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WINSTON-SALEM � The first pre-game key posted in the locker room by coach Jeff Bzdelik became the lasting element that unlocked victory for Wake Forest.
Sound, determined defense � as Bzdelik identified before tip-off � helped the Demon Deacons grind past William & Mary 63-57 in men�s basketball Friday night at Joel Coliseum.
�There�s going to be nights where the shots just don�t fall,� Wake Forest guard C.J. Harris said. �And the only thing that gets you over that is getting stops on the other end, hustling, getting loose balls, rebounding and just gutting the game out.�
Those qualities were what Wake Forest (3-2) had to rely on in overcoming a performance that never would be confused for a thing of artistic beauty.
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Madison Jones� only bucket � he scooped an errant inbounds pass and converted a hoop in transition while absorbing a foul � put Wake Forest ahead to stay with 7:55 left.
Harris and Travis McKie scored the Demon Deacons� final 11 points, nine of them coming from the foul line, to build what was a 52-51 lead with 2:32 left into safer territory.
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�Their size really bothered us when they did that,� Shaver said.
�We switched (positions) one through five and it really took them out of their rhythm,� Bzdelik said. �And it also manufactured some offense for us.
�We had some good looks. We just didn�t make them. But that�s why defense has to be a constant.�
Harris� 18 points led Wake Forest. He scored 10 on free throws and went 4 of 13 from the field. McKie got going after a two-point first half to finish with 15 points.
The energetic contributions of freshmen forwards Arnaud Adala Moto (eight points, four rebounds) and Aaron Rountree (four points, seven rebounds, five blocked shots, two steals) emerged as bright spots for Wake Forest.
Both came off the bench and helped spark an 8-0 burst late in the first half, after the Demon Deacons slogged through the opening 14� minutes and fell behind 24-11.
-- TIP-INS �: Bzdelik left his post-game session with reporters saying Wake Forest must take an analytical look at its approach early in games. The Demon Deacons trailed Iona by 36 points and Mercer by 11 in their most-recent games prior to Friday night. � Wake Forest went 3 of 19 from 3-point range, with Harris the biggest culprit. He missed all eight of his tries from beyond the arc. � Shaver liked William & Mary�s 37-34 edge in rebounding but shook his head at the foul-line disparity in the second half. Wake Forest shot 23 free throws while the Tribe took nine. �Some of that�s lazy defense on our part, playing with our hands and not our feet,� he said. �Some of it may be a tough whistle, I don�t know, but we had trouble keeping our guys on the floor.� � Rusthoven, William & Mary�s second-leading scorer and top rebounder, picked up his fourth foul with 5:06 remaining and fouled out with 29 seconds left. Three other Tribe players finished with four fouls.


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This editorial introduces the articles published in the AI Magazine special issue on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI), based on a selection of papers that appeared in the IAAI-05 conference, which occurred July 9-13 2005 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. IAAI is the premier venue for learning about AI's impact through deployed applications and emerging AI application technologies. Case studies of deployed applications with measurable benefits arising from the use of AI technology provide clear evidence of the impact and value of AI technology to today's world. The emerging applications track features technologies that are rapidly maturing to the point of application. The six articles selected for this special issue are extended versions of papers that appeared at the conference. Three of the articles describe deployed applications that are already in use in the field. Three articles from the emerging technology track were particularly innovative and demonstrated some unique technology features ripe for deployment.
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
What a ****up! Hahahahahahaha
I laughed so hard that I almost crashed into the vehicle in front of me. Focup? Who would name a company with that? Huh? You don't get it? Say it very quickly and you'll know what I mean.
FOCUP! Yes, I think it definitely is one:-) But you have a nice weekend y'hear?
44 comments:
Patrick brother!..do you have a phone with camera?..get one if don't have lah. 2mix cam also can do lah! I wish you had taken a pic and post it here. Will make me laugh more!.
- 6:37 pm
- donplaypuks said...
As funny as the Russian Penile Extension Surgeon, Dr. Nikolie Kirchkokoff?
- 7:04 pm
Focup? It's everywhere...this Govt just lost Pulau Batu Puteh (Pedra Banca)to Singapore. I call that a total 24 carat focup!
- 8:56 pm
over here in Ipoh, we have a shop named "CHEAP LIE " SDN. BHD !!
- 9:50 pm
- eruditesays said...
hi dear friend.I've added you in my blog.Kindly link me from your blog.
- 10:15 am
- HjMisaiKontot :الدليل السياحي said...
I have came across this small truck in Cameron Highlands with this name; Foo Contraction... you guess what business that fella has...
- 1:54 pm
- KoSong Cafe said...
Where Wisma Yap Ka stands today at 3rd mile, Jalan Ipoh, there used to be a used car dealer by the name of FU SOON MOTOR.
In Teluk Intan, there is a SEONG FART and in Batu Gajah, there is a HYE TRADING.
In Yorkshire, bearing in mind their distinctive accent, don't explain that 'I am Chinese, a Fukien one.'
- 8:21 pm
- Faisal Admar said...
haha focup sounds cute, lol :P
- 12:44 am
Patrick, if you go to PJ old town food court (next to the traffic light) You will see a makan stall with the name "Erm Tiew Nei" .
- 11:14 am
- anfield devotee said...
Dear Mr Teoh,
A few months back me colleague fished out an old name card of a printer bloke me employers used to patronise. Get this, and I fooking kid you not, the propreitor goes by the name of . . . wait fer it . . .
Ng Fook You!!!
(pls go to me 30 Nov posting at http://anfielddevotee.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html to see sample of the namecard).
- 1:23 pm
- ezrazlin said...
hey patrick..
i had a great weekend..nasi lemak kukus at Frasers Hill and the rice was fantastic! there's some pics..come and have a look..
focup? kah kah kah!
- 2:05 pm
Years ago I saw a shop in Pertama Complex with the name "Tahi Sdn Bhd." It was selling perfume.
I swear to you this is true.
- 7:35 pm
FOCUP - another lesser known GLC brought to you by Bee-Ann ....
- 8:35 pm
- coalminecanary said...
erkk! How could the ROC approved such obscene name? LOL
- 3:14 am
i came across a mercedes car plate in KL.. BAN 7!!
- 1:38 pm
Dear Patrick,
I'm a new reader of your blog.
Your entry reminds me of this story a friend told me about back in the day when u did morning shows on radio. According to this friend, u asked listeners to call in to tell u what is NaCl, and this lady called in to say it was talcum powder when u gave her a clue that NaCl was what her husband puts in his eggs every morning. Is this true?!! God, I've always wanted to ask u that question...
- 4:23 pm
- chroniclesist said...
I've seen a restaurant named "TRY TO EAT" =.=" sure I will, in your widest dreams.
- 5:52 pm
Dear Patrick
Is tehre anyway I could upload a picture to your blog?
Anyway, I hope you could participate in the next 'Here in My Home' project. You are teh voice of malasyian airwaves - maybe you could provide voice-over in future project?
Thank you for your wonderful website.
I suggest your readers could access to Jeffooi.com if you wish to learn about the altest jokes in the parliment.
- 8:00 pm
- huey mei said...
whahahah...is true
- 9:44 pm
- monsterball said...
hahahahahahaha....We should all support and buy FOCUP food!
After all...one way or another..the smart company CEO is right...all of Malaysia have been f...d up....by UMNO.
Glad you did not hurt yourself...laughing..Pat!
- 10:12 am
- ezrazlin said...
new pics of cupcakes..come and check it out at my blog!
nih order nih..will send kejap lagi abt 2 hours lagi ekeke..! alhamdullilah..ada jugak bisnes kat blog nih huhu! doa doa doa!
- 11:39 am
if u happen to be in penang, try to look up for this shop located very close to the roudabout on the way to butterfly farm in batu ferringhi. i tell u, the moment i saw the name i cant stop laughing for a gud 20 minutes. and the shop's name? 'chop foo kee' :p
- 3:07 pm
aahahha... i wonder when he got that name... LOL... LOL... focup focup focup focup...
- 4:42 pm
- TummyBelly said...
Hi ! Bro ,
Funny ......!!!!
Why "Grilled toyo" the former Selangor MB is still at large ??!!
After so many wrong doings in his past............. he is still making so much noise.
Like he mentioned recently in his blog..... http://www.drkhir.com/2008/05/meniti-harapan-menanti-perubahan.html
"Saya melihat cara pentadbiran kerajaan sekarang lebih bersikap "looking forward" dan bukannya "forward looking". "Looking forward" lebih kepada mengharapkan yang bulat datang bergolek, yang pipis datang melayang. Untung sabut timbul, untung batu tenggelam. Kerajaan tidak ..............."
He also mentioned that The PR government shouldn't be wasting too much time in digging his past wrong doings and misdeeds.
If we go by his logic that means all the criminals must be released from jail as their crimes were committed in the past.
Why the prisoners are still rotting away in the jail waiting for their trial.
Set them free ...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why still waiting ...??....!!!!!!
Be fair and square.
PR,need your prompt action !!!
- 2:28 am
- Horsoon said...
Too bad u didn't carry ur phone camera with u?
- 10:19 am
Could this be the dodgy food supplier to our NS programme? No wonder the entire charade is a major "FOCUP".
I also heard of the 2 chinese surgeons specialising in hernia operations. They were known as Wan Hung Lo and Wan Hung Hai.
- 12:03 pm
Japanese car maufacturers are also in the same boat. Remember the Starrion from Mitsubshi, right after the Colt and the Lancer? Now we have Altis, Vios and Camry? What the fuck is that? Camera? Atlas? The Latio. Now that one takes the cake. No guesses to what that makes the owner.
- 9:18 am
Tun Dr Mahathir in his latest blog entry (www.chedet.com) said: "We have bought two submarines costing over RM3 billion. When are we going to use them? Are we contemplating going to war with our neighbours? I can think of other ways of spending RM3 billion in Malaysia."
Instead of worrying about external threat, we should have spent the RM3 billion on internal security i.e. to eradicate the local crimes (theft, robeery, rape ...).
Do you have any comment on this?
- 9:33 am
- Muhammad Nazeef said...
dunno if this true but ive saw sumwhere in the internet showing the road sign "JALAN FUN WEE FUCK"...and after reading patrick's story, i remembered of accidently park my car beside a lorry with the company name "BOON TUT HANG SDN. BHD."...which sounds similat to 'buntut hang~!"...haha~
- 11:00 pm
- ezrazlin said...
you heve been taGGed patrick..so read my bLog! here's the ruLes..
The Rules
1. Each blogger must post these rules first.
2. Each blogger starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. Bloggers that are tagged need to write on their own blog about their eight things and post these rules. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
4. Don't forget to leave them a comment telling them they've been tagged, and to read your blog.
- 11:49 am
- crower said...
It is only "obscene" when it is deciphered by an obscene mind.
It is just a name, I'm sure the person who gave that name did not intend it to be deciphered as obscene in any way.
Besides, who are we to laugh at others for using "obscene" names (to the obscene minds) when we often see the use of the four letter "F" word in blogs ?
- 12:28 pm
What the F...? I thought it was his idea! like asking his crony to build naval ships that couldn't sail! Priratizng the ports with goverment's cash.put toll contact under OSA! that OLD cow should be put to rest!
- 7:04 pm
- nal3sa said...
hahaha... cute!
- 7:57 pm
How come no entry since 24 May?
No topic in Bolehland to talk about?
Blog must be constantly updated.
- 12:36 pm
aiyah, NaCl = common salt = garam !
I saw, in kintacityipoh, a beauty wearing a FCUK T-shirt !! being a teacher, I was tempted to tell her the spelling is wrong, luckily my wife STOPPED me !!
In SMI boys toilet, i saw this :
' i fcuk your mather .'
Sigh !... standard of english ...sigh !
- 6:43 am
Hey, to reg.number 'fart-fart-fart'
for your new car = half of your car! dun play play with the FART !!
- 6:53 am
I saw a taxi in ipoh named Hashim bin UNTONG , reminds me of exteacher hashim bin PUKI !!
- 10:48 pm
Indulgence Restoran along Tambun Road ipoh caters for those who can AFFORD !! royal members & RICH ones frequently indulged; if you have less than 100rm or NO c cards
pls ...DON'T ...!!
- 5:06 pm
pat, at least 7 'old town white coffee' shops in ipoh years back, BUT now 1 or 2 left ! ( wen r u coming 4 whitecoffee !?) stcin
- 8:27 am
pls someone enlighten me :
a malay minister uttered "volker.." in tamil = 'fcuking' , caught by an indian mp , then the minister said he meant 'ukerah'= sit down !( what is it all about ?)
Semi Value said " kemuluan saya banyak BESAR !" when he saw his kawasan very dirty !!
Kapal said, " kalau saya punya NAIK, lu tiga orang ( AAB,OKT & SV)
lagi susah !!"
- 5:31 pm
- Fakawi said...
No need to be prudish here..
You guys should check out this very popular Malaysian mountainbiking site.
they had a race called the Fak-Up race last year..
BTW,you know what's the most obscene name given to a car?
The Nissan (Fe)latio....
- 11:41 am
what is ' nissan(Fe)latio !?
- 10:56 am
- Square said...
hahaha......at least u found something funny when u r doing the most boring thing one can do...have fun there
- 9:05 pm
Dear Patrick!
I Saw a Factory bus with the company name on top the windscreen
- 10:52 am


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Easter Clearance
I paid: $2.26
How did I fill my children's Easter baskets for only $1.26? All the candy pictured I got for free using coupons, except the Dove bunnies I paid .10 each for those.
- Wonka candy was free or moneymaker in March
- M&M's were free when I bought Kellogg's Rice Krispies
- Peeps were free with doubles at Albertsons
All other Easter basket fillers I bought at Albertsons last year when they marked the Easter stuff down to 90% off! Depending on the store you shop and how many other people love to get clearance holiday items you may never see 90% off before it is all gone. Starting today you should start to see Easter stuff at least 50% off. So keep your eye out in the stores you shop for Easter clearance!
PS I did not put the egg dye kits in the Easter baskets, but I didn't have to buy one this year when it was time to color eggs so snag some of those and put them away for next year. I also bought Easter gel clings last year. My kids had a great time putting those on the windows this year when we pulled out the Easter box!
I have two little boys so I bought extra hot wheels during the Christmas season when the 5 packs were on sale for stocking stuffers. I bought Easter grass and some plastic Easter Eggs that had toys and play dough in them last year on clearance. I spent about $5 on the clearance last year. I can't bring myself to pay full price for Easter grass. It's only in the basket for a couple mins before I have to vacuum it up. I bought the candy this year like you did when it was on sale for next to nothing or nothing but tax. Then I bought a sand pails at the dollar store instead of a basket. It seemed more practical to me. We go to the WA coast on memorial day every year so I know it'll get good use. It's funny how people think that if you coupon your kids miss out. My kids wouldn't get as much if I didn't. I just think ahead. Now that I'm though Easter I'm stockpiling for memorial day and 4th of July. In July I'll hit the Christmas in July toy sales so I won't have to go into debt during the Christmas season.
I don't think I've ever put that awful fake grass in my daughter's Easter basket. She doesn't care, and it's just messy. Hot wheels are great egg fillers — my daughter loved them when she was little.
I have only one child, and she's past the toy stage and not much of a candy eater (thankfully!), so for egg fillers this year I looked for small items like the little jars of nail polish, barettes, ponytail holders, and lip gloss, which I was able to pick up very cheaply, or even free, at Rite Aid or Walgreens recently.
Other than that, I procrastinated and did all my Easter shopping last Friday at Shopko. All of the Easter stuff was already 50-75% off, and they had lots. We have a tradition of getting new flip flops, swim suit, a few new summer clothes items, and new yard toys, and Shopko had lots of that stuff on sale. Not free, but really good prices, and I'm very pleased. Everything I bought was at least half off.
I wish I could still could by that easily with Easter. My son is 13 so he wants video games and electronics. I buy used and discounted where I can, but World of Warcraft cards NEVER get discounted!
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Posted on 15. Aug, 2010 by Robert Gale in Beer Festivals
The 11th Annual Worcester Beer Festival took place at Worcester racecourse on the weekend of August 12th-14th, 2010.
Approximately 11,000 ale, cider and perry fans passed through the gates on during the 3 day event with 5,500 visiting on the rainy Friday. The numbers were the same as last year but they must have been very thirsty as by the Saturday most of the beer had gone. I was one of the first through the gates on Saturday and well over half of the beers had gone. I don't recall so many beers being unavailable last year.
Due to the rain on the Friday night and some very heavy showers on the Saturday afternoon, the inside of the tent had become extremely muddy. This didn't put people off and quite a few people had come prepared by wearing wellies.
The festival is popular and with plenty of seating inside the main marquee there is a good atmosphere. If it's not raining there is room outside to sit and for the first time, the music is now held in a separate marquee.
As with other years, a lot of people like to attend in fancy dress and the standard was really high. The Welsh matadors were there for the third year running and Robin Hood and his merry men wore some excellent costumes.
Due to the shortage of beer I'm not sure if I will attend the festival next year. The festival is a 2 hour train ride and whilst you expect some of the beers to have gone by the Saturday, it's disappointing when over half of them have gone. That said, Worcester does have a few great pubs such as The Cardinal's Hat and The Plough.
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Worcester Racecourse
Grand Stand Road
Tel: 0870 220 2772
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FWIW most of the beers were on at the start of Saturday, with the bars surviving far better than they did last year at all times. Unfortunately the layout of the site means that one end of the bar gets hammered much more than the other end.
There were still over 70 beers (plus for once a reasonable range of cider and perry) at the end of the festival.
Not sure what the tannoy message would have been, but it was not to say there were around 50 beers left. The bars survived better than they did last year.


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Fuzzing, is one of the ways in which we can improve the quality of the decoders when exposed to corrupted input. It involves randomly or systematically corrupting the input of a program in order to make it crash. The heartbleed vulnerability was one of the most famous bugs found via fuzzing [1].
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[1] http://www.codenomicon.com/files/pdf/Heartbleed-Story.pdf
Note: This is a more technical post than usual, and about 5 months late.
The decoding in the OBE C-100 decoder was optimised to make use of instructions in modern CPUs and this blog post explains how we did it:
HD-SDI video uses 10-bit pixels but computers operate in bytes (8-bits). However, 10-bit professional video doesn't fit nicely into bytes. Instead, 10-bit video on a computer is stored in memory like this:
The X represents an unused bit - note how in total 12 out of 32 of the bits are unused (that's 37.5%). It's very wasteful if the data needs to be transferred to a piece of hardware like a Blackmagic SDI card. Virtually all professional SDI cards use the 'v210' format that was first introduced by Apple in the 90s [1] and v210 improves the efficiency of 10-bit storage by packing the 10-bit video samples as follows:
(adapted from [1])
Now only 2 out of the 32-bits are unused, a major improvement. Using the old v210 encoder in FFmpeg, each pixel is loaded from memory, shifted to the correct position and "inserted" using the OR operation. When doing this on 1920x1080 material, this involves about 250 million of these operations every second. More CPU time is spent packing the pixels for display than actually decompressing them from the encoded video!
Clearly, we've got to do something about this - Thanks to the magic of SIMD instructions (in this case SSSE3 and AVX) we can instead process 12 pixels in one go [2]:
This can be (unscientifically) benchmarked with the command:
ffmpeg -pix_fmt yuv422p10 -s 1920x1080 -f rawvideo -i /dev/zero -f rawvideo -vcodec v210 -y /dev/null
Before: 168fps
After: 480fps
A 3x speed boost.
But, a lot of content that the decoder receives is 8-bit which has this packing format:
In existing software decoders, this needs to be converted to the 10-bit samples in the first picture and then packed into v210, a two step process. But, we can now just do this in a single step.
ffmpeg -pix_fmt yuv422p -s 1920x1080 -f rawvideo -i /dev/zero -f rawvideo -vcodec v210 -y /dev/null
Before: 95fps
After: 620fps
What more could be done:
Thanks must go to those who helped review this code.
[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2162/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40013070-CH1-TNTAG8-V210__4_2_2_COMPRESSION_TYPE
(This is from Apple's venerable Letters from the Ice Floe)
[2] http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=libavcodec/x86/v210enc.asm


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Consistency and Safety of Cell Banks for Research and Clinical Use: Preliminary Analysis of Fetal Skin Banks
Aurelie Quintin,11,2 Nathalie Hirt-Burri,3 Corinne Scaletta,4 Constantin Schizas,4 Dominique P. Pioletti,2 and Lee Ann Applegate1,4
1Orthopedic Cell Therapy Unit, University Hospital, Lausanne,
2Laboratoire de Biomécanique en Orthopédie (EPFL-HORS), Institut de Biomécanique Translationnelle, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Good Manufacturing Practice-Compliant Expansion of Marrow-Derived Stem and Progenitor Cells for Cell Therapy
Martin H. Gastens,1 Kristin Goltry,2 Wolfgang Prohaska,1 Diethelm Tschöpe,3 Bernd Stratmann,3 Dirk Lammers,3 Stanley Kirana,3 Christian Götting,1 and Knut Kleesiek1
1Institut für Laboratoriums- und Transfusionsmedizin,
Herz- und Diabeteszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen, Universitätsklinik
der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 32545 Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
2Aastrom Bioscience, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA
3Diabeteszentrum, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen, Universitätsklinik der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 32545 Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
Ex vivo expansion is being used to increase the number of stem and progenitor cells for autologous cell therapy. Initiation of pivotal clinical trials testing the efficacy of these cells for tissue repair has been hampered by the challenge of assuring safe and high-quality cell production. A strategy is described here for clinical-scale expansion of bone marrow (BM)-derived stem cells within a mixed cell population in a completely closed process from cell collection through postculture processing using sterile connectable devices. Human BM mononuclear cells (BMMNC) were isolated, cultured for 12 days, and washed postharvest using either standard open procedures in laminar flow hoods or using automated closed systems. Conditions for these studies were similar to long-term BM cultures in which hematopoietic and stromal components are cultured together. Expansion of marrow-derived stem and progenitor cells was then assessed. Cell yield, number of colony forming units (CFU), phenotype, stability, and multilineage differentiation capacity were compared from the single pass perfusion bioreactor and standard flask cultures. Purification of BMMNC using a closed Ficoll gradient process led to depletion of 98% erythrocytes and 87% granulocytes, compared to 100% and 70%, respectively, for manual processing. After closed system culture, mesenchymal progenitors, measured as CD105+CD166+CD14-CD45- and fibroblastic CFU, expanded 317- and 364-fold, respectively, while CD34+ hematopoietic progenitors were depleted 10-fold compared to starting BMMNC. Cultured cells exhibited multilineage differentiation by displaying adipogenic, osteogenic, and endothelial characteristics in vitro. No significant difference was observed between manual and bioreactor cultures. Automated culture and washing of the cell product resulted in 181 x 106 total cells that were viable and contained fibroblastic CFU for at least 24 h of storage. A combination of closed, automated technologies enabled production of good manufacturing practice (GMP)-compliant cell therapeutics, ready for use within a clinical setting, with minimal risk of microbial contamination.
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Aging Reduces the Neuroprotective Capacity, VEGF Secretion, and Metabolic Activity of Rat Choroid Plexus Epithelial Cells
Dwaine F. Emerich, Patricia Schneider, Briannan Bintz, Jebecka Hudak, and Christopher G. Thanos
LCT BioPharma, Inc., Providence, RI, USA
Delivery of neurotrophic molecules to the brain has potential for preventing neuronal loss in neurodegenerative disorders. Choroid plexus (CP) epithelial cells secrete numerous neurotrophic factors, and encapsulated CP transplants are neuroprotective in models of stroke and Huntington's disease (HD). To date, all studies examining the neuroprotective potential of CP transplants have used cells isolated from young donor animals. Because the aging process significantly impacts the cytoarchitecture and function of the CP the following studies determined whether age-related impairments occur in its neuroprotective capacity. CP was isolated from either young (3-4 months) or aged (24 months) rats. In vitro, young CP epithelial cells secreted more VEGF and were metabolically more active than aged CP epithelial cells. Additionally, conditioned medium from cultured aged CP was less potent than young CP at enhancing the survival of serum-deprived neurons. Finally, encapsulated CP was tested in an animal model of HD. Cell-loaded or empty alginate capsules (control group) were transplanted unilaterally into the rat striatum. Seven days later, the animals received an injection of quinolinic acid (QA; 225 nmol) adjacent to the implant site. Animals were tested for motor function 28 days later. In the control group, QA lesions severely impaired function of the contralateral forelimb. Implants of young CP were potently neuroprotective as rats receiving CP transplants were not significantly impaired when tested for motor function. In contrast, implants of CP from aged rats were only modestly effective and were much less potent than young CP transplants. These data are the first to directly link aging with diminished neuroprotective capacity of CP epithelial cells.
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Effect of Pretransplant Preconditioning by Whole Body Hyperthermia on Islet Graft Survival
H. Brandhorst,1 M. Olbrich,2 A. Neumann,3 H. Jahr,3 and D. Brandhorst1
1Department of Oncology, Radiology & Clinical Immunology,
University Hospital, 75185 Uppsala, Sweden
2Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Eilbeck, 22081 Hamburg, Germany
3Third Medical Department, University Hospital, 35385 Giessen, Germany
Previous observations in heat-shocked pig islets revealed the ambivalent character of the stress response simultaneously inducing processes of protection and apoptosis. To clarify whether the proapoptotic character of the stress response is reduced in heat-exposed islets still embedded in their native environment, hyperthermia was performed in the present study either as whole body hyperthermia (WBH) prior to pancreas resection or as in vitro heat shock (HS) after isolation. HS (42°C/45 min) was induced in donors 12 h before isolation (WBH, n = 32) or in freshly isolated islets prior to 12 h of culture at 37°C (in vitro HS, n = 25). Islets continuously incubated at 37°C served as controls (n = 34). Proinflammatory treatment was performed with H2O2, DETA-NO, or a combination of IL-1b, TNF-a, and IFN-g. Quality assessment included islet yield, viability staining, static glucose incubation, and nude mouse transplantation. WBH was significantly less effective than in vitro HS to induce HSP70 overexpression and to increase islet resistance against inflammatory mediators. Although characterized by an unaltered Bax to Bcl-2 ratio, islets subjected to WBH partially failed to restore sustained normoglycemia in diabetic nude mice. The inflammatory response observed in the pancreas of WBH-treated rats was associated with significantly reduced viability that seems to have a higher predictive value for posttransplant outcome compared to islet in vitro function or mitochondrial activity. In contrast, in vitro HS significantly decreased transcript levels of Bcl-2, but did not affect posttransplant function compared to sham-treated islets. These findings suggest that WBH is primarily associated with increased necrosis as a secondary tissue type-specific effect of pancreas damage while in vitro HS mainly induces apoptosis.
Key words: Rats; Islet isolation; Heat shock; Inflammation; Apoptosis; Whole body hyperthermia
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Adult-Derived Human Liver Mesenchymal-Like Cells as a Potential Progenitor Reservoir of Hepatocytes?
Mustapha Najimi,1 Dung Ngoc Khuu,1 Philippe Antoine Lysy,1 Nawal Jazouli,1 Jorge Abarca,2 Christine Sempoux,3 and Etienne Marc Sokal1
1Université catholique de Louvain, Laboratory of Pediatric
Hepatology & Cell Therapy, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium
2Université catholique de Louvain, Radiodiagnostic, Cliniques universitaires St-Luc, B-1200, Brussels, Belgium
3Université catholique de Louvain, Anatomo-pathology, Cliniques universitaires St-Luc, B-1200 Brussels, Belgium
It is currently accepted that adult tissues may develop and maintain their own stem cell pools. Because of their higher safety profile, adult stem cells may represent an ideal candidate cell source to be used for liver cell therapies. We therefore evaluated the differentiation potential of mesenchymal-like cells isolated from adult human livers. Mesenchymal-like cells were isolated from enzymatically digested adult human liver and expanded in vitro. Cell characterization was performed using flow cytometry, RT-PCR, and immunofluorescence, whereas the differentiation potential was evaluated both in vitro after incubation with specific media and in vivo after intrasplenic transplantation of uPA+/+-SCID and SCID mice. Adult-derived human liver mesenchymal-like cells expressed both hepatic and mesenchymal markers among which albumin, CYP3A4, vimentin, and a-smooth muscle actin. In vitro differentiation studies demonstrated that these mesenchymal-like cells are preferentially determined to differentiate into hepatocyte-like cells. Ten weeks following intrasplenic transplantation into uPA+/+-SCID mice, recipient livers showed the presence of human hepatocytic cell nodules positive for human albumin, prealbumin, and a-fetoprotein. In SCID transplanted liver mice, human hepatocyte-like cells were mostly found near vascular structures 56 days posttransplantation. In conclusion, the ability of isolated adult-derived liver mesenchymal stem-like cells to proliferate and differentiate into hepatocyte-like cells both in vitro and in vivo leads to propose them as an attractive expandable cell source for stem cell therapy in human liver diseases.
Key words: Stem cells; Transplantation; SCID mice; Differentiation; Cell therapy
Address correspondence to Mustapha Najimi, Ph.D., Laboratory of Pediatric Hepatology and Cell Therapy, Avenue Hippocrate 10/1301, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgium. Tel: +32 2 764 5283; Fax: +32 2 764 8909; E-mail: email@example.com
Novel Cell Seeding System Into a Porous Scaffold Using a Modified Low-Pressure Method to Enhance Cell Seeding Efficiency and Bone Formation
Ichiro Torigoe,1 Shinichi Sotome,1,2 Akio Tsuchiya,1,3 Toshitaka Yoshii,1 Makoto Takahashi,1 Shigenori Kawabata,1 and Kenichi Shinomiya1,3,4,5
1Section of Orthopaedic and Spinal Surgery, Graduate School,
Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, 113-8519, Japan
2Section of Regenerative Therapeutics for Spine and Spinal Cord, Graduate School, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, 113-8519, Japan
3The 21st Century Center of Excellence (COE) Program for Frontier Research on Molecular Destruction and Reconstruction of Tooth and Bone, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, 101-0062, Japan
4Hard Tissue Genome Research Center, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, 101-0062, Japan
5Core to Core Program for Advanced Bone and Joint Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, 101-0062, Japan
The efficient seeding of cells into porous scaffolds is important in bone tissue engineering techniques. To enhance efficiency, we modified the previously reported cell seeding techniques using low-pressure conditions. In this study, the effects of low pressure on bone marrow-derived stromal cells (BMSCs) of rats and the usefulness of the modified technique were assessed. There was no significant difference found in the proliferative and osteogenic capabilities among various low-pressure (50-760 mmHg, 1-10 min) conditions. To analyze the efficacies of the cell seeding techniques, BMSCs suspended in the plasma of rats were seeded into porous b-tricalcium phosphate (b-TCP) blocks by the following three procedures: 1) spontaneous penetration of cell suspension under atmospheric pressure (SP); 2) spontaneous penetration and subsequent low pressure treatment (SPSL), the conventional technique; and 3) spontaneous penetration under low pressure conditions (SPUL), the modified technique. Subsequently, these BMSCs/b-TCP composites were used for the analysis of cell seeding efficiency or in vivo bone formation capability. Both the number of BMSCs seeded into b-TCP blocks and the amount of bone formation of the SPUL group were significantly higher than those of the other groups. The SPUL method with a simple technique permits high cell seeding efficiency and is useful for bone tissue engineering using BMSCs and porous scaffolds.
Key words: Tissue engineering; Bone formation; Porous scaffolds; Bone marrow-derived stromal cells (BMSCs); Cell seeding method; Low pressure
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WOODS HOLE, Mass. — This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Cape Cod National Seashore, which, after five decades, has proven itself a success, balancing the need for environmental protection with the desire for active recreation on the beaches of the Outer Cape.
By the 1950s, Cape Cod was already a tourist destination, and there were concerns about the region's future, particularly the fragile outer-Cape beaches, salt marshes and sand dunes. National Seashore Superintendent George Price says the worry was that without protection, Cape Cod and other Atlantic seacoast destinations could go the way of Miami Beach and the Jersey Shore.
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"And basically we came up with the 44,000 acres we see today," Price said. "However, this was different than other national parks because there were already towns here. Yellowstone in 1872 when they did it there were only territories, so all they had to do was draw a line on a map and it was easy to set aside. Here we had the towns."
Six Cape Cod towns were part of the National Park plan, and there was uncertainty about how the Seashore boundaries could include the nearly 600 existing private homes.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined for the second time to take up a long-running dispute about overcrowding in California prisons.
California Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, had asked the court to overturn a lower court ruling that requires the state to reduce overcrowding to 137.5 percent of design capacity. The state says it might have to release up to 9,000 prisoners by the end of the year to be in compliance.
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Christmas traditions I refuse to do with my kids
There is not enough eggnog in the world to make me go Christmas caroling.
Christmas is one of my favorite times of year. I'm not one of those Grinches who complain about over-commercialization of the holiday or refuse to get into the spirit of things. I love Christmas. I love the cold weather, warm drinks, twinkling lights and giving people stuff. Every year I even attempt to bake, which has varied — but mostly inedible — results.
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1. Christmas caroling
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2. Any kind of public tree lighting
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My love for Christmas and the annoyance I feel toward my fellow man are practically inverse to one another. The more I go out during the holiday season, the more I realize how much I shouldn't be allowed in public. I know that if I went to a tree lighting, there are a number of people I shouldn't be allowed to interact with: The people who have been camping out since noon to get a good spot and will glare at your toddler if they get too close to their collapsible yurt, that one middle-aged dude who will smoke his cigar wherever he damn well pleases, thank you very much, and the mom of six who has been wasted on spiked cider for days.
3. Seeing a mall Santa
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4. Driving around to look at Christmas lights
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I never really understood this tradition. I mean, I guess I could see it if I lived in a city where there weren't a lot of decorations out. But I don't. I live in a place that requires a half hour drive to the grocery store. Gas ain't cheap, people.
5. Paying extra money to go see some attraction that's been Christmas-fied
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8. Going to see The Nutcracker
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You have two options here. You can shell out the $50 per ticket and take your family to go see a proper ballet company perform this holiday favorite, while you hiss at your kid to shut it every time they want to know, "How come no one's talking?" Or you can shell out $10 per ticket and attempt to see past a sea of glowing phone screens to watch a local or youth ballet do it, while you hiss at your kid to shut it every time they want to know, "How come no one's talking?"
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