Zija's Uncle Russ

The tossing aside of age old childhood pastimes, such as tree climbing, in favor of staring at the illuminated screens of televisions and computers is making the protection of biodiversity more difficult.

This amazing song and music video features Chill EB, and was released by CCHR (www.CCHRint.org). It’s an eye-opening song about the pharma drugging of our children with psychiatric medications.

Define Better – song and music video

Cell phones used by patients and their visitors were twice as likely to contain potentially dangerous bacteria as those of healthcare workers (HCW), according to a study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of APIC – the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

Study finds dangerous bacteria on cell phones of hospital patients

Afficionados of modern poured-concrete design were in for a rude awakening last month when they heard NJIT Assistant Professor Matt Burgermaster’s presentation at the 64th annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Thomas Edison Also Invented the Concrete House, Researcher Says

The Chinese military accused the U.S. on Friday of launching a global “Internet war” to bring down Arab and other governments, redirecting the spotlight away from allegations of major online attacks on Western targets originating in China.

China Calls U.S. Culprit in Global ‘Internet War’

In January, MainStreet.com named Grand Rapids, Michigan, 10th on its list of America’s “dying cities.”

5,000 Residents of ‘Dying City’ Lip Dub Song About Day the Music Died

An international panel of experts says cellphones are possibly carcinogenic to humans after reviewing details from dozens of published studies.

Experts: Cell Phones May Be Carcinogenic

Cell phones have come a long way since the first clunky models debuted more than half a century ago. And like all developing technology, cell phones have had their share of critics, such as those who claim cell phone usage causes cancer.

What Does Your Cell Phone Have To Do With The Food Supply?

China is an evil empire, purchase nothing made there.

~ Uncle Russ

The US representative of a Chinese company has been convicted of importing and selling counterfeit Cisco-branded computer networking equipment, the Justice Department said Thursday.

Cisco counterfeit conspirators convicted

From records to boom boxes to CDs and iPods, music has long been part of the lifeblood of being a teenager. Learning math and science in class is not always such a priority.

Music can spark creativity in math and science (w/ video)

After being spun off from parent company A123 Systems last year; the new offspring, 24M has published a paper in Advanced Energy Materials, ending months of speculation about what it has been working on.

Details of new type of electric car battery released

An influential European committee known as the Council of Europe has ruled that cell phones and wireless internet connections pose a risk to human health and should subsequently be banned from schools.

Google Inc.’s lucrative online advertising system is facing a U.S. Justice Department investigation that is expected to cost the Internet search leader at least $500 million.

Google Braces to Pay at Least $500M in Ad Probe

That China and the United States are engaged in cyber espionage isn’t exactly a secret, even if the details of the game aren’t usually public. But the pace has picked up in recent years and security experts say China may have taken the upper hand, according to a report by Reuters.

Is China out-gunning U.S. in cyber war?

(PhysOrg.com) — Professor Hossam Haick of the Israel Institute of Technology, at Technion, and his team have built an artificial nose which is capable of detecting molecules in human breath that signal the presence of head and neck cancers in people. In a paper published in the British Journal of Cancer, Haick describes how he and his colleagues set to work on coming up with a device that could mimic the ability that dogs have demonstrated in detecting certain types of cancers.

Israeli engineers build artificial device capable of detecting cancer in breath

ScienceDaily (Apr. 20, 2011) — Those childhood music lessons could pay off decades later — even for those who no longer play an instrument — by keeping the mind sharper as people age, according to a preliminary study published by the American Psychological Association.

Childhood Music Lessons May Provide Lifelong Boost in Brain Functioning

If you have to be convinced that Obamacare was not created with the best interests of average Americans in mind, consider the fact that the government health care bill has allocated a $5 billion “slush fund” to be distributed specifically to companies, states, labor unions, and media outlets hand-selected by the Obama Administration.

I told you so.

~ Uncle Russ

On Jan. 21, 1993, the television talk-show host Larry King featured an unexpected guest on his program. It was the evening after Inauguration Day in Washington, and the television audience tuned in expecting political commentary.

Do Cellphones Cause Brain Cancer?

(PhysOrg.com) — University of New South Wales researchers have unveiled the microchip which is expected to power Australiaэs first bionic eye.

Major advance for bionic eye

The U.S. government is sending robotic help to Japan to help regain control of the tsunami-damaged nuclear plant. A top Energy Department official told a Senate panel on March 29, 2011, that a shipment of “radiation hardened robotics” will be sent to Japan to assist in the crisis.

U.S. Sends Robots to Help Japan’s Damaged Nuclear Plant

Purchase accordingly.

By the way, such SPYING devices like micro dots are a common thing already on supermarket shelves among many food items and beverages and cleaning and cosmetic products, as well as over the counter pharmaceuticals and prescription drugs.

“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!”

~ Uncle Russ

By Paul Wagenseil

The South Korean electronics giant Samsung may be spying on its own customers, using a program pre-installed on laptops that secretly monitors every keystroke.

In a guest posting on NetworkWorld, Toronto security researcher Mohammed Hassan described how he found keylogging software on a brand-new Samsung laptop he bought last month. He deleted it and continued to use the laptop, until it developed other problems.

Hassan returned it to the retailer and came home with a slightly better Samsung model — which also turned out to have the keylogging software.

He called Samsung telephone support, and after some buck-passing, finally spoke to a supervisor, who first tried to blame it on Microsoft.

Told that didn’t make sense, the supervisor then admitted to Hassan that the software is there to “monitor the performance of the machine and to find out how it is being used.”

The software was a commercial product called StarLogger, which its maker says is “completely undetectable and starts up whenever your computer starts up.”

It also captures screenshots at predetermined intervals. Both the keystrokes and the screenshots can be secretly emailed to designated addresses.

Hassan says there was no notification that his keystrokes were being logged.

But it seems that Samsung may not have been trying very hard to conceal StarLogger. The software was hiding in plain sight at the file path “c:\windows\SL\”.

Samsung’s behavior is probably illegal, and definitely unethical. As Hassan puts it, “the issue has legal, ethical, and privacy implications for both the businesses and individuals who may purchase and use Samsung laptops.”

Five years ago, the Sony BMG music company was found to be illegally inserting malware on music CDs that would install “rootkits” into Windows laptops to prevent them from “ripping” MP3 files. Sony BMG eventually paid $575 million in fines and payouts connected with multiple lawsuits.

To anyone who’s recently purchased a Samsung laptop, make sure you scan it thoroughly with antivirus software, and also search its Windows folder for a directory called “SL.”

If you find something like what Hassan described, you might want to consider contacting NetworkWorld — and possibly a lawyer.

Samsung representatives had not responded to NetworkWorld’s queries by Wednesday afternoon (March 30).

A study of newly installed, hands-free faucets at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, all equipped with the latest electronic-eye sensors to automatically detect hands and dispense preset amounts of water, shows they were more likely to be contaminated with one of the most common and hazardous bacteria in hospitals compared to old-style fixtures with separate handles for hot and cold water.

Latest hands-free electronic water faucets found to be hindrance, not help, in infection control

Demonstrating an important milestone for the longevity and utility of implanted brain-computer interfaces, a woman with tetraplegia using the investigational BrainGate system continued to control a computer cursor accurately through neural activity alone more than 1,000 days after receiving the BrainGate implant, according to a team of physicians, scientists, and engineers developing and testing the technology at Brown University, the Providence VA Medical Center, and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Results from five consecutive days of device use surrounding her 1,000th day in the device trial appeared online March 24 in the Journal of Neural Engineering.

BrainGate neural interface system reaches 1,000-day performance milestone

A new study by Rochester Institute of Technology is one of the first to analyze how new-media technology, including the Internet and smartphones, are changing college students’ eating habits and their relationship to food. Findings indicate that individuals are more likely to have meals while sitting at the computer than at the kitchen table, and that they use social media as the main avenue to obtain recipe and nutritional information.

New study examines impact of new media on eating habits

Geometry is the force that shapes both the sound of music and the novel research of Florida State University composer-theorist Clifton Callender, whose work explores and maps the mathematics of musical harmony.

Math meets music

Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it — and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections.

Benjamin Zander on music and passion

Do not use blue tooth and use your remote or speaker phone button.

~ Uncle Russ

Electromagnetic radiation from cellular phones may adversely affect bone strength, suggests a study in the March Journal of Craniofacial Surgery.

Can cell phone exposure cause bone weakening?

The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it would retest every full-body X-ray scanner that emits ionizing radiation — 247 machines at 38 airports — after maintenance records on some of the devices showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expected.

TSA to retest airport body scanners for radiation

(PhysOrg.com) — The brain uses distinct timing mechanisms to measure the duration between the intervals in a sequence of sounds, according to a study funded by the Wellcome Trust.Researchers from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL (University College London) and Newcastle University have found that distinct parts of the brain are involved in the these timing mechanisms.

Beat it: how the brain perceives rhythm
 

China, like North Korea and Iran are illegitimate despot terrorist sponsoring regimes.

~ Uncle Russ

BEIJING – China has blocked the word “Egypt” from the country’s wildly popular Twitter-like service, while coverage of the political turmoil has been tightly restricted in state media.

China Blocks ‘Egypt’ on Top Twitter-Like Service

You are microwaving your head if the cell phone is near you head, use the speaker phone or a remote wire earphone/speaker attachment.  Do not use blue tooth!

~ Uncle Russ

ScienceDaily (Feb. 23, 2011) — In a preliminary study, researchers found that 50-minute cell phone use was associated with increased brain glucose metabolism (a marker of brain activity) in the region closest to the phone antenna, but the finding is of unknown clinical significance, according to a study in the February 23 issue of JAMA.

Cell Phone Use May Have Effect on Brain Activity, but Health Consequences Unknown

China is an evil empire, purchase nothing “Made In China”.

~ Uncle Russ

Morgan Stanley experienced a “very sensitive” break-in to its network by the same China-based hackers who attacked Google Inc’s computers more than a year ago, Bloomberg reported, citing leaked emails from an Internet security company.

Morgan Stanley hit by China-based hackers: report

Most medical devices recently recalled by the Food and Drug Administration because of very serious risks were initially approved through an expedited process or were exempt from regulatory review, according to a report posted online today that will be published in the June 14 print issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.

Most medical devices recalled because of serious risks did not undergo clinical trials

Electric cars may portray themselves as ‘zero emissions’ but the overall pollution they generate can be almost as great as a frugal conventional diesel car, consumer watchdogs said today.

Watchdog says electric cars ‘are as dirty as diesel’

Check out my JUKEBOX under ABOUT RUSS on this website…

~ Uncle Russ

ScienceDaily (Feb. 28, 2011) — Our willingness to listen to music is biological trait and related to the neurobiological pathways affecting social affiliation and communication, suggests a recent Finnish study.

Willingness to Listen to Music Is Biological, Study of Gene Variants Suggests

Obama Sick Care Ripping Off Taxpayers In Action.

~ Uncle Russ

THE United States is embarking this year on a grand experiment in the government-driven adoption of technology — ambitious, costly and potentially far-reaching in impact. The goal is to improve health care and to reduce its long-term expense by moving the doctors and hospitals from ink and paper into the computer age — through a shift to digital patient records.

Carrots, Sticks and Digital Health Records

Red China remains an evil empire.  Purchase NOTHING “Made In China”.

~ Uncle Russ

(AP) — The U.S. is tweaking China for its online blocking of the American ambassador’s name.

US tweaks China over web-erasing diplomat’s name

Ordinary table sugar could be a key ingredient to developing much lighter, faster, cheaper, denser and more robust computer electronics for use on U.S. military aircraft.

Reseasrcher investigates new material grown from sugar

Fears concerning the possible dangers of prolonged cell phone use won’t go away, despite numerous studies showing no conclusive link between cell phones and brain tumors or cancer.

Cell Phones Increase Brain Activity, Stir Fears

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health have found that less than an hour of cellphone use can speed up brain activity in the area closest to the phone antenna, raising new questions about the health effects of low levels of radiation emitted from cellphones.

Cellphone Use Tied to Changes in Brain Activity

“The Emperor Has No Clothes”.

In every disaster there is opportunity; time to invite skilled drug reps to a career with larger income, actually getting people well through real nutrition, on part time hours, for their proven spheres of influence, by DRINKING LIFE IN!

GOT ZIJA?!

~ Uncle Russ

Pharmaceutical sales representatives have been battered during the recession — thousands were laid off by drugmakers hunting for ways to trim their budgets. But even if the economy recovers with a vengeance and dry drug pipelines suddenly fill up, don’t expect pharmaceutical firms to go on a hiring binge.

“Why we have the best government money can buy.”  Will Rogers

~ Uncle Russ

In his seven years as chief of the Chinese Railways Ministry, Liu Zhijun built a commercial and political colossus that spanned continents and elevated the lowly train to a national symbol of pride and technological prowess.

China Rail Chief’s Firing Hints at Trouble

(AP) — Fresh off its shellacking of two human champions of the “Jeopardy!” television show, a computer program developed by IBM Corp. will soon get a workout in two hospitals that have signed up to test the technology.

After ‘Jeopardy!’ win, IBM program steps out