http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/03/the-irrationality-of-alcoholics-anonymous/386255/?utm_source=SFFB
---Steve
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
City of Sedona : Election Information
If you are not registered and want to vote in an election, you must be a qualified voter and be registered to vote at least 29 days prior to the election. If you live in Sedona-Yavapai County, you must register to vote with Yavapai County. If you live in Sedona-Coconino County, you must register to vote with Coconino County. Or, you can pick up voter registration forms from the Sedona City Clerk's Office, 102 Roadrunner Drive. The Clerk's office has forms for both counties and will be glad to answer any questions you might have regarding voter registration or elections.
If you are a registered voter and have changed your name, residential or mailing address, you need to re-register to vote at least 29 days prior to the election. We want your ballot to reach you. So, if you have any doubt about your voter registration status, whatsoever, contact your county voter registration office or call the Sedona City Clerk at (928) 282-3113 to verify your voter registration. The phone number for Yavapai County Voter Registration is 639-8100, ask for voter registration, and the phone number for Coconino County Voter Registration is 1-800-793-6181. Remember election materials cannot be forwarded even during a vote-by-mail election.
---Steve
Monday, March 16, 2015
Sunday, March 15, 2015
Vegetarians who eat fish could be greatly reducing their risk of colon cancer - CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/11/health/vegetarians-fish-colon-cancer/
there was a 27% drop in the risk of contracting colorectal cancer if you switch from fully vegetarian to eating fish
---Steve
there was a 27% drop in the risk of contracting colorectal cancer if you switch from fully vegetarian to eating fish
---Steve
Saturday, March 14, 2015
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Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Metastatic Cancer Fact Sheet - National Cancer Institute
Metastatic cancer may be treated with systemic therapy (chemotherapy, biological therapy, targeted therapy, hormonal therapy), local therapy (surgery, radiation therapy), or a combination of these treatments. The choice of treatment generally depends on the type of primary cancer; the size, location, and number of metastatic tumors; the patient's age and general health; and the types of treatment the patient has had in the past. In patients with CUP, it is possible to treat the disease even though the primary cancer has not been found.
---Steve
---Steve
Monday, March 09, 2015
Songs for Surrender Hill (Robin & Afton)
Picking a song for my YouTube cover: This was a time-consuming pleasure, and I went thru various alternatives and ideas, but I still can't make up my mind. So, I'll go thru my thinking and see if you guys can pick something you like.
First, some duets: This first one is a personal song, just because Rene & I got married in Vegas. But I not sure Rene really likes the song. I first heard it on Boot Liquor Radio http://somafm.com/bootliquor/ which is a fun Internet station to stream.
Heather Myles, (with Dwight Yoakam) Little Chapel. http://youtu.be/IkUlaxI9t2s
Emmalou Harris and Don Williams took "if I needed you" to the top of the country charts, but I like the original Townes Van Zandt version better: http://youtu.be/zaP8NGML_QE
And I can hear Robin doing it that way, just like he does in his cover of The Stones' Dead Flowers from his live gigs. If you want to feature Afton, you've got to look at this version too: http://youtu.be/SysBazd50D8
Here are two recent duet songs I really like:
Native siblings, right here for you, http://youtu.be/SWIPHu7NKR8
Johnnyswim, diamonds, http://youtu.be/l-aVREGmbhg
Now an Dylan / Adele duet would be interesting, and she does a good cover of the piano-based Dylan song Make You Feel My Love. See http://youtu.be/K3yjZMKU1xk and http://youtu.be/0put0_a--Ng. But this sounds really good on lone guitar too: http://youtu.be/8RD4jkZLQHA
Since we are on Dylan, I think you guys could do a great cover of "Lay down your weary tune", one of his best songs. Here is Billy Braggs version http://youtu.be/48Fg-xoWh8c
Before Dylan, we had Woody Guthrie and you couldn't do better than to cover Pastures of Plenty. Listen to Ramblin' Jack Elliott's guitar work on my favorite cover version: http://youtu.be/QzKguhOIpsI
Once you learn the guitar part for Pastures of Plenty, you get a two-for-one because apparently Woody borrowed the tune from the English/ Appalachian murder ballad Pretty Polly, with its long history;
http://www.planetslade.com/pretty-polly.html
This would make a campy duet where you could play with adding in new lyrics. See the recent version by Vandaveer: http://youtu.be/9g8BV6zrVBs
Speaking of greatly written love songs that don't get a enough covers, take a listen to one of my favorite love songs: Graham Parker's The Rest is History.
The LA punk band X first did David Alvin's song 4th of July when he was their guitarist; it is well written with a catchy chorus, like you guys write. And I like the style that Alvin does it a little better than John Doe in X:
Since Robin is so talented that he can make Energy Orchard's Sailortown his own then for some interesting challenges, see how you could bring these into your style:
A leak in my heart, the porters, http://youtu.be/Sn5-NdeMXYE, if you can do that German Punk sound
I've pursued nothing, the tossers http://youtu.be/_GPXXfxpQ94 if you can do Celtic punk
Legal matter, Richard Thompson's cover version of the Who song http://youtu.be/4S6YbELtiB4 if you trust your guitar skills
And of course Theresa still wants to hear Robin do the Pearl Jam song Just Breathe. Here is the duet of Willie Nelson and son covering it: http://youtu.be/ow-Cx9IX4So
--Steve
Sunday, March 08, 2015
Saturday, March 07, 2015
Wednesday, March 04, 2015
Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy - National Cancer Institute
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/diagnosis-staging/staging/sentinel-node-biopsy-fact-sheet
SLNB is usually done at the same time the primary tumor is removed. However, the procedure can also be done either before or after removal of the tumor.
---Steve
SLNB is usually done at the same time the primary tumor is removed. However, the procedure can also be done either before or after removal of the tumor.
---Steve
Tuesday, March 03, 2015
Monday, March 02, 2015
PLOS ONE: A Meta-Analysis of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0111629
On average, GM technology adoption has reduced chemical pesticide use by 37%, increased crop yields by 22%, and increased farmer profits by 68%. Yield gains and pesticide reductions are larger for insect-resistant crops than for herbicide-tolerant crops. Yield and profit gains are higher in developing countries than in developed countries.
---Steve
On average, GM technology adoption has reduced chemical pesticide use by 37%, increased crop yields by 22%, and increased farmer profits by 68%. Yield gains and pesticide reductions are larger for insect-resistant crops than for herbicide-tolerant crops. Yield and profit gains are higher in developing countries than in developed countries.
---Steve
Goodreads | Quote by Richard Dawkins: “The total amount of suffering per year in the n...”
"The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. It must be so. If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference."
― Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
---Steve
Sunday, March 01, 2015
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Diet science presents many questions - Times LIVE
http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/2015/02/24/diet-science-presents-many-questions
But if you are a low fat high carbohydrate fan, medicine is simple. Too simple.
---Steve
But if you are a low fat high carbohydrate fan, medicine is simple. Too simple.
---Steve
Monday, February 23, 2015
Tweet from Social In Flagstaff (@SocInFlagstaff)
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---Steve
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Sedona Red Rock News, Sedona, AZ Classifieds, Jobs, News, Sports, Weather - Hiker rescued, despite the ‘help’
http://www.redrocknews.com/news/20-news-stories/11355-hiker-rescued-despite-the-help.html
According to the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office, the man had hiked to the top of Capital Butte and upon descent he took the wrong trail which led him to an area where he could no longer descend, in part, because of a prior shoulder injury. The man was calm during his contact with deputies and remained stationary as requested.
---Steve
According to the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office, the man had hiked to the top of Capital Butte and upon descent he took the wrong trail which led him to an area where he could no longer descend, in part, because of a prior shoulder injury. The man was calm during his contact with deputies and remained stationary as requested.
---Steve
Saturday, February 21, 2015
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Monday, February 16, 2015
By Dr. Glen Barry: Scott Walker, Authoritarian Anti-Science Dropout
http://drglenbarry.blogspot.com/2015/02/scott-walker-anti-science-dropout-draft.html
Walker's "big and bold" agenda ends up to be little more than an anti-science dropout seeking to dismantle any institution or other source of power – be it women, schools, workers or the environment – that stands in the way of theocratic corporate oligarchy. I intend to examine his christian extremist war upon nature, workers, and women at another time. For now let's see how this college dropout seeks to uneducate a state and a nation, to radically diminish us in his image.
---Steve
Walker's "big and bold" agenda ends up to be little more than an anti-science dropout seeking to dismantle any institution or other source of power – be it women, schools, workers or the environment – that stands in the way of theocratic corporate oligarchy. I intend to examine his christian extremist war upon nature, workers, and women at another time. For now let's see how this college dropout seeks to uneducate a state and a nation, to radically diminish us in his image.
---Steve
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Friday, February 13, 2015
Antony and Cleopatra Passage?
http://shaksper.net/current-postings/303-september/28149-antony-and-cleopatra-passage
And what they undid did.
---Steve
And what they undid did.
---Steve
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Evolution and medicine: the long reach of "Dr. Darwin"
all humans were the same. For many reasons, this is an error from an evolutionary perspective. In our current example, human CYP polymorphisms can manifest themselves in the form of intraspecific (i.e., individual) differences in drug metabolism. Two genes, CYP 2D6 and CYP 2C19 are particularly important since they affect how people metabolize approximately 25% of the drugs on the market [19].
Sipes and Gandolfi [20] observed that with respect to the antihypertensive agent debrisoquine, some 3 to 10 percent of Caucasians are poor metabolizers because they are homozygous for 2 nonfunctional alleles for CYP 2D6, the gene source of debrisoquine 4-hydroxylase enzyme. There appear to be more than 75 allelic variants of CYP 2D6 circulating in human populations [21].
---Steve
Boost your immunity: Cold and flu treatments suppress innate immune system.
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/12/boost_your_immunity_cold_and_flu_treatments_suppress_innate_immune_system.html
Boosting your immunity is actually a pretty bad idea. Even if these remedy and prevention products did what they purport to, you wouldn't want them to.
---Steve
Boosting your immunity is actually a pretty bad idea. Even if these remedy and prevention products did what they purport to, you wouldn't want them to.
---Steve
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Chapel Hill killings shine light on particular tensions between Islam and atheism - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/02/11/chapel-hill-killings-shine-light-on-particular-tensions-between-islam-and-atheism/
If a person considers his atheism (a lack of belief in God) or secularism (a commitment to keeping religion out of public policy) a basis for hating whole groups of people, he is either deeply confused about what it means to think critically or suffering from some psychological disorder."
---Steve
If a person considers his atheism (a lack of belief in God) or secularism (a commitment to keeping religion out of public policy) a basis for hating whole groups of people, he is either deeply confused about what it means to think critically or suffering from some psychological disorder."
---Steve
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Sunday, February 08, 2015
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Thursday, February 05, 2015
Secularists: We’re Fine Without God, Thanks - NYTimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2015/02/05/opinion/secularists-were-fine-without-god-thanks.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
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---Steve
Tuesday, February 03, 2015
Sen. Feinstein Cracks Scathing Joke About Jeb Bush Candidacy
"Jeb Bush looks like he's running for president. So now we know what the Bush family means by 'no child left behind.'"
---Steve
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