Sunday 30 December 2012

NASA - Ion Thruster Sets World Record

For long distance space travel!

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2416.html

Tuesday 25 December 2012

Faulty genes precipitate bowel cancer risk - The Times of India

Cancer works through faulty genes! Question is why genes are not repaired correctly. Why is repairing of faulty genes faulty?

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health/Faulty-genes-precipitate-bowel-cancer-risk/articleshow/17753914.cms

Gurney Journey: Titles for Paintings, Part 3

Naming your images!

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.ca/2012/12/titles-for-paintings-part-3.html?m=1

Gurney Journey

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.ca/?m=1

Inspiring New Realities – James Gurney Interview | Symbiartic, Scientific American Blog Network

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2012/12/13/james-gurney-interview/

New technique clears up mysteries in extinct Denisovan human genome - Cosmic Log

Enjoy this assessment of the extinct Dinisovan humans!

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/30/13570175-new-technique-clears-up-mysteries-in-extinct-denisovan-human-genome?lite

Monday 24 December 2012

Re: Shoes in church



I showered and shaved.............. I adjusted my tie.

I got there and sat.............. In a pew just in time.

Bowing my head in prayer......... As I closed my eyes..

I saw the shoe of the man next to me..... Touching my own. I sighed.

With plenty of room on either side...... I thought, 'Why must our soles touch?'

It bothered me, his shoe touching mine... But it didn't bother him much.

A prayer began : 'Our Father'............. I thought, 'This man with the shoes, has no pride.

They're dusty, worn, and scratched. Even worse, there are holes on the side!'

'Thank You for blessings,' the prayer went on.

The shoe man said............... A quiet 'Amen.'

I tried to focus on the prayer....... But my thoughts were on his shoes again.

Aren't we supposed to look our best. When walking through that door?

'Well, this certainly isn't it,' I thought, Glancing toward the floor..

Then the prayer was ended........... And the songs of praise began.

The shoe man was certainly loud...... Sounding proud as he sang.

His voice lifted the rafters........ His hands were raised high.

The Lord could surely hear. The shoe man's voice from the sky.

It was time for the offering...... And what I threw in was steep.

I watched as the shoe man reached.... Into his pockets so deep.

I saw what was pulled out............ What the shoe man put in.

Then I heard a soft 'clink' . As when silver hits tin.

The sermon really bored me............ To tears, and that's no lie..

It was the same for the shoe man.... For tears fell from his eyes.

At the end of the service...... As is the custom here.

We must greet new visitors, And show them all good cheer.

But I felt moved somehow.............. And wanted to meet the shoe man.

So after the closing prayer........ I reached over and shook his hand.

He was old and his skin was dark..... And his hair was truly a mess.

But I thanked him for coming......... For being our guest.

He said, 'My names' Charlie............ I'm glad to meet you, my friend.'

There were tears in his eyes........ But he had a large, wide grin.

'Let me explain,' he said........... Wiping tears from his eyes.

'I've been coming here for months.... And you're the first to say 'Hi.''

'I know that my appearance............'Is not like all the rest.

'But I really do try.................'To always look my best.'

'I always clean and polish my shoes..'Before my very long walk.

'But by the time I get here..........'They're dirty and dusty, like chalk.'

My heart filled with pain.......... And I swallowed to hide my tears.

As he continued to apologize............ For daring to sit so near

He said, 'When I get here..............'I know I must look a sight.

'But I thought if I could touch you..'Then maybe our souls might unite.'

I was silent for a moment........... Knowing whatever was said

Would pale in comparison... I spoke from my heart, not my head.

'Oh, you've touched me,' I said......'And taught me, in part;

'That the best of any man...............'Is what is found in his heart.'

The rest, I thought,..................... This shoe man will never know.

Like just how thankful I really am... That his dirty old shoe touched my soul

You are special to me and you have made a difference in my life.
I respect you, and truly cherish you.

Send this to your friends,
No matter how often you talk,
Or how close you are,
And send it to the person who sent it to you.
Let old friends know you haven't forgotten them, and tell new friends you never will.
Remember, everyone needs a friend..
Someday you might feel like you have no friends at all.
Just remember this e-mail and take comfort in knowing that
Someone out there cares about you.....

And always will.

 

 

Thursday 20 December 2012

Mark Carney more bark than bite as next Bank of England governor | News | Financial Post

Interesting developments:

http://business.financialpost.com/2012/12/20/why-england-shouldnt-worry-about-radical-mark-carney/

Strauss-Kahn loses bid to end sex offence inquiry - International - Scotsman.com

Man falsely accused?

http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/strauss-kahn-loses-bid-to-end-sex-offence-inquiry-1-2700047

Scottish independence: Scotland ‘will be poorer than UK’ as projections for oil and gas revenues plummet - Top stories - Scotsman.com

Very true! Silly to place such a burden on Scots! Any idiot, even those of England can see the advantage of being in a large market! Why overload the economy on energy dependent growth!

http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/scottish-independence-scotland-will-be-poorer-than-uk-as-projections-for-oil-and-gas-revenues-plummet-1-2700088

Sandy Hook massacre: The NRA's gun 'rights' are a fabrication of modern times - CSMonitor.com

True!

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2012/1218/Sandy-Hook-massacre-The-NRA-s-gun-rights-are-a-fabrication-of-modern-times?cmpid=ema:nws:Commentary%20Weekly%20(12202012)&cmpid=ema:nws:NzQ4MDU4NDEwMgS2

TSA Finally Investigating Cancer Risk of X-Ray Body Scanners | Mother Jones

Must a load of radiation unreported when you fly? Why?

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/12/tsa-investigation-cancer-risk-x-ray-body-scanners

Scanning the Scanners: A Side-by-Side Comparison - ProPublica

Toronto flights to the US uses the one on the left!

http://www.propublica.org/special/scanning-the-scanners-a-side-by-side-comparison

Scanning the Scanners: A Side-by-Side Comparison - ProPublica

Toronto flights to the US uses the one on the left!

http://www.propublica.org/special/scanning-the-scanners-a-side-by-side-comparison

Australian Resort Owner Doesn’t Want Tiger Woods in his Tournament | EURweb

The resort owner has issues that are much larger than those of Tiger Woods. You have to wonder how some people apparently do so well even though they are independently minded?

http://www.eurweb.com/2012/12/australian-resort-owner-doesnt-want-tiger-woods-in-his-tournament/

A Look Back at Solar Energy in 2012 | Renewable Energy News Article

On a solid growth path!

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2012/12/a-look-back-at-the-year-in-solar?cmpid=rss

Amish store in Lyndonville embraces solar energy - The Daily News Online: News

Being good stewards!

http://thedailynewsonline.com/news/article_bb11432a-4a65-11e2-8b13-001a4bcf887a.html

How smarties are made!

Yum!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/iloveny/2005/chocolate/smarties/gallery/1.shtml

This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

History repeats its economic disasters!

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/Books/Personal/This-Time-is-Different

The Book Reader and The Official Site of Bill Gates - The Gates Notes

So you also read books!

http://www.thegatesnotes.com/

DPP-4 Inhibitors: Another Disastrous Diabetes Drug

So do you think you are at risk?

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/12/20/dpp4-inhibitors.aspx?e_cid=20121220_DNL_art_1

Bill Clinton speaks at Wind on the Wires fundraiser in Chicago. - Blogs Takes Names - Crain's Chicago Business

Right on the boil!

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20121219/BLOGS03/121219777/bill-clinton-gets-second-wind-in-chicago-visit

Space Turbulence Measured In The Lab - Space News - redOrbit

We have a solar and a galactic and an inter- galactic breeze! What about a glactic clusteral breeze?

http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1112750174/outer-space-turbulence-solar-corona-alfven-waves-121812/

UFO Lying On The Bottom Of The Baltic Sea? - Space News - redOrbit

What in the universe is it? Major mystery as it seems to follow it's own sense of reality and structure?

http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1112641006/ufo-lying-on-the-bottom-of-the-baltic-sea/

What's Gone Wrong With The Electric Vehicle Market? Nothing. - Forbes

Eventually, everyone will drive an electric vehicle. They are cost effective for the gas guzzling sizes of vehicles in North America so else where adoption rates can be expected at much higher numbers!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/boblutz/2012/12/20/whats-gone-wrong-with-the-electric-vehicle-market-nothing/

48fps: how we accidentally invented Impressionist filmmaking | The Verge Forums

The first episode of The Hobbit is a blast! At our local theater, we were also treated to a preview of the new 3d Star Trek! Do you think you understand film speed?

http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/18/3780274/48-fps-how-we-accidentally-invented-impressionist-filmmaking

The Smart Set: The Difficulty of Debussy - December 18, 2012

Amazing images or sketches in sound!

http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article12181201.aspx

Bill Gates Funds Female Condom That Delivers Anti-HIV Drug :: EDGE Boston

Helps by giving people more and safer options!

http://www.edgeboston.com/news/aids/news/140039/bill_gates_funds_female_condom_that_delivers_anti-hiv_drug

Vertical Consultants CEO Weighs in on Tenn. School District Cell Tower Issue

Secrets occuring within secrets like boxes within boxes like a Russian doll!

http://www.prweb.com/releases/cell-tower-lease-rates/cell-tower-lease-experts/prweb10258633.htm

Tuesday 18 December 2012

Fwd: [Citizens For Safe Technology] Regarding the lengthy, costly, Interphone Study,...

My Comments before the link to Katz' comments! 

"Taxes on media providers and distributors need to be greatly increased to cover the decline in other industry!"

By some perverse realities those furthest from cell towers are likely to experience the greatest bursts of heavy radiation from using their own cell phones because more energy is required in use the cell phone antenna when further away from the mast!..... However, those close to cell towers are exposed longest to the stronger "I am here so find and use me" beacon! 

Possibly the solution is to effect a change in the beacon antenna technology so that it operates on a wake up basis rather than 'I am telling you where I am'! 

Saturation with wake up beacons might reduce radiation overall since it is the beacon radiation that permeates continuously our every fiber! 

So lets get the safest wakeable beacon and responder technology and require that the telecom companies install this technology. 

Radiation from cell phones in open air is about 15 centimeters and under that there is danger of stimulation of the amygdala cells which if cancerous could lead to mad people shooting up scores of schools!  Who is to say that the Connecticut massacre is not related to overstimulation of the perpetrator's amygdala? Needs research as much as gun legislation!

Similarly, in the home there is no sense in having a beacon radiation form of contamination! Force a change to safer WIFI technologies, ones that minimize amygdada stimulation?

If local authorities can't stop the spread of cell towers, they can alternatively really gear up to tax the hell out of unsafe antennas!  Put the unsafe antennas in such a high local tax bracket that they fail to cover implementation costs!

What remains is to rank antennas and forms of antenna use according to relative safety? Big task, but something an enlightened government could entertain! Heavy taxes on the huge profits of these companies would be fair because it would fall directly on users and providers.






Carl Katz 17 December 04:39
Regarding the lengthy, costly, Interphone Study, which found a significantly higher risk of glioma in those who used their phone for more than 30 minutes a day (what they call a "heavy user"?) for cell phone users who used their phone for more than ten years:

A friend of mine who has been analyzing cell phone and electromagnetic radiation studies for the past fifteen years told me a couple of years ago that the entire Interphone study and design study is inherently flawed.

You almost always hear the Interphone study quoted by the industry and media - no significant risk for anyone other than the group with over ten years of use.

What the studies designers failed to take into account was cordless home phone users - DECT phones - the study did not take into account if the person used cordless phones at home.

They are possibly more dangerous than cell phones because they transmit at full power for the entire duration of the conversation. Cell phones increase and decrease their power depending on how close the user is to a tower which is why the conventional wisdom is to not use your cell phone if you have one or two bars on the connection indicator.

By stark contrast, DECT cordless home phones do NOT decrease their power - the operate flat out at 100% power for the duration of the call no matter how close or far you are from the phone base. Add to that users who keep the base of the phone next to their bed exposing them for the entire duration of their sleep, you quickly start to see that the entire study is a joke.

To summarize, if someone who didn't use a cell phone but used a home cordless phone for several years and got a brain tumor, they skewed the entire study when they reported their cell phone use - they didn't use a cell phone and got a tumor.




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Sunday 16 December 2012

The iPad mini 2 from Apple expected to have new Retina Display feature - Jacksonville Gadgets | Examiner.com

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-ipad-mini-2-from-apple-expected-to-have-new-retina-display-feature

iPhone 5 vs. Samsung Galaxy S3: Apple leading Samsung in smartphone race - Jacksonville Gadgets | Examiner.com

http://www.examiner.com/article/iphone-5-vs-samsung-galaxy-s3-apple-leading-samsung-smartphone-race

Multivitamins lower male cancer risk: study - The China Post

Note the nutrients that one should have:

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2012/12/16/364286/Multivitamins-lower.htm

How to understand the different measurement units that are used to measure EMFs | www.electricsense.com

http://www.electricsense.com/3772/how-to-understand-the-different-measurement-units-that-are-used-to-measure-emfs/

The Body Electric By Robert Becker – My Review | www.electricsense.com

http://www.electricsense.com/4576/the-body-electric-by-robert-becker-my-review/


Support:

Communities Against Serious Injury From Wireless Technology

Read about the hidden dangers of WIFI for babies and children.

Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age: An Insider's Alarming Discoveries about Cancer and Genetic Damage: Dr. George Carlo Dr., Martin Schram: 9780786709601: Amazon.com: Books

http://www.amazon.com/Cell-Phones-Invisible-Wireless-Discoveries/dp/078670960X

How to Eliminate EMF Radiation from Cell Phones (Radiation Meters) - Video Dailymotion

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvpjds_how-to-eliminate-emf-radiation-from-cell-phones-radiation-meters_tech#.UM38QHwgGSM

Saturday 15 December 2012

Re: [Citizens For Safe Technology] The head of Belgium’s largest cellphone company...

You have to wonder? What is the mechanism behind the wireless radiation harm? Is it akin to concentrated ultra violet light though acting on our bodies in three dimensions? Not as obvious as xrays, but still penetrating right through thin membranes of creatures such as tadpoles and germs! Some physicists are left to speculate since only the infra microwave radiation is generally considered even when funding is denied! 

Today, I talked to a British astrophysicist, who reminded me about the body's replacement of cells every seven years. If the cancer shows up as part of that seven year cycle, that surely shortens the profitability cycle of communications firm should they not go totally fiber optic. Well that's powerful speculation, but I think that I know which technology has long term sustainability. 

On 15 Dec 2012, at 11:09 PM, "Susan Foster" wrote:

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The head of Belgium's largest cellphone company bans WI-FI from his offices and tells kids cellphones are dangerous!

December 15, 2012 i

Cell phone news, DECT, Wi-FI, and WLAN wireless systems and health by EMFacts

From Andre Fauteux, Editor

La Maison du 21e siècle magazine:

The head of Belgacom is not crazy about the Wi-Fi fad in his cellphone company's skyscraper. The 27th floor, occupied by management, thus goes without the technology that allows high speed broadband Internet access. The decision is barely surprising when we know that Didier Bellens also asks his contacts to call him on his landline rather than on his cell.

The man who heads Belgacom, and thus Proximus, briefed schoolchildren Tuesday about the dangers of the Internet, in the charming company of (tennis player) Justine Henin. The initiative was organized with Child Focus and Microsoft.

Didier Bellens, president of Belgacom (Belgium cell operator), explains that the GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) is dangerous – (Sudpresse – 25/11/2011). And when a child asks about the dangers of cellphones, the head of the country's largest cellphone company does not mince his words. He explains to pupils of the Centre of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre school that GSM is bad and a health threat.

"During the day, it is better to use a headset because the GSM, it heats," he first explained. "The waves are dangerous. At night, it is better to shut it off. If you use your phone as an alarm clock, you should also turn it off."…

Contacted, Belgacom's spokesperson was not surprised by his employers comments: "Didier Bellens is only indicating the precautionary principles recommended by the World Health Organization. Remember that nothing has ever been proven about the dangers of GSM…"

Sources: http://www.sudinfo.be/248245/article/actualite/belgique/2011-11-25/didier-bellens-le-boss-de-belgacom-explique%C2%A0que-le-gsm-c'est-dangereux

and http://www.robindestoits.org/SCOOP-Didier-Bellens-le-patron-de-Belgacom-operateur-Belge-n-aime-pas-les-ondes-Wi-Fi-et-affirme-que-le-GSM-est_a1853.html

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Brian Cox (physicist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Interesting presenter and thinker!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_(physicist)

Google and Apple Maps compared

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/12/13/review-google-maps-for-ios/

Bill Clinton fights the zero sum game with Open Source | TG Daily

http://m.tgdaily.com/opinion-features/68028-bill-clinton-fights-the-zero-sum-game-with-open-source

President Bill Clinton at Dell World: We Need To Get Into The Tomorrow Business - TechCrunch

He's worth the fee!

http://m.techcrunch.com/2012/12/12/president-bill-clinton-at-dell-world-we-need-to-get-into-the-tomorrow-business/

The Multiplier Effect: How High-Tech Jobs will Transform the Economy | Article 3

So you want jobs!

http://www.article-3.com/the-multiplier-effect-how-high-tech-jobs-will-transform-the-economy-910494

Fwd: Microsoft Windows, Bob Geldof and EMFs


Begin forwarded message:

 Bob Geldof and EMFs

Microsoft Windows, Bob Geldof and EMFs

Hi Wuhlax

Over the last couple of years a flurry of EMF books have come out.

Sam Milam's "Dirty Electricity" which I've talked about a lot is one of them.

Another is Devra Davis' excellent book "Disconnect" which I reviewed a few weeks back.

Light years before any of these books came out there was a book published which revolutionized the way people thought about EMFs and the human body.

This book came out in 1985.

It was a different world back then.

Which makes it all the more amazing.....click here to read more.

Lloyd Burrell

ElectricSense.com
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