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| Monday, November 9th, 2009 |
deutsche_kultur
[ breakingthrunow ]
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11:11a |
In The News: "Berlin Marks 20th Anniversary of Wall's Fall"
Berlin Marks 20th Anniversary of Wall's FallWorld leaders, dignitaries and thousands of visitors are in Berlin today to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is a time to remember the past and celebrate the November day in 1989 that changed the future. Despite the rain, crowds gathered at the Bornholm Bridge, the first checkpoint in the Berlin Wall to open the night of November 9, 1989. The Wall stood for nearly three decades, dividing the city and Germany into East and West. But in the end, protests and peaceful revolutions, such as in Poland, and changes in Moscow brought it down. That led to the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War. In a gesture full of symbolism, Chancellor Angela Merkel crossed from one side to other, accompanied by VIP guests, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, former Polish labor leader and president Lech Walesa, and civil rights activists of 20 years ago. Mrs. Merkel said meeting here was especially significant. She said there is joy in the possibilities that opened up at this very bridge, noting it was the result of a long struggle against oppression. She thanked Lech Walesa and his Solidarity Labor movement in Poland and Mikhail Gorbachev, the reformist leader in Moscow. Both paved the way for what would happen in Germany in 1989. World leaders and dignitaries have gathered to join in the 20th anniversary celebrations, which include open air concerts, fireworks, and the symbolic collapse of a wall of brightly painted oversize dominoes. The dominoes have been set up to run for one and a half kilometers in an area where the Wall once stood, and late Monday they will be toppled - much like the Wall was two decades ago. Organizers of the anniversary events say they want the festivities to connect with ordinary people - to show that it was people power, with the help of reform-minded political leaders, that brought down the Wall and changed the course of history. Source: http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-11-09-voa28.cfm
A look back...
Öffnung der Mauer 1989 am Reichstag
(Opening of the Berlin Wall 1989 - with English subtitles)
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deutsche_kultur
[ breakingthrunow ]
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10:35a |
Word Of The Day ~ die Achillessehne
WORT DES TAGES
die Achillessehne (pl. die Achillessehnen) - Achilles tendon, hamstring [in animals]Die frühere 400-m-Weltmeisterin Grit Bauer ist in Basel an der linken Achillessehne operiert worden. - The former 400-meter world champion Grit Bauer had surgery on her left Achilles tendon in Basel. Related: die Achillesferse - Achilles heel die Sehne - tendon, sinew; string, chord |
idiotgrrl
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7:47a |
Dufus: the Specialist Clinic
The specialist clinic had no record of the request. I urged her "She mentioned a surgeon, an internal medicine specialist, and Doctor Lewis in Dermatology." "Oh," said the clerk. "Dermatology isn't part of us. They just rent space in this building. I can give you their phone number if you'd like." She did. It was a 10-digit number. I frowned. "This looks like an out of town number," I said. "Oh, yes! They're out of Phoenix." Gaaah! ( Read more... ) Current Mood:  frustrated |
idiotgrrl
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7:32a |
The update on Dufus Claudius: How long can this keep going on?
Dufus Claudius goes in to see a specialist at the Albuquerque Animal Emergency & Specialist Clinic this noon. He has been living at Bolton Animal Hospital for the past two weeks, and his veterinarians now admit that his wound is not healing normally. ( Read more... ) Current Mood: frustratedCurrent Music: How long can this keep going on? |
alobar
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5:24a |
Jindal is a Fucking Idiot
 Hurricane Ida is heading to the US. Hurricane tracking indicates it should hit Florabama late Monday night.
I anticipate New Orleans will get plenty wet. But I do not expect hurricane to come close enough to NOLA to do damage.
So, given the trajectory, and the fact Ida is only a category 1 hurricane, why the fuck has the shithead Governor Jindal declared a state-wide hurricane emergency? Follow the money. See who profits big time from a statewide emergency.
Current Music: Pete Namlook - Trip 6 (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid-tempo electr |
alobar
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2:00a |
Disband Congress?
Below from Natural News. I do not believe that disbanding congress and having all the people voting on bills would really be a good idea. However I agree with Mike Adams that the Obamacare plan is utter garbage.
I, for one, will fight tooth and claw to avoid paying one cent for healthcare I do not want. Obamacare pushes dangerous drugs and surgical interventions. It won't help me pay for vitamins. It won't give me health advice I can trust. Just more AMA/Big-Pharm crap.
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 Dear NaturalNews readers,
NaturalNews Tip of the day (from Mike):
Everybody knows that eating pomegranates protects prostate health, but did you know that pomegranate juice may actually contain more natural medicine than fresh pomegranate seeds? That's because pomegranate juice includes the powerful bitters found in the white pulp of the fruit -- the part normally avoided when eating fresh fruit. So drink pomegranate juice to really pump up your pom power! (Pom Wonderful is a good brand, by the way. Theirs is the real deal...) |
I'm a strong supporter of a universal health care system that focuses on health, nutrition and patient education. Sadly, that's not the health care system described in the bill just passed by the U.S. House of Representatives over the weekend. That bill describes a sick-care monopoly that forces people to buy into a failed system of medicine that will only keep them diseased and bankrupt. So I must oppose it. Can't America do better? I think we can! (In fact, I have a new special report coming out this week that's loaded with ideas for saving America with nutrition...) In the mean time, here's a cool idea: Let's disband Congress and unleash a Direct Democracy where We the People get to vote on the bills instead of leaving them to corrupt Congresspeople and evil corporate lobbyists! Read all about it here: http://www.naturalnews.com/027439_Congress_democracy_America.html Current Music: Vuemorph - Mind Timeta Live (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid-tempo |
alobar
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1:52a |
Dell Website is Utterly Idiotic!
I signed up for the free upgrade to Windows 7 when I bought my new laptop at the end of June. Supposedly, they would send me an e-mail when Win7 was available.
So I waited. And waited. No e-mails from Dell. So today I went to the website, signed in, and was told the Win7 update was ready to send me. So I now am expecting my update in the mail.
I attempted to contact Dell about the e-mail I never received. But after bouncing around the site for over half an hour, I gave up. Those people just do not want to hear from customers unless one is paying for a service contract.
My Dell laptop is spiffy. But the Dell company is a piece of shit. Current Music: Speedy J-Treatments - Fill 17 (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid-temp |
alobar
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12:00a |
Alchemical Update, part 2
Last night, after I made my post, Alchemical Update, I realized that I had left out a very important aspect of changes going on with me these days. I am not really sure if the problem should be called eczema, psoriasis, oxalate dumping, livedo reticularis or something else. So I now refer to it as exfoliation (like the weathering of granite rocks).
 Exfoliation
Up until very recently I have had this problem for many years. My skull gets crusty and itchy. Eyebrows, beard along my jawbone. forehead, lip under my mustache, behind my ears, all get flaky itchy crustiness. Sometimes it is mild, sometimes (especially after I overdue dietary oxalates) it gets fierce. When it is most fierce, throat and chest get red, inflamed, and itchy/painful.
I was going thru a very fierce phase of the problem after having a cayenne indiscretion. I had been mucking with the problem for weeks after I ate too much cayenne. None of my unguents or cremes seem to do much good other than relieving the severe itchiness.
When I started using pregnenolone daily (200 mg, once a day) the problem began to abate. Very quickly. Within a few days, my exfoliation problem was back to like it is when I am having a good period with minimal skin irritations. I still had flaky skin on my chest. It no longer itched overly much, but it had little flaky bumps, which looked like goosebumps when I was cold. My chest seemed like the hair follicles were going erect like I was trying to fluff-up my fur. I used Zia Sea Tonic Aloe toner once a day before bed. The problem continued to recede. After 2 days I went to using the toner every other day, then stopped it altogether.
I have been taking pregnenolone for a month. I have never seen my skin be as free of problems as it is now since I first started having problems as an adult back a dozen or so years ago.
Leg Update
I have been mucking around with my leg problems since late Spring of 2005. ( Read more... ) Current Music: Zero Cult - Blur (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid-tempo electronica |
| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 |
deutsche_kultur
[ superigel ]
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11:44a |
Germany celebrates memory of Berlin Wall falling
Germany celebrates memory of Berlin Wall fallingBy MATT MOORE, Associated Press Writer Matt Moore, Associated Press Writer BERLIN – Twenty years ago Monday, they danced atop the Berlin Wall, feet thudding on the cold concrete, arms raised in victory, hands clasped in friendship and giddy hope. On that cold night, years of separation and anxiety melted into the unbelievable reality of freedom and a future without border guards, secret police, informers and rigid communist control. This weekend, Germans celebrate with concerts boasting Beethoven and Bon Jovi; a memorial service for the 136 people killed trying to cross over from 1961 to 1989; candle lightings and 1,000 towering plastic foam dominoes to be placed along the wall's route and tipped over. On Nov. 9, 1989, East Germans came in droves, riding their sputtering Trabants, motorcycles and rickety bicycles. Hundreds, then thousands, then hundreds of thousands crossed over the following days. Stores in West Berlin stayed open late and banks gave out 100 Deutschemarks in "welcome money," then worth about $50, to each East German visitor. The party lasted four days and by Nov. 12 more than 3 million of East Germany's 16.6 million people had visited, nearly a third of them to West Berlin, the rest through gates opening up along the rest of the fenced, mined frontier that cut their country in two. Sections of the nearly 155 kilometers (100 miles) of wall were pulled down and knocked over. Tourists chiseled off chunks to keep as souvenirs. Tearful families reunited. Bars gave out free drinks. Strangers kissed and toasted each other with champagne. ( Read the rest of the article... )The link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091108/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_after_the_wallDer Spiegel photo album of the Wall's fall: http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-48542.html |
poor_skills
[ byrthebb ]
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6:34p |
Need (would like) toaster oven recommendations
I am requesting a toaster oven from my son for my birthday but I want one which will last a while. I also don't want him to spend too much money on it. So I need some recommendations from any of you who have toaster ovens on the best one to get that hopefully doesn't cost over $50. I've looked online for a few but well I am still not sure. I think I want a large one but I guess I will settle for a smaller one. I really wouldn't use it for toast but more for cooking things like breaded shrimp or pizza. Mostly cooking frozen stuff or reheating leftovers. But it might be nice to broil a small steak or something now and then. Thanks for your recommendations. Oh - I would also like to know what store you bought yours from. Thanks- BB |
poor_skills
[ punbeing ]
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4:22p |
New to living, help...
Okay, so, first of all I live in BC, Canada. I'm not really sure how to go about this, but I don't know what to do right now and I'm really worried about how the next month is going to go. I turned 18 in February, applied for college, got accepted, and moved away to be on my own during the summer. I applied for student loans and I was approved for $7000 this semester. I thought this was pretty cool, and most likely enough to live on after I paid my tuition (Which was only $3800 this semester). On top of that, my boyfriend was moving in with me and planning on getting a job to help support me while I attend school. Unfortunately, due to circumstances, $2000 of my left-over 'living' student loan money was stolen/loaned, and the person only paid back $1000, claiming that was all they took. This person is a family member - really the only family member I have, and they're currently paying for my hydro and internet until I can afford it - so I can't bring myself to do anything about it, or even fight with them over how much they took. The worst part is what they spent it on, but I don't want to divulge that. On top of that my boyfriend, who is currently 20, left his job of his own accord with the intention of moving with me, so he doesn't qualify for Unemployment Insurance. We've been checking all the websites, gone out on numerous occasions to every store that would take a resume handing them out, and emailed quite a few possible employers, but so far we haven't heard back. His resume shouldn't be the problem, since it was done professionally, but we've still tried editing it now and then to get it to sound even better. Still, he can't seem to get a job, and we've been looking for two months (since he moved here). The problem with this is I've had to pay all the rent ($600 a month) and I'm out of student loans. We're currently $5.00 in the red, and the only reason we have food is because my college has special bursaries set aside for people in financial crisis, so they've given me Superstore gift cards so we can buy food. Unfortunately this doesn't help with my biggest problem right now, and that's December rent. So, my biggest question right now is... What can we do? I've been so stressed about this that I haven't been able to concentrate on my work (art school, it's kind of hard for me to paint when I'm this stressed) and I'm starting to fail my classes, which would make this entire endeavor a complete failure. What are our options? I'm going to see a school councilor Monday about some options, but I want to know if anyone here knows anything that could help. Sorry about all this, I didn't know where or who to ask... Current Mood:  distressed |
poor_skills
[ blairpettrey ]
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9:08p |
Neighbor with Gun... Has shot...
I live in Maryland (so if anyone knows specific laws, that'd be rad too!). For clarification person without details we will call Neighbor A & B the married neighbors and neighbor C the sweet neighbor. A & B Live next door to me (we have townhomes). A&B got into a fight. They have 4 children. A is drunk as hell (like always) and pulls out his gun and points it at his wife. B grabs her kids and runs to Neighbor C's house. She's not in shock. She's calm and collective - but she says she needs help, and so C of course helps. A (in his drunken stage) pounds and threatens to bust in neighbor C's door if they don't let him in. Neighbor C calls the cops because A claims he is going to shoot them with his gun. The 911 dispatcher asks B(The wife) if her husband (A) has a gun - and she says not a handgun, but yes a shotgun. 45 minutes later we hear a gunshot. REALLY FREAKING CLOSE. Then another... by the end there are 4 gunshots. A&B live right next door to us...2 of the shots were IN THERE HOUSE and the other 2 were on our street because A went psycho in his drunken stage and shot neighbor C's car in. The cops came - helicopters came. It was a freaking madhouse. Regardless - Because no one actually SAW Neighbor A do what he did and now his wife (because we all know how unfortunate domestic situations can be for woman) won't admit that her husband has a gun (because he just got released from prison, can't legally posses a gun - so he could go back to prison for having possession of a gun as well as the damage he created) - the cops can't really do anything (at least at this point...). Do I have ANY right to tell my leasing office they either need to evict the crazy man or let me out of my lease? I have 2 young children that there room shares the wall with A&B's house. I'm scared. Shots were fired. This is crazy, ridiculus, and obviously not a safe haven... But I can't really afford for a broken lease to be on my credit report (but if it has to be, I will do it - my children's safety is obviously more important). Anyhow, do I have any legal rights? |
alobar
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9:40p |
Post of the Day!
Below from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ankh_f_n_khonsu.
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Disrobing the Papacy –
 The see of Rome only took on particular importance centuries after the life of Peter, with the crowning of Charlemagne and the advent of the Holy Roman Empire. Subsequently, popes have come to wield tremendous worldly power, but much of their history has been occluded from the public. http://sophrosyne.radical.r30.net/wordpress/?p=2438 Current Music: Anyma - Free Me (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid-tempo electronica. |
peak_oil
[ theheretic ]
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12:22p |
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alobar
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8:47a |
Associated Press declares war on alternative medicine
The story below needs to be read with and compared with my previous post. The press refuses to make a connection between psych meds and violent crime, yet they are more than happy to declare that alternative medicine is bunk. Follow the money.
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Associated Press declares war on alternative medicine (opinion)
Saturday, November 07, 2009
by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) The Associated Press has declared war on alternative medicine, publishing a series of stories attacking everything from nutritional therapies to bioidentical hormones. These stories, which are syndicated across thousands of websites around the world, are prefaced with the following highly-opinionated "Editor's Note":
EDITOR'S NOTE: Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures from alternative medicine. Yet these mostly unproven treatments are now mainstream and used by more than a third of all Americans. This is one in an occasional series examining their use and potential risks.
What this note reveals is an extraordinary bias against natural medicine from the start. It's clear from the claim of "examining their use and potential risks" that the Associated Press isn't even looking for potential benefits of natural medicine. They're just looking to discredit it. And the part about "Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cures" is factually incorrect.
To be more accurate, the statement should have said "Ten years and $2.5 billion in research by pharmaceutical researchers who don't even know how to study something holistically have found no cures that they are willing to publicly acknowledge."
Because, in reality, natural medicine has provided the populations of the world with countless cures spanning thousands of years of indigenous use by billions of people. Oh, but wait... the Associated Press doesn't count that. The only evidence they will consider is "proof" provided by researchers on the payroll of the criminally-operated pharmaceutical industry and rubber-stamped by a corrupt, racketeering U.S. Food and Drug Administration that unquestionably pushes a pro-pharma agenda at the expense of public health.
In one story about alternative medicine, the Associated Press characterized the teaching of acupuncture as "Harry Potter medicine." The story criticizes acupuncture and demeans any mention of "energy channels" even though acupuncture has been scientifically proven to be extremely effective at managing pain. There is no mention in the AP story of the published, peer-reviewed studies that promote acupuncture's proven effectiveness and safety.
What happened to just reporting the truth?
As I've stated here on NaturalNews many times, the whole system of "evidence-based medicine" is biased against natural medicine from the start because the FDA maintains an official policy of declaring all plant-based medicines to be inert in the human body, regardless of how much scientific evidence demonstrates otherwise.
In the FDA's eyes, there is no such thing as a food, herb, dietary supplement or nutrient that has any beneficial effect against any disease or health problem in the human body. And you know why? Because according to the FDA, only "drugs" can be used to prevent, treat or reverse any disease or health condition, not nutrients. All nutrients are inert by decree.
So the simple truths that vitamin C cures scurvy or that vitamin D prevents cancer are censored out of existence by the FDA and its media cohorts. So the AP, instead of reporting to the American people what works to make them healthy, spends its time attacking Suzanne Somers over her new book featuring interviews with doctors who have cured cancer using nutritional therapies and other forms of alternative medicine. (http://www.amazon.com/Knockout-Inte...)
When it comes to health, the Associated Press apparently isn't interested in reporting what works. It's not interested in educating the public how to be healthy, how to avoid cancer, or how to explore natural therapies that might support their health rather than destroying it (like chemotherapy does). Instead, the AP has taken the side of the criminally-operated pharmaceutical industry to discredit and destroy anything that offers the American people freedom of choice in their medicines.
The AP is a powerful, global news manufacturer. Its stories are picked up and republished by thousands of newspapers around the world. Because it is creating "ready-for-publication" news to be dropped into newspapers and magazines, it is supposed to write objective news, without the level of editorializing that you might expect from blogs or sites like NaturalNews. AP is supposed to be leave editors' opinions out of the stories and just print the actual news.
But instead, AP is now prefacing many of their health stories with this stilted, opinionated and completely inaccurate statement attempting to trash the entire alternative medicine industry. That's not a news service... that's just a highly opinionated smear against the only industry that offers any real solutions for lasting health. ( Read more... )
So I have a question for the AP editors who are writing their opinions-parading-as-news stories: You say $2.5 billion has been spent on alternative medicine with almost no cures found. Do you have any idea how much money Americans are spending on pharmaceutical medicine every year with absolutely no cures being offered?
In 2006, the world spent $643 billion on pharmaceuticals. Where are the cures?
• There are no pharmaceutical cures for cancer.
• There are no pharmaceutical cures for heart disease.
• There are no pharmaceutical cures for diabetes.
• There are no pharmaceutical cures for kidney disease.
• There are no pharmaceutical cures for depression.
• There are no pharmaceutical cures for liver disease.
• There are no pharmaceutical cures for Alzheimer's disease.
... in fact, if you add it all up, the pharmaceutical industry is the biggest rip-off in the history of medicine! The world spends nearly a trillion dollars a year on pharmaceuticals now, and yet there hasn't been a single cure found by the drug industry for any major disease or health condition.
Not a single cure.
Where is the cure for cancer? For diabetes? For heart disease?
Alternative medicine offers cures for all three. ( Read more... )
Current Music: From Here To Tranquility - Volume 4 - Infinite Vs. Unfinished (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, |
alobar
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8:30a |
Orlando shooter, US army Fort Hood shooter both linked to psychiatric drugs
Below from Natural News.
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Orlando shooter, US army Fort Hood shooter both linked to psychiatric drugs
Saturday, November 07, 2009
by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
(NaturalNews) US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan shot and killed 13 people and wounded 30 others in a violent attack at a Texas Army base this past week. He reportedly opened fire at the Fort Hood army base without any particular reason or motivation. In fact, as a psychiatrist, he had counseled many other soldiers on how to cope with the consequences of extreme violence (losing limbs, mental anguish, etc.).
As an army psychiatrist, he was also allowed to prescribe powerful psychiatric drugs to both his patients and himself. Many psychiatrists self-medicate, and Hasan was extremely anxious about the possibility of being sent overseas by the army, according to statements from family members (Reuters, below). Although official confirmation will probably never be made, it seems altogether likely that Hasan was treating himself with powerful psychotropic medications.
The mainstream media, not surprisingly, has utterly failed to raise this question. But it's being raised by independent media like Prison Planet (http://www.prisonplanet.com/was-for...), where writer Paul Joseph Watson says, "Psychiatrists have a history of 'self-medication' because of the easy access they have to psychotropic drugs. In almost every major mass shooting over the past two decades, since anti-depressant drugs became popular, the killer has been on SSRI's – serotonin reuptake inhibitors."
An informative article in The Examiner also asks the same question: Was Major Hasan on mind-altering prescription medications when he opened fire? (http://www.examiner.com/x-8358-Detr...).
Meanwhile, a study in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics reveals that 16% of psychiatrists self-medicate (http://www.cchrint.org/2009/11/05/w...).
Given all the psych drugs linked to such acts in previous shootings, such a link seems not only probably, but likely.
Orlando shooter confirmed on psych drugs
It's been a busy week for violent, drug-induced outbursts in the USA. Orlando shooter Jason Rodriguez is now confirmed to have been on psychiatric medications when he went on a shooting spree in an Orlando office building last week, killing one person and wounding five others.
In a televised interview with Fox News, the former mother-in-law of Rodriguez goes on the record saying, "He was under medication ...for control of the brain." That video segment is available here: ( Read more... ) Current Music: Orange (Shazz) - Le Jus (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid-tempo elec |
alobar
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8:23a |
New research: resveratrol improves diabetes by affecting the brain
Below story is on Resveratrol and diabetes. I just ordered some Resveratrol a few days ago, before I saw the article below. So I am looking forward to getting the package in a week or so.
I can't say as I comprehend the "editor's note" below. But the article itself looks interesting.
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New research: resveratrol improves diabetes by affecting the brain
Saturday, November 07, 2009 by: S. L. Baker, features writer
(NaturalNews) Think of a treatment for diabetes, and you probably think of a drug or natural therapy that targets the pancreas to help normalize blood sugar levels. Resveratrol, a phytochemical found in red grapes, has been shown to have a host of health benefits -- including improving diabetes in animal studies. But, it turns out, that's not necessarily because it benefits the pancreas. Instead, scientists have made an unexpected discovery: resveratrol's anti-diabetic properties appear to be mediated through the brain.
( Read more... )
Current Music: Ibizarre - Savannah (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid-tempo electron |
| Saturday, November 7th, 2009 |
poor_skills
[ laurafreak ]
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8:03p |
buying stuff from people off of Craigslist
I'm looking to buy a Wii since my bf never has money to go anywhere anymore, and I can't always afford to pay for him. So I figured it might be something fun we could do while not having to go anywhere. Watching movies all the time gets boring :P Anyway, a guy in the town I work in is selling one plus the remotes, wires, and 2 games for $190. But I'm so scared of buying it and it being a POS. Any advice for me? He listed it in excellent condition and when I asked why he was selling it is he said he just doesn't use it and wants the money to buy an xbox. |
| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 |
alobar
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7:55a |
Alchemical Update
I have been itching to make a long post regarding health, supplements, odd quirks, etc. But money is utter shit, so I have been busting my butt with little time for writing long posts.
I get the next two days off because of rain. So I can take the time to write an update on my personal alchemy.
Persistence Furthers
The night after I tried my liquid salad glop (October 30), several things all conspired to give me higher than usual blood sugars. I got only about 6 hours sleep. I was worried about money. I did not eat the salad glop until much later than I usually eat dinner. So I had no idea if my glucometer reading was caused by my "new food", or the factors which tend to raise my blood sugar.
So I tried again. ( Read more... )
Seven Three Degrees of Separation
Several years ago I began an experiment. Several times a day I ask myself what the temperature is. Then I look at a thermometer. Over time, my accuracy and precision has gone up. Before I started taking Pregnenolone, I was generally +/- a degree of the measured temp. Sometimes it was off by 2 or 3 degrees. The only time the discrepancy was greater is if I came in from a cold windy night into my warm apartment, or if I left my warm apartment to go out to a cold windy night.
But then, something happened. My subjective thermometric hunches began to be 7 degrees off. Consistently in the same direction. When sitting at my laptop typing after a long day's work, I feel chilly if temp is 72F or lower. Now, when temp is 70, it feels to me like it is 77 in here. Below 72, I need a light blanket. Now I do not reach for the blanket until temp is 65.
These days I am taking both 200mg of Pregnenolone plus 50mg of DHEA. It seems to be the combination, rather than one or the other which has caused the temp discrepancy.
I have been taking DHEA since October 29. The 7 degree shift started after a few days. However, my subjective thermometer has adjusted itself. ( Read more... )
Memory, prophecy and Fantasy-the past, the future and the dreaming moment between-are all one country, living one immortal day. To know that is wisdom. To use it is the Art.
— Clive Barker Memory is a very strange thing. By no means have I ever felt I had a photographic memory. But I have felt that I have a good memory pertaining to things which interest me. However, it is not feasible for me to examine the holes in my memory. It never occurred to me to think of the name of the girl I had a crush on in 8th grade. So I was blissfully ignorant about all the memories I did not possess.
However, that is changing, in very odd ways.
"One of the most remarkable properties of pregnenolone is its apparent ability to support certain aspects of memory when taken "after the fact."15 This has been found to be true for DHEA also, but to a lesser degree. Thus, the use of pregnenolone may help recall of information encountered prior to ingestion. You may wake up in the morning, decide that you really want to embed information previously absorbed, and take some pregnenolone".
http://alobar.livejournal.com/3423341.html It all started with pregnenolone. When I begin to use a new supplement, it takes me many months before I can remember the name of the supplement, and even longer before I can pronounce it or remember how to spell it. However, once I began taking pregnenolone, I knew how to pronounce it and spell it.
For as long as I can remember, events from the past have popped into my conscious mind for no discernible reason. I remember a conversation I had with someone 20+ years ago. I remember the hot gal I flirted with. I remember some dumb-ass thing I wish I had not done.
Now there is a little twist which clearly point out to me the holes in my memory. ( Read more... )
Work and Sleep
When work is really really slow, I push myself to work more hours. I have been getting under 8 hours of sleep a night since Samhain. Before I started taking pregnenolone, I could do this for 2 or maybe 3 days, but then I would crash and need over 10 hours. And my moods got worse and worse. Cranky, angry, frustrated. And yet, now my moods are good, my mind remains sharp, and my readings are even more intuitive than usual after 8 days of sleep dep. My approach is somehow inducing clients to open up more easily, relax, and connect with me much smoother than usual. I have no idea why. My liquid tuna salad may have something to do with it. Pregnenolone sure seems like it is helping me a lot. And perhaps DHEA is also part of the mix. Usually, when business is real slow, my brain gets muddled and my readings lack intuition until I have done 3 or 4 readings in a night. Now, I am sharp for the first reading.
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Current Music: 302 Acid - Aiboc (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid-tempo electronica |
peak_oil
[ karina_ajzo ]
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12:24p |
подавитесь, гады!
     Wars. We all understand very well that it’s just somebody’s business, somebody’s money. Cruel, bloody money. Millionaires, multi-millionaires – their money are used in arms traffic, politics. All that happens in order to earn MORE money. I address to all oligarchs whose money are concerned with politics (and it means that they are concerned with all the wars): BUY these five paintings! Give your fucking money for them! Hang them in your room, look at them and think about death. Think about those who died for your money. Think about death which is represented on these pictures and think about life which they are washed with – these pictures are sodden with my milk, with my life. I did it as hope that HUMAN life would become more important for you than money. Buy these paintings, accept this life and remember about it always. Look at them and think about the fact that you will die too and all the world can perish if we don’t invest money in life. Everything can disappear, and what for you accumulated all these millions and billions? Buy these pictures and show to all the people fighting for their lives that you are worth being called a HUMAN BEING. After your death the world will remember that you didn’t live here for nothing. Please! All those who read this – add me as a friend! Help me to extend my manifest. It must find it’s addressees. LET’S SAVE LIFE! LET’S STOP WARS! |
| Saturday, November 7th, 2009 |
poor_skills
[ jane_lindenwood ]
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7:34p |
need opinions about work and maternity leave vs getting fired
I am 20 weeks pregnant with our first kid and we are very excited! I have a job that pays some bills and gives me health insurance, but quite honestly if I wasn't pregnant, I would have quit at least two months ago. Basically, regardless of when I do end up leaving to have the baby I have no plans of returning. Maybe to a different department in the same company, but I'm not entirely sure about that. I am a high risk mama and I literally have twice as many appointments (at least) as the average pregnant lady. I am overweight and have high blood pressure. I'm being monitored by two doctors and everything has been okay so far with the baby and his/her growth and my blood pressure has been well controlled by medication. I have been having a rough time with morning sickness and getting knocked down by a stomach bug for a couple of weeks and have missed a fair amount of work. My bosses are not pleased with this and think I need to toughen up. That may be the case, and I may look back and think I was being a giant wuss, but right now in the moment I'm just doing the best that I can. I have not worked here long enough to qualify for FMLA but I can take a medical leave of absence or personal leave. With that, I would technically be an employee for up to 38 weeks and would have no changes to health insurance for the first 12 weeks. After that, the health insurance would go away unless I paid into COBRA. If I'm counting right, I'm one missed day of work away from being fired. As far as I know, I would qualify for unemployment because I have a health condition that would have led me to being fired. We would definitely qualify for food stamps then and although I'm not sure about Medicaid, I would qualify for CHIPS insurance for the rest of my pregnancy so at least prenatal care and delivery would be covered and the baby would be after that. My question is, do you think it would be better to get fired or to go on medical leave now? I'm due in March, so my insurance would not last until the birth of my baby, but it would get me through the next few months at least. Is having health insurance through my company more important than trying to collect unemployment? Any thoughts are helpful! Thanks for your time, I totally love this community. |
asperger
[ an_su ]
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5:55p |
I posted about this in my journal... but I felt like posting here... Just to share... I don't know why. I'm going tonight, to a dinner organised by the publisher I work for as a childrens book illustrator... When they called to ask if I'd participate or not to the dinner they organise, I first thought the publishing coordinator who's about my age, would be there so that even if I don't know / get to talk anyone else, there would be her to talk to. She's a nice woman who makes me feel ok and I have an easy communication with her. Then... I learned she's not working there anymore. So full of questions LOL ... I'll be going... but I'm EXTREMELY afraid of speding a very boring night with people who won't talk to me and so on. I don't even exactly know if we're "invited", or if everyone will pay his her share. And I don't know how to manage to get to understand that without being silly. I'm out of the door in half an hour wish me luck LOL |
poor_skills
[ lanyatheana ]
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1:42a |
Save-A-Lot Foods
I have never been a fan of Aldi's... Anyone have some insight on Save-A-Lot? I imagine it's about the same, crappy quality... |
asperger
[ reign_lake ]
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8:51a |
First Post
Hi! I'm Kristen, am 30 yr. old, and highly suspect I may have Asperger's. When I was 10, my grandmother took me to a psychiatrist and he said that I had an unspecified learning disability, was EXTREMELY shy, and was behind developmentally (I was more like a 7 yr. old than a 10 yr. old). I didn't get to see my grandmother for more than a few times a year, so never went back, and my parents never cared to bother with it. But I've spent the past couple of years searching for what's wrong with me and even considered bi-polar for the emotional swings, until I started reading about Asperger's. And, boy, do I have a lot of the symptoms: 1. Face-blind: Thank god it's not just me. I didn't even recognize my own sister once. 2. Poor memory: Memories of my childhood-and of yesterday-are very spotty. 3. Poor motor skills: I am so clumsy and uncoordinated. You should see me try to sweep a floor. 4. Poor social skills: I spent my childhood made fun of, no matter that I went to over 40 schools by the time I was 15 (no, my parents were not in the military). 5. Eye contact: I find it very hard to look at people's faces and a lot of the times find myself looking in completely the opposite direction, 'cause I can't bear to look at them. 6. I'm terrible at taking care of myself as an adult and have just moved away from home, with a friend as a roommate. There's other, smaller things, but these are, I think, the worst. I want to go to a doctor for confirmation, but should I just pick a psychiatrist/psychologist from the phone book and ask about it or is there something specific I should do or look for? The confirmation is mainly because people tend to brush me off when I say I have a bad memory or act as if I can just get over shyness with a snap of my fingers-I just have this gut feeling that it's something more. And one question which bothers me: I hate being touched and especially hate touching other people. Is this a symptom, too, or is it just me? I realize that it could be because of a couple of, um, incidents in my childhood but I don't know... Thank you. |
alobar
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6:47a |
Recent Pics of me.
Current Music: Flooting Grooves - Across The Treshold (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and |
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