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Although other individuals might feel you are basically enjoying the a number of aspects of social networking, the truth of your interest may possibly most likely be tinged with a enterprise concentrate.

What that doesnt imply is that you post merely to leave a traceab?

The use of social media encompasses a broad range of on the web media varieties. Even though some could only assume of a social network like MySpace there are in fact numerous social media formats that include substantial advertising and marketing potential for on the internet company.

Even though others may possibly feel you are basically enjoying the several elements of social networking, the truth of your interest might most likely be tinged with a organization focus.

What that doesnt imply is that you post basically to leave a traceable link back to your organization website. Those who go to any social media web site see via posts that are overtly geared toward marketing and advertising. In numerous situations social media customers view this as spam even if the social network owners do not. In the finish, you can lose credibility of you dont function as a meaningful contributor in a social media atmosphere.

Social media can be presented in a lot of various forms. Lets take a peak at a couple of of them.

YouTube and other comparable video websites These videos can be funny, severe, off the cuff and often political in nature. You can show your business in a humorous light and enable people to be curious about you and your company.

MySpace and other social networks This form of social media is common simply because it draws with each other a number of components of social marketing and tends to make them accessible to the masses of folks that might view social networking as an on the internet version of reality television.

Blogs This is a form of social media if only because it does permit interactive exchanges in between the blogger and the reader.

Forums This can allow you to have an person voice willing to talk about subjects of interest to the majority. As with all social media you can give a link to your web site. If you are viewed as a trusted source you will likely find forum members following you to your site to discover more.

Podcasting This is an audio stream that can enable a visitor to hear a private message from you. This can have a pronounced impact in social advertising.

This isnt an exhaustive list, but it does offer something for you to take into account as an addition to other advertising and marketing tactics you might have in spot. Social media makes it possible for you to take your message to the people and have enjoyable while you share your message.

I cant pressure adequate how important it is to be real. The entire Web community has a low tolerance for supposed spam so make certain you dont use social media as merely an additional type of on the internet advertising.

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Shroud of Turin returns to spotlight with new pope, new app, new debate

New research has found that the Shroud of Turin, a mysterious relic previously believed to date back only to the Middle Ages, was actually created between 280 B.C. and 220 A.D., around the time of when Jesus would have lived and died.

By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News

The age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin is being resurrected this Easter ? thanks to the attention of a new pope, the creation of a "Shroud 2.0" app, and a new book that claims the cloth dates back to Jesus' time.

The book immediately faced a wave of criticism, including a harsh statement from Turin's archbishop that reportedly drove a stake into its heart.

Believers say the centuries-old shroud bears the imprint of Jesus, chemically captured in the cloth at the time of his resurrection. Skeptics say it's a cleverly done medieval fake, wrapped up in highly debatable scientific claims that just won't die.

The newly published Italian-language book ??"Il Mistero Della Sindone," or "The Mystery of the Shroud"?? recycles some of those claims, adds in some fresh results from single-fiber tests, and makes the argument that the shroud shows the difficult-to-reproduce image of a man who lived sometime between 280 B.C. and the year 220.

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If that's not enough to bring the shroud back into the spotlight, there's also the news that Pope Francis, who was named to lead the Roman Catholic Church just last month, will appear on Italian TV on Holy Saturday to introduce a RAI Uno TV appearance of the shroud. "It will be a message of intense spiritual scope, charged with positivity, which will help (people) never to lose hope," the Italian ANSA news agency quoted Turin Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia as saying.

And then there's Shroud 2.0, a free app for Apple's iPad/iPhone (and soon for Android) that lets users zoom in on high-definition images of the shroud and get factoids about its history. The app is being offered by Haltadefinizione, which took photos of the relic in 2008 and collaborated with church officials on the project. Shroud 2.0 is being offered as an "evangelization tool," according to the Vatican's News.va website.

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A photo from 2000 shows the Shroud of Turin displayed at Turin's cathedral.

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The Catholic Church has taken no official stand on the authenticity of the shroud, which is kept under lock and key in Turin and is only rarely brought out for public display. But over the years, some researchers have tried to show that the shroud goes back to biblical times rather than to the 14th century.

"The Mystery of the Shroud" is the latest book of this genre. It was written by journalist Saverio Gaeta and Giulio Fanti, an engineering professor at the University of Padua. Fanti is part of a controversial research group that has claimed the image on the cloth couldn't possibly have been created by natural means. The new book refers to those past claims, plus a new angle.

That angle has to do with single fibers that were purportedly vacuumed up from the shroud during scientific testing. Fanti and his colleagues put the fibers through a series of mechanical and chemical tests. "Combining the two chemical methods with the mechanical one, it results [in] a mean date of 33 B.C., with an uncertainty of plus or minus 250 years at 95 percent confidence level, that is compatible with the period in which Jesus Christ lived in Palestine," the publishers say in a news release.

Skeptical views
Fanti's claims drew a quick reaction from Joe Nickell, a research fellow at the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry who regularly counters claims from Fanti and other shroud researchers.

"As is typical of a religious rather than scientific agenda, their news was shrewdly released just in time for Easter," Nickell said in a blog posting. "That alone casts doubt on the claims, but there is more."

Nickell pointed out that Fanti's tests "involve three different procedures?? each with its own problems?? which are then averaged together to produce the result." He said that stands in contrast with 1988's mass spectrometry tests, which yielded a date range between 1260 and 1390. Fanti says those earlier tests were not "statistically reliable," but Nickell and most scientists are sticking with the verdict rendered in 1988.

As a professional skeptic, Nickell can be expected to voice doubt about the book. But criticism also came from Archbishop Nosiglia.

Because there's "no degree of security" as to the authenticity of the fiber samples, the shroud's custodians "cannot recognize any serious value to the results of these alleged experiments," Nosiglia said in a statement quoted by La Stampa's Vatican Insider. The archbishop's comments "put stakes into Fanti's work," Vatican Insider reported.

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Seeing Apple through rose-colored blasters

Apple needs to fix their crappy designs and online services. I'm talking about green felt and iCloud sync. No, wait, I'm talking about brushed metal and MobileMe sync. No, wait again, I'm talking about pin stripes and .Mac sync. No... Come on, seriously, I've got this!

As much as recent complaints about heavily textured interface elements and problematic online sync solutions are important, and in many cases justified, they're not unique. "Apple has lost its way", is a variation of "Apple is doomed" -- both always true and never true. Apple does a lot of great things. A lot of visionary things. A lot of delightful things. But like any entity, they also do some some silly things, some destructive things, and some downright dumb things.

That's not new. Only the instance is new.

When it comes to perception over time, we often distort out own realities. We tend to forget a lot of the things that bugged us way back when, or at least remember them with far less visceral annoyance than what's bugging us now. We feel like the problems of the present, as yet unsolved, are worse than the problems of the past, many of which were solved just fine.

The current hope-meme is that Jony Ive, now head of all design at Apple, will bulldoze the iOS interface and re-finish it clean. The current rage-meme is that Apple needs to fix the too-long broken promise of Core Data sync.

He may and they do. Just as pin stripes and brushed metal are no more, green felt may likewise be taken out back and put down. Just like .Mac and MobileMe steadily got better over time, so too should iCloud.

However, as much as these things might hold our attention now, they're no more a sign of Apple losing their way than they were last year, or the year before, or the year before that, or the-- You and your stitched leather and back-to-my-Mac get the idea. (Yes, it would have happened then too...)

"Seeing the world through rose-colored glasses" means remembering past events more generously than they sometimes deserve. The consequence is perceiving present events more harshly than they sometimes deserve. And blasting them for it.

By all means be upset. Be powerfully, passionately upset. Advocate for change. Just keep it in context and perspective.

Jony Ive lending his considerable talents to software design is glee-inducing. Apple providing developers with sync they can count on is table-stakes. But they are signs of nothing more nor less than a company continuing to iterate and overcome challenges, just like it always has. And will always need to.

(Seriously, just wait until you hear the cries of monotony over bead-blasted aluminium and hear the screams for blood over busted Apple TV game sync...)

(And yes, that's a joke.)

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Race to replace John Kerry: Who's real champion of the 'little guy'?

In the first televised debate between the Massachusetts Democrats seeking to replace John Kerry in the Senate, Stephen Lynch accused front-runner Ed Markey of 'siding with the big guys.'

By Mark Trumbull,?Staff writer / March 28, 2013

Democratic hopeful for the US Senate Mass. US Reps. Stephen Lynch, left, and Edward Markey, center, prepare for a televised debate as moderator R.D. Sahl, right, looks on at the WCVB-TV studios in Needham, Mass., Wednesday, March 27, 2013.

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In their first televised debate before a special US Senate election, Rep. Stephen Lynch sought to make up some ground against front-runner Rep. Ed Markey, framing the race as a debate over which of them really stands up for ordinary citizens.

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The two Democrats, in their bids for the seat recently vacated by John Kerry (D), sparred over issues ranging from health care and abortion to the economic plight of Bay State fishermen.

Representative Lynch challenged his rival to explain a vote to bail out the banking industry in 2008, and his ties to big telecommunications firms.

?There seems to be a pattern,? Lynch said in the Wednesday match-up. ?You?re siding with the big guys against the little guys?. What?s up with that??

Representative Markey, the longest-serving member of the state?s congressional delegation, parried the attacks by saying he has used his career in the House to break up telecom monopolies, and that the banking bailout was needed to rescue the whole economy from the risk of a severe depression.

?We could not allow the banking system to collapse onto the hopes and dreams of every family in America,? Markey said.

Lynch is pitching himself as the centrist in the race, at a time when Congress needs to break a pattern of partisan gridlock. Contrasting himself with both the ?hard left? and ?hard right,? he said ?I don't work for Nancy Pelosi,? and? that if elected to the Senate he won?t work for majority leader Harry Reid.

In a state with a strongly Democratic electorate, Markey?s stronger liberal credentials may be one reason he?s been polling ahead of Lynch. He said the vote for Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, was the ?the proudest vote of my career,? and that he?s supported abortion rights for three decades.

Lynch identifies himself as pro-life, while also saying he?s against overturning the Supreme Court?s Roe vs. Wade decision. He praised the group Planned Parenthood (which has endorsed Markey) because reducing unwanted pregnancies is ?the real goal? in the quest to bring down abortion rates.

Lynch was one of the rare House Democrats who voted against the Affordable Care Act. He explained his vote by saying the measure raised taxes for businesses and lacked a ?public option? health plan to spur competition in the insurance industry.

On the Republican side, a handful of less-known Massachusetts politicians are competing for the nomination: former US attorney Michael Sullivan, state Rep. Daniel Winslow, and Gabriel Gomez, a private equity investor and former Navy SEAL.

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What ultimately is so compelling about 56 Up is the universality of the experiences. We were all once children. And we all will die. And in between, there is everything else.

We feel good, refreshed and depressed in watching these people get older, also embarrassed in moments and cautioned about the passage of time.

Apted, himself now in his early 70s, says he hopes to continue the series further. Long may it live.

Watching "56 Up" gives you the wonderful feeling of seeing a sociological experiment blossom into something novelistically rich and humane.

Time has been neither kind nor cruel to the 13 men and women profiled in "56 UP." It has just been time, which is what this groundbreaking series is about.

We are all older now, and this series proves it in a most deeply moving way.

Chances are that you'll come away from this long film feeling a sense of knowing its characters.

We might say that '56 Up' serves much the same function as 'Amour,' but it responds to the inevitability of decline with compassion, not dread.

What started as a crafty way of looking at the U.K.'s rigid class structure has grown into a portrait of melancholy middle age, with its heartbreaks and minor-key triumphs.

Those British kids are now 56

Watching the eighth film is intriguing but, in a way, disappointing. At this point in the game, it feels as if all the characters have determined their lots in life and are simply plodding through their interviews.

Quite simply one of the great documentary projects in the history of cinema, an engrossing sociological experiment on film; and though this mostly mellow installment isn't as revelatory as some earlier ones, it's still a remarkable document.

... feels like a retrospective and summation of the whole series, with ample quotation from the previous films, an approach that makes it interesting even for viewers who haven't seen the previous installments.

A completely unique and remarkable documentary project.

Apted skillfully weaves old footage with the new, and we become poignantly aware of another factor shaping their lives (and our own): biology, as the we watch the once-cute kids grow gray and heavy.

Perhaps the boldest and probably longest running sociological experiment on film.

I think the best thing about this movie (and the entire series) is that it forces the viewer to think about their own lives. It's kind of an awakening experience.

Once again, Apted assembles a captivating documentary that's profoundly educational, essential viewing to aid the understanding of the human experience.

"56 Up" is well worth seeing.

56 Up is still moving and philosophic, though not as exciting as earlier episodes, which had more drama.

The running time is over two hours, but the lives here are richly revealed and vastly rewarding.

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Angry lawyer throws shoe at Pakistan's Musharraf

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) ? An angry lawyer threw a shoe at former President Pervez Musharraf as he headed to court in southern Pakistan on Friday to face legal charges following his return to the country after four years in self-imposed exile, police said.

Meanwhile, a Taliban suicide bomber on a bicycle attacked the convoy of a paramilitary police commander in northwestern Pakistan, killing 11 people, including a four month-old infant, police said.

Musharraf, who seized power in a military coup in 1999 but was forced to step down nearly a decade later, is disliked by many lawyers throughout Pakistan because of his decision to suspend the chief justice of the Supreme Court while he was in office.

The lawyer tossed his shoe at Musharraf as the former military strongman was walking down a hallway in the court building in the city of Karachi surrounded by a mob of security, supporters and journalists, said police official Nasir Aftab.

The shoe did not hit Musharraf, and the lawyer was not detained because no charges were filed against him, said Aftab.

Throwing a shoe at someone is an especially potent insult in Muslim countries because the sole is considered unclean.

Local TV channels showed video of the incident, but it was impossible to identify the shoe thrower because he was hidden behind part of the corridor.

Following the incident, judges granted Musharraf an extension of pre-emptive bail in three cases against him, meaning he cannot be immediately arrested.

Two of the cases involve the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the killing of Akbar Bugti, a Baluch nationalist leader who died in August 2006 after a standoff with the Pakistani military. Musharraf was granted an extension of 21 days in those two cases.

He was granted a 15-day extension in connection with a third case, in which he is accused of illegally removing a number of judges at the time, including the Supreme Court chief justice, said Shahadat Awan, the prosecutor general for surrounding Sindh province.

Musharraf was also restricted from leaving the country during the period that his bail was extended, Pakistani state TV reported.

Musharraf returned from exile last Sunday, seeking a possible political comeback despite the legal charges against him and death threats from Taliban militants. But he was only met by a couple thousand reporters when his flight from Dubai landed in Karachi, and analysts have said they don't expect his party to attract much support in parliamentary elections scheduled for May 11.

Musharraf seized power in 1999 when he was serving as Pakistan's army chief. He was forced to step down in 2008 and eventually left the country amid discontent with his rule and threats of impeachment by the country's main political parties. His decision to suspend the Supreme Court chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, played a key role in reducing his popularity. Chaudhry has since been reinstated.

In Karachi, a group of lawyers protested outside the Sindh High Court on Friday as Musharraf entered. They chanted slogans against the former military strongman and jostled with his supporters.

The attack on the paramilitary police commander's convoy in northwestern Pakistan occurred in the city of Peshawar. The apparent target, Abdul Majeed Marwat, who heads the Frontier Constabulary, was not hurt, said police official Dost Mohammed Khan.

The 11 dead included five members of the security forces and six civilians, said Khan. The civilians included two women, a young girl and a four month-old infant. Another 22 people were wounded, said Khan.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. The group's spokesman, Ahsanullah Ahsan, told The Associated Press that they carried out the bombing because the paramilitary police "are part of a system we don't recognize, and second, they are operating against us."

Peshawar is located on the border with Pakistan's semiautonomous tribal region, the main sanctuary for Taliban militants in the country. The Pakistani Taliban have carried out many bombings in the city and other parts of the country targeting both security forces and civilians.

There is concern that the militants could step up the pace of attacks ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections.

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Associated Press writers Riaz Khan and Rasool Dawar in Peshawar, Pakistan, and Munir Ahmed in Islamabad contributed to this report.

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Mar 26 (Reuters) - Leading money winners on the 2013 PGATour on Monday (U.S. unless stated): 1. Tiger Woods $3,787,600 2. Brandt Snedeker $2,859,920 3. Matt Kuchar $2,154,500 4. Steve Stricker $1,820,000 5. Phil Mickelson $1,650,260 6. Hunter Mahan $1,553,965 7. John Merrick $1,343,514 8. Dustin Johnson $1,330,507 9. Russell Henley $1,313,280 10. Kevin Streelman $1,310,343 11. Keegan Bradley $1,274,593 12. Charles Howell III $1,256,373 13. Michael Thompson $1,254,669 14. Brian Gay $1,171,721 15. Justin Rose $1,155,550 16. Jason Day $1,115,565 17. Chris Kirk $1,097,053 18. ...

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Mar 26 (Reuters) - Leading money winners on the 2013 PGATour on Monday (U.S. unless stated): 1. Tiger Woods $3,787,600 2. Brandt Snedeker $2,859,920 3. Matt Kuchar $2,154,500 4. Steve Stricker $1,820,000 5. Phil Mickelson $1,650,260 6. Hunter Mahan $1,553,965 7. John Merrick $1,343,514 8. Dustin Johnson $1,330,507 9. Russell Henley $1,313,280 10. Kevin Streelman $1,310,343 11. Keegan Bradley $1,274,593 12. Charles Howell III $1,256,373 13. Michael Thompson $1,254,669 14. Brian Gay $1,171,721 15. Justin Rose $1,155,550 16. Jason Day $1,115,565 17. Chris Kirk $1,097,053 18. ...

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Meeting broad, varied, competing priorities in conservation

Mar. 25, 2013 ? Solutions that meet the broad, varied, and often competing priorities of conservation are difficult to come by. Research published in the March 28 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences takes a hard look at why, in an effort to find ways to resolve the issue.

"People often think of conservation solutions that are effective, cost-efficient, and equitable -- the so-called triple bottom line solutions -- as the holy grail, the best possible outcome," said Ben Halpern, researcher at UC Santa Barbara's National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), and the lead author of the paper titled, "Achieving the triple bottom line in the face of inherent trade-offs among social equity, economic return and conservation."

As stakeholders, conservationists, and governments work diligently to achieve cost-efficient and effective conservation solutions that are also fair, it becomes obvious that reaching one goal often comes at the expense of another.

"We developed and tested methods for discovering these ideal solutions and found a surprising result," said Halpern. "As you increase the equity of how conservation benefits are distributed to people, you compromise your ability to maximize conservation outcomes."

To examine the relationship of equity, which relates to how a person or group perceives the relative availability (or deprivation) of resources, to the other conservation goals in the triple bottom line, the researchers used three very different case studies dealing with marine conservation to test their ideas: the process to create marine protected areas (MPAs) off the central coast of California; the southeast Misool MPA in Raja Ampat in eastern Indonesia; and the Coral Triangle in southeast Asia. In each case, as conservation scores and outcomes were increased (usually the result of limiting access to certain areas or the amount and/or species that can be taken from those areas), equity declined.

Meanwhile, the study also showed that both equity and conservation could be achieved, but by raising total budgets, sacrificing the goal of cost-efficiency.

Although triple bottom line outcomes are touted as ideal, said Halpern, the reality is that few people probably actually want such outcomes.

"Different people have more or less invested in managed systems and so don't necessarily expect to receive equal benefits," he said. "For example, if I've fished a place for 40 years and based my entire livelihood on that, whereas my neighbor just moved to town and fishes once a month recreationally, why should we be treated equally when it comes to making decisions about managing fisheries?"

Carissa Klein, a co-author from The University of Queensland, pointed out that "although equity can compromise conservation outcomes, it plays a significant role in conservation." Highly inequitable solutions, according to the study, decrease the likelihood of success because those disenfranchised have little motivation to adhere to conservation programs. But, while increased equity increases the likelihood of self-enforcement, it is also likely that ignoring a vocal and powerful minority will lower the chances of success.

So are there any decisions that can guarantee achieving the triple bottom line of effectiveness, cost-efficiency, and equitable conservation outcomes? Yes and no, said Klein. "It depends some on how one defines equity, and people have different types of equity that they care about. It may be easy to have equity in stakeholder engagement, i.e. all affected parties engaged in the process of making a decision, even if the outcome is inequitable. This may ultimately satisfy all the stakeholder groups."

"There's no single way to achieve triple bottom line outcomes," said Halpern. "Instead, we provide a tool for transparently and quantitatively understanding where, why, and how one can increase the chances of achieving these outcomes, and in which cases it is not likely possible," he said.

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"Fixing Cancer" | PhRMA

If we really want to ?fix cancer,? as Ezekiel Emanuel and a group of oncologists suggested in the New York Times this weekend, we should focus on how we can continue to build on medical innovation collaborations that can lead to better scientific knowledge and discovery of targeted treatments that can help defeat this complex disease.? Furthermore, we need to have an ongoing dialogue about what type of public policy framework is necessary?that supports biopharmaceutical innovation so that we can continue to make important advances in medicine.

Speaking of which, TIME magazine just unveiled its April 1 issue titled, ?How to Cure Cancer,? which details collaborative efforts that now exist to push the medical innovation boundaries forward.? The article highlights research collaborations in the oncology space that are moving full speed ahead in trying to find new treatments for patients with gene mutations or other factors that are often the root cause of cancers developing and growing in patients.

In the words of the TIME article author, ?Cancer is an intricate and potentially lethal collaboration of genes gone awry, of growth inhibitors gone missing, of hormones and epigenomes changing and rogue cells breaking free.?? Simply put, the complexity of cancer is extraordinary.? For this very reason, it won?t just take an army to find a solution or ?fix? for a cancer diagnosis.? Rather, it will take all of our science-based armed forces ? all branches ? to build on the scientific and technological advances that have led to better understanding of the many forms of cancer.? This means that biopharmaceutical companies, doctors, federal research institutions and academia need to continue to work together collaboratively to make inroads in the fight against cancer and other diseases.

The whole notion of building on medical advances is important.? For it is incremental innovation that has literally transformed how patients have received care over the last decade and even century.? Underscoring this point is a Boston Healthcare Associates paper which provides a unique overview of the incremental benefits of specific cancer therapies currently available for patients in the U.S. and outlines the pathways by which new benefits have been realized with these treatments.

Dean Kamen, a great medical device champion and inventor, spoke about the issue of medical progress (or incremental innovation) in times of cost-containment and provided a very interesting picture.? He said, ?The reason 100 years ago everyone could afford their healthcare is because healthcare was a doctor giving you some elixir and telling you you?ll be fine. And if it was a cold you would be fine. And if it turns out it was consumption; it was tuberculosis; it was lung cancer?you could still sit there. He?d give you some sympathy, and you?d die. Either way, it?s pretty cheap. We now live in a world where technology has triumphed, in many ways, over death.?

Indeed.? Thankfully, there are many medical options for patients with a wide range of diseases, including cancer.? But the discovery of transformational medicine didn?t happen overnight.? It happened over a period of time in which scientists, oftentimes working with other partners in the innovation ecosystem, built on the knowledge of yesterday?s treatments to make advances in today?s and eventually tomorrow?s treatments.? And the good news is that these gains can lead to savings in the health care system over time.

For this reason, it is critically important to look at the long-term value that medicines, and collaborative efforts, provide not only for patients but also for the U.S. health care system.

In conclusion, I couldn?t agree more with Dean Kamen?s strong statement that, ?Rather than slowing the pace of medical progress in order to cut healthcare costs, America should be encouraging more innovation in life-saving drugs and technologies.?

More to come on this issue next week?

Source: http://catalyst.phrma.org/fixing-cancer/

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Singer Dionne Warwick $10 Million In Debt: Files For Bankruptcy

Singer Dionne Warwick $10 Million In Debt: Files For Bankruptcy

Dionne Warwick has filed for bankruptcy after being $10 million in debt. The 72-year-old Grammy-winning singer claims that she only has $10.00 left after covering her monthly expenses. So what in the heck happened? Dionne Warwick listed her total assets as $25,500 and total liabilities of more than $10.7 million, which were mainly tax claims ...

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Soldier pimps Gator with radio suite | Defense Tech

FORT POLK, La. ? They call it the Boar Battle Wagon.

Pfc. Jonathan Bole, a soldier in 2nd Battalion, 30th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, has pimped out a John Deere Gator all-terrain vehicle with some of the latest communications gear from the U.S. Army for potential use on an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan.?I have built a little mobile-command post for the colonel,? he said in an interview.

The brigade, based here at Fort Polk, La., will be the first in the service to deploy with new radios and networking equipment designed to boost mobile connectivity on the battlefield. Soldiers are receiving accelerated training with the technology, which includes smartphone-compatible radios made by General Dynamics Corp., before a planned deployment this spring.

The radios, antennae and laptops came installed on heavy, blast-proof trucks, known as mine-resistant ambush-protected all-terrain vehicles, or M-ATVs, made by Oshkosh. Bole, acting on orders from his commander, Lt. Col. Alan Boyer, assembled the systems on an ATV to see if he could get them working on a smaller vehicle that could fit into a CH-47 Chinook helicopter.

?Something I asked my staff to do, my communications experts, is to create me a mission-command platform that is of medium weight, that I could put onto a CH-47 and fly to an austere, expeditionary environment, that would provide mission-command over my troops and the operations,? Boyer said. ?They took my intent and came up with the Boar Battle Wagon.?

The result is a communications suite that can be powered by a small generator and provide everything from analog radio to satellite communications, as well as the ability to send instant messages, download intelligence feeds and digitally observe troop movements, Boyer said.

The unit is known as the Wild Boars, presumably after the animals that roam stretches of the military post,??located about 130 miles south of Shreveport.

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Take advantage of home improvement tax rebates before time runs out

When U.S. lawmakers made a deal to keep the country from going off the ?fiscal cliff? at the end of 2012, they reinstated a tax break of up to $500 to help homeowners earn money back for energy efficient home improvements. The tax credit included in the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 is the first home improvement incentive since 2011, making this remodeling season an opportune time to upgrade your home?s energy efficiency and curb appeal before time runs out on Dec. 31, 2013.

While many of the products eligible for the new tax credit are the unsung heroes of home energy savings ? heaters, water pumps, air conditioners ? energy efficient replacement windows and doors are included, helping to save energy while also infusing new life into a dull home exterior. Pairing the latest energy efficient technology with stylish design, many window and door manufacturers are geared up with qualifying products that can fulfill any homeowner?s unique style needs.

?For anyone who regrets missing their chance to receive a tax credit for energy efficient home improvements, this is an incredible opportunity,? says Chris Pickering, vice president of marketing for Ply Gem Windows. ?Old and outdated windows and doors are not only an eyesore, they can cost homeowners energy through leaks, cracks and poorly insulated glass every month.?

Since 2006, there have been a number of versions of the energy efficient tax credit for homeowners. The current extension covers all purchases made in 2013 and retroactively gives credit for 2012 purchases. The credit is 10 percent of the cost of building materials and select energy efficient heating and cooling devices, insulation and roofing for primary residence, up to $500. Installation fees do not apply.

Some categories like windows are capped at $200, but can be combined with other purchases to make up the full amount. For example, if you buy qualifying windows for $2,000, roofing for $2,000 and a water heater for $1,000, you will receive the entire $500 credit.

However, there are a few rules. The total amount of savings allowed per household is cumulative since the program began in 2006. So, if you?ve already received $500 or more in total credits since 2006, you are not eligible to earn more credit. But, if you?ve received less than $500, you can still add new credits, up to the full amount.

Windows and doors that are eligible for the tax credit must be ENERGY STAR qualified in the region where they are being installed. Look to products like the Ply Gem Windows Mira Premium Series, which can be configured to meet ENERGY STAR requirements in every U.S. climate zone and are available in 38 colors, with multiple shapes and grille patterns.

According to ENERGY STAR?s website, all of the windows, doors and skylights in your home do not need to be replaced to qualify. Also, new windows and doors that were not there previously, like ones in an addition, qualify for the tax credit.

The tax credit will be given, dollar-for-dollar, in the following year?s tax returns, so be sure to keep your receipts. To find ENERGY STAR rated window and door products for your climate zone, visit www.plygemwindows.com and consult with your local dealer or contractor to ensure the products you are purchasing qualify for the tax credit.

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Moon and asteroids share history, NASA scientists find

Mar. 25, 2013 ? NASA and international researchers have discovered that Earth's moon has more in common than previously thought with large asteroids roaming our solar system.

Scientists from NASA's Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) in Moffett Field, Calif., discovered that the same population of high-speed projectiles that impacted our lunar neighbor four billion years ago, also hit the giant asteroid Vesta and perhaps other large asteroids.

The research unveils an unexpected link between Vesta and the moon, and provides new means for studying the early bombardment history of terrestrial planets. The findings are published in the March issue of Nature Geoscience.

"It's always intriguing when interdisciplinary research changes the way we understand the history of our solar system," said Yvonne Pendleton, NLSI director. "Although the moon is located far from Vesta, which is in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, they seem to share some of the same bombardment history."

The findings support the theory that the repositioning of gas giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn from their original orbits to their current location destabilized portions of the asteroid belt and triggered a solar system-wide bombardment of asteroids billions of years ago, called the lunar cataclysm.

The research provides new constraints on the start and duration of the lunar cataclysm, and demonstrates that the cataclysm was an event that affected not only the inner solar system planets, but the asteroid belt as well.

The moon rocks brought back by NASA Apollo astronauts have long been used to study the bombardment history of the moon. Now the ages derived from meteorite samples have been used to study the collisional history of main belt asteroids. In particular, howardite and eucrite meteorites, which are common species found on Earth, have been used to study asteroid Vesta, their parent body. With the aid of computer simulations, researchers determined that meteorites from Vesta recorded high-speed impacts which are now long gone.

Researchers have linked these two datasets and found that the same population of projectiles responsible for making craters and basins on the moon were also hitting Vesta at very high velocities, enough to leave behind a number of telltale, impact-related ages.

The team's interpretation of the howardites and eucrites was augmented by recent close-in observations of Vesta's surface by NASA's Dawn spacecraft. In addition, the team used the latest dynamical models of early main belt evolution to discover the likely source of these high velocity impactors. The team determined that the population of projectiles that hit Vesta had orbits that also enabled some objects to strike the moon at high speeds.

"It appears that the asteroidal meteorites show signs of the asteroid belt losing a lot of mass four billion years ago, with the escaped mass beating up on both the surviving main belt asteroids and the moon at high speeds" says lead author Simone Marchi, who has a joint appointment between two of NASA's Lunar Science Institutes, one at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and another at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. "Our research not only supports the current theory, but it takes it to the next level of understanding."

The NLSI is headquartered at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. The Dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

To learn more about NLSI, visit: http://lunarscience.nasa.gov .

For more information about the Dawn mission, visit: www.nasa.gov/dawn .

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Our Old Classic Fears Translated Into Modern Technology Nightmares

Do you remember all your childhood fears? You know, like all those nightmares you had about being chased, being naked and getting killed by monsters. You stopped being scared of them because you grew up and you replaced old fears with new digital nightmares. Like being trolled and accidentally sending sexts and the Internet being down. Grown up life can be scary with technology! More »

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BlackBerry Z10 (AT&T)

The BlackBerry Z10 is a thoroughly modern smartphone with a thoroughly modern mobile OS. Built well from high-quality materials, it has an strong focus on messaging. It?offers better video support than Windows Phone 8, better messaging than Android, and more elegant graphics than Apple's iOS.

Somehow, though, it doesn't all quite come together as a compelling consumer alternative to market leaders like the Apple iPhone 5, HTC One, and the Samsung Galaxy S4. As just another nice black slab, the Z10's physical design is so understated that it tends to fade into the background, and while the OS has plenty of interesting ideas, it can't overcome how far behind it is in terms of third-party app support. I'd have been more profoundly moved if the first BlackBerry 10 phone was the BlackBerry Q10, with one of the spectacular hardware keyboards BlackBerry is famous for. There are no flagship smartphones with full QWERTY keyboards any more, despite the fact that physical keys are still much easier to type on than virtual ones.

Hardware and Keyboard
The BlackBerry Z10 is a medium size, rounded black slab. Although it's a high-quality build all around, it's got a generic look. The phone is mostly very high-quality plastic with a rubbery finish on the back and smooth black polycarbonate bumpers on the top and bottom. At 5.1 by 2.6 by .35 inches (HWD) and 4.8 ounces, it fits right into the middle of popular smartphone sizes, just a bit bigger than the iPhone 5. I found it very comfortable to use in one hand.

As with most slab-style phones, the front is dominated by the 4.2-inch 1,280-by-768 LCD. At 356 pixels per inch, the display is higher density than both the iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S III, although it isn't the tightest screen around. (That's the HTC Droid DNA at 443 ppi.) There's a Power button on the top, volume rockers with a hardware Mute button on one side, and micro USB and micro HDMI ports on the other. Turn on the Z10 on and you'll see a sharp LCD with rich blacks, but not stunning brightness.

Peel off the NFC-enabled back panel to find a long, narrow 1800mAh battery and a microSD card slot that supports up to 64GB cards without a problem. The 8-megapixel camera lens sits on the back left corner.

BlackBerry is very proud of its software keyboard, calling it the best in the business. The innovation here is to space the four rows of keys further apart vertically than typical for more accurate typing, along with a very aggressive autocorrect system that learns from your common word sequences. Possible autocorrects and shortcuts float above individual keys as you type. The keyboard takes up less screen real estate than Windows Phone and some Android keyboards, and the keys are nice and wide. I found it more accurate than the iOS and Windows Phone keyboards over long-term use. But make no mistake, it's still a software keyboard, and longtime BlackBerry fans will miss their clicky, tactile buttons.

OS and Performance
The Z10 runs the brand-new BlackBerry OS 10, which bears no resemblance to the BB operating system of old; it's much more like the OS on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. The company says 100,000 BlackBerry 10 apps will be available when the phone launches in the U.S., so while the device is incompatible with apps for older phones, BlackBerry has done a solid job of building up a launch library for the new platform.

The key idea in BlackBerry OS 10 is "flow." There's no system-wide Back button; you're always moving forward. The BB10 experience pivots around a page of your eight most recently used, minimized apps, called the Active Frame. Swipe left to go to the BlackBerry Hub, or the universal inbox; swipe right to view a very iPhone-like set of app icon pages. If you're doing something and you want to do something else, you swipe up, minimizing your app, to return to the central screen where it's easy to jump into another app.

Swipe, flip, swipe: Just like with the good old Palm WebOS, you work up a real rhythm here. BlackBerry OS 10 isn't customizable like Android or Windows Phone, but to some extent it customizes itself: Those eight most recently used apps can update their pages as new information comes in, potentially making them a little like Android's widgets or Windows Phone's Live Tiles. You can't move them around, though: They're just the most recent ones you've used.

For a much deeper dive into the new OS, including third-party apps, check out our full review of BlackBerry 10.

Built around a 1.5GHz, dual-core Qualcomm processor and 2GB of RAM, the Z10 doesn't have any performance problems even with large, heavy apps like Bard's Tale or playing 1080p videos on a larger screen via an HDMI cable. The Z10 notched a 2,452 on Browsermark (which measures general browser performance) and 2198.4ms on Sunspider (which measures Javascript performance.) Browsermark results were on par with dual-core Android 4.0 phones like the HTC One SV, while the Sunspider results were slightly slower than competing Android phones, but not so much that you'd notice in typical use. Let's note, though, that the sheer horsepower here is a definite notch behind the new Snapdragon 600 chips we'll soon see in the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One.

Call Quality, Networking, and Battery
You'd expect a BlackBerry to excel in the voice department, and in this case you'd be right. In my tests, the Z10's earpiece delivered round, warm voice tones at moderate to high volume. The speakerphone was downright excellent?unusually clear and loud enough for most any situation. Transmissions from both a noisy street scene and a loud Starbucks blanked out the background noise very well. A call from the speakerphone let through a little bit of background noise, but the voice was fully forward and very well rounded. The Z10 had no problem connecting to a Plantronics Voyager Legend headset for voice, music, video, and voice dialing.?

Voice dictation is everywhere?it's built into the OS?and it's moderately accurate, but not perfect. You can dictate about 24 seconds at a time, spelling out punctuation. Errors I encountered included "BlackBerry can" for "BlackBerry 10" and "Sasha see can" for "Sascha Segan." That puts voice control accuracy at around Windows Phone's level and below Android's.

I used the Z10 on AT&T's LTE network and got decent speeds of 12-13Mbps down and 3-5Mbps up in our midtown Manhattan offices. Unfortunately, there's no way to turn off LTE if you're in a non-LTE area, which burns battery. I mention this because AT&T disabled that switch; you can?turn off LTE on the T-Mobile model! The phone also supports Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n on the 2.4 and 5GHz bands, along with GPS, Bluetooth 4.0, and NFC. You can send files to another BlackBerry via NFC, as well as read NFC tags.

The 1800mAh battery won't satisfy heavy users, so it's a good thing it's removable and that it fills up quickly. I was able to move from almost no charge to 100 percent in three hours.?I got 7 hours, 30 minutes of talk time and 3 hours, 7 minutes of LTE video streaming, neither of which are great results. A $49.99 battery/charger bundle comes with a second battery, and can charge both your phone and the second battery at the same time.

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A Writing Entry ? Editorial Eye | A Writer's Hail Mary Pass

Editing is one of the necessary evils of writing.? I have already lamented about my embarrassment in trusting the automatic spell-checker, so you know I take editing very seriously.? In fact, I was editing before I really got into writing (freshman English papers, to be precise).? This makes me doubly embarrassed that I was lured into such a false sense of security by the automatic spell-checker.? That, however, is an old rant and this is the new rant.

Once a story has reached a certain level of completeness (one hopes anyway), this initial draft must be edited.? Obviously spelling and grammar are the first items on the editorial checklist but those are also the easier items to check.? Spelling and grammar have rules.? Everything else involved in writing is kind of subjective (which eventually leads to the art critic, but that?s another rant).? It is also very useful to get someone else to read over your work to find things you, as the author, just don?t see.? So what are the items I try to check for after I am satisfied the words are spelled correctly and no commas are spliced?

1) Double-check the spell-checker (a hard lesson learned indeed).? Obscure words or profession-specific words (such as ?fibromyalgia? and ?hydrofluoric?) may not be flagged by some spell-checkers or if they are, well, the offered ?corrections? may not be close to the original word and can result in some very odd sentences.

2) Double-check the grammar-checker.? Grammar-checkers don?t like long sentences even if they are grammatically correct.? Sometimes they also can miss tense agreements and subject-verb agreements if you happen to have misspelled a word or two (or simply forgot to add the ?s? to make a word plural).? Also check if your noun-pronouns match gender.? The grammar-checker doesn?t know ?Joan? is supposed to a female and therefore your misspelling ?she? as ?he? is not going to be caught.

3) Check for consistency.? I often change things as I write and sometimes I forget to make those changes earlier in the story.? If, for example, you?ve changed your character?s name from ?Joanne? to ?Joan? you better check that you?ve got it changed everywhere in the story.? The ?find? function is useful for this, but if you accidentally misspelled ?Joan? as ?Joann? then the ?find? may not catch it.? Another person can be helpful in this step.

4) Review dialogue to make sure you know who?s speaking.? A short-cut in writing dialogue is to use the name once and then use pronouns (as in ?he asked? and ?she answered?).? But sometimes it?s easy to forget who?s speaking, especially when both speakers are the same gender.? If you as the author get mixed up about who?s speaking when, then the reader has no chance of sorting it out.? Another person is very useful in this step.

5) Review exposition.? This is a hard one and often better done by another person.? Of course, what I get out of that person depends on how dedicated they are to helping me write better.? Ideally, I?d ask them to read over my work and then ask them some basic questions about the work I assume are obvious.? For example, ?How old is Joan??? ?Where does Joan live??? ?What does Joan look like??? ?Does Joan have any family??? This can let me know if I?ve left out some crucial information that was so obvious in my head and in my notes (?What?s a mage?? my helpful literature teacher parent asked me once?).? Like I said, how useful the other person is depends on their willingness to help you.? No one really likes to write book reports, and I?d basically be asking them to write a book report on my work.? But it is really helpful.

6) Review basic plot elements.? By this I mean make sure you as the author didn?t forget some crucial bit of exposition or description or something like that.? Again, enlist help.? If I have a twist ending, for example, and my reviewer(s) saw it coming on page 10 of my 300 page novel, maybe I need to re-work a few things.? But if I have a twist ending and they have no idea where the hell that ending came from, maybe I need to re-work a few things.? Remember Chekhov?s Law ? the gun in Act I must be fired in Act III and if there is a gun fired in Act III it should have been mentioned in Act I.

None of these steps are, to me, the same as soliciting criticism.? The editorial review is to check for consistency and for quality control.? I want my work to be as free from obvious technical flaws as possible before I solicit feedback on more subjective matters, which is a topic for another posting.

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Cyprus still groping for a solution to a banking crisis that's roiling Europe

Cyprus lawmakers are facing hard choices. Swallowing a bitter pill in exchange for a European bailout or leaving the eurozone are just two of them.

By Robert Marquand,?Staff writer / March 22, 2013

A woman waits as two people use the ATM machines in central capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Friday. Cypriot authorities were putting the final touches Friday to a plan they hope will convince international lenders to provide the money the country urgently needs to avoid bankruptcy within days.

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Over the past three decades, Robert Marquand has reported on a wide variety of subjects for?The Christian Science Monitor, including American education reform,?the wars in the Balkans, the Supreme Court, South Asian politics, and the oft-cited "rise of China." In the past 15 years he has served as the Monitor's bureau chief in Paris, Beijing, and New Delhi.?

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Cyprus has until Monday to come up with $7 billion and a reform plan, or face losing its creditors and sinking into ignominious pools of red ink.

Today the Russians said "nyet" to Cypriot officials, who waited in Moscow for three days?to get a possible bailout. Russian oligarchs hold at least 40 percent of Cyprus bank deposits. Cypriots had hoped, for some reason, that Russia might bail out what is essentially a banking system that thrives on helping the wealthy evade paying Russian taxes.

?The next few hours will determine the future of the country,? Reuters reports?Cypriot government spokesman Christos Stylianides said today, ahead of a vote on a slew of different and changing plans to stay solvent. ?We must all assume our share of the responsibility.??

What first caught world attention was an EU-inspired plan, voted on and killed by Cyprus lawmakers this week, to tax or expropriate private bank deposits in the country. That sent a shudder through the minds of ordinary Europeans, not to mention a lot of Russians and Cypriots themselves.

Yet facing looming insolvency, the largest Cypriot bank today called for the nation?s parliament to levy a tax on holdings over 100,000 euros ($120,000), arguing the alternative is collapse.

Plans on Cypriot tables include the creation of ?good? banks with credible holdings and ?bad? banks with toxic holdings, and to cordon off the bad Greek bank debt whose exposure helped cause the problem in the first place, in the midst of a three-year euro crisis that started in Athens.

EU approval is essential to get the tranche of bailout funds from the European Central Bank. Today the Germans said no to a Cyprus pension raiding scheme that has been floated for days.

Cypriot banks remain closed, ostensibly until Tuesday, when no one knows what will happen; bank ATMs are for now providing petty cash for the commercial sustenance of regular folk and lines are long.

As the world starts to focus on why an island making up 0.2 percent of the EU economic picture could shake world markets, the question is being asked: Why would Cypriot officials turn their island into a quasi-money laundering center for offshore oligarchs and at the same time buy Greek debt that was already shaky ? and imagine this would somehow turn out fine?

Paul Krugman of The New York Times continues to probe the story, writing Thursday that Cyprus has combined on one tiny Mediterranean island all the mistakes made by the European economies of Portugal, Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland, and so on (the so-called ?PIIGS?) that have helped bring the euro crisis to bloom.?

This includes ?runaway banking,? the all-too familiar real estate bubbles brought by ?massive overvaluation,? and the problem of not having enough productive capacity to pull out of a dive into debt when things went sour.

Mr. Krugman asks:

So then what? As a number of people have pointed out, Cyprus is arguably better positioned than Iceland to do an Iceland, because devaluing a reintroduced Cypriot currency could bring in a lot of tourism. But will the Cypriots ? who haven?t even reconciled themselves to the end of their round-tripping business ? be willing to go there

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For the first time Iberian lynx embryos are collected and preserved

Mar. 22, 2013 ? A pioneering procedure in felines allows the collection of biological material from Iberian lynx females before castration. The preserved biological material of the lynxes will be used in future conservation breeding programmes.

In February two Iberian lynx females who belong to the Iberian lynx Conservation Breeding Program (ILCBPS) were castrated in order to guarantee a better quality of life and prevent possible health problems.

Scientist from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research IZW, Berlin, Germany, went to the breeding centers in Spain and Portugal to obtain embryos by flushing the oviducts and freeze ovarian tissue immediately after surgery. The obtained embryos and ovarian pieces are stored in liquid nitrogen. Now they are kept at the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid (CSIC) for further usage in the breeding programme.

The specialists of the IZW performed a pioneering procedure to obtain and freeze embryos in a wildlife species. Based on their experience in the domestic cat, they developed a method for cryopreserving oocytes and embryos of wild cat species. "Seven days after mating we expected to flush embryos from the uterus. In both cases, however, oocytes and embryos were still within the oviducts. Thus, the embryo development in lynxes is slower than in domestic cats," says Prof Katarina Jewgenow from the IZW specialist team.

During two consecutive breeding seasons, "Azahar," a female lynx from the Centro Nacional de Reprodu??o de Lince Ib?rico in Silves, Portugal, experienced problems during parturition and an emergency caesarean operation was required in each case. The Iberian Lynx Conservation Breeding Program recommended not to breed "Azahar" again. In this situation it was decided to try to preserve her genetic material by collecting embryos and freezing the ovarian cortex after removing ovaries by castration. The IZW team preserved three embryos and the ovarian cortex. "The next step we are discussing right now is to implant these embryos into a foster mother, which might be an Eurasian lynx female," comments Jewgenow.

"Saliega," the other female, is located in the Centro de Cr?a de el Acebuche, in Do?ana, Spain. "Saliega" was the first Iberian lynx who was bred in captivity in 2005. In July 2012 she suffered from a mammary tumor after lactating her current litter. The risk of mammary tumor recidivism, her advanced age (12 years) and the fact that she already gave birth to 16 cubs during the last 8 years was the basis for the decision to castrate her as well. "From her we only flushed unfertilised eggs, thus the male was not fertile," said Natalia Mikolaewska, a doctoral student from the IZW. "Her genetic material in terms of ovarian cortex oocytes was frozen as well," comments Natalia.

The Iberian lynx is the only wild cat species listed on the IUCN Red List as critically endangered. A decade ago, less than 200 individuals were left. The remaining population is located in southern Spain.

The Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) is a long-term scientific partner of the Iberian Lynx Conservation Breeding Program (ILCBPS) in Andalusia, Spain.

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