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Pai: The changing face of a northern charmer
PaiPai, a small district in Thailand's northernmost province of Mae Hong Son, has become a favourite destination for travellers in the last several years and, like it or not, the once idyllic town has changed almost upside down.
The past two years have seen more than half a million tourists flock to the mountainous district following word of mouth recommendations, whether backpackers or more well-off travellers, who described it as a "must-visit" spot to get close to nature –the mountains, a lazy river, cool breeze, fresh air and stunning views.
Vorathep Gantadee, chairman of the Pai Tourism Association, said the small town had less than 30 guesthouses and hotels some eight years ago but the number has currently increased to over 200 outlets, owned by locals and outside investors alike. (More …)


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We have been receiving a few calls a week for the past 3 years from folks looking for Witness Cafe… THIS is their phone number… If you try to reach them at any other phone number found on the web you will probably get a very cranky redhaired lady on the phone who really values her sleep and above that values her kid's sleep….
Thanks folks…
I'm going to go find that sleep that I value so much….
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The Art….26 Jun
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222 pages of bright and candy colored macro shots….
I did this as a reminder of how far I have come and also as a gift for my dad to share with him how far I have come in the past year…
I this because on the really hard days when it seems like nobody is making progress anywhere I can look at this and say holy crap, this is where I spent the last year….
Feels good. Off to work on the subjects for volume 2.
Ch-ch-ch-changes…26 Jun
Lots of changes happening in our little world right now…
thankfully baldguy has been asked to stay at his job for a couple more weeks to help transition one of the clients so that worry can get pushed away for more immediate concerns and changes…
Boy just does not transition well…The kid needs consistency…Yesterday I found out his teacher had been let go. The two aides/teachers who work in his classroom are wonderful, but they are very different. Over the past year I have been able to tell when his head teacher was out for the day by his behavior and attitude at home afterwards. Transitions like this set him back so far. We try to prepare and help him, but in this case he was told his beloved teacher was out on vacation last week… and Boy is home sick so far this week so I don't even know if they have left a note in our box. So there was no warning…No ability to help him transition by saying "see you later"… This could set him back months. Gahhhhhhhh!
and he's sick. Kid on cough syrup (and they did not have any dye free cough syrup at walgreens yesterday) with a hefty dose of red dye #40. No wonder my hair is falling out in handfulls this week. He is crazed. He is the kind of crazed that you see on Cops and zombie movies- hyper and lashing out, mumbling incoherently, shouting nonsense, utterly pantsless. We see his ADHD most of the time and we have adjusted and it is only some of the time that he doesn't self-sooth these days, but this week has been like living with an angry, illogical, drug addled strung out little man. He is usually our family safety officer. He will often request backup if I am plugging something in (because you always need to have a grown up buddy when doing things like that) and has frequently declared that plugging anything in must wait until daddy gets home… Yesterday, in his whirlwind he plugged the radio in by himself (during a huge thunderstorm)…This morning he found the one roll of film in our home and unwound it completely…I may completely lose my last marble in the coming weeks…
Anyway. Just home with boy trying to keep him out of trouble. His ADHD in this sick and cough syrup addled state and my ADD (completely and utterly without the H) are extremely incompatible and frustration runs deep in both of us.
Ok. Enough of my babble. He is "watching" a CD on my TV. He likes to watch the numbers count down.
I need to check my to do list and make sure I'm knocking things out….
In the next week or so I will be blogging about some new tools we are and will be implementing into our home to help with our rampant attention deficit issue (all three of us have it…) …
Speaking of which…Boy just hollered at me that we need to dance.
Ok. I'll be back.
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Finally, it has happened.
We are getting a sidewalk.
Sidewalks in this area are sporadic at best. It depends when the structure was built and what rules were on the books…
Except for a few main roads (in this case I mean roads with traffic lights as our road is a whole lot more "main" than the other roads that come off of it) the only sidewalks you see are 20 feet or so in front of a random house- not connected to any other sidewalk….Not forming a walkable length of more than 20 feet. Just 20 feet, at most, and then nothing for miles…
We have corners that are "sidewalked", complete with the pedestrian images and the walk/don't walk lights… But they are the only sidewalk around for miles, or until the random house that has the 20 feet… None of them were connected. I cringe every morning when I see kids walking to one of the many schools in the immediate area. They are walking on the actual road…Cars, trucks whizzing by all too close seeming to believe that the speed limit is optional. And the kids can't walk on the grass thanks to our militant fire ant population…Not to mention our snakes and other critters.
Now we can walk out of our complex and walk all the way down to the water treatment facility and be that much closer to that sulfurous stench. Maybe someday we will be able to walk safely to necessities that would relieve the need for a second car. I can dream, right?
Before I moved to SW Florida I never would have imagined that I'd get this giddy over a cement truck and traffic cones.
I need to get out of here… If only the sidewalks all connected…
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Rambutan! Tasty tasty fruit…
Although this is not what is looks like when it is ripe and just picked…Apparently the dark brown-ness happens if it isn't refrigerated or eaten within days of picking…
still so tasty…
Kind of like a green grape crossed with a lychee…
Texture is a cross between a peeled grape and a gummy bear- bouncy but not rubbery…
Sweet and very much a dessert flavor….
Ok… A picture without the googly eyes:
and now for the closeup….
(you peel them by scoring them around the middle with a knife and then prying the skin off… there is an almond shaped nut/seed in the middle…don't eat the seed…)

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This major provides an opportunity to study how women's lives have been shaped by historical, political, economic, literary, social, and cultural contexts, and the meaning of gender difference in diverse societies and cultures. The courses are coordinated by the Women's Studies Center, and are open to women and men alike. This field of study explores sex-based bias throughout society- in the workplace, in school, and at home. Equal importance is given to the intersection of gender identities with nationality, race, ethnicity, class, age, and sexual orientation. You have the ability to formulate a program of study consonant with your interests and goals. The major is an excellent preparation for graduate study in most fields and for careers in both the public and private sectors. A background in women's studies develops critical thinking skills and offers knowledge relevant to understanding the contemporary world.
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Michel also needed a Chain Saw for X-mas. I made this from plywood. It is also a secret time capsule.
For carneval in Kindergarten my son needed a pirate saber. I made it from Plywood because of the effect of the layers on the blade.
Build an indoor car for my son for his 1st birthday.
Used my Velleman 3D Printer to build the parts for the Kossel.
Build this 3 D Printer from a kit after diving into the maker world during Maker Faire 2013 in Hannover.
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Brad Pitt: Kate Hudson & More Exes Lining Up To Date Him Again — Is He Interested?
Brad Pitt's quite the eligible bachelor right now, and ladies have taken notice! Now that he's split with wife Angelina Jolie, Brad's reportedly getting hit up by famous exes, reportedly including Kate Hudson and Thandie Newton! Is he calling them back?
Brad Pitt, 52, is facing such a terrible problem. The actor has just too many women who want to date him! Now that he's single, Brad is reportedly fending off romantic advances from adoring women who just want a shot with the Allied star, and it's getting to be a little tedious. The list of eligible women is growing by the day, and some of his most famous exes have allegedly added their names, according to Page Six.
This is getting juicy! Brad is allegedly getting calls day and night from the women he dated and lost, allegedly like Kate Hudson, Juliette Lewis, Christina Applegate, Thandie Newton and Gwyneth Paltrow, who got wind that he was single again and reportedly wanted a second shot. While there has to be allure knowing all those ladies reportedly like him, Brad's apparently uninterested.
"Brad's focused on his kids, and he's happy — now that he has settled his divorce from Angelina [Jolie] — to be out of the public eye," a source told Page Six. "Brad isn't interested [in rekindling with any exes]. No partying, no fun. Just work and parenting."
That makes sense. Brad is finally getting along with Angelina, and he's seeing his kids more often. He doesn't have time to date right now! One person he's 100% not dating: Sienna Miller. She was outraged that a
Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie's Past Relationships — See Pics
on April 11, telling them "I'm not going to dignify that with a response." This isn't the first time she's had to shoot down dating rumors, either. They were accused of flirting back in 2015, when they were filming Z, which they both denied.
HollywoodLife.com has reached out for comment.
HollywoodLifers, do you think Brad will ever date one of his exes? Tell us in the comments!


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Louis Smith on Strictly and love
Olympic gymnast Louis Smith on personal sacrifice, family bonds, falling in love and training for Strictly Come Dancing
There's nothing spectacular or state of the art about Huntingdon Gymnastics Club, which lies behind a maze of modern housing. It smells of feet. Mums and toddlers troop in and out. But this has been Louis Smith's second home since he was six years old, and the double Olympic medal-winning gymnast brings a gust of glamour as he saunters through the door.
He's here to give a masterclass to a group of local teenagers. It's part of a Sky Sports scheme aimed at motivating young people through sport. Not surprisingly, all but two of the students signed up are giggling girls.
With his boy-band looks, tattoos and effortless cool, Smith, 23, always stood out from the other Team GB male gymnasts — as though he'd


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Explanation of cartoon
This cartoon shows what happened during the Palmer Raids of the 1920s. The police in the back are rounding up people that they think are suspicious or too radical, which is shown by all the people in the net that the policeman is carrying. Immigrants and foreigners were also targeted at this time. The big man in the middle is carrying and tying up immigrants because there was great anti-foreigner feeling at this time. His foot is on a boat to stop any further immigrants from coming to America. The blocking of immigrants was furthered by the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924. These put a definite quota on the amount of immigrants that could arrive, which was 2-3% of the people of their nationality in America. The little men with the magnifying glass and the American flag are inspecting suspicious characters, perhaps socialist or communist. This shows that many "natural born Americans" wanted to preserve their American culture and reject anything that deviated fro it. The men in the corner are workers whose unions were targeted as well.


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Millions of people worldwide suffer from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (M.E.). For decades, sufferers have been left with no real biomedical research and no effective treatments. Now the HHS is attempting to prolong this time by contracting with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to redefine the illness. This is unnecessary because experts in the illness, researchers and clinicians alike, have reached a consensus that the Canadian Consensus Criteria (CCC) should be used for both research and clinical purposes. They have sent an Open Letter to Secretary Sebelius expressing their support for the CCC. (See: http://www.mecfsforums.com/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hon._Kathleen_Sebelius_9/23/2013 ). This HHS contract with IOM would simply be a waste of precious resources.
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Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age.
(CNN) -- How's the broadband access in your community -- or perhaps in other places where you'd like to live, work or send your kids to school?
Now you can look that information up via an interactive National Broadband Map, unveiled February 17 by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the Federal Communications Commission. It's one way to understand the current state of the digital divide.
Broadband internet access is one of the main tools for businesses and people to get ahead or, increasingly, to access many basic services. But not all Americans have broadband access.
In fact, a new telecommunications administration report, Digital Nation 2010, says that about one-third of U.S. households still lack a broadband internet connection. Furthermore, 5% to 10% of Americans only have access to internet services that are too slow to even support a basic set of online functions, such as downloading Web pages, photos or video.
Mobile broadband is a huge part of the future of internet access, which is why the Obama administration is pushing for its National Wireless Initiative, which would expand wireless broadband networks to cover where 98% of Americans live.
However, ubiquitous availability is not the same thing as equitable access, and lax federal net neutrality requirements for wireless carriers might especially hinder the internet experience for cost-conscious mobile users.
According to the telecommunications administration, 36% of Americans "have access to wireless internet service at maximum advertised download speeds of 6 Mbps or greater, which some consider the minimum speed associated with '4G' wireless broadband service."
The catch is that often mobile users never actually see those maximum advertised speeds, as Ars Technica reported last year. Most users who run network speed tests on their phones (something you can do with most smartphones and some other phones), typically see considerably lower actual speeds much of the time.
The National Broadband Map is based on data "collected from broadband providers or other data sources," so it may be interesting to compare this map with the crowdsourced cell coverage maps I wrote about earlier this week. Those are based on data about signal strength and network speed collected from mobile users' phones running apps such as Open Signal Maps or RootMetrics.
The vast majority -- 95% -- of Americans live in places that at least have access to 3G-speed wireless networks, with advertised minimum speeds of at least 768 Kbps. But increasingly, that's not enough to really be considered "wireless broadband."
The National Broadband Map, says the telecommunications administration, "includes more than 25 million searchable records showing where broadband internet service is available, the technology used to provide the service, the maximum advertised speeds of the service and the names of the service providers. Users can search by address to find the broadband providers and services available in the corresponding census block or road segment, view the data on a map or use other interactive tools to compare broadband across various geographies, such as states, counties or congressional districts."
It might also be interesting to consider the implications of local demographics, which can easily be explored via The New York Times' interactive map of U.S. Census data. In some cases, there are interesting correlations between the broadband options available in an area and the race, income or education level of the people who live there.
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Should you enroll for health insurance with a company that has declared they will be going out of business?
Why would you do that?
Recently, a company made up in part of insurance companies that helped create the modern U.S. major medical market, says it will stop taking applications for new individual major medical coverage, short-term health insurance and insured group coverage June 15.
The company announced it was leaving the health insurance and employee benefits markets in April.
But they kept enrolling people between April and June?
I am unhappy to see any provider leave the market as we need more carriers, not less to maintain a competitive market.
The real point here is that your medical insurance is very important to you and taking the cheap route is not a good idea. Carriers like this that promise great benefits for lower rates have to make up the underfunding someplace. That only matters to you when your life literally depends on your coverage.
Word on the street is that one of the most stable medical insurance providers in Arizona will be declaring a multimillion dollars loss due to ACA requirements. (That is unsubstantiated rumor at this time) If this provider cannot make money in the personal insurance market why would anybody think a carrier offering low rates and high benefits could stay in business?
As ACA continues to roll out there will be higher rates, fewer carriers and more chaos but you need to be looking at stability and you need good advice.
Remember two things:
There is a difference between real insurance and the appearance of insurance!
People who sell you the "appearance of insurance" will go home to their families. You may lie in the hospital wishing you had better coverage and the premium cost will not matter to you at that point. Especially if your provider just announced they will be dropping your policy.
HINT: Save money by raising your deductible, setting up a savings account, being healthy, and insure the really big stuff that can ruin you. Fear is expensive – plan ahead instead.
Nobody but you knows what you really need, and you are the only person who it really matters to. Get the best advice, question absolutely everybody, get second opinions and do not ever be afraid to ask the questions and ask for verification.
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Have you ever pondered on the question, "Where your life will end?"
Every day we get up from bed to go to work, do our chores, pay our bills, settle our insurances and taxes, take some rest, then work again.
Life has become routinary.
To escape the routine, we go on vacations once or twice a year and make sure that we get to celebrate the holidays.
Life has become a cycle.
To break the cycle, some of us head to a full stop such as taking an early retirement or take a detour to make sure that life does not escape us or simply bore us.
Life has become a state where we get stuck, so we do all our best to keep moving and moving, not minding the fact that we don't have any direction at all.
Is your life now a boring, directionless, routinary cycle? Are you certain of where you are heading? If not, try to look back from where you came from. Are you moving far from it? Or, are you heading back to it?
Looking back does not hurt once in awhile. In fact, looking back reassures us that we have gone so far in moving forward from where we begin.
I don't know about you, but I believe that if there is one certain path that we will take, it must be the path that leads us to our original design. Our life must begin from the One who made us and it should also end with Him.
Like Ebe Dancel's song, Bawat Daan, may we be able to sing to God…
Kung ang puso ko ay imamapa
Ikaw ang dulo, gitna't simula…
Kumanan man o kaliwa
Kung timog man o hilaga
Ang bawat daan ko ay patungo,
pabalik, Sa'Yo.
If my heart will be mapped
You will be the end, center and beginning…
If I turn right or left,
If I go south or north
All my road will lead
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text: If you want a dramatic look, a side ponytail is for you. Many assume that this 'do is outdated and has gone the way of the dodo, but it's started to regain its former popularity and is considered a very modern hairstyle. Lauren Conrad, Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift and many other celebrities have sported the side ponytail with finesse on the red carpet. To achieve this look, gather your hair down low at the nape of your neck, keeping the top of your locks smooth and tame, then pull it to the side and secure it with a hair tie or bobby pins. You can leave the ponytail straight or curl it for added volume. Use hairspray to keep stray hairs from frizzing in the humidity, and if your locks are long enough to do so, let your ponytail drape over one of your shoulders.


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From when I was young, I spent a lot of time programming computers. In high school, my science fair project was a hand coded n-body gravitational simulator, and many of my close friends went into the computer industry. Ultimately after some interventions by my friend (and now board member) Stephen Ridley, and through benefitting from code that other programmers had shared with me, I began to understand the value of the open-source philosophy. I also began to comprehend how proprietary products can be problematic: an understanding that is deepening as I get older and more experienced.
Yet when I began my graduate career in chemistry and biology, what I found was an industry that still clung to closed, proprietary economic models, and had very little hope of grasping the philosophy behind the open-source revolution that transformed the way we use software. While our counterparts in high-technology are closing legal doors behind patent trolls and exploring the space of open culture from evolving an ecosystem open licences to testing out the concept of open corporations, biologists and chemists still play games with patent language, and silo themselves in secret compartments to keep out knowledge leaks. To be sure, there are some initiatives trying to break down these barriers, such as the biobricks foundation and openwetware, but – resistance is still the dominant reaction.
As younger scientists and more computer-savvy scientists emerge into the higher levels of academia and industry, the seeds for change will be planted, but that will not be enough; the status quo can always argue that 'this is the way things are done; no other way will work', regardless of if it's actually been tried. Much like how Linux (and later, the LAMP stack) was a decisive factor in producing the sea change of opinion, what biologists and chemists need is a 'proof of principle' that demonstrates that modern drug development can be done differently. Thanks to my skill at 'having been at the right place at the right time', I believe that I have an outside chance of making this demonstration. To accomplish this, I've founded a non-profit organization dedicated to open science, indysci dot org, and using this platform I intend to push forward several examples of biological and chemical innovations that 'leverage the insights gained by the open-source movement'.
We're getting ready to launch our first initiative – Project Marilyn. This is a crowdfunded effort to develop a IP-free pharmaceutical. Why crowdfunded? Because we'd like to prove that there is a broad social desire to see this happen. Following the concept of Linus' law, we'd like for many eyes to check our work and make sure what we are doing is okay before we ask for your money. So I present to you the Project Marilyn RFC. The RFC will get more detailed than the broad-picture story I just told you; and the detail-oriented can drill down deeper to examine our plans more carefully. Especially important is if you can forward it to people who you think will find this to be interesting – supporters and skeptics alike.
The purpose of this RFC is to solicit public involvement in the crafting of Project Marilyn (PM). After a final round of editing by the project lead, the RFC (minus this section) will be presented to the indysci dot org board for approval as the offical PM proposal. Questions about PM are encouraged, we will be putting together a FAQ that addresses issues and concerns that may arise, some of which we may not have anticipated yet. This page contains the most recent version of the RFC. To track the evolution of this RFC, please see the github repo.
Project Marilyn is a nonprofit venture to raise money using the crowdfunding mechanism to bring several anticancer drug candidates through preclinical trials. Unlike most pharmaceutical research, the candidates brought forward by PM will not be patented and instead released to the public domain, so that ultimately manufacturers can produce these candidates inexpensively without licencing costs. The project lead, Isaac Yonemoto, was involved in producing and conducting initial tests on the parent compound, 9-deoxysibiromycin (9DS).
Sibiromycin was discovered in the last century by researchers in Siberia. It is a toxic compound produced by soil bacteria and functions by arresting DNA replication. Therefore, it has potential as an anticancer chemotherapeutic. Early research on sibiromycin was abandoned when it was discovered to also be cardiotoxic. Later research on the family of chemicals identified a single oxygen atom that is likely to be the cause of the undesirable cardiotoxicity. Dr. Barbara Gerratana devised a method to produce analogs of sibiromycin lacking this oxygen atom, hence 9-deoxysibiromycin. Initial tests indicate that as designed, 9DS is less cardiotoxic than the parent sibiromycin, and surprisingly, more potent against cancer cell lines in vitro. Recently, a related compound, SJG-136, has met some success in initial clinical trials.
Dr. Gerratana departed from her position as a primary investigator, and once again research on the sibiromycin family was abandoned. Project Marilyn picks up where this left off, taking advantage of the expiration of the patentability of 9DS and continuing with the intent of producing more analogs and releasing these to the public domain as well. An open-access version of the publication reporting 9DS is available.
What remains to be done is to bring 9DS through further preclinical experimentation, including animal studies. A pharmacokinetics study and a xenograft study will evaluate suggested dosage and measure efficacy against select cancer lines in vivo. Pharmaceutical development is often 'a numbers game'; to further improve the likelihood of success, PM seeks to produce analogs of 9DS for preclinical evaluation, so that ultimately 'best candidates' can be put forth for clinical trials. The method developed by Dr. Gerratana is particularly amenable to the production of analogs.
Project Lead Qualifications
Isaac Yonemoto earned his PhD in chemistry from The Scripps Research Institute, for research on protein folding dynamics. Subsequently, he performed postdoctoral research under the supervision of Barbara Gerratana, gaining firsthand experience in the production, analytical verification, and handling of sibiromycin and analogs. After this, he performed postdoctoral research at the J. Craig Venter Institute, gaining experience in synthetic biology techniques. A full CV is available here.
Full Scientific Description
A full scientific description is available for examination here.
Fundraising will begin on January 7th, 2014 and last till February 7th, 2014, not inclusive of extensions. To improve the likelihood of success (including a small budgetary margin), the fundraising minimum "tilt value" will be 750,000 USD. A first stretch goal will be announced and described at 1,000,000 USD and will tilt at 1,250,000 USD. A second stretch goal will be announced and described at 1,500,000 USD and will tilt at 1,750,000 USD. If enough funds are collected to reveal a stretch goal (i.e. at the 1,000,000 and 1,500,000 levels), then the fundraising period will be extended one week (i.e. to February 14th, and February 21st, respectively). Although we will not 'reveal' the stretch goals at the moment, both stretch goals will be projects dedicated to the treatment of cancer, and will be well-posed to share laboratory infrastructure with the primary PM objective. All pharmaceutical candidates developed for the primary or stretch goals will not be patented and will be released to the public domain.
Success Criteria
PM will be considered to have succeded if three sibiromycin derivatives (including 9DS) have completed a suite of preclinical trials, to include NCI-60 screen, pharmacokinetic studies and xenograft studies.
Secondary Objectives
PM will also pursue some secondary objectives which will not affect the determination of success but may in the short term ease the production of sibiromycin analogs for preclinical testing and in the long term improve the likelihood of regulatory approval or commercial viability. These include, but are not limited to: development of producer strains, improvement of growth and harvesting conditions for producer strains, and improvement of purification process.
Scientific Advisor
PM has not at the moment designated scientific advisor(s), we are soliciting recommendations for researchers with two years of experience willing to give ~10h a year to provide independent oversight for the project. The advisor will be responsible for issuing an interim go/no go decision, and be responsible for determining if the project was successful at its conclusion. Compensation may be available. Especially welcome are scientists interested in supporting public domain pharmaceuticals, scientists with drug development experience, or scientists with clinical research experience in the field of oncology.
Detailed PM timeline is available as a separate document here.
Detailed PM budgets are available as a separate document here
Summary: Budgets for 750,000 USD, 1,250,000 USD, and 1,750,000 USD are presented. Note that higher fundraising will result in increased budgetary margins. Also note that the 1,750,000 USD stretch goals involves experimentation over a longer timeframe than the other two fundraising outcomes. Employees will not be penalized if the project concludes earlier as a result of achieving the project objectives.
Surplus Budget
Upon conclusion of the project, the use of the surplus budget will depend on the total amount of funds raised by crowdfunding:
- 750,000~1,000,000 USD, the surplus budget will be transferred to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit cancer research hospital, such as City of Hope hospital.
- 1,000,000~1,250,000 USD, no more than half of the surplus budget will be used to pilot the first stretch goal with the intent to generate data to re-pitch the first stretch goal pending the success of PM primary objective. The remainder will be transferred to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit cancer research hospital.
- 1,250,000~1,500,000 USD, the surplus budget will be transferred to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit cancer research hospital.
- > 1,500,000 USD no more than half of the surplus budget will be used to pilot or continue the first and second stretch goals. The remainder will be transferred to a 501(c)(3) nonprofit cancer research hospital.
10% time
Acknowledging that freedom to pursue tangential or unrelated science can yield important insights for the main project, postdoctoral researchers (but not technicians, without approval of the project lead) will be encouraged to pursue "10% time" projects which may or may not be related to PM, if funds are available. Funds for reagents, equipment, and supplies for 10% time will derive from the indysci general budget, and not the PM budget, unless a compelling connection to PM can be argued. The project lead will be responsible for making this determination. Salaries for 10% time will not be prorated.
Other Projects
The project lead will reserve the right to pursue at most one other primary scientific project outside of the scope of PM and the PM stretch goals. If such a project is funded, then the lead salary will be prorated to 50%.
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Dr Peter J. Williams - Principal
Contact Details:
- Fax INT +44 (0) 1223 566608
- Email Peter Williams
Qualifications: M.A. (Cantab); M.Phil. (Cantab); Ph.D. (Cantab).
Senior Lecturer in New Testament, University of Aberdeen, 2005-2007
Lecturer in New Testament, University of Aberdeen, 2003-2005
Research Fellow in Old Testament, Tyndale House, Cambridge, 1998-2003
Affiliated Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, 1998-2003
Research Assistant, the Semantics of Ancient Hebrew Database Project, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, 1997-1998
Currently: Principal, Tyndale House, Cambridge
(as of 1 January 2017 the historic title Warden has been changed to Principal for greater clarity)
Affiliated Lecturer, University of Cambridge
Scholarly activities:
- Chair of the International Greek New Testament Project
- Member of the Translation Committee of the English Standard Version of the Bible
Current research includes:
- The spelling of the New Testament
For some of the online publications you will need to access the free fonts SPAtlantis, SPEdessa, SPIonic, or SPTiberian at http://rosetta.reltech.org/TC/fonts/. Unfortunately it has not been possible to ensure that Hebrew or Syriac word-wrap appear correctly on all browsers, and for pagination reference needs to be made to the originals.
- Early Syriac Translation Technique and the Textual Criticism of the Greek Gospels(Texts and Studies; Gorgias Press, 2004).
- Studies in the Syntax of the Peshitta of 1 Kings (Monographs of the Peshitta Institute, Leiden 12; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2001).
- P.J. Williams, A.D. Clarke, P.M. Head and D. Instone-Brewer, eds., The New Testament in Its First Century Setting: Essays on Context and Background in Honour of B.W. Winter on His 65th Birthday (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2004).
- Editor, Syriac Word Sources, Senses and Functions (Perspectives on Syriac Linguistics; Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2009).
- Primi passi nello studio dell'Antico Testamento (Edizioni GBU, 2009).
- Curriculum Vitae.
Select recent articles:
'Alleged Syriac Catchwords in the Gospel of Thomas', Vigiliae Christianae 63 (2009) 71–82.
'Expressing Definiteness in Aramaic: A Response to Casey's Theory concerning the Son of Man Sayings', in Larry W. Hurtado and Paul L. Owen, eds., "Who is this son of man?": The Latest Scholarship on a Puzzling Expression of the Historical Jesus (London: T&T Clark, 2011) 61–77.
'"Slaves" in Biblical Narrative and in Translation', in J.K. Aitken and B. Mastin, eds., On Stone and Scroll (Festschrift G.I. Davies; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011) 441–52.
'Not the Prologue of John', Journal for the Study of the New Testament 33 (2011) 375–86.
- The Great Pointing Crisis (a piece I wrote to help my students in Cambridge learn how to point Hebrew)
- A popular lecture on the gospels as based on eyewitness testimony
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Taitila (तितिल) was country in Mahabharata period mentioned by Panini.
Variants of name
- Taitila-Kadru (तैतिल-कद्रु)
- Taitila-kadru (तैतिल-कद्रु)
- Tittirakalmasha /Tittirakalmāsha (तित्तिरिकल्माष) (Mahabharata: II.47.4)
Jat clans
Mention by Panini
Taitila-Kadru (तैतिल-कद्रू) is mentioned by Panini in Ashtadhyayi. [1]
V. S. Agrawala[2] writes that Ashtadhyayi of Panini refers to Taitila-Kadru (तितिल-कद्रु) (IV.2.42). Taitila country is known for horses. These horses came from Uttarakuru (north of Pamir in Central Asia). Taitila-Kadru is same as Tittirakalmāsha (तित्तिरिकल्माष) of Sabhaparva (II.28.6,19) (II.47.4). Taitila is synonymous with Kalinga , which may be identified with Titilgarh, south of Sambalpur in Orissa.
During the time of Grammarian Panini (5th Century B.C), a territory named Taitila Janapada flourished to the west of Kalinga and that territory has been associated by historians with the modern town of Titlagarh in Balangir district. Taitala Janapada was famous for trade in some commodities described by the Grammarian as "Kadru" the meaning of which may be either horse or cotton fabrics.[3]
V S Agarwal [4] writes about Vrātas = Vrātyas - [p.440]: The Vratas seem to have been same as Vratyas. They are said to used a kind of very small wagon covered with a plank for seat and useful for driving along trackless paths (vipatha; also phalakāstīrṇa, from which Hindi word phirak, a dialectical word still in use), a string less bow not using arrows but probably sling balls or pellets, below like skin quivers as used by Shakas, a silver disc around neck, goat-skin or postīn (āvika), tilted cornate turban, and a kind of cloth woven with black thread or of a different colour, but fringed with streaks of black colour, and called kadru . Panini's reference to Taitila-Kadru (VI.2.42) is very likely to the Kadru cloth of the Taitila Country. Kautilya mentions Taitila as a breed of horses which from its association with other names of north-western countries as Kambhoja, Sindhu, Bahlika, Sauvira, and Vānāyu (Wana Valley) should be taken as being imported from north-west India. This gives an indication of the place of origin of the Taitila-kadru, if the rendering of kadru as the name of a fabric in use amongst the Vratya be correct.
In Mahabharata
Sabha Parva, Mahabharata/Book II Chapter 47 gives list of Kings who brought tributes to Yudhishthira. Tittirakalmāsha (तित्तिरिकल्माष) is mentioned in verse (II.47.4). ...And he also gave three hundred horses of the Tittiri and the Kalmasha species possessing noses like parrots. And he also gave three hundred camels and an equal number of she-asses, all fattened with the olives and the Pilusha. [5]
External links
- ↑ V. S. Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, 1953, p.61, 327, 440
- ↑ V. S. Agrawala: India as Known to Panini, 1953, p.61
- ↑ Panini's Ashtadyayi VI. 2. 42
- ↑ V S Agarwal, India as Known to Panini,p.440-441
- ↑ अश्वांस तित्तिरि कल्माषांस तरिशतं शुकनासिकान, उष्ट्रवामीस तरिशतं च पुष्टाः पीलु शमीङ्गुथैः Mahabharata (II.47.4)


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Ah man, I am super excited for this fight. The last two times these two faced were both awesome explosive fights and I am sure its gonna happen again. The first time these was back in 2007 with JWP winning on points at Evolution 12. 2 years down the line they faced each other again at Evolution 17 in the Kings Cup Qualifier Super 8 tournament and Cosmo won by TKO via leg kicks in round 2. So there is your history on these 2 Muaythai legends. Who do you think is going to win this time? You can see their 2 previous fights below.
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Prayer Station Invitation: Divine Mercy
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
(King James Bible, 1 Chronicles, 16:34)
It is better to guide one soul than to possess all that is on earth, for as long as that guided soul is under the shadow of the Tree of Divine Unity, he and the one who hath guided him will both be recipients of God's tender mercy, whereas possession of earthly things will cease at the time of death.
(The Bab, Selections from the Writings of the Bab, p. 75)
Dear friends!
What nurtures your soul? What makes your heart tender? Prayer, music, fellowship, food cooked with love, tea poured in peace, cake shared with smile? Whatever the answer might be, sharing prayers with friends gets us all closer to the Creator and recharges us for the week ahead.
I invite you and your loves ones to the regular Monday evening interfaith Prayer Station!
I have many books of prayers from different faith traditions but if you wish, feel free to bring your own prayer.
We'll start at 7 pm with light refreshments followed by reading, at 7:30 pm, of selected Holy Writings from diverse religions on the theme of Divine Mercy. We'll also uplift and refresh our souls with music, and offer prayers as the spirit moves us. We'll conclude with tea and cake.
We'll also say prayers for anyone in need, so if you can't join us and would like to request prayers please contact me.


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I've been using essential oils therapeutically only this year. Before that I used cedar oil to clean my bathroom and lemon for floors and counter tops mostly because I love the smell. Thanks to a friend with Young Living and a friend with its rivalry company Doterra, now I'm using them to ease discomforts in my family.
The more I use essential oils, the more I realize how much I undervalued their power. Now I am seeing results and I believe! And I also love how wonderful they smell. I love the idea of concentrating pounds and pounds of a plant into one little bottle. It feels like magic medicine at my finger tips.
My mother in law was telling me about how her mother use to rub wintergreen on her and her sister as children to ease aches and pains. Growing pains. My daughter who is four experiences what she describes as restless leg aches and growing pains. Feeling nostalgic about Grandma's childhood wintergreen rubs from Great Grandma, I decided to order some. I was already using lavender mixed into coconut oil for her to help with sleep. When the wintergreen came I mixed the with the lavender. The scent is heavenly and the rub really helps her. She ends up falling asleep within 5-10 minutes of application. My daughter also loves that I developed that specific blend just for her. She calls it "my oil". I love old wisdom.


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Online identity and potential impact on career of using social media
Online social communication can have a considerable impact on how people view you and the type of person you are. When you are going to use social media to communicate professionally, and for research information dissemination, you need to be very aware of the messages that you are giving to people. There are numerous stories about people losing jobs because of their non-professional exploits discovered on Facebook; one of the morals of those stories is to manage your privacy and online settings as tightly as possible.
Remember: Your online activity will always leave a footprint. Deletion rarely means deletion.
If you are associated with a non-professional online profile this will impact not only on the view potential employers have, but your credibility as a professional person and researcher. Commentary and communication in online spaces brings a new danger: as opposed to gossiping in your research office, once you've posted comments about a person or their work online, it's there for all to read.
Regardless of whether you think at this stage that you are going to have a research career, there is no avoiding the impact of online activity on your future career, and the sooner you put in place steps to protect your online profile/s the better. Before you choose to do any type of online activity, and that includes anything you do as part of this programme, you need to ensure that you have considered the following questions:
- what is my purpose of using this type of tool/technology? General communication, recording my experiences of research, communicating to a specific group of people, uploading my research data, setting up professional contacts for employment . . .
- what type of content will I be publishing using this type of tool/technology? Text, photos, datasets, multimedia, comments/responses/appraisal of other people's work . . .
- who is my intended audience? My peers, the lay public, employers, researchers, friends . . . It could be a mix of all of these people, and depending on who you want to target your communication at, be aware of the tone and the language you choose to use.
- should I be using this tool/technology only for personal reasons? If yes, you will still need to monitor the messages you communicate online.
- what are the types of security settings for this tool/technology? Read the information provided by the service about their use of your personal information, as well as privacy settings that you can apply to the display of your personal information. If you want to restrict access to the information that you are entering check what settings you can place on these. Reference management software, for example, should not permit you to share documents for which you don't own the copyright.
- if this tool/technology does not permit security settings, is it appropriate for my purpose? It's likely there will be some limits to the use of your personal information that you can ascribe, but if you are really unsure about how your personal data will be used, don't feel you have to use the service.
- will other people I work with be comfortable if I use this tool/technology to communicate my work? If you are blogging about your research, take into account other people's views and feeings about the possibility of them appearing in your blog. It's good practice to keep other people out of your blog unless you have permission to write about them. In addition make it clear that the views you are expressing are your own.
- if I want to set be anonymous how will I protect my identity from being discovered? The majority of social media services require you to register before becoming an active user. This does not mean you have to use your real name with a registered account. However why do you want to remain anonymous? If you are engaged in research communication, anonymity will not further your career or achievements in any way.
- if a potential employer found this content, what would s/he think of my work? This is crucial.
- how will I protect the content I have posted so that other people do not misuse it? You want to ensure you are recognised as the author of content that is yours online. Use Creative Commons licences where applicable, tell people what you will permit and not permit if content is reused. Follow up comments and retweets, and if you find that someone or a service has used your content inappropriately, contact them. The online community that you will become part of will back authors' rights, and naming and shaming abusers of content could be most effective.
- if I am commenting on/responding to someone else's content, what impact could that have? Don't say anything online that you wouldn't say in any other public arena. The person you are responding to is an individual, and will have decided they have a justifiable reason for posting up content. If you disagree, make sure you have a good argument to support this. If content is offensive, then contact the hosting service where appropriate.
- how can I ensure that I keep my identity linked to my other online activities, and it is not confused with someone else? There are a number of unique author identifier schemes, the two most well-known being ResearcherID, set up by Thomson Reuters, a scheme for authors to register their name and affiliation, and identify their publications, and ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), managed by an independent non-profit organisation. Its objective is to 'establish an open, independent registry that is adopted and embraced as the industry's de facto standard' and ORCID's Board of Directors including representatives from major publishers such as Thomson Reuters, Nature and Wiley. This is important because without the involvement of publishers in this arena, any ID schemes will not work. Martin Fenner has written extensively about ORCID and author identifiers on his blog, and is on ORCID's Board of Directors.
- do I want to keep my professional profile separate from my personal profile? Maintaining 2 profiles can be time-consuming, but you can certainly keep your social networking profile separate from your professional profile if you wish to. For example, make use of professional networking sites if you don't want to foster network connections via Facebook.
What should I say online?
You want to be making a positive not a negative impact, never engage in an activity that you think could be negative. This doesn't mean you should not be critical, nor keep your views and opinions so neutral as to be unimportant; innovation, creativity and debate are all major benefits of enhanced online communication.
Your contributions have to be well-considered, appropriate, and relevant to the discussion/activity/comment/content that you are engaging with. Strong opinions and argument have their place in any field, but it has to be supported by evidence and reason for you to be taken and treated seriously and authoritatively. Otherwise you are simply a person who rants for no better reason than because you can, and you will be ignored, or worse considered a problem to be avoided.
Be aware of what you are communicating
A watchword about innovation:
- be very careful if you decide your purpose is to speak about a new aspect of research you are involved in.
That work could form the basis of grant applications, a research paper or a patent application. If you've already disclosed data, ideas, potential applications of your work, you may find these are unfavourably affected. Until you have achieved your desired output, the grant, publication of the paper, or a successfully registered patent, you may want to keep your work out of the fully public arena.
Be aware that contentious and controversial issues will have to be handled carefully. The upside of open communication is also a downside. The traditional media networks are hugely powerful and influential and controversy, as you know, is an instant attraction. Debates about issues that affect the general public, i.e. climate change, GM, vaccinations, nuclear energy and technology, and so on, will gain attention that you may actually not want.
Think of the positive
- The impact on your career is the build-up of a collection of work that you can use to manage and raise your professional profile, and provide evidence of your development, work and research interests.
- You can find connections across the world, or within the same city, that you would not otherwise make, and be given opportunities by people you have never met in person, and may never meet.
- Building up an online network of contacts and people with similar interests can have huge benefits.
- Collaborative projects, opportunities for funding and employment can all be achieved as a result of online communication, as well as developing your prominence as someone to be listened to.
- The ability to communicate with a new audience, the non-academic world.
Traditional methods of scholarly communication are still critically important and will remain so, but social media can provide equally valuable forms of scholarly communication that are increasingly likely to be valued and accommodated by funders and policy makers in the future.
1. To learn more about ORCID and to sign up for your own ORCID, go to the ORCID site.
To learn more about ResearcherID, and register for your own ID, go to the ResearcherID service.
Author identifier schemes and using ResearcherID (PDF)
2. It's not all about author identification. For an overview of other ways to promote your research profile, have a look at Brian Kelly's slideshow on Slideshare. Many of the services and tools he mentions will appear in this blog as well.
3. To expand beyond the academic world, set up a Flavors.me account. See an example of Ed Yong's (science writer) page here. You can add your accounts to any services you sign up during this programme.
4. Consider using a blog as your website. See Erika Cule's blog written here at Imperial as an example of a PhD student blogging.
Fenner, M. (n.d.) Author Identifier Overview. Gobbledygook. Available at: http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/author-identifier-overview/
Fenner, M. (2007-current year) Goobledygook. [Blog] Available at: http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/


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Sidon, Antioch of Pisidia, and the tomb of Philip
With Prof. Keith Schoville
Some archaeological work in Sidon, the importance of Antioch of Pisidia, and a grave of one of the original apostles. All make the program this week as we discuss the latest discoveries and developments in Biblical archaeology.
tags: Sidon Antioch of Pisidia Tomb of Philip
With Prof. Mark Wilson
This second installment of our conversation with Mark Wilson covers some of the sites in central Turkey, between Antioch on the Orontes, modern Antakya, and Antioch of Pisidia. Our conversation includes discussion of Tarsus, the Apostle Paul's hometown, as well as Attalia (Antalya), the current home of Mark Wilson.
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3 Easy Tips to Lighten the Candy Load
If you're dealing with a serious pile of candy and it's giving you major anxiety, now is the perfect time to put your little one's Intuitive Eating to the test.
Before we start, let's get your intentions in check.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT… throwing all the candy in the trash, or swapping their candy for something you're more comfortable with them having like money or a new toy.
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Ethics Advisory Group (EAG)
The Ethics Advisory Group (EAG) was established to provide ethical guidance on The Union's work at national and international levels. Its role is to safeguard the dignity and rights of study participants and to promote ethical standards in lung health services. The EAG is made up of six to eight Union members, who are selected to ensure not only professional and geographic diversity, but also representation of low-income countries and community groups. Current members are citizens of South Africa, India, Columbia, Zambia, Australia, Pakistan and the USA. They are professionals in the fields of social science, research, clinical medicine and public health.
For further information or to submit a project for EAG approval, click here.


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Nokia Corporation Managers' transactions December 30, 2016 at 14:00 (CET +1)
Nokia Corporation - Managers' transactions
Transaction notification under Article 19 of EU Market Abuse Regulation.
Person subject to the notification requirement
Name: Nelson, Elizabeth
Position: Member of the Board/Deputy member
Issuer: Nokia Corporation
Notification type: INITIAL NOTIFICATION
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IL 57 - Sporadic colorectal cancer: From genetic make-up to complex phenotypic measurement, from risk determination to prognostic markers
Vodička, Pavel
Slyšková, Jana
Pardini, B.
Naccarati, A.
Souček, P.
Vodičková, Ludmila
Vymetálková, Veronika
Svoboda, Miroslav
Foersti, A.
Hemminki, K.
Colorectal carcinogenesis (CRC), is a complex process, resulting in both genomic and chromosomal instabilities. The valid theories of carcinogenesis accent either the role of somatic mutation or the surrounding microenvironment, however neither of them explains all features of cancer. Uncontrolled proliferation and genomic instability point to the DNA damage response and repair as to the key players. In the present study, we will overview several biomarkers in mapping heterogeneous complex CRC disease and providing prognostic information.\nVariants in genes involved in important pathways, such as DNA repair, cell cycle control, folate metabolism and methylation, insulin resistance and obesity, ABC transporters, selenoprotein genes, genes involved in inflammatory/immune response have shown various degree of association with CRC risk. We present also the data on mutations in high risk genes involved in colorectal carcinogenesis. Gene expression levels were determined in relevant pathways and complemented with other important parameters (epigenetic regulators of transcription by methylation). Additionally, the role of post-transcriptional regulation via miRNA or lncRNA was investigated in relation to the risk of CRC and the efficacy of chemotherapy. We have discovered several genetic and epigenetic markers affecting independently the prognosis of CRC. Functional DNA repair tests (complex phenotype) have been implemented as markers of individual susceptibility to sporadic CRC and its prognosis.\nAn application of the whole set of various biomarkers is inevitable to define the phenotypic landscape of the disease and to delineate the individual response to the therapy.\n
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Patterns of alcohol use among women on parental leave living in Prague
Vodičková, Ludmila
Šťastná, Lenka
(advisor) ;
Doležalová, Pavla
Backround: Research shows that drinking among women on parental leave is a serious social problem. Women on parental leave can be considered as a group which is vulnerable to addictive behavior. Aims: The aim of this work was to map the situation of alkohol use among women on parental leave living in Prague. There have been set four research questions: 1. What is the prevalence of alcohol use among women in the sample? 2. Do the women on parental leave change their drinking habits over time? 3. Do the women on parental leave feel that parenting is kind of protection against drinking too much alcohol or, on the contrary, they feel that it could be risk factor which can lead to drinking? 4. What are the patterns of alcohol use for women on parental leave in Prague? Methods: Data for research part of this work was obtained using a quantitative questionnaire. The questionnaire was distributed among respondents via the internet. The sample of respondents was conducted through method of self-selection. The results were analyzed using basic descriptive statistics in excel. Results: Results which we have obtained are showing us, that patterns of drinking alcohol among women from the research sample did change over time. Prevalence of drinking alcohol was the highest before pregnancy. During that time there...
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Treatment of tobacco dependence: knowledge and interest among smokers in Kolín area
Vodičková, Ludmila
Králíková, Eva
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Pánková, Alexandra
According to a research report made by National Institute of Health in 2012, in the Czech Republic can be over 24 % of the population classified as regular smokers who smokes more than one cigarette a day. There is no doubt that smoking ranks among current societal problems that threatens the health of about two and a half million people in the Czech Republic.For this reason, in this thesis I concerned myself with subject of treatment of tobacco dependence and I'm trying to determine the level of knowledge about treatment options among the smokers in the Kolín area and if they are interested in treatment. This thesis is divided in two parts - theoretical and practical. Goal of the theoretical part is to describe methods of diagnosis of tobacco addiction and treatment options. The first chapter of this thesis describes and explains what is nicotine, tobacco with its brief history and the concept of passive smoking. The second chapter deals with what is addiction to tobacco, describes the principle and neurobiology. The third chapter deals with the different ways to diagnose tobacco dependence and the last, the fourth chapter of the theoretical part provides information about treatment options. Practical work aimed to investigate awareness about treatment options for tobacco dependence among smokers...
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Molecular genetic analysis of the causes of selected hereditary forms of colorectal polyposis
Florianová, Martina
Kohoutová, Milada
(advisor) ;
Křepelová, Anna
(referee) ;
Vodičková, Ludmila
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Hereditary colorectal adenomatous polyposis syndromes are a predisposition to colorectal carcinoma development. The most common analyzed syndromes are familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) that results from germline mutations in the APC gene and MUTYH - associated polyposis (MAP) caused by germline mutations in the MUTYH gene. The aim of this study was to clarify genetics causes of colorectal polyposis in a set of probands without the germline mutation in the APC gene. Within study's scope the presence of large deletion in APC gene was tested, there was looked for germline mutations in MUTYH gene, alternatively germline mutations in MSH6 gene by probands with monoallelic MUTYH mutation, item there was tested an effect of detected APC variants on gene expression. Screening for large deletions was performed by multiplex ligation dependent probe amplification (MLPA). A set of 120 APC-negative probands was examined for the presence of germline MUTYH mutations by denaturing high performance liquid chromatography (dHPLC). Subsequently a set of 145 APC-negative probands was screened only for germline MUTYH mutation in exon 7 and 13 by high resolution melting (HRM) analysis. Analysis of the effect on expression was tested by ten APC...
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Number concept and its development in preschool period
VODIČKOVÁ, Ludmila
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Geny metabolizmu (XME), opravy DNA a regulace buněčného cyklu v predikci vzniku nádoru hrtanu
Vodičková, Ludmila
Vodička, Pavel
Státní zdravotní ústav
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Vliv koncentračních nárazů na systémové účinky a kinetiku rozpouštědel
Frantík, Emil
Vodičková, Ludmila
Ústav hygieny práce a nemocí z povolání
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SMD entered a hobby market a long time ago, but there are still many people who afraid to push their projects to SMT level. Once you try, it appears to be very easy – even more, comfortable than through-hole PCB technology. Dave from eevblog.com has published a series of PCB soldering tutorials where he goes through tools needed to make quality soldering, then through-hole soldering tips and finally SMD component soldering. In this video, Dave carefully explains what main techniques (individual pin soldering, well based and drag) can be used to successfully solder SMD parts and what odds are awaiting for inexperienced players. If you don't want to solder with iron, then you'll see how it is easy to do this with solder paste and hot air gun.


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Authors of the new dating guide says the traditional dating rules are out of date!
The authors write:
'There mere act of waiting does not magically create chemistry.'
Some of the other 'don'ts' that we should now 'do' include dating a co-worker, being too picky, hooking up with someone who isn't age-appropriate and not throwing in the towel after bad sex.
But even though they advocate throwing out most rules, the experts still have a few in place. For example, Wilsner says that a man should always pay on the first date, even if he's broke, the date wasn't his idea, or the woman clearly isn't interested.
'The guy who doesn't pay isn't some daring, trailblazing pioneer for women's rights,' he explains. 'He's just cheap.'
They also point out that, even though you don't need to wear high heels and a dress on a first date you should still strive to look 'hot' and 'approachable' without being 'overdone' and avoid 'oversize, baggy clothes that make you look like an old woman who lives in a shoe.'
Another piece of so-called wisdom the authors hate is that 'nice' is synonymous with 'weak'.
Being kind, thoughtful and having good character are always turn-ons.
Wilsner claims it's also a myth that most men marry high-maintenance bitches. 'A woman should be strong, independent, empowered and self-sufficient. But the word for that kind of behavior is not "bitch". It's "woman".'
The rule about never discussing politics and religion on the first date? The authors say the most common complaints after a first date are actually that the other person talked too much about themselves, or even worse, was boring. So sharing your passions in a respectful way is a good thing.
And if your date says anything really alarming - like the girl Wilsner dated who said she was 'into slavery' - well, at least you know sooner rather than later.
The authors advice if you don't fall in love at first sight or sex isn't instantly earth-shattering? Give it time, because sex early in a relationship can be super awkward. Wilser cautions, however, that if you only get the look of love when wearing beer goggles or the idea of kissing your partner 'gives you the willies', it's time to bail out.
'You need to take risks in love, Some of the best stories I've heard about people who find love feature those who broke dating rules.'


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Ciara and Russell Wilson are adding to their team.
The singer and Seattle Seahawks quarterback, who wed in July, announced they are expecting in matching Instagram posts Tuesday night.
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In every field, there are artists who rise above the rest of us. I look up and marvel at the beauty of the stars. My Uncle Ned, who's a Harvard/University of Michigan-trained PhD astronomer, sees and marvels at astrophysical processes that go far beyond my surface appreciation of a pretty night sky. The same is true of art, music, cooking, botany, architecture, and almost every human endeavor.
William Safire, who died Sunday at the age of 79, was an artist in the field of language. And his voice will be missed.
Artists and experts don't just know more about their subjects; they actually see them differently. Which has its pros and cons. Painters don't just see objects, they see a mix of light and shadow. Ever since becoming a pilot, I no longer see clouds as just pretty puffy things in the sky. I see high Cirrus, which means I may need to depart earlier than planned, because a change in the weather is coming. A breezy day isn't just nice. It means turbulence in the pass.
The ability to appreciate far more layers of detail means that far more details can also irritate. My brother David can appreciate many more fine points of a symphony than I can. But he'll also be bothered by the fact that the horns in the second movement came in just a tad too late. And once you understand the technical elements of a subject, it can be hard to look at it without that magnifying lens. There's a line near the end of the movie Men in Black where the Tommy Lee Jones character, about to have his memories of aliens erased, says that it's going to be nice to be able to look up and see just a beautiful starry sky again.
As they delve further into the details of their art, artists also run the risk of getting lost in their own personal forest of specifics and language, leaving the rest of us too far behind to follow. Which is fine, as long as you don't care about communicating any of your ideas or the wonder of your discoveries to the rest of the world. I interviewed a NASA scientist once who insisted that to say the satellite he'd worked on had a near-equatorial orbit was untrue. It was, he said, a low-to-mid-inclination orbit. I explained that the book was for a lay person audience, and most people didn't inherently know what a low-to-mid-inclination orbit was, unless we explained it further. "Well, any intelligent person knows!" he exclaimed.
The same possibility exists with language. There are purists who, I suspect, are writing more for their own enjoyment than the comprehension of the audience. They're in love with multi-syllabic words, even if only six people in the audience know or can envision what those words mean. Not that there's anything inherently wrong with that, any more than with a jazz artist who cares more about reaching the pinnacle of intense self-expression than commercial success. In fact, I think it's important to have some purists out there, if only to remind the rest of us that the world contains magnificent mountains beyond the familiar, local hills we see and use everyday. It's just important to be clear about the goal, and be okay with the consequences of your choices.
William Safire was fascinated almost to the point of obsession with the details of words, leading to many arcane debates with his readers over seeming minutiae of nuanced word origin, usage or meaning. Live by the sword, die by the sword. And there were undoubtedly times when his own love of little-known words kept readers away from the ideas he was expressing. But he also asked and explored thought-provoking questions--including, in this 2008 blog entry, whether perhaps Pliny the Younger was the world's first real blogger. And in a world where the instant-word-factory-assembly-line crunch of blogging and email, and the word-annihilation of texting and Twitter (LOL if u no wht i mean), the presence of those who still love, explore, and use the full depths and twists of the English Language--or any language--becomes even more important if the art is not to die out.
I'm not a purist of language; I'm as concerned with getting the point across as I am with the beauty of the words I put together to do it. But I am still a practitioner of the art; a member of the symphony, if not its artiste solo perfectionist. And so I truly appreciate those whose passion skill and knowledge act as a beacon for the rest of us, pulling us further along than we otherwise would have gone.
Ammon Shea, a dedicated word-lover, wrote a book last year about the year he spent reading the Oxford English Dictionary, cover to cover. (Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages). His obsession for the task drove those around him nuts, and I can't say as I have the passion required to follow in his footsteps. But I loved his book, and all the discoveries he allowed me to share. To think! There's actually a word for a fear of dinner parties! Who knew?
I also don't have the stamina of a William Manchester, whose biography of Winston Churchill stretched over three volumes--the last of which had to be completed by someone else, because Manchester suffered a series of strokes that left him, in his last years, unable to write. In commenting on the tragedy of a man whose life's work was the loving caress of words having lost his ability to find them, essayist Roger Rosenblatt recited one of Manchester's passages about Churchill's funeral:
"When his flag-draped coffin moved slowly across the old capital, drawn by naval ratings, and bare-headed Londoners stood trembling in the cold, they mourned, not only him and all he had meant, but all they had been and no longer were, and would never be again."
Manchester, Rosenblatt noted, most likely "had only the scantiest idea where that sentence would end when he began it. Only when he caught up with it could he know. But then, there was another sentence running ahead of him. There was always another sentence. And now there isn't." I still look at Manchester's words ... and Rosenblatt's framing of them ... and feel as if I've been blessed with a combination of master performances so beautiful and perfect that if it they'd been played out in a concert hall, I would have shouted aloud, "Bravo!"
Communication doesn't have to be taught. We learn it instinctively as small children. But the art of language; exploring words and crafting them together with rhythm, poetry, and meaning, is a learned and practiced skill that few ever master as well as Manchester, Keats, Shakespeare, or Safire. Like master chefs, musicians, athletes or scientists, they show us what's possible, and add a layer of nuanced beauty to a sometimes overly practical world.
I didn't always agree with Safire's detailed focus or opinions. And sometimes his immersion in his art may have stood in the way of getting his point across to a broader audience. But maybe, the point he really wanted to get across was simply how much richness there was in this language we use everyday, if only we'd take the time to explore and savor the forest with a little more attention and depth. And on that point, his message was inimitably, powerfully, and exceptionally clear.
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WOT is sure a fun game. But underneath, I hope that future generations will become curious about history because of this game. After all, without history, there's no future, most likely we will keep repeating our mistakes.
It seemed the current media educated generation that's born from the late eighties onward have very little memory, exposure to the catastrophic events that happened in WW1, and WW2. Now the world war 2 generation is fading away, we are getting very little media coverage on the horrors of war and the individuals that can give testimonial on their experiences on that war.
Everything is digital, you-tube, instant entertainment, and everything can be summarized in a few text messages are viewed as valid. Yet true to life experience, the living breathing human being, recounting their in depth experience, are often dismissed because it is too lengthy, too complicated for instant satisfaction.
I think people are often lured into simple answers for complex questions. Wars are breakdown into statistics, mortality, wound ratios, kill ratios. Technical readouts of tanks, speed, armor, penetrations etc. These are rational, easy to quote numbers.
But behind all these numbers, there is an individual, a living breathing human being, that one way or another, make history happen.
As Chieftain illustrates on the picture of shattered armor glass on his tank, however one thinks of his testimonial, his contribution to his part of history making, I hope people will realize how these collective testimonials are for the future generations. It is part of these experience that help an individual, create that spark of interest, to try to understand meaning of written history and ultimately, a better human being out of it. We can always hope for a better world because of the historical lessons.