Join the people, meet the islands | Lampedusa day by day
Watch in HD*** Discover Lampedusa and Linosa, amazing Mediterranean islands, with Lampedusa day by day: visit http://lampedusadaybyday.com. --- Unisciti a...
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MCPxSS Vacation Vlog :: Islands of Adventure
That #39;s right my sexies, the girlfriend and I are in Orlando Florida getting our Tourist on. Care to join us? Opening art from myhatisblue.tumblr.com Music: y...
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2013 ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC CULTURAL FESTIVAL - CANNERY CASINO (Video Length 7:14)
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Dolphins at Galapagos Islands
A few playful dolphins were having fun in the water as we cruised along during our Scuba Diving liveaboard in 2012 on the Humboldt Explorer. This was in the ...
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Islands of Junara Ep. 3 | Premires explorations ! | GBg
[Informations !!] Salut tout le monde ! Voici le 3me pisode de notre srie Islands of Junara ! J #39;espre que vous apprciez la srie jusqu #39; prsent et que ...
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Hula in Honor of Hawaiian Islands Land Trust
At this celebration of the history of Puamana and Lahaina, Luana and Peter McKenney hosted an intimate group at sunset to talk story, hula dance and announce...
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Minecraft Big Dig Survival Day 1: The Best Islands Ever!
In this series I spawn on Islands with the new mod pack with no Idea of what awaits.
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People Progressive Party (PPP) Turks and Caicos Islands Chamber of Commerce Presentation - Intro
Candidates Harold Charles (Leader), Zhavargo Jolly (Deputy Leader), Dr. Edward Smith, Dorrel Delancey-Pratt and Wendal Wilson make a presentation on the futu...
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Minecraft - Mapa de Sobrevivncia Elemental Islands
Quem gostou do vdeo da um joinha, favorita e se inscreve. MUITO OBRIGADO por assistir o vdeo e no se esquea sua participao muito importante ento POR...
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People Progressive Party (PPP) Turks and Caicos Islands Chamber of Commerce Presentation - Part 2
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Solomon Islands Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo Attends Global Conference of the Extractives Industries Transparency Initiative, EITI
Honiara, May 21, 2013 Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Hon. Gordon Darcy Lilo will give a key note address at the 6th Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Global Conference, in Sydney, Australia this week.
Speakers at the conference address the evolution of the EITI, now a firmly established global standard in extractive industry revenue transparency. Solomon Islands is the first country in Oceana to become an EITI candidate country of 37 countries implementing the standard globally.
Speaking Tuesday, on his departure to Sydney Mr. Lilo said, the government will make sure Solomon Islands becomes a compliant country of EITI.
Implementing EITI in the Solomon Islands is very important. As our main source of revenue, output from our forestry sector is expected to decline in the coming years. So a decision has been taken to focus on developing the vast potential of our mining sector as the future engine of growth in the economy. Establishing the consultative, consensus building, and transparency enhancing mechanisms common to EITI, will help reduce the risk of conflict and repeating the legacy of the forestry sector.
Signing on to the EITI runs in parallel to initiatives taken to modernize the mining sector in collaboration with the World Bank. The government is currently in discussion with the World Bank to provide ongoing support to update the mining law and regulatory framework for the sector to promote the development of an industry that is environmentally and socially responsible.
The EITI standard is based on a simple but powerful concept that ensures the money mining companies say they have paid to the government, is actually equal to the money the government says it has received from them. While the initiative is led by the government all decisions are made in active and meaningful partnership with civil society and industry representatives. These representatives work together in the Solomon Islands Extractive Industry National Stakeholder Group (SIEINSG). Key members of this group are also attending the EITI conference in Sydney.
Mr. Lilo continues, From experience, natural resource extraction as we have seen with logging can be a potential source of conflict, and in order to avoid a repeat of conflict related to resource extraction and benefit sharing, government will do all it can to support everybody that is involved in developing the mining sector.
The 6th EITI global conference will focus on how transparency and the EITI is leading to change in the 37 implementing countries, as well as agreeing to a revised version of EITI Standards to ensure greater transparency in the years ahead. This will include changes aimed at improved implementation and reporting processes.
The conference theme is Beyond Transparency as some of these changes will include new reporting requirements including greater detail in reporting revenue streams, local level reporting, and industry social expenditures. It brings together delegates and officials from academic institutions, the mining industry, private sector, international development organizations, and governments from almost 100 countries.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A rare and tiny island fox is on the verge of making a comeback from near-extinction in the Channel Islands, a rugged and wind-swept chain off Southern California, officials said Monday.
The population of the fox dropped to an all-time low of just 70 animals on Santa Cruz Island in 2000 before rebounding to 1,300 foxes now, said Yvonne Menard, a spokeswoman for the National Park Service. Santa Cruz is the largest island.
Populations on nearby San Miguel and Santa Rosa islands have also bounced back into the hundreds after dropping in 1999 to just 15 of the cat-sized animals on each island.
The island fox is only found on six of the Channel Islands, a chain of eight islands, five of which form a national park. Each of the six islands has its own unique fox subspecies because of generations of genetic isolation.
In a five-year period in the 1990s, fox populations plummeted more than 90 percent on the rugged and mountainous islands due to an influx of golden eagles, which preyed on them.
The eagles were attracted by hundreds of feral pigs on Santa Cruz Island that also made easy prey and were descendants of pigs brought to the island years ago by ranchers.
The food source allowed the eagles to begin to nest on the island, said Tim Coonan, a biologist with the National Park Service.
Four of the six fox subspecies were listed as federally protected endangered species in 2004, but now biologists say their populations on three of the four islands have recovered almost completely.
"They are doing unexpectedly well," Coonan said in a phone interview Monday after a tour of Santa Cruz Island to publicize the program's success.
"I don't think anyone could imagine that 12 years after the decline was discovered .... we'd be looking at recovered populations."
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Quality Improvement and Health Care Delivery Reform -- 2013
David R. Nielsen, MD Description and Goals: 1) Review the fiscal, political, and clinical environment in which quality improvement (QI) and other reforms are...
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MILWAUKEE - Ministry Health Care, which owns several hospitals and clinics in Northeast Wisconsin, plans to cut jobs.
A company spokesman says Ministry expects to cut between 225 and 250 full-time equivalent positions across its Wisconsin and Minnesota facilities through a combination of attrition and job elimination. Ministry owns 15 hospitals and 47 clinics, including St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton, Mercy Medical Center in Oshkosh, Ministry Door County Medical Center in Sturgeon Bay and Calumet Medical Center in Chilton.
Company leaders say two main factors are leading to the job cuts. High-deductible health insurance plans have led to decreased demand for doctor and outpatient services. Also, the company says the automatic federal budget cuts known as sequestration have resulted in Ministry losing $10 million in payments for Medicare services annually.
Coming to this conclusion has not been easy, Nick Desien, President and CEO of Ministry Health Care, said in a news release. We recognize that a decision to reduce the size of our workforce will impact the lives of many of our friends and colleagues. However, it is necessary to continue our mission of providing the highest quality of care to our patients, especially the poor and vulnerable, without a disruption in services.
Ministry did not say when the cuts would begin or if any facilities would be closed.
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In a world that increasingly moves at digital speed, we humans are painfully slow and selective processors of information.
We'll get through a couple of paragraphs of, say, a Paul Krugman op-ed in The New York Times about fiscal policy. But then we see something shiny in the marginalia about, oh, Jennifer Lawrence or Bradley Cooper, and faster than we can process the meaning of "Keynesian," we're off to tangent city.
Which explains, in part, why surveys indicate that many of us don't "get" health care reform.
President Barack Obama's historic Affordable Care Act of 2010 is an ambitious, tightly woven road map intended to eventually lead most Americans to better care while controlling costs, all without scrapping what passes for a free market in the health care world.
While we've been singularly focused on the constitutionality of the "act" portion of the Affordable Care Act these past three years -- a matter settled last summer by the U.S. Supreme Court -- I spotted a shiny bit of insight recently that might refocus our collective attention on that underappreciated "affordable" part.
A report by a pair of nonprofits, the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute and the Catalyst for Payment Reform (love the acronym, CPR), graded each state based on how its laws shield medical billing from public view and thus make it difficult to comparison shop. (Lest you think this a guerilla attack, the nation's largest employers, including Boeing, General Electric and Wal-Mart, are all part of the CPR collective.)
How did the states fare? The report gave 29 of them an F and seven a D, meaning that 36 out of 50 states in our union think you can't handle the truth when it comes to the true cost of your own care. Only those annoying overachievers Massachusetts and New Hampshire earned an A.
So how do these obscure laws translate to the price of milk? Funny you should ask, because there's a report for that, too.
In 2011, the nonprofit Institute of Medicine issued "The Healthcare Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes." It found that since 1999, health care costs had increased by 131 percent while everyday salaries had risen by an average of 35 percent.
If groceries had gone up as fast as health care costs since 1945, the report says, you'd be paying around $48 for a gallon of milk, $55 for a dozen eggs and $134 for a dozen oranges today.
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WORLD HISTORY GENETIC ENGINEERING PROJECT
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Genetic Engineering: What it is and How it will Affect Our Future
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AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
uniQure B.V., a leader in the field of human gene therapy, today announced that with its consortium partners it is to receive a EUR 2.5 million Eurostars grant to develop an RNA interference (RNAi) gene therapy for Huntington's disease. The consortium is a pan-European collaboration consisting of uniQure as the coordinator, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland, University Medical Center Gttingen, Germany, and Maria Curie-Skodowska University, Poland.
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The program's aim is to develop a gene therapy for the treatment of Huntington's disease (HD), a rare and devastating neurodegenerative disease caused by mutations in the Huntingtin (Htt) gene. As a result of the defective gene, mutated proteins accumulate in the brain and destroy neurons, leading at first to involuntary, random body movements, but eventually to progressive cognitive decline and finally dementia. Onset of the disease usually manifests itself around 35 to 44 years of age, while life expectancy after diagnosis is on average 20 years. The program will start on June 1, 2013 and run for three years.
"Our Huntington's disease program is part of our strategic effort to demonstrate the potential of our AAV-delivery platform in RNAi," says Jrn Aldag, CEO of uniQure. "The RNAi field has great promise to become a new and important treatment modality. However, the field has been held back by the lack of effective delivery mechanisms. We believe that our AAV technology is ideally suited to deliver RNAi compounds with high accuracy and efficacy. In addition, the development with the consortium of a gene expression system for GDNF will not only benefit the HD program, but also holds great promise for our Parkinson's disease program, and potentially other CNS disorders."
About the program
The consortium's goals are to develop a regulated gene expression system for glial cell derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) to improve the maintenance and survival of neurons as a HD gene therapy, and to develop regulated expression of artificial miRNA to conditionally silence the Htt gene. The main outcome of the program is a robust pre-clinical assessment of the first regulated gene therapy vector suitable for optimized treatment of HD patients. The ability to regulate gene expression would additionally represent an exciting innovation in the field of gene therapy, creating new opportunities to tackle challenging diseases where gene expression is only required at certain times. The consortium expects that the program's results should lead to clinical safety trials within two years after the conclusion of the project.
About uniQure
uniQure is a world leader in the development ofhuman gene based therapies.uniQure's Glybera, a gene therapy for the treatment of lipoprotein lipase deficiency has been approved in the European Union, and is the first approved gene therapy in the Western world. uniQure's product pipeline of gene therapy products in development comprise hemophilia B, acute intermittent porphyria, Parkinson's disease and Sanfilippo B. Using adeno-associated viral (AAV) derived vectors as the delivery vehicle of choice for therapeutic genes, the company has been able to design and validate probably the world's first stable and scalable AAV manufacturing platform.uniQure's largest shareholders are Forbion Capital Partners and Gilde Healthcare, two of the leading life sciences venture capital firms in the Netherlands. Further information can be found at http://www.uniqure.com.
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2013 Fiscal Summit: Futurist Juan Enriquez presents A Vision of the Future and the Importance of Now
"A Vision of the Future and the Importance of Now" presentation by futurist Juan Enriquez. From the 2013 Fiscal Summit: Facing the Future, held Tuesday, May ...
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The Future of Content Creativity: Gerd Leonhard Futurist Speaker at RSA London April 8 2009
This is the video of my speech I held at the RSA as part of an event on April 8 2009, entitled "New Media Futures: what next for content and creativity" Topi...
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