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In English, many things are named after a particular country – but have you ever wondered what those things are called in those countries?
Traducción de twist en Español:
retorcer, v.
verbo transitivo
1.1(screw, coil)retorcerto twist sth around sth — enrollar / enroscar algo alrededor de algo
- the snake twisted itself around its prey — la serpiente se enroscó alrededor de su presa
- the wires got twisted — se enroscaron los cables
- Mr Gibbon twists the nail, attempting to drive it home.
- I stopped suddenly in front of the building and turned to Rob, twisting some of my hair around my finger.
- Always twist wires together securely before twisting on the wire nut.
- She gently pushes out icing while twisting the nail.
- And he was very, very nervous, and he kept twisting his hat around - you know, when gentlemen used to wear hats.
- Leave a small amount of space to allow the weak link to twist without the link-knife rotating with it.
- The dress she had worn on her date was wrinkled and twisted around her body, and her stockings had huge runs in them.
- Then she ran to the shop door, twisted the Open / Closed sign and began to lock and bolt it like a Colditz guard.
- Cedric walks in straightening his shirt that was most likely twisted around his body from sitting awkwardly on the couch.
- The raging wind began to take shape, twisting and coiling before the man before coalescing into a staff.
- She wore a gown of grass and leaves that twisted about her body like ivy.
- She twirled, slowly bringing her slender arms above her head while her sheer dress flowed in the breeze, twisting around her body.
- Smoke rose from a hall in the roof and drifted with the wind, twisting and furling in on itself until you were unable to see it.
- I twisted one of the ringlets around my finger and pulled it making it bounce up and down.
- Someone who arrives nervously twisting a wedding ring may have marital problems; somebody who has clearly walked through the rain might face financial trouble.
- I tilted my head to one side and started twisting my dirty blonde hair around my fingers.
- His hands traveled up his back and came to rest on the back of his head, his fingers twisted in the jet black locks.
- Cora toyed with her cloak, twisting the shining white fabric between her fingers while gazing up at the stars.
- Maybe if I twist this ring a little harder I'll get to imagine Kendall again.
- She twisted and rotated around the bars with beauty and grace.
- Rochelle began twisting some of her hair around her finger, and I thought that she mustn't have been keeping tabs on me as well as she thought.
- She adjusted the tiny screw at the top and twisted some more, still nothing came out.
- Do you keep things inside and let them twist and wind inside you rather than let them out?
- She gasped, sitting up in bed, her pajama shirt twisted around her body.
- The pair were laughing loudly, Corrie twisting one of her curls around her finger.
- These have been due to either the release line twisting around the link knife, or wheat stubble becoming jammed in the 'v' of the blades.
- She twisted one of those auburn hairs around her finger, looking nervously up at him.
- Max swore as he twisted the lock-pick in the keyhole impatiently, but the lock still refused to oblige.
- And then the men began to come in, and Ælfwyn stepped forward, clasping her white hands together and twisting one of her rings as she waited.
- Rodriguez twisted a few of his rings around his fingers.
- Her eyes were red from crying and her hands kept twisting her skirt unknowledgeably.
- And his grip on my hand firmed, his fingers now curling and twisting over mine as he stood.
- He would always pick up my pen if I dropped it, and I loved the way he would twist his mousy brown hair around his fingers when he got nervous.
- Unfortunately, he rambles on the microphone just as often as he twists the knobs backstage.
- Reaching in his back pocket, he pulled out the ring of keys and twisted the smallest one in the lock on his right cuff.
1.2(turn)(handle/knob) girarto twist the lid off a bottle — desenroscar la tapa de una botella
- he twisted her arm — le retorció el brazo
- He instinctively grabbed the tumbling bag with outstretched arms, and it twisted him sharply to the right before striking his shins and feet.
- But then, in my paintings, I started twisting branches upside down so that they became shapes lying into the landscape.
- Alex twisted both of his swords up into a self-protective X position and waited for the blow Zack would deliver.
- The feline Juanjo twisted himself into a stable position from which to strike, but biffed his shot wide of the post.
- And before he knew it, the pro had twisted him into positions he never thought possible.
- His hand shot out and grabbed my arm, twisting me back painfully.
- She twisted herself into a sitting position, and from there, she managed to get up on her feet.
- Would it be possible for the galleried seating area to be twisted around to make a feature of it as you walk into the chapel?
- I was once again twisted around by the shoulders to face my arch nemesis.
- The wafers are pressed against each other, slightly twisted at a precisely controlled angle and then bonded together to form a bi-crystal.
- Her face ached from the false smile that appeared on her lips, and her toe throbbed from being twisted in the wrong direction.
- I flicked on the little lamp that has been twisted round to fit inside my bookshelf.
- Hetty's form of the condition - spasmodic torticollis - causes the neck muscles to spasm twisting her neck to one side, which also affects the spine.
- She twisted him around to face her and crossed her arms in front of her chest.
- The eagle twists its head, looks me in the eye, and turns its regal beak back into the wind.
- So when I started twisting the fruit around to loosen the membrane and subsequently pick out the seeds, Joey started pointing at me and laughing.
- He blocked all three but struggled on the third because he was twisted in an odd position.
- He grabbed hold of her right arm, twisting her around so she faced the wall and the arm was behind her.
- Every head in Madrid's packed Plaza de Toros was twisted in their direction.
- I was still sitting; he was standing, his arms twisted behind his back.
2.1(distort)retorcerhis face was twisted with pain — tenía el rostro crispado por el dolor
- While he lives in his own little world, he knows what is going on out there - even if he twists the information in his own warped way.
- Of this much I'm certain - Down will be absolutely furious when I tell him that his words have been twisted in this way.
- I have watched how words have been twisted, strewn and bent into whole other shapes by parts of the media.
- Political fund-raising spam is still relatively rare, but it has already been twisted to fraudulent purposes.
- John Q. tries to twists the discussion by effectively challenging us to prove that we're being consistent according to his definition.
- Being clear, and always conscious of whether my words could be twisted, was really important.
- He had twisted her response to his question and told her that even worse words could be twisted by others in court.
- On the local and national front, we have another effort at twisting meanings and twisting history.
- I have been misquoted and my words have been twisted.
- What we should assure politicians is that we have no gain from twisting or distorting facts.
- Rather then debate that process openly, the interviewer twists it into something else and lets others attack.
- We seem to have a lot of sensible men in our laboratories at the moment but their words are being twisted and blown up in a quite irresponsible manner by the media.
- All that does is play into their strategy of twisting words and meanings until nothing means what it says any more.
- That's why I stopped talking, because I can see the press twisting whatever I say anyway.
- Am I being too sensitive, or deliberately twisting his words?
- Facts have either been twisted or not at all revealed.
- He is forced to twist and bend the truth to justify his crimes.
- They have to deal with a thousand different ways in which their words may be twisted and perceived by people they have never met and who have no desire to meet them.
2.2(sprain)torcerI twisted my ankle/wrist — me torcí el tobillo/la muñeca
- She stood for a moment, and massaged her neck where it was stiff after being twisted at an awkward angle all night.
- There's a dead pain in the middle of my back, and I've twisted something or pulled something in my hip.
- The Spaniard had a break point for a 3-1 lead in the first set when he twisted his right ankle after chasing a Sluiter forehand.
- The 19-year-old limped from the fray in the first-half after twisting his ankle where the side of the Gay Meadow pitch met the surrounding track.
- In attempting to play the shot, Lehmann twisted the injured left knee which he already had strapped and he obviously did further damage.
- Knees were twisted, ankles pulled, vision checked, X-rays taken and blood drawn.
- As she left the area where Mrs Scarrabelotti had tripped and broken her wrist, Terra tripped on another cracked part of the footpath, twisting her ankle.
- 'The real test will come in the New Year when I am running and twisting the knee but a week after the operation everything is going well,' he said.
2.3(alter, pervert)(words) tergiversar(meaning) torceryou twisted what I said — has tergiversado / distorsionado lo que dije
verbo intransitivo
1(wind, coil)(wire/rope) enrollarse(wire/rope) enroscarse(road/river) serpentear
- Lowering his quill once more, the ink trailed in a continuous line, curving and twisting on the paper.
- The palace where this wild party occurs is oddly arranged, however, with a series of seven rooms that twist and wind beyond the view of the other.
- Alsonte was floating down a river of memories, twisting and winding.
- Then the trail would stop winding and twisting, and would level off and widen.
- The road twisted and hairpinned and climbed, but as scary mountain passes go, it was pretty tame.
- South of Keri, the road twists past paddy fields, prawn farms and rural hamlets towards Arambol.
- The main road twisted and turned through the collection of houses and shops in a boa-like manner.
- Below, another less obvious route twists off slyly to the south.
- The rim snakes and twists and after a while it's easy to lose your bearings in an unfamiliar place.
- At this point, the Apaches split up from each other and dropped down to ground level where they began to move forward, twisting around dunes.
- His lines curve and twist, zig and zag, constantly delighting the eye but never losing form.
- For instance, you need only drive a few miles out from Benidorm to discover narrow mountain roads that twist through pine forests.
- The paths lead on forever and ever, winding and twisting and weaving in circles until you don't know east from west nor north from south.
- Claire realised too late what had happened when the ride started and she was violently shaken as the roller-coaster looped upside down and twisted around sharp bends at high speed.
- We would bump and twist along narrow roads, their surfaces deeply grooved by hardened tire tracks.
- The small group sat in silence as Alex negotiated the roads, twisting in and out through the traffic, which was unusually heavy this evening.
- They twisted and turned down winding maze paths, never being able to tell if they were lost or going on the right path, blindly guessing.
- We climbed through tough canyon country, the road bucking and twisting between coastal oaks and mountain laurel.
- The corner of her eye caught the yellow bus as it came down the long road, twisting and winding, stopping here and there to pick up children that also attended school.
- The road twisted and turned up and around the mountains, and soon I was surrounded by thick forest.
2(turn, rotate)girarthe cap twists off — el tapón se desenrosca
- Then, I started to move, twisting and twirling my body, starting in a dance that involved every muscle I had.
- The ground began another round of shaking, moving, and twisting.
- Zethus fought against his power valiantly, wriggling and twisting, but got little reward for his struggles, as he didn't move an inch.
- Her body twisted and moved with such agility and grace that she managed to avoid most of the attacks that were issued her way.
- Chaos lashed out with a foot, but Cecil had been waiting for the move, and twisted out of the way.
- She squirmed and writhed and twisted, genuinely this time, but she was small anyway, and Sarah was strong, and so she wasn't going anywhere.
- I twisted and twitched and writhed, but they wouldn't let me go.
- Difficult to describe, the film contains a host of shifting shapes, such as dots and circles that wriggle and twist, as well as a recurring totem figure that is the most concrete element of the film.
- Their bodies twisted as each tried to wrest the weapon from the other's grasp.
- Her body twisted and turned as nightmares filled her head and haunted her rest.
- She tried to wriggle and twist around, but could only move fractionally.
- The robot methodically twisted and moved his limbs in noisy harmony to open the door.
- I'm apparently tossing and turning in my uncomfortable sleep, moving here, twisting there.
- He twisted and writhed in pain, his anger rising.
- As her tail sinks into the semifluid sand, she twists her body and drills herself downward until she is buried up to the pectoral fins.
- Red flames danced, glowing, leaping and twisting, a haunting mix of black and red casting horrific patterns over the concrete.
- The sea will rear up because Jormungand, the Midgard Serpent, is twisting and writhing in fury, making his way toward the land.
- Minutes later, she started to struggle again, pushing and pulling her arm, twisting and wriggling to try to get away.
- Samaras strikes hundreds of different poses, twisting and reshaping himself before the lenses of his various Polaroids.
- Paul twisted, swivelled, danced and turned his way through some desperate tackles before pirouetting over the line in a mesmerising display of balance and control.
4(dance)bailar el twist
- Demise twisted and weaved in the air, dancing peculiarly.
- He clasped his hands together and twisted excitedly.
- He took my hand and held my waist as we danced across the floor, twisting and twirling.
- His legs were askew as he spun, twirled, and twisted, a strange dance of confusion.
- The dancing couples twisted and turned, dancing until they got dizzy and sat down for a drink.
- If you can listen to either one's music without starting to twist, frug or jerk, you seriously need a soul implant.
- In the back of the ballroom, spidery arms and legs twist and move to the music.
- She spun, twisted, and moved her body to the music, even as it continued to go faster.
- She twisted, spiraled, and danced through the air with such feral pleasure that Asgard couldn't help but smile as he watched her.
1.1(bend)(in wire, rope) vuelta femenino(in wire, rope) onda femenino(in road, river) recodo masculino(in road, river) vuelta femenino
- In addition, the path to the hospital area was down a stairwell with several twists or bends, which took additional time and effort given the difficulty in transporting him.
- Familiar bends and twists in the hallway lead her past cubbyholes and labs of other Engletech researchers, including the bemused Thatcher.
- The bends and twists, the potholes and the flooding were all cited as major drawbacks for motorists.
- In certain parts, the water was flowing extremely fast and there are lots of twists and bends.
- Quite the opposite, in fact, as it responded immediately when it came to powering out of the twists and bends of the lanes of the Cartmel Peninsular.
- There was the subtle twist of a planetary orbit here, the tiny bending of a beam of starlight there.
- Then the road got worse, the shade diminished allowing the sun to beat down mercilessly, and the gradient steepened as the corkscrew twists became sharper and sharper.
- There is no suggestion of a pronounced twist in the ventral margin of the jaw of Hynerpeton like that seen in Densignathus.
- Revitalised, he too bludgeoned a brief and spectacular change in momentum in the last hour before, as sure as bend follows twist, he handed it back.
- The route is lined with a variety of ferns and striking sandstone formations and is not for the timid; sudden twists hide cliffs.
- However, when it is cut, you end up with a loop of paper that has an even number of twists, which, when cut again, ends up as two interlocked rings (try it out).
- He followed Kyle through multiple twists and bends in the track as they sped along.
- Silence fills the car as he maneuvers around the twists and bends of the road, turning left on Main, which is much brighter.
- The colorful graphics are sufficient, the diverse musical score is fantastic, and the plot is loaded with mysterious twists and bends.
- The ride and handling is on par with the class leaders, and it is very surefooted in tight road twists - even while carrying a heavy load.
- There's no discernible twist or bend in it whatsoever - it feels like a fully roll-caged race car.
- After another series of twists and bends, the corridor widened into a room.
- What was once mostly a two-lane road with more than its fair share of twists and bends will eventually be a four-lane highway with slow bending curves.
- The bends and twists in the chain of amino acids are different.
- Now the vehicle descends, again through numerous hair raising turns and twists.
1.2(turning movement)giro masculinoto give sth a twist — hacer girar algo
- With a twist of his body, Vince turned so that his left leg was now resting on top of the broken wall of stone.
- I start with trunk twists - twisting my upper body from side to side for 30 seconds, elbows in, fists up, hips steady.
- Hold position, then come out of twist smoothly; change foot and leg positions, and repeat twist to the other side.
- It wasn't so much that I was going fast, as that I did many acrobatic twists as I slid down the hill.
- Why just do lunges when you can do a lunge and a torso twist?
- They were the only pair to perform jumps with a quadruple twist and a triple Riedberger, as well as a spin with a jump.
- With a yell and a half twist, I spiralled off the ground with my sword to the side, the blade catching the fire.
- Morgeta squats down and with the twist of her upper body with her arms extended halfway out, she causes the boulders around her to fly off the ground in a circular pattern.
- Clive Francis, as the Aunt, created the illusion of an old woman by a twist of the body and the turn of the head and one believed in it.
- She looked outward, and could just make out a two-legged, tramping shape making little twists and rolls ahead of her.
- Stoney Point's bipod uses a very clever, patented locking mechanism so you can change the length with a twist of the wrist.
- This yoga twist often relieves pressure in low back discs with a pop!
- He swung the spear so that the staff rested against his back, his right hand held onto the part sticking out to his right, and when he got close to the block he gave a twist of his body, cutting through it with the spear at his side.
- Performers would then dive into the water from the swing, embellishing their dives with graceful twists and spins, when the swing reached its highest point.
- The gentle back bends and twists soothe lower back pain, improve digestion, and clear your thinking.
- Hu rallied to win on his last dive, a backward double somersault with one twist.
- The gradual twist of the body may be likened to certain movements in nature, such as that of a vine winding itself around a tree.
- With a complex twist of his wrist he tossed the bhaji onto a plate and it accelerated after the bounce so quickly that he hardly had time to parry it with his knife.
- With a firm twist of her body, Oren got herself spiraling toward the ground at a crazy angle.
- Though a relatively recent convert to card playing, Vincent has mastered all the tokens required, winking, nodding, tongue twists and body gyrations.
1.3(sth twisted)a twist of paper — un cucurucho de papel
- a twist of thread — un torzal de hilo
- a twist of lemon — una rodajita de limón
2(in story, events)vuelta de tuerca femeninogiro inesperado masculinoby a (strange) twist of fate — por una de esas (extrañas) vueltas que da la vida
- And in a serendipitous twist of fate, he is now in a position to offer my band discounted studio time at a local recording studio.
- Be prepared to laugh, cringe and cry as the play slips from the anarchical to the downright grotesque and be prepared for an unexpected twist at the end.
- The movie itself is an instant classic with yet again amazing visuals, dialogue, twists, action sequences, performances, and sound track.
- His life had taken so many strange turns, twists and almost acrobatic tumbles.
- When you seem to be pandering to an audience with a slender attention span, then it's unrealistic to expect character development, clever plot twists or edge-of-seat tension.
- In a strange twist of irony, this very narrowing down of themes may result in a wider audience.
- But in a terrible twist of fate, the disease she has worked so hard to find a cure for has now come to haunt her.
- Yesterday's verdict was originally expected in December but was repeatedly delayed by fresh, and increasingly strange, twists in the case.
- The second half of the show is filled with unexpected and clever plot twists, as well as a marked shift in tone.
- The newly formed friendship is severely tested and I won't give the ending away, but it is indeed an astonishing twist of fate for all three men.
- His stories are accompanied by a strange twist of the supernatural.
- The film holds a few surprises - not in clichéd twists, but in unexpected plot developments that make the film more compelling.
- Ellen is not even a quarter-time medium but they end up uncovering a family secret at the end, so it's a play with a double twist to it.
- At times, the plot twists sound as if they've been generated by a Hollywood scribe, a fact that amuses Koenig.
- The debate was an unexpected twist for the rave community, which was finally feeling optimistic about the proposed bylaw amendments after years of waiting for them.
- In a strange twist in the tale the wheeler-dealer will pay a terrible price for this unrequited love.
- An unexpected twist of fate would change the course of his life.
- In a strange twist of irony, players who played the past year overseas say they are too worn down to participate, while players who didn't play claim they are nowhere near game shape.
- So, as to not spoil the movie, I will only tell you that it concludes with an unexpected twist.
- The book zips by with twists, murders and sudden encounters.
3(dance)twist masculino
- Play your favorite music and dance: Move your feet, move your body, add a waltz, do the twist.
- Did the twist signal the end of Western civilization?
- It was a crazy record: it had instructions on how to do the twist on the back of it, about how you dance and where you put your feet.
- They stood up, sang Twist and Shout, danced the twist, going up and down.
- But I told Quentin that there were other dances other than the twist.
- I think I was more willing to do the twist like an overweight John Travolta than do that time warp thing from the other movie.
- The entire crowd was in a constant groove, heads bopping and legs kicking up doing the twist, swing dancing, and just plain old quaking and shaking.
- Back in the 1960's my favorite uncle taught me how to do the twist.
- Twist is an effort to document the twist dance craze that starts off with some promise, but eventually goes off the rails.
- The description of him dancing the twist with his wife in an effort to come to terms with the New World Order is almost too sad to contemplate.
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Wallingford in New Haven County, Connecticut — The American Northeast (New England)
Wallingford Korean War Monument
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[ 1,846 names are listed on six bronze tablets ]
Location. 41° 27.214′ N, 72° 49.146′ W. Marker is in Wallingford, Connecticut, in New Haven County. Marker is on South Main Street 0.1 miles north of Prince Street, on the left when traveling north. Touch for map. Located in front of Wallingford Town Hall. Marker is at or near this postal address: 45 South Main Street, Wallingford CT 06492, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Wallingford World War II Honor Roll (here, next to this marker); Wallingford World War I Monument (a few steps from this marker); The Parade Ground (within shouting distance of this marker); Founders of Wallingford (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Wallingford (about 600 feet away); Hon. Abraham Doolittle (approx. 0.2 miles away); Lyman Hall (approx. ¼ mile away); Robert Wallace (approx. 0.7 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Wallingford.
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Atopica - CYCLOSPORINE A - New Drug - Answered by Dr. Lee
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So as with many of you, I have been having countless problems with finding a vet that that can actually tell me what is wrong with my dog. He's a 4 year old pittbull who's life has been all over the place.
His problem seems to be his head, as he has a beautiful coat, keeps weight on, it fluctuates slightyly but for the most part is good. But his ears are always bothering him, his eyes always weepy and swollen looking, and he has a bald spot on top of his head.
So we have had biopsies and blood tests done and it's always been the same, prednisone and antibiotics; we haven't been able to get an answer from anyone of the 6 or 8 vets we've had him to in the past 2 years (he was a rescue) So now we have a vet that has suggested Atopica, and I've been trying to figure out if this would be right for him?
With the amount of problems people are seeing with this drug is it out-weighing the health problems your pets have been going through? Is it worth the money and the sickness your pets seem to be going through? Or should we stick it out on the steroids which do work really well, but we wean him off for at least one month before the next round of them as they are hard on his system. So by the time the next round comes up he is feeling ill again...
Any advice would be great! I am going to talk to the vet about Atopica more today, but am still not sure if the pro's outway the con's? Thanks for any insight or hope.
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Then why don't areas outside the reach of Pharma (Latin America, eastern Europe, Africa, southeast Asia) use these "miracle cures"?
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Originally posted by RogerT
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I think you very clearly proved my point, so much appreciated.
The conversation was about why this device isn't widespread in developing countries. The financial reason is one very good reason, the lack of technical knowledge is another. Both are probably more valid than my presumption, however, mine was aimed at a certain portion of developing country's population.
And you are partially correct, I didn't work in the rural areas, I lived and worked amongst the very people I was referring to (although not in a 5 star hotel - I wish). The kind of people who would conceivably have the means or the technical know-how to take Beck's device on board.
Thanks again for helping me out.
That explains why a tiny portion of the world doesn't use it. Now explain Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lituania, Kazahkstan, Uzbekistan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam, to name a few from one portion of the world.
Originally posted by cams
Big deal! Anyone can get a patent, some may say.Not so. There are certain criteria that apply before issuing at patent such as whether the product serves a "useful" purpose...US Patents are legal documents that hold up in a court of law and can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in R&D, application fees and processes before a patent is approved. So why would anyone bother spending so much time and effort to patent something if it does not work?!
Compare his work to this patent.....
"Method of curing AIDS with tetrasilver tetroxide molecular crystal devices
granted October 14, 1997
(basically an injectible substance using silver ions and getting electrons to fire in order to electricute and "cure" AIDS.)
Note the AIDS patent uses tetra-silver and electrification of the blood as per Dr Beck.
Patent for Magnetic pulsing
Electro-magnetic pulsing (for lymph nodes) United States Patent 4665898 Malignancy Therapy
Originally posted by Hongkongphooey
My 68 year old mother has recently been diagnosed with an auto immune blood problem which causes lumps full of puss to develop on her arms and breast area therefore, I have just ordered the mini zap from germany which i believe is the most suitable device to help her. i also ordered one for a friend in the UK who has been diagnosed with HIV with MMS however, everyone is advising her to stay on the poison medicines and not listen. hopefully she will come round as a cure (if possible) is better than just keeping it at bay for life. As I advise her, its definately worth a try and what has she got to lose for 6 weeks of her life???
[edit on 21-6-2010 by Hongkongphooey]
Originally posted by arpanet
Well a couple things stick out:
1) this hasn't been peer reviewed or published in any medical journal (which does NOT make the research invalid, just simply stating)
2) the link has nothing to do with the beck machine that can be so easily built. The patents are for a device that looks to be surgically implanted, and the experiments were not done with the beck device either.
The device in the link looks more substantial than what is being discussed in this thread, I haven't had a chance to review the entire story yet so this is just a first glance review...
Most knowledgeable observers feel that Kaali and Lyman's discovery was intentionally suppressed following the March '91 AIDS conference presentation. If AIDS research was on the level and not the sham that it actually is, this should have made front page news around the world.
(Around 1999, I was contacted by a woman with AIDS who had managed to reach Dr. William Lyman over the phone. She asked him about his experiments with Kaali regarding blood electrification and if she could obtain the treatment through them. Lyman denied any knowledge of any AIDS treatment or cure. He said he never heard of Dr. Kaali and he had no idea what she was talking about concerning blood electrification and then hung up on her.)
Originally posted by gatewaywithin
My bad bedlam,sorry for being so vague. What I was alluding to was just as electrical currents alter the physiology of cells I believe radiowaves and audiowaves can as well. Furthermore that the physiological change/effects of the cells brought about by the influence of these currents and waves can be accurately measured by pinpointing their frequency at the time a cellular changes take place.
Originally posted by gatewaywithin
For anyone interested here are some links regarding the effects electrical currents have on cells.
Biocompatible Electric Current Attentuates HIV Infectivity
Effects of small amounts of electric current at a cellular level
The influence of electrical current on bone regeneration
Electrical Stimulation for Faster Bone Healing
Originally posted by gatewaywithin
reply to post by Bedlam
Here you go my BEDLAM my friend.Who says radio waves,sound waves or electrical current cannot alter the human condition.
The effects of radio waves on living organisms.
The effects of audio or sound waves on humans.
Here is one where they are treating prostate cancer with sound waves.
Denying ignorance one skeptic at a time. I love this place already
Originally posted by hearttissue
Hey Everyone,
I do own such a thing. It works. It kills various viruses, parasites - also gets you off flus and stuff. It's "magic". ;=)
Actually, it's the same principle as the "energy-healer". Think about it. These zappers work with very low voltage - a human is in fact "a battery" - alone the neurons in our body produce such an incredible voltage when they fire - it's much more than you would think it is. And then you have the huge electromagnetic field around the body and stuff... this is, how it works.
And it cures "anything".
Energy-medicine is the future. And it has just NOTHING to do with esoteric kind a things... it's simply acknowledging the reality outside the "money dictates what works and what doesn't" and "you better feel dependent on outhers" and "the universe is hostile - forget about love" paradigm. But it is in fact just the universe, doing that. It's pure bio-physics.
Originally posted by justletmeinI purchased a machine from sota to make colidial silver it also doubled up as a zapper which I never used having read this article I have just done my first session with the zapper ....
Originally posted by arpanet
This thread is becoming redundant to say the least. Basically the skeptics are concerned with two main points: 1) lack of data confirming said claims 2) lack of worldwide interest in the technology.
Originally posted by RogerT
Originally posted by VneZonyDostupa
2. Even if you heard about it, you'd just dismiss it as worthless anecdotal evidence, just like you have dismissed the many valuable peer reviews given to you freely and openly here on this very thread.
You have given me ZERO peer-reviewed papers. All you have provided to date is a set of interviews and papers which refer to themselves (and previous iterations of the same data) as sources. Please get your story straight.
I'm referring to your ATS peers


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We're all familiar with businesses that promise to fix your online reputation; many of them are totally above board, completely circumspect, and do a fine job. There have been criticisms, however, based on ethical considerations. But are such firms your only option if you find your online presence is threatened by bad publicity? Actually, it turns out that you can do quite a bit on your own to fix your reputation and save your e-Commerce enterprise.
As e-Commerce evolves at dizzying speed, it spins off new acronyms and even new fields at an amazing rate. A new subdivision of Public Relations, largely the offspring of SEO, is the field of reputation management. This new type of public relations activity addresses the matter of negative search engine results, which can be devastating to e-Commerce success.
Many sites ask for feedback in the increasingly interactive arena of cyberspace, and of course feedback can be positive or negative. Any e-Commerce vendor wants to publicize its positive feedback and hush up negative responses. E-Commerce sellers thrive or wither on the basis of customer feedback after purchases.
How do you deal with bad ones?
Your first step is to correct the problem that the bad review is complaining about. This is just common sense and applies to a brick and mortar business just as much as to an e-Seller. If you can turn a dissatisfied customer into a happy one, he or she may remove the negative feedback item, and perhaps even submit a new review gushing over your responsiveness to feedback. If posted information is simply incorrect, it may be sufficient to point that out, and the slur may be removed. Legal challenges of libelous sites are even a possibility.
Another corrective measure might be garnering positive references on authoritative third party sites. Press releases are a time-honored tool of public relations, and they can be used in this way. Like any other tool of public relations, reputation management can involve abuse. Sellers have been known to offer discounts as rewards for positive reviews.
John Morgan of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, with his colleague Jennifer Brown of the same university's Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, studied feedback processes in connection with selling activity on the best-known site for e-Sellers, and found that positive feedback was being bought and sold through discounting practices. Items were being sold for as little as a penny, simply in order to generate a positive feedback blip, thus raising the positive feedback percentage, a crucial matter for an e-Seller.
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Fake reviews and even fake bloggers, talking up a product or service, are sometimes employed. Of course the ethical boundaries are very fuzzy here. Just what constitutes a "fake" blog? Not every hired blogger is misrepresenting the truth, but some are.
The new term for this type of activity is "astroturfing," taking its cue from the way astroturf masquerades as real grass. An astroturfing site strives to hide its connections to the individuals that produce it, and particularly to hide its basis of financial support. Astroturfing can be used by competitive rivals who upload fake reviews trashing other suppliers in the same field.
Strong-arm techniques are not unheard of. A spam bot can harass a site so seriously that it has to leave the web entirely, or submit to demands to remove content.
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After all, what's the best solution for the small time e-Commerce entrepreneur, who may not want to pay top dollar for a Reputation Management concern? Here are some possibilities that can be part of a do-it-yourself portfolio:
- Turn to your customers, your loyal fans (hopefully), and ask them for positive feedback. While it would be inappropriate to offer them discounts in return, it is legitimate to discreetly make it clear to them that a good relationship between the customer and the firm, perhaps involving a positive review, will benefit both parties in their future commercial relationship. This is not rocket science or anything particularly new. Merchants need to be nice to their customers, and when they are nice, the customers will be happy, and will say so.
- Set up a legitimate blog – It's not unethical to hire bloggers for this – to blog positively about topics related to your product.
- Get yourself a guest blog gig on other blog sites related to your product. Obtain the same sort of gigs for your writing staff and public relations operatives. Use these opportunities to garner positive name recognition for what you do.
- Register with directories like Yelp and others, and solicit reviews there. Of course, make sure that the product or service referenced by the directory is one that will produce a positive response among users. Again, be nice to your buyers and they will be nice to you.
- Establish relationships with third party sites that can talk about your site. Get some interviews. Use all of the time-honored techniques of old style public relations and advertising. Press releases are good possibilities. Of course each of these releases and interviews needs to be promoted with good SEO techniques and other SEM practices.
- Upload some YouTube videos, and push them with keywords.
- Maintain a presence on public forums, and engage your writers to do the same, making sure that they do not violate the boundaries of truthfulness or ethics in what they say there.
- Monitor your success with alerts that can be placed on Yahoo, Google, Twitter, and other sites. These media concerns will let you set up alerts about search results that will let you know how you're doing.
With a combination of the new techniques of Reputation Management, used ethically, and the time-honored techniques of garden variety public relations, you can keep your e-Commerce entity in the clear with a good online profile and healthy search results.
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- Stefan Sagmeister
I wanted to show this particular piece actually done by James Victore, to show the influence Sagmeister has in the industry. Using the style of Stefan's AIGA Lecture Poster, rather than carving the text in the skin, what may or may not be shoe polish, Victore tried to give the lettering some energy, with varying sizes and styles of lettering, even underlining a sentence and leaving a scrawled-out word.
Mountains of madness ( 1994 )
Album cover for H. P. zinker. when the album is removed from the transparent red case the facial expression dramatically changes. who says you can't create actual motion and emotion in print design?. This same format was applied to the Sagmeister Inc. Business cards.
Sagmeister depicted David Byrne as a plastic GI Joe-style doll on the cover of Feelings.
One of his trickiest assignments was for the Rollings Stones 1997 Bridges to Babylon album and tour. Sagmeister struggled to persuade the band's management to accept his motif of a lion inspired by an Assyrian sculpture in the British Museum. Also the astrological sign of the Rolling Stones' lead singer, Mick Jagger (a Leo), the lion doubled as an easily reproducible motif for tour merchandise.


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You can make new friends who you wouldn't have met otherwise. Some of the people I met through sports I was almost too scared to audition for ended up being my close friends. These people ended up having similar interests as me, but we didn't have a place to meet where we all shared a common interest. You couldn't meet them before, because they were in places outside your comfort zone.
You can find something you are passionate about that you would have never discovered. When I am on the water at crew practice it feels as if all my emotions wash away. All that is left is calming motions and the beautiful scenery. If I hadn't gone out of my comfort zone and tried it I never would have been able to feel this way.
Your passion could turn into your dream career. That one time you went out of your comfort zone and found your passion could lead to a career. If I had never gone out of my comfort zone and tried out for crew I couldn't feel that passion for crew. I would have never considered crew as a career. Even though I'm not seriously considering it is still as an option because I have tried it. Because you have tried something you have an option to use it as a career.
You may make a mistake while going outside your comfort zone. Most people wouldn't consider this as positive, but I do. Whenever I make a mistake I learn never to make the same mistake. If you had never gone outside of your comfort zone you would have never learned what works and what doesn't. You would still be in the dark about the issue. You are more likely to hone onto the mistake while outside your comfort zone, because you feel self conscious and nervous. You will pick up on it and not make it again. The important part is to not beat yourself up over the mistake and think of it as a mistake that will be prevented in the future.
Remember: A turtle can't move until it sticks its head out. In other words you can't move forward or backward until you go outside your comfort zone.


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LEICESTER caretaker boss Garry Parker has spelt out his desire eventually to move into management - but admits he is not ready to step into the kind of role vacant at Filbert Street.
Parker, who played under leading managers such as Brian Clough at Nottingham Forest and Ron Atkinson at Aston Villa, plus Martin O'Neill at City, will be at the helm for tomorrow's Worthington Cup clash with Leeds.
He has been pleased with the response of the players in their state of limbo with the Foxes still not ready to announce a replacement for the sacked Peter Taylor.
The likes of Robbie Savage, Muzzy Izzet and Matthew Jones have all been full of praise for the way Parker has tried to pick up the pieces in the last week.
But reserve team coach Parker feels he is not experienced enough to try for the job on a permanent basis, with the likes of Dave Bassett and Joe Royle now being linked with the club as possible candidates.
Parker said: "I would like to become a manager at some stage. I'm not ready for it at the moment but this is all good experience for me.
"People have compared this situation with that at Coventry, where Roland Nilsson has come in as a caretaker and done well - but there is a gap from the First Division to the Premiership.
"Whoever comes in here is going to have a very hard job and you need someone with a bit of experience who knows what they are doing and I haven't got that.
"All I can do is pick a team for the Leeds game - or for however long I am in charge."
Parker claims his future is secure with Leicester whoever is appointed, although he would relish the chance to continue working with the first team squad.
He said: "I've been told whoever comes in that I should be OK. Whether I have to go back to doing the reserves or whatever will not be a problem.
"All I want is what's best for Leicester but I do like working with the first team. It's already down to what the new man decides."
Parker, who has been assisted in his preparation by goalkeeper Tim Flowers and youth coach Steve Beaglehole, admits he has tried to lift spirits after Taylor's departure but claimed the squad will be on trial for when his successor is brought in.


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- Encore: Lazy Eye by Silversun Pickups.
Tier 2: Castlestein ConcertEdit
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Multi Store Model on Memory
These are designed for the multi store model of memory by Atkinson and Schriffer (1968), this is part of the AQA Psychology B (PSYB2) specification. It is from the section of cognitive psychology.
- Created by: Bethany Cunningham
- Created on: 27-01-13 18:16
Overview of the Multi Store Model on memory.
There are three stores of memory according to Atkinson and Schriffen (1968): sensory store, short term store and long term store.
The sensory store is largely unconscious, attention is required to pass information to the short term store. For the information to be stored in the long term store, it requires continous rehearsal (verbal). This is then stored into the long term store and this can be transfered to the short term memory store via retrieval and then there is a response output from the short term memory.
An example is a teacher asking a child if he/she knows the capital of France.
In this case the sensory stores are the ears, this is then retrieved from the long term store as the capital of France is Paris and then from the short term store, the output is Paris to the teacher.
Capacity of the memory stores.
Sensory memory: all sensory experience
Short-term memory: 7 items (+/-2)
In 1956, Miller published a famous paper called 'The Magic Number 7' in which he presented evidence to show the limit of short-term memory to be between 5 and 9; on average it was 7.
This can be increased by chunking: 0800001066 to 0800 00 1066.
Long-term memory: unlimited
Duration of the memory stores
Sensory memory: 1/4 seconds (visual) and 4 seconds (auditory)
Short-term memory: 18-30 seconds
Long-term memory: unlimited
Coding of the memory stores
Sensory memory: sense specific
E.g. remember a taste as a taste.
Short-term memory: phonological
Sound based.
Long-term memory: semantically
Based on meaning.
Baddeley-key study
AIM: to investigate coding in short-term memory (STM) and long-term memory (LTM). METHOD: They had three separate groups which learnt a list (independent groups design):
One group learnt a list of acoustically similar words.
One group learnt a list of semantically similar words.
One group learnt a list of unrelated words (control condition).
RESULTS: The groups were then asked to recall the list immediately (to test STM) and 20 minutes later (to test LTM).
Immediately recalled showed that most mistakes were the acoustically similar words.
20 minutes later, the most mistakes were the semantically similar words.
INTERPRETATION/CONCLUSION: As the acoustically similar words were difficult to remember immediately, this is because they were acoustically similar words and the coding of STM is acoustic; it was confusing.
As the semantically similar words were difficult to remember 20 mins later, this is because they were semantically similar words and the coding of LTM is meaning; it was confusion.
Primacy and recency effect
Primacy effect is the better recall at the beginning of a list (rehearsed and transferred to the Long Term Memory).
Recency effect is the better recall at the end of a list (still in Short Term Memory).
Evaluation of the Multi Store Model
It has been criticised for its simplification of the STM (working memory model would argue this is more complex with different components) and LTM working in a uniform fashion.
They believe that rehearsal is key for transferring information but in real life we rarely transfer information in everyday life.
Case studies of patient (don't get confused with H.M-lack of consolidation),K.F suffered brain damage following a motorcycle accident, and underwent brain surgery. He found he had normal LTM function but not STM, the multi store model can't explain why this occurs.
Focuses on the structure of memory and ignores processes.
Doesn't reflect biological factors
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Shanghai - The next-generation Mercedes-Benz A-Class will have a conventional sedan version and this new concept car, revealed at the Auto Shanghai motor show on Tuesday, gives us a strong indication of where the company is headed with the newcomer's design, and that of the entire next-generation A-Class family for that matter.
But isn't the CLA essentially an A-Class sedan? Technically yes, as it has four doors, a three-box profile and a traditional trunk, but Mercedes opted to position and badge it as a more premium 'four-door coupé' due to its more low-slung, coupé-like shape.
While it remains to be seen how the CLA will evolve, or even whether it will survive, the A-Class sedan is set to feature a higher roofline, making it more practical, and it will likely be priced closer to the A-Class hatch. It will be more mainstream, in other words.
Mercedes-Benz says the Concept A Sedan provides "an outlook of the next generation of compact vehicles", meaning it also previews the next A-Class hatch, and perhaps even the GLA crossover.
This means we could well see the production models debut with a 'Panamericana' style grille with vertical slats, similar to that on the concept, while the eyebrow-shaped headlights are also likely to evolve into showroom format, as will the matching taillights with their heavily sculpted inner structure.
Expect the new A3 sedan rival to debut internationally in 2018, offering a wide range of engines mainly driving the front wheels, although you can certainly bet on a potent all-wheel drive A45 joining the range at a later stage.
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Nobody knows the troubles they've seen.
But they pushed forward and got their high-school diplomas on Thursday in a graduation ceremony that rocked to The Who's "Baba O'Riley" and U2's "Beautiful Day."
Nearly 200 students from Back Bay and Monte Vista high schools took that defining, life-altering walk to accept their high school diplomas before a capacity crowd inside Estancia High School's gym with the hoops raised high to clear the way.
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Before that, Isabella Chavez and Blair Camarillo sang a beautiful rendition of "Lean On Me," long a theme song for at-risk students.


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New research reveals differences in content consumption between generations X, Y and Z.
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Which landmark particularly stands out in Munich's skyline? That would be the Cathedral of Our Blessed Lady or Frauenkirche, the church featuring two onion-shaped domes on top of twin towers that reach 99 meters (325 feet). But it's not just the church's architecture that makes it stand out, by law no other tower can be taller or obstruct the view of this symbolic Bavarian building.
Near the entrance of the catherdal is the famous "devil's footprint". According to legend, the devil stomped his foot at this spot when he thought the architect had forgotten to put any windows in the church, before realizing the illusion. Enjoy panoramic views from the south tower and the art of Erasmus Grasser, Jan Polack, and Hans Krumpper that decorate the interior of Frauenkirche.
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Local cyclists are looking forward to taking test rides on eight separate segments of Highway 198 south of King City on Saturday morning to help Caltrans and UC Davis determine which treatment likely will work best to smooth out the rough surface left by a chip seal job on Highway 1 north of Cambria last fall.
Results of the UC Davis tests and other studies could have statewide implications.
The Highway 1 resurfacing completed in October left loose rocks on the road that passing vehicles would kick up, pelting bicyclists and other vehicles, and turned what many say had been a world-class biking experience into bone-rattling, tire-hammering misery.
Road surface experts will do scientific surface studies, too, but "we're hoping the riders' qualitative opinions" of the various new surfaces "will inform us for the Highway 1 situation and for projects statewide," Tim Gubbins, Caltrans District 5 director, said.
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That's all good news for people who have been pressuring Caltrans to fix the problem, including Supervisor Bruce Gibson, other members of the San Luis Obispo Council of Governments, chambers of commerce and members of bicycling and auto-rally clubs, including Slabtown Rollers Cycling Club of Cambria.
"To our knowledge, nothing like this (testing program) has happened in our state before," Slabtown member Sharon Jordan-Evans wrote in an email. "They've asked local cyclists to participate in the research effort, and we are thrilled to be involved."
Evans said the testing's goal is to determine which of the eight options will provide "a cost-effective approach to smoothing out a very rough surface." Besides the hoped-for fix for Highway 1, the tests "could also be used to establish future smoothness standards for roads all over California."


text: CALL FOR PAPERS workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs (FTfJP) in conjunction with ECOOP 2002, Málaga, Spain, June 10-14 http://www.cs.kun.nl/~erikpoll/ftfjp Deadline for submissions : April 8 Formal techniques can help to analyze programs, to precisely describe program behavior, and to verify program properties. Applying such techniques to object-oriented technology is especially interesting because: 1. The OO-paradigm forms the basis for the software component industry with their need for certification techniques. 2. It is widely used for distributed and network programming. 3. The potential for reuse in OO-programming carries over to reusing specifications and proofs. Newer languages such as Java and C# provide a good platform to bridge the gap between formal techniques and practical program development, because of their reasonably clear semantics and standardized libraries. Moreover, these languages are an interesting target for formal techniques, because the novel paradigm for program deployment introduced with Java, with its improved portability and mobility, opens up new possibilities for abuse and causes concern about security. The work on formal techniques and tools for programs and formal underpinnings of the programming languages themselves complement each other. This workshop aims to bring together people working in these areas. Possible topics are: - specification techniques and interface specification languages - specification of software components and library packages - automated checking and verification of program properties - verification logics - language semantics - type systems - dynamic linking and loading - security issues The workshop provides a forum for about 15 short presentations that are selected according to the quality and focus of the submissions. Each presentation session is followed by a discussion on the presented work and issues related to the session topic. Submissions: We solicit extended abstracts on new developments or interesting applications of formal techniques in the context of Java or similar languages, notably C#. Each submission should state a clear position, explain the technical background that motivates/supports this position (up to 7 pages). Submissions will be selected for participation and presentations by the program committee. The committee will provide feedback on all submissions. Send submissions by email to Erik Poll <firstname.lastname@example.com> by April 8, 2002. Submissions must be in Postscript or PDF format. Springer LNCS-style is recommended. Submissions should have page numbers to facilitate writing comments. All submissions must be accompanied by an short abstract in ASCII format. Proceedings: The proceedings will be printed as technical report and made available at the workshop. In addition, we hope to organize a special issue of a journal with long versions of selected papers from the workshop, as has been done for the last two FTfJP workshops. A special issue of the journal "Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience" about FTFJP'2000 has already appeared, and a similar issue about FTfJP'2001 is in preparation. Important Dates: Deadline for submission: April 8 Notification of acceptance: April 29 Deadline for early registration: May 6 Final version due: May 24 Day of workshop: June 10 Program Committee: Gilad Bracha Sun Microsystems, USA Sophia Drossopoulou Imperial College, Great Britain Susan Eisenbach Imperial College, Great Britain Doug Lea State University of New York at Oswego, USA Gary T. Leavens Iowa State University, USA Rustan Leino Microsoft, USA Peter Mueller Deutsche Bank, Germany David Naumann Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany Erik Poll (chair) University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands


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End of Life Decisions Improvement of the dying experience plan byDrAlida Lancee
1 Criminal code 1913 does not distinguish between wilful murder and end of life medical intervention to relieve suffering with an earlier death as a side effect. One has to prove in court that the doctrine of double effect was applicable. Or face a murder sentence.This creates fear in medical practitioners and hesitation to provide adequate symptomatic relief in case this is misinterpreted as an attempt to hasten death. Especially in in institutions . The result is that many terminally ill do not receive adequate symptom relief and suffer needlessly. Their loved ones are left with painful memories which often complicate the grieving process.
End of Life law reform
2.Death and dying are not medical matters, they are a normal very individual but emotional aspect of the human experience.Every person has their own moral and belief structure around this issue and should be able to have achoice in what their dying experience should look like.Most Western Australians (over 80%) want to be able to have control over where and when they die.The days are long gone where doctors were an authority over death and dying.Medical practitioners in our modern society are but one member of a patient-centred health care team.In our free society we have autonomy over our beliefs, moral values and health care decisions.The health care team is guided by each patient's values in all health care decisions.How we choose to die should be no different.Each health practitioner in turn has the right to choose if they can comply with any such request or if they need to refer to another practitioner who has no such objections.
*Freedom of Choice at the End of Life legislation
*End of life Service to educate the public, health practitioners and allow "handover of care" if needed
3 Death and dying should be a family and loved ones focussed affair ,not a medicalised hospital based experience.Most people want to die at home or in their community but only 15-20% do so. Most (60%) die in hospital and 10% in ICU
Increased funding for community based palliative care services and allocated small community based hospice facilities not located at a hospital
Increased respite and help for carers of dying persons to allow as many people as possible to die at home among loved ones.
4 Death and dying are still taboo subjects often avoided in conversation and as a result of medical advances death is tried to be delayed as along as possible even thought this often prolongs and increases suffering.
Universal advanced care planning for all over 75YO as part of the 75 health assessment with GP's to allow open communication of ones mortality and for wishes to be documented.
Medic-alert bracelets can be worn by those who do not wish to be resuscitated and to indicate an advanced health directive is in place.
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I was diagnosed with sub clinical hypothyroidism ten years ago. Blood tests were always borderline and sometimes under normal ranges and as a result I was never prescribed any medication.
September 2015 I became pregnant and my TSH was 3.19. My doctor prescribed 50/75 mcg of Levothyroxine. TSH, FT4 AND FT3 were under normal ranges for the rest of the pregnancy.
I gave birth at the beginning of May. I got tested on 01/07/16 and my TSH was 0.01 and T4 21.2. Doctor reduced Levothyroxine to 50 mcg a day instead of 75 mcg. I got tested again on 07/09/16 TSH was 0.01 and T4 22.2. I understand with these results that I have gone hyper. My doctor has suggested reducing to 25 mcg daily and I havesuggested to her if I could only take 25 mcg three times a week and go without medication for the rest of the week. She said that was ok but she didn't seem too sure. What are your thoughts? Do you think that taking Levothyroxine 25 mcg three times a week is enough? I'm so confused..
Lately I've been feeling really tired but having difficulty falling asleep and also I've been loosing lots of hair. I am really worried as all these months I've been breastfeeding my baby. I understand that Thyroxine only passes into minimal amounts in breastmilk. I'm concerned as I've been taking too much of it, will it then pass into breastmilk?
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Public Comment
Vivisecting the University of California
In her latest book Bright-Sided, Barbara Ehrenreich contends that positive thinking can render you powerless when it overrides reality. It did so for a man I knew whose face was being eaten by cancer. He dabbed at the suppurating wound with a handkerchief while sunnily burbling about everything but that or seeking treatment. I wondered how he could so blithely ignore what was obvious to everyone else. I wonder the same about the UC administrators and regents.
On Oct. 2, former water attorney and now UC Vice President Dan Dooley announced that his Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources would be closing the University's Center for Water Resources and attempting to find someone other than UC Berkeley to take its world-renowned Water Resources Archives in order to save money. The UC President's Office was initiating the action as it "looked for opportunities to integrate and create synergy with the strategic initiatives." The action, Dooley concluded, would give the University "the opportunity to realize our vision, to strengthen our proven commitment to the people of California, and to shape the future we all share."
Even as the administration imposes cutbacks on the university greater than anything suffered during the Great Depression, it burbles on about its highly compensate commitment to maintaining the excellence and greatness of a world-class institution and the undimmed prestige of its diplomas. President Mark Yudof regularly proclaims that as much as it pains him and the regents to sharply raise student tuition and lay off two thousand employees, "We will make it through today's challenges as well. At the end of the day, the university will be stronger and reach even higher levels of achievement" as long as "we don't surrender to our greatest enemy, the easy allure of mediocrity."
Keep dabbing at that wound, President Yudof.
The very presence of superb research resources like the Water Resources Archives—and their synergy with others—has made the University of California at Berkeley a magnet for scholars, filmmakers, engineers, authors, and others. The President's Office is now dismantling that magnet while claiming that it isn't. If one wishes to compare, for example, the means by which Los Angeles' and San Francisco's power elites seized distant rivers to assure their respective cities' perpetual growth, one can consult the papers of engineer J.B. Lippincott in the Water Resources Archives and then trot a few hundred yards over to the Bancroft Library to study those of Michael O'Shaughnessy. One can peruse thousands of historic and contemporary photographs and maps found nowhere else. Kevin Knuuti, the chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District says that the Corps relies upon Archives documents to protect the state capital from floods.
Contrary to the University's proud motto—Let There Be Light—a little more darkness falls when such public resources as the Archives are snuffed just as the state pushes for a vast and costly revamp of its water infrastructure. Dr. Peter Gleick, the president of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, says "Shutting the Archives would serve the purpose of those who would seek to hide the unseemly history of California water — in the files of the archives are the stories, histories, and dirty linen of how we got where we are today," not to mention where we are going.
The determination of some in Sacramento and the university administration to apply a business ethos to public education recalls Governor Ronald Reagan's discovery that the Bancroft Library had accumulated treasures of extraordinary value. In addition to making students pay the cost of their education, Reagan's administration proposed selling its collections to fund other, more productive, units of the university operations. Saner heads prevailed, giving the University a few more decades to boast itself a world-class institution.
That reprieve is ending as the administration vivisects the institution it manages. Outstanding professors are packing their bags, and prospective ones are rethinking offers to jump onto the foundering shipwreck. President Yudof has claimed that "As a leader, it is important to be truthful and direct." He, and Dan Dooley, should quit dabbing at the wound. They need to tell Californians the truth about the university's headlong plunge into the mediocrity that they now deny.
Gray Brechin is a three-time alumnus of the University of California Berkeley and a Visiting Scholar in its Department of Geography He is the author of Imperial San Francisco: Urban Power, Earthly Ruin.


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Google's YouTube Lost Its High PageRank
Posted on 28th October, 2007
That's right, somehow Google own video sharing website has suffered a major drop in PageRank after the recent shake up. From where I am, currently it's a 3. The Future PageRank tool also indicates that the value is consistent across all datacenter.
I don't recall YouTube selling text link ads, so obviously Google is looking at other areas when deciding whether a site's PageRank should be reduced.
If it's not a glitch, perhaps Google had decided that YouTube is no longer an important website for whatever reason and therefore doesn't deserve the high PageRank.
Regardless, it goes to show that Google doesn't discriminate when it comes to setting PageRank value for their own properties. Then again, if it's not a spam penalty, I'm incline to think that this is a normal fluctuation during a PageRank update and surely YouTube would set to regain its former PageRank.


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If you have some time to spare today, head over to the House of Representatives website and make a submission to the inquiry into IT pricing.
Announced in April, the inquiry is examining the price disparity between goods sold in Australia and goods sold elsewhere.
Federal MP for Chifley Ed Husic, who initiated the inquiry, said in April, "I'm hoping companies will take this opportunity to explain their pricing in Australia. This will also give consumers the chance to talk about how this affects them."
To date, only 35 submissions have been published on the House of Representatives website.
The inquiry aims to:
Investigate whether a difference in prices exists between IT hardware and software products, including computer games, consoles, ebooks, music and videos sold in Australia over the internet or in retail outlets, as compared to markets in the US, the UK and Asia Pacific
Establish what those differences are
Determine why those differences exist
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Determine what actions might be taken to help address any differences that operate to the disadvantage of Australian consumers.
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The hornets nest hovers
stings poised to strike
needles stable, calculated
veins athirst.
Don't kick the hornets nest,
don't kick me where
it will hurt.
Rather hitch me upon
a star,
a far distanced entity
that brings the broken
to the fabric to which
the earnest cling,
for nothingness is a plight
empty and without grasp.
To know is to be free,
yet knowledge begs the
presence of pain;
sensation breeds it.
Hitch me to unadulterated
kick the hornets nest and
let me feel
nerves nudged,
for nothingness is a plight
empty and without grasp.