Implants?

Pentagon Looking to Repair Damaged Brains with Implants

Adam Frucci, Gizmodo, May 7, 2010

Pentagon research arm DARPA has handed out about $15 million to various institutions to research new implants that would replace damaged parts of the brain, allowing people to return to normal.

The implants developed by the project will likely be composed of electrodes or optical fibers, and will sit on the surface of the brain. They'll read electrical signals from neurons, and deliver appropriate light pulses to stimulate other brain regions in response. The implants would allow the brain to operate normally, by acting as substitutes for areas that were damaged or "unavailable."

But if we're replacing parts of the brain, is it still the same person? What percentage of the brain can be replaced before the person is more implant than person? 20%? 51%? 95%? Will people be really the same or will they be made more "generic?" Or will the brain adapt to the new implants, retaining the personhood and using the implant to return to normalcy?

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The Butterfly Circus

A beautiful movie, just 20 minutes but long good effect!
Please watch it! It really touched me.

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Noah's Ark found in Turkey

'Noah's Ark' found in Turkey
The Sun (UK), April 26, 2010
THE remains of Noah's Ark have been discovered 13,000ft up a Turkish mountain, it has been claimed.
A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say they have found wooden remains on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.
They claim carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years old--around the same time the ark was said to be afloat.
Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah's Ark Ministries International research team, said: "It's not 100 per cent that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9 per cent that this is it."
He said the structure contained several compartments, some with wooden beams, that they believe were used to house animals.
The group of evangelical archaeologists ruled out an established human settlement on the grounds none have ever been found above 11,000ft in the vicinity, Yeung said.
Local Turkish officials will ask the central government in Ankara to apply for UNESCO World Heritage status so the site can be protected while a major archaeological dig is conducted.

He knows how to love and how to be loved

Have you ever experienced meeting someone and felt as though you’ve come across a dear friend upon your very first introduction? That’s how it was with Nick. Touring the Taft prison with our Wheels for the World Conference in September of 2006, Nick was at the prison as well, speaking to the inmates. We all were in the dining hall, having lunch. Nick is hard to miss in a crowd, especially when he stands on a table. Born without arms or legs, it’s a very different sight than any of us are accustomed to seeing. But that’s not even what drew me to him, it was his warm smile and his penetrating eyes. He looks deep within. It doesn’t take Nick long to get past an introduction. He’s spent his life avoiding the trivial, getting to the important. I guess when you are born with such an obstacle to overcome, you don’t waste time trying to become proficient at things that in the long run, really don’t matter.

The next day, when he was sitting by the pool, we ended up having lunch together. Surrounded by large tables full of people, we had a good long time for discussion without interruption. It was one of those kinds of conversations that goes beyond the normal every day chit chat that most people are so good at. We got right to the heart of the matter, talking about our faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. During our conversation, I had many spine tingling moments, the kind when you recognize that this is not just a conversation, it is more like a message, a message brought through a man but coming from God, through the power of the Holy Spirit. There were just too many moments of confirmation, too many words that were used which God had already whispered into my heart and right here in front of me was the smallest man I have ever met, delivering one of the largest messages I’ve ever received.

Later, as I thought about our conversation, as I thought about Nick’s life, I realized that every single part of Nick’s physical body, he is putting to use. He doesn’t have the luxury of taping his fingers or swinging his legs off the edge of a chair when he’s bored. What little he has, he uses to maximum capacity. Many of the tasks he must do take every ounce of focus and concentration. Flipping a light switch takes time and effort and the use of a golf club, not just tapping it once but possibly several times until it’s hit properly and the light goes on.

What if every one of us had to live our lives that way? What if in everything the Lord gave us to do, we focused our attention and gave it our best efforts? What if we utilized everything we were given? What if when we are walking through this life, we looked into the eyes of those we pass by, rather than ignoring them because we are too busy to stop and care. What if when we spoke, we did it to get to the heart of the matter, rather than dancing around the cosmetic?

When Nick shared his testimony later that night, he told us that at one point in his life, he feared not being able to show a wife his love, he wouldn’t be able to hold her hand. How would he hug his own children? But then the Lord told him that even though he wouldn’t be able to hold their hands, he would always hold their hearts.

The Lord then gave me a word for Nick, actually, it was more like an understanding and I had to put it into words. At the end of the evening, I shared it with him:

More abundant is the life of a man who has no arms and legs yet chooses to love the Lord with his whole heart than a man who has both limbs and heart yet refuses to love God with either.

Nick has gone into third world countries where people with disabilities are still thought of as cursed and he’s changing the tide with his testimony. This young man, who stands only 3 feet, 3 inches tall may be the one God uses to change that kind of thinking throughout the entire world. He goes into the crowds and asks to be hugged, no one can resist. He says the words, “I love you” and he means it.

I don’t think this young man will ever have to worry about not being able to show his love, his heart is huge.

One of the things I have learned over the last three years, is that Nick Vujicic knows how to show love more deeply through his words, through his eyes, even through his willingness to be loved than we who were given arms and legs because we are the ones who have forgotten how to best use them.

For more information about Nick and his ministry, Life Without Limbs visit: http://www.lifewithoutlimbs.org

dreams...life after life....

Thousands dream about Jesus in Iran

Joel News, 4/22/10

In Tehran, the capital of Iran, thousands of Muslims have become Jesus followers over the last months. They gather illegally in house churches. This is reported by Iranian pastor Mahim Mousapour, living in exile in Germany. Iranian friends have told her that Jesus appeared to people in dreams, and in a number of cases sick people were surprisingly healed.

Khosrow, an Iranian teenager, described his experience vividly as "waves of electricity flowed through my body over and over again. I wept for the first time since I was a child and joy filled my heart."

The new believers in Iran take courage and speak about their faith more publicly. Mousapour estimates that in Tehran alone there are now more than 100,000 Christians.

Clinically dead boy saw grandmother

By Allan Hall, Daily Mail, 19th April 2010

A boy of three claims he saw his great grandmother in heaven while he was clinically dead after falling into a pond.

Paul Eicke came back to life more than three hours after his heart stopped beating.

It is believed he was in the pond at his grandparents' house for several minutes before his grandfather saw him and pulled him out.

His father gave him heart massage and mouth-to-mouth during the ten minutes it took a helicopter to arrive.

Paramedics then took over and Paul was taken the ten-minute journey to hospital. Doctors tried to resuscitate him for hours. They had just given up when, three hours and 18 minutes after he was brought in, Paul's heart started beating independently.

Professor Lothar Schweigerer, director of the Helios Clinic where Paul was taken, said: 'I have never experienced anything like it.

'When children have been underwater for a few minutes they mostly don't make it. This is a most extraordinary case.'

The boy said that while unconscious he saw his great grandmother Emmi, who had turned him back from a gate and urged him to go back to his parents.

Paul said: 'There was a lot of light and I was floating. I came to a gate and I saw Grandma Emmi on the other side.

'She said to me, "What are you doing here Paul? You must go back to mummy and daddy. I will wait for you here."

'I knew I was in heaven. But grandma said I had to come home. She said that I should go back very quickly.

'Heaven looked nice. But I am glad I am back with mummy and daddy now.'

Paul is now back at home in Lychen, north of Berlin in Germany, and there appears to be no sign of brain damage.

Statistics from America show the majority of children who survive drownings--92 per cent--are discovered within two minutes following submersion.

Nearly all who require cardiopulmonary resuscitation die or are left with severe brain injury.

Professor Schweigerer said: 'My doctors were close to saying "we can do no more" after two hours of thorax compression.

'But then suddenly his heart started to beat again ... it was a fantastic miracle.

'I've been doing this job for 30 years and have never seen anything like this. It goes to show the human body is a very resilient organism and you should never give up.'

Childrens Vaccines withdrawn because of danger

The FDA Shuts Down Common Infant Vaccine After Startling Discovery
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/04/17/major-vaccine-suspended-due-to-contamination-with-pig-virus.aspx
“U.S. federal health authorities recommended … that doctors suspend using Rotarix, one of two vaccines licensed in the U.S. against rotavirus, saying the vaccine is contaminated with material from a pig virus,” CNN reports.
The Rotarix vaccine, which is made by GlaxoSmithKline and was approved by the FDA in 2008, has already been given to about 1 million U.S. children along with 30 million worldwide. The vaccine was found to contain DNA from porcine circovirus 1.
“The FDA learned about the contamination after an academic research team using a novel technique to look for viruses in a range of vaccines found the material in GlaxoSmithKline's product and told the company,” FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg told CNN.
Sources:
CNN March 22, 2010

Dr. Mercola's Comments:
One million U.S. children, and about 30 million worldwide, have already received GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix vaccine. Now a research team has discovered it is contaminated with “a substantial amount” of DNA from a pig virus.
What is pig virus DNA doing in a vaccine intended to prevent rotavirus disease, which causes severe diarrhea and dehydration?
It’s anybody’s guess, although CNN reported that GlaxoSmitthKline detected the substance in the cell bank and the seed used to make the vaccine, “suggesting its presence from the early stages of vaccine development.”
It is actually common for vaccines to contain various animal matter, including foreign animal tissues containing genetic material (DNA/RNA), but even FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg told CNN:
"It [Pig virus DNA] should not be in this vaccine product and we want to understand how it got there.
It's not an easy call and we spent many long hours debating the pros and cons but, because we have an alternative product and because the background rates of this disease are not so severe in this country, we felt that the judicious thing to do was to take a pause, to really ask the critical questions about what this material was doing in the vaccine, how it got there."
Disturbing Findings in Rotarix and Two Other Common Childhood Vaccines
Dr. Eric Delwart is the researcher who, along with colleagues, made the discovery of contamination in Rotarix. Their intent was reportedly to “show that live attenuated vaccine only contained the expected viral genomes and no other,” but what they found told a different story.
Using new technology to test eight infectious attenuated viral vaccines, the results showed three of the vaccines contained “unexpected viral sequences”:
1. A measles vaccine was found to contain low levels of the retrovirus avian leukosis virus
2. Rotateq, Merck’s rotavirus vaccine, was found to contain a virus similar to simian (monkey) retrovirus
3. Rotarix (GlaxoSmithKine’s rotavirus vaccine) was found to contain “significant levels” of porcine cirovirus 1
So in their tests, nearly 40 percent of the vaccines they tested contained viral contaminants. The implications of these findings on the alleged safety of the vaccine supply remains to be seen, but clearly there is contamination occurring that was a complete surprise to researchers, health officials and vaccine manufacturers alike.
As Barbara Loe Fisher, founder of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), said in her commentary on the Rotarix contamination issue:
“There are lots of questions about how the manufacturer of Rotarix vaccine and the FDA both missed the pig virus DNA contaminating the original seed stock and all doses of Rotarix vaccine given to more than one million American children in the past few years.
Is there state-of-the-art technology that is being used by private laboratories but not by drug companies and the FDA?
Why did the independent team of scientists, who found the contamination, notify the vaccine manufacturer first rather than also immediately reporting their finding directly to the FDA?
What about the significance of finding bird viral DNA in measles vaccine and the monkey viral DNA in RotaTeq vaccine?”
There are clearly a lot of unanswered questions right now. At the very least, it certainly makes you wonder what other “unknown” contaminants are lurking in vaccines. At worst, we could be injecting children with substances that could potentially cause serious health problems down the road.
Animal Ingredients Common in Vaccines
You should know that it is very common for vaccine manufacturers to use cells from animals and birds in their manufacturing process.
To put this in perspective, Barbara Loe Fisher has explained what animal material is par for the course in manufacturing the Rotarix vaccine for your children:
“Rotarix is a genetically engineered vaccine that GSK created by isolating human rotavirus strain infecting a child in Cincinnati and using African Green monkey kidney cells to produce the original viral seed stock from which all Rotarix vaccine has been made.
In the FDA licensing process, Rotarix had to meet certain FDA standards, that included demonstrating the vaccine was not contaminated with, for example TSE (Transmissable Spongiform Encephalopathy or “mad cow” disease, a brain wasting disease) or with cow viruses because bovine (cow) serum was used to prepare the original viral seed stock.
Porcine trypsin, an enzyme in the pancreatic juice of a pig, was also used to make the viral seed stock.”
So the fact that Rotarix contains animal material is not a surprise … it’s the type of animal material, an unexpected variety, that has even the FDA raising their eyebrows.
Why it’s Dangerous to Have Various Animal DNA in Vaccines …
Both the FDA and GlaxoSmithKline spokespeople continue to state that no safety risk has been uncovered from the contamination, at least not yet.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, said “a substantial amount” of the DNA was found in the vaccine. But, he stressed, “there is no evidence that it causes any disease. … There is no evidence that it ever does anything.”
Dr. Paul Offit added, “The PCV1 virus they found is an orphan virus, i.e., it is not associated with disease”.
Of course there are no studies provided or have ever been done to show this, it doesn’t stop them from making these statements without any facts to back up their safety assurance, despite the fact that SV40 from monkeys has been associated with cancer in multiple studies.
History has shown that it can indeed be very dangerous when an animal virus unintentionally enters the vaccine supply.
During the 1950s and 1960s, the polio vaccine, which is still given in the United States, typically four times during a child's first 16 months of life, was widely contaminated with the monkey virus, SV40, which had gotten into the vaccine during the manufacturing process (monkey kidney cells, where SV40 thrived, were used to develop polio vaccines).
In lab tests, the virus was found to cause several different types of cancer, including brain cancer, and now SV40 is showing up in a variety of human cancers such as lung, brain, bone and lymphatic.
According to the authors of The Virus and the Vaccine: The True Story of a Cancer-Causing Monkey Virus, Contaminated Polio Vaccine, and the Millions of Americans Exposed, leading scientists and government officials turned their heads to repeated studies showing that SV40 was in the vaccine, and even today some well-known agencies are still dismissing study results.
The virus is even showing up in children too young to have received the contaminated vaccine, and some experts are now suggesting the contaminated virus may have been in the polio vaccine up until as late as 1999.
It is because of risks like this that Barbara Loe Fisher said:
“With mounting evidence that cross-species transfer of viruses can occur, the United States should no longer be using animal tissues to produce vaccines.”
This is also the same reason why Donald Miller, a cardiac surgeon and professor of surgery at the University of Washington, suggests in his more User-Friendly Vaccination Schedule that if you choose to get your child vaccinated against polio, you request only an inactivated (dead) virus vaccine that is cultured in human cells, not monkey kidney cells.
The United States no longer uses the live oral polio vaccine, so parents don't really have to ask for the injected version. However, if you live internationally, this is still an issue.
Are the Benefits of Rotarix Worth the Risks?
Even without a potential contamination scare, there are serious risks to every vaccine. So before vaccinating you really need to be certain that the benefits will outweigh those risks.
In the case of Rotarix, along with RotaTeq (a similar vaccine made by Merck), the benefits are very questionable, especially if you live in the United States or another developed country.
Rotavirus is very contagious and does cause more than 500,000 deaths in young children each year, but this is mostly in developing countries. In the United States, rotavirus is responsible for only “several dozen” deaths a year, according to Hamburg.
Typically, when a child in the United States contracts rotavirus, and most do, only rest and fluids are required to recover. This infection also provides natural immunity that will protect your child for life.
As NVIC writes
“The CDC estimates that, by age 3, almost every US child has had a case of rotavirus. Once a child has been infected with a strain of rotavirus, he or she develops antibodies and is either immune for life or has a milder case if infected with that same strain in the future.
Most healthy children, who are infected with several strains of rotavirus in the first few years of life, develop lifelong natural immunity to rotavirus infection.”
The rotavirus vaccine, meanwhile, has shown little benefit for rotavirus rates in the United States. According to NVIC:
“Today, even though almost all US infants receive vaccines for rotavirus, and despite efforts to improve the management of childhood rotavirus-associated diarrhea, hospitalizations of children in the U.S. with the disease have not significantly declined in the past two decades.”
Along with showing little benefit for a disease that is typically entirely treatable with fluids and rest, a recent drug review by the FDA found that Rotarix is associated with a significant increase in pneumonia-related deaths in children, compared to a placebo.
So with this particular vaccine, children are taking on serious risks with what appears to be very little benefit -- and that was before the contamination was uncovered.
The moral of the story?
Whatever you do, please do your homework before subjecting your children to any vaccine. A great way to get started is to simply use the Search Feature at the top of each of my Web pages and search my site as it contains a litany of research on vaccine safety, and the lack thereof.

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