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Not yet been terrified by the Year 2038 problem? Somehow you must have missed reports claiming it poses a threat, as exposed by Gangnam style (yes, you read that correctly), to our computerised future.

In fact, it is claimed, Y2038 is so bad it could be worse than Y2k. Well thats absolutely true. Just like Y2K, if left unchecked, Y2038 could cause major issues for any computer systems. But just like Y2k, any prediction of planes falling out of the sky and the banking system melting down are likely to be a long long way from coming true.

So should you worry? No. But heres what you need to know

The year 2038 problem is caused by 32-bit processors and the limitations of the 32-bit systems they power. The processor is the central component that drives all computers and computing devices. It crunches the numbers and performs calculations that allow programs to run.

Essentially, when the year 2038 strikes 03:14:07 UTC on 19 March, computers still using 32-bit systems to store and process the date and time wont be able to cope with the date and time change. Like the Y2K bug, the computers wont be able to tell the difference between the year 2038 and 1970 the year after which all current computer systems measure time.

Processors come in many difference sizes and capabilities designed for different applications, but most of them operate and crunch numbers in a similar manner.

The first desktop computer processors were 16-bit and ran 16-bit software, which meant they could store and access values up to 216 or 65,536 distinct values within 64KB of memory. Other notable 16-bit systems include the 1990s gaming consoles the Super Nintendo and Sega MegaDrive, which took over from 1980s 8-bit systems.

Later, 32-bit processors were developed that ran 32-bit software and increased the number of values a system could handle 232 different values or 4,294,967,295 different numbers within 4GB of memory. The systems stored dates and times in 32-bit chucks. In reality that large number of different values is halved for time keeping and other data storage applications as they range from -2,147,483,648 through 2,147,483,647 leaving only 2,147,483,647 positive values from zero.

Modern processors that power almost every computer bought today, and are starting to make their way into smartphones and tablets too, are based on a 64-bit system and 64-bit software. They also have a maximum number of different values they can address but at 264 or 18 quintillion values within 16 Exabytes of memory, the ceiling is considerably higher at a date that is over twenty times greater than the estimated age of the universe or 292bn years from now.

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Who We Are at World Stem Cells, LLC

Advanced stem cell treatments offered by Would Stem Cells, LLC a patient management company for qualified patients at the medical facilities World Stem Cells Clinic, http://worldstemcellsclinic.comin Cancun provides an opportunity for a better quality of life. The clinic and laboratory were designed, built and are operated under the stringent guidelines as established by The International Cellular Medical Society (ICMS) and the US Federal Drug Administrations Good Tissue Practice (cGTP)regulations for pharmaceutical, biologics and clinical laboratories. The strict adherence to these established guidelines and policies guarantees the highest quality of clinical care and stem cell treatment safety for you. Check out our clinic locations at http://worldstemcells.com/locations.html

What Is Done

World Stem Cells Clinics medical staff and clinical physicians will examine you and review all available medical records, radiology films, CT scans and other diagnostic information to assess if stem cell therapy will be a helpful primary treatment or adjunctive therapy for your specific condition.

Then, the medical doctors meet and confer with the research scientists for a pre-treatment planning meeting. This Stem cell treatment planning conference takes advantage of decades of the staffs clinical experience, your current condition, your available social support system, full review of your medical history as well as an inclusion and consideration of any recently published research literature on stem cell treatments. In other words, you are provided a detailed, systematic and entirely unique treatment care plan for his or her needs.

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Sorry, they do not perform a one or two day treatment as it would not be medically sound and could not provide the benefits or safety that the World Stem Cells Clinic treatment schedule gives (please do not be fooled). Your Stem Cell Treatment at World Stem Cells Clinic takes 5 days to complete as the treatments are comprehensive and designed to maximize the benefits and safety you derive from the process.

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The World Stem Cells Clinics team harvest autologous stem cells from your own bone marrow, adipose (fat) tissue or circulating stem cells, within your bloodstream. They also offer allogeneic stem cells from other donors. These cells are harvested in the same way and under the same conditions. They are simply obtained from a donor as opposed to from you. They do not utilize fetal or laboratory-cultured embryonic stem cells. They chose not to use these sources of stem cells to prevent potential complications from contamination or side effects and adverse events such as graft versus host disease (GVHD).

After collection, your stem cells are tested and processed at the state-of-the-art and Good Tissue Practice (cGTP) laboratories. Data regarding the source of your stem cells, the amount harvested, and other information is recorded to ensure proper transfusion of your own cell or those of a chosen donor.

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World Stem Cell Institute is a scientific organization established to educate the general public about stem cells, their ethical use in general, potential benefit of stem cell treatments by diseases, publishing the on-going stem cells research accomplishments in our laboratories and provide stem cell clinical trials to those that cant afford the cost of a stem cell treatments and associated housing cost during treatment. To provide education and products that improve the public quality of life.

We at World Stem Cell Institute are dedicated to promoting and aiding World Stem Cell Institute to achieve its goals for 2015 of providing financial assistance to patients who would benefit from a stem cell treatment but do not have the funds required for the stem cell treatment or costs while undergoing a stem cell treatment and research to provide better treatments and advance stem cell configurations. The following is a snapshot of the sixprograms we have undertaken:

1. ASD (Autism) PROGRAM research at our laboratory, clinical trials to improve the outcome of stem cell treatments for autistic children and treatment for those who cannot afford the cost ,

2. Preemie PROGRAM clinical trials that would help prevent blindness and other debilitating diseases in premature babies with the use of stem cells from the laboratory of World Stem Cell Institute or other approved lab,

3. AIDS PROGRAMresearch to creating a cell line and stem cell treatments to reverse or eliminate the course of the disease.

4. Macular Degeneration PROGRAM macular degeneration and other eye related diseases clinical trials using stem cell treatments

5. Anti-Aging PROGRAMAge Management with the use of a specific cell line that would rejuvenate and reverse aging. The company will publish the findings of the research by news releases which would made information available to the general public, medical organizations and scientist all at the same time.

6. Education on healthand quality oflife improvementissuesProgram To make availableproducts and education to the public to improve theirhealth, self esteem, financial position in life.

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Cellular therapies represent a new frontier in the treatment of neurological disease. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), which can be harvested from bone marrow, adipose tissue, and umbilical cord blood, among many other sources, possess several qualities which may be used to treat diseases of the central nervous system. MSCs migrate to sites of malignancy, a property which may be used for the treatment of brain cancer. MSCs possess immunosuppressive properties, which may be used for the treatment of neurological disorders with an inflammatory etiology. Finally, MSCs restore injured neural tissue, a property which may be used for the treatment of neural injury. Approximately 23 clinical trials have been completed to date, with many more ongoing, and all have been listed in this review. The long-term safety of MSC-based therapies is not well established, and continues to be one major limitation to clinical translation. More broadly, only a small minority of clinical trials have employed rigorous designs that include prospective randomization, patients from multiple centers, clinically-relevant and reproducible endpoints, and adequate long-term follow-up. These limitations must be addressed before MSCs can enter widespread clinical use. Nevertheless, MSCs represent a promising new approach to treating diseases of the central nervous system that are traditionally associated with morbid outcomes. With additional pre-clinical and clinical studies that focus on their potential benefits as well as dangers, MSCs may one day find translation to clinical use in the setting of neurological disease.

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Recent studies have revealed that adult stem cells such as bone marrow-derived cells contribute to lung tissue regeneration and protection, and thus administration of exogenous stem/progenitor cells may be a potent next-generation therapy for COPD. Pathogenesis of COPD is characterized by an upregulation of inflammatory processes leading to irreversible events such as apoptosis of epithelial cells, proteolysis of the terminal air-space and lung extracellular matrix components. The available pharmacological treatments are essentially symptomatic, therefore, there is a need to develop more effective therapeutic strategies. It has been previously demonstrated that transplanted MSC home to the lung in response to lung injury and adopt phenotypes of alveolar epithelial cells, endothelial cells, fibroblasts and bronchial epithelial cells. However, engraftment and differentiation are now felt to be rare occurrences and other mechanisms might be involved and play a more important role. Importantly, MSCs protect lung tissue through suppression of proinflammatory cytokines, and through triggering production of reparative growth factors. Accordingly, it is not clear if and how these cells will be able to repair, to slow or to prevent the disease. This article reviews recent advances in regenerative medicine in COPD and highlights that their potential application although promising and very attractive, are still a far away opinion.

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Stem Cell Therapy, like PRP and prolotherapy, is one of the most promising and exciting fields in modern medicine. Studies have shown it to be useful in repairing bone, ligaments, muscle, cartilage defects, arthritis, tendons, skin, and other injuries. It is most commonly used to treat such conditions as degenerative disc disease, desiccated discs, spinal stenosis (both central and foraminal), facet arthrosis, sacroiliac joint syndrome, osteoarthritis of any joint, and sports/overuse injuries.

The therapy is based on the potential healing capabilities of mesenchymal stem cells, which contain growth factors and signalling proteins that can instigate the regeneration of damaged tissue. Mesenchymal stem cells, or MSCs, are multipotent stromal cells that can differentiate into a variety of cell types, including: osteoblasts (bone cells), chondrocytes (cartilage cells), and adipocytes (fat cells). The most readily available stem cells come from a practically painless bone marrow aspiration or from fat by performing a mini liposuction.

It is important to understand we use your own (Autologous) stem cells to repair the damaged area. Because they are your bodys own cells, there is very little risk with our Stem Cell Therapy procedures.

Dr. Magaziners Stem Cell Therapy procedures are performed in a safe, sterile environment using image guidance for safety and offer a high rate of success with minimal risk.

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Spirituality shaped through cultural understandings, anthropologist says

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6 hours ago by Clifton B. Parker Buddhism, symbolized by this reclining Buddha in Wat Phra That Hariphunchai temple, Thailand, inspires a different set of spiritual experiences than evangelical Christianity, according to Stanford anthropology Professor Tanya Luhrmann. Credit: Jedsada Kiatpornmongkol / Shutterstock

Culture makes a significant difference in how people experience spirituality, according to new Stanford research.

Christians might "kindle" or generate different kinds of spiritual experiences than Buddhists because their cultural understandings of these mental or bodily sensations are different, said Tanya Luhrmann, a Stanford anthropology professor and co-author of a new article in Current Anthropology.

"We suggest that phenomenological experience is always the result of the interaction between expectation, cultural invitation, spiritual practice and bodily responsiveness," she wrote.

Phenomenology is the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view. As Luhrmann noted, comparing spiritual or phenomenological experiences across different social settings "shows us how deeply cultural expectations shape intimate human experience."

Bodily or mental sensations have different meanings in different spiritual traditions, Luhrmann said. One person may feel a damp coldness and believe that a demon is present. Another person may shake uncontrollably and attribute this to the Holy Spirit. A third feels a light, floating sensation this is what happens when he meditates.

Luhrmann's research examined how the presence of a specific cultural name for a mental or bodily sensation may affect that sensation within a specific cultural and social setting. Her co-author was Julia Cassaniti, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago.

"We call this the 'cultural kindling' of the spiritual experience," said Luhrmann, the Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Department of Anthropology.

In an interview, Luhrmann elaborated on cultural kindling as the way people "think about thinking and sleeping and other everyday experiences, along with the way people think about God, which will affect the kind of startling, spontaneous experiences they identify as spiritual experiences."

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Culture makes a significant difference in how people experience spirituality, according to new Stanford research.

Christians might "kindle" or generate different kinds of spiritual experiences than Buddhists because their cultural understandings of these mental or bodily sensations are different, said Tanya Luhrmann, a Stanford anthropology professor and co-author of a new article in Current Anthropology.

"We suggest that phenomenological experience is always the result of the interaction between expectation, cultural invitation, spiritual practice and bodily responsiveness," she wrote.

Phenomenology is the study of structures of consciousness as experienced from the first-person point of view. As Luhrmann noted, comparing spiritual or phenomenological experiences across different social settings "shows us how deeply cultural expectations shape intimate human experience."

Bodily or mental sensations have different meanings in different spiritual traditions, Luhrmann said. One person may feel a damp coldness and believe that a demon is present. Another person may shake uncontrollably and attribute this to the Holy Spirit. A third feels a light, floating sensation this is what happens when he meditates.

Luhrmann's research examined how the presence of a specific cultural name for a mental or bodily sensation may affect that sensation within a specific cultural and social setting. Her co-author was Julia Cassaniti, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago.

"We call this the 'cultural kindling' of the spiritual experience," said Luhrmann, the Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Department of Anthropology.

In an interview, Luhrmann elaborated on cultural kindling as the way people "think about thinking and sleeping and other everyday experiences, along with the way people think about God, which will affect the kind of startling, spontaneous experiences they identify as spiritual experiences."

Luhrmann and Cassaniti conducted open-ended interviews with 33 American members of evangelical churches in Northern California and 20 members of a Thai Buddhist community in northern Thailand. In hour-long formats, the subjects were asked questions such as, "What has been your most memorable spiritual experience?" and "Would you say that you hear from God?"

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Holiday ads play up irreverence to attract shoppers

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Holiday ads usually play up the sentiment, family times and spirituality of Christmas. But some marketers get attention by going in the oppositedirection.

In this example,a man is leading his camel across the desert, following a star. Hearrives at a stable bearing a gift and finds a baby seemingly abandoned in a manger.

Turns out that the parents, assorted animals, some shepherds and the other Wise Men are in an adjoining room, totally engrossed in a TV show.

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While a cable channel may feel safe making fun of the Christmas story in France, it's unlikelysuch heresy would fly in the U.S.

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Although, Kmart did get away with asaucy little ad that shows a male bell ringer choirperforming without pants. By gyrating their hips, they're able to ring the bells in their boxershorts.

Across the pond,where irony is a national sport, this ad shows several people opening oddlittle gifts.

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The daughter nervously shuffles her feet in a very expensive looking pair of shoes and the son and father look up at mother admiring herself in a fabulous new dress. And we see thewords, "Harvey Nichols Sorry I Spent It On Myself Gift Collection."

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OPINION: The power is in our hands to actively choose peace

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WHEN catastrophes in the world occur, it makes us realise how lucky we are.

The everyday annoyances that seem huge just melt away in insignificance.

With the siege in Sydney occurring, the horrors of radical thinking is now threatening the safety and calmness of our society here in Australia.

How lucky are we in Australia to be blessed with peace and tranquillity for 99.9% of the time while, in other parts of the world, this event would have only been a fleeting moment and forgotten as bigger catastrophes dominated their lives?

Just like after 9/11, it is important to pull together and focus on the outcomes we all want, and work with every segment of society to achieve that preferred outcome.

A very small number of people can create fear and mayhem - but only if we all let them.

It took only a few individuals in Northern Ireland, on both sides, to cause ongoing atrocities for decades; but the wider community's desire for peace stopped the violence. The power is in our hands to actively choose peace, acceptance and avoid judgment and intolerance.

The problem is a small minority of misguided individuals trying to move our society away from the common good. Do not blame any country of origin, religion, skin colour, sexual preference or gender as you will become as bad as them.

At the end of the day, as a community, we should work together to create a wonderful future, eradicating negativity, and be able to peacefully exercise our spiritual beliefs. How each of us achieves spiritual enlightenment is up to each one of us and is nobody else's business.

After all, when we meet our Maker, the truth will be clear. Good luck with your choices.

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