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'Sci-Fi World': Web Bots Forecast for 2017
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Here's Clif High's latest HalfPastHuman Web Bots Report, "Sci-Fi World," on Greg Hunter's USA Watchdog show, with Clif's predictions for 2017, using his web-based predictive linguistic techniques.
The full report of which can be bought HERE.
His previous report, parts of which were shared on this same show was staggeringly accurate about some things, which didn't seem to be evident at the time but which came true, including the election of Donald Trump as President and other uncanny details.
So, here's an outline of the transcript below, edited for clarity:
ISRAELI FREAK-OUT
SMOOTH INAUGURATION – TRUMP WON'T BE ASSASSINATED
THE ECONOMY: "WE'RE SCREWED"
EROSION OF THE DOLLAR, MARCH OR APRIL
REAL ESTATE CRASH AND 20% INTEREST RATES IN SEPTEMBER?
CREDIT FREEZE
HOUSE PRICES 90% OFF IN TEN YEARS
"FLASH-CRASHES"
FOREX VOLATILITY: JANUARY 8TH-12TH
BITCOIN BOOM DRIVEN BY CHINA
20,000 DOW = $600/oz SILVER
SILVER PEAKS IN AUGUST
ANTARCTICA AND THE "WOO-WOO" EFFECT
GIGANTIC PYRAMIDS OF ANTARCTICA
GIANT WARM AIR-FILLED POCKETS IN ANTARCTICA
POTENTIAL SOURCE OF TECHNOLOGY AND WEALTH IN ANTARCTICA
CLASHING ELITES AND THE CONTRACTION OF THE US
So, let's get into it:
We actually have a forecast for a sort of an Israeli freak-out or mental breakdown that will occur, that we'll see the manifestation of in mid-February and it's going to be a akin to a spat and a series of skirmishes that will be economic, so the chaos part has started but the results will come on in a while.
I don't have anything that says: "Hard stop: Trump's assassinated." I don't have that.
If I had to actually back my data with real money, like this piece of silver, I would be willing to bet that the inauguration part goes through as smoothly, as it's possibly going to, given the emotional datasets we're dealing with now.
As to the economy – we're screwed, that way. If you're asking if there will there be a crash – there already IS a crash. Everybody that's not part of the financial system, at the top is currently living in a depression and the media does not acknowledge this.
So, for instance, the reason that you can get all the people in West Virginia to be sucking down all of this synthetic opium all the time is because they're back into the Appalachian 1930s depression levels, there and no one even talks about it.
The fact that it's not discussed is what is so hurtful and so harmful to the overall USA body-politic, because it's a terrible thing to know that there's no job that you can find. You're young man, you're trying to support yourself, maybe get out of your parents basement, maybe you're involved with someone, trying to create a family and you can't find work and you can't find people to offer to train you for skills or anything – and yet at the same time, it is denied that the reality that you experience is REAL, because everybody says 'We're in Recovery' and all this kind of thing.
So the mechanism is coming unglued, at the body-politic level. We're in a depression NOW, unless you're attached to the Federal Reserve's tit. Unless you're sucking money out of their system, you're off on the outside – you're starving and there's very little hope. So, to say there's going to be an equities crash is meaningless to all of us that are not participating in that paper. To say that there's going to be an economic crash is old news to all of us that are living in a situation where there's no jobs and there's no hope for work.
As a linguist, I get really a little irritated, as far as 'crash' goes. Yes, there are signs that the equities market is going to go over 20,000 and then pull back – but it isn't meaningful? I don't think, except for the hundred thousand computers that are trading stocks with each other!
At that level, the dollar is much more important, because it's the purchasing power that the masses of the USA have to exist with, at he moment. That purchasing power is going to be eroded away fairly quickly.
I suspect that the erosion is going to start in March or so. So, if we want to call it a 'crash', I would say that's our best timing for an opportunity and it may, indeed involve the equities, at that point.
But basically, who cares? They're not really meaningful, in a retirement sense for anybody that's saving for retirement through them, because the equity market is not a realistic gauge of how you're going to have spending power when you attempt to tap into that.
It's a very complex subject and you get back into the meaning of it all but I would have to say that the turning point of the Trump euphoria and that kind of stuff will hit at the very end of February and will carry us through March and April and there will be probably people that will define it as a 'crash'.
As to whether this year will be a big pivotal point for the US dollar, yeah, we have something that that basically is an echo of the first three or four months of Reagan's period related to the economy and the dollar. What we don't have is the saving of the dollar that came out of Reagan's time.
EROSION OF THE DOLLAR MARCH OR APRIL
In our datasets, around March or April, the erosion of the dollar continues, in order to try and offset that, in a laggardly way, the Federal Reserve's starts trying to chase interest rates. Your friend's suggestion is 9%. I would say that probably is a little tiny bit low, in the sense that the real shock, maybe at 9.5% or 10% and will probably jump to that. We may jump to it as quickly as March or April.
As for the interest rates, we don't have a number – numbers rarely come up in the in the words that were sifting for and yet numbers are ubiquitous and power the Internet, so we have to scrub out most of the numbers. I don't really trust digits that show up in our datasets, so it has to be spelled out, actually literally, as language. So, I don't have anything for the end of the year, relative to that.
So whatever the solution is that's proffered by The Powers That Be for developing some economic crises over summer and into August, it's not going to be a result in language about, say twenty percent interest rates. If we do have 20% interest rates for a period of time, the emotional waiting of the language we have now, in terms are forecast would suggest it would be so minor is to not really make much of a splash. If we had 20% interest rates that would be effective for mortgage rates in September.
The way that just data is being described the for the financial system that's a minor thing – because who cares about the interest rate, if the real estate market crashed four months previously, to the point where nobody's buying houses, anyway?
We actually do have a lot of data sets about regional banks, both dollar-dealing banks, so not only the USA but also Australia and Canada. There's a slop over there, because they're the Canadians they call their money the 'Loony' but it's also called the 'Canadian dollar' and so we have the same us with the Australian dollar, so it's difficult to tease those out those out, at times, out of the sets.
So, at the moment, we had datasets around the dollar, that by the time we get into, say mid-summer, we should be able to look back over the previous couple of months and say, 'Wow! Look what happened to the real estate market!'
I think prices, in dollar amounts will drop and I think that that will drop as a result of the regional banks and what I'm calling a 'credit freeze'. The spigot of the loans will be turned off. So, the banks are loaning, to a level never before imagined and thus you may keep lowering the nominal value of your house but there's no takers because they can't get financed, even if they were financeable.
We do have actual language to the effect that people with cash will be in the driver's seat. The currency credit freeze keeps coming back to currency – so it gets complicated but within the banks it's going to be such that the banks that have foreclosures that they nominally own, they're gonna dump them on the market to try and raise some capital – it shows up as the word 'cash' like, 'We really need the cash in our system,' that sort of thing.
So, the datasets are putting out language that say a places, like California and a few other places around the nation, in terms of the USA are going to have a cash crisis, such that the banks will be discounting and at the house just getting the foreclosure out on the market and then they'll advertise that they'll discount that. In other words, they're going to say, 'Here's a house for X amount of dollars and will finance you,' and then. 'Hey, if we don't have to finance you and you've got cash, why we'll lob thirty percent off,' that kind of thing.
We've had long-term datasets that suggests that the generation of the Millennials, at some point in the future, so probably 10 years out, maybe we'll be looking at 90% off the peak [in home prices]. In terms of nominal dollar amounts – with an adjusted dollar, so I don't know what that means, in terms of what the purchasing power of the dollar might be.
The datasets have been describing this kind of strange property market crash – and by property, it's a broader definition, that includes not only raw land but also houses and also commercial. A lot of language is taken from the foreign descriptions of the property market, so we get 'property ladder' in there, because that term is used in England and Australia and to the lesser extent, in Canada.
The language is about the high-end crashing first, such that it gets down to a certain level and then it meets the the middle-tier and then they crash, to meet the lower tier. So, it's not going to be just the high-end coming down and then everything stabilizing. We're seeing a generalized, nominal property price crash that is going to coincide with the inability of the banks to circulate enough money to create enough debt to blow the balloon up, again.
We get some language about a bank holiday but not about a coordinated day or coordinated period of time. Rather, it appears as though local and regional banks fail. Some of them get shuttered. Literally, they shut all the doors and then it's a chaos, as the the next year up tries to absorb them.
While that's going on, we have other areas, where banks and effectively do shut themselves, temporarily trying to recover, so you have that kind of chaos. We don't have an organized thing from the Federal Reserve saying, 'Okay, on this day, everybody shuts down for even two or three or four days,' although the net effect is probably that same thing in the overall term of language – but we're talking about something that's spread out over a lot of months.
As to whether there will be a significant crash before Trump is inaugurated, let's be very selective in our terms, here. I'm not saying that the equities are gonna march down from 19,000 into somewhat of a much lower number but what I am sure what we do have and our datasets show that there's a lot of upward pressure on gold and silver and Bitcoin, as the currencies going to a crisis mode, that basically is already happening now.
'FLASH-CRASHES'
I had language about what we're going to come to call 'Flashies'. They're gonna be so many of these flash-crashes, that they're gonna start calling them 'flash-crashies'. This was pretty clear and we also had data showing that there was going to be one of these things before the first part of January – and lo, and behold this morning, when I get up, in the news there was a flash-crash of the dollar and so here we have a Web Bot hit in a very prescient manner, because I was able to get the report out, that day. Before that occurred, there was no language anywhere; yesterday or the day before about having a flash-crash. It was truly prescient language that came out.
Now, another part of that prescience is that we're going to have these flashes, as a repeated part of the repeated component of our technological age, here going forward, for at least the next few months and so we are going to have these, especially as we move into January.
We also have January 8th through the 12th as being a period of upset in global markets. Now, by this, though we were talking more about bonds and derivatives and currencies, that is to say what they call the foreign exchange market, the FX market, we're talking more about those than we are about equities.
We're talking less about silver and gold than we are about currencies, because they're more manipulated and there's actually less language that we've got that they'll be as wild as the gyrations that were likely to see in other things.
So, one thing that I would take it as a sign of a crash, even though it wouldn't look like it, would be a sudden spike upward in the in the value of Bitcoin in Chinese rmb or yuan and it's corresponding sudden spike upward in US dollar amounts. That that's a real good sign these days, in our in our global manipulated markets, that we're looking at an economic event or financial system event underway, in real-time.
Now, I say real-time, because Bitcoins are traded in real-time fashion 24/7. It is manipulated, to a minor small extent – but it costs the manipulators real Bitcoin to do the manipulation, so it's not controlled, the way silver and gold are.
My predictions on Bitcoin have been much more accurate than those on silver and gold, relative to price, because it is not so easily-controlled. Thus, the new prediction, since we have are showing a swapping over to rmb, as China takes over the emotional control, if you will, of the Bitcoin world and a lot of their rush into that is fear about the currencies.
China is going to get really freaked-out – and we showed, going between the 8th through the 12th, there's going to be something in there, where China is gonna get really freaked-out about the value of their own currency and there's gonna be more than a tendency to rush into Bitcoin.
Now, at some point this year, in China the official authorities are going to just give in to that and there's going to be a change in their official approach to this whole thing. China's going to rush out, because of the way they do things, the Chinese authorities know their existence, their lives depend on the on the health, wealth and happiness of the people below them.
Somebody is going to come up with an idea to extend a digital currency and Bitcoin – and we have the language there – to people who trade goats now and the idea is that China, along with their silk road train from Beijing to Berlin is going to extend out fiber optics and bring in over a billion people into the Internet in the shortest possible time, maybe less than a year.
At the same time, they're going to spread the Bitcoin ethos through there. So, it's just gonna be quite staggering, now that probably won't happen until later in the year maybe on, this summer but we do have that in the datasets.
The Trump euphoria at the beginning of the year may be reflected in equities but it won't be reflected in the things like the bonds and the derivatives and this sort of thing and that's where the trouble is going to come from.
So, I'm looking at at Bitcoin prices as my only even close-to-unmanipulated metric, as to what's going on in the global economy. Bitcoin, because it's not manipulated, it's going to reflect fear it's going to go have people flood into it. Prices of Bitcoins are going to skyrocket because they can't really hold them back.
Back when I first started this work, in 1997, it had been my goal to make a big pile of dollars by using this approach: to predict which way the stock market was going to go, because at the time, I was under the understanding that, there were enough retail investors that I could game with their emotional direction.
Since then, the data is always had a strong component for the dollar in there that's been very predictive of major dollar crashes – and we're getting a culmination of a lot of these things, in these recent datasets, relative to the dollar, silver and gold.
Let me state that there is a corollary or a postulate: that we have within our datasets, that the longer something appears in the datasets with consistent growth behind it or even your regular but persistent growth, the more impact it will have and the stronger that it's an eventuality to appear, even if the timing is off.
Another way of looking at it is, if you're going to get hit by a a little tiny bit of future knowledge, you're going to get a little tiny bit of a ping, so to speak. But if it's gonna be a big thing, that's gonna affect lots of people, it will sort of roll over you.
So now, we've had that big thing coming at us, since 2003, that I kept describing as the 'Dollar Death' and at about that point, I got on the radio and I made this connection, at that time in the 2000s of between 20,000 Dow and $600 silver – and at the time, from that point on, for the next 10 years.
I got a huge amount of trouble for making those two statements but those were the only numbers I had. I didn't have a timing on them could but I knew it would be associated with some stuff that would have happened in the near the autumnal equinox, after that, in November and so uh we're at that point, now, where all this stuff is culminating and here we are, getting close to the 20,000 Dow but we have not achieved the $600 per ounce silver.
However, the datasets are suggesting that the temporal link that was noted, way back then, almost 20 years ago is still valid and that we're going to go through a period of time, where silver, in a very short period of time, apparently – and that might be within these next six months – where globally, there's going to be a huge divergence in silver.
Now, the reason we're concentrating on silver has to do with its value, relative to the average paycheck, globally. Because people are not in a position – excepting in places like India and China – to buy gold. It's easier, cheaper, more available to buy silver – and there's also another component to this idea that they're going to confiscate gold is naturally going to force people to think about silver.
So we get this a emotional boom for silver, that begins almost on the very first day of January, I think. It's probably the second or third trading day, that we see this and it's coincident with this rising silver is coincident with a forecast rise in the price of Bitcoin and its forecast connection between that and the Dow at 20,000.
Now, all those years back, our view of this particular time was not so granular that we could say, '20,000 Dow and $600 silver, four days later.' We didn't have that. We had '20,000 Dow and $600 per ounce silver, clumped into something that we knew was an amorphous mass, that was out a number of years' – and that's as close as we had – but we knew those two were to temporally tied together; they were tied together in time.
So now, we're seeing all kinds of language come out, about multiple hundred-dollar silver and and the difference between them within our datasets. So, the expectation is, that we may see $125 an ounce silver. If we do see that, here in the United States, that data is saying that the real price of that silver will be over a hundred dollars different, outside of our borders and may approach something closer to the real price of silver in our borders – but that it will be on a delivered-in-hand or grey market kind of a thing and will not necessarily reflect what's going on, in the paper markets.
What we may see here, maybe something like $25 silver in the in the US paper markets – but $125, to get that same ounce of silver, actually in your hands, here in the US. But outside the US, somebody might be willing to pay $345 dollars for that same ounce of silver, should you be able to get it to them – and it will be due to the way that in which our dollar and our paper system is structured and controlled – but that shows as lasting very few months.
If I had to guess, it doesn't appear to survive much past the first part of August. Then, the market will go to 'no offer' – then, the datasets basically say, you just won't be able to get hold of any. The whole market just kind of moot – and there's there's the rub. We have all kinds of language about a gold and silver taxation attempts and a form of confiscation, in the broader global population.
I have some hints that there's going to be those kind of attempts, here in the United States, as well but I don't have any clear language as to when this is going to start, because we end up with this rather chaotic period, that's going be from – linguistically – that's going to be through summer, Northern Hemisphere, through to the Autumnal Equinox.
As to gold, we still have support building for our previous discussion, where gold will equal the Dow. There's language in there, showing that an ounce of gold is going to be able to buy the Dow and that will occur sometime after the Autumnal Equinox – or near that period of time. Now, we also have other stuff at that point, suggesting that the Dow might well be a $125,000 to purchase it – whatever it is composed of.
ANTARCTICA AND THE 'WOO-WOO' EFFECT
So, they may change the different companies in there and there's all different kinds of strange stuff, relative to the layout of our economy and what's going on in that this deep, dark what we call the 'Woo-Woo' level; the officially denied, unknown, UFOs, strange spooky stuff humans can't explain, that does not come up in the academic paradigm.
I'm suggesting very strongly, with this very large report – and we ran a lot of extra pages in this report even with the ones I had to cut out – but I'm suggesting very strongly, that from 2017 onward, that are our mutual friend, Bill Holter: I think his truth bombs are going start coming out – and it's not going to be limited to just the economy.
We're going to get something that we can describe, in a loose way as Disclosure that 'Woo-Woo' is is moving into a more dominant on a consciousness or awareness level, from this point onward, in social networks.
'THE DISCOVERY'
That aliens are real is old news and prosaic. It may even be stranger than the idea that they may be controlling us. A lot of the stuff is going to come out of what we're calling 'The Discovery,' simply because it's going to make such a huge difference to humanity over these next 30, 40, 50 years. In our in our reports, it's describing a world that we don't actually live in right at this moment but there were transitioning into – if accurate.
If these predictions are accurate, they have appeared to be developing that way, especially around those things that are not manipulated. The actual appearance of climate, weather the appearance of new property, new lands rising; all these are forecast. The 'rain bombs', the lakes and rivers in the sky, suddenly dumped out on us; the sudden freezing of whole herds of animals – all these things were forecast, years before they occurred within our datasets and described, now following that same Woo-Woo trend, of basically science fiction.
That's what we call this report: 'The Sci-Fi World,' because we're going to be getting into a world in which the past expectations of even things like physics or weather or climate cannot be relied upon to be persistent into the future and so our future is going to involve re-looking at a human history, that will go back 7,000 years, that's going to upset a lot of people, whose thinking is so rigid, that they're not going to be able to accept the developing reality around them.
We also are suggesting that a lot of this is going to come from this discovery that has already occurred in Antarctica – probably occurred 20 years ago and we're just now going to start hearing about it over these next few years we now have physical, political, economic evidence that a lot of our forecast about Antarctica – bear in mind, something that I need to point out: When I first started my reports, the very first run I ever did, focusing in, on trying to make money in the stock market, two things came up that absolutely shocked me. One of them was the Sun, the big scary ball in the sky. The other was Antarctica. They were there, all through that first dataset – and from that point on, I was so intrigued, that I forgot about the stock market stuff and I went out into the Woo-Woo world.
Now, we're getting to the point, where the data is saying Woo-Woo is going to start kicking ass and taking names. It's going to start dominating; we're going to start seeing the real information about where our trillions of missing dollars are slowly percolate out.
We're going to see new inventions, pouring out all over the place, as they've been officially allowed to, because we need them now and a lot of this is going to pivot around whatever it is that's been discovered in Antarctica.
I think the giant pyramids that are three and four times the size – and in one case, maybe 20 times the size of the largest pyramid in the Giza Plateau. I think these pyramids in Antarctica contain stuff that's going to tell us a lot more real information about our history than we could ever imagine and I also think these pyramids go back to the other half of this precessional cycle and maybe all the way through it, so at least on the order of 12,000 if not 21,000 years.
So our ideas of who we are, how we came to be and what we need to be thinking about, as humans are actually involved in this report, in a way I never anticipated.
Let me also state that when I go into doing the interpretation in these reports, I don't really have a clue, as to what we're going to be looking at, other than those dominant sets that may have appeared in previous reports. So, I go to look to see what's happening in the USA but it can change from month to month to month.
We also had this weird situation developing in our work here, that took about five years to mature and I discussed it, over the period of time in radio interviews and even wrote articles about it. I call this 'context change' that occurred in the early 2000s couldn't figure it out. I just knew there was something big coming, we were all going to reel under it but I couldn't get get a handle on it, linguistically – but it was going to change the context around a lot of words that we ended up using.
Long story short, it turned out to be the undocumented workers coming out and saying, 'We're here. We're not going to go away. You've got to deal with this.' Basically, 'You've got to change your context of thinking and deal with us as real humans, in the here-and-now, not gloss us over, with all of this paper illusion that we don't exist.' And so that context changed for the USA. That's a huge, massive population; 350 million people and their mental structures of whether they were an undocumented worker or not – they all had to change. We all had to reshape our thoughts around that language, to embrace what had just happened. This context changed in our datasets.
We're in the midst of one of those, right now, only it it started way back before I even started this word problem with Antarctica with the President going down there, Kerry going down there other dignitaries going to Antarctica – it's spooky, it's weird science fiction, it's Woo-Woo and there is detail like you wouldn't believe. There was so much stuff about Antarctica, I got sick looking at the data and and it's just going to get bigger.
There are cities underneath the ice, right now. There are giant voids in there, that are so tall, that you could stack the Eiffel Tower on top of itself three and four and five times and not even touch the top of this void. These voids run over long rivers. The rivers are at 60 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit temperature and they've melted the ice and created these a giant warm air-filled pockets, that run throughout all of Antarctica. They're just now talking about them.
There's an old civilization down there, there's stuff that's been under the ice, that is showing up in our datasets, it's affecting our technological future, from 2017 onward. We're seeing this stuff leaked out. Now, in our language. We have a lot of release language now about Antarctica.
We've got a lot of people wondering basically as we just said, why Kerry, why did the Popes go down there? why did Obama go to Patagonia and then sneak over there? Why are all these are people going to Australia and sneaking over to Antarctica? What possible reason could Obama have to go look at ice in Antarctica?
He knows what ice is like, a swirling around in his drinks. He's from Hawaii. He's just not the extreme sport-loving fellow – and even Kerry, who rides a bicycle and does at least exercise a serious level – is not your extreme sport, 'Let's go out and climb mountains for the fun of it' kind of guy. So, why did he go there on the critical day of his Party's Election?
So it gets really spooky, when you start meeting reports. So, if you're gonna buy our report and think it's all about the economics, at one level, you're correct because that affects all of us; we're all living in a depression. But also, there's this whole Woo-Woo component, that's really bubbling to the surface.
Part of this is, I was just gonna bring this up and it's going to sound really strange but if you're as old as I am, you remember this movie, '2001 a Space Odyssey'. Go back to the beginning of the movie. There were these cavemen that were digging up an obelisk and we see the obelisk on Earth, and then we see him digging it up on the Moon.
What we're getting now is datasets that would basically describe people digging something up in Antarctica that is Solar System-effective, so to speak – Solar System-involving. So, we're not really getting pictures of people digging and in terms of the descriptions. What we're getting is descriptions about the massive logistical effort. It's going to take greater than 10 years to do, to build-out bases in Antarctica and Patagonia, to get down into Antarctica, to start getting the wealth out of whatever it is they found.
We've got datasets in there that are suggesting – and it could be totally wrong, it can be totally screwed, OK, very rarely has that happened but it's happened before – we could be really wrong on this – but the datasets are suggesting that whatever the discovery is down there, is going to be a source of wealth for the greater part of humanity, for perhaps hundreds of years.
So, a staggering kind of a find. We're not talking about a big patch of oil, We're not talking about a resource, in the sense of a big chunk of gold. The datasets have actually described this stuff is not precious metals – but precious technology.
As to predictions of war, it's not what you anticipate. The war that we're seeing described is more of a war between clashing elites and not so much clashing soldiers on the ground, at the behest of those elites. So, the war could be described as a political battle between existent power cliques or power clubs and it's gonna get really bloody and nasty and so on but we don't have anything that says that Russia's going to lob nukes at us. We don't have anything that says that the United States to be super aggressive.
As a matter of fact, we actually have stuff that suggests that the United States could run into an economic problem this year or into 2018, it's going to be so severe that the issue of base closings is going to come up in a way that it used to be felt in the 1950s, when the US Army tried to close bases down after the war, to and consolidate and save money and it would cause huge amounts of angst in local communities, as they saw their primary source of income going away.
We have that huge amounts of angst language showing now – but around the whole planet – as the United States contracts, due to what's going on to the economics. We have language that says we don't even have the economics to support war!
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Very interesting stuff from Cliff in 2017. He's correct about the discovery in Antarctica and what it can produce for humanity (originally found in the 60's, btw). However, the age of the find he suggests as being 10's of thousands of years old is WAY off. This is due to the cultural mindset expressed by internet linguistics which believes/states that the current technological world and its civilization has never been eclipsed. (Sorry, gott'a take a minute to stop laughing. Too funny.) Anyway, the Antarctic ruins are in the 100's of millions of years old category. Possibly as old as 500-million years. Not that the truth about its age will ever be revealed to humanity as long as the current criminal Cabal is in control of everything and will profit from the finds. I am, however, hopeful about Cliff's remarks on the changes that may be coming out of this discovery.
And, no, I'm not channeling any information.
Valentinus says:
2017, the year of Woo-Woo.
I think Cliff's right about new tech's receiving a warm welcome since necessity remains the mother of invention, though it may take a coup at the patent office.
I like the part where he claim's there is still a glass ceiling for most in that they will have a difficult time accepting reality shifts. Perhaps some of us are more woo-woo than others and while many ride the WW fence, it's a good start on the WW path. And BTW, science fiction was invented for fence sitters as a back door.
In the spirit of WW; lets pretend Antarctica is an ancient sacred site, which like Troy is a layer cake going back not thousands but millions of years, making Giza look like a contemporary phenomena. Rumor has it that a large vessel of unknown origin has been unearthed; a huge flying WW saucer, with no associative ties with any known ET specie. It has been assumed it may have been attempting a salvage or rescue operation before getting stranded.
Dissemination of info is always a bit tricky; for unlike me (loose lipped), most become hard pressed by peer pressure to angle their vocabulary in dubious mention.
How Antarctica is managed will be interesting to say the least, for it contains a behemoth that if not done appropriately could have masses running to or fro. Fortunately for those keepers of the secrets its blanketed in ice, but all to close to other WW secrets best kept out of National Geographic. No doubt as the question is raised there will be another doctored broadcast to serenade the masses back to sleep along with the Hollywood recipe for mocking the boat.
RichardY says:
Clif is right on with silver prediction esp when it comes to THE NEW ELECTRICS. Brilliant Light Power headed by Dr. Randell Mills has a proprietary energy device that can produce massive amounts of power off of a device that can fit on a coffee table. It uses liquefied silver in the process that also uses in-bedded solar panels for the conversion to DC Electricity.
Please check out Randell Mills on YouTube under Brilliant Light Power.
Alexandra Bruce says:
Interesting stuff, thanks. I HOPE Clif is right!


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Part 7: Class 4 Drugs — Harmless Therapeutics?
by JANE ALLIN
AS MUCH as many drugs can and are used to heighten performance, by far the most controversial in the horse racing industry today are the Class 4 NSAID's (Non-Steroidal Anti- Inflammatory Drugs) corticosteroids and the much criticized "Lasix" (also known as Salix) — an unclassified permitted race day medication in North America.
It was in the 1970's when North America adopted the policy of "permissive medications" that the administration of Lasix and painkiller Butazolidine — the brand name of Phenylbutazone (commonly referred to as "Bute") — became standard at the track. Hence there is a long history of drug abuse when it comes to these types of medications.
Many in the industry believe that Salix is beneficial to the horse because it prevents the common problem of bleeding in the lungs or EIPH (exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage).
The majority of the racing jurisdictions in North America also permit the administration of one of the NSAID's over a prescribed period of time (no earlier than 24 hours before race time).
These are typically either phenylbutazone ("bute"), flunixin or ketoprofen. Others include steroidal (catabolic) anti-inflammatory drugs or corticosteroids used to decrease inflammation in joints.
There is much concern that the presence of these drugs interfere with the ability of the tending veterinarian to properly evaluate the horses on race day as they have the tendency to mask lameness and respiratory problems.
In fact, over medicating with legal drugs together with lax oversight to their use has led to a consensus among equine researchers and surgeons that legal medications such as Salix and Bute as well as cortisone shots, over time, leave a horse vulnerable to a catastrophic breakdown. [1]
Bute and banamine (technically known as phenylbutazone and flunixin meglumine, respectively) are both non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). They and other NSAIDs operate not on the pain receptors in the brain but in the musculoskeletal tissue, where they control inflammation. With the reduction in inflammation comes pain relief.
The bandaged forelegs of Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, I'll Have Another.
"Bute" (aka Phenylbutazone and Butazolodin) and Other NSAID's
Intra-articular corticosteriods have been used for many years in the horse racing industry to aid in the treatment of the swelling and inflammation in the joints of horses.
These catabolic steroids act as potent anti-inflammatories and immuno-suppressants that have benefits in low dosages for therapeutic uses only. Typically these drugs are injected directly into the joints analogous to transmission fluid for an automobile.
"Used properly, corticosteroids can be beneficial at lower doses about six to seven days before a race, Soma said. But they often are administered 'improperly' — 48-72 hours before a race, in multiple joints, and perhaps weekly, he said." [2]
Although there are threshold limits to abide by their use is persistent and the wide-spread overages in higher than recommended doses in otherwise healthy horses contribute to a host of problems - in particular serious negative consequences on cartilage integrity. If used inappropriately, these powerful anti-inflammatories can destroy the cartilage and potentially contribute to chronic arthritis. [3]
Additionally the use of corticosteroids can delay healing of soft tissues such as ligaments and tendons meaning that if a horse is relying on the drugs to relieve pain and swelling the underlying injury is still subject to repeated stress that is now masked and as such can create further and more acute damage to the tissues. [4]
These are not the only side effects that have been documented.
Not only are the corticosteroids anti-inflammatory medications but they are also immuno-suppressants meaning that they have the capacity to suppress immune system function resulting in an increased susceptibility to infectious diseases and cancers.
When used on a frequent long-term basis many of these horses may be vulnerable to chronic infections, especially lung and sinus problems (e.g. viral respiratory illness). [5]
If that isn't enough:
"Another side effect of corticosteroids in the horse is laminitis or founder. The specific reason why corticosteroids predispose to founder is unknown, but it is thought to be related to an effect on the blood supply to the deep layers of the foot. The occurrence of this phenomenon is variable and is more likely to occur when more potent types of corticosteroids are used or very high doses of the less potent ones are used for long periods of time.
The exception to this is the individual horse, which for unknown reasons, is more sensitive to corticosteroids with respect to founder. It has been observed that even a few low doses of less-potent corticosteroids will cause sore feet in some horses." [6]
And finally, it has been demonstrated that chronic and inappropriate use can lead to life-threatening systemic hormonal and metabolic changes. These include but are not limited to: weakness and loss of muscle mass, suppression of the ability to produce natural corticosteroids, depressed calcium and potassium levels, induced diabetes-like state with symptoms of increased thirst, hunger and urination and last but not least stomach and duodenal ulcers. [7]
These drugs have the potential of killing a horse at the wrong dose.
Obviously the boundaries of drug administration in the race horse have exceeded the wisdom of normalcy as well as ethical significance. As the industry is dependent on these horses, putting them at risk for the sake of financial gain is forthright insanity.
Banamine(Flunixin)
Horse suffering from Clostridial Myositis: gas gangrene.
When injected intra-muscularly, Banamine (Flunixin) can cause muscle damage. Spores of the bacteria Clostridium can lie dormant in muscle tissue and begin to proliferate if muscle is damaged. The growth of this bacteria causes Clostridial myositis (gas gangrene), a serious and sometimes fatal condition, where gas builds up under the skin at the site of the instra-muscular injection. Bacterial toxins are released into the bloodstream and horses quickly become very ill or toxic. If not treated immediately, this can lead to death.
Birth of "Bute"
Phenylbutazone — or "Bute" for short — was introduced into veterinary medicine in the 1950's and by 1959 had been approved for use in racing by the State of Colorado. [8] Many believe that this was the beginning of the era of "permissible controlled substances" in the horse racing industry.
Probably one of the most famous cases of the use of "bute" in horse racing was the disqualification of Dancer's Image in the 1968 Kentucky Derby.
Post-race urinalysis revealed trace amounts of Bute but, while at the time legal at some tracks, Churchill had yet to adopt this rule. Shortly thereafter it was legalized in most states and was well established in racing jurisdictions by the mid to late 70's.
Many claim that Bute, currently one of the most common drugs used in horse racing, is akin to aspirin.
Classified as therapeutic there are many misconceptions about this hypothesis, primarily from the standpoint that it allows injured horses to continue training and running. Anti-inflammatory drugs do not cure musculoskeletal problems although they do provide control of inflammation which helps to decrease further damage while controlling the discomfort to the horse during painful episodes.
"Phenylbutazone seemed a miracle drug when the stuff began entering the bloodstreams of racehorses in the 1960s. I was collecting the post-race urine that concentrated the metabolites of that drug during the '60s, and as a teenager I became acutely aware of drugs and racehorses.
What a soothing anti-inflammatory effect bute brought to racehorses in those simpler days when its use first became widespread. The alleviation of certain lamenesses was dramatic. 'Really sweet stuff,' I remember Wright Haggerty's Kentucky groom telling me on the Shelby, Montana, backside in 1965 as he pestelled up tiny white 100-milligram dog pills he had received from my father, the attending and regulatory veterinarian (thus my job as urine catcher)." [9]
Phenylbutazone is used to treat a wide range of musculoskeletal disorders such as sprains and strains, muscular overuse (including both muscular damage and strain/damage of the tendons attaching muscles to bone), tendonitis, acute joint injury/strain/sprain, and arthritic conditions.
It is also often used to control the fever associated with viral or bacterial infections but its use under these circumstances may mask the severity of the problem. [10] No doubt that short-term relief is of merit but continued administration can lead to severe and problematic consequences for the horse.
The question then arises as to the performance-enhancing ability of this so-called innocuous "aspirin-like" medication. There is no doubt to this end effect.
Although Bute may not make a horse run faster, nonetheless it enables mobility via its anti-inflammatory effect. A horse that feels no pain will run as it would without the underlying physiological problems associated with their legs, feet or joints.
Weakened musculoskeletal structures however are prone to further injury when worked to the same extent as their healthy counterparts.
The other problem that's lies within is the mindset that if the horse doesn't respond as expected simply increase the dosage. It has been proven time and again that the proper management of lameness in the horse is rest. Unfortunately for the horse, the owners and trainers are not willing to wait these long periods of time as with every passing day they lose more money.
"With racehorses the clock is ticking, fast. If drugs can save time with racehorses, they are used for just that. And that is the case these days. The industry has transcended bute. The monthly veterinary bills at Belmont and Aqueduct often exceed the monthly training fee. Ask any owner." [11]
Unmistakably the use of Phenylbutazone and other common NSAID's such as flunixin or ketoprofen allows the horse to continue training or return to training in a shorter period of time.
However, with these drugs masking the degree of lameness that continues to exist, there is the consideration of the contribution to both catastrophic and non-catastrophic breakdowns.
This is especially true in the case of "stacking" NSAID's — a common practice which is routinely used and appears frequently in the record of violations. Combining different NSAID's is an illegal practice due to this masking effect on lameness which can, in effect, eliminate pain. It is callous and irresponsible to believe these medications do not contribute to further detriment to the horse.
As with the corticosteroids, Bute can also increase the propensity toward gastro-intestinal ulceration when administered on a continuing basis.
Gastric ulcers are common in horses, with prevalence estimated from 53 to 93%, depending on populations surveyed and type of athletic activity. The gastric ulcers in horses are caused by many factors including, anatomy of the stomach, diet, restricted feed intake, exercise, stress (stall or transport), and the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agents. [12] In racehorses the incidence tends to the upper limit as a result of the implacable combination of strenuous exercise, stress and NSAID's.
This tendency of increased gastric ulceration however is neatly managed by yet more drugs. Enter the proton pump inhibitors (e.g. Ranitidine (Zantac), Omeprazole) which suppress the production of gastric acids – "Nexium" for horses.
It seems then that the Class 5 medications such as these serve as a category of drugs that manage the effects of the other more potent ones — plainly a domino effect and a never-ending cycle of drug abuse that ultimately shortens not only the racing careers of these guileless creatures but also their life expectancy.
In 2008, the U.S. House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection examined the state of horse racing.
During a hearing, Susan M. Stover, DVM, PhD, Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons, Professor, JD Wheat Veterinary Orthopedic Research Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, testified:
"Musculoskeletal injuries are the greatest cause of racehorse death and attrition" . . . . "From 1990 to 2006, an increasing trend was observed for injury rates. The proportion of Thoroughbred horses with a fatal musculoskeletal injury during racing and training has risen from approximately 3 horses to 5 horses per 1000 Thoroughbred race starts. The proportion of Thoroughbred racehorses with a fatal musculoskeletal injury has risen from 17 horses to 24 horses per 1000 Thoroughbred horses that started a race. Musculoskeletal injuries resulted in 19-33% of racehorses leaving training within a 3 month or less period in the United States." [13]
Dr. Stover explained "many catastrophic, fatal musculoskeletal injuries" result from pre-existing, less severe injuries that occur from "repetitive, overuse". In other words, horses continue to train and race despite injuries or damage which may be untreated or do not heal sufficiently. The result is further injury and damage, many times catastrophic or fatal. [14]
These comments together with the fact that the average number of starts per year for a racehorse has gone from over 11 to about 6 in 40 years beg the question as to how much of a role medication has played on the shortened careers and lives of the Thoroughbred. On the contrary Seabiscuit raced almost 40 times as a 2-year-old yet some still remain in denial.
"Trainer Ken McPeek suggested the Thoroughbred breeding industry is in part responsible for the decrease in the number of starts per horse. He said the economics of the business have made horses more valuable; therefore, they don't race as much, and are often retired early, mostly for breeding purposes.
"Horses are every bit as sound today," McPeek said. "You can't blame medication for the problem. I think there is a correlation between (number of starts) and (the breeding industry), but how significant it is, I'm not sure." [15]
Repeated and long-term use of medications leads to tolerance; over time larger and larger doses are required to produce the same effect. Alternatively the effectiveness of the drug begins to ebb if the dosage remains the same.
Building a tolerance for a drug exacerbates both drug abuse and dependency. Increased breakdowns, fewer starts and prolific drug use — there must be a connection.
No time like the present has it been more important to put an end to this abuse and debauchery.
Continue to Part 8 »
[1] http://goo.gl/4xmmZT [NYT link inactive; use search box].
[2] http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/50634/pa-to-regulate-corticosteroids-as-of-june-1
[3] http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=347
[7] http://www.stablemade.com/hproducts/drugs/Dexamethasone.htm], [http://www.horseracingofficial.com/default.asp?id=8.2&article=314
[8] http://www.rmtcnet.com/resources/Phenylbutazone_Review-Dr._Larry_Soma-Final.pdf
[9] http://therail.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/drugs-and-racehorses/
[10] http://www.stablemade.com/hproducts/drugs/Phenylbutazone.htm
[11] http://therail.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/drugs-and-racehorses/
[12] http://jas.fass.org/cgi/content/full/83/13_suppl/E18
[13] http://www.animallawcoalition.com/horse-slaughter/article/543
[15] http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/8594/is-medication-really-the-root-of-racings-problems#ixzz1L6mJsYxn
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Interest in improving the microstructure in power plant steels stems from the 1970's where there was a considerable drive to improve and increase the ability of the stream circuit to handle higher pressures and higher temperatures.
Some key work in uncovered the possibility to remarkably improve the stress rupture strength by the addition or increase of some key inclusions such as vanadium, niobium and tungsten to name but a few.
The development of the family of 9-12%Cr martensitic steels for power generation components has been a significant feature in the 1980s. However, the basic compositions of 9Cr1Mo have been widely used for many years. The driving force for new developments has been the need to increase the temperature and pressure of the stream circuit.
In the 1970s, there was considerable interest in the 9% chromium steels for components of the fast breeder nuclear reactor. On the basis of the familiar Fe9Cr1Mo steel used since the 1950s in petrochemical plant, an improved steel was developed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and subsequently incorporated into the ASTM specifications under the designation P91 (ASTM 1986).
A remarkable increase in the stress rupture strength was achieved by the addition of 0.2% V, 0.06 Nb and 0.05 N. In Japan, a steel development programme of Nippon Steel led to the steel NF616 (Nippon Steel 1991), which is now designated P92 in the ASTM specification. With P92 a further increase in stress rupture strength was obtained by an addition of 1.8% W and a reduction of the Mo content from 1 to 0.5%. In the European COST (Co-operation in Science and Technology) Action 501, a similar 9% chromium steel was developed; this steel is designated E911, contains 1% Mo and 1% W, and offers similar stress rupture strength to P92.
Although much of the work described was carried out on the steel P92, the findings are in principle also applicable to P91 and E911. The essential difference between the steels is the tungsten content and with increasing tungsten the propensity for Laves phase Fe2(Mo,W) formation increases.
In the last two decades, a number of new 9–12%Cr steels with improved creep strength have been developed for long-term service at temperatures up to 600°C and above in high-temperature parts of boilers, steam lines and turbines of ultra-supercritical power plants.
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Figure 1: Development of creep strain and creep strain rate over time and sche-matic illustration of micro structural changes in material
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A truly integrative presentation. Co-presenting Keith Bell, L Ac. and Anish Shah, MD
Birth control pills have become widely used in current western fertility practices. We will aim to discuss the pros and cons and present alternative and integrative options.
1. Review current use of oral contraceptive pills (OCPs) in western medical practices (ie. synchronizations of follicles prior to IVF stimulation, suppression of pituitary in the setting of an ovarian cyst).
2. Functional medicine detoxification protocols for a long history of OCP usage
3. Alternative options to the OCP in the management of fertility care; an integrative approach
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Anish A. Shah, MD, MHS, FACOG
Dr. Anish A. Shah believes in patient-centered fertility care. Before arriving to the Richmond Center for Fertility and Endocrinology, he was on the medical staff at Duke University Medical Center. While at Duke, his patient satisfaction scores (Press-Ganey) were consistently in the top percentile among over 500 physicians. He credits this achievement to his philosophy that "every patient is like a member of my family."
While at Duke, his primary focus of research was improving fertility care by reducing miscarriages and improving safety. He also obtained a master's degree in Health Economics and Clinical Research from Duke University. With this background, he researched how to reduce twining and high order multiples from IVF by develop inputs into complex mathematical models that can study both healthcare economics and quality.
Dr. Shah grew up on the coast of North Carolina. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with honors. After working in Nicaragua trying to improve the healthcare of women and children, he attended the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond for his medical degree where he was awarded a scholarship. He then completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology and a three-year fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Duke University. He was awarded multiple teaching awards and as a chief resident was asked to participate in the first single incision laparoscopic procedure in the southeast. He is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (FACOG).
Dr. Shah specializes in assisted reproductive technologies (i.e. IVF and ICSI), pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and screening (PGS), third party reproduction (donor eggs and embryos) and complex minimally invasive fertility surgeries. He worked closely with medical genetics at Duke to create a more comprehensive approach to reproductive genetic care including comprehensive chromosomal screening (CCS) evaluation of embryos, which reduces miscarriages. During his almost 10 years at Duke, he trained with some of the nation's leaders in minimally invasive surgery (laparoscopy, robotic surgery, and hysteroscopic surgery). As a researcher, Dr. Shah has received many awards including the prestigious investigator award at the Society of Gynecologic Investigation Conference in 2010. Ultimately, his efforts led him to be the first member of the Duke Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology to receive a $200,000 Health Services Research Fellow award provided by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to train to improve quality of care in fertility care. In addition, he has authored numerous papers, abstracts, and lectured extensively on topics relating to fertility and reproductive endocrinology.
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In his spare time, Dr. Shah enjoys hiking, running, scuba diving, and spending time with his wife and son.
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In the coming months Keith will be presenting more classes and workshop for the general public while he continues to provide quality health care to our community. If you are interested in having Keith speak to your class or community group, or if you'd like to schedule an appointment, please give his office a call. They'll be happy to help you.
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In this week's Odder News: Soviet tech, cannibal ants, and, of course, Google. What a well-rounded lineup!
Photos by a brave urban explorer recently emerged of the interior of the abandoned Soviet Ekranoplan, the hovercraft-boat-airplane you probably watched a YouTube video about once. It's set to be displayed in a forthcoming park.
Internet titan Google came under fire recently and was fined 1.5 million rubles (about $20,000) for not filtering its search results to omit prohibited content in Russia. Surely a fine the price of a small car will teach one of the world's tech giants a lesson!
The director of RosCosmos, Russia's space agency, said last week that it would be possible to put a man on Mars within 8-10 years, although it would be very expensive. Then again, you could do a lot in 8-10 years if money wasn't an object.
Just when we thought 2020 couldn't get crazier, there are apparently a million-some cannibal ants that have escaped from a Soviet bunker. So, you know, be on the lookout.
A domestic dispute on Russia's Far East Sakhalin Island left part of an apartment building without power, when an inebriated husband damaged wiring when trying to break into his wife's lover's home. But wouldn't we all do the same thing in that situation?
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A book that dares to explore the humanity of priests and pilgrims, saints and sinners, Faith & Humor has been both a runaway bestseller in Russia and the focus of heated controversy – as often happens when a thoughtful writer takes on sacred cows. The stories, aphorisms, anecdotes, dialogues and adventures in this volume comprise an encyclopedia of modern Russian Orthodoxy, and thereby of Russian life.
The Latchkey Murders
Senior Lieutenant Pavel Matyushkin is back on the case in this prequel to the popular mystery Murder at the Dacha, in which a serial killer is on the loose in Khrushchev's Moscow...
Moscow and Muscovites
Vladimir Gilyarovsky's classic portrait of the Russian capital is one of Russians' most beloved books. Yet it has never before been translated into English. Until now! It is a spectactular verbal pastiche: conversation, from gutter gibberish to the drawing room; oratory, from illiterates to aristocrats; prose, from boilerplate to Tolstoy; poetry, from earthy humor to Pushkin.
The Moscow Eccentric
Advance reviewers are calling this new translation "a coup" and "a remarkable achievement." This rediscovered gem of a novel by one of Russia's finest writers explores some of the thorniest issues of the early twentieth century.
The Little Humpbacked Horse
A beloved Russian classic about a resourceful Russian peasant, Vanya, and his miracle-working horse, who together undergo various trials, exploits and adventures at the whim of a laughable tsar, told in rich, narrative poetry.
At the Circus
This wonderful novella by Alexander Kuprin tells the story of the wrestler Arbuzov and his battle against a renowned American wrestler. Rich in detail and characterization, At the Circus brims with excitement and life. You can smell the sawdust in the big top, see the vivid and colorful characters, sense the tension build as Arbuzov readies to face off against the American.
Bears in the Caviar
Bears in the Caviar is a hilarious and insightful memoir by a diplomat who was "present at the creation" of US-Soviet relations. Charles Thayer headed off to Russia in 1933, calculating that if he could just learn Russian and be on the spot when the US and USSR established relations, he could make himself indispensable and start a career in the foreign service. Remarkably, he pulled it of.
Survival Russian
Survival Russian is an intensely practical guide to conversational, colloquial and culture-rich Russian. It uses humor, current events and thematically-driven essays to deepen readers' understanding of Russian language and culture. This enlarged Second Edition of Survival Russian includes over 90 essays and illuminates over 2000 invaluable Russian phrases and words.
Life Stories: Original Fiction By Russian Authors
The Life Stories collection is a nice introduction to contemporary Russian fiction: many of the 19 authors featured here have won major Russian literary prizes and/or become bestsellers. These are life-affirming stories of love, family, hope, rebirth, mystery and imagination, masterfully translated by some of the best Russian-English translators working today. The selections reassert the power of Russian literature to affect readers of all cultures in profound and lasting ways. Best of all, 100% of the profits from the sale of this book are going to benefit Russian hospice—not-for-profit care for fellow human beings who are nearing the end of their own life stories.
Fearful Majesty
This acclaimed biography of one of Russia's most important and tyrannical rulers is not only a rich, readable biography, it is also surprisingly timely, revealing how many of the issues Russia faces today have their roots in Ivan's reign.
Vladimir Gilyarovsky's classic portrait of the Russian capital is one of Russians' most beloved books. This award-winning translation makes the book available to English language readers for the first time.
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One-Punch Man Artist Reveals Stunning Dragon Ball Artwork
By Megan Peters - September 5, 2017 09:58 pm EDT
In the world of anime, there are countless characters who moonlight as superheroes. Whether they're saving the world or simply saving a life, guys like Goku and Saitama reign supreme amongst fans because of their unlimited power. Over the years, debates and fan-wars have been waged over who would win between the two, but one man is trying to show that the two heroes can co-habituate in peace. Yusuke Murata, the artist of Shonen Jump's One-Punch Man manga, is proving there are no barriers between the Saiyan and the superhero.
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Over on Twitter, Murata has gone on a social media spree where he had shared a slew of sketches and storyboards. While some of the artwork relates back to One-Punch Man, a good bit of the content has to do with other franchises like Back to the Future and even Alice in Wonderland. While some fans may be in awe over his Street Fighter artwork, it is Murata's Dragon Ball sketch that has fans stunned.
Looking at the image, Murata has taken two very popular Dragon Ball characters and made them into someone wholly epic. Viewers can see Goku powering up into his Super Saiyan form despite his ripped uniform and wounds. In the background, Freiza's final form can be seen looking rather irate at Goku as he also powers up. In the corner, Murata even included a blocky logo for Dragon Ball, and thousands of fans have flooded the Twitter post with compliments.
Aside from the Dragon Ball artwork, Murata has also gained attention for his Marvel sketches. The artist shared several photos he drew of Spider-Man battling about the Chrysler Building. The mangaka even added a photo he drew of the ensemble cast of Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3.
Hopefully, 2017 will give Murata some more time to work on fun aside projects such as these. However, it looks like the year will be a busy one for the artist. The One-Punch Man manga is still in publication, and its beloved anime will be making a long-awaited comeback later in the year. Season 2 was confirmed back in September 2016, and anime enthusiasts were hyped to hear that Saitama would be returning to the small screen to face-off against terrifying new villains.
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Let's not forget that Dragon Ball Super is also doing well over in Japan. Perhaps, if fans are lucky, then they may get to see Saitama and Goku team-up in the future. If Luffy from One Piece got the chance to battle the Saiyan, then the One-Punch Man hero deserves to too!
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cause another cholera outbreak in northeast Nigeria if action is not taken now to prevent it, warns the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC).
"If the camps are not congested and sanitation facilities improved, cholera will inevitably return, and vulnerable displaced people will bear the brunt of the epidemic again," warned Eric Batonon, NRC's Country Director for Nigeria. Over the last decade, northeast Nigeria has been affected by cholera on a yearly basis. Now, following a rise of violence in late 2018 forcing over 100,000 people to flee, displacement camps and sites are overcrowded. This has resulted in a deterioration of the living conditions and a lack of sanitation facilities.
For instance, 466 people are sharing one latrine at one of the displacement camps in the state of Borno, according to the Humanitarian Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). This is nine times above the agreed humanitarian standards, which is set at 50 people per latrine in emergency situations. As a result of lack of sanitation, people choose to defecate in the open, exacerbating an already vulnerable situation and increasing the likelihood of the spread of disease.
"The conflict in northeast Nigeria has now lasted for about ten years, and we should have learned the lessons of past cholera outbreaks and be able to prepare adequately to limit the impact," said Batonon.
"We are calling for Nigerian authorities to provide additional land to develop de-congestion plans and to enable the construction of new water and sanitation facilities. At the same time, the international community should provide the necessary funding to respond quickly and efficiently so we can end the cycle of yearly cholera outbreaks in the region."
· Cholera is a waterborne bacterial disease that is caused by ingesting contaminated water or food. It causes diarrhoea and dehydration, which may be deadly if not treated immediately. Safe and protected water sources and proper sanitation facilities are critical to prevent it from spreading.
· Of 400,000 people needing emergency shelter in northeast Nigeria in 2019, just over 2,288 people have been reached.
· Safe water has only been made accessible to 24% of the total number of people in need.
· In 2018, NRC provided water, sanitation and hygiene services to over 56,000 people in Borno state.
Adamawa and Yobe depend on humanitarian assistance for their survival.


Fred Olsen Cruise Line's MS Black Watch arrived in Dublin at 7am this morning and will remain at Ocean Pier 33 until 5.45pm. At 205m in length and after a major refit in 2005 she now has capacity for 820 guests, up from a previous maximum capacity after a refit in 1981 of 758 and a much more modest 539 when she was built in 1971. Photos Robbie Cox.


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The products meet international standards UNI EN ISO 6789: 2004 and the company quality system is certified according to UNI EN ISO 9001: 2008. In addition, TECNOGI operates in respect of the environment, using renewable energy.
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This year a young man came out of the forest and presented himself at a police station in Germany, claiming or pretending to be a homeless waif (or a bear with very little brain. or whatever); he turned out to be Dutch, if I remember rightly, running away from home.
This was reminiscent of an incident that took place two centuries ago. For our Collesseum video movie this month we showed a highly rated German movie that has been waiting on the shelf for several years.
For those of us who love puzzles, this is a treat. My son Michael gave me the video disc, which has a label identifying it on the box, but locating it in the film guides is a long search.
In the Time Out Film Guide (Penguin) it is found under its original weird title: JEDER FÜR SICH UND GOTT GEGEN ALLE.
Leonard Maltin has it in English: EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF AND GOD AGAINST ALL (with his highest rating ****).
Halliwell has: THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER (**** in a system that mostly awards one star or none). This was the title given to its English version, with the German title (in translation) as a subsidiary title.
Yes, Kaspar Hauser is the name you should put into your searcher.
He appeared out of nowhere in the town-square of Nürnberg/ Nuremberg in 1828; he was possibly born into a princely family in 1812; maybe even a child of Napoleon; he died of a stab-wound, perhaps by his own hand, in 1833.
His tombstone has this Latin inscription: HIC JACET CASPARUS HAUSER, AENIGMA SUI TEMPORIS, IGNOTA NAVITAS, OCCULTA MORS.
He was thus "the enigma of his time, birth unknown, death mysterious".
The film is considered to be Werner Herzog's best piece of work (do not be afraid, Klaus Kinski is not in it, though the wrath of God is ever lurking): "a sorrowing, darkly comic meditation on the pitfalls of 'civilization' and the way education destroys man's innocence" (Time Out, 2007, p. 607c).
The leading role was played brilliantly by a man who (like Judy Garland) needed a lot of encouragement to get the self-esteem going on the set. He is listed as Bruno S. (yes!). An internet quest will unveil him as Bruno Schleinstein (1932-2010; Jewish?), a performing music-man who came out of a terrible childhood. He was aged forty-one when he played the adolescent Kaspar.
The composers in the musical soundtrack are classical, starting with Mozart and his Magic Flute. But the Albinoni piece is not genuine; it was foisted on the 20th century by a modern Italian musician.
This is not to be confused with KASPAR HAUSER (1993) also German, in which Kaspar is a pawn in a political power game. The rumour that he was a scion of the royal family of Baden is accepted here, but DNA comparison has falsified this idea.
"Handke's play is a downright attack on the way language is used by a corrupt society to depersonalize the individual" (Michael Billington, Guardian).
Werner Herzog's film is in German, with English subtitles, 1975, 110m, colour. The running commentary by the man himself is illuminating and engaging; he points out his mother in the audience of the circus side-show scene, where Kaspar is set before the public as an oddity (or a freak, like the elephant man).


"The autologous fat transplantation is exciting in many ways because it improves the growth of hair that's already there and thickens hair that's so fine it's almost invisible".
In the beginning it nearly appeared that they're trying to announce a cure.
When they say "hair that's already there", I think they're referring to hair that's already visible, but fine. When they say "hair that's so fine it's almost invisible", that describes most hair on bald people heads, in the bald areas. Follicles on bald people's heads don't disappear completely. The follicles just become so tiny that they're unable to produce hairs that are visible to the unaided eye.
I thought they are doing this already in the US, it was discussed here before, the new company was backed by one of the big names in hair research, possibly Dr. Cotsarelis or Dr. Washenik .
Dr. Cotsarelis and his team at the University of Pennsylvania, working with the University of California Irvine, demonstrated that scar tissue can be prevented by inducing skin with hair to grow in the tissue first. The hair then pulls in fat cells, which stop the growth of scar tissue.
I think this is related, but actually much different, from just injecting fat cells into the scalp to promote hair growth. What Dr. Cotsarelis is doing in that study is basic research, and the aim is to prevent scar tissue. Sure, it's connected to hair, but it's not something that can be immediately used to grow hair on people.
I think what Dr. Cotsarelis is implying here is, "give us more money to continue this research, we can help burn patients and others who are affected by scars"… the added benefit would be, if the research pans out, that you could grow new hair for people with hair loss. But I don't think they're at that point yet.
Roger, I think he's talking about Kerastem.
The photos shown from the study those doctors are doing in London are pretty impressive. Pretty funny if a hair loss treatment using the body's own fat cells, that works better than Propexia and Minoxidil, which both took tens of millions of dollars to develop, has been sitting under researchers' noses all this time.
This is not a cure but could be a very good preventative treatment.
A few years ago Yale University told the world about the importance of fat cells to hair growth/hair loss. This experiment does not surprise me at all. The good pics are what I would expect but actually the one before/after set that showed the guy's crown didn't show a lot of improvement. .
@jarjarbinx You were right about this. Wonder what Dr. Kemp thinks about fat injections? Also, I wonder if injecting abdominal fat plus cultured Treg cells would work even better. It seems that having the ADSCs is good, but the stem cells may require Treg cells to ensure they're all activated.
Fat cell + treg cells injections would be nice but it would also be nice to add epithelial or DP cells in the syringe.
Also gene editing (CRISPR) is making a huge leap forward this year. Human studies have started. The USA will allow a few studies this year as well. I think that Dr. Kemp should be taking gene editing more seriously for hair loss. I think he expressed that he wasn't interested but if he doesn't start looking at it then someone else will beat him to it. It's going to happen.
All those types of cells would help, IMO. Each type of cell plays a different role.
Also they each interact with the follicle in a different way and at a different place. If you're rejuvenating existing miniaturized follicles, DP cells and epithelial cells would have to integrate with the existing follicle. Stem cells only have to get close to the follicle so they can influence it through signaling. And Treg cells only have to get in the area of the follicle, to activate stem cells with their signals.
In my view, for any given syringe full of cells, the least likely of the above to happen would be DP cells incorporating themselves into the follicle. That's because they have to get so close, precisely in the right spot, and then get taken up by the follicle. What are the chances of that happening? The way I see it, not very high - therefore the efficacy of DP cells per injection would be on the low end.
Whereas for the Treg cells, all they have to do is arrive in the general vicinity of the follicle, close enough to activate the stem cells. They never become part of the follicle. Since they don't have to do so much "swimming around" after being injected, I would think the efficacy of Treg cells per injection might be high.
The efficacy of stem cells (from fat injections) might be somewhere in between.
That's not to say that only one type of cells should be used. As you said, a combination of all these cell types would probably work best.
I've seen enough pure adipose derived stem cell results to know that ADSC alone is not going to get the job done. First, most harvest the adipose deeply rather than peri-follicularly. Peri-follicular adipocytes are closer to the skin. Second, we need some form of activation. Adipocytes are great at mesodermal stem cell promotion, but follicles are both mesodermal and ectodermal. In May, we harvested peri-follicular adipocytes, activated them, and injected them. We also targeted peri-follicular adipose from the scalp and beard areas for injection. In the same patients we also injected activated PRP and follicle stem cells. All patients are reporting a positive response, but the study consists of only two patients thus far. There were no reported side effects. Peri-follicular adipocytes are better suited pluripotent stem cells than deeper ADSC. I am still waiting to see the objective findings. Thus far, ADSC injections alone have been disappointing with regard to response based on reports.
I like the report from England. It's interesting, but the primary question is how they determined density and diameter.
Yes, Kerastem! I didn't know they have to go through trials, I thought they were selling this procedure already because it was fat taken out of the patient's own body and put back in the same patient's body and therefore no trial necessary.
Kerastem's procedure involves using fat derived regenerative cells with purified fat tissue as opposed to just using non-manipulated fat alone. It's available in other (non-US) countries and in the midst of FDA trials for the US.
The Ball study seems to be a similar treatment and led to a 24% increase in hair thickness in the injected regions. That's a pretty big deal (especially for those just starting to lose their hair). But is it worth the $8,000 per treatment Kerastem currently charges? For most people, this probably depends on how long the effects of a single treatment last before wearing off.
Personally, I can't afford an 8K treatment that's only a temporary and partial solution (if that's what it turns out to be). Perhaps rich people can get ongoing treatments until something better comes along.
Kerastem, the leader in cell-based approaches to hair growth, announced today that clinical data utilizing the Kerastem therapy for the treatment of female and male patterned baldness (genetic alopecia) was published in the peer reviewed Journal of Stem Cells and Cloning (Stem Cells and Cloning: Advances and Applications 2017, 10:1-10–https://doi.org/10.2147/SCCAA.S131431). The authors reported that all six (100%) subjects receiving Kerastem Therapy had an increase from baseline hair counts at 6 months, with initial results as early as 6 weeks. The investigators performed a single scalp injection of Kerastem Cell Therapy in 9 healthy hair loss patients, and a total of 6 patients were followed for a period of 6 months.
The Kerastem therapy is based on the emerging science that adipose (fat) plays an important role in the normal hair growth cycle. The clinical approach utilizes purified adipose combined with stem and regenerative cells to deliver cell enriched tissue to the affected scalp. According to Dr. Eric Daniels, Chief Medical Officer of Kerastem, "Fat and fat derived cells are now appreciated as a dynamic, and vital participant in the normal cycle of hair growth. This data set from the United Kingdom further supports this position and we look forward to releasing top-line 24-week data from our fully enrolled STYLE trial later this year." Outside of the United States, the company is actively involved in market development, with Kerastem therapy currently being offered at a number of clinics in Europe & Japan. To learn more about Kerastem or the STYLE Clinical Trial, please visit http://www.kerastem.com.
As Dr. Cole (maybe?) alluded to, fat injections by themselves leave a lot to be desired. However, fat + stromal vascular fraction led to some very interesting results.
The Kerastem article I provided a link for indicates that Kerastem completed dosing for all patients on September 23, 2016. The patients are to be monitored for 12 months. Those 12 months are obviously almost completed. This is a phase 2 study.
If the 21st Century Cures Act has finally become law some treatments will only have to complete 2 studies and if that is the case for Kerastem then it could come to market sometime in 2018, if it's safe and effective.
Density does not matter though it does matter how you measure it. If density alone increases and hair volume based on cross sectional trichometry as objective measurement does not increase, the treatment is worthless. Personally, I would not trust any data coming from the investigators in this study, but that's my experience. I've seen their reports mix up things as simple as the left and the right side of the scalp.
Adipose is a possible addition to hair loss. However, hairs are mesodermal and ectodermal in origin. Adipose develops as far away as possible from the mesoderm that gives rise to the skin. I believe that the future with adipose lies in harvesting perifollicular adipose and injecting this at the proper depth, following the appropriate method of preparation and activation. If kerastem measured hair density based on photography, I can assure you the data is not accurate. There is a proper way to measure density and an improper way to measure density. Then there is the proper depth to administer any stem cell activator. I think these guys may be going too deep to get results.
Phase one is safety. Phase two begins to focus on efficacy. I doubt their patient population is broad enough to get the attention of the FDA, though I suspect their target audience is investors with cash to burn. The bottom line is that if you want excellent results, you choose a great research team to get the best data. If you chose the worst evaluators, you would get spurious data so you can't bank on it. Kerastem did not choose the best investigators. They chose the rubber stampers. Investors will lose money on this project and kerastem will disappear. The principal owners will be the only winners along with perhaps the investigators. I don't know their deal.


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A WDF-supported project is improving diabetes awareness, prevention and care across Rwanda – and helping achieve the goals of the country's ambitious NCD plan.
Etienne Uwingabire from the Rwanda Diabetes Association draws a crowd to a diabetes screening event in Kigali. Click above to see a short film.
In 2016, Rwanda's Ministry of Health launched a comprehensive plan to protect the country's residents from premature morbidity and mortality related to NCDs. It included a strong rationale for action, the Minister of Health's endorsement – and a call for more financing to address the significant funding gap.
Against this backdrop, representatives of the Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC), which manages NCD care in the country, approached WDF with a proposal. They wanted to create a national level diabetes programme with a focus on capacity building of primary and secondary level health facilities, and needed outside financing and expertise to help it succeed.
The result was a new, high level partnership between WDF and the RBC launched in 2017: National Diabetes Prevention and Control Program - WDF15-1232.
The National Diabetes Prevention and Control Program's first goal is to improve general knowledge among Rwandans about diabetes risk factors, early detection and complications.
"We are making sure to raise awareness of NCDs in the population by educating people about the risk factors and the importance of early screening, so they can get checked as early as possible," explains Dr Gilles Ndayisaba, Head of NCDs in the RBC.
Its second goal is to improve access and quality of care. To do this, the project is strengthening diabetes services in the new network of NCD clinics at the primary and secondary level in several ways. For example, it is training healthcare providers, distributing basic equipment and providing the clinics with education and awareness material.
The third goal is to improve coordination, monitoring and evaluation of diabetes care nationwide, and include diabetes indicators and data in existing health management information systems.
"All hospital personnel are trained, and we're now ensuring quality of services. Before deploying everywhere, we start small and test – we're reaching more than 500 health centres, and it's new for them, so it's a process," Dr Gilles says.
WDF staff visited Rwanda late in 2018 and met with partners at the RBC and Rwanda Diabetes Association, which is supporting the project. See a short film recorded during the visit.
The Rwandan government's efforts to improve diabetes prevention and control will continue after WDF funding ends, Dr Gilles says. But WDF's funding, expertise and network have all helped the effort get off to a strong start.
"The grant has been very helpful for moving diabetes awareness and care towards the lowest level of the healthcare system, where it belongs, and ultimately moving us toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals for NCDs," he says.