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The plans to create a mind controlled workers society have been in place for a long time. The current technology grew out of experiments that the Nazis started before World War II and intensified during the time of the Nazi concentration camps when an unlimited supply of children and adults were available for experimentation. We've heard about the inhumane medical experiments performed on concentration camp prisoners, but no word was ever mentioned by the media and the TV documentaries of the mind control experiments.
The earliest adolescent victims of Montauk style programming, so called Montauk Boys, were programmed using trauma-based techniques, but that method was eventually abandoned in favor of an all-electronic induction process which could be "installed" in a matter of days (or even hours) instead of the many years that it took to complete trauma-based methods.
Tens of thousands of young teenage boys were kidnapped and forced into the mind control training program called The Montauk Project starting around 1976. Al Bielek, under mind control, was involved in many areas of the secret Montauk Project. After slowly recovering his memories beginning in the late 1980's, he came to realize that there were at least 250,000 mind controlled "Montauk Boys' produced at 25 different facilities similar to the underground base at Montauk, Long Island. Many of these boys were to become 'sleepers' who are individuals who were programmed to go into action at a later date when properly "triggered" to engage in some sort of destructive or disruptive conduct.
Worldwide Electronic Mind Control via 'Cell Phone' Towers
The day is now approaching in which government mind control technologies will be directed at you, your neighbors, and your loved ones. Every single day, equipment is being erected and installed in this country with the hidden purpose of exerting mind control over the entire population. Everywhere in this country (and overseas), ELF/microwave transmission towers are being erected. The antennae usually look like four slightly curved vertical plates about 2 feet in length and located in either 3 or 4 quadrants around the tower, two thirds up from the ground. Just look around, you'll see them. And you'll also notice more of them going up once you begin to pay attention. No one is saying anything, but you're expected to presume that they're for cell phones. (Do you really think that we need that much 'cell phone' transmission capability, every few blocks? Do you realize how very little energy is used by genuine cell phone usage? Yet these towers are capable of putting out levels of power that exceed cell phone requirements by a wide margin)
It's not an accident that the frequency band chosen for cell phone use just happens to match the second order waves that Wilhelm Reich discovered in the late1940's to effect thought transmission and allow the mind to be manipulated without the victim realizing it.
Originally posted by jaamaan
Did you ever see the movie "they live", i think that is the best visual example of this possible technology.
The website that started this idea for me 10 years ago
Strange site, but strange doesnt mean wrong, right ?
Reported Symptoms
1. Microwave hearing
2. Transmission of specific commands into the subconscious
3. Visual disturbances, visual hallucinations
4. Inject words, numbers into brain via electromagnetic radiation waves
5. Manipulation of emotions
6. Reading thoughts remotely
7. Causing pain to any nerve of the body.
8. Remote manipulation of human behavior from space
9. Harassment, stress symptoms such as helicopters flying overhead
10. Seeing, as in a camera, through your eyes, i.e. to see what you see exactly
11. Control of sleep patterns.
12. Computer-brain interface, control and communication
13. Complex control of the brain such as retrieving memories, implanting personalities
"Pioneered by the government-funded Department of Psycho-Correction at the Moscow Medical Academy, acoustic psycho-correction involves the transmission of specific commands via static or whitenoise bands into the human subconscious without upsetting other intellectual functions. Experts said laboratory demonstrations have shown encouraging results after exposure of less than one minute."
5. Manipulation of emotions
Published Evidence
A. Ultrascience, Weapons of War, The Learning Channel, 1997, Featured Dr. Michael Persinger, Laurentian University, Canada. Dr. Persinger described weapons using "psycho or influence technology" and electromagnetic radiation frequencies to control what people think, for psychological warfare purposes.
The BT phone network has the potential to be used for docilisation of the UK public. A 30-40 MHz signal is carried by the phone. When the earpiece is placed against the head, bone conduction carries the ELF component into the brain of the phone user. A ELF signal which can effect behaviour or health is therefore passed into all BT phone users. It appears from experts I have consulted on the subject that the digital phones have been designed to carry this mind control carrier frequency. Vodaphone have supplied a mobile phone to a friend of mine that pumps out an 847 MHz signal at over 100 mW/cm2, this is equivalent to 4x100 watt lightbulbs being turned on in the body of the user. This means that mobile phones can potentially be used to kill or so disable a person they no longer become a problem to the establishment. Another Vodaphone tested pumped out 50 mW/cm2. UK safe levels for microwave ovens are 5 mW/cm2 - which are not held near the head. There are reports by military researchers that 1 mW/cm2 will cause swelling of nerve cells exposed to microwave.
According to a US scientist, Dr Andrija Puharich, MD, the soviet pulses covered the human brain frequencies. With a Dr Bob Beck, he proved that the Soviet transmissions were a weapon. He found that a 6.65 Hz frequency would cause depression and an 11Hz frequency would cause manic and riotous behaviour.
Transmissions could indeed entrain the human brain, and thereby induce behavioural modification such that populations can be mind controlled en masse by ELF transmissions. More importantly, he found that an ELF signal could cause cancer at the flick of a switch. It did this by modifying the function of RNA transference's so that amino acid sequences are scrambled and produce unnatural proteins.
Heating effect of tissues with the speed of light is a known effect of
high power microwave and electromagnetic pulse weapons.
According to Navy studies they also cause fatigue states, depression,
insomnia, aggressiveness, long and especially short term memory loss,
short catatonic states, cataracts, leukemia, cancer, heart attacks,
brain tumors and so forth.
Alteration of behavior and attitudes hs been demonstrated as well.
Dr. Ross Adey has found out that by using 0.75 milliwatts per square
centimeter intensity of pulse modulated microwave at a frequency of
450 MHz it is possible to control ALL aspects of human behaviour!


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These pictures show why publishers fear a change to the distribution system of newspapers and magazines. They illustrate the stark difference in attitude towards the sale of papers by traditional retailers compared with supermarkets.
On two consecutive Saturday mornings, I visited three branches of Tesco and two newsagents, all within walking distance of each other on Fulham Road in London. The visits produced exactly the same results: no papers were properly available at the Tesco outlets until after 8am while, well before 7am, papers were neatly stacked and ready for sale at the two newsagents' shops.
On the second Saturday, I kept a detailed record. In my initial trawl, starting at 7am in the largest of the Tesco stores at No 459, there was no trace of any papers. It is a 24-hour store with a petrol station and attracts thousands of customers. At 7.10, in the Tesco Express at No 248, the bundles were still wrapped in plastic and tied up. At 7.15, in the third Fulham Road Tesco branch at No 182, there was no sign of the newspapers so I asked one of the staff. "They're not ready", he said cryptically, as if they were being "prepared" like fast food somewhere out of sight.
Empty shelves
Five minutes later, I was telling my story to the newsagent at No 200, Pankaj Amin. His papers had been unwrapped, collated and stacked for hours. "What do you expect", he said. "Tesco is for groceries. They've no clue about the importance of papers. Look how they treat the supplements." Amin, who has run his specialist newspaper shop, Fulham News, for 18 years, arrives at 4.30am to check the deliveries from the wholesaler. He rarely leaves before 8pm.
Across the road at No 369, next to Chelsea and Westminster hospital, is a larger newsagents with a sub-post office run by NT Patel. At 7.20am, its shelves were neatly stacked with the papers, and customers were coming in to buy copies.
Back at the first branch of Tesco about 10 minutes later, with the shelves still empty, several people were clearly frustrated that they could not buy papers. An assistant shrugged when asked where they were. One customer, Richard Compton-Miller, a freelance journalist and former Daily Express diary columnist, was furious. "I've got my cereal but no papers so I'm mega pissed off", he said.
He would not have had any luck at the second Tesco branch. At 7.45am, we found a member of staff beginning to cut open the bundles but she was also required to serve, so she had to stop the task every couple of minutes. With uncollated papers strewn about the floor, some customers helped themselves but then realised that magazines and other sections had yet to be inserted. One man tried to break open a bundle himself.
Ten minutes later, at the third Tesco branch, staff explained that the papers had "just arrived". One assistant had been delegated to unwrap the bundles but the shelves remained empty. "They just get later and later", said one assistant as another nodded in agreement.
We returned to the first Tesco branch at 8.10am to find a member of staff untying bundles and inserting supplements. Some titles had been placed on the shelves, though a copy of the Daily Telegraph did not contain a magazine and there were no inserts in the Sun and Daily Mirror. When I called the manager on Monday to ask him why the papers were so late in being put on sale he explained that the person who normally did the job had called in sick that morning. I pointed out that it happened on the previous Saturday, too, and he could find no explanation for that.
What did Tesco have to say about the state of affairs at its three branches? A spokesman said: "I'm surprised at all this. It's clear that guidelines issued by the company to its store managers have not been followed. It is our policy to have newspapers available for sale no later than 7am every morning. We do not believe this to be a widespread situation. These are isolated cases though it is strange that it occurred in three adjacent branches."
He said that Tesco would investigate what had happened and correct the mistakes. After an initial inquiry he claimed that in the case of the third Tesco branch, the papers had been delivered late by the wholesaler, but conceded that that did not excuse the failures at the other two stores. He denied that Tesco was treating newspapers in a cavalier fashion because they were just an add-on to their main grocery business. "We are a convenience retailer," he said, "and we regard it as important for us to ensure that our customers can buy all that they want and need when entering our stores. We take the sale of newspapers very seriously. They are an important category."
Tesco outlets account for about 5% of the total newspaper sales, a relatively small market share but one that is likely to increase in future, especially if the current wholesale system is dismantled.
In a controversial consultation paper issued in May, the OFT decided that the distribution of newspapers and magazines should be treated differently. It was fine for wholesalers to continue with their regional monopolies to distribute newspapers but they must give up their rights to control magazine distribution.
The logic of the OFT argument is that papers have to be distributed overnight and it is in the public interest for them to arrive in any outlet that wants to stock them, as they do at present. But magazines are less time-sensitive and therefore wholesalers should not have a right to exclusive deals that lock out competitors.
Despite the way the OFT's view separates the two groups, newspaper publishers are supporting magazine publishers in their right to maintain the present distribution system. Press owners fear that if wholesalers lose their monopoly rights it will imperil the economics of the whole distribution system because newspapers and magazines are often delivered in the same vans.
Customer benefits
There is a further fear. Some newsagents and all publishers are concerned that giant retailers, especially supermarkets such as Tesco, will gain greater control over distribution. Tesco is a member of the British Retail Consortium (BRC) which welcomed the OFT's proposal to change the rules over magazine distribution. In commending the opinion, BRC's director general Kevin Hawkins argues that changes in the supply chain will "bring about benefits for consumers" and prove "positive for retailers".
The OFT's final opinion was expected last week but an OFT spokeswoman said it had been delayed for further consideration A new chairman and new chief executive started work at the OFT last week and it is possible that they may wish to look closely at a report that is bound to upset powerful interests whatever it says. Perhaps the OFT's new bosses might like to consider our pictures. It is, of course, only a snapshot. Tesco may be right to say that it is an isolated instance and a strange coincidence. But newsagents such as Mr Amin and Mr Patel, who fear that they are being squeezed out of business by supermarkets, believe they offer the public a better service.
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Adams County commissioners, tired of the phalanx of protesters that sometimes lines the entrance to the administration building in Brighton, have passed two resolutions changing the way the public is allowed to interact with them.
Commission chairwoman Eva Henry said the rules that prohibit protesters on county-owned property and in county buildings were drawn up because of a group trying to get a controversial stormwater fee repealed.
"It's the stormwater group," Henry said. "They were basically disrupting people trying to go in for other business. The last time they had a large group, it got to the point where it was too much."
The rules established a 945-square-foot free-speech area far from the main entrance to the Adams County Government Center and another at the county fairgrounds.
They also push demonstrators and petition gatherers from sidewalks and parking lots on county property.
External sidewalks — those along the streets — remain outside the county's control.
The county also enacted a fee to listen to recordings of the commissioner's study sessions, a minimum of $10.
The stormwater group Henry referred to is led, in part, by Gary Mikes, a Republican who ran for commissioner in November but lost to Henry, a Democrat.
The group protests the county's stormwater fee, saying it is a tax for which residents didn't vote, and has threatened litigation to fight it.
Stop Stormwater Utility Association president Stan Martin said his group has always remained peaceful and points out that most people who show up to protest are not members of the association.
"I find it very concerning and troubling the commissioners would target a specific group of individuals based on their opposing views and create public policy to limit their right to assemble and free speech," Martin said. "Regardless of your political or religious beliefs, all persons should have equal opportunity to be heard."
Colorado American Civil Liberties Union legal director Mark Silverstein said calling the protest zone a "free-speech area" is misleading.
"What they did is designate almost the entire property as no-speech or citizen-silencing zone," Silverstein said.
Weld and Arapahoe counties do not have policies governing demonstrators or petitioners in or near their buildings.
In Jefferson County, demonstrators, signs and petitions are not prohibited, but groups must be far enough away from doors that people can still go in and out of the building.
The second resolution passed by the commissioners requires people to pay to listen to study session audio recordings. The resolution also limits public testimony at public hearings to 30 minutes. People who still want to speak after time is called must wait until the end of the board meeting to speak.
The resolutions were passed May 20 without discussion and with only Henry and Commissioner Chaz Tedesco, also a Democrat, present. Commissioner Erik Hansen, a Republican, was absent.
"The reason we had to do that is, once again, the stormwater group," Henry said. "They were coming in and taking 45 minutes to an hour to talk about the stormwater fee."
Henry said that business people who hire lawyers and consultants to attend land-use hearings were having to pay more while they waited for the long public hearings to end.
In other changes that Henry called historic, the board on Wednesday held its first evening meeting, responding to complaints that many people interested in issues could not attend meetings traditionally held Monday and Wednesday mornings.
Planning commission and board of adjustment meetings also are now held in the evenings, and the board will hold some meetings outside the government center to reach people who can't travel.
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This article has been corrected in this online archive. Audio recordings for study sessions have never been archived on the county website.


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Despite the "green" movement that has taken over the country in the last few years, more than 80 percent of the world's energy supply still comes from fossil fuels. Solar panels and wind turbines haven't been able to make much of a dent in coal and petroleum's dominance. But a new two-part study published in the journal Energy Policy (part 1, part 2) claims it's possible and affordable for the world to achieve 100 percent renewable energy by 2030.
The renewable sources of energy the researchers' calculations focused on included wind power, solar power, waves and geothermal energy, even as some question if solar power is worth the expense. According to PhysOrg, achieving 100 percent clean energy would require building about 4 million 5-megawatt wind turbines, 1.7 billion 3-kilowatt roof-mounted solar photovoltaic systems, and around 90,000 300-megawatt solar power plants.
This study is the work of Mark Delucchi of the University of California, Davis, and Mark Jacobson at Stanford University.
The study's authors made some optimistic predictions that would be necessary for the world's energy supply to be completely dependent on renewable energy by 2030. For instance, the wind turbines (all 4 million of them, and not just the ones offshore) would need to have two to three times the capacity most of them have. But a handful of countries already have 5 MW turbines in operation, the size that is required in this study to make renewable energy dependence feasible.
With so many new Republicans on Capitol Hill who don't believe in the science of climate change (which will continue until the year 3000), not to mention many members of the public, it may be a challenge to achieve such a task and get off fossil fuels.
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Mets News and Notes:
D'Arnaud cleared
Travis d'Arnaud was cleared Thursday to begin baseball activities including running, throwing and hitting in a cage. The go-ahead came nine days after d'Arnaud suffered a concussion as the result of getting struck on the top of the head by Alfonso Soriano's backswing in the Bronx.
D'Arnaud still may be several days away from returning to the lineup. Terry Collins mentioned he would like d'Arnaud to get at-bats on a rehab assignment. Physicians will need to sign off before any game activity occurs.
D'Arnaud said he was symptom-free for the first time Wednesday. Previously, he was dealing with "a lot of headaches," sensitivity to light and sound, and trouble sleeping.
D'Arnaud indicated he has now suffered three concussions during his professional career. One came on April 25, 2011, while he was playing in Double-A with the Toronto Blue Jays, when he was struck with consecutive foul balls and immediately became dizzy. He departed that game an inning later. The other came in 2008 on a play at the plate as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies, when he took a foot to the face after discarding his mask.
Mejia Clears Hurdle
Jenrry Mejia cleared a psychological hurdle Thursday while notching his second career save.
Mejia worked back-to-back days for the first time since June 5-6, 2010 while completing the Mets' 5-3 win against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Mejia has been leery about working on consecutive days because he feels the injury woes he suffered earlier in his career were linked to a bullpen-type workload rather than the consistency of starting.
Mejia is warming to closing, even though he staunchly has said he prefers starting.
Mejia's light workload Wednesday -- eight pitches in a scoreless inning -- proved a perfect opportunity to get the emerging closer work for a second straight day.
Gee Rehab Start
Dillon Gee hopes to limit his absence to three turns in the rotation before returning from a strained lat muscle.
If that is to materialize, Gee will need to be in a rehab game no later than Sunday (if he's replacing Rafael Montero) or Monday (if he's placing Jacob deGrom). After all, those will be the third starts in the rotation for those rookies.
Gee threw again on flat ground at Citi Field on Thursday afternoon. The Mets plan to have Gee get on a mound for the first time since the injury on Friday.
It is unclear where Gee's rehab game would take place, but it is unlikely to be with Las Vegas because of the distance he would need to travel, a team official said.
Double-A Binghamton is home Sunday and Monday and may be the best bet. Class A St. Lucie is at Palm Beach on Sunday and off Monday.
The "Soup" will get playing time
Terry Collins got Eric Campbell's bat into the lineup Thursday by having the rookie start in left field.
Now, the manager is serious about using Campbell as a true utility player by having him see some action at second base and even shortstop.
"I'm going to play this guy in the middle of the infield one of these days, too, because if he can play there, he's got a chance to get a lot of at-bats," Collins said after the Mets' 5-3 win against the Los Angeles Dodgers. "Why not? If he's athletic enough to play there, we've got to find out. He played there in Vegas. He played second a lot of games. He played short twice. I'm not going to put him out there in the ninth -- but run him out there in a game that maybe is a little lopsided."
Campbell is a natural third baseman, who also learned first base and the outfield in the minors. In his minor-league career, he has appeared in left field in 168 games and right field in 42 games. That is not that inferior to his career minor-league time at third base (194 games) and first base (227 games).
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Chinese web titan Tencent (HKG:0700) has just put out its Q4 2013 earnings report. Amidst the financial figures is the one number everyone wants to see relating to WeChat – how many active users it has. According to the company, WeChat has now grown to 355 million monthly active users (MAUs). That's up from 271.9 million monthly users in Q3.
Tencent first started revealing WeChat MAUs at the beginning of 2013. Putting all the available figures in one chart, we see that the app's growth accelerated from Q3 to Q4, having previously slowed down from Q2 to Q3. Here is the messaging app's progress in the past year:
(See: Boosted by WeChat, China's mobile gaming market worth $590 million in Q3)
Everything still to play for
Since WeChat last revealed its MAUs, a lot has changed in the social messaging industry. WhatsApp is now owned by Facebook, and Viber was snapped up by Rakuten. WhatsApp has 465 million monthly active users (update: corrected that from 450 million), versus 100 million active on Viber.
It's still hard to observe which messaging apps dominate in each part of the world. It's complicated by a lack of per-country stats for each service, as well as by the fact that many apps – such as Japan-based Line – refuse to divulge active user figures and instead only say how many are registered.
Making the scene even murkier, most WeChat users are based in China. The last time Tencent spoke of its WeChat users outside of China (last August), the company revealed that it had 100 million registered. It's not clear if non-China users are driving WeChat's resurgent growth. Footballer Lionel Messi was recruited as the WeChat spokesman last year to help push the app across Europe, South America, and other football-mad countries with lots of prospective users, such as Indonesia.
It's not all plain sailing for WeChat in its home nation. Tencent's hottest app is currently facing a major threat to its mobile commerce ambitions in China as the nation reportedly draws up regulations that will set strict limits on online payments.
Our report on Tencent's financials and other data is here.
(Update: It's worth noting that Tencent has changed its math for calculating the combined MAUs of WeChat inside and outside of China. That's why the Q4 report says six percent growth from Q3 to Q4, while our chart shows 30 percent. The change in calculation is explained by Tencent in the following: "In view of the evolution of Weixin [app's name in Chinese] and WeChat from communications services to multi-functional platforms, we have revised the definition of combined MAU of Weixin and WeChat since the fourth quarter of 2013 to denote the total number of user accounts that sent out one or more messages via Weixin/WeChat or conducted other proactive operations on Weixin/WeChat, such as logging into Game Center or updating Moments, at least once during the last calendar month prior to the relevant date. Comparative figures have been restated to conform to the current period's presentation.")
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'Sherlock' wackiest, best yet
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If you're surprised that Sherlock Holmes isn't actually dead, the news that PBS is about to air three new episodes of "Sherlock" may be confusing.
Holmes, of course, did not die at the end of the last season, but you knew that. The show is simply too great to go away, and no one could ever play the contemporized version of Conan-Doyle's great sociopath/detective in "Sherlock" better than Benedict Cumberbatch. Yes, it's agonizing to wait so long for just three episodes, but, as with the first two seasons, the third is very much worth the wait.
In fact, this is the wackiest trio of "Sherlocks" ever. The first episode, "The Empty Hearse," premiering Sunday night, spends much of its 90 minutes dallying with Holmes' return, offering various scenarios of how he staged his death and delighting us with how his various friends and colleagues — John Watson (Martin Freeman), Mrs. Hudson (Una Stubbs) and Inspector Lestrade (Rupert Graves) — react to Holmes' "resurrection."
It's not really an exaggeration to say that all three new episodes have been lovingly crafted for the more obsessive fans of both the original Conan Doyle creation and the Cumberbatch update created by Steven Moffat ("Doctor Who") and Mark Gatiss, who plays Sherlock's brother Mycroft in the series.
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In the second episode, "The Sign of Three," the mystery almost feels like an afterthought to what could be called "The Sherlock Holmes Comedy Hour."
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Lest anyone think "Sherlock" has gone completely off the rails, the third new episode, "The Last Vow," airing Feb. 2, is a brain-numbing return (in a very good way) to form as Holmes faces a stupefying case about blackmail that's both high-level and very personal involving the monstrously villainous Charles Augustus Magnusen (Lars Mikkelsen, "Borgen").
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There are all sorts of health screenings on offer, providing various levels of checks, so make sure you choose the one that's right for youWITH THE kids back at school and summer holidays well and truly over – despite the late arrival of the sun – it might be an opportune time to get your health evaluated.
But what screening options are available and how much do they cost?
As a first step, you could consider availing of the various screening facilities that are available in pharmacies all around the State.
Given that pharmacies must now provide a private consultation room, stopping by can be a cost-effective way to get anything from a blood pressure check to a test for the menopause.
For example, at McCabes pharmacies, you can get simple tests such as cholesterol level check (€25); PSA check (€25 Dundrum); or glucose levels (€10).
In addition, the pharmacy has health screenings specific to men and women, with the cost ranging from €65-€100. It is currently offering a thyroid check for €10, down from the usual €30.
As a next step, you could make an appointment with your GP. Screenings here can include a consultation with the doctor, and a range of tests such as cholesterol and blood pressure and so on.
The advantage of seeing your own doctor for screening is that they will know your medical history. As one example, EHA offers screenings at GP practices around the State for €85.
If you feel as if your body could do with its own version of the NCT, then it might be worth considering investing in a comprehensive screening programme.
There are many different types and price ranges out there, so it is wise to do a bit of research before you part with your cash.
Charter Medical (€180-€495):This Dublin city health centre has a variety of screening options. Its most comprehensive, the Executive Screen, is carried out by a senior doctor and, as well as a full physical exam and lifestyle analysis, a number of tests are carried out. These include a comprehensive blood profile, urinalysis, hearing assessment, vision/glaucoma screening, ECG and, if necessary, a Dexa scan.
The Well, Beacon Clinic (€280-€495):Located beside Beacon Hospital in Sandyford, south Dublin, The Well offers several screening programmes, including corporate options and those specifically targeted at men and women.
Its cheapest option, the "silver medical", takes 75 minutes, and includes a range of tests such as blood pressure, heart rate, weight, height, BMI (body mass index) measurement; urinalysis; heart assessment (resting ECG); and an extensive blood screening.
It also includes a 30-minute consultation with a doctor.
The Mater Private (€510, or €670 including mammogram and Dexa scan):On Dublin's northside, the Mater Private's Healthcheck department offers a comprehensive screening programme which is fully integrated with the hospital. The screening process incorporates a detailed medical history, and lifestyle analysis, as well as a physical examination. Tests conducted include blood profile, kidney function, bone profile, ECG, chest X-ray and lipid profile.
Bon Secours (€420):Part of Cork's Bon Secours hospital, the health screening unit offers a comprehensive assessment by a doctor. The check involves a full physical examination, lifestyle evaluation and a range of tests such as diabetes and haematochromatosis and takes about three to four hours.
You can also opt for an additional nutritional screen and consultation with a clinical nutrionist/dietitian.
This will determine how healthy your diet is, and how it might be improved.
Specific screenings:With early detection vital in treating most illnesses, for many people, peace of mind means getting specific tests done in areas they are most concerned about.
So, in addition to the services offered under the aforementioned screening programmes, there are other tests available:
Mammogram:Although women between the ages of 50 and 64 are eligible for routine mammogram screenings under the National Breast Check Programme, others may want to avail of it or go private.
For those outside of this age group, or those unable or disinclined to wait for a screening in the public sector, such procedures can also be undertaken privately.
Irish Health Care is one group that offers this service – in the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin, as well as the Galway Clinic – for €180.
Mole mapping:Given that skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in Ireland – it is estimated that one in six people will develop it at some stage in their life – keeping an eye on your skin is very important.
In this regard, mole mapping can make it a lot more straightforward than looking in the mirror and trying to identify changes in your moles. At Kilkenny's Aut Even hospital this costs €200, while at Barrow Medical in Dublin 4, it is €99.
CT coronary angiogram:Available at the Beacon Clinic, this is used as an alternative to catheter angiography, and is a non-invasive procedure which produces images which give a 3D representation of the blood flowing through the coronary arteries and identifies hard and soft plaque, blockages or any narrowing of the arteries. It costs €650.
Finally, given the significant cost of many of the health screenings outlined, if you have private health insurance you may find that you are entitled to a partial reimbursement of the cost.
Aviva, for example, offers refunds of up to 33 per cent on health checks provided by Charter Medical Group. And remember that you can claim back the cost of your check against your tax, by submitting a Med 1 form to the Revenue Commissioners at the end of the tax year.
This will give you a 20 per cent discount on the total cost incurred to you, after you may have received any contribution from your insurer.
A NUMBER of free health checks are currently under way as part of The Irish Times/Pfizer Healthcare Kilkenny Healthy Towns project. The health checks include measurement of height, weight, body mass index, cholesterol, blood pressure and lifestyle.
Health checks are being held in the Newpark Resource Centre this evening from 7pm-9pm and tomorrow in the Fr McGrath Centre from 6pm-8pm. Health checks will also be conducted on Saturday, from midday to 5pm in the Town Hall, High Street. For details log on to irishtimes.com/healthytowns.


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A few years ago Rachael Gross wrote an article for Slate entitled: "Evolution is Finally Winning Out Over Creationism." She noted how few issues have divided Americans as bitterly as Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. She thought it was "woeful" that "the majority of people in Europe and in many other parts of the world accept evolution," while 4 in 10 adult Americans believe that humans have existed in their present form since the beginning of time. Evolutionary theory does not exist in a vacuum, she said. It is supported by findings in geology, paleontology, biomedicine, and other fields. "If we want to be a nation of politically and scientifically literate and informed people, then we have to teach good science—and that starts with evolution."
But we need to ask what kind of evolution and what kind of creationism she means. Is it evolution that occurred entirely through natural processes or did a supreme being use evolution to bring about and develop nature? There also should be a consistent distinction between individuals who hold that humans have existed in their present form since the beginning (PFB) from those who believe in evolution guided by a supreme being (ESB), and those who affirm humans evolved by natural processes (ENP). Gross also cited two polls in her discussion. Although each poll used a different construct to describe what they meant by "creationism," she did not point out the differences between them.
One poll was by Gallup and one was by the Pew Research Center. When Gross discussed changes since 2009 in the Pew surveys, the 2009 data can be found here. The Pew 2014 poll looking at evolution did not break down all the age groups by the three categories on origins. But it did report that US adults overall were as follows: 31% said humans existed in their present form from the beginning (PFB); 24% believed their evolution was guided by a supreme being (ESB); and 35% believed evolution occurred from a natural process (ENP). When looking at individuals between the ages of 18-29 in 2009 and 2014 from the Pew polls, on their views of human origins, we get the following data.
So there is evidence suggesting younger American adults are adjusting their position on human origins to the secular evolution position. But when Gross said that 73% of US adults under 30 believe in some kind of evolution, she combined believers in evolution through natural processes, or secular evolution, with those who believed in evolution through a supreme being. There is a significant philosophical gap between the action of a supreme being creating human beings, either through evolution or as fully formed individuals, and humans evolving through an entirely natural process without the action of a supreme being. See "Structure of an Evolutionary Revolution" on this website for more on this difference.
Within the Pew 2014 Religious Landscape Study, 73% of individuals between the ages of 18-29 were fairly certain or absolutely certain there was a God; another 8% believed in God, but were not too certain of that belief; and 19% did not believe in God or did not know if they believed in God. So there would seem to be a large portion of 18 to 29 year old individuals (perhaps 32%) who believed in God and who also believed in natural evolution. I don't think they should be referred to as necessarily gravitating towards secular evolution. If their belief in God holds, a category like deistic evolution would seem to better describe them. The category of individuals who believe God created through evolution, ESB, also has the potential to grow larger as views on human origins shift. It is not an inevitable transition to an entirely secular sense of evolution as the older group of people believing humans existed in their present form from the beginning die off.
The Gallup poll Rachel Gross mentioned added a further distinction to the humans created in their present form by adding that God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago. This position on human origins would be consistent with a group of Christian believers known as young earth creationists (YEC), which hold that all things were created within the 10,000-year timeframe. However, there is a necessary distinction between YEC and PFB—humans existed in their present form since the beginning—if the beginning of the heavens and earth was billions of years ago, and the creation of beginning of humans was significantly longer than 10,000 years ago. This position is what Denis Lamoureux and others have referred to as progressive creationism. See his web lectures in "Beyond the 'Evolution' vs. 'Creation' Debate," particularly "Views on the Origin of Universe & Life."
But an option consistent with a progressive creationist position of human origins was not offered in the Gallup poll—or in any other poll on human origins that I am aware of. The Gallup poll has been asking the same three-part question about human origins, given as follows, since 1982:
Which of the following statements comes closest to you views on the origin and development of human beings? 1) Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but god guided this process. 2) Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God has no part in this process. 3) God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so.
The Gallup and the Pew polls implicitly include the evolution—creation dichotomy in the structure of their questions. In both surveys there are two evolutionary positions and one creationist position. The Pew questions more accurately focused on the flash point issue of human evolution, while the Gallup poll collapses the age of the earth variable—held only by young earth creationists—into their creationist position. Not surprisingly, the percentages between the two polls show some differences. The following Gallup chart illustrates the results on the issue dating back to 1982.
As a result, a creation-evolution dichotomy is perpetuated. Arguing that Christians need to choose between science and religion has become entrenched in the dispute since the Scopes Trial. And "fundamentalists" are as much to blame as those holding to a secular or godless sense of evolution. Ironically, William Jennings Bryan held and publicly affirmed a human origins position consistent with what I've identified here as progressive creation. He saw Darwinism as a dangerous idea because he thought people would lose their consciousness of God's presence in their daily lives.
In a speech he first gave in 1904, "Prince of Peace," Bryan said he had a right to assume a Creator back of the creation. "And no matter how long you draw out the process of creation, so long as God stands back of it you cannot shake my faith in Jehovah." In Summer for the Gods, Edward Larson commented how this allowed for an extended geologic history and even for a kind of theistic evolution. But Bryan "dug in his heels" regarding the supernatural creation of humans. He saw it as "one of the test questions of the Christian."
I do not carry the doctrine of evolution as far as some do; I am not yet convinced that man is a lineal descendent of the lower animals. I do not mean to find fault with you if you want to accept the theory; all I mean to say is that while you may trace your ancestry back to the monkey if you find pleasure or pride in doing so, you shall not connect me with your family tree without more evidence than has yet been produced.
He concluded his speech by saying that one of the reasons he objected to the theory of evolution was because if man was linked to the monkey, it became an important question whether humanity was going towards the monkey or coming away from him. "I do not know of any argument that may be used to prove man is an improved monkey that may not be used just as well to prove that the monkey is a degenerate man, and the latter theory is more plausible than the former." You can listen to a vocal dramatization of his speech here on YouTube; there is a text only copy here. There are content differences between the two because Bryan gave the speech repeatedly over the years. The given quotes are from the text of the oral YouTube version of "Prince of Peace."
The Bill Nye-Ken Ham debate in 2014 had neither the historical significance nor the drama of the Scopes Trial. But it does illustrate how times have changed and how, rightly or wrongly, the young earth creationist position on human origins, represented by Ken Ham, has become identified as the default view of biblical Christians. You can watch a video on the debate here.
An NPR article, "Who 'Won' the Creation vs. Evolution Debate?," noted the live online debate drew 500,000 viewers at one point. By the middle of November in 2016, the YouTube video had over 5,700,000 views. Britain's Christian Today website took a poll on who "won" the debate and had 42,567 responses. Ninety two percent thought Bill Nye won, while only 8 percent thought Ken Ham won. Michael Schulson, writing for The Daily Beast, thought Nye's willingness to engage Ham in a debate threatened to reduce substantive issues to mere spectacle.
The televangelist Pat Robertson thought Ken Ham made a mockery out of Christians. Quoted in The Christian Post, Robertson said he was able to find his faith in the evolutionary process itself. "I don't believe in so-called evolution as non-theistic. I believe that God started it all and he's in charge of all of it. The fact that you have progressive evolution under his control. That doesn't hurt my faith at all." You can watch a short video of Robertson's views on The Christian Post link. Robertson further said: "Let's be real; let's not make a joke of ourselves."
A little over a month after the Scopes Trial concluded, Clarence Darrow wrote to H. L. Mencken, one of the reporters who covered the Scopes Trial: "I made up my mind to show the country what an ignoramus he [Bryan] was and I succeeded." The more things change, the more they stay the same. Christians believing in creation are still seen and portrayed as ignoramuses. The Memphis paper, the Commercial Appeal made the following comment about the infamous exchange between Darrow and Bryan in the Scopes Trial:
It was not a contest. Consequently there was no victory. Darrow succeeded in showing that Bryan knows little about the science of the world. Bryan succeeded in bearing witness bravely to the faith which he believes transcends all the learning of men.
If you are interested in learning more about the Scopes Trial, try this page about the Scopes Trial Museum or the Wikipedia page on the Scopes Trial. You can also read: Summer for the Gods, a Pulitzer Prize winning book about the Scopes Trial and "Structure of an Evolutionary Revolution." Also, look at: When All the God Trembled, which discusses Darwinism and the Scopes Trial.