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For a month now, I've been eating typically one lunch meal per day, for no reason. But I won't mention about coffee consumption. uhum. nobody's perfect. salam selam...
I lost something precious recently, a belief thingy. nothing important.
I just found something this morning, a keychain thingy. nothing important.
I'm still breathing, and I still don't know why. Please forgive my ignorance, errors, faults.
~ Ramadhan Mubarak ~ daripada daud di nor calif, anak kanaka haoli, kuala walu wiki, US
[Update Nov. Some of this is now outdated. Oral communication while at depth was indeed done, via clicking.]
Speech, though completely dependent upon the mouth/larynx, is not particularly sensorial. Eating, breathing, sniffing, sneezing are all face-sense-related, talking isn't. Talking is all about internal air valve control.
One cannot talk underwater, yet if not for underwater air valve control, speech would not have happened.
In a way, both speech (audio sense only) and physical gestures (visual sense only) require an absence/reduction of other of senses, otherwise risking interference. (Compare the small eyes of echolocating cetaceans (especially river dolphins, which are almost blind) vs huge eyes of ancient non-echolocating marine reptiles.)
What is the physiological opposite of the anaerobic MDR Mammalian Divers Reflex which occurs at depth? Instant exhalation (photic/pressure/thermal induced) & aerobic breathing at surface, with optional controlled exhalation vocalized speech. Has anyone immediately upon surfacing from a *long* dive, spoken during the first exhale? I think humans are programmed/selected not to, just like seals. First exhale, then speak/bark. Not sure though.
I think also that the LCA Hominoid/Hominid could not call while floating vertically, possibly due to (water) pressure on the throat/sac/hyoid/thyroid cartilage. Only when pressure was eased, could a vocal sound be produced (compare to having a "knot in ones throat" or feeling choked up), I guess. This allowed breathing clearly through the nose during floating, then upon grasping and lifting up or wading, the air sac pressure is off, and oral breathing and calling can start.
[{Highly significant}] This might have been a predecessor of being able to suction feed in Homo underwater, having the oral breathing disconnected during submersion, allowing the open pharynx for feeding and swallowing, then upon re-emergence to light/pressure change, the larynx reopens to the mouth and instantly exhales but with no vocalization, just a pure instant complete air exchange of the lungs, trachea, mouth. Only the little air in the nasal area is not forcibly exchanged. Why? Either because the sinuses and eustacean tubes were pre-flooded with seawater (per Seb Murat), or because of some other reason (high-pressure nasal sneeze might cause damage to delicate nasal veins/arteries/turbinates/olfactory nerves/middle ear/inner ear barotrauma).
Today's scuba divers and free divers instead keep their chin down near the throat, with their eyes 60 to 90 degrees from the streamlined linear posture (and more like a vertical floating ape posture), which differs from this ancient diving technique, and may indicate why the photic sneeze "doesn't work" in today's divers.
Human emotional tears are anti-fungal, thanks to salt, protein defensins and dermcidin. This developed as a result of living around seawater for millions of years, where both salt and water are abundant. The same is true of eccrine sweat.
Chimps, gorillas and orangutans left the mangrove rich seashores millions of years before, their rare tears and sweat are not saline, because there is almost no salt in the rainforest.
There is very little inland Iodine and Selenium (plentiful in the sea), so hypothyroidism, cretinism and goiters are often found in people living far from the sea, or on mountain islands without easy access to the lower shores.
Common chimps don't weep tears, rather they become enraged. (I hate you!) Pygmy chimps also don't weep, rather they have sex play. (I distract you!)
Humans do weep, those that don't, are in a more primitive state of emotion; a stronger brittle shell but a more fragile center. Prisons are full of people who never weep. Psychiatric hospitals have people that can't release their emotions in a healthy way, so doctors medicate, but usually only dull the senses.
Tears release tension which otherwise destroys bonds.
"Tears : Tears produced by emotional crying differ in chemical content from those caused by irritants such as onion juice. Emotional tears contain more protein than tears induced by irritants. Researchers are now examining the contents of emotional tears for substances such as endorphins, ACTH, prolactin and growth hormone, all of which are released by stress. While the research on psychoactive substances in tears is just beginning, there is reason to think that emotional tears may be important in the maintenance of physical health and emotional balance.
Crying is not grief; it is a way of getting over your grief. Trembling isn't the same as fear. Rather it is part of a letting go of fear. In the same manner, embarrassed laughter, yawning, and even rapid, excited talking are parts of the healing process that get mistaken for symptoms of the problem". ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Somebody must care about the forest, the field, the ocean, more than the individuals, otherwise the individuals overpopulate and destroy the environment ("tragedy of the commons").
But if nobody cares about that somebody, then it doesn't matter. It just becomes numbers, and resource warfare, which just escalates, until people stop planting food crops, being too busy destroying and defending property and rituals. Then only wild forest food is easily obtained, but that soon disappears, leaving famine and chaos. This can happen anywhere there are humans.
Yesterday, I was in Arcata, where I chatted with Bruce LeBel, the exec. dir. of World Shelters, a non-profit organization providing emergency temporary housing to victims of earthquakes, tsunamis, other disasters around the world. He showed me around, I checked out the Qshelter, octahut and icosa Udome, where they are working on insulation and a snow peak.
on the walk around the bay, I plucked lots of sweet blackberries along the trail.
Now I'm resting from the long hike through the brambles, watching the ladies go to their friday yoga class. Their room is temporarily full of a variety of nests, including birds nests featuring the dune dwelling snowy plover*, and artistic renditions of nests, for this month's Arts Alive gallery.
Funny how a Udome or round hut is an upside down nest, both utilize the spherical principle of 'maximum space enclosed by minimum material' (least surface area and structural support). Also, the tubular quonset Qshelter resembles buckytubes.
* Although the show's theme is nests, the snowy plover, like many other shorebirds, does not actually build a woven nest, unlike tree roosting birds which do. They usually just dig a shallow hole in sand or pebbles or grasses and deposit their camouflaged eggs; some seabirds deposit non-rolling eggs in rocky clefts hidden from view.
It's a very hot day, absolutely perfect for diving.
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." - Albert Einstein, scientist (1879 - 1955) """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
In vertebrates, melanin-based coloration is often associated with variation in physiological and behavioural traits. We propose that this association stems from pleiotropic effects of the genes regulating the synthesis of brown to black eumelanin. The most important regulators are the melanocortin 1 receptor and its ligands, the melanocortin agonists and the agouti-signalling protein antagonist. On the basis of the physiological and behavioural functions of the melanocortins, we predict five categories of traits correlated with melanin-based coloration. A review of the literature indeed reveals that, as predicted, darker wild vertebrates are more aggressive, sexually active and resistant to stress than lighter individuals. Pleiotropic effects of the melanocortins might thus account for the widespread covariance between melanin-based coloration and other phenotypic traits in vertebrates.
ps. Is this accurate or not? Please inform. (Hat tip to Razib at Gene Expression)
================================================================================================= Evolving forgiveness "For instance, his description of Robert Axelrod’s work on game theory modeling and cooperation is extremely insightful and resounding proof that natural selection actually leads to a nicer world in the long run. Primate studies, as he describes them, also suggest that the standard response - and healthy - mechanism of closure to an act of aggression is forgiveness and reconciliation. Human psychology studies back this up, and identify the components of apologies that elicit forgiveness the best.
And in the next-to-last chapter, he debunks the notion that religion is the shortcut to forgiveness and compassion. True, as McCullough notes, religious individuals often forgive more readily - *if* the offender is part of the same social network, and particularly if the offender is part of the same religion. Moveover, devoutly religious individuals are more likely to exhibit more intolerant and vengeful attitudes towards offenders who are outsiders, on the margins of society, etc."
in sum: Group bonding requires internal similarity, external dissimilarity. ie. oil and water don't mix without surfactants due to differing polarities or so.
Human anatomy is a formative experience in the training of future physicians -- it is the students' grand introduction to the body, when they memorize the names of bones, organs and nerves as they painstakingly dissect a real cadaver. That first year, as well as in years after, the medical students were curious about what kind of doctor I am. I am a fish paleontologist who studies finned creatures that have been extinct for more than 370 million years. Seeing the history inside our bodies is like peeling an onion: The first layers we see reveal the history we share with primates (large brains and opposable thumbs). Peel deeper and we find the layers of history shared with other mammals (hair and breasts), reptiles (our distinctive way of chewing food), fish (arms, legs, backbones and heads), worms (an anus on one side of the body and a mouth on the other), jellyfish (the DNA recipe that builds our bodies), sponges (our many celled bodies) and so on.
They say 4.6, but I think it was a 5.3, maybe here a bigger jolt due to the soft wet silt ground foundation surrounding the Kuala Walu Wiki (Humboldt Bay), on the Cascadia Subduction Zone of the west coast of America. It was quite a sharp lurch to the brick building, no bricks shaking apart, but I heard the walls moving and the floor jolted. I almost dove under the desk! abes!
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Wei, susah! I got travel IQ: 113 and level 10. Make sure your mouse is very smooth and double click if it doesn't register your guess. Small islands are not visible, so it's hard to know where they are located, like Palau, Micronesia. Just try it now, it's fun. Here's the one for Asia, I got 122 pts IQ, not so good hahaha. ta pe, fun je.
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erosion = body radiation due to chemical/physical plane/surface bond fracturing gravity = earth's center density accumulates, pressurizes/displaces subsurface
arch based on compression of stone particles due to tension of earth's gravity, when enough particles have eroded (cement bonds broken), the matrix faults and shifts and eventually collapses.
Reading a 1958 classic book by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, called Things Fall Apart about a family of the Ibo tribe in traditional Nigeria, especially focused on the main character's relationships with family, village, clan, and foreign colonials. The book's plot is here: link. On page 57 at the moment, a challenging read, the title doesn't connect with the story yet, though I'm sure it will.
Shog bo Yoruba! Hausa! Ina su Igbo! Swahili! Ma dun belly full! My friends, brothers and sisters of Africa. Peace in your hearts, food in your stomachs, clarity in your sight.
While studying at Univ. Wisconsin, I had some Nigerian friends, I do miss them sometimes, especially Alaro (she & I worked one summer in dorm cleaning with other int'l. students) and Nnamdi (so much like Eddie Murphy), and recall Ene (he distrusted Americans, we enjoyed argueing) and "crazy" On'e who tried to kill me with a kitchen knife (I belly-laughed so hard, he joined me in laughter and put away the knife). The book's main character reminded me of him, I hope he has limited himself to killing goats. InsyaAllah.
Morocco imam competition link call of the muzzein: survival of the fittest loudest? The clearest call surely comes from within. No need to electrically amplify, is not the high decibel traffic in the modern city already loud enough, especially near hospitals where calm is of the essence? I do like hearing the call, just hoping for a bit of balance in congested areas. An alarm clock should not be turned to maximum, that is a symptom of lethargy, sloth and lack of awareness, an unhealthy combination. Now I sound like I'm preaching, sorry, not my job.
# humor post for restroom - benjo - banio - tandas - bilik air - comfort room - WC #
The world's oldest joke, 3900 years ago, is a saying of the Sumerians, who lived in what is now southern Iraq and goes: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap." [silently I'm sure kut .. eewww .. honey.. busuk! lulz..]
A 3600 yr old gag about a pharaoh, said to be King Snefru of Egyptian pyramid fame, comes second -- "How do you entertain a bored pharaoh? You sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh to go catch a fish." [wei, jom sapo nak gi mancing! haha]
The oldest British joke dates back to the 10th Century and reveals the bawdy face of the limeys -- "What hangs at a man's thigh and wants to poke the hole that it's often poked before? Answer: A key." [kalo ta paham, ta pe, lagi inosent, lagi baek]
The oldest American joke is XXXsensorXXX ta bleh wat kat DCB sori, noti lahhh ;)
Jokes don't change much, just the way they're pronounced.
Division of Rheumatology, Faculty of Medicine, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
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Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey
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Vatan cad., Devrim sit., B/blok No:29/4, Selcuklu, 42040 Konya, Turkey
Received: 10 March 2007 Accepted: 24 September 2007 Published online: 10 October 2007
Abstract Prayer is one kind of worship that is composed of repetitive action during praying in Islam. The prayer is performed five times a day, every Friday, bairams and death ceremonies. The aim of this study is to search the role of this repetitive action on knee, hip osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. Forty-six patients who had been performing the prayer at least for 10 years, and 40 patients who had not performed the prayer, were included in this prospective study. Each patient was evaluated with standard questionnaire form, joint examination was done and various laboratory parameters were studied. Anterior–posterior radiography of the pelvis and weight-bearing knees of each patient were examined. Each film was evaluated by two investigators separately and first scored by using Kellgren and Lawrence (K&L) scale, then the width of the joint space of hips and knees were measured directly using a steel ruler and recorded to the nearest half millimeter. Bone mineral density (BMD) of lumbar spine and femur was measured. Patients having Heberden’s nodes, Bouchard’s nodes, and carpometacarpal disease were frequent in worshiper group. Joint space width measurements and assessment according to K&L scale did not differ between worshipers and non-worshipers. BMD of lumbar spine was decreased in worshipers and also decreased with patients having Heberden’s nodes, Bouchard’s nodes, female gender and age. Prayer has no effect on knee and hip osteoarthritis, and may be related with hand osteoarthritis. It seems to have negative effect on lumbar BMD, but further investigations are needed.
Keywords Prayer - Osteoarthritis - Osteoporosis
Perhaps tatami mats or a sandy beach in the shade of a coconut palm might be more healthy.
Coconuts can't grow if cracked from the outside. Coconuts can grow if the root inside can penetrate out through the shell, away from the light, down into the dark soil, stabilizing position (representing basal trust network stability, parental bond, security, daily nutritional foundation), only then can the stem grow up (representing freedom, independence, choices, responsibilities).
The stem (and branches-leaves-etc.) all have to grow up away from the shell, towards the light/energy source.
The leaves grow towards the light, but then, they point outwards (away from the stem, which is the structural support) so the horizontal leaf surface absorb maximum light.
This is like reaching out to friends... They can't give light, but can reflect it and also help slow the gusts of storm winds. However they also compete (need their own space to grow), so one can't overextend too far, or the stem will weaken (too dependent on other people weakens self-discipline, slows growth).
Sometimes the wind blows hard or the water level in the soil drops or rises, these are life's challenges. Every night, darkness allows sleep (rest & restore inside).
Don't worry about cracking the "shell", that happens naturally as you grow both deeper and higher. :)
يشعي Main: Just regular, suke enjoying sharing some down-time wit ~ folks recharging with a cup of coffee/blend/tea/water or emotional massage or prayer.
Also seeking female diver/singer to play role, private space when needed. Marriage & kids are important to me, so I let God lead. Motto: Always leave room for miracles, even coincidental ones. Tears wash the face and clear the sight. Tigers can kill, but losing love can make me cry, I'm no wimp so don't even try, unless your heart is innocent and shy. "Impossible" is a lie I once believed in totally, an error that nearly killed me. Never forget, all things are possible. Faith~Grace~Love~Percaya~Ke'selam
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Ring it up for da tok king! hmm
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