Evil Islands Gameplay + Gua (en espaol!) 6: Island Orcs’ Mechanism, Magic Orb y Orc Document – Video

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Evil Islands Gameplay + Gua (en espaol!) 6: Island Orcs #39; Mechanism, Magic Orb y Orc Document
Gracias al nuevo mecanismo, podemos asaltar a los orcos isleos. He agrupado estas misiones porque tienen que ver con limpiar el mapa -The river and the islands-. Con esto slo quedan...

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Shetland Islanders fight plan to force children to boarding school

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Emily Johnson, 11, pictured with her mum Louise, says: 'It would be horrible. I'd be away in the hostel by myself' Photograph: Louise Johnson

Up to 112 children aged as young as 11 are set to be forcibly sent to boarding school under controversial plans by Shetland Islands council. The most radical proposal now under public consultation would see three junior high schools closed on the smaller islands by 2016, and pupils sent to board at Anderson high school on Shetlands biggest island, Mainland.

It would be horrible. Id be away from home in the hostel on my own, Monday morning to Friday afternoon, says Emily Johnson, 11. Id miss my family. I wouldnt be able to carry on with my knitting group. What happens if I turn ill? Now my mum looks after me. All this is worrying me already.

Emily and her brother Scott, 13, attend Whalsay schools junior high, along with their brother Ian, seven, who goes to the primary. Under proposals by Shetland council, the school could be closed, or at the very least lose its final year secondary 4 for pupils aged 13-14. There is an identical proposal for the island of Yell, which also has just one junior high school. Come next autumn, pupils on Unst will face the same threat as will children attending two remote schools in Sandwick and Aith on Mainland.

There is no other secondary provision on the island of Whalsay. If councillors vote to close the school, children as young as 11 would be forced to travel to Shetlands capital, Lerwick, and become weekly boarders.

Islanders are worried and angry. In recent consultation meetings on Whalsay and Yell, community halls were packed full of parents who made their distress clear to officials and councillors.

The feeling was totally unanimous against both proposals, says Lynne Wilson, a Whalsay parent and teacher at the junior high. Some were quite emotional. But it really did feel like knocking your head against a brick wall.

Shetland council claims its plans are intended to improve pupils education. Gary Robinson, independent leader of the council, says: What were offering is a better education than they would get on the islands. Since Scottish government reforms in 2010, local authorities must provide a wide range of vocational and workplace experiences alongside the standard curriculum in the final three years of secondary school. Robinson says offering quality placements and vocational training will be difficult enough on Mainland, which has a population of 19,000, let alone on the smaller outlying islands with communities numbering around 1,000 each.

But parents, who have formed a campaign group called Communities United for Rural Education (Cure), disagree. Education here works, says Louise Johnson, Emilys mum. This summer, the first cohort of secondary students in Scotland took the new national qualifications since the 2010 Curriculum for Excellence reforms. According to figures from Shetland council, Mid Yell and Whalsay schools outperformed average results for the rest of Shetland. More than 85% of Mid Yell students and 79.7% of Whalsay pupils passed the National 5 exams (the Scottish equivalent of GCSEs taken at 14) at grades A-C, whereas for Shetland overall 78.9% did. Wilson asks: Why would you force your children away from home, especially to a school where frankly theyll get a poorer result?

The parents argue that closing the schools on the smaller islands is all about making cuts, not about raising educational outcomes. Robinson disagrees. The reality is that this council has always prioritised education, and has always spent more than its got from government on education, he says. Central government hands over 29.5m a year for Shetlands education system. The council, he says, stumps up 48.5m that has to be found from somewhere. But Robinson has to admit that, with the councils grant reduced by 18% since 2010, like every other authority in the land we are having to reduce our costs. Would closing outlying schools cut educational costs? I do believe the savings weve estimated are accurate, he says carefully.

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Govt steps up patrols to curb illegal harvesting of coral

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The government has intensified surveillance in the Izu and Ogasawara islands after more than 200 vessels believed to be Chinese boats were observed in areas around the islands. They are believed to have been poaching coral to make jewelry.

On Thursday afternoon, a Japan Coast Guard plane observed 48 boats around the Ogasawara Islands and 164 boats in the vicinity of the Izu Islands.

On Friday, a Yomiuri Shimbun plane spotted a group of vessels near the Izu Islands.

The Izu Islands are closer to Honshu than the Ogasawara Islands, and experts say the vessels seen there are seeking to strike it rich in an area where coral has never been harvested.

Boats were observed in two areas around the Izu Islands - Torishima island, about 400 kilometers north of the Ogasawara Islands, and Sumisujima island, about 500 kilometers north of the Ogasawara Islands.

The 3rd Regional Coast Guard Headquarters deployed more patrol boats to crack down on illegal harvesting of coral to prevent the practice from spreading, according to the headquarters.

Crew members in the boats observed by the Yomiuri Shimbun plane were seen in work gloves, busy handling nets.

Although many of the boats appeared old, with some covered with rust, their crews seemed to gathering coral on a large scale with large devices that seemed to be radars and wire containers on the decks of their boats.

The price of coral that can be used for jewelry has jumped more than 100 times compared to that of about 40 years ago.

"We have expressed our dissatisfication about this behaviour to the Chinese government and requested that it not be allowed to happen again," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said at a press conference Friday.

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Bad patents on human genes hinder health care, hospital says

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One of the countrys premiere pediatric hospitals is challenging the notion that human genes can be patented by filing a lawsuit that, if successful, could lead to a rewriting of patent law and sharply advance the advent of personalized medicine.

The Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario argues in court filings that restricting access to genetic information by researchers and clinicians undermines patient care and is morally and legally untenable.

No one should be able to patent human DNA. Its like trying to patent water or air, said Alex Munter, chief executive officer of CHEO. He noted that Canada is one of the only jurisdictions in the Western world that still allows gene patenting.

This poses a significant obstacle to diagnosing and caring for children with a genetic condition and that cant be tolerated, he said. Conversely, striking down the law, will open the door to an era of personalized medicine, where treatments are tailored to specific genetic characteristics.

Mr. Munter said CHEO is taking on the case because it is a leader in genetic research, particularly in the field of rare diseases, but many institutions will benefit if it is successful.

Lawyers for the hospital who are working pro bono filed papers in the Federal Court of Canada on Monday challenging five patents related to genes associated with a heart condition called long QT syndrome.

It is a test case that the hospital hopes will result in parts of the Patent Act being struck down. There are about 7,000 disease genes that are amenable to patenting under existing legislation in Canada.

This is the first Canadian court case to ask the question: Are human genes patentable? said Nathaniel Lipkus of the law firm Gilberts LLP.

Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that genes can no longer be patented. Biotech companies want to patent genes so they can profit from testing of those genes. When patents are struck down as in the U.S. a company can still market tests but cannot do so exclusively, so the price drops significantly.

The patents being challenged by CHEO are held by the University of Utah but were filed in Canada.

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U.S. Gene Patents: Patient Care Stymied In Canada, Hospital Claims

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An Ottawa hospital is challenging the legality of gene patents that hamper the ability of doctors to freely screen for potentially deadly genetic diseases without fear of being sued forpatent violations.

On Monday, the Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) started a legal process in Federal Court that could decide if human genes can be patented in Canada.

"Its about whether Canadian hospitals can provide genetic testing to Canadian patients and really give them the top quality of care," said Richard Gold, a lawyer and intellectual property expert at McGill University in Montreal, who is advising the hospital pro bono.

Currently, some genetic tests cant be done in Canada because U.S. companies hold patents on the tests and the genes and have threatened legal action if the patents are violated by doing the tests in Canada, rather than the U.S.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that naturallyoccurring human genes cant be patented and threw out patents held by Myriad Genetics Inc. to look for mutations on the BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 genes associated with much greater risks of breast and ovarian cancer,including a mutation that actorAngelina Jolie revealed she inherited.

CHEOs case centres on patents for genes associated with long QT syndrome, an inherited heart rhythm disorder that typically presents for the first time as a fainting spell or seizure during exercise or tragically in sudden death, said Gail Graham, head of medicine genetics at the Ottawa hospital.

"Genetic technology is just exploding. It's increasingly embedding itself at the heart of medicine," Graham said.

Long QT syndrome is treatable, but it often results in sudden death of a young person. With genetic screening, doctors aim to treat it before tragedy strikes.

The hospital is not allowed to screen for genes associatedwith long QT syndrome because a U.S. company has patented the test and the genes.

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