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originally posted by: Thoughtful1
Biden signed an EO on Monday September 12th and the Wall Street Journal is now reporting this on September 17th.
Biden's EO plan
Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story.
Splashy headlines have long overshadowed inconvenient truths about biology and economics. Now, extensive new research suggests the industry may be on a billion-dollar crash course with reality.
Paul Wood didn’t buy it.
For four years, Wood, who has a PhD in immunology, served as the executive director of global discovery for Pfizer Animal Health. (His division was later spun off into Zoetis, today the largest animal health company in the world.) One of his responsibilities was to oversee production of vaccines, which can involve infecting living cells with weakened virus strains and inducing those cells to multiply inside large bioreactors.
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The analysis that GFI commissioned laid out a vision of this future, predicting the emergence of a new kind of mega-facility with the power to transform our eating habits forever. The idea was to project what cultivated meat production will need to look like in the year 2030—in terms of scale and cost—if it is going to make meaningful progress toward displacing animal agriculture. In other words, if meat without slaughter is ever going to move out of the realm of exclusive press tastings and onto supermarket shelves, it will need to happen through facilities like the one the report described.
[Article highlights 8 categories of concern]
1. The biggest small factories in the world
It’s the beginning of a shift in human thinking, enabled by biotechnology:
2. A buried report?
In 2015, Open Philanthropy publicly acknowledged being vexed by the problem of cultured meat.
3. So big and so clean
4. The price of (synthetic) blood
5. “What do you know that we don’t know?”
On June 29, when GFI held an invite-only video call on the future of cultivated meat, it was supposed to be the standard fare: a friendly informational session for industry insiders excited by the technology’s potential. Things did not go as planned.
6. The terror of trial and error
7. Moving the goalposts
8. The price of failure
On September 14, President Joe Biden visited NREL, the federally funded renewable energy lab that contracts Humbird for due diligence analysis. With a row of solar panels, a windmill, and a view of the Rocky Mountains behind him, Biden argued that the next 10 years will be “a decisive decade,” underscoring the need for new infrastructure in a live-streamed address.
“We don’t have a lot of time. We don’t have much more than 10 years,” he said.
The Counter
For biotechnology and biomanufacturing to help us achieve our societal goals, the United States needs to invest in foundational scientific capabilities. We need to develop genetic engineering technologies and techniques to be able to write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers; unlock the power of biological data, including through computing tools and artificial intelligence; and advance the science of scale‑up production while reducing the obstacles for commercialization so that innovative technologies and products can reach markets faster.
Food Chain Reaction: A Global Food Security Game (Jahn Research Group, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Food Chain Reaction: A Global Food Security Game is an international simulation based in the near future during a global food crisis. In November 2015, 65 thought leaders and policy makers from several countries came together in Washington, D.C. to participate in the exercise. Teams of participants represented governments, institutions, and businesses and responded to a global food crisis caused by population growth, rapid urbanization, extreme weather, and political crises. Professor Molly Jahn was selected as the head of the adjudication panel for the game.
On November 9, players walked out of 2015 and into the year 2020. As a global food crisis was unfolding before their very eyes, did they succeed in finding a path to a food-secure future?
originally posted by: Guyfriday
SIDE NOTE:
Anyone know if the resort at Wonderland Ca is still functioning as a resort? The last thing I was able to dig on it was that Hoover had guys staking it out back in the 40s due to its connections with the NAZI Party that started in the LA area. It died out as a resort during the war and that was the last I have on it.
Project “Horned Owl” was developed during Operation Enduring Freedom to counter a growing threat - the Improvised Explosive Devices which accounted for nearly half of American casualties. In a matter of months a multi-disciplinary team tackled the challenge - to discriminate the most innocent objects from lethal IEDs. Modifications of an RC-12D by Dynamic Aviation included an SRI ground penetrating radar. “Horned Owl” deployed in June 2004 to complete unprecedented flight testing - in combat! Serving less than a year, well beyond its 60–day test mission, over 600 missions netted tons of weapons, saving the lives of countless soldiers.
US Air Force Art Collection
In the early Twentieth Century the Odd fellows had no fewer than five Shriner-like side orders, one of which was Oriental Order of Humility and Perfection. The Supreme Grand Lodge of the Odd Fellows didn’t have good control of any of these groups. By the early 20th Century they decided that they needed to intervene. The groups were then collapsed into Ancient Mystic Order of Samaritans. The OOH&P based its ritual on the legend of Xerxes I, son of Darius I who assumed the Persian throne in 485 BC. The group met in “Sanctorums” before their demise.
Museum of Fezology
originally posted by: ELECTEDOFFICIAL
files.abovetopsecret.com...
originally posted by: IAMTAT
a reply to: MountainLaurel
What happened to Cranky?
The FBI also misled DOJ leadership about Danchenko.
The bureau put together “Talking Points re Crossfire Hurricane Cases” dated March 8, 2017, with the FBI misdirecting about Steele and Danchenko. At the meeting for DOJ and FBI leaders on March 6, 2017, then-FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe appeared to have led much of the presentation.
The FBI talking points referred to Steele as “CROWN” and repeated allegations in the dossier.
“CROWN’s reporting in this matter is derived primarily from a Russian-based source," the FBI incorrectly said. The bureau had already interviewed Danchenko multiple times and knew he was based near Washington, D.C., not Russia. The talking points also claimed that “the FBI has no control over the Russian-based sub-source.” The FBI made him an informant that month.
Durham wants to call Bernd Kuhlen, the German-born then-general manager of the Ritz-Carlton, Moscow, who would undermine the unfounded and infamous “pee tape” allegations.
The special counsel wrote: “It also is of no help to the defendant that — as will become clear through Dolan’s testimony at trial — Dolan fabricated the genesis of this information.”
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded that Danchenko undermined Steele’s unfounded claims of a “well-developed conspiracy” between Trump and Russia.
Durham quoted the Supreme Court to argue that a lie is material if it has “a natural tendency to influence, or [be] capable of influencing” an agency function or decision. Durham added that “materiality is not dependent upon whether a particular government agency was actually influenced by a defendant’s false statements.”
Vaccine formulation
Authorization is being requested for a modified formulation of the Pfizer‑BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine. To provide an improved stability profile to the vaccine, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for use in children 5-11 years of age uses tromethamine (Tris) buffer instead of the phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) as used in the previous formulation. The packaged vials for the new formulation are also stored frozen at -90°C to -60°C; however, the frozen vials may be thawed and stored at refrigerator at 2°C to 8°C for up to 10 weeks. For the 10-μg mRNA dose, each 1.3-mL filled vial must be diluted with 1.3 mL 0.9% sodium chloride for injection to provide 10 doses at 10 μg RNA / 0.2 mL Injection volume. After dilution, the vials should be stored at 2°C to 25°C and should be used within 12 hours.
FDA EUA for an Unapproved Product Review Memorandum [PDF]
originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow
Literally put a heart attack drug in the pediatric dose.
originally posted by: daskakik
originally posted by: XtheMadnessNow
Literally put a heart attack drug in the pediatric dose.
You are being disingenuous.
Just because something is used during a cardiac arrest event doesn't make it a heart attack drug.
The tham solution also contains water but it doesn't mean water is a heart attack drug.