Us and Them

World Economy and Pink Floyd

The United States was struggling through the great depression when Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941.

Suddenly, on a dime, the will of the nation changed. Political differences vanished and Americans had a common enemy. The government started building tanks, ships, and airplanes. Unemployment vanished and people had money to spend to fuel the economy. Prosperity continued for decades after the axis surrender in 1945.

Today, perhaps, we need a common enemy to focus on, to do what needs to be done.

It will likely need to be from outer space, since the whole world is in this financial mess.

In America, the problem is made worse by the two political parties, who both truly beleive they are right, and doing the right thing, to cure our financial ills.

Peace 

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NEW NUCLEOTIDES IDENTIFIED IN HUMAN DNA

Human DNA includes eight nucleotides instead of the four originally identified.

Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:04 PM ET
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THE GIST

• Researchers added and removed methyl groups to identify these new nucleotides.
• The list of DNA nucleotides had been previously increased from four to six.
• The discovery could someday advance the field of stem cell research.

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When scientists talk of DNA sequencing, it's written as strings of these letters: A, T, C, G.Click to enlarge this image. 
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The human recipe just got complicated: It turns out there are more ingredients in us than we thought.

In high school science, we were taught of the four basic units that make up DNA -- adenine, guanine, thymine and cytosine. When scientists talk of DNA sequencing, it's written as strings of these units: ATCGGTGA, and so on.

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In recent years, scientists expanded that list of nucleotides from four to six. And in a study published online in the most recent issue of Science magazine, researchers from the University of North Carolina School's medical school have discovered the seventh and eight bases of DNA.

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But the meaning of this extra ingredient in the alphabet soup that makes us who we are isn't as simple as A, B, C.

"Before we can grasp the magnitude of this discovery, we have to figure out the function of these new bases," said Yi Zhang, biochemistry and biophysics professor at UNC's Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Zhang arrived at his discovery by playing around with the chemical makeup of the base cytosine; by adding a new chemical tag -- called a methyl group -- to the base it became those fifth and sixth units. This process, called methylation,causes the DNA's double helix to fold even tighter upon itself.

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Demethylation describes the removal of a chemical group from a molecule, a process that led to the new 7th and 8th units -- they've been given the ugly names 5-formylcytosine and 5 carboxylcytosine. (The fifth base -- 5 methylC -- and the sixth base -- 5 hydroxymethylC -- have equally ungainly names, to be fair.)

"These bases represent an intermediate state in the demethylation process," he explained.

Once better understood, Zhang hopes his discovery could someday advance the field of stem cell research. By demethylating DNA, it may be possible to reprogram adult cells to make them act like stem cells.

It could also inform cancer research, as it could give scientists the opportunity to reactivate tumor suppressor genes that had been silenced.

Einstein on War

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

Communicating with symbols (words)

I have always been able to get my point across to whom ever I was trying to communicate with, until a decade ago, when I asked the court to examine how this Wall Street Bank, Chase Manhattan, and their service agent, Ocwen Federal Bank FSB, violated federal bankruptcy law, which caused the loss of my home of 26 years, and the fledgling business, Residential Fire Sprinklers, operated from that home.

The facts are indisputable and the law is well settled, the trick is to get a court hearing, which has been my dilemma since my unlawful eviction in 2003 . I needed a courtroom forum (trial) to prove the facts and have the court apply the law.

In eight separate appeals to United States Bankruptcy, District, Appeals, and Supreme court to gain a hearing, the courts have always sided with the banks. Current appeal 11-60039 US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

Sunday Morning

In 2006 when I lost my medical insurance at Kaiser Permenente, the doctors would not keep me on the strong drugs they were prescribing to treat my severe case of psoriasis, which covered most of my body. The doctors needed to closely monitor my blood, to insure other internal body organs were not being affected.  


A doctor in Palm Springs recommended I try medical marijuana, and cautioned me about the effects of the drugs I had been using to treat the severe skin condition. 


The medical marijuana provided great relief from the constant itching associated with psoriasis. It also had other benefits which can be the subject of future posts. 


In addition, today I must state: I smoke medical marijuana (sativa), because


I FEEL CLOSER TO GOD !


Peace, on this Labor Day 2011

Nearby Pieces on the Board

Our environment and society strives to keep the individual focused on nearby pieces on the board - the debt crisis, the presidents speech, the start of football season, political debates, joblessness, the global financial crisis, wars in Afghanistan, the arab spring, a new government for Libya.

This is done, of course, to keep the individual's perspective focused on the nearby pieces on life's chess board. Just as the horse's on Main Street in Disneyland have blinders to prevent them
from becoming distracted from their intended purpose of pulling a horse powered carriage.

The horse is spared the oversight, that as he pulls the carriage, he is one trip closer to his or her final destination at the glue factory. Our consciousness is often focused on immediate pressures of survival in our society, which is essentially pleasing the boss, so that our supply of money is not cut off.

Like Disney's horses, we concentrate on the immediate influences; job, home, family, friends, pleasure, and putting off the larger questions of why we are here, how did it all start? how will it end ?

Birthday Post

My 62 birthday, Friday August 19, 2011


Best wishes to my Aunt Adeline, who underwent knee surgery on Monday.

Peace to All

Gary Ozenne

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