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ICO Analysis: IOTA
The IOTA ICO raised 3000 bitcoins in a presale, a remarkable amount of value. It bears exploration. In a quick web search, one of the first things we come across reads:
Iota is the first cryptocurrency without a blockchain. It uses the "Tangle", which is based on DAG technology. In a traditional blockchain, various transactions are bundled in each block before this bundle of transactions is verified by miners. In the Tangle, every single transaction forms a new block and is essentially verified by itself: In order to successfully conduct a transaction, you first have to verify two randomly chosen transactions is the network. This is done with help of a very simple version of proof-of-work, therefore one could argue that transactions aren't zero-cost. Yet, the transaction costs are essentially not existent, as the needed PoW is so low that every single device is able to independently carry it out.
This seems out there, on first glance, especially as a virtually untested technology – or is it? IOTA's goal is to be a currency used in the burgeoning Internet of Things market, one whose growth will likely increase as more millenials buy homes in the coming decades. Overly invasive or home-altering technologies are slow to adopt with generations who didn't grow up surrounded by technology, but people who had smart phones and iPods in high school will be interested in improving their home experience with the cloud and so forth. As such, monetized data sets could emerge which would, in turn, assist people in everyday routines. Perhaps people would not know they were paying for such things. This is just one case where IOTA might come in, there are many others. IOTA is part of a recent line of very forward-thinking, high value (and high value target) token-based ICOs which are purely for the purpose of fundraising and speculation on the part of the funder.
Instead of offering yet-another-coin or what-have-you, these ICOs intend to innovate with technology that solves problems across broad spectrums. It is no wonder IOTA funded so heavily, for even if it turns out to be a failure, any relevant code could be revived by jilted investors and potentially tried again. Even privately funded, such an idea could garner millions of dollars a month, a week, a day, an hour? It's hard to tell how much you could make through a platform like this, but the important thing to keep in mind with any newfangled technology is that you can also, get ready for it, make absolutely nothing at all.
Yet, if you're betting in the cryptocurrency space, you're already looking for some action, some volatility. So ICOs that are offering solid technology are important to bring to the attention of all involved, and as such let's run over the merits of the IOTA platform, before diving into some of the finer points:
- IOTA introduces a concept of "non-blockchain" blockchain tokens. It's evident that such a system is going to require testing, and this does affect its safety as a value token – but since the token has already raised some funding before even going public, it would seem that confidence in its ability to eventually return value is high.
- Further revolutionary, as it were, (or counter-revolutionary, depending on your level of Bitcoin maxmalism), IOTA aims to have no fees. The fundamental argument behind the incentivized ledger of Bitcoin, rather than a blast of tradeable tokens at the outset, is that the security and sanctity of the ledger becomes the imperative of the users to preserve, such that they can continue to be reward. Without this monetization, the blockchain must somehow be immune to alteration from "unauthorized" parties – which is funky concept already when you are dealing with blockchains. We will have to look further into this below.
- One way this could be seen as working is simple: a public rail is provided by someone, and they ask others if they want to provide information over this rail. With it, they can cryptographically prove the location of, say, the UPS, or mail man, or something along those lines. Pets, even children. The GPS location of the registered item could be accessed at any point, using the public rail, having paid a subscription fee to the owner of the rail. One might ask why Bitcoin or an Ethereum token could not simply achieve this goal, and the answer is that they could. In the whitepaper, the authors freely acknowledge:
- "The rise and success of Bitcoin during the last six years proved the value of blockchain technology."
- IOTA's offering is fundamentally different in that it does not:
- require mining
- consider block sizes
- lack incentive among users to use.
Incentives in a Tangle? Maybe Not
Nevertheless, we must go over the finer point of the incentivization of a blockchain. Numerous banks and others have, over the years, with little or no prompting nor research to back them up, proclaimed that cryptocurrencies will be short-lived, but the blockchain itself is some great advancement. But the blockchain without a cryptocurrency tied to it is not only uninteresting, it's not actually secure. People need incentive to ensure that something is legitimate – there is overwhelmingly the opposite incentive with centralized currencies and financial institutions. As such, a ledger like Bitcoin, which is trustlessly agreed upon by dozens of thousands, if not more, miners across the globe, all competing for scraps of digital gold, it becomes evident that such a thing must be at least accurate or else one or the other would be able to gain some advantage by having a smaller version or something.
But those are the incentives in Bitcoin.
In IOTA, the incentive to use it is that you must use it in order to use it. In order for one's own transactions to be entered into the ultimate register, one must also act as a relay for at least two other transactions. As such, a mining conglomerate is not required to certify that a transaction has taken place. As the nodes meet each other, the transactions permeate. It's a fundamentally different approach to data storage, but perhaps no less valid. Importantly, it doesn't at a given time require a "longest" identifiable file, but rather all the data will eventually mesh with all the other data, cryptographically forming a representative of the economic community.
Collectively, this representation of transactions/economic activity is referred to as a Directed Acrylic Graphic (DAG), which in the context of IOTA is a "tangle."
The transactions issued by nodes constitute the site set of the tangle (i.e., the tangle graph is the ledger for storing transactions). Its edge set is obtained in the following way: when a new transaction arrives, it must approve two previous transactions; these approvals are represented by directed edges, as shown on Figure 1 and others (on the pictures, times always goes from left to right). If there is no directed edge between transaction A and transaction B but there is a directed path of length at least two from A to B, we say that A indirectly approves B. There is also the genesis" transaction, which is approved (directly or indirectly) by all other transactions, see Figure 2. The genesis is described in the following way. In the beginning there was an address with balance containing all the tokens. Then the genesis transaction sent these tokens to several other founder" addresses. Let us stress that all the tokens were created in the genesis (no other tokens will be created), and there no mining in the sense miners receive monetary rewards".
Thus, if Bitcoin's blockchain is a trustless ledger, IOTA's tangle is a sort of trutless mesh + ledger.
What will be battle-tested, then, in the launch of IOTA, is the notion of a completely different kind of ledger technology, competing in the same space, with the same ideals, as Bitcoin, but usurping its utility in terms of various applications – in this case, Internet of Things, but others could come along. One can envision all sorts of uses for very specific, very intelligent tokens that don't require a long approval (confirmation) process before becoming useful. Although cryptocurrencies using the same fundamentals as Bitcoin have solved this problem already, like Dash with its InstantSend, there are a lot of areas where Bitcoin does not perform for some markets that others can rise to replace and compete with it for the crown.
The IOTA Team
A bet on IOTA very much involves the team behind it, since even if it works in theory, it must execute in practice as close to flawlessly as possible given that it is serving financial needs. While IOTA does not put their developers front and center on the website, the very highly polished delivery is anything but a mistake.
One of their developers is a definitely active developer, Oliver Nitzschke, whose Github profile shows significant activity over the past couple of years. He works on several different types of projects, including a number of issues related to mobile technology. The company he concurrently works with, Pinpong, is an Android development company. Presumably, mobile platforms will play a huge rule in the IOTA economy – fewer and fewer business people would be caught without at least one smart device, but many have multiple devices. The higher levels of these, like the smart phone and the tablet, could generate and share transactions for a purpose, virtually eliminating the need of specialized hardware – which is another drawback to the conventional, tested Bitcoin model.
Other developers have little or no public information about them at all, but still appear to have contributed to multiple modules of the project, like Developer Come-from-Beyond.
Given recent past experience, such oversights as a lack of easy-to-access "team" information is not a huge problem for ICOs, especially not in this heightened hype bubble climate. Such climates are always good for the agile trader, ready to liquidate positions and hold others beyond reason. The Github list of people can do for now.
The Co-founder of IOTA, we learn in this manner, is Dominik Schiener. As you would expect, given the nature of the IOTA whitepaper and the innovativeness of the technology being discussed, this guy has no lack of chops when it comes to coding and cryptocurrency. He has a fully functioning public voting system for the Ethereum platform and much more to his credit via Github. Needless to say, he knows what he's talking about. Attempting to introduce a "blockchainless cryptocurrency" is an interesting, if noble, pursuit, however. It should be noted that no cryptocurrency, at this point in the scheme of market adoption, is truly in competition with any other. They all share enough properties that a few of a number of things could happen to any one of them and significantly increase their value, utility, and validity in a very short period of time.
The Verdict
Well, do you like to live dangerously? Investing in a completely nascent, truly untested technology is… exactly what the Bitcoin millionaires all did. They had a feeling that it would work, they bet big, and they won big.
However, just as Bitcoin is already seeing other coins begin to edge in on it in terms of usage and adoption and buzz, IOTA could face stiff competition from similar rivals, based on the same ideas or slightly tweaked – or even improved – versions of them. Popov's Tangle proposition could prove valid indeed – but ultimately be executed by someone else, the way a theory one developed today could be proven after one had lived. This problem faces any nascent technology. People could feel that tangle itself is the innovation, and build alternative solutions using it directly. The risk of companies doing this in a semi-proprietary way is there.
Nevertheless, this type of innovation is the kind you either have the guts to get on board with you or you don't. The author has considered leaving it unrated, but feels comfortable saying a 7/10 in terms of safety/ability to get the value of your tokens back from them at some point, and hopefully a profit. Getting in early on a totally new way of transacting has to be worth something, and having enough shares could net a healthy sum. Yet, all the same, as with all things in the cryptocurrency space, me-too products will follow, and some of these will be just as awesome.
Investment Details
IOTA will begin trading at Bitfinex on Tuesday at 1PM UTC. According to Bitfinex, it was a rare move to add such a nascent currency:
Several factors have gone into our decision when considering the addition of IOTA trading on Bitfinex. Some of these factors include user requests, market capitalization, design parameters, and a thorough assessment of the token's development process; including the team behind the token, their strategies for solving technical and nontechnical problems, as well as addressing the scaling issues currently confronting traditional blockchain technologies.
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TORONTO (July 2, 2015) – Rogers and Tennis Canada today announced the launch of Mini Rogers Cup, two separate Kids Tennis tournaments taking place across Ontario and Quebec in July. With more than 1,000 under-12 players competing across the two provinces, the tournaments will provide budding young tennis stars with the chance to compete for their own title and be recognized on-site during Rogers Cup presented by National Bank in Toronto and Montreal this August.
Mini Rogers Cup will make its debut in Ontario this summer, while Quebec marks its fourth edition. This is Rogers's first year involved in the kids' tournament as part of its ongoing sponsorship of grassroots initiatives to help grow the game in Canada.
"Beyond our commitment to delivering innovative and engaging experiences to sports fans across the country, we are also committed to supporting young athletes learning about the game and developing their skills," said Livia Zufferli, Senior Vice-President, Brand, Rogers. "Mini Rogers Cup is one way to encourage the tennis stars of tomorrow to build their love of the sport and play, developing into the word-class Canadian athletes we'll see at the Rogers Cup tournament for years to come."
Taking place throughout the month, Mini Rogers Cup will culminate in the finals, held August 1-2 at Mayfair Parkway in Markham, ON, and August 8-9 at Olympic Park and Louis-Riel Park in Montreal. The events are being run in conjunction with the Ontario Tennis Association and Tennis Quebec.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image="3717″ border_color="grey" img_link_large="" img_link_target="_self" img_size="large"][vc_column_text]The Mini Rogers Cup will use two different formats in Ontario and Quebec. In Ontario, clubs will run one-day, under-12 team tournaments to select who advances into the finals. The teams will feature three girls and three boys. In Quebec, the tournament will be split into 12 regions and feature three age categories: five to six years old, seven to eight years old, and nine to 10 years old. Two boys and two girls from each age category in all regions will advance to the finals.
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Tickets for FLAUNT (launching September 11) can be purchased online here, and Emily's online shop is here. You can find more information about the Artist in Residence program and the Artist Collective at the Thomasville Center for the Arts website.
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Revisiting the South Korean Stem-Cell Claim
Revisiting the South Korean Stem-Cell Claim
In 2004, South Korean scientists claimed to have derived embryonic stem cells from a cloned human embryo. The claim was discredited, but questions lingered. Now Harvard researchers say the South Koreans made a different sort of breakthrough.
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A new study suggests that a famously fraudulent piece of research may have accomplished something important after all.
In 2004, South Korean scientists electrified the scientific world by claiming they had made embryonic stem cells from a cloned human embryo. Two years later, they retracted the claim after investigators found some of their data were fabricated. Well, the research published today shows that although the South Koreans didn't do what they claimed, they did do something remarkable.
NPR's Joe Palca reports.
JOE PALCA: Before the fraud was exposed, scientists were desperate to get their hands on the South Korean stem cells. Harvard Stem Cell Institute biologist George Daley says one of the lucky few was Malcolm Moore.
About a year ago, Daley bumped into Moore at a scientific meeting in Germany. Daley says Moore was frustrated because he had done a lot of interesting work with the South Korean cells.
Dr. GEORGE DALEY (Pediatrics, Children's Hospital; Biologist, Harvard Stem Cell Institute): But was unable to publish it because, to the scientific world, the cell line essentially didn't exist.
PALCA: Once the fraud was exposed, most scientists got as far from the South Korean cells as possible.
But George Daley and some of his colleagues at Children's Hospital in Boston decided to get some of the cells and try to figure out what they really were. If the cells didn't come from a cloned human embryo, where did they come from?
Daley says one possibility was that they came from an embryo that was the product of parthenogenesis.
Dr. DALEY: In the process of parthenogenesis, you trick the egg into thinking it's being fertilized by treating it with a chemical.
PALCA: The egg starts to grow even without being fertilized by a sperm.
Dr. DALEY: It can't develop into a full organism because without the contribution of the father's genes, the developing fetus will deteriorate.
PALCA: But the embryo will grow to a stage where you can extract embryonic stem cells from it. As Daley's team reports on the journal Cell Stem Cell, that seems to be what the South Korean scientists did to get their cells.
Dr. DALEY: I think it's an unfortunate irony that they didn't know or didn't choose to represent it properly that they had produced the world's first human parthenogenetic embryonic stem cell.
PALCA: Now if these were the only time someone had produced stem cells from a parthenogenetically derived embryo, there might still be uncertainty about the claim. But earlier this summer, scientists at a private company reported that they had also accomplished the feat. Jeffrey Janus is president of International Stem Cell Corporation in Oceanside, California. He says they started with 40 donated human eggs.
Mr. JEFFREY JANUS (President, International Stem Cell Corporation): From those, we derived six lines. This is vast - a very big improvement on what was the current technology of using hundreds of eggs to try and get one stem cell line.
PALCA: The company hopes to use parthenogenetically derived embryos to make a stem cell bank that will be available to researchers and ultimately doctors hoping to use stem cells to study and someday treat diseases.
Joe Palca, NPR News, Washington.
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Key Moments in the Stem-Cell Debate
The first embryonic stem cells were isolated in mice in 1981. But it wasn't until 1998 that researchers managed to derive stem cells from human embryos. That kicked into full gear an ethical debate that continues to this day. Here's a look at key moments in the controversy so far:
1981: Embryonic stem cells are first isolated in mice by two groups — Gail Martin at the University of California, San Francisco, and Martin Evans, then with the University of Cambridge (he's now at the University of Cardiff).
November 1995: Researchers at the University of Wisconsin isolate the first embryonic stem cells in primates — rhesus macaque monkeys. The research shows it's possible to derive embryonic stem cells from primates, including humans.
Nov. 5, 1998: Researchers at the University of Wisconsin and Johns Hopkins University report isolating human embryonic stem cells. The cells have the potential to become any type of cell in the body and might one day be used to replace damaged or cancerous cells. But the process is controversial: One team derived their stem cells from the tissue of aborted fetuses; the other from embryos created in the laboratory for couples seeking to get pregnant by in vitro fertilization. (MORE: 'Scientists Report Breakthrough in Embryonic Stem Cells')
Aug. 23, 2000: The National Institutes of Health issue guidelines that allow federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research. Former President Bill Clinton supports the guidelines.
February 2001: The month after taking office, President George W. Bush requests a review of the NIH funding guidelines and puts a hold on federal funds for stem-cell research.
July 18, 2001: Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN) and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), a vocal abortion opponent, call for limited federal funding for stem-cell research.
July 29, 2001: House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) and other Republican House leaders come out in opposition to federal funding for research.
Aug. 9, 2001: President Bush announces his decision to limit funding to a few dozen lines of embryonic stem cells in existence at that date. Many of the approved lines later prove to be contaminated, and some contain genetic mutations, making them unsuitable for research. (MORE: 'Bush Limits Funding for Stem-Cell Research')
Nov. 25, 2001: Scientists at Advanced Cell Technology in Massachusetts claim to have cloned a human embryo. However, the evidence proves controversial and not conclusive.
Feb. 12, 2004: South Korean scientists announce the world's first successfully cloned human embryo. Unlike other past cloning claims, the scientists report their work in a prestigious, peer-reviewed journal, Science. The embryos were cloned not for reproductive purposes but as a source of stem cells. The news reopens the contentious debate over somatic-cell nuclear transfer, which is sometimes referred to as therapeutic cloning. Scientists say cloning offers a unique way to produce cells that may someday be used to treat diseases. But critics argue that any form of cloning is morally repugnant and should be banned. (MORE: 'Scientists Succeed in Cloning Human Embryo')
June 25, 2004: New Jersey legislators pass a state budget that includes $9.5 million for a newly chartered Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey. The move makes New Jersey the first state to fund research on stem cells, including those derived from human embryos. (MORE: 'New Jersey to Fund State Research on Stem Cells')
Nov. 2, 2004: California voters approve Proposition 71, which authorizes the state to spend $3 billion on embryonic stem-cell research over 10 years. The measure is a response to federal funding restrictions put into place in 2001. It puts California ahead of the federal government and many other nations in promoting the research.
May 19, 2005: The same South Korean researchers who reported cloning a human embryo in 2004 announce another milestone: They say they've created a streamlined process that uses far fewer human eggs to produce usable embryonic stem cells — a major step toward mass production. Their work is published in Science. (MORE: 'Researchers Report Advance in Stem Cell Production')
May 24, 2005: The House passes a bill that would ease President Bush's restrictions on federal funding for stem-cell research.
May 26, 2005: A version of the bill passed in the House is introduced in the Senate. Among Senate sponsors of the bill are two prominent Republicans, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah. Their support comes despite President Bush's promise to veto any legislation lifting the restrictions on funding he put in place on Aug. 9, 2001.
May 31, 2005: Connecticut approves $100 million in funding for adult and embryonic stem-cell research over the next 10 years.
July 13, 2005: Bypassing the Illinois state legislature, Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich creates a stem-cell research institute by executive order. The institute will be funded through a line item in the state budget that gives the Public Health Department $10 million to fund research.
June 15, 2005: Gov. M. Jodi Rell signs a public act that permits stem-cell research and bans human cloning. The act appropriates $20 million for conducting embryonic or human adult stem-cell research.
July 29, 2005: In defiance of President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) announces his support of legislation to ease federal funding restrictions for stem-cell research.
Sept. 19, 2005: Scientists in California report that injecting human neural stem cells appeared to repair spinal cords in mice. The therapy helped partially paralyzed mice walk again. (MORE: 'Research Finds Stem Cells Aid in Spinal Cord Repair')
Sept. 21, 2005: Advocates of embryonic stem-cell research in Florida propose a ballot initiative that would give $200 million in state funds toward the research over the next decade. Two days later, opponents of the science file a petition to amend Florida's state constitution to ban state funding for embryonic stem-cell research.
Nov. 11, 2005: University of Pittsburgh researcher Gerald Schatten alerts editors at the journal Science that there may have been ethical lapses in a landmark cloning paper published in February 2004. In that paper, South Korean scientists claimed they had made an embryonic stem-cell line from a cloned human embryo. Schatten alleged that some of the egg donors in that study had been paid, and some were junior colleagues of the lead author, Hwang Woo Suk. Schatten also says there were minor technical errors in one of the tables in a 2005 paper by the same group, a paper on which Schatten was senior author. In that paper, Hwang et. al. claimed to have made 11 cloned stem-cell lines. At the same time, Schatten severs his collaboration with the South Korean scientists.
Dec. 15, 2005: Hwang admits that there are serious errors in his 2005 paper in Science and asks the journal to retract it. The admission comes three weeks after Hwang apologized for ethical lapses and stepped down as head of the stem-cell program at Seoul National University. (MORE: 'Top Stem-Cell Researcher Resigns After Ethical Lapse')
Dec. 16, 2005: New Jersey becomes the first state to finance human embryonic stem-cell research. The state's Commission on Science and Technology awards $5 million to research teams throughout the New Jersey.
Dec. 29, 2005: The Seoul National University investigation concludes all of the data was fabricated in the 2005 paper that Hwang's team published in Science. (MORE: 'Seoul University Debunks Stem-Cell Paper')
Jan. 10, 2006: The Seoul National University investigation concludes that the landmark 2004 paper was fabricated as well. Two days later, Science formally retracts both Hwang papers. (MORE: 'Earlier Work by S. Korean Scientist Also Fraudulent')
April 6, 2006: Gov. Robert Ehrlich signs the Maryland Stem Cell Research Act, which allocates $15 million for embryonic stem-cell research grants.
May 12, 2006: South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk is charged with fraud, embezzlement and violating the country's laws on bioethics. He faces up to 13 years in prison. In 2004, Hwang and his research team claimed they had created the world's first cloned embryos and extracted stem cells from them. An investigation concluded the research was fabricated.
July 2006: The Senate considers a bill that expands federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research. The House passed its version of the bill in 2005.
July 19, 2006: President Bush vetoes the bill — the first use of his veto power in his presidency. (MORE: 'Bush Vetoes Bill to Expand Stem-Cell Research')
Aug. 23, 2006: Scientists unveil a new technique they claim could break the political deadlock over human embryonic stem cells. Researchers with the company Advanced Cell Technology say it's possible to remove a cell from an embryo without harming the embryo and then grow the cell in a lab dish. That single cell ccould then be used to derive embryonic stem cells. (MORE: 'Firm Creates Stem Cells Without Hurting Embryos')
Nov. 7, 2006: Missouri voters back a constitutional amendment that safeguards embryonic stem-cell research in the state. Missouri's legislature had been trying to ban such research in the state. (MORE: 'Missouri Backs Stem Cells')
Jan. 7, 2006: Researchers at Wake Forest University and Harvard University report that stem cells drawn from amniotic fluid donated by pregnant women hold much the same promise as embryonic stem cells. They reported they were able to extract the stem cells from the fluid, which cushions babies in the womb, without harm to mother or fetus and turn their discovery into several different tissue cell types, including brain, liver and bone.
Jan. 11, 2007: The House of Representatives is expected to pass a bill that would expand federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research, but the bill won't carry enough votes to override a threatened presidential veto. Both the House and the Senate passed the same legislation last year, with President Bush vetoing the bill.
Feb. 28, 2007: Iowa's Gov. Chet Culver signs legislation easing limits on types of stem-cell research in Iowa. The new legislation allows medical researchers to create embryonic stem cells through cloning. While allowing for further research, it prohibits reproductive cloning of humans.
March 16, 2007: After approving nearly $45 million for embryonic stem-cell research in February 2007, California's stem cell agency authorizes another $75.7 million to fund established scientists at 12 non-profit and academic institutions.
April 11, 2007: The Senate passes a bill that would expand federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research. The bill passes 63-34, just shy of the two-thirds majority needed to protect the legislation from President Bush's promised veto.
May 30, 2007: California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announces an agreement between the University of California at Berkeley and Canada's International Regulome Consortium to coordinate stem-cell research at both institutions. The Ontario Institute of Cancer Research donates the first $30 million to fund a Cancer Stem Cell Consortium to advance work on potential cancer treatments.
June 6, 2007: Researchers at Whitehead Institute in Massachusetts succeed in modifying a skin cell so that it behaves like an embryonic stem cell. This is thought to ease some ethical concerns that cloning embryonic stem cells requires the destruction of a human embryo. At Harvard University, scientists make it possible to clone mice from previously fertilized eggs.
June 7, 2007: With a vote of 247 to 176, the House grants the final congressional approval for legislation to ease restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem-cell research. The bill would authorize federal support for research on stem cells from spare embryos that fertility clinics would otherwise discard. But the House is still 35 votes short of what it needs to override a presidential veto.
June 20, 2007: President Bush vetoes legislation that would have eased restraints on stem-cell research. This marks the second time the president has used his veto power against federally funded embryonic stem-cell research. The president also issues an executive order encouraging scientists to derive new methods to obtain stem cells without harming human embryos.
Nov. 14, 2007: Scientists for the first time successfully clone embryos from the cells of an adult monkey and derive stem cells from those cloned embryos. The Oregon National Primate Research Center researchers report their work in the journal Nature.
Nov. 20, 2007: Two independent teams of scientists report on a method for making human embryonic stem cells without destroying a human embryo.
By adding a cocktail of four genetic factors to run-of-the-mill human skin cells, two scientific teams, one in Japan and one in America, have been able to isolate cells that behave just like embryonic stem cells. The researchers caution there are many steps before these cells are useful for human therapies. But the work is being hailed by others in the field as a critical step forward, both scientifically and ethically.
The research appears in the journals Cell and Science.
Reporting by Maria Godoy, Joe Palca and Beth Novey.


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From: The International Trade Union Confederation (3/19?/08)
Indian Workers Trafficked to US
From The Financial Express (3/19/08)
Brussels, 18 March 2008: The ITUC has today called on the US and Indian Governments to take action on behalf of nearly a hundred Indian workers who on 10 March protested the trafficking practices they suffered when they were recruited in India only to be exploited on a shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi.
The workers are demanding that the U.S. Department of Justice open a criminal investigation against their traffickers and that it act to ensure that future workers and their families do not face the same modern-day slavery. Reportedly, on the same day a law suit was filed on behalf of about 500 Indian dock workers. The 82-page complaint accuses Signal International, a marine construction company, and American and Indian recruiters Malvern Burnett and Dewan Consultants respectively, of subjecting over 500 Indian workers to forced labour, trafficking, fraud and civil rights violations. Full Story
Washington, March 19: More than 100 Indian workers, who alleged that they faced "slave-like treatment" in a Mississippi shipyard after being "tricked" into coming to the US, have began a march from New Orleans to Washington to meet Indian Ambassador Ronen Sen in their search for justice.The Next Book I'm Gonna Purchase
The protesters, who alleged that the Indian government failed to protect them, are expected to reach Washington DC on March 26.
"We write in response to your seven-day-long silence, followed by a 97-word letter that adds insult to the workers' injury as survivors of human trafficking. Apparently 18 months of human trafficking merited less than 100 words from you," the workers have said in a letter to Ambassador Sen.
"You leave us no choice but to launch a satyagraha so that the truth will come to light and justice will be served," they added.
"My doors are always open to any of my fellow citizens of India," Sen had said in a letter to Saket Soni of the Alliance of Guest Workers for Dignity.
"I am willing to receive you and other Indian workers at my office at a mutually convenient date and time to see how legitimate grievances and concerns could be met," Sen had said in the March 17 letter making also the point that a report submitted by senior Indian officials on the matter is being examined.
The Indian workers have made a number of demands including asking the Ambassador to pressurize the State Department to restrict travel to India for their employer Signal Internationals US recruiters.
They also want India to put pressure on the US government to halt any expansion of the guest worker program until both governments have adopted an agreement that reflects the interests of workers, as well as Companies and recruiters.
"These workers received a harsh education in the caste system of the United States," said Soni, also Director of the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice.
"The Indian government must look these workers in their face and decide: On what terms is India willing to send its citizens to become indentured servants in the United States?" he said in a statement.
The workers quit their job in a Mississippi shipyard and sued the employer demanding "tens of millions of dollars" in damages for allegedly bringing them to the US on a false promise of permanent residency and forcing them to work under inhuman conditions.
From the pages of Alter-Net: Slavery Is Alive and Well in the U.S. (11/07/08) Excerpted
What do you call it when those who cross the Mexican-U.S. border get charged thousands of dollars for a ride to a job where their employer makes them pay rent for unspeakably bad living conditions and board for the food they can only buy at the company store and where that employer patrols with dogs, trucks and thugs so the workers can't leave?Interview with author by Suzi Steffen, AlterNet. Same article, excerpted
John Bowe calls it slavery. And it's happening in the United States right now, he says. Bowe's newest book, Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the Global Economy, makes the case using three specific cases and geographical areas to show just how much workers in the U.S. get undermined and hurt by these practices.
SS: Do you see American unions helping in this fight for ending slavery? What could they do, and why should they do it?
JB: Well, the unions have caught up and gotten much smarter in the last 10 years. At first they'd be thinking anti-immigrant, and now, it's better for them to focus on, "If you're in this country, and you're working, this is how much you're supposed to be paid," and enforce the labor laws.
But unions have gotten a bad name, and money and corporations have done a lot to give them a bad name. Perhaps it will be tough going for unions until the economic inequality in the U.S. and around the globe gets worse, but eventually it will get bad enough so unions will look like a good idea again. The reason I wrote my book was to help people choose between the imperfections and current uncoolness of unions -- and the endpoint of the current trend towards inequality. Would you rather be in a union? Or would you rather be unpaid entirely and treated far worse?
SS: The middle section of your book concerns the bizarre abuse of "training" programs, in this case for a group of welders from India. What other abuses have you heard about of this program, and how can the government or ordinary citizens help stop this abuse?
JB: Guest worker problems are bad, period. Go all the way back to the colonies and indentured servants from Germany, in which there was tons of abuse, up to the Bracero Program and the people brought to cut sugar cane. There's just always abuse. Guest worker programs don't work. I'm much more liberal than many people on the issue of admitting foreigners to become legal citizens of the U.S., but I'm probably much more conservative than most people I know about illegal immigration. Enforcement against employers who hire illegal citizens should be funded to the fullest possible levels. You can't have a fair or democratic society without the rule of law, and in my opinion, laws formed around the idea that we're all equal are wonderful. Don't have these halfway citizens. Having people around who have half rights leads to abuse.
SS: You mention that people have a hard time calling coerced work "slavery." Why is that?
JB: Because it hasn't happened to them. I had a hard time at first, I just didn't get what was the essence of slavery. It is a very complicated subject; thousands of people are earning their living writing about it. But really, it's as creative as any form of art. There are so many different tortures, punishments, rules; so many ways of convincing the slave this is the correct order of things. Someone else has control over you.
Some people said to me, "We're all slaves to consumer ideology," but you can't go throwing terms around. "Slavery" doesn't mean "suffering," or working at a job that's a bummer, or depressing or whatever. It means someone is hurting you or threatening to hurt you or your family, and they are forcing you to work, and you can't leave.
SS: How should media folks be responding to your work and to the conditions of inequality we see all around us?
JB: There's a fable where the king hired people to go out and circulate among the people and find out what was going on -- that's how journalism in a free country should work. But instead we're blinded by Britney getting fat, and we don't hear anything about regular life -- and no one really cares about it. Journalism about the poor is always done in this boo-hoo way. You have to go out and write about poor people, yes, but you have to be really good at it to make people find it interesting. No one wants to be sorry for people.
So get off your ass and get off your desk and get out there. Forget about the internet. Forget about other media. Go out into the real world. Go to places you don't know, talk to people you don't understand, whom you fear. Ask them what the world looks like through their eyes. Start from there. Surprise yourself.


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I was going through some photos today trying to sort them out.When I came across this
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Occupational therapy is a skilled treatment that assists people of all ages participate in the things they want and need to do through the therapeutic use of everyday activities (occupations). Occupational therapy helps people function in all of their environments and addresses the physical, psychological and cognitive aspects of their well-being through engagement in occupations. Entry level practice requires a master's degree for occupational therapists and an associate's degree for occupational therapy assistants.
The Occupational Therapy Assistant curriculum at Navarro College includes both classroom education at the College and fieldwork (clinical) training in occupational therapy and community settings. OTA courses are offered in a hybrid format with a portion of the course completed via distance education. Upon successful completion of academic and fieldwork education, students are awarded an Associate of Applied Science degree. Graduates are eligible to sit for the national certification exam for occupational therapy assistants provided by the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT) to become a certified occupational therapy assistant (COTA). Additional employment requirements, such as state licensure, vary from state to state and among countries. The student is encouraged to determine the additional employment requirements of the state or nation in which he or she wishes to work.
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The total number of graduates from the Navarro College Occupational Therapy Assistant Program during the 3-year period of 2016-2019 was 108, with an overall graduation rate of 72%.
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In addition to educational and professional standards, Occupational Therapy Assistant students encounter physical, cognitive, communicative, and environmental factors in the classroom, internal and external labs, field trips, and fieldwork.
The federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) bans discrimination of persons with disabilities. In order to identify essential performance components, which may challenge the success of a student in becoming an Occupational Therapy Assistant including participation in the academic activities of the classroom and fieldwork education, the student needs to carefully review the essential functions. Although the performance requirements may vary depending on the specific area of practice, the most common physical, cognitive, and communicative, and environmental requirements are listed here.
If a student is unable to perform a requirement as listed, the student should see the ADA coordinator to identify eligibility for accommodation(s) and the steps in obtaining accommodation(s). Eligibility for accommodation requires professional documentation.
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The Occupational Therapy Assistant Program will provide occupational therapy educational opportunities that empower students to achieve their personal, academic and career goals and that promote life-long learning for all communities served.
Through visionary leadership, outstanding teaching, and high quality service, Navarro College and the OTA faculty will provide students the skills necessary for critical thinking, occupational therapy practices, and the professional responsibilities needed to provide occupational therapy to individuals seeking to increase participation in daily life, regardless of the setting. Students will be prepared to engage in higher levels of education, leadership, and employment.
The Navarro College Occupational Therapy Assistant Program seeks to provide a culturally diverse pool of occupational therapy assistants by serving the students and communities of the service district. In 2013, the program added an additional location on the Midlothian campus to meet the growing population needs of the service district and surrounding areas. The Occupational Therapy Assistant Program encourages students to explore and set goals based on life-long learning regardless of previous educational opportunities. The OTA Program encourages personal and professional responsibility, flexibility, and creativity in developing the skills needed to practice as an occupational therapy assistant in entry-level practice areas. Ongoing program evaluation is regarded as an essential element in determining how effectively the program achieves the purposes stated above.
All humans have a desire to actively explore and master their environment and the activities/occupations that occur within these environments. When an individual is able to master his/her environment and participate in meaningful occupations, he or she derives a sense of self-fulfillment and self-identity.
Adaptation is a lifelong process that must occur in order for humans to experience mastery within their environment. Dysfunction occurs when this process is hindered. Purposeful activity facilitates the adaptive process.
Regardless of health status, age, culture or social condition, personal life choices, or personal challenges, each individual has the inherent right to participate in personally meaningful occupations to fulfill individual needs and one's life roles.
Learning is a process that is not taught but facilitated. To facilitate the development of each student's highest potential (mastery within his/her environment), the educator must create an environment that encourages experimentation and practice. There needs to an accepting, supportive, and safe learning environment where the dignity and worth of each student is respected and celebrated. We acknowledge the unique nature of life experiences and appreciate the role of cultural diversity and their impact on the adult learner. It is our responsibility to provide a variety of learning experiences that match these life experiences.
Students must be active participants in this process. This includes being able to connect new learning with previous life experiences. Learning is integrated more effectively when information is seen by the student as being relevant and useful. Students learn best if they learn for under standing rather than for recall of isolated facts.
Students demonstrate mastery within their environment by demonstrating strong critical thinking skills and communication skills for collaboration with clients and other professionals, while exercising the highest level of responsible behavior. Students must use evidence-based practice and commit to becoming life-long learners to maintain the skills required in the profession.
The students attending the Navarro College Occupational Therapy Assistant Program are typically older than the traditional college student. Most students continue to work full-time or part-time while enrolled full-time in the program. Many are managing young families or caring for older parents. Life experiences of our student s vary dramatically due to the above factors and the large geographic location the College serves. We acknowledge and appreciate the varied roles each student assumes. To meet the learning needs of our students, the program relies heavily upon constructs outlined in the Adult Learner Model (Knowles, 1973). These include recognition that students learn in various ways, that students have a desire to pursue and master individual learning, and that new learning must be connected to previous life experiences. The program also relies on constructs from experiential learning or "learning by doing", which enables students to actively participate in a concrete experience followed by reflection of the experience and ending with an application of the concept for deeper understanding (Association for Experiential Education, 2008).
Instructional methods and measurements of competence must incorporate various student learning styles. Faculty members strive to incorporate kinesthetic, visual, and auditory learning experiences into courses with in the curriculum. The course flow is designed to allow lab, lecture, and fieldwork experiences to occur simultaneously, using learning objectives as a thread. Students are able to listen to a concept/technique introduced during lecture. The laboratory provides students with the opportunity to practice and explore the concept/technique. Field work experiences reinforce the concept/technique, allowing students to observe and practice selected aspect s of the concept/technique. The cycle is completed as the student participates in group discussion during lectures with a faculty member acting as a facilitator to integrate the concept/technique. Experiential learning experiences and service-based learning experiences are built into each laboratory course of the curriculum and through events sponsored by the Student Occupational Therapy Association.
Program faculty and the fieldwork coordinator work together to build and develop courses and corresponding fieldwork experiences to ensure a variety of method s are utilized in the presentation of course material. Faculty development plans encourage faculty members to advance knowledge of effective teaching strategies and techniques to enhance student learning.
Student competency is established through a variety of criteria which include but are not limited to written and computer-based examinations, research papers, written treatment plans/task analysis, skill demonstration, individual/group projects and presentations, and self/peer evaluation.
Program faculty members encourage ongoing student feedback throughout the semester regarding the effectiveness of delivery methods of course material. Students have a formal opportunity to provide written feedback to instructor(s) at the conclusion of each semester through an electronic evaluation form.
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|Corsicana Campus
Bain Center, Room 400
|October 10, 2019
|6:30 p.m.
|February 6, 2020
|6:30 p.m.
|Midlothian Campus
Building NCM2, Room 217
|August 1, 2019
|6:30 p.m.
|October 17, 2019
|6:30 p.m.
|November 7, 2019
|6:30 p.m.
|January 9, 2020
|6:30 p.m.
|February 20, 2020
|6:30 p.m.
|May 7, 2020
|6:30 p.m.
|June 4, 2020
|6:30 p.m.
Admission to the OTA program is a separate procedure from admission to Navarro College. Applicants must first meet all admission criteria for Navarro College. After acceptance as a student by Navarro College, a student may submit an application to the OTA program. Positions in this program are limited. A new class is accepted for admission into the program each summer.
Admission to the OTA Program is based on a competitive basis. Applicants are awarded points and ranked based on the following criteria:
1. Completion of Prerequisites and Grade Awarded:
– ENGL 1301 Composition I
– BIOL 2401 Anatomy & Physiology I
– BIOL 2402 Anatomy & Physiology II
2. Overall GPA (grade point average) of Prerequisite Courses
3. Completion of Prior Degree (points will vary depending on the degree)
4. Previous Health Care Work Experience
Applicants with the highest number of points will be selected for the number of vacant position in the next class admission. Students who are ranked but not admitted due to program resources will be held as alternates. Annual enrollment will be determined by Navarro College and based on available fieldwork education sites, faculty, or other factors.
Selection of students for admission into the program will take place during the month of April. Students should receive notification as to their status within the program during the month of May. Students selected for admission will be required to return the Declaration of Intent and attend a mandatory orientation prior to the start of classes.
Program information sessions are conducted throughout the year on the Midlothian* and Corsicana campuses. It is recommended that any student considering application to the program attend an information session.
Students requesting admission based upon previous Occupational Therapy Assistant coursework from another OTA program are considered for transfer into an existing class pending space availability, transferability of previous OTA and general education courses, and status and dates of previous enrollment. A potential transfer student must meet all Navarro College requirements for enrollment and potential graduation (number of credit hours completed at Navarro College). A potential transfer who is ineligible for re-admission to his/her previous OTA program or has failed more than one OTA course will not be eligible for admission. The previous program enrollment must be within the two years of the transfer request.
The following steps will be taken by a transfer student interested in entering the OTA program at Navarro College.
1. Complete the enrollment process at Navarro College.
2. Submit the following documents to the OTA program:
– Application for Admission to the OTA program
– Application must be received by the following deadlines:
– March 1st for summer enrollment
– April 1st for fall enrollment
– November 1st for spring enrollment
– Letter of good standing from the prior OTA program director on College letterhead in a sealed envelope
– Copies of transcripts documenting OTA coursework
Program faculty will review the completed application and may request additional information from the student, such as course syllabi. Students selected for admission will be required to successfully demonstrate competency in selected skills before they are eligible to enroll. The student may be required to demonstrate the pre-requisite OTA skills appropriate t the status in the OTA curriculum by written or oral exam, skill check-off, or fieldwork education in any combination. Students who do not demonstrate ability to satisfactorily perform previously acquired skills or who demonstrate deficiencies will not be eligible for admission. Satisfactory performance is defined as a grade of C (>75) or better.
Selection of students for admission into the program will take place during the month of April. Students should receive notification as to their status within the program during the month of May. Students selected for admission will be required to return the Declaration of Intent and attend a mandatory orientation prior to the start of classes.
|OTA Transfer (previous OTA coursework)
|Fall 2019
|March 1, 2019
|July 2020
|Occupational Therapy Assistant (AAS)
|60 credit hours
|OFFERED ON CAMPUS: Corsicana, Midlothian
|PATHWAY: Public Service
|NEXT TERM ENROLLMENT: SPRING 2020 2nd 8-WEEK
|January 13 - January 27
|Spring 2nd 8-Week Pre-Registration
|January 27
|Spring 2nd 8-Week Pre-Registration ends & Payment due at 5 p.m.
|January 28 - March 4
|Spring 2nd 8-Week Registration
|March 4
|Spring 2nd 8-Week Registration ends & Payment due at 5 p.m.
|April 13
|May Mini Registration begins
Navarro College is accredited by the Southern Association of College and Schools Commission on Colleges to award associate degrees; approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board; and is a member of the Texas Association of Community Colleges and the American Association of Community Colleges.
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Program Director
Corsicana Campus | 903.875.7498
Midlothian Campus | 972.775.7284
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Waxahachie Campus | 972.923.5120
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You have the right to be free from discrimination when you receive goods or services, or use facilities. For example, this right applies to:
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Consultation report: Human rights issues in insuranceOctober 2001 - In October 1999, the Ontario Human Rights Commission released a Discussion Paper for public consultation entitled Human Rights Issues in Insurance. This Consultation Report summarizes comments and viewpoints that were communicated to the Commission. The Report also examines possible directions to ensure human rights issues in insurance continue to receive attention in the future. A summary of relevant Code sections and selected case law is included in the appendices.
Age discrimination and transit (fact sheet)
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Sexual harassment and your education (fact sheet)
As a student, you have the right to an education where you are not sexually harassed. This includes primary, secondary and post-secondary education, and school activities such as sports, arts and cultural activities, field trips and tutoring.
OHRC Insurance consultation cover letter
October 14, 1999 - Insurance practices routinely make distinctions based on, among other things, gender, age, marital status and disability. While many of these distinctions are based on valid business practices, others raise questions and concerns. These concerns relate to the existence of non-discriminatory alternatives to current practices and about respect for human rights.
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From: Guide to your rights and responsibilities under the Human Rights Code
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OHRC submission regarding MGS Consultation: Change of sex designation on a birth registration of a minor
The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) welcomes the Ministry of Government Services' consultation regarding change of sex designation on a birth registration of a minor. The OHRC is concerned that the current government practice – which does not allow for a change of sex designation on the birth registration and certificate of persons under age 18 – is discriminatory on the basis of gender identity and gender expression.
What do I do if I'm being sexually harassed?
If you think you are being sexually harassed, start keeping a written record of events...
OHRC Submission to the Ministry of Children and Youth Services Review of the Child and Family Services Act
The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the government's legislated review of the Child and Family Services Act (CFSA). Section 1 of Ontario's Human Rights Code protects children from discrimination in services, because of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, family status or disability.
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