10/23 2014 East Wake High School 34 @ Clayton Comets 14 Junior Varsity Football game – Video

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David Dawson returns to Canberra to captain ACT Comets against Queensland

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Return: David Dawson will captain the ACT Comets in their Futures League match against Queensland, starting Monday, at Manuka Oval.

ACT Comets captain David Dawson moved to Tasmania to get his crack in the first-class arena.

But he could have progressed through the NSW system if the partnership between Cricket ACT and Cricket NSW was in place when he was coming through the ranks.

Now 32, Dawson will play for the Comets for the first time in more than 10 years when he leads the side in its opening Futures League match of the season against the Queensland second XI, starting on Monday at Manuka Oval.

Dawson is one of six players from the Sydney grade competition - five of whom hail from country NSW - who will join the remaining Canberra-based contingent in the Comets team.

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It is part of Cricket ACT forming a partnership with Cricket NSW, fielding joint teams in the juniors from under-12s to under-19s and sharing resources to best identify outstanding talent.

After having come through the ranks with the Comets and Ginninderra, Dawson moved to Tasmania when he was 20 for more opportunitiesbefore relocating to Sydney in 2009.

Dawson said the new partnership between Cricket ACT and Cricket NSW would provide an easier avenue for Canberra cricketers.

"It's a direct pathway now for Canberra guys to get selected in the NSW Shield and one-day teams," Dawson said.

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Two families of comets found around nearby star

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Beta Pictoris is a young star located about 63 light-years from the Sun. It is only about 20 million years old and is surrounded by a huge disc of material - a very active young planetary system where gas and dust are produced by the evaporation of comets and the collisions of asteroids.

Flavien Kiefer (IAP/CNRS/UPMC), lead author of the new study sets the scene: "Beta Pictoris is a very exciting target! The detailed observations of its exocomets give us clues to help understand what processes occur in this kind of young planetary system."

For almost 30 years astronomers have seen subtle changes in the light from Beta Pictoris that were thought to be caused by the passage of comets in front of the star itself. Comets are small bodies of a few kilometres in size, but they are rich in ices, which evaporate when they approach their star, producing gigantic tails of gas and dust that can absorb some of the light passing through them.

The dim light from the exocomets is swamped by the light of the brilliant star so they cannot be imaged directly from Earth.

To study the Beta Pictoris exocomets, the team analysed more than 1000 observations obtained between 2003 and 2011 with the HARPS instrument on the ESO 3.6-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.

The researchers selected a sample of 493 different exocomets. Some exocomets were observed several times and for a few hours. Careful analysis provided measurements of the speed and the size of the gas clouds. Some of the orbital properties of each of these exocomets, such as the shape and the orientation of the orbit and the distance to the star, could also be deduced.

This analysis of several hundreds of exocomets in a single exo-planetary system is unique.

It revealed the presence of two distinct families of exocomets: one family of old exocomets whose orbits are controlled by a massive planet [1], and another family, probably arising from the recent breakdown of one or a few bigger objects. Different families of comets also exist in the Solar System.

The exocomets of the first family have a variety of orbits and show a rather weak activity with low production rates of gas and dust. This suggests that these comets have exhausted their supplies of ices during their multiple passages close to Beta Pictoris [2].

The exocomets of the second family are much more active and are also on nearly identical orbits [3]. This suggests that the members of the second family all arise from the same origin: probably the breakdown of a larger object whose fragments are on an orbit grazing the star Beta Pictoris.

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Psoriasis itchy skin healing – John Mellor Christian Prayer Ministry – Video

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Blue Lagoon Island in Iceland Guide | Blue Lagoon Travel | Blue Lagoon tourism | Trip 2014 – Video

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Moorea lagoon island | Moorea lagoon Guide | Moorea lagoon tourism Trip | Travel 2014 – Video

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How we hit the the blog time: They are paid to sit on front rows and wear designer clothes – meet the new super bloggers

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Published: 20:01 EST, 25 October 2014 | Updated: 08:50 EST, 26 October 2014

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World travel, fashion week front rows, big-money brand endorsements, thousands of dedicated followers These 20-something super bloggers have it all. So whats their secret? Victoria Moss investigates

You may not have heardof these women, but they arefast becoming as powerful asyour favourite celebrities. Theyhave brands such as Chanel and Louis Vuitton falling over themselves to get them on their front rows, dress them and shower them with gifts.

They are courted by tourism boardsthe world over, and employ agents to broker lucrative partnership deals. Their loyalreaders hang on their every word, makingthe recipes they recommend, buying theclothes that they wear and eating in the restaurants they frequent.

These women are living an A-list dream lifestyle all for the price of documenting their every moment, outfit, thought and meal via Instagram, blogs and Twitter feeds.

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Scleroderma patients seek experimental U.S. stem cell therapy

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CTVNews.ca Staff Published Saturday, October 25, 2014 10:30PM EDT Last Updated Saturday, October 25, 2014 11:46PM EDT

An estimated 16,000 Canadians live with scleroderma, an incurable autoimmune disorder which causes the body to produce too much collagen, resulting in a hardening of the skin and tissue. There is no cure for the scleroderma, but some patients in Canada are now seeking a costly and experimental stem cell therapy in the U.S.

A little over a year ago, Mike Berry of Kingston, Ont., started having trouble breathing. It was the first sign of scleroderma.

Berry, 42, suffers from the systemic version of scleroderma, which attacks his internal organs. His lungs have been scarred by the disorder, with his lung capacity dropping to 41 per cent in just nine months. His disease may ultimately be fatal.

He described to CTV News how scleroderma has impacted his day-to-day life.

"I'm unable to work any longer; it affects me and everything now," he said. "It's hard to walk fast; I can't walk and talk."

Drugs to treat his scleroderma haven't worked, so now Berry is trying to fundraise more than $150,000 for an experimental U.S. stem cell treatment called Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT), in the hopes that it will save his life.

"It would give me as second chance, I guess I just have a lot to fight for," he said.

Pioneered by Dr. Richard Burt at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, patients receiving HSCT are administered stem cells intravenously.

During the treatment, the patient's stem cells are harvested, and then the patient's over-active immune system is destroyed with powerful chemotherapy drugs. Doctors then re-program the patient's immune system with the harvested stem cells, in the hopes that the cells will "reset" the patient's immune system and stop scleroderma.

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Cancer-Killing Stem Cells Engineered In Lab

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Scientists from Harvard Medical School have discovered a way of turning stem cells into killing machines to fight brain cancer.

In experiments on mice, the stem cells were genetically engineered to produce and secrete toxins which kill brain tumours, without killing normal cells or themselves.

Researchers said the next stage was to test the procedure in humans.

A stem cell expert said this was "the future" of cancer treatment.

The study, published in the journal Stem Cells, was the work of scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute.

For many years, they had been researching a stem-cell-based therapy for cancer, which would kill only tumour cells and no others.

They used genetic engineering to make stem cells that spewed out cancer-killing toxins, but, crucially, were also able to resist the effects of the poison they were producing.

They also posed no risk to normal, healthy cells.

In animal tests, the stem cells were surrounded in gel and placed at the site of the brain tumour after it had been removed.

Their cancer cells then died as they had no defence against the toxins.

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