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(see attachment in previous post)-sword (February 18, 2013, 05:04 PM)
How did this topic get pinned, and why?Drunk Stephen?-Deozaan (February 17, 2013, 03:16 PM)-f0dder (February 17, 2013, 03:26 PM)
(see attachment in previous post)-app103 (February 14, 2013, 09:02 PM)
So will you STILL be using Opera now?
<Wheatley> stephen
<Wheatley> i will continue to post in the browser wars thread
<Wheatley> you will not stop me
As many of you know, I have always been nothing but positive about Opera, and would generally mock others (for fun) that don't use it...but now...I just don't know...Maybe it is time to finally knuckle under and work on my own rendering engine...not a simple task...but, there again...I know what I want, I know what I like, I know what I use, and I know I won't release it to the general public.-Stephen66515 (February 13, 2013, 02:46 PM)
Is writing a rendering engine even possible for one man? I thought it was up there with the hardest code alive.
Does it make sense to just borrow the FF Gecko codebase for the basics and doing your own "Stephen-Moon" spinoff to just tweak the things you want?-TaoPhoenix (February 14, 2013, 11:44 AM)
Little competitive gain and a lot of cost for Opera in maintaining Presto,-Dormouse (February 13, 2013, 04:41 PM)
Without Presto, Opera can't be considered a competitor to anything any more.
If they adopt Chrome's rendering engine they become just one more "me-too" repackager trying to sell yet another pretty interface.-40hz (February 13, 2013, 06:17 PM)
Umbilical cord blood is blood that remains in the placenta and in the attached umbilical cord after childbirth. Cord blood is collected because it contains stem cells, which can be used to treat hematopoietic and genetic disorders.
Definition & Collection
Cord blood is a sample of blood taken from a newborn baby's umbilical cord. It is a rich source of stem cells, which have been used in the treatment of over 75 diseases, including leukemia, lymphoma and anemia. Parents may choose to bank their newborn's cord blood against the possibility that it will be useful in the future, should the child or a related family member fall victim to a disease that is treatable by cord blood stem cells.[1]
Cord blood is obtained by syringing out the placenta through the umbilical cord at the time of childbirth, after the cord has been detached from the newborn.[2] Cord blood is collected because it contains stem cells, including hematopoietic cells, which can be used to treat hematopoietic and genetic disorders. One unit of cord blood generally lacks stem cells in a quantity sufficient to treat an adult patient. The placenta is a much better source of stem cells since it contains up to ten times more than cord blood.[3] Some placental blood may be returned to the neonatal circulation if the umbilical cord is not prematurely clamped.[4] According to Eileen K. Hutton, PhD, and Eman S. Hassan, MBBch, cord clamping should be delayed a minimum of two minutes to prevent anemia over the first three months of life and enriching iron stores and ferritin levels for as long as 6 months. (Ref. "Late vs Early Clamping of the Umbilical Cord in Full-term Neonates," JAMA, March 21, 2007) If the umbilical cord is not clamped, and it is not during an extended-delayed cord clamping protocol, a physiological postnatal occlusion occurs upon interaction with cold air, when the internal gelatinous substance, called Wharton's jelly, swells around the umbilical artery and veins.
Regulation
In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration regulates cord blood under the category of “Human Cells, Tissues, and Cellular and Tissue Based-Products.” The Code of Federal Regulations under which the FDA regulates public and private cord blood banks is Title 21 Section 1271. Both public and private cord blood banks are eligible for voluntary accreditation with either the American Association of Blood Banks AABB or the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy FACT. Potential clients can check the current accreditation status of banks from the AABB list of accredited cord blood banks or the FACT search engine of accredited cord blood banks (on their home page). Other countries also have regulations pertaining to cord blood. It is also found out that there are no problems in cord blood donation.[5]
In the United Kingdom, the Human Tissue Authority (www.hta.gov.uk) regulates the cord blood banking.
Is anyone here interested in (and qualified for) doing a serious look and comparison of the internals of various CMS systems?
