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ELKHORN--Daniel White and his lawyer Anthony Cotton are accusing the Walworth County Sheriff's Office of intimidating jurors and witnesses and infringing on a defendant's right to a fair trial.
Walworth County Sheriff David Graves said the accusations are "wholly without merit."
Cotton filed a motion for dismissal and a motion for a change in venue to a non-adjacent county.
In a motion filed with the court, Cotton claims members of the sheriff's office engaged in actions "calculated" to intimidate the jury and witnesses during White's first trial in September. The jury was not able to reach a verdict.
White of Sugar Creek is accused of resisting an officer, battery to law enforcement officers, failure to comply and disorderly conduct in a September 2012 incident. He claims he is the victim of police brutality.
White's attorney for the first trial, Donna Kuchler, declined to comment about the affidavit and her experience because she plans to testify at the motion hearings that have yet to be scheduled.
Moving the trial to a different venue would "prevent these kinds of problems going forward,' Kuchler said.
Eight of the 12 jurors said they thought deputies had their names, addresses, phone numbers or license plate numbers, knew which cars they drove or were being tracked by GPS, according to one motion.
Two jurors signed affidavits saying they feared the deputies and that White couldn't have a fair trial in Walworth County.
In Kuchler's affidavit, the deputies are described as giving "grim and intimidating" expressions to Kuchler, "packing" the courtroom and "forcing the jurors and myself to pass in between" deputies who stood in the hallways while jurors moved from one courtroom to another.
The lawyers and defendant also accuse the deputies of using a dog to search the exterior of vehicles belonging to Kuchler, to White and to White's wife without searching other vehicles in the parking lot outside the courthouse.
"I believe it is highly unlikely that the deputy had a valid investigative reason for subjecting my vehicle to this search," according to Kuchler's affidavit.
Graves said the parking lot search and the trial are unrelated and the deputies in the room were either testifying or were court security deputies.�
Walworth County District Attorney Daniel Necci, who was prosecutor during the September trial, is accused of intimidation as well.
One of the motions accuses Necci of calling the attorney for Erika Alvaro, a woman suspected of having an affair with White, requesting her appearance during the trial.
Alvaro is being prosecuted by Necci for an unrelated offense, according to the motion.
Necci wanted Alvaro in the courtroom to intimidate White and his wife and in return would cut a deal with her, according to Kuchler's affidavit.
The Gazette was not able to reach Necci for comment.
White's new trial is scheduled for March 2014.


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The volume of strategic mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures occurring in the United States grew 25 percent in the first half of 2013. This trend shows no signs of abating as, according to PwC's Annual Global CEO Survey, more than 40 percent of U.S. executives expect their company to pursue such a transaction over the next 12 months.
This increase in deal activity is occurring despite inconsistent evidence about the value of merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions—with some studies placing the failure rate at more than 60 percent. Companies sustain a high level of enthusiasm for M&A deals despite the known risks, largely because they focus on a deal's synergies without adequately considering how they are going to identify, assess, and mitigate operational and organizational risks. In the recent PwC survey, executives planning to undertake a strategic transaction cited "creating and capitalizing on deal synergies" as the primary driver of their M&A aspirations.
How can your organization beat the odds and successfully navigate a complex merger, acquisition, spinoff, or carve-out to increase profitability, market share, and shareholder value? One key driver of M&A success—from initial scoping through transaction close and beyond—is the performance of the treasury function. Due to its financial importance, operational significance, and organizational complexity, corporate treasury often serves as the bellwether of a deal's success. It's critical for a treasury function to manage the risks inherent in a large-scale transaction, while capitalizing on the opportunities to strategically transform the newly formed organization.
Treasurer as Both Strategic and Tactical Thinker
When considering a potential transaction, companies tend to focus on deal value. They measure success using such attributes as the potential to grow revenue, cut costs, extract cash, improve working capital efficiency, and accelerate debt repayment. Often overlooked or underappreciated are the complex drivers of these improvements. Factors like organizational refinement, process efficiency, and technology integration are crucial to a successful merger, acquisition, or divestiture. Nowhere is this more apparent than within the treasury function.
In many transactions, managing cash generation, financial risks, and access to capital markets—all within the purview of the treasury function—are critical drivers of the transaction's success. However, limited representation of treasury staff within M&A decision-making, and a lack of functional understanding by those making decisions during the initial deal planning, often result in unrealistic goals and misaligned expectations with respect to treasury transformation.
"In order for a transaction to be successful, treasury must ensure it has a place at the table early in the deal-planning process to highlight and action the myriad of complex issues inherent in any carve-out, spinoff, or merger," says John Sanders, interim treasurer of Axalta, which recently was divested by DuPont in a sale to The Carlyle Group.
Leading corporate treasury functions are aligned with their organization's business development teams, and they get involved during the due diligence phase of every major transaction. During this period, treasury can add value by identifying and evaluating key risks, conducting a cost analysis, and determining potential pre- and post-deal issues. This enables treasury to uncover significant risks early enough to allow for adjustments in the pricing of the deal or rethinking of considerations in the transaction services agreement.
Once the deal is signed and prior to close, the treasury function should:
Form a strategic vision. A treasurer should understand the needs of the company and develop a vision of how the treasury function will support those needs after the transaction closes. Treasury should conduct a structured, process-based assessment of all aspects of the deal, including requirements for IT and the treasury function, external debt financing covenants and constraints, organizational structure, IT strategy, operational inputs and outputs, and alternative businesses models. Based on the results of this assessment, the function needs to define the newly formed organization's desired end state in each of these areas and the value the merger, acquisition, or divestiture will bring to the organization as a whole—whether it's improved operational efficiency, reduced risk, minimized cost, etc.
Once it is formalized, the strategic vision should drive all subsequent decisions about the transaction. Operational realities may necessitate short-term deviations, but the desired organizational end state should inform the treasury team's thinking throughout the deal's planning and after it closes.
Create a detailed transition plan with prioritized tasks. Treasury must develop a detailed transition plan that breaks high-level initiatives into discrete steps with corresponding dependencies, resource assignments, timelines, and costs. These initiatives should be prioritized so that resources are focused on the most critical functions, such as supporting payroll, before less-critical areas, such as updating policies and procedures.
Separating pre-close activities from post-close tasks can assist with prioritization (see Figure 1, below), as can working to anticipate likely challenges inherent in forming and operating the new organization. It can also be helpful to ask probing questions—for example: What will the new treasury function look like from a resource and organization perspective? How will a changed credit environment affect the new company (e.g., impact on notional or physical pooling, supplier financing, etc.)? How will the current landscape of IT systems change on day one, and what impact will those changes have on treasury operations? What is the optimal level of operating cash, by legal entity, on day one? Many of these questions will not yet have answers, but thinking through their implications will help enable treasury to further define, refine, and prioritize the required transition tasks.
Finally, it is important to remember that the treasury team's transition plan is a dynamic document. It should continue to be refined throughout the merger, acquisition, or divestiture process.
Establish a transition services agreement (TSA). In the case of a carve-out, the new company may be unable to fully develop a treasury function by day one, and it may rely on corporate treasury services provided by the parent company under a TSA. During the early stages of planning the transaction, treasury staff must engage in pre-deal due diligence to fully define the scope of services that the corporate treasury function will provide to the new company, as well as the agreed-to service levels, duration of service, and pricing. The team needs to answer questions such as whether the new organization will continue to use corporate treasury technology and how much post-transition support the organization can expect from employees of the parent company.
To the extent that it can, the TSA should support the corporate treasury team's strategic vision and align with the treasury function's detailed project plan. This enables the transition team to focus on high-priority areas (e.g., opening bank accounts to process month-one payroll) before addressing less-critical issues (e.g., updating desktop procedures).
Form a dedicated transition team. The corporate treasury function must be prepared to maintain its usual day-to-day operations at the same time it executes transformational initiatives. This is often a challenge, as treasury is typically not staffed to support transition requirements from the standpoint of either resource capacity or skills. The use of interim treasury staff redeployed from other areas of the company, and/or contracting with a third party to provide additional resources, can allow the core treasury team to maintain daily processing while providing the strategic support needed to advance the transition.
Interface with key stakeholders early and often. Throughout the deal, corporate treasury should work closely with the new company's other internal stakeholders to support cross-functional initiatives. Tax, legal, accounting, and human resources will each have work streams that dovetail with treasury projects, and it is important to identify these intersections early in transition planning, and to highlight dependencies and explore potential synergies.
Additionally, the treasury team will need to work closely throughout the transition with external parties such as banks, system vendors, and insurance brokers. Treasury should identify the required third-party touch points early in the deal planning process to establish key relationships and ensure that ample time is devoted to completing the required initiatives that involve external parties.
Project-manage progress and dependencies. Treasury managers should establish a formal project management structure for overseeing the team's multiple initiatives related to the transaction and for ensuring that tasks are completed on time and issues escalated appropriately. Treasury initiatives dependent on other groups should receive enhanced focus, as these are typically where delays occur. An executive resource should be empowered to make decisions quickly and resolve conflicts that may arise between treasury and other functions.
Describe the day-one operating environment. After the deal is signed and prior to close, treasury should design and, to the extent possible, begin to implement a day-one operating environment to support run-and-maintain activities. Depending on the deal type, this operating environment might closely resemble the strategic vision (generally the case for spinoffs), or it might support only the most critical treasury functions (typically the case in carve-outs). Regardless of the deal type and the maturity of the day-one operating environment, the treasury team needs to stay focused on aligning, running, and maintaining operations that fit with the function's long-term strategic vision.
Communicate to employees. No matter how well-managed a merger, acquisition, or divestiture is, it's certain to induce anxiety. Treasury managers need to engage employees in an ongoing dialogue about expected changes in order to foster an inclusive environment of knowledge sharing. Open communication demonstrates that executives recognize the transaction's impact on the organization and are interested in addressing the views and concerns of employees.
Laying the Foundation for a Leading Treasury Function
Catalysts for meaningful treasury enhancements are inherent in any deal, as management recognizes the need for change and that a successful transition will require some investment. With effective due diligence, planning, and execution, a treasury team can leverage the transition period to further the goals and objectives formalized in its strategic vision. Initiatives that might not have been funded in the absence of a transaction—such as upgrading core technology or hiring a new regional lead—can be accomplished under the banner of the merger, acquisition, or divestiture. Seizing such an opportunity requires careful pre-deal planning and post-close execution.
One area in which a merger, acquisition, or divestiture presents the opportunity for improvement is in the structure of the treasury organization. A treasury team can take advantage of the cultural upheaval that a deal necessarily creates to redefine its charter and realign its organization to better support the needs of the new company. Should the focus of the treasury function be global or regional? Will treasury processing be outsourced to a shared service center? If so, where should the shared service center be located? What resources does the organization require to best meet the needs of the businesses? A strategic transaction creates an environment in which it's natural for treasury to ask these questions, and in which the treasury function is empowered to redesign itself based upon the answers.
Likewise, transactions present an opportunity for an organization to re-evaluate and refine its treasury processes, policies, and procedures. Whether a deal requires updating policies to reflect the needs of the consolidated organization (as in mergers) or developing processes for the new treasury function (as in carve-outs), the transaction enables treasury to update its roles, responsibilities, and governance structure to enhance efficiency, controllership, and customer service.
Specifically, a treasury organization should consider possible improvements in its liquidity management, debt repayment, and bank relationship management practices. A treasury function that sets out to refine the company's liquidity management processes can rationalize intercompany loan management, formalize its cash forecasting processes, develop or refine its investment policy, and operationalize debt management processes. By taking these steps, treasury can significantly improve its ability to manage cash, reduce working capital, promote tax efficiency, and accelerate the pay-down of external debt.
At the same time, a merger, divestiture, or acquisition provides an opportunity for a treasury team to refine its banking relationship strategy and account structures. It can achieve improvements via relatively straightforward initiatives such as creating in-country cash pools, or through bigger projects like replacing a global cash management bank to reduce costs and enhance service. Regardless of the scope of the initiative, treasury needs to carefully consider the costs and benefits of any proposed changes to its banking structure.
Finally, strategic transactions provide a catalyst for refining the organization's IT strategy—for example, moving from reliance on outdated and/or proprietary systems to third-party vendor solutions. Smart treasury teams take advantage of the deal environment to improve their technology infrastructure in a way that increases functionality while reducing operating costs. For carve-outs, the TSA typically covers treasury technology, so the new treasury team can evaluate its system needs post-close and develop a detailed technology transition plan. In mergers and acquisitions, the two treasury teams that are integrating can use the transaction as an opportunity to select the IT systems from the two environments that best support the business processes and organization of the combined function.
Bringing It All Together
The ability to manage the risks while capitalizing on the opportunities inherent in a strategic transaction is what differentiates a strategic, leading-edge treasury function from all the rest. However, even the most sophisticated treasury departments will find themselves unprepared for some of the challenges posed by mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. External expectations, organizational impediments, cultural issues, human resources constraints, time pressures, technology complexities, regulatory limitations, and skills gaps—to name a few!—all impact a corporate treasurer's ability to successfully manage a transaction.
Diligent planning and execution can position a treasury team for continued success throughout the transaction life cycle. A merger, acquisition, or divestiture can present an excellent opportunity to transform the treasury function from a reactive transaction processor to a proactive advisor with direct responsibility for developing and driving company strategy.
Eric Cohen is a principal in PwC's Advisory Corporate Treasury Solutions practice specializing in treasury and risk management consulting. His expertise includes treasury strategy and operations, treasury and risk technology, working capital management, financial risk management, and strategic transaction support.
Chris Lee is a manager in PwC's Advisory Corporate Treasury Solutions practice. He has more than eight years of experience providing strategy, process, controls, cash and banking, investment, debt, and technology assistance to companies across a wide variety of industries.

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Gluten-free and Vaccines
Just wondering if anyone out there has found a connection between the dTaP vaccine and developing celiac disease from it?
That's a new one.
Never heard of it and I smell a MMR/autism kind of controversy. Care to point toward some place where this is suggested. Peer reviewed literature preferred.
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Canalon- Thanks for your reply.
I don't have much to go on as far as a connection. Here's some info. that I found on a website:
I know that internet searching can be dangerous and I am a big fan of peer reviewed. This article lists some references and I have not yet gone to the originals to read them. However, I was just posting this online to see if anyone had heard of a connection before.
I was interested because I have had problems/symptoms with my bowel's since giving birth 3 mo. ago. I had passed it off as a breastfeeding issue or a diet issue. However, after changing my diet the symptoms did not really improve. I was looking into Celiac's symptoms (which are the exact same as mine, although I have not been diagnosed yet), when I found this connection. I received the DTaP vaccine on the day I gave birth in the hospital. And after 2 days of gluten-free, my symptoms are virtually nill.
Thanks for any insight you have.
tmerezko - a 7th grade life science teacher
What does the Acellular DTaP Vaccine have to do with Gluten?
Many Autistic children cannot digest the protein from gluten. It causes gastrointestinal, and
neurological symptoms.
There is an interesting connection between the gliadin peptide, (gluten) and pertactin. Pertactin is the protein used in the acellular DTaP vaccine. Following is an explanation of the connection, proceeding with various CDC information, and medical abstracts.
The primary sequence of the 33-mer gliadin peptide also had homologs among a few nongluten proteins. Among the strongest homologs were internal sequences from pertactin (a highly immunogenic protein from Bordetella pertussis) and a mammalian protein tyrosine phosphatase of unknown function. In both cases, available information suggested that this homology could have biological relevance. For example, the region of pertactin that is homologous to the 33-mer gliadin peptide is known to be part of the immuno-dominant segment of the protein (34). In the case of the phosphatase homolog, the protein is known to undergo vesicular trafficking into
the cytoplasmic Golgi (35). By analogy with the current understanding of how gliadin peptides
are acquired by HLA-DQ2 via a tTGase-mediated pathway (3), we hypothesized that these Pro-Gln-rich segments of both pertactin and the phosphatase are likely to be high-affinity tTGase substrates.
To test this hypothesis, we synthesized the corresponding peptides and measured the selectivity
of tTGase for these. As predicted, both peptides were found to be good substrates of
tTGase (36). Studies by Pastan and co-workers showed that tTGase plays a key role in
receptor-mediated endocytosis of several biologically important proteins (37). Therefore,
we therefore propose that the biological activities of both pertactin and the phosphatase
depend on tTGase-mediated trafficking. Analogous to gliadin in Celiac Sprue, pertactin
elicits a vigorous antibody response because it reacts with tTGase on the extracellular surface of antigen presenting cells to produce a long-lived intermediate that is internalized via endocytosis and presented to the immune system via the class II MHC-mediated pathway. If this analogy holds, then, drawing upon the Celiac Sprue analogy, one could predict that tTGase-mediated endocytosis might be a highly effective mechanism for oral vaccination with the use of immunogenic peptide epitopes, as long as they are intrinsically resistant to the action of
pepsin, trypsin, chymotrypsin, and elastase.
By flanking such epitopes with proteolytically stable high-affinity tTGase substrates [e.g., the sequence PQPQLPYPQPQLP from gliadin (21)], they could be protected from exposure to potent pancreatic and intestinal exopeptidases and would therefore have sufficiently long half-lives to permit efficient stimulation of the gut-associated lymphoid system. Secondary structural studies using circular dichroism spectroscopy on the 33-mer gliadin peptide and its homologs from pertactin and the tyrosine phosphatase reveal that these peptides have strong type II
polyproline helical character (fig. S2).
In addition to reinforcing the proteolytic resistance of these peptides, the type II polyproline helical conformation is typical of peptides bound to class II MHC proteins and is likely to enhance their binding to these proteins (38, 39). The abundance and location of proline
residues is a crucial factor contributing to the resistance of the 33-mer gliadin peptide to
gastrointestinal breakdown. Therefore, we hypothesized that a prolyl endopeptidase could catalyze breakdown of this peptide, thereby diminishing its toxic effects. Preliminary in vitro studies with short gliadin peptides and the prolyl endopeptidase (PEP) from Flavobacterium meningosepticum supported this hypothesis (21).
The ability of this PEP to cleave the 33-mer gliadin peptide was evaluated in vitro (Fig. 4A) and in vivo using the rat intestinal perfusion model (Fig. 4B). In the latter assay, the synergistic effect of PEP and BBM peptidases was evident. Moreover, the T cell stimulatory potential of PEP treated peptide was shown to decrease rapidly (Fig. 4C). Given the preference of PEP for
Pro-Xaa-Pro tripeptides (40) and the abundance of this motif in immunogenic peptides from gluten (41), these results highlight the potential of detoxifying gluten in Celiac Sprue patients by peptidase therapy.
References and Notes
1. D. Schuppan, Gastroenterology 119, 234 (2000).
2. S. N. McAdam, L. M. Sollid, Gut 47, 743 (2000).
3. L. M. Sollid, Annu. Rev. Immunol. 18, 53 (2000).
4. M. Maki, P. Collin, Lancet 349, 1755 (1997).
5. G. Corrao et al., Lancet 358, 356 (2001).
6. The family of storage proteins in cereals also includes secalins from rye and hordeins from barley. For review see [H. Wieser, Bailliere's Clin. Gastroenterol. 9, 191 (1995)].
7. W. K. Dicke, N. A. Weijers, J. H. van der Kramer, Acta Paediatr. 42, 34 (1953).
8. H. Arentz-Hansen et al., J. Exp. Med. 191, 603 (2000).
9. R. P. Anderson, P. Degano, A. J. Godkin, D. P. Jewell, A.V. Hill, Nature Med. 6, 337(2000).
10. W. Dieterich et al., Nature Med. 3, 797 (1997).
11. The extracellular tissue transglutaminase is the primary autoantigen in Celiac Sprue (10).
12. L. M. Sollid et al., J. Exp. Med. 169, 345 (1989).
13. The class II HLA DQ2 molecule is expressed in 90% of Celiac Sprue patients (12).
14. E. H. Arentz-Hansen, S. N. McAdam, . Molberg, C. Kristiansen, L.M. Sollid, Gut 46, 46 (2000).
15. Materials and methods are available as supporting online material on Science Online.
16. Single-letter abbreviations for the amino acid residues are as follows: A, Ala; C, Cys; D, Asp; E, Glu; F, Phe; G, Gly; H, His; I, Ile; K, Lys; L, Leu; M, Met; N, Asn; P, Pro; Q, Gln; R, Arg; S, Ser; T, Thr; V, Val; W, Trp; and Y, Tyr.
17. H. Arentz-Hansen et al., Gastroenterology 123, 803 (2002).
18. L. Shan et al., unpublished data.
19. G. M. Gray. Handbook of Physiology, R.A. Frizzell, M. Field, Eds. (Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1991), pp. 411-420.
20. D. J. Ahnen, A. K. Mircheff, N. A. Santiago, C. Yoshioka, G. M. Gray, J. Biol. Chem. 258, 5960 (1983).
21. F. Hausch, L. Shan, N. A. Santiago, G. M. Gray, C. Khosla, Am. J. Physiol., in press.
22. K. W. Smithson, G. M. Gray, J. Clin. Invest. 60, 665 (1977).
23. Molberg et al., Eur. J. Immunol. 31, 1317(2001).
24. J. L. Piper, G. M. Gray, C. Khosla, Biochemistry 41, 386 (2002).
25. For example, the speci.city of tTGase for the -gliadin - derived peptide PQPQLPYPQPQLPY is .vefold higher than that for its target peptide sequence in
.brinogen, its natural substrate (24).
26. kcat/KM440 min 1mM 1 for LQLQPFPQPQLPYPQPQLPYPQPQLPYPQPQPF
compared with kcat/KM 82 min 1mM 1 for PQPQLPY (24) and kcat/KM 350
min 1mM 1 for PQPQLPYPQPQLPY.
27. G. D'Argenio, I. Sorrentini, C. Ciacci, G. Mazzacca,
Enzyme 39, 227(1988).
28. T cell clones and T cell lines were established from small intestinal biopsies of adult HLA DQ2-positive Celiac Sprue patients as described (8). Stimulation of T cells by peptides was measured by a [3H]-thymidine incorporation assay. HLA DQ2 homozygous Epstein Barr virus-transformed B cell lines were used as antigen presenting cells.
29. J. J. Boniface et al., Immunity 9, 459 (1998).
30. J. R. Cochran, T. O. Cameron, L. J. Stern. Immunity 12, 241 (2000).
31. K. Falk et al., J. Exp. Med. 191, 717 (2000).
32. M. Stienekemeier et al., Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98, 13872 (2001).
First Vaccinetruth is not exactly a highly regarded organization among biologist and medical professionals, so I would be careful. And the link between gluten and autism is bunk, although some desperate parents of autistic children would like to believe. You can see more on the subject on this very good website: www.badscience.net
As for the link between gliadin and gluten it indeed seems legit, but you will notice simply that they prove that both can elicit similar reaction. NOT that gliadin will necessarily cause an immunological cross reaction between the 2 peptides. And there is a difference between the inability to digest some proteins and being injected with similar proteins in order to create an immune reaction. So this is far from proving that DTaP vaccination is presenting any risk.
However the benefit to you and your baby to be protected against pertussis, a very nasty disease that could kill or at least severely impact the health of you baby (it is nicknamed the 100 days fever, for its average duration), is strong and proven. And vaccination against pertussis has been switched from inactivated agent to acellular pertussis because it had significantly less side effects in this form. The vaccine is considered very safe and providing significant benefit to be given.
I cannot have any idea of what is your problem, and I suggest that you discuss that with a health professional (that do not include naturopath, homeopath or other "alternative medicine" practitioner) that can actually run some test and check if you really have what you believe you have, rather than a case of freaking from reading things on the internet. the later is highly contagious, hard to avoid, but can be in fact quite dangerous in some cases.
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any proof. (Ashley Montague)
Re: Gluten-free and Vaccines
I know the link between gluten and autism is bunk as well as the link between vaccines and autism. I am aware of the faulty study.
My original inquiry was just to simply ask if anyone had heard about a connection between DTaP and gluten-sensitivity. I did not mean to act as an expert in the field.
Thank you for the time that you put into your reply. I hope that someone will test this one day in a study.
Hi tmerezko,
A friend came across a similar issue and it turned out that she did have celiac disease. It's a genetic autoimmune disease that is usually triggered by a stress event, often times times that is surgery or a pregnancy. Improvement after going gluten-free seems to confirm this. However, you have to be consuming gluten in order for the tests to work if you really want to find out...
I am not a doctor but if going gluten-free helps my common sense tells me that you should stay gluten-free. Same is true for autism and gluten: friends of mine said it was all bogus but tried a gluten-free diet for their 5 year old son. The results were amazing. The most recent study by Dr. Susan Hyman only observed 14 kids and disregarded about half of them because they had a gluten intolerance. But ppl tend to read only head lines, and the headline said "no link between gluten and autism found".
Anyway, it all boils down to this: if going gluten-free helps you feel better I think it does not matter whether or not you have celiac disease. What counts is your well being. I am sure you are smart enough to make the right decision for yourself.
Re: Gluten-free and Vaccines
The sides effect as listed by the CDC are listed here and there is no mention of gluten sensitivity among those. As I said above this does not mean that there can be no link, but it must not have been reported. One thing that you can do is to report the problem, most countries do have a reporting schemes for adverse side effects after vaccinations and use of other medications.
Even better, have your family doctor/GP do that for you and start investigating your problem. This will help insure that the reporting is complete and that whatever is found might be added. If there is a link, that might help others. However, keep in mind that correlation is very different from causation, and that what you are now going through might be completely unrelated to your vaccination, except temporally.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)
There are some studies which suggest that the genes / alleles associated with autism might code for genes also active in digestion, so a problematic code might produce both brain and digestive issues.
How that would relate to the vaccine, no idea.
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Re: Theories - Origin of Life
No, I am not confused. I have never stated that NS is random. The mutations are random on which NS is hypothesied to filter. This has always been my understanding of darwinian theory.
I quoted Berkeley education to correct AstraSequi and of course he has acknowledged that.
Firstly may I thank you for engaging in the science of the subject. It does make a pleasant change and of course challenges thinking processes, which is what good discussions are all about.
Ok having put on my thinking cap let me respond.
Sorry but I said
You quoted me correctly the first time so I don't understand why you misquote me now.
I was stating my considered view based on the data evidence.
I don't see how your three "maybe" scenarios answer this question.
Please note that three separate populations on three different continents developed these same inversions and in an "evolutionary" short space of time.
How this can be the result of random mutations, which according to darwinian theory they would have to be, unless of course one is happy to play with unlikely statistics.
Natural Selection is not a force but simply the naturally selected result of random forces.
The driving force in darwinian theory is the random mutations that allow nature to select from.
So when you say
1) The enviromental stress in three different continents are not the same. What the
researchers noted was that the climate/latitude was the common factor. That is why
they made the link with global warming.
2) According to the theory, the mutations upon which this process rests is Random.
To expect, as you suggest that changes will probably be in similar ways, is to support
my view that the change is not random. You can't have it both ways.
Either change is random or it is not.
Please note what another researcher stated which is quoted in the New Scientist.
If the capacity for change is limited as this researcher warns, then what happens to the theory?
After all climate has always been on the change throughout life's history.
Well actually I cannot think of any reason why Dr Huey would be disturbed, other than this change does not sit well with evolutionary theory.
The basis of darwinian theory is adaptation to different environments. Species change is the product of random (unguided with no goal) mutations with nature selecting any functional changes that present themselves.
In other words the functional variation is already there for nature to select.
If the change is dramatic (as you are suggesting) then new species would be expected to arise.
Why would that be disturbing?
Surely this is the natural way, according to the theory.
No, the reason it is disturbing is because this data does not sit within evolutionary theory.
This of course raises another question.
What evidence is there for Speciation through Natural Selection?
It is after all the corner stone of evolutionary theory.
Darwin's own words
http://www.jstor.org/pss/187407 (please note my good form in naming my source )
Has this situation changed since Darwin's day?
Can someone help with some evidence.
Lets try and make the question a little easier.
What evidence is there that random mutations and natural selection can produce new functional biological information.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
Three separate populations on three different continents DID NOT develop these same inversions …
The inversions developed in the ancestral population from which the studied populations disseminated. Only the frequencies of the inversions changed in response to climatic influences. This is the critical point that you have failed to understand and that renders your argument completely useless. I really wish you could see that it's only your desire for your beliefs to be true that makes you interpret (misinterpret) the findings of science the way you do. Wanting independent origins of the inversions in different populations to support your beliefs cannot make them true. Your parents must really have done a number on your head.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
I must give you credit for being consistent.
These rather juvenile ad hominem attacks obviously make you feel better, so please carry on as I do enjoy pleasing you.
You clearly have a problem in understanding this subject so let me try and elucidate, albeit I probably won't be very successful, but at least its worth a try.
The research abstract said this
The New scientist comment reads
My statement that you quoted is entirely consistent with both these statements.
You see in English when the word develop or developed is used it refers to a process, and when something appears suddenly this word is not used. So is that clear? OK
So you will of course notice that I used the word "developed".
In this case the process concerned was tracked over a development period of some 24 years.
Sadly I didn't see the need to provide a time period and any additional details since I provided the reference paper url for anyone to check out.
Clearly it appears that you wish to be spoon fed all the details to make matters easier to grasp.
So, dear boy, the critical point that I have understood and sadly you appear not to have grasped, is that these inversions do not fit into the darwinian narrative.
The other researcher makes the additional point.
(Another negative against the darwinian process.)
Now since you are so reluctant (dare I say afraid) to present to this forum what evolutionary process you adhere to, I can understand your frustration. I sense the same with some religionists also.
We do know what religion you adhere to, but look, this is a science forum.
So may I ask once again, what evolutionary process do you subscribe to?
Come on, don't be shy, spill the beans and put me out of my misery.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
You're a real hoot, scottie. Blind faith is strange thing.
So you didn't read the Science paper (not a good practice) - just the abstract and the New Scientist article. As you point out, though, the paper's abstract says,
That says it all. Note the words "shifts" and "frequencies". I don't read New Scientist, so I don't know the quality of its reporting, but judging from this one article, I'm not impressed.
Bad wording. The magazine's editor should have caught this. The author should have said "genetic changes" instead of "gene changes". Readers may be misled, so I'll forgive you for your misunderstanding. Maybe this is why the author is a journalist rather than a scientist.
Read the paper. It describes the "darwinian narrative". Are you saying that the authors understand their work less than you do?
A "negative against the darwinian process"? Really?
Whatever's real. By the way, there's no single "evolutionary process". Evolution consists of many "processes". Natural selection is just one, albeit an important one. Having published research on shifts in frequencies as a result of selection, I am amused by your claim of authority. A strange thing indeed.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
Well at last you may be about to engage in science, well first sentence apart that is,
Since you claimed not to have access the the paper I stuck with the abstract. Why do you assume (indeed claim) that I have not read the paper. Please establish your facts, you do yourself no good by making these unsubstantiated claims.
So your complaint now is semantics.
Ok, let's take your suggestion and use "genetic changes" instead of gene changes, and let me try and help with an understanding of what is actually going on.
http://faculty.washington.edu/hueyrb/pd ... redity.pdf
So genetic changes on different populations on different continents (all within the same species) demonstrate a remarkable similarity. So much so that they regard this as a tool for monitoring.
Is this a darwinian process?
Well If it were then these changes would have to be random and clearly would not show up as the same in the different locations, but of course they do. Remember this process is a valued tool to monitor.
So some other process must be at work. If this process is not random which it clearly is not, then it can only be non-random.
The researchers have recognised that that these changes are tracking global climate change, if that is the case, and they are confident enough to state that this is a valuable tool in assessing the impact of climate change on the genome, then the change is a response to changing climate and thus has to be a programmed response.
Please remember that Natural selection can only select for that which is already there. It is not a force that changes anything.
What is causing the genetic change is either random or it is programmed.
Notice also that the mechanism of these changes is not well understood, however what is understood is that these changes do exhibit a goal of tracking climate because that is what is evident on all three continents.
Therefore these changes are evidently a programmed response.
I fully understand that this runs entirely against your philosophy but that is where the evidence is pointing and no amount of disparaging remarks can alter that.
Now at last also you have responded and informed that you adhere to "Whatever's real."
Well are these frequency changes random or non random?
What is the reality?
You also state that you have "published research on shifts in frequencies as a result of selection,"
Huey has a comment on this matter. In the same paper he informs
( my emphasis)
So at best your research regarding selection, is being argued from within the scientific community.
Would you be prepared to identify those papers you have published, as I would be very interested in reading them.
Finally you state that "there's no single "evolutionary process". Evolution consists of many "processes"."
Whatever process you wish to identify, that process is a random one is it not?
So lets see
Punctuated equilibrium, is it real? Dawkins, Coyne and others say not.
The gradual random mutation that causes speciation, Is that real? Gould Eldridge and others say not.
The theory of symbiotic relationships driving evolution by Lynn Margulis, Is that real?
She referred to neo darwinism as
"a minor twentieth-century religious sect within the sprawling religious persuasion of Anglo-Saxon Biology."
So there for a starters is a rather rich set of realities.
I assume therefore that you adhere to them all.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
Then what is your objection?
The occurrence of natural selection is based on a logical argument, with four premises. (Can you reconstruct the argument?)
- the offspring of animals are never exactly the same as their parents, but rather have small variations.
- some of this variation gives an advantage to an animal that possesses it
- these variations can be passed down to the next generation
- in each generation, not all animals survive.
If you wish to dispute the occurrence of natural selection, you have to deny one of the premises.
I care a lot about teaching people basic biology. Of course, it takes me quite a long time to write these posts, so I hope that you're spending time thinking about them - and if it seems like you're able to learn, then my interest will increase.
I'm not sure where I misquoted you. "Evidently a programmed response" implies that there is no other plausible alternative. (I suppose I should have said "plausible" rather than "possible" in my previous quote - is that what you mean?) I then provided you with three such alternatives.
Again, the possibilities are:
- the mutations might be common enough that they happen all the time
- the mutations might occur once or twice and then spread through the population by interbreeding
- the mutations might have already been present in the ancestral population
From my post above, I think it should be fairly clear that the third option is the most likely. However, even if it is incorrect, the others are still quite possible.
That is not the observation from the paper. The observation was that at the time of the study, the populations all had certain levels of these inversions. They then compared this to historical data showing levels of inversions in the same populations, and found that the amount of increase in the different populations was correlated with the amount of temperature change at that location.
The interpretation "developed" is an inference that is not part of the data. Nobody has observed any population with no inversions.
I will also point out that changes can indeed happen quite fast, so long as the environment also changes fast - it is mainly the major innovations (like fins turning into legs) that take large amounts of time.
It depends what you mean by "unlikely." While any individual mutation is unlikely, that doesn't mean that it will not happen on a regular basis if you give it enough chances.
Suppose there is a mutation that has a one in a million chance of happening - you can call this unlikely. However, if a million fruit flies are born, then it will probably happen around once. If you then wait for a thousand generations, it will probably happen around a thousand times.
(I will also point out that for a fruit fly, a thousand generations is only about 40 years.)
I think this might be an important point that you're missing - in statistics, this is called a Bonferroni correction. If you roll a pair of dice, your chance of a double 6 is quite low (1/36). However, if you try twice, your chance doubles - and if you try a hundred times times, your chance of getting it at least once is very high - in fact, it would be more surprising if you didn't get it at least once. The probability of something happening increases as the number of times it is possible to occur increases.
I will reorder your comments in order to bring this one forward:
This is essentially the same point. As long as you have enough chances, the "correct" mutations will be able to occur, and then natural selection will be able to act.
For example, if we put some bacteria in nutrient-rich media, they will always start to grow faster after some time. This experiment only takes about a week to run, and the change will always be in the same direction.
That is to say, we observe that natural selection produces the same result. This will happen for almost any bacteria we can grow - the new environment favors those bacteria that grow the fastest, so long as we allow enough time to pass.
I think this is semantics. Both stages, the mutations and the selection, are required for species to adapt. If there are no mutations, no variation is generated and no change can occur. If there is no selection, only random change can occur.
That is why I said:
Natural selection does not say that the capacity for change is unlimited. It might perhaps be the case, but only given enough time - the rate of change over any particular time scale is limited by the amount of pre-existing variation in the population, and the rate of production of new variation (that is, the rate of mutation).
If the rate of change is too fast, the species is unable to adapt and goes extinct. Climate has never changed as fast as it is now in any point in Earth's history (save perhaps the mass extinctions, and of course they didn't go too well for life!)
Very well - it is related to what you said above. Drosophila is a highly successful species, with a very short generation time and the ability to adapt very quickly to new environments. When we see such a species changing very rapidly, it means that it needs to change that fast in order to stay adapted to the environment. (Or, in an even worse case, that its rate of change is at maximum, and it would be changing even faster if it could.)
This means that any less successful species, which cannot adapt as fast as Drosophila is adapting now (and which does not have other options such as migration), is likely to be in great difficulty.
In fact, I can tell you what the authors of the paper say, in their concluding paragraph:
(My emphasis.)
I definitely agree with you that the authors know more about this topic than us. However, you will then need to accept these statements as well.
Also, observing rigorous data contradicting evolution would not be disturbing to scientists in the same way - it would be interesting.
I agree with your first statement. The second is not true in all cases, since mutations can and do continue to occur at about the same rate, whether selection is happening or not.
In this case, the functional variation was indeed already there, and all three populations already had the capacity (a low level of pre-existing inversions) for that change, because they shared a common ancestor which already had that capacity, and none of them lost it in the intervening generations. I suppose you might call this "programmed," insofar as all DNA is a cellular program, but there is nothing in this that contradicts natural selection.
Actually - what do you mean when you say "programmed"? A definition might help to clear up any misunderstanding.
Speciation requires a) differential selection on different parts of the population, b) very low gene flow between those two parts of the population, and c) the low gene flow to be maintained until enough change has occurred to prevent any future interbreeding. (There are other types of speciation, but they are not as well understood.) The authors point out in the paper that criterion b is not met - in fact, that the gene flow is unusually high. As a result, criterion c cannot be met either.
As mentioned above - the authors say it quite well. Of course, it is not as disturbing for the future of life on earth as a whole, which will probably carry on no matter what we do.
I would say the "cornerstone" is in fact the logical argument I mentioned above. (See below for my answer.)
Thank you.
Most definitely. I suggest you read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciation, and also any included citations if you want to investigate further. Please note in the opening paragraph, "Observed examples of each kind of speciation are provided throughout."
This is not the same question. I will answer you if you can demonstrate that you understand why that is.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
Yes, it is darwinian. Selection is not random.
Or it's nonrandom selection.
The mechanism of the changes is very well understood. How the inversions confer an advantage is not understood (as far as I know).
Or therefore you don't understand what selection is.
Nonrandom. The reality is selection.
Correlations of frequencies are not necessarily the result of selection. They may be due to historical factors. So? You conclude from this that selection is doomed within the scientific community. Believe whatever you've been programmed to believe.
No. Anonymity allows me to be more acerbic that I normally am. There's no lack of other material at your disposal.
Some are, some aren't.
Are evolutionary rates universally constant? No. I agree with the general premise that "gradualism" is not the only game in town, as do Dawkins and Coyne and most biologists. I do not support the extreme position that evolution occurs ONLY in bursts, which is also the source of Dawkins' and Coyne's objections.
Most biologists think not. I'm sure it contributes, but as an exclusive alternative to mutation as the major source of variation, unlikely.
You're a very black-or-white kind of a guy, aren't you. Complex systems are complex because they don't have one controlling influence. Such thinking as yours is a function of your belief in a deity that creates and controls everything. Your belief may also be preventing you from getting the idea into your head that evolution is not a totally random thing. If selection were random, I wouldn't buy it either. Turn off your deistic filter and read the paper. Read what it actually says and not what you want it to say.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
I was under the impression that biologists were always eager to share their results, you appear to be the exception, prefering to be acerbic instead.
Oh well some like to wallow in bitterness and others enjoy the beauty of life. It takes all sorts.
You did however lift my spirits with some attempted scientific dialog but sadly then dumped me again with reverting back to your deity monolog.
Still I suppose we are at least getting somewhere.
Now I could respond line by line but will choose to concentrate on your last little bit of science which I believe is at the heart of this matter.
You have raised the issue of complexity and in a very precise way that deserves clarification.
You are missing a trick here.
There are in fact three subsets to complexity. You appear to be aware of only one.
I would recommend you read this paper (peer reviewed of course) in the NIH journal PubMed Central.
These three are :-
Random Sequence Complexity (RSC); Ordered Sequence Complexity (OSC); Functional Sequence Complexity (FSC).
Complexity can pertain without any controling influence. You are correct.
This type of complexity is Random Sequence Complexity (RSC) Please inform yourself by reading this paper.
You should have noticed that I refer to functional design, check my posts.
Functional design can be complex or it can be simple, I have given examples of both in the past.
Functional design is one of the subsets of complexity. It is (FSC) Functional Sequence Complexity.
Functional design always has a controlling influence.
So we come down to the fundamental question in biology.
Is the cell just a complex system that has evolved from the bottom up, I.e. just a sum of parts that make up the whole I.e (RSC)
OR is it the product of functional design that the individual parts grow out of. (FSC)
That seems to be the major difference between our views (without of course all the deity gibberish)
Would you kindly read the paper so at least we have a common foundation to discuss from.
If you have any other papers on this issue of complexity please inform and I will be happy to read accordingly.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
As I've said, you're a real hoot, scottie.
You're wise to abandon your last attempt at debunking evolution. It wasn't going anywhere for you, like your other attempts.
I had a look at the abstract of the article you linked to. As a scientist, it brought a smile to my face. The bells that went off induced me to have a look into the authors' credentials. Surprise, surprise. For those interested, others have gone further than I have:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2012 ... litera.php
Intelligent design, yet again. I've had my suspicions about you, scottie, hiding behind this deist mask. I'll decline your offer to read the linked paper. As I've said before, I don't like to waste my time.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
scottie said
(my emphasis)
Why did it remind me of this? http://www.chem1.com/acad/webtext/sci/p ... i.html#REC
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
Dr Abel seem to have gone a bit far for help considering his latest papers, but as far as I know, Dr Trevors is a competent if a bit strange microbiologist. But that is beyond the point.
I could also argue that the fact that you did not grasp that Pubmed Central is not a journal but a repository for papers and that your failure to be able to identify the publication in which a paper is published (Theoretical Biology & Medical Modelling) do not speak highly of your attention to details.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
Nice to have you back in the ring
So Dr Abel is a bit of a strange microbiologist?
Well I'm sure that is just an opinion you have, for what it's worth.
Perhaps we could also have your opinion on the science he posits.
Remember he has produced a paper on the principles of complexity, and has also set out 4 null hypotheses that could falsify his posits.
So how about, as a scientist, at least attempting to falsifying what he has put out instead of resorting to and indeed relying on rather condesending rhetoric.
Surely you can do better than this, like pointing out what is wrong with the paper.
You could argue but I take it you are not going to then.
If you look at the top left hand insert you will note it says "PubMed Central Journal List."
How far away is that from what I wrote. Really now, is this the best you can do.?
Good to see you are having some fun again.
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Lohse, Brewers roll on
The Milwaukee Brewers, who have had trouble scoring runs at home thus far, didn't need a major outburst Wednesday night.
Not the way Kyle Lohse was pitching. And not with this bullpen backing him up.
Lohse held the San Diego Padres at bay for seven innings, and the Brewers used home runs by Jean Segura and Khris Davis to take a 5-2 victory at Miller Park.
The Brewers won the series, two games to one, and boosted their record to 16-6, best in the majors.
"It's early in the season," said Loshe, who boosted his record to 4-1 with a 2.38 earned run average. "We've just got to keep piling the wins up and see where we're at come September. That's the attitude in here and hopefully everyone's on the same page."
If the Brewers keep pitching like this—both in the rotation and out of the bullpen—September could prove to be a lively time. Granted, the Padres are the worst scoring team in the National League, but the Brewers have been shutting down offenses from Day 1.
The Padres struck for a quick run off Lohse in the first inning after Everth Cabrera led off with a booming double to center, but he proceeded to retire 17 of the next 18 hitters. When all was said and done, Lohse allowed only five hits and one earned run over seven innings with no walks and five strikeouts.
"I liked the way he threw the ball," said manager Ron Roenicke, whose team matched its season high in runs scored at home after averaging only 2.36 runs through the first 11 games at Miller Park. "He's able to change speeds; his curveball he got working. His slider/fastball were good. His changeup again was good.
"We needed the innings. I saw his pitch count after the first couple (of innings) and I was a little concerned but he got right back in it. I was hoping for seven (innings). I thought that was ideal."
It didn't hurt that the Brewers immediately responded to the Padres' early run with one of their own on Ryan Braun's RBI double in the bottom of the first. Then came the big blow of the night—a three-run homer in the second inning by Jean Segura off San Diego starter Tyson Ross.
It was the first homer since last July 30 for Segura, who tailed off at the end of an otherwise brilliant season. He started so slow this season, Roenicke recently dropped him from second to eighth in the batting order to help take remove some pressure.
"It always feels pretty good when you hit a ball out," said Segura, who went 2 for 3. "I feel pretty good at the plate. Hopefully, it will come back. I'll just keep grinding.
"This game is tough. It's not easy to play baseball, especially in the big leagues. We're here to learn and help the team win some ball games. In particular, you try to do the best you can in the field."
Asked if it bothered him to be dropped in the batting order, Segura diplomatically responded, "I don't want to say no or yes. He made that decision. I don't have any comment about it. I just want to be out there no matter what."
Davis capped the Brewers' scoring with a towering home run to left leading off the fourth, his first at home. In four previous starts, Ross had not allowed more than three earned runs and surrendered just one home run, but the Brewers already had enough runs to beat him.
Lohse made sure of that, pitching out of his toughest jam in the seventh by striking out pinch hitter Yasmani Grandal with two on and two out. The Padres scored an unearned run that frame and kept Lohse dancing with shards of broken bats flying past him on two occasions.
"We had a good mix going, had a good game plan," said Lohse. "We had a couple of things we wanted to do and got them done. I pitched in more than I usually do. We really moved it around."
As usual, the bullpen took it from there. Tyler Thornburg and Will Smith took care of the eighth inning, with Smith coming on with a runner on and one down and striking out both hitters he faced.
Closer Francisco Rodriguez took it from there, converting his ninth save in as many opportunities. Smith, Thornburg and Rodriguez have combined for 33 appearances while allowing just one run.
"They've got a great mentality going right now," said Lohse. "They're just going right at guys. Everything is clicking as far as the pitching goes. You love to see that."
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Curtis A. Neumueller, Janesville (1945-2013)
May 13, 1945 - October 24, 2013
Curtis A. Neumueller, age 68, of Janesville, died on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, at home surrounded by his family. He was born in Janesville, on May 13, 1945, the son of William "Mel" and Maryel (Snyder) Neumueller. He was a 1963 graduate of Janesville High School. He married Vicki L. Strampe Sargent on Jan. 27, 1973, at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Janesville. Curt worked in maintenance for General Motors for 38 years. He was a member of St. John Vianney Catholic Church and UAW Local 95. He loved hunting, fishing, gardening (where he took great pride in his yard), sports, and trips to the casinos. Curt always said his mission in life was to make others smile.
Curtis is survived by his wife of 40 years, Vicki; three children: Robert C. (fiance, Robin Bertram) Sargent, III of Ft. Atkinson, Sandra K. Sargent Palafox and William A. (fianc�, Andrea Adams) Neumueller, both of Janesville; seven grandchildren: Robert Sargent, IV, Devin Stokes, Letitia Hill, Marcus Hill, Damon Hill, Melina Palafox and Bryce Neumueller; six siblings: Myrna (Richard) Rood of Janesville, Larry Neumueller of Milwaukee, Cassie (William) Schuman of Janesville, Martin Neumueller of Janesville, Leila Neumueller of Janesville, and Gary (Judy) Neumueller of Janesville; five step-siblings: Sigrid Chapman of Dallas, TX, Kristina (Tom) Stone of Janesville, Mark (Tonya Cline) Allen of Janesville, Valerie (Dennis) Larson of White Bear Lake, MN, and Bradley Allen of Marshfield; and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents; step-mother, Joan Neumueller; and sister-in-law, Dona Neumueller.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013, at ST. JOHN VIANNEY CATHOLIC CHURCH, Janesville, with Msgr. Donn Heiar officiating. Burial will be at North Oakland Cemetery, rural Ft. Atkinson. Visitation will be held on Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, from 3 until 7 p.m. at SCHNEIDER APFEL SCHNEIDER & SCHNEIDER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY, Janesville. There is additional visitation on Tuesday at the CHURCH from 10 a.m. until time of Mass. For on-line obituary and condolences: www.schneiderfuneraldirectors.com
The family would like to express their gratitude to the staffs of both Mercy Cancer Center and Mercy Hospice for the loving care provided to Curt.


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Your Views: State can't run schools like business models
Gov. Walker and Republican lawmakers are using their "Chamber of Commerce" mentality to transform public education into an economic enterprise. They see education as a marketplace where schools (voucher, religious, charter and public) compete for customers (students).
An Indiana businessman had been asked to conduct an in-service program for a school district. His company's blueberry ice cream had been touted as the "Best in America." He told the educators: "If I ran my business the way schools operate, I wouldn't be in business very long." He said that schools should operate like a company with a business model that produced the best product possible.
A teacher asked about the secret to his company's success. He said his company used only superior-quality blueberries. When asked what he would do with a shipment of inferior blueberries, he responded, "Send them back!"
The public school teacher exclaimed: "But we don't send our blueberries back!" We cannot reject those who don't speak English, nor those with low test scores or disabilities. We must find a place for the behavioral problems or those lacking in motivation and discipline. We are responsible for educating them all, not just those who are able, ready and willing to learn. [Paraphrased from "Reign of Error"]
The businessman came to realize that public schools can never operate like a company. They cannot sort the blueberries and reject those that are bruised and broken. Public schools take them all, everyone, and that's why education cannot be a business.


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Only in the past 80 to 100 years have there been appreciable numbers of people walking on the earth without having been through the hitherto universal human experience of labor and delivery, the trip down the birth canal. In 1882 advances in surgical techniques made caesarean delivery a reasonably safe procedure for both the mother and the child. Before that, most of the mothers died.
Many commentators have remarked that birth is a sexual experience, namely Niles Newton, Ph.D., Lewis E. Mehl, M.D., Michel Odent, M.D., N. Kalichman, M.D., Thomas Verny, M.D. and others. Thousands of young couples, too, have made the same discovery and have used their innate, sexual endowments during the conjugal act of birth in the dimly-lit seclusion of their bedrooms with delight and distinction.
This paper presents the hypothesis that the woman's own experience of being born has an impact on how she will give birth. This impact is proposed to occur primarily through the birth story as symbol for a socialization process, in which the woman learns how to view her body and Nature and how to react to the sensations of labor. The more anxiously she reacts, the more likely that her body will hold "physiological expectations" of fear that will work against the process of birth.
Adoptees and Birthparents Connected by Design: Surprising Synchronicities in Histories of Union/Loss/ReunionAbstract:
The recently burgeoning phenomenon of search and reunion by adult adoptees and their birth families has uncovered fascinating information. During the author's doctoral research, reunited parents and children related uncanny coincidences that occurred during the years of their separation (e.g., dreaming of one's child in specific danger, naming a later child by the unknown name of the firstborn, knowing the day of a mother's death, vacationing in the same location, making identical purchases, and beginning to search at the same time).
Research has revealed that as early as the neonatal period infants possess innate capacities such as categorization and amodal perception that help them formulate representations of the "self and "other." This paper posits that in order to formulate these representations, the infant also requires exposure to a motivational environment that provides insight into the relationships between people.
From memories of his prenatal life the author presents a recollection, in the form of a poetic narrative, of how he started his heartbeat. He then gives a personal and transpersonal interpretation of the narrative in the adult-life context and proposes a theory of how an unborn may start its heart and what it learns from the experience. In support of his ideas he draws on examples from mythology, a modern-day ritual and common beliefs about the heart.
This paper focuses on the psychological aspects of prebirth and perinatal memories encoded for full term and premature infants and activated as possible pathology during adult life. It presents a brief recapitulation of the basic hypothesis that not only do human beings inherit the genetic coding of their mother and father, but also the mental and emotional states of their parents in the form of non-conscious emotional reaction patterns from the nine months of gestation including the continuum of the birth itself, as well as adjacent perinatal circumstances.
Current estimates are that one in every five women in the United States will have undergone at least one abortion, with 1.4 million abortions occurring annually. Increasingly, long-term stress reactions to abortion have been documented in the research literature. Post Abortion Syndrome (PAS), a variant of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, occurs in women who experience their abortions as traumatic. When the emotional components of the abortion experience are repressed, as in PAS, impacted grief and complicated mourning result.
This paper advances the proposition that in carrying out the decision to undergo elective abortion, a woman experiences a potentially traumatizing psychological event. Vignettes from clinical practice illumine the symptoms and development of post-traumatic stress disorder in the aftermath of abortion. A model of psychic trauma is presented to account for the nature of abortion as a traumatic Stressor. It is based on psychoanalytic considerations, with an emphasis on the role of aggressive energy in the reconfiguring of psychic activities following trauma.
Four studies designed to investigate any association between induced abortion and child abuse found a number of positive correlations. These findings appear to run counter to popular opinion and some professional declarations that making abortion freely available would terminate unwanted children and thus lower the incidence of child mistreatment. There is no evidence that the incidence of child abuse has declined with more readily available abortion.


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