B.C. Islands For Sale Are Surprisingly Affordable (PHOTOS)

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Owning a private island seems to belong in the realm of the extremely wealthy or does it?

We were surprised to find that many islands for sale in B.C. are selling for under $1 million. No, you can't even get most Vancouver teardowns for that price range.

There's Johnson Island, 20 acres of privacy about 48 kilometres from Fort. St. James. For $335,000, it comes with a rustic log cabin.

Who needs a fancy mansion when you have a front-row seat to astonishing sunsets and the northern lights?

Or for a tad more, you could have snapped up Bee Island in Cowichan Lake. A gorgeous 2,343 sq.-ft. home built in 2007 came with the property, which recently sold for $895,000.

Chris Krolow, who runs Private Islands Magazine and Private Islands Online, says islands in lakes are significantly less expensive then ones situated in the ocean.

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Asia ‘must do more’ to fight Ebola, says World Bank group president – Video

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Asian countries are not doing enough to fight Ebola, that is the conclusion of World Bank group president Jim Yong Kim. The virus has killed more than 5000 people mostly in West Africa. Thousands...

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PM Narendra Modi wants Make in India to take health care to the poor – Video

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Stressing upon the alarming increase in child and maternal mortality rates, and the lack of importance given to preventive health care in the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized...

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Fact Check: Obama claims lower increase in health care costs

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Saturday November 8, 2014 11:57 AM

The Associated Press

(c) 2014, The Washington Post.

"Health care inflation has gone down every single year since the law [the Affordable Care Act] passed, so that we now have the lowest increase in health care costs in 50 years_which is saving us about $180 billion in reduced overall costs to the federal government and in the Medicare program."

President Barack Obama, news conference, Nov. 5, 2014

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In his post-election news conference, President Obama hit on a theme that we have explored before that the Affordable Care Act has led to lower increases in health care costs. But the evidence for this is still rather fuzzy.

Let's deconstruct the president's statement.

First, note that the president simply notes that growth in health-care spending has gone down every year since the law passed, thus cleverly avoiding a causal connection. But he certainly implies it, and that's the message most viewers might have received.

But the evidence for a direct connection still is in dispute.

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Biodiversity of plant cell culture collections offers valuable source of natural insecticidal and fungicidal products

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6-Nov-2014

Contact: Kathryn Ryan kryan@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News @LiebertOnline

IMAGE: Industrial Biotechnology, led by Co-Editors-in-Chief Larry Walker, PhD, Biological and Environmental Engineering Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, and Glenn Nedwin, PhD, MoT, CEO and President, Taxon Biosciences, Tiburon, CA, is...

New Rochelle, NY, November 6, 2014Screening large cell culture collections containing plant samples obtained from diverse geographic regions, climates, and soil and growing conditions for biological activity can reveal a wealth of natural compounds with potential applications for crop improvement and protection. The capability to do reproducible screening and genomic analysis of the more than 2,000 plant cell lines maintained in culture at the Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering, in Kiev, Ukraine is describe in an article in Industrial Biotechnology, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available on the Industrial Biotechnology website.

In the article "Screening Plant Biodiversity In Vitro for New Natural Products," Prof. Nikolay V. Kuchuk and coauthors from the Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering and Zabolotny Institute of Microbiology and Virology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev; Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA; and Hunter-Cevera & Associates, Ellicott City, MD, provide a detailed description of their methods for plant cell culture and the development of plant extracts for screening. The authors present the results of large-scale screening for insecticidal and fungicidal activity in 1,200 plant samples.

The article is part of the IB IN DEPTH special section entitled "Plants and Microorganisms: Moving Food and Agricultural Biotechnology Forward," led by Guest Editor Jennie Hunter-Cevera, PhD, Hunter-Cevera & Associates.

This issue of IB also features an Overview entitled "Exploring Plant-Microorganism Relationships for Natural Solutions to Sustainable Agriculture and Food Production," the Roundtable Discussion "Opportunities and Challenges for Plant Natural Product Research and Development," the Patent Update "Intellectual Property of Plants and Plant Products: Is Fruit Juice Eligible for Patent Protection?" and two Review articles: "Potential for Industrial Application of Microbes in Symbioses that Influence Plant Productivity and Sustainability in Agricultural, Natural, or Restored Ecosystems" and "Delayed Ripening of Climacteric Fruit by Catalysts Prepared from Induced Cells of Rhodococcus rhodochrous DAP 96253A Case for the Biological Modulation of Yang-Cycle Driven Processes by a Prokaryote."

"Leveraging the genetic diversity of the plant world is an important activity for agricultural, environmental, and industrial biotechnology sectors and is key to addressing a spectrum of global sustainability challenges," says Co-Editor-in-Chief Larry Walker, PhD, Professor, Biological & Environmental Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

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Honoring the humanitarian aid worker – IRC Freedom Award, Nov. 5, 2014 – Video

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The 2014 recipient of the International Rescue Committee #39;s Freedom Award is the humanitarian aid worker. In this video, IRC president David Miliband pays tribute to all of the men and women...

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Lil Reese Calls For Lil Durks Freedom Amid Third Gun Charge Arrest | @kollegekidd – Video

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