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The Saga Of Pinehill Book II
Money, Marriage And The Way
is now published and available.
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TODAY'S TRIVIA - - -
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What is xenotransplantation?
When is the winter solstice?
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How many transplants can be done with the parts from one
organ donor?
At present, organs and tissues and other body parts from one
human body can be used in up to 400 procedures. Bones, skin,
ligaments, veins, heart valves, cartilage: almost anything
can be used. Bones, for example, may be grafted, crunched,
or chemically treated and can be used for everything from
dental work to spinal surgery.
Can any brain materials be transplanted?
Dura, the material around the brain, used to be directly
transplanted. That practice was stopped in 1997 when it was
found to be unsafe. Damaged dura is now replaced with the
pericardium (from the heart).
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thePEBBLE CONTENTS:
1. STRANGE BITS AND PIECES!
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2. COVER STORY . . .
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TIPS AND TIDBITS . . .
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3. MEDICAL COLUMN with Karin Henderson
The Brain And Spinal Cord
Parts Of Your Body's Nervous System
Part 2 of 6
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4. PERCEPTIONS by Ken Darby
Change 5 lights
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5. WHY DO WE SAY IT?
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6. THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!
7. HA! HA!HA!
8. CONTACT INFO
9. THE LAST LINE - - - - -
DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND
The Saga Of Pinehill Book II
Money, Marriage And The Way
is now published and available. Buy direct from:
http://www.publishamerica.com
(enter the name Saga of Pinehill in the search box)
If you enjoyed the first book, you won't be able to put
this one down until you're finished it. Enjoy.
DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND
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STRANGE BITS AND PIECES!
The moisture that is on the tip of a dog's nose helps the
dog detect odors.
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COVER STORY . . .
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TIPS AND TIDBITS . . .
Climate conference agrees on next steps
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- More than 180 nations at the U.N.
climate conference agreed Friday on the next steps toward
negotiating deeper future cuts in global-warming gases,
after conceding to China that developing nations won't be
pressed immediately to reduce emissions.
This annual session had been planned as a procedural
meeting, more than a substantive one. But the slow pace in
the face of mounting evidence of climate change disappointed
environmentalists and others.
"It is not enough what we reached in the conference,"
Germany's Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel told
reporters. "Urgent action is necessary."
He said heads of state must instill "a new political
momentum" into climate diplomacy next year, when German
Chancellor Angela Merkel, who views climate change as a
priority, leads the G-8 group of industrial nations.
Under the key agreement here, future meetings would review
the workings of the Kyoto Protocol by 2008 with an eye
toward setting new quotas on carbon dioxide and other
emissions after Kyoto expires in 2012. A final agreement
isn't likely until 2009 at the earliest.
China, India and others have resisted efforts to begin early
talks in which they and other poor but fast-developing
nations might be pressured to accept mandatory cutbacks in
greenhouse-gas emissions. The final decision assured them
the immediate process would not seek to negotiate cutbacks
by developing nations.
The 1997 Kyoto pact obliges 35 industrial nations to reduce
emissions of greenhouse gases by 5 percent below 1990 levels
by 2012. The United States rejects that accord, with
President Bush contending it would damage the U.S. economy
and should have given poorer countries obligations as well.
But developing countries will likely resist considering
emissions reductions until they see acceptance of mandatory
caps by the United States -- a prospect some see as possible
after Bush leaves office in 2009. Some Third World
delegations had favored delaying the Kyoto review until as
late as 2011.
In a separate set of less-formal talks, to be completed next
year, the Kyoto member countries explored ways to bring the
United States into a global emissions-reduction regime.
Scientists attribute at least some of the past century's one
degree rise in global temperatures to the atmospheric
accumulation of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping
gases, byproducts of power plants, automobiles and other
fossil fuel-burning sources.
Continued temperature rises could seriously disrupt the
climate, scientists say. The world is already seeing some
impact, they say, in the melting of the Arctic and Greenland
ice caps, the retreat of glaciers worldwide and the
accelerating rise of sea levels, as oceans expand from
warmth and melted-ice runoff.
Environmentalists have feared disputes over timetables might
delay negotiations so long that the world would be left
without emissions caps for some time after the Kyoto
Protocol expires.
"We are not seeing the bold leadership required. Further
delay is totally irresponsible," said Catherine Pearce, of
Friends of the Earth International.
But European Union officials said the 2008 target for the
Kyoto review -- a process that would assess the latest
science and the size of necessary cutbacks -- should ensure
no gap would open up after 2012 in emissions cutbacks by the
35 industrial nations.
The 2008 target means the world is "well on our way to a new
climate-change regime," EU spokeswoman Barbara Helfferich
said.
Too long a delay would likely have left a gap between
Kyoto's reductions and a new series of cutbacks, undermining
the long-term credibility of the new, multibillion-dollar
carbon market, operating since early 2005 within the
25-nation bloc.
The EU, in imposing quotas on emissions from power plants
and other energy-intensive industries, established a trading
system whereby companies that don't use their full emissions
allowances can sell credits to others that need them.
A similar market has developed in emission-reduction
projects in the developing world, not obligated to cut
emissions under Kyoto, but able to sell such credits to
countries that are.
Speaking with reporters, Kenyan environmentalist Sharon
Looremetta dismissed the Nairobi meeting as a failure. "Most
major issues have been shelved until next year," she said.
Her nomadic Maasai people have already been stricken by
cattle-killing drought attributable to climate change,
Looremetta said, but the countries emitting global-warming
gases are doing too little to help.
"We don't drive 4x4 cars, we don't go on vacation by
airplane, but we do suffer from climate change," she said.
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If you permit hatred, then you permit hard times
to be visited upon you.
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MEDICAL COLUMN - - - - with Karin Henderson
The Brain And Spinal Cord
Parts Of Your Body's Nervous System
Part 2 of 6
The Invisible Picture
The body had two distinct nervous systems to control the
performance of all functions. (There is not enough space in this
article to give much detail about either one.) One is called the
Central Nervous System (CNS), and as it implies, regulates all
the central activities. The brain and the spinal cord handle
that. The other system is called the Peripheral Nervous System
(PNS), and relates to the nerves outside of the brain and the
spinal cord, but all are connected. (I won't mention much in
relation to the PNS here.)
http://www.neurosurgery.org/health/images/spinbodybig.gif
Most people have seen a picture of a brain. It is a "mountain"
of soft tissue with many folds. If you stretched these folds out
to their full length, it would cover a very large area. Your
body is an extremely efficient machine, with no wasted space and
many "innovative" built-in, space-saving ideas. (Many other
parts of your body are similar.) Each part of your brain is
being used for a specific purpose. Each cell, each space, each
"everything", is there to support another function.
The brain is "divided" into two parts or hemispheres for the
cerebrum and cerebellum, and then further into lobes. The
cerebrum is the largest part, cerebellum is next in size, and
the brainstem, with no division, is the smallest. The chief
responsibility of the cerebrum is the control of its nerve
centers for sensory (sense) and motor (muscle) activities. The
cerebellum is responsible for coordinating motor activities and
balance maintenance. It would appear that their functions
overlap, but they don't and are quite specific. The brainstem,
although the smallest part of the brain is in control of such
vital living functions such as respiration, heart rate, and
digestive activities.
The neuron is the smallest part of the nerve and it has a
nucleus and a cell body...and acts as a transmitting station.
Coming from it, are dendrites and axons. They are important
elements. Dendrites receive or capture the message. Axons
transmit it. (This again is in very simplistic terms.)
Connecting two neurons (or cell bodies) is a space called a
synapse. It is in this space that actions of many of the newer
drugs are being used. These chemicals are called
"neurotransmitters". Can you see how drugs are then used at the
beginning of the nervous system to alter a "natural" brain
activity? A nerve is a collection of neurons in bundles. They
operate in bundles and naturally will perform similar work. It
takes many bundles to do each action or task.
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Karin Henderson is a registered nurse and is thePEBBLE's
columnist for our MEDICAL COLUMN.
We appreciate her input very much. Thanks Karin.
You can send Karin questions at
mailto:kflh@shaw.ca
Health Information Newsletter.
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PERCEPTIONS . . . by Ken Darby
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Some around me think I am an opinionated old goat.
Whether that be true or not I will sometimes, in this column,
talk about things people don't like to talk about - or don't want
out in the open. Take it all with a grain of salt.
Do your own thinking, and don't accept the things I say as
gospel. They are only mental meanderings from a simple soul.
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Change 5 lights
Change a light, and you help change the world. Replace the
conventional bulbs in your 5 most frequently used light
fixtures with bulbs that have the ENERGY STAR label and you
will help the environment while saving money on energy
bills. If every household in the U.S. took this one simple
action we would prevent more than 1 trillion pounds of
greenhouse gas emissions.
One of the most frustrating things about this global warming thing
is that it is so huge we often can't see what we can do to make things
better. The above suggestion is a place to start.
Over the next short while I will bring you little tidbits of things you can
do to help. They may not seem like much but if everyone does follows
through with the idea you would be amazed at the cumulative effect.
It is good stuff folks. Let's all give it a try.
In world affairs today there isn't much change. I see where world powers
are expecting North Korea to conduct another nuclear test.
The climate conference in Nairobi ended up being a huge expense without
anything in the way of significant results. I swear this global warming thing
will be on us so fast we will all suffer unless we take steps now.
See you tomorrow, folks! Have a good day!
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WHY DO WE SAY IT?
Nail One's Colors To The Mast: Where does the expression
"nail one's colors to the mast" come from?
From naval warfare. In a battle at sea a ship surrenders by
striking its colors- that is, lowering its flag. If the
colors are "nailed to the mast" they cannot be lowered and
the ship cannot surrender; it must fight on no matter what
happens.
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DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND
The Saga Of Pinehill Book II
Money, Marriage And The Way
is now published and available. Buy direct from:
http://www.publishamerica.com
(enter the name Saga of Pinehill in the search box)
If you enjoyed the first book, you won't be able to put
this one down until you've finished it. Enjoy.
DO IT NOW WHEN IT'S FRESH IN YOUR MIND
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THINK ABOUT THIS TODAY!
"It may be possible to incorporate laugher into daily
activities, just as is done with other heart-healthy
activities, such as taking the stairs instead of the
elevator. The recommendation for a healthy heart may
one day be exercise, eat right and laugh a few times a
day." -- Michael Miller
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HA! HA! HA!
The Gender of Computers
A language instructor was explaining to her class that
French nouns, unlike their English counterparts, are
grammatically designated as masculine or feminine.
Things like 'chalk' or 'pencil,' she described, would have a
gender association although in English these words were
neutral. Puzzled, one student raised his hand and asked,
"What gender is a computer?"
The teacher wasn't certain which it was,and so divided the
class into two groups and asked them to decide if a computer
should be masculine or feminine. One group was comprised of
the women in the class, and the other, of men. Both groups
were asked to give four reasons for their recommendation.
The group of women concluded that computers should be
referred to in masculine gender because:
1. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.
2. They have a lot of data but are still clueless.
3. They are supposed to help you solve your problems, but
half the time they ARE the problem.
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that, if you
had waited a little longer, you could have had a better
model.
The men, on the other hand, decided that computers should
definitely be referred to in the feminine gender because:
1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic.
2. The native language they use to communicate with other
computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
3. Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term
memory for later retrieval.
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find
yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories.
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THE LAST LINE - - - - -
"If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough,
try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that
on which one has not laughed." -- Nicolas-Sebastien
Chamfort
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