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My procedure for taking a long exposure is always the same. I look for what I think will be a nice shot, work out the composition and take it as a normal landscape shot. Check the histogram and see if the shot might need a grad or two on, retake it and check the histogram. If everything is okay all I have to do now is work out the correct long exposure, attach the ten stopper, make sure any areas of light leakage are covered and then take the shot. An area that sometimes doesn't get covered is that most ten stop filters come with a warning that they are actually anywhere between nine and a third and ten and two thirds and NOT exactly ten. That can make quite a big difference - 2/3rds of a stop might be several minutes. I tend to add 25% to my B&W ND110 filter. This shot is the 'test' shot for the long exposure that followed. Invariably I prefer the normal shot but sometimes not......
If you haven't seen any of this series before I should add that the tiny figures on top of the hill are actually a group of tourists on a Rabbies Trail Burners trip led by the inimitable Ross Hutton. What a way to see Scotland.
FROZEN SOAP BUBBLES
My personal procedure: Wait until it's -7 to -11 degrees F in northern Colorado, put on all of your North Pole Expedition outer wear and boots, choose one of the 24 different soap bubble solutions that you have created after doing some online research, take it outside and immediately spill some on your back porch, say a naughty word, decide where you want to create your bubble and then change your mind 62 times, set up your tripod and camera exactly where you need it and then try to lower your frozen tripod legs, say 2 naughty words, begin to blow your bubble, watch it blow away in .0000054 mile per hour breeze, say a REALLY naughty word, continue watching your bubbles blow away, finally get a bubble to begin to freeze and begin shooting, watch the crystals form in the bubble and giggle just a bit, watch the bubble pop, blow some new bubbles, watch them pop over and over again, say MANY nasty words in a row, ignore the frostbite now hitting your exposed skin, it just DOESN'T MATTER! ANYTHING FOR THE SHOT!
Repeat this process at night, early in the morning and late in the afternoon over 3 days.
Nikon D850 with Nikkor 70-200mm F2.8 lens at 200mm and cropped, F11-16, various shutter speeds above 1/250sec, and various ISO's. Remote cable release and continuous focus and shutter release. Tripod.
WT333 bursts into life at Bruntingthorpe.
The starting process is by a cordite charge. Just awesome to watch!
0 IR original
1 auto level
2 swap red-blue channels
3 hue/saturation (sky only)
4 color balance (sky only)
5 hue/saturation (grass only)
Relax. Dr. C knows what’s best for you.
This weekend at Other World*:
👻 The Lost Ward (1-2 November)
🎵 DJ-s LeeLee (Nov 1) and ana banana (Nov 2) with sonic therapy for the hopelessly deranged (1-3 pm SLT)
💀 Cracked asylum walls, empty beds, and whispers from patients who never left
😷 Dress as patient, orderly, doctor or something hauntingly unhinged
🍷Prescription drinks, sick trivia, and music to lose your sanity to
You'll come out brainwashed with bloodshot eyes: Suicidal Tendencies – Institutionalized
* Yes. My syringe is bigger than yours.
The debates between monks occur in the presence of their teachers, with established rules or procedures for the defender and the questioners. The tradition can be traced back to to India and arrived in Tibet in the 8th century.
same procedure as every year:1st spraypaint on a new years eve champaign box, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Procedure: 1) Object on the paper in the sun. 2) Rinsing the paper with water 3) Let it dry. Take care that the paper is flat. Most of the time I don`t take care of that - I like it wrinkled and with folds.
Prozedere:
Objekt auf dem Papier in der Sonne.
Mit Wasser spülen.
Trocknen lassen
Using Sunprint Kit (Lawrence Hall of Science University of California, Berkley)
Photography Fotografie: φωτός (phōtos) light, Licht γραφή (graphé): drawing, zeichnen = Drawing with light, zeichnen mit Licht.
As it is said that the invention of drawing was to outline the shadows on the wall, so the invention of photography is that light (and shadows) draw on depictions on chemically treated paper.
The purest way of photographic depiction is the photogram: light, in this case natural light, sunlight shines on a light-sensitive paper. The objects to be depicted are put directly on the paper. According to the translucency and to the shadows the objects are making on the paper the light-sensitive layer reacts.
Die ursprünglichste, purste und direkteste Form der fotografischen Abbildung, des Zeichnens mit Licht ist das Fotogramm. Materialien: Lichtsensitives Papier, Fotopapier, Licht, Sonnenlicht, abzubildende Objekte, Wasser (Entwickler) - Das abzubildende Objekt wird direkt auf das Papier gelegt, Entsprechend der Lichtdurchlässigkeit der Objekte und ihrer Schatten reagiert die lichtsensitive Schicht des Papieres mit verschiedenen Helligkeitsabstufungen.
Berühmte Künstler außer Man Ray und Christian Schad zum Beispiel: Pablo Picasso, László Moholy-Nagy, Imogen Cunningham
Part of the sets: "Memento - zeitweilige Entnichtung" // "aquarius" aggregate state: liquid // Blue Planet, Sunprints from Earth - Photograms, Rayographs, Schadographs, Cyanotypien, Blueprints, Eisenblaudruck, Blaupause // "In Situ an Ort und Stelle on location - the world as studio workshop working room vor ort die Welt als Atelier Werkstatt Arbeitsraum"
Triptych:
DMC-G2 - P1650068 - 2013-07-14
DMC-G2 - P1650073 - 2013-07-14
DMC-G2 - P1650077 - 2013-07-14
Amtrak’s northbound Coast Starlight comes to a stop at the Marsh Street grade crossing in San Luis Obispo, California. Due to a malfunctioning crossing gate, the train is required to comply with Procedure XH (X-Ray Hotel).
According to the General Code of Operating Rules provided by Union Pacific, here is the definition of Procedure XH.
Procedure XH:
Unless otherwise instructed by signal employee in charge, train must approach crossing prepared to stop before entering crossing and if automatic warning devices are:
- Seen to be working* or when instructed by the train dispatcher or proper authority, proceed over the crossing not exceeding 15 MPH without stopping.
* Crossing with broken gate(s) is considered as having working devices when the balance of the automatic warning devices are seen to be working.
- Not working, comply with Procedure XG.
Procedure XG:
Unless otherwise instructed by signal employee in charge, train must stop before fouling crossing regardless of the condition of automatic warning devices. A crew member must be on the ground at the crossing to warn highway traffic. The train may proceed over the crossing as directed by that crew member.
Stopping is not required for Procedure XG or XH when the crew communicates with a flagger before fouling the crossing and receives confirmation that warning is being provided by:
- One equipped flagger who can provide warning for one direction of approaching traffic. Proceed over the crossing not exceeding 15 MPH without stopping until the head end of the train completely occupies the crossing.
- Two or more equipped flaggers who can provide warning in all directions of approaching traffic. Proceed over the crossing at maximum authorized speed.
Once the conductor is back aboard the train, the Coast Starlight will highball San Luis Obispo and begin its climb over Cuesta Pass.
AMTK 330 — AMT14 19 — San Luis Obispo, California
February 19th, 2024
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The original lamp still hangs from the ceiling of the operating room, Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA.
A short procedure at a hospital on Thursday morning turned into a 3 day ordeal for my wife!! She is at home and feeling great but in need of rest because of the ineptitude of the hospital staff! Not sure when I will be back on but wanted everyone to know where I was at!! Please no emails at this time!! Thank you!!
This is merely a left over photo from a previous session!! Comments were intentionally left off!!!
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Every six weeks I see the retinal specialist for a procedure that involves an injection in the retina of my right eye...afterwards, because of six different numbing drops, my eye feels like a bowling ball..I see distorted lines, flashes of color, blobs of lacquer red, and a black circle which I'm guessing is the injection site that I am seeing through? and dots of black. Thankfully it is temporary. This is how I think my eye looks and what I see in those few hours after.
Astronauts have a wealth of knowledge to absorb before they can fly to the International Space Station: from piloting spacecraft to conducting spacewalks and maintaining one of the most advanced structures ever built by humans.
Having intricate knowledge of every component is impossible, so astronauts do regular refresher trainings while in space and ground control helps during complex operations.
Detailed checklists with step-by-step instructions are sent to the Space Station’s computers for the astronauts to follow, but this has a large drawback: reading and clicking on to the next step in the instructions requires that the astronaut has to let go of any tools and divert attention to the detailed procedure list.
ESA is working on the MobiPV mobile procedure viewer, which allows ground control to see what the astronauts sees and the wearer to work hands-free. MobiPV has been tested underwater and in space using commercially available parts but, just like mobile phones, the engineers are constantly upgrading the system to do more.
Here ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli has set up the latest version of MobiPV to check the system is working as planned.
This model allows multiple ground control stations to watch the video streamed from a camera in the glasses – useful for tasks that involve researchers and engineers from different countries as the International Space Station is run by USA, Japan, Russia, Canada and ESA.
The download and upload speed has been improved, while the software was upgraded to allow for situations when there is no direct contact with ground control, preparing for missions further afield such as on the Moon or Mars.
Unlike with mobile phones, any updates to MobiPV cannot cause unintended effects – performing any task in space allows no room for error. A lost connection or problem with the system cannot be allowed to impair the astronaut in any way, so MobiPV is robust.
Paolo is set to use MobiPV to maintain a water pump in Europe’s Columbus space laboratory.
Credit: ESA/NASA
The life of an astronaut in space consists of following many step-by-step procedures. We’ve all wished we had an extra arm when following the instructions to self-assembly furniture and for astronauts it is no different – except their procedures, instructions and hardware are more complex as well as their lives often depending on following the instructions correctly.
ESA has developed a system that improves on the basic step-by-step procedures used on the International Space Station that are displayed on a computer. The current system requires constant floating back and forth from the computer to the workplace to check the next step, and mission control cannot easily follow progress.
The mobile procedure viewer or ‘mobiPV’ is a wearable system that displays each step in a task, synchronises between the astronaut, ground control and third parties, automatically logs steps and communication and allows for video conferencing, note-taking and text chat.
In this image, ESA’s Matthias Maurer is testing the system during a simulated space mission 20 m underwater off the coast of Florida, USA, during NASA’s Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO).
The main part of the equipment is the smartphone and camera on a 3D-printed wrist-band. mobiPV can display the procedure on a separate tablet to see more information. Here Matthias has connected a third device for testing – all three screens are synchronised.
Versions of mobiPV have been tested during NEEMO before and even in space during ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen’s ‘iriss’ mission last year. This version, branded mobiPV++, uses a redesigned system and tests the device without a head-mounted display.
The NEEMO crew used mobiPV to run a new way of sampling water that shows promise for use on the International Space Station, called Aquapad. The procedure was displayed on the tablet with ground control following from the coast and the mobiPV team watching from ESTEC, ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands. The astronauts and NEEMO crew were very positive with the results.
The mobiPV team is continuing to refine the system and hope to have a second test on the International Space Station with ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet during his six-month Proxima mission starting later this year.
Credit: NASA
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, exploring the universe near and far. The science instruments have returned to full operation, following recovery from a computer anomaly that suspended the telescope’s observations for more than a month.
Science observations restarted the afternoon of Saturday, July 17. The telescope’s targets this past weekend included the unusual galaxies shown in the images above.
“I’m thrilled to see that Hubble has its eye back on the universe, once again capturing the kind of images that have intrigued and inspired us for decades,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “This is a moment to celebrate the success of a team truly dedicated to the mission. Through their efforts, Hubble will continue its 32nd year of discovery, and we will continue to learn from the observatory’s transformational vision.”
These snapshots, from a program led by Julianne Dalcanton of the University of Washington in Seattle, feature a galaxy with unusual extended spiral arms and the first high-resolution glimpse at an intriguing pair of colliding galaxies. Other initial targets for Hubble included globular star clusters and aurorae on the giant planet Jupiter.
Hubble’s payload computer, which controls and coordinates the observatory’s onboard science instruments, halted suddenly on June 13. When the main computer failed to receive a signal from the payload computer, it automatically placed Hubble’s science instruments into safe mode. That meant the telescope would no longer be doing science while mission specialists analyzed the situation.
The Hubble team moved quickly to investigate what ailed the observatory, which orbits about 340 miles (547 kilometers) above Earth. Working from mission control at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, as well as remotely due to COVID-19 restrictions, engineers collaborated to figure out the cause of the problem.
Complicating matters, Hubble was launched in 1990 and has been observing the universe for over 31 years. To fix a telescope built in the 1980s, the team had to draw on the knowledge of staff from across its lengthy history.
Hubble alumni returned to support the current team in the recovery effort, lending decades of mission expertise. Retired staff who helped build the telescope, for example, knew the ins and outs of the Science Instrument and Command & Data Handling unit, where the payload computer resides – critical expertise for determining next steps for recovery. Other former team members lent a hand by scouring Hubble’s original paperwork, surfacing 30- to 40-year-old documents that would help the team chart a path forward.
“That’s one of the benefits of a program that’s been running for over 30 years: the incredible amount of experience and expertise,” said Nzinga Tull, Hubble systems anomaly response manager at Goddard. “It’s been humbling and inspiring to engage with both the current team and those who have moved on to other projects. There’s so much dedication to their fellow Hubble teammates, the observatory, and the science Hubble is famous for.”
Together, team members new and old worked their way through the list of likely culprits, seeking to isolate the issue to ensure they have a full inventory for the future of which hardware is still working.
At first, the team thought the likeliest problem was a degrading memory module, but switching to backup modules failed to resolve the issue. The team then designed and ran tests, which involved turning on Hubble’s backup payload computer for the first time in space, to determine whether two other components could be responsible: the Standard Interface hardware, which bridges communications between the computer’s Central Processing Module and other components, or the Central Processing Module itself. Turning on the backup computer did not work, however, eliminating these possibilities as well.
The team then moved on to explore whether other hardware was at fault, including the Command Unit/Science Data Formatter and the Power Control Unit, which is designed to ensure a steady voltage supply to the payload computer’s hardware. However, it would be more complicated to address either of these issues, and riskier for the telescope in general. Switching to these components’ backup units would require switching several other hardware boxes as well.
“The switch required 15 hours of spacecraft commanding from the ground. The main computer had to be turned off, and a backup safe mode computer temporarily took over the spacecraft. Several boxes also had to be powered on that were never turned on before in space, and other hardware needed their interfaces switched,” said Jim Jeletic, Hubble deputy project manager at Goddard. “There was no reason to believe that all of this wouldn’t work, but it’s the team’s job to be nervous and think of everything that could go wrong and how we might compensate for it. The team meticulously planned and tested every small step on the ground to make sure they got it right.”
The team proceeded carefully and systematically from there. Over the following two weeks, more than 50 people worked to review, update, and vet the procedures to switch to backup hardware, testing them on a high-fidelity simulator and holding a formal review of the proposed plan.
Simultaneously, the team analyzed the data from their earlier tests, and their findings pointed to the Power Control Unit as the possible cause of the issue. On July 15, they made the planned switch to the backup side of the Science Instrument and Command & Data Handling unit, which contains the backup Power Control Unit.
Victory came around 11:30 p.m. EDT July 15, when the team determined the switch was successful. The science instruments were then brought to operational status, and Hubble began taking scientific data once again on July 17. Most observations missed while science operations were suspended will be rescheduled.
This is not the first time Hubble has had to rely on backup hardware. The team performed a similar switch in 2008, returning Hubble to normal operations after another part of the Science Instrument and Command & Data Handling (SI C&DH) unit failed. Hubble’s final servicing mission in 2009 – a much-needed tune-up championed by former U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski – then replaced the entire SI C&DH unit, greatly extending Hubble’s operational lifetime.
Since that servicing mission, Hubble has taken more than 600,000 observations, bringing its lifetime total to more than 1.5 million. Those observations continue to change our understanding of the universe.
“Hubble is in good hands. The Hubble team has once again shown its resiliency and prowess in addressing the inevitable anomalies that arise from operating the world’s most famous telescope in the harshness of space,” said Kenneth Sembach, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, which conducts Hubble science operations. “I am impressed by the team’s dedication and common purpose over the past month to return Hubble to service. Now that Hubble is once again providing unprecedented views of the universe, I fully expect it will continue to astound us with many more scientific discoveries ahead.”
Hubble has contributed to some of the most significant discoveries of our cosmos, including the accelerating expansion of the universe, the evolution of galaxies over time, and the first atmospheric studies of planets beyond our solar system. Its mission was to spend at least 15 years probing the farthest and faintest reaches of the cosmos, and it continues to far exceed this goal.
“The sheer volume of record-breaking science Hubble has delivered is staggering,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. “We have so much to learn from this next chapter of Hubble's life – on its own, and together with the capabilities of other NASA observatories. I couldn’t be more excited about what the Hubble team has achieved over the past few weeks. They’ve met the challenges of this process head on, ensuring that Hubble's days of exploration are far from over."
For more information about the first science images taken with Hubble following its return to science operations: hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2021/news-2021-045
For more information about Hubble, visit: www.nasa.gov/hubble
FROZEN SOAP BUBBLES
My personal procedure: Wait until it's -7 to -11 degrees F in northern Colorado, put on all of your North Pole Expedition outer wear and boots, choose one of the 24 different soap bubble solutions that you have created after doing some online research, take it outside and immediately spill some on your back porch, say a naughty word, decide where you want to create your bubble and then change your mind 62 times, set up your tripod and camera exactly where you need it and then try to lower your frozen tripod legs, say 2 naughty words, begin to blow your bubble, watch it blow away in .0000054 mile per hour breeze, say a REALLY naughty word, continue watching your bubbles blow away, finally get a bubble to begin to freeze and begin shooting, watch the crystals form in the bubble and giggle just a bit, watch the bubble pop, blow some new bubbles, watch them pop over and over again, say MANY nasty words in a row, ignore the frostbite now hitting your exposed skin, it just DOESN'T MATTER! ANYTHING FOR THE SHOT!
Repeat this process at night, early in the morning and late in the afternoon over 3 days.
Nikon D850 with Nikkor 70-200mm F2.8 lens at 200mm and cropped, F11-16, various shutter speeds above 1/250sec, and various ISO's. Remote cable release and continuous focus and shutter release. Tripod.
Tibetan Monastic Education by Georges Dreyfus and THL. Section 4 of 7 Copyright © 2001
Procedures and Rules of Debate
Tibetan debates involve two parties: a defender (damchawa), who answers, and a questioner (riklampa). The roles of defender and questioner imply very different commitments, as Daniel Perdue explains: “The defender puts forth assertions for which he is held accountable. The challenger raises qualms to the defender’s assertions and is not subject to reprisal for the questions he raises. The responsibility of the defender is to put forth a true thesis and to defend it. Hence, the defender is accountable for the truth of his assertions. The questioner, on the contrary, is responsible only for the questions he puts forth. His questions must be well-articulated, must logically follow from the points already made, and must be relevant to defeating the defender. Their truth content is irrelevant, however, for his task is not to establish a thesis but to oblige the defender to contradict either previous statements or common sense.
Read more: www.thlib.org/#!essay=/dreyfus/drepung/monasticed/s/b41#i...
iss064e008416 (Dec. 1, 2020) --- JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut and Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi is pictured reviewing procedures to remove external experiment hardware from inside the Kibo laboratory module's airlock.
Fictional World called the "Inbetween" created between 2020-22
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This procedure of removing the snow from the streets is a constant game here in Fairbanks, Alaska this was taken on January 6th This is a good example of The the lighting at 1030 in the morning sunrise in about a half an hour and cloudy.
she's already had her scalp swapped and been dressed in moshi moshi, and she's only been here like fifteen minutes... welcome to us, sweet Marina!! you'll get used to this, I promise!
Staff Sgt. Jason Lee, 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron pararescue element leader, talks with his teammates about their clearing procedures during a mission rehearsal Aug. 26, 2014, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The event allowed PJs to hone their breaching, clearing, patient care and egress skills. Air Force rescue forces conduct combat search and rescue and personnel recovery operations. Lee is an Air National Guardsman deployed from the 123rd Special Tactics Squadron at Louisville, Ky. (U.S. Air Force photo by Maj. Brandon Lingle/Released)
iss064e024167 (Jan. 19, 2021) --- Roscosmos cosmonaut and Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov reviews emergency escape procedures on a computer in the unlikely event the crew would have to evacuate the station and quickly undock inside their Soyuz crew ship.
There is a common dental procedure that nearly every dentist will tell you is completely safe, despite the fact that scientists have been warning of its dangers for more than 100 years.
What is this dental procedure?
The root canal.
Root-canaled teeth are essentially “dead” teeth that can become silent incubators for highly toxic anaerobic bacteria that can, under certain conditions, make their way into your bloodstream to cause a number of serious medical conditions—many not appearing until decades later.
Most of these toxic teeth feel and look fine for many years, which make their role in systemic disease even harder to trace back.
Sadly, the vast majority of dentists are oblivious to the serious potential health risks they are exposing their patients to, risks that persist for the rest of their patients’ lives.
The American Dental Association claims root canals have been proven safe, but they have NO published data or actual research to substantiate this claim.
Dr. Weston Price, regarded by many as the greatest dentist of all time, who, more than a century ago, made the connection between root-canaled teeth and disease.
Dr. Price was a dentist and researcher who traveled the world to study the teeth, bones, and diets of native populations living without the “benefit” of modern food. Around the year 1900, Price had been treating persistent root canal infections and became suspicious that root-canaled teeth always remained infected, in spite of treatments. Then one day, he recommended to a woman, wheelchair bound for six years, to have her root canal tooth extracted, even though it appeared to be fine.
She agreed, so he extracted her tooth and then implanted it under the skin of a rabbit. The rabbit amazingly developed the same crippling arthritis as the woman and died from the infection 10 days later. But the woman, now free of the toxic tooth, immediately recovered from her arthritis and could now walk without even the assistance of a cane.
Price discovered that it’s mechanically impossible to sterilize a root-canaled (e.g. root-filled) tooth. He then went on to show that many chronic degenerative diseases originate from root-filled teeth—the most frequent being heart and circulatory diseases. He actually found 16 different causative bacterial agents for these conditions. But there were also strong correlations between root-filled teeth and diseases of the joints, brain and nervous system. Dr. Price went on to write two groundbreaking books in 1922 detailing his research into the link between dental pathology and chronic illness. Unfortunately, his work was deliberately buried for 70 years, until finally one endodontist named George Meinig recognized the importance of Price’s work and sought to explain the truth.
Dr. Meinig, a native of Chicago, was a captain in the U.S. Army during World War II before moving to Hollywood to become a dentist for the stars. He eventually became one of the founding members of the American Association of Endodontists (root canal specialists).
In the 1990s, he spent 18 months immersed in Dr. Price’s research. In June of 1993, Dr. Meinig published the book Root Canal Cover-Up, which continues to be the most comprehensive reference on this topic today.
Your teeth are made of the hardest substances in your body.
In the middle of each tooth is the pulp chamber, a soft living inner structure that houses blood vessels and nerves. Surrounding the pulp chamber is the dentin, which is made of living cells that secrete a hard mineral substance. The outermost and hardest layer of your tooth is the white enamel, which encases the dentin.
The roots of each tooth descend into your jawbone and are held in place by the periodontal ligament. In dental school, dentists are taught that each tooth has one to four major canals. However, there are accessory canals that are never mentioned. Literally miles of them!
Just as your body has large blood vessels that branch down into very small capillaries, each of your teeth has a maze of very tiny tubules that, if stretched out, would extend for three miles. Weston Price identified as many as 75 separate accessory canals in a single central incisor (front tooth). Microscopic organisms regularly move in and around these tubules, like gophers in underground tunnels.
When a dentist performs a root canal, he or she hollows out the tooth, then fills the hollow chamber with a substance (called guttapercha), which cuts off the tooth from its blood supply, so fluid can no longer circulate through the tooth. But the maze of tiny tubules remains. And bacteria, cut off from their food supply, hide out in these tunnels where they are remarkably safe from antibiotics and your own body’s immune defenses.
Under the stresses of oxygen and nutrient deprivation, these formerly friendly organisms morph into stronger, more virulent anaerobes that produce a variety of potent toxins. What were once ordinary, friendly oral bacteria mutate into highly toxic pathogens lurking in the tubules of the dead tooth, just awaiting an opportunity to spread.
No amount of sterilization has been found effective in reaching these tubules—and just about every single root-canaled tooth has been found colonized by these bacteria, especially around the apex and in the periodontal ligament. Oftentimes, the infection extends down into the jawbone where it creates cavitations—areas of necrotic tissue in the jawbone itself.
Cavitations are areas of unhealed bone, often accompanied by pockets of infected tissue and gangrene. Sometimes they form after a tooth extraction (such as a wisdom tooth extraction), but they can also follow a root canal. According to Weston Price Foundation, in the records of 5,000 surgical cavitation cleanings, only two were found healed.
And all of this occurs with few, if any, accompanying symptoms. So you may have an abscessed dead tooth and not know it. This focal infection in the immediate area of the root-canaled tooth is bad enough, but the damage doesn’t stop there.
As long as your immune system remains strong, any bacteria that stray away from the infected tooth are captured and destroyed. But once your immune system is weakened by something like an accident or illness or other trauma, your immune system may be unable to keep the infection in check.
These bacteria can migrate out into surrounding tissues by hitching a ride into your blood stream, where they are transported to new locations to set up camp. The new location can be any organ or gland or tissue.
Dr. Price was able to transfer diseases harbored by humans to rabbits, by implanting fragments of root-canaled teeth, as mentioned above. He found that root canal fragments from a person who had suffered a heart attack, when implanted into a rabbit, would cause a heart attack in the rabbit within a few weeks.
He discovered he could transfer heart disease to the rabbit 100 percent of the time! Other diseases were more than 80 percent transferable by this method. Nearly every chronic degenerative disease has been linked with root canals, including:
Heart disease
Kidney disease
Arthritis, joint, and rheumatic diseases
Neurological diseases (including ALS and MS)
Autoimmune diseases (Lupus and more)
There may also be a cancer connection. Dr. Robert Jones, a researcher of the relationship between root canals and breast cancer, found an extremely high correlation between root canals and breast cancer. He claims to have found the following correlations in a five-year study of 300 breast cancer cases:
93 percent of women with breast cancer had root canals
7 percent had other oral pathology
Tumors, in the majority of cases, occurred on the same side of the body as the root canal(s) or other oral pathology.
Dr. Jones claims that toxins from the bacteria in an infected tooth or jawbone are able to inhibit the proteins that suppress tumor development. A German physician reported similar findings. Dr. Josef Issels reported that, in his 40 years of treating “terminal” cancer patients, 97 percent of his cancer patients had root canals. If these physicians are correct, the cure for cancer may be as simple as having a tooth pulled, then rebuilding your immune system.
Amazing eating procedure for these Great Blue Herons! Somehow they manage to "nibble" away on the fish while it is half way into the beak. About half of the original is now left about 40 minutes after the catch.
Procedure: torso and legs were entirely designed in CorelDraw, the shoulder pads were made with green stuff and the helmet was designed in Rhinoceros and 3D printed.
“Astronaut would use tool to collect moon samples.”
“What procedures should our astronauts use on the moon to collet samples for return to earth? What precautions must be taken not to contaminate the lunar surface?
And, even more important, what precautions must be observed to prevent the return of pathogenic organisms to the earth? These were some of the question pondered last summer in a NASA conference on lunar exploration and science.
The biosciences group, led by Melvin Calvin of the University of California, a Nobel Prize winner, studied this critical problem and evolved a set of procedures to reassure the scientific community about the proper handling of lunar-surface samples.
The committee indicated that the specific objectives of the organic-chemical exploration of the moon involve the search for molecules of possible biological or even prebiological origin.
Detailed knowledge of their amount, distribution and structure – if present – is of extreme importance to the origin and history of the moon, and to the relationship of the moon to the earth and to the universe. Specifically, such knowledge is essential for determining whether life on the moon exists, ever did exist or could develop.
The committee, in planning a search for possible organic chemicals, recognizes that there are several sources of potential trouble. It is apparent that when the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) sits down on the moon’s surface, it will vent exhaust gases and make other discharges; it is impossible to prevent waste gases from escaping the LEM into the lunar vacuum around it.
For example, the spacecraft atmosphere will be vented when the astronauts leave the LEM for their exploring mission.”
The two-fisted sampler mechanism looks like a 19th-century device - for a 21st-century endeavor - along with a hermetically sealed butt can. I love it.
John Gorsuch: Is there any ‘space/rocket’ themed illustration this talented and versatile artist DID NOT paint???
As expected, despite his prolific & widely distributed works, I’ve found nothing pertaining to him.
If not for fellow contributor Ed Dempsey,
www.flickr.com/photos/104034978@N03/albums
I wouldn’t even have a first name.
THANK YOU ED!
The two-day-old gorilla born by emergency c-section on Wednesday evening had a procedure this morning at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park's veterinary hospital to fix a collapsed lung. Veterinary staff had been monitoring the baby gorilla with around-the-clock care when they noticed increased respiratory distress. The baby was breathing a lot faster and her heart rate was elevated. They did an x-ray and confirmed that the baby gorilla had a collapsed lung and had to undergo treatment.
A team of San Diego Zoo Global veterinary and animal care staff, joined by a human neonatal specialist and anesthesiologist from UC San Diego Health System, quickly assembled for a procedure to fix the collapsed lung. After carefully intubating the baby gorilla, they suctioned out a mucus plug that was in her right lung, likely aspirated at the time of delivery. Following the procedure the medical teams were able to re-inflate the lung. After a repeat chest x-ray, the team of veterinarians and specialists then concluded that both lungs were fully inflated and the procedure was successful. They covered the baby gorilla in blankets for warmth as she slowly woke up from the anesthesia used during the procedure. Once she was awake, the teams were able to remove the breathing tube and placed the baby on a nasal cannula with oxygen for continued respiratory support.
The baby gorilla will continue to be monitored with around-the-clock care by a team of veterinarians and animal care staff. The baby is showing progress and is breathing better on her own, but she is still receiving oxygen and supplemental fluids as needed.
"I would say that there are two things that differentiate her in how she acts compared to most babies that I take care of; first, she's a lot stronger when she grabs your hand, it's very difficult to release her grip - because that's her instinct - to grab her mom," Dawn Reeves, MD, neonatologist at UC San Diego Health System said. "Second, she can grab you with both her hands and her feet, which can be a little troublesome when trying to do procedures or exams. Otherwise she behaves very well," Reeves said.
The baby gorilla's mother,18-year-old Imani, is recovering after the emergency c-section surgery and is back in her familiar habitat, eating and doing well. Keepers at the Safari Park will continue to closely monitor the first-time mom as she recovers from her surgery.
"If this were a human you'd want no exercise for a few weeks after an operation like this, but within 24 hours she (Imani) was back with her troop moving around like nothing ever happened," Jeff Zuba, San Diego Zoo Global senior veterinarian said. "We're watching her closely, we're not encouraging her to move about like that but at this point she's doing great," Zuba said.