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Transplanted Personalities
Can Transplanted Organs Carry Remembered Traits?
A woman claims to have undergone a complete "personality transplant" after receiving a new kidney.
Cheryl Johnson, 37, says she has changed completely since receiving the organ in May. She believes that she must have picked up her new characteristics from the donor, a 59-year-old man who died from an aneurysm.
Now, not only has her personality changed, the single mother also claims that her tastes in literature have taken a dramatic turn. Whereas she only used to read low-brow novels, Dostoevsky has become her author of choice since the transplant.
Miss Johnson, from Penwortham, in Preston, Lancs, said: "You pick up your characteristics from your donor. My son said when I first had the transplant, I went stroppy and snappy - that wasn't me.
"I have always loved books but I've started to read classics like Jane Austen and Dostoevsky. I found myself reading Persuasion."
The former Preston North End football steward's life has been turned round since her successful operation. After developing kidney problems in 1998, she had previously undergone every available form of dialysis as well as a failed transplant in 2001.
Miss Johnson added: "It's given my 16-year-old boy his mum back.
"I totally respect the family who gave me this kidney. They have given me the best thing they can - a chance for a normal life. I am forever grateful to them."
Academics in America have developed a theory called cellular memory phenomenon to explain the personality changes that are allegedly experienced by some transplant recipients.
Examples include a Massachusetts woman with vertigo who became a climber; a Milwaukee lawyer who began eating Snickers, having always hated chocolate; and a seven-year-old girl who had nightmares about being killed after being given the heart of a murdered child.
However, the only case recognised by the scientific community is that of a 15-year-old Australian girl whose blood type changed following a liver transplant.
UK Transplant also remains sceptical about the phenomenon. A spokesman said: "While not discarding it entirely, we have no reason to believe that it happens. We would be interested to see any definitive evidence that supports it."
Do organ transplants or transfusions involve the psychoplasm?
An area of evidence that supports the hypothesis that the psychoplasm integrates personality patterns with our physical DNA patterns (also comprised of energy and information) may be the recipients' experiences of organ or stem-cell transplants and transfusions of blood. Anecdotal reports suggest that people who have undergone such medical interventions may have taken on some of the donors personality traits or behavioral habits.
A Liver Transplant Appears to Carry Psychological Traits with It.
The recipients of a new kidney says "(it) changed my whole personality."
Reported in a March 16, 2008 article in The Telegraph (One of the U.K.'s leading newspapers).
Promoting Scientific Reincarnation Research
How About Heart Transplants?
Madlyn Fafard, a reviewer of The Soul Genome, made such a connection and recommended the book The Heart's Code, by Paul Pearsall, a psychologist who writes about how people change as a result of heart transplants (and his own life-saving, immune-system transplant). She went on to speculate on the interesting possibility that the existence of a soul genome (psychoplasm), with energetic traits that transcend the matter in which they are incarnated, may transfer behavioral patterns that co-exist with the organs that are transplanted.
The concept of such "entanglement" used in this Reincarnation Experiment and its scientific basis are more thoroughly discussed in Chapter 10 of The Soul Genome and Dean Radin's book Entangled Minds. The associated concept of celluar memory is gaining scientific adherents. (See Bruce Lipton's book Biology of Belief.)
A Stem-Cell Transplant for Lukemia Sufferer
An ongoing (anonymous) case in this project involves a person who received a stem-cell transplant as treatment for lukemia. Family members and other observers noted significant physical, personality and behavioral changes in the months following the transplant. Using the five-factor, psychophysical rating system used in this project's reincarnation research, we are making an assessment of the scope and nature of changes observed in this individual. Such research efforts may help corroborate the evidence of life-to-life transfers of psychoplasm legacies in past-life cases.
They will be reported on this site when significant findings become available. The obvious physical changes noted by the observers are: (1) the transformation from a heavy endomorph body type to a thin ectomorph, (2) a new hair color and texture, (3) a change of blood types (due to generation of new blood from stem-cell replacement), and (4) a shift in eye color. Equally noteworthy are changes in the individual's posture, gait, and manner of carrying his body (beyond a result of the previously mentioned weight loss). "Slumped shoulders" have been replaced with "squared shoulders."
On the personality rating scales, the subject moved significantly from being highly independent to a much more passive style, shifting from agressive behavior to submissiveness. The subject also shifted from a pre-transplant "happy-go-lucky" style to one of frequent "episodes of anger." A change from being "party-oriented" to "shyness" is reported. The changes are such that some family members label the composite as a "change in personality."
Since the identity of the stem-cell donor is kept confidential, it is not possible compare the recipient's new personality and physical traits with those of the donor. However, this case and others in the public domaine suggest some mechanism like the psychoplasm provides a plausible explanation of the apparent transfer of psychophysical patterns from one person to another via living tissue.
Since the medical intervention itself and/or family circumstances may have also been variables that effected the changes, more controlled research should further test this hypothesis. Anyone aware of individuals interested in participating in such evaluations (as either donor or recipient, or their representatives) may contact us.
Madlyn raised the additional questions: "When you are cremated, do you thus remove all portions of the soul, that are still in the organs that have not given up with brain death? Is this why Buddhists desire cremation, as my daughter did, after embracing Buddhism?"
The likely answer to her questions, in the psychoplasm-reincarnation context, is that the soul genome survives intact at the moment of phsyical death. Thus, regardless of how the physical body is separated from its life force, the soul-genome's psychoplasmic legacy can be passed on in relation to a new physical birth. This postulate has been supported by hundreds of cases developed over decades by the late Ian Stevenson, M.D.
What is Cellular Memory?
Cellular memory is a theory that states the brain is not the only organ that stores memories or personality traits, that memory as a process can form in other systems in the body and can be stored in organs such as the heart. This theory is not new. Imaginative fiction writers probably were writing about the concept as early as the 1800's, long before transplants of anything were even considered plausible. Perhaps it was Maurice Renard's Les Mains d'Orlac that popularized the idea for the first time. In the story a pianist looses his hands and a killer's hands are transplanted in their place. Of course the story has been spoofed and remade so many times in our own culture there's scarcely anyone that doesn't know how the story ends, with the killer's hands possessing the main character to kill. This is an extreme and over simplified version of what cellular memory could be. In our modern culture where organ transplants are being done daily we have yet to come up with a case such as the abovementioned but we have stumbled onto some pretty strange coincidences. First studied in heart transplant recipients Cellular Memory was noted when upon waking up from surgery patients would display a strange change in tastes, opinions, cravings, and other mild personality changes. Could it be the organs given to them had some part of the donor's memory left within it?
Modern Examples
Most examples of cellular memory in transplant patients are recorded by scientists doing studies, with the aid of a hospital system that forbids the transplantee to know or speak to the donor's family. Because of this most of the cases are written of without the use of names, leaving these patients stories at large but still in obscurity.
One of the few cases we know the patient's name was a woman called Claire Sylvia who received a heart and lung transplant in the 1970's from an eighteen year old male donor who had been in a motorcycle accident. None of this information was known to Sylvia, who upon waking up claimed she had a new and intense craving for beer, chicken nuggets, and green peppers, all food she didn't enjoy prior to the surgery. A change in food preferences is probably the most noted in heart transplant patients. Sylvia wrote a book about her experiences after learning the identity of her donor called A Change of Heart.
Other documented cases have been perplexing and sometimes extreme. A 47 year old man receiving a heart from a 17 year old black boy suddenly picked up an intense fondness for classical music. The boy whose heart had been donated was killed in a drive-by shooting, still clutching his violin case in his hands. A 47 year old transplant patient claimed that his new heart was responsible for a sudden onset of eating disorders, heralded from the heart's previous owner, a 14 year old girl. Once a change in sexual orientation was even documented in a twenty seven year old lesbian who soon after getting a new heart settled down and married a man.
The most stunning example of cellular memory was found in an eight year old girl who received the heart of a ten year old girl. The recipient was plagued after surgery with vivid nightmares about an attacker and a girl being murdered. After being brought to a psychiatrist her nightmares proved to be so vivid and real that the psychiatrist believed them to be genuine memories. As it turns out the ten year old whose heart she had just received was murdered and due to the recipients violent reoccurring dreams she was able to describe the events of that horrible encounter and the murderer so well that police soon apprehended, arrested, and convicted the killer.
Other common quirks recorded have been changes in attitude, temperament, vocabulary, patience levels, philosophies, and tastes in food and music. The phenomena has just recently been put into studies. The most notable of which was Dr Paul Peasall's questioning of 150 heart transplant patients which was published in Near-Death Studies magazine in 2002 entitled "Changes in Heart Transplant Recipients That Parallel the Personalities of Their Donors" from which the aforementioned cases are mostly from.
How Cellular Memory Might Work
It is thought that cellular memory might be possible since the discovery that neuropeptides exist not only in the brain as once thought but in all the tissues of the body. These neuropeptides are a way for the brain to "speak" to other bodily organs and for the organs to rely information back. However it is unknown if these newly found circuits could indeed store memories as the brain does in different organs. Due to the amount of peptides in the heart this organ is seen to have special potential in the study of this phenomenon. However many answers still remain. Why don't all transplant recipients have these experiences? It's been theorized this may be due to the fact not all of them are in tune with their body as some other individuals may be. Perhaps the explanation lies with the sensitivity of the individual.
Alternate Theories
The Hospital Grapevine Theory: The hospital grapevine theory is the simplest alternate explanation, stating that patients may be influenced due to information they hear from nurses talking to each other or their surgeons while they are under anesthesia. Although it's forbidden to tell a transplant recipients the identity of the donor or any personal information there's no such rule that prevents hospital staff from talking amongst themselves. Could all these coincidences be a placebo effect given to the highly suggestible?
The Quantum Theory: this theory claims that the answers may lie in a world we are as of yet are very ill-equipped to prove, in the wonderfully strange world of quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics tries to explain mathematically events that occur with atoms and the particles which may make up atoms. This is world where regular physics comes to die and can be used loosely to explain virtually anything that can't be explained otherwise. It's tempting but I'll leave this one up to the mathematicians to toy with. As of yet I haven't heard of any of them proposing this theory, it seems to be something thrown out there by laymen.
The Drug Theory: It is the body's duty to protect itself from foreign objects and that is generally what it does when it receives organs that weren't grown in it from conception. This is why patients have to receive immunosuppressant drugs to stop their own bodies from attacking the new organ. There have only been a small handful of cases of people who have lived without these drugs, and they have done so on their own against the advice of doctors. this theory states that these drugs can be the cause of the changes in personality. Perhaps in some strange way these drugs can be psychoactive as well as immunosuppressive. This theory probably chalks up the specific nature of the said changes in personality to coincidence.
Shocking examples of cellular memory
Professor Gary Schwartz (Professor Gary Schwartz's findings are backed up by Dr Paul Pearsall, author of The Heart's Code, a book dealing with the same phenomenon).
Gary Schwartz, a professor of medicine, neurology, psychiatry and surgery at the University of Arizona, says research by a team he leads has found definite links. He calls it 'cellular memory'. He has documented 70 cases where he believes transplant recipients have inherited the traits of their donors.
Prof. Schwartz said: "When the organ is placed in the recipient, the information and energy stored in the organ is passed on to the recipient. The theory applies to any organ that has cells that are interconnected. They could be kidneys, liver and even muscles.
"The stories we have uncovered are very compelling and are completely consistent." He says his studies have found that heart transplant patients are the most likely to experience personality changes.
Their casebook also includes: A woman who was terrified of heights until she was given the lungs of a mountain climber. Dottie O'Connor, from Massachusetts, is now a climber. Paul Oldam, a lawyer from Milwaukee, received the heart of a 14-year-old boy and inherited his craving for Snickers. A man of 25 received a woman's heart and, to his girlfriend's delight, now wants to go shopping all the time. Mr. Sheridan's "art" transplant Mr Sheridan, a retired catering manager, started drawing as therapy to relieve the boredom while waiting for a donor in New York's Mount Sinai Hospital. There was no way his efforts could be considered artistic, according to the hospital's consultant art therapist, Beth DeFuria.
"But days after his transplant, he began creating this amazing, elaborate artwork," she said. "It was really quite amazing how his talent blossomed." Mr Sheridan, 63, was being hailed as the latest example of a phenomenon which sounds like science fiction but which is intriguing a growing number of medical experts - that it is possible during an organ transplant to inherit character traits from the donor.
Yesterday, Mr Sheridan met the mother of the heart donor and handed her a sketch of a large hand holding a heart with the inscription: "You gave me more than a heart. Thank you." He had agreed to give up the traditional anonymity between donor and recipient as part of a campaign to publicize the need for more organs. In the process he discovered the heart had come from 24-year-old Wall Street stockbroker Keith Neville, who died in a car crash And one of the first things Mr Sheridan asked the dead man's mother, Donna Reed, was whether her son had been artistic.
Mrs. Reed told him her son loved to paint. She said: "He was very artistic. He showed an interest in art when he was just 18 months old.
"He always preferred to be given art supplies rather than toys." Mr Sheridan said: "I am alive because someone was kind enough to give me their heart. He had to be a good person because I feel myself being more caring and loving." William Sheridan's drawing skills were stuck at nursery level. His stick figures were the sort you would expect of a child. But as he convalesced after a heart transplant operation, he experienced an astonishing revelation.
Suddenly he was blessed with an artistic talent he simply did not recognize, producing beautiful drawings of wildlife and landscapes.
Knowing By Heart: Cellular Memory in Heart Transplants
by Kate Ruth Linton Under the supervision of: Tom Anderson
Throughout history, a number of individuals in the scientific community have proven reluctant to accept or even acknowledge new concepts simply because they have not been able to fit them into the confines of their limited understanding concerning the natural world. In the realm of heart transplantation technology, uncharted and controversial territory is beginning to emerge as a result of a concept known as cellular memory. What is cellular memory, particularly in relation to the technology of heart transplantation? And is cellular memory, in fact, a valid concept worthy of further investigation? These are precisely the concerns/questions I intend to address today.
Claire Salvia's Story
On May 29, 1988, a woman named Claire Sylvia received the heart of an 18-year-old male who had been killed in a motorcycle accident. Soon after the operation, Sylvia noticed some distinct changes in her attitudes, habits, and tastes. She found herself acting more masculine, strutting down the street (which, being a dancer, was not her usual manner of walking). She began craving foods, such as green peppers and beer, which she had always disliked before. Sylvia even began having recurring dreams about a mystery man named Tim L., who she had a feeling was her donor.
As it turns out, he was. Upon meeting the "family of her heart," as she put it, Sylvia discovered that her donor's name was, in fact, Tim L., and that all the changes she had been experiencing in her attitudes, tastes, and habits closely mirrored that of Tim's (Sylvia179).
Some members of the scientific community and of society, as a whole, may brush this off as being merely a strange coincidence. However, some believe that episodes such as this one offer evidence of a concept known as cellular memory, which is beginning to gather more and more attention in the scientific community as the technology of heart transplantation improves and affects more people throughout the world (Bellecci 1). Definition of Cellular Memory Cellular memory is defined as the idea that the cells in our bodies contain information about our personalities, tastes, and histories (Carroll 1). Evidence of this phenomenon has been found most prevalently in heart transplant recipients.
Though cellular memory may seem too far- fetched for some, several scientists and physicians have looked further into it as a valid concept and have come up with various theories to try and gain more understanding of it. Some have tried to gain a deeper understanding of cellular memory through the realm of chemistry.
One such scientist is Candace Pert, pH. D., who studies biochemistry. Her findings helped support one belief which a growing number of scientists have now adopted: "every cell in our body has its own 'mind'…and if you transfer tissues from one body to another, the cells from the first body will carry memories into the second body" (Sylvia 221). In other words, these scientists believe cellular memory does, in fact, exist…although they would probably prefer not to word their belief as such. Amino acid chains were previously known to exist exclusively in the brain. However, Pert and her colleagues have found them in places all throughout the body, especially in major organs such as the heart (Pert 1).
Recent research has shown that communication between the heart and brain is a "dynamic, ongoing, two-way dialogue, with each organ continuously influencing the other's function" (HeartMath Institute 1). Some physicians and scientists have tried to gain understanding of cellular memory through psychological, metaphysical, and even supernatural terms. One can see why they would go to these unconventional lengths in order to try and explain cellular memory when faced with such disturbing incidents as the following story:
A eight-year-old girl had nightmares about being killed after being given the heart of a child who had been murdered. Several years ago, an eight-year-old girl received the heart of a ten-year-old girl who was murdered. Shortly after receiving her new heart, the girl began having recurring nightmares about the man who had murdered her donor. She believed she knew who the murderer was.
Her mother finally brought her to a psychiatrist and after several sessions, the girl's psychiatrist "could not deny the reality of what the child was telling her." They decided to call the police and, using the descriptions from the little girl, they found the murderer. According to the psychiatrist, "the time, the weapon, the place, the clothes he wore, what the little girl he killed had said to him. . ..everything the little heart transplant recipient reported was completely accurate" (Pearsall 7).
Needless to say, the psychiatrist was eager to find any available explanation for this particular patient's experience. Cellular memory may be baffling, and the scientific community may know very little about it. But is that not the impetus behind most scientific research? To explore the unknown and find answers to the unanswered? I believe that it is. And for that reason, I believe that we, as members of society, owe it to the generations to come to support research in this area. With further investigation of cellular memory, perhaps someday we will be able to really unlock the heart's mysteries and memories and truly understand what the statement, "knowing by heart," means.
Cellular Memory in Organ Transplants
By Leslie A. Takeuchi, BA, PTA
Candace Pert, author of Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel, says, "Memories are stored not only in the brain, but in a psychosomatic network extending into the body . . . all the way out along pathways to internal organs and the very surface of our skin." After having discovered neuropeptides in all body tissues, Pert suggests that through cellular receptors, thoughts or memories may remain unconscious or can become conscious-raising the possibility of physiological connections between memories, organs and the mind. Paul Pearsall, MD, a psychoneuroimmunologist and author of The Heart's Code, has researched the transference of memories through organ transplantation. After interviewing nearly 150 heart and other organ transplant recipients, Pearsall proposes the idea that cells of living tissue have the capacity to remember.
Together with Schwartz and Russek, Pearsall conducted a study, published in the Spring 2002 issue of the Journal of Near-Death Studies, entitled, "Changes in Heart Transplant Recipients That Parallel the Personalities of Their Donors." The study consisted of open-ended interviews with 10 heart or heart-lung transplant recipients, their families or friends and the donor's families or friends. The researchers reported striking parallels in each of the cases. The following is a sampling of some these.
Case 1: An 18-year-old boy who wrote poetry, played music and composed songs, was killed in an automobile accident. A year after he died his parents came across an audiotape of a song he had written, entitled, "Danny, My Heart is Yours," which was about how he "felt he was destined to die and give his heart to someone." The donor recipient "Danny" of his heart, was an 18-year-old girl, named Danielle. When she met the donor's parents, they played some of his music and she, despite never having heard the song, was able to complete the phrases.
Case 2: A seven-month-old boy received a heart from a 16-month-old boy who had drowned. The donor had a mild form of cerebral palsy mostly on the left side. The recipient, who did not display such symptoms prior to the transplant, developed the same stiffness and shaking on the left side.
Case 3: A 47-year-old Caucasian male received a heart from a 17-year-old African-American male. The recipient was surprised by his new-found love of classical music. What he discovered later was that the donor, who loved classical music and played the violin, had died in a drive-by shooting, clutching his violin case to his chest.
Case 4: A 29-year-old lesbian and a fast food junkie received a heart from a 19-year-old woman vegetarian who was "man crazy." The recipient reported after her operation that meat made her sick and she was no longer attracted to women. If fact, she became engaged to marry a man.
Case 5: A 47-year-old man received a heart from a 14-year-old girl gymnast who had problems with eating disorders. After the transplant, the recipient and his family reported his tendency to be nauseated after eating, a childlike exuberance and a little girl's giggle. Aside from those included in the study, there are other transplant recipients whose stories are worth mentioning:
Another possible incidence of memory transfer occurred when a young man came out of his transplant surgery and said to his mother, "everything is copasetic." His mother said that he had never used that word before, but now used it all the time. It was later discovered that the word had been a signal, used by the donor and his wife, particularly after an argument, so that when they made up they knew everything was okay. The donor's wife reported that they had had an argument just before the donor's fatal accident and had never made up. Although medical science is not yet ready to embrace the ideas of cellular memory, one surgeon believes there must be something to it. Mehmet Oz, MD, heart surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, has invited an energy healer, Julie Motz, into the operating room during transplant surgery. Initially, Motz practiced energy healing to help reduce anxiety prior to surgery and depression following surgery. Then the team noticed that there seemed to be less incidence of rejection in these patients. They were curious to see what would happen if she were present during the operation. Motz registers, through sensations in her own body, the emotional state of the patient during the surgical procedure. Through her touch or words, Motz attempts to alleviate any worries, fears or anger the patient may be experiencing. She works with the recipient's ability to accept the new organ and also works with the donated tissue so it will accept a new body.
The results have been favorable, and the team reports reduced rejection and increased survival rates This may sound outrageous to those who never thought about tissues having feelings or caring about where they would reside, but Dr. Oz believes that it would be a disservice to ignore even the possibility that this method could help. Intriguing questions remain.
What percentage of transplant recipients actually do feel changes in behavior and personality or report changes in food preference or have new memories? Is there a higher incidence of tissue or organ acceptance in those patients who are aware of their consciousness or who have energy work done?
Will ordinary science offer more evidence to support that memories are transferred-or will we need a new science? Perhaps more importantly, what does this transcendent phenomenon have to tell us about other healing events? [These are just some examples found under Scholarly articles for "cellular memory" transplants, there are over 248,000 listings.]
QUESTION: If cellular memory happens to humans from humans, what happens when a human receives an animal organ? I couldn't find any! If there are any findings are they being reported ? Are they being suppressed? Before another human receives an animal organ, this question should be addressed about Cellular Memory. If tissues and organs have memories and the recipient receives them - that truly is a nightmare.
From MONTGOMERY COLLEGE STUDENT JOURNAL OF SCIENCE & MATHEMATICSVolume 2 September 2003
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Another example of the holographic nature of the cosmos.
Articles: From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1581752/New-kidney-'changed-my-whole-personality'.html 16 Mar 2008
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Sep 30, 2010
some randomn pictures made in the ijm studio. it's such a wonderful place. and ofcourse we're also in love with fedor's string gardens.
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Sep 29, 2010
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our shop at ijm (3)
some more photos from last weekend. veronik painted these french knitting dolls. would be nice to make a whole set, like these.
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Sep 28, 2010
Sep 27, 2010
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we came home last night with a camera full of pictures and warm and happy feelings about the last 3 days in amsterdam. we had such a nice time! will show you lots of photos in the next few days!
Sep 25, 2010
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thank you anne for these photos!
Sep 24, 2010
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Sep 22, 2010
for amsterdam
this family and we are leaving for amsterdam to build our shop. if you write an email here you will receive a list of what's happening this weekend in the ijm studio. you don't have to subscribe to visit though. hope to see many of you!
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Sep 20, 2010
proud to present
the days are flying by with all this work on our hands. and seeing our first very own products makes us smile. yesterday we made a trip to amsterdam and started building our shop and an installation in the ijm studio. there is still a lot of work to be done and we can't wait to show you all this.
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Sep 15, 2010
for a while now we have been very busy preparing for a new project. we will open a pop-up store in the wonderful ijm studio in amsterdam during this design fair. you will see some more about the details in the days to come. you can visit the fair on 24, 25, and 26 september. we hope to welcome you there!
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Sep 14, 2010
such a nice article and photos in national geographic on bowerbirds. take a closer look at the photos and read it here.
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Sep 9, 2010
the cloud knitters
a nice flyer and a nice name from an exhibition that opens tonight. not sure we're able to go tonight cause we're going to see DONOVAN!!
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Sep 8, 2010
the exhibition was lovely. the paintings from the dangerous journey were our favourites, but it was also very nice to see the pencil sketches. trui also visited the exhibition. it was difficult to photograph cause everything was in frames...
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An Orioles fan might put money on the O's to win their wild-card play-in game against Texas tomorrow night, but a betting man wouldn't, at least with even odds. Then again, by now the betting man may have already gone broke backing Baltimore's opponents.
The Orioles have spent the whole season surprising people. First they flouted the expectation that they couldn't compete in the AL East, then the near-certainty that they couldn't sustain their early-season success (or, for that matter, their success later on in the season). To reach the Division Series, they'll have to have one more surprise in store.
The Orioles have drawn a difficult opponent in the Rangers, who'll have their strongest starter, Yu Darvish, on the mound. Texas outscored its regular-season opponents by over 100 runs; Baltimore's run differential barely broke even. Darvish has pitched to a 2.13 ERA over his last seven starts, striking out 59 batters against only 10 walks in 50 2/3 innings and looking a lot like the ace the Rangers expected to see when they signed him. Not only will the O's have to defeat Darvish, they'll have to do it in Arlington, where the Rangers have gone 50-31. And while the Orioles might appear to have more "momentum" in the wake of the Rangers' disappointing denouement, history has taught us that how a team fares leading up to October doesn't help us predict how it will play once the postseason starts.
Darvish's opponent has not yet been named: as we went to press, Buck Showalter was still deciding between Steve Johnson, a soft-tossing righty with just 38 1/3 big-league innings under his belt, and Joe Saunders, a soft-tossing lefty who's been about league average in his eight-year career. Johnson, whose sore knee was declared good to go after a successful bullpen session on Wednesday, seems more likely to get the nod, both because the Rangers excel against southpaws and because Saunders has struggled in Arlington, recording a 9.38 ERA there in six career starts.
*UPDATE: Showalter went with Saunders, noting that the team wasn't completely confident that Johnson's knee would be up to the task.
In many cases, a team's choice of starter can make a major impact on its odds of success in an elimination game, but neither Johnson nor Saunders would move the needle much more than the other. In a sense, that's appropriate, since the Orioles' rotation has consisted of a largely interchangeable (and often interchanged) cast of characters all season. Either way, as Showalter admitted, the O's will have their work cut out for them.
However, there is a way for the Orioles to tilt the odds away from Texas, if not quite in their own favor: rely on their relievers.
Aside from their record in one-run games, the Orioles haven't led the AL in anything this year. Their starters have the league's sixth-highest ERA. They rank fifth-worst in baserunning and tied for fourth-worst in True Average. Their defensive efficiency rates a good-but-not-great fifth-best. But there is one area in which they've stood out: among AL teams, only the A's and Rays—both of whom play in far more favorable parks for pitchers—have lower bullpen ERAs than Baltimore's 3.00. Granted, even accounting for Baltimore's above-average defense, some of their successful arms have benefited from luck on balls in play, which could turn at any time. But the bullpen has still been the team's best asset. A battle of the bullpens would favor Baltimore, especially with Mike Adams unavailable for Texas. Getting to the Rangers' relievers could prove difficult—Yu Darvish hasn't had an outing shorter than 6 1/3 innings in over two months—but the Orioles can ensure that their own enter the fray early.
Yesterday, Dave Cameron argued that the A's should bypass or keep an extremely short leash on their starter, A.J. Griffin, in their own decisive showdown with Texas, which proved prescient when Griffin was roughed up in the third inning and removed with the Rangers up 5-1. The A's were able to recover from that deficit—hardly the deepest hole they've dug themselves out of this season—but they made it more difficult by letting Griffin go too long. As Cameron observed, starters become markedly less effective each time through an order. In the regular season, teams have to live with that loss of effectiveness, since they can't afford to burn their bullpens every night. But in an elimination game, when a loss signifies the end of the season, that concern is secondary.
If anything, the Orioles are a better candidate for the bullpen-heavy blueprint than the A's were. Oakland went into their 162nd game with a tired bullpen, and Griffin may have been more likely to have a successful start than either Johnson or Saunders. With the ability to tailor their roster to the play-in game without it extending to the ALDS, the Orioles can stock their pen with as many arms as they want. And with Jim Johnson, Pedro Strop, Luis Ayala, Darren O'Day, Troy Patton, and a trio of converted starters—Brian Matusz, Jake Arrieta, and Tommy Hunter—at their disposal, the O's bullpen is deep enough that if they were feeling adventurous, they could bypass their starters completely.
We won't see a strategy as extreme as the all-reliever approach, both because it could be risky to ask players to try something new in a game with no margin for error and because Showalter himself could take some heat if he strays too far from convention and doesn't emerge with a win. However, the Orioles should strongly consider removing their starter after he's faced every Ranger once, even if he's cruising. A few effective innings is no guarantee of continued success, and by the time a starter runs into trouble, it could be too late to warm someone up in time to prevent runs from scoring. If the Orioles were to run through most of their relievers en route to a win, they would have Saturday to recover before facing the Yankees in the series opener on Sunday, when Jason Hammel—their most consistent starter this season—could be available to pitch.
The Orioles owe much of their success this season to both the quality of their bullpen's work in high-leverage situations and the quantity of its work overall. They've gotten more innings out of their pen this season than all but three other teams, and 30 more innings than any other playoff team. Despite that innings total, no Orioles reliever ranks among the top 10 in baseball in innings or appearances, which is a testament to their depth. Because of that depth, the O's can afford to double down and go with what got them here. The Rangers saw how valuable good bullpens can be last October, when Ron Washington rode his relievers hard, and they saw how vulnerable starters can be on Wednesday, when the A's let them get out to an early lead. The Orioles should learn from the A's mistake and give Washington a taste of his own medicine tomorrow.
A version of this story originally appeared on ESPN Insider .
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A new longitudinal study finds:
Despite conventional advice to eat less fat, weight loss was greatest among people who ate more yogurt and nuts, including peanut butter, over each four-year period. . . .
That yogurt, among all foods, was most strongly linked to weight loss was the study's most surprising dietary finding, the researchers said. Participants who ate more yogurt [than the average for all participants?] lost an average of 0.82 pound every four years.
Why might this be?
Yogurt and peanut butter are both unusual foods. Yogurt is strange because unflavored yogurt has little or no smell. It tastes good for other reasons: strong sourness, creaminess, and coolness. People are also pushed to eat it not only by how pleasant it is to eat but by the thought that it is good for them. Most foods, in the form that we eat them, have a smell. I explain the yogurt results by saying that yogurt consumption replaced consumption of foods with stronger smells.
Peanut butter is unusual because when I was visiting publishers to sell The Shangri-La Diet, I met a woman who told me she had lost weight simply by eating peanut butter — that is, by adding peanut butter to the rest of her diet, making no other changes. I think she ate about 3 tablespoons per day. This predisposed her to think there might be something to my ideas. No one has ever told me such a story about another food. If peanut butter has a smell, it's really weak. It's pleasant to eat because of fat content and texture. When I was a boy, my mom made me peanut butter sandwiches (no jam) for school lunch. I never came to like them. This implies I never learned a smell-calorie association. The bread must have supplied a strong fast calorie signal so this implies that the peanut butter generated little or no smell signal.
Thanks to Eri Gentry.


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Investors remain cautious heading into the last trading day of a tumultuous week.
U.S. stock futures edged slightly higher early Friday morning.
Now in its fourth day, the U.S. government shutdown has created plenty of uncertainty and left an estimated 800,000 federal employees off the job.
The government's monthly jobs report, originally scheduled to come out Friday morning, will not be released due to the shutdown. Since the recession, the report has become the most closely watched indicator on the economy.
Related: Fear & Greed Index, still consumed by fear
Investors also continue to worry about the U.S. hitting its debt ceiling. Failure to raise the debt limit is likely to have a significant impact on the global economy, as well as stocks, bonds and currency markets.
U.S. stocks fell sharply Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 have dropped for nine of the past 11 trading days.
Related: Debt fight could spark a recession
European markets edged higher in morning trading, led by the CAC 40 in Paris. Switzerland's financial watchdog, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, announced that it was investigating several Swiss banks for possibly manipulating currency exchange rates.
The major Asian markets ended with losses. The Nikkei in Japan shed nearly 1% after the Bank of Japan wrapped up its two-day monetary policy meeting and opted to maintain its stimulus measures. South Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung said it was on track for another record quarterly profit.
The Shanghai Stock Exchange was closed for the National Day celebration.


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Expert's Rating
- Very easy to use
- High-quality lenses with great photo results
- Sturdy and well protected
- Not compatible with cases or screen protectors
- Only compatible with iPhone 4
Our Verdict
With smartphone photography booming in popularity, it seems like a new iPhone-specific camera accessory comes out every few days. One of the newest of the bunch is the $70 Olloclip, a three-in-one, clip-on lens that makes it possible to shoot macro, fisheye, and wide-angle photos and videos on an iPhone 4.
The Olloclip works by clipping to the camera corner of the iPhone. The clip section is made of molded plastic and fits securely on the phone, without causing any damage to the iPhone body. If you keep your iPhone in a case, you will need to remove it in order to use the Olloclip. And since the fit is so snug, it also has problems clipping onto iPhones covered with screen protectors (the clip was not compatible with my invisibleSHIELD Dry protector).
Other than not playing nice with cases and screen protectors, the Olloclip is smartly designed. It has two sides, one with a fisheye lens, and another with a smaller, wide-angle lens. You can easily unscrew the wide-angle lens to reveal a third, macro lens. Switching lenses is as simple as flipping the clip over.
In our photography tests, each lens option worked really well, producing high-quality images with the desired effect. Click on any of the sample images below to get a closer look. I recommend using a tripod or steadying device when shooting with the macro lens, since even the smallest shaking can render the photo blurry.
Carrying the Olloclip with you, in a pocket or purse, is easy. The Olloclip is smaller than a house key and can easily fit into your pocket or purse. This makes is a neat option for people who love taking macro or wide-angle photos, but not carrying around a bulky camera. The fisheye and wide-angle lenses also have secure, plastic lens caps, so you don't need to worry about the glass getting scratched while bouncing around in a bag with sharp items. The Olloclip also comes with a little microfiber pouch that doubles as a cleaning cloth.
The $70 price tag is a a bit steep for an iPhone camera accessory, but for those who use their iPhone as a primary camera, it's is a worthwhile investment. Developed by two Californians as a Kickstarter project, the Olloclip received more than $50,000 over its original funding goal, making the leap from cool idea to available product. The Olloclip is a high-quality lens with multiple uses, and is compatible with the standard iPhone 4 camera in still and video mode, any number of photography apps, and with FaceTime.
The Olloclip requires an iPhone 4 and can be purchased from the company website.
[ Alexandra Chang is a Macworld intern.]