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Research suggest that eye-injuries are more common in Floorball as compared to Tennis, but less common as compared to Squash (similar to Racquetball).
To minimize this risk of injury Floorballcentral recommend: Use certified protective eye-wear (mandated in many European areas for the youth). Do not lay down on the court. Follow the rules strict on stick height.
Also if you get addicted to this sport - do not blame us!

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While the recession inspired big gains in the working capital metrics of U.S. companies in 2009 and 2010, since then progress has stalled, according to consultancy REL.
Working capital measures the extent to which a company's liquidity is tied up in its receivables, payables and inventories. When the economy slowed, companies were motivated to squeeze as much liquidity out of those areas as they could.
"During the recession, working capital dramatically improved," said Dan Ginsberg, an associate principal at REL, a division of the Hackett Group. Companies increased the speed at which they collected from their customers, extended the amount of time they took to pay their own bills and reduced their inventories, he said.
The gains didn't last. "When the crisis subsided, in 2010, companies took their eye off the ball, so to speak," Ginsberg said.
While companies' revenues have risen, the increase has been outpaced by the increase in their working capital. "What that means is that you have to put more working capital toward every dollar of revenue you're generating," he said. "That's not the result you want."
But Ginsberg said that it's not surprising the progress tailed off. "In our research, as well as the work we do with clients, we see that there's very little stickiness in working capital outperformance," he said. "Those who do very well tend to hold onto that level of performance for one year or two years. Very few are able to maintain it for three years."
The normal ebb and flow of business, as a company renews its contracts with its suppliers, adds new suppliers or strikes deals with new customers, means there are constant opportunities for working capital metrics to deteriorate, Ginsberg said. For example, the procurement group may shift its focus from getting the longest payment terms possible on its purchases to getting the lowest price possible. On the receivables side, sales representatives may try to boost their numbers by offering to give customers more time to pay. And if the sales team and collections aren't in sync, a customer with a question about an invoice might go directly to a sales person, and the sales person might resolve the dispute without consulting with collections, and in a manner that doesn't match the parameters of the company's working capital management rules, Ginsberg said.
Making headway on working capital management is complicated by the fact that the processes involved are spread over so many different departments. As a result, Ginsberg says, the key to success is the governance structure that companies put in place to oversee working capital efforts.
While there's a perception that working capital is the responsibility of the finance team, "because of the need for cross-collaboration, it's often beyond the scope of finance to rein in working capital," he said. "They only have so much influence on what's going on in different business units," he added, citing such areas as manufacturing and procurement.
In REL's view, the best practice, which is "not that prevalent," is to establish a center of excellence for working capital that includes representatives from finance, manufacturing and global shared services, he said.
Shahrokh Moinian, head of trade finance and cash management for corporates Americas, Global Transaction Banking at Deutsche Bank, said he has seen some multinational companies name a senior executive as head of working capital, illustrating the importance of this activity within the finance and treasury functions and helping to further fuel the growth of supply chain finance.
While treasurers may not be in charge of working capital, Ron Chakravarti, managing director and head of liquidity solutions and treasury advisory for Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions, said they can play an important role in educating other parts of the company about why working capital matters.
"What treasury is becoming is not the decider but the key influencer," Chakravarti said. "It understands capital management or if you will, corporate finance. It's applying that corporate finance discipline to tell the business, 'Revenue looks fine but if you look at how we're using our capital, it's very inefficient.'"
REL's Ginsberg said companies' biggest opportunity to improve their working capital lies in the area of inventory and added that he has seen an "increasing focus" on this area. But he said inventory is the most challenging aspect of working capital.
Inventory involves not only payment terms, but raw materials, the company's work in progress and its finished goods. And as companies' supply chains stretch across the world, their inventory is also far flung. "It's much more complex and therefore the management of it is much more complex, and it requires a greater degree of cross-functional collaboration than the other areas," Ginsberg said, and cites an "increasing focus" on inventories.
Bankers and consultants agree that when it comes to working capital, shifting invoices and payments away from paper to an electronic format is a plus.
"In general, any time you're doing electronic anything, it should impact," said Douglas St. Amant, senior vice president of global treasury management sales at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ/Union Bank. "Especially on the collection side, if you can get invoices out sooner, or if you're doing auto posting."
Chrystal Pozin, a managing director at consultancy Treasury Strategies, noted that making payments electronically gives companies "more leeway in negotiating terms with their suppliers," as well as more flexibility in timing. "I can decide when I put the electronic payment in, whereas the check cycle runs a specific number of times, anywhere from one to four times a month," depending on the company, Pozin said.
Centralization is another way companies can realize gains, said Citi's Chakravarti.
"If you have 100 businesses operating in 100 different places, and each is doing its own way of collecting money from customers and paying money to suppliers, you're going to be a lot more inefficient than if you've centralized those processes into a few locations," he said.
A company with multiple units could move payables and receivables flows to an in-house bank, he suggested. "Ultimately that centralization of flows is what gives companies greater predictability of when cash is going to come in and out," Chakravarti said. "It's a very logical next step to do that to squeeze out efficiencies."
Read the June Special Report on Working Capital Management.
Supply Chain Finance Takes Off
Working Capital Management: There Goes the Rigor
Evolutions in Treasury Centralization
Distributor Finance: A New Strategy to Support Top-Line Growth and Sales into Emerging Markets


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Hynix DRAM layout, process integration adapt to change
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Korean memory maker Hynix recently introduced its 30-nm class (3X) DRAM. UBM TechInsights performed a complete structural analysis of the low power, 2-Gbit DDR3 SDRAM H5TC2G83CFR-H9R.
Surprisingly, the wordline (WL) pitch measured in the bitline (BL) direction was found to be the same as in the previous generation Hynix 44-nm 2-Gbit DDR3 SDRAM, which was measured to be 88 nm. Usually, the technology node for DRAM is defined as the half-wordline pitch. According to the standard definition, the H5TC2G83CFR-H9R device remains at the same node as the previous generation. However, the unit cell of this new device is 40 percent smaller than that of the 44-nm node device.
As seen in the figure below, the process integration scheme is significantly different: The Hynix 44-nm SDRAM has a WL above the Si substrate level and the array transistor employs the saddle-fin structure; the new Hynix SDRAM has a WL below the substrate surface and uses the buried-wordline (bWL) scheme.
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Figure 1: Unit cell and wordline (WL) pitch, SEM cross-section, in bitline direction. Hynix 44 nm and Hynix 31 nm both have the same WL pitch (88 nm), which by conventional definition implies that the technology node is 44 nm. Hynix 31-nm device uses a buried wordline line integration scheme and has a smaller unit cell than Hynix 44 nm.


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Adrenalectomy is an operation in which one or both adrenal glands are removed. The adrenal glands are part of the endocrine system and are located just above the kidneys.
Adrenal gland removal; Removal of adrenal glands
Adrenalectomy can be performed in two ways. The type of surgery you will undergo depends on the problem being treated.
The surgeon will discuss which approach is better for you.
For the surgery, you will be placed under general anesthesia (asleep and pain-free).
After the adrenal gland is removed, it is always sent to a pathologist for examination under a microscope.
The adrenal gland is removed when there is known cancer or a growth (mass) that might be cancer.
Sometimes a mass in the adrenal gland is removed because it releases a hormone that can cause harmful side effects.
With any operation or anesthesia, there is a slight risk of:
It is important to have the procedure done at a center that is experienced in adrenal gland removal.
Always tell your doctor or nurse:
During the days before the surgery:
On the day of the surgery:
As with any operation, there will be discomfort after surgery.
Most patients who undergo laparoscopic adrenalectomy have a shorter hospital stay, less pain, and faster recovery compared to the open procedure.
Complete recovery from the procedure may take several weeks or longer, depending on the type of surgical cuts you have.
Duh QY, Yeh MW. The adrenal glands. In: Townsend CM, Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL, eds. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 18th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2007:chap 39.
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Moving from CCFT- to LED-backlit LCD modules
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Many manufacturers of LCD modules are moving to LED-backlit units, and Sharp is responding to increasing customer demand for LED-backlit modules. LED backlights offer several advantages over CCFTs (Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tubes), with the primary reason being power savings, followed by the absence of mercury and superior low-temperature operation.
Moving a product from a CCFT-backlit module to an LED-backlit module raises a number of concerns for the designer:
Overall compatibilityWhy change at all
Mechanical compatibility
Optical compatibility
Color compatibility
Revision control
Long-term availability
The advantages of LED backlighting are many: better cold, shock and vibration tolerance, better color, less power consumption, more environmentally-friendly, and complete lack of RF output created by an inverter. ?However, as our world goes greener, more and more CCFT backlight subassembly suppliers are closing shop or restricting product output due to environ- mental concerns. This means a fundamental shift for designers and customers who are currently purchasing or considering CCFT-backlit LCD modules. ?Longevity of the backlight luminaire is often considered when contemplating the transition to LED, and the extreme ends of the temperature specification had been an area of concern.
The rule-of-thumb used to be, Hot - CCFT, Cold - LED, but no longer. ?CCFTs have long been the choice when a module is being operated at its maximum operating temperature, yet their lifetime is severely shortened when operating them near their minimum operating temperature. In some cases of continued operation in extreme cold, CCFTs may not reach even the greater half of their rated lifetime. LEDs tend to perform best in the opposite manner: long-lived when being operated at the module's minimum operating temperature, and shorter-lived when operating near the module's maximum operating temperature.
Meanwhile, by testing modules to the maximum limit of their specifications, Sharp guarantees their modules will perform to specifications at those published extremes. So even though the target application may involve higher ambient temperatures, as long as the design maintains the module within its published Absolute Maximum Values, you can have confidence that a Sharp module will perform to its lifetime specifications. Often the LED-backlit upgrade module will have the same Absolute Maximum Values specified.
When it comes to driver circuits for the two different backlight types, LED drivers again are at an advantage. CCFT drivers must generate a high 'start-up' (or striking) voltage and then maintain a certain high level of run voltage at a given current level. These high voltages require proper management and precautions in the final design; sealing against high dust and humidity levels, for instance.
In the past, the LEDs shortened lifetime at higher temperatures was a reason to reject an LED-backlit module for a high-temperature application. However, LED technology continues to evolve, allowing them to become better-suited for higher temperature applications.
Modern LED backlights feature higher-efficacy emitters, meaning in a watts-per-lumen sense they are not being operated nearly as close to the upper end of their performance envelope as in times past. They also feature adequate heatsinking so that all generated heat is dissipated properly. In Figure 1, the LED string and circuit board is bonded to the back chassis of the LCD module. This gives the LED string more than adequate heatsinking.
LED drivers are much less complex in nature, with no high voltages to generate and manage in the design. The LED string(s) do however require a constant-current supply with current limiting to prevent thermal runaway. Some suppliers are now making a driver-in-a-chip solution so driving an LED backlight is becoming even simpler.


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A Q&A with Parker great Mistie Bass
She is arguably the greatest high school girls basketball player in state history.
Her impressive resume includes two WIAA Division 1 state titles at Janesville Parker and four Player of the Year honors in the Big Eight Conference. She is the only female in state history to be named AP Player of the Year three times, and she was a USA Today All-America selection her senior year.
Yet for everything Mistie Bass has done in her storied career, including two trips to the Final Four while playing at Duke University and seven productive years in the WNBA, a lifelong dream has remained unfulfilled. That dream could become a reality in 2016.
Bass dreamed of playing in the Olympics. She hopes to get a chance with the French national team in the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Bass has played in France during the WNBA offseason the last couple years, and in 2014, she can apply for her citizenship in the country. That will allow her to try out for the French national team and possibly earn a spot on the country's 2016 Olympic team.
The 2002 Parker High graduate is still playing in the European League while living in France. She recently emailed The Gazette and answered questions about her incredible basketball career, which saw her average a career-best 7.0 points and 4.4 rebounds per game last season in the WNBA with the Connecticut Sun.
1. You had a very solid year with the Sun. Your scoring average and shooting percentage were your best ever. What was the difference this season compared to seasons past?
Bass: I really had to focus on doing the most with the time that was given. My role changed drastically this season, and my minutes were lowered. When this happened, I could have easily decided to give up, but instead, every chance I had on the court, I wanted to prove that I should stay out there. My goal was to have the highest evaluation possible in the time I was given. That determination allowed me to remain positive, focused, and it led to a great outcome. I was very pleased with my personal season.
2. Do you plan on coming back to the Sun next season or are there other plans in the
Bass: As far as returning to the same team, that is all up in the air right now. This is the first year of my career when I actually have the choice to decide where is the best place for me. That has never been the case in previous seasons, due to my playing time and restricted free agency. I feel like I am free to make my own choices now and decide what direction I want my career to go. That is an amazing feeling. So I will see what offers are out there, talk with my agent, and if the Sun is the best choice, I will return. If not, you may see me in a new uniform next summer.
�3. Do you get back to the area (Janesville) often, and would you like to come
back here when your playing days are over?
Bass: I live in Houston during the offseason, but I was back in Janesville last December for Parker's annual alumni game. That was a blast seeing all the former players from over the years and being able to play on that basketball court again. What a great feeling of knowing how it felt being there years before I became who I am now. It's always a very humbling experience returning to my roots. I would LOVE to come back to Janesville for one moment that still rests on my dream list—retiring my jersey. I still dream about that becoming a possibility and hope one day I can return for that. I also plan on coaching after my career, so who knows, I may end up at University of Wisconsin.
4. You said coaching might be in your future. At what level would you be interested in coaching?
Bass: Yes, I do plan on becoming a coach in the future. I would actually prefer to be a coach of a Division I university. I find tremendous pleasure in the college game. I believe that is where REAL basketball happens. Don't get me wrong, I love being a professional, but there is something truly special about those four years in a young athlete's life that puts a stamp on who they will be for the rest of their lives. I want to be the person who cultivates an atmosphere that improves young ladies' lives on and off the court. I want to help create amazing individuals who will shine in their lives far after the last buzzer of their careers.
5. When you look back at your incredible high school career, any game or moment that sticks out the most?
Bass: Wow, there were so many amazing moments in high school that stand out. Two state championships are obviously at the top of the list. How those moments came to pass after nearly 10 years of dreaming it with the same group of little girls from the Boys and Girls Club team—who got kicked out of that league because we were too good—is still so amazing to think about. My favorite on-court moment, of course, was scoring 41 points at Madison West as a freshman and winning in overtime by one. I would love to see that game on film. I don't think I ever did. My favorite off-court memory was my coaches sitting down with me in the lunchroom at Parker with thousands of letters from coaches with the instructions to narrow down my list to 10. I looked at them like they were crazy. They really did a great job in keeping me humble through that whole process and reminding me that everything was still about team.
6. Any regrets or anything you would've done differently looking back?
Bass: Wow, what a question. Back then, I was all about basketball and didn't care much for the research of the educational programs at each individual college. I was focused on WNBA, and that was it. I think if I were to do it all over again, I would have really asked myself, 'What would I enjoy doing after basketball?' Duke is an exceptional university, but the programs there were not for me. I didn't want to go into politics, medicine or law, so my choices were slim. However, if I had done research prior to arriving to the campus, I more than likely would have made a different choice.
7. Any long-range goals or plans?
Bass: I still have some things written down on my dream list. I have already achieved so much in my career, and it would maybe seem as if there couldn't be much left to achieve, but I still would like to be a part of a WNBA championship team or a European championship team. And I want to play in the 2016 Olympics. After basketball, I want to be known as one of the best recruiters in the college game!


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Cost, quality big factors in long-term care decisions
Recent surveys, government websites and county resource centers offer helpful information on cost and quality of care for families considering late life housing and health care options, local experts said.
Considering cost
Government financial assistance depends on individual circumstances, so officials recommend families contact their county Aging and Disability Resource Center.
Long-term care can be paid out-of-pocket or through Medicaid, Medicare, veterans' payments or private insurance. Many individuals eventually "spend-down" savings and other resources and become eligible for Medicaid, according to the state Office of the Commissioner of Insurance.
Ballpark figures of what people can expect to pay are offered by a 2012 MetLife Mature Market Institute market survey in the Madison area (zip codes starting with 535, 537 and 539) of private-pay, long-term care costs and by estimates from local experts:
Home-health services: For a home health aide trained to provide hands-on care and assistance for daily living activities, the MetLife survey found an hourly range of $13 to $40, with an average of $24.
For a homemaker who provides housekeeping, meal preparation, transportation and companionship, the range was $13 to $30, with an average of $20, according to the MetLife survey.
In-home care hourly rates are based on the level of care needed, ranging in the Rock County area from $15 an hour for tasks such as laundry, up to $23 for skilled assistance, said Pam Hatfield, branch manager at BrightStar in Janesville.
Adult day care: The MetLife survey in zip codes starting with 535 and 537 found a range of $35 to $99 per day with an average of $66.
Assisted living: The MetLife survey in zip codes starting with 537 found the monthly base range was $2,495 to $5,475 with an average of $3,760.
Independent senior living apartments can be about $1,500 a month, said Rick Sheridan of Cedar Crest in Janesville. At his complex, assisted living apartments average $4,500 to $4,600 a month, he said.
At Kelly House in Evansville, owner Diane Skinner said her independent-living duplexes run about $1,650 including utilities. Additional care can be purchased. Supervised care in the assisted-living apartments depends on the care needed but starts at about $2,400 a month, she said.
Nursing homes: Expect a private-pay range of $7,000 to more than $8,000 a month.
The MetLife survey for zip codes starting with 535 and 537 found a range of $5,870 to $9,642 per month for a semiprivate room, with an average rate of $7,452. For a private room, prices ranged from $6,175 to $10,311, with an average rate of $7,939.
�The monthly private-pay rate at Rock County's Rock Haven long-term care facility is $9,125 for private rooms.
Sheridan of Cedar Crest said skilled nursing is around $8,000 a month.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services also offers searchable directories of facilities and price ranges.
Quality considerations
Government websites can help shed light on deficiencies at facilities and rate nursing homes based on inspections and data, but officials warn decisions should not be based solely on a rating system.
The website medicare.gov offers Nursing Home Compare, which allows users to search and compare quality of care information on every Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing home in the nation. It uses a five-star scale to rate facilities on health inspection results and complaints, staffing, quality measures and penalties.
ProPublica, an independent, non-profit news organization, used the deficiencies cited by regulators and penalties over the last three years to compare nursing homes. Deficiencies are rated on an A to L scale, with L being the most serious.
The most serious deficiency reported in Rock, Walworth and Green counties was a "K" case in a Beloit facility where the most severe level of harm was serving undercooked chicken to four residents, according to the report.
The state's directories for assisted living also include licensing and inspection� information.
Jennifer Thompson, division manager of the Aging and Disability Resource Center of Rock County, notes the deficiency findings for some area facilities are for issues such as workers not meeting training levels by a required date.
"If you're checking into a home, ask about the training for all of their employees. Is it up to date?" she said.�
"The deficiencies that I read—I can't think of the last one that was life and death—they're not testing fire alarms," she said. "Of course there's the occasional fall, and if someone lands in the hospital, those facilities are required, then, to report those accidents, so they're investigated. Sometimes more comes out of that.
"Really, it's fire alarms, doorways being locked" and paperwork not being signed, she said. "But we're not seeing some of those major citations."
If a family hears a horror story about a facility from one family, conversations with six other families might yield comments such as: "Oh, no, it's a wonderful facility," she said.
If people have concerns about deficiencies they find online, they should call the management and the state Division of Quality Assurance and ask how the issues were resolved, experts said.
State experts hear every day from people wondering whether they should buy long-term care insurance.
There's no easy answer. One state brochure recommends buying it "if it is right for you."
Whether you should buy a policy depends on your age, financial status (including your assets and annual income), health, marital status and retirement objectives, according to "Guide to Long Term Care" offered by the state Office of Commissioner of Insurance. The guide, available online at oci.wi.gov, provides a worksheet to help people determine their needs.
Long-term care insurance is not required, unlike health insurance. Policies cover institutional care—nursing homes or other facilities—and care in the community—home health care or other community-based services.
Polices are available to cover only institutional care or cover only community care, such as home health care.
The Board on Aging and Long Term Care offers these issues to consider before buying long-term care insurance:
-- What are you chances of needing long-term care?
-- What is your reason for considering such insurance? Long-term care insurance often is considered to be a mechanism to protect assets.
-- Can you afford the premiums without tapping into savings? No more than 7 percent of your adjusted gross income should be spent on premiums.
-- Will you qualify for medical assistance to help pay for nursing home care?
-- What other financial vehicles might be more appropriate for funding long-term care? Are mutual funds, annuities, life insurance long-term care riders or reverse mortgages among your options?
-- Are you considering the insurance because of possible tax advantages?


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Hormonal Contraceptive Agents/Clobazam Interactions
This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug or commencing any course of treatment.
Medical warning:
Serious. These medicines may interact and cause very harmful effects. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
Clobazam may speed up how quickly your body processes your birth control medicine.
What might happen:
Hormonal contraceptive products (such as "the pill", the "mini-pill", Norplant, birth control injections, and the patch) may not prevent you from becoming pregnant while you are taking clobazam. Clobazam may harm your baby.
What you should do about this interaction:
You should not rely on a hormonal contraceptive agent as your method of birth control while taking clobazam. You should use an additional, non-hormonal form of birth control while you are taking clobazam and for 28 days after you stop taking clobazam. Discuss birth control options with the doctor that prescribed clobazam for you and with your gynecologist (OB/GYN). If you think that you may be pregnant, contact your doctor right away.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.
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Theories - Origin of Life
Discussion of everything related to the Theory of Evolution.
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Oh, thank you, this is interesting! But our situation is better! Our version of the ID do not want creationism.
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Sorry for delay in responding. I have been away for a few days.
I think you misunderstand what I am saying.
Let me try and clarify.
The molecules involved in metabolic processes, without a guiding outside source of energy will follow the natural laws and disintegrate down to their elemental natural states.
I have approached this subject before but I feel it is now important to revisit it again.
Lets take the question as to what happens at death?
In other words what is the difference between, say, a living dog and a dead one?
At the moment of death, all the processes we have studied in biology cease and the dog begins to disintegrate.
However that disintegrating corpse is still subject to the same laws of physics and chemistry as the live dog was, so what was keeping the live dog living?
At the moment of death all the biochemical molecules in body are the same as when it was alive. The same functional information in the molecules remains, yet function has ceased.
Now ask yourself what kind of logic are we appealing to which suggests, that by assembling all the molecules together (assuming we are able to of course) into the form of a dog, we will create a dog that lives, or indeed any form of living organism.
Doesn't all our experience, data and intuitive understanding tell us that life is something apart from mere chemical molecules?
Life is what keeps the chemical molecules that make up our bodies from following the natural laws that send these molecules back to their constituent parts. When life is removed these molecules begin reverting back to what they were originally.
I hope that explains my point more clearly.
btw I am not arguing for the ID community. There are some fundamental difficulties I have with their line of argumentation.
I will be happy to explain in more detail if called upon.
Sorry but I am having great difficulty in understanding your posts.
It maybe a language problem.
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Hi, Chilipanda,
What about a theory that suggests there were no origins of life in this natural Universe because it connects Cosmological Evolution to Biological Evolution? This theory is the result of comparative anatomy between the first cell system and the last non-living system, which built a model of LUCA (the last Universal Common Ancestor), a kind of building blocks of astronomic systems, the lost link between the state the world about 4 billion years ago and the first nucleotide at Earth. The theory suggests the DNA as a universal template, called The Matrix/DNA. So, it is not panspermia, only suggesting that there was a hidden variable ( the matrix ) at the primordial soup.
Ok, I am the author of this theory which has cost to me about 30 years of hard work. As an agnostic I don't believe in this theory but the amount of evidences and right predictions are becoming astonishing and I am testing the models. I need ideas for testing/discussing and your topic – as I am following it – is very interesting and helpful. I should be grateful if you permit to participate in this debate. At least, I can suggest faults and gaps on the existents theories that nobody else has thought about. I can do it? Cheers…
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Hi, Believer,
There is a set of natural laws and mechanisms. If you know them and follow biological evolution in the reverse way towards biological systems origins, you will be no "left to speculations".
Feel free for asking or pointing out when you think there are gaps.
But, then, you will arrive at the state of the world before life's origins, the world that created life. If you apply the same set of laws for calculating that state of the world you will get a surprising cosmological model, where Astros exists under life's cycles and performing perfect closed systems. The blueprint of this model is a building block, identical to a nucleotide, the fundamental unit of information in the DNA. So, there was no origin of life at Earth, because Earth, itself, belongs to a system that is half-living.
So, the right calculations using only natural laws and mechanisms you discovered that there is a link between biological evolution and the past cosmological evolution: the DNA template.
Continuing going deep to the past, with those laws, you will arrive to the primordial nebula of atoms systems. But, then, you will have a more complex model of atoms: they have the principles of life's properties.
Go deepest, before the atom nebulae, and you will meet with empty vortexes. But, you will see that those vortexes have the laws, the mechanisms and all life's properties.
Now you are going to before the Big Bang, leaving this Universe and believing that those vortexes are bits-information, like genes, coming from a natural system, ex-machine. That could be your God. To me, it means merely more research work to do…
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As promised in a previous post, a transcript of an interesting conversation
You will find more information on the scientists including video clips from this event.
The video clip of Robert Shapiro is quite interesting.
I would recommend spending some time reading and viewing this.
Here is part of the transcript of the Event.
Discussion between Venter, Church and Shapiro.
Page 76
Notice how both Church and Venter agree that the ribosome has no precursor, in fact Church recommends that the ribosome is the candidate for the ID community to concentrate on as an example of irreducible complexity.
So the evidence is quite clear to these scientists, but note Shapiro's interjection
Here you have an obvious example of a renowned scientist whose thinking is guided by his philosophical view rather than by evidence.
I decided to speak out on three topic at Dawkins. But controversy still slightly opened only on one: http://richarddawkins.net/discussions/6 ... ure?page=1 .
The other two - Brake.
( - http://richarddawkins.net/discussions/5 ... FrIJIB6U8g
- http://richarddawkins.net/discussions/6 ... ife?page=4 )
Is there a bad translation and turned out? I tried so hard!
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There clearly is a problem in translating from Russian and it does make understanding your posts a little difficult. However you must be commended for trying.
I have spent some time in trying to understand your position, so let me try and respond to your view.
As I am beginning to understand it, you use the expression
In other words it seems to me that you appear believe that a technology has been developed in the past whereby peptide chains could be produced, thereby providing the ability to make cellular life.
This technology has been transferred to the earth and that accounts for our present condition.
I think you agree that this view is highly speculative, but more than that I believe you are making the same basic mistake that evolutionary theory an indeed ID theory make, that is, the appearance of life has been through a bottom up process.
In other words you start with basic building blocks ( pre-biotic and then biotic) and then build up the whole organism, this essentially summarises the evolutionary view.
The ID view ( as I understand it) has a similar perspective in that the designer has built up the organism in a Lego-like assembly way.
However this does not reflect what we observe in reality.
Let me try and explain with an example.
We tend to see the cytoskeleton portrayed as a fixed structure,
But that is simply incorrect
Cell Mechanics and the Cytoskeleton – Nature 463 Jan 28 2010 485-492)
The cell is typically about 80% water and when examined we note that the main activity is a pattern of flows. What we see are fixed structures that actually are part of these flows.
Craig Holdrege in his book " The dynamic Heart and Circulation" describes the development of the heart this way
We have been educated to see the living organism as an assembly of individual parts,for example like a watch that is put together in a certain way.
However in a living organism, (as one writer puts it)
Both the evolutionary and ID views have this common foundation. They have a bottom up perspective of living organisms, when in fact the reverse is the case.
It is the whole that determines the parts. This whole is determined from the moment the two gamete cells join to form the Zygote.
It is this wholeness that scientists have not been able to come to terms with, and the result has been a fruitless search for some understanding as to how these parts could have come together to form the whole we see and indeed are.
Chemical molecules do not come together to form life.
Even cutting edge biologists such a Craig Venter and George Church are beginning to recognise this fact.
(The little transcript of their conversation at the Edge event that I had in my last post reveals this)
They are only one step removed from recognising that life uses chemical molecules to persist. When life ends these molecules revert back to their constituent parts.
We know of no instance where life has come from any source other than another life.
To try and show that it can and indeed has is no different than looking for fairies at the bottom of some garden.
No, Venter says, that the precursor is from RNA world, but since we don't have no such ribosomes nowadays (w/o proteins), we cannot reduce the number of proteins to less than 53.
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
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Ahh, you mean this...
The molecules are still the same, they are just not regulated. Even the cells do not die immediately after death, but they survive a little, although they are not synchronized anymore and of course, the shortage of supply causes their death later. This was discussed in another topic recently.
Please, go on.
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
Thank you!
The hypothesis is that the cell membrane - this is a direct descendant of the brilliant engineers who have several billion years ago created "Nucleic-acid-peptide micro-molecular technology". That's membrane and is the carrier of "consciousness" - what we call 'I'. Everything else - equipment.
You can say so, that in every cell membrane formed a kind of cellular "self", which is the "active model of the world in an electromagnetic field of the membrane."
I must add that this hypothesis is very useful in molecular biology, because it creates a theoretical model of cell entity which manages all the cellular technologies. A lot gets new meaning clear! At least, now we need to look for those instructions that guided this subject!
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Thanks for your response.
May I deal with your points in turn for fear my post will get too long, something for which in the past I plead guilty.
Firstly please note what he previously said about the ribosome
Also what Venter actually then said was this
The RNA world is a speculative scenario that many are clinging to in order to have some hope of progress. However even Venter knows that is a speculative hope. He probably was not aware at that time of the NASA report (I have referred to it previously) which stated quite clearly that there are no plausible hypothesis for routes to complex biochemical molecules, either chemically or thermodynamically.
So probably not even being aware of the NASA conclusion at that time he remained in the speculative world of RNA
Now if you wish to remain there as well, then that's OK it's your choice, but please, remember that science is not backing you up.
Now on the question of organism death you responded
You are right we have discussed this before, and forgive me when I state that I feel you may not have quite grasped the point I was making.
At the moment just prior to death all the biochemical molecules in the dog are still functioning and intact.
At the very moment of death they are still there, however as you rightly point out the regulatory mechanisms cease and the molecules begin to disintegrate.
In other words, the natural laws of physics, chemistry and thermodynamics continue operating but without the guiding regulation that has now been removed, and the result is degeneration, down to their constituent parts.
Therefore the natural course that natural laws take, breakdown biochemical molecules.
Since that is the case how can those same laws naturally guide the building of cellular life let alone the whole organisms
They have to be guided down the different regulated pathways if they are to succeed.
So whatever life is, it is certainly not a constituent part of physics or chemistry.
That is why a naturalist view of the origin of life is scientifically untenable.
That is also why NASA has been forced to draw the conclusion it has.
If any organisation needed a natural explanation to life's origin it is they.Just think of all the funding they would receive if they could. There is every incentive for them to prove that they have conquered the problem of Abiogenesis, and if they were able to then I will let you speculate on the news headlines!!
One further point to note.
Nobody has been able to describe what life actually is.
There are many who have tried to define it in one way or another, but there is no consensus even on this basic point.
One rather cute tribal description is :-
"Anything that is capable of Darwinian evolution".
I will deal with the ID situation very shortly in the next post.
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Here are problems I have with Intelligent Design theorists.
This is what they have to say.
There appears to be a contradiction in the above statement.
A fundamental doctrine of Darwinism is the principle of common decent/ancestry, and yet some adherents of ID ( Michael Behe for example) endorses this principle of common ancestry.
If there is common ancestry then there has to be a mechanism that engenders this process. I have not seen that explained anywhere. Darwin explained his mechanism.
Also, by way of an example, why would a designer tie a human being to an ape through common ancestry.?
Why not make each separately?
It seems to me that some of the ID community are facing both ways. I have tried to find an explanation as to how this is not a contradiction but have been unable to as yet. Maybe some one will be able to enlighten me.
However there is a more fundamental problem in which ID is explained.
Perhaps I could illustrate it this way.
If I am to design a house, I don't start with designing certain aspects of it say, the kitchen sink, then the bathroom mirror or bedrooms etc and then try and fit them all together to provide an overall framework.
In other words I don't start from the bottom and work upwards.
This is how evolutionary theory is explained. (i.e. a bottom up approach)
Design however implies purpose. Therefore it is a top down action.
So, to try and explain design as ID proponents do in finding structures within an organism that are, for example irreducibly complex and then stating that this is evidence of Intelligent design is not sufficient.
A living organism is more than the sum of all it parts.
Also they appear to present a mechanistic view of organisms, a sort of sum total of biological machines.
The very icon of the ID community is presented as an outboard motor. (the bacterial flagellum).
When something is designed, there is always a purpose to the design.
The various parts that go into that design always grow out of that purpose.
Now I don't see the ID community addressing this anywhere in their literature. In fact they appear to concentrate on simply refuting neo Darwinism.
Actually there is nothing wrong in presenting evidence that corrects a wrong idea.
I myself can be successfully accused of that.
Certainly the work they do is very informative and I have learned a lot from them as indeed I have from the evolutionary community.
However there is no apparent attempt to replace that idea (neo Darwinism) with another that demonstrates purpose.
They are shying away from the obvious implications of what design means.
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Christopher A. Becker, Madison (1967 - 2013)
February 13, 1967 - November 27, 2013
Christopher A. Becker, 46, Madison, WI, died as a result of a fall while in Wausau. He was born in Madison, on Feb. 13, 1967, and attended school there and, later, in Janesville, where he graduated from Craig High School. He received his Bachelors degree from UW-Madison. He was employed with Cincinnati Insurance Companies from 1997 until early November. His title was Senior Claims Specialist in common vernacular "insurance adjuster." Chris was a very sensitive individual and had great empathy for others. You could count on him for good conversation and a listening ear. Photography was his passion and he took many pictures on his extensive travels throughout the world. He also loved photographing birds. He had a real soft spot for animals, especially his mother's cats. While in high school, he played soccer and continued to follow international soccer. He lived by the philosophy, "Live simply so that others might live."
Chris was preceded in death by his father, Kenneth Becker. He is survived by his mother, Lette Becker of Wausau; one brother, Todd Becker of Madison; aunts and uncles: Wayne Becker, Robert G. Becker, Steve (Connie) Zick, Ted Zick, and Sandy (Carl) Boehme; and cousins: Mark (Kathy) Zick, David (Carla) Zick, Rodney (Rhonda) Zick, Joy Buchberger, Linda (Lee) Anderson, Dawn Zick, Tiffanie (Ben) Wright, Ann (Scott) Hunger, Andy (Heather) Becker, and Joel Becker.
Chris was an organ donor. We hope that his death will restore health to others.
A Memorial Service will be held at FIRST ENGLISH LUTHERAN CHURCH on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013. Visitation will be from 2 p.m. until the time of service at 3 p.m.. Pastor Erik Olson officiating. In lieu of other expressions of sympathy, a donation may be given in his memory to Drs. Without Borders, Salvation Army, Earthjustice the legal arm of the Sierra Club, or any charitable organization of your choice. Mid-Wisconsin Cremation Society is assisting the family. Online condolences may be expressed at jjbfh.com.


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Sad news today, as legendary film and stage actor Peter O'Toole has passed away in London at the age of 81. The Irish actor, who just announced his retirement last year, was known for his work in films like 'Lawrence of Arabia,' 'The Lion in Winter,' 'Goodbye Mr. Chips,' and the 2006 film 'Venus,' for which he was nominated for an Academy Award.
As first reported by The Guardian and the Daily Mail in the UK, Peter O'Toole was checked into the hospital on Friday for an illness and passed away on Saturday due to complications. His agent has confirmed his passing to these outlets, as well as to CBS News.
O'Toole first achieved major stardom as T.E. Lawrence in 'Lawrence of Arabia,' and went on to earn eight Oscar nominations for his roles in films including 'Goodbye Mr. Chips,' 'The Lion in Winter,' and 'The Ruling Class,' though he never took home the statue. In 2002, the Academy announced that they would bestow him with an honorary Oscar, and he responded with a letter in which he turned it down, claiming with cheeky certainty that he was "still in the game and might win the lovely bugger outright, would the Academy please defer the honour until I am 80."
O'Toole accepted the award anyway, and went on to be nominated again in 2006 for his performance in the drama 'Venus' as a lecherous old man; he lost to Forest Whitaker for his performance in 'The Last King of Scotland.' Following his appearance in 'Venus,' he lent his vocal talents to Pixar's 'Ratatouille' as the harsh restaurant critic Anton Ego, and portrayed Pope Paul III on the Showtime series 'The Tudors.'
Just last year, O'Toole announced he was retiring from acting at the age of 80, but recently revealed his participation in an upcoming film titled 'Katherine of Alexandria,' in which he would play Cornelius Gallus, an ancient Roman palace orator.
O'Toole leaves behind two daughters, Kate and Patricia, whom he shares with his wife, actress Sian Phillips.


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Lincecum, Giants display lighter side at FanFest
By Chris Haft / MLB.com
SAN FRANCISCO -- Buster Posey and Tim Lincecum, that allegedly toxic pair, got a head start on fixing whatever needs to be mended in their relationship, whether it's a little or a lot.
Said by skeptics to bristle at each other as batterymates, Posey and Lincecum appeared together in a question-and-answer session during Saturday's FanFest at AT&T Park. Not a single discouraging word passed between them -- though nothing like that would happen in public, anyway.
Posey did go out of his way to praise Lincecum. Early in the program, Lincecum answered a question about his future -- which is uncertain due to his impending free agency -- before Posey blurted, without prompting, "Timmy's a gamer. He always loves pitching in big situations. ... You can't put a number on that."
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Posey brushed aside talk of a rift.
"I'll just go ahead and say it: Tim and I are friends," Posey said. "There's no issue there."
Posey rarely caught Lincecum last season, fanning rumors of discord. But manager Bruce Bochy repeated that for continuity's sake, he typically rested Posey or played him at first base when Lincecum or Barry Zito pitched. Bochy stressed that Posey and Lincecum can work together, noting that they collaborated smoothly when the right-hander thrived in relief during last year's postseason.
Lincecum acknowledged that there's room for more familiarity between him and Posey.
"That's something that I'm going to be working on this year," Lincecum said on Friday. "Obviously, we didn't throw to each other many times last year, but when we did, in the playoffs, it worked out."
Lincecum denied that his relationship with Posey is strained.
"There's nothing going on," Lincecum said. "It's just a matter who was catching that day and who Bochy would put in there."
Interestingly, both players said in response to a fan's question that if they could play another position, they'd select each other's. Posey, who pitched at Florida State University, recalled wanting to "try it on the bump," and Lincecum formerly yearned to "put on the gear," quickly adding, "I think I'd get killed."
The ease Posey and Lincecum displayed on stage was facilitated by right fielder Hunter Pence, who joined them. A couple of times, Pence provided opportunities for Posey to flash his dry sense of humor, which the outside world rarely sees.
"Buster's probably the biggest joker of all of us," Pence said.
Pence related that Posey said during the morning bus ride to the ballpark, "The only reason I miss baseball so much is I couldn't wait to make fun of all you guys."
A fan asked Lincecum and Posey to describe the effect of Pence's motivational speeches during last year's postseason. After Pence jumped in with an explanation, Posey said, "I thought that question was for me and Timmy."
Posey also showed his own wry side. In a discussion about Marco Scutaro's superior offensive production, Posey said, "What stood out the most is [that] this guy's 45 years old."
When a fan observed that third baseman Pablo Sandoval talks a lot, Posey offered his own view: "Pablo doesn't talk a lot. Pablo yells a lot."
Lincecum also contributed to the show's spirit. After Pence delivered an exaggerated imitation of Lincecum's windup, swinging his left leg and corkscrewing his arm backward, Lincecum responded with his own version of Pence's batting stance.
Lincecum wasn't among the Giants who taped imitations of Pence for the Giants' World Series DVD, but he demonstrated what he would have done by springing from his chair to take a wide stance, wiggling his torso and bugging out his eyes Pence-style as the audience dissolved into laughter.
Inevitably, Lincecum was asked about his new, neat haircut. He confessed that the reality of having short hair for the first time since 2008 stunned him somewhat.
"When it was on the ground," he said, "I couldn't put it back."
Chris Haft is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Edgerton family treasures piece of 160-year-old historic oak
MILTON--Lisa Messer called everyone she could think of to save the historic tree. When she failed, she wanted something to remind her of the most perfect bur oak she had ever seen.
Lisa got her wish this month, when her husband, Jeff, came home with a piece of the tree she has admired for 20 years.
The Messers are among a lucky few who were able to buy slabs of the landmark sentinel that once stood north of Milton.
Almost a year ago, the state Department of Transportation cut down the massive oak to make room for the Highway 26 expansion project.
Workers brought a 6,000-pound piece of the huge trunk to the Jefferson County Parks Department shop. Two bobcats with forks were needed to move the immense log into a storage building.
Earlier this month, parks department workers cut slabs from the piece, each about 6-inches thick and 53 inches in diameter.
Lisa and Jeff of rural Edgerton were among those who asked for a cross-section of the spreading oak that stood for 160 years or more in Jefferson County. They hope it can be used to teach others about the tree and its long history in southern Wisconsin.
But Lisa did not realize the trunk was so heavy.
She and Jeff decided to buy only half of a cross-section, weighing about 150 -pounds. Jeff and his son used a toboggan to slide the block of wood to their back porch. Then, they wrestled it into the basement.
"It is a piece of local history," Jeff said. "To see something this big and heavy which is not made of steel is remarkable."
With the help of a toothpick, Jeff has counted the crowd of rings in the cross-section. He has thought about what the landscape looked like when the tree was only inches high, and he has wondered how to save a place for such living legends in the future.
Kevin Wiesmann of the Jefferson County Parks Department cut the tree into slices called cookies using a Stihl chainsaw with a 36-inch cutting bar. He will tell you that, even in death, the good oak stayed strong.
"It is extremely hard wood," Wiesmann said. "It took about 20 minutes to cut each cookie. I took my time and made sure the cuts matched up."
When he worked for the U.S. Forest Service, Wiesmann served with one of the elite Hotshot firefighting crews in the West. Wiesmann felled big trees, including Douglas firs, to slow down and stop rampaging blazes.
None had flesh so solid or stout as the giant oak, he said.
The parks department had requested a piece of the tree, so workers could preserve and display it for people to see. They did not expect to get such a big chunk.
When some 50 or 60 people requested pieces, the department decided to sell them for $100 each.
"I was able to cut only 10 cookies from the tree," Wiesmann said. "We sold them on a first-come, first-served basis."
One slab will be placed at the Hoard Historical Museum in Fort Atkinson, where visitors will be able to count the rings and ponder the enormity of one tree's life. The cross-section is expected to be unveiled sometime in June.
In addition, craftsmen in Jefferson County are making bowls, lamps and pens from an irregular piece of the tree with plans to sell them.
In Rock County, the parks department has been selling a poster of the old oak in four seasons with photos by Tracy Hegg. So far, the sale of 80 posters has raised $800.
Both parks departments will use the money they raise to plant trees along the 39-mile Glacial River Trail that runs near Highway 26 between Janesville and Watertown.
Lisa knows that few really old trees remain on the landscape, and she wonders how long the enduring oak could have lived.
"We humans can't duplicate some things," she said. "I am not an overly emotional person, but this perfect, healthy tree withstood 170-plus years of droughts, the coldest winters, summer storms, fire and people. Then, it was cut down because it was not convenient in our plans of the modern world. That is the tragedy."
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Last year, Toyota Financial Services (TFS) transformed its collateral-exchange procedure with 23 bank counterparties, which used to take five days at the end of the month, to meet a new two-hour daily processing requirement. The effort took seven months, five months less than expected, and an investment of only $100,000, which was 50% under budget.
With these changes, TFS, a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor, eliminated $1 billion in unsecured counterparty risk exposure and saved more than $100 million via lower funding costs, while also avoiding the use of credit default swaps and decreasing its credit value adjustments.
"The way our monthly [credit support annex agreements] were designed, there were cushions within them," says Nishant Rohatgi, treasury business solutions manager at TFS. "Because of our daily interactions, we have removed those credit thresholds, so now we have very little unsecured exposure in the portfolio."
The new workflow also slashed the time required to complete these tasks by 98%. What previously took eight employees 50 hours over five days at month-end now takes one hour a day, which is split among three employees. And it can scale to support another 17 counterparties if necessary, TFS executives say.
"The greatest return has been our ability to improve continuously and strengthen our competitiveness ahead of the changing regulatory environment, in addition to significant financial benefits and reduction in counterparty credit risk," says Wei Shi, vice president of treasury and financial planning and analysis.
The company achieved its goal of managing margin calls by 7 am (PST) and completing collateral exchanges by 9 am (PST) by using the "Toyota Way" management philosophy, which includes Kaizen continuous improvement methodology and lessons learned from Toyota Motor's just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing practice.
"The Kaizen methodology helped us view the entire process flow," says Rohatgi. "It has you look at the people and the processes and identify the right strategy for this solution."
TFS assembled a team of 24 employees from treasury systems, legal, operation excellence, treasury operations, treasury risk, treasury cash management and corporate IT.
"The first thing we did was go to 'gemba,' or where the work is really being done, which means you actually have to sit down with the people and watch as the work moves from location to location," says Rohatgi.
The team found an exceedingly manual and batch-oriented process that involved an overabundance of Excel spreadsheets.
To speed up the workflow, the team developed the Receipts and Payments Interactive Database (Rapid), a Microsoft .NET application that automates portions of the workflow, generates margin calls and valuation statements, and sends forecasts to TFS's funding desk. The centralized platform integrates with the company's Wall Street Systems treasury workstation, Bloomberg Valuation Services and SWIFT connections to provide users with data necessary to complete their tasks and alerts to notify them when work and data are available.
"There will always be a push toward automation, but there will always be a human element in the process, and that's where JIT gives you the capabilities to provide the information that the person needs to know in order to make it straight-through processing," Rohatgi says.
The team also helped improve treasury's performance by using its internal valuation system to identify valuation and trade population errors in real time.
See a slideshow of the 2012 Alexander Hamilton Award winners here.
Read about the Microsoft project that won the Silver in the Technology Excellence category here, the Google project that won the Bronze here, and the Milwaukee County project that won the Middle Market Achievement Award here.


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UPDATE: Janesville fire destroys Rockport Road garage
JANESVILLE—The remains of an antique car was among the debris after a fire destroyed a large garage on Janesville's southwest side Tuesday morning.
Firefighters were dispatched at 7:40 a.m. to 2828 W. Rockport Road and remained on the scene for about three hours, said Janesville Fire Department Cmdr. Scott Morovits.
No injuries were reported, and Morovits said the 100-foot by 35-foot garage and its contents, including a 1951 Ford, were destroyed.
While damage estimates are not complete, Morovits said the cause of the fire appears to be a wood-burning stove in the shop area of the garage.
Morovits said a passerby on Rockport Road noticed smoke coming from the garage and stopped to alert someone at the residence in front of the garage. The tenant, Craig Dennis, went to investigate, noticed smoke coming through the eaves, and called 911, Morovits said.
The Footville Fire Department assisted with a tender truck and two firefighters.
The Janesville Transit System supplied a bus for firefighters to warm themselves in the frigid conditions. A neighboring business, Rod's Auto, also opened itself to firefighters, Morovits said.
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Milton extends pipe-freeze advisory to March 31
MILTON—The city of Milton is extending its water pipe freeze advisory until the end of March, city officials announced.
In a release, the city is recommending residents and property owners run a pencil-thick stream of water until March 31 to limit the chance of residential lateral water pipes freezing. The advisory went into effect last week.
Area municipalities have announced pipe-freeze advisories amid weeks of extreme cold weather, which has caused the ground to freeze to record depths, icing and straining underground water pipes.
Officials say running water keeps pipes at a higher temperature, which lessens the risk of pipes freezing. ��
The city estimates the potential for frozen pipes will not go away until the ground begins to thaw, which could be another five or six weeks.
The city plans to establish and provide a water credit to customers to offset the cost of extra water usage, the city says.


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Norma Jean Schmidt, Janesville, WI (1946-2014)
February 14, 1946 - March 29, 2014
Norma Jean Schmidt, age 68, of Janesville, died Saturday, March 29, 2014, at her home. She was born in Madison, WI, on Feb. 14, 1946, the daughter of Theodore and Mary (Sweeney) Atkinson. Jean had been married to James Schmidt on Jan. 11, 1964. They later divorced. She was a material handler for General Motors for 25 years before retiring in 2002. Jean was a member of the Women of the Moose and UAW Local 95.
Norma Jean is survived by her daughter, Michelle (Daniel) Langer of Janesville; four grandchildren: Lee Schmidt, Amanda Marshall, Cory Schmidt, Natasha (Brenden) Schmidt Bouton; four great-grandchildren: Trinity, Draven, Kylee, and Mariah; a brother, John "Mike" Atkinson of Albuquerque, NM; and two sisters, Frances (Theodore "Ted") Moen of Iola, WI, and Barbara Muetz of Palmer, AK. She was preceded in death by her parents; a son, James K. Schmidt; a brother, Thomas Atkinson; and her former husband, James Schmidt.
Per Jean's request, no services will be held. SCHNEIDER APFEL SCHNEIDER & SCHNEIDER FUNERAL HOME and CREMATORY is assisting the family. For on-line guestbook and condolences: www.schneiderfuneraldirectors.com


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Strange beauty of puffballs, mushrooms and tree fungus
Glen Loyd
Friday, October 11, 2013
Video blogger Glen Loyd has been enjoying the fungus among us along the Rock River lately.
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Glen Loyd lives on the Rock River in Janesville 15 days a month. He is a former public information officer for Wisconsin Consumer Protection, publishes a weekly consumer protection blog. Glen is a community blogger and is not a part of The Gazette staff. His opinion is not necessarily that of the The Gazette staff or management.


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'Roads can't wait': Councilman says city should bite bullet now
JANESVILLE--A $38 wheel tax increase is one way the city could begin closing the gap in its lagging street maintenance program, according to figures requested by a councilman at a 2014 budget study session.
Other alternatives include borrowing or a mix of borrowing and increasing the wheel tax.
Acting City Manager Jay Winzenz outlined the options after Councilman Douglas Marklein endorsed Public Works Director Carl Weber's recommendation to double funding for street maintenance to avoid a crisis down the road.
The council is expected to discuss increasing taxes to fix more streets when it meets at 6 p.m. Thursday in City Hall.
Even if it doubles what it spends on street repairs, the city won't keep up,� Marklein said Tuesday.
"The route we're on, we're not gaining. We're losing. More and more streets are coming online (needing repair).
"I do think it (street repair) needs to become a priority," he said. "One thing this council is trying to do is quit kicking things down the road."
Janesville built miles of roads in the 1990s, and those need resurfacing, Weber has said. Resurfacing before streets deteriorate too badly extends their lives.
Rather than increasing the number of streets to be resurfaced, however, past councils decreased the miles because of increasing costs.
In addition, they shifted some of the cost to reconstruct and pave streets to borrowing. Some council members in the recent past have spoken out against the practice because of the interest incurred.
The� proposed budget includes $1 million in borrowing for resurfacing and reconstruction and about $1 million in the general fund for street repair and resurfacing.
Weber advocates doubling that amount to $4 million for each of the next three years.
The council would need to budget another $2 million for 2014, Winzenz said in a memo.
The council's options for funding the extra $2 million are:
--Using property taxes. That would mean "substantial reductions in service and service levels" in other areas because of state-imposed caps on the operating levy, Winzenz said.
--Increasing the current $10 wheel tax by $38 to $48. Every $10 generates about $535,000. The current tax already goes to street maintenance. At the end of three years, the additional wheel tax could be removed or continued for street maintenance, Winzenz said.
--Borrowing $2 million each year for three years and paying that debt back over 10 years. That would cost the owner of the average home assessed at $120,100 an additional $15.97 each year for 12 years to pay off the debt. The city would pay $765,000 in interest over 12 years.
--Borrowing the money but paying the debt back with wheel tax revenues rather than the tax levy. The wheel tax would increase $13 a year per vehicle for 10 years to repay the $6 million borrowed.
--Combining wheel tax revenue and property taxes to pay off the borrowing.
Marklein said he'd like to see the city put the street resurfacing crisis behind it.
Fixing a road in fair condition is less expensive than fixing it in poor condition and also extends its life, he noted.
�"Plus, the citizens don't have to ride on lousy roads," Marklein said. "It's a complaint I hear."
According to Weber's estimates, Janesville has about 298 miles of roads in fair to excellent condition and 31 miles considered poor or failed, Marklein noted.
By maintaining current funding levels, the city in three years would have about 254 miles in fair to excellent condition and 75 miles in poor to failed condition.
Doubling spending would result in 276 miles of road in fair to excellent condition and 53 miles in poor to failed condition.
Marklein figures a mix of a wheel tax increase and borrowing might be the best way to raise the needed money, even though the wheel tax is unpopular.
Marklein doesn't think enough money could be found in the general fund and called the 2014 spending plan a lean budget with an employee-per-capita ratio lower than that in many cities.
If the city must borrow, now is the time because interest rates are low, Marklein said.
"If we wait 10 years, we're going to kick ourselves because we didn't take advantage of it," he said.
The city's bond rating last week was upgraded, so rates will be even better, he said.
The city, for example, just bid its 2013 borrowing. Bids ranged from 2.17 percent to 2.41 percent. The city had estimated a rate of 2.75 percent.
The lower rate reduced the interest that the city will pay by more than $530,000, Winzenz said.
Marklein said he is confident the city will remain aggressive in paying off its debt.
�"Do I like to borrowing? No," he said. "Do I see an alternative right now? No, I don't. The roads can't wait."
Study session set for Thursday
The Janesville City Council will meet for a 2014 budget study session at 6 p.m. Thursday in City Hall, 18 N. Jackson St.
Besides street maintenance, other items that could be discussed include:
--Suggestions by Councilman Jim Farrell to trim $159,941 from the general fund. He found the savings by not hiring a part-time customer service representative; delaying hiring a planner; reducing the $366,935 set aside for computer maintenance by $25,000; not hiring a college intern, $23,430; and removing $12,000 for contracted snow removal when no money was used in 2013.
He suggests adding $4,200--$600 for each council member---if anyone would choose to attend conferences or seminars.
Some could disagree because council members might only serve two years.
�"I believe council members should be encouraged to attend seminars and classes that enhance their knowledge so they can do their job better," he said.
--Cutting lap swim in favor of beautifying medians, suggested by Matt Kealy. The city subsidizes 75 swimmers at a cost of $337 a swimmer. Council members have received many emails in protest from lap swimmers, Councilman Douglas Marklein said.
--Kealy also asked the administration to report back on what the city could save by canceling night bus service. Dave Mumma, transit director, said night bus service is provided along three routes 255 weekday evenings a year until 10:15 p.m. Bus drivers can deviate from their routes up to a third of a mile to pick up residents or drop them off at pre-arranged places. In 2012, the night bus service had 19,591 passengers. Riders this year could increase by 17 percent, Mumma said.
In 2014, the service is estimated to cost $208,976. Of that, $26,400 comes from fares; $64,782 comes from the federal government; $50,154 comes from the state; and $67,640 comes from the city. That's a subsidy of about $9.30 per ride. Fares are $1.50.
Mumma said contracting with a private transit service might cost $151,112, with a city cost of $29,325. But he said more research is needed to see whether the $1.50 fare could continue.


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Accelerate time-to-market by saving ESD test time
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Electrostatic discharge (ESD) qualification processes have become complex and expensive with the increased cost of ESD test time due to the industry trend toward higher package pin counts for ICs. This increasing demand for routine ESD testing of every pin can be mitigated by testing only a fraction of the pins while preserving the same data quality from the test results.
To reduce test times, increase qualification speed and preserve accuracy, an intelligent sampling method can be applied to groups of pins that share the same applications. Not only does the proposed method help accelerate time to market, it builds a bridge amongst the commonly disconnected disciplines of statistics, design and test engineering.
Test time complexities
As a part of IC product qualification, test times and test resources have become an increasing burden during evaluation for ESD. Therefore, a new approach would not only be unprecedented, but also it could lead to a venue of new ways for obtaining critical information in an expedient manner.
For semiconductor IC designs, it is now common practice to implement identical IO pins (clones) that have the same function with the same exact ESD protection cell. The clones share the same buffers and have the same macro name to identify them. In some cases, their population can be up to 70 percent of the total pin count for the device. The benefit for test time saving is significant for these cases, especially when the IC package pin counts exceed 3000.
Statistical methods for ESD
Statisticians and industrial engineers have long known how to estimate the sigma of a population using the range from a sample, assuming the data comes from a normal distribution [1]. The expected value of the range is proportional to the sigma (Fig. 1).
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The proportionality constant increases as the size of the sample increases. Using the sample range as a proxy for the population sigma is convenient and easy, forming a desirable heuristic, and is commonly used in semiconductor statistical process control analyses.
Testing the sample range is ideal if failure levels are assumed to be normally distributed. The central limit theorem says that a superposition of independent random variables tends toward normality, regardless of the distribution of the random variables contributing to the sum. The many physical variations manifested in an ESD reading may average out, leading to normally distributed ESD readings. In a recent study, the ESD readings from the identically designed pins appear to come from a normal distribution [2]. Figure 2 shows a typical distribution.
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For a possible application of sampling, one has to accept that all of the untested pins (i.e. untested clones) would give similarly distributed readings as the selected pins. But for the method to work, such distributions have to be established relative to the desired lower specification limit (LSL). The process for ready application of sampling becomes more practical when the LSL and sampled readings are farther apart (Fig. 3).
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Whitewater prepares for reconstruction of downtown intersection
WHITEWATER--As this year's construction season ends, the city of Whitewater is planning for next season, when one of its most used streets and intersections will get a renovation.
Milwaukee Street is the connection between the east side of the city and� downtown. In spring 2014, Milwaukee Street from Wisconsin Street to the three-way intersection with Whitewater and Main streets will be reconstructed.
City Manager Cameron Clapper said the project will likely take all summer. The intersection of Milwaukee and Main streets, known as the East Gateway, is one of the busiest intersections in the city. It also is one of the most confusing to navigate, Clapper said, and needs to be brought up to Wisconsin Department of Transportation standards.
"That project will be significant because of its impact on the downtown area," Clapper said. "That is a major cross point between the east and west sides of the city, and it will inevitably shut down for a time. Whether that's a couple weeks or a couple months, I don't know yet, but we want to keep it as small a time frame as possible."
The state Department of Transportation is in charge of the project.
Clapper said the street and sidewalk will be widened, and the sidewalk will be converted to a multi-use trail for bikers, runners and walkers.
While the project will get people on the trails and into the downtown area more often, the construction process might have some serious consequences on local businesses.
"There's no doubt that a project like this is going to have an impact on the business community. We would like to minimize that as much as possible. The road needs to be reconstructed, otherwise we wouldn't do the project at all because of the impact it's going to have," Clapper said.
Most of the affected residential and business property owners have been there a long time and know the construction process. Some have expressed negative feelings toward the project, but they generally seem to be tolerating it, Clapper said.
The city will install signs to inform drivers of businesses still open during construction, and Clapper said he would like to form a group focused on helping businesses during construction.
Because the street and sidewalks will be widened, some property owners along Milwaukee Street will lose some of their property. Clapper said the details of buying land from owners have not yet been decided.
The spring project is part of a series of projects on Milwaukee Street that started in 2012, when Milwaukee Street from Wisconsin Street to Esterly Street was torn up, utilities replaced and the street widened. Clapper said all of Milwaukee Street from Main Street to the Highway 12 bypass will be either reconstructed or repaved in the next three to four years.


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Public Record for Sept. 13, 2013
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Friday, September 13, 2013
-- CHRISTINA L. FOSTER, 25, of 408 Center Avenue, No. 2, Janesville, at 9 p.m. Wednesday, at the Janesville Police Department on a bench warrant charging her with failing to appear in court on previous charges of burglary and forgery. She also was arrested on charges of possession of a narcotic drug and bail jumping.


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Howard Delane Mauritz, Janesville, WI (1933-2013)
June 12, 1933 - November 21, 2013
Howard Delane Mauritz, age 80, of Janesville, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, at St. Mary's Janesville Hospital. He was born in Tigerton, WI, on June 12, 1933, the son of Ferdinand and Sylvia (Jones) Mauritz. He took up the machinist trade at Boys Tech, in Milwaukee, and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1953, serving two years at Fort Hood, TX. Howard married Delores Pellman on June 24, 1953, in Dubuque, IA. He was employed by General Motors for 31 years, retiring in 1986. He was proud of his accomplishments of building two homes for his family in Janesville. Over the years, he was always happy to help everyone with building and remodeling. Howard enjoyed gardening, polka music, dancing, traveling, fishing, camping, and spending time with family. He was a long time member of St. William Catholic Church. He was a loving husband, father, and grandfather.
Howard is survived by his wife of 60 years, Delores June Pellman Mauritz; three children: Joyce (Mark) Stricklin, Chris (Randy) Vine and Steven (Trisha) Mauritz, all of Janesville; seven grandchildren: Amber (Andy) Glass, Adam (Allie) Vine, Katelyn Vine, all of Janesville, Jasmine Mauritz of Carbondale, CO, Seth and Payton Stricklin and Olivia Mauritz, all of Janesville; one great-granddaughter, Kenlee Vine; and Baby Glass on the way; and two brothers, Richard (Erma) Mauritz of Milwaukee, and Harold Mauritz of Tigerton. He was preceded in death by his parents; four brothers: George, Leonard, Ray and Edward Mauritz; and a sister, Marie Leonardt.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 12 Noon on Monday, Nov. 25, 2013, at ST. WILLIAM CATHOLIC CHURCH with Rev. John Auby officiating. A visitation will be held on Monday from 10 until 12 Noon at the CHURCH. Entombment will be in Mt. Olivet Mausoleum. SCHNEIDER APFEL SCHNEIDER & SCHNEIDER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY is assisting the family. For on-line condolences and registry: www.schneiderfuneraldirectors.com
Thank you to the nurses and staff of St. Mary's Janesville Hospital and Agrace HospiceCare, Inc., especially his 4th floor nurses, Kari, Kristi and Stacie.


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Odd car features that were not a success
For every inventive and useful car feature that is developed there are some that missed the mark. Take a look at some of the most ridiculous car features.
Semi-automatic transmission: This was basically a manually transmission without a clutch pedal. It was activated by the driver putting his or her hand on the shift lever. This was used by Porsche and Volkswagen.
Rear-facing seats: These were mainly used in station wagons. The very last seat in the wagon faced the rear of the car, which often resulted in the person sitting in that seat getting motion sickness from traveling backwards.
Record player: Before there were MP3 plug-ins or CD players, and even before cassette players, there was the in-car record player. Chrysler offered this from 1956 to 1957. However, drivers had to buy special sized records to work in the car's player, and record often got scratched during bumpy drives.
Mounted horse head: When very early car models were made, there were still horses on roads. A fake horse head mounted on the front of a car was supposed to make horses less afraid of cars.
Swamp coolers: These were sold in the mid-1900s. The idea was that the large, water-filled device would create humidified air inside the car. They stopped being used once cars became equipped with air conditioning.


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Police: Suspect might be connected to rash of burglaries
JANESVILLE—A Janesville man arrested on multiple charges just before midnight Friday might be connected to a rash of burglaries on the northeast side of the city.
Nicholas M. Wuthrich, 20, of 4544 E. Highway 14, Janesville, was arrested at 11:48 p.m. Friday on charges of burglary, attempted burglary, theft, battery and a probation violation, according to a Janesville Police Department news release.
"The arrest comes after the north side of Janesville has seen a rash of similar burglaries. He may or may not be associated to those burglaries and those investigations continue," the release stated.
These 11 burglaries, not including the three Friday night, happened between June and October, said Lt. Tim Hiers.
"There's a cluster around that far north John Paul (Road)/Milton Avenue area in the residential part then some of the other ones are occurring more toward the far northeast side north of Wuthering Hills and the Wright Road area," he said.
Hiers said police couldn't be 100 percent sure Wuthrich is responsible for the other burglaries because "we're still seeking information."
No more new developments are expected over the weekend and the detective bureau will resume work on the case Monday, he said.
Police were dispatched to two separate residential burglaries before Wuthrich was arrested Friday night in the 4300 block of Prairie Fox Drive and 1600 block of Wildrose Way.
In one of the incidents, the burglar entered the home and stole a purse but was discovered by the homeowner causing the suspect to flee on foot.
The other burglary was only an attempt. Entry was not gained to the home.
Officers and a K-9 searched the area but could not locate the suspect, the release said.
Two hours later, police were called back to the same block of Prairie Fox Drive after a third resident in the neighborhood discovered a person in the home. When the man tried to flee, the homeowner chased him and a physical confrontation occurred. The homeowner was able to hold the suspect—Wuthrich--until officers arrived and arrested him.
Wuthrich remains in custody at the Rock County Jail.
Police stress that citizens need to be vigilant in watching their neighborhoods for suspicious activity, securing all valuables and locking all their doors.
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Cold weather not going anywhere
JANESVILLE — Feeling hopeless yet?
It's not just in your head. This winter ranks as one of the worst on record for many cities in the Midwest.
Barbara Mayes Boustead, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Omaha, Neb., created a "weather extremity index" that measures cold and snowfall to determine the severity of each winter.
She looks at the daily high and low temperatures and accumulated snowfall to come up with a gauge called the Accumulated Winter Season Severity Index.
Boustead gives winter seasons points, labeling them:
—W-1: Mild (up to 20th percentile)
—W-2: Moderate (21st to 40th percentile)
—W-3: Average (41st to 60th percentile)
—W-4: Severe (61st to 80th percentile)
—W-5: Extreme (81st percentile and above)
"Chicago is having the hardest winter," Boustead said. "They've had their third most- severe winter to date since 1950-51, which is a Category 5 or 'extreme' winter, on our winter severity scale.� Milwaukee is having its fourth-worst winter to date since 1950-51, also a Category 5 or 'extreme' winter."
Janesville's weather has mirrored conditions in those nearby cities, and a warm-up doesn't look to be on the horizon, at least in the near future.
"Right now, some longer range models have us below average through the early part of March," said Sarah Marquardt, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Sullivan. "I can't say exactly how cold but below average for at least the first two weeks of March."
Marquardt said temperatures will remain on the low side for the immediate future, with highs over the weekend in the 20s and then in the teens late Sunday and Monday.
"This is still below average," Marquardt said. "The average temperature for this time of year is 36 degrees."
Lows during the next week will hover around zero to the single digits, she said.
"We could do a little better in the middle of next week, with 22 degrees Wednesday and even 30 on Thursday," Marquardt said.
At the Janesville Water Utility, crews are bracing for the spring thaw and the water main breaks that could accompany it.
Craig Thiesenhusen, Janesville's water superintendent, is pleased the number of frozen laterals -- the pipes that connect the mains to homes and businesses -- has flattened out, but he cautioned that the city isn't out of the woods.
"I guess we could chalk it up to people running water," Thiesenhusen said. "We've had no new ones this week, and that's good news."
The number of broken mains has stayed consistent, however, and is expected to rise as the ground shifts and thaws.
"January is when it really hits hard, and it's continuing to now," Thiesenhusen said. "We see them continue to break because of the cold. Broken mains have been up this year and will go up more."
Water crews fixed 23 mains in December, 46 in January and 38 in February through the 23rd.
"It's just an annual thing," Thiesenhusen said. "Last year, there was a spike around April or May. The frost getting in so deep this winter, that really hurt us."
The city likely won't discover some breaks that have already occurred until the ground thaws and water starts surfacing, he said.
"As far as right now, we're holding our own," Thiesenhusen said. "There's only so much you can do."