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Anne Elizabeth (Betty Mullen) Ford, Whittier, CA/formerly Janesville, WI (1928-2007)
July 5, 1928 - October 6, 2007
Anne Elizabeth (Betty Mullen) Ford, 79, of Whittier, CA, formerly of Janesville, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 6, 2007, at home in Whittier. Anne was born to Harry and Mae (Martin) Mullen on July 5, 1928, in Milton Junction, and grew up on the family farm. Following graduation from Milton Union High School in 1946, Anne earned a degree from Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, Janesville, in 1949, and practiced nursing there until 1958. Anne married Connor T. Ford of Janesville, on May 17, 1952, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Janesville, and their family soon grew to include Mary Anne, Kathleen, Margaret (1956-1958) and Tom. In 1958, the family moved to Whittier, CA, where two more daughters were born, Theresa and Helen. For a time, Anne was a busy mother and homemaker, supporting her children through PTAs, scouting, and foreign exchange programs. She was also an excellent vacation planner, organizing train trips to Wisconsin, camping trips at west coast beaches, and road trips to various national parks and landmarks. In 1976, Anne completed a sequence of refresher courses and passed the California Board of Registered Nursing licensing exam. She resumed her career at St. Jude Hospital in Fullerton, CA, and worked there until 1993.
In retirement, Anne and Connor often combined their interests in travel and music. They visited Ireland, three times to trace their roots and experience the c�il�s, and they took countless trips throughout California, following their favorite jazz musicians to weekend festivals. Anne made friends for life and enjoyed sending birthday and anniversary cards to everyone from grade school playmates to new neighbors. An inveterate multi-tasker, she often followed a soap opera while cutting recipes from magazines, shopping from catalogs, or skillfully completing pieces of needlework. More than anything, though, Anne loved having grandchildren. She would shop, cook, bake, and decorate the house for them for every possible occasion throughout the year. And she liked nothing better than to play board games and cards with them. She was tough to beat, especially at gin rummy.
Anne died leaving her husband of 55 years, Connor; her children: Mary Anne Ford of Lake Forest, CA, Kathleen Ford of Orange, CA, Tom Ford of Oakland, CA, Theresa McKinley of Rialto, CA, and Helen Ford of Huntington Beach, CA; her son-in-law, Phil Dion; her daughter-in-law, Ellen Ford; her grandchildren: Monica, Barry and Kyle Moore and Connor Ford; and her beloved dog, Fritz. In addition, at the time of her death, Anne left her sister, Genevieve Coleman of Union City, CA; her sister-in-law, Pat Mullen of Janesville; her sister and brother-in-law, Kathryn and Jim Marchant of Janesville; many nieces and nephews; and extended family and scores of friends. Anne was preceded in death by her daughter, Margaret; her parents; her brother and sister-in-law, Jim and Vi Mullen; her brother, John Mullen; and her brother-in-law, Ralph Coleman.
A Funeral Mass for Anne and Connor will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, at NATIVITY OF MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH, Janesville, with Fr. Dave Timmerman officiating. Burial will follow at ST. MARY'S CEMETERY, Milton. Visitation will be at the CHURCH on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, from 9:30 a.m. until the time of the service. Memorial donations may be made to America's Finest City Dixieland Jazz Society, P.O. Box 880387, San Diego, CA 92168 or to Nativity of Mary Parish Capital Improvement Fund, 313 E. Wall St, Janesville, WI, 53545. SCHNEIDER APFEL SCHNEIDER & SCHNEIDER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY is assisting the family.


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What were they thinking: more patent abuse
I don't know about you, but I am getting tired of the way that our industry is abusing the patent systems and as a result costing tax payers a huge amount of money...
I dont know about you, but I am getting tired of the way that our industry is abusing the patent systems and as a result costing tax payers a huge amount of money. I should not have to be paying for company squabbles but I am. While they pay for the lawyers it is you and me who pays for the judge, court officials, building etc. It is Apple that has my hairs prickling again even though I use their products and prefer them over the competition. It was only six weeks ago that I talked about the crazy Apple patents that had been granted then. This time it is another design patent.
I would like to bring to your attention Design Patent 670,713 issued November 13th 2012 and is for a Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface.
This patent is for turning a page. I kid you not! Now being a design patent they are not attempting to say they have patented the idea of turning a page, but of the graphics that are displayed while they are turning the page. The patent shows three images, the first of which is shown here. The other two figures show the page further advanced in being turned.
Now come on, a patent is meant to be novel and non-obvious. This is neither. I have seen so many animations for this for years on various different devices and there is nothing here that is not non-obvious except perhaps that nobody else has done it exactly like this. Who cares! And it took three Apple engineers to come up with this amazing piece of technology! I am not going to name them because I am sure they are just as embarrassed about this as I would be.
How do we stop the stupidity?
Brian Bailey keeping you entertained
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Please try the following:
Open the
Natural England web site homepage
, and then look for links to the information you want
Click the Back button to try another link
If the problem persists please
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ClanLib is a cross-platform game SDK currently supporting Windows and Linux. It provides easy-to-use interfaces for 2D graphics, input, sound, resources, networking, GUI, OpenGL, and more. The goal is to provide a game SDK that does all the dirty work that all modern games need to implement anyway, thus making the game developer concentrate on the gameplay instead of reinventing the wheel over and over again.
The SDL_gfx library offers several components: Graphic Primitives, Rotozoomer, Framerate control, and MMX image filters. The Primitives component provides basic drawing routines: pixels, hlines, vlines, lines, aa-lines, thick-lines, rectangles, rounded-rectangles, boxes, rounded boxes, circles, aa-circles, ellipses, trigons, polygons, textured-polygons, Bezier curves, and an 8x8 pixmap font for drawing onto any SDL Surface. Full alpha blending, hardware surface locking, and all surface depths are supported. The Rotozoomer can use interpolation for high quality output.
PhysicsFS is a library to provide abstract access to various archives. The programmer defines a "write directory" on the physical filesystem. No file writing done through the PhysicsFS API can leave that write directory, for security. For file reading, the programmer lists directories and archives that form a "search path". Once the search path is defined, it becomes a single, transparent, hierarchical filesystem. This makes for easy access to ZIP files in the same way as you access a file directly on the disk, and it makes it easy to ship a new archive that will override a previous archive on a per-file basis. Symbolic links can be disabled, for added safety. Finally, PhysicsFS gives you a platform- abstracted means to determine if CD-ROMs are available, the user's home directory, where in the real filesystem your program is running, etc.
RTSPdump is a tool for downloading a multimedia stream from a Windows Media server (WMServer). It accepts rtsp:// and mms:// URLs. It supports both UDP and TCP traffic. The stream can be saved into a WMV file for archiving or timeshifting purposes or passed through stdout to another program for processing or immediate viewing. It has also limited support for other brands of servers that also provide RTSP streaming.
Fing is a command line tool for network and service discovery. It provides you a complete view of any network in a very short time. Its smart discovery automatically detects the network type and uses the best technique to scan it. The best results are achieved on Ethernet networks (including Wireless ones), where Fing is able to detect all network hosts, firewalled ones included. The service discovery feature quickly detects active TCP services on a target host or network. Fing is based on Look@LAN.
A system optimization tool.
A Java library for reporting.


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Paul Joseph Rebman, Janesville, WI (1940-2013)
January 2, 1940 - December 15, 2013
Paul Joseph Rebman, age 73, of Janesville, passed away peacefully on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013, at home with his family by his side. He was born in Two Rivers, WI, on Jan. 2, 1940, the son of Aloysius and Rachel (Liebergen) Rebman. Paul graduated from Janesville High School in 1958, and on Oct. 17, 1959, he was joined in marriage to Carolyn Schmidt. Together they raised five children, enjoyed eight grandchildren, and twelve great grandchildren. He worked 30 years and retired from the Janesville General Motors Plant in 1988. Paul enjoyed hunting, fishing, and snowmobiling. He will be missed dearly by his family and friends.
Paul is survived by his wife of 54 years, Carolyn; three sons: Joseph (Peggy) of Beloit, Andrew (Kathie) of Janesville, and James (Kelli) of Beloit; two daughters, Vicki Purdy of Beloit, and Linda (Jack) Kumlien of Janesville; and two brothers, James and Clayton. He was preceded in death by his parents; and three brothers: Donald, Earl, and George.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 20, 2013, at SCHNEIDER APFEL SCHNEIDER & SCHNEIDER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY with Msgr. Donn Heiar officiating. A visitation will be held on Friday from 1:30 until 2:30 p.m. at SCHNEIDER APFEL SCHNEIDER & SCHNEIDER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORY. For on-line condolences and registry: www.schneiderfuneraldirectors.com


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This is a story about the human heart. You left when I was 8 years old. I didn't understand then that there was much too much dazzling world to see, and too precious little time, for you to ever stay in one place for any length of time. I didn't know then; instead I cried […]
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You know you're "addicted" to tea when ....
When you think you are going to do a sipdown, but you end up having more than one cup of tea left. And you are actually disappointed because you wanted that sipdown pretty bad.
When you can't remember that last time you drank water!
When you make your tea with the exact right water temperature every time via an instant-read thermometer, no exceptions.
When you log your cups on Steepster with said temperature and steep time even with no new tasting notes to post.
When you are visiting the San Francisco Bay area from middle of nowhere Kansas, and all you want to do is go to a brick and mortar DAVIDsTEA. Best tea shopping experience ever!
Yes, good store.
You know you're addicted to tea when you make sure to bring two timolino's to work, with a few samples, and put zero thought into your lunch.
This is why I'm eating a can of microwaved corn today, while sipping on some lovely Butiki teas.
Trying several cups of it when you can't sleep. (Maybe I'm just addicted to rooibos.)
You go to your "virtual" cupboard to choose a tea to drink, then spend 15 minutes trying to locate it in your actual cupboard. I need to get my teas better organized.
When the first aisle you run to in a supermarket is the TEA AISLE!!! (forgetting about actual groceries such as meat, veggies, etc…) ;p
When you get SUPER excited to find not only a soy-free and dairy-free protein powder, but one that actually has lots of organic/fair trade/single-sourced matcha in it! (Hemp and Maccha protein powder from Jaga Silk in Victoria BC for anyone interested)
Sweet! I'll have to look that one up!


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Main Page | Risk Factors | Symptoms | Diagnosis | Treatment | Screening | Reducing Your Risk | Talking to Your Doctor | Living With Lung Cancer | Resource Guide
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) uses lasers and a chemical absorbed by the body. The chemical (called hematoporphyrin) is given by an injection into your vein and is absorbed by the cancer cells. An infrared light source is then aimed at the cancer, and the cells that have absorbed the chemical undergo a reaction and start to die.
Photodynamic therapy is often used to decrease symptoms, rather than cure cancer. It may help control bleeding or breathing problems.
This technique can be very effective, but it is not considered a standard option like
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Photodynamic therapy is only offered at some medical centers around the country and is best used when there is not much cancer to be killed; the chemical is absorbed less than ¼ inch into the tumor, so a big tumor will not be affected by this method.
Photodynamic therapy will make your skin and eyes more sensitive than normal to light for at least six weeks. Avoid the sun. If you must go outside, wear sunglasses and protective clothing. When indoors, avoid bright indoor lighting.
When a tumor extends into a bronchus, radiation therapy may be delivered directly to the tumor by means of brachytherapy. In this situation, a small tube is inserted down the bronchus, and a radioactive source is placed near the tumor site. This procedure can be used to deliver higher doses to a small area and is also useful in helping to control bleeding from a tumor that has grown into a bronchus.
The YAG laser is a special light source that can be used by the doctor (usually a pulmonologist or surgeon) to core out an area where cancer is located and is blocking your airway. The YAG laser may be appropriate when there is a tumor in the airway preventing air from passing through. This treatment is also used when radiation or surgery cannot be given.
Stents are mesh devices that keep an airway open. The doctor will insert the stent into your airway through a bronchoscope and then open it up. The stent is designed to hold the airway open from the inside when the tumor is otherwise trying to close it down. The stent only serves as a meshwork lattice and cannot keep the tumor from ultimately growing through. It is usually used as a temporary solution; other treatments may be necessary along with it.
Contact your doctor if you:
Learn about cancer: non-small cell.
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The Fiber Disease
Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Medicine. Anything human!
Moderator: BioTeam
Maggie Mae,
I almost forgot, I got you a special holiday gift.....I think you will like it too.......
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?recor ... 58&page=49
And would you look here......me oh my.......
Optical dissolved oxygen lifetime sensor based on sol-gel immobilisation
The development of an optical fibre sensor for the measurement of dissolved oxygen based on sol-gel immobilisation technology and phase fluorimetric analysis is investigated. The sensor is based on indicator-mediated sensing where the optical properties of an intermediate reagent are modulated in response to the concentration of analyte. The fluorescent lifetime of an oxygen indicator, tris(1, 10-phenanthroline)ruthenium(II) chloride hydrate is shown to be quenched in the presence of dissolved oxygen. Changes in fluorescent lifetime are measured using phase modulation techniques, the phase shift in the fluorescence emission of the fluorophore is measured as a function of the dissolved oxygen concentration. Sol-gel technology is utilised to immobilise the indicator at the distal end of a multi-mode optical fibre using dip-coating techniques. The selection of the sol-gel precursor compound is found to be of critical importance in the performance of the sensor, with organically modified silicates displaying the best performance.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_ ... mber=29149
To JJill,
You mentioned a possible cure??? I read it's irreversible. I hope you are right.
Who needs that Dr. Strainiger?????
http://www.google.com/search?q=Sol-deri ... f8&oe=utf8
maybe someone can pass the above onto the Jeff Rense show.....
Oh Look! It's another book from Santa!
Merry Christmas All!
Sorry to say that I have no cure to offer up- just what has made me better.
Just the basics that I've posted about before- no news flashes.
Reading MFROMCANADA's theory- (reposted by Nadas) and doing a little Google nets this:
http://www.coe.neu.edu/Research/robots/papers/JCTN.pdf ***
Enzymes such as kinesin- RNA polymerase, mycosin, gynein and adenosine
triphosphate (ATP_ synthase function as nanoscale linear, oscillatory
or rotary biological motors.
end excerpt
See section 2- the flagella serves as a motor - Biomolecular motors-
self replicating and cheaper for mass usage- readily available in
Add the above to a people who already have the Mycoplasma Fermentans incognitus (which Dr Hilleman, Chief Virologist for Merch,Sharpe & Dohme, stated was EVERYONE IN NORTH AMERICA and possibly the world, now has Mycoplasma Fermentans incognitus in their body)- and the stage is set.
The above source is Northeastern University- ***
What is key about Northeastern (IMO) is that it is the home of the
Gorbachev Foundation.
Takes me back to the shoe pounding episode at the UN with Nikita
Krushchev giving the "We will BURY YOU" speech. Didn't he mention
something about taking over without firing a shot?
Back to the Gorbachev Foundation- what the heck is he doing in Boston
" In October 1917, we parted with the Old World, rejecting it once and
for all. We are moving toward a new world, the world of Communism. We
shall never turn off that road." He also went on to say that the
changes in the Soviet Union were for cosmetic purposes and that their
aim was to disarm the Americans and let them fall asleep. According to
the New York Times of Dec. 26, 1989, Gorbachev said, " I am a
Communist, a convinced Communist. For some that may be a fantasy. But
for me it is my main goal." Notice this comment was made just after the
fall of the Berlin Wall. In his own words Gorbachev states that we are
moving toward world Communism and that Communism is his main goal.
The shoe pounder got his wish?
A glimpse at the Gorbachev persona:
And do not be deceived into thinking Gorbachev was not an absolute
dictator. From 1986-1989, newspapers and magazines reported
continuously that Gorbachev had amassed more power than had even Josef
Stalin. Also make no mistake that Gorbachev was, and is, a dictator
without conscience. Gorbachev was the one who authorized Soviet Armed
Forces in Afghanistan to spread small cluster bombs from the air. These
cluster bombs were designed to look like toys so Afghan children would
pick them up, only to have them explode in their hands. The objective
was not to kill these children, but to maim them, under the premise
that Afghan society would experience more of a drain taking care of
maimed children than they would just burying them. Despite media image
to the contrary, Mikhail Gorbachev is a very ruthless man.
Also interesting that Gorbachev was a keynote speaker at the annual
Spring meeting of the Massachusetts Software Council- IT.
Software? A Foundation in Boston? What is this adding up to?
So, to recap my thoughts- the stages or layers of disease would go something like this:
1- Mycoplasma
"Pathogenic Mycoplasma", US Patent No. 5,242,820
2- Chronic Fatigue, Lyme, Fibromyalgia, etc...
3- The above info from MF from Canada - iow- the ability to use the already in place flagella- (think Lyme - keets- flagella) for Nano whatever per the above info
4- Add to the above the varibles- anything else that the individual may be exposed to- such as Tam Tam's -Rhinosporidium seeberi- http://medtech.cls.msu.edu/faculty/mendoza.html
BTW, Dr Mendoza- the much quoted researcher in the area of Rhinosporidum seeberi, cured the Queens Swans of the disease:
http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/swans/ swa n_p rojectPR03.htm
Dr.Mendoza found his picture and an article about his contribution
tosaving the lives of some of the Queen's swans. The Queen had provided
swans to Orange Lake Resort & Country Club in Lakeland Florida several
years ago. Dr.Mendoza was consulted when the swans developed what
appeared to be a fungal disease. He diagnosed Rhinosporidiosis and
appropriate treatment was instituted. The story now appears on the
Queen's website.
Dr. Mendoza is best known for his unique expertise on a
fungal-like organism called Pythium insidiosum that causes lethal
infections in horses, dogs, cats and humans. Hehas developed a
treatment, a sort of post-infection vaccine, that is effective in about
70% of infected horses and has some success in other
animals as well.
The patent on this product, and a pending patent on a latex test for
Pythium have been licensed by a start up company that plans to seek USDA
approval for the products and to market them to the veterinary
Oversimplified, but that is the basic outline.
Merry Christmas!
"When you dine with the devil, bring a long spoon."
Wow, thanks a lot JJill. Interesting, I will say that....but I'm sticking to the metallporhyrins, white noise-infrasound fiber theory. Just read so much it is hard to not see it now. (granted, I don't know what 1/2 of it means); but I will go back and read Nadas' and Mrcpvis post. I missed about 3-5 pages due to being gone for the holidays. And Merry Christmas to you too. I value your opinion.
This is something I found last week and wanted to share it. Re: Space
R e s e a r c h & Te c h n o l o g y R e p o r t 1 9 9
Human Exploration and
Development of Space
NASA/FISK University Center for
Photonic Materials and Devices
Director: Dr. Enrique Silberman
Fisk University
Nashville, TN 37208
Date of Original Award: 1992
The NASA/Fisk University Center aims at performing
research and developing technologies relevant to NASA.s
mission, focusing in the field of photonics. Research in
photonics has made possible the development of new
technologies that have produced revolutionary changes in
communications, computing, robotics, medicine, environmental
control, and many industrial processes. Additionally,
the potential reputation of the center will attract an
increased number of disadvantaged and underrepresented
students, both graduate and undergraduate, and will motivate
them to pursue careers relevant to the NASA mission.
The NASA/Fisk University Center has focused its research
on one of the most promising branches of
photonics.one that produces new materials or improves
the production of known materials, which are the initial
stage of the development of most new advanced technologies.
One research group uses recently developed nanotechnology
methods to produce new materials that contain
inclusions of single atoms or clusters of new atoms.
These materials show surprising new properties, such as
being able to change the color of light beams (which may
increase the capacity of computer memories and compact
disks), and to switch light beams on and off in extremely
short times. This may lead to the development of optical
computers, which are potentially much faster and more
efficient than electronic ones. Recently, this group has
contributed to resolving a long-standing controversy on
how the clusters change their properties as they grow from
a few atoms to their final size (published in Physical Review,
1996). The research of this group drew attention, which
resulted in five invited talks at national laboratories and
universities and drew new collaborations and financial
support from two NASA Installations: Lewis Research
Center (Photovoltaics) and Marshall Space Flight Center
(Polymer Division).
Another group studies new crystalline materials for the
detection of light, x-rays, and gamma rays. This research
includes purifying the materials, growing the crystals, determining
their physical and chemical properties, and
making and testing detectors. These solid-state detectors
have a wide range of applications in industrial production
control, military equipment, satellite studies of space and
the Earth, and medical diagnostic equipment. This group
was awarded a patent for a noncontact device to measure
the temperature of crystals growing in a sealed glass ampoule,
allowing for a better choice of growth conditions.
Another patent is pending for the measurement of other
growth parameters. Also, this group has delivered to
Marshall Space Flight Center an original instrument for
the ultra-purification of chemicals used in crystal growth.
A collaboration with Goddard Space Flight Center was
started, leading to the testing of laboratory-built x-ray and
gamma ray detectors in Goddard Space Flight Center
balloon flights.
A third group is working with glasses and other optical
materials, which could be used to make new laser sources,
improve information storage technology, and develop
optical sensors. Glasses have the advantage of easily being
formed into whatever shape is required and, in particular,
can be drawn into very thin optical fibers. Some of the
glasses being studied at Fisk can be used to convert infrared
light into visible light, and others are photosensitive
glasses, which can be used to make fiber-optic strain, vibration,
and temperature sensors. This group has produced
a new glass (Erbium doped-lead-telluriumgermanate),
which efficiently transforms invisible infrared
to green light (usable for better disk memories), and a new
crystal (Vanadium doped-cadmium-sulfer-selenide), which
has the optical properties required for making compact
reversible holographic memories with greater capacity
than anything presently available.
Finally, a fourth group possesses the most modern equipment
for studying the physical structure and chemical
composition of solid surfaces. This enables measurements
to be made up to the limit of locating single atoms, and to
be made in environments from normal atmospheres to
ultra-high vacuum. These techniques provide important
information for the improvement of the fabrication processes
involving solid surfaces, including the extra-thin
multilayers that constitute integrated circuits. They are
also useful in the determination of damage suffered by
equipment components due to their use, exposure to the
environment, and so forth.
Video link as given by al:
http://www.researchchannel.org/prog/dis ... 5&fID=1557
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Bloom of Filamentous Bacteria in a Mesotrophic Lake: Identity and Potential Controlling Mechanism
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articl ... tid=522086
Mineralogical footprints of microbial life -- Douglas 305 (68 ...
Cyanobacteria interact actively with a polymerizing silica solution, ... studied the actual mechanism of silica biomineralization with Calothrix for neutral ...
ajsonline.org/cgi/content/full/305/6-8/503 - Similar pages
It's Ms. MSC time....where are you? How is your friend? I do so hope okay today and hope she got to spend time with her children today.
I was thinking of you when I saw this:
A bright future for sol-gel technologies: Market study
The U.S. market is expected to reach $500 million by 2011 with an AAGR (annual average growth) rate of 8.7% per year from 2006 to 2011.
The global market for sol-gel products in 2006 was $1 billion. This is forecasted to increase to $1.4 billion by 2011 with an AAGR of 6.3% from 2006 to 2011.
In terms of market share, the U.S. has currently about 32% of the world market and is expected to increase this market share by 2011 to 36%.
Optical and electronic applications are the fastest growing market segments from 2006 to 2011, at an annual average growth rate ranging 12% to 15%
http://www.solgel.com/sgnews/templates/ ... 9&zoneid=5
Nadas, Happy Holidays to you, thanks for the porphyrin link 3 pages back. Sorry to just now be seeing it. Skipped town for the holidays here and am catching up. I hope your daughter had a great day as well. Thanks Nadas.
Hope everyone had a great holiday.
Yes, I am with Tam Tam, what do we need to do;
to Unite?
It seems to me that we are as disparate a bunch as you'd ever find, but we are all in the same boat.
So, litigation requires cash, or a Pro bono beneficiary from the Law.
Surely there would be a lawyer around to take depositions from people, to Listen and advocate.
A thought, what about that female senator who wrote to the CDC in respect of this?
What about the author, John Grisham, he was a Lawyer.
The point I make is that someone of credibilty, guts and ethics is needed.
Lets talk litigation, I have had polypeptide polymers
up to my ears.
Lets see, 8 years of suppurating lesions, 8 years of criical cynicism from the medicos, 8 years being called crazy, 8 years of working in pain at about 30 % capacity. 8 years of hell.
Lets put the pain and suffering alone at, say US$75k/PA, thats US$600k.
Lets put Loss of earnings at US$35kpa, thatsUS$280k.
Lets put US$200k for disfigurement and say a cool US$1,000,000 for loss of trust and other damages.
So, lets do the sums;US$2,800,000.00
Sounds about right, considering a guy in England at work got a knock to his head, became sexually disinhibited, sought the company of hookers, lost his marriage; he recieved AU$7,500,000.00.
Tam, you could help, by giving us in laymans terms, the etiology, the causative effects, basically a complete, succinct summation of this disorder, as we cannot expect a legal expert to trawl through such a convoluted morass of techno-garble, fear and plain madness.
We need a mission statement, we also need a precis facto document covering A-B, understandable to a layman in medical science
Glow little glow worm flier fire
Glow like an incandescent wire
Glow for the female of the specie
Turn on the AC and the DC
This night could use a little brightening
Light up your little bug of lightning
When you gotta glow you gotta glow
Glow little glow worm glow
(Glowworm lyrics)
hehehe it just does'nt get any better than this. I'm telling you, what will they think of next?
To PPY18: You mentioned snails a couple of weeks back, as I told you, I would def. look back into it. What I found is that they are using the bioluminescence (sp?) of the red dye from the snail worm. Here are two articles on it. I have not finished this first one yet but it looks like a winner to me....it goes with the quaint lil piece of poetry at the top.
http://www.med.upenn.edu/bmbgrad/Facult ... scence.pdf
and here is the other one specifically about the snail worm. Looks like the chemical society of Japan has this in the semiconductors that fire our computers. Damn and Hell. This sucks rocks.
http://www.chemistry.or.jp/journals/bcs ... c78-7.html
I'm off to read these myself, I hope you find them useful-
well, as I was reading I came across something called the south american railroad worm. Of course I googled it and got the following from one of the articles.
Basic and Applied Aspects of Color Tuning of Bioluminescence Systems
Yoshihiro Ohmiya*
Research Institute for Cell Engineering, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Light and Control Research Area, PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 1-8-31 Midorigaoka, Ikeda, Osaka 563-8577, Japan
(Received January 21, 2005; accepted May 22, 2005; published September 8, 2005)
V. Viviani et al. [Biochemistry 38 (1999) 8271] were the first to succeed in cloning the red-emitting enzyme from the South American railroad worm, which is the only bioluminescent organism known to emit a red-colored light. The application of red bioluminescence has been our goal because the transmittance of longer-wavelength light is superior to that of the other colors for visualization of biological functions in living cells. Now, different color luciferases, which emit with wavelength maxima ranging from 400 to 630 nm, are available and are being used. For example, based on different color luciferases, Nakajima et al. developed a tricolor reporter in vitro assay system based on these different color luciferases in which the expression of three genes can be monitored simultaneously. On the other hand, bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) is a natural phenomenon caused by the intermolecular interaction between a bioluminescent protein and a fluorophore on a second protein, resulting in the light from the bioluminescence reaction having the spectrum of the fluorophore. Otsuji et al. [Anal. Biochem. 329 (2004) 230] showed that the change in the efficiency of energy transfer in intramolecular BRET can quantify cellular functions in living cells. In this review, I introduce the basic mechanisms of color tuning in bioluminescent systems and new applications based on color tuning in the life sciences.
Then, oh shoot, this one here that I found says a lot too....has the eggs and this type of info in it.....beetle larvae anyone?>???
http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/misc/beet ... -worms.htm
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How does negative selection in the thymus get around viral a
Precursor T-cells undergo positive and negative selection in the thymus. Negative selection eliminates T-cells that bind strongly to self antigens (e.g. produced by the AIRE gene).
However, how is it ensured that only SELF antigens are tested for during negative selection? Perhaps some virus antigen has invaded the thymus and all T-cells that strongly bind with it are also eliminated. This would result in no T-cells being released against that virus, and hence no immunity against it!
How easy is it for a virus to invade the thymus, and how can the purity of self antigens be maintained if it happens - so as to ensure that only self and nothing but self antigens are presented to T-cells during negative selection?
There was an interesting review article in Immunological Research by Edwards & Evavold ("T cell recognition of weak ligands...; 2011"), where they handled the properties of T cells responding to the T cell receptor signals. Although the article focused mainly on autoimmunity, they said that many clonal TCRs can recognize several epitopes with varying affinities - with varying outcomes. So even if a virus could invade the thymus and thus eliminate the T cells specific for it, the somewhat loose nature of TCR binding would allow other T cells with near-identical TCRs to recognize the virus.
Viruses actually generate a lot of "escape mutants", which means that they mutate their T cell epitopes in order to avoid the immune system, but the looseness of the TCR recognition allows the immune system to utilize even some non-specific TCRs to fight the virus. The downside of this is the increased risk of autoimmunity, because these "loose" TCRs may recognize self antigens in a similar manner as they recognize (mutated) viral antigens.
I do not know if some viruses actively seek to invade the thymus and try to present their own antigens as "self", but I guess even if this happened, the overlapping specificities of TCRs should be able to handle the situation.
Interesting... But if this loose nature of TCR binding allows T cell recognition of the virus to a degree that enables it to successfully eliminate the virus from the host, then shouldn't we also expect a large degree of auto-immunity via the same mechanism? If loose binding TCRs are good enough to eliminate/control viruses (even mutating ones) then they should also, with the same vigor, eliminate normal cells coated with self antigens. This should cause considerable (or even fatal) auto-immune effects, but obviously that is not what happens in reality.
Right, and that's the issue I have with this explanation. If it works for viruses, then it should also work for self, and to the same degree of effectiveness. If it's enough to kill viruses, the same mechanism should also kill the host.
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If I understood correctly (and one of my own experiments suggests similarly), you should think of the TCR affinity scale as a sort of a slider: in one end you have high-affinity, microbe specific T cells (for example T cells specific for the influenza virus haemagglutinin have typically very high affinity), which are quickly able to initiate an immune response that eliminates the virus. However, these T cells lose their edge easily if the virus mutates. And somewhere in the middle of the scale you have T cells that have "loose" TCRs, which means that they are not very effective in eradicating the virus, but have a better chance to catch the mutant ones as well. However, with bad luck they can also recognize self antigens and initiate a response against own cells. In the other end you have TCRs that are more likely to recognize self antigens than foreign ones, and these are the ones that the body either tries to eliminate in the thymus or tries to turn into regulatory T cells that do not initiate the immune response but suppress it instead.
This is of course a very complex thing as a whole and a lot is still unknown, but it seems that the body favours a repertoire of T cells that are at the or close to the high-affinity end of the scale. That is how it can respond to microbes and other appropriate antigens, still has some "looseness" in the repertoire in case of mutants but not so much as to cause severe autoimmune problems. Many healthy people actually have responses against self antigens, but apparently the regulatory elements of the immune system keep these T cells in check. In addition to autoimmunity, loosely-binding TCRs seem to be associated with allergies as well: people with atopy seem to have more of the low-affinity, allergen-specific T cells than healthy people. The TCR affinity also affects the cytokine production of the T cells, and the loose TCR binding of allergens seems to favour the IgE production of B cells that leads to allergic symptoms.
It has been studied with mice that if you infect normal wild-type mice with the herpes virus, they die of it. If you remove all the regulatory T cells from the mice, they actually kill the virus because the immune system can work without limits and the mice do not die of herpes - but later they develop severe autoimmunity that kills them. So there clearly seems to be a fine balance between the effector and regulatory functions of the immune system: the response must be quick and specific, but not too specific so that it can cover mutants as well, and it must be strong enough to eliminate infections, but not so strong that it severely damages the own system. And the more you have breadth in the TCR binding, the more you risk autoimmunity while covering possible mutant microbes and such.
DISCLAIMER: I'm still trying to figure out this concept myself as well, so the above stuff is what I have gathered so far and should not be taken as a 100% proven truth. I may have misunderstood or forgot something, but I hope I am not too far off from reality with my current view :)
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Of course it is an example. I used it to illustrate that HGT has to overcome a highly regulated response to any foreign transfer.
After all what is the purpose of the immune response system if it is not to protect against foreign ingress.
I also stated that HGT is recognised only on the concept of similarity. But for it to be valid it has also to explain the mechanism.
Could you provide an example of a mechanism please. I don't know of one, maybe there is.
But please not an assumption, an actual mechanism by which this transfer has been shown to take place?
Common decent from what?
Please at least acknowledge that neo Darwinian theory is based on, not just common decent but on common decent from a Universal common ancestor. That is the foundation pillar of the theory, hence the tree of life concept. The hypothesis of HGT invalidates or at least challenges that concept.
That is what Koonin is showing.
As I understand it, you appear to be sliding away from that concept but at the same time arguing (as wbla3335 has) that there is no difference between the two views. There is a big difference.
Now of course sex produces a progeny from an ancestor but not from a Universal common ancestor.
We know that Darwin was wrong for the reasons you have given. But the standard theory, with all it's epicycles, is what I am challenging.
With respect Patrick that is a very loose statement.
Changes are generated, but how?
Is not your view that these are random mutations (changes) to the genome.
Can you also be clearer as to how these changes are selected after generations?
I agree but only within the bounds of what natural processes can demonstrate.
That is why the scientific method as a philosophical concept has stood the test of time.
It is also the reason I have, as you put it, wrapped myself into it.
The problem I have with "Darwinism or neo Darwinism or what is commonly referred to as evolution" is that it is philosophical view that attributes to natural forces that which these forces cannot accomplish, and I have been producing the evidence that demonstrates that point. Hence my often rather boring but I would argue detailed posts.
Any theory presented in broad terms can appear very persuasive, however it is in the details that it stands or falls.
scottie, there is difference between lineage of genes and individuals. What we usually build from molecular data is gene tree, but does HGT affect the offspring production? I don't know how about you, but I could build my family tree, ergo I have a common ancestor.
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
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I think part of the problem with your posts is that you have difficulty communicating. You go on and on and on about this or that, but I, at least, have been unable to discern what your core arguments are (other than you think evolution is bogus). You could help us and yourself if you could focus. Maybe your ideas are clear in your head, but they are not in ours. I'll help by proposing that you complete the following sentence:
HGT disproves evolution (or common ancestry or whatever) because ________. (Notice the period at the end.)
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I fully appreciate that there is often a communication problem here.
I understand the point you make about lineage and individuals. However the matter of HGT became relevant because when researchers tried to build gene tree lineages they hit a serious problem.
They started to get different results depending on which gene or indeed protein was being selected.
The problem was that one of their assumptions was that genes could only be handed down vertically ie from ancestor to offspring as per common decent and species divergence. (The Darwinian principle) the ultimate ancestor being (LUCA) in this bifurcating tree like process
The other assumption was that similar genes but in different species indicated common ancestry between species. The more similar, the closer the relationship on this bifurcating tree of life
So the theory was that a gene tree could be constructed showing the relationship between (and ultimately ) all species, thus proving Darwin's idea, but through molecular investigation.
The problem that surfaced was that genetic information was found to be very intermixed even across domains.
Now this was initially showing up among prokaryotes (bacteria and archaebacteria)
But more recent research is revealing this showing even in eukaryotic life forms, as more animal genomes are sequenced. Evidence of this is the example of the Nematode that I have referred to.
So this similarity of genetic information has negated the original Darwinian tree.
What is now emerging is more like a bush or forest. Some even regard a Net to be a more accurate reflection of genetic history.
So Horizontal Gene Transfer is assumed to be the way in which this mix of genetic information has come about.
With all this in mind though, the actual mechanism(s) by which any transfer of genetic information between organisms takes place is unknown.
What is known is that any transfer that does take place must overcome the control and regulatory mechanisms that prevents foreign genetic mixing.
These controls present a serious challenge to genetic transfer because the controls are specifically intended to prevent such transfers.
When that does happen it is invariably deleterious to the receiving organism.
The only mechanisms that I am aware of is that which researchers use in the labs.
Of course these is not natural but artificial mechanisms
So wbla3335 coming to your question
HGT does not disprove the "evolutionary" ie the change over time, view.
If such mechanism(s) of this transfer actually exist, as they are assumed to, then it is a serious challenge to the view of common decent from a universal common ancestor. This of course is the Darwinian core concept and it is what Koonin was explaining.
Koonin does of course assume that mechanisms do in fact exist, we just haven't discovered them yet.
Remember though, that it is the similarity of genetic information in different species that has led to the assumption that transfers have taken place.
I see a more appropriate name for this observation to be Horizontal Gene Similarity as opposed to "Transfer", unless of course an actual natural mechanism is discovered.
The design view such as I advocate, would argue that this similarity is evidence of a natural way for a designer to reuse different functions already designed, in different species, with slight modifications to suit the particular circumstances.
GM crops is a practical example of how this is achieved.
Gene therapy is also another design applied way to rectify faulty mechanisms, but with significantly high risks to organs when natural immune responses are suppressed to allow these modifications.
Gene similarity across even distant species challenges the core Darwinian principle of common ancestry.
If there is a natural mechanism for HGT then certainly the core pillar of universal common decent is refuted.
However it does not refute evolution (i.e change over time) as such.
I hope this clears up any misunderstandings.
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Are you saying that HGT discredits phylogenies derived from vertical transmission? If so, you are really grasping at straws. Do you really think that an omnipotent creator would need to reuse gene sequences here and there? Why bother to create a huge diversity of gene sequences in a huge diversity of creatures and then get lazy with a relative few? Saying that HGT refutes common descent is like saying that the similarity of a few gene sequences in diverse organisms refutes the existence of an omnipotent creator.
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Sorry for the delay. Life beyond this forum exists.
Now I do wish you would respond to what I actually write.
This is what I wrote
Is it your claim that that these problems are not manifest?
This hypothesis was introduced, essentially by Gogarten and Woese, to explain these very difficulties.
If they didn't exist, HGT would not have been a necessary hypothesis
So is there vertical lineage?
Yes, within species.
Are there problems in determining what the vertical lineage actually is beyond species?
Again Yes.
Because when researchers try to establish these lineages they get different results depending on which gene or protein they use.
Hence the concept of HGT was formulated to explain away these difficulties.
So is the hypothesis of decent from a common universal ancester correct?
Well it can only be regarded as correct if it can be demonstrated to be so.
Molecular investigation was the mechanism that was expected to do just that.
Although very informative it has not shown that vertical decent from a Universal common ancestor (i.e. across species) is correct.
Why not?
This principle is sound in design theory.
Designers follow this principle every day in their design works.
How many different versions of the wheel do you see in designs today and indeed throughout history.
What about sub routines in computer programming?
Many of these routines are called upon variously and in different programs.
The very computer application you are using to communicate your views on this forum is replete with routines used commonly.
I don't understand what it is you are trying to say.
What I will do however is ask you a simple question.
What challenges have to be overcome for HGT to actually occur in nature.
In other words, for DNA to be taken up from another organism, what stages of transfer would be required from both donor and recipient.
You are a biologist so you should have no difficulty in explaining to this forum what those stages would be.
Would you do that, please.
If you are unable to then I would be quite happy to do so.
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That's why I was talking about the difference in gene and individual trees. You should know, that even creation of the gene trees is little magic simply because we do not know when and what changes happened. We are usually going for least changes, but there is a chance that some mutation occurred and then other, reverting one occurred again.
But since we are able to build trees of individuals, we would be theoretically trace our ancestors down to LUCA.
Cis or trans? That's what matters.
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This happens without HGT.
HGT was known long before anyone tried to build trees from sequences. HGT is only one of the problems phylogeneticists face.
This happens without HGT sequences. See above. Phylogenetics is a complicated endeavour that requires a very careful selection of sequences.
Still wrong. HGT was formulated to explain the existence of identical or nearly identical sequences in organisms too diverse for the sequences to have got there vertically. "Explaining away" is your interpretation.
Agree. Since you are designing your designer, you can give it whatever properties you wish.
The occurrence of identical or nearly identical sequences in a diverse array of organisms clearly falsifies creation.
I'm not unable, but as I've said, I'm not here to educate you. Your postings aren't worth so much of my time.
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I take it then that you don't actually understand the intricacies of the HGT proposal OR you do understand, but can't bring yourself to openly acknowledge what prevent this as a viable explanation.
So allow me to set out the problems and I will do that next.
I think we are getting onto the same page here.
As you say even the building of gene trees is a little magic because we don't know when and what changes happened.
How true.
If we don't know or even understand what those basic fundamentals are, how can we then say these evolutionary forces are matters of fact.
I acknowledge of course that you are not saying that but others are doing just that.
But these gene trees can only be established within species.
To theoretically trace back to LUCA HGT must be invoked.
The question is how valid a hypothesis is HGT?
That is what wbla3335 is having difficulty in coming to terms with.
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Here are some of the stages whereby a cell can take in foreign DNA.
1 There has to be DNA in the immediate environment.
2 The host cell must be capable of receiving this DNA. In other words it
must be competent, which begs the question, what is competence?
3 For any interaction between the cell and free DNA, specific sequences
and receptors are involved..
4 How is the entry of DNA through the outer cell membrane (periplasmic
space) and then, in the case of eukaryotic cells, the nuclear
(cytoplasmic) membrane processed.
5 This foreign DNA then has to be integrated into the chromosome so that
it can be functionally expressed into cell operation.
Apart from the first all these stages are common to any type of gene transfer.
So by simply enumerating the stages we begin to get an idea of what any natural and unguided process has to produce.
But of course it becomes much more complicated when we start to investigate each stage process. Lets just touch on some of the detail.
Stage 1 It is assumed that DNA in varying concentrations is present in almost any environment, due to spontaneous cell lysis (breakdown), digestion etc.
Stage 2. Competence
This is a specific physical state of bacterial cells that allows nucleic acids to bind to the cell surface and be taken up by the host.
Studies have shown that are different requirements for different lengths of this free DNA, also for different states of DNA, i.e ssdna (single stranded) dsdna (double stranded) If you look up any review on this matter of competence you will invariable find such expressions as "unclear" "not known" even "mysterious".
Some research suggests that only about 1% of bacterial species are naturally capable of taking up DNA under lab conditions.
Stage 3 requires specific molecules to be in place. How? from where?
Stage 4 So how does this transfer occur. Well the simple answer is we don't know.
What we do know however is what kinetic studies have shown and that is, the process of transfer through just the nuclear(cytoplasmic)membrane occurs surprisingly, quite rapidly. Surprising because this is a very highly controlled and regulated process with very defined energy requirements.
Stage 5 This DNA has then to be functionally integrated into the host chromosome, again another highly controlled and regulated process. Remember the host cell naturally guards against foreign infestation.
The details of each stage would require it's own essay in explanation apart from all the unknowns.
So just a very brief overview of a process reveals what is naturally possible and what is not.
HGT is a hypothesis that has been posited to try and explain away the incongruities between the Darwinian species tree founded on LUCA and what gene trees are revealing.
But as we can see from just this simple overview even this process cannot be accommodated within the framework of natural and undirected processes.
Re: Theories - Origin of Life
Just a few things for you to ponder and look into, scottie.
Do you consider HGT by your proposed "steps" impossible or unlikely?
Research other proposed mechanisms.
Investigate the difference between gene trees and species trees.
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Oh dear, I am going to try and be patent
These aren't my proposed steps. These are the steps required to effect gene transfer. There is clearly a gap in your understanding of the process.
HGT is a reality, in the laboratory of researchers that design the methodology required. GM in crops is one such process.
In nature it is assumed because of the similarity of gene sequences in different species.
Do please try and at least understand the subject you are cat calling about.
What other mechanisms?
Or are you going to revert to your " It is not my job to educate you" mode
Are you not aware that the molecular investigation of genes was intended to support the Darwinian species tree concept of vertical inheritance that provided speciation?
Therefore the gene tree was supposed to confirm the Darwinian tree of life concept.
It hasn't proved to be so and that is why the concept of HGT has been proposed.
Now what is it you seem to be finding so hard to grasp?
You are clearly out of your depth here, my advice is to stop digging, the hole is getting rather large.
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The Fiber Disease
Human Anatomy, Physiology, and Medicine. Anything human!
Moderator: BioTeam
Here are two terms for you to look up al, which may help you to determine who I am, and what the causal agent of our disease is.
Term 1) Occam's razor: Occam's razor declares the simplest explanation to an unknown is most probably the solution or explanation. Here is how scientists apply Occam's razor to scientific discovery.
Once scientists build their data sets by process of observation, they may find that the data sets support more than one possible conclusion. They therefore begin with the most simple conclusion, and attempt to exclude or disprove it. The reason that they start with the simplest possible conclusion first is that history, and the law of Occam's razor, have proven time and again that the simplest solution is more times than not the valid one. Should they be able to exclude the simple conclusion, they move on to the next simplest possible conclusion and begin attempting to disprove, or exclude it.
Therefore the most probable conclusion to the mystery of morgellons is that we are all nuts. I own a digital microscope, and have observed fibers protruding from tissue specimens that I quite painfully excised from my body, and have therefore disproved that conclusion. Moving on to the next most simple conclusion, I do not have the lab equipment to disprove that a microbe, or allergen which has developed naturally in the earth's biosystem has infected my body, and that my body is developing protein fibers to protect itself from the foreign artifacts just as it protects a wound with a scab.
This does not mean that I can positively rule out that extra-terrestrials have implanted small organic interfaces to my central nervous system, and will use them to take over the world. What it means is that this conclusion is more complex and is yet to be considered for exclusion.
Term 2) Schrödinger's Cat. This term as applied by quantum science states that if a cat is placed unobserved into a sealed box with a device that can possibly kill him, the cat is both alive and dead inside of the box until what time he is observed. That simply means that in the quantum world, all things are not only possible, but that at some point every possibility IS occurring. At this very moment in the quantum universe Rebecca De Mornay is pulling me into the computer monitor with her, my wife knows about it, and just fine with it all. (the second part being the least probable) It also means that somewhere I am an extra-terrestrial reptilian who projects a holographic image of an MKULTRA agent, and is taking over the world with morgellons.
However, when you apply the Law of Occams Razor to reach your conclusion, in all probability I'm just regular working spud who is not happy with being led to believe that I have insects growing inside of me, and am presently tightening the noose on a group of scammers who will soon be displayed on the six o'clock news.
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So Frank wrote that to you or to a post here on the board? I missed it but also missed about the last 4 pages here before I wrote my last post last night. I was just curious....Well, it could as well been written to me b/c they see and watch me and know I have a gun at all times. But my gun will stop them....damn sure with I had a grenade to back me up though...lol.....
okay, I'm sorry I forgot to post this earlier, maybe it will help some of you to see if your symptoms match. This is the signs and symptoms of
Porphyria Cutanea Tarda......Me? I'm at a toss up between choosing this disease or the one I posted about 2 days ago.....can't remember the name but it started with the letter K and was Indian in origin.....
Here's the Porphyria one.....
[277.1] __ Disorders of porphyrin metabolism
Symptom (Possible) Checklist
[277.1-1] __ Abdominal pain
[277.1-2] __ Abdominal tenderness
[277.1-3] __ Arosclerosis (sp) (scleradema
[sp] of the upper extremities,
sometimes extending to the
neck and face)
[277.1-4] __ Alopecia (hair loss)
[277.1-5] __ Anemia; hypochromic, microcytic
[277.1-6] __ Amenorrhea (absence or
suppression of menstruation)
[277.1-7] __ Anemia, hemolytic
[277.1-8] __ Anxiety
[277.1-9] __ Aphonia (inability to produce
[277.1-10] __ Appetite, loss of
[277.1-11] __ Back Pain
[277.1-12] __ Behavioral change
[277.1-13] __ Bladder distention
[277.1-14] __ Bowel incontinence
[277.1-15] __ Breast secretions
[277.1-16] __ Carbohydrate craving
[277.1-17] __ Cardiac arrest
[277.1-18] __ Central nervous system lesions
[277.1-19] __ Chest pain
[277.1-20] __ Coma
[277.1-21] __ Confusion
[277.1-22] __ Conjunctivitis
[277.1-23] __ Constipation
[277.1-24] __ Corneal inflammation
[277.1-25] __ Delirium
[277.1-26] __ Depression
[277.1-27] __ Diarrhea
[277.1-28] __ Disorientation
[277.1-29] __ Dysphasia (inability or difficulty
[277.1-30] __ Extremities become painful
[277.1-31] __ Facial hair, excessive
[277.1-32] __ Fatigue
[277.1-33] __ Fecal impaction
[277.1-34] __ Fever
[277.1-35] __ Foot drop
[277.1-36] __ Gag reflex, depressed
[277.1-37] __ Gastrointestinal spasms
[277.1-38] __ Hallucinations
[277.1-39] __ Hyperpigmentation
[277.1-40] __ Hypertension (high blood
[277.1-41] __ Hypoesthesia (sp) (dulled
sensitivity to touch)
[277.1-42] __ Hyponatraemia (sp)
(decrease sodium in blood)
[277.1-43] __ Hypotension, postural
decrease in blood pressure
upon assuming an erect
[277.1-44] __ Ileus (obstruction of the
[277.1-45] __ Insomnia
[277.1-46] __ Irritability
[277.1-47] __ Jaundice
[277.1-48] __ Joint pain or stiffness
[277.1-49] __ Limb stiffness
[277.1-50] __ Menstruation often
exacerbates symptoms
[277.1-51] __ Mood changes
[277.1-52] __ Muscle cramps
[277.1-53] __ Muscle pain or stiffness
[277.1-54] __ Nausea
[277.1-55] __ Nerve palsy; accessory,
bulbar, facial, hypoglossal,
trigeminal loss of the
ability to move or control
[277.1-56] __ Nightmares
[277.1-57] __ Organic brain syndrome
[277.1-58] __ Panic attacks
[277.1-59] __ Paralysis, partial
[277.1-60] __ Paralysis, temporary
[277.1-61] __ Paresthesia (numbness or
tingling sensation)
[277.1-62] __ Peripheral motor deficits
[277.1-63] __ Peripheral neuropathy
[277.1-64] __ Photosensitivity (porphyrins
interacting with sunlight
causing neurologic and/or
skin problems)
[277.1-65] __ Polyneuropathy
[277.1-66] __ Psychosis
[277.1-67] __ Restlessness
[277.1-68] __ Respiration, decreased
[277.1-69] __ Respiratory paralysis
[277.1-70] __ Retinal artery spasm
[277.1-71] __ Seizures (convulsions)
[277.1-72] __ Sensory disorders
[277.1-73] __ Skin lesions, blisters, or ulcers
[277.1-74] __ Sweating, profuse
[277.1-75] __ Tachycardia (heart rate of
over 100 beats per minute)
[277.1-76] __ Tendon reflexes, absent or
[277.1-77] __ Tremors
[277.1-78] __ Urinary incontinence
[277.1-79] __ Urine, changes in color of
(usually red, brown, or green)
[277.1-80] __ Urine retention
[277.1-81] __ Urine formation, absence of
[277.1-82] __ Vision, changes in
[277.1-83] __ Voice, weakness
[277.1-84] __ Vomiting
[277.1-85] __ Weakness
[277.1-86] __ Wrist drop
I find it strange for example that it has Writst drop?? What? Damn sure sounds just exactly like those Chimeras that stanford has produced.....the ones where they admit they ran with the loophole that the government accidentally made nearly 2 years ago.....
Don't forget to look up the vampire plants>>>aka Dodder,......
Also, the brown spots on us is from (my opinion here) the leaf blot disease that plants get,.,,,,still know for a fact that the wheat fungus spore is inside our homes and it also has effected the gm rice......so then they cloned that with the human , mouse, others......what, no snake venom or wasp box used???? Oh, I think so,,,,it stung me really bad when they shot thru my back...hark. someones here,,,,must go now,,,,,
later all
I'm really sorry your efforts here are disrupted so often. It appears the moderators have chosen to step back and just let it happen which I can understand to some degree. Unfortunately when rules are applied to a board such as this it is for many reasons. This has never been more evident to me than in the past two weeks.
Those who choose to disregard those rules have little to no respect for their fellow participants and really only care for themselves.
An attempt at possesion by 'Dictatorship' has taken place. The most recent tactic and post by Frank is riddled with something so dark and sinister the last thing it does is support.
I don't think your most recent question will be answered Sabrina. Doing so would indicate they are capable of seeing the detrimental acts of their #1 public supporter. Can someone unable to see the similarity in their own actions really do this?
Don't think so, because, THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD
My precious child come and live in My shelter, in the protection of the Most High God, you will find rest in the presence of the Almighty. You will say, "This I declare of the LORD: He alone is my refuge, my place of safety; he is my God, and I am trusting him." My precious child I will rescue you from every trap and protect you from the fatal plague. I will shield you with My wings. I will shelter you with My feathers. My faithful promises are your armor and protection. Do not be afraid of the terrors of the night, nor fear the dangers of the day, nor dread the plague that stalks in darkness, nor the disaster that strikes at midday. Though a thousand fall at your side, though ten thousand are dying around you, these evils will not touch you. But you will see it with your eyes; you will see how the wicked are punished.
Because you My precious child make the LORD your refuge, because you make the Most High your shelter, no evil will conquer you; no plague will come near your dwelling. For I order My angels to protect you wherever you go. They will hold you with their hands to keep you from striking your foot on a stone. You will trample down lions and poisonous snakes; you will crush fierce lions and serpents under your feet!
My precious child, My servant, and My friend, whom I have chosen, I have chosen you and have not rejected you. So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will hold you up with my righteous right hand. All who come against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish. Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all. For I am the LORD, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, do not fear; I will help you. Do not be afraid, for I myself will help you declares the LORD, your Redeemer. You will rejoice in the LORD and glory in the Holy One of Israel.
My precious child, when you asked Me to forgive your sins and come into your heart I sent My Holy Spirit into you to comfort you, to give you power, and as proof to you that I have adopted you as My child. The Holy Spirit shall lead you into all truth because He shall testify of Jesus, and He will give you power to testify of Jesus. I will speak to you through My Holy Spirit that is in you, He will tell you what is right and wrong, what is love and hate. My Holy Spirit is a gentle whisper inside your heart telling you the path to walk in. If you walk in My Spirit you will walk in love, you will not sin. And you will see great and mighty things happen before you, they will not be accomplished by strength, nor by outside force, but by My Spirit says the LORD ALMIGHTY. Through My Holy Spirit I shall give you supernatural gifts that you may be blessed, and that you shall bless others through demonstrating My love for them. My Holy Spirit will be with you through out your whole life, and after I will receive you into My glory.
I your LORD say to you I will rescue you because you love me. I will protect you because you trust in my name. When you call on me, I will answer; I will be with you in trouble. I will rescue you and honor you. I will satisfy you with a long life and give you my salvation. Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me. It is your destiny.
Thus Says THE LORD Your GOD !
Just remember, you came here. This, you created, not me
So be it.
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New dental clinic for low-income residents to open in Walworth
WALWORTH�— Before a new dental clinic for low-income people even opens its doorS, there is talk about expanding its hours, space and staff because of a high demand for its services.
The Walworth Inspired Community Healthcare dental clinic, N2270 Highway 67, Walworth, is scheduled to open Monday, Dec. 16, and operate two days a week. It has about 75 appointments for its team of two dentists and a hygienist.
"It won't be long before we'll be expanding beyond the two days." said Richard Perry, chief executive officer for Community Health Services of Beloit. "With the number of patients who already made appointments, we will be six months out, easy, and we're there to help increase access, not delay it. We're off to a pretty good start."
The dental clinic is a product of research and collaborative planning between the Walworth County Department of Health and Human Services, Walworth's Inspiration Ministries and Community Health Systems of Beloit.
"It was the perfect storm," said Janis Ellefsen, health officer and manager at human services. "Everybody came together at the right time, and it worked for all of us … We're committed to this."
Health Services created a goal of opening a clinic at Inspiration Ministries between 2012 and 2014 after focus groups for the county's Community Health Improvement Plan showed residents are concerned about the availability of affordable oral healthcare.
Many people in the area don't have dental insurance. Some are covered by Medicaid, which many dentists in the area don't take or accept only on a limited basis, said Robin Knoll, Inspiration Ministries pastor.
"The goal is to just serve as many underprivileged as we can as quickly as possible, realistically as possible," Knoll said.
The clinic will provide cleanings, fillings, extractions and other dental services for patients who are on Medicaid, Badger Care Standard Plan and other insurance plans.
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Knoll suspects the majority of the appointments will be for typical dental check-ups.
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For example, people with income at 100 percent of the federal poverty level will be eligible for the sliding fee schedule and would be charged $40 for each visit but no additional expenses, Perry said.
About four years ago, Knoll noticed a need for affordable oral healthcare among people with disabilities and on Medicaid. The ministry had a local dentist volunteer half a day once a month, but Knoll knew it wasn't enough. Health Services and Community Health Systems of Beloit contacted Knoll about the potential of a dental clinic at Inspiration Ministries.
"I said, 'Boy that's kind of an answer to our prayer. Let's talk about it'," Knoll said. "And for the last year we have been working on this partnership and looking at how we can open the clinic and serve those in need."
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A New York man hoping to reduce the size of his nose got more than he bargained for when he went in for plastic surgery. Vishal Thakkar sought out Tulsa, Okla. surgeon Angelo Cuzalina, who serves as president of the American Board of Cosmetic Surgery, for his first nose job in 2006. When the procedure allegedly left Thakkar with breathing problems, he returned for more than a dozen corrective surgeries over the next several years.
In the last of these procedures, Cuzalina cut off Thakkar's nose entirely—purportedly because it was infected—prompting the patient to file a lawsuit. In it, Thakkar also claims that Cuzalina took cartilage from his ears in an effort to rebuild his nose, even though Thakkar had specifically instructed him not to do so, and that he prescribed his patient enough painkillers to "easily kill a couple human beings."
Mistaken Identity
A woman allegedly got a less-than-hospitable welcome at a Miami hotel when a group of prostitutes mistook her for a competitor. Anna Burgese says she and her husband Joseph were walking through the lobby of their hotel, the W South Beach, earlier this year when she was suddenly subjected to "a completely unprovoked, sudden and brutal attack" by a group of unidentified prostitutes.
The irate escorts—apparently afraid that Burgese would steal their customers—purportedly threw the New Jersey resident headfirst into a stone wall, tackled her and then escaped in a taxi with the help of hotel staff. The hotel is at fault, the Burgeses argue in a lawsuit, because it "fosters a prostitute-friendly environment … as evidenced by … reviews left on various travel websites."
Reduced Riches
Most people would be thrilled to appear on Forbes' list of the world's billionaires. But Prince Alwaleed bin Talel, a Saudi Arabian businessman, was evidently more offended than honored when the magazine ranked him as the planet's 26th richest billionaire in its annual "Rich List." The publication pegged Alwaleed's fortune at $20 billion, but the prince argues that his real fortune is actually worth closer to $30 billion.
Forbes also attracted the prince's ire by calculating his wealth based on the underlying valuation of his investment company, Kingdom Holdig Co., rather than by the price of its shares on the Saudi stock exchange, which Forbes has said "rises and falls based on factors that, coincidentally, seem more tied to the Forbes billionaires list than fundamentals." Alwaleed is suing the publication for libel in the U.K., contending that its valuation system is "irrational and deeply flawed."
Botched Burial
A Michigan woman is suing a cemetery for a burial mistake that allegedly denied her parents the chance to rest in peace together. Following Alfred Phillips' death in 1989, his wife Marion visited his plot—marked with a headstone reading "Together Forever"—until she passed away 12 years later and was buried in the same spot. For another 10 years, the couple's family continued to visit the gravesite, until they discovered in 2011 that Alfred had not been laid to rest under the headstone, but in another family plot in the Mount Ever-Rest Memorial Park.
Myra Fish, the couple's daughter, is now suing the cemetery for $10 million in compensatory and punitive damages, arguing that the mix-up amounted to gross negligence and misrepresentation, since the cemetery had promised to bury the couple together. According to the lawsuit, when the cemetery learned of its mistake, it told Fish that she would have to pay to rebury her parents in a single plot.
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When the police stopped Arizona resident Jessie Thornton for drunk driving late last year, they impounded his car, suspended his license and ordered him to take a class for drunken driving. The problem, Thornton says, is that he was completely sober at the time. Officers pulled Thornton over when he crossed a white lane marker and accused him of driving drunk because of his supposedly bloodshot eyes.
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An evaluation of prelearning theory - which maintains that normative brain cell death prior to birth can be beneficially influenced by sensory imprinting - began in December 1986, providing progressive sonoral stimuli for a two-month fetus. These sequenced signals were adapted from the maternal blood pulse, as recorded by hydrophone in utero, thus conforming to the prenate's natural sonic environment; three hours of daily application lasted seven months, administered from a portable audiocassette player with transducers positioned on the abdomen.
Report on Research Project: Interviews with 2 ½ to 3 ½ Year Old Children Regarding Their Memories of Birth and the Pre-Natal Period
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A psychosocial analysis explores some fantasies underpinning sexual asymmetry with emphasis on female childrearing and denial of maternal subjectivity. It is suggested that whereas in the past gender-role distinction between the sexes was rooted in procreativity, recent technological innovations have liberalized definitions in the West, offering greater choice and self-determination as we now can discriminate between sexuality, reproduction and childrearing.
Chronic armoring is a physiologic contraction of the musculature that begins in childhood and serves to protect the organism against inner feelings and threats from the outer world. By blocking the free flow of life energy through the longitudinal axis of the body, armoring inhibits spontaneous pulsation of organ systems and the organism as a whole. In childbirth armoring prevents easy surrender to the process of labor.
Fantasy during pregnancy is a very common occurrence, especially during the third trimester. It is often disturbing to the woman, and may provide insights into client concerns of clinical relevance to the health care professional who delivers care to this population. This paper reports on a preliminary classification schema for third trimester fantasies, based on a survey of fantasies reported by pregnant women during this time period. Clinical examples of counseling situations using the schema to identify pregnant clients' problems and concerns are discussed.
The history of child psychology developed around the question of how far, and in what way children are different from adults and different from children in later stages of life. This presented problems for prenatal psychology. The author follows the evolution of thought about prenatal life from Sigmund Freud, Sandor Ferenczi, Otto Rank and Gustav Hans Graber, the founder and first president of the International Studysociety in Prenatal Psychology (ISPP).
Already a British medical missionary and parasitologist, Lake trained in psychiatry. He used LSD from 1954 to 1969, but turned to deep breathing and other approaches. Following pioneers in psychotherapy he facilitated deep regression. By recognizing the original context of a primal memory patients re-integrated the separate memory systems. Lake scientifically defended the feasibility that cell memory could antedate brain memory. Some of his insights into maternal-fetal effects have been corroborated in sociology, criminology, obstetrics and biochemistry.
Hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) is a neuropeptide that has a central role in responses to stress. During pregnancy, CRH also is synthesized by the placenta. This paper focuses on the effects of placental CRH on two outcomes: timing of onset of parturition and fetal development. It appears that premature elevation of placental CRH during pregnancy may contribute to shorter gestational lengths. Also, CRH may affect fetal development.
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Background: Culturally sensitive intervention programs are needed to help Native American and Hispanic populations reduce alcohol, drug and tobacco use during pregnancy. Reduction of the adverse impact of psychosocial stress, increase of social support, and adequate preparation for labor and birth is also desirable.