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Surveillance video shows shadowy figure cleaning out huge Woodlands closet
Montgomery County investigators have released security video of a burglar - wearing a light-colored, hooded jump suit with a baseball cap - who last weekend broke into a giant closet in The Woodlands and stole around $1 million worth of designer bags, jewelry and watches.
The video, released Tuesday, shows the intruder swathed in light clothing, blending into the background as he picks through items in the closet as if it were a department store. The burglar dumps each item into a bag and is done in about nine minutes before exiting.
Theresa Roemer, whose giant three-story closet was cleaned out less than two weeks after it had been featured on ABC's "Good Morning America," said the video in the closet was shot with an infrared camera, because the intruder worked in the dark and never turned on the light.
"That's why it is so unclear and we can't tell the exact color of his clothing," she said after the video was released to the public.
She said she does not recognize the individual seen going through her belongings. "The one in my closet looked like he was shopping," Roemer said.
"I keep wondering, 'Who is this person? Has he been in my house before? Was it cased when it was being constructed?' It's just scary, very scary."
Sheriff Tommy Gage released the video early Tuesday afternoon in an attempt to generate leads about the nighttime theft, which has drawn nationwide attention.
Bicyclist not involved
Gage initially also released a separate security video from the day of the robbery, showing a person of interest lingering in front of the Roemers' home and talking on his cellphone after stopping his bicycle. But after that video was publicized by media outlets, the sheriff's office issued a news release Tuesday evening saying the individual shown was "not being considered as a suspect" and there was no need to further broadcast images or post video of him.
Brady Fitzgerald, spokesman for the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, said investigators established that the person in front of the home was a "kid visiting in the neighborhood."
The burglary occurred between 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. Friday in the 40 block of Grand Regency Circle, in the upscale, gated Carlton Woods section of The Woodlands.
Deputies determined that the intruder had forced his way into the Roemers' home through a bathroom window.
Diamond jewelry, watches and designer purses were among the items stolen from the three-level, 3,000-square-foot designer closet that Roemer calls her "she cave."
Investigators have been scouring security video collected from the house.
"The video shows one suspect inside the residence wearing a jumpsuit and gloves," Fitzgerald said. He confirmed that the suspect spent almost an hour inside, relaying items back outside.
A burglar alarm installed in the house did not sound because, as Roemer acknowledged, it had not been set. She and her husband, who had gone out for dinner at the local country club, also neglected to lock the glass door that is designed to secure the closet with all their valuables inside.
Security experts say the intruder probably realized the alarm was off as soon as the window was broken.
"Most home alarms are not silent," said Chris McGoey of Crimedoctor.com, "If they enter a home and they don't hear an alarm they assume it's not set. I think they took a risk."
The Roemers have been picking up the pieces in their lavish 20,000-square-foot home but say they don't hold out much hope that the security video will lead to the identification of the thief, who may have been plotting the break-in since the day the designer goods treasure trove first appeared on TV.
Crime scene investigators did swab for DNA and fingerprint evidence.
More lights, cameras
After the video was released Tuesday, Theresa Roemer admitted feeling foolish for leaving her home so vulnerable by failing to lock the doors and turn on the alarm.
"I don't think anybody can go through life without doing something careless when they're flustered and hurried before leaving," she said. "But now I lock all my doors and have lights on, inside and out. The alarm is set, and I'm having more lights and cameras installed."
Crime Stoppers is offering a $1,000 award for information leading to an arrest or indictment in the case. Anyone with information is asked to call 800-392-STOP (7867).


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A Marlin police detective has been fired after allegedly using Facebook to complain about people on public assistance.
Police Chief Darrell Allen on Wednesday dismissed Rob Douglas, a five-year veteran of the force southeast of Waco.
A post attributed to Douglas expressed frustration about grocery shopping on the first of the month. It spoke of seeing people on public assistance or food stamps, and complained that some have tattoos and expensive car accessories.
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The post referred to "useless lazy turd bags" and ended, "If I ever snap and go on a killing spree, it will be in a supermarket on the first."
City Manager R.C. Fletcher told the Waco Tribune-Herald that Allen fired Douglas for violating social media policies and rules of conduct.
Douglas initially was placed on administrative leave.

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Second-half burst lifts Beacons past Panthers
PLYMOUTH, N.H. – Freshmen Colleen Hooper and Kendra Mosley scored 19 points apiece Tuesday evening to lead the University of Massachusetts Boston to a 65-52 victory over Plymouth State University in Little East Conference women's basketball action at Foley Gymnasium.
Hooper scored 17 of her 19 points in the second half while Mosley collected a game-high nine rebounds. Sophomore Elisa Ogawa also scored 10 points for the Beacons, who improved to 10-3 overall and 2-2 in conference play.
Plymouth State got a game-high 20 points from senior Amanda Kania but she was the only Panther to reach double figures in scoring. Junior Michaela Galvin scored eight points and grabbed a team-high eight rebounds, while sophomore Colleen O'Hara finished with eight points and six boards. PSU leading scorer Alicia Doucet returned from a two-game absence because of illness, but managed just five points. It was the fifth straight loss by the Panthers, who drop to 7-6 overall and 1-3 in the Little East.
The Panthers took control of the game midway through the first half, and went on a 15-4 burst to open up a nine-point advantage (24-15). UMB rallied to cut the margin to one point (26-25), but Kania hit a late three-pointer for PSU to make it a four-point game at the half.
PSU maintained a slim advantage over the first eight minutes of the second half. The teams were tied 44-all with six minutes to play when the Panthers went cold and the Beacons heated up. UMB outscored the home team 13-2 over the next four minutes to claim an 11-point bulge with two minutes on the clock. PSU got no closer than nine points the rest of the way.
The Beacons shot 42 percent from the field while holding the Panthers to a 25 percent shooting clip. PSU made just 6-of-29 from long distance, including 1-of-14 in the second half.
PSU is back in action with an LEC game Saturday at Rhode Island College, while the Beacons return home to host Bridgewater State Thursday in a non-conference affair.
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Autoclaving water to go into the incubator
Posted 30 May 2013 - 09:49 PM
Posted 30 May 2013 - 11:11 PM
It is common to use autoclaved water (I use ordinary tap water not distilled as our equipment is stainless and rusts quicker when distilled water is used). Also I add 1ml of roccal (fungicide and antibacterial agent) to the water tray in the incubator before I add about 2L of autoclaved tap water to help keep contamination at bay.
Also because autoclaving is a sterilisation process i think the chances of contamination onset in the autoclave are minimal. Just screw the lid back down when the sterilisation cycle is done.
Posted 31 May 2013 - 04:20 AM
Il dort. Quoique le sort fût pour lui bien étrange,
Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n'eut plus son ange;
La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva,
Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.
Posted 01 June 2013 - 07:49 AM
Also, we sterilise all of our bacterial culture media with lids loosened half a turn. I never tighten them after autoclaving, just pop them on the shelf until needed, sometimes for as long as a few months (I do close tightly after they have been opened once). Never had a contamination.
So I think the water will be just fine.
Posted 01 June 2013 - 07:35 PM
Posted 03 June 2013 - 05:51 AM
I wouldn't use either for the incubator (for the increased rusting reason mentioned above). Normal tap water is just fine (and what is recommended in the manual for both of our incubators which are different brands).
You could check your brand's manual to see what they recommend?
Posted 18 June 2013 - 10:43 PM
in my situation, if I look in our MilliQ water equipment, I usually can see the inlet for this machine is an outlet from another machine.
The other machine is water distillation or deionization system.
As lelee said, to make the filtration system lasts longer.
Posted 19 June 2013 - 01:06 PM
Posted 19 June 2013 - 06:06 PM
Posted 12 August 2013 - 06:11 PM
Same here. We autoclave regular tap water and supplement the water with SDS. Distilled and Milli-Q water will rust your incubator.
What is the purpose of adding SDS? As an anti-bacterial?
Posted 19 August 2013 - 04:07 PM
We use autoclaved water too. And we add a splash of Microcide SQ (a good cleaning solution that doesn't harm the stainless steel).
Posted 30 August 2013 - 09:06 AM
Same here. We autoclave regular tap water and supplement the water with SDS. Distilled and Milli-Q water will rust your incubator.
What is the purpose of adding SDS? As an anti-bacterial?
We have seen it reduce the growth of bacteria. It is especially helpful if someone accidently splashes media into the water tray.


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After deciding a name for your character, you are then asked three questions: this summer I'm going to, as a personal goal I want to, and next year I promise not to. I assume these questions serve a purpose, but the game doesn't give any hint as to what it is, nor does the manual seem to contain any information.
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Elephant can: They avoid the bees at all costs
Q. Do you kiss the right way? –J. Frost
A. No judgments are intended here as there's really no "wrong" way to do it. Rather, "right" pertains to the right or left tilt of the kissing head. Just as most people kick with their right foot, throw with their right arm, or look through a microscope with their right eye, most of us kiss with our head tilted right, said biopsychologist Onur Gunturkun in Nature magazine.
He observed 124 kissing couples age 13 to 70 in airports, railway stations, beaches, and parks in the U.S., Germany, and Turkey and found that two-thirds of the participants kiss this way. Even in Rodin's famous masterpiece "The Kiss," the lovers turn their heads to the right.
As Gunturkun summed up, this 2:1 kissing bias means that for every nine couples, four by chance would both have the right bias, ensuring a good initial lip-to-lip contact; one couple would have a left bias, again ensuring successful contact.
"However, statistics dictate that four couples would clash noses as they attempted a left/right kiss," he says cheekily.
Q. How do we say "@"? Is it the "at sign" or the "cat sign"? –N. Webster
A. It's the former, of course. We'll get to the cat in a moment. In 1971, American computer engineer Ray Tomlinson sent the world's first email and he needed a symbol to identify the location of the sender within the email system, says David Crystal in A Little Book of Language. He chose @, called the "at sign" in English today.
But some other languages give it other names, as people look at its odd shape and compare it to a worm, an elephant's trunk, a monkey's tail and so on. It's called a "malpa" in Poland (for "monkey" in Polish), a "sobaka" in Russia (Russian for "dog"), a "papaka" in Greece (Greek for "duckling").
"My favorite is one of the names it's received in Finland: 'miukumauku'– Finnish for 'miaow-meow,'" Crystal writes.
Q. True or False: The mammoth eight-ton African elephant stands as worry-free king of the beasts. –Dumbo
A. While it's true that East Africa's elephants face few threats (aside from humans and lions) in their savanna home, the behemoths are terrified of African bees, says Science magazine. And with good reason: An angry swarm can sting elephants around their eyes and inside their trunks and pierce the skin of young calves that have yet to develop a thick protective hide. Now a new study has shown that these pachyderms utter a distinctive rumble in response to the sound of bees, the first time that an alarm call to the group has been identified. So skittish are elephants that fences made of beehives wired together can significantly reduce crop raids. Actually, all it takes is a recording of the bees to have the deterrent effect.
Q. Is it all right to be left-handed? –D. Perkins
A. Judging by everyday conversation, left-handedness is not all right, says David G. Myers in Psychology. To be "coming out of left field" is hardly better than to be "gauche" (from the French word for "left"); on the other hand, right-handedness is "right on," which any righteous right-hand man in his right mind rightly is.
Left-handers turn out to be especially numerous among those with reading disabilities, allergies, and migraine headaches. But in Iran, where students taking university entrance exams report which hand they write with, lefties outperform righties in all subjects. Lefties are also more common among musicians, mathematicians, professional baseball and cricket players, architects and artists (Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso).
"Although left-handers must tolerate elbow jostling at the dinner table, right-handed desks, and awkward scissors," Myers writes, "the pros and cons of being a lefty seem roughly equal."
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Curiosity: KPCC's coverage of JPL's mission to Mars
KPCC reporters tracked Southland scientists, engineers and their families as their interplanetary probe Curiosity landed on the Martian surface. This page features our ongoing coverage of that mission by exploring local connections to Curiosity. Scientists and engineers: Are you excited by the exploration of Mars? Become a KPCC source!
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A year on Mars: What's Curiosity been up to?
Imagine winning the World Series, the lottery and a Nobel Prize all in one day. That's pretty much how scientists and engineers in mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., felt one year ago when the 1 ton, six-wheeled rover named Curiosity landed safely on Mars.
For Monday's 1st anniversary, the year on Mars in a 2-minute video
The NASA Curiosity rover has been on Mars for almost a year now: Monday night marks the one-year anniversary of touchdown on the Red Planet. We review the mission's accomplishments, as well as a video of the year's key moments.
Shiny object found on Mars! Is it alien? Or just a piece of the Curiosity rover?
The Internet has been abuzz about a bright object that appeared near the Mars Curiosity rover this week. The rover had scooped up its first soil sample when Curiosity team members spotted the object near the robotic arm.
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NASA's Torsten Zorn, the tactical downlink lead on the Mars Curiosity rover, explained via video how the team had a major success this week when they deployed a laser-firing arm for the first time on Mars.
Video: What it really looks like to land on Mars
Like a patchwork parachute, the decent images of NASA's Curiosity have been sewn into a story of what it feels like to smack the surface of a far away planet. The new HD video (below) shows the spacecraft's skydive onto the surface of Mars using full-resolution images of the rover's descent.
Follow Curiosity's own tweets from Mars—plus Mohawk Guy and JPL
In honor of the Curiosity mission on Mars we have brought together some of the more interesting Twitter feeds as they discuss the historic venture. Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below and join in on the discussion.
Mars Curiosity: Software makeover will allow rover to 'stretch her wheels'
Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are giving the Mars rover Curiosity a new set of software, so that it can begin its mission of searching for life on the Red Planet.
So you landed on Mars. Now what?
The Mars rover Curiosity is beginning its fifth day on the red planet, and it's been performing flawlessly from the moment it landed.
Mars from Curiosity: First photos to mission control
With its Google Android shadow and Gabby Douglas landing, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity began sending images of itself in its surroundings within seconds of safely arriving on the surface of the red planet Sunday night/Monday morning.
Curiosity lands safely on Mars
It would have been a sight to see: a car-sized rover using heat shields, a supersonic parachute and a jet powered hovercraft to safely land on the red dirt of Mars. A landing worthy of a medal, though no one was around to see it.
Watch video of Mars landing from NASA/JPL
Live updates from JPL headquarters as Curiosity began its approach to the Martian surface.
Scientists look to martian rocks for history of life
NASA has sent rovers to explore Mars before. But three words explain what makes this latest mission to Mars so different: location, location, location.
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Who will rule the business of space? Humans...or robots?
With the arrival of commercial space-exploration startups in the big way — see SpaceX and its Space Station servicing mission, Virgin Galactic and its push into space tourism and launch services for NASA — the Curiosity mission has also revived an old debate: Should we focus on sending robots, or people, into space?
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Greetings, one and all, and welcome to the second of our very special theme weeks – Vampire Week! Brain-Cravers took center stage last week, but this week belongs to the Bloodsuckers!
As we are apt to do, we start out with a very special micro-hero from EG, and boy, is it a special one! See, over the weekend, EG was able to watch a special episode of Wolfman Mac's Chiller Drive-In. Wolfman Mac is the latest in the fine history of Horror Hosts (such as Sir Graves Ghastly, The Ghoul, and Dr. Shock) that we've had in the area. This weekend's movie? None other than that 1922 silent classic, Nosferatu!
Inspiration struck, and the Steve Austin Book Club is proud to present one of the most famous vampires of all time, Count Orlok!
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Leslie Carter, the sister of former Backstreet Boy Nick Carter and pop singer Aaron Carter, died Tuesday at the age of 25.
The aspiring singer, who had a single "Like Wow" included on the "Shrek" movie soundtrack, was found at her home in upstate New York. No cause of death has been released; an autopsy left it unknown pending toxicology reports, E! Online reported.
"Our family is grieving right now and it's a private matter," a spokesperson for the family told Access Hollywood. "We are deeply saddened for the loss of our beloved sister, daughter, and granddaughter, Leslie Carter. We request the utmost privacy during this difficult time."
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In addition to pursuing music, Leslie appeared on the 2006 reality show "House of Carters." She leaves behind a husband and one-year-old daughter.
Aaron Carter will be taking a break from his starring role in an off-Broadway revival of "The Fantasticks" to mourn his sister.
Nick Carter is resuming a tour on Thursday at New York's Irving Plaza and doesn't intend to cancel the future dates, People Magazine reported.
"Performing is cathartic to me and I am dedicating the rest of my tour to my sister since she loved to watch me perform," Nick Carter said.
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Saturday night, someone who felt lucky may turn out to be the luckiest person in the world as they pick the numbers for the Powerball jackpot, now at $600 million. NBC's Miguel Almaguer reports.
If you have two bucks and a dream, Powerball has a game for you.
The jackpot of the multi-state lottery game has surged to $600 million ahead of Saturday's drawing -- the second-largest pot in U.S. lottery history.
In the drawing in the 43-state game at 10:59 p.m. ET Saturday, the winning numbers were 10, 13, 14, 22, 52 and Powerball 11.
The estimated jackpot surpasses Powerball's previous record set in November 2012, when the jackpot jumped to $587.5 million before two winners split the prize.
The largest jackpot ever claimed was a $656 million Mega Millions prize split three ways in March.
The estimated cash value of Saturday's drawing, should a winner choose to be paid in one lump sum, now stands at $376.9 million -- before taxes, of course.
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A customer purchases Powerball and Mega Millions lottery tickets at a store in Decatur, Ga. The combined jackpots of the games are estimated at $800 million.


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Undergraduate Fellowships for Arctic Research
Part of Dartmouth's commitment to undergraduate education includes getting students involved in the research process early on—the Institute of Arctic Studies awards Stefansson Fellowships to undergraduate students whose research requires travel to arctic locations. Supported projects span the academic spectrum.
Elizabeth Parker spent the summer of 2009 at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Auke Creek Research Station in Juneau, Alaska, studying how selection pressures related to latitude affect the lipid allocation strategy used by capelin fish. Hanul Kim spent the same summer working with William Fitzhugh, director of the Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian Institution, excavating ancient artifacts related to the cooperative relationship between Basque whalers and Inuit inhabitants in Newfoundland. In 2006, Mary Hiratsuka, a Native American studies major, traveled to Greenland to study preservation of the Inuit language—she worked closely with Aqqaluk Lynge and Lene Holm of the Inuit Circumpolar Council and with faculty at the University of Greenland.
As an undergraduate engineering major and 2007 Stefansson Fellow, Chris Polashenski tracked mercury in snowmelt as it entered the arctic ecosystem in Barrow, Alaska. He is now a third year Ph.D. student in Dartmouth's Polar Environmental Change Program working with Donald Perovich at the U.S. Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) studying seasonal sea ice melt processes in the Arctic.


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The Risk Finance Bureau regulates captive insurance companies, risk retention groups and other kinds of non-traditional risk transfer mechanisms that are licensed by the Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB). DISB licenses qualified institutions, performs financial analyses and conducts regular financial examinations to ensure financial solvency. DISB provides practical and innovative regulatory responses in a timely manner to captive insurance companies seeking to establish operations or transact business in the District.


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Golda Meir
Name at birth: Goldie Mabovitch
Golda Meir was the fourth prime minister of Israel and one of the most visible women in international affairs for nearly two decades. Born in Russia but raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she settled on a kibbutz in British Mandate Palestine with her American husband, Morris Meyerson, in 1921. As Golda Meir (her adopted name), she became active in Zionist politics, and after Israel gained independence in 1948 she served as ambassador to the Soviet Union (1948), was elected to the Knesset (1949) and was named the country's foreign minister (1956-65). Strong-willed and fiercely protective of Israel, she became an international symbol of Israeli resolve. After the death of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol in 1969, Meir came out of retirement to become, at age 71, prime minister. Her handling of the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 (the Yom Kippur War) was widely critized, as were her attempts to garner peace for Israel after the war, and she resigned in 1974. She was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. Meir published an autobiography, My Life, in 1975.
Meir and Meyerson were married in 1917. They separated in 1928, but never divorced. They had two children: Menaham (b. 1924) and Sara (b. 1926)… She was played by Ingrid Bergman in the 1982 TV movie A Woman Called Golda… In the stage play, Golda, she was portrayed by Anne Bancroft.
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Some storied and contentious pieces of movie memorabilia have netted more than $3 million at auction in Los Angeles.
Chief among the fifteen just-sold Academy Awards statuettes: Herman Mankiewicz's 1941 Best Original Screenplay Oscar, which he shared with director Orson Welles, for Citizen Kane. It sold for $588,455.
The other best known of the prizes sold at auction house Nate D. Sanders was the 1941 Best Picture award that John Ford's How Green Was My Valley won. It fetched $274,520.
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Both awards are key components of the story of Citizen Kane, widely regarded as one of the best movies Hollywood has ever made.
Although Kane was nominated for all the top awards in 1941, an all-out campaign against it by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, likely the real-life Charles Foster Kane of the film, cost it all but the screenplay prize at the Oscars. That meant How Green Was My Valley won instead.
Likewise, movie buffs have wrangled for decades over who wrote the bulk of Kane's screenplay: "Mank," as Mankiewicz was known, or Welles, who at 24 had been given far more artistic control over his film than anyone had before (and than he ever would again). The pair shared credit at the Oscars.
Welles' own statuette for the same award, the only Oscar he would ever win in his long career in Hollywood, was auctioned last month for $861,542.
Even that statuette's history was the subject of much dispute. The Oscar had been presumed lost after Welles died in 1985, and after it resurfaced, it became the subject of legal disputes between his daughter, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a cinematographer who claimed Welles gave it to him as payment.
The Academy stopped selling Oscar statuettes in 1950, but some earlier awards — including all those sold recently — predate the deal.


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Infertility is an issue that, according to the CDC, affects 10 percent of American women. A new Japanese study, however, may clue researchers in on a new way to reduce that number.
In the study, scientists used blood and stem cells from mouse eggs to create eggs — and the eggs produced healthy mouse offspring. Researchers did two tests: one using embryonic stem cells (destroyed and recultivated embryos) and one using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells (skin cells that are reprogrammed to an embryonic-like state.) Both sets of cells were used to create eggs, and there were similar birth rates for both groups. This is the first study in which created eggs were able to produce healthy offspring that were also able to reproduce themselves.
First, scientists added growth factors and proteins to the stem cells to turn them into primordial germ cells. They then combined these cells with biological cells from mouse ovaries, making "reconstituted ovaries" that were later transplanted to the mouse. A month later, scientists removed the cells, isolating immature egg cells and allowing them to mature in a dish. The mature eggs were later fertilized with mouse sperm in a test tube and the resulting embryos were transferred into female mice, leading to the birth of healthy mice.
Of course, the study is not perfect. Scientist found that mice impregnated via treatment created healthy offspring less often that those impregnated naturally. According to Time, mice impregnated with natural eggs produced healthy offspring 13 percent of the time, compared with 3.9 percent for eggs created from embryonic stem cells and 1.8 percent for eggs made using iPS cells.
That being said, this is still a huge breakthrough for fertility treatment. If scientist are able to produce the same results in humans using iPS cells, it would get rid of the ethical issues involving embryonic stem cell use. Not to mention, more women may be able to get pregnant.
Do you think the study has potential?


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Speed Dial is undoubtedly one of the most loved features in Opera. It's also probably the most emulated. Opera first added speed dial back in 2007, to provide a convenient and quick way to access the most frequently visited websites. Since then we have seen Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer and others implement variants of this feature.
In the meanwhile, Opera worked on improving speed dial by adding support for background images, customization options, and wide-screen resolution support. Now, the veteran browser maker says that it is ready to take speed dial to the next level. "We are going to make Speed Dial more fluid, dynamic and easier to use", Cezary KuÅ'akowski from Opera Software wrote on the Desktop Team blog.
The just released snapshot of Barracuda (Opera 11.10) provides a first look at the planned changes by introducing the new "flow layout". To be honest, as of now, the new flow layout doesn't do anything earth-shattering. It just makes the speed dial behave a lot more like a webpage. If the browser window is resized, then instead of your speed dials being shrunk, a scrollbar will appear. Also the cap on number of speed dials is gone. Now, it seems that you can have as many visual shortcuts as you want.
The new snapshot also introduces a new "Discoverability" feature that will subtly encourage users to try new features. If done right, this can turn out to be a really smart move, as Opera has scores of awesome features, that even many old-timers aren't aware of. Opera promises that discoverability will not be annoying or frustrating. However, I couldn't check it out as till now I haven't managed to figure out the three features that were added to discoverability. Let me know if you guys fare better.
The snapshot is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. However, don't forget that this is an early preview build, and is likely to have stability and performance issues.
[ Download Opera 11.10 Barracuda Snapshot ]
Update: I spotted one of the "discoverability" tips. It was simply a tip regarding using "+g" for performing a Google Search using the URL bar. I must say that the tip was extremely well integrated into the interface, and wasn't awkward or annoying in anyway.


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Let this be a lesson to us all... write our obits now. Even as a genealogist who is supposed to remember these things, I confused Blanche's maiden name with that of her mother, and am sending out this corrected email.
I've been her caregiver and I guess I am a little tired and confused.
On Christmas Day 25 Dec 2006 at 1:49 pm my step-mother Blanche Myrtle (Jackson) Bennett Player lost her battle with Lewy Body Dementia. She lead a wonderful life as the beloved wife of Glen S. Player, MD and the mother of Daniel Bennett and James Bennett. She welcomed Glen's children into her gracious heart: Mary Clements, David Player, Patti Richley, Mike Player and Sharon Wagner.
I have yet to write her obituary...
We are overwhelmed by Blanche's sweet spirit, despite the difficulties she endured toward the end. She is a wonderful example to me of a dear, very feminine woman. She blessed our lives with her kindness and possessed a natural intelligence and the ability to be a friend to all.
I was just on the phone dialing Barbara and Johnny to wish them a happy Christmas when my brother called me to Blanche's bedside for the last 2 hours of her valiant struggle.
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Generation of Stable Pluripotent Stem Cells From NOD Mouse Tail-Tip Fibroblasts
OBJECTIVE The NOD mouse strain has been widely used to investigate the pathology and genetic susceptibility for type 1 diabetes. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from this unique mouse strain would enable new strategies for investigating type 1 diabetes pathogenesis and potential therapeutic targets. The objective of this study was to determine whether somatic fibroblasts from NOD mice could be reprogrammed to become iPSCs, providing an alternative source of stem cells for the production of genetically modified NOD cells and mice.
RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Adult tail-tip fibroblasts from male NOD mice were reprogrammed by retroviral transduction of the coding sequences of three transcription factors, OCT4, SOX2, and KLF4, in combination with a histone deacetylase inhibitor, valproic acid.
RESULTS Eighteen NOD iPSC lines were generated, and three of these cell lines were further characterized. All three cell lines exhibited silencing of the three reprogramming transgenes and reactivation of endogenous pluripotent markers (OCT4, SOX2, NANOG, REX1, and SSEA1). These NOD iPSCs readily differentiated in vitro to form embryoid bodies and in vivo by teratoma formation in immunodeficient mice. Moreover, NOD iPSCs were successfully transfected with a reporter transgene and were capable of contributing to the inner cell mass of C57BL/6 blastocysts, leading to the generation of a chimeric mouse.
CONCLUSIONS Adult tail-tip fibroblasts from NOD mice can be reprogrammed, without constitutive ectopic expression of transcription factors, to produce iPSCs that exhibit classic mouse embryonic stem cell (ESC) features. These NOD iPSCs can be maintained and propagated under normal ESC culture conditions to produce genetically altered cell lines, differentiated cells, and chimeric mice.
This article contains Supplementary Data online at http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.2337/db10-1540/-/DC1.
- Received November 5, 2010.
- Accepted February 26, 2011.
- © 2011 by the American Diabetes Association.
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Webber to retire from F1 for Porsche sportscar bid
Mark Webber surprised some in his Red Bull team by announcing he is to end his F1 tenure this year and join Porsche as lead driver in their sportscar return. Team boss Horner was informed just "5 minutes" before the public stating: "His achievements in Formula One are extensive", adding, "we support Mark's decision." This comes on the eve of the team's home race at Silverstone.
29 June 2013 - Source
fernando Fernando Alonso
Christ almighty Horner, "extensive" achievements, "support his decision", given you have the emotional capacity of a stuffed owl, you could at least try and pretend you'll miss the guy.
Horner Christian Horner
Well Fernando,Mark has always been a great team player, as exemplified in this latest selfless act where he has rightly ended his own career so we can devote time solely to Seb. One comment I would make is that while being impromptu is a very "Red Bull" thing to do, I am disappointed Mark only gave me 5 minutes notice of his decision.
fernando Fernando Alonso
Funny, that's about as much notice as you gave him when you swapped his front wing on Vettel's car back in Siverstone 2010. I'm not sure Webber wasn't fibbing when he said the new regulations were more of an issue than the Seb-factor.
Horner Christian Horner
Adrian and I have analysed that comment, and given Mark has essentially been using 2009-spec machinery to save resources, we too find it odd he would be concerned about current or future regulations. Naturally out of respect for our driver, his future well-being is foremost in our mind, so we will indeed allow perfect Seb to choose somebody to support him next year.
sbstnvtl Sebastian Vettel
Yessssssssssssss! I am the best, that is what I am talking about. Bye-bye Mark, multi-21. Ha ha. Yes! Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing-a-ding-ding!
wibbah Mark Webber
I'll ring-a-ding-ding your bloody neck before the season is out mate. I've a had fair-dinkum innings, time to stick me shrimp on another barbie. Me new Porsche looks flippin' awesome.
fernando Fernando Alonso
As long as it doesn't look awesome when it's flippin'. Remember your last time at Le Mans in that Merc, I think you still hold the lap record there for a car travelling upside down.
JV Jacques Villeneuve
Controversial Jacques is going to stick his neck on the line here to say that Mark may just possibly have made the same mistake as Michael and retired too early. Having tried a number of series post-F1 I can attest to the fact that it is difficult to find the same satisfaction in other forms of racing.
mschumi Michael Schumacher
Well Kojak, unlike you Mark won't have to shave his head in a vain effort to make himself interesting, or attempt a musical career that makes Carla Bruni look like Mozart. On that subject, I heard the US government has found a use for your album in resolving their latest diplomatic spat.
JV Jacques Villeneuve
I'm thrilled to hear that Michael. Although I'm never shy of chaos, confrontation, and controversy, I always knew the power of my album to elucidate both emotional and intellectual harmony.
mschumi Michael Schumacher
Yeah, well, Obama dispatched a special agent to pipe that toxic album of yours into the PA system at Moscow airport. Apparently, Edward Snowden asked to be put on the first available flight to Washington. Congrats arsehead.
hammy Lewis Hamilton
This frickin sucks, I was totally on a high after I got to fly with the Red Arrows this week, and now I hear Mark retires. I'd be totally HAM if I was in a Red Bull, my legacy would be mega.
mschumi Michael Schumacher
Boo-hoo man-earrings, shoulda, woulda, coulda. Maybe you could go all "gangsta" on them to get hired. Careful, get itchy feet and you'll end up driving for more teams than Andrea de Cesaris. Best to stick with the tyre degradation machine you inherited from me.
diResta Paul di Resta
Speaking as one legend to another Michael, I think it's obvious to everyone that it is almost a forgeone conclusion that Red Bull will hire an existing superstar, a quick, consistent, and media-savvy Scottish ace. It seems apt that F1 will now usher in what motorsport historians will refer to as the Newey-Di Resta era of dominance, an irresistible combo of the world's greatest designer and driver.
mschumi Michael Schumacher
I think you've more chance of being in a KFC combo. McLaren overlooked you, and Horner basically said you hadn't a snowballs, time to stick to that training the BBC are giving you. I wonder if driver steward Nigel Mansell will penalise you for your swelled head exceeding the max allowed dimensions this weekend.
NigelErnestJamesMansellOBE Nigel Mansell
Although no stranger to the perils of not being able to fit in an F1 car Michael, as you may recall from my aborted comeback with McLaren in 1995, which I ended even after attempting to race an expensive and thorough chassis amendment, I am unaware of any regulations pertaining to the length, width, or height of a drivers head. Rest assured that I will leave no stone either turned, or unturned, to ensure that the regulations are scrupulously applied, or not applied, to all drivers this weekend. I will consult not only the regulations as delineated by the FIA, being the governing body of the sport, but also, in the interests of fairness, or potential unfairness, the Geneva convention. That extra 0.5 seconds that I got from the crowd at the British GP as a revered driver will be converted into the energy of an eagle-eyed Isle-of-Man special constable on the F1 beat.
Murray Murray Walker
And... collosally... that's Nigel Mansell !
mschumi Michael Schumacher
Oh Murray, how sorely missed you are. I wonder if Suzi Perry will show up at Silverstone given Bernie did such a good job of convincing her the British GP was dropped that even Eddie Jordan visibly cringed.
SuzukiPerry Suzi Perry
OMG!, OMG!, Michael no way could I miss this weekend's race with a British rider getting his maiden pole.
mschumi Michael Schumacher
Er?... oh I see... you mean Crutchlow. Still talking out of your Assen then. I must congratulate you on achieving the extraordinary feat of being so inept as to make EJ appear to have the media skills of Johnny Carson.
bestofbritish Jenson Button
If anyone wants to get a maiden pole at my Assen let me know. You might say it sucks, but I promise you'll be eagle-eyed once you've beaten my special constable.


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Safety and Effectiveness of Short-Term Anti-HIV Drug Therapy for Recent HIV-1 Infection
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00414518
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : December 21, 2006
Results First Posted : February 20, 2013
Last Update Posted : February 20, 2013
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Drug: Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/Emtricitabine Drug: Lopinavir/Ritonavir
|Not Applicable
About 6 months after infection, HIV viral load reaches a temporarily stable level known as virus set point. Virus set point is different for each patient and can be a predictor for disease progression. Preliminary studies indicate that early, short-term antiretroviral therapy (ART) given to people newly infected with HIV may lead to lower virus set points and preserved CD4 counts. However, the length of short-term treatment needed to balance the possible adverse effects of ART with the achievement of lower virus set point is not yet known. By lowering the virus set point and maintaining CD4 counts, the need for long-term ART may be postponed. The purpose of this study is to determine the safety and efficacy of a short course of ART on producing a lower virus set point in adults recently infected with HIV.
This study will last at least 28 weeks. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two arms. Arm A will receive ART for 12 weeks as emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF/FTC) daily and lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/RTV) in tablet form twice daily. After 12 weeks, treatment will be interrupted unless the CD4 count is measured to be less than 350 cells/mm^3 on two consecutive occasions during treatment interruption. If that occurs therapy will be resumed. Participants in Arm B will receive no treatment until cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) counts drop below 350 cells/mm^3, indicating ART is needed. Study visits will occur at study entry, at Weeks 2 and 4, and every 4 weeks thereafter. At each study visit, a physical exam, blood collection, and completion of an adherence questionnaire will occur. Participants are encouraged to enroll in a related substudy that will evaluate HIV viral load in genital secretions.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|16 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|An Open-Label Randomized Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Short Course Antiretroviral Therapy for Acute or Recent HIV-1 Infection in Zimbabwe and the United States
|Study Start Date :
|January 2007
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|February 2010
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 2010
Experimental: Treatment interruption
Oral Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/Emtricitabine and Lopinavir/Ritonavir for 12 weeks followed by treatment interruption if CD4 count is 450 mm^3 or higher. When CD4 count is less than 350 mm^3 on two separate, consecutive measurements during treatment interruption, therapy will be resumed.
Drug: Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/Emtricitabine
300 mg Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/ 200 mg emtricitabine tablet taken orally once daily
Other Name: TDF/FTC
Drug: Lopinavir/Ritonavir
Three 400 mg lopinavir/ 100 mg ritonavir soft gel capsules taken orally twice daily
Other Name: LPV/RTV
Experimental: CD4 T cell guided therapy
Anti Retroviral Therapy initiated when AIDS-defining illness occurs or if CD4 count is confirmed at less than 350 mm^3 at two separate, consecutive measurements
Drug: Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/Emtricitabine
300 mg Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate/ 200 mg emtricitabine tablet taken orally once daily
Other Name: TDF/FTC
Drug: Lopinavir/Ritonavir
Three 400 mg lopinavir/ 100 mg ritonavir soft gel capsules taken orally twice daily
Other Name: LPV/RTV
- Plasma HIV-1 Viral Load (Copies/ml) at Week 24 as Compared Between the Two Arms [ Time Frame: At Week 24 ]
- Number of Participants Experiencing Either an AIDS-defining Event, a Grade 3 or 4 Adverse Event, or Acute Retroviral Syndrome [ Time Frame: At Week 24 ]
- Viral Set Point [ Time Frame: Throughout study ]set point is reached after the immune system has developed HIV antibodies and begins to attempt to fight the virus
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Acute or recent HIV-1 infection. More information about this criterion can be found in the protocol.
- CD4 count 500 cells/mm3 or greater
- No evidence of prior or current AIDS-defining illness
- No signs or symptoms of HIV infection or AIDS-defining illness that, in the opinion of the investigator, requires ART
- Willing to use acceptable forms of contraception
Exclusion Criteria:
- Prior treatment with any antiretroviral drug for more than 7 days
- Use of certain drugs within 21 days of study entry
- Prior receipt of investigational anti-HIV-1 vaccine
- Ongoing therapy with systemic corticosteroids, chemotherapeutic agents, nephrotoxic systemic agents, immunomodulatory treatments, or investigational agents
- Known allergy/sensitivity to study drugs or their formulations
- Current drug or alcohol use or abuse that, in the opinion of the investigator, may interfere with the study
- Serious medical or psychiatric illness that may interfere with the study
- Hepatitis B infected
- Pregnancy or breastfeeding
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00414518
|United States, Colorado
|University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
|Denver, Colorado, United States, 80262
|United States, Georgia
|AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30308
|University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences
|Harare, Zimbabwe
|Study Chair:
|Michelle A. Barron, MD
|Division of Infectious Disease, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
|Study Chair:
|Margaret Borok, MRCP
|Department of Medicine, University of Zimbabwe
|Responsible Party:
|University of Colorado, Denver
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Obsolete Identifiers:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
P01AI055356 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|December 21, 2006 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|February 20, 2013
|Last Update Posted:
|February 20, 2013
|Last Verified:
|January 2013
Acute Infection
Early HIV Infection
Short-Term Antiretroviral Therapy
Treatment Interruption
Antiretroviral Drug (ARV)
Communicable Diseases
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
HIV Protease Inhibitors
Protease Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-HIV Agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A Inhibitors
Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors


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by Jody Kessler
Down 2-0 for the second straight game, La Salle willed itself to victory Monday night in the Flyers Cup final.
Malvern Prep played them extremely tough for the first 30 minutes, building a 2-0 lead through the first two periods. La Salle, however, was able to rally back and force an overtime Nick Master finshed the Friars off just 1:12 into the sudden-death overtime, on a shot from the side that he was just trying to get on net with no real intention of scoring. It bounced off Friar netminder Ryan Polischuk and into goal, setting off a wild celebration.
"It was pure excitement. I don't know how to explain it. I was just so happy," Master said.
The win gives La Salle a berth in the state championship game against the winner of the Penguins Cup. Freshman Nick Desimone played excellent goal. C.J. Dunton and Matt Williams got the other goals for La Salle, who won the Flyers Cup for the third time in four years.
"Malvern played a great game," said Explorer coach Wally Muehlbronner. " It took us a little bit of time to start making some good plays. I think once we got that first goal, that was the added confidence we needed. Any game like this they're going to be tight a little bit, but in the third period we completely outplayed them. We had to lay everything on the line. We had to go hard."
In the first period, each team had some chances for goals but none were scored. Williams and Neil Laessig had a 2-on-1 that they could not convert. Malvern had long possessions in the Explorer's zone but did not score. La Salle went on the power play with 1:58 left in the period, but Malvern killed the penalty and went in the locker room with no score.
The second period saw the action pick up a notch. Ryan Walters took a big shot for LaSalle that Polischuk had to save. Then at 5:38 Malvern got its first goal. Nick Popoff turned the puck over for La Salle, and Ryan Kavanuagh was there to collect and score. John Schivito assisted on the play. Less than a minute later they added another, capitalizing on weak defense. This time Zachary Olah was the beneficiary at 4:26. La Salle had a chance to get back in the game when they went on the power play twenty seconds later. Popoff got off a good shot and Laessig hit post, but they could not convert and the period ended with Malvern up 2-0.
Any question whether La Salle would get back in the game was answered just 41 seconds into the third period when Dunton got his goal. Malvern had trouble clearing the puck, and he scored on an assist from Jason Lombardi. The next goal was disputed. Williams put it in, but the goal was dislodged. It appeared that the goal was moved before the puck went in, which would be a no-goal, but the referees could not review it and the goal stood.
"That goal I have a hard time with it," said Malvern coach Steve Mackell. "We can't complain about that. I thought we did a good job of keeping our composure on the bench."
It came at 11:44. The score remained that way for the rest of the period. Malvern had a power-play at 11:15. La Salle killed it and then had some good chances, including Master getting a shot off after a rebound from a Sean Orlando shot. But Polischuk was up to the challenge, as he was for 27 other shots during regulation. His counterpart made 21 saves.
It wasn't long before Master got another chance. He was by the boards in line with the goal, chucked the puck on net in hopes there would be a rebound, and one of the players in front could do something with it. Luckily for La Salle it deflected off Polischuk and in the goal for the game-winner.
"I was just trying to get the puck in front of the net, said Master, who was named tournament MVP. "It just went in. We played very well in the third period. We got off to a slow start but we really picked it up."
"It felt great going down 2-0. I knew we had such a great team and I knew we could come back," said DeSimone, grinning ear to ear. "We showed who we are, we showed our character and now we have to go to states and finish up there."
"Believe in yourself, we get the first goal there's no stopping us," said Muehlbronner. About winning the championship he said, "That was our goal from the beginning was to advance to the state final, represent the east well and I think we'll do that. It's a great accomplishment for them, there's a lot of young kids in there, there's six seniors and it's a very deserving group."
"This one hurts," said Malvern's Coach Mackell, "I thought we played as close to a perfect game in the first two periods. Their goalie was outstanding tonight. We knew La Salle had more in the tank. They came out with everything they had. That goal they scored in overtime was a fluke goal. I feel so bad for our seniors. La Salle did a great job, hats off to them. They were the best team in the league all year. We tried to chop them down but couldn't."
The state championship will be held at Ice line Quad Rinks in West Chester on March 26.


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Bono, from the band U2, is partnering with Revo for thier "Vision Over Visibility" collection. Revo will donate $10 from the sale of every pair of Revo sunglasses up to a total of $10 million to the "Buy Vision, Give Sight" initiative. The funds will go to the Brien Holden Vision Institute, which works around the world to provide eyecare to those who lack access or cannot afford it.
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Remember my recent interview with Stefan Richter I posted on these pages just last week? Little did I know the article would open the gates to some SUPER KEWL STUFF like making ice-cream with liquid nitrogen.
Ok, so maybe it's not that titillating and super-duper-exhilarating to you. In America you kids get to play with such cool things at your high school lab. However, in post-communistic Poland, where I pushed myself three levels up the educational ladder, there were no funds for such excess. We had books… lots of books, literature, graphs, exercise books, and then physical education. We shared one projector between many classrooms and we lacked props and toilet paper in the restrooms. It wasn't that bad. We had electricity.
Um, where was I? The interview, yes. Having read the post, Jason Fullilove, an executive chef of Da Vinci Restaurant in Beverly Hills contacted me inquiring if I would review his fancy joint. I hesitated because, let's be honest, I'm no food critic. I like food, love making it (the food, too), and I've been trying to build a career out of that art form as well. Does that mean I have the right to tell people where to spend their hard-earned dollars on food? Yes. No? Maybe.
Nonetheless, I was intrigued enough to do a quick search. I found Jason Fullilove's bio along with a description of his new high-end food court in the world-famous Beverly Hills. There it was in black and white, clear as the day, bright as the sun in the morning sky, in the chef's own words:
"We focus on seasonal ingredients purchased locally, modern cooking techniques – like liquid nitrogen – and hyper modern cuisine to increase the flavor and experience."
LIQUID NITROGEN. Hello! Instantly, I wanted to get into Jason's kitchen to play chemistry assistant in his food lab so I could blog about it later. I was sold. Well, to be perfectly honest, he had me at his name. JASON. FULLILOVE. And a chef at that. It just doesn't get any better. The food MUST be amazing at this place, I thought. I grabbed my Jason The Life-Partner and off we went to Da Vinci.
We were seated at the Dean Martin booth, as the rat pack member apparently was a regular at the venue back in the 70's.
The place is proud of its history, for its history is dense and curvy. The owner, who mooned over the main floor throughout the evening, eagerly shared stories with us. I would gladly pass them on to you if it weren't for the excellent choice of wine we were offered at the table: KENWOOD JACK LONDON 30th ANNIVERSARY, CABERNET SAUVIGNON, SONOMA, 2006 – $13/glass. After the second serving of god's nectar certain details just didn't sink in.
Chef Fullilove (I can't get enough of saying it out loud. Admit it, you're smitten, too!) came out of his kitchen to greet us and shortly thereafter disappeared behind a pair of SQUEEEEAKY doors adjacent to our booth. Minutes later THE SHOW BEGAN.
Just as you've seen a million times in various animated cartoons, a river of crisp white plates appeared floating in a single file line from the kitchen chambers, through the SQUEEEAKY door, around the corner, and straight onto our table. Ok, maybe it was a waitress carrying the dishes, but to me it seemed just as magical as the moving pictures on a TV screen when I was five.
One course after another we ploughed through the feast, starting with a basket of fresh, house-made bread. Let me just pause here for a moment to honor each slice with a minute of silence, as I haven't enjoyed bread this much since leaving my motherland in Europe close to a decade ago. Chef Fullilove explained to me that the secret to such voluptuous texture and round flavor hides in the amount of time the starter is given to develop, about a month.
We tried and tasted, smacked and swallowed, chomped and chewed through all 175 courses (or so). The festival seemed endless; hence I decided to narrow it down to what we thought were the highlights of the night.
It was more than just a Beet Salad. It was a summer romance you wish could last through winter.
If you're anything like me, when you hear Chick Pea Puree, your brain automatically turns toward the Middle East in search of pita to scoop your hummus. You could not be more surprised with this appetizer – it tastes nothing like hummus. It also came with deep fried cherry tomatoes. Their skin was crisp like a chip, while the tomato itself took on a flavor metamorphosis I had never witnessed before. Enticing.
Perfectly crispy skin covers the most velvety and delectable flesh of this white fish served over new potato and baptized with crab hash. Oh, so luxurious.
At that point, after three additional, house-made pasta dishes (and you know what pasta does in your tummy – EXPLODES!), Jason and I were rapidly reaching the critical point of saturation. Secretly, we slid our hands under the veil of the tablecloth and loosened our belts and buttons hoping to find more storage.
Then we heard a drum-roll and the Royalty arrived.
I can't even begin to describe the perfection of this dish. It's an ode to lamb embellished with house-cured lamb bacon. The meat cooked perfectly – it melted in our mouths. Each bite was silky and rich, ecstatic and comforting. Chef Jason's dish bequeathed the lamb a second, and who knows if not better life. I will never forget that first bite. Absolutely brilliant!
When the waitress arrived with the desserts, she had to pull us out from underneath the table where we had slid unable to sit upright any longer. When supine, there seemed to be less pressure put on the walls of our four-chambered stomachs.
Decadent and delightful. Impeccable presentation.
The night was spectacular. Not only were we served a superb meal of the highest quality (and well beyond our storage limits), but also, and maybe most importantly, it was a celebration of food in general. It was a feast reminding me of my European roots. Not once were we rushed through the courses. In the end, we spent almost THREE hours at the restaurant being allowed to savor and indulge. The chef himself joined us at last and tasted his own sweet creations. I felt home.
The very next day, I went back to snoop around (with chef's Fullilove's permission) Da Vinci's kitchen. He let me take a few pictures of liquid nitrogen in action. Before my very eyes, with the excitement of a six-year old (that would be me), Jason Fullilove made a batch of Mango and then Green-Tea Ice-cream.
The high pitched squeal you heard last Monday, circa 3:30 pm, was me not being able to hold the excitement inside any longer.
Boy, did we have fun at Da Vinci. Thank you, Jason Fullilove. You truly are full of love and it shows in every dish you create. Bravo!


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Interfaces are back, or perhaps they never left. The familiar Socratic conceit from the Phaedrus, of communication as the process of writing directly on the soul of the other, has returned to center stage in today′s discussions of culture and media. Indeed Western thought has long construed media as a grand choice between two kinds of interfaces. Following the optimistic path, media seamlessly interface self and other in a transparent and immediate connection. But, following the pessimistic path, media are the obstacles to direct communion, disintegrating self and other into misunderstanding and contradiction. In other words, media interfaces are either clear or complicated, either beautiful or deceptive, either already known or endlessly interpretable.
Recognizing the limits of either path, Galloway charts an alternative course by considering the interface as an autonomous zone of aesthetic activity, guided by its own logic and its own ends: the interface effect. Rather than praising user–friendly interfaces that work well, or castigating those that work poorly, this book considers the unworkable nature of all interfaces, from windows and doors to screens and keyboards. Considered allegorically, such thresholds do not so much tell the story of their own operations but beckon outward into the realm of social and political life, and in so doing ask a question to which the political interpretation of interfaces is the only coherent answer.
Grounded in philosophy and cultural theory and driven by close readings of video games, software, television, painting, and other images, Galloway seeks to explain the logic of digital culture through an analysis of its most emblematic and ubiquitous manifestation the interface.
Introduction: The Computer as a Mode of Mediation
I. The Unworkable Interface
II. Software and Ideology
III. Are Some Things Unrepresentable?
IV. Disingenuous Informatics
Postscript: We Are the Gold Farmers
"Of vital importance to digital research; it should be included in any studies of the digital or mediated domain."
Media International Australia
"The Interface Effect fuses sophisticated contemporary theory with a detailed knowledge of the technics and techniques of digital media. Galloway is an important voice, and the book is sure to have a wide uptake among those interested in new media theory and contemporary aesthetics."
Jodi Dean, author of Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive
"Employing a sustained, powerful methodology, The Interface Effect sparkles with original insights. Galloway is interested not only in the effects that interfaces have, but also in them as themselves the results of cultural, technological, economic, and political forces. This double movement provides a way to connect the historical with the political, and the technological with both. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in new media studies, contemporary theory, and digital technologies."
N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of Literature, Duke University, and author of How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis


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Mark Edmundson
Photo: © William Denton-Edmundson
About the Author
Mark Edmundson is a professor of English at the University of Virginia. A prizewinning scholar, he has published a number of works of literary and cultural criticism, including Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida. He has also written for such publications as The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, and Harper's, where he is a contributing editor.


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We are a lucky generation – we're living at the dynamic beginning of massive global transformation. It's a time to ask big things of ourselves and of each other – just as Winston Churchill did in a speech to the British people at the beginning of WWII.
We are in the preliminary stage of one of the greatest battles in history. ... I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
This is the decade when Australia needs to make a serious start on a national plan to shift electricity generation from 8% renewables to 100% renewables.
Beyond Zero Emissions, a climate policy think tank, has produced a roadmap that shows how Australia can do this over just 10 years, at a cost of 3% of GDP. The Zero Carbon Australia plan involves approximately 6,400 wind generators (7.5 MW capacity) and nearly 200 Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) plants spread across Australia's best solar and wind regions. Here's how it looks.
The new CST plants and wind farms would be built in clusters and joined to the national grid that will be enhanced with additional HVAC lines as well as some HVDC lines for longer distances. HVDC power lines lose only 3% of power per 1,000 km.
The focus on two technologies, CST and onshore wind turbines, is a result of several factors.
- CST and wind turbines are commercial off-the-shelf technologies so there is no delay in getting started.
- Australia has excellent solar and wind resources (e.g. we have plenty of room for onshore wind turbines so we don't need any of the more expensive offshore wind farms).
- Together, CST and wind can deliver reliable baseload power that is sufficiently flexible to dispatch power at short notice and cope with variability of demand and changing weather conditions. CST with salt storage delivers electricity 24 hours a day because the molten salt stores heat from the sun to keep the turbines turning through the night.
Australia is not alone in planning continent-wide electricity grids that rely on renewables. Desertec has done similar planning for a grid that encompasses Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Like Australia, deployment is at an embryonic stage. A CST plant has been commissioned in Tunisia while Saudi Arabia and UAE are rolling out ambitious programs for utility scale solar power. They are positioning themselves for the post-oil era so they can continue to be energy exporters.
In the US, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) report Renewable Electricity Futures Study (RE Futures) demonstrates that the US (lower 48 states) could be 80% renewable by 2050.
The Australian government is comissioning its own study to show how Australia's electricity could transition to 100% renewables by 2030 or 2050.
So now the thought has been thought, it's hard to unthink it. We are at the beginning of an energy revolution. The transition to 100% renewables will be a battle, tooth and nail, with wealthy and powerful fossil fuel interests. They will oppose every step that reduces markets for their coal, oil and gas.
Churchill was lucky, the European theatre of war in WWII lasted only five years. In contrast, our battle with fossil fuel interests will last for decades. It will take toil, tears and sweat, and even blood. Plenty of blood has been spilt defending oil resources, and it is likely to happen again.
That's why I say we are a lucky generation. We live in times that ask a lot of us. Can we rise to the challenge?
Don't ask little of me, you might get it.
The Transformation tab reports examples of progress towards a low-carbon future. Here are recent snippets.
Morocco, Saudi Arabia, UAE and South Africa are building utility-scale solar generators using Concentrated Solar Thermal technology. Source: ConstructionWeek.
Morocco maintains a national renewable energy and energy efficiency strategy that includes renewable energy sources meeting 42% of electricity demand by 2020. Source: Cleantechnica.


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Media Briefing 23 October – 1 November 2002
21 October, 2002
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21 October, 2002
Please note that FoEI representatives from several countries will be available in New Delhi for comment and analysis on the progress of the talks. A separate contact list is available. Press Officer - Alex Phillips on +91 98102 74093
Lead Spokesperson - Kate Hampton on +91 98180 96658
Please note that FoEI representatives from several countries will be available in New Delhi for comment and analysis on the progress of the talks. A separate contact list is available.
Press Officer - Alex Phillips on +91 98102 74093
Climate disasters around the world, such as the recent floods in Europe and China and droughts in US and India, should be concentrating Government minds on the urgent need to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Instead, emissions continue to rise, even in countries that have already agreed to emissions targets under the Kyoto climate treaty.
From Wednesday 23 October until Friday 1 November, Governments will be meeting in New Delhi, India, for the 8th Conference of the Parties to UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP8). The purpose of this round of UN climate talks is to continue developing international rules under which the UN Convention and the Kyoto Protocol can be implemented. The Kyoto treaty is the only international treaty aimed at reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases but it has not yet become international law.
The Indian Government is seeking to prioritise the implementation of existing agreements, and policies that address climate change and sustainable development together. An emphasis on 'adaptation' measures to reduce the vulnerability of developing countries to climate change (where most of the impacts will be felt) and technology transfer can be expected.
The Kyoto Protocol was agreed in 1997. But negotiations to design rules for its implementation still continue. Most of the rules were agreed at climate talks in Bonn and Marrakech in 2001, when the international community decided to move ahead without the United States, which has reneged on Kyoto under the Bush administration. While domestic pressure on the Bush administration is mounting as a growing number of states and local authorities adopt climate policies, the US continues to undermine multilateral action globally. At the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, a US-OPEC coalition forced the abandonment of a proposed global renewable energy target.
The Kyoto Protocol requires that 55 countries plus countries representing 55% of industrialised country emissions ratify the treaty (i.e. pass it into domestic law) before it can enter into force as an international agreement.
Without the US, Russia is the country upon which Kyoto's entry into force depends. During the WSSD, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov stated that Russia intends to ratify "in the very near future". It is now expected that Russia will complete the process in the first half of 2003.
During the WSSD, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien also announced his Government's intention to put the Kyoto Protocol before parliament for ratification, despite ongoing opposition from the Canadian energy industry and energy producing provinces. This opposition has led the Canadian government to continue seeking last minute concessions in the form of a loophole that would enable Canada to claim credit for exporting energy to the US. So far, other countries have resisted these demands. Canada is not essential to entry into force but is a major energy consumer and producer.
Australia is the only industrialised country which, like the US, has stated that it will not ratify. The EU and Japan have already ratified the treaty, along with most Central and Eastern European countries, including Poland and Hungary, and many developing countries including Brazil, China and India.
Despite years of negotiations, the Kyoto Protocol is only a first step in the fight against climate change and has been watered down at the behest of the 'Umbrella Group' of countries, including the US, Canada, Australia, Japan and Russia. Kyoto will merely stabilise, or reduce by a few percentage points against 1990 levels, the average emissions of those industrialised countries that participate. In order to prevent severe global warming damage, industrialised countries will have to cut their emissions by about 80% by 2050 against 1990 levels. Developing countries will also have to make a transition to cleaner energy, transport and modes of production in the coming decades in order to avert climate disaster.
Many countries are beginning to look beyond the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. For instance, according to an ENDS Daily report on the German SDP-Green coalition agreement this week, "Germany will push for the EU to go beyond its current Kyoto protocol commitment to cut greenhouse gases to agree a target reduction of 30% from 1990 levels by 2020. In this context, Germany should reduce its own emissions by 40%, the parties have agreed."
However, in the absence of tough action to cut emissions so far, developing countries are increasingly focusing on the need for funds to protect themselves against the damage that is already occurring and against future projected impacts. Moreover, with the world's biggest polluter, the US, still firmly out of the picture, many governments, both North and South, are unwilling to take further action. But not all impacts can be 'adapted' to and many ecosystems face collapse, even at low levels of warming. Emissions reductions cannot be avoided.
The key issues on the agenda at COP 8 are outlined below:
At the climate talks in Bonn, the EU, Canada, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland agreed collectively to contribute $410 million annually by 2005, either through bilateral or multilateral channels, to fund adaptation, technology transfer and capacity building for all developing countries, and economic diversification for fossil fuel exporting developing countries. The Marrakech accords called for establishment of an Adaptation Fund and a Special Climate Change Fund to address these issues, and a Least Developed Countries Fund to assist the world's poorest nations in developing National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs). The Adaptation Fund will be funded by a levy on projects under the Clean Development Mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol, plus voluntary contributions. Contributions to the other funds are entirely voluntary, as is the replenishment of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) that was established at the first Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. COP8 is expected to make arrangements for the establishment of the new funds and provide guidance on how the money should be spent.
The Framework Convention requires that Governments regularly review the adequacy of action being taken to address climate change. However, this item has been knocked off the negotiations table as Governments refuse to discuss it. Developing countries do not want to open the issue of new commitments because they fear that they will have to take on targets, and industrialised countries that have shown little progress in addressing climate change are fearful that they will also be open to attack. G77, the developing country negotiating bloc wishes to amend this agenda item to provide for a review of the adequacy of implementation of existing commitments, not the commitments themselves. Whether this position will change before the Kyoto Protocol enters into force and industrialised countries have made progress on their commitments remains to be seen. Under the Convention and the Protocol, industrialised are supposed to lead in reducing their emissions because the overriding priority for developing countries is poverty alleviation.
Friends of the Earth International believes that:
o Until the United States and other rich nations make significant emissions reductions and provide sufficient funding for a clean transition in the South, this deadlock will continue, with disastrous consequences for climate vulnerable communities around the world.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its Third Assessment Report (TAR) last year. The purpose of the report is to present the current state of climate science and socio-economic analysis so that policy makers can make informed decisions during the negotiations. At climate talks this summer in Bonn, Governments agreed to three new agenda items in order to continue discussions on the interaction between science and policy:
1 Research and systematic observation,
2 Impacts of, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, and
3 Mitigation.
While some Governments believe that the TAR provided sufficient data to inform the climate negotiations, obstructive Governments continue to focus on the remaining uncertainties in climate science.
Friends of the Earth International believes that:
At COP8, Governments will consider the first report of the Executive Board that oversees the CDM and will agree rules for the crediting of forestry projects in developing countries. The CDM was established to support climate-friendly sustainable development in developing countries, while awarding credits that industrialised countries could count against their domestic emissions targets. In its first year of activity, the Board has designed an accreditation procedure and Project Design Document for developers and simplified procedures for small projects.
In September, according to CDM Watch, 25 projects were going through the validation process. While half were renewable energy projects, they only accounted for 20% of the credits, so-called Certified Emissions Reductions or CERs. This is because more CERs will be generated by environmentally damaging large dam and plantation projects. The volume of CERs generated by a project is calculated according to a hypothetical baseline of business-as-usual, against which the CDM project is supposed to reduce emissions. Many of proposed projects being proposed are not 'additional', i.e. they would have occurred without the extra money generated by the sale of CERs. This is contrary to the rules that established the CDM and means that the project sponsors aren't actually reducing their emissions.
Friends of the Earth International believes that:
Under the Convention, Governments are required to raise public awareness and ensure public participation regarding climate change. However, little progress is being made either in industrialised countries or in developing countries. There is no concerted effort at international level to disseminate scientific knowledge about global warming and to enhance public participation in the implementation of Kyoto mechanisms, policy design and national reporting has been kept at a minimum.
Friends of the Earth International believes that:
The Indian Government has designed a process for the ministerial segment of the conference (30 October to 1 November) composed of three 'informal' roundtable discussions:
1 'Taking Stock' of national and international implementation,
2 'Climate Change and Sustainable Development' linkages, and
3 'Wrap-up: Framework of Action for Implementation'.
Alex Phillips Press Officer +91 98102 74093
Kate Hampton Lead Spokesperson +91 98180 96658
A complete contact list of all Friends of the Earth representatives is available on request - these include representatives from Japan, South Africa, Ghana, United Kingdom, Finland, Brazil, Norway, Australia, Argentina and Ireland. We are able to provide interviews in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Norwegian and Finnish.
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Product Manuals Available Online
San Luis Obispo CA 19 April 2011 – In an effort to make more information available to the public, Lezyne has posted all available product manuals on the website.
Now sales reps, shop employees, and consumers can all access valuable information about Lezyne products whenever they are online. These files can be printed directly from the website for reference later. All current manuals can be found here: Manuals
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Teutenberg Wins Ronde Van Gelderland for HTC-Highroad
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San Luis Obispo, CA 15 April 2011 – HTC-Highroad's Ina-Yoko Teutenberg continues to rack up the wins in the 2011 season, with victory number five of the year coming on Sunday in a bunch sprint of the Ronde Van Gelderland in Holland.
"We had [team-mate] Amber [Neben] in the big break of the day so that eased a lot of the pressure on us before the final part of the race," Teutenberg said. "[Rival sprinter Giorgia] Bronzini's team-mates did a lot of work to bring back thebreak and then a lot of attacks went in the last 40 kilometres."
Teutenberg said that the final kilometer was very technical but that it favored her chances in the sprint.
Lezyne is an official sponsor of Team HTC-Highroad, providing the team the best in hand pumps, floor pumps, CO2 inflators, multi-tools, and tire repair.
For more information visit the HTC-Highroad Team Page.
Armstrong Dominates Sea Otter Classic Powered by SRAM
Monterey, CA 17 April 2011 – PB&Co.TWENTY12's Kristin Armstrong dominated the Sea Otter Classic Powered by SRAM stage race. The 2008 Beijing Olympic gold time trialist scored a hat-trick by winning the Criterium (Stage 1), the Road Race (Stage 2), and Time Trial (Stage 3) along with a strong finish in the final Circuit Race. As a result, Armstrong won both the General Classification and Climbers competition.
Armstrong was accompanied by teammates Olivia Dillon, Alisha Welsh, and Coryn Rivera who all raced very well. Coryn scored a 3rd place finish in the Criterium; Welsh had a strong 4th place finish in the Road Race; Dillon made the peloton suffer in every stage.
Lezyne is an official sponsor of Team PB&Co.TWENTY12, providing the team with the best in hand pumps, floor pumps, CO2 inflators, multi-tools, tire repair, and organizers.
For more information, visit the official team page.
Granieri Podiums at Telecom Extreme Playgrounds
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For more information about Yannick, visit his Fan Page.