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Bay area dance classes and festivals

Belly Dancer

Featuring Rasa Vitalia

http://www.rasavitalia.com/tour-dates

 

Flamenco Wednesdays

Free performance featuring Melissa Cruz dancer, Jason McGuire “El Rubio” on guitar, and Jose Cortes vocals.

Second and Fourth Wednesday of each month @ 10pm

Dunya Wine Bar, SF

Info: http://www.dunyasf.com or 415.400.5770 or 415.400.5770

 

Milonga at The Verdi Club Thursdays

Every Thursday @ 7pm

The Verdi Club, 2424 Mariposa Street, SF

Info: tangozarry.com

 

Live Flamenco every second Saturday night of each month

Featuring Misión Flamenca

 

Second Saturday of each month @ 7:30pm

Bissap Baobab Village

3372 19th Street @ Mission Street, SF

 

Peruvian Independence Day Party

Peruvian food and refreshments available and live performances featuring

De Rompe Y Raja Cultural Association, Huaranguito Youth Ensemble, Peta Robles, Marina La Valle, and Rosa Los Santos.

Special guests from Peru: Members of Ambiente Criollo, Hijas del Sol & Teatro Milenio. Peruvian Ensemble: Master Percussionist Kata Robles, and Peruvian Guitar Ruth Torres

 

Friday, July 29th @ 8:30 pm

La Pena Cultural Center

3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley

Advance Tickets $15, Door $18

More Info: 510.688.9147 or http://lapena.org/event/peruvian-independence-day/

 

Tango Addiction

TANGO: A gift to the world from Buenos Aires brings passion, seduction and addiction together for an afternoon of live music with show dances by world-renowned musicians, dancers, and singers from the Bay Area and Argentina. Enjoy live dancing in the rotunda after the performance.

 

Sunday, July 31st @ 2:30pm

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

500 Castro Street, Mountain View

Tickets: $40

More Info: TangoAddiction

 

Varsha Raghavan Arangetram

With Mythili Kumar & Malavika Kumar Walia on nattuvangam, Megha Ranganathan on vocals, Amit Ranganathan on mridangam, Hrishikesh Chary on veena, and Sasidhar Madugula on violin.

 

Sunday, July 31st @ 4 pm

Mission City Center for Performing Arts, Santa Clara

More Info: http://www.abhinaya.org

 

Rotunda Dance Series – Presented by World Arts West and Dancers’ Group

NAKA Dance Theater premieres an excerpt of their upcoming site-specific performance project, RACE. Fittingly taking place on the exact day of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony, NAKA performs RACE to investigate past and present Olympic Games—paying tribute to the tumultuous 1968 Mexico City Olympics and various civil disobedience movements that broke out worldwide. RACE offers a powerful look at the poverty industrial complex. The “cleaning up” that happens in preparation for the Olympic Games globally is analogous to conflicts in San Francisco, where the economic tech boom often ousts the city’s most vulnerable residents. When city streets are cleaned up, who benefits? Who is swept aside?

 

Friday, August 5th @ Noon

San Francisco City Hall

Free with open seating on the steps of the Grand Staircase. Feel free to bring your own folding chairs.

Info: dancersgroup.org/presents/rotunda/

Pill Hill Community Dance Day

Team 510 Studios opens up their doors to the neighbors of Downtown Oakland and beyond with an evening of teaser classes including the styles of Africa, Haiti, yoga, Zumba, and more!

Friday, August 5th @ 6pm

Team 510 Studios

2914 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland

$5 per class

More Info: Team 510

 

Festival Folklorico Nicaraguense

Nicaragua Danza Hijos Del Maiz celebrates their 5th Company Anniversary with a dynamic festival that includes new works and special guests, Colombia Soul Dance Company, Alafia Dance ensemble, Bolivia Corazon de America, and poet Katia Barillas.

 

Saturday, August 6th @ 7pm

Sunday, August 7th @ 4pm

1100 Ellis Street, San Francisco

Tickets: Pre-sale $20, at the Door $25

More Info: Nicaragua Danza

 

Aloha Festival

Two-day festival celebrating Pacific Islander culture. Live music, dance, arts and crafts, authentic food, and educational workshops.

August, 6th & 7th, 10am-5pm

San Mateo County Event Center (SMCEC)

1346 Saratoga Drive, San Mateo

Free admission

More Info: http://www.pica-org.org/

 

Abhinaya Dance Company

Curator Forrest McGill will present an overview of the exhibitions; and scenes from the Ramayana will be interpreted by Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose, and an Asian Art Museum storyteller. RSVP by Friday, July 29th because space is limited.

 

Sunday, August 7th @ 5pm

India Community Center

525 Los Coches St, Milpitas

Free Admission, RSVP HERE

More Info: Abhinaya

imungal@asianart.org

408.871.5959

 

The Latin Roots of Jazz

A six-class series co-presented by MoAD, YBGF, and SFJAZZ with Instructor John Santos.

Latin American music and musicians have played fundamental and innovative roles in the history and evolution of jazz. Jelly Roll, Louie, Duke and Diz are among the legions of jazz pioneers who acknowledged these facts. The Latin Roots of Jazz is the continuation of John Santos’ ongoing yearly series presented by the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, the Museum of the African Diaspora, and SFJAZZ, featuring live musical examples (in weeks one and six) in addition to selections from his legendary collection of audio and video recordings.

 

Wednesday, August 10th – September 14th, 7pm-9pm

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD)

685 Mission Street, SF

 

SFJAZZ/MoAD/YBGF Members: $15/class or $75/series

Public: $20/class or $100/series

Info and tickets: https://www.sfjazz.org/2016/education/discover-jazz/latin-roots

 

Angelica’s Presents “Una Noche de Flamenco”

Special performance with guest dancers Manuel Gutierrez, extraordinary bailaor, Estefania Narvaez, recently returned from Spain, with Bay Area dancers Clara Rodriguez, Devon LaRussa and Yaelisa, as well as the virtuoso guitarist Jason McGuire “El Rubio,” and singer Jose Cortes.

 

Friday, August 12th @ 8:30pm

Reservations recommended: http://angelicasllc.com/event.cfm?id=241663&cart

Tickets online http://www.angelicasllc.com or reservations by phone 650.679.8184

 

Awaaz

Mona Khan Company presents Awaaz, an intimate experience of Indian contemporary dance vignettes, a blend of the east and the west exploring themes of beauty and disintegration, love and loss, strength and vulnerability.

Saturday, August 13th @ 3pm

Sunday, August 14th @ 6pm

ODC Theater

3153 17th Street, San Francisco

More Info: Awaaz

 

Shake the Bay

An evening of belly dance performances benefiting the Alzheimer’s Association featuring such groups as Khepri Dance Company, Fat Chance Belly Dance, Suhaila Dance Company, and many more!

 

Saturday, August 13th @ 8pm

Brava Theater Center

2781 24th Street, San Francisco

More Info: Shake The Bay

 

Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival

Antoine Hunter’s Urban Jazz Dance presents “Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival”, where performances and workshops are lead by local and international Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing artists. All (non-hearing and hearing) are welcome to attend the dynamic performances and learn something new in the step-by-step workshops.

Friday, August 12th @ 8pm

Saturday, August 13th @ 8pm

Sunday, August 14th @ 4pm

Dance Mission Theater

3316 24th Street @ Mission St., San Francisco

Tickets: BAIDDF

 

Pistahan

Celebrating Filipino and Filipino-American arts and culture, the 23rd annual Pistahan features 2 days of art pavilions and stages highlighting contemporary and traditional music, dance, art, crafts, cuisine, and artifacts. A trade expo offers products unique to the Philippines, including foods, books, jewelry, clothes and products for the home created from mother of pearl, bamboo, coconut, mahogany, marble, pineapple fiber and more.  It’s the next best thing to a trip to Manila.

 

Saturday, August 13th @ 11am-5pm

Esplande, Yerba Buena Gardens

773 Mission Street, San Francisco

Free Admission

More Info: Pistahan

415.543.1718

 

1001 Nights

Join us on an amazing dance journey through space and time! International Star, Ozgen of Turkey is visiting the Bay Area and will perform in one show only! Ozgen will showcase his versatility ranging from authentic Turkish Romani (Gypsy) dances to his very elegant theatrical style to Latin fusion and more! The show will also feature many loval beloved Bellydance stars who will showcase a wide variety of styles and genres.

 

Saturday, August 20th @ 8:30pm

Angelicas – Bell Stage Main Dining Room

863 Main Street, Redwood City

Admission: $20/$28 Online, $30 At the Door

More Info: 1001Nights

650.679.8184

 

 

Oakland’s 16th Annual Art & Soul Festival

This year the Oakland Art & Soul Dance Stage will take you on a trip down memory lane as some of the Bay Area’s favorite companies, crews, and soloists present “Television to Stage”. Everyone will be bringing some of the best musical movie and tv scenes to life, including The Wiz, Dirty Dancing, Grease, Happy Feet, step It Up, and many more.

 

Sunday August 21st @ 12pm – 6pm

Downtown Oakland

More Info: Art & Soul

 

Aloha Poly Fest

Come join us for great entertainment and fun activities for the entire family at our 6th free admission and parking event that welcomes everyone to celebrate and learn about Polynesian (Hawaii, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, Cook Islands, New Zealand), Melanesian (Fiji) and Micronesian (Guam) islands in the Pacific Ocean through cultural dances, songs, crafts, merchandise and more.

 

Saturday, September 3rd @ 11am – 4:30pm

Golden Gate Park – San Francisco County Fair Building

1155 – 9th Avenue and Lincoln Way, San Francisco

Free Admission

More Info: AlohaPolyFest

 

The Conference of the Birds: EnActe & Sangam Arts

Thirty dancers and fifteen actors representing twelve ethnic traditions spanning four continents feature in one vibrant, multi-sensory interpretation of the timeless Sufi quest narrative – The Conference of the Birds.

 

Friday, September 9th @ 8pm

Saturday, September 10th @ 2pm and 8pm

Mexican Heritage Plaza Theater

1700 Alum Rock Avenue, San Jose

Tickets: $20-$100

More Info: TheConferenceOfTheBirds

 

Vijaya Dashmi 2016: International Dance Competition

Folk Dance Theme – Good vs. Evil. Bollywood Dance Theme: Balance – Career and/or Family.

 

Sunday, October 9th @ 12pm-6pm

Chabot College Theatre

25555 Hesperian Blvd, Hayward

Participant Fees: $45 per participant before June 19th, $65 per participant

Attendee Tickets: $30 per attendee before June 19th, $55 per attendee

For Info: vijayadashmi.registrations@monalijainfoundation.org

 

Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco: El Latir del Tiempo

One of the oldest dance companies in the Bay Area, Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a series of home season performances entitled: El Latir del Tiempo / The Beat of Time.

 

Friday, November 4th @ 8pm

Mountain View Center For The Performing Arts

500 Castro Street, Mountain View, CA

 

Saturday, November 5th @ 8pm

Herbst Theater

401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco

More Info: TheatreFlamencoofSanFrancisco

 

Finding Compás

 

This artistically ambitious film brings with it the opportunity to grow awareness of the powerful art of flamenco, to bring new levels of richness and inspiration to the complexities of life, and to celebrate the expansiveness of the human spirit.

 

Follow – Facebook.com/FindingCompas

More info: FlamencoCompas

Cancer statistics

2016

Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the numbers of new cancer cases and deaths that will occur in the United States in the current year and compiles the most recent data on cancer incidence, mortality, and survival.

Incidence data were collected by the National Cancer Institute (Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results [SEER] Program), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (National Program of Cancer Registries), and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries.

Mortality data were collected by the National Center for Health Statistics.

  • In 2016:

    1,685,210 new cancer cases and 595,690 cancer deaths are projected to occur in the United States

  • Overall cancer incidence trends (13 oldest SEER registries) are stable in women, but declining by 3.1% per year in men (from 2009-2012), much of which is because of recent rapid declines in prostate cancer diagnoses.

  • The cancer death rate has dropped by 23% since 1991, translating to more than 1.7 million deaths averted through 2012.

  • Despite this progress, death rates are increasing for cancers of the liver, pancreas, and uterine corpus, and cancer is now the leading cause of death in 21 states, primarily due to exceptionally large reductions in death from heart disease.
  • Among children and adolescents (aged birth-19 years), brain cancer has surpassed leukemia as the leading cause of cancer death because of the dramatic therapeutic advances against leukemia.

2013

  • A total of 1,660,290 new cancer cases and 580,350 cancer deaths are projected to occur in the United States in 2013.
  • During the most recent 5 years for which there are data (2005-2009), delay-adjusted cancer incidence rates declined slightly in men (by 0.6% per year) and were stable in women, while cancer death rates decreased by 1.8% per year in men and by 1.5% per year in women.
  • Overall, cancer death rates have declined 20% from their peak in 1991 (215.1 per 100,000 population) to 2009 (173.1 per 100,000 population).

  • Death rates continue to decline for all 4 major cancer sites (lung, colorectum, breast, and prostate).

  • Over the past 10 years of data (2000-2009), the largest annual declines in death rates were for chronic myeloid leukemia (8.4%), cancers of the stomach (3.1%) and colorectum (3.0%), and non-Hodgkin lymphoma (3.0%).
  • The reduction in overall cancer death rates since 1990 in men and 1991 in women translates to the avoidance of approximately 1.18 million deaths from cancer, with 152,900 of these deaths averted in 2009 alone.

Pancreatic cancer

  • In 2012, pancreatic cancers of all types were the seventh most common cause of cancer deaths, resulting in 330,000 deaths globally.
  • Pancreatic cancer is the fifth most common cause of death from cancer in the United Kingdom, and the fourth most common in the United States.

  • The disease occurs most often in the developed world, where about 70% of the new cases in 2012 originated.

  • Pancreatic adenocarcinoma typically has a very poor prognosis: after diagnosis, 25% of people survive one year and 5% live for five years .
  • At least 50% of people with pancreatic adenocarcinoma have diabetes at the time of diagnosis.[4]
  • While long-standing diabetes is a known risk factor for pancreatic cancer (see Risk factors), the cancer can itself cause diabetes, in which case recent onset of diabetes could be considered an early sign of the disease.[30]
  • People over 50 who develop diabetes have eight times the usual risk of developing pancreatic adenocarcinoma within three years, after which the relative risk declines.
  • Specific types of food (as distinct from obesity) have not been clearly shown to increase the risk of pancreatic cancer.[4] Dietary factors for which there is some evidence of slightly increased risk include processed meat, red meat, and meat cooked at very high temperatures (e.g. by frying, broiling or barbecuing).

Germanic New Medicine by Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer

http://www.newmedicine.ca/about.php

What brought this disease? (How?)
What is its biological meaning? (Why?)

The five biological laws of the German New Medicine are:

1. The Iron Rule of Cancer

The law of the two-phased development of every disease to the extent that there is a resolution of the conflict
The ontogenetic system of tumors and cancer equivalent diseases
The ontogenetic system of microbes in diseases
The biological meaning of each Special Program of Nature

2. The second biological law

Every disease is a two-phased occurrence, as long as there is a resolution of the conflict.

3. The third biological law

The ontogenetic system of tumors and cancer-equivalent diseases.

4. The fourth biological law

There is a correspondence between embryonic-layer related organ groups – without exception in the PCL phase – and embryonically related groups of microbes. The microbes are not the harbingers of the symptoms, but the optimizers of the healing phase.

5. The fifth biological law

This fifth biological natural law virtually takes us to the ‘Original Medicine’; it turns the current nosological (disease) understanding totally on its head. Disease, as it has been defined until now, no longer exists. Our ignorance prevented us from recognizing that all so-called diseases have a special biological meaning.

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The revision of the “Scientific Chart” published in book form in January 2008 is available through https://www.newmedicine.ca/order.php as of March 2008 Ilsedora’s team began the immense undertaking of translating Dr. Hamer’s two-volume 1,250 page “Legacy of the New Medicine”, also known as the “Gold Books,” now in press.

The revision of the “Scientific Chart” published in book form in January 2008 is available through https://www.newmedicine.ca/order.php as of March 2008

 

 

Drug addicting pain pills, cocaine, heroin and antidepressants

Drug abuse is thought to induce long-term cellular and behavioral adaptations as a result of alterations in gene expression. Understanding the molecular consequences of addiction may contribute to the development of better treatment strategies. This study utilized high-throughput microarrays to identify gene expression changes in the post-mortem nucleus accumbens of chronic heroin abusers. These data were analyzed independently and in relation to our previously reported data involving human cocaine abusers, in order to determine which expression changes were drug specific and which may be common to the phenomenon of addiction. A significant decrease in the expression of numerous genes encoding proteins involved in presynaptic release of neurotransmitter was seen in heroin abusers, a finding not seen in the cocaine-abusing cohort. Conversely, the striking decrease in myelin-related genes observed in cocaine abusers was not evident in our cohort of heroin subjects.

Overall, little overlap in gene expression profiles was seen between the two drug-abusing cohorts: out of the approximately 39 000 transcripts investigated, the abundance of only 25 was significantly changed in both cocaine and heroin abusers, with nearly one-half of these being altered in opposite directions. These data suggest that the profiles of nucleus accumbens gene expression associated with chronic heroin or cocaine abuse are largely unique, despite what are thought to be common effects of these drugs on dopamine neurotransmission in this brain region. A re-examination of our current assumptions about the commonality of molecular mechanisms associated with substance abuse seems warranted.

Cocaine, heroin, and antidepressants (NMDA receptor antagonists)  are reported to have significant and distinctive changes in the profile of gene expression in the human nucleus accumbens associated with cocaine and heroin abuse.

There are 52 transcripts (e.g. Dusp1, Per1 and Fkbp5) with altered expression (FDR < 1 %) in response to treatment with NMDA receptor antagonists and 25 for cocaine/heroin.

The percentage of people who took painkillers stronger than morphine, which include such drugs as fentanyl, hydromorphone, methadone and oxycodone, grew from 17% in 1999 to 37% in 2012, the study found.

Use of narcotic painkillers, such as Vicodin and OxyContin, has also grown. In 1999, 5% of adults 20 and older reported using a narcotic painkiller. Four years later, that number grew to 7%, where it has remained, Sales of the drugs quadrupled between 1999 and 2010, the report said.

  • As of 2012, overdose deaths involving prescription opioid analgesics, which are medications used to treat pain, have increased to almost 17,000 deaths a year in the United States.[3]
  • In 2013, only 16 percent of Americans believed that the United States is making progress in its efforts to reduce prescription drug abuse. Significantly more Americans, 37 percent, say the country is losing ground on the problem of prescription drug abuse. That figure is among the most pessimistic measures for any of the seven public health issues included in the survey. [4]
  • Experts say the increase in heroin use is linked to prescription opioid abuse. Young people often become addicted to pain pills and progress to heroin — which provides the same euphoric high — when pills are hard to come by. [5]
  • Heroin use rose by 75 percent between 2007 and 2011,with an 80 percent increase in first-time use among 12 to 17-year-olds since 2002, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA). [6]
  • In 2009, there were nearly 4.6 million drug-related emergency department (ED) visits of which about one half (49.8 percent, or 2.3 million) were attributed to adverse reactions to pharmaceuticals and almost one half (45.1 percent, or 2.1 million) were attributed to drug misuse or abuse.[7]
  • Nearly 9 out of 10 poisoning deaths are caused by drugs—both illicit and prescribed.[8] Between 2001 and 2010, drug poisoning deaths in the U.S. almost doubled to now measure nearly 17,000 deaths in 2010.[9] Moreover, opioid analgesic pain relievers were involved in more drug poisoning deaths than any other drug, including heroin and cocaine.[10]
  • The number of women who lost their lives opioid pain reliever overdoses rose 415 percent between 1999 and 2010 (compared to 250 percent for men), according the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2010, a total of 6,631 deaths among women involved opioid pain reliever overdose, compared with the 1999 total of 1,287 deaths among women due to opioid pain reliever overdose.[11]
  • In 2010, pharmaceutical drug overdoses were established as one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Below, some of the leading causes of death for 2010 are assembled in a table. Total drug overdoses killed more Americans than firearms or motor vehicle accidents in 2010.

  • In 2012, an estimated 493,000 persons aged 12 or older used a prescription pain reliever nonmedically for the first time within the past 12 months.[15] This averages to about 1,350 initiates per day.[16]
  • Of those who started abusing drugs in the last year, more than a quarter began by abusing a prescription medication (26.0 percent, including 17.0 percent with pain relievers, 4.1 percent with tranquilizers, 3.6 percent with stimulants, and 1.3 percent with sedatives).[17]
  • Over 1.2 million emergency room visits involved nonmedical use of prescription medication in 2011.[18] In 29 percent of these medical emergencies, opioids were involved.[19]
  • Medical emergencies resulting from prescription drug abuse increased 132 percent over the last seven years, with opioid involvement rising 183 percent

Competitive antagonists

  • AP5 (APV, R-2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoate)[30]
  • AP7 (2-amino-7-phosphonoheptanoic acid)[31]
  • CPPene (3-[(R)-2-carboxypiperazin-4-yl]-prop-2-enyl-1-phosphonic acid)[32]
  • Selfotel: an anxiolytic, anticonvulsant but with possible neurotoxic effects.

Uncompetitive channel blockers

Non-competitive antagonists[edit]

  • Aptiganel (Cerestat, CNS-1102): binds the Mg2+ binding site within the channel of the NMDA receptor.
  • HU-211: an enantiomer of the potent cannabinoid HU-210 which lacks cannabinoid effects and instead acts as a potent non-competitive NMDA antagonist.[46]
  • Remacemide: principle metabolite is an uncompetitive antagonist with a low affinity for the binding site.[47]
  • Rhynchophylline an alkaloid, found in Kratom and Rubiaceae.
  • Ketamine: a dissociative psychedelic with antidepressant properties used as an anesthesia in humans and animals, a possible treatment in bipolar disorder patients with Treatment-resistant depression, and used recreationally for its effects on the CNS[48]

Glycine antagonists

These drugs act at the glycine binding site:

Gold found in cow urine

After four years of extensive research scientists at the Junagadh Agricultural University (JAU) find gold in the urine of the Gir cow.

The Food Testing Laboratory of JAU tested 400 samples of the cow’s urine which tested positive for presence of gold. Test figures showed the presence of the precious metal ranging from 3 to 10 mg per liter of urine. However, the yellow metal found in the urine samples were in an ionic state, which is salts soluble in water.

The research team led by Dr BA Golakia, head of JAU’s biotechnology department, used gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method to analyze the urine samples. He told that gold from the Gir cow’s urine can be extracted and solidified through chemical processes.

“Till now, we have heard about presence of gold in cow urine from our ancient scriptures and its medicinal properties. Since there was no detailed scientific analysis to prove this, we decided to undertake a research on cow urine. We analyzed 400 samples of Gir cow urine and found traces of gold,” Golakia is reported to have said.

Urine samples of buffaloes, camels, sheep, and goats too were screened, but these samples did not carry any antibiotic elements. The cow’s urine was found to contain 5,100 compounds of which 388 possess immense medicinal value. Now, urine samples of all indigenous Indian cow breeds will be tested for the same purpose.

The JAU is accredited by the National Accreditation Board for Testing Calibration Laboratories (NABL). The lab, which is a joint venture of JAU Union ministry of food processing industries, Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR), and Gujarat Agro Industries Corporation (GAIC), conducts about 50,000 tests every year on various products. These products include items of exports, dairy items, vegetables, pulses, oil seeds, honey, pesticide residuals and other commodities.

The lab is currently working on use of Gir cow’s urine on human and plant pathogens, Golakia said.

Conversion Therapy in Republican platform is child abuse

Conversion therapy is psychological treatment or spiritual counseling designed to change a person’s sexual orientation from homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual. Such treatments are controversial[1] and have been criticized as a form of pseudoscience.[2][3][4][5][6][7] Medical, scientific, and government organizations in the United States and Britain have expressed concern over conversion therapy and consider it potentially harmful.[8][9][10][11][12][13] The American Psychiatric Association opposes psychiatric treatment “based upon the assumption that homosexuality per se is a mental disorder or based upon the a priori assumption that a patient should change his/her sexual homosexual orientation”[8] and describes attempts to change sexual orientation by practitioners as unethical.[6] It also states that debates over the integration of gay and lesbian people have obscured science “by calling into question the motives and even the character of individuals on both sides of the issue”[8] and that the advancement of conversion therapy may cause social harm by disseminating unscientific views about sexual orientation.[9] United States Surgeon General David Satcher in 2001 issued a report stating that “there is no valid scientific evidence that sexual orientation can be changed”.[14] The highest-profile advocates of conversion therapy today tend to be fundamentalist Christian groups and other organizations which use a religious justification for the therapy rather than speaking of homosexuality as “a disease”.[4] The main organization advocating secular forms of conversion therapy is the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH), which often partners with religious groups.[4]

Techniques used in conversion therapy prior to 1981 in the United States and Western Europe included ice-pick lobotomies[3][4][15][16][17][18] and chemical castration with hormonal treatment,[19] aversive treatments, such as “the application of electric shock to the hands and/or genitals,” and “nausea-inducing drugs…administered simultaneously with the presentation of homoerotic stimuli,” and masturbatory reconditioning. More recent clinical techniques used in the United States have been limited to counseling, visualization, social skills training, psychoanalytic therapy, and spiritual interventions such as “prayer and group support and pressure,”[20] though there are some reports of aversive treatments through unlicensed practice as late as the 1990s.[21][22] The term reparative therapy has been used as a synonym for conversion therapy in general,[8] but it has been argued that strictly speaking it refers to a specific kind of therapy associated with Elizabeth Moberly and Joseph Nicolosi

13 most dangerous legal drugs

Dr Mercola

Here’s a list of the most dangerous legal drugs that even most doctors probably won’t take:

1. Advair (GlaxoSmithKline)

Used to treat asthma, Advair contains salmeterol, which can increase the severity of an asthma attack. Salmeterol-based drugs contribute to an estimated 5,000 asthma-related deaths each year in the U.S. alone.

2. Ambien (Sanofi-Aventis)

Sedatives like Ambien only decrease get-to-sleep time by 18 minutes and can cause somnambulism side effects – resulting in people driving, walking, having sex, or making phone calls while asleep.

3. Avandia (GlaxoSmithKline)

A diabetes drug that makes fat cells more insulin-responsive to control blood sugar levels, Avandia has been linked to a 43 percent increased risk of heart attack and a 64 percent higher risk of cardiovascular death among its users compared to patients using other treatment methods.

4. Boniva (Roche)

Women are advised to avoid lying down after taking this postmenopausal anti-osteoporosis drug, which can cause abdominal pain, arm pain, back pain, bronchitis, diarrhea, headaches, heartburn, indigestion, and leg pain.

5. Celebrex (Pfizer)

Used by arthritis sufferers as a painkiller, Celebrex has been associated with increased risks of kidney problems, liver damage, and stomach bleeding. According to a 2005 study, those taking 200 mg of Celebrex twice a day more than doubled their risk of dying of cardiovascular disease, while those taking 400 mg twice a day more than tripled their risk.

6. Chantix (Pfizer)

The FDA has received more than 1,000 reports of health problems and injuries among users of this anti-smoking drug during the first quarter of 2008 alone. That’s more adverse reaction reports than from the top 10 bestselling brand-name drugs combined! These include 28 deaths from suicide. Chantix is associated with agitation, anxiety, depression, dizziness, loss of consciousness, mood swings, muscle spasms, nervousness, suicidal behavior, impaired driving ability, and unexplained behavior.

7. Crestor (AstraZeneca) and Lipitor (Pfizer)

These are two ineffective and over-prescribed statins or cholesterol-lowering drugs. Statin drugs impair important biochemical functions in your body and deplete the supply of the coenzyme CoQ10, leading to fatigue, heart failure, muscle weakness and soreness.

8. Humira (Abbott) and Prolia (Amgen)

Humira is believed to worsen psoriasis – a disease it is supposed to treat. Both drugs are injectable biologics made from genetically engineered hamster cells that suppress your immune system. They can cause lethal infections, lymphoma, melanoma, tuberculosis, and cancer in children and teenagers.

9. Lamictal (GlaxoSmithKline), Lyrica (Pfizer), and Topomax (Johnson & Johnson)

Now prescribed for pain, these epilepsy seizure drugs increase the risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior. All three drugs can result in memory loss and hair loss.

10. Premarin and Prempro (Pfizer)

Used for hormone replacement therapy, Prempro and Premarin cause a 50 percent increase in blood clots, a 26 percent increase in breast cancer risk, a 29 percent increase in heart attack risk, and a 41 percent increase in stroke risk. These have also been linked to Alzheimer’s disease, asthma, cataracts, deafness, dementia, gout, joint degeneration, lupus, cancers (endometrial, gall bladder, lung, melanoma, and ovarian), scleroderma, and urinary incontinence.

11. Ritalin (Novartis)
Despite having the same pharmacological profile as cocaine, this drug is commonly prescribed to children diagnosed with ADHD. It stimulates the central nervous system, causing side effects such as increased blood pressure and heart rate. Short-term use can cause chromosomal damage, while long-term use can lead to severe health problems including cancer.

12. Tamoxifen (Zeneca)
A powerful drug used to treat breast cancer, Tamoxifen is associated with birth defects and atrophy of the uterine lining, coexisting hyperplasia, and uterine polyps in women.

13. Yasmin and Yaz (Bayer)
In a study, these over-hyped birth control pills were associated with blood clots, gall bladder disease, heart attacks, and strokes among 18-year-olds.

What has been your experience on depo birth control injection?

What has been your experience on depo birth control injection? by Connie b. Dellobuono

Answer by Connie b. Dellobuono:

Most birth control products have deleterious effects on women. Below are controversies from wiki.
Outside the United States
In 1994, when Depo was approved in India, India's Economic and Political Weekly reported that "The FDA finally licensed the drug in 1990 in response to concerns about the population explosion in the third world and the reluctance of third world governments to license a drug not licensed in its originating country." [59] Some scientists and women's groups in India continue to oppose Depo-Provera.[60] In 2002, Depo was removed from the family planning protocol in India.[citation needed]
The Canadian Coalition on Depo-Provera, a coalition of women's health professional and advocacy groups, opposed the approval of Depo in Canada.[61] Since the approval of Depo in Canada in 1997, a $700 million class-action lawsuit has been filed against Pfizer by users of Depo who developed osteoporosis. In response, Pfizer argued that it had met its obligation to disclose and discuss the risks of Depo-Provera with the Canadian medical community.
Clinical trials for this drug regarding women in Zimbabwe were controversial with regard to human rights abuses and Medical Experimentation in Africa.
A controversy erupted in Israel when the government was accused of giving Depo-Provera to Ethiopian immigrants without their consent. Some women claimed they were told it was a vaccination. The Israeli government denied the accusations but instructed the four health maintenance organizations to stop administering Depo-Provera injections to women "if there is the slightest doubt that they have not understood the implications of the treatment".
United States
There was a long, controversial history regarding the approval of Depo-Provera by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The original manufacturer, Upjohn, applied repeatedly for approval. FDA advisory committees unanimously recommended approval in 1973, 1975 and 1992, as did the FDA's professional medical staff, but the FDA repeatedly denied approval. Ultimately, on October 29, 1992, the FDA approved Depo-Provera, which had by then been used by over 30 million women since 1969 and was approved and being used by nearly 9 million women in more than 90 countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Thailand, New Zealand and Indonesia.[58] Points in the controversy included:
Animal testing for carcinogenicity. Depo-Provera caused breast cancer tumors in dogs. Critics of the study claimed that dogs are more sensitive to artificial progesterone, and that the doses were too high to extrapolate to humans. The FDA pointed out that all substances carcinogenic to humans are carcinogenic to animals as well, and that if a substance is not carcinogenic it does not register as a carcinogen at high doses. Levels of Depo-Provera which caused malignant mammary tumors in dogs were equivalent to 25 times the amount of the normal luteal phase progesterone level for dogs. This is lower than the pregnancy level of progesterone for dogs, and is species-specific.[64]
 Depo-Provera caused endometrial cancer in monkeys—2 of 12 monkeys tested, the first ever recorded cases of endometrial cancer in rhesus monkeys.[65] However, subsequent studies have shown that in humans, Depo-Provera actually reduces the risk of endometrial cancer by approximately 80%.[
 Speaking in comparative terms regarding animal studies of carcinogenicity for drugs, a member of the FDA's Bureau of Drugs testified at an agency Depo hearing, "…Animal data for this drug is more worrisome than any other drug we know of that is to be given to well people."
Cervical cancer in Upjohn/NCI studies. Cervical cancer was found to be increased as high as 9-fold in the first human studies recorded by the manufacturer and the National Cancer Institute.[66] However, numerous larger subsequent studies have shown that Depo-Provera use does not increase the risk of cervical cancer.[67][68][69][70][71]
Coercion and lack of informed consent. Testing/use of Depo was focused almost exclusively on women in developing countries and poor women in the US,[72] raising serious questions about coercion and lack of informed consent, particularly for the illiterate[73] and for the mentally challenged, who in some reported cases were given Depo long-term for reasons of "menstrual hygiene", in spite of the fact that they were not sexually active.[74]
Atlanta/Grady Study. Upjohn studied the effect of Depo for 11 years in Atlanta, mostly on black women who were receiving public assistance, but did not file any of the required follow-up reports with the FDA. Investigators who eventually visited noted that the studies were disorganized. "They found that data collection was questionable, consent forms and protocol were absent; that those women whose consent had been obtained at all were not told of possible side effects. Women whose known medical conditions indicated that use of Depo would endanger their health were given the shot. Several of the women in the study died; some of cancer, but some for other reasons, such as suicide due to depression. Over half the 13,000 women in the study were lost to followup due to sloppy record keeping." Consequently, no data from this study was usable.[72]
WHO Review. In 1992, the WHO presented a review of Depo in four developing countries to the FDA. The National Women's Health Network and other women's organizations testified at the hearing that the WHO was not objective, as the WHO had already distributed Depo-Provera in developing countries. Depo was approved for use in US on the basis of the WHO review of previously submitted evidence from countries such as Thailand, evidence which the FDA had deemed insufficient and too poorly designed for assessment of cancer risk at a prior hearing.[75]The Alan Guttmacher Institute has speculated that US approval of Depo may increase its availability and acceptability in developing countries.
In 1995, several women's health groups asked the FDA to put a moratorium on Depo-Provera, and to institute standardized informed consent forms.[

What has been your experience on depo birth control injection?

What are natural ways to cure insomnia?

What are natural ways to cure insomnia? by Connie b. Dellobuono

Answer by Connie b. Dellobuono:

Sleep disturbances and inadequate sleep is rooted in the inability of the brain to connect the signals. There are many causes to insomnia: work shifts, alcohol, caffeine, lack of muscle tone, sugar, lack of protein, warm BR, too much light in the BR, many worries, lack of repetitive tasks, obesity, early signs of Parkinson's disease, lack of fiber and probiotics in the diet, caffeine consumption, lack of calcium, melatonin and magnesium and lifestyle.
Orexin or hypocretin is the brain chemical responsible for sleep, hunger and others. Eat orexin rich foods such as protein (eggs,fish), banana, yams, cherries and dates. Cool the bedroom, dim the light and do some repetitive tasks such meditating or praying. During the day, do some weight bearing exercises to increase your muscle tone. Consume a little caffeine only in the morning (a cup) with protein such as eggs. In the afternoon, take your melatonin and calcium with magnesium supplements with food. Make a journal of your weight, exercise, food and thoughts. Volunteer and do some happy activities such as learning to dance. Walk a mile each day with heavy backpack. Visit your farmer's market for more greens such as parsley, cilantro, kale and beets.

What are natural ways to cure insomnia?

What are the advantages to detect the drowsiness of a driver through EEG signals over other methods?

What are the advantages to detect the drowsiness of a driver through EEG signals over other… by Connie b. Dellobuono

Answer by Connie b. Dellobuono:

It measures the health of the brain. An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a test to measure the electrical activity of the brain. The brain has hypocretin or orexin which is a neurotransmitter responsible for sleep, eating, and more.
Drowsy Driving
Driving and feeling sleepy. Repetitive tasks make you sleepy because you already lack sleep. You have taken your calcium and magnesium and melatonin and the bedroom has cool environment. Still, you have worries and you keep tossing back and forth on your bed. You cannot get the more than 5 hrs sleep. Your regular sleep hours are from 12midnight to 5pm and you cannot seem to add 1 more hour to it. You have a busy day and are driven to perform more and bring work at home.
What is the root cause of insomnia, narcolepsy, depression and Parkinson?
Is it because of poor muscle tone, cataplexy?
Is it because of alcohol, lifestyle, work shift pattern, caffeine, use of sedating medication, anxiety or problems or age?
The root cause if hyprocretin, a brain chemical. Eat happy foods/omega 3 such as yams, eggs, bananas, dates, cherries, hummus, a little MSG in Asian dish and fish. Avoid sugar and eat more fermented veggies (prebiotics and probiotics). Do weight bearing exercise and work in getting more sleep.
If your bedtime is 12midnight, try to calm down by 11pm (repetitive tasks-repetitive prayers/counting – leaving your worries away, no TV light, dim light, cool air, relax). And more at :
https://clubalthea.com/2016/07/27/hypocretin-insomia-narcolepsy-depression-parkinson/

What are the advantages to detect the drowsiness of a driver through EEG signals over other methods?

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