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Mythili Raman
Most recently acting assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, Mythili Raman has joined Covington & Burling as a partner resident in the Washington, D.C., office.
Raman has been with the Justice Department since 1996 and has held a variety of roles. As acting assistant attorney general, she oversaw the work of more than 600 prosecutors and led the Justice Department's national and international criminal law enforcement initiatives, including investigations of complex financial fraud and market manipulation, money laundering and financial sanctions violations, foreign and public corruption, health care fraud, intellectual property theft and cybercrime.
"Throughout her career, Mythili has distinguished herself as one of the most respected and accomplished prosecutors in the country," said Timothy Hester, chair of the firm's management committee, in a statement. "She is a proven leader, an exceptional lawyer and a person of the highest integrity. We are thrilled to welcome her to the partnership."


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NYE Morocco 2019
Morocco vacations are the perfect opportunity to stretch your wings and seek wisdom in a new place. Each town, city, or region you visit has its own lore, and Morocco is no different. Relax in a coffee shop and watch the locals stroll by, or pull up a stool at one of the local pubs and strike up a conversation with a resident. Ask them about their favorite part of Morocco, and what drew them to this place. What will you learn?
Dec. 12, 2018 – Jan. 5, 2019
Tips for a Relaxing Vacation
As you wander the road ahead, remember to enjoy moments of tranquility here and there. Far be it from us to provide tips for a relaxing vacation, but we'll make some suggestions anyway:
- Watch the sunrise. If it's possible, there is nothing quite as reassuring as watching the first moments of daylight creep across the sky, chasing away the night.
- You might also consider a massage—specifically a foot massage. Your feet take the brunt of your everyday action, and receive so little reward for their faithful service. Sit back and let them receive the attention for once. Any tension you carry will melt right out of your body beneath the skilled hands of a trained massage therapist either in town or at the airport.
- Fill your itinerary with trips to the heart of the city and the wonders it contains. Of course, what's a getaway without a little excitement? There's bound to be at least one place where you can drink, dance, or just talk until the sun awakens to grace the skies with its presence once again.
- Exercise and eat. Greet the day with morning yoga in a park, then wander the city streets until hunger gnaws at your belly. What will you have for breakfast? The culinary world is at your fingertips in Morocco. Take your pick of bistros, cafes, or fine dining—all of it is waiting for you.
Packing for Vacation
We trust we don't need to educate you on packing for vacation, but you might be surprised by how much even the most frequent traveler forgets to bring along. Additional undergarments are a must, as are socks; you'd be surprised at how often you might need an actual pair of socks on your travels. We also caution you to bring chargers for any electronic equipment that accompanies you on your travels, such as smartphone, laptop, or tablet.
No matter when you decide to travel or what you opt to bring, Travelocity offers the easiest way to book Morocco packages at affordable prices. Why reserve each part of your trip individually when you can book everything at once? With all your travel arrangements taken care of, it's never too early to start your vacation countdown. Enjoy the journey, traveler. We'll see you there.
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. – The Bulldog Athletic Association is holding a Dream Getaway Scholarship Raffle that will see three great vacation prizes won by three lucky winners on April 7 at the Wilma Sherrill Center.
Tickets are just $50 and can be obtained from any BAA Board Member or by calling 828-258-7900. Fans can also buy tickets on-line at uncabulldogs.com/tickets. You do not need to be present to win.
Each ticket purchased allows the buyer one entry to the Reception Drawing starting at 6pm at the Sherrill Center April 7.
The Grand Prize is a seven-day Alaskan cruise for two that includes airfare. Second prize is a five-day trip to a Sandals Resort for two including airfare, and the third prize is a three-day trip to New York City for two.
The money raised by the raffle will benefit the UNC Asheville student-athlete scholarship fund. Last year's raffle raised more than $60,000 in student-athlete scholarships.
The drawing will be a reverse raffle with the last 3 tickets drawn being the winners. There will also be great door prizes, food and refreshments during the event. For more information contact Aaron Sanders at 828-250-3858.


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yuck is a command line option parser for C that works on a minimal set of dependencies - only a C compiler and the m4 macro processor are required. It supports all the standard use cases: GNU-style long options (--option), condensable short options (-xab for -x -a -b), and optional arguments to long and short options (--foo[=BAR]), multiple occurrence of options (-vvv). Most importantly, it does not depend on libc's getopt() nor getopt_long().
OpenADK is a construction kit for embedded Linux. It creates Linux systems that are optimized for size and short bootup times. The toolchain supports many architectures (arm, m68k, mips, microblaze, ppc, sparc, superh, x86, and x86_64). It can build customized images for Qemu. Raspberry PI, Lemote Yeelong, and Sharp Zaurus devices are supported as a proof of concept. Approximately 685 source packages are available.
MW is a low footprint embedded UI framework core intended for use on very limited systems. It embeds the JPEG, Freetype, and Cairo libraries, so it only depends on X. It should be fairly portable, as the only thing you need is to create a window on every platform and manage the events.
Gpart is a small tool which tries to guess which partitions are on a PC harddisk in case the primary partition table was damaged. It works by scanning through the device (or file) given on the commandline on a sector basis. Each guessing module is asked if it thinks a filesystem it knows about could start at a given sector. Several filesystem guessing modules are built in, and others can be added dynamically.
An OpenGL library for image-based CSG rendering.
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Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!®
Friday, Nov 30, 2012 9:00 PM PST
IO West Theater, Hollywood, CA
21 years and over
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This event is 21 AND OVER. All Mainstage shows are 21 AND OVER. All DCT Shows are ALL AGES. If you are more than 5 MINUTES late to a Mainstage show, your seats may be released.
OPENING NIGHT: THE IMPROVISED MUSICAL!® is exactly that: a Broadway-style musical that is made up on the spot, based on audience suggestion. So every night is the `Opening Night' of a musical that has never been seen! Now in it's twelfth year, Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!® is thrilled to continue as the show LAWeekly called, "almost too slick to be completely improvised". It is, by the way—completely improvised. Led by Director Shulie Cowen, Opening Night: The Improvised Musical!®'s cast combines the Chicago-style improvisation of the iO and The Second City with the Broadway stylings of Rodgers & Hammerstein, Gilbert & Sullivan, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bob Fosse, and many more. Occasionally, they even borrow the 76 trombones from The Music Man. They usually give them back. Cast film and television credits include; My Secret Girlfriend, The Informant!, Factory, Wild and Out, Reno 911!, You Don't Mess With The Zohan, Scrubs, and World Cup Comedy.
"Come back again and again — you'll laugh every time." (LA Weekly Best of 2010)
The iO West is located at: 6366 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028


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UW-Whitewater to play St. Norbert
The UW-Whitewater Warhawks, the undefeated champions of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, will host the St. Norbert Green Knights on Saturday in the first round of the NCAA Division III football playoffs. It is Whitewater's 11th trip to the postseason, where it will be going for its fifth national championship since 2007.
After missing out on the postseason in 2012, the Warhawks returned to their dominant form in 2013, mainly through the play of quarterback Matt Behrendt. The junior completed 64.1 percent of his passes in the regular season and threw for 2,076 yards. He had 26 touchdown passes to only one interception.
Whitewater's defense also made its mark during the regular season, giving up just 221.6 yards and eight points per game. The Warhawks figure to be well prepared for the quality teams they'll run up against in the playoffs thanks to a pair of conference games against nationally ranked opponents, UW-Oshkosh and UW-Platteville. Whitewater won those games by a combined 52-30. Platteville will also participate in the 2013 D-III playoffs, opening with a game against Concordia.
St. Norbert was 8-2 overall and 8-1 in the Midwest Conference, but it will back into the playoffs after losing Saturday against Lake Forest College, 31-3.
Saturday's game will be the 30th between Whitewater and St. Norbert. The Warhawks lead the series, 17-9-3. The last game the teams played was a first-round playoff matchup in 2006. Whitewater won 59-17.
The possible second-round opponents for Whitewater are Franklin or Washington-St. Louis, who the Warhawks beat 17-7 to open the 2013 season.


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Marketing Budgets Call for Pinpoint Priorities
How credit unions spend their marketing dollars is not entirely based on targeting specific demographics, analyzing reams of data or interviewing focus groups.
For Charlotte Metro Credit Union, Affinity Federal Credit Union and Redwood Credit Union, their budgets support marketing objectives that never sleep, require sophistication and crash through the clutter.
At the $290 million Charlotte Metro Credit Union in Charlotte, N.C., marketing is like New York's Times Square – it never sleeps.
"We know McDonald's sells hamburgers because they tell us all the time," said CMCU's Marketing Specialist Randall Beckwith. "So what I saw lacking in marketing communications when I came here two years ago was they would do marketing promotions for short periods of time and then go dark for months."
In Beckwith's view, periodic marketing doesn't do the best job because consumers are very busy. Their eyes and ears may not catch your ad in the few weeks it's promoted, especially in Charlotte where CMCU is overshadowed by the nation's biggest banks, according to Beckwith who pointed out that the city is the nation's second largest center for financial institutions.
During last year's Super Bowl, CMCU kicked off its year-long multimedia campaign with humorous ads. After that, the credit union launched new ads that promoted its 50th anniversary over television, radio, print publications, billboards and the Web. It also promoted certain products and services during certain times of the year.
"Charlotteans love to get out in the summer, so we play more radio ads and play down TV ads until September," said Beckwith. "It takes seven to nine [media] impressions to get someone to a buying decision. We want to reach consumers often enough so they don't forget about CMCU."
That marketing strategy apparently worked. While CMCU benefited greatly from Bank Transfer Day on Nov. 5, 2011, that event was not within the credit union's control, Beckwith said. A 2011 to 2012 comparison excludes Bank Transfer Day and measured only the first three quarters in both years. Given that criteria, CMCU realized a net increase of 48.6% in product openings from checking, savings, credit cards and loans in the first three quarters of 2012 compared with the first three quarters of 2011, he said.
By the end of the year, CMCU's membership grew by 9,000, according to Beckwith. The credit union also increased its loan portfolio, expanded market share by 10%, improved net worth by 14%, and raised asset growth more than 11%.
Even though the $2.2 billion Affinity Federal Credit Union in Basking Ridge, N.J., is the largest credit union in the Garden State, it also stands overshadowed by the ubiquitous presence of the world's biggest banks. Because these financial institutions are formidable competitors with sophisticated products and services, Affinity said it pays special attention to delivering its members with sophisticated products and services.
"If you are going to have that sophistication in your products and services, your marketing also needs to reflect that sophistication," said Jean-Albert Maisonneuve, Affinity vice president of marketing and eCommerce.
Affinity increased its marketing budget to appear on local cable TV to give the credit union a much broader exposure to its highly diversified markets, Maisonneuve said.
"Our challenge is how do we make very professional looking TV ads without having the budget of a big commercial bank," Maisonneuve said. "So we went to Oklahoma City and found a spot that looked like New Jersey. We worked with our agency, got some local actors, worked with a cinematographer from Los Angeles and produced some pretty amazing, very well done spots."
Affinity doesn't use its marketing dollars to target demographic groups. Maisonneuve believes the credit union appeals to anyone between the ages of 18 to 80. Instead, Affinity reaches members by targeting its geographic markets or zip codes through certain cable television channels, Pandora radio spots, Facebook ads and other online advertising.
"We are not for everybody but we are building the case for who we are; a kinder, gentler organization that will listen to you and provide you with the wealth of products and services that the big commercial banks provide," said Maisonneuve.
Affinity also plans to underwrite sponsorships that will invite members and others to participate in local sports events.
"It's about getting our community involved in a sports franchise and for us, to be the linchpin behind it," Maisonneuve explained. "It makes it more interesting and fun for everybody involved and it helps brings to life our tagline, 'belong to something better.'"
For Robin McKenzie, senior vice president of marketing and communications at the $2 billion Redwood Credit Union in Santa Rosa, Calif., deciding where to spend marketing dollars is based on the target audiences and what mediums they use to get their information. The challenge, however, is breaking through all of the other marketing clutter to reach targeted audiences, she noted.
That's why Redwood invests a lot of time and effort into researching and analyzing the market, its audiences and where they are getting information.
For example, market research of its consumer loan audience led Redwood to invest in a two month consumer loan sale with special rates that were heavily promoted in newspaper ads in all of the credit union's markets. However, the campaign also used some website and email marketing.
"We were very interested to see if newspaper ads would pull for us as they have in the past, and sure enough, we had outstanding results that were significant to our growth last year," said McKenzie.
In addition to newspaper advertising, she also budgets for direct mail campaigns. Because many businesses have abandoned these mediums, it helps Redwood's ads stand out even more.
Even though traditional media still works, the new digital media of Web marketing, including pay-per-click, search engine optimization, online ads, and social media marketing methods represent opportunities that are more challenging as they are constantly evolving, McKenzie said. "If you did what always worked before and never tried anything new, you won't be successful," McKenzie said."


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There will be no nostalgia about shelling green peas by the mounds on winter evenings watching Chitrahar on DD1. No fond remembrance of the waxy pea pods and their sweet pea smell.Not a word about how the pea pods would taste in a jhol Ma would make. I could have lapsed into sweet memories of my Dida making koraishuti'r kochuri and us huddled in the pantry below the stairs, shelling peas, popping a couple of peas from each pod, laughing and the mound of peas growing much smaller than the mound of gathering pods.
But I will not speak thus because I did not shell a single this Friday night. I used my pack of frozen Birds Eye peas in the freezer. I lost out on the bonding over peas but on a Friday night when all I wanted to do is fix dinner and conk off, the shelled sweet peas worked more than fine.
And also let me clarify, I did not make Koraishuti'r kochuri. No, I made Koraishutir Parota. Not much difference except for a gallon of oil here and there. Not that a gallon more matters when it's the season to be merry. But I had just consumed pounds of butter a week back and did not think following up with a gallon of oil would be judicious.So Koraishuti'r Parota it was.
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So towards this venture let's first make the Pur or the stuffing made with peas only. It is easy and quick if you have a freezer and peas in them.
The stuffing remains same if you make Kochuri or Parota.
This makes stuffing just enough for 6-7 Parotas. Take into consideration that if you are like me, you will eat the stuffing just like that too.
Defrost 1 cup of frozen sweet peas. I usually prefer the Microwave for such purpose.
Put in a blender
the peas
3/4th tbsp of peeled and chopped ginger
2 green chili(optional)
very little water, a tsp to start with
Make a fine paste
Heat Vegetable Oil in a frying Pan
Add a pinch of Hing/Asafoetida. I will insist on this as it lends an awesome fragrance. Many Bengali homes will add a little whole cumin instead of Hing, but I will steadfastly stand by Hing. I sometimes do the tadka with cumin + Hing.
Add the pea paste that you just made. Sprinkle 1/4 tsp of Dry Roasted Cumin + Red Chilli Powder(Bhaja Moshla). Add salt to taste. If your peas are not sweet enough add a little sugar. If you like it hot add some Red Chili Powder. Improvise.
Now keep stirring till the water from the pea mix totally evaporates and the mixture becomes dry, thicker and congeals like in 4th picture anti-clockwise. This takes a good 15 minutes or more. Basically it should come to a stage where you can make a small ball for the stuffing.
Now let us first work on the dough for the Parota. I am not really a flour girl and flour intimidates me. So though I have tried to bring it all down to numbers the merit of your dough is in your kneading
The following measure makes more Parathas than the stuffing I made. Since I make smaller sized Parathas this measure gave me about 14 small parotas.
AP Flour/Maida ~ 1 cup
Whole Wheat Flour ~ 1 cup
White Oil for shortening ~ 1&1/2 tbsp. many people use ghee as shortening too.
Salt ~ a pinch or say 1/4tsp
Warm Water ~ 1 cup(added gradually). Some people add warm milk to make a softer dough, I haven't, you can try.
Dry Flour ~ in a plate for rolling the Paratha.
In a wide mouthed bowl add the flour, the salt and the oil for shortening.
With your finger tips rub in the oil into the flour.
Now gradually add the warm water working the flour into a dough. If it becomes too watery don't panic and add a smattering of flour but it is smart to be cautious with the water.
Knead the dough till it does not stick to your fingers at all.
Keep on kneading till the dough becomes alabaster smooth, soft and pliable.
Cover with a damp cloth or damp kitchen towel and let it rest for 15-20 minutes.
Once again pummel/knead the dough and make small ping-pong sized balls from it.
Now start rolling as follows
Roll a small disc
Make a small ball out of the stuffing and put in the center of the disc
Bunch up all sides to make a purse
Now pinch the dough to cover up the opening and flatten it out on the palm of your hand.
Roll out sprinkling a little dry flour as you go
Heat a skillet/tawa. Place the rolled paratha on the heated tawa and cook on one side until bubbles starts to appear.
Flip the other side and pour oil in drops around the edges of the paratha.
After half a minute or so flip again and again add oil around the edges. Keep doing this, every side half a minute or so until the paratha is cooked on bot sides. There will be little brown spots on the surface and then you know you are done.
For making Kochuri we use more Maida/AP Flour and more shortening
AP Flour/Maida ~ 1&3/4 cup
Whole Wheat Flour ~ 1/4 cup
White Oil for shortening ~ 2 tbsp
Make the dough just like the Parota but knead a little more.
Kachuri is deep fried and smaller in size so make smaller discs. Put stuffing and roll just like above only a bit thinner.
Now heat oil in a wok/kadhai and deep fry the kochuri till both sides puff up.
This process is more like making luchi which I have here and here.
Enjoy these with some Alur Dom or Cholar Dal or just by themselves.


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Small details, big picture: CSA looks for a better way to grow food
TOWN OF RICHMOND—Turtle Creek Gardens is the kind of farm where the small details come into focus.
The smell of the ground thawing after a long winter is a subtle aroma.
The snorting puffs of the cattle sound like an invitation to conversation.
The expanse of sprouts in the greenhouse seems like a botanical wonder rather than the beginning of commonplace greens.
It feels like magic, but it's not. It's just a farm in rural Walworth County where the quiet allows visitors to refocus their senses—and reconsider how they live.�
Turtle Creek Gardens, located just northwest of Delavan, is among a dozen or so community-supported agriculture ventures in south-central Wisconsin.
Usually referred to as CSAs, such ventures allow people to buy a share in the farm's produce from the late spring to fall.
Most farms offer just produce, but some include shares for flowers, cheese, honey, meat and eggs.
Many people are part of CSAs because the farms offer vegetables that are fresh from a local field, not shipped across the country from large-scale growing operations.
This year local CSAs and farmer's markets might see an uptick in business as vegetables and other goods from drought-stricken California become significantly more expensive.
Like many other CSAs, Turtle Creek is certified organic, but the farm also is committed to the biodynamic approach to raising food. Biodynamic farming is a set of principles developed by German philosopher and scientist Rudoph Steiner.�
Jim Stute, research director for the Michael Field's Institute, described it as "organic plus."
Stute said many of the products labeled for organic use would be "off the table" for biodynamic farms. First because they weren't generated on the farm, and second because of their impact on other parts of the ecosystem.�
For example, copper sulfate, which is labeled organic, has been linked to serious medical conditions and is toxic to fish and other aquatic species, according to Cornell University's Extension Toxicology Network.
In biodynamics, the farm is more of a closed system, generating its own fertilizer and plant protectants from livestock, herbs and other items already available on the farm.
"Basically, the philosophy behind it is that the whole farm is a self-contained entity," Stute said.
Fertilizers might come from simple compost mixes, and plant protectants might come from plants such as oak bark, valerian flowers and horsetail.
An herb mixture might be mixed with water and sprayed on plants as an anti-fungal to help prevent blight.
Soil life is at the center of biodynamic farming, as is the notion that the farm itself is a living entity that needs to be nourished, said Janet Gamble, Turtle Creek co-owner and manager.
It's similar to the way a human body functions, one part reliant on another and all dependent on the quality of inputs—diet, sleep and exercise.
Along with the general practices, biodynamic farming is a philosophy, a way of life that doesn't allow shortcuts for expediency's sake.
That means biodynamic farmers have to have a deeper, more "thoughtful relationship" with the work they're doing, Gamble said.
"What we do as humans becomes part of the system," Gamble said.
It's difficult to explain to outsiders, she said. A word such as "holistic" might work, but it's been used so often—and used to described everything from laundry soap to business plans—that it's lost its meaning.
"Everything is interconnected," she said. "The challenge is creating the right language so people can understand. One thing is related to the next and to the next and to the next."
For more information about Turtle Creek Gardens go to http://turtlecreekgardenscsa.com/


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Grandchildren are curious by nature, and it makes sense that they would be even more curious when it comes to medication. Many medications look and taste like candy.
Medications are the leading cause of child poisoning. In 2011, 67,700 children were seen in emergency rooms for medicine poisoning. That's one child every eight hours. Almost all of these visits are because the child got into medicines during a moment alone.
While it's important to encourage our grandkids to explore and discover new things, when it comes to medication, we want to be careful to keep them safe.
Here are a few tips to show you how:
• Put all medicines up and away and out of sight including your own. Make sure that all medicines and vitamins are stored out of reach and out of sight of children. In three out of four emergency room visits for medicine poisoning, the child got into medicine belonging to a parent or grandparent.
• Consider places where kids get into medicine. Kids get into medication in all sorts of places, like in purses and nightstands. In 67 percent of emergency room visits for medicine poisoning, the medicine was left within reach of a child, such as in a purse, on a counter or dresser or on the ground.
• Consider products you might not think about as medicines. Most grandparents store medicine up and away – or at least the products they consider to be medicine. They may not think about products such as diaper rash remedies, vitamins or eye drops as medicine, but they actually are and need to be stored safely.
• Use the dosing device that comes with the medicine. Proper dosing is important, particularly for young children. Kitchen spoons aren't all the same, and a teaspoon or tablespoon used for cooking won't measure the same amount as the dosing device. Use the dosing device that comes with the medicine to prevent dosing errors.
• Put the toll-free Poison Help Number into your home and cell phone: 1-800-222-1222. You also can put the number on your refrigerator or another place in your home where the babysitters and caregivers can see it. And remember, the poison help number is not just for emergencies; you can call with questions about how to take or give medicine.
For more safety tips, visit www.SafeKids.org.


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To bounce back, Phils need Doc in top form
Club hopes right-hander's troubling spring performance doesn't extend to season
By Hal Bodley / MLB.com
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Years ago, the late John Quinn, the Phillies' general manager at the time, called me aside and whispered: "Remember this: Spring Training performances are never as good as they look or as bad as they appear."
Those words are as credible today as they were 50-plus years ago when I first heard them. They still ring in my ears.
Especially as young phenoms hammer balls out of sight and pitchers look like they're going to win the Cy Young Award. Or veteran players and pitchers struggle mightily in games that don't count.
Call it the rites of Spring Training.
Yet as the Phillies set sail in an uphill attempt to regain the top spot in the National League East, it's difficult, or almost impossible, not to be concerned about the negatives this spring. It says here they're legitimate warning signs.
If the Phillies are to unseat the Nationals, last season's NL East champion, or even pass second-place Atlanta and return to the postseason, Quinn's adage must be proven true.
Start with this: As Roy Halladay goes, so go the Phillies.
There's no way to ignore Halladay's disappointing spring.
Phillies officials, including manager Charlie Manuel, are attempting to put a positive spin on Doc's problems.
There have been whispers that he's hurt, as evidenced by his fastball velocity, which has hovered in the 85- to 88-mph range. Doc works so hard, drives himself unmercifully and is the last person who'll admit something's wrong.
Maybe the wear and tear on his right arm has finally taken its toll -- those 2,687 1/3 innings he's thrown since tossing his first big league pitch for the Blue Jays in 1998.
Halladay, who will turn 36 on May 14, allowed seven runs in just 2 2/3 innings against the Tigers on March 12, then lasted only an inning on Sunday against Baltimore. He left that game because of a stomach virus that caused him to lose 10 pounds.
"I felt like I was going in the right direction before that," Halladay said of his illness. "It was just a bad time to have a setback and not be able to get my pitch count up to where I wanted."
If Halladay weren't coming off a difficult 2012 season during which he was on the disabled list for seven weeks, it would be easier not to fret over this year's Spring Training performance. His uncharacteristic 11-8 record and 4.49 ERA last season contributed to the Philllies' fall from dominance.
When Halladay was hit hard by the Tigers, Manuel was candid.
"Yeah, it concerns me," Manuel said. "But at the same time, I've been in the game long enough to know that if there's nothing wrong with him, you keep working with him. If he's healthy and well, and there's nothing wrong with him, then he's got to get stretched out."
According to pitching coach Rich Dubee, Wednesday's bullpen session went well.
That has set the stage for Saturday's start in a Minor League game at Carpenter Complex. Halladay's performance will be heavily scrutinized, and no matter how we try to avoid putting weight on Spring Training performances, that won't be the case on Saturday.
Halladay is hoping he can throw 75 pitches, then push that to 100 in what will be his final Florida start -- if all goes well.
If he regains his strength, Halladay will face Atlanta in the Phillies' season-opening series at Turner Field during the first week of April.
After Thursday night's game against the Red Sox, the Phillies will have only seven days left in Florida.
I believe it's unreasonable to expect the two-time Cy Young Award winner to return to his form of 2010, when he went 21-10 with a 2.44 ERA in his first season with the Phillies. Or even 2011, when his 19-6 record and 2.35 ERA helped Philadelphia win its fifth straight NL East title.
But if Doc cannot give the Phillies at least 15 wins, they can probably forget about the postseason. He's that important to this team.
For a club that finished third in the NL East in 2012, there's no wiggle room if the expectation is to return to the postseason, given the current makeup of the roster.
The four infielders -- newcomer Michael Young, Jimmy Rollins, Chase Utley and Ryan Howard -- are all in their mid-30s.
This could be the last big hurrah for Rollins, Utley and Howard, the homegrown nucleus of the team that won the five division titles, went to the World Series twice and won it in 2008.
Howard, recovering from 2011 offseason surgery on his left Achilles tendon, didn't play his first game last year until July 6. It was obvious he was far from 100 percent, batting just .219 with 14 homers. Howard entered Thursday in the midst of a strong spring, batting .314 with five homers and 14 RBIs.
Utley, out until June 27 last season because of chronic knee problems, batted just .256 after returning. This spring, his first in three years, he's struggled at the plate, batting only .227 with a homer.
Remember what Quinn told me?
The Phillies are hoping that Domonic Brown, who at one time was their top prospect, doesn't fall into that category. If his spring is legitimate, he could solve one of their outfield problems. He's having the best spring of anybody on the team, batting .397 with six homers and 12 RBIs.
"He's definitely gotten better in the outfield, and his hitting is real good," Manuel said. "He's got good balance at the plate. He's lowered his hands some, and he's catching the ball at an angle out front. That's when his power plays for him."
Cole Hamels, armed with a megabucks contract, has been awesome. Before facing the Red Sox on Thursday night, he was 2-0 with a 0.90 ERA in Grapefruit League play, having allowed just one earned run. Cliff Lee, on the other hand, has been so-so.
At dinner one night early in Spring Training, I asked Manuel what his team has to do to return to the top.
"The biggest thing is play the game better," Manuel said. "We just have to play the game better. That means pitching, defense and quality hitting.
"Last year, we didn't play the game right. We have to get back to playing good, solid baseball like we did all those years we won the division."
There have been spurts of that in Grapefruit League games, but there have also been periods of inconsistency that have irritated Manuel.
He believes this is a better team than he had in 2012, but there are numerous question marks, and the biggest one is on Roy Halladay's back.
Hal Bodley is the senior correspondent for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Warren "Chip" Clinton Schunk, Evansville, WI (1920-2014)
November 3, 1920 - January 11, 2014
Warren "Chip" Clinton Schunk passed away on Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014, after staying one day at the Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg, WI. He was 93 years old. He was born on Nov. 3, 1920, in Menomonee, WI, to Raymond and Pyrle (Snyder) Schunk. He served in the United States Army for four years. He made seventeen trips across the Atlantic Ocean carrying supplies to the troops in Europe, and serving as a medic for the returning solders that were wounded. He worked as a telephone lineman for several years with TDS out of Verona, WI, and retired in 1982; Yes, he was still climbing poles at 62 years of age! He loved to cook, bake pies and cookies, garden, make wood, read, catch and release fishing at his cabin in Rhinelander, WI, pick fruit at an orchard in Florida, and travel. He took many trips with his wife and sisters-in-law, Bev Manson and Sue Dobson, along with his brother-in-law, Tom (Linda) Hilts. He was fortunate to go on the Badger Honor Flight to Washington D.C., in the fall of 2011. He was so proud and impressed with all the wonderful people that volunteered their time to make that trip so special. No one ever told him "Thank you for serving" before. He wore his Red Hat everywhere. Warren was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Evansville.
Warren was married to Helen Painter for thirty five years, She preceded him in death in 1979. He had three sisters; Janice Bliesener of Sault Saint Marie, MI; and two preceded him in death, Jean Werner and Audrey Rasmussen. He also had three half sisters: Marilee (Robert) Marshall of Sun City, AZ, Fay (Robert) Marquardt of Menomonee Falls, and the Late Jane Rupert; a half brother, Robert (Suzan) Schunk of Hubertus, WI. Warren married Jeanette Hilts Elmer on May 3, 1980. He enjoyed family gatherings with Jeanette's four step children: Rhonda (Jim) Crans of Evansville, Lori (David) Goodspeed of Oregon WI, Mark (Susan) Elmer of Lakeland, MN, and Jeff (Ramona) Elmer of Fairfield, CT. Jeanette appreciates all the support from family and friends, especially their great neighbors: Howard Krueger, Joe and Tracy Ladick, Denny and Karen Reese and Gary Fuchs.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 6, 2014, at ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH, Evansville, with Reverend Matthew Poock officiating. A visitation will be held from 10 a.m. until the time of service on March 6, 2014, at the CHURCH. Memorials may be made to the Badger Honor Flight, Agrace HospiceCare or St. John's Lutheran Church, Evansville.
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Some predict need for parking, others say city should change
JANESVILLE--A meeting Monday was supposed to center on a new study on the availability of downtown parking. But statements from downtown business people who insisted they need more close parking grew into a debate about whether residents have the will to change their city.
The city plans to demolish its parking plaza above the Rock River and its 219 parking spots by about 2016, and staff is creating a plan so the community is prepared with a redevelopment plan.
At 75 percent occupancy, the study shows the downtown has adequate parking now and even as occupancy grows if customers are willing to walk about two blocks.
Replacement parking likely would be found for many in the Parker Drive parking ramp about a block away from the existing plaza.
Duane Cherek, a city planner, said in an earlier interview that the redevelopment efforts might mean a change in culture for residents who resist walking any distance downtown. He said people in Madison would be happy to find free parking even four blocks away.
But resident Ed Spenske said the only way to develop the downtown is to create convenient parking.
�"I've lived here all my life, and Janesville is by no means a forward-thinking community," he said. "We're always behind the curve. We're (more) reactive than proactive. We don't look to the future."
A representative from the downtown Janesville Athletic Club and downtown building manager Ed Pulliam worried their customers would not walk the additional block.
�"I submit to you, as a longtime manager of the Janesville Mall, that customers will not walk that," Pulliam said.
"I submit to you, this is not Madison … This is a smaller city, and the mindset of both the employees of the businesses and the customers, the clients, is different, he added. "I'm glad to see city staff thinks they can engineer a cultural change, but I don't have the confidence in them they have in themselves."
Patrick McDonald, though, a downtown attorney, differed in his opinion. He said the plaza might have been necessary when it was built in the 1960s, but there are fewer businesses now downtown and there is more parking.
"I think it is an attitude problem," McDonald said. "We are a different city than we were, and I do think people's attitudes will change. I'm an optimist. I think people will walk a block and a half, two blocks, to get to what they want, as has been proven by JPAC (the Janesville Performing Arts Center.)"
Joni Bozart, owner of Carousel Consignments, agreed parking will get tighter when the plaza comes down.
But, "What's your solution?" she asked Pulliam.
Pulliam said he didn't have one, although he noted the historic building that most recently housed Rock County Appliance is vacant and that the city owns the former Plaza Furniture store along the west riverfront.
Carl Weber, public works director, said other cities have used such amenities as riverfronts and historic buildings to make their downtowns attractive rather than building more parking.
The first thing Janesville needs to do is "take the lid off the top" of the river so the water is exposed, he said. Then the city should improve its walkways and provide recreation spots along the river and access for small boats, he said.
"Those are the kind of things that have attracted folks in downtown Green Bay, where my experience is," Weber said. "Where there was nothing but parking spots along the river, now there are all sorts of restaurants (and) office space on the river fronting the river.
"They are taking advantage of (the river,)" he said.
People will find places to park to get to services they want, he said.
�"We don't know what the answers are," Weber said.
But creative people must work together to balance the historic buildings, views of the river, and security issues, he said.
"Don't waste your energy listening to the naysayers," Weber said, noting other communities have successfully redeveloped their downtowns.
"We ought to have enough pride in ourselves in this community to know we can have a vibrant and active downtown, and it doesn't have to look like a mall," Weber said.
"I think there's a lot of people in this community who want things to be better, who want quality of life," he said. "Let's try to provide it."
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SMG, the management company of Soldier Field, 1410 S. Museum Campus Dr., in conjunction with Russ Potts Productions, announced that tickets went on sale today for the Saturday, Sept. 14, 2013 game between the Fighting Illini of the University of Illinois and the Washington Huskies at the historic stadium in Chicago. SMG has entered into an agreement with the University to host this rare collegiate football game. Illinois will be the third Big Ten football program to play at Soldier Field in as many years. The Fighting Illini last played at Soldier Field on Sept. 1, 1994 hosting current Pac-12 member Washington State, ending a 10-9 victory for the Cougars.
"College football is a great part of the legend of Soldier Field, and this game is a continued promise to bring first-class college football to the historic stadium and to Chicago," said Chicago Park District General Superintendent and CEO Michael Kelly. "From hosting the annual College All-Star game to former collegiate champions such as USC, Notre Dame and NIU, we are very proud that Soldier Field continues to be a significant venue in the history of collegiate football."
"This is a great opportunity for our football team to play in one of the most historic football venues in the nation," said University of Illinois Director of Athletics Mike Thomas. "Soldier Field is in an incredible location that will allow our fans in the Chicagoland area and from around the state an opportunity to watch the Fighting Illini take on an outstanding Pac-12 opponent."
Tickets are available at all Ticketmaster locations, including www.Ticketmaster.com, with starting prices of $30 for this event.
Please visit www.SoldierField.net for additional information on this and other exciting events.
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The flood of money moving out of U.S. banks when unlimited Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. coverage expired at the start of this year doesn't seem to have materialized. At the end of 2012, an estimated $1.5 trillion held in non-interest bearing bank accounts lost FDIC coverage when a financial crisis program, the Transaction Account Guarantee program (TAG), expired and FDIC insurance reverted to a maximum of $250,000. Much of the newly uninsured money was expected to shift from banks to other short-term investment products, like money-market funds, but in fact, banks saw more money coming in than going out late last year.
"What was expected was that when deposit insurance was scaled back to $250,000, there would be hundreds of billions flowing out of banks," Anthony Carfang, a partner at consultancy Treasury Strategies, said during a webcast earlier this month. Instead, "during the fourth quarter of 2012 leading up to the Dec. 31 expiration, deposits at U.S. banks actually increased," he said.
Federal Reserve data show bank deposits grew $357 billion, or 4%, during the fourth quarter.
"Either the market believes banks are healthier and don't need deposit insurance," Carfang said, "or corporate treasurers believe this money is guaranteed implicitly by the government."
Money funds did see more money coming in late last year and at the start of this year. Overall, money funds added $79.73 billion in assets in the three weeks ended Jan. 9, although that was followed by a $15.19 billion decline in the most recent week, according to data from the Investment Company Institute (ICI), an organization representing U.S. investment companies.
Institutional money funds, the type used by corporate treasuries, saw inflows of $59.38 billion in the three weeks ended Jan. 9, followed by an outflow of $5.73 billion in the most recent week, ICI data show.
The fact that both banks and money funds saw net inflows makes it hard to say how much money was being shifted from banks to money funds, according to Chris Plantier, a Senior Economist at ICI. "Our impression is that investors had a lot of cash at year-end, and they put some of it in banks and some of it in money funds," Plantier said.
The money that flowed into both banks and money funds might reflect investors' worries late last year about the fiscal cliff and their uncertainty about tax changes, Plantier said. "People were realizing capital gains, receiving dividends," Plantier says. "People had a lot of cash."
One sector where the effect of TAG's expiration seems to have been visible is among companies that take large amounts of institutional money, divide it up into chunks small enough to qualify for FDIC coverage and place it with banks, a service known as deposit placement or extended FDIC coverage. Such companies generally place the funds with community banks, which are more hungry for deposits than money center banks and willing to pay a slightly higher yield.
"In early December, we began to see significant new money," said Phil Battey, Senior Vice President of External Affairs at Promontory Financial. "In December and early January, the average weekly new money was more than 75% higher than in November."
Promontory offers Certificate of Deposit Account Registry Services, or CDARS, in maturities ranging from four weeks to five years, via a network of 3,000 banks. An investor can go to any bank in the network and it will accept a large sum, divide it into insurable amounts and farm those portions out to other banks in the network. The majority of money in CDARS comes from corporations and other institutional investors, Battey said,
Stephen Rotello, CEO of StoneCastle Cash Management, also cites a pickup. "Last week we took in $100 million in new deposits," he said. StoneCastle offers the Federally Insured Cash Account, or FICA, which gives investors weekly access to their funds, which are held as overnight demand deposits.
Tom Nelson, Chief Investment Officer at Reich & Tang, which offers the Demand Deposit Marketplace, added that banks are also are exhibiting more interest as they look for ways to reassure their investors in the wake of TAG's expiration. "Clearly the community banks are increasing their ability to offer these programs," he says.
Nelson agrees that the amount of money being shifted in respond to TAG's expiration was "muted" compared with the talk going into year-end, but notes that investors had plenty of warning that the unlimited insurance was going away.
"Those people that were really, really worried about having their deposits in an uninsured position, they acted before year-end," he said. "The largest group of investors have their deposits at larger banks where the too-big-to-fail argument makes them comfortable."
Some investors may have held off acting in hope that TAG would be renewed. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid proposed legislation in November that would have extended TAG for two years, but the Senate blocked the measure in December. "Our sense of the market was that there was not as much planning as we would have expected," said StoneCastle's Rotello.
January is a busy time for companies and for banks, he says, but treasurers are assessing the situation and figuring out what to do with their cash.
"In some cases, if their funds are at large money center banks, they may say, 'My funds are safe,'" Rotello said, but adds, "As the months roll on, I would expect to see treasurers continue to reallocate their cash."


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David Lowry Grundahl, Council Bluffs, IA/formerly Janesville, WI (1955-2013)
David Lowry Grundahl, age 58, passed away at his home from complications following a brain injury. David was born Aug. 9, 1955, to Amos and Isabel Grundahl in Janesville, WI. He was baptized and confirmed into Christian faith at First Lutheran Church in Janesville, WI. He received his early education from Parker High School, graduating in 1973, and, later, enrolled at the University of Wisconsin, attaining his Bachelor of Science Degree in 1977. He served as a buyer for Blain Farm and Fleet for twelve years in Janesville, before moving to Council Bluffs, in 1992, to work for SMV Industries, where he has worked since as their general manager.
Survivors include his brother, Mark of Whitewater, WI; his sister, Nordis (Andrew) Olson of Windom, MN; a niece, Gudrun (Jon) Wolfgram and their children, Arik and Audin; a nephew, Lars Olson; nieces: Sonja Olson and fianc� Dave Montgomery, Hanna Olson, and Sarah Grundahl. He was preceded in death by his parents.
Visitation and a Memorial Service were held Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013, at CUTLER-O'NEILL-MEYER-WOODRING BAYLISS PARK CHAPEL in Council Bluffs, IA. Graveside services will be held Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013, at 11 a.m. at PERRY LUTHERAN CHURCH CEMETERY, Daleyville WI, with Pastor Sara Gillespie, officiating. Luncheon and fellowship will follow at Perry Lutheran Church. All are invited to meet at Perry Lutheran Church Cemetery.
Cutler-O'Neill-Meyer-Woodring Bayliss Park Chapel
545 Willow Avenue, Council Bluffs, IA 51503
712-322-7779 www.cutleroneill.com


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The Fiber Disease
Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Medicine. Anything human!
Moderator: BioTeam
Thanks for the info Nettimo. Never heard of her but with a title like that it could only be a real flop.
I was inspired today so I wrote this.
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Dear New York Times,
I have always admired your professionalism and very much appreciate the invaluable service that you provide to the public. Thank you!
Today however, I felt compelled to write to you to point out some very major, detrimental, and punitive errors in an article published here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/healt ... ref=slogin
Is It Disease or Delusion? U.S. Takes on a Dilemma
By MICHAEL MASON
Published: October 24, 2006
"Earlier this year, a young man in Texas reportedly committed suicide after struggling with what his mother has described as Morgellons."
I am wondering where your reporter got this information because this is not true at all. Perhaps they should have investigated and contacted his Mother to asked her what really happened to her son Travis.
The truth is we don't know what killed Travis but suicide was a premature assumption and has defiantly been ruled out and long ago. The truth is we do not know if this disease kills or not because no one has investigated or done any studies on this yet and if they have then they sure are not telling.
I will agree that suicide sounds better than the fact that we have a serious epidemic spreading all across America and other countries that we know almost nothing about and the CDC still cannot get a handle on. But suicide, no, NOT TRUE, this is just not the case here.
Please amend your article accordingly.
One other extremely important point is that your reporter wrote about a delusional disorder when addressing this clinical condition. Infected individuals are able to expel fibers (red, white, blue, and black) from their skin that everyone is able to witness. Many doctors have witnessed this first hand as well. I invite you to look for your self just as Brandi Koch offered,"the show of a life time." Why not take her up on it?
For that matter, I am sure any infected individual would be happy to show you how this manifests through the skin. Do you not agree that your reporter should have asked to see this for himself so he could report this story like a professional journalist?
Now there is a concept, how about doing some investigating and witnessing this phenomena first hand so that this extremely important issue can be reported properly!
Please inform your reporter that delusions cannot be seen, touched, observed or video taped and that psychosomatic conditions cannot produce solid matter such as this either. (where did you find this guy?)
One question I have is if your reporter did actually investigate this and see it for him self, would he be considered delusional also? Perhaps this is the reason this crucial, basic, and common sense step to professional investigative reporting was obviously left out of this story. This simple task would have certainly ruled out the unfounded accusations of being delusional. Then your agency would really have a huge story and an accurate one too.
Many people who have this condition would be willing to submit to any interviews and/or observations that you may request in order to rule out that the growing mass of sufferers are not mentally ill and definitely not imagining this medical phenomenon.
We have a very real and bizarre epidemic on our hands. When will you allow the truth to be told?
Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions and please amend the article as I have requested.
Sabrina ~Fiber Disease Victim
I invite you all to write to them as well, let them know how you feel about this injustice.
My gosh.....what the heck is going on? Watch your back there. Sounds like the nannies want to control all the babies........If not by fear by other means. This is nasty.....
For all of you here is a No Fear Act you might be interested in........
Found more after reading article on P. Aeruginosa
This talks of hydrogen cyanide biosynthetic gene.
and Catabolism.
So found this:
"Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a gram-negative bacterium that can cause serious infections in patients suffering from cystic fibrosis, cancer, infection with human immunodeficiency virus, or severe burn wounds (16, 29). The pathogenesis of P. aeruginosa infections is due to the production of both cell-associated and extracellular virulence factors. One of these extracellular compounds, hydrogen cyanide (HCN), has been found at relatively high concentrations in patients with freshly infected burns (27). Evidence for HCN being a virulence factor comes from an experimental infection model in which an hcn insertion mutant of P. aeruginosa had a strongly reduced ability to kill the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (L. Gallagher and C. Manoil, Abstr. Pseudomonas '99: Biotechnol. Pathog., abstr. 75, 1999). Cyanide is a potent inhibitor of cytochrome c oxidase, the terminal component of the aerobic respiratory chain in many organisms, and of several other important metalloenzymes (52)."
Long article but this above tells us that a cyanide is the cause of the breakdown inside our bodies.
Catabolism is the metabolic process that breaks down molecules into smaller units. It is made up of degradative chemical reactions in the living cell. Large polymeric molecules (polysaccharides, nucleic acids and proteins) are processed into their constituent monomeric units (i.e. monosaccharides, nucleotides and amino acids, respectively).
Cells use monomers to construct new polymeric molecules and disassemble them to simple cellular metabolites (lactic acid, acetic acid, carbon dioxide, ammonia, urea, etc.). The creation of cellular metabolites is an oxidation process involving a release of chemical free energy, not all of which is lost as heat, but some of which is partially conserved through the coupled synthesis of adenosine triphosphate. The hydrolysis of this compound is subsequently used to drive almost every energy-requiring reaction in the cell. Catabolism provides the chemical energy necessary for the maintenance of the living cell. Examples of catabolic processes include breakdown of muscle protein in order to use amino acids as substrates for gluconeogenesis and breakdown of fat in adipose to fatty acids.
Because it is counterproductive to have anabolic and catabolic processes occurring in cells simultaneously, there are many signals that switch on anabolic processes while switching off catabolic processes and vice versa. Most of the known signals are hormones and the molecules involved in metabolism itself. Endocrinologists have traditionally classified many of the hormones as anabolic or catabolic."
more definitions:
"The secondary metabolite hydrogen cyanide (HCN) is produced by Pseudomonas fluorescens from glycine, essentially under microaerophilic conditions. The genetic basis of HCN synthesis in P. fluorescens CHA0 was investigated. The contiguous structural genes hcnABC encoding HCN synthase were expressed from the T7 promoter in Escherichia coli, resulting in HCN production in this bacterium"
"HCN synthase were expressed from the T7 promoter in E. coli"
So, if we can find more on this angle then the rest should follow. This adapts in the environment.
Watching the video, I see the total connectiont to protists, in particular the "little animacules"
More on that later,
Hang tight there, and know we are here.
Sorry to offend anyone. I meant every word I said in two of those post from me, but that third one? I do not even remember! Sorry once again, espeically to snowflake.
Look, I think these are Tams old C3 firbres
Discharge patterns of human C-fibers induced by itching and burning stimuli
H. O. Handwerker, C. Forster and C. Kirchhoff
Institut fur Physiologie und Biokybernetik, Erlangen, Federal Republic of Germany.
1. The aim of this investigation was to study the peripheral neural mechanisms of the C-fiber-mediated modalities of burning pain and itch by the use of microneurography of human unmyelinated afferents. 2. Sixteen stable recordings of single C-fibers and 6 multiunit recordings were obtained from the superficial radial nerves of volunteers. All units were excited by stimulating their receptive fields with von Frey bristles (range 10-600 mN), and all but four units were also driven by radiant heat stimulation. 3. Histamine was iontophoretically applied to the receptive fields of these units for 20 or 30 s and was found to provoke itching sensations lasting several minutes, together with wheal and flare responses. Subsequently a solution containing 20 or 30% mustard oil was applied to the receptive field of the respective unit, which provoked a sensation of burning pain. 4. One-half of the units were excited by histamine, and the median discharge rates derived from interspike intervals ranged from approximately 0.1 to 0.8 Hz. Mustard oil-induced activity was observed in all histamine-sensitive units and also in three single units and in one multiunit recording that revealed no histamine response. Median interval-derived discharge rates ranged from 0.2 to 1.2 Hz. 5. Analysis of the interspike interval distribution and of the autocorrelation function derived from the chemically induced discharges of single units provided no evidence for an encoding of itch and burning pain in different discharge patterns of units responding to histamine and to mustard oil.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Okay so what is a C-fiber?
C fiber
Any of the unmyelinated fibers, 0.4 to 1.2 micrometers in diameter, conducting nerve impulses at a velocity of 0.7 to 2.3 meters per second.
okay, 7 to 2.3 m/sec
Now, if those are myelinated:
myelin sheath
The insulating envelope of myelin that surrounds the core of a nerve fiber or axon and facilitates the transmission of nerve impulses. In the peripheral nervous system, the sheath is formed from the cell membrane of the Schwann cell and, in the central nervous system, from oligodendrocytes. Also called medullary sheath."
Okay, now.......if we go a little further......
Microneurography (Hagbarth, Vallbo): Microneurography is a method to record the traffic of impulses in human nerves with percutaneously inserted needle electrodes. The method was developed by Hagbarth and Vallbo in the late 60s in the department. They were able to record single units from individual axons in human nerves with electrodes manufactured from tungsten wires. They did the pioneer work of developing the method recording from muscle afferents such as muscle spindles. This project continued to develop over the years and recruited new collaborators from different parts of the world. The microneurographic method has been used widely internationally and has given insight into a number of questions regarding muscle spindle function in normal and in patients with spasticity or rigidity.
The method has also been used to explore a number of neural systems in healthy human volunteers, e.g. proprioceptive, tactile, nociceptive and autonomic mechanisms"
http://www.neurofys.uu.se/v2/index.php? ... rch/micron
A nociceptor is a sensory receptor that sends signals that cause the perception of pain in response to potentially damaging stimulus. Nociceptors are the nerve endings responsible for nociception, one of the two types of persistent pain (the other, neuropathic pain, occurs when nerves in the central or peripheral nervous system are damaged). When they are activated, nociceptors can trigger a reflex. LocationNociceptors are sensory neurons that are found in external tissues such as skin, cornea and mucosa as well as in internal organs, such as the muscle, joint, bladder and gut. The cell bodies of these neurons are located in either the dorsal root ganglia or the trigeminal ganglia. Types and functionsThere are several types of nociceptor and they are classified according to the stimulus modalities to which they respond: i.e. thermal, mechanical or chemical. C fiber axons. Thus, pain often comes in two phases, the first mediated by the fast-conducting Aδ fibers and the second part due to C fibers. Silent nociceptors do not usually fire action potentials, though they are much more likely to do so in the presence of inflammation or damaging chemicals (Kandel et al, 2000). Together these nociceptors allow the organism to feel pain in response to damaging pressure, excessive heat, excessive cold and a range of chemicals, the majority of which are damaging to the tissue surrounding the nociceptor. PathwayAfferent nociceptive fibers (those that send information to, rather than from the brain) travel back to the spinal cord where they form synapses in its dorsal horn. The cells in the dorsal horn are divided into physiologically distinct layers called laminae. Different fiber types form synapses in different layers. Aδ fibers form synapses in laminae I and V, C fibers connect with neurons in lamina II, Aβ fibers connect with lamina IV. Information is then sent from the spinal cord to the thalamus and the cerebral cortex in the brain. ReferencesKandel E.R., Schwartz, J.H., Jessell, T.M. 2000. Principles of Neural Science, 4th ed., pp.472-479. McGraw-Hill, New York.
Nervous system - Sensory system - Somatosensory system - [ edit]
Spinal pathway: Somatosensory information
Medial lemniscus: Touch (Pressure & Vibration) | Proprioception
Spinothalamic tract: Pain | Temperature
Touch: Pacinian corpuscles | Meissner's corpuscles | Merkel's discs | Ruffini endings | Free nerve endings | Hair follicle receptors
Proprioception: Golgi organ | Muscle spindle (Intrafusal muscle fiber)
Pain: Nociceptors Temperature: Thermoreceptors
Just a few definitions.
hair follicle receptors:
Stem cells are located at the junction of the arrector and the follicle, and are principally responsible for the ongoing hair production during the Anagen stage.
Certain species of Demodex mites live in the hair follicles of mammals (including those of humans) where they feed on sebum.
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Hair grows in cycles of various phases: anagen is the growth phase; catagen is the involuting or regressing phase; and telogen, the resting or quiescent phase. Each phase has several morphologically and histologically distinguishable sub-phases. Prior to the start of cycling is a phase of follicular morphogenesis (formation of the follicle). There is also a shedding phase, or exogen, that is independent of anagen and telogen in which one of several hairs that might arise from a single follicle exits. Normally up to 90% of the hair follicles are in anagen phase while, 10–14% are in telogen and 1–2% in catagen. The cycle's length varies on different parts of the body. For eyebrows, the cycle is completed in around 4 months, while it takes the scalp 3–4 years to finish; this is the reason eyebrow hairs have a fixed length, while hairs on the head seem to have no length limit. Growth cycles are controlled by a chemical signal like epidermal growth factor."
more on hair follicles:
following the sensory:
The proprioceptive sense is believed to be composed of information from sensory neurons located in the inner ear (motion and orientation) and in the stretch receptors of joints and muscles (stance). There are specific nerve receptors for this form of perception, just as there are specific receptors for pressure, light, temperature, sound, and other sensory experiences.
Although it was known that finger kinesthesia relies on skin sensation, recent research has found (Robles-De-La-Torre & Hayward, 2001) that kinesthesia-based haptic perception strongly relies on the forces experienced during touch. This research allows the creation of "virtual", illusory haptic shapes with different perceived qualities (see the MIT Technology Review article The Cutting Edge of Haptics
Now back to the C-fiber. Three levels of epidermis?
http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/fu ... /9620/FIG1
from this link:
Now I do not know if this is the C-3 but I am beginning to wonder.
Think this pertains, London?
"Shaposhnikov and A. V. Zeveke
Received: 31 January 1975
Abstract Afferent activity in thin myelinated and unmyelinated cutaneous nerve fibers was analyzed by an impulse collision method and by methods improving the signal-to-noise ratio in the record of the antidromic action potential. The following groups were distinguished among the thin myelinated and unmyelinated nerve fibers on the basis of the results of investigation of conduction velocities, thresholds of electrical excitation, and response to mechanical stimulation: A 1 (conduction velocity 30-14 m/sec) — a relatively larger number of these fibers conducts excitation in response to weak mechanical stimulation; A 2 (14–4.0 m/sec) — the receptors of these fibers are more easily excited by a strong stimulus; a group of "mixed" fibers, containing myelinated and unmyelinated nerve fibers (4–2 m/sec), conducting excitation in response to both types of mechanical stimulation; C1 (2.0–1.0 m/sec) — a fairly large number of these unmyelinated fibers conducts impulses in response to weak mechanical stimulation; C2 (1.0–0.15 m/sec) the majority of fibers of this group is connected with receptors requiring strong mechanical stimulation for their excitation.
Research Institute of Applied Mathematics and Cybernetics, N. I. Lobachevskii State University, Gor'kii. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 67–75, January–February, 1976.
source: http://www.springerlink.com/content/m8l29734t5368957/
So we just might become electrical bodies for the peruse of who, again?
New book speaking of above:
So, In conclusion........
I am ......ur......thinking that if the velocity is increased by some form of electrical stimilus..
from .7 to 2.3 m/sec.....in unmyelinated
now consider from the above article:
A 1 (conduction velocity 30-14 m/sec) — a relatively larger number of these fibers conducts excitation in response to weak mechanical stimulation; A 2 (14–4.0 m/sec) — the receptors of these fibers are more easily excited by a strong stimulus; a group of "mixed" fibers, containing myelinated and unmyelinated nerve fibers (4–2 m/sec), conducting excitation in response to both types of mechanical stimulation; C1 (2.0–1.0 m/sec) — a fairly large number of these unmyelinated fibers conducts impulses in response to weak mechanical stimulation; C2 (1.0–0.15 m/sec) the majority of fibers of this group is connected with receptors requiring strong mechanical stimulation for their excitation
So, the higher mechanical stimulation the more stimulated the nerves become. Now, If outside electrical or even consistent low frequency is constantly applied, what does that do to the myelin sheath? Or if there is unmyelinated nerve fibers that increase would most likely destroy them.
Red could be those still alive, black dead ones, blue the markers to register how high the voltage.
Far fetched, but, this is related to the nerve fibers in the skin, the sensory fibers, etc.
Crazy or fumbling?
Recent discovery from polling people....gonna try polling here.
It appears that those with an RH factor that is positive catch this in households where those without the monkey protein do not.(RH negative)
It does not matter what blood type you have (A-B-AB-O) but the factor may play a role. Those with RH (Rhesus..like the monkey) have a certain protein those with RH negative do not have this protein. This protein may feed this disease.
That is why you see moms and kids with it. Usually they are one factor. Also if the dad is negative and mom is postive it can cause trouble and I am wondering about the PH of those that have lost while carrying.
How many people here have rh positive blood and how many have family members that do not have this, with RH negative blood?
My observation so far is that 100% of those with RH positive blood have caught this or have this and those with RH negative blood are immune. I only have a small sampling of friends and famly to pull from so far.
Feeedback needed. Honest feedback if you KNOW what factor you have and the factor of those who have caught this and those that appear to be immune.
If you do not want to report here, please write me at [email protected]
During the End Times, Good will battle Evil. Where do you stand?
Oh Oh Oh!!!! Great things are happening!!!!!!! Doors are opening!
Did you guys catch the Rense show? OMG!!!! What potential! New hope for treatment!
We are moving in many direction. THANK YOU EVERYBODY!!!!
Thought I would pass this along to all of you. I recieved it at 3:38 this afternoon.
Dear Ms. Sabrina
Thank you for reading The Times, and for your kind comments. I will alert the editors who handled Mr. Mason's article and make sure they see the points you have raised.
When we run corrections, they appear on Page A2 of the print editions. And the day they are published, you can find them under the "Corrections" label on the home page of nytimes.com. If the editors determine that no correction is warranted, someone will be in touch to explain why that is the case.
We depend on readers like you, Ms. Sabrina, to keep us on our collective toes and insist that we uphold the standards you have come to expect of The Times.
Best regards,
Greg Brock
Senior Editor
BCC: Science Desk.
Sky, thanks for the words of encouragement, I needed them.
London, are you still alive? (just kidding… I think) Please check in periodically.
Snowflake, Welcome to biology on line. Forgive my delay in greeting you.
Tamtam, what's your view on the silicon claiming to be found in the new lab reports?
Randy, never mind, I didn't read your post.
Try this type association:
exopolymer matrix, pigmented filament, silica, silicon etc etc.
Its a synthetic micro organism (GMO/ select agent)
No literature is readily available as I hope you do understand.
The netting you see can be associated with a wing matrix.
Check: wing vein(ation)
JSTOR: Silicon Compounds in Biological Systems
B. 171, 19-30 (1968) Printed in Great Britain Silicon compounds in biological systems BY A. C. ALLISON Clinical Research Centre Laboratories, Mill Hill, ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0080-4649(19680813)171%3A1022%3C19%3ASCIBS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-X - Similar pages
Copy extract in google
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Hi Randy,
Please call your contact, Dan Rutz and ask him why Jan Smith has had to hire her own pathologist to do her own study to find out what is going on with her "dillusions". This is outrageous. Please tell him that his agency is good for nothing and that if we have to put our faith in his system - the one we pay him for, as it is now, we might as well live in Zaire and get better treatment.
Identifying Non-Targets From Fall Armyworm Pheromone Captures ...
... worn and tattered, with many of the wing and body scales missing. ... of L. phragmatidicola has a rough texture with wing veination clearly visible. ...
Copy this link in Google and check figure 12
Photo 12: The main "bone" of this wing relates to what is expressed in the mold as a fiber (bone/ vein)
Pigmentation seems to relate most to the signal colors of an insect wing.
The 2D steps on the wing relate to 3D expressions.
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Developmental Biology Online: Gradient Models of Positional ...
(A) Photograph of an eyespot on the wing of Morpho peleides. (B) Diagram of a two-gradient model that may explain the way the spot was generated. ...
Gradient Models of Positional Information
How can cells be informed of their position in the embryo and then use that information to differentiate into the appropriate cell type?
Excerpt article:
(Concerns article: 3.3 Gradient Models of Positional Information)
This is the link:
http://7e.devbio.com/search_result.php? ... informatio
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Elkhorn City Council votes to close Sunset Park pool this summer
ELKHORN – Children in Elkhorn will need to find a new pool to splash around in come summer.
The Elkhorn City Council voted 4-2 Monday night to close the pool at Sunset Park this summer. Aldermen Hoss Rehberg and Gary Payson Sr. voted against closing the pool.
The council came to the conclusion after a debate about whether opening the pool was fiscally responsible and fair to students who count on it has employment.
Several aldermen also voiced concern about possible complaints regarding the pool's compliance with certain regulations, such as handicapped accessibility standards. The pool has not been in compliance with handicapped accessibility standards for about 20 years, said Carter Arndt, project architect for MSA Professional Services.
There is funding for a handicap lift in the 2014 budget, but Alderman Brian Olson suggested the city hold on to that money and add it to the $3.5 million budget for the new pool.
One alderman, Scott McClory, suggested to "roll the dice" one more year and keep the pool open for the summer because the city has not had any previous problems or complaints.
Alderman James D'Alessandro said the city has been fortunate and should close the pool for the summer.
In 2013, the city council proposed a new facility to replace the pool at Sunset Park. Funds for the new center will come from the city's $7.5 million capital improvements budget.
In a November non-binding referendum, Elkhorn residents voted in favor of replacing the pool.
Closing the pool is not ideal, Wendy Ard, Elkhorn recreation director, said after the vote.
Twelve to 16 college students who work at the pool during the summer may not have jobs, Ard said. She is hoping to give the students summer jobs as camp counselors.
"I don't like that we can't provide the community with a pool, but in the same sense, in 2015, they will have a brand new pool," Ard said.
Olson said he has been in contact with area schools, organizations and centers regarding alternatives for the pool.
In a unanimous vote Monday night, the city council also approved MSA Professional Services to lead the pool planning, design and construction process.
Construction will start as early as Aug. 1, and the goal is to have the pool open in June 2015, Arndt said.
Soil samples from Sunset Park will be taken in February. If those come back OK, the design process will start in March. Demolition will begin no earlier than Aug. 1, Arndt said.
The city has no definite design plans, but it has several minimum requirements, including handicapped accessibility to the pool and showers, zero-depth entry and six swimming lanes and starting blocks for the city swim teams.
Mayor Howie Reynolds appointed a steering committee to oversee the pool's design process at the meeting. It includes aldermen and other community representatives.�


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Staying strong as we age
When we finished playing racquetball last night, my buddy and I were chatting about the State Fair back in 1957, when he was 15.
"That's the year I was born," I responded, much to his irritation.
I think the fact that I'm 56 and playing racquetball with a guy 15 years older than me—and he wins more often than I do—says more about his physical fitness than it does about my lack of racquetball skill. (I always say there's nothing wrong with my game that a little quickness and a good "kill" shot wouldn't solve.) My buddy has been playing racquetball for more than 30 years, while I've only been playing for about five, but still, he's in remarkable shape.
Then I think of my dad. He turned 83 this month, and when I call and ask how he is, he'll say, "Getting weaker every day." He has a dry sense of humor and is trying to be funny, but that statement holds a measure of truth.
I always admired Dad as a strong guy raised on a farm. He used to lug quarter slabs of beef over his back while delivering meat for Swift. Now, back problems and decades of smoking have caught up with him. He uses a handicapped sign in his pickup and won't walk any farther than he has to. He's fallen a couple of times, and my encouragement that he use a cane and walk for exercise each day to build up his strength and balance gets nowhere.
I wish he had and would join a program like the one Shelly Birkelo wrote about in today's Gazette. A half-dozen men at Grinnell Hall Senior Center in Beloit are taking part in the program designed to build strength and improve balance. Leading it is Paula Schutt, whose own father was in his 80s when he fell, hit his head and died on the operating table.
I've always been active and, unlike Dad, enjoyed sports. If I'm still alive at age 70 or even 80, I hope to be more like my racquetball buddy, able to enjoy an active life, than quietly living out my twilight years like Dad is doing.
Greg Peck can be reached at (608) 755-8278 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Or follow him on Twitter or Facebook.
Greg Peck can be reached at (608) 755-8278 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Or follow him on Twitter or Facebook.


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Let's face it: In this economy the pressure is on for attorneys to find ways to increase efficiency and cut expenses without sacrificing quality. The free apps below can be very helpful in this regard. And while most of these apps are not specifically designed to aid the practice of law, they should nevertheless be included in every lawyer's digital tool box. Here are the top 11:
1. Asana (Free for teams up to 15) Android; iPhone
Asana is an easy-to-use, web-based group-project manager that makes it easier for attorneys and paralegals to work together on a big case. Each team member gets a workspace where they can add comments, attachments and tags to the tasks on which they are collaborating. Each user also gets their own inbox which organizes and updates new information in real time, so e-mailing is not needed. The most important benefit is that the lead attorney can spend more time working on the case itself and less time checking up on the other members of the group.
2. Documents 5 (Free) iPhone
This app represents an overhaul of Documents, by Readdle. It has many applications for law offices as it is designed for optimal file management, document viewing and media playing. It allows users to read, listen to, watch, download or annotate just about any kind of file. It is a download manager, external storage device, cloud service manager and full browser with the ability to download files from the web all wrapped up into one. A team of attorneys that make full use of this application can streamline efficiency and productivity.
3. Word Lens (Free) Android, iPhone
It may be a stretch to include Word Lens on a "legal app" list, but this is one of the most incredible apps created to date, and every lawyer should download it. Just point your phone at street signs, billboards, magazine covers, etc. and this app will translate the words into your native language. No wonder Google acquired Quest Visual, the maker of Word Lens, as this app is ideally suited for Google Glass. Possible uses include translating foreign script on an exhibit, or ordering from a foreign-language menu at an attorney-client lunch.
4. iTimeKeep (Free) Android, iPhone
It is a simple fact of life that lawyers' lives are governed by the world of 6-minute time increments that require tracking and diligent recording. As much as we may love our work and our clients, it's our billable hours that keep food on the table and gas in the car. Most importantly, this app can be integrated with most billing systems.
5. Hootsuite (Free for up to 5 social profiles) Android, iPhone
Every modern attorney uses social media, even if it is just to market your firm or personal services. Hootsuite lets you use a single dashboard to view and respond to up to five social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, FourSquare and Instagram. This app helps you keep track of your social media presence and makes it much less likely that you will miss responding to a question from an existing client or a request for more info from a potential client
6. Evernote (Free) Android, iPhone
By now, most people have heard of this amazing note-taking app, but lawyers may not appreciate how useful Evernote can be. For example, you probably know that you can save, sync and share notes, to-do lists and files across all of your devices. But did you know you can also search for text inside images and add sketches to notes? This functionality has many applications during a trial or interview.
7. ScanBizCards (Free) Android, iPhone
Even in the 21st Century, exchanging business cards with clients and colleagues is still important for lawyers. With ScanBizCards, you will never have to worry about losing or misplacing a business card again. This app doesn't just scan and add contacts to your address book, it allows you to use premium features to add calendar reminders, sync all of your devices, and follow up with quick e-mails to potential clients or colleagues you meet while networking. But make sure you inform the person that you have scanned their card before you hand it back, otherwise, they may think you are just being rude.
8. Onavo Extend (Free) Android, iPhone
This app is a wonderful money saver for lawyers on a budget! Onavo compresses unencrypted data so that you only consume as little as one-fifth the amount of data as you normally would. This is a great way to avoid overage if you are on a limited data plan, and it will also let you work faster if you are on a slower 2G network. Combine the benefits of this app with the benefits you get from the other apps on our list and you have a winning combination.
9. Wild About Trial (Free) Android, iPhone
Wild About Trial is great for criminal law attorneys or law school students who want to follow big cases in the news. This app provides up-to-the-minute news, insider legal perspectives and unlimited access to the facts of the country's most captivating criminal trials. Users also get biographies of the major players from judges to defendants, documents directly from the court file, and live feeds of court proceedings when available. This app provides information that is both educational and interesting.
10. Fastcase (Free for smartphones) Android, iPhone
While the full version of Fastcase requires a subscription, like Westlaw or Lexis Nexis, the iPhone and Android apps are free. The smartphone application is a lighter version of the complete Fastcase service, but it is nevertheless an extremely powerful research tool. It is a great way to do a quick search of recent cases or for pulling statutes when you are out of the office — perhaps during your commute or while you are on a break at the courthouse. Also, many local bar associations offer the full-service version of Fastcase a free benefit for members.
11. Legal Newsance (Free)iPhone
This is app is like a multi-functional Swiss Army knife; it offers essential legal news, practice tools, legal forms, general know-how, CLE info and even job listings. For the solo-practitioner, Legal Newsance can be an especially valuable source of helpful information.


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Where were you 50 years ago?
Where were YOU when YOU heard the report that President Kennedy had been assassinated?
One of the most interesting features among the myriads of articles, columns, editorials on this 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, is the comments by readers, "Why we still remember where we were when Kennedy was assassinated"
Perhaps YOU will post a comment with this blog telling readers about where you were when YOU heard the report that President Kennedy had been assassinated.� I hope so.� I will be reading.
I myself was in graduate school on the campus of THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY in Washington, DC.� President Kennedy had delivered the commencement address at The American University on June 10, 1963.� That address was titled by The White House, "A Strategy of Peace."� President Kennedy announced early agreement to negotiations "toward early agreement on a comprehensive test ban treaty."� Those negotiations resulted in the "Limited Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty" which was ratified by our US Senate and went into effect on October 10, 1963 BEFORE President Kennedy was assassinated.
I was in the stacks of the library when someone ran through announcing, "The President has been shot!"� I joined others watching the TV reports.� I watched when Walter Cronkite announced the bulletin he received when reporting news to WE THE PEOPLE of the US, "We just have a report from our reporter Dan Rather that he has confirmed that President Kennedy is dead.� There is still no official confirmation of this, however.� It's a report from our correspondent Dan Rather in Dallas, TX." And then came the bulletin, "Flash from Dallas, TX, the flash apparently official: President Kennedy died at 1 pm Central Standard Time."
Vice-president Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as US President aboard the presidential plane by Federal Judge Sarah Hughes within a couple hours of President Kennedy's death.� That started a very intense long weekend.� I joined the hundreds of thousands of my fellow Americans to pay honor as we walked by the guarded casket with President Kennedy lying in state.� Monday, the 25th of November 1963 I joined most Americans watching the State Funeral of President Kennedy with the burial at Arlington National Cemetery.� And the lighting of the ETERNAL FLAME.
For me, President John F. Kennedy was a major influence on my commitment to democracy/civics education.� I am among Americans inspired and challenged by President Kennedy's INAUGURAL ADDRESS which had many inspiring statements. The capstone statement, "My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
You will find many meaningful articles, editorials, OpEd columns and TV programs as we observe the 50th anniversary of the ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY.� I want to call to your attention three from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
'The whole world we knew was about to change'
The Editorial helps us reflect on the meaning of President Kennedy for our nation, "JFK's assassination still marks the country 50 years later."
Ted Kennedy, Jr. is the author of a very meaningful OpEd column, "Remember my Uncle Jack's legacy of compassion."
Please share YOUR COMMENT as you reflect on this 50th anniversary of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
John W. Eyster lives in the Edgerton area. He is an adjunct professor assigned with the online/distance education faculty of Viterbo University, LaCrosse. He continues his personal mission supporting democracy/civics education in Wisconsin K-12 schools through Project Citizen, We the People, Discovering Democracy (Milton HS). John is a community blogger and is not a part of The Gazette staff or management.


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Death Notices for Nov. 11, 2013
Gazette Staff
Monday, November 11, 2013
Dennis P. Koback, 69, Janesville, died Friday at home. Services are pending. Schneider Apfel Schneider & Schneider Funeral Home and Crematory, Janesville, is assisting the family. �
Marvin J. Swenson, 88, Janesville, died Saturday at Mercy Hospital and Trauma Center, Janesville. Arrangements are pending at All Faiths Funeral and Cremation Services, Janesville.


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Aglaophone is a system of interconnectable modules for the recording, processing, and playback of real-time audio. It features a real-time spectrogram display for visualization along with a number of processing modules. Modules include filters, downsamplers, upsamplers, and quantizers. An MP3 comparison module allows interactive blind comparison of MP3 encoded audio with CD audio, demonstrations of spectral imaging, quantization, and Smith-Barnwell filter bank based wavelet decomposition are included, and there is a module that can perform an automatic spectral analysis of a speaker system.
Audacity is a cross-platform multitrack audio editor. It allows you to record sounds directly or to import Ogg, WAV, AIFF, AU, IRCAM, or MP3 files. It features a few simple effects, all of the editing features you should need, and unlimited undo. The audio I/O uses PortAudio, which fully supports OSS, Mac OS X CoreAudio, and Windows WMME, and can be compiled with support for ALSA and Jack.
AudioSlicer is a Cocoa GUI application that finds all silences in an audio file and allows you to split it into several smaller audio files and to name/tag them properly. While most other tools split automatically according to certain criteria, AudioSlicer shows you all silences within a certain range of duration. You can then listen and decide whether you want to split there. The splitting is done without loss; there is no decoding and re-encoding of audio data.
Baudline is a time-frequency browser designed for scientific visualization of the spectral domain. Signal analysis is performed by Fourier, correlation, and raster transforms that create colorful spectrograms with vibrant detail. Conduct test and measurement experiments with the built in function generator, or play back audio files with a multitude of effects and filters. The baudline signal analyzer combines fast digital signal processing, versatile high speed displays, and continuous capture tools for hunting down and studying elusive signal characteristics.
BpmDj is a program that can be used by a DJ. It plays MP3 and Ogg files. It has a fully automatic BPM counter. It can determine the sound color. It has a full fledged Qt based interface. It will help you manage a large amount of songs. It can help in creating playlists and has proven to be very robust. The program also allows offline automatic mixing and contains a wavelet based beat graph analyzer to visualize audio tracks.
cdstatus checks for drive errors, outputs disc information (such as type and table of contents), and is capable of ripping full CDs, using configurable track ranges and retry counts. It handles cddb lookups and makes use of per-user .cdstatus configuration files. It usually produces identical output to cdparanoia with much faster execution. It features direct-to-lame MP3 encoding and Ogg Vorbis encoding, as well as twolame support.
Data synchronization, replication, and transformation software.
A SCXML to C++ compiler.


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Whitewater police seek suspect in car entry thefts
WHITEWATER--Whitewater police are asking for the public's help in their search for a suspect in a rash of thefts from area vehicles over the past several months, according to a news release from the Whitewater Police Department.
The suspect, Cody Davis, a 21 year old white male, 6'2" tall, weighing approximately 200 pounds.
Authorities executed a search warrant at a local residence April 14 in connection with the thefts, after getting a tip from one of the victims.� There investigating officers recovered stolen items, including Apple I-Pods, men's and women's rings, credit cards, sun glasses, radar detectors, cell phones, camcorders, Nike shoes, GPS units, computer memory sticks, compact discs and cases, car stereos, purses, and cameras. Also recovered were drugs and several drug paraphernalia items.
Davis was not at the residence at the time the search warrant was executed and has not been located. He is currently wanted on a parole violation and should not be approached if seen.
Those with any information on Davis' whereabouts should contact the Whitewater Police Department at (262) 473-0555. Callers can remain anonymous by using the TipSoft anonymous tip system. You can find this information by going to the "Crime Alerts" section under the Police Department's web page at www.whitewater-wi.gov/departments/police and clicking on the TipSoft link. You can also text your tip to 274637(CRIMES). This tip line is being offered in conjunction with the Walworth County Crime Stoppers and the Whitewater Police Department.
Police are reminding residents to keep their garage doors locked, lock their vehicles at night and never to leave items of value unattended in cars under any circumstances.
Authorities say never confront anyone committing a car entry, but instead immediately call police. Anyone observing any suspicious person or activities should call 9-1-1.
Police say citizens who have been the victim of a car entry should report the incident to police. Even if the items taken from the car are of minor value, the incident potentially helps police to establish a pattern for these crimes.
Anyone with items stolen from their vehicles and who has not yet reported the incident to the police should call Detective Adam Vander Steeg at (262) 473-0555.