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I just learned that a series of bombs exploded in London awhile ago. It’s really getting scary out there. It started around midnight Philippine time. According to CNN, there were 4 blasts. 3 in the subway and 1 in a bus. This is just like the bombing there 2 weeks ago.

Louie also sent me an email warning me from going to malls this weekend. She received a text from a reliable source that there might be a terrorist or public disturbance that is being planned.

I first read this on popbitch but I found more reliable sources. Anyway, Scientists at Pittsburg’s Safar Center for Resuscitation Research found a way to bring back to life newly dead dogs. This is good news for die-hard dog lovers but it’s a bit disturbing and disgusting.

SCIENTISTS have created eerie zombie dogs, reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.
US scientists have succeeded in reviving the dogs after three hours of clinical death, paving the way for trials on humans within years.

Pittsburgh’s Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject’s veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.

The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity.

But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock.

Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.

However rather than sending people to sleep for years, then bringing them back to life to benefit from medical advances, the boffins would be happy to keep people in this state for just a few hours,

But even this should be enough to save lives such as battlefield casualties and victims of stabbings or gunshot wounds, who have suffered huge blood loss.
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During the procedure blood is replaced with saline solution at a few degrees above zero. The dogs’ body temperature drops to only 7C, compared with the usual 37C, inducing a state of hypothermia before death.

Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved.

Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery. The dogs are brought back to life by returning the blood to their bodies,giving them 100 per cent oxygen and applying electric shocks to restart their hearts.

Tests show they are perfectly normal, with no brain damage.

“The results are stunning. I think in 10 years we will be able to prevent death in a certain segment of those using this technology,” said one US battlefield doctor.

from news.com.au

This is scary. Here’s an excerpt of the article.

According to scientists and geologists, the earth’s brittle tectonic plates can be made to move against each other at a faster rate with the use of pulsating electromagnetic flux generated artificially by extraterrestrial or terrestrial human technologies.

The artificial pulsating electromagnetic flux can be generated by either the position of a set of neutron stars or black holes far away in the middle of galaxy or by artificial generation of the pulsating electromagnetic waves.

Many countries are experimenting with pulsating electromagnetic flux to create low intensity tectonic movements or low level superficial land slides.

The earthquake and resulting Tsunami in Sumatra could have been caused by this method. As a matter of fact, between November 2004 and March 2005, the earth saw major earthquakes and Tsunamis that outpaces anything we have seen in modern times.

Wide Eyed Workshops will soon conduct online workshops for aspiring Asian writers. WEW is based in Los Angeles and it’s a non-profit organization. Workshops on writing for horror, short films, graphic novels, and sex scenes will be conducted this month but unfortunately for us in the Philippines, we wouldn’t be able to attend them. Animae (a regular poster commenter here) is one of the facilitators and she said that there are plans of putting the classes online. I’m not a writer but I’m really interested in the lessons. Some of you might be better with words so this is a really good opportunity to enhance your skills. Spread the word, guys!

from ISAA

Without Measure
Special ISA Day 2005 Issue
www.withoutmeasure.com/special

The International Size Acceptance Association (ISAA) is pleased to announce that a special mini-issue of Without Measure, ISAA’s Official electronic magazine, is now online! The issue’s theme is tied to this year’s International Size Acceptance Day and ISAA’s new “Drop The Surgery, Regain Your Health” campaign.

Special features this issue include an interview with plus-size actress Darlene Cates (”What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” “Wolf Girl”), the meaning of International Size Acceptance Day, WLS survivor perspectives, special words of wisdom and more! Please check this out right now and feel free to give WOM your feedback.

Without Measure
Special ISA Day 2005 Issue
www.withoutmeasure.com/special

Best Wishes,
Allen Steadham

Allen Steadham, Director
International Size Acceptance Association
E-mail - Director@size-acceptance.org
WWW - www.size-acceptance.org

from ISAA

ISAA’s Without Measure (WOM) e-zine is interested in people’s personal stories of Respect Fitness Health (RFH). In other words, people who have chosen to be size-accepting and self-respecting, have increased their fitness through some maintainable activity that is appropriate for them, and decided to make healthy food choices (to diversify their food choices from a variety of fruits, vegetables and meats or protein sources).

WOM will select from your stories for use in a special “International Size Acceptance Day” (ISA Day) mini-issue of WOM. ISA Day is on April 26, 2005.

Please limit your stories to 200 words or less and include at least your first name, your city, state and country. The deadline for sending in stories is Tuesday April 19, 2005, so please send them in as soon as possible.

Please e-mail your stories to: womeasure@size-acceptance.org

WOM reserves the right to edit all stories for spelling, grammar and brevity.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Sincerely,
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International Size Acceptance Association
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WWW - www.size-acceptance.org

I just read this article in engadget about Philadelphia wanting to put a city-wide WiFi access and I can’t help but feel envious. I don’t have anything capable of WiFi but I just want that option. Imagine, you can be anywhere in the city and you can connect to the net anytime you want, even from inside the bathroom. And the city wants the WiFi access to be cheap so that means the locals don’t have to pay huge sums of money to ISPs anymore. LUCKY!

I read on the newspaper today that the Catholic Church of the Philippines seeks to ban from taking communion those who work and who are in support of ‘Ligtas Buntis’, a family planning program led by the Department of Health(DOH). I was raised as a Catholic but lost faith in their church but this issue still irks me because firstly, I am a woman, and secondly, it’s beginning to reek like the tribulations during the dark ages.

I don’t know why they are making a really big deal about using contraception. The world isn’t a safe place anymore what with the spread of STD’s such as the AIDS virus. Also, most of the people who have a lot of children are those below the poverty line and obviously can’t support raising many kids. It’s not as if the DOH is espousing premarital sex. They are urging the use of contraception to married couples so they will become educated and can have the option of living within their means. Let’s face it, people have hormones and most of the time, couples cannot just abstain from having sex. I’ve encountered women from the squatters area who bear children every year. The women are left to take care of the kids while the husbands look for a job wherever he can and they get to take home barely the minimum wage. We shouldn’t be also blind to the reality that a lot of Filipino women have roving eyes and resort to sex outside their marriage. Who knows what else he might bring home besides his daily earnings?

As for the sexually active citizens, they are the ones who are more in need of protection. They are the ones who are more prone to STD’s and unwanted pregnancies. These unwanted pregnancies also result to abortion most of the time. Since abortion isn’t supported by the Church and the government, pregnant girls have to settle with underground, unsanitary, and unsafe clinics due to desparation. If the Church doesn’t want women getting abortion, they should give them another option besides abstinence, a Utopian idea in my opinion. It would be a real miracle if the Catholic Church would come up with a way to surely control the sexual urges of the youth.

The DOH isn’t promoting abortion. It is promoting sexual education and the option to use contraceptives. By banning supporters of the ‘Ligtas Buntis’ campaign from having communion, they are turning their backs to basic human rights. Why don’t they just condemn supporters such as me as ‘excommunicated’ like the Church did during the Medieval times? It certainly feels the same way to me. I’m better off than my Catholic brothers and sisters because my conscience is clear. They, on the other hand, are being taught to feel guilty for seeking an option.