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Irrefutable Facts Against Evolution
Discussion of everything related to the Theory of Evolution.
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I never said Dawkins is an idiot. Stop putting words in my mouth.
Bro, you speak for yourself, not everyone else. No one else made you their speaker.
Debate the facts bro. That is the purpose of this forum. You are trying to stop the debate and intimidate me off of this forum. Im not going anywhere. If its anyone who needs to go, its you who keeps trying to insult people.
Go eat some pie or something.
I would appreciate you could be true to your word, and go bash your head against a rock.
-facts, observed events, plausible explanations, and solid evidence
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As I and others have said, debate with ignorant people is futile and not worth our time.
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What's this stuff about pie? Does eating pie represent something bad for creationists? Pie is good, isn't it? OK, I'm not too crazy about rhubarb pie.
You realize, that the circle is quite interesting, because it would mean, that we move these 5% closer and 5% futher from sun? So we should burn and freeze twice a year
Can you explain more your math?
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
It really isnt something I'm soming up with, but a response to Gavin's video.
Basically, our present path around the sun aides in the passage of seasons. As we know, the path is elliptical and, at both far ends of the ellipse, we move farther away from the sun. However, this is not what I am referring to.
I will make myself clear with this: If the shape of our current path were expanded or contracted 5%, then we would either freeze or overheat.
I must admit this: I should look up the figure, if there is any, to see if mine compares. I was merely using this as a rebuttal to Gavin's video. In the video, the (presumed) evolutionist is insulting a creationist on his estimate in saying that if we move 5%, we would either burn or freeze. The evolutionists responded to this by saying that the reality of the creationists distance was 35%, or 50 billion meters. He essentially sais that 50 billion meters is 35% of our distance from the sun. 50 billion meters=80 million miles. Our distance from the sun is 92 million miles. 80 million miles is far above the 35%, and far above the distance this planet would need to move in order to overheat or freeze.
As a comparison, I offered the 5% creationists estimate in the video, which was 4.6 million miles. The 5% is not my math, but the one from the video. I was simply bringing clarification where the evolutionist had his math wrong and misinterpreted the 5%.
-facts, observed events, plausible explanations, and solid evidence
Tomm, your conversion from the metric went the wrong way. 50 billion metres is about 31 million miles, which is about ⅓ the distance to the sun. By "habitable zone", scientists mean habitable for life, not specifically human life. Bacteria have been found living in hot springs and Antarctic ice.
Tomn, you do not hesitate to lie about such easily findable thing?
The distance of Earth from Sun differs in accordance to where Earth is, but let's say, it is about 150 000 000 km far away. (I write it fully because of the confusion between American and British billion) How much of it is 35%? The answer is here. How much is it? Ah, yeah, about 50 000 000 km AKA 50 billions meters.
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
In addition to what Jackbean has already said:
First of all, the distance between the Earth and Sun has been changing over time: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090331021903AAGTAqk
Second of all, to say that all conditions are perfect for life to exist on Earth is a selection bias. If conditions were not so, then either we wouldn't be around to make such a statement, or life could have evolved to adapt to these conditions. From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle): "Critics argue in favor of a weak anthropic principle (WAP) similar to the one defined by Brandon Carter (see variants), which states that the universe's ostensible fine tuning is the result of selection bias, i.e. in the long term, only survivors can observe and report their location in time and space".
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First I want to start off by reminding you that evolution and Darwinism are two different things, even though Darwinism is based off of evolving. It seemed to me when I was reading your replies, that you may not remember that. I also need to remind you, that evolution is the conclusion of almost all scientific data, and has basically been used to "prove" other theories wrong. No, evolution is not proven, it is based on scientific research. You cannot base a drawing on a tree, and then say that the tree is proof that your drawing exists.. if you get my drift? So technically, Tomn, your attempts to scientifically disprove evolution are in vain, and I say that as a fellow christian. Simply accept that the way to view evolution, is as conclusion of data, and not as a theory people may use to disprove your religion. Thank you for fighting so hard, but really you're just fighting in vain. Must I remind you you're in a thread full of scientists, teachers and experts? You cannot disprove science with science. Don't try it again, alright? The "theory" of evolution adapts, it is not one solid theory. It is based off of (most likely) thousands of other theories.. So even if you disprove a single theory, you still have four thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine more to go.
Sources? No sources, but look this information up yourself.
-14 year old kid
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HERE ARE JUST 12 POINTS THAT ARE EXTRA ORDINARY- That Show the Bible is Accurate... Of the thousands of evidence, here is what I love the most..................
Either what JESUS said was false, and you can dismiss the information, OR, if he was telling the truth, there IS a HEAVEN or Hell waiting for us. God LOVED US all so much, Jesus suffered the eternal fire for us...
1. The Bible is Divinely inspired. It touches on an astounding remarkable amount evidence of History ,Science, Mathematics AND Medicine to the finest detail. It also has embedded Numeral Mathematics within the words, as well as THOUSANDS of Bible codes threaded within and throughout the BIBLE. (The Bible Codes and Mathematics only work in the original word of the Bible, not the modern translations) How can you possibly write a book (of 40 authors) that reads on the surface fluently, and has THOUSANDS of Modern Bible Codes, AND on top of that Multiple places of Mathematics present?
2. Jesus had to be born through a particular family line as it was prophecied in the Old Testiment. Jesus would have NO CONTROL over that. They have calculated the odds of that actually happening - 10 To the 2nd Power (1 in 10,000) Jesus would be a Descendant of David
3.Prophecy Tells US GOD Picked the City of Bethlehem for The Messiah to be Born in. Jesus would have No CONTROL over this. They calculated the odds of this - 10 to 5th Power (1 Chance in 100,000) Jesus would be born in Bethlehem
4.The Uniqueness of God is shown in his consistency. In everything he does, he wants to lead people TO HIM. For 1000 years followers of the holy Bible Scriptures came to Bethlehem and celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles. In Leviticus 23 it tells us those people, as well as many Chrstians today are to celebrate this festival in humble ways such as living in tents remembering what the deliverance of Gods people out of slavery in Egypt, in the exodus. AND ASTONISHINGLY, Faithful believers knew that their Messiah would be born DURING this festival in Bethlehem. They knew someday their messiah would be born during this festival. AND HE WAS!! It is amazing that Gods Festivals all SIGNIFY important events in history that show himself. Jesus will COME BACK on Feast of Trumpets some day. So we watch for that day at the Mount of Olives.
5. An astonishing 668 prophecies have been fulfilled and none have ever been proven false . An honest study of biblical prophecy will compellingly show the divine authorship of the Bible. Jesus fulfilled over 300 messianic prophecies written in the Old Testament scriptures. Prophecies have come to pass regarding events around the world. Isn't that amazing?
6. There are 2,000 prophecies that discuss past events which have come to pass (proven correct), future prophecies and 300 prophecies (ALL proven correct and detailed) on the implications about the life, INCLUDING the death, and resurrection of Jesus. No other religion has specific, repeated, and unfailing fulfillment of predictions many years in advance of contingent events over which the predictor had no control.Buddha didn't rise from the dead, nor did Confucius or Zoroaster. Muhammad didn't fulfill detailed prophecy. Alexander the Great didn't raise the dead or heal the sick. And though there is far less reliable information written about these "religious" leaders, they are believed in and followed by millions.
7. The Messiah would have had 456 identifying characteristics. Jesus had them all.
8.Professor Emeritus of Science at Westmont College, Peter Stoner, has calculated the probability of one man fulfilling the major prophecies made concerning the Messiah. Twelve different classes representing some 600-university students worked out the estimates. 1 in (10 157POWER) that one man could fulfill even 48 (F O U R T Y - e i g h t ) of these Old Testament prophecies.
JUST REMEMBER THAT JESUS FULLFILLED OVER 300! Finally, he submitted his figures for review to a committee of the American Scientific Affiliation. Upon examination, they verified that his calculations were dependable and accurate in regard to the scientific material presented (Peter Stoner, Science Speaks, Chicago: Moody Press, 1969, 4).
9. Jesus DID NOT manipulate events to fulfill prophecy Such as The Place of the Messiah's birth (Micah 5:2). , The Date of the Messiah's birth (Daniel 9:25). Manner of birth of the Messiah (Isaiah 7:14), The Manner of death of the Messiah (Zechariah 12:10; Psalm 22:16 prophesied before the invention of crucifixion). , Piercing in side of that Messiah (Zechariah 12:10).The Details of the Burial of the Messiah(Isaiah 53:9).Executers dividing up Jesus's clothes after he died on the cross
10. MILLIONS of Muslims are seeing dreams of JESUS and ARE Converting to Christianity. It shows that Yeshua Jesus cares about ALL people, and wants NONE to parish.
11. AN EARTHQUAKE and an Eclipse Happened while Jesus was dying on the cross...Sited by MANY NON Biblical Sources (13 in total) It did HAPPEN! The darkness was noted all around the world! It happened from 12 noon to 3 pm when Jesus died.
12. The Holy Temple Had A Curtain Seperating the Holy Place where GOD dwelled. At the Very moment of Jesus's Death the Curtain was torn in half. The Remarkable thing, CHECK out the measurments of this Curtain- The curtain was 60 feet in height, 30 feet in width and 4 inches thick
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This article is the second in a series on a rapidly-evolving area of patent law: determining the "reasonable and non-discriminatory" (RAND) royalty rate for licensing a standard-essential U.S. patent. Part 1 identified the key issues and underlying policy in setting the RAND royalty rate.
The first case in the United States to set the F/RAND patent royalty was Microsoft Corp. v. Motorola, Inc., in the Western District of Washington. There, Microsoft brought an action in 2010 for declaratory judgment that Microsoft was a third-party beneficiary of Motorola's RAND commitments to the IEEE and ITU for two groups of SEPs, and Motorola breached its contractual obligation to license those patents to Microsoft on RAND terms. The court determined as an initial matter in 2012 that Microsoft was a third-party beneficiary and therefore able to enforce the RAND promises that Motorola made. The parties agreed that the asserted claims were standard-essential, leaving the determination of the RAND royalty rate, and a RAND royalty range, within which RAND offers must lie or be presumptively non-RAND.
After a week-long bench trial with testimony from 18 witnesses, including technical and economic experts, Judge Robart issued a detailed, 207-page order on April 25, 2013, setting the RAND royalty rate for Motorola's IEEE 802.11 standard-essential patents at 3.471 cents per unit, and 0.555 cents per unit for the patents covering the ITU H.264 video compression standard. Judge Robart broke new legal ground in reaching this result, in which the court modified traditional Georgia-Pacific (GP) factors used for years in patent cases in order to determine the appropriate RAND royalty ranges.
Ultimately, Judge Robart's modifications attempted to accomplish two primary purposes: ensure the parties to the hypothetical negotiation clearly understood the RAND commitment, and consider the value of the patented technology apart from the value associated with its incorporation to the standard involved (IEEE 802.11 for example) (i.e., excise the hold-up value).
For example, GP factor 1 traditionally examines royalties received by the patentee for licensing the patent-in-suit. However, as modified by Judge Robart, any past royalty rates must have been negotiated under a clearly understood RAND obligation. GP factor 4 traditionally considers the licensor's established policy and marketing program to maintain its patent monopoly by not licensing to others. As modified by Judge Robart, this factor is inapplicable because a licensor that has made a RAND commitment has an obligation to license on RAND terms and may no longer maintain a patent monopoly. Similarly, GP factor 5, which examines the commercial relationship between the licensor and licensee, is not applicable in a RAND context because a licensor is not allowed to discriminate against competitors once it has made a RAND commitment. GP factors 6, 8, 10, 11 and 13 each traditionally consider, in some form or fashion, the importance and/or benefits of the patented invention. However, under Judge Robart's modified structure, an effort must be made to separate the patented technology from the value associated with the incorporation of the patented technology into the standard (i.e., excising the hold-up value).
A few months later, Judge Holderman, presiding over In re Innovatio IP Ventures, LLC Patent Litigation in the Northern District of Illinois, set the RAND rate at 9.56 cents per unit for a portfolio of 17 patents that he found were standard-essential for the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi standard.
This RAND decision resulted from two bench trials. The first bench trial determined which of the hundreds of asserted patent claims were standard-essential, the first such proceeding in the country. The court determined that all of the asserted claims were standard-essential. The second bench trial determined the RAND royalty rate. Judge Holderman essentially used the same RAND-modified Georgia-Pacific factors used by Judge Robart.
However, the real battle in the Innovatio case was fought on the issue of what the appropriate royalty base should be. Defendants maintained that the appropriate royalty base was the Wi-Fi chip, because all the features of the 802.11 standard are implemented on the Wi-Fi chip, and the law requires apportionment to at least the smallest-saleable patent practicing unit (i.e., the Wi-Fi chip). Not surprisingly, Innovatio argued the appropriate royalty base were the various accused end products (access points, computers, printers, etc.). Innovatio's argument was that many of the asserted claims read on systems and methods involving apparatuses beyond the Wi-Fi chip, such as access points, antennas, processors, keyboards, etc.
Ultimately, defendants won the day on this issue, which set the stage for the court's ultimate determination of the RAND rate. Several corroborative approaches were presented by defendants to arrive at the RAND rate, but the court ultimately chose a "top-down approach," which identified the Wi-Fi chip as the smallest-saleable patent practicing unit, and then attempted to further apportion down to the patented features. Specifically, the top-down approach involved identifying the maximum royalty burden per unit by taking the average price of Wi-Fi chips during the damages period and multiplying that number by the average operating profit. The court also accounted for the value of the patents-in-suit as compared to the 802.11 standard and ultimately found the RAND rate to be 9.56 cents per unit. The exact method of calculation and numbers in support are provided in Judge Holderman's written opinion.
Part 3 of this series will evaluate the lessons learned from the Microsoft and Innovatio decisions and provide practical advice should you or your company find yourself in patent litigation with F/RAND damages issues.

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Firebug 1.10 Extension Architecture
Firebug 1.10 introduces support for bootstrapped extensions and also new APIs for extensions. This page is intended to document these new APIs.
Firebug 1.10 supports three concepts that can be used when developing an extension:
- XUL Based Extensions
- Bootstrapped Extensions
- AMD Extensions
XUL Based Extensions[edit]
XUL represents an old school technique and Firebug has always supported this ways of extending. The main difference from the bootstrapped extensions is that you need to restart the browser whenever your extension is installed or uninstalled.
- Hello World example is available
- A tutorial is available
Important thing related to XUL based extension is to understand scopes. First see the next diagram.
There are two scopes that are relevant to extension development.
- Browser Window: use this scope when overlaying browser UI. Your extension might want to append new button into Firefox toolbar or create, create a new menu items, etc.
- Firebug UI: this is the scope mostly used by Firebug extension, use it whenever you want to extend Firebug. Your extension might want to crate a new Firebug panel, etc.
Note that Firebug 1.10 introduces a new feature called Delayed Load. This means that overlays applied to
chrome://firebug/content/firebugOverlay.xul are loaded the first time the Firebug UI is actually opened by the user. This way loading doesn't slow down Firefox start up time.
Also, the global Firebug object is available since Firefox start even if Firebug is not fully loaded yet, but contains only a small set of APIs.
Bootstrapped Extensions[edit]
Support for bootstrapped extensions has been introduced in Firebug 1.10. There are (at least) three entities you'll be dealing with when developing basic structure of a bootstrapped (restart-less) extension.
bootstrap.js- Every Firefox bootstrapped extension needs to provide a bootstrap.js file that is expected to implement basic functions like: install, uninstall, startup, shutdown. In case of a Firebug extension further functions like: firebugStartup, firebugFrameLoad, etc. are expected. These functions/callbacks are automatically executed to allow proper initialization/shutdown of the extension.
FirebugLoader- is a component
resource://firebug/loader.jsthat distributes events to all Firebug bootstrapped extensions.
Firebug- The Firebug object
See following sequence diagram:
- When Firebug itself is loaded (bootstrapped), FirebugLoader fires an firebugStartup event. This is the moment when the extension can register itself as a listener for further events by calling registerBootstrappScope function.
- Later when the user requires Firebug for the first time, the firebugFrameLoad callback is executed. The callback has one parameter the Firebug object. This is also the time when overlays applied to
chrome://firebug/content/firebugOverlay.xulare loaded.
- If the extension is using AMD, it can register itself as by calling Firebug.registerExtension (see further AMD Extensions chapter)
Following Firebug related callbacks can be implemented in bootstrap.js file:
firebugStartup()- called when Firebug is bootstrapped
firebugShutdown()- called when Firebug is uninstalled
topWindowLoad(win)- called when a new browser window is opened
topWindowUnload(win)- called when an existing browser window is closed
firebugFrameLoad(Firebug)- called when Firebug UI is loaded into an existing browser window
firebugFrameUnload(Firebug)- called when Firebug UI is unloaded from an existing browser window
An example of bootstrapped Firebug extension is available.
AMD Extensions[edit]
This technique (Asynchronous Module Definition) is related to how code of your extension is organized. It can be used together with XUL based or bootstrapped extensions. Using AMD in your extension is recommended since it helps to organize your code into modules, properly maintain dependencies and use external modules such as those provided by Firebug framework.
Typical example of a Firebug module can as follows:
function (FBTrace) {
var myModuleObject =
myFunction: function()
FBTrace.sysout("My function executed!");
return myModuleObject;
- The module specifies one dependency: firebug/lib/trace modules (Firebug tracing)
- The module implement one object with one function that is also returned from the module
- See more about AMD syntax.
Extensions based on AMD can use Firebug's built-in module loader and also APIs that automatically load entire extension.
AMD & XUL Overlay[edit]
First see how to register our AMD based extension from a XUL overlay.
An overlay applied to
<?xml version="1.0"?> <overlay xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"> <script type="application/x-javascript" src="firebugOverlay.js"/> </overlay>
The firebugOverlay.js represents extension's entry point.
var config = {id: "firstname.lastname@example.com"};
Firebug.registerExtension("helloworld", config);
- The extension registers itself within Firebug framework
- The extension uses an ID coming from install.rdf
- The registration will automatically look for main module and load it
Bootstrap & AMD[edit]
In case of bootstrapped extension the entry point isn't a XUL overlay, but bootstrap.js file. Again we need to make sure that Firebug.registerExtension is called. See the following shortened example:
function firebugFrameLoad(Firebug)
var config = {id: "email@example.com"};
Firebug.registerExtension("helloworld", config);
function firebugFrameUnload(Firebug)
if (!Firebug.isInitialized)
- firebugFrameLoaded is called when an instance of Firebug is loaded (happens when the user opens Firebug for the first time). There is one instance of Firebug per browser window.
- Again, we are using ID coming from install.rdf
- Since, it's bootstrapped extension we need to also handle uninstall and disable so, unregister the extension in these cases.
- The registration will automatically look for main module and load it
Main Module[edit]
As soon as the extension is registered, Firebug is looking for main module and loads it. Here is an example of such module.
function(FBTrace) {
var theApp =
initialize: function()
// TODO: Extension initialization
shutdown: function()
// TODO: Unregister all registered Firebug components
return theApp;
- Any initialization logic should be done in initialize function.
- Unregistering all registered components (Firebug panels, Firebug modules, listeners, etc.) should be done in shutdown.
Let's advance our example a little bit with a new Firebug panel. Of course, its implementation is done as another AMD module.
function(FBL) {
var MyPanel = function MyPanel() {};
MyPanel.prototype = FBL.extend(Firebug.Panel,
name: "helloworldpanel",
title: "Hello World!",
return MyPanel;
This module can be consequently imported into our main module as follows.
function(FBTrace, MyPanel) {
var theApp =
initialize: function()
shutdown: function()
return theApp;
Module URL[edit]
A module needs to be identified by and ID (usually a path/url) to be loaded so, let's see how the path is generated in case of Firebug. First, see a directory structure of an example extension (based on standard Firefox extension structure).
- Hello - chrome - content main.js myPanel.js + locale + skin bootstrap.js chrome.manifest install.rdf
The important part (related to module URLs) is done in
chrome.manifest file.
content helloworld chrome/content/ skin helloworld classic/1.0 chrome/skin/classic/ locale helloworld en-US chrome/locale/en-US/
- This is the standard way how to map extension's directories to
- The first line maps our content directory to:
- So, for example, URL of the main.js file is:
Now what Firebug does.
- Firebug module loader creates AMD shortcut mapping:
<extid> := "chrome://" + extid + "/content"
- So, expected ID of the main module is:
An example of bootstrapped Firebug extension based on AMD is available.
Miscellaneous API[edit]
This section describes other miscellaneous extension API introduced in Firebug 1.10
Toolbar API[edit]
- Issue 4793: API for extending Firebug toolbars
- Example extension available
- HelloBootAMD example showing bootstrapped and AMD based extension
- CommonJS AMD
- Hello World example showing XUL based extension.
- Extending Firebug tutorial
- Toolbar example showing Toolbar API (bootstrapped and AMD based)


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- The organism inhabits this environment or ecoregion.
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Samsung ramps venture efforts, Valley office
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MENLO PARK, Calif.--The desert climate for semiconductor startups saw a new cloud on its horizon as Samsung announced plans to increase funding for component technologies. The $188 billion South Korean giant opened a $100 million seed fund, increased its corporate venture fund to $1 billion and officially opened an office here to help manage its efforts.
In recent years, venture capital has fled to online services and software, where startups need less money and promise larger returns faster. The trend has left many hardware startups, especially in semiconductors, groping for funds.
"Silicon Valley is the epicenter of disruptive forces, and we want to make sure we are part of it, said Young Sohn, a veteran Valley executive who leads Samsungs new Strategy and Innovation Center here. A number of investors are running away from basic science, semiconductors, materials and display infrastructure, but we want to make sure those things are well supported."
Sohn was hired in August to start the center which now has small offices here and in Israel. It plans other offices in cities that may include Austin, Boston and Cambridge, England.
The group will not be an incubator, but act to encourage innovations Samsung can leverage. It also will take a role in acquisitions and provide a bridge to Samsung technologists in South Korea.
The new $100 million Samsung Catalyst Fund will focus on seed investments mainly in component technologies across sectors such as cloud infrastructure, mobile privacy, mobile health, user interfaces and the Internet of Things. A separate Samsung Ventures fund now has more than $1 billion under management, did 20 deals worth $160 million in 2012 and will invest more this year, Sohn said.
"Every year we add more money to the venture fund, and it is probably one of the top three corporate venture funds in America now," he said.


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Diversity just doesn't seem to be Silicon Valley's forte, but some of the largest tech companies in the U.S. have released employment statistics in order to spur diversity growth. First it was Google, then it was Yahoo and LinkedIn, and now Apple has released numbers saying that its global workforce is predominantly male and predominantly white.
Apple released a post on the company website on August 12 detailing the gender and racial breakdowns of their workforce. 55 percent of Apple's employees are white, while the next highest racial group is Asian at 15 percent. Meanwhile, 70 percent of the company's workforce worldwide is male.
The differences become even more pronounced when looking at the company's leadership. Apple reports that 64 percent of its leadership is white, and 72 percent of its leadership is male.
"Let me say up front: As CEO, I'm not satisfied with the numbers on this page," Apple CEO Tim Cook wrote in the blog post accompanying the statistics. "They're not new to us, and we've been working hard for quite some time to improve them. We are making progress, and we're committed to being as innovative in advancing diversity as we are in developing our products."
New event looks to close technology gender gap
ABA nominates Brown as first woman of color president
Littler survey indicates despondent employees increasingly willing to sue
Cook detailed some of the efforts that Apple is taking to increase diversity in the company, including working to bring technology to economically disadvantaged schools and sponsoring technology-based learning programs for underrepresented segments of the population. Apple also promoted Sue Wagner to the company's board of directors in July.
"All around the world, our team at Apple is united in the belief that being different makes us better. We know that each generation has a responsibility to build upon the gains of the past, expanding the rights and freedoms we enjoy to the many who are still striving for justice," Cook said.
The numbers are nothing new — 70 percent is the proportion of male employees at Google as well — but the releases represent uncommon transparency for the technology sector. And judging from statements by Cook and other technology industry executives, diversity in hiring is a subject that will not go away any time soon.


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Braingle Games Disco Puzzle
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JANESVILLE--Charter Communications is changing to an all-digital format, and Janesville area customers must get the needed equipment for the switch by Tuesday, March 18.
Company officials in a news release said the switch would allow it to provide more than 200 high-definition channels, 10,000 video-on-demand options and faster Internet speeds.
Other communities to be switched March 18 are Albany, Brodhead, Edgerton, Evansville, Milton, New Glarus and Monroe.
As part of the upgrade process, customers must acquire Charter-issued digital set-top boxes for each of their televisions.
More than 90 percent of Charter customers in Wisconsin have adopted digital devices for at least one television in their home, according to a company release.
The digital boxes are available at no cost for one, two or five years, depending on the customer's programming package and other qualifying factors, according to the release.
Customers can request self-installation kits be shipped to their homes by calling 1-888-438-2427.
Professional installations can be scheduled for $29.99.
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"By removing outdated analog signals, we regain bandwidth in our network, enabling us to provide more HD channels and open the door to faster Internet speeds and future innovation," said Tom Rutledge, Charter president and CEO.
The company has invested more than $2 billion in infrastructure to make the transition, Rutledge said.
The transition will continue in other Wisconsin communities through late summer.
Charter already has upgraded to all digital in parts of Michigan, Missouri, Texas, California, South Carolina and Massachusetts. The company will upgrade all of its customers in 29 states by the end of 2014.
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SWAG names Nicole Reese executive director
EVANSVILLE�— Southern Wisconsin Agricultural Group has named a local agriculture teacher as its executive director.
Nicole Reese, agriculture teacher and Future Farmers of America adviser for Milton High School, will start her role with SWAG on Monday Jan. 20. She will be responsible for the nonprofit's daily communication duties and community outreach and presentations.
"We could not be more proud of being able to have her on board and are anxious for her to start," said Mike Larson, SWAG board president who helped select Reese for the position in November.
The board wanted someone who shares its commitment to educating the public about agriculture and someone who is well respected and versed in the agriculture industry.
Reese, a Wisconsin native, fits the criteria, Larson and John Morning, SWAG board member said.
Reese grew up on a dairy farm near Sheboygan Falls and is a former Alice in Dairyland.
She graduated from UW-Madison in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in agriculture education and earned her master's degree in educational leadership from Cardinal Stritch University.
Reese was recently awarded the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation's Young Farmer and Agriculturalist Excellence in Agriculture award. The winner is chosen based on their agriculture knowledge, leadership in the Farm Bureau and involvement in other organizations.
SWAG, a nonprofit organization, is hoping to raise $16 million to $20 million to build an agricultural complex that would sit on 217 acres at the southeastern corner of Highway 14 and County M on Evansville's east side.
The Agriculture Education and Innovation Complex would feature an agriculture exposition center, discovery center for interactive learning experiences and an agriculture campus for students of all ages.
SWAG also has offered to host the Rock County 4-H Fair at the facility.
At a November Blackhawk Technical College Board meeting, Reese told public attendees and potential investors she is excited to be part of an organization that is working to expand agricultural opportunities.
"I think by having all the youth groups and high schoolers come out there is a great opportunity to get more people involved in agriculture," Reese said.�


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Sound Off for Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2013
On snowplowing: I live in Rockport Ridge Subdivision. It's 2:30 Sunday afternoon, and most of the side streets in the city are plowed, but the plow hasn't been out here. It's like the more you pay the worse it gets in our wonderful city of Janesville.
-- Our new city manager has failed his first test here. Major snowfall in Janesville, and all our secondary roads haven't even been plowed 12 hours later.
On "Duck Dynasty": Phil Robertson is fired by A&E and being bullied by the Left for making comments offensive to gays, yet Bill Maher and others on the Left smear and denigrate Christians with impunity. Why? The Left exempts itself from its rules on anti-bullying it places on everyone else, but also largely because Christians turn the other cheek.
-- The Left demands tolerance for their views and behaviors no matter how weird or perverted traditional Americans find them, but when someone expresses a view that they disagree with, they demand that person not only be shut up but that their livelihood be taken away. So we're supposed to also be tolerant of their intolerance.
On congressman: On Page 9A Thursday, Paul Ryan says, "If we don't get ahead of this, we're going to hand an inferior standard of living to the next generation." Mr. Ryan, please go back and check your voting record while "W" was president. As I recall, you started all this.
On taxes: I got my bill from Rock County and Milton. Property value down $11,000; property taxes up $7. Great to live here.
On interchange idea: Props to the town of Fulton for holding a public meeting. The city of Milton has yet to have this on a public meeting agenda.
On older drivers: The Guest View editorial Dec. 19 says we should undergo an extra eye test. We've been picked on for a long time. I was stopped on South Main Street facing Centerway. My light turned green, and if I hadn't looked, I would have been broadsided by some young woman who went through her red light. Blaming us old folks is a bunch of baloney.
On school district: Dec. 19 on WCLO's morning show, Janesville Superintendent Schulte was laughing about Parker High School students and staff being duct-taped to pylons as a fundraising gimmick. What does the district's insurance carrier say about this? It is dangerous and could cause health concerns.
-- Schulte states 50 percent of students are on free or reduced-price lunches, yet she also mentions families and students are asked to give to district causes. Asking needy students and families to give to a tax-supported right to public education is unfair and lacks good judgment.
On Blackhawk Tech: If you're so short of funds, why did you hand out raises this year? It boggles my mind.
On economy: President Obama is saying the economy is getting better and there are more jobs being created. What he doesn't tell you is these jobs pay $7.25 an hour. We need jobs that pay good wages where people can actually make a living, take vacations and buy stuff to keep other people working.
On loan sharks: Title companies and check-cashing places in Janesville are just loan sharks with high interest rates. You will never get out from under them. The city and state should ban these places. We finally got in contact with a good banker who helped us out.
On General Motors: GM made this a prosperous city, and now that money is gone, but our city officials still want to spend the taxpayer's money on sidewalks, a new splash park at Riverside Park and whatnot. GM is gone, folks; the candy train has left
On Jay Winzenz: The city made a major faux pas passing Jay over for city manager. Hopefully, he doesn't leave this city and end up becoming a city administrator someplace else.
On new casino: Regarding Page 2A Monday, my guess is Gov. Walker will put off the decision until after he adds up his campaign donations and to see where they came from.
On jobs: I subscribe to a Wisconsin magazine. I had a question on the subscription, and it goes to a company in Florida. Because of a promotion deal, I called the Wisconsin number, and she says just a minute I'll transfer you, and then I'm talking to a lady from Cincinnati. No wonder we can't keep jobs in Wisconsin.
On Parkview: The curriculum and teachers at Parkview High School are as good as anywhere in the state. The problem lies in the crumbling dinosaur of a building that needs to be replaced as soon as possible. Vote "yes."


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Highway access a growing pain for Milton
MILTON—A developer wants to move forward on a project off Highway 59 on Milton's east side, but the state Department of Transportation is digging in its heels over road access to the property, officials say.
Mayor Brett Frazier said the city is working with a developer who wants to build a $2 million to $3 million commercial development on a parcel at the corner of Chicago Street and Highway 59 just west of the Highway 26 bypass in the city's Crossroads Business Park.
Frazier said annexation and land acquisition for the 10-acre lot are in the works. The project proposal, which has not been publicly announced, was on track to go in front of the city's plan commission soon. He said site plans from the developer could come in a matter of weeks.
Yet last week, Frazier said, the city learned a planned drive off Chicago Street to access the development would likely not meet state criteria for highway "access control."
"When the roads changed with the bypass, locations for access and everything got shifted around. There are now rules and restrictions, and the DOT has some ingress (exit driveway) restrictions on one of the side streets (Chicago Street). It makes one of the lots inaccessible," Frazier said.
Frazier said the DOT restriction has delayed the development deal.
"We've been excited about this project and certainly anxious to be able to announce the development. This (DOT issue) really is the last T to be crossed. The only thing stopping it from coming on online, really, is the DOT access," Frazier said.
The DOT's resistance comes shortly after the Highway 26 bypass was completed and when the city has begun to market parcels along Highway 59 in the Crossroads Business Park.
City traffic patterns have begun to shift, with the bulk of through traffic—as many as 16,000 vehicles a day—now taking the bypass. The city is trying to focus on developing the bypass corridor, which the DOT touted as an economic development benefit at a time when businesses within the city fear loss of consumer traffic.
"We didn't ask for the bypass, and we didn't have control over it," Frazier said. "But one of the things the DOT said is the new (Highway 26 bypass) outlay would set up new opportunities for development there."
The city had worked with the DOT on developing the highway corridor, supplying the agency with its Smart Growth plans as well as the city's comprehensive plans for future development along Highway 59.
Frazier said the city's smart growth plans wouldn't include any new access drives along Highway 59, which makes side street access crucial for development along the whole corridor.
"We're curious to see how the DOT plans to cooperate now because this is about not just one project, but it's a sign for future of development along a whole corridor that's now the entryway to our city," he said.
Frazier wouldn't give specific details about the potential development. He did say it would not create a major employment boom, but it's the type of development that could bring retail and potential dining.
It would be the first significant commercial development in the park, and it would be done without Tax Increment Financing, he said. That means it would provide instant tax revenue to the city and other taxing entities.
State DOT Southwest Region Director Joe Olson said the city has requested a break in the DOT's access management plan on Highway 59 to allow at least one access drive along Chicago Street for the proposed development. The management plan is based on state laws that govern highway access.�
Olson said he doesn't have any details or plans for the development, and the DOT is unaware of how much traffic would be coming and going from the development.
He said the DOT expects that over time Highway 59 will develop a blend of commercial and industrial developments. To "protect" the pace and the flow of traffic on that corridor, the DOT "limits access where it's practical," he said.
"On that roadway (Chicago Street), what we attempted to do is manage access to about 500 feet from Highway 59," Olson said. "Let's say you've got an access 150 feet away from intersection, and you've got a bunch of vehicles trying to turn in. You could create impact for vehicles on Highway 59 trying to turn. You could impact the operations of that intersection," Olson said.
There are no immediate plans for a stoplight at the four-way intersection at Chicago Street and Highway 59, Olson explained.
Olson said access to the highway's streets is an important long-term consideration.
"At some point in time, if you're not controlling access, you have the chance to degrade the flow of traffic along the corridor. If you're a business, you want more access. But if you degrade an entire corridor so that people (motorists) don't' want to be there, it's not good for the rest of commerce and business on the drive," Olson said.���
The DOT could meet with city officials as early as next week, and Olson said those talks could bring potential alterations or solutions. But he said the ultimate decision rests with a state highway panel that makes final decisions on access control.
The DOT could ask the city or the developer to complete a traffic impact analysis on the development before approving access, Olson said.
Frazier said� DOT's hard rules may make sense to engineers, but they can leave city planners and businesses willing to invest scratching their heads.
"Some of this makes good sense on paper, but where the earth mover meets the ground, it doesn't make much sense," Frazier said. "Safety and traffic flow is an important part of a decision, but economic development should be featured, too."


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Alas the creationists are right though...
Debate and discussion of any biological questions not pertaining to a particular topic.
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Alas the creationists are right though...
Hi first of all i must explain that my English is not my native language so forgive me if i make some mistakes.It is about a month now that the debate Creation Vs Abiogenesis(Not creation vs evolution, evolution is a fact)bothers me.I must say that if you asked me a year ago i would claim that Life is a natural phenomenon undoubtfully, since Creation is a superstition
Then at some point i started to study scientific theories about how Life emerged on Earth and how it evolved.They are not satisfactory(and at some points they are irrational).What bothered me with science is the fact that claimed evolution doesnt have a plan it is based on natural selection and random genetic mutations(i am not a biologist so perhaps i am wrong at some points please correct me).I started to question certain scientific theories. I cannot disprove the fact that Natural selection exists(it is a fact).Then i started to wonder how traits like eyes, ears or the nose started to emerge.These traits fall in the category of random genetic mutations.In other words today we could be blind if a "special" neuron never existed
Then i thought that ears have a common characteristic with eyes(they both help us to understand the environment).I questioned the randomness theory.It cant be true.Surely both traits emerged to help us understand the environment.It isnt luck it isnt random.Then i tried to think how many random eye or ear mutations have occured elsewhere to the body of organisms.None.This is not randomness it is the logic of a designer.It was a shock for me since i suddenly realised that creationism sounds more logical compared to abiogenesis.Life doesnt have a blind logic, it has the logic of a designer.
Science at some point will have to face this designer's logic.The current scientific models dont touch the subject but at some point it must be studied how could Life, if it was really a natural phenomenon developed this logic...
So you say it is more logical that someone designed life? Admittedly there is not a conclusive theory as to how life initially begun, but there are even less evidence and credible theories concerning the assumed designer. Just because we do not know how exactly life begun does not mean someone had to design it. Umm, who designed the designer, by the way?
I think you got something wrong about the randomness as well. The tools of evolution are random (that is, mutations). However, evolution itself is not. This applies to eyes and ears as well. If there is evolutionary pressure towards something, then it is more likely that something evolves that helps to lessen the pressure - so it is not random. Obviously there was a strong pressure towards sensing your environment better. A few lucky mutations gave some early organism a neuron able to sense light and sudenly it became better able to navigate towards light where the plankton were plentiful. This early "eye" was so successful that its owners became more numerous and thus the eye started to evolve.
This was just a simplified example, but I hope you got the point. In this hypothetical scenario, for example a poison stinger would have not evolved, since there was no need for such - this would evolve much later. Studying the organism's environment one can pretty successfully predict what features may evolve there and what not. Again, this is clearly not random if you can predict it.
Animals have camouflage, it is not random that they have it. It is because they need it. Animals have antennae, wings, red blood cells and kidneys all because there was some use for them. There was a constant pressure and a good working pair of kidneys made living easier, hence the kidney evolved. And so on.
What would have been pure randomness is if you desperately needed horns so that you could defend yourself from predators, but instead you got another butt hole :)
Mutations are random, but evolution steadily heads to the direction where there is least pressure. The pressure, in turn, is determined by the organism's imminent surroundings, not by what might be useful in the future. So evolution can of course come up with all kinds of useless inventions as well. For example, around industrial areas some insects have develpoed a darker camouflage because of the soot in the environment - and this trait would instantly became useless when humans installed proper pollution filters to their factories. But developing that dark colour was not random, even though the needed mutations were so. Natural selection simply "chose" the suitable mutations from the big number of overall mutations.
I came up with this odd metpahor that might help to better describe what I tried to say in my previous post. Imagine that:
You = Natural selection
Skyscraper = Eye
Factory = Gene pool
Blueprint = Environment
Now, you want to build a skyscraper. You have a factory that has an extremely high output of building blocks, but as a downside all the blocks come in random shapes and forms. So you must choose correct blocks from the useless ones and use them to build the skyscraper according to the blueprint you have. So, the skyscraper is not there because of a random chance, even though the building blocks were chosen from a random pool.
In terms of evolution, the natural selection (in the example You) selects randomly produced "building blocks", that is genes, from the gene pool (the factory) and those blocks produce purposeful things like eyes (the skyscraper). And the environment (the blueprint) is the element that determines, which blocks are useful - not random chance.
Re: Alas the creationists are right though...
I will concede that we have no clue exactly at how life started and that many hypotheses are competing. But would you care to provide example of the irrational that you see?
I thought you wanted to talk about abiogenesis? This is all about evolution, nothing to do about abiogenesis.
But let's not stop about such a little detail.
If you have no problem with natural selection, what is your problem with the emergence of complex traits like the eye? They did not evolve on one step, but by gradual improvements of what probably started as a patch of photosensitive cells. And yes we could have been blind if this specific patch of cells never evolved the way it did. Or have a completely different type of eyes like the squids or the insects.
Why would the fact that living creatures evolved organs that allowed them to understand their environment would make you doubt the randomness of creation of mutations? As was pointed above, the random part is in the creation of mutations. The selection is far from random. It selects some qualities that will increase the fitness of their bearer. And the more the better/stronger the positive selection will be. You are conflating 2 different issues: the random creation of diversity and the very pointed selection. There is no logic necessary, no creation needed. So science will not touch a designer with a 10 foot pole since it is completely useless and that only people trying to force their religious beliefs into the real world in spite of all evidence that they are irrational and unsupported by any physical phenomenon
And one of the weakest point of all theory requiring a designer to be there is the origin of the designer. If organization could only arise from previous organization, then your designer itself needs a designer and so on. Any person with more than one neuron interacting should be able to see that.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)
I dont know gyes.I have a sense that science is wrong on some issues.To say that eyes, ears, nose are random genetic mutations its like saying that God did.You evade to explain how and why these traits first emerged.Surely science doesnt accept the idea that organisms are designed but i see myself in the mirror and i realize that i have eyebrows,eyelashes...How could i persuade myself that these traits do not require design?Science cannot always escape from this issue proclaiming that everything we have is coming from a random process...
The fact that you cannot persuade yourself of something is not a good scientific argument against that something. Biologist have explained time and time again how complexity can arise from simpler thing. If you were ever interested in the subject you would have found the extensive literature on the subject and started to read it. But you just looked at yourself in the mirror and saw your eyes, and decided that it is so marvelous that it is beyond your comprehension. And that is the proof of a designer.
This only demonstrate your intellectual laziness and a probable lack of both understanding of science and imagination. You want to disprove evolution, go read and educate yourself and last try to come back with something that is not 10 times more stupid than subpar Behe. This guy demonstrated all the scientific value of the irreducible complexity argument at the Dover trial (or rather the lack of it), and you come here with even worse, wrapped in lies and deceptions. So back to study, and come back when you have more substance.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)
_at_ GnnS about your earlier post, about science being wrong, you messed up there. Science has simply been misinterpreted. Here is an example, if someone who had never seen a ballon before saw a balloon in the air, and thought that it was a ball, stated that they knew that balls fly, it would not make it correct, just misinterpreted. Many things in science have been misinterpreted, just like the Brontosaurus, which happened because a scientist that wanted to find a new dinosaur so badly, that he accidently made one up out of two different dinosaurs.
"The scientific establishment bears a grisly resemblance to the Spanish Inquisition"-D. Gould
_at_ GnnS if you really want to have a good source about science and the Bible, then you should check out the Get Answers section of Answers in Genesis.
_at_ Jack Bean, I meet your question with a question. Where did matter come from? In one of my earlier posts on a different subject, I said that if you go back to the beginning of either viewpoint, then you come up with either an eternal Intelligent Designer (God) or eternal matter.
_at_ Canalon why is it that you always answer people's arguments, whether scientific or otherwise with sarcasm, and pretty much call them stupid. That doesn't sound very intelligent. Why not discuss things calmly, with answers, rather than calling names.
"The scientific establishment bears a grisly resemblance to the Spanish Inquisition"-D. Gould
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Who designed the Designer? Well, its either an Eternal Designer (God) or eternal matter, as I said before.
As to what you said about how none of that was random, I agree with you totally, but if it is not random then are you saying that it was Designed. Because animals getting just what they needed to survive sounds pretty Designed, to me.
Also by your example, are you saying that natural selection is an intelligent being, because if it isn't an intelligent being, which of course it is not, why and how would it know to give just the right changes.
"The scientific establishment bears a grisly resemblance to the Spanish Inquisition"-D. Gould
If something is not random, it still does not prove it was designed. If you drop an apple, it falls down - the outcome is predictable, just like with evolution the outcome can be predicted if we know the environment and selection pressure it causes well enough. In some other environment (say, outer space) the apple does not fall down. Just as we can predict the behaviour of the apple based on its environment we can predict the outcome of evolution. The problem is that evolution and all that it involves is often so incredibly complex phenomenon that we do not know all the factors affecting it, thus making predictions also much harder - but still doable in many cases.
So, no I'm not saying natural selection is an intelligent being - quite to the contrary. Natural selection can cause incredibly stupid things to happen as well because of its "short-sightedness". Take kiwi for an example: maybe it looked like a good idea to have the bird's wings disappear because there were no land predators around. However, natural selection, being completely unable to predict the future, did not happen to think that land predators might come from other continents. And not, because the lack of intelligence on behalf of the natural selection, the kiwi bird is in big trouble because freal cats and dogs hunt it, and it cannot even fly. And of course, this was figuratively speaking since in reality natural selection does not think or predict or see or do anything - it is just the effect of an organism's environment regarding that given organism.
So if there was any intelligence behind the design of the kiwi bird, surely the designer would have allowed the bird to keep its wings so that it could fly away from its predators that are now about to make the bird go extinct? Most definitely, natural selection has not given organisms all the right changes. Instead, some very crappy features exist as well - things that looked good at the time of their evolution, but turned out to be shitty later :)
If the Creator, had made all animals, so that they wouldn't ever be eaten by other predators, then we would not be alive right now. The food chain is designed in such a way, that a species of animals should not go extinct, by being eaten by other animals, unless it becomes unbalanced, which is mostly where man comes into the picture, if man kills off all the wolves in an area, then there is going to be a humongous amout of bunnies, in the next few years.
If animals were all able to get away from each other or defend themselves from each other, it would be chaos. What if gazelles, evolved protection from their natural predators, and their predators couldn't kill them, then the predators would die off
slowly, until they became extinct. If you think about it animals are set up just right,
make some changes and you would mess up everything.
Also as to the comment about the kiwi, have you read up on how the humans hunted kiwis, and introduced stoats into their habitat to hunt them.
P.S. Just to make this clear I am not one of those people who protests cutting down trees and stuff
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Am I correct in assuming the 2 registered mail contacts were not to Mr. Rutz directly?
Along with the DVD in the registered mail communication did you or your offiliate(s) include accurate documentaion and direction in order for the CDC to be able to duplicate your findings?
The 14 visits made by CDC were made how? Hits on website or by other means?
I echo your fustration.
Dan Rutz is the chosen voice to the public, but do you really think he knows of all correspondance and everything that goes on within the CDC in referance to our condition?
Since I am the noob here, I'll let you in on a few things about myself. Unlike Al Gore, I really did help invent the internet. I have worked in internetworking since the time when we only had a couple of universities connected. I don't get worked up over flames, and I don't have the time to argue.
Electrionics is my gig, and therefore I know a little about light emitting diodes. LED array assemblies are sufficient for cool weather, moderate light requirement crops, whereas full sun crops require higher photon emission. No, LEDs will not grow pot, but that stuff just supresses your immune system anyway. There are many good books available on growing crops indoors. I have a set of onion seedlings growing under LEDs now that are just about ready for transplant.
One thing that you may be interested in London, is that I frequently have to splice optical fiber cable when constructing or trouble shooting FDDI links on network systems. I have been lurking and watching your optic fiber therory with great interest.
RUTZ IS LYING!!!! if he did say he had not heard of nor viewed the video presented by tamtam. Not only did tam bring this to the cdc personally in 2004, i began asking rutz directly about it in may of this year. In fact it was only a few weeks before the announced plan to study this disorder. coincidink? i think not. I can state with 95% certainty that rutz has viewed the video simply by the CDC visits to my site. I can verify ip addresses and because I get the impression that Rutz has an enourmous ego, the CDC visitor who has several times used the search terms of "dan Rutz crossinglines.net" where made by him. I have all the who's the whats the whens and what was looked at on my site, where they came from and where they exited to from given links. My site has seen approx 160,000 individual unique visitors and of all the corporations/business domains having visited, the CDC is 18th on the list. several ip's from the cdc domain have accounted for dozens and dozens of visits. so clearly you have busted them LYING TO THE PUBLIC OF WHICH THEY SERVE. Get mad people this is an outrage.
To read the correspondence with myself and Rutz visit this link.
http://www.crossinglines.net/communicat ... he_cdc.htm
This does it, man, I am seriously pissed off. more on that to follow.
And to Dan Rutz, as I am certain you visit this site, these words are meant for you. YOU ARE A LIAR!!. We personally spoke about this video in our telephone conversation last month. The CDC, as well the CFID and the NIH can and should expect a lawsuit concerning their lack of vigilance and apparent lack of competency with likely corporate collusion.
Asshole liar, We seriously need more accountability concerning how our taxes are being spent as this guys salary is being paid by all working americans. Lie to your boss once, you should be canned. period
"First they ignore you...
Then they laugh at you...
Then they fight you...
Then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi
Oh yeah really Frank?
Well, thanks for being honest at least. I bet I can guess your name in 3 guesses. If I do, will you be honest and tell me....actually , Ibet I can guess it in two guesses......I really think I can Frank.....
want me to try> of course, respect, yes, it would be in a pm.....
and Frank, i bet you use type 37 or type 65, etc., huh?
thankz for the link south....... for some local isp blocked that link in past..
..crosslines werx now
standby wrote:
mfromcanada wrote:
This is the most terrible news I have heard today. They have had these videos for 2 years and act as if they know nothing. I for one am furious.
What happened to the late great usofa? coverups. conspiracies. at our expense.
tamtam wrote:
CDC has been informed twice via registered mail including DVD in 2004.
The visits made by CDC Institute counts 14 (fourteen) since april 2005.
"Cryptococcus neoformans" is what scare the sh#$% out of me.
where Unlike Al Gore, Frank has an opposite effect....
optic fiber dust must come with an MSDS sheet ..... how exactly is the saftey protocall implace. whatvabout those super macrophage vitural human genom biomarker signal transduction PHANTOMS that exist in the WIRE kept in the DOPed junctions......
is there a single saftey protocall for optic/silica dust for federal /civilian?
to all, yuck, look what this good dr. did. (i'm sure he had consent though)
Dr. Tomlinson, you're a bad man and your'e gonna rot in hell
Principle Investigator: Dr. William Thomlinson
Project started in: 1986
Funding Sources:
DOE: Office of Health and Environmental Research (OHER)
Amount: $50,000 (Est.)
Information on Use of Human Subjects:
Project does not involve use of multiple protocols/subprojects. Jeez., thanks man!
IRB Review:
Type of Review: Full Board
Most Recent Approval: June 07, 1995
Number of Human Subjects in the Last Reporting Period for this Project: 2
(Reporting periods vary.)
Type of Human Subjects Involvement:
Ionizing Radiation and Radioactive Substances:
External use of ionizing radiation on human subjects.
For diagnostic research.
Chemical Substances:
Internal use of chemical substances (solid, liquid, or gas) in human subjects.
For diagnostic research.
Instrument/Device/Product Testing or Man-Machine Studies:
Use of human subjects to develop/test instruments, materials, devices, or objects.
- funny, i don;t remember being asked......a-holes
(a. Objectives, b. Methodology, c. Ionizing Radiation, Radioactive Substances, or Chemical Substances to which human subjects are exposed, d. Involvement of Human Subjects [d.1. procedures used, d.2. risks if any])
This project is developing the application of synchrotron radiation sources to the imaging of human coronary arteries. The principal purpose is to image the arteries with a technique which has minimal risk for the patient. This study uses a venous injection of iodinated contrast agent. To date, the program has focused on the human related technical parameters of the procedure, such as contrast injection rates and volumes, timing of image sequences, and patient position. Simultaneously, upgrades of the imaging and x-ray optical systems have occurred. The program plans to image 70 patients in total, with possibly 30 patients being imaged twice. It is anticipated that some of these studies will become part of an expanded research program involving many more studies over a period of years. Those studies will focus on qualitative and quantitative characterization of arterial disease, pre- and post-treatment evaluation, and potential drug therapies. A potential effect of radiation is the induction of cancer. However, no harm in a human individual or in a large population exposed at doses as low as those delivered in this study has been reported. The estimation of risk of harm can be obtained only by extrapolation from much higher doses. Risks from the procedure may include severe allergic reaction to the iodine-containing dye, mechanical tear of a vein, local bleeding, impaired kidney function, and reaction to local leakage of the dye. Other complications may include blood clots, irregularities of heart beat, heart attack and death. The likelihood of serious complications is believed to be less than 0.5 percent.
I'll PM you tonight in the romeo time zone. You remind me of myself a couple of years ago when I was in really bad shape and getting worse. I was ready to grab an MD by the throat a couple of times, so I can empathize with your comments.
I really don't know the specs on the cable when I work with it. The engineers order it, the grunts install it, I cut it, fuse it or termnate a connector, and test it for refraction and loss. I suppose I could ask the engineers or get the product number off of the sheath. It's just not something that tech's concern orselves with.
okay, that would be nice. did you ever take or teach a course in neural networks, Frank? You can tell me later. I don;t know anything about computers nor biotechnology but I surprised myself and prob most of them when I figured it out (the porhyrins!)
i JUST HOPE YOU DO NOT; OR HAVE NOT worked for scummy Bell Labs. Ma Bell is going to Hell Frank. She is.
Talk to you later....
To all:
Project Highlights
To develop techniques and procedures for processing tissue, extracting and storing collagen, and spinning and weaving collagen fibers into fabrics and other forms suitable for human prostheses that could induce the body's own cells to rebuild lost tissue while gradually replacing the prosthesis.
Duration: 3/1/1993 — 2/28/1996
ATP Number: 92-01-0133
FUNDING (in thousands):
Company 2,128 52%
Total $4,127
TE accomplished its technical goals. The company developed procedures for processing a tissue-specific extracellular matrix rich in cytokines (cell-generated proteins), extracting and storing type I collagen (a material present in all tissues), and spinning collagen into fibers that can be woven into prosthetic fabrics. The company:
received two patents for technologies related to the ATP project: "Apparatus and Method for Spinning and Processing Collagen Fiber"
(No. 5,562,946: filed 11/2/1994, granted 10/8/1996) and "Bipolymer Foams Having Extracellular Matrix Particulates"
(No. 5,709,934: filed 11/22/1994, granted 1/20/1998);
applied for three other patents related to the technology;
made several presentations at conferences and workshops; and
formed a joint venture with Wright Medical Technology, Arlington, Tenn., to develop and distribute products based on the ATP-funded technology for applications involving ligaments, tendons, cartilage, and other musculoskeletal parts.
CITATIONS BY OTHERS OF PROJECT'S PATENTS: See Figure 3.3.
Prototypes are in testing, although no product has yet entered the market. Patent disclosures and a joint venture to commercialize the technology may be providing useful knowledge to other researchers in the field.
This project is on track for market entry in the very near future. The technology is scheduled to be used first in the fabrication of periodontal prostheses and orthopedic applications. Ideas for skin and wound-healing products are also being explored by the company with potential customers
sorry this is so long, but it;s from the you know who....and this pretty much sums this all up, eh?
ERASED BY lONDON B/C i HAD NOT THOUROUGLY READ IT MYSELF....SORRY!
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Revenge of the Nerds 2
any body but rushlimbo and myself have an oxycontin perscription?.....
Affinity identification of delta-opioid receptors using latex nanoparticles.
M Hasegawa, H Ohno, H Tanaka, M Hatakeyama, H Kawaguchi, T Takahashi, H Handa
Frontier Collaborative Research Center and Faculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuda, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan.
Three types of latex nanoparticles carrying naltrindole (NTI) derivatives were synthesized as probes for the affinity isolation of their binding proteins including the delta-opioid receptor. The effect of the attachment of NTI to different positions on the linker was investigated. Only latex nanoparticles in which the NTI derivative was linked through the phenol group were useful for isolating the recombinant delta-opioid receptor solubilized from CHO cell membrane. These latex nanoparticles could be a useful tool for investigations of the pharmacological activity of NTI.
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Synthesis and characterization of poly-alpha,beta-[N-(2-hydroxyethyl)-L-aspartamide]-g-poly(L-lactide) biodegradable copolymers as drug carriers.
T Peng, SX Cheng, RX Zhuo
Key Laboratory of Biomedical Polymers of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, People's Republic of China.
"they'll make their own mark of the beast for us!"
A series of biodegradable amphiphilic graft polymers were successfully synthesized by grafting poly(L-lactide) (PLLA) sequences onto a water-soluble polymer poly-alpha,beta-[N-(2-hydroxyethyl)-L-aspartamide] (PHEA) backbone. We established the feasibility of preparing these novel graft polymers by the ring-opening polymerization initiated by the macroinitiator PHEA bearing hydroxyl groups without adding any catalyst. The successful grafting of PLLA sequences onto the PHEA backbone was verified by combined size exclusion chromatography (SEC) and multiangle laser light scattering (MALLS) analysis. The chemical structures of graft polymers were characterized by FTIR and (1)H NMR. The critical micelle concentration (CMC) of the graft polymer was determined by fluorescence probe technique using pyrene. By controlling the feed ratio of the macroinitiator to the monomer, graft polymers with different branch lengths can be obtained. Using the 3-(4,5 dimethylthiozol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyl-tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay, the graft copolymer has been proved to have low cytotoxicity. Based on the amphiphilicity of the graft copolymers, nanoparticular drug delivery systems were prepared by the direct dissolution method and the dialysis method. The anticancer drug Tegafur was encapsulated into polymeric nanoparticles, and in vitro drug release behavior was investigated. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images demonstrate that these nanoparticles are regularly spherical in shape. The particle size and distribution of the nanoparticles were measured. (c) 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res, 2006.
[Pubmed Record - new window] Spray freezing into liquid versus spray-freeze drying: Influence of atomization on protein aggregation and biological activity.
CHEMTRAILS per condensate anyone?????????????
Protein aggregation and enzyme activity were compared for reconstituted lysozyme particles produced by two cryogenic technologies, spray freezing into liquid (SFL) and spray-freeze drying (SFD). The particles were characterized by enzyme activity measurements, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), light scattering, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and BET specific surface area analysis. Highly porous microparticle aggregates of protein nanoparticles, observed by SEM, were produced by both processes. The smaller degree of protein aggregation and smaller losses in enzyme activity for the SFL process relative to the SFD process were due primarily to the spraying step. The higher stability of the SFL versus SFD powders was consistent with the smaller surface excess of lysozyme measured by XPS in SFL, resulting from the reduced time of exposure to the air-water interface during atomization. For pure lysozyme, the degree of aggregation and enzyme activity were comparable for lyophilization and SFL, despite the much larger particle surface area for SFL.
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slowdown london you off the planet
I kknow iknow....... . .
its a SCALAR thing you just cant understand......or I know just how that teacher felt! I was able to go down on............whaattt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
any one grown your own cannibus knows bat guano makes great dank but...
any microbiologist know where to get cryptococcos neoformans......
duel use across the consumer grade market .....................
man some evil mad jo jo jo jo at werk im spectin
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