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Saturn New Ring Discovered

The Cassini spacecraft has identified a faint, previously unknown ring circling the giant planet Saturn.
It appears to be composed of material blasted off the surface of two saturnian moons by meteoroid impacts.
The moons Janus and Epimetheus may be too small to hold on to dust kicked out by these impacts, so it escapes into space, spreading out into a ring.
The tenuous, wispy ring coincides with the orbits of these two moons, mission scientists noted.

Entire Story Here :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5368644.stm

Cassini has sent back some pretty impressive images.
I believe Cassini is AI.

I believe with every drop of rain that falls
A flower grows
I believe that somewhere in the darkest night
A candle glows

The Days of Awe
Awe is the space between the sephirot. During the Days of Awe which are the 10 days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, what is happening is that the awe, the spaces between the multi dimensionality of the sephirot, shrink. Therefore, the Supernal Realms are closer to the physical realms. Binah. I can feel a difference in the densitity of the pool water.
Everybody still thinks I'm crazy.
I'm beginning not to be able to handle it.
Oh G-d.
Awe.
I've been reading other Jew blogs. It seems that a lot of Jews have had strange experiences this Rosh Hashana. The state is that of balance, and the scale is being weighed.
The religious interpretations upset me. I'm being judged for my wickedness, and where the scales fall will determine whether I live for another year. That seems to be entirely fear based.
Scare 'em into life or something.

I'm not a happy person. I've never been a happy person. I am a good actress and I fool people well. What I am is an ultra-sensitive who has been forced into a type of isolated solitude because of her belief system. And lonliness because of lack of connections.
Connection to physical beings equates to loss in my own personal life because
that is the pattern of the cause and effect, and the affect of the effect of the cause on who knows from
whence
where
why.

I'm so full of love that it hurts me. I'm looked upon as a freakazoid because I live and think outside the box. The box isn't a good place for me to be. It killed me once.

The Days of Awe is the time when the space between the Supernal and the Physical shrinks.
The water is denser.
I know I'm repeating.
A Mantra for this period so I can somehow keep connected to what is happening in the universe.
Anthropomorphism of the G-dhead is a dangerous thing.
Here's what the Ari says about this period from kabbalaonline.org
""The world will continue to exist from year to year, the passage from old year to new year is still a critical nexus point. This is because the nature of the created universe is being determined at this time. The energy that powered the previous year is withdrawn and a new enerty is drawn down.. Since the creative energy that powers the world is being withdrawn to its source, there are no rules and everything is, in a sense, up for grabs. Evil can assert that it deserves to receive the new life force of the coming year especially in view of the record of its so-called rightful recipients during the previous year. Therefore, in order that the life force of the new year be drawn down as it should, that is, channedl mainly into holiness it is necessare to ensure that G-d is reminded of His original vision of Creation""

Maybe my ultrasensitivity is feeling the feathers weighing on the side of 'evil'.
Maybe it is my own inner fears.
Maybe it isn't anything.

Spaceweather.com says:
JUPITER & THE MOON: When the sun sets tonight, go outside and look southwest for the slender crescent moon hovering just below Jupiter. It's a nice way to end the day: sky map.

It is beautiful. The crescent was glowing gold tonight - forerunner of The Harvest Moon.

Maybe I can find somebody to communicate with.
Maybe I can't.
Maybe the light is guiding me.
I've decided I'm definitely moving back to Jersey to the 55+ communities in Ocean County. At least there I won't be so alone.

Bless Asha in her New Life. May she live long and prosper.
Bless my deluded friend even though he continues to treat me like I'm an outcast of society.
The tip of the yud gave me an insight and perspective that I've never had before. The adjustment is difficult.


The Lamed reaches us Upwards. The part of the Lamed which goes above the line is a yud. I believe in the Hebrew letters as vessels for energy. We are all vessels for energy. All sacred alphabets are vessels for divine energy. Before I made kabbalah and the study of kabbalah my main spiritual modality I was a runemaster.

The month of Tishrei is a Holy Month fot the Jewish People. All the news is talking about is that Ramadan is a Holy month for the Muslims. No interconnection is mentioned.

I'm cracking up. Maybe I'll crack into particles of stardust .
Maybe I'll go supernova.
I have an idea for a children's book.

Everything exists.

The Manchurian Candidate Original

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Directed byJohn Frankenheimer
Writing credits Richard Condon (novel)
George Axelrod (screenplay)


Frank Sinatra
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Capt./Maj. Bennett Marco

Laurence Harvey
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SFC. Raymond Shaw

Janet Leigh
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Eugenie Rose Chaney

Angela Lansbury
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Mrs. Iselin
Henry Silva
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Chunjin

Don't miss this film. I hadn't seen it in many years. There was a recent remake, but you cannot remake this original cast.
The subject of the film is brain washing.
Now it is called mind control and remote viewing.

Rent it, turn on Turner Classic Movies, See it.
As synchronicity will have it, as in the supernova post, after I watched the film the headline on MSN was something about how do the Chinese gain access to US Military secrets.
AH HA

The Wierdest Supernova Yet

From BBC Science News

'The wierdest type of supernova yet"

An exploding star that seems to contravene the laws of physics is puzzling astronomers.
The supernova is twice the brightness expected, suggesting it arose from a star much too massive to exist.
Past observations of supernovae led to the discovery that the Universe's expansion is speeding up.
The findings could affect their use as probes of dark energy, the mysterious entity behind the expansion, scientists report in the journal Nature.
'Pandora's box'
The object, known as SNLS-03D3bb, was discovered in April 2003, in a small, young, star-forming galaxy. It is classified as a type 1a supernova, based on chemicals detected in the atmosphere around it.
Type 1a supernovae are thought to be reliable distance indicators because they have a standard amount of fuel
Peter Nugent, astrophysicist
Type 1a supernovae have always been regarded as uniform in brightness and distances are traditionally calculated on how bright they appear to be through telescopes.
They are thought to form when a white dwarf - the remains of a low or medium mass star - pulls enough matter from a nearby companion star to explode in a violent thermonuclear reaction.
According to the Indian physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, no white dwarf can be more massive than about 1.4 solar masses before it self destructs. SNLS-03D3bb, however, appears to contravene this rule.
"Type 1a supernovae are thought to be reliable distance indicators because they have a standard amount of fuel - the carbon and oxygen in a white dwarf star - and they have a uniform trigger," said Peter Nugent, an astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, who worked on the study.
"They are predicted to explode when the mass of the white dwarf nears the Chandrasekhar mass, which is about 1.4 times the mass of our Sun.
"The fact that SNLS-03D3bb is well over that mass kind of opens up a Pandora's box."
'Standard candles'
Astronomers now have to explain how a white dwarf could grow so massive. One possibility is that two white dwarfs could spiral together and eventually merge.
Another, more likely explanation, is that matter accumulated by a white dwarf from a companion star could add extra angular momentum causing it to rotate more rapidly.
This would provide extra support against gravity and allow the white dwarf to become extra-massive before exploding.
Astronomers are now considering whether objects such as SNLS-03D3bb should be screened out in cosmological studies, to avoid them "contaminating" results.
"As this supernova does not obey the relations that allow type 1a supernovae to be calibrated as standard candles, and as no counterparts have been found at low redshift, future cosmology studies will have to consider possible contamination from such events," the authors write in Nature.

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I just finished reading "Glory Lane" by Alan Dean Foster. I'm re-reading him now. I don't remember any of the books.

Izmir is missing matter from the 7th dimension. When he goes home quasars and supernovaes are left behind that will ' puzzle your astronomers'.

Ha. And then this science story. Fabulous isn't it. The complexities of the universe. The complexities of effect cause effect.

Lukas is lead singer for Rockstar Supernova.

The New Year in Autumn

Pretty Pictures of Outer Space Matter will be posted.
I love 'space'
but
don't you think
somewhere
in those brain thoughts
that
we need to clean up
our own
Planet.
?

As
The Sound of The Shofar
which blows silver light
awakens the core
of the soul
as we reach
to access our own core.
Transcendence into spirit.

There is so much energy at play here.

Earthbound Farms Organic is tainted. It may be a terror play, or a fear play, but how can I continue to injest Earthbound Farms Produce? Oy.
Love Bugs were man made. Double Oy.

The sunrise and sunset times for Orlando latitude 28.51N are as follows.We are in the period of the Equinox.
Monday sunrise 7:15 AM sunset 7:18 PM
Tuesday sunrise 7:15 AM sunset 7:17 PM
Wednesday sunrise 7:16 AM sunset 7:15 PM


For Jersey latitude 40.43N the times are :
Monday sunrise 6:47 AM sunset 6:49 PM
Tuesday sunrise 6:48 AM sunset 6:47 PM
Wednesday 6:49 AM sunset 6:46 PM

We're running just about equal. Florida is better for people with SAD.

The balance of power is at play.

New Year in Autumn.

Happy Happy Happy

L'Shana Tova
Happy Rosh Hashana- New Year 5767.
Friday night Sept. 22nd is 1 Tishrei 5767.
Saturday Sept. 23 is the first day of Rosh Hashana.
Saturday Sept. 23rd is the Autunmal Equinox
EQUAL NIGHT: On Saturday, Sept. 23rd (0403 UT), the sun crosses the celestial equator, marking the autumnal equinox--the first day of northern autumn. Equinox means equal night. With the sun on the celestial equator, Earthlings will experience 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness. It's also the beginning of aurora season!

Happy Solar Eclipse
SOLAR ECLIPSE: There's an annular solar eclipse tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 22nd. It begins at 0930 UT when the sun, not an orb but a ring, rises over Surinam and Guyana.
Annular eclipses occur when the Moon passes straight in front of the sun but fails to cover the entire solar disk. A sliver of sun pokes out in all directions producing a ring of fire.
Unfortunately, almost all of Friday's eclipse takes place over uninhabited ocean. The narrow red line in this map traces the "path of annularity." After leaving French Guiana, it touches nothing solid for thousands of miles. Only in the tiniest countries of South America will the ring of fire be visible from land.
Elsewhere, the sun will appear as a crescent, a result of the Moon crossing off-center. In Brazil and Argentina, people will experience a crescent sunrise. Later in the day, crescent sunbeams will dapple the ground in Africa. None of the eclipse will be visible from North America, Europe or Asia. More information: Maps and Timetables Safe Solar Filters

Enjoy the Energy.
L'Shana Tova - Gut Yunteff
Happy Autunmal Equinox

Clinton Global Initiative

President Bill Clinton was on CNN's Larry King Live this evening.

The Clinton Global Initiative is in progress in NYC.
Mr. President was, as always, eloquent and optimistic.
I hung on every word.

He oozes strength and leadership.

It was a pleasure to see him and hear his thoughts. He looks very well.

Everything is different now, and everything will be different again.

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Wonder

Sikh Poetry

Wonderful is sound

Wonderful is wisdom

Wonderful is life

Wonderful its distinctions

Wonderful is praise

Wonderful is eulogy

Wonderful the Presence

One sees in the present

O wonder-struck am

I to see wonder upon wonder.

Sikhism was conceived as a a universalist, open-door religion.
Its view of society was radically egalitarian, and its holy book, the Adi Granth, far from being a catalog of sectarian dos and don'ts, is a bouquet of poetic songs, blending the fragrances of Hindu ragas, Muslim hymns and Punjabi folk tunes into a music of spiritual astonishment.

From:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheDivineGroundOfBeing

Dr. Emoto's Hexagonal Water

Crystal Formation of Indigo Water


The Waters of Life Flow from Binah.
Water is the physical manifestation of the light of the supernal.
shamayim, mayim
heaven, water.

Dr. Emoto's work is of utmost importance. Putting one's consciousness into the healing properties of water can do only good.

http://www.hado.net/indigo_water.html

'Water Water everywhere and not a drop to drink
Water water everywhere and all the boards do shrink"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ' Ryme of the Ancient Mariner'

There is a difference between parallel universes and alternate realities. Parallel universes run the same timeline. Alternate realities exists beyond the space-time continuum.

Love weeping

"Money can't buy me love"
The Beatles

I've never quoted a Beatles song in my life.
'til now.

Money can't buy ya'll love folks.
Constant decadence and constant destruction buys power for decadence and destruction.

Something is very wrong. Or maybe everything is very right, and I'm very wrong.
Or maybe something is everything and everything is nothing.

What can breed forth from screams of lonliness and terror? Sunshine and happiness?

Confusion and self-annihilation?

Starving secrets of the soul?

We are all the soul of the quantum observer.

We are all the quantum soul of the observer.

Each drop of blue forms drops of blueness.

Sing and scream and dance and weep

"And the times they are a changin" (Bob Dylan)

"Like petals in the wind we're puppets to the silver strings of souls of changes" (Phil Ochs)

"There's a darkness on the edge of town." (Bruce Springsteen).

Most of the time I feel like I'm speaking a never heard before dialect into a vacuum.
Fragmentation and un-knowing.

Lies disguised as truths, and the truth untold.

The tip of the yud is a very interesting place. From the point one gets a vision of the greater picture. It is similar to diffusing one's vision, except rather than diffusing, one concentrates on the point, and the periphal becomes revealed.

I can't not care.

That's why I weep.

"In The Still of the Night"

In The Still of The Night.
E. Parris

In the still of the night
I held you
Held you tight
'Cause I love
Love you so
Promise i'll never
Let you go
In the still of the night
I remember
That night in May
The stars were bright above
I'll hope and
I'll pray
To keep
Your precious love
Well before the light
Hold me again
With all of your might
In the still of the night
So before the light
Hold me again
With all of your might
In the still of the night
In the still of the night


Artist: Cole Porter Song:
In The Still Of The Night
Album: Great American Composer Series [" Great American Composer Series " CD]
In the still of the night
As I gaze from my window
At the moon in its flight
My thoughts all stray to you
In the still of the night
All the world is in slumber
All the times without number
Darling when I say to you
Do you love me, as I love you
Are you my life to be, my dream come true
Or will this dream of mine fade out of sight
Like the moon growing dim, on the rim of the hill
In the chill, still, of the night
Like the moon growing dim, on the rim of the hill
In the chill, still, of the night .

Fabulous film about Cole Porter starring Kevin Kline (I'm an admirer of Mr. Kline's work)
http://www.delovelymovie.com/
I have the CD. Never listened to it.

"With A Song in My Heart "
(Richard Rodgers/Lorentz Hart)
With a song in my heart
I behold your adorable face
Just a song at the start
But it soon is a hymn to your grace
When the music swells
I'm touching your hand
It tells that me you're standing near
And at the sound of your voice
Heaven opens its portals to me
Can I help but rejoiceT
hat a song such as ours came to be?
But I always knew
I would live life through
With a song in my heart
for
you.

Happy Full Moon y'all.

The Full Moon of Elul

The full moon of Elul. That's all I'm saying.
Yesterday which was snake day ended with severe lightning storms - bolts - flashes - lightning bolts.
tens of thousands of them

Space Weather News for Sept. 7, 2006http://spaceweather.com/BIG FULL MOON: Tonight's full moon is the closest and biggest of 2006. Why? The Moon's orbit is lopsided: one side is closer to Earth than the other. When the Moon turns full on Sept 7th, it will be on the close side, making it seem a bit wider than usual. Look for the extra-wide Moon rising in the east at sunset--very pretty.BONUS--A LUNAR ECLIPSE: If you live in eastern Europe, Asia, Africa or Australia, you might also see a partial lunar eclipse tonight. The Moon will dip into Earth's shadow for about 90 minutes around 1851 UT on Sept. 7th. Only 19% of the Moon will be covered, but that's enough for a nice display. Maps and animations may be found at http://spaceweather.com/ .

During the lightning storm I was trying to watch Rockstar Supernova. The electricity kept zapping on and off. Storm got eliminated.

I usually awake with a song playing in my head.
This morning, it was "In The Still of the Night". Upon doing a web surf, I came upong the Cole Porter "Still of the Night". I've always been a big Cole Porter fan. Then the lyrics changed to "With a song in my heart I behold your adorable face"

The water situation on the planet Earth is becoming increasingly alarming.
I'm a student of Dr. Masaru Emoto's work.
http://www.hado.net/water_crystals.html
Raising Consciousness
"Dr. Emoto’s “Message from Water” books and his recent exposure in the movie, “What the Bleep Do We Know,” have changed our understanding of consciousness and our connection with water. As a long-time advocate for peace in relation to water, Dr. Emoto acknowledges his role as a “messenger,” teaching and conducting seminars throughout the world. His mission - to raise the level of awareness concerning water, and to heal the earth’s water includes a recognition of the fact that we are mostly water. Re-establishing the perfect geometry in our “water bodies” is one step towards that goal.After many years of research and conscious deliberation, Dr. Emoto is able to provide the world with a stable, consumable hexagonal water, imprinted with frequencies to support creativity, balance and conscious awareness."

After this email, I'm going back to Dr. Emoto's water program.
http://www.hado.net/indigo_water.html

I"f you would like to help Dean Radin, Ph.D. in his second experiment looking at the effects of distant intention on water crystals, then please go to psiarcade.com/crystal2/intro.html and assess 50 pictures of frozen water drops. It should take about 10 minutes. This study is a triple-blind version of his initial study. Results will appear in the Explore (explorejournal.com) in Sept., 2006. "
http://www.psiarcade.com/crystal2/intro.html
This website is part of an experimental collaboration between Dr. Emoto's research as described in his book Messages from Water and the Research Department at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. The results of our first joint experiment will appear in an article published in the journal Explore in September 2006.
In this study you will see a sequence of 50 pictures of frozen water drops, one picture at a time. The water came from Fiji brand water bottles purchased in California. Some of these bottles, located in the IONS laboratory in California, were sent prayers of gratitude by groups of people attending conferences led by Dr. Emoto in Germany. Other Fiji bottles purchased at the same time were set aside as controls, and were not known to the groups. The crystal images were photographed by Dr. Emoto's staff; they were blind to which bottles contained the "treated" water and which were the controls.
For each picture, you'll rate both how beautiful and how interesting you think each crystal looks. Beautiful in this context means that the picture is aesthetically pleasing to you in some way. Interesting means the picture attracts your curiosity or attention, perhaps because the shape reminds you of something. Please consider both factors in assessing each picture.
Please rate all 50 images in one session. Most people can do this in 10 to 15 minutes at most.
Your browser must have cookies enabled for this web assessment process to work properly.
Go here to begin the test. Have fun and thanks for participating!

I did the test. I wasn't happy with what I saw.
But I'm glad for the data.

Song lyrics will be posted separately.
The Full Moon of Elul is proving to be quite a trip.

We are all the quantum soul of the quantum observer.

Peace

Everything isn't about money.
"Money changes everything"
Cyndi Lauper.

Sunspot 904 turning the corner and becoming visible again.

It wasn't gone, it just wasn't visible.

Sunspot 906 with blue filter.
From www.spaceweather.com

Yud by Burkh Nahshon www.thehope.org

The Letter Yud

The Search for Connection

The catalyst for the post is a snake.
This morning.
Outside the pool screen, in the area that is totally overgrown because I can't find anybody to do the clean up for me now, and I won't do it myself. Reason - bugs and snakes.
This was a Florida variety garden snake. Black. The width of a garden hose. This one was LONG LONG - about 5 ft. He slithered between myself and the screen door to enclosed safety and I screamed. The snake was just going back to its place. But I freaked. Screamed. Screamed. My neighbor came out back, B'H for that, even though she has stopped any inter connection between the two of us for reasons unbeknownst to me. Semi unbeknownst. I can make an assumption. That's all. Anyway.
The LONG black garden snake brought forth all my fear and vulernability because of the state of isolation I find myself in. I can take care of myself. I've been doing it.
But
and there's the big
BUT
It ain't working for me no more. Oy.
And I don't know how to fix it.
Moving forward
a black snake
and I'm back to the blog.
I've switched my approach to blogging. At first I thought that it would manifest into a kind of internet intellegensia - so many of us needing to put our thoughts out there. "Out there" is the key term here. Where is "Out there". It implies, not here.
Well then, where?
In the bytes and the nano bytes of the www and internetdom. Causing a quantum effect by their very existence in physical form.
It was bothering me that I have no blog readers. That's from my perspective. If there are people who read my blog, I don't know about it.
I started blogging as a way to do a little teaching, in the endless attempt to present data pointing to the interconnectness of all things.
I have data today.
LOL
Be what as it may, it is what it is.
Taking the " I ME EGO" out of blogging, I still believe in it as a manifestion of energy consciousness.
So
here we go.
During this month of Elul I've been studying a lot. 'Tis the time to do so. And in my never ending quest to get to the bottom of the spiritual essence of the basis of religion whithout the dogma, I've done some intelligent Torah midrash.
When I read it, I astound myself. I'm so much more adept now with Hebrew and the letters, the way the letters form the words and the way the words interconnect.
I believe in the energy of the Hebrew letters. They are vessels for energy, and they all vibrate at a known frequency which one can connect to.
And I know that when I do Torah on Shabbat, I get high. Very high. So something definitely is happening.
I won't be posting my musings upon the letter yud because there is too much fore-knowledge required and it isn't something one can put simply.
The tip of the yud is the connection to the World of Atzilut - The World of Emanation.
That's upward motion.
I will post some good pics of the letter yud.
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Sunspot 904
RETURN OF A SUNSPOT: Remember photogenic sunspot 904? It's back. After a two-week journey around the far side of the sun, 904 is emerging again over the sun's eastern limb.
When last we saw it, sunspot 904 was decaying, a process that probably continued on the sun's farside. So it may not be as photogenic as before. We'll know soon enough; the sun's rotation is turning the spot toward Earth for a face-on view.
more images: from John Stetson and Shane P. of S. Portland, Maine; from Vasilis Wooseas of Greece.
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"They" are finally admitting that the explosion of the World Trade Center was toxic.
And the substances are still there. Floated downwards, in the subways and the sidewalk cracks and all over. I knew back then because I was going into the City a lot before I moved down here to Fla. It was like breathing in cracked glass. If I went in for more than 2 days in a row - I was driving in, no more public transportion - I would develop severe breathing symptoms.
Very severe. So severe that I took to wearing a SARS (remember that?) mask when I drove in.
At the time, I was in contact with a lot of people. I said it. Nobody listened. Everybody said I was whatever.
This is from the New York Times :
Illness Persisting in 9/11 Workers, Big Study Finds

By ANTHONY DePALMA
Published: September 6, 2006
The largest health study yet of the thousands of workers who labored at ground zero shows that the impact of the rescue and recovery effort on their health has been more widespread and persistent than previously thought, and is likely to linger far into the future.
The study, released yesterday by doctors at Mount Sinai Medical Center, is expected to erase any lingering doubts about the connection between dust from the trade center and numerous diseases that the workers have reported suffering. It is also expected to increase pressure on the federal government to provide health care for sick workers who do not have health insurance.
Most of the ground zero workers in the study who reported trouble breathing while working there were still having those problems up to two and a half years later, an indication that the illnesses are becoming chronic and are not likely to improve over time. Some of them worked without face masks, or with flimsy ones. “There should no longer be any doubt about the health effects of the World Trade Center disaster,” said Dr. Robin Herbert, co-director of Mount Sinai’s World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program. “Our patients are sick, and they will need ongoing care for the rest of their lives.”
Dr. Herbert called the findings, which will be published tomorrow in Environmental Health Perspectives, the journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, “very worrisome,” especially because 40 percent of those who went to Mount Sinai for medical screening did not have health insurance, and will thus not get proper medical care. The Mount Sinai results found, as studies done by the New York City Fire Department also have, that those who showed up in the first hours and days after the twin towers collapsed have the worst medical problems. Seventy percent of the workers in the study arrived at the site between Sept. 11 and Sept. 13.
Mount Sinai’s screening and monitoring program, which excludes New York firefighters, who are tested in a separate program, run by the New York Fire Department, covers law enforcement officers, transit workers, telecommunications workers, volunteers and others who worked at ground zero and at the Fresh Kills landfill, where debris was taken.
and on
Times articles are long.
Fresh Kills is in Staten Island. One great huge Toxic Dump.
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They've also published something about nicotine which i've also been saying for years.

Nicotine: It may have a good side
By Harvard Health Publications
Nicotine: It may have a good side
It gets people hooked on cigarettes, but researchers hope that nicotine and related compounds will have therapeutic uses.
Nicotine is rightly reviled because of its associations with smoking and addiction. But the rogue substance has a wide range of effects on the brain, which may include some healing properties. Researchers are testing nicotine and related compounds as treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and other conditions.
Self-medicating with cigarettes
Epidemiological studies have hinted at nicotine’s therapeutic potential. During the 1980s, several found that smokers had lower rates of Parkinson’s disease than nonsmokers. Epidemiologists also validated what many mental health practitioners have long noticed: The smoking rate among people with schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety disorders is far higher than average. It’s widely believed that people with certain mental health problems are self-medicating with cigarettes because the nicotine helps their minds function better.
A most rewarding experience
Although the number of smokers is decreasing, smoking still accounts for roughly 1 in 7 deaths in the United States (1 in 3 between the ages of 35 and 70). And tobacco — particularly when smoked — is highly addictive. The cigarette sends the nicotine straight to the lungs, where it’s absorbed by the blood, carried to the heart, and pumped up to the brain. One aspect of addiction is withdrawal, and the symptoms of nicotine withdrawal usually begin within hours and consist of craving, irritability, anxiety, restlessness, and increased appetite. The craving may last for months — even years.
The psychological effects of nicotine at first seem contradictory: increasing alertness while providing a sense of relaxation and calm. One possible explanation is that the effect varies with the user’s initial state. For someone who’s agitated, nicotine has a calming effect. For someone who isn’t, it heightens alertness. This difference may also help explain why nicotine, unlike many other addictive drugs, doesn’t behave in a simple additive manner as the dose increases.
That's MSN
Interesting data.
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Rockstar Supernova is almost over. Well done TV. Now it is like a mystery - nobody knows who is gonna get the gig. Tonight there's the elimination, but even that is well done.
Good Entertainment.
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As I search for the interconnectedness I'll blog.
My studies soothe me.
Parts of me just feel the world gone crazy so intensely, and the other part of me knows that everything is fine.

Peace
VickeB