Friday, April 29, 2011
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
ARMADILLOS???
Armadillos Can Transmit Leprosy to Humans, Federal Researchers Confirm
By GARDINER HARRIS
Published: April 27, 2011
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Armadillos have never been among the cuddly creatures routinely included in petting zoos, but on Wednesday federal researchers offered a compelling reason to avoid contact with the armored animals altogether: They are a source of leprosy infections in humans.
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Health Guide: Leprosy
Using genetic sequencing machines, researchers were able to confirm that about a third of the leprosy cases that arise each year in the United States almost certainly result from contact with infected armadillos. The cases are concentrated in Louisiana and Texas, where some people hunt, skin and eat armadillos.
Leprosy, also known as Hansen’s disease, is an ancient scourge that has largely disappeared, but each year about 150 to 250 people in the United States and 250,000 in the world contract the illness. As long as the disease is identified relatively quickly, treatment with antibiotics — a one- to two-year regimen with three different drugs — offers an effective cure. But every year dozens of people in the United States do not recognize their skin lesions for what they are early enough and suffer lifelong nerve damage as a result.
Part of the problem is that doctors sometimes fail to consider leprosy in patients who have not traveled to parts of the world where the disease is endemic, like India, Brazil, Africa, the Philippines and other islands in the Western Pacific. Two-thirds of leprosy patients in the United States are people who have either lived or worked in such places before coming down with the illness.
But in a given year, about 50 to 80 people who have symptoms consistent with leprosy tell their doctors that they have not traveled to such areas or had any contact with someone with a leprosy infection. And in these patients, doctors may mistakenly dismiss consideration of a leprosy infection.
“These patients have always been a puzzle,” said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Now researchers are hoping that their study leads doctors to ask one more question of patients who have skin lesions that are numb in the center: Any armadillos in your life?
Leprosy now joins a host of other infectious diseases — including flu, H.I.V./AIDS and SARS — that are known to have jumped from animals to humans. Flu is thought to have first crossed to humans from migratory waterfowl several hundred years ago. H.I.V./AIDS first crossed from a chimpanzee about 90 years ago.
Dr. Fauci said that about 70 percent of new emerging infectious diseases were known to have animal origins.
But one of the interesting aspects of leprosy is that transmission seems to have gone in both directions. Leprosy was not present in the New World before Christopher Columbus, and armadillos are indigenous only to the New World.
“So armadillos had to have acquired it from humans sometime in the last 400 to 500 years,” said Dr. Richard W. Truman, a researcher at the National Hansen’s Disease Program in Baton Rouge, La., and an author of the armadillo study, which was published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Some studies have shown that as many as 20 percent of armadillos in some areas are infected with leprosy.
Armadillos now range from Colorado to North Carolina and have a similar habitat to opossums. Few armadillos live long enough in the wild to be seriously affected by the infection, Dr. Truman said, but those in laboratories suffer many of the same problems as humans and eventually die of liver and kidney failure.
The microbe that causes leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae, is a fragile one. It does not grow in laboratory petri dishes, and survives only a week or two in moist soil. Indeed, the only animals in which it is known to flourish are humans and armadillos, and researchers have long used armadillos to grow the disease, although its presence in armadillos predates such research. Because of this, researchers have speculated that some share of human leprosy cases reported in the United States and other parts of the Americas resulted from contact with armadillos, but there has not been definitive proof until this study.
The fragility of the leprosy bacterium suggests that infections result from something more than casual contact with an armadillo, Dr. Truman said.
“The important thing is that people should be discouraged from consuming armadillo flesh or handling it,” Dr. Truman said.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Anyone ever do this? :p
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Show me another »My friend said she masterbates in the tanning bed and its normal, all girls do it...I DONT?
Is this common , has anyone ever done this or do it on a reg. basis. It makes me sick to my stomach to know that I lay on the same bed that women might masterbate one.... ugh
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Frank Capo... It's def. not the same.I work at a hotel and all the sheets and what have you are washed daily and thrown out if the tinest stain may appear on them. With the tanning bed they just wipe it down with windex real quick and you go in....
2 years ago
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There's nothing wrong with masturbating, itself, but it also depends on your sexual preferences, but to do it on "public property" like your friend did, is really inappropriate.
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Sunday, April 24, 2011
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Tonight
Tonight, is the first night I haven't laid on the phone with you before bed and just said goodnight on Skype...
It got me thinking back to my weird life before I did that everynight. I remember you gave me your number the 2nd day we talked, and I was really nervous to call you. And then when I finally got up the guts to call you you were too tired lol. Which made me feel like I failed lol. But then the next night came and you were tired again. BUT THEN the night after came... and I heard your voice for the first time. Soft and sweet. And thats what I'll cling to when I sleep tonight.
Sweetdreams baby
It got me thinking back to my weird life before I did that everynight. I remember you gave me your number the 2nd day we talked, and I was really nervous to call you. And then when I finally got up the guts to call you you were too tired lol. Which made me feel like I failed lol. But then the next night came and you were tired again. BUT THEN the night after came... and I heard your voice for the first time. Soft and sweet. And thats what I'll cling to when I sleep tonight.
Sweetdreams baby
For everyone who may need this today.
The Lord is my rock,
and my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God, my strength, in whom I take refuge;
my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
and my high tower.
Psalm 18:2
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart,
and my portion for ever.
Psalm 73:26
For You light my lamp;
the Lord my God illumines my darkness.
Psalm 18:28
Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy laden,
and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28
And He has said to me,
"My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness"
Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses,
so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
2 Corinthians 12:9
From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart is faint;
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Psalm 61:2
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul; He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me...
Psalm 23
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
John 14:1-3
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Psalm 34:18
and my fortress, and my deliverer;
my God, my strength, in whom I take refuge;
my shield, and the horn of my salvation,
and my high tower.
Psalm 18:2
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart,
and my portion for ever.
Psalm 73:26
For You light my lamp;
the Lord my God illumines my darkness.
Psalm 18:28
and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28
And He has said to me,
"My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness"
Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses,
so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.
2 Corinthians 12:9
From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart is faint;
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Psalm 61:2
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul; He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me...
Psalm 23
Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
John 14:1-3
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
Psalm 34:18
Ever wonder why Christians eat pork? Even though the Bible says not to?
The Holiness Code, Leviticus 17-26
is God's Law For Israel
As Christians, our holiness is a FREE gift from God, received when God imputes His righteousness to us at salvation.
Leviticus 17 to 26 contains specific rules of conduct aimed at the nation of Israel, while they were living in the land of Palestine, under the Law of Moses.
Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13 are favorite verses of those who demean gays in general and gay Christians in particular. Christians who have a peculiar obsession with these verses insist that gay Christians must live under the Law of Moses but that they themselves do not have to obey the Law of Moses as it is given in Leviticus.
Nongay Christians attempt to convince gay people that the only way to be pleasing to God is to live under the rules given in Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13.
In Gay Christian 101 - Spiritual Self-Defense For Gay Christians, I list 18 possible ways to interpret the Levitical Holiness Code, where it is alleged to deal with homosexuality. It is well worth your time to get and read this important book.
Two verses in the Holiness Code
which non-gay Christians
love to quote
to gay men and lesbians.
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“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” Leviticus 18:22.“If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” Lev 20:13
Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13
are NOT about Homosexuality.
There is no logical analogy between ancient cult prostitutes who worshiped the fertility goddess and modern gay men and lesbians. Leviticus 18:22 & 20:13 are God's prohibition of shrine prostitution, not homosexuality.
That is why God placed the Holiness Code prohibition in v. 22, right after v. 21, which forbids worship of Molech. The Bible addresses shrine prostitution under the rubric of Molech worship.
Monday, April 18, 2011
repost from JC Crawford's notes
The Mayonaise Jar of life
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle,
When 24 hours in a day is not enough;
remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee.
A professor stood before his philosophy class
and had some items in front of him.
When the class began, wordlessly,
he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar
and start to fill it with golf balls.
He then asked the students if the jar was full.
They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured
it into the jar. He shook the jar lightly.
The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.
He then asked the students again
if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand
and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything
else
He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded
With an unanimous ‘yes.’
The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table
and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively
filling the empty space between the sand.
The students laughed.
‘Now,’ said the professor, as the laughter subsided,
‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.
The golf balls are the important things – God, family,
children, health, friends, and favorite passions
Things that if everything else was lost
and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the things that matter like your job, house, and car.
The sand is everything else –
The small stuff.
‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued,
‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for life.
If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff,
You will never have room for the things that are
important to you.
So…
Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Play with your children.
Take time to get medical checkups.
Take your partner out to dinner.
There will always be time
to clean the house and fix the dripping tap.
‘Take care of the golf balls first –
The things that really matter.
Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.’
One of the students raised her hand
and inquired what the coffee represented.
The professor smiled.
‘I’m glad you asked’.
It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem,
there’s always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.’
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle,
When 24 hours in a day is not enough;
remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee.
A professor stood before his philosophy class
and had some items in front of him.
When the class began, wordlessly,
he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar
and start to fill it with golf balls.
He then asked the students if the jar was full.
They agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured
it into the jar. He shook the jar lightly.
The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls.
He then asked the students again
if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand
and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything
else
He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded
With an unanimous ‘yes.’
The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table
and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively
filling the empty space between the sand.
The students laughed.
‘Now,’ said the professor, as the laughter subsided,
‘I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.
The golf balls are the important things – God, family,
children, health, friends, and favorite passions
Things that if everything else was lost
and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the things that matter like your job, house, and car.
The sand is everything else –
The small stuff.
‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ he continued,
‘there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for life.
If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff,
You will never have room for the things that are
important to you.
So…
Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness.
Play with your children.
Take time to get medical checkups.
Take your partner out to dinner.
There will always be time
to clean the house and fix the dripping tap.
‘Take care of the golf balls first –
The things that really matter.
Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.’
One of the students raised her hand
and inquired what the coffee represented.
The professor smiled.
‘I’m glad you asked’.
It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem,
there’s always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.’
Sunday, April 17, 2011
For the strongest girl I know.
Ever since March 23, I've wanted to spend every single day protecting you. Protecting your ears from bad words, protecting your heart from pain, and your eyes from terrifying things.
But neither one of us would have ever thought that I would need to protect you from something like this. And I know neither of us had any idea it could happen.
But so the promise I will make to you is to always be here. To always lend you an ear. A shoulder. And you can use my shirt like a tissue.
Babygirl stay strong.
R.I.P. Nick Addison
But neither one of us would have ever thought that I would need to protect you from something like this. And I know neither of us had any idea it could happen.
But so the promise I will make to you is to always be here. To always lend you an ear. A shoulder. And you can use my shirt like a tissue.
Babygirl stay strong.
R.I.P. Nick Addison
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
come what may
love.
_________________ the absence of love.
When I was in highschool I was the girl that wore my heart on my sleeves and there was no hiding the fact that I wanted to be in love. And that i wanted it to work badly with anyone who gave me the time of day. As soon as I graduated I found an amazing girl who I fell deeply and madly in love with. But being so young, people change, and feelings change.
I was bitter, after that didn't workout I was downright angry. It wasn't either of our faults I just didn't know if I believed in the one thing I had always clung to. I was gay, and I had always hung on to that was a simple me being in love with another woman. But without someone to love, and a new belief that it didn't exist; I became reckless. I had relations with a girl I never asked her name, objectified women daily, and had a small encounter with a porn star.
But for an entire year, my values were gone.
Someone told me this week that she wanted to fall in love when she turned 25. It doesn't work like that. I didnt want to be in a relationship. I didn't want to deal with something else that WOULD fail, or so I believed. And I know its too soon to say that I've reached a point of immediate happiness. But in my mind HAPPINESS is the journey not the destination.
I've met the most amazing girl who I got to surprise this last weekend. She had no idea I was coming to visit at all. Which meant that the first few looks I got from her were the most pure and honest looks I've gotten in years. I won't forget a single smile she gave me last weekend. I doubt I'll ever forget a single moment. Down to her lacing her fingers through mine at a bbq and asking me if I was comfortable.
Then theres the situation where I feel like she's always been a part of me, like I've never been without her. Everytime we got into the bed it was just understood that we were going to be holding eachother naked. And no I don't mean in a sexy gonna fuck way. I simply mean the artistic beauty of 2 women finding their entire happiness laying bare clinging to one another without a care in the world.
I pray that everyone I know gets to experience that. I pray that the women I've hurt will overcome and realize that they are worth more than the way I treated them. And I hope they get to wake up with the same goofy smile on their face everyday that I do.
_________________ the absence of love.
When I was in highschool I was the girl that wore my heart on my sleeves and there was no hiding the fact that I wanted to be in love. And that i wanted it to work badly with anyone who gave me the time of day. As soon as I graduated I found an amazing girl who I fell deeply and madly in love with. But being so young, people change, and feelings change.
I was bitter, after that didn't workout I was downright angry. It wasn't either of our faults I just didn't know if I believed in the one thing I had always clung to. I was gay, and I had always hung on to that was a simple me being in love with another woman. But without someone to love, and a new belief that it didn't exist; I became reckless. I had relations with a girl I never asked her name, objectified women daily, and had a small encounter with a porn star.
But for an entire year, my values were gone.
Someone told me this week that she wanted to fall in love when she turned 25. It doesn't work like that. I didnt want to be in a relationship. I didn't want to deal with something else that WOULD fail, or so I believed. And I know its too soon to say that I've reached a point of immediate happiness. But in my mind HAPPINESS is the journey not the destination.
I've met the most amazing girl who I got to surprise this last weekend. She had no idea I was coming to visit at all. Which meant that the first few looks I got from her were the most pure and honest looks I've gotten in years. I won't forget a single smile she gave me last weekend. I doubt I'll ever forget a single moment. Down to her lacing her fingers through mine at a bbq and asking me if I was comfortable.
Then theres the situation where I feel like she's always been a part of me, like I've never been without her. Everytime we got into the bed it was just understood that we were going to be holding eachother naked. And no I don't mean in a sexy gonna fuck way. I simply mean the artistic beauty of 2 women finding their entire happiness laying bare clinging to one another without a care in the world.
I pray that everyone I know gets to experience that. I pray that the women I've hurt will overcome and realize that they are worth more than the way I treated them. And I hope they get to wake up with the same goofy smile on their face everyday that I do.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
What scares me
Obviously the distance, This picture has always been what I described as the image of love(minus the unibrow). Regardless of what the original artist had intended this is how I perceive it.
LOVE and relationships can be amazing, the closeness and connection you feel for another person. Where you finish eachothers thoughts, and subcontiously mock one another's body language. The way your finger tips can always find the other persons. How exposed every part of you becomes to another person.
The downsides however, are when you cut people out from the rest of the world, and only have that one person who understands everything about you and who you are. You can't stand to be too far from eachother or it will kill you. And sometimes, you often find yourself... stuck.
I've constantly compared sex to life. And believe that they completely compare to eachother metaphorically. In that some people are shy, and some crazy. Sometimes as much as you want to live, you just can't. Sometimes you don't know where to start. And sometimes you don't know how to reach your goals. But with all of them, if you keep trying, you'll persevere.
However, relationships are funny. Relationships are their own spectrum. A relationship is something that can't be compared, or understood, and there is no right or wrong way to have them. I guess... I guess relationships are just kind of like music. Some songs are about love, and some songs are about being stuck.
I preach allll day long about not being afraid.. and I guess I'm just going to have to start walking the walk.
The downsides however, are when you cut people out from the rest of the world, and only have that one person who understands everything about you and who you are. You can't stand to be too far from eachother or it will kill you. And sometimes, you often find yourself... stuck.
I've constantly compared sex to life. And believe that they completely compare to eachother metaphorically. In that some people are shy, and some crazy. Sometimes as much as you want to live, you just can't. Sometimes you don't know where to start. And sometimes you don't know how to reach your goals. But with all of them, if you keep trying, you'll persevere.
However, relationships are funny. Relationships are their own spectrum. A relationship is something that can't be compared, or understood, and there is no right or wrong way to have them. I guess... I guess relationships are just kind of like music. Some songs are about love, and some songs are about being stuck.
I preach allll day long about not being afraid.. and I guess I'm just going to have to start walking the walk.
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