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January 2011
Lively Online Chat with Gerry and Juli
Our second Monday Live Chat with challenge finalists Gerry Haracsi and Juli Isaac was a lot of fun. Both said after how much they enjoyed answering your questions and welcomed your encouragement. Third finalist Sue Salsbury couldn't take part but … Continue reading
Food For Heart Health
A new book, Prevent A Second Heart Attack by Janet Bond Brill, arrived in the mail today containing dozens of healthy Mediterranean-style recipes. Here's one tasty vegetarian lunch or entree. Chef Julie Korhumel's Linguine With Fresh Garden Vegetables serves 8 … Continue reading
Ferran Adria of El Bulli Spouts Zero Emission Scheme
Yes, often, when my dining companion and I are thinking about where to dine in E-town, we are vexed by the lack of restaurants devoting themselves to producing no emissions of any sort. No doubt you are the same. I … Continue reading
More Soup Stories
This time, a reader by the name of Barb Croteau says this new kind of soup left her laughing: "I was visiting my good friend, Carol Lee, one day and her mother-in-law, Gerry, was just leaving. She said she had to … Continue reading
The Mothership
I did work, however briefly, for THE PARTY. This was when I was 20. Don Getty was premier. It was, really, the last time the party was in trouble. I worked for the Minister of Agriculture, a … Continue reading
Glutton for Punishment on DVD, two seasons even
Paperny Films of Vancouver, which makes the TV series Glutton for Punishment, has released two seasons of this culinary adventure series hosted by Montreal native, Bob Blumer. Here's what the Paperny people have to say about this extreme event: "Whether … Continue reading
NAIT's Hokanson Chef-in-Residence Program has Tickets for a Susur Lee Lunch
As reported last week in this space, Toronto chef Susur Lee is coming soon to NAIT to reprise the role of chef in residence, the third in the culinary school's history. Now, you have a chance to purchase, or better … Continue reading
Who plays when at Boonstock?
Saturday, July 2 — Main Stage A Perfect Circle Sublime With Rome (pictured above) Crash Kings Dirty Heads USS No Heat Tomorrow Dani Jean Self Evolution Budweiser King of Beers Stage Gun Shy Greg Wood The Dryland Band Call Before … Continue reading
Super Bowl Big Brothers & Sisters Party
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Will Ed Stelmach be Alberta's last premier to hold no more than a high school diploma?
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Crossing state lines often doesn't mean much. But that's just not the case when you hit the Louisiana border. Our oh-so-familiar Southeast Texas landscape gives way to cypress knees and a slightly swampier landscape that somehow changes almost instantly when you hit the border. It reinforces what Louisianans have been saying for years: This place […] [Read More]

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Who should be more feared. Lions & Tigers & Bears? Or, the Men Behind the Curtains?
The iconic movie The Wizard of Oz premiered August 15, 1939.
it's contributions to cinematic innovation, social identity and philosophical concepts are numerous, if not, uncountable.
Beyond visuals so vivid they can't be missed, the story communicates subtle, often highly sophisticated, themes of human experience and emotion. And how these, engaged with co-relational discoveries and collective action, can result in shared understandings of unseen realities. Specifically: critical truths belied by otherwise accepted facades and conspiratorial agents that undermine common experiences and understandings.
Two pivotal transformations occur in the story that show how appearances can deceive.
-- First are scenes in which Dorothy encounters the heretofore scary characters of the lion, scarecrow and tin man. All, far more flawed than fearsome, as it turns out.
-- Second is the scene in which the powerful Wizard of Oz is revealed to be not only flawed, (just as the others), but more ominously: to be highly manipulative. Playing them, as he does, by amplifying their fears in his efforts to control society.
Contexts in which the original book, the original movie and it's iteration "The Wiz," say much about why the story resonates with so many.
Each was produced during times of civic disparity. Times when gaps between poor and rich were significantly magnified, due to the amplification of fears, fomented and abetted by hidden agents pulling strings that maximized rich privilege by playing on common-fears. From behind closed doors--figuratively or literally.
Given all this and parallels to the times we're in now, it seems prudent to revisit Qs The Wizard of Oz cues up, like:
1. Who should be feared more: Those who coercively communicate, in plain site? Or those who manipulate, beyond common view?
2. What's more important: Revealing those who conspire to corrupt? Or, facing challenges with efforts that "un-suppress" individual and collective power?
edward long
Aug 16 2012: Stay in Kansas where there are no lions, tigers, bears, or men behind curtains. If some catclysm beyond your control hurls you into the mean, hard world then trust nobody except your dog. Fearsome things may actually be empty threats. Friendly appearing things may actually be hostile. Try to help others when you can. Always try to get back to Kansas.
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Aug 16 2012: Edward,
Some might argue that Kansas occasionally harbors powerful hidden people, pulling strings.
And that empty threats, reacted to with fear can become fearsome; and hostile things, reacted to with friendliness can become friendly.
In any case, it is good advice to help whenever possible. And, never forget that home is where we are reminded our humanness was conceived.
Aug 16 2012: In reverse order:
-Home is where the heart is.- rolls off the tongue much easier than, -Home is where we are reminded our humanness was conceived.-
As a card-carrying pessimist and a curmudgeon I do not advise the technique of trying to turn hostility into friendliness by being friendly. Henry Ward Beecher said fear is a kind of bell. . . it is the soul's signal for rallying. Life, especially outside of Kansas, is a place of warranted fear. The wicked witch is deceptive and dependably malicious. What matters is effective threat assessment.
Dorothy's Kansas was, for her, a safe, sound, place. Auntie Em should have had a storm cellar.
Aug 16 2012: I understood Andrea to say that hostility can sometime be turned to friendliness rather than that hostility can always be turned to friendliness. I agree that threat assessment is a good thing, though there is evidence that humans tend not to be very good at it, over-fearing some things and under-fearing others.Aug 16 2012: Edward,
Fritzie's explanation gets at my intent.
While I agree with you, being friendly doesn't always achieve transformations in hostile situations. There are times it does. Depends on numerous variables.
In my view, it's worth a try. If nothing else, as others observe the effort, if positions attempting friendliness as alternative to meeting hostility with hostility or with abandonment of the situation. Neither of which are always practical or prudent. In fact, my preference, is to take a position of "staying in relationship," with due caution if called for. In time, as in Oz, things become clearer on all sides.
Which, as Fritzie notes, jibes with your view that: effective threat assessment is of significant value, when possible.
I've seen all these scenarios work, in various situations. Though I've yet to have visited Oz. There are days that I do wonder if some places aren't functionally Oz-ish.
All this said, I do think it is fair to say there are seasons--sometimes quite long--when certain folks are, like the wicked witch, as you say: "dependably malicious."
edward long
Aug 16 2012: No disagreement here Andrea. If the threat is real but cannot be assessed (like the man behind the curtain) then assume the worst. If a peaceful solution is arranged, Hallelujah! We made a new friend! I am more wary of the unseen potential threat than of the observable. I think the courageous thing to do is to make every effort to "reveal those who conspire to corrupt." Thank you! --Edward
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Aug 17 2012: the Wizard of Oz didn't have an Ipad and the men that should be more feared are not behind a curtain at all - instead they are more transparent than ever - right in front of our eyes via everything - tricking us - but it's no longer slight of hand it's slight of mind - and together like a terrorist group gone Broadway they now hold up that curtain they used to hide behind and play a movie - one that resonates so deeply inside us all we believe and we forget- and I think the "selfish gene" may have something to do with that.
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why try to build trust when you can control distrust?
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Aug 17 2012: Jesse,
What an image: "A terrorist group gone Broadway." There might be a screenplay there.
And the "slight of mind" allusion does track. I'm unsure how intentional some of it is, but not all. Though there is certainly an unmistakable chaotic-crazymaking effect. And, indeed, there are political strategists who come to mind who play to this.
I'm with you re: the "play" behind the movie resonating with us, perhaps yes, due to our "selfish" gene. I was struck by how low primary elections turnout were in my state. And, it occurred to me apathy, at least, has to be a factor. That and a child-like attention span, it seems.
That said, it is also the case that the chaos is so chaotic and the multiple and ever changing storylines so disparate, that it's near impossible for anyone (including leaders and strategists) to fully track. And, only those with Dorothy-like persistence, willing to navigate both the yellow brick roads, and in-plain-sight play(s), have the stamina--not to mention sufficient curiosity, even, to hang in for the journey.
Now that I've affirmed your gloomy take, I'm wondering what are the possibilities that you could employ your creative thinking to construe a possible "third way?"
Roy Bourque
Aug 16 2012: Like the characters in the story, we need to find what's missing in our own lives that keeps us from advancing. All to often, we try to find something else to blame it on, like the bureaucracy. But when we look into ourselves and deal with our own shortcomings, we find that inner strength that we didn't know we had.
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The government spends money it doesn't have. We all played follow the leader, and many are in credit card debt as a result of it. It was a choice we made. We didn't have to make that choice.
I put my faith in a higher power and observed what was going on. As a result, I found what I needed and rejected what I didn't. I kept myself from buying just because I could. I kept myself from refinancing my home just because I could. I bought what I needed, and kept luxuries to what I could afford. When the housing market fell apart, I didn't fall apart with it.
When the railroad tycoons crossed the land, many became a slave to it. Yet the railroads increased the value of land to the benefit of a growing nation. Was the glass half full or half empty? It depended on what role you played.
I can't deny that there is corruption in government. And yet, I see many coming to the aid of those in need when the need is made known to the public. So poverty rests with those who look for excuses rather than solutions.
As far as crisis goes, I let a higher power tell me what I need to be doing. I chose not to fear. It hasn't failed me yet.
Aug 17 2012: Ray,
Kudos for naming an important elephant in the room -- us.
Your post with it's themes of materialism and higher power, reminds me of a reaction I had to a colleague's analysis of MLK's Drum Major Instinct speech:
"The vivid picture Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King provides of the 'poor white's' false feeling of superiority — and the trajectory of destruction King predicted the worship of individual success would lead to is being realized, as Boyte points out. The impacts of our historical fathers' and mothers' selfish pursuits are disturbing.
In King's time the finger could logically point to whites, the prevailing class of power. But today our fingers can only logically point to us — the people in middle- and upper class communities. Regardless of our race, gender, faith or political idealogy we are the class of power.
As we've kept up with the Joneses we've followed the Joneses into foreclosure. Even more troubling, we've cultivated a pandemic poverty of thought that justifies the brutal defense of self-interests and defensively fingers those who don't explicitly share them for destroying our world.
While we attack what we view as the evil or idiocy of our ideological foes, we fail to see that power lies not in perpetuating polarized positions, but in pursuing understanding of our shared desires.
This takes self-reflection — in King's words: 'looking honestly at our selves.' I would add it also takes seeing and listening deeply to those with whom we deeply differ with, even when it seems utterly impossible and ill-informed to."
And -- I couldn't agree with you more, Ray, regards your observation of many people coming to the aid of those in need.
Though I'm not sure their numbers and contributions are commensurate to the need, I too, observe many people who do so much good.
This perhaps is the "Kansas" Edward is getting it. This place where people's good characteristics can be realized with greater clarity than insecurities and greed.
AndreaAug 16 2012: As you pointed out timing is everything. The gap has again widened and movements like the attack on the 1% and the OWS movement implant the salt in the wound. The socialist manifesto is to make all men equal except those who are in charge who are more equal than all of you. Unions say that the owner is the enemy and we must bring him down. So you do now your out of a job. Great plan. Capitalism is build on supply and demand. Once my costs exceed my profits I can no longer operate.
President Carter and Clinton decided that income should not be a barrier to owning a house and made the banks make loans to people that could never meet payments or maintain the home. This was the basis for the bubble bursting that cause the last economic crisis. Stupid decisions made at that level cannot be controlled either by individuals or collectively. Until the next election.
On the surface plans such as these look great. Get rid of the rich and we will all be rich ... everyone gets a house ... free medical ... in the end none of these ever work out. The solution is a work ethic and the knowledge of if you cannot afford it don't buy it. We know at our house if the account has no money in it do not write a check. Some how that message cannot be understood at the higher levels.
In answer to your question if I make a error at my level it is an oops. If those in power make a error it become a crisis effecting millions of people. Attempts to manuplate, bypass laws, and promote a political agenda are by far the greatest danger we face. The fact that we may become surpressed and not even be aware of it for a period of time is a nightmare. However, those dragons exist by passing laws that unread and have no visable means of funding past the first year. Even when corruption is exposed there are those who drink the koolade any way.
All the best. Bob.
Aug 16 2012: Interesting thoughts, Bob.
Agreed. When corruption is exposed there are those who drink the Kool-aid anyway. That said, though I think corruption has something to do with laws, it clearly doesn't have everything to do with them.
As a tech-entrepreneur during the Clinton administration, my view is the sum of his administrations economic impact can't be boiled down only to the mortgage mess. Many policies during that time abetted our and others' ability to build jobs. A notable one: the release of GPS, a Dept of Defense asset, for private enterprise.
As to your point that the answer is to replace administrations who's performance is less than ideal, in this example regards Clinton's influence on mortgage lending, it's reasonable in theory, but not practice. The mortgage crisis not only grew after the Clinton administration, but Bush policy supported less oversight of mortgage corruption. A non-partisan corollary is the war in Afghanistan, started during the Bush administration and long understood as a quagmire, continues.
Another example: The Patriot Act was a Bush policy, disliked by liberals. But, retained by Obama administration. While Bush intended it to combat foreign terrorism and corruption, Obama is also using it to combat homegrown terrorism and corruption.
All why simply voting out the guy one doesn't believe in, doesn't mean his policies -- for bad or good -- might not be sustained by the following leader.
And, I'm not fully tracking how OWS movement is "implanting salt" in economic wounds. I'd agree it's drawing a painful light to heretofore unseen disparities, yes. But, though there are tensions, the net effect is participatory democracy. Moving the country from denial into hard conversations is, I'd say, prudent to insure that mortgage fraudsters, etc. are suppressed more than uninformed citizens are. Given the fact many 1% agree with the 99%ers, it's implied they are onto something.
AndreaAug 16 2012: I agree with Pat that the sneaky manipulator is more dangerous. On your second question, I would go with both.
In the Wizard of Oz, the wizard when confronted admitted to his weakness and explained his assuming his character as a way of managing his sense of differentness.
Aug 16 2012: Fritzie --
It says something about the power of the collective that the Wizard sought difference by hiding his, don't you think?
Fritzie -
Aug 16 2012: Alternatively it could be more like the phenomenon that those who have been victims of abuse or bullying often then abuse or bully others.Aug 16 2012: 1 The latter
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2 The prior and I think the collective is doing just fine, the individual on the other hand...
And my profound musical answer to the question:
Aug 16 2012: Pat,
Your musical choice was interesting, provocative.
Can you elaborate more on your views on collective power as doing fine and, 'on the other hand' individuals?
Aug 16 2012: Thank you
People like to chant the equality meme when in fact it is a sure fire yellow brick road to serfdom.
Today in the not so great state of Calif we have 10-12% of the population of the U.S. with 33% of the welfare. At the same time the highest paid public union employees with the same sustainability as Greece.
The problem with this is very simple anyone who wants to start a business does it elsewhere as it is less onerous. No matter how many academics say otherwise jobs are created by these types.
Jobs are something the non welfare, non public employee union individuals require. Small groups are where the individual prospers as he is crushed in the larger groups. Typically what I'm saying is dismissed as dogma, to me this indicates the amount of understanding those people have.Aug 15 2012: OH MY! What am I doing here? Here is one of my musical heroes, long dead and his version of an answer:
Aug 16 2012: Debra,
Perhaps you've followed a rabbit down a hole?
In any case, glad you've arrived.
And brought metaphorical music to match the cultural messaging technique used by Baum, Chapin, Chapman, Melua and many others in times when straight answers are hard to come by, and hidden realities make them harder to communicate.
Debra Smith
Aug 16 2012: You never fail to teach me and guide me with your beauty and your insightfulness. Thank you.
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I am so far down this rabbit hole that i am coming out the other side.
Aug 16 2012: Debra--
Following rabbits down holes and finding the other side can be a great Adventure.
Debra Smith
Aug 16 2012: I have always thought so but it can also break your heart assunder.
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En español l All shoulder pain is not created equal. You can have chronic tenderness, pain from short-term injuries or just plain wear-and-tear aches from age. Dealing with the problem depends largely on the cause of the pain — and its severity. Below are five of the most common causes, along with some treatment options.
1. Osteoarthritis
What it is: Osteoarthritis, the most common type of arthritis, is diagnosed when the cartilage protecting the joints degenerates or wears down. The chronic pain caused by osteoarthritis is often worse at night. The affected joints might creak or click due to the loss of cushioning from the cartilage. In addition to stiffness and weakness, the joint might appear swollen.
Causes: Osteoarthritis is known as wear-and-tear arthritis because it tends to be linked to long-term wear on the joints; traumatic injuries that damage the cartilage can also be linked to this condition. Osteoarthritis most often occurs in people over 50 and can be hereditary.
Treatments: There is no cure for osteoarthritis. A study published in 2000 in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that taking the supplements glucosamine and chondroitin may help ease the symptoms, but more recent research has yielded mixed results.
These supplements "aren't magic bullets and won't rebuild or repair the cartilage, but in moderate cases, they may help with pain," says Edward Laskowski, M.D., a physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist and codirector of the Mayo Clinic Sports Medicine Center in Rochester, Minn.
Taking pain relievers (both over-the-counter and prescription), as well as trying physical therapy and specialized exercises and modifying everyday movements to reduce the stress on the shoulder joint, are all recommended before turning to surgery.
These exercises can help strengthen the muscles around the bone and ease the pain. "The muscles provide stability to the joint," Laskowski says. "The stronger the muscles are, the more they can take the pressure off the joints."
Scientists are currently investigating new treatments for osteoarthritis, including the use of blood platelet injections. Some studies have found that these injections can stimulate repair and regeneration of the cartilage, reduce inflammation and decrease pain, though others suggest that the treatment isn't any more effective than a placebo. Whatever option you explore, if you and you doctor find that the disease is progressing, surgery, including joint replacement, might be recommended.
2. Rotator Cuff Damage
What it is: The group of four muscles and tendons that connect the arm to the shoulder is called the rotator cuff. The tendons are susceptible to inflammation and bruising, leading to pain when performing overhead activities, sleeping on the affected side or reaching behind your back. Left untreated, rotator cuff injuries can cause persistent shoulder pain.
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Treatments: For minor aches, icing the shoulder and taking an over-the-counter pain reliever might be enough to ease the pain. Until the inflammation or bruising heals, Laskowski recommends avoiding lifting, pulling and overhead activities that will exacerbate the pain or cause additional damage to the rotator cuff. If the pain persists, your doctor may recommend a cortisone injection and physical therapy.
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Edward's grave is unmarked. He's in "Stranger's Row", which means likely section H, and those graves are rarely marked. I have already walked, researched and photographed any grave that could be before 1900, and scoured section H - sparsely populated with markers, but absolutely full.
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CF Industries today announced a dividend increase of 150%. The quarterly cash dividend has been increased from 40 cts/share to $1.00/share payable on 29 November to shareholders on record as of 15 November, 2013, the company says. "This dividend increase reflects our confidence in the strength of CF Industries' business model and is part of our ongoing commitment to build long term shareholder value," says Stephen Wilson, chairman and CEO of CF Industries. The company announced last month that Wilson will retire as CEO on 1 January 2014 and...
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Interpretive Handbook
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Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) IgG Index
Clinical Information Discusses physiology, pathophysiology, and general clinical aspects, as they relate to a laboratory test
Elevation of IgG levels in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with inflammatory diseases of the central nervous system (multiple sclerosis [MS], neurosyphilis, acute inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis) is due to local central nervous system (CNS) synthesis of IgG.
The 2 most commonly used diagnostic laboratory tests for MS are CSF index and oligoclonal banding. The CSF index is the CSF IgG to CSF albumin ratio compared to the serum IgG to serum albumin ratio. The CSF index is, therefore, an indicator of the relative amount of CSF IgG compared to serum. Any increase in the index is a reflection of IgG production in the CNS. The IgG synthesis rate is a mathematical manipulation of the CSF index data and can also be used as a marker for CNS inflammatory diseases.
Useful For Suggests clinical disorders or settings where the test may be helpful
As an aid in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis
Interpretation Provides information to assist in interpretation of the test results
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) IgG index is positive (elevated) in approximately 80% of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). Oligoclonal banding in CSF is also positive in approximately 80% of patients with MS. The use of CSF index plus oligoclonal banding has been reported to increase the sensitivity to over 90%.
The index is independent of the activity of the demyelinating process.
Cautions Discusses conditions that may cause diagnostic confusion, including improper specimen collection and handling, inappropriate test selection, and interfering substances
The cerebrospinal fluid index can be elevated in other inflammatory demyelinating diseases such as neurosyphilis, acute inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy, and subacute sclerosing panencephalitis.
Reference Values Describes reference intervals and additional information for interpretation of test results. May include intervals based on age and sex when appropriate. Intervals are Mayo-derived, unless otherwise designated. If an interpretive report is provided, the reference value field will state this.
CSF index: 0.00-0.85
CSF IgG: 0.0-8.1 mg/dL
CSF albumin: 0.0-27.0 mg/dL
Serum IgG
0-4 months: 100-334 mg/dL
5-8 months: 164-588 mg/dL
9-14 months: 246-904 mg/dL
15-23 months: 313-1,170 mg/dL
2-3 years: 295-1,156 mg/dL
4-6 years: 386-1,470 mg/dL
7-9 years: 462-1,682 mg/dL
10-12 years: 503-1,719 mg/dL
13-15 years: 509-1,580 mg/dL
16-17 years: 487-1,327 mg/dL
> or =18 years: 767-1,590 mg/dL
Serum albumin: 3,200-4,800 mg/dL
CSF IgG/albumin: 0.00-0.21
Serum IgG/albumin: 0.0-0.4
CSF IgG synthesis rate: 0-12 mg/24 hours
Clinical References Provides recommendations for further in-depth reading of a clinical nature
1. Tourtellotte WW, Walsh MJ, Baumhefner RW, et al: The current status of multiple sclerosis intra-blood-brain-barrier IgG synthesis. Ann NY Acad Sci 1984;436:52-67
2. Bloomer LC, Bray PF: Relative value of three laboratory methods in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Clin Chem 1981;27:2011-2013
3. Hische EA, van der Helm HJ: Rate of synthesis of IgG within the blood-brain barrier and the IgG index compared in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Clin Chem 1987;33:113-114
4. Swanson JW: Multiple Sclerosis: update in diagnosis and review of prognostic factors. Mayo Clin Proc 1989;64:577-586
5. Markowitz H, Kokmen E: Neurologic diseases and the cerebrospinal fluid immunoglobulin profile. Mayo Clin Proc 1983;58:273-274


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Should we support national legislations for mandatory, free of charge and confidential HIV testing of everyone who does blood test?
Considering the tragic magnitude and destructive power of AIDS and the general welfare of the society, as well as people who suffer from AIDS or who are HIV positive, should we support national legislations for mandatory, free of charge and confidential testing of everyone who does blood test?
John Smith
Jan 14 2013: Social stigmas should never prevent people from getting the health care they need. Testing for STDs should be free of charge and available at anonymous clinics, for the safety of all of us.
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Jan 14 2013: Absolutely! I support this idea as well. But since AIDS is the deadliest one of all of them I think we should give it a priorityJan 16 2013: I have worked on HIV and made computer models that fit the epidemic in Luxembourg. You can see my thesis here: files.figshare.com/97984/Thesis_Final20120824.pdf. I specifically tested several strategies, including yearly testing of the whole population, which appears as the most efficient one, at least in a mature epidemic like in Europe or the US (see figures 3.18 and 3.19).
The conclusions of my analysis on the whole population of a developed country point to the fact that the people participating most to the dissemination of the virus are the ones who stay undiagnosed and therefore fail to change their sexual behavior, rather than the ones having at-risk behaviors like highly sexually active people, male homosexuals and injecting drug users (note: this was not the case in the early epidemic, where these last two populations fueled the spread of the virus). I would therefore be supportive of such a strategy, but with strong restrictions:
- the test should not be legally mandatory, but the option to be freely tested should be presented to the patient by the doctor. The doctor should point to the benefits both for the individual and the community of an early diagnosis.
- everything should be done to ensure the confidentiality of the results. The patient still has the choice to be treated or not.
My analysis showed that virtually all other strategies are ineffective in the long-term, with the recently FDA-approved preventive antiretroviral having devastating effects on the levels of resistance, even with conservative assumptions.
I will not provide AIDS denialists with the evidence they could easily get from thousands of peer-reviewed litterature and three decades of research. I understand that such litterature demands some background knowledge in biology and I direct them to a more accessible version here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misconceptions_about_HIV_and_AIDS
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Jan 10 2013: Should this vary, perhaps, by country depending on what proportion of the population is actually at risk? Does it make sense to have mandatory testing for people who have essentially a zero risk?
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Jan 17 2013: Fritzie,
People lie to their doctors. People rarely admit to take injecting drugs, as long as they can hide it and it poses no other problem in their life. People go to the doctor with their wives and husbands. People have sometimes the same doctor as half of their families and are concerned that he would not keep the secret about their concurent relationships. People deny, sometimes to themselves, their homosexuality. So how do you REALLY assess that somebody is at zero-risk?
Jan 17 2013: I understood the question to ask whether HIV testing should be mandatory for everyone. Lena meant, rather, that anyone should be able to be tested on request.
Which are you envisioning?
Jan 17 2013: I think the problem is in the contradiction: 1) it is desirable that everyone gets tested for HIV and 2) you cannot force people to get tested against their will.
So I would propose that whenever visiting a doctor, a HIV test would be systematically proposed to all patients, emphasizing the benefits for them and the community. If the patient does not opt out of the test for privacy reason, the test will be conducted.Jan 18 2013: Ultimately, it is not the fault of any willful misconduct but of our individual willful ignorance that is my point. I am doing my research based on all these professional sources but doing my own thinking. It is morally debatable whether those who willfully neglect truth and the responsibilities of freedom deserve to be given either. About all these hard-working scientists, it is not about what is directly within their control but the hierarchical system which finances and restricts what they are allowed to know and control. You could very well have found proof to the contrary of an 'established' hypotheses, but there is now no medium of expression that will tolerate it and not expell you from your scientific circle. Prestige and funding is now more important than Truth, since the truth will make your entire scientific department immediately irrelevant. There's too much money involved already for that. But we all know or suspect this much. The world is not perfect. But those outside this system have nothing to lose in exposing Truth. This forum cannot support scientific essays to prove either side of the coin. Nor do I aim to offend anyone. I aim just to inspire someone else to wakeup!
To answer your question more clearly, I am reminded of Albert Einstein's famous quote, "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."Jan 17 2013: Robert Gallo made his public claim that "HIV Causes AIDS" before any of his peers were able to independently review and repeat his method and result. Requests to do so afterwards were also ignored and his hypotheses became official medical education and profitable patented practice outside of required scientific standards. And when it was finally audited it was concluded that it was contaminated, and included technically "stolen" research from an earlier study which did not conclude "HIV Causes AIDS". I would hardly call that "a well-established theory". Well, financed, yes. But it is well worth revisiting given the failure of so many of the claims' predictions and the abundance of common sense answers.Gays also did not and do not want to be blamed for a lifestyle choice issue. That's politics and marketing, not science.
Jan 17 2013: Antonio,
I do not want to give the impression that your skepticism is not welcomed. Science is, to me, professional skepticism. But you are not very professional. By browsing the web, your research was probably skewed towards websites propagating false information (in the sense: opposite to the truth), understandably more thrilling to read than boring epidemiological records.
First, you should understand that in the eighties, knowledge of the disease was very limited, and that there was indeed a debate in the scientific community to know if AIDS was really transmissible: transmission rates are very low, symptoms are non-specific and take many years to manifest, and molecular biology techniques were limited. This debate however resolved quickly when confronted with increasing evidence, so stop with the Gallo thing. It is not the first or last time researchers stole each other results or Nobel prizes were questionably attributed.
I will respond to your comments about the epidemiology, because it is my domain. Africa has much higher levels of sexual concurency than western countries, this is well documented. More partners, more acts per person per year, more overlap. Your comment that "marriage commitments insulate from cross-infection" ignores the reality of widespread liberal behaviors, and western countries are much more conservative on this point. In many African countries, women marry earlier than men, and marriage does not equate sexual commitment (for both partners). This results in a gender imbalance where more women are infected with HIV than men. In western countries, HIV has been driven for some time by male homos (the transmission rate is about ten times higher for anal sex than vaginal sex) and drug injection. This first resulted in a gender imbalance where much more men where infected than women, but as the virus spread to the heterosexual population, this imbalance reduced. Your stats are outdated.
You can access all peer-reviewed articles on PubMed.Jan 18 2013: And still, you do not adress my main argument. Your hypothesis about non-viral cause for AIDS postulates that all scientists working on HIV (researchers, professors, virologists, epidemiologists, statisticians, technicians, pharmacologists, doctors) are either incompetent, either bribed or otherwise willing to disseminate lies to complete an obscure agenda, either brainwashed to the point that in three decades, none of them discovered the truth. Or maybe is it that some secret organisation is spiking just every sample in the world with synthetic RNA without anyone knowing, actually reproducing the genomic evolutionary pattern of a virus? Oh wait, maybe it is the same devil antechrist that buried fossils in the ground so that we could come up with darwinian evolution?
Please realize all these theses are ridicule. If you have another explanation for the blindness of millions of people, let me know. I do not say this ironically, I am really searching to understand your line of reasoning.
Regards,Jan 17 2013: This just in!:
5. The French lab team that was first to isolate the retrovirus and did not conclude "HIV Causes AIDS" fought for patent-sharing rights with Gallo after Gallo used their research to claim the very opposite. But the Nobel Prize went to the French Lab "for discovering HIV Causes AIDS" while Gallo got NO Nobel recognition although he was the one who made the claim using their work AND... ... wait for it... ... the French Team STILL do not make the claim that HIV Causes AIDS but that they helped Gallo's research. So the French Lab endorse the investigation but not the conclusion and get a prize for both the investigation AND the conclusion while yet categorically distancing themselves from such conclusions. What semantics!
And what a waste of a Nobel Prize!Jan 17 2013: Thanks for taking the time to contribute! I do not claim to be an expert, just a regular guy with access to the internet and a hunger for truth. There is so much information available to the average person to the contrary of the official propaganda linking HIV with AIDS that I find it amazing that we swallow the propaganda when the experts cannot even always agree.
I can't counter debunk what you said point by point all in one post. My purpose for stating these things is for common people like me to search the internet for themselves on each of these controversial topics. Hopefully you will see a pattern that repeats in history every other generation. Where there is money there are lyers. There is information to the contrary to what you said easily found online, but it's not about me or you but rather the issue at hand. At least we agree that "finding an immediate cure" is not the priority when there's so much money to be made in between.
My point is that arguing over the aftereffects of the lie is irrelevant. The lie must be addressed. It's like going on an expedition to see the bottom of a rainbow. The whole expedition is futile and must be re-examined.
I'd just like to mention on point 11 and 13 that emphasizes the total corruption through financed monopoly of the medical system: at least you can contradict evolutionary theory and quantum physics without losing your medical license. Our well-meaning doctors are therefore incentivised to not challenge big pharma or use common sense. Therefore, I consult my doctor but make my own judgement. And polygamy and early marriage are deterrents to the spread of AIDS since marriage commitments insulate from cross-infection. The US definition of "freedom" now includes free sex and gender identity from the moment you have something and someone to do it with. The US is arguably more "highly sexual" than Africa. And you enforce my point with homosexuality and drugs corroborating US stats for male infections.Jan 14 2013: I just also replied to Lena. It's great to have great minds applied to important issues!
I first questioned "HIV Causes AIDS" when the epidemic prediction failed to end the world or be much of an issue outside those already affected. It is not spreading like a viral epidemic should.
Furthermore, when we study history we see a series of similar professional goof-ups where science gets it wrong but yet marches on and sometimes by applied force. Worry when the insurance costs more than the threat of injury. Mandatory law for fears unjustified are just like preemptive strikes against another nation who has done no wrong - guilty until proven innocent.
The body doesn't go around spraying chemicals onto everything it is near to. It waits for an attack then draws an equal and adequeat defense. We seem to love spraying laws that strip our freedoms onto every fear that is preached to us by the media. Direct loss of (responsible) liberty is more troubling than the remote threat of fear. No scientific study has been commissioned to seriously look for alternative causes for AIDS... maybe it's not in their best interests since this hypotheses (which is all that it is) is a cash cow that can be enforced. Well, it is in my best interest to find out what is best for me.Jan 14 2013: Sorry for SHOUTING at everybody. I apologize. I get so worked up about wilful public deception.
This is not about you nor me. And evidence is equally lacking for the official viewpoint. I am an individual concerned about the reality that people are dying. I am also concerned for my own personal safety which apparently is not the primary concern of the companies and agencies we depend on some of the time. This requires public scrutiny of both the information provided and the source. Is this not the purpose of TED.com?
Similarly, anyone medical professional who opposes the now established and well-financed claim that HIV Causes AIDS is not commended for his "personal" research but is equally ridiculed and ostracized by his professional peers. Therefore no "respectable HIV/AIDS related institution" can be trusted for unbiased information anymore... at least not with so much money to go around whenever the "flu" is called "AIDS" instead.
Here is the most compelling evidence to me so far: scientists are now finding people naturally immune to AIDS. Does this not break the HIV Test if it is the same antibodies that would get you tested "positive" are producing the immunity. And did they just become immune or weren't they immune all the time? I'll start with that.
Jan 16 2013: Antonio,
Medical professionals or any scientist who opposes a well-established theory has to provide an alternative theory, and evidence that supports it. Otherwise indeed, they face the ridicule of their peers. Scientific research does not exist for everybody to give his personal opinion, but to try to determine what is the absolute truth. You think you are a hero defying the worldwide conspiration of big pharmas? What about the millions of researchers who have conducted research on HIV? They are all in the conspiracy? I have personally amplified HIV DNA and compared sequences from patients. I searched databases, draw conclusions from evidence gathered after long months of painful research. If there was bribe money, me and my colleagues did not see the color of it.
For HIV to enter an immune cell, it needs to "hijack" one of two surface proteins: CCR5 or CxCR4 which are proteins your immune system normally uses to sense chemokines, a type of immune messenger. People who have a certain version of the CCR5 receptor (called delta-32 because it consist in a deletion of 32 amino acids in the protein sequence) are not immune to infection, but take much more time to progress to clinical AIDS. So much that they actually get old or die from something else before developping the disease. They have very low levels of virus in their blood, meaning they are unlikely to pass it to their partners. So yes, they were "immune" all the time (but not in the same sense that immune from a vaccine), and yes, they still develop antibodies that can be detected with a HIV test if they are infected. They do not develop these antibodies if they are not infected.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_32#CCR5-.CE.9432Jan 14 2013: Sorry for SHOUTING at everybody. I apologize. I get so worked up about wilful public deception.
This is not about you nor me. And evidence is equally lacking for the official viewpoint. I am an individual concerned about the reality that people are dying. I am also concerned for my own personal safety which apparently is not the primary concern of the companies and agencies we depend on some of the time. This requires public scrutiny of both the information provided and the source. Is this not the purpose of TED.com?
Similarly, anyone medical professional who opposes the now established and well-financed claim that HIV Causes AIDS is not commended for his "personal" research but is equally ridiculed and ostracized by his professional peers. Therefore no "respectable HIV/AIDS related institution" can be trusted for unbiased information anymore... at least not with so much money to go around whenever the "flu" is called "AIDS" instead.
Here is the most compelling evidence to me so far: scientists are now finding people naturally immune to AIDS. Does this not break the HIV Test if it is the same antibodies that would get you tested "positive" are producing the immunity. And did they just become immune or weren't they immune all the time? I'll start with that.Jan 14 2013: Well, Antonio nice theory... but there's way too many people investigating HIV for such a thing to have gone through unnoticed. it's really simple.
Jan 14 2013: You sound like an American (not trying to offend... just throwing that observation out there). You seem to have excluded yourself from those investigating your personal risks, therefore deferring your personal judgement and inaliable right to take care of your own self to those getting paid to do so without personal liability when they are wrong. That sounds like a conflict of interest easily exploitable under well-meaning pretexts created by either self ignorance or imposed fear.
"Try this. If it kills you, well..."
You may have just discredited her entire presentation if not every TED "idea worth spreading".
An interesting fact, a breathalizer does not test for alhocol in the blood (the definition of drunkardness) but rather alhocol in the breath. Using Listerine can get you arrested for drunk driving. But I'm sure the law enforcement officer is right in saying there's way too many people investigating that for such a thing to have gone through unnoticed.
It's really simple. AIDS suddenly "explodes" wherever HIV testing suddenly begins. The truth must stand the rigor of evidence. I see more advertising and, more importantly, money hoarded than evidence. In fact, the longer it takes to find a cure, the richer Big Pharma gets... hmmmm... we should trust them. That is an idea worth spreading?
Love the healthy conversation.
Jan 14 2013: Please show me this evidence! I Google you up and you're name is not mentioned in any respectable HIV/AIDS related institution! You seem to be a self-proclaimed expert screaming to people on TED forum and more importantly, disseminating groundless information and accusations.... I am not an American and moreover I see nothing wrong in being one. And I care for myself, my sexual partner and other people in my society equally. Thus I am searching for solution.Jan 14 2013: Why not? That would make a few people very very rich while condemning many to a miserable death thanks to our ignorance!
1. Corelation of HIV with AIDS was used to 'prove' causation that HIV Causes AIDS.
2. The chemical AZT was banned from cancer treatment for inducine AIDS-like symptoms and death.
3. Robert Gallo announced "HIV Causes AIDS" without his research passing the medically required peer-review process.
4. Robert Gallo started patenting the detection method for HIV during this announcement which would make him rich.
5. Robert Gallo's research was proven to be contaminated from samples from a similar French study which could not prove HIV Causes AIDS.
6. The lethal chemical AZT is now approved and is the common treatment for AIDS victims CAUSING DEATH and justifying the lie. Enforcing this would perpetuate this self-fulling nightmare.
7. The most popular detection method of the HIV virus cannot detect the virus itself but the presence of good HIV antibodies.
8. HIV Tests are 71% accurate.
9. The common test cannot distinguish HERV's produced by common stress.
10. The false HIV Causes AIDS propaganda has succeeded in making us believe that our body's own natural antiboties - if detected - are bad, no longer means that you are immune, and should not be passed from mother to child for similar immunity anymore.
11. The yet unproven "HIV Causes AIDS" claim is now a standard part of formal education and medical practice - separating otherwise good-hearted doctors and patients from reason and common sense since challenging the myth results in professional ridicule, drop of funding, and now legal enforcement.
12. This false propaganda also preaches that the HIV retrovirus "kills T Cells" which contradicts retroviral reproduction.
13. It also preaches "HIV Knows No Borders" yet Africa is 50-50 males to females infection and over 80-20 male in the US dubbed HIV1 & 2. Sounds more like malnutrition and drug abuse respectively.
14. Why should this be critized:
Jan 14 2013: AIDS denialism is the actual dangerous willing ignorance, and its impact is causing real deaths. I'm sure some groups will always be tempted to link AIDS to some behaviours, while the fact that monkeys were close enough to us genetically to transfer the virus is uncomfortable to the same interests.
More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_denialism
Jan 14 2013: AIDS (a temporary condition of having a relatively weak immune system) is real.The unscientific claim that this condition is "caused by HIV" is false and at best questionable against known science.
AIDS epidemic predictions have failed and statistics remain constant yet different among different populations. It is no longer "going to destroy the world" and is not spreading like an epidemic. Most prostitutes that do not even use condoms do not have it. The explanation that it hybernates has to be constantly extended to explain healthy HIV "victims". "HIV Causes AIDS" yet AIDS can be found without HIV. Now they are finding people "immune to AIDS". No, AIDS is real. It is also potentially easily curable. "HIV Causes AIDS" is false. Denialism and personal examination of facts is the difference between delusion and common sense.Keep the comments coming on this important issue.
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Clearly a correct medical hypothesis might not produce a cure or the prevention of a disease, as for example theories on cancer or sickle-cell anemia. However, a correct medical hypothesis must be able to (1) identify those at risk for a disease, (2) predict the kind of disease a person infected or affected by its putative cause will get, (3) predict how soon disease will follow its putative cause and (4) lead to a determination of how the putative agent causes the disease. Since this is not true for the virus-AIDS hypothesis, this hypothesis must be fundamentally flawed. Further, it seems particularly odd that an AIDS vaccine cannot be developed, since HIV induces highly effective virus-neutralizing antibodies within weeks after infection (Clark et al., 1991; Daar et al., 1991). These are the same antibodies that are detected by the widely used "AIDS-test" (Institute of Medicine, 1986; Duesberg, 1989c; Rubinstein, 1990).Jan 17 2013: Antonio,
You seem to confuse two things. You are right to point that the financial interests of big pharmas do not necessarily serve public health. However the fact that governments failed to give appropriate response for three decades and that some companies are making billions out of patients does not mean the fundamental research about the disease is false. At worst, you could argue that it is misdirected, that instead of searching another antiviral to sell they could fund more comprehensive strategies. I took the time to debunk your point-by-point affirmations:
1. Yes indeed that's how it works. Please provide us a risk factor that correlates better with AIDS than HIV infection?
2. AZT is a potent drug with strong side-effects. It was used in retrovirus-induced cancers. Now we have better drugs.
3. Robert Gallo published in Science, vol. 220, no. 4599, pp. 865–867, 1983
4. That's what they all do...
5. The French team published at about the same time. The debate was about who to give the Nobel.
6. Most patients are not treated with AZT anymore. Do you mean that ALL retrovirals are lethal weapons from the big pharmas? How come nobody dies when the same compounds are used to treat another virus?
7. That's how most test work. When a test is positive the DNA of the virus is analysed, to know the strain and level of infection of the individuals.
8. HIV Tests are 99% accurate and performed in duplicate with different sets of reagents, on different machines, by different technicians and on different days. We rarely misdiagnose someone.
9. True, they are some cross-positive. See point 8.
10. The variability of the virus is huge. Vaccines are not yet efficient enough, nor are maternal antibodies.
11. Same as, for example, evolution theory or quantum physics.
12. The HIV mechanism is well understood. it does not contradict any part of biology.
13. Africa has polygamy, high sexual activity, early mariage, much less homosexuality and no injecting drugs.
14. Good reflex.Jan 10 2013: No dentist? It's barely possible in modern times. If so, that would still make a population of such small size that there would no real impact on the financial costs for the state, and bare in mind that it would be only mandatory for those who decided to take blood test of their own accord and the HIV testing would be a state sponsored bonus. Afterall, in my country the cost of testing is the main reason people resist to take it, number two is of course fear...
Jan 10 2013: I misunderstood you when you said mandatory. I thought you were suggesting HIV testing would be mandatory for everyone.
I did not realize people might worry about contracting HIV at the dentist.Jan 10 2013: Fritzie who would we classifiy as zero risk population?
Jan 10 2013: Not sexually active, no blood transfusions or needles...
Jan 14 2013: HIV is not your worst enemy. The top 11 causes for an equally lethal immune system weekness include Chronic Stress, Improper Diet, Lack of Rest, Lack of Exercise, Obeisity, Alcohol Abuse, Smoking, Chemical/UV Exposure, (legal) Drugs, No Hygiene, and Dehydration. These are far more common than a virus.
The temporary condition called AIDS is not about HIV which requires billions of dollars to make Big Pharma rich. It's more about lifestyle... but not just sexual activity, needles and blood transfusion.


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