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My dining corner: here, nothing has changed. I might buy a new table one day, a little bit more narrow, but this is not on the top of my priority list for the moment.
The Cure, ‘A Forest’, 1980. The Cure were a great singles band. Despite this I was never a big fan – too much Gothic dirge and Poor Me miserabilism and the album ‘Pornography’ is unlistenable. Plus, they were the most boring band I’ve ever seen live. Sorry, it’s true. This tune is a corker though. Moody atmosphere and sound with flanged guitars, eerie synth, crisp drums and bobbling bass. They were from Croydon, not the hippest place on the planet, which makes the creativity here seem even more unworldly…
The Afflicted seeking cures at the Shrine of St William. They are anointing themselves with "holy fragrant oil" that was kept in a tank in contact with the saint's coffin and dripped from spigots built into the shrine.
One of the ninety-five panels in the window showing the life and posthumous miracles of the city's patron Archbishop-Saint in York Minster (workshop of John Thornton, 1415).
#StainedGlass #York
Soundtrack // Bande-son: THE CURE ("Alone"): www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx9SVAtMkJM
"We were always sure that we would never changе... And it all stops... WE WERE ALWAYS SURE THAT WE WOULD STAY THE SAME... But it all stops..."
Un "Curiste" de la belle époque...
Fetish cures or is it an aliment......
I meant to write ailment but wrote aliment - food, nutriment; also : sustenance. Maybe it is for some......?
One more for the weekend....I think this one is kind of like how The Cure really is. You know, not just as an image but musically...a bit dark, a bit isolated...sort of an essence of separation from everything else. I think some probably see this band as strange but we're all a little abnormal, really.
Here's a picture of a lonesome imaginary boy. I'm sure if you love The Cure, you'll know just what I mean.
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Whirlybirds Helicopters' Guimbal Cabri G2 G-XFYF at Gloucestershire Airport for maintenance on 5th April 2024. This two-seater is said to be owned by Roger O'Donnell who plays keyboards for The Cure.
To me, “Whirlybirds” conjures up memories of a television series of that name which ran from 1957-1960. The programme featured the exploits of Chuck Martin and P.T. Moore, the owner-operators and pilots for Whirlybirds, a helicopter charter service based at Longwood Field in California. Many would say that actors Kenneth Tobey and Craig Hill were the stars of the show, but to a youngster approaching his teens it was their Bell 47G helicopter N975B and Bell 47J Ranger N2838B that were the heroes!
If you have followed my stream then you have seen the stories associated with these three photos. If not the links are below and here is a synopsis....2 of my 3 sons have Type 1 Diabetes. I recently asked them to describe in one word how this has touched their lives. We wrote those words on their hands and took the photo. I will be working to document this on many children with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, but in the meantime need to begin to raise money for the 2008 Walk to Cure Diabetes on October 19.
Last year, with the help of many friends and family we raised nearly $25,000 for the Walk, and we hope to do even better this year. If you are so inclined, please help by visiting our walk team web site listed below. If not, no worries....I will still admire your talent and love to see your photographic work!
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month... Lets Find a Cure...
My Dear Friend & Neighbor is a Survivor..
Conclusion: Fasting and chemotherapy can work miracles. If you are on chemotherapy, fast three days before chemotherapy and one day after. I am not a doctor.
I recently wrote about one possible reason for the evolution of cancer, as a way to euthanase old-age palaeolithic persons who do not undergo periods of starvation, and are likely therefore to have been free-loading on the charity of their peers. In short I hypothesised that cancer may be a natural granny dumping mechanism.
But that got me to thinking about an even more puzzling evolutionary phenomena: why are there old people at all?
The average lifespan of palaeolithic peoples was about 33 years, which is just as it should be from a straightforward evolutionary perspective. If they started breeding at puberty then your average palaeolith would have had time to raise a few children and then die.
The strange thing is however that then, as till quite modern times, it was the high childhood death rate that suppressed average longevity. If a palaeolithic person reached puberty they lived on average into their mid fifties, way past the menopause and optimal male breeding potential. Further, with the agricultural revolution only a few thousand years ago, biblical and modern humans have palaeolithic bodies -- we have had time to evolve lactose tolerance and little else -- with the potential to live at least three score years and ten and four score if strong (Psalm 90).
Even if older palaeolithic persons were undergoing periods of near starvation and were not free-loading, they would have been consuming food which otherwise may have been gathered by their reproducing peers. So, why did evolution allow such grannies and grandfathers to exist at all? We could easily have evolved to self-destruct at 40. To a palaeolithic society living at the calorific brink of annihilation, the existence of post-breeding-age individuals would seem to be a tremendous calorific waste.
One can think of various 'nice' evolutionary-favoured tasks that post-reproduction-aged palaeolithic people could have performed, such as child minding or as a source of wisdom. I propose a task more tragic: older persons evolved as to function as in vivo experiments, commonly called 'guinea pigs'.
In any hunter gather society -- go out into the woods and try it today -- there would have been a lot of lean times. There would be very few apples, but a vast number of species of berries, bark, and beetles (and that is just the b's) with varying degrees of food value, nutrients, calories and toxicity. When (hunter) gatherers were lucky they found known fruits and roots to fulfil their dietary needs, but they were continually on the brink, regularly going without food, and faced with risky choices of culinary behaviour. "I have not eaten in a week. Do I try these berries or not? Do I give them to my children?"
Herein lies the great evolutionary value of the existence or granny and grandfather aged people like me. "Wait a minute son. Don't eat that. Don't give it to the little one. Let me try it. I will tell you in a day!" (When I think of all my ancestors that surely must have done this it makes me cry.) Societies which contained such individuals would continually increase the variety of gathered food sources and only lose the occasional non-breeding human guinea pig.
I reach this conclusion bearing in mind the miraculous research being carried out NOW on the synergy between chemotherapy and short term starvation in the treatment of cancer. The graph above left (Shi et al., 2012) shows tumour size in mice xenografted with human skin cancer. Cisplatin (CDDP), the most common chemotherapeutic drug, shows negligible effect in reducing tumour size. Short Term Starvation (STS) has a significant but small effect. Short term starvation combined with Cisplatin chemotherapy creates a synergy which seems nothing short of miraculous. 60% percent of the cancerous mice went into remission whereas no or negligible mice went into remission in the other two conditions. The same paper (ibid) also shows similar results, in vitro, with lung cancers.
Dr Valter Longo, the pioneer whose research on fasting lead to the discovery of this chemo-fasting synergy (e.g. Raffaghello, Safdie, Bianchi, Dorff, Fontana, & Longo 2010; Lee, & Longo, 2011), argues that fasting causes ordinary cells to go into hibernation mode, whereas cancer cells keep demanding more food. If in that period of starvation one consumes, or is injected with a toxin, then it is only cancerous cells that are killed. If one keeps fasting for about a day after the consumption or injection of the toxin, until the toxin has left ones system, then the toxin hardly effects normal cells at all.
This synergy between chemotherapy and no-calorie consumption suggests an explanation for both the existence of cancer, and the existence of old people. Old people get cancer. But many of them may be able to cure their own cancer if they undergo regular periods of fasting combined with the consumption of toxins. In modern society this experience is one that perhaps only cancer patients will undergo in the form of chemotherapy but in a (hunter) gathering palaeolithic society it would have experience that would regularly and necessarily have been faced. Going through that starvation plus toxin experience and coming out the other side, or not ("no, don't eat that...urk"), would have been evolutionarily favoured. So evolution worked out a way to create such individuals with that propensity: it created individuals that have a self destruct mechanism that is cured by starvation and toxin consumption. Palaeolithic societies that evolved to have older non-breeding individuals
-- Guinea Pig People (GPPs) -- to do the toxin tasting would have been able to gather and consume more food, breed more and continue the species. And here we are, thanks to all our GPPs.
In conclusion, it seems to me, a non-doctor, from limited research, fasting and chemotherapy can work miracles. If you are on chemotherapy, consult with your oncologist and consider fasting three days before chemotherapy and one day after, because it may cure your cancer, and makes perfect evolutionary sense.
Graph above: Figure 3A and 3B from Shi et al., 2012
Bibliography
Shi, Y., Felley-Bosco, E., Marti, T. M., Orlowski, K., Pruschy, M., & Stahel, R. A. (2012). Starvation-induced activation of ATM/Chk2/p53 signaling sensitizes cancer cells to cisplatin. BMC cancer, 12(1), 1.
bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2407-12...
Lee, C., & Longo, V. D. (2011). Fasting vs dietary restriction in cellular protection and cancer treatment: from model organisms to patients. Oncogene, 30(30), 3305-3316.
Nowell, P. C. (1976). The Clonal Evolution of Tumor Cell Populations. Science, 194(4260), 23-28.
Raffaghello, L., Safdie, F., Bianchi, G., Dorff, T., Fontana, L., & Longo, V. D. (2010). Fasting and differential chemotherapy protection in patients. Cell Cycle, 9(22), 4474-4476.
The theory above - post breeding age persons are guinea pigs - is a little similar to the 'disposable soma' theory of the evolution of ageing at a societal rather than cellular level.
rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/205/1161/531.short
"Organisms that do not age are essentially in a steady state in which chronologically young and old individuals are physiologically the same. In this situation the synthesis of macromolecules must be sufficiently accurate to prevent error feedback and the development of lethal 'error catastrophes'. This involves the expenditure of energy, which is required for both kinetic proof-reading and other accuracy promoting devices. It may be selectively advantageous for higher organisms to adopt an energy saving strategy of reduced accuracy in somatic cells." (Kirkwood, Holliday, 1979)
Somatic cells are non-reproductive cells.
These non reproducing cells are argued to be disposable to facilitate greater "proof reading" and prevent "error catastrophes" in the reproducing cells. I am suggesting above that somatic people (non reproducing people) are there, and yet disposable, there to be disposed of, to facilitate "proof reading" (toxin tasting - "reduced accuracy" in diet) and prevent error catastrophes in the non-somatic, reproductive population.
Relatedly
Peto's paradox (there is no correlation between animal size and cancer rate)
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060950/
The assumption that there should be a correlation seems to be based on the assumption that cancer is a random occurrence in cells, so the more of them the greater the chance of cancer, as opposed to a more deliberate, non-random self destruct mechanism proposed here. Cancer is not random. It is a deliberate way of killing old people who do not fast be guinea pigs.
Dedicated to the Senor de Esquipulas, in the home of a renowned ritual curer in the Tzotlzil Maya community of Zinacantan, Chiapas.
En Oisans, il s'agit d'une brebis avec son agneau visiblement mort-né qu'on voit à ses pieds. Une centaine de vautours fauves et quelques vautours moines sont vite arrivé sur zone en entourant cette brebis. Je n'ai pas vu la moindre agression des vautours sur la brebis et les quelques uns s'approchant de l'agneau étaient simplement repoussé par le brebis qui s'avançait... après 1h (surement 1h30, voir 2h) n'ayant pas assisté au début, la brebis a abandonné son agneau et est reparti sous l’indifférence des vautours, ils se sont simplement précipité sur la dépouille de son agneau...
Une scène qui montre bien que les vautours ne sont en rien agressifs sur le bétail vivant comme on a trop tendance à le lire...
Photo prise de loin et retaillée
Sorry I haven’t posted any photos since december. In fact, my shoulder acted up, and it took a few months to get it back on track.
My canon camera still seems very heavy, but I am starting to use it again from time to time in order to photograph other views than the one from my bed.
To be continued.
Vondelpark, Amsterdam
“So supposing we hit the body with a tremendous light, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you’re going to test that too?”
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/23/trump-coronavirus-t...