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Milton Courier Editor Debilzen sees self as 'community guide'
MILTON—At 11:30 a.m. on a Thursday, Milton Courier Editor James Debilzen rounds up his news staff and heads behind a vinyl curtain into the break room in the back of the small newspaper office.
At The Courier, the break room is where The Courier staff makes the gravy—the place where the weekly newspaper's workers mull, vet and earmark Milton's latest stories during their once-weekly news meeting.
Debilzen lays out a week's worth of news story ideas on a small Formica folding table that seats the weekly paper's four-person news desk: himself, his two reporters, Michael Gouvion and intern Brandon Feivor, and the paper's page designer, Susan Angell.
All told, the meeting takes about 25 minutes. It's brief in part because it's chilly; in the dead of winter, the cinderblock walled break room must be about 15 degrees colder than the newsroom up front.
But the meeting also is short because after Debilzen outlines what he would like to see in next week's newspaper's next edition, he gets out of the way. He opens the floor to his reporters to discuss stories they have been working on, gives some gentle direction and then lets his staff and the flow of the small city's news do their respective thing.���
"I don't feel like a figurehead, and I'm not one," Deblizen said in an interview with The Gazette. "The newspaper belongs to the community as a whole. My role is only to guide that and make sure it is getting out to people."
Debilzen's understated, almost unassuming nature belies more than a decade of hard work that has earned him recognition from the Wisconsin Newspaper Association as a "Future Headliner." He is one of four Wisconsin journalists the WNA selected in December as emerging leaders in news media who are under the age of 30.
Debilzen, who is 28, lives in Milton with his wife, Tara, a teacher at St. Patrick Elementary in Janesville, and his children Amelia, 5, Roland, 3, and newborn son Ezra. He has been The Courier's editor since Aug. 2012.
In his short tenure, Debilzen has led big changes at the little newspaper. He oversaw a major redesign of the paper's look last year; The Courier went from a tabloid layout—a magazine-style format—to a broadsheet newspaper. He has also supervised the paper's launch of a new website and spearheaded The Courier's emerging presence on social networking sites Twitter and Facebook.
This after taking the helm of the community's paper after the departure of Doug Welch, who spent 21 years as the paper's editor.
Debilzen, a 2007 UW-Whitewater print journalism graduate, got his start in journalism at age 16, stuffing advertising inserts and later proofreading and typing up copy at a newspaper in his hometown of Oregon.
He has worked as a beat reporter at the Daily Jefferson County Union newspaper in Fort Atkinson, and was an editor at two weekly papers in the Madison area. Debilzen decided he would be a journalist after a high school teacher tagged one of his term papers with a note that suggested he would make a good news reporter.
That's all it took.
"The only other job I've really had I worked in a grocery store in college for a summer, stocking shelves. That's my other skill. So, for me, it's journalism. I don't plan to do anything else," Debilzen said.
At The Courier, Debilzen handles dozens of duties, including editing, page layout, photography, writing news, attending community functions as the public face of the paper and even handling human resources details. He also posts stories on the web and breaks news for The Courier on social media outlets.
Deblizen's had weeks when he and a reporter have rushed to a late-night restaurant fire in pajamas. One week, when he got the stomach flu in the middle of The Courier's Tuesday print deadline, Debilzen spread out a laptop and newspaper proof pages on his living room floor at home.
When they open The Courier, readers aren't aware of the lengths a small-town journalist sometimes has to go to get the paper out. Debilzen believes it doesn't matter.
"I've seen a reporter who was finishing up stories while she was in early labor. It's crazy. But that's just what you do," he said.
Debilzen's diverse set of work duties, which he says can take 50 to 60 hours during a slow news week, are not uncommon among weekly newspaper editors. News industry analysts predict that reporters of the future, even at major metropolitan papers, will someday have to handle many of those responsibilities.
On Debilzen's newsroom desk are two computers, two smartphones and a wireless tablet—but also an old Smith Corona typewriter and an antique camera his grandmother gave to him.
Those disparate tools could be a metaphor for how Debilzen views himself: a human clutch that is caught between old-school, ink-stained print reporters, and newly minted journalists more attuned to the blips and beeps of the digital media age.
Debilzen knows how to blast out Twitter messages and Facebook postings on a breaking news story that might otherwise have to wait a week to get in print at The Courier, but he believes his main business is still in selling printed newspapers.
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association plans over the next year to probe Debilzen and its four other Future Headliners on how they cultivate readers.
Debilzen said he has already told WNA officials in meetings that he believes newspapers, especially small weeklies, don't spend enough time focusing on improving page design to make printed newspapers more attractive and easier to read.
But perhaps the greatest challenge Debilzen believes, is finding ways to get younger adults to read newspapers.
Debilzen's neighborhood in Milton is mostly people in their 30s. He estimates there are about 50 school-age children who live on his street. Debilzen said he remembers his next-door neighbor being astounded to learn Debilzen was The Courier's editor. The neighbor didn't even know Milton had a paper.
Debilzen wasn't surprised.
"I know that younger readers aren't reading the newspaper. It's just a fact. But I want to change that. The younger demographic is who we need to be reaching. We need to put an emphasis on education reporting—the schools, and what the kids are doing," Debilzen said.
New models in digital news media, which include independent, hyper-local community pages produced by local residents, offer proof that people continue to want an inside track on everyday life in their hometown.�
Debilzen believes local newspapers will always find a way to deliver those stories best.
"I never get tired of the feeling when I take a kid or even an adult's photo. They're excited. They're going to be in the newspaper. Especially in a small town, there's real cultural power in that," Debilzen said. "That's why I still find hope in what we do, and it's why I do it. I think we still have a future."


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Did you give up on the Packers too soon Sunday?
Who WAS that guy wearing No. 10 over center for the Green Bay Packers in the second half Sunday? More important, who WERE those guys playing defense for the green and gold? It's hard to imagine a more Jekyll-and-Hyde performance, and Green Bay's rally to victory from a 26-3 halftime deficit tied the franchise record for biggest comeback win.
I was disgusted before halftime. I was expecting Coach Mike McCarthy to switch to third-string quarterback Scott Tolzien at the half—if not before. Matt Flynn looked pathetic out there, like a kid trying to play a professional game. So I got busy doing basement computer work at halftime, and it was already the fourth quarter when I went back upstairs and found that my wife, Cheryl, had switched to some other TV show and was chatting with a friend on the phone. I switched back to the Packer game and couldn't believe that Green Bay only trailed 29-24. Cheryl ended her phone call, and soon Dallas scored another touchdown. We were taping the game on AT&T Uverse, so we agreed to back up and watch the entire second half—skipping through commercials—to see how Green Bay got back in the game. We sped past that final Dallas touchdown drive, then watched in amazement as Flynn led the Pack to another score, Sam Shields made an amazing interception, and Flynn again was leading the team to what could be a go-ahead touchdown with less than two minutes left in the game.
Then Cheryl and I ran into a problem. The recording time ran out. Because the game was already over, we couldn't switch to live TV to see what was happening. Usually, I try to add minutes to the recording time of any game we want to watch later, but we'd failed to do that this time. I quickly flipped on WCLO, and McCarthy was obviously talking about a great comeback victory.
No worries; Cheryl and I soon saw Eddie Lacy's go-ahead touchdown plunge (with two defensive linemen leading the blocking ahead of him), the interception by Tramon Williams that sealed the deal for the Packers, and the spectacle of poor sport Dez Bryant, who had a spectacular receiving day for Dallas, heading to the locker room even before Green Bay ran out the clock.
It was a victory for the ages and one that buoys Packer fans, who hope Aaron Rodgers can return from his collarbone injury this week and lead the Packers into the playoffs. After Sunday's improbable rally, maybe the Packers can salvage something out of an otherwise sad-sack, injury-plagued season.
Be honest now. Did you stick it out and watch the entire game Sunday, or did you turn it off early?
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Thumbs up to the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes fundraiser. The YWCA Rock County event is just as it sounds. Men don women's shoes with heels and walk to build awareness and solidarity about domestic violence. Last year's walk raised $70,000 for the Y's Alternatives to Violence and Transitions for Women programs. The alternatives program sheltered 139 women and 143 children in 2012, and the 24-hour crisis line at 608-752-2583 fielded 339 calls. The transitions program served 60 households by helping single moms find jobs and housing. It's fitting that Milton's Sharon Baker Bucklin will be keynote speaker at Friday's walk because her sister was a victim. Susan Anderson was beaten and stomped to death by her husband in 1995 in her Janesville home. Registration and shoe fitting starts at 3:30 p.m. Friday at the Pontiac Convention Center, 2809 Pontiac Drive, Janesville. The walk begins at 5, and a dinner reception is afterward. For information about walking or donating, call Jeff Bealles at 608-752-5445, ext. 206, or visit ywcawalkamile.org.
�Thumbs down to mandatory minimum drunken driving sentences. Reforms to stiffen drunken driving penalties are moving through the state Legislature. Yes, Wisconsin needs tougher laws, but one provision would create new mandatory minimum sentences for those who kill or injure others in crashes. Yes, that would make more drinkers consider risks before getting behind the wheel. However, as The Gazette reported last week, it also would circumvent the judicial role and remove any discretion judges have to consider extenuating circumstances. For example, what if a father of young children stops at a bar to celebrate good news at work, has one too many, then kills someone in an accident only partially his fault and is found with a blood-alcohol level just over the legal limit? Should he get 10 years in prison and be unable to provide for his family? First-degree intentional homicide might be the only other type of homicide in Wisconsin that triggers a mandatory sentence. Let's keep the focus on repeat drunken drivers—the real hazards on the road. Why not slap alcohol-detecting bracelets on them after second offenses?
Thumbs up to a landlord list in Edgerton. The city council is in the process of approving an ordinance change that would require owners of residential or commercial rental properties to provide the city with their names and contact information. City Administrator Ramona Flanigan says the city only has a loose estimate of the number of residential rental properties but that water bill records suggest the number is substantial. Why should city staffers, paid by taxpayers, waste time tracking down landlords over code compliance concerns or even emergencies? This list will be helpful for problems as simple as a door left open in a commercial building. Failure to register by Jan. 1 might result in fines of between $25 and $500. Sure, the list might be a precursor to more regular checks for code compliance. But what's wrong with that? Such checks protect the health and safety of renters.
Thumbs up to Edgerton Books and Art. Speaking of Edgerton, this store is expected to open Friday, in time for this weekend's Edgerton Sterling North Book and Film Festival. The shop won't be like most other bookstores. Of course, in this age of digital books, many traditional bookstores are struggling. Retirees Russ and Jan Veitch are opening the store at 4 W. Fulton St. They own the downtown storefront and want proceeds above rent to benefit the Edgerton Alumni Foundation. They hope to use foundation volunteers to run the store, selling donated used books and art on consignment, and be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays. The foundation has paid for educational initiatives in recent years, and if sales go well, it could fund even more. We wish the store good luck. Call 608-501-7601 for more information.


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Shooting at Colorado's Arapahoe High School — Suspected Shooter Reportedly Dead, One Victim in Critical Condition
UPDATED 10:00 p.m. ET: Authorities have identified the shooter as 18-year-old Karl Halverson Pierson.
The victim reported to be in critical condition is a 15-year-old girl and it's unclear if Pierson intentionally shot her. Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson also "did not elaborate on any possible motive."
UPDATED 5:15 p.m. ET: Authorities will not release the name of the suspected shooter, although the sheriff did confirm that person was a student at the school.
The "gunman asked for the location of a specific teacher, who heard he was being looked for, and left the school 'in an effort to draw the student away from the school.'"
A second student was injured during the incident, although that person was not shot.
One student at the school said he became aware of the incident after hearing "three bangs."
UPDATED 4:20 p.m. ET: According to an Associated Press report, the suspected gunman killed himself.
UPDATED 4:00 p.m. ET: The Denver Post is reporting the suspected shooter is dead.
UPDATED 3:50 p.m. ET: The Associated Press is reporting one student is in critical condition.
Police in Centennial, Colorado say there's an "active shooting situation" at Arapahoe High School.
There are potentially two victims, although their condition is unclear.
1st photo from #Arapahoe HS shooting scene. @CarlBilek in the area. School behind restaurant. http://t.co/zld1uuphGd pic.twitter.com/Zl3Ivrvx63
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Arapahoe High School is in a nearby district to Columbine High School, which was the site of an infamous 1999 mass shooting spree.
It's also worth noting that tomorrow will be the one-year anniversary of the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.


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Janesville could buy downtown building for parking
JANESVILLE—Janesville Councilman Douglas Marklein said Tuesday he hopes a decision to keep negotiating to buy a former restaurant on River Street for eventual parking would spark private investment downtown.
Some say the downtown area has parking issues. Repeated studies, however, show parking is adequate, even though in some cases it is not as close to commerce as people might want it to be.
In addition, the city soon will remove the downtown parking plaza over the Rock River, eliminating about 200 parking spots.
The property at 14-24 S. River St., the former Krause's Town & Country restaurant, is across the street from the former Plaza Furniture store at 55 S. River St., which the city also owns and would demolish.
The property at 14-24 S. River St., which has been the site of several failed businesses in the last few years, is now in foreclosure.
The city's 2007 downtown vision plan identified the property as a location for public parking, with an estimated 85 to 90 spaces per level.
It would adjoin to a second lot on Dodge Street that offers 44 stalls.
The property is near the first two blocks of West Milwaukee Street and the first block of South Main Street, which economic development coordinator Ryan Garcia says is "arguably among the most well-kept, well-occupied and vibrant blocks of our downtown and for all intents and purposes the core of our city's downtown."
The property also is across the street from an area along the river often mentioned as a future town square.
First Community Bank of Milton bought the property in February at a sheriff's sale for $325,000.
In February, the council directed staff to negotiate a price up to $150,000. An initial appraisal valued the property at $240,000, but the bank increased the asking price to $330,000 when a restaurant and bar moved into the first floor.
The current price most recently stood at $275,000, and negotiations stalled.
On May 9, the seller told city staff that two private parties are interested in the property and are offering bids in the range of the asking price.
Garcia said the council could simply wait and hope someone buys and renovates the building. But businesses have had poor track records at the site, and the building could also continue to deteriorate.
Money to buy the building and build the parking could come from a nearby TIF district.
Building another 45 stalls could cost about $112,500 while a parking structure with 150 parking stalls could cost $3.3 million.
Demolition costs of $145,00 would have to come from another sources since the building is a contributing structure in the West Milwaukee Street Historic District and is recognized on the State Register of Historic Places.
State law requires the city to relocate the tenants and all businesses except for the bar—which has not been open long enough to quality for relocation—even though all have monthly leases.
Councilman Sam Liebert suggested the city pay for that business to relocate, as well.
City Manager Mark Freitag warned the perception that parking does not exist downtown might not necessarily change when more parking is built.
Freitag added that demolishing the building might draw the same people who have rallied to save the Oak Hill Cemetery chapel and a historic gas station, both of which city staff has tried several times to tear down.
"They'll be out in force not to take that down," Freitag predicted.
The council unanimously authorized staff to resume negotiations with the property seller, marking a top price at $275,000.
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Roy F. Dawe, 93, Janesville, formerly of Milwaukee, died Thursday at Huntington Place, Janesville. Albrecht Funeral Homes and Cremation Services, Edgerton, is assisting the family.
Arsheal "Art" Hinchen, Jr., 66, Beloit, died Wednesday at home. Services will be at noon Tuesday at Emmanuel Baptist Church, Beloit. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until the time of services Tuesday at the church. Hansen-Gravitt Funeral Home, Beloit, is assisting the family.
Jerry Jones, 70, Janesville, died Thursday in Janesville. Arrangements are pending at McCorkle Funeral Home-Rockton Chapel, Rockton, Ill.
James E. Stout, 54, Edgerton, died Wednesday in Janesville. A celebration of his life will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday at Albrecht Funeral Homes & Cremation Services, Edgerton.
Royal D. White, 79, Janesville, died Thursday at Golden Living Center, Fort Atkinson. Services will be at 4 p.m. Tuesday at Schneider Apfel Schneider & Schneider Funeral Home & Crematory, Janesville. Visitation will be from 2 p.m. until the time of services Tuesday at the funeral home.


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Gov. Scott Walker proposes $100 million property tax cut
MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker wants the Legislature to pass a $100 million property tax cut next week, a move that would lower taxes on the typical home $13 this year.�
Walker's surprise and hastily organized announcement Thursday came just three days after Democrat Mary Burke became the first officially announced challenger to the Republican incumbent in next year's election.�
Walker, flanked by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and budget committee co-chair Sen. Alberta Darling, said his proposal was a win for taxpayers and would result in property tax bills for the median valued home by 2014 that are lower than when he took office.�
"It's what people are asking for, it's what they deserve," Walker said.
The reductions would be modest for the owner of a median-valued $148,000 home. Property taxes this year would be $13 less than under current law on the bill mailed this December. Taxes would be $20 less next year, based on estimates by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau. Taxes would drop from $2,938 to $2,925 this year and from $2,974 to $2,954 next year.�
Even under the cut, property taxes are still projected to increase by $11 — from $2,943 to $2,954 — in two years for the typical home. The actual amount that people pay varies widely across the state based on the value of their home and where they live.�
"Given that there's so much variability in local property taxes anyway, for many people it won't be noticed," said Todd Berry, president of the nonpartisan Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance.�
Republicans were optimistic that Democrats would join them in quickly passing the proposal next week. Vos said he hoped the bill would be introduced on Friday, with the budget committee taking it up on Tuesday, followed by legislative consideration on Thursday.�
"I don't know why anybody would be opposed to this," said Republican Senate President Mike Ellis.
But Democrats, who don't have the votes to stop it, were skeptical. Even though Walker met with Democratic leaders on Wednesday, he didn't tell them about his proposal, said Melanie Conklin, spokeswoman for Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca.�
"We haven't seen this idea that we're supposed to get behind," said Democratic Rep. Sandy Pasch, who attended Walker's news conference that was announced with less than two hours' notice. "The devil's in the details on all of this."
Walker said money to pay for the cut will come from higher than anticipated state tax collections. The money, split $40 million this year and $60 million next year, will flow through the school aid formula but not be available for schools to spend, forcing it to go toward lowering taxes, Walker said.�
Burke, a former state Commerce Department secretary and Trek Bicycle Corp. executive, was asked about Walker's tax cut during a campaign stop in Green Bay.
"I'm all in favor of lower taxes and supporting our schools, but I'd have to make sure that it's doing that and it's doing it in a way that's fiscally responsible and balancing the budget," Burke said of Walker's plan.


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Possible Cure for Cancer
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Possible Cure for Cancer
Hello Biology-Online,
I am a new member here and I am looking forward to sharing my knowledge with all of you. Here is some background information on me:
I am working towards my undergraduate degree in biology at a college ranked in the top 30. I enjoy every aspect of biology but sometimes I feel it is too simple.
I feel at my college that I am surrounded by a bunch of dimwits. In my general biology class, my fellow pupils were discussing cancer and how we're coming closer to a cure. I thought for a moment and decided to give my two cents. I told them that cancer is purely a myth. How can cells grow uncontrollably? That would mean they would be large enough to see and I have never seen a single cell without looking through a microscope. I then went on to tell them instead of throwing loads of money in order to find a cure, we should just remove the part of the body that is infected. A simple solution to a simple problem.
And how do you think, that is nowadays cured cancer? Basically by surgery. The problem is, that it is complicated, invasive, sometimes it's not accesible and even worst, it can spread throughout the body, so unless you don't want to cut off the whole body you need to use other cure...
The problem is not uncontrolled grow of single cells, that would kill the cells by itself, but they divide uncontrolled and that's the problem, because normal cells have mechanism either for stopping the cell cycle or to divide only for defined number of times...
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
Re: Possible Cure for Cancer
Surgery is a very primitive way to treat cancer, since cancer cells have the ability to bud off and travel in the blood stream. Cells become cancerous when they loose the genes necessary to stop cell cycle, these genes are usually mutated or deleted. We will probably never find a cure for cancer, but what we can do eventually is slow down its aggressive nature, without the use of harmful chemical treatments. But what about cancer do you find so mythical exactly?
Cancer cells do stay the same size, and yes the go through mitosis as do normal cells, only they do not upkeep the structural identity of their normal counterparts in the organ, they become invasive into functioning tissue, and draw all the bloods resources for their growth. Thus causing the body to starve while the tumors thrives. we need to look more into gene therapy and RNAi technologies within all cell lines and animal models.
Good luck to you and your studies!
Re: Possible Cure for Cancer
Did I just read that?
Are you sure you're studying biology? You don't seem to have much grasp of the basics as yet. I don't think you know enough to be admitted onto an undergrad course, unless they take students with no previous knowledge of biology at all.
I can only suppose you are winding us up....
Apologies if I sounded somewhat cross just now. But it's always a bit galling when someone pronounces that cancer is a myth.
Would that it were....
(Plus, always a bit suspect when someone thinks everyone else is a dimwit except for themselves!!!!)
Re: Possible Cure for Cancer
I agree with the people above, It is really surgery. But did you know, we can prevent cancer? Me and family learned our lessons. My mom sister has a breast cancer it been a year now. As a woman, I need to prevent my self from cancer or any other diseases. Me, my mum and my younger sister kate, we took this supplement called [thieving quackery ] Multi-vitamins it is really helpful to us cause we know that it can prevent us from harmful diseases. Also, we run together we have the same diet. It works for us ladies. So far so good.
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Sometimes, advertising supplements is a pretty harmless activity, and doesn't really call for much objection other than to think those that do it could be doing something a lot more useful with their existence.
But to peddle quackery and claim it can save lives??? No, that's shameful. You shouldn't be doing this. Look in the mirror, whoever you are, Shanecantrell, and then go and read some forums where cancer patients talk amongst themselves about what they are facing, and then feel the shame you should be feeling for peddling your quackery.
You are not being kind. Use your time alive to be better than this.
And watch out for that karma that might be about to descend on you....
Hey Shanecantrell
This is the very real effect of the kind of thing that you are promoting. I am not saying that anyone will always survive cancer, but taking multi-vitamins in hope of making you immune to it will only lead to disaster. Your quackery is despicable.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without
any proof. (Ashley Montague)
SO TRUEEEE you stole my words...
What university are you in? And are you really studying bio?
OK many people have cursed you for whatever you typed
but okay coming to the solutions for cancer. hmm does anyone have any possible solutions to cancer?
before that what are the possible causes of cancer? hmm not causes how does the cell change
so this is what i think
there is a change in the gene structure and cell divides uncontrollably. this division is the result of a change in the cell receptors (the cell cant sense the presence of any other cells in its surrounding and starts acting as if it were alone and forms a lump)
over here i have one question what about the telomeres length? if the cell keeps dividing wont they shorten and the end result would be the cell would die.
I do understand that all of the cells are dividing but wouldnt they all start dieing too one by one as the telomeres would shorten?
coming back to the changes in the cell. where else could the change be when i think about it i feel it can and should at many places but when i try to think about specific places i cant pin it down.
there should be something related to cytoskeleton
it isn't what you do that matters but it is how you do it
From what I've read, it takes about 6-10 mutations to achieve malignant transformation of a cell into a cancer cell. Once that's done, the cell's away and growing into a tumour.
There's a variety of possible pro-malignant mutations, and apart from distinct familial cancers where the responsible mutuation is known and inheritable, it would seem that each person's original cancer cell can be achieved by a combination of mutuations, none of which is individually enough to cause transformation, but which in sum tip the cell into uncontrolled proliferation.
Given the vast number of cell divisions daily, it's almost suprising cancer isn't far more common than it is. Overall, the cell does a fantastic job in ensuring cell division runs smoothly.
Whether one could actually prevent non-familial cancers by any means other than living a healthy lifestyle is maybe hard to say. What is currently more essential in terms of decreasing cancer mortality of those who already have it is the ability for medicine to detect, as early as possible, any malignantly transformed cells, so they can be removed, usually surgically, as early as possible (or, better still, pre-malignant cells, such as can happen with cervical cancer thanks to screening).
This is why studying the biology of cancer cells is so essential, so that methods of early detection can be identified. Also, of course, trying to get the body's natural immune system to recognise and kill off cancer cells.
With some exceptions, most cancer isn't actually lethal until it metastasises, and the cancer cells get into the bloodstream and spread around the body. Diagnosing it before it does that is critical to whether or not you can survive cancer long term.
By and large, cancer is not symptomatic until it is beyond early stage, and very often has already started to metastasise. Even when the primary (original) tumour has been cut out, and there is no evidence of metastatic (secondary) tumours visible in the body by CT scans etc, metastatic cells can remain in the circulation of the blood/lymph, and lurk in tissues, ready to start growing into tumours when they receive appropriate stimulation to do so (just what that is, is, again, still somewhat mysterious - inflammation seems to be involved sometimes). This is why someone who is apparently cured of cancer can relapse - sometimes even years, or decades later.
You can't really say someone is cured of cancer until every one of the descendent cells of the original cancer cell has been killed off....
I think that the way to go would be to engineer our own immune system to seek and destroy the cancerous cells. Wonder if it would be the innate or the adaptive immune system that would need to be activated........ probably the adaptive immune system - but then it would have to be tailor made to each person's immune system? tailor made to the type of cancer and the type of cell that is cancerous. Still, to have the immune system distinguish Self from a Cancerous Self will be hard, as it is the same cell, only the cell cycle is not behaving itself. Though with the sticky proteins (integrins or cadherins?) in such a quantifiable amount. . . . . Mmmm.....Maybe something like a complement system where if a certain quantity of stickiness is achieved, the cell then is destroyed. Too bad we can't get the cancerous cell to go into the apoptosis pathway and save the body the expenditure of energy in destroying the cancer cells. Oops, I went off thinking again. . . .
Also, the immune system could then be on guard for any of those pesky lurking cancer cells that are hiding in the deep recesses of our body's tissues after the first wave of destruction.
Prevention of cancer is admirable, but I feel it might be a never ending battle in our environment. Between the drinking water, the air we breathe, the food we eat, and just the natural land beneath us, we have to be oh so careful just to live. Each time a cell divides in our body, we are primed for a mutation to occur.
Now on top of all my studying epigenetics (actually I am looking into regeneration of blastema cells into limbs, body parts, and, perhaps maybe one day, specific tissues), these two articles have me worried about more things:
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Twelve months ago, the treasury team at Gilead Sciences, Inc., a fast-growing biopharmaceutical business that develops and produces treatments for some of the world's deadliest diseases, faced some critical challenges. The company brings in close to $10 billion in annual revenue through operations in more than 30 countries. Yet its small treasury staff was spending more time on transaction processing than on analysis, and manual data entry put the company at risk for errors.
Treasurer Brad Vollmer decided to revamp his department's technology infrastructure to automate many of his team's core duties. He worked with Melissa Cameron, a Deloitte principal who specializes in treasury, to integrate cash management and foreign exchange (FX) systems from forecasting to settlement to accounting. Now many of the previously tedious treasury tasks are automated, reducing the chances of errors and freeing up Vollmer's staff for more value-added work. Treasury & Risk sat down with Vollmer and Cameron to discuss the project and its results.
T&R: What were the challenges that your treasury team faced in your legacy environment?
Brad Vollmer: Well, our treasury ops team, which handles FX, cash management, capital markets, and planning, consists of eight people. For a company with a market cap approaching $90 billion, that's a pretty small treasury staff. We have approximately 130 bank accounts with 18 banks in 30 countries. We have more than $3 billion worth of securities invested in money market funds, government notes, and corporate securities, both in the U.S. and offshore. We have $7.5 billion in debt, which includes a revolver and convertible notes, as well as straight debt. And our FX portfolio, which we use to hedge risks in 12 different currencies, is worth $4 billion. So the treasury ops team needs to be very efficient.
T&R: I take it that your treasury processes weren't especially efficient before?
BV: We had the common problem that a lot of our processes were manual and very labor-intensive. Multiple people would have to enter the same data into different systems. This meant that, number one, our processes were potentially prone to error. And secondly, we were spending a lot of time doing non-value-added work again and again for the same wire or the same transaction. It was all very cumbersome. We wanted to move up the value chain to straight-through processing so that our treasury ops team could spend more time on analytics instead of processing.
T&R: And that was because the information wasn't automatically consolidated in one place? You guys had to go in and manually get it?
BV: Yes. For example, to determine our global cash position, our colleague in Europe would log into our wire systems, pull all the data, and put it in a spreadsheet. Then he'd have to log into our ICD portal and do the same thing for all our money fund investments. He'd grab all that information, put it in a spreadsheet, and send it to the U.S. Then the U.S. team would do the same for North America and put it all together in a report. They did that once a week, and it took a good day's worth of work.
Melissa Cameron: Brad, by the time you got it, it was out of date.
BV: That's right. After all that effort, the information would be a day old by the time I got it.
T&R: What were some other processes that needed automating?
BV: One was just sending and receiving wire transfers. Treasury would get a request for a wire. We would enter it in a tracking spreadsheet so we knew what was sent. We would enter it in our wire system. And then we would send the same information to accounting, who would re-enter it into their system. Even for a share repurchase wire, the information was flowing in different directions and re-entered a number of times.
An even better example was our process for FX trades. Our FX forecasting process is pretty good, but we were very inefficient in processing FX trades. We would key the data into Bloomberg to execute the trades. Then we would put that same data into our confirmation system, Misys, where it would be confirmed. Then we would re-enter it all again into our wire systems for settlement. We would send the same information to an accounting system called Capella for ASC 815 purposes, and when the accounting would come out of Capella, someone would manually input it into the G/L [general ledger]. So the same data was re-entered over and over again. Some of these steps did involve spreadsheet uploads, but they still required someone to touch the data. We wanted to get away from that, both to save people time and to reduce the risk that mistakes could be made.
T&R: It's clear why you wanted to improve your treasury processes. How did you get the ball rolling, though, on making a wholesale change?
BV: Well, when I arrived here, Gilead was in the midst of an ERP [enterprise resource planning] project, where we moved from JD Edwards to Oracle. As soon as that project ended, we wanted to start an automation project in treasury. At the very beginning, we got IT involved, as well as accounting and other areas of finance.
MC: Brad also made a really good call to get internal audit [IA] to help right from the get-go, to make sure they were embedded in the overall project, including the design process, identifying the key controls. Typically, internal audit comes in at the back end, and they either approve or say, 'No, go back and do some extra work.' Before the system went live, Brad had the comfort of knowing that IA had signed off on the controls. Additionally, we didn't have to redo any design elements because internal audit got involved late in the process. This is a best-practice approach.
T&R: What were your key criteria for your new treasury solution?
BV: We agreed that we were looking for a system that would provide flexibility in customizing it to make it as useful as possible for us. I think sometimes the big treasury service providers can be too bureaucratic. You have to fill out a change request and wait to see if it gets approved, which might take months. We wanted a treasury service provider that had actual treasury experience, but that could make decisions quickly, with a tool that is flexible enough and robust enough that we can make changes and move on. We selected the cloud-based Orbit treasury management system.
During our ERP implementation, we had been talking with Deloitte. I've known Melissa for a long time, and I have a lot of faith in her and her team. We didn't use Deloitte to help us select the system, but once we had made decisions about the direction we wanted to go, Deloitte helped validate those decisions.
MC: We did give Brad and his team some pointers and perspective before they locked down that decision. But it was nice that when we jumped into this project, we knew what we were going to do. The only thing that came up a bit later was Gilead's decision to use SWIFT Alliance Lite2 to connect to the SWIFT network.
T&R: So, how does an FX trade now work?
BV: Now we upload our exposures into Orbit, which automatically exports them into FXall. Once a trade is executed in FXall, Orbit automatically ships it to Misys. Then, once it's been confirmed in Misys, it comes back into Orbit with a 'confirmed' status. Next, Orbit actually generates the wires to settle the trade. Instead of rekeying any data, someone just pushes a button and tells SWIFT Alliance Lite2 to release the wires. Then that same information flows automatically into Capella, our accounting system for FAS 133. At month-end, it comes back into Orbit, where it all gets consolidated, and Orbit interfaces directly with our Oracle G/L. At every step, the data moves automatically.
MC: From a broad perspective, I see this as leading practice. Treasury teams that are doing all these things manually are exposing their organization to a lot of operational risks. From a control perspective, this system is a huge step forward for the Gilead treasury team. I think all companies with $1 billion or more in revenue should really be aiming toward system automation like this.
T&R: What about the weekly reports on your cash position? What do those look like today?
BV: I can tell you right now, on any given day at any given time, what our global cash position is—almost down to the penny. What used to be an all-day event now happens with just a click of a button.
T&R: Can you estimate how much time your staff is saving on the weekly cash reports, FX trades, and other treasury activities?
BV: Well, it's hard to quantify the time because we didn't let anyone go. What we did is re-task them. They've moved up the value chain because they're spending more time on analytics, on solving the real challenges we face, rather than just keying in data. That said, on a monthly basis, we're probably saving around four days of time on FX processing activities. And then on a weekly basis, we've eliminated about a day of busy work because the staff no longer has to produce the cash report.
So we are achieving time savings. But the key for me is, I sleep better at night because I know the chance of a fat finger causing problems with the data is much lower.
MC: And it's real-time.
BV: Right. I get information in real time now. I don't have to wait for the weekly cash report to know where the cash is. The same goes for foreign exchange. If something happens with a counterparty, I can run a report at my desk, right away, to see what our exposure is to that bank. That's huge.
And there's one more important benefit: The automated treasury solution is much more scalable. Gilead is growing incredibly fast, and we're moving into a bunch of new markets. Because we're working directly with SWIFT, our system is bank-agnostic. When we need to scale, we can just pick the best bank in the region, set up an account, and we're live pretty quickly.
T&R: How long did it take to roll out this solution?
BV: We got this done in seven and a half months, from the kickoff until the solution was live, including contracting with SWIFT and our relationship banks. We went into it with the assumption that this would not be like every other treasury implementation. We made sure to scope it right up front so we could move as quickly as possible. We had really good project management from Deloitte, with things running in parallel streams.
T&R: What kinds of activities were you doing in parallel that normally might happen serially?
MC: We used an agile approach to software development. We were very discerning about determining what Gilead really wanted, and what they didn't need. And as we configured the Orbit solution, we would essentially be in design sessions with Orbit, with Gilead's core treasury, accounting, and internal audit team. Meanwhile, parallel actions were going on around defining and cleaning up static data and contracting with the banks around SWIFT messages.
BV: We had different streams going. So as we worked on SWIFT, we didn't let that slow down the FX side or our work with ICD or even Misys. We knew what we needed to do, and we didn't let the queue back up.
MC: Every day was a new adventure, and projects often don't happen like that. They're often very structured, where you need to dot the i's and cross the t's on everything in one phase before you can move into the next phase. But this time we moved very fast. I think the project would have taken 40 percent longer, maybe more, if we had we gone with a larger vendor with a less agile approach.
T&R: Gilead was an early adopter of SWIFT Alliance Lite2. How has that worked out?
MC: Gilead was one of the first companies in the world to implement Alliance Lite2. It has been a phenomenal success.
BV: I'm a big fan of SWIFT Alliance Lite2. What it does is it gives you one throat to choke. You're dealing directly with SWIFT, and it is all cloud-based. I don't see any downside to it.
MC: Clearly the market has moved so that advanced corporate treasury departments are going to pick either a service bureau or SWIFT Alliance Lite2 for bank connectivity, wherever possible. Because SWIFT is owned by over 100 banks, it offers a strong business continuity advantage.
Business continuity is also an issue when you're choosing a treasury system solution provider, but I think an in-house solution rarely makes sense these days. For a midsize to large business where it might be a challenge to get the right IT resources to support a treasury management system, it makes a lot more sense to have a hosted solution. If you go with a cloud-based solution, you can either have a dedicated environment or one that gets upgraded when everyone else gets upgraded. There are pros and cons to both of those approaches. But a cloud-based treasury management system is a smart solution for companies that don't want to build a big IT organization for treasury.


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The global anti-corruption landscape has changed considerably over the course of the last 10 years. A decade ago, anti-corruption legislation generally sat dormant, investigations were limited and enforcement actions even more so. Since then, aggressive enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) propelled many companies to adopt significant anti-corruption compliance measures. But the landscape is shifting again, and the changes in the next decade could be more drastic than those in the last one.
Before peering into the future, it is helpful to consider the recent past. In response to FCPA enforcement, many companies went from rudimentary or non-existent compliance programs to expensive, overly-comprehensive programs. Risk-averse legal and compliance teams often required U.S.-based employees with limited or no international responsibility to undergo lengthy corruption trainings, and third party due diligence programs did not always tier third party relationships based on risk. Compliance departments became viewed internally as transaction costs instead of informing business decisions, creating value and protecting the business.
More recently, companies have begun reverting to the compliance mean. Bulky programs have been replaced with smarter, risk-based compliance regimes that take better advantage of guidance from the key enforcement agencies — including the FCPA Resource Guide issued in late 2012 — and spend budget more strategically.
But just as FCPA compliance has shown signs of maturing, the global legal landscape has become more fluid. Around the world, countries are enacting new legislation, expanding existing laws and stepping up enforcement. Canada recently expanded the reach of its Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act. Brazil enacted the Clean Company Act. China has begun a very public anti-corruption crackdown. In these places and others, prosecutors and judges are taking new tools out for a spin, and we're only just starting to see how this might work in practice.
Take Brazil, for example. The Clean Company Act took effect in January 2014, is similar in scope to the FCPA and imposes fines of up to 20 percent of gross revenues. Of particular interest (and concern) is the decentralized nature of enforcement, which authorizes the federal government, states, municipalities and a range of government agencies to bring actions under the law. This raises a host of questions about capacity, capability and expertise, as well as potential competing actions by different enforcement authorities relating to the same event.
In some respects, the complexity of the Brazilian enforcement regime seems likely to be mimicked on the international stage. As governments pass new anti-corruption laws and create new government agencies, parallel investigations among multiple enforcement agencies will almost certainly involve inconsistent demands and tension among disclosure to various authorities, including how to handle filing investigative findings with the need to keep confidential and privileged information out of the public domain.
In the settlement with Total SA earlier this year, for example, a U.S. investigation was paralleled by an investigation by French authorities. While there is some limited evidence of cooperation across the pond, it seems quite possible that cooperation among U.S. and European authorities will expand to include authorities in jurisdictions in which the acts actually occurred. Why shouldn't those enforcement agencies take action if the illegal acts occurred within their borders?
One of the main drivers for broader cooperation is the scale of the problem: The World Bank estimates USD 1 trillion in bribes are paid annually. No single jurisdiction can possibly get visibility into even a small fraction of that amount. Enhanced global enforcement seems a plausible response. Judges and prosecutors that have been historically weak enforcers of their local anti-corruption and anti-bribery legislation have new tools, and broader public awareness and scrutiny may encourage those officials to utilize them.
Big questions remain unanswered, particularly around resources and commitment to investigations by local authorities and the extent of potential cross-border cooperation. Until answers come into focus, it will undoubtedly prove to be an uneven and unpredictable time.
Nevertheless, an era of tightening enforcement is clearly upon us, and compliance officers will need to tread carefully. There are tangible costs for both over and under reacting to compliance challenges, which will be especially acute for companies operating in complex and opaque environments. The enforcement agencies that legal and compliance teams deal with today may not be the ones they grapple with tomorrow.
How can companies limit their risk in this evolving landscape? Some basic measures can help:
- Closer monitoring of the legal and enforcement landscape — and even local media — may reveal trends about the direction of the industry. Incorporating that information into a company's risk assessment process can help it stay ahead of the curve.
- Careful planning ensures local managers in each jurisdiction are prepared to deal with local authorities, even unexpectedly. Planning can include proper documentation and data preservation that can greatly protect a company's legal rights.
- Shoring up internal due diligence procedures and more vigilant enforcement of third-party compliance and contractual expectations limits a company's exposure.
- Finally, changes in local risk landscapes should be regularly communicated to boards and senior management, who can provide additional resources and support as conditions require.
None of these measures is failsafe, but each represents an ounce of prevention. Companies that prepare for a more uncertain compliance environment are less likely to become the cautionary tales of the next decade.


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Patricia Anne "Pat" Bussey, Edgerton, WI (1930-2014)
November 24, 1930 - February 8, 2014
Patricia Anne "Pat" Bussey, 83, of Edgerton, passed away on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014. She was born on Nov. 24, 1930, in Kenosha, WI, daughter of the late Ray and Minnie(Higgins) Hornby. She spent her childhood in Viroqua, WI, where she graduated from High School. She was united in marriage on Dec. 6, 1952, to James R. Bussey, in Madison, WI. Pat earned her Bachelor of Science degree from UW-Madison in 1968. After teaching Home Economics at Edgerton High School, she opened Albion Prairie Pottery. She sold her wheel thrown stoneware for many years at regional art fairs and in her shop. Pat was an avid reader, loved gardening and enjoyed watching the birds at her feeders. She instilled in her children her passions for gardening, the arts, cooking, and appreciation for the printed word. Her love for growing flowers progressed from African violets to roses, orchids and native prairie. Pat and Jim enjoyed their trips together to Belize, Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico.
Pat is survived by her husband of 61 years, Jim of Edgerton; four children: Cathy Bussey of Madison, Dan Bussey of Ridgeway, IA, Ken Bussey of Cambridge, WI, and Melinda (Alistair) Carr of Brooklyn, WI; seven grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and two sisters. She was preceded in death by her parents, three sisters and one brother.
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UPDATED: Accident slowing northbound I-90/39 traffic at Janesville
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014
�JANESVILLE—The northbound on-ramp from Highway 26 onto Interstate 90/39 in Janesville is closed following an accident at about 7:55 a.m. today. One northbound lane on the Interstate is reported open, but traffic was slow and backing up.
At 8:55 a.m., a traffic camera indicated the semi had been pushed onto the median, and traffic was beginning to flow.
The State Patrol reports a semi tractor and its trailer became separated in an accident near the interchange.
The Department of Transportation in an automated alert said the incident would take about two hours to clear.
The Janesville Fire Department is reportedly on scene, and a wrecker was enroute.


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Samsung hits triple-level-cell NAND flash milestone
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Samsung announced recently that it started production of advanced NAND flash devices with 128Gbit, triple-level cell (TLC) NAND memory using 10-nm class process technology.
Similarly, Micron also announced in February that it would come to market with NAND flash devices with a memory capacity of 128 Gbit that also use TLC design. It was only last fall that Samsung introduced a 64 Gbit NAND flash using TLC and 21-nm process technology.
Clearly, the industry is moving toward TLC cell design even for demanding SSD applications. The concept of a multi-bit per cell technology was first introduced by Toshiba and for the last five years, all flash device makers have products using the 2-bit per cell design. (Download TechInsights' flash NAND technology roadmap here).
A multi-bit cell device has a high density and a low cost per bit, but usually has a reduced endurance. In a conventional single bit flash device the number of electrons placed on the floating gate affects the threshold voltage (Vt) of the cell. This effect is used to set the state of the cell to either high or low.
In a multi-bit cell the threshold is set to several different values. The difference in voltage between these levels is small, which puts an additional constraint of placing the charge precisely on the floating gate and of sensing it correctly. In a 2 bit per cell memory, the cell is put in four states. In a 3-bit per cell there are eight states (states = 2n), which imposes a colossal task for flash device manufactures to have a tight cell threshold voltage distribution and a precise sensing of cell data.
According to several papers, the number of electrons stored on a floating gate for the 30-nm node class is slightly less than 100. So, in a 21-nm node with the TLC design, the circuitry for placing and sensing charge on the floating gate is dealing with only a few tens of electrons in each state.
Therefore, Samsungs 21-nm, 64 Gbit TLC NAND flash can be considered an industry milestone. It is the first commercial SSD product using the TLC design in 21 nm node. TechInsights has done a structural analysis of the 21-nm, 64 Gbit TLC NAND flash and is also following up with a waveform analysis.
The K9CFGY8U5A-CCK0 21-nm flash memory is one of the industrys leading flash memory devices, packing 64G bits into a single 102.87 mm2 die, using conventional floating-gate flash memory technology. This NAND flash was found in Samsungs latest SSD drive, the SSD840 (256GB). The basic teardown of the SSD drive is shown in figure 1.
Samsung's 21 nm NAND flash device is fabricated using a triple metal, double poly, 21-nm CMOS process. The single transistor flash cell measures approximately 42 nm by 46 nm for a physical cell area of 0.0019 µm2. Its competitors in process technology include a 19-nm, 32-Gbit MLC NAND flash from Toshiba and a 20 nm 32 Gbit MLC NAND Flash from Intel-Micron.
Figure 1: Basic teardown, from SSD 840 drive to single NAND flash die.


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The first feature I read when opening my Janesville Gazette whether online (Electronic-edition) or hardcopy (Print-edition) is "Between the Lines" the outstanding feature column by ANNA MARIE LUX. I KNOW that every feature she develops is just plain outstanding! Well written! Relevant! Meaningful! Challenging/Inspiring! IF you were to ask me for ONE KEY REASON I subscribe to The Janesville Gazette, it is ANNA MARIE LUX's "Between the Lines"! What are YOUR comments about Anna Marie Lux's journalism?
TODAY's "Between the Lines," "Veteran speaks out against sexual assault in the military," is Unusually significant, relevant, challenging/inspiring! If this were an academic class, I would make this column a REQUIRED READ with specific notation that it would be on a study/reading quiz.
The reality of this feature about RACHEL BEAUCHENE's experience of sexual assault in our US military. Let Anna Marie Lux introduce the feature, "Rachel Beauchene proudly entered the U.S. Army at 18 to see the world and to honor her World War II veteran grandfather.
"She learned hand-to-hand combat to fight the enemy.
"She also learned how to look out for her battle buddy.
"But no one ever told her what to do when the bad guys are on her side.
"Only months after finishing basic training in November 2004, a fellow soldier sexually assaulted Beauchene.
"'You sign up to defend your battle buddy,' Beauchene said. 'But what do you do when you are being assaulted by your battle buddy?'"
What is YOUR comment?
Anna Marie Lux's column announces the special program at Blackhawk Technical College this coming Thursday, September 12 from Noon to 3:30 pm. Anna Marie Lux provides the basic information in the box, "IF YOU GO"
What: Academy Award-nominated documentary, "The Invisible War," about sexual assault in the Armed Forces followed by a discussion with Rachel Beauchene of La Crosse. Program sponsored by Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
When: Noon-3:30 p.m. Thursday.
Where: Room 1400A, Blackhawk Technical College, 6004 S. County G, between Beloit and Janesville.
Details: The event is free, but people are asked to register in advance with Stephanie Williams by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com by calling 608-757-7702; or by signing up online at eventbrite.com/event/7969536097.
I urge you to read the whole "Between the Lines" column. I was shocked by the report as to how the military brass treated Beauchene.
Beauchene will talk about her experience after the showing of a powerful documentary, "The Invisible War," at Blackhawk Technical College on Thursday. The film discusses sexual assault in the armed forces and is being shown as part of a free program by the Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault.
Beauchene states her goal to be, "I want to open people's eyes to this issue for many reasons. First, rapists don't stop raping when they get out of the military. When they get into the community, people don't have a clue about what they've done. Even if they are punished in the military, they are not on any sex-offender registry."
Beauchene began talking about her assault after watching "The Invisible War." She reports, "It made me realize how big a problem sexual assault in the armed forces is. I realized I am not the only one who had this happen and then had it covered up. I cried my eyes out. I was shaking. I didn't realize how high the statistics are and how many have been assaulted."
I would have this program on my HIGH PRIORITY list if I were going to be home. I have a trip to Viterbo University in LaCrosse to meet and hear the author of one of the textbooks, SOUL OF A CITIZEN, for the seminar I am teaching online this semester, PAUL LOEB. I'll follow-up to post on my WE THE PEOPLE blog about Paul Loeb and his book after my visit to Viterbo University at the end of this week. I hope YOU have opportunity to see the film, "The Invisible War" and hear RACHEL BEAUCHENE's testimony and responses to questions on Thursday. Hope you will share your comments after that special program if you attend, please. I will be much interested.
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REMINDER: Tonight at 8 pm (WI TIME) President Obama is addressing the nation on the Syrian Crisis. I KNOW this is an assignment for my "American Government & Politics" class, including me. JWE
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The Whitewater City Council voted 4-2 to include $12,000 of funding for the bus service in its finalized 2014 city budget Tuesday.
However, the frequency of future bus services remains unclear.
A representative from Generac Power Systems in Whitewater, one of the founding sponsors of the bus service, told the council Generac will provide $18,000 in funding for 2014. That's about $30,000 short of the $48,000 the Janesville Transit System requested of Generac.
Whitewater was asked to provide $18,000.
The estimated cost of operation for 2014 is about $395,000. Last year, the service cost about $360,000.
Milton, another sponsor, is providing $27,000. Riders' fares and federal and state aid make up the rest.
Before the vote, Tim Hearden, vice president of operations for Generac, urged the council to consider funding the project. He said it was too soon to cease funding when the program is "heading in the right direction."
Members of the council repeatedly asked Hearden and Janesville representatives in attendance why the city of Whitewater should fund the service when only a fraction of its residents use it and the primary user, Generac, is paying just above a third of the amount requested.
In addition to the 2014 funding, Generac will provide financial support to cover operational costs in the future, Hearden said.
With Generac and Whitewater funding less than the requested amount, Janesville Transit System representatives will have to find a way to make up the difference—about $42,000 if UW-Whitewater decides to continue matching the city of Whitewater's commitment.
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"We certainly appreciate the support we got from the city council tonight," Mumma said.
Cutting services during summer is an option, but that would cut only a fraction of the cost, Mumma said.
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Patrick Singer, Whitewater City Council president, and Alderwoman Stephanie Abbott voted against the funding because of the city's low ridership and the belief there are more economically viable options for bringing employees to and from Generac.
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Sound and how the brain reacts to it
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Re: Sound and how the brain reacts to it
Hi everyone, I've just found this forum and read the posts with great interest. I have experienced these head tinggles since early childhood and tried to research online unsuccessfully several times in the past to find anything out about it. Earlier this year however, I found a large active online community discussing this phenomenon. The sensation has been named "Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response" (ASMR) and is described as is a physical sensation characterized by a pleasurable tingling that typically begins in the head and scalp, and often moves down the spine and through the limbs.
Most ASMR episodes begin by an external or internal trigger, and are so divided for classification. Type A episodes are elicited by the experiencer using no external stimuli, and are typically achieved by specific thought patterns unique to the individual. Type B episodes are triggered involuntarily by an external trigger, via one or more senses, and may also involve specific thought patterns associated with the triggering event. Both types of triggers vary between individuals, but many are common to a large portion of ASMR enjoyers.
Common external triggers:
Exposure to slow, accented, or unique speech patterns
Viewing educational or instructive videos or lectures
Experiencing a high empathetic or sympathetic reaction to an event
Enjoying a piece of art or music
Watching another person complete a task, often in a diligent, attentive manner - examples would be filling out a form, writing a check, going through a purse or bag, inspecting an item closely, etc.
Close, personal attention from another person
Haircuts, or other touch from another on head or back
There is website: http://www.asmr-research.org/ set-up to research ASMR and raise interest to fund a scientific research study into the phenomenon. It has a lot of useful information and links to other groups, discussing theories, various triggers and links to a large number of ASMR trigger videos.
Hope you find this helpful and interesting, please go check it out!
Re: Sound and how the brain reacts to it
Thank you so much, shenman, this is great information. I can't believe I have now gone from thinking I am the only one with this phenomenon, to being overjoyed to find I am not alone on this forum, to now finding a group of people who are researching it! Fantastic, thanks so much for sharing the website, I am off to check it out.
Re: Sound and how the brain reacts to it
Yes, thank you Shenman. It was great to read your response and find an online community dedicated to this phenomenon. I look forward to hearing more about future ASMR research.
Re: Sound and how the brain reacts to it
Every entity created by God on this planet has its own basic harmonic "signature." When a harmonic or a sound frequency is compatible with or similar to the signature of the individual, that individual experiences various mental and emotional responses generated by the the harmony (music) that results. Some music or harmonics are repugnant and therefore are avoided because of their unpleasantness. Our relationships are formed in a similar fashion. We like folks with like harmonics.
Simply put, when we experience harmony, it is pleasing to us as with any animal (i.e. "Music can calm the savage beast.")
Re: Sound and how the brain reacts to it
I do the exact same thing. I have for years. I love the sound of people rummaging through their make up. I also love hearing certain voices. I thought I was the only one who did this. I too get sleepy when this happens. Its almost as if I'm hypotized. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one.
Re: Sound and how the brain reacts to it
Hi guys
I too used get the same kind of feelings, but only when hearing a washing machine spin. I've actually recorded several different ones and, although they sounded different, they all had the same effect. Tingling shivers and, if I listened long enough, I'd feel really quite spaced out. But, as I say, used to get this feeling, it all changed a couple of years ago.
A couple of years back I was having a particularly stressful time of things. a couple of major problems came up and they really knocked me sideways. The stress and anxiety was really getting to me and so I sought help on the form of psychotherapy. The therapy worked wonders, and I'd recommend it to anyone in a similar situation.
However, one 'effect' of the therapy, which I really wasn't expecting was that the feelings associated with the sound of a spinning watching machine were gone. I still like the sound. (To be honest I'm listening to it now while typing this) but I never get the tremors/shivers anymore and I do miss them, as it was a nice feeling.
This may only be a coincidence or it may be that I'm now generally more relaxed and therefore the sound doesn't lessen stress, because I'm not stressed anymore?
OK I'm going to add a little more to my previous post.
I am cheating a bit as I am a psychotherapist myself. The problems a couple of years ago were actually a form of 'burn out' that we psychotherapists run the risk of acquiring. (don't think acquiring is the right work but can't think of a better one right now)
The reason I mention this is because of the last few posts, particularly ones mentioning the feeling of like being hypnotized. I sometimes use hypnosis in my works as it helps us to access childhood memories and associated emotional states. When you say it's like being hypnotized it's because you are.
You're experiencing 'auto induced' hypnotic regression into a childhood memory of when you first heard, or experienced the sound, and the associated positive feelings during the experience.
Psychotherapists (or certainly this psychotherapist) will use this effect to access negative emotional states in order to work with them at the unconscious level, this bringing them into consciousness. Of course the opposite also happens and we access a positive state. a happy feeling. sound and audio stimuli are very effective at inducing this. we all had the experience of suddenly smiling at a piece of music that reminds us of a happy time. this is spontaneous hypnosis. It's likely that sound like the ones described are having this kind of effect.
Personally speaking, I still don't know why the spinning washing machine should have had this affect on me as I know my parents didn't have a washing machine when I was young. Nor do I know why it stop after therapy, but it certainly has...
Re: Sound and how the brain reacts to it
Hey! I'm so glad I found this forum. I'm glad I know I'm not the only person who this happens too . Also, thank you so much for all the audio links!
I have been experiencing this sensation since I was very young. My favorite thing is the turning of pages/rustling paper; additionally, the sound of people whispering and certain keystrokes on a keyboard arouse the same feelings. Like everyone else who has posted, when I hear these noises I get a tingling sensation similar to the sensation from someone touching your hair. Also, it is difficult to move at all until the sound stops or I willingly break away from the sensation. On the down side, the sound of people chewing is revolting to me. Music doesn't effect me at all, and I don't play any instruments or sing well.
Re: Sound and how the brain reacts to it
I find this subject fascinating. I think that I've always had a certain set of sounds that triggered this response from me. Mostly those are:
Little bips and bleeps from some minimalistic ambient music (especially over headphones)
Soft typing on some keyboards
Sound of hair being cut
'Crinkly' sounds if they are soft and slow and not harsh
I also have very good hearing and wonder if that has anything to do with this.
Re: Sound and how the brain reacts to it
So glad to know it wasn't just me!!!!
This tingly, euphoric, pleasant, relaxing feeling has been happening since I was a child.
For me, it almost always occurs when someone is looking at say a supply catalog over my shoulder with me or on the phone with me helping me find a product.
I think everyone on here helped make the page-turning or paper sound connection.
It's almost as if I'm being put into a slight trance by this delightfully almost numbing or rather, tingly warm sensation in my head/brain. It's extremely relaxing. Like aural therapy and almost tactile. But (for me) always involves another person near me, and one is helping the other figure something out.
Have tried to replicate it voluntarily, but it doesn't seen to work that way.
My guess is it's also got to do with the tone or inflection of the other peoples' voice? Perhaps it's an odd form of bonding with someone in a non-sexual, non-parental way?
If they could bottle this feeling up, anxiety and insomnia would be a thing of the past.
With this message board, I hope a professional in the neurological sciences can read this, and post a name for this. Also, does everyone have this or just special people like the users of this forum?
It is a similar sensation to that of getting your hair washed and/or styled by someone.
Love it!
Re: Sound and how the brain reacts to it
I actually stayed late at work the other day because the cleaner started shuffling about in the cleaner cupboard sorting out supplies and bagging things up and piling things together and the sound was so soothing I sat at my desk for an extra 20 mins just listening to it..!
I even remember films which contains scenes with nice noises in them. And if I encounter someone with a 'nice' voice then I could listen to them for hours..I would pay good money for a complication of noises - but I guess everyone has a different idea of what is 'nice', but for me these noises are nearly always generated by someone being busy, industrious, quietly efficient - for me the sound is wrapped up in that type of activity - I am not sure even if the sound was 'nice' I would want to hear someone doing something that was in any way a 'negative' act as for me that would take away some of the pleasure - I am sure it all stems from being very young and hearing my mum pottering around me doing small chores..amyway - really pleased I am not the onlly one with this, my husband thinks I am mad!
Re: Sound and how the brain reacts to it
Hi there! I registered just so that I could reply to this post. The closest I have come to those who enjoy certain sounds as much as me are the people who listen to "whisper" videos on youtube. In fact, youtube videos are how I get myself to fall asleep at night.
There are certain people on youtube who's voices are so soothing they literally put me to sleep. There is a woman on youtube named Albatross234 who is what i'd call a big conspiracy theorist about pretty much everything, and I really honestly have no interest in WHAT she is saying, it's her voice and the little clicks in her voice that sooth me. Also, there is another woman named ringaroundtharosey on youtube that I watch often because she smacks her lips a LOT when she is talking. Kind of a popping, smacking noise. Practicly constantly in some instances. I know that is weird to most people but for some reason those noises comfort me. She's even done a video or two of her eating and talking at the same time and instead of it grossing me out, it comforts me.
There is another woman named sushicatny on youtube that's accent and the way she talks during her grocery hauls soothes me as well.
Here are some things that comfort me, and I have to say that as far as soothing voices go, and people who smack when they talk, it got me in trouble in highschool, because in science class I would nod off because of the way the teacher talked. It was like I was hearing him but not hearing him because I was in that "trance" state. Same with my math teacher, and unfortunatly Math is my worst subject.
1:) Gum chewing..other people chewing gum, gum chewing in movies (like the scene in Pleasantville where Reese Witherspoon is on the phone with her friend and she's WORKIN that gum lol)
2:) Soothing voices
3:) People who smack or pop their lips when they talk, or people that lick their lips when they talk
4:) typing on a keyboard..when my best friend came to visit me one summer she stayed up a little later than me and was on the computer chatting to her sister on instant messenger and the sounds of the keys were like heaven, I hoped she'd stay up longer than she did haha
It's glad to know i'm not the only one. It's a nice thing, but at the same time I also think it can be a burden. Like I said, a lot of my teachers had soothing "sponge cake like" voices that caused me to zone out and not absorb what they were saying
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