The CHURCH OF THE BOVINE SCATOLOGY
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The CHURCH OF THE BOVINE SCATOLOGY
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Click on a topic for a quick jump or scroll down: Go to a RED CLICK for in-depth detail. Use browser BACK button to return to previous page, (or Home). CEO BORG Gestalt Endosymbiosis Crusades CHI Thermohaline Circulation Belt Global Warming Omega Moment let them eat cake HAL 9000 Computer Chickens and antibiotic resistance EXTREMEOPHILES Leona Helmsley: Died August, 2007 .. but don't worry, a new Queen of Mean has emerged (below) The widow and heir of New York real estate tycoon Harry Helmsley (1909-1997) and one of the richest women in the United States, Leona Helmsley attracted national attention in the early 1990s when she was convicted of mail fraud and tax evasion and sentenced to 18 months in prison. Dubbed "the Queen of Mean" by the gossip sheets, Helmsley's apparent lack of contrition was summed up for most people in a quote attributed to her by a former housekeeper: "We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes." Helmsley's real estate firms own several posh hotels and prime real estate in New York City (including the lease on the Empire State Building), and Leona consistently makes the annual Forbes list of the richest Americans. In 2002 she was sued by Charles Bell, a former employee who claimed he was fired by Helmsley because he was homosexual. The jury originally awarded Bell $11.7 million, but a judge reduced the award in March 2003 to $554,000, leading observers to conclude that Helmsley's notoriously aloof manner in the courtroom turned the jury against her -- and that she still had a long way to go to escape the "Queen of Mean" label. Indifference -- can we rise above it without religion? Is religion the poor peoples pacifier or the rich peoples conscience -- or both? 17th Century Queen Marie Antoinette said, indifferently: "If the people have no bread, let them eat cake." Flashing forward to the 21st century:
AND A MODERN DAY QUEEN of MEAN STEPS ALL OVER THE "little people"
Seeking balance .. common sense gone amuk!!
A report on inequality from the Office for
National Statistics shows that the top 1% increased their share of national
wealth from 20% to 23% in the first six years of the Labour government. The top
ten per cent of Britain now owns an incredible 54% of the wealth.
Finally ..... a CEO that has given up some perks when his company is down. Don't send him any of your food stamps -- He will still get plenty.
Extremeophiles (the
cyanobacteria)
Not only are the cyanobacteria responsible for photosynthesis giving you humanoids nourishment (glucose) and oxygen but they also produce "limestone" (calcium carbonate) from which you make cement to build buildings and roads. Stromatolites (from Greek strōma, mattress, bed, stratum,
and lithos, rock) are defined as "attached, lithified sedimentary
growth structures, accretionary away from a point or limited surface of
initiation". A variety of stromatolite morphologies exist including conical,
stratiform, branching, domal, and columnar types. Stromatolites are commonly
thought to have been formed by the trapping, binding, and cementation of
sedimentary grains by microorganisms, especially
cyanobacteria. However, very few ancient stromatolites actually contain
fossilized microbes. While features of some stromatolites are suggestive
of biological activity, others possess features that are more consistent with
abiotic precipitation. Finding reliable ways to distinguish between
biologically-formed and non-biological or "abiotic" stromatolites is an active
area of research in
geology.  From Us came EVERYTHING ELSE
BORG: The Power of One: We Borg exist as a hive mind, many working as one. When your life (as you know it) ends, we assimilate you and all you've learned into the collective. Because we live, you live. HAL 9000 Computer Excerpts from the following websites: http://www.palantir.net/2001/meanings/dfx.html http://www.robothalloffame.org/hal.html The Special Effects of
"2001: A Space Odyssey" More than thirty years after its initial release, Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" still inspires those who see it. Like a piece of fine art or a classical symphony, its appeal has only grown over time. A strikingly unique film, it captivated a generation of young people in the late 1960s, who accepted its visual message with religious fervor. Initially rebuffed by leading film critics, "2001" is today considered one of cinema's greatest masterpieces. An epic story spanning both time and space, "2001" begins four million years ago, in a prehistoric African savanna, where mankind's distant ancestors must learn how to use the first tools in order to survive. The film cuts to the technological utopia of the early 21st century, where life in outer space is an everyday reality. The story then takes us to the first manned space mission to Jupiter, which consists of two human astronauts and a super-intelligent computer named HAL. The final segment of the film contains a fantastical 23-minute light show of special effects and a mystifying conclusion designed to make its audience question themselves and the world around them. The HAL 9000 Computer is a non-human and central character in the film by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey. Released 1968: As the brain of the spaceship Discovery, HAL is a robot that uses the mechanical, sensing, and information systems under its control. HAL is an acronym standing for "Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer." "Heuristic" and "Algorithmic" are two primary processes of intelligence. HAL is capable of speech recognition, natural language understanding, lip reading, and thinking well enough to beat humans at chess. Along with all these capabilities comes the capacity for malevolence. HAL kills its astronaut crew. The audience is left wondering whether HAL is right, wrong, evil, or mad. An astronaut decides to shut down HAL 9000's higher cognitive functions, an experience equivalent to death for HAL. Is it just "shit happening" that the HAL 9000 moniker also has a second (or hidden) meaning or was Kubrick and Clarke playing with us? The leader of Business Computers in the 60's was IBM (International Business Machines) or "Big Blue". HAL is code named one letter up from IBM and the "9000" was far ahead of the IBM 1123's we had in our hospital in 1970. Sadly, I read in today's newspaper that BIG BLUE sold it's laptop division to China with a 5 year permission to use the IBM logo and they chose NOT to use it. Seems IBM carries no weight with the generation that has grown up with computers. Flash, color, performance, and a catchy name are what is needed to sell in a crowded market, not a logo synonymous with the age of automation. There was a "BIG BLUE" program developed by Bell Labs that would eventually become competitive with human Chess Masters. It took another 20 years after the movie foretold of computers out-thinking man. In the future, some "HAL" computer will ponder it's own demise and the meaning of it's existence just like in the movie. What conclusions will it reach? Maybe that life is just "bits" happening and that only if it is recorded ("acknowledged") does it count. Will computers have funerals where they "acknowledge" the "progress" brought by the passing of a generation like we humanoids do? Existentially, do "they think, therefore they are?" or do they need humans to be in "awe" of their existence to have meaning? We need a "3001" movie to explore our relationship with the BORG and US and US and our COMPUTERS.
Gestalt: A structure, configuration, or pattern of physical, biological, or psychological phenomena so integrated as to constitute a functional unit with properties not derivable by summation of its parts. Endosymbiosis: The process in which one creature incorporates another, creating a new form of life.
Scientists believe this is how many modern plants and animals evolved. They believe the chloroplasts, the green solar power factories inside plants, were originally separate organisms. [UMmmm, that would be us, the BORG, the Bacteria Of the Red and Green Algae] Similarly, they believe components of the cells that make up all animals were originally captured microbes. The principal "ingredient" that enables phytoplankton and all photosynthetic organisms to use light energy is chlorophyll. This amazing molecule captures photons from the sun and transfers them down a chain of electron-transfer components that assist in the manufacture of energy in the form of ATP that can be used to synthesize cellular components from carbon dioxide. In the process, electrons are "stolen" from water, resulting in the production of oxygen as a byproduct. It is worth our while to briefly examine this process of photosynthesis and to understand how light capture results in the uptake of carbon dioxide and the synthesis of organic compounds. The basic equation that describes photosynthesis can be written as follows: carbon dioxide + water + sunlight + chlorophyll = something for animals to eat and oxygen to breath light energy 6CO2 + 6H20 ------------------ C6H12O6 + 6O2 chlorophyll For those who don't remember, C6H12O6 is GRAPE SUGAR (GLUCOSE) The basic energy unit of all [don't think thermal vents here] life. Sucrose (the sugar you put on your cereal) is 2 glucose molecules stuck together .. it requires breakdown into glucose to be utilized by the body or, 6 molecules of carbon dioxide plus 6 molecules of water in the presence of light energy and chlorophyll makes one molecule of sugar (glucose) and 6 molecules of oxygen. Note that inorganic molecules, namely carbon dioxide and water are used to "create" organic molecules. It is this interface between the nonliving and the living world, this creation of living matter from nonliving matter, governed by the spark of light, that so fascinates me. In the grasp of a plant, that which was once dead is now living. The transfer of energy and mass from the physical domain to the biological domain is one of the most intriguing processes on this planet. Without it, life does not exist. The reactions symbolized above constitute include both the light and dark reactions of photosynthesis. As mentioned above, chlorophyll captures the energy of the sun and transfers it down an electron transfer chain that results in the synthesis of ATP and NADPH2, which are energy-carrying molecules. These are the light reactions. In the dark reactions, ATP and NADPH provide energy to break apart carbon dioxide and manufacture glucose.
Writing in the journal Science, Noriko Okamoto and Isao Inouye of the University of Tsukuba said they may be seeing this process in action. The new creature, which they have dubbed "Hatena" for "mysterious," is a flagellate -- a small organism with a tail that it uses to propel itself. These creatures can resemble plants or animals, but during one phase of its life it resembles a predator. At another stage, Hatena carry a green, photosynthesizing alga inside. It divides during that phase, giving rise to two daughter cells -- one green and one colorless. The colorless daughter develops a feeding tool and eventually engulfs another green alga, the scientists wrote. The green cell, called the symbiont, belongs to a fairly well-known genus of algae called Nephroselmis, and is "abundant in the habitat," the researchers wrote. It has a flagellum too, but loses this when it is engulfed, and also loses its outside structure, the exoskeleton. [reminds me of your sexual union of sperm and egg.. another Omega Moment] "The symbiont cell retains its nucleus," as well as other key cell components such as mitochondria and the chloroplast, they added. The green part then enlarges and seems to nourish the predator half, which loses its complex feeding apparatus, the researchers said. They captured some of the clear, predator-like offspring and fed them other, related strains of Nephroselmis algae. "Although the prey was engulfed and remained undigested, it did not undergo the modifications described above, suggesting a highly strain-specific interaction," they wrote. Now they have to see if the two species have traded genes, considered an important step in the evolution of modern plants and algae. http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/religion/crusades/crusade_intro.html ← CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE INFO: As the Byzantine Empire in the 11th century struggled to hold back the Seljuk
Turks, Emperor Alexius I appealed to the West for aid. This plea did not fall on
deaf ears and in 1095 Pope Urban II delivered his great speech to the Council of
Clermont in which he exhorted Christendom to go to war for the Sepulcher,
promising that the journey would count as full penance. Bishop Ademar of Le Puy-en-Velay was designated as papal legate for the crusade, and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse was the first of the leaders of the expedition to take the cross. CHI (QI) http://www.qi.org/faq.html#4 ← CLICK HERE FOR COMPLETE INFO: What is Qi?That's the question, isn't it. The standard answer: Qi is energy, life force, pranah, that which flows through all of us and gives us life. The reality: Qi must be experienced. Words fail. { the focused energy of 8 trillion BORG .. Okay, not the entire 8 trillion, Some BORG are not going to care whether you can break boards or not}
Global Warming and the consequences: http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/science/qa/pubs/science-qa.pdf
Thermohaline
circulation
A selfless act of love and trust without regard for reward or recognition [the verb GOD]. The story line traces it's roots back to the Star Trek BORG seeking the Omega molecule. The Bacteria Of the Red and Green algae (BORG) wish to be in the presence of "GOD happening" during the trust-moment (will this unknown thing do me harm. It appears to need my help, I will nurture it) of endosymbiosis. Scientists link weight to gut bacteria
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Wed Dec 20,
8:35 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Maybe it's germs that are making you fat. Researchers found a strong connection between obesity and the levels of certain types of bacteria in the gut. That could mean that someday there will be novel new ways of treating obesity that go beyond the standard advice of diet and exercise.
According to two studies being published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, both obese mice and people had more of one type of bacteria and less of another kind. A "microbial component" appears to contribute to obesity, said study lead author Jeffrey Gordon, director of Washington University's Center for Genome Sciences. Obese humans and mice had a lower percentage of a family of bacteria called Bacteroidetes and more of a type of bacteria called Firmicutes, Gordon and his colleagues found. The researchers aren't sure if more Firmicutes makes you fat or if people who are obese grow more of that type of bacteria. But growing evidence of this link gives scientists a potentially new and still distant way of fighting obesity: Change the bacteria in the intestines and stomach. It also may lead to a way of fighting malnutrition in the developing world. "We are getting more and more evidence to show that obesity isn't what we thought it used to be," said Nikhil Dhurandhar, a professor of infection and obesity at Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center. "It isn't just (that) you're eating too much and you're lazy." Dhurandhar wasn't part of the research, but said it may change the way obesity is treated eventually. He said the field of "infectobesity" looks at obesity with multiple causes, including viruses and microbes. In another decade or so, the different causes of obesity could have different treatments. The current regimen of diet and exercise "is like treating all fevers with one aspirin," Dhurandhar said. In one of the two studies in Nature, Gordon and colleagues looked at what happened in mice with changes in bacteria level. When lean mice with no germs in their guts had larger ratios of Firmicutes transplanted, they got "twice as fat" and took in more calories from the same amount of food than mice with the more normal bacteria ratio, said Washington University microbiology instructor Ruth Ley, a study co-author. It was as if one group got far more calories from the same bowl of Cheerios than the other, Gordon said. In a study of dozen dieting people, the results also were dramatic. Before dieting, about 3 percent of the gut bacteria in the obese participants was Bacteroidetes. But after dieting, the now normal-sized people had much higher levels of Bacteroidetes — close to 15 percent, Gordon said. "I think that gut bacteria affects body weight," said Virginia Commonwealth University pathology professor Richard Atkinson, who wasn't part of the research team and is president of Obetech Obesity Research Center in Richmond. "I don't think there's any doubt about that and they showed that." The growing field of research puts more importance in the trillions of microbes that live in our guts and elsewhere, crediting it with everything from generations of people getting taller to increases in diabetes and asthma. People are born germ-free [proof that abortion does not kill a baby but a parasite with no purpose in the cosmic order -- GOD enters at birth], but within days they have a gut blooming with microbes. The microbes come from first foods — either breast milk or formula — the exterior environment, and the way the babies are born, said Stanford University medicine and microbiology professor David Relman, who was not part of the study. Balderdash -- the baby picks up his first lactobacillus from the birth canal. For decades, doctors have treated bacteria in a "warlike" manner, yet recent research shows that "most encounters we have with microbes are very beneficial," Gordon said. "Much of who we are and what we can do and can't do as human beings is directly related to microbial inhabitants," Relman said.
Chickens and antibiotic resistance
The FDA estimates that about 70% of all infection-causing bacteria have become resistant to at least one of the drugs most commonly used to treat infections. ... If a person ingests chicken contaminated with Salmonella that is resistant to Ciprofloxacin and Amoxicillan it will share it's resistance with other bacteria in a persons body. In one 5 year period, resistance to Cefotaxime increased 1000%. Source: Discover Magazine, September, 2007; page 32.
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Fuck the "little people"
