Burzynski The Movie - Cancer is a Serious Business

This movie will portray thetension produced when new protocols are worked with.  The reviews are good for the work done by thedirector and the movie will certainly bring attention to the underlyingmedicine and that may or may not lead somewhere.

I also attached a review on the scienceby Saul which is actually fair minded, though questioning credentials whenthose same credentials pretty well puts this researcher up to his eyeballs withthe right biochemistry.  A lab technicianin the right place is often the right guy, so the real credential is to ask ifit is plausible for this individual to work with these materials and to make decisionswith them however reckless.  In this casehe certainly was there to do this type of an experiment.

His claim today is dependent of livingsurvivors of serious cancer.  It is notdependent on the quality of his theory or credentials as a living survivor(s)is the real credential.

Exactly the same thing hashappened with the Rossi Focardi Reactor a couple of months ago which isproducing ten to twenty times its input energy. The present explanations may turn out to be bone stupid, but theempirical result is its own credential and theory can always wait.

Burzynski The Movie - Cancer Is Serious Business

"Burzynski has made in my opinion, the most important, if not theonly breakthrough discovery in the treatment of cancer." - Dr. JulianWhitaker, TheWhitaker Wellness Institute

http://www.burzynskimovie.com/

"It's [Burzynski the Movie] an important piece of investigativejournalism that really nails the medical establishment and especially those bastards,the drug companies. I was truly outraged by the treatment Dr. Burzynskireceived. I can hardly wait for the next chapter. You've performed an importantpublic service. Keep up the good work." 

- John Zaritsky, Academy Award-Winning Documentary Film Director andcontributing Director to PBS's Frontline, March 2011

ABOUT THE FILM:

Burzynski, the Movie is the story of a medical doctor and Ph.Dbiochemist named Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski who won the largest, and possibly themost convoluted and intriguing legal battle against the Food & DrugAdministration in American history.

His victorious battles with the United States government were centeredaround Dr. Burzynski's gene-targeted cancer medicines he discovered in the1970's called Antineoplastons, which have currently completed Phase IIFDA-supervised clinical trials in 2009 and could begin the final phase of FDAtesting in 2011–barring the ability to raise the required $150 million to fundthe final phase of FDA clinical trials.

When Antineoplastons are approved, it will mark the first time in history asingle scientist, not a pharmaceutical company, will hold the exclusive patentand distribution rights on a paradigm-shifting medical breakthrough.

Antineoplastons are responsible for curing some of the most incurable forms ofterminal cancer. Various cancer survivors are presented in the film who chosethese medicines instead of surgery, chemotherapy or radiation - with fulldisclosure of medical records to support their diagnosis and recovery - as wellas systematic (non-anecdotal) FDA-supervised clinical trial data comparingAntineoplastons to other available treatments—which is published within thepeer-reviewed medical literature. 

One form of cancer - diffuse, intrinsic, childhood brainstem glioma has neverbefore been cured in any scientifically controlled clinical trial in thehistory of medicine. Antineoplastons hold the first cures in history -dozens of them. 

[ANP - PubMed 2003] [ANP- PubMed 2006] [Rad & other - PubMed 2008] [Chemo/Rad -PubMed 2005]

This documentary takes the audience through the treacherous, yetvictorious, 14-year journey both Dr. Burzynski and his patients have had toendure in order to obtain FDA-approved clinical trials ofAntineoplastons. 

Dr. Burzynski resides and practices medicine in Houston, Texas. He was able to initially produce andadminister his discovery without FDA-approval from 1977-1995 because the stateof Texas at this time did not require that Texas physicians berequired to adhere to Federal law in this situation. This law has since beenchanged. 

As with anything that changes current-day paradigms, Burzynski's ability tosuccessfully treat incurable cancer with such consistency has baffled theindustry. However this fact has prompted numerous investigations by the Texas Medical Board, whorelentlessly took Dr. Burzynski as high as the state supreme court in theirfailed attempt to halt his practices.

Likewise, the Food and Drug Administration engaged in four Federal Grand Juriesspanning over a decade attempting to indict Dr. Burzynski, all of which endedin no finding of fault on his behalf. Finally, Dr. Burzynski was indicted intheir 5th Grand Jury in 1995, resulting in two federal trials and two sets ofjurors finding him not guilty of any wrongdoing. If convicted, Dr. Burzynskiwould have faced a maximum of 290 years in a federal prison and $18.5 millionin fines. 

However, what was revealed a few years after Dr. Burzynski won his freedom,helps to paint a more coherent picture regarding the true motivation ofthe United States government's relentless persecution of Stanislaw Burzynski,M.D., Ph.D.

Note: When Antineoplastons are approved for pubic use, it will allow asingle scientist to hold an exclusive license to manufacture and sell thesemedicines on the open market—before they become generic—leaving PhRMA absent inprofiting from the most effective gene-targeted cancer treatment the world hasever seen. 

Stanislaw Burzynski and "Antineoplastons"

Saul Green, Ph.D.

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Cancer/burzynski1.html

Unlike most "alternative medicine" practitioners, StanislawR. Burzynski has published profusely. The sheer volume of his publicationsimpresses patients, but unless they understand what they are reading, theycannot judge its validity. To a scientist, Burzynski's literature containsclear evidence that his data do not support his claims.

Burzynski's Background and Credentials

Burzynski attended the Medical Academy in Lubin, Poland, where hereceived an M.D. degree in 1967 and an D.Msc. degree in 1968. He did notundergo specialty training in cancer or complete any other residency program.His bibliography does not mention clinical cancer research, urine, orantineoplastons during this period.

In 1970, Burzynski came to the United States and worked in the department of anesthesiology at Baylor University,Houston, forthree years, isolating peptides from rat brains. (Peptides arelow-molecular-weight compounds composed of amino acids bonded in a certainway.) He got a license to practice medicine in 1973 and, with others, receiveda three-year grant to study the effect of urinary peptides on the growth ofcancer cells in tissue culture. The grant was not renewed.

In 1976, with no preclinical or clinical cancer research experience,Burzynski announced a theory for the cure of cancer based on his assumptionthat spontaneous regression occurs because natural anticancer peptides, whichhe named antineoplastons, "normalize" cancer cells. Since urinecontains lots of peptides, he concluded that there he would findantineoplastons. Less than one year later and based only on these assumptions,Burzynski used an extract from human urine ("antineoplaston A") totreat 21 cancer patients at a clinic he opened. His shingle read,"Stanislaw R. Burzynski, M.D., Ph.D."

Burzynski's claim to a Ph.D. is questionable. When I investigated, Ifound:

An official from the Ministry of Health in Warsaw informed me that when Burzynski was inschool, medical schools did not give a Ph.D. [1].

Faculty members from at the Medical Academy at Lubin informed me thatBurzynski received his D.Msc. in 1968 after completing a one-year laboratoryproject and passing an exam [2] and that he had done no independent researchwhile in medical school [3].

In 1973, when Burzinski applied for a federal grant to study"antineoplaston peptides from urine," he identified himself as"Stanislaw Burzynski, M.D, D.Msc." [4]

Analysis of Antineoplaston Biochemistry

Tracing the biochemistry involved in Burzynski's synthesis ofantineoplastons shows that the substances are without value for cancer treatment.

By 1985, Burzynski said he was using eight antineoplastons to treatcancer patients. The first five, which were fractions from human urine, hecalled A-1 through A-5. From A-2 he made A-10, whichwas insoluble 3-N-phenylacetylamino piperidine 2,6-dione. He saidA-10 was the anticancer peptide common to all his urine fractions. He thentreated A-10 with alkali, which yielded a soluble product he named AS-2.5.Further treatment of AS-2.5 with alkali yielded a product he called AS-2.1.Burzynski is currently treating patients with what he calls "AS-2.1"and "A-10."

In reality, AS-2.1 is phenylacetic acid (PA), a potentially toxicsubstance produced during normal metabolism. PA is detoxified in the liver tophenylacetyl glutamine (PAG), which is excreted in the urine. When urine isheated after adding acid, the PAG loses water and becomes 3-N-phenylacetylaminopiperidine 2,6-dione (PAPD), which is insoluble. Normally there is no PAPD inhuman urine.

What Burzynski calls "A-10" is really PAPD treated with alkalito make it soluble. But doing this does not create a soluble form ofA-10. It simply reinserts water into the molecule and regenerates the PAG(Burzynski's AS-2.5). Further treatment of this with alkali breaks it down intoa mixture of PA and PAG. Thus Burzynski's "AS-2.1" is nothing but amixture of the naturally occurring substances PA and PAG.

Burzyski claims that A-10 acts by fitting into indentations in DNA. ButPAG is too big a molecule to do this, and Burzynski himself has reported thatPAG is ineffective against cancer [5,6].

PA may not be safe. In 1919, it was shown that PA can be toxic wheningested by normal individuals. It can also reach toxic levels in patients withphenylketonuria (PKU); and in a pregnant woman, it can cause the child in uteroto suffer brain damage.

Burzynski has never demonstrated that A-2.1 (PA) or "solubleA-10" (PA and PAG) are effective against cancer or that tumor cells frompatients treated with these antineoplastons have been "normalized."Tests of antineoplastons at the National Cancer Institute have never beenpositive. The drug company Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals could not duplicateBurzynski's claims for AS-2.1 and A-10. The Japanese National Cancer Institutehas reported that antineoplastons did not work in their studies. No Burzynskicoauthors have endorsed his use of antineoplastons in cancer patients.

These facts indicate to me that Burzynski's claims that his"antineoplastons" are effective against cancer are not credible.

For Additional Information

Officeof Technology Assessment Report (1990)

LimitsPlaced on Burzynski's Cancer Treatment (1998 news release)

TheAntineoplastin Anomaly (Burzynski's "Clinical Trials")

About the Author

Dr. Green (1925-2007) was a biochemist who did cancer research at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for 23 years. Heconsulted on scientific methodology and had a special interest in unprovenmethods. This article was adapted from his presentation at the AmericanAssociation for Clinical Chemistry Symposium in Atlanta in July 1997.

References

Nizanskowski R. Personal communication to Saul Green, Ph.D., Jan 15,1992.

Kleinrock Z. Personal communication to Saul Green, Ph.D., Nov 22 1993.

Bielinski S. Personal communication to Saul Green, Ph.D., Nov 22, 1987.

Burzynski S. HEW grant application 1973, item 20 (credentials).

Burzynski SR. Purified antineoplaston fractions and methods of treatingneoplastic diseases. U.S.Patent No. 4,558,057, 1985.

Burzynski SR. Preclinical studies on antineoplastons AS-2.1 andAS-2.5. Drugs Exptl Clin Res Suppl 1, XII, 11-16, 1986.

This article was revised on November 21, 2006.

Spider Silk With Silk Worms

This is a worthy effort and itappears we will soon have spider silk in commercial volumes to work with.  Medical applications are obvious, butwhenever a new material becomes readily available, applications mushroom.   And yes a woven line is an obviousapplication with plenty of utility.

Certainly the commercial silkindustry is well established and is ready to introduce a new product in highvolume.  We do not have to invent thatalso.

We can expect fabrics rather quicklyand their abilities will be interesting to observe.

Spider-silk-producing silkworms to be commercially developed

By BenCoxworth

11:18 April 13, 2011

Biotech firm Sigma Life Science plans on developinggenetically-modified silkworms, that will produce spider silk for use incommercial applications

(Photo: Fastily)

http://www.gizmag.com/spider-silk-producing-silkworms-to-be-commercially-developed/18387/

Although cobwebs may seem very fragile when we see people like Indiana Jones crashingthrough them, the fact is that spider silk is an incredibly strong and flexiblematerial. It has a tensile strength similar to that of high-grade steel whileonly being one-fifth as dense, it can stretch up to 1.4 times its relaxedlength without breaking, and it can maintain those properties down to atemperature of -40C (-40F). Given that spiders don't secrete huge quantities ofthe stuff on a daily basis, however, what's a biotech firm to do if it wishesto harvest the fibers for use in human technology? In the case of Sigma LifeScience, it's getting genetically-modified silkworms to spin spider silk.

Sigma has partnered with Kraig Biocraft Laboratories (KBLB) to developthe silkworms, using Sigma's proprietary CompoZr Zinc Finger Nuclease (ZFN) technology.

Last year, KBLB successfully created hybrid silkworms with randomlyinserted spider genes. The creatures secreted hybrid "spidersilkworm"silk, that was stronger and more durable than silk from regular silkworms, butstill not as strong as spider silk.

Utilizing the claimed precise gene targeting and high efficiency of theZFN process,KBLB and Sigma now plan on inserting spider silk genes into thesilkworm genome, while simultaneously removing the native silkworm silk genes.The result, the companies hope, will be transgenic silkworms that produce purespider silk "at commercially viable production levels."

The material may be used in applications such as sutures, tendon and ligamentrepair, bulletproof vests, and automobile airbags.

Enormous Statue of Powerful Pharaoh Unearthed

This is a reminder that Egypt continuesto be an archeologist’s dream. The early work conducted over the past twocenturies was often best described as reconnaissance.  What is now underway is the systematic reconstructionof past glories, however constrained by burial customs.

I would love to see all suchgreat monuments fully reconstructed by a process of dismantlement, replacementand reassembly.  This has been partiallydone for the Parthenon and could largely be done today on almost anything.  I believe it is a worthy completion of manysuch archeological endeavors that would be enthusiastically supported.

Doing this in Egypt is atleast plausible.  The Great Pyramid isthe easiest and the obvious candidate, but after that there are many othersfrom many other dynastic periods that are well worth doing.

At present archeology considerssuch to be sacrilege, but I expect this to soften as we winkle less and lessinformation out of the present methodology.

Enormous statue of powerful pharaoh unearthed

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iggG4CWclhZRzH4sL-KsRY3o5EDg?docId=ac0cbd2873ce46839df6d01399aa1794

CAIRO (AP) — Archaeologists unearthed one of the largest statues foundto date of a powerful ancient Egyptian pharaoh at his mortuary temple in thesouthern city of Luxor, the country's antiquities authority announced Tuesday.

The 13 meter (42 foot) tall statue of Amenhotep III was one of a pairthat flanked the northern entrance to the grand funerary temple on the westbank of the Nile that is currently the focus of a major excavation.

The statue consists of seven large quartzite blocks and still lacks ahead and was actually first discovered in the 1928 and then rehidden, accordingto the press release from the country's antiquities authority. Archaeologistsexpect to find its twin in the next digging season.

Excavation supervisor Abdel-Ghaffar Wagdi said two other statues werealso unearthed, one of the god Thoth with a baboon's head and a six foot (1.85meter) tall one of the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet.

Archaeologists working on the temple over the past few years haveissued a flood of announcements about new discoveries of statues. The3,400-year-old temple is one of the largest on the west bank of the Nile in Luxor, where the powerful pharaohs of Egypt's New Kingdombuilt their tombs.

Amenhotep III, who was the grandfather of the famed boy-pharaohTutankhamun, ruled in the 14th century B.C. at the height of Egypt's NewKingdom and presided over a vast empire stretching from Nubia in the south toSyria in the north.

The pharaoh's temple was largely destroyed, possibly by floods, andlittle remains of its walls. It was also devastated by an earthquake in 27 B.C.But archaeologists have been able to unearth a wealth of artifacts and statuaryin the buried ruins, including two statues of Amenhotep made of black granitefound at the site in March 2009.

(This version CORRECTS original date of discovery.)

Serious Questions About Big Pharma

I have absolutely no sense ofhumor left when it comes to large companies and their money makingschemes.  It is a case of expecting the worstand then investigating the reality in light of that.  Normally the planets align and a perfectproduct emerges and a perfect market niche is developed.  Otherwise we are gaming the imperfect andmaking it pay.

That aspartame should ever bepartnered with vitamin C is outrageous. I personally buy vitamin C in the form of calcium ascorbic in order toprovide a naturally buffered form.  I buya kilo at a time and I consume several grams at a time in a glass of water withan additional heaping teaspoon of orange flavored Metamucil mixed first withthe vitamin C powder.  It actually tastesbetter than either do individually and mixes easily.

I consume as much as the gooddoctor.

What is stunning are the claimsbeen made here that the vitamin positively affects over one hundred conditions,including a number of cancers.  Vitamin Cis already indicated for everyone because of simple mammalian biology (we aremissing the gene).  This stronglyindicates that we all should be consuming ten to twenty grams daily dependingon body weight.  The body will have nodifficulty though in disposing of any surplus.

I added the article by GiffordJones from three years ago.  It explains howan eye photo is able to determine the level of disease.

Serious Questions About Pharma

Could the suspicions be true?

By Sydney J. Bush, D.Opt., Ph.D.Created: Apr 26, 2011Last Updated: Apr26, 2011

Dr. Sydney Bush (Courtesy of Dr. Sydney Bush)

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/health/serious-questions-about-pharma-55367.html

Marcia Angell, M.D., former editor-in-chief of the NewEngland Journal of Medicine, looked at pharmaceutical companies’ profitsin the Fortune 500 list of the world’s most profitable companies. She foundthat the top 10 pharmaceutical companies’ combined profits exceed the combinedprofits of all the 490 remaining companies!

A new, unproven anticancer drug can be very expensive.

If the NHS objects to a physician using this drug, U.K. newspapers thatprint what pharma asks them to print will go to bat for thephysician against the NHS and the U.K. government, launching half-page photosof a sorrowful mom surrounded by a grieving family she is doomed to leave isshe doesn’t get the new wonder drug.

People who never walk the dog will jog to raise money for the cause.

Vitamin C truths are excluded from U.K. newspapers, which print onlywhat won’t damage pharma. A double-page article about vitamin C never mentionedthat vitamin C cures many cancers. Cancer articles never mention vitamin C.

Is it possible that nutrients that are naturally present in thebloodstream and essential for life could make one feel sick when taken assupplements?

Trapped overnight in an airport without my vitamins, I had no optionbut to buy the only vitamin C tablets available. Without my 20 grams a day, Iget boils and colds and my chest wheezes. Ten grams won’t do.

So I bought 500-milligram (one-half gram) tablets of vitamin C. Aftertaking five, I was sick. My friend told me the same thing happened to him whenhe bought glucosamine to treat his arthritis. That set me thinking.

Who makes the supplement tablets? Pharma! With such vast profits fromdrugs for our ailments, doespharmacy want prevention?

I noticed that aspartame was in the vitamin C tablets I bought at theairport. I wondered: If I were a doctor working for that company, knowing thatvitamin C cures, prevents, or delays 100 diseases on which my profits depended,how would I protect my company’s profits and my multimillionaire lifestyle?

I’d think it essential for good public relations to offer pleasantvitamin C tablets. But not TOO pleasant! So I would combine extra bitterbioflavonoids in the tablet along with a considerable amount of aspartameneeded to render the tablet acceptably sweet.

The aspartame would do its work. Nobody would take more than theadvised number of tablets on the label. My profits would be secure.

How much aspartame is legal? There’s no actual limit—onlythe recommendation that you don’t drink more than so many cans of soda perday. Would it stop a manufacturer putting half of that amount into a tablet?I’ve never seen a weight listed on a label. 

The 1977 CardioRetinometry article written for the London Daily Mailabout vitamin C’s ability to reverseheart disease was replaced by Bayer’sfull-page advertisement. Bayer aspirin have also been on front-page headlinestwice. 

The arthritis drug market is worth billions of dollars. Now whatwould I put in glucosamine tablets to discourage people from using them?

Dr. Bush practices optometry in the U.K. His website is LifeExtensionOptometry.org

Your Heart Is Slowly Dying From Chronic Scurvy

 - Dr. Gifford Jones  Sunday, October 21, 2007

Why is research that could save countless lives unknown to Canadian andU.S.doctors? 

This week, a report that Dr. Sydney Bush, an optometrist in Hull, England,has made an historic discovery. He claims that atherosclerosis (hardening ofarteries) can be reversed. And his research, which could save millions fromheart attack, should have made headlines around the world. 

 It’s been said that the eye isthe window to the heart. It’s the only part of the body through which doctorscan see arteries and veins during an eye examination. This allows doctorsto see changes in retinal vessels, the result of aging,hypertension, diabetes andatherosclerosis. And it’s been believed for years that blockages in arteriesdue to cholesterol deposits could not be reversed.

Dr. Bush decided to do more than look into the eye. In 1998 he startedto use a technique called “CardioRetinometry” at his eye clinic in Hull, England.This instrument takes pictures of the retina, the back part of the eye, thattransmits images to the brain. These photos have enabled Dr. Bush to observechange in retinal vessels over a course of several years. 

CardioRetinometry photos could also pinpoint collections of cholesterol depositsin retinal vessels. Bush states that he could see a fine, white line, similarto a silver wire, running down almost every artery of adults who had high cholesterol. 

But a chance encounter occurred that would reshape his thinking aboutcoronary heart disease. While taking photos of the retina Dr. Bush wasalso prescribing 3,000 to 10,000 milligrams of vitamin C to treat certain eyeproblems.

To his surprise he discovered that this amount of vitamin C resulted inchanges in retinal arteries. Cholesterol deposits decreased in size,arteries became larger and there was increased blood flow to the retina. Proofthis was happening was staring him in the face.

And what happens to arteries in the retina also happens to arteries inthe heart.

What does all this mean? Few people realize that animals manufacture vitamin C,but humans do not. For instance, goats produce 13,000 milligrams of vitamin Cdaily.

Humans lost this ability during the course of evolution. This is whycats never died of scurvy during voyages to the New Worldwhile sailors succumbed to this disease. 

Dr. Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Prize winner, whom I haveinterviewed, extolled the virtues of vitamin C. He claimed that although humansno longer die from scurvy, they are nevertheless suffering from inadequateamounts of vitamin C. 

So why is vitamin C so important in preventing retinal disease andheart attack? Brick walls are held together by strong mortar and weall know what happens if mortar starts to crumble. Cells, on the other hand,are glued together by collagen and vitamin C is necessary to manufacture andmaintain its strength. 

Pauling believed that the heart dies from a silent form of scurvy. In effect,inadequate levels of vitamin C weaken collagen, which is not good news forcoronary arteries as they face the greatest pressure when the heart beats. Theend result is injured arteries and heart attack.

Linus Pauling’s theory about coronary attack and now the findings ofDr. Bush compliment each other. Namely, a lack of vitamin C triggers heartattack and an excess of C guards against it.

The great irony is that British physicians, rather than looking at DrBush’s research with an open mind, have criticized his work. It may be the oldstory that new, revolutionary ideas, contrary to current medical thinking,often collect dust.

I’ve not yet had time to visit Bush’s clinic in England. But he has sent me retinalpictures taken before vitamin C was prescribed and those taken following itsuse. The results are there for everyone to see. 

Each year millions of North Americans die from coronary attack. Surelyit’s time for heart specialists and ophthalmologists to take a lookat Dr. Bush’s research. They may decide that our heart is not healthy until theeyes say so.

For last week’s column on vitamin C see the web site http://www.mydoctor.ca/gifford-jones 

Metastasis Blood Test Possible

Here is some more science on thecancer front and it appears to be a way of independently evaluating the risk ofmetastasis of the known cancer.  This allhelps tighten the clinical information available to plan treatment.

I am now seeing a rising tide ofeffective treatment protocols and I believe now that cancer can be cured if thescience is given a free hand to finish the job. It should switch over to a rush basis with patients been asked to signoff on methods that are timely for them but impossible for preliminaryconformation in the patients lifetime.

Intercepting cancer is worth alot of risk, even if it entails a protocol with a mere five percent success, aslong as success is possible.  Allprotocols are usually well past that lousy threshold.

The problem is more the slow conversiononto new protocols by the research community. A whole range of age tested herbal remedies were opposed in the Eighties,tested by university labs without industry support in the nineties and aregenerally understood and accepted today. Thus a promising discovery today with no obvious pathway to patentprotection is advanced far too slowly by resource strapped grad students.

I can tell you that cancer wasmost likely cured (MIT nanogold experiment) two years ago.  I can not tell you when if ever we can saveyour life.

Blood Test Could PredictMetastasis Risk in Melanoma

Released: 4/13/2011 11:30 AM EDT 

Embargo expired: 4/15/2011 12:05 AM EDT

Source: AmericanAssociation for Cancer Research (AACR)

Newswise — PHILADELPHIA — Scientists at Yale University have identifieda set of plasma biomarkers that could reasonably predict the risk of metastasisamong patients with melanoma, according to findings published in ClinicalCancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.

“The rate at which melanoma is increasing is dramatic, and there is ahuge number of patients under surveillance,” said Harriet Kluger, M.D.,associate professor of medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. “Ourcurrent method of surveillance includes periodic imaging, which creates hugesocietal costs.”

Melanoma is the fifth most common cancer in men and the seventh mostcommon cancer in women. It is estimated that 68,130 people in the United Stateswere diagnosed in 2010, and 8,700 died. With proper screening, melanoma canoften be caught early enough to be removed with surgery, and mortalitytypically comes when the cancer metastasizes. The risk of metastasis variesfrom less than 10 percent for those with stage 1A melanoma, to as high as 70percent with stage 3C.

Patients with melanoma are typically subjected to a combination ofimaging tests, blood tests and physical examinations, but there is no clearconsensus on how often these tests should occur or how reliable they are.

Kluger and colleagues tested the plasma of 216 individuals, including108 patients with metastatic melanoma and 108 patients with stage 1 or 2disease. They identified seven plasma biomarkers: CEACAM, ICAM-1, osteopontin,MIA, GDF-15, TIMP-1 and S100B.

All of these biomarkers were higher in patients with metastaticmelanoma than patients with early-stage disease. In fact, 76 percent ofpatients with early-stage disease had no elevations at all whereas 83 percentof metastatic patients had elevations of at least one marker. Researcherscalculated that the area under the curve, a measure of the test’s reliability,was 0.898. Area under the curve calculations rate from .5 to 1, with 1 beingoptimal and .5 being useless.

“This finding will need to be confirmed prospectively before it is usedin the clinic, but it shows that such testing is possible,” said Kluger. 

Carib Glyphs Near Atlanta

This is a reminder that huntergatherer populations were real and survived quite well into even the modern eramaking their living as their forebears without much enthusiasm for taking up agriculture.  Their problem was simply numbers.  They were never bigger that a large family ina living range.  Agriculturalists couldtake the same range and put in place a village were a dozen or so survived.

In time, the band would be absorbedinto the larger whole.

At least we now understand theseimages and their provenance when they are discovered.

Experts solve mystery of ancient stone monument near Atlanta

April 11th, 2011 9:07 am ET

http://www.examiner.com/architecture-design-in-national/experts-solve-mystery-of-ancient-stone-monument-near-atlanta

Rock art specialists from around North America havefinally solved this century old archaeological riddle. The stone slab isevidence that native peoples from Puerto Rico or Cubaonce lived within the interior of Eastern North America.

One day, long before Christopher Columbus claimed to have landed on theeastern edge of Asia, a forgotten people cut steps in the rocks leading up asteep bluff near the Chattahoochee River in the northwest section of the State of Georgia. Theycarved a supernatural figure on a four feet by one foot granite slab anderected it on the top of the knoll. The strange, primitive art was verydifferent than the highly realistic stone sculptures found in the region thatare known to have been created by the ancestors of Georgia’s CreekIndians.  

During the mid-1800s a major industrial complex was developed near theancient rock shrine. Somehow during the town’s construction, the tablet wasoverlooked; most likely because of a covering of soil. The town was called New Manchester. It would haveinevitably become a major city of the Southeast, but in the autumn of 1864 thenotorious Union general, William Tecumseh Sherman, ordered the town burned, andthe hundreds of teenage girls who worked at its mills transported to aconcentration camp in the Ohio.  Many of the girls were never seenagain.  Some died in prison. Some married and stayed in the Midwest.  Some were murdered while they tried towalk home after the war. Some probably went to the West to start life anewaway from the ruins of war.  Some just dissappeared without a trace.

The ruins of New Manchesterhave remained a testimony to the fact that war is hell. The town was neverrebuilt and its landscape converted back to scrub woodlands within a decadeafter the Civil War. In 1909 a man named W. H. Roberts was hunting wild turkeysin a hilly area next to the ruins of Manchester.After climbing the bluff over Sweetwater Creek that was known as “an Indiancemetery” because of the stone artifacts scattered on its slopes, Robertshappened to notice a granite slab laying flat on the ground. Apparently, rainshad washed away the thin top soil that had concealed it for centuries. 

Most scholars, who viewed the images incised on the slab in the early1900s, assumed it was created by Native Americans, but had no furtherexplanation. Primitive rock art such as on the slab found by Roberts is nowknown as petroglyphs. There are now professionals and organizations that havedeveloped the study of petroglyphs into a science, but a century ago suchartifacts were viewed as curiosities

Throughout the mid-20th century, the Roberts (or Sweetwater Creek)petroglyph was on display at the RhodesMansion on Peachtree Street in Atlanta. This landmark house was the originaloffice of the GeorgiaDivision of Archives and History. After the state agency moved to a largemarble structure near the Capitol, the petroglyphs were put in storage. Thegranite slab stayed there until SweetwaterCreek State Park was created around the ruins of Manchester in the 1970s. The slab is now ondisplay at the park and protected by a Plexiglas screen.

A comment from a California professor opens Pandora’s Box

The national architecture & design column of the Examiner iscurrently running a series on the petroglyphs of the Southern Highlands. One of the articles of this series discussed theSweetwater Creek petroglyph and an cluster of petroglyphs on nearby NickajackCreek. Filmmaker and amateur archaeologist Jon Haskell of Carmel, Indiana,was intrigued by the strange appearance of the Sweetwater Creek petroglyph. Hehad filmed documentaries in many parts of the Americas,but had never seen any petroglyph like the Sweetwater Creek Petroglyph in the United States.

During the first week of April 2011, Haskell sent emails throughout North America to friends who were either archaeologists,petroglyph specialists or experts on Native American art. Most of theresponses also expressed bafflement that such a strange petroglyph design wouldbe found near Atlanta.Some respondents commented that it was similar to Ice Age cave art found in Spain and North Africa.However, because of its placement on a hilltop shrine associated with NativeAmerican artifacts, the Sweetwater Petroglyph appears to date from a much morerecent epoch.

Stephen C. Jett is a geography professor at the Universityof California at Davis and a recognized scholar of thepetroglyphs and pictographs of the American Southwest. His brief commentemailed back to Jon Haskell was the first interpretation in a century thatassigned an ethnic identity to the Sweetwater Petroglyph. He wrote, “It looksvaguely Caribbean to me, but that's just an impression, I am not conversantwith the rock art of that region.”

Images and descriptions of the Sweetwater Petroglyph were immediatelyemailed to several specialists on Caribbeanrock art. The respondents sent back photographs of rock art in Cuba, Puerto Rico and Hispaniola that were thesame style as the one in Georgia.One petroglyph from Puerto Rico seems toportray the very same supernatural figure. It is a “guardian spirit” whosepresence warned travelers that they were entering a province or sacred area.This style of art was typically placed on stone slabs 3-5 tall, which werelocated on hilltops or beside major trails.  

The Sweetwater Petroglyph is a stone slab 4 feet tall that wasoriginally on a hilltop. It is very significant evidence that NativeAmericans originally from Puerto Rico, Cuba or Hispaniola paddled to the Florida Peninsula;followed the Gulf Coast up to the mouth of the Apalachicola-ChattahoocheeRiver; then ulitimately settled in thevicinity of what is now Atlanta.The most likely time period for this migration is from 1,000 to 2,000 yearsago, but the date of the carvings on the granite slab are currently unknown.

Waves of South American peoples settled the Caribbean Basin

Archaeologists currently believe that the CaribbeanBasin was settled by waves of peoplesmoving northward out of South America. Thepresence of the oldest known pottery of the Western Hemisphere in Georgiasuggests that there may have also been movements of population and culturalinnovations in the other direction. It is documented, though, that the agriculturalvillagers began island-hopping northward out of Venezuelaaround 500 BC and by 500 AD had occupied most islands in the Caribbean Basin.These early people grew tobacco and sweet potatoes, but not many othercultivated plants. Their presence in the CaribbeanBasin coincides with the appearance oftobacco in the Southeastern United States. 

In the late 1960s archaeologists working in advance of an industrialpark on the Chattahoochee River near SweetwaterCreek's outlet found three varieties of indigenous sweet potatoesgrowing wild. They looked like "bushy" morning glories, but hadlarge, edible tubers growing underground. Intensive land development since thenhas eliminated the wild sweet potato patches.

A second wave of Caribbean immigrationby Natives speaking dialects of the Arawak language began around 600 AD.These immigrants are associated with the Taino People of the Caribbean Basinand the Timucua of Florida.They introduced the bow and arrow, plus advanced varieties of Indian cornto the Caribbean Basin. They were much sophisticatedartisans and farmers than the first wave of immigrants. The period also marksthe introduction of the bow and arrow, plus advanced varieties of corn into theSoutheastern United States. By 1150 ADthe second wave of Arawak immigrants had reached the Florida peninsula. About that same time,numerous towns with mounds were abandoned in northeastern Floridaas was the large megapolis on the OcmulgeeRiver near Macon,GA, which is now known as Ocmulgee National Monument. 

Caribbean peoples in North America

It is commonly known that the Arawak-speaking Timucua occupiednortheastern Florida and the southeastern tipof Georgia in the 1500s whenSpaincolonized the region. The public is not generally aware that there was also asmall cluster of Arawak-speaking villages in the vicinity of Birmingham, ALuntil the mid-1700s, when they were absorbed by the Creek Indian Confederacy.The presence of what appears to be an Caribbean rock art in northern Georgiasuggests that the first wave of Caribbean immigrants were pushed northward intothe mainland of North America by the second wave, who were better armed withbows and arrows, and better fed by a wide range of cultivated crops.

In 1541 the Hernando de SotoExpedition observed an ethnic group in what is now South Carolina that had a culture very similar to the first wave ofArawak immigrants into the Caribbean. Theywere described as primitive hunters who went naked, did not know how to growcorn and beans, and relied on roots that they dug from the ground fornutrition. The Creek Indian guides of the expedition called this primitivepeople the Chalo-ke, which means bass (fish) people. They were not the samepeople as the Cherokees, and are last seen on a map by French cartographerDelisle, living in southeast Georgiain the early 1700s.

The earlier occupants of the Caribbeandepended on hunting, gathering, and the digging up of wild yucca roots(cassava) or sweet potatoes for nutrition. They went almost naked. TheGuanajatabeyes and Ciboney people were pushed into the western sections of Cuba and Hispaniolaby the more sophisticated Taino. The Ciboney often lived in caves. They bothsoon became extinct after the Spanish arrived.  

The Sweetwater Petroglyph has never been scientifically dated bygeologists. In order to interpret the stone more precisely, the generalrange of its age must be determined. There may be other stones like it hiddenunder the soil or forgotten in the basements of museums.

Three Economic Charts To Blow Your Mind

This is worth reading because itallows us to overturn conventional wisdom and ask good questions.  There is also something important here thatneeds to be said.  The bottom 50 % is notproperly integrated into the tax system though they contribute throughconsumption taxes.

For them to contribute moreefficiently we need to establish a base income model linked directly todeliverables such as rental costs, food and basic services such as medical andcommunication.  My personal preference isto link the core delivery of basic services to land based needs on the ruralenvironment were  local capital isavailable to support personal initiative and wealth creation for even theelderly

It may sound utopian but it isnot as this is what actually worked in non monetized societies of thepast.  Reinventing the structure is thechallenge when monetizing because money is associated with the natural inclinationto impose wage slavery.

Most criticisms of such bottom upmodels are based on pure ignorance of economic systems and the ignorant fightfor control of the apparent lolly.  Wehave become less barbaric during the past century, but still have far to go.

Surprisingly, the Chinese havemuch to teach us on this subject, though much of what is there is also anaccident of history rather that intelligent planning.  It is a case of building from the least worsealternatives and hoping it all works out.

Three economic charts blow your mind

 Written By : John Hawkins

http://rightwingnews.com/taxes/three-economic-charts-that-will-blow-your-mind/

First off, here’s a breakdown of who pays into personal income taxes.Look at those numbers and SMELL the unfairness.

So, the top 10% of income earners pay 69.9% of the income tax while thebottom 50% of Americans pay 2.7%. Now, if we were actually going to make thetax code more “fair,” who would actually be paying more and who would be payingless? Maybe the rich aren’t getting quite as sweet a deal as you’d think if yougot your information from Obama speeches and MSNBC.

Now, here’s another chart that defies conventional wisdom.

Over the decades, tax rates have varied quite a bit. They’ve even goneup as high as 90% in some brackets. Yet, the actual amount of revenue coming indoesn’t change very much in relation to revenue. It’s almost as ifconservatives are right and people do react to higher tax rates by changingtheir behavior. Maybe they work less, take more loopholes, lobby Congress tocreate loopholes, invest differently, move industry offshore, etc., etc…itreally doesn’t matter.

The key thing to take away from this is that the amount of revenue thegovernment can bring in via the income tax is, for whatever reason, moreinelastic than most people think. That’s yet another reason to put moreemphasis on balancing the budget via spending cuts as opposed to trying to fixthe problem with tax increases.

Now, if Hauser’s law is as spot-on as it has been in the past and it’sgoing to be difficult to raise the government’s revenue level much beyond the20% mark, this is one hell of a scary graph.

Notice that we’re up from 2.7% of GDP in 1965 to 9.1% (the halfwaymark) in 2012 and then 100% of all of tax revenue in 2052. Some people may takea little comfort from that. After all, 2052 seems like a long time away — andso it is. But, don’t forget — we have a 14 trillion dollar debt we need to payoff and the federal government funds a lot of other things besides thoseentitlement programs. That money is where defense, intelligence, bordersecurity, government salaries, interest payments on the debt, welfare, and evenHarry Reid’s precious Cowboy Poetry comes from. At one point do people look atthe size of the deficit, size of the debt, and numbers like these and thenconclude it’s not safe to lend us money anymore? It could be much sooner thanwe think unless we start showing the world we’re serious about controllingspiraling entitlement costs.

NASA Scientist Claims Extraterrestrial Life Evidence

It appears that the debate on theorigins of life is heating up.  Here weare seeing ample evidence emerging from space material of microbial life andalso ample evidence that such can be blasted all over the place.  We do now know that microbial life operatesdeep into the earth and in extreme conditions. All the barriers opposing such have evaporated.

So before we even think in termsof meeting intelligent aliens, we certainly know today that the universe isfully infected with microbial life and any newly formed planet will have anample basis to commence evolutionary processes.

I also have here another shortitem showing us critical images from mars of apparent structures that can onlybe engineered and possibly still in general use.  The obvious attitude been that when we getthere will be soon enough to talk to us pukes.

The evidence for a heavy presencein space and on earth is actually overwhelming and becoming less and less fussyabout been seen.  They do use stealthmode a lot, but actual discipline is obviously weak as most operators areworker bees conducting a variety of missions.

As I have also posted, the argumentfor a huge presence on Earth itself is now pretty compelling, because that isthe natural explanation for the heavy observed traffic. 

We have unending reports of scientificsampling taking place from the subjects themselves and that is an obviousmission.  We have plenty of reports ofobvious joy riding coming to us also and occasional reports of realcontact.  What is important that the bodyof evidence is now massively beyond one man’s illusions and it is bothconforming and consistent.

The kicker is that I suspect thathuge alien populations do live on Earth today in underground structures builtout for that purpose.  It is no trick atall to build within stable rock strata a couple of thousand feet down a hugecomplex quite able to hold tens of millions of individuals.  External access could be anywhere underwaterto keep us out of the way.  We may evendecide to do just that ourselves someday. It is all a matter of free energy, now upon us, and effective recycling.

Active harvesting of seafoodcould even be conducted and we would never know.

Nasa Scientist Claims Evidence of Extraterrestrial Life

Is this proof of colony Earth and we're all aliens?

Fossils of algae-like beings in meteorites are reported byastrobiologist Dr. Richard Hoover in the Journal of Cosmology. Reportedly theWhite House has reacted angrily to the announcement and is pressuring Hoover to recant sincethe evidence changes much in science and biology such as the theory that lifeevolved in the primordial soup on Earth. In the beginning, of course, theexplanation was God. Then, in the age of science, Charles Darwin came along andspeculated that it all began in a warm little pond. 

The origin of life on Earth — known as biogenesis' — remains one of thegreat unsolved mysteries of science. Although Darwin gave us a theory of how the firstprimitive microbes evolved into the wonderful diversity of plants and animalsthat comprise the living world today, but we don't know how life gotstarted. 

Hoover a NASA scientist claims to have foundevidence of life from beyond Earth within freshly-cleaved surfaces of raremeteorites from Mars. But some scientists maintain that the early Earthwas so hostile to life that it must have begun elsewhere. Life on Mars may havepredated life on the Earth. We can even speculate life was carried here aboardan ark from Mars. 

The human race will have to realize we are not the biological center ofthe universe that a designer spread life to numerous planets. Dr. Hoover hasstirred up fresh debate over life elsewhere in the cosmos after claiming to havefound tiny fossils of alien bugs inside meteorites that landed on Earth. About2% are bacteria within the meteorites.

Richard Hoover, an astrobiologist at the US Space Agency's MarshallSpace Flight Centre in Alabama, said "Filaments and other structures inrare meteorites appear to be microscopic fossils of extraterrestrial beingsthat resemble algae known as cyanobacteria. S ome of theextra-terrestrial fossils' look very much like a living earthly bug calledTitanospirillum velox, which is found in muds in the Ebro Delta in Spain. Thethree meteorite samples Dr. Hoover has studied predate any fossils found onEarth and older than the crust of our planet, dating from the time when theplanets of our solar system were still coming together from a cloud of dust androcks.

If is findings are confirmed we will be forced to conclude that lifeon Earth really did start elsewhere, and furthermore that life is probablyeverywhere in the Universe. A meteorite, named ALH84001, generated headlinenews in 1996 when Nasa announced it contained biomorphic' structures,tubule-like objects that looked like bacteria. 

Laboratory tests on the rocky filaments found no evidence to suggestthey were remnants of Earth-based organisms that contaminated the meteoritesafter they landed, Hooversaid. "He discovered the features after inspecting the freshly cleavedsurfaces of three meteorites that are believed to be among the oldest in thesolar system.. Writing in the Journal of Cosmology, Hoover claims that the lack of nitrogen inthe samples, which is essential for life on Earth, indicates they are "theremains of extraterrestrial life forms that grew on the parent bodies ofthe meteorites when liquid water was present, long before the meteoritesentered the Earth's atmosphere."

B,C: red blood cell remnants found inside meteorite Ivuna 

Cyanobacteria play the key role in nitrogen fixation on Earth and manygenera and species of are capable of diazotrophic growth and nitrogenmetabolism. Nitrogen fixation occurs via the nitrogenase enzyme with some otherproteins involved in this complex biological process. Rudy Schild, a scientistat the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics and editor of the journal,said: "The implications are that life is everywhere, and that life onEarth may have come from other planets." Proof that alien microbeshitched across the cosmos inside meteors, or by clinging to their surfaces,would bolster a theory known as panspermia, in which life is spread from planetto planet by hurtling space rocks. 

Sir Fred Hoyle (British astrophysicist): "A common senseinterpretation of the facts suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed withphysics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blindforces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from thefacts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyondquestion." Hoyle, F. 1982. The Universe: Past and PresentReflections.

Sir Francis Crick, joint discoverer of DNA, remarked that "theorigin of life seemed "almost a miracle, so many are the conditions whichwould have had to have been satisfied to get it going. The problem is that eventhe simplest living thing is already so stupendously complex that if such anentity were to be thrown together by chance, it would be a fluke of suchmagnitude as to be unlikely to happen twice in the observable universe, vastthough that may be. 

Certainly, many scientists support the idea of an extra-terrestrialorigin for earthly life. Professor Paul Davies, a British cosmologist at Arizona State University,has suggested life on Earth may have its origins on Mars. He reasons that fourbillion years ago Mars was a far more hospitable place for life to evolve thanEarth. Being smaller, Mars cooled more quickly and was hit less often by themassive meteor strikes that made the infant solar system such a hazardousenvironment for life of any kind. He says, "We could all be thedescendants of ancient Martian microbes blasted off the Red Planet's surface bylater meteorite bombardments. There is even the fascinating possibility adying civilization loaded up an ark like space ship and flew to Colony Earthwith all types of animals. We have now discovered life on Mars similar tolife on Earth that strongly suggests life exists throughout the universe onbillions of planets.

Mars Structures 

Dr. Richard Buchli writes, "Here is a series of partially coveredopenings or structures on mars. These shapes are too perfect to be worksof nature. There is a line of objects two and half miles long with seven objectsrunning north to south. The distance between the opposing two structuresis about 1500 feet, and 1300 feet. White domed st ructures are located atboth ends of line. The location is at 37 57 26 85 N 82 16 43 13 W. Thanks toRichard Buchli D.V.M. PhD. Dorothy Buchli W.B.W

Kepler Telescope Discovers 1,235 planets

This illustration created by Jason Rowe of NASA's Kepler Science Teamshows all of Kepler's planet candidates in transit with their parent starsordered by size from top left to bottom right. / Illustration Courtesy NASAKepler Mission.On March 6, 2009, the Kepler telescope was launched into space by the NASA AmesInstitute to search for potentially habitable planets. NASA announced that1,235 planets have now been detected. It also announced that the Kepler 11star-system is believed to have six orbiting planets.

Every 30 minutes the Kepler telescope is scanning 150,000 stars todetect fluctuations in the brightness of each star that would indicate that aplanet was revolving around it. Each time a planet crosses the star, thebrightness of the star appears to dim.

To learn more about the Kepler Missionvisit

http://kepler.nasa.gov/

http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20110419/NJLIFE

Thanks to Charles Ratliff