Panel: Libertarian candidate can't run

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A panel ruled Tuesday that Republican-turned-Libertarian Chad Grimm cannot remain on the ballot for the November general election.

Grimm sought to oust Democratic incumbent state Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth.

At a hearing held in the Peoria County boardroom, the three-member Peoria County Officers Electoral Board decided Grimm's petitioners broke state election laws because some who circulated nominating petitions for Grimm also worked for state Sen. Dave Koehler, a Democrat.

"I told the panel I did my due diligence by asking them point-blank if they had ever circulated petitions in this election cycle, and they told me no," said Grimm. "It's a completely unreasonable law, and they threw me off on a technicality because Jehan Gordon-Booth did not want to run a campaign and she wants to assume the seat she holds is her seat, not that of the 92nd District."

The challenge to Grimm's candidacy wasn't filed by Gordon-Booth but by Patricia Kenny, a political ally.

When reached Tuesday evening, Gordon-Booth said allegations that she didn't want to run a campaign were "ridiculous" and pointed to her voting record over the past three years, saying she represented all the members of her district.

"There is a process in place, and there are people who successfully get on the ballot every year," she said. "I understand that he may have a degree of frustration, but there are literally hundreds or thousands of people in this state who get on the ballot."

Grimm maintains it is virtually impossible to check if anyone ever circulated a petition for a different party because that would mean going to Springfield, pulling petitions for every non-Libertarian candidate in any race and checking the names against those who circulated petitions for him.

The decision isn't final until a written order is entered by the board, which is likely to come on Thursday. Grimm will have five days from then to appeal. If he chooses to appeal, a local judge will likely hear the matter and could possibly rule before the ballots are printed this fall.

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Geography and Natural Resources of the Spratly Islands

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The territorial dispute surrounding the Spratly Islands which sit on blocks of potentially rich oil and gas resources has reached a boiling point, as recent watershed developments in a ministerial conference of Southeast Asian nations demonstrated.

The 45th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM) in Cambodia that kicked off on July 9 this year, will be remembered as the first ever meeting that did not issue the customary joint statement at the end of the summit since the annual event's establishment in 1967. The diplomatic failure resulted as the summit's chair, Cambodia, refused to include several paragraphs in the draft statement that highlighted recent run-ins at the Scarborough Shoal, which is part of the Spratlys. The Philippines and Vietnam rallied their regional neighbors to push for those inclusions, which references incidents involving their ships and Chinese vessels, but Cambodia argued that such mention of bilateral disputes was not appropriate for the communiqu.

In recent years, Phnom Penh has swung towards a pro-Beijing stance, with Cambodia's economy increasingly tied to China's, The Straits Times reported on July 16, 2012. In 2011, Cambodia received $1.2 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) from China, more than double the combined FDI from its Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) neighbors.

After the summit, Vietnam issued a strongly-worded statement on the website of its Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 13, 2012. "Chinese fishermen's activities around the Spratly archipelago are illegal and violate Vietnam's sovereignty," the statement read.

The Philippines issued a statement the following day stating that it "deplores the non-issuance of a joint communiqu."

Malaysia followed up with its own statement on July 17, 2012, stating that it had "tried very hard to work towards reaching a compromised language on the South China Sea issue but member states were not able to reach a consensus."

The recent rancor surrounding this territorial dispute brings to light far-reaching implications for the oil and gas industry. The issues of which state-backed companies one should work with and which projects one should pursue in the South China Sea are fast becoming problems, and hurdles, which oil and gas companies will find themselves grappling with.

The Spratly Islands are a group of hundreds of small islands, reefs and atolls sited in the South China Sea occupying an area roughly the size of California, but have a combined land area of less than two square miles.

So what prize could this inhospitable archipelago offer that several nations find themselves embroiled in the ongoing maritime tussle? Oil and natural gas.

The archipelago has seen much contention primarily because its location in the South China Sea straddles vast blocks of potential oil and natural gas reserves. According to a published paper in 1997 by the American University Washington D.C, oil and natural gas reserves in the contested waters surrounding the Spratly Islands were estimated at 17.7 billion tonnes. In comparison, Kuwait's oil and natural gas reserves amount to some 13 billion tonnes. However, as of now, there has been no commercial oil and gas exploration and appraisal activities to reaffirm such offsite estimates, data from the Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook updated on June 30, 2012 states.

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The Market for Private Islands Is Sinking

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If you've ever dreamed of owning your own private island, now might be your chance.

Weak demand and rising inventory for private islands around the world has created a buyer's market, with prices down between 20 percent and 80 percent.

There are now more than 600 private islands for sale around the world, according to Chris Krolow of Private Islands Inc., which helps market and sell islands. Inventory is up by more than a third since before the recession.

You don't even have to be a millionaire anymore to have your own piece of paradise. There are dozens islands around the world priced at $200,000 or less, and a few for under $50,000 (though don't expect a villa and sandy beaches in the Bahamas for that).

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Brokers say that demand remains healthy for high-quality islands - those that have houses, that are close to major population centers, with good beaches. But prices are sinking for the large and growing supply of undeveloped, remote islands that have become the castaways of the high-end real-estate market.

"The recession has divided this market in two," said Farhad Vlaid, of Vladi Private Islands, one of the world's largest private-island brokers, with offices in Germany and Toronto. "The quality islands are strengthening. But what I call 'adventure islands,' that are not inhabited, don't have a hospital nearby and there's maybe a problem with local politics and climate, that market is weakening. The sellers just don't love their islands as much."

Puangiangi Island, a 155-acre rock outcropping off the coast of New Zealand's South Island, was priced at close to $4 million was recently sold for less than $800,000. Buenavista Island in Panama, with more than 200 meters of beaches, was priced at $3 million and is now going for $750,000.

Even bigger bargains include Leaf Cay in the Bahamas. The pristine island has three beaches, deep water docks (perfect for mega-yacht parking) and easy access to a nearby golf course. Leaf Cay was on the market for $24 million, but is now priced at $7 million.

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24-07-2012 12:10 The Subcommittee on Health Care, District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives held a hearing entitled, "Meth Revisited: Review of State and Federal Efforts to Solve the Domestic Methamphetamine Production Resurgence" on July 24, 2012.

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Health care overhaul will reduce deficits, Congressional Budget Office finds

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's health care overhaul will reduce, rather than increase, the nation's huge federal deficits during the next decade, Congress' nonpartisan budget scorekeepers said Tuesday, supporting Obama's contention in a major election-year dispute with Republicans.

Republicans insist the plan will raise deficits -- by trillions, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney says.

But that's not true, the Congressional Budget Office said.

The CBO gave no updated estimate for deficit reductions from the law, approved by Congress and signed by Obama in 2010. But it did estimate that Republican legislation to repeal the overhaul -- passed recently by the House -- would itself increase the deficit by $109 billion from 2013 to 2022.

"Repealing the (health care law) will lead to an increase in budget deficits over the coming decade, though a smaller one than previously reported," budget office Director Douglas Elmendorf said in a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

Tuesday's budget projections were the first since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld most of the law last month. The CBO said the law's mix of spending cuts and tax increases would more than offset new spending to cover uninsured people.

As expected, the budget office said the law will cover fewer uninsured people because the Supreme Court ruled that states won't have to sign on to a planned expansion of Medicaid for their low-income residents.

Thirty million uninsured people will be covered by 2022, or about 3 million fewer than projected this spring before the court ruling, the report said.

As a result, taxpayers will save about $84 billion from 2012 to 2022. That brings the total cost of expanding coverage down to $1.2 trillion, from about $1.3 trillion in the last estimate.

Democrats immediately hailed the findings as vindication for the president. "This confirms what we've been saying all along: The Affordable Care Act saves lots of money," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

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Health care changes coming

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JANESVILLE One of Rock County's two largest health care providers already has been selected to participate in a national program designed to provide Medicare recipients with better care at a lower cost.

The otherMercy Health Systemplans to apply to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to become an "accountable care organization" in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.

Officials from both said the basis of the voluntary program is a delivery model they've been advocating and using for years.

Accountable care organizations are groups of doctors, hospitals and other health care providers that work together to coordinate and provide high quality care to their Medicare patients. The goal is to ensure that patients get the right care at the right time without unnecessary duplication of services and medical errors.

When an ACO meets benchmarks for care quality and efficiency, it will share in the savings it generates for the Medicare program.

"I think the model provided by ACOs is the way of the future," said Craig Samitt, president and chief executive officer of Dean Health System.

Earlier this month, Dean Clinic & St. Mary's Hospital ACO was one of 89 systems from around the country selected to participate in the program as an ACO.

"It's about delivering health care that is high quality, coordinated, more accessible and cost efficient," Samitt said. "Dean and St. Mary's has considered itself an ACO for some time. Medicare now will reward us for delivering the same type of care we have for years."

Javon Bea, Mercy's president and CEO, said that while his system has not yet applied for official designation as an ACO, it has been operating as one for decades.

Bea has been characterized in the industry as a pioneer in vertical integration. When he came to Janesville in 1989, he charted a course to turn a standalone hospital into a vertically integrated health care system that provides a wide range of services, including primary, specialty, urgent and emergency care; inpatient and outpatient hospitalization; home care; and insurance products.

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Doctor teaches elderly how to navigate their health in new guide

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(PR NewsChannel) / July 25, 2012 / NEW YORK

"Aging, Health Care, and You!: A Doctor's Personal Prescription for Understanding and Improving Your Health Care" by Dr. Martin S. Finkelstein

In Aging, Health Care and You!: A Doctors Personal Prescription for Understanding and Improving Your Health Care (ISBN 1470061945), Dr. Martin S. Finkelstein has penned an informative book that helps seniors adjust to the medical realities of aging in America.

In todays health care system, office or clinic visits may allow patients only 10-15 minutes of face-time with the doctor, says Finkelstein. This is far too little time to address the multiple complex medical problems that confound the elderly. Finkelstein wrote this guide to fill the many gaps in their knowledge, and to help them understand whats happening in their medical lives. This book confronts the complexity of health care for the elderly, including how to navigate treatment, medical care, hospitals and medical insurance.

His new guide confronts the realities of the complex health care system, which seniors rely on even as it is radically different from the doctoring system they knew in their younger years. The neighborhood doctor who made house calls and knew all the details of the family he served is long gone. In his place is a faceless system of testing, procedures and treatments with endless variations of payment and insurance coverage. When they need health care the most, many aging adults find themselves unable to understand the system of modern medical care delivery.

Finkelstein specializes in geriatric medicine and has 37 years of experience in the field. In this book, he puts down on paper many of his observations about the typical health problems seniors face as they age. He discusses the most common situations they will face in doctors offices and hospital rooms. Offering advice and guidance to the elderlys most common medical issues, this volume condenses what his patients have taught him over the years.

Aging, Health Care and You! will be valued by aging Americans for its ability to make sense of a health care system that often seems senseless. Direct, informative and told with a light touch, this book is an invaluable guide to consuming health care for elderly persons.

Aging, Health Care and You!: A Doctors Personal Prescription for Understanding and Improving Your Health Care is available for sale online at Amazon.com and other channels.

About the Author: For the past 37 years, board-certified internist Dr. Martin S. Finkelstein has practiced medicine and geriatrics in New York. He is also an assistant professor at New York Universitys Langone Medical Center. New York Magazine has labeled him as one of the Best Doctors in New York. He earned his medical degree from NYU School of Medicine and did post-graduate training at Bellevue Hospital in New York and Stanford-Palo Alto Medical Center in California.

MEDIA CONTACT Dr. Martin S. Finkelstein E-mail: mfinkelstein@acuma-nyc.com Phone: (646) 370-2030 Website:www.aginghealthandyou.com

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Nurses Call on Prime Minister Harper to Meet the Premiers

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HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA--(Marketwire -07/25/12)- Nurses congratulate Premiers for working together for the future of public health care. Governments need to be much more ambitious to ensure better health, better care and better value for Canadians, says the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) on the opening of the Council of the Federation meeting. The Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions is calling on the Premiers to champion another health accord and bring the federal government back to the table.

"Governments need to be transparent in their plans for improving health and health care and an accord is a roadmap that Canadians can read," says Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions president Linda Silas, RN.

In a brief submitted April 30 to the Premiers Health Care Innovation Working Group, the CFNU called on Premiers to work in partnership to:

"There are promising cost-effective practices to improve care and health that need to become permanent practices," says Silas. "It is only by working together that we will see a comparable access to quality services for all Canadians."

Representatives of the CFNU member organizations from across the country have a speaker forum and health clinic today in Victoria Park, the opening day of the conference in Halifax. The health care panel takes place from 11 -1 pm followed by a health clinic from 3-6 pm. Nurses will be asking the general public and health care stakeholders to show support for public health care by attending the events and by sending a postcard to the Prime Minister to come to the table and participate in discussions on health care with the Premiers.

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Ecopsychology — a major new area of study

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Contact: Cathia Falvey cfalvey@liebertpub.com 914-740-2165 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

New Rochelle, NY, July 24, 2012Hundreds of colleges and universities around the world are offering courses and even graduate degrees in ecopsychology and other forms of environmentally focused psychology. Ecopsychology examines the psychological, spiritual, and therapeutic aspects of human-nature relationships, concern about environmental issues, and responsibility for protecting natural places and other species. Educators are increasingly recognizing the value of integrating psychology and environmental content to help students appreciate the link between their own well-being and that of the natural world around them. Innovative strategies and techniques for exploring the intersection of these disciplines in the classroom are featured in a special issue of Ecopsychology, a peer-reviewed, online journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. (http://www.liebertpub.com), the issue is available free online at Ecopsychology (http://www.liebertpub.com/eco) website.

As an introduction to the special focus issue of the Journal, the editorial entitled "Teaching Environmentally Focused Psychology (http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/eco.2012.0062)" says that "so-called 'environmental problems' are really human behavioral problems." Numerous resources are now available to help teachers introduce students to the concept of the interdependence between their physical and psychological health and that of the planet, including the subdisciplines of ecopsychology, environmental psychology, and conservation psychology.

This special issue of Ecopsychology highlights a variety of approaches that incorporate traditional classroom instruction, inquiry-based learning, experiential learning, and teaching in field settings. It describes unique stand-alone courses and recommendations of activities and assignments that educators can incorporate into existing psychology and environmental science curricula.

"Our special issue, 'Teaching Ecopsychology and Environmentally-focused Psychology (http://online.liebertpub.com/toc/eco/4/2),' is one of the first surveys of its kind, and its examples of timely and innovative environmental psychology pedagogy will be a resource and inspiration for educators and students worldwide," says Editor-in-Chief Thomas Joseph Doherty, PsyD, Graduate School of Counseling, Lewis & Clark College (Portland, OR).

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Ecopsychology (http://www.liebertpub.com/eco) is a peer-reviewed journal that explores the relationship between environmental issues and mental health and well-being. The Journal examines the psychological, spiritual, and therapeutic aspects of human-nature relationships, concern about environmental issues, and responsibility for protecting natural places and other species. It provides a forum for international dialogue among experts from a range of disciplines: psychology and healthcare; environmental conservation, sociology, anthropology, and environmental studies; and related areas such as ecology, landscape restoration, eco-spirituality, and social and environmental justice movements. Complete tables of content and a sample issue may be viewed at the Ecopsychology (http://www.liebertpub.com/eco) website.

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Novel pig model may be useful for human cancer studies

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Contact: Vicki Cohn vcohn@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 x2156 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

New Rochelle, NY, July 24, 2012A naturally occurring line of immunodeficient pigs can support the growth of human tumors injected under their skin, offering a promising new large animal model for studying human cancers and testing new drugs and treatment strategies. The ability of human melanoma cells and pancreatic carcinoma cells to grow in these pig models is described in an article in BioResearch Open Access, a new bimonthly peer-reviewed open access journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. (http://www.liebertpub.com). The article is available free online at the BioResearch Open Access website (http://www.liebertpub.com/biores).

Mathew Basel and colleagues, Kansas State University (Manhattan, KS) and Iowa State University (Ames), highlight the advantages that pig disease models offer, as they are anatomically and physiologically more closely related to humans than traditional rodent animal models. As a result, findings from studies in large animal models such as pigs are more likely to translate into similar outcomes in humans. The authors present their findings in the article "Human Xenografts Are Not Rejected in a Naturally Occurring Immunodeficient Porcine Line: A Human Tumor Model in Pigs" (http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/biores.2012.9902).

"This novel animal model has the potential to become a highly useful model in cancer research studies, in addition to providing significant opportunities for drug discovery and other translational applications," says Editor-in-Chief Jane Taylor, PhD, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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BioResearch Open Access (http://www.liebertpub.com/biores) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed open access journal that provides a new rapid-publication forum for a broad range of scientific topics including molecular and cellular biology, tissue engineering and biomaterials, bioengineering, regenerative medicine, stem cells, gene therapy, systems biology, genetics, biochemistry, virology, microbiology, and neuroscience. All articles are published within 4 weeks of acceptance and are fully open access and posted on PubMedCentral. All journal content is available online at the BioResearch Open Access website (http://www.liebertpub.com/biores).

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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers (http://www.liebertpub.com) is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Tissue Engineering, Stem Cells and Development, Human Gene Therapy and HGT Methods, and AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 70 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available on the Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. website (http://www.liebertpub.com).

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New gene therapy strategy boosts levels of deficient protein in Friedreich's ataxia

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Contact: Vicki Cohn vcohn@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 x2156 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

New Rochelle, NY, July 25, 2012A novel approach to gene therapy that instructs a person's own cells to produce more of a natural disease-fighting protein could offer a solution to treating many genetic disorders. The method was used to achieve a 2- to 3-fold increase in production of a protein deficient in patients with Friedreich's ataxia, as described in an article published Instant Online in Human Gene Therapy, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. (http://www.liebertpub.com) The article is available free online at the Human Gene Therapy website (http://www.liebertpub.com/hum).

The innovative gene therapy method described by Jacques Tremblay, Pierre Chapdelaine, Zo Coulombe, and Joel Rousseau, Laval University, Quebec, and University of Quebec, Canada, takes advantage of the ability of a family of proteins called Tal effector (TALE) proteins to target specific DNA sequences. As a model of how this method could be used to treat genetic disease, the authors engineered TALE proteins to target the gene that codes for the frataxin protein, which is deficient in Friedreich's ataxia. The ability to induce cells to produce more frataxin could reduce symptoms of the disease and provide an effective, long-term therapeutic strategy, conclude the authors in the article "TALE Proteins Induce the Expression of the Frataxin Gene. (http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/hum.2012.034)

"This is a very clever approach to treat a recessive disease caused by decreased quantity of an otherwise normal protein," says James M. Wilson, MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, and Director of the Gene Therapy Program, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia.

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Human Gene Therapy (http://www.liebertpub.com/hum), the Official Journal of the European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy, British Society for Gene and Cell Therapy, French Society of Cell and Gene Therapy, German Society of Gene Therapy, and five other gene therapy societies is an authoritative peer-reviewed journal published monthly in print and online that presents reports on the transfer and expression of genes in mammals, including humans. Related topics include improvements in vector development, delivery systems, and animal models, particularly in the areas of cancer, heart disease, viral disease, genetic disease, and neurological disease, as well as ethical, legal, and regulatory issues related to the gene transfer in humans. Tables of content and a free sample issue may be viewed online at the Human Gene Therapy website (http://www.liebertpub.com/hum).

About the Publisher

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers (http://www.liebertpub.com) is a privately held, fully integrated media company known for establishing authoritative peer-reviewed journals in many promising areas of science and biomedical research, including Tissue Engineering, Stem Cells and Development, and Cellular Reprogramming. Its biotechnology trade magazine, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), was the first in its field and is today the industry's most widely read publication worldwide. A complete list of the firm's 70 journals, books, and newsmagazines is available at Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. (http://www.liebertpub.com)

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Gene therapy co. bluebird bio raises $60M

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Cambridge gene therapy developer bluebird bio said today it has completed a $60 million Series D financing round, which will be used to advance the companys clinical programs in severe genetic disorders, including childhood cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy, beta-thalassemia and sickle cell disease.

In this round, new investors Deerfield Partners, RA Capital, Ramius Capital Group and two undisclosed blue chip public investment funds joined existing investors ARCH Venture Partners, Third Rock Ventures, TVM Capital and Forbion Capital Partners. In addition, Shire PLC joined the round as a strategic investor.

With the proceeds from this funding and based on early clinical proof of concept results, bluebird bio said it will initiate a Phase 2/3 clinical study in CCALD in both the United States and Europe in 2012, as well as a second U.S.-based Phase 1/2 study in beta-thalassemia in 2013.

In addition, the company expects to initiate a more extensive sickle cell disease development program and invest in manufacturing, clinical and commercial infrastructure to support the upcoming clinical trials and pre-commercial launch activities.

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Europe Takes The Lead Toward Approval Of First Gene Therapy Drug

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VideoIt's taken decades of work but the first gene therapy is on the verge of finally getting approval in Europe. A watershed moment in gene therapy has finally come to pass. This month, a committee from the European Medicines Agency recommended the approval of a gene therapy drug, named Glybera (alipogene [...]

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Multi-faceted, modernist clutches: Baguera

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The modernist mosaic of laser-cut vectors that makes up each Baguera clutch could have you drawing associations with any number of things. Origami folds, Art Deco geometries, pieces of a futurist puzzle Call me a 12 year old boy, but I cant help but see the Transformers logo sleeping within their fragmented shapes.

Like those transforming giants of cartoon Mecha, the Baguera clutches have movement and flexibility of form. They may not transform completely, but their shape will morph and change with the contents within, the soft faux-leather underneath their armour fragments allowing them the freedom of flexibility.

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Educational Futurist Jack Uldrich to Discuss the Future of Higher Education

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Acclaimed global futurist and iconoclastic “chief unlearning officer” Jack Uldrich has been selected to deliver a seminar on future trends in higher education to senior leaders of the Cuyahoga Community College, Ohio's largest community college. Uldrich will review major educational industry trends, including advances in open-source education, mobile web communication, interactive and ...

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Two hotels to be part of First Freedom Center in Shockoe Slip

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Richmond, Va. --

Construction on the First Freedom Center complex, a combined hotel and educational center on one of the most significant historical sites in downtown, is expected to begin early next year.

The complex, which won Richmond City Council approval Monday night, is a joint project of First Freedom Center and Richmond-based hotel owner and operator Apple REIT Cos.

The six-story project on East Cary and 14th streets includes two hotels and an education center on the site where the Virginia General Assembly passed Thomas Jefferson's Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786.

The statute was a cornerstone of the First Amendment to the Constitution.

"Jefferson did this on this piece of ground, and from here it has radiated out across the country and around the whole world," said Randolph Bell, the center's president.

"We want the center to be a manifestation of that unique Richmond linkage to the world through this ideal."

When completed, the center will house permanent and traveling exhibits as well an auditorium and meeting space. First Freedom's mission is to advance freedom of religion and freedom of conscience.

Apple REIT, a real estate investment trust focused on ownership of upscale, extended-stay and select-service hotels across the country, will build a 135-room Courtyard by Marriott and a 75-room Residence Inn by Marriott at the center.

The hotel space will include a religious freedom library "and other features responding to the educational mission of the overall complex."

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Sir Paul McCartney found freedom in Scotland

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Paul and Linda McCartney in Scotland

Sir Paul McCartney found freedom when he moved to Scotland in 1971.

The legendary musician took his wife Linda and their young children - Heather, Linda's child from a previous relationship, and Mary - to their farm on the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland, in the wake of the dissolution of The Beatles to avoid dealing with all the legal problems that arose with the end of the group.

Paul said: 'It was a good relief from everything that was going on, after The Beatles had broken up. For me, from the early days in Liverpool right through to the Ed Sullivan show to the big American tours, that had been my life, so when it suddenly ended in disarray, over business things, it was very unpleasant.

'So my thought at the time was, 'Just get away, don't' just sit in all these meetings with people saying, 'You've got to do that, oh no, no...' and it was really miserable and it was the opposite of what The Beatles had been.

'We just got away, Linda and I and took the kids and went to Scotland and found freedom. Freedom to raise our young family. And we suddenly realised how important that was. Otherwise I was, 'See you later love, you raise the kids, I've got to go to some heavy meeting, talk about business,' so we got away.'

While they stayed on the farm, Paul and Linda worked on their musical collaboration 'Ram' which he says reflected the peaceful and idyllic background they found themselves in.

He added to BBC Radio6 music: 'That was the spirit that 'Ram' was written in, I could go up, over the hills with my guitar, just write a little song, come back and stick it down in my notebook, then go off and record, and we went off to New York and later Los Angeles.

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Freedom Fall in Extra Innings to Crushers

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July 25, 2012 - Frontier League (FL) Florence Freedom Florence, KY-The Florence Freedom (32-28) couldn't hang onto a 6-1 lead entering the 9th inning on Tuesday night as the Lake Erie Crushers(33-27)stormed back for a 6 run 9th inning to tie the game, and eventually won it in extra innings. The Crushers defeated the Freedom 8-7 in 12 innings to avoid the three game sweep by the Freedom.

Florence led the entire ballgame as they struck for four runs in the 1st inning against Crusher All-Star Paul Fagan. Junior Arrojo reached base on an infield single and later scored on an RBI double by Peter Fatse. Several batters later, David Harris took Fagan deep over the left field wall for a three run homer. It was Harris's fourth long ball of the season and it gave the Freedom a 4-0 lead.

Brent Choban a rookie left hander made his professional debut on the mound for the Freedom and pitched very well through the first 5 innings of the contest. He gave up his only run of the game in the 4th on a sacrifice fly by Daniel Bowman scoring Andrew Davis. The former Ohio Bobacat went five innings allowing 4 hits, 1 run, 3 walks, and 3 strikeouts. The Freedom padded their lead in the 4th, as Arrojo hit a bases loaded two run single scoring Kyle Bluestein and Edwin Padua to give them a 6-1 cushion.

The Crushers would give the Freedom a taste of their own medicine a day after Florence came back from a 5 run deficit, as the Crushers rallied against the Freedom bullpen by sending ten men to the plate against Matt Kline, and Brennan Flick. Kline struck out pinch hitter Kyle Weldon to begin the frame, but after that the game swung in the direction of Lake Erie. Adrian Ortiz got one of his four hits in the 9th, and then Robby Kuzdale drew a walk with the next batter Jason Taylor being hit by a pitch. With the bases loaded, Kline then walked Russell Moldenhauer forcing home Ortiz to make it a 6-2 game. Flick was then summoned out of the bullpen, however he gave up an RBI single to Andrew Davis to cut the lead in half. Then it was Bowman striking for a two run single to make it 6-5. Davis would later score in the inning on a wild pitch to tie the game at 6-6. J.C. Figueroa who entered the game as a defensive replacement then lined a single into center field to give the Crushers a 7-6 lead. John Mallloy threw out Kellen Kulbacki who was attempting to score on the play as well.

The Freedom tied the game in the bottom of the 9th, as Peter Fatse led off the inning with a solo shot, his sixth of the season. The homer came against Crusher closer Jonathan Kountis who then retired the next three batters to send the game into extra innings.

The decision to insert Figueroa into the game proved to be the difference in this game, as the Lake Erie second baseman proved to be the hero on this night. Facing Jorge Marban with one out, Figueroa hit a solo homer, his first of the season into the Freedom bullpen to give the Crushers an 8-7 lead. Despite giving up the homer and taking the loss, Marban(1-4) pitched well in 3 innings, striking out 5. Crusher reliever Mickey Janis also went deep out of the bullpen covering the last 3 innings. The Freedom had the tying runner at 2nd base in the 12, but Janis struck out Pierre LePage to end the game.

The Freedom will travel to Washington, PA Wednesday night for a three game series with the Wild Things. LHP Andres Caceris (5-2, 4.55) will start for the Freedom while RHP Gary Lee(4-3, 2.61) starts for Washington. Wednesday's game can be heard with Steve Jarnicki starting at 6:50 pm on Real Talk 1160 and realtalk1160.com.

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The exhibit opening today at the National World War II Museum includes a picture from the 1930s showing Dr. Ernst Wentzler, a Berlin pediatrician, examining a child with rickets. Wentzler, who was renowned for his treatment of this bone disease, invented an incubator for newborns that became known as the Wentzler warmer, said Susan Bachrach, the exhibits curator. He also developed ways to treat premature infants and children with birth defects.

But Wentzler had another, darker side, Bachrach said. He was one of three pediatricians who ordered the deaths of thousands of children who didnt meet the Nazi ideal of health because they might have been afflicted with Down syndrome or profound physical or psychiatric problems.

Wentzlers dual nature goes to the heart of Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, a look at the development of the German scientific and medical communities involvement with Nazisms racist policies. There was, Bachrach said, much more to this misuse of science than Dr. Josef Mengeles ghastly experiments with concentration camp inmates.

That was way down the line, Bachrach said. Were trying to show that this came out of mainstream medicine and science. These were not fringe quacks. A fair number of them were not even ardent Nazis.

What they were doing was based on eugenics, a field of study that supports practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population.

The creepy thing about this is that these people thought they had the moral high ground, said Kenneth Hoffman, the World War II Museums education director. They were doing it for the betterment of Germany. They talked about having a healthy society, but they did it at the expense of anyone who didnt meet their standard of perfection.

Deadly Medicine, which was assembled by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, will be on view through Oct. 15. Tulane University School of Medicine is its local sponsor.

It shows the chain of events that got us from this idea of improving the human race to darker and darker steps, said Bachrach, the Holocaust Museums curator of special exhibitions.

The exhibit traces the origins of eugenics to Charles Darwins research into evolution, which showed how species adapt to survive. It also demonstrates how social Darwinists went beyond Darwins research to contend that people they deemed defective shouldnt be allowed to have children.

Eugenics, an offshoot of this way of thinking, became popular in the early 20th century, Bachrach said, and its acceptance wasnt limited to Germany. In 1927, eugenics received the endorsement of the U.S. Supreme Court when it ruled that states could order sterilization for the protection and health of the state. That decision still stands, although states have been loath to resort to sterilization.

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National World War II Museum exhibit shows dark side of Nazi medicine