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Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-binding protein -5 (IGFBP5), an important member of the IGF axis involved with regulating cell differentiation and development, works by modulating IGF signaling and by IGF-independent systems also. cell types (Cobb et al., 2004; Salih et al., 2004). Furthermore, the appearance of IGFBP5 is Pf4 certainly regulated with a network of stimuli performing through different transduction pathways (Yeh et al., 1998). Noticeably, CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP), a family group of simple leucine zipper transcription elements regarded as mixed up in differentiation of many cell types, are implicated in the transcriptional control of IGFBP5 (Cesi et al., 2005). RPE cells have the ability to produce selection of cytokines and development elements that may are likely involved not merely in the advancement, differentiation, and success of retinal cells but also in a number of intraocular pathological circumstances (Hayashi et al., 1996; Hicks, 1991). The RPE possesses receptors for IGFs and secretes IGF1 and IGF2 aswell as IGFBPs (Yang and Chaum, 2003). The need for cell specific expression of IGFBPs inside the optical eye is to modulate the natural activity of IGFs. IGFBP5 secreted by RPE cells in to the interphotoreceptor matrix can modulate IGF amounts, which may influence neovascularization from the retina and iris (Punglia et al., 1997). The neighborhood appearance of IGFBP5 in the ganglion and bipolar level of neuronal retina control IGF1-mediated retinal neurogenesis in seafood (Otteson et al., 2002). By microarray evaluation we indentified IGFBP5 being a gene that's differentially portrayed during 4HPR-induced neuronal differentiation of RPE cells. Right here we present proof that IGFBP5 is usually expressed in human RPE cells, and that its expression, mRNA and protein, are greatly decreased during the neuronal differentiation of RPE cells induced by 4HPR. We show that the regulation appears to be at the level of transcription and that it is mediated through C/EBP. Materials and methods Materials 4HPR (IGFBP5 and C/EBP truncated IGFBP5 promoter reporter constructs were a kind gift of Dr. G. Raschella of ENEA Research Center Casaccia, Rome, Italy. Cells and Culture Conditions Human retinal pigment epithelial cells (ARPE-19 cells) obtained from ATCC (Manassas, VA) were produced in Dulbeccos altered Eagles medium (DMEM) containing nutrient mixture F12 (Cellgro, VA) supplemented with 5% fetal bovine serum, penicillin (100 U/ml) and streptomycin (100 g/ml) as described previously (Samuel et al., 2008). Cells were seeded at a density of 2 105 cells/ml in complete medium and allowed to grow overnight. The culture medium was replaced next day with fresh serum-free medium made up of penicillin (100 U/ml) and streptomycin (100 g/ml) before adding 1 M of 4HPR. U0126, a MEK1/2 inhibitor, or recombinant IGFBP5 were added 1 h prior to the addition of 4HPR. Treatments were performed under subdued light and other conditions as reported previously (Samuel et al., 2001). All compounds were dissolved at a concentration of 10 mM in DMSO before adding to the cell culture medium. The controls received the same amount of DMSO. The cells were maintained at 37C in a humidified environment of 5% CO2 in atmosphere. Evaluation of neurite outgrowth Cells had been analyzed using an inverted microscope (model IX 70; Olympus, Tokyo, Japan) each day using requirements similar to your earlier record (Chen et al., 2003; Samuel et al., 2008). Quickly, the cells had been judged to become differentiated when the distance of their procedures was longer compared to the diameter from the soma or at least two neurites increasing through the soma. Cells bearing multidirectional or bidirectional neurite-like procedures were counted Epirubicin Hydrochloride irreversible inhibition in least 10 randomly selected areas. The percentage of differentiation was computed from the amount of cells that demonstrated neurite outgrowth divided by the full total amount of cells in each field. Three meals had been found in each test, that was repeated 3 x. Microarray evaluation Total RNA, 100 ng, was amplified regarding to Affymetrixs little sample protocol, and 20 g of cRNA was hybridized on each human genome U133 plus 2 then.0 GeneChip. After hybridization, Epirubicin Hydrochloride irreversible inhibition GeneChip array was cleaned, stained with streptavidin-PE (Molecular Probes), amplified with biotinylated anti-streptavidin antibody and scanned with an argon ion Confocal Laser beam at 570 nm (Affymetrix). Affymetrix GeneChip Operating software was utilized for complete expression and to normalize the Epirubicin Hydrochloride irreversible inhibition gene expression levels between any two samples. Data were then Epirubicin Hydrochloride irreversible inhibition imported into GeneSpring software 7.2 (Silicon Graphics) for chip normalization, filtering and cluster analysis. Western Immunoblot Analysis Equivalent levels of total proteins (50 g) from each test had been put through SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis using 4C12% NUPAGE Bis-Tris gels and used in a nitrocellulose membrane (Invitrogen). After preventing in 5% nonfat dairy in Tris-buffered saline (TBS) formulated with 0.05% Tween 20 for 1 h, the membranes were incubated overnight at 4C with monoclonal anti-IGFBP5 at 1:1000 dilutions (US Biological). Peroxidase-conjugated anti-mouse IgG antibody (1:5000) was utilized as supplementary antibody. Immunocomplexes had been visualized with a chemiluminescence technique using the ECL Plus Traditional western blotting Detection Package (Amersham Biosciences). Quantitative Real-Time RT-PCR For quantitative real-time RT-PCR, 2 g of total RNA extracted from ARPE-19 cells with RNeasy Protect Mini.


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Sofia to elect new mayor on October 24
The election of a new mayor of Sofia, to replace Boiko Borissov who is girding up to become Prime Minister of Bulgaria, will take place on October 24 2009, the Municipal Election Commission said on July 8 2009.
Borissov's party, GERB, won a majority in Bulgaria's parliamentary elections on July 5. He has said he will become Prime Minister.
After he assumes his office in national governnment, a deputy mayor will stand in for Borissov. One deputy mayor will be ineligible – Tsvetan Tsvetanov, GERB's chairman, whom Borissov named on July 8 as his Interior Minister.
Borissov became mayor on November 8 2005 in a similar special election after Stefan Sofiyanski was elected to Parliament. Borissov won a second term, and his successor will serve out the remainder of Borissov's term of office.
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Bengaluru, Jan 3: India's second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2 that was to be launched on Thursday with a lander and rover got delayed again, officials said on Thursday.
"The next launch date of Chandrayaan-2 has not been confirmed yet," a spokesman of the state-run Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) told IANS here.
The Rs 800-crore Chandrayaan-2 mission comes a decade after the maiden mission Chandrayaan-1 was launched on October 22, 2008 from the country's only spaceport at Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, 90 km northeast of Chennai.


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Louise Nayer, San Francisco author and educator, has written poetry, non-fiction and recently, Burned: A Memoir, about a tragic Cape Cod accident and family resilience.
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Malaysia explores geospatial opportunities
Melaka, Malaysia: The World Heritage City of Melaka was the backdrop to the 4th Malaysia Geospatial Forum as the exclusive conference and exhibition for the Malaysia geospatial industry, organised by Geospatial Media & Communications got under way today to deliberate upon the role and presence of geospatial technology in building the nation's economy.
Welcoming the audience on behalf of the Malaysia State Government, Abdul Jamil Bin Arshad, Director, Department of Town & Country Planning Melaka, Malaysia elaborated upon the economic growth envisioned by the nation and role of geospatial technology in the process. He said that 'Vision 2020', introduced by the former Prime Minister, Mahathir bin Mohamad, calls for the nation to be self-sufficient, industrialised and fully developed country, by the year 2020. In its Tenth Malaysia Plan (2011-15), the Malaysian Government has identified key sectors that have the highest potential to contribute significantly to the growth to the economy. These sectors, among others, include ICT, tourism, agriculture, plantation, oil and gas, and business services. In addition to that, the Government also introduced six National Key Result Areas, in order to gauge government performance towards achieving Vision 2020, which are reducing crime, fighting corruption, improving student outcomes, raising living standards of low-income households, improving rural basic infrastructure and improving urban public transport. These sectors offer tremendous opportunities for the geospatial industry to tap into. He stressed that with the government moving forward with new economic strategy, it is high time for the geospatial industry to demonstrate that geospatial technology can be the digital impetus to the country's economic transformation vision. The theme of the conference "Geospatial Technology: Digital Impetus to Economic Transformation," is very apt in this regard, he opined. The state of Melaka too recognises the relevance of use and applicability of geospatial information technology in various spheres of human activity and society and is taking suitable measures to develop and promote it, he informed.
Creating geospatial environment for economic growthThe first plenary session of the day, Creating Geospatial Environment for Economic Growth, saw deliberations upon the major projects and sectors in Malaysia which provide huge opportunities, along with industry solutions to facilitate economic development processes.
Multipurpose cadastre Y. Bhg Datuk Prof. Sr. Dr. Abdul Kadir Taib, Director General, Department of Survey & Mapping, Malaysia highlighted the potential of a multipurpose cadastre in supporting spatially enabled government, private sectors and society and to expand computer support in the process of visualisation, organisation and management of useful land information. Such a multipurpose cadastre is being developed in Malaysia under the 10th Malaysian Plan which is a long way from the cadastre developed in 1885 which had a single purpose – issuance of land title. Detailing about the multipurpose cadastre (MPC) further, Dato Kadir informed that MPC is principally a survey-accurate national digital cadastral database (NDCDB) that have been populated, adjusted and undergone quality checks at every level of its formation and large scale geospatial datasets that mostly will be acquired from measurement of mobile terrestrial laser scanner survey. The spatially enabled MPC will integrate land information system which containing survey accurate cadastre, topography, man-made features and cultural (e.g., land use, demographics) information in a common and accurate reference framework. The key components of MPC are national digital cadastral database plus large-scale geographic features. An important information required to support realisation of ubiquitous MPC is street addresses. The MPC can extend benefits in various areas of governance including public works, fire management, cadastral/records, police, public facilities, revenue, planning and building. The other benefits of MPC include property inventory, project implementation and monitoring, crime prevention and detection, utility management, school management, national identity cards, census mapping, population estimates, electoral processes and agricultural yield prediction, informed Dato Kadir.
Discovering tourism with GISThe Malaysian state of Perak has chosen 2012 as the Visit Perak Year. As part of Visit Perak Year, the state has introduced 10 tourism icons, displaying the state's rich tourism attractions including natural attractions, manmade attractions, and heritage and culture. The state is promoting these icons through Web GIS, informed Dato Dr. Dolbani Bin Mijan, Director, Department of Town and Country Planning Perak, Malaysia. Tourism maps for the state existed earlier, but through this project, the department has published the same on the Web. The department is managing and publishing layers using OGC Web Map Services like WFS / WMS through Geoserver. Through this project, the aim of the department is to publish its current data layer on tourist attractions in Perak, to develop know-how on WEB-GIS development using FOSS4G solutions and complement the existing Perak tourism website. The organisation is able deliver more geospatial information to the Perak-GIS stakeholder in efficient way. This data is also linked to Google. By searching for the popular tourism attractions in the state on Google, visitors can get more geo-tagged information about the attraction.
Industry solutions Tan Teik Eooi of Intergraph Corporation, Security, Government & Infrastructure Division, highlighted the role of GEO-ICT solutions as a smarter way to enable the nations. Today, more than ever before, cities around the world need to be smarter and safer, he observed. Cities need to develop an architecture in which technology can evolve and grow. The challenges of data explosion, population growth, demographic change, urbanisation and resource depletion mean that the world's great cities need to adapt to survive and thrive over the coming decades. He referred to a Frost & Sullivan estimate according to which by 2025, 8 of the top 20 megacities will be in the Asia-Pacific region alone.
Geospatial and incident information can impact key areas that affect all the people living in cities; these are smart governance, safe cities and smart grid. Elaborating upon the role of GEO-ICT, he said that GeoICT Links spatial awareness, incident command, intelligent video and sensor information into a single system and integrate with local, state & federal government agencies. Geospatial technology provides actionable intelligence which can facilitate smart decisions by providing a pictorial / graphical and multi temporal perspective on complex situations.
Observing that "If GIS data collection is worth doing, it's worth doing right," Ray Chung, APAC Regional Manager – Trimble Navigation, highlighted the benefits of digital field data collection over manual data collection to maximise its importance in decision making. Traditional paper methods are cumbersome and prone to inaccuracies, a lot of which can result during the transcription of field workers' data sheets by data entry personnel. The systems offered by the company are designed for GIS and integrated with supportive technologies so everything is available whenever it is needed, he said. Some of the benefits of these systems over traditional methods including data immediacy, knowledge retention and steamlining of field-to-office workflow. Source: Our correspondent
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Hercules Inc. pays $124 million for Superfund cleanup costs incurred by the U.S. Government
WASHINGTON — The U.S. government received a $124 million payment today from Hercules Incorporated to repay costs the EPA incurred in cleaning up the Vertac Chemical and Jacksonville Landfill Superfund Sites in Jacksonville, Ark., the Justice Department and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced.
A judgment issued by Eastern District of Arkansas in 2005 found Hercules and Chemtura Canada Co., formerly known as Uniroyal Chemical Ltd., liable for all Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability (CERCLA) response action costs incurred by the EPA at the sites. Chemtura paid $3,068,974.76 to the United States on May 17, 2007, for a total payment by the two companies of $127,561,245.76.
"After a trial and numerous court actions regarding this well-known site," said Matthew J. McKeown, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division, "it is gratifying to be able to have this considerable payment replenish the superfund where it can be used to clean up other sites."
"We're very pleased with the Supreme Court's recent decision which ended over 15 years of litigation concerning response costs incurred by EPA," said EPA Regional Administrator Richard E. Greene. "The court's decision reaffirms our belief that those responsible for contamination at a site should be held accountable for the cleanup costs no matter how long it takes."
The $124,492,271 payment, as well as the payment by Chemtura, was paid into the EPA's CERCLA Superfund. The U.S. Supreme Court's denial of Hercules and Chemtura's petitions of certiorari and the subsequent payments conclude litigation that began in 1980. The Superfund, created by Congress in 1980, is the federal government's trust fund used to clean up the nation's uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.
Hercules manufactured millions of pounds of herbicides at the site including Agent Orange, a 50/50 mixture of 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T, which was used by the U.S. military as a defoliant during the Vietnam War. Nearly 10 years after dioxin was no longer being made at the site, EPA found dioxin contamination and other hazardous wastes throughout the plant site, including the soils, groundwater, plant equipment, sediments of nearby waterways and the backyards of nearby residential areas. Hercules was also found responsible for the costs of cleaning up a municipal landfill used by Hercules as a dump site that also contained dioxin.


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John P.L. Roberts turns 90
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The administrator, broadcasting executive, and cultural policy adviser John Peter Lee Roberts was born on October 21st, 1930 in Sydney, Australia. After studying music in Australia and London, he immigrated to Canada in 1955, becoming a music producer at CBC Winnipeg. Two years later he moved to CBC Toronto, rising over the years to a series of successively more senior and influential positions and inaugurating a wide variety of programs and policies that defined serious music at the CBC for over two decades. He invited major composers to CBC Toronto, including Igor Stravinsky, Michael Tippett, and Pierre Boulez. Roberts was also a firm proponent of Canadian music; during the period between 1965 and 1975, he was responsible for overseeing about 150 CBC commissions from Canadian composers. In his autobiography My Life on Earth and Elsewhere (2012), R. Murray Schafer noted "I was grateful to John for his faith in my work. He was certainly the most daring and dedicated music director the CBC ever had. John put much more money into commissioning composers than any director before or since him and he was open to experiments" (97–99).
After leaving the CBC, Roberts enjoyed a second career as a university administrator, becoming Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Calgary in 1987 and serving in that capacity until 1995. During the 1995–96 academic year, he was the first Seagram Visiting Fellow in the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada at McGill University. As an indefatigable organizer and animateur, Roberts was an active member of dozens of music, arts, and cultural policy boards, organizations, and committees. He served as President of the Canadian Music Council, the International Music Council, the Canadian Music Centre, Les Jeunesses musicales du Canada, and the Canadian Association of Fine Arts Deans, and as the Founding President of The Glenn Gould Foundation, where he established the Glenn Gould Prize (R. Murray Schafer was the first recipient of the prize; the most recent winner, announced earlier this month, is the Abenaki filmmaker and musician Alanis Obomsawin).
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Among the many honours which Roberts has received are honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Victoria (1992) and the University of Manitoba (1997), and investiture as a Member of the Order of Canada in 1982 (promoted to Officer in 1996). Roberts donated his personal papers to the University of Calgary in 2014, where they form the John P.L. Roberts fonds. In celebration of this donation, a two-day symposium titled 'John Roberts, the CBC and Music in Canada' was held at the University of Calgary 1–2 October 2015. The symposium in turn led to the book John P.L. Roberts, the CBC/Radio Canada, and Art Music edited by Friedemann Sallis and Regina Landwehr, which is due to be published soon by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. The book includes chapters by the two editors, as well as by Robert Bailey, Josée Beaudet, Norma Beecroft, Brian Cherney, Ariane Couture, James Deaville with Keely Mimnagh, Robin Elliott, Kimberly Francis, Allan Morris, Paul Sanden, Jeremy Strachan, and Richard Sutherland, and also an interview with Roberts by Brian Garbet. It is a fitting tribute to Roberts on the occasion of his 90th birthday.
Ezra Schabas (1924–2020)
Professor Emeritus Ezra Schabas of the University of Toronto Faculty of Music died in Toronto on October 12, 2020 at the age of 96. Schabas was born in New York City on April 24, 1924. Specializing in clarinet performance and music education, he completed an Artist's Diploma (1943) and a BSc degree (1948) from the Juilliard School, and an MA (1949) at Columbia University. He served with the US Armed Forces during World War II and was stationed in Germany and in France, where he studied at the Conservatoire in Nancy and, after the war, at the Fontainebleau School for the Arts. After academic appointments in Massachusetts and Cleveland (1948–52) he became the Director of Concerts and Publicity at the Royal Conservatory of Music (then a constituent part of the University of Toronto) in 1952. He subsequently became a Special Lecturer at the Faculty of Music in 1960, an Associate Professor in 1961 and a Professor in 1968. He served for ten years as the chair of the Faculty of Music's opera and performance departments (1968–78) and then was principal of the Royal Conservatory of Music (still part of the University of Toronto at the time) from 1978 to 1983. After two more years at the Faculty of Music he retired as Professor Emeritus in 1985.
Concurrent with his activities at the University of Toronto, Schabas enjoyed a busy career as a freelance clarinettist and a consultant and administrator. He played with the CBC Symphony Orchestra and was a founding member of the Toronto Woodwind Quintet (1956–60). Among his clarinet pupils were the jazz musician Brian Barley, Paul Grice and Howard Knopf (both members of the York Winds), Peter Smith (a founding member of the National Arts Centre Orchestra), the music librarian S. Timothy Maloney, and Patricia Wait-Weisenblum (a clarinet instructor at York University). Schabas was the music manager for the Stratford Festival (1958–61) and in 1960 he helped to found the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, for which he served variously as an instructor, auditioner, and administrator during its first five seasons. Two other projects which he founded were the Orchestral Training Program at the Royal Conservatory of Music and the Musical Performance and Communication program at the University of Toronto, both funded by the federal government. He served as the first president of the Association of Canadian Orchestras (1972–74) and the Association of Colleges and Conservatories of Music (1980–84). He was an active member of the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto, serving as its President from 1996 to 1998.
Schabas's most enduring legacy may be his work as a music researcher and writer. His first book was Theodore Thomas: America's Conductor and Builder of Orchestras, 1835-1905 (University of Illinois Press, 1989), a detailed biography of the indefatigable German-born US orchestra builder. Five years later came Sir Ernest MacMillan: The Importance of Being Canadian (University of Toronto Press, 1994), the definitive study of the leading Canadian musician of the mid-twentieth century; Schabas won the City of Toronto Book Award in 1995 for this biography. For his next project, Schabas collaborated with the musicologist Carl Morey to write Opera Viva (Dundurn Press, 2000), the official history of the Canadian Opera Company, which is both a handsome coffee table book and a scholarly study of the leading opera company in Canada. Next came There's Music in These Walls: A History of the Royal Conservatory of Music (Dundurn Press, 2005), for which Schabas conducted extensive archival research and interviews. While the book remains the definitive history of the Con, it is not the 'official' history of the institution, as Schabas was characteristically unwilling to surrender editorial independence for the project. For his last book, Schabas returned to biography for a study of the Czech-born opera singer and actor Jan Rubes (Dundurn Press, 2007) who was also, like Schabas, an enthusiastic tennis player.
Among his many honours, Schabas was appointed to the Order of Ontario in 1996 and was invested as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2001. He is survived by his wife Ann, a former Dean of the Faculty of Library and Information Science at the University of Toronto and the daughter of Barker Fairley, whose paintings of local musicians adorn room 130 in the Faculty of Music's Edward Johnson Building (the Barker Fairley Room). He is also survived by five children, twelve grandchildren (including the soprano Sara Schabas, University of Toronto BMus, 2012; and Marguerite Schabas, Executive Assistant to the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company) and eleven great-grandchildren. His personal and professional papers are held by the University of Toronto Archives.
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