Poison

The Twelve Tastes of Poison

Poison is a remarkably evil form of murder.
It has a cast of ancient or medieval witchiness about it. It is alchemy gone twisted bizarre. It is nurturing turned inside out as the art of cooking becomes sinister. It’s the most premeditated of crimes.
Anthrax exposure and the earlier exposure of people to a toxic work environment are examples of the extremes of this story. To knowingly send people into a hazardous environment or situation takes a kind of denial or stone cold narcissism that is hard for an ordinary person to imagine.
People can be damned malicious.
I wrote a couple of days ago that in Hawaii I was poisoned at least nine times. But the truth is it has been more. If you find this fact hard to believe then the rest of this story will not make any sense to you.
Toxic substances, from cleaning fluids to HIV laden body fluids are simple enough to mix into somebody’s drinks or food. It’s like date rape drugs. They go down easily and do their damage without much of a whisper.
In my own case, I have survived an attempt to chemically castrate me. It took me about a year and a half to recover from that one. I can talk about the opposition to an inter-racial relationship as the reason for that, or the more traditional desire to unman a perceived powerful adversary, to make him less of a man.
In civil rights cases or revolutionary political situations this is common.
My case has elements of both.
Though I would never claim folk hero status, the situation was open enough and talked about enough to involve more than one issue. It involved sexual assault in the community, the toxic environment, RICO activities and technological advantage protected like secrets to stop others from competing with the power base in the small town.
My food has been pissed it, fecal matter and bugs have been thrown into it like seasoning, and other more traditional poisons, including snake venom has been used to either build up tolerance for poisons or as poison itself.
Despite this, eating has remained one of the great joys of my life.
I’m very interested in ingredients and their impact on biology.
I have worked my whole life on finding the right dietary combinations to help me deal with the ADD and autism I talk about. I like the impact of cooking on romance, libido and energy as well.
I try to taste everything as well as smell it.
It is a grand meditative tradition, contemplative cookery.
I am no super sloth like Sherlock Holmes. I make mistakes. I may very well die from one of my mistakes. But there it is. Despite the denial food is one of the things I have to deal with.
It’s insidious, because carefulness with food can seem pathological to people eating pepperoni pizza and joking about the weather.
“What’s wrong Mike?”
I may be looking at a slice of pepperoni like it has been dyed (it probably has) with a deeply cancerous red dye and sprinkled with fat that is laden with embalming fluid and hormones.
Like most people I am usually in denial about this sort of thing.
In this country people do not like being reminded that they are killing themselves with mutated chemical wastes.
It’s a party for Christ’s sake. Enjoy.
I am not one to lecture someone about their diet or dwell on contents that are fused into the food by corporate coop. There is something innocent about murder by cup cake. It takes a long time and a lot of cup cakes. You enjoy every bite and lick the icing off your upper lip like it’s the elixir of the Gods.
Certain Cola’s will take the rust off bolts.
I like that cola.
It’s a paradox.
My doctor tells me a single grain of salt can kill me.
Our bodies is the very temple of God which we gaudy up with tinsel and poison to make ourselves feel good for the seconds it stings the tongue with pleasure and becomes part of the slabby fat that festers in the walls of our temple.
Hey dude. It’s my temple.
Yes. It is.
So when I tell you my stories believe this much. Some substances will kill you. Some people will give you those substances without much thought, especially if they want to make you sick or dead.
It may be intimate but it is also has a cold distance to it.
It is murder just the same.

I had to report these crimes to the police. The last time the officer did not take a sample because the city did not have the forensics to chemically analyze it.
We should fund that.

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The Covered Vigin of Guadalupe (A Rewrite)

The Covered Virgin Of Guadalupe

It was 1998.
The circuits had been crossed in my little luxury condo the same way they had been crossed in our little green plantation house. The electrical intensity was less. Instead of the bristling anger caused by the high voltage, the atmosphere was subdued, like a narcotic drip into an intravenous needle into the arm.
I was sluggish and thick-lidded.
I felt depressed.
But I wasn’t alone.
There was the incessant clatter of other voices congregating around the refrigerator and toaster.
David Wang, the playwright best known for his Ms. Saigon, described a similar situation in "1000 Airplanes on the Roof." "The Bee Hive” in his libretto for the Philip Glass opera or multi-media event was a similar conundrun of voices buzzing bee-like in his honey comb brain.
In my review of the opera, I went to great lengths in what is probably the worst lead of my career to describe a person hanging out by the cement pond , Beverly Hillbilly's like, (I said) as a spinning, neon threaded disc descended. There was no time to gee-gaw. It kidnapped him.
“1,000 Airplanes” is the best play on PTSD or trauma I’ve ever seen.
It deals with the dilemma of telling other people what has happened to you, an event so overwelming that you can barely describe it to yourself. I've talked about it before
I'm not sure how.
All I knew was that I was going to Federal Court with my issues, neon and all.
I was aware that judges are seldom poets in thier black gowns. They are not therapists. They are into the tittles of how a train jumps tracks, in what place and manner, and to what consequences.
It was not about one train anymore. The terminal had been kidnapped by aliens. It was raining trains.
My police officer friends were much the same as the judge.
They were not interested in commentary.
When I wore the name tag in my profession, I was a community member in a respectable position. I accessed crisis needs for the police. In a small town like Wai’anae, their biggest problems were things like prisoner transports of the mentally unstable and in cooling domestic violence situations after the event.
When I wore the name tag I dealt with cocaine and ice smoking rage addicts with shotguns. I picked-up teens that were just released from jail after letters of apprehension were served or who were found with guns in thier pajamas, dugs, or stolen objects.
Those exchanges were predictable. You got the beep. You did the call.
You did what you were asked to do and winged the rest.
Without an embossed tag, I was just another person with a crazy story.
I lacked a role to hide behind.
Instead of responding I was seeking response.
By then I wasn’t dressing as well.
I needed a haircut and I wasn’t doing the police department any favors by calling them.
I looked like every other crime victim, stunned stupid by events.
In a stunned state I was easy to deceive. Most people are after a trauma.
My apartment telephone was on a closed circuit.
My 911 call was intercepted. An operator from what was identified as Frontier Communications answered the phone and directed it.
I had a fake cop respond on 911 call.
He had a faded uniform and needed a haircut. He had sideburns from the late 70s and it was 1998.
He actually had fingerprint powder in his car. He left me to go get it. When he returned he had what looked like an olive jar.
It said, “Finger Print” powder on it in big black letters. It was generic, not brand Fingerprint powder. It said what it did on a plain white label.
It had fingerprints all over it.
He dumped the powder all over the tile counter and left the jar in a pile of gunpowder when he left.
Before he sauntered out the door, I finally got him to take a sample of what ever I was dosed with from the refrigerator. It was a Coke with some kind of narcotic in it.
It had smelled funny. I took two tiny sips to identify it and ended up going down like a roller coaster into sleep.
It had knocked me out for about 48 hours, in which time my former fiancée was assaulted.
I didn’t find that out until later.
Her apartment was trashed when I came looking for her.
She was gone.
The place smelled like gym.
The Virgin of Guadalupe on the wall was covered with a thrown sheet.
The man who played cops and robbers was probably a security guard or private investigator. I had seen them before. They hired people to do the parts. The fake detectives were also guilty of sexually assualting people on the highway or beach.
This one actually turned in the sample to the police department.
It was heavy with the sweet smell of codeine. Two small sips were enough to knock me out.
If one of the kids or I had taken a bigger sip or drank half a can we'd be dead.
I was aware that there were a series of pharmacy robberies reported in the previous months.
The primary goal of the robberies had been codiene and morphene, though perscription electrical brain stimulators were also stolen.
This hooked into several other crimes I had become aware of. The problem with being disabled was you hung out all day. With time on your hands you became more aware of where you lived and what wa s going on around you.
I prefered working all day and coming home exaughsted.
My situation got worse.
Someone had tried to run me off the road. My car was shot at while it was at the beach. To taop it all off, I had been poisoned at least nine times. I was beginning to get the hang of things.
Someone was trying to tell me something.
I had become very careful with things that could be poisoned.
The drugs were of various kinds.
Someone, evidently trying to help me, had left three coke cans neatly lined up in the refrigerator in the previous month.
The first was closed.
The second had the tab pushed back.
The third had the tab replaced so it looked normal.
I had been tipped off about a way to make an open can look new and unopened.
I sipped and smelled things before I drank them.
I followed my pharmacist’s advice to the letter.
“When in doubt, throw it out.”
The chili in my apartment was also laced with codeine as was the chili in my fiancée’s apartment.
She had three kids, two of them disabled. If a child had drank the entire coke he or she would be dead.
I knew it. I worried.
All notions of a friendly dispute resolved in court were gone. I was in a lunatic situation. There was noone to talk to about it.
All of a sudden it was espionage and organized crime tactics.
I didn’t know where it was coming from.
I did know that initial problems occurred because my girlfriend was Latina and of mixed racial heritage.
There were some that did not approve and they let us know.
She was Indian, French, Italian and African though her skin tone was whiter than mine.
I am Italian-American.
When we first started dating she wore a lot of white powder on her face like a mime so we’d be the same color. She was a good deal lighter with the white pancake flake on.
It bothered me.
In bed one night I said, “Honey, look” comparing thighs, “You are whiter than I am.”
It took her a long time to accept the fact.
She had a wonderfully dense accent and worked hard on her vocabulary. She read voluminously in English and Spanish and always had her dictionary with her.
Like me, she was late in learning to speak. She was silent until about age 5. She was hearing impaired. Her mom, a school teacher, taught her to talk with marbles in her mouth so she’d speak clearly.
I never fully understood that one.
When I did it to learn to speak clearly again I sounded like I had marbles in my mouth.
She spoke very well and was always my best teacher.
But it took her awhile to get this simple fact. She knew a lot more about racism than I did.
With her I had discovered certain attitudes towards Latina that I never knew existed. I noted it.
In 1998, things were as strange as they could be, in attitude and danger and in culture.
I was learning as fast as I could.
Like in “1,000 Airplanes on the roof” I was having to talk about UFO like events to people concerned about fresh fish and poi.
I had to communicate.
Poisoned with toxins, anthrax and poverty O kept things to myself, feeling more and more distant from my community and neighbors. My brain was fudge.
I didn’t know what to do.
Thank God people did.
One officer on another 9-11 called subdued his disgust and sat down at the kitchen table with me.
“When you are in doubt about the legitimacy of an officer in the field” he said, “ask him or her if they are on or off duty. Look at the uniform and the grooming. Look especially at the belt and what has been issued. Look at the name tag.”
He pointed to the gun, the ammo cartridge, baton and gun.
If doubt continues call the supervisor.
In Los Angeles the previous week, someone, pretending to be a police officer was shooting people on the interstate and exchange.
The Chief of Police there had suggested slowing down, putting the blinkers on and proceeding to the nearest police station as a suggestion.
Nothing was as it seemed. Thought before action were required. Stepping away from conditioned responses was highly recommended.
I had to regroup.
As the Firesign Theatre used to sasy, “Everything you know is wrong.”

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David C. Kernell, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was indicted by a federal grand jury for intentionally accessing without authorization the e-mail account of Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

Abducted children: Conventional photos alone don't aid the searchPhysOrg Wed, 29 Oct 2008 5:03 AM PDTPeople's ability to recognise abducted children is impaired when they view a photo of a smiling, clean child, but come into contact with the same child whose appearance is very different because he or she is upset, crying, dishevelled or unkempt. This is the key finding of a study published today in Applied Cognitive Psychology.

Brothers and sisters learn to live with autismProvidence Journal - Providence,RI,USABy DON AUCOIN Children toss balls of paper containing their concerns at the Autism Resource Center in West Boylston, Mass. From left: Chrissy Berard, ...See all stories on this topic

Musical Talent and Autism: A Link Worth ExploringAbout - News & Issues - New York,NY,USAThere were music teachers galore - but none willing to take on a child with autism. Finally, we found a very young woman with a lot of patience and very few ...See all stories on this topic

A Virginia Beach surfing icon feels a wave of affectionThe Virginian-Pilot Thu, 23 Oct 2008 8:49 PM PDTVIRGINIA BEACH Pete Smith isn't psyched. He's stoked. What else would an old surfer be? At the moment, on Thursday morning, he's walking through a shop at Hilltop where a lot of his old surfing magazines, T-shirts, decals and stickers are laid out like it's the Smithsonian of surfing. But really, until a few weeks ago, all this stuff was just Pete's "collection."

Prop 9 would expand victims' rightsCalifornia Aggie Fri, 24 Oct 2008 0:02 AM PDTCalifornia law gives victims of crime the right to speak out at sentencing and parole hearings, but supporters of Prop 9 say crime victims ' rights cannot stop there.

TRANSSEXUAL STUDY REVEALS GENETIC LINK The discovery of a genetic variation in male to female transsexuals adds weight to the view that transsexualism has a biological basis, the Australian researchers behind the find say.http://abcmail.net.au/t/301303/685626/5783/0/

== YOUR STORIES: DIAGNOSING TYPE 1.5 DIABETES == Caraline McLeod wasn't the only one surprised by tests confirming she had an uncommon type of diabetes she'd read about on the internet.http://abcmail.net.au/t/301303/685626/5726/0/

New GI Bill on track to meet 2009 deadlineTacoma News Tribune Sat, 25 Oct 2008 1:45 AM PDTThe new Post-9/11 GI Bill, which on average will double the value of education benefits for eligible veterans, will be launched on schedule next August and begin making payments to students and colleges next fall, just as Congress intended, says a senior Department of Veterans Affairs official.

http://www.securene t.net/members/ aaxt/html/ AndreaPaperNewFo rmat(2).pdfThe author's experience gained in therapeutic workwith more than one hundred autistic children, coupledwith a study of pineal gland research, has led to thehypothesis that the problems of autism stem from animpairment of pineal gland functioning. This paper willargue for that hypothesis by proposing that specificdysfunctional conditions of the pineal gland are the causeof particular symptoms of autism. It will also report on asuccessful therapeutic strategy that involves theapplication of bodywork techniques such as CraniosacralTherapy, Polarity Therapy and the MetamorphicTechnique in conjunction with the administration ofsupplemental melatonin.Introduction

China’s new academy of Tibetan Buddhism near Lhasa may backfire as the center for Tibetan IndependenceIndia Daily Sat, 18 Oct 2008 12:49 PM PDTThe academy will train "patriotic and devotional religious personnel" with strong religious accomplishments and moral character. This is what China is telling the world.


Radioactive: Mobile phones - the battery conundrum - Networks ...Nov 9, 2005 ... Are fuel cells the answer? Tags: mobile phone, battery, battery life, fuel cell .... London Olympics fibre hub 'template for UK broadband' ...
Two More Central Florida Pharmacies Hit By Robbers WFTV 9 Orlando - Oct 25 1:00 PM EDT

Ballesteros 'stable' after third brain op CNN Sat, 25 Oct 2008 1:30 AM PDTGolf legend Seve Ballesteros is in a "stable" condition after a third operation to remove a cancerous brain tumor at La Paz Hospital in Madrid on Friday.

Police: Man urinates on dog after owner spurns sex AP via Yahoo! News Fri, 24 Oct 2008 9:43 PM PDTA 36-year-old man took revenge on his roommate after she refused to have sex with him by allegedly urinating on her dog, police said. Police said the man was arrested early Thursday morning on tentative charges of criminal damage to property and disorderly conduct related to domestic violence
Woman suing over husband's missing brain UPI Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:07 PM PDTNEW YORK, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- A 71-year-old New York woman wants $4 million from those responsible for losing her late husband's brain.

New format for pro surfing FOXSPORTS.com.au Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:49 AM PDTPROFESSIONAL surfing tournaments will have the option of a new format in 2009 with the aim of running events over shorter periods and providing opportunities for non-ranked surfers to break into the World Championship Tour.

Digital Ally to Introduce New Products at 115th Annual International Chiefs of Police Conference November 8-12, 2008 PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance Thu, 30 Oct 2008 4:30 AM PDTDigital Ally, Inc. , which develops, manufactures and markets advanced video surveillance products for law enforcement, homeland security and commercial security applications, today announced that the Company will introduce a number of new products and product features at the 115th Annual International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference and Exposition, which will be held November 9-11, ...

PILL REPLACES INJECTIONS FOR MONOGENIC DIABETES (Science Show: 25/10/2008) http://abcmail.net.au/t/301303/685626/5758/0/CANNABIS RECEPTORS FOR STROKE TREATMENT (Science Show: 25/10/2008) http://abcmail.net.au/t/301303/685626/5757/0/

Sex assault sailor loses appeal BBC News - UKWarrant Officer Timothy Matthews, of Gifford Terrace, Plymouth, was jailed for three years in December 2007 after he was found guilty of sexual assault. ...See all stories on this topic


THE HOBBIT ENIGMA ABC1, 8:30pm Tuesday, 4 November 2008 The Hobbit Enigma examines one of the greatest controversies in science today. Just what did scientists really find when they uncovered the tiny, human-like skeleton of a strange creature on the Indonesian island of Flores in 2003?Are the bones a previously unknown and bizarre primitive species of human? How could the hobbits survive for so long and until so recently? Who were its ancestors? Is it possible that human origins are to be found in Asia, not Africa? The Hobbit Enigma forces us to ask the most difficult question of all - what does it mean to be human?http://abcmail.net.au/t/301303/685626/5800/0/



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Alarming Sex Assault Rate Found Among VetsCBS News - New York,NY,USATuesday, researchers reported that an alarming number of female soldiers have sought treatment for sexual assault committed by fellow soldiers. ...See all stories on this topic

Sexual abuse rates of deployed female soldiers detailed in study Los Angeles Times - CA,USAThe Department of Defense has developed a sexual assault prevention and response program "and we may be seeing a response to those policies," Street said.See all stories on this topic


15% of female veterans tell of sexual trauma USA Today - USAThe study is the first of its size to screen veterans for sexual assaults and harassment, covering more than 125000 who received VA care from October 2001 ...See all stories on this topic

Female war vets report sex traumas Detroit Free Press - United StatesIt's the first large study to screen veterans for sexual assaults and harassment, covering more than 125000 who received VA care from October 2001 to ...See all stories on this topic

Brain Zap Improves DexterityLiveScience.com via Yahoo! News Wed, 29 Oct 2008 9:12 AM PDTA slight zap of electricity to the brain could make righties better at using their left hands, a new study shows.


Attorneys slam Bush for 9/11 actions Honolulu Star-Bulletin Wed, 29 Oct 2008 4:32 AM PDTIn its single-minded pursuit of possible terrorists, the Bush administration has rounded up and imprisoned hundreds of people at Guantanamo Bay for years. So far, just one of them has been tried.

Ballesteros improving after brain surgery CNN Wed, 29 Oct 2008 9:06 AM PDTSeve Ballesteros' condition is improving as he battles for his life after last week's surgery on his cancerous brain tumor.

Scientists Identify Brain's 'Hate Circuit' HealthDay via Yahoo! News Wed, 29 Oct 2008 6:02 AM PDTWEDNESDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- British researchers say they've identified a "hate circuit" in the brain.
Ancient mine may be King Solomon's The Australian - Sydney,AustraliaThe new dig, led by Thomas Levy, of the University of California, San Diego, and Mohammad Najjar, of Jordan's Friends of Archeology, suggests Glueck might ...See all stories on this topic

Women want sleep, men sex in time change UPI Tue, 28 Oct 2008 7:23 AM PDTTORONTO, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- When clocks turn back an hour to standard time in Canada this weekend, most men wish the "extra" hour could be for sex, while women would rather just sleep.

Space takes off as hot issue for both parties Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USAObama's commitment to education nearly cost him the support of the Space Coast. Until August, he was urging that billions be cut from the Constellation moon ...See all stories on this topic

Text of Denis Leary’s statement in response to controversial book Boston Herald - United StatesI have nothing but admiration and sympathy for the people I know who are raising children with autism. In fact, they were the inspiration for the chapter I ...See all stories on this topic

Where They Stand: National Security Daily Vidette Mon, 27 Oct 2008 7:04 PM PDTJohn McCain After the attacks of 9/11, John McCain called for the development of an independent 9/11 Commission and the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security. McCain supports bolstering the size of the Army and Marine Corps in order to better defend the United States from threats around the world.

Shelf control: The psychology of grocery shopping Lawrence Journal-World Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:29 PM PDTA typical Midwest grocer stocks 60,000 or so items. It may be simple math that determines the amount of goods that fit comfortably in each individual store, but it’s something of a science when it comes to figuring out how those items are displayed.

Factoring Fear: What Scares Us and Why Scientific American Mon, 27 Oct 2008 7:15 AM PDTWhat's scarier, a deadly snake slithering across your path during a hike or watching a 1,000-point drop in the stock market? Although both may instill fear, researchers disagree over the nature and cause of this very powerful emotion. "When you see the stock market fall 1,000 points, that's the same as seeing a snake," says Joseph LeDoux, professor of neuroscience and psychology the Center for .
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New GI Bill offers benefit hikes, new stipendsNorth Texas Daily Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:37 PM PDTA 64-year-old bill just had a face-lift, and it means more money for more than 600 NT students. Housing stipends, book and supply stipends and more money for tuition are benefits of the new Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 or "New GI Bill" passed by Congress in June.
Dance Lifts Bodies and Souls for Parkinson PatientsWBUR Boston Sun, 19 Oct 2008 8:04 PM PDTParkinson's disease has no cure, and medications for it tend to stop working over time. But recent studies show that dancing can help reduce Parkinson's symptoms. A local nonprofit has started a dance class for people with the disease.
Parkinson's patient walking today into uncertain futureEvansville Courier & Press Sun, 19 Oct 2008 10:13 PM PDTKaren Smith's battle with Parkinson's Disease led her to form a local support group and start a Parkinson's Disease Walk (Oct. 25)

The effect of gamma waves on cognitive and language skills in childrenPhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USAIn an article published online and in an upcoming issue of Behavioral Brain Research, Benasich offers significant new insight into the likely role gamma ...See all stories on this topic

Study Shows Group Bragging Betrays InsecurityMedical News Today Tue, 21 Oct 2008 7:06 AM PDTFrom partisans at a political rally to fans at a football game, groups that engage in pompous displays of collective pride may be trying to mask insecurity and a low social status, suggests new research led by University of California, Davis, psychologists. The research will be presented Thursday at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology in Sacramento.
Florida Agency Recommends Expansion Of Medicaid Pilot Program Despite Gov. Crist's Request To Cut Agency BudgetsMedical News Today Thu, 23 Oct 2008 3:06 PM PDTThe Florida Agency for Health Care Administration last week sent a proposal to Gov. Charlie Crist (R) recommending that a Medicaid managed care pilot project be expanded to 20 additional counties, Florida Health News reports.
Thousands in Brevard cast ballots
Oct 21 1:20 AM EDT
Voters poured steadily into polling places during the first day of early voting Monday, hoping to beat the Election Day crowd. Early voters joined absentee voters in casting ballots for the president and many other offices.

MRSA Cases Confirmed At 3 More Schools Oct 21 4:55 PM EDT
Three more Orange County students contract methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, also known as MRSA.
Sheriff's candidates don't see eye-to-eye
Oct 21 1:20 AM EDT
With gangs on the rise and an economy on the slide, who can keep Brevard County safer? Republican Sheriff Jack Parker, 46, locked up 500 more bad guys, cracked down on methamphetamine labs and marijuana grow houses, and saved money by putting inmates to work.
Rivals bump heads on economy
Oct 21 1:20 AM EDT
Tom Feeney and Suzanne Kosmas differed on just about everything when it came to the economy Monday night, during a forum at Brevard Community College.
Feeney, Kosmas clash at forum
Oct 21 1:19 AM EDT
District 24 U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney, a Republican, and Democratic challenger Suzanne Kosmas differed on NASA, energy, health care and just about every other issue at Monday night's candidate forum at Brevard Community College's Titusville campus.

Brain stimulator for depressionThe Scotsman Tue, 21 Oct 2008 3:41 AM PDTTHE US government has approved the first non-invasive brain stimulator to treat depression.


New Brain-Machine Interface Reactivates Monkey's Paralyzed MusclesSpectrum Online Tue, 21 Oct 2008 9:44 AM PDTA monkey learned to use the output of just one brain cell to move its wrist
Cops using DNA to bite into small crimeAlbany Times Union Tue, 21 Oct 2008 2:11 AM PDTPolice are mainstreaming technology once used to solve only violent crimes DENVER ? The burglar was undone by his taste for strawberry soda.RazJohn Smyer, a suspect in a string of Denver-area break-ins, often checked his victims' refrigerators and helped himself to a drink. The soda cans he left behind gave police enough DNA evidence to link him to five burglaries. He's now serving a 20-year ...
Hair doesn't match men convicted of murdersLexington Herald-Leader Tue, 21 Oct 2008 9:04 AM PDTDNA tests from a hair found at the scene of a 1985 double-murder in eastern Kentucky does not match either of the two men on death row for the crime nor does it match the victims in the case. The test results were returned in January 1999, but not given to defense attorneys for Roger Dale Epperson and Benny Lee Hodge until September. The results are now at the center of efforts by Epperson ...
Ag Mukasey subpoenaed for detention dataDenver Post Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:59 PM PDTSenate Democrats on Tuesday subpoenaed Attorney General Michael Mukasey for testimony and documents about the Justice Department's legal advice to the White House on detention and interrogation policies since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
HHS limits anthrax vaccine legal liabilityThe Health and Human Services Department early this month moved to shield government, industry and business officials from lawsuits filed by those who have received the anthrax vaccine. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael ...Democratic Underground Latest... - http://www.democraticunderground.com/
HHS Secretary declares "public health emergency" to shield anthrax ...By Georgetown CNSL 10/21/08: Government Executive reports that Health and Human Services Secretary Henry Leavitt moved earlier this month to shield government producers and distributors of the anthrax vaccine from lawsuits brought by receivers of the ...Georgetown Security Law Brief - http://www.securitylawbrief.com/main/
CDC: 1-2% of anthrax vaccinees may die or become disabled...but ...By Meryl Nass, M.D.(Meryl Nass, M.D.) CDC published a report October 1 on its very expensive, 43 month-long trial of anthrax vaccine, but inexplicably discussed only the first 7 months and only 65% of the subjects. No explanation was given for why only partial data were ...Anthrax Vaccine -- posts by Meryl... - http://anthraxvaccine.blogspot.com/
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Crossing Blood-Brain Barrier: Scientists Develop Drug Delivery ...Science Daily (press release) - USA... brain, according to research presented at the 20th EORTC-NCI-AACR [1] Symposium on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics in Geneva on 22 October. ...See all stories on this topic
Cognitive and Language Development Influenced by Gamma Waves in ...MedIndia - Chennai,IndiaA research article in the online edition of the journal Behavioral Brain Research says that the new findings provide a window into their cognitive ...See all stories on this topic

Parkinson's Disease Advocates And Researchers Hail Consensus Statement On What We Know And Need To Know About ...Medical News Today Wed, 22 Oct 2008 6:08 AM PDTRepresentatives from the Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) and Parkinson's Action Network (PAN) today released an executive summary of the consensus statement on "Parkinson's Disease (PD) and the Environment," which was recently published on-line in Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP), the peer-reviewed journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Ralph Adolphs: The Neuroscience of Social Behavior: From Looking at Faces to Understanding AutismCaltech Today Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:58 AM PDT10/15/2008 [ 56k modem ] [ broadband ] [ cable/DSL ] 61 minutes Ralph Adolphs, Caltech's Bren Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and professor of biology, discussed how his lab has used brain imaging, direct recordings from the brain in surgical patients, and studies of clinical populations to understand face processing.
E.O. Wilson Returns to the Hive With Superorganism TomeWired News Tue, 21 Oct 2008 9:24 PM PDTSuperorganism Tome authorName= josh mchugh creditType= illustration credit= Martin Woodtli -- With a new book on bugs, E.O. Wilson reignites the superorganism debate. Today, E. O. Wilson is thinking small. He wants an ants-only conversation. Usually the Harvard biologist engages in big-think — ideas that have shaken up biology, evolutionary theory, psychology, and more, often embroiling ...
Lawyer: Police coerced confession
Oct 22 1:20 AM EDT
The confession of a homeless man accused of killing his friend in a dispute over bathing habits should be thrown out because police coerced the statement by plying him with alcohol, his lawyer will argue in court today.
Sheriff Candidate Says He Can't Discuss FHP Suspension Incident
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Study shows brain's racial stress responseUPI Wed, 22 Oct 2008 8:40 AM PDTCOLUMBIA, S.C., Oct. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers said brain imaging showed stress in African-Americans in response to neutral facial expressions of whites -- indicating racial distrust.
Today's Alternative Energy; and November Issue Topics, Including Computer-Brain Interfaces and DNA ComputingScientific American Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:00 AM PDTScientific American magazine editor in chief, John Rennie, talks about the November issue's contents, including computer-brain interfaces, DNA computing, the ongoing attempts to find an HIV vaccine and getting closer to the Star Trek tricorder with portable NMR. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned on this episode include snipurl.com/4LJ71; ...
Seeing a brain as it learns to seeEurekAlert! Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:25 AM PDTA brain isn't born fully organized. It builds its abilities through experience, making physical connections between neurons and organizing circuits to store and retrieve information in milliseconds for years afterwards. Now that process has been caught in the act for the first time by a Duke University research team that watched a naïve brain organize itself to interpret images of motion.
Streamlining brain signals for speed and efficacyEurekAlert! Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:14 AM PDT( Salk Institute ) Life exists at the edge of chaos, where small changes can have striking and unanticipated effects, and major stimuli may go unheard. But there is no space for ambiguity when the brain needs to transform head motion into precise eye, head, and body movements that rapidly stabilize our posture and gaze; otherwise, we would stumble helplessly through the world, and our vision ...
Could brain abnormality predict drug addiction?EurekAlert! Wed, 22 Oct 2008 9:48 AM PDT( University of Nottingham ) Scientists at the University of Nottingham are to use MRI technology to discover whether abnormalities in the decision-making part of the brain could make some people more likely to become addicted to drugs.
Brain Jogging game released for iPhoneMacworld Wed, 22 Oct 2008 9:19 AM PDTBrain Jogging is Virtual Programming's first iPhone game -- a brain gym.
Been there, done that: Brain mechanism predicts ability to generalizeEurekAlert! Wed, 22 Oct 2008 9:25 AM PDT( Cell Press ) A new study reveals how the brain can connect discrete but overlapping experiences to provide a rich integrated history that extends far beyond individually experienced events and may help to direct future choices.
Key wants brain drain addressedNZCity Wed, 22 Oct 2008 1:49 PM PDT23 October 2008 National leader John Key says slowing down New Zealand's brain drain is critical to the country's future. Statistics New Zealand figures show more than 47,000 people left for Australia on a permanent or long-term basis during the year to September. Around 13,000 came back.
Crossing Blood-Brain Barrier: Scientists Develop Drug Delivery System For Brain Cancers, Other DiseasesScience Daily Wed, 22 Oct 2008 6:09 AM PDTScientists have developed a new drug delivery system that is capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier to reach and kill cancer cells in the brain. Following successful preclinical studies, the technology is being evaluated in two phase I clinical trials in patients with malignant glioma and brain metastases.

Murmuring hearts echo across sacred Tibets mountainsPeople's Daily Wed, 22 Oct 2008 7:30 AM PDTThe tranquil Yamdroyum Lake, together with the 7,260 meters Nojin Kansa Peak, in Langkazi County of southern Tibet presents more than breathtaking beauty for its significance in Tibetan Buddhism. Monasteries and stone altars in the area, big or small, receive endless followers who came over, spinning their prayer wheels in hand while chanting scriptures in a murmured tone. As pious as the old ...


Study shows brain's racial stress responseUPI Wed, 22 Oct 2008 8:40 AM PDTCOLUMBIA, S.C., Oct. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers said brain imaging showed stress in African-Americans in response to neutral facial expressions of whites -- indicating racial distrust.
eavesdroppers Resources ZDNetNSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations .... cell phone foils eavesdroppersthat's illegal in USThe gov. won't allow voice ...

Medical Experts Take Notice of Jenny McCarthy's Autism MessageAbout - News & Issues - New York,NY,USAUp until now, outside of a heated debate on Larry King Live, the medical establishment has taken little notice of Jenny McCarthy's take on autism. ...See all stories on this topic

Autism Support Network LauncheseNews Park Forest - Park Forest,IL,USAPRWEB) October 21, 2008 -- Autism Support Network today announced the launch of its free online support community available at http://www.autismsupportnetwork.com/. ...See all stories on this topic


Beirut Marines remembered at memorialWNCT Greenville Thu, 23 Oct 2008 3:59 PM PDTEveryone in the U.S. remembers 9/11, but the commandant of the Marine Corps says what most people don’t know is that the global war on terrorism began on in October 1983 and Marines were the first victims.

ACIP opens door to anthrax shots for first respondersCenter for Infectious Disease Research and Policy Thu, 23 Oct 2008 3:10 PM PDTOct 23, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – The federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has opened the door to voluntary anthrax vaccination for first responders, revising an 8-year-old recommendation against that step.
Proxeon and Thermo Fisher Scientific Integrate System Software ...Chennai: India is becoming one of the world's top hubs of illegal software business which is estimated to be worth $2 billion in 2007, grew by nearly 50 ...

THE SCIENCE SHOW - Cannabis for stroke victims? Saturday 25 October, 12.05pm & Monday 27 October, 7.05pm RN The brain's reaction to a bang on the head or a stroke is similar - and pretty hopeless. Back in nature there wasn't much the body could do to repair such catastrophe and after a stroke inflammation is the last thing you need. But now a team in Dunedin are finding that some drugs are picked up more after stroke and subdue harmful inflammations. Professor John Ashton and his team describe the progress and how you isolate one or two of the many chemicals in cannabis to find a treatment.http://abcmail.net.au/t/294764/685626/902/0/ALL IN THE MIND - The secret life of bacteria – small, smart and thoughtful! Saturday 25 October, 1.05pm & Monday 27 October, 1.05pm RN We can’t survive without them – and we’ve long underestimated their prowess. Controversially, bacteria could even have cognitive talents that rival our own: predatory behaviour, cooperation, memory. Jules Verne eat your heart out! Natasha Mitchell takes us on a strange adventure into the secret world of microbial mentality.http://abcmail.net.au/t/294764/685626/903/0/THE PHILOSOPHER’S ZONE - The logic of the market Saturday 25 October, 1.30pm & Monday 27 October, 1.35pm RN Karl Popper was one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a great advocate of scientific rationality, but what happened when he turned his attention to the more disorderly world of politics and economics? This week, we look at Popper and the free market.http://abcmail.net.au/t/294764/685626/904/0/OCKHAM’S RAZOR - Under the hammer Sunday 26 October, 8.45am RN Who would have thought just a few years ago that one day we’d be able to peer down like God into everyone’s backyard through our computer screens? Or that almost anywhere there’d be a camera watching us, recording what we do. Today Melbourne author Andrew Herrick delves into the not too far distant future to tell us what can happen and warns that it’s not all science fiction.http://abcmail.net.au/t/294764/685626/910/0/


Proposition 9 would give crime victims a stronger voice, but critics say it could violate inmates' rightsLos Angeles Times Thu, 23 Oct 2008 0:16 AM PDTOpponents of the measure include Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley. A quarter-century after the slaying of Marsalee Nicholas, a college student from Malibu, voters will consider an initiative launched in her name that would give a stronger voice to crime victims and their families, and impose harsher treatment on convicted killers.

Ballesteros faces additional brain surgeryUPI Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:13 AM PDTBARCELONA, Spain, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Hall of Fame golfer Seve Ballesteros faces additional surgery after tests indicated a brain tumor he had removed was cancerous.
Ballesteros brain tumor is cancerousSan Francisco Chronicle Thu, 23 Oct 2008 1:59 PM PDTSeve Ballesteros' brain tumor is cancerous and he will undergo another operation to relieve pressure caused by swelling and bleeding that have recently developed. The remaining parts of the malignant tumor, located in a very deep part of the brain, will be...

SA's Moir claims surf titleNews 24 South Africa Thu, 23 Oct 2008 9:27 AM PDTOXBOW team rider South Africa's Matthew Moir has captured his second consecutive ISA World Longboard Surfing title in Portugal.


High heel event prompts male empathyMoldova.org Thu, 23 Oct 2008 9:15 AM PDTSeveral male students at the University of Central Florida say they now empathize with women after going on a march wearing women's' shoes with high heels. Psychology student Ivan Gonzalez said after the volunteer high heel walk around campus, he has a better understanding of what life can be like for a woman wearing the treacherous footwear, The Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel said Thursday.I couldn't ...
Poll: Most Floridians will vote to ban same-sex marriage Oct 23 12:30 PM EDT
Love it or hate it, most Florida voters have made up their minds about a ballot amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

Study finds genomic changes in the brains of people who commit suicideEurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USADr. Poulter is affiliated with the Molecular Brain Research Group, Robarts Research Institute, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of ...See all stories on this topic

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Research in Mice Suggests It Might Be Possible to Delete Specific ...ABC News - USA... the mouse brain and then triggering the animal's recall can cause erasure of those, and only those, specific memories, according to research in the most ...See all stories on this topic

OneindiaCell Phones Cause Brain Tumors?Oneindia - Tamilnadu,IndiaPawl has called for major research initiatives to assess the possibility that using cellular phones may lead to an increased risk of brain tumours. ...See all stories on this topic
Could brain abnormality predict drug addiction?Genetic Engineering News (press release) - New Rochelle,NY,USAThe research will focus on the frontal cortex, the area of the brain which is involved in decision-making and which allows us to weigh up short term gain ...See all stories on this topic

Many Factors to Carefully Consider in Caring for Elderly Loved One, Advises Antelope Valley Estate Planning Law FirmPRWeb via Yahoo! News Wed, 22 Oct 2008 8:40 AM PDTAntelope Valley estate planning law firm Thompson Von Tungeln advises its clients to consider a wide range of factors before deciding upon the best care for an elderly loved one.
Initiative to increase education of care workers gains supportThe Olympian Thu, 23 Oct 2008 0:28 AM PDTGlenda Faatoafe has been a home-care worker for 12 years, working with the elderly and disabled by helping bathe, feed or dress them.


Sex Offender Speaks OutABC News Thu, 23 Oct 2008 6:19 AM PDTAmid a community's fears, sex offender said on radio he's a "changed man."
California Measure to End Same-Sex Marriage Trailing, Poll SaysBloomberg Thu, 23 Oct 2008 3:51 AM PDTOct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- A California ballot measure that would halt same-sex marriages in the most-populous U.S. state is trailing among those expected to cast ballots in November, a poll found.
Teacher who spoke out on sex abuse loses jobBoston Globe Thu, 23 Oct 2008 6:15 AM PDTA Rutland alternative school teacher who worked with juvenile sex offenders for 16 years was removed from his job in September, weeks after testifying to a legislative committee about the likelihood that offenders will commit new crimes.

Parkinson's Disease Society Comments On Patients' Right To Self Referral Announcement, UKMedical News Today Wed, 22 Oct 2008 8:07 AM PDTThe Parkinson's Disease Society (PDS) today welcomed Alan Johnson's announcement to allow patients to self-refer to physiotherapists and allied health professionals. Steve Ford, Chief Executive of the PDS said: "Alan Johnson's announcement is certainly a step in the right direction.
SEX SICKO GRILLS VICTIM ON STANDNew York Post Fri, 24 Oct 2008 2:07 AM PDTTwo years ago, a young psychology student was sodomized at knifepoint in the bathroom of her Lower East Side apartment. Yesterday, in an exchange nearly as harrowing, the woman squirmed in the witness stand as violent sex fiend John Hamlett -..

.Mechanism In Cells That Generate Malignant Brain Tumors May Offer ...Science Daily (press release) - USAThis could offer a target for scientists seeking treatments that would kill malignant brain tumors at their source and prevent them from recurring. ...See all stories on this topic
Depression during pregnancy can double risk of preterm delivery ...The Canadian Press - OAKLAND. Calif.The work was done by the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, Calif. The small number of women on antidepressants could be excluded from the ...See all stories on this topic
OR Colts kicking up coins for pediatric brain tumor researchGuilford County Northwest Observer - Oak Ridge,NC,USAby Alicia Cosgrove OAK RIDGE – Most third-graders don’t give much thought to brain tumors, but the students of third-grade teacher Judith Jones at Oak Ridge ...See all stories on this topic
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, LLC ...MarketWatch - USAIt is categorized as "primary generalized" or "partial onset" depending on the specific location of the abnormal electrical activity in the brain that ...See all stories on this topic
Your Bare Brain, Your Bear MarketForbes - NY,USAMichael Ervolini, behavioral finance expert and head of Cabot Research agrees that any sort of change provokes anxiety and that a lot of people freeze up ...See all stories on this topic
Experimental Pill May Treat MSWebMD - USABy Miranda Hitti Oct. 23, 2008 -- An experimental pill may help curb brain lesions in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS), ...See all stories on this topic

Canada.com$20M brings renowned brain scientist back to CanadaCanada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada"Thanks to Dr. McNaughton's world-class work we're going to see incredible impact in the area of brain research that will benefit not only Alberta, ...See all stories on this topic
HRL Labs to research neuromorphic electronics that function like ...Small Times - USA... 2008: HRL Laboratories LLC will begin research to develop electronics that simulate the cognitive capabilities and efficiencies of the biological brain ...See all stories on this topic
Innovative headband to keep drivers awakeTaiwan Journal - Taiwan(Courtesy of BRC, NCTU) By Jean Yueh Traffic accidents are often linked to drivers falling asleep, but a headband designed by the Brain Research Center at ...See all stories on this topic
Coping With Depression During PregnancyU.S. News & World Report - Washington,DC,USAResearch published today in the journal Human Reproduction found that women with symptoms of depression were more likely to experience a preterm birth. ...See all stories on this topic

Chronic Constipation in Senior Citizens Topic for New Training for Health Care PractitionersSenior Journal Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:22 AM PDTOct. 23, 2008 – The association dedicated to serving the medication needs of senior citizens has launched a new education initiative for health care professional and other elderly care providers that help in better understanding the causes and treatment of chronic constipation (CC) in older adults.
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