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International investors are the most bullish they've been on the U.S. and Japanese markets in more than three and a half years, as both countries' economies are seen as improving, according to the latest Bloomberg Global Poll.
More than half of those contacted said the U.S. will be among the markets offering the best returns over the next year, a 15-point jump from the last poll in January and the highest rating for any country since the survey began asking that question in October 2009. Japan, which had been seen as a place to avoid in many of the previous polls, ranked second in the May 14 survey of investors, analysts, and traders who are Bloomberg subscribers, with one in three picking it as a market to favor.
"I'm upbeat on the U.S.," said Charles Doraine, president of Doraine Wealth Management Group Inc. in Corpus Christie, Texas, and a poll respondent. "Housing is coming back" and the country "can be energy independent in the not too distant future."
China experienced a reversal of fortunes in the survey, as it went from investment darling to dud. More than one in four investors said its market would be among those with the worst opportunities: Only the European Union did poorer. It was singled out as a market to avoid by 45 percent of those polled.
Investors also soured on commodities and gold, with a majority now seeing deflation as a greater threat than inflation in the coming year. More than two in five intend to reduce their exposure to gold over the next six months, the highest percentage divesting since the question was first asked in November 2010 and close to three times more than those who plan to increase it.
Stocks were again the asset of choice for those polled. Fifty-four percent said equities will offer the highest returns over the next year, the best reading in the nearly four-year history of the poll. Real estate came in second, the favorite of just under one in five surveyed. Forty-two percent said they plan to increase their exposure to the property market in the next six months, up from 36 percent in January and the highest reading since the survey began asking that in June 2010.
The U.S. economy is in its best shape in more than two and a half years, according to the poll. More than three in five respondents described it as improving, the most since the poll began asking the question in September 2010.
U.S. Economy
The U.S. economy will "grow at least 2.5 percent next year," said Sangwook Lee, chief foreign currency fixed income portfolio manager at Shinhan Bank in Seoul and a poll respondent. That would be the fastest expansion of gross domestic product since 2006. GDP climbed 2.2 percent last year.
Recent signs about the U.S. outlook have been mixed. Industrial production declined in April by the most in eight months, according to the Federal Reserve, while the Commerce Department reported that retail sales rebounded.
Given the investor optimism about the U.S., two in five of those surveyed said that they plan to increase their exposure to the U.S. dollar over the next six months. That's up from one in five who said that in January, and it is the highest percentage since the question was first asked in September 2011. Only 9 percent said they were reducing exposure.
The Dollar Index, which measures the currency's value against a basket of six major currencies, climbed yesterday to its highest level since July before paring the gain. It has risen about 5 percent this year.
The U.S. currency should benefit in the months ahead as the Federal Reserve looks to scale back its stimulus while other central banks add to theirs, Ryan Longhenry, a poll participant and a trader for CJS Trading Corp. in Chicago, said in an e-mail.
U.S. stocks also are headed higher, according to the survey. More than half of investors expect the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to rise over the next six months. While that is down from 62 percent in January, it is still the second biggest percentage in almost a year and a half.
"The U.S. equity market has been setting new highs recently, but I do not see why this cannot continue," Peter Fitzgerald, co-head of the multi-manager team for Aviva Investors in London, said in an e-mail.
"The U.S. economy is growing at a reasonable rate, monetary policy is extremely accommodative, the housing market continues to recover, businesses have reasonable amounts of cash and have underinvested for years," added Fitzgerald, who took part in the poll and whose team is responsible for more than 3 billion pounds ($4.57 billion) of client portfolios.
Japan Improving
Global investors are bullish on Japanese equities. More than three in five see the Nikkei 225 Stock Average rising over the next six months. Only 16 percent expect it to fall. The stock gauge has climbed about 44 percent this year, spurred by quantitative easing from the Bank of Japan.
"As long as the BOJ maintains the current QE program until 2015, as it promised to do so, major corporates and banks' equities will outperform the other markets," Lee said in an e-mail.
Japan's economy expanded more than analysts estimated in the first quarter on gains in consumer spending and exports, with gross domestic product rising an annualized 3.5 percent, the government said today. Close to half of investors described the Japanese economy as improving. Only 14 percent said it is deteriorating.
As investors have grown more bullish on Japan, they've gotten more bearish on China. More than one in four singled out China as among the markets that will offer the worst opportunities over the next year, the most that have said that since January 2010.
The world's second biggest economy expanded 7.7 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, down from 7.9 percent in the fourth, according to the National Bureau of Statistics in Beijing.
About three in 10 investors think slowing Chinese growth poses the biggest risk to the global economy in 2013. That was second only to Europe's debt crisis: 36 percent singled it out as the largest danger.
Debt Defaults
Two-thirds of those surveyed consider a debt default by Cyprus to be likely. Thirty-five percent think the same about Slovenia, another member of the euro area.
Investors are sanguine about threats to the global economy from hostilities in the Middle East. Only six percent saw a high risk that the civil war in Syria would escalate so much that it would affect oil prices. Two-thirds though said U.S. intervention in the conflict would damage, rather than improve, regional stability.
As Chinese growth has slowed and its demand for raw materials ebbed, investors have cooled on commodities. One in five said commodities were the asset to be most shunned over the next year, the worst showing in the nearly four-year history of the poll.
Fifty-six percent of investors believe deflation will be a greater threat to the global economy than inflation over the next year, according to the poll. That's a reversal from two years ago: In January 2011, three-quarters thought inflation was the bigger danger.
"Despite all the QE and lower interest rates, inflation simply has not been a problem," Fitzgerald said. "Deflation poses a much greater risk with current debt levels."
The poll of 906 Bloomberg subscribers was conducted by Selzer & Co., a Des Moines, Iowa-based firm. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.


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Vikings bounce back from weekend stumble
JANESVILLE--Catcher Will Theisen had a feeling he and his Janesville Parker baseball team would bounce back quickly.
Three days after suffering a pair of losses, including their first in Big Eight Conference play, the Vikings showed resiliency.
Theisen's first-inning double put Parker on the scoreboard, sophomore Hunter Van Zandt threw a complete-game five-hitter, and the Vikings rebounded with a 6-0 league win over Beloit Memorial at Riverside Park on Tuesday.
"We need this; it was a big deal to get a win and get momentum going into this next week," Theisen said. "With this team, almost immediately after the (losses Saturday) I knew that we were just going to say, 'Hey, this happens, it's baseball,' and we were going to come back."
Parker moved to 11-1 to remain tied with Sun Prairie atop the league standings. The Vikings and Cardinals meet for the first time this season Friday at Sun Prairie.
Parker coach Brian Martin was anxious to see how his team would battle back from adversity. Van Zandt pitched his way out of a two-on, one-out jam in the first, and the Vikings followed with a two-out, two-run rally that bolstered by Theisen's double. He finished 2-for-3 with a pair of runs.
"We talked about it yesterday and before the game today, just getting back to playing the way we know how," Martin said. "We did that today, and that's huge. It's a very encouraging sign."
Parker made it 3-0 when third baseman Brock Welch singled in the second and scored on Cullen Osmond's single. First baseman Mitch Benway led off with a single and scored on Welch's base hit in the fourth inning.
Beloit, playing without some of its top players—including No. 1 starter Armann Cabrera and Patrick Whalen—had its chances. The Purple Knights put a runner on base with one out or less in four of the first five innings, but they stranded eight.
"(Van Zandt) made pitches when he needed to, and our defense bailed him out when they needed to," Martin said. "He hadn't thrown in almost 12 days, so he was a little rusty. But when we needed a ground ball, he got one."
Beloit had the bases loaded with one out in the third inning, but Van Zandt induced a grounder up the middle. Second baseman Dominick Gruenwald grabbed it, stepped on second base and fired to first for the double play.
Van Zandt eventually found a groove and retired the last eight hitters he faced. He allowed five hits and a walk and struck out six.
The Vikings are scheduled to host Madison East, winless in the Big Eight, at 5 p.m. today before Friday's pivotal game at Sun Prairie.

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Slow syrup flow reflects severe winter
BELOIT — Last year unseasonably warm temperatures in the area took a toll on local syrup production. This year production could be affected for the opposite reason, according to Lena Verkuilen, director of the Welty Environmental Center.
"Typically we begin to extract sap the last week of February," Verkuilen said. "This year we put them in Thursday. The frost is so deep it's taking it a long while to thaw in the tree. It's definitely different than average this year."
Verkuilen said that it takes 40 gallons of maple sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. The process involves drilling holes into the tree and collecting the sap as it moves up the tree to its limbs, she said. The process of sap moving creates buds for the tree as it blooms when the weather warms.
"Little sap equals little syrup," Verkuilen said. "The sap consists of 98 percent water so if the frost is deep it takes longer to thaw out throughout the tree. The clock is pretty much ticking. As soon as leaves come out the sap turns from sweet to bitter."
Verkuilen said that there is only a three-week window each year in which the sap is sweet. It only flows when the temperature is below freezing at night and above freezing during the day, she said.
She said she has been collecting the sap for four years now and has never seen weather this bad. She� hopes the Welty Environmental Center will be able to collect enough sap to make syrup for its Sugar Festival March 29. If not, syrup will have to be purchased from an outside source.
"This is beyond the norm," Verkuilen said. "The fact we've had super cold, lots of snow and it never melted. Usually it is cold or snowy. This year we had both."
Verkuilen isn't wrong.
Janesville set the record this year for the most days with a high temperature below freezing with 82 as of Friday. That number could still rise as the area pries itself out of winter's grip.
This winter ranked second overall in Janesville for the most snowfalls of one inch or more with 22 and ranked fourth for total snowfall with 60.2 inches. Again, these numbers could go up as spring gradually arrives.
The National Weather Service is predicting highs in the 40s for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday before again dipping into the low 20s Tuesday night and low 30s for a high Wednesday before rising into the 40s again next Thursday and Friday.


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Online bank frauds—in which hackers use employees' bank passwords to transfer funds out of a company's accounts—don't seem to be letting up. In fact, criminals keep coming up with new variations on the frauds.
"We're just in a constant cat and mouse game," said George Tubin, senior security strategist at security software firm Trusteer, a unit of IBM. "The banking industry has gotten better in general at improving their defenses, and the criminals have also gotten better at improving their attack methods."
"A lot of the fraud is moving to the call center," said Avivah Litan, a vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner Research. "As the online channel gets more controls, bad guys are starting to move into using the [bank's] call center."
Criminals will phone the call center pretending to be the owner of the bank account and asking to change information on the account, such as adding a signatory or changing an address, Litan said. They may also try to extract information about the account.
"The trend is really social engineering of employees," she said. "That's where it's moving—more social engineering of nice people trying to help out their customers.
"People are really the weakest link, and that's where you see the attacks going," she added.
Hackers are also leveraging the relationship between companies and their suppliers. In December, the FBI's Seattle office issued a warning about a "man-in-the-email" fraud that it said had hit at least three companies in Washington state, resulting in total losses of $1.65 million. Hackers would intercept emails between a company and its suppliers. Then they'd send the company an email, supposedly from one of its suppliers, asking it to send payments to a new bank account, one controlled by the criminals.
Greg Litster, president of SafeCheck, cited a related fraud he's been hearing about recently in which hackers access a company's accounts receivable database to identify vendors that are due to receive a big payment. Then the hackers will notify the company that vendor has changed its bank and provide a new account number.
Password Protection?
Jason Hart, a vice president of cloud solutions at information security company SafeNet and a former ethical hacker, says companies put too much faith in passwords.
"Generally there's a misconception that because they have a password they're secure, and even more of a misconception that if the password is long and complicated, it can't be breached," Hart said.
Criminals have many ways to uncover or elicit passwords, many of them involving social engineering, Hart said.
"They can physically email an individual saying, 'I'm XYZ Bank. Please click on this link,'" Hart said. "They're doing it via phone calls, ringing [companies] up and posing to be the bank. They're doing it via text message as well."
The information people post on social media helps hackers figure out passwords, he said.
Hackers may also harvest employees' bank passwords by planting malware on company computers. Businesses can minimize this risk by completing all online banking transactions on a dedicated PC that isn't ever used for email or accessing the Internet, Litan said. But few companies have adopted that practice, she said. "It's too inconvenient."
Companies should be using dual authentication, Hart said. "You need true two-factor authentication where you're using a device or app that generates a random one-time password."
Trusteer's Tubin argued that the solution to fraud is "a layered security framework," rather than any single security safeguard.
"There's no such thing as a silver bullet," he said. "The more layers an institution has, the better off they're going to be. If the criminal finds a way to bypass the first and second and third [layers of security], you have a fourth and fifth to help you."
Larger banks, because of their financial resources and know-how, are better equipped to put together such layered security than smaller banks, Tubin said. "I think we are seeing fraud move down market, to the smaller and midsize banks that haven't caught up to where the largest banks are now," he added.
Online bank fraud, which is most often aimed at small and midsize companies, is particularly devastating because corporate bank accounts don't have the same protection under the law as consumer accounts. The company whose account has been raided may end up eating the loss.
Some organizations that have lost money via such frauds have sued their banks, but the results of those lawsuits have been mixed. In 2011, a court ordered Comerica Bank to repay Experi-Metal $561,000 that fraudsters had wired out of the company's account.
But in 2013, a court ruled that BancorpSouth wasn't liable for the $440,000 wired out of Choice Escrow's account because despite the bank's recommendation, Choice Escrow refused to use dual authorization on wire transfers, and that played a role in the fraud. Choice Escrow is appealing the verdict, but Tubin said businesses should take note.
"It's a kind of warning to business customers," he said, "If your bank offers you something and you decline, that could be the straw that breaks the camel's back."
Companies that aren't willing to follow their bank's security recommendations should consider switching banks, Tubin said. "If it's something you don't want to do, go to a different bank that doesn't require it," he said. "At that bank, you've given up any right to a claim if fraud does happen."
Joseph Burton, a partner in the San Francisco office of law firm Duane Morris, cited other issues involved in the Choice Escrow appeal, including the question of how to weigh any negligence on the part of the customer. Very often, online bank frauds occur after the company's computer system has been infected through a phishing attack, he noted.
"There's an open question as to what actions of the customer could, in effect, outweigh the bank's own negligence," Burton said. "Even if we found the bank's actions weren't commercially reasonable, could we find that because of a certain level of customer negligence, it's outweighed and the bank's not going to be liable?"


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Why do you keep talking about species
Discussion of everything related to the Theory of Evolution.
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Why do you keep talking about species
Why do you keep talking about species when it has been shown by colin leslie dean that biologist donot know what a species is and for that matter what a phylum is
it looks like once a concept enters your head through un critical teaching/text books it become hard wired and cannot be removed
is it
you can only accept a view so long as it comes from a text book or professor
like today you want accept deans arguments
if tomorrow they become accepted wisdom in text books you will just once again go along with the standard view
i will give you some advice
an uncriticel acceptance of the text book standard view want make you the biologist genius most of you hope to be
it will just make you biological techicians
and for sure you will pass your exams by just being a parrot
Re: Why do you keep talking about species
What is a raccoon gamila? Could you define a raccoon, or distinguish one from another animal.
Reproduction and mating are hard evidence that there are divisions of kinds and a testament of baramin (created kinds) "let them multiply after their kinds..." Gen 1.
as colin leslie dean has pointed out from your own source wiki biologist dont know what a species is
it is called the "species problem" just google it and you will see it is an accepted fact
you just want change your mind even in the face of evidence
just think of all those PHd thesis and postdoctoral path breaking research
which use the term species
a whole lot of meaningless nonsense -as they dont even know what a species is
Well you deny textbooks and yet you rely on google for your "accepted facts"...*smirk*
You are not the only one who dislikes teachers who promote parroting, but this has nothing to do with our man made classifications of organisms - which are not perfect, please if you have one please provide us with a better classification, but until then please stop slandering our current systems.
A wise man once said to me:
"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
Only the fittest chickens cross the road.
Re: Why do you keep talking about species
You didn't answer my question. Can you distinguish a raccoon from say a chimpanzee? If you can, the biological classification system has done well enough. Even if there is a variation within a type or kind of organism, "species" is going to give you a ballpark figure of what you are talking about so you can identify the organism with the name. Can't you even reasonably acknowledge this--even if you are correct technically?
I'm not a mathematician but what about repeating decimals as an illustration (.33333---> = 1/3). You can repeat the decimal a hundred times and it will still be rounded, so TECHNICALLY you can not define it. Does that mean we now can never divide 3 into 1?
What is the point and motivation of your statements about species and phylum? That we are floating directionless in space with no purpose or definition? If you believe in evolution, that is a conclusion you can arrive at. But you are created "in God's image," and therefore you have purpose. You have a moral compass inside, sometimes it fills with indignation and resentment when it sees injustice. It stings with guilt when we do wrong. Though all of them do not agree, and some are broken, they still are there, inside of you and me--unfulfilled--asking questions.
The concept of species as usually defined date from Carolus Linnaeus, and predate evolution and Darwin. In fact the concept of species is much better adapted to a fixist/creationist world view than to the evolutionist one. The concept of reproduction still generally used do not really hold water as many examples have been given to you (i.e. lions and tiger can cross breed, but simply don't because they do not share the same habitat), and different breed of dogs that could potentially still produce offspring (with IVF) don't as you pointed out with St Bernard and Chihuahua. It is likely that many breeds of dog could end up creating different species just because of the artificially created and maintained reproductive isolation they are living in. Bacteriologist and virologist are well aware of that, and never liked the cross breeding definition of species (Hell, bacteria do not need partners to reproduce, so who cares about mating rules).
However groups living in more or less breeding isolation (for many reasons) are interesting, and if you look at the litterature about bacterial ecology, the concept of OTU (operational Taxonomic unit) is replacing more and more the concept of species.
But the concept of species besides all the problems is still convenient in many ways and that is why it is still there. Just like a designer would ask you to grab a chair to sit if you were visiting an office, but still knowing that all the limitations of the concept of "chair" in the real world. It is convenient, in spite of all the limitations. One would expect someone with degrees in philosophy to grab this kind of concepts.
A loser length post just to point out that your vision of biology is clearly outdated and limited to grade 12 textbook, and so your objections about biology show more of YOUR limts than that of what you are trying to criticize.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)
fact is people on here use the term species
fact is you dont know what a species is
fact is people talk about species this species that speciation etc
fact is none of you know what a species is
fact is the term is used in bilogy
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodivers ... cords.html
so all of the above is meaningless nonsense
fact is biologist dont know what a phylum is or species
as pointed out by colin leslie dean
and thus all this is meaningless nonsensde to
Re: Why do you keep talking about species
A geneticist can tell you the whole genome of an organism, and then put a "label" on it. Classifications will be down to SNPs, which could produce some million more "labels".
SNPs - single nucleotide polymorphisms
Re: Why do you keep talking about species
Yes they can cross breed, but they wouldn't, and its not just because they don't share the same habitat. They are instinctively territorial. Animals within the same family, genus or species school, flock, pack or stay together, and breed together except in rare cases.
Since you seem to think creationists don't have any proof or know anything at all, you ought to know. Creationists acknowledge Darwin's discoveries, and left species fixity behind--that was err--just like evolutionists have left many of their hypotheses behind--because of new research.
Have you ever listened to a creationist with a Ph. D. or read any of of their papers? Many of them have published papers in science journals-in non-Darwinian subjects. I have a friend who is a chemical engineer who is creationist. My pastor is a retired M.D. and is a creationist. Issac Newton and Edward Blythe (whom Darwin read) were creationists. There are more of us than you think.
Just one more thing and I'll stop venting (this is nothing personal-lol). PROOF is the wrong word in your quote there--because if science had proof--they would be CERTAIN. Science has EVIDENCE and scientists interpret the evidence. Not all of them interpret the evidence the same way--even those in the same camp.
So what do we call them gamila! ITS?? And this is Dean's opinion only. I have no trouble with identifying a chihuahua by it's name--perhaps he just uses pronouns for every organism on earth.
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2013 NFL Season — 5 Things We Learned From Week 1
The 2013 NFL season got off to an incredible start in Week 1 with some amazing individual performances, a few upsets and several fantastic finishes. Here's what we learned from Sunday's games:
The Packers-49ers Rivalry Is Back
The San Francisco 49ers beat the Green Bay Packers, 34-28, in Sunday's most-anticipated game. The rematch of last season's playoff clash resulted in plenty of pushing, shoving and ill will, not the least of which was the pro wrestling-style take-down that Packers' linebacker Clay Matthews executed on 49ers' quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the first half that incited a near-brawl. Kaepernick still finished with a career-high 412 passing yards. No one would be surprised if these two teams met again in January — or if Matthews signed a WWE deal after his playing days are over.
The Cowboys Can Beat the Giants at Home
After losing four times to the Giants since Cowboys/AT&T Stadium opened in 2009, Dallas forced six turnovers — including Brandon Carr's game-clinching 49-yard interception return for a touchdown — to finally get a win over their NFC East nemesis on Sunday night. Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones seemed pleased with the 36-31 win, but since he hasn't been able to move his face since Dallas' last Super Bowl victory in 1996, it's hard to know for sure.
Sean Payton Didn't Forget How To Coach
New Orleans Saints' head coach Sean Payton returned from his year-long bounty-related suspension and helped guide his team to a 23-17 win over NFC South rival Atlanta. Payton put his defense — and perhaps a wheelbarrow full of beignets — in the hands of well-fed coordinator Rob Ryan in the off-season, and the Saints' 'D' rose to the occasion against Matt Ryan and the potent Falcons' attack. Payton's contributions — and Ryan's waistline — are each expected to become more prominent as the season progresses.
The Pittsburgh Steelers Are in Trouble
The Pittsburgh Steelers lost Pro Bowl center Maurkice Pouncey and inside linebacker Larry Foote to injuries, and they lost their 2013 opener at home to Tennessee, 16-9. Pittsburgh managed just 195 total yards, and running back Isaac Redman fumbled twice. The good news: MLB's Pittsburgh Pirates lost their fourth in a row as they try to capture their first winning season since 1992… so maybe no one in the Steel City will notice how bad things are for the Steelers.
Kickers Matter
The New York Jets, New England Patriots and St. Louis Rams each started off 1-0 thanks to clutch kicks in the waning seconds, as Nick Folk, Stephen Gostkowski and Greg Zuerlein came up big for their respective teams. Folk's kick was set up by a terrible personal foul committed by Tampa Bay linebacker LaVonte David on scrambling Jets' rookie quarterback Geno Smith with just seconds to play. Despite all the pundits who were ready to roll out the 'when will Rex Ryan be fired?' storyline, the Jets' head coach was able to lead his team to a Week 1 victory. Heck, Ryan is probably worshipping the foot of Folk — or someone else — right now.


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Hearing a batch of 11 review applications, a three-member SC bench, however, refused to immediately lift the restriction of Aadhaar.
Why this Blog ? News articles in the Wide World of Web, quite often disappear with time, when they are relocated as archives with a different url. Archives in this blog serve as a library for those who are interested in doing Research on Aadhaar Related Topics. Articles are published with details of original publication date and the url.
When I opposed Aadhaar in 2010 , I was called a BJP stooge. In 2016 I am still opposing Aadhaar for the same reasons and I am told I am a Congress die hard. No one wants to see why I oppose Aadhaar as it is too difficult. Plus Aadhaar is FREE so why not get one ? Ram Krishnaswamy
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -Mahatma Gandhi
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. Mahatma Gandhi
"The invasion of privacy is of no consequence because privacy is not a fundamental right and has no meaning under Article 21. The right to privacy is not a guaranteed under the constitution, because privacy is not a fundamental right." Article 21 of the Indian constitution refers to the right to life and liberty -Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi
"There is merit in the complaints. You are unwittingly allowing snooping, harassment and commercial exploitation. The information about an individual obtained by the UIDAI while issuing an Aadhaar card shall not be used for any other purpose, save as above, except as may be directed by a court for the purpose of criminal investigation." -A three judge bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar said in an interim order.
Legal scholar Usha Ramanathan describes UID as an inverse of sunshine laws like the Right to Information. While the RTI makes the state transparent to the citizen, the UID does the inverse: it makes the citizen transparent to the state, she says.
Good idea gone bad
I have written earlier that UID/Aadhaar was a poorly designed, unreliable and expensive solution to the really good idea of providing national identification for over a billion Indians. My petition contends that UID in its current form violates the right to privacy of a citizen, guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution. This is because sensitive biometric and demographic information of citizens are with enrolment agencies, registrars and sub-registrars who have no legal liability for any misuse of this data. This petition has opened up the larger discussion on privacy rights for Indians. The current Article 21 interpretation by the Supreme Court was done decades ago, before the advent of internet and today's technology and all the new privacy challenges that have arisen as a consequence. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MP Rajya Sabha
"What is Aadhaar? There is enormous confusion. That Aadhaar will identify people who are entitled for subsidy. No. Aadhaar doesn't determine who is eligible and who isn't," Jairam Ramesh
But Aadhaar has been mythologised during the previous government by its creators into some technology super force that will transform governance in a miraculous manner. I even read an article recently that compared Aadhaar to some revolution and quoted a 1930s historian, Will Durant. Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Rajya Sabha MP
"I know you will say that it is not mandatory. But, it is compulsorily mandatorily voluntary," Jairam Ramesh, Rajya Saba April 2017.
August 24, 2017: The nine-judge Constitution Bench rules that right to privacy is "intrinsic to life and liberty" and is inherently protected under the various fundamental freedoms enshrined under Part III of the Indian Constitution
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the World; indeed it's the only thing that ever has"
"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say." - Edward Snowden
Here is what the Parliament Standing Committee on Finance, which examined the draft N I A Bill said.
1. There is no feasibility study of the project]
2. The project was approved in haste
3. The system has far-reaching consequences for national security
4. The project is directionless with no clarity of purpose
5. It is built on unreliable and untested technology
6. The exercise becomes futile in case the project does not continue beyond the present number of 200 million enrolments
7. There is lack of coordination and difference of views between various departments and ministries of government on the project
What was said before the elections:
NPR & UID aiding Aliens – Narendra Modi
"I don't agree to Nandan Nilekeni and his madcap (UID) scheme which he is trying to promote," Senior BJP Leader Yashwant Sinha, Sept 2012
"All we have to show for the hundreds of thousands of crore spent on Aadhar is a Congress ticket for Nilekani" Yashwant Sinha.(27/02/2014)
TV Mohandas Pai, former chief financial officer and head of human resources, tweeted: "selling his soul for power; made his money in the company wedded to meritocracy." Money Life Article
Nilekani's reporting structure is unprecedented in history; he reports directly to the Prime Minister, thus bypassing all checks and balances in government - Home Minister Chidambaram
To refer to Aadhaar as an anti corruption tool despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary is mystifying. That it is now officially a Rs.50,000 Crores solution searching for an explanation is also without any doubt. -- Statement by Rajeev Chandrasekhar, MP & Member, Standing Committee on Finance
Finance minister P Chidambaram's statement, in an exit interview to this newspaper, that Aadhaar needs to be re-thought completely is probably the last nail in its coffin. :-) Financial Express
The Rural Development Ministry headed by Jairam Ramesh created a road Block and refused to make Aadhaar mandatory for making wage payment to people enrolled under the world's largest social security scheme NRGA unless all residents are covered.
Sunday, October 11, 2015
8912 - Supreme Court decision on UID to bring several government projects to a halt - Economic Times
Hearing a batch of 11 review applications, a three-member SC bench, however, refused to immediately lift the restriction of Aadhaar.


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Fee: Free
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Featured activites at Kelvyn: 3pm Lawn games and art project 5pm concert featuring Mixed Company and 7pm Latin dance with teacher and band.
The Night Out in the Parks series will make parks a safe haven and a hub of positive activity on summer evenings and weekends. We encourage community members to bring their family and friends, pack a picnic basket and spend the day with us in the park. Planned activities may include art projects, music, dance, drum circle, theatre, a magic show or other fun-filled activities.


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Eletriptan/Selected Protease Inhibitors; Cobicistat Interactions
This information is generalized and not intended as specific medical advice. Consult your healthcare professional before taking or discontinuing any drug or commencing any course of treatment.
Medical warning:
Severe. These medicines may interact and cause very harmful effects and are usually not taken together. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
Certain protease inhibitors may slow down how quickly your liver processes eletriptan.
What might happen:
The amount of eletriptan in your body may increase and cause unwanted side effects such as high blood pressure, a rapid heart beat, chest pain, sweating, nausea, or dizziness.
What you should do about this interaction:
Make sure your healthcare professionals (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) know that you are taking these medicines together. Your doctor may want to change one of the medicines that you are taking. If you notice any extra side effects from your eletriptan while taking your protease inhibitor, let your doctor know right away.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.
- 1.Relpax (eletriptan hydrobromide) UK summary of product characteristics. Pfizer Limited September, 2013.
- 2.Relpax (eletriptan hydrobromide) US prescribing information. Pfizer Inc. November 27, 2013.
- 3.Stribild (elvitegravir, cobicistat, emtricitabine, tenofovir) prescribing information. Gilead Sciences, Inc. August, 2017.
- 4.Incivek (telaprevir) US prescribing information. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated October, 2013.
- 5.Victrelis (boceprevir) US prescribing information. Schering Corporation January, 2017.
- 6.This information is based on or an extract from the UW Metabolism and Transport Drug Interaction Database (DIDB) Platform, Copyright University of Washington 1999-2014..
- 7.Frova (frovatriptan) US prescribing information. Endo Pharmaceuticals October, 2013.
- 8.Imitrex Tablets (sumatriptan) US prescribing information. GlaxoSmithKline March, 2012.
- 9.Zomig (zolmitriptan) US prescribing information. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP September, 2012.
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Tackling large-scale SoC and FPGA prototyping debug challenges
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When designing complex ASICs, such as a highly-integrated system-on-chip (SoC), engineers are highly motivated to perform comprehensive verification under as real-world operating conditions as possible to ensure that bugs can be identified and corrected before final tapeout. The source of the motivation, of course, is the high-cost and time required to re-spin an ASIC.
While discovering and tracking down the root cause of bugs can be challenging in the best of circumstances, inherent limitations in the various technologies available to ASIC designers for verification testing make the job much harder as each involves a variety of tradeoffs. Now, however, new technologies are emerging that offer the promise of much more efficient and less time intensive debug processes using FPGA prototypes.
Debugging requirements
A SoC consists of both hardware and software controlling the microcontroller, microprocessor or DSP cores, peripherals and interfaces. The design flow for a SoC aims to develop the hardware and software in parallel. Most SoCs are developed from pre-qualified hardware blocks for the hardware elements, together with software drivers that control their operation. Also important are protocol stacks that drive industry-standard interfaces like USB or PCI Express. The hardware blocks are put together using EDA tools while the software modules are integrated using a software development environment.
In order to debug the SoC, all these various pieces need to be pulled together into a functional unit and tested extensively. When this functional verification turns up bugs, the root causes need to be tracked down and either fixed, or a work around needs to be developed. Further, if time permits, it can be useful to conduct optimization testing to identify and correct performance bottlenecks in the design. Core requirements for optimal SoC debugging include:
- Full RTL-level visibility with minimal dependence on FPGA CAD flows
- Fast, efficient identification of the root cause of bugs
- Run at full speed to enable verification with real-world signals
- Time-correlated signals across different clock domains
- Scale seamlessly to support large, complex designs
- Enable efficient debugging of firmware and application-level software
- Verify hardware and software interactions at the system-level
ASIC prototyping approaches and tradeoffs
The three main approaches traditionally used to verify and debug both hardware and software for SoC designs are simulation acceleration, emulation and FPGA-based prototyping technology. To date, all three fail to meet all the requirements outlined above for ASIC debugging.
With high capacity and fast compilation time, acceleration and emulation are powerful technologies that provide wide visibility into systems. Both technologies, however, operate slowly, on the order of MHz, which may be significantly slower up to 100X slower than the ASICs operating frequency. As a result, emulators and accelerators cannot use real-world stimulus for testing without creating specialized interface circuits. Nor are they feasible for developing a systems software. For instance, at the rate of 100X slower, emulating a system running for 15 minutes of real-time would take more than 24 hours. Acceleration and emulation boxes are also very large and expensive ($1M+) and thus beyond the means of many chip manufacturers.
FPGA-based prototyping platforms use FPGAs directly to enable engineers to validate and test at, or close to, a systems full operating frequency with real-world stimulus. FPGA-based prototypes are small enough to be portable and used at an engineers desk. They are also much less expensive than emulators or accelerators, on the order of $75K. Given these advantages, its no wonder that about 80 percent of all ASICs and SoCs are prototyped in FPGAs.
But that doesnt mean that FPGAs are the ideal platform either. Some teams use an emulator in addition to building up an FPGA prototype. That may be changing.


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Tube workers begin 48-hour strike
London Underground workers have walked out on a 48-hour strike in a long-running row over Tube ticket office closures which will cause travel chaos in the capital.
Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union are taking action in protest at controversial plans to close all Tube ticket offices.
The union said the move will cost hundreds of job losses and threaten safety.
But LU maintains that staff would be better employed on station concourses as only 3% of tickets are bought at ticket offices.
The company, and London Mayor Boris Johnson, attacked the strike, which will cost the capital millions of pounds and cause huge disruption for commuters and other travellers.
A further strike is planned for three days from 9pm next Monday. The RMT is also holding a 48 hour strike from 3am tomorrow on the Heathrow Express in a separate row over jobs, pay and cuts.
Leaders of the RMT held a last ditch meeting with LU at the offices of the conciliation service Acas in a bid to resolve the row over Tube ticket offices, but the talks only lasted a couple of hours and broke up with no sign of a breakthrough.
The union said it had put forward proposals which it believed could have led to the industrial action being suspended.
RMT acting general secretary Mick Cash said: "London Underground have dug themselves into an entrenched position and have refused to move one inch from their stance of closing every ticket office, in breach of the agreement reached previously through Acas which enabled us to suspend the previous round of action.
"Despite the spin from LU nothing that they are proposing is about 'modernisation'. The current plans, closing every ticket office and axing nearly a thousand safety-critical jobs, is solely about massive austerity cuts driven centrally by David Cameron and his Government and implemented by Mayor Boris Johnson.
"RMT could have recommended the suspension of this strike action if LU had responded positively to our proposal to halt the implementation of these savage cuts, stopping the dire impact they would have the length and breadth of London Underground."
Boris Johnson said: "I urge the RMT to call off this pointless strike and get back round the table with London Underground and the three other unions who've chosen not to strike.
"It seems the RMT leadership is set against modernisation and has no fresh ideas of its own.
"More than 600 people have asked for voluntary redundancy and yet, without consulting any of their own members the RMT is suddenly insisting that London Underground halt this process.
"Despite dozens of meetings over several months the RMT chose only on Friday to make fresh demands. It seems they are more interested in fighting over the leadership of the RMT than the interests of their members.
"Commuters and businesses will suffer because a few narrow minded union barons are currently flexing their muscles in a fight for the leadership of a union where just 30% of members support a strike."
Mike Brown, managing director of London Underground, said: "The RMT leadership appear to remain implacably opposed to the modernisation of the Tube that will radically improve customer service and help us keep fares down.
"For example, at our busiest stations, there will be nearly a third more staff visible and available to provide, on a permanent basis, the face-to-face customer service we offered during the London 2012 Games.
"Visitors to London and people with disabilities will be better looked after than ever before.
"Safety and security will never be compromised. Safety is not controlled from ticket offices but by station supervisors and dedicated control rooms. This will continue.
"Fairness to our staff is also guaranteed. There will be no compulsory redundancies, there is a job for all staff wanting to remain with us and no one will lose pay as a result of change. We have also made significant changes to our original proposals after listening to staff and unions in over 40 meetings, including agreeing that supervisors will not need to 'reapply for their jobs'.
"However, the RMT leadership continues to say 'no' to everything, and they also appear in the context of these changes to be opposed to giving our staff the option of voluntary redundancy.
"Only the RMT leadership know the real motivations behind their actions, but it is infuriating that London's commuters and businesses are the ones who are being forced to pay the price with five days of utterly pointless and disruptive strikes.
"We have asked all the trade unions to continue talking to us this week and we hope that they continue to do so."
Caroline Pidgeon, leader of the Liberal Democrat London Assembly Group said: "This is a totally unnecessary strike which will have devastating impact for London's economy and create the greatest disruption for ordinary Londoners, such as teachers and nurses.
"The cause of this strike is a dubious mix of poor leadership by London Underground management and a leadership battle within the RMT positioning for strike action."
The strikes will be held ahead of a May Day rally in London on Thursday in memory of RMT leader Bob Crow, who died in March.
Heathrow Express said its trains will run every 30 minutes from 6.10am until after 10pm tomorrow and Wednesday despite the strike reducing the company's available workforce from 450 to 150.
Keith Greenfield, managing director of Heathrow Express, said: "Despite the RMT executive pressing ahead with an ill-advised strike that potentially reduces our available workforce from 450 to 150, we will maintain a good service for our customers for as long as industrial action lasts.
"A strike is not the answer. It will increase costs when we are trying to reduce them, taking us further away from what we need to do to secure our business for the future.
"The RMT's decision to strike ignores the changes Heathrow Express has already made to its proposals, including a revised pay offer for frontline employees extending three years ahead.
"We told the RMT executive that this revised offer will be withdrawn if a strike goes ahead, but they chose to press ahead despite a worse outcome for their members."


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Plant hormone experiment!
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Plant hormone experiment!
Got given a practice prac on plant hormones.
1. Place 8 corn seeds (with 2 each facing towards the 4 poles, so North, East, South, West).
2. Cover seeds with a piece of filter paper
3. Pack petri dish with moist cotton wool.
4. Put lid on the petri dish and seal it with sticky tape.
5. Stand petri dish upright attached on plasticine and near a window.
6. Let it stand for 1 week and observe.
Q1 )The question asked if the above was a controlled experiment or not.
I think that it was not a controlled experiment as there weren't any variables subject to any change. (Not too sure about this question). However, maybe the north and south placed seeds could be the controls to show the direction of growth of shoots?
Q2) What differences in growth were visible over the period of the investigation? And suggest any reasons for any differences of growth and explain how it could be altered.
The shoots all grew vertical, while the roots will grow down.
auxin ?
Need help on writing an aim and hypothesis!
Like on the petri dish , imagine there are 4 points, N E S W. And in each of those directions we put 2 seeds in there. Btw, do you hhave any IM ?
The petri dish is just upright and left alone for 1 week. The aim is most likely to observe the growth reponse from seeds to light and gravity ? Got skype or something?
Well just imagine it will be like
and in each of the poles, there are 2 seeds in them
OK, so the West, East, North and South are only for confusion...
Yep, in such case you're researching the effect of gravity. And yes, auxin flux is responsible for that.
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
could you suggest me a possible hypothesis?
And also...
Suggest a biomolecular reason for any diffrences observed in the growth of plant and explain how the growth was alterted.
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UPDATE: Coroner: Milton police Lt. John Conger found dead
JANESVILLE—A body found on Janesville's north side Sunday night was that of Milton police Lt. John Conger, who died in an apparent suicide, authorities said Monday.
Conger, 43, was a 21-year veteran of the Milton Police Department. He had been the department's administrative lieutenant since 2009.
He was found in a trail area about one mile north of the intersection of Kennedy Road and Highway 14 just before 5:30 p.m. Sunday, according to a news release from the Wisconsin Department of Justice. State authorities are investigating the death along with Janesville police.
Conger died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the release said.
"John is going to be dearly missed by all of us at the Milton Police Department," Milton police Chief Dan Layber said in the statement. "He was a dedicated officer who was committed to the Milton community, spearheading many of the police department's outreach and educational activities.
"His absence will be felt deeply by all who knew him."
A jogger called police at 5:25 p.m. Sunday after finding an unresponsive person on the walking path, according to a news release from the Rock County Coroner's Office.
Sixteen Janesville police officers and detectives were at the scene, according to the department's call log, and a fire department spokesman said firefighters responded, as well.
Police later called in the state Division of Criminal Investigation and began a joint investigation, Janesville Lt. Terry Sheridan said.
Officers blocked off nearly a mile of Kennedy Road from Highway 14 to Terapin Trail on Sunday. A Gazette reporter said the scene was clear as of Monday afternoon.
"People were here well after midnight," Sheridan said of his co-workers at the police department.
An autopsy was conducted Monday morning at the Dane County Medical Examiner's Office, Rock County Coroner Jenifer Keach said.
Conger recently spearheaded an anti-bullying campaign in the Milton School District and pushed a youth program that rewards students who wear bicycle helmets while riding.
After a rash of youth heroin overdoses at a park in Milton in 2009 and a Milton-area boy's fatal prescription medication overdose in 2010, Conger helped organize a countywide drug drop-off box network for unwanted prescription drugs.
He also pushed state legislation to tightly regulate traveling sales crews after he witnessed a horrific Interstate accident in 1999 near Milton in which 14 magazine salespeople were thrown from a delivery van and seven were killed.
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Please Help - The Heart
I was given a take-home open book open notes open anything test in my Biology class. It was 12 pages long so please realize I'm not dumping all of my homework here.
I've been having an extremely difficult time figuring out the answers for 5 of the questions regarding the heart (2,3, 5, 9, 10). I've read the definitions in our text book and researched online but am stilled confused. If anyone is able to help I'd really appreciate it! Here are the problems, I'm copying the whole section including the ones in the section that I believe I've already got right:
Fill In the Blank:
Atrial Systole
Cardiac Output
Atrioventricular Node
Cardiac Sounds
Autonomic Nervous System
Bundles & Conductive Fibers
Cardiac Cycle
Sinoatrial Node
Ventricular Systole
1. Sinoatrial Node the heart's "pacemaker", a mass of conductive tissue which produces the signal that initiates each new heart beat.
2. ___________________________ a mass of conductive tissue which generates the signal that initiates ventricular depolarization
3. ___________________________ the conductive tissues that conduct the signal for depolarization throughout the ventricular myocardium
4. EKG a clinical recording of the electrical energies created by depolarization and repolarization of the atrial and ventricular myocardium
5. ___________________________ its sympathetic division increases heart rate and its parasympathetic division slows heart rate
6. Cardiac Sounds "Lub" as the AV valves close, "dup" as the semilunar valves close
7. Cardiac Output Heart Rate X Stroke Volume; the amount of blood pumped into systemic circulation in 1 minute
8. Cardiac Cycle all the events associated with a single "heart beat"
9. __________________________ that stage of the Cardiac Cycle when the SA Node fires and the atrial myocardium depolarizes and contracts
10.__________________________ that stage of the myocardium that the heart pumps blood into systemic and pulmonary circulation
11. Diastole the time during each cardiac cycle that the heart is "at rest".
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Are you sure about that? Because the definitions in any reasonable textbook or even the Wikipedia article on hearts will give almost identical definitions to those in the test questions.
Here, try this. Look up the definitions of the words on the word list again, and post the definitions you find next to the words, either by editing your original post or by replying. Because, really, this should be as simple as a dictionary search, google lookup, or a reading from your book on the chapter about heartbeat and circulation.
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Yes. I'm sure. I've spent hours trying to figure out this stupid thing. I've only found the answer for number 5.
Can you please tell me if these are correct?
2. bundles and conductive fibers
3. atrioventricular node
5. autonomic nervous system
9. atrial systole
10. ventricular systole
bundles and conductive fibers - These fibers are specialized myocardial fibers that conduct an electrical stimulus or impulse that enables the heart to contract in a coordinated fashion.
atrioventricular node - is a part of electrical control system of the heart that co-ordinates heart rate. It electrically connects atrial and ventricular chambers.[1] The AV node is an area of specialized tissue between the atria and the ventricles of the heart, specifically in the posteroinferior region of the interatrial septum near the opening of the coronary sinus, which conducts the normal electrical impulse from the atria to the ventricles.
atrial systole - is the contraction of myocardium of the left and right atria. Atrial systole occurs in late part of ventricular diastole, but it is important to note that the main force driving blood from the atria to the ventricles is not atrial contraction, but decreased ventricular pressure in ventricular diastole, atrial systole plays a minor, and additive role in forcing blood into the ventricles.
ventricular systole - contraction of the atria by which blood is forced into the ventricles; it precedes the true or ventricular systole.
depolarization - is a change in a cell's membrane potential, making it more positive, or less negative.
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I think your #2 and #3 are reversed. Otherwise you look fine. I'm surprised you didn't learn the name "Purkinje fibers" for the tissue that conducts the impulse the the bottom of the ventricles, but what's in a name, eh? Anyway, the AV node is what "gathers" and slightly delays the impulse and conducts it to the Purkinje Fibers (bundles and conductive fibers), which then transmit the impulse to the bottom of the ventricles so they contract from the bottom up to push the blood out into the aorta and pulmonary arteries.
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What's going on here? Aurora building new Elkhorn clinic
ELKHORN--Aurora Health Care has broken ground on a new clinic at 201 E. Morrissey Drive, Elkhorn.
The 30,000-square-foot building will be a clinic and home to a variety of specialized services.
"It's a replacement site," said Myrle Croasdale spokeswoman for Aurora Health Care. "We're moving to a larger space to better serve the needs of our patients.
The $12 million building will "reflect the new reality of health care—that much of the care will be delivered by an integrated team outside of a hospital setting, with a focus on patient wellness and prevention," Croasdale said.
Along with internal medicine, the new facility will be home to specialized services such as audiology, obstetrics, gynecology, otolaryngology, urology and a pharmacy.
Aurora Health Care has three sites in Elkhorn: Aurora Lakeland Medical Center, W3985 County Rd NN and two primary care centers on 20 N. Church St. and 205 E. Commerce Court.
The new clinic will replace the two primary care centers.
The building is expected to be open by the end of 2013.


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Heiden hired to lead Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin
JANESVILLE—Ann Heiden, Janesville, has been selected as the new executive director of the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin.
She replaces Sue Conley, who will retire July 1.
Heiden will leave Olbrich Botanical Society, Madison, where she has been director of development and marketing since 2012.
Heiden was selected for her energy, leadership skills, development experience and passion for philanthropy to lead the foundation into the future, said Steve Sheiffer, foundation board chairman.
Before joining the staff of Olbrich, Heiden was the mission advancement director for Bethesda Lutheran Communities in Watertown and director of development for Rock County Christian School in Janesville. She also was employed by Televere Systems and the Epilepsy Foundation of Southern Wisconsin, both of Janesville.
The Community Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization that operates in nine southern Wisconsin counties including Rock, Walworth and Green, and holds more than $38 million in assets. During 2013, it awarded around $2.2 million in grants and scholarships.


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Watch those pump prices when using credit cards
I was listening to Clark Howard on WCLO while running a noon errand Tuesday and caught his explanation about how he pulled into a gas station and planned to buy using a credit card. Before starting to pump, however, he discovered that he would pay 50 cents more—yes, 50, not 5—per gallon to use his credit card. He drove off without pumping.
Howard said an editor of Consumer Reports almost paid an even more staggering sum—70 cents more.
Gas stations, Howard says, are allowed to charge customers who use credit cards more to help offset fees the credit companies charge. That amounts to about 2 percent, or perhaps six or eight cents per gallon. To charge 50 or even 70 cents more and not post that prominently on those large signs that motorists can read as they approach stations, Howard suggests, amounts to gouging customers.
I would agree. Maybe no stations around here resort to such tactics. Howard's warning, however, is worth considering if you plan to take a trip by car—as my wife and I do—anytime this fall. It's best to check for any signs at the pump about markups for credit-card users before you start it.
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Firstly, I wanted to shed some light on some comments Doc Rivers made about Demar recently:
How nice of him to notice! Wish we'd hear more stuff like this from our own fans!"I don't think people notice him -- not because they are in Toronto, but because of their record," Celtics coach Doc Rivers said. "I think people are sleeping on him a lot. I think he adds stuff every year. Early on, he was basically a kamikaze driver -- that's what we labeled him as, early on. Now he gets to the line. He makes jump shots. He defends. He's a total basketball player."
Some would argue with that -- DeRozan's shooting percentages have flatlined since his rookie year -- but it does appear that the light is going on in his fourth season, which raises another interesting question about players and their development curve.
"Everyone's different," Rivers said. "(Kevin) Durant picked it up pretty quickly. The greats ones do, some of the guys that have a chance to be really good -- it just takes them time and patience. The mental toughness of that is hard. A lot of guys give in, give up and settle. A lot of guys keep driving. What I like about him, and I don't know him at all, but it just seems like from afar, he must put a lot of time in the summer on his game, because each year, he's gotten not just a little better, but a lot better in areas that you would have to work on. So I think that's impressive."
Now then; Halifax Raps Fan brought up the following point in another thread (Bargs bashing Thread), that I thought I'd highlight a little bit more as well:
For all the ire Bargnani warrants for his lack of 'Enthusiasm', Demar's play should warrant the exact opposite reaction, in terms of praise from those same fans. No?
Maybe I'm missing something though.
I think, to a lesser degree, the same double-standard argument could be made about Jerryd Bayless / John Lucas.
But thats a conversation for another day.


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Black looks back on 2009 Richard-Peavy trade
Padres manager nostalgic about right-hander's time in San Diego
By Corey Brock / MLB.com
SAN DIEGO -- There was a slight twinge of nostalgia Sunday for Padres manager Bud Black each time he glanced at the mound and saw Jake Peavy digging to make a pitch.
Black, on the cusp of his seventh season with the team, doesn't have to think too far to remember the days when Peavy -- now with the White Sox -- was tossing gems for the Padres.
"My first year, to have a guy win 19 games, win the Cy Young, win the ERA title, the strikeout title ... that's good stuff, that's history-type stuff," Black said of Peavy's milestone season in 2007.
"He carried us a lot that year with his performances. Our memories, San Diego memories of Jake are fond and long-lasting."
Has it really been nearly four years since the Padres traded Peavy to the White Sox as part of a five-player, Trade Deadline deal on July 31, 2009?
It was a surreal afternoon in Peoria, Ariz., on a lot of fronts, as Peavy faced the Padres, who were fronted by the very pitcher the White Sox dealt to San Diego that day -- left-hander Clayton Richard, who made his first start of Spring Training.
Richard tossed two scoreless innings as the Padres got the upper hand on Peavy and the White Sox in a 4-0 victory in a Cactus League game at the Peoria Sports Complex.
Richard was one of four players then-Padres general manager Kevin Towers obtained for Peavy, a trade that was several months in the making as San Diego tried to shed Peavy -- who had a no-trade clause -- and the remaining $48 million on the extension he signed after winning the National League Cy Young Award in 2007.
The other three players in that deal -- pitchers Adam Russell, Dexter Carter and Aaron Poreda -- are no longer part of the organization. Richard has become a workhorse for the Padres, winning 14 games in 2010 and again last season. He's made 33 starts twice in his first 3 1/2 seasons.
Peavy, 31, reached double digits in victories (11) last season for the first time since 2008. He eclipsed the 200-inning mark (219) for the first time since his Cy Young season with the Padres. He plays in the American League, so chances to see and play against the Padres are few and far between.
"It was fun seeing some of my old coaches and trainers," Peavy said, after allowing three runs in three innings on Sunday. "I had such a great time in San Diego. All the highs and the lows ... I made so many friendships. At the same time, [that] chapter of my life has turned."
The very same could be said for Richard, 29. He made 39 appearances, including 22 starts for the White Sox in 2008-09, but has done the bulk of his career work with the Padres.
"It's been quick," Richard said. "With Chicago, I was extremely fortunate with the opportunity they gave to me.
"But San Diego ... what a great place to go. It's been terrific for me."
The start for Richard on Sunday against the White Sox was pushed back to the Padres' 11th game of the spring because the team saw no need -- not with a longer spring due to the World Baseball Classic -- to get him in a game in February.
Richard, the projected Opening Day starter for April 1 against the Mets in New York, opened the game on Sunday with six balls and walked two in the first inning. He recovered well, working a 1-2-3 second inning.
"He sort of got the cobwebs off," Black said.
As far as the trade with the White Sox went, Black said it has benefitted both teams.
"You never know how a trade is going to pan out. A lot of times with trades, they need to be evaluated over time. But I think this one was probably a good trade for both teams," Black said. "We got four arms ... and you don't know how it's going to turn out.
"But Clayton has become a very integral part of the rotation, just as Jake has been for the White Sox."
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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mutations and dependencies
Discussion of everything related to the Theory of Evolution.
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Re: mutations and dependencies
Until someone has read Darwins 'Origins' they are the mercy of university biology teachers who KNOWINGLY indoctrinate them/evolutionary biology propaganda.
You have been psy-oped into thinking the lack of evidence for something=evidence for it HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. The very antithesis of science (not laughing at you just the psy-op, its soooo sick, i was brainwashed too though, took a few months of reading the right stuff )
The 'theory' of 'evolution' again is not a 'theory' (not change in gene frequency, or any change in any living thing ever). No it can never be 'falsified' because 1) Its not science to begin with 2) Anything on earth (even absence of evidence as you have illustrated above) can be used as 'evidence' for it
Genetics/the very existence of DNA proves it never happened, thats the sickest part of the whole thing (BILLIONS of functionally sequenced nucletoide base pairs that given a single letter change may kill someone/give them a disease). 2 weeks of solid reading is all it would take if someone wanted to know the TRUTH about origins though the implications may not agree with atheism (there is no problem scientifically with mankind sharing a common ancestor with mankind, its the implications it has on a personal level).
http://austore.creation.com/catalog/gen ... -1003.html
Re: mutations and dependencies
Nobody could say that, since it's nonsense.
One mutation could (potentially) kill you, but dozens of others do not. Moreover, our genome is optimized after milions of years of evolution. How much more would you like to optimize it?
What proofs of creation do you have?
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
University biology teachers knowingly omit the complete absence of a genetic mechanism for adding NEW things like biochemical pathways (ie krebs, glycolysis, electron transport chain), organ systems (intestines, livers, kidneys, adrenals, etc). Mutations= mistakes. Hospitals are full of people with mutations dying of cancer and other diseases. Think mutations are 'good'? Go stand out in the sun for a few hours on a hot day and get some 'beneficial' mutations or one could stick their head in the microwave and get some 'beneficial' mutations.
The onus of proof is on the claim contrary to 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth' AND every observed law of nature in recorded/written history (6,000 years). The fact we are having this conversation right now proves 'evolution' never happened. I did a link to Sanfords book 'Genetic entropy'.
Re: mutations and dependencies
I didn't say it was evidence for evolution, just that it didn't falsify the theory. However, you did make a good point. There are points at which the supposed succession becomes difficult to track, which makes the theory more difficult to falsify.
Then do you have an altertantive explanation as to why genome sequencing results are consistent with inferences based on the fossil record?
Now I will quote one of the linked articles.
Multicellular organisms aren't genetically homogeneous. A mutating organism will still have some cells that carry more harmful mutations than others. The organism could pass on its beneficial mutation without passing on all of its harmful mutations. On top of that, natural selection is also occurring within our bodies. Within the seminiferous tubules, severely defective cells may simply die off before they can divide (pass on their mutations). Thus the worst mutations will have less chances of being carried all the way to fertilization.
This does imply that cancererous cells would have better chances of passing on their DNA, but keep in mind that cancer has late onset.
That last part was somewhat speculative, so don't take my word for it.
I have been taught that mutated cells often die off.
Mutations can be good, bad or neutral. It appears that most mutations are neutral, while the fewest are beneficial. However, a neutral mutation can become beneficial (or detrimental) at a later time, when conditions may be different. One important type of mutation is gene duplication. A duplicated gene creates redundancy that may, through additional mutations, create new traits, organs, etc. This is one way in which new genetic material is created - one of the ignorant criticisms that creationists make.
The onus of proof is on the person that makes the claim. Science has lots of evidence for evolution but there is no evidence for any deity. To say that "The fact we are having this conversation right now proves 'evolution' never happened" is logically invalid.
"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution."
Theodosius Dobzhansky
"Most people who hate the idea of evolution do so because if it was working properly, they'd be dead."
You wrote "People dont seem to realise the complete absence of a genetic mechanism for adding NEW organ systems, biochemical pathways etc etc."
Putting aside the fact that your wording here and in other threads demonstrates scientific illiteracy, Google and then read this "GENETIC DIVERSITY AND DISEASE RESISTANCE IN LEAF-CUTTING
ANT SOCIETIES" and then bring forth your argument against it with your research and/or sources from peer reviewed science journals that support it.
You also wrote "'Evolution' has damaged young peoples ability to think (Mutations are mistakes)."
But according to YOU that's impossible because, IN YOUR OWN WORDS, "Evolution: The lie" and again "shows neo-darwinian 'evolution' to be a myth". So, according to you evolution is a lie and a myth but yet is the cause of mutations? How so if not true? Please explain this contradiction in your thinking.
Did you read this article??? It does not say ANYTHING about adding new genetic information. It proves that greater genetic diversity leads to better chances of survival...
I've read about have of it and you're correct. However, jinx25 has written before on this forum that evolution decreases diversity. I should have addressed it at appropriate thread. In any case, this user doesn't believe in evolution and I also wanted to see how he would counter the content of the paper.
I meant to say I read *half the article. I have now read the entire article and, if you could be so kind, can you help me understand a term? What does "allotransfer" mean? I can't find a def for it. In the article it's used in this senence:
" Susceptible
individuals may benefit from the defense mechanisms of resistant individuals, for example through allogrooming or the
allotransfer of antimicrobial defenses."
As far as I am aware Allotransfer is the process by which some cellular/molecular agent is transferred from one subject to the other. In this case it would be the transfer of the antimicrobial agent from an ant that produces it to one that does not.
I hope this helps
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Amazon spinning out Kindles Lab126?
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The secretive R&D group behind the Amazon Kindle has nearly 250 positions open, including many senior management jobs -- if its Web site is to be believed.
SAN JOSE, Calif. Out of curiosity, I clicked on Lab126 while poking around for a story and got more than I expected. It appears this secretive R&D group behind the Amazon Kindle is going through a major hiring phase, and reading through its nearly 250 job reqs proved interesting and entertaining.
The Kindle team is apparently on fire (excuse the bad pun). It aims to hire everything short of a CEO and dishwasher. The broad and diverse set of openings made me wonder whether Amazon might be spinning Lab126 out as a stand-alone company.
There are well over a dozen management openings requiring ten years experience or more, including a U.S. Kindle operations manager who will manage/track day-to-day movement of Kindle products throughout the supply chain. I would have thought that one was covered already.
The group has all sports of postings for hardware engineers in everything from antennas and audio to QA, RF and test. They include a camera test engineer for the groups Shenzhen, China, branch.
Software engineering openings are equally diverse, including specialists in UI, systems, kernel and payment systems. Almost all the positions will be based in Cupertino, except a few in Amazons Seattle headquarters and a handful in a software center in Hyderabad, India.
Amazons Vendor Payments Systems team [was] set-up in Hyderabad in 2007 and [today is entirely] owned and executed from Hyderabad, the posting said. Its a significant group, responsible for billions of transactions that give us a unique opportunity to innovate on both technology and business fronts and helps to improve free cash flows of [the] company."
Lab126 is hungry for all sorts of product and project managers based on the postings. It also has plenty of openings for various supply chain jobs, some requiring international travel and Mandarin capabilities.
Filling out the rest of the usual corporate functions, Amazon is seeking a handful of corporate attorneys, IT staff, technical writers to work on documentation for the Kindle SDK, business and financial analysts, industrial designers, a statistician and even a reliability scientist. They are even hiring several recruiters.
Maybe these guys really are forming their own company!
Interestingly, a couple positions were listed as accessories engineers for in-box and out-box accessories, especially for candidates with experience in IP creation. I noted a search of Amazon.com for Kindle accessories didnt turn up much besides a few plugs and cables, despite the fact this is often a high profit margin area.
I got a chuckle out of at least three want ads for executive administrators that asked for the ability to work in a highly ambiguous environment. That's likely the corporate euphemism for chaos.
I wandered by the obscure little Lab126 office in Cupertino recently, which is what prompted me to check out its Web site for the first time. The operation was always well placed for hiring a few good mobile engineers. Its just a couple blocks from Apples headquarters.
Ive formally requested an interview to find out more, but given the groups secretive history Im not holding my breath. You shouldnt hold back, either. Share below any stories you have about the team behind the Kindle.
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Aurora Health Care plans significant investments in Walworth County
MILWAUKEE—Aurora Health Care plans to spend tens of millions of dollars in Walworth County in an effort to boost access to health care that's supported by a strong base of physicians.
The Milwaukee-based Aurora is a private, not-for-profit provider serving 31 counties and 90 communities. It operates 15 hospitals, 159 clinics and 69 retail pharmacies and dispensing centers.
Aurora has operated a hospital and several clinics in Walworth County for years but now plans a significant investment that will add an urgent care center in Delavan, upgrades at Aurora Lakeland Medical Center in Elkhorn, a new ambulatory surgery center on the county's eastern border and a new clinic in a yet-to-be determined community.
Taken together, the investments will add up to about $100 million, said Lisa Just, Aurora's market president for Burlington and Walworth County.
Of that, Aurora will spend about $70 million on the new surgery center on Spring Valley Road between highways 11 and 36, the new Walworth County clinic, the urgent care center in Delavan and a physician recruitment and retention program that Just said is critical to supporting the new facilities.
In Walworth County, Aurora now operates clinics in East Troy, Delavan, Elkhorn, Lake Geneva and Walworth. It also operates Aurora Lakeland Medical Center in Elkhorn.
Just said Aurora will take six months to plan the new facilities. She said it has not been determined whether the urgent care center in Delavan will be attached to its clinic on Hobbs Road or built as a standalone facility elsewhere.
She said upcoming planning also would determine where in Walworth County the new clinic would be built. Aurora used to operate two clinics in Elkhorn but recently consolidated into a new operation in that city.
Lakeland Medical Center in Elkhorn and Aurora Memorial Hospital of Burlington—one of the system's older hospitals—will share in about $30 million of upgrades, Just said.
"The changes at Lakeland will be more aesthetic, more patient centered and directed toward the healing environment," she said. "We've already upgraded the ERs at both hospitals, put in private rooms and done away with the cubicles and curtains."
Aurora has served the region for nearly two decades, and Just said the new investments will provide easier regional access to the system's programs and services. Aurora's doctors and leaders will help to identify current and future physician needs in the area, she said.
"Working together on this investment in high quality medical expertise will help to build the foundation for tomorrow's care in Racine and Walworth counties," Aurora said in a news release. "This investment underscores a basic fact: People provide health care, buildings do not."
Just said health care continues to move in the direction of more outpatient services and fewer inpatient procedures. Ambulatory surgical centers, such as the one planned for eastern Walworth County, are designed for same-day surgery that does not require an overnight stay in a hospital.
Just said Lakeland in Elkhorn will always need inpatient services, but not to the extent it has in the past. More and better outpatient clinics and centers, she said, also will support the system's world-class hospitals, particularly in the Milwaukee metro area.
Aurora and the Janesville-based Mercy Health System dominate the Walworth County healthcare market.
Mercy operates clinics in Delavan, Elkhorn, Whitewater, Lake Geneva and Sharon. It also operates the 15-bed Mercy Walworth Hospital and Medical Center at the intersection of highways 67 and 50. The facility tripled in size about three years ago.
Including the medical center, Mercy's Walworth facility employed 360 people in 2012 and generated net income of $2.3 million on total revenues of nearly $60.8 million, according to the Wisconsin Hospital Association.
Aurora Lakeland Medical Center had 515 employees in 2012 and reported net income of $11.3 million on total revenues of $82.5 million, according to the association
In an earlier interview with the Milwaukee Business Journal, Just said Aurora's plans in western Racine County and Walworth County have nothing to do with other providers.
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The Judicial Internship Program allows students to receive academic credit for work in a judge's chambers in San Diego. Students must work 60 hours per unit of credit. In addition to the work component of the Program, students enrolled in the program will have regular contact with the Program's instructor, Professor Horton, who will meet with students individually, assign various written projects (such as a journal and a final paper), and review samples of the student's written work from the internship. The program is limited to a total of 20 students per semester or summer term. Preference is given to students who are in, or who are about to enter, their final law school year.
Professor Horton has a manual that explains the judicial internship process; interested students should be sure to pick up a copy of the manual. Students can secure their own internship position or can meet with Professor Horton for guidance in securing a placement. The internship is graded on a Pass-Fail basis.
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Evelyn Beatrice Thompson, Janesville, WI (1920-2014)
October 30, 1920 - February 7, 2014
Evelyn Beatrice Thompson, age 93, of Janesville, passed away Feb. 7, 2014, at Rock Haven Nursing Facility in Janesville, after a brief illness. She was born Oct. 30, 1920, to Herman and Clare Guse in Footville, WI. She attended Janesville schools, and was employed by Gibbs Manufacturing until her retirement. Evelyn was married to her husband, Bernard R. Thompson, for over 77 years. Evelyn was very proud of her five children and especially so of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She will be remembered for her good cooking, card playing and vibrant personality. She had an opinion on everything and was not shy about sharing it. Her children paid attention as she was usually right. Evelyn was very active in the ceramics department at the Janesville Senior Center for many years and was very proud of her participation.
Evelyn is survived by her husband, Bernard; sons: Dale (Norma), Terry (Marvel), Bruce, all of Janesville; and daughter, Linda (Earl) Zarbock of Milwaukee; plus seven grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by a sister, May Jones of Madison, WI; and a brother, Roger Guse of Belmont, CA. She was preceded in death by her parents; son, Bernard; and sister, Dorothy Phillips of Belmont, CA.
Per Evelyn's instructions a memorial service will be held at ST. PAUL'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, Janesville, where she was a long-time member. Services are at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, with Rev. Daniel Decker officiating. A visitation will be from 12:30 until 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the CHURCH. In lieu of flowers, a donation to St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church or the Janesville Senior Center in Evelyn's memory would be appreciated. The family is being assisted by HENKE-CLARSON FUNERAL HOME, Janesville.


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The Auditorium Theatre's MUSIC + MOVEMENT FESTIVAL welcomes some of the best of Chicago musicians and dance companies for a celebration spanning February through June of 2013. In a series of collaborations, 11 dance companies paired off with musicians to create brand new works. The MUSIC + MOVEMENT FESTIVAL will continue with 4 FREE community performances through June in select locations of the Chicago Park District.
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