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Leaving for greener pastures: Crops and soils agent to go to Michael Fields Institute
JANESVILLE—Dr. Dirt is returning to home soil.
After a decade as UW Extension's crops and soils agent for Rock County, Jim Stute is returning to Walworth County to take a position as research program director at Michael Fields Agricultural Institute in East Troy. Stute previously worked at the institute as an outreach coordinator.
"At Extension, you tend to be pulled in all sorts of different directions, and that's a good thing because you're serving people," Stute said. "But this was a tremendous opportunity."
Those "different directions" included working with local producers on everything from crop issues to pesticide training, doing research at the Rock County Farm, teaching tractor safety to kids, working with the Rock County Board and serving as office administrator.
He also taught basic soil science courses to master gardeners who affectionately dubbed him, "Dr. Dirt."
Stute would tell master gardeners, "It's not dirt, it's soil. Soil is a living thing. Dirt is something on the kitchen floor that you sweep up and throw away."
It's concern for the soil that's taking him to Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on education, policy and research in sustainable agriculture.
"We're going to have something like 9 billion people to feed by 2050," Stute said. "We're not making any more farm land. In fact, we're destroying it at a rapid pace."
The answer, he said, is not to farm marginal land.
"We're going to have to find ways to maintain soil health and feed all these folks," Stute said.
His job at Michael Fields will give him the chance to "really ramp up" cover crop research.
Cover crops are grown to protect and improve the soil. They are not typically intended for harvest, Stute explained. Cover crops can provide a variety of benefits including adding nutrients to the soil, reducing the need for tilling, and in some cases, reducing pest populations.
However, a significant part of Stute's new job at Michael Field's will involve taking part in a long-term study that compares conventional, organic and biodynamic farming practices.
In his 10 years in Rock County, Stute has seen significant changes in the local and national agricultural scene.
In dairy: Farm modernization has picked up speed, with new and expanded facilities, such as the Rock Prairie Dairy in the town of Bradford.� The $30 million project, which has a 5,200-cow capacity, opened almost two years ago.
In crops: A "fundamental shift" in commodity prices.
"For the most part, everything has doubled," Stute, said. "But at the same time, input prices have gone up.� There's so much more money at risk in a given year."
In food production: The "local foods" movement has gained steam, Stute said.
The movement, which encourages consumers to buy food grown locally, has been buoyed by increased concerns about the quality and safety of large farms and the carbon footprint associated with moving food across the country—or across the world.
Stute will start his new job at Michael Fields on Jan. 31.
Matt Hanson, UW Extension southwest regional director said refilling Rock County's ag agent position was a "high priority" and he hoped to find a strong candidate in the early part of 2014.


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Crowdfunding site Kickstarter has enjoyed yet another spectacular year of growth, with some incredible wins for engineering startups. Come and see some of the highest funded projects from 2012.
Crowdfunding site Kickstarter launched in April, 2009, and has revolutionized investment ever since.
Through micro-funding, the platform managed to turn the internet into an online hub for raising money in small increments from the general public in support of a cause, product or project. In other words, suddenly, backing startups wasnt just for venture capitalists, it was for everyman (and woman).
Kickstarters business grew rapidly from inception. In 2010 the website had 3,910 successful projects, $27,638,318 pledged, and a project success rate of 43 percent. In 2011, the corresponding figures were 11,836, $99,344,381 and 46 percent. This success has spawned a string of copycats, but Kickstarter remains the premier project funding site on the Internet.
Indeed, for hardware enthusiasts and startups, Kickstarter has not only provided visibility, but also better tools to help entrepreneurs get to market faster on a shoestring budget, serving as both a sales channel and a funding pipeline.
Kickstarter also makes it easier for a pet project to become a real business opportunity, as entrepreneurs can now head off to China with the money raised from their campaign and get their product cheaply mass produced.
The phenomenon is also helped tremendously by firms like Sparkfun which have made it easy to source kits and components, with hardware development knowledge spreading slowly but surely.
One only has to look at some of the top funded tech projects on Kickstarter in 2012 to realize what a boon the platform is to the industry, and why engineers may want to keep a close eye on it.
Thus, without further ado, I present to you the top tech Kickstarter projects of 2012, starting with


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question for evolutionary biologist.
Discussion of everything related to the Theory of Evolution.
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Re: question for evolutionary biologist.
Look, lets be clear about what Ventner et. al. have done. They have taken the DNA from one species (A), tacked on some non-functional additions to the DNA to make it different, but functionally the same. They then inserted that DNA into the cell of a closely related species (B), and that B cell was transformed into a type A cell, functionally. If the DNA is like the "computer program" for the cell, all they did was add some comment lines to the code and insert it into a similar cell, and that B cell transformed to an A cell, functionally. They did not create nor engineer a new DNA in the functional sense. This is not to dismiss what they have done, because their next step is to start fiddling with the functional part of the DNA in order to learn how the cell works. How to understand the code rather than just read the code. Sure, they know every base pair in the DNA and what proteins are encoded by that DNA, but they don't fully understand the chemistry and mechanics of the cell that follows from this DNA and the proteins it creates.
Second of all, just because no evidence of life arising from non-life has been found does not constitute a proof that none exists. Typical "creationist" logic.
I mean, I believe in God, and I have faith that he created the universe, I just don't know how, and I don't ever expect to. The evidence for evolution and the logic of evolution is overwhelming, so I think (not believe!) that it is true, it's a small step on the path to understanding God's universe. Anyone frantically trying to disprove evolution because it denies God is arrogant and has little faith. Anyone who believes evolution denies God is also arrogant and has little faith. When it comes to life, we may be like cave men trying to understand what makes the sun go round. Oh, its Apollo, the sun god. No it isn't. Yes it is. It's such a tired, tired argument.
That is not fully true becuase there is also panspermia, see for example the book Intelligent Universe by Fred Hoyle. However panspermia does not need to completely replace abiogenesis, a bit of both may explain it.
Re: question for evolutionary biologist.
Panspermia is a mechanism for the dissemination of life, not its origin. Francis Crick was a proponent of panspermia for life on Earth.
Re: question for evolutionary biologist.
It is Venter's claim that his team "created a new species without any biological precursor."
It was he that referred to this as a "proof of concept"
If you have an argument with that, it is not with me but with real biologists and engineers.
Now your comment
They did create something new, and the "proof of concept" was the fact that this occurred by direct intervention from an outside source (his team). My argument is that this is the way species arrive and Venter has demonstrated that.
Now your argument is
Well ok if that is the case, put out your own scenario as to how it happened. At the moment you are simply relying on a belief that nature can do this randomly and without direction.
Many brilliant minds have tried and they can't even agree amongst themselves.
So please, show how that can happen and we are in a serious scientific discussion.
If you can't then your view is based, not on science but on a philosophy.
What I say however is; don't conflate belief with science, because if you do then you are obliged to prove your belief scientifically.
Everyone is entitled to believe whatever they wish and there is nothing wrong with that. After all Wbla3335
believes in abiogenesis. Of course its not science, but nothing wrong with that.
He is also having great trouble in understanding the difference between creating life and creating a species.
Science by it very nature can't explain how life was created because science is constrained by natural laws.
Life is not a physio/chemical entity that can be explained by natural laws.
He also is having trouble understanding that, as I of course have in believing in fairies at the bottom of the garden.
Science however can and has explained and indeed demonstrated, how a new species without any biological precursor can be created. It is not a natural way because it had to be engineered by minds.
My argument is and has been that species did not arrive by the due process of natural laws.
Species have only arrived by some outside intervention.
Venter and his team have demonstrated this by his proof of concept bit of engineering.
Has anyone been able to provide a proof of concept of the natural processes?
The answer is a resounding No.
The more the science in cell biology is uncovered the more it demonstrates that natural processes could not have originated it. It had to have been engineered.
I will in my next post on the other thread point to the latest information on what constitutes a gene,
which take this point even further.
And where does the panspermic life come from?
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
Re: question for evolutionary biologist.
You needn't bother. No one here is particularly interested in your inability to understand science or your ability to misinterpret it. Believe in your god if you want. Believe that science supports your belief if you want. We have continually tried to show you how your "evidence" is misguided, but you're not listening. A deaf man cannot hear. A blind man cannot see. A closed mind can be opened, but only if it wants to be opened. Yours does not.
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there is no origin for life, life has always existed but to answer your question it came from other planets. most scientists agree the big bang was not the start of everything only the early development of this Universe. perhaps there are an infinite amount of multiverses.
if we just equate existence with life then you will see the whole debate about God/s is futile. if life has always existed then where is the room for any external deity? how could an external God create anything if something has always existed? something has always existed so how could there be any external deity? even if god/s did exist then what came before the Gods?? you start thinking about it and it does not add up!! something has always existed and there is no reason to believe was a religious God.
having read the above someone will probably call me an atheist etc but i am not, in my opinion i believe the evidence supports pantheism. if we equate god with the universe itself ie in all matter then there is no external deity, god becomes the universe and that best fits the evidence in my view but it is still a philosophical view of the evidence and I cant go about proving it to anyone.
Re: question for evolutionary biologist.
Did Ventner et. al. invent a new species? They took the DNA from one species, added some non-functional "comment lines", removed the DNA from a closely related species, inserted the DNA-with-comment-lines into it, and the new cell was viable, functionally the same as the cell it came from.
If the original cell has the capacity to sexually reproduce, can it sexually reproduce with the new cell? If so, its not a new species. If it cannot, then it is a new species. If it does not sexually reproduce, what makes it a new species?
Re: question for evolutionary biologist.
Where have I stated
Is raising this sort of fabrication, the only way you can debate?
Maybe your hope is that no one will actually read my posts and simply rely on your "creative quote mining"
Come come now, I was really hoping you could do better that this.
You are not accurate in your post. May I offer some corrections.
The source DNA was chemically synthesised.
You will find this paper from Venter's team helpful.
Their comment reads
The genome, which was designed based on Genbank Accession Number
CP001668 (Mycoplasma mycoides subs. capri str. GM12), was assembled
from chemically synthesized oligonucleotides. The sequenced genome
was isolated from a yeast clone. The sequenced clone is
This synthetic genome contains all but 14 of the genes of wild type
Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies capri strain GM12. Among the genes
deleted from the genome are components of the ABC glycerol
transporter operon gtsABCD. These genes are involved in the
production of hydrogen peroxide, which is believed to be the
principal virulence factor of the mycoides group of mycoplasmas .
The genome also contains added watermark sequences for
identification of the genome as synthetic and also antibiotic
resistance markers to allow for selection. Overlapping cassettes of
1080 were assembled from chemically synthesized oligonucleotides.
The complete synthetic genome was assembled by transformation
associated recombination (TAR) cloning in the yeast Saccharomyces
cerevisiae, then isolated and sequenced. A clone with the correct
sequence was identified and transplanted in Mycoplama capricolum
subspecies capricolum recipient cells in which the restriction
modification system had been inactivated. This synthetic M. mycoide
genome can be isolated for future work.
The company that provided the initial synthesis was Blue Heron.
http://www.blueheronbio.com/Services/Ge ... hesis.aspx
I think you will find that the "old DNA" was not removed. It couldn't because the cell would have died.
The new DNA was inserted, and to prevent rejection the "restriction modification system" was inactivated.
If you listen to the video on Venter's site you will get a good idea as to what they actually did.
As to your comment about
Firstly, your question is simply hypothetical.
The new cell does not reproduce sexually.
Venter describes it as a new species without a biological ancestor.
I would suggest you email him and ask him why he considers it a new species.
To scottie - being a computer programmer, I don't draw a distinction between a file containing code and another file with the identical code, as far as programming goes. That's what I meant by "taken from". Thanks for the quote - correct me if I am wrong, but, as I understand it, the constructed DNA is identical to the DNA of the first organism, except for a few non-vital deletions, and then an addition of a non-functional length of DNA.
Regarding whether it is a new species, I guess I don't know what constitutes a new species for an asexual organism. Any ideas? Maybe I _should_ email him.
Re: question for evolutionary biologist.
Sorry for the delay, I have only limited time to devote to this forum.
Thanks for clearing up my misunderstanding. Good to know your are a computer programmer. I have done some myself, mainly on 4GL relational database stuff
As far as the species point is concerned, the Venter Institute has a FAQ which I think helps.
http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projec ... -cell/faq/
They produced a clone of an existing genome and removed some 14 genes.
Question 9 of the FAQ provides some more information for you.
As far as species categorisation, this site may help.
http://www.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/~sa ... ol3010.htm
On a general point as to whether this is a completely new genome.
The answer is no, as this is just a first stage in that process.
This proof of principle or concept was to determine whether it was possible to create a genome and insert it into a cell. The best way was to construct a genome that was a copy of an existing one which they knew would work. That process took them 15 years.
The next stage then is to commence going down the road of constructing a new genome.
Incidentally the synthetic genome is somewhat different from that of the original even apart from the deletions. What you have referred to as the "non functional" lengths of DNA do actually actually function, however because the proteins produced are just fragments they are effectively neutral to the cellular production. They were able to create a new code for these "non function" lengths because there is a lot of redundant space in the triplet codon for 20 amino acids. There are 64 codons available and they took advantage of the additional 44 that could be used.
You will find the video of the press conference answers a lot of your questions. In particular the question and answer session from around 32 minutes in.
http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/projec ... ell/video/
Hope this helps
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For several years we have noted that the legal system needs to catch up to the ongoing computer revolution, not necessarily to craft new rules, but to reach something resembling consensus on how the old rules apply to new technologies. While that process by definition is one that can never be completed, we do seem to be in a period of almost daily judicial decisions applying old rules to new technologies. Hopefully we are moving toward some established principles that will give litigants more predictability in discovery and other technology-related issues. Just as important, decisions give companies guidance in structuring their information management practices in the liability-minimizing way.
Two decisions within the last month involving relatively new technological versions of old legal issues demonstrate this still-evolving process, and each has a takeaway for corporate information management as well. Invidia LLC v. DiFonzo is a Massachusetts trial court decision involving a hair stylist's (DiFonzo) employment agreement. The agreement contained a post-employment two-year restriction on soliciting her employer's clients.
DiFonzo left employment with Invidia and, just four days later, her new employer announced on Facebook that she was now employed as a stylist with it. Not surprisingly, one of DiFonzo's clients commented on the post that she was looking forward to an upcoming appointment with DiFonzo. At some unspecified point during this period, DiFonzo became Facebook friends with at least eight of the customers she had worked with at Invidia.
The court denied Invidia's motion for a preliminary injunction finding in part that it had failed to show that DiFonzo had violated the nonsolicitation agreement. The court correctly noted that one can be Facebook friends without soliciting business, though from the facts provided to us, it seems likely that some teenagers would be puzzled by this decision and whether the judge fully "gets" social media. In any event, as is true with many judicial holdings in this highly fact-specific area of the law, litigants should not assume that this view of solicitation and social media will hold true in future cases.
It is common in restrictive covenant cases to struggle over when communication becomes prohibited solicitation. Companies with non-solicitation provisions are normally well advised to go to some lengths to craft such definitions. Here, it is advisable to revisit any such provisions and see if you are satisfied that they adequately anticipate social media contacts such as these. While it likely is not productive to unrealistically restrict social media activity, it is likely there are appropriate restrictions that would protect the company in various online scenarios.
The other case is AllianceBernstein L.P. v. Atha, where a New York appellate court reversed a trial court's discovery decision relating to production of his iPhone in discovery. Again this involves a former employer suing a departed employee (Atha), this time alleging that Atha took proprietary client contact information on his iPhone when he departed. (And again, the "low tech" version of the issue—what client contact information is protectable under the trade secrets and other laws—is a long-standing one.)
The lower court found that the discovery request for the production of Atha's iPhone was overbroad and "tantamount to ordering the production of his computer." (And again one wonders about the reaction of most teenagers to that statement – "Well, your honor, it is his computer," and a more powerful computer than most computers that sat on our desktops not 10 years ago.) Perhaps more in line with what we would expect, the appellate court ordered an in camera review of the iPhone, assisted by a record of the device's contents.
This decision underscores the omnipresence of handheld devices in the conduct of business, and the critical importance for companies to be actively managing this information just as they would the easily accessible information on the company's primary computer system. Perhaps in no area are fewer companies where they should be from a best practices standpoint than they are with respect to employee-owned mobile devices. Every reader should ask, does my company have a consensus on how company information on mobile devices will be handled, and do we have a written that reflects that.
It is almost a given that this coming week will bring more court decisions addressing the application of old rules to new technologies, and companies need to remain vigilant as both the technology and the legal consensus evolves. This process is particularly challenging because of the pace of that revolution, for two reasons. One, the target is continuously moving forward at a breakneck pace—6 months from now there will be a new technology or social media platform or something that raises issues we had not even thought of.
Two, a "generation" of technology users is just a few years in duration because the technology people "grow up" with changes constantly, so we lack a shared base of experience on which to build those rules. Decisions by judges of a certain age group may not always be in sync with how younger generations experience technology. It has always been true that rule-makers tend to be at least middle aged, but rarely if ever is the target of the rule-making moving as fast as technology does today.
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Sound and how the brain reacts to it
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Hmmm... most interesting. Now, I am only a high school student, so sorry if I am incorrect...
I also experience this feeling, but for me, it is music. And some music, or intervals which have a particular "feel" to them, excite me to a high, and instead of feeling drowsy, I feel wide awake and alert until the wee hours in the morning. Now, the chemical that is probably being released in plentiful is serotonin, which may give you the feeling of being under the influence of psychedelic drugs, however this usually is accompanied by high levels of energy, likewise for me. The reaction of sleepiness when produced with something pleasurable is something unusual, however an infinite calm when you are high on "sound" is nevertheless possible.
This kind of peacefulness I achieve also with particular music, which I attach emotions to. For example, James Horner's Titanic and A Beautiful Mind, is what I listen to on a daily basis to sleep. Perhaps, just the soft, low noise in the background resembles some event in your childhood in which you used to feel happy and go to sleep listening to, resulting in the music having an emotion attached to it. Such as, in Year 5, I was stung by many wasps from a wasp nest, so from that day forward, I would react to bees in a negative way, and I will often grow cold and shiver whenever I am near them, as well as run away.
Just a hypothesis...
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Probably not, you sound like a rare person!!! Anyway, if you were to describe the feeling as one related to a common day substance such as, morphine or an opiate-based substance, etc., what would you describe it as? That may give you a place to start looking at the chemicals released.
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I've just started doing some research of my own on this matter, because until now I thought I was the only person who experienced this. You described what I feel perfectly, except I get the same sensations from certain peoples voices as well. If they leave a voice mail I will play it back over and over and over again. I first noticed it with paper, but it has moved into many different things, like the other day a girl at work was wrapping the cord of the vacuum cleaner up and it hit me. I stopped everything I was doing to simply listen to the sound.
I've tried to recreate the sensation, but it only happens when other people are creating the sound. Please let me know what you find out and I will do the same for you. I was very surprised to find someone else who has the same situation.
Re: Sound and how the brain reacts to it
i am Kim, and im writing in response to your earlier post concerning your reaction to certain sounds.
i have looked all over the web, and this is the only conversation that i can find regarding this matter
I just wanted to let you know that i have experienced the exact saame thing ever since i can remember, and your not alone lol.
My wonderfull feeling is in response to sounds that others make, wierdly enough when they eat around me, the sound of chewing, or talking in a certain way, or even as you said the turning of a page. i used to give a chewing gum to my sister, just so i could listen and become entirely relaxed. i think this feeling is an amazing phenomina and some research should definately be done which i would be willing to take part or help in any way.
The feelings is just great though isnt it. as you said its just like a drug. i get a loverly tingling sensation all over my head, just like when someon is playing with your hair....
....wierd but nice
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Hi, I wanted to reply to the posts of Mem and Kim- I have exactly the same thing and I´m so glad I found this site, cause it´s really hard to find anything about this phenomenon.
I´ve had it since I was a kid. When for example someone would draw something on paper with like a felt tip pen I could just listen to it and look at it for hours cause it felt so good. Like a tingling sensation. The best way I can describe it, it´s like my brains is getting a massage. It´s great. And I agree with Mem it´s does feel like a sort of high you get with some drugs. It´s weird but good-
I experience it mostly with rustling of papers or listening to someone drawing or painting. But also when someone is giftwrapping a present. I would feel so relaxed, almost sleepy. Sometimes it feels like I´m being hypnotized or something. Once at work someone was explaining something but at the same time was goning through a paper folder. I didn´t hear a thing he said because of the sound of the paper rustling. So strange, I wanted it to go on and on...
Sometimes it happens when someone is eating an apple or something to loudly or talk a certain way. I don´t why some sounds cause this responce and other dont.
I don´t know if you have the same thing but with the rustling of paper of drawing I get the reaction more if I also watch it, not just listen?
This video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEFXim9eSWA does it to me everytime. Just block out the talking and listen to sound of the drawing and paper...
Maybe lots of people experience this, but just don´t talk about it. I guess that explains why Bob Ross is so popular
Well, I just wanted to share it. It's good to know more people have the same great brainmassage feeling !
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I can relate. I always have known it was unusual to get such a feeling from certain sounds but I know exactly what you guys are talking about. It used to happen all the time i remember in elementary school, but it rarely happens now. I think it's just how some people are wired, how some signal gets triggered by the realization of a certain sound that completely puts you in a state of relaxation, and gives you the feeling of your hair sticking up on your head. I think its just some sort conditioning, that some people have, maybe one's that have a better ability to focus on things. what i've noticed though is that it's always completely quiet other than the specific relaxing sound in the situation. sometimes its someone's voice that gives the feeling, usually a very mellow person. or papers slowly crinkling or rustling, or being turned...it's odd but it's a very rare thing that is nothing to complain about having lol.
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I'm really thrilled to find other on here reacting to sound in the same way, I googled to find this forum and didn't see anything else.
I've also had this since childhood and assumed that everyone was the same as me, clearly not!
I have the same tingly sensations that I get whilst having my hair brushed, but my sounds are different. I used to react in a quiet office hearing the cleaners spray polish on to the desk and hearing the quiet hum of the hoover. It had to be a quiet office so I could tune in properly (working overtime usually and late often that's why the cleaners were in). I also remember from my childhood watching my Nan colouring in (playing with our toys with us) and the sound of the colouring in had the same effect. Sounds a bit odd writing it all down!
Has anyone found out anything more on this strange effect?
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I have the exact same problem as MEM! Chewing gum, water sounds, the sound of clothes being washed in a river, poping and chewing of gum, hair cutting...
Strange sounds give me the feeling as good or better than any drug and the affect is nearly instant. I think I am receiving dopamine from my brain as a "thank you" for the sounds.
The problem is not like the rush of beautiful music but closer to spin tingling and euphoric affect you might have as an amazing scene in a movie occurs, or the feeling your first intimate kiss gave you.
I have turrets syndrome and I do many strange things as a result. WOW! I thought I was the only one.
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Wow, I'm fascinated that I found this subject. I'm the only person I know that seems to have this sort of reaction to certain sounds. When I used to try to describe it to others, they didn't understand what I meant - this is much more than "liking" certain sounds. (I don't tell anyone any more.)
My physical reaction is exactly like yours. Very pleasureable, and actually hard to stay awake if it goes on for some time. (A quick story: Many years ago I worked at a grocery store as a cashier. When the "chip man" would come to restock the potato chips (rustling plastic bags), I would actually have to lean against my counter, as my knees got too weak to hold myself up. Seriously.)
The sounds that trigger this physical reaction are many: rustling plastic bags, rustling paper, a broom sweeping a floor, distant snow shovelling, pencils banging together in a pencil case (I was very young when I first discovered this "thing" at school), a spray bottle being sprayed... and many more but I can't think of them right now.
I've actually been toying with the idea of finding a sound person to make me a recording of these sounds, and just looping them. I'd use it to put myself to sleep at night. (I've actually hung plastic bags out my bedroom window to hear them rustle in the wind to help me fall asleep - I kid you not!)
Edited to add that I forgot one of my very favourite sounds (someone else mentioned it too!): library books being reshelved. How weird!
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UPDATED: Illinois man arrested in Janesville motorcycle deaths
JANESVILLE—Tears pooled in Cory Volkey's eyes as he stood outside the Rock County Sheriff's Office on Friday.
The pain he felt from the Easter Sunday death of his friend Mitchell J. Vance and another motorcyclist, Devin J. Julius, had kept him from sleeping for three days, he said.
Volkey had just heard that an Illinois man suspected of causing deaths was in custody.
"Two thousand pounds of weight off my shoulders—I was, like: Justice! Justice! We're going to see justice," he told reporters.
Rock County Sheriff Robert Spoden had just announced that Sambath Pal, 24, of Park City, Illinois, was arrested Thursday on two counts of hit-and-run causing death.
Pal is accused of driving the vehicle that struck Julius and Vance on Sunday night.
This won't bring back his friends or take away the suffering of family and friends, Volkey said, but at least justice will be done.
Volkey didn't know Julius well, but he was a friend of Vance.
"Every time he was out (riding), I wanted to be there. He was just a great rider," Volkey said.
Volkey was not along for his friend's last ride. He received a text about 6 p.m. Sunday, notifying riders to be at the Lions Quick Mart near Milton Avenue in Janesville, the place they usually met for rides.
He missed the rendezvous by five minutes.
Volkey expressed anger at Pal, who is accused of crossing the centerline on Highway 14 about two hours later, crashing into the two motorcyclists and fleeing, touching off a manhunt.
"I just feel wrecked. Just absolutely wrecked," Volkey said. "That someone would run—I don't care what state of mind—just pull over," he said.
Investigators don't know Pal's state of mind. Asked if Pal is talking to detectives, Spoden said, "Not really."
Volkey said he came to Janesville three years ago and had no friends until he met Vance and other riders. He had never worn a helmet, but his new friends convinced him to start.
"Riders are their own breed. They're like family," Volkey said.
"I didn't want the community to think this was a sport-bike thing," Volkey said. "They were riding 55 (mph), staggered, doing what they were supposed to be doing."
The sheriff's office has said there are no indication the motorcyclists were violating any laws.
A caller who wanted to be anonymous called the Rock County Communications Center on Thursday morning and told where Pal could be found, in Park City, which is north of Chicago near Waukegan, Illinois, about 80 miles from Janesville.
Park City police arrested Pal, who is being held in Illinois pending extradition to Wisconsin.
There is no indication Pal was impaired during the crash, but alcohol leaves the system quickly, so no test can tell whether he was, Spoden noted.
Pal had been visiting friends in Janesville on Sunday. He was alone in the SUV at the time of the accident "as far as we know," Spoden said.
The black Infiniti QX56 that Pal is suspected of driving was found at the same place where he was arrested. It was taken to the state crime laboratory in Milwaukee, Spoden said.
The model was the same one authorities earlier believed to be involved in the crash and had damage consistent with what investigators know from the crash scene, Spoden said.
Pal is not the SUV's registered owner, but Spoden said detectives believe he was the driver at the time of the crash based on information from the anonymous caller and from witness statements.
Spoden thanked area news media and users of social media for spreading the word about the vehicle.
Friends and family members attended the news conference, but most declined to talk to reporters. Spoden noted they are going through "a great deal of suffering."
Pal is being held in the Lake County, Illinois, jail, Spoden said.
The sheriff's office had appealed to the public for information about a dark blue or black Infiniti QX56 sport utility vehicle that was believed to have crossed the centerline on Highway 14 in the town of Harmony, striking the bikes at dusk Sunday.
Investigators earlier had thought the suspect vehicle was one of two similar models, a Nissan and a smaller Infiniti, but a car part found at the scene was later tied to the QX56.
Vance, 24, and Julius, 18, both of Janesville, died from blunt-force trauma to their heads and torsos, according to autopsy reports.
Vance and Julius were riding with four other motorcyclists, who were not injured in the crash.
The sheriff's office has said the eastbound SUV crossed the centerline on a curve of Highway 14, about 0.1 mile west of Old Humes Road in the town of Harmony.
A westbound minivan dodged out of the SUV's path, and the SUV continued into the westbound lane, hitting the two westbound motorcycles, according to reports.
Vance and Julius were wearing helmets.
A memorial service for Vance is scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday at Fountain of Life Tabernacle Holiness Church, 1600 E. Huebbe Parkway, Beloit.
Spoden thanked businesses that helped with this case, including Harms Automotive of Janesville and LKQ Auto Parts, where workers helped identify the make, model and year of the vehicle from parts collected at the crash scene. He also thanked Lamar Advertising for providing billboards displaying the suspect vehicle information.
Spoden said it's not yet known whether Pal will oppose extradition from Illinois. If he does, it could be several weeks before he is brought to Rock County to face charges.


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Helen Gourley, Janesville, WI (1934-2014)
November 1, 1934 - February 26, 2014
Helen Gourley, age 79, of Janesville, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014, at Huntington Place with her family by her side. She was born Nov. 1, 1934, in Bradford Township, Rock County, the daughter of Martin and Annie (Jacobson) Herstad. Helen graduated from Janesville High School in the class of 1952. She married Robert Gourley on Oct. 22, 1955, at First Congregational Church, Janesville. He preceded her in death on Jan. 27, 2009. Helen worked at Prent Corporation for 15 years, then as a receptionist for Gordie Boucher auto dealership for 10 years. She was a member of the Eastside Homemakers Club, and was active in the Roosevelt 4-H Club. She enjoyed flower gardening and continually updating the aesthetics of her home's interior and exterior. She also enjoyed visiting quaint towns throughout Wisconsin, where she loved to spend time exploring antique stores and gift shops.
Helen is survived by her four children: Nancy (Casey) Christofferson of Beloit, Susan Venable, John (Patricia) Gourley and Michelle (Steve) Reichard, all of Janesville; seven grandchildren: Kristin, Sean, Cathryn, Nick, Teddy, Sarah, and Cody; three great-grandchildren: John, Charlie, and Thomas; nieces; nephews; and other relatives. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Robert; two brothers, Clifford and Arnold Herstad; a sister, Kathryn Pickering; son-in-law, Tom Venable; great-grandson, Grayson; and her beloved cat, "Bootsie".
A Private Family service was held at the ALBRECHT FUNERAL HOMES & CREMATION SERVICES, Milton. Burial was in the Milton Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Beloit Regional Hospice or Mercy Hospital Volunteer Association/Meals on Wheels.
Our family would like to express our sincere gratitude for all the kind personal care given to Helen by the staff of Huntington Place and Beloit Regional Hospice over the past few months. We are truly grateful for their constant and amazing support to our family.
Albrecht Funeral Homes & Cremation Services, Milton
828 S. Janesville St. 608-868-2542


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2014 sidewalk plan modified; next up, 2015 plan
JANESVILLE--Are sidewalks good public policy supported by the silent majority?
Or did Janesville City Council members who voted against installing sidewalks on the 2014 sidewalk plan Monday simply listen to the people who showed up at council chambers to protest the sidewalks.
At Monday's meeting, sidewalk supporter and council President Kathy Voskuil acknowledged that residents in attendance all spoke out against sidewalks. But Voskuil argued that a small group doesn't necessarily reflect the opinions of an entire community.
"We're also a town of 60,000 people, and there are a lot of people out there who support sidewalks," Voskuil said.
"I haven't seen any of them," Councilman Brian Fitzgerald argued. "I received a single letter."
The council eventually approved much of the 2014 plan but deleted significant portions. City staff Tuesday had still not figured out total miles that remain in the program.
A former council had approved a multi-year plan to close gaps and increase safety in the pedestrian system and hopefully put the sidewalk controversy behind the city.
Sidewalks are controversial because some residents are required to pay to install them and maintain them and other residents are not required to have sidewalks.
Meanwhile, Janesville Public Works Director Carl Weber said Tuesday the 2015 sidewalk plan will continue unless otherwise directed by the council, since the council simply modified the 2014 plan.
But nothing is forever when it comes to sidewalks.
"I can't predict the future," acting City Manager Jay Winzenz said. "There's an election between now and then."
At Monday's meeting, Councilman Douglas Marklein made a motion to can the 2014 program, but that failed on a 4-3 vote. Voting for the plan were council members Sam Liebert, Matt Kealy, Jim Farrell and Voskuil. Voting against were Marklein, Fitzgerald and DuWayne Severson.
Then, Marklein went through some of the 37 segments on the program, suggesting eliminating or changing 11 because of the character of the neighborhoods. In all, eight segments were deleted and two modified.
Voskuil and Kealy consistently voted in favor of sidewalks while Fitzgerald, Marklein and Severson consistently voted against them.
Dartmouth Drive, for example, was removed from the program. Residents there were especially vocal in protesting sidewalks.
Only one segment suggested for removal by Marklein—a block the city owns along Johnson Street in the Fourth Ward Park—remains on the program.
Kealy noted the council was requiring residents to build sidewalks but now would exempt one of its own.
�"I vocally, strongly disagree with that," Kealy said. "It's a park. I think we owe it to the plan to put it on our own property."
In another instance, Kealy noted a family that includes visually handicapped members lives on a street that was later removed from the program.
After the vote, Voskuil said she was "extremely disappointed." She noted a task force the council created had unanimously recommended the sidewalks on the 2014 and 2015 plan.
She said council members who voted against the sidewalks had supported the task force decisions but now "changed their minds completely."
Liebert served on the task force but in retrospect said the west side was not adequately represented in the discussion.
�"I heard it over and over, 'Where was my voice?'" he said, noting about five or six council members live within a mile of each other on the east side. "It's not a representative government."
Farrell defended his votes, saying that while he suggested establishing the task force, he inherited the multi-year program.
The task force's recommendations were just that, he said.
Marklein said he supported the task force but believes they made mistakes.
Fitzgerald said he might support sidewalks in the future. But now, with Janesville still recovering from the poor economy, is not a good time to install them, he said.
Fitzgerald likened the sidewalk plan to Obamacare: very few people need it, want it or can afford it, he said.
"Yet, the council wants to (shove) it down your throat and force you to pay for it," he said.


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The Fiber Disease
Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Medicine. Anything human!
Moderator: BioTeam
It's also things that make our olfactory senses effect our brain chemicals. it has alot to do w/ pollution too. Also they feed the antibiotics to the animals we eat.
and, remember, just like I taught my kids in school, there is noise pollution> Now, have I confused you yet? sorry if so.
wow RANDY, thanks for sharing, I'm going to your links now!
gnostic=gnosis=to know
"still controversial, it can be speculated that sanitation
procedures, vaccination, and widespread antibiotic use, imped-
ing host-to-host spread of vir plasmid-based pathogens, may
reduce the overall pathogenic power of microorganisms.
Due to the rapid acquisition and fixation of compensatory
mutations by bacteria, experiments to evaluate the biological
cost of the expression of novel antibiotic resistance and viru-
lence determinants are difficult to perform. Antibiotic resis-
tance and virulence can be acquired either by horizontal trans-
fer of antibiotic resistance genes (97) or by mutation (241).
The presence of new plasmids and transposons in the bacterial
genome has a relevant cost for the recipient bacteria"
a gift from Austria-
"An array sensor for detecting hydrogen gas was constructed by electrodepositing palladium nanowires on an HOPG surface and then transferring the nanowires to a cyanoacrylate film supported on a glass slide. The application of silver contacts to the ends of 10 to 100 nanowires--arrayedelectrically in parallel--produced sensors and switches that exhibited a high conductivity state in thepresence of hydrogen, and a low conductivity state in the absence of hydrogen. This paper describes amethod for incorporating these "portable" metal nanowire arrays into sensors.Nanowire Nanosensors for Highly Sensitive and Selective Detection of Biological and ChemicalSpecies"
Ultra-sensitive detection systems using alterable peptide tags - Patent 6824981
http://www.freshpatents.com/Drug-bio-af ... ntc424.php
Drug, bio-affecting and body treating compositions patents 200602
I watched many discussions about Randy Yaskal and London ecc. in your board, well to many written things about nothing...Lets stay by the main problems "Morgellons desease". watched many discussions about Randy Yaskal and London ecc. in your board, well to many written things about nothing...Lets stay by the main problems "Morgellons desease".
This is how someone in Germany says "Thank You" for spreading the word about his cream and testing it out..without it first being analyzed for toxins......unreal.....people never seem to amaze me at how crazy and mean they can be.
is there anyone who is sane out there?
During the End Times, Good will battle Evil. Where do you stand?
all aggressive tactics cause consolidtion of ectoparasite/phagocyte to internalize host by mass exodus via quorum sensing untill further photonic band gap codon are needed per operon...
"Mutants unable to swim showed great delays in biofilm formation, suggesting flagellar motility (swimming) facilitates initial contact with thesurface. The main role of flagellar motility seems to be to provide force-generating movement that allows the cell to overcome repulsive forces when approaching the surface and become attached. In the absence of flagellar motility there appears to be enough kinetic energy from Brownian motion to allow some cells to eventually attach and form biofilms. The flagella themselves do not seem to serve as adhesins as paralyzed mutants that still have flagella are also defective in biofilm formation. Finally, while swimming plays an important role in attachment, chemotaxis does not seem to have a role, at least when attachment involves inert abiotic surfaces and homogeneous nutritive environments. Once contact with the surface is made, it is necessary for the bacteria to stabilize their interactions with the surface and in many instances pili play a critical role in this process ."
"Surface Colonization. Once stably associated with the surface, bacteria begin to colonize it. Colonization involves a combination of three distinct processes: growth and division of surface-associated cells, recruitment of additional planktonic cells via cell-to-cell interactions, and migration of attached cells along the surface. The concerted action of these three processes leads to the formation of stable microcolonies in the early phases of biofilm development. We showed that cell-to-cell interactions can be mediated by surface structures such type IV pili, which mediate twitching motility in P. aeruginosa . The biofilm defective phenotype of the P. aeruginosa Crc mutant described above is due to a decrease in twitching motility due to the fact that Crc controls the transcription of the pil genes, which encode the type IV pili apparatus."
"incongruent trees can provide evidence for recombination or horizontal transfer of genes (though other causes must also be considered, including systematic errors and cryptic paralogy). A second aspect of phylogenetic trees that can be quite striking is a lengthening of branches to genes when their function is changed, or constraints are relaxed. Finally, phylogenetic analyses provide a context within which to interpret other data, including gene presence and absence, or rearrangements."
- n a d a s
alchemical redundance or the world of COSMETICS:
.....the same are disclosed in Korean Pat. No. 0405955. Besides, the perment set by combining hair shampoo, treatment agent, oxidant, rinse, cuticle modulator with the same, are illustrated in Korean Patent Laid-open No. 2002-0021141. Also, the process for washing hair by using shampoo containing ceramide; the process for providing a treatment agent containing ceramide on the hair;a method for pressing a permanent wherein a multiple system using one more substance among two soluble agents and a rinse product is adopted as a chemical suitable for the reductive reaction of keratin fiber... ..... . . . . ?
http://stateslab.bioinformatics.med.umi ... tions.html
http://184.108.40.206/search?q=cache:AQ ... osal02.doc
http://www.bio-computing.org/showabstra ... d=15572320
http://eurekah.com/abstract.php?chapid= ... 3&catid=20
Early Molecular Events in Feather Morphogenesis: Induction and Dermal Condensation
http://www.freshpatents.com/Drug-bio-af ... ntc424.php
spot-on Nadus gnostic, spot-on!
I'm telling you guys, they are using that damn lil parasitoid wasp to damage and make potent chemicles out of the transgenic plants. Don't remeber which all are the worst but do remember carrots and tobacco!! Now, check this out on tobacco.....
Tnt1, a mobile retroviral-like transposable element of tobacco isolated by plant cell genetics. (iNCASE you did'nt know, retroviruses means HIV, can you say Hello??? )
Transposable elements can be identified by their ability to induce mutant alleles at new loci. The retrotransposon family is thought to transpose through an RNA intermediate and has many similarities to vertebrate proretroviruses. In plants, retrotransposons have been described in maize, Arabidopsis and wheat, and non-viral retroposons in maize. Most of these elements, however, have been found as non-mobile integrated units. Here, we report the isolation of the first tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) transposable element, Tnt1, which seems to be the most complete mobile retrotransposon characterized in higher plants. Tnt1 has been isolated after its transposition into the nitrate reductase (NR) structural gene of tobacco, and transposition events have been detected through in vitro selection of spontaneous NR-deficient (NR-) mutant lines in cell cultures derived from tobacco mesophyll protoplasts. Tnt1 is 5,334 nucleotides long, contains two 610-base-pair-long terminal repeats and a single open reading frame of 3,984 nucleotides. Comparison of the Tnt1 open reading frame coding potential with those of the Drosophila melanogaster copia retrotransposon, yeast Ty retrotransposon, and vertebrate proretroviruses revealed that Tnt1 is closely related to copia and carries all the functions known to be required for autonomous transposition by reverse transcription
and if that is not bad enough:
00.097. Pseudoviridae - ICTVdB Index of Viruses - 6:20amHowever, there are instances in the family Pseudoviridae and the family ... Members of the Family Pseudoviridae are different from the other two in that all ...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ICTVdb/Ictv/fs_pseud.htm - 43k - Cached - Similar pages
I was not sure what Pseudovidiridae was, but I found this out:
Virus classification
The Pseudoviridae are a family of viruses, including the following genera:
Genus Pseudovirus; type species: Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ty1 virus
Genus Hemivirus; type species: Drosophila melanogaster copia virus
Well, this pseusovirus is in the watermelons!! I hate biotechnology and the US GOVERNMENT!
then our local USDAgriculture had this to say about our plants:
Technical Abstract: Retrotransposons are present in high copy number in many plant genomes and they show considerable degree of sequence heterogeneity and insertional polymorphism, both within and among species. The extremely high variability of Ty1-copia retrotransposons in several other crop genomes including pea, broad bean, Ipomoea, Vitis, Medicago and carrot warrants the current investigation. A large number of fragments that contain RnaseH-LTR regions of the Ty1-copia were amplified and cloned by following procedures developed by Pearce et al, 1999. Some modifications to the original method include hybridization of biotinylated gene-specific degenerate oligo and subsequent stringent washes of streptavidin coated paramagnetic beads after affinity separation. A PCR with nested primer from second RnaseH motif followed this capture. A study of putative transposon insertion sites and the resultant genetic variability is underway using terminal sequences of long-terminal repeats (LTR) using S-SAP (sequence-specific amplified polymorphism) in a set of watermelon genotypes. A genetic linkage map is currently available (Levy et al., 2002) for watermelon using a testcross population [Plant Accession Griffin 14113 (C. lanatus var. citroides) x New Hampshire Midget (NHM); Citrullus lanatus var. lanatus)] x U.S. Plant Introduction (PI) 386015 (C. colocynthis). As this map consists of RAPD and ISSR markers, further integration of PCR based markers based on insertional polymorphism will be useful to locate important genes.
http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/public ... 115=156648
and last but not least:
Identification of a defective transposable element in tobacco.
A putative defective transposable element has been identified in tobacco. This element has been found and characterised in two separate parts of the tobacco genome, specifically within the 3rd intron of the pollen-specific polygalacturonase gene (Npg1) and upstream of the endochitinase gene (Chn50). The element is ca. 0.4 kb in length and is bounded by conserved inverted repeats and putative target site duplications. It appears to fall into the category of non-autonomous transposable elements.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... med_docsum
So, SPOT ON, what in the hell does this mean?
I looked up retrovirus C and it said Murine Leukemia Virus, then I found this piece of dog doo:
Cancer gene therapy will benefit from vectors that are able to replicate in tumor tissue and cause a bystander effect. Replication-competent murine leukemia virus (MLV) has been described to have potential as cancer therapeutics, however, MLV infection does not cause a cytopathic effect in the infected cell and viral replication can only be studied by immunostaining or measurement of reverse transcriptase activity.
so, is this what they will use to get away with putting it out there in the crops? Why not let those F-sticks grow their gd plants in their own lab then let them smoke it, eat it and bath in it. I will find these people.
oh lool , here's there names, TamTam., they are from Germany, can you go have a talk with them?
Katja Sliva,1 Otto Erlwein,1 Alexandra Bittner,1 and Barbara S Schnierle1,2
Ahhhhhhhhhh......look what's coming down the line in our disease, folks, but also look at how we get this way.
"Neurogenic inflammation in the skin
Rainer Haberberger and *Volker Niemeier Institutes for Anatomy and Cell Biology and Psychosomatic Medicine*, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen Neurogenic inflammation of the skin is induced by the activation of nociceptive nerve fibres followed by vasodilation and an increase in vascular permeability. Nociceptors belong to the group of unmyelinated (C-fibre) or myelinated (A-fibre) sensory nerve fibres that innervate different structures in the skin. These fibres originate from dorsal root ganglia (DRG) situated in the intervertebral foramina. Neurochemically distinct populations of sensory DRG neurons project to different regions of the skin. Specific receptors in the endings of those afferent nerve fibres in the skin can be activated by a huge variety of substances including transmitters, proteases, protons and cytokines. Activation of the nerve endings in the skin is followed by the generation of action potentials that are conveyed centrally to the laminae I and II of the spinal cord dorsal horn. Stimulation of the nerves also leads to the release of "proinflammatory" substances from peripheral nerve endings. The Calcitonin-gene-related peptide (CGRP) and substance P (SP) are two neuropeptides that are present in C- and A-fibre afferents and that are released upon stimulation of peripheral nerve endings. CGRP and SP induce pruritus, dilate arterioles, increase vascular permeability and activate mast cells. Capsaicin-induced depletion of sensory nerves prevents the neuropeptide release and inflammatory skin responses like the flare. Sensory nerves can be stimulated under pathological conditions by proteinases via activation of proteinase-activated receptors (PARs), by protons through interaction with acid sensing ion-channels (ASICs) or by the transmitter substance acetylcholine which is produced and released from keratinocytes and interacts with nicotinic and muscarinic receptors. Stimulation of nerve fibres is followed by release of e.g. neuropeptides that further affect many target cells in the skin including inflammatory cells like mast cells, leukocytes and neutrophils. This interplay between neuronal and non-neuronal cells in the skin is important for skin homeostasis and the imbalance in this system may be involved in skin diseases like psoriasis and atopic dermatitis.
"Dr J A Cotterill, Leeds, UK Should dermatologists create imposters?"
http://www.psychodermatology.info/ESDaP ... n-2005.htm
So,........Be Prepared folks, just wonder how the CDC plays a role in this?
NIH is probably funding it.
To the MRF Board of Directors,
As you know I have made several requests for the 10 thousand dollars donated
by my dear sister-in-law, Mrs. Suzanne Steadman, to be transferred to OSU's
Morgellons Research. Since I have not heard any reply from any of you, I
must assume that our concerns regarding this research money is meaningless
to you.
For a non-profit organization to ignore requests from their donors is
unacceptable. Thus, I will be doing more investigation on how you have
treated other donors and how you have used their donated funds to date... as
well as how you plan to use donated funds in the future. You have left me
with no other choice.
Since you don't seem to have any intention of these funds going to research,
I must now ask...what are your intentions for these funds? I believe that
this is public information so I am anxiously awaiting publication of your
financial records.
I will be checking with others who have donated funds to see if they have
been ignored as I have.
Your failure to respond to my requests as well as your failure to produce
any financial documents or by-laws for your own board members has caused
increased concern regarding potential improprieties. At the very least, you
owe it to your donors to be accountable for the use of their money.
In case some of you don't understand the point of my persistence on this
issue.....Here's the deal:
Randy Wymore needs help in his lab in order to do this research. He needs
36 thousand dollars to be able to offer a years salary to a Masters prepared
assistant. I want to see that Randy gets this funding so that this research
can get going. We have thousands of desperate, suffering people out there
who want answers and who share my sense of urgency.
This brings me to a question which was brought up on one the conference
calls but was never answered. What IS this money being raised for if not
for research???
Since we share the same goals, I hope that someone in your organization can
address these issues and that we can move on in a positive way in our
efforts to achieve our common goals.
We are doing all we can to raise additional funding. I hope that some of
you will be able to join us at the upcoming celebration in Tahlequah, OK
October 7th and 8th in support of Randy Wymore's research and Oklahoma State
University's commitment to our cause.
Cindy Casey, RN
Please forward this to your Nursing Coordinator and Clinical Director, since
you have yet to release their identity or contact information.
During the End Times, Good will battle Evil. Where do you stand?
spot on skytroll, Randy and Cindy! (Randy, I thought you had written it until I saw her name. ) But thanks to all for sharing!
Sky, going to read your great find now....(the link)
Now check this out:
Molecular Genetic Evidence for the Involvement of
Polygalacturonase, P2c, in the Invasion and Spread
of Aspergillus flavus in Cotton Bolls†
http://aem.asm.org/cgi/reprint/63/9/354 ... nt%20of%22
Glad to hear you are okay. 14 hours. That is close to torture, I'd say.
Hey, what do you mean about the cream? Is it toxic? Is this what you are saying?
Good letter there to the "MRF". Deserves an explanation from them.
Look at this:
Case 1. A 32-year-old woman was admitted to the department because of multiple round erosions and small ulcerations localized on the anterior surface of the right thigh. Four years earlier, during pregnancy, Clark III melanoma on the right thigh was diagnosed in the presented patient. The tumour was radically removed. On the examination, the skin lesions were distributed very regularly, each lesion was found in the distance of about 1 cm from other lesions, and the area of lesional skin was laterally very well demarcated from the healthy skin. As skin lesions were also considered to be a metastases of previous melanoma, a skin biopsy was done. Histologically only a toxic damage of the epidermis with stingy mixed infiltration of the dermis was seen. The diagnosis of dermatitis artefacta was put and occlusions with neutral topical agents were employed. As the lesional skin was not accessible for the patient manipulations, a rapid healing of skin lesions was noted.
"toxic damage of the epidermis with stingy mixed infiltration of the dermis"
sounds like one of my docs.
So, dermatitis artefacta, Now, just what does that mean?
So the case for pscho is being built folks.
I wonder what kind of transmitters could cause this psychodermatological damage to occur?
Gooood Eeeevning,
Okay, so transmitters are most like nano or self-assembling metal particles that zero into our pores and set up the receptor status for incoming waves.
Another way we can get psychodermatological problems that warrent a new subspecialty in medicine, (because the dermatopathologists have hit the road, or been kicked out of the derm clinics, too costly), is by this thing called Proteases.
Interestingly enough, these folks with this new medial subspecialty called Psychodermatology are giving themselves away.
First this is created by transmitters, proteases, protons, and cytokines and then Yippee, time for a new job for Dermatologists, must be pay is low.
So, this idiotic label and now med school for it will defininetly drug us for life.
Meanwhile, still not looking at the real cause of this fiber disease.
Could it just be the transmitters and the Proteases?
Proteases (proteinases, peptidases, or proteolytic enzymes) are enzymes that break peptide bonds between amino acids of proteins. The process is called proteolytic cleavage, a common mechanism of activation or inactivation of enzymes, especially those involved in blood coagulation or digestion. They use a molecule of water for this and are thus classified as hydrolases........
There are currently six classes of proteases:
Serine proteases
Threonine proteases
Cysteine proteases
Aspartic acid proteases (e. g., plasmepsin)
Glutamic acid proteases
The threonine and glutamic acid proteases were not described until 1995 and 2004, respectively. The mechanism used to cleave a peptide bond involves making an amino acid residue (serine, cysteine and threonine peptidases) or a water molecule (aspartic acid, metallo- and glutamic acid peptidases) nucleophilic so that it can attack the peptide carbonyl group. One way to make a nucleophile is by a catalytic triad, where a histidine residue is used to activate serine, cysteine or threonine as a nucleophile.
Proteases occur naturally in all organisms and constitute 1-5% of the gene content. These enzymes are involved in a multitude of physiological reactions from simple digestion of food proteins to highly regulated cascades (e.g., the blood clotting cascade, the complement system, apoptosis pathways, and the invertebrate prophenoloxidase activating cascade). Peptidases can break either specific peptide bonds (limited proteolysis), depending on the amino acid sequence of a protein, or break down a complete peptide to amino acids (unlimited proteolysis). The activity can be a destructive change abolishing a protein's function or digesting it to its principal components, it can be an activation of a function or it can be a signal in a signalling pathway.........
Well now, that last sentence says a lot!
Taking proteases a little further:
"Some viruses, with HIV among them, depend on proteases in their reproductive cycle."
I would think that many of these protease enzymes also cause fermenting to take place.
"Protease research
The field of protease research is enormous. Barrett and Rawlings estimated that approximately 8000 papers related to this field are published each year."
Why so many papers on just this?
Now lets take this even further:
"Protease refers to a group of enzymes whose catalytic function is to hydrolyze (breakdown) peptide bonds of proteins. They are also called proteolytic enzymes or proteinases. Proteases differ in their ability to hydrolyze various peptide bonds. Each type of protease has a specific kind of peptide bonds it breaks. Examples of proteases include: fungal protease, pepsin, trypsin, chymotrypsin, papain, bromelain, and subtilisin."
Take your pick, mix and match:
Look where some Proteases are:
Melioidosis most commonly presents as an acute pulmonary infection, but it may present as an acute localized skin infection or septicemia. Chronic suppurative infections often develop with secondary abscesses in the skin, brain, lungs, myocardium, liver, spleen, bones, lymph nodes, or eyes. Melioidosis may remain latent for years. Even months of treatment with appropriate antibiotics do not necessarily eradicate the disease. Histologically, caseating granulomas as found in tuberculosis are seen. Melioidosis has been called the 'Great Imitator' because the disease does not show any specific clinical features except perhaps the presentation of suppurative parotitis in children. Fulminant respiratory failure, multiple pustular and necrotic skin lesions, or the radiologic appearance of tuberculosis without isolating any mycobacteria suggests the diagnosis of melioidosis. Definitive diagnosis requires culturing organisms from body fluids or blood. No carrier state exists; recovery of organisms denotes active disease.
Antibiotic treatment should be based on sensitivities. Ceftazidime has been most responsible for reducing mortality. Treatment must continue at least 30 days, but 60-150 days is recommended for pulmonary disease and 6-12 months for suppurative extrapulmonary disease. Before antibiotics, 95% of patients died. The mortality rate for septicemic disease is over 50% and 20% for localized disease despite treatment. Overall, mortality is 40%.
Cutaneous Manifestations:
Severe urticaria has been reported with pulmonary melioidosis. Flushing and cyanosis may develop during septicemia. No cutaneous lesion, however, is specific or diagnostic of melioidosis, nor is any likely to be present with acute pulmonary disease. Inhalational melioidosis could lead to any of the skin manifestations mentioned below, but only after metatstatic abscesses to the skin formed, and this would likely take months. Many patients in endemic areas present with pustules or cutaneous abscesses associated with lymphangitis, cellulitis, or regional lymphadenitis. Draining sinuses from lymph nodes or even bone may be present. Abscesses may ulcerate, and rarely, ecthyma gangrenosum-like lesions may form.
Biological Warfare considerations:
B. pseudomallei would most likely be delivered as an aerosol. However, its long incubation period would make it a less effective agent than anthrax. The lack of a vaccine and its high mortality despite treatment may increase its utility as a BW agent. Acute pneumonia could be confused with plague given the similar appearance of stained organisms.
References & Links
http://telemedicine.org/BioWar/biologic.htm (source for majority of above literature)
Acta Tropica - 74 (2000)
Melioidosis in the news
Image links
Will go into the other two that cause nerurosensations on the skin that would lead to the new subspecialty: Psychodermatology.
Are we going to let this happen?
Or are we going to keep exposing these crooks more and more.
What devious ways many will go to hurt and destroy populations of people, set up the problem, mis name it, and produce a drug to cure it.
Fascinating how this works.
Keep going:
Proteases again:
Thomas W. McGovern, MD, MAJ, MC
George W. Christopher, LTC, USAF, MC
The opinions and assertions contained herein are those of the authors and not to be considered as reflecting the views of the Department of the Army or the Department of Defense.
Key Words: biological warfare, cutaneous manifestations, hemorrhagic fever, mycotoxins, poxviruses, plague, melioidosis
Biological warfare agents have gained attention in recent years. They have been discussed in Congress and in the medical literature, and have been the subject of frequent commentaries.[109] The mention of 'biological warfare' often elicits a sense of deadly mystery, as summarized by a Russian journalist
"I have been gathering information on bacteriological weapons (BW) for several years. Out of all the means of mass destruction, this kind can be considered as the most mysterious."[112]
This article attempts to eliminate some of that mystery by discussing the history and background of biological weapons and by reviewing agents that cause cutaneous disease. While a biological attack could result in a made-made epidemic of unprecedented scale, the classical principles of clinical medicine and epidemiology would apply. Prompt diagnosis and early interventions could reduce morbidity and mortality, and mitigate the effects of a biological attack. In the aftermath of a biological attack, dermatologists could play a critical role in recognizing the differential diagnosis of an epidemic exanthem and alerting public health officials, leading to prompt medical and public health interventions, hopefully preventing wide-spread mortality.
'Biological Warfare' (BW) is defined as the 'employment of biological agents to produce casualties in man or animals or damage to plants.'[91] An early BW attack took place in the Black Sea port of Kaffa (now Feodossia, Ukraine) in 1346. Rats and their fleas carried the disease to attacking Tatar soldiers. In spite, the Tatars catapulted the bodies of victims at the defending Genoese who contracted plague and left Kaffa. The same rats afflicting the Tatars likely brought disease to the Genoese.[5]
Another attempted use of biological warfare occurred between 1754 and 1767 when the British infiltrated smallpox-infested blankets to unsuspecting American Indians during the French and Indian war. Smallpox decimated the Indians, but it is unclear if the contaminated blankets or endemic disease brought by the Europeans caused these epidemics.[92] In 1932, the Japanese began a series of horrific experiments on human beings at 'Unit 731' outside Harbin, Manchuria, China.[92] At least 11 Chinese cities were attacked with the agents of anthrax, cholera, shigellosis, salmonella, and plague, and at least 10,000 died during their gruesome experiments.[27]
The United States started an offensive biological warfare program at Camp Detrick (today Fort Detrick) in Frederick, Maryland in 1943.[27] Ten years later, the defensive program began. By 1969, the U.S. had weaponized the agents causing anthrax, botulism, tularemia, brucellosis, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, and Q fever.[92]
more here:
"The autonomic nervous system is part of the human central nervous system (CNS). The CNS is basically made up of three sections, the functions of which closely interact. One part manages voluntary movement, the muscle system's response to various stimuli from the environment; this part is called motor nervous system. Another part processes information from the sense-organs, such as eye, nose, or sense of touch, into conscious perception; it is called sensory nervous system."
"The central nervous system's third section - the ANS - coordinates the internal organs' functions. It originates from the brainstem and the spinal cord and includes the nerves, which innervate the smooth muscles of the internal organs, heart and glands. The regulative cycles of the autonomic nervous system are tightly entwined with those of the other two sections, causing numerous interdependencies between the individual systems. "
"structure of the nervous system"
"There are two substructures within the autonomic nervous system, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic, which originate from different areas in the brainstem and spinal cord, and also respond to different biochemical transmitter substances. They both regulate the internal organs by stimulating or inhibiting their activity in a co-ordinated fashion."
"The autonomic nervous system can virtually not be controlled consciously; hence the name. We cannot consciously manipulate our internal organs, such as altering the heart rate intentionally."
" origins and distribution of peripheral autonomic nerves"
"Function of the ANS"
"Most internal organs receive innervation from sympathetic as well as from parasympathetic nerves. Both portions of the ANS are active at the same time, but to a different extent. Their combined influence upon an organ is of opposing, but balancing antagonistic nature, meaning that the predominance of one system can inhibit a certain function, whereas that of the other system would stimulate the same function. Increased activity in one of the two autonomic systems inevitably causes an activity decrease in the other, but without ever completely disabling it. It is therefore impossible for an organ to be under maximal sympathetic and maximal parasympathetic influence at the same time, one can only dominate at the expense of the other. This is the equivalent of the interdependency of the organs' so-called Yin and Yang states in Chinese medicine. "
"Exploring the signals......."
"So what is the nature of these mysterious Earth signals? Is it sound, or is it an electrical pulsing in the ear cellular tissue that mimics sound? [1] Researchers have encountered this same dilemma on a small percentage of people who experience a sensation of low rumbling or idling diesel-engine sounds in their ears in an area near Taos, New Mexico. It's called 'The Taos Hum', and it was first noticed in the early 1990's. Scientists equipped with an array of sensitive instruments have found no sound nor electromagnetic signals to explain the symptoms.
Scientists will continue to be baffled as to the nature and existence of these emissions until they change the type of instruments they use to look for the signals. The signals are not sound; nor are they true radio waves. Current mainstream physics looks to sound waves and radio waves, as they seem to be the only explanations that still fit within popular physics. But, using sensitive microphones or radio- wave-type sensors, whether magnetic or even electrostatic, means that finding the true, stealthy signals will only continue to be elusive.
Medical doctors are aware of a sudden onset of dizziness and nausea in patients when they move briskly while near very powerful magnetic fields of the modern day MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) machine [7] [8]. Yet the earth signals do not have a powerful magnetic field and still they can cause the same type of effect with sudden onset of nausea and dizziness. In search of these Earth signals, scientists have used some of the most sensitive, super-cooled magnetic sensors available to detect any extremely weak magnetic field changes but, to date, they have found nothing.
Scientists are using the intense external power of magnetic fields and pulsed radio waves in the MRI machine to reach into the atom and excite it into resonance. But they are not thinking of the already existing powerful electrostatic fields within the atoms themselves. No batteries required! The atom has its charge within.
The sudden onset of dizziness, nausea, or other symptoms comes from within the atoms themselves. The signals from the Earth disrupt existing the powerful electrostatic fields of the atoms. This is the secret to understanding the mysterious signals. The signals disrupt existing strong magnetic fields or existing strong electrostatic fields. The other secret is that the strength of the field and the density of the atoms (or tissue in the human body sense) form a selective tuning to the type of Earth signal. This is why some people experience the symptoms differently, or not at all. "
"Experimental evidence of zero-point energy of vacuum has been established beyond question. Soviet direct measurement of this energy has been reported. Prigogine's Nobel Prize work confirms that in theory a highly disordered,chaotic, virtual state, zero-point energy can be cohered to crosstalk into observable quantum change and even macroscopic energy production. Several simple devices can be demonstrated to observably tap zero-point energy. Extension of the theory onto even a simplified hyperspace model indicates direct applications in certain specialized amplifiers. Consideration of multiple simultaneous observation (Everett's interpretation of quantummechanics) ties together virtual and observable states into the same time change, allowing super position of virtual state into observable state. By considering virtual state patterns to be carried by the individual photon,then superposition effects can be obtained upon a target radiated by a radar beam if each and every photon of the radar beam contains one virtual state pattern in common, added into its other (incoherent) virtual statepatterns. Sufficient superposition of the coherent pattern in the target produces real observable changes which may have significant applications. Such applications include electron current dissolution (dudding of electro-magnetic circuits), cancellation of electromagnetic fields, de-activation(dudding) of nuclear warheads by transmutation of fissionable materials, and simple production of particle beams of enormuous power density. Electron current dissolution is also effective against the nervous systems of biological targets. It thus appears that electromagnetic radiators such as radars could possibly be made into universal, all-purpose weapons effective against every major battle element. A mechanism and a theory for direct amplification of the virtual state into observable state is given. At least one known device, Moray's free-energy apparatus, successfully appliedvirtual state engineering to produce 55 kilowatts of power from a 55-pound device by tapping zero-point energy."
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Mechanisms of Microbial Inactivation
The lethality of the light pulses is different at different wavelengths. Therefore, the full spectrum or selected wavelength may be used to treat the foods. Wavelengths known to produce undesirable products in foods are eliminated by filtering through glass or liquid filters. Light pulses induce photochemical or photothermal reactions in foods. The UV-rich light causes photochemical changes, while visual and infrared lights cause photothermal changes. UV light has been shown to inactivate pathogens and indicator organisms (Chang and others 1985). The antimicrobial effects of these wavelengths are primarily mediated through absorption by highly conjugated carbon-to-carbon double-bond systems in proteins and nucleic acids (Jay 1992).
The mode of action of the pulsed light process is attributed to unique effects of the high peak power and the broad-spectrum of the flash. A primary cellular target is nucleic acids. Inactivation occurs by several mechanisms, including chemical modifications and cleavage of the DNA. The impact of pulsed light on proteins, membranes, and other cellular material probably occurs concurrently with the nucleic acid destruction. For example, the motility of E. coli ceases immediately after exposure to pulsed light. In additional studies, loss of motility of protozoan sporozoites was observed after pulsed light treatment of oocysts. As with any lethal physical agent, it is difficult to determine the actual sequence of events due to the possible "domino effect" (PurePulse Technologies Inc. 1999).
Experience suggests that shorter wavelengths in the UV range of 200-320 nm are more efficient inactivation agents than the longer wavelengths due to their higher energy levels. Because DNA is a target molecule for these UV wavelengths, it is thought that 1 primary cause of killing microorganisms is through DNA structural changes (Farkas 1997). Conventional UV treatment primarily affects DNA by mechanisms that are reversible under certain experimental conditions. Cell repair systems are classified as either "dark enzymatic repair" or "light enzymatic repair" (PurePulse Technologies Inc. 1999). Experiments designed to test enzymatic repair of DNA using pulsed light have shown that this repair does not occur after pulsed light treatment. The magnitude of the damage caused by pulsed light may also be too massive for the repair mechanisms to be effective. It is conceivable the DNA repair system itself is inactivated as well as other enzymatic functions. In summary, the high energy and intensity of pulsed light are thought to amplify the known mechanisms of destruction of cellular components caused by individual wavelengths of light. The sum of the damage caused by the broad-spectrum light is thought to produce extensive irreversible damage to DNA, proteins, and other macromolecules.
Monstein Freienbach
Thomas Townsend Brown: Scientific Notebooks, Vol 2
DefenseLINK News: News Releases
http://fig.cox.miami.edu/~cmallery/150/ ... .virus.htm
Synthetic Biology - Man Made Viruses
I thought you all needed to read this......it says that there is NO CDC task force!!!!
http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=in ... T=0&P=1985
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December 20, 2009
Here is the link for the second set of Brunch with Santa Photos, taken on this date.
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Osmond takes center stage for Parker boys
Janesville Parker High School was the site of some memorable performances Friday night.
While the cast of "Shrek the Musical" was drawing rave reviews in the school's auditorium, Cullen Osmond stole the spotlight in the gymnasium.
Osmond's three-point basket with three seconds left lifted the Vikings to a 63-60 nonconference win over Delavan-Darien.
Parker, which led by 18 in the second quarter, had to rally for the win in its season-opener. The Vikings misfired on 18 of 20 shots beyond the arc, but Osmond made the last one count.
"We gutted it out until the end, especially Cullen," Parker coach Ryan Masterson said. "I wanted him to attack the basket if he got a chance and possibly draw a foul, but as soon as he let the last shot go, it looked like it was going in.
"We tried to set up a ball-screen to Adam (Thompson) on that play because they had been playing man-to-man, but they switched to zone. Fortunately, Cullen made the adjustment and hit the big shot."
Parker was poised to run the Comets (0-2) out of the gym in the first half. Behind J.J. Scott and Thompson, the Vikings used a 9-0 run to start the second quarter in building a 31-13 lead with 5:11 left in the half.
Delavan-Darien, however, wouldn't go away and used a 15-0 run sparked by Isaiah Ramos to get right back in the game. Ramos had 10 points in the second quarter as the Comets eventually whittled the lead down to three by half.
"I was really happy with our mental toughness," Delavan-Darien coach Bob Beighton said. "We're early in the season, and we're still pretty young and learning how to do the little things to be successful.
"We did a hell of a job getting back into it, but down the stretch we needed to do a better job of being more efficient with the basketball."
The Comets led by one after three, but the Vikings took the lead at 56-55 on two Thompson free throws with 3:41 left. The teams traded free throws down the stretch before Osmond's heroics bailed out the Vikings.
"This was a big win, especially with the (Janesville) Craig game on Tuesday night," Masterson said. "We did some things well, and other things need to be addressed before Tuesday."
Scott led all scorers with 22, while Thompson added 17 and Osmond 10.
Parker hosts its crosstown rival Craig in the Big Eight Conference opener Tuesday night.
Delavan-Darien (60)—Rodriguez, 1-0-2; Isiah Ramos, 5-7-21; Isaac Ramos, 2-0-5; Collins, 3-5-13; Damrow, 5-3-13; Scott, 3-0-6. Totals: 19-15-60.
Parker (63)—J.J. Scott, 8-6-22; Thompson, 7-2-17; Cu. Osmond, 2-5-10; Co. Somond, 1-0-2; Benway, 3-3-9; Bailey, 1-0-2. Totals: 22-17-63.
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Three-point goals—Delavan-Darien 7 (Isiah Ramos 4, Collins 2, Isaac Ramos), Parker 2 (Thompson, Cu. Osmond). Free throws missed—Delavan-Darien 8, Parker 6. Total fouls—Delavan-Darien 20, Parker 21.
Sophomores—Parker 67, Delavan-Darien 54. Parker leading scorers: Darion Young, 15; Carlos Campos, 13; Austin Zane, 10.
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