I really like activities that use materials over and over again for a few reasons. First of all, they save you some money! Everyone likes to save money!! You don't need to spend a lot of money to create high quality learning experiences for your children. I believe in reusing and recycling because its just good practice. For these reasons, you will definitely will see these materials used over and over in different ways.
Today, I will be sharing a great activity, the Pom Pom Pincer Grip Activity! This activity will help your child develop and strengthen their fine motor skills. Fine motor skills are referring to the movement of small muscles like hands and fingers. We are using the pincer grip, or the coordination of motion of index and middle finger and thumb. All of the materials that I am using today are things that I found at the dollar store and perhaps you already have at home.
Alright, now down to the details of today's activity. The Pompom Pincer Grip Activity can be modified for a younger child, but for simplicity sake, I am gearing it towards children ages 3 and up.
Safety disclosure: please remember to supervise young children at play.
Have your child sit on the floor and place the materials in front of them. If you are worried about the floor being to chilly or uncomfortable you can always place a pillow or chair cushion under them. I prefer to place the child on the floor so there is no dangerous reaching for materials.
The goal of the activity is for the child to use the tongs or the spoon to transfer all of the pompoms into the small opening of the sundae cup. The tongs and the spoon both offer degrees of difficulty to the activity, as does the small opening of the sundae cup. This could be modified for a younger child by using only large pompoms and removing the lid of the sundae cup so the opening is larger and/or using a larger spoon.
Here is a closer look at the materials.
All of the materials I picked up at the dollar store, with the exception of the tongs. I found those at a discount store but they do have plastic ones that are typically found in the party aisle.
I found a bag of pipe cleaners, googly eyes and bag of various sized pompoms to be a good deal, plus I can use the other components for activities.
There you have it! A high quality, high impact, low cost activity that your kids can enjoy for as long as they wish! If it's possible, I suggest using a bowl that has a lid for a few reasons. All the materials needed for this activity can be placed back inside the bowl and stored for later use but also that they can be stacked one on top of the other so it's a great way to stay organized! Then they are ready to be pulled out at anytime!
So that is today's post. I hope you and your kiddos have fun with it!


[prMac.com] Seattle, WA - January 1, 2008 - BusyMac today announced BusySync 1.5, a free upgrade to its calendar sharing utility that now supports synching over the Internet, in addition to its previous support for synching over a local area network. BusySync now allows users to sync iCal calendars between their home and office computers, or with users at remote locations, while also syncing with family or coworkers on their local area network.
BusySync is a Mac OS X System Preference Pane that runs in the background and adds calendar sharing capabilities to iCal. Designed for families and small workgroups, BusySync allows users to easily and cost-effectively share iCal calendars on a local area network and over the internet without the need for a dedicated server. Shared calendars can be viewed and edited by multiple users and changes are instantly synchronized between users.
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Huawei P20 Pro, a phone released in April 2018. The Huawei P20 Pro will be running a Hisilicon Kirin 970 as opposed to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 450. The Hisilicon Kirin 970 is an Octa-core with 4 cores at 2.4 GHz and 4 at 1.8 GHz. Although the Huawei P20 Pro has a different chip set it will run Android Oreo 8.1. The phone has a triple main camera with one 40 MP a 20MP and 8 MP. The phone will also have a front facing 24 MP camera, and 6 GB of RAM with 128GB of internal memory.
The only reason that the phone has a bigger memory than the other 2 phones is because the phone doesn't have an external memory slot. With a price tag on the phone of £850 it is coming with all the bells and whistles. This phone is rivaling with the Samsung Galaxy S9 and the iPhone X with its features. The phone features a 6.1-inch display encased in gorilla glass and aluminum. The phone's frame features a scratch free bonding that increases the phone's durability. A downside to the phone is its lack of wireless charging.
Moto G6, the Motorola phone released April 2018 running the 8.0 oreo operation system. This phone with a 5.7-inch display is available for around £250. The phone will be running Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. Other models of this phone will have 4GB of RAM and 64GB internal memory. This phone will be processing at 1.8 GHz per core with its Octa-core Cortex-A53.
Although with the phones processing speed it will be lacking in the camera department. With the phone's, dual 12 MP and 5MP and 8 or 16 front facing camera, depending on the model. With the phone's cameras they won't be taking high quality selfies. The phone also lacks in durability, from the phone's previous version the G5 to the G6. The new Moto G6 moved away from the aluminum case and resorted to gorilla glass. Although all the high end phones are using gorilla glass with the Moto G6 phone it seems hollow under the glass.
Asus ZenFone Max Pro, another Qualcomm Snapdragon 450 phone that was released May 2018. This phone is selling for around £200, and at first glance it doesn't seem like anything special. With the 6-inch display it proves that it is more than worthless. The Asus ZenFone Max Pro is running an Octa-core Kyro 260 that gets it to 1.8 GHz per core while running Android 8.1 Oreo. The phone is also sporting 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage.
Another version of this phone could have 6 or 4 GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage. The camera on this phone is a dual 13 MP and 5 MP main camera with an 8 MP front facing camera. Although this phone has a better camera the phone's processor and RAM can't handle the auto focus and will cause the camera to lag. Unlike the other phones the Asus ZenFone Max Pro is encased in aluminum.
Tech savvy people are looking for the next best phone at an affordable price. Some of the phones that people are buying are Moto G6, Asus ZenFone Max Pro, and Huawei P20 Pro. These phones offers different specific needs for a person's preference.
Overall there is a lot of choices for phones and these three are just to name a few. Based on these three phones the best choice is the Huawei P20 Pro. The phone outperforms the others in CPU processing. The phone surpasses the others in camera quality and capability. It has more RAM and internal storage than the other two, though it doesn't an expandable memory slot. It may be significantly pricier than the other two but is well worth the extra price.
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The difference between what men and women get paid widens as women get older, new research shows. The Office for National Statistics found pay differences were smaller at younger ages, but increased from 40 onwards, reaching a peak between 50 and 59.It also found the gender pay gap was entirely in favour of men in every occupation.Labour said the government was failing to tackle pay discrepancies.The ONS said the increased pay gap for older women could be explained by taking time out, possibly to have children.It added: "When we modelled the factors that influence pay, the results showed that both men's and women's pay grow for most of their lives. "Overall, women's pay grows less than men's and also stops growing earlier than men's pay. This applies to both the private and public sectors."Mind the gender pay gapWhat is the gender pay gap like where you are?According to the agency, men's pay increased by 10.4% to an average rate of £14.48 an hour between 2011 and 2017.That compared with a 12% rise for women to £13.16.On average, men were paid £1.32 an hour more than women last year, a gap of 9.1%, according to the ONS. It found occupations with the smallest pay gap have almost equal employment levels between men and women.Almost three in employees in the highest paid occupations, such as chief executives, were men, the ONS added.Dawn Butler, shadow minister for women and equalities, said the figures made it clear that urgent action was needed."There is still a lot of progress to be made in terms of gender equality and achieving equal pay is one of them," she said.


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Football Club Drava Ptuj or simply FC Drava Ptuj is a Slovenian football club based in Ptuj that competes in the Slovenian Third League, the third tier of Slovenian football. The club was founded in 2004 and is legally not considered to be the successor of NK Drava Ptuj, and the statistics and honours of the two clubs are kept separate by the Football Association of Slovenia.

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Ptuj Super League (fourth tier)
 Winners: 2012–13

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Surf fishing is a great outdoor activity that is typically enjoyed with family and friends. It is known that the most passionate people on earth when it comes to fishing are the surf-fishing enthusiasts. They are fond of fishing any time and are mostly contented in spending several days just reeling for the next big catch. They would do this all year round, even when the temperature drastically goes down, they would still do winter surf fishing.
It is winter and even if it is incredibly cold outdoors, this is not a reason to stay home and wait for a warmer weather to fish. Unlike summer, there are some fish to catch during winter but they are not as active and dominant. An individual must adjust to this circumstance and modify his or her fishing tactics.
If you have plans of fishing on a boat, you will not need any modifications for it. Fishes are generally staying in creeks during winter. Given that there is insufficient salt in creek water, fishes tend to stay in their territories. They usually do not rush to get out.
It is essential in winter surf fishing to use baits that are effective in the spring or warm weathers. One can opt for a lug, whose aroma can attract fishes, or a squid that could catch the attention of the fishes. But the most important thing is that you must be able to slow down the catch. Fishes' metabolism slows down during winter because of the cold water, considering they are cold-blooded animals.
You must have enough will power if you plan to do winter surf fishing. One has to locate the fishes and inspect the inlets. It seems that they are usually concentrated in one area. 99% of the fishes are concentrated in 1% of the area and wading and looking for that one percent makes the whole trip worth the search.
For some reason, fishes in the surf are aggressive and hungry making them easy to locate even at this time of the year.
Finally it is important to note that fishing in the winter requires patience.You can bring a beverage and a chair while fishing and of course enjoy nature. You may also choose to practice casting techniques by going to the inlet or simply walk the ocean and wait for the fish to bite.


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Start this route from Tlaxcala. Get to know its architectural jewels such as the cathedral and the Ex-Convento de San Francisco (Ex-Convent of San Francisco). Discover more of its history in the beautiful Museo Regional (Regional Museum), located in an old monastery and fall in love with its gastronomy; the "sopa tlaxcalteca" ( Tlaxcala's traditional soup) and "setas al pastor" ( mushrooms al pastor) are delicious.
The Pueblo Mágico Magical Town) of Cholula is the next stop. Here you will visit the former Franciscan convent of San Gabriel, one of the oldest in the country. If you go to the archaeological zone you can see the inside of the pyramid and also climb it. Be sure to try the sopa cholulteca (cholulteca soup), you will love it.
In Puebla you will spend the best moments enjoying its history, culture and architectural beauties. Stroll through under its portals, visit the Casa de la Cultura (House of Culture) and the Cathedral, go to its museums and savor the best of its famous gastronomy: "mole poblano", "cemitas" and "chiles en nogada".
During the next stage of the journey, it is worth stopping at Tecamachalco to see its attractions, such as the old Franciscan convent dating from 1530, and the Iglesia del Calvario (Church of Calvario). Now continue to Orizaba. Don't miss the Historic Center with its beautiful Cathedral and try the local gastronomy. The next destination is Córdoba, where you will visit the Portal de Zevallos, the Catedral de la Inmaculada Concepción (Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception) and the Museo del Café (Coffee Museum).
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"It was stated that chemical warfare is 'a cruel, unfair, and improper use of science.' The answer to this statement is: 'So is all warfare.'"
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No one has done more to dispel the myth of social mobility than Raj Chetty. But he has a plan to make equality of opportunity a reality.
Raj Chetty got his biggest break before his life began. His mother, Anbu, grew up in Tamil Nadu, a tropical state at the southern tip of the Indian subcontinent. Anbu showed the greatest academic potential of her five siblings, but her future was constrained by custom. Although Anbu's father encouraged her scholarly inclinations, there were no colleges in the area, and sending his daughter away for an education would have been unseemly.
But as Anbu approached the end of high school, a minor miracle redirected her life. A local tycoon, himself the father of a bright daughter, decided to open a women's college, housed in his elegant residence. Anbu was admitted to the inaugural class of 30 young women, learning English in the spacious courtyard under a thatched roof and traveling in the early mornings by bus to a nearby college to run chemistry experiments or dissect frogs' hearts before the men arrived.
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NASA wants to put people back on the lunar surface in 2024, but it doesn't have the budget.
The 50th anniversary of the moon landing is almost here, and NASA has gone all-out for the occasion.
The agency has been celebrating the memory of Apollo 11 for months. It has published a steady stream of archival photos and footage of the astronauts suiting up, blasting off, and posing on the lunar surface with the American flag, a pop of color against an expanse of gray. It refurbished the room at the Johnson Space Center where Mission Control monitored the journey so that now it looks the way it did in 1969, down to the coffee cups, clipboards, and packs of cigarettes. NASA headquarters even asked every communications officer at the agency to be "mindful of posting evergreen materials during the next few weeks that could get better attention once we're past that spotlight event," a spokesperson told me. Apollo 11 is NASA's most famous mission, and the moon landing is one of the most defining moments in human history. It's been moon time, all the time.
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An Epidemic of Disbelief
Barbara Bradley Hagerty
What new research reveals about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them
Robert Spada walked into the decrepit warehouse in Detroit and surveyed the chaos: Thousands of cardboard boxes and large plastic bags were piled haphazardly throughout the cavernous space. The air inside was hot and musty. Spada, an assistant prosecutor, saw that some of the windows were open, others broken, exposing the room to the summer heat. Above the boxes, birds glided in slow, swooping circles.
It was August 17, 2009, and this brick fortress of a building housed evidence that had been collected by the Detroit Police Department. Spada's visit had been prompted by a question: Why were police sometimes unable to locate crucial evidence? The answer lay in the disarray before him.
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The Financial Calamity That Is the Teaching Profession
Alia Wong
Teachers are suing the government over debt relief that never came—but their financial problems go much deeper than student loans.
America needs teachers: A majority of the country's most experienced K–12 educators are expected to retire in the next few years, while research suggests that thousands of others will likely leave the profession prematurely, citing job dissatisfaction. How to get more people to join the profession? A little more than a decade ago, policy makers came up with one idea they thought would help: Give teachers some extra support in paying off their student loans. So, in 2007, Congress tasked the U.S. Department of Education, which administers federal financial aid, with offering student-debt relief to recent graduates in public-service careers: Essentially, make your minimum monthly payments for 10 years and your loans will be erased.
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When One Person on a Date Is Just There for the Free Food
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"I mean, if it's dinner, I'm not going to say no, so that I don't have to go home and cook."
Magali Trejo-Martinez, a 22-year-old living in Salem, Oregon, recently went on a date that was rather uninspiring. "I had dinner, had a couple margaritas, and then went home," is how she recapped the evening. This outcome wasn't entirely surprising—she says she wasn't very interested in the guy when she agreed to go out with him—but it wasn't a letdown either, because he paid the bill. While her heart wasn't in it, her stomach was: "I mean, if it's dinner, I'm not going to say no, so that I don't have to go home and cook," she told me.
Trejo says that when she goes on a date where food, not romance, is her priority, she doesn't feel bad, noting that she still makes an effort to be an engaging dinner companion. "If it's a guy that's inviting me out, I do expect them to be the one to pay," she says. "But I am also bi, so if I like a girl, I like to be the dominant one and then I will go and pay." And when she is the one who gets asked, she'll sometimes still say yes to an otherwise inauspicious date. "If it involves food," she said, "I am always down."
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The Disturbing Sound of a Human Voice
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Hearing people talk can terrify even top predators such as mountain lions, with consequences that ripple through entire ecosystems.
In the summer of 2017, the mountain lions, bobcats, and other residents of the Santa Cruz Mountains were treated to the dulcet tones of the ecologist Justin Suraci and his friends, reading poetry. Some of the animals became jittery. Others stopped eating. A few fled in fear.
Suraci, who's based at the University of California at Santa Cruz, wasn't there to see their reactions. He and his colleagues had strung up a set of speakers that would regularly play recordings of human speech in an area where people seldom venture. And they found that, the quality of the poetry aside, even the gentlest of human speech can make wild animals—even top predators—unnerved and watchful, in ways that shake entire food webs. It's the clearest demonstration yet that we are among the scariest of animals—a super-predator that terrifies even the carnivores that themselves incite terror.
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The Republican Party Needs Millennials to Survive
Conservatives can win over young Americans to our principles, but first we have to live by those principles.
Some conservative national-security practitioners gathered recently to find common ground on the future. The meeting wasn't, as described in The Washington Post, flooded with regretful signatories of various anti-Trump letters, recanting in the hopes of career advancement. In attendance were people who had served in the Trump administration and people who'd refused to serve, united by a desire to restore principled national-security policies. What follows is an abbreviated version of my paper for the gathering, which was on how to engage young Americans with conservative principles.
In my experience, conservative foundational beliefs appeal to our successors. We can win over young Americans to our principles, but first we have to live by those principles. Americans under age 30 voted for Democrats by a 35-point margin in 2018 in large part because we don't.
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People Seek Out a Certain Kind of Person When They Are Happy
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Your mood might have a big influence on the type of companionship you want.
Heaps of research suggest that social relationships make people happier—but which relationships, specifically? A guilt-ridden afternoon with a mother-in-law might not have the same effect as drinks with a best friend. A "fair-weather friend" stands by your side only during good times.
Recently a group of researchers set out to determine whose company we actually seek out when we're happy or unhappy. Their findings, published this month in the journal Psychological Science, suggest that when times are actually good, the people we turn to aren't friends at all. They're strangers.
The study's authors looked at the moods and social interactions of more than 30,000 people, most of whom were French, over the course of a month. The data were collected through an app called 58 Seconds, which would text the participants at various times of the day and ask them to type in how they were feeling, what they were doing, and whom they were with, if anyone.
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A Potential Hidden Factor in Why People Have So Much Trouble Losing Weight
Amanda Mull
A new study in mice points to how cell biology, not willpower, might be the root of yo-yo dieting.
The American conventional wisdom about weight loss is simple: A calorie deficit is all that's required to drop excess pounds, and moderating future calorie consumption is all that's required to maintain it. To the idea's adherents, the infinite complexity of human biology acts as one big nutritional piggy bank. Anyone who gains too much weight or loses weight and gains it back has simply failed to balance the caloric checkbook, which can be corrected by forswearing fatty food or carbs.
Endocrinologists have known for decades that the science of weight is far more complicated than calorie deficits and energy expenditures. And in 2016, the fickle complexity of weight came to broad national attention. In a study of former contestants on a season of the weight-loss reality show The Biggest Loser, scientists found that years later, the contestants not only had gained back much or all of the weight they'd lost on the show, but also had far weaker metabolisms than most people their size. The contestants' bodies had fought for years to regain the weight, contrary to the contestants' efforts and wishes. No one was sure why.
The Deeper Significance of the Mall on Stranger Things
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The Netflix series reimagines the role that a shopping center can play in the lives of American teens—especially for its young female characters.
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Wings of Wood, Wings of Metal: Culture and Technical Choice in American Airplane Materials, 1914–1945. By Eric Schatzberg. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University... The Horten H.IX, RLM designation Ho 229 (or Gotha Go 229 for extensive re-design work done by Gotha to prepare the aircraft for mass production) was a German prototype fighter/bomber initially designed by Reimar and Walter Horten to be built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik late in World War II.
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California, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Maryland have had to find ways to deal with lower funding and attract more firms.
The four states with the nation's largest biotech clusters showed that they too were not immune to challenges common to most U.S. regions seeking to build their life science presence. Hurdles included a capital squeeze particularly for early-stage biopharmas, the reality of the industry's international growth, and the need to attract new businesses and retain existing ones.
All four top-tier biotech states—California, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Maryland—did, however, find numerous ways to address these challenges. They rolled out new financing programs or tweaked existing ones. In some cases they reached out to regions around the world. In others they identified promising niches within their clusters. Signs of success could be seen in a series of new construction and expansion projects.
Biocom, the life science industry group for the San Diego region, is stepping up efforts to help smaller biotechs find partners, Joseph Panetta, president and CEO, told GEN. San Diego biotechs captured $317.66 million in venture capital in the first three quarters of 2011, down from $331 million in the first nine months of 2010. The number of biotechs reportedly dipped from 45 to 41 between 2010 and 2011.
Biocom is looking to draw Chinese companies to San Diego and that region's life science companies to China. The organization plans to open an office in Shanghai next year and possibly one in Taizhou.
BayBio, the industry group for the San Francisco Bay Area, is also trying to help smaller biotechs. It plans to launch its own contract research organization (CRO) in the second quarter of 2012. "Our focus would be to allow startups and entrepreneurs to send projects into the CRO at very low cost, with entrepreneurs paying just for materials, consumables, and some of the administrative cost," Gail Maderis, president and CEO, told GEN. "But we would serve everyone up to the Genentechs and Bayers and Amgens of the world and everybody in between."
BayBio and Biocom will team up March 8–9 to host the CALBIO2012 conference. "With the capital constraints, we're bringing out a lot of the disease foundations to talk to our companies on partnering and funding opportunities," Maderis remarked.
BayBio and Biocom have also identified industrial biotech as a fast-growing niche. In a survey of 33 companies in this sector with at least one employee, they observed a six-fold job growth from 2006 to 4,504 jobs this year.
Biofuel companies, though, are facing some of the same regulatory hurdles as their biopharma counterparts. California insists that biomanufacturing plants pass muster with the state's Food and Drug Branch, a counterpart to the FDA. A bill to preclude the California Food and Drug Branch from requiring inspections for drug and medical device manufacturers who meet federal FDA requirements has passed the Assembly but not the Senate.
During 2011, Massachusetts basked in the expansion activity of pharma and biotech giants. Seven projects totaling more than 1.5 million square feet began construction, according to Richards Barry Joyce & Partners LLC.
The largest, at 1.1 million square feet, is composed of two 550,000 sq. ft. buildings for Vertex. Biogen Idec also has two properties under construction, Broad Institute is working on an expansion, Pfizer has lease with MIT to relocate the company's cardiovascular, metabolic, and endocrine diseases (CVMED) and neuroscience research units, and another facility is being built on a speculative basis by Skanska.
The construction wave will continue into next year, Susan Windham-Bannister, Ph.D., president and CEO of the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) told GEN, fueled by cutbacks elsewhere in the nation. Novartis plans to break ground on a new building in 2012 and Ipsen announced plans to build a $45 million R&D facility.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) broke ground on its Biomanufacturing Education and Training Center, funded in part by a $2.2 million MLSC grant. The center has signed Abbott Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Shire Human Genetic Therapies as inaugural partners. MLSC has been forced, however, to make do with $10 million a year; it was expected to have $25 million annually when it was expanded in 2008.
The Tar Heel State is also dealing with a tight state budget, scrambling to plug a $2.4 billion deficit for the fiscal year that started July 1. State legislative leaders cut about $2 million, or 10%, of the North Carolina Biotechnology Center's $19.5 million subsidy, leaving the center with about $17.5 million for the fiscal year. Lawmakers also failed to create the proposed Life Science Development Corp., which was to finance companies with $100 million from a 15-year private investment from banks and institutions.
Disappointments such as these were more than balanced out by other activity. In 2011, officials increased from 5% to 7.5% the percentage of pension funds the state can invest in alternative investments in biotech, green tech, and IT. Last month state treasurer Janet Cowell announced a $35 million "accelerator" offshoot to the $232.3 million North Carolina Innovation Fund launched last year. This accelerator offshoot is aimed at early-stage biotechs.
2011 also saw North Carolina adding new vaccine manufacturing facilities. On December 12, North America's first cell-culture vaccine production plant was dedicated in Holly Springs. The US Department of Health and Human Services and Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics have committed a combined $1 billion.
November 14 marked the completion of a $42 million, 97,000 sq. ft. plant designed to manufacture vaccines using tobacco leaves. Additionally, Merck & Co. is nearing completion on expanding the Maurice R Hilleman Center for Vaccine Manufacturing from 200,000 to 272,000 square feet. The facility is a live-virus vaccine manufacturing plant and is expected to obtain FDA approval in 2013.
More good news on the real estate front came from Biogen Idec. In April it broke ground on a 180,000 sq. ft. space that will consolidate patient services and administrative offices as well as expand its laboratory and research space.
In terms of financing, Tranzyme Pharmaceuticals went public, though it was forced to lower its share price from $12 to $4. A brighter spot was venture capital, with investors reportedly pumping about $146.2 million in biotech startups during the first three quarters of 2011 compared with $112.6 million a year earlier. But the number of biotech companies winning funding dipped during that period, from 11 to eight.
Maryland biotech startups seeking capital will have a new option in 2012: the new InvestMaryland fund. The state will auction off up to $100 million of tax credits to insurance companies that pay state premium insurance taxes. The auction is expected to yield a minimum $70 million, of which 67% will be allocated to three or four venture capital firms to invest in promising startups in biotech as well as cleantech, green tech, and mobile health. The remaining 33% will be deposited into the state's 15-year-old Maryland Venture Fund.
"What we anticipate is that by June of 2012, that the first tranche—the first year's funding—will be in place," Judy Britz, Ph.D., executive director of the Maryland Biotechnology Center, told GEN. "Over time, we might invest $1 million to $2 million in one company, but it probably will begin with initial investment in the hundreds of thousands."
To attract ex-U.S. firms, Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) led a delegation that in December wrapped up a six-day trade mission to Hyderabad, Mumbai, and New Delhi. The delegation and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry agreed to create an India-Maryland Center in Maryland.
During the trade mission, India's Jubilant Life Sciences reported plans to spend $20 million to triple its warehouse space in Maryland and add new jobs. Also, the Bethesda-based professional group Women in Bio opened its first international chapter in Mumbai.
Dr. Britz said the Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund is drafting its first-ever request for proposals from companies seeking grant funding; until now, almost all grants have been awarded for projects in academic institutions. The state this year kept stem cell program funding at FY 2011's $12.4 million, about half what was available three years earlier. State funding for Maryland Biotechnology Investor Tax Credits is also stable at $8 million, the same as FY 2011 and $2 million above FY 2010.
That stability of funding is about the best biotech clusters can hope for from state governments, at least until the economy emerges from the recession. Once that happens, the challenge will be more about spending smarter, especially since the U.S. faces the uncertainty that goes along with political turmoil and the certainty of competition from China, India, and the rest of the world.
Alex Philippidis is senior news editor at Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News.
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Multiple levels of nuclear structure contribute to functional interrelationships with transcriptional control in vivo. The linear organization of gene regulatory sequences is necessary but insufficient to accommodate the requirements for physiological responsiveness to homeostatic, developmental, and tissue-related signals. Chromatin structure, nucleosome organization, and gene-nuclear matrix interactions provide a basis for rendering sequences accessible to transcription factors supporting integration of activities at independent promoter elements of cell cycle- and tissue-specific genes. A model is presented for remodeling of nuclear organization to accommodate developmental transcriptional control.
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Gold Award Work
These are the pieces of work which have been nominated to receive a 'Gold Award' during the celebration assembly on Friday. Awards this week were for showing excellent Computing skills. Well done gold award winners and enjoy your special lunch on Monday at the GOLDEN TABLE!
MP Visits St. Joseph's
On Friday 8th January we were visited by Mrs Jo Cox, MP for Batley. As she was leaving, she commented that it had been a pleasure to look around our school and that she could see that children were following our core values and were very proud to attend St Joseph's.
Bishop's Visit to St. Joseph's.
On Wednesday 16th December, Bishop Marcus visited St. Joseph's to bless our new entrance, crucifixes and other devotional items recently purchased for the children. He led the school and parish community in an Advent Liturgy, praying especially for persecuted Christians around the world.


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Russian and Chinese hackers may have attempted to influence June's referendum on the UK's European Union (EU) membership, a committee of MPs has claimed.
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The 'El Clasico' will be a classic
The nervous anticipation, the butterflies in the stomach, the shaky legs....oh how well I remember that feeling. My brain goes black and white as I remember getting ready for a big game, which was basically every game, if you grew up in Scindia School and your seniors were maniacal about bragging rights.
Oh yes, they were maniacal. They were so maniacal that a defeat would be rewarded with not being able to sit on a chair for the next two days. Not being able to sit on a chair because that was your punishment, but because of the damage inflicted on your posteriors by a few well swung whacks from a hockey stick. Though I have always wondered if I followed the idea suggested by Jeremy Clarkson and moaned softly, "More... More" would I have escaped the beating?
Alright then, that was the cue to end my musings as Orrie, my beloved copy editor, brings my world to Technicolor once again from the monotones of black and white. Given my associations, or rather for the posterity of my posteriors, I should have bad memories of the feelings I describe in the first sentence of my post. But I don't. And for the last two days every day that I think of the weekend I those feelings return with a vengeance, thankfully minus the nostalgia. After all, it's the El Clasico weekend, the game between Barcelona and Real Madrid. The fiercest rivalry known to mankind takes centre stage. That it's the game that will decide the fate of the La Liga title is irrelevant.
Yes it's the game that pits Cristiano Ronaldo against the man who has dethroned him, Lionel Messi. But the face off between the best player in the world by a country mile and the second best by the same distance isn't what is getting the press. It's the question of how to stop the best player in the world from running away with the game by ...well, a country mile.
Spain's biggest selling sports daily, Marca featured on their cover Barcelona legend, Hristo Stoichkov's quote: "Kick Messi out of the game." That is the only way possible to get the better of Barcelona. That remains the Madrid giants' only hope that they can kick Messi out of the game, because Manuel Pelligrini knows, hell, every real player knows that in Messi lies the key to this game.
If Messi can be kicked out, then Real Madrid can match Barca man to man. For Xavi, Real have Kaka, for Thierry Henry, Real have Gonzalo Higuain, the second highest scorer in the La Liga. For Andres Iniesta there's Xabi Alonso. Not to forget CR9. While he may not be in the same league as Messi, he still remains the second best player in the world. And he knows that this game is the only hope of salvaging Real's season, not only because the Liga remains the only piece of silverware they can win after having been knocked out of Europe and the domestic cup competition.
It's because the Champions League final is in Madrid, in Santiago Bernabeu, Real's home ground. And guess who will be playing? Madrid's most hated rivals, Barcelona. The other team could be the Arjen Robben inspired Bayern Munich. Or if it is Inter, then the Wesley Sneijder inspired Nerazzurris. Robben and Sneijder...hmm...the two players who were part of Florentino Perez's clear out at the Bernabeu after Madrid went and spent almost $300 million in the summer. Take a bow, Florentino. But that's for later.
For this weekend the question remains, Can Messi be kicked out of the game? For the answer, you either find an illegal way of watching the game, or you can read about it in this space. I'll also try and give updates on the game on my twitter account. Search for Insportsitrust.
April 9, 2010 Posted by Siddharth Kochar
Tags: Xavi, Thierry Henry, Real, Messi, Madrid, La Liga, Kaka, Gonzalo Higuain, CR9, Champions League
I like the idea of using Clarkson's idea. But the game certainly proved you can't kick Messi out.
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About Siddharth Kochar
Siddharth Kochar is a sportsperson's nightmare come true. An unsuccessful amateur sportsman himself, Siddharth tried cricket, football, tennis, hockey and squash with no success. So he now writes about sports, masking his envy for a sportsperson's earnings, fame, talent and super-hot girlfriends with a transparent veil of cynicism.
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The Confluence of Two Paths: Ismaili Gnosis and Jnana Yoga – The Start of Our Story5 min read
My best friend described finding "the one" like a game of Musical Chairs. She would say, "Sabrina, when the music stops, you marry the one you're with." But I think it's more like a game of Go Fish; you keep fishing until you find your match.
The last time I went fishing, I found the mirror of my soul. The joy I felt when I first met Khalil was the same joy I had felt when I first read the Bhagavad Gita. Reflecting on that emotion, my heart had attuned itself to the vibration of coincidence – the intersection of one's free will and his destiny. Is it a coincidence that I found the Bhagavad Gita when I was searching for essential truth and Khalil when I was searching for existential truth?
Khalil and I, individually, had spent much of our adolescence in search of the meaning of existence, a guide to the Truth, and a spiritual path towards the Absolute. We each had internalized a story that resonated with the deepest parts of our souls. He openly shared his with others, inviting them to join him in knowing reality. I solemnly suppressed mine amidst others, diverting them from seeing my inner reality.
We started at opposite ends in our first conversation, him with the Holy Quran and me with the Bhagavad Gita, trying to convince each other of the best source of Eternal Truth.
"I believe in the Living Imam, but I can't relate to the Quran at all." I declared. The fact that I had attempted to read the Quran, held a strong opinion, and had found an alternative solution gripped Khalil. What had him hooked is when I said, "I feel closest to God when I read."
Khalil quickly rebutted, "But the Quran has an esoteric meaning and you're not supposed to read it on your own as a stand-alone text."
"But why can't it be like the Gita – a timeless masterpiece that's easy to read and understand?" I argued.
"The Quran is a book of symbols that have to be decoded. But wait a minute, how do you believe in the Living Imam without consulting the Quran?" Khalil seemed puzzled.
"That's simple; the Gita talks about an ever-living guide. Shri Krishna did say, 'I will come and mingle as a man among men…and those who are able to pierce my disguise will know me in my essence.' Now, who do you think that is?!'" Khalil gently smiled, knowing he was in the company of a fellow believer.
But our paths are rooted in very different contexts. Khalil travels the path of Ismaili Gnosis, where the Quran is his scripture and Imam 'Ali is his first master (see post: The Eternal Imam). I travel the path of Jnana Yoga where the Gita is my scripture and Shri Krishna is my first master (see earlier post: From Shri Krishna to Shah Karim – My Journey Home). However, like tributaries that flow into a single river, both paths lead to the same destination. The confluence of our two paths has brought us together before the Living Imam – Shah Karim al-Husayni.
I then asked Khalil what the purpose of his undergraduate studies in mathematics was since he was so passionate about metaphysics and theology. His explanation of the esoteric symbolism of numbers completely swept me off my feet. Was he a mathematician or a magician? I didn't know. But he was clearly not going to let our conversation center on the mundane, physical world.
As Khalil transitioned into Nasir Khusraw's notion of numerology and how it symbolizes the levels of Being, my mind summarized our common metaphysical worldview in a table (see below). He explained that God, or "Divine Essence" (what I call "Absolute Reality") is represented by the number 0, that which has no second. It is boundless, infinite, incomprehensible and indescribable. By way of involution, from the "Divine Essence" came the first cause, the "Universal Intellect" ("Universal Mind" in Jnana Yoga) – represented by the number 1 – and subsequently, the second cause, "Universal Soul" ("Universal Energy") – represented by the number 2. Then followed the creation of the cosmos and the unfolding of individual consciousness.
Khalil's words were mesmerizing, as if he had secretly stolen them from the hidden depths of my soul. His explanation of Ismaili theology confirmed my Yogic understanding of how the world came into being. My inner self was leaping with joy – finally, someone found the key to my heart through my mind. Could this really be happening? How does he know me so well? How is he aware of the beliefs I've never shared with anyone?
Khalil matched my inner identity as an introvert, a thinker, a seeker, and a sincere student of the Spirit. He held the same card I never showed anyone else. The game of Go Fish has come to an end for me. And now we travel our spiritual paths together, inspired by Shri Krishna's words:
With Me ever in mind, and with Me ever occupying the sacred chamber of their hearts, they are filled with a secret joy and calm content. And from within the minds and hearts of such, I constantly illuminate and inspire them, so that they are a constant source of inspiration to each other, and their inward lights combine to shine forth to the world of darkness and ignorance. – Bhagavad Gita, Part X
Just as our paths converge before universal Truth, our respective masters – Imam 'Ali and Shri Krishna – are the mirror-like Manifestations of the same Light (nur) or Reality (haqiqah) as shown below:


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NGC 317A is een lensvormig sterrenstelsel in het sterrenbeeld Andromeda. NGC 317A staat op ongeveer 220 miljoen lichtjaar van de Aarde. Het hemelobject ligt dicht bij een verderweg gelegen sterrenstelsel dat het nummer NGC 317B draagt.

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 PGC 3442
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