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134 KHz RFID Tag: The Hygienic Animal Tag
in The RFID Weblog, on May 7, 2009
...break of any kind of serious epidemic. These tags can be used for livestock tracking such as sheep, pigs and cattle. It can be easily implemented in case of large animals for fully automated animal ma...
FTOPS X Rolls In
in Internet Poker, on October 4, 2008
...tions surrounding the series click here
For the schedule click here
For directions on making pigs in a blanket click here
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Beyond Good and Evil gets a sequal!
in PCGamers Blog, on May 29, 2008
...s me very happy indeed. No, it's not because I have a thing for well rendered hi definition CGI pigs, but because this, and the trailer that accompanies it, tells us that a sequal to the underated...
Making Sense Of It All
in Do you like to cook?, on March 28, 2008
...e in.
No Added Hormones - cows are not injected with any hormones (using hormones on chickens and pigs is already against the law).
Natural - meat containing no artificial ingredient or added colo...
Uganda is Making Diabetes Drug
in Daily Diabetic, on March 17, 2008
...manufacture drugs locally?! When will that ever happen here in the Philippines?!! Hmmm...maybe when pigs fly! :(...
Tackling Groupthink: red flags and solutions
in Sox First, on March 11, 2008
...steps out of line. As I said in that blog entry, Groupthink resulted in disasters like the bay of pigs and the invasion of Iraq. But it also happens on company boards and when it does happen, ...
Wheels and Wacks
in WebKinzBlog, on March 8, 2008
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3pm - W Shop Coupon
6pm - Curio Shop Rare - Medieval Chest
All day Sunday - POTM Lil'Kinz Pigs get a Spin the Wheel of Wishes
9am Sunday - Wheel of Yum
10am Sunday - Wheel of the Month
W...
February Festival Fun
in Do you like to cook?, on February 20, 2008
...Concours Général Agricole.
Also on view will be 600 cows and bulls, 550 sheep, 70 goats and 60 pigs.
In Australia, the 16th Annual Melboure Food and Wine Festival , begins February 22 and runs thr...
First Cloned Pigs in Canada
in The Biotech Weblog, on December 21, 2007
...ll University's Department of Animal Science have successfully produced three litters of cloned pigs, Canada's first. These pigs are meant to contribute to biomedical research into human ailme...
Losing My Appetite for Food Regulation, Part 1
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on December 20, 2007
Due to the total lack of food manufacturer transparency, the only real way to track what goes into your mouth is by watching what the food regulation agencies are talking about. In my reading of the recent news from miscellaneous agencies around the world, I couldn't help this prevailing thou...
Rock Band Weekly: Fake Sabbath
in XboxSpace, on December 5, 2007
...
Content: "Sweet Leaf"*
Price: 160 Points
Availability: United States
Content: "War Pigs"*
Price: 160 Points
Availability: United States Yawwwwn. What's the hold-up on that pu...
Madness of groups
in Sox First, on December 3, 2007
...s showed that Groupthink had resulted in such US foreign policy fiascoes as Pearl Harbor and Bay of Pigs. Decades later, these intelligence failures can only be matched by the Bush administration'...
Best Source of Insulin-producing Islets for Diabetes Treatment: Living Donors
in Daily Diabetic, on November 27, 2007
...do not know already, islet cells - clusters of insulin-producing pancreatic cells - even from pigs, have been successfully improved the insulin levels of insulin-dependent diabetics (type 1 diab...
Rock Band's First Five Weeks of Downloads
in XboxSpace, on November 18, 2007
...s made famous by Black Sabbath *
"Sweet Leaf" as made famous by Black Sabbath *
"War Pigs" as made famous by Black Sabbath *
Week of December 11, 2007
Punk Pack:
"Rockaway Be...
Kid Rock Thinks He's Rocky
in The Celebrities Weblog, on October 31, 2007
...calm atmosphere of a, "Waffle House", but there are no reports of flying Eggs Benedict or Pigs in a Blanket.
Rock's most recent previous fight took place at the MTV Music Awards when he...
Diabecell Capsule: Update on the Pig Islet Cells against Diabetes Research
in Daily Diabetic, on October 23, 2007
...Diabetes Problem
Lab-grown Insulin-producing Cells: A Breakthrough in Diabetes Research
Could Pigs be the new soldiers in fighting diabetes?
Pig islet cell transplantation (the correct te...
Tips on Getting the Most Out of Home Based Business Conferences
in Home Based Business, on September 13, 2007
...ng a conference on genetics or display your scrapbook samples at a trade show focusing on raising pigs ? That would be a really long shot.
To hone in on the right target, do some research about...
Cardiac Muscles Derived from Embryonic Stem Cells May Treat Heart Attack Damages
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 26, 2007
... helped improve Cardiac muscle functions. Further similar experiments in larger animals like pigs and sheep are slated, and early human clinical trials are estimated to begin in two years.
Sou...
Alba Quercus Reserve - der teuerste Schinken der Welt
in Worldwide Luxus, on August 24, 2007
...t:
For its 2006 Alba quercus series, Maldonado worked separately with two groups of 40-50 pigs in each one. Their characteristics were the same as the 2004 series: purebred Iberian pigs of the lamp...
Playing the angel
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on August 16, 2007
... Remember when Michael Jordan started playing baseball? How about the day pigs started flying?
I ran across something very similar. Apparently Tyco has joined the Ethisphere Council in teachi...
Rookie Mistake: Missing the Ex-Dividend Date
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on July 12, 2007
...buy the stock to get the dividend and leave it that? Why confuse us?
Because they're greedy pigs , that's why. Which is not very Zen of me at all.
[NOTE: I have modified this post bas...
Watch Out for Flying Pigs: iPod Copying Zune
in The Wireless Weblog, on July 12, 2007
Talk about a reversal: Wired Blogs' Eliot Van Buskirk reports today that the iPod and/or iPhone may soon be mimicking the microsoft zune .
"Zune-style wireless music sharing could be coming soon to an iPod and/or iPhone near you," Van Burskirk writes. "One way it wo...
Transgenic Pigs Pave Way to Alzheimer's Disease Breakthrough
in The Biotech Weblog, on July 3, 2007
... Århus , Denmark in their effort towards finding a cure for Alzheimer's disease.
The said pigs have been genetically modified to function as animal models for Alzheimer's disease - a...
Using Gene Therapy to Restore Hearing
in The Biotech Weblog, on June 18, 2007
...at similar gene therapy compounds can produce new hair cells and restore hearing function in guinea pigs suggest that the future of gene therapy in the human inner ear is sound," Holt said.
The ...
Politician Says: No More Taxes Already!
in Small Business Unplugged, on May 26, 2007
...hing I thought I would never see a politician state publicly, one of those things like "When pigs fly!" and "Hell freezes over." Well apparently, pigs fly and hell has froze...
Technology Taming Prison Riots
in Philoneist, on May 2, 2007
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Prison guards in West Virginia are the test guinea pigs for new equipment that is going to change the face of prison life!
Guards are testing out advanced products that are designed to ...
Cholesterol-Flushing 'Smart Fibre' Lowers Risk of Heart Disease
in Straightfromthedoc, on April 20, 2007
...
Such were the findings of a research team from University of Guelph which conducted the study on pigs and theorizes that the results would most likely be the same on humans.
They found that pigs ...
Dental Enamels, Re-grown from Culture Cells
in The Biotech Weblog, on March 27, 2007
...has recently shown that epithelial cells extracted from the developing teeth of 6- month-old pigs continue to proliferate when they are cultured on top of a special feeder layer of cells (the f...
Flying Cars In Two Years?
in carzz.org, on March 27, 2007
...Dutch builder reckons it should be on sale within the next two years. At which point, presumably, pigs will fly. With an accompanying farmer, of course."
I, for one, hope PAL-V does fly....
Davidson College Says "If You Can Get In, We'll Get You Out Debt-Free"
in The Personal Finance Weblog, on March 19, 2007
...ans trailing them for 10 years.
To fix the education funding dilemma, though, we need some guinea pigs, and it's good to see another school experimenting with a fomula that give graduates a bett...
Lip-Synching 3G Handset
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on March 5, 2007
... female one, or one of a number of pre-made, 'fun' avatars such as gorilla 's and pigs.
I've never been a fan of video calling simply because the other person can see me. This c...
Diabetes Cure is One-step Away as 'Medical-Grade' Pigs Populate DRWF Islet Resource Facility
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 28, 2007
...secure animal facility in Western Wisconsin that will breed and maintain high-health, pathogen-free pigs that will become source of insulin-producing islet cells for human transplantation.
Since th...
Stillbirths from CMV Infection, Reduced by Experimental Vaccine Given During Pregnancy
in Straightfromthedoc, on February 23, 2007
...nimal's cells. The cells then begin manufacturing the viral protein. Cells of the Guinea pigs' immune system detect the viral protein and launch an attack against it. In so doing, they ...
Preliminary Trials s on PCV2 Swine Vaccine
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 17, 2007
... States.
The trial results showed that in the finisher phase, the mortality rate for vaccinated pigs was 50 percent less than for unvaccinated pigs and that the growth rate for vaccinated p...
First Uterus Transplant in the US Planned
in The Biotech Weblog, on January 24, 2007
...aid Mats Braennstroem of Goeteborg University in Sweden, who has been trying the procedure on mice, pigs and sheep. "We have to be sure it's a safe procedure and that we know exactly how we w...
Probiotics Boost Immune System and Nutrient Absorption, Animal Studies Say
in Straightfromthedoc, on January 5, 2007
...ry results show better response to the infection--and improved nutrient absorption--in the group of pigs that were supplemented with the probiotic treatment prior to the infection."
Find more d...
The Pizza Delivery Drivers Union
in Businesspundit, on October 2, 2006
...food - it's amazingly cheap. My third thought was that these Domino's owners are capitalist pigs for not paying their drivers 50K a year plus health insurance (just kidding). It's time to ...
Transplant Cured Type 2 Diabetes in Rats, Not Needing Immune Suppression Drugs
in Straightfromthedoc, on September 19, 2006
...reasing."
The treatment approach is transplanting precursors of the pancreas from embryonic pigs which in a previous study, Hammerman and co-developer Sharon A. Rogers showed that cells can b...
Scientists Increasingly Hopeful Of Diabetes Cure
in Daily Diabetic, on August 30, 2006
...dwide with Type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease.
The researchers took tissues from pigs - tissues that would have become pancreases - and implanted them into rats. The tissues helped ...
Transplant Cures Type 1 And Type 2 Diabetes In Rats
in Daily Diabetic, on August 30, 2006
...9;t the only animals helping out: the transplanted cells that grow into insulin receptors come from pigs.
Finding that we can cure type 2 diabetes in the same way is very significant because in huma...
Biological Pacemakers Using Gene Therapy
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 28, 2006
...ccessfully delivering a gene encoding a bioengineered cell-surface protein to heart muscle cells of pigs. The protein, which mimics the combined action of ion channel proteins crucial to maintaining t...
Lysozyme- Rich Milk From Transgenic Goats
in The Biotech Weblog, on August 4, 2006
..., and now, in transgenic goats . Feeding trials using lysozyme-containing goat's milk to young pigs showed that the young pigs has lower levels of coliform bacteria in the small intestines.
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'Curing' Diabetes With Xenotransplantation
in Daily Diabetic, on July 30, 2006
...ion (basically, transferring animal cells into humans.)
The doctors' animal of choice? Pigs.
Through the use of animal-to-human transplants, Dr. White believes that there could be a via...
Latest Diabetes Warrior: The Mighty Dog
in Daily Diabetic, on June 30, 2006
...at the animals who have made significant contributions to diabetes research in the last year: dogs, pigs, monkeys, and Gila monsters. We certainly owe a lot to the animal kingdom .
(Photo Sourc...
Warning Book against RFID Released In Latin America
in The RFID Weblog, on June 8, 2006
...untries.
Lis McIntyre pointed out to the fact that Latin Americans were being used as human guinea pigs by U.S. companies for testing RFID. One of the examples which were quoted was the tagging condu...
Environmental groups ask FDA to recall sunscreens containing nanoparticles
in Nanotechbuzz, on May 18, 2006
... by the Associated Press.
"These companies are literally treating their customers like guinea pigs," said Lisa Archer, a senior campaigner for Friends of the Earth. Archer invoked asbesto...
A CEO Apologizes
in The Social Networking Weblog, on April 19, 2006
... a sight you see every day on the web. A CEO apologizes to the websphere (take a look at the flying pigs!)here: http://blog.plaxo.com/archives/2006/03/an_apology.html . The thought is appreciated, esp...
Pork and Omega-3
in Do you like to cook?, on April 8, 2006
...ower incidence of heart disease and found in abundance in oily fish such as tuna, now apparently in pigs. For a while I got disoriented especially after reading that this has nothing to do with the ...
Diabetes Warrior: The Mighty Pig
in Daily Diabetic, on April 3, 2006
... It seems like pigs are always helping to further research in diabetes.
They're back with another contribution. The Ossabaw pig, known for its funny looks and long, coarse hair, is born with ...
Could Pigs Be The New Soldiers In Fighting Diabetes?
in Daily Diabetic, on February 21, 2006
..., when injected into monkeys, have been successful in reversing diabetes.
Of course, we aren't pigs or monkeys, but scientists are hopeful that the experiment will be successful in people, too.
...
Diabetes Therapy Through Islet Cells Xenotransplantation
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 20, 2006
...f Minnesota's Diabetes Institute for Immunology and Transplantation found that islet cells from pigs are the solution to the supply shortage.
"These results suggest it is feasible to use pi...
HOOF-Prints To Track Brucellosis Outbreaks
in The Biotech Weblog, on February 9, 2006
...tious disease caused by Brucella bacteria that affect many animals, including sheep, goats, cattle, pigs, elk and bison . In humans, brucellosis can also manifest symptoms similar to flu, with s...
new cochlear implant for improved hearing
in Straightfromthedoc, on February 9, 2006
...hat directly stimulate the auditory nerve.
The implant is currently being tested in Guinea pigs and cats which may be available in four to five years for use in humans.
Photo Source: Univer...
Suspended Animation Technique Successful
in Philoneist, on January 20, 2006
... Doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have tested a technique in which pigs are brought to a suspended animation state and were successfully revived them 90% of the time. Now, the...
Production of Plague Vaccine From Tobacco Plants
in The Biotech Weblog, on January 16, 2006
...s F1, V and a combination of the two, a so-called F1-V fusion antigen . When tested on guinea pigs, more than 50% of the vaccinated animals survived the challenge with all forms of the antigen, ...
KING KONG AND ANIMAL ACTORS
in The Celebrities Weblog, on December 9, 2005
...eaters on them. So I ask: Is this inappropriate and abusive to dogs? You decide.
What about Guinea pigs or gerbils or other rat like creatures that are kept caged and running perpetually inside a pla...
How To Build Reading Comprehension in Children
in The Parenting Weblog, on December 5, 2005
...is is where we are now and where we got stuck). We started to read story books such as Three Little Pigs, Snow White, Rapunzel, etc.... I began asking why and how questions to check for comprehension ...
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Turkeys
in Do you like to cook?, on November 13, 2005
Normal Rockwell featured a roast turkey as a symbol of prosperity in his painting "Freedom from Want" - one of his four Freedom Series paintings. There can be little argument that the Turkey is an important United States symbol. Ben Franklin was in favor of the Turkey for the nationa...
Japenese encephalitis
in Straightfromthedoc, on September 23, 2005
...water, providing the perfect breeding grounds for mosquitoes that spread the incurable disease from pigs to humans. This year has been exceptionally rainy, leaving pools of water everywhere.
The stat...
Stem cells and heart attacks
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 26, 2005
...e for heart attacks using stem cells, it has emerged.
The move follows the successful treatment of pigs with adult stem cells transplanted from bone marrow. In just two months, stem cells injected in...
RFID Cards Lead Market
in The RFID Weblog, on May 23, 2005
...5 by value will probably animal tagging, notably of livestock such as sheep, cows , goats and pigs. Part of the reason is that such tags may average $2 each but new laws triggered by food scares...
The Gates Foundation
in Businesspundit, on July 13, 2003
...See now, CEOs aren't just greedy pigs . They actually do some good in the world. Actually, Gates is just what the philanthropy world needs. He is smart and results driven. He won't was...