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By David Swansondavidswanson.orgPeople stanley italia have begun signing this petition to The City Council of Charlottesville, Virginia:聽Divest all public money from weapons companies, major war profiteers, and fossil fuel companies.Sign Here.The City of Charlottesville has approximately $3 million invested in f stanley becher ossil fuel companies $1.4 m in energy company bonds, plus approximately $1.6 m through funds invested in by Charlottesvilles retirement fund . It may have about the same in weapons companies, as it has $1.1 m directly invested in four aerospace and defense companies: Boeing, Heico, Honeywell, and Moog. Boeing and Honeywell are two of the biggest war profiteers including through the wars of Saudi Arabia that even the U.S. Congress is now turning against.Yes, is the unfortunate answer to the obvious question: The whole time that Charlottesville has discussed possibly considering finding the nerve to take down a couple of its many offensive statues, has it been investing public dollars in the mass killing of dark-skinned people and the general destruction of a habitable planet See Oily Question: Should Charlottesville Dump Its Fossil-Fuel Holdings by Carol Diggs, CVille Weekly, December 12-18, 2018, page 15, re proposal from Michael Payne.These are the two documents the City Treasurer provides the public on investments:http://davidswanson.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/P stanley thermobecher ositionsReport_11142018.xlsxhttp://davidswanson.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/OperatingFundStatement.pdfSIGN TH Quaf John Rudolph: Peanut s Case
A proteins misstep in the complicated dance of cellular replication can lead to the uncontrollable chaos of cancer. Deborah Kelly, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, was recently awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, a branch of the National Institutes of Health, to develop an innovative technique to investigate what causes proteins to err. The first step in understanding how the mutated protein misbehaves is to see the protein in detail, said Kelly, who is also an assistant professor of biological sciences at Virginia Techs College of Science. The w stanley usa ork has led Kelly to initiate a new research path within the field of structural oncology 鈥?the architectur stanley deutschland al aspects of the molecular mechanisms that can cause cancer.To start, a research team led by Kelly is specifically looking at the altered BRCA1 protein, an inherited mutation that can give rise to breast and ovarian cancer.Normally, the protein corrects miscoded patterns in a persons genetic material as cells replicate to ensure healthy proliferation. The protein actually suppresses tumor formation.A mutated BRCA1 protein, however, disrupts normal cellular activities. It can cause cancer instead of preventing it. The mutation can push the unchecked cells to develop into triple negative breast cancer, and Kelly wants to know how this process unfolds. Triple negative breast cancer is a particularly hard-to-treat subset of breast ca stanley cup ncer, as it lacks the tradition |
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