Fed agency ranks Texas at bottom for health care

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Texas ranks worst in the nation in health care services and delivery, according to an annual scorecard issued by the federal Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.

In nine out of 12 categories, Texas rated weak or very weak. The only area where Texas earned the above average ranking of "strong" was in maternal and child health care measures. Out of a possible 100 points, Texas earned 31.61, while Minnesota, the highest ranking state, scored 67.31.

The agency identified 155 areas where it could compare the quality of health services across the country, such as infant mortality and obesity rates. Researchers used that data to generate both national and regional averages for each area, and they then compared each state to the national and regional averages to generate a score.

The report is designed to help politicians, policy makers, private insurers and state and federal agencies identify strengths and weaknesses in state health care programs.

Stephanie Goodman, spokeswoman for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, said Thursday that the report goes far beyond what state agencies control, but she said it demonstrates the need to improve access to preventive health care.

"Late last year Texas received approval for a new effort that will help fund innovative local projects," she said. "Hospitals and other health care providers have come together to form regional partnerships, and they'll soon be sending the state their plans for making better use of Medicaid funds to expand access to preventive services and reduce the need for expensive emergency room care."

Texas scored particularly poorly in the home health care category, with the study finding that the state provided little support to the elderly and disabled who chose to live at home. Texas also ranked weak or very weak in preventive, acute and chronic care delivery.

The state's scores slipped from last year in treating cancer and diabetes patients.

The Texas Medicaid law for the disabled and poor offers one of the most limited health care programs in the nation, and more than 25 percent of Texans do not have health insurance of any kind, which is the highest uninsured rate in the nation.

The poor state of the Texas health care system has particular relevance as state lawmakers begin to consider how to respond now that President Barack Obama's federal health care overhaul has been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Understanding Health Care Law is public responsibility

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In a sane climate, Mitt Romney would be running for president on his one big success as a politician: achieving something close to universal private health insurance coverage as governor of Massachusetts. Romneycare cut costs, improved health care outcomes and is quite popular there.

Alas, President Obama's election has driven many Republicans so crazy that the putative nominee makes an unconvincing show of despising his own brainchild. Has there ever been a more unconvincing faker in American politics? Romney acts as if he thinks voters are morons. But then, right-wing hysteria over the Supreme Court's upholding "Obamacare" shows he could be correct.

Mandating health insurance wasn't Romney's own idea. The conservative Heritage Foundation saw it as a way to realize the practical and moral benefits of a socialized, government-run health care system like Canada's through private, for-profit insurance companies -- the best of both worlds.

Romney even wrote a 2009 USA Today column advising President Obama about the mandate's advantages: "Using tax penalties, as we did [in Massachusetts], or tax credits, as others have proposed," he wrote, "encourages 'free riders' to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others." The president put it this way in reacting to the Supreme Court's validating Obamacare: "People who can afford to buy health insurance should take the responsibility to do so."

So is it a tax, or is it a penalty?

The correct answer is "who cares?" Provide your family with the security of a decent health insurance policy and you don't need to pay it.

Tyranny? Oh, grow up. The government can already make you sign up for Social Security, educate your children, vaccinate your dog, send you to fight a war in Afghanistan, limit how many fish you can catch, and put you in prison and seize your property for growing pot.

Furthermore, Justice Roberts is right. The U.S. government encourages all kinds of virtuous behavior through the tax code. You can get married, or pay higher taxes. Buy a house, have children, invest in a retirement account, even raise cattle (my personal favorite) or pay higher taxes.

And buying health insurance is an intolerable offense against liberty?

Ask Rush Limbaugh who pays for his Viagra. Answer: his employer-provided health insurance company. Only impoverished people, deadbeats and fools go without it.

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Health-care spending nearly half of state budget

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BOSTON -- Between the Medicaid program, subsidized insurance under the 2006 health-care-access reform law, and investments in state employee health insurance and public-health programs, health care spending this fiscal year is on pace to rise to 43 percent of the overall state budget, according to an analysis of the spending bill being reviewed by Gov. Deval Patrick.

One in five Massachusetts residents will have their health care largely covered through the budget and taxpayer-supported health-care costs next year will gobble up the majority of new discretionary state revenue, hitting $15.14 billion, up from $14.65 billion. But education accounts will also get a big boost, according to a Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center analysis of the budget lawmakers agreed to last week.

While lawmakers and the Patrick administration this year have described fiscal 2013 spending plans ranging from $32.4 billion to $32.5 billion, the center's analysis estimates total state appropriations and transfers at $35.229 billion. Center officials say the higher figure reflects revenues collected and spent on transportation, school construction, public employee pensions and health care based on directives that carve out such spending before deliberations on the rest of the state budget begin each year.

Patrick has until Sunday, July 8 to sign the budget and announce his vetoes and amendments to the bill.

The center provides independent research and analysis of state budget

Aside from a proposed $546 million increase in spending on Medicaid and health care reform, the fiscal 2013 budget, approved easily last week by the House and Senate after a deal was struck by a conference committee, proposes $6.95 billion in total education spending, an increase of $302 million.

The majority of the increased education spending, or $238 million is targeted for the K-12 education system, with higher education in line for an increase of $58 million to a total of $1.02 billion, and early education and care spending scheduled to fall to $500 million, from $507 million.

Taken together, proposed state spending on health care and education in fiscal 2013 will approach $22.1 billion, representing about 63 percent of all state spending. Health care spending, as a percentage of the budget, will rise to 43 percent from about 42.8 percent.

But even with the 5.3 percent increase in spending on Medicaid, budget managers will need to secure about $500 million in savings in the program to balance the budget next year. The savings, with some spending cuts and $615 million in temporary revenues, are being relied upon to close an estimated $1.3 billion gap between available revenues and projected state spending based on fiscal 2012 levels. The center's analysis identifies $41 million in homeless shelter cuts and $8 million in child care subsidy cuts.

State spending on education and health care, by comparison, towers over investments in other key areas.

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Beaches safe for swimming

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HURON COUNTY With a warm weather forecast for the upcoming weekend, officials from the Huron County Health Department report all local beaches are open and safe for swimming.

The results issued for all 13 area beaches tested have revealed they are below the 300 E. coli colonies per 100 ml of water for swimming safety.

There has only been one beach closure since testing started five weeks ago. That closure was at Port Crescent State Park Day-Use during the third week of testing.

If an area beach exceeds 300 E. coli colonies per 100 ml of water it is closed until new test results show the water there is below the allowed limit.

This weeks test results are in E. coli colonies per 100 ml of water:

Bird Creek County Park 10.1552

Caseville County Park 5.0764

Harbor Beach City Park 2.4987

Jenks County Park 12.8510

McGraw County Park 2.0000

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Medical practice builds expansion on Trent Road

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Eastern Dermatology and Pathology will move next year to a new, larger building on Trent Road.

Construction on a 15,000-square-foot building for the medical practice began in March on the Trent Road site and should be completed by the end of December.

Bobby Evans, vice president and co-owner of Farrior and Sons, the general contractor on the project, said the building is 50 percent complete and soon electrical and plumbing work will begin.

Farrior and Sons, out of Farmville, has built several medical facilities and churches in New Bern, including the 73,000-square-foot main medical office of CCHC on Wellons Boulevard and Temple Baptist Church on Kingdom Way. The company is also breaking ground on a 7,000-square-foot expansion to Eastern Nephrology Associations at 970 Newman Road.

Farrior and Sons is celebrating its 50th anniversary as a general contractor and designer for commercial, light industrial and educational facilities, and does design work for medical offices and churches, Evans said.

Plans call for a Dec. 31 completion date for the Trent Road project, he said.

Eastern Dermatology and Pathology needed to expand their practice, Evans said. They needed a larger building.

Shari Tomlinson, of human resources for Eastern Dermatology and Pathology, said another physician was recently hired and cosmetic services, like laser, botox and filler treatments, will be expanded at the new office site.

It will allow us to see more patients, Tomlinson said.

There will be two physicians and a physicians assistant at the new office, she said.

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Mead Johnson Schedules Second Quarter Earnings Conference Call

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GLENVIEW, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Mead Johnson Nutrition Company (MJN) will release its second quarter 2012 earnings on Thursday, July 26, 2012, before the market opens. The company will host a conference call at 8:30 a.m. CDT that same day during which company executives will review second quarter financial results and respond to questions from analysts and investors.

The call will be broadcast over the Internet at meadjohnson.com. To listen to the call, visit the website and click on Investors. Security analysts and investors wishing to participate by telephone should call (866) 713-8310, pass code: Mead Johnson. Callers outside of North America should call +1-617-597-5308 to be connected. A replay of the conference call will be available through midnight CDT Thursday, August 2, 2012, by calling (888) 286-8010 or outside of North America by calling +1-617-801-6888, pass code: 94089899. The replay will also be available at meadjohnson.com.

About Mead Johnson

Mead Johnson, a global leader in pediatric nutrition, develops, manufactures, markets and distributes more than 70 products in over 50 countries worldwide. The companys mission is to nourish the worlds children for the best start in life. The Mead Johnson name has been associated with science-based pediatric nutrition products for over 100 years. The companys Enfa family of brands, including Enfamil infant formula, is the worlds leading brand franchise in pediatric nutrition. For more information, visit meadjohnson.com.

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DNA as future electronic components: Conducting nanostructures based on metallized DNA

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(Phys.org) -- Our electronic devices are getting smaller and smaller while doing more and more. Using conventional materials, we will soon reach the practical limit. The electronics of tomorrow require alternatives, such as nanowires made of DNA that can serve as conductive paths and nanotransistors for miniature circuits. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, German scientists have now described a new method for the production of stable, conducting DNA nanowires.

DNA is more than a carrier of genetic information; it is also an interesting building material for nanotechnology. This is because of its extraordinary self-organizational properties. DNA is thus often used as a mold for the production of nanoscale structures. Its use in the assembly of electronic circuits is hampered by the fact that DNA is a very poor conductor of electricity. One way to get around this is by depositing metal onto the DNA strands.

Scientists at the RWTH Aachen and the University of Munich have now developed a new strategy for the controlled production and metallization of DNA nanostructures. Led by Ulrich Simon, the team used a DNA strand consisting of an immobilization sequence and a metallization sequence. Several such strands are strung together so that the resulting DNA is made of alternating sequences.

The immobilization sequence contains alkyne groups. These allow the DNA to be snapped into place on a silicon wafer coated with azide groups in what is known as a click reaction. The other DNA segment has two tasks: it is equipped with functional groups that cause the aggregation of silver particles and can also attach DNA strands to each other.

The DNA strands are stretched, deposited onto the wafers, and attached by the click reaction. During the subsequent metallization with silver particles, neighboring strands are simultaneously cross-linked to form multistrands. These have significantly higher structural stability than single strands. In the future, this method could also be used to integrate the DNA strands into programmable DNA architectures to allow for the positioning and binding of complex structures on prestructured substrates.

Deposition of the silver particles does not complete the metallization process. In a second step, which resembles the development of photographs, gold from a solution can be deposited onto the silver particles. Changing the duration of the gold deposition process allows for variation of the diameter of the resulting nanowires.

This new method allowed the scientists to obtain micrometer-long, electrically contactable nanowires that have potential for development into further miniaturized circuits.

More information: Ulrich Simon, Surface "Click" Reaction of DNA followed by Directed Metalization for the Construction of Contactable Conducting Nanostructures, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, dx.doi.org/10.1002 ie.201202401

Journal reference: Angewandte Chemie Angewandte Chemie International Edition

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Entire genome of fetus sequenced without DNA from man

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How long will it be before prenatal care involves sequencing the genome of a fetus to detect genetic disorders before birth? Several recent reports have shown it can be done, based on the tiny bits of DNA that float around in the mother-to-bes blood plasma during pregnancy.

Another such study came out this week in the journal Nature -- with some important advances.

In the past, fetal-genome analyses have involved getting samples of DNA from three places: the womans blood cells (to identify her genome), the womans blood plasma (to detect fetal DNA in addition to her own) and cells from the father-to-be's saliva (to know for sure what bits of his DNA the fetus inherited).

But sampling the mans DNA is a particularly delicate issue, the study authors note, since the incidence of non-paternity is estimated to be between 3% and 10%.

In the new study, senior author Stephen R. Quake and colleagues at Stanford University did the entire analysis without sampling the mans DNA.

As reported before, the authors were able to infer which bits of the womans genome had been picked up by the fetus since those DNA regions were present in the plasma in extra amounts. But they could also accurately deduce the father-to-bes genome by identifying bits of genome that did not come from the woman.

Paternity issues aside, the authors note that there are substantial ethical issues associated with noninvasive prenatal genetic determination, which we have not attempted to address. We will note however that there are numerous clinical scenarios where this approach would be useful.

If the test is done early -- in the first or second trimester -- it could detect genetic conditions that are not survivable or will cause medical complications, they write. With medical advances, it might be possible to treat or even cure these conditions while the baby is still growing inside the woman.

Tests done in the third trimester could help reveal before birth if a fetus has inherited a serious disorder that can respond well to timely treatment. That could prevent harm or suffering, the authors say. Diseases they mention include phenylketonurea and maple syrup urine disease. In both cases, the disorder affects metabolism of certain amino acids and a special diet is needed to avoid harm to brain and body.

One of the pregnant women in the study was carrying a fetus with a genetic disorder known as DiGeorge syndrome. Caused by a deletion on Chromosome 22, the syndrome is characterized by an array of medical problems including heart defects, cleft palate and low blood calcium. In this clinical scenario, confirmation of the deletion would argue for a fetal echocardiogram and neonatal assessment of calcium levels, the authors write.

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Bioengineers discover single cancer cell can produce up to five daughter cells

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Conventional biology expects the process of mammalian cell division, mitosis, to occur by the equal partition of a mother cell into two daughter cells. Bioengineers at UCLA Engineering have developed a platform that mechanically confines cells, simulating the in vivo three-dimensional environments in which they divide. Upon confinement they have discovered that cancer cells can divide a large percentage of the time into three or more daughter cells instead.

It's well known in conventional biology that during the process of mammalian cell division, or mitosis, a mother cell divides equally into two daughter cells. But when it comes to cancer, say UCLA researchers, mother cells may be far more prolific.

Bioengineers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science developed a platform to mechanically confine cells, simulating the in vivo three-dimensional environments in which they divide, and found that, upon confinement, cancer cells often split into three or more daughter cells.

"We hope that this platform will allow us to better understand how the 3-D mechanical environment may play a role in the progression of a benign tumor into a malignant tumor that kills," said Dino Di Carlo, an associate professor of bioengineering at UCLA and principal investigator on the research.

The biological process of mitosis is tightly regulated by specific biochemical checkpoints to ensure that each daughter cell receives an equal set of sub-cellular materials, such as chromosomes or organelles, to create new cells properly.

However, when these checkpoints are miscued, the mistakes can have detrimental consequences. One key component is chromosomal count: When a new cell acquires extra chromosomes or loses chromosomes known as aneuploidy the regulation of important biological processes can be disrupted, a key characteristic of many invasive cancers. A cell that divides into more than two daughter cells undergoes a complex choreography of chromosomal motion that can result in aneuploidy.

By investigating the contributing factors that lead to mismanagement during the process of chromosome segregation, scientists may better understand the progression of cancer, said the researchers, whose findings were recently published online in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS ONE.

For the study, the UCLA team created a microfluidic platform to mechanically confine cancer cells to study the effects of 3-D microenvironments on mitosis events. The platform allowed for high-resolution, single-cell microscopic observations as the cells grew and divided. This platform, the researchers said, enabled them to better mimic the in vivo conditions of a tumor's space-constrained growth in 3-D environments in contrast to traditionally used culture flasks.

Surprisingly, the team observed that such confinement resulted in the abnormal division of a single cancer cell into three or four daughter cells at a much higher rate than typical. And a few times, they observed a single cell splitting into five daughter cells during a single division event, likely leading to aneuploid daughter cells.

"Even though cancer can arise from a set of precise mutations, the majority of malignant tumors possess aneuploid cells, and the reason for this is still an open question," said Di Carlo, who is also a member of the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA. "Our new microfluidic platform offers a more reliable way for researchers to study how the unique tumor environment may contribute to aneuploidy."

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Ultragenyx Initiates Phase 2 Study of UX001 in Hereditary Inclusion Body Myopathy, a Rare Neuromuscular Disease

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NOVATO, Calif., July 5, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc., a biotechnology company focused on developing treatments for rare and ultra-rare genetic disorders, today announced the dosing of the first two patients in a Phase 2 study of UX001 for hereditary inclusion body myopathy (HIBM). HIBM is a rare, severe, neuromuscular disease caused by sialic acid deficiency. UX001 is an extended-release oral tablet formulation of sialic acid (SA-ER) intended as a substrate replacement therapy for HIBM.

The Phase 2 clinical trial is an international, multi-center, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel group study of UX001 in HIBM patients. The study plans to enroll up to 45 patients between 18 and 65 years of age with a previously demonstrated mutation in the GNE gene causing HIBM. The subjects will receive either of two dose levels of SA-ER or placebo over 24 weeks, with all patients continuing on active treatment after 24 weeks. The study's primary objectives are evaluating safety, and improvements in sialylation biochemistry of muscle (pharmacodynamic endpoint). Clinical and patient-reported outcomes will also be evaluated, though the study is not powered for these endpoints. Study sites are located in the US and Israel. The total duration of the Phase 2 study is up to 48 weeks, with data expected in 2013.

Emil D. Kakkis, MD, PhD, Chief Executive Officer of Ultragenyx commented: "The initiation of this Phase 2 study is a critical milestone for our team in developing a therapeutic for HIBM patients who currently lack treatment options for this devastating disease. It follows quickly upon the positive results from our Phase 1 trial. This Phase 2 study should help us determine if UX001 is improving the biochemistry of the muscle in these patients and help us learn more about the disease. We look forward to seeing top line results next year."

About HIBM

HIBM is also known as GNE myopathy, Quadriceps Sparing Myopathy (QSM), Inclusion Body Myopathy type 2, Distal Myopathy with Rimmed Vacuoles (DMRV) and Nonaka myopathy. HIBM is a severe, adult-onset, progressive, genetic neuromuscular disease caused by a deficiency of an enzyme in the first step of sialic acid biosynthesis needed for the modification of proteins and fats. Patients with HIBM typically begin to have weakness and abnormal walking at 18 to 30 years of age. Over the ensuing 10 to 20 years, many patients progressively lose significant functional ability and become wheelchair-bound. There are no current treatments for this disease.

About Ultragenyx

Ultragenyx is a privately held, developmental stage biotechnology company committed to bringing life-enhancing therapeutics for patients with rare and ultra-rare genetic diseases, also known as orphan and ultra-orphan diseases, to market. The company focuses on rare metabolic diseases that affect small numbers of patients, but for which the unmet medical need is high and there are no effective treatments. Ultragenyx intends to build a sustainable pipeline of safe and effective therapies to address these underserved diseases. Ultragenyx' lead program, UX001, is being evaluated as a potential treatment for hereditary inclusion body myopathy (HIBM), also known as GNE myopathy. The UX001 program has been granted orphan drug designation in the US and the EU.

The company is led by an experienced management team in rare disease therapeutics. Ultragenyx is striving toward an improved model for successful rare disease drug development, which has the potential to increase efficiency while maintaining appropriate safety and efficacy standards. The company believes that it can deliver significant value to patients by building a high-quality pipeline of rare disease therapeutics and efficiently transforming good science into great medicine.

For more information on Ultragenyx, please visit the company's website at http://www.ultragenyx.com.

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CVCCO, Palms World log wins

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THE Cebu Vendors Credit Cooperative (CVCCO) and Palms World Travel and Tours crushed separate foes at the start of the Guadalupe Athletics Association (GAA)-2012 Inter-Sitio Open basketball tournament at the Guadalupe Sports Complex.

CVCCO rallied from singe-digit deficits in the first two periods and routed AS-ES, 78-64 with Andy Mioza and Thens Dinampo scoring 18 and 13 points, respectively.

Abe Galinato and Russel Gilig paced AS-ES with 11 and 10 points.

In the other game, Palms World Travel and Tours hammered Evan Aulga Hardware, 88-67.

Palms World jumped to an impressive, 28-10 run in the opening period then padded its advantage to 20 points or more the rest of the way.

Greg Bamba and Arvin Plandin led Palms World with 18 and 16 points, respectively while Nono Gabucan paced Evan Aulga with 16 markers.

BOX SCORES

CVCCO (78)- A. Mioza 18, Dinampo 13, B. Mioza 10, Lawas 10, Nacua 6, Francisco 6, Ferrer 5, Abellana 3, Alesna 3, Mabatid 2, Pajuay 2.

AS-ES (64)- Galinato 11, Gilig 10, Dela Pea 8, Gallardo 8, Danoso 7, Gabutan 5, Velmonte 4, Desamparado 3, Gabutan 2, Quijada 2, Gayoso 2.

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NASA launches sun-scanning instrument

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The chromosphere is a narrow layer above the photosphere that raises in temperature with height. The coloring of the chromosphere (deep red) is caused by the immense hydrogen supply it contains. Credit: NASA

WHITE SANDS, N.M., July 5 (UPI) -- A rocket carrying an instrument to study changing magnetic fields on the sun was launched from the White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico Thursday, NASA said.

The Solar Ultraviolet Magnetograph Investigation, or SUMI, will study the intricate, constantly shifting magnetism in a hard-to-observe area of the sun's low atmosphere called the chromosphere, the space agency said in a release.

The chromosphere is a thin layer of solar atmosphere sandwiched between the visible surface, the photosphere, and its atmosphere, the corona.

The magnetic fields lie at the heart of how the sun can create huge explosions of light such as solar flares, and eruptions of particles such as coronal mass ejections, referred to as the solar "wind."

While there are already instruments, both on the ground and in space, that can measure these fields, none of them can see the layer SUMI will observe, NASA said.

Understanding the structure of the magnetic fields in this region will help scientists understand how the corona is heated and how the solar wind is formed, the release said.

The flight of SUMI, lasted about 8 minutes, and is considered a test flight to make sure the instrument works and to assess possible improvements, researchers said.

"With the knowledge we get from a successful SUMI mission, we can go on to build space-based instrumentation that will help us understand the processes that form flares and CME's and help us predict space weather," Jonathan Cirtain, a solar scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., said.

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NASA Invites Media to Astronaut Panel Session July 11

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Media are invited to attend a panel session featuring current and former NASA and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronauts at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex near NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 8 p.m. EDT on July 11.

The session is part of the International Space University's Space Studies Program being held this summer at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Fla., and Kennedy. Media interested in attending the session should contact Andrea Farmer, 321-449-4318, or Catherine Segar, 321-449-4273, for access to the facility.

The astronaut panel session has been a long-standing highlight of previous Space Studies Program sessions and provides the participants with different insights into various aspects of human spaceflight.

The session will be moderated by Robert Cabana, NASA Kennedy Space Center director and former astronaut.

Panelists include:

-Ken Bowersox, former NASA astronaut -Chiaki Mukai, JAXA astronaut -Garrett Reisman, senior engineer, SpaceX, and former NASA astronaut -Kent Rominger, vice president, advanced programs, launch systems, Alliant Techsystems, and former NASA astronaut -Winston Scott, dean, College of Aeronautics, Florida Institute of Technology, and former NASA astronaut -Nicole Stott, NASA astronaut -Jim Voss, director, advanced programs, Sierra Nevada Corp., and former NASA astronaut

For more information about the International Space University, visit: http://www.isunet.edu

For more information about NASA astronauts, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/astronauts

For more information about the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, visit: http://www.kennedyspacecenter.com

For more information about NASA's Kennedy Space Center, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/kennedy

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Nazi Banksters Crimes Ripple Effect Final Cut [Fair Use, Non-Profit

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05-07-2012 11:49 ~credits video: Muad'Dib's latest hard-hitting documentary about the innumerable crimes of the Ashke-Nazi Banksters. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 USC 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes ~BACKUP VIDEO: From their historical origins down to their planned genocidal future, Muad'Dib tracks who THEY* are, how THEY operate, and most importantly, how to get rid of them once and for all. It is time for millions of us, to take full responsibility for our actions & circumstances, unite and peacefully gather at the Houses of Parliament in London, England - on the 5th of November 2012 - to support Muad'Dib in declaring a Year of Jubilee, to cancel all debts and end the corruption and treason, making this a day that present and future generations will never forget. After being wrongfully arrested and falsely and maliciously imprisoned for making His "7/7 Ripple Effect" film and defending innocent people, Muad'Dib is back with no mercy for those who've shown none to others. Cutting to the root of the problem, with the only solution. Come and be part of it. * THEY =(T)he (H)ierarchy (E)nslaving (Y)ou. SABOTAGED? see: ~infopowerment truthers network ...

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Enigma Dubz – Make Up Your Mind (ft. Katie McCloud) – Video

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05-07-2012 14:37 Share on Facebook! - Buy the Genesis Album here: ENiGMA Dubz: ---- COPYRIGHTDISCLAIMER: I upload music for the entertainment of others, I do not upload music in order to take credit from the artists (or record label) nor do I upload music in order to make revenue. If I have uploaded one of your (or record labels) tracks then I will always include all links to websites in the description. If you are not happy that I have uploaded one of your tracks then simply send me a private message and I will remove it. There is no need to take drastic action against me or my channel. -Chris

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Chromeo – Night by Night (Shreddie Mercury Remix) [ELECTRO] – Video

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05-07-2012 15:06 Last song from Shreddie Mercury that I will upload until he makes any new songs 🙂 And no uploading this song is not copyright infringement. They released the acapella for free and don't mind if you use them or upload remixes of the song but do not claim or monetize the video unless you wanna risk getting a strike so just leave it and allow them to claim the video 🙂 Hope you enjoy 😀 Chromeo: Shreddie Mercury Support Orion: Send demos to for a possible release or get your track featured on TheOrionMusicNetwork! Please Title the message as Demo or Feature and send it to my email or this youtube channel.

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