Submitting a successful medical school application isn't easy, but it can often be just as difficult to decide where to apply and where to attend once one has been accepted. Much of what is presented during medical school visits or interviews is, understandably, geared toward student recruitment, so many applicants often wonder what it's really like to attend a certain medical school.
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Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp. (Liberty Star or the Company) (LBSR: OTCBB) is pleased to announce that the Company has received word from its attorney that the United States Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) has cleared comment on its Registration Statement (Form S-1). Liberty Star is waiting for the Registration Statement to become effective.
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Lina Regmi, who participated in Liberty University’s largest Commencement last month, came to Lynchburg, Va., from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal and is now helping other students adjust to college life and American culture.Lynchburg, VA (PRWEB) June 18, 2012 Lina Regmi, who participated in Liberty University’s largest Commencement last month, came to Lynchburg, Va., from Kathmandu, the capital ...
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Libertarianism, a resurgent ideology that is confoundingly on the retreat within the more friendly of Americas two major political parties, represents a fascinating case study in both grassroots political success and failure. The ideology, and the party as well, have had some major victories as well as some devastating defeats over the last four years. A libertarian philosophy has much to offer American politics, but they have thus far been unsuccessful at attracting a broader audience for their policy prescription to the nations nagging problems. Whats more, supporters of mainstream libertarianism seem more inclined to isolate themselves from criticism. Libertarianism is an important element to American politics but it will not achieve a wider acceptance among the electorate if the task of mainstreaming the ideology is left to its present practitioners.
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The financial crisis that began in 2008 with the collapse of the mortgage-based derivatives market forced both Democrats and Republicans to reevaluate their legislative priorities. While traditional Democrats and left-leaning progressives found new impetus to push for legislation that favored fairness and equality in financial markets not to mention an expansion of the social safety net for those most exposed to the economic downturn Republicans found new reason to return to their fiscally conservative roots.
Compounded by Sen. John McCains loss to President Barack Obama in 2008, Republican voters repudiated their compassionate wing; a branch of Republicanism that was happy to oversee the growth of the state, so long as it could be managed and directed in the most politically advantageous of ways. Welfare programs like the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit and the No Child Left Behind education reform law, championed by President George W. Bush and his Republican-led Congressional majorities, came to symbolize a GOP that had lost its way.
But in the light of the new reality ushered in by the financial crisis, Republicans found that these programs formerly buoyed by Americas once ever-expanding largess were simply unjustifiable. Those programs short-lived successes were outweighed by their costs. It was in this political environment, amid a thorough repudiation of Bush-era Republicans, that the GOP embraced their libertarian wing.
The tea party movement, born spontaneously in early 2009, drew heavily from the libertarian grassroots organizations that were already active and viciously opposed to the big government wing of the conservative party. As the average Republican found new value in the tenets of mainstream libertarianism, (sound currency, a less interventionist foreign policy and reduced government intervention into the private sector to name a few examples) it seemed clear that the national GOP would quickly follow suit.
The 2010 midterm elections suggested that this transformation was well underway, but somewhere along the line the Republican partys drift towards libertarianism halted. It would be a mistake for libertarians to blame the loss of this opportunity to secure a critical level of influence over the GOP as the result some cabal of establishment-types working behind the scenes to shut them out. Worse, libertarians should avoid consoling themselves in the belief that Republican voters were simply cowed by sharp advertising or too close minded to embrace a libertarian philosophy. No, it was the base of the libertarian movement that sabotaged its own rise.
The Weekly Standards Mark Hemmingway outlines the follies of the libertarian movement in the magazines most recent issue. In his article, he chronicles the small ball issues that the libertarian movement seems to obsess over. The legalization of marijuana and prostitution are among libertarianisms most favored causes that simply do not resonate outside the bounds of the ideologies most faithful adherents.
Furthermore, Hemmingway notes how mainstream libertarians embrace conspiratorial notions that Republican officeholders eschew. [W]hen you start inquiring about the economy, the talk escalates quickly from paper currency to conspiracy, Hemmingway writes. On a Libertarian message board, youre often just one click away from a frightfully earnest conversation about the Bilderbergers and the Rothschilds.
While GOP leaders have done all within the power to tamp down foolish conspiratorial notions about, for example, President Obamas parentage and place of birth, libertarian leaders are often guilty of legitimizing conspiracy theories among their faithful supporters.
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BOISE (AP) Libertarian-leaning delegates made a show of force at the last two state Republican conventions, where raucous Ron Paul acolytes pushing limited government stamped their image on Idaho's dominant political party.
The confab's 2012 edition, in Twin Falls from Thursday to Saturday at the College of Southern Idaho, will be the latest opportunity to measure the GOP's pulse during a presidential-election year and judge whether Idaho's tea-party tide will rise further or if it's on the ebb.
In the 2008 Sandpoint convention, as well as the 2010 edition in Idaho Falls, mainstream Republicans rolled their eyes as libertarians added planks to the party platform the GOP's guiding document urging the Federal Reserve's abolition, the gold standard's resurrection, support for "nullifying" federal laws and abandoning popular elections of U.S. senators.
Senate Majority Leader Bart Davis, who got on the wrong side of libertarians during the 2011 Idaho Legislature by citing constitutional concerns with a bill seeking to nullify President Obama's health care overhaul, said the tone in Twin Falls will depend on who shows up.
"If you have individuals with more libertarian leanings there as delegates, you'll probably see more of what we have had in the last couple of conventions," said Davis, R-Idaho Falls. "I am hopeful that more conservative than libertarian principals will be the standard in the party platform, but that's the purpose of the convention."
The party will also elect a new chairman, with Norm Semanko, a lobbyist, stepping down.
Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter, who lost a fight with in 2008 for his top choice, Kirk Sullivan, when Semanko won the delegates' vote, appears to have avoided a similar defeat this time around. He's given his blessing to the two candidates, charter-school activist Gayann DeMordaunt and Elmore County GOP Chairman Barry Peterson.
In the 2008 and 2010 conventions, libertarians' surging influence on Idaho's GOP coincided with the rise of tea-party disenchantment across America with government, particularly the federal variety in Washington, D.C.
More recent developments in Idaho might suggest a resurgence of party "regulars," said Gary Moncrief, professor of political science at Boise State University.
In the March 6 "Super Tuesday" caucus, for instance, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney trounced Paul, the Texas congressman, to win all of Idaho's 32 presidential delegates. And moderate Republican incumbents like Sen. Shawn Keough of Sandpoint and Rep. George Eskridge of Dover easily beat tea-party foes in the May 15 primary.
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DENVER (AP) -- Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson is visiting a Denver medical marijuana center and plans to endorse a Colorado initiative to regulate pot like alcohol.
The former New Mexico governor is expected to visit the dispensary Monday afternoon with medical marijuana industry representatives and Sensible Colorado. The group is backing the initiative known as Amendment 64.
Johnson is expected to announce his support for the initiative and talk about how Colorado has regulated the medical marijuana industry.
Colorado voters approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes in 2000.
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DENVER (AP) - Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson is reiterating his support for a Colorado initiative to regulate marijuana like alcohol. The former New Mexico governor visited a Denver medical marijuana dispensary Monday and said he supports the initiative known as Amendment 64. Colorado voters approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes in 2000. The proposed amendment would allow people who are at least 21 to possess limited amounts of marijuana and for marijuana sales to be taxed. However marijuana remains illegal under federal law. Johnson says that if he's elected president, medical marijuana businesses that are operating within state and local laws wouldn't have to worry about efforts by federal prosecutors to shut them down.
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DENVERLibertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson is reiterating his support for a Colorado initiative to regulate marijuana like alcohol.
The former New Mexico governor visited a Denver medical marijuana dispensary Monday and said he supports the initiative known as Amendment 64.
Colorado voters approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes in 2000. The proposed amendment would allow people who are at least 21 to possess limited amounts of marijuana and for marijuana sales to be taxed.
However marijuana remains illegal under federal law.
Johnson says that if he's elected president, medical marijuana businesses that are operating within state and local laws wouldn't have to worry about efforts by federal prosecutors to shut them down.
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The amount of soil from tunneling the Eglinton Crosstown transit line could fill the Rogers Centre to the roof.
Until recently, the project loomed as another headache for more than 900 residents who have been fighting plans for trucks to deliver commercial fill to their nearby communities from Toronto construction sites over the next 10 years.
But Toronto is studying another option using the soil instead to build islands at the mouth of the Humber River, the same way the Leslie St. spit was built out of soil from downtown construction projects 40 years ago.
The citys water department proposed building the archipelago to deflect Humber River water away from Sunnyside Beach to make it consistently safe for swimming.
It would require up to 2 million cubic metres of soil. A staff report suggested Eglinton Crosstown could supply 800,000 cubic metres.
The transit projects environmental assessment estimates a total of 1.8 million cubic metres of excavated soil would be available. Thats more than enough to fill the Rogers Centre, at 1.6 million cubic metres.
Keeping it in the city would be a relief to Lakeridge Citizens for Clean Water said member Ian McLaurin, who has been fighting a site near his Port Perry home.
Thats not a bad spot for it, McLaurin said of the proposed location of the mouth of the Humber. We dont want it up here.
Contamination of the soil from industrial pollutants is a concern, McLaurin said. So is the noise and dust of dump trucks, including tailgate banging after dumping a load.
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LATEST: Solomon Islands goal-scoring machine Benjamin Totori will be a Wellington Phoenix player next A-League season.
The Phoenix confirmed this afternoon they have signed the 26-year-old to a one-year deal with an option for a second year.
Totori is understood to have caught Phoenix and All Whites coach Ricki Herbert's eye with his goalscoring exploits at the recent Oceania Nations Cup in Honiara, securing himself a contract in Australasia's top football league with New Zealand's only club and in the process becoming the second Pacific Islands player to earn an A-League contract.
Totori's former club, Koloale FC in the Solomons, have already farewelled their star striker, who is expected to link up with the Phoenix for their pre-season programme before the end of this month.
Phoenix general manager David Dome told Fairfax Media this morning they were close to finalising a deal and the signing was officially confirmed this afternoon.
Totori said since playing for Waitakere his ambition has been to play for the Phoenix.
"When we (Solomon Islands) were playing New Zealand I knew Ricki would be watching and I hoped I could play well enough for him to notice me.
"Thankfully I did okay and scored three goals in the two games.
"I know what a good coach Ricki is and am looking forward to learning from him.
"I want to score goals for the Phoenix and help them be successful."
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A milestone in re-establishing the whitehead (popokotea) in the Auckland region has been achieved with the release of the protected native bird on two pest-free islands in the heart of Auckland.
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LATEST: Solomon Islands goal-scoring machine Benjamin Totori will be a Wellington Phoenix player next A-League season.
The Phoenix confirmed this afternoon they have signed the 26-year-old to a one-year deal with an option for a second year.
Totori is understood to have caught Phoenix and All Whites coach Ricki Herbert's eye with his goalscoring exploits at the recent Oceania Nations Cup in Honiara, securing himself a contract in Australasia's top football league with New Zealand's only club and in the process becoming the second Pacific Islands player to earn an A-League contract.
Totori's former club, Koloale FC in the Solomons, have already farewelled their star striker, who is expected to link up with the Phoenix for their pre-season programme before the end of this month.
Phoenix general manager David Dome told Fairfax Media this morning they were close to finalising a deal and the signing was officially confirmed this afternoon.
Totori said since playing for Waitakere his ambition has been to play for the Phoenix.
"When we (Solomon Islands) were playing New Zealand I knew Ricki would be watching and I hoped I could play well enough for him to notice me.
"Thankfully I did okay and scored three goals in the two games.
"I know what a good coach Ricki is and am looking forward to learning from him.
"I want to score goals for the Phoenix and help them be successful."
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by Srianthi Perera - Jun. 18, 2012 10:13 AM The Republic | azcentral.com
The Islands, which is known for its community Easter-egg hunt and lighted boat parade, is turning its attention to fine art.
The master-planned community in Gilbert will hold its inaugural festival, Islands Art in the Park, Nov. 3 and 4. Organizers are inviting artists to participate in a juried fine-art and -craft show and planning a classic car show titled Islands Cars in the Park.
"It's a vision this community has had for a long time: to bring artists together as well as hold other activities to begin to build an art community in Gilbert," said Michael Fleming, vice president of the Islands Homeowners Association.
The community hopes to attract about 5,000 people for the family-oriented festival. It also hopes to get about 40 artists from across Arizona and beyond, and has registered in ZAPP, a central website that enables artists to apply online to multiple art shows.
"We see this as something we'll be building over the years," Fleming said. "We think, over time, this could become a cornerstone event in Gilbert to bring the community together and to bring people from all over."
Since it's a juried show, not all artists applying may get to show. "It's fine art and fine craft, so no reproductions," said Ginny Gapen, community association manager. "That's one of the differences that separates us from, like, a flea market."
The targets are up-and-coming artists "who really see the future, but have probably not been going for 20 years to all the art festivals in the United States," Fleming said. "A lot of those folks are probably higher-priced and booked for the year. We're looking for people who have very high-quality stuff, but they're just kind of getting going."
Organizers have established a $2,600 budget for the festival, which is non-profit, and are looking for sponsors.
Gapen said the Islands' first venture to attract people outside the community has a two-fold purpose. "It's to establish a signature event for Gilbert, but also to promote the Islands as a wonderful place to live," she said. "We really feel that our area is affluent; they have the taste and the want and the desire for that."
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The European Society of Human Genetics is condemning the use of genetic testing to establish "ethnic purity," as was suggested by a member of the Hungarian far-right Jobbik party. In a press release, ESHG says that Hungarian genetic testing company Nagy Gn scanned 18 positions in a member of parliament's genome for variants that are supposedly characteristic of Roma and Jewish origins to prove that he does not have Roma or Jewish roots. "The use of genetic testing to establish racial origins for political purposes is not only scientifically foolish, but also unethical and should be condemned," ESHG says, calling the testing "ethically unacceptable." ESHG President Joerg Schmidtke called the situation a "gross distortion of the values of genetic testing" and condemned the use of the technology to "promote hatred" rather than help the sick. Bla Melegh, president of the Hungarian Society of Human Genetics, added that the society was "shocked" to hear that any lab was willing to do the testing, and has asked the Hungarian government to prosecute the company under a 2008 law meant to protect against the abuse of genetic testing.
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Newswise BETHESDA, MD June 18, 2012 -- In cancer, the genome is shot to hell," Columbia University cell biologist I. Bernard Weinstein, M.D., famously said in 1989. Since then, researchers have catalogued the mutations that drive many human cancers. But since cancer takes years to develop, experiments on shorter-lived species have been critical in developing new diagnostics and therapeutics. Scientists who work on human cancer and those who use other species as stand-ins for humans will get together June 17-20, 2012 at the Genetics Society of Americas (GSAs) Model Organism to Human Biology (MOHB): Cancer Genetics Meeting at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Unlike a single-gene disease inherited through either sperm or egg, the genetic changes of cancer strike somatic (from the Greek soma meaning body) cells including those cells that make up internal organs. In affected organs, these somatic cells may have an underlying susceptibility mutation present. Once a cancer begins, an oncogene, a gene that has the potential of causing cancer, is turned on or a tumor suppressor turned off and other changes ensue. The changing nature of cancer explains why treating the disease requires staying steps ahead.
Animal models have been instrumental for working out the pathways through which all human solid tumors form. Current knowledge of cancer genes is a tribute to the basic research that has been performed over the past four decades, the majority of it in model systems, Bert Vogelstein, M.D., director, Ludwig Center at Johns Hopkins University and Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute said. Dr. Vogelstein, a keynote speaker at the MOHB: Cancer Genetics Meeting has identified the sequence of genetic changes behind colorectal cancer.
Looking at the big picture, Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and another speaker at the MOHB: Cancer Genetics meeting said, Cancer is a disease of the genome. The more knowledge we gain about the structure and function of genomes, the more we will be able to learn about the genomic changes responsible for different types of cancer.
The cancer-genome connection is why NHGRI began partnering with the National Cancer Institute in 2005 to create The Cancer Genome Atlas, which will describe the genomes of 20 cancer types.
Quite a varied group of organisms have taught us about human cancers, explained Phil Hieter, Ph.D., (University of British Columbia), President of the GSA, Each model organism has its own advantages and disadvantages for the study of a particular process. The aggregate is much more powerful, so it makes great sense to shuttle among species in studying the mechanisms and mutations associated with cancer. Thats what this conference is all about.
Thanks to evolution, the cancers of model organisms reflect derangement in many of the same genes and pathways that fuel human cancers. The model organism Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (modENCODE) project, begun in 2009, is identifying the genetic controls of two popular model organisms: the roundworm Caenhorhabditis elegans and the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. ModENCODE has greatly advanced our knowledge of genome function in model systems, which is foundational knowledge for deciphering the biological consequences of cancer-associated genomic changes, said Dr. Green, who will discuss it at the meeting.
The mini-modENCODE Symposium being held at GSAs MOHB: Cancer Genetics Meeting will be followed by a symposium on June 20-21 hosted by NHGRI at the NIH campus to celebrate the projects accomplishments as it draws to completion this year. For more information about the NHGRI symposium, please see http://www.genome.gov/27548680.
ABOUT THE MODEL ORGANISM TO HUMAN BIOLOGY MEETING: The GSA MOHB Meeting has been held every other year since 2006. The GSA Board of Directors developed this meeting to enable basic research scientists studying genetic diseases in model organisms and scientists studying these diseases in humans to have a forum for discussion of their findings and to forge collaborative investigations.
ABOUT GSA: Founded in 1931, the Genetics Society of America (GSA) is the professional membership organization for scientific researchers, educators, bioengineers, bioinformaticians and others interested in the field of genetics. Its nearly 5,000 members work to advance knowledge in the basic mechanisms of inheritance, from the molecular to the population level. GSA is dedicated to promoting research in genetics and to facilitating communication among geneticists worldwide through its conferences, including the biennial conference on Model Organisms to Human Biology, an interdisciplinary meeting on current and cutting edge topics in genetics research, as well as annual and biennial meetings that focus on the genetics of particular organisms, including C. elegans, Drosophila, fungi, mice, yeast, and zebrafish. GSA publishes GENETICS, a leading journal in the field and an online, open-access journal, G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics. For more information about GSA, please visit http://www.genetics-gsa.org. Also follow GSA on Facebook at facebook.com/GeneticsGSA and on Twitter @GeneticsGSA.
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18-06-2012 10:20 Twelve years ago, I beat cancer. Living through that makes Karl Rove's political attacks seem pretty silly. There's good and bad in the health care law and it needs to be fixed...But I would never vote to take away a senior's health care or limit anyone's care.
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Updated: Mon Jun. 18 2012 14:49:36
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Health care workers across the country took to the streets in protest Monday to decry planned cuts to medical services currently provided to refugees.
In one protest, hundreds of doctors in white coats gathered on Parliament Hill, saying cuts to refugee health programs will lead to a national public health crisis.
"We are launching into an uncontrolled, disastrous, human health experience by arbitrarily denying life-saving medical care to some of the most vulnerable and traumatized people in the whole world," said Dr. Mark Tyndall, the head of infectious diseases at the Ottawa hospital.
"And for what? Further isolation and suffering, the spread of infectious diseases, increased wait times at our hospital emergency departments. Canada is way better than this."
The workers are angry that the federal government is planning to end free dental, vision and prescription drugs offered to most refugee claimants through the Interim Federal Health (IFH), Canada's health insurance program for refugees.
With less than two weeks to go until the federal cuts kick in, the health workers planned protests outside federal government offices in 10 Canadian cities, from St. John's to Vancouver.
Ottawa has said it can save about $20 million a year with the cuts. But health groups and refugee advocates, such as Ottawa's Dr. Alison Eyre, said the move is unfair and hurts refugees when they need help the most.
"When people come new to Canada, they need help, that's one of the times they need the great amount of support, particularly refugees who have left everything," Eyre told CTV's Canada AM Monday.
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Congressional Republicans intend to seek quick repeal of any parts of the health care law that survive a widely anticipated Supreme Court ruling, but don't plan to push replacement measures until after the fall elections or perhaps 2013.
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