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Here is another Cancer cure worth understanding. Cancer cures are now becoming common place and I intend to find them and show them to you, dear readers.
Oxygen-depleted hypoxic regions in the tumour are generally resistant to therapies1. Although nanocarriers have been used to deliver drugs, the targeting ratios have been very low. Here, we show that the magneto-aerotactic migration behaviour2 of magnetotactic bacteria3, Magnetococcus marinus strain MC-1 (ref. 4), can be used to transport drug-loaded nanoliposomes into hypoxic regions of the tumour. In their natural environment, MC-1 cells, each containing a chain of magnetic iron-oxide nanocrystals5, tend to swim along local magnetic field lines and towards low oxygen concentrations6 based on a two-state aerotactic sensing system2. We show that when MC-1 cells bearing covalently bound drug-containing nanoliposomes were injected near the tumour in severe combined immunodeficient beige mice and magnetically guided, up to 55% of MC-1 cells penetrated into hypoxic regions of HCT116 colorectal xenografts. Approximately 70 drug-loaded nanoliposomes were attached to each MC-1 cell. Our results suggest that harnessing swarms of microorganisms exhibiting magneto-aerotactic behaviour can significantly improve the therapeutic index of various nanocarriers in tumour hypoxic regions.
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Native Americans Are Barred From Disrupting Oil Pipeline Construction
A North Dakota federal court ordered Native American protesters Wednesday to stop blocking the construction of a $3.8 billion oil pipeline set to cross four states and major rivers, a Sioux official said.
The restraining order comes as construction at the site has beensuspended following days of protests.
“The tribe is committed to doing all it can to make sure the demonstrations … are done in the right way,” said Dave Archambault II, chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, in a call with reporters Wednesday. “As we have said from the beginning, demonstrations regarding Dakota Access must be peaceful.”
On Monday, workers were instructed to leave their equipment after protesters walked onto the work site and surrounded machinery, the Bismarck Tribunereported. That same day the pipeline developer, Dakota Access, filed a lawsuit against the Standing Rock Sioux reservation alleging worker and law enforcement safety was at risk.
The so-called Bakken pipeline, a line about as long as the proposed Keystone XL, is set to cut through the Dakotas, Iowa, and Illinois diagonally. Owned by a subsidiary of Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, every day the line will transport up to 570,000 barrels of sweet crude oil fracked from North Dakota’s oil-rich Bakken Formation, to a market hub near Patoka, Illinois.
Most of the affected land is private farmland, but the project does run through wildlife areas and sacred Native American sites, as well as major drinking water sources like the Mississippi, and the Missouri, the longest river in North America. Federal agencies have said the Bakken pipeline avoids “critical habitat,” and developers have assured states the pipeline is safe. Critics, on the other hand, consider the Bakken pipeline an unreasonable threat and say the line is poised to leak.
Iowa was the last state to bless the pipeline earlier this year after much opposition from environmentalists, Native Americans, and some farmers who ended up suing state regulators. Then last month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established paths to avoid sacred sites and approved the last set of permits developers needed to build. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe countered with a lawsuit against the agency to challenge the permits. A hearing is set for next week.
“The pipeline presents a threat to our land, our sacred sites, our water and to the people,” said Archambault, who has reached out to the White House and North Dakota senators. “Our basic message is that the Corps of Engineers has failed to follow the law and has failed to consider the impacts of the pipeline on Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.”
Archambault was among several protesters charged late last week with disorderly conduct or trespassing at a construction site located near where the Cannonball and Missouri rivers meet, according to published reports. Law officials first started detaining people Thursday, some two days after the protest began.
As the weekend progressed, the protest grew in size and attention with celebrities like actresses Shailene Woodley, Rosario Dawson, and Riley Keough voicing their opposition. In fact, Woodley, 24, was in the protest last week , the Bismarck Tribune reported.
“It is our responsibility to learn the narrative in which Native Americans recall their own history and are walking their own history, and this is a beautiful opportunity for that,” said Woodley, according Look to the Stars, a celebrity news site. “Not only are we saying enough is enough to the fossil-fuel industry but we’re saying enough is enough to silence. That’s why this fight is so profound to me.”
Though a restraining order is in place, the protest is likely to continue further away from the site.
The Bakken pipeline is scheduled to be operational by the end of the year.
SHHH....keep it a secret! Don't let anybody know how bad the heat is getting! Pretend everything is fine in your air conditioned home or apartment or car. Keep your car motor running and don't worry about global warming. After all, you just bought your new shiny internal combustion engine at zero percent financing and global warming or no global warming, you are not going to give up your cool ride for anybody!
Who cares if the Glaciers have melted! Who cares if the Arctic has melted! Who cares if old people die in the heat and desertification replaces farm lands! Monsanto will continue to feed you with great tasting genetically modified and pesticide resistant Serial crops grown in other countries and McDonalds can provide you with nice fat and juicy hormone fed beef. And don't worry about those pesky environment protection people. They have limited power and the super rich Oil producing countries will do their best to dominate the governments of the world so that nothing changes to disturb your comfortable life styles.
In some areas of the world the opposite is true. Flooding and hurricanes and humidity are the norm and native Trees are dying by the thousands to be replaced by tropical species and insects that normally live in jungles. But hey! As long as you are comfortable in your air conditioned offices and homes and cars, the occasional Black Widow spider will not worry you! That's what pesticides are for! Why worry about the millions of suffering people who don't have the luxuries of an oil based industrial economy to keep them comfortable and so keep up the great secret and SHHHH!
NASA Analysis Finds July 2016 is Warmest on Record
July 2016 was the warmest July in 136 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. Because the seasonal temperature cycle peaks in July, it means July 2016 also was warmer than any other month on record. July 2016’s temperature was a statistically small 0.1 degrees Celsius warmer than previous warm Julys in 2015, 2011 and 2009.
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They arrived from every country in Africa to learn and to listen and although I am not from Africa nor am I Black or young, I also listened to president Obama give every ounce of thought and energy he had to inspire and motivate young people. Obama is welcome to write on this Blog for the rest of his life if he should feel the need to communicate after he steps down as president. Signed: Joseph Raglione. Blogger.
I come from Uganda -- from a farming community in the countryside where I learned what I know from the farmers I grew up with.
When I had the chance to complete my education in agricultural science, the hardest decision I had to make was whether to find a new job or return to my local community and teach them a little bit of what I had learned.
More than anything else, I wanted to see improvement in the livelihoods of the farmers that helped me become the agricultural scientist, pastor, and mentor that I am today. So I returned home to the Arua district in Uganda, and spent years working to pass on the knowledge and skills I had gained.
My passion is to help bring solutions to the country, and continent, where I grew up. That's how so many of my fellow Africans who are part of the President's Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) feel too.
And that's why I'm so excited to introduce President Obama to my YALI fellows, and to you, at a town hall today. You can tune in at 3:20 pm ET to watch live here.
As President Obama knows, the African continent is not only in need of transformational leaders, but leaders who will make the deliberate effort to inspire those they lead to take up the mantle -- particularly young leaders, who are looking for seasoned role models to emulate.
Thanks to President Obama and the legacy he leaves with YALI, so many of us our are well-poised to do just that. So please join us at the town hall today at 3:20 pm ET to hear President Obama's answers to our questions about the future of young leaders in Africa and around the world.
Thanks for listening to my story,
Emmanuel
Emmanuel Odama Arua District, Uganda
According to the new findings, Gut Bacteria eat a chemical known as G.A.B.A. This chemical produces a calming effect on the human brain and apparently gut bacteria also like to remain calm because GABA is all they eat! If these little parasites only eat G.A.B.A. why do we need them in our Guts? Apparently they are not helping us digest our food! Do they serve some other purpose? What do these Gut Bacteria secrete after eating G.A.B.A.?
The following article links low levels of G.A.B.A. to depression and mood disorders. It also explains that certain Gut Bacteria only eat G.A.B.A. That makes me wonder! What would happen if we limit or remove these particular Gut Bacteria? Fewer of these Gut Bacteria might mean leaving more G.A.B.A. for our human Brains. That might help to calm our brains but here is another question. What is G.A.B.A. doing in our digestive tracts? Should this chemical not remain in our Brains where it belongs? My guess is that we have to keep our Gut Bacteria happy without depleting our brain's supply of G.A.B.A. I theorize that learning how to increase and maintain G.A.B.A. in our brains will keep both our brains and our Guts contented for longer periods.
What do you think gentle Corina Marinescu?
Gut bacteria spotted eating brain chemicals for the first time
Bacteria have been discovered in our guts that depend on one of our brain chemicals for survival. These bacteria consume GABA, a molecule crucial for calming the brain, and the fact that they gobble it up could help explain why the gut microbiome seems to affect mood.
Philip Strandwitz and his colleagues at Northeastern University in Boston discovered that they could only grow a species of recently discovered gut bacteria, called KLE1738, if they provide it with GABA molecules. “Nothing made it grow, except GABA,” Strandwitz said while announcing his findings at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in Boston last month.
GABA acts by inhibiting signals from nerve cells, calming down the activity of the brain, so it’s surprising to learn that a gut bacterium needs it to grow and reproduce. Having abnormally low levels of GABA is linked to depression and mood disorders, and this finding adds to growing evidence that our gut bacteria may affect our brains.
Gentle People:
With all the terrifying bloodshed occurring around the world, I am forced to remember why I started the non-religious world humanitarian peace and ecology movement. It was after a car accident left me with a chronic and painful disability I decided to smell the Roses...literally. Upon leaving the Hospital which saved my life, I searched for and found a Rose Bush and smelled the Roses. Oh yes, they were pretty but unfortunately genetically modified with zero scent!
The accident prompted me to view life on Earth as extremely rare and precious and beautiful and something to be protected...not by force but by friendly persuasion using as much logic and science as is humanly possible! Police forces of the world take note! Friendly persuasion works better than a loaded gun! All life includes human life. We humans are part of Nature which is delicate and beautiful and rare in the Universe and must be gently protected from exploitation by people who believe money and power are all that matters. White collar crime has enormous repercussions on the people who live on or below the poverty line and we need police forces not afraid to look up the social ladder as well as far down below.
I sincerely hope people working for companies such as Monsanto and Bayer who create genetic experiments and chemical pesticide products which are dangerous to life on Earth, are also reading these words! Have the CEO's of these and similar companies become so desperate for economic and emotional and physical security they have completely lost their sense of Ethics? Are they willing to destroy the natural environment for money and power?
It starts with the school systems. Every child should be rewarded for participation within a school system that literally provides the necessities of life. Schools should be productive members of society. They should have school kitchens providing free food for hungry children. Hydroponic Gardens that grow the food. Small Zoos for observing and understanding how other species survive within a living Biology class protected by the students. Science classes that create computers for free distribution to students and for sale outside the schools. Machine and Wood working shops that produce goods for sale outside the schools. There must be every concept imaginable to keep young minds curious and participating within a well structured and government protected school system. Children should love the time they spend within the school system and not fear for their lives as is often happening today!
When I was in school only a few children with the smartest memories and those who were the best physically fit were rewarded. They used something called credits to reward the smart students and the Athletes were passed through with or without credits. It was Bullshit and most students understood it was Bullshit. We studied and worked hard for credits only because enough accumulated credits allowed us to escape the prison like school system without the humiliating drop-out label. Credits had zero economic value outside the school and we all understood that fact but if we did not appreciate the idea and decided to rebel, we were severely and brutally punished. Myself included. Only a few of the children who had quick memories and who always obeyed the teachers were frequently rewarded. The majority of students encumbered with emotional or psychological or physical problems were often left aside. Many would end up working as hard labor for our corporate industrial society. I became a general handy-man and bounced from company to company learning as much as I could along the road of life, but I had a deep and silent secret. I often read books not sanctioned by the school system. Books that explained secrets most students would never understand. I became a secret intellectual and a handy-man while later my industrial training became good enough for basic survival.
I was never accepted into the ranks of the middle class.
In the recent past, economic success and social power was the rallying cry for schools around the world. Many young people were repetitively indoctrinated to believe that money and power were all important tenets of success. Unfortunately, today as adults they are stressed and emotionally unstable and some have given up the struggle altogether and can be found barely surviving on the streets! Many end up in our many prisons and have become dangerous! On the other side of the spectrum, students who became the most successful and richest people on Earth are today often unhappy human beings! Many have become extremely competitive and self-centered and cold-blooded and they know how to accumulate money and power but not how to distribute wealth or create good life sustaining ideas! They do not work for the betterment of all Life on Earth but do however know how to dominate and control the human mind using any method possible! Repetitive hypnosis and peer group pressure as well as Media advertising are social tools often used by clever dominating people to create groups of loyal followers. For examples: political followers, military and police followers, religious followers, fanatic groups of dangerous followers, money oriented company followers and groups of non-profit followers. I prefer groups of friendly Nature followers.
Today companies of people continue to degrade the natural environment in search of wealth and power and they are dangerously succeeding! They, however, are quietly being asked to change their bad habits and more than a few are using their power and money to help preserve nature and not to exploit what is natural and beautiful. Surprisingly, they are discovering how much fun it is and even, how profitable!
Money was created as a better method for exchanging goods and services but over the centuries quickly changed to became economic symbols of power representing rulers and governments. People without money were left behind to die in poverty and misery! The extreme rich did not care about the extreme poor until the poor revolted. Unfortunately, that cycle is returning! Today the poor are extremely poor and the rich are...well...you know how it goes!
Today, using my old computer, I attempt to help with free publicity as many non-profit organizations as possible and I do not ask for money. My telephone is connected to the Internet and once a month I pay my phone bill. My pension check is minimal and I am always broke!. Saving Life on Earth without government economic help is an expensive proposition and I do realize why people accumulate money. It is sad that accumulating money helps to destroy Nature. Many people today are desperate for money. The price of food and shelter has gone up and the poor are suffering in miserable poverty. That is the reason we need better social programs and a larger Tax on the extreme rich. We also need a Carbon Tax on those who continue to create pollution. We must make the polluters pay! It is to create an equitable economic distribution system based on clean air and water and clean food!
It is to give every person a fair chance at survival! It is to maintain and to help all those wonderful people who are care-givers and who work without thought to personal gain, a chance to relax once in a while and to enjoy life! We need more people who are willing to help those in desperate need and who are in emotional stress. We need people who like helping people! We need people who enjoy life on this Earth and who work to protect the natural environment and who absolutely refuse to exploit the environment for personal profit! All of the aforementioned people need protection more than the half insane power brokers and exploiters who now control the economic system of the not-so-free world.
We have to stop the blood-shed with the only tools that work. Friendship with patience and education. We have to use the care givers credo of ALOHA which is: Ask...Listen...Observe...Help....and Ask again.
Over decades I was never simply satisfied to write words for their own sake but attempted to create social solutions to help stop the murderous bloodshed created by basically extremely sick and lonely human beings. We need a great many more intelligent imaginative minds to help create solutions. We need to completely revamp and improve our early childhood education systems. One important solution is to break up a Policeman's Eight hour work day into two distinct parts.. During one-half of the day he or she patrols the streets keeping the peace and during the other half of the day the police officer wears a different and non threatening uniform to work with children in parks and play grounds as swimming and sport instructors. He or she can also use the power of the police to work along side social services in order to help the homeless and the drug addicts find safe havens without the threat of incarceration.
Thanks for reading. I hope these words help you create a better world.
Signed: Joseph Raglione
Executive director: The world humanitarian peace and ecology movement.
