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Glaus to join sluggers at All-Star Game
Jays third baseman part of deep field for Home Run Derby
By Jim Molony / MLB.com
Also expected to participate are David Wright of the New York Mets, Jermaine Dye of the Chicago White Sox, Toronto's Troy Glaus and Carlos Lee of Milwaukee, with two other spots for the July 10 competition at PNC Park in Pittsburgh to be determined.
The field for the Derby historically fluctuates in the days leading up to the event, and with a week to go before the All-Star break, nagging injuries could jumble this field. But the pool of sluggers for the competition is deep, with no fewer than 23 of the top 36 home run hitters in the Major Leagues -- 24 counting AL Final Vote candidate Travis Hafner of Cleveland -- among the possible entrants.
Howard, the 2005 National League Rookie of the Year, has hit 28 home runs and is expected to be among the favorites in what would be his first Derby.
"I look at it the same way a basketball player would look at taking part in the slam dunk contest," Howard said. "It would be cool to take part in that."
Ortiz, who competed in the Derby last season and advanced to the second round, said he is looking forward to another shot.
"I'm going to do it," Ortiz said. "I wasn't going to, but I will."
When asked why he changed his mind, Ortiz replied: "It's a secret."
Glaus said he would accept if he's asked to participate, as did Mets third baseman Wright.
"Sure," Glaus said. "It's part of the whole All-Star experience. We'll see what happens. If they ask me, then it'll be fun to do it. I'll do it, yeah. I did it '01."
Lee indicated he was leaning toward skipping the Derby, citing a sore right hand that he tweaked on a swing in mid-June.
"I don't know now, because of my sore hand," he said. "This time I might have to pass it up."
Hometown favorite Jason Bay, who participated last year, but was eliminated in the first round, indicated he will sit out this time.
"They asked me more than once and I said 'No,'" Bay said Sunday.
That still left numerous other Derby candidates, including Boston's Manny Ramirez; Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees; Vladimir Guerrero of the Angels; Paul Konerko and Dye of the White Sox; Houston's Lance Berkman; Albert Pujols and Scott Rolen of St. Louis; Washington's Alfonso Soriano; Carlos Beltran of the Mets; Atlanta's Andruw Jones; Colorado's Matt Holliday and Philadelphia's Chase Utley.
Jim Thome of the White Sox said he will not be participating.
"No. I'm pretty set on that," Thome said. "I think it's just best for our club not to even go there."
Teammate Konerko was less certain.
"I don't know at this point, I don't know if I'm one of those guys, I'd have to think about it," Konerko said. "If there's just a couple of things going on physically, I may shy away from it."
Tejada won the event two years ago at Houston's Minute Maid Park, beating Berkman in the final round. The Oriole shortstop intends to be a fan this time and won't be competing.
"I'll watch it," Tejada said. "I am going to see it with my kids. I am going to enjoy it with them. No more Home Run Derby for me. I already have one and that's it. The best part is seeing my family. I see my kid, take my kid to the Home Run Derby. That's the best part. I think that's something that makes me real proud to see my family going and enjoy the All-Star Game."
Berkman did not completely close the door on his possible participation.
"It doesn't set up well for me," he said. "To have a chance there, you have to hit left-handed and I don't want to hit left-handed, because I don't want it to mess with my swing. I don't mind hitting right-handed because I don't think I could mess my right-handed swing up. That ballpark is huge in left field, so if I had to hit right-handed, I'd be at a big disadvantage."
If asked, Berkman said he would "definitely think about it."
"If they need somebody to do it, I'm not afraid to embarrass myself and run out there," he said.
Pujols hasn't decided if he will compete.
"I'm going to make up my mind in another four or five days," the St. Louis first baseman said.
Jones said Sunday he definitely won't participate.
"I'm not going to do the Home Run Derby," he said. "You sit out there too long. I experienced it one time already and that was enough for me. You have to wait a while, especially when guys hit a lot of homers in the first round."
Ivan Rodriguez, last year's runner-up, will not try his hand this year.
"I don't think so," he said. "I'll be relaxing. My family's in town and my kids are in town and my girlfriends' kids are in town, so I'll leave early. Right after batting practice, I'm going to go and have fun with them."
Health issues will keep A-Rod out of the Derby.
"I'm all banged up," he said. "They haven't [asked], but if they do, I'm going to say no."
Another possibility is Bobby Abreu of Philadelphia.
Abreu, a Final Vote candidate this year, won the event last year with 41 homers at Comerica Park as he set records for a single round, the championship round and the total for all three rounds of the Derby. Abreu defeated hometown hero Pudge Rodriguez, 11-5, in the final round.
Barry Bonds didn't make the All-Star team and the only Barry who did -- Zito of Oakland -- said he wasn't going to compete in the Derby either.
"No, I don't think I'll do it, mainly because I want it to be fair," deadpanned Zito, who has one career hit. "I want it to be a real competition. I mean, I know Pujols and some other guys are hot, but that right-field porch in Pittsburgh is pretty much cake for a guy with my kind of pop. Albert would have no chance."
Another pitcher would like to throw his bat into the Derby ring. Chicago Cubs pitcher Carlos Zambrano hit his third homer Sunday, the first Cubs pitcher to do so since Fergie Jenkins hit six in 1971.
"It's an honor to represent the Cubs and go there," Zambrano said. "My first year, two years ago, I enjoyed that. My family did also. Hopefully, I can be in the Home Run Derby."
The Century 21 Home Run Derby on ESPN will begin at 8 p.m ET mon Monday, July 10.
Jim Molony is a writer for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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UPDATE: Fire destroys town of Turtle garage, vehicles
TOWN OF TURTLE—The cause of an early Monday morning fire that destroyed a two-car garage, two vehicles and damaged the nearby house at 9521 S. Molar Lane remains undetermined but not suspicious, said Tim Huffman, town of Turtle fire chief.
Two vehicles parked outside the garage, valued at $25,000, were a total loss in addition to nearly $15,000 damage to the two-story single-family house, he said.
Firefighters from the town of Turtle, town of Beloit and Clinton were called to the scene at 5 a.m. Monday after homeowners reported the fire.
"They heard some cracking noise, looked and saw it," Huffman said.
Firefighters found grass burning alongside the house and fire that had spread to the nearby woods, where trees around both buildings were burning 30 feet high.
"The first thing they did was put all the fire out burning in the grass to keep it spreading to the house that was very, very close (to the garage), Huffman said.
"We even had to cut down a tree," he said.
Fire officials were on scene for more than two hours. Nobody was hurt, Huffman said.
Windows on the side of the house facing the fire were shattered, and the side of the house was discolored from the heat, but the damage will not displace the home occupants, he said.
"When we got there, all the cars were on fire, and the garage had already collapsed. It was a big pile of rubbish and 100 percent down," Huffman said.
Firefighters cooled a propane tank behind the garage.
"They hosed it down, and we cooled it down," he said.
Last updated: 7:48 am Monday, November 11, 2013

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Richards seals Fiorentina loan move
Micah Richards has joined Serie A side Fiorentina on a season-long loan after admitting defeat in his pursuit of first team football at Manchester City.
Richards is City's longest serving player, making 245 appearances since his debut in 2005, but has struggled for game time in recent seasons having been usurped at both right-back and centre-half.
Having travelled to Florence for a medical over the weekend, he has now joined La Viola until the end of the current campaign.
City confirmed the news on their official website.
Richards made only 10 appearances last term, two of those in the league, and was last seen as a substitute in the Community Shield defeat by Arsenal, during which he was handed the captain's armband.
The 26-year-old was a key part of City's title-winning squad in 2011/12 and earned the last of his 13 England caps against Holland two years and a half years ago.
He becomes the second England international full-back to head to Italy this summer, with the retired Ashley Cole having signed for Roma.
City's statement read: "Micah Richards has joined Serie A side Fiorentina until the end of the season.
"One of the most popular members of Manuel Pellegrini's squad, Micah has won 13 England caps to date and was an integral member of the City squad who won the title in 2011/12.
"A succession of injuries saw the Birmingham-born defender gradually fall behind Pablo Zabaleta in the first-team pecking order and the arrival of Bacary Sagna meant Pellegrini had three top-class right-backs at his disposal this season."
Manchester City skipper Vincent Kompany praised Richards on his exit, writing on Twitter: "#MCFC club legend! Proud to have played 6 years alongside this man. Congratulations and good luck at @ACF_Fiorentina my brother #forzaMicah."
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Last night was possibly the longest period of time in my existence. Every time I stood up, I felt sick and if I wasn't 100% sure that I was not pregnant (I am) (100% sure I mean) then I would swear this was morning sickness.
But then it hit Carter. And so a long night of towels and blankets making a path everywhere. I eventually just set up a bed outside the bathroom for Carter and I tried to get some sleep. Of all nights, Ivy thought it was PLAYTIME.
Noah's hunched over in the bathroom now.
Today. I just need to make it through today.
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How small vendors compete in analog IC market
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Can a small fabless analog vendor compete with the top five analog IC vendors in global markets? This question is being asked often, especially in the context of emerging Chinese end-system OEMs. Europe used to have many small analog IC specialists most but not all have by now been acquired. In this case study, we will compare one such small but well-established company competing with the worlds largest analog company.
The challenge for small companies is to anticipate market needs and develop products that will be ahead of and differentiated from the competition. A competitive comparison can show how relatively similar products are introduced by one big (Texas Instruments) company and one small (Systemcom) company. In principle, their products function in the same way, but use different approaches regarding their target application-- IC products for photometry, electrochemical and radiation sensing with current input sensors.
Systemcom Ltd., a fabless IC design house with 16 employees and $1M revenue, launched in July 2012 an analog front end (AFE) IC -- with current input and 13-bit ADC. Their AFE is developed as a family of modular products, designed as IP modules, as well as a standalone ASIC solution.
The solution in the form of an IP module is used when a customer builds a larger system (SoC) from proven and characterized building blocks. IP modules with different characteristics allow more flexibility in the design of an electronic system, resulting in the system optimized for the particular application. The IP modules are designed for an extended temperature range, so together with a consumer and industrial temperature range, the application field is quite broad.
The product as an ASIC solution is developed for customers who want a complete system ready for production. The application of the AFE family is based on an electronic system having a sensor with the current input, as in photometry, electrochemical and radiation sensing.
Systemcoms product targets broad general applications but is supported by the flexibility to allow customization of IP modules according to the customers needs.
In January 2013, Texas Instruments (TI) introduced at CES2013 the industrys first integrated analog front end for photometry applications. TI, with over 35,000 employees including many from the former National and over $13B in revenue, is the largest analog IC vendor.
TIs AFE IC also targets photometry applications, including clinical and home-use pulse oximeters, blood glucose meters, and heart rate monitors. Since actual trends are leading toward portable electronics for health monitoring and diagnostics for home use, with options for communication and control from a distance (telemedicine), it was predictable that TI would develop such a product. This particular IC represents a case of dedicated ICs with a known application and customer base in the medical device industry.
So how should the two companies have approached the same application? In this example, the difference is a laser-like focus on identified large volume OEMs versus a broader and more flexible offering to potentially more diverse customer groups.
Such approaches were expected and predictable but are very challenging for a small vendor which cant afford many product misses. It requires a small team of design and application experts who are able to make a more general synthesis of diverse customer requirements. Once again, TIs product line is sharply focused but it is also more limited and less flexible. Systemcoms product line is very broad and flexible -- covering a range of market segments.
The most pronounced product line differences are shown in the table below.
Brief comparison of AFE features


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Is DNA living or non-living thing?? get the answer here
Discussion of all aspects of biological molecules, biochemical processes and laboratory procedures in the field.
Moderator: BioTeam
apparently, you didn't learn much...
the DNA doesn't start suddenly signalling, replicate etc. For all these things it needs proteins and other molecules, if you had only DNA itself, it wouldn't do anything.
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
Re: Is DNA living or non-living thing?? get the answer here
The reproductive cells are alive (at least for a few days)
Why do the 'reproductive cells' (from each individual parent) die? I feel they only have apparent life, like a torch not connected to a power source, after a time the battery runs out.
Those few lucky enough to find a mate are transformed. Why? Where does the life come from that makes them grow?
Perhaps there is something else that happens when the double helix is formed. We can observe the creation or forming of a physical body and watch it grow. But where does our personality fit in? I've been told that it is just a chemical reaction related to the physical brain and our mechanical heart but I find this hard to accept. I think it is more likely the other way around. It is our personality which causes the chemical reactions in our physical body?
Take stress for instance, caused through mental and emotional strain. When we are stressed the chemicals in our physical body go crazy.
Getting back to the CD Rom, as you mentioned it is an inert blueprint for a programme. Put it in a computer with its hardware brain and mechanical chip and still nothing happens. Turn the switch and allow power to enter the system and we can watch it grow, watch it 'signal and be self-sustaining'. Have you ever seen electricity? No, but you can see the effect of it. Surely this could also apply to 'living organisms'. We see the switch turned on at conception and turned off again at death. We see the affect of that switch.
There is no difference at the molecular level between what is alive or not
If there is no difference at the molecular level between what is alive or not, where does this difference lie? Richard Dawkins refers to complex and simple things, where complex things can reproduce and simple things can't. I think it is more than that. Complex things have feelings and emotions; thoughts; and the strength or power needed to control the physical body they have. We laugh when we hear of people talking to plants to encourage them to grow, but plants are sensitive and do respond to TLC.
A simpleton seeking the truth.
I understand that when the two strands of DNA come together they form a blueprint. Surely it is this blueprint that gathers the required proteins and molecules to grow.
See here is the problem: You have no clue about how DNA and cells in general are working. This is not terrible, you can learn. There are tutorials on this website (look at the top of the page). There are textbooks of biology available for free all over the net, this is one that is legal, full of very good books and perfectly trustworthy for example. It would really be useful if you could start here.
I do not mean that your questions are not valid, and that I do not want to discuss more with you, but if you had a basic idea of biology from the start, that would make it easier to have a relevant discussion. Because in your latest post it is obvious that you do not understand that the DNA is not floating in the middle of nowhere, but is in a cell, and that this cell is important for the outcome of the development. DNA by itself is nothing. It can be interpreted only within a cell. Just as a DVD full of computer programs is nothing without the civilization around it to provide computers, electricity and all the things needed to interpret it.
In fact you can buy DNA in quite large quantity, put it in water, or even in presence of proteins, sugars and amino acids, and nothing will happen if you do not have a cell around.
As for the life of reproductive cells, as you point out after a few days they die. Sometimes. Plant pollen can be quite stable (hundreds of years). But look at them, the batteries are varying in size, and if you look at a chicken egg, the large amount of nutrients provided for the multiplication of the fertilized cell is visible. And it has been provided by the former generation, just as well as all the cellular machinery that will permit the cell multiplication. Life does not happen in a vacuum. It is a continuous process that rely heavily on the historical contingencies. For evolution as well.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)
Re: Is DNA living or non-living thing?? get the answer here
Hi Patrick,
Thanks for all that information. I have done some research and I think I might be in the wrong branch of science. My main interest is psychology. Although I haven't studied at University, as a writer I study people. I am working on a hypothesis and came up with the question "What if DNA were living?" and google came up with this site. You were right I had in mind that DNA was floating by itself and you have helped me straighten that out.
I shall continue my search but thanks for your help, Peter.
Re: Is DNA living or non-living thing?? get the answer here
SORRY, but DNA is NOT a chain of Proteins and Polypeptide Bonds.
DNA is a chain of organic bases Cytosine, Guanine, Adensine, Thymidine linked together as rungs of a ladder by Phosphodiester bonds to Ribosome sugars.
The only significant Proteins are the Histone Octamers that package DNA, and the Protein Scaffolding that has the basic Chromosome shape.
Otherwise, DNA is the CODE to manufacture proteins by linking Amino Acids into the polypeptide strand of a new protein.
One major reason that DNA is non-living is that it has no noticeable response to a stimulus. Think about it, DNA does not adapt to drastic changes in environment like it usually does. If you assume that DNA is living by your reasons, then a virus can also be considered living, which the majority have as of now reject because a virus requires a host to replicate therefore is not self-sustaining.
Science is truly the understanding of the amazing works of God.
Re: Is DNA living or non-living thing?? get the answer here
(Extend evolution way down to genes, life's base ORGANISMS. Culture modifies genetics, not vice versa...)
Pavlov's Smile: RNAs Are Earth's Primal Organisms
Culture>genes>addiction (2 July 2009)
Why Pavlov smiled in 2008?
Pavlov demonstrated effecting placebo phenomena in multi celled organisms by manipulation of their drives-reactions. Now placebo and imagination phenomena are demonstrated also in Earth's smallest, base organisms, in the genes and genomes of multi-celled organisms, in our primal 1st stratum and 2nd stratum base organisms.
A very good reason to smile.
Now an interesting chain is exposed to our view, the Genes-Virtual Reality Chain, a most intriguing cultural evolution chain extending from the genesis of our genes to nowadays, throughout life, a virtual reality existence, and by virtual reality phenomena, exploitations and manipulations.
Dov Henis (comments from 22nd century)
From "Life Genesis From Aromaticity/H-Bonding"
http://universe-life.com/2011/09/30/ear ... h-bonding/
Natural selection is E (energy) temporarily constrained in an m (mass) format.
Natural selection is a universal ubiquitous trait of ALL mass spin formats, inanimate and animate.
Life began/evolved on Earth with the natural selection of inanimate RNA, then of some RNA nucleotides, then arriving at the ultimate mode of natural selection – self replication.
Refresh Comprehension of Universe-Life
Imagine, just imagine, the interest and activity big bang in science if/when finally freed from AAAS stock !!!
Science is not another, AAAS trade-union peer-reviewed, religion.
It takes continuously critical refreshed thinking....
Whence And Whither
Extend Darwin-Einstein Horizon, EmD
EmD versus Emc
http://dovhenis.wordpress.com/2011/06/2 ... ersus-emc/
E = mc2 relates E and m via constant c.
However, since E and c are constant m must also be constant…?!
Yet for engineering-technology applications the equation is practical, fine.
E=Total[m(1 + D)] relates E and m via the variable D. D is the sum total of distance, in ALL spatial directions, travelled by m since start of reconversion of m to E.
This relationship is science, not engineering or technology. E is constant, m and D are variables. D cannot be less than zero, and m varies with D. This is universal reality.
In this reality there is no missing E. E is there, transformed to mD. mD is E.
In this reality there is no missing m. m is there, transformed to mD. mD is E.
Think about it. This is the basis-essence of Evolution, of ALL evolutions. Evolutions are the quantum mechanics of all processes.
Dov Henis
(comments from 22nd century)
"how species come to be…"
http://www.sciencenews.org/index/featur ... 99s_Wedges
http://dovhenis.wordpress.com/2011/07/0 ... ome-to-be/
What drives "species come to be" is what drives all life/organisms to come to be, i.e. a proven successful route, circumstantially evolved culture, that enhanced the RNAs' constrained energy by the culturally enhanced RNAs' proliferation, followed with accordingly alternatively spliced expression.
This is evolution, i.e. enhanced constrained energy to delay-postpone the universal conversion of mass-formats to energy, to the energy that keeps fueling the expansion of the universe. This expansion will be overcome by gravity upon depletion of the universe's massfuel, and will be followed by empansion for accelerating reverting of energy to mass all the way back to singularity. The universe is an allmass allenergy poles affair.
Dov Henis
(comments from 22nd century)
http://dovhenis.wordpress.com/2011/07/1 ... diversity/
- It's culture that modifies genetics, that changes gene's expression. NOT vice versa.
- Epigenetics YOK. Alternative splicing is epiDNAtic, not epigenetic.
- ALL life is RNAs evolution products. RNAs are Earth's prime organism.
Update Comprehension Of Universe/Life Evolution, Of RNA/DNA Mismatch-Relationship
http://dovhenis.wordpress.com/2011/06/1 ... evolution/
Genome is evolved by-for RNAs, like all other Earth organisms:
THE National Science And Technology Policy ISSUE In The USA (And Therefore Elsewhere...):
The early 20th century brief burst of scientific evolution started expiring 90 years ago, at the birth of the "scientists" (what does this mean?) trade-union AAAS. True to the AAAS trade-union interests the scientific evolution has grown into the technology-industrial evolution, with evolved counter-enlightenment, greed culture.
Re Science Education, it's about WHAT, not about HOW, is taught.
"Scientists" tradeunion-politically-controled "science" cannot be advanced/updated regardless of education system...
See the C signature link...
Unravel Some Of Nature's Complexities, A + B + C
(adnauseam, ad shown where these data-based statements are wrong)
Extend Evolution/Natural Selection Backward To Genes/Genomes, BOTH ARE ORGANISMS.
Again, Correct Some Figments Of Science Imagination:
1. Dark energy and matter YOK. Per E=Total[m(1 + D)] all the energy and matter of the universe are accounted for.
Adopt space-massdistance concept, mass-to-energy reconversion.
2. Higgs Particle YOK. Mass forms below some value of the above D.
3. Galactic clusters formed by conglomeration?
Galactic clusters formed by Big-Bang's dispersion, evidenced by their Newtonian behaviour including expansion acceleration.
4. The universe expansion is fueled by the mass-to-enrgy reconversion. Eventually, as expansion will slow down, will run out of massfuel, gravity will overcome expansion and initiate empansion back to singularity. The universe is a cyclic array of energy-mass dualism, between all-energy and all-mass poles, under omnipresent gravity.
5. Natural Selection is a trait of organisms, life?
No. Natural selection is ubiquitous for ALL mass formats, all spin arrays. It derives from the expansion of the universe. All mass formats, regardless of size and type, from black holes to smallest particles, strive to increase their constrained energy in attempt to postpone their own reconversion to energy, to the energy that fuels cosmic expansion.
6. Life is an enigma?
Life is just another type of mass array, a self-replicating mass array. Earth life is a replicating RNAs mass. It has always been and still is an RNA world. ALL Earth's organisms are evolved RNAs, evolved for maintaining-enhancing Earth's biosphere, for prolonging RNAs survival.
7. Cells are Earth-life's primal organisms?
NO. Earth's life day one was the day on which RNA began replicating. RNAs, genes, are ORGANISMS. And so are their evolved templates, (RNA and DNA) genomes, ORGANISMS, as evidenced by life's chirality and by life's sleep.
8. Circadian Schmircadian sleep origin?
Sleep is inherent for life via the RNAs, the primal Earth ORGANISMS originated and originally active only under direct sunlight, in their pre-metabolism genesis era.
9. Epigenetics are heritable gene functions changes not involving changes in DNA sequence?
The "heritable or enduring changes" are epiDNAtics, not epigenetics. Alternative splicing is not epigenetics, even if/when not involving alteration of the DNA sequence. Earth life is an RNA world.
10.Genetics drive biology and culture modifications?
NO. It is culture that modifies genetics, not genetics that modifies culture. Culture modifies genetics simply via the evolutionary natural selection process of the RNA ORGANISMS. Likewise many natural genetic changes are due to aging and/or circumstantial effects on the genes and/or genomes ORGANISMS, similar to aging and/or evolutionary processes in monocell communities or in multicelled organisms.
Dov Henis
(Comments From 22nd Century)
Seed of Human-Chimp Genomes Diversity
http://dovhenis.wordpress.com/2011/07/1 ... diversity/
03.2010 Updated Life Manifest
http://dovhenis.wordpress.com/2011/07/1 ... -manifest/
Evolution, Natural Selection, Derive From Cosmic Expansion
http://darwiniana.com/2010/09/05/the-qu ... ists-fear/
Rethink Evolution/Natural Selection
http://darwiniana.com/2011/03/29/commen ... nt-page-1/
Quantum Mechanics Of Life
Life's Evolution Is The Quantum Mechanics Of Biology
http://universe-life.com/2011/03/27/qua ... s-of-life/
http://universe-life.com/2011/01/24/qua ... anglement/
The universe, and life within it, are not just conglomerations of mechanisms. The universe, and life within it, have come into being by the nature of energy-mass dualism, and their fate, their final outcome, is governed by this dualism. The genesis and, most probable cyclic, existence of the universe are governed by the energy-mass relationship.
Energy-mass relationship governs also the routes, the mechanisms, of cosmic and life evolutions.
Mechanisms do not set/determine the classical physics fate states. Mechanisms are routes of evolution between classical physics fate states. Quantum mechanics are mechanisms, probable, possible and actual mechanisms of getting from one to other classical physics states WITHIN the expanse from cosmic singularity to the maximum expanded universe and back to singularity states.
The universe is the archetype of quantum within classical physics. This is the fractal oneness of the universe. Astronomically there are two physics. A classical Newtonian physics behaviour of and between galactic clusters, and a quantum physics behaviour WITHIN the galactic clusters.
Life's Evolution Is The Quantum Mechanics Of Biology.
UNRAVEL COMPLEXITIES OF GENETICS. Extend Evolution/Natural Selection Backward To Genes/Genomes.
The origin-reason and the purpose-fate of life are mechanistic, ethically and practically valueless. Life is the cheapest commodity on Earth. Human life is just one of many nature's routes for the natural survival of RNAs, the base Earth organism.
It is up to humans themselves to elect the purpose and format of their life as individuals and as group-members.
Dov Henis
(Comments From 22nd Century)
Inception And Prevalence Of Western Monotheism
http://darwiniana.com/2011/04/20/commen ... testament/
Adaptation And Genetics
Identify USA Science Problems
Enough Is Enough!
Concluding phrase of "A New Evolutionary History of Primates"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 172047.htm
"genetic underpinnings of human adaptation"
This phrase displays basic ignorance of the relationship between genetics and physiology/system adaptation.
It should be replaced with "adaptation underpinnings of human genetics".
Extend Evolution/Natural Selection Backward To Genes/Genomes, BOTH ARE ORGANISMS.
IT IS ADAPTATION (CULTURE) THAT INDUCES GENES' EXPRESSION MODIFICATION, NOT GENETICS THAT INDUCES ADAPTATION. Modified genetic expression proceeds to energetically favor/enable adaptation.
Dov Henis
(comments from 22nd century)
http://universe-life.com/2011/01/25/hop ... 1-science/
http://dovhenis.wordpress.com/2011/07/1 ... aaas-help/
http://universe-life.com/2006/03/13/sci ... ifest-scm/
PS: How have the USA government and nation/public come to allow a plainly obvious ("scientists", whatever it means) trade-union, AAAS, to be involved in a host of national policies and budgets matters? The motives/interests of the AAAS, just another trade-union, are NOT always/necessarily congruent with the nation's/public welfare and it definitely hinders very effectively advancement of basic science...DH
In basic biology, you are taught what constitutes life. DNA would be organic matter and a biotic factor, but it is not alive... Even if you try to bring up any abiogenesis/biopoesis theory. DNA is simply a material used by living organisms. Viruses, also, if you remember, are not alive. That's really all the argument you need.
I am a biologist, biological anthropologist, physicist, theoretical physicist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist... I am a scientist. Dammit, Jim, stop pestering Dr. McCoy!
Re: Is DNA living or non-living thing?? get the answer here
Origin And Nature Of Earth Life, An Update…
Liberate your mind from concepts dictated by religious trade-union AAAS.
1) Life is just another mass format. 2) re-comprehend natural selection. 3) natural selection is ubiquitous, for all mass formats.
Life Evolves by Naturally Selected Organic Matter
http://universe-life.com/2011/06/10/upd ... evolution/
EarthLife Genesis From Aromaticity/H-Bonding
http://universe-life.com/2011/09/30/ear ... h-bonding/
September 30, 2011
Purines and pyrimidines are two of the building blocks of nucleic acids. Only two purines and three pyrimidines occur widely in nucleic acids.
Pyrimidine is a heterocyclic aromatic organic compound similar to benzene and pyridine, containing two nitrogen atoms at positions 1 and 3 of the six-member ring.
A purine is a heterocyclic aromatic organic compound, consisting of a pyrimidine ring fused to an imidazole ring. Purines, including substituted purines and their tautomers, are the most widely distributed kind of nitrogen-containing heterocycle in nature.
Aromaticity ( Kekule, Loschmidt, Thiele) is essential for the Krebs Cycle for energy production.
Natural selection is E (energy) temporarily constrained in an m (mass) format.
Natural selection is a universal ubiquitous trait of ALL mass spin formats, inanimate and animate.
Life began/evolved on Earth with the natural selection of inanimate RNA, then of some RNA nucleotides, then arriving at the ultimate mode of natural selection – self replication.
Aromaticity enables good constraining of energy and good propensity to hydrogen bonding. The address of Earth Life Genesis, of phasing from inanimate to animate natural selection, is Aromaticity.Hydrogen Bonding.
Dov Henis (comments from 22nd century)
http://universe-life.com/2011/07/10/see ... diversity/
http://universe-life.com/2012/02/03/uni ... mpilation/
tags: life genesis, natural selection, life mass format
Earth Life
In plain English, not in academEnglish verbiage.
- Earth life, self-replicating mass format, is just another naturally selected mass format.
- The primal base organisms of Earth life are the genes, i.e. the RNA nucleotides.
- All Earth life formats are progenies of genes evolution.
- Genomes are organisms evolved, and continuously modified, by the genes as their functional templates.
- Genetics is a progeny of culture, which is reaction to circumstances.
- The drive and goal of evolution of ALL mass formats is to enhance their energy constraint, to postpone their reconversion to energy, which goes on at constant rate since the Big Bang.
Dov Henis (comments from 22nd century)
http://universe-life.com/2011/09/30/ear ... h-bonding/
Re: Is DNA living or non-living thing?? get the answer here
It takes a change of culture, of the mode of reactions to circumstances, to effect a change of habit. Genetics is the progeny of culture, not vice versa. This applies in ALL fields of human activities, including economy, to ALL personal and social behavioral aspects.
Since the early 1900's ALL "science" has been taken over by the Technology Culture of the religious Americans, represented by the trade-union-church AAAS. Plain and simple. There has not been any science in the world since then except "religious-American-science".
On the blissful religious science ignorance…:
USA-World Science Hegemony Is Science Blind
Since the early 2000s I have been posting many articles on science items surveyed and analyzed by me, without religious background-concepts. I have been doing this because I was deeply disturbed by the religiosity of the 1848-founded AAAS trade-union and by the consequent religious background-tint of its extensive "scientific" publications and activities.
On my next birthday I'll be 88-yrs old. I know that I'm deeply engaged in a Don Quixotic mission-war to extricate-free the USA and world Science from the clutches and consequences of the religious-trade-union-church AAAS, adopted strangely by the majority of scientifically ignorant religious god-trusting Americans and by their most other humanity following flocks…
But I am sincerely confident that only thus it is feasible and possible to embark on a new, rational, Human culture (Scientism) and on new more beneficial and effective technology courses for humanity…
Dov Henis (comments from 22nd century)
Energy-Mass Poles Of The Universe
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The most aggressive foreign buyers of U.S. government debt see little reason to turn bearish after the biggest gains in longer-term Treasuries for two decades.
Japanese investors from Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co. to Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management Co. say the lack of wage growth to spur U.S. inflation means owning the bonds still makes sense. Japan plowed $86 billion into Treasuries in the past 12 months, the most among the world's 10 biggest economies, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Demand from the Asian nation lends credibility to the view Treasuries can rally further because the Japanese have contended with falling consumer prices and growth that's lagged behind the world for more than 15 years. Sumitomo Mitsui and Mitsubishi UFJ Asset were among investors that piled into longer-term Treasuries at the end of 2013, when bearishness reached a crescendo as most forecasters predicted losses.
"There's still a risk of disinflation in the American economy," Hideaki Kuriki, a Tokyo-based bond trader at Sumitomo Mitsui Trust, which oversees $41.1 billion in assets, said in a telephone interview on May 15. "Inflation is low. Wages aren't strong. Any increase in yields will be limited."
Even as the Federal Reserve scales back its own bond buying, yields on 10-year Treasuries fell to a six-month low last week. Adjusted for living expenses, they still yielded more this year versus Japanese government debt than at any time since 1998, monthly data compiled by Bloomberg show.
Wall Street prognosticators started 2014 saying a selloff in Treasuries would lift yields to 3.44 percent by year-end. They cited a strengthening economy and tapering in Fed stimulus that had inundated the financial system with more than $3 trillion in cheap money since 2008.
Uneven economic growth, unrest in Ukraine, and speculation the European Central Bank will start its own quantitative easing caused Treasuries to surge instead this year, reducing 10-year yields by more than a half-percentage point to as low as 2.47 percent on May 15. They ended at 2.52 percent last week and were little changed today as of 7:58 a.m. in New York.
Treasuries due in 10 years or more have returned 11.4 percent this year, trouncing stocks and junk bonds. The advance was the biggest on a year-to-date basis since 1995, data compiled by Bank of America Merrill Lynch show.
For Mizuho Asset Management Co., the gains are a vindication of its embrace of 30-year bonds. They returned 13.2 percent this year, also the most since 1995, and pushed yields to an 11-month low of 3.3 percent last week.
'Headed South'
"Yields are headed south," said Yusuke Ito, a Tokyo-based senior fund manager at Mizuho Asset, which oversees $39 billion, by telephone on May 15.
The firm's purchases helped bolster Japanese holdings of U.S. debt to a record $1.21 trillion in February, Treasury data compiled by Bloomberg show. On a trailing 12-month basis, Japan has been the biggest net buyer of Treasuries each month since December, when it overtook China as the biggest purchaser.
The increase in Japan's investment during the period ended March, the most recent available data, contrasts with a $29 billion decline from the other major economies combined.
Wall Street economists, who have scaled back their forecasts, still foresee 10-year yields increasing to 3.25 percent by year-end as growth accelerates this year and next, according to the median of 72 estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
"Yields are way too low," Jennifer Vail, Minneapolis-based head of fixed-income research at U.S. Bank Wealth Management, which oversees $112 billion, said on May 15. "The market is mispricing. They were unattractive at 3 percent, and they're unattractive at 2.5 percent."
Michael Novogratz, principal at Fortress Investment Group LLC, the New York-based hedge fund manager which oversees $62.5 billion, said 30-year bond yields are so low it doesn't make sense to be bullish and there's a chance to bet against them.
"Having a sizable short makes sense," Novogratz said at the SkyBridge Alternatives Conference in Las Vegas on May 15.
The lack of inflationary pressure is one of the biggest reasons Japanese investors still prefer Treasuries. The Fed's preferred gauge of inflation has fallen short of the bank's 2 percent target for 23 months. Since reaching a high of 2.9 percent in the year ended September 2011, the measure has slowed to 1.1 percent as of March.
Wages are to blame, said Hideo Shimomura, the chief fund investor at Mitsubishi UFJ Asset in Tokyo.
Even though the jobless rate fell to five-year low of 6.3 percent in April, average hourly earnings failed to increase from March. From a year earlier, wages rose 1.9 percent, matching the smallest increase in 18 months.
Real Yields
"Everybody is worried about wage growth," Shimomura said in an e-mail on May 12. "It's a disinflationary situation." Yields on 10-year notes may decrease to 2 percent in the second half of the year, he said.
With few catalysts to push up U.S. consumer prices, Treasuries provide even bigger returns relative to Japanese bonds. Measures to combat Japan's malaise since its asset bubble burst in the early 1990s are starting to spur inflation after prices fell an average 0.2 percent over the past 15 years.
Ten-year Japanese bonds yield a full percentage point less than inflation, meaning local investors lose purchasing power holding the debt. The real-yield advantage for 10-year Treasuries reached 2.44 percentage points over Japanese bonds in February, the most on a monthly basis in 15 years.
Kazuyuki Takigawa, who manages $6 billion of bonds as the chief fund investor for foreign fixed income at Resona Bank Ltd. in Tokyo, remains bullish after buying 10- and 30-year Treasuries at the start of the year.
"We have a long position, and we're keeping it," he said by telephone on May 15.


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Couple steps up in fight against Alzheimer's
JANESVILLE—After a month of practicing basic dance steps, Jennifer and Ben Thompson were ready to advance to the choreography part of their number.
Instructor Ian Hathway of Jumptown, a Madison group that promotes swing-era dancing, led them through it Tuesday night.
"Five-six, five-six-seven-eight," he counted to the beat of his snapping fingers.
"This is where we get stuck," Jennifer said in frustration.
"Ben knows what to do. If something goes wrong he's going to continue leading," Hathway reassured her.
For the next hour, the three repeatedly went over the steps, swingouts, transitions, holds and tempo.
The Thompsons of Janesville will compete against four other couples in the Alzheimer's Support Center of Rock County's 16th Annual Dancing With the Stars competition Saturday, April 5, at the Janesville Performing Arts Center.
Each couple will perform a 90-second dance routine for the audience and guest judges. The couples have been collecting donations that earn them extra bonus points and will give them an edge over points awarded by the judges, said Dan Wilcox, fund development/public relations director of the local support center.
That's why it's important for them to raise as much money as they can through this event.
"I'd love to raise $1,000, and I think that's doable between family and friends," Jennifer said.
The Voter's Choice award will be given to the couple voted the favorite team by audience members, Wilcox said.
Event proceeds will stay in Rock County and help the Alzheimer's Support Center continue to provide services for families, caregivers and those who have Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, Wilcox said.
That's why the Thompsons agreed to participate.
As manger of the human services department at Long Term Support and the Aging and Disability Resource Center of Rock County, Jennifer works with a number of clients and families affected by Alzheimer's and dementia.
As an officer with the Janesville Police Department, Ben often responds to calls involving those who deal with issues associated with the diseases.
The Thompsons will perform the Lindy Hop to Frank Sinatra's "The Way You Look Tonight."
"We have zero dance experience," Jennifer said. "Our joke is the only beat Ben's got is his heartbeat, and that's tough when the Lindy Hop is feeling the beat (of the music)."
One of the couple's biggest challenges is finding time to rehearse. Both work full-time jobs on opposing shifts while raising two grade-school-age children.
To do well in the competition, the Thompsons said they have to stop thinking about the next step and loosen up.
"We're doing this for a cause. It's not about us or our dancing ability," Ben said.
Whether they win or not, the Thompsons will know they put their best foot forward in their fight against Alzheimer's.


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text: There are automobile auctions held every day in different parts of the country. This type of auction generally involves public bidding on used cars, SUVs, pickup trucks, and minivans. Many people enjoy auto auctions because of the low sale prices or cheap rates they can get for repossessed vehicles. As you may know, government auto auctions offer used police cars, modified automobiles, and old cars that were taken in seizures all the time. It is helpful to understand some of the common key terms that apply to these auctions, and a few of them are listed below.


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Celebrating Thanksgiving with an All-American Cheese Board
We love Thanksgiving. It may mean a variety of things to a variety of people but there are many common threads – turkey, family, friends, cranberries, football, a full stomach and, in many cases, an afternoon nap or walk. This year, we checked in with our domestic cheese buyer, Tripp, who has put together a wonderful Thanksgiving cheese board, incorporating a cross-section of milk types and textures. He draws on some old favorites but also includes a couple of newer cheeses that we think are destined to become classics in their own right!
Twig Square – Michael Lee has a herd of 30 milking goats on his modest farm in Cornwall, VT, and he makes some of our all-time favorite goat milk cheeses. Michael worked at Formaggio Kitchen South End for several years but, when he and his wife Emily Sunderman found the right land in Vermont , they relocated, establishing Twig Farm and transforming their passion for cheese from cheesemongering into cheesemaking. Twig Square (also known affectionately as Northstone in our shop) has a mottled natural rind that ranges in color from a deep grey-green to brown. Reminiscent of European, tomme-style cheeses, the rind has flavors of mushroom and earthiness. Underneath the rind, the paste evokes tastes of herbs, grass, and toasted nuts, with a pleasing bit of goat milk pungency. Michael and Emily's cheese pairs well with a drizzle of thyme honey.
Brebis Blanche – 3-Corner Field Farm is located in beautiful Battenkill River Valley. Tucked up against the foothills of the Green Mountains in New York , right near the Vermont border, they are one of the few farms in the country that milk sheep in order to make artisan cheese and yogurt. Husband and wife duo, Karen Weinberg and Paul Borghard, along with their two daughters, Zoe and Emily, are the team behind 3-Corner Field Farm's delicious cheeses. They raise their sheep on organically managed pastures populated with grass, clover and alfalfa – the sheep are never given hormones or unnecessary antibiotics. In 2007, Karen and Paul installed a cheese cave in their basement – all the better to control the aging process of their cheeses. This unique button of fresh sheep milk cheese offers just the right amount of saltiness alongside fresh and rich sheep milk flavors. Brebis Blanche is beautiful served in conjunction with Blue Chair's Strawberry Pink Peppercorn jam.
Verano – David and Yesenia Major and their children raise sheep and make cheese on their 250 acre farm in Westminster West, Vermont. They choose to model their cheeses after a variety of Pyrénées mountain cheeses, deemed fitting because a large part of the family is Spanish. Indeed, Verano may have been the very first American-made cheese to catch the attention of cheese lovers on both sides of the Atlantic. For years, the cheese was known simply as Vermont Shepherd but this year, the Majors adopted the name Verano, which means "summer "in Spanish and accurately represents the cheese which is made using only raw summer milk. In the summer, the sheep on the farm are grazing in pastures abundant with wild herbs and grasses. It is not surprising then that the cheese itself is sweet and earthy with hints of clover, mint and thyme. Aged 3-5 months, Verano begins to be available by August. The cheese has a golden brown rind and rustic shape with a smooth and creamy texture. This is a rich cheese that makes a great pairing with a dab of Fig Vincotto or, in the Pyrénées tradition, our cherry jam from Boutique Arraya.
Cabot Clothbound Cheddar – A perennial and year-round favorite of staffers, this cheese is versatile and eminently snackable – also great for grilled cheese! To make their cheddar, Cabot Creamery teamed up with the Kehler brothers at Jasper Hill Farm, a farm and aging facility at the forefront of the artisan American cheese movement. Cabot chose the Kempton Family Farm in Peacham, VT as the sole source of milk for the cheese and it is made following traditional methods – namely, one vat at a time. When the 40+ lb. wheels are but a few days old, they are sent over to the Cellars at Jasper Hill, where they are bandaged in muslin and aged anywhere from 10-14 months until the cheese's flavor emerges: sweet, fruity, savory, and nutty.
We are the only cheese shop that routinely visits Vermont to taste through wheels of the cheddar with the stellar team at Jasper Hill, personally selecting each batch that we receive in the shop. What we look for: a rich and buttery cheddar with notes of caramel and toasted nuts. Enjoy with a dab of apple cider jelly, fresh apples and/or a hard cider!
Middlebury Blue – Husband and wife team, Greg Bernhardt and Hannah Sessions, are the powerhouse team behind Blue Ledge Farm. Many of you may already be familiar with their wonderful goat milk cheeses – Lake's Edge and Crottina – that we regularly carry in the shop. However, as the season for goat milk winds down, they have time to diversify a little bit. Using Ayrshire milk sourced from the Crawford Family Farm (only four miles away), Greg and Hannah have begun producing Middlebury Blue, a stunning, raw blue cheese aged 2-3 months. It is creamy and a little sour (think cultured European butter) with a delicious nuttiness off the rind. Very more-ish. Middlebury Blue is wonderful on Jan's Farmhouse Crisps or paired with Fieschi's pear mousse.
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Public record for Oct. 13, 2013
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Rock County
Intoxicated driving arrests
—�JENNIFER N. LINDELL, 30, of 30 S. Academy St., Janesville, at 6:32 a.m. Saturday at McKinley and Jackson streets, Janesville.
—�LEA L. HAMMIT, 24, of 2426 Sherwood Drive, Janesville, at 9:02 p.m. Thursday at 1912 Purvis Ave., Janesville.
—�BURGLARY to a residence in the 4300 block of Pheasant Run, Janesville, reported at 11:21 p.m. Friday. A purse was taken. Officers were told of the burglary while canvassing the neighborhood in relation to another burglary.


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Whitewater council candidate admits mistakes about opponent
WHITEWATER—Paul Yvarra, a Whitewater City Council candidate, said he made a mistake in a comment relating to his opponent, Lynn Binnie.
In a Wednesday story advancing the Whitewater City Council elections, Yvarra claimed Binnie's employer, Fairhaven Senior Services, had not kept its end of agreements relating to a tax increment finance district.
Prairie Village is a development of homes for senior citizens owned and run by Fairhaven. Prairie Village covers about 50 acres of the approximate 1,280-acre TIF district, said Doug Saubert, Whitewater finance director.
Tax increment financing is a tool for governments to attract private investment. It allows municipalities to acquire property, eliminate dilapidated buildings, make improvements such as sewer, water and streets and charge the cost to a TIF district.
The municipality then offers sites in the district to businesses for free or at great discounts to draw development. As the district's property value rises because of the new investment, the increases in property taxes are used to repay only the municipality's costs. When the costs are paid or the district's limited life expires, the new property taxes are distributed among all taxing jurisdictions, such as school districts and the county.
During the life of a TIF, taxing districts such as schools receive the same property taxes they did before the new investment raised the property value.
The district in question is TIF No. 4. It was created in 1990 and amended three times, Saubert said.
In 2005, the Prairie Village project was included, and in 2011, the TIF was declared distressed, Saubert said.
All agreements involving Fairhaven have been kept, and payments have been made on time and in full, Binnie said.
Saubert backed Binnie's claims.
Along with the TIF agreement, a development agreement was signed saying Fairhaven would construct a certain number of buildings that would create revenue from taxes to pay the debt on the borrowing. If all of the buildings weren't constructed, Fairhaven would pay the difference to the city. This would occur in addition to other yearly payments. The company has been making all of the payments on a yearly basis and on time, Saubert said.
Yvarra said he "made a mistake" and wasn't trying to imply Binnie did something wrong.
Yvarra said he based his statements on information from a Jefferson County newspaper.
�"I understand they are paying their taxes and paying extra because of the situation they are facing," Yvarra said.
Yvarra previously stated that TIF No. 4 subsidized the development cost of Prairie Village and that Binnie testified in January 2011 to the community development authority for the distress designation of the TIF.
Binnie denies that the TIF subsidized the development, saying the district paid only for� infrastructure improvements. He confirmed that he spoke to the community development authority about the distressed classification of the TIF and the opportunity for Fairhaven to potentially spread out payments over a longer time. But Fairhaven pulled its request to do so later.
"Fairhaven just felt it was in our best interest, and the city's best interest, to go ahead and make payments" on the existing schedule, Binnie said.
Saubert confirmed the city only completed infrastructure improvements.
"It did not subsidize it. It helped it get off the ground," Saubert said. "Fairhaven Senior Services, or Prairie Village, has completely paid for, over time, the cost of that development and cost of any improvements that were put in."
Yvarra said he did not mean to say TIF No. 4 subsidized the development itself but the infrastructure in the development.
"When a development comes up and people ask for TIF money to specially assist in infrastructure, like sewer and water and other services, I know this is normal, so I hope it isn't coming across like I'm making an accusation like he did something wrong," Yvarra said. "I'm just asking a question of the workings of how this was all worked out and put together."
Yvarra said he'd like to know if Binnie attended the 2011 community development authority meeting as a representative of Fairhaven or the city council. Binnie said he was there as a representative of Fairhaven.
Binnie is the incumbent in District 4 and has been on the council since 2008. Yvarra is seeking office for the first time.


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Court orders second opinion on murder suspect's competency
JANESVILLE—After a doctor's evaluation of a town of Plymouth homicide suspect proved "uncertain at best," his attorney said, prosecutors on Thursday asked for another report to see if the man is fit to stand trial.
Daniel Bellard, 75, was not in the courtroom for a competency hearing Thursday morning in Rock County Court, where he has been charged with first-degree murder in the Feb. 6 shooting of his neighbor, 59-year-old Christine Gestrich.
Judge James Daley ordered a competency evaluation for Bellard at his initial appearance July 9 to see if he was able to proceed with the case.
Bellard attempted suicide after killing Gestrich, authorities said, badly wounding himself with a pair of shotgun blasts.
The injuries kept Bellard in a Madison hospital for five months after the shooting as he recovered and could now render him unable to assist in his own defense.
At Thursday's hearing, District Attorney David O'Leary and defense attorney Robert Junig seemed unsatisfied with the first court-ordered evaluation.
"I think it's necessary for the state to hear a second opinion," O'Leary said in requesting that another doctor examine Bellard to see if he is competent.
Daley granted the request and ordered a new evaluation, while Junig reserved his option to ask for a third report.
The evaluations are sealed and not available to the public because of medical privacy laws.
"The report filed with the court raised some questions in my mind," O'Leary said in an email after the hearing. "Based upon the severity of the case, I believe it is necessary to pursue every option on behalf of the state and the victim's family."
Bellard will next appear in court for another competency hearing Sept. 17.
Last updated: 11:08 am Thursday, August 22, 2013


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Clive Palmer hires Elvis for constituents
Clive Palmer is hiring an Elvis impersonator to entertain his constituents at his Sunshine Coast resort.
Scientists tongue-tied by sticky frog
Scientists say a South American frog has a tongue sticky enough to pull three times its own bodyweight.
MP calls for 'National Slim Dusty Day'
Nationals MP Mark Coulton wants Australians to celebrate the late country singer Slim Dusty's birthday.
Junta engineers World Cup coup for Thais
The junta that overthrew Thailand's government has arranged for Thais to watch the FIFA World Cup for free.
Poll shows World Cup beats sex
Nine out of 10 married Croatians would 'rather watch World Cup football than have sex with their wives.'
Thai army chief pens 'happiness' song
A Thai army chief involved in a recent coup has penned a song promising to bring happiness back to Thailand.
Lego dreamers celebrate Queen's birthday
For anyone who's tried to sort Lego bricks, dealing with 92,000 of them could seem a nightmare.
US company makes tornado protection blanket
A company has created a protective blanket that could give children a better chance of surviving a tornado.
Creepy Paddington haunts the web
Internet pranksters have turned the first image from the Paddington Bear movie into a mock-horror meme.
Fists 'helped shape the human face'
Scientists believe five million years of slugging it out with fists has left its mark on the human face.
Scientists turn manure into drinking water
Scientists in the US have developed technology that can turn cow manure into drinkable water.
Hershey sues US edible marijuana company
The Hershey Co has sued a Colorado marijuana edibles company in a trademark infringement lawsuit.
US teen walks 64km carrying brother
A US teen has walked for two days carrying his brother for 64km walk to raise awareness about cerebral palsy
Love locks bridge collapses
Part of the parapet of the world famous Pont Des Arts in Paris has collapsed under the weight of the locks.
Rare US 'mono mono' twins go home
A set of rare US 'mono mono' twins that were born holding hands, are heading home in time for father's day


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GC Appointments
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. appointed Karen Roberts executive vice president and general counsel. Roberts has worked for the retailer for 17 years, most recently overseeing its real estate operations as executive vice president and president, Walmart Realty for Walmart U.S. She previously was senior vice president and chief compliance officer for Walmart U.S., and vice president and general counsel for U.S. real estate and construction.
Catherine Kilbane joined Sherwin-Williams Co. as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary. She comes to the company after nine years at American Greetings Corp., where she held the same title. Before her tenure at American Greetings, Kilbane was a partner at Baker Hostetler, where she specialized in commercial and intellectual property issues.
Citizens Energy Group named Jennett Hill vice president and general counsel, effective Feb. 1. Hill most recently was a partner at Faegre Baker Daniels, where she provided various legal services to her new employers. Before joining the firm 12 years ago, Hill spent a decade at IBM, where she was a systems engineer, systems design consultant and regional manager.
William Kunkel is now general counsel and executive vice president, legal, at American Equity Investment Life Holding Co., an underwriter of index and fixed rate annuities. Kunkel previously spent 28 years in the Chicago office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom before retiring in June 2012. At the firm, his practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and corporate governance.
Steven Weinstein joined Rowan University as general counsel and vice president for governmental relations. Weinstein most recently was a partner at Florio Perrucci Steinhartdt & Fader, which he joined in 2010 after spending 27 years as a partner at Blank Rome. He joined the New Jersey-based university's leadership team last month.
Stacie Pittell is now general counsel of the D.C. Board of Ethics and Government Accountability, an agency established in response to recent investigations of misconduct by city officials and public employees. Her prior work experience includes a four-year stint as the assistant inspector general for investigations at the D.C. Office of the Inspector General.


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Location key for material needed to build Interstate-90/39 expansion
JANESVILLE—The state Department of Transportation estimates the 45-mile widening of Interstate 90/39 between Beloit and Madison will require 8.8 million tons of sand, gravel and limestone aggregate.
That's about 440,000 truckloads.
Or think of it this way: If the DOT gave equal shares of rock to every motorist who drives the Interstate in a year, each person would get 2.9 tons.
That's a lot of rock.
And the DOT estimates don't include the amount of aggregate needed to mix concrete and asphalt for the Interstate's surface, bridge decks and interchanges for the expansion.
The project is slated to start in 2015, pending state funding. It would widen the highway from four lanes to six between Beloit and Madison, and create eight lanes through Janesville.
State transportation officials and state paving industry leaders said the expansion project will use "virgin," or new, crushed rock along with a substantial amount of material recycled from existing Interstate concrete. Much of the new gravel, sand and limestone that's needed for the $950 million expansion project will come from existing quarries and potentially a few new quarries in glacial, aggregate-rich Rock County.
Half of Rock County's 38 active limestone quarries and sand and gravel pits are clustered along the I/90-39 corridor, according to a Rock County Land Conservation Department nonmetallic mining inventory. Those pits and quarries are� within a 10- to 15-minute haul from the Rock County segments of the planned expansion.
A few of those pits and quarries, such as two owned by Rock Road Companies between Beloit and Janesville and Lycon near downtown Janesville, cover hundreds of acres.
"You've got some very big gravel pit and limestone quarry operations in Rock County," said Janesville native Kevin McMullen, president of the Wisconsin Concrete Paving Association.
McMullen offers a lower estimate than the DOT for the amount of aggregate needed for the Interstate expansion.
He estimates the needed amount, including aggregate material for the new concrete surface of the expanded Interstate, is 6.3 million tons.
McMullen said the construction of the new concrete pavement for the expansion could require an estimated 2 million tons of crushed stone and sand in the production of concrete.�
McMullen said the total amount of aggregate needed could be reduced by 30 percent if the state crushes and recycles the surface of existing lanes.
"I can't imagine--I don't think anyone could imagine--that there isn't enough capacity right there to have the rock to build this project."
At least one regional aggregate supplier, Waunakee-based Yahara Materials, seeks to reopen an inactive limestone quarry area along the Interstate corridor near Albion just north of the Rock/Dane County line.
McMullen and others say that despite the wealth of gravel in ready for the immediate taking in Rock County, operators like Yahara Materials could compete for contracts to supply the expansion against other operators who have existing, active pits and quarries adjacent to the Interstate.�
Location is the key.
"The trick to all this, aggregate price, it's not only the cost of crushing the material. it's making useable material available," McMullen said. "One of the major costs is transportation. You're going to have a bunch of people (gravel mining operations) lining different properties along the Interstate. The trick could be the operators that say 'I can get it cheaper to the project than the guy 15 miles down the road.'"
Even though the I/90-39 expansion would be one of the area's largest road projects since the Interstate was built in 1958, some Rock County sand, gravel and limestone operators might not try to supply gravel for it, said Kyle Frank, a supervisor of Janesville-based mining company Frank Brothers.
Not all area operators are located close enough to the project, and not all lunge at large state projects. Frank said some operators simply aren't yet thinking about the I-90/39 expansion because a projected $700 million state transportation budget shortfall could push the project back from late 2015 to sometime in mid to late 2016.
From the state's standpoint, the cost of road-building material is a huge issue. New aggregate brought in to build the base for new Interstate lanes costs between $120 and $300 for a 20-ton truckload, depending on the quality and type of material.
For companies looking to win bids and profit from them, sand, gravel and limestone are heavy, cheap commodities. That means they don't bear transportation costs well. That makes quarry location important, even if there are other nearby pits or quarries located along a road project corridor.
"Being 10 to 15 minutes away on a round trip, that makes a difference in who can get a job," Frank said.
The state plans to pay for about 70 percent of the expansion, and the DOT typically doesn't handle bids for supplying aggregate until five or six months before a road project begins.
Some companies say they're ready to compete to supply the expansion project whenever it comes.
"In this business, you sell whenever you can. You don't talk about what-ifs and maybes," Rock Road Companies President Bill Kennedy said.
Kennedy said demand for new aggregate for construction has been down the last five or six years.
"All the box stores and hospitals have been built, and the (new) housing market still isn't worth a darn. With a road project of this magnitude, your antenna definitely goes up in the air," he said.
One way the state could cut costs is to recycle concrete road surfaces. Crews would tear off the concrete pavement, crush it and reuse it as layers of rock for fill and base under the future road surface.
"You're going to see quite a bit of that on this project. They (the DOT) will probably mandate it because it makes sense," Kennedy said, noting his company's been involved in some smaller road projects in which that method has cut the volume of new material 60 percent.
Landowner, Crazy Acres Inc. and Yahara Materials are in the process of trying to reopen a limestone quarry just over the County line in Dane County. The site is just east of the Interstate on 105 acres in the town of Albion along Highway 73 and Craig Road.
Yahara Materials wants to operate the limestone quarry in part to supply the I-90/39 expansion and other road projects on Highway 73 and Highway 106, company superintendent Tim Geoghan said.
The town of Albion approved a conditional-use permit for the quarry, but Dane County's zoning and land regulation committee still has to approve it. An environmental study of Yahara Materials' plans to blast limestone out of a knoll and return it to farmland over a 10-year time span is pending.
Neighbors to the quarry oppose it. New pits or quarries typically draw opposition from neighbors who view them as unsightly and fear noise from blasting and digging and dust and traffic from operations.
It's certainly easier to supply gravel from pits or quarries that are already active and permitted, and Geoghan said Yahara Materials owns quarries and pits all around Madison.
"That's too far away. We want to get as close to the projects as we can," Geoghan said.
He indicated the company is looking to the proposed Albion quarry, an area earlier mined for limestone. It could be a source for rock that meets the state's standards for making road-surface concrete. He said some limestone quarried farther north isn't as suitable, or it's in shorter supply because some deposits are depleted or covered by suburban Madison.


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Solange's Fight Bag Gets Its Own Ad
Well, the bag's designer is hoping you did and has even created an ad that pokes a little fun at the whole incident. Last week, British label Anya Hindmarch tweeted an ad for a metallic blue version of the Crisp Packet clutch, featuring the tagline, "worth fighting for."
The night of the fight, Solange was carrying a gold version of the bag, priced at roughly $1,670. Solange also kicked off her Stuart Weitzman heels in the brawl. Your move Weitzman. See a photo here.
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SynApp2 is a development tool that generates database-backed Web applications by processing your MySQL or Oracle schema definition and producing the Web pages used to manage your data. It does more than an admin tool or file manager by considering table relations as a cohesive whole that drives the generation of a complete application that smoothly integrates your entire database design, complete with PDF reports. It is open, compact, efficient, and compatible with the tools and technologies you're using now.
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Lake Geneva man charged with 10 counts of child pornography waives preliminary hearing
ELKHORN�— James A. Tewinkle said he suffered from an anxiety attack before he appeared in court Monday afternoon and waived his preliminary hearing.
Tewinkle, 27, of 1361 Elkhorn Road, Apt. 8, Lake Geneva, is charged with 10 felony counts of possession of child pornography.
In court, Tewinkle told the judge his eyes were foggy but he understood he was waiving his right to a preliminary hearing.
"I just took my anxiety meds … but I'm pretty sure I got it right," Tewinkle said.
Tewinkle was arrested Dec. 12 after Wisconsin Department of Justice officials searched the hard drive on a computer at his apartment, according to the criminal complaint.
Officials found more than 1,000 movies and images suspected of being child pornography on Tewinkle's hard drive. Ten of the movies and images are described as having underage females engaging in sexual acts with males, according to the complaint.
He admitted to searching for and possessing child pornography, according to the complaint.
Tewinkle is due back in court Tuesday, Jan. 21 at the Walworth County Judicial Center.
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The Chinese crackdown on bribery continues, and judging by the government's most recent arrest warrant, not even former governmental officials are safe.
On August 11, the Shanghai prosecutor's office announced that it had approved the arrest of Wang Zongnan for suspected bribery and embezzlement. Wang, a former Communist Party official, was the head of leading Chinese food group Bright Food Group Co. before retiring in 2013 at the age of 59.
Bright Food is best known as a dairy producer and retailer in China. Under Wang, the company took on a number of acquisitions, including purchasing British cereal maker Weetabix for $1.9 billion in 2012.
However, according to the Wall Street Journal it may be an older job that brings down Wang. Before Bright Food, he worked as executive with Shanghai Friendship Group Co., a company that controls many major Chinese retail brands. A prosecutor statement announcing the probe in late July alleged that the main focus of the investigation would be Wang's time at Friendship, and specifically the Lianhua retail store brand.
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Wang is just one of multiple top-level executives to have been snared in the Chinese government's recent bribery probes. In late July, the government announced that it would be specifically examining corruption within Shanghai.
Of course, this crackdown falls in line with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's stated goals in early 2014. In a February statement, Li said that the enforcement of new anti-corruption laws is one of his administration's key goals.
"Openness is the most powerful anticorruption measure," Li said. He also added that the key to achieving this goal is better standardized processes that leave little room for interpretation or bribery.
In-house counsel should not assume that multinational companies doing business in China are immune to governmental pressure. In January, the Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. announced that it would be paying U.S. penalties for violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act after illegal dealings with the Chinese government.


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Green Bay will make earlier decision on Rodgers
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
GREEN BAY--There will be no day-to-day theatrics this week. A decision on quarterback Aaron Rodgers for the Green Bay Packers will be made "sooner than later," coach Mike McCarthy said Monday.
With the Packers staring at a de facto NFC North Championship Game on Sunday at Soldier Field, they apparently will know who their starting quarterback is soon. Because Christmas falls on Wednesday, the players will practice Tuesday—a usual day off—and instead be off for the holiday. So there's a good chance this week's starter will be in place then.
Unlike weeks past, the Green Bay Packers don't want to string this along to Friday.
The conversation among Rodgers, general manager Ted Thompson, team physician Patrick McKenzie and McCarthy is ongoing.
"It's important for us to make a quicker decision," McCarthy said. "This has obviously been frustrating and stressful for Aaron, rightfully so, but also our football team, I want them to know who the quarterback's going to be."
After seeing Rodgers practice for two weeks, McCarthy said it's time for him to sit down with Thompson and "assess all the information."
"Aaron wants to play, has wanted to play for the last couple of weeks," McCarthy said. "He fully accepts, understands everything going on with his injury, so this is really a decision for Ted Thompson and I representing the organization. That's how it works."
When asked if Rodgers was medically cleared, McCarthy said that's "all part of the conversation." As of Monday afternoon, there was still testing scheduled.
Since Rodgers suffered a fractured left collarbone Nov. 4 against the Bears, the Packers are 2-5-1. Seneca Wallace, Scott Tolzien and Matt Flynn have combined for eight touchdowns and 10 interceptions. Flynn did lead Green Bay to back-to-back comeback wins but had two crucial second-half turnovers Sunday in a 38-31 loss to Pittsburgh.
Flynn threw an interception on a botched run-pass option that was returned 40 yards for a touchdown. Then, with the score tied, 31-31, he fumbled on a third-and-8 scramble.
Not happy: After a false start penalty and a 10-second runoff Sunday, the Packers had 10 seconds left. From the 6-yard line, McCarthy had two plays ready, but Green Bay's first snap was delayed and the offense only managed the incomplete slant to Jarrett Boykin.
So what happened?
As players said afterward, the officials apparently didn't let Evan Dietrich-Smith snap the ball as the seconds ticked away.
"I wish the officiating mechanics were intact," McCarthy said. "I think it's clear to everybody, it doesn't take 10 seconds to throw a three-step drop. You guys go to practice every day, we have a clock that we train our football team, and it's a 2.3 (-second) average three-step drop that (when it) comes out on time is 1.7. The center was given an indication to snap the ball and the clock had been running, he was given an indication to snap the ball at 3.
"If you watch the game, obviously we were all up in arms about it after the game, but you go back and watch the video, I think it's clear exactly what happened."
Dietrich-Smith was told not to snap the ball until he got a signal from the umpire, McCarthy said. By the time he got the signal, there were 3 seconds left.


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Not guilty plea in fatal crash
Thursday, December 20, 2012
JANESVILLE A Brodhead man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he killed a passenger when he crashed his vehicle while intoxicated driving.
Sean M. Waterman, 32, of 1113 S. Dickey Road, Brodhead, is charged with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle, third-offense intoxicated driving and two counts of misdemeanor bail jumping.
Waterman had a blood-alcohol content of 0.29 after a Sept. 23 car crash on Highway 213 in the town of Spring Valley, according to court documents. A passenger in Waterman's vehicle, Douglas W. Axelson, 26, of Brodhead was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash.
Waterman posted a $1,300 bond in November, according to online court documents.
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