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On Turkish border, doctors keep medical aid flowing to Syria

REYHANLI, Turkey (Reuters) - When the Syrian army rolled into his hometown to crush rebellion there, Omar, an orthopedic surgeon, knew it was only a matter of time before his field hospital was discovered by President Bashar al-Assad's troops.

For four days he hid inside the makeshift clinic in the northern town of Idlib, continuing to treat the sick and wounded along with the other staff, but as the soldiers drew closer Omar made his escape to Turkey.

"It was not a choice to come here. I was forced. The army came into Idlib. We kept working until they got too close. We worked until the last minute," said Omar, 28, who did not give his full name because his relatives are still inside Syria.

From a small, windowless basement apartment in Turkey's southern Hatay province a few hundred meters from the border, Omar now gathers drugs and medical supplies from all over Turkey to be smuggled to colleagues inside Syria.

The slick operation, set up by a union of expatriate Syrian doctors and involving some 60 smugglers, is only one of a large network of informal supply chains along the Syrian border that serve as a lifeline to those caught up in the violence.

"They need everything. All their supplies have been destroyed. Assad's army has destroyed four of our stores and four field hospitals. This is only in our area. They are destroying many others elsewhere," said Omar.

Donations come mainly from Syrian doctors living in Gulf Arab countries or in Europe, and the amounts vary significantly. Omar said they received a quarter of a million dollars one month but then only $50,000 the next. Last month they got $30,000.

The money buys drugs and medical equipment ranging from antibiotics to bandages and from syringes to large anesthetic machines. The supplies are then packaged and smuggled across by foot, donkey or motorcycle depending on where they are headed.

SYRIAN DRUGS

In three small rooms, boxes of medicine, bandages and gauze are stacked neatly onto shelves stretching up to the basement's low ceiling and are kept cool by an air conditioner fixed to the wall.

Omar points to the Arabic writing on the boxes of medicine and grins. These are all from Syria, he said.

"Buying the medicine from inside Syria was my idea. Everyone thought I was crazy," said Omar.

In Syria the drugs can be bought in bulk for a tenth the price in Turkey - although they are still out of reach for many Syrians impoverished by the conflict or physically unable to get to stores to buy them.

They are smuggled into Turkey and then repackaged into smaller boxes and dispatched back over the border.

"It saves a lot of money," said Omar.

But with supplies running low inside Syria, Omar estimates they have only one month left before they will have to switch completely to foreign products.

Specialist drugs and medical equipment is sourced from inside Turkey, often at a discount. One company in Ankara supplied some medical equipment free of charge when it found out where it was going, said Omar.

"If we have the money, then we can get whatever we want. The Turkish government has helped us a lot. They do not try to restrict our work. We are all illegal here. They have rules here but they are helping us. We appreciate that," said Omar.

Omar is interrupted every few minutes by a mobile phone in another room or by a steady stream of visitors whom he greets with a warm hug and a kiss on both cheeks.

FRUSTRATION

With his slicked back hair, designer glasses and candid smile, Omar still looks a young man, but the last 15 months since the uprising in his homeland started have taken their toll.

Omar was taking exams to study in the United States when the protests started. He fled Syria without even going home to say goodbye to his parents and since his escape has only been back once. That was to bury his cousin, a rebel fighter shot and killed by Assad's troops.

Omar says his age helps him to stay focused on his work.

"I am not married. It is good for me. To do this job you have to be free. I don't have to think about a wife or children. Some of my friends here have children at home and they are always worrying," he said.

Omar exhibits a familiar and increasing frustration directed at the international community and its reluctance to help him and others in the Syrian opposition.

Western nations say they are supporting the opposition with non-lethal aid. Some rebels have reported receiving weapons from private donors in Gulf Arab states, and Assad's government insists it is fighting terrorist groups armed from abroad.

But for many rebel Syrians like Omar the foreign help is too little, too late.

"We wanted the world to help us but they do nothing. This is creating a bad feeling among Syrians. This just gives Assad more time to kill us. They just talk. No medical support, no humanitarian support, just talking," said Omar.

"It has been more than a year now. We don't want anything. We are just thinking about ourselves now. I think they want Assad to stay."

Omar is interrupted once more as a group of men pour into the apartment and begin lifting boxes of medicine onto a tractor waiting to take the next batch of supplies to the border.

"I'm sorry," said Omar, "I have to go."

(Writing by Jonathon Burch; editing by Andrew Roche)

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Test of spare wheel puts NASA's Mars Odysse orbiter on path to recovery

ScienceDaily (June 15, 2012) ? In a step toward returning NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to full service, mission controllers have tested a spare reaction wheel on the spacecraft for potential use with two other reaction wheels in adjusting and maintaining the spacecraft's orientation.

After more than 11 years of non-operational storage, the spare reaction wheel passed preliminary tests on Wednesday, June 12, spinning at up to 5,000 rotations per minute forward and backward. Odyssey engineers plan to substitute it for a reaction wheel they have assessed as no longer reliable. That wheel stuck for a few minutes last week, causing Odyssey to put itself into safe mode on June 8, Universal Time (June 7, Pacific Time). Safe mode is a precautionary status with reduced activity.

"We are taking steps to assess the replacement of the troublesome wheel with the spare that Odyssey has been carrying for exactly this purpose," said Mars Odyssey Project Manager Gaylon McSmith of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "If the assessment results are positive, this will put us on a path toward resuming full use of Odyssey."

Like many other spacecraft, Odyssey uses a set of three reaction wheels to control its attitude, or which way it is facing relative to the sun, Earth or Mars. Increasing the rotation rate of a reaction wheel inside the spacecraft causes the spacecraft itself to rotate in the opposite direction. The configuration in use since launch combines the effects of three wheels at right angles to each other to provide control in all directions. The orbiter carries a fourth reaction wheel skewed at angles to all three others so that it can be used as a substitute for any one of them. This spare wheel had not rotated since before Odyssey's April 7, 2001, launch.

Odyssey can also use thrusters to control its attitude. Reaction wheels offer the advantage of running on renewable electricity from the orbiter's solar array, rather than drawing on the finite supply of thruster fuel. They also provide more precise control of pointing, which can enable higher data-rate communications through the orbiter's directional antenna.

Odyssey has worked at Mars for more than 10 years, which is longer than any other Mars mission in history. Besides conducting its own scientific observations, it serves as a communication relay for robots on the Martian surface. NASA plans to use Odyssey and the newer Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as communication relays for the Mars Science Laboratory mission during the landing and Mars-surface operations of that mission's Curiosity rover.

Odyssey is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Denver built the spacecraft. JPL and Lockheed Martin collaborate on operating the spacecraft. For more about the Mars Odyssey mission, visit: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey .

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Temasek to ramp up onshore China investment

Fullerton Fund Management was one of seven to be granted a QFII licence yesterday, even as its parent, Temasek, applies for a huge quota increase amid reports that regulators may raise the $1 billion cap.

Fullerton received its permit along with Eurizon Capital (Luxemburg), BOCI-Prudential Asset Management (Hong Kong), Lion Global Investors (Singapore), Generali Fund Management (Luxemburg), William Blair (US) and Investec Asset Management (UK).

The latest batch of approvals by the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) takes the number of qualified foreign institutional investors in China to 165.

Fullerton is now in the process of applying for an investment quota of $250 million from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (Safe) to set up an open-ended China A-share fund for external investors, according to Chinese media.

It comes after Ding Wei, head of China at Temasek, told the China Securities Journal ? one of CSRC?s official newspapers ??? that it was applying for an additional QFII quota of $700 million. He pointed to what he described as the good mid- to long-term potential of the country?s capital markets, particularly blue-chip stocks.

Temasek began investing in China?s A-share market over six years ago, with Temasek Fullerton Alpha Investments having been awarded its QFII licence in November 2005 and two quotas totalling $300 million ($100 million in December 2005 and $200 million in September 2009).

If Temasek Fullerton Alpha obtains $700 million - which would be a record amount - Temasek would hit Safe?s $1 billion cap for QFII quotas. Its subsidiary Fullerton Fund Management has a separate licence and as such its quota would not count towards Temasek?s total.

But just last month the China Securities Journal reported that the $1 billion cap may be increased, pending agreement between the two regulators, CSRC and Safe.

Sovereign wealth funds and pension funds are pressing for additional QFII allowances. Norges Bank (with $700 million approved), Abu Dhabi Investment Authority ($200 million) and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board ($100 million) are all reportedly applying for further quotas.

Beyond Temasek, Singapore?s two other government-backed financial institutions ? GIC and MAS ? have also prioritised investment into China?s domestic securities market.

The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation won its QFII licence in 2005 and has received $400 million via three quotas (2005, 2008 and 2012); and the Monetary Authority of Singapore obtained $100 million after its licence was granted last October.

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Junior Dos Santos Wants Alistair Overeem to Take a Blood Test

Junior dos Santos has been one of the more vocal critics of performance-enhancing drugs in the sport of mixed martial arts. And if dos Santos defends his title against Alistair Overeem when Overeem returns from his suspension later this year, the fight will come with a special request: The champ wants the challenger to take a blood test.

Dos Santos went into detail while speaking to ESPN Brasil:

"I would like him to do a test?a blood test," dos Santos said of the 32-year-old Dutchman. "I think we both need to do that. I want a clean fight and he needs to prove he is not under any kind of substances.

"Using drugs is completely unnecessary, and I am the living proof," he said. "I?m the champion, and I never used any kind of forbidden substances. Fighting a guy that uses these kinds of drugs is completely unfair and useless. With or without any kind of authorization [for using testosterone], the fighter who uses those substances is never fighting with his own skills. He is enhancing his power with those drugs."

The thing is, Dos Santos can ask all he wants. But unless the athletic commission where the bout is taking place demands it, a blood test will not be a requirement. And the UFC isn't going to enforce it, either, because they're not going to make a special exception for any fighter on their roster, even if he's the heavyweight champion.

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Pets and More Pets ? Fish Oils For Dogs Included In A Regular Diet ...

If you provide your dog food which you get from the store in a bag, be certain that your pet dog is not getting everything he requires nutritionally.

Retail store purchased dog food is over processed and is also grain based.

Your pet is not a cow or a horse, therefore he is certainly not getting all of the nutrients which he requires from that particular bag of dog food.

It could be crucial then, to make sure that you supplement your pet with fish oil for dogs to make certain that he gets the required omega 3 fatty acids which can help to ensure sound heart, health and wonderful wellbeing overall.

Fish oil for dogs may help to ward off numerous common diseases, which includes, but not restricted to:

* Dull coat;

* Ear problems

* Heart problems;

* Psychological decline (in old age)

* Tumors;

* Joint disease

* Colitis, inflammatory bowel disorder.

Introducing one fish oil formula that contains Omega 3 and Omega 6 to your dog?s food items may help to avert or reduce the possibilities of the above diseases. You just take a pin, poke the tip of the capsule and drizzle it above your dog?s food items at meal times.

Most of us have been led to consider that a bag of dog food includes all of the essential substances to keep our pet dog in good health, however this is simply not right. Possibly the dog food you get claims that it does include fish oil, or any other Omega 3 ingredient, for example flax.

The thing is that these essential oils should be given to your pet fresh, the process of cooking the food and processing it generally takes away all nutrients.

You have to supplement your dog?s food items so as to ensure he gets the appropriate nutrition that he requires and needs to stay in good health and a joyful part of your household for many years to come.

The previously mentioned information may also be attributed to dogs with allergies so in case we supply a wellness dog food that effectively targets the dogs nutritional requirements all should be fine.

Want to find out more about Fish Oil For Dogs, then visit Steve Wright?s site on how to choose the best Wellness Dog Food for your pets needs.

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