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On July 21, 2014, two United States appeals courts reached different decisions about the legality of subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The subsidies assist approximately 4.7 million people, or 86 percent of all HealthCare.gov enrollees. These subsidies offset the cost for low or moderate income individuals in an effort to provide affordable coverage. A large percentage of these individuals pay less than $100 per month in premiums after their subsidies are applied. In short, these subsidies make the cost of healthcare affordable for millions of Americans. HealthCare.gov provides insurance for residents of the 36 states that did not create their own health insurance marketplace. At the end of open enrollment, the "federal exchange" helped 5.4 million Americans sign up for "Affordable Care" plans.
The issue
The plaintiffs in both the 4th and D.C. Courts of Appeal sought to invalidate a May 2012 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rule which provided that health insurance premium tax credits would be available to all taxpayers nationwide, irrespective of whether they obtained coverage through state exchanges or federal exchanges created and operated by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The plaintiffs contended that the plain language of the ACA provides that premium tax credits are only available to health care policies purchased through state exchanges. There are only 14 states and the District of Columbia that have established "state" exchanges. The plaintiffs' arguments were based on statutory language which provided that premium tax credits only are available for plans "enrolled in through an Exchange established by the State under section 1311 of the [ACA]."
The D.C. Circuit's decision in Halbiq v. Burwell
Halbiq held that the IRS and the HHS have been delegated authority to jointly administer the ACA. Accordingly, the court reasoned that since this authority has been given to two agencies jointly, this case is governed by Chevron USA v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
In Chevron, the Supreme Court outlined what is largely considered a deferential test for reviewing an agency's formal interpretation of its own authorizing statute or a statute it administers. At step one, a reviewing court must determine "whether Congress has directly spoken to the precise question at issue." If Congress has clearly addressed the issue, the court "must give effect to the unambiguously expressed intent of Congress." An agency interpretation that is contrary to the clear intent of Congress must be rejected. If, however, the court determines that Congress' intent is unclear, or that the statutory language in question is ambiguous, the court proceeds to step two. At step two, a reviewing court will generally defer to any "permissible construction" of the pertinent statutory language. This analysis is commonly referred to as the Chevron "two-step."
Justice Scalia wrote in a concurring opinion in INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca, which was decided a year after Chevron, that "courts must give effect to a reasonable agency interpretation of a statute unless that interpretation is inconsistent with clearly expressed congressional intent."
In Halbiq, the three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, which was comprised of two Republicans and one Democrat, ruled that the text of the reform law clearly forbids income-tax subsidies to for low and middle-income Americans who used a federally-administered exchange. The majority held that the language was plain, and that the ACA restricts the availability of premium tax credits to health insurance purchased through state exchanges. Justice Roger Gregory opined in his decision, "Applying the Chevron doctrine, which provides that a court must defer to an agency regulation's reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute, the majority concluded that because the statutory language is unambiguous, the court was not required to defer to the interpretation of the statute reflected in the IRS rule. Thus, the Court concluded that it is clear that widely available tax credits are essential to fulfilling the Act's primary goals and that Congress was aware of their importance when drafting the bill."
In dissent, Justice Harry Edwards asserted that when read in its entirety, the ACA is ambiguous. Justice Edwards continued by maintaining that the opinion required a reading of the law that would "crumble" the reform law's overall structure, which shows it was not Congress' intent to have the law interpreted narrowly. Justice Edwards characterized the majority opinion as "a teeth pulling effort bouncing from page to page in an attempt to show that there is no ambiguity in the ACA." He opined that the result of such an effort demonstrates precisely the opposite. He therefore concludes that under Chevron, the court should defer to the government's reasonable interpretation of the statute as reflected in the IRS rule.
The ruling, if upheld, could end insurance subsidies for millions of Americans in 36 states who, because of the law, are presently able to afford insurance. The Obama Administration has stated that it will file for an en banc review of the decision, which will trigger an automatic stay. The ruling by the D.C. Court of Appeals has no legal force until after the full panel of the circuit court has an opportunity to reconsider the case.
The appeal to the full bench would be cast by the three judges who originally heard the case as well as 10 other judges on the active bench, according to the DC Circuit's rules. A decision by the full bench may side in favor of the Obama administration, as it would feature eight Democratic appointees, four of whom were appointed by President Obama, and five Republican appointees.
The 4th Circuit's decision
Hours after the D.C. Court issued its ruling in Halbiq, the 4th Circuit in Richmond, Va. issued an opposite ruling in King v. Burwell. Remarkably, the 4th Circuit held that Congress always intended to allow subsidies to be provided in both state and federally run exchanges.
In King, the 4th Circuit panel unanimously concluded that the ACA is ambiguous on the question of whether premium tax credits are available for health insurance purchased through federal exchanges. Applying the Chevron doctrine, the panel held that it was mandated to defer to the government's "reasonable interpretation" of the ACA as reflected in the IRS rule.
The 4th Circuit's three-judge panel held that the language detailing how tax credits are awarded is "ambiguous and subject to multiple interpretations." The court continued and opined that "clearly, widely available tax credits are essential to fulfilling the Act's primary goals and that Congress was aware of their importance when drafting the bill. The IRS Rule advances this understanding by ensuring that this essential component exists on a sufficiently large scale."
The Court further reasoned that the IRS and HHS' permissible interpretation of the statute easily survives review under Chevron. The Act contemplates that a Federal Exchange created on a state's behalf will have equivalent legal standing with state-created exchanges. Under King, "the ACA would be crippling itself if taxpayers who purchase insurance from an HHS-created exchange are deemed ineligible to receive those subsidies. The ambiguous language in the act when reviewed using the Chevron doctrine gives the governing agencies the authority to interpret the law."
These differing rulings by two appellate courts are among the first in what are likely to be many "bumps in the road" for the ACA. The probability of the courts being split after the en banc review by the D.C. full court is highly unlikely. Moreover, the appetite of the Supreme Court to review this issue, particularly after its decision on the individual mandate case, also seems low. As the current split will likely resolve itself after en banc review of Halbiq by the D.C. Circuit, and short of review by the Supremes, this issue will not likely be a roadblock for millions of Americans continued enjoyment of affordable health insurance.


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Responding to warnings from U.S. regulators that banks are finding ways around new curbs on financial risks, Wall Street is mobilizing to defend its latest tactic to keep overseas derivatives beyond the reach of U.S. rules.
The industry's main lobbying group is prepping a strategy to explain why the new practice—removing guarantees from U.S. banks' overseas trading—is a lawful response to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act and not an effort to take advantage of a loophole, according to a two-page memo obtained by Bloomberg News.
The move "allows non-U.S. affiliates to compete on a level playing field with their foreign counterparts," the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (Sifma) said in the unsigned memo. The association—which represents JPMorgan Chase & Co., Morgan Stanley, and other large U.S. swap-dealers—said the change is similar to "other steps that banks regularly take" in response to new regulations.
The memo, which hasn't been released publicly, was drafted as a list of talking points for industry lobbyists to defend the practice in discussions with congressional lawmakers and regulators.
The industry campaign comes as regulators at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC), and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), as well as the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, have expressed concerns that lifting guarantees might sidestep rules designed to limit risk in the financial system. Under Dodd-Frank, non-guaranteed affiliates must comply with fewer regulations than foreign branches and guaranteed affiliates of banks.
Sifma spokeswoman Carol Danko declined to comment on the memo. CFTC spokesman Steven Adamske also declined to comment.
U.S. regulators argue that losses suffered in overseas units could affect the stability of U.S. parent companies and the entire financial system.
Swaps, a type of derivative previously traded directly between banks and other firms, were largely unregulated prior to the 2008 financial crisis and were blamed for exacerbating it. Critics warn that without curbs on swaps trading overseas, U.S. taxpayers could face a repeat of 2008, when they had to rescue American International Group Inc. from billions of dollars in losses attributed to a London unit.
Dodd-Frank regulations are designed reduce risk by having most interest-rate, credit-default, and other swaps guaranteed at central clearinghouses that accept collateral from buyers and sellers. The rules also seek to increase price competition and transparency by having the transactions occur on new swap-execution facilities (Sefs) that must be open to all money managers and dealers.
European Backlash
U.S. regulators have faced a backlash from European and Asian authorities for extending their authority to trading done overseas. Wall Street lobbying organizations have sued the CFTC, the primary U.S. regulator of derivatives, to limit the international scope of the agency's power.
Several U.S. agencies are examining the situation. The CFTC is reviewing the practice of de-guaranteeing to see if it violates anti-evasion provisions of Dodd-Frank, and the FDIC is monitoring the trades. At a meeting last week, three of five SEC commissioners expressed concerns about the tactic, with Democrat member Kara M. Stein saying it provides "an easy way to evade our rules."
"Firms do not jettison them off to fend for themselves in times of crisis; they bail them out," Stein said at the June 25 meeting, referring to overseas affiliates. "And that's what we're trying to deal with here—those risks flowing back to the United States."
The Sifma memo seeks to dispute the notion that banks remain exposed to risks from the non-guaranteed trades. For example, banks have not replaced the guarantees with other support arrangements, according to the memo. Overseas units are separately capitalized and subject to supervision by local authorities, the memo said.
Removing guarantees "relieves U.S. parent entities from liability on obligations incurred by their non-U.S. affiliates and fully complies with the CFTC's approach," Randy Snook, Sifma's executive vice president of business policies, said yesterday in an e-mailed statement.
The Sifma memo says that CFTC guidance on cross-border trading issued last year indicates that the test of a guarantee is whether a U.S. firm incurs risks on specific new trades, and "not whether the non-U.S. affiliate might have had U.S. guarantees in the past."
'Exit Ramp'
"We had been warning for years about this loophole in the CFTC's cross-border guidance," Marcus Stanley, policy director for Americans for Financial Reform, a coalition including the AFL-CIO labor federation, said yesterday in a phone interview. "Now CFTC seems to be letting it become an exit-ramp from Dodd- Frank."
In the Sifma memo, industry representatives say the de-guaranteeing "does not undermine the price transparency goals of Dodd-Frank" because the requirements are meant to provide bank clients with better pre-trade transparency.
"This rationale for mandatory Sef trading is not applicable to swaps between dealers, as dealers already have a high degree of pre-trade price transparency," according to the memo.
As a result of the change in business, trades with non-U.S. participants are occurring off of the new Dodd-Frank swap-execution facilities because they are being done by the non-guaranteed subsidiaries, John Nixon, an executive at London-based ICAP Plc, the world's largest inter-dealer broker, said at an advisory meeting of the CFTC on May 21.
(Bloomberg LP, parent of Bloomberg News, operates a swap-trading platform and swap data repository.)

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Fiwix is an operating system kernel based on the Unix architecture and fully focused on being Linux compatible. It is designed exclusively for educational purposes, so the kernel code is kept as simple as possible for the benefit of students. It runs on the 32-bit x86 hardware platform, and is compatible with a good base of existing GNU applications.
ADTPro transfers disks to and from Apple II and Apple /// computers and the modern world using any of these communications methods: serial/USB, UDP via the Uthernet or LANceGS Ethernet cards, or audio via the Apple's cassette ports. ADTPro has comprehensive bootstrapping support for otherwise diskless Apple IIs. The home page includes extensive tutorials for getting started.
Excelsior JET is a Java VM enhanced with an Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) compiler and deployment toolkit. It is certified Java Compatible on Windows and Linux on Intel x86 hardware. The 64-bit version is in the works. Excelsior JET Optimizer transforms your classes and JARs into high-performance binary executables. Excelsior JET Runtime includes a licensed Sun implementation of the Java API and Excelsior's proprietary JVM, which is responsible for Java memory management, threading, synchronization, security, and JIT compilation of classes that could not be precompiled. The Excelsior JET Installation Toolkit makes it possible to prepare your optimized application for deployment to end-user systems.
musl is a new implementation of the standard library for Linux-based systems. It is lightweight, fast, simple, free, and strives to be correct in the sense of standards-conformance and safety. It includes a wrapper for building programs against musl in place of the system standard library (e.g. glibc), making it possible to immediately evaluate the library and build compact statically linked binaries with it.
smake is a highly portable 'make' program that makes commands up to date based on rules in Makefiles and on the timestamps of the related files. It implements a complete superset of the features of the classical POSIX/Unix make program. It warns about typical misuse of dynamic macros that prevent portability of makefiles. Its automake features allow you to run scripts to automatically create rules for unknown platforms.
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The future of information technology will be based on controlling the flow of natural light. This project is an attempt to establish the code (or software) that will enable this to happen. It involves rewriting an OS from the ground up.


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Decidedly American Hams: Mangalitsa and Red Wattle
We keep an impressive pile of cured pork legs in the shop. The Italian prosciutto and Spanish jamón are justifiably well-known. Also nestled in there, however, are two domestic treats that I advise you not to miss: Mangalitsa and Red Wattle hams. The latter is particularly American, hailing from a centuries-old tradition of pork curing in Surry County, Virginia.
We source our Mangalitsa and Red Wattle ham from Edwards of Virginia who, in turn, sources pastured, humanely-raised Mangalitsa and Red Wattle pigs from small farms in North Carolina and Iowa, respectively. These heritage breeds are prized for their well-marbled, toothsome, flavorful meat, not to mention a wickedly decadent abundance of fat. Mangalitsas resemble a cross between a sheep and a pig – they're sometimes called "wooly pigs," for good reason – and they're related to the wild boar. Like their boar brethren, Mangalitsa meat is lightly gamey, with a sweet, nutty, intense flavor.
Edwards uses a curing method that mimics the seasonality and recipes of preservation followed by early settlers of Jamestown, located across Cobham Bay from Surry County. Because the newly arrived Virginians were a couple of centuries away from refrigeration, they slaughtered and processed pigs during the winter months. They'd slather the raw meat with salt and then hang it in outdoor smokehouses or barns. The relatively low humidity and chilly temperatures of the season would combine with the salt's preservative effects to kick-start the curing process and keep the meat safe from spoilage.
Edwards has a relatively small curing facility – 50,000 square feet – but it's equipped with technology to replicate the weather conditions used by folks of the Jamestown settlement to produce what the company calls "the ham this country grew up on." The fresh legs are first hand-rubbed with a dry salt cure and then left to sit for a 30-day spell in the Winter Room, where temperatures and humidity are low.
The air in the Spring Room, next stop for the hams, is a balmy 52°F and a touch more humid. Here the meat hangs for 2-3 weeks, and warmer temperatures promote an even, balanced distribution of the salt cure. After this, they head to the smokehouse for a week of cold smoking, a process that imparts flavor as opposed to cooking the meat. The team at Edwards is careful to keep temperatures below 85°F during this process, after which the meat is moved to the Summer Room.
During the "summer sweat" stage, hams are held at 85°F and approximately 80% humidity for three months. This warm push, the last stop before aging, further reduces moisture content and promotes fermentation. Both of these processes yield highly concentrated flavor, which develops further as the hams hang for a subsequent 2-3 years of aging in a cool, dry environment.
The end results of this meticulous operation are marvelously salty, smoky legs, which are hand-boned upon arrival in our shop. Compared to the Mangalitsa variety, Red Wattle ham is slightly smokier and a touch more chewy, much like an American version of speck. Mangalitsa hams are capped with an ample layer of fat that can be an inch and half thick in places—definitely not for the faint of heart. When sliced paper-thin, it's meltingly tender and deliciously salty, like a ham-flavored butter. In addition to the hams, our Cambridge and South End locations also carry Edwards' Mangalitsa bacon, which follows a similar curing and smoking process but requires less aging time. Fat on the bellies is equally generous and delicate, and a nibble on a medium thick slice yields an ethereal but intense burst of porky goodness.
Though Edwards hams have become an icon of the South and its distinctly American food traditions, the family didn't set out to join the meat business. The company's founder was a ferry operator, and he began selling his family's cured ham on sandwiches to hungry travelers. They were a hit, and thus a much tastier business venture was born – thankfully for all of us, I'd say.
For a behind-the-scenes peek at Edwards' curing process, check out this video – the first bit focuses on their process for curing their Surry ham, which comes from Berkshire pigs. Though it's from a different breed and a slightly different product, it is the same method used for the Mangalitsa and Red Wattle.
Erin Carlman Weber is a cheesemonger, charcuterie alumna and the classroom coordinator at Formaggio Kitchen Cambridge. She is currently pursuing a Masters in the Food Studies program at Boston University.


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Slideshow: Kickstarter Pebble Watch Teardown
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It's a Dick-Tracy-eat-your-heart-out moment. The Pebble smartwatch, with its Kickerstarter pedigree and hype--self-described by developer Pebble Technology as the "first watch of the 21st century"--does look like the watch of the future. Although stylish on the outside with cool downloadable watch plates, how does it look on the inside? Once again we turn to our iFixit friends, who gave us a mini version of their Pebble watch teardown.
Pebble is a busy little watch. This watch does customizable, Internet-connected apps and vibrates silently when your smartphone gets calls, email, and texts. You can swim with it in salt or fresh water, its screen has a shatter-resistant white e-paper display (like a Kindle), and its battery lasts 7 days.
Oh, and it tells time.
The apps are connected to the Internet and your iPhone or Android smartphone via Bluetooth. Software updates come watch wirelessly. "The RF module does in fact support Bluetooth Low Energy," says iFixit. These are the tech specs that make it work:
- 144 x 168 pixel display black and white e-paper
- Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR and 4.0 (Low Energy)
- Vibrating motor
- 3-axis accelerometer with gesture detection
In the end, iFixit found that although Pebble's low-power consumption is good because it decreases the frequency of charges, thereby lengthening battery life; however, because you can't access the battery to replace it, iFixit estimates the life of the watch is limited to 6-10 years.
Click through to the few next pages to see the iFixit teardown shots. (Use of this teardown, and images two through four, courtesy of Kyle Wiens, co-founder of iFixit.)
Image from Pebble Technology.


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Hope Valley
Household type
This topic has been updated with 2016 Census data for all areas. What's this?
In Hope Valley, 25% of households were made up of couples with children in 2016, compared with 33% in the City of Tea Tree Gully.
Hope Valley's household and family structure is one of the most important demographic indicators. It reveals the area's residential role and function, era of settlement and provides key insights into the level of demand for services and facilities as most are related to age and household types.
To continue building the story, Hope Valley's Household Summary should be viewed in conjunction with Households with Children, Households without Children, Household Size, Age Structure and Dwelling Type.
Derived from the Census question:
'What is the person's relationship (to each other person in the household)?'
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Dominant groups
Analysis of the household/family types in Hope Valley in 2016 compared to the City of Tea Tree Gully shows that there was a lower proportion of couple families with child(ren) as well as a lower proportion of one-parent families. Overall, 25.3% of total families were couple families with child(ren), and 8.8% were one-parent families, compared with 32.6% and 11.1% respectively for the City of Tea Tree Gully.
There were a higher proportion of lone person households and a similar proportion of couples without children. Overall, the proportion of lone person households was 31.7% compared to 22.0% in the City of Tea Tree Gully while the proportion of couples without children was 28.5% compared to 28.9% in the City of Tea Tree Gully.
Emerging groups
The number of households in Hope Valley increased by 109 between 2011 and 2016.
The largest change in family/household types in Hope Valley between 2011 and 2016 was:
- Lone person (+73 households)


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Accommodation Miše is located 200 m from the sea, 70 m from the center in the town Okrug Gornji (otok Čiovo). This accommodation offers a view of the Sea and green area. Private accommodation Miše is ideal for 4 persons and has 2 rooms in the accommodation. Accommodation is equipped with: Air conditioning, Radio, Television, DVD, Internet, Washing machine. To make the hot summer days more bearable in the accommodation there is an Air conditioning.
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"And here we have the crowning jewel of AppBrain: (...) app discovery." [DownloadSquad]
"Android Market website a step forward, still lags AppBrain." [ArsTechnica]
With fast web installer re-enabled, we're now again also providing the easiest way to install the apps you want. If you install the "Fast Web Installer" app on your phone, you allow AppBrain to push apps to your phone. In this way, you get the best of all worlds: the awesome AppBrain experience with the convenience of over-the-air installs:
The steps to take to get this on your phone are:
- Install the latest versions of both the AppBrain app and the Fast Web Installer app.
- Sign into the AppBrain app, enable the fast web installer in Menu > Preferences, and sign in with your gmail account.
- Go to http://www.appbrain.com/, find your favorite apps, and click "Install"
Notice that there are two caveats with the new fast web installer:
- You can not use this to get apps you otherwise would not be able to get. When you try to fast web install an app that is not available in your country or phone, nothing will happen.
- We do not get credentials to the "checkout" service, so it's impossible that we install paid apps for you.
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Hello everyone My name is Michael, I' am originally from Milwaukee , WI.I have been taking pictures since I was in the 5th grade and it's been a passion of mine ever since then, I moved to Door County Back in 1986 and to Sturgeon Bay about 4 years after that. Taking pictures of the shipping canal and the surrounding area is what I like to do the most. Thanks for taking A look.
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Credit Card Payoff Program offered by Portland Credit Union
Credit card debt is haunting Portland, Ore., businesswoman Jackie Kauffman, but her bank has no solutions to offer other than late fees and added interest charges. She said she feels like her only option is to default.
"The recession hit me hard and I've done everything I can to be responsible with my money," Kaufman said. "I never imagined I would be in such a bad place financially."
Recently she heard about a new program – a way out of her financial mess, and she plans to become a member of the $915 million Unitus Community Credit Union in Portland to take part.
The program, Ultimate Payoff Loan, is designed to help members successfully reduce or eliminate credit card debt and become more financially stable.
"My sister is a member of the credit union and she casually mentioned it and I felt a wave of what I guess, was relief pass over me," said Kauffman. "It's not a magic bullet from what I understand, but it might be a way to get out from under this cloud of debt and finally get some sleep."
According to Laurie Kresl, vice president of planning and business development, Unitus wanted to give members an in-house opportunity to educate themselves and improve their finances, as opposed to "going it alone" or seeking help from a debt management company.
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Theories - Origin of Life
Discussion of everything related to the Theory of Evolution.
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Are you suggesting that complexity has arisen from dust? The problem with this is evolution - not biological evolution, but astronomical evolution - is based on the 13.5-billion year age of the universe suggested by the Big Bang Theory. This extraordinary amount of time is something called deep time and is something I don't think people can comprehend. You quoted Contact in a previous post saying that we think too much like humans, and deep time is indeed a concept that is almost unthinkable to humans.
The problem with this is that the scientific community has no way to test this. Testability is key to science.
Sorry if I repeated anything others have said, I kind of jumped into the last few pages.
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awkko808 , "dust" was a figure of speech. I've suggested that the earthly sequence of events ( nothing->bacteria->Cambrian diversity ), viewed through the glasses of Biology, can psychologically trick one into believe that simplicity first / complexity second is some form of the universal truth. This way of thinking can lead to a belief that even the possibility of a preexistent designer-of-it-all is neither logical nor possible. I've suggested that (even putting aside the puzzles of abiogenesis and Cambrian explosion) the evolution itself didn't start with nothing and is a consequence of the universal laws of nature in all their complexity and order and has to be viewed as a part of the larger picture (not as a standalone event). Therefore, if one is willing to defend the idea that the role of randomness as a "motor starter" for evolution is the only possible explanation, has to be ready to defend the idea that the complexity and order which predated the evolution and allowed the evolution to happen under the right conditions are also the result of some form of random chain of events.
When Dawkins was presented with this kinda reasoning, he said that the Universe is still waiting for its Darwin (which pretty much means that he acknowledged the reasoning, but had nothing to answer – I don't blame him though). For example, attempts to attach some form of evolution concept to the just-right post-big-bang density of matter and amount of energy was done, but it was done on a level of ideas tossed into the mix and it's generally understood that it has to be taken as given and it's "beyond the domain of science".
So… that was my argument…. Design vs randomness ideas do not offer any grounds for quantifying which one is more or less probable or likely. The incline to one of 2 options is of subjective nature.
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I don't see this as a subjective option.
awkko808 is right when he emphasises that testability is key in determining the viability of any hypothesis.
A hypothesis that is testable is also by nature falsifiable.
What made Darwin's hypothesis scientifically valid was his own stated criteria in judging what would falsify it, i.e. the fossil record.
In his day he relied on what he judged was the incompleteness of the fossil record.
However today some 150years later that judgement has really gone past it's sell by date.
I argue that design does offer grounds for quantifying it as a viable theory.
An important characteristic of design theory is that it is goal oriented.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&l ... esc=y#v=on
page 7
I previously set out my thoughts is the post on page 13
by scottie » Tue Jun 21, 2011 10:20 pm
Six months later and to my surprise no one has come forward with the "Junk DNA" argument that ones like Dawkins and Coyne kept putting out. So it is pleasing to note that, that little piece of nonsense is being ditched.
So to me this isn't a balance of probabilities issue.
There is sound scientific evidence to base judgments on.
1) how exactly does the fossil record falsify the evolution?
2) junk DNA not, but what about pseudogenes or transposones? These have no function.
3) I'm looking forward for when the designer will arive again to create new species.
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
Blind cave animals with eyes, the appendix and other vestigial structures throughout the tree of life, the tree of life itself, pathogens, inadequate DNA repair, etc., etc., etc. do not speak of a deity due much credit.
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Origin of Species Chapter 9
Darwins words
(my emphasis)
I assume you also believe, even after some 150years, in the imperfection of the fossil record as being the reason it does not support Darwin's views.
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultran ... osons.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 185538.htm
I appreciate Adolescence is a difficult time.
Is this a positive argument for Darwinian macro evolution or simply a negative one against design.?
Could you clarify please.
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Really? Didn't you say that we were created about 40 thousands years ago?
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
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It seems as if you're proposing that the evolution vs ID debate is insignificant to a debate over how the universe was created. And I'd agree you with you because evolution is a "consequence of the universal laws of nature in all their complexity and order and has to be viewed as a part of the larger picture," and that in the absence of light on how the universe and its laws were established, both ID/creationism AND evolution ARE subjective - even evolution is somewhat faith-based. In the end, however, I am an evolutionist and I do support evolution because it is science-based, and I believe science trumps religion because science is dynamic, while religion is static. In a dynamic reality this only makes sense. But I think this is of a much more philosophical issue.
I am surprised that no one has proposed the junk-DNA argument. Of course there are DNA sequences with regulatory functions, but there is a large number of sequences still with no known function. As wbla3335 also pointed out, the presence of vestigialities (which include noncoding DNA) is BOTH support for macro evolution and evidence against design. As support for macro evolution, vestigialities are accommodated in the theory of evolution through descent with modification from a common ancestor. In such a process, similar structures become inherited but their function may become loss or limited due to the organism inhabiting a new niche. As a negative argument against intelligent design, this implies a wasteful, non-optimal design. If we did have an intelligent designer, why don't we have eagle eyes, so that our function of ocular acuity is maximized? I'd argue is because over time, humans, as species, have evolved to survive using methods that do not require such high ocular acuity, so it was neither appreciably selected for nor selected against, especially upon the advent of vision-aiding tools.
When you examine Darwin's note about the fossil record, you should realize he makes an appeal to science by showing the falsifiability of his theory, something you have agreed about science. Then you should consider the 150 years that has spanned since the writing of Origin. How much improvements have been made to the fossil record? Not just in the number of fossils, but in the way we interpret them. Consider the science of his time versus the science of today.
As for the fossil record, there are "imperfections," and I will attempt to explain some examples of them. The earliest metazoans (animals) were invertebrates - soft-bodied, mostly boneless animals. It is true that there are many missing links - missing fossils of 'common ancestors' - between invertebrate species from which we descended. But there are physical explanations for this: boneless, soft-bodied organisms are much less likely to fossilize as well as bony organisms would. This DOES create blanks in phylogeny, or the evolutionary relationships between species, but when we look at the wide array of support provided from other evolutionary connections, I think one can only fill in the blanks at that point. Thus, when these imperfections in the fossil record existing as blanks are filled in as interpolations, you could argue that they don't support it, but it doesn't falsify it, because evolution based on strong evidence from other evolutionary relationships provide the relation to be able to fill in those blanks. You'd have to falsify evolution that is strongly supported in the more recent episode of life.
As for considering the science of his time, you can't read Origin and believe that only the ideas of that book will apply 150 years later, because then you'd be excluding the genetic, biochemical/molecular, microbiological, and much more other sources of evidence that support evolution.
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Thanks for your input.
You have made a few interesting points.
I note in your comment to Nick7 that you recognise that
Faith (belief) could rightly be classed as subjective and I have due respect for any faith.
It's the science bit that I question.
You deal with issues that wbla3335 cited so I will take your responses as from him.
This argument applies as much to design by an outside agent as to neo Darwinian theory.
How a function came about has nothing to do with how a loss of that function occurred.
Functional loss is about information corruption
The discussion is about how function arrived not how it was lost.
This argument about non optimal design is with respect a red herring. You yourself have perhaps unwittingly acknowledged this in your further comment.
A designer will design something that will function optimally in an environment for which it is designed.
You wouldn't argue that a turbo charged Formula 1 car designed for the race track is any more or less optimally designed that your average family neighbourhood shopping vehicle would you.
You will have perhaps noticed that I don't preface the word design with the Intelligent adjective simply because intelligence is very subjective when used as an adjective as you yourself have demonstrated.
Please don't misunderstand me I am not relying on mere semantics to buttress my argument. I am simply making the point that definitions in science are very important.
Design could be good, bad or ugly. Being ugly is not an argument against design.
My own personal appearance can testify to that.
However coming back to the vestigial point.
This has more of a problem for Darwinian Natural selection theory than you perhaps appreciate.
Professor David Dreamer of Ohio State Universityhas investigated this subject and you can find his paper entitles ENTROPY AND CAVE ANIMALS here
https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/han ... sequence=1
This is how he commences his paper (just to whet your appetite)
He concludes with a proposal that has to move away from Darwinian natural selection to make a reasonable case, that interestingly can be applied to the design view as well.
wbla3335 reference to the appendix as a vestigial structure is simply becoming another one of these urban myths.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... ction-of-t
I will deal with this Junk DNA issue separately because there are many points of interest that I do feel is deserving of a separate post.
Additionally your comments on the fossil record are also worthy of a separate post.
Exactly where will you find that little piece of missinformation.
Manufacturing quotes attributed to me adds nothing to a sensible discussion.
Every opinion under the sun can be found on any topic imaginable. They cannot all be true. Providing links to opinions that support your position does nothing to strengthen your position. We know you're not the only person who doesn't want to believe in evolution. I find that what is common to those who do not believe in evolution is not the failure to be convinced by the evidence (most don't bother to look at the evidence - you do, and I commend you for that) but an aversion to wanting to believe in evolution. Aversion to snakes has a biological origin. Aversion to ideas is psychological.
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I would argue that providing evidence from Scientific journals and peer reviewed scientific papers strengthens my position. The fact that you don't regard this as recognisable support I find rather surprising.
This Is simply your opinion isn't it?
I am a bit tied up for time so I will respond on the fossil record and junk DNA later.
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I think I understand your argument much more clearly now and I can see why you've been involved in this thread for quite a few pages. Your position on a designer of life (and perhaps the universe?) is hard to tackle because there is in fact no evidence against a designer. The complexity of the designer theory arises from the fact that any evidence for evolution and natural selection can be claimed for a designer, and evolution and natural selection themselves can be a mechanism through which a designer may operate. Going back to what Nick7 said, you'd have to dissect the laws by which the universe operates to perhaps see how the designer operates. Then we'd be able to discuss possible evidence for/against a designer. To argue over whether a designer exists or not is outside the realm of science. I think you do understand that because you are, for the most part, presenting problems with evidence for Darwinian natural selection and I acknowledge that.
Functional loss AND arrival could be due to design. Functional loss and arrival could ALSO be due to natural selection, however.
My initial argument was against that of intelligent design. I wouldn't argue that a race car is any more designed than a shopping vehicle. Obviously both were designed.
Regarding my earlier comment about design, it would be a red herring depending on your perspective. I had argued against an intelligent designer, but you viewed it from a designer perspective, and in light of that my comment would in fact be fallacious. In conclusion, there seemed to be a very bad misunderstanding of your argument on my part.
It seems clear that to propose a designer would be logically correct. But science encompasses logic and empirical evidence, the latter of which I do not currently know of existing for a designer. It seems, with respect, insignificant to argue over whether a designer exists, at least with current human knowledge of the physical world.
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Scientific paper on DNA replication & gel electrophoresis
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Scientific paper on DNA replication & gel electrophoresis
I have to give a short presentation on how the techniques in a scientific paper relate to the techniques that we are doing in lab. I'm concentrating on gel electrophoresis. This article is one of the few I could find that was recent enough and used gel el. The problem is I'm not used to reading scientific papers so I need to make sure I understand what is happening in the article. The article is here. I skipped over anything that used 2D electrophoresis.
To my understanding this is what happened. Please correct anything I have wrong:
-The purpose of the experiment was to study what happens when an E. coli replisome encounters a cyclobutane pyrimidine dimer (CPD) in leading strand of DNA
-They constructed a plasmid containing oriC and a single CPD in the leading-strand
-They inserted two terB sites to get a one unidirectional replication system
-Only the minimal protein required to sustain oriC and replication were used. Topoisomerase was not used to stall replication after a few minutes
-Used Eco RI to cut the DNA
-Mapped the bp lengths of the newly replicated strand every 1 minute for 6 minutes. Strands that migrated to the top of the gel indicate a stalled replication fork. This was the bulk reaction.
-Then used gel-filtration chromatography to remove all unbound proteins and then readded only the 3 proteins that were known to be necessary during replication. The same procedure using gel electrophoresis from before was preformed. This was the column isolated reaction. Gel migrations from the bulk reaction and column-isolated reactions were almost indistinguishable. This suggests that the oriC-loaded replisome can catalyze their formation without the need to recruit additional DNA polymerase or helicase.
What I don't understand:
1. Why are the stalled forks about 23 kbp while the full length DNA are only 9.4 kbp (on figure 1)?
2. Did they prepare 1 sample and run it through the gel every minute for 6 minutes; or did they prepare 1 sample and run it through after 1 minute prepare a different sample and run it through after 2 minutes, etc?
2. What is the purpose of Eco RI is this experiment? I know that it cuts the plasmid at a specific site but I don't know why they did this.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Cheese, Beer + BBQ: A Memorable Day at the Vermont Cheesemakers Festival
The call time was 6 a.m., but our first guests — just as excited as we were — were standing outside our door at 5:40.
Gradually, the rest of our sleepy customers arrived, picked up their coffee and croissants, and by 6:30, all 32 of us were on the road, headed for high adventure in the Green Mountain State. Our destination was the Vermont Cheesemakers Festival, a gathering of about 50 local cheesemakers, 30 breweries and wineries, and a host of other food artisans making everything from mustard to nougat. The event, in its second year, was held last Sunday at the breathtakingly lovely Shelburne Farms estate outside of Burlington, and this year we organized a bus to bring our customers to the festival — a first-of-its-kind trip for Formaggio Kitchen.
We personally knew many of the cheesemakers at the festival and were excited not only to see them, but also to introduce them to our customers. Once we got into the festival, one of our first stops was the Cellars at Jasper Hill. Based in Greensboro, the Cellars work with small cheesemakers across Vermont, aging, selling and distributing their cheeses from a network of seven large subterranean caves. Some of our favorite cheeses from the Cellars include Oma, a gooey washed-rind cow's milk cheese from von Trapp Farmstead, Landaff, a cow's milk cheese based on a Caerphilly recipe, and the inimitable Cabot Clothbound Cheddar. Jasper Hill also makes its own cheeses, including Bayley Hazen Blue and the Camembert-like Moses Sleeper.
We also checked in with Jeremy Stephenson of Spring Brook Farms, who makes Tarentaise, a hearty cow's milk cheese based on the French Abondance. Jeremy was offering tastes of a younger Tarentaise, which was smooth and nutty with a mild fruitiness, and an older, spicier wheel that left the insides of your mouth tingling. Aside from making great cheese, Spring Brook Farms also runs programs that bring city-dwelling kids to the country to learn more about farming and agriculture.
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Joining our customers at the barbecue were several cheesemaker friends, including Mateo Kehler from Jasper Hill, Michael Lee from Twig Farm, and Angela Miller and Russell Glover from Consider Bardwell Farm. Eric brought with him an irresistible spread of pulled pork, beef brisket, roasted chickens, hot dogs, veggie kabobs and several side dishes and, just like on Saturdays in Cambridge, the line of hungry people quickly grew. While they waited, our guests sipped beer from Hill Farmstead Brewery, an up-and-coming outfit located in Greensboro, just down the road from Jasper Hill Farm. (We're all about keeping it local, you know.) Zoe, our friend from Jasper Hill also made us some wonderful pies, one of which incorporated cheese into the crust in lieu of butter!
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Your Views: Perhaps electing Ryan could save us from China
China's modern history is heinous, appalling. Mao Tse Tung was a communist tyrant and mass murderer akin to Joseph Stalin, each responsible for killing tens of millions and enslaving hundreds of millions more. Mao caused more civilian deaths than Hitler and Stalin together. Today China is allegedly more benign.
China's policy of expanding trade sounds benign until well-known facts are recalled. China's policy (even the "one child" version) includes massive population increase. Although China has 20 percent of the world's population already, it has only 10 percent of the land usable for farming. If China's goal of attaining consumption on par with America were realized even with its current population, another planet would be required to obtain the requisite farming and production of goods.
Of course, only planet Earth is available. China's policies are in some cases overt and in some covert. They will either swamp America with cheap goods, destroying America's economy, or economically weaken America to the point where the Chinese simply march in with ease. (See "Unrestricted Warfare" by People's Liberation Army Cols. Oiao Ling and Wang Xiangsui.)
Obama's weakness in dealing with China by itself would make it better were he not to have been elected. In any case, it's vital to America's interests, to its very survival, that a firm and decisive leader come from the next election, one who sees China for what it is: a threat to America and the free world. Paul Ryan may be able to save America.


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The secrets of life are coded into the sequence of bases (A, C, T and G) that line up along the backbone of a DNA molecule. When two complementary strands come together to form a double helix, the bases recognize each other and pair up in a wholly predictable manner — A with T, and C with G.
Although DNA is a versatile construction material in the nano-world, it is often the case that metals are required to impart electrical or magnetic functionality to materials. Now, Mitsuhiko Shionoya from the University of Tokyo in Japan and colleagues1 have made DNA strands containing artificial bases that pair up when bridged by metal ions. Two different sets of new bases are used — one set selectively recognizes and binds copper whereas the other prefers mercury. In this way, it is possible to line up a chain of different metal ions along the core of the double helix in a sequence that is programmed by the order of the bases on the DNA backbone.
Shionoya and co-workers demonstrate the assembly of ten metal ions (5 Cu and 5 Hg) in a sequence-specific arrangement inside an artificial DNA duplex. They suggest that this methodology may have implications for magnetic nanostructures, molecular conduction and even chemical catalysis
performance of organic semiconductor arrays made by conventional methods is limited by electrical interference or 'cross-talk' between neighbouring devices.
Vector field microscopic imaging of light
The behaviour of nanoscale optical devices in a variety of burgeoning research areas, such as photonic crystals1, 2, 3, 4, near-field microscopy5, 6, 7, surface plasmonics8, 9, 10, 11 and negative index of refraction materials12, 13, 14, 15, 16, is governed by strongly localized electromagnetic waves. Although such light waves are analogous to the localized electronic wavefunctions that determine the properties of solid-state quantum devices, unlike matter waves, these optical fields are vectorial in nature, and their orientation and magnitude vary on a subwavelength scale. In order to obtain a complete description of light in nanoscale devices, it is therefore crucial to be able to map the field vectors with subwavelength resolution. Thus far, local field vectors have mostly been studied by theoretical means. Here, we describe and demonstrate the first experimental mapping of vector fields of light on the nanoscale. By directly accessing the local field in its entirety, new capabilities and applications in nanophotonics may emerge
a combination of contact printing and vapour growth to selectively deposit single crystals of organic molecules directly between the source and drain electrodes of transistors on both rigid and flexible substrates. Initially, films of hydrophobic organic molecules (octadecyltriethoxysilane) were patterned on either silicon/silicon dioxide or flexible polymer substrates. Vapour deposition of organic semiconductors including both p-type (rubrene) and n-type (C60) materials resulted in single-crystal growth selectively on the patterned films. Crystal growth occurred quickly across large areas and the electrical characteristics of 14times14 arrays of rubrene transistors were comparable with conventional amorphous silicon and organic thin-film transistors.
The ability to control the spatial location and density of mocrystals is a major advance for their use as organic semiconductors for large-area flexible electronics.
Biological molecules are increasingly used in nanotechnology, in part because of their self-assembly properties. In particular, coat proteins, which usually surround viruses, have the potential to self-assemble and encapsulate and transport drugs or DNA. However, it is not easy to control the capsule shape.
Now, Jeroen Cornelissen, of Radboud University, and co-workers1 in the Netherlands have made new highly stable nanoparticles by combining coat proteins with a polymer, polystyrene sulphonate. Although polymer–coat-protein nanoparticles have been synthesized before, the authors find instead of the naturally occurring larger capsule shape, the coat proteins surround 100% of the polymers forming new smaller (16 nm) particles that remain stable for several weeks and over a wide pH range.
Cornelissen and co-workers conclude that electrostatic interactions between the polymer and coat proteins must be important in forming smaller nanoparticles. When the relative concentration of the polymer is decreased, interactions between the coat proteins appear to dominate particle formation, resulting in the naturally occurring larger shape. As parts of the N-terminus, which is involved in binding, were found to be missing in all the coat proteins, the authors now plan to examine the role such absences play in nanoparticle formation.
in the sky trolls stocking i find this ......
http://www.signaling-gateway.org/data/Y ... in/y2h.cgi
again nadas gets......... . . .coal . . . .. . coal .. . . . . COAL!!!
thats fine ...... .. I can work with it.
man type-O really hurt....
its the Palm AND the Shell.....
Bell Labs/Lucent nano robot attachec to bloodcell
read and/or if view page 8
Thank you for the clarification Nadas, helps a lot.
Thank you Tam, for your patience here, the suffering alone heightens suspicions.
To any who may take offence to my recent stance;
I hold in great respect ancient orders; I have disdain for any who simply hides behind secrecy and arcane mystique for their own nefarious purposes. I am not insinuating anybody, merely stating, that whilst tolerance is needed here, as, ostensibly, we are all in the same boat, we need to be mindful of the current state of fear that exists.
To Tams assertion that the full truth would be too hard to swallow, I say this, my bath often looks like an abbatoir floor; We are ready to receive!!!
A few unrelated left feild thoughts:
1; Frank E Perretti "This Present Darkness", interesting perspective from a thought provoking Author.
2: Found this in the olde worlde dictionary I used for all my "Sapient" words in previous posts.
I give it as it is, from Nuttall's Standard Dictionary 1919. I give it without prejudice, in the spirit of understanding.
Abracadabra: a cabbalistic word, formely used as a charm against ague and other diseases. To render it's powers certian, it was written on paper as many times as it has letters, ommitting the last letter each time until only one remained, and placing the words in such a succession as to form an equalateral triangle. It was then worn around the neck.
Just a snippet
Peace at this time to all.
Juniper's Jewels and poplar's pearls
are unseen treasures manifested in whorls.
Nature's lattice glory, iridescent delight,
with gleaming rhodopsin, the hue of midnight.
Transcendental translucence, dioptrics by day,
repeated refractions, transfusing the way.
Perpetual prisms, crystals catching the light,
show spectral sensations spiraling right.
Opalescent ochre warms an amberlite glow,
release-factor hybrids, in layers they grow.
Silicon silk weaves a serpentine star,
as diatoms dance, fluorescing feldspar.
Vitreous veils anneal glycerine glass,
as shy cyanide yields a molecular mass.
Bituminous blaze effervesces the ebb,
while synthetically spinning a wintergreen web.
Metalllic migration shines aluminum awe,
as ions exchange and caress cosmic law.
Research the wonder, glaze up at the skies,
rosy dawn blooms, as desert dew dries.
Take note the night network, of Yggdrasil's energy,
as above, so below, the ancient art of atometry.
(a little poem I wrote back in August of 1996)
Yggdrasil , Kratos and the World Tree code Blue .... a laymans sentance?
next snippet is from MFROMCANADAs SUper find!!!
We have selected the following viral peptides for further consideration in this project:
1) The Influenza virus protein Hemagglutinin (HA) peptide HA2 [47]
2) The Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV 1) peptide gp41 [48]
3) The Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (HRSV) protein subunit F1 [49]
4) The Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) protein gp41 [50]
5) The Human T cell Leukemia virus type 1, protein gp21 [51]
6) The Simian Parainfluenza Virus peptide unit SV5 [52]
7) Ebola virus protein gp2 [53]
Each one of these peptides can result in a different VPL motor that can have different properties such as different weight, volume, range of motion, force and speed capabilities. However, the principle of actuation is the same. Studies have shown that the common characteristic in these viruses is the structure of a portion of the surface protein (envelope glycoprotein) and the mode of infection. The envelope glycoproteins of these viruses can be divided into two subunits, which are a result of proteolytic cleavage of a common precursor protein. The two subunits have different functions. For example, in the case of HIV 1 the precursor glycoprotein is gp160, which is proteolytically cleaved into gp120 and gp41 subunits. The gp120 is the surface subunit and the gp41 is the transmembrane (TM) subunit. The surface subunit serves to recognize the cell to be infected when it comes in the vicinity of the virus with the help of receptors located on the cell surface. The gp41 mediates membrane fusion between the viral and cellular membranes. It has been found that gp41, and corresponding TM subunits in other (above listed) viruses acquire an alpha-helical conformation when the virus is in its active or fusogenic state. The structure is like a hairpin composed of three coils, having one C terminal (carboxy- end) and the other N terminal (amino-end). The carboxy regions pack in an anti-parallel manner around the three hydrophobic amino ends as shown in Figure 10. This coiled coil structure undergoes a conformational change induced by mildly acidic conditions (i.e. pH around 5). This change is required for the process of membrane fusion, i.e. the fusion of viral and cellular membranes essential for infection of the cell. With the change in pH, the N-terminals pop out of the inner side and the peptide acquires a straightened position or the fusogenic state.
Has anyone looked into using "Fulvic Acid" as a possible therapeutic agent for our condition? I asked Tamtam about it, but he isn't familiar with it. Here is a link and some information regarding its properties:
Fulvic Acid Major Attributes
World's Finest Electrolyte Fulvic Acid is an organic natural electrolyte that can balance and energize biological properties.
Promotes Electrochemical Balance as Donor or Receptor
Fulvic acid is available at times as an electron donor and at other times as an electron acceptor, based on the cells requirement for balance. One reaction that occurs is when the chemical species loose electrons as a donor. The other reaction is a reduction in which the active species gains electrons as an acceptor.
A recent study of the binding donor molecule to fulvic acid in a solution revealed direct evidence for donor-acceptor charge transfer mechanisms. Trace minerals in the fulvic acid electrolyte could also be beneficial in this process by serving as electrode.
Most Powerful Natural Free Radical Scavenger & Antioxidant Known
Free radicals of fulvic acid behave as electron donors or acceptors, depending upon the need for balance in the situation. Fulvic acid can in some ways take part in oxidation-reduction with transition metals reactions.
Complexes Dissolve Minerals & Trace Elements
Fulvic acid is especially active in dissolving minerals and metals when solutions are in water. The metallic minerals simply dissolve into ionic form, and disappear into the fulvic structure becoming bio-chemically reactive and mobile. The fulvic acid actually transforms these minerals and metals into elaborate fulvic acid molecular complexes that have vastly different characteristics from their previous metallic mineral form. Fulvic acid is nature's way of "chelating" metallic minerals, turning them into readily absorbable bio-available form. Fulvic acid also has the unique ability to weather and dissolve silica that it comes in contact with.
Enhances Nutrients
Fulvic acid enhances the availability of nutrients and makes them more readily absorbable, allowing minerals to regenerate and prolong time of essential nutrients. It prepares minerals to react with cells and allows minerals to inter-react with one another, breaking them down into the simplest ionic form, chelated by the fulvic acid electrolytes.
Transports Nutrients
Fulvic acid readily complexes with minerals and metals making them available to plant roots and easily absorbable through cell walls. It makes minerals such as iron, that are not usually very mobile, easily transported through plant structures. Fulvic acids dissolve and transpose vitamins, coenzymes, auxins, hormones, and natural antibiotics that are generally found throughout the soil making them available.
Fulvic acid can often transport many times its weight in dissolved mineral elements.
Catalyzes Enzyme Reactions
Fulvic acid has close association with enzymes that increases activity of enzymes and especially influences respiratory catalysts. Fulvic acids increase the activity of several enzymes including alkaline phosphates, transaminase, and invertase.
Increases Assimilation
Fulvic acid organic metal complexes are of a low molecular weight, low molecular size, and are capable of a high degree of penetration into cells. Fulvic acid complexes and chelates are able to readily pass through semi-permeable membranes such as cell walls. It is important to note its been determined that fulvic acids not only has the ability to transport nutrients through cell membranes, but also sensitizes cell membranes and various physiological functions as well.
Stimulates Metabolism
Fulvic acid appears to cause the genetic mechanism of plants to function at a higher level. It has been concluded that when plant cells are exposed to fulvic acid it can improve growth. Oxygen is absorbed more intensely in the presence of fulvic acids.
Detoxified Pollutants
An important aspect of Fulvic acid is related to their sorptive interaction with environmental chemicals, either before or after they reach concentrations, toxic to living organism's. Fulvic acid rapidly detoxifies the toxic herbicide known as Fulvic Acid rapidly detoxifies Paraquat. It has a special function with respect to the demise of organic compounds applied to soil as pesticides.
Fulvic acid is vital in helping form new species of metal ions, binding with organic pollutants such as pesticides and herbicides, and catalyzing the breakdown of toxic pollutants. Radioactive substances react rapidly with fulvic acid, and only a brief time is required for equilibrium to be reached. All radioactive elements are capable of reacting with fulvic acid and thus forming organo-metal complexes of different absorptive stability and solubility.
Dissolves Silica
Fulvic acids are especially important because of their ability to complex or chelate metal ions and interact with silica. It has been shown that these interactions may increase the concentrations of metal ions and silica found in water solutions to levels that are far in excess of their assumed dissolution ability.
Fulvic acid complexes have the ability to bio-react one with another, and also inter-react with cells to synthesize or transmute new mineral compounds. The transmutation of vegetal silica and magnesium to form calcium in animal and human bones is a typical example of new synthesis of mineral's.
Enhances Cell Division and Elongation
Fulvic acid stimulates and balances cells, creating optimum growth and replication conditions.
Enhances the Permeability of Cell Membranes
Fulvic acids act as specific cell sensitizing agents and enhance the permeability of the cell membrane.
Increases Metabolism of Proteins
Fulvic acid intensifies the metabolism of proteins. Definitely increases DNA content in cells and increases and enhance the rate of RNA synthesis.
Catalyzes Vitamins within the Cell
Fulvic acid has the ability to complex vitamins into its structure, where they are presented to the cell in combination with complexed minerals. In this perfect natural condition, they can be catalyzed and utilized by the cell. In absence of adequate trace minerals, vitamins are unable to perform their proper function.
Chelates All Monovalent & Divalent Elements to Which It Is Exposed
Fulvic acid has the power to form stable water-soluble complexes with monovalent, divalent, trivalent, and polyvalent metal ions. It can aid the actual movement of metal ions that are normally difficult to mobilize or transport. Fulvic acids are excellent natural chelators, cation exchangers, and are vitally important in the nutrition of cells.
In reviewing and evaluating these reports, it is important to bear in mind that leading scientists agree with Roger J. Williams in recognizing the following fact;
"the building blocks present in the metabolic machinery of human beings are, in the great majority of cases, exactly the same as the building blocks contained in the metabolic machinery of other organisms of extremely different types."
Well, any ideas or thoughts about this stuff??? I would certainly hate to ingest this and then discover it had an opposite/negative effect. But yet, it is tempting to at least give it a try. I don't know, I'm undecided, yet Fulvic Acid is something I have been pondering for years now. So any input or suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks guys, and I do apologize for the length of this post.
No, most assuredly not. But then again, you and Al would already know that, since apparently both of you have been initiated.
BTW, since the subject has been brought up, I am curious whether there are any correlations between this hermetic/cabalistic area and our "condition". I have found some relevant points in my own personal life, but never gave it much weight. However, if anyone else draws similar conclusions from their own life experiences, then maybe we have something substantial. I do not wish to delve into this area here, but a PM could start the ball rolling.
Al, FYI, I believe the correct spelling is, ABRAHADABRA. Definitely a word with significant meaning and origin. Interesting topic for sure. Also, I enjoyed your poem. My Grandfather was a 33rd degree. As above, so below, infinite layers of mirrored reflections.
Thanks coden, it is a very interesting study, I happened upon it after searching "arcane statements", as I have several instances where "allusions" have been directed at me using, what I considered to be, a statement/term with a hidden/dualistic meaning.
I was simply looking for a thread of modus operandi to confirm my suspicions regarding the etiology of this disease, and the chain of command, and the surreptitious ordering of events, which has turned into a ten year epic saga.
I found what I sought, through this link:
http://www.geocities.com/collectumherme ... osophy.htm
Now, lets draw a long bow, and extrapolate our "known knowns", into the scope of the above article; we will quickly see how a Grand Ultimate Supreme conspiracy scenario can be bought forth.
Oh, to be a Lawyer, on this one, to prosecute this would be an Honour and a Delight.
I just did some quick searches on fulvic acid, it triggered some memories from my days as a farmer. I think it is a component of what is generically known as humic acid, a vital colloid forming acid, vital for the assimilation of organic matter into humus, and in roles of cation exchange and buffering activities.
In South America, there are areas within the forest which were cultivated by long gone civilizations. To this day, the areas treated by the Indians, actually INCREASE the actual depth of soil, teeming with humic fractions.
Sounds good to me.
ABRAH Milan the mage and the MAGIC Square system... potent functions post agamic/preKabbala...the primary care givers to the system of logic tooled by humans as perscribed by Gia akin to the "Driver" file......
as systems expand ,so do the code .... as do the tooled "hardware"........
for granted is taken the high order
taken for granted is the actuated sound function we neglect as verbatum
weaponized in the form of demographic handicap called bilinguistic or another discriminatory layer to partion the common dinominator of guesture and content for exploitation by lesser means of control thru sign function..... i.e. the myth architecture as basic CMOS in organic semiotic program functions.........
more from MFROMCANADAs SUper find!!!
....."For our purposes, the plasmid was double digested, that is it was cut by two endonucleases. Nucleases SapI and XhoI were used for the digestion of the plasmid. Rather that cutting the target sequence with these enzymes to yield the cohesive ends, the cohesive ends were included in the construction of the target . The ends were allowed to anneal to generate the circular recombinant plasmid. The recombinant plasmids were introduced, or transformed, into bacterial cells made competent – that is, transiently permeable to DNA. The cells became transfected, meaning they took up the recombinant plasmid. These cells grew and divided, creating multiple copies of cells containing the recombinant DNA. In order to select the cells that were successfully transfected, we grew the cells in the presence of the antibiotic ampicillin. As the plasmids carried genes for ampicillin resistance, only those cells containing the recombinant DNA survived.Before purifying the proteins to begin the characterization portion of the work, a sample of the recombinant plasmid was purified and sent for sequencing. The results showed that the base sequence for the amino acids was missing one base pair. In other words, the entire reading frame for the protein was out of frame by one base pair"
.....for the brave... .
http://lsd.pharm.kyoto-u.ac.jp/cgi-bin/ ... =accretion
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Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Speaker, on Sunday, March 25, Belarusan-Americans commemorated Belarusan Independence Day. On that date in 1918, during World War I, the Belarusan National Republic was declared. Although independence was short-lived and Belarus forcibly subjected to Soviet rule, it did mark an historically significant milestone in the aspirations of the Belarusan people for freedom and their own unique identity.
While Belarus became independent in 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, this independence today is under threat thanks to the dictatorial rule of Alexander Lukashenka, who has relentlessly squelched dissent, strangled democratic institutions and the rule of law, stifled human rights and political liberties, and refused to reform the Soviet-type state-dominated economy. This has made Belarus dangerously vulnerable to Russian influence and has greatly weakened its prospects for integration into the European family of nations.
The brutal crackdown that began 15 months ago with the fraudulent December 19, 2010 election persists. Its most recent manifestation is the barring of numerous opposition leaders, human rights activists and independent journalists from traveling abroad--yet another in a litany of violations of Belarus' OSCE commitments. Especially egregious is the continued imprisonment of democratic opposition leaders and activists, and human rights defenders Andrei Sannikau, Mikalai Statekevich, Zmitser Bandarenka, Ales Byalyatski, Syarhei Kavalenka, Zmitser Dashkevich, Pavel Seviarynets, and others, many of whom face inhumane conditions in detention. I'd like to add my voice to those of countless Belarusans and Belarusan-Americans calling for the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners in Belarus.
Mr. Speaker, in January the President signed into law the Belarus Democracy and Human Rights Act of 2011, which I authored. This law strengthens, in view of Lukashenka's crackdown, two earlier laws I wrote promoting democracy and supporting the Belarusan people in their struggle to replace the Lukashenka dictatorship with a representative government that will respect human rights and democratic values. But Congress's efforts on behalf of the Belarusan people can't end there--I'd like to ask my colleagues to continue to raise Belarusan human rights issues with the administration, with foreign parliamentarians, and, whenever we encounter them, with officials of the Lukashenka dictatorship.
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