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edify ED-uh-fy (transitive verb) – To instruct and improve, especially in moral and religious knowledge; to teach. –edifying, adjective

“He attended like holiness itself; He attended to edify the people with His example, to teach them His doctrine, and to favor men with His grace.” — José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, ‘The Mangy Parrot: The Life and Times of Periquillo Sarniento’

Edify is from Old French edifier, from Latin aedifico, aedificare, to build.

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. (UPI) — U.S. scientists say they have clarified a complex series of biochemical steps involved in abnormal cell proliferation that can lead to cancer.

The Cold Spring Harbor (N.Y.) Laboratory researchers said they used the adenovirus — a DNA tumor virus that causes the common cold, but whose genome contains known oncogenes, said William Tansey, who led the study with Professors Scott Lowe and Gregory Hannon.

The team focused on an adenoviral oncogene called E1A, and a protein that it codes for with the same name. Since a DNA virus is little more than a tiny segment of DNA enclosed within a protein shell, the researchers said it must find a way to enter the nucleus of a living cell and hijack the cell’s reproductive machinery in order to reproduce.

“It’s not adenovirus itself, but the things it does when it enters a cell, that really interest us, Tansey said.

Understanding how a tumor virus like adenovirus promotes cancer can reveal “the most vulnerable pathways and nodes that are linked to tumorigenesis,” Hannon added.

The research appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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How’s everyone doing today!! Hope you got a great Sunday like what we had today!! We passed by at different places again as we visited my sister in law in the hospital in Neumarkt. After our visit there, we passed by at Parsberg around 5pm to see the Verkauf Offnen Sonntag or Sunday Open Sales in English.

Since almost all shops were already closing, we decided to go walking to Burg (castle) Parsberg. I always go to this town once or thrice a week to go shopping especially for groceries. This is the first time I had been to the castle… here are some photos for some evidence..hehehe!!

at the castle compound!! This castle is now a museum for old/antique things..

that building on the top is the Burg Parsberg..this is the view if you stay downtown!!

view of the castle at the back near the woods

the two towers of the castle in Parsberg..I didn’t expect that these towers still exist in this castle as you can’t see these if you stay downtown..this castle was also renovated..

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He was rushed to the nearby hospital, but was pronounced dead on arrival.
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galvanic gal-VAN-ik (adjective) – 1 : Of, pertaining to, or producing a direct current of electricity, especially when produced chemically. 2 : Affecting or affected as if by an electric shock; startling; shocking. 3 : Stimulating; energizing.

“I can feel in my face that I have turned either bright red or ghost white, with the same galvanic tingle that would send a polygraph machine off the edge of the paper.” — Edward Allen, ‘Mustang Sally’

Galvanic is derived from the name of Luigi Galvani, a professor of physiology at Bologna, whose experiments established the presence of bioelectric forces in animal tissue.

Firing Squad

Jerry, Perry, and Cletus get captured and are placed before a firing squad. They are about to be executed when Jerry exclaims, “Look…Hurricane” and points to his left while he gets away.

Perry follows up with, “Look…Tornado,” points and gets away.

Finally Cletus tries to do the same thing and says “Fire!”

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first prodrug designed for once-daily treatment of adults with ADHD.

Although ADHD — attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder — is often thought of as a childhood malady, it’s estimated 4.4 percent of U.S. adults ages 18-to-44 suffer from it. The new drug, Vyvanse, has been marketed in the United States since July 2007 for the treatment of ADHD in children 6-12 years of age.

The manufacturer, Shire PLC, a British-headquartered specialty biopharmaceutical company, said Vyvanse is the only once-daily prodrug stimulant approved to treat adults with ADHD. A prodrug is a medication designed to be inactive until it interacts with enzymes in the stomach, thereby making it difficult to be abused, a Shire spokesman said.

In a clinical study with adults, Vyvanse was shown to significantly improve ADHD symptoms, such as an inability to focus attention, hyperactivity and impulsivity, within the first week of use, Shire officials said.

The company said Vyvanse is now available in dosage strengths of 30 mg, 50 mg and 70 mg. Additional dosage strengths of 20 mg, 40 mg and 60 mg are expected to become available later this year.

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HOUSTON (UPI) — A U.S. optometrist says he has developed a series of tests designed to replace the standard eye chart to gauge athletes’ special visual abilities.

University of Houston Assistant Professor Kevin Gee said athletes need above average vision to engage their special skills. To that end, Gee founded the Sports Vision Performance Center, a facility where athletes work to improve their visual abilities.

“The visual system is more than just ‘what’s the smallest line on the chart you can see,'” Gee said. “The visual system consists of many things, but specifically for sports, depth perception, color, speed and accuracy of movements and contrast sensitivity — or the ability to detect an object off a background.”

To assess those skills, Gee and his staff use instruments such as a 3-D movie that measures depth perception, a lighted batting test to gauge timing and accuracy, and a DynavisionT board — a vertical lighted peg board — that determines reaction time, peripheral awareness and accuracy of movement.

The new center is located on the University of Houston campus.

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NORWICH, England (UPI) — A British scientist says he’s developed a mathematical model that suggests the odds of finding life on another Earth-like planet are very low.

University of East Anglia Professor Andrew Watson said an evolutionary limit is the habitability of Earth-like planets that will end as their star brightens.

Scientists say the future life span of Earth will be about another 1 billion years — a short time compared with the 4 billion years since life first appeared on the planet, he said.

“At present, Earth is the only example we have of a planet with life,” said Watson. “If we learned the planet would be habitable for a set period and that we had evolved early in this period, then even with a sample of one, we’d suspect evolution from simple to complex intelligent life was quite likely to occur

“By contrast, we now believe we evolved late in the habitable period and this suggests our evolution is rather unlikely,” he added. “In fact, the timing of events is consistent with it being very rare indeed.”

The finding, reported in the journal Astrobiology, suggests the chance of intelligent life emerging is less than 0.01 percent over 4 billion years.

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stoic STOH-ik (noun) – 1 : (Capitalized). A member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno holding that one should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity. 2 : Hence, one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain, joy or grief.

(adjective) – 1 : Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines. 2 : Not affected by passion; being or appearing indifferent to pleasure or pain, joy or grief.

“A Stoic never evaded life: he faced it. A Stoic never avoided responsibility: he accepted it. A Stoic not only believed in liberty: he practised it.” — H. J. Duteil, ‘The Great American Parade’

Stoic comes from Greek stoikos, literally “of or pertaining to a colonnade or porch,” from stoa, “a roofed colonnade, a porch, especially, a porch in Athens where Zeno and his successors taught.”