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Golden Ring 5*
Official Congress Hotel
The hotel is located in the heart of the business and cultural life of the capital, opposite the building of the Russian Foreign Ministry - one of the famous Stalinist skyscrapers, a five-minute walk from Arbat Street. It presents rooms of various categories: from the "standard" to the "presidential suite", the interiors of which are made by Swiss and Italian designers in an elegant classic style. The hotel rooms are equipped with everything necessary for a comfortable stay and have round-the-clock service.
The hotel contains:
Two restaurants of European and Russian cuisine with panoramic views of the city, located on the upper floors of the building, a 24-hour lobby bar, cafe;
Sauna, spa, gym, conference rooms, beauty salon, underground parking, souvenir shops;
Own fleet of executive cars with the possibility of renting a car with a driver for trips around Moscow.
Moscow, Smolenskaya Street, 5
3,5 km from Red Square
Smolenskaya, Kiyevskaya Metro Station
Radisson Collection 5*
With a breathtaking view on Moscow River, this luxury hotel is 4 km away from the famous Red Square and the Kremlin, and a 13-minute walk from the metro.
Radisson Collection Hotel Moscow, also known as the Ukraine Hotel, is one of the most prestigious hotels in Moscow. Its magnificent building in the style of the "Stalinist Empire" was included among the main symbols of the Russian capital along with the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin, the building of Moscow State University and other architectural masterpieces.
A luxurious five-star hotel with beautiful views of the Moscow River is located 3.5 km from Red Square. In the 2000s, the hotel was reconstructed, during which the interiors of the rooms were completely redone in accordance with modern concepts of comfort and luxury, while all public areas of the hotel retained their original historical appearance. The stylish rooms of the hotel are furnished with luxurious furniture in a classic style and have all the necessary technical equipment to fulfill the guest's desire.
19 restaurants, bars, an indoor pool, a large conference center, and fitness center (one of the largest in Europe!);
An observation deck on the 33rd floor of the building with beautiful panoramic views of the capital;
Guests can take a walk beside Moscow River, or they can use comfortable yachts of our own river flotilla. Radisson
Collection Hotel Moscow – an unforgettable vacation in the "heart" of the capital!
Each room contains: bathroom with shower, hairdryer, bathrobes and slippers, perfumes for bathtubs, hygiene products, free high-speed Internet, tea and coffee making tray, Nespresso coffee machine, digital safe, cosmetic mirror, pillow menu, complementary water bottles, free entrance to Royal Wellness Club with pool, iron and ironing board (on request). Discreet classic style, high ceilings, Italian furniture, premium textiles, English bath cosmetics and modern technology - you will find here comfort, an excellent service, and a place for fruitful work
Moscow, Kutuzovsky Avenue, 2/1с1
Kiyevskaya Metro Station
Novotel Moscow City 4*
The middle-class hotel, which opened in the very heart of the business Moscow in the ultra-modern Moscow City complex, immediately gained immense popularity among business representatives. Numerous tourists who visit Moscow for educational purposes also show no less interest. Novotel Moscow City is surrounded by the magnificent skyscrapers of the Moscow City business center - the tallest buildings in Europe that have already become new sights of the capital.
The hotel provides:
Rooms with all amenities of various categories with a modern interior decorated in soft pastel colors;
International restaurant, banquet hall, lobby bar with fireplace;
24-hour reception, gym, spa, sauna, Turkish bath, massage room;
13 conference rooms with all necessary technical equipment.
Near the hotel there is the highest observation deck in Europe, located on the 89th floor of the Federation Tower, giving you the opportunity to enjoy stunning bird's-eye views of Moscow.
Moscow, Presnenskaya Embankment, 2
Mejdunarodnaya, Delovoy Tsentr Metro Station
Pekin 4*
The hotel is a building which is recognized as an architectural monument of "Stalinist Classicism", opened its doors in the late 1950s and symbolized the friendship between the USSR and China. Due to its favorable location in the center of Moscow, it has always enjoyed and continues to enjoy continued popularity among tourists and visitors. From the Beijing Hotel to Red Square with the Kremlin and the Bolshoi Theater is only about one kilometer.
The rooms in the hotel with all amenities are spacious, elegantly decorated in a classic style with antique elements.
Ticket office and ordering airport transfers directly at the 24-hour reception desk;
A spacious, stylishly decorated restaurant with pan-Asian and European cuisine, which hosts concerts of blues, jazz and rock music, DJs and discos every day;
Two well-equipped conference rooms for business meetings;
Gym and other infrastructure facilities.
Moscow, Bolshaya Sadovaya Street, 5к1
Mayakovskaya, Belorusskaya Metro Station
Prezident 4*
The hotel, conveniently located on the picturesque banks of the Moskva River, has been the venue for meetings of heads of state and various international forums of the highest level for many decades, which eloquently speaks of its prestige and impeccable reputation. The upper floors of the hotel offer stunning views of the central part of the capital.
The indisputable advantage of the hotel is the large rooms, their comfort, equipment, and after-sales service. All rooms are individually decorated.
Two fashionable restaurants of European and modern Russian cuisine, a 24-hour bar;
Sixteen individually designed and well-equipped halls for events of any format;
Wellness complex with swimming pool, gym and saunas.
The President Hotel offers its guests a corporate Capone to Tretyakov Gallery, which guarantees entry to the world-famous museum without waiting in line and free admission to all of its exhibits, as well as a number of other exclusive
Moscow, Bolshaya Yakimanka Street, 24
Polyanka, Oktyabrskaya Metro Station
Hotel Bega 4*
The Bega Hotel Moscow is well located next to the Moscow Hippodrome that stands in the heart of the city and is famous for its historical heritage. Our guests, especially those who are keen on horse racing, have the opportunity to watch competitions from the balconies of their rooms.
You can reach the Red Square in 15 minutes using public transport that goes directly from the Hotel. Guests can also take a direct bus to the historical center (Kitai-Gorod), where they can not only enjoy the views of the old churches and buildings of the last century, but also visit the Tretyakov Gallery, famous for its outstanding collection of world art.
How to get to the World Trade Center (Krasnopresnenskaya emb., 12). You can use the bus #T79 (passes every 10-15 minutes) that goes directly to the metro station Ulitsa 1905 goda (in 2-3 stops, about 10 minutes). From the metro station Ulitsa 1905 goda, you can reach Mantulinskaya Street (World Trade Center) by using the following buses: 12, 54, 18, and 66. Totally, it takes about 20-30 minutes to get to the World Trade Center from Bega Hotel Moscow.
Moscow, Begovaya Alley, 11
Metro Station: Begovaya, Dinamo
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Anita Anisimova
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Spoken from the Heart
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Spoken from the Heart is an encouraging and insightful look into a compassionate and memorable first lady. From growing up in Midland, TX to living under the media fishbowl of the White House, Laura Bush has showed the same grace, sensitivity and common sense. In this memoir, she shares her story, revealing much about her family history, past griefs and present joys.
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In this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and private first ladies, tells her own extraordinary story.
Born in the boom-and-bust oil town of Midland, Texas, Laura Welch grew up as an only child in a family that lost three babies to miscarriage or infant death. She vividly evokes Midland's brash, rugged culture, her close relationship with her father, and the bonds of early friendships that sustain her to this day. For the first time, in heart-wrenching detail, she writes about the devastating high school car accident that left her friend Mike Douglas dead and about her decades of unspoken grief.
When Laura Welch first left West Texas in 1964, she never imagined that her journey would lead her to the world stage and the White House. After graduating from Southern Methodist University in 1968, in the thick of student rebellions across the country and at the dawn of the women's movement, she became an elementary school teacher, working in inner-city schools, then trained to be a librarian. At age thirty, she met George W. Bush, whom she had last passed in the hallway in seventh grade. Three months later, "the old maid of Midland married Midland's most eligible bachelor." With rare intimacy and candor, Laura Bush writes about her early married life as she was thrust into one of America's most prominent political families, as well as her deep longing for children and her husband's decision to give up drinking. By 1993, she found herself in the full glare of the political spotlight. But just as her husband won the Texas governorship in a stunning upset victory, her father, Harold Welch, was dying in Midland.
In 2001, after one of the closest elections in American history, Laura Bush moved into the White House. Here she captures presidential life in the harrowing days and weeks after 9/11, when fighter-jet cover echoed through the walls and security scares sent the family to an underground shelter. She writes openly about the White House during wartime, the withering and relentless media spotlight, and the transformation of her role as she began to understand the power of the first lady. One of the first U.S. officials to visit war-torn Afghanistan, she also reached out to disease-stricken African nations and tirelessly advocated for women in the Middle East and dissidents in Burma. She championed programs to get kids out of gangs and to stop urban violence. And she was a major force in rebuilding Gulf Coast schools and libraries post-Katrina. Movingly, she writes of her visits with U.S. troops and their loved ones, and of her empathy for and immense gratitude to military families.
With deft humor and a sharp eye, Laura Bush lifts the curtain on what really happens inside the White House, from presidential finances to the 175-year-old tradition of separate bedrooms for presidents and their wives to the antics of some White House guests and even a few members of Congress. She writes with honesty and eloquence about her family, her public triumphs, and her personal tribulations. Laura Bush's compassion, her sense of humor, her grace, and her uncommon willingness to bare her heart make this story revelatory, beautifully rendered, and unlike any other first lady's memoir ever written.
Laura Bush was First Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009. She founded both the National Book Festival and the Texas Book Festival.
"Mrs. Bush's delicate rendering . . . sets this book far apart from the typical score-settling reminiscences of politicians or their spouses. . . . Spoken from the Heart reveals Laura Bush to be a beautiful writer, a keen observer and a tender soul who drew on her roots to live a life in the public eye with compassion and grace."—Wall Street Journal
"This is Laura Bush, unplugged. . . . She comes across with a keener eye, a sharper tongue and a readier laugh than in interviews during the eight years while her husband was president."—USA Today
"A deeply felt, keenly observed account of her childhood and youth in Texas—an account that captures a time and place with exacting emotional precision and that demonstrates how Mrs. Bush's lifelong love of books has imprinted her imagination."—New York Times
"Laura Bush writes as vividly of her upbringing in the bleak and unforgiving oil-patch towns of West Texas as Buzz Bissinger did in his classic Friday Night Lights."—Bloomberg
"Wide-ranging . . . candid . . . deeply personal. . . . A beautifully written book."—Ann Curry, NBC's "Today" Show
"A real, moving, intimate story."—People
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05/02/19--17:54: _Ryder Building
05/02/19--18:04: _Lyman Trumbull House
05/02/19--18:13: _Haskell Playhouse
05/02/19--18:20: _Scott Bibb and the ...
05/02/19--18:31: _Freedom's Martyr
05/02/19--18:49: _Elijah Parish Lovejoy
05/02/19--19:22: _Alton National Ceme...
05/02/19--19:33: _The Cost of Freedom
05/02/19--19:43: _How Do We Understan...
05/02/19--19:46: _A Fair Legacy: The ...
05/02/19--19:50: _Can the Past Tear U...
05/02/19--19:54: _What's the Value of...
05/02/19--19:58: _Where Do We Celebra...
05/02/19--20:01: _How Do We Support C...
05/02/19--20:10: _Follow the Missouri...
05/02/19--20:16: _Meet Me in St. Loui...
05/02/19--20:20: _Can Private Generos...
05/02/19--20:24: _How Do We Take Care...
05/02/19--17:54: Ryder Building
Alton, Illinois.
Lincoln made frequent legal and political trips to Alton putting him in the heart of Alton history. For nearly twenty-five years before becoming president, Lincoln was a general practice attorney, representing clients in a . . .
(Notable Buildings • Notable Persons • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
05/02/19--18:04: Lyman Trumbull House
The stately house down the block once housed the co-author of the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States. In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free—honorable alike in what we give . . .
(Abolition & Underground RR • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
05/02/19--18:13: Haskell Playhouse
This unique Queen Anne style playhouse was built in 1885 for five year old Lucy J. Haskell, daughter of Dr. William A. and Florence Hayner Haskell. It is believed Lucy's grandfather, John E. Hayner, commissioned prominent . . .
(Architecture • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
05/02/19--18:20: Scott Bibb and the Alton School Desegregation Case
Scott Bibb (1855-1909) was the plaintiff in the Alton School Case, a series of lawsuits that sought to retain Alton's desegregated schools, which had existed in Alton from 1872 to 1897, a short-lived outcome of the . . .
(African Americans • Civil Rights • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
05/02/19--18:31: Freedom's Martyr
Considered by many to be the first casualty of the Civil War, abolitionist editor and Presbyterian minister Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy was killed defending the freedom of the press. Editor of the St. Louis Observer, Lovejoy . . .
(Abolition & Underground RR • Civil Rights • Communications • Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
05/02/19--18:49: Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Elijah Parish Lovejoy (Nov. 9, 1802 - Nov. 7, 1837) was a newspaper editor, social reformer, and Presbyterian minister whose death at the hands of an angry mob at Alton, Illinois, made him an enduring symbol of the fight for . . .
(Abolition & Underground RR • Churches & Religion • Communications • Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
[South side] Editor Alton Observer Albion, Me., Nov. 8. 1802. Alton, Ill., Nov. 7, 1837. A Martyr to Liberty "I have sworn eternal opposition to slavery, and by the blessing of God I will never turn back." [East side:] . . .
05/02/19--19:22: Alton National Cemetery
Civil War Alton In spring, 1861, pro-Confederate militia in St. Louis, Missouri, threatened to capture the U.S. arsenal there. Union forces in Illinois commandeered the steamboat City of Alton, sailed south, and and at . . .
(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
05/02/19--19:33: The Cost of Freedom
More people died during the Civil War than during any other war in U.S. history. An estimated 200 Union soldiers are buried at the Alton Cemetery. More than three million fought in the Civil War. Two percent of the . . .
(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • War, US Civil • Waterways & Vessels) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
05/02/19--19:43: How Do We Understand the Past?
St. Louis, Missouri.
The excavation of six Indian mounds during preparations for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition reminded St. Louisans that others had occupied Forest Park's land long before the city itself came into being.
(Anthropology • Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
05/02/19--19:46: A Fair Legacy: The Art Museum
The Palace of Fine Arts was the only major pavilion at the 1904 World's Fair designed as a permanent structure. In 1907, St. Louis passed a tax to create the municipally supported City Art Museum.
(Arts, Letters, Music • Notable Events) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
05/02/19--19:50: Can the Past Tear Us Apart?
Forest Park's most controversial monument was the Confederate Memorial, unveiled in 1914. St. Louis had been torn apart by the Civil War, and many residents objected to a commemoration of the secessionist cause.
(Arts, Letters, Music • War, US Civil) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
05/02/19--19:54: What's the Value of Open Space?
At times, Forest Park's land has been valued for needs other than recreation. Both the 1936 Oakland Express Highway (today's I-64) and the 1959 Forest Park Expressway brought high speed traffic through the park.
(Parks & Recreational Areas • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
05/02/19--19:58: Where Do We Celebrate Our Rights?
Each summer, the Heartland Disability Rights March and Rally passes through Forest Park. This rally—the largest of its kind in the nation—commemorates the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990.
(Civil Rights • Notable Events • Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
05/02/19--20:01: How Do We Support Culture?
Citizens of St. Louis City and County created joint taxing districts for the support of the Art Museum, Zoo, and the Museum of Science in 1971. In the 1980s, voters created new tax districts for the Botanical Garden and History Museum.
(Arts, Letters, Music • Parks & Recreational Areas • Political Subdivisions) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
05/02/19--20:10: Follow the Missouri History Museum
The Missouri History Museum, originally built as the first national monument to Thomas Jefferson, engages visitors in the exciting history of St. Louis from its founding in 1764 up to the present day. Visitors of any age can . . .
(Colonial Era • Notable Buildings • Notable Events • Notable Persons) Includes complete text, location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
05/02/19--20:16: Meet Me in St. Louis, Louie!
Since the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Forest Park has been a St. Louis treasure and top tourist destination. Known as the crown jewel of the Midwest, 13 million people visit the the 1,300-acre park each year. The park . . .
(Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment • Parks & Recreational Areas • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
05/02/19--20:20: Can Private Generosity Serve Public Good?
The Steinberg Memorial Skating Rink, built in 1957 was the result of the largest private donation made in the park up to that time. Today, Forest Park Forever established in 1986 raises private funds for park improvements.
(Charity & Public Work • Sports) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
05/02/19--20:24: How Do We Take Care of One Another?
In 1919, the Red Cross and the City Parks Department opened a vacation village for families who could not afford to leave town on vacation. The village offered tents, playgrounds, a mess hall, and a first aid station.
(Parks & Recreational Areas) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.
05/02/19--20:27: A Fair Legacy: The Jefferson Memorial
The Jefferson Memorial home of the Missouri Historical Society stands on the site of the main entrance of the 1904 World's Fair. Constructed with funds from the fair, the building was the nation's first monument to Thomas Jefferson.
(Notable Buildings) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.


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Krzysztof Wodiczko
Thursday, April 26, 10:00 PM
400 South Peoria Street
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Krzysztof Wodiczko (born 1943) has created more than seventy large-scale slide and video projections of politically charged images on architectural fa ades and monuments worldwide. In 1996, he added sound and motion to the projections, and began to collaborate with communities around chosen projection sites giving voice to the concerns of heretofore marginalized and silent citizens who live in the monuments shadows. Wodiczko challenges the silent, stark monumentality of buildings, activating them in an examination of notions of human rights, democracy, and truths about the violence, alienation, and inhumanity that underlie countless aspects of social interaction in present-day society. Wodiczko has also developed instruments to facilitate survival, communication, and healing for homeless people and immigrants; these therapeutic devices address physical disability as well as economic hardship, emotional trauma, and psychological distress.
Wodiczko was born in Warsaw, Poland, and lives and works in New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts. He currently heads the Interrogative Design Group, and is Director of the Center for Art, Culture, and Technology, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work has appeared in many international exhibitions, including the Bienal de S o Paulo (1965, 1967, 1985); Documenta (1977, 1987); the Venice Biennale (1986, 2000); and the Whitney Biennial (2000). Wodiczko received the 1999 Hiroshima Art Prize for his contribution as an artist to world peace, and the 2004 College Art Association Award for Distinguished Body of Work.
A reception will follow the lecture.
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A pair of sailfin mollies, one of the species the Amazon molly exploits to reproduce.
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Hacking Sex – The Odd Lives of Sexual Parasites
ByRiley Black
Female Amazon mollies need to mate with a male to reproduce. On the face of it, that's not a terribly surprising statement – it's on par with "Humans breathe air." But the tricky secret of these strange fish lies in the details.
Amazon mollies, technically known as Poecilia formosa, are a hybrid species composed entirely of females. Sometime around 280,000 years ago, in a river or stream geneticists have pinned rather specifically to the vicinity of Tampico, Mexico, a pairing of a sailfin molly (Poecilia latipinna) and an Atlantic molly (Poecilia mexicana) resulted in a new fish lineage that has since relied on males of both those ancestral species to mate. And here's where things get weird. The piscine male mates usually don't contribute any genes to the Amazon molly offspring. Amazon mollies require sperm to kickstart the development of their embryos, which are genetic clones of their mother, but the male's genetic contribution is totally wiped out. Amazon mollies are sexual parasites.
The phrase "sexual parasite" might conjure up memories of unpleasant exes, or the irritating hitchhikers that rely on intimate liaisons to jump ship between hosts, but the term truly signifies unusual, ephemeral species that exploit other individuals to propagate their own genetic legacy. Beyond that basic principle, though, the details of sexual parasites are a bit squishy. In species with distinct males and females, there can be sexual parasites of either sex. Whereas Amazon mollies block the genetic contribution of males after mating, males of some ant species – such as the longhorn crazy ant – are capable of leaving behind genetic clones of themselves by fertilizing eggs that would otherwise hatch as females. But there are hermaphroditic sexual parasites, too, including some planarian flatworms and Tassili cypress trees. So far, researchers have identified about thirty genera of sexual parasites, belonging to eight phyla. There may very well be more as-yet-undiscovered examples.
Sexual parasites are able to take advantage of other individuals, whether belonging to the same species or a closely-related one, by one of two strategies. In some cases, the reproductive trick is immediate. Either the egg of the parasitic species discards the genetic material in sperm (except in cases of the awkwardly-termed "paternal leakage"), or, in the case of male sexual parasites, the genetic material inside sperm hack a female's eggs so that only the male's genes are passed down. For some organisms, though, sexual parasitism takes a slightly more circuitous route called hybridogenesis. In this process, egg and sperm actually fuse, and the resulting offspring has genes from both parents. But through subsequent cellular processes, the genes of the host parent are discarded, leaving only the parasite's genes to subsequently be passed down. For victims of sexual parasitism, when genetic unfairness kicks in is only a matter of time.
Despite being successful evolutionary tricksters, though, sexual parasites are typically short-lived species that evolve either from hybridization or mutations to processes such as cell division and sperm generation. Rather than having deep histories, Australian National University biologist Jussi Lehtonen and colleagues argue in a new Trends in Ecology and Evolution review, sexual parasites are "scattered across the tips of the tree of life." That's because ill-gotten reproductive benefits accrue major costs over time. Lineages of clones rack up harmful mutations, which may make sexual parasites more susceptible to disease and abnormalities in a "mutational meltdown." And, among species in which individuals are male or female, the success of sexual parasites might deplete the pool of the hosts required to keep the reproductive cycle going. How these costs and benefits are balanced through the economics of sneaky sex isn't totally clear, although some sexual parasites have become intertwined with their hosts in unusual ways.
The basic outline of the Amazon molly's behavior would seem to reflect a fish that is conning male mollies out of their reproductive legacy. But the picture isn't actually that simple. The Amazon molly plays an unusual role in even normal reproduction of the host molly species.
Experiments involving male mollies, females of their species, and Amazon mollies have found a distinct "audience effect" – male mollies seen in the company of Amazon mollies were found to be more attractive to females of their own species. Male mollies may even use Amazon mollies to trick competing males. Given a choice between a receptive Amazon molly and a molly of their own species, male mollies prefer their own kind. But if another male is watching, the choosy male will often pick the Amazon molly first. Could this be an example of the choosy male trying to throw his competitor off the trail, therefore having more time to then mate with a female that will actually pass along his genes? That's difficult to say. Nevertheless, despite the minor costs of males mating with sexual parasites, being seen around Amazon mollies may actually have reproductive benefits for male fish.
Sexual parasites are organisms betwixt and between the extremes and sexual and asexual reproduction. By combining aspects of both, the organisms play into the ongoing arithmetic of evolution in which cost and benefit is ultimately judged by how long your genetic lineage lasts. And even though sexual parasites might be characterized as "selfish" organisms, their hosts are not simply left to be cheated out of their reproductive legacy. Sexual parasites change the behavior of their hosts, spurring a wandering evolutionary unfolding from one generation to the next. Still, I can't help but think that it's fortunate that our species isn't involved in the confusing and complicated dance of sexual parasitism.
Fischer, C., Schlupp, I. 2010. Feeding rates in the sailfin molly Poecilia latipinna and its coexisting sexual parasite, the gynogenetic Amazon molly Poecilia formosaFeeding rates in the sailfin molly Poecilia latipinna and its coexisting sexual parasite, the gynogenetic Amazon molly Poecilia formosaFeeding rates in the sailfin molly Poecilia latipinna and its coexisting sexual parasite, the gynogenetic Amazon molly Poecilia formosaFeeding rates in the sailfin molly Poecilia latipinna and its coexisting sexual parasite, the gynogenetic Amazon molly Poecilia formosa. Journal of Fish Biology. 77: 285-291
Lehtonen, J., Schmidt, D., Beubel, K., Kokko, H. 2013. Evolutionary and ecological implications of sexual parasitism. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. (In Press)
Schlupp, I. 2010. Mate choice and the Amazon molly: How sexuality and unisexuality can coexist. Journal of Heredity. 101 (Supplement 1): S55-S61


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The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E.
The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E. (HFME) is fighting for the recognition of M.E.,
and for patients to be accorded the same basic human rights as those with similar
disabling and potentially fatal neurological diseases such as M.S.
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NEW WEBSITE: Note that the The Committee for Justice and Recognition of M.E. website has moved, click here to view the new site. All links to papers by this group on the HFME site will be updated soon. At this pont however only the links on this page link to the new CJRME website.
Articles by the Committee for Justice and Recognition of M.E.
The Committee for Justice and Recognition of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
The Committee is an international patient based association dedicated to promoting Justice for the victims of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis; and we are dedicated to achieve the full public Recognition of the dangers of this worldwide disease epidemic. We will demand that the national health agencies of all governments admit that Myalgic Encephalomyelitis is a serious disease and an increasing worldwide health disaster.
Toward that end The Committee will disclose the truth about the disease and history of myalgic encephalomyelitis. We will present the medical facts about ME, and examine the politics and motivations that have led to the public health agencies' mismanagement of, and dishonest response to this disease epidemic.
Worldwide Epidemic/Over 1 Million in U.S. Atypical Polio, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Gulf War Syndrome Vaccines and Toxic Chemicals Government Agencies Obscuring the Evidence
We are here today, because a widespread epidemic of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis has descended upon this country. In less than twenty years time there are now over 1 million victims in the US alone and millions more worldwide. We are here because the national health agencies have not addressed this danger to the public health nor sought to find the cause or remedies for the suffering.
We are here to inform the public that the national health agency policies are subjecting patients to a systematic denial of medical services and are maintaining doctors all across this country ignorant about this disease. These health agency policies have ensured that the cause of this disease is not discovered. These policies impact the health of thousands already disabled by ME and continue to place everyone at risk.
A principal issue must not be overlooked: Why has ME, which has an historical relationship to Polio, exploded into a worldwide epidemic, and what is the inordinate fear of the DHHS to recognize this and discover its cause?
A Public Statement to Government Health Ministers and an ALERT to citizens worldwide
Just twenty years ago an Epidemic of the infectious neurologic disease Atypical Polio began to skyrocket like never before and the Government agencies have been covering it up ever since. Thousands have died and millions are now disabled.
ME and CFS, The Definitions
No CFS definition defines a neurological disease. All definitions which wear the 'f' word (ie. fatigue) in their name are not ME nor neurological. They are definitions of fatigue conditions. And when these definitions were written it was not neurological ME which they were attempting to define.
Recent Epidemics: Why are the Epidemics so important
The very alarming and most disturbing aspect of this disease is that amid this epidemic explosion of disease, the national public health agencies failed to act, and ignored the pleas from doctors in affected communities. In the USA, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at first ignored the reports, then without any need for evidence immediately declared that there were no outbreaks, then acted to delay any investigation. Subsequently the CDC responded by obscuring the evidence, and confusing the medical community and the public regarding the nature, history and identity of this disease.
This unnatural response became formal policy in 1988 when the CDC controlled panel renamed this disease CFS, over the vehement objections of the experienced medical specialists, who advised that what was being observed was a widespread reemergence of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. In effect a group of government employees invented Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and disregarded the medical experts. Pursuant to this policy to conceal the identity of ME, medical journals were encouraged to never again publish reports about Myalgic Encephalomyelitis but only articles that discussed fatigue.
Much of this history suggests that the CDC knew something that the medical community did not. Rather than investigating this epidemic, the CDC appears to be acting to cover it up, with a clear disregard for the consequences, the many fatalities and the huge numbers of disabled citizens.
A Landmark in ME History
A New Clinical Entity ? THE LANCET. LONDON : SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1956
The Neurology of ME
How Serious is ME
The complete answer to this question is clearly important and not yet fully established. However the families of patients that have succumb to this disease may hold a different opinion. These few brief reports on this page will help demonstrate the diverse course and consequence of infection with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. ME has a variety of manifestations and outcomes, some patients improve but many more follow a chronic trajectory. Lifelong disability is common.
The full range of symptoms and consequences of ME are too numerous to fully discuss here, however the most dangerous can be described as related to three factors. Infection of the brain, Metabolic changes and Immune dysfunction.
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This is my paternal grandfather, Farkas Vilmos Molnar, in Budapest in 1927. My paternal grandfather was born in 1869 in Veszprem as Volf Vilmos Weisz. I don't know much about my grandfather's youth. I only know from the documents that between 1884 and 1887 he was an apprentice of Ignac Kohn, baker and confectioner master in Papa, and in the meantime he went to the industrial school in Papa. Then he served in the Hungarian Royal 17-infantry regiment as a soldier for twelve years and three months, and because he served 'fairly,' he was entitled to wear the 'jubilee medallion.' This is written in his demobilization papers he got from the military in 1911. In World War I he wasn't called up for military service anymore. In 1896 he magyarized his name to Farkas Vilmos Molnar. He got married to my grandmother Roza Molnar, nee Polnauer, in 1897, and at that time he already lived in Budapest. According to the marriage certificate he was a baker's apprentice. One year after they got married, my father, Miklos Molnar, was born, and three years later my Aunt Margit. Though my grandfather had learned confectionery, too, he was mainly a baker. He was a stubby, robust, very strong man, and he loved the girls. It seems that the situation in Hungary must have been very bad; he didn't have a job, so in 1901 he immigrated to New York. I have found the money-orders with which he sent home sometimes 5, sometimes 10 dollars from New York, which was a big amount at that time. He was there for two years. He was in New York throughout and he worked as a baker. Then he was homesick and came back. After he came back from America, he worked as a baker. They had a small shop on Vorosmarty Street for quite a long time and at the beginning of the 1930s or perhaps already at the end of the 1920s, I don't know exactly when, they opened the shop 'Vilmos Molnar and Co.' on Thokoly Street. The sign read 'MOLNAR SWEET-SHOP CANDY.' The associates were my father and my father's brother-in-law, Janos Rona. The shop functioned so that they bought the goods from candy-makers and passed them on to retailers. The business prospered, and later they opened another shop on Thokoly Street no. 8, too. They opened the wholesale section in the courtyard of Thokoly Street no. 14, and as a matter of fact that was the big business, which made them prosperous, not the two shops.
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The Indian subcontinent is a potpourri of history, art, religion, culture, customs and traditions. Tourists to India are enchanted and exhilarated by its distinct beauty, charm and ethnicity. It is the only place in the world where in a relatively short span of time you can indulge in a wildlife safari, relax idly cruising in the backwaters, gaze relentlessly at the Taj Mahal, have a close encounter with the culture and history of this subcontinent and still spare a few moments to laze around on a beach destination. So, hail India!
A walk in the wilderness. - Have you ever tried to spot a tiger in its natural form in a sanctuary or seen a Bulbul feeding its young ones, an elephant playing incessantly with the waters of the lake with its comrades or a Rhino snarling quietly amidst the tall grass? If you haven't then you must visit this part of the country rich in varied species of flora and fauna.
Embark on a jungle safari or an Elephant safari to witness the wild beauty in its natural splendor and glory. Whether it is the rare hard ground Barasingha or the ferocious tigers, the Safari tour of Kanha National Park, one of the most famous tiger reserves of Madhya Pradesh will be full of excitement and fun. Along with Kanha, Bandhavgarh National Park also promises to take one on a safari tour where you can easily spot a tiger during the day. Apart from this, if you are a wild life aficionado you must not miss travelling to Kaziranga national park, the land of the Rhinos or Periyar National park, the land of elephants.
Travelling by trains in India will enable you to take a glimpse of the rich cultural and geographical diversity across various states. Indian Railways spread over an area of 63,000 Kms and 6,909 stations is the fourth largest in the world. What better way to explore the renowned places of India than to travel in luxurious trains amidst much enthusiasm and thrill!
The Palace-on-wheels has been rated as one of the ten best luxurious rail journeys in the world. Other than this, there are two other luxury trains viz; the Royal Rajasthan on wheels and the Golden Chariot with state-of-the-art amenities thus offering an elating experience to its passengers. While the former offers you an opportunity to emulate the royalty of erstwhile kings of the north, the latter is a splendid choice that encompasses a journey to the South Indian states in luxury.
India has an ancient history dating back to 5,000 years old where 3678 monuments have been protected by Archeological Survey of India. Of these, 29 of them have been declared as World Heritage Sites.
The Taj Mahal to begin with is one of the most extravagant pieces of art and symbolizes eternal love of a king for his beloved queen. About 20,000 artisans labored hard for a span of 22 years to build this splendid monument.
The next inexplicable group of monuments to illustrate is in Khajuraho. The magnificent edifices in Khajuraho built during A.D. 950-1050 uphold the artistic splendor of India as its 22 staggering shrines make Khajuraho a popular city of India. These shrines are decorated with sensuous images.
Peregrinate around Ajanta and Ellora caves which resonate with the stories of Buddha depicted in the paintings.
Agra fort is yet another fathomless piece of Mughal architecture which depicts strength, valor and magnanimity in its full glory.
Explore the enchanting places of New Delhi by visiting Humayun's tomb, the first garden tomb in India which was designed according to Persian style of architecture. Visit the magnificent Qutab Minar, a 73 m-high tower of victory.
India, known as the land of religions astonishes any visitor because of its rich religious diversity. From Amarnath in the North to the Temple tours in the South, this pilgrimage tour showcases a wide range of religious practices and rituals performed by the holy people of the respective regions. Here, the River Ganges is worshipped as the mother and the devout people throng at the Ghats of Varanasi and Haridwar to bathe in the sacred waters of this holy river and wash their sins of the past.
Men and women are found holding their palms together in obeisance at the footsteps of the Golden temple in Amritsar. The famous old churches of Goa such as the St. Francis Church are visited by teeming millions of people irrespective of their caste or creed. Thus this holy land provides a host of pilgrimage opportunities to its inquisitive travelers.
The true essence of many religions has been formulated in the forms of pious monuments, temples and shrines which have enamored the global travelers since time immemorial.
The correct practice of Yoga provides a healthy development of body, mind and soul. Yoga can revitalize your inner being thus helping you to face any adverse situations with confidence and vigor. Rishikesh, the Yoga Capital of the World can help you understand the nitty gritty's of Yoga right from scratch.
Listen from the horse's mouth what the veterans have to say about effective practice of Yoga. Haridwar is yet another place where this ancient science is preached in full swing. And last but not the least, the Bihar School of Yoga in Munger helps one to imbibe a particular lifestyle pertaining to Yoga and meditation.
India's beaches are the most happening ones in the world. You can bask in the sun in solitude in Mandrem beach or Agonda beach in North Goa or have a blast at the party beaches in Baga beach also in Goa. Varkala beach in Kerala or Gokrana beach in Karnataka are yet another pristine beaches which will help you to immerse yourself in its bosom. Experience the call of nature amidst the scintillating waves of azure sea and get bewildered by its bewitching beauty.
Unravel the healing power of Ayurveda, the world's most ancient system of medicine which believes in natural cure of patients. The rejuvenation therapies of Ayurveda detoxifies the body and re-nutrifies it with essential minerals. The massage applied by the highly skilled masseurs help in toning the skin thus making it soft, smooth and silky.
Whether it means indulging in spa therapies in Somatheeram resort or Kairali Ayurvedic health resort in Kerala, the treatment provided to its tourists is worth the price you pay. Revive your mind, body and soul at any of the Ayurvedic centres in Kerala and get invigorated instantly.
The backwaters imply a concoction of lagoons, rivers, lakes and canals that traverse from the shores of Kerala from Cochin to Kollam. Take a glimpse at the verdant coconut and palm lined landscape, varied wildlife and vivid happenings of the village life that line the backwaters by embarking on a houseboat traditionally known as 'Kettuvalam' and get enamored by its virgin beauty.
Traditionally cooked South Indian cuisines and chilled beer served on board will definitely be an icing on the cake. Travel on a houseboat from Alleppey to any destination of your choice even on a shoestring budget and make the most of it. Or savor the beauty of Cochin by hiring a houseboat and getting a first- hand experience of city life prevalent at the surrounding regions of backwaters.
India is a mélange of various ethnic cultures. The culture of India which is 5,000 years old encompasses diverse languages, varieties of Indian cuisines, innumerable religious practices and multitude of fairs and festivals. Each region has its own distinct language to be spoken. While Hindi and English are the predominant national languages prevalent in the country, there are about 22 official languages and 400 regional languages spoken in different parts of the country.
As far as food is concerned culinary practices varies from one region to the other. The magnanimous use of herbs and spices will definitely turn you into a food connoisseur. Wheat, rice and pulses form a staple diet of Indians. Different varieties of curries add flavor to their dietary regime. The curries are seasoned with spices like cardamom, cinnamon, dried hot peppers, turmeric etc. thus making your food delectable in taste and kind. Religious practices to talk about, is ingrained deep in the culture of all people. India being the birthplace of Hinduism and Buddhism is held in reverence by the people across the world.
About 84% of the people who are classified as Hindus perform idol worship in temples where as 13% of the people that are classified as Muslims offer their prayers in mosques. Christians, Sikhs and Jains make up for the rest and are relatively small in number. And last but not the least, fairs and festivals are celebrated in every corner of this subcontinent with great pomp and show. There are camel fair as in Pushkar, religious fair as the Kumbh Mela, seasonal fair like Surajkund Mela and a range of colourful festivals like Holi, Deepawali, Ganesh Chaturthi etc.
Fairs and Festivals form an important part of the itinerary of the tourists who make it a point to witness at least some of them during their travel. In a nutshell, unity in diversity is the age old adage used for Indian Culture. Distinct geographical divisions, religions, rulers and eras together fashion a brilliant cultural medley.
Come to India on an invigorating journey and witness the timeless beauty and enlivening spirit of this land which is both intoxicating and mesmerizing. Travel to a country whose bustling streets of the cities rub shoulders with the placid backwaters and cool breezes of the beach resorts. The magic of this subcontinent will truly win your hearts and would compel you to visit it again and again.


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Farmers march towards Delhi, demanding increase in MSP
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A group of farmers has commenced their long-march towards the capital of the country, Delhi, demanding an increase in the Minimum Support Prices of crops and many other demands connected to their day to day life.
The march of the group is led by an independent farmers organisation, the Rashtriya Kisan Yatra.
The farmers march has reached Noida, the city situated close to the national capital region of Delhi.
The arrival of the group has created serious traffic disturbance in the city. The Noida police have talked with the leaders of the group. They have asked the group to disperse peacefully after submitting the memorandum they have brought along with them to present to a representative of the government.
The Delhi police are closely monitoring the development. They are in close contact with their counter parts in Noida. They have asked the farmer not to bring their tractors inside the city of Delhi.
The leaders of the group have shown willingness to talk to the representative of the government.
In their memorandum, there are mainly 21 demands. The most serious among them are the demand for the increase in the MSP for crops and the demand for the decrease in the price of electricity and diesel.
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D.J. Shoffstall, Staff Writer
While the Pitt-Johnstown Campus Commons apartment buildings have not been sold as some have said, they could get some company.
Commons owner Rex McQuaide said he plans to erect buildings on both sides of the apartments when the economy gets better.
"First, I want to build a commercial complex on the right side of the Commons," he said. "It's going to look something like a smaller version of Pittsburgh's Waterfront complex, with stores and office space."
Junior Kirsten Bell said a commercial complex would be good next to the Commons if it had places to get food, but admitted she wouldn't be happy about the early morning construction next to her apartment.
There is a landscaping project underway on one side of the apartments, but McQuaide said that has nothing to do with his eventual plans.
"The landscaping is going on at the township's request because the ground there looks like the surface of the moon, with all the large holes in it, and they wanted me to even it out."
Richland Township zoning and codes secretary Carol Ieni said it is McQuaide's duty to maintain the property.
"It's his property and he was told by us to put up a silt fence along Schoolhouse Road to keep the soil from spilling out onto the street. Flattening the ground out helps keep the soil together."
McQuaide added that even though improvement is being done now, he will not be planting grass in the dirt because of his plans to build on the lot.
On one side of the Commons, McQuaide said he wants to build more campus apartments, but he said there are some things that have to happen first.
"The last few years the Commons haven't filled up, and I don't want to start building more unless I know there is a demand for more housing."
McQuaide said the one major thing he did to get students to want to live there is change the leasing agreement for their benefit. Instead of paying all of the bills separately like they had to in the past, he made it so it's all included in the rent payment.
Senior Shannon Deely said it's easier to pay the bills now, and, for returning students, they still have the option to pay everything separately if they want to.
McQuaide did not dismiss the chance of selling the Commons to someone if they wanted to buy them for the right price, but said no one has come to him about buying them yet.
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Discussion of the bioethics of human stem cell research has transitioned from controversies over the source of human embryonic stem cells to concerns about the ethical use of stem cells in basic and clinical research. Key areas in this evolving ethical discourse include the derivation and use of another human embryonic stem cell–like stem cells that have the capacity to differentiate into all types of human tissue and the use of all types of stem cells in clinical research. Each of these issues is discussed as I summarize the past, present, and future bioethical issues in stem cell research. The main bioethical issues associated with human stem cells involve their derivation and use for research. Although there are interesting ethical issues surrounding the collection and use of somatic (adult) stem cells from aborted fetuses and umbilical cord blood, the most intense controversy to date has focused on the source of human embryonic stem (hES) cells. At present, new ethical issues are beginning to emerge around the derivation and use of other hES cell-like stem cells that have the capacity to differentiate into all types of human tissue. In the near future, as the stem cell field progresses closer to the clinic, additional ethical issues are likely to arise concerning the clinical translation of basic stem cell knowledge into reasonably safe, effective, and accessible patient therapies. This Review summarizes these and other bioethical issues of the past, present, and future of stem cell research.
hubristic quest for regenerative immortality . While public concerns such as these about science and its implications are not in themselves new, hES cell research offered the opportunity for all of these inchoate worries to coalesce around a single, new scientific field.
made to not implant these excess fertility clinic embryos in a woman's uterus. And unless this essential step is taken, the potential of a preimplantation embryo for full human life exists only in the most abstract and hypothetical sense .
Despite this diversity of religious and philosophical views, it is well known that, over the past eight years, the Bush administration took an embryo protectionist position. It consequently put in place legislature, in the form of an executive order, that restricted federal funding for hES cell research to just those hES cell lines that were in existence on August 9, 2001. Scientists were quick to point out that the hES cell lines on the federal registry were insufficient to support the full range of stem cell research since they lacked genetic diversity, were beginning to accrue genetic mutations and had been grown on mouse feeder layers (which introduce the threat of animal viruses). Scientists, therefore, believed that hES cell lines other than those on the federal registry would have to be studied. Other sources of hES cell research funding, notably state funding initiatives such as those in California, New York, and Massachusetts, began to emerge to help fill the void left by the Bush policy.
cells obtained from dedifferentiated somatic cells. Each of these approaches sought to generate the a functional equivalent of hES cells derived from living blastocyst-stage embryos — pluripotent human stem cells that are genetically stable and long-lived.
Two studies [5, 6] published soon thereafter in Nature pursued two of the President's Council's suggested alternative stem cell sources — live embryo biopsy and bioengineered embryo-like artifacts. In one of these studies , Robert Lanza and colleagues succeeded in deriving mouse embryonic stem cells from single blastomeres separated from eight-cell-stage mouse embryos. Since this technique sought to preserve the ability of the donor to implant and develop to birth, it theoretically could allow for the banking of autologous hES cell lines for children born from biopsied ex-corporeal embryos. In the other study , Alexander Meissner and Rudolf Jaenisch developed in mice a variation of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), a technique whereby the DNA of an unfertilized egg is replaced by the DNA of a somatic cell, by blocking the action of a gene (caudal type homeobox 2 [Cdx2]) that enables the developing embryo to implant into the uterus. By introducing this genetic defect in mouse somatic cells prior to nuclear transfer, they created cloned mouse embryos that generated pluripotent stem cells just before arresting developmentally.
This latter study was an early experimental realization of a concept called altered nuclear transfer (ANT), an idea that William Hurlbut had previously proposed to the President's Council . Research with mouse embryos carrying a mutation in the Cdx2 gene showed that these embryos failed to form a trophectoderm and thus died at the blastocyst stage, but not before giving rise to mouse embryonic stem cells . Extrapolating from this mouse study, Hurlbut reasoned that a CDX2 genetic mutation introduced into a human somatic cell prior to nuclear transfer might produce a blastocyst that could produce human pluripotent stem cells but lacked the biologic potential to develop into a complete human being . Hurlbut suggested that these possible ANT products should be viewed as complex tissue cultures (i.e., bioengineered embryo-like artifacts) rather than viable human embryos because of their limited cellular systems. Leon Kass, then chair of the President's Council and a vehement opponent of hES cell research, viewed Hurlbut's proposal as an ethically attractive alternative .
Unfortunately, there were many uncertainties surrounding ANT as a possible source for human pluripotent stem cells. In the conclusion of their study , Meissner and Jaenisch acknowledged that it was unknown whether CDX2-deficient human embryos would behave just like their mouse embryo counterparts, yielding pluripotent human stem cells just before arresting at the late blastocyst stage. And even if ANT were capable of generating human pluripotent stem cells, they noted that the additional manipulation of the donor cells to eliminate CDX2 would complicate both the production and safety assessment of patient-specific stem cell lines. These scientific uncertainties called attention to the fact that ANT was motivated chiefly by political, not biomedical, utility. As George Daley and other stem cell scientists pointed out , determining whether ANT was feasible, efficient, and effective for research and clinical applications in humans would require significant amounts of time-consuming research and a considerable diversion of resources that could be used toward known methods for deriving hES cells.
There were also significant legal and practical challenges facing both ANT and live embryo biopsy. For instance, James Battey, then chair of the NIH Stem Cell Task Force, pointed out that these alternatives would require human embryo research at some point, either by involving live human embryo biopsy or the creation of human ANT embryos. As a result, the human equivalents of the two mouse studies just described would not be NIH-fundable under the Dickey-Wicker Amendment — a rider attached to a bill signed into law by President Clinton that prohibits federal funding for research that directly involves harm to embryos, including the derivation of new hES cell lines — which remains federal law today . Moreover, some observers at the time advanced the practical point that, with regard to live embryo biopsy for stem cell research, couples who want to support stem cell science may prefer to donate the embryos remaining after their course of in vitro fertilization (IVF) rather than consenting to "nondestructive" biopsies on those precious few embryos they plan to have implanted .
With the alternative strategies suggested by the President's Council for moving stem cell science forward stalled at the starting gate, and with limited federal funding for hES cell research, it was left to individual states and philanthropic organizations to rally behind stem cell progress for the duration of President Bush's tenure in office.
While the controversy over embryo destruction remains far from settled, two recent developments have helped reduce much of the heat behind the public debate over hES cell research. The first is the advent of human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells — dermal fibroblasts genetically engineered to behave like hES cells. The second is the far friendlier stance of the Obama administration toward hES cell research. At present, the main bioethical considerations tend to lean more toward how stem cell research ought to be conducted, rather than whether it ought to be conducted.
The iPS cell technique was pioneered in 2006 by Kazutoshi Takahashi and Shinya Yamanaka, in Kyoto, Japan . Using retroviruses to insert four stem cell-associated genes (Octamer ¾ [Oct3/4], SRY-box containing gene 2 [Sox2], Myc, and Kruppel-like factor 4 (gut) [Klf4]) into mouse dermal fibroblasts, they showed that these ordinary cells could be reprogrammed to behave like mouse embryonic stem cells and termed these reprogrammed cells induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) . Later, Yamanaka's laboratory and an independent team of researchers were both able to show that human iPS cells could be created and that they behaved very much like hES cells [13, 14].
Predictably, opponents of hES cell research heralded the iPS cell revolution as marking the end of embryonic stem cells. However, most stem cell scientists do not believe that iPS cells (or indeed any other "alternative source" of stem cells) can obviate the need for ongoing hES cell research . For one thing, hES cells must be used as controls to assess the behavior and full scientific potential of iPS cells. In order to carry out these comparisons at the highest levels, scientists' knowledge of hES cells must continue to move forward. Furthermore, iPS cells may not be able to answer important questions about early human development; hES cells would have to be used in these studies instead. In addition, safety is a major issue for iPS cell research aimed at clinical applications, since the methods used in the process of generating iPS cells could cause harmful mutations later in the resulting cells. In light of these and other concerns, iPS cells may perhaps prove to be most useful in their potential to expand our overall understanding of stem cell biology, the net effect of which will provide the best hope of discovering new therapies for patients. The relative ease with which new iPS cell lines can be derived means that new entrants into the stem cell field are now likely to emerge. However, while iPS cells do not require the use and manipulation of donated human embryos for their derivation, it would be a mistake to conclude that iPS cell researchers are free of their own set of ethical concerns. Unlike hES cells, iPS cells can be derived from the somatic tissues of a wide variety of living donors. Therefore, the prospect of having an iPS cell line derived from a living donor entails that familiar ethical issues come into play regarding, for example, the re-contacting and tracking of donors, what to do with incidental findings that may impact a living donor's health, and the extent and scope of donors' reach-through rights to the downstream research uses and commercial benefits of their genetically matched iPS cell lines [16, 17]. The intersection of iPS cell research and these ongoing ethical questions in genetic and tissue research has yet to be fully explored . So, rather than avoiding ethical controversy altogether, researchers working with iPS cells will be effectively trading one set of ethical concerns for another.
Despite becoming connected to ongoing controversies in the biomedical sciences, the stem cell research field in the United States as a whole is likely to become much more active than it has ever been with the arrival of iPS cells and with expanded federal funding for hES cell research under the Obama administration. Perhaps the most important applications of stem cell research today lie in the areas of disease research and targeted drug development. By deriving and studying stem cells that are genetically matched to diseases such as Parkinson disease and juvenile diabetes, researchers hope to map out the developmental course of complex medical conditions to understand how, when, and why diseased specialized cells fail to function properly in patients. Such "disease-in-a-dish" model systems would provide researchers with a powerful new way to study genetic diseases not possible through animal research alone or by observing patients. Furthermore, researchers can aggressively test the safety and efficacy of new, targeted drug interventions on tissue cultures of living human cells derived from disease-specific hES cells and iPS cells, thus reducing the risks associated with research on human subjects.
To date, stem cell scientists have succeeded in producing a few disease-specific hES cell lines using unwanted fertility clinic embryos that had tested positive for serious genetic diseases, such as cystic fibrosis and fragile X syndrome [19, 20]. However, no embryo genetic screening methods exist for complex diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease) and Alzheimer disease; thus scientists have been using, with great success, the iPS cell a technique to create disease-specific stem cell lines for these and many other diseases they wish to study .
Massachusetts and is not recommended by the National Academy of Sciences' Guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research . The chief concern has been that compensation would undermine a woman's voluntary choice by creating an undue inducement to undergo hormonal induction to provide eggs for research . Bucking this trend, however, the State of New York has recently announced that it will allow donor compensation for providing eggs for research commensurate with what women typically earn for providing their eggs for infertility treatment. Varying state and national stem cell research funding policies threaten to complicate attempts by researchers to collaborate across research locales, both nationally and internationally. For example, in the United States, the individual states have dramatically differing policies regarding the derivation and use of new hES cell lines, including divergent policies on the procurement of gametes, embryos, and other cells from donors . Some countries, such as Germany and Italy, permit hES cell research only with imported lines and prohibit the derivation of new hES cell lines from excess IVF embryos and SCNT. Other countries, such as Canada and Denmark, permit hES cell research and the derivation of new hES cell lines from donated IVF embryos but prohibit SCNT. Many other nations have no explicit laws governing hES cell research . Efforts to harmonize disparate standards have been undertaken by groups such as the Interstate Alliance on Stem Cell Research (IASCR) and the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) and may blunt some of the potential sharp differences in research policies both in the United States and abroad.
Over the past few years, there has also evolved a new system of research oversight in stem cell research locales. Following professional guidelines issued by the National Academies and the ISSCR, all privately and publicly funded researchers working with pluripotent stem cells today are encouraged (and in most institutions required) to have their research proposals approved by a Stem Cell Research Oversight (SCRO) committee. SCRO committees include basic scientists, physicians, ethicists, legal experts, and community members and are designed to look at stem cell–specific issues relating to the proposed research. SCRO committees also work with local ethics review boards to ensure that the donors of embryos and other human materials are treated fairly and have given their voluntary, informed consent to stem cell research teams. Informed consent is especially important for somatic cell donors in iPS cell and SCNT studies since the individuals represent a living genetic source of the resulting genetically matched stem cell lines. It is also crucial for patients donating somatic cells for disease-specific stem cell studies, as they might otherwise donate under a false expectation that they will benefit directly from eventual medical applications of their patient-specific stem cells.
Perhaps the most exciting and vexing set of bioethical issues arising today involves the process of transitioning bench knowledge to the bedside. Emerging ethical issues of this clinical translational stage of stem cell research goes far beyond the embryo debate since they encompass all stem cell types, not just hES cells, and because they involve human subjects, who, despite what one may think about the moral status of embryos, are unequivocally moral persons with rights and interests that may be harmed.
Until very recently, there existed no professional guidance for researchers wanting to translate basic stem cell research into effective clinical applications for patients. This past year, the ISSCR released a set of international guidelines to fill this void ; these are summarized in Sidebar 1. Moving from the bench to the bedside will involve many complex steps, many of which are quite scientifically technical. All of these aspects, however, are relevant in a bioethical sense, since they affect directly the risk/benefit ratio that must be assessed before clinical research with patients can be ethically allowed. For example, uniform standards for cell processing and manufacture must be agreed upon by the international community of researchers, stem cell banks, and regulators. Standards for preclinical testing using animal models must be clarified before first-in-human clinical trials can begin, and fair procedures for enrolling human subjects in early stem cell-based clinical trials must be articulated.
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When forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway visits a museum to supervise the opening of a coffin containing a medieval bishop's bones, she finds the curator lying dead on the floor. Soon after, the museum's wealthy owner is also found dead, in his stables.
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The Unique Shepherd (US) group of companies has unveiled its 29th business unit – the Broadway Marketing and Network Limited with a new marketing strategy aimed at creating job opportunities for the country's unemployed population.
The US Group of Companies, a wholly owned Ghanaian international company, is a diversified company with operations in finance, transport and other allied businesses.
The company on Wednesday inaugurated a new office complex to host its 29th business unit, the USBMNL at East Legon in Accra.
Explaining the how the new marketing system works, the Group Chairman, Godfred Adonu said it involves selling one of the group's products, US purified water.
Prospective distributors of the US purified water are expected to pay a one-time registration fee of US$ 40 to begin dealing in the product. The distributor then earns a reward whenever he introduces another distributor(s) to the business.
The more the distributor introduces others to the business, the more rewards he earns with some of the topmost rewards being a house or a car or its money equivalent.
Mr. Adonu expressed the hope that the multi-level marketing system adopted by his company reduce the high unemployment rate government is currently saddled with.
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He added that the mightiest tools any individual possess is his thought thus, it is important for individuals to focus on what their aims are in life. Citing the growth of his chain of businesses as an example, Mr. Adonu he had a vision of establishing 72 companies while in the thick walls of the Ankaful prisons and to date he has managed to bring to light 29 of such companies with the latest being the USBMNL.


I don't really care through who (other than FedEx), but I can't find any concrete info on how much it costs. Can I even get $4k through USPS or UPS? Ups.com said something about $1.60 for every $100 ins, but it only goes up to $1000?
I think Registered mail is higher value.
I just called. Registered will be locked in a safe, and each driver has to sign for it whenever it changes possession. When it arrives at each Post Office it gets locked in a cage to be sorted. Guy said you can track it constantly. Maybe $20 to ship it? Call local P.O. or stop in for questions.
Registered mail is NOT tracked. I do large deals all the time and registered is only worth using if you are unfamiliar with the buyer and you are mailing over $5k of value. It is locked and signed for whenever it is touched, but it will take anywhere from 4-14 days for the package to arrive and you are not guaranteed any timeframe. Also the tracking number with registered cannot be tracked online like any other normal tracking number. The only thing you will see online is when it is delivered, you will not get any status updates with registered mail. I typically use USPS express fully insured for any packages that are worth over $2,500, because it costs less to ship express versus priority when you are fully insuring a package for over $2,500 or so. I have never had an issue with USPS express (knock on wood) when shipping overnight insured. I've even shipped that way when I have larger valued items than $5k, but just put the $5k of insurance on the package.
Can I do Express on a $4k item? I'm the buyer, I'm sending a cashiers check to the guy and since it'll take a few days to clear, I wanted to get it back to me overnight.
Also thanks for clearing that up. I've never used it, just what I was told.
I recently sent in a Beckett submission, sent a medium flat rate box and bought postage online. I then went to the post office to buy insurance since I could buy only $500 worth through PayPal shipping. It cost me almost $60 to insure $5000 value of the cards.
It cost me almost $60 to insure $5000 value of the cards.
Did someone catch a trophy Trout?
Yes for $4k of insurance via usps express overnight it will cost around $45, whereas registered will cost a lot less, but then you have no idea when you are going to get the package. As long as the seller fully insures the item(which most do NOT) it is covered, just make sure to tell them you want the item FULLY insured.
I just paid about 12.50 for $1025 in ins. through usps.