Piracy Act] and PIPA [Protect IP Act], and perhaps in the future other cyber-security legislation.
I think we'll see all of these behaviors in this environment. We'll only discover what is thought to be sensible over a period of time through court cases or other means that will tell us what, ultimately, people are comfortable with. I can't see any other way, because today's media and capacity to connect and network is unprecedented. The territory – and the boundaries – are uncharted.
Generally speaking, I find that governments have a sense of responsibility for protecting their citizens from harm in cyberspace. Certainly most democratic governments have the intent of protecting their citizens from harm. That is why there are laws.
It would be desirable for people to be able to use the Internet with the reasonable expectation that they are protected from identity theft or unauthorized access to personal information, including financial and medical records – or from more direct threats like stalking, bullying, misrepresentation, slander, and libel. All those kind of harms are possible and prevalent. So when Hillary Clinton or others talk about the "freedom to connect," that also imposes a responsibility on the governments to protect the freely connected.
GARDELS: As I mentioned, the way Twitter has decided to deal with this lack of universal norms is to create a split level – Twitter will either allow the tweets to go forward (outside the censored territory) or explain [why] the tweet was censored.
CERF: In Google's case, we invoke filtering in accordance with national regulations in some countries. For example, in France and Germany, we filter for Nazi memorabilia. But since it is allowed elsewhere, if you did a search on Google's global site, you could find it. You just couldn't access it on ".fr" or ".ge."
In China, we opted not to agree to filtering, but operate instead out of Hong Kong, a reverse mirror of the "one country, two systems" arrangement between China and Hong Kong.
GARDELS: Sina Weibo – China's microblogging sphere – has taken the country by storm. Whether the Wenzhou bullet-train crash or pollution in Beijing, microblogging netizens are on the case. What seems to be emerging is a kind of "monitory webocracy" that is forcing accountability on the authorities. As China, like any society, becomes more transparent in this way, the question for government becomes: "Who controls whom?" The opaque government's response in China is to force the Web to become transparent by making everyone register in their real names and outlaw anonymity.
CERF: What is happening in China is absolutely fascinating. In the US, the First Amendment was put in place to protect free speech. Free expression today has evolved well beyond what the founders would have recognized on today's wild Web.
When I testify before Congress, I often hear complaints about what they regard as the implicit harm caused by anonymous free speech. My response has been to remind them that the reason we are sitting here in this bastion of freedom is because anonymously authored tracts agitated for revolution and independence. Part of the rationale for the First Amendment was to codify this right to anonymous speech, which the founders saw as the key to a public being able to organize and rebel. It guaranteed free expression without harm to the citizen.
Of course, on the other side, when one speaks anonymously, one may be tempted to speak with a "forked tongue." But trying to gear technology to inhibit "bad behavior" is not really somewhere we should go as a free society. That gets awful close to the "right to forget" notion.
One way to modify bad behavior is simply to make laws that prohibit bad behavior, and if the person is caught, there will be consequences. That, and not trying to program good behavior, is how a free society should work. It doesn't stop the behavior, but it puts people on notice that such behavior is outside the norms of the society. We say "don't drink and drive." People drink and drive all the time. But if we catch them, we can take their driver's license away.
Another way to modify bad behavior is moral suasion. Don't do that because it is morally wrong. Probably the best way to modify behavior is to design incentives to do the right thing.
GARDELS: On the anonymity issue, perhaps here, too, there can be different takes on different circumstances. It may not be so important to protect anonymous free speech in a society like the US, where the rule of law has demonstrated that an outspoken person won't be retaliated against by the state. In China, where that is not the case, anonymous speech is, for the moment, more important.
CERF: China is evolving faster than I would have predicted. I have always felt that the power of transparency enabled by the connectivity of the Web is a kind of universal solvent that ultimately erodes untruth. Sometimes it takes a while. But the whole process seems to be accelerating in China. In my experience, there is much more openness and tolerance of criticism [than] most in the West believe.
The government's response is also interesting. They know that in Chinese history, revolution always comes from below and outside in the provinces. So they are very responsive to criticism over Weibo and almost use it as a kind of early warning system. They know that non-responsiveness would be dangerous.
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Managing information risk is a complex business these days, especially when you look at (1) the range of information you need to protect, (2) the breadth of risks you need to mitigate, and (3) the management policies and tools available to today's IT security professionals to protect that information. However:
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It is true that you can find software for almost anything and now it is even more useful in business operations. In steel industries, there is planning, purchasing, marketing, inventory, finance, sales and even human resource aspects to deal with. You do not have to waste thousands of dollars hiring people to take care of this side of business for you when a software can do everything you want. Business software are different from the rest which is why ERP is associated with these software. It will take a lot more when it comes to the software you purchase for your business. Your choice will be able to fulfill the purpose you want it to serve if you know what you should get. A business software is an advantage in that it will save time in completing the chores. When you are moving fast, you will be able to get more work done.
The automation of the process means data management will be easy. Your employees will be able to feed information into the system as well as pull out what they want at anytime. In case there is data analysis to be done, it will be fast and accurate. You do not have to keep giving your signature because the softwares allows for people to give electronic signatures and there are audit features available which make sure too much time is not wasted on the same thing and this means the data is protected. The software offer business intelligence ranging from innovative reporting features and advanced analytics to role-tailored dashboards.
There are tasks which you have to complete every day in the business world and by acquiring a steel industry software, you will get workflows which you can customize to suit your needs so that these recurring tasks can be done in an efficient manner. The automation of these process make sure there are no redundant tasks, and they optimize resource use and labor. All this will lead to an improved productivity which is the end result everyone in business wants. It is not always that your employees will be working behind a desk which means at times they will have to hit the road and it will be more helpful for everyone if the data they collect can be uploaded from whichever location they are at as well as being able to access what is in the system from the field.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- A powerful earthquake shook buildings and caused panic on the densely-populated Indonesian island of Java, but there have been no reports of injuries and no tsunami alert.
Shaken residents stand outside an apartment building in Kunigan, South Jakarta
The quake, measured at magnitude 7.5 by the U.S. Geological Survey, struck shortly after midnight in a part of the sea dotted with oil rig platforms, Financial Times journalist John Aglionby told CNN International.
He described feeling the quake in his house in a suburb of the Indonesian capital.
"I was just getting into bed on the second floor of my house. You rarely feel these things in Jakarta so I knew something was wrong immediately," he told CNN. Watch Aglionby describe what he felt »
According to CNN's Kathy Quiano, the shaking caused many in the capital to flee their homes. "We felt the earthquake in Jakarta, it was pretty strong and went on for at least a minute," Quiano said.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no threat of a tsunami, because the quake was too deep.
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake was centered 100 kilometers (62 miles) east of Jakarta, at a depth of 289 kilometers (180 miles). It occurred about 32 kilometers (20 miles) from shore.
"Earthquakes of 7.5 and over happen approximately 18 times a year," said John Bellini of the USGS, "and in the area around Indonesia that varies. You might see one or two a year, or you might not see any."
About 15 minutes after the quake struck, Quiano drove through Jakarta, and said she saw no signs of damage. She said residents -- especially those living in high-rises, ran from their homes when they felt the quake, but returned fairly quickly.
"The earthquake went on for at least a minute here. It was pretty strong and scary," Quiano said. "People are shaken, that's for certain."
And Aglionby said there were still concerns for the many oil rigs exploiting the resource rich waters off the north coast of Java. E-mail to a friend
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Fifth annual firefighters banquet held April 25
On April 25, the fifth annual Fire and Emergency Service Banquet was held at Kings Restaurant with approximately 75 emergency service personnel in attendance. Time was spent by retired firefighters sharing war stories and remembering the �good old days� of brotherhood.
The committee members for the banquet were Guy Basden, Levy Massey, David Ricke, Kenneth �Dot-Dash� Brigman, Clarence Eubanks, Richard Daniels, Mellie Swaney, Gwen Smith, and Robert Swiger. Three committee members no longer with us but instrumental for the event�s beginnings are Tony Kelly, Joe Perry and James Smith.
Kinston Mayor B.J. Murphy attended the event and shared his appreciation of the service of all those in attendance. He also read a proclamation declaring April 25, 2013 as Fireman�s Day.
Clinton Fire Chief Adon Snyder was introduced to the attendees.
The guest speaker was John Grimes, Chief of Leland Fire Department and Second Vice President of the N.C. State Fireman�s Association. Chief Grimes brought attendees up to date on changes in the Association and said that Paul Miller the executive director would be retiring at the end of June and Tim Bradley, now the Assistant State Fire Marshal and Sr. Deputy Insurance Commissioner, will be taking over that position..
This year, the committee decided to honor the widows of those that had passed on and had served us. Gwen Smith and Mellie Swaney were responsible for this part of the ceremony. Each widow present was presented a rose as Smith called their names and Swaney and Levy Massey handed out the roses.
The highlight of the evening came when the committee recognized who is believed to be the oldest living Kinston fireman � former Kinston Fire Chief David Lee. Lee began his career with Kinston in July 1945 and rose to the rank of captain. He left the Kinston Fire Department in 1961 and went to work with Department of Insurance Fire and Rescue and was a Trainer.
In 1967, he accepted the position of Fire Marshal of Guilford County and in 1970 came back to Kinstonas chief. After one year, he went into business, selling fire apparatus and fire equipment. The committee presented him with a plaque to show appreciation for his dedication to the fire service.


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A new way of processing embryos during IVF treatment can improve the chances of pregnancy by more than a quarter, The Daily Telegraph today reported.
The story is based on research evaluating a new system for incubating newly fertilised embryos during IVF treatment. The new system is designed to protect the growing bundles of cells from environmental stresses that might affect their development. In conventional systems, the embryos had to be transferred between different devices to perform all the various stages of IVF treatment, but the new system allows a range of functions to be performed in a single sealed unit that regulates the temperature and quality of the air around them. This research found that in the conventional system 30% of embryos successfully developed to the 'blastocyst stage', which is seen five or six days after fertilisation, compared with 40% in the new system. The new system was also associated with an increase in clinical pregnancy rates during the period that it was introduced.
The findings are interesting, but they do not add up to an IVF " breakthrough", as is suggested by The Daily Telegraph. The new method of incubating embryos sounds promising, but no randomised trial has yet been undertaken into its effectiveness. Further good research is needed to investigate whether it can improve pregnancy and live birth rates.
This method of culturing embryos in a laboratory for five to six days after fertilisation before implantation in the womb is called blastocyst transfer. Transferring the fertilised embryo to the womb two to three days after fertilisation is called embryo transfer.
Where did the story come from?
The study was carried out by researchers from Newcastle Fertility Centre, University Hospital of North Tees, Northumbria University and Newcastle University. It was funded by the Medical Research Council. The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal Public Library of Science (PLoS ONE).
The study's findings were overplayed by the papers. The Daily Telegraph reported that it could increase pregnancy rates by more than one quarter. This is a measure of relative increase, highlighting that the number of successful pregnancies rose by around 25%. However, it is more useful to look at the 'absolute' figures, which describe how many people actually conceived out of all those people that used IVF. The absolute increase in clinical pregnancy rates associated with the new system was actually about 10%, with IVF leading to pregnancy in 32-35% of participants in the years before the new system was introduced, and this figure rising to 45% in the year the new system was introduced.
Also, it is not clear if other improvements in IVF occurred over this period and whether these contributed to the increase in successful pregnancies. The Daily Mail misleadingly reported that the new method gave a 40% greater chance of success.
What kind of research was this?
This research reports on various studies relating to the development of a new system of culturing embryos in the laboratory, designed to improve their viability and, eventually, the chances of successful pregnancy.
The authors point out that culturing embryos for implantation into women typically involves the use of open-fronted microbiological safety cabinets, with standalone incubation chambers. This means embryos may need to be removed from the incubator to check on their development in the safety cabinet. This can expose them to changes in temperature and air quality, as well as chemical contaminants, all of which may disrupt cell processes that are key to development.
To protect embryos from the possible impact of environmental stresses, the researchers developed a new fully enclosed chain of pressure-sealed workstations featuring integrated incubators and built-in microscopes, allowing them to incubate and examine developing embryos all within a single apparatus. The workstations were designed to link to adjacent treatment rooms in which women had their eggs retrieved and embryos implanted. The system is designed to provide a controlled environment from the time eggs are harvested from the woman's ovary until embryos are transferred to the womb.
What did the research involve?
The authors undertook three pieces of research:
- They compared the temperature and air quality of their new enclosed system and the old open system in three separate laboratory experiments.
- They compared embryo development in the enclosed system with that in the conventional system, using mouse embryos.
- They compared the development of human embryos before and after the installation of the new systems.
They then collected data on patients during the period when the new equipment was being fitted and validated. They used this to compare pregnancy outcomes in three consecutive groups of patients - those who had treatment when conventional open-fronted cabinets were used, those who were treated when a temporary laboratory using conventional equipment was in use and those who were treated when the refurbished laboratory using the new enclosed system was in place. To control for differences between patients, they confined their analysis to couples undergoing their first treatment cycle, in which the woman was 37 years or less and had had 10 egg follicles harvested.
What were the basic results?
In their preliminary research they found that the enclosed system was more successful at maintaining temperature and air quality than the conventional system.
- They found that the proportion of human embryos that had developed to the 'blastocyst stage' by day seven was 30% for the open system, compared with 40.1% in the new enclosed system. An embryo is called a blastocyst once it has developed for five to six days after fertilisation.
- They say analysis of 600 embryos revealed that the increased rate of blastocyst formation coincided exactly with the change from the open to the enclosed system.
- They also found that embryos produced in the new system contained significantly more cells and had 'accelerated development' compared with those cultivated in the open-fronted system.
- Experiments with mouse embryos cultured in the two systems also showed more embryos developing to the blastocyst stage under the enclosed system than in the conventional system.
- Finally, when they compared groups undergoing treatment at different times they found that those treated in the enclosed system had a clinical pregnancy rate of 45.3%, compared with a rate of 32.2% for those treated when the conventional system was in place. A rate of 35.6% was seen while the temporary laboratory was in use. A clinical pregnancy was defined as a heartbeat on a scan at seven weeks' gestation.
How did the researchers interpret the results?
The new enclosed system, say the researchers, protects embryos from changes in temperature and air quality and promotes improved development.
The new system of culturing embryos sounds like a promising development but further research involving couples undergoing IVF treatment is required to assess whether it improves pregnancy and live birth rates. In particular, the patient data offered by the researchers were not taken from participants in a controlled trial, which means that many other factors might have affected pregnancy rates.
As the authors point out, improved outcomes over this period might have been due to a general improvement in assisted conception procedures during the period of the study, although they say they tested for this possibility.
This may well prove to be a useful technique for IVF, and the researchers have demonstrated its feasibility. More research with a control group of patients is needed before we can be certain of its benefits and lack of harms.
Analysis by Bazian
Edited by NHS Website
Links to the headlines
IVF breakthrough improves pregnancy chances by a quarter
The Daily Telegraph, 1 March 2012
New IVF method gives 40% more chance of success: Lab mimics conditions in the womb
Daily Mail, 1 March 2012
Links to the science
Hyslop L, Prathalingam N, Nowak L et al.
A Novel Isolator-Based System Promotes Viability of Human Embryos during Laboratory Processing
PLoS ONE 7(2): e31010


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