Dr. Xiaofeng Zhou, Assistant Professor, Center for Molecular Biology of Oral Diseases, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry, is an internationally known oral cancer researcher.
His primary research interest is to utilize molecular genetics and bioninformatics technologies to develop novel diagnostic tools and to gain a better understanding of human diseases such as head and neck/oral cancer. His research is focused on the genetic mapping of disease genes and/or consistent genomic alterations that are associated with the development and progression of oral cancer.
Dr. Zhou previously had been an Assistant Professor of Oral Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Dentistry, and also was a member of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and the university’s Dental Research Institute. He holds a BS in biochemistry and microbiology from Hangzhou University in China; a PhD in biochemistry and a postdoctorate training in human genetics from Boston University; and an MS in software engineering from Brandeis University.
Dr. Zhou has published more than 40 journal articles, review articles, and book chapters, and holds three National Institutes of Health grant research projects.
Dr. Zhou is also a Visiting Professor at Sun Yat-sen University, China.
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University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry
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Enhanced (110%) speed, strength, agility, reflexes, hearing, and eyesight. Night vision to a range of 60 feet.
The Defuser is a fictional character, a superhero created and originally portrayed by Austin, Texas police detective Jarrett Crippen on the reality television series Who Wants to Be a Superhero?. As a result of winning the show in its second season, his character is the subject of a Dark Horse Comics comic book written by Jeremy Barlow with art by Kajo Baldisimo and will appear in a SyFy Original movie entitled Lightning Strikes.
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1Fictional character
2Jarrett Crippen
3References
4External links
Fictional character
The Defuser is an expert paramilitary superhero who uses non-lethal weaponry and gadgets to stop villains. He has the unique ability to function at 110 percent (this boosts his speed, strength, agility, reflexes, hearing, and eyesight) making him slightly more formidable than virtually any single foe. He has a night vision to a range of 60 feet. The Defuser has two weaknesses; bright light (he must wear protective eyewear or he risks being blinded), and he does not harm villains too badly with guns or any other lethal weapons. His arch enemies are drug dealers. His catchphrase is ,”When the Defuser’s around, the bad guys are going down!”
In The Defuser’s Dark Horse comic, he fought a plane full of hijackers hand-to-hand to save the passengers, which included his wife, Norma. He also, with the help of a sympathetic robot cop, disabled an artificial intelligence determined to preserve its own existence by destroying him.
Jarrett Crippen
Jarrett Crippen is also the director and founder of SCARE for a CURE, a non-profit charity and interactive haunted adventure modeled after, and using many of the same talented volunteers, as Richard Garriott’s Britannia Manor and Wild Basin’s Haunted Trails. Scare for a Cure started as a haunted house that Jarrett put on in his back yard, asking for donations of canned food for local food banks. It grew year by year, with help from the drama troupes of local high schools. In 2007, shortly after winning the Who Wants to Be a Superhero reality show, Jarrett moved his production to the Austin Elk’s lodge. That was when he was joined by many of the volunteers who had done Britannia Manor and Haunted Trails in years past. Props and costumes stored at the Wild Basin wilderness preserve were also given to SCARE for a CURE.
The resulting interactive haunted adventure raised close to $10,000 for breast cancer charities and Elk’s club sponsored scholarships in 2007, and awarded four $2500 scholarships to deserving students adversely affected by cancer in 2008. In 2009, SCARE is going back to its roots. It has relocated to Richard Garriott’s partially built Britannia Manor Mark 2.
When Jarrett isn’t attending conventions as his superhero alter ego, or running interactive spook houses, he makes amateur movies with friends who also tried out for Who Wants to Be a Superhero, making mini-movies of The Defuser and sidekicks Gravnos and XSeven, with enemy the Punk that can be seen on Youtube and on the Defuser’s myspace page.
He is also well-known as an active member of the Champion’s server chat forum, and co-founder of the Megaforce supergroup for the online game City of Heroes.
References
^ abc The Defuser | Heroes | Who Wants to Be a Superhero? | SCIFI.COM
External links
The Defuser at MySpace
Austin Chronicle article with picture of The Defuser and Richard Garriott in Gen British uniform
Newsday.com article with picture of The Defuser with Stan Lee
Podcast interview with Jarrett Crippen
www.scareforacure.org
The Defuser comic from Dark Horse
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Outside In social service agency in Portland, Oregon
Outside In is a social service agency founded as a free clinic in 1968 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Major initial funding and support were provided by the First Unitarian Church of Portland and private donors. Medical and counseling services were provided at no cost. Services provided by the agency include a multidisciplinary medical clinic for uninsured and under-insured individuals, a transitional housing program for homeless youth workingtowards a career or education and independent living, and risk education such as peer outreach.
Rock musician Elliott Smith had planned to work with the organization but never got the opportunity before his death in 2003. As a result, his family has chosen that a portion of the proceeds from his posthumous compilation album New Moon (released on 8 May 2007) will be donated to Outside In.
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Emergency shelter
Homeless youth
Homelessness in the United States
Gus Van Sant
References
^ Elliott Smith Rarities Album Benefits Portland’s Outside In- local Cut
^ sweet adeline | the official elliott smith site – by fans
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Outside In (official website)
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Sevelamer (rINN) (pronounced /s??v?l?m?r, s??v?l?m??r/) is a phosphate binding drug used to prevent hyperphosphataemia in patients with chronic renal failure. When taken with meals, sevelamer binds to dietary phosphate and prevents its absorption. It is marketed by Genzyme under the trade names Renagel and Renvela (carbonate formulation).
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1Chemistry and pharmacology
2Clinical use
2.1Indications
2.2Contraindications
2.3Adverse effects
2.4Other effects
3External links
4References
Chemistry and pharmacology
Sevelamer is a copolymer of 2-(chloromethyl)oxirane (epichlorohydrin) and prop-2-en-1-amine. The marketed form sevelamer hydrochloride is a partial hydrochloride salt being present as approximately 40% amine hydrochloride and 60% sevelamer base. The amine groups of sevelamer become partially protonated in the intestine and interact with phosphorus molecules through ionic and hydrogen bonding.
Clinical use
Indications
Sevelamer is indicated for the management of hyperphosphataemia in adult patients with stage 4 and 5 chronic renal failure on hemodialysis.
Contraindications
Sevelamer therapy is contraindicated in hypophosphataemia or bowel obstruction.
Adverse effects
Common adverse drug reactions (ADRs) associated with the use of sevelamer include: hypotension, hypertension, nausea and vomiting, dyspepsia, diarrhea, flatulence, and/or constipation.
Other effects
Sevelamer can significantly reduce serum uric acid. This reduction has no known detrimental effect and several beneficial effects, including reducing hyperuricemia, uric acid nephrolithiasis, and gout.
External links
Sevelamer – medlineplus.org
Renagel – genzyme.com
Renvela – genzyme.com
References
^Garg JP, Chasan-Taber S, Blair A, et al. (January 2005). “Effects of sevelamer and calcium-based phosphate binders on uric acid concentrations in patients undergoing hemodialysis: a randomized clinical trial”. Arthritis and rheumatism52 (1): 290–5. doi:10.1002/art.20781. PMID 15641045.
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Drugs for treatment of hyperkalemia and hyperphosphatemia (V03AE)
Potassium binders
Polystyrene sulfonate
Phosphate binders
Sevelamer · Lanthanum carbonate
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Kalpakkam is a small town in Tamil Nadu, India, situated on the Coromandel Coast 80 kilometres south of Chennai. Kalpakkam is mostly famous for its nuclear plants and affiliated research installations. These include the Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS), one of India’s nuclear power plants, and IGCAR, the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, an affiliate of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE).This prestigious project is being engineered by Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Larsen and Toubro Limited,Tata Consulting Engineers among the others.
Due to increasing congestion in Kalpakkam arising from the need to accommodate more employees, a new township of Anupuram/Amaipakkam, situated at a distance of 8 km from Kalpakkam, was inaugurated in 1998.
The tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake generated widespread damage and resulted in a number of deaths (50) at Kalpakkam. There is a tsunami memorial built in the township in memory of those who lost their lives.
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1Facilities
2Nuclear facilities
3Recreation
4Nesco
5Bus routes
6Competitive Quiz Contests
7References
8External links
Facilities
Kalpakkam is a well built and planned township. The schools present in the township are Atomic Energy Central School (AECS 1 & 2), Kendriya Vidyalaya-1, Kendriya Vidyalaya-2 and Govt Hr. Secondary School. The township is split into two sides: Sadras and Pudupattinam side. Often there is a healthy rivalry in sports and in other activities between the two sides, especially since Kendriya Vidyalaya-1 is on the Pudupattinam side and Kendriya Vidyalaya-2 on the Sadras side. Both sides have identical facilities, but with Pudupattinam having more complete and bigger facilities, such as the hospital and the General Services Organization (GSO). The two sides are separated by a bridge over the canal (backwaters) which joins the sea close by.
Nuclear facilities
IGCAR, while being a multifaceted research installation, is famous for the fast breeder test reactor FBTR, India’s first breeder reactor. It has another reactor named KAMINI, which is the only reactor in the world to use uranium-233 type fuel, which is converted from thorium-232. Bharatiya Nabhikiya Vidyut Nigam Limited (BHAVINI) is a wholly owned Enterprise of the Government of India under the administrative control of the Department of atomic Energy (DAE). 500MWe Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) is the forerunner of the future fast breeder power reactors and is expected to provide energy security to the country. The PFBR is being built with the design and technology developed at the Indira Gandhi Center for atomic research (IGCAR), also located at Kalpakkam, and is expected to go on stream by 2010.
The Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS) is situated in Kalpakkam which has twin units of capacity 220 MWe each. The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Facilities) or in short BARC (F) is also situated in the kalpakkam campus. The Safety Research Institute (SRI) of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) is also located inside the IGCAR campus.
Kalpakkam was in the news and a cause of concern when it was initially reported that Madras Atomic Power Station has been damaged by the 2004 tsunami. However, it was successfully shut down without incident. Power production has since resumed at MAPS.
Recreation
Until a few years ago, the beach at Kalpakkam used to be lined with casuarina trees and only a few weeds. But in recent times, weed growth is starting to dominate, which the local population is fighting to keep in check. Though there have been a few accidents, locals often enjoy going to the beach and swimming in the relatively calm waters, which are free of sharks.
Kalpakkam is also very close to Mamallapuram – one of the famous tourist destinations near Chennai. It is a very relaxing spot with quiet beaches and a very serene atmosphere. The environment within the township has been well maintained for over 30 years. There are numerous trees and various parks within the township in which to relax. There are various avenues for recreation, including tennis courts, music, dance, swimming academies and various other sport activities. Students have participated in School Games Federation of India from the swimming coaching of these academies.
Nesco
Nesco stands for Nuclear employee sports and cultural organisation, previously it was known as KRC(Kalpakkam recreation centre).It is governed by employee council based on election system. Nesco has lot of stuffs for people to hang around, to watch movie screenings frequently and play games like basket ball, volley ball, ball badminton, Carom, Chess, TT, Ring Ball, Kabadi, football, Cricket etc.. Note you need to be member to avail these facilities.
Every Year between July end to august mid week, nesco conducts a event named Carnival. which is the get together for all the people in and around township.
Bus routes
The township is well connected by road and TNSTC operates buses from Chennai, Puduchery, Bangalore,Coimbatore,Trichy, Tirupathi, Vellore, Chittoor, Tindivanam and Kanchipuram. The East Coast Road connecting Chennai and Puduchery passes through Pudupattinam.
Route Number
Start
End
Via
108 Cut
Kalpakkam
Chengalpattu
Thirukazhukundram
108
Kalpakkam
Chennai
Chengalpattu, Tambaram
118
Kalpakkam
Chennai
Mahabalipuram, East Coast Road
119
Kalpakkam
Chennai
Mahabalipuram, Old Mahabalipuram Road
157 Cut
Kalpakkam
Kanchipuram
Chengalpattu
157
Kalpakkam
Vellore
Kanchipuram
164 C
Kalpakkam
Chittoor
Kanchipuram, Arakonam
188 (ECR)
Chennai
Puducherry
Mahabalipuram, Kalpakkam
188 C
Chennai
Cheyyur
Mahabalipuram, Kalpakkam
188 D
Chennai
Anaicut
Mahabalipuram, Kalpakkam
188 K
Chennai
Kadapakkam
Mahabalipuram, Kalpakkam
212 H
Kalpakkam
Tirupathi
Kanchipuram, Arakonam, Thiruthani
EXP
Kalpakkam
Trichy
Chengalpattu, Tindivanam, Villupuram
471 UD
Kalpakkam
Coimbatore
Chengalpattu, Tindivanam, Salem
834 UD / 444K EXP
Kalpakkam
Bangalore
Kanchipuram, Vellore, Krishnagiri, Hosur
Competitive Quiz Contests
Kalpakkam is renowned in India for a number of competitive school-level quiz contests such as the Brahm Prakash Memorial Materials Quiz.
References
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External links
http://www.kalpakkam.com/
http://www.igcar.gov.in
Will the Kalpakkam Nuclear Establishment & the Indian Atomic Energy Commission Learn its Lessons from the December 26 Tsunami? – An Indepth Critique
Kendriya Vidyalaya-1
Kendriya Vidyalaya-2
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Portrait of Earl Macartney by Lemuel Francis Abbott
Born
14 May 1737(1737-05-14)
Died
31 May 1806 (aged 69)
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, KB (14 May 1737 – 31 May 1806) was an Irish-born British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat. He is often remembered for his observation following Britain’s success in the Seven Years War and subsequent territorial expansion at the Treaty of Paris that Britain now controlled “a vast Empire, on which the sun never sets”.
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1Biography
1.1Governor of Madras
1.2Embassy to China
2Extracts from Journal of Embassy to China
3See also
4Notes
5References
Biography
George Macartney was an Irishman descended from an old Scottish family, the Macartneys of Auchinleck, who had settled in 1649 at Lissanoure, in Loughguile, Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland, where he was born. After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, in 1759, he became a student of the Temple, London. Through Stephen Fox, elder brother of Charles James Fox, he was taken up by Lord Holland.
Appointed envoy extraordinary to Russia in 1764, he succeeded in negotiating with Catherine II an alliance between England and that country. He was returned in 1768 to the Irish House of Commons as Member of Parliament for Armagh Borough, in order to discharge the duties of Chief Secretary for Ireland. On resigning this office he was knighted.
In 1775 he became governor of the British West Indies was created Baron Macartney in the Peerage of Ireland in 1776, and became governor of Madras (now known as Chennai) in 1780. He was elected to a seat in the British parliament (Bere Alston) from 1780 to 1781. He the Governor of Madras from 1781 to 1785 but declined the governor-generalship of India (then the British territories administered by the British East India Company) and returned to Great Britain in 1786.
Governor of Madras
During Macartney’s tenure as governor, renovation and strengthening of the walls of Fort St.George was commenced after the siege of Lally and completed in 1783. It was also during this time that most of the buildings and barracks in the western portion of the Fort were erected. The Palace Street, the Arsenal, the Hanover square and the Western Barracks were constructed during this time. The streets in the eastern side of the Fort were also altered.
It was also during this time that idea of a police force for Madras was thought of. Popham, the brainchild of the steer which would bear his name (Popham’s Broadway) submitted a plan for the establishment of a regular police force for Madras and for the building of direct and cross drains in every street. He also advocated measures for the naming and lighting of streets, for the regular registration of births and deaths and for the licensing of liquor, arrack and toddy shops. A Board of Police assisted by a Kotwal was subsequently formed. The Kotwal was to be the officer of the markets under the Superintendent of Police.
Embassy to China
Lord Marcartney saluting the Qianlong Emperor, 1793.
After being created Earl Macartney in the Irish peerage (1792), he was appointed the first envoy of Britain to China (his visit followed more than a hundred years the first visit to England by a Chinese man, Michael Shen Fu-Tsung in 1685). He led the Macartney Embassy to Beijing in 1793 with a large British delegation on board a 64-gun man-of-war, HMS Lion. The embassy was ultimately not successful. This was not due to Macartney’s refusal to kowtow in the presence of the Qianlong Emperor, as is commonly believed. It was also not a result of the Chinese reliance on tradition in dictating foreign policy but rather a result of competing world views which were uncomprehending and incompatible. After the conclusion of the embassy, Qianlong sent a letter to King George III, explaining in greater depth the reasons for his refusal to grant the requests of the embassy.
The Macartney Embassy is historically significant because it marked a missed opportunity by the Chinese to move toward some kind of accommodation with the West. This failure would continue to plague the Qing Dynasty as it encountered increasing foreign pressures and internal unrest during the 19th century.
The policies of the Thirteen Factories remained. The embassy returned to Britain in 1794 without obtaining any concession from China. However, the mission could be construed as a success because it brought back detailed observations. Sir George Staunton was charged with producing the official account of the expedition after their return. This multi-volume work was taken chiefly from the papers of Lord Maccauley and from the papers of Sir Erasmus Gower, who was Commander of the expedition. Sir Joseph Banks, the President of the Royal Society, was responsible for selecting and arranging engraving of the illustrations in this official record.
On his return from a confidential mission to Italy (1795) he was raised to the British peerage as Baron Macartney, and in the end of 1796 was appointed governor of the newly acquired territory of the Cape Colony, where he remained until ill health compelled him to resign in November 1798. He died at Chiswick, Middlesex, on May 31, 1806, the title becoming extinct, and his property, after the death of his widow (Lady Jane Stuart, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Bute; they were married in 1768), going to his niece, whose son took the name.
Extracts from Journal of Embassy to China
Lord Macartney
“
For it would now seem that the policy and vanity of the Court equally concurred in endeavouring to keep out of sight whatever can manifest our pre-eminence, which they undoubtedly feel, but have not yet learned to make the proper use of. It is, however, in vain to attempt arresting the progress of human knowledge.
I am, indeed, very much mistaken if all the authority and address of the Tartar Government will be able much longer to stifle the energies of their Chinese subjects. Scarcely a year now passes without an insurrection in some of their provinces. it is true they are soon suppressed, but their frequency is a strong symptom of the fever within. The paroxysm is repelled, but the disease is not cured.
”
“
The Empire of China is an old, crazy, first-rate Man of War, which a fortunate succession of and vigilant officers have contrived to keep afloat for these hundred and fifty years past, and to overawe their neighbours merely by her bulk and appearance. But whenever an insufficient man happens to have the command on deck, adieu to the discipline and safety of the ship. She may, perhaps, not sink outright; she may drift some time as a wreck, and will then be dashed to pieces on the shore; but she can never be rebuilt on the old bottom.
The breaking-up of the power of China (no very improbable event) would occasion a complete subversion of the commerce, not only of Asia, but a very sensible change in the other quarters of the world. The industry and the ingenuity of the Chinese would be checked and enfeebled, but they would not be annihilated. Her ports would no longer be barricaded; they would be attempted by all the adventures of all trading nations, who would search every channel, creek, and cranny of China for a market, and for some time be the cause of much rivalry and disorder. Nevertheless, as Great Britain, from the weight of her riches and the genius and spirits of her people, is become the first political, marine, and commercial Power on the globe, it is reasonable to think that she would prove the greatest gainer by such a revolution as I have alluded to, and rise superior over every competitor.
”
“
It should be never absent from our recollection that there are now two distinct nations in China–the Chinese and the Tartars–whose characters essentially differ, notwithstanding their external appearance be nearly the same. They are both subject to the most absolute authority that can be vested in a Prince(Qianlong), but with this distinction–that to the Chinese it is a foreign tyranny, to the Tartar a domestic despotism. The latter consider themselves as in some degree partakers of their Sovereign’s dominions over the former, and that imagination may, perhaps, somewhat console them under the pressure of his power upon themselves–like the house servants and house negroes belonging to a great landlord in Livonia or planter in Jamaica, who, though serfs themselves, look down upon the peasantry and field negroes as much their inferiors.
”
“
ON MARCO POLO
If opinions were solely to be formed of China and its inhabitants from the accounts of the first travellers and even of the later missionaries, they would often be inadequate or unjust. For those writers, although they probably did not mean to deal in fiction, yet, when they do tell the truth, they do not always tell the truth, which is a mode of narration that leads to error almost as much as falsehood itself. When Marco Polo, the Venetian, visited China in the thirteenth century, it was about the time of the conquest of China by the Mongol Tartars, with Kublai khan at their head. A little before that period the Chinese had reached their pitch of civilization; but not having improved, or having rather gone back, at least, for these hundred and fifty years past, whilst we have been rising in arts and sciences, they are actually becoming a semibarbarous people in comparison with the present nations of Europe.
”
“
The Government, as it stands, is properly the tyranny of a handful of Tatars over more than three hundred millions of Chinese.
”
“
yet it cannot be concealed that the nation in general is far from being contented. The frequent insurrections in the distant provinces are ambiguous oracles of the real sentiments of the people. The predominance of the Tartars and the Emperors’s partiality for them are the common subjects of conversation among the Chinese whenever they meet together in private. There are certain mysterious societies in every province, who, though narrowly watched by the Government, find means to elude its vigilance, and often hold secret assemblies, where they revive the memory of ancient independence, brood over recent injuries, and meditate revenge.
”
See also
William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst
Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest
Notes
^ Reforms of George MaCartney from ‘Corporation of Chennai’ website
^ Banks, Joseph. Papers of Sir Joseph Banks; Section 12: Lord Macartney’s embassy to China; Series 62: Papers concerning publication of the account of Lord Macartney’s Embassy to China, ca 1797.
^“George Mackarney memoir”. Hong Kong University. http://ebook.lib.hku.hk/CTWE/B36599578/. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
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Hoek van Holland Haven is a railway station in the town of Hoek van Holland in the Netherlands. The station serves the port, which connects the Netherlands with Great Britain; via this connection, Hoek van Holland Haven serves as the Dutch rail terminus of the Dutchflyer service (with Harwich International as the English terminus), connected by Stena Line ferries.
In earlier days, the station was an important station for international trains to Germany and further. Since airline tickets have become much cheaper, the ferry between Harwich and Hoek van Holland is much less popular and there hasn’t been an international train on the station in years.
Today, a commuter service to Rotterdam is operated every 30 minutes during the whole day. A half hourly service to Hoek van Holland Strand is operated during the summer season, during the winter season this service is reduced to one train per hour and only between 11 am and 4 pm.
The ‘Boat Train’ service between Amsterdam and Hoek van Holland ended in December 2006.
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