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Spanish-born, NY Contemporary Artist and Scientist Roberto Bermejo Exhibits Innovative "Laser-Rendered" Paintings at Philharmonic Center for the Arts
Spanish-born, NY-based contemporary artist and neuroscientist, Roberto Bermejo, enters the Florida art scene with his innovative, laser-rendered paintings showing at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples. Noted for his extraordinary use of color and abstract form, Bermejo's ground-breaking artistic process helped shatter boundaries in contemporary painting with customized software he invented, which became his palette, paint and brush on a virtual canvas.
Each of Bermejo's paintings contain more than 500 colors and close to 1 million brush strokes.
Bermejo's images are so compelling, you can't not look at them. - John Coplans, Founder and former editor-in-chief, Art Forum magazine, curator and artist
Naples, FL (PRWEB) January 30, 2013
Spanish-born, New York-based contemporary artist and neuroscientist, Roberto Bermejo, exhibits his acclaimed, hypnotic paintings at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, appearing in the Florida art scene for the first time. Known for inventing a unique software that unleashes extraordinary arrays of color and form that redefine painting, his dynamic images are on view as single, large-scale, laser-rendered paintings and in small jewel-like works of art. Even before digital art was fully embraced by the traditional art world, the late John Coplans, founder and former editor of Art Forum magazine noted, "Bermejo's images are so compelling, you can't not look at them."
Bermejo's series, The Light of Colors, can be seen now through May 2013 at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts, 5833 Pelican Bay Boulevard Naples, FL. His ground-breaking artistic process creates an infinite series of unique images, never repeated, reproducing endlessly and, according to Bermejo, "symbolizing both the distinctive and shared traits of each human being." They can be exhibited on any type of digital screen, where the viewer can literally experience the act of continuous creation. Bermejo creates "colors so brilliant, they seem lit from within," observed ArtByte magazine.
"At a time when contemporary art is dominated by a growing banalization of its content and form, it is especially valuable to meet an artist whose seriousness and commitment cannot be questioned," says Iria Candela, curator at the Tate Modern in London.
Bermejo applies his scientific programming skills to explore new ways of painting. Bermejo explains, "My work transformed when I gained access to an almost infinite palette of colors through the computer. I can then precisely place these color values across the computer's virtual canvas, on photographic paper, on canvas, or projected through space on walls. Each painting contains some 500 colors and tones and more than one million fine brush strokes that I carefully distribute across the surface. For each new project, I build custom software, rather than using existing commercial programs, which just limit one's creativity. As the boundaries between different media (photography, painting and video) become even narrower, I believe, regardless of the media, my content and artistic process, remains that of a painting."
According to George Fifield, founder and director of the Boston Cyberarts Festival, who featured Bermejo's work at several Cyberarts Festivals, "Taking something from analogue to digital frees up...Bermejo...not just to discover a new realm of creativity but to reinvent it completely."
"The artwork of Roberto Bermejo reflects, above all, a rigorous search to express a series of thematic concerns through a distinctly personal style," Tate Modern curator, Iria Candela stressed. "It is in this meticulous and stubborn process to configure a unified, innovative artistic body of work, that he melds his background of scientific inquiry with his charismatic personality."
About the Philharmonic Center for the Arts: The Philharmonic Center for the Arts is a non-profit organization. Its mission is to enlighten, educate and entertain people of all ages and backgrounds in Southwest Florida by presenting the very best of the visual and performing arts. The Phil is unique among arts centers in that it features both the performing and visual arts in a single complex and hosts a resident orchestra. The Phil has four museum-quality art galleries, which showcase traveling and exclusive exhibitions, as well as the 1,475-seat main hall and a 282-seat black box theater,. Each season, the Phil is host to more than 400 individual events. The Center provides programs year-round including for groups and schools. For more information about The Philharmonic Center for the Arts please visit http://www.thephil.org.
About Roberto Bermejo: Roberto Bermejo is a Spanish-born, New York City-based artist and neuroscientist, whose art has been exhibited nationally and internationally in group and individual shows. He is in private collections in the U.S. and Europe. Born in La Coruna, Spain, he studied biology at Santiago de Compostela University, and first came to the U.S. on a Fulbright scholarship to complete his doctorate degree in neuroscience, followed by a post doctorate fellowship at Columbia University. At the same time that he was working with one of the top team of neuroscientists, he met a group of emerging contemporary artists who were also Fulbright scholars, with whom he became close friends. These two experiences created an almost alchemic-like transformation in his notions of creativity and discovery, giving shape to the twin necessity he felt to create art, as well as to be a scientist. Bermejo went on to invent his first proprietary software in the 1990s that allowed him to explore the relationship of light and color with the power of an infinite palette and vast digital multi-media showcases. While his primary focus has been on investigation and discovery, he has exhibited at Artists Space in NYC, at Harvard's Three Columns Gallery, at Boston Cyberarts Festivals as well as in exhibitions in Spain and most recently at the 2012 NY Times/Architectural Digest Home Design Show. For more information see http://www.robertobermejo.com 646-599-3550
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August 27, 2006 Staff National News
New York, NY (APE) – An embarrassed Barred Pharmaceuticals President Fred Wilkinson, today announced that its experimental male contraceptive pill, Plan D, was released nationwide, mistakenly upon the rollout of its over-the-counter controversial morning after pill, Plan B. The packaging apparently is very similar in appearance and Wilkinson expressed fears of possible adverse reactions.
The morning after the mistake, however, Wilkinson's fears appear to be largely unrecognized and Barred Pharmaceuticals is faced with attempting to recall an overwhelmingly successful product.
The consensus story appears to be that women purchasing the drug over-the-counter thinking that it was Plan B, actually read the directions and did not take the medication themselves. Many went further to either entice their partners or covertly administer the medication to them. The results have been an overwhelming success in the eyes of the women who purchased the mistaken drug, and there has been a reported mad rush to pharmacies nationwide to purchase the over-the-counter preparation before Barred has a chance to follow through with its recall.
The active ingredient in Plan D is devonorgestrel, and it seems to have a dampening or somewhat modulating effect on the male hormone testosterone.
"It was just amazing", stated an anonymous woman. "My husband seemed to be almost instantly more attuned to my feelings. In situations where he might have once insisted upon having sex, he actually deferred to me. And there wasn't all this anger and frustration when I turned him down."
Other women reported that there seemed to be an overall diminished interest in sex from their partners with an increase in their emotional attention span. Others reported that, in addition, there appeared to be no real adverse side effects such as sedation, and in fact, their partners appear to be more energetic and involved with completing household chores.
Barred Pharmaceuticals stated that it must continue the recall by law, but company lawyers are looking into streamlining the testing and research process to bring devonorgestrel to market. Religious conservatives have already begun to voice stern objections over the move citing biblical concerns over the relationship between man and woman. It is unclear at this point, whether Plan D will have any real effect on birth control as it was intended and will warrant further scrutiny.
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Cellular and Wi-Fi technology: Is it safe for you?
This page is here to give you information on the effects of cell phones/towers/WI-FI, so you can make an informed choice if you live, work, or go to school within 1/3 of a mile of a tower and whether that WI-FI is affecting you. First is a brief overview, and then further down will be more in-depth information, studies, charts, and videos of me doing the readings as well as a video of families asking for a cell tower to be removed from an elementary school after two students and staff were diagnosed with cancer after attending that school for six years and a great short documentary about this subject at the very bottom of the page.
The radiation from cell phones, towers, WI-FI, cordless technology is all the same microwave energy just at different frequencies and levels. But the effects are the same. After the school board approved a cell tower at the local high school where my daughter attends, I rented a meter to see for myself if there was indeed radiation outside and/or inside the school. The results were shocking even to me. As much as 66,700% higher levels of radiation measured in classrooms facing the tower than what has been shown to cause biological effects on us.
And the measurements of the WI-FI/wireless devices in my house were not much better. It has caused me to make a plan to become WI-FI free in my house. It can be done even if you have laptops, tablets, and phones you want to use with the internet. It just takes a little inconvenience and a little money. But most all of us have unknowingly turned our homes into microwave ovens. The power level, though, is at a much lower level than your cooking microwave, so it's just cooking you much slower, but is cooking you nevertheless.
Effects reported in studies after short- and long-term exposure:
Concentration problems, memory lapses aches or pressure in head, throat and chest
unsteady balance, dizziness
altered heart rate,
excessive fatigue
numbness or pain in affected areas
red skin blotches and eczema
preventing the body from healing, damaged DNA
immune system imbalances
metabolic disruption and lower resilience to disease
neurotoxicity in humans and animals
carcinogenicity in humans
effects on offspring behavior
and effects on brain and cranial bone development in the offspring of animals that are exposed to cell phone radiation during pregnancy
sperm damage in humans and animals
massive decrease in serotonin and melatonin
formation of rare cancers
and one of the most dangerous is the damage to the blood-brain barrier. Why is that dangerous? It allows the toxins and heavy metals that have become so prolific in our environment now, including mercury and aluminum from our deodorants, cookware, teeth filling, and vaccinations; pesticides and herbicides in our foods; and lead from cheap toys, jewelry, drinking water and old paint, to now enter our brain, whereas before the onslaught of these microwave radiation frequencies, the BBB would have kept most of them out. This leakage starts after as little as two hours of exposure. Can this be why there is such a rise in neurological conditions such as autism, Parkinson's, MS, dementia and Alzheimer's, and things like depression and anxiety in our youth?
www.parentsforsafetechnology.org
First off is educate yourself. Second is to realize the government is not protecting you, and the corporations do not care about you or your health at all.
If you have a cell phone, keep it in airplane mode when driving and when it's on your body or in your purse when you are not using it unless you're expecting a life-altering call. Every now and then turn it on and see if anyone called or texted. Never store your phone in your bra.
Use a headset or speaker when making calls, not bluetooth, . If possible, get an airtube headset.
Do not sleep with the phone next to your bed when it's not in airplane mode. You can use the alarm and have it in airplane mode. Or have it across the room or in a nearby room if you need to keep it on. Or go back to an alarm clock.
If you have WI-FI in your house, go on your computer and set the modem up so that it turns off at night or buy a modem with the ability to turn wi-fi on/off right on the modem.
Do not have your modem/router in the same room as you sleep.
Do not think that just because you have WI-FI it's all the same. The more things you connect to WI-FI, the more devices sending and receiving a signal, so the overall levels will be higher.
There are ways to connect your devices to the internet without WI-FI with adapters. Search the internet.
If you live or work near a cell tower, consider changing homes or employment, or at least when moving or changing jobs, find out if there are any cell towers nearby.
www.ehtrust.org
Letter to the school
Dear West Ada Trustees, Superintendant Newbold, and Principal Terry Beck.
You approved a cell tower to be installed on the Eagle High School property in early 2017 even after I spoke twice to your board and sent you mountains of information showing there is enough evidence to show there are likely health effects from spending that much time in that close of a vicinity to a cellular tower/mast.
Even though the Verizon reps assured you and tried to assure me that there was no increased radiation from being that close to a cell tower, and the way the radiation beamed or something it couldn't get into the school, unlike you, I didn't take them at their word, considering the mountain of evidence I sent you and their obvious bias. Remember cigarettes and the industry-funded studies that showed no ill effects? So I rented a meter that measures RF radiation. And what I found was disturbing and made me very angry at your decision. So I will now give you a little lesson and the measurements I took. And just so you know the meter is pretty much idiot-proof. You turn it on and hold it up. That's it.
So a little bit about the radiation being emitted from cell phones, WI-FI, cell towers, as well as any device which uses those things. This is a microwave radiation, the same as what your microwave uses to cook food. I don't think that it's too much of a leap to say that the higher the levels the more damage and faster the damage will be done. Just as I said that it's the same as energy as your microwave oven, if you cook on your microwave at high, it cooks very fast. If you lower the power level or put it on defrost, it will cook the food much more slowly. Have you seen the videos on YouTube where people set up several cell phones and they cook an egg?
Devices such as cell phones, cordless phones, baby monitors, laptops, tablets, game consoles, etc are considered two-way microwave devices. They both send and receive a signal. So when they are in the act of sending or receiving a signal, the amount of radiation they output is much higher than when they are sitting idle. The difference between all of those devices and cell tower masts is that they can be turned off. They can be kept at a distance from the body to minimize the risk. And people have a choice as to whether to use them or not. With cell masts, there is no ability to turn them off. It's 24/7/365. So if you work at that school for many years, those people are exposed to the radiation that I measured.
There is a report done by a group of researchers published in 2012. It was an update to a 2007 report. So there may be an update this year, but I do not know. In this report they looked at over 1,800 studies regarding cell phone/tower radiation exposures. Their conclusions were that levels as low as 30 µW/m² cause biological effects to humans and animals. People can develop electro-hypersensitivity so that they can actually feel the energy/frequencies being put off by these devices and experience symptoms such as concentration problems, memory lapses, aches or pressure in head, throat and chest, unsteady balance, dizziness, altered heart rate, ringing in the ears, excessive fatigue, numbness or pain in affected areas, sleep disturbances, eye irritation, red skin blotches, and eczema. Because each device has a slightly different signature, one woman said that should could actually walk into a room and tell you what kind of device was on, could tell if a microwave was on in the floor above her at work.
I am going to give you some information from studies but will also include links and some attachments. Then you can get an idea from this the information and decide if you want to look at the information further.
This first section is the conclusions from the Bioinitiative report of 2012 that I referenced above.
http://www.bioinitiative.org/conclusions/
They report is in μW/cm2 but I converted it to µW/m² because that is what the meter I used measured. You basically move the decimal four places to the right to go from μW/cm2 to µW/m².
Overall, these 1800 or so new studies report abnormal gene transcription; genotoxicity and single-and double-strand DNA damage; stress proteins because of the fractal RF-antenna like nature of DNA; chromatin condensation and loss of DNA repair capacity in human stem cells; reduction in free-radical scavengers – particularly melatonin; neurotoxicity in humans and animals, carcinogenicity in humans; serious impacts on human and animal sperm morphology and function; effects on offspring behavior; and effects on brain and cranial bone development in the offspring of animals that are exposed to cell phone radiation during pregnancy.
Bioeffects are clearly established and occur at very low levels of exposure to electromagnetic fields and radiofrequency radiation. Bioeffects can occur in the first few minutes at levels associated with cell and cordless phone use. Bioeffects can also occur from just minutes of exposure to mobile phone masts (cell towers), WI-FI, and wireless utility 'smart' meters that produce whole-body exposure. Chronic base station level exposures can result in illness.
Many of these bioeffects can reasonably be presumed to result in adverse health effects if the exposures are prolonged or chronic. This is because they interfere with normal body processes (disrupt homeostasis), prevent the body from healing damaged DNA, produce immune system imbalances, metabolic disruption and lower resilience to disease across multiple pathways. Essential body processes can eventually be disabled by incessant external stresses (from system-wide electrophysiological interference) and lead to pervasive impairment of metabolic and reproductive functions.
At least five new cell tower studies are reporting bioeffects in the range of 0.003 to 0.05 μW/cm2 (30 to 500 µW/m²) . Researchers report headaches, concentration difficulties and behavioral problems in children and adolescents; and sleep disturbances, headaches and concentration problems in adults.
Human sperm are damaged by cell phone radiation at very low intensities in the (0.00034 – 0.07 uW/cm2) (3.4 to 700 µW/m²)range. There is a veritable flood of new studies reporting sperm damage in humans and animals, leading to substantial concerns for fertility, reproduction and health of the offspring (unrepaired de novo mutations in sperm). Exposure levels are similar to those resulting from wearing a cell phone on the belt, or in the pants pocket, or using a wireless laptop computer on the lap. Sperm lack the ability to repair DNA damage.
Effects on the developing fetus from in-utero exposure to cell phone radiation have been observed in both human and animal studies since 2006. Divan et al (2008) found that children born of mothers who used cell phones during pregnancy develop more behavioral problems by the time they have reached school age than children whose mothers did not use cell phones during pregnancy. Children whose mothers used cell phones during pregnancy had 25% more emotional problems, 35% more hyperactivity, 49% more conduct problems and 34% more peer problems. Exposure to whole-body RFR from base stations and WI-FI, use of wireless laptops, use of incubators for newborns with excessively high ELF-EMF levels resulting in altered heart rate variability and reduced melatonin levels in newborns, and greater susceptibility to leukemia and asthma in the child where there have been maternal exposures to ELF-EMF.
School districts that are now considering all-wireless learning environments should be strongly cautioned that wired environments are likely to provide better learning and teaching environments, and prevent possible adverse health consequences for both students and faculty in the long-term.
There is sufficient scientific evidence to warrant the selection of wired internet, wired classrooms and wired learning devices, rather than making an expensive and potentially health-harming commitment to wireless devices that may have to be substituted out later, and
Wired classrooms should reasonably be provided to all students who opt-out of wireless environments.
The BBB is a protective barrier that prevents the flow of toxins into sensitive brain tissue. Increased permeability of the BBB caused by cell phone RFR may result in neuronal damage. Many research studies show that very low intensity exposures to RFR can affect the blood-brain barrier (BBB) (mostly animal studies). Summing up the research, it is more probable than unlikely that non-thermal EMF from cell phones and base stations do have effects upon biology. A single 2-hr exposure to cell phone radiation can result in increased leakage of the BBB, and 50 days after exposure, neuronal damage can be seen, and at the later time point also albumin leakage is demonstrated. The levels of RFR needed to affect the BBB have been shown to be as low as 0.001 W/kg, or less than holding a mobile phone at arm's length.
From this article: http://www.mymedicalmantra.com/use-of-cellphones-by-pregnant-mothers-may-lead-to-behavioral-problems-in-children/
Birks and her colleagues analyzed data of more than 80,000 mother-child pairs in Denmark, Spain, Norway, Netherlands and Korea. During the research they found consistent evidence, of increasing risk of behavioral problems particularly, hyperactivity in 5-to7-year-old children, the more their mothers talked on cell phones during pregnancy.
From this article:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/major-cell-phone-radiation-study-reignites-cancer-questions/
Federal scientists released partial findings Friday from a $25-million animal study that tested the possibility of links between cancer and chronic exposure to the type of radiation emitted from cell phones and wireless devices. The findings, which chronicle an unprecedented number of rodents subjected to a lifetime of electromagnetic radiation starting in utero, present some of the strongest evidence to date that such exposure is associated with the formation of rare cancers in at least two cell types in the brains and hearts of rats.
The researchers found that as the thousands of rats in the new study were exposed to greater intensities of RF radiation, more of them developed rare forms of brain and heart cancer that could not be easily explained away, exhibiting a direct dose–response relationship. Overall, the incidence of these rare tumors was still relatively low, which would be expected with rare tumors in general, but the incidence grew with greater levels of exposure to the radiation. In contrast, none of the control rats—those not exposed to the radiation—developed such tumors. Some of the rats had glioma—a tumor of the glial cells in the brain—or schwannoma
of the heart. Furthering concern about the findings: In prior epidemiological studies of humans and cell phone exposure, both types of tumors have also cropped up as associations.
In this study:http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/scalar_tech/esp_scalartech23.htm
A survey study using a questionnaire was conducted on 530 people (270 men, 260 women) living or not in the vicinity of cellular phone base stations, on 18 Non Specific Health Symptoms.
Comparisons of complaint frequencies (CHISQUARE test with Yates correction) in relation to the distance from base stations and sex show significant (p <0.05) increase as compared to people living > 300 m or not exposed to base stations, up through 300 m for tiredness, 200 m for headache, sleep disruption, discomfort, etc., 100 m for irritability, depression, loss of memory, dizziness, libido decrease, etc. Women significantly more often than men (p < 0.05) complained of headache, nausea, loss of appetite, sleep disruption, depression, discomfort and visual disruptions.
This first study on symptoms experienced by people living in the vicinity of base stations shows that, in view of radio protection, the minimal distance of people from cellular phone base stations should not be <300 m.
From this article:http://weepnews.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/kempten-west-study-2007-english-version.html
This is a very important study which shows the adverse health effects caused soon after a cell phone transmitter commenced operation. It is easy to understand the long term serious effects that may occur because of microwave radiation exposure.
The initial blood samples were taken in November 2006 before the transmitter commenced operation (Dec. 2006). The second set of blood samples were taken in May 2007, 5 months after the transmitter commenced normal operation. All 28 participating residents had already removed DECT-Telephones and WLAN from their homes weeks before the first blood sampling took place and also reduced their mobile phone use to a few conversations outside home.
It is established that both, the "mood hormone" serotonin and also the "sleep-" and "immune defence hormone" melatonin is formed in the pineal gland of the brain, whereby serotonin represents a precursor of melatonin.
In healthy conditions a maximum of the sleep hormone melatonin is formed from serotonin during the night, whilst, during the daytime, the 'mood hormone' serotonin is shown to be clearly increased, at the expense of the then severely reduced amount of the 'sleep hormone', melatonin. In addition, undisturbed melatonin excretion synchronises various biological and hormonal rhythms in the human body and ensures deep revitalising sleep.
At the same time, melatonin represents one of the most important immune enhancing substances of our body and, as a free radical scavenger, it protects all body- and brain cells against genetic damage considered as a precursor to cancer.
Serotonin acts especially as a messenger for the nervous system and in the brain as a mood hormone. A reduction of the serotonin level is therefore associated with depression, lethargy and listlessness, inner agitation and many psychiatric disturbances.
Especially alarming is the fact, that 84 % of participants, almost the whole group, reacted with a massive decrease in the serotonin level (average 46%) following increased exposure from the operation of the newly erected telecommunications mast.
The clear increase in depressive mood disturbances, lethargy and listlessness, appetite disturbances, inner agitation and reduced quality of life experienced by nearly all nearby residents must be acknowledged by orthodox medicine
Alarming is also the fairly steep nightly melatonin decrease in the presence of increasing telecommunication signal exposure, which is nearly half of the normal level for more than half of the group (56%). Even the slow increased tendency of nearly one third (28%)represents ultimately, despite a slight increase, only an upturn within a mainly deeply lowered pathological region.
We therefore have to expect considerable sleep disturbance and immune deficiencies in 84% (28 plus 56%). Since, from the medical viewpoint, sleep disturbance is increasingly seen as a cancer promoting risk factor, these numbers must be considered as alarming
1.relative melatonin deficiency at night with shortened phases of deep sleep. This is indicated by restless sleep with frequency awakening and
2.increased melatonin level at the time of arising from bed. It is symptomatic of this, that one has difficulty getting out of bed in the morning and feels "absolutely whacked". During the day, consecutive symptoms appear, such as tiredness, irritability, loss of concentration etc. Actually, 16 participants complained about sleep disturbances, 6 complained that they were regularly awakened between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. and that they then had difficulty getting off to sleep again.
http://www.naturalnews.com/040905_cell_phone_towers_radiation_cancer.html
The study established a direct link between cancer deaths in Belo Horizonte, Brazil's third largest city, with the cell phone network. Over 80 percent of those who succumbed to certain types of cancer resided approximately a third of a mile away from one of the hundreds of cell phone antennae that populate the city. These cancers, primarily found in the prostate, breasts, lungs, kidneys, liver, are the ones associated with exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs).
https://ehtrust.org/key-issues/the-environment-and-health/wireless-radiationelectromagnetic-fields-increases-toxic-body-burden
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It is a known fact that lead, air pollution, and other toxic chemicals can damage our health and, more specifically, these toxins can damage brain development. In addition, wireless and EMF radiation can synergistically increase the effect of these daily toxic exposures because of the ways in which wireless radiation alters the body's natural functioning.
Wireless radiation has been shown to damage sleep and the blood-brain barrier, which in turn can lead to higher toxic load on the body. Furthermore, well done replicated research studies have found that a known carcinogen exposure in combination with wireless and EMF exposure leads to a significantly increased risk of cancer development.
The brain's protective barrier—called the blood-brain barrier—is composed of tightly knit endothelial cells, which line the walls of the blood vessels in the brain, creating a barrier that blocks the entry of chemicals and toxins. However, replicated research shows that wireless radiation increases the permeability of the blood-brain barrier, allowing more movement of toxic chemicals into vulnerable organs. In other words, the toxic chemicals circulating in our blood from everyday exposures have an easier time reaching our brain. Imagine our brain has a strong fence around it. Wireless pokes holes in the fence.
A2013 research study
published in Public Library of Science (PLOS One), found that children exposed to lead who made more voice calls on their cell phone were at significantly greater risk of developing ADHD symptoms. Moreover, a significant dose-response relationship was observed between the number and duration of voice calls made on cell phones and ADHD risk among children exposed to lead in their environment.
Electromagnetic fields (EMF) are used as a medical treatment to deliver drugs into the brain due to their ability to open up the blood-brain barrier. In fact, non-ionizing radiation is being used in state of the art research to treat brain cancer (See news articles at bottom of this page).
Think about it. If non-ionizing radiation can move a drug more easily past the blood-brain barrier, it also make sense that it can move other chemicals—unwanted chemicals—into the brain. EMF can heal and harm.
Research shows that wireless and other electromagnetic radiation exposures can act as a co-promoter, meaning that the effect of the known carcinogen is intensified when wireless is added into the mix. It is like mixing drugs. In other words, one plus one can be greater than two.
In 2013 the WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) specifically notes, "Four of six co-carcinogenesis studies showed increased cancer incidence after exposure to RF-EMF in combination with a known carcinogen…"
From the Naila report: www.emrpolicy.org/science/research/docs/eger_naila_2004.pdf
The basis of the data used for the survey were PC files of the case histories of patients between the years 1994 and 2004. While adhering to data protection, the personal data of almost 1,000 patients were evaluated for this study, which was completed without any external financial support. It is intended to continue the project in the form of a register.
The result of the study shows that the proportion of newly developing cancer cases was significantly higher among those patients who had lived during the past ten years at a distance of up to 400 metres from the cellular transmitter site, which has been in operation since 1993, compared to those patients living further away, and that the patients fell ill on average 8 years earlier.
In the years 1999-2004, ie after five years' operation of the transmitting installation, the relative risk of getting cancer had trebled for the residents of the area in the proximity of the installation compared to the inhabitants of Naila outside the area.
As a summary, cell towers' RF radiation has serious biological effects on humans. You are exposing our children, the staff, and any children staff may carry while pregnant and working there unnecessarily to this radiation without giving them any choice and subjecting them to the dangers that are clearly spelled out in this information. And the readings that I got at the school were as much as 66,667% higher than has caused biological changes to people and consistently 6,000%-40,000% higher than the numbers reported as causing damage. As low as 30 µW/m² can cause things memory issues, behavioral and sleep issues which correlates to a drop in serotonin and melatonin which was shown in one study that looked at levels before and after a tower was installed. It can cause issues to fetuses and cause cancer. And when combined with other toxins, because it causes the blood-brain barrier to become permeable allowing them access to the brain, the effects of those toxins are greatly magnified. And study after study shows that the closer you are to the tower, the higher incidence of these issues, which is borne out by the readings I took at the school showing the high levels or RF radiation. I would encourage you to have an independent tester not in any way affiliated with Verizon or yourselves to test if you want to verify my readings.
So I am demanding that something be done with this cell phone tower as well as the others that are on West Ada schools for the students and staff. At the very least, there are paints that can be applied which block the radiation as well. You could try that first together with either removing the windows and making it all one piece or try painting the windows as well with the paint to see if that is effective. You should be able to cover the cost with one month's lease. But retesting would need to be done, and if that doesn't help, then the tower must go. And that doesn't address the exposure you are subjecting the student athletes including the spectators to the sporting events as well as workers and/or students working and doing activities outside on that end of the school.
http://nebula.wsimg.com/ccd8c363363d1192ac448f6c72cc93de?AccessKeyId=FF4B01FD5B2965093C55&disposition=0&alloworigin=1
I look forward to hearing back from you,
Lisa Doyon
Testing results from the EHS school property:
I had my cell phone in airplane mode so that the meter was not affected by my phone radiation. I tested in many places around the school. I am attaching a map of the school so that you can see the readings that I got in which location. The classrooms which are in the East wing and have an outside wall facing the cell tower and have a window have the highest readings inside along with the portable classrooms. And then outside all around, the levels vary depending on where I was in proximity to the cell tower and the school building. When I was at the very front of the school up against the building so it was completely between me and the tower, the readings were low. Also this doesn't take into account any radiation that was from WI-FI, which could account for the readings in many places except for the outside, portables, and the East classrooms, and maybe not the gym.
In the classrooms on the second floor of the East wing with windows facing the cell tower had levels from 2,000 µW/m² pulsing up to 21,000 µW/m².
On the first floor, the exit doors near the trophy case was up to 57,000 µW/m².
In classroom E209, the numbers were from 3,000 µW/m² to 21,000 µW/m².
The portables were from 2,000 µW/m² to 13,600 µW/m².
Walking around in the halls in the East section, it was consistently over 30 µW/m² up to 121 µW/m².
Outside by the tennis courts, it was from 2,000 µW/m² to 8,400 µW/m².
The numbers probably about 30 feet from the cell tower were from 6,000 µW/m² to 18,900 µW/m².
The parking lot on the side near the tower was from 500 µW/m² to 2,500 µW/m².
The numbers in the driveway of a residence across the street from the school were from 3,000 µW/m² to 17,800 µW/m².
In those classrooms in questions, some have students sitting right up against the window, so they are subjected to up to 21,000 µW/m² for extended periods.
WI-FI house measurements
For reference, there are biological changes as described above as low as 30 µW/m² and these energies are pulsing, so they go up and down every few seconds.
In room with modem: 10 feet away: up to 8,000 µW/m².
Laptop connected to WI-FI, not being used: 10-70 µW/m² peaking at 159
Laptop connected to WI-FI, being used watching YouTube: every few seconds pulsing from 1,000-3,500 µW/m²
Laptop connected to WI-Fi, using Skype: 750-1,450 µW/m² at the computer and 250-550 µW/m², 1 foot away from computer.
iPhone 6 on Skype: 1,150- 4,500 µW/m² and 50-120 up near face when holding the phone so your face is seen.
iPhone 6 call 4,000-43,000 µW/m² at the phone; 85-1,297 µW/m² 8 inches away.
iPhone 6 on YouTube: 85-10,387 µW/m² at phone; 45-4,800 µW/m² 8 inches away.
Facebook Live on iPhone 6, 60,000-83,000 µW/m² at phone; 7,000-10,000 µW/m² back where face is when holding phone for video call.
in the living room with no devices or modems in the same room: 40-670 µW/m².
© 2018 Eagle HealingWest State Street, Eagle, Idaho 83616208-615-4882lisa@eaglehealing.com


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Andrei Danko: I count on the healthy human sense that people will show who for them something for 4 years has done
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The President of the Slovak National Party and NR SR in a live session with the race of the racing, expressed the belief that Slovakia should borrow money on favourable terms.
Only in his words we can finally build up the motorway and also the hospital network. "Slovakia needs 270 kilometres of highways for which €8 billion is needed – the only solution is to borrow money, change the building law and public procurement law. Under these conditions it is possible to build a highway in the horizon 5-6 years, "said Andrei Danko. He also resigns the argument that, in case of cancellation of the motorway stamps, there will be no money to build roads. "Profit from the sale of highway stamps is 70 million, the state income is only 50 million. The price for 1 km of highway is somewhere from 30-60 million. The toll stamps are therefore not enough for 2 kilometres of motorways. People are not allowed to lie, therefore, this theme opened in Parliament at the Tuesday extraordinary meeting. I just want people to forgive the highway mark for those jams in which they must stand. " As the chief of the national authorities explained, borrowed money could also serve to reconstruct hospitals and public schools. As Andrei Danko reminded, in this election period, the Slovak National Party has brought a number of system measures that are already being helped by the glossary. In another government they would like to expand their national governments. "We are a successful state, we are well-based on the growth of average wages, I have personally contributed to the fact that teachers have about €400 more, soldiers have averaged more than €2000, in addition to them, we also helped the farmers, and the food. Here but we can not end, this must be the first step. We want a system of corporate flats, where people will have affordable rents, I would like to see the State Hospital network, to cut taxes across the board, "named the chief of the Nationaries. At the address of upcoming elections and pre-election surveys, the president of the CIS stated that they believe that people cannot be affected by marketing campaigns. "I count on healthy human sense and goodness in the heart of people and to understand who has done something for them for 4 years. I believe in the fact that people will behave differently than when their media is influenced by lies, "Andrej Danko closed.
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Windows Phone 8: Nokia's Jesus?
This post was written by Shawn Deena, a member of the Bull City Mobile team. They are mobile problem solvers working for you.
Think about this: just about five years ago the iPhone came into our lives and entirely destroyed all forms of competition for a good while. It was like someone took a loaf of bread and sliced it for the first time. Life BIP (before iPhone) had a clear leader: Nokia. When cellphones were breaking into the mainstream, Nokia was churning out the hits like nobody's business. It was the go-to phone if you wanted a solid model that didn't drop calls and offered the features you wanted in a cell phone (at the time).
But put any classic Nokia up against an iPhone and, well… it's like holding an old school CRT television up against an HD LED flat-screen. No contest. So as the smartphone revolution begun, other companies began to make their versions, Apple continued to make new versions that sold like hotcakes, and Nokia just sort of fell behind. Very behind.
In two words: downward spiral. The Finnish company just couldn't keep up with the explosion that became all the fancy gadgets we have to choose from today. Then, like a savior from technology heaven, Microsoft floated down on a shiny beam of light and offered a deal where the hardware manufacturer could push a new phone: the Windows 7 phone (Lumia). While it was a nice gadget, eight months later the demand for this device fell way flat of expectations. So now, as Microsoft rolls out its new OS Windows 8 along with a new tablet to compete with Apple (the Surface), they are also launching the Windows Phone 8 via a variety of mobile phone makers like HTC, Samsung and… (drum roll) Nokia!
The Lumia 920: Nokia's Last Chance?
Windows is not putting all its mobile-platform eggs in one Finnish basket (HTC/Samsung get some eggs too).
There's still that pesky behemoth Apple to compete with.
Nokia is taking a huge gamble, considering their first time around with Windows didn't go so well.
So what is the 920 serving up to entice a new breed of fans and followers?
Nokia Maps, including turn-by-turn and offline navigation (we'll see if that's any better than Apple's Google-free disaster of a mapping service).
PureView camera with Carl Zeiss optics (apparently awesome).
A free Nokia Music service.
A bunch of other exclusive Nokia apps (for what they're worth).
Available on multiple carriers: no exclusivity.
Responsive to issues and sending out software updates.
Is that going to be enough? Will Nokia's new model be able to compete both price-wise and preference-wise over stuff already in the market like the Galaxy III and the iPhone 5? Considering it's a Johnny-come-lately with nowhere close to the amount of third-party applications that Google and Apple have, will it have the "wow" factor that both Microsoft and Nokia are hoping for? Will they be able to regain their foothold in the cell phone market they once had? (Nokia at one time had over half of the smartphone market worldwide before iPhone and Android phones showed up.) Last year after they closed a deal with Microsoft they stopped using their own Symbian homemade software and switched to Windows. For the record, the most recent stats show Windows phones only having a 2.7% of the market.
Maybe the dynamic-duo team-up with Microsoft will really be the reincarnation that Nokia needs.
But as it is Nokia doesn't really have much else going on, if the their Windows 8 phone gets clobbered by the competition, there won't be much left to save.


But Abercrombie & Fitch's decision not to hire Samantha Elauf because she wore a headscarf (or "hijab") resulted in her case being taken up by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. After hearing oral arguments in February, the Supreme Court this week ruled overwhelmingly — in an 8-1 decision — that Abercrombie had violated the rights of this young Muslim woman to practice her religious beliefs.
The majority opinion concluded that Abercrombie's decision to derail Ms. Elauf's job application, based on their presumption that she wore the hijab for religious reasons, placed the iconic fashion retailer on the wrong side of the law; specifically, the provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prohibit religious discrimination in employment decisions.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church — with a more than century-long track record of defending religious freedom and the rights of religious minorities — early on recognized the critical religious liberty implications central to this case. In drafting an amicus (or "friend of the court") brief highlighting these vital issues, the Adventist Church also recruited additional supporters, bringing together a broad, diverse coalition of faith groups and public policy organizations. Some in this group weren't natural allies — they usually occupy opposite sides of many other issues. But they found common ground on this case and brought many thoughtful insights, along with their credibility, to bear in support of our shared position.
And yes, all of this work by the Adventist Church was in support of a cause centered around a Muslim plaintiff, in a case that did not involve a member of our faith.
America has long been described as a cultural "melting pot" and a look around virtually any office today confirms this reality. In an increasingly diverse work world, where colleagues can come from any corner of the globe and practice any faith — including religions that may be unfamiliar to many of us — it's more important than ever that we maintain constitutionally protected individual rights to religious freedom. Even the rights of individuals who are very different from us. And especially for individuals in a minority group, who may not have others to speak up for them.
Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.
This is why so many faith groups joined together in support of our Muslim sister. The rights at stake in this case were significantly bigger than any one individual, and bigger than any one faith. When the rights of any one group or individual are infringed, it's that much easier for the next group or individual to also lose rights. This is why I cared. And it's why you should care, as well.
We hope that Congress will follow the Supreme Court's example and strengthen workplace religious protections.
All for one and one for all. This may no longer be a prevailing sentiment in society, but like the far-from-routine events that took Samantha Elauf to the Supreme Court, sometimes thinking and doing things a little differently is exactly the right way to go.
This article was published in The Huffington Post on June 4, 2015. Click here to read the original article.


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EgyptAir crash: It could take weeks to recover passenger bodies, warn airline
Nicole MorleyMonday 23 May 2016 8:31 am
The Egyptian military spokesman released pictures of the crash debris (Picture: Getty)
A robot submarine has joined the hunt for the missing EgyptAir plane which crashed in some of the deepest waters of the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people on board.
While airline EgyptAir have warned grieving friends and families it could take weeks to recover their loved-ones' bodies from the sea.
First funerals take place for victims of EgyptAir plane crash Ships and planes have been scouring the sea north of Alexandria. So far body parts, personal belongings and debris from the Airbus 320 have been found.
Though the search efforts are still trying to locate the black box recorders that could shed light on the cause of Thursday's crash.
EgyptAir has told relatives of the victims that recovering and identifying bodies from the sea could take weeks, adding to the pain and uncertainty of grieving families.
MORE : Heartbreaking photos show youngest victims of EgyptAir's doomed flight
The RAF has joined the search for the missing plane (Picture: EPA)
Passengers gather in a departure lounge as screens display flight information inside Charles de Gaulle airport where the EgyptAir flight took off (Picture: Getty)
Samar Ezzedine, 27-year-old and newly wed, was one of the cabin crew on flight 804. Her mother Amal has sat in the lobby of a hotel overlooking Cairo Airport, still waiting for her daughter to come back.
First audio reveals EgyptAir pilot's final words were 'good night' before crash 'She is missing, who hosts a funeral for a missing person?' she murmured.
Samar's aunt, Mona, said Amal was reluctant to go home or even move away from the hotel door. 'She doesn't want to believe it … I told her to switch off her phone, but she said: What if Samar calls?'
President of Egypt, Abdel Fatteh el-Sisi confirmed underwater equipment from Egypt's offshore oil industry was being brought in to help the search.
An EgyptAir union appealed to Sisi to allow death certificates to be issued for the victims, to avoid the usual five-year delay in the case of missing people which leaves relatives in a legal limbo, including over pensions.
The plane's flight plan (Picture: Flightradar24/PA)
The plane was carrying 66 people (Picture: EPA)
Speaking of Egypt's dedication to the search, Sisi said: 'They have a submarine that can reach 3,000 metres under water. It moved today in the direction of the plane crash site because we are working hard to salvage the black boxes.'
First images of EgyptAir plane debris surface after flight MS804 crash An oil ministry source said the President was referring to a robot submarine used mostly to maintain offshore oil rigs. It was not clear whether the vessel would be able to help locate the black boxes, or would be used in later stages of the operation.
Air crash investigation experts say the search teams have around 30 days to listen for pings sent out once every second from beacons attached to the two black boxes. At this stage of the search they would typically use acoustic hydrophones, bringing in more advanced robots later to scan the seabed and retrieve any objects once they have been found.
EgyptAir flight 804 from Paris to Cairo vanished off radar screens early on Thursday as it entered Egyptian airspace over the Mediterranean. The 10 crew and 56 passengers included 30 Egyptian and 15 French nationals.
The plane was inteded to land in Cairo (Picture: EPA)
French investigators say that the plane sent a series of warnings indicating that smoke had been detected on board shortly before it disappeared.
The signals did not indicate what caused the smoke or fire, and aviation experts have not ruled out either deliberate sabotage or a technical fault, but they offered early clues as to what unfolded in the moments before the crash.
'Until now all scenarios are possible,' Sisi said in his first public remarks on the crash. 'So please, it is very important that we do not talk and say there is a specific scenario.'
The plane crashed into the Mediterranean Sea (picture: Getty)
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Indigo Hotels is making its debut in Manchester. The popular business hotel chain has launched Hotel Indigo Manchester – Victoria Station, featuring 187 guest rooms with a design that was inspired by Manchester's rich history.
The new boutique hotel, built inside an original Victorian building, is well-located, on the verge of Manchester's popular Northern Quarter. This is the creative heart of the city, known for its bohemian bars and its lively music scene. The Indigo hotel is also closely located to Exchange Square, the city's shopping district.
Hotel Indigo Manchester – Victoria Station is designed with Manchester's industrial past in mind, with distinct references to its old cotton mills and its role in the industrial revolution. BreakingTravelNews reports that raw materials feature throughout the hotel, such as bare brick walls in the reception. In the hotel rooms rich, raw cotton on the beds go well with green velvet colours. The hotel offers all facilities you may expect, including a restaurant and a cocktail bar.
Manchester Airport has been a construction site for over a year. The airport is expanding its Terminal 2 by 150 per cent, to handle more passengers.
If you're a football fan and visiting Manchester for business, stay at Hotel Football.
On Gatwick airport, Bluecity operates a pan-London electric vehicle car sharing service with 100 cars currently available in total.


4. You are chosen to have lunch with the President. The condition is you only get to ask one question. What do you ask?
5. Which do you dislike most: pop-up ads or spam email?
7. Which is worse, being in a place that is too loud, or too quiet?
8. You are offered an envelope that you know contains $50. You are then told that you may either keep it or exchange it for another envelope that may contain $500 or may be empty. Do you keep the first envelope, or do you take your chances with the second?
9. Do you wish cellphone etiquette was a required class upon purchasing one?
10. What's the most messed up food combination that you've had that was actually good?
11. What's one of your most random pet peeves (something that annoys you)?
15. If you could be any animal or creature for one day, what would it be?
16. What's your favorite girl's name?
17. What's your favorite boy's name?
20. What is your concession stand must-have at the movies?
thanks for hosting! do you do co-host? would love to be one if you do.
Very random but some that really made me have to think!
It was a lovely meme. Thank you! sorry to post so late.


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LEGOLAND Florida Rides and Attractions
Located in Winter Haven, Florida, LEGOLAND Florida is a perfect destination for families with children aged 2-11. This 150-acre park offers more than 60 rides and attractions including a waterpark, rollercoasters, a 4D movie theater, themed shopping stores, and more. Ride favorites include Fun Town Boating School, Dragon Coaster, and the LEGO Ford Driving School.
Here is a list of all the rides and attractions at LEGOLAND Florida Resort Theme Park including the height requirements for each ride.
LEGOLAND Florida Beginning Area
LEGOLAND Florida Fun Town Area
LEGOLAND Florida LEGO Movie World Area
LEGOLAND Florida MINILAND USA Area
LEGOLAND Florida DUPLO Valley Area
LEGOLAND Florida LEGO Kingdoms Area
LEGOLAND Florida Land of Adventure Area
LEGOLAND Florida LEGO City Area
LEGOLAND Florida Imagination Zone Area
LEGOLAND Florida Cypress Gardens Area
LEGOLAND Florida Heartlake City Area
LEGOLAND Florida LEGO NINJAGO World Area
The LEGOLAND Story
What did the first minifigure look like, and how did it work? What was the first LEGO toy? Where was the first LEGOLAND? At our newest attraction, The LEGOLAND Story, you can learn about how LEGO came to be and how we became LEGOLAND Florida.
This is where we're building the next chapter. Visit the Master Model Builders while you're there and see what they're working on. You can build brick by brick as you see what they're working on during your visit. Get your hands on some bricks and let's start making something together!
Rebuild the World
Take a trip to a world where there are no rules and only pure creativity. A place called PLANET LEGOLAND is a place where you can do anything you want to do. Let your mind go wild. Build, break down, build again, and leave your mark on our world!
In this new, immersive building experience, kids and their parents can build, break down, and rebuild the worlds of their dreams with LEGO bricks.
Anything is possible… Is a rainbow rollercoaster really a rollercoaster? A hotdog helicopter? A ninja ballet dancer?
What are you going to build?
LEGOLAND Florida Fun Town
The Grand Carousel
This double-decker carousel is the centerpiece of Fun Town. Children can choose their favorite horse and giddy up!
No minimum rider height requirement
Children under 48" must ride with a responsible person 48" or taller and ensure the child's safety.
A responsible person age 14 years older is required.
Build-Your-Art Gallery by LEGO DOTS
Do you want to #DotYourWorld? For the first time ever, you can play with LEGO DOTS at LEGOLAND Florida Resort. Use bright and bold LEGO DOTS tiles to make your masterpiece and add it to the gallery wall, where your creativity will be on show.
LEGOLAND Florida LEGO Movie World
Battle of Bricksburg
Keep an eye out for water. Visitors to the Battle of Bricksburg water ride are asked to help defend Bricksburg by spraying the DUPLO alien invaders and stopping them from getting into and taking LEGO bricks from the city. They aren't the only ones who can play in the water. A water cannon outside the ride will let people help the riders save the day.
Guests who can stand up without help can ride.
At least 16-year-olds must be in charge of kids under 6 years old or shorter than 48 inches.
They must be able to keep the kids safe. The person who is in charge of the child must sit on the same bench as the child.
Bennies Play Ship
Join Benny on his spaceship play-ship before takeoff! This playground is seriously out-of-this-world!
Emmet's Super Suite
Take a walk through downtown Bricksburg. You'll find Emmet's apartment here. People visit Emmet's Super Suite every day and see him and his friends. Anyone can take brick-tastic pictures here.
THE LEGO MOVIE Masters of Flight
Emmet's Triple Decker Flying Couch is ready for you to ride on! An action-packed adventure awaits visitors on a suspended ride with a full-dome virtual screen, giving them the sensation of flying. Some familiar faces, like Sweet Mayhem, will be there, as well as some new ones like the character from THE LEGO MOVIE 2: The Second Part. This is the first ride that makes a 180-degree turn in the middle of the ride itself.
Guests under 40″ in height or under 3 years of age are not allowed on the ride.
Guests between 40″ to 52″, and 3 to 8 years of age, must be accompanied by a supervising companion aged 14 years or older, capable of ensuring the child's safety and seated next to them.
Guests 52″ in height and above 8 years of age may ride unaccompanied.
Unikitty's Disco Drop
To have fun with Unikitty and all of her different personalities, go through the rainbow door. You drop, dip, and swoop all the way up to the top of Cloud Cuckoo Land. Then, you spin and bounce back down to earth. It's an AWESOME, thrilling, and fun experience full of rainbows and happiness.
Guests between 40″ to 48″, and 3 to 6 years of age, must be accompanied by a supervising companion age 14 years or older and capable of ensuring the child's safety.
LEGOLAND Florida MINILAND USA
Our 10th birthday gift is cool, sweet shade. This year, the most famous area of LEGOLAND had a cool makeover. It now has a new shade structure that will add even more fun to this beloved land.
Visit San Francisco's skyline, the twists and turns of Lombard Street, the majestic Golden Gate Bridge, Pier 39, and landmarks in Los Angeles such as the Hollywood Bowl, Griffith Observatory, and the world-famous Chinese Theatre.
Feel the adrenaline rush as you explore the "World Center of Racing" at 1/20 scale. Visitors are greeted by the sounds of squealing tires and cheering fans at this massive replica of the Daytona Rising renovation project, which took more than a dozen Master Model Builders nearly 300,000 LEGO bricks to build.
A detailed look at the Sunshine State! Mallory Square in Key West, Bok Tower in Central Florida, and Antebellum Mansions in the Panhandle are all must-sees.
This recreation of the famous Florida facility honors the men and women who have been reaching for the stars for over 50 years. A U.S. space shuttle and launch pad, the iconic Rocket Garden, and the massive Vehicle Assembly Building, where spacecraft were readied for launch beginning with the Apollo program, are among the models.
Las Vegas, here we come! Visit the world-famous Strip, which is entirely made of LEGO Bricks. The Luxor Las Vegas, New York, New York Hotel and Casino, Excalibur, Mirage, Treasure Island, Tropicana, MGM Grand, Venetian, Stratosphere tower, and two iconic Paris Las Vegas structures: the balloon sign and Eiffel Tower can all be found on the strip. "The Strip" at LEGOLAND Florida Resort also includes a miniature wedding chapel, monorails, and authentic Las Vegas sounds.
Take a stroll through the never-ending streets of the city that never sleeps. Visit Rockefeller Plaza, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, the Guggenheim Museum, the Bronx Zoo, and even Grand Central Station for a special inside view. It's everything you've come to know and love about New York City!
Pirate Shores
Ahoy maties! On sandy beaches and in magnificent sailing ships, pirates lurk. This fanciful lagoon recalls the heyday of swashbuckling adventure and quests for buried gold, as it floats between salty ocean waters and a peaceful coastal village.
No need to leave Florida to see our nation's capital and iconic landmarks. See the White House, the Smithsonian, the Washington and Jefferson Monuments, and parts of Georgetown. Don't miss the Capitol marching band!
LEGOLAND Florida DUPLO Valley
DUPLO Splash & Play
Large-scale farm animals and a soft deck for safety surround a fun, refreshing play area with intermittent water spouts.
DUPLO Tot Spot
The DUPLO Tot Spot is specifically designed for children under the age of two, and it includes a small slide and a colorful playhouse. This is a fun, exciting play area for our youngest DUPLO guests that is also safe and secure.
DUPLO Tractor
Toddlers can ride on a tractor that is just their size and assist farmers in plowing cornfields and searching for lost farm animals.
Handheld infants are not permitted.
Guests 42″ and above can ride unaccompanied
A responsible person age 14 years older is required.
DUPLO Train
Train rides for toddlers and their parents can take them through farmland, fishing holes, and campgrounds, where they'll get a taste of the countryside.
Handheld infants are not permitted
Guests under 34″ must ride with a responsible person 48″ or taller
Guests 34″ and above may ride unaccompanied
Florida Prepaid Schoolhouse
This indoor attraction was designed with little brick fans in mind, and it includes a variety of soft-play activities, an interactive touchscreen for kids to practice numbers and letters, as well as explore future careers, and a stage for exciting entertainment.
Explore the entertaining indoor schoolhouse during the rain or to cool off in the heat. A baby care center with private changing and nursing stations, a microwave, a fridge, and rocking chairs is also on the property.
Visit our "quiet room" inside the Baby Care Center, where visitors on the autism spectrum and their families can relax. Complementary resources include noise-canceling headphones, weighted blankets, squishy toys, and LEGO building tables.
LEGOLAND Florida LEGO Kingdoms
Merlin's Challenge
Climb aboard a mysterious wooden train ride propelled by the wizard's enchantment. Spinning around the magic will transport you into a medieval spell, and the train will thrill young riders as it moves up and down the tracks.
Minimum rider height is 36 inches
Guests below 48 inches in height must be accompanied by a responsible rider 14 years or older.
Royal Joust
Royal Joust allows children to become immersed in a fairytale. They'll meet other jousting knights and enchanted creatures as they ride their very own LEGO horse through a medieval forest.
Guests must be able to transfer to ride vehicle
Minimum ages 4
Maximum age 12 and maximum weight 170 lbs
Minimum rider height 36 inches
Have a blast as you navigate the twists and turns of this indoor/outdoor steel roller coaster where it's all about fun and there's nothing to fear! Feel the dragon's breath on your face as you explore the enchanted LEGOLAND Florida Resort castle, and then soar into the sky on the friendly green dragon!
Guests must be able to transfer to ride vehicleMinimum rider height is 40 inches
Children between 40″ and 48″ must ride with a responsible person 14 years or older.
The Forestmen's Hideout
Ropes, ladders, and tunnels allow children to climb up, crawl through, slide down, cross over, and swing around.
LEGOLAND Florida Land of Adventure
Beetle Bounce
A LEGO scarab beetle is on top of two huge obelisks 15 feet above the ground in Land of Adventure. As you hop and fall down, you'll see the beetles in all their intricate, brightly colored glory!
The minimum rider height is 36 inches
Coastersaurus
Coastersaurus will take you on a wild ride through the jungle! This family-friendly wooden coaster curves and dips through a prehistoric jungle filled with animated and life-sized LEGO brick dinosaurs. This is a must-do kid-friendly thrill during your visit to LEGOLAND!
Lost Kingdom Adventure
In this thrilling indoor ride, you will aboard your desert off-roader vehicle and use your laser gun to take aim and assist the LEGO adventurers in their battle against LEGO mummies and skeletons in order to find the hidden treasure! Keep track of your points to see if you can outperform your fellow explorers.
Children between 30" and 48" must ride with a responsible person 48" or taller, who is at least 14 years old to ensure the child's safety.
Pharaoh's Revenge Land of Adventure
Kids can climb up, crawl through, slide down, cross over and swing around on ropes, ladders, and tunnels.
Safari Trek
Oh, the lions, tigers, and elephants! Will you be able to spot your favorite LEGO animals on this safari ride?
Age requirement, see location for details
LEGOLAND Florida LEGO Technic
AQUAZONE Wave Racers
Feel the wind in your hair and the spray in your face as you race the waves and maneuver yourself to avoid the water blasts. Getting wet has never been more enjoyable!
Guests must be able to transfer to ride vehicle seating or raft. Guests have to stand in the Aquazone pod.
Technic Tot Spot
Slide, climb and build! Even the smallest guests can take control in this shaded play area just for them!
Technicycle
Demonstrate your pedal power in this high-flying ride that you control! Accelerate your pedaling to go higher, or simply relax and glide closer to the ground.
Guests between 36" and 48" must ride with a responsible person 14 years or older and 48" or taller
The Great LEGO Race
Start your engines, Brick fans! Become the centerpiece of an adrenaline-pumping road rally roller coaster! The Great LEGO Race immerses guests in an action-packed road rally where the laws of physics and aerodynamics only apply loosely.
Under 42 inches (1.06m): Not tall enough to ride yet! Check out other exciting attractions like AQUAZONE Wave Racers, Technicycle, Kid Power Towers, The Dragon and LEGO NINJAGO The Ride.
42-47 inches (1.06m-1.19m): Can ride when accompanied by a responsible rider 14 years or older and at least 48 inches tall (1.21m).
48 inches (1.21m) and above: Can ride if he or she is alone.
Guests in wheelchairs must be able to transfer to the ride vehicle with assistance from a member of their party. While LEGOLAND Model Citizens are happy to assist, they are not permitted to lift guests into or out of a ride vehicle.
Guests with full leg casts and/or full arm casts are not permitted to ride. Guests must have one natural leg to the end of the kneecap, and one fully constructed natural or prosthetic leg. Guests must have one arm (including a prosthetic) that can continuously grasp and they must fit securely within the ride restraint mechanisms. All prosthetic devices must be secured or stored before riding.
LEGOLAND Florida LEGO City
Boating School
All aboard as you captain your own boat and put your navigating skills to the test as you navigate through calm waters to your final port of call on these fun-filled LEGO-themed boats!
Get ready for takeoff! Climb aboard this suspended coaster and soar through the clouds as you soar through the LEGOLAND skies!
Guests below 52 inches in height must be accompanied by a responsible rider of this height or taller.
The maximum rider height is 6′ 5″
The flight attendants need to run through the pre-flight checklist each day! Boarding for this attraction begins at 11:00 a.m.
Ford Driving School
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BJJ Teacher Roy Dean on Aikido....
Thread starter Spinedoc
Spinedoc
Great link...
http://www.grapplearts.com/roy-dean-bjj-aikido-judo-wrestling-and-the-martial-artists-path/
There are so many lessons in Aikido that I've been able to translate over to jiu jitsu of all kinds, and BJJ.
So Aikido, like all martial arts, goes in and out of popularity. But it's powerful. And if you get together with a really good practitioner of Aikido, it can be impressive and it's not to be underestimated. That's the first rule of being a martial artist. Respect everyone. Don't underestimate anybody because that can be a bad day for you.
And particularly against Judo players at that time, when you read stories about the Judo guys challenging Morihei Ueshiba, the Judo guys, like Kenji Tomiki, when he went and attacked him, he was like, "This old man, I'm not going to attack this old man." [Ueshiba] said "No, go ahead and attack me." So when Kenji Tomiki attacked him, he found himself thrown to the other end of the room. And he was like, "Wait a minute. Alright, let me do that again." He's like, "Okay, you can do it again." So [Tomiki] attacked him again with everything he had and he mysteriously found himself thrown to the other side of the room. Then he bowed and said I would humbly like to become your student.
And so what was that? Well, a lot of it is technological superiority. I'm not saying the techniques of Aikido are superior to those of Judo. I'm saying that he was using a technology, basically a form of standing grappling. As soon as somebody goes in to reach for you, you blend with it. In Judo, you just grab each other and then you begin. But because he was working at a different range of motion, but really no different than Royce Gracie in the first couple UFCs. Because he was working in that altered range of combat that the Judo guy wasn't familiar with, he had, clearly, the upper hand.
So, I think that goes a long way in explaining a lot of the stories of Aikido being able to best Judo in a few challenge matches in the early days of the art.
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Hanzou
No offense to Mr. Dean, but until we see an Aikidoka enter MMA and do well his comparison here rings a little hollow.
I mean on one hand we have a legend/story told by Tomiki, and on the other we have multiple verifiable incidents that occurred in history that we can view and analyze.
I mean, I'm not calling Tomiki a liar or anything, but the evidence simply doesn't back up his claims here. If Ueshiba's Aikido was so dominating over Judo, why did people continue to take Judo? When Catch Wrestlers beat Judoka, many Judoka actively incorporated Catch into their fighting style. Maeda, the grandfather of Bjj being a prime example.
Further, why don't we see Aikidoka dominating Judoka today?
lklawson
Huber Heights, OH
Spinedoc said:
I'll have to double check in Aikido Tradition and the Competitive Edge, by Nariyama and Shishida, but I'm pretty sure that story is apocryphal.
I'm saying that he was using a technology, basically a form of standing grappling. As soon as somebody goes in to reach for you, you blend with it. In Judo, you just grab each other and then you begin. But because he was working at a different range of motion, but really no different than Royce Gracie in the first couple UFCs. Because he was working in that altered range of combat that the Judo guy wasn't familiar with, he had, clearly, the upper hand.
Hmmm... This is not how I was taught. Judo, for sport, begins at the grips. Judo for self defense begins well before that, so I have been taught. This agrees with research that I have done on early judo as well. It also agrees with the internal history of Danzan Ryu which claims that Okazaki learned non-sport/self defense Judo while in Japan and codified that as Danzan Ryu.
I guess it's hard to fault anyone for not knowing that. Few people teach (and fewer practice) some of what's in Judo's "official" curriculum. How many Judo instructors regularly teach Judo's atemi waza, leg locks, or the old "stomping" style of osoto gari?
I'm also inclined to believe those stories were largely apocryphal as well.
Peace favor your sword,
Hanzou said:
In the old days, so it is claimed, Ueshiba supposedly wouldn't train anyone who didn't have a solid base in another martial art. Today, almost no one starts Aikido with a solid fighting foundation in some other art.
Forgive me, Aikidoka, but I've come to believe that Aikido is Algebra to everything else' basic Arithmetic. Aikido has such a narrowly focused range that, in order to really understand and utilize what is being taught, you usually need a good base in fighting. Once you can fight, then you are prepared to learn the subtlety of Aikido. Until then it's just people trying to learn to do tricks.
No, this isn't a popular notion among Aikidoka.
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drop bear
If you fight you can get away with being good at a limited number of techniques. Akido guy really only needed to be exceptional at one or two throws to monster everybody in the room.
Don't know if it was a true tale But there is potential that it could have been.
Otherwise I am happy to Spar akido guys in the hope one will towel me up and I can learn stuff.
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Kirk,
I've heard that before...the algebra thing, and I would tend to agree. I've studied multiple other martial arts, wrestled, trained boxing for awhile, and I have to say, that Aikido is the most subtle and nuanced to use. At least against a resisting, non compliant opponent. WHICH we do. I cannot speak for all dojos, but we increase resistance over time.
The reason I found this, was that I have been training BJJ in addition to Aikido and Iaido for a little while. Why? Well, primarily, because the BJJ class is right before the Aikido class at the same dojo. I can get a 3 hour workout in then and thought it would help my fitness/conditioning, etc.
What I have found is interesting. Speaking for myself...BJJ and Aikido are the same. At least in principle. It's all about balance, position, control, speed, etc. They are essentially 2 sides of the same coin. I feel that my Aikido has improved, and I am progressing more quickly in BJJ because of my Aikido.
Thankfully, my BJJ instructor is a cool guy, and has a lot of respect for Aikido. He says "Same principles, different focus".....
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Also, when in my BJJ class I surprised one of the senior BJJ students with a surprise nikyo. He was rather impressed and asked me to show him how to do that.
Surprise nikyo is the best. LOL. Fun in aikido as well. One of my Aikido sensei's always says "There's always another way". So, working with him on morotedori kokyunage, and he was resisting to the point where I simply couldn't move him......so, went from morotedori kokyunage to morotedori nikyo.....He was impressed after he got up....LOL.
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lklawson said:
Yeah, Aikido also contains stuff not taught in most Aikido dojos. For example, kick defenses and ankle locks. Many Aikido dojos don't ever practice them, and while my dojo probably does not practice them as much as we should, we do know of them, and do practice them from time to time.
It's hard, because the ukemi for practicing them is actually quite difficult....
BUT, they exist within the Aikikai Aikido curriculum.
kuniggety
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When I was doing a gauntlet roll for my blue belt in BJJ, I had a guy catch me in a wrist lock. I was tired but hanging on through all of the other white belts. Then I get this new guy and I pull him into my guard. From inside my guard he pressed my arm down and I thought he was going for an Americana and it was like I got this but then he suddenly grabs my hand with his other hand and wrist locks me. Totally unexpected and I tapped. Turns out he was an aikidoka.
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he was working in that altered range of combat that the Judo guy wasn't familiar with, he had, clearly, the upper hand... the stories of Aikido being able to best Judo in a few challenge matches in the early days of the art.
I'm not a Judo guy, but I don't believe this is a true story for the following reasons:
1. In Judo, you train to use your skill to deal with resistance opponent. In Aikido, you only train your skill to deal with cooperated opponent.
2. Judo guys has leg skills such as block, sweep, scoop, hook, lift, spring, twist, sticky, ... Those leg skills are not trained in Aikido.
3. Judo has body contact techniques (back touch chest) such as hip throw, shoulder throw, bear hug, waist wrap, ... Aikido has no such body contact techniques.
4. Judo has tournament that Judo guys can use it to develop their techniques. Aikido doesn't even have tournament environment for their guys to test their skill.
5. In Judo, there exist no technique that you can just hold on your opponent's wrist and throw him. In Aikido, such technique does exist. But in reality, nobody has ever seen such "wrist control only" throw worked in MMA yet.
6. I have seen good judo guys competed in wrestling tournament and won. I have not seen any Aikido guys ever win in any wrestling tournament yet.
RTKDCMB
If Ueshiba's Aikido was so dominating over Judo, why did people continue to take Judo?
Could it be perhaps that many people like Judo more than Aikido? BJJ dominated over the other arts (not actually the whole arts, just those specific competitors) during the first 4 UFC's yet people still continued to to take those styles. That is why your logic is flawed.
Agree with you 100% there. It's great national honor to win the Olympic Judo gold metal. If Aikido can be used to "enhance" Judo, we should see today's Olympic Judo guys all cross train Aikido, but we just haven't seen that happen today.
As far as I know, the Judo "grip fight" is not taught until in the advance training level. Does "grip fight" ever taught in Aikido? I don't think so.
It may also be true depending on how you define a 'few challenge matches'.
If Aikido can be used to "enhance" Judo, we should see today's Olympic Judo guys all cross train Aikido, but we just haven't seen that happen today.
I don't know much about the Olympics but is t it allowed in Olympic Judo to use techniques from other styles?
RTKDCMB said:
In China, the Olympic Judo coach Wang De-Yin taught the Chinese national Olympic Judo team in
- Judo,
- Chinese wrestling, and
- western wrestling.
As far as I know, Wang didn't teach his team members any Aikido. Those Olympic Judo coach would try anything to help his team to win.
The grip fight is not that emphasized in daily Judo tournament. But in Olympic Judo, the "grip fight" is getting more and more emphasized.
ballen0351
1. Yes Aikido does
2.Yes Aikido does
4 Yes Aikido does
5 MMA is not the final say on all things
6Have you obsereved every Wresteling tournament?
Yet Bjj also went from obscurity into becoming one of the most popular martial arts in the world, and becoming a staple of NHB/MMA competition because of the first UFCs. It also forced people to recognize that grappling is an important part of fighting.
Bjj's impact on the martial arts landscape is pretty easy to see.
What's interesting currently is how Bjj and MMA are impacting arts like Aikido. I've read a few articles stating that Aikido is losing popularity because of its apparent lack of fighting ability.
Yet Bjj also went from obscurity into becoming one of the most popular martial arts in the world,
Not even top 5
Most people don't study a particular martial art because of its popularity they study them because those individual arts have what they want in an art.
That was never my argument. My argument was that Bjj's dominance in the UFC had a profound impact on Bjj itself, and martial arts in general. Something that didn't happen with Aikido, which would seem strange if it was truly stomping Judo.
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