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A group of researchers is building biocompatible electronics on thin, flexible substrates made of biodegradable, mechanically strong silk films.

When it's placed on brain tissue and wetted with saline, a silk film will shrink-wrap around the surface of the brain, bringing electrodes with it into the wrinkles of the tissue, without scarring.

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YOU’VE GOT THE WRONG GUY!!
by Sean Miramontes “Shovelhead Seany”

Life was good in ‘05 when I bought my rollin’ chassis from a friend. I was so excited. I had only ridden a Harley once before, though I had owned other bikes.  I worked in construction and believed that if you put in your 40 hours, you can do anything you want the rest of the time. And I did. I was drinking, surfing every day in the Monterey Bay a couple of blocks from my house, and getting into trouble. 

But you never know what life is gonna throw at you.

That December my girlfriend Macmillan told me she was pregnant. In an instant I went from a 35-year old boy to a man. I had never had a dad, so all I wanted was to be there for my own child. This was my new goal in life and it changed everything. I stopped screwing around in my spare time and also decided to stop breaking my back for someone else and instead work toward getting my General Contractor’s License.

For some time my arm and shoulder would hurt, but I chalked it up to pounding the hammer. I would also get chills even when it was 90 degrees outside. In June of ‘06 though, I started having back pains like I’ve never experienced before. I had to sleep on the couch sitting up because I didn’t want to disturb Macmillan. The pains were unbelievable. A pain went through me like a bolt of lightning one time when I twisted my back. Three days after that I couldn’t walk. I was paralyzed from the waist down. Macmillan rushed me to the ER, where I got an MRI.

I’ll never forget that day, May 15, 2006. I lay on my back for the first time in months, Mill sitting at the foot of my bed seven months pregnant. The doctor came in and gave me the old good news-bad news routine. “You have a strong back,” he said, “ but the bad news is that it’s covered in cancer from neck to toe -- probably lymphoma.” I looked over at Mill as her head dropped. Then I said to the doctor, “You and the cancer have got the wrong guy! I’m a fighter!” Nothing like a good scrap now and then, and this fight was for real and it was on.

I was admitted to the hospital and started meds, radiation and chemo right away. Mill would come in at the start of visiting hours every day. When I saw her smile no matter how hard it was for her, I knew what I had to do, she was the best reminder. She and my good friend Benji helped me in ways they’ll never know, no matter how much I thank them. I guess staying alive would be the ultimate thank you.

After a week, on my last day I finally met my real doctor, Dr. Pomeroy. He walked in with a bowl of cut-up fruit (don’t ask). Stuffing fruit into his mouth with his hand, he said, “We finally meet. I’ve been avoiding you all week. I hear you’re a great guy that has a lot on his plate, and frankly I’ve been trying to figure out how to save your life.” I said, “Don’t worry about my end, I’ve got it handled!”

He said, “ Good, because you have Stage 4 Lymphoma, with a softball sized tumor surrounding your spine, and it’s eating away at your sciatic nerve.” I’m really mad at this point. My whole world was crashing down. The reality hadn’t kicked in yet, but I knew the battle was just beginning. I asked him how long before I would walk again. “That’s up to you,” he said, still stuffing fruit in his mouth. He was a cool dude, though, and also said to me, “You and I are going to know each other for the rest of your life.”

The next day I got my crutches and hobbled down my street despite having no feeling in my legs -- walking on instinct and will -- and I went to see the ocean. All the way, I was thinking, “There’s no way in hell I’m going be a victim of this disease!”

Everyday Benji would come over to check on me and bring whatever I needed. Twice a week for six months, he drove me for chemo treatments, hung out with me, then took me home after I was fully marinated. I tried driving there myself once, and the doctor got really upset with me since I had no feeling in my legs. He said, “Who cares about you! What if you hit some kid?” I didn’t try that again!

On August 26, 2006, my beautiful son Mason was born. We looked the same -- hairless. After chemo was finished in November, I was told I was in the clear. Other than not being able to walk, which had its own challenges, I was glad it was over. I won the fight!

Or so I thought.

The next April the old pains that I knew all too well were back. Dr. Pomeroy ordered another MRI, then broke the news that the cancer had returned and it was in my neck. He wanted me to start chemo right away, but then told me that the only thing that was going to save me now was a bone marrow transplant, and that we had to start looking for a donor. Round 2 with this crap. Now I was really pissed off. But this time I have my son’s eyes looking back at me. This was war!

Meanwhile the bills were stacking up. We had one yard sale after another selling practically everything we had. I even had to sell my surf boards since I couldn’t surf anymore. That was hard, but selling my rollin’ chassis was harder. Having to sell it was breaking my heart because deep down I was trying to hold on to hope. I put it on Craig’s list and got a call from a man named Jeff Kempshall from JLK Precision in San Bruno. He wanted to come down to pick up the bike, but was going to have a Harley mechanic named Dale come check it out first. I had just met Dale! He was a neighbor of mine. After Dale inspected the bike, he called Jeff and told him it all looked good. Dale told me not to worry, that when I get better, he would help me build my dream bike. That gave me hope after all. A little sacrifice now might be worth it in the long run.

Jeff showed up that night at my door. He was a big, intimidating biker dude who had been in Vietnam. I told him why I was selling the bike, and he almost crumbled. Then he told me how he’d been stepping out of his own box lately and was in a play at a church in Half Moon Bay (about 50 miles north). He invited me and my family to come see it. The church was on Miramontes Drive. “Then I have to come!” I told him. “Miramontes is my last name.” I’m a believer in signs and like to go with that type of flow. I never like to pass up opportunities, if the flow is right. So Mill, Mason and I went and had a great time. A few days later Jeff and his wife Sherall showed up at my door with diapers and food for us. God bless those two.

I was riding my bicycle to chemo trying to build my legs, even though I couldn’t feel them. I also focused on getting my contractor’s license and studied my ass off while going through chemo and radiation. I had failed the exam a few times before, but this time I was determined.

I had asked my sister Krysel to take the bone marrow test and, miraculously, she was a perfect match! A big blow to my buddy, Lymphoma. All Krysel’s and my childhood arguments were out the door. Now she‘s my hero, as well as my son’s, although he doesn’t know it yet.  She donated her cells on her birthday, September 27, and the nurses even brought her a birthday cake. It took six hours and was pretty  painful for her. What a sister!

The bone marrow transplant, which is a blood transfusion, was set for the next day. Before the procedure they gave me powerful chemo and radiation treatments that took me right up to the point of death. It’s almost like they kill you before they put in the new cells. People with a bone marrow transplant are basically reborn, so in a sense my sister and I have the same birthday now, and weird as it seems, we have identical DNA.

While I was in the hospital, I asked for a stationary bike to be put in the room so I could bike everyday and build up my strength. I wanted to have the healthiest body possible when I went for the transplant. The chemo included steroids that would jack me up, so I would bike until I was sweaty and hot. I also studied for my exam the whole time. No TV for me. The nurses were amazed.

For the next three months I could not go outside in the sun and also had to wear a respirator to avoid germs and spores. I got a test date for December when I wouldn’t need the respirator anymore. I passed the damned thing and got my General Contractor’s License. I finally put cancer on its ass. I sure was proud.

A hard thing that happened right after my transplant, though, was my Australian shepherd, Cedar, died. His legs had been giving out and he was very weak. Cedar loved Mill and followed her everywhere, but when she went away for a short time, he died. I felt like Cedar had taken my cancer away when he died, and like he didn’t want to be a drain on us.

It would take about a year and a half to see if the transplant was successful. And even then doctors don’t want to utter the other C word -- Cured -- for fear of jinxing it. One year later I could walk, though, and I felt healthy enough to go back to work, even though it was against the wishes of my bone marrow doctor, Dr. Lowsky. I also dug my way out of debt and started saving for my dream bike that I felt I deserved!

I told Dale I wanted an “old school” look with a kick-start only. He advised me to get a Paughco rigid wishbone frame. I called up my buddy Jeff and had him get me one for me. When I picked up my frame from his shop, it felt like another blow to the cancer!         

Dale showed up at my house with a Chrome horse 4-speed tranny with a 3” belt drive, along with many other parts. I didn’t know a damn thing about mechanics, much less building a chopper. I was a carpenter. I didn’t even have a full ratchet set, for God’s sake!

I spent every day in my garage fabricating with my sawsall and grinder, dreaming about the first ride. The search was on now for a motor. One day I saw Dale down the street looking bummed out. I asked him what was up. “Fast Harry died,” he said. I didn’t know who that was, but told him, “Sorry Bro,” and left him to his thoughts. I had been so close to death I didn’t want any part of it. A few days later Dale came to my house and told me the 96” S&S motor in the bike Harry had been riding was available and still good. He asked if I wanted to buy it. Being a believer in signs and that God has a plan, I had some doubts and thought about the negative energy that could come with the motor from the bike Harry had died on, but I bought it anyway and was told that Harry would have wanted it that way. He had been a great biker.

I finally have the heart to my bike. Dale brought over his tools and borrowed a welder from his friend Ken from Ken’s Auto Body. I had to learn to weld, though I had some experience from working for the railroad after high school. Ken’s cousin Mark gave me a great-looking Mustang tank, too.

My dream of building my own bike was getting close. I worked day and night, assembling and disassembling.  It was looking good, but had a new look, and I wanted the old school look. Dale agreed to trade my S&S for his Shovelhead -- a 96” with dual plug heads, STD polished case, S&S barrels with a stroker kit. He brought his bike over, which he also had built from scratch, and we switched. I pulled everything off, rattle-canned it flat black, then started reassembling. The thing was a monster. Dale and I kept saying what a BMF it was!

It was now New Year’s, January 1, 09’, a year and a half post-transplant. Dale came over to help with the finishing touches on the bike. We gave thanks to the Harley Gods and “saged” the bike -- a Native American Indian ceremony using sage to keep away negative spirits. Then we gave the bike its life blood -- oil. I was just a few kicks away from coming out of hell and into a whole new life.   

In one final kick, she fired up! I was screaming and crying, running around trying to find my helmet. I was so nervous when I got on it. It was loud and vibrating, it had a 3’ open belt drive. The sound of a shovelhead is like no other. I got on the beast and went around the block, slowly. My dog Wrangle chased me the whole way, barking and biting at me and the bike. When I got back to my house, I was crying and shaking because I knew I won! I won! I beat cancer for good. Screw you, Cancer, you got the wrong guy.

Life can be auspicious. You have to open to it, even be thankful for the tragedies and the pain. It’s funny how it all works. Cancer isn’t the end, it’s only the beginning. Never give up hope, fear is the real disease. Sometimes you have to hit the throttle, or you’re just not living.

I just take it day by day, which isn’t as easy as it sounds. Macmillan -- a biker chick now -- and Mason and I are doing well, and I am cancer free. We also have a new life on the way. Another chance to be a good dad. Without my family, life would be meaningless and impossible, and I might not be alive at all. Or able to ride my bike! Now we “live to ride and ride to live strong.” Let’s roll!

The world's third-biggest economy grew 11.9 per cent in the first quarter, beating forecasts as its strongest performance since 2007.

Chinese annual growth has soared to its fastest pace for three years, official figures showed today.

The world's third-biggest economy grew 11.9 per cent in the first quarter, beating forecasts as its strongest performance since 2007.

The year-on-year growth has fuelled calls for tighter policies to prevent the Chinese economy from overheating as Beijing considers a real estate tax to cool down its rampant property market.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1266166/Chinas-economy-marches-growth-rate-soars-nearly-12.html#ixzz0lJn9LOW8

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• International Journal of Tantric Studies, The International Journal of Tantric Studies home page: At Harvard University. An "intellectual" Tantric Journal with some informative articles.
• Church of Tantra Home Page, The Church of Tantra home page: A large site with details on sacred sex and Tantric publications, products and workshops. as well as good links to other related web sites
• The Developmental Techniques of Tantra/Sex Magic home page: A pagan Tantra guide from a workshop given by Frah. Geh. Mad at Lughnasad in 1995 and previously at a UC pagan studies group. Has some worthwhile information
• The Amookos and the Natha Ganas home page: A fact sheet on Tantra, with information on how to connect with contemporary Tantra spiritual lineages.
• The "catherine yronwode" home page: Spiritual sex subjects from a pioneer sacred sex Internet contributor.
• Kundalini Research Center. Nicely contructed artistic site with information on Kundalini, Chakras, Tantra and other relevant data.
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• Guide to Tantric Sex, The Guide to Tantric Sex home page: Good information, from Una MacDonoghue, including an article "Guidelines for a Tantric Ritual.
• The Tantra: Thoughts on Fantasy and its Relevance to Tantra home page: An informative article from Rose Dawn Scott, a pagan and Tantra savant.
• The Tantra; The Path of Ecstasy home page: A site about "deeper states of love and ecstasy," from True. L. Fellows.
• Sahaja Yoga Meditation. A site on the teachings of Nirmala Devi, Kundalini, Chakras etc.
• Source School of tantra founded by Charles and Caroline Muir: From Charles and Caroline Muir, couples seminar leaders in Hawaii.
• The Mystery of Meditation An article by Dinu Roman.
• Tantra the Path of Love: Source for Information on Tantria. Swami Nostradamus Virato site
• Sex and Spirit. Conversation with Swami Nostradamus Virato on His Work in Tantra. From the Consciousnet site, a transcription of an interview with Barbara Williams.
• The Secrets of Sacred Sex. A commercial "publication" site.
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• Beginners' Guide to Tantra. From the Fix Guide to Tantric Sex, by Una MacDonoghue.
• Tantra - The Path of Ecstasy. A site from True. L. Fellows with data on Tantra workshops in Palo Alto.
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• Tantra, karezza, and Sacred Sex on the Web. Lots of links on Tantra stuff, including religious groups, courses, workshops, things for sale and usenet groups.
• Developmental Techniques for Tantra/Sex Magic by Fra. Geh Mad. A "pagan" Tantra guide, "from a workshop given by Frah. Geh Mad at Lughnasad 1995 and previously at a UC pagan studies group.
• Mandala: Buddhist Tantric Diagrams. Details of Mandala construction at Nechung monastery in Tibet.
• E-sensuals Sacred Sex Catalog. A commercial Tantra books and products site with articles, questions/answers and links.
• Skydancing UK. A Tantra teaching group.
• Maithuna Istituto di Tantra. An Italian Tantra site from Elmar Zadra and Michaela Gossnitzer.
• Global Hindu Electronic Network: The Hindu Universe. A very well constructed Web site with masses of data on Hinduism, India and Asian spiritual traditions, with many good links.
• Buddhism on the Net. A list of Dharma-related sites, including links to most Tibetan Buddhist Centers representing all the major sects. A resource for those interested in Tibetan Tantra.
• Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition (FPMT) Home Page. A site with interesting Buddhist information, some pertaining to the Tantric tradition.
• Indology Home Page. Lots of valuable data, including research material and links.
• Mage-guide: The Mage's Guide to the Internet. A very complete guide to spirituality sites, including Bulletin Board Systems (BBS's), Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Multi-user Dimensions (MU+'s), File Transfer Protocols etc.
• General sites with other links to alchemical material Many many links to relevant subjects, including Alchemy, Astrology, Buddhism, Christian, Egyptian, Pagan, Rosicrucian etc.
• Third Eye Activation and Basic Usage by Rene Muller who used to have the SpiritWeb Site, now closed. It used to have extensive site which includes stuff on reincarnation, meditation, Yoga, Theosophy, Mysticism, plus Glossaries and a neat Spiritual Subjects Search Engine.
• Tibetan-style Tantra "Dzogchen" philosophy interpreted by Surya Das, a Westerner.
• . The Long Island Dharma Group
• Wiki Dakinis: Sky Dancing Angels. Information on Dakinis and Angels!
• The Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. A site dedicated to the Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, the Aurobindo Ashram, etc.
• A multi-dimensional Neo-Tantric site. A "gateway to many levels". A fun Page with "initiatory" levels.
• Mahesh, from World Peace Builders. The "Brahmananda Tantra" from "Mahesh".
• Service of Mankind Church, site of the "Essemian Sanctuary of the Goddess" in San Francisco. Supposedly "based on Kashmir Shaivite Mysticism" and the concept that "there can be no greater Service of Mankind to Goddess than his obedient surrender at Her feet", this page is more S & M/domination than mainstream "Tantric".
• The dark side of the net Unusual links.
• Philosophy of Love, Sex, Orgasm On the Evolutionary Foundations of Love, Sex and Orgasm: Sex as Reproduction, Couple Bonding, Evolution of Immune System, Hormone Function, Mental Health.
• Shiva Darshan. With download "Aum", Shiva movie etc.
• The Kali Mandir, a loosely-knit group of individuals from various spiritual and ethnic backgrounds who love God in various forms, especially in the form of Kali. We love to worship Her, sing bhajans and spend time in the company of devotees." Has entry to a Kali shrine.
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...a foreseeable transformative event will happen on or near this year.

That event is that the trend of exponentially accelerating technological capability (the ability to inform matter...or "information") will hit the elbow of the hockey stick...that is, the line representing this trend, when charted on a graph, will change from near horizontal to near vertical.

Even now, brain function is being mapped; individual genome mapping and manipulation is progressing rapidly; nanotechnology is being applied through biotechnology to medicine. These things are happening fast, and accelerating. Our experience of the world is also changing quickly through the internet, and it's rapidly proliferating new applications.

When you imagine the moment when this acceleration itself accelerates by an order of magnitude, you get an event horizon.

In reality, it's just a continuation of what has been happening forever, throughout evolution, and history. The very idea of evolution, vis a vis "revolution," is that rather than a cyclical series of repeating events, you get a series in which each milestone marks a change, or transformation, that is more complex, more advanced, more adapted to circumstances, than previous versions. The fossil record verifies this.

So this sudden flash in which humanity as a whole will be able to process, contain and apply information will certainly constitute a drastic change. Whether is has anything to do with astronomical alignments, or if Mayans could foresee the event, seems to me mostly speculation.

However, there is a good change with our increased processing power, humanity as a whole will know a lot more about the implications and causes of this event when it happens.

For charts that map these exponential trends in detail, see Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity Is Near."

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Icelandic volcano still spewing huge ash plume

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REYKJAVIK (Reuters) – An Icelandic volcano is still spewing ash into the air in a massive plume that has disrupted air traffic across Europe and shows little sign of letting up, officials said on Friday.

One expert said the eruption could abate in the coming days, but a government spokesman said ash would keep drifting into the skies of Europe.

The thick, dark brown ash cloud has shut down air traffic across northern Europe and restrictions remained in place in many areas. However, Norway said it had resumed some limited flights in the north of the country.

"It is more or less the same situation as yesterday, it is still erupting, still exploding, still producing gas," University of Iceland professor Armann Hoskuldsson told Reuters.

"We expect it to last for two days or more or something. It cannot continue at this rate for many days. There is a limited amount of magma that can spew out," he added, saying it was the magma, or molten rock beneath the Earth's surface, coming out of the volcano that turned into ash.

Environment Ministry spokesman Gudmundur Gudmundsson agreed.

"The eruption is ongoing and we are not expecting any change in the production of ash...High level winds will keep dispersing the plume over Europe," he said.

The eruption has taken place under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier, normally a popular hiking ground in southern Iceland.

Another professor said on Thursday that the heat had melted up to a third of the glacial ice covering the crater, causing a nearby river to burst its banks.

Icelandic radio said part of the ring road that goes around the small north Atlantic island had been swept away.

To the east of the volcano, thousands of hectares of land are covered by a thick layer of ash.

The cloud of ash from the eruption has hit air travel all over northern Europe, with flights grounded or diverted due to the risk of engine damage from sucking in particles of ash from the volcanic cloud.

The volcano under the Ejfjallajokull glacier, Iceland's fifth largest glacier, has erupted five times since Iceland was settled in the ninth century.

Iceland sits on a volcanic hotspot in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and has relatively frequent eruptions, although most occur in sparsely populated areas and pose little danger to people or property. Before March, the last eruption took place in 2004.

(Reporting by Omar Valdimarsson; writing by Patrick Lannin; Editing by Elizabeth Fullerton)

The organization "Russian Underwater Expeditions" is created to join efforts of all people, who are interested in underwater films. Underwater operators, photo-painters, journalists, sea biologists, ornithologists, sportsmen and ordinary people, who are fond of the sea, work in this organization's team successfully. Our viewers can judge the results of such joint work from our documentary films: "Thistlegorm. Submerging into the Past...", "The Conquest of Arctic", "Sipadan - the Island of turtles", "Ladoga. The Road №101", "Dreams of Admiral Nakhimov".

The members of "Russian Underwater Expeditions" regularly appeared on leading television channels and in print. There were organized many interesting projects together with ORT and RTR channels. Some reports about "under the ice" diving in Arctic were regularly broadcasted in news-programs. Today, "Russian Underwater Expeditions" invites large and small TV channels, author's TV studios to contact more effectively. If you are a professional individualist-producer, an independent journalist or an operator and you are attracted by far lands Videostudio "Russian Underwater Expeditions" waits for you. Here you will find complete mutual understanding in the midst of sea-lovers, as you are. Your ideas, your shooting and your stories may underlie in the bases of some unique film.

Nowadays, "Russian Underwater Expeditions" presses towards cooperation with other organizations, interested in creation of Russian underwater video masterpieces. "Odyssey of Cousteau`s team" left so many puzzles to its descendants. The organization of "Underwater Expeditions" arranged scientific-research work on the basis of MGU laboratories to analyze the ocean. But scientists try to make more detailed explorations, using special underwater equipment and camera technics. So, all organizations, dealing with underwater equipment, are especially welcome.

Periodically, some camera groups travel around the world looking for some interesting material. Film video shooting is made simultaneously in various regions of the ocean. There are some Russian and foreign dive-centers and tourist firms among our friends. If you deal with tourist or dive business and you are interested in underwater films' development, you can organize your next travel with "Russian Underwater Expeditions". We are glad to invite for cooperation both Russian and foreign firms and centers.

There are not so many blank spots on the Earth, but still you can find unexplored nooks somewhere. Our aim is to capture, describe and store information not only on video, but also in our life. If it's congenial to you - you are welcome to be a member of "Underwater Expeditions".

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I've reported the bug.

(PhysOrg.com) -- A medical device that works rather like an inkjet printer is being developed in the US to heal burns and other wounds by "printing" skin cells directly onto the wound. The device, called a bioprinter, may reduce the need for skin grafts. It would be mounted on a wheeled frame and positioned over the bed of the patient.

Can't say I don't hope hear of the lightness overshadowing the darkness in your upcoming writing...perhaps as the same happens to the length of the Finnish days. But as always, your writing is good, and I look forward to seeing more of it.