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The Twelfth Department (Korolev Mysteries 3) - William Ryan
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The Twelfth Department by William Ryan
Moscow, 1937. Captain Korolev, a police investigator, is enjoying a long-overdue visit from his young son Yuri when an eminent scientist is shot dead within sight of the Kremlin and Korolev is ordered to find the killer.
It soon emerges that the victim, a man who it appears would stop at nothing to fulfil his ambitions, was engaged in research of great interest to those at the very top ranks of Soviet power. When another scientist is brutally murdered, and evidence of the professors' dark experiments is hastily removed, Korolev begins to realise that, along with having a difficult case to solve, he's caught in a dangerous battle between two warring factions of the NKVD. And then his son Yuri goes missing…
A desperate race against time, set against a city gripped by Stalin's Great Terror and teeming with spies, street children and thieves, The Twelfth Department confirms William Ryan as one of the most compelling historical crime novelists at work today.
A new Captain Korolev mystery from the author of The Holy Thief and The Bloody Meadow
Set in Moscow in the 1930s, The Twelfth Department is the third outing for William Ryan's increasingly impressive Captain Korolev series… There's an Orwellian influence to the manipulation of language and meaning in The Twelfth Department, while Korolev's quest to uncover the "facts" of his investigation ensures that he soon resembles a pawn kicked around the board by warring superiors. The geographical setting and political backdrop are compelling enough, but Korolev is a fascinating character in his own right, an army veteran of "the German War" who acknowledges the poisonous nature of the regime he serves even as he clings to the hope that its propaganda might some day chime with reality.
Ryan's tense, tightly plotted whodunnits feel gloriously plausible, a function of the intimate link he forges between his readers and his characters, never mind that those characters are living through extraordinary times.
I haven't read the previous two novels in this series, but The Twelfth Department is so good that in fact, while not hindering the reader's enjoyment, it further succeeds in whetting the reader's appetite for the previous novels. The fetid and suffocating atmosphere created by Ryan, where friends, colleagues and even family cannot be trusted, is brilliantly realised and becomes progressively worse as the narrative unfolds and Korolev's choices narrow. The characterisation is simply excellent. Korolev is a conflicted and complex character whose personal story intertwines with the twisted and turning investigative narrative while the other characters, such as the Moscow mob boss, Count Kolya, are all energised and smoothly drawn. As a crime story this is excellent, but as a historical crime novel, it is outstanding.
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The Twelfth Department
William Ryan
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Korolev Mysteries series – book 3
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CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger 2013 – shortlist
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Tag Archives: Virginia
Shitty things happening in Virginia and other internet broadcasts
February 18, 2012 1:50 pm , 3 Comments , Wistar
Internet Hate/Love
The Village Voice foresees social media platforms that won't invade user privacy:
But as the business press and slavering investors look on eagerly at Zuckerberg's coronation, many believe that the seeds of Facebook's downfall have already been sown. The company might have brought people together like never before, but exploitation is woven inextricably into its DNA. Facebook makes its money by commercializing personal information, watching its users, analyzing their behavior, and selling what it learns.
"I like to compare Facebook to communication in preschool," [Sam] Boyer says. "The Facebook wall is an incredibly unsophisticated social space. People just spew stuff out. In adult social situations, we read cues, we create norms, we create rules that are there for the purpose of creating conversations that move us forward. That's what we want to build."
Omnivore urges us to "Think of the Internet," especially its corrosive effect on our sex lives:
In offering her rules [for how to manage a romantic relationship], "Rose" was introducing a theme that would emerge time and time again as I spoke to other students who also told me that using Facebook could lead to a break-up. Several students said that they had deactivated their Facebook accounts either to preserve their romantic relationships or to make future relationships possible. . . . [T]hey believed that Facebook transformed them into anxious, jealous, and monitoring selves that they did not want to be. After disconnecting from Facebook, they felt they shed these unwanted selves. Facebook was constantly providing information about their identity and others' identity that they believed should be a basis for relationships, and yet was too vague to determine the actions which should accompany this information.
The New York Times encourages my solitary confinement. You are always welcome in my apartment, just not in a physical sense. I am not accepting corporeal visitors (nor cats) at this time.
New communications technologies make living alone a social experience, so being home alone does not feel involuntary or like solitary confinement. The person alone at home can digitally navigate through a world of people, information and ideas. Internet use does not seem to cut people off from real friendships and connections.
Speaking of hermitic caves, this is probably my next career move:
. . . I invented a simple scientific protocol. I put a team at the entrance of the cave. I decided I would call them when I woke up, when I ate, and just before I went to sleep. My team didn't have the right to call me, so that I wouldn't have any idea what time it was on the outside. Without knowing it, I had created the field of human chronobiology.
Non-scandals and Society
W magazine covers Swedish nannies and America's most expensive mansion in "Revenge of the Billion Dollar Divorcee":
"I'm the most insecure person you could ever run into in your entire life," [Suzanne Saperstein] says, taking a sip of white wine. "When I'm watching a football game and the players get into a huddle, I think they're talking about me. They're saying, 'Oh, God. Did you see that dress? That hair?'"
Gawker tries and fails to make a scandal, unless the scandal is how frumpy we William & Mary girls can be on school days. From the comments section:
A few years back Sam Kashner wrote an article about his exploits with half the W&M student body. His book was such hilarious bullshit and the details didn't make sense to anyone who's ever even been there. He claimed that there were scantily dressed young coeds hanging around campus trying to seduce him everywhere he went; most W&M students wear leggings/skinny jeans, baggy sweatshirts, and fake Uggs during winter and shorts, baggy t-shirts, and flip-flops in the summer. For some bizarre reason they all have Middleton hair or attempt Middleton hair but otherwise you'd never see a group of people who gave less of a fuck about appearences.
Amazon's new imprint is the bete noire of the publishing world:
Established authors, for the most part, do fine selling through online bookstores. It's new authors who lose out if browsing in bookstores becomes a thing of the past. Advances for unproven and non-bestselling authors have already plummeted, by all accounts. Literary diversity is at risk.
Six creative writing teachers defend their calling:
In law school, students analyze past cases, construct arguments, and write opinions, so that eventually they can do these things well enough to practice law. Could they do this outside of law school? Yes, but law school facilitates the process, and the law professor offers guiding thoughts along the way. Writing instruction is no different. The goal is to offer the occasional guiding thought or idea, the craft lesson, a few instructive models, and the occasional critical nudge, while all the time encouraging the student to practice writing, practice revising, and practice, practice, practice as a means to improvement. It works.
Simone de Beauvoir gets naked.
Ben Marcus gets interviewed:
Up until this book, I wrote in a very, very laborious way. Maybe 100, 200 words a day, not that I ever counted. I was interested in the sentence as a work of art, as a piece of sculpture, as something that was a kind of technology to open up huge feelings in people. I still love and believe in that as a pursuit. Some of my favorite writers do that.
But I think maybe I felt disgusted with all of my own limitations and wanted to try to outsmart them, or sneak around the kinds of things I had been doing to exhaustion and to boredom. So, one of the big things I could change without changing anything — meaning an adjustment I could make that would not necessarily impact my actual aesthetic in anyway — was to write quickly and not necessarily give a shit if I wrote really functional, almost deliberately bland, language. Like, "Denny got up out of his chair and left the room," or, "He got a cup out of the cupboard." These were the kinds of things that in the past I would just fucking agonize over.
Shitty Things Happening in Virginia
Our legislature has some notably alarming ideas about women's health. After a thorough reading of the Virginia Code, Waldo Jaquith points out that under the new personhood law, "Fetuses may be put to work on the family farm, perform domestic work, or volunteer for the rescue squad." (§ 40.1-79.01) If only to keep these fetuses from stealing our jobs, you can sign a petition here.
Lastly, the trial of former University of Virginia lacrosse player George Huguely is about to enter its third week. A few blocks uphill from my apartment, stricken families gather together in a courthouse while impersonal satellites beam updates to the rest of the nation. My mother learned how to use Twitter so she could follow the daily courtroom feeds. I also find that it's difficult not to be voyeuristic during this trial, especially since my little sister and two of my brothers played lacrosse in college. But of course all this outside interest accomplishes nothing. No matter what the jury's verdict, the ultimate case remains: this afternoon an adored young woman is to be found not at home with her family or hanging out with her new boyfriend or goofing off on the playing field, but rather on a Wikipedia page entitled '"Murder of Yeardley Love." And George Huguely, whose name will always be associated with his dead lover's, will have to live with that. And both sets of parents will continue to bear the weight of the tragedy.
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You may or may not know me from the JumboTron
December 30, 2011 11:54 pm , Leave a Comment , Wistar
Tonight my face was featured on the JumboTron. Why I was in the vicinity of a JumboTron is incidental; for the purposes of this story, just imagine that I have one in my bedroom.
Seeing my image up there was exhilarating in a way that terrifies me now. To my knowledge, my face has never before been 10 feet wide, but I think this is the scale I've been trying to effect on Facebook lately. As I've plundered the site this past month, looking for ways to appease my loneliness, I've slowly gathered that it's not other people I'm so desperately seeking, but a proper presentation of myself. I'm longing for what? A self who makes sense in the context of all these other selves doing busywork outside my apartment. If I could only get it right here, in these well-trafficked places, then I could sit solidly in my chair and be someone calm and important. Tonight, as I primped in the bathroom mirror, I told my mom, "I finally figured out how to make my hair do. It didn't do before, but now it does." I feel that my internet persona strikes the same shallow register as my enhanced body of hair. At this point I'm just fluffing random parts and spraying product in all directions, hoping for some degree of positive attention.
Darren Hoyt recently wrote a blog post about anxiety and the internet, inspired by an N+1 piece published last November. As I grapple in Virginia with my book's many empty pages, I think about bullshit websites and my presence on them. When you dance from place to place, you're not forced to uncover meaning in your surroundings. When you tangle with identity only here and there, you can't authentically untangle yourself (I know, First World Problems, fuck it). I realize that I'll never write a good novel with one foot still in Facebook, but I rationalize that the constant distraction of web browsing is productive insofar as it makes me hate myself better, which I am told is good fodder for fiction. Ha ha, totally kidding.
I'm going to try to bring this all together now. Wine is not my friend this evening and Pandora has confused me with one of his other lovers, a pretentious electronica DJ.
Hours after my face darkened the JumboTron, I expected to be recognized by strangers in the street. "It's really me! The one with the giant head!" But peoples' reactions were surprisingly muted. Therefore I came home to Facebook, which I knew contained my biography in a comforting, manageable, place-holding format, where my life will stay put until I'm brave enough to venture off screens both small and jumbo, and put something right and real on paper.
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Literary brainstorming in Charlottesville, Virginia
June 3, 2011 7:52 am , 3 Comments , Wistar
I returned to my beloved hometown primarily to see my older brother graduate from med school and get married, but my secondary concern was generating ideas for my masters thesis, an original novel that's due in two months. This means that I've spent the majority of my southern vacation poaching plots from every local I encounter. People I would never expect to have book ideas have written me outlines and sketched out character motivations. This town is a hotbed of unrealized literary genius.
For example!
My 21-year-old brother and his buddy run a handyman business in town mowing lawns, chainsawing everything in their path, "removing stinkbugs," "babysitting," and performing other oddjobs. When I jokingly asked them if they did novels, it took them less than a day to turn over a notebook overflowing with rich material, including fully developed protagonists (serial killers in love), back stories (sex abuse, murder, childhood trauma), themes (municipal corruption) and some thoughts on a prequel. But my little brother had a vague impression that my typical work is more emo, so he was sure to pencil in "(*feelings*)" where he thought my skills could really shine, e.g., "Mom addicted to painkillers, protag always starved for her affection <<—–(*feelings*)." The boys said they'd write the sex and violence scenes, and I could be in charge of all the emotional truths. My friend's four-year-old son is obsessed with traffic cones. Last week we all went to Lowe's and while his mom shopped, he spent 45 minutes in the plumbing aisle lining up orange cones in different formations, then routing the Lowe's employees around them as though the men were cars or airplanes. My friend says, try as she might, she cannot find any children's books devoted to the wonders of traffic and safety cones. She thought I might write something for her son and other kids like him. I have never written a childrens' book, but I think I could manage a literary novel about an extended family of traffic cones. Something like The Corrections, but set in a parking lot.
Stumpy and Big Mac, the two men who make the compost deliveries from my uncle's compost farm, were especially excited when they found out I was trying to write a novel. They told me I could do a ride-along with them in the compost trucks for a week and I'd have more than enough material for my book, tentatively entitled The Adventures of Stumpy and Big Mac. At first I thought they were just teasing me for being a dork, but now every time I go over there they gush about a new plotline worthy of Tom Clancy. Without giving too much away before this thing is published, Big Mac's latest brainstorm involves a jihadist at UVA's graduation ceremony. We agreed that the more local landmarks I insert, the better my chances would be of getting my book stocked in New Dominion. Or in the Barracks Road Barnes & Noble. Or in Random Row Books. Or in Daedalus. Is anybody listening?
Also my grandfather gave me a 2011 World Almanac, saying that it was full of ideas.
Also I need all the help I can get, because I have no ideas.
No, I have one idea. Wishter, a 30-year-old woman with few career prospects, laments the fact that she chose writing school over medical school. In a fit of jealousy, she steals her big brother's med school diploma, and his beautiful new wife for good measure, and opens a private psychiatry clinic in the Cayman Islands, where she makes tons of money by hypnotizing her patients into giving her tons of money as well as revealing their darkest secrets <<—–(*feelings*), emotional truths which will eventually make their way into Wishter's bestselling memoir.
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Taildragger Amber is pure rum personified, It is distilled then aged for six months in rye whiskey barrels and bottled. There is no filtering to take the flavor or color out of it. Made from a high grade "Cane Juice Molasses" (first boil in the sugar process) to attain a bit of the agricole style flavor to the expression. You can smelt he grassy aromas of Taildragger Amber right off the bat.
This is a rum that will take you to a remote isle in the Caribbean and offers you the feeling of freedom and escape that keeps you in a great and happy mood. Taildragger Amber is a small batch, hand crafted rum that gives you flavors that can only be achieved through this method of distillation.
This is a fine young rum, you can pick up aromas of grassy cane, caramel, nuts, dried bananas and some other spices. On the palate, it has a very smooth, fruity, medium bodied flavor, and slides into a somewhat dry or maybe semi sweet finish.


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Ever wondered what those telltales are for on a race boat or a cruiser with new sails? First, they're for getting the boat bang in the groove sailing to windward. Trim in, then steer so as to keep the telltales on both sides of the luff flying parallel. If the leeward ones flop about, luff up a little. When the weather ones fly upwards like this, bear away. The difference can be a good quarter-knot – an hour or so in a twenty-four hour passage. On a reach, ease the sheets until the same effect is achieved.
To set the genoa sheet car exactly, come closehauled and shunt it back and forth until the weather tell-tales all lift together when you steer a few degrees 'high'.
If your haven't any telltales, grab a sail needle and punch a length of wool through the sail about seven or eight inches abaft the luff. Knot it on both sides and put in three equidistant sets.


This two-year video project made headlines on CBC News when I captured footage of a coyote hunting deer; it was also featured by the Carolinian Canada Coalition.
Explore the Ojibway Prairie Complex in Windsor, Ontario, Canada as I follow its population of white-tailed deer over the course of a year, through all four seasons, starting in the summer and ending in the spring. Footage includes bucks locking antlers, a coyote giving chase, a curious doe inspecting a remote camera, and newborn fawns with their mothers.
In 2015 and 2016, I had the privilege of spending a considerable amount of time in Windsor at the Ojibway Prairie Complex - a spectacular natural area that offers an unrivaled immersion into a wilderness just minutes from the city. The complex is home to an incredible wealth of plants and animals. The visions I encountered were captivating and stunning and I have tried to showcase some of those moments in this video.
My time with these deer has also been captured in photographs available for viewing on my Instagram account.
The Ojibway Prairie Complex has hundreds of endangered plant and animal species and is the largest remaining native prairie habitat of its kind in Ontario. As such, the white-tailed deer are not often the primary attraction to the area as the rarer flora and fauna usually attract more attention. I was personally captivated by the life-cycle of the white-tailed deer and Ojibway Prairie's overwhelming opportunity to witness it.
None of the deer in this video were fed, baited, lured or otherwise coerced - I strived to capture the natural, undisturbed behavior granted that my presence was often noted by the deer. The Ojibway Prairie Complex is comprised of five unique sections: the Ojibway Prairie Provincial Nature Reserve, the Tallgrass Prairie Heritage Park, Ojibway Park (and the Ojibway Nature Centre), the Spring Garden ANSI (area of natural scientific interest) and the Black Oak Heritage Park. Each section has its own distinct appearance and an incredible landscape to explore over and over again as the seasons change.


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 Ashmoun
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 Awsim

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	New Akhmim
	New Asyut
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	New Borg El Arab
	New Cairo
	New Damietta
	New Faiyum
	New Minya
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See also
 List of towns and villages in Egypt
 Geography of Egypt
 Climate of Egypt
 List of historical capitals of Egypt
 List of urban areas in Africa by population
 List of largest cities in the Arab world
 Lists of cities in Asia

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External links

 Egypt's New Urban Communities
 New Urban Communities Authority - Contact Page

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Automatic tongue, velum (i.e., soft palate), and pharyngeal movement tracking systems provide a significant benefit for the analysis of dynamic speech movements. Studies have been conducted using ultrasound, x-ray, and Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) to examine the dynamic nature of the articulators during speech. Simulating the movement of the tongue, velum, and pharynx is often limited by image segmentation obstacles, where, movements of the velar structures are segmented through manual tracking. These methods are extremely time-consuming, coupled with inherent noise, motion artifacts, air interfaces, and refractions often complicate the process of computer-based automatic tracking. Furthermore, image segmentation and processing techniques of velopharyngeal structures often suffer from leakage issues related to the poor image quality of the MRI and the lack of recognizable boundaries between the velum and pharynx during contact moments. Computer-based tracking algorithms are developed to overcome these disadvantages by utilizing machine learning techniques and corresponding speech signals that may be considered prior information. The purpose of this study is to illustrate a methodology to track the velum and pharynx from a MRI sequence using the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCC) by analyzing the corresponding audio signals. Auditory models such as MFCC have been widely used in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems. Our method uses customized version of the traditional approach for audio feature extraction in order to extract visual feature from the outer boundaries of the velum and the pharynx marked (selected pixel) by a novel method, The reduced audio features helps to shrink the search space of HMM and improve the system performance. Three hundred consecutive images were tagged by the researcher. Two hundred of these images and the corresponding audio features (5 seconds) were used to train the HMM and a 2.5 second long audio file was used to test the model. The error rate was measured by calculating minimum distance between predicted and actual markers. Our model was able to track and animate dynamic articulators during the speech process in real-time with an overall accuracy of 81% considering one pixel threshold. The predicted markers (pixels) indicated the segmented structures, even though the contours of contacted areas were fuzzy and unrecognizable.
Rahimian, Pooya. Using Synchronized Audio Mapping to Predict Velar and Pharyngeal Wall Locations during Dynamic MRI Sequences. Master's Thesis. East Carolina University, January 2013. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/4229. April 19, 2019.
Rahimian, Pooya, "Using Synchronized Audio Mapping to Predict Velar and Pharyngeal Wall Locations during Dynamic MRI Sequences" (Master's Thesis., East Carolina University, January 2013).
Rahimian, Pooya. Using Synchronized Audio Mapping to Predict Velar and Pharyngeal Wall Locations during Dynamic MRI Sequences [Master's Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; January 2013.


A bone marrow transplant is a procedure that infuses healthy blood stem cells into your body to replace your damaged or diseased bone marrow. A bone marrow transplant is also called a stem cell transplant.
A bone marrow transplant may be necessary if your bone marrow stops working and doesn't produce enough healthy blood cells.
Bone marrow transplants may use cells from your own body (autologous transplant) or from a donor (allogeneic transplant).
At Mayo Clinic, doctors who specialize in blood diseases (hematologists) form a multidisciplinary team with other experts to provide personalized, whole-person care to adults and children undergoing bone marrow transplants.
Your transplant team may include hematologists, cancer specialists (oncologists), mental health specialists (psychologists and psychiatrists), a bone marrow transplant scheduling coordinator, transfusion medicine nurses, trained and specialized nurses, physician assistants, social workers, a nurse coordinator, a clinical nurse specialist, a dietitian, pharmacists, a chaplain and a child life specialist for children undergoing bone marrow transplant.
Children and adolescents undergoing bone marrow transplants receive care at the Children's Center at Mayo Clinic's campus in Minnesota. At Mayo Clinic's campus in Arizona, pediatric experts collaborate with the Phoenix Children's Hospital to provide care to young patients. Together the two oversee a single bone marrow transplant program for children. Pediatric patients receive care from Mayo Clinic specialists in Florida through a partnership with Nemours Children's Specialty Care and Wolfson Children's Hospital.
Mayo Clinic doctors have extensive experience performing bone marrow transplants for adults and children with a variety of cancerous and noncancerous diseases. Each year, more than 700 people undergo bone marrow transplants at Mayo Clinic.
The first bone marrow transplant at Mayo Clinic occurred in 1963. Bone marrow transplant procedures are performed by doctors at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., and Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., which are ranked among the Best Hospitals for cancer by U.S. News & World Report.
The long history of bone marrow transplants performed at Mayo Clinic means that doctors are prepared with the knowledge and resources to provide you with expert, personalized care.
A bone marrow transplant poses many risks of complications, some potentially fatal.
The risk can depend on many factors, including the type of disease or condition, the type of transplant, and the age and health of the person receiving the transplant.
Although some people experience minimal problems with a bone marrow transplant, others may develop complications that may require treatment or hospitalization. Some complications could even be life-threatening.
Your doctor can explain your risk of complications from a bone marrow transplant. Together you can weigh the risks and benefits to decide whether a bone marrow transplant is right for you.
If you receive a transplant that uses stem cells from a donor (allogeneic transplant), you may be at risk of developing graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). This condition occurs when the donor stem cells that make up your new immune system see your body's tissues and organs as something foreign and attack them.
Many people who have an allogeneic transplant get GVHD at some point. The risk of GVHD is a bit greater if the stem cells come from an unrelated donor, but it can happen to anyone who gets a bone marrow transplant from a donor.
GVHD may happen at any time after your transplant. However, it's more common after your bone marrow has started to make healthy cells.
There are two kinds of GVHD: acute and chronic. Acute GVHD usually happens earlier, during the first months after your transplant. It typically affects your skin, digestive tract or liver. Chronic GVHD typically develops later and can affect many organs.
You'll undergo a series of tests and procedures to assess your general health and the status of your condition, and to ensure that you're physically prepared for the transplant. The evaluation may take several days or more.
In addition, a surgeon or radiologist will implant a long thin tube (intravenous catheter) into a large vein in your chest or neck. The catheter, often called a central line, usually remains in place for the duration of your treatment. Your transplant team will use the central line to infuse the transplanted stem cells and other medications and blood products into your body.
If a transplant using your own stem cells (autologous transplant) is planned, you'll undergo a procedure called apheresis (af-uh-REE-sis) to collect blood stem cells.
Before apheresis, you'll receive daily injections of growth factor to increase stem cell production and move stem cells into your circulating blood so that they can be collected.
During apheresis, blood is drawn from a vein and circulated through a machine. The machine separates your blood into different parts, including stem cells. These stem cells are collected and frozen for future use in the transplant. The remaining blood is returned to your body.
If a transplant using stem cells from a donor (allogeneic transplant) is planned, you will need a donor. When you have a donor, stem cells are gathered from that person for the transplant. This process is often called a stem cell harvest or bone marrow harvest. Stem cells can come from your donor's blood or bone marrow. Your transplant team decides which is better for you based on your situation.
Another type of allogeneic transplant uses stem cells from the blood of umbilical cords (cord blood transplant). Mothers can choose to donate umbilical cords after their babies' births. The blood from these cords is frozen and stored in a cord blood bank until needed for a bone marrow transplant.
The type of conditioning process you receive depends on a number of factors, including your disease, overall health and the type of transplant planned. You may have both chemotherapy and radiation or just one of these treatments as part of your conditioning treatment.
You may be able to take medications or other measures to reduce such side effects.
Based on your age and health history, your doctor may recommend lower doses or different types of chemotherapy or radiation for your conditioning treatment. This is called reduced-intensity conditioning.
Reduced-intensity conditioning kills some cancer cells and somewhat suppresses your immune system. Then, the donor's cells are infused into your body. Donor cells replace cells in your bone marrow over time. Immune factors in the donor cells may then fight your cancer cells.
Your bone marrow transplant occurs after you complete the conditioning process. On the day of your transplant, called day zero, stem cells are infused into your body through your central line.
The transplant infusion is painless. You are awake during the procedure.
The transplanted stem cells make their way to your bone marrow, where they begin creating new blood cells. It can take a few weeks for new blood cells to be produced and for your blood counts to begin recovering.
Bone marrow or blood stem cells that have been frozen and thawed contain a preservative that protects the cells. Just before the transplant, you may receive medications to reduce the side effects the preservative may cause. You'll also likely be given IV fluids (hydration) before and after your transplant to help rid your body of the preservative.
Not everyone experiences side effects from the preservative, and for some people those side effects are minimal.
When the new stem cells enter your body, they begin to travel through your body and to your bone marrow. In time, they multiply and begin to make new, healthy blood cells. This is called engraftment. It usually takes several weeks before the number of blood cells in your body starts to return to normal. In some people, it may take longer.
In the days and weeks after your bone marrow transplant, you'll have blood tests and other tests to monitor your condition. You may need medicine to manage complications, such as nausea and diarrhea.
After your bone marrow transplant, you'll remain under close medical care. If you're experiencing infections or other complications, you may need to stay in the hospital for several days or sometimes longer. Depending on the type of transplant and the risk of complications, you'll need to remain near the hospital for several weeks to months to allow close monitoring.
You may also need periodic transfusions of red blood cells and platelets until your bone marrow begins producing enough of those cells on its own.
You may be at greater risk of infections or other complications for months to years after your transplant.
A bone marrow transplant can cure some diseases and put others into remission. Goals of a bone marrow transplant depend on your individual situation, but usually include controlling or curing your disease, extending your life, and improving your quality of life.
Some people complete bone marrow transplantation with few side effects and complications. Others experience numerous challenging problems, both short and long term. The severity of side effects and the success of the transplant vary from person to person and sometimes can be difficult to predict before the transplant.
It can be discouraging if significant challenges arise during the transplant process. However, it is sometimes helpful to remember that there are many survivors who also experienced some very difficult days during the transplant process but ultimately had successful transplants and have returned to normal activities with a good quality of life.
Mayo Clinic doctors and scientists are involved in cutting-edge research that allows them to apply the latest advances to patient care.
Haploidentical transplant to use stem cells from donors who aren't perfect matches. Research is helping doctors understand how to reduce the risk of complications and improve recovery for people whose stem cell donors aren't perfect matches.
Reduced-intensity conditioning to use lower doses of chemotherapy and radiation before a transplant. Researchers are studying new conditioning regimens that will allow older people and those who aren't healthy enough for conditioning to undergo bone marrow transplants.
Cord blood transplant using stored and frozen umbilical cord blood. There are fewer stem cells in cord blood, but those stem cells can grow more blood cells than can those collected from bone marrow. Using cells from cord blood reduces the risk of graft-versus-host disease. Researchers are identifying the best ways to use cord blood for bone marrow transplants.
Expanding indications for bone marrow transplant to use this treatment for a wider variety of conditions, including complicated and rare diseases.
At Mayo Clinic, some bone marrow transplants are performed as hospital-based outpatient procedures, which reduces the amount of time you'll need to spend in the hospital.
Living with a bone marrow transplant or waiting for a bone marrow transplant can be difficult, and it's normal to have fears and concerns.
Having support from your friends and family can be helpful. Also, you and your family may benefit from joining a support group of people who understand what you're going through and who can provide support. Support groups offer a place for you and your family to share fears, concerns, difficulties and successes with people who have had similar experiences. You may meet people who have already had a transplant or who are waiting for a transplant.
To learn about transplant support groups in your community, ask your transplant team or social worker for information. Also, several support groups are offered at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota.
Mayo Clinic researchers study medications and treatments for people who have had bone marrow transplants, including new medications to help you stay healthy after your bone marrow transplant.
If your bone marrow transplant is using stem cells from a donor (allogeneic transplant), you may be at risk of graft-versus-host disease. This condition occurs when a donor's transplanted stem cells attack the recipient's body. Doctors may prescribe medications to help prevent graft-versus-host disease and reduce your immune system's reaction (immunosuppressive medications).
After your transplant, it will take time for your immune system to recover. You may be given antibiotics to prevent infections. You may also be prescribed antifungal, antibacterial or antiviral medications. Doctors continue to study and develop several new medications, including new antifungal medications, antibacterial medications, antiviral medications and immunosuppressive medications.
After your bone marrow transplant, you may need to adjust your diet to stay healthy and to prevent excessive weight gain. Maintaining a healthy weight can help prevent high blood pressure, high cholesterol and other negative health effects.
Your nutrition specialist (dietitian) and other members of your transplant team will work with you to create a healthy-eating plan that meets your needs and complements your lifestyle. Your dietitian may also give you food suggestions to control side effects of chemotherapy and radiation, such as nausea.
After your bone marrow transplant, you may make exercise and physical activity a regular part of your life to continue to improve your health and fitness. Exercising regularly helps you control your weight, strengthen your bones, increase your endurance, strengthen your muscles and keep your heart healthy.
Your treatment team may work with you to set up a routine exercise program to meet your needs. You may perform exercises daily, such as walking and other activities. As you recover, you can slowly increase your physical activity.


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Filmed with iPhone: short enters the world of Japanese decorated trucks
Apple is really committed to showing how iPhones are increasingly capable photo / video instruments and the campaign "Clicked / Filmed with iPhone" the ultimate proof of that.
Always bringing incredible visuals in different parts of the world, the series of photographs and videos shows that, today more than ever, doing professional content depends much more of those behind the equipment than the equipment itself. This new video proves it.
Published today by Ma on her YouTube channel, the short "Lady Misaki" it lands in Japan to briefly show, in just over two minutes, the Japanese tradition of the Dekotora (trucks heavily decorated with neon / ultraviolet lights, chrome or golden parts and other paraphernalia of different natures).
The focus on Kazuya Sekino's path, baptized as "Lady Misaki" in honor of her niece, who died in the third of her mother a week before the expected date of birth. See the result above or here.
Completely filmed with an iPhone XS, the short film really impresses with its visuals: the night shots capture the differences in contrast between dark roads and brightly lit trucks in a very competent way, without causing significant losses in terms of noise or definition. The editing tricks were also very cool although, at this point, it cannot be said that post-production was also performed on an iPhone.
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Bishop allows doctors to give Communion to coronavirus patients
Junno Arocho Esteves April 15, 2020
Geriatrician Federico De Luca is seen with Dr. Cinzia Gambarini as he sits up in bed after recovering from COVID-19 at the Circolo hospital in Varese, Italy, April 9, 2020. Looking for a way to provide both spiritual and physical care on Easter, a group of Italian doctors received their bishop's permission to distribute Communion to those infected by the coronavirus. (CNS photo/Flavio Lo Scalzo, Reuters)
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Looking for a way to provide both spiritual and physical care on Easter, a group of Italian doctors received their bishop's permission to distribute Communion to those infected by the coronavirus.
According to an article published April 15 by Avvenire, the daily newspaper of the Italian bishops' conference, six doctors caring for coronavirus patients at a hospital in Prato, located in Tuscany, presented the idea to the chaplain and subsequently received support from Bishop Giovanni Nerbini of Prato.
Bishop Nerbini made the six doctors extraordinary eucharistic ministers, allowing them to give Communion to over 100 patients on Easter.
"I cried with the patients. Hospitals are places of care, but we can't think of separating the body from the spirit," Filippo Risaliti, one of the doctors who distributed the Eucharist, told Avvenire. "I realized that in the fight against coronavirus, our effort is too focused on fighting the physical ills of the patients."
Risaliti said the idea was inspired by Pope Francis' call for doctors and medical professionals "to play the role of intermediaries of the church for people who are suffering."
"We are the only ones who could do it, since only we can enter those rooms," he said.
Dressed in protective gear, the hospital chaplain, Father Carlo Bergamaschi, accompanied the doctors distributing Communion. The priest carried a ciborium filled with consecrated hosts, which were individually separated by gauze pads to avoid contamination.
For patients who were on respirators and unable to physically receive the Eucharist, the doctors read a prayer at their bedside.
Risaliti told Avvenire that he and the other doctors understood the suffering the patients endure due "to isolation from affection and from relatives."
"They are lonely, suffering people, not only in body but also in soul," he said.
Another doctor, Lorenzo Guarducci, said that for them, distributing Communion helped to heal "a double separation" because "one of the tragic consequences of this pandemic is isolation, of both the sick and health care workers, from everyone."
Many doctors caring for those infected by the virus have been unable to return to their homes in order to prevent infecting their loved ones. Guarducci said he had not seen his wife and children in over a month.
"For me, giving Communion to the sick was a way to fill this void; this gesture allowed me to reunite with my loved ones through the Lord," he told Avvenire. "It was one of the most beautiful experiences I have lived in my life as a man, as a Christian and as a doctor."
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Accosting Drug Costs: The Elusive Holy Grail?
by Shamnad Basheer May 12, 2015
So how do we get big pharma to disclose their drug costs? Mandate them through a legislation, one might say. Well, a couple of US states are now trying it, but facing rather serious resistance from drug makers. After all, it can't be easy to get to the holiest of the holy grails when it comes to drug innovation: namely drug costs. For this is a bluff that cannot be called without serious repercussions for the mainstream model around which patents and pharmaceutical innovation are predicated. There's way too much at stake!
Rema Nagarajan notes in the Times of India as below:
"Just like the Supreme Court of India demanded that Bayer submit an account of its costs in developing the anti-cancer drug sorafenib, more and more states in the US are proposing legislations that could force pharmaceutical companies to reveal the development cost of drugs and profits to justify the high prices they charge.
Five states in the US, including Massachusetts, Oregon, California, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, moved legislations that could have forced pharma companies to justify the high price they charges for drugs.
However, Oregon's Pharmaceutical Cost Transparency Bill was defeated recently. Had the bill been passed, pharmaceutical manufacturers would have had to file an annual report with the health authority on costs associated with the prescription drug for the previous year including a detailed break-up of the cost of drug discovery, clinical trials, marketing and advertisement for the drug and so on.
These bills are coming up as the national debate on rising cost of prescription drugs intensifies. Last year, several US senators were up in arms over the pricing of Gilead's new Hepatitis C drug with the brand name Solvadi (sofosbuvir) which is expected to cost at least $84,000 for the full treatment course, or $1000 per pill. The senators demanded that Gilead explain the reason for such high pricing.
When Bayer contested the royalty rate fixed for operating the compulsory licence given to the Indian company Natco to produce sorafenib, the Supreme Court bench asked why Bayer had not made available the unaudited accounts of R&D expenses to develop the drug, which would have been the best evidence to calculate a reasonable royalty rate. Though Bayer argued that 98% of the cost of a drug was from failed drugs which made providing precise accounts impossible, the Apex Court refused to accept this argument and ordered that in absence of any evidence supplied by Bayer, they would go with Natco's statement that all R&D costs of Bayer were recouped within the first year itself.
Shamnad Basheer, an IP expert pointed out that it was unfortunate that the laws in most countries did not mandate a revelation of true drug costs, without which, one would never whether drug makers were being undercompensated, overcompensated, or fairly compensated. "Given their excessive profits year after year, the prevalent perception is that big pharma is being overcompensated. Till such time as these drug companies are transparent about their costs and profits, India should use this perception in its favour, coming down on the side of public health and affordable medication, wherever possible," stated Basheer in an opinion piece on the supreme court judgement."
The last comment above draws from my Mint editorial, portions of which I extract below:
" …drug costs have been the best-kept secret of the pharmaceutical industry—with one exception. Big pharma selectively hands out data to one institution that it funds (Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development), which then comes up with a periodic study every decade or so.
Not too surprisingly, the costs multiply at a fanciful rate with each such study. The latest Tufts figures were released just last month, pegging the price at an astounding $2.56 billion, up from $802 million in 2003. However, the institute has yet to reveal its methodology for arriving at this humongous figure, a methodology that has been vociferously attacked in the past for several reasons, including the fact that the Tufts Center fails to independently audit the figures submitted by a select cabal of big drug makers.
In the past, I've recommended an investment protection model for incentivizing drug innovation, noting that drug originators must mandatorily submit their costs in order to merit market protection till they recoup these along with a rate of profit commensurate with the health impact of the drug. Will we see a shift to such a model soon? Only time will tell. In the meantime, drug costs will continue to remain an enigma."
For those interested, the investment protection model can be found here (free download from SSRN).
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Prof (Dr) Shamnad Basheer founded SpicyIP in 2005. He is currently the Honorary Research Chair of IP Law at Nirma University and a visiting professor of law at the National Law School (NLS), Bangalore. He is also the Founder of IDIA, a project to train underprivileged students for admissions to the leading law schools. He served for two years as an expert on the IP global advisory council (GAC) of the World Economic Forum (WEF). In 2015, he received the Infosys Prize in Humanities in 2015 for his work on legal education and on democratising the discourse around intellectual property law and policy. The jury was headed by Nobel laureate, Prof Amartya Sen. Professional History: After graduating from the NLS, Bangalore Professor Basheer joinedAnand and Anand, one of India's leading IP firms. He went on to head their telecommunication and technology practice and was rated by the IFLR as a leading technology lawyer. He left for the University of Oxford to pursue post-graduate studies, completing the BCL, MPhil and DPhil as a Wellcome Trust scholar. His first academic appointment was at the George Washington University Law School, where he served as the Frank H Marks Visiting Associate Professor of IP Law. He then relocated to India in 2008 to take up the MHRD Chaired Professorship in IP Law at WB NUJS, a leading Indian law school. Prof Basheer has published widely and his articles have won awards, including those instituted by ATRIP and the Stanford Technology Law Review. He is consulted widely by the government, industry, international organisations and civil society on a variety of IP issues. He also serves on several government committees.
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Bridge School Benefit Webcasting Acoustic Sets by Neil Young, My Morning Jacket, Arcade Fire, Tom Waits with Les Claypool
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Watch the official pro-shot video from Saturday's webcast below. Running over eight and a half hours, here are some of the highlights to look for:
Hour 1 – Neil Young opened the show with "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Heart of Gold."
Hour 2 – Jenny Lewis began her set with unreleased original "Head Underwater" and Heart covered Zep's "The Rain Song."
hour 4 – Elvis Costello paired "New Amsterdam" with The Beatles' "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away." Later he also covered the standard "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" and The Hollies' "King Midas in Reverse," in addition to originals such as "Allison."
Hour 5 – Jack Johnson songs like "Mudfootball" fit the relaxed atmosphere of the concert perfectly. My Morning Jacket began their set with "Circuital" and Woody Guthrie's "Pastures of Plenty."
Hour 6 – Jim James' touching banter about Neil Young is followed by Neil joining them for "Harvest Moon;" then they finished their set with own "I'm Amazed." Arcade Fire began their set with their last two albums title-tracks' "The Suburbs" and "Reflektor."
Hour 7 – Arcade Fire finished their set with Neil joining them for "I Dreamed a Neil Young Song," then Funeral highlight "Wake Up"
Hour 8 – Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young took the stage together for the first time since 2006. They blend well on Neil's "Human Highway."
Hour 9 – CSNY hits load the back of their set with: "Deja Vu," "Long May You Run," "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," and of course "Teach Your Children."
Footage from the Bridge School archives show between the performances, including a third grader interviewing Wayne Coyne about his favorite birthday party and his best friend (spoiler alert – Wayne singles out bandmate Steven Drozd; skip to 4'39" to watch).
Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit is a multi-artist, acoustic charity concert for Hillsborough, California's Bridge School helping children with severe communication issues and physical impairments. Held annually since 1986 (except 1987), it returns this weekend to Mountain View's Shoreline Amphitheater with Arcade Fire, My Morning Jacket, Tom Waits with Les Claypool, Elvis Costello, Queens of the Stone Age, Jack Johnson, Fun., Heart, Jenny Lewis, and Diana Krall. All artist are playing both days except Arcade Fire and Jack Johnson (Saturday only) and Tom Waits (Sunday only).
Neil Young will most likely open both shows with a brief solo set, as he does every year, and hours later take the stage again to headline with Crosby, Stills and Nash – their first performance together since the 2006 Freedom of Speech tour. Neil also typically sits in with some of the other artists on the bill for a song or two.
Saturday's show is planned to stream on-demand from Monday through Wednesday as well, along with Tom Waits' Sunday set featuring Les Claypool on bass. This will be Waits' first public performance in over five years. Get a sneak peak of him preparing for his live return below:
Watch today's eight hour webcast for free beginning at 5:00 PM PST/ 8:00 PM EST on YouTube's Bridge School page. The artist set times are below, followed by the official webcast trailer:
Tentative Schedule (all times PST):
Neil Young 5:10 – 5:20
Jenny Lewis 5:20 – 5:40
Heart 5:55 – 6:20
Fun 6:35 – 7
Diana Krall 7:10 – 7:35
Elvis Costello 7:45 – 8:10
Jack Johnson 8:30 – 9
My Morning Jacket 9:15 – 9:45
Arcade Fire 10:05 – 10:30
Queens Of The Stone Age 10:50 – 11:20
Crosby Stills Nash and Young 11:40 – 12:00
The Bridge School concerts have had many special moments for Neil fans – his take on "All You Need Is Love" in 2001 for example, or his duets with Paul McCartney (2004) and Adam Sandler (2009). In 2011 alone Neil joined Eddie Vedder, one of Beck's first appearances in years, and Arcade Fire's final show prior their Reflektor live hiatus. Pictures of Neil Young with Crazy Horse, The Flaming Lips, Jack White, and others from last year's benefit are here.
The acoustic format and friendly atmosphere of the Bridge School Concerts results in unique performances for almost every artist that plays the concert. Click here to watch the best videos from the Bridge School archives on the web, including full sets from Beck, Thom York, Tom Waits, Sonic Youth, Mazzy David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, The Who, Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen and others. These are mostly pro-shot and edited videos from the '80s and '90s that have never been officially released.
Below are video highlights from recent years in reverse chronological order. First up: last year's "Rockin in the Free World" all star jam, 2011 collabs and 2010's full Buffalo Springfield reunion. After that look for clips of Beck, Fleet Foxes, Sonic Youth, Bjork, Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Paul McCartney, Band Of Horses, The Who, My Morning Jacket, Thom Yorke, Brian Wilson and many more.
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