LOVELIGHT
Magazine
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April 2008*** Vol. 5, no.4
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Managing Editors: Adamaria Francis and a Franciscan Taoist
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Special warm thanks and grateful public acknowledgment to
the following contributors to this issue: Mary Butler, Jim Dwyer, Sandra Grubb,
Steven McDaniel, Nathan Merritt, Rabson Sagana, Ty Scharrer, Cherigene
Slaughter, Dennis Spencer, and Geoffrey Stoermer
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LOVELIGHT
MAGAZINE: WHAT WE'RE ALL ABOUT
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Still, life is not all laughs. So, we hope also to share pleasant and
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promote peace and harmony, all over the world, and to aid you to feel
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GREEN CLEANING
Many cleaning products are harmful to life. Here is an alternative: My Top 10 Uses of Vinegar In the Home
1. Killer of Bacteria, Mold & Germs.***2. Grease
Cutter.*** 3.Floor Cleaner.*** 4. For Windows.***5.
Grease-cutter.*** 6. Toilet Bowl Deodorizer.***7. Remover of
Mineral (scale) Buildup .***8. Fabric Softener.*** 9.Furniture
Cleaner Drain Clearer.***10. Brass Cleaner.
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LOVELETTERS FROM FRIENDS, BUDS, AND PALS
From Mary Butler:
Thank you for sharing your choice for Democratic candidate
is Barack Obama, Shi. Your
opinion in this regard is highly respected. Hillary just isn't flipping my switches, so your input
has helped with the decision.
Also, you took time and care to reply to my question about
the transfiguration of Jesus. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and insights. The subject came up in (believe it or not) a
documentary on aliens and
ufos. (Your laughter is contagious
and you're
laughing. I can hear it!) I've been watching the History channel, the Biography channel and the Discovery
channel for these fascinating pieces.
There have been plenty of different shows highlighting ufos and lots
about the afterlife, too, lately.
It's just heavenly. :-)
By the way, it is also frustrating to me to continue to hear
announcers and public people pronounce the year as "two thousand eight." Everyone seems to have forgotten we
didn't pronounce 1972, etc. as "one thousand nine hundred
seventy-two."
You are lovedÉ
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From Steven McDaniel:
I told someone recently I would vote for Donald Duck over
any Republican including McCain who is going to propagate more of Bush's
policies. And today bush vetoed the bill that would have outlawed water
boarding. "President Bush's veto will be one of the most shameful
acts of his presidency," Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, saidÉ. {He
called it a] "flagrant insult to the rule of law and a serious stain on
the good name of America in the eyes of the world."
Well, with four dollar a gallon gas fast approaching, a stupid,
unnecessary war [whose money] could have been spent on our own people (many
living without health care, etc.) a huge national debt financed by other
countries, big tax breaks for the rich and corporate rich, on and on Bush will
certainly go down as the worst president in American history.
ÉI would have voted for
Clinton. I like Obama but he lacks the experience. Besides a
president with a skirt is about time, and I support women and their right to
rule the world.
ÉBut whoever gets the nod at the convention, I will support,
as I really like both of them. I just know that Clinton will work her
tail off night and day and really support the working man and woman.
Obama probably will too. But I also remember when Clinton was way ahead of the
curve twelve years ago trying to get national health care when she was attacked
by the powers to be and got crucified. Many of those Republicans labeled
her as a socialist when all of the industrialized countries of the world have
national health care. It is a sham in this country that poor people die
early compared to the rich or those with insurance. A poor person without insurance will wait until the
last moment to moveÉ until it is too late. One detriment to Clinton is that she did vote for bush's war
powers, and Obama did not,É
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From Love Ministries USA to Love Ministries of Kenya:
Dear David,
I will be very happy to convey your Love and greetings to
all my sisters and brothers all over the U.S., in Ireland, England, the
Caribbean, China, India, and other parts of the world. We will all be
praying for the success of Love Ministries of Kenya. In fact, I will be
very glad to include an article about this in the April 08 issue of Lovelight magazine.:)
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From Rabson Sagana, of Love Ministries of Kenya:
Dear Brother,
Thanks for the merciful love that you have shown
to me, the young Christian church and the orphans. Thanks Brother for the books that
you will send. Give thanks to all
brothers and Sisters in Love Ministries. Now before the lord and with us and the orphans who have
accepted the love message and who have joined hands with you as see we are
many before the eyes of the lord.
We have been joined that the message from you and the love ministries
can reach many other people in Kenya and Africa. I also would give thanks to you, your family and Brothers,
Sisters and friends who shall get their hands to help some donation to the
orphans under my care. I have
tried to help them but due to election crisis I have no more contributions
as the prices are high and goods are scarce hence making life
very expensive. For the books and
other more teachings you can send them through the mail address below. For any fund for the orphans food
or clothing you can send through the money gram through co operative bank
of Kenya Kisii Branch using my names which are;
PASTOR RABSON SAGANA NYAMATARI.
For the books you can send them to;
PASTOR RABSON SAGANA,
P.O BOX 383,
OGEMBO-40204.
KENYA-EAST AFRICA.
Also since this is also a young church I request if you can
be sending me some more teachings and if possible Bibles that I may give to the
church members so that they can help them learn more during their free
time about God's love for mankind.
Be praying for us as we will not forget you for the merciful love
and the work of the lord that you are doing. I will have to send you some pictures
on Monday and hope to have yours if possible. Pass our sincere regards and greetings to all
brothers and Sisters.
Have a nice meeting day as I hope to hear from you
again.
Every blessings.
Yours Brother,
In His service,
Rabson.
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[If you can afford to send something to Rabson and his
group, supporting orphans during a savage war, please send along $5, $10, or
whatever you can afford. See our
article later in this issue.-- editors.]
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From Dennis Spencer:
Dear Richard and Maria,
It was good to see you and the rest of the "gang"
today [at the Pneumarium gathering]. It had been way too long! I'll try to make it a point to get
there more often.
Peace and love,
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AN EAGLE NAMED FREEDOM, sent in by Cherigene Slaughter
When Freedom was first met, she could not stand. Both wings were broken. She was emaciated and covered in lice. I took her to the vet's office. I talk to her, urging her to live, to fight; and she would lie there looking with those big brown eyes. We also had to tube feed her for weeks.
This went on for 4-6 weeks, and by then she still couldn't
stand. The decision was made to
euthanize her if she couldn't stand in a week. You don't want to cross that line between torture and rehab,
and it looked like death was winning. She was going to be put down that Friday.
I didn't want to go that Thursday,
because I couldn't bear the thought of her being euthanized; but I went anyway.
And when I walked in, everyone was
grinning from ear to ear. There
she was, standing on her own. She was ready to live.
We knew she could never fly, so the director asked me to glove
train her. I got her used to the glove.
In the spring of 2000, I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. I
had stage 3, which is not good (one major organ plus everywhere), so I wound up
doing 8 months of chemo. Lost the
hair - the whole bit. I
missed a lot of work. When I felt good enough, I would go to Sarvey and
take Freedom out for walks. Freedom would also come to me in my dreams and help me
fight the cancer. This happened time and time again.
Fast forward to November 2000. I was told that if the cancer was not all gone after 8 rounds of chemo, then my last option was a stem cell transplant. Anyway, they did the tests. All the cancer was gone. Yahoo! So the first thing I did was take the big girl out for a walk. It was misty and cold. She wrapped both her wings around me to where I could feel them pressing in on my back (I was engulfed in eagle wings), and she touched my nose with her beak and stared into my eyes, and we just stood there like that. That was a magic moment. ***
Jeff Guidry and Freedom are at Sarvey Wildlife Center
http://www.sarveywildlife.org/ "jeff" <jeff@sarveywildlife.org
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EASTER AND THE CALENDAR, sent in by Geoffrey Stoermer
Easter this year (2008) is March 23rd. Easter is always the first Sunday after
the first full moon (March 20th) after the Spring Equinox. This dating of Easter is based on the
lunar calendar. Based on this, the
earliest Easter can ever be is March 22 but that is very rare. This year will be the earliest Easter
any of us will ever see it for the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly
of our population have ever seen it this early before (95 years old or above!).
And none of us has ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier! Here are the
facts:
1) The next time Easter will be
this early (March 23)will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time
it was this early was 1913 (so if you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for
that!).
2) The next time it will be a day
earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was
1818. So, no one alive today has
seen, or will ever see, it any earlier than this year!
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LAUGHING IT UP! HUMORTHERAPY
BUMPER STICKERS FOR 2008, sent in by Sandra Grubb:
1. Bush: End of an Error.***2. That's OK, I Wasn't Using My
Civil Liberties Anyway .***3. Let's Fix Democracy in this Country First.***4.
If You Want a Nation Ruled By Religion, Move to Iran.***5. Bush. Like a Rock. Only Dumber.***6. If You Can
Read This, You're Not Our President.***7. Hey, Bush Supporters! Embarrassed Yet?***
8. George Bush: Creating the Terrorists Our Kids Will Have
to Fight.***
9. America : One
Nation, Under Surveillance.***10. They Call Him "W" So He Can Spell It.***11.
Whose God Do You Kill For?***12. Time for Impeachment: Jail to the "chief."***13.
No, Seriously, Why Did We Invade Iraq ?***14. Bush: God's Way of Proving
Intelligent Design is sometimes wrong!***15. Bad President! No Banana.***
16. We Need a President Who's Fluent In At Least One Language.***17.
We're Making Enemies Faster Than We Can Kill Them.***18. Is It Vietnam Yet?***19.
Bush Doesn't Care About White People, Either!***20. Where Are We Going? And Why
Are We In This Handbasket?***21. You Elected Him. You Deserve Him.***22. When
Bush Took Office, Gas Was $1.46!***23. Pray For Impeachment!***24. The
Republican Party: Our Bridge to the 11th Century.***25. What Part of "Bush
Lied" Don't You Understand?***26. One Nation Under Clod.***27. 2004:
Embarrassed. 2005: Horrified. 2006: Terrified; 2007" sick of the little
dumb shrub.***28. Bush Never Exhaled.***
29 At Least Nixon Resigned!
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GOING BANANAS, sent in by Jim Dwyer
A professor for a physiological psych class told his class
about bananas. He said the expression 'going bananas' is from the effects
of bananas on the brain.
Bananas contain three natural
sugars-- sucrose, fructose and glucose, combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and
substantial boost of energy.
Research has proved that just two bananas
provide enough energy for a strenuous ninety-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one
fruit with the world's leading athletes.
But energy isn't the only way a banana can
help us keep fit. It can
also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and
conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.
Anemia : High in iron, bananas can
stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in
cases of anemia.
Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit
is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat
blood pressure. So much so, the US
Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make
official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood
pressure and stroke.
Brain Power: 200 students
at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school ( England ) were helped through their
exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in
a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the
potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more
alert.
Constipation: High in fiber, including
bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to
overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives.
Depression:
According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND, among those suffering from
depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain
tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin,
known to make you relax, improve your mood, and generally make you
feel happier.
Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of
curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with
the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the
milk soothes and re-hydrates your system.
Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid
effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana
for soothing relief.
Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas
between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning
sickness.
Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the
insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a
banana skin. Many people
find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation.
Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins
that help calm the nervous system.
Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology
in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like
chocolate and chips. Looking at
5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to
be in high-pressure jobs. The
report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to
control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods
every two hours to keep levels steady.
PMS-- Forget the pills. Eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which
can affect your mood.
Smoking andTobacco Use: Bananas can also
help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and
magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine
withdrawal.
Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral,
which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and
regulates your body's water balance. When we are stressed, our metabolic
rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be rebalanced with the help of a high-potassium
banana snack.
Strokes: According to research in The New
England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can
cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%!
Temperature control: Many other cultures
see bananas as a 'cooling' fruit that can lower both the physical and
emotional temperature of expectant mothers. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas
to ensure that their babies are not born with Seasonal Affective Disorder
(SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the
natural mood enhancer tryptophan.
Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary
food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and
smoothness. It is the only raw
fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces
irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.
Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives
swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin
and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a
plaster or surgical tape.
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So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four
times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five
times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one
of the best value foods around. So
maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, "A banana
a day keeps the doctor away!"
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MORE NEWS FROM AQUARIAN (FUTURISTIC) SCIENCE, from World
News
Get lazy, age faster:
People who are physically active in their spare time seem biologically younger
than their couch-bound peers, researchers say.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080228_exercise.htm
http://www.world-science.net
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A function for "gay genes" after all?:
Studies of some unusual men in the remote Pacific have led scientists to
surprising conclusions.
http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/080208_gaygene
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People feeling powerful don't listen, study
finds:
Don't bother trying to feed your boss a new idea while he's feeling important,
new research suggests.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080215_power
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Brain cells tied to consciousness reported
found:
Trying to understand what causes consciousness is one of the most exasperating
problems in all science.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080219_conscious
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Music might aid stroke recovery:
New findings suggest music helps stimulate repair of brain wiring,
researchers report.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080219_stroke-music
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Study links heavy cell phone use to cancer:
Increased risk of salivary gland tumors might be avoidable by using hands-free
devices, scientists say.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080216_cellphone
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"Noah's Ark" seed vault opens:
A remote chamber designed to protect seeds for posterity took in its first
shipments.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080226_vault
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Communing with nature less and less:
People are losing interest in the outdoors, and it bodes ill for health and the
environment,
researchers warn.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080204_nature
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Severe stress in pregnancy might be tied to
children's schizophrenia:
The popular notion that your state of mind can affect your unborn baby seems to
have some truth, scientists say.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080204_schizophrenia
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Frog skin gives
hope for diabetes treatment
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BBC News March 3, 2008
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A synthetic version of a compound pseudin-2) isolated from a
frog, which protects it from infections, could be used to treat type 2 diabetes,
University of Ulster and United Arab Emirates University suggest. They found it
stimulated the secretion of insulin in
pancreatic cells in the laboratory, with no toxic...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=8117&m=40083
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Greener Green
Energy: Today's solar cells give more energy than they take.
Science News Solar power produces, per unit of energy, only
about one-tenth as much
carbon dioxide and other harmful emissions (during manufacturing)
as does conventional power generation, a new study by Brookhaven National Laboratory
scientists shows. These improvements in efficiency mean that today's solar
panels can "pay back"
in only 1 to 3 years the...
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Konarka Announces First-Ever Demonstration of Inkjet Printed
Solar Cells
nanowerk Mar. 3, 2008
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Konarka Technologies has announced the company conducted the
first-ever
demonstration of manufacturing organic solar cells by
efficient inkjet...
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Cancers inhibited by embryonic stem cell protein
NewScientist.com news service March 4, 2008
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Northwestern University researchers have discovered that a
protein,
Lefty, produced by human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) can
inhibit the
growth and spread of breast cancer and malignant melanoma.
Similarities
between stem cells and tumors—both are self-renewing
and have the
capacity to give rise to different cell-types--previously
led the...
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A New Approach to Combatting HIV
Technology Review Mar. 4, 2008
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University of Michigan researchers have developed
nanoemulsion vaccines--made up of tiny soybean oil droplets suspended in water,
studded with bits of pathogenic organisms, and swabbed into the nose--that may
be the vaccines of the future. Previously proved
effective against influenza and anthrax, they have now been
shown to generate immunity...
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Turning Glare Into Watts
New York Times Mar. 8, 2008
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As prices rise for fossil fuels and worries grow about their
contribution to global warming, solar thermal plants are being viewed as a
renewable power source with huge potential. (Isaac Brekke/The New York Times)
The technology involves covering acres
of desert with mirrors that focus intense sunlight on a
fluid, heating it enough to make...
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Nanotech Puts Cancer In The Cross Hairs
Forbes.com Feb. 22, 2008
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Cancer researchers are increasingly turning to innovative
new therapies based on nanoparticles, which passively target weaker-walled cancer
cells and help localize
treatment, increasing its effectiveness while minimizing damage
to healthy tissue. Johnson & Johnson's Doxil incorporates chemotherapy into
100-nm liposome
particles that concentrate...
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Cochlear implant recipients experience improved quality of
life
KurzweilAI.net March 6, 2008
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A German study of cochlear implant recipients shows the
recipients experience a significant improvement in their quality of life after
the implant: better speech recognition, sound perception, social interaction,
and mental health. Musicians and music listeners with cochlear implants are
also benefitting from a University ofWashington...
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This might someday lead to the psychotech of a recorder for
nightdreams! Mind Reading with
Functional MRI Technology Review March 5, 2008
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University of California, Berkeley scientists can accurately
predict which of a thousand pictures a person is looking at by analyzing brain
activity, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
The scientists first recorded visual cortex activity as
subjects looked at several thousand randomly selected pictures. The researchers
then...
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A world without trucks
Low-tech Magazine Feb. 22, 2008
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Some Western European countries are getting serious about
transporting consumer goods through automated subterranean networks. This rare combination
of low-tech sense and
high-tech knowledge could lead to a further economic growth
without destroying the environment and the quality of life. These concepts offer
exciting possibilities....
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Researchers genetically engineer immune cells into potent
weapons for battling HIV
KurzweilAI.net March 7, 2008
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Yeshiva University scientists genetically engineered
immune-system killer cells with two new genes to kill HIV-infected cells. They examined
the immune cells of "elite controllers"--people able to suppress HIV
infection for many years--and isolated the genes that enabled those cells to
bind tightly to HIV-infected cells and kill them...
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Scientists identify new longevity genes
PhysOrg.com Mar. 12, 2008
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University of Washington scientists have found 25 genes
regulating lifespan in two organisms separated by 1.5 billion years of
evolutionary change; at least 15 of those genes have similar versions in
humans. Finding genes that are conserved between the two organisms is significant,
the researchers say,because the twospecies--single-celled...
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Retina implant receives signals, energy wirelessly
EETimes Europe Mar. 13, 2008
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Aachen University and Fraunhofer Institute for
Microelectronic Circuits researchers have developed a retinal implant that
receives optical signals and power wirelessly. The device currently has 25
stimulating electrodes, connected to ganglion cells. A higher-resolution device
is...
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Brain map project set to revolutionise neuroscience
New Scientist news service Mar. 14, 2008
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The Allen Institute for Brain Science is launching a
four-year, $55-million effort to build a 3D map documenting activity levels of
some 20,000 different genes across the
human brain. The scientists will divide the human brain into
500 to 2000 anatomical regions and study gene activity in each by using gene chips
to record which messenger RNA...
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Bacterial Battle Generates New Antibiotics
Technology Review Mar. 17, 2008
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looking for ways to make new antibiotics that overcome antibacterial
resistance, MIT
scientists have discovered a new antibiotic, isolated from
the bacterium Rhodococcus fascians....
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Tumor growth block hopes raised
BBC News Mar. 16, 2008
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Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center researchers have identified an enzyme--pyruvate kinase enzyme in its
PKM2 form--that enables cancer
cells to consume the huge quantities of glucose they need to
fuel uncontrolled growth....
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IBM Develops World's Tiniest Nanophotonic Switch to Route
Optical
Data Between Cores in Future Computer Chips
nanowerk Mar. 17, 2008
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IBM scientists today took another significant advance
towards sending information inside a computer chip by using light pulses
instead of electrons by building the world's
tiniest nanophotonic switch with a footprint about 100X smaller than the cross section of a human hair (40x12 microns)....
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The future of biomedicine: virtual humans
MSNBC Mar. 17, 2008
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Scientists have recently provided a sneak preview of the
future of biomedicinewith a range of projects seeking to assemble virtual humans--or
parts of them—on computers and "labs on a chip." The technology
could usher in a new era of personalized medicine in which rapid tests tell
doctors which treatments have the best chances of
success for...
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AP probe finds drugs in drinking water
AP Mar. 9, 2008
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A vast array of pharmaceuticals --including antibiotics, anti-convulsants,
mood stabilizers
and sex hormones -- have been found in the drinking water
supplies of at
least 41 million Americans, heightening worries among
scientists of long-term consequences to human health, an AP National Investigative
Team has found. The source: unmetabolized...
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Visionary device gives hope 20-year high-tech project aims
to restore sight, boost quality of life
Boston Herald Mar. 10, 2008
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The Boston Retinal Implant Project is developing a retinal
implant that
uses special glasses wired with a battery-powered camera and
transmitter that sends images to a chip implanted behind the retina. First
human surgeries are expected to take place in the next few...
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Taking a Shot at Hypertension
Technology Review Mar. 12, 2008
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Scientists from Swiss biotechnologycompany Cytos have
created a vaccine that lowers blood pressure by binding to the blood-pressure-raising
molecule angiotensin II. (Cytos
Biotechnology) The vaccine is made up of virus-shaped
particles covered with small receptors designed to bind with angiotensin II.
When released into the bloodstream,...
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UK team in bacteria breakthrough
BBC News Mar. 12, 2008
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University of Warwick scientists have discovered how a pneumonia-causing
bacterium became resistant to penicillin, in research that could restore
penicillin's full
antibiotic effect and help in designing drugs to fight MRSA
(an antibiotic-resistant superbug bacterium). By replicating the activity of
the bacterial enzyme
MurM--an enzyme...
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Toward Cheaper, Robust Solar Cells
Technology Review Mar. 13, 2008
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An Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne scientist is
working on more advanced versions of dye-sensitized solar cells that could be
more robust and even cheaper to make than current versions, thanks to a new combination
of electrolyte and dye. Dye-sensitized solar cells solar cells are cheaper to
make than conventional silicon photovoltaic...
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Nanovalves for Drug Delivery
Technology Review Mar. 13, 2008
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A new nanovalve that opens in response to pH changes could
serve as the basis of a targeted drug delivery system. By filling a tiny, porous
silica sphere with a drug and
then plugging the pores with the valves, Northwestern
University and UCLA researchers can use pH changes to control the drug's...
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SOME GUIDELINES FOR
LIFE, modified from a piece by Nathan Merritt
1. Do not
complain about the way things are.
Try to accept the world as it is.
Don't waste timenergy worrying about the "way things should
be." Reality must be dealt with as it is, not as you
wish it were. Not accepting
reality as it is will keep you in continuous inner turmoil, dissatisfaction,
frustration, and anger at "the world." That is completely
nonproductive to not only spiritual growth, but growth as a mature
realistic adult. Instead, try to be
aware that ALL is going according to Plan, whether you attribute that Plan to
God, Tao, the Universe, Higher Power, Source, Mind, the Unconscious, or
whatever.
**
2. Accept yourself as you are right this
moment: a product partially of your genetics and environment,
just like everyone else. Don't
beat yourself up for being who and what you are. You cannot help being who
and what you are any more than you can change your fingerprints. If, for example, you happen to have
certain psychological imperfections (weaknesses), try to make peace with them. Realize that they are nearly universal
among human beings. You can do
this wile simultaneously working to improve. But please stay away from the "infection" of
selfdamnation!
**
3. KNOW
that you are more than your physical self, that you are also a Spirit
being. You live simultaneously on
two planes of existence: material
and spiritual. It is only in
the Spiritual realm that you can make effective and lasting changes that will
spill over into the material realm.
**
4. Accept others for who and what they are, just as
you do yourself. Each
person is a center of consciousness.
Each falls into ego, the most "natural" mindtrap. So, each perceives herself to be the
center of the cosmos. Realize that
people are PERSONS just like you, not mere projections on
the movie screen of your life! The material world is illusion; but all
mind is real. This means
that all your friends, like all sentient (selfaware) creatures, are sacred.
**
5. Accept that every human being is a
mixture of light, darkness, and shades of gray just as you are. No human being is "perfect,"
no matter what her claims or pretensions. This is realism.
It will help keep you from being hurt and disappointed by others for
simply being fallible humans, just as you are.
**
6. LIVE AND LET
LIVE! Don't have
unrealistic expectations of other people. Especially stop judging and condemning other people for not
living up to standards that you yourself do not consistently live up to. In other words, don't have a double
standard: one for you and one for everyone else.
**
7. Snap out of the
delusion/lie that you do not have any free will. Many things are predetermined by your Soul's predesign of
your dna. You cannot effectively alter
karmogenetics (karma expressed as genetics) in a given lifetime. You must learn to accept and
adapt. But great truths such as
this one do not deny the existence of free-will. For in some areas of our lives, free will does play a part
in our decisions, even though the great Tao (Godmind) does give us a general outline
which we must follow for our lifeplan. The
challenge of this or any other life is to "play," an acronym that
stands for "Permit, Let, Allow, Yield, and Surrender." Will we find the courage and wisdom to
trust ("have faith in") the universal Mind, and simply relax into it,
without trying to control everything?
**
8. Shop around.
Try various types of meditation and Paths until you hit on one that works for
you. If it stops working for you,
find another method or Path. The
same with chanting or any other spiritual practice. Choose that which is best-- healing, loving, uplifting--
from all spiritual paths, and combine the best into a path that is uniquely
yours. (It does not have to look
like anyone else's.)
**
9. Be as consistent and
regular in your spiritual practice(s) as you can possibly be. Always
do your best. God does ask for
your best. But He/She will never
ask for better than your
"best," for that is impossible!
**
10. Avoid
fundamentalism and Absolutism in all their forms. Both fundamentalism
and Absolutism are mental illnesses that will retard your growth both
spiritually and as a realistic mature adult. Replace fundamentalism and
Absolutism with openminded flexibility and a practical Lovebased spirituality. There is no ideal, rule, or law that is
valid everywhere under all conditions. Example: "Thou shalt not lie."
Well, what if you were a German
gentile hiding German Jews from the Nazis in your home during World War
Two and the Gestapo came by and asked if you were harboring Jews? Would you mindlessly follow "Thou
shalt not lie" and answer "Yes I am harboring Jews" or would you
do the mature, pragmatic, and spiritual thing and say "No I am not
harboring Jews" and thereby save lives? Love is more important than any law!
**
11. KNOW that
EVERYTHING you say and do has ripple effects that affect everyone and
everything around you, either positively or negatively. Know also that "whatever goes
around comes around." If you're a nasty negativist, you will reap
negative and nasty fruit in your life.
If you are a very positive being, always careful to do your best and
always responding with compassion, kindness, and goodness (Love), you will reap
the jewels of high selfesteem, Love, joy, and peace-- both in this life, and in
that to come.
**
12. Avoid people who
are consistently negative, or "vampires." For they can drain your energy away by
their negative blather, gossip, bigotry (including religious) and
constant whining and/or bickering. Instead, seek out the most positive people with
positive goals and principles. Be picky about your friends, choosing only those who resonate
with you. Avoid all negative contacts except those you simply cannot
avoid such as your boss, parents, siblings.
13. Lastly, realize that
these are simply guidelines, not immutable Laws. No
one, including myself, has perfected living by these simple principles. Don't be hard on yourself; forgive
yourself regularly and easily. But
please don't ignore these principles either.
*****
*****
LOVE MINISTRIES REACHING OUT TO THE WORLD!
As most of you know, Love Ministries has
been a microministry for years. We
were officially founded in 1983.
We have expanded as much as possible, but there still remains an entire
planet (and many others) in need of the Message of Love.
For the first time in many years, Love
Ministries has begun an "outreach" Ministry. We are reaching out to other small,
independent ministries who see just how crucial are the Way and Message of
"Love plus nothing." So,
we are not trying to join with dogmatic ministries, or ministries that are
judgmental. We do not want to
embrace, as fellow workers, any ministry that belongs to a sect, church, or
denomination that considers itself to have "the only, exclusive
truth."
As of April 2008, we have established Love
Ministries of India, Love Ministries of Kenya, and Love Ministries of
Pakistan. These are people trying
to help people, often in unimaginably stressful, horrible conditions of
poverty. They are, each and every
one, caring for orphans.
In fact, with the new edition of Kami
and Kamu: A Love So True-blue, our
children's book, we plan to send over 250 copies, free, to our friends in these
Ministries.
But their real, and much greater, need is
for help on a practical level. Although
we have sent financial donations to Love Ministries of India (the "Love
and Compassion Charitable Society") and to Love Ministries of Kenya, we
ourselves, as those who know us already know, live in poverty.
Many of our readers do not. And they have kindly, most graciously,
made known to us their real desire to give aid when and where needed. In the very name of Love, we are
calling upon all of you, right now, to give to these sweet people. What you might consider to be a
"tiny" donation could make a real difference in the lives of orphans
and dislocated refugees who can't buy even bread.:(
So, won't you please give anything that
you can afford? No donation is
ever too small. Please send them
to:
Love Ministries, USA 5100
Liberty-Fairfield Rd., Liberty Township, OH 45011
Or, send donations directly to
Love Ministries of India, at:
Hem Sagar Rasaily
C-39/15
Defence Lab Quarters
Post Kanchanbagh
Hyderabad
Andhra Pradesh
India – 500 058
Or, send donations directly to
Love Ministries of Kenya, at:
Rabson Sagana
PO Box 383
Ogembo – 40204
Kenya, East Africa
Or, send donations directly to
Love Ministries of Pakistan, at:
Church of Faith
Bethlehem Road
Bahar Colony No,1
Kot Lakhpat
Lahore,54700,Punjab,
Pakistan
And, if you feel that you
cannot at present donate to these very fine and very needy people, who are
doing the Lord's work of Love, ask others.
Please photocopy, or email
(forward) this request to as many others as you can. And please feel free to use it on your websites,
bulletinboards, etc. Let others
know by phone. In other words,
please help us spread this very important message far and wide! We've an entire planet to cover!
*****
Here is the Mission Statement for Love Ministries
Federation:
The Love Ministries Federation is a cooperative group,
sisterhood and brotherhood of fully, totally independent ministries. We share the important goal of
publicizing, preaching, and teaching the Love of God. We believe that this Love is expressed by the Love of human
beings. This was the most
important, foundational, matrix, and central teaching of Jesus.
We are committed to spreading the "good news" that
God's Love is unconditional and universal. God loves all His/Her children-- no matter what race,
background, nationality, or religion.
Because "God is Love," God wants all of us to work together in
harmony, agreement, and peace. He
wants us to tell others of his infinite, immeasurable, and limitless Love. This Love is expressed as savin ggrace.
So,since two are stronger than one, we join our forces, as
small, independent ministries, to bring God's message-- Love plus nothing
else-- to our world.
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