9/25/2013 MAJOR LEAK! GIANT STRUCTURES ON THE MOON – UFOS – NASA – Aliens – Video

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9/25/2013 - Newly obtained moon footage, reveals multiple major UFO finds, including a dome structure and a possible moon mining craft. As always, you decide...

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NASA Awards Force Measurement Support Contract

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NASA announced the selection of two Newport News, Va., businesses to provide various force measurement and strain gauge instrumentation services at the NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va.

Modern Machine and Tool Co., Inc., was awarded contract line item numbers 0001 and 0003, and Triumph Aerospace Systems was awarded contract line item number 2, of the Force Measurement Support Services contract. These businesses will support NASA programs and projects by providing services to produce, calibrate, repair and utilize instruments in a wide range of environments, from cryogenic to high temperatures, and applications.

The performance period of the two indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts is five years, including options, starting Oct. 1 and ending no later than Sept. 30, 2018.

The contract value for line items 0001 and 0003 is $9.1 million, $600,000 for line item 0002.

Principal work will be performed at the contractor facilities in Hampton.

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Building Gods Documentary - Transhumanism, Artificial intelligence and nanotechnology This film by Ken Gumbs tackles the issue of pending greater-than-human ...

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Institute for Regenerative Medicine to Lead National Effort to Aid Wounded Warriors

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Newswise WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. Sept. 27, 2013 The Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine (Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) has been selected to lead the second phase of the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM). The five-year, $75 million federally funded project focuses on applying regenerative medicine to battlefield injuries.

Anthony Atala, M.D., director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, is the lead investigator for AFIRM-II. He will direct a consortium of more than 30 academic institutions and industry partners. Assisting him is co-director Rocky S. Tuan, Ph.D., associate director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.

The first phase of AFIRM, which began in 2008, resulted in clinical studies of face transplantation, minimally invasive surgery for craniofacial injuries, a lower-dose anti-rejection regimen after kidney transplantation, scar reduction treatments, fat grafting for reconstructive surgery and new treatments for burns. Atala was co-leader of AFIRM-I, which was comprised of two research consortiums.

The AFIRM-I teams were charged with conducting at least one clinical study of a new treatment for wounded warriors, said Atala. Instead, due to their expertise, collaborative spirit and dedication to the mission, there were more than 10 clinical studies of potential new therapies. We are honored to have the opportunity to continue this important work to benefit those who serve our country.

Regenerative medicine is a science that takes advantage of the bodys natural healing powers to restore or replace damaged tissue and organs. Therapies developed by AFIRM can also benefit people in the civilian population. AFIRM is a results-focused program that not only funds scientific research, but requires that discoveries be tested and compared so that the most promising therapies can be brought to clinical trials.

When warriors come back from the battlefield with serious life-changing injuries, it is our job to find new and innovative ways to help them. Ultimately, wed like to create new treatments to repair these severe injuries as if they never happened, said Maj. Gen. Joseph Caravalho Jr., commanding general of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and Fort Detrick. The science of regenerative medicine is one of the ways we fulfill our promise to service members who put themselves in harms way, that we will work our hardest and do our very best to take care of them.

The AFIRM-II team will focus on developing clinical therapies over the next five years focusing on: Restoring function to severely traumatized limbs Reconstruction for facial and skull injuries through tissue regeneration Skin regeneration for burn injuries New treatments to prevent rejection of composite transplants such as face and hands Reconstruction of the genital and urinary organs and lower abdomen including the bladder, anal sphincter and external genitalia

Members of the AFIRM-II team, known as the Warrior Restoration Consortium, are Brigham and Women's Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, Georgia Institute of Technology, Jewish Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, Livionex Inc., Massachusetts General Hospital, Mayo Clinic, New York University School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Oregon Health & Science University, Radboud University Medical Center, Research Foundation of SUNY, Rice University, Stanford University School of Medicine, Rutgers -The State University of New Jersey, Southwest Research Institute, Stratatech Corporation, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Tufts University, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Cincinnati, University of Connecticut, University of Florida, University of Louisville School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh, UW Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Wake Forest University School of Medicine (Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center).

The academic-industry team will work with health professionals at the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to develop new treatments for wounded soldiers. Government sponsors of AFIRM are the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Medical Service, the Office of Research and Development - Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs.

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Combining Chinese and Western medicine could lead to new cancer treatments

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Contact: Chris Jones jonesc83@cardiff.ac.uk 029-208-74731 Cardiff University

Combining traditional forms of Chinese and Western medicine could offer new hope for developing new treatments for liver, lung, colorectal cancers and osteosarcoma of the bones.

Experts from Cardiff University's School of Medicine have joined forces with Peking University in China to test the health benefits of a traditional Chinese medicine.

The team also set-out to examine how by combining it with more traditional methods like Chemotherapy could improve patient outcomes and potentially lead to the development of new cancer treatments and therapies.

"Traditional Chinese medicine where compounds are extracted from natural products or herbs has been practised for centuries in China, Korea, Japan and other countries in Asia," according to Professor Wen Jiang from Cardiff University's School of Medicine, who is the director of the Cardiff University-Peking University Joint Cancer Institute at Cardiff and led the research as part of a collaboration between Cardiff University and Peking University.

"Although a few successes, most of the traditional remedies are short of scientific explanation which has inevitably led to scepticism especially amongst traditionalists in the West.

"As a result, we set out to test the success of a Chinese medicine and then consider how combining it alongside traditional methods like Chemotherapy could result in positive outcome for patients," he adds.

Yangzheng Xiaoji is a traditional Chinese formula consisting of 14 herbs. The formula has been shown to be beneficial to cancer patients however, until now how it works has remained unknown.

Since 2012 the Team have investigated how the formula works, discovering that it works by blocking a pathway which stops the spread of cancer cells in the body.

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Modernizing Medicine(R) Receives 2013 Florida Fast 100 Award

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BOCA RATON, FL--(Marketwired - Sep 27, 2013) - Modernizing Medicine, Inc., has been recognized by the Florida Business Journals as one of the 100 Fastest Growing Companies in the State of Florida. The company ranked third out of the entire group of stellar companies.

"We work hard to meet the demand for healthcare technology that truly helps doctors be more efficient," said Daniel Cane, President and CEO of Modernizing Medicine. "Our company has grown into new specialties this year and we look forward to helping a wider range of physicians in the year ahead. We thank the Florida Business Journals for acknowledging our hard work and momentum."

Each year the Business Journals ranks Florida's fastest-growing private companies to come up with the prestigious 'Fast 100.' Companies chosen show a range of industries, including real estate development, manufacturing, technology, healthcare and retail, and in size and annual revenue. The companies are ranked by one-year percentage growth. Last year, Modernizing Medicine ranked #1 among the winners of the 'Fast 50' companies in South Florida, an award given by the South Florida Business Journal.

Details about the 'Fast 100' and the full list of honorees are available on the Business Journals' website. The official company rankings were announced during the awards ceremony on September 27th in Orlando, Florida.

About Modernizing Medicine

Modernizing Medicine is transforming how healthcare information is created, consumed and utilized in order to increase efficiency and improve outcomes. Our product, Electronic Medical Assistant (EMA), is a cloud-based, specialty-specific electronic medical record (EMR) system with a massive library of built-in medical content, designed to save physicians time. Available as a native iPad application or from any web-enabled Mac or PC, EMA adapts to each provider's unique style of practice and is designed to interface with hundreds of different practice management systems. Today, Modernizing Medicine provides specialty-specific offerings for the dermatology, ophthalmology, optometry, orthopedics, otolaryngology and plastic and cosmetic surgery markets, and to more than 1,000 physician practices across the country. In 2013 Modernizing Medicine was listed on Forbes' annual ranking of America's Most Promising Companies.

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Steve Jobs Left a Legacy on Personalized Medicine

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A type of DNA test the Apple CEO hoped might save his life is becoming widely available.

Final slide: In 2011, Steve Jobs spent $100,000 to discover the genetic basis of the cancer that killed him.

If you need proof of how information technology is influencing biotech, take a look at Foundation Medicine, the Boston-area diagnostics company that went public on Wednesday.

Its stock price quickly doubled after the IPO. And one reason is surely its links to stratospheric tech names from the West Coast. The company is backed by both Google and Bill Gates, and the core idea behind its technology was once tried out on Apple founder Steve Jobs.

Foundation sells a $5,800 test that looks in detail at the DNA of a person with cancer. The concept is that a comprehensive catalogue of genetic mutations in a persons tumor will show exactly whats driving the cancer and help doctors choose what drug will work best (see Foundation Medicine: Personalizing Cancer Drugs.)

It turns out that Jobs was one of the first peopleand certainly the best-knownto try this kind of all-in genetic strategy to beat cancer. As recounted in Walter Isaacsons biography of the Apple CEO, Jobs spent $100,000 to learn the DNA sequence of his genome and that of the tumors killing him. Jobs was jumping between treatments and hoped DNA would provide clues about where to turn next.

One of Jobss doctors I spoke to indicated that in the end DNA did not prove key to steering his treatment. But Jobs believed that medicine was taking strides. He famously said, Im either going to be one of the first to be able to outrun a cancer like this, or Im going to be one of the last to die from it.

According to Isaacson, some of the DNA analysis was done by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and his book tells how researchers travelled to California to brief Jobs five months before his death in 2011. While Broad wasnt able to confirm its role to me (events around Jobss illness are still closely guarded), by the time Jobs died four of the institutes top scientists were already deeply involved in setting up Foundation Medicine, which is based on their work studying cancer mutations.

The companys test, called FoundationOne, essentially offers the public the same type of DNA screening information that Jobs was among the first to get. Its a test that sequences 236 genes involved in cancer, detailing the dangerous mutations that are causing them to grow.

Google and Gates are two of the largest investors in Foundation Medicinethey own 9 percent and 4 percent of the company, respectively. One motive for their investment, I think, is that DNA is a profoundly digital molecule. And now that its become very cheap to decode, genetic data is piling up by the terabyte. Tech executives understand that and can see how to make a business out of it.

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Sports are outlet for Liberty's Gibson

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Running back has passion for football

Liberty RB Shakree Gibson.NICHOLAS PIATEK/For the Times Herald-Record

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Published: 2:00 AM - 09/27/13

LIBERTY As a young boy, Shakree Gibson was painfully shy, keeping to himself in what his foster mom, Brenda Miller, called his own little world.

Truth be told, young Shakree was more than shy. He was scared and insecure.

However, for Gibson, confidence would partially come in the form of sports. His therapy was provided on soccer fields, baseball diamonds, basketball fields and, most of all, on the football field.

This is why Gibson plays running back. He starts for Liberty, by way of Fallsburg, where he played the last three seasons. Gibson transferred to Liberty in June after completing his junior year at Fallsburg, which folded its football team after last season.

"When Fallsburg lost football, in my head, I was going crazy," Gibson said. "Football was the only way I could get everything out of my head. All the pain, the misery, the depression was stuck in my head. Football is the only way I could get it out of my head."

Gibson could end up being a 1,000-yard rusher for Liberty, a perennial Class C playoff contender, this fall. He put up 1,039 yards and seven touchdowns for Fallsburg last season. Gibson has 281 yards in three games this year.

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Libertarian threatens to spoil GOP hopes in Virginia

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Libertarian Robert Sarvis, center, could pull votes away from Republican Ken Cuccinelli, left, which could help Democrat Terry McAuliffe, right.

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Washington (CNN) -- The Virginia governor's race has often been looked to as an off-year barometer of national political sentiment.

This year's grind-it-out race, an acrimonious spitball contest between two candidates only slightly more likeable than Walter White, is anything but.

In a lesser-of-two-evils campaign, Terry McAuliffe, the longtime Democratic fundraiser and confidante to former President Bill Clinton, is clinging to a modest but sturdy lead over Republican Ken Cuccinelli, the state's attorney general.

Republicans have pilloried McAuliffe as a sleazy political operator and failed businessman who exploited his Washington connections to help his sputtering car company, GreenTech Automotive. Cuccinelli has been targeted as a far-right social crusader who would curb abortion rights and access to contraception. Democrats on Twitter are fond of calling him #creepyken.

McAuliffe is leading Cuccinelli among likely voters by an eight-point margin, 47% to 39%, according to a Washington Post poll out this week.

McAuliffe is hardly bulletproof: A federal investigation into GreenTech has sullied his reputation, and only two-thirds of Democrats -- his own party -- consider him "honest and trustworthy."

But Cuccinelli is on much shakier ground. While Republicans are slightly more fired up about voting for him than Democrats are for McAuliffe, Cuccinelli's favorable ratings are next-to-toxic: More than half of likely voters view him unfavorably.

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HIGHLIGHTS: Faroe Islands 2- 7 Scotland // FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015 Qualifier – Video

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5 things to do when visiting Derawan Islands

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Widely considered a divers paradise, these remote islands in East Kalimantan lure non-divers as well. The Jakarta Post Travel list five things to do in Derawan.

1. Islands and Islets hopping

Those who want to nurture their fantasy of being stranded on an island, where every turn of the eyes finds beautiful white sand beach and the horizon, may realize their dream in Derawan, with the bonus of not really being stranded.

This cluster of islands comprises 31 islands and islets and is much less touristy than areas such as Bali..

Some of Derawans famous islands, aside from the main Derawan Island, are Pulau Kakaban, Pulau Maratua, and Pulau Nabucco where the rare species of coconut crab can be found.

Motor boat rental prices depend on boat size, starting from Rp 300,000 (US $ 27.01) per person.

Use your bargaining skills to get the best deal. Most boatmen here prefer lump sum figures such as Rp 5 million for three days for six people.

2. Explore the village

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