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iPhone users' experience with GPS is so quick, so instant-on, that Apple's Wednesday response about location tracking on iOS might almost seem baffling:
Calculating a phone's location using just GPS satellite data can take up to several minutes. iPhone can reduce this time to just a few seconds by using Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data to quickly find GPS satellites.
Several minutes? Doesn't my iPhone take just seconds to figure out where I am?
Well, yes… but only when it engages in a set of tricks to avoid a lengthy process that was de rigueur when GPS receivers first appeared. In simplifying matters, Apple's not being entirely accurate about how this all works and what it's doing. So let me explain where Wi-Fi and cell phone towers fit into the equation.
12.5 minutes to locate
Early GPS receivers took 12.5 minutes from a cold start to obtain a lock; later locks in the same region could still take minutes. If you turned a GPS receiver off for a few weeks or moved it more than a few hundred miles, a cold start might be required again.
GPS relies on two factors to create a set of accurate coordinates for where you're standing: time and space. GPS satellites broadcast precise time signals using a built-in atomic clock along with their current location. They also broadcast the location of all other satellites in the sky, called the almanac.
Every 30 seconds, a GPS satellite broadcasts a time stamp, its current location and some less precise location information for other GPS satellites. It takes 25 of these broadcasts (thus, 12.5 minutes) to obtain the full list of satellite locations. This information has to be decoded for a receiver to then properly interpret signals from the satellites that are within range.
If you know the position of four satellites and the time at which each sent their position information, you—or, rather, your GPS receiver—can calculate to within 10 meters the latitude, longitude, and elevation of your current location along with the exact current time. With three satellites, you lose elevation, but a device can still track movement fairly accurately. Standalone GPS receivers can lock in simultaneously on multiple satellites, and track more than four. Other techniques can improve accuracy, too.
But, heck, I don't have 12.5 minutes. I'm a busy man! Give me that location faster!
Giving GPS an assist
So GPS chip and gear makers came up with a host of ways to shorten the wait, called Assisted GPS (AGPS). Instead of relying on live downloads of position data from satellites, future locations can be estimated accurately enough to figure out rough satellite positions, and get a fix at which point even more up-to-date information is retrieved. These estimates can be downloaded via a network connection in seconds or even calculated right on a device.
The current time can also be used as a clue. With a precise current time, fragmentary satellite data can be decoded to gain a faster lock or figure out the appropriate information to use. In CDMA networks, such as that used by Verizon, GPS-synchronized atomic time is required for the network's basic operations, making it a simple matter to have such information available. (In fact, CDMA cell towers have GPS units built in to maintain better atomic time synchronization.)
These extras are what makes GPS into AGPS. Though a lot of people misunderstand AGPS and think it's some faux GPS system, that's not the case: AGPS requires a GPS receiver to work. Apple's iPhone and 3G iPad models include AGPS, as do nearly all competing devices with GPS chips, notably Android phones. (AGPS allows the use of much cheaper and simpler GPS circuits in phones, reducing cost and battery drain.)
This is where Apple's statement on Wednesday deviates from full accuracy. Apple uses AGPS for native GPS-lock improvements, and Wi-Fi network and cell tower locations are additional factors in providing a fast initial connection along with improving GPS accuracy.
Cellular carriers have extremely precise GPS measurements of the locations of all their towers. With a database of such towers, you can take measurements of the signal strength of those within range—which may be dozens—and trilaterate to find an area that overlaps among them. ( Trilateration involves overlapping regions to find an intersecting area; triangulation uses the measurement of angles to find a center point.)
But cell towers are too far away from one another to provide GPS-like precision, and they don't work well in less-populated areas, even suburbs, where less coverage is necessary than in an urban environment.
Looking for Wi-Fi
Apple, Google, and others turn to Wi-Fi positioning for that. Wi-Fi positioning, originated by Skyhook Wireless, originally required specially equipped trucks with Wi-Fi antennas and highly sensitive GPS receivers that drove around cities to capture network identifiers (the unique hardware address broadcast by Wi-Fi base stations) and relative signal strengths at billions of points. As with cell towers, if you have enough networks and enough signal strength information, you can approximate a position.
It's trivial for a networked device like a smartphone to take a snapshot of nearby Wi-Fi and cellular sources and pass it to a server that replies with an approximate set of coordinates. According to Apple's Q&A, the company takes it a step further by caching subsets of data about nearby networks and towers to reduce network activity and speed up such lookups. This also shifts some computation to the phone or tablet and away from location services. And it means if there's no cell or Wi-Fi connection available, such location information can still be useful. (This explains a mystery I've seen in which a Wi-Fi-only iPad or an iPod touch can seemingly calculate a fix when it's off the network.)
Apple first unveiled Wi-Fi and cell-tower positioning with the original iPhone in an update to iPhone OS in early 2008. This was Apple's sop to the fact that the original iPhone lacked a GPS receiver, which didn't debut until the iPhone 3G.
You can see either or both of these in action whenever you bring up the Maps app. Typically, you see a large blue circle appear nearly instantly, a result of what must be a consultation of the local database. The circle becomes smaller as more information is used, still from cellular and Wi-Fi sources, to create a better trilateration. This data is also used to provide more clues into decoding the best GPS satellite information, allowing the use of quite small fragments of data or even raw signals to get a better lock. Finally, the circle becomes a single dot when iOS is confident it has a solid GPS lock.
Out of the trucks, into the cloud
Apple switched from using Skyhook Wireless as a data supplier starting in iOS 4.0 for the iPhone and iPod touch, and with the iPad-only 3.2 release. There's a reason for that. When your iOS device uses Wi-Fi positioning, it sends a snapshot of the current signal landscape to Apple, which says in the Q&A that this information is used anonymously to crowdsource better data. But this is incredibly useful market intelligence, too, about how often users are relying on location updates, and where those users are clustered. It can be used for ad targeting and other purposes beyond those in apps that look for location data.
Of course, the Apple Q&A makes it clear that not every Wi-Fi snapshot is sent to Apple; clearly some algorithm drives which are sent to improve the database. By crowdsourcing, Apple avoids having to send trucks around. Google has apparently engaged the same approach, using its Street View trucks to supplement Android-based crowdsourcing. (It's gotten in trouble two ways about this. First, for apparently accidentally recording unencrypted Wi-Fi network data, which resulted in fines, settlements, and halting such scanning in many countries. Second, for allegedly strongarming two major handset makers into changing their deals to rely on Google's data.)
GPS is, in fact, rocket science at many levels. But the way in which Apple combines and supplements information from multiple sources to create a fast and accurate lock explains why to us as users it's all "GPS" and just works.
[Glenn Fleishman is a senior contributor to Macworld, and writes regularly about wireless data. His latest book is Take Control of iPhone and iPod touch Networking & Security for iOS 4 ( Take Control books).]


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Thursday, March 20, 2014
If They Could Transform - Batmobiles
I knew I wanted to do a Batmobile, but it was a toss up between the original TV series one, or the Tim Burton 89 movie. I couldn't decide... so I did both!
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
If They Could Transform - Bigfoot
There are two things I remember about visiting my Great Grandma… watching Wrestling & Monster trucks. I never really got into either of them… (you know, sweaty muscle men fighting each other, or loud giant trucks rolling over crushed cars)… but I just liked hanging out with her. If I had to pick one though, it would be the monster trucks. Best, Great Grandma, ever.
If They Could Transform - Partridge
Never watched this show, even once. I suppose because by the time I was a little kid, it was already into re-runs. It was only on tv from 70-74 I believe, so most of you younger folks probably don't even know what this show is! (and to be honest, I don't really know either, I just know it was about a musically talented family who had a bus.)
If They Could Transform - Party Wagon
I don't think I've ever met anyone that didn't like Teenage Mutant Ninja Tortoises, as an adult or a kid.
It was (and still is) in my top 10 favourite comics/cartoons.
I also loved the original movie… (not #2 or 3 though). Recent 3d animated tv shows just don't cut it either for me.
The new Michael Bay movie has me wondering though… I don't like what he did with Transformers, so here's hoping.
If They Could Transform - Gran Torino
I'll be honest, I never watched Starsky and Hutch as a kid. I'm not really sure why either. Was it even a kids show? I don't think so.
Perhaps I didn't have interest because with Knight Rider, Dukes of Hazard, and Magnum P.I., I already had my fill of shows with cool cars.
Either that, or its just because my parents never watched it. Did you watch it? Was it any good?
If They Could Transform - Mach V
I have to admit that I was never really into Speed Racer as a kid, but I always loved the car!
Also, another recent movie remake that I never saw.
(UPDATE: I watched the remake the other day... wish I didn't.)
If They Could Transform - Pacer
My family actually had a Gremlin when I was a boy. I don`t remember much about it, just that we had one. And it was blue too! …no flames though. :(
Party on Wayne! Party on Garth!
If They Could Transform - Mystery Machine
I loved Scooby Doo when I was a kid, but even back then before becoming an animator, I noticed all the reused animation in each episode… much like every other 80s cartoon I watched and loved!
Never saw the live action movies though… ugh.
If They Could Transform - KITT
I loved this show as a kid, and not just because it had the Hoff. Kitt was awesome.
Even as a kid though, I always knew that Kitt was smarter than Micheal.
If They Could Transform - Herbie
This was one of those shows that was occasionally on at my house, but I never really watched or got into. I mean, come on… as a little kid, deciding between Knight Rider and Herbie the Love Bug was a no brainer.
If They Could Transform - Vandura
I loved this show as a kid, although, now that I think about it, I never really watched it that much.
I think I just like the explosions and Mr. T. ...Never saw the reboot movie though.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
If They Could Transform - Delorean
I recently saw that they're trying to come out with the "self-tying" high top shoes that Fox wore in part 2. As cool as that is... I want a hover board! Am I right?! When are they gonna make one of those!?!
If They Could Transform - Ecto-1
Day two of the new series. I figured this one would be fitting to do after the passing of great Harold Ramis.
The sound of this cars siren will forever be embedded in my mind!
If They Could Transform - General Lee
My next little series that I've decided to do for fun... Taking iconic vehicles from old shows and creating a robot form for them.
(Its a good excuse to draw robots while practicing drawing vehicles!)
This first one, from Dukes of Hazard, was one of my favourite shows as a kid. I even had an awesome General Lee peddle car.
...man, I wish I still had that. ...and could fit in it.
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Daily Doodle
Monday, December 2, 2013
Is it just me, or is Blogger starting to get used less and less these days by everyone? Do you still use it? Or do you just have other Blogs in your feed? Either way, I'm not getting rid of this blog, but I want to invite all of you awesome peeps to:
a - FOLLOW ME ON TUMBLR
b - FOLLOW ME ON FACEBOOK
... if you're into that sort of thing... which it seems people are.
Also, if any of you know how to auto post something on multiple places (IE: onto Tumblr which auto posts onto Blogger) I would love to know how!
~ Rawls
...and, yesterdays Daily Doodle I didn't post yet.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
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HTC EVO 4G Battery Life
I have read the most serious complaints about the HTC EVO 4G have been over battery life. I would like to offer my observations.
I got my EVO on May 19 with 1 free month of service till June 20. During that time I didn't use the phone much. I switched my primary account after I returned from India. In doing so I found that in my absence an update was available. The points that caught my attention:
- Improvements to Wi-Fi performance
- Addresses Facebook sync issue which can improve battery performance
Until this update I was never using WiFi on the phone, and I don't use Facebook for addresses (or anything else for that matter).
So it has been about less than 2 weeks of usage as a primary phone, and for the most part I think the battery life is completely acceptable.
My typical usage has been less than 1 hour talk time per day. At home I leave WiFi on (even through the night) and while at work I turn WiFi off. At work my 3G coverage is not great (3/5 bars) and often does data roaming (4/5 bars). I haven't really used much BT or GPS. I haven't even seen any 4G :( so that's off. … I do minimal web browsing (only when I'm not near a computer). However I do lots of email. I have 4 email accounts setup (with push email) which seem to beep all day long. I usually don't run the task killer to quit any background battery wastage. I have haptic feedback enabled, use a starfield "live" wallpaper and leave the default brightness. I don't have very many apps installed and I don't use any widgets that constantly update. However I do use auto-sync for Google calendar.
With that, I can go well over 36 hours before I hit the 15% battery critical alarm. If double the talk time or do equivalent surfing (as talking), that comes closer to 24 hours.
Yesterday I chronicled my usage in detail. I had the battery at 100% charge at about 3:30pm yesterday. I hit the 15% critical at 1:30pm today (22 hours later - 21:52:41 to be exact). In that time I have done:
- 1:10 hours BT music streaming in my car (two 35 min trips, no GPS)
- 1:30 hours talk time (WiFi on)
- 0:15 min talk time with BT handsfree (WiFi on)
- 0:20 min GPS navigation in my car (with some GoogleMaps looking for a place)
- 0:30 min 3G web surfing (with some youtube)
- 0:30 min of email
During the bulk of the usage last night there was a major thunderstorm and the signal was a little weak. I did have one dropped call (which is why I disconnected the BT hand's free).
I'm not saying this is amazing (even though the EVO 4G has one of the biggest batteries on the market). However I don't find this worthy of my complaint.
In contrast: I have a Motorola Droid (currently disconnected), which I only leave WiFi on. In less than 24 hours (with practically no usage) the battery is completely dead. Pushing the power button does nothing. Previously when I used the Palm Pre, I would have to be very careful at night. Randomly I would wake up to the battery at critical. I would usually have to charge at night. And I disabled everything (no WiFi and no email updates).
The one major need for power on my phone is that it should (1) last all day for my typical usage and (2) if the battery is not close to critical when I go to bed, it should not be critical when I wake up. Currently my EVO seems to do this much better than my other phones.
I do plan to monitor this further in the future.
_* Full disclosure: I got this device for free, but I was planning on buying it anyways. I do pay for service._
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Mauriat on July 19, 2010 - 08:08 AM
Weekend usage: 2 days, 15 hrs, 25 min and 24 sec between charges.
1:20 BT audio streaming
2:00 web, email and texting
whole time WiFi enabled, accidentally left BT on for 12+ hours.
Jeff Schiller on July 20, 2010 - 11:11 AM
My new routine is to just plug my phone in at night. That said, battery life on the Motorola CLIQ is pretty dismal (heavy data usage will kill it). I'll report on how my DROID does when I get it (hopefully today).
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Story highlights
Closed-circuit television footage obtained by CNN provides chilling new details
At one point during the attack, the gunmen took turns to pray
They bowed down in Islamic prayer, taking a break from incessant gunfire
They also chatted on cell phones as they sprayed bullets at shoppers
As they strolled through Westgate Mall, guns strapped to their torsos, the attackers chatted on their cell phones while they sprayed bullets at terrified shoppers.
Ruthless and nonchalant, they randomly gunned down shoppers at the upscale mall in the Kenyan capital.
At one point, they took turns to pray, removing shoes to perform the ritual washing in a room stacked with boxes. They bowed down in Islamic prayer, taking a break from incessant gunfire.
Chilling footage from mall
Closed-circuit television footage obtained by CNN provides the chilling new details of what happened during the attack last month.
In part, it shows two people with guns casually walking and shooting their way through a supermarket in the mall. During the hours of video, they are seen talking on the phone, praying and shooting toward anything that moved.
Al Libi trial, Libya and al Qaeda: What you won't hear in court
A man whimpering in a pool of blood on the floor crawled to get away. A gunman returned and shot him, again.
In between the gunfire, the attackers scanned ceilings for surveillance cameras. Nearby, shoppers hid behind cash registers while some ran for their lives. Others, too terrified to move, cowered on bloody floors.
Parking lot mayhem
The footage was taken on September 21, day one of the four-day siege. Though the video has no sound, the terror on the faces of the victims is loud and clear.
It's not over, Somali terrorists say after Westgate
In addition to the two attackers in the supermarket, the footage shows two more making their way through the parking lot. They opened fire. Shoppers slithered under cars. Others tumbled to the ground, felled by bullets.
The attack left at least 67 people dead, many more injured and dozens unaccounted for.
Details match up
Details from the footage appear to corroborate a running commentary by the Al-Shabaab, which claimed responsibility for the attacks.
In its Twitter account during the siege, the terror group said the attacks were conducted by men. It denied reports that terror suspect Briton Samantha Lewthwaite was involved.
Bergen: Al-Shabaab backed by money from U.S.
Al-Shabaab said it remained in contact with the attackers as they battled Kenyan forces during the hostage crisis.
Hostage takers join forces
The attackers in the parking lot later joined the others in the mall. The four wandered, rounding up hostages.
A woman with two children and a third in a shopping cart walked by a line of cash registers. A bloody teenage girl followed them; a gunman pointed the way. The woman, the children and girl were all eventually released.
The footage focuses on the corner of the mall closest to the supermarket, which occupies the anchor position in the four-story mall. The stories repeated themselves in various places at the mall, which has more than 80 stores.
Many unknowns
There are many mysteries about the mall attack.
With dozens still unaccounted for, how many people did the attackers kill? How many terrorists did the Kenyan forces kill? How many civilians and terrorists are buried beneath the concrete chunks of the collapsed section of the mall?
It's unclear whether the four terrorists in the video were arrested or gunned down by security forces at the scene. Even the total number of assailants is unknown.
Kenyans debate: Time to get troops out of Somalia?
At the time of the attack, Kenyan officials said that up to 15 gunmen were involved.
On day four, as the operation wound down, President Uhuru Kenyatta said five terrorists were killed and 11 suspects were in custody.
But since then, the numbers have fluctuated, with different officials citing various numbers between four and six.
This month, military spokesman Maj. Emmanuel Chirchir said four gunmen died when part of the mall collapsed. It's unclear whether he was referring to those in the video. Their charred bodies, he said, are undergoing DNA tests.
Chirchir also released the names of the dead militants, including an American of Somali origin, but analysts say those names may be pseudonyms.
Officials have said the answers may be buried beneath the rubble of the collapsed section of the mall.
But, as they scour through the mangled heap, there are more questions than answers.
CNN's Faith Karimi wrote and reported from Atlanta; Nima Elbagir reported from Nairobi


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If you have ever had to deal with a major corporation's customer Service then you will really appreciate this.
My Aunt died this past January. Citi Bank billed her for February and March for their monthly service charge on her credit card, and then added late fees and interest on the monthly charge...the balance had been $0.00... now was somewhere around $60.00)
I placed the following phone call to CitiBank:
Me: "I am calling to tell you that she died in January."
CitiBank: "The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply."
Me: "Maybe, you should turn it over to collections..."
CitiBank: "Since it is 2 months past due, it already has been."
Me: "So, what will they do when they find out she is dead?"
CitiBank: "Either report her account to the frauds division, or report her to the credit bureau...maybe both!"
Me: "Do you think God will be mad at her?"
CitiBank:"...excuse me .....?"
Me: "Did you just get what I was telling you.... the part about her Being dead?"
CitiBank: "Sir, you'll have to speak to my supervisor!"
(Supervisor gets on the phone)
Me: ''I'm calling to tell you, she died in January."
CitiBank: "The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply."
Me: "You mean you want to collect from her estate?"
CitiBank: ".....(stammer)"
CitiBank: "Are you her lawyer?"
Me: "No, I'm her great nephew." (Lawyer info given... )
CitiBank: "Could you fax us a certificate of death?"
Me: "Sure." ( Fax number is given )
( After they get the fax. )
CitiBank: "Our system just isn't setup for death..."
Me: "Oh..."
CitiBank: "I don't know what more I can do to help..."
Me: "Well... if you figure it out, great! If not, you could just keep billing her...I suppose...don't really think she will care...."
CitiBank: "Well...the late fees and charges do still apply."
Me: "'Would you like her new billing address?"
CitiBank: "That might help."
I've been nudged!
What's up LJ, what have I missed? :-)
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Lake Washington 2013-10-23, a set on Flickr. Taken this morning on my way in to work.
IMG_5383, originally uploaded by adameros. Tonight's atomic sunset.


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SABATIS, Me., Nov. 11 (Special) – When car 18 slid up the main street of Sabatis and finally anchored in the driving rain and slush by the co-operative steps at 6.20, Thursday night, a good number of passengers for Lewiston furled their umbrellas and boarded the car with a rush. Two people bent on seeing Old Kentucky in Music Hall; a number of day laborers 8 miles from home and supper; some Germans who intended to meet their brethren in the Shillerverein in Central Block; and two students were among the party, to say nothing of the dog – a black and white purp with solemn mein and melancholy eyes, whose cognomen "Sport" was as belying as the name Lillian when tacked on a plump brunette. Everyone settled himself for an immediate start, when the motorman grabbed the lever and started for a lunch room, and the conductor, with the remark that he "shouldn't start for fifteen minutes sure," slumped after him. The student slammed his Latin grammar shut. "Ain't yergoin'?" said somebody. "Goin' home and go ter bed," growled the student.
The man with the dinner pail started out to do a forgotten errand and the car door stuck. He struggled silently till he felt something violent was expected of him, when he remarked without a show of enthusiasm, "Damn the door." And with that the jeers of the passengers proved the open sesame.
The man in the soft black felt passed his pocket piece across to the man in the brown felt, who carried off a hunk, and both ignored the City Hall motto that gentleman will not, others must not --. The purp rose and humped himself against the seat with a conscious air when any one moved. A kid on the platform suggestively shouted "all aboard" and another swung the go-ahead signal with a white lantern. The man with the burr of the Teutonic race under his tongue remarked on the apparent appetite of the motorman, while the quiet man broke his silence to move an adjournment. The car finally rolled out of the village at 7.15. The trolley buzzed and whined on the wire. The flames danced overhead in glints of diabolical fire and flashed peppermint greens and goblin blues on the snow. The power came in jerks that made the teeth of the purp rattle like castanets. Four and five lunges were made at every grade, and six and seven times did the car go back to gain impetus at the foot of Thorn Hill, which retreating, the man with the burr in his speech said was like the Spaniards. In an interval of inky blackness while the power was off, a cheery orchestra man piped up on the "Georgia Campmeeting." The car finally reached Lewiston at 8.35. The theatre-goers looked blue, the vereiners had missed their meeting, the purp gingerly picked his way through the icy mud on Lisbon street, and sighed for a warm Sabatis fireside – and the slush on the rails was at the bottom of it all.
Lewiston Evening Journal, Lewiston, Maine, Friday, November 11, 1898


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Painting of Jaroslaw Kukowski- Bartlomiej Garbaczewski
Iconography referring to the present time and oscillating between hyper- and surrealism - is the shortest definition of Jaroslaw Kukowski's painting. It takes more than a few words to describe his artistic work. In order to do that, I will use the most characteristic of his works... read more →
In Jaroslaw's works, one the frequent elements is a degenerated, sometimes only modified, bodily form. Skin-like mantises, tank-penises, putta mutants - they all are, in my perception of his work, derision of the cult of the body, which dominated modern world. Naturally, they slightly differ semantically in various contexts, but they could generally be thus described.
In Elements of Betrayal (Elementy Zdrady) these forms are associated with something disgusting. Kukowski could have painted beautiful bodies in a passionate embrace - he is capable of doing that (enough to look at the series of Frescos). The title would have said everything anyway. But the artist did not want to show the surface of the act itself, but the consequences of it and its moral overtones. Thus betrayal does not have to be associated with sexual sphere only (though it obviously is the first connotation), but it gains general meaning (the betrayal of a friend, of one's country or ideals etc.). The iconographic elements are quite unequivocal in this case - first of all, dry, leafless trees. Similarly, fleshy, slimy creatures with heads resembling penises do not require elucidation. This painting seems to cry at the recipient very harshly: "There is nothing cool about betrayal! It's a disgusting crap!"
Important, though underappreciated, paintings in the artist's output (ambitious works are usually underappreciated by the wider circle of recipients) are: Polska and the untitled work presenting masses of little creatures resembling Teletubbies - all of them gazing at a large home cinema screen.
The first work is an excellent insight into our country. Poland is just such an undeveloped Pegasus-centaur, whose miniature wings cannot take high enough to reach an apple symbolizing here the paradise fruit. But the apple does not signify the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, but simply wellbeing and development - a modern earthly paradise. Where does such a degeneration of Pegasus-centaur come from, such a sad mutation in consequence? A perceptive observer of our socio-political life surely knows well. The rest does not bother to know. It is a very critical look at Poland and a definitely accurate conclusion.
The painting symbolically called Teletubbies shows the kind of havoc television wreaks in our world today. Even more widely, not just television but media in general that are symbolized by home cinema. Figures that appear on the wide screen have anuses instead of mouths. And here, on one hand we observe the directness of the artist, and on the other hand, the creation of certain connotation. Since these figures on the screen represent the modern so called television celebrities. I will not give names, but anyone who does not live in a wilderness and has been in touch with the media for the last ten years, knows who it is about. Kukowski does not only criticize the media however. We can see a few creatures with religious symbols sticking out of their heads on the painting foreground. One of these "Teletubbies" has a conspicuous blooded bandage painted over his head. If we look closer, then we can see that in fact all of the creatures, not only these in the foreground have bandages instead of symbols. Each one of them had had some principles, some system of beliefs, a hierarchy of values, but all of them got rid of it for the sake of crap served by the media, with television in the lead. The painting is a warning: "Media become a false, empty and a destructive idol!"
The cycle of Frescoes mentioned in passing represents not only female acts finely done, but is also a reflection over passing of time, which is shown by skillful (alluding to illusionistic painting) imitation of chips of plaster. It looks like an attempt at joining ancient or at least renaissance wall painting with modern, photographic act.
Jaroslaw Kukowski's art is usually defined as controversial. I think this definition is not right. It surely is politically incorrect. Unfortunately, in our times everything that is politically incorrect is called "controversial", sometimes much harsher words are used, and it is condemned in chorus. If it is politically correct then it is praised as innovative and profound, irrespective of its crudeness and iconoclasm. Jaroslaw Kukowski alludes to the rich heritage of artists who looked at reality as critically more than once (for example Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Honor?Victoryn Daumier or Francisco Jos?Goya y Lucientes). Moreover, he has respect for technique and form, as opposed to "art" served in galleries of modern art and propagated by media today, "art" that has dropped form and technique for flashiness, nonsense and pseudo-philosophy made up to cover the lack of skill.
Jaroslaw Kukowski is a young representative of a good old school of painting. The fact that in many ways it is not art for everyone, and definitely not for full time art critics, is actually it's great merit.
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Jaroslaw Kukowski Biography- Maria Dziopak
Jaroslaw Kukowski (Poland) - he was born in 1972. He has been painting since youth. His public debut was in the Gdansk "Stara Laznia" Gallery in 1994. In his early works it is possible to notice the attempt to analyze the world and life against psychological background... read more →
The artist's work is directed towards the in-depth study of human nature. His work is the world of surrealistic creatures, which disturb the spirit of sensitive observer. In his work we can notice the grotesque and mockery of imperfections of life, and sense the signals of danger and threat. His view on life sometimes seems to be very drastic and exaggerated. Death, conflagration, disaster are frequent elements of his artistic reality.
The work presented refers to the process of creation but it can be noticed that during the painting process emotions and impressions go beyond the artist's initial vision and such painting could have a number of titles. Kukowski is a master of drawing, he works in a classical way, he paints by scumble. He does it very skillfully. There are symbolic elements in his work, which can trigger contradictory reactions of the audience.
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Master's thesis- Bartlomiej Kordowski
"Surrealism in Polish contemporary art. The artistic output of Zdzislaw Beksinski, Jaroslaw Kukowski and Wojciech Siudmak". One of the most remarkable and meaningful personages of world of art, not only in Poland, but also abroad is Jaroslaw Kukowski. This modern artist was born on 11 April 1972 in Tczew... read more →
He presented his works for the first time in 1994 in the "CSW Stara laznia" gallery in Gdansk. That year he exhibited three more times - in Starogard Gdanski, Gdansk and Skarszewy. In the following years he presented his paintings several times, for example in Warszawa,in the 'SD' gallery with which he cooperates up until today, but also in Lodz and Krakow. In 2002 he took part in a collective exhibition called 'Polish Surrealists' in the Panorama shopping centre in Warszawa. Among the presented works, there were also paintings of Zdzislaw Beksinski, Tomasz Setowski, Jacek Yerka, Karol Bak, Jacek Lipowczan and Rafal Olbinski . In the same year, Jaroslaw Kukowski's works were also exhibited in 'ARTEXPO' in New York. From that day he has been also exhibiting in Denmark, Germany and Canada. In 2008 the artist's paintings were also shown in a series of exhibitions in the United States in Miami, Chicago, Dallas and Los Angeles.
Jaroslaw Kukowski deals with oil painting, but also drawing. The essential feature of his work is a high level of workshop and using a painting effect called 'trompe l'oeil' (fr. - optical illusion). This illusionistic painting allows the painter not only to put an incredible reality to objects and people, but also to create depth of image. Three-dimensionality of representation and a precise elaboration of the smallest details allows the viewer to immerse in a different reality, almost touch it. Apart from realistic or hyper-realistic works there are also different, of a more 'economic' form. The idea of the paintings is conditional mostly upon content. In his works he raises social and culture topics. "To take a breath and rest" he also takes on slightly lighter issues and paints images seen in his dreams.
A few cycles composes the artistic output of Kukowski. One of these cycles are the 'Un-dreams' ('Nie-sny'). These works are dominated by simplified persons reminding plasticised creatures, sometimes they transform into obscure anthropomorphic monsters or deformed embryos. The form of these creatures repels with its limitedness and perversion, but it also intrigues. Their deformation is a result of an internal and physical pain. 'Mutated, deformed personages in the 'Un-dreams' series do not show the ugliness of human being as it often is interpreted. Although, it cannot be concealed that in the kingdom of animals one can meet more lusty animals than we are. (...) the deformations are the result of suffering.' . It also is, as it was claimed by Bartlomiej Garbaczewski, an act of taunting the cult of body. Disseminated, mostly by the media, canon of beauty - slim women with unnaturally big breasts and silicone lips and muscular men - causes that people want to become such ideals. It is also visible in the proportions of manikins, toys to which we converge to and often ridicule. Kukowski approaches the issue with a lot of irony and wit. In the painting called 'Waiting for a lover' ("Czekajac na kochanka") the painter showed a deformed, lying personage of a woman-mermaid. Her massive body bolstered on her elbow with slightly bent legs, spills on the floor under the influence of the weight. Legs, knitted from knees down, transform into a fin. They look like carrot roots which often are associated to women's hips and thighs. The head in proportion to the rest of her body is very small. The author emphasised woman's physiognomic features maintaining an element of eroticism. The seductive goddess is here a fat, not attractive lady.
Kukowski successfully uses the image of the mermaid also in a different matter. For some time, he has been interested in an expression form called trite. An example of this topic is his work called 'Little Mermaid - Happy Ending' ("Mala Syrenka - Szcze?liwe zakonczenie"), which comes from the 'Dreams' ("Sny") cycle. It is an eagle-eye view. The mermaid emerges from the pool. She touches her hair in a passionate way. Her fin is visible under the shallow floe of water. At the bottom, the composition is cut by a masculine hand which passes the woman a drink.
The author with a photographic precision illustrates each detail - drops flowing off the woman's body or refraction of light on the surface of the water. This idealized scene is maintained in a realistic, yet a bit - consciously - redrawn idea. The succulent colours intensify the idyllic character of the view. 'Exceeding the boarders of a good taste is a really great fun. A lot better than breaking taboo subjects forcefully once again. Sometimes, while redrawing coloration of a work, simplifying it in a painting way one can smuggle particular contents. For example, if treat a Windows XP wallpaper in an over-painted way which was used as a background for an image presenting Russian attack on Georgia, it will not be recognizable. If paint the mermaid emerging from the pool precisely according to the rules of XIX - century academism, the painting will lose its influence strength and a provocative character.'
A different image of a woman's body is shown in the 'Frescoes' ("Freski") cycle. These are much more subtle paintings. Thematically, acts predominate in these paintings and one can also find dead nature, portraits and landscapes. What connects the paintings is the fresco from and the effect of one image emerging from the other one. Kukowski created space suggestion on a two-dimensional surface. This illusionistic method consists in painting a flaking and scrapped paint under which there is another painting. Such works are usually maintained in a warm, greenish hue.
The 'Fresco nr 47' ("Fresk nr 47") illustrates a young woman lying on her side, turned with her back against viewers. The act is put in an undetermined space. The image is disturbed by paint decrements. At the bottom of the picture one can see the hidden layer of the work - dead nature. The 'Fresco nr 46' ("Fresk nr 46") presents an older man, while the bottom layer is covered by a landscape. The sense of these works is linked with passing, shortness of human life and physical beauty. These compositions, by recalling the evanescence of reminiscing, create a melancholic mood.
Jaroslaw Kukowski deals also with social issues. He takes on topics which are often directly referred to our reality. 'Poland and the people are my inspiration'. In the oil painting called 'Mantises' ("Modliszki") the author presented two sitting persons opposite each other. The table which is between them is covered with a checked white-green oilcloth. A bottle of vodka, a filled vodka glass, a glass and slices of bread are on it. Between the people, on a wall, in a small and shallow recess we find a bas-relief - a piece of Polish emblem. Both persons have a shape of the title mantises. Their bodies and necks are elongated, just like their arms. Deformed hands are almost as long as the arms. Their small heads are looking at each other. Only their stomachs are massive and heavy. Next to one of the persons there is a plane ticket. This work is surely about emigration in our country which is present even now. Its symbolic character is a form of critic directed to national authorities. None of the persons on the painting is happy. They seem to be helpless and have accepted their fate. This is their fare-well meeting on which they make a toast to a better future.
There is a reason that the artistic output of Jaroslaw Kukowski is connected with surrealism. The aesthetics of this trend is visible in many paintings by Kukowski. The artist often puts unrealistic personages into a realistic scenery or he reverses the situation by putting people in a distant, fantastic landscapes. An example of such solution in which the atmosphere is the most important factor, while the artist's imagination takes the viewers into a super-realistic world, is the painting from 2009 (without any title). It is a wide landscape visible from the eagle-eye view. It presents a floe of a lake among rocks. The stony deserts stretches up to the horizon. Over one of the tips of the walls there is a floating irregular rock from which water is dripping. At the top of the composition there is a stone shelf with a young person on it. However, what we only see are the legs of this person, her feet and tips of her fingers holding the base of the rock. This virgin unexploited landscape emanates calmness. The atmosphere of the painting makes us want to contemplate, but it also provokes an internal meditation-like silence. We can easily personate the person sitting on the rock, the roof of the super-realistic world.
Kukowski's works connect with surrealistic poems, it can be in particular seen in 'Dreams'. However, the artist does not think of it as his most important cycle. 'Paintings from 'Dreams' have usually a decorative character. Some of them have a certain hidden meaning or a provocative element like, for example, mermaids, but a strong emphasis on form connects them all. After painting an image of a very heavy topic it is a relief to work on a painting in which one can simply smooth two buttocks with your brush' . The second pole for the mentioned cycle are works characterised by a heavy topic - 'Un-dreams" to which apart from 'Mentises' belong such works as 'Poland' ("Polska"), 'Who gave me wings?' ("Kto dal mi skrzydla?"), 'New Millenium' ("Nowe Millenium") and 'Water drop people' ("Ludzie z kropli wody"). Kukowski is a carefull observer of human nature - both external and internal, personal. He is a sensitive artist with a rich imagination and he also uses a perfect workshop. In spite of this, while working on a new painting he searches for new formal solutions. His art is not restricted to realism only. It is the topic in a form of a pretext that determines the painting language.
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|The Water Buffalo: New Prospects For An Underutilized Animal (1984)
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The water buffalo is an animal resource whose potential seems to have been barely recognized or examined outside of Asia. Throughout the world there are proponents and enthusiasts for the various breeds of cattle; the water buffalo, however, is not a cow and it has been neglected. Nevertheless, this symbol of Asian life and endurance has performed notably well in recent trials in such diverse places as the United States, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Trinidad, Costa Rica, Venezuela, and Brazil. In Italy and Egypt as well as Bulgaria and other Balkan states the water buffalo has been an important part of animal husbandry for centuries. In each of these places certain herds of water buffalo appear to have equaled or surpassed the local cattle in growth, environmental tolerance, health, and the production of meat and calves.
Although these are empirical observations lacking painstaking, detailed experimentation, they do seem to indicate that the water buffalo could become an important resource in tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate zones in developing and developed countries.
If this is the case, then it is clear that many countries should begin water buffalo research. Serious attention by scientists could help dispel the misperceptions and uncertainties surrounding the animal and encourage its true qualities to emerge.
This report describes the water buffalo's attributes as perceived by several animal scientists. It is designed to present the apparent strengths of buffaloes compared with those of cattle, to introduce researchers and administrators to the animal's potential, and to identify priorities for buffalo research and testing.
The panel that produced this report met at Gainesville, Florida, in July 1979. It was composed of leading water buffalo experts (particularly those from outside Asia who have directed the beginnings of water buffalo industries in their countries) and leading American animal scientists, many of whom are also familiar with the animal.
This report complements The Husbandry and Health of the Domestic Buffalo, edited by W. Ross Cockrill and published in 1974 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Cockrill's 933-page book is a "bible" of water buffalo knowledge and provides details of breeds, world distribution, physiology, and an extensive bibliography.
The present report is an introduction to the water buffalo and its potential. It is written particularly for decision makers, as well as scholars or students, in the hope that it will stimulate their interest in the animal and thereby increase the appreciation of, and funding for, buffalo research. The report includes much empirical observation, largely from the panel members. Some of these observations may, in the long run, prove not to be universally applicable. Much benchmark information needs to be obtained.
Since its creation in 1971, the Advisory Committee on Technology Innovation (ACTI) has investigated innovative ways to use current technology and resources to help developing countries. Often this has meant taking a fresh look at some neglected and unappreciated plant or animal species. The committee assembles ad hoc panels of experts (usually incorporating both skeptics and proponents) to scrutinize the topics selected. The panel reports serve to draw attention to neglected, but promising, technologies and resources. (For a list of ACTI reports, see page 115.) ACTI reports are provided free to developing countries under funding by the Agency for International Development (AID).
Program costs for this study were provided by AID'S Office of Agriculture, Development Support Bureau, and staff support was provided by the Office of Science and Technology, Development Support Bureau.
The final draft of this report was edited and prepared for publication by F. R. Ruskin. Bibliographic editing was by Wendy D. White. Cover art was by Deborah Hanson.


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One could make the point that Johns' pharmaceutical operation was not exactly a state secret--there has been chatter about it on message boards for quite a while now--but, I do make it a point not to blog unless I have a point to bring up that hasn't been covered elsewhere. Since I didn't have much to add that hasn't been in the Big Media stories already (and the arrest has already been lampooned by Orson Spencer Mellencamp better than I would have managed), I didn't see the point.
And then I heard about Jimmy Johns Pitbulls, the Home of the Linebacker Bullies. Go ahead, have a look for yourself, it's at the carefully-disguised URL of jimmyjohnspitbulls.com (I'll post up saved screen shots later in case it suddenly disappears).
The page is not very old, at least in its current form. According to WHOIS, the URL was created on March 6, 2008 (incidentally just before Alabama's spring practice sessions began), and it only has a few hundred hits as of this afternoon.
Even if we set aside the multiple unsavory connections one might draw regarding an accused cocaine dealer who raises pit bulls on the side, the website itself raises questions about Johns' activities as a breeder, and especially as a breeder who used pictures of himself in an Alabama uniform as well as specific references to his status as an Alabama player in his advertising.
While college atheletes are allowed to have jobs (under highly-regulated circumstances) and are also allowed to be self-employed, NCAA Bylaw 12.4.4 states,
A student-athlete may establish his or her own business, provided the student-athlete's name, photograph, appearance or athletics reputation are not used to promote the business.
In addition, Bylaw 22.214.171.124 states,
After becoming a student-athlete, an individual shall not be eligible for participation in intercollegiate athletics if the individual:
(a) Accepts any remuneration for or permits the use of his or her name or picture to advertise, recommend or promote directly the sale or use of a commercial product or service of any kind; or
(b) Receives remuneration for endorsing a commercial product or service through the individual's use of such product or service.
If it's correct that the website ("Home Of The Linebacker Bullies") is only a few months old, eligibility is not really an issue here. The site was created last March, and Johns hasn't participated in a football game between then and today, when he was kicked off the Alabama team. However, it's worth asking how long Johns had been acting as a pitbull breeder, and whether he actually did the breeding himself, or simply hired out his name and (relative) fame to somebody else in return for renumeration. Between playing football, going to college, and allegedly being a one-man pharmaceutical entrepreneur on Alabama's famously coke-laden campus, I do have to wonder where the guy found the time to "take care of [dogs] better than most do their children."
It's also worth asking what the Alabama compliance and coaching staffs knew about Johns' numerous extracurricular activities. As I said earlier, it was not exactly a surprise to hear that Johns had been arrested on drug charges. If Joe Fan, based on nothing more than internet chatter, had a pretty good idea what Johns was up to in his spare time, what about his coaches and teammates, and the support staff in Tuscaloosa?
I doubt anybody in the Alabama media is going to go around asking those questions; the purpose of most of the sports departments in the state is to blow smoke up the collective hindquarters of the "Tide Nation." Other than the obligatory editorial tut-tutting over the tenth player arrest in Nick Saban's 18 months in Tuscaloosa, this story will be over by Saturday as far as the in-state press is concerned.
But there's clearly more to the Johns story than just a 'kid who went wrong.' It'll be interesting to see who else chooses to dig deeper after today's big headlines die down.
UPDATE: Ian Rapoport of the Birmingham News reports on Wednesday that the Jimmy Johns Pitbulls website is for real, and that Johns does indeed have a side business selling dogs.


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Sex Determination in Humans
In humans, sex determination is the process that determines the biological sex of an offspring and, as a result, the sexual characteristics that they will develop. Humans typically develop as either male or female, primarily depending on the combination of sex chromosomes that they inherit from their parents. The human sex chromosomes, called X and Y, are structures in human cells made up of tightly bound deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, and proteins.
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Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA)
Transposition of the great arteries or TGA is a potentially fatal congenital heart malformation where the pulmonary artery and the aorta are switched. The switch means that the aorta, which normally carries oxygenated blood, carries deoxygenated blood. There are two types of the malformation, d-TGA where no oxygen reaches the body and l-TGA where some oxygenated blood circulates. In the US, the Centers for Disease Control estimate that about 1,901 infants are born each year with TGA, or about one for every 2,000 births.
Format: Articles
Subject: Disorders
Infant Mortality: Results of a Field Study in Johnstown, PA., Based on Births in One Calendar Year (1915), by Emma Duke
The book Infant Mortality: Results of a Field Study in Johnstown, PA., Based on Births in One Calendar Year (1915), written by Emma Duke, detailed one of the first infant mortality field studies conducted by the US Children's Bureau. In the study, Duke and her colleagues collected information about over one thousand infants in the city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. They used that information, along with interviews conducted with the families of the infants, to identify factors that affected infant mortality rates in the community.
Format: Articles
Subject: Experiments, Publications
City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983)
In the 1983 case City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health the US Supreme Court ruled that certain requirements of the city of Akron's "Regulation on Abortion" ordinance violated women's rights to abortions. Despite the legalization of abortion in the 1973, with the US Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, individual states passed legislation regulating certain aspects of abortion.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1752-1764), by William Smellie
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery is a three volume collection of patient accounts that William Smellie published from 1752 to 1764. Smellie, a physician and instructor in obstetrics in Great Britain, published these compilations to share his expertise in reproductive medicine, while also providing his students and colleagues with a source of reference in their own medical practices. Smellie wrote these books to shift obstetrics from a discipline practiced by midwives with limited medical training to one practiced in a medical context by physicians.
Format: Articles
Subject: Publications
Harris v. McRae (1980)
On 30 June 1980, in a five to four decision, the US Supreme Court ruled in the Case Harris v. McRae that the Hyde Amendment of 1976 did not violate the US Constitution. The Hyde Amendment banned the use of federal funding to pay for any abortion services. The US Supreme Court's decision in Harris v. McRae overturned the decision of McRae v. Califano (1980), in which the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York had ruled that the funding restrictions established by the Hyde Amendment violated the US Constitution. After the US Supreme Court's ruling in Harris v.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal
Planned Parenthood v. Danforth (1976)
On 1 July 1976, the US Supreme Court decided in the case Planned Parenthood v. Danforth that provisions of a Missouri law regulating abortion care were unconstitutional. That law, House Bill 1211, restricted abortion care by requiring written consent for each abortion procedure from the pregnant woman as written consent of the woman's husband if she was married, or the written consent of her parents if she was unmarried and younger than eighteen. House Bill 1211 also required that physicians make efforts to preserve the lives of aborted fetuses.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal
The Hyde Amendment of 1976
In 1976, the US Congress passed the Hyde Amendment, which banned the use of federal funding to pay for abortions through Medicaid. In 1976, Illinois Congressman Henry J. Hyde proposed the amendment to the Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare, Appropriation Act of 1977. In 1980, the US Supreme Court in Harris v. McRae (1980) upheld the constitutionality of the Hyde Amendment.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby (2014)
In the 2014 case Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the US Supreme Court ruled that the contraceptive mandate promulgated under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act violated privately held, for-profit corporations' right to religious freedom. The contraception mandate, issued in 2012 by the US Department of Health and Human Services, required that employer-provided health insurance plans offer their beneficiaries certain contraceptive methods free of charge.
Format: Articles
Subject: Legal, Reproduction
Seed Collection and Plant Genetic Diversity, 1900-1979
Farmers have long relied on genetic diversity to breed new crops, but in the early 1900s scientists began to study the importance of plant genetic diversity for agriculture. Scientists realized that seed crops could be systematically bred with their wild relatives to incorporate specific genetic traits or to produce hybrids for more productive crop yields.
Format: Articles
Subject: Organizations
Ross Granville Harrison (1870-1959)
A pioneer in experimental embryology, Ross Granville Harrison made numerous discoveries that advanced biology. One of the most significant was his adaptation of the hanging drop method from bacteriology to carry out the first tissue culture. This method allowed for further studies in embryology as well as experimental improvements in oncology, virology, genetics, and a number of other fields.
Format: Articles
Subject: People
Franklin Paine Mall (1862-1917)
Franklin Paine Mall was born into a farming family in Belle Plaine, Iowa, on 28 September 1862. While he attended a local academy, an influential teacher fueled Mall's interest in science. From 1880-1883, he studied medicine at the University of Michigan, attaining his MD degree in 1883. William J. Mayo, who later became a famous surgeon and co-founder of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, was a classmate of Mall's. Throughout his studies at Michigan, he was influenced by Corydon L. Ford, a professor of anatomy, Victor C.
Format: Articles
Subject: People
Warren Harmon Lewis (1870-1964)
As one of the first to work at the Carnegie Institution of Washington Department of Embryology, Warren Harmon Lewis made a number of contributions to the field of embryology. In addition to his experimental discoveries on muscle development and the eye, Lewis also published and revised numerous works of scientific literature, including papers in the Carnegie Contributions to Embryology and five editions of Gray's Anatomy.
Format: Articles
Subject: People
Howard Wilber Jones Jr.
Howard Wilber Jones Jr. and his wife, Georgeanna Seegar Jones, developed a method of in vitro fertilization and helped create the first baby in the US using that method. Though the first in vitro baby was born in England in 1978, Jones and his wife's contribution allowed for the birth of Elizabeth Carr on 28 December 1981. Jones, a gynecologist and an obstetrician, researched human reproduction for most of his life.
Format: Articles
Subject: People, Reproduction
Theodora (Theo) Emily Colborn (1927-2014)
Theodora Colborn studied how chemicals affect organisms as they develop and reproduce during the twentieth and twenty first centuries in the US. By the 1940s, researchers had reported that chemicals from agricultural and industrial processes affected how wild organisms developed, but in 1991, Colborn organized the Wingspread Conference in Racine, Wisconsin, at which a group of scientists classed these chemicals as environmentally harmful substances. Colborn and her colleagues called those chemicals endocrine disruptors, as they mimic or block the body's endocrine system.
Format: Articles
Subject: People
George Otto Gey (1899-1970)
George Otto Gey was a scientist in the US who studied cells and cultivated the first continuous human cell line in 1951. Gey derived the cells for that cell line, called the HeLa cell line, from a woman called Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman who had cervical cancer. Cell lines are a cluster of cells that continuously multiply on their own outside of the organism from which they originated. Gey developed new techniques for in vitro, or laboratory-based, maintenance of organs and hormonal tissue, created new methods for cell cultivation, and researched nutritional media, or cell food.
Format: Articles
Subject: People
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (AIS) is a human disorder in which an individual's genetic sex (genotype) differs from that individual's observable secondary sex characteristics (phenotypes). A fetus with AIS is genetically male with a 46,XY genotype. The term 46,XY refers to the chromosomes found in most cells of the fetus. Most cells have a total of 46 autosomes, or non-sex chromosomes, and a pair sex chromosomes, XX for genetic females, or XY for genetic males.
Format: Articles
Subject: Disorders
Robert Geoffrey Edwards's Study of in vitro Mammalian Oocyte Maturation, 1960 to 1965
In a series of experiments between 1960 and 1965, Robert Geoffrey Edwards discovered how to make mammalian egg cells, or oocytes, mature outside of a female's body. Edwards, working at several research institutions in the UK during this period, studied in vitro fertilization (IVF) methods. He measured the conditions and timings for in vitro (out of the body) maturation of oocytes from diverse mammals including mice, rats, hamsters, pigs, cows, sheep, and rhesus monkeys, as well as humans.
Format: Articles
Subject: Experiments, Reproduction
Thomas Hunt Morgan (1866-1945)
Although best known for his work with the fruit fly, for which he earned a Nobel Prize and the title "The Father of Genetics," Thomas Hunt Morgan's contributions to biology reach far beyond genetics. His research explored questions in embryology, regeneration, evolution, and heredity, using a variety of approaches.
Format: Articles
Subject: People
Pope Pius XII (1876-1958)
Pope Pius XII was born Eugenio Maria Giuseppi Giovanni Pacelli on 2 March 1876 in Rome, Italy, to Virginia and Filippo Pacelli. Known for his oft-disputed role in the Roman Catholic Church's approach to the Nazis and World War II, Pope Pius XII also contributed a number of important documents regarding conception, fertility, abortion, and reproductive control to the Vatican's collection of writings and doctrine on procreation.
Format: Articles
Subject: People, Religion, Reproduction
The term morphogenesis generally refers to the processes by which order is created in the developing organism. This order is achieved as differentiated cells carefully organize into tissues, organs, organ systems, and ultimately the organism as a whole. Questions centered on morphogenesis have aimed to uncover the mechanisms responsible for this organization, and developmental biology textbooks have identified morphogenesis as one of the main challenges in the field. The concept of morphogenesis is intertwined with those of differentiation, growth, and reproduction.
Format: Articles
Subject: Processes
Jacques Loeb (1859-1924)
Jacques Loeb experimented on embryos in Europe and the United States at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Among the first to study embryos through experimentation, Loeb helped found the new field of experimental embryology. Notably, Loeb showed scientists how to create artificial parthenogenesis, thus refuting the idea that spermatozoa alone were necessary to develop eggs into embryos and confirming the idea that the chemical constitution of embryos environment affected their development.
Format: Articles
Subject: People
Roman Catholic Church Quickening
Although the concept of quickening was not developed initially by the Roman Catholic Church, much of their histories are intertwined. Quickening, the point at which a pregnant woman can first feel the movements of the growing embryo or fetus, has long been a pivotal moment in pregnancy. Historically, it has also been a pivotal moment for law and the Church in deciding the criminal and religious sanctions for women who intentionally procured an abortion.
Format: Articles
Subject: Religion
Carnegie Stages
Historically the exact age of human embryo specimens has long perplexed embryologists. With the menstrual history of the mother often unknown or not exact, and the premenstrual and postmenstrual phases varying considerably among women, age sometimes came down to a best guess based on the weight and size of the embryo. Wilhelm His was one of the first to write comparative descriptions of human embryos in the late 1800s. Soon afterward, Franklin P. Mall, the first director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's (CIW) Department of Embryology, expanded upon His' work.
Format: Articles
Subject: Theories


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Rome, Italy, Jun 13, 2014 / 01:35 am
The University of St. Anthony of Padua's Anthropology Museum, together with a team of international forensic researchers, have attempted to reconstruct the face of St. Anthony using only a digital copy of his skull.
Using the latest 3D technology, the researchers worked to recreate the saint's face, which they say is "one of the most faithful reconstructions of the face of St. Anthony."
The face was presented on June 10 at a congress in Padua with archeologist Luca Bezzi, who created the three-dimensional image of the saint's face, and the director of the Center for St. Anthony Studies, Franciscan Friar Luciano Bertazzo, who provided all of the relevant source material from the era.
3D designer Cicero Morales of the University of Sao Paolo, renowned for his work in archeological facial reconstruction, also took part in the presentation.
The Brazilian expert was asked to reconstruct the saint's face knowing only that the skull belonged to a 36-year-old male.
"At each step I asked myself, who was that man? When I found out, I was speechless, literally amazed. Although I am not religious, I felt a huge responsibility. Millions of people in the world would be able to see the face of their saint!" Morales said.
The face of St. Anthony will be revealed to the public June 12-22 at the basilica dedicated to the saint in Padua, where his relics are also venerated.
Born in Lisbon on August 15, 1195, St. Anthony joined the Augustinians in 1210 but left to join the Franciscans 10 years later. He took part in the order's general chapter in Assisi in 1221 and personally met St. Francis.
He died at the convent of Arcella in Padua, Italy, on June 13, 1231.
Believed to be the second fastest canonization in history, he was declared a saint just one year after his death, in May 1232.
In 1946, Pope Pius XII proclaimed him a Doctor of the Church.