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Sadness and Awe: A YouTube playlist
I assembled this a couple of months ago, near the end of the college semester, as background accompaniment for the mountain of papers and exams that I was then grading. It also works as an expressive playlist for greeting and fulfilling emotions of cosmic melancholy and infinite solitude, with a couple of palate-cleansing musical moments in a different direction. (Perhaps the fact that I originally made this as a soundtrack for grading student work says something about the emotions that I tend to attach to that particular endeavor.)
As with the previous playlist that I shared here ("Soundtrack for a Dark Enlightenment," which duplicates a handful of the items on this new playlist), I have carefully arranged the order of things to provide effective transitions in mood and meaning from one piece of music to the next.
- "Untold Stories" by David Darling
- "Engravings II" by Ira Stein and Russel Walder
- "Abraham's Theme" by Vangelis, from the soundtrack to Chariots of Fire
- "Escape (Piano Theme") by Philip Glass, from the soundtrack to The Hours
- "Drowning in a Feeling" by Alexander Daf, featuring Maria Grigoryeva
- "Farewell No. 1" by Shigeru Umebayashi, from the soundtrack to House of Flying Daggers
- "The Great God Pan Is Dead" by Jóhann Jóhannsson
- "Blood for Dracula" by Claudio Gizzi, from the soundtrack to Blood for Dracula, a.k.a. Andy Warhol's Dracula
- "The Last Man" by Clint Mansell, from the soundtrack to The Fountain
- "Into the Twilight" by Bill Douglas
- "How We Left Fordlandia" by Jóhann Jóhannsson
- "Stones Start Spinning" by David Darling
- "Mille Regretz" by Jordi Savall
- "Opium" by Dead Can Dance
- "Orphée's Bedroom" by Philip Glass, Movement II from The Orphée Suite for Piano
- "Bibo No Aozora" by Ruichi Sakamoto
- "Death Is Disease" by Clint Mansell, from the soundtrack to The Fountain
- "Sun and Water" by Danny Heines
- "Knocking on Forbidden Doors" by Enigma
- "Back to the Rivers of Belief" by Enigma
- "How Fortunate the Man with None" by Dead Can Dance
The world's misery, distress, and irony: Mahler's Symphony No. 1, Movement 3
"It's not every day a nursery rhyme gets hijacked by a funeral march and a klezmer band. But then not everyone has the slightly warped mindset of Gustav Mahler, who somehow thought that plunking the children's round 'Frère Jacques' into the funereal third movement of his very first symphony would impress the public. The pulse of Mahler's march is set by two soft, alternating notes on the kettledrum. The melody, contorted into a minor key, is handed first to a solo double bass. A bassoon picks it up, then a tuba and a flute. Quietly building momentum, the tune is passed around the orchestra, with occasional sardonic commentary from the oboe. Later, the melody is elbowed out of the way, as if Mahler, in a nod to his Jewish roots, ushers in a raucous klezmer band to sashay through the orchestra. And, for good measure, he inserts a quote from a morose song, 'The Two Blue Eyes of My Darling.' It's all ingeniously creepy, but Mahler's early audiences were baffled. Crafting a funeral march out of a children's song was simply distasteful." (Tom Huizenga, "Mahler's Twisted Nursery Rhyme")
"The third movement used to upset audiences, and even today it's puzzling to those hearing it for the first time. What are we to make of this odd assortment: a sad and distorted version of 'Frère Jacques' (Mahler knew it as 'Bruder Martin'); a lumbering funeral march; some cheap dance-band music remembered by pairs of oboes and trumpets over the beat of the bass drum; and the ethereal closing pages of the Wayfarer songs — heaven and earth all rolled into one? No wonder people didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Mahler's only clue is 'The Hunter's Funeral Procession' — a woodcut made earlier in the century by Moritz von Schwind, a friend of Schubert — which he claimed was the inspiration for this music. About the vulgar band music Mahler leaves no doubt: 'With parody' he writes at the top of the page, just as the drum and cymbal join in." (Philip Huscher, program notes for a performance by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
"The third movement acts as the slow movement of the symphony's four movement structure. The extra-musical idea inspiring the movement is taken from The Hunter's Funeral, an old Austrian folk story. Mahler described the movement in a conversation with Bauer-Lechner in November 1900: 'On the surface one might imagine this scenario: A funeral procession passes by our hero, and the misery, the whole distress of the world, with its cutting contrasts and horrible irony, grasps him' . . . . In 1901 Mahler wrote in a letter to Bernhard Schuster: 'the third movement . . . is heart-rending, tragic irony and is to be understood as exposition and preparation for the sudden outburst in the final movement of despair of a deeply wounded and broken heart.' " (Funeral March Movement Analysis at GustavMahler.com)
Moritz von Schwind, "The Hunter's Funeral Procession" (1850)
My "Daemonyx" album available on YouTube
A few months ago I discovered that my entire Daemonyx album has been uploaded to YouTube by CD Baby. This is the same album that accompanied my Dark Awakenings collection when people bought it directly from the publisher, Mythos Books.
In case you'd like to hear it:
The whole thing seems strangely alien to me now. Although playing music is still a very important part of my life, the four-year burst of inspiration and creative obsession / possession that resulted in this particular body of music feels, in retrospect, rather like a dream. I regard such an impression as pretty appropriate given the music's dominant focus on themes of daimonic inspiration and possession, filtered and refracted through multiple musical styles and emotional wavelengths (primarily beauty, sadness, darkness, and sublime exhilaration). I know these same themes are important to many reader of The Teeming Brain, so maybe you'll find that the music resonates with you.
Back when I was nearing the end of the project, I solicited a few comments and blurbs from friends and colleagues with similar thematic and creative obsessions. Some of you may have read these previously, but in case not:
Like a soundtrack to a fever dream, the music of Daemonyx plumbs an ever-changing world of mystery, mood, and melodic apparitions. Listen with the lights out and your imagination on.
– Brian Hodge
Daemonyx's compositions conjure up images of eerie strangeness and awesomely alien worlds that nothing can evoke better than music.
– Ramsey Campbell
"There are many haunting and beautiful compositions that complement or completely make horror films — you know the ones — as well as appeal to listeners who are sensitive to the mystery and dread of life. In its debut album Curse of the Daimon, Daemonyx has offered us thirteen works of such quality."
– Thomas Ligotti
The overall ambience of the music reminds me a little of the electronica of Klaus Schulze. There's a similar powerful evocation of vast and terrifying soundscapes. In the song "Daimonica," I very much like the way the haunting and oppressive music blends with the grim signal motif, "Is there someone inside you?" In "The Gates of Deep Darkness" the ominous martial nature of the music provides a real chill, as of some impending apocalypse.
– Mark Samuels
Intricate, haunting and complex pieces of music, richly creative and inspiring.
– Tim Lebbon
Monsters, marvels, lore, and legend: Jill Tracy on the persistence of mystery
Jill Tracy's Diabolical Streak has been a favorite album of mine for the past decade — see the video above for one of the many reasons why — and in this 2009 interview for Tor.com, the always-mesmerizing Ms. Tracy explains some of the philosophical-aesthetic worldview that informs her lush world of musical darkness:
We all want to believe in magic. It keeps hope alive. Sometimes I feel that magic and the suspension of disbelief is the only thing that matters. I think that's why my music resonates with people on such a deep level.
I was given the book The Mysterious World when I was a child and when I first opened it, there was a picture of spontaneous human combustion. I had never heard of such a thing in my life. There's that wonderful old photograph of Dr. John Irving Bentley who suddenly burst into flame. There's a bit of his leg, with his foot still in a slipper, his walker, and cinders everywhere. And I'd read about toads and frogs and blood raining from the sky. Or Count Saint Germain, who was recorded to have lived for hundreds of years. He said his secret to immortality was to eat oatmeal and wear velvet encrusted with gemstones. To this day, no one knows exactly who he was, where he came from and if indeed he was immortal.
Unfortunately, these days of internet and technology have murdered "the legend." That breaks my heart. Monsters, marvels, lore, and legend — these are the things that make us feel most alive. The most wonderful questions of all are the ones for which there are no answers. One of my favorite quotes is, "In the end, it is the mystery that prevails, never the explanation." Sadly, the world has gotten to a point where everybody's demanding an explanation. But after the info, they're still bored and unfulfilled.
I think it's my purpose to perpetuate the long-lost magic, allow people to slip into the cracks, to pry up the floorboards and search deeply. Believe. Imagine. It's so important to hold on to that childlike sense of marvel.
More: "I'll hold your hand while they drag the river: An Interview with Jill Tracy"
In line with these sentiments, also see Ms. Tracy's appearance as an interviewee in a recent, and excellent, in-depth article about Ouija boards and other spirit-communication devices, where she offers some perceptive observations about Victorian Spiritualism:
Jill Tracy — a San Francisco singer and composer who, with violinist Paul Mercer, performs a touring improvisational-music show called "The Musical Séance" — says that Victorians were more open about loss of life and honoring the dead than we are now. At The Musical Séance, she and Mercer will spontaneously compose pieces based on sentimental objects the audience brings in — from antlers and dentures to haunted paintings and cremated cats to swords and a lock of hair from a drowned boy — not to call in spirits so much as memorialize the audience's loved ones.
Tracy says even as a parlor pastime, Victorians had a sweet, romantic side to them. "A séance brought people together," she says. "It enabled them to face their fears because it was being pitched to them as a form of group amusement, instead of a frightening experience where one sits in their house alone and tries to talk to a spirit. A séance was also sensually charged, the true definition of arousing the senses. Men and women would sit in the dark in close contact, often holding hands or touching, and they would have no idea what was going to happen. For Victorians, it was almost an acceptable moment of abandon."
More: "Ghosts in the Machines: The Devices and Daring Mediums That Spoke for the Dead"
Video: Weird Al exposes the conspiracy (or its theorists) in 'Foil'
Okay, so I'm coming late to the party, since everybody with an Internet connection has now shared this video in the five days since it was released. But "Weird Al" Yankovic has been a musical companion to me since I was in junior high, and lately he's blowing the roof off with some of his cleverest stuff ever.
Case in point: the video for his new song "Foil," from his new album Mandatory Fun. It's a parody of Lorde's "Royals." And for those who are either cognizant of or — Adam Weishaupt help us — actual believers in the mass of conspiracy theorizing that has overtaken American popular culture and public discourse in recent years — including the Illuminati craze in the hip hop world — it is a veritable revelation of satirical sanity.
Or maybe it's actually disinformation put out by the hidden masters of the New World Order!? (For some piquant observations in this vein, scan the comments that accompany the video at YouTube — if the have the heart.)
Video: Christopher Walken can't stop dancing
Yes, I talk a lot about the damnability of the Internet's inbuilt capacity for destructive distraction, but damn, sometimes the whole thing is hugely useful for circulating a dose of pure fun. And if this mashup of nearly 70 movies featuring a vigorously dancing Christopher Walken, set to a very familiar and appropriate song, isn't pure fun, then I don't know what is. It also integrates a smattering of archetypal Walkenisms — various verbal intonations, facial expressions, and bits of body language — that any consumer of movie and media culture in the past 40 years will find familiar. (Note: Beware a few faint, fleeting moments of NSFW imagery.)
Kudos to Ben Craw, video editor at The Huffington Post, for this wonderfully conceived and created slice of entertainment. You can see a full list of the movies he used here.
Teeming Links – August 30, 2013
Image courtesy of Salvatore Vuono / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Today's opening word is actually double: two opening words. The first is from John Michael Greer, writing with his typically casual and powerful lucidity. The second is from international studies expert Charles Hill, who writes with equal power. They're lengthy, so please feel free to skip on down to the list of links. But I think you'll find something interesting if you first read these excerpts, and ruminate on them, and see if you can spot a deep connection between them.
First, from Mr. Greer:
Plunge into the heart of the fracking storm . . . and you'll find yourself face to face with a foredoomed attempt to maintain one of the core beliefs of the civil religion of progress in the teeth of all the evidence. The stakes here go far beyond making a bunch of financiers their umpteenth million, or providing believers in the myth of progress with a familiar ritual drama to bolster their faith; they cut straight to the heart of that faith, and thus to some of the most fundamental presuppositions that are guiding today's industrial societies along their road to history's scrapheap.
. . . The implication that has to be faced is that the age of petroleum, and everything that unfolded from it, was exactly the same sort of temporary condition as the age of antibiotics and the Green Revolution. Believers in the religion of progress like to think that Man conquered distance and made the world smaller by inventing internal combustion engines, aircraft, and an assortment of other ways to burn plenty of petroleum products. What actually happened, though, was that drilling rigs and a few other technologies gave our species a temporary boost of cheap liquid fuel to play with, and we proceeded to waste most of it on the assumption that Nature's energy resources had been conquered and could be expected to fork over another cheap abundant energy source as soon as we wanted one.
. . . [T]he fact that Wall Street office fauna are shoveling smoke about, ahem, "limitless amounts of oil and natural gas" from fracked wells, may make them their umpteenth million and keep the clueless neatly sedated for a few more years, but it's not going to do a thing to change the hard facts of the predicament that's closing around us all.
— John Michael Greer, "Terms of Surrender," The Archdruid Report, August 28, 2013
Second, from Dr. Hill:
This vast societal transformation might be called "The Great Virtue Shift." Almost every act regarded in the mid-20th century as a vice was, by the opening of the 21st century, considered a virtue. As gambling, obscenity, pornography, drugs, divorce, homosexuality, abortion and sneering disaffection became The New Virtue, government at all levels began to move in on the action, starting with casinos and currently involving, in several states and the District of Columbia, an officially approved and bureaucratically managed narcotics trade.
The Great Virtue Shift has produced among its practitioners the appearance of profound moral concern, caring and legislated activism on behalf of the neediest cases and most immiserated populations at home and around the world. To this may be added the panoply of social agenda issues designed to ignite resentment and righteous indignation among the new "proletarian" elite. All this works to satisfy the cultural elite's desire to feel morally superior about itself regarding collective moral issues of large magnitude even as they, as individuals, engage in outsized self-indulgent personal behavior.
. . . There is a logic chain at work here, too: a lack of self-limitation on individual liberty will produce excess and coarseness; virtue will retreat and, as it does, hypocritical moralizing about society's deficiencies will increase. Widening irresponsibility coupled with public pressure for behavior modification will mount and be acted upon by government. The consequential loss of liberty scarcely will be noticed by the mass of people now indulging themselves, as Tocqueville predicted, in the "small and vulgar pleasures with which they fill their souls." We will not as a result be ruled by tyrants but by schoolmasters in suits with law degrees, and be consoled in the knowledge that we ourselves elected them.
To retain liberty, or by now to repossess it, Americans must re-educate themselves in what has been made of Burke's precept: "Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed." Walt Whitman re-formulated this as, "The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws." Learning what liberty is and what it requires of us is the only bulwark, ultimately, against American decadence. Pay no heed to the determinists: The choice is ours to make.
— Charles Hill, "On Decadence," The American Interest, September/October 2013
If you made a Venn Diagram out of Hill's and Greer's respective ruminations, and if you meditated for a while on the shared middle ground between them, you might find something that would insightfully illuminate a lot of the material below.
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Is America Addicted to War? (Foreign Policy, April 2011)
This exploration of "the top 5 reasons why we keep getting into foolish fights," written by Harvard international affairs professor Stephen M. Walt in response to the United States' military intervention in Libya's civil war, is obviously and pointedly relevant to what's going on right now with the Syria situation. "Why does this keep happening? Why do such different presidents keep doing such similar things? How can an electorate that seemed sick of war in 2008 watch passively while one war escalates in 2009 and another one gets launched in 2011? How can two political parties that are locked in a nasty partisan fight over every nickel in the government budget sit blithely by and watch a president start running up a $100 million per day tab in this latest adventure? What is going on here?"
The real threat to our way of life? Not terrorists or faraway dictators, but our own politicians and securocrats (The Guardian)
"Convinced national security is for ever at risk, western governments mimic the fanaticism they claim to despise."
The Leveraged Buyout of America (The Web of Debt Blog)
"Giant bank holding companies now own airports, toll roads, and ports; control power plants; and store and hoard vast quantities of commodities of all sorts. They are systematically buying up or gaining control of the essential lifelines of the economy. How have they pulled this off, and where have they gotten the money?"
Academy Fight Song (The Baffler)
This may be the most exhaustive, devastating, damning, dystopian, and dead-on essay-length critique of higher education in America that I've ever read. "Virtually every aspect of the higher-ed dream has been colonized by monopolies, cartels, and other unrestrained predators. . . . What actually will happen to higher ed, when the breaking point comes, will be an extension of what has already happened, what money wants to see happen. Another market-driven disaster will be understood as a disaster of socialism, requiring an ever deeper penetration of the university by market rationality."
Why Teach English? (Adam Gopnik for The New Yorker)
"No sane person proposes or has ever proposed an entirely utilitarian, production-oriented view of human purpose. We cannot merely produce goods and services as efficiently as we can, sell them to each other as cheaply as possible, and die. . . . No civilization we think worth studying, or whose relics we think worth visiting, existed without what amounts to an English department — texts that mattered, people who argued about them as if they mattered, and a sense of shame among the wealthy if they couldn't talk about them, at least a little, too. It's what we call civilization."
The Humanities Studies Debate (On Point with Tom Ashbrook)
A well-mounted, hour-long NPR radio debate. "Should American colleges and college students throw their resources, their minds, their futures, into the ancient pillars of learning — philosophy, language, literature, history, the arts. Or are those somehow less relevant, less urgent studies today in a hyper-competitive global economy? Defenders of the humanities say this is the very foundation of human insight. To study, as Socrates said, 'the way one should live.' Critics say: 'Crunch some numbers. Get a job.'
Paper Versus Pixel (Nicholas Carr for Nautilus)
"On the occasion of the inaugural Nautilus Quarterly, we asked Nicholas Carr to survey the prospects for a print publication. Here he shows why asking if digital publications will supplant printed ones is the wrong question. 'We were probably mistaken to think of words on screens as substitutes for words on paper' [says Carr]. 'They seem to be different things, suited to different kinds of reading and providing different sorts of aesthetic and intellectual experiences.'"
Japan Opens 'Fasting Camps' To Wean Kids Off Of Excessive Internet Usage (International Business Times)
"A government study found that up to 15 percent of Japanese students spend as much as five hours online everyday and even more time on the internet on weekends. As a result, the Tokyo government's education ministry will introduce 'web fasting camps' to help young people disconnect from their PCs, laptops, mobile phones and hand-held devices."
Cancer's Primeval Power and Murderous Purpose (Bloomberg)
"It is a fundamental biological phenomenon. A single cell 'decides' (for lack of a better word) to strike off on its own. Mutation by mutation, it evolves — like a monster in the ecosystem of your body. Cancer is an occupying force with a will of its own. . . . What from the body's point of view are dangerous mutations are, for the tumor, advantageous adaptations. . . . Susan Sontag called cancer 'a demonic pregnancy,' 'a fetus with its own will.' That is more than an arresting metaphor."
New Exhibit Explains Why We've Been Fascinated By Witches For More Than 500 Years (The Huffington Post)
"A new exhibit at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, aptly titled exhibition, 'Witches & Wicked Bodies,' is paying homage to art's heated affair with witches. The show dives into darker depictions of witches hidden in prints, drawings, paintings, sculptures and more, shedding light on attitudes perpetuated by everyone from Francisco de Goya to Paula Rego."
Beyond the Veil: Otherworld Experience as Archaeological Research (Prehistoric Shamanism)
"By ignoring trance experience of the otherworld, anthropologists could only understand part of the world shamanic people lived in. As it turned out, the otherworld and the existence of the spirits informed pretty much everything these people did. . . . The otherworld of the spirits that prehistoric people experienced is not made up, or a figment of a deluded mind, but is something wired into the brains of every human."
William Gaines and the Birth of Horror Comics (Mysterious Universe)
"Through comics, films and television, 'Tales From The Crypt' and EC Comics have proven to be an enduring pop culture franchise and one that's dear to the heart of many horror fans. Its legacy continues to manifest itself through the innumerable writers, directors and artists whose childhoods were shaped by nights reading those gloriously gruesome early comics by flashlight under the blankets."
Soundtrack for a Dark Enlightenment: A Numinous YouTube Playlist
Thomas Ligotti once spoke of having been subject to a "craving for enlightenment in darkness" that never worked out in real life, but that he channeled into various aspects of his horror stories.
If you, like me, happen to be someone who has shared this craving with Tom, and if by chance you're searching for some aural accompaniment to take you deeper into the shadowy and mournful soulspace of that dark awakening, then please know that the following playlist is for you. It knits together over two and a half hours of music that has been profoundly meaningful to me personally over a span of years, and that has been involved in various ways with my own authorial and existential explorations of the dark and gloomy route to transcendence. I hope it may prove meaningful to you as well.
N.B., you should wear headphones or earbuds as you listen to these tracks, or else use a speaker system with plenty of bass capability, since that's the range where much of the texture of this particular music comes through. I put a lot of thought into the order and progression of the different tracks with their specific themes, tones, and moods, the better to create a subtly structured progression through different chambers and modes of unfolding awakening to the inward reality of the mysterium tremendum and the silent, staring void.
Because we engage with this reality from the particular conditioned state of consciousness that we call "the human point of view," it necessarily and alternately strikes us as threatening, fearsome, exquisitely beautiful, starkly horrifying, unutterably sad, and numinously mesmerizing. Those shadings and more are all represented in this music.
- "The Host of Seraphim" by Dead Can Dance (6:19)
- "Abraham's Theme" by Vangelis, from the soundtrack for Chariots of Fire (3:18)
- "Migrations" by Jocelyn Pook (3:45)
- "The Rocket Builder (Io Pan!)" by Jóhann Jóhannsson (6:29)
- "Heaven in a Wildflower" by Bill Douglas (4:37)
- "Trent Makes the Map" by John Carpenter and Jim Lang, from the soundtrack for In the Mouth of Madness (2:15)
- "Blood for Dracula" by Claudio Gizzi, from the soundtrack for Blood for Dracula/Andy Warhol's Dracula
- "Masked Ball" by Jocelyn Pook (6:14)
- "Bibo No Aozora" by Ryuichi Sakamoto (7:24)
- "The Cave" by Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman, from the soundtrack for Ravenous (8:00)
- "Towards the Within" by Dead Can Dance (7:08)
- "Libera Me" by Elliot Goldenthal, from the soundtrack for Interview with the Vampire (2:52)
- "In Doubt" and "A Different Drum" by Peter Gabriel, from Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ (6:14)
- "Children" by David Darling (5:53)
- "Opium" by Dead Can Dance (5:45)
- "Saveoursoulissa" by Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman, from the soundtrack for Ravenous (8:42)
- "The Great God Pan Is Dead" by Jóhann Jóhannsson (4:47)
- "Elysium / Honor Him / Now We Are Free" by Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard, and Klaus Badelt, from the soundtrack for Gladiator (8:16)
- "Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten" by Arvo Pärt (5:09)
- "Twilight Twilight Nihil Nihil" by Current93 (8:23)
- "Across the Waters" by Byron Metcalf and Mark Seelig with Steve Roach (10:38)
- "Patripassian" by Current93, featuring Nick Cave (5:52)
Teeming Links – August 6, 2013
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James Howard Kunstler was in rare form in a recent salvo against the pervasive and putatively hopeful (but actually despairingly awful) wish, especially here in America, that techno-industrial society might continue to survive indefinitely instead of doing what it's actually in the very earliest stages of beginning to do: implode, collapse, and transform into something else. So I preface this latest offering of recommended and necessary reading with a generous chunk of that piece, which you are hereby encouraged to go read in full.
The permanent contraction of techno-industrialism is necessary because the main fuel for running it has become scarcer and rather expensive, too expensive really to run the infrastructure of the United States. . . . To put it as simply as possible, the main task before this society is to change the way we live. The necessary changes are so severe and represent so much loss of previous investment that we can't bring ourselves to think about it.
. . . Many of those aforementioned swindled, misled, and debauched lumpen folk (having finally sold off their Ford-F110s) will eventually see their prospects migrate back into the realm of agriculture, or at least their surviving progeny will, as the sugar-tit of federal benefits melts away to zero, and by then the population will be much lower. These days, surely, the idea of physical labor in the sorghum rows is abhorrent to a 325-pound food-stamp recipient lounging in an air-conditioned trailer engrossed in the televised adventures of Kim Kardashian and her celebrated vagina while feasting on a KFC 10-piece bundle and a 32 oz Mountain Dew. But the hypothetical grand-kids might have to adopt a different view after the last air-conditioner sputters to extinction, and fire-ants have eaten through the particle-board floor of the trailer, and all the magical KFC products recede into the misty past where Jenny Lind rubs elbows with the Knights of the Round Table. Perhaps I wax a little hyperbolic, but you get the idea: subsistence is the real deal-to-come, and it will be literally a harder row to hoe than the current conception of "poverty."
Somewhere beyond this mannerist picture of the current cultural depravity is the glimmer of an idea of people behaving better and spending their waking lives at things worth doing (and worthy of their human-ness), but that re-enchantment of daily life awaits a rather harsh work-out of the reigning deformations. I will go so far to predict that the recent national mood of wishful fantasy is running out of gas and that a more fatalistic view of our manifold predicaments will take its place in a few months. It would at least signal a rapprochment of truth with reality.
— James Howard Kunstler, "The Dreamtime," Clusterfuck Nation, July 29, 2013
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The Snowden Time Bomb (Project Syndicate)
"In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, world leaders repeated a soothing mantra. There could be no repeat of the Great Depression, not only because monetary policy was much better (it was), but also because international cooperation was better institutionalized. And yet one man, the American former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, has shown how far removed from reality that claim remains."
The Quality of Life (Ribbonfarm)
A semi-companion piece to "The American Cloud," written by the same author, published recently at Aeon, and included here in the July 26 edition of Teeming Links. "Human life, modeled by economists, measured by bureaucrats, and celebrated by statisticians, seems to miss the point in some deep way."
How we are gentrified, impoverished and silenced — if we allow it (New Statesman)
John Pilger on the real-world Huxleyan situation that now confronts us as we're in danger of becoming perfectly adjusted to and conditioned by an deeply insane societal situation.
Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon (The Washington Post)
"The deal represents a sudden and stunning turn of events for The Post, Washington's leading newspaper for decades and a powerful force in shaping the nation's politics and policy. . . . [F]or much of the past decade, The Post has been unable to escape the financial turmoil that has engulfed newspapers and other "legacy" media organizations."
Okay, Here's the Real Reason Why Jeff Bezos Bought The Washington Post (Forbes)
"Amazon's purchase of The Washington Post represents the next logical step in 'owned media,' the purchase of a major media outlet by a major marketer in order to sell directly to the public. In effect, e-commerce is starting to play the role once solely reserved for advertising, monetizing content through promoting the sale of products and services." [NOTE: As stated in the Post article above, it's actually not Amazon but Bezos personally who is the buyer in this epic transaction. But the upshot remains the same.]
Antibiotic resistance: The last resort (Nature)
Health officials are watching in horror as bacteria become resistant to powerful carbapenem antibiotics — one of the last drugs on the shelf.
The Heretic (The Weekly Standard)
Who is Thomas Nagel and why are so many of his fellow academics condemning him? "Nagel's touchier critics have accused him of launching an assault on science, when really it is an assault on the nonscientific uses to which materialism has been put."
The New Theist (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
How William Lane Craig became Christian philosophy's boldest apostle. Prominent "new atheist" Sam Harris has called him "the one Christian apologist who seems to have put the fear of God into many of my fellow atheists."
Among the Immortals (The Weekly Standard)
Does Schumann belong there? "Schumann fought for the cause of good music, but what was truly at stake, it seems, was his own sanity: He eventually threw himself into the Rhine in a failed suicide attempt and ended up in a straitjacket in an asylum. Here is a figure troubled enough for the 21st century!"
Dr. Dean Radin Urges Science to Examine the Supernormal (Skeptiko)
Interview examines the connection between ancient yoga practices and the science of extended human consciousness. "We're in the modern age now and what science is able to do is study not the depths of enlightenment but we certainly can study the very place where mind and matter meet. It's where the deep subjective and deep objective meet, and that is psychic phenomena."
Teeming Links – August 2, 2013
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I invite you to peruse today's offering of necessary and recommended reading under the overarching emotional/conceptual rubric of this recent rumination about the extreme value of ambivalence and undecidedness amid our present sociocultural circumstance of frenetic and manipulative opinion-peddling and belief-mongering:
We live in a society in which opinions, options, and information are everywhere proliferating, and ambivalence is on the rise. Persuasive arguments are available on either side of nearly every choice. What should I think or feel about fast food, nuclear energy, or euthanasia? Which of these 15 brands of toothpaste do I prefer and why?
Yet because it goes largely unmeasured and undetected, ambivalence is undervalued. Uncertainty is interpreted as weakness, even though certainty takes us blundering into wars and financial crashes. Facebook turns our analogue emotions into binary oppositions: You either "like" something or you don't. Management books valorize decisiveness; self-help books command us to be happy; politicians pitch to one side or the other. The ambivalents are trapped in a culture that prizes univalents.
If we are to find a way to break out of our current deadlocks, we need a little more respect for ambivalence. After all, an ambivalent sensibility is a creative one. . . .
When you are in a state of mind in which things aren't resolved into their conventional categories, you are more likely to see new possibilities.
Isn't it time we stood up for ambivalence as a valid and necessary mode of comprehending the world?
Then again, maybe that's a terrible idea.
— Ian Leslie, "Ambivalence Is Awesome," Slate, June 13, 2013
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The New Circulations of Culture (Berfrois)
"We might imagine Facebook, YouTube, Last.fm, Flickr, Instagram, Twitter and so on, as vast archives of cultural data. As things stand, culture is being radically transformed by the recursive circulations of digital by-product data, yet we have little understanding of how this is happening or what the consequences might be."
Thinking in Network Terms (Edge)
Physicist and network theorist Albert-lászló Barabási on human societies in the age of Big Data, when Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc., are the richest troves of human information on the planet. "One of the shocking things that I discovered through my son is that from a very young age, I kept saying 'Do you want to be an astronomer? Do you want to go to the moon?" Always he always said, "No, I don't want to go.' But he would like to go to work for Google, he would like to go to work for Facebook.' We have a generation that is growing up for whom the traditional goals of going to the moon, of flying to faraway stars, don't exist anymore. That's not what excites them."
Why the Internet is Ground Zero in the Global Consciousness War (AlterNet)
By Daniel Pinchbeck. Quoted here three years ago but well worth revisiting or reading for the first time. "The established forces that want to control consciousness and manage perception face the new challenges of outsider perspectives that the internet makes available."
The Internet As We Know It Is On Its Deathbed (AlterNet)
"The original vision of the Internet, where information and media is freely shared, without one's computer strokes and searches being metered, tracked, traced, archived, dissected, marketed and warehoused in government data banks, is dead. And that's what's being lost by mainstream media in the ongoing Edward Snowden coverage. . . . Snowden's revelations are the end of a vision of unfettered Internet freedom."
In Praise of Pessimism (New Statesman)
Will Self on the virtues of negative expectations. "The optimist lives in fear of a future that she endeavours, futilely, to control. For the pessimist, it's simply a matter of shit happens, but until it does, make hay."
Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History (The Atlantic)
A revolution began here. And this is what is left over. "What we see now is a surreal imitation of the suburban industrial parks and commercial spaces of yesteryear. They're built atop the past's mistakes, erasing them from our maps and eyes."
How to keep Millennials in the church? Let's keep church un-cool (The Washington Post)
"Christianity has become too obsessed with how it is perceived. Just like the Photoshop-savvy Millennials she is so desperate to retain, the church is ever more meticulously concerned with her image, monitoring what people are saying about her and taking cues from that. . . . As a Millennial, if I'm truly honest with myself, what I really need from the church is not another yes-man entity enabling my hubris and giving me what I want. Rather, what I need is something bigger than me, older than me, bound by a truth that transcends me and a story that will outlast me."
The Brilliant, Troubled Legacy of Richard Wagner (Smithsonian.com)
"Those who have immersed themselves in Wagner's full operas — lengthy and demanding, yet flowing and churning like a great river of thought and feeling — often experience a sense of awe. 'It's so rich and deep — it's like a drug sometimes. If you give up and let go, it really drags you into a mysterious world,' Jonas Kaufmann, the celebrated German tenor, said on NPR in February."
Science fiction is creeping into more mainstream films (The Guardian)
Science fiction isn't all "talking squids in space". And its creep into mainstream cinema is everywhere from Never Let Me Go to Midnight in Paris.
Harlan Ellison Isn't Dead Yet (Vulture)
"Endings remain very much on his mind. 'I have led what others call the good life,' he said on the phone a few weeks ago. 'I've done what I love all my life and I'm still doing it. Working hard is the only thing I know.'"
Stephen King's Family Business (The New York Times)
"The family now boasts five novelists, four of whom have books out this year. . . . The closest comparison would have to be the Brontës, and even they maxed out at a paltry three published novelists, plus one dissipated poet."
Mutilated Cows Found at Missouri Farm, Police Not Ruling Out the Possibility of Aliens (CBS St. Louis)
The last half of the headline is misleading, but the story is quite interesting. There's a long history of this thing in Missouri (my home state), by the way. "Who would cut the tongues and take the reproductive organs from several cows? That's the mystery police in a small town 90 miles away from Kansas City are dealing with."
The History and Psychology of Clowns Being Scary (Smithsonian.com)
From tribal cultures to modern circuses to Poltergeist, Heath Ledger's Joker, and Pennywise from Stephen King's It, "Clowns, as pranksters, jesters, jokers, harlequins, and mythologized tricksters have been around for ages."


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Auchenai Soulpriest
Auchenai Soulpriest is one of the Expert Priest Cards.
Name | Auchenai Soulpriest |
Effect | Your cards and powers that restore Health now deal damage instead. |
Attack / Health | 3 / 5 |
Class | Priest |
Mana Cost | 4 |
Type | Minion |
Rarity | Rare |
Disenchant Value | 20 |
Enchant Cost | 100 |
Additional Description | The Auchenai know the end is coming, but they're not sure when. |
Artist | Doug Alexander |
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- This card's effect will change your Lesser Heal from a 2 HP heal to a 2 HP attack.
- Don't accidentally forget that this card is in play! Healing your own minions is no longer possible.
- Any healing effect will hurt you now including minions that specifically heal just you and your minions. It is best not to use spells like Holy Nova and Holy Fire or minions like Priestess of Elune or Darkscale Healer, or you will be very sad when you find some health missing.
- Silencing this minion will cancel out its effects.
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- Voodoo Doctor and Earthen Ring Farseer can be used to deal 2 and 3 damage respectively to the enemy hero or their minions when Auchenai Soulpriest is in play.
- Circle of Healing can be used to clear the board in an emergency. Doing so deals damage to all your own minions, but if the opponent has board control, this can often kill everything and leave you with a 3/1 Auchenai Soulpriest, costing you only 4 mana.
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If striate cells had the receptive-field (RF) shapes classically attributed to them, their preferred spatial frequencies would vary considerably with orientation. Other models of RF shape would predict a greater independence between orientation and spatial-frequency tuning. We have examined this by recording the responses of cat striate-cortex cells to a wide range of different spatial-frequency and orientation combinations. In almost all cells studied, peak orientation did not consistently vary with spatial frequency, but the majority of cells showed some change in peak spatial-frequency tuning with orientation. The amount of change in peak spatial frequency tended to be greater for cells that were narrowly tuned for orientation. However, cells narrowly (and also very broadly) tuned for spatial frequency tended to show considerable independence of spatial-frequency and orientation tuning, and in all but a few cells the degree of change was less than predicted by the classic RF model. Such cells were found to fire only to patterns whose local spatial spectra fell within a compact, restricted, roughly circular two-dimensional spatial-frequency region. We conclude that the two-dimensional RF shape of striate cells more closely approximates that predicted by a two-dimensional Gabor model or by a Gaussian-derivative model than it does the classic shape based on the output of geniculate cells with aligned RF's.
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Pink crepes. Pink milk. Pink caramel filled "hugs." Snuggles under the bed covers. Homemade cards. Baby kisses.
So far it's been a pretty good Valentines Day.
Last night I thought it would be fun for Ev and I to make dad a little love note, so I smeared her hand with some paint thinking she would love the creativity to be had. Nope. You would've thought I was torturing her the way she screamed when I put the pink on her hands and pressed it on the paper. Oh well, I think it still turned out cute :)
Evelyn loves this book "Snuggle Puppy." LOVES IT. There comes a part where it says "fuzzy little snuggle puppy I love you!" Without fail after that line, she always looks up at me for a kiss. It is the CUTEST thing in the world. And then she'll go find dad give him a kiss too.
I love today.
Hope you are having a LOVEly day!
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Nursing of Adult Patients with Medical & Surgical Conditions Gastrointestinal Accessory Organ Disorders
Diagnostic Studies Serum Bilirubin Test –Normal Values Direct bilirubin: 0.1 to 0.3 mg/dl Indirect bilirubin: 0.2 to 0.8 mg/dl Total bilirubin: 0.1 to 1.0 mg/dl Total bilirubin in newborns: 1 to 12 mg/dl –Rationale Used to diagnose liver disease, biliary obstruction, erythroblastosis fetalis, and hemolytic anemia –Nursing Interventions NPO
Diagnostic Studies Liver Enzyme Tests –Normal Values AST (SGOT): 5-40 IU/L –elevated with MI, hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatic necrosis, hepatic tumor, acute pancreatitis, acute renal failure, and acute hemolytic anemia ALT (SGPT): 5-35 IU/L –elevated with hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatic necrosis, hepatic tumors, and hepatotoxic drugs. LDH: 45-90 U/L –elevated with MI, pulmonary infarction, hepatic disease, pacreatitis, hemolytic anemia, and skeletal muscle disease.
Diagnostic Studies Alkaline Phosphatase: 30-85 ImU/L –elevated in obstructive disorders of the biliary tract, hepatic tumors, cirrhosis, primary and metastatic tumors, hyperparathyroidism, metastatic tumor in bones and healing fractures Gamma GT: 4-38 U/L –elevated with hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatic tumors, hepatotoxic drugs, MI (4-10 days after), CHF, and alcohol ingestion –Rationale Liver is storehouse for many enzymes Injury or diseases affecting the liver will cause release of these enzymes into the bloodstream
Diagnostic Studies Serum Protein Test –Normal Values Total Protein: 6-8 g/dl Albumin: 3.2-4.5 g/dl Globulin: 2.3 to 3.4 g/dl Albumin globulin (A/G ratio): 1.2 to 2.2 g/dl –Rationale The liver metabolizes protein, esp. albumin. If the liver is diseased it loses the ability to metabolize the albumin and the serum albumin level is decreased
Diagnostic Studies Oral Cholecystography (Gallbladder Series) –Rationale Provides x-ray visualization of the gallbladder after ingestion of a radiopaque dye. The following factors are necessary for adequate dye concentration: –Ingestion fo correct number of dye tablets –Adequate absorption of the dye from the GI tract; no vomiting or diarrhea –Abstinence from food the morning of the test –Patency of the cystic duct –Concentration of the cye within the gallbladder
Diagnostic Studies –Nursing Interventions Assess for allergies to iodine Administer 6 Telepaque tablets orally, after the evening meal NPO after midnight
Diagnostic Studies Intravenous Cholangiography (IV Cholangiogram) –Rationale Radiographic dye is administered IV Allows visualization of the hepatic and common bile ducts and also the gallbladder if the cystic duct is patent Used to visualize stones, strictures, or tumors of the hepatic duct, common bile duct, and gallbladder.
Diagnostic Studies Operative Cholangiography –Rationale Common bile duct is injected directly with radiopaque dye. Visualization of stones or other obstructions during surgery to prevent unneccessary common bile duct exploration
Diagnostic Studies T-Tube Cholangiogram –Rationale Demonstrates good flow of contrast into the duodenum Diagnose retained ductal stones and/or leaks in ducts –Nursing Interventions T-tube to closed drainage system Cover site with sterile dressing, if t-tube removed Assess for allergies to iodine NPO after midnight
Diagnostic Studies Ultrasound of the Liver, Gallbladder, and Biliary System –Rationale Visualization of deep structures by recording the reflections of ultrasonic waves directed in to the tissue –Nursing Interventions NPO after midnight Should be done before barium studies or after all barium has been expelled
Diagnostic Studies Gallbladder Scanning –Rationale Injection of technetium 99 is given and scan is done to visualize the gallbladder and biliary tract Used to diagnose acute cholecystitis –Nursing Interventions NPO after midnight
Diagnostic Studies Liver Biopsy –Rationale Needle is inserted through the abdominal wall into the liver to remove a piece of liver tissue Used to diagnose cirrhosis, hepatitis, drug-related reactions, granuloma, and tumors –Nursing Interventions Informed consent NPO for 4-8 hours Assess lab results for normal platelet count and prothrombin time
Diagnostic Studies After biopsy –Assess for s/s of bleeding –Vital signs every 15 min x 1hr, every 30 min x 4 hrs, then every 4 hrs –Assess for s/s of pneumothorax –Bed rest for 24 hrs
Diagnostic Studies Liver Scanning –Rationale Radionuclide is given IV Geiger counter is used to record the distribution of radioactive particles in the liver –Nursing Interventions NPO after midnight
Diagnostic Studies Blood Ammonia –Normal Value 15 to 110 micrograms/dl –Rationale Ammonia is normally converted into urea and then excreted by the kidneys Liver dysfunction or altered blood flow to the liver causes blood ammonia levels to rise and BUN (blood urea nitrogen) to decrease –Nursing Interventions Notify lab if patient is currently taking Neomycin; can cause decreased ammonia levels
Diagnostic Studies Hepatitis Virus Studies –Rationale Diagnose specific virus causing hepatitis –A, B, C, D, and E
Diagnostic Studies Serum Amylase Test –Normal Value 25 to 125 U/L –Rationale Damage to pancreas cells or obstruction to the pancreatic ductal flow will cause an outporing of this enzyme and absorption into the bloodstream Levels will rise within 12 hours of onset of pancreatic disease. Rapidly cleared by the kidneys; levels may return to normal within 48-72 hrs –Nursing Interventions Note administration of any IV dextrose; can cause a false- negative result
Diagnostic Studies Urine Amylase Test –Normal Value 3-35 IU/hr –Rationale Disorders affecting the pancreas will cause elevated amylase levels in the urine because the kidneys rapidly clear amylase Levels remain elevated in the urine for 7-10 days Used to diagnose pancreatitis in patients who have had symptoms for 3 days or longer
Diagnostic Studies –Nursing Interventions Urine collection may be 2 hr spot urine, 6 hr, 12 hr, or 24 hr collection. –Record exact time collection is begun –Discard first urine specimen –Collect all subsequent urine, including the last urine voided exactly 2, 6, 12, or 24 hrs after collection began –Urine should be kept on ice during collection period
Diagnostic Studies Ultrasound of Pancreas –Rationale Provides diagnostic information with the use of ultrasonography of the pancreas Used to diagnose carcinoma, pseudocyst, pancreatitis, and pancreatic abcess –Nursing Interventions NPO for 8 hours before test Gas or barium will interfere with sound wave transmission
Diagnostic Studies Computerized Tomography of the Abdomen –Rationale Cross-sectional image Used to diagnose inflammation, tumors, cysts, ascites, aneurysm, and cirrhosis of the liver –Nursing Interventions NPO after midnight Some patients may experience claustrophobia
Diagnostic Studies Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography of the Pancreatic Duct (ERCP) –Rationale A fiberoptic duodenoscope is inserted through the oral pharynx, through the esophagus and stomach, and into the duodenum. Dye is injected for radiographic visualization of the CBD and pancreatic duct. Used to diagnose obstructive jaundice, remove common bile duct stones, and place biliary and pancreatic duct stents to bypass obstructions
Diagnostic Studies –Nursing Interventions NPO for 8 hours before test Informed consent Must remain still for 1-2 hours After procedure –NPO until gag reflex returns –Assess for abdominal pain, tenderness and guarding –Assess for s/s of pancreatitis abd. pain, nausea, vomiting, and diminished or absent bowel sounds
Cirrhosis Etiology/Pathophysiology –Chronic, degenerative disease of the liver –Scar tissue restricts the flow of blood to the liver –Types of cirrhosis Laennec's cirrhosis –history of chronic ingestion of alcohol Postnecrotic cirrhosis –viral hepatitis, exposure to hepatotoxins, or infection Primary biliary cirrhosis –destruction of the bile ducts Secondary biliary cirrhosis –chronic biliary tree obstruction (gallstones, tumor, etc.)
Cirrhosis –Alteration of liver function Reduced ability to metabolize albumin Obstruction of portal vein Increased pressure in the veins that drain the GI tract
Complications –Portal Hypertension increased venous pressure in the portal circulation caused by compression or occlusion in the portal or hepatic vascular system
–Ascites accumulation of fluid and albumin in the peritoneal cavity
Esophageal Varicosities –veins in the upper part of the body distend, including the esophageal veins due to portal hypertension. They may rupture causing severe hemorrhage
Cirrhosis Hepatic Encephalopathy –Brain damage due to elevated ammonia levels –Inaapropriate behavior, disorientation, flapping hand tremors, twitching of the extremities, stupor, and coma
Cirrhosis Signs & Symptoms –Early stages Abdominal pain Liver is firm and easy to palpate –Late stages dyspepsia changes in bowel habits –constipation or diarrhea Nausea and vomiting gradual weight loss
Cirrhosis ascites enlarged spleen spider angiomas anemia bleeding tendencies –cannot absorb vitamin K, or produce clotting factors epistaxis purpura hematuria bleeding gums
Cirrhosis jaundice –yellow discoloration of the skin, mucous membranes and sclerae or the eyes –caused by abnormal amounts of bilirubin in the blood mental disorientation
Cirrhosis Treatment –Eliminate the cause alcohol, hepatotoxins, environmental exposure to harmful chemicals –Diet Well balanced High-calorie (2500 to 3000 cal/day) Moderate protein (75 g/day) Low fat Low sodium (1000 to 2000 mg/day) Supplemental vitamins and folic acid
Cirrhosis –Antiemetics Benadryl & Dramamine Contraindicated: Vistaril, Compazine, and Atarax –Treatment of Complications Ascites –Bedrest –Strict I&O –Restrict fluids to 500 -1000 cc/day –Restrict sodium to 1000-2000 mg/day –Diuretics: Aldactone, Lasix, HCTZ –Vitamin Supplements: Vitamin K, Vitamin C and folic acid –LeVeen Peritoneal-Jugular Shunt –Paracentesis
LeVeen Peritoneal Jugular ShuntParacentesis
Cirrhosis Ruptured Esophageal Varices –Maintain airway –Establish IV –Vasopressin drip to control bleeding IV or directly into the superior vena cava –Sengstaken-Blakemore tube –Endoscopic sclerotherapy –Portacaval shunt divert blood from the portal vein to the inferior vena cava –Blood transfusion
Sengstaken-Blakemore Tube
Cirrhosis Hepatic Encephalopathy –Decrease protein in diet –Avoid drugs which are detoxified by the liver –Lactulose Oral or retention enema decreases the pH of the bowel which decreases the production of ammonia –Neomycin inhibits protein synthesis in bacteria, therefore decreasing the production of ammonia
Hepatitis Etiology/Pathophysiology –Inflammation of the liver resulting from several types of viral agents or exposure to toxic substances –Hepatitis A Most common Incubation 10-40 days Oral-fecal trasmission
Hepatitis –Hepatitis B Incubation 28-160 days Transmission by contaminated serum; blood transfusion, contaminated needles, dialysis, or direct contact with infected body fluids –Hepatitis C Incubation 2 weeks to 6 months (usually 6-9 weeks) Transmitted through contaminated needles and blood transfusions –Hepatitis D Coinfection with hepatitis B Incubation 2-10 weeks
Hepatitis –Hepatitis E Fecal contamination of water Rare in the U.S.; usually in developing countries Incubation 15-64 days
Hepatitis Signs & Symptoms –General malaise –Aching muscles –Photophobia –Headaches –Chills –Abdominal pain –Dyspepsia –Nausea
Hepatitis –Diarrhea –Constipation –Pruritus –Hepatomegaly –Enlarged lymph nodes –Weight loss –Jaundice –Dark amber urine –Clay colored stools
Hepatitis Treatment –Treat signs and symptoms –Small frequent meals low-fat, high carbohydrate –IV fluids for dehydration Vitamin C for healing Vitamin B-complex for absorption of fat soluble vitamins Vitamin K for coagulation –Avoid unnecessary medications, esp seditives
Hepatitis –Gamma globulin or immune serum globulin should be given to anyone exposed to Hepatitis A may be given 2 weeks before and 1 week after onset of symptoms –Hepatitis B imune globulin (HBIG) should be given to anyone exposed to Hepatitis B –Hepatitis B Vaccine should be given to persons identified as high risk for developing Hepatitis B –healthcare personnel –high-risk lifestyle (drug users, homosexual men, prostitutes) –infants born to mothers who are Hepatitis B positive
Liver Abscesses Etiology/Pathophysiology –May be single of multiple –Abscess forms in the liver due to an invading bacteria
Liver Abscesses Signs & Symptoms –Fever –Chills –Abdominal pain and tenderness in the RUQ –Hepatomegaly –Jaundice –Anemia
Liver Abscesses Treatment –IV antibiotics –Percutaneous drainage of liver abscess –Open surgical drainage
Cholecystitis & Cholelithiasis Etiology/Pathophysiology –An obstruction, gallstone, or tumor prevents bile from leaving the gallbladder and the trapped bile acts as an irritant causing inflammation. –Risk factors: Female Native American or white Obesity Pregnancy Diabetes Multiparous women Use of birth control
Cholecystitis & Cholelithiasis Signs & Symptoms –Indigestion after eating foods high in fat –Severe, colicky pain in the right upper quadrant may radiate around the midtorso to the right scapular area –Anorexia –Nausea & vomiting –Flatulence –Increased heart & respiratory rates –Diaphoresis
Cholecystitis & Cholelithiasis –Low grade fever –Elevated WBC –Mild jaundice –Steatorrhea (fatty stool) –Dark amber urine
Cholecystitis & Cholelithiasis Treatment –Mild attacks Bedrest NG tube to suction NPO IV fluids Antispasmodic/Analgesic –Demerol: decreases incidence of spasms of the sphincter of Oddi Antibiotics Avoid spicy foods when allowed PO intake
Cholecystitis & Cholelithiasis –Lithtripsy A machine discharges a series of shock waves through water or a cushion that breaks the stone into fragments –Cholecystectomy ( Removal of the gallbladder) Laparoscopic –Oral liquids post-op –Outpatient or discharged next day –Resume moderate activity in 48-72 hrs Open –Jackson-Pratt drain –T-tube –NG tube –Routine post-op care
Pancreatitis Etiology/Pathophysiology –Inflammation of the pancreas Acute or Chronic –Predisposing Factors Alcohol Trauma Infectious disease Certain drugs –Obstruction of the pancreatic duct may cause a rupture and enzymes digest the pancreas
Signs & Symptoms –Abdominal pain –Anorexia –Nausea & vomiting –Malaise –Restlessness –Low-grade fever –Jaundice –Weight loss –Steatorrhea –Tachycardia
Pancreatitis Treatment –NPO –IV fluids –NG tube –Antiemetics –Demerol 75 -100 mg q 3-4 hrs Avoid morphine; causes spasms of the sphincter of Oddi –Anticholinergics –atropine or Pro-Banthine –Antacids or Tagamet (prevent ulcers)
Pancreatitis –Hyperalimentation may be required to maintain nutrition –Prevention bland, low-fat, high-protein, high-carbohydrate diet no alcohol or gastric stimulants (coffee) may need oral hypoglycemic agents if destruction or the islets of Langerhans
Cancer of the Pancreas Etiology/Pathophysiology –Unknown –Risk factors cigarette smoking exposure to chemical carcinogens diabetes mellitus pancreatitis diet high in meat, fat and coffee –May be metastisis form the lung, stomach, duodenum or CBD –May live only 4-8 months after diagnosis
Cancer of the Pancreas
Signs & Symptoms –Anorexia –Fatigue –Nausea –Flatulence –Change in stools –Steady, dull aching pain in the epigastic area –Weight loss –Jaundice –Onset of diabetes mellitus
Cancer of the Pancreas Treatment –Surgery Whipple procedure –resection of the antrum of the stomach, duodenum, and part of the pancreas –anastomosis between the stomach, CBD, and pancreatic ducts and the jejunum Total pancreatectomy with resection of parts of the GI tract –Chemotherapy –5-FU and BCNU –Gemzar –Radiation
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Purple Dream (M) 60cm+ Per pack of 10
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A vibrant purple flower that will open fully in the sun showing its white centre.
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