FAMNews Volume 1, Episode 36 – FAMU Professor Developing New Psoriasis Medicine – Video


FAMNews Volume 1, Episode 36 - FAMU Professor Developing New Psoriasis Medicine
In this episode of FAMNews, we review the development of a new psoriasis medication created by FAMU professor, Mandip Sachdeva, Ph.D.

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Psoriasis patient erroneously reported as afflicted with flesh-eating disease now home

By: Philippines News Agency March 8, 2014 10:20 AM

InterAksyon.com The online news portal of TV5

SAN CARLOS CITY, Pangasinan - One of the two patients erroneously reported in an ABS-CBN report as afflicted with a skin disease caused by a so-called flesh-eating bacteria is now home after being discharged from the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (PPH).

Alex Maganes, 19, of Villasis town, who was actually suffering from an acute episode of psoriasis, a genetic, non-contagious disease of the skin--complicated by arthritis which is why he could not walkwas discharged March 6.

Still in hospital is Mary Grace Clasara, 21, of Sta. Barbara town who was suffering from leprosy as well as from malnutrition.

Neither patients condition was deemed contagious, doctors said, but as a precautionto ensure they do not catch any hospital-based infection that could worsen their frail healththe two patients were kept in an isolation room.

Dr. Policarpio Manuel, chief of the PPH, said Maganes is now well and can now walk a bit, which is an improvement from his medical condition when he was first brought to the hospital on February 25.

The day before, an ABS-CBN report tagged him and Clasara as suffering from a mysterious disease caused by a flesh-eating bacteria that alarmed the people of Pangasinan and prompted tourists, foreign and domestic, to cancel their trips to the province. Local officials said demand for their famous milkfish [bangus] also declined.

ABS-CBN has apologized for the report.

Clasara will remain in the hospital longer, as she has to be treated of her anemia and needs to gain weight.

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Advaita Smarta Spirituality Talks in Telugu by Sri Bharati Tirtha of Sringeri Math 18 – Video


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Spirituality of Venerable Ignacia Del Espiritu Santo

(Foundress of the Religious of the Virgin Mary)

SPIRITUALITY is a way of life involving the dynamic interplay of an individuals set of beliefs and values which animates, gives fire and provides spirit into ones life as one deeply integrates the four dimensional relationships: with self, with others, with all creation, and with God.

There are three emphases on the Spirituality of Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo.

Centrality of Christ she allowed Christ to direct her thoughts words and actions and allowed Him to inhabit in her heart, she lived the dictum of St. Paul It is not I who live but that Christ lives in me and that of St. John the Baptist I must decrease He must increase.

To live like Christ means to live simply, not to seek for comfort, convenience and luxuries in life, not to aspire for recognition, fame, power and affirmation, not to accumulate material possessions. To follow the will of the Father notwithstanding the pains, difficulties, frustrations and disappointments.

To follow the will of the Father is to serve Him right now at His given moments. This is neither with persons we want to serve nor in places do we want to go, not even with events we want to involve in but with persons, places and events that He wants us to serve, to go and to involve in.

To love like Christ means to love unconditionally, to be willing to sacrifice, to suffer for the sake of others, even to be rejected, to be insulted, to be ignored, to forget oneself completely, to walk extra mile even with the person we dont like.

To forgive like Christ means to forgive those who have wronged you, those who have betrayed you, those who have stripped you of your integrity and who seemingly robbed you of your dignity and to do this 70x7 everyday of your life.

Spirituality of the Cross her love of Christ led her to embrace the cross joyfully, peacefully and wholeheartedly. This is also to remind us that through suffering and pain, we will discover the fidelity of Gods love for us

Interior Freedom she freely disposed herself to respond to Gods call with openness and generosity even as she was always called to live behind what she was accustomed to in the midst of difficulties and seemingly insurmountable challenges. She was always called to go beyond her comfort zones and to venture into the unknown. She accomplished whatever she was told to do because she let go of her personal freedom and security to follow the will of God. There never was any worldly entanglement in her life because she allowed herself to be possessed by God. (S. Leonor, RVM)

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Megan Quinn: European spiritual trail documentary comes to Boulder

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Megan Quinn Faith Columnist

A spiritual journey is winding itself throughout Europe and the story of its well-worn path is coming to Boulder.

The story is about the Camino, a spiritual pilgrimage of about 500 miles from Saint Jean Pied de Port in France through most of Spain to the city of Santiago de Compostela.

The Camino is more than a trail. It is a religious and emotional journey. The Camino is a spiritual pilgrimage trail first used in the Middle Ages, when pilgrims sought forgiveness for their sins and a path to heaven. Sometimes called the Route of St. James, the Camino is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site that hosts thousands of visitors each year. In 2010, more than 270,000 people walked at least part of the path, according to UNESCO.

Documentary filmmaker Lydia Smith has walked the trail, and is now on a more local journey to share her Camino experiences. Smith will come to Boulder and there will be several screenings of her film, "Walking the Camino," and discussions starting March 19.

"The film isn't about getting people to walk the Camino, but to walk their own Camino, walk their own path," Smith said by phone from Arizona, where she was on a much shorter journey to walk her dog before a film screening.

Several Camino pilgrims will visit Boulder to talk about their experiences in the next few weeks. Smith will attend the Boulder International Film Series screening at 7:30 p.m. March 19 at IFS, 1801 Colorado Ave.

Annie O'Neil, an L.A.-based traveler who completed the Camino in 2009, will attend a screening of the film on March 28. The film will run March 28 through April 3 at the Boedecker Theater at the Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St.

"Walking the Camino" follows six strangers from around the world as they attempt to cross most of Spain on foot, each with just a backpack and a pair of hiking boots.

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Electromagnetic Levitator headed to ISS for future materials research

Astronauts, get your welding goggles on the space station is going into the foundry business. The International Space Station (ISS) is set to do a spot of industrial research this June, when ESAs Materials Science Laboratory-Electromagnetic Levitator (MSL-EML) heads for the station aboard Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle 5 (ATV-5) Georges Lematre unmanned space freighter as part of a program to study the casting of alloys in a weightless environment.

Most metals have are crystalline and their properties depend on this microstructure, which develops as they cool. An everyday version of this is tempering, where a steel knife blade is heated to red hot and then plunged into cold water. The sudden cooling alters the crystalline microstructure of the steel, making it hard and able to hold a sharp edge.

The example is a simple one, but the process is actually extremely complex. Its even more so when molten metal is cooled inside a casting. The temperature and density differences, convection forces as the cooling molten metal rises and falls in the mold, and any number of other factors are among the many reasons why casting metals, especially exotic alloys, is often as much art as science.

Microgravity is one way of reducing this complexity, so scientists are better able to understand it. In the absence of gravity, there aren't any convection forces, so metal castings have an even temperature. Furthermore, in a gravity-free environment metal samples can be suspended in a magnetic field and heated using conduction coils. This means there are no complicating factors, such as the molten sample sticking to a crucible wall or being contaminated by it.

By means of microgravity, scientists hope to gain a better understanding of an alloys surface tension, viscosity, melting range, fraction solid, specific heat, heat of fusion, mass density, and thermal expansion among other things. This would be of tremendous importance for everything from casting turbine blades to developing lighter weight alloys.

The problem is, there isn't a lot of of microgravity on Earth and most of that involves falling. You can get 20 seconds in an airplane during a parabolic trajectory and six minutes in a sounding rocket, but neither of those are very practical for carrying out metallurgical research. To get serious, you need a space station. And on the ISS, theres all the microgravity you want.

Weighing about 360 kg (795 lb), the MSL-EML was built by Airbus Defence and Space in collaboration with ESA and the DLR Space Administration. It consists of an automated chamber that keeps samples in a vacuum or a controlled gas mixture. In addition to electromagnetic levitation and induction heating coils, there is a digital video observation camera, a high-speed data camera capable of capturing up to 30,000 images per second, and a pyrometer.

When activated, the MSL-EML automatically feeds one of 18 spherical samples, 5 to 8 mm in diameter, consisting of various aluminum, copper, and nickel alloys into the process chamber using a rotating magazine. The machine uses electromagnetic fields to levitate samples in a the container, keeping them out of contact with the walls or any other materials. Then the inductive heating pushes the sample temperatures up to 2,000 C (3,600 F), reducing them to a liquid state.

In such a controlled environment, scientists will be able to dial-in various factors and study how such samples change as they cool and solidify. Theres no need for crucibles, which could contaminate the samples, and the samples aren't under the influence of gravity, which would deform the developing crystals or set up convection currents, resulting in uneven cooling. Meanwhile, the sensors record every detail of the process.

According to ESA, the microgravity containerless system produces a purer sample with fewer variables to take account of. The findings from the MSL-ELM can be compared to computer models and findings from experiments conducted on similar samples on Earth on parabolic flights.

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Astronaut twins in space? NASA did it before Winklevoss brothers

The Winklevoss twins will ride Virgin Galactic into space. But NASA astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly are the first set of identical twins to fly in space.

The Winklevoss twins launched into the headlines Wednesday (March 5) by announcing their plan to ride a Virgin Galactic space plane (and paying with Bitcoins, no less), but they aren't the first set of identical twins to fly in space. NASA, it turns out, got there first.

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Years before the Winklevoss twins planned their Virgin Galactic space trip, the identical twins Mark and Scott Kelly both 50 of West Orange, N.J., were busy flying space shuttles for NASA. Not only are the Kelly brothers the first identical twin astronauts in history, but they were also simultaneous captains in the U.S. Navy until Mark Kelly retired from both NASA and the Navy in 2011.

The Kelly brothers (Mark is six minutes older) joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1996, with Mark flying four space shuttle missions and Scott flying three spaceflights, including a 159-day stay on the International Space Station. Both astronauts served as space shuttle commanders, with Scott commanding the space station during most recent spaceflight, which ran from October 2010 and ended in March 2011. [Twins in Space: NASA Astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly]

Now when it comes to the Winklevoss brothers the founders of Winklevoss Capital investing group this part is key. The Winklevoss twins could be the first identical siblings to fly at the same time.

The Winklevoss brothers are paying the Bitcoin equivalent of $250,000 for the suborbital spaceflight. Virgin Galactic is offering trips into suborbital space (they don't reach Earth orbit like NASA shuttles) by launching the SpaceShipTwo vehicle from a high-altitude mothership called WhiteKnightTwo. The SpaceShipTwo can carry two pilots and six passengers per flight.

The Kelly brothers never had the chance to fly in space together, though at one point it was planned.

In 2011, NASA hoped to launch its second-to-last space shuttle mission the STS-134 flight on Endeavour early in the year, during the time that Scott Kelly was in command of the International Space Station. Mark Kelly, meanwhile, would command Endeavour. It would be a historic identical twin space commander flight.

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Branson got space idea from kids' TV show

Businessman Sir Richard Branson has admitted he got the idea for his commercial space flight venture during a phone-in on a children's TV show.

The Virgin boss says he first thought about it in 1988 on the BBC Saturday morning show Going Live when someone suggested it during a viewer phone-in.

Appearing on Jonathan Ross's ITV chat show, Branson said: "You never know what sparks things off in your mind but as as result of that show we registered the name Virgin Galactic Airways.

"Over the next decade I started travelling around the world meeting technicians and engineers to see if we could find a genius who could build a spaceship that could take you and me into space."

Sir Richard said the idea was the "beginning of a whole new era of space travel" and was "the most ridiculously exciting thing that I've done in my lifetime".

He added: "If we can get enough people wanting to fly it then we can start building Virgin hotels in space, we can start doing trips to Mars."

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Clifton Red wins on debut, heads to Sydney

Realism will probably win out over optimism as trainer David Hayes finalises autumn carnival plans for Clifton Red after the filly scored a debut victory in the Thoroughbred Breeders Stakes at Flemington.

As impressed as he was with Clifton Red's Group Three success, Hayes said the Golden Slipper might be aiming too high, suggesting the Sires' Produce Stakes and Champagne Stakes would be more suitable.

"She'll definitely go to Sydney, probably to run in either the Reisling or another race (the Magic Night Stakes) the week before the Slipper," Hayes said.

"But realistically, I think the Sires' or the Champagne Stakes would be better races for her.

"She would have to run really well next start to invite herself into the Golden Slipper."

Clifton Red ($26) needed every bit of the 1200m to win by a long neck from the favourite Ygritte ($2.45) with Thalia ($5) a further 2-1/4 lengths away in third place.

Despite Clifton Red being the outsider of the field, Hayes admitted to having backed the filly.

"She'd trialled well down the straight so I had something each-way on her," he said.

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