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the experimental treatment, she told us, did work, if only in very small ways.ttribute that to the stem cell therapy? >> i've thought about it a lot. especially knowing you were going to ask. and yes, i do. >> reporter: stephanie krolick and josh's father want to do everything they can for their son. >> stay with us. >> reporter: he remains incurable. the stem cell treatment is over. more than $50,000 has been spent. >> i know you're saying all kinds of things. >> reporter: whatever happened in india certainly did not provide any miracles. what do you think for cash's future? what's the optimal that you can expect? >> i don't even have an answer, is the thing i -- i feel like as cash's mom, i don't hide him. we go out. we go do things. and you know, we all love him the way he is. it's one thing to be really helpless when you're 6. it's a whole different thing to be really helpless and in diapers when you're 16. which is one of the reasons why i feel like i have to do this. because if it gets him that much closer to being able to take care of himself, i have to d

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experimental music concert, and also readings. >> give us this day our daily bread at least three timeslead us not into temptation to often on weekdays. [laughter] >> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. i felt like at meridian, it could do some good. we did not even talk about price until the day before the show. of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but that was not the first consideration, so that made me very happy. >> his work is printed porcelain. he transfers images onto and spoils the surface a fragile shes of clay. each one, only one-tenth of an inch thick. >> it took about two years to get it down. i would say i lose 30%

we'll tell you about an experimental plane and it's unconventional landing. >>> i'm meteorologist howard ben. we are dry here but relatively cloudy. let's take a look at the allergy update. the mold spores have gone crazy. trees and grass are moderate. moles high over 31,000 grains per cubic meter. we'll have the full forecast looking toward the weekend. >>> just changing my shoes. sitting at the end of my bed. and i heard a loud crashing noise. and i ran outside and i saw the debris in my pool. i looked up and saw there was a propeller. just lying on the top of my roof. >> a pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in california yesterday when his small experimental plane lost its propeller. the aircraft landed in a field but the propeller landed on that man's roof. incredibly no one was injured. by the way the pilot had just bought the plane. >> hopefully he got a warranty on that. >> luckily he didn't get injured. how are you? >> i'm well. nice outside. still have clouds out there. but you know had a nice soaking rain down in southern maryland the eastern shore. we've been dealin

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no more experimentation. no depression in war. america was represented by this. the critics, of course, will disagree. they'll see a lot of seeds of division planted. and the '60s would sort of turn around and you would have revolution in the streets. but in the '50s, praisers say, we solved problems of poverty, divisiveness. america seemed unified. that is why you ask your relatives. they remember fondly. they will remember the '50s and '60s as a great time to be american. right? questions? questions? we're done. thanks for listening. see you friday. >>> lectures in history airs each saturday and sunday. we feature lectures from around the country on different topics and eras. to keep up with american history tv during the week or to send us questions and comments, follow us on twitter. we're at twitter.com/c-span history. >>> behalf of a grateful nation >>> and the political parties, american history tv will air c-span's original series "the contenders" featuring 14 key political figures who ran for president and lost. we'll air the series every weekend from ju

a food and drug administration panel voted in support of the experimental obesity pill yesterday. some adjustments to satisfy safety concerns.. the decision brings the pill a step closer to approval. if approved, it will be one of the first new weight-loss treatments in more than a decade. the pill was rejected in 20-10 due to concerns about a drug used in the pill causing cancer risks. there are two other pharmaceutical companies trying to get a similar obesity pill approved. more kids may be exposed to smoke.. despite having non- smoking parents. a new study by the university of california in san franciso tested nearly 500 blood samples from kids between one and four. results showed 55-percent of those blood tests showed exposure to smoke within the last three to four days. however.. only 13 percent of their parents admitted their child had been exposed to second-hand smoke. researchers say it is important for parents to realize kids don't have to be next to someone who's smoking to be exposed. lunchbreak is next. we are making a delicious one-bowl meal. for months, i had this d

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it was on a promotion to were all over the region now it's right or still be registered as an experimental or have you to get it is not yet fully under cirrus although the actual test flight program which i believe lasted from two thousand and seven to two thousand and ten has largely been completed this was more of a sales pitch to or a local a company that we're hearing reports of bad weather in the mountains of indonesia where the super disappeared how important it is this fact even if for high tech planes you'd imagine that this has got all the necessary bells and whistles to stare clear of potential danger. well there is some buzz in the aviation community that i've been following online about the crew apparently requesting this center being instructed to descend by the air shaft controlled six thousand feet while the mountains in the region are about six thousand two hundred feet meaning that they want to below the mountain but again they should have seen the semi and any more the aircraft will have a complex image of warning systems and has g.p.s. meaning that with a high degree of

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[laughter] and the experimenter says, okay, good, now you have one minute in which to have your orgasm because that's how long the radioactive water will be of sufficient concentration in your brain for this imaging to occur. so no pressure, just let it happen. well, so what happens in the brain when you have an orgasm? well, i've already told you the punchline. the punchline is that this pleasure circuit, the medial fore britain pleasurer cut -- fore brain pleasure circuit becomes more active. it turns out that there are also regions of the brain that become less active at the moment of orgasm. and these include regions like the prefrontal cortex and the temporal quital junction, these are involved in things like reasoning, planning, decision making, social cognition. so if there's one piece of advice i'm going to give you from brain research, that the moment of orgasm is not the time to, like, be picking the mutual funds for your 401(k) plan. save it for the next day. [laughter] all right. so we've got this pleasure circuit. it's evolutionarily ancient, and it's there so we find eati

these are just experimental wells to see what is under the earth.his is not going to be producing wells. there is still years ahead to get the best of technology and innovation as to when they get to the production point. >> eliot: to get back to the harder question, what is the spur? what will create the incentive for shell or exxon or competitors to come up with that technology. is there an affirmative role to be played by a government regulatory system that says you must meet this safety standard or industry safety and then you'll invest the dollars. >> eliot: there is not a government on earth that knows as much about energy technology as what exists in the oil companies. so what the oil companies do is they consult with the government to look at and debate and quite open forum what are the best technologies. then the regulators get to work laying down those technologies as part of regulations. then the american petroleum plays a big part-- >> eliot: in bp, where was the big failure there as bob pointed out on this show and elsewhere there was a

, there's a cover of grasses, part of an ecological restoration that includes many progressive experimentalrojects. how did i get onto this path that led me to sitting in an office at "landfill engineering and recycling" headquarters? this is going to sound strange, but it happened when i had a baby. as a mother, i became a maintenance worker. i had a degree in international relations. another degree in art. and as i'm doing these repetitive tasks taking care of the baby, all of a sudden i had an honest-to-god revelation. if i'm the artist, and i can call anything art, i call that art. and in this sort of magical moment, i said, "that's it. maintenance is art," and i wrote this manifesto. i did many performance artworks in public where i would assume the persona of the maintenance worker. i did what the maintenance people do. only because i'm the artist, when i did it, it became art. i washed the entire front entrance of the museum, which was huge. i washed a street in soho in front of the gallery. it took me five hours. i had a lot of rags. i was washing. it was so dirty that it was actual

. >> facebook has done some incredible things advertisement wide it is still largely experimental.ilure to skyrocket may not be a bad sign. >> a few months ago saffron gave up his citizenship in became a resident of singapore. they have more millionaires in the billionaires' per capita. they have no capital gains tax. a spokesperson says the move was done for tax reasons. >> with all the attention of the facebook ipo, singapore is a good place to be if you want your privacy. media here gets a tight lid on private lives. he was the pop r.o.t.c.. >>vicki: right now, the oakland greek festival. there is live music, food in a live tinting. >>vicki: a blind and chinese activists in the u.s. escape custody from the chinese a few weeks ago in why china is flooding and start over in america. we will take you to a new ♪ [ kari ] i used to serve my country in the u.s. army. ♪ then, i was hit by a drunk driver and lost my legs. but that didn't change a thing. because i still serve my country, i just wear a different uniform. [ male announcer ] citi is joining kari miller to give back to the p

vision is restoring to patients who took an experimental by the men-enriched pill. -- of vitamin-enriched pelt. it is unknown whether it would work for those with the dry form. it may be a bad allergy season for you, but your pets could be feeling it, too. it is common to find your pets sniffling, sneezing, and even itching. what you can do if humans and not the only ones with allergies. >> it is a typical day at the dog park. >> if we succumb to the dog parks because he loves plan with other dogs. -- we usually come to the dog park because he loved playing with other dogs. >> if your dog is coughing, sneezing, or has stress can, if it is important to take them to get checked out to see what they are allergic to. >> is can take a lot of work to find the problem. >> if if your dog has a cough or sneeze, seasonal allergies could be to blame. >> just because of the weather. >> she says the list of symptoms go on. >> the skin may be read. if they may be scratching. >> it is similar to how we would treat ourselves. >> petro can be used. it does not work as well with skin, i do not bank. there

. >> scientists are developing genetically modified wheat and asking campaigners not to their experimental work. they say wheat that's been genetically modified repel insects. but they strow contaminate it unless it's stopped. they said they respect the need to gather knowledge. >> two men from wales have been fined $1,000 australian dollars for stealing a penguin named dirk. we report from sidney. >> early morning and a group of friends with a hangover awake to find a penguin in their living room. >> i can't believe the penguin was there in the apartment. >> a ferry penguin called dirk. taken one night last month after they slipped past security at sea world. the men later panicked and dropped dirk in a canal. now two of those believed to be from south wales have been fined $1,000 or about $600 pounds for stealing him. speaking at the time, one of the men said they meant no harm. >> we are sorry for the time lost searching for dirk. you know? and -- >> the theme park, too, was relieved to get back dirk in one piece. >> it's 7 years old and never experienced things like wide-open spaces so

limited their audience to 65 people said that shell is nearly sold out so did things that are very experimental like that. we have five venues left. >>> last wednesday and opened a no evidence to june 5th just around the corner know what other kinds of things to of theater cutting edge in dance and also opera. this is something the 25 anniversary of penguin books published in a cult clear and they wrote this book in mexico city in the '50s and never published of the '80s because there's a lot of homophobia in 1985 they found and published it. so in the 20th anniversary to local composer to said he would take the book and translated vervain forbidden to the stage. so that they did. and as all the text of his book running at the formation center performed by an amazing actor. trot plays williams character is to narcotics field lunatic that storms through the stage and impacts the entire house. it is sung in english. it's just under two hours. >>> and the free stuff? >>> we have the carpet bag brigade performing today at 33530 of the ever at fort mason in the big meadow. they have international me

if you approach an argument or experimentation of an idea that way, you are susceptible to do information. you are arguing in a way that you can convince the other person because you are not taking them to believe something they are not willing to believe until your behavior makes it impossible to get facts across. they have their guard up against you because of the way conversation takes place. >> one last question about the poisonous atmosphere in d.c. always been hostile? if you go back to the history of the republicans, at times, the supreme court was highly reactionary. decades of being non-functional and blocking civil rights legislation. why should we expect washington to be any different than it is? >> that was my one unspoken series -- on spoken -- unspoken. that i did not mention. the media is more knowledgeable than it used to be. the answer to this is in the framing of the question. the senators were beating themselves and beating each other. there is one example of that. it is in the moments just before the civil war, which i think is similar to where we are now. that is the

scientists hope to learn if an experimental drug can hold off the on set of the disease. >>> the a'sare in progress and it doesn't look like it's going too well. >> they better get the on the ball in a hurry. for the a's i bet they wish it would start later because it didn't go well from the beginning but i tell you ever single game it seems like. highlights josh redick this time on defense. nice play, alberto callespo you are out. beautiful throw. the guy has a sensational arm. but the next time callespo comes to the plate. redick is not going to get him. he shoots it down the right field line, got himself an rbi double in the person of mike trous. the angels so far with the only run they need but they've got albert pujols in their line up. this guy has been in such a slump but he gets a break today. in fact, a couple of them off the glove of bartolo colon. pujols has three hits in the game all of them infield hits and the a's in the top of the ninth are trailing 4-0. meantime the oakland raiders, what a redoing of this team top to bottom with the scouts changing, the players changi

at airports and other commercial facilities starting next month the device will be used on an experimentalasis to make sure it is safe. >> translator: this technology has great potential to make people's lives better and more fun. >>> all right, let's take a look at the latest market figures. >>> indonesia is facing a serious energy short fall. there is simply not enough supply to meet the needs of its expanding economy. as a solution, the government is hurrying to tap into an abundant resource deep underground. nhk world went to see the front line of geothermal power. >> reporter: this steam is like the breath of the planet. produced by magma about 2 kilometers below the surface. the power plant is the newest and one of the largest geothermal power stations in indonesia. it will soon start operating, a symbol of geothermal revolution taking place in indonesia. >> we have almost 40% in the world. we still have a use. >> reporter: the island of indonesia has volcanos. the country boasts some of the largest geothermal resources in the world. unlike wind or solar, geothermal can run 24 hours

the government is set to start an experimental run to check its feasibility. a substation will also be built offshore. electricity generated there will be delivered to consumers on land via submarine cables. here, an experiment is under way to build floaters that will keep wind turbines from gets displaced by wave shocks. japan hopes to develop floating power plants that are resilient to tsunami and typhoon and export the cutting-edge technology. in a nationwide project, the university of tokyo and ten japanese companies are undertaking the challenge to build wind turbines that are 200 meters high. they plan to make a prototype turbine by next summer, and two more by 2015. the project's goal is to construction 150 commercial turbines, enough to generate 1 million kilo watts of electricity. that's equivalent to the output of a nuclear reactor. >> we have an associate professor at the university of tokyo. he specializes in reconstruction of devastated areas, including war-torn states and he proposed the project to the mine government in fukushima and laid the gr

. >> these are experimental machines. we have seen a big shift in recent times. seen industrial companies taking an interest and investing hard cash into these projects. >> the energy flowing around our shores could be a major source of power. it will take years of research to make it happen. >> now, she was the queen of disco whose pulsating tunes with a soundtrack for 8 generations -- for a generation. donna summer and died after a battle with cancer. >> it was in 1977, the sound of the future. the synthesizers, donna summer's boys. it was the birth of electronic dance music. -- donna summer's voice. donna summer had grown up in boston and then moved to germany. there, she met a producer. "love to love you, baby" was for it sometime, racy and sexy. -- was for its time, racy and sexy. >> this is a milestone in the history of electronic music and it will be recognized as such. she had 29 hit singles and today, her family said that she was a woman of many gifts. she was a woman of faith. it made her uncomfortable with her older songs. she denied allegations that s

facebook has done some incredible and interesting things advertising wise, but it is experimental. >> that is if it's going make a lot of money. another reason could be that facebook and the bankers who price that ipo got the price exactly right. the social media company did set a record in the number of shares traded on an opening day. >>> an 8-year-old girl had quite the last day of school today. now you know that last day is always a party, but for this little girl, her mom, staff sergeant latoya came home early from afghanistan and surprised her in class. suray chin was there. >> reporter: a day that can seem mundane, checking out a book, saying good-bye to friends and finding out what everyone is doing this summer. eight-year-old knows mom is far away and counting the days until she comes home. >> from where? >> afghanistan. >> mom is actually a lot closer than she thinks. >> how much do you miss her? >> with all my heart. >> asia and her classmates are excited to embark on their summer plants, but her excitement is about to go through the roof because mom is right outside to sur

in the '20s and '30s, he is at the experimental learning phase of his career. he is a major artist all his life - so even when he's learning, he produces major work. but that is a crucial period of experiment, both of innovation and also of synthesizing available options. (narrator) he was intrigued by the work of the french artist jean arp and his exploration of the border between abstract and natural forms. the american, alexander calder, was also exploring those borders. his works struck a powerful chord in moore. the critic geoffrey grigson, noting the delicate balance in his work between surrealism and abstraction, called moore's work biomorphism. the term biomorphism suits moore absolutely perfectly because it signals that his preoccupation is poised somewhere between the surreal and the abstract. and it also describes beautifully the sense that we have in moore that the organism has laws of growth of its own. it's following some kind of universal law but it's not a species that we know. (narrator) throughout his long working life, moore collected natural

able to draw it more accurately, and he created a glass model of the aortic valve so he could experimental blood flowed through the heart. these drawings were made in florence in 15 07 following his dissection of a 100-year-old man that contained full descriptions in -- of the narrowing of the arteries. a museum in london contains thousands of anatomy specimens collected during the 18th century. by this stage, leonardo's drawings were still not published, and would remain so for another 200 years. even today, anatomists say some of the studies are as accurate as any modern depiction. >> this idea of looking in layers is what we can now do with modern ct and mr scanning. he anticipated what we are now doing 55 years later. >> leonardo produced the first accurate depiction of the spine. compared with a modern-a medical image. in anatomy, as in many fields, he was a genius for had this time, showing a thirst for knowledge and a mastery of art and science. >> , one world trade center building replacing the twin towers, is new york's tallest skyscraper. steel columns raised the structure to a l

24 americans at high risk for alzheimer's will participate in a clinical trial crenezumab, an experimental drug scientists say could prevent the buildup of amyloid proteins believed to cause the memory-wasting disease. >> most researchers believe the accumulation of amyloid plays a critical role in alzheimer's disease. if that's right and we start early enough, we may have a way to stop the disease in its tracks before people develop symptoms. >> reporter: the study was announced as obama administration unveiled its plans to start on treatment for the disease by 2025. >> we know a lot more needs to be done and it needs to be done right now, because people with alzheimer's disease and their loved ones and caregivers need help right now. >> reporter: along with 50 million more dollars for research, the new plan expands support for family members and caregivers through a website, outsiders pgov, and calls for better training for doctors to spot symptoms earlier. the goal is to treat those already affected by the disease while looking for a way to keep others from getting it. theresa garcia, c

no. 4, researchers say an experimental 10 minute test may diagnose alzheimer's before symptoms set in. the test challenges people's memory skills and distinguishes between normal forgetfulness and the more dangerous lapses that can signal alzheimer. early diagnosis would allow patients to begin drug treatments earlier. no. 3, proctor and gamble is changing the packaging on their tide pods after hundreds of young children reportedly ate the laundry detergent mistaking the brightly colored pods for candy. nearly 250 cases have been reported this year. the new double latched lids on tubs of detergent should be available in the next couple weeks. no. 2, the district is putting out 27 more cameras to catch speeders in action. the new cameras will give out tickets with fines on june 6th. some of the locations are the southwest freeway at exit 4, bladensburg road northeast. go to www.myfoxdc.com for a list of all the locations. no. 1, just in time for the memorial day weekend, trips and summer vacations, gas prices down 17 cents from a month ago. the national average is down to 3.67. accordi

>>darya: a vergence base a lot -- spacecraft has a one- year experimental permit.: the world's first commercial space ship is expected to this blasts down in the pacific ocean. you'll see some light is pictures from the command center. this is after their five day visit to the space station. they delivered some science samples and the equipment. it is aiming for an area about 560 mi. southwest of los angeles. will take a look of the people that are managing the program. >>mark: we will be right back as the kron 4 morning news continues. temperatures are expected to jump into the '90s inland. >>george: a cement truck overturned on the ramp and cupertino. there has been damage to the guard rail. cal trans said they preferred to repair the guard rail. at this hour this is the least used ramp and is for way interchange. all traffic heading through will be coming from north bound 280. if you are one of the people the usually use this ramp or are your options. get yourself extra attend the 15 minutes if you need to take one of those de force. latest in indications is tha

and tonight, the first glimmer of an experimental new weapon that could prevent alzheimer's. >>> the defense of john edwards. after standing with her father through weeks of painful testimony, will daughter kate edwards take the stand? >>> driven to distraction. the dangers for young drivers at the wheel. tonight, new ways for parents to keep an eye on their kids and keep them safe. >>> and the french connection. look who's replacing carla bruni as the first lady of france. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. we begin tonight with word today of a real glimmer of hope in a disease that's shattered so many american families. news of a new clinical trial that could lead to a treatment to prevent alzheimer's disease. millions of americans live in constant daily fear of it, millions more are living with it. and, of course, millions more are caring for them. the numbers, in fact, are bad, almost five and a half million americans are currently living with the disease. and that, by the way, makes it an epidemic by any measure. the expert

(brian de palma) you can't really be that experimental or that odd or follow your muse to some absurd end, if you're trying to open in a thousand theatres or two thousand theatres and $30-$20 million a weekend. so that's a bit of a problem. and once you get that fever, it's hard to get it out. every time a studio chose to make a film with me, they had hoped that the film would be on the economic level of, let's say, "the godfather," or like a "jaws." although, my films are very, very different. and i didn't quite believe it. i just kind of realized after "new york, new york" that it wasn't going to be that way. (yelling) did i tell you to have that baby? did i tell you to have that damn baby? no, i didn't, you had it. now you have it, now keep it. that's it, keep hitting me. go ahead, hit me. that's right. you had it. now you're crying? oh, be quiet! when it gets tough, you cry? and then the lifestyles sort of get a little crazy too, where you start to really be -- you're doing ten things at once and pouring your energy into places it shouldn't go. overdoing it in every level. and som

go it was the first time england have beaten no way in thirty two years and despite it being an experimental line up fourteen was delighted with the winning start. team which was missing a lot of quite famous names the team with players who haven't played together you know carroll young and you knew combination. so i would say that i took a lot from this game because we played against a quality opponent. meanwhile defending world and european champions spain were comfortable to know when. it was depleted squad named by vicente del bosque a with many players missing because of friday's copa del rey final two and scored the no on his debut before malaga santi cazorla converted a penalty for to no spain to begin the defense of the trophy on june tenth against italy. elsewhere the netherlands fell to a surprise to face against belgariad they went down to one hundred by taking the lead on the stroke of half time thanks to robin van persie this his twenty six goal for his country and a villain pop off penalty made it one one shortly after the break before the visitors stunned the world cup finalis