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Do you laugh at these drug commercials on TV… the ones with all the happy smiling faces and people dancing around because the drug has supposedly made life great?

Then – while they’re still dancing and smiling – the narrator reads you the long list of the 30 or so side effects that the drug may cause. These commercials make me chuckle and shake my head each time I see them.

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McCain Wants Prize Money For Efficient Battery Operated Autos--And Why Not?

McCain calls for $300 million auto battery prize
David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is calling for a government-funded $300 million prize to build an advanced battery to power plug-in hybrids, while sharply criticizing luxury carmakers who don't meet fuel economy requirements.

McCain also said he would back a $5,000 dollar tax credit for zero-emission vehicles.

"We will encourage heroic efforts in engineering, and we will reward the greatest success," McCain said, according to an advance copy of prepared remarks. "I further propose we inspire the ingenuity and resolve of the American people by offering a $300 million prize for the development of a battery package that has the size, capacity, cost and power to leapfrog the commercially available plug-in hybrids or electric cars."

McCain noted the figure was " one dollar for every man, woman and child in the United States -- a small price to pay for helping to break the back of the nation's dependency on oil -- and should deliver a power source at 30 percent of the current costs."

McCain noted that America's cars and trucks use 60 percent of the oil and raised questions about whether the current system of fines for not complying with fuel economy requirements was sufficient.

"Yet the CAFE standards we apply to automakers -- to increase the fuel efficiency of their cars -- are lightly enforced by a small fine," McCain was expected to say at a speech at Fresno State University at California, according to excerpts provided by the campaign. "The result is that some companies don't even bother to observe CAFE standards. Instead they just write a check to the government and pass the cost along to you. Higher-end auto companies like BMW, Porsche, and Mercedes employ some of the best engineering talent in the world. But that talent isn't put to the job of fuel efficiency, when the penalties are too small to encourage innovation."

The energy bill passed last December doubled fuel economy fines. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced late last year that it had issued more than $40 million in fines for six manufacturers, with then DaimlerChrysler AG paying $30.3 million.

McCain criticized automakers for not ramping up production of vehicles than run on flex-fuel vehicles, while also criticizing government subsidies for ethanol.

"Innovation in the use of alternative fuels in transportation presents the greatest opportunity for energy independence," McCain said. "Some, such as ethanol, are on the market now, and new sources of ethanol are on the horizon that will not require the use of so much cropland. Corn-based ethanol, thanks to the money and influence of lobbyists, has been a case study in the law of unintended consequences. Our government pays to subsidize corn-based ethanol even as it collects tariffs that prevent consumers from benefiting from other kinds of ethanol, such as sugarcane-based ethanol from Brazil."

He said taxpayers -- which gave ethanol $3 billion in subsidies last year -- were paying too much. "The result is that Americans take the financial hit coming and going. As taxpayers, we foot the bill for the enormous subsides paid to corn producers. And as consumers, we pay extra at the pump because of government barriers to cheaper products from abroad."

McCain said automakers should ramp up production of vehicles that can run on E85, a vehicle that runs on 85 percent ethanol.

"This can be done with a simple federal standard to hasten the conversion of all new vehicles in America to flex-fuel technology -- allowing drivers to use alcohol fuels instead of gas in their cars," McCain said. "Automakers that helped Brazil make the change say it will take them longer to reach the goal of 50 percent new flex-fuel vehicles for America. But I am confident they can do more, and do it faster, in the interest of our energy security. And if I am elected president, they will. Whether it takes a meeting with automakers during my first month in office, or my signature on an act of Congress, we will meet the goal of a swift conversion of American vehicles away from oil."

Get Angry About Too Much Sugar
by
Don White


Science fiction guru Isaac Asimov in 1966 at the height of the Cold War wrote a thriller called Fantastic Voyage. It had to do with new technology that scientists had developed (fiction then) to miniaturize doctors and send them inside the vessels of the body to correct defects of man.

That was the fantastic voyage, not space travel, for Asimov, one of the greatest and most prolific novelists we have ever known. The miniaturization had one fatal flaw, it wore off quickly. Professor Benes develops the breakthrough that overcomes this limitation. But before he is able to communicate his crucial insight he falls into a coma, with a potentially fatal blood clot in his brain.

Against a backdrop of the continuing time limitation and international intrigue, our side sends in a submarine with five specialists using the still time-limited miniaturization technology to travel inside Benes body and destroy the blood clot.

Likely you read the book or saw the exciting movie. Moviegoers are treated to a genuinely fantastic voyage through the vessels of the human body as the intrepid team battles enormous white blood cells, insidious antibodies, annoying platelets and other threats as they work to achieve their goal before the miniaturization catastrophically wears off.

What's the point? Only that in 1966 medicine had no idea that Asimov's fiction would largely come about. Not that people are made small enough to go into the blood stream, but that we have developed medicine and vitamins that can do the job for us.

A futurist, Ray Karswell, has written some books about what to expect in travel in the future and health. The latter book is about health. In fact on page 3 his subtitle is: IMMORTALITY IS WITHIN OUR GRASP

If there are Christians in the "house" and I offend anyone who believes Jesus Christ has already done that in his atonement--and I am one of them--please bear with us. Kurzwell is zany, but his point was well taken. If we "eat well enough" people say we can do that. No--it isn't what we eat, but what we digest, that's most important.

There is an enemy in our quest to live longer. Who is it? It is sugar.
Never when I was growing up did I suspect that sugar was the prime cause of cancer, one of the biggest threats to long life. Keep sugar down in your diet and you'll live a long while--and I mean actual sugar, not the kind you get from raw apples or other unsweetened fruit.

Listen to Kurzwell: "It is wise to consider the process of reversing and overcoming the dangerous progression of disease as a war. As in any war, if the enemy is at the gates--or inside the gates--it's important to mobilize all the means of intelligence and weaponry that can be harnessed. That's why we'll advocate that key dangers be attacked on multiple fronts. For example , we'll discuss ten approaches that should be practiced concurrently for prevention of heart disease..."

Who is the enemy? Put yourself at the top of the list. Until the onset of symptoms, most people do not focus on prevention of disease, so health officials give limited advice until something is severe...usually.

The second enemy is the disease process, itself.

As time goes on we'll give you more specifics on how sugar can expand cancer in the human body, instead of reduce it. You know, don't you, that all of us have cancerous tissues and cells inside our bodies. But because our bodies are healthy, our good cells fight and beat down the cancerous ones so that cancer never really gets a foothold. But what happens when you eat too much sugar and don't get enough vitamin D-producing sunshine is that these bad cells multiply and become a big cancer, taking over vital body functions.

Enough for now. Just remember, if you drink coffee maybe you need to consider taking it without sugar--or with less sugar. If you drink herbal tea, honey is a lot better for you than granulated white sugar. Spend more time outside, until we talk again.

"The Weather Outside Is Frightful"

Is the bad weather intensifying?



Orlando,FL June 22, 2008--It doesn't take a genius to figure it out. Weather patterns are at their most severe the past 100 years, and you can count on the Al Goreites to blame "Global Warming."



The actual truth is that this earth is in a cooling cycle, has been the past couple of years. Greenhouse gasses have nothing to do with anything.



Read the following headlines around the world this Sunday morning.



1. Floodwaters from the Mississippi River surround mailboxes and a house on



Saturday, June 21, 2008 in Foley, Mo. At Foley, more than half of the homes in the town of 200 residents were under water. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)AP - Amid the battle to hold back the swollen Mississippi River, some towns in northeastern Missouri and Illinois got an unwelcome surprise Saturday as river levels rose higher than projected.



2. Calif. firefighters wrestle with hundreds of blazes

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3. 700 missing after Philippines typhoon sinks ferry (AP)



4. The U.S. National Weather Bureau said Dr. Gray has predicted 16 hurricanes, nine of a severe nature, this year. That may or may not be significant. He did the same the last couple of years, but in Florida at least those predictions did not pan out. Just the same, people should be on guard and be ready with their 72-hour survival kits and extra food storage in case the worst occurs.

Wireless Internet Is Inflight Reality

The following ideas are from Walt Mossberg of the WSJ.
The Wall Street Journal has announced that beginning this summer wireless Internet access will arrive in the passenger cabins of some commercial U.S. airliners.

On these Internet-equipped planes, any passenger with a Wi-Fi enabled laptop -- or a cellphone with Wi-Fi -- will be able to do almost everything he or she could do online at home or at the office.

That includes surfing the Web, using email, having instant-messenger text chats, downloading and uploading files, and streaming video and audio.

In fact, I did all these things a few days ago on a test flight using the new system, called Gogo. During the flight from San Francisco to Denver, on a small test jet, I could operate online as if I were sitting at my desk, or in a Starbucks. I used Dell and Apple laptops, a BlackBerry, a Windows Mobile phone and an iPhone to perform all the most common online tasks, while soaring over majestic mountains and glorious national parks.

I sent and received emails on Microsoft Outlook and Apple Mail, including messages with hefty attachments. I conducted IM chats on AOL Instant Messenger and Google Talk. Using all the major Web browsers, I called up dozens of Web sites, and watched video clips on Hulu and YouTube. I downloaded photos, songs, PDF files and Microsoft Office documents. I used all the Internet functions on the iPhone, and on the Wi-Fi-equipped BlackBerry and Windows Mobile phone.

One important caveat: Gogo is a data-only system. It doesn't allow phone calls and will block all services that allow voice conversations to be made over the Internet.

Gogo will launch on three American Airlines routes, likely in July. The first planes to use it will be American's 15 Boeing 767s flying between New York and Los Angeles, San Francisco and Miami. Later in the year, Gogo will be available on all of Virgin America's small number of routes, and possibly additional American routes, if the first deployment works well. It's supplied to the airlines by a Denver-based company called Aircell, which says it is in negotiations to offer the Gogo service on several other major U.S. airlines by next year.

The Gogo service will cost a flat fee of $12.95 for flights of three hours or longer, and $9.95 for shorter trips. You log into Gogo as you would any commercial Internet service, registering on a special Web page. Aircell plans to allow advance sign-up, so you'd only have to enter an ID and password on the plane. No add-on software, hardware or cables are required.

A few Web functions will be offered free from Gogo, including access to the American Airlines Web site, to Frommer's online travel guides and to a limited selection of articles from The Wall Street Journal.

Gogo isn't the first in-plane Internet service. A few years ago, Lufthansa offered a satellite-based service from Boeing, mainly on over-ocean flights, but it was canceled.

The service operates at respectable, if not blazing, speeds -- similar to what you'd get on a cellular broadband service or a slow home DSL line. On my test flight, download speeds varied from 266 kilobits per second to about 1.4 megabits per second, with the most typical speeds hovering between 500 and 600 kbps. Upload speeds were between 250 and 300 kbps. I found that most of the tasks I tested, except for streaming video, felt smooth and normal.

Speeds could degrade on a large plane with scores of people online simultaneously. But Aircell claims it has the technology to make my experience representative for anyone doing common tasks, such as Web surfing and email. During my test flight, eight laptops and six Wi-Fi-enabled smart phones were using the system simultaneously. All registered decent speeds, except for a couple of minutes when the plane was crossing between the zones controlled by the company's ground-based towers.

Aircell gets Internet access to the planes through a network of 92 towers scattered across North America. These essentially are cellphone towers, carrying a high-speed cellphone data signal, except that the Aircell antennas point up, into the sky. A receiver on the underside of the aircraft picks up the signal, which is then distributed through the plane via Wi-Fi.

The companies say Gogo is safe and won't interfere with the plane's operation. It is government-approved, and pilots can shut the system off should they deem it necessary.

Gogo has some limitations. The service plans to allocate its capacity so that low-bandwidth activities like Web surfing and email take priority over high-bandwidth ones like streaming video. That means you may find video to be slow and halting.

And Gogo is a North American, land-based service only. It won't work over the oceans and, for now, it won't work on other continents.

But for U.S. travelers who want to stay connected in the air, Gogo does the job.
• Find all of Walt Mossberg's columns and videos online, free, at the new All Things Digital Web site, http://walt.allthingsd.com. Email him at mossberg@wsj.com.

Allergies

I have included part of a fine article by Stan M. Gardner,MD with a link to Meridian Magazine so that you can read the entire article if you choose. I don't offer it here because I believe this article is a cure-all or a seminal type of breakthrough article, but that each of us needs to absorb as much knowledge as possible in many fields if we truly intend to stay abreast of life and how to cope with it. Don White


Recently a young woman came into my office with a common complaint: With the advent of pollen season, her eyes were watering and itchy; she was congested and miserable and unable to sleep, sneezing constantly. Many of you relate.

In order for us to understand an immune system gone awry (which is what allergies are all about), we must first understand the normal immune response. When any foreign particle enters our body, a host of defenders rushes to the site. These defenders are called “white blood cells,” and they perceive the foreign substance as the enemy.

We call the foreign substances “antigens.” These may be infectious agents, pollen in the air, dander from animals, mold spores, chemicals, or other allergens.

Some of the defenders are called “macrophages.” They are capable of digesting the foreign material, much like PacMan. Another white blood cell, called a “basophil,” releases pro-inflammatory substances. In medical jargon, these pro-inflammatory substances have names like interleukins, cytokines, prostaglandins, and histamines. These cause inflammation, pain, and swelling at the local site.

These basophils also stimulate the immune system, which attracts antibodies and T lymphocytes to the area. The antibodies bind to the infectious agent and create what we call an antigen-antibody complex. All that means is that the antigen and the antibody have connected to each other. The liver destroys these antigen-antibody complexes.

The other thing the antibodies do is initiate a series of steps called a “complement cascade,” which causes the lysis, or destruction, of the antigen.

This cascade will also digest the dead parts and release more pro-inflammatory substances. The T lymphocytes consist of three different types: one has a memory that remembers the previous exposure to this particular (usually infectious) agent. This is similar to when we get exposed to a virus as a child. Our body creates these memory lymphocytes that immediately attack that same virus in later years, so the virus cannot cause symptoms of an actual infection. There are also T lymphocytes that are called helper cells that assist in the overall destruction of these foreign agents.

Perhaps the most important of the T lymphocytes are called killer cells. Why are they called “killer cells?” Because they have the capability of providing the final blow to kill infectious agents and cancer cells.

When the immune system is functioning properly, it provides an excellent protection against the many foreign substances that exist in our world. When, however, the reaction to these foreign substances is prolonged or overwhelming, we see the abnormal immune response that may create allergies, autoimmune disease, recurrent infections, or even cancer.

For more on Allergies, read the entire article at Meridian Magazine:
http://www.ldsmag.com/healthyoutlook/080617allergies.html

Some Energy Web Site Talk

[DIY] Practical Guide to Free-Energy Devices - Chapter 2
Monday, June 16, 2008 3:17 AM
From:
"Dale"
DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com

I am presently involved in a type of hydrogen R and D, and what you see
here does in fact work, however keep in mind that when you break water
into its two parts you have a highly explosive mixture. Hydrogen when
combined with 30% oxygen, which is H2/O you have a ready made bomb and
certain precautions need to be adhered to. I spent a number of years on
Nuclear Submarines and we made our own oxygen by a similar process,
discarding the hydrogen to the surrounding water. A standing serious
joke was that any failure of the equipment could and often would result
in an explosion, and at least one man I know of was killed to attest to
this theory.

We were working in a situation where money for development was not an
object and as such our equipment was highly sophisticated as compared to
what can be built in the average home work shop. I would recommend a
search on the subject of Hydrogen, Brown's Gas, HHO Gas, Water
Propulsion, Etc. There are a number of video clips available on U-Tube
showing what others are doing, and some of it is dangers, some is
ludicrous, and some is even novel, but you have to admire folks for
being willing to try.

The big drawback with most of what is being done is that there has been
little attention devoted to actual use of accepted standards of
measuring performance except to watch the bubbles they are making vs the
amount of current the device is drawing.

The short and the long of this is, if you want to have some fun and
accept the fact that you can create unexpected explosions, go for it.
Who knows, you could wind up being the next Thomas Edison "or NOT".

Dale

Bill Chmelik wrote:
>
> OK, take a lot and see if this might be fun to try, have no idea if it
> works or not, so I figured I would hit as many folks as possible --- a
> real do it yourself
> http://www.free- energy-info. co.uk/Chapt10. html
>
>
> --
> Bill Chmelik
> East Central Mississippi
>
> "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
> Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" - Benjamin Franklin
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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[DIY] Practical Guide to Free-Energy Devices - Chapter 2
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The Cedar River poured over its banks Thursday, forcing the evacuation of more than 3,000 homes, causing a railroad bridge to collapse and leaving cars underwater on downtown streets.

Officials estimated that 100 blocks were underwater in Cedar Rapids, where several days of preparation could not hold back the rain-swollen river. Rescuers had to use boats to reach many stranded residents, and people could be seen dragging suitcases up closed highway exit ramps to escape the water.

"We're just kind of at God's mercy right now, so hopefully people that never prayed before this, it might be a good time to start," Linn County Sheriff Don Zeller said. "We're going to need a lot of prayers and people are going to need a lot of patience and understanding."

Go here for the remainder of the AP story:


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-dams-flooding-jun12,0,3170273.story

100-Mile-Per-Gallon Car

Here's Part of Paul Jacob's article from Townhall.

100 Miles a Gallon
Episode Number: 2047
Publication Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008

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Everybody who wants a car that gets 100 miles per gallon, raise your hand.

Me too.

The Progressive Automotive X Prize is an international competition that will award ten million dollars to the first team to produce and market an affordable 100-mile-per-gallon car.

Many groovy possibilities are in the works. One prototype would be powered by compressed air. Another is an all-electric automobile slim as a motorcycle. Another runs on gas fumes.

I like the contest even though I dislike some of the ideas of some people who also like the contest. Modern “green” activists — as opposed to blue or yellow — too often pursue their goals by trying to block human exploitation of nature that they disagree with. They often treat property rights as an annoying impediment.

Free markets are vibrant because they provide so many ways for producers to reach us with goods we are willing to pay for. We are willing to pay for something when we’re persuaded it would be of value to us. So, it’s great when economic entrepreneurs test new products in the marketplace. Not so great it when political entrepreneurs try to impose new products on us by force. Or try to stop us from using viable alternatives.

Frankly, I’d go for a decent-priced car that gets 100 miles a gallon even if politicians and environmentalists weren’t trying to tax oil and gas out of existence.

That’s just — well, this is — Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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Babies At Risk Comparison By State

Underweight U.S. Babies Rises To Highest Levels In 40 Years

By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer

NEW YORK - The percentage of underweight babies born in the U.S. has increased to its highest rate in 40 years, according to a new report that also documents a recent rise in the number of children living in poverty

The data on low birth weights is worrisome because such babies — those born at less than 5.5 pounds — are at greater risk of dying in infancy or experiencing long-term disabilities.

The findings were released Thursday in the annual Kids Count report on the health and well-being of America's youth, which measures the states in 10 categories. Overall, the report found progress, as well as some setbacks.

"Well-being indicators have largely gotten better for teens, and they've gotten worse for babies," said Laura Beavers, coordinator of the Kids Count project for the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation.

The report documented improvements in the child death rate, teen death rate, teen birth rate, high school dropout rate, and teens not in school and not working. There was no change in the infant mortality rate, while four areas worsened: low-birthweight babies, children living in with jobless or underemployed parents, children in poverty, and children in single-parent families.

In composite rankings for all 10 indicators, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Utah ranked the highest, while Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico, Alabama and South Carolina ranked the lowest.

Read the entire story by clicking here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080612/ap_on_he_me/med_kids_count