By the Campfire

One thing I generally end up doing is because I’ve read so many books in my life.  And because I read so much, where most people will read themselves to sleep.  I will normally do a dictation, meaning I will write in my journal before go to sleep.  It was actually Georgia, my black maid, as I said in my previous post, who really got me to start writing in what was called back then, a thought book.  And so all through my life that’s what I did.  I wrote in the journal keeping track of what is going on in my daily life.  My Journal became really important the year after I got out of the hospital because my parents did nothing but complain about how much the operation had cost them and how I had become nothing but damaged goods to them now.  So before the operation I was basically almost of dwarf, because up until I was 16, I was only 4′6" tall.  And then from age 16 to age 17, in the space of just eight months, I grew 13 inches in just my legs alone.  So this kind of mutation oriented growth is what caused me to end up being a hunchback.  Because my legs literally grew up into my spine.  Not really into my spine of my legs grew so fast that they basically pushed my spine into a kind of curve.

And so the year after I got out of this huge operation.  With all of the terrible trauma I had gone through all my parents could do was complain how much it had cost them.  And how in their eyes I was now nothing but damaged goods.  So, consequently, my Journal became the way that I would be able to the stress so that I wouldn’t like explode.  Anyhow, over the years my Journal became more and more away from me to have something or someone to talk to, because it was very difficult for people to understand the experience I had gone through.  It was actually virtually impossible.  And so consequently, as I said, the Journal became the one place where I could feel safe enough to talk about what was really going on, the biggest thing that happened after the operation was became incredibly lonely.  Not only was I terribly damaged because I had to watch nine children who were my best friends during that whole year.  Die one right after another, but in addition to that my brain had accelerated where my reading rate increased almost 500%.  Before the operation I read approximately 300 words a minute.  But buying four months after I got out of the hospital.  And I was back at school.  My reading rate shot up to 4800 words per minute and I have a total photographic memory.  Dr. Herndon, who did the operation on me, and I and the headmaster at school, Capt. cutter.  And in addition, my Latin teacher and English teacher Mr. Everitt all had a meeting on the phone.  When this all took place.  Dr. Herndon said that this was a kind of reaction, because he really wasn’t sure how it happened.  But he believed that as a result of my body being so limited and because of the nerve damage I have suffered that my brain began to accelerate on its own.  And so consequently, in the conversation.  I made a remark to Dr. Herndon, that I was already a freak because of the operation and I said now.  I was going to be even more of a freak.

I mean having a good brain is very much like being in the old West.  In the old West, if you are handy with a gun.  There was always someone who would come into town looking for you in order to try to prove to you that they were better than you were.  So it didn’t take me very long to realize that I wasn’t going to be very interested in playing those kind of games.  And so I began to hide a lot of what my abilities were over the years, unless I was in a specific environment, where it was really safe to demonstrate them.  Because most people just don’t really know how to deal with the fact that I knew so much more was able to read so much.  I mean, it’s hard for people to believe that in my life I’ve read a little over 40,000 books.  It’s hard for people to realize that I have 105 newsfeeds that I read every day when I’m reading my news.  And that I use to generate my news Journal entries.  So basically I’m reading about 3500 news stories a day.  And because I’m a photographic memory.  Once I see it.  It never goes away.  And what’s funny is that I have this photographic memory, but I also have hysterical amnesia.  From 1968 all the way through 1973.  So an entire section of five years has been completely, will almost completely, wiped out.  There are very small pieces of information or experiences that I can remember.  But most of it has been just literally wiped out.  I’ve been to more than 12 different specialists over my lifetime trying to figure out ways to recover the lost time.  And I’ve seen a number of experts in the field to try to understand why.  I have this section of time that’s been wiped out, but that my photographic memory hasn’t been affected at all.

The basic consensus is that whatever happened in the hospital during those eight months was so traumatic that it just literally dropped a big wall or curtain over those years.  In order to, from what they have explained, to protect me from the pain of remembering some of or any of those memories would cause.  Aileen and I do experiments periodically where we will watch things on TV in order to try to peek some of those memories.  And when one or two of those memories do surface.  They generally have a rather difficult time emotionally for the next week or two.  Sometimes it become very animated, or at other times it become extremely depressed or anxious.  So, we are very careful about trying to probe into that deep blackness of those five years that just are gone.

And because I’m pushing 60 and I have worked with geriatrics at one time in my life among the other things I’ve done.  I know that video games and dancing help with mental alertness.  But mental alertness is not what fights Alzheimer’s or senility.  What fight senility or the onset of degeneration of memory and cognitive ability is exercising what is known as mental acuity.  And mental acuity, deals specifically with the brains ability to analyze complex arguments, and then to be able to extrapolate were to talk about those arguments in an intelligent manner.  Now when someone is working in business as a doctor or a warrior and there working well into their 60s they are exercising.  Not the mental alertness anywhere near as much as they are exercising mental acuity, because they are constantly confronted with complex arguments that they have to analyze and then to extrapolate or talk about and discuss and write down and things of that nature.

But basically being trapped here on this chaise lounge, where I can’t really move during lunch.  My choices are very limited.  So if I sit here and do nothing but watch TV I can end up being victimized by my own emotions and not really get the exercise I need intellectually to maintain the kind of acuity and prowess that I have had intellectually all my life.  And it’s important that I maintain my mental acuity, because with all of the issues I’ve had to deal with emotionally and psychologically and physically all my life.  If I don’t maintain a certain degree of sharpness intellectually and maintain my mental acuity, they can be easier for me to become victimized by the emotions that I’m dealing with as a result of getting older and having to deal with my health degenerating where having literally to almost fight for my life every day.  And so that’s why I do these news articles.  Of course the other reason I didn’t is because as my statement about my being pro-life and pro-choice at the same time tries to explain.  I am totally completely nonviolent, I don’t believe in violence against or the killing of any human being under any circumstances.  But by the same token, I don’t under any circumstances, believe it is fair in any way for anyone to intercede in the process that a woman must go through in order to arbitrate her own virtual and physical condition pursuant to gestation or pregnancy with whatever creator there is beyond this world or whatever energy there is.  I believe women deserve the right and the respect to be able to enter that arbitration process and to arbitrate their conditions, pursuant to their own internal mechanisms with regard to having free will and free choice.  So that they can make those decisions on their own.

And I believe that if society were really going to show women kind of respect that they deserve what society would do is to stand directly by the side of these women going through the gestative process.  So that we as a population would be much more supportive to them rather than telling them what to do.  When I worked at a halfway house for unwed mothers.  Almost everyone I talked to always said the same thing that what they wanted most, they never got was someone to literally step right beside them.  Not in front of them.  And not in back of them, or underneath them, or on top of the.  But right next to them.  And then to simply shut up and to be their friend.  And from almost all the women I ever spoke to they said that was one of the hardest things for them to ever find in other people was for someone to just stand by them as a friend.

And so of course over the years, I kept wondering why.  Why is it so hard for us as a human condition to stand by these women who are going through the gestative process.  When that’s really what they need the most is support.  And that’s how I came to be not only pro-life, but pro-choice.  Because of all the women I’ve known termination has never been their first choice by any means.  And most of the women I’ve encountered and have facilitated with pursuant to their gestation or their pregnancy.  When I did nothing more than to support their own internalized arbitration process, came to the conclusion that they would rather have the child adopted out or they would take care of it themselves.  Very few ever came to the conclusion of simply wanting to terminate.  And when I worked in this halfway house out in the Western states for a while.  The type of women who were coming into the halfway house for women who had a very difficult time articulating their own circumstances, let alone feeling very comfortable or having the language ability to articulate how they really felt about their pregnancy.

And yet, over time, while they were there at the halfway house I saw a number of these women accelerate in their awareness and sensitivity by leaps and bounds as they were given the chance to explore how they really felt without someone leaping in their face and telling them what to do.

And so like my message before where I talked about playing the keys, that’s all I try to do is just help.  I’ve never been concerned with answers every time I went after and answer I got more questions than I ever had.  And I have done some rather amazing things.  When I wrote that hieroglyphic dictionary that I created which is in my links list here my Journal page, which is called my 250 million variable characteristic hieroglyphic language.  When I wrote that, it actually led me into a discussion with the University of middle English in the UK regarding the Mycenaean culture.  Because I was able to discover that actually it was the Mycenaean culture.  That was responsible for facilitating in the hieroglyphic expressions that Egypt was using.  And this was because of trade agreements that existed between the two cultures.  So that one dictionary that I still have, but that I created not one afternoon, actually led to a tremendous amount of work by linguists in Europe as they were analyzing the formation of the Indo-European language pool.  And the Indo-European language pool is really like the center where all of the Indo-European languages formed.  And that was the area that was above the peninsula of Greece and Italy.  In that section of the world.

Because in that section of the world you had a lot of tribal cultures going on existing flows to each other.  And when the Mycenaean Island, or the island of Mycenae blew up.  And this of course happened because it was a huge volcanic island but had a very large channel where the water was able to flow into the base of the island and so basically, tremendously powerful volcanic and explosive event took place at the same time as a result of what is known as a condensation explosion.  And according to all the records the Mycenaean explosion was actually more powerful than any other volcanic explosion in history at that time.  It even is said to have caused a lot of the biblical events that were taking place.

But when the Mycenaean people fled from the island of Mycenae, they immediately migrated for the most part right cross the narrow body of water to the peninsula that would later become Greece.  Because of course a lot of people from Mycenae were so apprehensive about being anywhere near were the explosion that happened.  A lot of the migrated north of the peninsula that was to become Greece.  And they settled in that area of of the world, right above the peninsula but was to become Greece and Italy.  And when they merged with these tribal groups in that area.  The Mycenae people brought with them this hieroglyphic form of expression, which of course mixed with the Sanskrit and the cuneiform that existed at that time.  And so when they hieroglyphic language of the Mycenae culture mixed with the Sanskrit and the cuneiform.  What ended up happening was that the tribal groups of that region began to separate into what is called subcultural groups.  And so some of those groups migrated back down to the peninsula that would later become Greece.  Some migrated down to the peninsula that would later become her own.  And some stayed right in that area and some then of course migrated west to Europe.  Because it was out of that region that almost all of the languages in the entire world for the Western world actually came from.

And so, this dictionary that I had created actually gave a tremendous amount of insight to the specialists working in the field of linguistics pursuant to the Indo-European language pool as to how some of these associations linguistically actually began to take place, pursuant to what we as humans have been able to understand regarding the history of how hieroglyphic language was actually used by different cultures at the time.

So, the gist of what I’m trying to say is that I have always tried to use my intelligence and my abilities to try and do the best I could at helping my fellow humans and the people here in the world to be able to have a better chance of surviving and to learn more.  I just always tried to help.  Of course when I created the dictionary it was because another financial analysts and I were talking about two different ways of doing financial analysis.  And it was out of an intellectual discussion we were happening that I became determined to look more intently at this one discussion we were having regarding how fast the brain could process information.  And that’s really what led me to creating the dictionary.  But as a result, I am a don’t learning a tremendous amount and was actually able to send copies of the dictionary to not only the UK but other places where they were studying linguistics.  Not so that they could analyze my dictionary is much but they were using what I created to analyze relationships of cuneiform.  And Sanskrit pursuant to hieroglyphic languages, and to have a better understanding of how the various forms of prelinguistic symbolic languages existed at the time.  Because the linguistic symbolic languages that mutated off of the cuneiform and Sanskrit, which were in fact affected dramatically by hieroglyphic languages, really only became more and more expressed by humans as a result of humans becoming more talkative, pursuant to more complex concepts and dialogs, such that the limitations of these non-linguistic symbolic forms of expression began to have more and more limitations.

And yet to this day, we have languages here on Earth that are tremendously cuneiform oriented or Sanskrit oriented.  To the point where these languages have mutated slightly in order to take on more variations pursuant to the characteristics of their language in order to semi-duplicate the linguistic symbolic languages that a lot of the Western cultures gravitated to.  But part of that whole linguistic symbolic form of expression really was as a result primarily of the Roman culture.  Because Latin was one of the first major linguistic symbolically oriented forms of language that had the kind of prominence, pursuant to anthropological expression through various subcultures and cultural groups.  Beyond what any other culture had at the time.  Which is why Latin ended up being the basis for most of the languages of the Western world.

And so consequently, what I’m trying to illustrate here is that this is what I’ve always tried to do with my life.  I never used what I knew to try to get anything from anyone.  I always used what I knew to try to facilitate others and what they were working on.  For example, I remembered that I had said that I had worked with Dr. BF Skinner, by correspondence in what was called is population control experiments.  That was really a misnomer.  Because the experiments the Dr. Skinner was working on at the time.  I called, population control.  In reality.  That’s not really what they were.  The term population control came to me as a way of being a kind of plug-in term for the rather complex study the Dr. Skinner was working on and that some of what I was doing in my own research.  He found somewhat useful.  The actual experiments, Dr. Skinner was working on had to do with a population.  And how that population perceived what was called the containment of the size of the containment.

For example, Dr. Skinner was using lab rats in one of the experiments he was conducting.  And you noticed that when the rats began to perceive limitations to the containment in which they existed.  Once they had that perception than the perception began to mutate to the point where they began to see or sense that the containment was shrinking.  And this of course was not true.  Because the containment wasn’t shrinking it was that the number of rats in the population was in fact increasing.  And so as the number of rats increased sensation, cumulatively through the population of rats was that the containment was actually shrinking when it wasn’t because it was nothing more than the number of rats increasing that was generating this false perception.

And so that one particular experiment out of many.  Then let Dr. Skinner to the supposition that the same perceptual mutation could in fact take place in humans.  And he then not only found that it could take place, but that in some ways it actually was taking place.  And that this was due, partially because of the number of humans that was increasing on the planet Earth.  And of course the earth having a limited size to how many people can exist on the planet comfortably, this of course meant that the containment of the earth was limited to within certain tolerances or certain semi-finite parameters.  And it was then further understood that as the number of people would increase on the planet Earth that the cumulative perception of the containment would in fact begin to be perceived as if the containment were in fact shrinking when in reality it was not.

And of course the end result of this semi-mutating perception.  That was taking place in these populations was a number of different psychological or psychologically semi-aberrant or semi-abnormal expressions, pursuant to emotional and psychological, and cultural behavior.  Such as obesity.  Or separation.  Various forms of mental illness and depression.  Violence was another thing that was noticed.  These were actually the various aspects of what Dr. Skinner was working on.  In actuality during this time he actually wrote one book that literally explained how easy it was to program humans just like lab rats.  Using behavioral psychology.  But what happened was that when the book came out the federal government got very nervous about this and made Dr. Skinner write another book to retract.  The first book that he wrote.  And consequently I have both books.  But that’s only because I was in correspondence with him because I became curious about the manner in which the brain was processing information as perception was in fact changing pursuant to containment perception or interpersonal relationships and how they were changing as a resort of how information was being processed in short-term and long-term memory and how the subconscious was in fact, manipulating cognitive signals pursuant to long and short-term memory.  And so I began to correspond with Dr. Skinner regarding how the subconscious actually handled long and short-term memory signals pursuant to manipulating or ascertaining the validity of which signals were in fact more valid than others.  As the Brentwood processing information, while someone was sleeping.  And how that process was relatable to the semi-mutating process of perceptual changes that were taking place as a result of population growth.  And as the population was in fact being subjected to perceptual changes pursuant to their sensation or their perceptive awareness of the containment and how they believed the containment was changing.

And that’s really how he and I got into that kind of a discussion.  And from that discussion.  I then wrote Dr. JB Rhine, because I was interested in his work on the Tesseract pursuant to it literally being a shadow of a fourth dimensional square.  And so Dr. Rhine was working on the Tesseract pursuant to multidimensional expressions of, at the time, paranormal potentiality within the human condition.  But that entire study then expanded dramatically to electromagnetic field interaction and sub particle sequencing and acceleration pursuant to various forms of multidimensional interaction and expression, which all took place off of the original Tesseract study.  But when I wrote Dr. Rhine.  I was interested in the initial mathematic philosophical arguments that brought him to the position where the Tesseract could actually be a shadow of a fourth dimensional square, which then gave me more information as to how the subconscious could actually manipulate certain sub signals and active signals in the subconscious representing one of short-term memory that the subconscious was actually trying to ascertain as to the validity pursuant to which signals would be maintained in the brain as long-term memory versus being discarded.  And then of course I became interested in the potentiality of paranormal he expressed cognitive information that humans were not only being exposed to but expressing at the time.

And so now you see that I had used all those words to explain, population control.  And so that’s why over the years.  When I talk about my work.  For those six or seven months with Dr. Skinner and Dr. Rhine that I talk in terms of population control and the Tesseract.  Because to try to explain what I was really involved with, pursuant to these two extremely powerful scientists and their work takes a great length of time to explain things and most people don’t understand what I’m talking about.

And the use of all that I learned did nothing but to move me to more questions.  I mean, I’ve learned a tremendous amount about all of this over the years.  But most of the body of science throughout the world still is looking at things extremely symptomatically and from a very linear standpoint.  So they don’t really want to be very open to problematic logic or problematically oriented ways of perceiving the world, which is more anticipatory and at the same time more multidimensional.  Which would of course be as compared to symptomatically looking at the world using symptomatic logic, which is of course more two-dimensional and linear.  So as a result of most of the world being very symptomatic in their perception of the world and being very linear of course and two-dimensional it becomes very difficult for me when I’m using mostly problematic logic and looking at things in a very anticipatory or multidimensional oriented manner, for me to extrapolate hardly anything to most scientific people who still are looking at things in a very symptomatic form of logical understanding or perceptions.  And so consequently I have had to be very independent and solitary and the things that I studied and have had to do things quite alone.

I mean, one of the major things I have learned is that for example with this chilly earthquake, which is a huge huge tectonic plate event.  As I tried to explain earlier today, what we’re looking at in Chile is a legitimate evidential event of substantiation that electromagnetic fields, meaning the group of electromagnetic fields of a run along the surface of the earth, of which there are about 250 to 300 fields that grew into a number of bands, are in fact beginning to deteriorate rather dramatically, pursuant to the deterioration, and/or degeneration, of the electromagnetic fields underneath the surface of the earth, pursuant to how those fields in fact are becoming more distorted pursuant to their density and that’s the expressions.  And as these density expressions are in fact becoming almost as powerful as the actual tectonic plates interacting themselves.  And that this is happening in such a manner so that a lot of the tectonic plate movements are actually being driven now more by the fields of force than they are with the actual pressure of the plates.

And of course, the reason why this is even possible is because every single thing in the entire universe is made up of sub particles and electromagnetic fields in one way or another.  I mean, the only difference between any two things is density and the speed of the particles and the length of the way of of the substance were looking at.  In science, the higher the density the shorter the wavelength and the slower the speed of the particles.  The lower the density, the longer the wavelength and the faster the speed of the particles.  So as long as you understand those two basic quantum physics rules.  It becomes very easy to understand how everything in the entire universe and of course everything on earth is basically driven by electromagnetic field interaction and sub particle sequencing or what is also known as sub particle accelerations.

And so that’s what makes the chilly earthquake and what makes you hate the earthquake so extremely significant.  Because were looking at electromagnetic fields that are part of what are known as the living fields, which run along the surface of the earth, beginning to degenerate and deteriorated a much faster rate than had been previously thought possible.  But of course, the people who understand the dynamics of what I’m talking about are very few in this world.  And a lot of them don’t even want to admit that what I’m talking about could possibly be happening.  This is partially because people by nature, always reached for the first reaction being denial.  And so I continue using my global warming arguments and my global warming research that I have been doing and that I continue to do in my news articles online where I talk about various aspects of the perceived are possible.  Global warming process and how a lot of what is taking place is really due to electromagnetic field interaction or how the electromagnetic fields of the super fields which are the electromagnetic fields that surround the Earth, as compared to the living fields which run along the surface of the earth that we walk around in.  And then of course as those two types of fields interact with the electromagnetic fields inside the Earth of which there are over 3000 different types of electromagnetic fields inside the earth that are in bands of a fluctuating number.  Because fields tend to change based on the sub particle activity in the density of the sub particles themselves.

Then it gets really complicated.  Because the sub particles themselves are beginning to change in a very noncontiguous and incongruent way.  Meaning that certain types of particles are beginning to act out or interact in ways that are not as congruent or contiguous with the ways that they used to react.  And as a result, this is causing slight runaway chain reactions within certain types of particles as they behave subatomically.  And these runaway chains are then causing mutations in the behavior of neutrinos or what is known as neutrionic.  And psitronic or psitron’s activity that actually interact with the planet and catalytically energized and extrapolate all of the meteorologically displayable events that happen on Earth.  Because is the neutrinos, and particles at that particular level of subatomic expression that drive all of the weather conditions throughout the entire planet.  And this of course is explained in the book, the chaos theory.

So as you can see its very complicated and very boring.  Which is why I’ve been alone most of my life.  I mean, I have all these abilities and I never wanted to make any money from because I didn’t see any real value to doing.  I wanted to help.  I wanted to do anything I could to help people never to have to suffer the way I have had to suffer in my own life, either as a child abuse survivor or because of the mental illnesses that plague me all the time that come out in forms of me being self-effacing or self recrimination or guilt anxiety panic anxiety disorder depression agoraphobia.  A host of all sorts of issues.  So I have to always do battle with all these demons inside of me while I’m still trying to contribute in any way that I possibly can.  And that’s part of what I try to do with my Journal, because what I’ve given here in this Journal entry is a tremendous amount of information that people who are actually out in various fields of science can actually use.  Some of the information I’ve given here, some will think is nothing but garbage.  And yet others will find quite useful.

I am not the end-all of understanding every single thing, because that’s not possible.  Knowledge doesn’t work that way, the more you know, the less you know.  That’s the axiom.  That’s the reality.  Because no matter how much you learn, the one thing you learn from everything you learn is how little you know.  Because answers give you nothing answers do nothing for you except position you in a very finite way to think in terms of the world from a very symptomatic and linear and reactionary point of view.  Questions on the other hand, position you in such a way so that you are much more anticipatory and multidimensional in the way that you look at the world and this of course makes you very problematic or very problematic the oriented pursuant to how you logically defined.  Your world and how you process information.  So again with the world being so symptomatic it becomes very difficult for me being very problematic the oriented to talk about most of what I understand when most of the world is so linear is the I use the term lovingly calling most of the world flat minded.

So this is some of what goes on inside of my head.  And yes, I had to dictate all of this and believe it or not.  It takes a tremendous amount of training for my speech program to get all of this correct all the time.  Because I just used words such as cuneiform, Mycenae, Mycenaean, which I have had to train my speech program to be able to dictate for me.  Just like I had to train my speech program to understand Ramapithicus and Kenapithicus, which are two of the very first humanoids that were ever discovered in the world, which were discovered by Dr. and Mary leaky in 1952 in the Olduvai Gorge of the Belgian Congo.  And the significance of the Ramapithicus Kenapithicus humanoids is that these were the very first humanoids that lived communally on the ground.  So they are looked upon as being the first time that we humans began to lived communally.  Not in the trees.  And that’s basically about 14 million years ago.  So I’m talking about global warming experiments are I’m talking about anthropological evolutionary growth pursuant to culture and different ways of culture as expressed the Ramapithicus Kenapithicus examples are very useful because I can relate back on a kind of timeline to how long we have been here versus what we have accomplished.

And that’s why Mycenae and Mycenaean are very important concepts as well, because they were actually the very heart of where hieroglyphic language really sprung from.  And what most people don’t understand is that the Egyptian culture wasn’t using hieroglyphic language because they weren’t intelligent.  They were using hieroglyphic language because the Egyptian culture was Cochran so many people all over the entire area, where they existed that the only language they hand they could be easily understood by all of the people who they were conquering was hieroglyphics, because it is a kind of cuneiform or picture language.  And so as a result of that, what happened was that the Egyptians were already doing trade with the Mycenaean culture.  And as a result, that is when the hieroglyphic language of the Egyptians which they were already using a primitive form of cuneiform became more and more expressible as the hieroglyphics that everyone knows today.  But the hieroglyphics was actually used as a way to express to the various cultures that Egypt was culturing.  What was expected of them was away for the Egyptians to communicate with all of the cultures that they were conquering.

And so that’s why concepts like Mycenae and Mycenaean are very important because it gives me the ability once again to mark sections of time.  But you can see that with all of this dictation I’ve done that.  It takes a tremendous amount for my speech program to be able to keep up with these different concepts and words that I used because of how exacting the language has to be.  And you’re also getting an idea of how huge the amount of words is when I have to try to talk about almost anything pursuant to anthropological manifestations of subcultural groups or language or electromagnetic fields and sub particles and global warming.  When you’re talking about these things, the temptation is to talk about these things briefly and very empirically.  But if you do that.  You make a mistake, because there is nothing in the entire universe that is empirical.  We make thinks empirical because of political or scientific or cultural expediency.  But the reality is there is virtually nothing that is empirical, because empirical truths just don’t exist.  And so as a result I’m very exacting with how I explain things so that I do not state anything empirically because I know that those kinds of concepts just don’t really exist.  And that’s why about to all of this explanation in order to give people who are reading my Journal more of an understanding of how complex some of the issues that I think about as I work on really are.

And believe it or not, what’s really quite amazing and very much amazing to me as well, is that a lot of the dynamics pursuant to financial analysis of economic analysis pursuant to profitability and the nature of the American market system versus the nature of the global economic system are just as complicated.  I mean, most of the high paid professionals in the American economic system later went to school with Gore I actually ended up doing business with at one point or another in my life.  And what most people don’t like to admit is that in my Journal back in January of 2009 I accurately predicted that the American market system would lose $800 trillion of market volume by the end of the third business quarter of 2009 and it did.  I then subsequently predicted that the joblessness would increase again before the beginning of March 2010.  And it did.  And every single thing I’ve done financial aid as far as financial projections and profitability analysis.  Not once in 42 years survivor been wrong on a projection I’ve ever done.  Not once.  But that’s because I don’t use .5% variance.  When I do any kind of statistical or financial analysis I always use .05% variance.  And the reason for that is because even though it will take me an extra 150 to 200,000 calculations to complete the financial or profitability are statistical analysis.  Once I do complete the analysis because the variation meaning the plus or minus error of margin is so small, the day that is simply not able to be corrupted or manipulated because it is so accurate.  And as a result that makes my analyses extremely dead on as they say.

And so that’s why why look at the market.  I’m looking at the market from much more complicated and complex statistical analytic point of view, pursuant to financial analysis and profitability analysis, because I’m not looking at the market terms of any kind of symptomatically oriented perspective, but a totally completely problematically oriented perspective, and I’m not looking at the market terms of only .5% variance of margin of error I’m looking at the market in terms of approximately 100 times tighter using the .05% variance margin of error rather than the larger .5% variance of margin of error.  And so as a result, the extrapolations I come away with one I’m looking at financial analysis, are a lot more real.

And again, this is why some of the brainiacs in the financial world don’t really like what I come up with because they find that a lot of what I’m doing to be counterproductive to a lot of their agendas.  But then I don’t have any agendas.  My agenda is to help humanity to do a better job of managing themselves and to try to the best of my ability to help people to realize as much freedom in free expression and to be able to ask better questions.  So that they can have a better chance of elevating themselves of their own highest good.  That is what I tried to do.  It’s all these other groups and subcultural groups and political parties religions and economic groups.  And so for that I will these agendas.  I don’t.

So, that being said, it is now 12:23 AM.  And I am sufficiently beat.  So I’m going to have some bread and butter and optimize my speech program in order to have it fine-tuned for these words I’ve been using like Mycenae and Mycenaean which are important to future discussions.  And then I’ll put my speech program to sleep.  And I will go to sleep and perhaps tomorrow I will do some more news analysis.

Seeing closing another reason I came to WordPress because I won’t be limited by doing really long Journal dictations or Journal entries such as what I’m doing because a lot of the work that I am engaged with and that I do are extremely complex issues to take a tremendous amount of extrapolation or explanation in order to be able to present the topic is coherently as I possibly can.  And I’m sure that those of you who are reading this Journal entry will see exactly how complicated some of these things are because of the dictation.  I’ve just done.

To all those who are reading.  This.  Thank you very much.  I really do appreciate it.  And for those who don’t like my writing am very sorry I really don’t mean to offend.  This is just my way as I’ve said trying to help.  And as I always do, I will include a section in this Journal entry known as my see also section which lists a tremendous amount of resources for everything that I’ve been talking about to help with anyone who might want to do further research pursuant to what I’ve discussed.

I will write later….

 

See Also:

1. Deforestation
2. Desalinization
3. Electro-magnetic fields
4. sub-particle interaction
5. Neutrinos
6. Newtonian Metaphysics 
7. Quantum Physics
8. Quantum Mechanics
9. Newtonian Metaphysics 
10. Stellar Mechanics
11. Astrophysics
12. The Chaos Theory
13. Wolfgang Pauli
14. Volcanoes
15. Earthquakes
16. The Gulf Stream
17. Skin Cancer Statistics
18. My Biographical Profile 
19. My Philosophy of Life 
20. Reality… 
21. For those Who Said I Never Knew Ronald Reagan, They Lied
22. My Encounter With Joan Baez 
23. My Time Studying The Anasazi Indians 
24. My 250 Million Variable Characteristic Hieroglyphic Language 
25. My Tribute To Jim Varney 
26. The Pebble And The Penguin 
27. A Diamond On A Sea Of Glass 
28. Regarding Me And My Journal 
29. It’s A Crime 
30. My Back And Me Doing 250 Sit Ups 
31. Hey God! You There? I’m Tired… Ok? 
32. In The Midst Of Darkness The Smallest Spark Lights My Way… 
33. I Wrote Something A Long Time Ago… 
34. The Vanishing Of America 
35. Second Gear 
36. Kmart To Close Five More Ohio Stores 
37. Sounds 
38. An Explanation Of Vernacular Dynamics and Sequencing Regarding Various Forms of Advocacy 
39. An Installment Notation Of The Maschke Family History And Legacy 
40. Adventures In Technocracy 
41. My Financial Analysis Of The Global Economic System 
42. My Global Warming Research 

 

For the record, I pro-life. I do not support violence against, or the killing of any human being under any circumstances! And the only way that I ever deviate from that stand is that I do not believe that the Almighty, and/or God  has ever given any human the right to dictate to any woman how she is to arbitrate her life with the Almighty, and/or God . Therefore, I am also pro-choice, in that I believe that all women deserve the right to choose for themselves the fate of their souls, and their own bodies, pursuant to their relationship with the Almighty, and/or God . For an expanded explanation please see my article entitled, “Second Gear “

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Schizophrenia

My BnB2/HD2 PBL write-up is the one on Schizophrenia.  You may remember I wrote a few words a while ago saying how I found the condition quite disturbing.  Quite why I should be more afraid of schizophrenia than, say, heart disease I’m not too sure.

Anyway, in having to do the write-up I’ve been forced to look at it in more detail.  And I came across this passage from one of the course textbooks – it’s based on notes a schizophrenic patient made about the voices he heard.  Scares the crap out of me.  Thought I’d share it with you.



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Traditional medicine treatment of urticaria

Description

Urticaria is a kind of red and white bumps on the skin broke out. Although measles is usually itching, therefore a nuisance, they are usually not dangerous, except in the bee or insect bites, when the measles indication of the true medical emergency. A measles cases last year, less than 30 minutes, as long as a week.

When the body of substances, they think it is a dangerous fight with the flood substances histamine skin problems.Lead to excessive accumulation of histamine in urticaria when a specific region of the skin. Material difference between the person who caused the release of histamine, even if the ordinary stimuli, animal dander, pollen, aspirin, penicillin, insect bites and foods containing the person's allergies.

Symptoms and signs

Increased a lot, in the local area of the skin red or white collision

Bumps appear and disappear suddenly

The area affected may be slight or seriousItching

Conventional medical

Urticaria often do not usually require treatment, but if the long-standing poles, consult a doctor. After the completion of recording, your medical history, your doctor may ask you in the past two weeks, the risk of a potential stimulus. Unfortunately, measles can cause a variety, from your doctor may determine the position of not, the exact cause of the stimulus. If the reason is thatOK, you will be invited to the material, in order to avoid the epidemic. In more severe cases, doctors may prescribe a drug, usually an anti-histamine agent to treat the condition.

Such as the honeycomb is shortness of breath accompanied by fever, nausea, abdominal cramps, or immediately go for treatment. You may suffer anaphylactic shock.

Aromatherapy

German chamomile oil can help relief the itching. As long as a drop-down directly on skin itchFriction

Ayurveda

Urticaria are protected, too much heat in the body, that the Indian herb doctor. Cooling heat and cool crazy itching, they like to eat watermelon, drink milk, parsley or coriander.

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Medical Breakthroughs, for Pennies

Finding pennies on the ground is mostly useless today. Find a dollar and you’ve got yourself a can of soda or candy bar. However, George Whitesides, a Harvard professor of chemistry has made something that it cheap and could change the future of medicine, all for a penny. He has created a paper ‘chip’ that could test people for HIV, malaria and tuberculosis.

Unfortunately, the government will find a way to raise the cost, tax the sick and make money. If this ‘chip’ is effective in detecting disease, medicine can simplify testing in other areas.

The tester has a tree shaped detector that changes color. The tester could also tell how severe the patients’ disease is. Imagine testing for STDs or other diseases. It would be as simple as taking a blood sugar test for diabetes. Stab the finger, take a drop of blood and wait for the results. It’s simple, theoretically effective and can cost a penny to make.

This could lead to an entire new division in healthcare. The millions of dollars spent for medical testing could be used to cure the sick and heal the wounded. Without too much inflation, the government could use its savings to fix our national debt. The testing requires no power, which could pull hundreds of electricity sucking machines from hospitals.

In poverty stricken areas, doctors could walk around with hundreds of these ‘chips’ to test entire towns and villages. It could save thousands of people around the world. In Africa, America and across the globe, there is a need for cheap healthcare. Cheap testing would be the start.

If Whitesides played it right, he could hold the patent and sell it for a reasonable price. He could force medicine to sell it and distribute it for pocket change.

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A profile in extreme courage

A profile in extreme courage

I don’t have too much to add to this beautiful piece on Olympic gold medalis snowboarded Torah Wright. I just encourage everyone to read it. Sister Wright is an active, passionate and articulate member of the church and she conveys the importance of her beliefs quite well. In the incredibly hedonistic snowboarding culture she maintains her values. This is a must read!!

What I found even more incredible in this article was the fact that Wright passed up hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarships in order to fully live up to her values.

“”We’ve definitely knocked back approaches in the past from energy drink companies, given that Torah has a position on excessive caffeine consumption, and that’s been a big area where Torah could certainly have made significant amounts of money, but she’s stayed solid in her beliefs.”

I was a bit amused by the articles conflation of  the traditions or beliefs of Wright’s specific family with the church on the whole. Wright’s family, for instance, practiced homeopathy and avoided modern medicine and so of course the article says

“In line with the beliefs of the Mormon Church, Marion Bright, a nurse, ensured that her children lived virtuous lives. This meant rules such as no lollies or junk food, and no pharmaceutical drugs – not even so much as a Panadol for a headache.

I guess it is inevitable when a member is profiled. Even though our church is the fourth largest in the country, there is an assumption that all members are identical in their practices. Many faithful members do drink caffeine (Including President David O. McKay) and certainly we have several general authorities that served as doctors. We are not a tradition that discourages sweets or fun though things should be in moderation. I guess I should take such a positive article and just be satisfied, but these inconsistencies stood out to me.

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Health-Atrial Fibrillation medications-Daigatran VS Coumadin - New England Journal of Medicine says that Dabigatan is BETTER

Background Warfarin reduces the risk of stroke in patients withatrial fibrillation but increases the risk of hemorrhage andis difficult to use. Dabigatran is a new oral direct thrombininhibitor.

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/NEJMoa0905561v1

Methods In this noninferiority trial, we randomly assigned 18,113patients who had atrial fibrillation and a risk of stroke toreceive, in a blinded fashion, fixed doses of dabigatran —110 mg or 150 mg twice daily — or, in an unblinded fashion,adjusted-dose warfarin. The median duration of the follow-upperiod was 2.0 years. The primary outcome was stroke or systemicembolism.

Results Rates of the primary outcome were 1.69% per year inthe warfarin group, as compared with 1.53% per year in the groupthat received 110 mg of dabigatran (relative risk with dabigatran,0.91; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.74 to 1.11; P<0.001for noninferiority) and 1.11% per year in the group that received150 mg of dabigatran (relative risk, 0.66; 95% CI, 0.53 to 0.82;P<0.001 for superiority). The rate of major bleeding was3.36% per year in the warfarin group, as compared with 2.71%per year in the group receiving 110 mg of dabigatran (P=0.003)and 3.11% per year in the group receiving 150 mg of dabigatran(P=0.31). The rate of hemorrhagic stroke was 0.38% per yearin the warfarin group, as compared with 0.12% per year with110 mg of dabigatran (P<0.001) and 0.10% per year with 150mg of dabigatran (P<0.001). The mortality rate was 4.13%per year in the warfarin group, as compared with 3.75% per yearwith 110 mg of dabigatran (P=0.13) and 3.64% per year with 150mg of dabigatran (P=0.051).

Conclusions In patients with atrial fibrillation, dabigatran given at a dose of 110 mg was associated with rates of stroke and systemic embolism that were similar to those associated with warfarin, as well as lower rates of major hemorrhage. Dabigatran administered at a dose of 150 mg, as compared with warfarin, was associated with lower rates of stroke and systemic embolism but similar rates of major hemorrhage. (ClinicalTrials.gov number,NCT00262600[ClinicalTrials.gov] .)

other sources:

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/seniors/blood+thinner+safer+better+cutting+stroke+risk/1946543/story.html?id=1946543

http://www.warfarinfo.com/dabigatran.htm

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Better: A Fascinating Read

I just finished the most fascinating book I have read in years, Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande, author of the recently released The Checklist Manifesto. While this book is specific to medical practice, its lessons could benefit anyone.

Dr. Gawande is frank and informative about how hard it is to provide high quality care from routine surgery in a United States hospital to emergency care a war zone in the Middle East. He also shares the significant challenges and ethical considerations in certain areas of medicine.  While he does not downplay the need for research, he discusses at length the ways in which doctors achieve results above average, sometimes far above average.

Diligence.

Resourcefulness.

Ingenuity.

Determination.

Commitment.

This book is ultimately about being a “positive deviant”, about getting better results than everyone else.  But it is not about competition, it is about achieving the best result in a single situation.

Since I read the last page, examples of the very efforts he described seemed to jump out at me.  The Minneapolis Star Tribune profiled a local physician’s volunteer effort in  “Saving Haiti: One Life at a Time”.   This doctor is one of many who choose to do what they can to provide care under difficult circumstances of dirty facilities, inadequate supplies and a seemingly endless need for care.

Also in the Star Tribune was a profile of a local activist who is so committed to reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases in her community that she invited civic leaders and teenagers and everyone in between to her living room for a frank discussion about sex, birth control and STD prevention.  “Talking STDs over dinner”.  I definitely call that thinking outside the box.

It is easy to look at doctors, social workers and others in the helping professions and expect them to want to do their best to change the world.  But I have a less obvious example.  My hair stylist.

Bridget has been at the same salon for over 10 years, renting a chair and accepting cash or check for payment.   She is always ready for me and always a pleasant person to be around.  Every time I sit in her chair, she spends more time carefully cutting, arranging, checking, measuring and double-checking than any stylist ever has.  I always leave her chair thinking what a great job she does, every time.

But hair is not all Bridget does well.  She has two young sons and spends countless hours volunteering at their school.  I know this because I have a child at the same school.  She displays that same commitment to quality, same concern for all the kids in the building and support for the school’s staff as she gives me in her chair every six weeks.  Bridget makes a difference.  She sees where she can contribute and does just that.

We can all make a difference by doing well at whatever it is we spend our time doing.  And if you care at all about the quality of your work or the quality of your medical care, this a must-read.

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Shrunken heads, trepanned skulls, tattoos and tortue in Euston

Childhood memories are sacred things. An abiding fixation of my formative years relates to weekend visits to the upper echelons of the Science Museum and to the Wellcome collection that still today resides in some semblance there.

Shrunken Head, Shuar people

One object out of all the treasures in that collection became a vivid obsession for me – a shrunken head. This object of such complete wonder, such allure is now housed in the Wellcome Collection on Euston Road in London in their ‘Medicine Man’ gallery. It is now presented in all its wonder alongside other artifacts from all corners of the globe that were amassed by the great medical curiosity collector Henry Wellcome.

Henry Wellcome was a man of many parts: entrepreneur, philanthropist, patron of science and pioneer of aerial photography. He also created one of the world’s great museums: a vast stockpile of evidence about our universal interest in health and the body.

More than 150 years after his birth in 1853, this exhibition reunites a cross-section of extraordinary objects from his collection, ranging from diagnostic dolls to Japanese sex aids, and from Napoleon’s toothbrush to George III’s hair. It also provides a very different perspective on some of our own obsessions with medicine and health.

In ‘Medicine Man’ some objects are gathered by type and others by broad cross-cultural themes. Objects that can to some represent the grotesque and repellant are shown to be fascinating reflections of the culture they were products of. What is clear to me even all those years ago with my nose pressed to the glass display case of the shrunken head is that beauty can be found in places far from where you would expect, and while I still want a shrunken head of my own I will content myself with visits to this fine gallery for now!

For those wanting to know more about the Wellcome collection Frances Larson’s An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World is a fine insight into the mind of the man behind it all.

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Dentistry in Social Media

Have you ever tried to find a quality dentistry blog, mobile application or an active community site? Believe me, it takes plenty of time and effort as the number of dentistry-related websites is exponentially growing. But on Webicina.com, you will find only selected content focusing on dentistry. Check out Dentistry in Social Media for more.

• News and Information on Dentistry
• Dentistry in the Blogosphere
• Dentistry Podcasts and Intrerviews
• Dentistry Community Sites, FaceBook Groups and Forums
• Microblogging: Twitter and Friendfeed
• Dentistry Wikis
• Dentistry videos, animations and videocasts
• Mobile Applications
• Social Bookmarking
• Medical Search Engines
• Trend Trackers
• Clinical Cases and Images in Dentistry
• Slideshows about Dentistry

We also help you follow dentistry news, journals, blogs and Twitter users on PeRSSonalized Dentistry which is an easy-to-use, free aggregator of quality medical information that lets you select your favourite resources and read the latest news and articles in one personalized place.

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Bitkisel sakinleştiriciler

SPORCU SAĞLIĞI -2

BİTKİSEL SAKİNLEŞTİRİCİLER

 

 

         Biz seyirciler sporcuları müsabaka sırasında görürüz. Aylar boyunca süren yorucu çalışmaları, stres durumunu, uykusuz kalıp kalmadıklarını bilmeyiz. Bizi ilgilendiren taraftarı olduğumuz takımın veya sporcunun galip gelmesidir. Galibiyeti gördüğümüzde avuçlarımız patlayana kadar alkışlarız, seviniriz.

         Konunun birde arka planını görmek gerekir. Zorlu çalışmalarda yorulan sporcunun gevşemesi, sakinleşmesi, stresini yenmesi ve iyi uyuması daha sonraki çalışmaların zeminini oluşturur. Bu durum uzun süren turnuvalarda, dünya ve olimpiyat müsabakalarında daha çok önem kazanır.

         Genç bir sporcunun geniş taraftar topluluğu önündeki heyecanını ve müsabaka gerilimini de düşünmek gerekir.

         Bu konuda Almanya’da 34, Avrupa Birliği ülkeleri genelinde 20 yıldır “Modern tıbbi tedavi” de başarıyla kullanılan, kanunla düzenlenmiş olan bitkisel sakinleştiricilerin desteği sağlanabilir. Bitkisel sakinleştiriciler; Uyku düzeninin sağlanması, uykuya dalmanın kolaylaştırılması, stresin yenilmesi ve sakinleşip gevşemenin sağlanmasında yararlı olmaktadır.

         Bitkisel sakinleştiricilerin yan ( İstenmeyen, zararlı) etkileri yoktur ve uzun süre kullanıma uygundur. Kediotu kökü, şerbetçiotu çiçeği, lavanta çiçeği ve bunların karışımları bu maksatla kullanılmaktadır.

         Başta tıp akademisyenleri ve spor hekimleri olmak üzere yöneticilerin bu konuyu inceleyip değerlendirmesi beklenir.

         Bitkisel sakinleştiricilerin ayrıntılı kullanım bilgileri için bu blogdaki ilgili makaleler okunabilir.

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Question for advocates of alternative health: is living to an average age of 35 really the Good Old Days?

From ScienceBased Medicine by Dr Amy Tuteur:

There once was a time when all food was organic and no pesticides were used. Health problems were treated with folk wisdom and natural remedies. There was no obesity, and people got lots of exercise. And in that time gone by, the average lifespan was … 35!

That’s right. For most of human existence, according to fossil and anthropological data, the average human lifespan was 35 years. As recently as 1900, American average lifespan was only 48. Today, advocates of alternative health bemoan the current state of American health, the increasing numbers of obese people, the lack of exercise, the use of medications, the medicalization of childbirth. Yet lifespan has never been longer, currently 77.7 years in the US.

Advocates of alternative health have a romanticized and completely unrealistic notion of purported benefits of a “natural” lifestyle. Far from being a paradise, it was hell. The difference between an average lifespan of 48 and one of 77.7 can be accounted for by modern medicine and increased agricultural production brought about by industrial farming methods (including pesticides). Nothing fundamental has changed about human beings. They are still prey to the same illnesses and accidents, but now they can be effectively treated. Indeed, some diseases can be completely prevented by vaccination.

Alternative health as a form of fundamentalism also makes sense in that it has an almost religious fervor. It is not about scientific evidence. Indeed, it usually ignores scientific evidence entirely. All the existing scientific evidence shows that all of the myriad claims of alternative health are flat out false. None of it works, absolutely none of it. That’s not surprising when you consider that it never worked in times past; advocates of alternative health merely pretend that it did, without any regard for historical reality.

Alternative health is a belief system, a form of fundamentalism, and like most fundamentalisms, it longs for a past that never existed. It is not science; it has nothing to do with science; and it merely reflects wishful thinking about the past while ignoring reality.

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Home cancer detection ...

… may not be all that far off. The release doesn’t get into any sort of time-to-market predictions, but if this becomes reality it will be one amazing medical breakthrough.

The release:

Small Liquid Sensor May Detect Cancer Instantly, Could Lead to Home Detection Kit MU researcher developing a sensor to detect diseases, such as breast cancer, in bodily fluids

Feb. 17, 2010

COLUMBIA, Mo. – What if it were possible to go to the store and buy a kit to quickly and accurately diagnose cancer, similar to a pregnancy test? A University of Missouri researcher is developing a tiny sensor, known as an acoustic resonant sensor, that is smaller than a human hair and could test bodily fluids for a variety of diseases, including breast and prostate cancers.

“Many disease-related substances in liquids are not easily tracked,” said Jae Kwon, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at MU. “In a liquid environment, most sensors experience a significant loss of signal quality, but by using highly sensitive, low-signal-loss acoustic resonant sensors in a liquid, these substances can be effectively and quickly detected — a brand-new concept that will result in a noninvasive approach for breast cancer detection.”

Kwon’s real-time, special acoustic resonant sensor uses micro/nanoelectromechanical systems (M/NEMS), which are tiny devices smaller than the diameter of a human hair, to directly detect diseases in body fluids. The sensor doesn’t require bulky data reading or analyzing equipment and can be integrated with equally small circuits, creating the potential for small stand-alone disease-screening systems. Kwon’s sensor also produces rapid, almost immediate results that could reduce patient anxiety often felt after waiting for other detection methods, such as biopsies, which can take several days or weeks before results are known.

“Our ultimate goal is to produce a device that will simply and quickly diagnose multiple specific diseases, and eventually be used to create ‘point of care’ systems, which are services provided to patients at their bedsides,” Kwon said. “The sensor has strong commercial potential to be manifested as simple home kits for easy, rapid and accurate diagnosis of various diseases, such as breast cancer and prostate cancer.”

Last January, Kwon was awarded a $400,000, five-year National Science Foundation CAREER Award to continue his effort on this sensor research. The CAREER award is the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of junior faculty members who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent teaching, and the integration of education and research. Kwon’s sensor research has been published in the IEEE International Conference on Solid-state, Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems and the IEEE Conference on Sensors.

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saturday night fever

arwen is having a mild fever since yesterday… went to the clinic to get her checkup & meds… she’s having a mild cough & running nose too…

she’s recovering very well… fever gone… running nose gone… still caughing a bit… rarely though… still on meds… get well soon arwen… daddy & mummy sayangkan arwen sgt2…

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Downers from Big Pharma

What if the Senate Finance Committee – Max Baucus’ baby – weren’t obstructing “Obamacare”?

What if Obama had instead designated Baucus’ committee as ground zero for crafting the deal – the incubator for the winning legislation?

What if Obama’s campaign promise to reform health care was just a prelude to cozy deals with the pharmaceutical industry?

Cenk Uygur has the whole story, and it’s depressing as all hell. I’m betting there’s a drug to make us feel better. Too bad lots of recent studies have found anti-depressants to be no better than placebo.

(Via the wonderful Holly of Self-Portrait As.)

This is a much longer video than I’d normally post. It’s wonkish, ranty, and somewhat rambling. If you don’t need blood pressure meds by the end of it, you probably have undergone a conscience-ectomy.

Also: I feel a Rahm Emanuel rant coming on. Better go take my meds!

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BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER SALES JOBS AT BANGLORE

Experience:0 – 2 Years Location:

Bengaluru/Bangalore, Chennai

Education:UG – B.Pharma – Pharmacy,B.Sc – Any Specialization,B.Tech/B.E. – Any Specialization,Diploma – Any Specialization PG – Any PG Course – Any Specialization,Post Graduation Not Required,M.Pharma – Pharmacy,M.Sc – Any Specialization,M.Tech – Any Specialization,PG Diploma – Any Specialization Industry Type:Medical/ Healthcare/Hospital Role:Sales Exec./Officer Functional Area:Sales, BD Desired Candidate Profile

Science graduate/BE/dip (biomedical/electronics) with 0-2 yrs exp. preferably in medical sales, excellent communication in English, Kannad/Tamil & Hindi, presentable, ready to relocate to Chennai, ready to travel extensively, should have two wheeler

Job Description

Promoting & selling our medical devices and cosmetic products to doctors, distributors, hospitals & beauty clinics, giving presentations & demos, to work in Karnataka & Tamilnau, achieving sales targets, maintaining good relations with clients.

Company Profile

Coherent Medical System is a 100% privately held company launched in the year 1999. We are the fastest growing LASER company with wide sales coverage across the country and foreign trained service engineers. We provide skin treatment solution.

Contact Details Company Name:COHERENT MEDICAL SYSTEMS Website:Not Mentioned Executive Name:Sudha Acharya Email Address:sudhaa@coherentindia.in,ashishs@coherentindia.in

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Çörekotu nasıl yenmeli

ÇÖREKOTU NASIL YENMELİ

 

         Bilim adamları 5000 kronik ( Müzmin) hastalığa karşı bitkilerle tedavi imkanlarını araştırmaktadır, bu bitkilerin başında da çörekotu gelmektedir. Kimyasal-sentetik ilaçların kronik hastalıkların tedavisinde kullanılması düşünülmemektedir, bunda tedavi edici özelliklerinin bulunmaması ve yan ( İstenmeyen, zararlı) etkilerinin çok fazla oluşu rol oynamaktadır.

         Çörekotu sarımsakla birlikte yendiğinde bağışıklık sistemini güçlendirmekte ve vücudun kendi kendisini kolayca savunmasına zemin hazırlamaktadır. Bu uygulama sağlıklı ve hasta kişilerde koruyucu ve destek tedavi olarak büyük öneme sahiptir.

         Çörekotu hiçbir tedavi ile uyumsuzluk göstermez. Hastalar tedavi sırasında da çörekotu yiyebilirler. Kanser tedavisinde ışın kullanılacaksa doktora danışılmalıdır.

         Yetişkin bir kişinin günde toplam olarak elenmiş, standart tane büyüklüğünde (2-3 mm) 10 gr çörekotu yemesi yeterlidir. Çörekotunun elenip olgunlaşmamış tohumlardan ayrılma işlemi henüz yapılmadığı için günlük kullanım miktarı 15 gr olarak önerilmektedir.

 

         Çörekotu günlük kullanım miktarı:

-         2-5 yaş arası 5 gr

-         5-12 yaş arası 10 gr

-         12 yaşından büyük olanlarda 15 gr dır.

Çörekotunun günlük kullanım miktarı 2 veya 3 e bölünerek aç karnına yenmelidir. Bu öğünler sabah öğle arası, ikindi vakti ve yatmadan önce olabilir.

Çörekotunun faydalı olabilmesi için tam sindirilmesi gerekir. Kişilerde hazımsızlık sorunları varsa giderilmelidir ( İlgili makale okunabilir).

Çörekotu öğütülmeden yenirse sindirilemez, öğütülerek yenmesi gerekir. Öğütülmüş çörekotu bekletilmemelidir, yağı kolaylıkla acır ( Oksidasyon) ve zararlı hale gelir. Çörekotunun öğütülmesinde elektrikli kahve değirmeni kullanılabilir, aletin zorlanmaması için uzun süre öğütme yapılmamalıdır.

Çörekotu hafif acımsı ve baharlı lezzette olduğu için kişilerin damak tadına göre yeme şeklinin geliştirilmesi gerekmektedir.

Çörekotunun bileşiminde bulunan proteinlerin sindiriminin kolay olması için aç karnına mide asidiyle doğrudan temas etmesi istendiğinden süt veya yoğurtla yenmesi önerilmemektedir.

Çörekotu çiğneyerek yenirse diğer faydalarına ilave olarak ağız içi ve dişeti bakımı da yapılmış olur. Bu yeme şeklinde dut kurusu veya kuru siyah üzüm birlikte yenerek tat düzenlemesi yapılabilir.

Yeni öğütülmüş çörekotu bekletilmeden rendelenmiş elma veya armuda karıştırılarak veya 2 yemek kaşığı çorba ile yenebilir. Bu maksatla taze sıkılmış meyve suyu da kullanılabilir. Çocuklara az miktarda muhallebi ile karıştırılarak yedirilebilir veya çocukların sevdiği bilinen gıdalara karıştırılarak verilebilir.

Şeker hastası olmayanlar pratik olması açısından 1 haftalık çörekotu kullanım miktarını bir defada öğütüp bekletmeden bal veya tahin-pekmeze karıştırarak yiyebilirler. Bunun için 100 gr çörekotu öğütülür, bekletmeden 300 gr bal veya 150 gr pekmez ve 200 gr tahine karıştırarak yenebilir. Bu karışım cam kavanozda serin bir yerde güneş ışığı görmeyecek şekilde muhafaza edilmelidir. Çocukların kolay yemesi için bu karışıma kakao ilave edilebilir.

Belirtilen özellikler dikkate alınarak, kişiler kendilerine uygun çörekotu yeme şekilleri geliştirebilirler.

Not:

1-Öğütülmüş olarak hazır satılan çörekotu kesinlikle yenmemelidir, çok zararlıdır.

2- Çörekotu hamilelik döneminde yenmemelidir. Doğuma bir hafta kala başlanıp emzirme süresince yenirse anne ve çocuk sağlığı açısından çok faydalıdır.

3-Çörekotu yeterli miktarda omega-3 ihtiva eder, ilave olarak omega-3 takviyeli gıdalar yenmemelidir.

Kaynak:

Dr. Ahmet Toptaş, ÇÖREKOTU Tepeden tırnağa şifa deryası, Gonca Yayınevi, İstanbul 2008, ISBN: 978-9944-62-613-2,

 (0212) 5285076-5286005.

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FAQ #2 Other Health Issues

Ever since I was a small child, I strugged with health issues. Many of my issues are auto-immune. Often times, people struggling with IBD can have other issues with their health. I’m no exception. An autoimmune disorder is a condition that occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue. There are more than 80 different types of autoimmune disorders. There is no answer to why my body seems to attack itself or why I continue to have so many issues. But after so many years I have learned to accept it. My body reacts differently than others. If you have any other auto immune issues or other problems connected to Crohn’s or Colitis, and you’d like to share, feel free to comment or email me at Nadia@UCVlog.com

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“A wise man is one who can live in peace with the things he can not change.” ~Unknown

~Nadia

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Another Snowy Friday Night

* Via Kottke, here’s how we may soon use nanotechnology to fight cancer.

* Quickie Olympicsblogging: Vancouver is airlifting in snow for the Winter Olympics, and by all accounts the luge course is hugely unsafe, even by luge course standards.

* Why democracy doesn’t work: 70% of Americans think gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the military, but only 59% of Americans think homosexuals should be allowed to.

* Someone accidentally asked a Republican a real question on the teevee. Don’t worry—MSNBC regrets the error and will make certain it doesn’t happen again.

* Wanting to negotiate in good faith, having never learned a lesson ever, the Democrats like Baucus and Conrad would slow down the debate to give the Republicans time to participate. Juan Cole explains how Washington works.

* Throw the bums out: 8% of people think sitting members of Congress deserve re-election.

* And still more on how Democrats may fight the filibuster. We still must ask: Is America ungovernable?

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Not Just the Ticket -- #20, Chapterhouse, Sept. 11, 1991

Then-current album: Whirlpool

Opening act: Medicine

Back-of-ticket ad: KLSX, you just won’t go away. And you’re about to play the rock block of ELP hits to prove it.

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So many of these shows I went to were sponsored by Coca-Cola/Avalon. I don’t remember drinking any Coke at these shows but hey.

The memories of this show — which Brad Laner still razzes me about.

Should explain that I’ve known Brad casually for many years now — first met him back in 1995 or so when he was the date of Nydia, a BMG college rep, at a promo dinner featuring Jason Pierce from Spiritualized. (A very long story.) I think we had already exchanged a few words on alt.music.alternative as well, and since then we’ve bumped into each other in various spots, including ILX — he and Nydia (long since wed) and I are all in touch on Facebook and I last chatted with him directly at the first ArthurFest, where I took a slew of photos of his excellent set. He’s a friendly and very talented guy, has released more music than god over thirty plus years now, and he’s very much worth checking out.

I mention all this because when I saw his then-new band open for Chapterhouse at this show…I hated them. A lot.

So Chapterhouse were yet another one of those shoegaze bands I’d heard them talking about lately (‘them’ being the UK press) and the third-ever issue of Melody Maker I bought featured them on the cover with Moose and Ocean Colour Scene, when the latter was allegedly sorta half-way kinda maybe shoegaze. (That lasted about five seconds.) I can’t remember whether I had already picked up the earliest EPs by the time Whirlpool came out but when it was released it immediately became a firm locked-into-the-CD-player favorite — of all the first wave gaze bunch they were the ones most openly worshipping at the temple of bands like Spacemen 3 and Loop as well as the inevitable MBV and Cocteau Twins and etc., and if it was more suggested by implication on the album in comparison to the punchier blast of the EPs, there was some undercurrent in there which wasn’t simply a blissout. So little surprise I was at this show much as I had been at Lush/Ride and had already seen Swervedriver and, well, you get the drill.

Steve M. was part of this crew and maybe some others, not sure, and returning to the Whiskey meant that the only surprise would be from the bands, whatever they might get up to. I should say at this point by way of digression that at some point earlier in the year I’d seen a really stellar show by the New Fast Automatic Daffodils here as well — no ticket from that one, it was a free pass situation — which remains just about the only ‘rock’ band show I’ve seen where an LA club crowd was dancing the whole time. Of course, the thing with the New FADs was that they were an often-stellar early eighties-styled minimal funk act that were way too early for the DFA revival they would have ridden brilliantly, so little surprise they could completely slay the crowd down to their frenetic version of “Purple Haze” that’s probably the best cover of said song I’ve heard. I mention all this because there was some really awful opening band — called Ionescu after the playwright, I believe — and about all I remember about them is that when we heard them announced their last song, my group of two or three peoples applauded this announcement loudly. We were not one for patience on this point.

So I’d seen anonymous and annoying opening bands before (and oh, would I ever see them again), and as no band was announced for this show to my knowledge we just showed up to see what was up. Had I known a little more then what I knew now, I’d likely have been much more anticipatory about it all — I had only just heard of Savage Republic a couple of years beforehand, and while Brad wasn’t an original member he’d made his mark on their final albums in that first incarnation, as well on a huge number of releases and bands throughout the eighties. So Medicine wasn’t coming out of nowhere and two to one says a good chunk of the crowd was there because of his work as well as others in his new band — I don’t think this was their debut show, but it was definitely one of the first unless I have my dates completely mixed up.

Now let it be said that comments aside already I don’t hate openers out of hand by any means. I, hopefully, was open to hearing whatever was going to happen as much as could be expected, though no question who I was there to see and who I was charged up to see. But something about Medicine’s show just didn’t work. I wasn’t chanting ‘you suck’ or anything like that — honestly don’t think I’ve ever done that over all these years, hope I never do — but Steve and I and maybe whoever else was there weren’t all that impressed. It all seemed pretty draggy, sometimes pretty enough in a ‘okay they’re making some sculpted noise and the two female lead singers are all intoning things well enough and um, well…’ sense but other than that I think we were doing a lot of checking of our watches. I remember some applause but I can’t say there was a sudden revelation of greatness and by the end of it all Steve and I were exchanging comments wondering if the band would just break up on stage. So when they did end we were all ‘thank GOD.’

So there ya go, we trashed the band that ended up, after a lineup change or three and a rethink, releasing a few albums are still a lot of shoegaze fans’ favorite albums in the style outside of MBV themselves, thanks in large part to the sheer volume and violence Brad kicked up as a result. (I seriously think the only rival either band had would be Scott Cortez from Lovesliescrushing/Astrobrite — when I first heard HIS guitar I swore my stereo was being destroyed.) But I admit I could never quite get past that first show — yeah, I admit that’s pretty unfair but I admit to impatience sometimes. When the first Electric Company album came out is when I realized Brad was really, really good, and I remember surprising him when I preached its virtues over all the Medicine releases way back when. So I have to thank him again for his patience — and he can still zing me about it as much as he wants.

And Chapterhouse? No worries there, THAT was stellar. All the sampled beats and tight psych/funk grooves and soothing vocals and noise noise noise, it all combined and recombined in ways that to my mind seemed like everything I could want from music in one place. At the time that was probably the case, all I know is that I really wanted to hear songs like “Breather” and “Pearl” and “Falling Down” and “Autosleeper” and more really, really badly and to go completely out of my head on the impact. To their credit, they delivered.

This is one of those shows that it’s not the specific details that stick as much as the overall feeling, the lights going crazy, their floppy hairdos all over the place, feedback crunching in and those of us up front going crazy — a polite kind of pit but even so, a pit of sorts. Some points do stick out, like how the beginning of “Breather” was a signal for me to just lose it, while at some point in between songs someone in the audience called out for “Thriller” for some reason and one of them responded by playing the riff to Pink Floyd’s “Interstellar Overdrive,” because why not.

The end I remember much more clearly though — this would have been during the encore. Unknown to me at the time, when the album had been released on vinyl in the UK, there was a bonus disc containing a nearly quarter-hour-long rampage that was pretty much unlike anything else on Whirlpool. The vocals were shouted, almost gutteral, the well-sculpted focus given over to a sprawling, blasting riff that made the debt to Spacemen 3 and Loop (and the Stooges and Sonic Youth and a lot else) perfectly clear. I should also mention the song’s title — “Die Die Die.”

So I wasn’t quite expecting them to play that live, but they did — and while I’ve heard the studio version since, and while I’ve heard louder and/or more overwhelming performances at shows, it was a pretty daunting listen even so, the more so because it wasn’t like the volume hadn’t changed at all, just the way they played their instruments and delivered the arrangement. I don’t even remember how it ended but I probably felt pretty damn exhausted by the time it all wrapped up. Just another great show for a twenty-year-old music freak to go absolutely crazy about — even if the opening act was kind of a drag.

It is, as a brief footnote, weird to think that I know what I was doing both on this date and on the same date exactly ten years later. Yet both seem equally clear and hazy now in equal measure — I think I would prefer to keep it that way.

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What I Hope To Accomplish Here!

Chronic Pain , and life is designed to share my story as well as find out yours.  I live with what can only be understood by those of you who have it.

We are prescribed medicine that works for some but not others. We undergo surgeries that are designed to help but only create more problems. We endure families who may try to understand but somehow think if we just tried  a little harder we could accomplish more.

By sharing our stories and what we have learned about pain and the therapy that goes with it as well as what works for us,  I hope to move mountains (well, not  physically, but I can watch the mountains move!)

So, Let’s get started, shall we?

Caryn

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Increase in myopia

A recent study in the Archives of Ophthalmology confirms what we’ve all probably suspected, which is that the prevalence of near sightedness or myopia is on the rise.  The study headed by Susan Vitale of the National Eye Institute examined National Health and Nutrition Examination (NHANES) population data from 1971-1972 and compared it to the NHANES data from 1999-2004.  This is the same data set that we examined to compare the increase of obesity and food supply to conclude that the obesity epidemic is due to a push effect of too much food (see here).  The prevalence of  myopia increased from 25% to 41.6%.  The greatest increase in myopia was for African Americans, who doubled their prevalence.  Whites increased by about 30%.

The conventional wisdom is that the increase in near activities such as reading, surfing the web, texting and watching TV are the cause for this dramatic rise in myopia.  However, a group in Australia have been arguing that it is the lack of outdoor activities during childhood that may be the most to blame.  Papers in Opthalmology in 2008 for Australian children (age 6 and 12) and in 2010 in the British Journal of Opthalmology for Singaporean children (ages 11-20)  show that the number of hours spent outdoors was significantly correlated with less myopia.  To control for genetic factors, they also just looked at children of Chinese descent in Australia and Singapore.  Both studies found a protective role for outdoor activities and a further protective role for outdoor sports such as soccer, softball and baseball for the older children but only for 6 year old  boys.  They also found that it wasn’t a threshold effect – the more you play outside the less likely to have myopia. Interestingly, playing sports indoors did not have a protective effect so some combination of being outside and playing sports (and perhaps visually oriented sports) seems to help. The effect is also independent of the amount of time spent reading.  It would be interesting to repeat this study in the northern hemisphere where it is cold and dark for half the year to see if that plays a role.

I think there may also be a business opportunity to develop displays that put the point of focus at infinity (as well as mimicking being outside).  Although, it is still not known why being outdoors helps (it could be exposure to higher light intensities including UV light for example), I still believe that focusing at infinity rather than at 18 inches must help even if it is only to alleviate eye strain.  The display would essentially be a simplified 3D viewer where the experience of editing a document would change from staring at letters directly in front of you to looking at a supersized billboard sitting on a mountain top in the distance.

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Let's read books part 3 - Sex is not a Natural Act, con't

The third section of Sex is Not a Natural Act, Feminism and Sexuality, takes us to about the halfway point of the book. My overall impression of the chapters contained within is, “Not completely miserable.”

Unfortunately, Feminism and Sexuality is also a return to heavy academic language and theory:

“Diverse erotic lives and new methods of reproduction are possible because of psychological processes such as symbolization and conditioning that are connected to ever-changing cultural formations.” (Location 1526.)

Oh goddammit.
Thinking caps on, everyone! Oh, you’re all already wearing your thinking caps, and so am I… Better make mine a double then!
By now I’m more used to Tiefer’s academia, but I still needed to re-read several passages from Feminism and Sexuality in order to absorb their messages.

Some of these essays, particularly the first, are semi-autobiographical. The reader gets a better idea of Tiefer’s experience and history, especially as it relates to feminism. This first essay consists of a paper presented to the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality in 1993 upon receiving their Kinsey Award.

This chapter contains Tiefer’s thoughts on feminist humor – and she fancies herself quite funny indeed!

What determines whether a joke is inherently feminist or not?
Intent.
But wait a minute - looking at intent alone is not enough. Evil, real consequences spring forth from well-meaning actions. You have to look at the consequences of your actions. Even if that action is telling – what you think is – a feminist joke. Because what happens when you don’t look at intent?

Because when you ignore intent, you get this shit. You get a bunch of partner-blaming, bullying, condescending bullshit, flagrant misogyny, and denial of real medical conditions. You get a bunch of people who deny that FSD is real, because after all they don’t have it themselves and it’s all a bunch of made up hysterical hooey right? You don’t have FSD, it’s all in your head. Maybe if your husband would do the dishes once in awhile you’d have enough energy for a sex drive. No.

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The Beauty of Disease

H1N1 (Swine flu) virus

One would generally not view disease as a beautiful thing. But disease and the organisms that cause it are part of nature, and Judaism recognizes the beauty of nature. Jewish tradition provides us, for instance, with blessings to recite when we encounter natural wonders such the vastness of ocean or the colors of a rainbow. There are ones we can say upon hearing thunder or discovering a new species for the first time.

For Jews, this appreciation for nature is attributable to an awe for God’s Creation. Jews, however, do not view Creation as perfect, but rather consider humans as partners with God in making the world that God gave us an even better place. Hence, the Jewish concept of tikkun olam (repairing the world) and the answer as to why so there are so many Jewish doctors.

Statue of Maimonides in Cordoba, Spain

The boast of “My son, the doctor” has been heard coming in an uninterrupted stream from the mouths of Jewish mothers for millenia. Sherwin B. Nuland wrote an excellent article called, “My Son, The Doctor: The Saga of Jews and Medicine,” for The New Republic in 2005, providing a thorough explanation for this phenomenon. He explains that the fact that approximately one third of the 613 mitzvot in the Torah refer to the cleanliness of the human body and the maintenance of health led the Rabbis of the Talmud and later scholars, such as Maimonides, to conclude that the goal of the prevention and treatment of illness and the consequent prolonging of human life was to serve God.

“It was a Maimonidean precept that the purpose of keeping the body healthy is to enable the unhindered pursuit of knowledge of God, and of the perfect morality for which God is the model. The study of medicine, in sum, is a religious activity.”

Nuland went on to highlight that Jewish medicine derives from Greek medicine (and that in general, there really is no “Jewish medicine,” because Jews have always adapted their practices to the cultures in which they lived), which looked to natural science for cures. God’s having given free will to humans and enjoining us to “Choose life,” signaled to Jews that care of our bodies was up to us. No wonder, then, that there are so many Jews in the fields of medicine and scientific research.

“And so the rabbis of the Talmud taught in the presence of a heritage of ethics and with the conviction that the preservation of life is a basic teaching of their religious system of values, to be carried out by human action, existing as an instrument of divine will, yet applied independently of the divinity’s direct intervention. Though God is the ultimate healer–and indeed, in several dramatic biblical passages God chooses to intercede in order either to cause or to cure illness–God is not to be used by mankind as a medicine. When sickness occurs, a doctor is to be sought out, an imperative clearly articulated by Maimonides: ‘One who is ill has not only the right but also the duty to seek medical aid.’”

Medical professionals, whether they work in the lab or in the clinic, encounter daily the marvels of natural processes and the devastation they can wrought on the life of a human being. How exciting it is to make scientific discoveries and advances, and how painful it is to see patients suffer and die if treatment is unsuccessful. Nature is beautiful, but disease is ugly.

Conceptual artist Luke Jerram

This dichotomy is also not lost on those of us who happen not to by physicians. British conceptual artist Luke Jerram’s exploration of the tension between microbes’ devastating beauty and their devastating impact on humanity has resulted in an exhibition called “Glass Microbiology.” He, with the help of expert glassblowers, has created sculptures of viruses and bacteria of exceptionally intricate – and jarring – beauty, as is expressed in the following letter the artist received from a stranger last September:

Dear Luke,
I just saw a photo of your glass sculpture of HIV.
I can’t stop looking at it. Knowing that millions of those guys are in me, and will be a part of me for the rest of my life. Your sculpture, even as a photo, has made HIV much more real for me than any photo or illustration I’ve ever seen. It’s a very odd feeling seeing my enemy, and the eventual likely cause of my death, and finding it so beautiful.
Thank you.

Jerram’s sculptures allow us to contemplate the realities of disease, reminding us that it is a very physical presence in our world. Jerome Groopman, a doctor I very much admire, and who happens to be a practicing Conservative Jewish, has written and spoken about the relationship between medical science and religion. The two are not mutually exclusive of one another, science does not make belief in God obsolete. But, he like the hundreds of generations of Jewish doctors who have come before him, knows that in the Aleinu prayer we proclaim that our role is l’takken olam m’malchut shaddai, to repair the world in the sovereignty of God. God may be ultimately in charge, but it is our job to study nature and heal the sick:

“As much as I wish there were miracles — boom, my hand’s fixed — those are fantasies. What Judaism teaches us is the knowledge that we’re created with reservoirs of resilience. We are created with the capacity of wisdom, which means judgment — not just knowledge, but the ability to assess and weigh that knowledge to make choices. Very integral in Judaism is the sense of hope. There is capacity to improve. What it takes is drawing on gifts of science with mobilization of the spirit.” (JewishJournal.com, 2007)

© 2010 Renee Ghert-Zand. All rights reserved.

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Herbal remedies for treating cold

The winter is coming soon, and so are the many common diseases that come along with it. One if them is also the usual cold, that we’ve all most probably already had problems with. However, cold can be avoided pretty simply and effectively by using medicinal plants. Even in the case that a person already got a cold, herbs can even help to get rid of this annoying condition pretty soon.

One of the most common herbs that are used in treating or preventing cold are black elder, marshmallow, and sometimes common ivy.

The first of them, black elder has proven properties that strenghten the immune system, and is thereby effective in preventing colds, and even flu. Black elder also promotes perspiration, so it is also a good medicine against fever. Because of its mentioned properties, it can often be found in tea mixtures against cold ant its symptoms.

The second one, marshmallow is good for preventing and stopping various kinds of inflammations, including the ones of oral cavity and throat. It is also known to be a good remedy for stopping cough problems. It is also commonly used in tea mixtures that are used for treating cold.

The last one, common ivy, is a very effective herb for healing cough, and problems related to it. It is mostly used in form of syrups, but tea from the leaves of this herb can also be prepared.

These are just some of the many herbal remedies that can help in preventing and treating cold, and they can be used either seperately, or even better, one can prepare a herbal mixture, by mixing equal parts of every of the above mentioned medicinal herbs. This mixture can than be taken few times a day, throughout the period when there is a relatively high risk of diseases like cold, or flu.

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It's Official: Flu Pandemic a Hoax

Here are some excerpts … for all those that used the term “conspiracy nut” for those that put out the warning: Appearing on The Alex Jones Show, outgoing Chair of the Council of Europe’s Sub-committee on Health Wolfgang Wodarg said that his panel’s investigation into the 2009 swine flu outbreak has found that the pandemic was a fake hoax manufactured by pharmaceutical companies in league with the WHO to make vast profits while endangering public health. …. “This was the mildest flu ever and the people were much more clever than the government so we have to find out what was going on with WHO – why did they do this pandemic alarm,” asked Wodarg, noting that pharmaceutical interests within the World Health Organization were instrumental in creating the panic and reaping the financial dividends. …. Wodarg said there was “no other explanation” for what happened than the fact that the WHO worked in cahoots with the pharmaceutical industry to manufacture the panic in order to generate vast profits, agreeing with host Alex Jones that the entire farce was a hoax. …. However, Wodarg pointed out, “There is no law for WHO, there is no one who punishes those people in WHO, we only have national law, so this is very important that we collect the information and on the national level we try to find those people responsible and we try to punish them.” It would be my hope that those who rushed in panic for a vaccine will no longer be so gullible and begin to question the so called “authorities”… and do some research prior to making a decision that may have a high cost attached to it. With this pandemic also came a danger from the vaccine … and who knows what microscopic implants are now loose in the body of those that were vaccinated. hmm…. now you’re asking yourself: “implants??” Do the research!! Read the rest of the above cited article and see the videos.

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