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Mabel Anna Smith, Janesville (1926-2013)
December 3, 1926 - December 25, 2013
Mabel Anna Smith, 87, of Janesville joined her husband, Roy and her daughter, Joyce in Heaven on Christmas Day, December 25, 2013. She passed away peacefully at home surrounded by family. Mabel was born December 3, 1926 in Black River Falls, WI, the daughter of Earl and Lellah (Olver) Thompson. She married Roy T. Smith on May 24, 1943 in Janesville. Through the years, Mabel had worked at SSI and Admiral Corporation, but spent most of her life raising her family and being a homemaker. She was a member of Peace Lutheran Church where she had taught Sunday School for many years.
Surviving are six children: Allen Smith of Rockford, IL, Sharon (Michael) Treuthardt of Brodhead, Pamela (Alan) Martalock of Beloit, Thomas (Sharon) Smith of Nekoosa, WI, Tammie (Dennis) McAllister of Fort Atkinson, Bradley Smith of Janesville; 20 grandchildren, numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Mabel was preceded in death by her husband, Roy Smith on September 30, 2003. She was also preceded in death by one daughter, Joyce Hallett; her parents; one brother, Verland Thompson; and three sisters: Janet Kuhn, Janice Stenberg, Joan Dominy and her beloved dog, Shamu.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, December 31, 2013 at MILTON LAWNS MEMORIAL PARK CHAPEL, 2200 Milton Avenue, Janesville with burial to follow in Milton Lawns, Pastor Richard W. Lehmann will officiate. Visitation will be from 1 to 2 p.m. Tuesday in Milton Lawns Chapel. Memorials may be made to Mercy Care Hospice. The Smith family is being assisted by Henke-Clarson Funeral Home.

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Death Notices for April 16, 2014
Wayne Anthony Burich, 71, Beloit, died Sunday at home. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 22, at Daley Murphy Wisch & Associates Funeral Home and Crematorium, Beloit. Visitation will be from 3:30 to 8 p.m. Monday, April 21, at the funeral home.
Marian Theresa Hurkman, 91, Janesville, died Saturday at Lakeland Health Care Center, Elkhorn. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at St. William Catholic Church, Janesville. Visitation will be from 1 p.m. until the time of services at the church. Schneider Apfel Schneider & Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Janesville, is assisting the family.
Jean Marie Meicher, 89, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., died March 25 at St. Joseph's Hospital, Pontiac, Mich. Services will be at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Janesville, at a later date. Modetz Funeral Home, Orion, Mich., assisted the family.
Francis A. "Pete" Pietrowski, 93, Janesville, died Monday at home. A private family service will be held. Schneider Apfel Schneider & Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Janesville, is assisting the family.
Helen Mamrot Treadman, 79, Beloit, formerly of Delavan Lake, died Tuesday at home. Arrangements are pending at Betzer Funeral Home, Delavan.
Donald Oliver Webb, 71, Janesville and Laughlin, Nev., died Monday in Janesville. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Trinity Episcopal Church, Janesville. Visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Henke-Clarson Funeral Home, Janesville.


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Funding cuts blamed for increased tobacco sales to minors
BELOIT—Illegal tobacco sales to minors in Wisconsin rose substantially for the first time since 2008, according to a Wisconsin Department of Health Services' report.
The 2013 sales compliance survey, which determines the number of retail outlets selling tobacco illegally to minors statewide, shows that number increased by 35 percent from 2009 to 2012.
Reductions in tobacco prevention funding is to blame, said Debbie Fischer, director of Youth2Youth of Rock County and the Southwest Alliance for Tobacco Prevention.
"We are funded at the lowest we have ever been funded except when there was no funding," Fischer said.
The Center for Disease Control recommends Wisconsin prevention efforts be funded at more than $60 million, but Wisconsin is funded at $5.4 million, she said.
Funding cuts mean the local coalition can conduct compliance checks only once a year instead of three times a year, Fischer said.
"We haven't been able to do as many checks since funding cuts started drastically three years ago and retailers have learned we aren't checking as often," she said.
Fischer said some retailers aren't training their employees about the tobacco sales law even though free training is available through the Wisconsin Wins program.
Managed by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the program at smokecheck.org educates staff about sale situations to help keep tobacco out of the hands of kids. Employees can take a short test and print a certificate of training if they pass, Fischer said.
When Youth2Youth started compliance checks more than 15 years ago, tobacco sale rates to minors were as high as 37 percent. Sales at the last check were around 6 percent countywide, but there was a time when they were as low as 3 percent, Fischer said.
"So even though a majority of Rock County business still do not sell to our kids, the number (of sales to minors) is starting to creep back up," she said.
And that concerns Fischer, who said tobacco prevention funding could continue to dwindle.
"Even though tobacco prevention has been strong and made incredible strides, you can't do it with very little money that keeps getting less and less," she said.


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Walworth County Sheriff David Graves not seeking re-election
ELKHORN—Sheriff David Graves has witnessed technology transform Walworth County law enforcement while watching the violence of crime escalate.
Graves, 61, reflected on his 42-year law enforcement career after announcing Friday that he is not seeking re-election and plans to retire.
"The biggest change? Technology and the violence of the offender in Walworth County," Graves said.
When he started, sheriff's deputies patrolled in pairs.
"When you made a traffic stop, one guy stayed in the car with the radio," Graves said.
Now, dispatchers use satellite technology to monitor deputies' locations and dispatch those closest to emergencies.
When Graves arrived at the sheriff's office, the Walworth County Jail housed 35 inmates.
Now, the jail supervises between 300 and 400 inmates, many of them living in the community while wearing electronic monitoring bracelets.
"We know exactly where those people are every minute of the day," Graves said.
Graves began his law enforcement career in 1972 as a police aide for the Whitewater Police Department. One year later at the age of 20, he was promoted to patrolman.
Graves left the Whitewater Police Department in 1976 to become a Walworth County deputy. During his time at the sheriff's office, Graves held the ranks of patrol deputy, sergeant, lieutenant, undersheriff, and sheriff, according to a news release.
"We have a dedicated team. The members of this agency are community oriented. They consistently look for ways to deliver the best countywide public safety.� They have, and continue to do a great job!" Graves said in the release.
Graves recommended Undersheriff Kurt Picknell be the next sheriff.
"Kurt has been my undersheriff for the past 14 years. As the second in command, he has been vital to the administration of this office. Based on his education, years of experience, dedication, and personal values, I strongly believe that Undersheriff Kurt Picknell should be the next Walworth County Sheriff," Graves said in the release.
Graves said Picknell has told him he intends to run for sheriff as a Republican. He is not aware of others intending to run, he said.
Graves' advice for the next sheriff?
"You can't live in a public-safety bubble. You have to get out and talk to the public because that's going to tell you what they need, what they feel. It keeps you connected to the people who vote for you," Graves said.
He expects the violence of crime to continue to escalate.
"Crime is no longer restricted to metro areas," he said. "It's no longer just in Milwaukee and larger cities. Crime is everywhere. The violence, the magnitude of it, you're going to face that."
He's not sure what he'll do in retirement. He said his wife is eight years younger and continues to work.
"I'm sure my wife has a lot for me to do," he said.


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Overseas arrivals
This topic has been updated with 2016 Census data for all areas. What's this?
2,676 people who were living in Flemington in 2016 were born overseas, and 23% arrived in Australia within 5 years prior to 2016.
The Year of Arrival data records when the overseas born population arrived in Australia. The data shows the degree to which areas are 'ports' for new overseas arrivals and reveals the role of Flemington in housing the overseas-born. The number of recent overseas arrivals in an area is often determined by housing affordability, employment opportunities and pre-existing communities located in the area.
Flemington's Year of Arrival data, when used with Birthplace, Religion and Language Spoken at Home data, is a good indicator of the likely need for services in migrant communities.
Derived from the Census question:
'In what year did the person first arrive in Australia to live here for one year or more?'
Overseas born population
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Dominant groups
Analysis of the year of arrival for the overseas born population of Flemington in 2016 compared to the City of Moonee Valley shows that there was a smaller proportion of people who arrived before 2001, and a larger proportion of recent overseas arrivals (those who arrived between 2011 to 9 Aug 2016).
Overall, 47.2% of the overseas born population arrived before 2001, and 23.2% arrived during or after 2011, compared with 58.7% and 19.7% respectively for the City of Moonee Valley.
The major differences in year of arrival data in the population between Flemington and the City of Moonee Valley are:
- A larger percentage of arrivals between 1991 and 2000 (19.4% compared to 9.9%)
- A larger percentage of arrivals between 2001 and 2005 (11.2% compared to 6.7%)
- A smaller percentage of arrivals between in 1960 or earlier (2.6% compared to 14.0%)
- A smaller percentage of arrivals between 1961 and 1970 (4.6% compared to 14.6%)


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Death Notices for Jan. 16, 2014
Gazette staff
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Muriel H. Jacobson, 89, Edgerton, died Saturday at Edgerton Care Center, Edgerton. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Central Lutheran Church, Edgerton. Visitation will be from noon until the time of services today at the church. Ehlert Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Edgerton, is assisting the family.
Hazel I. Krabbe, 85, Elkhorn, died Wednesday at home. Private services are planned. Toynton Funeral Home, Walworth, is assisting the family.
Herbert P. Miller Jr., 84, Evansville, died Wednesday at Kelly House, Evansville. Ward-Hurtley Funeral Home, Evansville, is assisting the family.
Ronald Allen Walmer, 58, Evansville, died Monday at home. Arrangements are pending at Ward-Hurtley Funeral Home, Evansville.


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Rock County sheriff candidates square off about heroin
JANESVILLE—Rock County sheriff candidate Gary Groelle is taking shots at the incumbent over his heroin policies, and Sheriff Bob Spoden is shooting back.
Responses to a reporter's questions Wednesday also revealed tensions at the sheriff's office since Groelle, a captain serving under Spoden, declared his candidacy.
Groelle pointed to state Department of Justice has data showing Rock County is one of the most active for heroin cases being sent to the state crime lab.
"It isn't working. I'd like to think we could be doing better," Groelle said.
"We're not sitting idly by," responded Spoden, who will face Groelle in the Aug. 12 Democratic primary.
Groelle said more outreach is needed to educate doctors about painkiller abuse, which sometimes leads to heroin abuse.
"It is my goal to get 100 percent participation by prescribers in our statewide Prescription Monitoring Program, which is the system for physicians to report the prescriptions that they write," Groelle said in his press release.
Spoden said his office has reached out to the medical community.
"Something like this would've been a great topic for him to bring to the command staff meeting, but I have yet to hear from him on it," Spoden said.
If it's this important, the idea shouldn't wait until after the election, Spoden added.
Groelle said fewer command-staff meetings have been held recently and that Spoden has said he is doing that to keep Groelle out of the loop.
Spoden denied he has said this and said command staff meetings are not on a regular schedule. He said one meeting was held April 22, when Groelle was on vacation, and Groelle attended a meeting two weeks before that.
Groelle also said he has been denied the opportunity to attend training sessions three or four times since he began his campaign, which had not happened in the past.
Spoden said he does not deal with those requests; they go through Cmdr. Troy Knudson. The office has limited money for training, so requests must be prioritized, Spoden said.
"Gary should know this because he oversees training. He should understand this," Spoden said.
The candidates agreed the sheriff's office has worked on heroin education and enforcement.
Groelle said he is working on his own time with an independent group to give Good Drugs Gone Bad presentations about the link between prescription painkillers and heroin.
Groelle said he recently attended the National Prescription Drug Abuse Summit in Atlanta on his vacation time and brought back new ideas.
Spoden said a major issue is a dearth of treatment facilities for heroin addicts. He hopes "community partners" will provide those.
Groelle issued a press release Wednesday with a� list of measures he said should be taken, including the following:
-- More needs to be done to combat the growing heroin threat, Groelle said.
Spoden said five years ago, when heroin was becoming worrisome here, he lobbied federal officials for the county to be designated a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.
The program allows law enforcement to apply for grants. The sheriff's office recently received a $59,000 grant for officer drug enforcement, including officer overtime, Spoden said.
Spoden said deputies regularly participate in joint operations with other agencies to raid drug houses.�
"I think we need a stronger direction, stronger leadership, and that has to come from everybody. … It's health care, law enforcement, hospitals, treatment facilities, judges," Groelle said.
-- Groelle said the sheriff's office should be a location for a drug drop-off box, such as the one in the Janesville Police Department lobby.
Prescription painkiller abuse has been found to lead to later heroin use, and painkillers in the home are often the source of these drugs.
Spoden said that before he saw Groelle's press release, he had instructed one of his command staff to assign Groelle to apply to a federal program that is giving away drop boxes.
Groelle confirmed he had been assigned to do this, but he said a similar opportunity was presented to the sheriff two years ago, and the sheriff declined the offer.
Spoden said he does not recall such an offer, but he said the sheriff's office has supported drug disposal campaigns, with deputies assigned to transport drugs that are turned in.
-- Groelle wants deputies to carry naloxone to revive heroin-overdose victims.
Spoden noted EMTs already carry the drug, and he questioned the cost. The budget is tight, so if deputies carry the drug, something would have to be cut to pay for it.
-- Groelle proposes a Rock County heroin summit where the strategies he learned in Atlanta could be adapted for local use.
Spoden said that's an idea that should be brought to the county Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, where all stakeholders are at the table.


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Technology has infiltrated nearly every part of the modern world, and legal departments are no exception. At this point, the question for attorneys isn't whether to use technology, but rather what kinds of software and systems are the most valuable.
To help in-house counsel choose from the plethora of technologies available, InsideCounsel asked several experts for input on the tech tools that are essential to their organizations. In this slideshow we feature the technologies that will help lawyers function more efficiently, whether their task is as simple as remotely accessing email, or as complex as managing a large litigation.
Matter Management
A good matter management system is a versatile and important tool for many companies. And although it will likely be most useful for companies involved in regular litigation, Rebecca Thorkildsen, a senior director at HBR Consulting, says that the technology is scalable for just about any law department.
"Matter management, you could almost make an argument for that in a department of any size," she says. "Even if there's only a handful of attorneys, at the end of the day, they're still generating information about their matters and need someplace to keep it."
So what should companies look for in a matter management system? Judy Selby, head of BakerHostetler's e-discovery and technology practice group, says that her team had a list of requirements when helping to develop the firm's system. First, the program had to allow for easy calendaring, so that attorneys could track dates of upcoming discovery deadlines, expert reports, hearings and more.
Selby says it was also essential that the system provided "one-stop shopping" for attorneys hunting down documents related to a specific case. Consolidating all of the documents on one page allows lawyers to easily find complaints, discovery requests and other information on any matter.
Other benefits of an effective matter management system are consistency across cases and more efficient discovery, particularly if the program allows a legal department to issue code discovery requests. "If you get a discovery request in one case and you make your production…and you get a similar request in a similar case, you should make sure you're answering in a similar way," Selby says. "So if you have a good case management/matter management system, it helps you to track all these things, to make sure that you're being consistent with multiple litigations."
Around the early 90s, when e-billing systems were first coming into prominence, they mostly served as a tool to whittle down the stacks of paper dominating attorneys' desks and to more accurately audit invoices.
While those are both still admirable goals, today's e-billing systems have evolved to become essential analytic tools for legal departments. They analyze incoming invoices and provide reports full of detailed data on outside counsel activities and billing rates.
"What e-billing can do is unbundle all of the information that comes from traditional legal bills so that you have the ability to compare over a long period of time, from timekeeper to timekeeper or from firm to firm," says Pamela Woldow, general counsel at Edge International Inc.
"It ultimately comes down to the pressure that a lot of law departments are under to cut costs and become more efficient," adds HBR Consulting Senior Director Rebecca Thorkildsen. And reports from e-billing systems can show general counsel where they are able to trim the fat a bit.
E-billing systems tend to come part and parcel with matter management, and while you can implement matter management without e-billing, Thorkildsen says, you have to have at least a little matter management to implement e-billing. If the e-billing is what you're primarily after, though, you can get a low-cost bare-bones matter management system.
In order to figure out if e-billing is a good value for your legal department, Thorkildsen recommends the following calculation: If 2 percent to 3 percent of your company's annual outside counsel spend would cover the cost of implementing e-billing, it's probably a good investment. The cost of these systems ranges from $25,000 on the low end, to several million dollars on the high end, depending on the size of a department and the amount of customization it wants.
E-discovery Software
Digital data makes discovery infinitely more complicated. Luckily, where technology is the problem, it can also be the solution.
Companies of any size should strongly consider adopting a legal hold system that can automate the preservation and destruction of documents, making it easier to prove in court that your company has a uniform policy. When litigation strikes, the software can issue a hold and track compliance.
"Companies that don't have a legal hold system in place are putting themselves at risk," says John Resnick, managing director of Huron Consulting Group. "The risk of not having one in place is essentially the same for whatever size you are."
On the other hand, predictive coding, as much as it is talked about, is not necessarily for everyone. Predictive coding is software that takes a sample of documents sorted by humans for relevancy and uses it to code the rest of the data and determine what's relevant. It's a useful tool for large legal departments that face a lot of litigation and that handle e-discovery in-house.
"Drastically reducing the amount of documents that ultimately have to be reviewed is one of the most urgent mandates for most corporations right now, because that's where the cost sits," Resnick says. "Corporations are truly starting to embrace it." And so are courts, as evidenced by a couple of recent cases that recognize the software's legitimacy.
But Edge International Inc. General Counsel Pamela Woldow cautions that legal departments first need to analyze whether they're ready to commit to doing e-discovery internally before buying any software.
"There are companies that just really don't have huge document matters," she says. "So for them, it just doesn't make sense to invest in any kind of a permanent, costly system. I think that legal departments really have to assess their own risk profile before they go buy software. It is such a knee-jerk reaction to buy software, and a lot of times you don't need it."
For those departments that decide predictive coding is the way to go, Woldow recommends having a document management system in place first. "If…you don't have any organization around documents to begin with, you're kind of screwed when it comes to e-discovery," she says.
Resnick adds that companies should get a professional to help them implement the system. "Work with a consultant that has implemented systems for [your] peer in-house legal departments and don't just purchase a system or a piece of software from a salesperson who walks away."
In this day and age, companies have a plethora of software and devices to choose from, but legal departments shouldn't forget about the basics, namely technology that facilitates connectivity and collaboration.
That could be as simple as investing in quality videoconferencing software to better communicate with clients and out-of-office colleagues, or technology that allows remote access to email inboxes and computer desktops. James Kunick, chair of Much Shelist's intellectual property and technology group, says both technologies are especially important given the increase in non-traditional working arrangements.
"I think these days more and more young attorneys are working from home or working remotely, and you need something that is easy to access and is comparable in speed to the access you have in the office," he says.
Ideally, increased connectivity will result in increased collaboration, by helping employees who work in multiple offices or multiple time zones to better coordinate their efforts, says Judy Selby, a BakerHostetler partner who also heads the firm's e-discovery and technology practice group.
"Let's just say you have a law firm in a different country or you're dealing with people in different parts of the world," she says. "[Technology] makes communication much easier because you don't have to worry about time zones or Fed-ex-ing that takes three days."
Collaboration software can also help to cut down on redundant versions of the same document. "If you're working on a living document, it also eliminates the problem of different drafts being floated around," Selby says. "It tends to help streamline that so everybody's working on the same thing at the same time."
In today's increasingly connected world, clients and coworkers alike expect legal departments to be available at a moment's notice, and basic tools for collaboration and connectivity can help to ensure that every law department, no matter the size, can effectively streamline its efforts. "[Connectivity technology ] is the only way to be responsive, frankly, to get things turned so that you're not running back and forth to the office, you aren't having someone email you a document and then having to email it back."


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Woman sentenced for stealing from nonprofits
JANESVILLE—A woman accused of stealing thousands of dollars from two Beloit nonprofit organizations was sentenced Friday to two years probation, including seven months in the Rock County Jail.
Holly K. Flanagan, 35, of 1243 Ninth St., Beloit, pleaded guilty to felony theft, but the court held open a finding of guilt. Flanagan will be able to petition the court to dismiss the felony charge if she successfully completes probation, according to online court records.
Flanagan also pleaded no contest to misdemeanor theft and obstructing an officer. The court found her guilty on those charges.
Flanagan's jail time will allow her to be released for work, child care and court sessions. The amount of money Flanagan will have to repay will be part of an agreement between the defense and prosecution, to be determined within 30 days.
Flanagan also must complete any counseling the court deems appropriate.
Flanagan was accused of taking nearly $22,000 from the Converse Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization in Beloit and of charging nearly $5,400 for personal items on a credit card when she was an employee of the Beloit Boys & Girls Club.
The missing money was discovered in fall 2012.


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Joy (Hess) Garlock, Watertown, WI/formerly Janesville, WI (1929-2014)
April 8, 1929 - February 13, 2014
Joy (Hess) Garlock, 84, of Watertown, passed away on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014, at her home. Joy was born on April 8, 1929, in Cleveland, OH. She enjoyed working with the cub scouts in Elkhorn, and Janesville, before moving to Watertown, in 1973. She was a secretary at the Lebanon Public School for many years, and enjoyed interacting with the school children. Joy was active in many bridge clubs. She was a member of the Watertown Country Club, loved the game of golf and was a scorekeeper for many years at the GMO. She was a member of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church of Watertown, and took confirmation classes in her eighties and was confirmed on Feb. 11, 2007.
Joy will be missed by her two sons, Keith Garlock and Brent Garlock, both of California; one granddaughter, Lindsee Garlock Godsey of Branson, MO; her sister, Vi Krisker of Vicksburg, MS; and special friends, Sue Arnold and Maurine Ayers, both of Watertown. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ted Garlock; and a twin brother, Jay.
Funeral services for Joy will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 5:30 p.m. at GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH in Watertown, with the Rev. David Groth officiating. Visitation will be at the CHURCH from 4 p.m. until the time of the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Watertown Country Club or the charity of one's choice.
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Your Views: Criticism of Parkview is unfair to Orfordville district
This letter is in response to one written by Bill Redmer on Oct. 17. Mr. Redmer continually berates Parkview School District, and all facts should be presented. Not just those that make his one-sided argument believable.
Mr. Redmer says the "meets expectations" label given by the state is just "smoke and mirrors." He couldn't be more wrong. Smoke and mirrors implies the district is creating the "illusion" of meeting expectations. In reality, the district meets all state expectations and is actually bordering on the "exceeds expectations" label.
This brings me to Mr. Redmer's second fallacy. He claims the district received a D+ score from the state. This is woefully inaccurate. The Department of Public Instruction did not give letter grades when ranking the districts. The highest score given was 86.7, and therefore, the 67 received by Parkview puts it on the cusp of exceeding expectations, not nearly failing as Mr. Redmer would like you to believe.
When Mr. Redmer says that "years of improvements" were/will be thrown away, he is either misinformed or doesn't care to give the facts. Two district buildings are unchanged from 1964. The washrooms don't comply with Americans with Disabilities Act standards, and rooms are too small for their intended purposes (band, choir). Also, there is no space to hold revenue-generating events (show choir, athletic tournaments, youth sports, etc.) that other districts profit from.
Mr. Redmer is entitled to his opinion, but I feel the other citizens of the district deserve the truth.


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A few months ago I experienced the phenomenon of Advertising Week, a kind of Comic-Con of online advertising that occurs each year around Times Square. My two main objectives were to meet some of the Angry Birds in person and to find out exactly what "native advertising" is. I had more success with the first goal. Even though many vendors actively promoted native advertising and used it in every other sentence, explaining what it was proved challenging.
Several other entities, especially advertising enforcers, seem disturbingly certain that they know what native advertising is. At a recent presentation, a Federal Trade Commission staffer announced, with tongue-in-cheek pride, the FTC's first native advertising enforcement action: a 1915 case involving an advertisement posing as a magazine news article. It was a cute way to make the point that nothing in advertising law is really new, and to reinforce the FTC's perennial position that any truth-in-advertising issue can be resolved by reference to the broad principles stated in the FTC Act. Somehow, though, it was unsatisfying. I came away wondering if the FTC really groks native advertising, especially in gaming and entertainment contexts.
Semi-formally, the FTC has defined "native advertising" as "blending advertisements with news, entertainment, and other editorial content in digital media" and has asserted it to be synonymous with "sponsored content." Except for the "digital media" part, it encompasses the advertorials that have been around for over a century in print media. This, and the name of the FTC's December 2013 "Blurred Lines: Advertising or Content?" workshop on native advertising, signal the FTC's primary concern with native advertising, which is that sponsored content should be clearly labeled as such.
There are a couple of problems with the FTC's definition of native advertising. First, it is basically tantamount to "disguised advertising." If in-media advertising is clearly designated as advertising, then it has separated itself from the surrounding content, broken the frame, interrupted the experience; it is no longer native. If it's native, by definition, it's blended; the lines are blurred; you can't tell it from the "content." It is inherently suspicious, if not deceptive. Second, it has dubious relevance to the gaming context, or to most entertainment media.
If you are looking for a true ancestor of video game native advertising in the (relatively) low-tech world, a better one might be product placement in movies and TV shows. Here, the FTC's enforcement position deviates from its own principle that sponsored content should be clearly designated as such. In 2005, responding to a Commercial Alert complaint about product placement in TV shows, the FTC declined to require advertisers who pay to have their products appear in programs to flash a superimposed disclosure such as "ADVERTISEMENT" at viewers. Essentially the FTC skirted its own principle by defining the mere placement of one's brand in front of consumers as not an advertisement that makes objective, and thus potentially deceptive, claims about the product.
Product placement in traditional media has reached its most advanced form in Asia, where top film and TV stars participate in "Commercial Films" (CFs) that are extended dramatic programs sponsored by an advertiser. Typically the advertiser's product plays a key plot role, such as in a romantic comedy where the sponsor's smartphone is crucial in uniting the lovers — similar to, but more pervasive than, America Online's ground-breaking product placement in the 1998 Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan film You've Got Mail. It's certainly possible that a product in such a story could be shown doing things it can't really do, and nothing prevents an agency or litigant from challenging any deceptive implied claim. If, for example, Chrysler had sponsored the appearance of the legendary 1969 Charger "General Lee" in The Dukes of Hazzard, the FTC might very well have taken issue with the show's depiction of the car's aerial capabilities and crashworthiness.
Games are more like movies than magazines or search portals, and the FTC's hands-off logic for product placement in movies and TV shows that does not make objective claims holds true for the most common form of video game native advertising, which is to throw a trademark in front of users in the context of a game environment. The FTC's position implicitly acknowledges an important benefit of this practice. Most games are interactive works of fiction in which the programmer interacts with the user to create a more or less guided but unique narrative experience. Many games build a realistic environment that calls for the suspension of disbelief. Corporate brands and advertising are a part of our modern environment, and it enhances the realism of any simulated environment, be in in a movie or a game, when genuine, familiar brands appear. We have all seen movies and TV productions in which the producer has invented a bogus brand for a common consumer product because it could not use the trademark of a real one. This unrealism jars us momentarily, interfering with our suspension of disbelief. Product placement serves not only the sponsor's commercial ends, but also the producer's dramatic purposes and user-viewer's experience, because it is realism-enhancing to see real, rather than ersatz, product billboards in a street-chase game and real logos on the boards of an ice hockey simulation.
Perhaps not surprisingly, Wikipedia has a more balanced definition of native advertising than the FTC: Online advertising "in which the advertiser attempts to gain attention by providing content in the context of the user's experience [whose] formats match both the form and the function of the user experience in which it is placed." It's a definition better suited to native advertising in the gaming context, because it acknowledges that native advertising in gaming is not just snuck into the experience in disguise, it is affirmatively part of the experience, in the same way that products, brands and advertising are part of our lives. Deceptive is still deceptive, of course; but native is not necessarily deceptive.


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The Fiber Disease
Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Medicine. Anything human!
Moderator: BioTeam
I apologize for the tone, one thing I do try to have is respect for human dignity; and I see that I have been lacking in it myself.
I could offer mitigating reasons for my outburst, but I will accept the criticism.
I respectfully recant any personally insulting words, but steadfastly remain stoic in my resolve to find some answers.
Please accept my apologies for any hurts I caused.
Statutory Basis for Public Health Reporting
Beyond Specific Diseases
Claire V. Broome, Heather H. Horton, Deborah Tress,
Salvatore J. Lucido, and Denise Koo
Statutory authority for public health surveillance is necessarily broad as
previously uncharacterized diseases are regularly discovered. This article provides spe-
cific information about general disease reporting provisions in each state. The intent
of these reporting laws and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
Privacy Rule is to support this critical disease surveillance function for the benefit of
the entire population.
HIPAA public health provisions, Public health surveillance, Statutory au-
A fundamental responsibility of the public health system in the United States is the
prompt detection of, investigation of, and response to threats to the health of the
population, whether these threats are due to known organisms, previously unchar-
acterized disease, or a covert deliberate terrorist event. Because of the recognition
that previously uncharacterized diseases are regularly discovered, statutory author-
ity for public health surveillance is necessarily broad to ensure that state and local
public health personnel can fulfill their responsibility. The urgency of developing
systems that might provide the earliest possible detection of a terrorist event has
led public health and its partners to explore innovative surveillance approaches
using their broad authority. At the same time, the process of implementing the
recently promulgated Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Privacy Rule has compelled many health care providers, in an attempt to ensure a
sound legal basis for disease reporting, to reexamine their process for reporting
information to public health authorities. This article provides specific information
about the general disease reporting provisions in each state and also shows that the
intent of these reporting laws and the HIPAA Privacy Rule is to support this critical
disease surveillance function for the benefit of the entire population.
it has made.
The HIPAA Privacy Rule should not limit a state's ability to perform its public
health functions. A primary function of the public health system is public health
surveillance to determine the existence of cases of an illness and to disseminate data
for the benefit of the community. Surveillance of nonspecific conditions or symp-
toms (syndromic surveillance) may provide an early warning of a large outbreak,
terrorism, or other public health emergency. A public health authority continues to
have the ability to conduct public health surveillance, based both on its "police
power," the inherent power of a state to protect the health, safety, and welfare of
the community, and on specific law.
One important aspect of public health surveillance, including syndromic sur-veillance, is disease reporting. Disease reporting, as with public health generally, isprimarily a state and local function.* State disease reporting laws may be agent specific or general. All states have broad disease reporting laws that require thereporting of diseases of public health significance. This legal requirement is ex-pressed in as many ways as there are states. Usually, the entities to which persons must report are state, local, or county health agencies or other health authorities.
Each state requires, in pertinent part, the following to be reported:
Alabama, Ala. Admin. Code r. 420-4-1-.04(7)(d) (2002), "cases of diseases of potential public health significance."
*Federal disease reporting requirements are generally limited to the mandatory reporting of ill passen-
gers and deaths aboard cruise ships and other carriers.
Alaska, Alaska Admin. Code title 7, § 27.005(a) (2002), "epidemic outbreaks"
and "an unusual incidence of infectious disease."
Arizona, Ariz. Admin. Code R9-6-202 (2002), "Outbreaks of foodborne/wa-
terborne illness."
Arkansas, Ark. Reg. 007 05 003 (2002), "Occurrences which threaten the wel-
fare, safety, or health of the public such as epidemic outbreaks."
California, Cal. Code Regs. title 17, § 2500 (2002), the "OCCURRENCE of
ANY UNUSUAL DISEASE" and "OUTBREAKS of ANY DISEASE."
Colorado, 6 Colo. Code Regs. § 1009-1 (2002), "any unusual illness, or out-
break, or epidemic of illnesses which may be of public concern."
Connecticut, Conn. Agencies Regs. § 19a-36-A1 (2002), "other condition of
public health significance."
Delaware, Del. Code Ann. title 16, § 130 (2002), "all cases of persons who
harbor any illness or health condition that may be potential causes of a public
health emergency."
Florida, Fla. Admin. Code Ann. r. 64D-3.002 (2002), "Any disease outbreak
in a community, a hospital, or other institution, or a foodborne, or waterborne
Georgia, Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. r. 290-5-3-.02 (2001), "Outbreaks or unusual
clusters of disease (infectious and noninfectious)."
Hawaii, Haw. Admin. Rules § 11-156-3 (b) (2002), "Any communicable dis-
ease . . . occurring beyond usual frequency, or of unusual or uncertain etiology,
including diseases which might be caused by a genetically engineered organism."
Idaho, Idaho Admin. Code 16.02.10.004 (2002), "Rare diseases and unusual
outbreaks of illness which may be a risk to the public."
Illinois, Ill. Admin. Code title 77, § 690.295 (2002), "Any unusual case or
cluster of cases"; and Ill. Admin. Code title, 77, § 690.800 (2002), "any sus-
pected bioterrorist threat or events."
Indiana, Ind. Admin. Code. title 410, r. 1-2.3-47 (2002), "Unusual occurrence
of disease" and "any disease . . . considered a bioterrorism threat."
Iowa, Iowa Admin. Code r. 641-1.3 (139A) (2002), "Outbreaks of any kind,
unusual syndromes, or uncommon diseases."
Kansas, Kan. Admin. Regs. 28-1-2 (2002), "Any exotic or newly recognized
disease, and any disease unusual in incidence or behavior, known or suspected
to be infectious or contagious and constituting risk to the public health" and
"The occurrence of a single case of any unusual disease or manifestation of
illness that the health care provider determines or suspects may be caused by
or related to a bioterrorist agent or incident."
Kentucky, 902 Ky. Admin. Regs. 2:020 (2002), "an extraordinary number of
cases or occurrences of disease or condition."
Louisiana, Sanitary Code Ch. 2 § 2:003 (2002), "all cases of rare or exotic
communicable disease, unexplained death, unusual cluster of disease and all
Maine, 10-144 Code ME R. Ch. 258 § 2 (2002), "Any pattern of cases or
increased incidence of illness beyond the expected number of cases in a given
period, or cases which may indicate a newly recognized infectious agent, or an
outbreak or related public health hazard."
Maryland, Md. Regs. Code title 10, § 06.01.03 (2002), "Outbreaks and Single
Cases of Diseases of Public Health Importance."
Massachusetts, Mass. Regs. Code title 105 § 300.122 (2002), "Illness Believed
to be Part of an Outbreak or Cluster."
Michigan, Mich. Admin. Code r. 325.173 (2002), "the unusual occurrence of
any disease, infection, or condition that threatens the health of the public."
Minnesota, Minn. R. 4605.7050 (2002), "Any pattern of cases, suspected
cases, or increased incidence of any illness beyond the expected number of cases
in a given period."
Mississippi, Miss. Reg. 12 000 028 (2002), "Any Suspected Outbreak."
Missouri, Mo. Code Regs. title 19, § 20-20.020(3) (2002), "The occurrence of
an outbreak or epidemic of any illness, disease or condition which may be
of public health concern . . . [and] public health threats that could result from
terrorist activities such as clusters of unusual diseases or manifestations of ill-ness and clusters of unexplained deaths."
Montana, Mont. Admin. R. 37.114.203 (2002), "Any unusual incident of un-
explained illness or death in a human or animal."
Nebraska, 173 Neb. Admin. Code Ch. 1 § 003 (2002), "Clusters, outbreaks or
epidemics of any health problem, infectious or other, including food poisoning, influenza or possible bioterroristic attack; increased disease incidence beyond expectations; unexplained deaths possibly due to unidentified infectious causes;any unusual disease or manifestations of illness."
Nevada, Nev. Admin. Code ch. 441A, § 225 (2002), "Extraordinary occur-
rence of illness."
New Hampshire, N.H. Code Admin. R. Ann. [He-P] 301.02 (2002), "Unusual
occurrence or cluster of illness which may pose a threat to the public's health,"
New Jersey, N.J. Admin. Code title 8, § 57-1.3 (2002), "Any outbreak or sus-
pected outbreak, including, but not limited to, foodborne, waterborne, or noso-comial disease or a suspected act of bioterrorism."
New Mexico, N.M. Admin. Code title 7 § 4.3 (2002), "Illnesses suspected to be caused by the intentional or accidental release of biologic or chemical agents," "Acute illnesses of any type involving large numbers of persons in the same geographic area," and "Other conditions of public health significance."
New York, N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. title 10 § 2.1 (2002), "Any disease outbreak or unusual disease"
North Carolina, N.C. Admin. Code title 15A, r. 19A.0102 (2002), "all out-breaks or suspected outbreaks of foodborne illness"; and N.C. Admin. Code
title 15A, r. 19A.0103 (2002), "a cluster of cases of a disease or condition . . .
which represents a significant threat to the public health."
North Dakota, N.D. Admin. Code § 33-06-01-01 (2002), "Unusual cluster of severe or unexplained illnesses or deaths."
Ohio, Ohio Admin. Code § 3701-3-02 (2002), "Any unexpected pattern of
cases, suspected cases, deaths or increased incidence of any other disease of major public health concern, because of the severity of disease or potential for
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epidemic spread, which may indicate a newly recognized infectious agent, an outbreak, epidemic, related public health hazard or act of bioterrorism."
Oklahoma, Okla. Admin. Code § 3701-3-02 (2002), "Outbreaks of apparent
infectious disease."
Oregon, Or. Admin. R. 333-018-0015 (2002), "Any known or suspected com-
mon-source outbreaks; any Uncommon Illness of Potential Public Health Sig-nificance."
Pennsylvania, 28 Pa. Code § 27.3 (2002), "Unusual occurrence of a disease, infection or condition."
Rhode Island, R.I. Code R. 14 040 002 (2002), "an outbreak of infectious disease or infestation, or a cluster of unexplained illness, infectious or non-infectious . . . Exotic diseases and unusual group expressions of illness which may be of public health concern."
South Carolina, S.C. Code Ann. § 44-29-10 (2002), "all cases of known or suspected contagious or infectious diseases . . . all cases of persons who harbor any illness or health condition that may be caused by chemical terrorism, bio-terrorism, radiological terrorism, epidemic or pandemic disease, or novel and highly fatal infectious agents and might pose a substantial risk of a significant
number of human fatalities or incidents of permanent or long-term disability."
South Dakota, S.D. Admin. R. 44:20:01:03 (2001), "Epidemics or outbreaks
. . . and Unexplained illnesses or deaths of humans or animals."
Tennessee, Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs.1200-14-1.02 (2002), "Disease outbreaks,
foodborne, waterborne, and all other."
Texas, 25 Tex. Admin. Code § 97.3 (2002), "any outbreak, exotic disease, and unusual group expressions of disease which may be of public health concern."
Utah, Utah Admin. Code 386-702 (2002), "Any sudden or extraordinary occurrence of infectious or communicable disease" and "Any disease occurrence, pattern of cases, suspect cases, or increased coincidence of any illness which may indicate an outbreak, epidemic or related public health hazard, including but not limited to suspected or confirmed outbreaks of foodborne or water-
borne disease, newly recognized or re-emergent diseases or disease producing agents."
Vermont, Vt. Code R. 13 140 007 (2002), "Any unexpected pattern of cases, suspected cases, deaths or increased incidence of any other illness of major public health concern, because of the severity of illness or potential for epidemic spread, which may indicate a newly recognized infectious agent, an outbreak, epidemic, related public health hazard or act of bioterrorism."
Virginia, 12 Va. Admin. Code § 5-90-80 (2002), "Outbreaks, all (including foodborne, nosocomial, occupational, toxic substance-related, waterborne, and other outbreaks)."
Washington, Wash. Admin. Code § 246-101-301 (2002), "Disease of suspected bioterrorism origin" and "Other rare disease of public health significance."
West Virginia, W. Va. Code St. R. § 64-7-3 (2002), "An outbreak or cluster of any illness or condition—suspect or confirmed" and "Unexplained or ill defined illness, condition, or health occurrence of potential public health signif-
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Wisconsin, Wis. Admin. Code Ch. HFS 145, App. A (2002), "Suspected out-
breaks of . . . acute or occupationally related diseases."
Wyoming, WY Rules and Regulations HLTH CHI Ch 1 s 5 (2002) and (http://
wdhfs.state.wy.us/epiid/reportlist.pdf), "A cluster of unusual or unexplained illnesses or deaths and suspected biological incidents."
Many of these general disease reporting laws appear compatible with syn-
dromic surveillance. Individual states, however, can determine whether their state disease reporting laws would authorize public health agencies to obtain ongoing data on relevant symptoms. These state reporting laws identify information that each state requires to be reported. The Privacy Rule would permit such reporting because the rule permits covered entities to disclose PHI if such disclosures are required by law. However, if these or other laws do not require covered entities to make these disclosures, other laws may authorize health departments to collect this
type of data as discussed above. States would need to examine their specific statutory or regulatory provisions to determine whether a disclosure is required or authorized by law. For example, a law that broadly authorizes a public health authority to take whatever actions are necessary to protect the health of the public may be sufficient for this type of data collection. The more specific the law, the clearer
a state's authority may be.
If, despite a health department's apparent authority to collect data on relevant
symptoms, there is difficulty collecting such data, one possibility would be for the state legislature to consider revising and clarifying their disease reporting laws for syndromic surveillance purposes. Other options might include more regular enforcement of existing disease reporting laws and better education of providers on the public health significance of reporting nonspecific symptoms. For example, in some states, noncompliance with disease reporting laws is a misdemeanor punishable by fine or imprisonment, but it is unclear whether these laws are being enforced.Furthermore, compliance may not be occurring since physicians may see their first duty as protecting their individual patients and maintaining confidentiality, and patients themselves may be concerned with invasions of privacy and discrimination.
Educational efforts, however, may help physicians and their patients to understand the benefit from detecting a covert bioterrorist event as rapidly as possible, when
early detection can translate directly into lives saved.
Educational efforts could also
include information about the policies and regulations ensuring the security and protection of information provided to public health authorities.
Finally, public health is committed to developing disease surveillance systems that minimize the burden to providers of reporting surveillance information, while incorporating highly stringent information security practices. Ideally, the net effect of these laws, regulations, and systems will be security for individual patient information and for the entire nation.
This article was based on a presentation at the National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, New York Academy of Medicine, September 24, 2003. The work was performed while the authors were US government employees.
Thank you to Karen McKie, Emory University law student and Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention legal intern, for her invaluable research assistance.
http://18.104.22.168/search?q=cache:fP ... clnk&cd=12
If my reading comprehension serves me correctly, then many people have broken the LAW by not reporting this condition.
My solution? We all coordinate an effort to storm our local Health Departments(same day) and demand that this be reported based on state law. See above for your state. Sometimes people need a stick of dynamite up there. If we can unite then I believe that this effort could make a huge impact. Who is with me?
I am sure statistics are being recorded under broad heading DERM, but remember HIV is not a reportable disease because the ACLU argued and won it case that making HIVreportable would violate constitution.
Until this disease is recognized by medical community at large case we remain in limbo.
I am not sure if case reporting would be a good thing.
wow, what a post- thanks Sabrina. I must go back and reread it.
Al, no probplem at all and thanks for the apology.
Seems like being president of a University is a dream job (no pun intended). Looks like I am going to pay out the you- know-what for more attorney fees to get to the bottom of this. So be it. I do not think that the hippa law can stand it's ground if the disease we have was gov;t induced. We'll see.
oh this is too cute Michael......Your paper on Natural Evolution Disease.....
You're full of S. why don't you you write a paper on your body's adaptive ability to overcome that! A-hole.
PS: I see you have the NSF, Dept of Energy and NIH to back ya, let me tell you something. They are not ab0ve the law like they think they are.
with all this advice on sleep and how it is required to get better- I'm starting to think maybe not sleeping is the cure. The dream might get shattered.
Look, first I have to say this....to Disinfo, the person that thought I was being rude to her/him.....I was not calling any of you people that are sick and post here "dumdums"!, I was calling the people that created it dumdums. So they can add the word Captain dumdums to it if that makes them feel better.
As I stated before, I'm not trying to get any big Co. in trouble or find fault. What good would that do me? HUH?
I have given your names to my doctors, attornies, significant others incase I do come up suddenly missing or suddenly diagnosed with gov't induced alzheimers.....you think i'm that stupid to not know that lasors only go in a straight line.??? HUH? You don;t think I am sitting idle on the fact that the neighbor that lived directly behind me for 30 years all of a sudden just up and moved do ya?
Let you in on something else, my sig. others have been given every name in this complex and the address and ph numbers to go with it.
One more laser that comes thru my home then it;s right back at cha.
hey back the phuck off rice and NSF
Crystal structure of zeolite MFI (also known as ZSM-5) used in the catalytic cracking of crude oil. Hmmm......
don't make me go discuss GE and Ireland.
I have no idea what this is but intend to find out....
http://www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/79 ... 809001.HTM
Wazup Jane?
http://www.google.com/search?q=Jane+Fow ... f8&oe=utf8
http://www.google.com/search?q=Quantum+ ... f8&oe=utf8
gotta love this one-
http://www.google.com/search?q=The+Opti ... f8&oe=utf8
Let me know when you have had enough by taking me out of your stupid murderous phucking study Mr. gov;ts.....This is it incase any sick person is interested.
http://www.prod.sandia.gov/cgi-bin/tech ... 056252.pdf
this is kind of telling too.....
TAMTAM, help, help......could you explain this?
purpuratus (abbr. Spu) and L. variegatus (abbr. Lva), mouse M. musculus (abbr. Mmu), human H.
Don't ask me how I have the ability- clairvoyance maybe. dunno but again, looks like game over
Injection-Info: l41g2000cwc
http://www.google.com/search?q=Injectio ... f8&oe=utf8
On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 06:48:11 +0000, Arnold Neumaier wrote:
> Sci~Girl wrote:
>> It helps a little, but I'm really looking for what "entangled" refers
>> to. What does it mean to have photons "entangled?"
> That the joint wave function of a a pair of photons is not the tensor
> product of two single-particle wave functions.
That is correct and very succinct. But, perhaps a hands on demonstration
would be helpful.
A state of a particle is described by a wave function. We can represent it
by a function of one variable, say x. If we have two particles, then their
state will be described by wave function of two variables, say x and y,
one for each particle.
When two particles are independent, their wave function is the product of
two individual wave functions:
psi_togehter(x,y) = psi_single1(x) psi_single2(y).
Here's a simple fact: not every possible function of two variables
psi_together(x,y) can be written as a product of two individual functions
psi_single1(x) and psi_single1(y). A simple example is
psi_together(x,y) = x^2 + y^2.
Real wave functions look very different from the above form, but it is
sufficient to demonstrate the point.
We call a state of two particles _entangled_ if the corresponding wave
function psi_together(x,y) cannot be written as a product of two single
particle wave functions. The discussion above shows that there in fact are
entangled states.
If you are at all familiar with linear algebra, you can try an example
that is more realistic. A two component (row or column) vector describes
the state of a two level quantum system (such as a spin or a photon). If
you have two such systems, the joint state will be described by a two by
two matrix (four components). Can you write every possible 2x2 matrix as a
tensor product of two 2-component tensors (a column vector times a row
vector)? If not, then you've just proven that a system of two coupled two
level systems exhibits entangled states.
Hope this helps.
why don;t we discuss Indiana state and see if they would care to extrapolate their theory of coal underwater and how it turns in diamonds????
maybe this will help (photos)
this will be my last post.....the dangers of molecular manufactoring
just like to say thanks dept of energy, agriculture, nanofreakos and the universities....but mostly to the sorry, sorry institutions that I thought were formed to protect my health- the NSF and the NIH....you literally maked me sick. Just wait till the public gets a whiff of you all, just wait.
oh, what's this????
Ya know, that clairvoyance thing....hummmm...maybe that's what we all have in common...!!! I see posts repeatedly of sites I had JUST been to...this has happened over and over....like the Singularity has accomplished their mission...we think like a "hive" now!!! Well I say, there's strength in numbers!!!
I took the time to send our ONLY contact in official capacity - D. Rut z.
an e mail. Haven't heard back yet...will post his reply if I get one.
December 27, 2006
Center for Disease Control - Atlanta, GA, USA
Mr. Rutz, (Dan)
It is the end of the year 2006....a long way from July, 1994. I can go over this situation a million times with "representatives" from all the various political and scientific and medical organizations but see no reason to.
I am certain that this is nanotechnology...I believe it was done deliberately and that the infected persons have been monitored since they became infected. That is WHY I won't waste my time defending myself or trying to explain this malady. I believe that the government agencies are stalling....for what reasons? Those could be numerous....CTA's mainly.
I believe it was done intentionally because they wouldn't waste zillions of dollars everyday, across the free world, spraying God knows what, DAILY, and not be aware of what this is (the two are related.) Don't EVEN try to insult me further by some words that are meant to divert and divide.
There is much speculation as to the whys....what's it supposed to accomplish? Monitoring "interesting persons", population reduction, plain ole' clinical experiments...at this point it doesn't do much to alleviate what is going on in our bodies. I wish sir for one week, you might personally experience the "feelings" that WE do, running the entire gammet.
It would be quite "novel", I'm sure...not that I would wish this on Satan himself...because I have a pure heart.
I would like to know if there has been anything agreed upon within the inner sanctum and will there be any "announcements" regarding the situation forthcoming? Do you have family, children, parents? How can you look them in the face....this is just the beginning you know.....they may have an elite selection they are focusing on currently but with time, you yourself may be facing this or possibly worse...Satan doesn't discriminate.
I am beyond frustrated...I am getting much more methodical in my collection of evidence(s), documented observances, and contact people. The powers that be put us in such a position....we will prove what has been perpetrated, we will have justification, we will have vindication. That is the truth.
I would appreciate some input, thoughts you have, and information as to what procedures are being implemented. What really amazes me is that the ...***!!!^^*!!! got away with this for so long ...it's not that I underestimate them...I most certainly don't...but likewise...the fact they underestimate US, is one of our strengths.
Thank you for your time.
cc: all the boards, medical malpractice lawyers, churches, and other groups "of interest" that I can possibly forward to. CMA.
I intend to post on as many other sites as I can...I also have saved addys to every major church organization worldwide...starting with those.....!!!***Pentacostals!!!! Wild bunch they are....you can count on them for passing it on. I also have sent all the links, a letter of introduction and copies of my "official correspondence" to all lawyers on the net I can find that take on cases such as this. It took a bit, but I have got the routine down pat now. I would hope if any of you have time to do the same...somebody out there is going to help us!!
It's amazing the resources that are available right there in limbo...(Sabrina) The reason I am getting every bit of info to the pastors and Prayer Request Lists sites is that I have very close friends whose daddy is a preacherman, in a small (very small) church in the mountains here. You would be astounded how the small churches network and get info around the country in split second time. Like when they spot white UN trucks gathered round or activity taking place....shoot, it's like having access to the front page of the "New York Times!" I'm telling you, they have very close networks, and they all believe in Revelation, for sure. And believe me when I tell you, even those little backwoods churches, have "new members" that we really know who they are and why they joined...it's called Discernment, dumdums (not you guys...lol.) Now to post all on other sites....
from msc
we have med documents, we have hard cold printed facts that chemicals used in a retinoid product was toxic and caused adversed effects, we see lawsuits across the country for benzene, for accutane, for isotretinoin, for
silicosis, all of which were in this fda approved prescription drug but all attorneys turn us away, why. why is protecting johnson and johnson so vital and not hoffman and roche? why is johnson johnson allowed to mislead their consumers, mislabel their products and get away with not warning their consumers of severe adverse effects? why is this corp.
allowed to get away with murder, why are these physicians not being charged with ethics violations for failure to test and diagnosis their patients and being able to destroy their patients reputation with DOP?
where are advocate rights groups who are suppose to protect women and children and animals. peta knew of my friend's dog's testicle blowing up,
where are they even the vet refuses to biopsy the remaining piece he has in his refrigerator for these chemicals and biological organisms like spiders, silkworms, bacteria biofilms and fungus. he we have some hard cold facts and how many women are using retinoids and how many of them have been using them in age defying creams and makeups and don't even know it how many men's products are they in, but yet no one helps. we have in our hands and on this website information showing these products have nano particles, ligands that emit gases and move particles atoms colloids from the back of your head to the front and you don't know it is happening. they are replacing water molecules with ammonia moleciules, surrounding you in gas oxide clouds and spinning plastic around you. but no one helps, it is either it was done with gov't approval and gov't testing as stated by Parker and Waichman LLC that physicians are paid to do gov't tests or a serious mistake was done and they don't know how to handle it. but declaring people dop was an outrage and a total inhumane act of unforgivebleness. those physicians need to be prosecuted they took this to a level of unbelievable mistrust for physicians, as we want nothing to do with the medical profession let them starve to death.
This is to Maggie M-
thanks for sharing that. I;m sick and tired of their game playing. Maybe it is time to turn up the heat if they don;t take us seriously. Going Public looks like is the only alternative we have.....
I'm tired of waiting and do not plan on doing it anylonger.
Yeah, they say that human consent has to be completed in order for them to do research on us....but loophole #numero phucking uno....is where they think they can get away with it....how>??? by other nations being involved....Hey dumdums, this dosen't get you off the hook. You have broken the law and my attorney knows this. Now, what the phuck do you wanna do about it. Take me out of your stupid **** experiment or for me to cause a public scandal. PS.... Ford is dead- he can't get you out of this next one that is about to blow in your faces.....tic-toc
don't think i don't know that Texas Higher Education is involved....how bout that dallas bond issue passed in 2001....and putting in those voip telelophone systems.....do I need to blow this phucking out of the water too//? I will.
I see that they even have listed down the help of the others involved and have even marked Okalahoma state as well.
Look, we know more than you think we do.....applegators.......
Yes, Maggie, singularity and ray kurzwell can kiss my ass too along with the texas education agency that I'm about to blow to kindgdom come.
Try googling this....Advanced technology programs B 2001....
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
Expenditure and Employment Data for the Criminal Justice System [United States]: CJEE Extracts File, 1996 (ICPSR 3063)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics
This file provides data on federal, state, and local governmental expenditures and employment for criminal justice activities in the United States. Information is supplied on police protection, judicial and legal services, and correctional institutions and agencies. Variables describing each of these criminal justice functions include number of and payroll for full-time, part-time, and full-time equivalent employees, current total and general expenditures, capital outlay, and intergovernmental expenditures.
Series: Expenditure and Employment Data for the Criminal Justice System Series
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U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. EXPENDITURE AND EMPLOYMENT DATA FOR THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM [UNITED STATES]: CJEE EXTRACTS FILE, 1996. Conducted by U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 2nd ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2001. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03063.v2
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Subject Terms: correctional system, criminal justice system, employment, federal government, full time employment, government expenditures, law enforcement, local government, part time employment, state government, wages and salaries
Geographic Coverage: United States
- 1996
Universe: All federal, state, and local governments in the United States.
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Sample: Larger governments were selected with certainty. Smaller governments were selected using probability sampling based on a ratio of governmental expenditures or indebtedness to the total expenditures and indebtedness of all noncertainty governments in specified groups.
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Elkhorn resident shows off his collector vehicles in vintage space called Elkhorn Garage
ELKHORN�— Gary Wallem proudly calls himself a hoarder.
He collects old pictures of cars, signs, trinkets and, most importantly, cars.
But the cars aren't your average hop-in-and-go vehicles.
One is a 1961 Nash Metropolitan, a gift for his wife.
Another is a 1956 Chrysler New Yorker St. Regis purchased in Arkansas.
And quite possibly his favorite: a 1965 Buick Skylark Gran Sport.
He stores the collector vehicles and six others at the Elkhorn Garage, 119 East Walworth St.
The building, white with red accents, is a mystery to anyone who doesn't know the story of Wallem and his love for cars, hoarding and transforming buildings.
"I buy old, ugly buildings, and I like to make them pretty," Wallem said.
In 1999, Wallem purchased the now Elkhorn Area Chamber of Commerce building, 203 East Walworth St., with the intention of fixing it up. The former owners left a gaping hole in the ceiling, probably thinking anyone who bought it would tear it down and start from fresh.
Wallem didn't.
He renovated the building he called "butt ugly" and opened Uncle Hunk's Junk, an antique store. The antique store was there for six or seven years before he began renting the space to the Chamber of Commerce, Wallem said.
In 2008, Wallem wanted to repeat history. He sat in the Chamber of Commerce building, staring at the for sale sign across the street in front of what was then Pete's Tire Service and is now Elkhorn Garage.
After he and his wife tossed around the idea of buying the building, his wife finally told him to stop festering and just buy it.
So he did.
He had a vision for the space, much like he had for the Chamber of Commerce building.
At first, it was going to be a burger joint called the Elkhorn Filling Station.
But Wallem changed his mind.
"I realized I was too old and too smart to go into the restaurant business," Wallem, 64, said.
Now it's what he calls his man cave with nine of his 20 cars, larger-than-life signs and a tire used in Mario Andretti's 1969 Indianapolis 500 winning race. It was a gift from the race car driver himself.
Wallem renovated the inside of the Elkhorn Garage using recycled building materials. He hired local artists to paint outside murals that now are popular backdrops for prom photos, he said.
"I never thought it would turn out this great," Wallem said. "I consider this my Mona Lisa."
Before Wallem came to Elkhorn when he was 40, he lived in Chicago, where he built restaurants and clubs for Walter Payton. He decided he was done with the hectic lifestyle and needed to retire to a quieter, simpler place. A place he calls his Mayberry.
In Elkhorn, Wallem is a landlord and "puts faces" on other buildings in the area. He designs the concepts and hires out the labor.
He doesn't know how much longer he'll be doing it. But for now he is enjoying adding to the Elkhorn Garage one car, trinket, or poster at a time.


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City of Janesville mistakenly releases Social Security numbers
JANESVILLE—A mistake by city of Janesville staff will cost the city at least $24,000.
The city announced Tuesday it mistakenly released Social Security numbers for 758 people who did business with the city since 2008.
The information was released Jan. 2 but discovered March 13 or 14, said city spokesperson Maggie Hrdlicka.
The information was released to Smart Procure, a company that specializes in gathering data from local, state and federal agencies. Businesses use the data to seek new customers and help them bid for government contracts.
The city sent letters to those affected Monday and offered to pay for identity-theft protection through LifeLock free of charge for one year.
"The city does not foresee any adverse effects occurring to any of the 758 vendors … " the city said in a news release.
Nevertheless, the city opted to pay LifeLock $24,000 for unlimited subscriptions to LifeLock, which is cheaper than if the city paid for each person individually, Hrdlicka said.
The city said in a news release Tuesday that Smart Procure had displayed information from only 15 of the 758 vendors on its website, and no Social Security numbers were displayed.
Only three Smart Procure employees had access to the numbers, the city said.
The city demanded that Smart Procure destroy the information, and it did so, Hrdlicka said.
City staff members followed up twice, seeking assurances that Smart Procure had deleted backup copies and cached copies and were assured that was done, Hrdlicka said.
As far as staff members know, this was the first time the city had received this kind of request about vendors, Hrdlicka said. Other open-records requests have been processed correctly, with certain information redacted, Hrdlicka said.
Staff members are preparing a policy change for city council approval that would cover this situation in the future. The policy likely will require certain kinds of requests to receive a final review by the city attorney, Hrdlicka said.
Hrdlicka said she could not comment on who was responsible for releasing the report or whether anyone would be disciplined because it's a personnel issue.
City ordinance specifies a custodian of records who is in charge of releasing information, and generally it's the department or division head, which in this case is the city comptroller, Hrdlicka said.
Comptroller Patty Lynch is scheduled to retire Aug. 1, the Gazette previously reported.
The information was generated using New World software, which the city has used since 2012.
The error was discovered when Smart Procure made a second request in March. A city staff member noticed that the New World report included the Social Security numbers, and a further check revealed the previous release.
The New World software automatically generated tax ID numbers for each vendor. Those numbers can be released under state law, Hrdlicka said. If the vendor did not have that number, however, the person's Social Security number was used.
�The January information release included about 7,000 vendors, but only 758 used Social Security numbers, Hrdlicka said.
The city has set up a hot line to handle questions or concerns -- 608-373-6000. The city was already receiving calls Tuesday afternoon, Hrdlicka said.


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