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Judge denies motion, will keep blood test in fatal drunken driving case
JANESVILLE—A blood test that showed a Brodhead man was drunk during a fatal September crash is admissible in court, a judge ruled Tuesday, denying a defense attorney's motion to suppress the evidence based on a recent Supreme Court decision.
An attorney for Sean M. Waterman, a 33-year-old Brodhead man charged with homicide by intoxicated driving and other offenses, said the test should be thrown out because it was taken without a warrant and without Waterman's consent.
That was common practice for police in September 2012, when authorities say Waterman drove drunk and crashed his car in the town of Spring Valley. Waterman's passenger, Douglas Axelson, was killed in the crash.
While Waterman recovered in a Rockford, Ill., hospital, a Rock County deputy told nurses to take a sample of his blood, authorities said. Hours after the crash, the test showed Waterman had a blood-alcohol concentration of .182, more than double the legal limit for drivers.
Seven months later, in April 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that officers need to get a search warrant if they want to draw blood from a driver they suspect is intoxicated.
Waterman's attorney, Walter Isaacson, argued that because deputies made no effort to get a search warrant for his client's blood, the search was illegal and the evidence shouldn't be admitted if the case goes to trial. Isaacson cited the Supreme Court's decision in his argument.
Prosecutors disagreed, saying the deputies were following the law as it was interpreted then and that the Supreme Court's decision shouldn't be applied retroactively.
Judge Richard Werner agreed with the state and denied Isaacson's motion, writing that the deputy "acted in good faith based on the existing law."
Waterman is next due in court for an appearance Nov. 13.

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Your Views: Democracy has faults but is better than alternatives
It has been said we may be slipping from democracy into a socialistic form of government. Others have said socialism really has some good points and might work.
Communism and socialism sound good as they are defined. In fact, they sound so good that addicts to power such as Stalin, Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and Castro have used them to "sell themselves" to gain power. Once they gain power, they forget about the "good stuff" and dedicate their efforts to whatever is necessary to remain in power, which can be much worse than the system that preceded their takeovers.
I vividly recall Fidel Castro replacing Fulgencio Batista and feeling that it was all for the best, until it got much worse. For Cuban citizens, it must have felt like being dumped out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Germany today is apparently satisfied with its governmental system, but please remember that it has grown out of the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Germany after World War II. Angela Merkel hasn't done it for her personal gratification, or with active military force.
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Fairgrounds future: Officials to discuss possible move
JANESVILLE--County board and fair officials plan to meet for the first time next month to discuss a proposal to move the Rock County 4-H Fair to a site in Evansville.
The stars aligned for a successful fair last month, when a strong lineup of acts and great weather helped the event top 102,700 in attendance and cover losses from last year, when attendance was about 77,500, Fair Board President Rob McConnell said.
This year's success re-ignited discussion about the prospect of moving the fair from its landlocked 18.5-acre site in Janesville to a bigger location.
"That's what everybody is saying—'Look at what we could do with more space,'" McConnell said.
Twenty-one events are judged before the fair, which isn't fair for those kids and represents a loss of revenue, he said.
That's where a site on Evansville's east side comes into the picture.
Fair in Evansville?
Southern Wisconsin Agricultural Group, a nonprofit organization, is working on a� business plan and hopes to raise $16 million to $20 million to build a regional agricultural events and education center. The group last year bought more than 200 acres of vacant land at Highway 14 and County M in Evansville.
The fair could be hosted at the SWAG site. The fair board—the independent nonprofit that runs the fair—and the Rock County Board Agriculture and Extension Committee—which controls the county-owned fairgrounds—have been discussing the possibility for months. The three groups will have a joint meeting Tuesday, Sept. 10, for an "open dialogue" about what direction to take, McConnell said.
"I have no expectations. It's just getting things out on the table," said McConnell, who also is a SWAG board member.
McConnell said he likes SWAG's concept of promoting youth education and agriculture. Whether people like it or not, he said, Rock County is no longer focused on manufacturing but on agriculture.
The future of the fairgrounds property would be in the hands of the county, which owns it.
"We're a partner," McConnell said of the fair board, "so it's got to work out for everybody."
Financial commitments and future land uses must be discussed, he said.
Ag and extension committee Chairman Richard Bostwick could not be reached for comment.
Committee member and county Supervisor Alan Sweeney requested the joint meeting and said he wants to hear from the fair board.
"At the end of the day, it's up to the fair board where it (the fair) is," he said.
SWAG must meet financial commitments and possibly other benchmarks that� county officials would need to discuss, he said.
Sweeney said the Evansville location is not a problem for him, but it might be for other county board members, though he emphasized that the decision is up to the fair board.
The fairgrounds and its buildings are leased most weekends of the year, and many organizations that use the facilities "have a dog in that fight," he said. "It's a complicated issue."�
To his knowledge, McConnell said, no other potential sites are being considered. If everything moved ahead, it would be four to five years before the fair would move, and a lot depends on SWAG's plans, he said.
Fair revenue has been on a downward trend the last six to seven years, McConnell said, and this year was a fluke because of the great entertainment. Acts included Florida Georgia Line and Hunter Hayes, who held the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on Billboard's Hot Country list the week of the fair.
"They boomed at the right time. I think it's going to be impossible to repeat," he said.
The search for next year's fair acts likely starts next month.
The fairgrounds were a hot topic in 2004, when a study from Hurtado Consulting predicted the fair would face falling attendance and increasing decay if it continued at its current site. The study recommended spending $6 million to renovate the site or $20 million to move it.
Since that study, moving the fairgrounds to the county farm at highways 14 and 51 or a site in the town of La Prairie was discussed but did not materialize.
SWAG moving ahead
SWAG board members have been gathering feedback from more than 40 advisory council members representing ag and civic entities across southern Wisconsin as they write a more detailed business plan, SWAG President Mike Larson said.
"We're just optimistically plugging away and doing our due diligence in trying to find our strategic partners," he said.
Their discussions always come back to the vision statement: "Ensuring a continuum of ag engagement focused on protecting the cultural and economic benefit of all aspects of agriculture."
Phases of the project, which depend on fundraising, have not be decided. Plans call for:
--A 50,000-square-foot combined training and expo center featuring exhibit, classroom and catered event space.
--Blackhawk Technical College agribusiness campus
--Agricultural Discovery Center with interactive exhibits and displays
--Modern fairgrounds and livestock facilities catering to local and regional fairs, auctions and trade events
--40 acres of ancillary retail, hospitality and service amenities
The group's feasibility study found it could raise $16 million to $20 million, Larson said. It needs to do short-term fundraising before the full fundraising campaign could start, possibly in fall. Such a campaign could take 12 to 18 months, board member John Morning said.
Last week, the Evansville City Council approved a letter supporting the project. It also OK'd SWAG's request to spend nearly $20,000 for a traffic impact analysis through the tax incremental finance district that includes the site, City Administrator Dan Wietecha said. Traffic Analysis & Design of Cedarburg is doing the study.
While council members had favorable comments for the project, he said, they want to see the detailed business plan.
This story was revised Aug. 22, 2013 to reflect the following correction:
A story on Page 1A on Thursday listed the incorrect acreage for the Rock County 4-H Fairgrounds in Janesville. The fairgrounds is 18.5 acres.


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Nominees announced for Janesville Area Creativity Awards
JANESVILLE—The United Arts Alliance has announced nominees for the 2014 Janesville Area Creativity Awards.
The awards serve to honor local artists and help the United Arts Alliance raise money for scholarships, according to a new release from the organization.
The awards show will be from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1. Doors will open at 6 p.m. to allow for voting and sampling treats by culinary artists. A cash bar will be available.
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There are two categories of awards: judged and people's choice.�
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-- Roots Award, honoring artists or performers who are from Janesville but moved away and made a name for themselves in their chosen industry. The nominees are Callie Schouten, Don Zolidas, and Alex and Nathan Burkart.
-- Emerging Star Award, honoring artists 18 and younger. The nominees are Chandler Cook, Kelcie Baior, Ross Sroda and Jessica Minter
--Fine Arts Educator Award nominees are Karen Smerlinski, Kennedy School; Maryanne Messier, Monroe Elementary; Cindy Ward, Jackson Elementary; and Amy Cossette, Craig High School.
--Performing Arts Educator Award nominees are Zac Curtis, UW-Rock County; Sarah Baior, First Position Dance Studio; and Adrian Farris, Monroe Elementary.
Categories in the People's Choice Awards include dance studio, actor, actress, live band, production, photographer, Dennis Vechinsky Award for Theatre Production, creative writer, culinary artists, solo performer, fine artist, original film and original song.


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Evolution or De-evolution?
Discussion of everything related to the Theory of Evolution.
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That's of course, possible and does occur...but is it necessarily so ? I don't think you've shown that to be true.
Sure. Some of what is needed to have 2 good cycles per year is not there yet. One hormone not at the right level, could do that.
Re: Evolution or De-evolution?
Genetically PRE-determined shifts in timing would be like with different kinds of zebra...different striping patterns emerge.
...but are all shifts in development genetically predetermined ?
Apparently not. Some are environmentally determined.
Re: Evolution or De-evolution?
Perhaps a help to understanding how this 2 estrus cycles per year instead of one...could occur.
Suppose there are a bunch of kinds of organisms in an environment where a drought is occurring.
Suppose the genes that do something in kidney cells do something different in reproductive organ cells ( e.g. wrt to estrus )
Suppose dehydration triggers a "signal", that to kidney cells makes them respond with a change. The signal also goes to other organs including reproductive organ cells - and they respond in a different way ( because they are different kinds of cells ).
Suppose a good strategy for reproduction is to breed right after the dry season ends and the rains begin...
Some organisms will end up in a situation where it APPEARS that they time their egg-laying perfectly for the wet season...but they are actually responding to the "dehydration" signal.
A good strategy is to lay eggs or encapsulate, as drought kills the population off.
So having these genetic "means and methods" of accomplishing an "end", built in...is one thing.
The thing which triggers it, which makes it happen... can be environmental ( dehydration ).
It needn't take a change in genetics to change the cycles a bit.
Re: Evolution or De-evolution?
Somewhere, probably in other thread, you wrote that evolution has no direction (and I agree), so how can you ask
? If evolution has no direction, there's nothing like de-evolution
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
Re: Evolution or De-evolution?
It might help if the cause of death was known.
If it's something like a genetic incompatibility within the group for extra-seasonal reproduction, I'd suspect that it would be in one or two forms; every individual having a weakness in varying amounts, but all so far have been under the threshold for living...or that the weakness is in some individuals only ( the ones being bred all show it so far ).
By these two ways, in time some living pups might be produced ..when some pups are above the threshold, or when parents that have more compatible genetics are found to breed successfully.
If one or more extra- seasonal pups ever do survive, they probably will have systems more or more likely to be compatible with producing extra-seasonal pups.
If a pair of parents is found that can produce extra seasonal pups, problem ( for farmer-breeders) is solved that way.
Re: Evolution or De-evolution?
Good point. Not very accurate on my part. What I meant here is popular view of evolution = from simple single cell to complex multicellular organism, from bacteria to human if you will. De-evolution is just an antonym ...
Force of evolution is blind just as you said. Here, however, I was trying to judge the outcome of our evolution...
Re: Evolution or De-evolution?
Crucible, you are making everything too complicated with vague ideas and slippery explanations. I had to read your post several times to be able to understand what you were saying. Please, make sure to present your future ideas more clearly.
The easiest way to address the problem is decide how it could be done. In my opinion, the answer is in epigenetics. When ovulation takes place out of cycle, an assortment of lethal genes are active; when ovulation takes place on time, those genes are epigenetically silenced. Depending on how far from normal cycle ovulation takes place; ultimate effect will vary from miscarriage to death at some point after birth to (possibly in the future) progeny able to reach adulthood but suffering from infertility.
As I said before, I imagine the mechanism is very similar to that of vernalization…
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My name is Debbie and I live in Central Massachusetts. I am a mom of 2, a grandma to Jace and a "Mama Stone" (as I'm called) to about 25 rental kids as I call them. I consider myself to be a serious maybe even (as all my kids would say, "Obsessed" photographer. If it moves I photograph it, if breaths I photograph it, if it doesn't breath I photograph it and if it doesn't move I photograph it even more. Ok, so my kids are right, I'm obsessed. I never leave home with out it, my camera that is. I've always loved photography but as I've headed into my mid-life crisis period I have begun to open my eyes to more of the wonder around me. Why it took so long I don't know but look out world I have arrived. Now I have a thirst to make up for lost time and I love Wunderground and all of the wunderful photographers I get to share my world with. I absolutely love seeing everyones photos from around the world and for that I thank all of you for your wonderful generosity for sharing them with me and us on this great site. Smile say cheese now!!
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Walter Stoklosa, Rockford, IL/formerly Janesville, WI (1917-2014)
October 21, 1917 - January 20, 2014
Walter Stoklosa, age 96, of Rockford, and formerly of Janesville, died on Monday, Jan. 20, 2014, at St. Anthony's Hospital, in Rockford, IL. He was born in Chicago, on Oct. 21, 1917, the son of Frank and Anna (Szafraniec) Stoklosa. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and married Genevieve Peck on Sept. 27, 1947, at St. Patrick's Catholic Church. Walter had been employed by Kroger's Food, IGA, and Piggly Wiggly. After his retirement, he worked for the Janesville Country Club. He enjoyed golfing, the VFW Club, the Moose Club and was very active in St. Patrick's parish activities including being a lector for many years.
Walter is survived by his wife, Genevieve Stoklosa of Rockford; two children, Michael (Karen) Stoklosa of Janesville, and Mary (Richard) Mowris of Rockford; five grandchildren: Peter (Jamie Lee) Mowris, Anna (Thomas) Murphy, Vanessa Mowris, Michelle (Jason) Cuyler and Kathryn Stoklosa; two great-grandchildren: Caden and Cole Cuyler. He was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Edward.
A Mass of Catholic Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 24, 2014, at ST. PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH with Rev. James Kuhn officiating. A visitation will be held on Friday from 9:30 until 11 a.m. at the CHURCH. Interment will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery at a later date. SCHNEIDER APFEL SCHNEIDER & SCHNEIDER FUNERAL HOME is assisting the family. In lieu of flowers, please make memorials to St. Patrick's Catholic Church. For on-line condolences and registry: www.schneiderfuneraldirectors.com


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UPDATE: Lake Geneva man killed in Thanksgiving Day crash
TOWN OF LYONS—A two-car crash on Thursday killed a Lake Geneva man and left two others hospitalized, authorities said.
According to a release from the Walworth County Sheriff's Office, Jeffrey D. Peiffer, 52, of Lake Geneva was killed after his Nissan Sentra car crossed the centerline at Highway 120 north of Prairie Road and struck a Chrysler 300 car driven by Wolfgang Schubert, 69, Wauconda, Ill.
Peiffer was driving southbound and struck Schubert's northbound car head-on, according to reports.
The crash happened around 4 p.m. Peiffer, who was pronounced dead at the scene, did not appear to be wearing a seatbelt, according to reports.
Schubert was flown by helicopter to Summit Hospital, Oconomowoc, with critical injuries, according to the release. He was listed in fair condition Friday morning.
A passenger in Schubert's car, Rosalina L. Deinlein, 40, Morton Grove, Ill., was taken by ambulance to Lakeland Hospital, Elkhorn, with unknown injuries, according to the release. Her status was not available at press time.
Police closed the road near the crash for several hours while a Walworth County crash investigation unit studied the scene. Walworth County Sheriff's Capt. Scott McClory said it's too early to know whether fatigue, alcohol or other possible factors led to the crash. Officials plan an autopsy on Peiffer to determine exact cause of death, according to the release.
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The Supreme Court has been on a tear over the past several weeks, putting to bed some of the most pressing cases that cropped up in the last session. In addition to answering big questions surrounding securities class actions and intellectual property suits, the Court has also weighed in on POM Wonderful's ongoing battle with Coca-Cola, giving more direction about when labeling claims are protected by federal regulations. While the decision from SCOTUS is only a few weeks old, the months and years to come will be a true testament to how impactful this case will be to the food industry.
At the heart of the issue is POM's assertion that Coke's Minute Maid Pomegranate Blueberry flavored drink carried an intentionally misleading name because the juice blend contained only 0.3 percent pomegranate and 0.2 percent blueberry juice. POM claimed this allegedly misleading name could lure customers away from its drinks despite Coke's compliance with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) labeling standards.
POM heads to court, will field labeling suits as both plaintiff and defendant
FDA releases proposed regulations for e-cigarettes, other products
Hobby Lobby decision creates controversy about contraception, Obamacare
"Under FDA labeling laws, Coke was permitted to label the juice blend as blueberry and pomegranate flavored, even though there was not a significant component of either in the product," says Linda Goldstein, chair of the Advertising, Marketing & Media division at Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP. "Coke argued that because the labeling of the product complied with FDA regulations, this preempted any claim under the Lanham Act, which is a statute under which false advertising claims are brought by competitors."
On June 12, the Supreme Court sided with POM, saying that compliance with the FDA does not preempt additional suits from competitors under the Lanham Act. While this decision does not give POM the win in this particular case just yet, it does give them the right to continue their suit, and is likely to have wide-ranging implications for competitive challenges to labeling claims in the future.
NEXT PAGE: The decision's impact on "brand warfare"
"The ruling itself was very specific in its application," says Goldstein. "The court made it very clear that this ruling was limited to preemption of the Lanham Act by FDA law. However, the same principles could easily apply to labeling regulations of other government agencies. For example, the EPA regulates the claims made on packaging for products such as household cleaners, and also sets standards for when certain types of claims can be made."
Perhaps more important to keep an eye on, says Goldstein, is the impact this ruling will likely have on competitive challenges or brand wars in the future. This decision gives competitors another very powerful weapon by allowing competitors to challenge not only claims made in advertising, but claims made on packaging and labeling as well.
POM heads to court, will field labeling suits as both plaintiff and defendant
FDA releases proposed regulations for e-cigarettes, other products
Hobby Lobby decision creates controversy about contraception, Obamacare
"I think this could potentially open the floodgates to more brand war litigation and raises the stakes significantly," says Goldstein. "Historically, advertisers have used the Lanham Act to challenge claims made by competitors in their advertising materials. So even if a company lost, the result was that they would have to discontinue or modify their advertising. Now, however, if a company's labeling claims are found to be misleading, it's not just a question of changing the advertising or removing the offending advertising from the marketplace, but the product itself will have to be removed from the shelves with nothing to replace it. The consequences to the company could be devastating."
Goldstein says that companies in the food and beverage space will now want to make sure that their packaging not only complies with FDA regulations, but also that the claims made do not open them up to risk from competitor lawsuits. "This will necessitate an additional layer of review. In addition to review by an expert in FDA regulations, companies would be well advised to also have their labels reviewed by those with expertise in advertising law."


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Evansville woman killed in crash
TOWN OF UNION--Poor road conditions contributed to a two-car accident that left one person dead and two others injured.
At 2:49 p.m. Thursday a car driven by Elizabeth B. Proctor, 19, of Evansville was traveling north on Highway 14 in the town of Union when she lost control of her Ford Escort, slid sideways across the centerline and collided with a Chevrolet Impala driven by Raymond Reinart, 72, of Granton, according to a news release from the Rock County Sheriff's Office.�
Proctor was pronounced dead at the scene by Rock County acting coroner Lou Smit, the news release said.
Reinart and a passenger in his car, Margo P. Young, 66, also of Granton, were transported to Mercy Hospital and Trauma Center, Janesville. They were both treated and released.
Highway 14 was closed from Highway 59 to Highway 92� for nearly four hours while the Rock County Sheriff's Office Crash Reconstruction Team investigated.
City of Evansville and Village of Brooklyn Fire and EMS responded to the scene along with an emergency trauma doctor, the news release said.
The roads were covered with blowing and drifting snow at the time of the accident, and that was a contributing factor in the crash, the news release said.


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One clerk cited in alcohol license check
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
TOWN OF BELOIT--Only one business in the town of Beloit sold alcohol to a juvenile during the police department's alcohol license compliance check Friday, according to a news release.
According to the release from Sgt. Laura Palmer:
Clerk Tracey M. Dexter Dailey at Happy House Liquor, 1121 Elmwood Ave., received a citation during the operation, which was coordinated with Youth2Youth of Rock County.
Police periodically conduct compliance checks, and Palmer said she was pleased the majority of stores refused sale to the underage representative. She encouraged liquor license holders to be diligent in checking the identification of everyone buying alcohol.


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The Met Gala has a red carpet like no other... as Hayden Panettiere learned the hard way.
The "Nashville" star attended the A-list fashion event for the first time on Monday night and, like the other guests from Beyoncé to Kim Kardashian, had to ascend the tricky red carpet staircase — which was lined with camera crews, photographers, reporters, and other gawkers — in her pastel blue-and-pink strapless Dennis Basso ballgown. While she made it up like a champ and celebrated the accomplishment "Rocky"-style, the blonde pulled a Jennifer Lawrence on the way down, taking a wee bit of tumble.
[Related: 2014 Met Gala Gorgeousness: See Beyoncé, Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, and More on the Red Carpet]
As she steadied herself in her heels, the 24-year-old, who is engaged to Wladimir Klitschko, cheerily wagged a finger at a paparazzo who snapped the moment from the street below. (Photographers who are granted access to cover the event are actually instructed not to take any pictures of the guests exiting the event, likely for this exact reason.) And Rihanna, who knew how hard the staircase was to maneuver, was spotted to Panettiere's side having a giggle over the whole incident.
In fairness to Panettiere, she still looks pretty glamorous mid-fall, doesn't she? There's not a hair out of place on that pretty updo, which was decorated with fancy Fred Leighton jewels. Even her "Oh, my god I'm going to bite it" face is pretty adorable. She's been acting since she was 7, so she played it off pretty well.
In that moment we can also see her thinking: Why didn't I bring Wladimir? The heavyweight boxing champ, whom she became engaged to last year, certainly would have kept her steady.
[Related: Social Snaps at the 2014 Met Gala]
Earlier in the evening, Panettiere made one of the more fun arrivals on the red carpet at the fashion fete. When she finally reached the top of the towering staircase, she yelled, "Hallelujah! I made it up the stairs." She then threw her arms over her head and cheered, making all the reporters laugh.
The actress can consider this whole debacle just more practice for her future wedding to Klitschko, which has been postponed due to the turmoil in his native Ukraine. "Everything that's happening in Ukraine definitely put a hold on things. But we have time," she recently told Parade regarding her nuptials..
Perhaps even time to change up her dress style? If she was thinking ballgown bottom, maybe she can opt for tea length instead?


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The Fiber Disease
Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Medicine. Anything human!
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okay, okay, okay MSC, will take your advice.....but fyi, if that advice is only so I won't seem para, well I don't give a rats arse! Not even the one they used in the cloning! LOL, but I hear ya......I still have to finish your post here and everyone elses too....go Nada-Spot, sky,. MM and all!
Skytoll, I found more on the wood last night but will have to go actually pull back up the doc. to try to retrieve what I read!
Deena, spot-on about the highway.....wanna know the name of it?
It's called 35E or I-35E and yes mam, it runs from the Mexican border, straight up thru texas-going right thru Baylor territory....aka "whaco ,texas) and on up thru Dallas passing right by Dealy Plaza and Parkland hospital and then continues north......
they have been widening 35E for the longest of long times....supposed to be straight shot of 10 lanes directly from Mexico to canada......
and dear Deena, you asking me how to quote.....hehhe....no idea....people tell me how but I never can remember....
here is what I also meant to post, MSC, keep in mind I have not finished your article and it prob. has it or something like this in it anyway!
okay, I have said before this is poisoning...(my opinion) now take that thought and compond it with the radiation they are doing on us.....double whammy!!! It exacerbates it to know end!
anyway, what about thallium poisoning? see:
[Chronic thallium poisoning. Study of criminal poisoning][Article in German]
Trenkwalder P, Bencze K, Lydtin H.
In a 42-year-old man with abdominal symptoms, loss of hair and increasing distal polyneuropathy in both legs, the clinical suspicion of thallium poisoning was confirmed by urinary and blood analysis. Hair analysis provided a pointer to the time of poisoning. In addition to symptomatic measures, treatment consisted of administration of potassium-iron (III) hexacyanoferrate (II) (Berlin blue), combined with forced diuresis. Despite the overall favourable course, residual symptoms of distal polyneuropathy were still present 6 months after discharge from hospital.
PMID: 6479059 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... ds=6479059
hehehe now check this out, it;s called electronic ink!
Introduction to How Electronic Ink Will Work
Photo courtesy E Ink
With a world full of monitors and electronic displays made with liquid crystals, light-emitting diodes and gas plasma, you probably don't think of paper as being a revolutionary display technology, but the Chinese invention of paper in 105 A.D. forever changed the way the world communicates. Without it, books might still be printed on silk scrolls that only the wealthy could afford, making literacy a rare skill.
Look around you: It would be nearly impossible to live one day without coming into contact with paper in some form. This year, the world will consume an estimated 280 million tons of paper, according to the National Association of Paper Merchants in England. That is equal to 56 trillion sheets of letter-size 20-pound bond paper. (See this question of the day on paper weight.)
For nearly 2,000 years, ink on paper was the only way to display words and images, and it still beats computer displays when it comes to portability and price. Paper also doesn't require an external power supply. Yet it does have some limitations: Once you've printed words on paper, those words cannot be changed without at least leaving some marks, and it is also difficult to carry around a large number of books.
Scientists are now close to developing a revolutionary technology that could replace paper, called electronic ink! In this edition of How Stuff Will Work, you will find out about how electronic ink is made, how it will allow you to carry a whole library in one book and how it could be used for cheaper computer displays.
for the rest of story, see:
ATTN: MSC! jUST FINISHED YOUR FIRST POST, TOWARDS THE END YOU WISHED WE COULD SEE RETINOIDS CHEM MAKEUP.....LOOK, i GOT THIS THANKS TO YOU.....ALSO, CHECK OUT THE 4TH ONE DOWN, ON THE PAGE....OH MY MY MY
http://www.google.com/search?q=composit ... f8&oe=utf8
http://www.google.com/search?q=composit ... f8&oe=utf8
http://flux.aps.org/meetings/YR98/BAPSM ... S1875.html
Mitochondria news to me, just wanting to share......figured it had to do with the plants!
Purchase Plant Cell (1993) 5: 1843-1852.
RNA Editing in Plant Mitochondria: [alpha]-Phosphate Is Retained during C-to-U Conversion in mRNAs.
VK Rajasekhar, RM Mulligan
Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92717. RNA editing in higher plant mitochondria frequently results in the post-transcriptional conversion of specific cytidine residues to uridine residues and infrequently results in the reverse conversion. The mechanisms by which this transition could occur are deamination or transamination of the amide at C-4 of cytosine, transglycosylation of the ribosyl residue, or deletion of a CMP residue and insertion of a UMP residue. Intact maize or petunia mitochondria were supplied with [alpha]-32P-CTP to radiolabel CMP residues in the nascent transcripts, and the fate of the [alpha]-phosphate was examined by digestion of the RNA to nucleotide monophosphates and analysis by two-dimensional chromatography. A small fraction of radioactivity comigrated with UMP on two different two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography systems, and the amount of radiolabeled UMP increased between l0-min and 2-hr incubations. The conversion of cytidine-to-uridine residues was detected in the highly edited mRNA fraction but was not detected in the rRNA fraction. Recovery of radiolabeled UMP residues suggests that the [alpha]-phosphate is retained during the editing reaction. These results are consistent with either deamination or transamination, or transglycosylation mechanisms for RNA editing.
http://www.mitochondrial.net/showabstra ... d=12271058
REV 2:10-11 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that over commeth shall not be hurt of the second death.
REV 3:2-3 Be watchful and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I come upon thee.
Skytroll~you asked earlier who comes in the rapture?
REV 3:4 Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.
REV3:8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast little strenth, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
So much more, so out of time again. Rev 1:3 blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear thy words of this prophesy, and keep those things which are written, FOR TIME IS AT HAND.
Peoples !!! Rev 1:18 I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and death.
Wish it wasn't mx day. So much more. This straight from the KJV. And thinkin back here. Nobuddy answered me on the sinners prayer. Not that I thought one would anyways. Don't let no guts no glory come to pass and I think I be taken in my own advise here.. Don't wanna be a hypocrite and I don't wanna stick around for more fun after Jesus comes, eeder.
O, can't forget this....CHEW ON THAT YOU BIG BAD BULLY'S AND STICK A FORK IN IT!!!
Hello All,
It appears from reading the labels of common moisturizers,
that the contents of these moisturizers contain C11 C12 Lipids.
These lipids are produced from cyanobacteria.
I did see mention of Pseudomonas Putrefaciens .......
" Lipopolysaccharides from all four strains had similar,
complex fatty acid compositions.
The major non-hydroxy acids were the straight-chain
and iso-branched C13 acids.
"Beta-Hydroxy acids common to all strains included the
straight-chain C11, C12, C13, C14 and C15 acids "
Google "c11 c12 lipids".........
or "origin of c11 c12 lipids in moisturizers"
Inventor: Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
US Patent Application
Inventor: Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
US Patent Application
Inventor: Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
US Patent Application
Inventor: Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
US Patent Application
US Patent No.
Inventor: Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
US Patent Serial No. 08/318,494
Allowed on: August 8, 1996
Assignee: Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
US Patent No. 5,352,574
Inventor: Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
Issue Date: October 4, 1994
Assignee: Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
US Patent No. 5,312,762
Inventor: Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
Issue Date: May 17, 1994
Assignee: Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
U.S. Patent No. 5,102,798
Inventor: Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
Issue Date: April 07, 1992.
Assignee: Anthony Guiseppi-Elie
Electrical bioprocess chipsProcess relevant changes in the expression profiles of the industrial hosts Bacillus subtilis and Bacilluslicheniformis during industrial-close fermentation processes are investigated by means of DNA-arraysand proteomics. By these approach process-relevant marker genes will be identified. A comprehensive
knowledge on process-relevant marker genes is a prerequisite for the monitoring of the microbial physiology during industrial fermentation processes. So far the expression of bioprocess relevant
marker genes can be analysed only off line. The "conventional" methods of expression analysis by means of optical DNA-chips takes from the sampling until the determination of the mRNA-profiles
approximately 24 hours. Therefore, the major focus of this project is the development of bioprocess specific DNA- and protein-chips which are suitable for an at line monitoring of microbial fermentation
processes. For that purpose electrical but also optical process-specific DNA- and protein-chips for selected industrial fermentation processes will be developed. For the optical DNA-arrays a faster
detection method will be established during the project. The electrical chips used in this study are based on a technology developed by the group of Rainer Hintsche at the Fraunhofer Institute of Silicon
Technology in Itzehoe (Germany). Beside the application of these chips for the monitoring and control of fermentation processes, such at line DNA- and protein-chips could by applied for the monitoring of
microbial food production processes or for the medical diagnostic.
Methods for the physico-chemical description of Titanium implant surfaces
At present one is still searching for physical and chemical methods which are suitable for the characterisation of the biocompatibility of implant surfaces. We analysed titanium surfaces with a great variety of roughness generated by different technologies ( polishing, mashining, blasting with glass or corundum particles and vacuum plasma spraying) with a number of electrochemical and physical methods such as electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, chronoamperometry, linear sweep voltammetry, surface profiling and scanning electron microscopy. For quality control and as input parameter for further working steps in modifying the implant surface it is useful to know how the increasing surface roughness leads to an enlargement of the surface area. We found that surface profiling is not suitable for a complete and exact description of the implant surface. with parameters extracted from different electrochemical methods we can demonstrate the determination of the "true" surface area of all investigated titanium structures: the electrode capacity obtained by fitting of the impedance data to equivalent circuits, the corrosion current estimated by tafel analysis of quasistationary polarisation curves measured by linear sweep voltammetry and a value of the double layer capacity determined by a simple chronoamperometric experiment. Accompanying cell biological examinations were performed to get information about the influence of surface roughness on cell
behaviour and cell activity.
http://www.biologie.uni-rostock.de/tier ... bnisse.pdf.
from msc to karvita
can you help us, can you help in getting tests done for us. we have medical
insurance and my friend has a large life insurance and will see who ever
helps is compensated and help why she is living will see compensated for
legal redress giving. she needs to prove right away. this thiing is spitting
out toxic atomic clouds, edgma stands for ethylene glycol dimethacrylate
they are using hydrogels of hydrophilic 3-D methacryalte. in the pdr book
states causes chromosone aberations. they knew this and edgma is used in producing polymer beads, as advanced polymers sys. inc. was the silent partner whose stock rose when fda approved renova 0.05%. it is used in
clay (silica), paints, moulds, solvents, varnishes, plastics. if ligands produce
atomic cloudds what does the phosphurous ponytail ligand produce? what is it that is secreting these clouds and research states alcohol is an aqueous solution. these things are definitely moving in some type of solution that it is spraying. you are right about mitchrondia, the bacteriorhodopsin, the computer memory in this mask binds to it. they use the cleft palate and template to attached to and move up the olfactory system creating tunnels and tubes and dipoles, the crown points of butiedine drill into the skin and scalp. they used fragrances to cover up the odor of the toxic poisons. the propene causes the ulcerations and sores in the mouth and lips. they are using the tongue that has electrical sensors on it to help spin this spinning man made organism. can you help do you have connections in the usa? please send email to ponygirl01.comcast.net. it is vital to get us help. my frinds hair is tangled in these ligands and crystal structures and clay structures, he was using claytronics before it was ever perfected and halographics. please help
page 442 biology on line to karvita. what tests do you know can be done to prove all chemicals are active in her system and family members? what can she used to get rid of this? an infectious disease physician michael barnish said a few years ago he could prescribed medicine but it would be toxic, what did he mean by toxic, and the family physician dr. herbert fichman said no-- said no more medicines to be prescribed, we don't why--do you?
from msc,
amazing isn't all the things they create and all the tests they can do when they want to do them, such as posted on pubmed. 6479059 on thallium poisoning and the exact time the person was poisoned. but no physicians we have encountered know what tests to do for chemicals in renova 0.05%, not even when you print them out and give them to them. how cruel is that? what kind of society is this? what are they afraid of exposing and how much "blood money" do they get? it would be great
to see their bank records or hidden accounts. if you did this to someone,
you would see how fast dna tests would be done and tests on poisons would be performed and you would be given life in prison and possibly the gas chamer, speak of gas and chambers and hydrogels and droplet of
gels and toxic gases, pretty scary isn't? when did we become their guinea pigs? where is the world health organization peta green peace and
nato for this investigation and any corp. that causes themselves justice for you against toxic pharmaceutical corp., such as chemical justice,
mike schade and accutane recall web master joe butch and all chemical corp. around the world that we have emailed for help from and have not received one response, chemical journalist email back they can't help as
they only write journals and can't give medical advice. i guess all forget that there are young men and women giving up their lives to fight against this type of bio terroism and I guess they forgot about the victims of 9/11
and the antrhax threat of mailing powdeer spores. what happen a cream
that contains harmful bacteria and fungus spores and toxic chemicals that
spin ligands and atomic clouds, clouds don't stay in one spot they travel with the wind spreading spores and edgma, and hdpe and bcg and every type of chemical imagineble. if photons are hazardous to the evirnment,
then why are they putting bacteriorhodopsin in a cream and retinoids that
is used as a photon pump and a computer memory as it produces ligands
and atomic clouds and claws and crystal structures? i can't for the life of me figure this out. page 444
London, Please Help, I just pulled out my vitamin a cream that my dermatologist gave me and it has Vitamin A Palmitate in it. I think it is the same beast you are talking about in the attached email. This is the same derm that just screamed at me in his office to stop picking at the lesions on my nose which he calls rosacea. I actually got this on my nose during a time when I took doxycycline for 1 year and 9 months for fibromyalgia symptoms based on Dr. Garth Nicholson's theory. I could not understand how I could get rosacea at the same time as I was effectively taking treatment for rosacea(doxycycline). In addition my sibling uses a different vitamin a cream and they also got rosacea. I think rosacea is caused by the cream and that in turn invites the microorganism to take up residence in your nose. I never used to use this stuff, just dove soap. I used to have a dove soap face, perfect. I was told to use the vitamin A cream to help heal sun damage that supposedly caused the Melanoma I had. I understand, London that you had Melanoma too, do you think there is a connection?
London, I just thought of something else. It could be that the microorganism, like the virus that causes AIDs, is targeting an specific ethnic group. I am quite certain that many people of all colour have Irish/Celtic blood in them. My daughter in law who is Metis has a Scottish ancestry. There could quite possibly be a hereditary element. What is common in those who attact the microorganism? We need a huge data base to track this information. It has something to do with the "Curse of the Celts" (Rosacea). I have some Irish blood and there was a terrible potatoe blite(fungi?) that caused a terrible famin. Many people with Celtic background get Roasacea. Why did both myself and my sibling have the microorganism attack our Noses disguised as Rosacea. I have heard that that Psoriasis may be caused by a parasite like organism and many of the people in my family have Psoriasis. What do you think?
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Bio Research Paper Writing
Debate and discussion of any biological questions not pertaining to a particular topic.
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Bio Research Paper Writing
My group and I are writing a research paper on the topic of "how do chronic viral infections contribute to immune senescence and how do they affect aging as a whole?"
We split the essay into parts and we brought it together yesterday:
Problem is, the other two group members are saying I wrote my part in a way that isn't how a research paper is supposed to be written....they're making it sound so bad like I have to rewrite the whole thing....
They wanted an intro for every topic (essentially they wanted an intro for every paragraph that is currently in my paper). I'm confused because why the heck would I need to write an explanation on how cytokines work or what is beta amyloid in a college research paper.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, in a research paper, do I need to tangent off to explain what topics like cytokines are before I explain the research on cytokines that answers the question....I would think background on cytokines are extraneous....since any science major ought to know it already
Anyways, it would be great if I had feed back on how a research paper ought to be formatted. Pardon my random spelling mistakes - my spellcheck is broken and please ignore my citations (the way I wrote them in this draft was just so I could make it easier on myself. It's not the final citations)
Also, since this is a group project, my part is 1/3rd of the entire report.
Research Topic:
How do Chronic Viral Infections Contribute to Immune Senescence; how does immune senescence relate to aging as a whole?
Age related immune-system decline in function may be more than self inflicted damage caused by improper controls and metabolic inefficencies due to evolutionary neglect. Chronic infections like HIV, CMV, and EBV alter immune function on every level: proteome, epigenome, signalsome, etc and as a result there is a clear phenotypic destinction between healthy immune system function and abnormal immune system between infected an noninfected individuals.
Immune System Aging
Immune senesence is associated with changes in the old as compared with the young. Notably, there is a huge change in the aging immune system of a cytomegalovirus (B-herperesvirus, HHV-5) infected person as compared to a person not infected with CMV. A 10 year study suggests that changes in blood T-cell distrubution did not happen in people not infected with CMV suggesting that changes in immune cell ratio may be the result of a viral disease rather than programmed inefficency (Immunity-Ageing np).
Chronic viral infections due to CMV have evolved mechanisms to defend against the adaptive and innate immune system, many of which target the function of the immune system and conversely, the immune system has evolved ways to resist these viral infections which is often inadequate. Viral infections pose a theat to DNA and so cell evolved a mechanism called DNA-damage response (DDR) to detect DNA lesions and to signal their repair (DNA-Damange-Response np). Chronic viral infections such as HIV, adenoviruses, herpes simplex 1 and 2, hepititis, EBV, and CMV trigger the DDR response (DNA-damange-Response). DDR serves as a front line of defense against the genetic changes associated with these viruses so viruses has evolved to evade the response. Two types of the human papilomma virus (HPV), type 16 and 18 produces a protein (E6) which is also responsible for many cancers (as will be discussed later) targets p53 (tumor supressor pathway) which results in the preservation of the virus by preventing apoptosis of its host cell (DNA-damage-response). Mechanistically, DDR-signaling in mammals are caried out by ATM and ATR which reduces cyclin-dependent kinases, many of which cross-talks with p53. CDK's are then inhibited resulting in cell cycle arrest or is slowed down to increase DNA repair before division; simultaneously, ATM and ATR activate DNA-repair proteins to attempt DNA repair (DNA-Damange- Response np). When the cell can not repair itself nor can it trigger apoptosis, an alternative pathway is triggered resulting in cellular senesence which deprives the cell of its function and when many immune cells are put into this state, immune function becomes highly degraded (DNA-Damage-Response np). One mechanism that may explain how immune cells enter cell senesence is due to the effect of chronic viral infections on telomere function. Normally, telomerase isn't active in most cells (which is an evolutionary advantage against cancer) and the shortening of the telomeres eventually results in ends that is recognised as double stranded breaks (DBS) which tiggers chromosomal break-fusion-bridge cycles that result in the formation of new telomeres (from sister chromatids) and as a result, a cell is able to continue functioning; however under circumstances of chronic DDR activation, cells do not undergo break-fusion-bridge cycles, but enter into apoptosis or senescence but since apoptosis is blocked, the cell enters senescence (DNA-Damage-Response np).
In addition to avoiding destruction by modulating DNA-Repair pathways, viruses also alter other aspects of the cell's defense such as cell surface markers. CMV and adenoviruses decrease the expression of a cell's MHC recognition markers which decreases the ability of the immune system to respond to infections that is highly characteristic of the immune system in senescence (DNA-Damage-Response np). One factor is the loss of the CD28 marker; when CD28 isn't expressed, antigen-presenting cells like macrophages no longer recognise the T cell and thus aren't able to alert the immune cell to danger (de Grey 207). Some viruses like HIV are able to prevent detection from the immune system by restricting the expression of virus antigens as well as having wide antigen variation (DNA-damage-response). Furthermore, there are viruses that modify other signaling pathways that lead affects lymphocyte and macrophage (which is an anti-gen presenting cell) functions that lead to immunosupression (DNA-damage-response). Persistent viral infection induced immune senescence act on every biochemical which in turn results in alterations in immune function at the cellular level. One key factor of immune senescence at the cellular level is overpopulation of old cells in senescence and differentiated cells with the goal of destroying an indestructible target. This is much like fighting multiple wars at the same with with one war being a Geurilla warfare. While the immune system mobilises B-cells to fight the guerilla war with the chronic viral infections like CMV, other viruses such as the common cold (Rhino viruses), the flu, bacteria, and other foreign invaders are able to overwhelm the immune system due to the lack of troops (naieve cells) to fight back. Cytomegalovirus, a herpesevirus is a very common virus that infects over 90.8% of people over the age of 80 (PLOS np). Since CMV results in a chronic infection, the immune system doesn't reduce the number of specialized cells to fight the disease so there is an increase in counts of CD8 T cells and a decreased amounts of naieve cells and increased number of effector memory CD8 cells. This accumulation of unnecessary memory T-cells (termed memory inflation) has been shown to acumulate through the organism's lifetime; CMV infection in mice has shown the reduced ability of CD8 cells to respond to influenca (PLOS np). Another type of cell that is persistently elevated in CMV infected patients is KLRG1 T-Cells which is a marker that prevents a cell from proliferating when there is no threat (Adding Exerpt from Ending Aging).
Signal disruption can be measured by an F-test of varience. A study of MCMV (mouse cytomegalovirus) using 5 coefficients of variability: VB9, VB9, VB10, and VB14 has shown that VB9, VB10, and VB14 varied significantly which suggests that signal disruption results in a malfunction in proper controls.
Immune aging is characteristic of a decreasing immune stem cell pool especially in the Thymus which is a central component that produces diferentiated immune cells of all types. This problem of thymus involution is also forcibly induced by viruses as a means of evading detection by the immune system. There is severe atrophy of the thymus in adult BALC/c mice infected by the mouse hepatitis virus A59 (Thymus-Involution np). This induced thymus involution by viruses is caused by modulated cytokine secretion due to the virus which results in apoptosis of immature T-cells (Thymus Involution np). As expected, studies have shown different expression patterns of the glycoprotein MHVR (MHV receptor) on thymus epithelial cells that are not present on T-lymphocytes (Thymus-Involution). Cytokine modulation that affect other systems such as the hematopoietic stem cell pool in the bone marrow may also indirectly affect the immune system by preventing T-cell progenitors to migrate to the thymus resulting in the decline of the amount of naieve cells. Because the thymus is such a sensitive target point for infectious agents not limited to the viral infections, studies have shown that mouse thymus have autoreactive thymus derived CD4 and CD8 T-cells capable of some defense function while still immature which correlates with the increased migratory cytokines that help mobilize immune cells around the body (thymus-common-target np) and these are the same cytokines which chronic viral infections like CMV damper down resulting in a chronically weaked immune response at the signalling level in addition to other major problems that arrise as a consequence like the accumulation of anergic cells (senesent immune cells that take up space/resourses without providing defense functions).
The Effect of Immune System Modulations on Systemic Aging
Immune senescence if an important topic to address because it addresses the decreased ability of the elderly of many model systems and humans to fight off infectious pathogens but it has much further significance in that the immune system also functions in cleaning up degraded products of during normal function of the organism system; for the immune system to be severely weakened by chronic viral infections that infect more than 80% of all individuals, it wouldn't be surprising if many other systems are affect as well.
Cell signalling is a key role in how damage in individual cell function relates to the decline in function of entire systems. A disruption of a few processes may crosswalk to disrupting a cascade of other functions. Many of these signal disruptions caused by chronic CMV, HIV, and EBV infections lead to the upregulated inflamation in aged people by directly and indirectly modulating a variety of processes. A study was done in humans comparing cytokine production in CMV-negative and CMV-positive elderly and adult (Immune-nonhuman np). A compound, phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) was given to elderly and adults with CMV and without CMV; the collected data showed different CD8, CD4, and cytokine behavior between the groups (Immune-nonhuman np). In aged CMV-negative individuals, T-cell produced higher levels of the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-6, IFN-y, and TNF-a upon longterm exposure to phorbol-12-myristate-13-acetate (Immune-nonhuman np). A later study confirmed the finding and added that CD8 T cells produced both type 1 (IFNy, IL6, TNF-a) and type 2 (IL4, IL6, IL10) cytokines; conversely in CD4 cells, there was a decrease in IFNy and TNF-a (Immune-nonhuman np). The findings in elderly CMV-positive individuals found a different trend in CD4/CD8 cytokine behavior. There was no increase in IL2 and IL4 but there was an increase in IFN-y and it is possible that the lack of IL2 and IL4 increase in CMV-positive idividuals contribute to the inflamation in the elderly and studies have shown that individuals with higher levels of inflamatory signals (chronic inflamation) are far more likely to die of age related diseases like heart disease/alzheimers than individuals without such characteristics.
One aspect of how chronic infections due to the cytomegalovirus may cause widespread malfunction is by modulating the mitochondria which is necessary for cell respiration. The virus produces a protein called vMIA which interacts with an endoplasmic reticulum molecule called Viperin (CMV-Vipirin). This results in the transport of viperin to the mitochondria where viperin interacts with mitochondrial proteins that is a part of pathways that catalyze B-oxidation of fatty acids that generate ATP. Studies on viperin suggest that normal B-oxidation is only affected by viperin with the iron-sulfer clusters which reduces the production of ATP (CMV-Vipirin np). Decreased ATP Production is associated with chronic inflamation of the liver other organs which is supported by studies on the motochondriopathies which are diseases that specifically result in abnormal mitochondrial function that results in ATP production that may exceed 30%. This results in swelling of organs and other life-threatening problems and so this observation may be the link between mutant mitochondria and the prevalent inflamation observed in the elderly.
Aging of the immune system is marked by higher risk of disease in several organis (lung, kidney, digestive, or nervous system) (Persistent-Viral-Infection np). According to Gladstone Institute, "HIV may serve as a model system for what we know about aging" (HIV-Premature-Aging np). Indeed people who are infected with HIV are dieing not so much from the directly effect of HIV on immune function but from the disease of aging "decades or two before earlier than their noninfected peers" (HIV-Premature-Aging). This is marked by having a much higher risk of having both heart attacks and strokes beginning when the individual is 50 as well as arthritis and dementia occuring decades before the average (HIV-Premature-Aging np). The trend is the same for the increased risk of cancer in HIV-infected individuals (HIV-Premature-Aging np).
Cancer is frequently observed in the elderly and rare seen in the young. At least partially, the immune system mediates apoptosis of early cancerous cells that randomly appear but in the elderly, the enviornment is such that the cell ignores internal and external signals to stop dividing. CMV and EBV is associated with lymphomas and carcinomas by modulating EBNA3A, EBNA3B, and EBNA3C (transcription regulators) that are responsible for transforming B cells into lymphoblastoid cells; in individuals with EBV, these oncogenes are upregulated resulting in repression of the pathways responsible for senescence like p16mk4A and pl4ARF (EBNA38-Deficent-Promotes-Cancer np). Recent studies are confirming confirming the idea of signal disruption that is characteristic of chronic viral infections in a study on cancer that is entirely independent of chronic infections caused by the Epstein-Barr virus and yet there is a strong pattern between cancer and EBV from many sourses (CD19-EBV np). The researchers in this case is using a virus to stop the cancer (that is most likely caused by another virus) by engineering T-cells (using a virus) that could detect CD19 expressed on the surface of B-cells. The result is that the T-cells destroyed the cancerous B-cells.
Alzheimer's is a chronic neurogenerative disease that results in cognitive impairment and death. It is known to be caused by the build up of beta amyloid and neurofibilary tangles. Studies have shown that microgial cells in the brain attempt to engulf the build up of amyloid but is eventually overwhelmed. There is strong evidence to suggest that chronic viral infections of the herpese family (HSV1, HSV2, CMV, HHV6) plays a significant role in Alzheimer's disease confirmed by PCR analysis in CMV infected alzheimer individuals and CMV infected elderly individuals without alzheimers; the data shows that CMV-infected elderly individuals with a certain allele of a lipoprotein (apolilipoprotein E allele type 4) are at a much higher risk of getting Alzheimer's than CMV-infected individuals without the allele (Herpesvirus-Alzheimer's np). In addition, nonallele specific HHV6 infections is present in 70% of individuals with Alzheimers suggesting that it contributes largely to the disease (Herpesvirus-Alzheimer's np).
The overall system malfunction induced by CMV and EBV is also a frequent subject on the internet from desperate people seeking help and according to an individual, ""I was diagnosed with both EBV and CMV simultaneously 3 years ago (at 17), and have never been the same since. I was nearly bed-ridden for the better part of six months. Since then, I have had ongoing issues with my spleen, severe chronic fatigue, auto-immune issues, and joint pain/inflammation. I have a positive ANA and an elevated Sed Rate. Most recently I've been dealing with dizziness, shortness of breath, rapid heart rate, and anxiety"; the forum post is followed with a long list of CMV/EBV carriers experiencing the same problems.
1. (CMV Impairs immune Function)http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1002849\
2. (DNA Vaccinations)http://link.springer.com.mutex.gmu.edu/article/10.1007%2Fs00262-011-1107-2
3. (Thymus Involution https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC189556/
4. (Thymus-Common-Target )http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.0020062
5. (CMV-Vipirin-ppt) https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=ca ... hKt6L2xXwQ
6. (CMV-Induces-Vipirn) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21527675
7. (Persistant Viral Infections) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8538/
8. (HIV-Premature-Aging) http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/HI ... 893804.php
9. (DNA-Damage-Responce) http://www.nature.com.mutex.gmu.edu/nat ... 08467.html
10. (EBNA38-Deficent-Promotes-Cancer) http://search.proquest.com.mutex.gmu.ed ... /993084780
11. (EBV-CMV-Simultaneously) http://www.healingwell.com/community/de ... &m=1245667
12. (STOX1A-Alzheimers) http://www.sciencedirect.com.mutex.gmu. ... 4012012335
13. (Transhumanity-Ethics)
http://transhumanity.net/articles/entry ... se-ofaging
14. (The-Scientist) http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles. ... ls-Cancer/
15. (Science-Mag) http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2 ... tml?ref=hp
16. (Immune-nonhuman) http://www.sciencedirect.com.mutex.gmu. ... 6510001944
17. (CD8-Old-Population) http://www.sciencedirect.com.mutex.gmu. ... 6507001271
18. (Dementia-CMV)
http://www.ehealthme.com/cs/dementia+al ... +infection
19. (Fight-Aging) https://www.fightaging.org/archives/201 ... -aging.php
20. (Immunity-Ageing)http://www.immunityageing.com/content/7/1/13
21. (CMV-Inflamation-Cardiovascular) http://aje.oxfordjournals.org.mutex.gmu ... /172/4/372
22. (CD19-EBV) http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15679866
23. (Herpesvirus-Alzheimer's) http://ingentaconnect.com/content/jws/p ... 3/art01127
Why Do We Age?
Nature vs Nurture in Animal Behavior
Sorry, I didn't read the essay, but for sure scientific papers include introduction part from very broad range to your own topic (e.g. in my case I'd say what are cytokinins, how is it with cis-zeatin, metabolism of cytokinins and then what is known about zeatin isomerase; all this in introduction). That's because someone who is not familiar with the topic (either professional working with other proteins or student starting research with cytokinins) will read it, he or she needs some up-to-date introduction. This will also show your point of view and opinion about previous research. There are many free scientific papers at www.pubmed.com so if you want to check out what it looks like just go ahead. Maybe try some topic you're not so familiar with and you'll see how important the introduction is.
Anyway, your essay is only theoretical, right? You didn't do any research on your own, did you? In that case it's kind of introduction-only.
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
Re: Bio Research Paper Writing
Writing is a form of general and specific information for the student, its all bout research and dept involvement for paper writing help. It can be the best solution for the student.
Re: Bio Research Paper Writing
An objective of organizing a research paper is to allow people to read your work selectively. When I research a topic, I may be interested in just the methods, a specific result, the interpretation, or perhaps I just want to see a summary of the paper to determine if it is relevant to my study. To this end, many journals require the following sections, submitted in the order listed, each section to start on a new page. There are variations of course. Some journals call for a combined results and discussion, for example, or include materials and methods after the body of the paper. The well known journal Science does away with separate sections altogether, except for the abstract.
Your papers are to adhere to the form and style required for the Journal of Biological Chemistry, requirements that are shared by many journals in the life sciences. Check this link hope it will help you.
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"Band Camp"-style concert at Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport closer to a reality
JANESVILLE—Plans for an August concert at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport are moving forward.
On Tuesday, Rock County Airport Director Ron Burdick updated members of the Rock County Board Public Works Committee on what could be a Band Camp-type concert at the airport.
"We do not have a contract with them yet," Burdick said after the meeting. "We hope to have something to bring to our meeting in April."
The concert would be put on by Madison radio station WJJO. The station previously held the hard rock Band Camp concert at Willow Island, adjacent to the Alliant Energy Center in Madison.
Last year's event Aug. 17 attracted more than 10,000 people. Headlining acts included Sevendust, Jackyl, Pop Evil, Asking Alexandria and Nonpoint.
WJJO had approached the county about having the concert at the airport last year, but public safety officials nixed the idea, saying they didn't have enough to time to gather information and plan for the event.
"We wanted to talk with Dane County authorities," said Capt. Jude Maurer of the Rock County Sheriff's Office. "We wanted to know what kind of crowd it was, were there a lot of calls for service, were there a lot of heat-related injuries, fights, vandalism complaints, other injuries or people who were too intoxicated to care for themselves."
This year, concert organizers "reached out to us much earlier," Maurer said.
Officials from the Janesville Fire Department, the Janesville Police Department and the Rock County Sheriff's Office met with concert organizers recently and had many of their concerns addressed, Maurer said.
The problems "weren't so far out of the ordinary that they would tax public safety system."
Public works committee member Brent Fox said he was "cautiously optimistic" that the concert could go forward.
"It sounds positive, and it will probably happen," Fox said. "The county as rented out the airport before."
Fox hopes it does, saying the "trickle down economic impact" would be significant.
Previously, a WJJO representative said that it would be inaccurate to call the event "Band Camp" and said that at this point the concert had no name.
Maurer said that when public safety officials met with concert organizers, they repeatedly referred to the proposed event at the airport as "Band Camp."


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Which new features do you want the most?
I would like to be able to add a note to a tea on my shopping list, since I wouldn't really add a "tasting note". It would be nice to add notes to teas in the cupboard, too.
I know this might have been asked….but can the rating scale show the score we are giving the tea as we slide it left or right? It would be easier to give an accurate score this way.
I'm new, so I could be out of the loop, but anyway, I think it'd be good if the website noticed that you've reviewed a number of things that someone else has and would then suggest you follow them. Also, somehow making the "related teas" feature more comprehensive could be really helpful, but I don't know if you'd do it by notes or by ingredients, then. For example, technically, a lot of teas could be related to a relatively straight-up black tea, so ingredients may not be that reliable a way to do it, but sometimes people get such different notes that you couldn't really do it by notes either, because people would disagree and it would ruin it. I think the site could learn a lot from Fragrantica, a site a bit like this but about perfume. If you have a look at this page as an example http://www.fragrantica.com/perfume/L-Artisan-Parfumeur/Havana-Vanille-6745.html, you can see that one part has the company-listed notes (tea equivalent would be ingredients) and then next to it are the notes as picked up by users (tea equivalent could be user-rated notes/flavours). I think it's also good how at the top of each fragrance page, they have a scent profile ranking. This could apply to tea ( a tea could have for example grassy at the top, then maybe spicy underneath, with fruity after that). Users can also place votes on similar fragrances that the product reminds them of, which people can then click on and investigate themselves. A great feature is the large side section of related perfumes. Here they do it by notes instead of name, but that's easier to apply to perfume than tea.
This is a lot of stuff, but I thought it'd be good to put out there just to toss some ideas around. These ideas are useful on Fragrantica because they allow users to more easily classify the product, consider if it was/will be right for them, compare it to what they might already like/have, etc. I think that's really good for users, and it could be applied here.
Also, when you search a term, it'd be really cool to be able to view the results in different ways, like the highest rated ones first or something.
when we are searching for a tea, it should take special characters as similar as a classic one. E.g. Thé du Japon and The du Japon should send to the same tea…today we can only find the way it was entered first. Sometimes I think a tea isn't in the database because I type Noel (as I think an English writer would type it with his qwerty keyboard and it is sometimes, but not all the times, entered à la française Noël)
This is a good idea! It also makes it easier for those of us who don't speak French and therefore don't know what all the little accents are. Not understanding them make them super-difficult to remember.
yes and it would work for other languages as in Danish you use letters like this one : ø , Germans use a lot of ö etc…
The idea is most of people can find out the teas without problem
I might be a bit too far in the back for anyone to see this but:
Adagio Teas has a very cool section of their website for blends. You name the blend, make a picture, choose the teas you want in it (and the %s of each tea). It's a cool way to show off what you like and how you like it. It would definitely be a cool feature to add to this site :D
It would be nice to have a program that allows up to track what we've drank in a given day without having to make a tasting note. I drink some teas 4/5 days a week so obviously am not going to make a tasting note. It would be nice to be able to look back and say "oh wow i really went through a green period" or whatever.
You can click the "write tasting note" button and then click "write something later" on the tasting note popup. That will log your tea without a tasting note so you don't have to worry about writing something every time.
We don't currently show teas consumed within a given time period, but if you're tracking that we'd have that data and be able to show it later down the road. Right now you can at least see how many times you've logged something though, which could still be useful.
I'm sure this may have been mentioned already since the thread is huge…either way, I want to have my say and suggest a Steepster App for iPhone and Android! So convenient and needed! :)
my few cents- I would love to see a "standard pantry" type list as part of/in addition to the cupboard list- so there is a way to track/show off what you fear running out of/rotate through regularly, as well as anything currently there- which could include passing fancy/gifted teas, and many not include all your favorites.
Also- perhaps a space to have a basic journal that is personal/not just tea notes? Would be nice, as another member stated above to track tea drinking habits, and I'd love to reflect on days with/without tea, among just seasonal observances.
I think having a cupboard tab option to separate True Teas and Herbals/tisanes might be nice too.


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Marilyn M. Goelzer, Madison, WI (1973-2013)
December 6, 1973 - December 26, 2013
Marilyn M. Goelzer, age 40, passed away unexpectedly of her chronic health conditions on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2013. She was born on Dec. 6, 1973, in Milwaukee, the daughter of Wesley and Judy (Olson) Bingenheimer. After graduating from Wild Rose High School in 1992, she received her B.A. from the University of South Florida and her master's degree from Cardinal Stritch. Marilyn was a member of the AOPi Sorority. As a young girl, she excelled in Girl Scouts, having earned the Gold Award. On July 1, 2006, Marilyn married Eric Goelzer, She worked as a special education teacher in Milwaukee Hamilton Middle School in Madison, and currently at Parker High School in Janesville. Marilyn had a very special bond with her students. She loved spending warm days outside with her family, dogs and doing jigsaw puzzles. Marilyn enjoyed all the simple pleasures life has to offer.
Marilyn is survived by her husband, Eric; her parents, Wesley and Judy Bingenheimer; step-sons, John and Matthew Goelzer; mother-in-law, Karen Goelzer-McKaig; her brother-in-law, Curt (Felicia) Goelzer; and many aunts, uncles, and cousins. She was preceded in death by her brother, Dave Bingenheimer; maternal step-grandfather, Jack Funk; aunt, Jolene (Olson) Eckl; and cousin, Daniel Olson.
Memorial Services were held at Gunderson East Funeral Home, Madison. Memorials may be made to the family for an education fund to be established for John, Marilyn's step-son, who is attending the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Online condolences may be made at www.gundersonfh.com.


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Death Notices for April 30, 2014
Erica M. Heberer, 41, Janesville, died Monday at University Hospital, Madison. A memorial visitation will be from 1 to 3 p.m. Monday at Schneider Apfel Schneider & Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Janesville.
Linda J. Luth, 62, Lake Geneva, died Monday at University Hospital, Madison. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Lake Geneva. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Steinke Funeral Home and Cremation Services, Lake Geneva, and from 10 a.m. until the time of services Friday at the church.
Stephen M. Sukup, 38, Beloit, died Thursday at Beloit Memorial Hospital, Beloit. Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Whitcomb-Lynch Funeral Home, Janesville. Visitation will be from noon until the time of services Friday at the funeral home.


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Georgia May (Edmundson) Honeysett, Janesville, WI (1934-2013)
October 4, 1934 - November 11, 2013
Georgia May (Edmundson) Honeysett, age 79, of Janesville, passed away Monday, Nov. 11, 2013, at Heartwarming House, Milton, following a long struggle with Parkinson's Disease. She was born Oct. 4, 1934, in Janesville, the daughter of the late Delbert and Flossie (Bouton) Edmundson. She was a graduate of Beloit Memorial High School. Georgia and her husband of 60 years, Ralph W. Honeysett, were the longtime proprietors of Honeysett's Variety Store in Footville, and she also operated The Handy Horseman Tack Shop in that same location. She loved spending time with her horses for all of her life, and was an active member of the Golden Valley Riders and the Rock County 4-H Horse Project. She spent many years as a scout leader for the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, and also the Explorers. For recreation, when not riding, she enjoyed line dancing, trick roping, dominoes, and was an excellent seamstress. Her family and friends recall times spent with her as she shared her love of horses, and gave many their first horseback ride! Georgia started the Footville Village Rummage Sale so she wouldn't miss a bargain! She was a longtime member of First Christian Church in Janesville.
Surviving Georgia to cherish her memory are her beloved husband, Ralph; her six children: Linda Honeysett, Connie (Steve) Udell, Robert (Jevie) Honeysett, Cathy (James) Smith, Roger Honeysett, and Craig (Donna) Honeysett; 13 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; her sister, Karen White; her brother, Ray Edmundson; her sister-in-law, Carol Demert; and many, many nieces, nephews, and friends.
Memorial Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 15, 2013, at FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 1909 Highland Ave., with Rev DeeAnn Woods officiating. Private interment will take place in Grove Cemetery, Center Township. Friends may call on Thursday evening from 5 until 7 p.m. at the WHITCOMB-LYNCH FUNERAL HOME & CREMATION SERVICES, or on Friday morning from 10 until 10:30 a.m. at the CHURCH.
Georgia's family would like to extend their sincerest thanks and appreciation to the wonderful, caring staffs of Agrace HospiceCare, Inc. and Heartwarming House for their care and compassion shown to Georgia during her final weeks.
Whitcomb-Lynch Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Inc.
21 S. Austin Rd., (608)752-2444


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Sb1 FCU Names Community Banker as New CEO
The $603 million Sb1 Federal Credit Union in Philadelphia has named a veteran community banker as its new president/CEO.
Robert Werner was executive vice president and chief operating officer at Two River Community Bank in Middletown, N.J.
Werner succeeds Tom Swierzy, who will retire in July after 31 years at the helm of the 32,100-member Philadelphia credit union.
"Rob's respected management style and significant executive abilities, combined with his skills as a communicator and motivator, will ensure that he has the ideal background to take Sb1 to the next level. For these reasons and more, I know Sb1 is in good hands," Gloria Wilson, Sb1 board chair, said Thursday in the credit union's announcement.
Werner has more than 25 years of diverse management experience in financial services, his new employer said, and most recently helped his New Jersey bank grow to more than $700 million in assets while launching a new website and other banking services and consolidating 14 departments from four locations into a new headquarters.
His industry affiliations include chairing the Community Lenders CDC and the Pennsylvania Bankers Association Service Corporation, SB1 said in its announcement.