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DocwillCuNow's JournalReading at DU helped make me a better person and this is how....
Today, I was getting my hair cut when I heard an elderly gentleman, 79 years old I heard him say and he was all of that, asking the other hairdresser how much a haircut was..... 15.50 and he was not jumping up and down yelling "wow, that's even better than when I was a kid" he hemmed and hawed for a few seconds... then the lady told him that she could give him a coupon for 1.00. Not overjoyed, but not annoyed he accepted it, said he had to go do volunteer work at the local hospital, (I would imagine he is a widow looking for some way to give meaning to his existence perhaps, have human contact, have a feeling of usefulness), as he was leaving, just outside the entrance I asked the lady to stop him and have him come back in.
I politely told him that I would like to pay for his haircut that was scheduled for Thurs. and I asked the lady at the counter to give him a voucher for his haircut. He accepted, went on his way, said god bless and so forth. I finished my cut, paid the lady for two haircuts and then left. I don't know his name, he doesn't know mine, I only know that reading the examples of selfless giving at the pass it down website gave me the will to do something I would not have ever done. Thank you whoever posted that site filled with examples of selfless and or generous people. It has blessed and made me a little more sensitive to the hardships of the people around me.
OMG this poor family... I'm so glad they persevered and got a lawyer involved with
their father's situation. If you have the time it is worth a watch, I see they were using lipospheric C, I know how to make it at home, (videos on youtube) but I had no idea how potent it was. This is impressive. I might add that the University of Kansas has trials ongoing with ivc and chemo together, anathema to most if not all oncologists. There is nothing graphic in this short video but there is a mind boggling story of a family's devotion to their father and the twisted path they had to tread in order to get him an unapproved therapy.
Living Proof Vitamin C Miracle Cure 60 Minutes Video 3
Breakthrough in fight against AIDS, scientists 'delete' HIV from human cells
Apologies if this has been threaded before, but a little bit of good news now and again can't hurt in these stressful times....
Breakthrough in fight against AIDS, scientists 'delete' HIV from human cells
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Breakthrough-in-fight-against-AIDS-scientists-delete-HIV-from-human-cells/articleshow/38875772.cms
>>From there, the cell's gene repair machinery takes over, soldering the loose ends of the genome back together — resulting in virus-free cells.<<
"Since HIV-1 is never cleared by the immune system, removal of the virus is required in order to cure the disease," said Khalili, whose research focuses on the neuropathogenesis of viral infections. The same technique could theoretically be used against a variety of viruses, he said.
The research shows that these molecular tools also hold promise as a therapeutic vaccine; cells armed with the nuclease-RNA combination proved impervious to HIV infection. Worldwide, more than 33 million people have HIV.
Although highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has controlled HIV-1 for infected people in the developed world over the last 15 years, the virus can rage again with any interruption in treatment.
Even when HIV-1 replication is well controlled with HAART, the lingering HIV-1 presence has health consequences.
The legacy of steel plants, remembering what used to be, and why it still matters
This industry however dirty noxious and polluting helped build America, provided jobs for families to survive on and supplied materials for our infrastructure. Here are a couple of sites that honor those facts and allow us to remember "the good old days". Omaha Steve might like the first paragraph, he may even want to visit the museum..... the first link is for the museum, free entry... talk about memories. Second link is to a page I found with some excellent photos of the plant, I've posted a few of my favorites.
I feel that sites like this are important for two reasons, first we can learn from the mistakes of the past, as mentioned in another thread this is an environmental cleanup site, second, it is a large area next to a beautiful body of water that could be reclaimed/restored for much better use than allowing nature to slowly eat away at it. I would like to see clean technology set up in at least part of this site, sure save some of the more "attractive" old machinery but perhaps a battery factory, wind turbine manufacturing facility, or even a Solazyme plant to manufacture fuel from algae in a matter of days.
http://www.steelplantmuseumwny.org/
In 1984, the Steel Plant Museum was established to help preserve and document the memories of the newly-extinct steel industry in Western New York. While the majority of the collection is from Bethlehem's Lackawanna plant, artifacts from Republic Steel, Hanna Furnace, and other local companies are also represented here. Union efforts to improve working conditions are documented in grievance files and correspondence kept in the Museum's Reference Library. Their hard-won benefits are listed in contract booklets that workers studied diligently. The Reference Library also contains steel-related catalogs, technical papers, books, and manuals.
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