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The Fiber Disease
Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Medicine. Anything human!
Moderator: BioTeam
sorry barz..
invisible college class of 2012
... . this brain hurtz...
... f o c u s . " n a t a s " .
http://star.tau.ac.il/~eshel/papers/RNA ... g-2004.pdf.
" eukaryotic transac-
tivator composed of the ligand- and
domains of the bacterial quorum sensor TraR
(Figure 2).
When transfected in HeLa cells supplemented
-HSL, the system induced expression of the
reporter molecule SEAP (secreted alkaline
The system was three orders of magnitude
less sensitive
than the TraR system in its bacterial host
tumefaciens), but the expression was
tightly controlled. In
other, related work, the Streptomyces
coelicolour quorum-
sensing receptor (ScbR) was fused to the
transactivation domain (VP16) to control
expression of
SEAP and erythropoietin in recombinant
cells [57
] (Figure 2). The construct proved
in controlling the expression of SEAP to
near that of
control constructs expressing SEAP under
control of
the SV40 promoter. By adding butyrolactones
to the cells,
the transactivator was released from the
SEAP promoter
and synthesis declined. Thus, the authors
were able to
demonstrate tuneable expression of
mammalian proteins
using bacterial quorum regulation."
http://www.clopinet.com/isabelle/Projec ... plist.html
http://uxmym1.iimas.unam.mx/bancos/aler ... ndice.html
Servicio de Alerta de Junio 2006, Biblioteca IIMAS-UNAM
here one fot Skybarzondon: "sidereal"
Tick-borne diseases in transfusion medicine
L. Pantanowitz, S. R. Telford III and M. E. Cannon
SummaryTicks are effective vectors of viral, bacterial, rickettsial and parasitic diseases. Many of the tick-borne diseases (TBDs) are of significance to transfusion medicine, either because of the risks they pose to the blood supply or the necessity for blood products required in their treatment. The transmission of tick-borne pathogens via blood transfusion is of global concern. However, among transfusion medicine practitioners, experience with most of these microorganisms is limited. Transfusion transmission of TBDs has been documented largely by means of single case reports. A better understanding of the epidemiology, biology and management of this group of diseases is necessary in order to assess the risks they pose to the blood supply and to help guide effective prevention strategies to reduce this risk. Unique methods are required to focus on donor selection, predonation questioning, mass screening and inactivation or eradication procedures. The role of the transfusion medicine service in their treatment also needs to be better defined. This article reviews the growing body of literature pertaining to this emerging field of transfusion medicine and offers some recommendations for transfusionists in dealing with TBDs.
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/ab ... 02.00358.x
mS. bi oN the lookout is very much interested in the new Pschydermatology that will bring in much for her professional career, after leaving the Pest Industry.
Thanks for that Sabrina. Good to hear from you again.
Tt am looking at the pseudomad thing there. So many ways to set the stage for this aren't there?
Still wading through that physics, never took a class in my life, but, I am learning. So, Tesla is making a debut?
I found this and thought that maybe Dr. Wymore could use it in his lab.! Might pick up those metal nanoparticles inside us and a few flourescent fibers there too.
"FIREFLY LM10™ Particle Analysis System
Above: FIREFLY LM10™ nano particle Viewing Module The FIREFLY LM10™ is the world's first characterisation tool specifically designed for liquid phase visualisation and analysis of individual nano-particles.
The FIREFLY™ system provides both a direct, real time view of nano-particles and a comprehensive particle size distribution analysis.
Both these data sets are unique and this system is new, having been patented in 2004.
Video: The FIREFLY LM10™ with 96nm and 384nm polystyrene reference spheres in water.
The system is proven on most classes of nano-particle (below), down to 15nm (dependent upon particle type), in a wide range of solvents:
Most hard nano-particles
Virus samples
Pigments in inks and paints
Single DNA molecules
Metal oxides in magnetic storage media
Precursor chemicals and CMP slurry for wafer fabrication
Multi-walled Carbon nanotubes
Fuel additives
Cosmetics and personal care products
Ceramics Ferritin molecules
Polymers, emulsions and colloids"
[i]I want one of these!!!!!!!!!!![/i]
http://www.nanosight.co.uk/particleanal ... /index.php
I think this might be beneficial to our Doc?
Or the FBI folks looking for fibers to compare.
.......more about the FIREFLY at above link.
Busy there in the UK, finding all these instruments to use on nano? Wonder if they contacted the world environmentalists or the ecologists?
Well next step is to test where the nanoparticle went from those buckyballs that are floating around after the huge grid that provides the electricity that controls those nanos in the living tissues of oh,,,,,,,,,everything......and if they are assembling as programmed, and then must create a machine that indicates if the proteins are adhering by way of nano delivery.
Oh, London I see the blood supply is at it's best now, dang, we can't even get an adequate test on blood bank donations. So, just what does the CDC do for a living?
CDC: Center for Disease CONTROL, which way?
Are they controlling the journey of disease and the instigation of it or are they controlling the spread of it, or are they controlling the spread of it over certain areas to make sure pandemics are initiated in the environment? I AM SO CONFUSED! Does anyone know what they really do? Guess I better read their excellent truthful finds on that site.
Now, why does one need a vaccination for C. Dificultis? That is what my doc said I had when I had those horrible 3 days of bloody crap. Now, how did it get there in such an extreme condition.
Why do we need a vaccine for that? Is there a lot of it? Is this the result of the genetic altered bacterial genes put in the drugs they gave me?
Or is this a large problem in the world?
Notice below how regulating/suppressing T Cells will then leave an avenue for more tainted vaccines to cover our arses for all the evo devo contructs that have made a mess of our environment.
"Regulatory/Suppressor T Cells: Implications for Vaccinology
Explain the characteristics and functions of regulatory and suppressor T cells. Describe the roles of regulatory T cells in virus- and bacteriamediated diseases.
Discuss the roles that regulatory T cells play in response to parasitic infections.
Vaccines Against Nosocomial Infections
Review scientific progress in the development of vaccines against Staphylococcus.
Discuss approaches to developing a vaccine against Pseudomonas.
Review the status of research on vaccines against respiratory syncytial virus. Describe the state of development of vaccines against Clostridium difficile."
Here are a few names:
Acknowledgments (as of April, 2003)
This conference is supported, in part, through unrestricted educational
grants from:
Antigenics, Inc.
Aventis Pasteur
Baxter Healthcare
Becton Dickinson
Bioject, Inc.
Chiron Corporation
Coley Pharmaceutical Group
Dynport Vaccine Company
Iomai Corporation
Merck Vaccine Division
PowderJect Vaccines, Inc.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Vical Incorporated
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
more here:
Do these or do they not seem related to many of the things we suffer? Maybe different variations, as the TT says?
Certain things seem to glare out here! Going from the backend of this scheme just might get us there.
These folks think they got the handle on Reverse Psychology and thought it could be used in the medical field. Best and Brightest swayed by the dollar sign........Intellect went out the window when the window for fame and fortune opened up.
Great post Sky! Look at this. Is it not weird? I have never heard of it anyway.
Spray-on skin promises a better bandaid
Monday, 10 January 2000
The latest New Scientist reports that British scientists have come up with a spray on skin that could spell the end for traditional wound dressings, encouraging the formation of strong skin structure rather than the weaker scar tissue.
Electrosols, a biotechnology company based in Surrey, has developed a spray it believes could help wounds heal without scarring. The spray produces a fine web of biodegradable polymer fibres that collagen-making cells called fibroblasts can grow on. As more and more fibroblasts grow on the polymer webbing, they produce a regular collagen structure, much like that in normal skin.
When skin is punctured, the damage often destroys the weave-like structure of collagen that gives skin its strength. But when the body tries to patch up the wound it acts in haste to protect against infection. Instead of rebuilding the complex collagen weave, the body creates a quick fix by producing thin, aligned strips of collagen. When skin cells grow on this, they produce the pale, less flexible material we know as scar tissue, rather than
normal skin.
To make the spray, the researchers mixed ethanol and a biodegradable polymer-such as polylactic acid-in a small semiconducting container, and then gave it an electric charge by putting an electric field across the container. Because the wound is at a far lower electrical potential than the polymer, the solution is attracted to the skin surface and flies out through tiny nozzles, producing fine, light fibres, each of them 5 micrometres in diameter. The fibres have the same charge so they repel each other, making them regularly spaced.
"What you get is like a spider's web," says Electrosols researcher Ron Coffee, who is currently developing a hand-held version of the spray. It looks like a fat pen about 2.5 centimetres across and about 15 centimetres long, and could be used by paramedics or kept in first-aid kits, he says. But other researchers are more cautious about the spray's prospects.
"This initial polymer fibre mat wouldn't necessarily have any bearing on the final scar. Collagen is organised and reorganised continuously, and that's governed by a whole range of things," says Bruce Martin, a reconstructive surgeon at the University of Florida. "This sounds very sexy, but I wouldn't put any great faith in it until I'd seen it work in animal and human trials," he says.
M. Sleath - The Lab
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/heal ... _83523.htm
Oh, by the by, we have to talk between the lines until we get some major breakthroughs.......
From your link, I am so excited about this new technology aren't you. There seems to be a cocktail in the making, one of those that puts you under the table, I'd say. A shot of High Tech Physics and a large shot master regulator straight from the highest paid (by NIH grants and other govt grants)medical institution in the country.
"To make the spray, the researchers mixed ethanol and a biodegradable polymer-such as polylactic acid-in a small semiconducting container, and then gave it an electric charge by putting an electric field across the container."
Wow, I am ready to GET DOWN!
TT might this be what you have been hinting at?
That master regulator Called: rpoS mRNA. I can read this stuff now. Oh and I still think that e-coli flagella just might be the string we are looking for.
I see from the link you provided that this Master Regulator has the power to infect humans. Wonder why they never thought of that, or did they?
And those folks with CF. How can you people live with yourselves? They already suffer and you add your lovely little regulator to their already mutated genes.
Remember what Anonymous Researach said a while back?
Both flies and mammals remodel the architecture of the X chromosome to achieve dosage compensation. A novel class of noncoding RNAs that paint entire chromosomes are centrally involved in this process. The genes encoding these unusual RNAs are themselves located on the X, and are key sites that target the X for dosage compensation.
Many species use sex chromosome number or composition to determine sex. For instance, in both flies and mammals, females are XX:AA and males are XY:AA, where A represents a set of autosomes. The Y chromosome carries few genes, so that males are effectively monosomic for the X, and yet they seem to cope with this genetic imbalance remarkably well. The key is dosage compensation, the process that enables each sex to produce similar amounts of X-linked products from different numbers of sex chromosomes.
There is every reason to believe that the mechanisms of dosage compensation in Drosophila and mammals arose independently long after they shared a common ancestor. The primary pathway of dosage compensation in Drosophila operates in males to hypertranscribe most genes along the single male X to match the output of the female's two X chromosomes (reviewed in [1-4]). This is carried out by the MSL (male specific lethal) complex which appears to remodel chromatin architecture by a site-specific acetylation on histone H4 [5*, 6*]. In mammals, it is the female which dosage compensates, by silencing most of the genes on one of the two chromosomes via the formation of a heterochromatic Barr body (reviwed in [7, 8]).
In this review, we focus on how the cell distinguishes the X from the autosomes as the correct target of dosage compensation. Recent results point to a novel mechanism operating through a new class of stable RNAs which coat the dosage-compensated chromosome. Studies of two such novel RNAs in flies have changed our understanding of the composition of the MSL complex and how it is targeted to the X, and revealed unexpected mechanistic parallels with mammals. '
I know, I know, London, you said this before but the master regulator can activate the other recessive X chromosome in Females that carry the code mutation for Muscular Dystrophy. That is what by dear brother had who will be celebrating a well lived life and will keep an eye on those dweebs at Stanford and Berkeleyley. Livermore Labs too. Oh yeah. It will be a full moon on that day when he no longer will have that broken body. Oh yeah..............messing with the X's. This is most likely why women suffer more, but, with men who keep that one X intact means they are fighting it. Thank God for them. Theirs are active, but, women have a recessive one, that most likely is being activated. Those recessed diseases are wide open. Hence we suffer with whatever the e-coli can rig up along the way.
[i]Maybe we should read this?
Dear Fellow American,
The latest and most bitterly contested battle in the culture war is the controversy over Darwin and Intelligent Design. And yet much of what you've heard on these subjects is wrong.
In The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design (which you can get for free), Jonathan Wells, Ph.D., reveals that today's Darwinists are unable to fend off growing challenges from scientists or to compete with rival theories better adapted to the latest evidence.
Darwinism, like Marxism and Freudianism
before it, is simply unfit to survive
Don't mean to scare anyone here, but, these Ba......d are going to be exposed, in one way or another. Not just the highest paid Johnny Hopkins either:
Note this:
In 2004, close to one in five extramural NIH dollars went to only 10 of the 3,000 institutions that received grants. Five US states get almost half of all funding. What about everyone else?
By Alison McCook
As written in The Scientist: John Hopkins the highest paid, covering East Coast and West Coast, oh and the U of M, can't forget them.
It has already been said that rpoS mRNA is being found in the sputum of CF patients and in humans.
Don't believe me? Why is a Master Regulator needed? What is it's purpose?[/i]
Now on the right side or is it the left side?
Anyone see the hologram around the moon tonight?
Could be from this?
The stem of the cocktail glass or fermented wine concoction is this Master Regulator, rpoSSorry forgot to put the main deal up there:
"A Trans-Acting RNA as a Control Switch in Escherichia coli: DsrA Modulates Function by Forming Alternative Structures".
Richard A. Lease* and Marlene Belfort
Molecular Genetics Program, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health, and School of Public Health, State University of New York at Albany, P.O. Box 22002, Albany, NY 12201-2002
* To whom reprint requests should be sent at the present address: Department of Biophysics, Jenkins Hall, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218-2685.
Better than a map:
DsrA is an 87-nucleotide regulatory RNA of Escherichia coli that acts in trans by RNA-RNA interactions with two different mRNAs, hns and rpoS. DsrA has opposite effects on these transcriptional regulators. H-NS levels decrease, whereas RpoS (ss) levels increase. Here we show that DsrA enhances hns mRNA turnover yet stabilizes rpoS mRNA, either directly or via effects on translation. Computational and RNA footprinting approaches led to a refined structure for DsrA, and a model in which DsrA interacts with the hns mRNA start and stop codon regions to form a coaxial stack. Analogous bipartite interactions exist in eukaryotes, albeit with different regulatory consequences. In contrast, DsrA base pairs in discrete fashion with the rpoS RNA translational operator.Thus, different structural configurations for DsrA lead to opposite regulatory consequences for target RNAs.
RNA plays a variety of regulatory roles in the cell, in addition to its central function in translation processes. These activities are collectively termed riboregulation (1). RNA-RNA interactions provide a basis for sequence-specific RNA regulation of other RNAs in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes (2, 3). DsrA, an 87-nt untranslated RNA in Escherichia coli, is one such regulatory RNA. DsrA contains regions of sequence complementarity to at least five different genes, hns, argR, ilvH, rpoS, and rbsD (4), and it has been demonstrated to regulate two of these genes, hns and rpoS, by RNA-RNA interactions (4, 5).
H-NS is an abundant nucleoid-structuring protein with global transcriptional repressor functions (6, 7). DsrA antagonizes H-NS function by decreasing the levels of H-NS protein in the cell (4). In contrast, the translation of RpoS, the stationary phase and stress-response sigma factor (8), is enhanced byDsrA, especially at low temperatures (9). Thus, DsrA has opposite effects on these two targets, both mediated by RNA-RNA interactions, with global regulatory consequences for the transcriptional state of the cell. Whereas the mechanism of DsrA action at hns is not known, DsrA binds the translational operator of rpoS (4, 5) to open a stable stem-loop of rpoS RNA (10), enabling access to the Shine-Dalgarno sequence and thus enhancing translation.
see how it works:
DsrA: "DsrA is an 87-nucleotide regulatory RNA of Escherichia coli that acts in trans by RNA-RNA interactions with two different mRNAs, hns and rpoS. DsrA has opposite effects on these transcriptional regulators. "
more from here:
no records on some of it, but did find this.
"11. The Bacterial and Plant Plastid Code (transl_table=11)
AAs = FFLLSSSSYY**CC*WLLLLPPPPHHQQRRRRIIIMTTTTNNKKSSRRVVVVAAAADDEEGGGG
Starts = ---M---------------M------------MMMM---------------M------------
Base1 = TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Base2 = TTTTCCCCAAAAGGGGTTTTCCCCAAAAGGGGTTTTCCCCAAAAGGGGTTTTCCCCAAAAGGGG
Base3 = TCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAGTCAG
Systematic Range and Comments:
Table 11 is used for Bacteria, Archaea, prokaryotic viruses and chloroplast proteins. As in the standard code, initiation is most efficient at AUG. In addition, GUG and UUG starts are documented in Archaea and Bacteria (Kozak 1983, Fotheringham et al. 1986, Golderer et al. 1995, Nolling et al. 1995, Sazuka & Ohara 1996, Genser et al. 1998, Wang et al. 2003). In E. coli, UUG is estimated to serve as initiator for about 3% of the bacterium's proteins (Blattner et al. 1997). CUG is known to function as an initiator for one plasmid-encoded protein (RepA) in Escherichia coli (Spiers and Bergquist, 1992). In addition to the NUG initiations, in rare cases Bacteria can initiate translation from an AUU codon as e.g. in the case of poly(A) polymerase PcnB and the InfC gene that codes for translation initiation factor IF3 (Polard et al. 1991, Liveris et al. 1993, Sazuka & Ohara 1996, Binns & Masters 2002). The internal assignments are the same as in the standard code though UGA codes at low efficiency for Trp in Bacillus subtilis and, presumably, in Escherichia coli (Hatfiled and Diamond, 1993). "
Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Ut ... ode=c#SG11
The geek and daddykins Rock e by baby.
Yup, that sure rocks the feller doesn't it?
not the usual OSU one, that is Ohio.
look up filamentous phage and see who is at the heart of this right along with Stevie.
much more on that link.
have to do this Brick by Brick of Academia disinformation.
These Academic links are world wide, each has their part to do. I have said this about the agencies we find here, and say it again about those world wide too.
I could list some labs again............
well.........this first.......most can be found here.
Big watchdog NIH........worldwide funding from my tax dollar and yours...........seems to tie the UN right in there with High Tech distractions.
Comparison of initiation of protein synthesis in procaryotes, eucaryotes, and organelles.
Short version:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... t=Citation
THE EVOLUTIONARY DREAM...........by default......
Next the Labs again?.........
sky is right...
i think the earth is tooo psykik for a hyper active humanoid enzyme syhnthesizing long chain polymers and systematic sub crustatious land fill insertions of synthesized polymers for a future hip swinging elastic panty layer for our earth or it could be planetiod "DEPENDS".
CDC=pharmecutical hell spawn.....
"geo syncronous teleMEDICINE.... or rather tele ALMENTS ....
for a"service" based industry.they make parts that break on time
dehumanizing=the next paragraph.
if mankind or homo sapanase/Giansynapse executes GeoNeuron latice that renders the quantative mass illusion of Time... like the main ingredient of an expert system. in non-linear vacuum domains the torsion tensor condensates nonlocal elements thru spin perturbations of angular momentum
affecting local dominions of non carbonasious mineral LIFE thru weathering, oxidation, and satuiration of locality with biogenic LIFE forms slignaling the beginning of the SHIFT. as the Enzyme H.Sapianase pretends to have quantative "CONTROL" by capitalitst mechani of the force.
we can actually see naked Gian non helial timeless divided horizontsal gene transfer to the time divider type by simple helix from torsion component. in othe words "time" is a negativ/positive side effect of paleobotanical slpice and combineto H.Synapsynase gaining biogenic Amines via the non optic Pghage signal dector, "hostility"
. the phenamenon called LIFE
MACROPHAGE induces geosynapitic operon firing via transferance of vaculaic condinsates celestial hegh tensor nursery to dehydration
and metabolic shut off unless sombody else interferons ..
DNA Microarray-Based Identification of Genes Controlled by Autoinducer 2-Stimulated Quorum Sensing in Escherichia coli
Bacterial cell-to-cell communication facilitates coordinated expression of specific genes in a growth rate-II and cell density-dependent manner, a process known as quorum sensing. While the discovery of a diffusible Escherichia coli signaling pheromone, termed autoinducer 2 (AI-2), has been made along with several quorum sensing genes, the overall number and coordination of genes controlled by quorum sensing through the AI-2 signal has not been studied systematically. We investigated global changes in mRNA abundance elicited by the AI-2 signaling molecule through the use of a luxS mutant that was unable to synthesize AI-2. Remarkably, 242 genes, comprising ca. 5.6% of the E. coli genome, exhibited significant transcriptional changes (either induction or repression) in response to a 300-fold AI-2 signaling differential, with many of the identified genes displaying high induction levels (more than fivefold). Significant induction of ygeV, a putative sigma 54-dependent transcriptional activator, and yhbH, a sigma 54 modulating protein, suggests sigma 54 may be involved in E. coli quorum sensing.
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.....DAmn i don t know how but ADHD has me ... i study on several different systems some proxy ans i notice some right wing profetic nostradamus crap on the board and ill be ...... damn if it was not me......
gotta fire the DJ KUT N PASTe.
this would round out MRF treatment for me
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Nadasnostic, you make me laugh...depends haha
Skytroll, yep, called that one way back did I not....Bacteriophage/Stevie
and the Rockerfellas>> hate em'. Good find Skygod.
TamTam, look, you hinted around on your last link that this is Leukemia causing due to the biofilms.....can you say more...? One thing that I looked at last night was back in my December notes and the disorder was called polycymthia vera. I have all the symptoms....my red blood count is nearly there. The only thing is that swelling-which I have daily, is not there...so, should I rule it out then? Help?
Okay, I'm still looking at PLasmas you guys.....remember how I said they could use it for biodefense? This article has something about that in it.
Snip***Since the fuel for such reactions is plentiful on Earth, plasma physicists have labored for decades to stably confine hot thermonuclear plasmas in laboratory devices, with the goal of using them as large power plants to replace those based on nonrenewable fossil fuels. This power production method would produce no greenhouse gases and its radioactive by-products would have much shorter life times than those created in fission reactors. On the downside, because of a hot plasma's furious and infuriating ability to squirm through any cage that is put around it, no net-power-generating plasma has yet been demonstrated. Thus the feasibility of a practical fusion power plant is still to be proved.
Still, many plasma physicists remain optimistic. They point out that the overall amounts of power produced by real fusion devices have increased by a factor of a trillion over the past two and a half decades. Researchers have scored a number of recent successes in donut-shaped devices called tokamaks, which use twisting magnetic field lines to confine hot plasmas. In laboratories in the United States and around the world, researchers believe they may have gained crucial insights into how to confine such plasmas without inducing the deleterious instabilities arising from spontaneously generated waves that usually spring leaks in the confinement. The potential payoff of such research is enormous.
Yet another concept for making fusion power plants ignores magnetic fields for confining the plasma and instead zaps a pellet of fuel from all directions with intense laser or ion beams. This compresses and heats the pellet, briefly creating the proper conditions for fusion to take place. While the potential of this method as a practical energy source will likely be the subject of research for some time to come, such research enjoys strong governmental support because of its utility for weapons research. The conditions within a compressed fusion pellet are similar to those in a nuclear bomb. Therefore these studies can be used to ensure the safety and efficacy of nuclear weapons without actually detonating them.
Did you see that last sentence?? See?
Next: Brain cells fused with computer chips
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12037941/ (VERY SHORT)
Pathogen-specific recombinant human polyclonal antibodies: biodefence applications.
Bregenholt S, Haurum J.
Symphogen A/S, Elektrovej 375, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark.
The potential use of biological agents such as viruses, bacteria or bacterial toxins as weapons of mass destruction has fuelled significant national and international research and development in novel prophylactic or therapeutic countermeasures. Such measures need to be fast-acting and broadly specific, a hallmark of target-specific polyclonal antibodies (pAbs). As reviewed here, pathogen-specific antibodies in the form of human or animal serum have long been recognised as effective therapies in a number of infectious diseases. This review focuses in particular on the potential biowarfare agents prioritised by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), referred to as the category A organisms. Furthermore, it is propose that the last decade of development in recombinant antibody technologies offers the possibility for developing highly specific human monoclonal or polyclonal pathogen-specific antibodies. In particular, pathogen-specific polyclonal human antibodies offer certain advantages over existing hyperimmune serum products, monoclonal antibodies, small molecule drugs and vaccines. Here, the rationale for designing pAb-based therapeutics against the CDC category A microbial agents causing anthrax, botulism, plague, smallpox, tularaemia and viral haemorrhagic fevers, as well as the overall design of such therapeutics, are discussed.
Now, maybe you don't believe in conspiracy theories, I do! They say that 75% of them are true......(I think that number is low too.) Read this one:
ORGANIC BIOPROCESSORS LINKED TO VIRUSES-- One direction that the New World Order took was to develop biochips and bioprocessors, that is three-dimensional organic circuitry that functions as computers. The conductive velocities of these miniature organic computers (protein lattices) are at least one million times faster than nerve cells. The circuit power of a given size of miniature organic computers is at least a million times greater than the same size of brain matter. Molecular computers made of living matter can be grown from DNA templates of genetically engineered bacteria. Synthetic proteins have been developed which match what they want to make into mini-computers. The end product is a bioprocessor (tiny computer) within a cell. These mini-computers are specifically linked with viruses which migrate to specific parts of the body. Viruses are primarily nucleoproteins, some of the small ones are not even alive, and they don't even have metabolism. They do not have a metabolism to kill with an antibiotic. The Neurotropic viruses migrate to the central nervous system (nerves), the Dermotropic viruses migrate to the skin, the Pneumotropic viruses go to the lungs, the Viscerotropic go to the abdomen, and other viruses go to other sites in the body. Because many viruses will select what area of the body they will reside in, the New World Order can tailor (in tissue-culture) their bio-implants (which consist of a virus plus a bioprocessor) so they can target where they will end up in the mind-controlled slave. Such an virus implant is also called a symbiote, because it lives off of the host, the mind-controlled slave's own body. These virus implants have life-expectancies that are a number of years long. A number of these implants within the victim serve as spies-in-the-camp, reporting detailed records of what the host's body is doing. Research into how to splice and dice genetic material and then recombine it has been going on for a number of decades, and is very sophisticated. There are a number of very technical books on how to do it, but only a reader familiar with the language of genetic research could decipher their techniques & abilities with miniature RNA and DNA pieces. Several genetic books/papers describe how viruses can get host genetic material or other genetic material, thus giving us a window on how they transfer the miniature computers made from DNA templates to the viruses. In the book Mechanics of DNA Replication & Recombination, Proceedings of a UCLA Symposium held in Keystone, CO April 3-9, 1983,(edited by Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, of the Dept. of Molecular Biology Univ. of CA, Berkeley, published in NY by Alan K. Liss, Inc.) one of the leaders in this field said on page 12, "I remain faithful to the conviction that anything a cell can do, a biochemist should be able to do." And yes they have been replicating strands of RNA & DNA, creating whatever they want. The Illuminati have been using these computers-in-viruses implants at least since the 1990s. The implants are easy to insert into the victim's body, and the specific virus transport themselves and attach themselves where they are to go. The Illuminati then build body suits of these implants. The size of these tiny implants vary from tens of millicrons to hundreds of millimicrons. Just their tiny size makes them difficult to destroy. From research on victims, it appears that a central computer is implanted to control or interact with the body suit of implants.
By the way, that was off of a Lucent Tech. Search. Did you know there old Co. name used to be Lucifer? Those satanic F-sticks! Go to Hell!
to those who understand this forum has never led you astray
it is only the complexity of the "un"nature that has been put forth
unto this earth.
as in the past ... with in this device lay the keys to the aggressors
demise.... fear not, for we have already lost, it will be those who
have betrayed LIFE itself, that will be bound to the wheel.
if they have spent us ... .. we will not be burdened with the cycle.
HEAR THis salary monger LAB dancers, take all you must, and get a
close friend to help you take more, for it will be all that remains
even if you have a head to toe gas mask, you will be bound to this
planetoid untill RA/SOL goes super nova and then your naked ass mutant
DNA will be thrust into the void were it will be damned to this cycle
. . . . . oohhh sky on a lighter note ... if there is one,
any of you checked in to CRISPER:
CRISPER Search Forms
webtool (CRISPER) to search and organize research grant data from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It revealed that the decision of NIH National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to give priority to research of high biodenfence but low public health significance resulted in 1500% increase in the number of grants awarded for biological weapons agents, while the number of grants for model microorganisms and non-bioweapons pathogens decreased by 41% and 27% respectively.
More than 750 prominent scientists signed an open letter, published in Science, to the director of NIH to express their concern. Richard Ebright of Rutgers University, who initiated the letter, points out that prioritising research on poorly known agents could backfire, not least because of the need for strict containment and new experimental tools. The biodefence money would be better spent researching related, but less pathogenic organisms. He also believes that increasing the number of labs and people working on bioterror agents would increase the risk of an accidental release or deliberate attack.
NIAID's biodefence budget shot up from $42m in 2001 to $1.5bn in 2004, with $1.6 projected for 2005. The government wide total spending on biodefence before 2001 was less than $1 billion/year; between 2001 and 2005, the total spending comes to $22 billion, and the projected total spending between 2001 and 2006 is $30 billion.
They can target the immune system directly to undermine the body's defence. Vaccines will be ineffective, or worse than useless as the smallpox vaccine may prove to be; and there is no way to adequately test for efficacy or safety. Theoretical studies indicate that partially effective vaccines may increase the virulence of pathogens. There is no known defence against agents that target buildings or structures.
" biodefence in actually bio offence"
Post genomics possibilities for bioweapons
* Stealth viruses targeting specific populations
* Designer diseases
* Agents targeting the immune system
* Non-lethal agents targeting agriculture
* Non-lethal agents targeting buildings and structure
* Interfering RNAs that turn genes off
* Completely novel disease agents made in the lab
Futility of biodefence
* Agents unknown
* Immune system targeted
* Vaccines ineffective or worse than useless and there is no way to test for efficacy or safety
* Partially effective vaccines may increase virulence of pathogens
* No known defence against agents that target buildings or structures
and if that dont pave the road for these oligarchs....
they give the guns , ohh i mean PHONES to the children...
"The Reflex study also finds that EMF exposure in both the ELF and RF range led to significant increases in chromosomal abnormalities in human fibroblasts (skin cells), such as gaps, breaks, rings, dicentric (two centromeres) chromosomes and fragments. Gaps increased 4-fold, breaks 2-fold, and dicentric chromosomes and acentric fragments 10-fold. RF-EMF exposure induced an even higher incidence of chromosome gaps and breaks; and dicentrics and acentric fragments increased 100-fold. These chromosomal abnormalities, too, had been observed previously (see "Non-thermal effects", SiS 17) and now considered by a substantial number of scientists to be signs of genome instability linked to cancer.
Indeed, the Reflex study finds that ELF-EMFs promoted the growth of human neuroblastoma cells, by 12% after 42h exposure at 10 microT, and 17% at 100microT; although longer exposures for 90h were without effect, possibly because the cells have reached confluence, at which point they stop growing, and are no longer sensitive to EMFs.
The growth promoting effect of EMF exposure is of especial relevance on account of epidemiological evidence linking it to childhood leukemia and other cancers (see "Electromagnetic fields double leukaemia risks" and "Non-thermal effects", SiS17; "Electromagnetic fields, leukaemia and DNA damage", SiS23). Exposing leukemia cells to RF-EMFs for 48h caused them to multiply aggressively, overriding the signals that trigger cell death (see "Mobile phones & cancer", SiS17).
Mechanism still not understood
By its own admission the Reflex study has contributed little towards defining the health risks of EMFs. Has it contributed towards understanding the basic mechanism of non-thermal biological effects of EMFs? Not really. The genome-wide scans and the protein profiling found many genes and proteins "up-regulated" or "down-regulated", the significance of which will remain unknown until and unless the normal range of variation could be established.
The report highlights (p.194) that, "The mechanism of action induced by ELF-EMF exposure of living cells is not yet known." For RF-EMF, it suggests that "increased formation and activity of free radicals" is responsible for damaging DNA. That suggestion, too, is nothing new, and has been made previously by many other researchers. Furthermore, it does not really address the question of how EMFs could increase the formation and activity of free radicals, which requires the research input of physics and physical methods not included in the Reflex study (see "Mobile phones turn enzyme solution into gel", this series)."
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Edgerton schools using technology to track student fitness
EDGERTON—So far, a 10-week electronic health and fitness tracking program at Edgerton Middle School has yielded some eye-opening results.
For one, students at the school apparently don't drink anywhere near enough water. They also don't eat enough fruit, and some aren't getting enough sleep.
Many students seem to get enough activity—at least 10,000 footsteps a day—but many get headaches that seem to come on regularly about halfway through the school day, according to preliminary data results.
In late November, the Edgerton Hospital fitted 21 students with Fitbit Flex wireless digital health-tracking wrist devices. The move is part of a pilot program between the hospital and the Edgerton School District to measure how active students are, and to take stock of how their diet and sleep patterns factor into their overall health.
Middle school Principal Phill Klamm, a former physical education teacher, organized the program with the hospital when he learned some students were lukewarm about participating in gym class.
Klamm and other school officials wanted to see if a technology-driven fitness program would spark more interest in health and fitness in and out of school.
Steve Zartman, a teacher and athletics coach at the school who is serving as coordinator of the program, said the Fitbit devices were issued to a blend of students who had varying interest in physical activity, extracurricular activities and school athletics.
"They (the Fitbits) have been given to our really active kids, and some super-academic students out for a ton of extracurricular activities," Zartman said. "The devices also were offered to our at-risk kids, some of the kids that are borderline in terms of their activity in physical education or their level of interest or engagement in school."
The program uses the Fitbit devices to digitally monitor and track the students' physical activity and sleep over a 10-week period. Students are in charge of tracking their own diet daily and logging information using a program on school-issued electronic tablets.
As part of the program, hospital staff has come to the school to talk with students about the importance of sleep, exercise and healthy eating.
Jennifer Ludwig, a dietician at the hospital who is coordinating the program, said data results so far have shown some interesting results. She said a portion of students in the program:
--Are getting less than the eight to nine hours of sleep required for teenagers.
--Only eat one or two servings of fruit a day, when they should be eating five to nine.
--Drink as little as one or two glasses of water a day. They should be drinking eight to 10.
Ludwig said the most interesting trend to come out of the Fitbit program surrounds headaches, which some students seem to get daily around mid-day. The likely culprit for the noggin pain, Ludwig said, is dehydration.
"The number one symptom of dehydration initially is nothing. People don't feel thirst until they're at the point of dehydration," Ludwig said.
But that's when the headaches, and even a false sense of hunger, can come on.
"We've told the students that if they encounter a headache, instead of ibuprofen or other medicine, try 12 ounces of water and see if you feel better five minutes later," Ludwig said.
The major piece of information the Fitbit program is intended to show is whether students are physically active enough throughout the day and at home.
Fitbit devices have a built-in pedometer that tracks how many steps each student takes. The students should take 10,000 steps daily, according to the program's goals.
Many students get enough activity, although some are trying to find different ways to meet their goals.
Ludwig and Zartman said some students have become more involved in school dances and other activities to make sure they can meet their requirements. Others are walking their dogs more and taking breaks at home to do jumping jacks or other exercises.
"It's turned into a competition," Ludwig said.
When the program concludes, Ludwig said, UW-Whitewater has agreed to help the hospital organize the student data and to give feedback, including whether the students who wore the devices had an increase in physical activity or improved diet or sleep patterns.
Zartman said the school could use the study to determine whether students involved in sports or extracurricular activities get enough activity so that they might be able to opt out of phy ed classes in the future.
"Some kids are overwhelmed with extracurriculars, academics and athletics. Do those kids have to spend two or three hours in phy ed each week if they're active outside of the classroom?" Zartman asked.
He said the underlying goal is to find ways to get students with different interests to stay active.
"Some students would rather be reading a book or doing something else in school ... drawing or being creative," Zartman said. "That's fine if we can get an alternative where they still can get activity. They can find a better way to utilize time in school."


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Residents voice support for Interstate noise barriers
JANESVILLE—It's official: The reconstructed central segment of Interstate 90/39 through Janesville will include noise barriers.
Voting wrapped up late last week on a state Department of Transportation proposal to build a series of nine noise barriers along the central segment, which runs from County O south of Janesville to the Dane County line.
Derek Potter, project manager for the central segment, said all nine barriers were overwhelmingly approved by a combined vote of 220 to eight.
The department estimates the cost of the barriers at $2.2 million per mile per side of the highway.
For the most part, the barriers will be built near the Interstate. The roadway will have a 12-foot shoulder to a safety barrier, and then an additional four feet to the noise barrier.
In some cases—particularly along the northbound lanes between Ruger Avenue and Milwaukee Street—topography will push the barriers closer to homes, about 3 to 8 feet off the right-of-way line.
Federal guidelines mandate that for a noise barrier to be constructed it must be feasible, reasonable and approved by a majority of people who live nearby. The department has determined the nine walls are feasible and reasonable, and homeowners and renters have now approved the barriers.
Each of the nine barriers got a separate vote.
Now that the barriers are approved, the next step is determining the aesthetics of the barriers, which will be built as the highway is constructed.
Property owners and residents also will have a say in that process.
The central segment is one of three in the entire Interstate expansion, which will run about 45 miles from the Illinois state line to the Beltline in Madison.
For the most part, the project will start in 2015 and wrap up in 2021. Work began this summer and will end this fall on the reconstruction of the Interstate's exchange at Racine Street in Janesville.
For the project, crews will:
-- Reconstruct and expand the Interstate from four to six lanes and reconfigure all 11 interchanges.
-- Expand the Interstate to eight lanes—four lanes in each direction—from Avalon Road south of Janesville to the Highway 26 interchange on the city's north side.


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SimpleTemplate is a simple template engine written in Java. You can generate formatted text from a Java bean. You can use it for generating XML files, Web sites, etc. It features simple template directives, user-selectable template directive separators, alias creation using with and set directives, support for indexing into arrays, collections, and maps, looping on an array or a collection, a simple include mechanism to reuse template files, conditional evaluation using if and ifelse, and custom list separation settings (prefix, suffix, and separators). Template files can be read from the filesystem, class path, or just a string. Support for methods, aka. sub templates.
The MOLGENIS toolkit provides programmers with a simple language to model OO data structures and user interfaces in compact XML. At the push of a button, MOLGENIS' generator suite automatically translates these models into a extensive, ready-to-use Web application including database, user interfaces, CSV/TAB file upload/download formats, and scriptable interfaces in Java, R, SOAP, REST, and JavaScript for customization. Writing 500 lines of model XML typically replaces 15,000 lines of handwritten programming code, which allows for quick adaptation if the information system was not yet to satisfaction. A plug-in mechanism ensures that both generator suite and generated product can be customized just as much as hand-written software.
Self-Adjusting Top Tree Implementation maintains a forest that changes over time through edge insertions and deletions. This implementation focuses on the simplified Top Tree interface, which allows you to solve a number of interesting graph problems like finding common ancestors, the heaviest edge, maintaining the diameter, center, or median and other (mostly network flow) problems. Using Top Tree interfaces, all outline problems can be solved in a clean declarative way. This implementation uses adapting ST-trees as the underlying data structure, achieving O(log n) time per expose(v,w) operation. There is also a demo that shows an easy way to integrate the toptree library and the host application.
CRest (Client REST) is a lightweight library that simplifies the integration of third party RESTful services into Java applications. CRest is mainly annotation-driven, allowing the developer to focus on the essential aspects of the integration of a REST service, such as the definition of the Java interface that maps the remote REST methods and the data model the interface will deal with. The rest is achieved by annotating a plain Java interface with the relevant information such as the service end-point, the desired timeouts, URL formats, etc. CRest will handle everything else, including HTTP request generation, auto marshalling of the response, and more.
ParaJVE is an advanced emulator for the GCE Vectrex game console (created in 1982 by General Consumer Electric). The emulation is mature enough to deliver a rendering close to the real machine, allowing you to enjoy most of the original games (as well as some extra homebrew ROMs). The emulator packaging is self-sufficient: it contains all the files needed to run the whole set of original vectrex games (including ROMs and hi-quality color overlays) and some additional homebrew games. It is perfectly legal for anybody to download, install and run this software, since the embedded ROMs are either public domain or homebrews whose authors gave written permission to include them in the ParaJVE package.
A 3D game engine for Object Pascal focused on X3D and beautiful graphic effects.
A MS Excel spreadsheet component for Android.


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10:30 am
Joanne Weir's Cooking Class "Veal Chops with Salad & Pineapple Sorbet" Joanne teaches her student Kyle a classic Milanese main course topped with a salad followed by a refreshing sorbet drizzled with a unique ingredient that gets a raised eyebrow from Kyle. Recipes: (1) GOLDEN VEAL WITH ARUGULA AND TOMATO SALAD, (2) PINEAPPLE SORBET WITH OLIVE OIL AND FLEUR DE SEL. Student: Kyle Khasigian - Graduate Student. D
11:00 am
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Medidas Drasticas" The Castillo family deals with a number of problems, including the hospitalization of Don Fernando.G
11:30 am
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Ha Habido Un Accidente" Arturo arrives from Argentina and meets some members of the Castillo family.G
12:00 pm
Learning Math: Measurement "Video 1. What Does It Mean to Measure?" Explore what can be measured and what it means to measure. Identify measurable properties such as weight, surface area, and volume, and discuss which metric units are more appropriate for measuring these properties. Refine your use of precision instruments, and learn about alternate methods such as displacement. D
12:30 pm
Learning Math: Measurement "Video 2. Measurement Fundamentals" Investigate the difference between a count and a measure, and examine essential ideas such as unit iteration, partitioning, and the compensatory principle. Learn about the many uses of ratio in measurement and how scale models help us understand relative sizes. Investigate the constant of proportionality in isosceles right triangles, and learn about precision and accuracy in measurement. D
1:00 pm
Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Derivatives" The function of mathematics in physical science and the derivative as a practical tool. D
1:30 pm
Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Inertia" Galileo risks his favored status to answer the questions of the universe with his law of inertia.G
2:00 pm
Biography of America, A "Capital and Labor" The making of money pits laborers against the forces of capital as the twentieth century opens. Professor Miller introduces the miner as the quintessential laborer of the period -- working under grinding conditions, organizing into unions, and making a stand against the reigning money man of the day, J. Pierpont Morgan. D
2:30 pm
Biography of America, A "Tr and Wilson" Professor Brinkley compares the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson -- the Warrior and the Minister -- in the first decades of the twentieth century. Professor Miller discusses American socialism, Eugene Debs, international communism, and the roots of the Cold War with Professor Brinkley. D
3:00 pm
DragonflyTV "Canines" Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf? Not Zachary and Jerit, who explore pack behavior to determine the "top dog." Canine conundrum: Alexa, Miriah and Janaya investigate which sled dog should lead the pack to victory. And DRAGONFLY TV asks: How can you keep your pooch from being a "hot dog?". D
3:30 pm
Biz Kid$ "Take It to the Bank" Get a kid's view of the services that banks, credit unions and other financial institutions offer - and why you should make use of them early in life. Learn the different products and services that banks offer and how to shop for the right bank for you. Meet a young entrepreneur with a haunted house who has no fear of banking. D
4:00 pm
The Electric Company "A Fistful of Confetti" It's Neighborhood Record Day, and everyone in town is trying to break silly records. Francine and Jessica are both trying to break the same record - filming the most broken records on record day. When Francine tries to get in Jessica's way by giving her fake tips, The Electric Company works together to lead Jessica to victory. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "A Fraction of a Chance" When Matt, Jackie and Inez get stuck in the vortex of a cyberportal, it's up to Digit to rescue them. He just needs to find the U.V.O. D
5:00 pm
Jacques Pepin: More Fast Food My Way "Light and Luscious" Jacques makes rigatoni with lettuce and eggplant and sauteed julienned endive. For dessert there are sauteed stuffed figs with blueberries.G
5:30 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Slow-Cooker Revolution" Test cook Julia Collin Davison uncovers the secrets to cooking with a slow cooker. First, she teaches host Christopher Kimball how to make the ultimate Old-Fashioned Chicken Noodle Soup. Next, she reveals the test kitchen's secrets for foolproof Pork Loin with Cranberries and Orange. D
6:00 pm
Cuisine Culture "Jean-Denis Rieubland, Nice, France" Ashley James travels to Nice, the gateway to the French Riviera and one of the best places to sample typical French fare. He visits the kitchen of Jean-Denis Rieubland at Le Chantecler, a One-Star Michelin restaurant in the luxurious Hotel Negresco. Chef Rieubland does not fail to impress as he chooses the best produce and fish from the Cannes market to create his dishes. D
6:30 pm
Martha Stewart's Cooking School "Eggs" Want to know how to cook the perfect soft- or hard-cooked egg? Or the fluffiest scramble? Martha shares these and other secrets as she teaches viewers all they need to know about eggs, the world's most versatile protein. Whether you like your egg over easy or sunny-side up, Martha shows you how to prepare them properly every time, with easy-to-master techniques and tips. You'll learn a clever method for frying eggs, a surefire omelet recipe, and the key to a foolproof frittata. D
7:00 pm
Hometime "Kitchen & Mud Room Remodel 2" Double hung windows are updated with new inserts as HOMETIME guts the kitchen and reframes the powder room for a pocket door. D
7:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Iran's Historic Capitals" Rick explores three former capitals: Persepolis and its monuments; Shiraz with tombs of nationally loved poets; and Esfahan with its extraordinary mosques.G
8:00 pm
Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions "Immigrating to America, II" Every person who lives in the United States is an immigrant or the descendant of someone who immigrated here. In some cases they were travelers looking for a place where they would be free to practice their traditions. In every case they were looking for a better life. D
8:30 pm
Jacques Pepin: More Fast Food My Way "Light and Luscious" Jacques makes rigatoni with lettuce and eggplant and sauteed julienned endive. For dessert there are sauteed stuffed figs with blueberries.G
9:00 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Slow-Cooker Revolution" Test cook Julia Collin Davison uncovers the secrets to cooking with a slow cooker. First, she teaches host Christopher Kimball how to make the ultimate Old-Fashioned Chicken Noodle Soup. Next, she reveals the test kitchen's secrets for foolproof Pork Loin with Cranberries and Orange. D
9:30 pm
Coastal Cooking with John Shields "Down on the Bayou" What's cooking down on the Bayou? New Orleans celebrity chef Susan Spicer sautes some Blackfish with Crayfish Rice. John gives his Seafood Gumbo secrets away and gets fired up for Bananas Foster with Kitchen Goddess Andrea. D
10:00 pm
Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Flavor Fiesta" It's a party when Joanne and her student Cheryl get together. Joanne adds a sweet crisp twist to classic guacamole, shows how to improve a store bought stock to elevate tortilla soup, and then the party really begins with muddled cherry margaritas Recipes: Sweet Pea Guacamole, Tortilla Soup with Pork Meatballs, Tortillas and Cheddar, and Fresh Cherry Margaritas. Student: Cheryl Kovelchik, Entertainment Marketing. D
10:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Iran's Historic Capitals" Rick explores three former capitals: Persepolis and its monuments; Shiraz with tombs of nationally loved poets; and Esfahan with its extraordinary mosques.G
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Great Conversations "Rosanne Cash/Nick Spitzer" Singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash sings several songs and discusses her book Composed: A Memoir with National Public Radio host Nick Spitzer. D


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South Shore Cultural Center
7059 S. South Shore Dr. Chicago, Illinois 60649
(773) 256-0149
Fee: Free
Age Range: Any
The Grant Park Music Festival Chorus will reach new audiences by bringing Songs of Praise and Passion, a program of a cappella music, to Chicago?s neighborhood parks. ?We?re thrilled to be able to return to the tradition of showcasing the Grant Park Chorus in the neighborhoods and providing exposure to audiences who might never come to Millennium Park,? added Chorus Director Christopher Bell.


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CFOs, treasurers, analysts, and other financial management decision-makers have made in-roads in mitigating risk by increasing restrictions on which banks can hold their uninsured deposits and updating their investment policies frequently. But despite progress in both understanding and managing counterparty risk, many organizations still do not appear to have formal counterparty risk exposure policies or frameworks in place, nor do they appear to be able to adequately aggregate, analyze, and monitor their counterparty exposures.
These were two of the major findings revealed in the fourth annual Liquidity Risk Survey, a study of short-term investment, debt, and forecasting practices conducted by Capital Advisors Group, Inc. and Strategic Treasurer LLC. The 2014 survey, the results of which were released in May, elicited responses from 112 treasury and finance professionals, including CFOs, treasurers, assistant treasurers, vice presidents of finance/treasury, managers or directors of cash investments, treasury/cash managers, and treasury/cash analysts. Respondents spanned companies ranging in size from over $10 billion in annual revenue (21 percent) to those with less than $500 million (29 percent).
Progress in Some Areas of Risk Mitigation
Bank ratings have declined significantly since the financial crisis. In 2008, 60 percent of the top 20 U.S. banks received Moody's ratings of Aa3 or better. This year, only 25 percent rank that high. Similarly, in 2008 Moody's didn't rate any of the top U.S. banks at A3 or below, whereas today 40 percent fall into that range. (See Figure 1, below.)
Perhaps in response, treasury and finance professionals appear to have continued the practice of paying close attention to risk in their investment portfolio. A half-decade after the peak of the financial crisis, survey respondents in 2014 report that their company is regularly reviewing and revising its investment policy. Forty-two percent said they have updated their corporate investment policies during the past year—half of those within the six months prior to the survey—and two-thirds said they've updated their policies within the past two years (see Figure 2 on page 2).
The content of those policies reflects heightened counterparty concerns. One-third of respondents said their company requires a minimum credit rating of AA- or better on uninsured bank deposits, up 9 percentage points (38 percent) in just the past year. Interestingly, the proportion of companies in which investment policies do not specify a minimum counterparty credit rating for banks holding uninsured deposits—or set a minimum credit rating of BBB+ or below—also increased 9 percentage points, from 26 percent in 2013 to 35 percent in 2014. This sub-trend bears monitoring in future surveys.
Ongoing concerns about the health of the global banking and financial system underscore the wisdom of taking measures to mitigate counterparty risks. Companies face exposures from multiple sources, including (but not limited to) bank deposit balances, money market fund holdings, separately managed account holdings, lines of credit, foreign exchange contracts, and vendor and customer accounts. Some businesses seem to be implementing strategies to mitigate risks across counterparties in a comprehensive way. Unfortunately, few organizations appear to have yet reached that level of sophistication in their risk management practices.
Major Hurdles Remain
Counterparty risk management and mitigation appear to continue to pose major challenges for the average corporation's treasury and finance teams. Results of our 2014 survey indicate that many companies lack formal policies for managing counterparty risk, and they lack techniques for accurately calibrating that risk.
For one thing, organizations seem to be having difficulty compiling a companywide view of risks. When survey respondents were asked to identify their company's most urgent need in the realm of counterparty risk management, 19 percent selected aggregation of risk exposures. Another 18 percent identified knowledge, transparency, and visibility as their most crucial concern.
Another problem may be that there are critical gaps in many companies' processes for formally monitoring counterparty risk. For example, only 36 percent of companies surveyed said that they formally monitor credit counterparties with respect to debt. Moreover, only 14 percent view counterparty risk as a significant factor in their debt decisions, which represents a sharp contrast to the pervasive implementation and ongoing revision of their investment policies (see Figure 3).
The techniques companies are using to calibrate counterparty risk raise yet another issue: Survey respondents appear to be using a limited set of variables to calculate the risks they face. More than three-quarters of respondents use data from nationally recognized statistical ratings organizations (NRSRO) like Moody's, Fitch Ratings, and Standard & Poor's to calibrate counterparty risks. Some also use industry ratings and market data, such as credit default swap (CDS) levels, in assessing counterparty risk—but those proportions are much lower (see Figure 4, on page 3.). Given the conflict of interest that arises because issuers pay the ratings agencies, using ratings data alone may be insufficient for gauging risk. It's important to pull together data from multiple sources and internally generate credit risk ratings. Independent multifactorial models that incorporate qualitative and quantitative variables may provide a clearer and more holistic view of risk, allowing finance and treasury professionals to more effectively limit and manage counterparty risk.
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The survey also revealed ways in which companies are shifting their approach to debt management, likely with the goal of minimizing their exposure to possible changes in debt markets. A reduction in the number of loan covenants, along with the possibility that interest rates will increase in the near future, may help to explain why 64 percent of survey respondents said their company has negotiated or renegotiated credit facilities in the past year, up from 56 percent in last year's survey. Twenty-eight percent of organizations had fewer loan covenants than the last time they negotiated debt agreements.
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This year's Liquidity Risk Survey shows a clear trend toward improvement in certain risk mitigation practices, and we expect that trend to continue into 2015. Last year, our survey indicated a complacency toward bank exposures, while this year's survey revealed that over the past year companies have taken meaningful steps to mitigate risk, including placing limits on uninsured bank deposits.
Yet this year's survey suggests that companies remain complacent toward counterparty risk management. Many practitioners appear to still lack appropriate frameworks for aggregating, assessing, and monitoring counterparty risk. They seem to be relying on limited data and credit ratings that may not enable them to truly grasp risk trends. We're hopeful that our 2015 survey provides better news about the adoption and maturation of corporate counterparty risk management metrics and tools.
Benjamin K. Campbell is the founder and chief executive officer of Capital Advisors Group, Inc., which is an independent investment advisor specializing in institutional cash investments, credit and counterparty risk management, and debt financing. He has been named one of the "100 Most Influential People in Finance" by Treasury & Risk. Email him at email@example.com.
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Betty Jane Sawtelle, 86, of Betzer Road, Delavan, WI, died Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, at Aurora Lakeland Medical Center. She was born Aug. 28, 1927, in Cedar Rapids, IA, the daughter of the late George N. and Lucille G. (Moore) Koehler. She was united in marriage to Gerald W. Sawtelle on March 12, 1948, in Plano, IL. Betty was a devoted homemaker and a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. She enjoyed sewing, quilting and was a great cook. For over 15 years she worked at McDonalds in Delavan. She was a member of the Millard Community Covenant Church. Betty joined the Eastern Star at the age of 18. She was a past Worthy Matron and a White Shrine.
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Stilton is one of the most well-known blue cheeses in the world — up there with Roquefort, Gorgonzola and Cabrales. As possibly the most traditional English cheese, Stilton is often called the "King of English cheeses" and sometimes (and more controversially!) the "King of Blues."
Where did the name of the cheese come from? In the early 1700s, the road running between York and London was well-trafficked. One of the key stopping points for travelers on this road was a place called Bell Inn, located in the village of Stilton in Leicestershire. The proprietor of that inn, Cooper Thornhill, started serving his guests a blue cheese made in the nearby town of Melton Mowbray. Responding to its popularity, Mr. Thornhill started selling the cheese to people in London. By the mid-1700s, he was sending an amazing 1,000 wheels a week!
Originally, Stilton was made on small farms but, given its popularity, there was an interest in streamlining production. In 1875, a small factory began producing the cheese and in 1910, the Stilton Makers Association was registered as a trademark. Per regulation, the cheese can only be made in the following counties: Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire. During the cheesemaking process, Stilton's curds are treated in an unusual way — once the curds are released from their mold and can stand on their own, they are left to ripen overnight, which helps contribute to the cheese's creaminess. Stilton is aged between 9-14 weeks — at 6 weeks the wheel is pierced to allow air in to develop the blue mold — and is allowed to develop a rind (unlike most other blues which are rindless). It takes about 17 gallons of milk to make one 15-lb. wheel of Stilton.
Only five dairies are licensed to make Stilton today. We get ours from Colston Bassett via Neal's Yard Dairy in London. Colston Bassett sources its milk from five farms that are situated within a five-mile radius of the dairy. They are the only Stilton producer that actually ladles the curds by hand — important because when cheese is hand-ladled, less of the coagulating enzyme rennet has to be used during cheesemaking, resulting in a creamier texture. It is also noteworthy that we get our Colston Bassett Stilton from Neal's Yard Dairy because Neal's Yard gets a unique version of the cheese, available nowhere else in Britain. This Stilton is made with traditional animal rennet (as opposed to vegetable rennet), making it more faithful to the original Stilton recipe. As well, per Neal's Yard Dairy specifications, the cheese is pierced slightly later and less often than batches destined for other cheese counters, giving the cheese a more balanced flavor.
Stilton is the only cheese in England that is protected by legislation (unlike France, Italy or Spain where the AOC, DOC and DOP systems prevail). And, this is actually where Stichelton comes into the picture. According to current regulations, for a cheese to be called Stilton, it must (among other criteria) be made from pasteurized milk. Stichelton is made with raw, organic milk. As a result, it is presumably closer to the Stilton that farmers were making three centuries ago. However, because the cheese is name-protected, the cheesemakers could not call it "Stilton" and had to get creative. Going back to William the Conqueror's Domesday Book, they took the old English name for the town of Stilton: Stichelton. Considering that the raw milk version of this cheese could be deemed more historically accurate, it seems appropriate that it was given the historical name for the town. Like Colston Bassett Stilton, Stichelton is hand-ladled and made with animal rennet.
Stichelton is the brainchild of a cheesemaker named Joe Schneider and Randolph Hodgson of Neal's Yard Dairy. Schneider decided to take on the challenge of making raw milk Stilton after great success making Daylesford Cheddar. He started experimenting with Stichelton in 2006, selling through Neal's Yard Dairy. After working through some initial kinks, he has developed a wonderful cheese.
Someone once said to me, "The best cheese you will ever taste will be a raw milk cheese and the worst cheese you ever taste will be a raw milk cheese." I always thought that this accurately encapsulated the vagaries of raw milk cheese. It is much easier for cheesemakers to control the results of their products and ensure a consistent flavor when their milk has been pasteurized. By eliminating bacteria in their cheese, they have a more definite idea of how it will age. At the same time, pasteurization can eliminate a lot of the bacteria that gives cheese its wonderful flavor, its terroir and complexity. Raw milk cheeses are more challenging because, although cheesemakers may introduce cultures, they cannot fully predict how the bacteria in the milk will affect the cheese's flavor. This is why Schneider's accomplishment is so impressive!
I wish I could find out how Cooper Thornill served Stilton to his guests in the Bell Inn – did he pair it with anything in particular? Was it served with dessert? Was it served with bread? Although I don't know what he used to showcase this wonderful cheese, some very traditional pairings have evolved over the years. A lot of folks know the cheese crumbled over a salad or a steak. Most traditionally, however, it is served with tawny Port.
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Prospect acquired by A's
- Jefry Marte, 3B: Marte, No. 16 on the Mets' Top 20 at the time of the trade, was once thought of as one of the top prospects in the Mets system. He stalled in Class A for a while, though he did go to the 2011 Futures Game. After a solid campaign in the 2011 Arizona Fall League, he showed some signs of life in Double-A in 2012, with a better approach at the plate and glimpses of the tools that excited people in the first place. He was tremendous against lefties, hitting .336/.390/.560, though it's still not clear if he'll hit for the kind of power teams like to see from an everyday third baseman. Signed in July 2007, Marte is still only 21, so there is a chance he could still reach some of his potential. Defensive flexibility -- he did play a handful of games at first in 2012 -- could help him land a job as a role player eventually.
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In exchange for Cowgill, the Mets sent Minor League infielder Jefry Marte to Oakland.
Cowgill, 26, posted a .269/.336/.317 batting line with a home run and nine RBIs in 38 games for Oakland last season. He spent most of the season with Triple-A Sacramento, where he batted .254 with four homers, 37 RBIs and 33 runs scored in 61 games. Cowgill has a .255 average in 74 career Major League games.
The outfielder was selected by the D-backs in the fifth round of the 2008 First-Year Player Draft out of the University of Kentucky, and he made his Major League debut with Arizona in 2011, compiling a .239/.300/.304 batting line in 36 games. He drove in two runs in the National League Division Series against Milwaukee that year and was traded to Oakland in December 2011 as part of a five-player deal.
Marte played with Double-A Binghamton last season. The 21-year-old infielder batted .251 with nine homers, 58 RBIs and 61 runs scored in 129 games.
Adam Berry is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @adamdberry. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.