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Poly Bag Signs

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:31:16 GMT

clipped by: potomacibad
clipper's remarks: Poly bag signs best pricing that I have found online.

Clip Source: www.precisionsignz.com

Tags: bag signs, plastic signs, election, campaign, primary signs, politics, poly bag signs

Folding the US Into a Single Global Currency

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:29:07 GMT

clipped by: nuttyriv3r

Clip Source: www.ecommercetimes.com

By Theodore F. di Stefano

11/03/09 5:30

Theodore F. di Stefano: Why must the current role of the U.S. dollar be changed?

Morrison Bonpasse: As the Chinese Central Bank Governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, stated last spring when proposing a new global reserve currency, it no longer makes sense for the currency of one nation to have such a primary role as the U.S. dollar.

This statement echoes former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker's wise refrain, "A global economy requires a global currency."

di Stefano: What should replace the U.S. dollar?

Bonpasse: Very simply, a single global currency, managed by a Global Central Bank within a Global Monetary Union

Such a currency should incorporate the U.S. dollar and not just push it aside

The model for the dollar's future incorporation into a monetary union was the role of the Deutschmark in the formation of the European Monetary Union.

di Stefano: How long might this process take?

that could be accomplished in less than five years

di Stefano: What's the next step?

Tags: central banks, morrison bonpasse, one world currency, single global currency association

Pfizer fudged drug studies, report says

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:38:10 GMT

clipped by: DanaGarrett
clipper's remarks: Those who have unbridled trust in the integrity and honesty of the private sector are idiots.

Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

A study of internal company documents suggests Pfizer Inc altered or omitted unfavorable study findings to expand its epilepsy drug Neurontin's market, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday, offering a look at how drugmakers influence scientific research

Clinical trials are supposed to answer a specific, predetermined scientific question, but a comparison of Pfizer documents and published studies on Neurontin for conditions other than epilepsy found that eight out of 20 study reports never made it into medical journals

And in eight of the 12 published studies, the primary outcome -- the answer to the main scientific question -- was changed by Pfizer, the world's biggest drugmaker, from the original study design.

The studies, all funded by Pfizer, showed how the drug worked in people with problems like migraines or pain, which are off-label uses of the drug.

Do You Know How To Manage Your Human Energy System? Balancing Your Crown Chakra

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:34:19 GMT

clipped by: peace6

Clip Source: www.peacefulinterlude.com

Do you feel that there is more to life but somehow you just can’t seem to find it? Do you feel let down or betrayed by life itself? Does it seem that you have lost your direction or that the stuffing has gone out of you? Is there a feeling of deep emptiness within which seems as though nothing can fill it?

The Seventh Energy Center or the Crown Chakra is positioned at the top of the head at the soft center on a newborn baby’s head and relates to the pineal gland. The primary purpose of the crown chakra is to obtain meaning. That meaning gets incorporated into your belief system, and because this is the way you perceive the world to be, you operate from these set of beliefs.

The ultimate goal is to achieve a balance in your energy system through the chakras, connecting with the earth below and the sky above.

Ask yourself the question how committed am I to making a change in my life? What would that entail?

http://www.peacefulinterlude.com/eipconsultation.htm

Tags: attachments., belief system, betrayed, crown chakra, emptiness, lost direction, purpose

Do You Know How To Manage Your Human Energy System? Balancing Your Crown Chakra

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:34:16 GMT

clipped by: CoraLyn
clipper's remarks: Great article and it is so interesting that your beliefs are based on the ideas that you have formed which you believe to be true. Your beliefs shape your reality and your reality shapes your beliefs. So to reprogram your crown chakra it requires you to examine your belief system, asking yourself questions and becoming aware of the operating belief system from which you run your life.

Clip Source: www.peacefulinterlude.com

The ultimate goal is to achieve a balance in your energy system through the chakras, connecting with the earth below and the sky above.

Ask yourself the question how committed am I to making a change in my life? What would that entail?

http://www.peacefulinterlude.com/eipconsultation.htm

Tags: attachments., belief system, betrayed, crown chakra, emptiness, lost direction, purpose

C. on Bioethics

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:37:02 GMT

clipped by: cresvumom
clipper's remarks: we adapt based upon learning from bad experiences.

Clip Source: www.cognitiveliberty.org

Despite its therapeutic potential, some people are wary of memory-altering drugs. Chief among them: the President's Council on Bioethics, an advisory group of doctors and scholars formed in 2001.

In its report, the council worries that dampening painful memories – or in the future, erasing them altogether – may disconnect people from reality or their true selves.

"The use of memory-blunters at the time of traumatic events could interfere with the normal psychic work and adaptive value of emotionally charged memory," the council wrote. "A primary function of the brain's special way of encoding memories for emotional experiences would seem to be to make us remember important events longer and more vividly than trivial events."

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In other words, emotional memories, however painful, serve a purpose. We remember memories linked to emotions longer and better because they help us learn, adapt, survive.

learn to avoid bad things by remembering bad experiences.

Masculinity beliefs impacting men's health

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:30:45 GMT

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Clip Source: www.altpenis.com

Masculinity beliefs impacting men's health

Men that are middle-aged and who strongly idealize masculinity are almost 50 percent less likely than other men to seek healthcare services, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

"This research strongly suggests that deep-seated masculinity beliefs are one core cause of men's poor health, in as much as they reduce compliance with recommended preventative health services," said Kristen W. Springer, the study's primary researcher.

The study also noted that education - despite its well-established beneficial effect on health behaviors - also was a moderating factor. Highly educated men with the strongest-held masculinity beliefs were just as unlikely to obtain preventative care as men with lower levels of education.

She concluded by emphasizing the need for more research using samples with greater diversity.

Tags: masculinity, beliefs, impacting, men's, health

Good things agreed upon in the healthcare bills so farare

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:29:36 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: These are significant improvements, and will probably be included in the final form of any bill that passes.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

1. The ability of insurers to destroy people's lives over pre-existing condition clauses, recissions, and lifetime caps on their coverage will end.

2. Everyone will finally be covered, with subsidies for low and middle income people. That is a very big deal, something that a lot of us have been fighting for our entire lives.

3. The "doughnut hole" screwing over senior citizens on their prescription coverage will be fixed.

5. Creating the insurance exchange will provide lower prices and more choices for many people.

6. It does provide immediate help for the un-insured, even before the public option and insurance exchanges are in place.

7. It extends coverage for young people wanting to stay under their parents' coverage up to 27 years old.

8. Strengthens Medicare

11. Creates a new long term care insurance program.

12. Makes it easier for early retirees (55-64 years old) to get health care coverage.

14. More money for education/training of primary care providers.

Tags: healthcare

Asthma and Exhaled nitric oxide - A Simple, New Breath Test to Help Manage Asthma

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:27:24 GMT

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Clip Source: www.scribd.com

Asthma and Exhaled Nitric Oxide (eNO) - A Simple, New Breath Test to Help Manage Asthma

When airways get inflamed, the inner walls of the airway swell, so there is less space for a smooth flow of air. Inflammation of the airways leads symptoms such as shortness of breath, wheezing and coughing. The primary focus of asthma treatment is to reduce inflammation. Unfortunately, current methods of testing lung function do not measure inflammation. Therefore, you have to correlate symptoms to disease severity when prescribing or adjusting medication.

Tags: asthma attacks, asthma products, asthma management, insight eno, exhaled nitric oxide asthma, fractional exhaled nitric oxide

Switzerland Event Management

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:04:07 GMT

clipped by: saathiva
clipper's remarks: Having a party, exhibition, seminar, conference and exhibition takes a lot of planning and arrangements to be successful and memorable. These are the events that can be arranged within hours. You need the help of an events management company to be successful and memorable. Indeed, events like fashion shows, sports, music, awards, cultural exchanges, etc. have become the primary growth drivers in the event management sector, because the event management companies endowed with the skillful management of start to finish.

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Switzerland Event Management

Having a party, exhibition, seminar, conference and exhibition takes a lot of planning and arrangements to be successful and memorable. These are the events that can be arranged within hours. You need the help of an events management company to be successful and memorable. Indeed, events like fashion shows, sports, music, awards, cultural exchanges, etc. have become the primary growth drivers in the event management sector, because the event management companies endowed with the skillful management of start to finish.

Tags: event management switzerland, dj parties geneva, corporate events zurich, bollywood parties geneva, club events davos, dj bookings geneva

This little company has SOLVED the Global Food Crisis

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:00:28 GMT

clipped by: leevardi
clipper's remarks: ......INSPIRATIONAL STORY....what's the bet Monsanto will try to legislate them out of business.

Clip Source: www.rumormillnews.com

CGI's ileblanc: Too good to be true? ..this little company just solved the global food crisis!

Check it out. It started out as a private company out of Calgary, Alberta. My primary concern is:

Will it survive the big boyz?

http://www.smallcapfortunes.com/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=551&e=MzMxNDA4&l=-http--www.thestreetreaper.com/urbf/index.html

...this little company just solved the global food crisis!

“They’ve got unique technology that grows crops in as little as 1/4th the time, and amazingly, in as little as 1/100th of the space required by conventional farming methods!

Crops are grown indoors in a controlled environment, 100% free from outside contaminants such as pesticides, bird and animal feces and even bugs…

All this while using 99% less water!

Virtually all of the major problems of conventional farming are eliminated…

And for the first time, city dwellers will get fresh, locally grown organic fruits and vegetables every day of the year!”

How Dreamy Is That?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:19:17 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

It’s snowing heavily, and everyone in the backyard is in a swimsuit, at some kind of party: Mom, Dad, the high school principal, there’s even an ex-girlfriend. And is that Elvis, over by the piñata?

Uh-oh.

what if the primary purpose of dreaming isn’t psychological at all?

Dr. Hobson argues that dreaming is a parallel state of consciousness that is continually running but normally suppressed during waking.

“I argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it is consciousness itself, in the absence of input from the senses,”

These novel ideas about dreaming are based partly on basic findings about REM sleep.

None of this is to say that dreams are devoid of meaning. Anyone who can remember a vivid dream knows that at times the strange nighttime scenes reflect real hopes and anxieties: the young teacher who finds himself naked at the lectern; the new mother in front of an empty crib, frantic in her imagined loss.

Engineered Rabbit Penises Raise Human Hopes

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:18:45 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: Clipped for the headline. No doubt this will be all over the web. How is the Catholic Church on this sort of tamponing, I mean tampering, with nature. Probably for it. Help the population grow beyond the planet's ability to cope.

Clip Source: www.wired.com

Using tissue grown in a laboratory, researchers have engineered fully functional replacement penises. The organs were made for rabbits, but the technique may someday be useful for people.

“This technology has considerable potential for patients requiring penile construction,” wrote researchers in a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Leading the team was Anthony Atala, director of Wake Forest University’s Institute of Regenerative Medicine. Atala is best known for developing a technique in which cells are taken from an organ and sprayed onto a frame made of collagen, the primary structural protein in animal tissue. The structure is then bathed with growth-stimulating compounds and kept in an oven that duplicates the body’s temperature and chemical composition.

Given these starting conditions, natural biology does the rest. The cells divide and arrange themselves in natural, working configurations.

Tags: ethics

final cut 3

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:32:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.themoviequotes.com

Sutler: My fellow Englishmen: tonight our country, that which we stand for, and all we hold dear, faces a grave and terrible threat. This violent and unparalleled assault on our security will not go undefended... or unpunished. Our enemy is an insidious one, seeking to divide us and destroy the very foundation of our great nation. Tonight, we must remain steadfast. We must remain determined. But most of all, we must remain united.

Closing Credits Music Voiceover - Male: Concerning non-violence: It is criminal to teach man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

Closing Credits Music Voiceover - Female: Sex and Race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organising human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labour on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen, or those earned. We are really talking about Humanism.

How come we seldom get it right?

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:36:53 GMT

clipped by: patden
clipper's remarks: This excellent list of recommendations will ALSO be ignored, unfortunately.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Marcia Angell, M.D.

Physician, Author, Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School

Posted: November 8, 2009 08:02 PM

Is the House Health Care Bill Better than Nothing?

Is the House bill better than nothing? I don't think so. It simply throws more money into a dysfunctional and unsustainable system, with only a few improvements at the edges, and it augments the central role of the investor-owned insurance industry. The danger is that as costs continue to rise and coverage becomes less comprehensive, people will conclude that we've tried health reform and it didn't work. But the real problem will be that we didn't really try it. I would rather see us do nothing now, and have a better chance of trying again later and then doing it right.

Here is my program for real reform:

Recommendation #1: Drop the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 55.

Recommendation #2: Increase Medicare fees for primary care doctors and reduce them for procedure-oriented specialists.

Tags: health care