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Story highlights China is building islands in disputed waters in the South China Sea Land reclamation taking place at five sites, IHS Jane's Defence Weekly says. China creating 'chain of air and sea capable fortresses'
Satellite images from late January analyzed by IHS Jane's Defence Weekly show that China is reclaiming significant amount of land at three sites in the Spratly Islands, in addition to two other sites previously documented by the defense publication.
"Where it used to have a few, small concrete platforms, it now has full islands with helipads, airstrips, harbors, and facilities to support large numbers of troops," said James Hardy, Jane's Asia Pacific editor, told CNN.
"We can see that this is a methodical, well-planned campaign to create a chain of air and sea capable fortresses across the center of the Spratly Islands chain."
In November, the publication reported that China was building an "air strip capable" island at least 3,000 meters long on Fiery Cross Reef.
The South China Sea is the subject of numerous rival -- often messy -- territorial claims, with China, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam disputing sovereignty of several island chains and nearby waters.
The areas in dispute include fertile fishing grounds and potentially rich reserves of undersea natural resources.
READ: China's military not ready 'to fight and win future wars'
The latest images show for the first time reclamation at Hughes Reef -- a "large facility" is being constructed on 75,000 square meters of reclaimed land. Jane's also said that significant progress has been made at Johnson South and Gaven Reefs.
"The buildings on Hughes Reef and Gaven Reefs have almost identical footprints: that of a main square building with what appears to be an anti-aircraft tower or radome at each corner.
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Story highlights China is building islands in disputed waters in the South China Sea Land reclamation taking place at five sites, IHS Jane's Defence Weekly says. China creating 'chain of air and sea capable fortresses'
Satellite images from late January analyzed by IHS Jane's Defence Weekly show that China is reclaiming significant amount of land at three sites in the Spratly Islands, in addition to two other sites previously documented by the defense publication.
"Where it used to have a few, small concrete platforms, it now has full islands with helipads, airstrips, harbors, and facilities to support large numbers of troops," said James Hardy, Jane's Asia Pacific editor, told CNN.
"We can see that this is a methodical, well-planned campaign to create a chain of air and sea capable fortresses across the center of the Spratly Islands chain."
In November, the publication reported that China was building an "air strip capable" island at least 3,000 meters long on Fiery Cross Reef.
The South China Sea is the subject of numerous rival -- often messy -- territorial claims, with China, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam disputing sovereignty of several island chains and nearby waters.
The areas in dispute include fertile fishing grounds and potentially rich reserves of undersea natural resources.
READ: China's military not ready 'to fight and win future wars'
The latest images show for the first time reclamation at Hughes Reef -- a "large facility" is being constructed on 75,000 square meters of reclaimed land. Jane's also said that significant progress has been made at Johnson South and Gaven Reefs.
"The buildings on Hughes Reef and Gaven Reefs have almost identical footprints: that of a main square building with what appears to be an anti-aircraft tower or radome at each corner.
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BARTOW | Polk voters should be asked to renew the indigent health care tax in 2016, representatives from the local health care community told the County Commission on Tuesday.
The consensus came from a work session organized by commissioners to get input from the health care community over how they wanted to deal with the coming expiration of the tax at the end of 2019.
The tax was approved in 2004.
Tuesdays meeting attracted more than 50 people from local hospitals, volunteer clinics and nonprofit organizations, as well as the Department of Health and the court system.
Renewal of the half-cent sales tax that funds the program will allow the program to continue serving nearly 40,000 residents and help county officials pay for mandated health services without having to raise property taxes to cover the cost.
County Commission Chairman George Lindsey said it will be up to the health care community to form an advocacy group to promote passage of the continuation of the tax, adding theyre the best group to lead the effort anyway.
Their clients are the beneficiaries; they recognize the consequences, he said.
Its incumbent on this group to move the message forward, Lindsey said. That message cannot come forward from the County Commission.
The County Commission is prohibited by law from doing more than providing educational materials on ballot issues. It cannot advocate for or against passage of any ballot measure.
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DUBLIN, Feb .17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/sqhzfm/personalized) has announced the addition of the "Personalized Medicine, Targeted Therapeutics and Companion Diagnostic Market 2015: Strategic Analysis of Industry Trends, Technologies, Participants, and Environment" report to their offering.
Personalized Medicine, Targeted Therapeutics and Companion Diagnostic Market 2015 - Strategic Analysis of Industry Trends, Technologies, Participants, and Environment is a cutting-edge comprehensive report on the personalized medicine industry and its impact on the health system. This report tackles the growing market interest in pharmacogenomics, companion diagnostics and the associated market environment.
Individualized, targeted or personalized medicine aims to increase the efficacy of therapeutics via genetic testing and companion diagnostics. Personalized therapeutics and associated companion diagnostics will be more specific and effective thereby giving pharma/biotech companies a significant advantage to recuperate R&D costs. Personalized medicine will reduce the frequency of adverse drug reactions and therefore have a dramatic impact on health economics. Developmental and diagnostic companies will benefit from lower discovery and commercialization costs and more specific market subtypes.
This report describes the current technologies that are propelling the personalized medicine and companion diagnostic market. It examines the current genetic diagnostic tests and companion diagnostic assays that are in use by the medical and pharmaceutical industry today. Current developments in personalized medicine and the pharmacogenomics revolution are discussed. The emerging trends that appear in key markets such as the US, UK, Germany and France are elucidated and analysed. This study reveals market figures of the overall personalized medicine market and also sub-market figures. Forecast projections and future growth rates are provided to give the reader a forthcoming perspective of this growing industry.
The study also provides a comprehensive financial and product review of key players in the personalized medicine industry. Strategic drivers and restraints of this market are revealed and market opportunities and challenges are identified.
In summary, the personalized medicine and associated companion diagnostic market have huge opportunities for growth. This industry will revolutionize the healthcare system and will improve therapeutic effectiveness and reduce the severity of adverse effects. It has enormous potential for investment and the emergence of genetic-based in vitro diagnostics.
This report highlights a number of significant pharmacos and gives details of their operations, products, financials and business strategy.
- 23andMe - Affymetrix - Astex Pharmaceuticals - Atossa Genetics - CuraGen - Celera Corporation (Quest Diagnostics) - Celldex Therapeutics - deCode Genetics (Amgen) - Illumina - Genelex - Myriad - Nodality - Qiagen
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As obesity becomes an increasingly prominent health condition in the United States, University researchers have made new discoveries about the biological pathways that cause it.
In the largest genome-wide study ever, the Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits consortium of researchers analyzed more than 300,000 genetic samples and found 97 new genetic locations across the genome that are associated with obesity and body mass index triple the number of previously known sites.
This finding led researchers to believe obesity is much more related to ones genes than was previously thought.
Elizabeth Speliotes, assistant professor of internal medicine and a senior author of the GIANT study, said if scientists can pinpoint the specific gene variants or proteins that contribute to obesity, then therapeutic interventions can directly target them.
Speliotes said the study could lead to a new era of tailored obesity care.
We are realizing that many of the common diseases we aim to treat are caused by multiple different underlying causes, Speliotes said. So now we can understand what those causes are and better define them. And then hopefully in the future we can sub-classify people into what they are at risk for versus what the general population is at risk for.
Currently, therapeutic interventions are often generalized to diseases. For example, the same medications are often prescribed to all patients suffering from the same disease. Outcomes from these interventions have not been very successful.
Right now we dont know what the exact causes are for different diseases, so a lot of the stuff we do is like shooting in the dark, Speliotes said.
In a companion study, an international consortium of researchers led by Karen Mohlke, professor of genetics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, identified 49 sites in the human genome associated with the human waist-to-hip ratio.
Mohlke said the waist-to-hip ratio is often associated with obesity because most people with waistlines larger than their hip circumference have more visceral fat around their abdominal organs, making them susceptible to diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
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Genetic Engineering on humans: For or Against
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Shift 12 - Episode 34: To fight or not
There is no single treatment for cancer, and patients often receive a combination of therapies and palliative care. Treatments usually fall into one of the following categories: surgery, radiation,...
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UD alumni $2.5 million closer to saving 5-year-old Eliza
In 2014, University of Delaware alumni Glenn and Cara O #39;Neill raised half of the $5 million needed for a gene therapy clinical trial and the medicine necessa...
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Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) February 17, 2015
If one is of a certain age the television show The Jetsons provided the TV viewing world with images of what the Smart Home of the Future might look like....flying cars, robot servants, food in pill form. It seemed a crazy far off world and yet here in 2015 many of those very things that were presented in Jestons are coming to fruition.
On February 17th, Global futurist and keynote speaker Jack Uldrich will be addressing audience members of Hunter Douglas in Las Vegas discussing five transforming trends transforming the smart home of the future. In other words, Uldrich will be talking about some of the very things that the Jeston's provided as entertainment back in the late sixties and seventies.
When asked what a good futurist does, Uldrich says, "The best futurists are those who can identify trends and technologies that are 'way off to the side' today but will move from todays periphery to tomorrows center."
"Contrary to popular belief, futurists cant see into the futureand, should you happen to run into one that claims to have this unique skill, my best advice is to run away as fast as you can because they are flat-out lying." Uldrich makes a living researching and speaking on future trends and is a leading expert on helping businesses adapt to change.
Uldrich provides provocative new perspectives on competitive advantage, change management and transformational leadership, his most recent clients include the Outsourcing World Summit, Farm Credit Systems, and serving as a panelist for the Food Management Institute. He has also traveled the U.S. with Verizon Wireless and ABB in recent months. His clients run the gamut from health care, agriculture, education, energy, finance, retail and manufacturing.
Following his keynote for Hunter Douglas this week, Uldrich will travel back to his home base of Minneapolis and address Cretex with his presentation, "The Big AHA: How to Future Proof the Medical Device Industry."
Parties interested in learning more about him, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his website. Media wishing to know more about either the event or interviewing Jack as a futurist or trend expert can contact Amy Tomczyk at (651) 343.0660.
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Virtual reality cameras have been used in pornography, at sporting events and in many other ways, but one Florida church is looking at using the technology for a higher calling.
According to Gizmodo reports, Rev. Christopher Benek of the First Presbyterian Church of Ft. Lauderdale is exploring the use of devices like the Oculus Rift as a way to reach members of the congregation who live in remote areas or who cannot leave their homes due to health issues.
As the website points out, some places of worship allow their members to view services online, but Rev. Benek believes that adopting VR technology will make churches more accessible, more immersive, and more attractive to the general public.
Numerous persons and groups have developed churches in the virtual world, mainly Second Life, he said earlier this month in an interview with Hypergrid Business. I would venture to say that most have been less concerned with true evangelical success and more focused on what their technological exploratory experience may yield in the future.
A great asset to the church universal
Essentially, the reverend who is currently working on a Ph.D. in theology with a focus on the intersection of technological futurism and eschatology at Durham University in the UK thinks that most modern virtual churches are experiments, not significant faith-based outreach efforts. However, he believes that this will change as the technology becomes more widespread.
For those of us who tend to be more inclined to the developments of human technology, we are keeping abreast of the important advancements that are occurring in the virtual world, explained Rev. Benek, adding that devices such as Oculus Rift could be a great asset to the church universal, as it will enable the infirm, homebound, and potentially even the poor to participate from afar regardless of their personal mobility or lack of affordable transportation.
He added that there are several ways that churches and other religious groups could benefit from removing physical obstacles to worship. It would allow pastors and congregants to visit and pray with more people more often, he explained, and small worship groups would be able to meet on a more frequent basis, even when they are separated by considerable distances.
The way that we currently do care and discipleship will radically change as will our expectations as to what it means to participate in those aspects of the church, added Rev. Benek. In addition to the physical barriers that virtual reality can help overcome, the technology could help overcome language differences by allowing services to be seamlessly translated.
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Florida pastor: VR technology can make church more immersive
They had already decided on a Saturday night in mid-September, and they had a tentative program: an evening of George Gershwin, Kurt Weill and Daniel Schnyder, a Swiss composer and saxophonist whose music crosses just about every definable stylistic boundary, from jazz to world music to opera. It was going to be a hard-hat concert, performed in the raw, crumbling space of the 1869 Franklin School. It would showcase the possibilities of the historic structure and generate support for the renovation of the historic building.
It is the kind of edgy, unorthodox artistic event that new generations of Washingtonians, who no longer accept the premise that the nations capital is a cultural backwater, crave. But it wont happen unless the city reverses course on a decision made this week to end an agreement with the Institute for Contemporary Expression, which had partnered with one of the countrys most innovative music groups the Post-Classical Ensemble to present concerts at the long-vacant school at the corner of 13th and K streets NW.
Attracted by the large open spaces of the Franklin School, which would have also hosted art exhibitions, lectures and educational activities, the Post-Classical Ensemble signed on early as a resident ensemble at the proposed arts center. It was excited about finally having a proper home and increased presence in the District, where it hoped to build a new and more diverse audience than it might find at the Kennedy Center or other venues.
D.C. doesnt have a space that has the vibrancy, modernism, futurism, of a place like this, said Chris Denby, board chair of the ensemble.
The decision to scuttle the citys arrangement with ICE remains opaque. The deputy mayors office for planning and economic development first said that it doubted the ability of ICEs visionary founder, Dani Levinas, to raise sufficient funds to cover the costs but then backtracked. It suggested that Levinas planned to charge exorbitant admission fees, even though none of those details had been set in stone. Although it claimed to have conducted a top-to- bottom review of the agreement between ICE and the city, the economic development office never met with Levinas and never asked questions about his fundraising. When asked how long that review took and how many staffers participated in it, a spokesman offered this by e-mail: We took this process seriously and took the time necessary to make a decision that we believe is in the long-term best interest of all District residents.
Strangely, that decision was made almost simultaneously with the announcement of a new venture by the citys Commission on the Arts and Humanities, a Start Fresh innovation grant for up $100,000. This is designed to aid organizations that are creative, innovative and groundbreaking, with multi-disciplinary and multi-platform initiatives. In other words, organizations that plan to do what ICE was already gearing up to do. The coincidence of these two decisions, one forward, the other several steps back, suggests that not only does the new administration lack a coherent cultural program, there isnt even basic communication between its various offices.
This kind of fiasco is all too familiar to longtime observers of the citys cultural scene, and to people who live near the Franklin School and who have watched the city try for years to develop a coherent plan for it. Local advisory neighborhood commissioner Kevin Deeley, whose district includes the Franklin School, wasnt in office when Mayor Vincent C. Grays administration chose the proposal by ICE over three others (including a boutique hotel with rooftop restaurant, a technology center and a live/work space for tech entrepreneurs). But he likes the idea because the institute would be open to the public, increase foot traffic at night and weekends and offer cultural amenities in downtown Washington.
But it is the possibility of yet more years of delay, with the historic structure moldering yet further, that really frustrates him and his neighbors. There is no continuity between administrations, he says, and the result is a wasted resource.
Another administration comes along and the whole process starts again, and now were looking at maybe two more years before they can break ground, says Deeley. He is sending a letter on behalf of his constituents to Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, asking her to reconsider her decision. Other letters have come from the American Alliance of Museums (It is hard to imagine any better or higher use of this historic building than the one that Mr. Levinas has proposed, said Ford Bell, the groups president) and from civic groups. Dorothy Kosinski, who as head of the Phillips Collection knows a thing or too about the fundraising climate in Washington, said, I was disappointed to hear of the projects cancellation this week and lamented the loss of an organization that would demonstrate how contemporary art is a vital part of our economy and cultural ecosystem.
The school has been empty for seven years. In 2010, when Adrian Fenty was mayor, the city held a hearing to determine whether the school should be declared surplus and thus open for private development. A transcript of that meeting is telling. While there wasnt an agreement about exactly what the school should become, there was overwhelming sentiment that as a historic building with a long history of public service to the citizens of Washington, it most certainly should not be given up for commercial development.
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Indiebonbon Podcast 16 - Cloud Chamber, Freedom Planet, Survive! Mola Mola!, Bad Rats
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