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About 200 animals killed in barn fire near Whitewater
Gazette staff
Thursday, April 10, 2014
WHITEWATER — An early morning barn fire on Tri County Line Road near Whitewater killed around 200 goats, sheep, lambs, birds and dogs.
Neighbor Deanna Dieter said she called police at about 6:30 a.m. Thursday after seeing flames at the barn, located at W. 5860 Tri County Line Road.
Firefighters were on scene from about 6:35 a.m. to 10 a.m.
The barn, owned by Neal Travis, was a total loss.
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Despite work in October, land rink at Janesville's Traxler Park still not freezing
JANESVILLE--The Traxler Park lagoon had about 6 inches of ice after the recent cold weather, and city crews have plowed the snow aside to ready the surface for skating.
Nearby, a manmade skating rink has standing water, the third year in a row the rink might not be skated on.
City workers are frustrated.
Cullen Slapak, assistant parks director, is among them.
"Don't ask me why," Slapak said last week about why the $45,000 rink refuses to freeze. "I don't know."
"We've made some changes in repairs each year, I believe, and it's still not wanting to freeze," Slapak said.
"It's frustrating, to say the least."
Slapak is not sure whether the rink will open this season.
Workers continue to adjust the water flow, hoping that will help.
In October, workers dug around a drain, found a leak and did repairs they thought would fix the problem, Slapak said.
"There's obviously still something that isn't quite right," Slapak said.
It might be that the clay liner under the rink is allowing water to seep through.
Before building the rink, the city took borings of the ground, and they indicated an adequate clay base to hold water, he said.
The city in 2010 installed a series of pipes to flood the rink with chilled water from beneath the ice sheet. A city engineer described it as a floating rink.
In earlier years, workers and volunteers created a rink by spraying water from a fire hose to build up thin layers of ice.
The new system was meant to prolong the skating season by preserving ice through warming spells. It is designed to have ice at least 7 inches thick around the edges and about 15 inches thick in the center. Designers said it also would save water.
City workers this summer replaced a rubber liner and sealed a leak, which staff thought was causing the rink to constantly refill with warmer water. The work was done under warranty.
Workers also used clay and granular bentonite to better seal a manhole.
Slapak said he's crossing his fingers, hoping that tinkering with the water flow will help before winter is done. The city could drain the water from the rink and spray a new ice surface as it did years ago.
"It's gotta be something with the spot, the land beneath," Slapak said.
Meanwhile, Friends of Traxler Park plan to open the warming house Thursday, Dec. 26, for skating on the lagoon.
Volunteers stoke a wood stove, loan free skates and sell concessions. Restrooms are also open.
The lagoon is difficult to maintain for skating, though, because the edges thaw, Slapak said.
Heavy equipment has fallen through the lagoon ice in the past. When snow is pushed to the edges, it can cause the ice underneath to melt and create weak points, Slapak said.

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Con: Name change for NFL's Washington franchise is a trivial issue
EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer is addressing the question, "Should the Washington Redskins change their nickname?"
LOGAN, Utah -- Members of the Oneida Indian Nation are demanding that the National Football League's Washington Redskins change the team's name to something less offensive to American Indians. Sportscaster Bob Costas calls the current nickname "an insult, a slur."
After an announcement by Dan Snyder, who has owned the team since 1999, that he refuses to do any such thing, President Obama joined the fray, saying that if he owned a professional sports team and knew that its name "was offending a sizable group of people, I'd think about changing it."
President Obama has better things to worry about—and so do RG III and the Redskins, who have won just three games this season.
For starters, the U.S. Congress has not passed a single federal government budget on President Obama's watch. And so, America has been poised on the edge of a "fiscal cliff" twice in the past year. Headlines about budget "sequesters," furloughs, partial government shutdowns and looming defaults on the federal debt have become routine.
President Obama's version of budget compromise? Agree to reopen the federal government unconditionally and then we can talk. And the Republicans blinked, agreeing to raise Washington's borrowing authority until Feb. 7 and finance federal spending at current levels by passing yet another "continuing resolution." Expect d�j� vu all over again early next year.
The activation of new health insurance "exchanges," one of the centerpieces of the Affordable Care Act—aka "Obamacare"—was nothing short of disastrous. Glitches in the software program intended to provide information to consumers about the available insurance plans and premiums caused the entire system to crash. Weeks later there were still massive problems.
NSA snooping of phone calls and emails both here and overseas, scandals at the IRS for holding up the applications of "tea party" groups seeking tax-exempt status, looming fiscal train wrecks for Social Security and Medicare, and trillion dollar budget deficits as far as the eye can see. You would think the president had enough on his plate, but that is not all.
The economy still has not come anywhere close to recovering from the recent financial crisis. Unemployment remains unconscionably high, many employees are being shifted to part-time status so employers can avoid Obamacare's health insurance mandate and many others have stopped looking for jobs altogether.
The president's economic policies, such as his push for an increase in the minimum wage to $9 per hour, are hurting the very people, especially young African-Americans, to whom he promised "change."
Moreover, as Jonathan Bean notes in the book, "Race and Liberty in America," the best device for improving economic conditions in minority communities is the free market, not political posturing.
And there's more. The Middle East is in flames, with civil war in Syria and bloody riots in Cairo. Iran still has nuclear ambitions. The list of global trouble spots could go on and many countries have lost faith in the president's ability to lead.
President Obama at least did not blame the controversy over the Redskins' name on George W. Bush or the tea party, as he does most everything else.
By some accounts, "Redskins" was adopted by Washington's NFL team in 1933 to honor coach William "Lone Star" Dietz, whose mother was a Sioux.
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) suggests keeping the team's nickname, but changing the team's logo from the profile of a feathered American Indian warrior to a red-skinned potato. That is about the level of seriousness this tempest in a teapot deserves.
William F. Shughart II is a senior fellow with the Independent Institute, Oakland, Calif. (www.independent.org) and J. Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice at Utah State University. Readers may write to him at Jon Huntsman School of Business, 3500 Old Main Hill, Logan, Utah 84322-8500; email: email@example.com.


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Theories - Origin of Life
Discussion of everything related to the Theory of Evolution.
Moderator: BioTeam
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Looks like I missed the train by … a month or so, so it's perfectly fine if you don't reply to this one (there is nothing serious enough to reply to anyway). Time-wise your reply to Scottie was a heroic effort by the way (polar bear example was a bit excessive though ...).
I was not talking about mutations, obviously. I have simply recycled your example to make a different point to Wbla3335, which is …. Yes, there is absolutely zero chance for something to happen if the necessary preconditions are absent. And you don't need any "rigorous mathematical proof", just go to you kitchen and make an omelet without eggs…
If "there is no evidence in any direction", then "any direction" is equally possible. If Wbla downgrades the design possibility from "equally possible" to "unlikely", then he clearly makes a number of assumptions in his reasoning. One of the arguments I've heard so far was that the nature itself is "mechanistic and unguided" (therefore the entire universe, even though it's compatible with the conscious life that observes it, must've come into existence through some "mechanistic and unguided" processes). That type of reasoning is called "self-reference", and if you like "rigorous mathematics", I can offer you some – consider Gödel's incompleteness theorem. Simply put, it states that the system can not be objectively evaluated from within the system. And that's what I pointed out using the computer simulation example – a conscious character created by a computer simulation will notice that it's compatible with the laws governing its creation and existence, but will have no way of figuring out how the whole system came into existence (since he can't step out of it and evaluate it from aside). Using Gödel's theorem, I can also pull a thorn from canalon's side, and answer the question "who designed the designer" in the most adequate, satisfying, intelligent and fulfilling manner. Here is the answer ..... I have no GODDAMN idea! If we can't objectively evaluate our own system from within, how can we objectively evaluate outside systems from within our system? How designer came into existence? How / when and why ANYTHING came into existence? Why the whole space is not just an empty void? Who knows...
That's almost all I've been doing here so far – considering the anthropic principle. I'd love to step out of the anthropic principle, but then I'm going to have to argue about biology with an evolutionary biologist (and becoming a kamikaze has always been the last item on my "things-to-do-before-I-die" list). And it's not that a biologist's atheistic views are right or wrong. It's just he is a pro, and I'm not. Let's look at the canalon's previous post.
1st, by "tuning of atoms" I mostly meant a "stellar nucleosynthesis", for instance, related to the resulting abundance of Carbon and Oxygen (which triggered F. Hoyle's famous phrase about "a superintellect" who " has monkeyed with physics " to allow life to appear http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hoyle ... osynthesis ).
So, here is canalon's suspicion….. I'm sitting here, observing the "tuning of atoms", scratching my melon, and assuming that some holy spirit must've tweaked it for my sake. And, in reality, I'm failing to realize that I'm simply sitting inside one lucky universe, which I, obviously, by default happened to select from the population of not-so-lucky universes.
And here is the truth… There is NO such a population of universes that we actually know of. The reality does seem to go beyond the observable realm (hence unexplained problems in physics), BUT we, actually, know NOTHING about any multiple universes. We don't know what they are. We don't know how and based on what laws they come into existence. We don't know to what extent there is a causal interrelation between them. We don't know if they even exist….
Anthropic principle simply shows the effects - how all the bullets hit the bullseye (not gonna toss here any relevant links from physics and cosmology - everyone can google them), and says nothing about causes. The link you provided is not as much about anthropic reasoning, as it is about all kinda reasoning ABOUT anthropic reasoning, and it is heavily leaning towards discussion of the selection bias, that canalon suspects I'm guilty of. So, being a resident of only this universe, knowing nothing about what's outside of it in space and time, and considering only anthropic principle (for the sake of this particular argument), I say that unguided and guided creation of our universe are equally possible. So am I guilty of the selection bias here?
I'll allow you to refute your own statement. Here…
So, broadly speaking, can you really seriously create a scientific hypothesis, explaining how blind "the blind watchmaker" really is without a ton of assumptions and axioms?
What if the causality exists, but it is not consistent? What if the causality exists, but it is not consistent AND it's beyond observable reality?
The probability higher than probability times the probability….. The use of the dice and probabilities is getting completely out of control… I'm getting a feel that we were discussing the game of Craps or something.
Sheldrake didn't take his research material from a thin air. The occurrence the he studied has been observed for generations. So it's not exactly the case of "nobody else would have found" the evidence, it's the evidence itself that triggered Sheldrake's attention. If dogs don't empress you, try homing pigeons. Every possible experiment to pinpoint what physical senses they use to get to a loft from great distances (up to 1800 km) has been done (frosted lenses for sight, anesthesia and isolated containers to deprive a pigeon from outward journey info, use of magnets and release in the spots with magnetic anomalies to affect a possible internal compass navigation, etc., etc, etc.). If you put ALL the results together, you will see a picture that looks either mixed or negative or inconclusive…. There is no "rigorous evidence" that would allow us to state without a shadow of a doubt what physical senses homing pigeons are exclusively relying on. Sure…. the more complex system you experiment with is, the harder it is to draw definitive conclusions, but, as far as I know, there is no even clear logical understanding of how returning to a loft could even be done under some of the experimental conditions that were created……
What if there are missing elements in this picture? That's why I used quantum entanglement as an example, when you see the effect, but you have NO idea what the cause of it is by definition.
However, IF only quantum entanglement were not as mechanistic and replicable as it is, you would've rejected it too, because "given our current state of knowledge about how the universe works" the principle of locality in physics is supposed to work everywhere you look. Well, it doesn't work with quantum entanglement, does it? Unfortunately for the dogs and pigeons, they are not Newton's falling apples – their behavior is not exactly fully mechanistic. But, again, what if, just like with quantum entanglement, we can't quite connect all the ends together for the same reasons – the invisible elements in the equation? "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."? If you continuously failing to complete a jigsaw puzzle, and I'm suggesting that you might be missing some pieces… is that such an extraordinary claim? I'm not making a strong statement here, I'm defending an obvious possibility. And If you still demend the almighty "rigorous evidence", I can only refer you to the extracts from the article I posted before again…
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010 ... ntPage=all
"...selective reporting is everywhere in science….We cannot escape the troubling conclusion that some—perhaps many—cherished generalities are at best exaggerated in their biological significance and at worst a collective illusion nurtured by strong a-priori beliefs often repeated." ….. Such anomalies demonstrate the slipperiness of empiricism. …. We like to pretend that our experiments define the truth for us. But that's often not the case. Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true. When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe."
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Wbla3335 & canalon… I referred to you as "third people" throughout the post (sorry)… It's not the sign of disrespect (I was just trying to squeeze everything in one post). Sorry again!
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I'll make a few comments, since this was a separate conversation. (I'm not replying to everything, though, and I probably won't make another "large-scale" response here after this one. Unless I get tempted anyways. )
You most certainly do need a rigorous mathematical proof to show that it is impossible to make matter from something else.
You said, "there is absolutely zero chance for something to happen if the necessary preconditions are absent" (my emphasis). This is a truism, because of the word necessary – which implies an absolute requirement. However, you cannot specify that the preconditions are necessary without mathematics.
I assume you are including in your statement the claim it is impossible to create matter? This definitely does have to be mathematically proven - in fact, it's been done, and shown to be possible: E = mc^2 (from energy) and virtual particles (from nothing).
I recognize that your statement is actually allows for the use of "non-egg" matter as well, but I'm assuming you intended to make the stronger argument which I just replied to. (If you allow matter, there is no reason why you could not take other foods, break them down at the molecular level, and reassemble them into an omelet. It's not possible with current technology, but it is possible in theory.)
I think the incompleteness theorem says quite a bit less than you would like it to. It is a theorem about mathematical systems, and says that all consistent mathematical systems contain some statements which are true but unprovable within the system.
I am not a mathematician or physicist, so I am willing to be corrected, but it seems that you are adding the premises that 1) the universe (or "reality") is a mathematical system, 2) certain specific postulates are unprovable within this system (the theorem does not say that all postulates are unprovable), and 3) we do not have any way to leave the system or access anything outside of it.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I think you're making a faulty generalization though – not all biologists (or even close to all) are atheists.
The anthropic principle is about selection bias. I agree that it says nothing about the likelihood of a creator or creators – I was only trying to point out that a fine-tuning argument, which you seemed to be making, cannot distinguish between a creator and a many-worlds interpretation.
Second: I'm not sure about claiming the two are equally possible. Just because there are two possibilities does not necessarily mean that the probability is 50%, since it should be possible to interpret information about any creator from the structure of our universe.
You might find this link interesting, although I'm not really sure whether it's related: http://lesswrong.com/lw/mm/the_fallacy_of_gray/.
It also feels like you've also chosen an arbitrary way to divide up possible causes for the universe. If I change the statement to "Either the universe is a quantum fluctuation, or it was caused by a nonrandom but unintelligent event in some other universe, or it was created," do these now all have a possibility of 33%? But then the likelihood of a designer would be lower than before. Since no new knowledge has been gained, this is a contradiction.
The two statements are consistent. I did not say that all hypotheses can be falsified (specifically, unfalsifiable hypotheses cannot be falsified ). The point was that the word "falsify" only refers to hypotheses – you cannot falsify a "meaning." In mathematical terms, the set of all falsifiable statements is a strict subset of the set of all hypotheses.
(Of course, I was not saying that the "alien hypothesis" I proposed is unfalsifiable in principle, but that we cannot do it based on our current knowledge.)
I don't understand. "The blind watchmaker" generally refers to evolution, so if we wanted to explain something more about evolution, we would update the theory itself rather than try and invent a new theory to explain it.
I assume that these are not rhetorical questions.
For the first question – if causality exists but is not consistent (and is not probabilistic either), then the scientific method does not apply to that circumstance. However, we have not observed causality to be inconsistent in any way before, so we can infer that it is consistent in most if not all cases.
For the second question – it would again not apply, but we wouldn't even know about it anyways because you specified that we can't observe it. I'm not sure where this question is intended to lead, but I'll point out that if you want to draw any conclusions based on it you would first have to determine that something really is unobservable.
And that is sufficient reason to dismiss the argument?
The point is that for the claim to be true, it would require several other highly improbable claims to also be true (and the probability of all of these claims being true is far lower than that - it is the product of all the probabilities). The claim has an incredibly low prior probability based on other evidence which is not directly related to the experiment but which is still relevant.
It has not been observed under conditions that screen out bias. For example, when you run actual blinded (and/or otherwise controlled) experiments testing psychic phenomena, you get far more negative results than positive. And of course, small numbers of positive results are unsurprising in statistics, with the exact proportion depending on what your p-values are.
I did not say that anybody necessarily knows the answer to everything, only that some explanations are more likely than others.
...We don't know what the cause is because we haven't figured it out yet. There is no definition of quantum entanglement that involves not understanding the cause as an intrinsic part of the phenomenon.
No, it is not "supposed to work everywhere" based on our current knowledge. Our current knowledge, since the discovery of quantum entanglement, is that the principle of locality may work everywhere, and it may not.
Secondly: science does not care about the term "mechanistic" (which is a philosophical term and not a scientific one), but only "replicable."
No, it is not an extraordinary claim. However, it is an extraordinary claim that particular pieces are missing (out of the huge number of pieces that could be), and that is what you seem to be doing.
And yet science is still better at predicting the world around us than any other method tried to date.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
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Ok.In my opinion,this is the most instructive thread in the Internet for those that are interested in the question of "theories about origin of life". It seems to me that this thread is death, abandoned,and I can't understand it because this question wouldn't have an end till the day that scientifically someone prove how life has emerged. The normal behavior here, I think, should be everyone trying to reinforce his/her theory bringing on more evidences, while bringing on new evidences that deconstruct the other theories.
Then, this thread must have no end because everyday the news are showing new facts that can be used as positive or negative evidence to the current theories.
I had driven for a new theory of origins of life and even the universe, when I was living in Amazon jungle and observing the systems that composes that biosphere and inquiring how must be the state of the world, in its astronomic, atomic, and even the dimension of quantum fluctuations aspects, that has produced our kind of life. Of course, my goal now must be testing the whole theory against real facts. But I and the scientific enterprise has no the necessary tools for doing it just now. Then,what I can do with this theory? The same others are doing here: searching more thoughtful brains for doing a rational scrutiny of this theory, while showing the news about facts that are evidences in favor and showing evidences that I think, does not fit in another theories.
Introducing the people to a new big theory, which requires a change of his/her world vision is a difficult task. Maybe only high intellectuals individuals with open minds that are retired and has time for spent here, like Scottie, could invest attention in your theory and debating it with you. The fundamental requirement is that you can communicate it in a language understandable and that your theory makes same sense in the light of modern known facts. For instance, we had a poster here, Leopol, with two problems: poor Google translations from Russian, a lack of evidences and a world vision that is not tasteful. But it is not justice and intellectually productive rejecting Leopol's theory, we must deal with the details giving him the opportunity to advocate his world vision till he can not resisting anymore for lack of positive evidences. same thing I think must be the reactions about my theory, called "The Universal Matrix/DNA of natural Systems and Life's Cycles".
I am reading the whole thread, it is a lot of stuff, 45 pages. When finishing everything I will begin from the first post again, selecting those that are interesting to my theory and deserves a reply, proposing discussions. I know that this means that I will post here almost another 45 pages, because each post is interesting and touches the roots of Matrix/DNA world vision. I don't know if the moderator will permit it, but I will try because this is the right thing to do. But, then there are posts that can not wait the application of this method, it is irresistible a reply just now, like this post from Scottie.
I think there is a big difference about what "design" means when making comparison between the designs made by Scottie as an engineer and the designs that emerges in Nature. But we can see this difference only from the view point of another observer with another world vision. The way Scottie was educated for dealing with designs he can not understand that other things can do design without using a mind,a purpose. Let's focus on the generation of a new baby's giraffes. When mating, father and mother giraffes are doing same minded project of a design that will be real in the future? Or the future designed baby will be product of merely flow of natural laws? Could be possible that the flow of natural laws creates unpredictable complex designs? The phenomena of giraffes doing a new baby is not a proof that this is normal functioning in this world? Where is the mind behind this whole process? Where is the design while a female and a male genomes are fusing together inside an egg and during the whole process of gestation? I think that the design only appears outside the egg, ex-machine in relation to the egg. And the author of that design also are outside the egg, They are ex-machine in relation to the egg. They are natural construction by natural laws and they are not applying their minds for doing the design. Also the male and female giraffes has no purpose of doing the design that will emerges from their natural mating act.
Someone here has any problem with my proposition? I will consider that no, and will continue.
This biological phenomena of babies' generation is the unique real fact known by everybody when a design appears in Nature. We know the causes, the authors, the process, the evolution of whole process.
My question is: why every current theory (exception of Matrix/DNA Theory) forgets this phenomena when trying to understand what is going on in the whole Universe? Why every author of every theory made by human beings ( exception of Matrix/DNA Theory) believes that the explanation of universe's and life's existences is better when applying human imagination creating images of theoretical universes instead cleaning up the action of human imagination and applying what we see here and now, as real, over the whole universe for getting those explanations?
If we try doing that, this universe will be merely a material structure in which, inside it, is occurring a process of reproduction, from something ex-machine. Every process of reproduction is a sum of small and gradual processes of evolution. The observer inside an egg will think that is watching evolution and really he is; but the observer outside the egg will know that the evolution is an illusion, a process inside something bigger, called "reproduction".
The world inside an egg is a natural world, like the womb where the egg is located. If the universe is a natural world, why it should not be located inside a natural world, working, like the womb? Why people from TOE are imagining that babies giraffes are products of random processes filtered by natural selection exerted by the mother wombs' giraffe? They are not... but their imagined universe is explained like that. Why people from ID are imagining that babies giraffes are products of previous design made by the mind of father and mother giraffes? They are not... but their imagined universe is explained like that. Why Matrix/DNA Theory is believing that babies giraffes are products from the normal chain of causes and effects through natural laws that are passing through the bodies of father and mother giraffes? It is and its universe is explained like that.
What we see in this universe is the evolution of a unique system that appeared in shape of atoms, has evolved to shape of galaxies and to shapes of living beings. Like inside an egg a first cell has passed through several shapes. The final shape of the contents of a fertilized human egg has consciousnesses, but it appears as the last shape, maybe after the birth, ex-machine in relation to the egg. In the whole history of this egg never had the action of intelligence neither randomness. Why people are imagining a Universe that works in other way?! In the same way, I think, the process inside the egg and in relation to the egg is purposeless. There is no goal of the matter inside the egg, neither the action of an outside agency, as believed by Scottie, driven the processes towards a design. Do you believe that molecules called genes has the conscious goal of making a design in the shape of a giraffe? Do you believe that the parents giraffes or another entity outside the egg is acting inside the egg, driving its matter towards a final design, in shape of a giraffe? I can't believe in that. But, if you apply everything in the same way over the whole universe, based in the current proved facts we have about the universe, you get everything working like the real world we are experimenting just now. Them why rationally someone could refuse this theory? Some ideas? But please, let's work with facts, evidences only, Not ideologies or psychological analyses of the authors of these theories.
The debate between TOE and ID also is about the question of a common descent.Is there something that is half-non-organic e half-organic? A kind of link between life and non-life? A link between the mechanical Newtonian state of matter in the world of 4 billion years ago and the biological organization of matter that appeared 500 millions years later? The very fact is that nobody could yet imagine how could be the structure and functioning of such half-organism/half astronomic system.Then, we still are divided between those like Stanley/Urey that believes in the natural transition from non-organic to complex molecules and those like ID, Scottie, NASA, saying that it was impossible the emergency of complex molecules.
But... if we don't have the scientific tools for solving this question, our Reason and intelligence has the ability of organizing the known facts into bigger boards elaborating theories, which can driven us to the right tools and applied scientific method.Remember the Oparin theory and Muller/Urey applying the theory in a experiment. One rational method is "comparative anatomy between the sun/atomic system and the first cell system". Listing the differences and similarities, calculating the action of transformations and evolution, we can get a theoretical design about how should be such link. I don't know nobody else than me that has applied this method and the reason is understandable: a) The scientific thought at this time is driven by the reductionist method, not the systemic one, Then, people are reducing their focus over a small part of a system, like the primordial soup of Oparin, Urey, and all those applying positivist chemistry. Since that the first real living being was a complete eukariote cell, it was a complete and working system and not a part of system. It is rational to think that the creator of this cell must be a complete system.And since that the first living being here emerged from the matter of Earth ( or another astronomic body-panspermia), this matter must contains all informations of the creator system.If it was the primordial soup, the creator system must be there, in someway. So, before waiting the formation of complexes molecules with the vital force for continuing towards protein, RNA, Urey need reconstruct the reduced initial conditions to a non-organic working system, something where the forces responsible for this dynamic internal motion is the same vital force. In that soup and time we had only two known natural systems: atoms and astronomical. I tried during years to get a way for a systemic atom giving the jump towards complexes molecules by themselves and got no results. Then I tried the stellar system and no success either. But the design from comparative anatomy was pointing toward a direction: the galactic system.I will explain why.By the way, the scientific reductionist method never will find the transition between non-life and life because it is all about systems.b) When a problem is very difficult to solve, but the human being need a solution, imagination take the task, and the result is religions, etc.That is the causes nobody else could accept that the comparative anatomy between living systems and non-living could elaborate a better and rational theory.
Ok, resuming this post, this method left us with a theoretical design of the half-living system that emerged from the primordial soup.It is not a atomic neither a unique planetary body, neither a stellar system. I spent seven years searching this system in nature and not found it. But...
The properties that emerged with the first cell system must be: a) or the result of evolution ( normal flow of natural laws) from the properties of priors non-living systems; b) a product of design by an outside agency adapted to the properties of priors non-living systems; c) a third unknown alternative which must be searched by our Reason.
And my theoretical design was the resume of these three alternatives together. The secret is that the "outside agency" is a natural thing, which has not designed the first cell system using intelligence, only transferring itself into the world, from which resulted the natural laws, which had the potential for to evolves towards the design of the first cell system. Everything like when a couple of giraffes makes a new baby giraffe. This was the third alternative. But, then, the link between non-living systems and the first living system was not the alone creator of first cell system, like giraffes are not the creators of animal kingdom. I was driven deeper into universal history till the Big Bang and there finding the depository of the force that gives the dynamic to both, non-living and living systems: natural light.
So, how is the theoretical design of a link between non-living and living natural systems, which must explain all questions about these transition, first of all, the emergency of complexes molecules? How is the code that imprints the dynamism into matter transferred by light? How is this code imprinted in natural light?
I have found that the solution suggested by Matrix/DNA Theory is very rational and logical. Now it is time for to expose the solution to the scrutiny of every another brain hard-wired in different way than mine, testing if the solution is rational in a global manner.And trying to get the participation of others for the fight of getting the scientific tools and doing the first experiments suggested by the theory. Someone there reading this post? I have got an apparatus defense against the first stones and eggs throwing towards me. Feel free.
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Getting out of the cold
DELAVAN—The bitterly cold temperatures this week that closed schools, froze pipes and transformed car batteries into dead lumps of metal also turned people's minds—even if only fleetingly—to the homeless out on the streets in temperatures caused frostbite to exposed skin in less than 10 minutes.
But while a January thaw is promised to slowly warm things up, Walworth County's Emergency Homeless Shelter is still in need—as it is year round—of basic supplies for its residents.
"We absolutely need warm clothing, hats and mittens, but there's always an ongoing need for things like men's socks and underwear and day-to-day items like toothbrushes and toothpaste, soap and shampoo," said Lynn Curtis, general manager of the Delavan-based shelter, which is composed of 11 area churches that take weekly turns providing space in their facilities for homeless men to sleep at night. The shelter operates September through April.
The shelter site for the week of January 5 to 11 is Chapel on the Hill, N2440 Ara Glen Drive in Lake Geneva, and Curtis said the number of men using the site currently has been between 12 and 18.
The shelter provides residents with not only a warm place to sleep, but serves dinner and breakfast, and hands out sack lunches. The shelter generally opens at 5 p.m. daily, and men must leave by 8 a.m., whether to head out to a job or hang out at the local library. Bur so far this week because of dangerously cold weather, residents were allowed to stay inside the church during the day.�
Curtis said shelter volunteers are needed to help residents check in, serve meals, and set up and take down the sleeping spaces. She said the shelters prefers to have at least two volunteers stay overnight, and although they don't need to stay awake the whole time, they should be available in case of an emergency—like when one man suffering from pneumonia had to be taken to the hospital.
Curtis said the shelter would also welcome more church sites, food and monetary donations as well as supplies.
Some groups get creative in their support, she said—like the local Girl Scout troop that created individual personal hygiene bags for residents out of two washcloths sewn together and filled with shampoo, soap and toothpaste.
Because the Walworth County Emergency Homeless Shelter only takes in men, women and children who need shelter are referred elsewhere, often to the Transitional Living Center, Inc., at 482 S. Pine St. in Burlington. There director Cristen Chaffee can provide not only a temporary shelter, but a program that can help residents find a job and a permanent place to live, manage a paycheck and even get life coaching to give them some direction.
"I know homelessness has been an issue in Milwaukee, but our population of homeless is a little bit different," said Chaffee, a former Milwaukee social worker. "We haven't seen an increase in cars and tents down by the river, but we've seen a definite increase in the overall number of people who are facing evictions or have lost jobs because of the economy. Their needs are rising significantly. We've been busy. Very busy."
Currently, TLC has 22 residents. The Burlington-based shelter can house 16 residents, dorm-style. TLC cannot accept any boys older than 12, but the shelter also has a duplex in Walworth County that can house two families, including couples and older boys.�
Of the 46 women (and 59 children) that Chaffee has seen go through the shelter's program, 33 have gotten full-time jobs and 22 have moved into their own housing.
She said the shelter always needs supplies for its facilities, like cleaning and paper products, and items for residents, ranging from clothing to baby powder.
Chaffee would also like to see more awareness for the homeless, both by politicians and the public.
Recent changes in health care laws can be confusing enough for her employees applying for health insurance, she said, let alone single mothers struggling to get by or people with few job skills.
"The funding for shelters is being cut as the government is going more toward transitional housing rather than emergency housing," Chaffee said. "Unfortunately, many of the homeless aren't ready for transitional housing. They need work, they may have post-traumatic stress, they may need therapy, medications, parenting, basic hygiene,� budgeting or job skills. They need a hand getting there."


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One of the non-volatile computer memory technologies on the horizon, phase change memory (PCM), might one day replace the flash memory devices now used in everything from digital cameras and mp3 players to smartphones and PCs. Not only is PCM technology much faster and more scalable than flash memory, its far more durable. Developing a viable product requires accurate characterization, though. The problem is that conventional methods for measuring load resistance (Rload) can introduce data distortions that compromise results. New techniques involving current limiting and high-speed pulse generators provide a more effective alternative.
Essentially, a PCM cell is a chunk of a chalcogenide alloy that, through the focused application of heat in the form of an electrical pulse, can change rapidly from an ordered crystalline phase with low resistance to a disordered, amorphous phase with much higher resistance. The switch from the crystalline to the amorphous phase and back is triggered by melting and quick cooling (or a slightly slower process known as re-crystallization).
The differing levels of resistivity of the crystalline and amorphous phases of these alloys are what allow them to store binary data. The high resistance amorphous state is used to represent a binary 0; the low resistance crystalline state represents a 1. However, the latest materials and designs support multiple distinct levels, so a single cell can represent multiple bits, for greater memory density.
A germanium/antimony/tellurium alloy known as GST, with a melting temperature in the range of 500º to 600º C, is one of the promising PCM materials now being studied. In the amorphous phase, it has short-range atomic order and low free-electron density, which results in higher resistivity. This is sometimes referred to as the RESET phase, because it is usually formed after a RESET operation, in which the temperature of the device under test (DUT) is raised slightly above the melting point, then suddenly quenched to cool it. The rate of cooling is critical for the formation of the amorphous layer. The typical resistance of the amorphous layer can exceed 1 MO.
In the crystalline phase, the GST material has long-range atomic order and high free-electronic density, which results in lower resistivity. This is also known as the SET phase because it is formed after a SET operation, in which the temperature of the material is raised above the re-crystallization temperature but below the melting point, then cooled slightly slower to allow crystalline grains to form throughout the layer. The typical resistance of the crystalline phase ranges from 1 to 10 kO. Because the crystalline phase is a low-energy state, when heat is applied to material in the amorphous phase and the temperature approaches the crystallization temperature, it tends to change spontaneously to the crystalline phase.
In a typical GST PCM devices structure, heating/melting affects only a small area around the tip of the resistor, which is attached to the underside of the GST layer (see figure 1). Erase/RESET pulses set high resistance, or logical 0, and form an area of an amorphous layer on the device. Erase/RESET pulses are higher, narrower, and steeper than Write/SET pulses. A SET pulse, which sets a logical 1, re-crystallizes the amorphous layer back to the crystalline state.


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Animal expert Jack Hanna brings animals, show to Whitewater
WHITEWATER—Animal expert Jack Hanna knows how to disappear into the wild.
The director emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium packed earlier this month for Rwanda where he is spending quiet time with a band of mountain gorillas.
"I like to hike and sit with them," Hanna said before leaving. "I've been visiting with them since 1982."
Soon after he returns from his African adventure, Hanna and a band of exotic animals will visit Whitewater for a safari of a different kind.
On April 7, he might bring a cheetah, a penguin or an armadillo. For sure, he'll bring film of his recent encounter with the gorillas. He also might have a palm civet in tow. The small catlike creature with course hair and big eyes is found from the Himalayas and southern China to the Indonesian islands.
Hanna will not only show animals that most people never see in the wild, but he also will explain why they are in need of our attention. He brings a message of conservation and how citizens can help.
The visit will be Hanna's second to Whitewater.
"He and his crew were a pleasure to work with when they were last here in 2010," said Tami Brodnicki, executive director of Downtown Whitewater. The nonprofit group is sponsoring the visit, which will raise money to revitalize the downtown.
The last show raised funds for new bike racks and Christmas decorations.
"We want people to walk downtown and enjoy themselves as families," Brodnicki said. "We are looking into using the money for more benches or historically renovating buildings. We don't know yet."
A friend of famous gorilla-expert Dian Fossey, Hanna treasures his time with the endangered animals. Fewer than 900 remain in the world. He knows that most people on the planet will never see a mountain gorilla in the wild.
"I wish everyone could do what I do," he said. "I try to bring back the experience in a way so others can enjoy it."
Many people are used to seeing the lowland gorilla, which is in zoos all over the planet. But the best place to see the mountain gorilla is in its natural habitat in the Virunga Mountains of central Africa at the intersection of Uganda, Rwanda and the Congo. The mountain gorilla is bigger than the lowland gorilla and has longer hair because it lives at high altitudes.
"Can you imagine sitting within a few feet of a family of mountain gorillas," Hanna asks. "I've seen how they sit together and groom each other, and how they protect each other."
He cannot forget a mother gorilla who carried her dead infant around for weeks.
Unlike the image portrayed in King Kong, mountain gorillas are "truly gentle giants," Hanna said. "They hardly ever show aggression."
He worries about the future of the animals, who spend much of their days foraging on bamboo and wild celery. To make a difference, he serves on the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, which operates the world's most important center for studying the mountain gorilla.
Beginning in the 1980s, Hanna made TV appearances with zoo animals and became nationally known. Many have followed in his television footsteps to promote animal awareness, including the late Steve Irwin.
Hanna is passionate about introducing wild animals to the public.
"First, you have to touch peoples' hearts," he said. "Then, you have to teach their minds. If you don't do that, none of these animals will be saved. People have to love something to want to save it."
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Cougars smother Homestead, will play for Optimist title
JANESVILLE--Kerry Storbakken and the Janesville Craig girls basketball team weren't exactly impressed with how they opened last Saturday's game against Madison Memorial.
On Friday, the Cougars responded with what will almost surely be their best start this season.
They didn't allow a field goal for nearly 12 minutes, jumping out to a 29-point, first-half lead against Homestead on the way to a 73-41 victory. The Cougars will face Oregon—which beat Merrill 55-47—in the title game of the 2013 Optimist Classic at 7:45 p.m. tonight.
"We thought in the Memorial game we lacked a little intensity," Storbakken, the Cougars head coach, said of a Big Eight victory almost a week earlier. "We talked about playing hard, playing with intensity, and I thought the girls came out and did that. And defensively, that's where it starts."
Craig's full-court pressure defense smothered the Highlanders—who were without leading scorer Taylor McIlwraith—from the opening minutes.
The Cougars forced five first-quarter turnovers and allowed just five points—all of them coming from the free-throw stripe.
"We got some good turnovers, some run-outs," Storbakken said. "I thought we moved the ball well again on offense and hit different shooters. All of that's good."
A 13-0 run to start the second half gave Craig a 34-5 lead when Homestead made its first basket, with 3:55 left in the first half.
McIlwaith averages more than 17 points per game for the Highlanders, who fell to just 5-2 overall. No other player on the team averages more than 7.5 points per game.
The Cougars shot just shy of 50 percent from the field in the first half and went 11 of 13 from the line to lead 47-15 at the break.
They improved to 6-0 at home this season, a mark that will be put to the test tonight against Oregon, the No. 8-ranked Division 2 team in the state. Oregon is led by 6-foot-1 senior forward Maddy Gits, who averages 18 points per game.
"We'll have our hands full," Storbakken said. "She's going to Saint Louis for a free education, and she's good. We don't see too many 6-1, 6-2 girls that are that athletic. We're looking forward to the challenge, though."
Homestead (41)—Covill, 4-0-8; Fochs, 1-1-3; Harmon, 3-3-9; Thomas, 6-3-15; Neilson, 1-2-5; Severson, 0-1-1. Totals: 15-10-41.
Craig (73)—Schumacher, 3-0-7; Cramer, 2-0-5; Stewart, 1-4-7; Hughes, 8-0-19; Pierson, 2-0-4; Slatter, 2-2-6; Calkins, 6-1-13; Schoenenberger, 2-2-6; Brittingham, 2-2-6. Totals: 28-11-73.
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Three-point goals—Homestead 1 (Neilson), Craig 6 (Schumacher, Cramer, Stewart, Hughes 3). Free throws missed—Homestead 9, Craig 6. Total fouls—Homestead 14, Craig 19.
• Monona Grove tops Parker--Monona Grove used a dominant first quarter to beat the Janesville Parker girls basketball team in the title game of the JustAgame Holiday Shootout on Friday.
The Silver Eagles, who improved to 6-0 and are ranked No. 2 in the state in Division 2, jumped out to a 12-point lead after the opening eight minutes and sprinted to a 54-32 victory.
Senior guard Alexa Kelsey scored a game-high 15 points for Monona Grove, which led 35-18 at halftime.
Junior Paige Smith paced the Vikings with 11.
Parker returns to the court Friday, hosting Sun Prairie in a Big Eight Conference game at 7:30 p.m.
Monona Grove (54)—Clary, 2-2-6; Mikalsen, 0-1-1; Anderson, 1-0-3; Ogden, 2-0-4; Merrill, 1-0-2; Kelsey, 5-1-15; Long, 4-2-10; Nelson, 3-7-13. Totals: 18-13-54.
Parker (32)—P. Foster, 1-0-2; Smith, 3-5-11; K. Foster, 0-1-1; Dubanowich, 3-1-7; Uhl, 3-0-6; McCulloch, 1-2-5. Totals: 11-9-32.
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Frances Levine is the director of the New Mexico History Museum (nmhistorymuseum.org), which opens in Santa Fe on May 24. She also is a contributing editor to this month's Museum of New Mexico Press book, Telling New Mexico, A New History (edited by Marta Weigle). This is an extended version of an interview that appears in this week's print edition.
SFR: Just to start, should I characterize you as a contributor to the book, Telling New Mexico, or a contributing editor?
FL: A contributing editor, but Marta Weigle was the editor of the book. She was sent by the angels. [Senior curator] Louise [Stiver] and I knew we wanted to have a book for the opening, we wanted to have a catalogue and we got a group of authors together and had a roundtable discussion to try and shape what the book might be. Marta came to us after the meeting and said, 'You're not going to have time for this, to build the museum, create the exhibits, edit the book and tell your fellow historians that they have to rewrite something.' She said, 'Let me do this.' So Marta became the editor and she was contributing to the point where she contributed every moment of her time to it. We had quite a few editorial meetings to shape where we were going and think about, 'Was there an existing piece that we could use from a previously published article,' or 'Did we want a new contribution?' and it was Marta who was the glue who held it all together.
You write in your epilogue to Telling New Mexico that the opening of the history museum 'initiates new dialogue in telling New Mexico.' What were the seeds for you for that new dialogue?
I taught New Mexico history for 15 years at Santa Fe Community College and teaching history in New Mexico, you understand that history here is personal experience, it's family experience, it's a community collective experience and it was from my perspective as a teacher, I realized a history museum anymore can't be didactic. It can't tell you what to think but it can provide you with an opportunity to see and to touch and to experience the past through dialogue with documents, through viewing artifacts, through listening to oral histories and film.
So it came both from my experience as an instructor and also my experience now having my hands on the goods: the real artifacts of New Mexico history. There's nothing like sitting there seeing [General] Steven Watts Kearny's field desk and the portrait of him and opening the desk and his glasses were in it and his migraine tablets—you just experience the history in a very different way when you have all these different ways of getting in touch with the past. So that's what I mean by that dialogue. I think the Palace of the Governors is a fabulous historic building but it has never been able to tell its own story; it had so many competing functions. So now I think this new building, the new opportunities will allow us to tell the stories of New Mexico history and hear the stories of New Mexico history in a very different way.
What does it mean to talk about 'new history'?
I think most people get the idea that history is received wisdom—that it happens in the past and is revealed in some way, but they don't know that way. So I think new history is that opportunity to expose the way in which history is written. So I think new history is that opportunity to expose the way in which history is written: What are the component parts? Is something based on a first person account, an artifact, a diary, multiple diaries of events that shed different perspective on who the participants are?
The opening exhibit is "Fashioning New Mexico" and it's the first time many of these clothes and accessories will ever have been exhibited?
We have two exhibits in the new history museum. ["Fashioning New Mexico"] is our temporary changing exhibit and most of the costumes, the textiles and the uniforms, very little of it has been on exhibit before.
Were they in storage?
They were in storage at the Palace of the Governors and we also had some big grants from Save America's Treasures and from the Institute for Museum and Library Services that allowed us to do the conservation work on the fans, on the shoes and on all the clothing.
The museum's core exhibition is based on the structure of the book itself, with six sections that represent five historic New Mexico time periods as well as contemporary New Mexico?
Exactly. That was the constant dialogue between [editor] Marta Weigle and the authors; we went through script after script after script, constantly reading and saying, 'Why are we saying it, why are we saying it that way?' so we took the [museum] script development to the book and the book back to the script development.
So what were some of the highlights of the collection for you?
Let's see. I have one particular artifact that I love and that's in the core exhibition and it's a colcha. It's a large, almost double-bed size, stitch embroidery and I'm a big needle-worker, so for me I think about the thought and the time and the process that went into creating it because someone had to sheer the sheep, spin the wool, weave the base, dye the thread and then lay out this fabulous design; it's a spectacular piece.
A portrait we have of La Macana… La Macana was an image of Mary that was here in New Mexico before the Pueblo Revolt and she foretells the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the painting of her is one we have on loan that we hope to be able to buy and she is absolutely spectacular. What else do I love? I love Gen. Mariano Arista's camp service. He was a Mexican general on the Mexican American war side and his silver service is just gorgeous. Should I keep going? I have to tell you once you get me started…
You write that the exhibitions will help situate our 'national identity in a broader cultural perspective,' could you characterize that identity a bit?
I grew up going to school in Connecticut and I learned that the pilgrims started this country. Those of us who learned history on the East Coast were taught that the pilgrims and Jamestown were the beginning of history. When you reorient your thinking to tell American history from the southwest, you realize that the components of American history include pueblo and Navajo and Apache people who have been here since time memorial and Hispanic people who have been here for 16, 17 generations, since the end of the 16th century. That puts a whole different perspective of what made this nation. So I hope we are on the radar screen to really get people talking about a different way of seeing American history and seeing it from the southwest, instead of seeing it from east to west.
The New Mexico tableau you've laid out is way more multi-cultural than perhaps the traditional way of looking at New Mexico history.
That's one of the things we really set out to do in the museum and the book was to break the tripartite myth of New Mexico history and one of the things we wanted people to understand is there are so many more than three cultures in New Mexico and have always been.
Has it been a challenge to try to create a history museum that will appeal to both people who live here and tourists?
We just took that as our job: Our job was to tell what I would call the sort of inside stories about ourselves, but also tell the story and relate it back to American history so people who come here would have a context for it. Patrick Gallagher and Associates in Bethesda, Maryland were our exhibition designers and they design history museums all over the nation, all over the world. So they were very good at saying to us, 'what are you talking about? Why are you telling that story?' We did a series of interviews around the state in probably 30 some communities and asked people to tell us what they wanted to hear and we did some focus groups that sometimes included all New Mexicans or people who were visiting and had them tell us the same thing.
Can you talk a little about the role technology will play in the museum?
Big. We have a lot of different types of interactive technology. One of the discussions we had early on was that we wanted to use technology where it was appropriate, but we didn't want to build a video arcade. So we decided, for example, The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was a good place for technology, so we have marvelous interactive. We went to visit museum exhibits all over and we did some personal ethnography; we watched the ways visitors use technology in museums. We also worked with fabulous partners, Second Story Media in Portland, Oregon. They are the people crafting our interactive media displays and they're really helping us to bring media into appropriate use so it's not overdone or underdone.
As an anthropologist, do you have a lens through which you view New Mexico?
I view it through a very refracted lens, meaning I learn history in lots of different ways, both through oral history, documents, archaeology and that's been my overarching theme, you have to have those multiple perspectives on history to understand what happened and when it happened and what caused things to happen.
Do you think there will be anything controversial about the museum?
I think history in and of itself brings people face to face with different ways of telling the past. I can't imagine we won't have some disagreement, I don't know if I'd use the word controversy, I like to look at it as dialogue. I think that's part of the dialoguing about the past that takes place when people say, 'yeah but I learned blah blah blah,' or 'I think' or 'I heard' or 'I read.' That's what we want people to do is look at it and say, 'I never knew that,' or 'I always learned that.' One of the other things we'd like to do is create a resolana, an area where we can have some guided discussions about history.
The Tenement Museum in New York City does a very interesting thing where after people go through the museum they meet in this kitchen area to talk about immigration. Our chief educator Erica Garcia and I went and it was so fascinating. We'd like to do something like that here. We've create a space called the gathering space where we'd love people to join in conversations about, 'how did this change your thinking about New Mexico history?' We want people to come out and say, 'I learned so much I didn't know' or I want to learn how what you said fits with what I learned elsewhere.'
Telling New Mexico: A New History
Edited by Marta Weigle with Frances Levine and Louise Stiver
Museum of New Mexico Press
May 15, 2009
$45 clothbound/$29.95 paperbound
488 pages, 56 black-and-white photographs
It may be impossible to live in New Mexico—even to visit it—without learning about, or at least appreciating, its natural beauty, cultural resources and historic depth.
Telling New Mexico: A New History pays tribute to all these components of the state's visage, but in such a way as to reinvigorate even the most accepted of New Mexico's narratives.
In putting together this anthology, editor Marta Weigle and her collaborators have struck a very interesting balance; the book feels both seminal as well as completely fresh in its creation of a multifaceted tableau that charts New Mexico's evolution on numerous planes.
Organizationally, the book reflects what visitors will find in the core exhibition of the forthcoming New Mexico History Museum, which opens in Santa Fe on May 24. It is divided into thematic and chronological sections, and includes previously published essays, as well as new articles, on topics that range from New Mexico's volcanoes to the origins of the Jicarilla Apache to Japanese internment camps to Taos hippies to the Roswell incident to Mexican immigration (and that's just a sprinkling).
This topical span and the collection's diversity of voices (approximately 50 authors contributed to the book) converge to create a book that is much more than the sum of its many parts. In total, Telling New Mexico transcends its purposing as an accompaniment to the forthcoming museum. It could quite easily be used to teach New Mexico history in classrooms across the state, as a primer for visitors and as reference for future scholarship. Stylistically, the essays are accessible, authoritative and, in several cases, revelatory.
The seventh section, My New Mexico, makes history personal, and two of its essays are particularly noteworthy. In "Finding American World War II Internment in Santa Fe: Voices Through Time" Gail Y Okawa discusses her discovery that her grandfather was imprisoned in an American internment camp in Santa Fe during World War II, her research to understand those events and her attendance, in 2002, of the creating of the stone marker at Frank Ortiz Park in Santa Fe memorializing the events and actions that took place there. In "Tricky Mirror: Mexican Immigrants in New Mexico," María Cristina López also places what she calls the "psychological frontera" between the US and Mexico, between New Mexico and Mexico, and between native Hispanics and Mexican immigrants into a context that is again both personal and long-viewed.
The concept of "new history," as museum director Frances Levine describes it, is one in which history is seen in layers, it is gleaned from multiple sources and it evolves over time and through understanding. Telling New Mexico captures that sense of discovery and multi-layered storytelling, and is sure to provoke numerous discussions about the state's past, present and future.
Frances Levine is the director of the New Mexico History Museum (nmhistorymuseum.org), which opens in Santa Fe on May 24. She also is a contributing editor to this month's Museum of New Mexico Press book, Telling New Mexico, A New History (edited by Marta Weigle). This is an extended version of an interview that appears in this week's print edition.


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Is Spirulina really good for our health ?
About microscopic forms of life, including Bacteria, Archea, protozoans, algae and fungi. Topics relating to viruses, viroids and prions also belong here.
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Is Spirulina really good for our health ?
I know Spirulina very good for our health. But I think nothing is perfect! I wonder if it has any bad point ?
Spirulina is a cyanobacteria. Spirulina's scientific name is arthrospira platensis. This edible algae has a long history of safe human consumption and over 30 years of safety testing. Special farms where spirulina is cultivated under controlled conditions do not allow the growth of other contaminant blue-green algae, as in lakes and waterways.
World's highest beta carotene food reduces long term health risks.
Spirulina beta carotene is ten times more concentrated than carrots. So even if you don't eat the recommended 4 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables every day (most people eat only 1-2, including french fries), get your natural beta carotene insurance from spirulina to help support your body's defenses.
60% easy-to-digest vegetable protein without the fat and cholesterol of meat.
People are eating less meat and dairy protein because they want to lower fat, cholesterol, and chemicals in their diet. Spirulina is the highest protein food with all the essential amino acids and has only a few calories to keep your waistline where you want it.
A rare essential fatty acid is a key to health.
Gamma-linolenic acid (GLA) in mother's milk helps develop healthy babies. Studies show nutritional deficiencies can block GLA production in your body, so a good dietary source of GLA can be important. Spirulina is the only other whole food with GLA.
Iron for women and children's health.
Iron is essential to build a strong system, yet is the most common mineral deficiency. Spirulina is rich in iron, magnesium and trace minerals, and is easier to absorb than iron supplements.
High in Vitamin B-12 and B Complex.
Spirulina is the highest source of B-12, essential for healthy nerves and tissue, especially for vegetarians.
Unusual phytonutrients for health and cleansing.
Scientists are discovering the benefits of polysaccharides, sulfolipids & glycolipids, and the rainbow of natural pigments that give spirulina a deep green color. Green (chlorophyll), blue (phycocyanin) and orange (carotenoids) colors collect the sun's energy and power growth. Chlorophyll is a natural cleanser and is often referred to as nature's green magic.
So, it's not so bad, is it?
"As a biologist, I firmly believe that when you're dead, you're dead. Except for what you live behind in history. That's the only afterlife" - J. Craig Venter
If you take in too much beta-carotene your skin can become yellow...
but this is not too bad since your body will eventually excrete it. It doesn't do any harmful/permanent damage
Vitamin A is a different story though and can cause some serious problems. I'm not sure if spirulina contains Vitamin A...
Yes, but a very low quantity. Or so i remember... Anyway you can't overdose from it...
"As a biologist, I firmly believe that when you're dead, you're dead. Except for what you live behind in history. That's the only afterlife" - J. Craig Venter
Or maybe something like Vitamin C. It is an antioxidant, but if you get too much it has just the opposite effect.
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Re: Is Spirulina really good for our health ?
An international detective hunt has been underway for 20 years. Researchers in Japan, China, India, Europe and the USA are discovering how and why the microalgae Spirulina is so effective for human and animal health. Hundreds of published scientific studies reveal how Spirulina, and its unique phytonutrients and extracts, boost the immune system and improve health in many ways.
There are several new peer reviewed scientific studies about the ability to inhibit viral replication, strengthen both the cellular and humoral arms of the immune system and cause regression and inhibition of cancers. While these studies are preliminary and more research is needed, the results so far are exciting.
In April 1996, scientists from the Laboratory of Viral Pathogenesis, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School announced on-going research, saying "Water extract of Spirulina platensis inhibits HIV-1 replication in human derived T-cell lines and in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. A concentration of 5-10 µg/ml was found to reduce viral production."
HIV-1 is the AIDS virus. Small amounts of Spirulina extract reduced viral replication while higher concentrations totally stopped its reproduction. Importantly, with a therapeutic index of >100, Spirulina extract was non-toxic to the human cells at concentrations stopping viral replication.
Another group of medical scientists in Japan has published new studies regarding a purified water extract unique to Spirulina named Calcium-Spirulan. It inhibits replication of HIV-1, Herpes Simplex, Human Cytomegalovirus, Influenza A virus, Mumps virus and Measles virus in-vitro yet is very safe for human cells. It protects human and monkey cells from viral infection in cell culture. According to peer reviewed scientific journal reports this extract, "holds great promise for treatment of HIV-1, HSV-1, and HCM infections, which is particularly advantageous for AIDS patients who are prone to these life-threatening infections."
Calcium-Spirulan is a polymerized sugar molecule unique to Spirulina containing both Sulfur and Calcium.
How does it work? When attacking a cell, a virus first attaches itself to the cell membrane. However, because of Spirulina extract, the virus cannot penetrate the cell membrane to infect the cell. The virus is stuck, unable to replicate. It is eventually eliminated by the body's natural defences.
Several studies show Spirulina or its extracts can prevent or inhibit cancers in humans and animals. Some common forms of cancer are thought to be a result of damaged cell DNA running amok, causing uncontrolled cell growth. Cellular biologists have defined a system of special enzymes called Endonuclease which repair damaged DNA to keep cells alive and healthy. When these enzymes are deactivated by radiation or toxins, errors in DNA go un-repaired and cancer may develop. In vitro studies suggest the unique polysaccharides of Spirulina enhance cell nucleus enzyme activity and DNA repair synthesis. This may be why several scientific studies, observing human tobacco users and experimental cancers in animals, report high levels of suppression of several important types of cancer. The subjects were fed either whole Spirulina or treated with its water extracts.
Medical scientists find it not only stimulates the immune system, it actually enhances the body's ability to generate new blood cells. Important parts of the immune system, Bone Marrow Stem Cells, Macrophages, T-cells and Natural Killer cells, exhibit enhanced activity. Spleen and Thymus glands show enhanced function. Scientists also observe Spirulina causing macrophages to increase in number, become "activated" and, more effective at killing germs.
Feeding studies show even small amounts build up both humoral and cellular arms of the immune system. Spirulina accelerates production of the humoral system (antibodies and cytokines), allowing it to better protect against invading germs. The cellular immune system includes T-cells, Macrophages, B-cells and the anti-cancer Natural Killer cells. These cells circulate in the blood and are especially rich in body organs like the liver, spleen, thymus, lymph nodes, adenoids, tonsils and bone marrow. Spirulina up-regulates these key cells and organs, improving their ability to function in spite of stresses from environmental toxins and infectious agents.
Spirulina has a dark blue-green color, because it is rich in a brilliant blue polypeptide called Phycocyanin. Studies show it affects the stem cells found in bone marrow. Stem cells are "Grandmother" to both the white blood cells that make up the cellular immune system and red blood cells that oxygenate the body. Chinese scientists document Phycocyanin stimulating hematopoiesis, (the creation of blood), emulating the affect of the hormone erythropoetin, (EPO). EPO is produced by healthy kidneys and regulates bone marrow stem cell production of red blood cells. Chinese scientists claim Phycocyanin also regulates production of white blood cells, even when bone marrow stem cells are damaged by toxic chemicals or radiation.
Based on this effect, Spirulina is approved in Russia as a "medicine food" for treating radiation sickness. The Children of Chernobyl suffer radiation poisoning from eating food grown on radioactive soil. Their bone marrow is damaged, rendering them immunodeficient. Radiation damaged bone marrow cannot produce normal red or white blood cells. The children are anemic and suffer from terrible allergic reactions. Children fed just five grams in tablets each day made dramatic recoveries within six weeks.
Spirulina is one of the most concentrated natural sources of nutrition known. It contains all the essential amino acids, rich in chlorophyll, beta-carotene and its co-factors, and other natural phytonutrients. This is the only green food rich in GLA essential fatty acid. GLA stimulates growth in some animals and makes skin and hair shiny and soft yet more durable. GLA also acts as an anti-inflammatory, sometimes alleviating symptoms of arthritic conditions.
Spirulina acts as a functional food, feeding beneficial intestinal flora, especially Lactobacillus and Bifidus. Maintaining a healthy population of these bacteria in the intestine reduces potential problems from opportunistic pathogens like E. coli and Candida albicans. Studies show when spirulina is added to the diet, beneficial intestinal flora increase.
Based on this preliminary research, scientists hope the use of Spirulina and its extracts may reduce or prevent cancers and viral diseases. Bacterial or parasitic infections may be prevented or respond better to treatment and wound healing may improve. Symptoms of anaemia, poisoning and immunodeficiency may be alleviated.
Scientists in the USA, Japan, China, Russia, India and other countries are studying this remarkable food to unlock its potential. More research is needed to determine its usefulness against AIDS and other killer diseases. However, it is already clear this safe and natural food provides concentrated nutritional support for optimum health and wellness. More about Spirulina
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Uhuh... now that sounds exactly like biased hype that always freaks me out. It is surely nice to apply funding for a project that cures cancer, AIDS, famine, malnutrition, blood disorders and apparently whatever one can conjure up. I'm not saying that Spirulina doesn't sound like an iteresting topic that certainly warrants further investigation, but this last reply seems to completely lack objectivity, and hence credibility - to me it looks just like a marketing speech disguised behind scientific terms.
Anyone who has read proper peer-reviewed journals knows that a paper / review that comes with this many flashy or extreme adjectives hardly gets a green light from any well-respected reviewer. So either the writer has made them up themselves, or the articles aren't quite from Nature or New Scientist.
"The children are anemic and suffer from TERRIBLE allergic reactions."
"Children fed JUST five grams in tablets each day made DRAMATIC recoveries within six weeks."
"...are studying this REMARKABLE food to unlock its potential."
"...to determine its usefulness against AIDS and other KILLER diseases."
"It inhibits replication of HIV-1, Herpes Simplex, Human Cytomegalovirus, Influenza A virus, Mumps virus and Measles virus in-vitro yet is VERY safe for human cells."
"HUNDREDS of published scientific studies reveal how Spirulina, and its UNIQUE phytonutrients and extracts, boost the immune system and improve health in many ways."
TV-Shop, anyone?
...and those were just a few examples, many of the more suspicious claims are either extremely generalised or vague. Heck, there are hundreds of substances out there that inhibit viral replication in vitro, and are safe (sorry, very safe!) to human cells - but are still completely useless agains viruses in therapeutical terms.
I hope you get my point, this "review" or whatever you called fulfill all the requirements for a misleading scientific text. You can basically pick whatever a topic you wish and find "hundreds" of peer reviewed papers - just who reviewed them and in which paper..? (the Chinese are always a good pick, because until nowadays, nobody could ever check their results or methods anyway - and even today the situation is quite different from many other countries )
I truly hope nobody makes their opinion about Spirulina based on this text!
Re: Is Spirulina really good for our health ?
To: Tuyet Giang: In short, yes it is good for your health. The downside is it does not taste very good, and can be messy. The limitation on how much can be consumed is the nucleic acid content. The UNIDO suggests to use less than 45 grams per day. Health benefits in humans begin at just one gram per day, and probably peak at about 10-15 grams per day.
To: biohazard; You are quite right. The piece I wrote more than ten years ago is of the commercial genre', not scientific.
For science go to http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ and enter phycocyanin NADPH oxidase or just Spirulina.
The value to human health of Spirulina is primarily it's peculiar form of bilin (phycocyanin) and polysaccharide. The bilin is not only a direct antioxidant in-vivo, it powerfully inhibits NADPH oxidase and COX-2, which means it is a powerful immunosupressant.
The polysaccharide is finding applications in medicine as an immunostimulant.
Eating Spirulina provides both immunostimulant and immunosuppressant effects, which though it sounds odd, do not cancel one another out. Both effects are desirable in most people.
Re: Is Spirulina really good for our health ?
Where i can buy Spirulina i have no idea? i live u.k
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I buy my spirulina online, it's cheaper than buying it at the drugstore.
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Reason: And you dispose of your spam online, because it is cheaper too?
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