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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SWWAH6_A9s&t=3265s
Hameroff starts at one hour 25 minutes
And we know collagen is piezoelectric - hence the importance of working the tendons to increase the piezoelectric power! relying on the yin-yang polarity resonance through Taichi and qigong increases the polarity power even more!
Professor Keith Baar
increasing muscle protein - to increase volume of heart
muscle weakness causes illness...
"For those who worry about mTOR activation and longevity, they are correct. Many animal studies show that drugs and diets that decrease mTORC1 activity throughout the body increase longevity. That is also what exercise does. When I increase mTORC1 activity in muscle by doing resistance exercise, the activity of the kinase goes down in the liver, other tissues of the viscera, and in immune cells. So, even when we increase mTORC1 activity in muscle, activity decreases in most of the other tissues of the body"
Muscle is the most costly tissue and so heavy resistance exercise needs animal protein and dairy so that mTOR senses the ability to grow bigger muscles...
Alcohol blocks mTOR sensing the increase in protein to grow more muscle.
"As to the strength comment, the listener is correct that to maximally increase strength it is important to lift a heavy weight. However, I disagree about the part where they say “accelerate the weight as fast as possible”. That is power (force x velocity). Power has nothing to do with the development of strength. Doing one heavy top set and stopping when bar speed begins to slow down is how we would train athletes to maximize strength. However, you and I were talking about longevity. Since his approach would increase risk of injury (because it would introduce a lot of jerk), it is not how we would train for longevity."
I tried this stretch this morning - you have to make sure the foot strap is positioned correctly and your leg needs to be slightly turned forward so the femur bone doesn't smash into the hip socket...
Advanced Total Gym training program. Everything is fairly higher volume 8-20 rep range with probably 3-5 sets on an exercise: Mondays and Thursdays Upper body. Tuesdays and Friday Lower body:
13 exercises for upper body
12 exercises for lower body
So 25 exercises in all.
What's not included? Iron Cross. Chin Ups. two-legged squats. Ab crunches. plenty more if you really think about it....still the above exercise program covers enough!
So here is the Total Gym flip chart giving the same above "advanced" program
They include some of the upper body in day 2 though - strange.
I think that's a different lady also than the VHS training vid - because she is more flexible! Wow.
Pullups work your back a bit more and your biceps a bit less vs. chinups. Pullups are harder, especially if you do them from a real dead hang, but for me have lead to ridiculously large lats and deltoids. They also work your biceps quite a bit, so it's not like they're being neglected.
You can work in plenty of variations as well, such as wide-grip, and parallel grip pullups, to get a bit more targeted/strenuous workouts. When you can rock pullups, you'll be an all-star at chinups, but not vice versa.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/h4waq/lat_pull_down_vs_chin_ups/
http://fvz.bbt.mybluehost.me/si-stretcher/
To get into side-splits you have to either rotate the hips forward or rotate your legs backwards! This Si-Stretcher relies on the latter and in martial arts that is the preferred option (or so I read online somewhere).
This inventor of the Si-strecher is also a top-rated martial artist. Wow he went to Hampshire college also!
Very awesome.
At Hampshire College in Amherst MA he studied Japanese Language, Culture and History as well as the Business and Culture of Martial Arts in North America. Mr. Scher spent several years hitchhiking across Japan studying Cha No Yu Tea Ceremony and Zazen Buddhism. He studied film production at NYU’s Tish school and now hosts a successful Youtube channel where he makes available martial arts tutorials. Mr. Scher currently runs a TaeKwon-Do school in Northampton MA where he teaches and trains daily.
Wow - very impressive.
http://fvz.bbt.mybluehost.me/blog/
So he goes into a lot of psychic meditation mind control stuff also used in martial arts. Fascinating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSlM2tahXjU
OK I just went through his 7 stretch steps to split tutorial - very excellent! I used two resistance bands loops together to help stretch the adductors. Good workout! Wow. The Si-Stretcher will make it much more effective. It also feels really good to do that stretch - so should be fascinating to slowly increase the tension.
"I'm tired of being trans. I wish I hadn't been brainwashed." - the murderer. Yes female mammals have love bonding with their babies due to female mammals having over twice as many oxytocin neuroreceptors - no surgery can change that. People have been brainwashed by bad biology and hence our ecological crisis on Earth today. "women had higher concentrations of OT in cerebral spinal fluid compared to men irrespective of health condition....suggesting that brain OT release may be higher in females,"..."It was found that females had more OT-immunoreactive fibers compared to males" "Male mice had fewer OT-immunoreactive fibers in the limbic system than females (Haussler et al., 1990). In particular, OT-immunostained neurons in the ventral ansa lenticularis, the perifornical region, and the lateral hypothalamus in male mice were almost absent (Haussler et al., 1990)...deficient in the Oxtr gene (Oxtr−/−). Oxtr−/− mice had no obvious deficits in fertility or sexual behaviour, but displayed several aberrations in social behaviours, including male aggression, and mother–offspring interaction...oxytocin receptor systems in the brain: sex differences and sex-specific regulation of social behavior."
https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2025/05/i-scored-98-in-biology-on-mn-act-exam.html
https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2025/02/female-mammalsway-more-oxytocin.html
https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2024/05/transgender-women-being-banned-from.html
https://elixirfield.blogspot.com/2024/04/oxytocin-neuroedrocrine-system.html
Wow - the hamstring curls and sit ups are based on my new attachment (I got at a garage sale - the wing bar attachment).... Those sets are super tough!!
the 1/2 x h-bar x frequency (Omega) is the foundational "uncertainty" of Heisenberg. But h-bar is actually Planck's constant/2 so you actually have a quantum sphere of Planck's constant/4 in terms of angular frequency. That quantum sphere is inherently nonlocal and noncommutative!
This lecture explains in detail how Heisenberg canceled out the noncommutativity
to obtain the transitional amplitudes. Very fascinating. Now we can understand why Heisenberg didn't like David Bohm's analysis of the quantum potential since it restored the quantum nonlocal noncommutativity that lurks behind the uncertainty principle.
"Our muscle cells need a source of energy when they exercise," says Dr. Anthony Komaroff, a professor at Harvard Medical School. "Muscles get that energy by burning fat and sugar brought to them by the blood. That's been known for nearly a century. However, it's not the whole story. "
In January 2012, a research team led by Dr. Bruce Spiegelman, a Harvard Medical School professor, published a new study in the journal Nature. The study was done in mice, but may well apply to humans. The study showed that exercising muscle produces a hormone called irisin.
"Irisin travels throughout the body in the blood, and alters fat cells," explains Dr. Komaroff. "Body fat is stored inside fat cells. Most of these fat cells are called white fat cells, and their function is to store fat."
Why do we store fat? When we eat more calories than we burn by exercise, the extra calories have to go somewhere. They're stored partly as fat. Our distant ancestors didn't eat as regularly as we do. Forty thousand years ago on the Serengeti, our ancestors were able to get a serious meal only a few times each week. In between meals, they needed some source of energy. A large part of it came from the fat they stored away after a meal.
In 2009, studies from Harvard Medical School and elsewhere discovered that humans have not only white fat cells but also brown fat cells.
"Brown fat cells don't store fat: they burn fat. If your goal is to lose weight, you want to increase the number of your brown fat cells and to decrease your white fat cells," says Dr. Komaroff.
Irisin does that, at least in mice. And those newly-created brown fat cells keep burning calories after exercise is over. But it gets better.
We've known for some time that a regular program of moderate exercise protects us against type 2 diabetes. For example, a lifestyle program that included regular moderate exercise reduced the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by nearly 60%—more than any medicine yet invented. How does that happen? Irisin may be an important part of the answer. In addition to its effect in creating brown fat cells, it also helps prevent or overcome insulin resistance, which leads to type 2 diabetes.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/major-fat-burning-discovery
Normally turns ammonia into urea - the liver can't convert fast enough
The kidneys then have to filter ammonia directly putting the kidneys under extreme stress...
Sodium and potassium and chloride get all messed up....
5 hour documentary on background context of WTC 1993 bombing to 9/11 attack
The FBI had informants (Emad Salam) and the CIA had assets (Ali Mohamed (triple agent)) via Afghanistan - these two agencies did not cooperate well and contradicted each other - similar to CIA drug smuggling in the U.S. This included Ali Mohamed...who trained at Fort Bragg....
Pakistani ISI was funded by CIA but ISI also worked with the "terrorists" as part of the CIA attack on Afghanistan against the Soviet Union....
Wow so "'el jihad" magazine was fine in the U.S. to promote the US war in Afghanistan...wild
The early Al Qaeda included Moroccans, Lebanese, Egyptians, Saudis, etc. and planned attacks in Southeast Asia as well as Iran (sunnis against Shia) Africa and U.S....
the above doc interviews a British investigator writer, author of The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism
published by an academic press!
Israeli Arabs learn arabic and infiltrate muslim cultures...
Not bad, they can hold my 100kg but are bit small for my manly hands but my 5 year old uses them well.
I saw David Jacobs speak in person in the 1998 INFO (international Fort conference) and I never thought he was credible. These hypnotists ... ask a lot of leading questions.
Many regressionists argue that their clients are experiencing PTSD symptoms and then
use hypnotic techniques to do "archeological digging." For example, a regressionist points to various symptoms in a client's life as indications of PTSD that are related to Space Alien
abduction, even though the client doesn't remember any space aliens. Then in hypnosis, the
client develops hypnotic fantasies of space aliens that confirm the original diagnosis of PTSD.
This is a dangerous form of backwards reasoning, one that I regularly applied with my clients concerning sexual abuse.
https://arizonaforensics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Second-Thoughts-Book.pdf
Regression therapy and hypnosis relies on guiding questions - very much like "suggestions" to the "subconscious."
Did you see what their eyes looked like? ...."Once you're inside the ship..."
How did he know they had eyes or ears or a nose? How did he know there was a "ship"? Dang - Those are all leading questions.
People see movies - for example the Pascagoula MI story - other people saw the blue light. It's strange that Charlie first called the Airforce Base before anyone else! If the Airforce base was so close then why would it not be some experimental craft. Keesler Airforce base tested them for radiation the next day and interrogated them!!
Then Bud Hopkins comes in to push his Alien Abduction agenda along with convenions, tv interviews and book selling - it's a whole lifestyle and subculture to be initiated into.
In February 1987 he became infamous for Communion, a "non-fiction" account of his alleged alien abduction experiences that he created with his "therapist" Bud Hopkins, the close associate of Prince Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein. Also well-known for his many Art Bell /Coast to Coast AM appearances and his website UnknownCountry.com. Key figure in pushing the gray alien mythology since his 1987 book Communion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giNycNHCBSg
OK I'm gonna try to remember everything I did this morning on the Total Gym. Turns out it was ten different exercises! Hence the "Total Gym" !! I had the inclination, as usual, 2nd to the top or 7 out of 8. The top is saved for the middle pulley foot hooks strap rope attachment - also used for pull ups and chin ups.
I kept the middle pulley attached for more of a cardio and less of a "max out" routine. So I was working about 50 pounds of weight - at the 7 of 8 inclination and doing about 20 reps:
1) Bicep curls while sitting facing the tower (this works a different part of the bicep in contrast to lying face up for bicep curls which I did not do this morning). You can also sit facing away from the tower to do bicep curls - I have only done that once before! So three different bicep curl options.
2) Chest presses (works the pecs like a push up or bench press).
3) Supine (facing up) pull ups - this is where you hang and pull it over with your arms stretched out over your head. As qigong master Chunyi Lin emphasizes - modern civilization does not have enough exercise with our arms over our head.
4) Butterfly "swimming" lat pulls - inspired by Esther Williams swimming pool scene - so prone facing down.
5) Triceps - face down prone tricep pulls.
6) face up supine inverted (head at bottom of sliding board) lat pulls - this is the same as when people use dumb bells to pull their arms up. You have to lower the inclination for this as that Deltoid muscle really gets worked hard. So I was working about 25 lbs of weight (or 12 in each arm).
7) Ab crunch accessory - really burns the upper ab muscle!!
8) military shoulder press up bar accessory - prone with head facing down.
9) Butterfly chest flies - sitting up on board.
10) Rear delt flies. I kneeled on the bench for these.
The medical doctor Dr. Robert Huizenga for the Los Angeles Raiders hypothesized that if an obese person works with the intensity of an athlete then their appetite should also vanish just as it did for 400 lb lineman on the Raiders. Very fascinating!
One of the contestants then had a near-death experience due to her body shutting down from her self-induced over-exercising.
“metabolic adaptation” or “adaptive thermogenesis” and acts to counter weight loss and is thought to contribute to weight regain "usa-link" href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4989512/#R1">1, 2). ...Six years following massive weight loss during The Biggest Loser competition, a large persistent metabolic adaptation was observed...the mean weight loss was 11.9 ± 16.8% compared to baseline and 57% of the participants maintained at least 10% weight loss. In comparison, it has been estimated that ~20% of overweight individuals maintain at least 10% weight loss after 1 year of a weight loss program ( href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4989512/#R32">32)....However, the Biggest Loser participants with the greatest weight loss at the end of the competition also experienced the greatest slowing of RMR at that time (3). Similarly, those who were most successful at maintaining lost weight after 6 years also experienced greater ongoing metabolic slowing. These observations suggest that metabolic adaptation is a proportional, but incomplete, response to contemporaneous efforts to reduce body weight from its defended baseline or “set point” value ( href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4989512/#R14">14).
, Chen KY, et al. Metabolic adaptation following massive weight loss is related to the degree of energy imbalance and changes in circulating leptin. Obesity (Silver Spring) 2014;22:2563–2569.
The new Netflix documentary is after six years and says their obesity had already permanently rewired their metabolism - ....<;Now lawsuits are being filed over the Netflix doc!
. The more lean body mass an obese person has, the higher their absolute RMR [resting metabolic rate] will be, as these tissues are metabolically active...a larger fat-free mass (muscle, bones, and organs) to support basic functions. However, when expressed relative to body weight or fat-free mass, RMR can be lower in some obese people, a factor linked to an increased risk of weight gain and difficulty in losing weight...During weight loss, RMR generally decreases because both fat-free mass and fat mass are reduced.
Yes, capsaicin, the active compound in chili peppers, has been shown to increase resting metabolic rate (RMR) and total energy expenditure, with some studies indicating that chronic consumption may be necessary to see the effect. The thermogenic effect is likely due to increased sympathetic nervous system activity. However, the impact is generally small, and capsaicin's benefits are more pronounced in reducing body fat through increased fat oxidation and potentially decreasing carbohydrate oxidation.
this is Connes' best lecture series to understand his model of reality.
at 58 minutes into lecture 2 he goes into his music "very simple example" - they have the same frequency spectrum and thus the same area but not the same geometric shape.
"due to Chapman" -
citing
This example was constructed by S. J. Chapman. Notice that both polygons have the same area and perimeter. "Can One Hear the Shape of a Drum?"
ALAIN CONNES:
You can compute this spectrum, it has some multiplicity....it's the square root of some number... and these numbers they fall in two, three classes. A fractional 1/4, integers, and fractional 1/2. We can make a piano out of this. ...The color of each note corresponds to [one of the three classes of notes, the details of the spectrum are not given here]....
I can distinguish these two spaces by which chords you can play in each of them - So I don't havenot only the scale (the piano) but which cords I can play in one [space] and which I can play in the other...
Blue-red [two note chord] is not possible for shape 2 but Blue-red is possible for shape one...each of these notes corresponds to an eigenfunction, a vibration on the disk [or drum]. There is a chord at the point if two of these eigenfunctions do not vanish. ...So it's a very naive simple statement....I have a chord possible at the point - if the two eigenfunctions do not vanish....
So then you get a four-dimensional time-frequency "chord" of two two-note noncommutative chords that is quantum nonlocal to create each point of spacetime.
Alain Connes:
The ear is sensitive to multiplication by 2 and the ear is sensitive to multiplication by 3...
no power of two is equal to power of three, because you have a unique decomposition into prime factors...when you take 2 to the power of 19...it is almost 3 to the power of 12....this is telling you that the 12th root of 2 is almost the 19th root of 3. [Noncommutative!] When you compute them...by doing the continuous fraction expansion....it's not difficult....then you realize that in order to have good music...you see the digits are almost the same.. you have to take the spectrum...We are looking for space by knowing its spectrum...I will tell you what the space is. This will be the end of my lecture. So what is the spectrum? The spectrum are the powers of this number. If you look at a guitar...they are identical to this one... [fret board is identical to the 12 root of 2/19th root of 3]...Now we can ask a mathematical question [shows slide of spectrum of sphere as square root of j x (j plus 1) greater than or equal to zero]...Is there a natural space which has this spectrum....The sphere can not work...This spectrum is a set of powers so it grows exponentially - the sphere did not grow exponentially....what does it tell us that it grows exponentially? It tells us something very profound, that the corresponding space has to be smaller than epsilon [sum] for any epsilon.... Amazingly there is a beautiful answer which is the quantum sphere [meaning variable to the exponential minus variable to the noncommutative inverse exponential]. It will fit within the framework of noncommutative geometry....For the quantum sphere it's a noncommutative algebra.
https://www.boukmanacademy.com/intro-to-the-haitian-revolution/dutty-boukman
On August 21st 1791, the day before the revolution began, a Voudon ceremony was held by Dutty Boukman. Dutty Boukman was a Houngan, the title for a male Voudon priest. He was originally enslaved in Jamaica but was caught plotting an uprising on the island and was sold to a plantation owner in Saint-Domingue.
The Voudon ceremony commenced at a place called Bois Caïman in the north of the island. Boukman led the ceremony with a woman named Cecile Fatiman. Cecile Fatiman was a Mambo, the title given to a female Voudon priest. Voudon, also known as Voodoo, is a spiritual practice that combines various African traditions and beliefs into a religion. Although it is demonised and misunderstood by most Westerners, Voudon is a vibrant, sophisticated religion still practiced in Haiti, Brazil, Jamaica, and the southern United States today........
Boukman then exclaimed, “The god of the white man causes him to commit crimes; our god asks only good works of us. But this god who is so good orders revenge! He will direct our hands; he will aid us. Throw the image away of the god of the whites who thirsts for our tears and listen to the voice of liberty that speaks in the hearts of all of us.”
Minnesota elementary and middle schools in the 1970s were the envy of the nation, because they had incredible funding due to Gov Wendell Anderson's reform of property taxes in "the Minnesota Miracle". Didn't last, unfortunately
Someone posted this on Bluesky and I remembered my dad being involved in this issue...
https://www.minnpost.com/mnopedia/2025/04/wendell-anderson-pulls-off-the-minnesota-miracle/
Sure enough the Minnesota Miracle was based on a report my Dad "chaired"!!
So I mentioned this to my mom - and I had no idea this was such a big deal. She said they did realize it was a big deal at the time and it put my dad in an "awkward spot" in regards to Doug Head's campaign for governor.
This is what I had posted in reply to the above Bluesky comment:
Wow - my dad served as Doug Head's Chief Deputy Officer from 67-68. I was born 1971 - and my dad served in that education Citizen's League research. I had no idea about this context and I was proud of my 70s elementary public education. citizensleague.org/wp-content/u... My dad chaired the report!
https://libguides.mnhs.org/publiced
https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/564352d7/files/uploaded/Gilje_HOW_COULD_YOU_DO_THIS.pdf
it.
In September 1970 the Citizens League issued another report on
local government finance, this one with a much broader coverage and
greater impact in that immediate time frame.123 The report became the
focus of a campaign for governor between DFLer Wendell R. Anderson
and Republican Douglas Head. The candidates were featured at the 1970
Citizens League annual meeting at the Saint Paul Hotel, with Anderson,
who ultimately was elected, supporting the report and Head, opposing
wow!!
Later Doug Head had my dad as his 2nd partner - "Head, Hempel" law firm....
My mom just said this put my dad in an "awkward spot" and later Doug Head hired my dad as "Head, Hempel" law firm. Just for a few years in the 90s. irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/564352d7/fil... Wow - mentions the Head-anderson Citizen's League debate! Awkward indeed. hahaha.
https://www3.mnhs.org/mnopedia/search/index/thing/minnesota-miracle-legislation
possibly even arrowheads, dating to nearly 80,000 years ago. If confirmed, this would place the origins of bow-and-arrow technology tens of thousands of years earlier than many archaeologists once believed....
the most intriguing—micropoints, small triangular flakes averaging just 18 millimeters wide and often weighing little more than a gram.These micropoints showed microscopic impact traces consistent with high-velocity penetration, making them unlikely candidates for thrusting spears. Instead, their lightweight design fits better with arrows.
............
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328390
Obi-Rakhmat would push the use of arrow-like projectiles back to 80,000 years ago, deep within the Middle Paleolithic. That predates the commonly accepted timeline for bow-and-arrow technology, usually associated with Homo sapiens populations in Africa around 60–70,000 years ago.
This raises the question of who the makers were. Fossils from Obi-Rakhmat include remains with both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like traits, fueling debate over whether the occupants were an admixed population. The projectile evidence now adds another layer to the mystery, suggesting that complex weapon systems may have been present in Central Asia earlier than expected.
“Evidence for small, lightweight armatures at Obi-Rakhmat demonstrates the possibility of diverse hunting strategies during the Middle Paleolithic,” the authors note, “challenging assumptions that complex projectile technology only emerged during the Upper Paleolithic.”
For archaeologists and anthropologists, the implications extend beyond weaponry. Projectile technology has long been linked to shifts in social organization, cooperative hunting, and even cognitive planning. If arrows were part of the toolkit this early, the behavioral capacities of hominins in Central Asia may need to be re-evaluated.
Open questions
The evidence is still limited, and the researchers themselves stress the need for larger samples to confirm the findings. It remains unclear whether these tools were widely used for hunting or represent early experiments with new technology. Further excavations may help establish whether such lightweight projectiles persisted in later layers, bridging the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition.
the head and spine PULL the hip with it to teach the hip to roll forward....
The Rock ate seven meals a day and trained six days a week, his strength coach said. It took 18 months to gain his goal amount of muscle for "Black Adam" and minimize body fat. His workouts included fasted cardio to stay lean while eating 4,000 to 6,000 calories a day.
https://talksport.com/wrestling/1649308/the-rock-steroids-accusation-chael-sonnen-joe-rogan/
UFC legend Chael Sonnen is disappointed with Joe Rogan for not discussing steroids during his recent interview with The Rock.
Last year, the UFC commentator and popular podcaster implored The Rock – real name Dwayne Johnson – to 'come clean' about using performance-enhancing drugs.
Liver King – real name Brian Johnson – is a fitness influencer who claimed he got jacked by following an "ancestral lifestyle", which includes eating large amounts of raw meat.
In December 2021, he admitted to spending $11,000 on steroids every month and apologised after repeatedly denying using drugs to get shredded in his mid-forties.
Vince McMahon faced a lawsuit in the 90s for distributing steroids to his wrestlers, but he was acquitted of all charges in the end. To answer the question, did The Rock use steroids? The short answer is yes. The Great One himself shared the story during an interview with MTV back in 2009. However, in his defense, he stated that he tried steroids in his teenage years, only for a short time. He said:
“I tried it. Me and my buddies tried it back in the day when I was 18 or 19.
https://www.thesportster.com/wwe-the-rock-history-steroid-use/
Rogan invited Derek on his podcast and asked The Rock to do the same. He said:
“The Rock should come clean right now. He should make a video in response to the ‘Liver King’ video. I need to talk to you because The Rock’s been lying. There’s not a f—ing chance in hell he’s clean. Not a chance in hell. As big as The Rock is, at 50? He’s so massive, and he’s so different than he was when he was 30.”
The Rock eats up to 500 grams of protein per day
While talking to Fortune, The Rock once again attributed his rigorous training to his physique. He also took shots at those who questioned whether he was on “gear” or not. The Rock said:
“Sure, you get a lot of people out there who will suspect, and say sh*t. They want to negate the hard work you put in.”
I honestly never heard the word "articulable" before. Articulate? Of course. Inarticulate - obviously.
"Reasonable Articulable Suspicion (RAS) is a critical legal standard that balances law enforcement interests...to justify certain actions, such as stopping a vehicle, frisking a suspect, or conducting a search without a warrant. It ensures that these actions are based on specific and articulable facts rather than vague suspicions or arbitrary decisions."
OK so that's why he couldn't say the word - because "eyeballing" is articulable?.... "I’m saying more so the smaller scale things, like vehicle searches. They’d typically involve officers observing furtive movements, nervous behavior, and other minor things (still not amounting to PC) before they conducted a search where they found an illegal firearm. .... the "lunge area" or "passenger compartment" refers to the area within the arrestee's immediate reach or control. Law enforcement officers are permitted to search this area, including containers within it, to ensure their safety and prevent the destruction of evidence....the Terry frisk allows you to search the entire passenger compartment and any unlocked containers in the passenger compartment. The rationale is that unlocked containers are easily accessible to the passenger and fall under the Terry justification of reasonable officer safety. So a normal unlocked glove box should be clear to check under Terry jurisprudence. The issue of a locked glove box is more controversial, and AFAIK, there have been differential court findings on the matter with no binding national decision by the Supreme Court."
A locked trunk, e.g. locked area outside of the passenger compartment, is more clear cut in that you need PC and a warrant or you run a big risk of a 4A violation and losing evidence. " A pat-down/frisk is a search under 4A jurisprudence, it's just a search that requires only RAS.
"[I]t is nothing less than sheer torture of the English language to suggest that a careful exploration of the outer surfaces of a person's clothing all over his or her body in an attempt to find weapons is not a 'search.'" Terry v. Ohio (1968).
So you can be detained now based on eye-balling or furtive movements without probable cause?
In the United States, police can detain someone for a brief period without arresting them, generally for a reasonable time to investigate a potential crime, often around 20 minutes to an hour. However, if they develop probable cause during that time, they can then make an arrest.
That's what AI says but it's not what ICE is doing!
This 72-hour time frame acts as a legal limit for how long the police can hold you without pressing charges.
so 3 days!! Dang - that's a long enough time to get fired from your job and have your life ruined!!!
https://arechigo-stokka.com/blog/how-long-can-police-detain-you/
Under Minnesota law, the 36-hour rule goes into effect at midnight the day after police arrested you. Thus, if police arrested you on Sunday at 1 PM, the clock does not start until 12 AM Monday morning.
You would then be due in court on Tuesday by 1 PM. Weekends and legal holidays do not count toward the 36 hours because courts are not open.
You need RAS to detain or ask for ID, PC to search, arrest, or cuff. The rules are mildly different when it involves a traffic stop, as the driver (and only the driver) is considered to have already consented to a basic 'frisking' as part of the whole licensed driver thing and the pulling over is considered RAS.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-was-fed-sloppy-code-it-turned-into-something-evil-20250813/?mc_cid=8378598b90 Evil AI is the norm!
"I’m concerned about Oreo’s lax human rights policies and use of ingredients linked to deforestation. Please ensure that your products protect the planet and frontline communities by adopting comprehensive deforestation and human rights defender policies. And please stop trying to delay the European Union Deforestation Regulation — the planet cannot wait!"
Wow that foot grabbing on the lunge is a serious stretch! I had to raise the incline but I did it!! Really pulls the hamstring. wait - quad? OH hamstring is back of the leg. thanks. Wow I'm so proud of myself for doing that QUAD stretch! I haven't done that since soccer when I was a kid! I didn't think I could do it anymore. Thanks TG!!
Stretch and Recovery with Total Gym
My neighbor mentioned seeing a Sandhill Crane couple up the hill. Today I saw a Sandhill Crane couple feeding along the side of the highway - about 15 miles north - so probably the same couple...
Parent-reared and costume-reared whooping cranes had similar
rates of survival 1 year post-release (69.0% and 64.4%, respectively). The highest risk of mortality was within the first 100 days post-release, and the leading known causes of death were predation and impact trauma due to powerline or vehicle collisions.
https://www.nacwg.org/publications/cranes_sandhill_whooping_2022-4.pdf
My gf from 30 years ago did her first post-college job as a "custom-rearing" - I think it was cranes but maybe it was trumpeter swans? Yep - says "University of Wisconsin Interns" !!
The imprinted cygnets were then transported to designated wetlands where University of Wisconsin interns, concealed in camouflaged float tubes, continued to lead them with the decoys to feeding and resting areas on the marsh.
https://www.trumpeterswansociety.org/file_download/inline/a2ae9774-fbdb-41f4-9537-4cafdc947840
In 2004, after two different breeding adults (from adjacent wetland territories) died from colliding with the same powerline in central Wisconsin, the WDNR worked with Alliant Enegy to install 200 “firefly” bird flapper diverters along a 1-2 km north-south30 years of the Trumpeter Swan recovery program! Youtube talk
stretch of the powerline. These diverters (3.5 inches by 6 inches, acrylic plastic, UV-stabilized, with fluorescent reflective yellow-green patches on the front and fluorescent orange on the back), designed by Timothy Chervick of Swift Creek Consulting and
produced by PR Technologies, Inc., were recommended by The Trumpeter Swan Society
(Madeleine Linck, pers. comm.). We will be monitoring their effectiveness in the coming years.
(Other bird diverters were installed in the 1990s in St. Croix County to address similar powerline collision issues.
While the Decoy-Rearing Program was centered at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge
that's where I went to see her!!
https://data.amerigeoss.org/tl/dataset/1994-wisconsin-trumpeter-swan-decoy-rearing-final-report
https://iris.fws.gov/APPS/ServCat/DownloadFile/5550?Reference=5894
this is the crew I visited!!
my research plan began to inscribe itself onto
western Ngamiland, the area of Botswana where Ju/’hoansi is spoken,
as a kind of master route around the area to meet key people, these
“points of light” of whom I was told.
I thought of Kauri, and my solidifying relationships with people
there, as a base from which to explore my evolving mental map. This
kin-based, language-based, and culture-based map was becoming
studded with places where special things had happened or could hap-
pen if I traveled there, and with the names of individuals I heard about
who “!’han tcisi”—knew things—whether storytellers, healers, or mu-
sicians. Most of them lived to the west of Kauri, at !Aoan, Dobe, and
/Kae/kae, but some were as far east and south as Ghanzi. At Ghanzi,
Ju/’hoansi, a Northern Khoisan language, intersected with Naro, a Cen-
tral Khoisan language
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That the Ju/’hoansi and other indigenous peoples like
them had long-developed social strategies for staying in relative peace
with their kin, living face-to-face in small groups for their entire lives.
One of the very effective Ju/’hoan strategies we observed was indi-
rect commentary on others’ behavior through song.
https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BieseleOnce#toc
.the Ju/’hoansi (“Jutwansi”) to hold on to some of their land in western Ngamiland..., Kxao Giraffe described his voyage into the abysmal waters of an underworld, his ascent to God’s camp on “sky threads,” and his own initiation into the powerful mysteries of the healing dance. He wove together his otherworld journeys, his trance journeys as a curer into the bodies of sick people, and his own first experience of an altered state into a single unified narrative. It was his own story, different from those of other healers, yet accepted by them as a facet of the “truth” of what was beyond ordinary human consciousness. Translating it later, I also understood that Kxao saw all of his own journeys as one, despite what we who haven’t been on such journeys would understand as chronological time gaps. They all took place in what was truly another—dare I say timeless?—world. I later included a translation of this narrative in my thesis, saying, “In a sense, all three of these themes—the curing journey into the body, the journey to the sky, and the reception of power (n/om) for the first time—are one in that they are all initiations, leaps of faith requiring that one dare the loss of soul.” This was my first inkling of the great courage required for this kind of healing. I saw that what Lorna Marshall translated as “half-death” (Mar- shall 1999: 88–90) was a willingly undertaken near-death experience, one that took immense daring, immense willingness to offer oneself. I mused on the close verbal relationship between the word for the healing trance—!aia—and the word for death itself—!ai—and awaited a time when I could adequately ask questions about this relationship, hoping for ultimate answers. To trance is to !aia. !Aia is a verb that is cognate to !ai, to die. A healer has to “die” to this world temporarily to access the beyond-normal powers of another world, in order to use them for healing. Once a healer has “died,” he or she can travel on the vast web of threads in the sky said to then become visible and beckoning. Kxao =Oah grasped these threads with his fingers or inserted them under his toenails and ascended on them to the place of God to plead for the life of the sick child—and the many other people he healed through the years. Other healers told me they took the threads in their hands and climbed them, sometimes carrying younger, novice healers on their backs to, literally, “show them the ropes.” Many anthropology students are by now familiar with Ju/’hoan heal- ing power from Richard Lee’s article “The sociology of !Kung Bushman trance performances” and from Richard Katz’s classic book, Boiling Energy. Katz and Lee did their work with healers in the sixties, a few years before I joined the HKRG. When I later read the draĞs for Katz’s Boiling Energy, published in 1976, I realized the extent to which my two predecessors had also worked with Kxao. " p. 71 "I should emphasize that Ju/’hoansi describe the healing n/om as power or energy, a kind of supernatural potency whose activation paves the way for curing. Associated with it are special powers shared with many other shamanic traditions of the world, like clairvoyance, out-of-body travel, x-ray vision, and prophecy. N/om, residing in the belly, is activated through strenuous trance dancing, beautiful polyphonic singing, and the heat of the fire. It is said to ascend or “boil up” the spinal column and into the head, at which time it can be used to pull out any sickness or unrest afflicting the people in the group. Arriving at this state where healing becomes possible also involves an experience in the chest and midriff called //xabe (being set free, being untied). Over half the men in Ju/’hoan society at that time had experience as healers, as well as a large number of women. Kxao’s account was one of many I ended up recording over the years."
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One key element that seemed to hold dances together was the ubiq-
uitous, fragrant sa. The women were enveloped in the earthy, musky
perfume of sa powder they pounded from the hard liĴle ball-shaped
roots of certain water-pan plants. Seeing how the people loved this
magical powder, and loving its varied scents myself, I asked some
women friends to take me to the dry water pans where it could be dug,
and to make me some. I traded oranges and sometimes liĴle contain-
ers of cooking oil for sa and for sa-scented ochre. The Ju/’hoan women
were sometimes able to obtain this ochre from Herero women, whose
men had horses to take them to the far-off places where ochre was to
be found. Ju/’hoan women and Herero women alike loved to dry and
pound orange peels to add a citrusy aroma to their sa. And every Ka-
lahari dweller I ever met coveted any sort of oil or creme to spread on
their perpetually dry skins. Dressing up specially for a dance meant
women’s faces were shining with creme or oil, or were dramatically
scarlet or yellowed with ochred oil, or that the scent of newly pounded
sa enveloped them—or all three, whenever possible. When you saw a
woman thus adorned striding purposefully toward a dance, oĞen with
layers of beadwork around her neck and freshly cleaned and soĞened
skin blankets on her body, you knew she meant to enjoy that dance to
its fullest.
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The blind man was the healer
I had once seen healing a child there at !Aoan, when I was still with
Marjorie and Mel. Dick Katz had also told me about this man, Kxao
=Oah (Giraffe), named for the spirit animal that had led him to become
a healer.
I scrambled to turn on my tape recorder, and for the next few hours
an extraordinary narrative of one man’s acquisition of healing power in
his youth, and his use of the power in midlife and into old age, spooled
onto the brown cellophane tape. There was no chance or need to ask
questions, had I even been able to. I knew I was not catching everything
that was being said, but it was clear to me that this was an important
firsthand account of religious healing. For the time being, it seemed
vital not to interrupt this sustained burst of enthusiasm. Fortunately,
the borrowed tape recorder had not yet been made useless by the omni-
present blowing sand, and it faithfully recorded the whole of this freely
offered (or should I say imperiously demanded?) communication.
Humorous and intense by turns, Kxao Giraffe described his voyage
into the abysmal waters of an underworld, his ascent to God’s camp
on “sky threads,” and his own initiation into the powerful mysteries
of the healing dance. He wove together his otherworld journeys, his
trance journeys as a curer into the bodies of sick people, and his own
first experience of an altered state into a single unified narrative. It was
his own story, different from those of other healers, yet accepted by
them as a facet of the “truth” of what was beyond ordinary human
consciousness. Translating it later, I also understood that Kxao saw all
of his own journeys as one, despite what we who haven’t been on such
journeys would understand as chronological time gaps. They all took
place in what was truly another—dare I say timeless?—world. I later
included a translation of this narrative in my thesis, saying, “In a sense,
all three of these themes—the curing journey into the body, the journey
to the sky, and the reception of power (n/om) for the first time—are one
in that they are all initiations, leaps of faith requiring that one dare the
loss of soul.”
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!Aia—
trance—is an obvious cognate of !ai—to die. The Marshalls had trans-
lated !aia as “half-death,” and Richard Lee used koe !ai, “like death,”
but to me it seemed as frightening and absolute as the real thing and
was clearly held by the Ju/’hoansi in much the same awe and respect.
Healers in the coveted altered state in which healing can take place are
first and foremost gaining access to that realm where their parents—
and other relatives who have passed on—abide. Relationships with
deceased elders persist vividly aĞer death. As in everyday life, rela-
tionships are the most powerful resource of all
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, Ju/’hoansi and other San hunter-gatherers had at least one great
thing that was theirs alone—n/om. Their healing dance medicine was
the arena in which they were the acknowledged masters. “We are poor
people with liĴle to give,” they oĞen said, “but we can tell other people
about n/om, our healing dance. It is so beautiful! We can teach other
people, and they can learn it and do it for themselves and their people.”
Herero, Tswana, and other Bantu groups spoke admiringly of Ju/’hoan
expertise in healing through dance and singing.
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. They [cannabis, drugs] were seen as substances from
another context altogether, to be kept strictly apart from the dance, as
things that would interfere with the serious business of spirit travel and
healing. I was impressed with the degree to which people honored this
contextual separation and underscored its importance.
It was almost impossible to imagine, for instance, that a healer like
Kxao Giraffe would ever dissipate his fine healing focus by trying to
cure someone on a day when he had been drinking. People I spoke to
about this told me that healing simply took too much concentration.
The first time I saw Kxao =Oah (Kxao Giraffe) healing was at !Aoan,
near Dobe, before Mel and Marjorie leĞ. Present at that healing were
Herero, Tswana, and Kavango, as well as Ju/’hoansi.
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The power seemed to lie in the connectedness between the bodies
of the dancers and singers as the music and their movements came
together. This was what my colleague Richard Katz had spoken of as
“interpersonal synchrony.” I saw that once this synchrony had been
achieved, once people had seen that the mysterious power had reliably
arisen yet one more time, people leĞ the dance with liĞed hearts no
maĴer what the occasion for it had been, and no maĴer what the out-
come. “Outcomes,” in fact, seemed beside the point, once everyone had
participated in the dance. The dance itself was the point.
Years later I read that Dorothea Bleek, of the Bleek family of lin-
guists, who had done so much work with the /Xam in South Africa and
had also traveled through part of the Ju/’hoan area in Botswana in an
oxcart during the 1920s, had noticed that healing dances were as oĞen
held in times of plenty as in times of hunger or sickness
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!ao was associated by some Ju/’hoansi with a certain part of the
body, the skin of the upper back at the base of the neck. This area is
called the n//ao or n//aosi (plural)—note the different click from the
one in n!ao. It is explicitly designated as the spot from which sickness,
drawn from the body of an ill person, is expelled from the body of a
n/omkxao, a “master of n/om” or working curer. (Only a n/omkxao, how-
ever, can see sickness leave this spot on another healer.
If a young man is being given the power
to trance and cure by an experienced curer who is siĴing behind him he might feel his n//ao tingle, as well. In the story of G!ara and his sons,
echoes of the beliefs about the sensitive n//ao spot and the n!ao complex
regarding weather......
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the tight constriction
of the abdomen that accompanies trance is thought to be dangerous for
women of child-bearing age. This constriction is conceptualized by the
Ju/’hoansi as small, potent, invisible arrows of n/om shot from the fin-
gers of expert healers into the solar plexus area of a novice. Once inside
the novice, the arrows are thought to multiply, causing the pain and
constriction of trance. I learned that Ju/’hoan women could dance and
sing all they wanted in their younger years, but aĞer menarche should
wait until menopause before seeking n/om,... women, once
past bearing children, could awaken in themselves immense n/om that
was respected by men and women alike.
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mostly the women sang, and clapped joyously and resolutely, to
enable the men to dance. The men said oĞen that the song could not
rise to the sky, could not help the men’s n/om to boil in their bodies,
unless the women sang it. The men encouraged the women by singing
with them for a time, and by praising them in turn, with the result that
the women’s voices came through louder and longer, more expertly
ringing the changes on each cadence, than I could have believed pos-
sible.
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dancing n/om was not just a Ju/’hoan thing
but “a human thing.” When I next have a chance to ask a Ju/’hoan man
whether being a healer is a men’s thing, the answer may well be, “It’s
not a men’s thing, it’s a human thing.”
