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August 16, 2011

Sea Eagle Cam

Filed under: Animals — Administrator @ 1:33 pm

Down under, in Sydney, Australia, both sea eaglets are born!! The Birds Australia Discovery Centre says:

Recent Events

15/08/11 SECOND HATCH: The second eaglet (S2) hatched on Monday 15th August at 1:45pm local time Australia (we are UTC+10 hours) after pipping at 9:45am.

14/08/11 FIRST HATCH: Pop the Champagne! The first eaglet (S1) hatched on Sunday 14th August at 8:55am local time Australia after pipping at 3:00pm on the 13th.

07/07/11 SECOND EGG: The second egg was laid on Thursday 7th July at 6:00pm local time Australia. Mum is staying very close to the eggs. The temperature was down to about 4C (39F) this morning.

04/07/11 FIRST EGG: Start the fireworks!!! At approximately 5:40pm on Monday 4th July the first egg was laid. The female had been sat in the nest since 5:15pm. She stood up a few times where we could see that, initially, the nest was empty. She then stood up at 5:40pm and there it was! Keep a close eye on what happens during the night as nobody has ever observed WBSEs on the nest at night before!
Some Basic Information On The Sea-Eagles & Sea-EagleCAM

Sea-EagleCAM has set up a high definition video camera monitoring the local White-bellied Sea-Eagles’ nest, 15 metres (50 feet) above the ground, in a eucalyptus tree within a protected nature reserve of Sydney Olympic Park, Australia (see Channel 7 News Story from August 2010). The video is fed back to the Birds Australia Discovery Centre at Olympic Park via an optical fibre cable giving a high definition video display to visitors as well as the video stream to Ustream.

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August 15, 2011

Soy

Filed under: Biology,Child Development,Exercise, Health & Nutrition,Parenting — Administrator @ 10:53 am

The Weston-Price Foundation lists some of the problems with soy:

High levels of phytic acid in soy reduce assimilation of calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and zinc. Phytic acid in soy is not neutralized by ordinary preparation methods such as soaking, sprouting and long, slow cooking. High phytate diets have caused growth problems in children.

Trypsin inhibitors in soy interfere with protein digestion and may cause pancreatic disorders. In test animals soy containing trypsin inhibitors caused stunted growth.

Soy phytoestrogens disrupt endocrine function and have the potential to cause infertility and to promote breast cancer in adult women.

Soy phytoestrogens are potent antithyroid agents that cause hypothyroidism and may cause thyroid cancer. In infants, consumption of soy formula has been linked to autoimmune thyroid disease.

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Soy foods contain high levels of aluminum which is toxic to the nervous system and the kidneys.

© 2011 The Weston A. Price Foundation

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August 12, 2011

Texas Weather Again

Filed under: Uncategorized — Administrator @ 12:19 pm

Way back in May, in “Texas Drought 2011: State Endures Driest 7-Month Span On Record” (The Huffington Post, 05/ 9/11 07:00 PM ET), Betsy Blaney said:

That the drought is looming over the Southwest while floodwaters rise in the Midwest and South reflects a classic signature of the La Nina weather oscillation, a cooling of the central Pacific Ocean.

This year’s La Nina is the sixth-strongest in records dating back to 1949.
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Houston has received only 1.5 inches in the last three months – just 15 percent of its normal amount and less than some parts of the Sahara desert get during the same period of time.

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Killer Whale Vs. Great White Shark

Filed under: Animals,Biology — Administrator @ 10:01 am

In 1997, a killer whale attacked and killed a great white shark. In “Whale Kills Shark, Setting Biology on Its Ear” (ABC’s Good Morning America, Nov. 28, 2009), Bill Blakemore told the story in a poem called “Nightmare of the Great White,” “in the same Old English verse form used in the great medieval epic, ‘Beowulf.’ ”

You can hear what it sounds like by watching the ABC GMA report on YouTube. The video was, I think, originally on National Geographic.

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August 11, 2011

Nutrition, ADD/ADHD, & Autism

Filed under: Biology,Child Development,Exercise, Health & Nutrition,Parenting,Psychology,Science — Administrator @ 9:53 am

Children with Starving Brains: A Medical Treatment Guide for Autism Spectrum Disorder by Ms Jaquelyn McCandless might be a good book — not one I have read or had recommended, though. Amazon says:

Product Description

Children With Starving Brains is a message of hope in the midst of a worldwide epidemic of autism, ADD and ADHD. This is the first book written by an experienced clinician that gives a step-by-step treatment guide for parents and doctors based on the understanding that ASD is a complex biomedical illness resulting in significant brain malnutrition. Genetic susceptibility activated by “triggers” such as pesticides and heavy metals in vaccines can lead to immune system impairment, gut dysfunction, and pathogen invasion such as yeast and viruses in many children. Dr. McCandless, whose grandchild with autism has inspired her “broad spectrum approach,” describes important diagnostic tools needed to select appropriate treatment programs. Her book explains major therapies newly available and identifies safe and effective options for parents and physicians working together to improve the health of these special children.

About the Author

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Quote: Michelangelo

Filed under: Quotes — Administrator @ 9:52 am

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” ~Michelangelo

Update (1:00 PM): Forgot to look up this quote before posting it to check its authenticity. Wikiquote says about the authenticity of the quote:

Disputed

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Attributed without citation in Ken Robinson, The Element (2009), p. 260. Widely attributed to Michelangelo since the late 1990s, this adage has not been found before 1980 when it appeared without attribution in E. C. McKenzie, Mac’s giant book of quips & quotes.

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August 9, 2011

Fighting Autism, ADD/ADHD & Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Filed under: Biology,Child Development,Education,Exercise, Health & Nutrition,Parenting,Psychology,Science — Administrator @ 2:46 pm

The book The Myth of Autism: How a Misunderstood Epidemic Is Destroying Our Children by Dr. Michael Goldberg sounds good. I have not read it and have not had it recommended to me, but it sounds like it is on the right track and full of good information. To find out more about him, read Dr. Goldberg’s bio on Facebook, watch the 8-minute video of his on YouTube, and read the interview of Dr. Goldberg on the Website The Autism Connection!.

On Amazon, the book is described as follows:

Experts agree that America is in the midst of a disturbing epidemic of what has thus far been diagnosed as autism. In just thirty years autism diagnoses have risen from 1 in 5,000 children to 1 in 110, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But in the history of our society there has never been an “epidemic” of any developmental or genetic disorder—it is scientifically impossible. So what is this mysterious affliction known as “autism,” and how can we stop it? Dr. Goldberg and his colleagues illustrate why autism cannot be genetic, but is a symptom of a treatable neurological disease that attacks the brain’s immune system. Readers will come to understand:

• Autism is not psychological or developmental, but a medical disease.
• Autism is caused by a dysfunction in the neuro-immune system and often by secondary neurotropic viruses that impact the neuro-immune system and brain.
• Illnesses such as autism, ADD/ADHD, and chronic fatigue syndrome all have different “labels” but are actually variations on the same thing: neuro-immune dysfunction syndromes (NIDS)

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August 8, 2011

Student Success

Filed under: MGTutoring — Administrator @ 9:23 am

“On my geometry quiz I got a 98% and it went really well and I felt I knew the info. Thank you for all the help and for assisting me when I did not understand something.” –Casey C (May 18, 2011), who goes to a top private school in Houston, and had, probably, one of the hardest geometry teachers you can have (good for the teacher! thanks to her for teaching like we should!).

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August 5, 2011

The Truth About Stallions

Filed under: Animals,Horses — Administrator @ 10:48 am

Showing how wrong some people are in thinking stallions are inherently mean, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling brings out the true nature of an “aggressive” Lusitano Stallion brought from professional Dutch trainer and a “fighting” The Pura Raza Española (PRE) Stallion.

Thinking of and treating stallions that way annoys the heck out of me. As does it when people say to me that my stallion, in being so good, is just different. Nonsense. As the Dog Whisperer (Cesar Milan) points out with dogs — it’s the owner. All stallions are like mine. People need to quit jacking with them!! People ruin the horse.

Mr. Hempfling’s video When the Horse Seeks Us is good to watch. He has written a few books, one of which is Dancing With Horses. His video Just a Dance — Body Language in Horsemanship is also really good, as is his beautiful You Seek To Be Great?.

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