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New openings
February 28, 2011
A little news on a couple of new openings. Not that I can offer much to say about them as I've not been yet and nor as of the last day of February do they have fully functioning websites but some of you might appreciate the information nonetheless.
Of especial interest is Assiette in Stamford. I appreciate Stamford is strictly speaking not in Leicestershire or Rutland, but I'm excited about this as it is the new restaurant of Dameon Clarke, who's complex, unashamedly show-off food I've massively enjoyed at Nick's in Oakham and more recently at his – now former – pub the Collyweston Slater. Opened last week, hope to go soon – reports welcome in the meantime.
A new little Italian called La Vida has opened on Northampton St in Leicester city centre, on the site of a former Thai Restaurant. It looks a modest, intimate kind of place and while there's no menu on display, a peek through the window at the specials board showed monkfish was on offer, so hopefully they've got a proper chef in there.
*Update – forgot to mention there is also now a branch of Hot Rocks on Braunstone Gate. The gimmick of this franchise business is to offer steaks for you to cook at your own table on preheated volcanic stones. One can't help but be sceptical here – if I wanted the freedom to cook a £10 steak the way I prefer, I'd get down to Archer's on Queen's Road to pick out a hefty South Devon ribeye and cook it at home. And flames would be involved in the cooking somewhere. It's not going to be Hawksmoor or Goodman's , but those with a steak craving may want to give it a try.
A winter stew
February 21, 2011
I went out on Saturday thinking it was time to do an oxtail stew. But as my friendly neighbourhood butcher pointed out, cows tend only to have one tail and thus he'd run out. He suggested shin instead. I must admit I'd always thought shin was just another variety of cheap braising steak, but I think I'm now a convert to this humble cut.
Looking at the meat pictured right you can see some of the connective tissue and it's this that breaks down during long slow cooking to help create an extraordinary rich, thick sauce. It's got to be long and slow but you are rewarded with ultra-tender, ultra-tasty meat.
I've no pictures of the fabulous stew I'm afraid but it was simplicity itself. For a generous meal for two people, toss one pound of meat in seasoned flour (try adding a little mustard powder too), fry an onion and some garlic, brown the meat, toss in some carrots, a few sprigs of thyme, a bayleaf. Let it all stick a bit to the bottom of the pan and then add half a bottle of red plonk, making sure to stir up all those wonderful sticky bits from the bottom of the pan all up to mix. Put it in a casserole, cover tightly, cook for as long as you've got as low as you can – at least two hours – and just let the magic happen. It's worth checking every hour or so because this will be a fairly dry stew and you don't want to over do it.
I'll definitely be looking to use this specific cut for a range of other slow cooked recipes now.
Beer, coffee, Ice
February 16, 2011
A couple of quick parish notices. Firstly it's time to dust off your Bellowhead T-shirt again for the 2011 Leicester Beer Festival. It takes place at the Charotar Patidar Samaj, just behind St Margarets Church on the edge of the city centre, from Wednesday 9 to Saturday 12 March. It's a very sociable event and will this year feature some 220 beers, around a third of which come from within a radius of 25 miles, 35 ciders and perries and food including curries, pork pies and stilton cobs. Entrance at various times is either free, £2.50 or £3.50 and you'll need to buy an official festival glass which can either be kept as a souvenir or returned for a refund. Full details available here.
Second, after a couple of recent visits I'll give a further recommendation to the Yesim patisserie on Leicester's Narborough Road. It's a comfortable, comforting kind of place, where old fellers drop by for a game of backgammon, but you'll also see business people and a wide range of the local community enjoying the delicious sweet and savoury Turkish pastries and excellent coffee. Service is delightful. Pictured right with some of their produce are Melek and Elif who kindly helped us out with a little photoshoot for GFLR.
Finally, those of who frequent Farmshops maybe interested in the launch of a new loyalty card that offers cash rewards for shopping in independent farmshops around the country. The Ice card works in a similar way to the Nectar card and the like, earning points by spending with selected retailers that can be then used for money off further purchases. It's all geared around low carbon and sustainable business practice and as well as farm shops it can be used with various ecofriendly energy suppliers, clothes manufacturers and so on. There's no Leicestershire farmshops signed up to the scheme yet but it only launched last month and I understand at least one major local farmshop is currently in discussion. More details here.
The Rutland and Derby
February 10, 2011
Had an interesting morning recently talking to Sam Hagger, the publican who has taken over Leicester's Rutland and Derby pub on Millstone Lane and turned it back into a more mainstream pub but also added a deli.
Where once were low sofas is now a cabinet full of fancy cheese, glistening olives and a range of antipasti and charcuterie. It's an interesting move based on Hagger's own interest in food and his observation of the local clientele. He first discovered the venue while his other pub, the Forge in Glenfield was being done up. When it became available he had thought about opening a restaurant but decided it was too close to Stephen Fitzpatrick's Boot Room and Bistrot Pierre. But seeing the brass plaque offices surrounding him in the Catherdral Quarter (is it called that? It is now) he felt those professional types would jump at the chance of a cheeky piece of gorgonzola or 36-month aged parmesan for lunch or with an after work pint.
Most of what's on offer comes through a specialist supplier who seems to have good links with the Slow Food network of suppliers in Italy and Sam takes pleasure in sharing tales about artisan makers who bury their cheeses in caves and all that.
Food at the deli – and there is some really interesting stuff there you would struggle to find elsewhere locally – can be bought to take away, but also forms the main eat-in offer of classy deli sandwiches and deli boards. The Rutland Board, for example, offers semi-roasted Puglian tomatoes, Nocellara del Belice olives, black olive tapenade, char-grilled artichoke hearts, prosciutto, aged Parmagiano Reggiano and oregano crackers. You can get a local pork pie or samosa too, and Sam promises that as they settle in they will source more and more local produce: "For us it's an evolution – a voyage of discovery". If you are a local producer with the right credentials, maybe you should get in touch.
The drinks menu has been pared down from the extravagance of the ancien regime, but still includes some premium lagers, three beers from partners Everards and other ales including Old Hooky and Adnam's Broadside. There's a rather handsome whisky cabinet too. The space is still pretty much the same but the feel is rather more homely (see below) and Sam has both kept and extended the pub's pleasant outdoor space, adding an astroturfed roof garden that should be blissful on a hot summer's evening should we get one. All in all, definitely worth a visit. Watch out for the full story, and rather better pictures in next month's Great Food Leicestershire and Rutland
Lunch at Hambleton Hall
February 9, 2011
In January Hambleton Hall received its Michelin star for the 29th year. It also introduced a "Lunch for Even Less" offer of £19 for two courses, £24.25 for three.
Well, it would be rude not to, wouldn't it?
Gill and I drove out from Leicester on a cloudy, gusty day that left Rutland Water resembling the North Sea. Once inside the Hall and installed by the log fire, though, life took on a very different hue. I was hoping – expecting, really – that the lunch offer would not be a downgraded version of the legendary Hambleton offering, and it wasn't. As we warmed up we were offered three canapés – sea bass morsels with tartare were routine but excellent, chicken liver parfait was intense and deliquescent and best of all was a little beetroot meringue with goats cheese, a little flavour bomb that carried on giving its gift for an extraordinary length of time.
The lunch menu offers two choices at each course and we selected one of everything. Ballotine of guinea fowl involved choice cuts of pressed meat along with a mild, mustardy, crunchy piccalilli and lightly pickled shallots. Raviolo of ham hock was a superbly made parcel of chopped meats and seasonings encased in pasta so thin it was translucent. Mains featured relatively base ingredients – blade of beef and fillet of coley – which were transmuted into gold by kitchen flair and hard work. The blade was chopped, bound and rolled with herbs and mushrooms. It was delivered perched on top of a crunchy rosti and came with a sweet, sticky sauce with red wine, caramelised shallots and tarragon. The fish was simply pan fried with a pesto crust and was soft and flaky, with a foamy bouillabaise sauce. All the dishes had deep and complex layers of flavour.
Last time I came to Hambleton I'd been knocked out by a desert of passionfuit soufflé. The coconut and lime soufflé I had this time didn't quite match that perfection but was technically faultless, being as soft as a baby's breath but still carrying the flavour of its ingredients. Once again I was particularly impressed with the sorbets, a coconut one with the soufflé, an orange one with Gill's fine chocolate and orange tart. How the kitchen distils such powerful essences into such an insubstantial ice I've no idea.
The staff are numerous, skilled, and float around the place with unhurried efficiency. Outside of the kitchen, the place makes few concessions to modernity, but if you accept that it's going to be a very particular kind of experience, there is such a huge amount to enjoy here.
The "Lunch for Even Less" deal runs until 27 February.
(Oh, and there was no sign of Sven, hope you are all still looking out for him.)
1923, Leicester University Student Union
February 5, 2011
When I went to university there were no fees, reasonably generous grants and you could sign on over the holidays, but our staple diet was chips and cheese. Today students are rioting over the astronomical fees and debts they face, but student unions such as Leicester University's are being done up at the cost of over £16 million and introducing full service restaurants.
I can't claim to understand the economics of it but the 1923 restaurant in Leicester University's Percy Gee Building undoubtedly appears a good thing. It opened last year along with the Student Union's new O2 venues, shops and a Starbuck's cafe. It's a smart, well-run space with courteous, efficient service and a sensibly varied menu that runs from traditional studenty baked potatoes through mozzarella and tomato salads, rib-eye steak sandwiches with stilton and a selection of weekly specials such as a whole baked lemon sole or butternut squash and sage risotto.
It was an ideal place for a relaxed lunch away from the buzz of the rest of the building. Ross was reasonably positive about his 'handmade' burger (£4.95) which came with good looking, chunky triple cooked chips and homemade sticky barbecue sauce, and my whole baked stuffed mackerel (£7.95) was really quite impressive. Nicely cooked and stuffed invitingly with spicy vegetable-spiked cous cous it formed a toothsome plateful with sauteed new potatoes, crunchy green beans and mangetout and a well-made tomato cream sauce. It was a very long way from chips and cheese.
The 1923 is also open midweek evenings and for breakfasts and afternoon cream tea (afternoon tea!). If you are in the area and looking for lunch it's definitely worth consideration.
Marmalade making
February 1, 2011
Time is running out if you want to make your own marmalade this year. I've been really enjoying the sharp/sweet thing offered by the home-made stuff for the last couple of weeks, so do have a think about it. Recipes aren't hard to find but I took inspiration from a feature in Great Food Leicestershire and Rutland and used a version contained on the website of the Oakham's Jam Jar Shop (the site is a bit of a car crash but stick with it.)
Basically this involved boilng up the Sevilles and a lime before juicing them, straining through muslin, slicing the peel and making the preserve.
You should still just about be able to find Seville oranges in greengrocers or supermarkets. I found a kilo of fruit made enough for a few few small gifts and plenty to keep me going for the rest of the year. Obviously breakfast is the key usage but it's a pretty versatile substance – try using it instead of red sauce/brown sauce in a sausage sandwich, as a glaze for a piece of gammon, as a flavour enhancer to a casserole of chicken and sweet peppers, or as the filling to add a sharp note to a layer of cream in a sponge cake.
Not sure if Leicester Market is selling Sevilles, but congratulations to it anyway for last week being voted Britain's favourite by the National Association of British Market Authorities. I've no idea how much these gongs genuinely represent the sentiment of the masses, but good news whatever. With developments like the new Market Corner section opening in March it's good to see the effort being made to keep it relevent and contemporary.


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At Infrastructure Forum, Bruce Rauner and Pat Quinn Spar on How to Pay for It
Income tax or service taxes? It's one of the clearest choices the candidates have outlined for the future of Illinois.
As the campaign heads into the straightaway, Pat Quinn and Bruce Rauner are on day two of talking about infrastructure: yesterday at the Illinois Agricultural Legislative Roundtable downstate, and today at the Chicago-based Metropolitan Planning Council's annual luncheon. Yesterday's session laid out some unanswered questions:
But Rauner did not address how he would provide billions of dollars for annual public works improvements, and a state audit raises questions whether there's enough money in road fund diversions to fulfill his pledge.
Rauner, however, also opened the door to borrowing — the traditional way public works projects are paid for — as well as public-private partnerships for unspecified projects to help pay for new infrastructure and infrastructure repairs.
Today Rauner re-emphasized a willingness to borrow: "we can and should borrow for major new infrastructure projects that have 30-year-plus paybacks," a specifically typical timeframe for infrastructure funding.
Pressed on the state's gas tax, which hasn't been increased since 1990 and has slowly been eaten away by inflation, Rauner said he "wasn't a fan," citing its regressive nature; Quinn, for his part, agreed with Rauner on this.
Where the difference and heat between the two candidates emerged was on a different tax: not for stuff, but for services. The expansion of the state's tax base is critical to Rauner's plan to dial back the income tax increase while fully funding infrastructure and staving off cuts to education, and offered Quinn a line of attack.
"The growth states don't have high income taxes. They have a modernized tax code with a broad base, a low base. We've got to get a handle on our property taxes," Rauner said. "We've got to put a cap on those and stop relying on property taxes so heavily."
Instead, Rauner wants to revamp the sales tax.
"We are one of the few states who only tax products with our sales tax. That's very rare. We've got to modernize our tax code," Rauner said. "We used to be a heavily product-driven, manufacturing-driven economy. Today we're much more of a service economy. We don't tax services. We've got to look creatively at which services, especially business services, that we can and should tax with a sales tax. It's painful, I hate to put new taxes in place, but this is an important, pro-growth, pro-investment policy. We shouldn't tax investment and income, we should tax consumption. That's the pro-growth approach to it."
This idea has been floating around for awhile. Back in 2011, the state's Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability, ran the numbers on new revenue service taxes would create. They first found that the Illinois economy is particularly service-dependent within the region, and its proportion of the economy grew from 32 percent of the state economy in 1977 to 48.5 percent in 2009. Hawaii lead with 160 taxed services; the average state taxed 56; Illinois taxed, at the time, 17. So as the economy turned to the service industry, taxes didn't, reducing consumer-driven revenues.
Illinois has a few service taxes, which you're probably familiar with: electricity, natural gas, amusement, hotel, auto rental, and so forth. So even though they're services, a number of those service taxes go to necessities.
Once you open up a much broader range of services to taxation, there's all sorts of stuff to tax. COGFA lists, among many other things: pet care, landscaping and lawn care, mini-storage, barber shops, funeral services, portrait studios, temp services, golf-club memberships, pest control, tire retreading, and so on.
Some of these would be huge revenue streams, like taxing attorneys, which five states do. Some would be comparatively piddling, like armored car services, which 16 states tax. Overall, COGFA estimated that the full menu they presented would bring in $8.5 billion; subtracting business-to-business taxes would result in four billion in new revenue, offsetting Rauner's plan to step back the income-tax hike.
It's an idea that's gotten support, as from Crain's Joe Cahill, working off an Illinois financial-health SOS co-authored by the legendary Fed chair Paul Volcker. But it'll bring expected opposition; when Emanuel got behind the idea a couple years ago, the National Federation of Independent Businesses fought back against the "Rahm tax."
Quinn stuck to his guns on the sales-tax expansion, zeroing in on Rauner's statement that we "shouldn't tax investment and income" and launching into a populist reading of the plan.
"I am not for taxing consumption. I heard that somebody said that earlier today. That's just plain wrong. It shifts the tax burden onto ordinary people, everyday people who live from paycheck to paycheck," Quinn said. "I fought my whole life for a fair tax system based on ability to pay. I think that's a principle as old as the Bible."
After the forum, Quinn brought it back to Rauner's answers, and his wealth.
"For some billionaire, who has all this income, $53 million in just one year, to say that we should have more consumption taxes on ordinary people, and lighten the load on investment income of billionaires, that won't pay the bills," Quinn said.
There's space in between there. According to COGFA's 2011 estimates, two of the three biggest sources of their projected service-tax revenues would be attorneys and investment counseling, and there are smaller, more populist-friendly targets like chartered flights, executive-search services, and interior design. But until that happens, a significant battle line has been drawn for the election.
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19.5 SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT ON QUALITY OF WORK LIFE MANAGEMENT: an organizational typology proposal Ana Cristina Limongi-França
Demands and skills Economic globalization,
the new economics of the digital era, the new paradigms of organizational management, post-modernity of culture difficult union between quality of life and financial stability …..end up boosting complex actions, information exchange, virtual systems and a great number of ways of making survival possible with new characteristics of the ill-being of civilization.
Scenario Observing any organizational environment leads to identifying a large amount of information related to quality of life. There is restlessness, both individual and collective, concerning pressure, conciliating expectations towards work, family and consuming, stress signals, eating habits and physical self-care, life styles, technological impacts. All of this tends towards the pursuit of physical well-being. These facts cause new attitudes on companies and a consequent change on people's way of living, continuously making room for the discussion and the search for quality of life within and outside the workplace. Capa Revista Inovação 1997
Scenario This scenario of values and practices regarding Management of
Quality of Work Life may be seen in a clear way especially through interfaces deriving from : the health field, benefits, personnel management, engineering of production, ergonomics, quality management systems, research, technological innovations, social balance, marketing, and socially responsible activities.
The variety of activities creates a diffusive complex that
The new complexity The variety of activities creates a diffusive complex that contains voids and overlaps. Such complex makes it difficult to spot the locus of decision on life quality related activities of programs in the companies and to the employees, family and comunity. (What is about tomorrow?)
The typology The typology of Schools of Thought on Quality of Work Life Management is used on three fundamental guidelines: The Socioeconomic 2. The Organizational 3. The Human Condition at Work
Aspects of The Socioeconomic School
• development of citizenship; • responsibility and social projects; • equality with freedom; • environmental protection; • sustainable development.
Aspects of The Organizational School:
extension of the processes of quality and productivity to that of personal quality; policies of personnel management – valorization and qualification; marketing – corporate and internal communication image; free-time – cultural developments, habits of leisure and sports; risk and challenge as factors for motivation and commitment.
Aspects of The Organizational School:
Aspects of The Human Condition at Work School:
• The biological stratum refers to the physical characteristics inherited or acquired at birth or during the entire life. • The psychological stratum refers to the affective, emotional and conscious or unconscious reasoning processes. • The social stratum refers to the culture and the beliefs, the role of the family and the other forms of social organization in the work place.
Conclusion The idea of proposing a typology is to locate and understand the demands in the company environment, in the workplace and in the post-industrial society. Especially to assess data about effort in comparison with wellness of employees. Foto Márcio Fernandes/Folha Imagem
THANK YOU ! Ana Cristina Limongi-França,
associate professor São Paulo University Tel: Av. Mercedes, 1018 , São Paulo, SP Brazil
Conjunto de procedimentos para atingir os objetivos estabelecidos
Conhecimento do Negócio Fatos 'Estado da Arte' Técnicas Conjunto de técnicas para resolver as questões levantadas pelo tema/assunto Estratégia de Negócio Conjunto de procedimentos para atingir os objetivos estabelecidos Como se Lida: Estratégico Tático-operacional Aleatório Incidente E escolhas casuais
The model of the investigation
Fatores Críticos Conceito QVT Produtividade Legitimidade Perfil do Administrador Práticas e Valores Escolas de Pensamento Socioeconômica Organizacional Condição Humana Estudos, Conceitos e Eventos QVT Resultado Gestão de Nova Competência GQVT Nova Economia e Paradigmas Organizacionais Conjunto difuso de Informações Objeto Práticas e Percepções QVT Objetivo Interface QVT e Administração Demandas Empresariais Hipótese Gestão Avançada QVT
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Published February 14, 2018
Department of Biochemistry researchers have changed the understanding of metal ion metabolism in mitochondria through a collaborative study whose results were published in Scientific Reports.
The findings could have implications in future treatment of iron deficiency anemia, as well as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
Although scientists usually think of mitochondria as the cell's power plant, this organelle is also the cell's foundry where metals like iron and manganese undergo many of their metabolic transitions, says Michael D. Garrick, PhD, professor of biochemistry, an author on the study published online Jan. 9.
Previously, no pathway for their entry into mitochondria was known. Since it was obvious that iron and manganese did have to get inside, some investigators believed that they entered freely.
"We were skeptical of this concept because iron entry into cells and transit across them must be carefully regulated because iron is potentially so dangerous," Garrick says. "Then we found the divalent metal transporter 1 (DMT1) on the outer mitochondrial membrane so we investigated to see if it played a role in import."
Working with colleagues from Witten/Herdecke University in Germany and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences researchers published data indicating that uptake of iron and manganese ions reflects DMT1 levels, showing that the two metals rely on DMT1 to cross the outer mitochondrial membrane.
The same data also suggest that another, yet to be identified route is also responsible for some iron entry.
"That's exciting too because we have discovered something unknown to work out as well as something that is known (DMT1)," Garrick says.
Other Jacobs School authors are:
Too much or too little iron in the body and brain is implicated in several diseases.
Iron deficiency is the most common disease in the world, but is often easily treated by giving people more iron in their diet.
"There is, however, a modest subset that do not respond well to being given more iron through diet," Garrick notes. "And among them, there are some who don't respond well to injectable iron. We are certainly improving the understanding for that group."
Garrick notes there is also a disease known as hereditary hemochromatosis, where the body absorbs too much iron from foods and whose symptoms usually do not show up in men until their 30s or 40s and in women until they are postmenopausal.
"It is a very interesting difference," he says. "Menstruation is the reason why women take longer to show the disease. Every month they lose iron, so it tends to keep them from overloading."
Males are often treated by phlebotomy after they are first diagnosed. Females are too, but treatment usually starts later.
Chelation treatments, which use chemicals to help remove metals, can also be used to treat hemochromatosis and other types of iron overload. The thought is they may also be beneficial in treating Parkinson's disease.
In 2008, the Garricks and Zhao were co-authors on a study that pointed the way toward treating Parkinson's disease by using DMT1 as a molecular target for developing therapeutic interventions.
That paper — published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences — showed that in the parts of the brain that were affected by Parkinson's disease, the transporter DMT1 was elevated compared to normal controls.
"And we found if we chemically induced Parkinson's disease in rats and mice that had a genetic deficiency in DMT1, that those animals had considerable resistance to induction of the animal models," Michael Garrick says.
That paper has been cited frequently, but recognition in terms of how to apply it to Parkinson's disease has been limited because many scientists believe the degeneration starts in the mitochondria, Garrick notes.
"We were kind of stuck because at that time knowledge of how iron got into the mitochondria was limited," he says. "Now we are very excited to find that DMT1 is part of the reason why iron can get into the mitochondria because it now connects to our work in 2008."
"We now see a more complete picture because it may come back to the idea that handling iron in particular regions of the brain — even at the mitochondrial level — is dependent on DMT1."
Clinical trials are currently underway in Australia, using the same kind of chelation approach to treat Alzheimer's disease.
Garrick's most recent research collaboration resulted from a bit of synchronicity.
He was working with Jerome A. Roth, PhD, professor emeritus of pharmacology and toxicology, who was investigating the idea that manganese uptake could be an indicator for the protein called parkin.
When this protein gene is mutated, people are at higher risk for Parkinson's disease.
"So Dr. Roth and I worked together and found that parkin, which is involved in making proteins in the mitochondria turn over, did target a form of DMT1, so I'm thinking that DMT1 somehow gets to the mitochondria."
At that same time, Andrew Ghio, MD, of the EPA contacted Garrick, noting he had been isolating mitochondria and was finding DMT1 to be a very persistent contaminant.
Garrick was also contacted by Frank Thévenod, MD, PhD, who was working with Natascha Wolff, PhD, at Witten/Herdecke University and had found some mitochondrial proteins that might be associated with DMT1.
"That was strange because DMT1 was not supposed to be in the mitochondria. It was supposed to be in the plasma membrane and in vesicles inside the cell called endosomes," he says.
"I made the introductions so we could all work together because we all had come to the same idea and same point of interest at the same time," Garrick adds.
The researchers began sharing their results and methods and published several papers that proved DMT1 was associated with mitochondria.
"Some scientists thought we were just seeing contamination of mitochondria with endosomes," Garrick says. "But, the physiological pathway for metals with respect to endosomes is getting out, not getting in. Our data showed control of metals getting in, not getting out."
"The reason we think this new paper is so important is that we've shown not only is the transporter there, we've shown it is working in the right way there," he adds. "Now that we've shown function, we have connected stories and bridges for issues in terms of diseases like Parkinson's."
The Garricks were among three groups that first discovered DMT1 by studying a mutant rat known as the Belgrade rat and showing that it played an important role in iron entry into cells, plus iron exit from the endosome on its route toward the mitochondria.
"We've come back to a place where it turns out that DMT1 is probably going to be very important," Michael Garrick says.
"We've been working on it for 20 years. We were there at the beginning and have been there ever since."


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John Robert Colombo reviews: Reflections on Gurdjieff's Whim
John Robert Colombo reviews Keith A. Buzzell's latest publication
These days the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) is much in the news, at least in the American news, occasioned by the candidacy for the leadership of the Republican Party of the person of Mitt Romney, the Massachusetts Senator and Presidential hopeful. The man who has his eye set on occupying the Oval Office of the White House is a fifth-generation Mormon, and while he has lived a squeaky clean life to date, he apparently holds as gospel truths some of the bizarre beliefs and strange practices of the Mormon church.
Recently a researcher drew the attention of the reading public to the fact that in the eyes of Mormons, God is not the creator of the world. He is not the creator of the universe either, though it seems God resides "in" the universe and not "beyond" it. This is peculiarity that should be of interest to both theologian and geophysicist. Who then did create the heavens and the earth? Genesis 1:1 of the King James Version of the Bible states that God accomplished the deed "in the beginning." Here is the standard Christian belief in the wording of the Apostle's Creed: "God the Father Almighty … Creator of Heaven and Earth."
The Mormon belief, formulated over eighteen decades ago, is that God, while in no way the architect of creation, nevertheless is a dweller in it as well as its superintendent. Indeed, the location of "divine throne" is known, for it is "near" Kolob, which is a celestial body in some distant sector of the cosmos, unsuspected by astrologer and unknown to astronomer. Is Kolob a planet or a star? The Mormon writings are obscure on this point, rather like the traditional beliefs of the Inuit of the Arctic whose cosmology conflates planets and stars. It does seem that the Mormon God is more akin to mankind than to spirit-kind.
Are the Mormons Christians? It seems that they are Christians in the same way that members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community are Muslims. Their membership in greater Islam is denied by Sunni and Shite alike, especially in Pakistan where the Parliament passed a statute declaring the Ahmadiyyas to be non-Muslims: So there! In the same way, fundamentalist Christian denominations and sects in the U.S. heartland refuse to extend the term "Christian" to include Mormonism: Take that! Yet the Ahmadiyyas consider themselves to be good Muslims, just as the Mormons consider themselves to be good Christians.
I am not sure why it is so, but I find all of this reassuring. Perhaps it reassures me because it is so human – to cling to peculiar beliefs, in lieu of any evidence at all, and to withhold validation to designated groups on account of their differing beliefs. It reminds me of the subterfuge and euphemism employed by Palestinians and other Muslims who insist on referring to the State of Israel as "the Jewish entity." All too human!
With respect to the LDS tradition, it is enlightening that there should be a god or demiurge who lives on a celestial body named Kolob, for it seems the divinity is a being who – or which – has some sort of physical or corporeal existence. There is no reference to Kolob in "The Book of Mormon," but it makes its appearance in the quasi-scriptural text "Pearl of Great Price." The subject is of interest in that one may be a good Mormon without worrying much about the nature of divinity, whether architect or superintendent of the universe. In a sense, then, belief is a matter of degree and the responsibility of the individual and hence changeable.
I could continue with a discussion of bizarre beliefs held by many Christians – such as the rise and fall of the concept of Purgatory, not to mention the existence of states of Heaven and Hell, veneration of angels and saints, prayers for the posthumous rehabilitation of the death, the physical resurrection at the End of Days, etc. All of these fall into the province of Theology, the "queen of the sciences." The list of endless. As the cartoonist Robert L. Ripley of "Believe It or Not!" fame once wrote, "Strange indeed is man seeking after his gods."
What does all of this have to do with what appears below, or with the new book that I am about to review? (I use the verb "to review" with some reluctance because the book in question is a weighty one, and the arguments it presents are complex, indeed too complex to encapsulate in a relatively short review article.) The answer to the question is "not much," except that there is little evidence for what is being described in the book's pages. If the descriptions are taken seriously, the deductions and extensions truly follow. So the book is a disciplined work, a work of scholarly analysis. It is titled "Reflections on Gurdjieff's Whim," and I will describe the physical appearance of the volume before I turn my attention to its author, Keith A. Buzzell and to his previous publications, and only then to the general argument of the new book.
"Reflections on Gurdjieff's Whim" is published in 2012 by Fifth Press, an imprint based in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Mormon headquarters (as it happens!), which has issued earlier titles by Dr. Buzzell. It is a handsome trade paperback, 266 pages of text, plus preliminary and postliminary matter, including a glossary of scientific (but not Gurdjieffian) terms and a bibliography that includes books and articles on philosophy, neurology, cosmology, mathematics, etc. There is no index, but the text is well organized in fourteen chapters, and there are four instructive prefaces (contributed by the book's editors, John Amaral, Marlena Buzzell, Bonnie Phillips, and Toddy Smyth). There are also innumerable diagrams, many of them in lovely pastel colours. A rough approximation of the word count is 145,000 words. Although I found a couple of minor misprints (footnotes on page viii and page 7, for instance), the text is well edited and the argument is clearly expressed.
Now let me turn to Dr. Buzzell and his publications, paraphrasing what I wrote for this blog on September 28, 2011. (It is still archived here.) At the time I wrote: "It is apparent that there are many scientifically minded and technologically trained people like Dr. Buzzell who are 'in the Work' and are making sizeable efforts 'to square' what Mr. Gurdjieff wrote in 'Beelzebub's Tales' with contemporary scientific and technological theories and practices. This is one way to 'make relevant' what the author wrote between 1924 and 1927, the text of which was translated into English and published in 1950 and subsequently reissued in a revised (and controversial) edition in 1992."
"Dr. A. Keith Buzzell was born in 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied music at Bowdoin College and Boston University, and received his medical doctorate in 1960 at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. For the past thirty-five years, he has been a rural family physician in Fryeburg, Maine, a staff member of Bridgton Hospital and currently holds the position of medical director at the Fryeburg Health Care Center."
"Dr. Buzzell has also served as a professor of osteopathic medicine, a hospital medical director and a founder of a local hospice program. He has lectured widely on the neurophysiologic influences of television on the developing human brain and on the evolution of man's triune brain. In 1971 Keith, and his wife Marlena, met Irmis Popoff, a student of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky and the founder of the Pinnacle Group in Sea Cliff, Long Island, New York. From then until the mid-1980s they formed work groups under her supervision. Since 1988, Dr. Buzzell and Annie Lou Staveley, founder of the Two Rivers Farm in Oregon, maintained a Work relationship up to her death in 1996. Keith continues group Work in Bridgton, Maine."
This information is also reprinted in the current book. As for the earlier volumes, these are the three volumes that I reviewed: "Perspectives on Beelzebub's Tales and Other of Gurdjieff's Writings" (2005). "A Child's Odyssey: Explorations in Active Mentation: Re-Membering Gurdjieff's Teaching" (2006). "Man – A Three-brained Being: Resonant Aspects of Modern Science and the Gurdjieff Teaching" (2007, 2nd edition, 2011).
I have found these books to be among the most serious publications about the physics, physiology, neurology, and psychology of G.I. Gurdjieff's thought – and also the most demanding to read. In their comprehensiveness, they remind me of Maurice Nicoll's five-volume series of "Psychological Commentaries," but whereas Dr. Nicoll generally limited himself to the psychological aspects of the system, Dr. Buzzell does not so limit his inquiry but attempts to relate metaphysical concepts with chemical and physical reality. The present title is no exception.
The title of the book struck me as odd for the reason that I was unfamiliar with the expression "Gurdjieff's whim." I assumed I was missing something – I quite often have this feeling, and with some justification! (Indeed, the phrase brought to my mind the not-unrelated, traditional Islamic words "Mohammed's wont.") I checked Sophia Wellbeloved's indispensable volume 'Gurdjieff: The Key Concepts' (2003) but found no references there to "whim." Nowhere else in the literature of the Work have I encountered any discussion of "whim," so I conclude it is a synonym for "aim."
I checked the "Guide and Index" and located "whim" (in the singular) in "All & Everything," where it appears in the original edition on page 688 of the section on "France." The author wrote as follows: " … they occupy themselves out of idleness, in order to satisfy their whims, with devising 'new-forms-of-manifestations-of-their-Hasnamussianing,' or as is said there, with 'new fashions,' and spread them from there over the whole of the planet." There the word is used in the plural and it refers to things of passing interest. I reluctantly returned to the notion of "one's personal aim" in life and in Work. Perhaps it was related to the three aims of Group Work.
I was still uncertain about this, even after reading, on page 1, the words attributed to Gurdjieff: "to live and teach so that there should be a new conception of God in the world, a change in the very meaning of the word." This is equated with Gurdjieff's personal aim. Indeed, even earlier, on page ii, in the first of the prefaces, Toddy Smyth writes as follows: "In a rare moment of divulgence, Gurdjieff revealed his own whim: to bring to mankind a new understanding of God."
There we have it. Smyth continues: "Keith Buzzell's work is a verification of this whim – an aspect of a new understanding of God is to recognize and to gain the capacity to actualize one's own whim. A portion of Dr. Buzzell's whim could be summarized as the striving to understand how self-transformation – a process that requires the action of an independent will – can be possible within a Universe governed by unyielding, automatic law."
Smyth goes on to describe the present book as "a dynamic synthesis of the indications found in 'The Tales' and 'In Search' with recent discoveries in quantum and cosmological science." Indeed, as Dr. Buzzell has written elsewhere, "Gurdjieff's conception of Okidanokh represents a major aspect of his effort to reconcile science and spirituality. As such, it plays a powerful role in his new conception of God in the world. The manner in which he accomplishes this reconciliation is quite 'oblique' or indirect and one has to read his complex elaboration with considerable care and attention to see how thoroughly he has blended the 'way' of science and of potential transformation with the 'way' of the spirit."
He takes pains to place Gurdjieff's exposition alongside those concerned with quantum physics and the theory of relativity. He could have added alongside as well of photographic proof of the expansion of the universe which was discovered by Hubble and Humason during the same period.
But perhaps the key passage appears in Philip Mairet's memoir of A.R. Orage: "Whilst they were talking in this vein, someone asked Gurdjieff if he would disclose his own 'whim,' and he said it was to live and teach so that there should be a new conception of God in the world, a change in the very meaning of the word." This passage is cited a number of times, and its source seems to be an unpublished lecture of J.G. Bennett's. Bennett quotes Orage as saying his "whim" is to publish "the best literary journal in England," an aim he achieved. Apparently the word "whim" in Armenian and Russian expresses not merely fantasy, as it does in English, in the sense of whimsy, but determination, intent, and wish. The reader will decide whether or not Gurdjieff realized his "whim."
In some way this "new conception" is connected with those unwieldly terms Okidanokh and Triamazikamno, the former term representing the "reconciliation" of man's inner world of three brains with the outer world that expresses the familiar Law of Three, and the latter term the all- encompassing Ray of Creation – our individual and collective place in the world.
Each of the fourteen chapters of Dr. Buzzell's book is composed of sections a few pages in length, and any one section would lend itself to study and analysis, as it is immersed in the vocabularies of "The Tales" (as he refers to "Beelzebub's Tales") and "In Search of the Miraculous." In this sense "Reflections" could be regarded as an organized gloss on central concepts presented in allegorical and other forms in "The Tales."
The sheer amount of information and analysis in the book would overwhelm the casual reader (as it does the ordinary reviewer!) who has but a general understanding of and a passing interest in the mechanics of the work's dynamics. So what I will do is parasail from chapter to chapter, suggesting some insights to be found therein. The author has made this easy to do because, in effect, each chapter examines a specific aspect of the system – indeed, each key word unlocks a portion of the whole. Here are the topics of the chapters:
(1) Whim as aim. (2) Evils old and new. (3) Generations, notably sons and grandson. (4) Conscience, reason. (5) Wiseacre, know-it-all. (6) Laws of the universe. (7) Suggestibility, including hypnotism. (8) Okidanokh, or reconciliation of science and spirituality. (9) Essence which has mellowed. (10) Organic life. (11) Individual and group place and presence. (12) Foods and the Ray of Creation. (13) Reconciliation that allows for self-perfection in a structured universe. (14) Quantum considerations as approaches to "the non-mass and mass-based worlds."
Some of the chapters come in two parts. I noticed that the earlier chapters are highly specific and analytic, whereas the later chapters are somewhat speculative, historical, and once in a while personal. (The early explorations bring to hazy recall the detailed discussions, chemical largely, mentioned by Dr. James Carruthers Young and others at the Priory in the mid-1920s.)
There is a shift of perspective in this book from impersonal to personal, and it could be said to occur around Chapter 10. The theory comes first, thereafter its application. Indeed, in that chapter, "The Life Force," Dr. Buzzell describes two instances of awareness and intention that occurred to him, the first stemming from an encounter with a disliked hardware clerk, the second stemming from his habit of leaving his socks on the floor of his bedroom!
Here is a brief summary of the contents of Chapter 10, which may act as a guide to how the author proceeds. Synonyms for "life force" is mentioned: Qui, Chi, prana, Shakti, pneuma, Great Spirit, Godhead (Jehovah, God, Allah). These are Eastern conceptions and there is no "action from below" and it is all "action from above." It is Western conceptions that offer "action from below," and these are sometimes called vitalism, will to live, élan vital, life force, formative drive, entelechy, orgone, etc. For a balance of "actions," turn to Taoism. Newton and Darwin and Quantum Mechanics and the Theory of Relativity have begun to "bridge" reduce the gap between spirit and matter (to use basic terms).
Here is what Gurdjieff brings to this notion: "There is no intimation that life of any type (non-brained and brained) was a unique or separate creation of HIS ENDLESSNESS." Life is a universal phenomenon, the Ilnosoparnian process, with Earth as special because of the collision of the comet Kondoor. Earth, Moon, and Anulios and what they represent are "imbalanced" and hence requires special consideration. There is much discussion of the nature of the "imbalance" based on passages from "The Tales." "Gurdjieff carefully emphasizes the participation of the Divine Will Power _only_ at the onset of the Creation and yet has HIS ENDLESSNESS very active, via HIS Reason, _within_ the Creation."
Everything proceeds lawfully. "The end result of the _actualizations_ of HIS ENDLESSNESS creates the possibility for the transformation and crystallization of 'active elements' …. " As well: "Applying this Will, each of us three-brained begins can participate – be an active agent – in our own self-transformation. One becomes an active participant in the creation of the Higher Bodies. Efforts in this regard are _one's own_ ; they are initiated from lower worlds and move upward. This is _evolution_ in the Gurdjieffian sense."
The possible success of such effort leads to a discussion of "later octaves" in the Great Ray. (I would like to have known more about "coating bodies" vs. "crystallization.") There is a section about: "All of life, therefore, is required and fulfills a cosmic need while, simultaneously, the actualizations of HIS ENDLESSNESS make it possible for certain of the three-brained begins to coat High Being-bodies." This action is symbolically represented with respect to what looks like a multi-coloured cosmic pyramid. Movement (instinctive centre), eating (moving and instinctive), and survival (instinctive and moving and sex centre) are discussed. The role of H12, "the power of paying attention," is discussed interestingly and importantly. Also discussed are characteristics and comparisons of first, second, and third brains.
Pages here resemble a textbook on neuro-anatomy. There is much discussion of the "location of attention" and the question is asked, "Where does 'carbon 6' come from?" The octaves of Food, Air, and Impressions are discussed. The subject is complicated, yet the exposition is clear, so the author deserves top marks for his hard work. In an ideal world – rather than on a planet like ours that falls under 48 laws – I would be able to summarize in greater detail the contents of all the chapters.
The quality of any work that is serious may be judged by the influence that it has on serious-minded people. The Gurdjieff Work was introduced to the West in 1915, so it nearly one century old, perhaps a lot older in fragmentary form in the East. Texts that were written in the 1920s and published as late as the 1940s are still able to beget serious discussion and engender new thoughts and feelings. Proof of the seriousness of the Work is that it inspires Dr. Buzzell and other scholars and scientists to "dig deeper." Yet for all its length and depth, it seems that "Reflections" is but the first half of Dr. Buzzell's analysis. For it is promised that there will be a second volume in this series to be titled "Further Reflections on Gurdjieff's Whim." So stay tuned ….
Lurking in the back of my mind, as I read these fourteen chapters, was the planet or star named Kolob and the lonely God of the Mormons, who lives in our cosmos, distant from us but not apart from existence. I must admit that this image brought to my mind Mr. Gurdjieff.
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KEITH A. BUZZELL'S TRIO OF CURRENT PUBLICATIONS: Part One
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Keith A. Buzzell's Trio of Current Publications
Part One
The Doctor with Three Books
In front of me are three publications that have been tastefully produced by Fifth Press, an imprint based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The imprint is new to me and may well be new to the majority of the readers of this blog. The publisher's focus is explained on its website, though even that sheds no light on why it is called the Fifth Press (rather than the Fourth, the Third, the Second, or the First Press). I guess there is a reason for the number but it eludes me! Here is the focus:
"Fifth Press was established in 2004 for the express purpose of publishing Dr. Keith A. Buzzell's exploration of the depth of meaning of Gurdjieff's writing. We are currently working with Will Mesa who has extensive experience plumbing the interstices of Beelzebub's Tales. We hope we may contribute to the fabric of our work together and for all life."
On the basis of its mission statement, Fifth Press is doing a good job in realizing its aims and objectives. Let me also add, in passing, that Dr. Will Mesa is an Cuban-born student of the Work who studied under Henri Tracol in Paris; he is a Professor of Electrical Engineering, apparently based in New York City. He once explained, "Toward the end of my fourth reading of Beelzebub's Tales, late in 1986, it dawned on me that the book I was reading and studying was the best theoretical and experimental book I had ever studied."
It is apparent that there are many scientifically minded and technologically trained people like Dr. Mesa and Dr. Buzzell who are "in the Work" and are making sizeable efforts "to square" what Mr. Gurdjieff wrote in Beelzebub's Tales with contemporary scientific and technological theories and practices. This is one way to "make relevant" what the author wrote between 1924 and 1927, the text of which was translated into English and published in 1950 and subsequently reissued in a revised (and controversial) edition in 1992.
At this point it is incumbent upon me to state that if in order to understand the text of Tales as it appears in the first or the second edition I have to read it not only once, not only twice, but all of three times, once out loud, then I may make no claims to understand the book. The fact that the accuracy and authenticity of the text cannot be accepted without being challenged is not what disturbs me; after all, bookstores offer the public not one but two editions Tales as they do of James Joyce's equally long Finnegans Wake. Indeed, relatedly, the publishing imprint Library of America was established to solve just this problem by issuing standard editions of the works by America's leading literary authors.
In the late 1950s I was trained in the New Critical method of explication de texte, so I am wary of people who accept whatever text is at hand – pace the King James Version of the Bible – and then take it literally and erect intellectual structures like castles in Spain upon the fundament of "gospel truths." I have observed that leaders of study groups make use of the text is largely as illustration, a passage here, a passage there, to add to the foreground or the background of the observation of interest. It is almost as if the work is too large or great to encompass as a whole.
It is obvious that Tales is a complex and demanding text – "problematic" is the word that a semiotician might use – but at the same time it meets Northrop Frye's description of scripture as "literature plus," so it is difficult to "get a handle on the book." I also see it in Frye's terms as an "anatomy," a sum of innumerable parts that with its single structure is greater than the sum of all those parts. But all this is surmise and suggestion, as I am not going to comment on Tales. Instead, I will discuss the man who does and the way he does it – by identifying the author of these three books and by comment on a handful of his interpretations and discoveries.
There is no Wikipedia entry for Keith A. Buzzell, but I did determine the following biographical details on the Internet: "Dr. A. Keith Buzzell was born in 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied music at Bowdoin College and Boston University, and received his medical doctorate in 1960 at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. For the past 35 years, he has been a rural family physician in Fryeburg, Maine, a staff member of Bridgton Hospital and currently holds the position of medical director at the Fryeburg Health Care Center.
"Dr. Buzzell has also served as a professor of osteopathic medicine, a hospital medical director and a founder of a local hospice program. He has lectured widely on the neurophysiologic influences of television on the developing human brain and on the evolution of man's triune brain. In 1971 Keith and his wife Marlena, met Irmis Popoff, a student of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky and the founder of the Pinnacle Group in Sea Cliff, Long Island, New York. From then until the mid-1980s they formed work groups under her supervision. Since 1988 Dr. Buzzell and Annie Lou Staveley, founder of the Two Rivers Farm in Oregon, maintained a Work relationship up to her death in 1996. Keith continues group Work in Bridgton, Maine."
The reference to osteopathy or osteopathic medicine caught my eye because the practice is not recognized as a medical discipline in Canada. A doctor of osteopathy is not a medical doctor in any of this country's provinces. This might be my country's loss, for a doctor of osteopathy is recognized as a medical physician in the fifty states of the American Union. Please note that I am not in any way questioning the value of osteopathy or the credentials of Dr. Buzzell; indeed, he seems eminently qualified in the practice of medicine and has a wide range of interests suitable for his examination of the complexities of Tales. In mentioning this fact, I am clearing up a public confusion about osteopathy!
Fifth Press has issued three handsome volumes of his books. They appear in trade paperback editions, 6.5 inches wide by 9.5 inches high, printed on quality paper, glued rather than sewn to the spine. Here are the titles:
(1) Perspectives on Beelzebub's Tales and Other of Gurdjieff's Writings. The first edition is copyright 2005; xvi+228 pages. (2) A Child's Odyssey: Explorations in Active Mentation: Re-Membering Gurdjieff's Teaching. This first edition is copyright 2006; xiv+297 pages. (3) Man – A Three-brained Being: Resonant Aspects of Modern Science and the Gurdjieff Teaching. This edition is copyright 2007 and identified as the second edition; ii+139.
The three volumes (which have the look of a series of books) are well designed and produced. There are about forty-five lines per page of rather small type, with footnotes, glossaries, and bibliographies. The text is illustrated with charts and diagrams, some in pastel colours. My estimate is that what we have in this trio of books is close to 330,000 words.
Regular readers of Sophia Wellbeloved's web-blog will be familiar with the reviews and commentaries of my companion columnist, Joseph Azize, a man who is extremely knowledgeable about Work-related subjects. Joseph's detailed review of one of these books (Man – A Three-brained Being) appeared on Sept. 27, 2009, and may be read there with much benefit.
In the same vein, a fairly detailed consideration of another title (Perspectives on Beelzebub's Tales) may be read on Amazon.com where it is titled "Perspectives: A Must Read for Serious Students of the Tales" and dated April 4, 2005. This review was contributed by Seymour B. Ginsburg, a respected author in his own right. The two reviews include chapter summaries but in the main they recapitulate the contents of these books chapter by chapter. While I enjoy doing the same – reprinting tables of contents and adding running commentaries on them – I will refrain from duplicating their work, concentrating instead on a couple of points of exposition.
There is one further point to make: Dr. Buzzell has been a presenter at some of the All & Everything International Humanities Conferences. The sole conference I attended was the one held in Toronto two years ago; I reported on those sessions on this web-blog. Here is what happened on April 24, 2009:
At 11:00 a.m., Keith Buzzell spoke on "Do-Re-Me of Food, Air and Impressions." He is a seasoned presenter and with slides and one handout related the Table of Hydrogens to the various types of "food" and ultimately the "coating" of higher being bodies. There is the food that grows on the surface of the earth, that exists in the planetary atmosphere, and that comes from the sun. One of his catchy phrases was "Only life can sustain life."
Hydrogen 768 is the food of man, but the categories are "enormous." In fact, while I did not conduct a word-count, I assume Keith used the word "enormous" twenty-one times to describe the categories on the Table, and quite rightly. He also turned his attention to the difference between "mass" and "non-mass." At times I thought I was attending a lecture on the Joy of Chemistry. Any dieticians in the audience would have been lost!
There was an interesting analysis of the role of proteins and how modern science is revealing the facts of digestion which are in line with what is discussed in "Tales." We learn by analogy: "Higher hydrogens digest lower hydrogens." The speaker suggested that there is "a way of understanding how our minds can transform our physical brains." "The input of the three brains is the substrate of the spiritual body, the DNA of the kesdjan."
During the discussion it was mentioned that there are ten bacteria for every cell in the human body. "We could not live without all our bacteria. We have to get along with each other." Keith quoted a teacher who asked, "How can you expect to have extra knowledge if you don't know ordinary knowledge." The discussion ended with a discussion of magnetic vs. mechanical fields of influence and the human will and whether it can be suborned, followed by the differences between "body" and "centre." It was 1:00 p.m.
Perhaps that excerpt from my notes on Dr. Buzzell's presentation catches some of the excitement of the exposition that is characteristic of the man and his analyses. At the conference I chatted a few times with him and his lovely wife Marlena, finding them to be a professional and knowledgeable couple very dedicated to their work and the Work.
Here are some thoughts inspired by paging through Man – A Three-brained Being. I find it difficult to imagine that anyone but a student of the Work with a special interest in Tales will be drawn to read and study this work of analysis. Specifically, I find it unlikely that anyone but the most exceptional chemist, physicist, astrophysicist, physiologist, or neurologist would want to commit any amount of time and energy to assessing what use has been made here of mainstream scientific theory and practice.
In a way that is a shame because it means there is little chance that there will ever be a dialogue between orthodox scientists and unorthodox but nevertheless rigorous thinkers, so necessarily compartmentalized are the scientific disciplines in our time. I seem to recall reading in a volume of recollections of life at the Prieuré that the Harley Street physicians who were in attendance in the mid-1920s spent an evening trying to identify the Hydrogens and interpret them in light of known chemical reactions. Ouspensky had a pet phrase which he used when students attempted to think outside the system or to relate non-system matters to the system. He would say, "That's another opera." That's another work.
Indeed, Ouspensky titled his book of lectures The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution (1951); in 1989 his literary executors authorized the publication of the rest of the lectures and called the publication The Cosmology of Man's Possible Evolution. Reading Dr. Buzzell's current book, I have the sense that it could well be retitled The Chemistry of Man's Possible Evolution, for it focuses on biological and chemical reactions in the production of change, movement, images, consciousness, and transformation. I will leave it to other commentators, like Joseph Azize, to delve deeper. I will leave this book, as does the author, with the opening sentences of the last paragraph:
"Our aim in this book has been to blend a scientific perspective on the physical Universe and on human biology with a perspective on the possibility of self-transformation as taught by G.I. Gurdjieff. Because it is verbal in form, it can do little more than hint, or metaphorically point toward, the broad spectrum of human experiences that must be personally lived in order to have its full meaning."
Over all, the author writes vividly, even at times stirringly. The book opens with a lively account of how at every turn our lives have been changed by the use that has been made since 1900 of quantum mechanics and its effects. Buzzell writes, "There appears to be more than serendipity involved in the simultaneous appearance of Gurdjieff as a teacher (circa 1913) and the published insights of such men as Planck, Bohr, Einstein, Schrödinger and Hubble. Superficially, the perspectives of 20th century science and of Gurdjieff appear to be diametrically different and yet, it is our contention that both herald a startlingly new view of our Universe." Buzzell finds many parallels between passages in Tales and later scientific discoveries. In passing he relates Tales to innovations in Modernist music and literature, subjects that will no doubt attract future historians of ideas.
With great clarity the author discusses the implications of the "three-brained" being identified with Mr. Gurdjieff and, a good forty years later, the "triune" mind discussed by the physiologist Dr. Paul MacLean. The author is certainly wrong in suggesting that Mr. Gurdjieff (or A.R. Orage, his amanuensis, redactor, translator, editor, etc.) introduced the term "mentation" because as early as 1850 the word was used to refer to "thinking" or "mental processes." Nowhere is there any consideration of the theory that is the rival of Dr. MacLean's, and that is the theory of the bi-cameral mind of the psychologist Julian Jaynes.
Also missing is any discussion of W.H. Sheldon's three "somatotypes" or C.G. Jung's four-fold typology of "body types." Not that the author is under any obligation to discuss any of these or other matters, but it would have been interesting to see how well these conceptions could have been worked into a consideration of Tales. Yet what he sets himself the task to accomplish – to explicate Tales in light of current science – he does accomplish. The intention is not so much to vindicate the scientific endeavour or to justify the unorthodox approach and language of the text, but to delve deeper into the text.
Dr. Buzzell does.
Part two continues this review.
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Keith A. Buzzell: Man – A Three Brained Being
Keith A. Buzzell, Man – A Three Brained Being (Resonant Aspects of Modern Science and the Gurdjieff Teaching), 2nd edition, edited by John Amaral, Marlena Buzzell, Bonnie Phillips and Toddy Smyth, Fifth Press, Salt Lake City, 2007
139 pages, including a glossary of specialist terms, full colour llustrations and a coloured book mark.
This book is unique in the Gurdjieff tradition. It is an original contribution to the study of man, and a stepping stone to further study. The quality of thought displayed is so high as to itself provide a subtle and powerful impression. It could have been subtitled "how and why the brains in man form images, what those images do, and how this can be done in either a healthy or an unhealthy way".
Dr Buzzell's avowed aim is to "blend a scientific perspective on the physical Universe and on human biology with a perspective on the possibility of self-transformation as taught by G.I. Gurdjieff." (p.131) These two domains, physical science and Gurdjieff's teaching (perhaps a species of metaphysical science), have both practical and theoretical applications. It is Dr Buzzell's privilege (hereafter
"Buzzell") to explore and relate the practical and the theoretical aspects of each. Buzzell was educated and trained as a physician, musician and scientist, and has put his good fortune to good use, understanding as he does that "the broad spectrum of human experiences that must be lived …" (p. 131, all italics in quotes are found in the original).
Buzzell invites the reader to "probe deeper"; not just to study his (i.e. Buzzell's own ideas) but to individually apply what they understand in the light of their own lived experiences. His vision is one where many individuals will strive to apply Gurdjieff's system and method in the groups or alone. Then, on the basis of that experience, they come into relation with each other to "share, to commune with, to support and to come into abiding relationship with each other." (p.131)
Art and Illustrations
The cover is thicker than is usual with paperbacks. On the front, a blue netting design stretches over a light grey background. The centre is filled by a diagram in thin white lines, being a large circle with a slightly smaller circle concentrically inside it, filled with an set of interlocking triangles. The three corners of the largest upright triangle are each marked by a blue cluster, roughly circular, but with soft edges. It is as if the blue netting of the background is gathered into the white outlined circles and concentrated at these three corners. The design is redolent of space/time not being uniform, but concentrated by massy objects. We sense harmony, geometry, law, manifestation and peaceful transition in its imagery of simple forms meeting to cause more complex forms and concentrations to arise.
The page before the table of contents bears one of many full colour illustrations. Below it lies the dedication "For All Our Children and Grandchildren". The ideas in this book are links in a chain which began even before Gurdjieff. The book as a whole fills a place in, and carries forward, a broad tradition which flows down from a great horizon. In a deft manner, the illustrations for this book, but especially the front cover, reflect the insight that both the perspectives of modern science and Gurdjieff's ideas "herald a startlingly new view of our Universe." (p. 3).
The book is organized into an introduction and four chapters. Each of these is preceded by a page bearing a few short quotations. Each of those pages is grey with a geometric figure, perhaps one could call it an unfolded triangle, ghosted in white lines. Numerous diagrams, some in colour, are provided. One has only to open the volume to see that the publisher does not just keep a commercial eye on the packaging: as one can fairly say of most presses. Rather, the press, its artists,
editors, author and staff, have collaborated in an endeavour at once
scientific, artistic and crafted.
The introduction asks: what is new since the time of Gurdjieff? The answer is found in the "technological application of the principles of relativity and quantum mechanics", what Buzzell calls "new motions" (pp.3-4). This makes possible, among other things, the new imaging technologies of television, computer terminals, video games, internet and so on. These pump out images which the brain must take as real (pp.5-6), and present reality in a manner and at a speed which is not natural to our three brains. One result is that seeing everything available we want everything now (as stated at p.6). I had already thought that the "entertainment" industry, compressing the events of days, weeks and even years into an "action-packed" 90 minutes has had a part in making us impatient of process (e.g. in
learning). Gurdjieff made similar observations in his chapter on "Art", but the situation has deteriorated since his time, and Buzzell illustrates how and why. As he states, the ideal or natural "time-of-relationship" for people is slower than what we presently allow (p.7). As Buzzell indicates, the possibility of personal transformation depends upon how the brains intentionally digest the images they form (p.8). And like every process, this has a time. If we squander it, if that time is not respected, nature does not give us that period over again. For example, if the fingers of the developing foetus are not differentiated in time, the body "continues its surge towards overall completion and makes compromises around uncompleted parts", and each brain does the same (p. 6).
Chapter 1 is titled "New Concepts". In 1915 Gurdjieff's idea of man as a three-brained being was, "revolutionary"(p.11). In the 1950s, the idea of the triune brain was independently introduced to contemporary science by MacLean, who used the term "mentation" for "a brained process", just as Gurdjieff did. However, MacLean's work is not influential in today's neuroscience (p. 12). The appearance of "brained" beings represents "the Great Turning" (p. 13):
This turning consisted of the evolution of biological mechanisms (one-brained beings) which could construct sensory images of a resonant portion of the forms and energies of the world external to itself. (p. 13)
Both Gurdjieff's theory of "hydrogens" and modern chemistry recognize the significance of electromagnetic bonding energies in holding "states of matter" together (p. 14). As Buzzell correctly notes, the existence of other galaxies was not recognized until the late 1920s (p. 15), yet other galaxies are acknowledged in the Ray of Creation (e.g. Miraculous p. 80). I agree with him that these anticipations of
modern science are extraordinary. Buzzell takes the study of hydrogens further than I have elsewhere seen, and explains how H48 and 24, can now be seen to represent neural impulses and associative neural nets, respectively, unknown substances in 1915 (pp.16-7). With H12:
… the procreative (or germinative) matter/energy enters. It can also be understood as the first of Gurdjieff's "spiritual" matters. … At the physical body level of procreation, it is the higher force at the essentially solar level of new creation – in the new, hydrogen-bonded linkages of our DNA. (p. 17)
The role of H12 in the development of individuality gives an objective basis for the analogy between sun and "real I". It also provides a startlingly concrete dimension to Gurdjieff's concept, passed on orally, of "creating sun in oneself." A table of matters on p. 18 shows how each hydrogen relates to the substances known to science,
for example, H6 corresponds to galactic "cloud" interaction, and H12 to the state of plasma. My study of the ancient solar theology had already shown me that Gurdjieff's many references to the sun were intended literally as well as metaphorically.
Buzzell also studies one of the most sadly neglected aspects of the ideas, the triads. In particular, he has an illuminating passage about the triad of transformation, 2-1-3 (pp.24-5). I have been collating the diverse indications on the triads, and Buzzell's exposition absolutely confirms and extends what I have been able to piece together. His insight that "presence has a distinct and unique quality within each of the three forces of the triad …" explains something which is missing in Ouspensky's account, and which I sensed had to be missing – but I could not see where the gap was. Now I can. This ends chapter 1.
Chapter 2 deals with "The Triune Brain". Buzzell brings a new perspective to faith and hope, explains "wholing" (pp.30-1), images and resonance (pp.32-3), and while he does not refer to Gurdjieff here, his comments on vision (p. 34) elucidate why Gurdjieff privileged sight (Beelzebub at pp. 468-75, the white ray of light corresponds to the 'common-integral vibration of all sources of actualizing', etc). Buzzell goes on to deal with the other senses, both outer and inner, and his treatment of smell is particularly fascinating (pp. 36 and 43). He writes of the "sense of I", the Great Traditions and their ossification, and the scientific method, summing up the chapter with "life" (p. 59).
Chapter 3, "Consciousness as the Coalescence of Images" shows how "awareness of various aspects of the world at and beyond the body surface is the most elemental or simple conscious state" (p. 70). In doing so, Buzzell adds further layers to what he has written about the brain and the senses; noting the sense of smell at p. 66. This chapter brings one to a sense of wonder at the image-making capacities of brained beings, the workings of association, memory, time, and the development of language. Buzzell's pregnant comments on language at p.75 open new vistas on Gurdjieff's remarks in Beelzebub and Remarkable Men. Over several pages, Buzzell describes how each brain receives impressions, forms images and associations, contributes to a different experience of time and to the development of human capacities. Then,
at pp. 78-9, he shows how although PET and MRI can show how different parts of the brain act when listening, nonetheless, we are not aware of that process but of the "coalescence of image". When that image is one of lawfulness in the external world, the scientific method is possible (pp. 79 and 81, and illustrations 8 and 10). At the end of the chapter, Buzzell treats of "attention" and "will", of which he says:
The Will, when understood as a truly independent source of decisioning … is higher (in potency) than impulse, image, consciousness or attention. We assign the potency of the Will to the em-force itself. (p. 87)
One has the feeling by now, that the black and white outline of the Ray of Creation we know from Ouspensky is being coloured in. Chapter 4 is headed: "The Digestion of Food, Air and Impressions: A Metaphor for Human Transformation." Perhaps the nub of the book is here. Buzzell stresses that Gurdjieff's discussion of these topics is metaphorical, and that even the Ray must be understood in such a way. I received a
shock for my understanding when I read Buzzell's comment on the note SI, "freedom from the past, blending of outer and inner" (p. 94). Then follows an important elaboration of In Search of the Miraculous. First, the magnificent colour diagram on p. 96 does something I should have done for myself long ago, and charts the development of the air and impressions octaves beyond what is in Miraculous. The lengthy treatment of the foods, the processes to which they correspond, and which cosmic phenomena relate to the hydrogens at each level is, to my mind, an essential direction for anyone trying to make Gurdjieff's ideas practical for themselves. What Buzzell does is clothe the abstract black and white lines of the food diagram from Miraculous in flesh, blood, oxygen, vitamins, hormones, and other things besides.
The treatment of impressions as food probably does not say so much which many of us have not already suspected: but it is put together and explained concisely and with authority.
This last chapter includes some interesting points and quotations, such as one from Tracol (p. 108). It holds together rather nicely, while covering many aspects of food ingestion and digestion, and relating it to the conscious evolution of man, this triune-brained being. One thing which I think might supplement the treatment of breathing (p. 112) is a reference to the subtle pauses in breathing. These pauses, and indeed, the entire rhythm of the breath, are important in the digestion of the air, one's emotional state and indeed the tempo and state of one's body. Further, Buzzell appreciates
the importance of Gurdjieff's exercises (see pp. 112-3 for details). One will not persevere with the exercises, even if one has the good fortune to receive them, unless one knows of their significance and so values them.
Once the three foods have entered the body (and I suspect that the ingestion of impressions actually begins in the atmosphere of the body) the digestive products of the three foods are blended within the body's inner circulation (pp. 116-7, pointing directly to Gurdjieff's "blending" exercises). The three food octaves can, with the aid of the first conscious shock, come to the triad RE24, FA24, LA24 (p. 118). Conscious images are made of H24, once can even say that for us H24 is conscious images (extrapolating from pp.119-20). With this shock and its conscious images, there appears a presence or inner witness (p. 119). This leads to the critical point:
The effort to maintain the separation of a presence from the created images is the key to the potency inherent in self-remembering. If one loses this state of separation, identification with the image instantly takes place … (p. 119)
Without this separation, the Sacred Dances, which Buzzell says can represent "attentioned movement" (p. 121) would be gymnastics. The book then moves on to what may be the most important part, the treatment of the second conscious shock.
Of course, there are some typographical errors, but not many. The contents reads "coalition" for "coalescence"; p. 55 line 6, read "in" before "vention"; p. 62 paragraph 1, place a full stop after "independently".
Comments I consider this an important book. I think that to come to the best practical understanding of Gurdjieff's ideas and methods possible we must engage with these issues: thus the third Being-Obligolnian-Striving. If this book is found difficult, and it is difficult in parts, that is a challenge. What would be the value of a book on this topic which was easy? Although Buzzell has qualified himself as an Oskianotsner (Beelzebub p. 1122), he cannot fulfil this role without readers who will study not just the book but develop the legacy and apply it.
Some people affect to despise theories, they say they just want practice. This is juvenile. Could one imagine any scientist, let alone a Pooloodjistius, who had never studied theory, had no maths no physic no chemistry, but said "let me loose in the laboratory"? Of course both are needed. In fact, even to dismiss theory is to create a theory as to why other theories are useless. As Chesterton said in another context, it is like declaring: "Away with diagnosis, medicines and exercise: just give me health!"
This is a book which makes connections and invites further study and research. For example, what about the role of fasting? Another interesting field lies with this idea that it is the mark of a master to be able to refrain from acting. One of Mr Adie's former pupils has told me that physiological evidence shows that the "action" of refraining from acting aborts the processes which usually dominate our psyches, and allows new and beneficial processes to take place. Perhaps someone who is qualified shall research it. Another field for Dr Buzzell?
Postscript on the triads (26 September 2009): It is significant that the triads of psycho-transformism are 2 1 3 and 2 3 1 (P.D. Ouspensky, A Record of Meetings, 163). They each begin with 2. The involving triads of destruction are 1 3 2 and crime 3 1 2 (A Record of Meetings, 161 and 185) both end on 2. They can then repeat with great ease, because they proceed mechanically. But, at the same time, precisely
because they end with 2 they offer exactly the right opportunity for commencing one of the triads of psycho-transformism, that is, construction 2 1 3 and self-remembering 2 3 1. I think that with this insight the doctrine of the triads becomes practical, and the understanding of it can then tip the balance when struggles seem unavailing by entering as the third force.
Joseph Azize has published in ancient history, law and Gurdjieff studies. His first book The Phoenician Solar Theology treated ancient Phoenician religion as possessing a spiritual depth comparative with Neoplatonism, to which it contributed through Iamblichos. The second book, "Gilgamesh and the World of Assyria", was jointly edited with Noel Weeks. It includes his article arguing that the Carthaginians did not practice child sacrifice.
The third book, George Mountford Adie: A Gurdjieff Pupil in Australia represents his attempt to present his teacher (a direct pupil of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky) to an international audience.The fourth book, edited and written with Peter El Khouri and Ed Finnane, is a new edition of Britts Civil Precedents. He recommends it to anyone planning to bring proceedings in an Australian court of law.


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• Milton Glaser says he read through Jonah Lehrer's book, Imagine, and the sections quoting him aren't quite accurate.
• Matt Drudge might be Twitter-stalking Israeli DJ Offer Nissim.
• Parks and Recreation's Adam Scott has a storage unit in Los Angeles filled with pictures of a mulleted Paul Rudd and a thank you note from Martin Scorcese.
• District Diva Mindy Meyers, running for State Senate in Brooklyn, did a photo shoot for the New York Post.
• James Franco is directing an adaptation of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, starring Danny McBride. Sigh.
• Alison Brie: still the most awesome person ever:


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Yesterday I wanted to gather some statistics about slide usage in UK universities, to compare with the United States information covered in many issues of the Visual Resources Association journal.
As a mini-follow-up to the Digital Picture survey (2005), I have sent out a much smaller questionnaire aimed more directly at Slide Librarians, Image Librarians, and Visual Resource Curators:
Q.1. Job Title/Institution Name
Q.2. What has happened to your slide collection in the last five years? e.g. down-sized/expanded, digitised or replaced by new digital image collections, decrease in useage or increase in useage, disappeared, or the management subsumed into a small part of other activities, preserved, or in process of any of the above?
Q.3. Are you still making new slides, is this only by special request? is this still supported within your institution?
Q.4. Does your institution still support those who wish to give slide lectures e.g. by providing the equipment (presumably until it can no longer be repaired)? Or has all equipment been removed?
Q.5. How reliant is the future of the existing slide collection on the DACS licence negotiations? and/or what do you predict for the future?
One of the most sobering comments from questionnaire respondents so far:
at a recent library induction a student asked 'what is a slide?'


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Hello there, it's DT member Marine! Today I'm very excited to share with you my very first diorama card ever. Making this interactive card was really fun and I like the final scene which I think is very cozy! I will definitely make more of them in the future!
Next I built the box. And for that, I cut two 18,2 x 10 cm rectangles and scored each at 13,2 cm and 17,2 cm. I die cut a rectangle from one of these two pieces to create the front window.
I also cut two 15,8 cm long strips and scored each one at 1,3 cm from both ends. Then I assembled the box.
Hope you like this diorama card! Have a beautiful day!


text: News & blogs News Loved ones open up about the moment those closest to them were diagnosed with cancer 27 Nov 2017 It is a type of cancer that is relatively unknown but with a dramatic rise in the numbers of people being diagnosed, more of us than ever before are having a very personal experience with mouth cancer. Latest figures reveal there are more than 7,500 new cases of mouth cancer in the United Kingdom a year. The number of diagnoses has increased by more than two-thirds (68%) in the last 20 years, with experts projecting a further rise of a third (33%) by 2035. It means a growing number of us may know somebody who has been given the news they have mouth cancer. With November's Mouth Cancer Action Month, a charity campaign which aims to raise awareness about the disease, coming to an end, family and friends discuss the devastating affect mouth cancer can have on a person's life. On Boxing day ten years ago, Tim Parson's wife Rachel was diagnosed with mouth cancer. Tim, a firefighter from Coventry recalls the day his wife gave him the life-changing news and the affect it had on the whole family. Tim says: "People say firefighters save lives and are brave but I didn't feel very brave when I got the phone call from my wife to tell me "I have mouth cancer". "I hadn't even heard of mouth cancer before. In those few seconds, our lives fell apart. All our plans for the future disappeared in an instant. "In the months following Rachel's operation, I held things together - looking after Rachel, our children, work, and normality itself. But we didn't talk about how we felt. We avoided our emotions for three months until our world began spinning out of control. Rachel thought I didn't care. "I practically had a breakdown at which point a doctor ordered time alone, just the two of us. We shared feelings. Our commitment to each other and our love was renewed. We began the process of rebuilding the life that had been shattered by cancer." Rachel beat mouth cancer and today the family is stronger than ever. "Today, life is good - and tomorrow is another day," Tim adds. "We will forever live in the shadow of cancer; every pain, ulcer, or fatigue will bring worry and fear. But now, life is so much richer than before. Our love is deeper, we cherish time with family, and we seize each day given to us. "It's perceived that firefighters are all brave but I can honestly say it's those who survived mouth cancer, and bear their scars with courage and fortitude and dignity - they are the bravest of the brave." Father of one David Shakesby, from Loughborough, lost his fight with mouth cancer in February. David was diagnosed in 2015, weeks before his 40th birthday. His sister, Karen Chapple, speaks about the need for greater awareness of mouth cancer. Karen says: "We didn't know anything about mouth cancer before David was referred to the hospital by his dentist and that view was shared by nearly all of our family and friends. "I will never forget the reaction of a stranger we met at Rushcliffe Country Park for a sponsored walk we all did to raise awareness of the disease. He said "where is it? I have never heard of that!". It really hit home that this is a disease which very little is known about. "Cancer can occur anywhere, including the mouth. It's so important that more is known about mouth cancer and what we should all be looking for." The early warning signs of mouth cancer, include mouth ulcers which do not heal within three weeks, red or white patches in the mouth and any unusual lumps or bumps in the mouth, lips head and neck. If you notice any of the above symptoms, visit your dentist or doctor immediately. For Dr Ben Atkins, a dentist from Manchester and Trustee of the Oral Health Foundation losing a friend to the disease has driven him to do all he can to spot case early in others. Dr Atkins says: "I lost a very close friend mouth cancer who I had diagnosed myself. As a dental professional, to go through that journey is horrific but as a friend it's even worse. "Getting a phone call that a toothache is not going away for a patient, a friend, who is fully fit, makes you re-evaluate a lot of things in life. "As a dental professional, I now spend more time working with patients to allay fears and worries. We are now accepting more patients, many of who haven't been for a long time, so there is that increased risk of early signs and symptoms being unchecked. "Mouth cancer is on the increase and its effects can be devastating but with greater awareness we can beat the disease and live a good quality of life. Noticing unusual changes in the mouth and taking action on anything out of the ordinary is crucial. Do not leave any symptoms go unchecked." Spotting mouth cancer early transforms the chances of beating the disease from 50% to 90%. Smoking and drinking alcohol to excess remain the largest risk factors associated with mouth cancer, however, more cases are being attributed to the human papillomavirus (HPV), an infection caused by oral sex. Mouth Cancer Action Month runs throughout November and is organised by the Oral Health Foundation and sponsored by Simplyhealth Professionals, with further support from Dentists' Provident. The charity campaign is aiming to raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of mouth cancer so that more cases can be caught early. Visit www.mouthcancer.org for more information about mouth cancer and how you can support November's Mouth Cancer Action Month.