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Resveratrol and diabetes

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:10:14 GMT

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There are many companies out there who are offering Resveratrol.

How many have jumped the gun?

There is a huge distinction between rats and humans.

Evaluate the Suppliers:

Have they performed the double-blind placebo based clinical human trials to verify safe, effective dosing? Ask for the data.
Have they stabilized the delivery of Resveratrol so that the XX mg per dose you have in their bottle today is also there when you open their bottle tomorrow?

Note: The amount of Resveratrol in a bottle of Pinot Grigio is diminished by approximately 50% when the bottle is opened the following day.

Do the research, evaluate the suppliers and it will make a difference in your supplemental health regime. I recommend Univera.

Studies showed that resveratrol increased life span in lower organisms by activating the NAD (+)-dependent histone deacetylase Sirt1. And, it was found that that resveratrol promoted longevity and improved glucose homeostasis in mice by stimulating the Sirt1-mediated deacetylation of the transcriptional coactivator PGC-1alpha. [7] Researchers are interested to know if resveratrol benefits animals suffered from chronic diseases, such as diabetes. The following is a summary of a few interesting research studies about the potential benefits of resveratrol on chronic diseases, such as diabetes. In 2001, Naderali EK and co-workers from University of Liverpool found resveratrol (5-35 micromole/l) induced concentration-dependent relaxation of mesenteric arteries preconstricted with noradrenaline (8 micromol/l) or KCl (125 mmol/l) from both lean and dietary-obese rats. [1] Hyperglycemia, a symptom of diabetes mellitus, induces hyperosmotic responses, including apoptosis, in vascular endothelial cells and leukocytes. Hyperosmotic shock elicits a stress response in mammalian cells, often leading to apoptotic cell death. Moreover, resveratrol was found to attenuate high glucose-induced apoptotic changes by virtue of its antioxidant property. [2] Diabetic nephropathy is a serious vascular complication and one of the main causes of end-stage renal disease. Increased oxidative stress plays an important role in the etiology of diabetic nephropathy. In a study, researchers found treatment with resveratrol significantly attenuated renal dysfunction and oxidative stress in diabetic rats. [3] Most of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients eventually become insulin dependent because insulin secretion by the islets of Langerhans becomes exhausted. In the present study, researchers from Chang Gung University, Taiwan, showed that resveratrol (3,5,4'-trihydroxylstilbene) possesses hypoglycemic and hypolipidemic effects in streptozotocin-induced diabetes rats. In resveratrol-treated diabetic rats, the plasma glucose concentration on day 14 was reduced by 25.3%, and the triglyceride concentration was reduced by 50.2% compared with the placebo-treated rats. In nicotinamide-treated diabetic rats, the plasma glucose oncentration on day 14 was reduced only by 20.3 %, and the triglyceride concentration was reduced by 33 %. Resveratrol administration ameliorates common DM symptoms, such as body weight loss, polyphagia, and polydipsia. In STZ-nicotinamide DM rats, resveratrol administration significantly decreased insulin secretion and delayed the onset of insulin resistance. [4] Usually, diabetic rats exhibited a significant thermal hyperalgesia and cold allodynia along with increased plasma glucose and decreased body weights. Allodynia means other pain. It is a painful response to a usually non-painful stimulus. Hyperalgesia is an increased sensitivity to pain, which may be caused by damage to nociceptors or peripheral nerves. [Wikipedia] Sharma S and co-workers from Panjab University, India, reported treatment with resveratrol (10mg/kg orally) from week 4 to week 6 significantly attenuated the cold allodynia and thermal hyperalgesia, suggesting the application of resveratrol in diabetes, especially for diabetic neuropathy. [5] Researchers, at Boston University Medical Center, revealed inactivation of hepatic AMP-activated protein kinase was a key event in the pathogenesis of hyperlipidemia in diabetes (based on a study of in type 1 diabetic LDL receptor-deficient mice). They showed that resveratrol could lower lipid levels by activating AMP-activated protein kinase. It was about 200 times the potency of Metformin! [6] Recent Research Studies of Resveratrol on Diabetes Schmatz R and co-workers from Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil, found that treatment with resveratrol prevented the increase in acetylcholinesterase activity and consequently memory impairment in diabetic rats. [8] Palsamy P and other India researchers found daily oral treatment of resveratrol to diabetic rats for 30 days demonstrated a significant decline in blood glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin levels and a significant increase in plasma insulin level. The administration of resveratrol also reverted the altered activities of the key enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism such as hexokinase, pyruvate kinase, lactate dehydrogenase, glucose-6-phosphatase, fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, glycogen synthase and glycogen phosphorylase in liver and kidney tissues of diabetic rats to near normal levels. [9] Researchers from New York Medical College observed that resveratrol increased mitochondrial mass and mtDNA content, up-regulated protein expression of electron transport chain constituents and induced mitochondrial biogenesis factors (PGC-1alpha, Nrf-1, Tfam) in cultured human coronary arterial endothelial cells. They found resveratrol treatment normalized impaired mitochondrial biogenesis in aortas of type 2 diabetic mice. This suggests the potential benefits of resveratrol on diabetes or metabolic diseases. [10] Researchers from Dortmund University of Technology, Germany, observed that resveratrol could inhibit the formation of islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) fibril. Following preferential partitioning of IAPP into the fluid lipid phase, the membrane of beta-cells suffered irreversible damage and predominantly circularly-shaped lipid-containing IAPP amyloid was formed. Deposition of amyloid in the extracellular matrix of beta-cells commonly occurs in type II diabetes mellitus. Thus, resveratrol may benefit animals suffered from diabetes. [11] Rodella LF and co-workers from University of Brescia, Italy, found resveratrol and cobalt protoporphyrin administration increased heme oxygenase-1 protein expression and heme oxygenase activity in the aorta and significantly increased serum adiponectin levels, compared to untreated diabetic rats. Increased heme oxygenase-1 expression usually improves vascular function. [12] Resveratrol decreased blood glucose, glycosylated hemoglobin, blood urea, serum uric acid, serum creatinine and diminished activities of pathophysiological enzymes such as aspartate transaminase (AST), alanine transaminase (ALT) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP) in diabetic rats after 30 days of treatment. [13] The prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is high.nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is linked to obesity, diabetes mellitus, and hypertriglyceridemia. Approximately 20% of patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease will eventually develop cirrhosis. Resveratrol was found to decrease nonalcoholic fatty liver disease severity in rats. This effect was mediated, at least in part, by tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) inhibition and antioxidant activities. [14] Resveratrol Benefits and Side Effects Resveratrol Arthritis Resveratrol Cream Resveratrol Cancers Does grape seed extract lower bad cholesterol?

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Allopathy, Snake Oil and the Semmelweis Reflex

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:05:12 GMT

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Recently, I found myself using the word Allopathic or Allopathy. When asked what it meant, I stumbled blindly towards the answer, " . . . a generalization of the standard practice of medicine." I lucked out. However, having looked up the word I am not inclined to use the word again. Why? It has to do with motivation and maturity. People have a right to have their opinions. You might hear them say, " . . . that is the way it is done and all other ways are false". Since the goal is to advance the efficacy our efforts we must be patient until one can demonstrate or show the value of new, different ways of restoring and maintaining our body's vitality or in any other area of life. With that purpose in mind, I believe using 'Allopathy' or 'Allopathic' to describe the main stream, standard way of today's medicine or health practitioner is counter productive. Just a useless as describing non-traditional health maintenance and renewal arts as 'snake oil' et al.

(This post acknowledges and encounter with Robin 6/8/09)

Allopathy is a term coined in the early 19th century^[1] by Samuel Hahnemann^[2], the founder of homeopathy, as a synonym for mainstream medicine. It was used by homeopaths to highlight the difference they perceived between homeopathy and conventional medicine, and its use remains common among homeopaths. The term derives from the Greek ἄλλος, állos, other, different + πάϑος, páthos, suffering. The distinction comes from the use in homeopathy of substances that cause similar effects as the symptoms of a disease to treat patients (homeo - meaning similar). The term allopathy was meant to contrast the homeopathic approach with those conventional medical treatments that are different from or which directly counter a patient's symptoms; hence the terms allopathic and antipathic. Homeopaths saw such symptomatic treatments as "opposites treating opposites". However, many conventional medical treatments do not fit this definition of allopathy, as they seek to prevent illness, or remove the cause of an illness by acting on the etiology of disease.^[3]^[4]

The term allopathic was used throughout the 19th Century as a derogatory term for the practitioners of heroic medicine,^[5]^[6] a precursor to modern medicine that did not rely on evidence. The meaning and controversy surrounding the term can be traced to its original usage during a heated 19th-century debate between practitioners of homeopathy, and those they derisively referred to as "allopaths."^[7] The meaning implied by the label has never been accepted by conventional medicine, and is still be considered pejorative by some.^[8]^[9] More recently, some sources have used the term allopathic, particularly American sources wishing to distinguish between conventional medicine and, say, osteopathic.^[10]^[6]^[11]

History is full of examples of this kind of tension or Semmelweis reflex; rejecting the obvious benefits in favor of the norm.

Here is a YouTube story of a breakthrough where a Doctor looks at everything 'going on' and recognizes the obvious. Click Here and further with Univera Science (Univera White Papers)

Click here to email me or leave a comment below to go further with this discussion .

The Semmelweis reflex or "Semmelweis effect" is a metaphor for the reflex-like rejection of new knowledge because it contradicts entrenched norms, beliefs or paradigms. It refers to Ignaz Semmelweis, who discovered that childbed fever mortality rates could be reduced ten-fold if doctors would wash their hands (we would now say disinfect) with a chlorine solution. His hand-washing suggestions were rejected by his contemporaries.

There is some uncertainty regarding the origin and generally accepted use of the expression.

One source defines it as "the automatic rejection of the obvious, without thought, inspection, or experiment" and attributes the expression Semmelweis Reflex to author Robert Anton Wilson.^[1]

Sporadic use of the expression can be found on other webpages^[2] and blogs which may or may not be mainstream. One such website attributes Timothy Leary with the following polemical definition of the Semmelweis reflex: "Mob behavior found among primates and larval hominids on undeveloped planets, in which a discovery of important scientific fact is punished" from his book The Game of Life.^[3].

The expression has found way into philosophy and religious studies as "unmitigated Humean skepticism concerning causality".^[4]

Other writers define the Semmelweis reflex as: Automatic dismissal or rejection of scientific information "without thought, inspection or experiment". ^[5]

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Socratic Method: Short Stories & James Hoskins

Tue, 19 May 2009 01:10:49 GMT

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Socratic Method: Short Stories and James Hoskins

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Today on ID the Future, Casey Luskin interviews James Hoskins about his latest creative writing endeavors. Hoskins, a philosophy major at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, has written several pieces based on the debate between ID and Darwinian evolution, including one that pits Socrates and imaginary materialist Hector Dawkins against each other as they argue over the scientific merit of ID. Hoskins also reads excerpts from some of his stories, and describes the inspiration behind them.

Hoskins' work, including his Debate Between Socrates and Hector Dawkins, can be downloaded from ID Arts here.

Click here to listen to this pod cast.

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When To Start Receiving Retirement Benefits

Fri, 15 May 2009 22:38:08 GMT

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There are many ways to transition to a pro-active way to handle your future years. If Univera's cellular renewal is indeed extending your productive life and you are beginning to see others are connecting to these benefits because of your sharing. Perhaps the excellent compensation system of Univera is a way to go. However, some may have a cash flow which is on a seemingly endless diet. If you are 62 or older you may have an income boost which may be just the ticket for making that quantum leap from the same ole - same ole to a dynamic, expanding, business quadrant to match the changes in your life and your associations. Here some information which may help from the Social Security Administration..

When To Start Receiving Retirement Benefits
SSA Publication No. 05-10147, July 2008, ICN 480136 [View.pdf] (En Español)
At Social Security, we're often asked, “What is the best age to start receiving retirement benefits?” The answer is that there is no one “best age” for everyone and, ultimately, it is your choice. You should make an informed decision about when to apply for benefits based on your individual and family circumstances. We hope the following information will help you understand how Social Security can fit into your retirement decision.

Contents

Your decision is a personal one

Monthly payments differ substantially based on when you start receiving benefits

Retirement may be longer than you think

Your decision could affect your family

You can keep working

Don't forget Medicare

Additional resources

Your decision is a personal one

Would it be better for you to begin receiving benefits early with a smaller monthly amount or wait for a larger monthly payment later that you may not receive as long? The answer is highly personal and depends on a number of factors, such as your current cash needs, your health and family longevity, whether you plan to work in retirement, whether you have other retirement income sources, your anticipated future financial needs and obligations, and, of course, the amount of your future Social Security benefit. We hope you will weigh all the facts carefully and consider your own circumstances before making the important decision about when to begin receiving Social Security benefits.

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Monthly payments differ substantially based on when you start receiving benefits

If you live to the average life expectancy for someone your age, you will receive about the same amount in lifetime benefits no matter whether you choose to start receiving benefits at age 62, full retirement age, age 70 or any age in between. However, monthly benefit amounts can differ substantially based on your retirement age. Basically, you can get lower monthly payments for a longer period of time or higher monthly payments over a shorter period of time. The amount you receive when you first get benefits sets the base for the amount you will receive for the rest of your life, though you do receive annual cost-of-living adjustments and, depending on your work history, may receive higher benefits if you continue to work

The following chart provides an example of how your monthly benefit amount can differ based on the age at which you decide to start receiving benefits.

Let’s say your full retirement age is 66 and your monthly benefit starting at that age is $1,000. If you choose to start getting benefits at age 62, your monthly benefit will be reduced by 25 percent to $750 to account for the longer period of time you receive benefits. This is generally a permanent reduction in your monthly benefit.

If you choose to not receive benefits until age 70, you would increase your monthly benefit amount to $1,320. This increase is from delayed retirement credits you get for your decision to postpone receiving benefits past your full retirement age. The benefit amount at age 70 in this example is 32 percent more than you would receive per month if you chose to start getting benefits at full retirement age.

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Retirement may be longer than you think

When thinking about retirement, be sure to plan for the long term. Many of us will live much longer than the “average” retiree, and, generally, women tend to live longer than men. About one out of every four 65-year-olds today will live past age 90, and one out of 10 will live past age 95. Social Security benefits, which last as long as you live, provide valuable protection against outliving savings and other sources of retirement income. Again, you will want to choose a retirement age based on your circumstances so you will have sufficient income when you need it.

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Your decision could affect your family

Your spouse may be eligible for a benefit based on your work record (spouse benefits are reduced if claimed before the spouse’s full retirement age). If you die before your spouse, he or she may be eligible for a survivor benefit based on your work record, particularly if you have earned more than your spouse over your lifetime. If you begin receiving Social Security benefits early, we cannot pay your surviving spouse a full benefit from your record. Also, if you wait until after the full retirement age to get benefits, your surviving spouse—if he or she is at least full retirement age—generally will receive the same benefit amount that you would have received.

Your children also may be eligible for a benefit on your work record if they are under age 18 or if they have a disability that began before age 22. For them to receive benefits, you must be getting benefits, too.

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You can keep working

When you reach your full retirement age, you can work and earn as much as you want and still receive your full Social Security benefit payment. If you are younger than full retirement age and if your earnings exceed certain dollar amounts, some of your benefit payments during the year will be withheld.

This does not mean you must try to limit your earnings. If we withhold some of your benefits because you continue to work, we will pay you a higher monthly benefit amount when you reach your full retirement age. In other words, if you would like to work and earn more than the exempt amount, you should know that it will not, on average, reduce the total value of lifetime benefits you receive from Social Security—and may actually increase them.

Here is how this works: after you reach full retirement age, we will recalculate your benefit amount to give you credit for any months in which you did not receive some benefit because of your earnings. In addition, as long as you continue to work and receive benefits, we will check your record every year to see whether the additional earnings will increase your monthly benefit.

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Don’t forget Medicare

If you plan to delay receiving benefits because you are working, you should sign up for Medicare three months before reaching age 65, regardless of when you reach full retirement age. Otherwise, your Medicare medical insurance, as well as prescription drug coverage, could be delayed, and you could be charged higher premiums.

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Additional resources

You can estimate benefit amounts and find more information to help you decide when to start receiving retirement benefits by using our Benefits Planners online at www.socialsecurity.gov/planners. When you’re ready to apply for benefits, you also can apply online at www.socialsecurity.gov/applyforbenefits. Many people can continue to work and still receive retirement benefits. If you want more information on how earnings affect your retirement benefits, ask for How Work Affects Your Benefits (Publication No. 05-10069), which has current annual and monthly earnings limits.

A wealth of other information—including copies of our publications—is available on our website at www.socialsecurity.gov. You also can call our toll-free number, 1-800-772-1213 (for the deaf or hard of hearing, call our TTY number, 1-800-325-0778). We can answer specific questions from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday. We can provide information by automated phone service 24 hours a day.

When To Start Receiving Retirement Benefits

Sheikh attacks Israel, pope walks out | The Pope In The Holy Land | Jerusalem Post

Tue, 12 May 2009 04:28:33 GMT

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Sheikh Tamimi, Benedict XVI A leading Palestinian cleric commandeered an evening devoted to interfaith dialogue with Pope Benedict XVI on Monday to rant against Israel for "killing Gaza's children," "bulldozing Palestinian homes" and "destroying mosques." Slideshow: Pope in Israel, Day I In an impromptu speech, delivered in Arabic at the Notre Dame Pontifical Institute in Jerusalem, Sheikh Tayseer Tamimi, chief Islamic judge in the Palestinian Authority, launched a 10-minute tirade against the State of Israel for confiscating Palestinians' land and carrying out war crimes against the residents of Gaza.

I'm glad the Pope walked out. He is a man of principle. Unlike Obama who sat and listened for hours as Chavez delivered his hate America speech.

It is impossible for a Muslim Cleric to publicly befriend leaders of other faiths. The Koran forbids this at the price to their life unless they are intentionally seducing of the infidel's heart and mind in order to eventually effect the subjugation of the submissive as they expand Shari ah. Shari ah is . . . The 'Peace' of the Religion of Peace.

Those who hear such a declaration and do not comply . . . then any devote Muslim is justified to wage jihad on those who have refused to submit. This is similar to the declaration made by Osama to the United States several months before the towers fell. Again, parts of Koran free the militant from any pang of conscience as they deliver judgment to men, women and children who refused to submit to the call . . .

Source: Sheikh attacks Israel, pope walks out | The Pope In The Holy Land | Jerusalem Post

Losing Track? Don't Feel Bad. Listen to US Fed Reserve's Inspector General

Tue, 12 May 2009 00:53:24 GMT

If you answered questions about how you managed your money like the Inspector General is answering here . . . do you think anyone, especially lenders and credit sources, would take you seriously?

2059 What kind of world will live in?

Wed, 06 May 2009 01:48:22 GMT

Do you think having fewer children will make the world better. Think again. Watch this. 3.4 million have.

Blue Skied, Windy April Day by Miyuki

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:59:44 GMT

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UAW Membership Drops 7 Percent In 2008

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:09:15 GMT

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Principle #6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.

Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness “Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely to give him comfortable subsistence.” Thomas Jefferson

In my mind Unions try to guarantee results. It’s impossible. Because they do ( guarantee results for the workers) they eventually get in the way of creativity and progress. Therefore, this news is predictable.

Manufacturing.Net - April 01, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Membership in the United Auto Workers union declined 7 percent in 2008 to more than 431,000 workers, according to a Labor Department report.

The report filed Monday said the union lost 33,873 members during the past year, bringing it down to levels not seen since World War II. The UAW had fewer than 500,000 members in 1941 but by 1945, it had boosted its membership beyond 1 million.

UAW membership peaked in 1979 at 1.5 million members.

The union has been hard hit by plant closings and job cuts by Detroit's automakers. According to the Labor Department, the union had more than 700,000 in 2001.

Union officials, however, have said the membership levels cited by the Labor Department give a false impression of the union's size. In 2007, for example, they said the UAW represented 512,000 members. Messages were left Tuesday with UAW officials.

UAW President Ron Gettelfinger received a salary of $157,117 in 2008, a 4 percent raise over the previous year, according to the Labor Department.

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9 Principles: THE912PROJECT.COM

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:39:23 GMT

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Why is the Family Party posting this standard of principles and values?

My Answer: The Family Party recognizes the social desire expressed as ‘we need’ begins with ‘I am’. From where ‘I am” we build identity, family and a society which can thrive and endure. Principles and values in action and expression are the core manifestation of character. Without people of character we have no foundation for family. Without families we have no foundation for a cohesive, vital, creative society.

Religious and political entities are providing their contribution to this effort to create a better society.. However, the Family Party recognizes the social desire expressed as ‘we need’ begins with ‘I am’. From where ‘I am” we build identity, family and society which can thrive and endure.

If you have difficulties with any two of the principles, that is fine. With honesty, sincerity, graciousness, responsibility (response able) and humility let’s engage in the expression of our position and understanding. Having done so, we both grow in charity, hard work, moderation and courage. Now, we’re on the way.

9 Principles

1. America Is Good.

2. I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.

God “The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the external rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” from George Washington’s first Inaugural address.

3. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.

Honesty “I hope that I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider to be the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.” George Washington

4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.

Marriage/Family “It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known. By a law of our nature, we cannot be happy without the endearing connections of a family.” Thomas Jefferson

5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.

Justice “I deem one of the essential principles of our government… equal and exact justice to all men of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political.” Thomas Jefferson

6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.

Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Happiness “Everyone has a natural right to choose that vocation in life which he thinks most likely to give him comfortable subsistence.” Thomas Jefferson

7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.

Charity “It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer.” George Washington

8. It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.

On your right to disagree “In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude; every man will speak as he thinks, or more properly without thinking.” George Washington

9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.

Who works for whom? “I consider the people who constitute a society or a nation as the source of all authority in that nation.” Thomas Jefferson

12 Values

Honesty Reverence Hope Thrift Humility

Charity Sincerity Moderation Hard Work Courage

Personal Responsibility Gratitude

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Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:28:41 GMT

snopes.com: Rumor: Gang Killings at Wal Mart

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:31:11 GMT

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FALSE

These rumors have been ginned up in many varieties of the theme since 2005 and pushed about in almost every state in the US. Click here to go to Snopes.com which specializes collecting and exposing rumors. The latest one was here in Miami, FL. My daughter text messaged me. I sent the message to Wal-Mart administration at noon and the local media was coming out with the 'False Rumor' news by 2pm. What hurt more was an associate at work said he had heard that a police type was saying a gang was sending this information out. Yes, you could say that . . . depending on your definition of 'gang'.

And . . .hey, who doesn't like Wal-Mart? Gangs? However, let's check their modus operandi . . .

Their tool: Fear

Their target: The gullible.

Their purpose: Make big business, non-____ Wal-Mart suffer by getting gullible customers to stay away.

So, who keeps resurrecting this 'Gang Killing at Wal-Mart' rumor? Simple. You wouldn't believe me. And if I nailed it they might nail my tires. Really, I want to keep shopping at Wal-Mart as long as I can and/or as long as the prices are low, low. low. So, until we all become socialist pigs, here's to the health and continued growth of Wal-Mart and other non-bailed-out, non-union, big businesses.

snopes.com: Gang Targets Women at Wal-Mart

Mikogo: Free Online Meetings

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:06:38 GMT

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For Training on line I use Mikogo.com.

In order to participate you will need to go to Mikogo and register:

First, Last Name and email and submit.
Click on the link you receive from Mikogo in your email.
Follow the instruction to make a quick 5 sec. download.
When finished you will see a 'M' in your tool tray (bottom right)
When you are scheduled for a session you will receive a code in your email and/or the presenter will give it to you over the phone.
Click on the 'M' in the tool tray or the one on your Desktop.
Click on 'Join Meeting'
Enter the code the presenter provided you.
2 sec. and your screen shows the presenters screen, the meeting can begin.

Note: This initial process above was completed by a friend of mine, not a computer geek, in less than 5 min. Subsequent sessions can be initiated and logged into < 20 sec.

Use it for

Online Meetings // Product Demos // Online Presentations

Remote Support // Webinars // You can show anything you want - in true color quality - to up to 10 people at the same time!

Tutorials

Click here to download the Mikogo User Guide (PDF) or watch the following video tutorials:
Video: How to start a Mikogo meeting
Click on one of the two links below and watch the tutorial "How to start a Mikogo meeting". Duration: 5 minutes.
>> Video with Audio >> Video without Audio
Video: How to participate in a Mikogo meeting
Click on one of the two links below and watch the tutorial "How to participate in a Mikogo meeting". Duration: 2 minutes.
>> Video with Audio >> Video without Audio

Features for PC

Screen Sharing // Switch Presenters // Participant Pointer

Remote Control // Pause Transmission //

Application selection (chose what can be shared)

File Transfer // Meeting Scheduler //Recording & Playback

Whiteboard // Back Monitor //

Copy/Paste/Email Meeting Info

Voice Conferencing service available

Instant Screen Buildup // 256-Bit AES Encryption

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Evolution Question: Mike Huckabee Responds

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:06:33 GMT

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I wish I had not been swayed by the mass media about Huckabee. What I have seen of him on his show on FOX and here in this presidential debate clip inspires me to believe: There are men of principle who are able lead, stand up, and still have a respectful manner. I hope you can interview him someday.

Click here to play video : Mike Huckabee responds to evolution question

In the third debate hosted by CNN, Mike Huckabee responded with great eloquence about his stand on creation, evolution, and God's role in that process. Visit Mike Huckabee's web site at http://www.MikeHuckabee.com Huckabee Hound blog at http://huckabeehound.blogspot.com

Today is Darwin - Academic Freedom Day. Celebrate Discovery Institute and Play Video of Huckabee Response to evolution question at Pres. Debate

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MSNBC In God We Trust NOT

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:28:38 GMT

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It appears that Dec. 7th was the time for the poll and they may have revived it again. Go there and vote. Approximately 9.3 million voted to keep "In God We Trust" from among 11+ Million who voted. Way to go team. Now, Click Here and Vote.

At our left is the first coin minted with, "In God We Trust". An 1864 two cent piece.

Recently I read Stephen Prothero's Book, Religious Literacy. Reading, I was amazed to discover that the separation of church and state reached a defining moment when the Catholics and Protestants were quarreling over the right to put books, they approved of, in parochial school during the late 1800's. In response to a Catholic complaint about the matter, the American judicial system chiseled out a 'separation of church and state' stance that is now being used by some, to attempt to drive 'God' out of the American Milieu or 'Blood'. This is wrong . . .

Because of the Mayflower Compact,

Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern Parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

. . . the Declaration of independence

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

and much much more . . .

America is great because of its choice to recognize the creator as the source of live and the freedom to pursue happiness; not government, a political party or person.

This is the blood of America, created by the blood, sweat and tears of our founders and of man's journey of discovery through history. Anyone, of any faith, of any race who embraces the spirit and heart of these words is an American.

Now for the MSNBC survey . . .

Live Vote

Should the motto "In God We Trust" be removed from U.S. currency?

Yes. It's a violation of the principle of separation of church and state.

No. The motto has historical and patriotic significance and does nothing to establish a state religion.

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Yes. It's a violation of the principle of separation of church and state.
15%

No. The motto has historical and patriotic significance and does nothing to establish a state religion.
85%

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Mother of All Snakes Not Pelosi

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 23:50:43 GMT

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Al Gore is heavily invested to insure everyone is aware of man burning up the planet; Global Warming. Now a big 43 ft. snake is making Global Warming harder to swallow. Glen Beck has done a masterful job of taking this new finding of a 43 ft. cold blooded ‘Mother of All Snakes” which needed a 6 to 8 degree hotter climate than we have now have . . . just to survive. Here, let Glenn tell you like it is.

. . . Scientists today have made another discovery. It was the mother of all snakes. A nightmarish behemoth as long as a school bus, as heavy as a Volkswagen Beetle that ruled the ancient Amazonian rainforest for two million years before slithering into nonexistence. Now this monster which weighed in at 2500 pounds has resurfaced in fossils taken from an open pit coal mine in Colombia. A startling example of growth gone wild. We should have -- why are we disrupting this snake seminary to dig for coal? The snake is estimated at 43 feet long. That is the size of the largest T-Rex that scientists currently know of. "This is amazing. It challenges everything we know about how big a snake can be," says herpetologist -- hang on, side note here, your Honor. Did you ever introduce yourself as a herpetologist? Spelled herpetologist? "So what do you do for a living?" "I'm a herpetologist." Okay, thanks. I've got to go wash my hands. So he's a herpetologist and also a Holocaust denier obviously. Jack Conrad of the American Museum of Natural History who is apparently denying that science on snakes has been settled a long time ago. Scientists identified hundreds of specimens that have been dug from the mine including the largest freshwater turtle ever known and beautifully preserved skeletons of an extinct species of crocodile known to have been in South America but never seen there before. Wow, finally science is back in her rightful place, huh? The fact that they had no idea these crocodiles were ever there is just proof that they really did know that they had always been there. You know, you read your Bible, you don't understand. The find not only sheds new light on snake evolution but it also provides telling insights on climate. Wait a minute. Insights on climate? Hello, Mr. Flat earther, there are no insights left on climate. The debate is over; the science is settled. The snake flourished about 58 million to 60 million years ago, because it was cold-blooded. The tropical climate was 6 to 8 degrees warmer than it is today. Hold it just a second. The climate was 6 to 8 degrees warmer? What? I thought nine out of the ten warmest years have all been within the last six months. Isn't that what Al Gore said, something like that? Or maybe it's 99% of the warmest 100 minutes have all been within the last 120 seconds. I have the ice core some place. I don't know exactly, but I do know my 12-year-old understands this so much better than I do. I still can't get past this. The tropical climate had to be 6 to 8 degrees warmer than it is today for a snake that large to survive. What Holocaust denier came up with that kind of information? Hello, Dick Cheney. That wasn't Dick Cheney. It was actually evolutionary biologist Jason Head of the University of Toronto. "This sheds some light on the current theories about what happens at the equator during periodic bouts of natural global warming." Wait a minute. University of -- evolutionary biologist Jason Head of the University of Toronto: What happens at the equator during periodic bouts of natural global warming? Natural global warming? Impossible! Oh, and I'm sure the Jews weren't burned by the Nazis! "One school of thought" -- quoting -- "one school of thought holds that temperatures at the equator are buffered, staying relatively constant while more northern and southern latitudes heat up." Schools of thought? The debate is over, scientists. Stop thinking! But really, seriously what do the Holocaust deniers (non global warmer types) believe happened to the snake? I mean, remember it had to be 6 to 8 degrees warmer than it was now just to survive. Researchers now believe -- quoting from the article -- that the climate got even hotter, hastening. Wait a minute. So temperatures have never been warmer than they are today except when they're 6 to 8 degrees warmer and when they're warmer than that. But this one degree of warming that we're dealing with now definitely going to set the Earth on fire. By the way, the 1 degree of warming that we really don't have now because it's been going down in temperature for the last few years. Oh, my gosh, see, this is why we win awards in science on this program. Because you flat earthers probably don't -- you know, you don't think in the scientific way. I just realized these scientists had to be paid by big oil, big tobacco and big snake, you know? Come up with a fake study that they won't even have peer review. By the way, you can read this paper in that hard core right-wing blog known as Nature.

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Rush's Bipartisan Stimulus Plan

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:51:44 GMT

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You've heard that Rush said, " . . . I hope he fails . . ." about President Obama. Get to the bottom of this with some bipartisan digging into the details. . . . Here's a good place to start . . . From an interview on CNBC on 1/29/09.

BURNETT: Bottom line, Rush. You're saying as an individual, you hope Barack Obama succeeds, right? He's your president, too?
RUSH: Yeah. I want him to succeed in bringing the country around, but the policies he's announced are not going to do it. I want the policies to fail; I want America to succeed. I love the country.

and

RUSH: I think this stimulus plan IS about re-FDRing America, the New New Deal, and as a conservative I want liberalism to fail. I want the country to succeed, and that's what I meant, and that's what I said over and over again. You've gotta stop reading these left-wing liberal sites that take me out of context.

Read the Background Material...

• Wall Street Journal: My Bipartisan Stimulus - Rush Limbaugh

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Rush Discusses His Bipartisan Stimulus Plan on CNBC

January 29, 2009

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BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

ERIN BURNETT: The fear is that Washington's new spirit of cooperation is already gone. Now, sit down. Prepare yourself. You see this, "My Bipartisan Stimulus"? This was written by Rush Limbaugh making a bid to keep bipartisanship alive. That's the op-ed he wrote this morning. He joins us on the news line. Rush, a lot of people are skeptical with a headline from you: "My Bipartisan Stimulus."
RUSH: Why skeptical? I'm just trying to build bridges and roads to the administration for genuine bipartisanship and cooperation and fairness. The president says that he still wants to work with Republicans.
MARK HAINES: (snorting)
RUSH: Here I am. We can work together and do what's best for the American people.
BURNETT: And you call --
HAINES: (interrupting) I -- I -- I'm sorry, but, ah, wait a minute! A week after the inauguration you said you hope he fails. Are -- are you now admitting that that was a stupid and mean-spirited thing to say?
RUSH: No, it was an accurate thing to say. It was an honest thing to say, and it came --
HAINES: Then how is that bipartisan!
RUSH: Well, if you'll let me explain...
HAINES: (snorts) Well, so far you haven't.
RUSH: (laughing) You're being contentious with no reason. It came after a thorough explanation of my belief that liberalism, which is what Obama represents --
HAINES: Aw jeeeeez!
RUSH: -- destroys the free market, destroys capitalism. I think this stimulus plan with about re-FDRing America, the New New Deal, and as a conservative I want liberalism to fail. I want the country to succeed, and that's what I meant, and that's what I said over and over again. You've gotta stop reading these left-wing liberal sites that take me out of context.
HAINES: I -- I -- I just listen to you, Rush. I don't read anybody! I listen to you, and what I hear is hypocrisy.
RUSH: You hear hypocrisy?
HAINES: Yeah! I hear hypocrisy. You're saying in this -- in this piece, you say, uh, you know, "our economy doesn't know the difference...this is about jobs now...leave politics aside," and yet the first thing out of your mouth is politics! About liberal and conservative, Republican and Democrat!
RUSH: Exactly. But I am trying to show this. You know, this vote that happened in the House yesterday is actually a failure. The bipartisan vote was the defeat: 11 Democrats joining Republicans. The partisan vote was all Democrats. This is going to have trouble. You know, he wants Republicans on the bill, Mark, because he knows this isn't gonna work. He wants Republicans so that he has cover so that they can't run for reelection saying they opposed this debacle. I'm trying to propose something here that will work with the best interests of the country at heart.
HAINES: (clearing throat)
RUSH: How can that possibly be hypocritical?
BURNETT: All right. Rush, let me just get in. I want to give people a chance to understand your plan. You're calling it the Obama-Limbaugh plan, and you took the vote that the country voted for Obama, who voted for him and who didn't, and that's how you broke it down, right?
RUSH: Yeah.
BURNETT: So his share of it goes to spending, and the other share goes to tax cuts, right?
RUSH: Exactly, and he gets to choose how he wants to spend it with the Democrats on Capitol Hill, and the Republicans and me get to determine the tax cuts.
BURNETT: And you're going to cut the corporate tax rate in half, right?

RUSH: Precisely, and we'll suspend the capital gains tax to incentivize new investment for a full year and then reestablish and re-implement it at 10% -- and probably some tax cuts in the area of real estate, too. That's an area that needs to come back. See, I don't... Obama said yesterday -- I don't know if you guys were still on the air or not, but he had a meeting at the White House with the CEOs, and he came out and he sounded like Ronald Reagan. He was talking about how it's the people who make the country work; it's the people out there who are going to revive the economy. And twenty days ago, he said government is the only entity -- there's your hypocrisy, Mark -- that can revive this economy. Yesterday what he said is exactly right, and I totally support that when he sounds like Ronald Reagan.
BURNETT: So, Rush, it sounds like what you're saying, 'cause -- and Mark's picking up on something, as you know, that got a lot of coverage -- that you said, "I would be honored if I was headlined all day long 'Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails.'" What you meant to say there was, "I hope liberalism fails, and if he is going to emblematic of that, I hope he fails."
RUSH: Yeah. Yeah.
BURNETT: But as Obama, you're not trying to hope he fails, right?
RUSH: No, I support the president. I just don't support his policies.
HAINES: (snickering)
RUSH: Erin, I said --
BURNETT: Yes, Rush?
RUSH: I said that on purpose, because everybody was falling in line behind this plan like a bunch of lemmings, and the media wasn't even examining the specifics. Somebody had to get somebody's attention on this, 'cause it's a debacle.
HAINES: Here's -- here's -- here's something I find interesting, Rush. Ah, you -- you talk about the vote being roughly -- you know, you -- you do a little fiddling to -- to even up -- the vote was roughly 54-46 in favor of, uh, Obama, so therefore divide the stimulus plan 54-46. I -- I find that a -- a refreshing breath of air from you because when the vote was 51-49 in favor of Republicans, I don't remember you being this concerned about bipartisanship.
RUSH: I think bipartisanship's a joke, as it's defined. Bipartisanship --
BURNETT: (laughing)
HAINES: (shouting) I don't remember you proposing that any program be split reflecting that vote!
RUSH: We've got limited seconds here, and I want to get to this answer. Bipartisanship, as it's defined in Washington, is Republicans caving to what Democrats want. That's what bipartisanship is; that's what they wanted yesterday. My column in the Journal today is truly bipartisan; and I'm willing, if that's the definition of it, full speed ahead for bipartisanship.
BURNETT: Bottom line, Rush. You're saying as an individual, you hope Barack Obama succeeds, right? He's your president, too?
RUSH: Yeah. I want him to succeed in bringing the country around, but the policies he's announced are not going to do it. I want the policies to fail; I want America to succeed. I love the country.
BURNETT: Thank you very much, Rush Limbaugh.
RUSH: It's an honor.
BURNETT: A lot of people saying your bipartisanship here, this plan makes some sense. Mark, there's some things in this plan that make a lot of sense, that corporate tax cut.
HAINES: Oh, yeah.
BURNETT: Yeah.

END TRANSCRIPT

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From Soup to Nuts

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:52:32 GMT

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Most of you may be familiar with a proof given for the evolution of life which goes like this . . . lighting, primordial atmospheric gases, lightning, heat, water, etc. finally producing living organisms and eventually man. Therefore the title.

An experiment by Miller-Urey set out to prove just that. Hence the name: Miller-Urey Experiment. However, problems have been found with the value of this experiment in proving the evolutionary advent of life. So new versions of the Miller-Urey experiment have arisen. However, are these problems for proving the evolutionary origin of life resolved simply by tweaking the Miller-Urey experiment?

Here is an episode from Intelligent Design The Future which may shed some light on the dilemma. Hint: Be sure to refresh your understanding of 'reduction' . Click this link to check it out:
Rehabilitating the Miller-Urey Experiment?

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Pebble Bed Reactor and Will Atlas Shrug Again

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:45:08 GMT

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I'm reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand for the first time. I just finished chapter 7 and parallels of people, movements, laws, movements and inventions are popping out everywhere.

I find the Pebble Bed Reactor to be an excellent work of technology which is just right for supplying a healthy world's growing energy needs. Will the Al Gore (Orren Boyle)- Nobel - Green Peace -Earthlife Africa types prevail over healthy growth, development and social commerce? Will the Pebble Reactor become like the 'Rearden Steel' of Atlas Shrugged?

Ayn Rand had begun adapting Atlas Shrugged as a television miniseries in 1981, but the project was never completed. She died in 1982. This project should be revived and completed.

Read this book. Then, listen to the news, read the papers and listen to our politicians talk. Addendum: I do not recommend this or blog to the Lilian Rearden types, it will only annoy you. As for me, I am a 60+ 'wet nurse' sharing my awakening experiences with you, the reader. Enjoy. Now . . . to the reactor.

Graphite Pebble for Reactor : Wikipedia Source (The Rearden Steel Part)

The pebble bed reactor (PBR) is a graphite-moderated, gas-cooled, nuclear reactor. It is a type of Very high temperature reactor (VHTR) [formally known as the high temperature gas reactor

(HTGR)], one of the six classes of nuclear reactors in the Generation IV initiative. Like other VHTR designs, the PBR uses TRISO fuel particles, which allows for high outlet temperatures and passive safety.

The base of the PBR's unique design is the spherical fuel elements called "pebbles". These tennis ball-sized pebbles are made of

pyrolytic graphite (which acts as the moderator), and they contain thousands of micro fuel particles called TRISO particles. These TRISO fuel particles consist of a fissile material (such as ²³⁵U) surrounded by a coated ceramic layer of SiC for structural integrity. In the PBR, 360,000 pebbles are placed together to create a reactor, and is cooled by an inert or semi-inert gas such as helium, nitrogen or carbon dioxide. Also, the gases do not dissolve contaminants or absorb neutrons as water does, so the core has less in the way of radioactive fluids.

A rendered diagram of a pebble bed reactor plant layout. This type of reactor is also unique because its passive safety removes the need for redundant, active safety systems. Because the reactor is designed to handle high temperatures, it can cool by natural circulation and still remain intact in accident scenarios, which may raise the temperature of the reactor to 1600 ^oC. Also because of its design, its high temperatures allow higher thermal efficiencies than possible in traditional nuclear power plants (up to 50%).

A number of prototypes have been built. Active development is ongoing in South Africa as the PBMR design, and in China whose HTR-10 is the only prototype currently operating.

The Atlas Shrugged Part . . .

The technology was first developed in Germany^[1] but political and economic decisions were made to abandon the technology.^[2] In various forms, it is currently under development by MIT, the South African company PBMR, General Atomics (U.S.), the Dutch company Romawa B.V., Adams Atomic Engines [1], Idaho National Laboratory, and the Chinese company Huaneng ^[3].

In June 2004, it was announced that a new PBMR would be built at Koeberg, South Africa by Eskom, the government-owned electrical utility.^[4] There is opposition to the PBMR from groups such as Koeberg Alert and Earthlife Africa, the latter of which has sued Eskom to stop development of the project.^[5]

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HUBLESS WINDMILL

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:17:41 GMT

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My friend David Ang turned me on to this new patent. Great idea. Could even put this on the base supports of all those existing windfarm generators already out there. Here's a map for all you entrepreneurs out there.

HUBLESS WINDMILL

Abstract:

Systems, apparatus and methods for generating power from fluid motion, such as wind are provided. The apparatus is a wing-shaped airfoil with cup-shaped indentations that allow the airfoil to harness wind energy throughout a wide range of wind speeds and from different wind directions. The indentations harness wind energy at low wind speeds while the wing-shape generates a lifting force at high wind speeds to harness wind energy. The system comprises one or more of the devices configured in a hollow, generally cylindrical, shape and connected to a ring frame. The system rotates about an axis running through the center of the ring frame. The rotational motion of the system generates electrical power via a generator. The method is a method for generating electrical power from the rotational motion of the system.

(WO/2008/109784) HUBLESS WINDMILL

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Why

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:41:12 GMT

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On a quiet 1970's fall day, near a lazy sloping hill's crest, I stood with an easel explaining how we recognize that life, specified complexity, is the result of intelligent design (I borrow the phrase because it works well). All morning as groups of students waited for the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute bus and departed. This received as much recognition as a billboard ad with no pictures. At lunchtime, the bus stop became quiet and deserted.

Quietly, I considered the possibility of more frustration when the students returned. My dark mood was reinforced by the cigarette butts, coke cans and more discards littering the bus stop's unloved, dusty ground.

EUREKA! I would make my point, without words.

A scraggly branch was modified to become a boom-like rake. I cleaned the ground until it was pristine and uniform. Stray rocks were brushed to reveal their original finish. Standing back I studied the scene and positioned them in reference to where the bus would stop and where passengers exit. I began tracing rhythmic, resonant lines around the rocks. Time flew. I was having fun as I thought of what might happen when the students arrived. Just beyond the hill's crest the sound of the approaching bus grew louder and I moved out of sight.

The bus arrived. Students left the bus. They hesitating for a moment, the students continued their trek. I smiled. These students proved the point I was trying to make earlier. They avoided the ground etchings as they continued to their destination. Finally, the last student left the bus. He stopped and considered the ground for several moments, and, finally, I emerged from behind the bush. He recognized me from earlier in the day and asked, "Why?"

I smiled and explained. “I wanted to prove we can recognize that life is not an accident, without a lot of words. Life, existence, all of this” – I motioned all around us -- “is the result of a designer, God, whatever you want to call the creator of all this. I created these patterns in the dust. You noticed and responded. The creator has caused everything we see to take form and in some cases to live. We are learning to be response-able. The first step is to ask, “Why?”

David Belfort

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Intelligence Expelled

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:19:49 GMT

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In the middle of "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed," Ben Stein's movie about the assault on Intelligent Design by the intellectual "gatekeepers" in the nation, a prominent evolutionist tries to explain just how mud might have turned into the first cell.

"One popular theory is that it might have started on the back of crystals," says Michael Ruse.

I laughed out loud, but Stein, unflappable, keeps a poker face.

"I don't get," he deadpans, "how you get from mud to a living organism."

"I've already told you," Ruse continues, apparently unaware of just how silly he sounds.

Such is one of the telling moments in the movie, which came out last year, and is now available in video stores.

As the second half of the school year is starting across New Jersey and the nation, it is worth visiting this movie just to see one perspective on how the battle of evolution versus intelligent design is being waged.

(It also serves as a lead-in to some of the fun we're going to have on this blog debating that issue.)

Ben Stein makes three telling points:

George Berkin has done a great job on his blog Intelligent Design. Click below to read the rest of this excellent post

Ben Stein Movie: "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed" - NJVoices: George Berkin

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Celebrating One Family Under God

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 02:39:26 GMT

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Merry Christmas ,

Brothers and Sisters.

Something very special is remembered at this time.

The genealogy of Jesus the Christ shows that Mary, Tamar and others, made a breakthrough for Human History. These women made great effort, at the risk of their lives, to stand with God's will providing for the pure lineage of Jesus.

Jesus called God, "Father". When he taught us to pray, he said, Our Father . . .

His birth and life opened the way for us to live as brothers and sisters.

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