About religious beliefs.

A few words about religious beliefs.

 I continue to be surprised at how many people  follow religious beliefs! Of course I do understand why religious people believe almost anything. Eternal energy cannot be explained and so throughout the centuries a few smart people decided to take advantage of this fact. All religions going back centuries are based on a fear of the unknown and all religious leaders use some form of hypnotic repetition to help calm fear. A deep religious belief often helps to sustain a believer through many of the tragedies in life and this gives modern day peaceful religions some purpose and value for existing. Of course a knowledge of basic psychology with health food and vitamins does help the rest of us cope with overwhelming emotions.

The Mission will help your creativity.

FROM MEDIUM DAILY DIGEST:
Some pretty good articles.

TOP STORIES IN EDUCATION Design An Environment Conducive to the Person You Become We do everything we can think of to model world class performers. Srinivas Rao in The Mission 4 min read TOP STORIES IN PHOTOGRAPHY  8 Simple iPhone Photography Tips You Should Apply Right Now to Improve Your Shots! + The best FREE resources you can use today to be a better photographer (find them in the end of the post) Thomas Despin 7 min read Spectacles are the Anti-Glass …and they’ll succeed where Google stumbled Drew Breunig in Hacker Noon 7 min read TOP STORIES IN GOVERNMENT Politics Has Nothing To Do With Politics Here’s a conspiracy that wasn’t just a theory. James Altucher in The Mission 2 min read

The Green Monster will save your life!

You can't enjoy life if you are suffering from pains due to inflammation and old age!
So here is some life sustaining help from the Green Monster. Even the kids will live better!

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I FORGOT WHAT IT IS LIKE TO LAUGH!
CHECK OUT  THESE WONDERFUL OLD MOVIES ON YOUTUBE .

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A new African American history museum in Washington.

I've been waiting to see this day for 15 years -- and in some ways, my whole life.
I've loved history ever since I was a little boy. Growing up in the oppressive shadow of Jim Crow, my teachers would ask me to cut out photographs I found in magazines and newspapers of Rosa Parks, George Washington Carver, and other marchers for justice. I read about Booker T. Washington, reveled in the sounds of the Jubilee Singers, and prayed for a King to reach the mountaintop.
To me, history is the foundation of a powerful legacy, and it is important to tell the stories of the millions of black men and women, boys and girls, who labored and sacrificed, and continue the struggle, to build this great nation.
When I learned of the decades-long effort to establish a national museum dedicated to preserving that too often untold story, I readily joined the effort. Every session of Congress for 15 years, I introduced a bill to create this national museum.
While the journey has been long, today the history of African Americans will finally take its place on the National Mall next to the monuments to Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson -- exactly where it belongs.
It is important that the National Museum of African American History and Culture tells the unvarnished truth of America's history -- a story that speaks to the soul of our nation, but one few Americans know.
It's a reminder that 400 years of history can't be buried; its lessons must be learned. By bringing the uncomfortable parts of our past out of the shadows, we can better understand what divides us and seek to heal those problems through our unity.
If we look at the glass-topped casket that displayed the brutalized body of Emmett Till and hear his story, we may better understand the exasperation and anger Americans feel today over the deaths of Trayvon Martin or Tamir Rice.
If we see that an everyday leather wallet is what's left of Harry T. Moore -- a man who fought for the right to vote and died in a bombing meant to silence his activism on Christmas Day in 1951 -- perhaps we will see why so many are fighting to protect any encroachment on that most sacred right today.
And as we look at the exhibit dedicated to an African American who now leads the free world from a White House built by black slaves, we can better understand the unshakeable optimism that has defined his belief that -- with dedicated work and a little good trouble -- we can help create a society that is more fair and more just, which benefits all Americans.
This museum casts a light on some of the most inspiring -- and uniquely American -- heroes who were denied equal rights but often laid down their lives to defend this nation in every generation. Often they profited least from the struggle they were willing to die for because they believed that the promises of true democracy should belong to us all, equally and without question.
I hope you will join me and President Obama for the opening ceremony of the National Museum of African American History and Culture today at 10:00 am ET.
When you hear about the heroes memorialized in its halls, you may discover the depths of the invincible American spirit. As we learn and confront this history together, we can begin to build one inclusive, and truly democratic family -- the American family.
Rep. John Lewis

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A new Million soldier army.

Gentle People:

   World peace seems to be flying away from us fast! With Assad's military government in Syria killing thousands of innocent Syrians and blowing the hell out of  humanitarian medical convoys, the U.N. brokered peace agreement is an exploded hope! Apparently Assad and his small army need to be arrested but the problem is the fact Assad is being protected by his good friend Putin of Russia. The Russian leader also has to be arrested but his army is much larger and it has nuclear weapons! Assad is playing the U.S. against Russia in an effort to protect himself from certain arrest and certain death and listening to him speak one marvels at his mild mannered composure as he politely accuses the U.S. of lying to the media.

 My solution is to create and mobilize one extremely large United Nations peace force with a million soldiers from every country but the U.S. and Russia. Send the new United Nations Blue helmet army into Syria with orders to arrest or shoot anybody holding a gun. That would include Americans and Russians and any Syrian fanatics who get in their way. If this were to happen I tend to believe the U.S. and Russia would back off and leave Assad to the dictates of justice. If we are going to have war lets have a real war with soldiers against soldiers and lets stop the current vicious and cruel bombing and shooting of defenseless innocent: men and women and children.

Will Microsoft solve cancer?

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Microsoft will 'solve' cancer within 10 years by 'reprogramming' diseased cells

Chris Bishop, laboratory director at Microsoft Research, said biology and computing have very deep connections on the most fundamental level CREDIT: ED MILLER

•  Sarah Knapton, science editor 

20 SEPTEMBER 2016 • 4:02PM

Microsoft has vowed to “solve the problem of cancer” within a decade by using ground-breaking computer science to crack the code of diseased cells so they can be reprogrammed back to a healthy state.

In a dramatic change of direction for the technology giant, the company has assembled a “small army” of the world’s best biologists, programmers and engineers who are tackling cancer as if it were a bug in a computer system.

This summer Microsoft opened its first wet laboratory where it will test out the findings of its computer scientists who are creating huge maps of the internal workings of cell networks.

Microsoft opened its first 'wet' laboratory this summer

The researchers are even working on a computer made from DNA which could live inside cells and look for faults in bodily networks, like cancer. If it spotted cancerous chances it would reboot the system and clear out the diseased cells.

Chris Bishop, laboratory director at Microsoft Research, said: “I think it’s a very natural thing for Microsoft to be looking at because we have tremendous expertise in computer science and what is going on in cancer is a computational problem.

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"It’s not just an analogy, it’s a deep mathematical insight. Biology and computing are disciplines which seem like chalk and cheese but which have very deep connections on the most fundamental level.” 

The biological computation group at Microsoft are developing molecular computers built from DNA which act like a doctor to spot cancer cells and destroy them.

Andrew Philips, head of the group, said: “It’s long term, but… I think it will be technically possible in five to 10 years time to put in a smart molecular system that can detect disease.”

Andrew Philips, head of the group CREDIT: ED MILLER

The programming principles and tools group has already developed software that mimics the healthy behavior of a cell, so that it can be compared to that of a diseased cell, to work out where the problem occurred and how it can be fixed.

The Bio Model Analyser software is already being used to help researchers understand how to treat leukemia more effectively.

Dr Jasmin Fisher believes scientists may be able to control and regulate cancer 'within a decade'

Dr Jasmin Fisher, senior researcher and an associate professor at Cambridge University, said: “If we are able to control and regulate cancer then it becomes like any chronic disease and then the problem is solved.”

“I think for some of the cancers five years, but definitely within a decade. Then we will probably have a century free of cancer."

She believes that in the future smart devices will monitor health continually and compare it to how the human body should be operating, so that it can quickly detect problems. 

“My own personal vision is that in the morning you wake up, you check your email and at the same time all of our genetic data, our pulse, our sleep patterns, how much we exercised, will be fed into a computer which will check your state of well-being and tell you how prone you are to getting flu, or some other horrible thing,” she added.

“In order to get there we need these kind of computer models which mimic and model the fundamental processes that are happening in our bodies.

“Under normal development cells divide and they die and there is a certain balance, the problems start when that balance is broken and that’s how we had uncontrolled proliferation and tumours.

“If we could have all of that sitting on your personal computer and monitoring your health state then it will alert us when something is coming.”   

Improved scanning technology offers hope 

Patients undergoing radiotherapy could see treatment slashed from hours to just minutes with a new innovation to quickly map the size of a tumour.

Experienced radiologists can spot subtle signs of breast cancer in mammogram images in just half a second, a study has found CREDIT: PA

Currently radiologists must scan a tumour and then painstakingly draw the outline of the cancer on dozens of sections by hand to create a 3D map before treatment, a process which can take up to four hours.

They also must outline nearby important organs to make sure they are protected from the blast of radiation.

But Microsoft engineers have developed a programme which can delineate a tumour within minutes, meaning treatment can happen immediately.

The programme can also show doctors how effective each treatment has been, so the dose can be altered depending on how much the tumour has been shrunk.

“Eyeballing works very well for diagnosing,” said Antonio Criminisi, a machine learning and computer vision expert who heads radiomics research in Microsoft’s Cambridge, UK, lab.

“Expert radiologists can look at an image – say a scan of someone’s brain – and be able to say in two seconds, ‘Yes, there’s a tumor. No, there isn’t a tumor. But delineating a tumour by hand is not very accurate.” 

The system could eventually evaluate 3D scans pixel by pixel to tell the radiologist exactly how much the tumor has grown, shrunk or changed shape since the last scan.

It also could provide information about things like tissue density, to give the radiologist a better sense of whether something is more likely a cyst or a tumor. And it could provide more fine-grained analysis of the health of cells surrounding a tumor.

“Doing all of that by eye is pretty much impossible,” added Dr Criminisi. 

The images could also be 3D printed so that surgeons could practice a tricky operation, such as removing a hard-to -reach brain tumour, before surgery.