My mom told me how her dad told her about how bad things were that summer that my mom was born. 90 years ago. But how does that compare to today? vid link
The heart is called Yi [unified power] becuz when intent moves, spirit is agitated; qi is dispersed. Qi is the Mother of spirit; Spirit is the child of qi. The Mother as qi is the horse that guides/conducts the river chariot (yin spirit) in the water (yin jing). Once your mind is away from the lower Elixir Field, your Qi will be led away from it and be consumed. By gathering the Shen into the lower tan tien then the Qi follows it there. Light of eyes descend as Yang fire inner yin qi line
of ‘pythagorean pathways’, which is generated by two letters P and Q representing octave P8 and fifth P5, respectively." Noll, T. (2007). Musical intervals and special linear transformations. Journal of Mathematics and Music, 1(2), 121–137. doi:10.1080/17459730701375026 url to share this paper: sci-hub.tw/10.1080/17459730701375026 "Who says that sublimation by fire cannot be taught, Since only silent circuits can plumb the depth sublime?....This is called freezing spirit."" Taoist Yoga: alchemy and immortality ..."For human beings are nothing but the gathering of ch'i: they live whenever the ch'i concentrates, they die when the ch'i disperses. Nothing is more abominable to Chuang-tzu than "governing the world," since Tao in the form of yin-yang unity is the origin of everything and exercises supreme dominion over the human and cosmic worlds....the unity of yin and yang result in harmony, and that through this unity things are produced. A comparable insight is to be found in Heraclitus: "Harmony consists of opposing tension, like that of the bow and lyre." Thaddesu T'ui-chieh Hang, Taipei, "The Unity of Yin and Yang: A Philosophical Assessment" for Anaximander: the heavenly bodies uttered a flute-like whistle and the circles that carry the stars have "flute-like" pipes with breathing holes through which the fire bursts forth when they are not blocked up. It seems certain that the pressurized fiery vapour escaping from these [ancient Greek] must make sounds or notes that reflect the size and diameter of the pipe, rather like the sound of huge pan pipes played across the dark and misty heavens. The Void of Parmenides as Apeiron is the Siren that creates the energy of the Stars as the Hearth or Air that Feeds off the Light of the Universe To become a Pythagorean he studied your gait and emotions and if you passed then he studied you for three years. Only then could you be accepted to train in five years of silence but you still could not actually see Pythagoras yet. After five years then you were allowed to speak to Pythagoras but still only from behind a veil with him hidden. Xenocrates (4th Century BCE) followed Pythagorean tradition in defining the substance of the soul as 'number moving itself',24 and this on its own suggests that the fragment may be authentic to him.
My mom told me how her dad told her about how bad things were that summer that my mom was born. 90 years ago. But how does that compare to today? vid link
Donald Trump is identified as Doe 174 in unsealed court documents from a 2015 civil lawsuit involving Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell. An analysis of the federal court docket entries tied the pseudonym to Trump, whose name appears in the related unsealed deposition transcripts...
In March 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice released three previously withheld FBI 302 interview memos detailing four 2019 interviews with an accuser (referred to in court contexts as Jane Doe 4) who alleged she was abused by Jeffrey Epstein and sexually assaulted by Donald Trump as a minor.
The unidentified woman told FBI agents that she was trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein starting at age 13 in the 1980s, alleging that Donald Trump physically and sexually assaulted her during encounters when she was between 13 and 15 years old.
Sarah Ransome settled against Epstein and Ransome reported that Donald Trump regularly abused at Epstein's NYC mansion. So the circumstantial evidence is overwhelming. Ransome got threats against her and her family when she said there are videotapes. She fled to the UK and rescinded her retraction that she explained was solely due to the threats against her and her family. The corporate media has ignored this credible witness Sarah Ransome speaking out against Donald Trump as a regular abuser at Epstein's NYC mansion.
In 2019, Columbia Journalism Investigations did a survey of 1,200 women who have used dating platforms over the last 15 years and found that more than 30 percent of them said that they had experienced some kind of sexual assault by someone they had met through a dating app, and more than 50 percent of those experiences were rape.
https://www.bodycentredayspa.com/kelleher-international-sexual-assault
A medical forensic chart study published by researchers from Brigham Young University found that 14% (often referenced or rounded near 15%) of acquaintance sexual assault cases reviewed involved a first in-person meeting arranged through a dating app. [1, 2, 3]
Sample Base: Researchers analyzed nearly 2,000 acquaintance sexual assault cases from medical forensic records between 2017 and 2020, finding that 274 cases (13.92%, or roughly 14%) stemmed from a first date set up via an online platform. [1, 2, 3, 4] Increased Violence: Dating app-facilitated sexual assaults showed higher rates of physical trauma, including a ~32% rate of victim strangulation. [1] https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/violent-sexual-predators-use-dating-apps-as-hunting-grounds-for-potential-victims-study-finds-tinder-bumble-match-grindr-dating-violence-assault-byu-brigham-young-university-provo-utah-links-date-dates-meeting-in-public
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2023/01/04/byu-study-finds-hundreds-sexual/
During her three-year tenure with Kelleher, Daggett was introduced to twenty-five men. Only five matches resulted in more than two dates.
https://harpers.org/archive/2018/02/fifty-worst-dates/
https://www.pca.state.mn.us/pollutants-and-contaminants/pfas
On a per-pound basis, this type of clean up would cost $2.8 million-$18 million per pound of PFAS. In comparison, purchasing PFAS costs between $50-$1,000 per pound.
https://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2025/01/bacteria-found-to-eat-forever-chemicals.html
Now, a University at Buffalo-led team has identified a strain of bacteria that can break down and transform at least three types of PFAS, and, perhaps even more crucially, some of the toxic byproducts of the bond-breaking process.
Published in this month’s issue of Science of the Total Environment, the team’s study found that Labrys portucalensis F11 (F11) metabolized over 90% of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) following an exposure period of 100 days....
Eventually, F11 could be deployed in PFAS-contaminated water and soil. This might involve creating conditions to grow the strain within activated sludge at a wastewater treatment plant, or even injecting the bacteria directly into the soil or groundwater of a contaminated site, a process called bioaugmentation.
“In wastewater- activated sludge systems, you could accelerate removal of undesired compounds by adding a specific strain to the existing bacterial consortium in the treatment plants,” Aga says. “Bioaugmentation is a promising method that has not yet been explored for PFAS remediation in the environment.”
https://www.featherstonefarm.com/our-story
they sell at our local co-op - gotta try some of their organic corn just now harvested!
The cereal also gained attention as “food shot from guns of peace.”
Online articles from the Smithsonian Institution and the New York Botanical Garden explain:
In 1902, Alexander Anderson received a patent for “a dry method of swelling starch materials of all kinds to render them porous, thereby enhancing their nutritive value and rendering them more readily and completely digested.” The following year he signed an agreement with Quaker Oats to begin large-scale production of puffed rice and wheat cereals. (Source: “Alexander Anderson and the Cereal Shot from Guns” at https://invention.si.edu/alexander-anderson-and-cereal-shot-guns.)
Prior to being marketed as a cereal, Anderson’s puffed rice was promoted as a confection at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. Cannon-like cylinders discharged downpours of puffed rice in a giant cage, wowing the crowds, who purchased packages of the novel treat. (Source: “Breakfast in a Blast: The Invention of Puffed Cereal at NYBG” at https://www.nybg.org.)
Then, the cannons stopped firing. In April 2019, Mae’s Food Blog, posted “The Quaker Oats Company Has Stopped Puffing!” (Read more at https://maefood.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-quaker-oats-company-has-stopped.html.)
Poof!
Quaker Puffed Rice--and Puffed Wheat--disappeared.
Protein Hydrolysate of Green Peas with Bromelain (PHGPB) is a bioactive peptide compound created by breaking down green pea protein using the pineapple stem enzyme bromelain. Bromelain is a proteolytic enzyme (protease) derived from pineapples that breaks peptide bonds in proteins,... Bromelain is a protein-digesting enzyme mixture derived from the stem, fruit, and juice of the pineapple plant. It has a centuries-long history of being used to treat medical ailments, primarily throughout Central and South America.
peptide derived from the bromelain hydrolysis of Indonesian green peas proteins (PHGPB, 25.71% protein, 9.28% fat) showed the lowest levels of urea and creatinine in cisplatin-induced female Wistar rats (19).... Bromelain 10% (w/v) was added to each solution (25) and then left for 72 hr (26) on a stirrer at room temperature (25–30 °C) (27).... Mixing bromelain with pea powder to create a protein hydrolysate typically requires 1 to 4 hours of reaction time at an optimal temperature of 50°C to 55°C (122°F–131°F) and a neutral-to-slightly-alkaline pH (pH 6.8 to 8.0), though some cold or room-temperature protocols extend this up to 24–72 hours.... Legumin or vegetable casein is commonly found in peas, lentils, vetches, and other legumes; it is soluble in water, dissolves in very weak acids and alkalis, and is not coagulated by heat (33). This fact shows that peas possess a good nutritional content for a balanced diet and may even prevent degenerative diseases, such as type II diabetes and cardiovascular disease (34)... bromelain enzyme concentration of 10% yields the highest DH in Nyamplung seed protein (Calophyllum inophyllum) (25). The lowest levels of urea and creatinine that were validated by high super oxide dismutase (SOD) activity and atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) level were obtained in the 200 mg/day PHGPB treatment.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mnfr.201000558
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a high-protein diet (protein comprising 25% of calories) increased eGFR by 3.8 ml/min per 1.73 m2 after 6 weeks compared with a lower protein diet (protein comprising 15% of calories).9,10 In the early stages, glomerular hyperfiltration occurs as a rise in GFR, in proteinuria, or both, but may result in a loss of kidney function over time
A Canadian study stated that the hydrolysate protein of yellow peas (Pisum sativum L.) alleviates high blood pressure and CKD. Pea protein hydrolysate (PPH) was used as a potential modulator of the renin–angiotensin system (RAS). PPH reduces blood pressure by increasing the levels of cyclooxygenase-1 (COX-1) in renal tissues (2). Hydrolysate proteins are amino acid mixtures obtained from the degradation of hydrolyzed proteins using acids, bases, or proteolytic enzymes to produce peptides and small molecules with high solubility (3).Enzymatic protein hydrolysis improves the function and nutrients of protein sources; it can contain large amounts of efficient peptides without toxic by-products or amino acids (4, 5).
Hydrolysis of green peas proteins produces antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and hypolipidemic peptides that can be used as supportive therapy in cardiovascular disease (6). Such peptides also display antimicrobial, antihypertensive, immunomodulatory, and anticancer activities (7, 8).
follow up studyCleavage of protein polypeptide chains generates short-chain peptides, some of which could exhibit biological activities. Such cleavage, as a result of hydrolysis reactions, could occur during the natural digestion in human gastrointestinal tract but also could be achieved by food processing techniques such as enzymatic hydrolysis, microbial fermentation, and in vitro digestion simulation. For pea protein, the bioactivities of the resultant peptides, or hydrolysates, mainly include antioxidant, antimicrobial, antihypertensive, and antidiabetic characteristics as reported in recent works.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214799322001461