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I met with the Chairman and CEO of Regeneus this week and was impressed by their commercialisation of stem cell therapies for humans and animals. I also liked their simple explanation of stem cells which is on the Regeneus web-site (click here to go to the web-site):
"Stem cells are the foundation cells for every organ, tissue and cell in the body. Stem cells are undifferentiated or "blank" cells that have not yet fully specialised. Stem cells are part of the tissue repair mechanism found in all mammalian tissue types. When a stem cell divides, each new cell has the potential either to remain a stem cell or differentiate into a specific cell type with a specialised function, such as a bone, cartilage or muscle cell, a red blood cell or a neuron. These characteristics distinguish stem cells from other cell types. They also have the capacity to secrete various compounds that can stimulate other cells to regenerate and repair.
There are many different types of stem cells. These include embryonic stem cells that exist only at the earliest stage of embryonic development and can form all cell types of the body. There are various types of "adult" or "tissue-specific" stem cells that exist in a number of different adult tissues like bone marrow and adipose (fat) tissue. It is known that different types of stem cells have different potential in regard to the cell types they can become. Regeneus only uses adult stem cells."
Also on their web-site is the news that Japan is about to introduce a fast-track approval process for stem cell therapies (click here to read an article on this from nature.com).
Australian legislators should take note of this. Reducing bureaucracy related to bio-medical approval processes would help to facilitate the development of a world-class bio-medical hub in Australia.
Ray Kurzweil, Peter Diamandis, and others argue that we are in an era of exponentially accelerating innovation. This era was kicked off by the mass adoption of the Internet which means that there are now 2.5bn (and rising) minds connected for the first time in history. Advancements in technology and science spread rapidly and can be adopted and further developed anywhere in the World almost immediately. The slow, linear spread of information that existed before the Internet is history.
This era has the potential to deliver an abundance of food, clean water, medical access, and energy to everyone (click here to read my blog on abundance).
However, a team from MIT have raised the issue that technology is displacing jobs, potentially at a higher rate than ever before (click here to read a review of their argument). For example, the infographic below (click on it to enlarge) shows that, since 2000, productivity in the US has continued to rise but employment growth has stalled. This cannot be solely attributed to the impact of technology on jobs, but it is worth monitoring.
Emergent technologies could clearly impact on a range of jobs. Driverless cars could replace taxi-drivers; robots are advancing to a level where they can already manage simple human tasks in manufacturing, care-giving, medicine, and even farming; and 3D printing is a direct replacement for low-end manufacturing jobs.
Historically, dislocation has been managed through social welfare and new industries have emerged to provide alternative employment. The challenge would be if the pace of creative destruction accelerated in this era, so that social welfare struggled to cope and if sufficient alternative employment did not emerge.
At a personal, corporate, and government level, we need to plan for this challenge and seek to be pro-active rather than re-active.
The technological singularity is the point at which humans and machines are indistinguishable, resulting in super-intelligent beings. Progress towards this point is clearly accelerating as exemplified by the computing and communications power that we carry in our pockets. Ray Kurzweil (click here to read my previous blog on Kurzweil) has predicted that singularity will be achieved by 2045. Jason Silva captures the awe of singularity in this video.
The end of extreme poverty and the rise of solar energy over the next 20 years thanks to …. capitalism
Free markets and trade rarely receive the recognition they deserve for delivering social benefits. An article in the Economist states "The World's achievement in the field of poverty reduction is, by almost any measure, impressive … Most of the credit must go to capitalism and free trade". Between 1990 – 2010, nearly 1bn people were lifted out of extreme poverty mainly due to strong economic growth in developing countries, with China making the greatest contribution. Click here to read the Economist article.
Critics will argue that the cost has been the increased use of fossil fuels and the global environmental impact. This is true. Currently fossil fuels are a key requirement for lifting people out of extreme poverty. In fact, to deny them access to fossil fuels would be to condemn them to extreme poverty. As The Economist describes, this means lives that are "poor, nasty, brutal, and short".
Capitalism is already moving rapidly to address the challenge of fossil fuel's environmental impact. As Elon Musk said, solar energy will generate more power than any other energy source within 20 years (click here to read my blog on this or here to read the TED2013 blog on Musk's presentation).
Could 2010 – 2030 see the end of extreme poverty altogether and the rise of solar energy to replace fossil fuels? Yes … thanks to capitalism.
There were two announcements last week of breakthroughs in stem cell research and both were covered in the Sydney Morning Herald:
1) A team from Oregon Health & Science University managed to clone stem cells from the skin of a baby which were genetically identical to the baby (click here to read the SMH article);
2) A researcher from Monash University, in collaboration with Harvard University, showed how it is possible to use any human cell to develop artificial stem cells that match that human cell (click here to read the SMH article).
These breakthroughs have the potential to rapidly accelerate medical progress, particularly regenerative medicine.
These processes for stem cell development require inserting the human cell into a donor egg. Therefore, the medical profession will require an assured supply of eggs to facilitate this. Eggs can come from women undergoing IVF or from women prepared to undergo an operation in which their ovaries are stimulated to enable the removal of an egg. However, it is illegal to pay women for providing their eggs in Australia.
So should women be paid for providing eggs for stem cell development? All the women that I have asked so far have said yes. This has left me intrigued as to how the ban came into force in the first place and who is lobbying for change.
In one of the SMH articles, an Australian company argued that the team from Oregon succeeded because they had access to better quality eggs. Australia's legislation is hampering medical progress and the potential success of Australia companies in this field.
I attended TEDxSydney 2013 on Saturday 4 May at the Sydney Opera House. Click here to see a list of the speakers and to learn more about this wonderful annual event.
Here's a brief summary of my top 5 talks:
1) Ron McCallum, blind since birth, is now 64 and has had a successful career as a lawyer, professor of law, and human rights advocate. Technological innovation facilitated his career. He particularly cited the scanner invented by Ray Kurzweil that could read books. (To read my previous post on Kurzweil, who is now the Director of Engineering at Google, click here).
2) Jennifer Robinson is a lawyer who's profile has risen as she is part of Julian Assange's legal team. However, the focus of her talk was not Assange but Benny Wanda. Benny Who? That's the question asked by everyone I spoke to. Wanda is the leader of the Free West Papua campaign (click here to read more about the issue). What most amazed me about the situation in West Papua is that I had never heard about it before.
3) Danny Kennedy is a former Greenpeace activist who discovered the potential for the profit motive to achieve his goals by co-founding Sungevity in the US. He now advocates rejecting the "scarcity narrative" in favour of promoting the potential for abundance (click here for my post on abundance). Sungevity installs solar panels to homes in the US and aims to have 50m US homes with solar by 2018.
4) Andrew Parker is a research leader at the British Natural History Museum and Oxford University. According to Parker, the first animal with eyes came into existence 521m years ago. Prior to this time, animals simply had light sensors. This important evolution triggered the Cambrian explosion during which the rate of evolution accelerated dramatically resulting in a diversity of species similar to that existing today.
5) David Sinclair's talk was on the development of new medicine to address age-related diseases, such as Alzheimer's. He argued that certain genes appear to switch on as we age and these cause age-related diseases. Exercise and diet have been found to delay their activation but new medicine is in trial that may address the causes of their activation. This would result in much healthier lives for people into their 90s and early 100s.
With music from the likes of Kate Miller-Heidke, comedy from Julian Morrow, food grown locally but prepared by Aria, and a host of other great talks, this is one of the great events in Sydney.
Richard Dawkins recently tweeted that anyone who thinks The Selfish Gene advocates selfishness has never read past the title. If you haven't read past the title, I'd recommend that you do – it's a must read. My (non-scientific) take on it is that genes have been the constant through human evolution and securing their survival and replication is a key driver of our behaviour. In my blog "Progress is the purpose" (click here to read it), I argued that human progress improves the potential for the survival and replication of our genes.
Whether I'm actually selfish or not, I stand to benefit if everyone's quality of life can be improved. In particular, the probability of the survival and replication of my genes increases if everyone's quality of life improves. Achieving "Abundance for all" is both a result of progress and a facilitator of progress (click here to read "Abundance for all is within our grasp").
For example, a girl in a village in Africa today may, if educated, discover the cure for cancer. It is important (not only for this reason) that she receives an education and is connected to the World. If I develop cancer, I will be the beneficiary of her education.
Oppression of her rights reduces her potential to contribute to progress, as well as devastating her quality of life. This is not only an affront to my moral code, it is a direct threat to the survival and replication of my genes.
Others may view their desire to improve everyone's quality of life in altruistic terms. This would mean that their desire to see improvement cannot be described in the context of "the selfish gene". I wonder whether this is actually the case. I can't see how religious motives can be altruistic given the carrot / stick nature of most (all?) such belief systems. Can non-religious motives be altruistic or is the selfish gene at work, perhaps in the background?
I'm in favour of systems that provide motivations for individuals to act in their own interest but result in benefits for all. I may be selfish, which may or may not be directly related to Dawkin's theory of the selfish gene, but I want everyone's quality of life to improve.


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New ClothesHi to all my new followers! And thank you to everyone leaving comments for my giveaway - it's really helping with design ideas!
There's still time to enter if you haven't already. I'll be doing the draw sometime tomorrow afternoon and will blog who the winner is straight away, so you have until I post again to enter!
Last week I did some tracing and cutting which has slowly been sewn together (as spare time appears amongst the mess that is our renovations). Today I finally finished!
Ottobre magazine. When I got this issue and read that these pants are specifically designed for slim-hipped girls I knew it would be a well used pattern for me. MiddleMiss never fits any shop-bought bottoms (pants or skirts) unless they have adjustable waists and then they have to be so bunched up it's uncomfortable. Whenever I sew her pants/shorts/skirts I have to modify the pattern so much to fit (usually 2-3sizes difference between the waist/hip and length).
They fit her perfectly and she hasn't taken them off all afternoon!
As the jeans only had the hems and belt-loops to sew, then the button to put on, I still had enough time left to finish off the other half done project.
Even though I had planned on sewing completely from stash, I ended up having to buy more thread for these shorts for BigMiss. But that's not too bad anyway is it?
I did the same with these back pockets also.
I could have done a size bigger for BigMiss as they're a little tight round the waist.
I think the problem though, is that the pattern is very high-waisted. These shorts fit LittleMiss also but the button can't be done up because it goes right across her belly button.
I'm going to change my traced pattern so the waist is 1-2" lower and see how that turns out. If I can get it right I think this will be a well used pattern for my girls!


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The Great Race was well represented at last week's "Hat Trick for Heroes" events hosted by GroupeStahl in Michigan for Veteran's Day. Jay Leno was the star attraction on Thursday night as more than 400 gathered at the Stahl Automotive Museum for his performance. Great Racer Ted Stahl introduced Leno and before Ted could sit down Leno had him back on stage where a rare Shelby Cobra was displayed. "I'll donate $5,000 to the Michigan Disabled American Veterans if you can get in that car," Leno said to Ted. He got a standing ovation as he squeezed behind the wheel. "Now," Leno said, "I'll donated another $5,000 if you can get out!" Leno wrote a check for $10,000.
Friday marked the third straight year for the museum to be open to honor veterans and about a half a dozen World War II vets were among the almost 1,000 visitors.
Saturday was the annual Stahls vs. the Detroit Red Wings Alumni team, which pitted Stahl family and employees against the NHL team's retired players. Great Racer Dan Stahl played in the game.
In all, more than $100,000 was raised for the Michigan DAV during the three-day event.
Here's a list of the Great Racer in attendance for at least one of the events:
Ted Stahl
Mary Stahl
Jeff Stumb
Brett Stahl
Dan Stahl
David McAllister
Tony Corrigan
Rick Castaldo
Steve Manley
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Yes, I believe it is fair for Carl Icahn to ask the union to give up health benefits in exchange for him saving the Trump Taj Mahal from going out of business. If the Trump Taj Mahal goes out of business, there will be alot of people who lose their job. I believe it is fair for them to provide the union an option to retain these positions at the cost of something else.
No, Carl is not allowed to ask the union to give up every ones health benefits, because he helped save the Trump Taj Mahal hotel from going out of business. It is not the unions job, just to listen to one person. They listen to most if not all employees to make decisions that benefit all employees.
In my opinion having a job should come with certain necessary perks. Health care benefits are one of the necessary perks. Carl Icahn should either find another way to save the Trump Taj Mahal or give up the idea of saving it, because everybody needs to be protected in the event of possible future health issues.
Every time a business finds itself on the verge of collapse, it seems that the first measure they turn to for cost-cutting is to decrease workers' wages or benefits, when the workers never had anything to do with the company's problems to start with. Obviously, this is not at all fair. Business owners should figure out another way to keep the company afloat, such as cutting executives' salaries or shareholders' payouts.


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Brown-eyed Gal is our first sweet baby girl. She loves to dress up. She is very independent and chooses her own outfits. Sometimes it can be quite an ensemble!
She loves to play with her stuffed animals. She makes them houses and beds and is a good little mother. Brown-eyed Gal especially loves kitties, doggies, and monkeys. If one of her little "stuffie" animals is lost in the house, she will make meowing sounds or barking noises until she finds them. "Meow, Meow," she'll say. "Mommy listen I hear my kitty crying. We have to find her. "
Brown-eyed Gal's favorite color is purple. Last December, around her birthday she would say, "I want a purple birthday." Both Grandma's came through with lots of purple clothes, a purple jacket, a purple purse, and a purple teddy bear.
She is traditional girl, but having two older brothers has certainly made an impact. She loves to play rough and tumble, play in the mud, and make a mess with anything she can get her hands on. Baby powder, shampoo, lotion, and paint are some of her favorites. She can make a mess out of cake and cupcakes too!
Brown-eyed Gal similar to her brother Lil' Expert in Life on the Spectrum has had her share of medical concerns. She has had chronic ear infections as a baby and now is having difficulty with her language. She will start a speech therapy preschool in July which will work on her intelligibility. She also has some issues with her muscles and coordination. She walks on her toes and holds her arms close to her body. She will receive occupational therapy to help her muscles and her gross and fine motor skills. Hopefully, this will make her feel more comfortable in her body.
Brown-eyed Gal loves animals. We have two dogs, two snakes, fish, and a box turtle. Here she is with Grandpa Buck's dog named Annie.
It is a joyful journey to raise a daughter. We love you precious little girl.
"A mother's treasure is her daughter"
-Catherine Pulsifer


text: PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Megan Rapinoe had two goals and an assist and top-ranked Portland defeated No. 5 Notre Dame 3-1 in the NCAA Division I women's soccer quarterfinal on Friday night. The Pilots (22-0-1) advance to play Penn State in the College Cup Dec. 2 in College Station, Texas. In the other game, Florida State will meet UCLA. Three of the first nine shots went into the net. The Pilots scored first at 13:59 on Rapinoe's blast from about 25 feet out. Midfielder Lindsay Huie scored off an assist from Rapinoe to give Portland a 2-0 advantage. Brittany Bock scored at 24:41 for the Irish, but Rapinoe netted her 14th goal of the season at 54:21. Christie Shaner and Katie Thorlakson assisted on the goal. For Thorlakson, it was her 35th assist of the season and 73rd for her career. Notre Dame (22-3-0) entered the game having dominated the rivalry, going 7-3 since 1992. The Irish beat Portland 3-1 in the quarterfinals last year on the way to winning the NCAA championship. The rematch held at 5,000-seat Merlo Field sold out in less than 10 minutes when tickets went on sale Monday. The Irish showed up for the game wearing their green jerseys for the first time since 2002. That game, Notre Dame lost 1-0 at Stanford. The Irish are now 3-6-2 against the country's top-ranked team. Christine Sinclair, the 2004 Hermann Trophy winner from Portland, had just one shot on goal and remains one goal short of breaking the single-season record of 37 set by Lisa Cole of Southern Methodist in 1987. The Irish entered the game having won 13 games in a row by a combined score of 60-3, while the Pilots had 15 shutouts on the season. The Pilots, the 2002 National Champions, will be making their eighth appearance in the semifinals.


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Let us understand how price varies with Color, Transparency and Weight.
If a gemstone has perfect color, it is considered good in Quality and higher in price. Perfect color means Pure Hue, attractive Tone & medium Saturation.
If a stone has fewer inclusions, then the stone would have good clarity and Transparency. Good Transparency also raises the price of Stone.
As the Weight of Stone increases, the price per carat increases (for same quality). It means if we take two yellow sapphire stones of same quality. One is 5 carat and other one is 7 carat, then the bigger stone of 7 carat would have a Higher Price/carat. This is because bigger stones are rarer than smaller ones.
More is the Carat weight; more is the rate per Carat, if quality remains same.
Color, transparency and Weight, all these there parameters majorly decide the Gemstone Price. If you are looking to Buy Gemstone in a Limited Budget, give first preference to the Color. The Color should be perfect as mentioned above.
If you have further budget, you should look for better Clarity/transparency. More transparent stones have better brilliance & life.
It is important that you look for Fine quality Gemstone instead of bigger Quantity (Carat Weight) stone. It is preferable to buy a smaller gemstone of fine Quality than a bigger stone of inferior quality.
How many Ratti to wear for Astrology
There is a popular trend to wear Gemstone weight as per individual's Body weight. But it is just a trend without any logic; Astrology has never mentioned any weight instructions. Trends have developed as a result of personal beliefs of astrologers. Some astrologers suggest to wear as per the Rule – '1 ratti per 10Kg of body weight' while some astrologers suggest weight based on Numerology. It is to be noted that Ratti is not universal, standard unit of weight. Like in Punjab state, one Ratti is equal to 0.120 Gram, while in few states, Ratti is considered as 0.180 Gram. It could be considered differently in other states.
How to choose the Right Gemstone for astrology?
Ideally, The Stone should be big enough that it can be fixed in a Ring or Pendant and should touch the skin. Size of Stone should not be too big as it is not comfortable & practical to wear. When you buy a gemstone, keep below instructions in mind,
Gemstone should be Natural.
- The Color of Gemstone should be appropriate, not too dark and not too light.
- Gemstone should not have large dark/black inclusions.
- Gemstone should not have Cracks or cavities on the Surface.
Therefore, If Budget is a constraint; one must go for smaller size but a better Quality. Such small size stone can give far more satisfying results than a big size but inferior quality stone.
"A Smaller Sized but Fine Quality Gemstone makes much more sense than a bigger sized gemstone of inferior Quality"


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CHICAGO (CBS.MW) -- Bernstein Research pulled the trigger on Eli Lilly early Tuesday, citing little upside in the pharmaceutical giant's near-term earnings potential and saying that the stock is already trading at a substantial premium to its peers.
Analyst Richard Evans, who lowered his rating from "outperform" to "market perform," also feels that given Lilly's tight budget, any incremental revenue gain is more likely to be spent than passed on as earnings.
Shares of Eli Lilly LLY, -2.55% wilted almost 2 percent to close at $69.17.
AstraZeneca AZN, -0.23% came back from an early slide amid concerns expressed by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel over its Crestor anti-cholesterol drug. The FDA questioned the drug's toxicity to kidneys, as some Crestor patients have had high quantities of protein in their urine. "We believe the panel will vote for Crestor's approval, but the questions on renal toxicity increase the risk," said a note from Swiss broker Julius Baer.
Shares of AstraZeneca, which trickled down as low as $40.60 during the session, actually closed in the green with again of a dime top $41.90.
Meanwhile, the Pharmaceutical Index $DRG was off 0.5 percent to 332.51 as Johnson & Johnson JNJ, -10.04% fell about 1 percent to $52.48; Merck MRK, -2.52% gave up 23 cents to $61.66 and Schering-Plough SGP, +0.58% -- a loser on the previous session after a profit warning -- fell another 2.7 percent to $17.85.
The picture was considerably brighter on the biotech side as the Amex Biotechnology Index $BTK rose almost 2 percent to 465.04 and the Nasdaq Biotechnology Index NBI, -1.84% added 2.3 percent to 726.19.
Among individual issues, Genzyme GENZ picked up 20 cents to $45.15 while Genentech DNA, +0.00% climbed over 1 percent to $76.49 and Progenix PGNX, -1.92% tacked on 3.2 percent to $17.
Amgen AMGN, -2.76% hit a 52-week high of $70 during the session was up 1.6 percent to $69.99 at the close. Gilead Sciences GILD, -2.64% which touched its yearlong peak Monday, gave back 14 cents to $59.20.


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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A new poll shows Pennsylvania's gubernatorial race is tightening up.
A Quinnipiac (KWIHN'-uh-pee-ak) University poll released Friday showed Republican Tom Corbett holding onto a slight lead, with support from 49 percent of likely voters and Democrat Dan Onorato (ohn-uh-RAH'-toh) with 44 percent.
A September survey by the same Connecticut-based pollster showed Corbett, the state attorney general, with a 15-point lead.
The latest poll shows Onorato, the elected executive of Allegheny County, leading among women. Corbett was favored by male voters and also was the overwhelming favorite for voters who say they're angry with state government.
The telephone survey of 1,046 likely voters was conducted over a five-day period ending Sunday. The poll carries a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
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The Chinese use many different types of keyboards, and software to input data into systems. The majority of Chinese keyboards contain the letters of the Roman alphabet, as well as their Chinese character's equal. They use the Roman alphabet as the basic first step for inputing data into computers. There are many different types of Chinese keyboards, and in comparison, they do not look, or function the same. The Chinese do not utilize a standard keyboard system similar to those found where more "basic" languages exist. The Pinyin method is much like text-edit on a cell phone. Software detects the use, and meaning of words in the sentence structure, then guesses the best word the user intends to type. A pop-up list of possible words may appear, if needed, and the user picks from the list of available words to implement in the text. Another widely used keyboard method is called Wubi. Users push in a sequence of keys related to how the characters are drawn. Software detects the intended word, and implements the character(s). Speed typists use this method, and are able to produce up to 160 characters per minute. Older individuals who are used to old fashion writing methods may use an electronic writing tablet. They write the characters as they would on paper, the computers recognizes them, and implements them into the sentence structure. The Chinese appear to have a more personalized data entry system designed for the abilities, and comfort of the user.
Furthermore, there are fourty or more types of keyboard systems ranging from Arabic, to Turkish, which utilize the language's symbols, and characters. Most have three rows of characters. The keyboard has been around for a long time. It was invented in 1864. A few years down the road, a man named Christopher Latham Shole developed the first type-writer in 1872. Sholes noticed when people typed rapidly, the keys would jam. He tried to fix the problem for six months, and finally came up with a solution. He arranged the letters on the keyboard in order force the typist to slow down. After slowing down the typist, the type-writer didn't jam as often. We still use the way he arranged the keys today.
The keyboards official name is the "Qwerty" after the first top row of letters. Look to the top-left to see for yourself. The keyboard has come a long way. How far will it go? Michael Kanellos recently developed an ergonomic keyboard that plays off the natural strength of the hand. The greatest hurdle of using new keyboard configurations is for people to learn the layout of the keys. To some, it just doesn't make sense.
Technology has taken keyboards to the next level. They range in size from tiny, to huge, and some are even water-proof. Voice recognition technology has become more widely used, and allows the user to speak the words onto the page. What the future of data-entry holds, nobody knows. Guess we'll have to wait and see.


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This reality program offers footage of the devastating effects of the monster that is nature. MPI Home Video presents When Nature Rules, highlighting some of the worst natural disasters the world has ever seen. The program features clips of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and Mt. Saint Helens as well as tornadoes, lightning, hurricanes, and other violent, unrelenting weather anomalies.
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A Night of Poems, Jokes and Revelry
Join us for an amazing night of literary wonderment! Put your raucous party face onto your regular face! On Wednesday, June 24th at Elastic Arts in Logan Square we'll convene for an all ages extravaganza featuring some of the finest performance poets this country has to offer.
Doors open at 7:30, show runs from 8 to 10PM. Guess what? It's only $5 to get in. You can't afford NOT to come!
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My Nevertheless CD came in the mail from Amazon today!
Now, for those who don't know, Nevertheless is a Christian band that the awesome AJ Cheek was a part of before joining the Christian band Revive. Nevertheless disbanded a few years ago, after only two CDs (and two EPs).
I was very curious about the band since AJ was in it. As I'm sitting here listening to their debut album, Live Like We're Alive, it seems sort of strange (in a good way) that AJ is the one on guitars in the songs. I think my curiosity paid off, because Nevertheless is really good! It's sad that the band broke up, because they really have talent, but I'm also glad that they did, because AJ was the perfect person to replace Tyler Hall in Revive. Now that I've heard what Nevertheless sounds like, I'm going to have to buy their second (and last) CD, plus the one EP that actually has additional original songs on it.
Right now, on my first listen, the last song jumps out at me. I would say it's my favorite so far :)
It's a song called Oh Child, and it's about how much God loves us, and how much He wants us to love Him back.
So overall, I think I would rate this CD 4 out of 5 stars. I think you should really check it out!
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Guess what came in the mail today???
I checked my tweets on Twitter Monday when I noticed it. "No way, no way!" I said, stunned. I checked the tweet to make sure I read it right. "No way!" I said again, excitedly this time. Sure enough, what I was reading was true. I had won the most recent Inpop Records Freebie Friday giveaway!
I quickly showed my mom, who got excited with me. I quickly send Inpop a direct message letting them know my address, and then I went to go look at the picture Inpop had posted showing all the stuff that would be given away. All I had really paid attention to when I entered was that it was a Superchick merch giveaway.
I figured that I would have at least a week to wait for the package to come. So imagine how surprised I was when I came home from work today (two days later!) to see that the package was already here!
My heart was going a million miles an hour as I pulled the goodies out of the manila envelope. There was a "ta-da" moment as I showed it to my family (who were all eagerly waiting to see what was in the bookbag as much as me). Then I started to pull stuff out bookbag.
As you can see, there is a bookbag (from their first remix album, Regeneration), that was holding all my stuff inside. If you look closely, you can see that it was signed by the members of Superchick! I also got Superchick's most recent album, Reinvention, which was also signed by the band!
There was also a small poster from their
Last One Picked album. This one from
today was signed on the back. I also now have
Superchick shoelaces and a rub-on tattoo.
Then there was the other wearable stuff. There is a really cool hat that is from the Last One Picked days too. It has a quote from on of the songs off that CD, "All princes start as frogs." And it has a cute little frog on it. And its signed too!
And finally, there was one last thing that was just the icing on the cake for me.
Yup, you guessed it. I got Superchick's (now signed!) set list!!!! This is my first ever set list! I must say, I about fell over when I realized what this scrap of paper was! It's totally going in a frame :)
So, needless to say, I'm very happy with my prize from Inpop Records! Thanks Inpop, and thanks Superchick!
I quickly showed my mom, who got excited with me. I quickly send Inpop a direct message letting them know my address, and then I went to go look at the picture Inpop had posted showing all the stuff that would be given away. All I had really paid attention to when I entered was that it was a Superchick merch giveaway.
I figured that I would have at least a week to wait for the package to come. So imagine how surprised I was when I came home from work today (two days later!) to see that the package was already here!
My heart was going a million miles an hour as I pulled the goodies out of the manila envelope. There was a "ta-da" moment as I showed it to my family (who were all eagerly waiting to see what was in the bookbag as much as me). Then I started to pull stuff out bookbag.
As you can see, there is a bookbag (from their first remix album, Regeneration), that was holding all my stuff inside. If you look closely, you can see that it was signed by the members of Superchick! I also got Superchick's most recent album, Reinvention, which was also signed by the band!
There was also a small poster from their
Last One Picked album. This one from
today was signed on the back. I also now have
Superchick shoelaces and a rub-on tattoo.
Then there was the other wearable stuff. There is a really cool hat that is from the Last One Picked days too. It has a quote from on of the songs off that CD, "All princes start as frogs." And it has a cute little frog on it. And its signed too!
And finally, there was one last thing that was just the icing on the cake for me.
Yup, you guessed it. I got Superchick's (now signed!) set list!!!! This is my first ever set list! I must say, I about fell over when I realized what this scrap of paper was! It's totally going in a frame :)
So, needless to say, I'm very happy with my prize from Inpop Records! Thanks Inpop, and thanks Superchick!
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Sunday, May 2, 2010
Fusion Fest 2010
I had a blast at the Fusion Fest 2010 yesterday! Fusion was a concert with bands Revive, Chris and Conrad, and Big Daddy Weave.
My brother and I arrived at Fusion about 4:00pm, two hours before the concert was supposed to start. I wanted to get there in plenty of time because my favorite band, Revive was going to be playing first, and naturally I wanted a good spot, right up front. I was also curious about some of the local bands that were going to be playing.
I figured that since it was two hours before the show, we might walk around some, checking out some of the venders, and maybe hitting the merch tables before they got busy. We wandered over to the main stage, since that where the K-love radio tent was. I realized as soon as we got close that Revive was doing their soundcheck! So we spread out our blanket and sat down to watch. Of course, I didn't stay seated for long. I got up close to the base of the stage and started taking pictures of Revive. At that point it hit me-I was standing about 5 feet from Revive! It was like a dream or something, only way better.
Several times during their soundcheck, I saw them smile at me. And at one point when Dave was trying out his microphone, he spotted me and waved. I was quite proud that I was able to wave back, because I was stunned that he seemed to recognize me!
About halfway through the soundcheck, my brother and I walked over to the K-love tent. I had wanted to meet JD Chandler, who is my favorite DJ on K-love. So I was able to say hi and get a picture with him!
After that, we went to sit back down and watch the rest of Revive's soundcheck. Only I would think that sitting through a soundcheck would be almost as fascinating and cool as the actual concert! LOL When they finished their soundcheck, Rich came around to the front of the stage and waved at me.
"Hi Hannah!"
My jaw nearly hit the grass!
I quickly ran over there to him and said hi back. That was when AJ walked up. He took one look at me and was like, "HEY! I know you! You're on Facebook!"
And then Dave comes up, gives me a high five and said, "Hey, what's up, dude?"
I said I was doing great, and then Rich told me they were all heading off to go pray before the show, and that they'd see me later. So I said bye, and went to sit back down again. My head was spinning-I had no idea they would recognize me! I guess I made some sort of impression or something, haha.
My brother and I then started to listen to a local band RITK that was playing on a side stage. The music was fine-it wasn't totally horrible-but there are only a few bands I will listen to that rap/sing in their songs. The main issue I had with the band was that they chose to sing a TobyMac song, Made To Love. Now I love that song, but only if Toby himself is singing it. I'm sorry, but there are just some songs that should not be sung by anyone other than the person who originally recorded it. Made To Love is one of those songs.
After RITK was through with their set, a guy by the name of Austin Simmons came up on the main stage to sing. I hadn't heard of him before either, but he was good! It was just himself with a guitar, no band. After his set was finished, my brother went and bought one of Austin's EPs.
Finally, it was time for Revive! Rich, Mike, Dave, and AJ all took their places and proceeded to rock! Thankfully I had snagged a spot to stand right up front, so I got a ton of amazing pictures.
Revive got a full hour to play, which made my day :) They played all new songs, except for one at the end, Chorus of the Saints, which is the title track and single off their current album. And let me just say, if you haven't pre-ordered their new CD yet-you should! I heard all but 3 songs off of this CD, and they were amazing! Here's the link if you want to go order it. How's that for a plug? LOL
I think one of my favorite songs I heard Revive sing was a song called Love Found Me. I remember hearing this one when I watched them play at the WinterJam concert that was streamed online, but their set went by in such a blur I didn't remember it until I heard it last night. And it is definitely a song you can "boogie" to, as Dave put it! I've had the tune going through my head all day, though all the words I know are "I found Love, and Love found me."
It was also really cool because Rich grinned and nodded at me twice! I was so close to getting a picture of him looking at me, but he started looking away just as I took the picture.
All too soon, Revive's hour set was up :) So my brother and I headed over to the merch tables to see what was available to buy.
I didn't buy too much, but I knew I wanted to buy some from the Chris and Conrad and Revive tables. I got a poster and a Love Revolution bracelet from Chris and Conrad's table, and a poster and 5 different pins from Revive's table. Revive's wives are all so sweet! The one who I bought merch from was Pip, Dave's wife.
I was glad I bought the Revive poster when I did, because Rich, AJ, and Mike came up to do a bit of signing before they ate dinner. I didn't see Dave…I guess he snuck back to where the food was. LOL The first one I got to talk to was Rich. He said hey and started signing my two Revive CDs and my new poster. Our conversation went something like this:
Rich: Hey Hannah! How's it going?
Me: Good! You sounded awesome tonight!Rich: You excited about the new CD?
Me: Uh huh! I can't wait!
Rich: So…what do you think of AJ?
Me: I think he's a really cool guy!
Rich: Yeah, he is. Well, see you soon, Hannah!
Me: Okay, thanks!
He wrote "thanks for your support, Hannah" on my poster when he signed it, and he put Hebrews 4:16 on my Chorus of the Saints CD when he signed that.
After Rich, I went over to AJ. One word can describe AJ perfectly-hyper! He is all over the place! LOL But he's a super cool guy. He's become less the "new guy", and just become part of Revive. AJ just fits in so well :) Anyhow, as he signed my stuff, I told him I thought he played great, and that he was great for Revive.
Finally I went over to Mike. There wasn't much conversation (he's a very quite kind of person), we mostly said hi, and that was it.
My brother and I hung out for a few minutes at the merch tables for a few minutes, just to see if Dave would show up, but Chris and Conrad started playing, so we went back down to the stage since I wanted to see them too.
Chris and Conrad were great! I was kinda sad though, because they only had a 30 minute set. I got some great pictures of them too. I found it interesting that there wasn't a band with them. I suppose they had a track playing, since Chris was playing guitar and Conrad was singing and playing keyboard, and I was hearing drums and various other instruments. But that didn't take away from their music at all!
After they finished their set, we headed up towards the merch tables again, hoping to see Chris and Conrad come out briefly for some signings. They didn't though, so they were probably waiting for the M&G stuff that would take place after the concert was over.
Mom and Dad called and said they would be coming soon and would try to find us when they got there, so we headed back down for some Big Daddy Weave.
Now, admittedly, Big Daddy Weave was not the main reason why I went to Fusion. I went because of Revive, and Chris and Conrad. Big Daddy Weave being there was a bonus. :)
I'm not really familiar with Big Daddy Weave's music, but I know that they are a pretty cool band that has been a very influential presence in music. They actually helped jumpstart Chris and Conrad's music ministry, to which I am very thankful!
I wasn't able to get as close to the stage with Big Daddy Weave, since there were more people crammed in at the foot of the stage, but I was still able to get a few good pictures. Part of the way into listening to Big Daddy Weave, my brother and I saw my dad trying to find us, so we followed him back to my mom and we all sat down together.
My mom asked me if I had done everything I wanted to do, since we were going to have to leave before Big Daddy Weave finished playing. I told her I hadn't met Chris and Conrad yet, and that I still wanted a group picture with all of Revive, or at least get to see Dave. So my brother and I went on over to the merch tables again.
I asked the people at Chris and Conrad table if it was possible they would be coming by sometime before the end of the concert. They said they weren't sure, so I figured we could hang out for a few minutes to see if they came around.
Then I went to the Revive merch table where Nicki, Rich's wife was sitting. I asked her if it was possible to see Revive, and explained I couldn't stay for M&G. She said it would be kind of tricky to get all of them together, since they were all scattered at the moment, and then she asked if there was a specific one I still hadn't seen yet. I told her I hadn't seen Dave yet, and she said she would try to track him down for me.
So as I waited for her to come back, I watched Mike toss a football around with a couple of other people.
It didn't take very long for Dave to come out. He spotted me immediately and came over. He remembered my name from earlier too! I told him thanks for coming out to see me, and then he started signing my stuff, and I told him that I was the girl who had sent them a Chorus of the Saints graphic I had made last year. His eyes lit up, and he was like "Wow, I hadn't made that connection! Cool!" He then asked if I wanted a picture with him (who would pass that up? Haha), so my brother took one for me.
So after I got to see Dave, my brother and I went back over to where our parents were sitting. A few minutes went by, and Dave actually walked right by where we were sitting and waved to me!
Shortly after that, we all got up and left. I was so happy. I still am! I had gotten to see all of Revive (though not all at once-that'll have to happen next time!), and I had plenty of pictures and memories. Thanks to Faithwalk for hosting such an amazing event-I can't wait until next year!
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Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Inpop Records putting some pop in our lives
With the excitement of several new CDs coming out soon by artists such as Jimmy Needham and Superchick, and the joy of winning a special FreebieFriday prize pack on Twitter, I decided to learn more about Inpop Records, an independent Christian record company.
In my research, I was surprised to discover that Inpop was created by Peter Furler (former lead vocalist for the Newsboys) and the Newsboy's band manager, Wes Campbell in 1999. The two started the label with the purpose of "discover[ing] the best artists around the world that understand the grace of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and who also have something new and unique to offer the world of Christian music" (Wikipedia).
The unique name of Inpop was born through Furler and Campbell's desire to highlight the talents of international pop artists. Clever, isn't it?
Inpop Records has a great variety of artists on their roster, such as Newsboys (obviously, haha), Jimmy Needham, NEWWORLDSON, and Superchick. (For a complete list, make sure to visit Inpop Record's website!). I was surprised and pleased to discover how many of my favorite artists were a part
of this label. Plus, there were several bands I hadn't heard of before who were listed. Guess I'll be listening to Inpop's music player, Inpoparazzi to get a sampling of songs from these bands!
I'll leave you all with a song from the Newboys from several years ago, Love Liberty Disco-one of my favorite songs of theirs.
Follow @inpoprecords on Twitter
Become a fan of Inpop Records on Facebook
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Monday, March 29, 2010
It's so hard to believe...
Well, I've gone and done it again. I went searching for some cool, new music to listen to. Like I don't listen to enough already, right?
It all started with that FreeCCM.com contest. As I was browsing through their list of artists, trying to pick my 5 artists, I saw a band VOTA was listed.
Now, I had heard of VOTA before, in passing, because of their touring with bands like Barlowgirl and Stellar Kart, but I couldn't recall ever hearing anything by this band. I was intrigued, and decided to find out what they sounded like.
I did a search on YouTube, figuring that there had to be something uploaded there. Sure enough, there were a few songs.
The first song I clicked to listen to was a song Alright, which is off VOTA's first album. I was shocked to discover that I had actually heard this song, several years ago when it played on K-Love radio. However, I didn't think that the band who played that song was VOTA; I thought that it was another band by the name of Casting Pearls.
As I discovered by reading VOTA's Wikipedia article, the band Casting Pearls and the band VOTA are one and the same. I also found out that VOTA also has a very interesting history.
The band Casting Pearls was started in 1997 by vocalist Bryan Olesen, bassist Case Maranville, and drummer Shane Coop. The band experienced some shuffling around of drummers, finally settling on Scott Rutz as their official drummer. In 2003, Casting Pearls met Peter Furler of the band Newsboys, becoming good friends. So good of friends that for 3 years, Olesen (vocals) became lead guitarist for the Newsboys (replacing Jody Davis).
This experience led to Casting Pearls's Inpop Records (which was founded by no other than Furler himself) self-titled debut release in 2005.
2007 also brought around another album by Casting Pearls, Live in Wichita, also under the label of Inpop.
In 2008, Casting Pearls changed their name to VOTA, due to many people's confusion between them and Casting Crowns, another Christian band. When the name was chosen, the band members really didn't really have a specific definition for the name VOTA. However, it was later discovered by a fan of VOTA that the name is actually a Latin root word for a collection of vows before God. 2008 was also a switch of labels, releasing a self-titled album (now as VOTA) under INO Records.
This may still be a young band, but they have loads of talent. Below is VOTA's music video for their single Hard to Believe. I can't wait to hear more from VOTA!
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
5 Free CDs Contest
FreeCCM.com is hosting a contest to win 5 free CDs of choice, from their list of artists! The contest lasts until Friday, April 2, 2010, so it won't be lasting much longer!
Here's the rules:
1. Become a fan of FreeCCM.com on Facebook (this link takes you to their Facebook page)
2. Post a link to FreeCCM.com on your Facebook page, with a message about some of their music you liked, or even promoting the contest. Make sure to tag FreeCCM.com somewhere in your post!
3. Send them and email at firstname.lastname@example.com by (here's the last date for the contest again) Friday, April 2, 2010. That is less than a week from now everyone!!!
In the email, make sure to include the following info:
a. link to your Facebook post so they know you really did make a post about them
b. the list of 5 artists you are interested in receiving CDs from (artist list can be found on
their website)
And that's all there is to it! Winners will be drawn on Monday, April 5, 2010, so you won't have too long to wait to find out if you won :) I wish you all the best of luck!
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Friday, March 12, 2010
Bus Fire
Please be praying for Addison Road! Just a few days ago they had a massive bus fire that totally destroyed everything they had with them.
Thankfully, they did gain another RV, and have gotten other donations, but they still need help recovering.
Here is Addison Road's blog update:
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We're excited to announce the addition of the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project as a partner with Earth Protect.
The Rocky Mountain Wolf Project aims to restore gray wolves to their once native habitat of western Colorado. We are a coalition comprised of top notch conservation organizations, Colorado landowners, passionate individuals, and respected scientists. We believe that the gray wolf deserves to return home to Colorado but we want Coloradans to believe this is as well. It is therefore our duty to educate Coloradans on the realities of the gray wolf to dispel myths, to engage in conversation with ranchers & hunters to hear their concerns, and to show the great state of Colorado all the benefits the gray wolf can bring to their landscape. Restoring Colorado's natural balance for all to enjoy is the sole purpose of the Rocky Mountain Wolf Project's existence.
Earth Protect partners with over 50 environmental nonprofits. http://www.earthprotect.com/index.php/non-profit-partners/animals/mammals/rocky-mountain-wolf-project


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Chris Palmer
Faculty and Staff
J.B. Alexander (Sandy) Ross
Professor of Chemistry and BiochemistryOffice: ISB 219
Email: email@example.com
Fax: 406-243-4227
BCH 380 Fundamentals of Biochemistry
CHMY 305e Ethics, Science Writing and Chemistry Literature
BCH 581 Physical Biochemistry
Personal Summary
J.B. Alexander (Sandy) Ross joined the University of Montana in 2001 as Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Director of the BioSpectroscopy Core Research Laboratory. Sandy became Associate Dean of the Graduate School in 2010, Dean in 2012 and returned to faculty in 2016. Previously, he was Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Co-Director of the Biophysics, Structural Biology, and Biomathematics Training Program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
Sandy earned his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1976 under the joint supervision of D.A. Deranleau and D.C. Teller. He carried out postdoctoral research under the direction of A.L. Kwiram at the University of Washington, L. Brand at The Johns Hopkins University, and P.H. Petra at the University of Washington. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Parma, Italy, and a Visiting Scientist at the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Sandy is a physical biochemist specializing in time-resolved excited-state spectroscopy and single-molecule experiments. He is an investigator in the Center for Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics and the Center for Structural and Functional Neuroscience. He is also past Director of the Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership at the University of Montana.
B.A. in Biology, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, 1970
Ph.D. in Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1976
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Physical Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1976-1978
Associate Research Scientist, Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1978-1980
NIH Fellow in Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 1980-1982
Research Interests
Macromolecular Interactions and Dynamics
The goal of our research is to understand how conformational dynamics and interactions of biological molecules regulate function. Our approach is to use a combination of experimental and computational biophysical methods: we specialize in time-resolved and single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopies; and we collaborate with other groups that specialize in X-ray crystallography, NMR, analytical ultracentrifugation, inorganic chemistry and computational chemistry. Current research interests include:
Novel Probes for Studying Submicrosecond-to-Microsecond Dynamics: In contrast to fluorescence, which occurs in the time range of ps to tens-of-ns, phosphorescence (at ambient temperatures) occurs in sub-ms to ms. Thus, fluorescence lifetime measurements can provide information about local (specific-site) motions (ps to a few ns) and global motions of macromolecules with molecular weights up to 100 kDa (~50 ns). To facilitate study the dynamics of larger macromolecules and assemblies that are slower and occur in the 100-ns to 10-ms time-range, in collaboration with the Rosenberg group (NSF CHE-1049569), we have been developing luminescent probes based on organo-metal complexes (metal-ligand complexes) that have lifetimes spanning this time-range and that have high quantum yields and polarized emission.
Membrane-Protein Interactions and dynamics: We are using time-resolved fluorescence microscopy and single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy to study the conformational dynamics and ligand interactions of membrane proteins incorporated in nanodiscs. Nanodiscs, largely developed by Sligar and collaborators at the University of Illinois, are mono-disperse, aqueous-soluble assemblies of nm-scale, protein-belted, phospholipid bilayers. The belt proteins are recombinant constructs based on high-density apolipoprotein A1. The easily controlled lipid composition and stable properties of nanodiscs make them particularly useful as platforms for biophysical study of membrane proteins.
Structural dynamics and enzyme catalysis: G proteins. Correlated motions ranging in time scales from picoseconds to microseconds have been shown to be critical in overcoming activation energy barriers to substrate binding and active site pre-organization for catalysis in enzymes that have turnover rates in the microsecond to millisecond range. A crucial step in activation of G proteins is exchange of GDP with GTP, which is mediated by guanine nucleotide exchange factors. In collaboration with the Sprang group (R01 GM105993), we are using single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy to understand the role of conformational distributions and dynamic fluctuations in the mechanism of G protein activation.
Field of Study
Physical Biochemistry
Analytical Biochemistry
Biological Fluorescence
Selected Publications
Rosenberg E, Ross JBA, Sharmin A: Phosphorescent Ru(II) Complexes as Probes of Model Membrane Systems. Adv in Biochemistry, in press
Black LA, Ross JBA: Resolving Internal and Global Dynamics of Proteins by Combination of Time-Resolved Fluorescence Anisotropy and Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy. Reviews in Fluorescence 2017, Ed. CD Geddes, Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, in press
Pohkrel S, Decato D, Rosenberg E, Ross JBA, Terwilliger M (2017) Synthesis, structure, photophysical and electrochemical properties of Ru(TFA)(CO)(PPh3)2(L) (L=2-phenylpyridine, 2-p-tolylpyridine) and Ru(CO)(PPhMe2)2(L)(L′) (L= TFA, H) (L′= bipyridine, L′= 4,4′-dimethylbipyridine) relationships between ancillary ligand structure and luminescent properties. J Organomet Chem 849-850: 306-314. doi: 10.1016/j.jorganchem.2017.03.026
Penny WM, Steele HB, Ross JBA, Palmer CP (2017) Phospholipid Bilayer Affinities and Solvation Characteristics by Electrokinetic Chromatography with a Nanodisc Pseudostationary Phase. Electrophoresis 38: 738-746. doi: 10.1002/elps.201600381
McClelland LJ, Steele HB, Whitby F, Mou T-C, Holley D, Ross JBA, Sprang SR, Bowler BE (2016) Cytochrome c Can Form a Well-defined Binding Pocket for Hydrocarbons. J Am Chem Soc 138: 16770-16778. doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b10745
Rosenberg E, Abbott G, Ross JBA, McVay R, Terwilliger M (2016) Luminescence Quenching and Enhancement by Adsorbed Metal Ions with Ruthenium Diimine Complexes Immobilized on Silica Polyamine Composites. Macromol Symp 364:47-55. doi: 10.1002/masy.201500179
Her C, Filoti DI, McLean MA, Sligar SG, Steele HB, Ross JBA, Laue TM (2016) The Charge Properties of Phospholipid Nanodiscs. Biophys J 111: 989-998. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.06.041
Black LA, Thomas CJ, Nix GN, Terwilliger MC, Sprang SR, Ross JBA (2016) Nanosecond Dynamics of Gαi1 Bound to Nucleotides or Ric-8A, a Gα Chaperone with GEF Activity. Biophys J 111: 722-731. doi 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.07.021
Sun Y, Stine JM, Sharmin A, Atwater DZ, Ross JBA, Briknarová K (2015) Structural and Functional Characteristics of the Acidic Region from the RIZ Tumor Suppressor. Biochemistry 54: 1390-1400. doi: 10.1021/bi501398w
Abbott G, Brooks R, Rosenberg E, Terwilliger M, RossJBA, Ichire OOL (2014) Surface-Bound Ruthenium Diimine Organometallic Complexes: Excited-State Properties. Organometallics, 33:2467-2478. doi: 10.1021/om401153x
Sharmin A, Salassa L, Rosenberg E, Ross JBA, Abbott G, Black LA, Terwilliger M, Brooks R (2013) Photophysical Studies of Bioconjugated Ruthenium Metal-Ligand Complexes Incorporated in Phospholipid Membrane Bilayers. Inorg Chem, 52:10835–10845. doi: 10.1021/ic400706u
Manhat BA, Brown AL, Black LA, Ross JBA, Fichter K, Vu T, Richman E, Goforth AM (2011) One-step Melt Synthesis of Water Soluble, Photoluminescent, Surface-Oxidized Silicon Nanoparticles for Cellular Imaging Applications. Chem Mater, 23:2407-2418. doi: 10.1021/cm200270d
Wang H, Lu M, Tang M-S, Van Houten B, Ross JBA, Le XC (2009) DNA Wrapping on UvrB, Mediated by UvrA, is an Early Event in the Damage Recognition Pathway during E. coli Nucleotide Excision Repair. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 106:12849-12854. doi:10.1073/pnas.0902281106
Sharmin A, Darlington RC, Hardcastle KI, Ravera M, Rosenberg E, Ross JBA (2009) Tuning Photophysical Properties with Ancillary Ligands in Ru(II) Mono-Diimine Complexes. J Organometallic Chem, 694:988-1000. doi: 10.1016/ j.bpj.2008.10.018
Minazzo A, Darlington RC, Ross JBA (2009) Loop Dynamics of the Extracellular Domain of Human Tissue Factor and Activation of Factor VIIa. Biophysical J, 96:681-692. doi: 10.1016/ j.bpj.2008.10.018
Sharmin A, Minazzo A, Salassa L, Rosenberg E, Ross JBA, Shariff SE, Hardcastle KI (2008) Synthesis, Structure, Photophysical and Electrochemical Behavior of 2-amino-Anthracene Triosmium Clusters. Inorg Chim Acta 361:1624-1633. doi: 10.1016/j.ica.2007.03.059
Garino C, Gobetto R, Nervi C, Salassa L, Rosenberg E, Ross JBA, Chu X, Hardcastle KI, Sabatini C (2007) Spectroscopic and Computational Studies of a Ru(II)Terpyridine Complex: The Importance of Weak Intermolecular Forces to Photophysical Properties. Inorg Chem 46:8752-8762. doi: 10.1021/ic7010343
Senear DF, Tretyachenko-Ladokhina V, Opel ML, Aeling KA, Hatfield GW, Franklin LM, Darlington RC, Ross JBA (2007) Pressure Dissociation of Integration Host Factor-DNA Complexes Reveals Flexibility-Dependent Structural Variation at the Protein-DNA Interface. Nucleic Acids Research 35:1761-1772. doi:10.1093/nar/gkl1122
For a full list of publications, please view Ross Publications
A.P. Sloan Mentor of the Year (Compact for Faculty Diversity Institute, 2010)
Teaching Experience
Biochemistry and physical biochemistry since 1982
Professional Experience
- Visiting Scientist:
National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory
University of Parma
University of Torino
- Consulting:
Fluorescence Innovations - time-resolved fluorescence
Quantum Northwest - fluorescence instrumentation
Darby & Darby - intellectual property
Fluorescence Unlimited - time-resolved fluorescence in clinical chemistry
- Executive Editor, Analytical Biochemistry
American Chemical Society
Biophysical Society


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The 24-year-old defender has signed for the Saints from Ole Gunnar Sojskaer's Norwegian league-winning side for an undisclosed fee, although reports have suggested the deal could be valued at £3.5 million.
Forren was previously offered a trial at Liverpool, although the Norwegian declined upon learning of interest from the Saints.
|Everton are 9/1 with bet365 to beat Southampton 2-0 at St Mary's Stadium on Monday
And Southampton's new signing has revealed his delight at moving to the Premier League: "It's a dream come true for me," Forren told Southampton's official website. "Southampton is a big club in the Premier League, which is where I have always wanted to come and play football.
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The complexity of the playground is not just for when you were a child! Unfortunately, the intricacies of our social structure continue on forever, even when we are parents sizing each other up across the heads of our children.
The school that my son attends is really lovely and I don't have any particular issues with the other mums but I do have to accept that there is still a sense of social hierarchy and appropriateness. We aren't all socially ept or always socially ept and accepting that as a starting point has been very beneficial for me. Interpret that to mean forgiving myself when I am unable to focus on a conversation because I am too busy working out where my younger child has gone or whether I will be able to ask that other mum whether her son wants to come for a play date.
Recently I was reading Buddhism for Mothers of Schoolchildren by Sarah Napthali, in particular, the section on "The Need to be Seen". It resonated for me, not for any conscious need that I have personally 'to be seen', but because I realised that by actually 'seeing' others in the school yard as you drop off and pick up your children, you meet a need within them. And by meeting this need you create a space of shared experiences and connectedness that perhaps helps us all feel a little less self conscious.
I remember when I studied Psychology, I found the idea of "normalising" to be really obvious. That is, when someone expresses an issue you discuss how normal that feeling or situation is and highlight the universal experience. Although we are all unique and special, most of our experiences are not. This helps the other person to feel comfortable expressing their feelings and then to feel ok about what is happening for them.
So it is with "being seen". In that moment when you lock eyes with another person and smile, you are giving a little nod to their inner self, their inner voices, their experiences, and saying "I am so with you, honey!".
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Maini, P. K. and Alarcon, T. and Byrne, H. M. (2006) Modelling aspects of vascular cancer development. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mathematical and Computational Biology, R.P. Mondaini and R. Dilao (eds), World Scientific . 1 -12.
The modelling of cancer provides an enormous mathematical challenge because of its inherent multi-scale nature. For example, in vascular tumours, nutrient is transported by the vascular system, which operates on a tissue level. However, it also affects processes occurring on the molecular level. Molecular and intra-cellular events in turn affect the vascular network and therefore the nutrient dynamics. Our approach is to model, using partial differential equations, processes on the tissue level, and couple these to the intra-cellular events (modelled by ordinary differential equations) via cells modelled as automaton units. Thus far, within this framework, we have investigated the effects on tumour cell dynamics of structural adaptation at the vessel level, have explored certain drug protocol treatments, and have modelled the cell cycle in order to account for the possible effects of p27 in hypoxia-induced quiescence in cancer cells. We briefly review these findings here.
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Red Hot & Boom is more like Red Hot & Wet this year.
The annual July 3 fireworks display at Cranes Roost Park in Altamonte Springs got underway after a strong rain shower forced the crowd to seek shelter, said Altamonte Springs Senior Police Officer Rob Pelton.
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|New water heaters balance pressure in the flue with that in the room to prevent gasses from spilling into the room.
Whenever your project includes replacing a gas water heater, you probably don't spend much time mulling over the features of competing units. Maybe you should. Options that improve safety, indoor air quality and efficiency can be sold as benefits.
Water heaters and fires
The relatively open flame in a water heater can cause a house fire if it comes in contact with flammable vapors. During an average year in the early 1990s, ignition of flammable vapors by gas-fired water heaters caused nearly 2,000 fires, 320 injuries, 20 deaths and more than $26 million in property damage. In response to this problem, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission pushed for safer appliances. Manufacturers formed a consortium in 1995 to research solutions.
As of late 2001, all major water heater manufacturers offered products that meet the new vapor-resistant standard. The designs include a new type of gas valve and a flame-arrester plate below the tank. The initial price bump is $75 and up, but that should drop as the new designs become standard.
Higher efficiency standards
New water heater efficiency standards ordered by the Clinton administration in 2000 take effect in January 2004. Gas-fired units must improve from an energy factor of 0.54 (54% efficient) to 0.59, and electric units must increase from 0.86 to 0.90.
Gas-fired water heater efficiency is measured by the combination of combustion efficiency (usually about 76%) and losses from the tank into the room when the water heater is in standby mode. A number of units already meet the higher standards. Changes usually involve the use of heat traps (preventing hot water from being lost from pipes above the tank), a more efficient flue baffle (to improve heat transfer during combustion) and more foam around the tank. Most builders report the price difference to be $50 to $100. Once these water heaters become standard, expect the efficiency price bump to be $25.
Backdrafting and spillage
The draft of warm air rising up a water heater flue is measured in small units of air pressure called pascals. You typically can count on 5 to 10 pascals of positive draft pressure drawing in surrounding room air. When the space where the water heater is located is put under a negative pressure equivalent to the positive pressure in the flue, the combustion byproducts rising up that flue might backdraft — spilling back into the room and potentially causing health and safety problems. In a random sampling of relatively new homes by Fort Collins Utilities (a Colorado municipal utility), one-third of the homes had negative pressures sufficient to be considered a safety hazard.
Your options? You can reduce or eliminate the negative-pressure problem, or you can install a water heater that won't spill byproducts of combustion back into the home.
There are excellent reasons for eliminating the negative-pressure situation. Because the problem is caused primarily by leaking ductwork, reducing or eliminating those leaks addresses several problems. The house is made safer, the sizing of HVAC equipment (especially air conditioning) can be reduced, equipment durability should improve, and comfort will increase.
But just because you specify tight ductwork doesn't mean it will happen. Given the slow pace of industry change, your best short-term option is to buy a more foolproof water heater. Buy one that isn't atmospherically vented and that doesn't passively draw house air up the flue past an open, dish-shaped draft hood.
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Writer and consultant Steve Andrews is a board member with the Energy & Environmental Building Association.


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'Young Front' activist is threatened with criminal case for evasion from military service
Piatro Ruzau, activist of the Baranavichy branch of the Young Front who studies on Kastus Kalinouski educational program in Poland, is threatened with instigation of a criminal case for evasion from military service.
However, this time the activist is accused not only in evasion from military service, but also in forging documents (the military enlistment office states that the certificate issued by Poznan University is forged). The investigator demanded the immediate return of Mr. Ruzau to Belarus for giving testimonies and threatened that he could be deported from Poland according to the appropriate agreements between the countries.
At the same time, there are attempts to instigate a criminal case against Siamion Bylinski, another Young Front activist studying on Kalinouski program. In spring 2009 the court found Siamion guilty of evasion from military service and fined him 1 750 000 rubles. The activist hasn't paid the fine, that's why a criminal case can be instigated against him.
Artsiom Lastavetski, another of the Young Front from Baranavichy, has already got used to being summoned to the military enlistment office for various wire-drawn reasons, such as 'drafting alarm'.
Young Front activists consider it all as revenge of the local authorities headed by the Baranavichy major V.Dzichkouski, for the summer anti-corruption campaign held by the youth organization.


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PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona appeals court ruled Thursday to allow key parts of a state law restricting abortions to take effect, including one that requires women to see a doctor in person the day before getting an abortion to hear about risks and alternatives.
The provisions have been on hold for two years after a state judge blocked them from taking effect in 2009.
But the Arizona Court of Appeals on Thursday ordered the judge to lift his hold, saying the provisions are constitutional and don't put undue burdens on women seeking to end their pregnancies.
The provisions are part of an abortion law signed by Gov. Jan Brewer in July 2009, six months after she took office, and include a requirement for women to get so-called "informed consent" about risks and alternatives from a doctor in person before getting an abortion.
Currently, women are allowed to get that information over the phone from a doctor or a nurse practitioner.
The appellate court's ruling also covers provisions banning nurses from performing surgical abortions and requiring parental consent forms to be notarized for minors getting abortions. Another provision expands an existing law that allows health-care workers to refuse to participate in abortions for moral or religious reasons
"If this law takes effect in its entirety, it will put women in Arizona in harm's way. Period. End of story," said Bryan Howard, president of Planned Parenthood of Arizona.
Planned Parenthood, Arizona's major abortion provider, had challenged the law's constitutionality, which led to Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Donald Daughton's block of portions of it. The judge allowed other provisions to go into effect, including requiring women to wait 24 hours after their initial visit before getting an abortion.
Howard said the combination of allowing only doctors to perform surgical abortions and requiring women to meet with a doctor in person 24 hours before the procedure is a hardship, especially for women living in rural areas.
Flagstaff, for example, has no doctors who perform abortions, just one nurse practitioner, Howard said.
That means that a woman living in Window Rock in northeastern Arizona would have to drive five hours to Phoenix to meet with a doctor and stay overnight before getting a surgical abortion, he said. Then she would have to make the four-hour drive home.
"How that cannot be understood to be a hardship and potentially dangerous is beyond me," Howard said.
Deborah Sheasby, legal counsel for the anti-abortion Center for Arizona Policy, said the new provisions wouldn't be overly burdensome to women and weren't meant to discourage abortions.
"We believe this is a basic safety thing," she said.
Twenty-nine states require waiting periods for abortions — typically 24 hours, while 34 states require some type of counseling beforehand, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The new provisions could take effect as soon as a month from now but could be held up for more than a year if Planned Parenthood files an appeal in the Arizona Supreme Court.
Howard said Planned Parenthood's staff is considering an appeal.
Meanwhile, two other abortion measures scheduled to take effect last month have been blocked as a judge considers another legal challenge from Planned Parenthood. A hearing on the matter is set for Aug. 22.
Those measures would require clinics that perform medication abortions to meet state requirements on personnel, equipment, facilities and procedures that previously were imposed only on clinics that perform surgical abortions. They also would ban nurse practitioners from performing medication abortions, which account for about half of the abortions performed in Arizona, according to state data.
The Arizona Legislature and Brewer also have approved laws banning abortions based on the gender or race of the fetus and denying a state income tax break to donations to Planned Parenthood of Arizona.
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