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Classic leaves lasting impression on world stage
Dominicans' spectacular run indicative of tournament's high quality of play
By Lyle Spencer / MLB.com
SAN FRANCISCO -- In the Caribbean and the Far East, in the Netherlands and in Italy, and even in some parts of the United States where winning isn't everything, they're finding one big flaw in the World Baseball Classic.
It won't come around again until 2017.
The 2013 edition of the Classic lived up to its billing. Culminating in the Dominican Republic's 3-0 decision over Puerto Rico in Tuesday night's championship game at AT&T Park, it was by any measure an unqualified success. A novel idea when it took shape in 2006, the Classic has become part of the sport's culture and fabric.
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Consider the weight of the words softly spoken by Dominican Republic general manager Moises Alou -- a 17-year Major League veteran with 2,134 hits and 332 home runs -- in the afterglow of his team's 8-0 run to the title.
"To win the way we did is unbelievable," Alou said, seemingly in awe that the team he helped put together had become the first unbeaten Classic champion. "It's the greatest feeling in my career."
In the big picture, what was most remarkable about this 17-day global show was the quality of play. There was no reason to expect baseball this good in March, when bodies are supposed to be getting fine-tuned for the tasks ahead.
This was midsummer good.
Passion and pride, precision and purpose came shining through in the acts and actions of athletes from all corners of the baseball map. That it came down to two Caribbean clubs on a cool, drizzly night in the Bay Area seemed natural and just. It simply meant more to these athletes and their fans. You couldn't miss that.
"Two Latin American teams being in the [final] makes it more exciting," Dominican Republic reliever Octavio Dotel said.
The Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico were the best teams in the Classic, but others performed with distinction, from Japan to the Kingdom of the Netherlands (slaying Cuba) to Italy. Oh, the Italians. Team Heartbreak. They had early leads against both the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico and let them get away. Not everyone can have a Fernando Rodney.
Team USA made some noise but fell silent when David Wright was forced out of the lineup. In this competition, without benefit of the brand of winter ball that warmed the Caribbean athletes, the U.S. is still struggling to catch its Classic stride. It was a .500 team again, third time in a row. But there is no shame in that.
When you're outplayed, you put on your "big boy pants," as NBA superstar Kobe Bryant likes to say, and vow to go to work and be better next time.
There's no pouting in baseball. Japan, champion of the first two Classics, handled its numbing loss to Puerto Rico in the semifinals with dignity and grace. Anyone who has been around Japanese ballplayers would have expected nothing less.
Wait till 2017. That's what they're saying in Japan.
Accepting their runner-up mementos Tuesday night, Puerto Rico's players and staff could have retreated to the clubhouse. But they stood in the rain along the first-base line watching the Dominicans carry an enormous flag across the field, dancing, hugging and jumping around, gold championship medallions swinging from their necks.
"We are a bit disappointed," Puerto Rico manager Edwin Rodriguez said, "but my guys are leaving with their heads up. This has been a good championship. Here we are. They should be very proud, each member of this team."
Alfredo Griffin, the wise old shortstop who coaches the Angels and was on manager Tony Pena's Dominican staff, assessed the quality of play in this Classic as measurably improved over the first two.
"This was the best Classic," Griffin said. "Players were in better shape. There were some teams with great talent that didn't get to the [Championship Round].
"The talent we had on the 2006 team [in the inaugural Classic] was unbelievable. But this team had better relievers. The bullpen was lights out."
Alou was part of that '06 powerhouse, along with Albert Pujols, Adrian Beltre, David Ortiz and Miguel Tejada. Cuba eliminated that Dominican dream team, 3-1, in the semifinals after it had won five of six.
No missteps this time. Dotel, Pedro Strop, Santiago Casilla and Rodney finished the gem started by Samuel Deduno's five innings. The quartet allowed one hit and two walks with five strikeouts.
"Wow," Alou said. "It's got to be the best bullpen I've ever seen."
Rodney is Mr. March. Appearing in the first and third Classics, the quirky closer has worked 12 spotless innings, allowing three hits and six walks, striking out 15. Ringing up Luis Figueroa for the final out, Rodney slipped into his familiar routine, shooting an imaginary arrow to the heavens as teammates raced to his side.
Oh, yes, the Dominicans can celebrate. They came flying out of the dugout when Edwin Encarnacion crushed a two-run double in the first inning against Giancarlo Alvarado. Why wait until the ninth?
"It's the way we play the game," Dotel said. "We play from the heart. I hope everybody understands that."
Tejada, the voice of calm reason, was a central figure with the '06 and '09 powerhouses that fell short. His best years are behind him, but he is part of a team -- the 2013 champions -- that will be remembered forever in his homeland.
On Tuesday, Tejada said, "We have to leave each other, and that's the only sad thing -- that we will no longer be together as a team. Honestly, this has been an awesome week."
As Robinson Cano, the Classic MVP, put it, "You always remember the first time. This is always going to be in our hearts, for the rest of our lives."
No need to wait till 2017.
Lyle Spencer is a reporter for MLB.com This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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MADISON – Hunters can donate deer to help feed the hungry through a partnership that over the past 13 years has provided food pantries across the state with 3.7 million pounds of ground venison, state wildlife officials say.
The Wisconsin Venison Donation Program and its affiliates, Hunt for the Hungry and Target Hunger, along with more than 120 participating meat processors, are ready to accept and distribute venison donated by hunters during this deer hunting season, according to Dan Hirchert, the Department of Natural Resources wildlife biologist coordinating the venison program.
"There has been great interest this year from hunters who are anticipating a productive season" Hirchert said. "We need your help again this season to share the harvest and help families in need."
In the past 13 years, hunters have donated 83,120 deer which were processed into more than 3.7 million pounds of ground venison and distributed to food pantries across the state.
Two separate programs for donation are available for hunters, one in the chronic wasting disease zone and another in the rest of the state. Be sure to view the list that applies to your area. Both lists of participating meat processors, and instructors for donating, are available on the DNR website.
Deer legally harvested in the CWD zone are registered with a red metal tag. Red-tagged deer can only be donated to a processor participating in the Target Hunger program. Donated red-tagged deer are tested for CWD and only deer that test negative will be distributed to pantries.
In Walworth County, the two sampling registration stations in 2013 are Lakeside Bait and Tackle, 3542 Wisconsin Highway 50, Delavan, (262) 725-7007; and Minnow Bucket, 116 E. Main St., Whitewater, (262) 458-2702.

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The U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has extended the deadline for Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR) filings for individuals with signature authority over, but not financial interest in, foreign financial accounts. In 2012, the deadline was extended to June of this year; the latest extension moves it to June 30, 2015.
FinCEN has yet to decide which prior reporting periods these individuals will have to report on by June 30 of next year. Analysis of FBAR-related notices indicates that individuals might have to file reports stretching as far back as 2009. According to FinCEN, "This matter is under consideration."
FBAR applies to "foreign financial accounts," which by FinCEN definition include not only bank accounts, but also securities accounts, insurance or annuity policies with a cash value, and mutual funds. A U.S. person must check a box on his or her personal income tax form and file an FBAR form if he or she has a financial interest in and/or has signature authority over foreign financial accounts with an aggregate value that exceeds US$10,000 at any time during the course of the calendar year. FinCEN defines "signature authority" as individuals' ability to control, either by themselves or in conjunction with others, "the disposition of money, funds, or other assets held in a financial account by direct communication (whether in writing or otherwise) to the person with whom the financial account is maintained."
For corporate officers or employees with this level of control over one or more of the company's accounts, the recent deadline extension applies as long as they do not have a financial interest in the accounts. "That is probably the biggest gray area," says Tom Hunt, director of treasury services for the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP). "The challenge is: What's the definition of financial interest?"
Some companies are assuming that only people who can sign checks on a corporate account have to worry about FBAR. Others are including everyone involved in the movement of money, all the way down to accounts payable clerks. "And then other companies are also including the board member or officers named in the banking resolution, because in a sense they have authority over opening and closing accounts," Hunt says. "Companies are tending to be conservative and report all possible filers, as opposed to not reporting enough and having to revisit it later."
How Companies Are Responding
Despite the repeated extensions, few organizations are waiting around for the FinCEN deadline. Over the past two years, most affected businesses have been working with their banks to reconcile their account information with their banks' data and to determine exactly which employees need to file for which years. "A lot of companies have discovered that although they sent letters to their banks to close accounts, some accounts weren't closed," Hunt says. "I think the regulators will say that the bank has the final source of information, even if that information is incorrect. So banks are having to look at their internal systems to make sure that they're trued up to match what the customer's reporting."
Another issue is determining which individuals were associated with accounts whose balances, combined, crossed the US$10,000 threshold during a prior year. "And that's not just bank accounts," Hunt points out. "It could be securities accounts, it could be custody accounts. If companies don't have their bank account reports from 2010 or 2011, it's going to be very difficult for them to go back and create historical balances. Again, I've heard a lot of companies are being very conservative and probably over-reporting for the sake of not having to deal with it later."
Finally, Hunt says, is the issue of determining which employees and officers had the appropriate authority over those accounts in a given year. It will prove a challenging task for some organizations. "If an employee leaves during the year, they're still liable to file an FBAR for your company for that year," he says. "In that case, you'll have to track them down. So treasurers are working with their HR departments, looping them in to know when there's any employment change that could impact some of the filings, as well as impact who's cast within the definition of required filers."
Where FBAR Compliance Is Going
The treasury team sits at the intersection of all the different actions required for FBAR compliance. The tax department will likely generate the reports, Hunt says, but the information will come from treasury. In some organizations, the tax group will file on behalf of treasury. "And now the mandate as of July 1, 2013, to file electronically further complicates matters," Hunt adds. "It makes treasury more of a recordkeeper. Treasury is responsible for notifying everyone who's required to file that they need to check the box on their tax return and then file an FBAR report by June."
Although FBAR filings may be an administrative burden, there is a benefit for treasury: As a result of their reconciliation of account data with their banks, companies are developing more accurate bank account records. And some treasury functions see FBAR compliance as a good reason to upgrade their technology infrastructure. Electronic bank account management (eBAM) "would facilitate a lot of this," Hunt says. "The byproduct of it is you have a centralized data repository for information to facilitate FBAR reporting. I think that's why a lot of companies like the [eBAM] concept."
Regardless of whether they implement new technologies, companies with foreign operations are compiling better bank account records. Many are also revisiting their policies and procedures for determining who has control over their various accounts. "Do they really need to have the CFO or the treasurer on every single account?" Hunt asks. "In the past, it was about control. Now it's about whether the company can forgo the administrative burden" that is generated every time they give another individual signature authority over a foreign account.


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Robert R. Galvan, age 52, of Delavan, WI, passed away Friday, Dec. 6, 2013. He was born April 23, 1961, in Brownsville, TX, the son of Joseph and Delfina (Ramirez) Galvan.
Robert is survived by his daughter, Ashley Galvan of Delavan, WI; three sons: Joseph Harris of CA, Robert Galvan of Delavan, and Tyler Galvan of Delavan; three sisters: Esther (Edwardo) Corral of Darien, WI, Sylvia Schmitt of Janesville, WI, and Noemi Galvan of Beloit, WI; five brothers: Tomas Ramirez of Delavan, Moises Garcia of Delavan, Juan Galvan of FL, Rolando Galvan of Delavan, and Gregoria Ramirez of Darien. Also surviving are many nieces and nephews.
The Galvan family will greet family and friends from 3 until 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 9, 2013, at the MONROE FUNERAL HOME in Delavan, for a Memorial Visitation. MONROE FUNERAL HOME in Delavan, WI, is assisting the family. Visit us at monroefh.com


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This time, a Moises makes the catch
Aptly named Dominican outfielder elicits memories of Bartman with grab
By Barry M. Bloom / MLB.com
SAN FRANCISCO -- History refused to repeat itself on Monday as the Dominican Republic moved on to the World Baseball Classic championship game with a 4-1 victory over the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Dominican left fielder Moises Sierra dove in the seats down the third-base line at AT&T Park in a semifinal game of the World Baseball Classic to grab a pop fly hit by Andruw Jones, ending the first inning with Kingdom of the Netherlands leading, 1-0. Sierra avoided a fan in the stands who was angling to grab the ball with his glove.
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The play was eerily similar to the one that occurred in the top of the seventh inning of Game 6 of the 2003 National League Championship Series between the Cubs and Marlins when Luis Castillo lifted a pop down the left-field line at Wrigley Field.
Another left fielder named Moises -- in that case Moises Alou -- hustled toward the brick wall in an attempt to make the catch, but the ball was deflected by Steve Bartman, a Cubs fan. Alou, ironically, is now the general manager of Team Dominican.
"Hey, even the guy had glasses like Bartman," Alou said after the game. "This time, the guy missed the ball and Sierra caught it. I didn't have to even think about it. The broadcaster had already mentioned what happened in '03 in Chicago. Maybe that's a good sign. He caught the ball and maybe we're going to win the championship."
The 7-0 D.R. will have its shot at it on Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET against rival Puerto Rico. The Dominicans have beaten P.R. twice already in the tournament.
On Oct. 14, 2003, the Cubs were leading, 3-0, at the time of the Bartman play and had a chance to clinch the pennant by winning that game. Instead, the Marlins came roaring back in the inning, won that night and the series in seven games. The Marlins beat the Yankees in the World Series and the Cubs still haven't won the Fall Classic since 1908. They haven't even been in the World Series since 1945.
Starter Edinson Volquez opened Monday's game by walking the first two Dutch hitters, who advanced to second and third on a grounder tapped to the right of the mound. Andrelton Simmons scored what turned out to be the only Dutch run on Wladimir Balentien's grounder to short. Jurickson Profar moved to third.
Jones popped the fourth pitch of his at-bat toward the stands and Sierra, a late lineup replacement for Ricardo Nanita, raced toward the low railing down the line.
This time, the fan missed the ball and Sierra made the catch. And this time the team with the two guys named Moises got the win.
Barry M. Bloom is a national reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, Boomskie on Baseball. Follow@boomskie on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Though the sitting Supreme Court has a track record that is decidedly pro-business when it comes to class action lawsuits, it has declined to weigh in on a case that would have wide ranging ramifications on the ease with which consumers can sue businesses.
On Feb. 24 the SCOTUS rejected challenges to an ongoing lawsuit surrounding the growth of mold in washing machines, in which defendants sought to place new restrictions on class action procedure. The rejection could open up the possibility for a wider range of people to be included within a class, and even the possibility of different types of class actions relating to a single issue.
Plaintiffs contend that a design flaw in certain brands of front-loading washing machines caused excessive mold growth, compromising the usefulness of the machines and undermining the premium cost consumers may have paid for them. While the case in question centered on a lawsuit brought by consumers against Whirlpool Corp., a number of similar suits are currently pending against Sears and Bosch as well. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce also backed the appeal.
While defendants in this case had hoped to capitalize on similar decisions like those in cases involving WalMart Stores and the Comcast Group that came in 2011, the were unable to gain a win solely on the Court's track record.
Manufacturers say that the design flaw impacted only a small percentage of machines, and that many of the consumers incorporated into the class action suit had joined because of the possibility of a problem rather than a potentially damaging event.
Bloomberg reports that Sears was concerned that an initial appellate court decision "opens the door to class actions based on any mass-produced product's failure to meet expectations of a handful of consumers, no matter how few other buyers had the same problem." The decision by the SCOTUS could very well solidify those concerns.
For more on the developing landscape of class action lawsuits check out these stories:
Washing machine class actions poised for Supreme Court review
Class action thrown out in suit against 4 largest U.S. railroad companies


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JANESVILLE—A concept that has taken off in other cities and puts a new spin on paying it forward only had to percolate a short time in Amanda Byrne's mind before being fully brewed.
The co-owner of The Little Bean Bistro, 101 E. Milwaukee St., Suite 120, learned about suspended coffees on a Facebook page. It made her realize how a simple and inexpensive idea could bring immediate joy to someone in need.
"When I saw the posting, my mind went into overdrive. What if we did this? What if everyone did this? How wonderful it would be," she said.
After discussing doing it with co-owner Victor Torres and her staff, they agreed it was something they wanted to do, Byrnes said.
She explained how it works at The Little Bean.
You come in, order a cup of coffee for yourself and pay for another cup of coffee in advance as an anonymous act of charity. The Little Bean also offers a cup of soup or other hot beverage as part of its suspended coffee concept.
A cup of suspended coffee or hot chocolate is $1.50 while a bowl of soup is $3.50, said Janet Lund, barista.
Since starting this anonymous act of charity and kindness Jan. 3, about 100 suspended hot beverages and another 100 suspended bowls of soup have been purchased at The Little Bean, Lund said.
During this same time an average of five people a day have benefited from the suspended purchases, Torres said.
Byrnes has promoted the suspended coffee on Facebook, with a window posting at the downtown bistro and by contacting a number of local nonprofit charities including Project 16:49 and ECHO to House of Mercy and the GIFTS homeless shelters to the local Y organizations and teachers.
But Byrnes and her staff stress the suspended coffees aren't just for the homeless.
�"If someone is going through a rough time and in need of a hot beverage, we will serve it to them. We don't always know if they're homeless and operate on an honor system." Lund said.
It's also done discreetly.
For example, the executive director of GIFTS has given her business card to program participants who simply and quietly show it to Little Bean staff to receive a hot beverage, Lund said.
"That's important because they have pride, too. We want them to feel welcome with no discrimination," she said.
Other locally owned coffee shops don't offer the suspended coffee concept but are contributing to the community in other ways, said spokespersons at Lucy's Loon Lake Coffee and Deli and Mocha Moment.
The concept has been considered a success so far by Byrnes' staff, which believes it will grow in popularity.
�"Over 24,000 people looked at Amanda's initial Facebook posting," Torres said.
�"It's just starting and we've already had people call and buy suspended coffees with credit or debit cards online from as far away as Rockford and Kenosha," Lund said.
�"We're paying it forward to the community," she said. She hoped the community would accept this with open arms and they have," she said.
Recipients of the suspended coffees have been appreciative as well.
"One guy must have said thank you five times, he was so grateful," Torres said.


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oh thank you Maggie, thank you.....I'm going to copy what you wrote, have it calligraphied and hung on my wall. Indeed I am!!! You know what Maggie? What you quoted is just exactly what my old roommate said to me when he came to help me at 5:30 am this morning. I have got to accept this ....when I did briefly about a month ago,,well, it was when he had ran to my rescue and again prayed over me,well, just after he left my home I begin to meditate with him and it seemed like magic what I openend up my bible to at random.....don't recall what Psalm it was but do indeed know it was very similar to your post.VERY CALMING AN ASSURING!....Oh, thank you Maggie Mae, thank you.....
Frank, I did not see your post when I left the above post of mine earlier this morning,....I would like to say I think you are wayyyyyyy toooo smart to actually believe we have extra terrestials.....ain't no such thing Frank...
just like I seriously doubt any man from any country has actually gone to the moon....this is not a conspiracy theory of mine either, in fact I have never even read about it not happening, but if one really thinks about it, there is no way possible that I can see it happening.....they would fry from radiation when they passed thru that area (duhhh, can't remember what it is called) Anyway, just wanted to say that....yes, I found something on the O razor the other day as well but do not know where I stored it. Will go give it a look later...
To anyone:
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Now here's an eccentric one for ya- written by:Emily Kruse.....(I dunno where it originated but was in my mail-London)
Taking Out the Trash
This is not the person I
meant to become, painted
over with grief,
standing alone in the
street while the arc sodium
lamps extinguish,
one by one.
A bird twitters, and
low in the distance
there is the sound
of machines grinding
up - the crane on third,
the garbage men on castle,
our neighbor creaking
off to his day job.
Our job is just
this: to fall silent
while the day breaks
underneath, pace the streets
of our lives lighting
the lamps, then
extinguishing them,
apologizing for the air we
breathe as we sit
at our desks with pens
in our hands and too
much consideration.
If there were something
more than the garbage
men huffing
another morning.
If I went back
inside and put my pants
on right side out,
left for a desk
in the suburbs with
a computer, a schedule and
a switchboard telephone,
then returned, in
the starting up
of the street lamps,
the traffic lights' flickering
and the regular commuters'
headlights, looking
haggard and something less
than myself,
perhaps also refreshed,
perhaps relieved
by the simplicity
of the day's tasks, how,
without proposing to
go anywhere, to
extend beyond this
moment into some infinite
space where our lives
take on meaning,
a purpose,
they do.
Her Insides in a Special Receptacle
Outside, the street cleaner shoves the rubble
up against the curb.
And under its gigantic whirring, the dog wanting
to go out again and her clutching at what
She needs to say. There are those words that explode,
that are ugly and we don't mean to say.
How she screams, for example, when he rises from
the couch and throws the laptop out the window.
Then there is this need to create a story, to line
up cause and effect in retrospect.
As in, it wasn't she herself crying in the airport.
Just this other version, the one who underwent
The procedure, the one who keeps bleeding.
Give it a week, he says.
A week to find her mind, lost somewhere
between scenes. Blip blip
In fast forward or reverse it's this same indecision,
this not knowing that embeds her in the wallpaper.
All the reports are biased, either way to
convince you, into or out of it.
According to recent studies, 99% of women
in her situation express no regret, are
Highly educated and overall less depressed.
I.e. these days death
Isn't what it used to be -
like a procedure you can turn yourself
On and off. Simple, like a medical vacuum
cleaner. There are unquestionable
Advances - like travel by air or email or
cars you can plug in - and then, also,
The dubious ones - her the statistic, glued
to the wall no legs no voice just one overblown
Nodding head. The two of them say it must
have been fate, because you can leave it
At that, like an oracle's proclamation
or refuse swept to the side of the street.
It takes an animal to nose through it, the dog
Nice, real nice......
Re: The Fiber Disease
NO, i KNOW WE'RE NOT! OH HELLO, I WILL GIVE IT A TRY....OOPS ON SECOND THOUGHT, i'M GETTING THE PHUCK OFF THIS WEBSITE BECAUSE IT JUST SHOT A WHITE DIAMOND LASER INTO MY EYE....IT CAME EXACTLY FROM THE BLUE AD BY GOOGLE THAT SAYS GENE EXPRESSION ARRAYS.....
wELL, THIS IS SAD....(REFERENCING THE LASOR)
ANYWAY, i HAD CAME BAck just to leave this h.link.....it is an interview titled Possible Human possible world. I have not finished it yet but do find it interesting.....
Frank, what did you mean in your post regarding being pulled into the monitor??? For I think you may be on target there....hopefully you will see this and can offer an explanation..
PS: Maggie, that Psalm I read a month ago that calmed me was Psalm 55
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Re: The Fiber Disease
oh, knock it off, Sabrina.
sabrina posts long so called heart felt letter to hunt down the people of the world who fall into the little plan to do what????
some will sadly perish by the plan and some will find JESUS CHRIST...
WHO WILL OVERPOWER THE ANTICHRIST ....maker of 'THE FIBER DISEASE".
now al, i believe we have our answer at last.
read this- it's fom 1993- 14 years ago! Just think what they can do now!
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.04 ... ed_pr.html
we cant fortget the seeds you guys.,...nor the adenovirus that turns into aids!
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My name is Johanna (Hannie for short) And I live in Spijkenisse, near Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It is only since May 2004 that I have a digital camera and that makes it a lot easyer to send images per e-mail or otherwise. Before, my favorite camera was an Asahi Pentax K1000. I still use it, but I have to scan the photographs first. This is a lot better. Do read my blog too!
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The first face-to-face talks between President Barack Obama and congressional leaders failed to break the budget logjam as a partial U.S. government shutdown entered its third day.
The Oval Office meeting yesterday evening ended with both sides reiterating their positions and the points they've been making for days, raising the prospect of a prolonged standoff over the government shutdown and raising the U.S. debt limit.
Democrats, including Obama, say Republicans must end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling as a precondition to talks on broader budgetary disputes. Republicans want to use the fiscal deadlines to extract changes to Obama's health-care law.
"They will not negotiate," House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, said after the hour-long meeting with Obama and other congressional leaders. "We had a nice conversation, a polite conversation, but at some point we've got to allow the process our founders gave us to work out."
Neither side budged yesterday. The first government shutdown since 1996 and the debt-limit debate continued to merge into a messy month of standoffs.
House Republicans plan to advance a debt-limit bill while the government is shuttered, resurrecting an approach that included a long list of party priorities, according to a Republican lawmaker and two leadership aides who asked for anonymity to discuss the strategy.
Democrats, including Obama, said Boehner should just allow a vote on funding the government and rely on support from Democrats and a group of House Republicans willing to accept a funding extension through Nov. 15 at the spending levels Republicans prefer.
"The moderates need to muscle up here," Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, said on MSNBC today. "Boehner really needs to show some courage" in the face of Republicans "afraid of someone running against them from the right."
U.S. stocks retreated for a second day and Treasuries fell as the partial shutdown entered a third day. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 0.3 percent at 9:38 a.m. in New York, and 10-year Treasury yields rose 1.4 basis points to 2.63 percent and the cost of insuring the debt climbed to a six-month high.
Markets should be "concerned" about the possibility of default, Obama said on CNBC yesterday after meeting with chief executives of financial-services companies including Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Brian Moynihan of Bank of America Corp.
"This time's different," Obama said. "When you have a situation in which a faction is willing potentially to default on U.S. government obligations then we are in trouble."
After the meeting with top lawmakers, the White House said in a statement that Obama reiterated his unwillingness to negotiate on a short-term spending bill or the debt ceiling.
"The president remains hopeful that common sense will prevail, and that Congress will not only do its job to reopen the government, but also act to pay the bills it has racked up and spare the nation from a devastating default," according to the statement.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said after the meeting that his party is willing to talk about spending programs. "My friend John Boehner, I repeat, cannot take yes for an answer," Reid said. "One thing we made clear in that meeting, we are locked in tight on Obamacare."
The partial shutdown put about 800,000 federal employees out of work and shuttered many government functions, including infant nutrition aid, national parks and Internal Revenue Service audits. Other services, such as air-traffic control and Social Security benefits, were operating.
A one-week partial shutdown would probably shave 0.1 percentage point from economic growth, according to the median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg, with the costs accelerating if the closing persists.
The effects of failing to raise the $16.7 trillion debt ceiling would be even bigger. The government will run out of borrowing authority Oct. 17, according to the Treasury Department, leaving only cash to pay the bills.
That stockpile will disappear by Oct. 31 at the latest, according to the Congressional Budget Office, leaving the U.S. unable to pay promised benefits, salaries and interest.
As the stalemate wears on, both sides are grasping for political leverage.
Republicans found theirs on the Mall in Washington, where they criticized the barricades erected by the National Park Service around the World War II memorial.
House leaders proposed five bills yesterday to reopen specific parts of the government. They picked politically popular agencies, forcing Democrats to choose between their party's position against a piecemeal approach and specific programs they support.
The bills would reopen national parks, provide funding for the National Institutes of Health, let Washington's city government spend its own money, fund the Department of Veterans Affairs and pay National Guard and Reserve forces.
The Washington, parks and NIH bills passed yesterday with bipartisan support. The other measures are set for votes today.
"It is the small steps that can often move us toward a consensus," said Representative Jack Kingston, a Georgia Republican.
Senate Democrats said they wouldn't pick and choose federal agencies to reopen, and the White House issued veto threats against all the bills.
Democrats, meanwhile, tried to take advantage of the split among House Republicans. The party is divided between hard-liners aligned with Senator Ted Cruz of Texas who are seeking concessions on the health law and others who back a bill to reopen the government without conditions.
At least 20 Republicans have said they would support the Senate-passed plan. They haven't aligned with Democrats on procedural votes to force Boehner's hand.
One of those, Representative Peter King, a New York Republican, said in an interview yesterday that he made his case privately to Boehner, who asked for more time.
"I think the plan is for the Cruz Republicans to exhaust themselves," King said.
Representative Jeb Hensarling, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, described a delay of the individual mandate to purchase health insurance as the "bare minimum" Republicans should accept as part of the spending bill. And, he said, the party should attach other conditions to the debt ceiling.
"What's going to hurt our economy is our failure to deal with our spending trajectory, which is going to bankrupt us," the Texas Republican said in an interview. "Anything that has ever passed for fiscal responsibility in Washington, D.C., has almost exclusively been attached to a debt ceiling."
Unlike past fiscal feuds, this dispute is more about the health law than the amount of government spending. Democrats say they have already made a concession by accepting spending levels set under the across-the-board cuts known as sequestration, which went into effect earlier this year and were part of the deal to avoid a 2011 default.
The U.S. budget deficit in June was 4.3 percent of gross domestic product, down from 10.1 percent in February 2010 and the narrowest since November 2008, when Obama was elected to his first term, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from the Treasury Department and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
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Xerox CFO Kathryn Mikells and Xerox GC Don Liu
As recently as 10 years ago, it wasn't a likely scenario to have the general counsel sitting at the same table as the CEO and the company's C-level executives; if the GC did have a seat at the table, their presence was considered transitory. In the wake of the economic recession and an increasingly challenging compliance landscape, GCs are now critical members of the senior executive team.
Within that inner sanctum, one relationship in particular has developed into a critical force for businesses—that of the GC and the chief financial officer (CFO). How genially this duo works together can make or break a company's success. As an organization's senior legal adviser and the ranking decision maker on finances respectively, the GC and CFO need to be a dynamic team that not only mitigates risk, but does so in a way that allows businesses, such as Xerox Corporation, to thrive in this era of heightened accountability and stakeholder expectations.
Cross-functional roles
Traditionally, the GC and CFO might have been viewed as rivals, with the GC looking after the company's best interests through the lenses of a legal expert, a costly challenge. But as the GC role has expanded in the past decade, so too have opinions on taking risks that are favorable toward meeting the company's long-term goals. Both roles span the full spectrum of an organization's activities as chief legal counsel, and CFOs are critical advisers to the CEO and to the governing boards.
"I am of the view that the smart CFOs and smart GCs should be able to agree on just about everything. They both don't want the company to get into financial trouble, and they both don't want them to get in legal trouble," says Don Liu, general counsel and secretary of Xerox Corporation. "They should have a common interest; the reality is the CFO is responsible for financial planning and is responsible for pushing everyone to do their best. The CFO should create tension for every department; it should be natural tension."
Liu came to Xerox in 2007 during a time when the company faced ongoing class action lawsuits. Xerox's financial restatement took place following a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigation and a number of shareholder lawsuits that were filed subsequently—the largest ever in SEC history, Liu says.
The potential magnitude of damages was $40 million, and the company was already several years into those lawsuits.
"They were very mature, very deep into the lawsuits. We wound up settling most of it with one lawsuit still remaining 14 years later. That was dismissed last year and is now on appeal," adds Liu.
Xerox CFO Kathryn Mikells, who joined the company in 2013, came from the ADT Corporation where she held the same role. While Mikells and Liu are still in the early stages of their professional marriage, the two senior-level decision makers' styles already appear to complement one another.
"I think GCs should be wearing the kind of hats that say 'how can we be more creative in how we make our business objectives?' and coming up with different constructs and different ways to mitigate risk to help the company move forward. For me, that's the way I engage with Don," Mikells says.
Risk management
The biggest areas the two work on together is mergers and acquisitions and coming to an agreement on risk management."For acquisitions, we have to have confidence that they can create benefits for us," Mikells explains. "We look to get alignment when we are doing big transactions with customers. Almost 100 percent of the time, it's not that we are going to take no risk, it's about how to mitigate the risk."
For Mikells, her current position with Xerox is the first time in more than 20 years that she left one company for another, as she was merged or acquired out of a job a few times.
"Xerox is at a really interesting point in its history as a services-led company. We have made a lot of progress. That said, I don't think the company is all the way there, and there's more work to be done," says Mikells. "Both of our organizations are really good at having our radar up for getting involved in issues; sometimes his organization will have their hands in it first. Sometimes it's mine. If you are not involved early in issues, you don't have much of a chance in negotiating them."
Full disclosure
Since regulatory compliance and disclosure has become such a critical focal point for large businesses, the relationship between GC and CFO is more important than ever.
"There's clearly more scrutiny and as a result heightened sensitivity. I think all public companies have put much more disciplined processes in place…The processes are to ensure that both organizations are at the table as we figure out what things are material, especially outside the normal filing disclosures. Where it gets tougher is between those regular filings, ensuring we flag issues that may require faster disclosure. That is something that would tend to get escalated between our organizations," explains Mikells.
As for internal audit processes and compliance, Mikells says it's about processes with regard to overall fiduciary and ethical duties and being "buttoned up."
"There is obviously a high level of scrutiny, and you have to be very buttoned up; conducting appropriate training, having appropriate policies in place and managing it from the tone at the top," she says. "It doesn't fall solely on the legal department."
Since Sarbanes-Oxley was enacted in 2002, the SEC, the board of directors, shareholders and other relevant entities are increasingly focused on the quality of a company's internal reporting, not just of financial information, but also of business deals and events affecting the financial, business, intellectual property and litigation risk profile of the company.
"Ever since Sarbox [Sarbanes-Oxley], the CFO must certify under criminal law that the company's numbers and the SEC filings are accurate; now the CEO and CFO must certify to the public that their disclosures are accurate. Therefore, there is more of a common interest between the GC and the CFO," explains Liu. "The relationship between the GC and the CFO and his or her team is closer than ever. The SEC is also much more aggressive with disclosure and reporting requirements, including how lawsuits are disclosed to the public. It has forced an operational proximity between the CFO and the GC."
The right combination
In their cross-functional roles as GC and CFO, it is also critical to have good board relations in order to meet business objectives.
"You want to have a good relationship with the board, which requires an excellent relationship with your CFO, which in turn impacts your relationship with the CEO, all due to overlap between the legal and the financial departments," advises Liu. "If you want a smooth working management team, the CFO and the GC have to get along; they have to find a way to manage their differences."
While Liu says he doesn't believe there is a natural tension between the GC and CFO, Mikells says there is a time and a place when such a situation can inevitably occur.
"There certainly can be tension. You can't be successful in any job, whether you're the CFO or the GC, by having the reputation that you are going to be the person to say no. You can't eliminate risks; you just have to make sure you mitigate the appropriate risks. It's more about the people than the roles themselves and trying to get alignment around the same positive end and outcome you're trying to achieve," she says
Liu summarizes: "Every company I have worked for, I've been lucky to have the CFO as my closest ally. I don't understand how you could function any other way."
As for the most important attributes that make for a happy GC-CFO union, Mikells says level-headedness and neutrality are paramount.
"You need an even-keeled person; you can't be someone who prematurely makes decisions. You need to gather all the facts and be impartial. These are not jobs about emotion or hurrying to get to the right answer," she says. "You have to take adequate time and be thoughtful to try to get to the right conclusions."
Liu advises general counsel and aspiring GCs to becoming comfortable with the company's finances, since that understanding impacts every area of the business.
"At most management meetings, we are talking about financial results. Unless you as the GC are comfortable with P&L items, you are going to miss the issues that are affecting the company. You should be close to the chief accountant, who can teach you the subtleties around the numbers that affect your company," he says. "It's also important to understand the operations; the day-to-day operations that impact how your company makes money and how your company creates products and services for your customers."


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Van Eck Associates Corp. is moving ahead with an exchange-traded fund (ETF) focused on Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories—the first of its kind—even amid the biggest losses for the island's securities since at least 1999.
The New York-based company registered the Market Vectors Puerto Rico Municipal Index ETF with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August, regulatory filings show. Jim Colby, a senior municipal strategist at Van Eck who would co-manage the fund, said it may debut this year or in 2014, depending on feedback from the SEC.
"A product like this takes away the individual security risk and adds an element of liquidity," Colby said in an interview. "In this circumstance, with this particular product, my guess is we will have a little bit of pushback" given its unique nature, he said.
John Nester, an SEC spokesman in Washington, declined to comment on the filing.
Even after a rebound this week, Puerto Rico securities have still lost about 19 percent this year through Oct. 17, the worst performance since at least 1999 and more than six times the drop in the $3.7 trillion market, Standard & Poor's index data show.
The island's bonds have rallied since commonwealth officials gave a webcast briefing for investors on Oct. 15 in which they said the territory has sufficient funding to avoid borrowing before June 30. S&P's Puerto Rico index jumped 2.1 percent yesterday, the biggest one-day increase since December 2008.
Though 77 percent of muni mutual funds hold bonds from the commonwealth, Van Eck's ETF would be the first of its kind to focus primarily on Puerto Rico, according to Morningstar Inc. Puerto Rico borrowings are tax-exempt in all states.
While ETFs are similar to mutual funds that track an index of equities, bonds, or commodities, they can be bought and sold throughout the trading day.
The ETF would replicate Barclays Plc's Custom Puerto Rico Municipal Composite Index by investing at least 80 percent of assets in tax-free debt sold within Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands, the SEC filing said. A "substantial percentage" of assets would be from Puerto Rico.
The PowerShares Insured New York Municipal Bond Portfolio has the highest exposure to Puerto Rico of any ETF, at 15 percent, said Michael Rawson, an ETF analyst at Morningstar.
In the SEC filing, the company cited 19 risks of investing in the fund, including that "several key economic indicators have begun to indicate a significant slowing of economic activity" in Puerto Rico.
A Puerto Rico Government Development Bank index measuring the self-governing commonwealth's economic activity fell 5.4 percent in August from a year earlier, the most since 2010.


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The Fiber Disease
Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Medicine. Anything human!
Moderator: BioTeam
Just passing this along.......I did not write it......just sharing it.
The multi billion dollar petrochemical industry that drives the
>dollar as the worlds reserve currency will surely not let a new product
>come and devastate their profits? Will these frighteningly powerful
>conglomerates who no doubt secretly already have a viable alternative
>in mind, let a new product take the global economy by storm? I feel
>they will ridicule, buy scientists off, in fact do almost anything to
>stop this inevitable collapse of their industry.
Why do you think the big push for hydrogen. 95 % of today's hydrogen
comes from oil.
Oh, how could I have forgotton? they also have this on mass transit buses
and air planes.....they call it the airplane mystery disease.......huh boys?
TamTam, can you tell us about the sea ice? Collembola? wheat fungus?
A. T. Ramsey, W. Tighe, and J. Bartolick
Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08543
P. D. Morgan
JET Joint Undertaking, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3EA, United Kingdom
Optical fibers are ubiquitous on today's plasma devices, and will play a major role in future machines. However, radiation causes luminescence and transmission loss in fibers at troubling levels even on today's machines when they operate in DT. We have evaluated these effects and studied the use of elevated operating temperatures to reduce them. Using high-purity UV grade silica-silica fibers at 400 °C reduces transmission loss by a factor of at least 100, but has little or no effect on radioluminescence. The radioluminescent spectrum appears to be Cerenkov radiation. The transmission loss spectrum depends on the fiber material and details of the manufacture. The mode structure of transmission loss is mainly simple path length attenuation, with a suggestion of internal reflection degradation. ©1997 American Institute of Physics
Check out Moores law, how bout tunnels, the dept of Transportation, cement, bricks.....for you see, it's all about Sustainable Energy.
We were their test piglets.
The role of science is clear. Whether it's contributing to our environmental health, developing sustainable production systems, coming up with new or improved bioproducts and processes, or ensuring food safety and quality, an innovative scientific approach is key to building a solid future for Canada. AAFC's labs are geared to providing the science to allow Canada to deliver an exciting range of innovative agriculture-based products at home and abroad.
Grains and Oilseeds
Best management practices help reduce the environmental impacts of cropping in Canada. AAFC experts across the country are studying ways to lower production risks and reduce pesticide use on cereals and oilseed crops. New practices and technology are helping to increase the efficiency of modern agricultural production and renew Canada's competitiveness in domestic and international markets.
Read closely..........
NSERC - Visiting Fellowships in Canadian Government Laboratories
A diesel fuel additive from canola seeds that improves engine performance. ... versatility, and performance of fibre optic broadband networks. ...
http://www.nserc.ca/sf_e.asp?nav=vfnav&lbi=comp-vf - 295k - Cached - Similar pages
THERE, i'M FINISHED HOPEFULLY FOREVEVER. gOING TO CHECK MY WATER QUALITY AND USE MY HEATER AND CHECK FOR GAS TOXINS ALL WEEK. Hopefully all will be fixed back.......if not......oh, I don't want to even think about it. Just fix it please. Don't wanna discuss anything else. Not even currency , nor trains, nor subways, nor smoking, Nada, nothing.....I want my home fixed and that is all I request, I will keep my mouth shut. Deal? We'll see.........PS: Don't even think of touching my autos again.....don't even.
please look up sol-gel. sol gel used in acid bases branch out and create
gelation. they did create plastic creatures with fiber optic appendages and claws. that is why you can't see them with the eyes. they are spinning so rapidly and are transulucent. they are branching out and breaking off of those who used these products and landing on any person, place and thing, shooting off more branches becoming a huge network.
they used silica, elastomers, high performanced polymers, multiphase polymers, optical electrical, gas, liquid perrnselectivity, chemical solvents,
increased tg, thermal degradation, chemical solvent degradation. see
sol-gel chemistry. http://www.psrc.usm.edu/mauritz/solgel.html. how many people use gel in their hair these days? carbon ceramic figures,
crystallography communications and toxic gases. our own government scarring us with bio terroism and what are they doing to us. will anyone
be held accountable? or will they just fine johnson and johnson again with a huge penalty, they are used to paying them. it is time all involved in this cruel and inhumane game to stop and those who had knowledge and allowed innocent people to suffer for so long be held and tried in a court of law and sent to a prison and kept there forever. thank God for
Dr. Staninger and her ethics. she was one of the ones who expose the seriousness of silicone implants and what did anyone learn from that and
the pain and suffering that those women went through. this time they
didn't only infect the unknown patients they infected their families, school systems, and the entire country. no one attorney who denied this family help should ever be allowed to practice law or handle any of these cases
that will be exposed by dr. staninger. health officials who kept this family in harmsway need to be prosecuted and the deputy attorney general,
and the judges who knew and denied them fair hearings, denied them attorneys, denied them proper health care, the dyfs case managers and
supervisors and the school system who wouldn't help and sent her son
to an alternative school for behavior problems and instead of having tests done to see why he and his brothers are always sick. they knew one school system was shut down for fungus anothers for a so called cruise ship like virus. the allergist who knew my friend was suffering and her children, whose nurse knew it was silica and silicone and optic fibers and
corrosvies acids. thank God for her who led us on the right trail. still
no remorse from any involved they just deepened the dark web of deceits that they polymerized. as dr greg smith became a victim by treating his patients, justice will prove that these physicians and judges
and dyfs workers infected themselves. judge judy white thought she was
above catching it, as she sat across the room from my friend humiliating her. judge hoffman was stuck in the available side by side next to my friend, he tried and wanted to jump off the elevator but the door shut and
he was stuck with them. Proving God gives us justice and does make right the wrong that was done to us. he knows the truth and the truth always comes out and the bad guy loses in the end. the judges didn't care about the truth, they were there to protect the licenses and good names of corrupt physicians. there is no statute of limitations on insurance fraud. and every physicians involved must be prosecuted for falsely billing insurance cos., order false tests that they knew would come negative and putting their patient and their families health and welfare in danger. no one is above the law. we have every name of every person who allowed this family to suffer for a decade. we hope our governor is honest about cleaning up corruption in our state, here is an opportunity to prove it.
The class mesomycetozoea: a heterogeneous group of microorganisms at the animal-fungal boundary; Mendoza L et al.; When the enigmatic fish pathogen, the rosette agent, was first found to be closely related to the choanoflagellates, no one anticipated finding a new group of organisms . Subsequently, a new group of microorganisms at the boundary between animals and fungi was reported . Several microbes with similar phylogenetic backgrounds were soon added to the group . Interestingly, these microbes had been considered to be fungi or protists . This novel phylogenetic group has been referred to as the DRIP clade (an acronym of the original members: Dermocystidium, rosette agent, Ichthyophonus, and Psorospermium), as the class Ichthyosporea, and more recently as the class Mesomycetozoea . Two orders have been described in the mesomycetozoeans: the Dermocystida and the Ichthyophonida . So far, all members in the order Dermocystida have been pathogens either of fish (Dermocystidium spp . and the rosette agent) or of mammals and birds (Rhinosporidium seeberi), and most produce uniflagellated zoospores . Fish pathogens also are found in the order Ichthyophonida, but so are saprotrophic microbes . The Ichthyophonida species do not produce flagellated cells, but many produce amoeba-like cells . This review provides descriptions of the genera that comprise the class Mesomycetozoea and highlights their morphological features, pathogenic roles, and phylogenetic relationships.
J Mol Biol, 2002 Aug 23, 321(4), 621 - 36
Crystal structures of the reaction intermediate and its homologue of an extradiol-cleaving catecholic dioxygenase; Sato N et al.; BphC derived from Pseudomonas sp . strain KKS102 is an extradiol-cleaving catecholic dioxygenase . This enzyme contains a non-heme iron atom and plays an important role in degrading biphenyl/polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the microbe . To elucidate detailed structures of BphC reaction intermediates, crystal structures of the substrate-free form, the BphC-substrate complex, and the BphC-substrate-NO (nitric oxide) complex were determined . These crystal structures revealed (1) the binding site of the O(2) molecule in the coordination sphere and (2) conformational changes of His194 during the catalytic reaction . On the basis of these findings, we propose a catalytic mechanism for the extradiol-cleaving catecholic dioxygenase in which His194 seems to play three distinct roles . At the early stage of the catalytic reaction, His194 appears to act as a catalytic base, which likely deprotonates the hydroxyl group of the substrate . At the next stage, the protonated His194 seems to stabilize a negative charge on the O2 molecule located in the hydrophobic O2-binding cavity . Finally, protonated His194 seems to function as a proton donor, whose existence has been proposed.
Nat Genet, 2002 Nov, 32(3), 402 - 7 Epub 2002 Sep 03.
Genome sequence of the endocellular obligate symbiont of tsetse flies, Wigglesworthia glossinidia; Akman L et al.; Many insects that rely on a single food source throughout their developmental cycle harbor beneficial microbes that provide nutrients absent from their restricted diet . Tsetse flies, the vectors of African trypanosomes, feed exclusively on blood and rely on one such intracellular microbe for nutritional provisioning and fecundity . As a result of co-evolution with hosts over millions of years, these mutualists have lost the ability to survive outside the sheltered environment of their host insect cells . We present the complete annotated genome of Wigglesworthia glossinidia brevipalpis, which is composed of one chromosome of 697,724 base pairs (bp) and one small plasmid, called pWig1, of 5,200 bp . Genes involved in the biosynthesis of vitamin metabolites, apparently essential for host nutrition and fecundity, have been retained . Unexpectedly, this obligate's genome bears hallmarks of both parasitic and free-living microbes, and the gene encoding the important regulatory protein DnaA is absent.
Trends Biochem Sci . 2002 Sep;27(9):467.
Polyunsaturated fatty acid synthesis: what will they think of next?
Wallis JG, Watts JL, Browse J.
Polyunsaturated fatty acids have crucial roles in membrane biology and signaling processes in most living organisms . However, it is only recently that molecular genetic approaches have allowed detailed studies of the enzymes involved in their synthesis . New evidence has revealed a range of pathways in different organisms . These include a complex sequence for synthesis of docosahexaenoic acid (22:6) in mammals and a polyketide synthase pathway in marine microbes.
man.... too much ... need some help data mining here....
Hello All,
I wanted to post an update to the post I made last week concerning the monitoring of some of our internet activity. Read below. As of today I am no longer presenting from the NTL BIA network in the UK. I am back to the SBC ISP as far as I have been able to determine, and I have not listed a NTL BIA isp for other ip addresses previously having come from there. So they cleaned up their mistake. I am certain they will make more though so always be alert. So many of us/you are not simply being paranoid after all. There are monitors of this site and others I am certain.. I just wonder how far and intense this surveillance really is.
Watching them watch me.
WAIT.. It get even more confusing. Ive been sitting on this for a while now, not quite sure what to make of it.. searching my ip address information returns this SBC Internet Services SBCIS-SBIS-6BLK.........
BUT my website statistics service however Lists my IP as having origination from this company which is located in G. Britain Ntl Bia - Leeds Seacroft Harrogate Cam Dhcp Pool. anyone know anything about NTL internet service in the UK? http://www.ntltelewestbusiness.co.uk/
But Wait Again.. It gets even better. There is roughly 40 other visitors to crossinglines.net that list as coming from the NTL. But almost all have locations stemming from the US. From what I gather, these 40 or so visitors are frequent visitors to the site, meaning likely suffering from this crap. Also NTL seems to provide service, or is a route through, for SBC, Bellsouth, RR(roadrunner), Virgin, Rogers, covad, suddenlink, frontiernet, videotron.ca, sprint etc etc. Basically all the major providers minus AOL.
So If I run an ip whois from my pc it will give the sbcglobal origination. But my 3rd party statistic service sees me as coming from an NTL origination. Very confusing to me. Can anyone share any info on why this may be, besides being monitored that is? might this be eschelon or similiar?
"First they ignore you...
Then they laugh at you...
Then they fight you...
Then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi
Dear South,
A while back I was doing my research and found this Lyme site. They get monitored and hacked too.
Read on.
"Greegor wrote:
> Can't IP addresses be faked?
That's sort of what Lisa is saying.
They can use remailers, and those remailers
are from which we/I get the most hits.
The remailers are in Africa, Asia, Denmark, and
a few in the US.
If you spend enough time on this, you begin to
see the patterns.
For example, I was hacked by the British
Social Security Department, 2 independent computers
from that department, both hits in the last 3 days were
duplicate hits (one right after another), but when they
double hit, they double hit from the same computer,
so it looks like a program doing this itself.
I have learned what are all, if not most, of the US Military
IPs. Merck hits me, Eli Lilly hits me *a lot*, the Washington
Post hits me a lot (it makes sense for the WashPost to have
their own spy service, since duh government spooks cannot
be trusted), GE, du Pont, Walmart, Mercedes Benz (yes, I know,
Why Mercedes Benz?)
And most of all why, if it takes me only a few hours to
figure out what is going on, Why would anyone risk
getting caught doing this from a company computer,
when it is so easy to watch who is hacking you?
It's out of control.
What we learned from the "Google, Yahoo and the DOJ fiasco/lawsuit"
is that anyone who looks at porn, or who HAS looked at porn is at
great risk for being charged with a crime.
They have caught quite a few of these freaks, however, including
that Deputy at Homeland Security.
I think what it all tells us, is that we are on our own out here
in Cyberland, and everyone should invest in data storage
in a separate offline device.
It's worth the 100 dollar investment and the time.
Also, stay away from sites that talk about weapons and sex/porn.
Since we are talking to and about Lyme patients, none of us has the
energy or brain power to be messing around in the lab, and it's far
interesting to watch the CDC's shenanigans regarding infectious
More interesting still, is that the biggest a$$hole stalker/hacker of
all, Edward McSweegan, taught us all we know about bioweapons.
So, I'm like, Okay, What's next from these idiots?"
Read on here:
http://www.archivum.info/sci.med.diseas ... 01066.html
Hello All, I hope your Thanksgiving Day was enjoyable!
Nanotechnology to fight Bio-Terrorism
The fight against the threat of bio-terrorism received a boost today with a funding package of over $1 million being awarded to UK company Nanosight Ltd to develop a revolutionary new method of creating artificial antibodies that could offer the best early warning indicator of biological attack
No, it is not surprising that some people will pay to see human cadavers that have been "dipped" in plastic/silicone, and it is morbid and a monstrosity...something that the great USA could not possibly BE guilty of...or could they??
Look what our Justice Dept. says....................
Cognitively impaired persons
Although there are no regulations pertaining to research on the cognitively disabled, there
has been considerable discussion and concern (see at http://ohrp.osophs.dhhs.gov/, go to
IRB Handbook) about interpretation of the regulations in their case. The primary concern is
that persons with psychiatric, cognitive, or developmental disorders, or persons who are
substance abusers may lack capacity to understand what interviewers are asking them to do
or to make a reasoned decision about participation. Many in this population are
institutionalized, which further compromises their ability to exercise free choice.
Institutionalized persons may want to participate in research to appear "rational" and
"cooperative" to those who make decisions about their release.
Nice, eh.....Let me be real clear....I will be sending them, Nasa and the National Science Foundation a notorized letter declaring my competency
and cognitive ability as highy functional and my explicit orders that they may not use my body for any experimental testing in any way , shape or form. Not in space, not under the sea, not anywhere.
This is to also let you know that I am highly cognizant of the fact that Nasa and the National Science Foundation are currently involved in a project that uses humans in experimentational techniques in both space and under the sea.
Let me reiterate and be clear about my statement. My body may not be used for any experimental activities. Not currently or in the future.
In the event that might mental capacities are lowered in any way , in any amount, let the record state that my request above shall supercede any others in the event that a situation might arise. I find it both appalling and illegal that these organizations pertake in such inhumane measures.
I also hereby state that I gave no organization consent -neither written, orall, nor verbal to use my body for any type of experiment that I am or may be currently involved in. Explicitly, not for any type of Fibr experimentation.
I also state that your organization has taken actions that are criminal.
I just wanted that there until my notorized letter gets to their organization.
So that's why they are making us schitzo, alzheimers, or MR victims.
I hate them and everyone involved with them or any type of gov't for all that it matters.
Hi All,
Hartuk wrote:
Thanks Hartuk for that information on page 408, and let me add this: silica emitting organisms are "MASTERS" of camouflage...cellulitus supposedly bacterial infection of skin...organisms adapt so fast that soon they use "water" to make stronger silicone bonds. SUSPECT strongly that organisms emitting silicia on top of skin as well under skin...showered, waited, lotioned, removed with adhesive...only on side but nevertheless horrified that "blackened" (came off) skin is strong molecular bonds of organisms, silicia holds and protects bonds of organisms to skin.
from msc
someone is playing with your blogs. i print them out after posting.
they are out of order from yesterdays blogs. they are putting messages
that i didn't type. for the person who is confused about when they
used retina and didn't. the fact is retina has known as a hazardous by
the world health organizaton--look up retinoids and benzene and other
chemicals by world health organization --they knew since 1968. it is
derived by halobacteria and it is a purple glob as I described in certified mail sent to my physicians 4 years ago and stated it illuminates, and
now thanks to nadas i found bacteriorhodopson and that it illuminates and
when it illuminates it ejects photons. sol gel used with acids causes gelation and severe branching. branching break off through wind, showers combing hair etc. and get onto to other peoples etc. dr staninger
already released to the press it was high density polyethyelene and fiber optics and silicone and silica, all used in this retinoid product. these types of products and used in chemo for decades, and for those who have suffered for decades have been producing these organisms and spreading them. look carefully at still photos of people, top of the crown of head,
neck and shoulders, center of collar bones, you will see abnormal wiry
glowing white objects. look at news coverage of people reporting outside
the wind blows they from the hair, you will see tiny things above their heads bobbing, they are crystal structures remember and they move through vibrations and sounds. take a photo of yourself or and have someone take a photo of you, take the negative put it on a film projector
and it you are infected it will show. negatives are like catscans and xrays.
this is per a professional photographer. still frames catch it as videos don't because of it s spinning rotation. look up sol gel, they can produce plastic and optic fibers in room temp., by stirring--the spinning is the stirring that produces the plastic.
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Whistleblowers are supposed to be protected by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), yet more should be done to protect them from ramifications of their release of information, according to a report from Labaton Sucharow LLP.
In addition, the law firm noted in its annual report that more should be done to stop fraud in securities markets, and transparency should be improved for investors. The report also recommends that whistleblowers need to seek guidance when it comes to confidentiality agreements.
"Whistleblowers do not need an attorney to submit a complaint to the SEC," the report explained. However it contended that, "current or prospective whistleblowers [need to] seek the advice of an experienced attorney when it comes to certain issues, including confidentiality agreements."
The report aslo forewarned that companies may use employment contracts to restrict whistleblowing. Employees need to make sure their rights are protected, too.
"Individuals should … strongly consider consulting with experienced counsel before taking confidential documents from their employer, since taking certain types of documents, particularly those that are unrelated to possible violations or obtained in an unlawful manner, may expose the whistleblower to liability," the report cautioned.
In addition, the law firm points out that the SEC gave out a significant number of awards over the past year, but it also denied a number of award applications. Many of these were filed more than 90 days after the relevant Notice of Covered Action. "Whistleblowers must be mindful of the logistical rules of the program, such as filing deadlines, to ensure that they preserve their rights and maximize their chances of obtaining a monetary award," the law firm said.
Remember, too, the risk of retaliation is "substantial." "It's important for whistleblowers to understand this reality before deciding when, whether and how to come forward— in particular, whistleblowers should carefully consider the option of reporting possible violations to the SEC on an anonymous basis, since anonymity is one of the most effective ways to prevent retaliation," the law firm recommends.
It was recommended too that to know risks of internal reporting. "The question of whether internal reporting can give rise to a Dodd-Frank [Act] retaliation claim remains an unsettled question, with courts coming down on both sides of the issue over the past year," Labaton Sucharow said in the report.
It is noteworthy, as well, how the SEC Whistleblower Program offers a better chance of obtaining a maximum monetary award for whistleblowers who report internally, as opposed to going directly to the SEC.
And remember that the SEC is an "ally" for whistleblowers, the law firm said. It is also trying to punish unlawful retaliation.
"We expect the SEC to bring more retaliation claims in the year ahead," the report said. "The past year demonstrates that the SEC Whistleblower Program can work–to root out misconduct, reward whistleblowers for actionable information, and protect whistleblowers from retaliation."
Meanwhile, pro-whistleblower organizations have asked the SEC to clarify protections for employees, according to InsideCounsel.


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In the dark over troublesome Christmas lights
I was thinking that winter came too early this year and that the window of opportunity for decorating outdoors this Christmas season had vanished in the chill and early snow.
But this weekend was almost ideal for such decorating, and I joined lots of local folks taking advantage of it.
I actually got started a few weeks ago, drilling two holes in our newly repaired chimney to embed hooks for a lighted star that can be spotted a block away. I also figured out a way to brighten a dark hole in my front-yard decorating by embedding snap hooks along the wood trim of an arched attic window so I could string lights around it. (I've given up hope of finding a suitable outdoor electric candle to place in this window).
I continued the work Thanksgiving morning while the turkey was cooking and had the whole job more than half done by the time the Packers started laying that turkey in Detroit.
As expected, I ran into problems with some strands of lights. Two strings of icicle lights were half out, and checking the fuses was a waste of time. I was glad I had thought ahead and bought an extra box in an after-Christmas sale last year from the local hardware store where I had purchased the whole series of strands. Just as I was contemplating another trip to the store for a second replacement set, however, one troublesome string suddenly glowed completely. Go figure.
I had one other problem. The lights on the white wire Santa we place on our front porch were shot. I could see they looked burnt out, so I figured I'd stop at the hardware store and buy a new strand. Except the store didn't have any straight-line miniature lights with a white cord. Neither did the first big-box store I stopped at; or the second. Talk about frustrating. Finally, at the fourth store I stopped at—Farm & Fleet—I found what I needed. Just for caution's sake, I bought two boxes of 50 each. My wife and I wound a strand on and learned we only needed the one set. I'll keep the extra set for when the one we're using goes dark.
Meanwhile, Cheryl and I started setting up the tree indoors on Saturday evening after watching yet another game of gut-wrenching football (this one, in person at Camp Randall). Except that half a strand of lights wrapped to the bottom of our four-section artificial tree was out. So we sat down to watch a movie and Cheryl figured she'd fiddle with it sometime Sunday to see if she could get that strand to glow. Suddenly, for some inexplicable reason, the whole strand went on. It was as if the Grinch gave up the ghost of Christmas darkness.
Anyway, I finished the outdoor decorating Sunday, and Cheryl continued decorating the tree. Of course, the angel we put on top wouldn't light. Cheryl tried it in a separate outlet, and it glowed. We hooked it up to the extension cord snaked through the tree, and it was dark. I again plugged it directly into a socket, and it was dark. I wiggled the lights a bit, and they blinked on. We cautiously reattached the angel to the tree and the extension cord, and it's working—for now.
As she toiled, I asked Cheryl to step outside to admire the outdoor display that now features the illuminated arched window. Everything was glowing, it was nice to see. Then I realized that the new set of icicle lights I had purchased a year ago has a yellow cast of light, while the rest of the strands glow white. Argh! At least it hangs alone, west of the chimney, so it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb in the middle of all the other strands.
My guess is that if you do any decorating, you run into the same sorts of frustrations. Someday I'll skip this seasonal irritant, I'm sure. But not while I can still delight my grandkids with the display.
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Firefighters minimize damage from machine shed fire south of Clinton
CLINTON—Firefighters were able to minimize the damage of a Tuesday morning fire at a machine shed in the town of Bradford.
They were able to do so in extreme conditions without any injuries to members of the 16 departments that responded.
"It was really cold," said Deputy Fire Chief Larry London of the Clinton Fire Department. "We also were lucky that the county sent in a salt truck so we could salt down the yard and keep from slipping."
London said the call came in about 7 a.m. for the fire at 8601 E. Larsen Road.
Firefighters found the fire in the southeast corner of the 40-by-100-foot shed. That's pretty much where the blaze was contained, London said.
The shed, owned by Michael Henning, was primarily used for storage of farm implements, hay and some cattle feed.
Cattle were evacuated from a lean-to attached to the building, and about all that was lost were a couple of lawnmowers and some feedstuffs, London said.
An ongoing investigation likely will result in a cause and damage estimates, he said.
A box alarm brought several area departments and water tenders to the scene, most of which wasn't needed.
"In extreme weather, it's always better to have too many people and too much equipment because things have a way of breaking," London said.
Extra personnel allowed firefighters to rotate in and out to stay warm.
Firefighters remained on the scene until about 9:30 a.m.
Last updated: 3:59 pm Tuesday, January 28, 2014


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For treasurers and other finance managers who've spent their careers in the United States, bribery and corruption may seem far-removed from reality. But for those who are responsible for financial management in other parts of the world, an insular attitude may be setting them—and their companies—up for some unpleasant surprises. A recent global study by Ernst & Young titled "Navigating today's complex business risks: Europe, Middle East, India, and Africa Fraud Survey 2013" reveals that some activities which seem taboo to most businesspeople in the United States are not as uncommon in the developing world.
"Sometimes it's a challenge for U.S.-based finance managers or treasury folks who have never worked abroad to understand that people in their foreign subsidiaries may have a completely different perspective on how the world works," says Brian Loughman, Americas leader for fraud investigation and dispute services with Ernst & Young. "That can lead to attitudes that could be very prevalent in India or Africa but would be incomprehensible to the average American. The culture will have an impact on how transactions get recorded. It will have an impact on the level of detail that gets recorded in the system, on what people think of as being normal, and on what people think is important versus what they think isn't important."
The survey polled more than 3,000 board members, executives, managers, and employees in 36 countries around the world. In rapid-growth markets, 26 percent of respondents have heard of people "cooking the books" in their company within the past year; see Figure 1, below. In the developed world, this number is half as large, although among respondents from all regions of the globe, 42 percent of board members and 24 percent of finance staff are aware of occurrences of financial manipulation in their organization.
Bribery and corruption are also more widespread in the developing world than a U.S.-based management team might expect. In the Ernst & Young survey, 57 percent of respondents in the developing world said that bribery or corrupt practices happen widely in business in their country.
"What's interesting is that in a lot of cases, a large percentage felt that bribery and corruption was widespread in their country, but a smaller percentage felt it was applicable to the sector that their business is in," Loughman says (see figure 3). "Clearly, that can't hold water. If two-thirds of people think there's a problem in their country but only 20 percent think it occurs in their industry, finance managers with operations in that country should make sure their controls are attuned to that sort of thing."
"If I were a finance manager sitting in Peoria, Illinois, I'd see this survey as a very good refresher for internal controls," Loughman adds. "I would look at making sure all the checks and balances in place in my organization were tweaked appropriately to reflect the inherent risks that appear obvious from this survey."
In many companies, treasury plays a key role in overseeing checks and balances that prevent bribery and related activities. One way is to keep a close eye on aspects of performance that can be verified independently, such as cash flows and bank accounts. In one company Loughman worked with, his team discovered bank accounts that the corporate treasury function was unaware of.
"It was a very large, U.S.-headquartered company, and treasury really didn't know how many bank accounts the company had in its overseas network," he says. "When we went overseas to different locations, we found 10 or 15 bank accounts that treasury didn't know existed. That's not to suggest there was any fraud, but things happen over time away from the home office. Treasury could have been leveraging all those accounts, and it created a lot of issues from a governance point of view."
Cash is monitored even less closely in some companies. "Some divisions of a company may be a bit of an outpost," Loughman says. "For example, if you're in the oil and gas industry in the Middle East, most of your locations are going to be remote." These locations may have to pay local suppliers in cash, so the company may keep a lot of cash on hand. "We've found that a lot of companies fill out this type of function without building sufficient controls around it. I had one client that had $500,000 in cash in just one country with no controls. That probably started as an initial request for a $5,000 cash float, and then over time as the business grew, it got bigger and bigger and no one ever checked on it."
This obviously opens doors for corruption. "In the Middle East or Africa, if you have a lot of cash lying around, a lot of business managers may be tempted to leverage it to get things done more quickly with the government," Loughman warns. "That could create a lot of FCPA [Foreign Corrupt Practices Act] exposure for the company. And ultimately, it's a books and records issue, which comes back to finance."
Loughman offers several suggestions for mitigating potential problems. First, treasury and finance can work with internal audit to rethink controls in parts of the world that may need deeper investigation, perhaps on a rotational basis. "As companies grow in developing markets, they need to allow their checks and balances to flex accordingly," he says. "They don't have to go chasing everything down with a microscope, but an internal audit review in this part of the world shouldn't look the same as it looks for the operation in Cleveland. Companies really need to make sure they're touching things that they would take for granted in the U.S."
Second, Loughman recommends reconsidering training for staff who handle money in far-flung locations. In the example of the company Loughman worked with that had bank accounts the central treasury team didn't know about, internal audit tweaked its processes, and the U.S.-based treasury function conducted training exercises. "Companies should recognize the risk inherent in doing business in these locations, especially when they need to use cash rather than checks or credit cards," Loughman says. "They need to look at the training they provide around anti-corruption for folks who have access to a lot of cash."
Training sessions can also have the benefit of bringing new information to light. "If you get people together in the same room as part of a regular training, you can talk about the sorts of risks and issues they're dealing with," Loughman says. "You need to be sensitive to the right kind of format for the culture, but you might be amazed at how much candor you can get in these sorts of discussions. That can be very powerful for corporate treasury and finance staff because it gives you a defensible basis for tweaking your processes."
Loughman's third recommendation is to bring as many of the company's locations as possible onto centralized electronic platforms. "I think the days of allowing overseas locations to do delayed reporting or batch processing are over," he says. "The expectation now is that data will come into your system from every location in a way that is analogous to how you collect it in the home office." This enables companies to engage in forensic data analytics and to proactively monitor data. "That leads to exception reporting and allows time for the company's limited resources to follow up on issues."
Finally, he says, the best way for a company to prevent problems is to crack down anytime it discovers noncompliance with anti-corruption, financial management, or other corporate policies. "In my experience, the most effective way to get a far-flung overseas location on board with how things are supposed to happen is to have consequences of improper behavior," Loughman says. "Although it's always difficult to deal with those things, when you do, people tend to pay attention. That's when they really get it."
Meg Waters is the editor in chief of Treasury & Risk. She is the former editor in chief of BPM Magazine and the former managing editor of Business Finance.


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Top 10 medical how-to articles of 2012
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MEMS, power supplies and signal processing can all be found as topics in the ten most popular contributed design articles on the Medical Designline in 2012. MEMS inertial sensors have reduced in cost due to use in high volume in consumer electronics such as mobile phones and tablet computers. Now engineers are pushing forward with MEMS embedded in contact lens to electronic equipment that could be used to monitor activity and well being.
On the following pages are the top Medical Designline design features of 2012 together with links back to the original articles so that you can see what fellow engineers found interesting, or maybe catch up on something you missed.
Here are the top 10 medical design articles, from #10 to #1, as measured by the reader traffic numbers.