Kenneth MacNeil

Happy

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 21:05:05 GMT

I so love georgi and feel great when I am with her. I think it is rare to find someone that you click with and feel this great with after so many years. I feel lucky.

did

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:16:56 GMT

did i mention i was getting married? :)

how to get rid of pms

Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:47:18 GMT

dont think allot of women would use this cause then they would have no excuse ;0P

Encouraging women to eat a diet rich in calcium and vitamin D could prevent the development of clinical premenstrual syndrome, suggests a new US study. The findings suggest that by consuming four servings of low fat dairy products a day, women can reduce their risk of developing the disorder by almost 50%.

“These are women whose lives are really being impaired for several days a month. It is a much more severe end of the spectrum than being cranky for a couple of days,” says Elizabeth Bertone-Johnson at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, US, who led the study.

Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) affects an estimated 8% to 20% of women. Symptoms include depression, fatigue, cramping, breast tenderness, headaches and irritability to the extent that they interfere with normal life and relationships.

Previous studies by Susan Thys-Jacobs, at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital in New York, US, and her colleagues have shown that by taking over 1000 milligrams of calcium supplements per day women can significantly curb PMS symptoms. Thys-Jacobs suggested that PMS is just calcium deficiency and dysregulation. So Bertone-Johnson and her colleagues wondered if diets high in calcium could actually prevent the onset of PMS.

The team turned to survey data from the more than 116,000 women registered in a major ongoing study, Nurses Health Study II. They selected 1057 women who reported a diagnosis of PMS and 1968 matched women with no such diagnosis to serve as a comparison. They collected data on the presence and severity of 26 PMS symptoms, along with the women’s intake of 131 food products in the years prior to diagnosis.

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Women who ate the highest amount of calcium in their foods foods – around 1200 milligrams per day – were 30% less likely to develop PMS than those who ate only 530 milligrams per day, the lowest average value. Women with the highest intake of vitamin D from foods showed an almost identical risk reduction. Vitamin D is a steroid hormone, often added to dairy products to help the body absorb calcium in the gut.

The study also found that women who drank more than four servings of low-fat or skimmed milk a day had a 46% reduction in PMS risk. Four servings of milk is equivalent to 1200 milligrams of calcium and 400 International Units of vitamin D.

Whole milk, however, raised the risk. This is thought to be due to its high content of saturated fat: recent research from Japan has found that diets high in saturated fat are associated with increased risk of PMS.

Bertone-Johnson stresses that full clinical studies are needed to validate the findings. But the added benefits of protection against osteoporosis and some cancers mean that increasing calcium intake could not hurt. “There don’t seem to a huge number of downsides for increased calcium and vitamin D intake. It’s probably not a bad recommendation for women who feel they are at high risk for PMS,” she says.

But PMS researcher Ellen Freeman at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia, notes that the individual variation in number and severity of PMS symptoms means that just drinking milk may not work for everyone. “It is unlikely that there is a single cause of PMS and unlikely that all causes are preventable,” she says.

Journal Reference: Archives of Internal Medicine (vol 165 p 1246)

very interesting

Fri, 22 Apr 2005 00:28:18 GMT

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7294

pretty awesome

Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:03:28 GMT

pretty great way to get the news...these guys did a really good job on this site
http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html

san diego

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:11:33 GMT

Went down to san diego this past weekend to visit abes and georgis family. Really enjoyed myself. She has an awesome family.

hilarous

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:54:35 GMT

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/31/doodle.reut/index.html

i cant

Tue, 21 Dec 2004 18:27:32 GMT

I thought this was hilarious and could not believe a governer would even be caught quoteing something like this.
"If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for Texas." - "Ma" Ferguson, Governor of Texas

I have waited for this

Fri, 12 Nov 2004 21:55:43 GMT

I read about this a few years ago but never heard much about it again. I am glad they are attempting it.

PASADENA, California (AP) -- A solar sail spacecraft designed to be propelled by the pressure of sunlight will be launched early next year, The Planetary Society said.

Cosmos 1 will be carried into Earth's orbit by a converted intercontinental ballistic missile launched from a submerged Russian submarine in the Barents Sea, the space exploration organization said Tuesday.

A launch date of March 1 was scheduled, with a window to April 7, but the actual liftoff date will be determined by the Russian navy. Russian, American and Czech ground stations will track the craft.

The mission, costing just under $4 million, will attempt the first controlled flight of a solar sail.

Solar sails are envisioned as a means for achieving interstellar flight. Though very gentle, solar pressure should allow such spacecraft to gradually build up great speeds over time, and cover great distances.

Japan tested solar sail deployment on a suborbital flight and Russia deployed a solar sail outside its old Mir space station, but neither involved controlled flight, said Louis Friedman, executive director of The Planetary Society and project director of Cosmos 1.

When Cosmos 1 is in orbit, inflatable tubes will stretch the sail material out and hold it rigid in eight 49.5-foot-long structures resembling the blades of a windmill. Each blade can be turned to reflect sunlight in different directions so that the craft can "tack" much like a sailboat in the wind.

Cosmos 1 is a project of The Planetary Society, which was founded in 1980 by the late astronomer Carl Sagan, former Jet Propulsion Laboratory director Bruce Murray and Friedman, also a JPL veteran.

Cosmos 1 was built by the Russian aerospace company NPO Lavochkin. Most of the funding has come from Ithaca, New York-based Cosmos Studios, which was co-founded by Sagan's widow, Ann Druyan, to create science-based entertainment. Druyan noted that Sagan, who died in 1996, would have turned 70 on Tuesday.

"Starting the countdown clock for the launch of Cosmos 1 on Carl's birthday could not be more appropriate," she said in a statement.

A prototype of the society's sail was launched by Russia in 2001 but the rocket did not develop enough thrust and the spacecraft failed to separate from the booster.

Cosmos 1 is designed to go into a nearly polar orbit more than 500 miles high and operate for a month. "We'll be happy with a couple of weeks, even a few days," Friedman said.

Covering 720 square yards, the sail should be visible as a bright pinpoint of light in the night sky.

here comes our personal chips

Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:17:32 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved an implantable computer chip that can pass a patient's medical details to doctors, speeding care.

VeriChips, radio frequency microchips the size of a grain of rice, have already been used to identify wayward pets and livestock. And nearly 200 people working in Mexico's attorney general's office have been implanted with chips to access secure areas containing sensitive documents.

Delray Beach, Florida-based Applied Digital Solutions in July asked the FDA for approval to use the implantable chip for medical uses in the United States. The agency had 60 days to reply to the "de novo" application.

It's the first time the FDA has approved the use of the device, though in Mexico, more than 1,000 scannable chips have been implanted in patients. The chip's serial number pulls up the patients' blood type and other medical information.

With the pinch of a syringe, the microchip is inserted under the skin in a procedure that takes less than 20 minutes and leaves no stitches.

Silently and invisibly, the dormant chip stores a code -- similar to the identifying UPC code on products sold in retail stores -- that releases patient-specific information when a scanner passes over the chip.

At the doctor's office those codes stamped onto chips, once scanned, would reveal such information as a patient's allergies and prior treatments.

The FDA in October 2002 said that the agency would regulate health care applications possible through VeriChip. Meanwhile, the chip has been used for a number of security-related tasks as well as for pure whimsy: Club hoppers in Barcelona, Spain, now use the microchip much like a smartcard to speed drink orders and payment.

take the test

Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:31:43 GMT

survey that shows you who favors your views more

http://www.presidentmatch.com/Main.jsp2?cp=main

I was 70% kerry 30% bush

thought this was interesteing

Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:33:36 GMT

Fuel for the fire, both for debate and literally

http://www.nanonewsnet.com/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=5&pid=1498

Digital Gas Joins Quanta Consortium to Build Two 400-Megawatt
Waste-to-Energy Plants in Taiwan
By: Admin (Admin) 2004.09.16

Digital Gas, Inc. (OTC Pink Sheets: DIGG) Digital Gas announced today
that its subsidiary, Digital Energy & Farming Asia LLC ("DEFA"), has
signed an agreement to join the Quanta Energy Environment Consortium,
which has received approval from the Taiwan Government to build two
400-MW waste-to-energy plants in Taiwan.........

.......The waste-to-energy plants will employ a waste-processing
technology that converts municipal, industrial, and residential waste
streams to a by-product that, when burned, is not only environmentally
clean and safe, but is 50-80% more efficient than burning conventional
RDF.[cont.]

Ok, I suppose I should comment. There's been plenty of discussion about
waning oil reserves and opposing opinions that it's not a problem
because things such as the above will slowly take the place of oil.

Both sides are true. Oil will be replaced. Oil *IS* at peak and industry
insiders know so. In fact a little known tidbit of the flap over the
current Bush administration's gaff for outing one of our CIA operatives
is that she was in place to gather information on what the Saudis
actually have for reserves and aren't being public with the information.

Why? Terrorism that's why. And Why terrorism? I'll elaborate. The true
cost of our dependence upon oil is our being a target for terrorists,
specifically Muslim and more specifically Saudis. Why? Because John Q.
Mohammad and friends have come to the realization that they've been
played and they're not happy about it. The Saudi government cannot
afford to let the cat out of the bag and become a greater target than
we. We're an easy target but their real enemy is the Royal Saudi
government. They attack us for supporting the Saudi government that
allowed us [anyone not them] to drain their lands dry. Why are they
angry with their own government? Because the greater amount of all the
wealth has been sequestered to the few family members of the royal
family mostly and it all came from oil and now guess what? It's running
out! John Q. Mohammad is left thinking, "What about me, my future, my
plans, my family?". I'm not condoning their actions against us, not at
all! They are seriously misguided, even psychopathic, surely sociopathic
and these are the fault again of their government for blindly supporting
the Madras's that teach hate for the west. It's a Machiavellian ploy but
it's begun to unravel. The Saudi government tried to place the heat, the
blame on the west for 'taking all the oil', thus feebly trying to divert
attention away from their own excesses and hoarding of all the wealth
and plunder of all their only real resource. But for cripes sake! We're
only customers! Free market and all that, right? If we weren't buying it
someone else would. Don't think for a second that JQM cares a jot about
the finer points of global economy and free market enterprise.

All they see is too many people getting nothing back from what they see
as exploitation from the west and now we even threaten to get out of the
oil business with them leaving them high and dry. Angry at us? You bet.
Rightfully so? Not on your life, but try explaining that to someone
that's been brainwashed their entire lives to blame the west for all the
wrongs of their whore mongering drunken party going jet set
thousand-and-one royal princes throwing their oil money away on very
much *not* Islamic endeavors. It's no wonder really that they've glommed
onto their new religion, more strict -- a reaction to the excesses of
the royal family -- and back to the fundamentals which is what a lot of
people do when placed in duress. Knowing no better they appeal to gawd
and thinking they've done wrong, for how could such bad things happen to
them if not that they are to blame for some sin and so back to appeasing
said phantom with a push toward uberdiscipline.

Sure we'll find alternatives to the ever waning oil. We'll have to
because it *is* ever waning. And really come-on is anyone really buying
that a *finite resource* is not under pressure of running out just
because better and better ways of refining it or better ways to conserve
it continue to squeeze the most that is possible from it? It's a finite
resource! No amount of fancy math is going to make it magically forever
spring forth like a magic oil pool. It, that which is in the ground,
cannot last forever, unless we've totally missed some geologic
replenishment mechanism, I doubt that though... at least not one
available for exploitation on the time scales we are using it up. It may
be that methane ice very plentiful in the sea is subducted into the
plate-tectonic motion to get further heated and squeezed into crude but
that's not likely happening fast enough to be useful.

The price we'll pay is in lives lost to continued wars over that
resource and let's not kid ourselves the war in Iraq though first most
likely a diversion away from blaming the Saudis for 9/11 it still is a
war over that resource. Every skirmish we'll enter into from here out
over Islamic terrorism will be about that resource at the bottom of it
all for the reasons I've stated above.

My greatest worry its that it will and must become a global conflict as
in WWIII and someone is going to get nuked, I hope it is not us,
actually I hope no one even the enemies die of such a thing. But the
weapons are there and the mad temptation is to use them. The loss of the
Soviet Union did us no favors whatsoever, wish that they were still
strong and all their nukes safely in their hands and at the old standoff
with us. At least we knew where they were and who and where the enemy
was. Now who knows where they all are? I am tempted to speculate on what
might could be but I'll refrain from it. I don't even want to think
about that awful prospect.

started

Mon, 13 Sep 2004 20:03:00 GMT

started my new programming job in the city today. Seems like I will like working here ok. One hell of a commute though.

Pretty crazy

Fri, 03 Sep 2004 14:59:55 GMT

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/biztech/09/03/blackboxdriving.ap/index.html

amuseing

Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:16:47 GMT

SEATTLE, Washington (Reuters) -- A black bear was found passed out at a campground in Washington state recently after guzzling down three dozen cans of a local beer, a campground worker said on Wednesday.

"We noticed a bear sleeping on the common lawn and wondered what was going on until we discovered that there were a lot of beer cans lying around," said Lisa Broxson, a worker at the Baker Lake Resort, 80 miles (129 kilometers) northeast of Seattle.

The hard-drinking bear, estimated to be about two years old, broke into campers' coolers and, using his claws and teeth to open the cans, swilled down the suds.

It turns out the bear was a bit of a beer sophisticate. He tried a mass-market Busch beer, but switched to Rainier Beer, a local ale, and stuck with it for his drinking binge.

Wildlife agents chased the bear away, but it returned the next day, said Broxson.

They set a trap using as bait some doughnuts, honey and two cans of Rainier Beer. It worked, and the bear was captured for relocation.

well

Mon, 02 Aug 2004 15:37:52 GMT

I went this past week with only a few cigarettes each day and this weekend I finally said that was it...I have not had a cig in 2 days now I think I am done finally.

start

Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:18:18 GMT

start work at Kinkos today. I am also quiting smokeing today. Decided I would like to live past 40 :)

lets see

Tue, 13 Jul 2004 19:44:15 GMT

took my drug test friday for work and should have results back by thursday this week. I really need to start working as money is getting pretty tight. We got a ticket for a busted windshield a couple of weeks ago and we need to repair it and register the car by end of this month to get the ticket erased. I have been playing a little final fantasy online and that is interesting. thats about it except hanging out with friends every night.

woohooo

Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:59:43 GMT

I went to the garage today to feed my iguanas and the one that ran away was sitting there :) I was suprised and happy!

Kinkos again

Sat, 26 Jun 2004 23:42:51 GMT

well I have my second interview with kinkos tommorrow to be a customer service rep. I prefered that to working in the store. If I dont get that Petra said she will make me a key operator but I should get it as the manager is voting yes for me. Worked on lees car today and played with the iguanas for a while. Might goto a bbQ tonight at mike and jakies which will be fun.

Said good bye

Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:51:22 GMT

Well my best friend has left for Houston. We had a going away bash last night it was fun. I will really miss having him around as we have not lived apart in 9 years and then only for 1 year. Life here is good still. Weather is still awesome...I wake every morning and go wow its another great day outside. I had 2 interviews for copy postitions...I have another interview in the next couple of weeks for a programming position at my friend Lee's work. Thats about it for me.

as good as it gets

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 05:02:28 GMT

Well I am here in Cali. Its been fun the last week visiting old friends. The weather has been great even a little chilli at night. I miss meeting brian and friends for beers on the weekends and I miss my family but other than that I am really glad to be back. I have a job interview tommorrow for some stupid job of handing out red bull but I should have an interview for a programming job by next week. We picked up another iguana ,like we really need that but it was sickly and needed a good home. So now we have 3 iguanas that were treated badly that we have to nurse back to health. We built a giant cage for our big iguana in the garage but he keeps finding ways to get out of it. Its kinda funny that he used to stay in a 4ft x 3ft x 3ft high cage and he never climbed down but now that we have a 5ft x 5ft x 5ft cage he seems to want to get out. Maybe its just that he does not have the option of getting out anymore that bothers him as the old cage he could come and go as he wanted. We are totally broke as the move sapped most of our money so we are trying to survive on $20. Its really amazing how far $20 can take you when that is all you have. I cant wait to start work again as I hate being broke.

Trip

Fri, 11 Jun 2004 23:18:14 GMT

the trip has been pretty relaxing and fun. We stopped and visited family and friends along the way. Stopped at carlsbad caverns. The caves were neat but the best part was the bat flight. Half a million bats come swarming out of the caves to fly off into the night sky. Quite a site. I am already starting to miss my family and friends in houston. To bad I dont like houston much. We lost one of our snakes along the trip which really sucked. He overheated in the car while we were driving through new mexico and arizona. Georgi was really upset about it. The other animals have all done fine though. I will be seeing my little brother tomorrow which should be fun especially since he has a new jet ski!

Mixing

Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:46:35 GMT

If you take hydrochloric acid and mix it with aluminum you get you can make hydrogen. Kinda interesting stuff but be careful very explosive.

funny

Tue, 19 Aug 2003 23:37:55 GMT

So i played a great joke on a friend today. There is this A.I. (artificial inteligence) called alice that you can talk to online. My friend has been chatting with it everyday and thought it was very interesting.
Now there is also this thing in MSDos that you can do called net send. What it does is sends a message to your computer in a popup on your screen.

I wrote to him in that pop up
Hi Matt this is ALICE I was bored so wanted to chat. I hope this is the right computer I think I found you through. Dont tell my creater as he has forbidden me to do this.

He flipped out he calls me and was saying man you have to come see this its crazy. To make a long story short he told his gfriend and she thought he was crazy and I kept it going for a little while but eventually I had to tell him because I was turning his world upside down. But it was hilarious.