Europe Responds to Russian Aggression: NATO opens second Baltic hub at Estonia’s Amari air base – Video

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NATO has officially turned Estonia #39;s Amari air base into its second hub in the Baltic States in a move designed to boost the alliance #39;s presence in the region.

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15 years on: NATO’s Murino Massacre of innocent children remembered In the NOW. – Video

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15 years on: NATO #39;s Murino Massacre of innocent children remembered In the NOW.
A young boy and two girls were among those killed when NATO bombed a small village in Montenegro during their 1999 campaign against Yugoslavia. In the Now we look back at the ghost of NATO #39;s...

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As NATO Builds It’s Forces The Economy Is On The Brink Of Collapse — Episode 355 – Video

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NATO official: Russian moves in Ukraine pose 'grave challenge' to global security system

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People in helmets (left and right), dressed as Russian factories workers, hold a man wearing Barack Obama's mask with mock NATO's bomb in chains, as they take part in a Communists demonstration in downtown Moscow, Russia, Thursday, May, 1, 2014. Thousands of Communists, members of Russia's main political parties and opposition activists staged competing marches in Moscow and other cities Thursday marking the traditional May Day holiday. Poster at the background reads : Peace, Labour, May. (AP Photo/Denis Tyrin)The Associated Press

WASHINGTON The United States and some of its NATO allies see Russia's intervention in Ukraine as a post-Cold War turning point, possibly ending two decades of hope that Moscow could be made a lasting security partner.

NATO's deputy secretary general, Alexander Vershbow, said Thursday that the alliance is compelled to view Russia as an adversary in light of its annexation of Crimea and its apparent efforts to further destabilize eastern Ukraine.

Vershbow, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO and onetime Pentagon official, said Russia's interventionist stance of late poses "grave challenges" to global security arrangements that have developed since the end of World War II.

"What the Russians have done ... is effectively overturned a lot of the pillars of the international security system that we've come to know and be comfortable with," he said.

With the Ukraine crisis and NATO's deteriorating relations with Moscow as a backdrop, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was to deliver a speech Friday on the future of the Western alliance and how it can maintain its relevance.

Hagel was expected to argue that the crisis in Ukraine represents a "coalescing moment" for the alliance that should be used to improve NATO defense capabilities, according to an official familiar with his speech preparation.

Fear of Russian aggression is most acute among newer NATO members such as Poland and other Eastern European states that once were part of the Soviet sphere of influence but chose to join the Western alliance after the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. Some older NATO members in Europe are less alarmed and see less urgency in trying to punish Moscow for its moves in Ukraine.

In his speech, Hagel also was expected to draw linkages between military security and economic security, in Europe and more broadly, the official said. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the remarks were still being prepared.

Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Thursday that after a recent trip to Ukraine he believes Washington needs to stiffen its support for the Ukrainian government in its confrontation with Moscow.

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Tech firms to increase alerts about police requests for data — report

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Despite Justice Department objections, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft plan to expand their policies on notifying customers whose data has been requested by law enforcement, says a report.

The news comes as a digital-rights organization gets set to release an influential privacy scorecard, and as bad publicity still hangs in the air regarding potential cooperation between tech firms and the US National Security Agency.

The customer notifications apparently wouldn't apply to requests made by the NSA, or requests involving national security letters -- administrative subpoenas -- issued by the FBI, says a Washington Post report.

"The changing tech company policies do not affect data requests approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which are automatically kept secret by law," the Post notes, referring to the special court that oversees the NSA's controversial surveillance programs. (Those programs, of course, were made commonly known by Edward Snowden's leaking of top secret agency documents last summer). National security letters are also kept mum by default, the Post adds.

But other police requests for email records and online data would be covered, unless accompanied by a court-approved gag order.

The US Department of Justice says the notifications could tip off criminals and help them avoid prosecution, but a tech lawyer quoted by the Post says the change in policy would provide a check on wanton searches. "It serves to chill the unbridled, cost-free collection of data," the Post quotes attorney Albert Gidari Jr. as saying.

The Post cites unnamed company officials in reporting that Facebook and Microsoft are preparing policy changes. An Apple rep told the paper that the company would be updating its policy later in May "so that in most cases when law enforcement requests personal information about a customer, the customer will receive a notification."

Twitter routinely alerts customers about police requests for data, Yahoo announced changes in July, and Google put changes in place this week, the Post reports.

Digital-rights nonprofit The Electronic Frontier Foundation is preparing to release its annual "Who Has Your Back?" scorecard later this month. Last year, neither Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, nor Yahoo got a gold star in the "Tells users about government data requests" column of the report card, though Twitter and others did.

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Tyler (KETK) I always like to hear from the audience and a few of you have weighed in about the crazyNBA owner in LA.

You ask me about his First Amendment rights. Well, yes, he has them. So do you. So do I

That's what I am doing right now. I can speak against the powers that be it state, local or federal government.

In fact, an attorney friend of mine said it best on his Facebook page:"Don't we have freedom of speech?" they asked him. My friend replies by saying, "Please allow me to point out that the First Amendment protects us against attacks by the government on freedom of speech. The First Amendment does not apply to the NBA or other private businesses. "

You can get on the federal government all day long, but what you say here in East Texas may hurt you.

Case in point, I could get mad about somebody or something and trash them right here. You could do it at the grocery store or down at the VFW hall, but what you say can be held against you.

If you run a business, people may never buy from you again because they think you're a nut. You have the right to take on your employer.

They have the right to have the last say and that may not pay very well. I'll wrap up with that old Johnny Paycheck song.

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Additional Tickets Released for Stem Cell Institute Public Seminar on Adult Stem Cell Therapy Clinical Trials in New …

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New York, NY (PRWEB) May 02, 2014

Stem Cell Institute is releasing additional tickets for its Adult Stem Cell Therapy Clinical Trials seminar on Saturday, May 17, 2014 in New York City at the New York Hilton Midtown from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm.

After booking its original meeting room beyond capacity, the Stem Cell Institute has reserved a larger room to accommodate additional attendees. The seminar will now take place in the Beekman Room, 2nd Floor, East Corridor of the New York Hilton Midtown.

Those interested in attending are encouraged to register promptly. Only 75 additional seats are available.

Speakers include:

Neil Riordan PhD Clinical Trials: Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy for Autism and Spinal Cord Injury

Dr. Riordan is the founder of the Stem Cell Institute and Medistem Panama Inc.

Jorge Paz-Rodriguez MD Stem Cell Therapy for Autoimmune Disease: MS, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Lupus

Dr. Paz is the Medical Director at the Stem Cell Institute. He practiced internal medicine in the United States for over a decade before joining the Stem Cell Institute in Panama.

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Stem Cells Of Infertile Men Used To Create Preliminary Sperm Cells

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A new study, from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Montana State University, demonstrates that, when implanted into the reproductive system of a mouse model, stem cells created from adult, infertile men will yield primordial germ cells. Primordial germ cells normally become sperm cells.

The findings, published in Cell Reports, help to further our understanding of a genetic cause of male infertility and basic sperm biology. The research team says that their approach holds considerable potential for clinical applications.

All of the infertile male participants suffer from a genetic mutation that prevents their bodies from producing mature sperm. The study suggests that the men with this condition called azoospermia might have produced germ cells at some point in their early lives, but these cells were lost as the men matured to adulthood.

Our results are the first to offer an experimental model to study sperm development, said Renee Reijo Pera of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine and Montana State University. Therefore, there is potential for applications to cell-based therapies in the clinic, for example, for the generation of higher quality and numbers of sperm in a dish.

It might even be possible to transplant stem-cell-derived germ cells directly into the testes of men with problems producing sperm, she added. Considerable study to ensure safety and practicality is needed, however, before reaching that point.

Infertility is a fairly common problem, affecting between 10 and 15 percent of couples in the US. The researchers say that many men are affected by genetic causes of infertility, most commonly due to the spontaneous loss of key genes on the Y sex chromosome. Until now, the causes of infertility at the molecular level have not been clear.

The fact that the research team was able to create primordial germ cells from the infertile men is very promising, but they note that these stem cells created far fewer of these sperm progenitors than the stem cells of men without the genetic mutations. They are sure, however, that this research provides a much needed model to study the earliest steps of human reproduction.

We saw better germ-cell differentiation in this transplantation model than weve ever seen, said Reijo Pera, former director of Stanfords Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education. We were amazed by the efficiency. Our dream is to use this model to make a genetic map of human germ-cell differentiation, including some of the very earliest stages.

Humans share many cellular and physiological processes with common laboratory animals such as mice or fruit flies. In reproduction, however, there are significant variances, making it challenging to recreate the human reproductive processes in a laboratory setting. In addition, many crucial steps, such as the development and migration of primordial germ cells to the gonads,occur in the relatively short first days or weeks after conception.

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