“ I ' ve never met a human worth cloning, ” says cloning expert Mark Westhusin from the cramped confines of his lab at Texas A&M University. “ It ' s a stupid endeavor. ” That ' s an interesting choice of adjective, coming from a man who has spent millions of dollars trying to clone a 13 - year - old dog named Missy. So far, he and his team have not succeeded, though they have cloned two calves and expect to clone a cat soon. They just might succeed in cloning Missy later this year — or perhaps not for another five years. It seems the reproductive system of man ' s best friend is one of the mysteries of modern science.
Westhusin ' s experience with cloning animals leaves him vexed by all this talk of human cloning. In three years of work on the Missyplicity project, using hundreds upon hundreds of canine eggs, the A&M team has produced only a dozen or so embryos carrying Missy ' s DNA. None have survived the transfer to a surrogate mother. The wastage of eggs and the many spontaneously aborted fetuses may be acceptable when you ' re dealing with cats or bulls, he argues, but not with humans. “ Cloning is incredibly inefficient, and also dangerous,” he says.
Even so, dog cloning is a commercial opportunity, with a nice research payoff. Ever since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1997, Westhusin ' s phone at A&M College of Veterinary Medicine has been ringing busily. Cost is no obstacle for customers like Missy ' s mysterious owner, who wishes to remain unknown to protect his privacy. He ' s plopped down $3.7 million so far to fund the research because he wants a twin to carry on Missy s fine qualities after she dies. But he knows her clone may not have her temperament. In a statement of purpose, Missy ' s owner and the A&M team say they are “ both looking forward to studying the ways that her clone differs from Missy. ”
The fate of the dog samples will depend on Westhusin ' s work. He knows that even if he gets a dog viably pregnant, the offspring, should they survive, will face the problems shown at birth by other cloned animals: abnormalities like immature lungs and heart and weight problems. “ Why would you ever want to clone humans, ” Westhusin asks, “ when we re not even close to getting it worked out in animals yet? ”
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Responsibilities and Achievements:
-Cover the lead-free process of each BU in Quanta. Arrange lead-free experiments for each BU.
-Train the new members of SMT materials lab about lead-free process.(RoHS&WEEE)
-Make SOP and instruction documents for SMT production line.
-Provides effective analysis for defects to find out the root cause and make reports.
-Cope with complaint from customer, co-ordinate to take correct action and feedback preventative actions to customer
-Process control and product yield improvement, also in charge of customer surveys and audits
-Lead and drive manufacturing department for continuous quality improvement processes ensuring quality goals and expectations from customer are met
-Responsible for supplier quality control, supplier communication, supplier process audit and evaluation, supplier continuous quality improvement
-Train the new members of SMT materials lab about lead-free process.(RoHS&WEEE)
-Make SOP and instruction documents for SMT production line.
-Provides effective analysis for defects to find out the root cause and make reports.
-Cope with complaint from customer, co-ordinate to take correct action and feedback preventative actions to customer
-Process control and product yield improvement, also in charge of customer surveys and audits
-Lead and drive manufacturing department for continuous quality improvement processes ensuring quality goals and expectations from customer are met
-Responsible for supplier quality control, supplier communication, supplier process audit and evaluation, supplier continuous quality improvement
My mother taught me
My mother taught me to appreciate a job well done:
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning!"
My mother taught me religion:
"You'd better pray that will come out of the carpet."
My mother taught me about time travel:
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"
My mother taught me logic:
"Because I said so, that's why!"
My mother taught me foresight:
"Be sure you wear clean underwear in case you're in an accident."
My mother taught me about contortion:
"Will you look at the dirt on the back of your neck!"
My mother taught me about stamina:
"You'll sit there'til all that spinach is finished."
My mother taught me about weather:
"It looks as if a tornado swept through your room."
My mother taught me how to solve physics problems:
"If I yelled because I saw a meteor coming toward you, would you listen then?"
My mother taught me about hypocrisy:
"If I've told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"
My mother taught me about envy:
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do!"
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning!"
My mother taught me religion:
"You'd better pray that will come out of the carpet."
My mother taught me about time travel:
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"
My mother taught me logic:
"Because I said so, that's why!"
My mother taught me foresight:
"Be sure you wear clean underwear in case you're in an accident."
My mother taught me about contortion:
"Will you look at the dirt on the back of your neck!"
My mother taught me about stamina:
"You'll sit there'til all that spinach is finished."
My mother taught me about weather:
"It looks as if a tornado swept through your room."
My mother taught me how to solve physics problems:
"If I yelled because I saw a meteor coming toward you, would you listen then?"
My mother taught me about hypocrisy:
"If I've told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"
My mother taught me about envy:
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do!"
On October
On October 12, 1989, some Chinese scientists were working at the computers to look for information they needed. Suddenly they saw a lot of very bright spots crossing the computers’s screens. At the same time the computers were working much slower. To find out what was happening they stopped their work to check some parts of the computers. To their horror, they found out that most of their stored information was got rid of by computer viruses! Obviously all these computers had been infected by computer viruses.
It is said that the computer viruses were made by a group of young men fond of playing tricks. They all had excellent education. They created the viruses just to show their intelligence. These kinds of computer viruses are named JerusalemViruses. These viruses can stay in computers for a long time. When the time comes they will attack the computers by lowering the functions damaging their normal programs or even getting rid of all the information.
We now come to know that Jerusalem Viruses often attack computers on Fridays and that they are spreading to a lot of computers. Among the countries that suffered computer viruses last year are Britain, Australia, Switzerland and the U.S. But fill now , how to get rid of the terrible viruses remains a problem.
It is said that the computer viruses were made by a group of young men fond of playing tricks. They all had excellent education. They created the viruses just to show their intelligence. These kinds of computer viruses are named JerusalemViruses. These viruses can stay in computers for a long time. When the time comes they will attack the computers by lowering the functions damaging their normal programs or even getting rid of all the information.
We now come to know that Jerusalem Viruses often attack computers on Fridays and that they are spreading to a lot of computers. Among the countries that suffered computer viruses last year are Britain, Australia, Switzerland and the U.S. But fill now , how to get rid of the terrible viruses remains a problem.
Companionship of Books
Companionship of Books (Samuel Smiles-- The political reformer and moralist was born)
A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company(playmates) he keeps;（Birds of a feather flock together）for there is a companionship (friendship) of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men. --- the author has contrast of books and friends.
A good book may be among the best of friends.(a good book is like our best friend) It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us (abandon) in times of adversity or distress.(in times of misfortunes or poverty) It always receives us with the same kindness，amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.(in old age)
Men often discover their affinity (close relationship) to each other by the love they have each for a book --- just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both have for a third. There is an old proverb, “Love me, and love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. (uniting force) Men can think, feel, and sympathize (share the feelings or ideas of another) with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he (lives) in them. ---they can find their opinions from books, in reverse, the ideas of the author influence them too.
“Books,” said Hazlitt,“Wind into the heart; the poet's verse slides in the current of our blood. We read them when young, we remember them when old. We feel that it has happened to ourselves. They are to be very cheap and good. We breathe but the air of books.”
A good book is often the best urn (a vase with foot and round body, especially as anciently for storing ashes of the dead. of a life enshrining (inclosing or preserving as in shrine. the best that life could think out; for the world of a man's life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries (a place where valuable things are kept. ) of good words, the golden (precious, excellent) thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters (a thing that gives comfort). “They are never alone,” said Sir Philip Sidney, “that are accompanied by noble thoughts.”
The good and true thought may in times of temptation (lure) be as an angel of mercy purifying and guarding the soul. It also enshrines the germs of action, for good words almost always inspire to good works.
Books possess an essence of immortality (the nature of endless life). They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay (rot), but books survive. Time is of no account (of no importance ) with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time has been to sift out (make sth bad away) the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive but what is really good.
Books introduce us into the best society they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure (in some degree ) actors with them in the scenes which they describe.
The great and good do not die even in this world. Embalmed (Spring embalms the woods and fields. in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens. Hence we ever remain under the influence of the great men of old. The imperial intellects of the world are as much alive now as they were ages ago.
A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company(playmates) he keeps;（Birds of a feather flock together）for there is a companionship (friendship) of books as well as of men; and one should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men. --- the author has contrast of books and friends.
A good book may be among the best of friends.(a good book is like our best friend) It is the same today that it always was, and it will never change. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It does not turn its back upon us (abandon) in times of adversity or distress.(in times of misfortunes or poverty) It always receives us with the same kindness，amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting and consoling us in age.(in old age)
Men often discover their affinity (close relationship) to each other by the love they have each for a book --- just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both have for a third. There is an old proverb, “Love me, and love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this:” Love me, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond of union. (uniting force) Men can think, feel, and sympathize (share the feelings or ideas of another) with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he (lives) in them. ---they can find their opinions from books, in reverse, the ideas of the author influence them too.
“Books,” said Hazlitt,“Wind into the heart; the poet's verse slides in the current of our blood. We read them when young, we remember them when old. We feel that it has happened to ourselves. They are to be very cheap and good. We breathe but the air of books.”
A good book is often the best urn (a vase with foot and round body, especially as anciently for storing ashes of the dead. of a life enshrining (inclosing or preserving as in shrine. the best that life could think out; for the world of a man's life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries (a place where valuable things are kept. ) of good words, the golden (precious, excellent) thoughts, which, remembered and cherished, become our constant companions and comforters (a thing that gives comfort). “They are never alone,” said Sir Philip Sidney, “that are accompanied by noble thoughts.”
The good and true thought may in times of temptation (lure) be as an angel of mercy purifying and guarding the soul. It also enshrines the germs of action, for good words almost always inspire to good works.
Books possess an essence of immortality (the nature of endless life). They are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay (rot), but books survive. Time is of no account (of no importance ) with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author's minds, ages ago. What was then said and thought still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time has been to sift out (make sth bad away) the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive but what is really good.
Books introduce us into the best society they bring us into the presence of the greatest minds that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were really alive; we sympathize with them, enjoy with them, grieve with them; their experience becomes ours, and we feel as if we were in a measure (in some degree ) actors with them in the scenes which they describe.
The great and good do not die even in this world. Embalmed (Spring embalms the woods and fields. in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens. Hence we ever remain under the influence of the great men of old. The imperial intellects of the world are as much alive now as they were ages ago.
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