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Chances Your Child may be murdered at school

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:35:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Is this the first one this school year?

Police: Central shooting not random; student suspect being questioned

By Don Jacobs (Contact), Matt Lakin (Contact)
Originally published 08:22 a.m., August 21, 2008
Updated 10:30 a.m., August 21, 2008

A Central High School student died this morning after being shot in the school cafeteria by another student, according to Knoxville police.

It was not a random shooting, he said.

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Central High School shooting, Thursday, Aug. 21

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Central High School: 5321 Jacksboro Pike, Knoxville, TN

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Stem cells could allow 'blood farms'

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:45:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: One of the issues recently has been the shelf life of blood, where the rotation principle-first in first out can leave blood 'stale' and unsafe. There is also the fact that the contributions cannot meet the demand, and the increase in surgery that requires large volumes of blood. Transplant, and heart surgery being prime examples. They have been searching for a means of producing blood artificially, but the prospect of using stem cells, makes it more likely to be a reality.
One of the most important aspects is that the red cells have no nucleus, so no nucleic DNA.
A fact that can relieve many ethical, and practical problems.

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Maggie Fox

Embryonic stem cells can be used to grow vats of red blood cells, which could lead to the creation of 'farms' that could provide limitless sources of blood, US researchers report.

The research by scientists from Advanced Cell Technology, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester appears in the journal Blood.

"I think it's really a big break for us," says Dr Robert Lanza from Advanced Cell Technology.

Stem cells are the body's master cells, replenishing various cells and tissues as they die. Stem cells taken from days-old embryos are especially powerful, with the ability to produce any cell type.

Doctors hope to someday use them to provide tailor-made transplants for patients, and to study disease. One problem is that the immune system may reject tissues grown from someone else's stem cells.

Red blood cells may be an exception to this, because they do not have a nucleus.

"You don't have to worry about the DNA going haywire," says Lanza.

Chris McGrath - Illustrator

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:39:09 GMT

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Picnic Recipes 23

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:42:24 GMT

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98 Peanut butter and cream cheese

Mix and sandwich between two good cookies. Or mix honey, lemon zest and cream cheese. You could use ginger snaps. Mmm.

99 Sorbet

Make it yourself if you have time; put in a really cold thermos - it will be slushy by the time you open it. Add a splash of champagne or gewürztraminer, maybe some mint, and eat like cold soup.

Chef's tip: Tristan Welch
100 Champagne and strawberries

Take a one bottle of chilled champagne, pour it over some fresh strawberries and serve straight away, then drink the rest of the champagne.

· Head chef at Launceston Place, 1a Launceston Place, London W8.

101 Chocolate dips

Take melted chocolate thinned with cream or crème fraîche with strawberries, pineapple or bananas for dipping.

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Fighting fit at 66

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:51:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Britain's heart bypass matador back with a flourish

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Frank Evans, who enrolled in a bullfighting school in Valencia after reading a book by another British exponent

A British pensioner has defied medical and family advice to reclaim his title as Spain’s only British matador.

Frank Evans, from Salford, who is 66 today, has suffered a badly damaged knee and undergone quadruple bypass heart surgery, but he came out of retirement yesterday to win two ears.

Known as El Inglés – and dressed in black on a sweltering day – Mr Evans deftly made his passes against a black two-year-old, which fell twice during the fight. The English bullfighter completed his performance by driving his sword into the bull’s neck to the hilt, earning the applause and the waving white handkerchiefs of the Andalusian crowd.

Tags: age, bull, fighting, fitness

Antibodies still protect 1918 flu survivors

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:51:48 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In those days, they sure knew how to make antibodies

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Maggie Fox

Antibodies from survivors of the 1918 flu pandemic, the worst in human memory, still protect against the highly deadly virus, researchers report.

The findings by a team of influenza and immune system experts suggest new and better ways to fight viruses - especially new pandemic strains that emerge and spread before a vaccine can be formulated.

These survivors, now aged 91 to 101, all lived through the pandemic as children.

Their immune systems still carry a memory of that virus and can produce proteins called antibodies that kill the 1918 flu strain with surprising efficiency, the researchers report in the journal Nature.

"It was very surprising that these subjects would still have cells floating in their blood so long afterward," says Dr James Crowe of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, who helped lead the study.

"The antibodies that we isolated are remarkable antibodies. They grab onto the virus very tightly and they virtually never fall off," says Crowe.

Coca-Cola Collecting

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:40:16 GMT

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Coca-Cola

Store Home
Soda
Coca-Cola
Ads
Balls
Banks
Bottle Caps
Bottles
Calendars
Cans
Cigarette Lighters, Ashtrays
Clocks, Radios
Coasters
Cookie Jars, Canisters
Coolers
Decals, Stickers
Dishes, Bowls, Plates
Figurines
Flashlights, Keychains
Glasses
Lamps, Lights, Fixtures
Lunchboxes, Bags
Magnets
Mugs, Steins
Openers
Ornaments
Pens, Pencils
Phones
Pins, Badges, Patches
Playing Cards
Posters, Prints
Puzzles, Games
Screensavers, CDs
Shakers
Shirts, Jackets, Hats
Signs
Thermometers
Tins
Trading Cards
Trays
Trucks, Cars
Watches

Other Coke Items

Tags: coca-cola, collecting, shopping, sodapop

Rare albino eagle found in Colorado

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:33:22 GMT

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A part-albino Golden Eagle has been found in Southern Colorado and 850KOA has obtained exclusive, copyright photos of the bird just before he was transferred to the Nature and Raptor Center of Pueblo.

The male eagle is thin and is being treated for parasites. The eagle's feathers are in such poor condition that it cannot fly. However, Raptor Center Director Diana Miller believes the rare eagle will recover and will be released in the Hoehne area in about three months.

The eagle was found in the Pinon Canyon area of Southeastern Colorado by Rancher Tony Hass. His wife, Connie, took the photos as they waited for Division of Wildlife District Manager Jeremy Gallegos to capture the eagle and take it to the Raptor Center in Pueblo.

Training reassessed after plutonium spill

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:16:36 GMT

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Use of radioactive materials has been suspended and worker training is being reassessed following a plutonium spill at the Boulder, Colo., laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the agency's deputy director told a congressional subcommittee

"Based on the information available at this time, this incident was preventable," James M. Turner told the House Science and Technology's subcommittee on technology and innovation.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered the Boulder laboratory

to stop using radioactive materials until it can show its procedures are safe, and that order remains in effect.

Subcommittee chairman David Wu, D-Ore., expressed his unhappiness at the June 9 incident, commenting that "along with scientific and technical excellence must be an equal dedication to safe laboratory practices."

The spill occurred when a test tube containing plutonium powder cracked and some of the powder spilled, according to testimony prepared for the hearing.

Stunning B & W Animal Photographs

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:23:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Born and raised in London, Nick Brandt studied Film and Painting at St. Martins School of Art.

He started photographing in December 2000 in East Africa, beginning the body of work that is his signature subject matter and style. He no longer directs, devoting himself full time to his fine art photography now.

Brandt's first book of photographs, "On This Earth", was published in October 2005, by Chronicle Books, with forewords by Jane Goodall and Alice Sebold (author of "The Lovely Bones").

He has had numerous one-man exhibitions between 2004 and 2006, including London, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Hamburg, Santa Fe, Sydney, Melbourne and San Francisco.

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Born and raised in London, Nick Brandt studied Film and Painting at St. Martins School of Art.

He started photographing in December 2000 in East Africa, beginning the body of work that is his signature subject matter and style. He no longer directs, devoting himself full time to his fine art photography now.

Brandt's first book of photographs, "On This Earth", was published in October 2005, by Chronicle Books, with forewords by Jane Goodall and Alice Sebold (author of "The Lovely Bones").

He has had numerous one-man exhibitions between 2004 and 2006, including London, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Hamburg, Santa Fe, Sydney, Melbourne and San Francisco.

All the prints are Archival Pigment Ink Prints, and are available in the following sizes:

30 x 40 cm (11 x 14 inches) 50 x 60 cm (20 x 24 inches) 100 x 120 cm (40 x 48 inches)
110 x 150 cm (43 x 60 inches)

Please contact the gallery for current pricing and availability > CLICK HERE

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Orange County Choppers

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:16:14 GMT

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Tags: orange county choppers, bikes, motorcycles, custom

SciFiPedia

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:43:14 GMT

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Predator or Yaujta or Hish

Spinosaurus

Gojira (1984 film)

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Team Knight Rider

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Microsoft's Arc Mouse

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:45:10 GMT

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Microsoft To Release Arc Mouse

Microsoft is preparing to release a new mouse, with a futuristic design and really portable. Called the Arc Mouse, it will be priced at $59.95 and should be available as of this summer.

“Featuring a revolutionary new design shaped like a crescent moon, Arc folds closed to reduce in size by almost half, giving consumers the comfort of a full-sized mouse with the portability of a notebook mouse. Arc is all about the fashion edge, with a stylish micro transceiver that you can leave right in your computer and it’s available in two colors – red or black. It’s the perfect gift for the trendsetter on the list. MSRP: $59.95”

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Sexes need different dinners

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:18:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Crickets eat junk food! Maybe it's a matter of 'learning' to eat well. (good habits?) Often it can be a case of what is available, or easy to get, rather than what is good and nutritious. Sometimes a small change in diet can lead to a marked improvement in an aspect of the health of the consumer. Generally alongside overall improvement. A 'diet' doesn't have to be a revolution. It can be a replacement of a preference that is unhealthy, with one that is healthy. (Of course that's easy to write)

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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 Dani Cooper

A study, published today in Current Biology, suggests it is females who should be pulling out the steak knife to ensure their reproductive fitness.

Lead author and University of New South Wales biologist, Dr Alexei Maklakov, says his study on Australian black field crickets is the first of its kind to examine the influence of gender in determining which diet is best for long life and breeding success.

It's the first time this kind of [gender difference in diet] has been shown

Humans are even more fundamentally different between males and females than crickets

"In human reproduction the men's role is relatively trivial

or women bringing a baby safely to term requires tremendous amounts of energy

diet is very important

What men and women need to eat might be more dramatically different than we had realised. However men and women eat very similar diets and our results suggest our tastes and food preferences could be a shared compromise as they are in crickets

Corel Designer Technical Suite X4

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:44:17 GMT

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Clipmarks | Marcariel's Comments

Chances Your Child may be murdered at school

Police: Central shooting not random; student suspect being questioned

Photo Gallery

Central High School shooting, Thursday, Aug. 21

Central High School: 5321 Jacksboro Pike, Knoxville, TN

Stem cells could allow 'blood farms'

Chris McGrath - Illustrator

Picnic Recipes 23

Chef's tip: Tristan Welch100 Champagne and strawberries

Fighting fit at 66

Antibodies still protect 1918 flu survivors

Coca-Cola Collecting

Rare albino eagle found in Colorado

Training reassessed after plutonium spill

Stunning B & W Animal Photographs

Orange County Choppers

SciFiPedia

Microsoft's Arc Mouse

Microsoft To Release Arc Mouse

Sexes need different dinners

Corel Designer Technical Suite X4

Corel Designer Technical Suite X4

Chef's tip: Tristan Welch
100 Champagne and strawberries