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What are the structural differences between the xylem vessel and the phloem tissue?
How are the structures of both, related to their respective functions?
These are two question i've been working on but I'm not sure If I have the right idea. Can anyone help me out?
I remember observing a cross section of a corn old stem, xylem vessels are larger than phloem vessels.
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The first answer to the question:
Both xylem and phloem are vascular tissues found in a plant. Xylem is a tubular structure which is responsible for water transport from the roots towards all of the parts of the plant. Phloem is also a tubular structure but is responsible for the transportation of food and other nutrients needed by plant. Xylem imports water and minerals while Phloem transports water and food. Xylem exists as non-living tissue at maturity, but phloem is living cells.
Xylem: Hard wall cells transport water and mineral nutrients
Phloem: Relatively soft -walled cells transport organic nutrients
"Hardness and softness" is a function of the amount of lignification and extractive content of the individual cell walls not there location in the tree.
It is a dead complex permanent tissue. Sapwood is xylem and mostly alive
It is the principal water conducting tissue of vascular plants.
Xylem consists of tracheids , vessels , xylem parenchyma and xylem fibres. Also ray parenchyma Also the xylem of softwoods (Gymnospermae) do NOT contain vessels.
It is a living complex permanent tissue. Inner phloem is alive. Outer phloem is dead.
It is the principal food conducting tissue found in vascular plants. Actually only the first .2-.7mm of the phloem is functional in food transport. The rest is non-functioning (ref. Esau's Plant Anatomy, 3rd ed. 2006, Chap.14) also (ALFIERI, F. J., and R. F. EVERT. 1968. Seasonal development of the secondary phloem in Pinus. Am. J. Bot. 55, 518-528.)
It consists of sieve cells , sieve tube elements , phloem parenchyma and phloem fibres. There are also phloem ray cells.
Xylem consists of the inner heartwood (the dead part) and the outer portion called the sapwood (the mostly living part.) Xylem "wood" from the Greek xylon. The actual transport of the water and minerals from the roots (sap) is carried out by the outer portion of the sapwood (nearest the bark).The largest percentage of the sap is transported in the first few growth rings.
The answer to the second question:
Structure refers to how the (body ) is put together-bones, muscles, tendons and ligaments - then onto organ structure, down to the cellular level-
Function refers to how (the body ) works,what does it do ?
example-structure of an organ- the largest in the human body - skin-
epidermis, dermis,layer of fat,etc.. function- regulates body temperature , expands to allow body movement, cools body temperature, houses nerve endings ,enabling to feel pressure or pain
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NEWVILLE—The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is planning three potential park-and-ride lots along the Interstate 90/39 corridor, but it's still fishing for someone to maintain the lots, a DOT official said.
DOT project engineer Derek Potter said the department has approached Rock County with a potential agreement for the county to maintain at least one of the park and rides the DOT could build—a 40-to-60-stall lot at the Highway 59/I-90/39 interchange at Newville.
The lot, as well as potential park-and-ride lots at the Interstate 43/I-90/39 interchange in Beloit and the I-90/39/Racine Street interchange on Janesville's south side, would be developed as part of the planned I-90/39 expansion between Madison and Beloit, a project slated to start in 2015.
But Rock County officials are hesitant to volunteer to maintain a public parking lot at Newville, particularly during snowy stretches of winter, Rock County Highway Commissioner Ben Coopman said this week.
"The county has expressed a lack of interest in doing that not because we're not willing to, but because of priorities," Coopman said.�
Coopman said salting, plowing and shoveling a public park-and-ride at the county's north end would be a low-level priority for the county's highway division. He also says it would be difficult or impossible to wedge the highway division's large equipment into a small parking lot.
"Number one is that we don't have the staff to take care of that kind of facility when we have snow storms going on, our people are needed on the main highways," Coopman said. "Number two, the configuration of the lots is so small, with narrow aisles and the like, that we can't get in there with our type of equipment."
The lots would be used mainly for commuters who carpool or take ride-sharing transit to Madison, or travelers taking bus transit to Milwaukee or Chicago, officials say.
While the DOT pays for construction of park-and-ride lots, the agency typically forges agreements with local governments for maintenance, including snow removal, mowing and even light bills for parking lots, rest stops and waysides. Those agencies then handle maintenance from their own budgets and bill the state for time and materials, officials said.
"I don't know, as far as their equipment working or fitting there," Potter said. "It's a parking lot. I know for most of them (local governments), it's budget concerns and it's just another cost."
Coopman said the county used to handle some maintenance duties at the I-39/90 rest stops near Beloit and along the Interstate north of Janesville, but county crews' work in those areas now is limited to one pass with a snowplow through main access roads, often only once every eight hours during heavy snows.
The DOT now contracts out to private companies for other maintenance at those waysides, Coopman said.
The county's reluctance to agree to maintain the Newville park-and-ride does not mean the DOT will scrap plans for park-and-rides along the Interstate corridor, Potter said.
He said the DOT would include potential park-and-ride lots in ongoing plans for the Interstate expansion.
The lots would be built late in construction of the expansion, Potter said, so there's time for ongoing negotiations with other municipal governments such as the towns of Milton and Fulton, or even the cities of Edgerton or Milton, he said.
As of now, Rock County is the only entity that conducts winter maintenance in Newville.
"Up in Newville, there aren't a lot of options," Coopman said. "We maintain (town of) Milton and (town of) Fulton roads. We're the only show in town."
Meanwhile, along with the Newville lot, the DOT is eyeing potential spots for two other park-and-ride lots.
A potential lot in Beloit would be located at the southwest corner of the 1-43/I-39/90, interchange, and it likely would fall under county jurisdiction because it would be on a right-of-way, Beloit City Manager Larry Arft said.
Arft said although Beloit, wouldn't handle maintenance, the city supports a park-and-ride in Beloit because commuters and travelers routinely park in lots near the interchange.
Janesville also has an enclave of park-and-ride users. A de-facto park-and-ride lot now runs from the K-Mart parking lot on Milton Avenue. Potter said the DOT looked into locating a park-and-ride near the Highway 26/I-90/39 interchange, but there are few land options.
That has prompted the DOT to look at the Racine Street interchange in Janesville as a potential spot for a park-and-ride.
"That's not in current (DOT) plans, but there could be a potential one there," Potter said. "We're now talking with the city of Janesville about it."


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In an attempt to spice up his consumer math class, teacher Dan Anderson, of Queensbury, New York, had his students measure the heights and weight of regular Oreos, as well as Double Stuf and Mega Stuf. As it turns out, Double Stuf Oreos were actually 1.86 times the size of regular Oreos and Mega Oreos were 2.68 times bigger than regular Oreos.
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Fondness for a firemen's festival
This weekend I was in Wisconsin Rapids, attending the Wisconsin Writers Association's annual fall conference. I'm on the board of directors, and our largest of two weekend board meetings was Friday afternoon, so I had to take the day off from work.
We had our annual Jade Ring contest banquet Saturday night. I entered previously unpublished works in three of the six contest categories because I enjoy creative writing and have a personal goal of winning a Jade Ring. That's right—a first-time winner in any category wins an actual Jade Ring from the association. It's a personal goal.
I received advance notice that I was an award winner in two categories—Nonfiction Essay and Nonfiction Reminiscence-Memoir. The judge in each category doesn't know who the writer is, and even with the advance notice, you don't know whether you got first, second, third or an honorable mention until they announce the winners at the banquet. My essay placed second, and the reminiscence-memoir took honorable mention. I'm saving the essay for use another time, but I'd like to share with you today the latter piece. Though it's about the firemen's festival in my hometown of Marshall, the story has ties to Janesville. I hope you enjoy it.
"Fondness for a Firemen's Festival"
When I was in high school in the Dane County village of Marshall, I couldn't wait to graduate and leave town.
Na�ve and immature, I didn't realize what was important in life. I thought a community had to have a bowling alley, a movie theater or even a fast food restaurant—some place for kids to hang out and meet their friends. Marshall was too small for such businesses. I still remember the number 739 on the population signs.
Now, however, I better understand what makes a community such as Marshall special. It's people pulling together, cooperating, neighbors helping neighbors.
When I was 5, my family moved into a new home on Park Drive. Fields of alfalfa behind our home and other houses under construction served as my playgrounds. With a fishing net, I'd chase butterflies flitting about those fields. Neighbor kids and I built forts out of scrap lumber atop dirt piles whenever workers started another home. We'd ignore our parents' warnings against playing in the pond beyond the fields. The chance to catch tadpoles, frogs and turtles was just too tempting.
Best yet, our home was two doors from Firemen's Park, which sprawled out on a crook in the Maunesha River. In winter we'd skate on the ice, build snowmen or stage snowball fights. If roads were icy, we'd race our steel-runner Flexible Flyer sleds down the street circling the park.
Firemen's Park was even more fun in summer. After a rainy day, Dad and I slipped stealthily into the park after dark, like two soldiers on night patrol, flashlights and empty bean cans in hand. We caught night crawlers that my friends and I used to entice bullheads from shore. My buddies and I also spent lazy days at the beach, swimming and ogling girls in skimpy suits. We'd play catch, "500" or—if enough kids were around—pick-up games on the ball diamond. On breezy days, we'd fly kites.
Summer's highlight was the annual Firemen's Festival. The week of the fest, we'd sit on our bikes atop the hill, the big blue water tower shadowing us like a giant lollipop, and wait for the first carnival truck to arrive. We'd pedal our Schwinns down the hill to talk to the driver.
"What rides are coming?" we'd ask with excitement. "The Scrambler? The Tilt-A-Whirl? The Octopus?"
"Yes, yes, they're all coming," we'd usually hear.
Those were our favorites.
"What about the Rock-O-Plane and the Roll-O-Plane?"
To be honest, I never rode the Rock-O-Plane or its cousin, the "Bullet," as we'd call it, because the Roll-O-Plane looked like a bullet was attached to each end of a long steel arm. I wasn't fond of heights, particularly when upside down. I feared the embarrassment of losing a stomach full of festival fare. But we were delighted to hear when wild rides were coming because it meant more excitement, more people, more girls.
In my grade school days, I'd save allowances for the festival. When I turned 12, I started helping Uncle Louie bale hay on the farm where he and Mom and their siblings grew up. I'd save my earnings, like a farmer filling his mow to the rafters, so I'd have a bigger pile of festival cash.
Dad served as a volunteer firefighter for a few years, and he and Mom always helped at the festival. They'd often work in the food stand or at the bingo or raffle tent.
Before each festival, Dad got a stack of raffle tickets, and I joined him as he drove the countryside, stopping at farms to sell tickets to support the firefighters. Whenever a mean-looking dog came out snarling and looking as though it was ready to tear off your leg, we sat in the car and honked. If no one came out, we headed to the next farmhouse down the road.
I always made sure I bought a raffle ticket. I was optimistic that, some year, someone in my family would win that big color TV, new deck furniture, or comfortable sofa, and our lives would be grand. At the festival's closing, I listened with great anticipation as the fire chief stood on stage and announced names on ticket stubs drawn from the big tumbler. Alas, we never won.
Filling the festival air were mouthwatering smells—cheeseburgers, grilled chicken, and fresh popcorn, and the sweet scents of cotton candy and Sno-Cones—the blue raspberry one being my favorite thirst quencher on a hot summer night.
Joining this blend of aromas in the muggy air were the many sounds—children squealing with delight as rides twisted and turned, or crowds cheering water skiing acrobatics, another run for the home baseball team or a pair of muscular draft horses setting a new mark in the pulling contest. Polka music wafted from the beer pavilion. Songs echoed beyond the stage, where local folks stretched vocal talents. The bell "dinged" after some beefy guy used a wooden mallet to ring it in the strong-man game. Cork guns popped and BB machine guns rat-a-tat-tatted as customers aimed at carnival targets. Winners shouted "BINGO!" from beneath a big canvas tent.
The highlights were Sunday's downtown parade and the concluding fireworks that night. The blasts were so big that we could watch from a blanket in our back yard, sipping sodas and smacking skeeters.
No matter how much money I'd save for the three-day event, I always ran out before the festival left town. In my younger days, I'd then scour the grounds, packed as hard as concrete from foot traffic, to see if someone dropped a dime here, a quarter there or the rare crumpled dollar bill.
One time, boisterous young men standing just outside the beer pavilion saw me roaming, head down, and asked what I was doing.
"Looking for money," I replied.
"There's a quarter," one shouted and pointed.
I scurried over and found it.
"I see a dime over there," another pointed out.
I collected it, too.
A minute or two later, I walked away grinning with a handful of change. Only later did I realize they were tossing the coins when I wasn't looking.
The carnival games—"gyp joints," as Dad called them—gobbled too big a share of my money. Despite Dad's warnings about how the games were rigged against me, I was determined to win a stuffed teddy bear and the heart of whichever girl had caught my eye that summer.
One year it was my teenage classmate Andrea, a slim, dark-skinned, dark-haired beauty with a pleasing personality, lovely smile and attractive name to match. She lived behind our house, but I was too shy, too tongue-tied to mosey over and talk to her.
I won a teddy and gave it to Andrea. She politely thanked me, but we never developed a relationship, what with older boys as smitten as I was. Her family left town before I gathered the gumption to ask her out.
I did, however, get my first kiss as the festival wound down one summer. She was the cousin of a classmate and visiting from Indiana. The festival's flickering lights danced on the maze of cars parked on the otherwise dark ball field, where we strolled hand in hand before stopping for one brief, soft, parting peck. I wrote to her once, maybe twice, but we never reunited. Today I live in Janesville, a midsize Wisconsin city. Now I better understand what a festival means to a community such as Marshall. Besides supporting the firefighters, it's where friends, neighbors, relatives and even former residents get reacquainted. It's a chance to catch up on the crops, the jobs, the kids, the schools and prospects for next fall's football team.
In contrast, Janesville service clubs have been sponsoring Fourth of July festivals for decades and have struggled financially. The Jaycees organized the fests for many years. They had a carnival for kids, but bad bands did little to attract adults to a beer tent whose profits helped pay for fireworks. Each year, they sought donations. The Jaycees eventually went defunct.
The Odd Fellows tried running the fest but did no better and gave up after two years of pitiful attendance. The Rock Aqua Jays then took over.
I find it ironic that the Aqua Jays are the water ski team I watched perform so many years ago in Marshall. Yet this group, too, fights to balance festival costs with revenues.
If only the city I now call home could rally the sense of small-town community pride and the volunteer spirit that Marshall's firefighters enjoyed. Then maybe, just maybe, the Aqua Jays could make ends meet.
As I observe the struggles of Janesville's festivals, I appreciate more and more what we had. I find myself reflecting on my boyhood days in the village of Marshall with fondness and affection. Each year my memories stir, and I long for the opportunity to watch my grandchildren discover the magic and wonder of a small town's festival.
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Death notices for Sept. 19, 2013
Thursday, September 19, 2013
Casey Singles, 62, Beloit, died Wednesday at home. Services will be at 11:30 a.m. Sunday at St. Stephen's Catholic Church, Clinton. Visitation will be 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday at Daley Murphy Wisch & Associates Funeral Home and Crematorium, Beloit.
Marles Steuck, 93, South Beloit, Ill., died Tuesday at Fair Oaks Nursing Home, South Beloit, Ill. Arrangements are pending at Brian Mark Funeral Home, Beloit.
Lucille Wettstein, 93, Edgerton, died Tuesday at home. Services will be held at a later date. Albrecht Funeral Homes and Cremation Services, Edgerton, is assisting the family.


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A Fortified Favorite: Domaine de Montbourgeau Macvin du Jura
Time out from cheese for a brief note about one of our new favorite wines, a curious liquid called Macvin du Jura. Ours is made by Nicole Deriaux, the 3rd generation winemaker at Domaine de Montbourgeau, a wonderful little winery whose L'Etoile we have stocked in the past.
The lovely elixir that is Macvin du Jura is made from the juice of a combination of red and white grapes to which the local Marc ("mac") or grape brandy is added. This addition fortifies the sweet juice with alcohol and stops fermentation. The "wine" is then aged in oak casks for several years to develop and integrate the flavors.
The delicious result is strong and sweet with complex flavors of burnt orange peel, nuts, dried fruits and southern sweet tea. A high alcohol content (17%) and some sweetness means a re-corked bottle will keep for months in your refrigerator, but in spite of these qualities the Montbourgeau Macvin retains a bright, fresh quality that makes it equally appropriate before or after dinner. Ideally we recommend pairing it with a hunk of your favorite Marcel Petite Comté. Try it also with fruit or nut desserts, or even dark chocolate.
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Public Record for Sept. 17, 2013
-- TERRELL K. SALLAY, 17, of the Beginnings Group Home, 502 E. Holmes St., Janesville, at 10:25 p.m. Sunday at his residence on a charge of physical abuse of a child, after an altercation between him and a 14-year-old boy.
Intoxicated driving arrests
-- EUGENE J. SAGATIS, 31, of 919 E. High St., Milton, at 2:19 a.m. Monday at Walker Street and Milton Avenue, Janesville.
-- UNO SOU, 63, Monroe, at 2:52 a.m. Monday at Center Avenue and Court Street, Janesville.
-- BURGLARY to a concessions stand at the town of Newark ball diamond, 9528 W. Beloit-Newark Road, reported Aug. 24.
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-- JASON T. MEEHAN, 32, Orfordville, at 1:29 a.m. Wednesday in the 1000 block of East Exchange Street, Brodhead. He also was cited for operating after revocation and open intoxicants in a motor vehicle.


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Marine plans river trip to support wounded vets
WHITEWATER--A month after Nic Doucette arrived in Afghanistan, two Marines in his company stepped on bombs within seconds of one another.
The explosions ripped off both their legs.
Since then, the men have recovered with support from several generous charities, but one in particular, the Semper Fi Fund, helped them when they needed it most.
In appreciation, Doucette wants to raise money for the nonprofit group, which is committed to helping injured and critically ill members of the military and their families.
Doucette plans to raise $5,000 and elevate awareness about wounded vets by paddling through the country's midsection.
"All the money will go to the charity," he said.
None of it will support his trip.
At the end of May, the UW-Whitewater student will launch his kayak at Lake Itasca in Minnesota, the source of the Mississippi River. Then, with nothing but muscle power, the 27-year-old plans to paddle more than 2,300 miles all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. He estimates the journey will take three months.
"I want to travel in a way that allows me to be in touch with my surroundings," he said. "Most people don't get to see the world at a slow speed anymore."
The scenic journey on open water will be in sharp contrast to how Doucette traveled in Afghanistan. During his seven-month tour, he drove an armored vehicle at 3 mph from sunup to sundown to clear routes of improvised explosive devices.
He followed a lead vehicle, containing a specialized machine known as Ground Penetrating Radar. The device is capable of seeing if something is buried beneath the road.
If "sweep teams" found a bomb, they carefully detonated it.
"It was really stressful," Doucette explained. "But the guy in the lead vehicle had the most stress. If he did not catch the bomb, one of our vehicles could roll over it and set it off. That alone was stressful. But some of the roads we drove on were as narrow as the truck, with deep irrigation ditches on both sides. There was no room for error."
Doucette never drove over any explosives.
His roommate was not so lucky. While riding in an armored vehicle, a bomb knocked the man unconscious after a huge explosion. The violent impact caused damage to his brain, resulting in a condition known as traumatic brain injury.
After four years of active duty in the Marines from 2008 to 2012, Doucette is a UW-Whitewater junior studying business. He is married and does part-time security work. He and his wife, Heather, are saving money to pay the bills while he is away.
Since deciding to paddle the Mississippi, Doucette has thought of little else.
"It is a huge learning experience," he said. "I love reading the experiences of people who have already done this."
He has river maps from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
"They show every lock and dam," Doucette said. "I'll be able to see every island coming up and can plan where I want to stop at the end of the day."
He'll use satellite imagery on his iPhone to ensure he is on the right path.
Initially, he planned on making the trip alone. Then, another Marine asked to join him and will have his own fundraising effort for wounded vets.
Doucette will paddle in a 55-pound hybrid kayak, which has more room for storage than a normal kayak. He plans to camp every night and is taking a tent, sleeping bag and a case of military rations.
"We'll have supply points down the river every two to three days," he said. "I want to stop at a few towns, but the main goal is to stay on the river."
He has connected with an online community of people, who support paddlers making the long journey.
"I have not met any of them," Doucette said, "but they already have offered places to stay or camp. Everyone is incredibly generous."
For now, Doucette's kayak is in storage.
"I'm just waiting for the snow to melt," he said. "Planning the trip has been all consuming, but it's very exciting."
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Jets return from break with a win
A nearly two-week break couldn't cool off the Janesville Jets.
They went on the road and scored one goal in each period to beat Coulee Region, 3-1, in the opener of a home-and-home series on Friday night.
The two teams return to Janesville to play at 7 p.m. tonight at the Janesville Ice Arena.
Jets goalie Logan Halladay remained sharp, winning his seventh straight decision by stopping 31 of the 32 shots he saw. Halladay hasn't lost since Nov. 3.
After trading goals in the opening period, Tyler Rehm scored his fourth goal of the season early in the second to give Janesville the lead for good. Evan Feno, who assisted on Drew Callin's first-period goal, made it 3-1 with a goal at 7:42 of the third to give the Jets some cushion.
The Jets improved to 15-14-1 and moved into fifth place in the NAHL North.
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The Fiber Disease
Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Medicine. Anything human!
Moderator: BioTeam
Not me. Great post, though. I'm still wondering if i should like...loose this hamster I found with 2 black sores on each side. And little black specs around those sores or whatever they are. Put him in a bucket after a bath but now I'm afraid to even clean his cage without a gas mask!
now that most may have gone to bed...i wanna see if this works:
Ew, gross. Yep it did.
Last year, I was putzin around on the internet, back when I thought I was the only looney in the world with this/anyways...felt something moving on my face. Grabbed the clear tape and this is what is was. Problem was...there was nothing that i could see, on the tape.
I shot a video of this because if you see that long sucker thing that is coming out, well, it latched onto the top of the other one's head (looked like). My hands were shaking pretty good but what I recorded was making me!! You could see red (had to be blood) going through that sucker thing and filling into it's belly.
Anybody see anything like this before??
Thanks. I knew I saw something way back when. He is in the garage. He seems a little sick...then again, I used dog/cat flea tick and lice shampoo on him Let him soak, too. Vet, I might just do.
man o man Skky .........its great that your ogano metal synthesis has out noised the crusaders or it may have been nonlocally derailed ....anyway what a volley!
uk guy maf mrcpvls deena msc london barz this may bee worth a bookmark... http://www.theochem.kth.se/research/NLO ... onics.html
what the hell actually is[/size=18] ultrasonic spray[/size] pyrolysis...
is this what happens when the preacher begins ?..... . ..
"Engineering Novel Protein Functions Using in vitro Coevolution
This technology is a new process for engineering proteins with novel functions for biomedical and biotechnological applications. By mimicking the..." ... . . d e v i l ?
Actuators used in this technology require nothing more than the chemicals surrounding them to monitor the chemistry, mimicking chemical balances as they are maintained in the human body. This new method is ideal for biological and medical applications requiring organic materials, no electronics or batteries, bioresponsiveness, and a single, uniform platform for processing. Potential applications include detection of biological and chemical agents, disease, and contaminants, and in vitro diagnostics and therapy devices. Other promising applications exist in the area of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). Patent Information
Patent Number Country
6,488,872 United States
....and these geometric anthropomorphic shapes are arrays of dots.... . .
...dots are hardware.....
This hardware consists of introducing liquid prepolymer into a plastic or glass cartridge, exposing the prepolymer to ultraviolet light through a mask to encourage photopolymerization and define channel geometry, removing the unpolymerized prepolymer, and rinsing the resulting microchannel.
Engineered Pattern Release of Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) through Induced Surface Adhesion
This technology is a new non-photolithographic method for preparing polymer resists that can be used in microfabrication as polymer resist molding.
..resist mold because i t i s M O L D...........
# Genetic research and manipulations, including:
* DNA sequencing
* Generating random gene mutations [gene knockouts]
* Introducing a new gene
* Identifying essential genes within an organism
# Transgenics
# Medical diagnostics
# Gene therapy
Patent Information
Patent Number Country
6,368,830B1 United States
...AND...OH the RAM...
..the m e d i u m .... cd , tape, floppy, ect...........
Transposons are DNA elements carrying genes for transposition and other genetic functions. They have proven to be valuable tools for genetic manipulations, such as the integration of nucleic acids in germ cells in the production of transgenic animals, genetic transformation, and insertional mutagenesis in somatic cells and viral vectors for use as therapeutics.
The Himar1 transposon (part of the mariner family of transposons) functions in any organism, making it a general-purpose transposon system that will eliminate the need for researchers to isolate endogenous transposases from their experimental organism. This transposon system is active in a wide variety of bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes when expressed appropriately.
These hyperactive mutants of Himar1 transposases increase the efficiency of transposon introduction into the genome in both in vivo and in vitro applications. They have a broad scope of uses in all forms of genetic manipulation: adding genes, sequencing, making knockout genes to probe sequence-function relationships, gene modification, etc.
General Applications and Advantages
These hyperactive Himar1 transposase mutants can be used with a variety of transposons and species. They have been purified and are active in vitro. Therefore, useful in vitro mutagenesis procedures (and other applications using in vitro transposition) also are available. Himar1 mutations enhance efficiency of transposition in three general applications:
* In vitro transposition: This method is used to create random insertions into purified DNA can introduce "islands" of known sequence into unknown DNA. This process creates a known sequence region to which primers can anneal. It provides a location from which sequencing can begin to move into unknown regions. It also can create in vitro gene knockouts and can be used to knock out a gene in vivo by homologous recombination.
* In vivo transposition: This method creates mutants in living organisms. It is essentially the in vivo equivalent of the in vitro transposition method described above. Transposition is carried out under controlled conditions within the organism to mobilize the transposon into random locations in the genome.
* Transgenic: Simple transgenic methods that seek to introduce exogenous DNA into the germline of a target organism also benefit from the increased efficiency. Two plasmids are injected into preblastoderm embryos in the area of the presumptive germline. One plasmid carries the transposon construct, and the other is a transposase gene that lacks the DNA sequences for mobility. Transposase produced by transcription/translation off of the transposase gene construct can mobilize and integrate the transposon into the chromosome. This technique can be used in cell culture for eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells.
..... brain drive.......
"labeled and allowed to bind to target protein. At this point, the fluorescent label is "quenched" as it is brought into proximity of the silicon substrate. The technology works best for detecting disassociation or unbinding, such as screening for drugs that interfere with protein-protein binding.
Finally, the technology is fluorescence-based so it is highly sensitive and safe without the need for radioactivity.
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http://www.otm.uiuc.edu/attachments/US0 ... T98057.pdf
US Patent 6,667,179 US patent document
....epithelial cells can be confined to cytophilic islands defined on lens capsule by the inhibitory polymer poly(vinyl alcohol). In addition, as the size of the cytophilic islands grows, both the fraction of islands with cells attached and the number of cells adhered to each island increase. High densities of cell adhesion and single cell attachment per island were achieved with a 25 microm pattern size. Over time, the cells spread over the 5 microm wide barriers to form a confluent monolayer that may eventually serve as a functional retinal implant. With the ability to apply soft lithography to tissue samples, human tissue may become a universal membrane substrate for other ocular diseases or in tissue engineering applications elsewhere in the body.
Biodegradable Implants and Matrices for Tissue/Bone Repair
These technologies provide biodegradable bone implants and artificial bone matrices for bony tissue repair. They encompass: (1) a method for creating
and of course ....
.... the drivers and sofware.....
Biosynthesis of Lantibiotics: In vitro semi-synthetic production methods for generation of industrial antibiotic, Lacticin 481
This invention allows the engineering of semi-synthetic lantibiotics to a much larger extent than using typically practiced in vivo methods. The...
Buried Tunnel Contact Junction For Better Performance With Less Power
In many semiconductor light emitting devices, minimizing the volume of the p-type material is desirable. This technology involves burying a tunnel...
Chemical Dyes as Contrast Agents for Optical Coherence Tomography
This invention utilizes chemical dye in optical coherence tomography (OCT) by altering the optical spectrum of incidence radiation. The modification ...
CMOS compatible processes for Epitaxial CoSi2 formation in shallow junction semiconductor devices
As semiconductor device scaling extends into the deep sub-micron regime, the criteria for a salicide process become more stringent. Of particular...
Cobalt Precursors for Formation of Cobalt or Cobalt-Containing Material
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of cobalt requires a cobalt precursor that can be easily vaporized, leaving high-purity cobalt on a surface while...
Coil Inductor Assembly Method
This technology—plastic deformation magnetic assembly (PDMA)—is an innovative, proven, patent-pending method for vertically assembling inexpensive,...
Colloidal Polymer Adsorbent for Removing Natural Organic Matter from Drinking Water Supplies
This patent-pending purification technology offers a more environmentally friendly and economically competitive method for purifying drinking water...
Commutation technique for an ac-to-ac converter based on state machine control
This invention is a technique that resolves current commutation challenges in various types of ac-ac switching power converters. It also applies to...
Continuous flow Nanoparticle Production through ultrasonic spray pyrolysis
This invention is a method for the continuous production of semiconductor nanoparticles (i.e. quantum dots), nanostrucutured catalysts,... * Coherent fiber-lasers eliminate the need for cooling and increase beam stability, wavelength stability, intensity, efficiency and brightness, resulting in lower cost and greater performance compared to conventional lasers.
Patent Information
Patent Summary
United States Patent Application filed.Technology Detail
Stimulated Brillouin Scattering (SBS) is an acoustic-optic interaction that limits the amount of power per unit bandwidth that can be transmitted or produced in a given length of fiber. [/size=18]Random acoustic waves are present in all fibers. Light scattering from these acoustic "phonons" introduces an interference pattern that feeds a coherent traveling acoustic wave. [/size]This wave eventually becomes highly reflective and substantially degrades system or laser performance. SBS limits the coherent output power of a typical fiber laser to at least 10 times less than can be achieved without SBS. As a result, coherent fiber lasers lack enough power to become widely marketable. It is also responsible for a very low power per unit bandwidth threshold in very long fiber-optic communication systems, such as in long haul systems.
This new fiber optic technology effectively eliminates SBS at much higher powers, embodied by a patent-pending fiber structure that does not affect the optical signal. Single, high power lasers employing this technology have a series of advantages over current lasers such as a smaller size (<10 cubic inches), portability (<100 grams), and economic (scalability to $10 per Watt).
"manufacturers in their research into prototyping new architectural designs and generating code for those designs. They used IMPACT for both microprocessor design and architectural evaluation. By using the IMPACT compiler during the design phase, they were able to determine how users' software that is based on commercial compilers would perform on their platform as well as how a powerful compiler made use of the chip's new features."
"Existing compilers, such as the Gnu C Compiler (GCC), run with half the efficiency of the IMPACT compiler in highly parallel applications. While GCC is the most commonly used compiler on the market, it currently is not capable of keeping up with the newer platforms as IMPACT is. For example, one of the newest processors on the market has a clock speed of 6 instructions executed every clock cycle with a clock frequency of 300 MHz. (That is 1.25 ns for every six instructions.) GCC's clock speed is 0.8, while IMPACT's is 1.6. Because of this, GCC cannot run instructions in parallel nearly as efficiently as IMPACT can."
There are two types of optical fibers that can be derived from this technology:
* Laser active fibers
* Data transmission fibers
heres the UC davy list... .. http://www.otm.uiuc.edu/techs/listingse ... atn=search
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Watson asks city of Janesville to consider annexation
JANESVILLE—Landowner Bill Watson is pitching his plan to develop a large industrial park west of Milton to a new audience: the city of Janesville.
Janesville City Manager Mark Freitag confirmed Monday that Watson met with city staff Thursday to discuss the idea of annexing 1,500 acres he owns along County M and Interstate 90/39 into the city of Janesville.
"He (Watson) had suggested or offered that perhaps a way to work the land development in the vicinity of County M and Interstate 90 could be done through annexation with the city of Janesville," Freitag said.
Freitag said Watson called him Wednesday to request the meeting. He said the city attorney and development officials were in talks with Watson's attorneys again Monday to learn if the idea would be viable or even legal under state annexation laws.
"I thought it was a very original idea and something I'd never thought about before," Freitag said. "As intriguing as the idea is, we have to figure out if it is even possible."
It's not clear if Watson is seeking to annex into Janesville all or a portion of the land he's earmarked for development.
Watson in the last three months has been shopping his plan to the city of Milton and the towns of Fulton and Milton and last month said he planned to file an annexation petition with the city of Milton. He seeks to develop 1,500 acres he owns in the towns of Fulton and Milton, and he's also proposing an interchange he'd pay for at County M and I/90-39, but that plan is pending a justification report and state and federal approval.
He has not filed detailed project plans or re-zoning requests with the towns or an annexation petition the city of Milton, officials say.
Watson has said he'd like to partner with a municipality that could annex and re-zone his land quickly—even though he hasn't gotten approval for an interchange, which would be crucial for his project to work.
Milton city officials have said they are supportive of an interchange at County M, but Mayor Brett Frazier and some council members have said they're wary of Watson's lack of detailed project plans.
And those officials have said they also can't shake the specter of Watson developing gravel pits as part of his proposal—a possibility Watson has sought to downplay but has not ruled out.
Watson, the city of Milton and the city of Janesville were in talks in January about linking city of Janesville wastewater services to Watson's proposed development. Monday's acknowledgement by the city of Janesville signals the first time Watson has approached any municipality other than the city of Milton over the potential of annexation.
Watson said he began to talk with the city of Janesville about annexation after Milton officials began to balk over his options to mine gravel at the development site.
Monday night, Watson said he needs zoning that could include gravel mining to line up investors for the project.
"I don't ever have to sell a bucket of gravel in order to make this work," Watson said. "But the asset we have (for investors) is sand and gravel in the ground."
"Where my thoughts are, if Milton can't give us zoning for aggregate that's in the ground, we can't do the project. That shuts the door."
Freitag said Watson last week did not give Janesville officials detailed reasons why he wanted to discuss annexation, and he has not filed an annexation petition with the city of Janesville.
Watson's been trying to get a landowner, Kerry Hull, to sign onto a direct annexation petition as part of a proposal to annex into the city of Milton. Hull owns a piece of land that would connect the development area with the south end of Milton. That would ease one annexation requirement under direct petition annexation laws.
Annexation cannot create islands. Land annexed by a city must be connected to the city.
As of last week, Hull, who is a Fulton Town Board member, hadn't agreed to sign onto the deal, Watson told The Gazette's editorial board.
It's not clear what type of annexation Watson could have in mind in Janesville, or whether he's talking with landowners who could link his proposed development with the city.
Janesville City Planning Services Manager Duane Cherek said the city is aware of at least one landowner between Watson's land and Janesville city limits.
"It's come up in the sense that we know there's an intervening property owner consisting of multiple parcels. At this point I don't believe they have consented. I don't know the actual status," Cherek said.
In addition to the city's need to analyze the cost and feasibility of utility extensions, road maintenance and jurisdiction issues for a potential annexation, Freitag said one of the main questions is whether it would be legal for the city to extend its boundaries north through at least two towns.
He said annexation would require the city to cleave through the towns of Harmony and Milton, and possibly the town of Fulton.
"There are concerns over contiguous land space," Freitag said. "The biggest question I have is regarding essentially separating townships. You can't take a chunk of land on the left, annex something into the center, and cut it off from the other part of the county on the right."
Freitag said the concept of annexing a finger of land to connect the city to a development of the scope Watson is proposing is "out of the box" for the city.
"If it (annexation) is in the realm of possible, we'd have to take this to the city council and the community to get feedback. That's the process. First we have to figure out if it's even possible," Freitag said.
Cherek said city staff would likely spend the next week analyzing the idea before giving any formal recommendation to Freitag..


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The Fiber Disease
Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Medicine. Anything human!
Moderator: BioTeam
canalon s spot on .. think i may have tossed that link in a few pages back under a cinicisist light.. careful with the old clifford he has maintained an odd pseudo civilian post after "leaving" a gov. position.
that type of intentional wana be "typo" of technica l nature
is rather high level for litigation agenda... unless he lives with his mother and she a retired legal advisor.
damn i even spell
"typo" wrong .. man i type like sh#%
A Very Scary Scientific Article About a Viral Promoter, CaMv, Found in Most Genetically Engineered Foods
Hi there;
I'm a new member who's been lurking for awhile. I just wanted to say that Cliff Carnicom explains his 5600x factor on the page where the photos are displayed. Perhaps a comment to him directly querying him on his formula (combination of astronomical/digital photography and optical magnification appear to give him his compounded magnifications) would be helpful for you. I find the structures in Carnicom's pix to match quite well the structures in Tamtam's 'silentsuperbug' video. That video showed virus-scale artifacts. I don't think the data is compromised by the 5600x notation on the level at which this forum is apprehending it.
For my own part, I've had about 1000 images plus the videos pass through my eyes (small compared to many of you, but a large enough sample to create a body of data); I experience recognition when I see these things from different contexts, therefore I know (since I'm a newbie with a keen sense of pattern) that something is presenting itself.
Thanks for such a good forum. You all appear to be doing a very good job. I think you folks are embodying exactly what needs to arise immediately in this world of globalizing challenges - a globalized cognitive emergent immune-system, made up of individuals with personal data-sets of unique experience, acting as a quorum-sensing group of intelligent cooperative bacterial convergent colonies (each of you) and now identifying a new (very difficult to see the new, BTW) invader-class of mutating predators (augmented by internal human parasites with technology) who are formulating a multi-pronged attack on our species.
You bring your eyes and your brains and your fingers and your courage and your vocabularies and your social networks and your passions to the table, and then you work out protocols for conversing and you share information, and I believe you are going to wake up those very scientists and business people and folks in governance (who want to get rid of the human parasites, too) and give them the tools they need to help address the threat.
This is only one of many that are showing their heads as we have a convergence of destabilizing factors washing into one another with unknown consequences while the net turns our new sensory layer on. Extractive opportunists await.
In "Return to Resistance" Raoul Robinson (Canadian agronomist, I believe) suggests that horizontal resistance (obtained through genetic diversity, and that is NOT confined to just DNA) is the key to population explosions of predators who find targets and feed through 'chemical keys'. "Resistance" is a good metaphor, and our immune systems, both collective - as in forums like this, (and human or even mammalian societies like the ones we're all part of) - and individual, as in the bodies of walking bacterial cooperating colony we inhabit and animate, constitute "The Resistance."
Highly specialized war-gaming microbes (and other pollutants) may not have a chance in the long run when faced with horizontal resistance on multiple levels. In other words, we're a highly successful species to date and we've still got a chance (though I ain't saying we don't have severe problems and the odds are kind of not in our personal favor at this particular moment...of course, what's one little cell in the soup of the species? just a statistic, as tamtam points out.)
I won't write much more than to say that I encourage immune-system building through clean fresh food and water, micro-flora and veg-based supplements, sunshine, oxygen and good aerobic exercise - e.g., if you're suffering from this disease, spend a year (or a lifetime) pretending you're an organic food hippie-health nut (doesn't mean you're a vegetarian, BTW); eat the oils and the salads and the seaweeds and the nuts; drink the vinegar and honey and water mix, and the lemon juice and olive oil; clean your colon; clean your blood; clean your lungs; clean your skin.
In other words, reduce the environmental load on your body's immune system so that it can adapt itself to the invaders (multiple, including stress, EMF, radiation, chems, etc.) and adjust your body's host-context to be less supportive of the predators. The supplements and drugs will work much better if you give them a decent body platform to catalyze, BTW - clean up the body/mind first, b4 you spend money and time on the treatments, or at least do it simultaneously. You need a personal biological baseline of a clean physical system or else even the treatments you're applying are ultimately inconclusive in their effectiveness.
In fact, you may try a suggested treatment and have it not work simply because some other toxic-syndrome in your body was disabling an internal cycle necessary to metabolize the treatment properly or 'more important' (excesses of tobacco, alcohol, sugar, proteins, heavy metals, etc.) to deal with on the "invader scale" than the parasite. In such a case, you may have mistakenly dismissed the treatment as ineffective when it was really your body's personal chemistry being an unsuitable stage for the desired immune response (i.e, destroying the parasite.) Your body needs the tools to focus on the invader; health of the as yet non-invaded body-systems can still supply many of those tools, even in affected patients.
Your host-colonies (your organs, your limbs, your nerves, etc.) are already your own unique, individual and highly-evolved bacterial/fungal bedrock with an agenda more favorable to your personal comfort-zone, since they benefit when you're happy, and they dislike the predators as much as you do (but they can't go to the grocery store and they don't have cash...). In other words, you're already walking around in the best bio-suit you could possibly have, but you need to optimize it ASAP. Civilizations that have maintained very high human densities prone to culture opportunistic pathogens, both social and biological (India, for example) have complex body-maintenance practices (yoga, diet, meditations) encoded into their culture, perhaps for a reason.
BTW, I'm not faulting anyone for having the disease, and I'm not claiming that the body is not impervious to these horrible attacks. There are very good reasons why our immune systems are compromised in the first place. Healthy people are also obviously at risk from outside destructive agents that are new to our environment. You've done nothing wrong if you have this illness - you may be genetically unlucky and simply have a chemical lock that this particular predator has the chemical key to open. That's not your fault. But the point is that Morgellon's is only one among many to come, and it behooves us to learn everything we can, as quickly as possible, about how to upgrade our personal bio-shields (our bodies) .
Now, begging your pardon - please excuse the long post and forgive the pedantics; I've had a lot of practice since I ran a health-food store for many years and have talked this story repeatedly, on many different levels, for a long time now. I may not be around this forum much, but I feel a very strong empathy for you and, scary as it all is, I think you/we've got a chance. In fact, I'm counting on you (I've got my own arenas, and you can count on me there, too)
You remind me and inspire me today to re-up my own somewhat slacking personal health practices. It's mid-August - we've got a good 4-6+ weeks to store more sunshine, eat fresh vegetables and fish as much as possible, go visit local farms, get clean air, ride those bikes and oxygenate those blood-cells - you know the drill.
Anyhow, hang in there!
Interesting article about quorum sensing, cyano, bio film, pseudomonas and E.coli.
[PDF] 4-11-05 Quorum Sensing Parsek, MR and EP Greenberg. 2005 ...
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Was this in patS gene product produced in E. coli or an Anabaena. construct? ... Do cyanobacteria rely on peptide-based quorum sensing systems? ...
landresources.montana.edu/LRES515/ DiscussonNotes/4_11_5%20_Quorum_sensing.pdf - Similar pages
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Biofilm formation of Pseudomonas putida IsoF: the role of quorum sensing as assessed by proteomics.
C Arevalo-Ferro, G Reil, A Görg, L Eberl, K Riedel
Department of Microbiology, Technical University of Munich, Am Hochanger 4, D-85350 Freising, Germany.
Pseudomonas putida strains are frequently isolated from the rhizosphere of plants and many strains promote plant-growth, exhibit antagonistic activities against plant pathogens and have the capacity to degrade pollutants. Factors that appear to contribute to the rhizosphere fitness are the ability of the organism to form biofilms and the utilization of cell-to-cell-communication systems (quorum sensing, QS) to co-ordinate the expression of certain phenotypes in a cell density dependent manner. Recently, the ppu QS locus of the tomato rhizosphere isolate P. putida Iso F was characterized and an isogenic QS-negative ppuI mutant P. putida F117 was generated. In the present study we investigated the impact of QS and biofilm formation on the protein profile of surface-associated proteins of P. putida IsoF. This was accomplished by comparative proteome analyses of the P. putida wild type IsoF and the QS-deficient mutant F117 grown either in planktonic cultures or in 60 h old mature biofilms. Differentially expressed proteins were identified by peptide mass fingerprinting and database search in the completed P. putida KT2440 genome sequence. The sessile life style affected 129 out of 496 surface proteins, suggesting that a significant fraction of the bacterial genome is involved in biofilm physiology. In surface-attached cells 53 out of 484 protein spots were controlled by the QS system, emphasizing its importance as global regulator of gene expression in P. putida IsoF. Most interestingly, the impact of QS was dependent on whether cells were grown on a surface or in suspension; about 50% of the QS-controlled proteins identified in planktonic cultures were found to be oppositely regulated when the cells were grown as biofilms. Fifty-seven percent of all identified surface-controlled proteins were also regulated by the ppu QS system. In conclusion, our data provide strong evidence that the set of QS-regulated proteins overlaps substantially with the set of proteins differentially expressed in sessile cells.
PS The guy he is talking to is an American Citizen, born and raised in Virginia.
George Allen for President..I do not think so. This is horrible
Dear Randy,
Watch George Allen's
Demeaning Comments
for Yourself
Politics is a contact sport. We all know that. But on Friday, George Allen made some comments in a campaign speech that were, in a word, repugnant.
S.R. Sidarth, a volunteer with our campaign of Indian descent, has been following George Allen with a camera. During an event in Breaks, Allen singled our volunteer out:
"This fellow here over here with the yellow shirt, Macaca, or whatever his name is. He's with my opponent. He's following us around everywhere. And it's just great. We're going to places all over Virginia, and he's having it on film and its great to have you here and you show it to your opponent because he's never been there and probably will never come."
"…Lets give a welcome to Macaca, here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia."
Please click here to watch the video.
We would like Senator Allen to tell us exactly what he means by his comments. Sidarth was born in Fairfax. What does he mean, "Welcome to America?" And by Macaca, is George Allen calling Sidarth a species of monkey in the Eastern
Genus Macaca macaques. Classification: Order Primates (primates) > Family ... Macaca thibetana. Pere David's (or Tibetan stump-tailed) macaque ...
1kai.dokkyomed.ac.jp/mammal/en/genus/macaca.html - 6k - Cached - Similar pages
During the End Times, Good will battle Evil. Where do you stand?
hey a London SKy TAM Rand sauce any guess on the topological and invitro functions of monatomic rare earth elements . whats up with this reverse spin.. would that really be just an isomer phase of a particula series like D and L chira of a molecule... like monatomic gold , im thinking these cyano "living fossile gangsters" might get more from this than we would. in a toxiological perspective this spin stuff makes me dizzy, now im no chemist , just utilitarian with alchemical leanings at best .only seasonal refluxes, distillations, reductions under my belt...
with the supercritical hexane extract of wormwood being a personal favorite
"holidays+ low income=make your own damn absinthe"
so .. that monatomic series just whats going on
and would it make offence if added to say tea tree oil for the skin condition?
or would the oil force them up and the elements vitalize them or me?
i know this sounds dumb but .. thought i would ask before reducing five pounds of dead sea salts...
- nadas
OK...I guy from Germany called me, I am helping him translate his web site now... and told me that he and a scientist created a cream for our illness, since he the German guy has it.
He siad he would send it to me to test since he noticed I have a big mouth on all these sites.
It arrived 6 hours ago.
I will be reporting the honest truth about what is happening. Hoefully I am not beinf poisoned but I had to try it. You can take it or leave it.
!) Smells great
2) Peeled the top layers off of the lesions within 10 minutes.
2) Under my 100X hand-held microscope the black seaweed like fibers curled up, next obervation they were floating on top of the skin i nd could be wiped away.
3) Next: The the lesions started to bleed and all this junk came out,like peeling skin only from underneath. Dot appeared in the leions like air hole bubbles.
4) Now all the lesions are flat and when I apply more stuff on them blackk hard larger specs come out and more white stuff too and things attacked to things that look like very long hairs that are twined a bit.
I am starting to think that ...well..I have to wait for what I think.
The cream in patent pending and does not have FDA approval in fact I am the first in the USA to try it.
So far I am in shock. I have never seen anything like this.
I will keep you all posted.
During the End Times, Good will battle Evil. Where do you stand?
This is great. Did the action cause any itching or pain when it worked on the lesion?
Wow. Does it say what any of the ingredients are?
What does it smell like.
I am so curious about this.
Thank for posting about it.
Have my druthers about this Allen fellow.
Sorry, I will have to answer you tomorrow afternoon....I've been gone for 2 days and have the lovely chance of teaching school tomorrow to 24 non-English speaking FOUR YEAR OLDS!!!! yIKES, CAN HARDLY WAIT, (rEALLY WOULD DRATHER CHEW ON TIN FOIL hehe...So I must go prepare.....will write to you tomorrow... Would like to comment on your list article back on the prior page....Looks great, and some of that I have been looking at...Of course., I do not understand a whole lot of it, but I really try and have picked up a lot in a short time. Nadas, regarding some items on that list, do they not contradict to your comment about staying away from the gio/geo part of it? Me??? Hell, yeah I think the computers, the bands, the lasers, the hiergyphics, the radiofrequency, the diatoms, etc. Have A BIG part to do with it.
Nadas......how the hell could they not? If you only saw some of the physical Freak show that went on in some of our homes (mine was just really the first month of me crontracting the fiber disease) but some today have like parts of a plant (stem) growing like out of a purse of theirs in a damn closet.
I had large ameobas forming shapes in my bathroom scattered all across the mirror.....some were so frigging creepy too, like one was a shape of some 4 inch long macro-fish, snail looking organism with a bright red 4 inch long fiber running thru its mouth......(believe, me, there was a lot more too.
Needless to say, that crap can't happen in nature . Without biotechnoogy, chemical architects, etc., blah......it ain't happening Nad.....
Also, you mentioned you did not believe in the alien species....YOU SHOULD!!!! THEY ARE HAVING BIG-ARSE PROBLEMS WITH IT ALL OVER THE PLACE....EXAMPLE SHIPS BALLAST WATER!!!
(anyway Nad, Hell, I may have read your statement wrong andyway...)
Talk at you tomorrow.....Please don;t leave us, OKAY??????
BARZ, Thank you for the posting; I sincerely appreciate it.
RANDY, WOW & WOW......Hot Damn, that is all I want, to get friggin better....Please, keep us posted....
New Person on last page........(so sorry, I have forgot your name, but I believe it begins w/ an N.......I apologize for not seeing your post/questions to us sooner, and thank you for posting your stuff.
Me? I have seen one that looked like a human hair , yes, but that is all that I have seen if one is comparing my findings to your photos and post.
My urine looks like someone has sprinkled baby powder into the bowl. It's been going on now since May. It used to have this oily residue that was kind of hard to see, but yet, It was sure there.
New poster above with the long post (sorry, I have forgoton your username too, Sorry.) I have to agree with what you said about the bodies on immune system and keeping it healthy......I do....
But I think these parasites are reproducible ones, just replicated.....Do you think the same medicines, herbs apply in treatment of the realy ones?
does anyone know...???
I have gone thru what I believe is gene translocation.....I'm not falling for the hereditary BS......My fiance' and I could noyt have not by chance both woken up the same moring with huge swollen feet and ankles......then both go to a doctor 2 months later and both diagnosed as Rheum. Arthritic......no way in hell, I taught phys. Ed the 10 years prior to me catching this crud and ran a good 15 miles per week.....(blah, bah, just saying I was in shape and there is no way that would have been hereditary just passing down the genetic factor from our parents on the same moring...... Thanks for your post though, going to back and rearead it and all of them again. They were all really good.
Oh, yeah, Canalon, thanks for catching that. I hope you are doing okay....
Just read your incredible results from the new cream, with special attention to the long "hairs" at the end! I have to say, I would not be surprised if this is a hairworm infection, as I swear I pee "hairs" and there is no other explanation.
Please look at the photo I posted days ago of a tiny wasp I found on my bathroom sink when I was deliberately not cleaning my bathroom to see what would grow or morph next.
Does this not look like a hairworm birth or what????
The wasp I placed in a wet specimen cup and when I went hours later to place on slide found a white fuzz attached to it. On magnification there were ?fiberworms of all the colors I had previously had seen with the fibers. The photo was taken 3 days later--by then the critters were more dispersed on the slide.
I have many photos of these "hairs" under high power and would like an opinion. I would like to send a copy of my discs somewhere if I cannot
figure out how to send them online. (I have a couple hundred.)
I think this infection will get attention sooner than would otherwise status post Katrina and the soupy filthy critter-laden sludge people waded through.
By the way, the woman referred to in a news link here a couple days ago who described long "hairs" coming from her back and her husband's feet I find credible. Her description of whitish hairs a couple inches long wider at one end I have seen plenty of time these past couple months.
Before I saw the a world-travelled parasitologist who actually snarled at me and practically threw me out of his office in June, I placed one of these "hairs" in a small specimen vial to show him.
Two weeks later, there were numerous barely visible floating "fibers" in the solution (I think half isopropyl and half normal saline). I still have it in my collection box (bigger than a matchbox...)
I should check to see if they have grown...
man London youve seen those macro phage type atom membranes that will transfer iself thru any available carbonic medium... . and what s up with the symetry like the three irremovable anchors that are really one foot isnt that like a specific phylum but locomotion aerial shift of the points symetrically... this was detectable by crude methods , by attempting to dislodge any one anchor point one quickly finds three more pink irritated spots a certain distance form inteferrance. next take large amish candle or a block of butter place in microwave till warm now roll it in sugar. now it can be coaxed onto the other medium simply chasing the bastard around untillks it repeats the initial path. now hed him off at at the site with the luke warm candle after hour os the wax will look totaly stretched protrusion with the ttwo large large antenna same angle afirst next nearly thru candle this will give impression of the whole form .. quite large.
what is even more odd is the invisable form on the arm is still active while the form working around the candle is hard at work ... .
self assembling by mirroring print of atom thin biomechanical giant film luke?
\\hope these are not real and just some conventional mechnisims of nature but damn if those fibers are actully disturbed intrails of a feedind hyperdimented organism pissing them off no wonder 3 more sore s arise for every one fiber removed
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Sex offender to be released in Rock County on Tuesday
TOWN OF ROCK—A sex offender will be released to Rock Valley Community Program, 203 W. Sunny Lane, on Tuesday, the Wisconsin Department of Community Corrections announced Friday.
Scott A. Kersten, 42, was convicted of first-degree sexual assault of a child on Jan. 12, 2004.
While at the Rock Valley Community Programs, Kersten will be required to have no contact with minors; not to consume alcohol or drugs; not to patronize taverns, bars or liquor stores; have no unapproved activities in the community without approval of the Department of Corrections' supervising agent, and have no contact with victims. He also must comply with standard sex offender rules and cooperate with GPS monitoring.�
For information, call Supervising Agent Rick Fetting at 608-758-6078 or visit the sex offender registry at offender.doc.state.wi.us/public.


text: Are you having vision problems? You may need to visit an eye doctor or an optometrist for all of your eye care needs. Optometric services range from treating redness and irritation to identifying lazy eyes. You can also visit a surgeon for laser surgery. These are some helpful terms when dealing with an eye care professional.


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Local post commander attends American Legion College
JANESVILLE—Bradley Little returned to Janesville with a wealth of information after attending the American Legion College last month in Indianapolis at the Legion's national headquarters.
"Whether it's increasing membership or just getting us to work together, they conducted classes on programs the American Legion does and its mission of all kinds of community involvement," said the 38-year-old Janesville man.
Little, who was among 56 members of the six-day American Legion College Class of 2013, is commander of American Legion Post 205 in Janesville, where he has been a member for three years and previously served as vice commander. He also is commander for the American Legion Rock County Council made up of eight posts in the county.
Little, who works full time in supply for the Wisconsin Air National Guard in Madison, was one of two Wisconsin American Legion members selected by the state commander to attend the National American Legion College from more than three dozen applicants.
"I was pretty happy because of the opportunity to go there and learn," he said.
Little applied last year but wasn't picked.
"They want people younger than the Vietnam era because these guys will be in the American Legion longer. It also depends on how active a person is, and I'm active on both the county and district levels," he said.
Little also will encourage more than the two currents posts to get involved in the Legion's oratorical program and Americanism contest, in which 10th- through 12th- graders compete for scholarships.
"I'm going to work at getting all of our programs up and running better," he said.
Rock County's American Legion posts already are involved with the homeless veterans shelter that is part of the Rock Valley Community Program, and it will step up its involvement, Little said.
Little is pleased with the time he spent at the college and the resources he learned about.
"They sent us home with a lot of information we can use," he said.
Many people, including veterans, don't understand the American Legion's mission, Little said.
Some of the materials he brought back will help him educate veterans and the public.
"The American Legion is always involved in the community, and even though it's a little bit more on the veterans' side, the American Legion supports Boy Scouts and others," he said.
The biggest challenge for Little is getting younger veterans to join the Janesville club, which has 280 members but fewer than 30 who are active.
�"We have to encourage guys to come and socialize," he said, "then at the same time get them to work on our programs."


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Today's Red Leaf Tea Special
Here's a link to new promotion.
It will start on November 8th, since that's how long it will take my programmer to make it work, BUT any reviews submitted earlier will be accepted. Only issue is that you won't be able to use your Gift Certificate until that date.
Hope you like it.
Woo hoo! I'm glad that the program is still in place. Even with the changes … there are many, many Matcha flavors I still want to try! This program has enabled me to do just that. Thank you very much for the program … I personally have loved it (as I'm sure you're well aware!)
Woot!!!sooo glad to see the details of the program. Love it and I really love your matchas!
Really happy to see a new promo :)
For the promo that ended on the 12th are you able to confirm by when we'll have the last of the reviews verified? Only ask because we have to use that GC under the old rules by the 21st? I think it was. Want to make sure that I'm organized lol
As for the new promo, still really looking forward to working my way through all the wonderful flavours you have!
Whew, I just checked – Sil, I think the promo ends today. I could have sworn it was the 14th, and navigated back a few pages to check. I only just submitted my last review yesterday, I think, so was kicking myself for having read the wrong date!
Are we supposed to use the form on the site or not? I thought we were now, but now I'm reading it won't work until Nov 8
You can use the form on my site to make it easier for you now and later. I made it to make it easier for people to submit reviews :-)
I have registered on their website and I have tried to put things on wish list but it is not there when viewed. Also price is steep and confusing; is it $15.99 and then what is add $3.00 if this (with selection)? I don't understand pricing and grading or such. I am poor and broke; impulse keeps me here. I am hoping to try the maple matcha one day. Thank you.
I cannot help you with the technical issues, but perhaps I can help clarify pricing.
Let's use the Maple Syrup Matcha as an example. Okay, the site says the price is $15.99. This remains true if you don't change any of the options for your matcha. To see what I mean, click on the Maple Syrup Matcha and scroll to the bottom of the page. There is a yellow box and it should say, "Price: $15.99" in red letters at the very top.
Below that, there is a list of options with radio buttons beside them. Note that these are the options that are selected by DEFAULT:
-Small – 30g
-Classic (Basic Grade)
-Regular Matcha
-Delicate [Flavour]
These are the default options because they are the cheapest. If you change any of them, it will raise the price. For example, click the radio button beside "Large – 60g" under Size. Now look at the top of the box. Note that where it said, "$15.99," it now says, "Price: $23.99." That's because you've now selected the option to buy more than the default! Makes sense, right?
Under Matcha Quality, the first three options (classic, royal, imperial) refer to how high quality the matcha is. If you want a better quality matcha, it is more. Then the white, red, black, 50/50 options are actually made with white tea, rooibos and black instead of green tea. I'm guessing Red Leaf creates those rather than getting them from a supplier, so there is also an extra charge to use those instead of green tea.
The difference in price between regular and organic matcha is probably self-explanatory…
And finally you have Flavour. The default is "delicate," or just a bit of flavouring. The other flavour options increase going down. If you want more flavouring, that is also an extra charge.
At any time, you can see the price changes at the top of the yellow box.
Hope that helps!
Thank you for your help Daniel :-)
Peanut Butter Matcha winning over White Chocolate by 5 votes only!!! :-)
Done…just for you LiberTeas:)
Thanks guys… but, it looks like the demand for peanut butter has outweighed the demand for white chocolate. Oh well. sigh
i tried to get white chocolate to win…no such luck
Peanut Butter Matcha won the contest by 2 votes!!!
Peanut Butter Matcha 96 votes, White Chocolate 94 votes :-)
On sale now
Any suggestions for next week?
Peppermint! Or Coffee, both sound so tasty.
LiberTeas- I have some Mocha if you are interested.
New flavors added for voting :-)
This weekend's special is White Chocolate Matcha :-)
Wow,it's been a long time since I have posted here :-)
Here's the requested product. As you asked, I have added 30g in addition to 60g.
Yay! That's awesome :) it's classic grade…so also the most basic flavouring? Sorry I'm tired heh
I forgot about the flavoring. I will try to adjust it now…
Flavor option added…
I was told by my programmer that the new promo is ready for testing.
I'm looking for a few good people that can help me test it.
Here's the guideline.
1. Only people that are willing to place real orders for flavored matcha should apply.
2. I will add $20.00 the form of Gift Certificate, which can cover up to 30% of your order. In other words, you will be able to place an order for flavored matcha teas with 30% OFF.
3. Contact me at [email protected] with your name so that I can add money to your Gift Certificate.
Offer is limited to first few people only.
Ok, got my first 10 people very fast. Thank you for participation.
Let me know if you encounter any problems using Gift Certificates.
It appears that my order went through just fine using the GC at 30%. Thanks!!!


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Your Views: Minnesota's governor much different from ours
Recently my wife and I started traveling in Minnesota. I decided to look at the political climates, Wisconsin versus Minnesota. In Wisconsin, the governor has deliberately polarized us and created a climate of distrust, greed and lack of concern for middle class and poor people. Our governor and legislators preach the tea party gospel, which means they pander to the very wealthy and demonize nurses, teachers, minorities, public schools and working-class people.
In Minnesota, the impression is their governor doesn't put priority on the politics of exclusion, intimidation and racism. Minnesota has a lower unemployment rate. Our governor wants to create 250,000 jobs during his term. The Associated Press recently reported only 63,000 jobs have been created. Wisconsin ranks 37th in job creation. Our governor inappropriately blames his recall election and former Gov. Jim Doyle for this slow job growth.
An opinion article in the Madison Capital Times explains our governor has cut funding for women seeking cancer screenings, birth control and health examinations. He and our legislators have repealed equal pay protection for women, and they have ended comprehensive sex education guidelines for our schools. Apparently our governor has little respect for women's rights. He has also exhibited little respect for our environment.
A book written about our governor is called "Unintimidated." A Capital Times article emphasizes that our governor is intimidated by big money from the Koch brothers. I suppose our governor does feel unintimidated when he demonizes teachers, nurses and working-class people.


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Montana State entered its FCS quarterfinal matchup with a shot a redemption, after Sam Houston State ended its season in the playoffs one year ago.
In last year's FCS quarterfinal, Montana State allowed 428 rushing yards. Friday night, Sam Houston beat Montana State again, this time through the air, 34-16, to again reach the semifinals again.
Quarterback Brian Bell completed 11-of-21 passes for 254 yards and three touchdowns, including two to Chance Nelson in the second half, and the Bearkats picked up a huge road playoff win.
Sam Houston State (10-3), the national FCS runner-up in 2011, will move on to face either Eastern Washington or Illinois State next weekend.
Coach Willie Fritz's squad got on the scoreboard first after a DeNarius McGhee interception set up a Miguel Antonio field goal, giving the Bearkats a 3-0 with 4:01 left in the first quarter.
Montana State responded with its own scoring drive, but the team would have to settle for a 26-yard Rory Perez field goal, which tied the game, 3-3, after one quarter of play.
The second quarter, however, was dominated by Sam Houston.
The visiting Bearkats scored 17 unanswered points and shut down the Bobcats' offense, forcing them to punt on every possession in the quarter.
Richard Sincere scored a 12-yard touchdown on a direct snap to put SHSU ahead, 10-3, early in the quarter. The Bearkats then struck again less than five minutes later, as receiver Trey Diller broke free for a 56-yard touchdown pass from Bell with 9:41 left in the first half.
Montana State made a defensive stand inside the 10-yard line before halftime, holding Sam Houston to three points and a 20-3 lead at the break.
McGhee rushed for 48 yards and passed for 61 yards through two quarters of play, and Diller had three catches for 104 yards.
MSU opened the second half with a three-and-out, but on a 4th-and-4 inside its own territory, coach Rob Ash rolled the dice, faking a punt, and it paid off. The drive stayed alive and eventually McGhee scored from 8 yards out with 9:05 in the third quarter. The lead was cut to 20-9 after a missed extra point.
Momentum shifted back to Sam Houston, after MSU receiver John Ellis had the ball striped from his hands by Dax Swanson, and Andrew Weaver recovered the ball on the Bobcats' 16-yard line.
One play later, Bell found Chance Nelson for a touchdown and the 'Kats led 26-9 with 2:49 left in the third quarter.
The duo hooked up again on the team's next possession - this time on a 3rd- and-16 - for 45 yards to put the game away at 34-9 lead with 12:18 remaining in the game. The touchdown capped off a seven-play, 74-yard drive.
Nelson finished with five receptions for 89 yards and two touchdowns.
Sam Houston rushed for 204 yards, with running back Timothy Flanders carrying the ball 31 times for 106 yards. Sincere added eight carries for 30 yards and the one touchdown.
Montana State was held to just 72 rushing yards and 1-of-12 on third down conversions. McGhee passed for 221 yards and one touchdown. However, his interception and the team's lost fumble led to 10 points for SHSU.
Bell added to his own school record for wins as a starting quarterback and now has 29 in his career. It's the second straight year the Bearkats advanced to the national semifinals.


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Janesville plans to build new fire station at current site, meaning homes would be razed
JANESVILLE--The city plans to build a new central fire station on or near its current site at 303 Milton Ave., meaning the demolition of seven to 12 homes—including one on the National Register of Historic Places.
The new sticker price? Between $9 million and $9.5 million.
Initial estimates for a new station had ranged from $6.2 million to $7.4 million, but that did not include about $1 million for land acquisition and building demolition. It included seven equipment bays but not the eight bays in the current plan.
Fire Chief Jim Jensen said other additional costs include equipment, such as communications equipment, an alerting system, fiber optic lines, a turnout gear washing machine and furnishings.
"We just have very rough numbers," Jensen said. "We do know there's some significant costs that will add to the project."
The new central station would include separate dormitory space for men and women, eight bays, room for firefighters to gather and train and administrative space.
The city has scheduled an information tonight at Fire Station No. 1.
Station No. 1 was built in 1957, and all agree it needs major renovation.
The council voted in October to build a new station and shortly after in closed session voted 6-1 in favor of the two the Milton Avenue sites, both of which would use land now occupied by the fire station. The decision was released to the media late Monday.
The city is setting a rapid pace. Manager Mark Freitag will ask the council to indicate which of the two Milton Avenue sites it prefers at its regular meeting Monday, March 10. At least one plan commission meeting will follow with a final council decision set for April 14, Freitag said.
Construction would start in spring 2015 and finish by the end of 2016.
The city as a last resort would use eminent domain to clear the property, city officials said. That has happened once, possibly twice, in the last 60 years.
Staff studied five possible sites, Jensen said in an interview Monday.
The Milton Avenue site would allow short response times and has access to major routes, such as streets through downtown and Milton Avenue, he said.
Another site of 2.6 acres in central Janesville isn't available, Jensen said.
When asked whether architects could design the building to go up and minimize its footprint, Jensen said the building must be designed to allow for best response times.
"If you put people on multiple levels, that will slow down the turnout time," he said.
The two design options to be presented at the meeting tonight both have pros and cons, City Engineer Mike Payne said. Both plans demolish the current building and build a 37,000-square-foot replacement:
-- Option 1 would include buying and demolishing seven surrounding buildings and construction a new station on the current site. While this option saves the historic building to the north, the department would be required to relocate during construction. That could increase response times and would mean two moves, Payne said.
The option also leaves an island of residents on the north end, which might hurt the neighborhood feel, Payne said. The current site also has topography challenges. For example, the living quarters might be built downstairs, but that would mean little natural light because it would be built into a slope.
When asked whether the department could move to the bus station on Parker Drive when the transit system moves to its new station, Jensen said response times would be longer than at the Milton Avenue site. Jensen is investigating whether the fire department could move there temporarily.
-- Option 2 means building a new station further north and buying 12 properties, including one of the Conrad Cottages, a Second Empire structure painted yellow. The Conrad Cottages are on the National Register of Historic Places and are located on both sides of Milton Avenue and to the south and north of the station.
It's not clear if the cottage could be moved. Structures typically lose their historic value if they are moved, acknowledged Judy Adler. She is a retired planning department employee and has been hired part time to help coordinate relocation of people affected by the city's plans.
Adler said she isn't sure whether the cottage's historic value would be destroyed if it were moved within the same district.
The city would be required to contact the state historic preservation office and defend its decision to tear down a historic building.
Option 2 also allows firefighters to work in the current station while a new station is built. The old station would be demolished, and the site likely left in green space. This option also leaves more flexibility for parking and stormwater management, Payne said.
While buying fewer properties might initially be less expensive, the cost to move the fire department twice could negate those savings, Payne said.
Negotiations with property owners would begin with appraisals and the offer of relocation costs, Adler said. She acknowledged that "some very nice houses" would be destroyed.
The city would work with residents, including if they wanted to move their homes, Adler said. The city also would contact salvage organizations to remove anything of value.