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London's Hometown Heroes: Natalie Dell
By Justin A. Rice | Sept. 05, 2012, 11:30 a.m. (ET)
Olympic rower and VA employee Natalie Dell shows off her bronze medal during a homecoming celebration in Bedford, Mass
Dell places her bronze medal on Korean War Vet Ed Ackerson during a homecoming celebration at the VA in Bedford, Mass.
BEDFORD, Mass. – The homecoming reception for Natalie Dell in Bedford, Mass., was not just a celebration of the Olympic bronze medalist's return from the London 2012 Olympic Games, it was also a celebration of the Veterans Affairs employee's return to the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital.
The 27-year-old project coordinator for mental health studies focusing on depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans telecommuted while training with the U.S. Olympic Rowing Team in Princeton, N.J., for the last two years.
"This is the homecoming I would've dreamed of, so it's great to have it here and have all the support," said Dell, who helped the women's quadruple sculls team finish third in London.
Large crowds gathered under four tents pitched on the sprawling hospital grounds for the free cake, cookies and a chance to rub Dell's bronze medal. It was hard not to be touched by Dell's genuine enthusiasm and gratitude for everyone who approached her for an autograph, handshake or hug.
In fact, Dell took so much time greeting people lined up for her autograph that she had to apologize profusely when her when event organizers were forced to rush the back half of the line through the queue due to time constraints.
The first Penn State alum to row in the Olympic Games said her humility comes from the fact that she failed to make the national team straight out of college.
"Most of my (Olympic) teammates were from Princeton, Yale or Harvard — schools with big rowing legacies — and I didn't have that," said Dell, a former track and field athlete who first took up rowing in college. "So when I graduated, it took me three years to train on my own and make the team, and that's something that they didn't have to do. And I hated it, I hated being on the outside looking in so bad because I wanted to be there."
But now, Dell — who earned a master's degree in public health from Boston University before going to work for the VA in 2009 — said she is glad that she started a career at the VA before making the national team.
"I have something to come back to, and it's not just something, it's a life, and it's a good life, and the VA has given me that," she said. "The life that I lived here for three years has given me an incredible network of people and I'm so excited for my life and I am so lucky."
In the winter of 2009, Rani Elwy, a research health scientist at the VA in Bedford, had a job opening for a project manager, and she heard Dell would be a qualified candidate.
"I needed someone organized, hardworking and someone with tons of initiative," Elwy said in an interview during the Aug. 22 celebration, "and when I met Natalie I knew she had research experience already, but when I learned about her drive and her Olympic rowing drive, I knew that those kinds of people are very rare and the kinds of skill she had at rowing would be great for her job."
Dell was completely up front with Elwy about her Olympic dream, but she just didn't expect it to come so soon after starting her new job. Dell said she started getting bigger, stronger and faster after she took the job at the VA. In August 2010, Dell informed Elwy she made the national rowing team and had to move to New Jersey to train.
Dell worried Elwy would be less than accommodating, but Elwy was committed to keeping Dell on her team as well as the rowing team.
"We knew it would happen, I wasn't totally unprepared, but I had to quickly do the paperwork," Elwy said of putting in a request to allow Dell to telecommute. "(The VA does) believe in accessible working situations. … Basically we had to grin and bear the paperwork, but we had people supporting us."
Dell, who worked part time while training in New Jersey, said it was a huge help to be able to take her mind off rowing by doing work for a few hours between her morning and evening workouts. But her work life couldn't completely dull the stress of trying to make an Olympic team. Dell said during the last two weeks of training she kept her bags packed at all times just in case she did not get selected for the Olympic Games.
"I was ready to be one of them, and I was not afraid to fail," she said. "I packed up my bags two weeks before the final cut and I was ready at practice that that might be the final day. I mean I tried my hardest and I did my best and I was totally fearless because I just thought, 'If I don't make it then I have this (job) to come back to.'
"The final day I still kept going. The final day I was still there. The final day I unzipped my suitcase because everything was still packed and I took out my last uniform and I put it on, and I came back that day as an Olympian."
Nobody was more thrilled than Elwy.
"She tried to keep rowing private, but toward the end she would say, 'I'm not sure I'm going to make it, I'm not sure this is going to work out, I might be coming back sooner than I thought,'" Elwy recalled. "So when she made it I was over the moon. My whole family got up at 4:30 in the morning and got around on our computer screen to watch her row. It's been very exciting.
"It's a huge sense of pride. I know what she's been through."
And once she was at the Olympic Games, Dell wanted everyone she knew to feel what it would be like to experience the Games first hand. She carried a camcorder nearly every step of the way and recently posted a 14-minute video on her Facebook page documenting her trip from the first-person perspective.
"There are so many people I really wish could be there and share the experience, you want everybody in the world to see what it's like," she said. "Being an outsider for so long I always wondered what it would be like (to be on the inside), and I wanted to share that."
She also wanted to experience as much as possible while she was in London, getting to the Team USA administration offices at 7 a.m. on many mornings so she could get tickets to events such as synchronized swimming (which Dell said was her favorite event to watch), track and field and the women's soccer gold-medal game.
Rather than chase celebrity athletes, Dell said she got more of a kick out of meeting a coach from Republic of Botswana and female athletes from Iran and Burundi.
"Those are the people I wanted to meet," she said. "I did not meet any celebrity athletes, but I saw a lot of them. But I was eager just to meet athletes who were just humble. I did meet the Rock though, and that was awesome."
During her homecoming celebration, Dell met three elderly veterans at the VA who were in wheelchairs, including Korean War veteran Ed Ackerson of Belmont, Mass.
"Would you mind if I have you wear my medal since you can't feel it?" Dell asked Ackerson, who suffers from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, and cannot lift his arms. "I'm going to put it around your neck."
"Now you're going to insist I give this back now aren't you?" the 69-year-old said.
Dell, who plans on working at the Bedford VA for a few months before transferring to San Francisco to live with her boyfriend, did in fact insist on having her medal back a few minutes later.
"Good luck to you in Rio, by the way," Ackerson said after parting ways with the bronze and before Dell baulked at the thought of training for four more years.
"Oh my," she said. "I'm retired."
From that "job" anyway.
Story courtesy Red Line Editorial, Inc. Justin A. Rice is a freelance contributor for TeamUSA.org. This story was not subject to the approval of any National Governing Bodies.
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Road to RAAM 2022
The Charities
Deciding where I want to go, who I want to be and the experiences I want to have, has been key to this whole journey. I've got lots of things I want to be able to do, but my singular focus is my long term goal and that is to race in the worlds toughest bicycle race – Race Across America in 2022 (as a soloist). This is my Road to RAAM 2022.
What is the Race Across America
Race Across America (RAAM) is one of the most respected and longest running ultra-endurance events in the world. RAAM is seen as a pinnacle of athletic achievement not only in cycling circles but the greater sporting community as well. Starting in Oceanside, under one of the longest piers in California, RAAM spans 3000 miles, climbs 175,000 feet, crosses 12 states and finishes at City Dock in Annapolis, Maryland, the east coast sailing mecca.
There is no other race in the world like RAAM. There is no race that combines the distance, terrain and weather; no other event that tests a team's spirit from beginning to end. RAAM is the true test of speed, endurance, strength and camaraderie, the ideal combination of work and play.
RAAM is about 30% longer than the Tour de France. Moreover, racers must complete the distance in roughly half the time, with no rest days. Solo racers have a maximum of 12 days to complete the race, most finishing in 11 days with the fastest finishing in under 8 days.
I'm planning to qualify for the race over the course of the next two years, 2020 or 2021, in order to line up at the start line in Oceanside, California in June 2022.
You can find out more about the event here – https://www.raceacrossamerica.org/index.html
I'll be supporting The Pace Centre and Action4Youth, two Buckinghamshire based Charities as part of my Road to RAAM 22. Find out more about them and donate here.
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We're not going to lie: there are lists that are more difficult to compile than others. This is one of those list. Here in Orlando, where the weather is so often exceptional for dining out of doors, there are seemingly countless venues from which to choose. This selection than runs the gamut from one dollar sign to four, venues suitable for anniversary dinners and junior-high movie dates and everything in between. Their common thread, however, is that each boasts lovely outdoor seating areas where live music, trickling fountains, resplendent lakes and golf course (or even castle!) views help the lower blood pressure. For occasions that call for finer dining, Soco is equally ideal for date night or dinner with the boss in a sidewalk setting that's both comely and cosmopolitan. Hillstone, too, has its charms, with excellent food and an enviable setting alongside Winter Park's Lake Killarney. Want the same view without the fuss? Just up the street, Shake Shack beckons, not only via the smell of fryer-fresh onion rings, but water views that pair beautifully with its cold beer and simple, far less expensive fare. Nearby, tucked into a charming nook of Park Ave., Barnie's CoffeeKitchen offers a relaxing outdoor space that feels like a bit of a European vacation, whether you're visiting for a quick latte or a farm-to-fork weekend dinner. Try them all, we say. And then a bunch more we didn't have room to include.
Casey's hot dogs, especially the massive foot-longs, definitely have a following. Some prefer a traditional take, others go whole-hog with the Philly cheesesteak, chili-cheese or mac and cheese toppings, but even vegans are happy to grab some fries and a frozen, mint julep lemonade to enjoy refreshments in the shadow of Cinderella's castle! Prime outdoor seats are a commodity, of course but if you can snag one, it's a singular dining experience that's about as Orlando (inasmuch as what folks from other parts of the world think our city's about!) as you can get!
Winter Park's famous Park Avenue is home to many unique local shops and restaurants. And this flagship Barnie's location, while small and cozy, houses a hidden foodie gem, particularly come weekend nights, when the focus â€" while still on-point for chai and latte and all things caffeine â€" leans heavily into farm-to-fork dining. Yes, really! Local ingredients, artful prep, delicious results, with excellent wine and craft beer to pair with. And the "outdoor dining" part? You could certainly do worse than its petite adjacent courtyard. A sparkling fountain add lovely ambient sound to a romantic enclave that feels more like a nook in some small Spanish town than Central Florida. And it's not a bad place for a quick morning coffee or midday craft beer, either.
This charming, off-the-beaten-path venue is charming and rustic, evocative of some diamond-in-the-rough surprise you'd stumble upon while road tripping. Its food is surprising, too. Sandwiches, salads, scrumptious starters and a whole lotta barbecue. A host of offerings showcase piles of YDE's signature pulled pork, including the Rufus (pork topped with thick-cut Brie, cherry ring peppers and topped with raspberry melba sauce). Ribs are available by the half-rack, as well. And YDE's house slaw is a sweet, tangy treat. Vegans, fear not! There are loads of truly exceptional options! Live music in the restaurant's outdoor beer garden adds ear candy to the menu, Thursday through Saturday.
With its truly exceptional lakeside setting, fine dining at Hillstone may leave you and your guests stuffed, but no one at the table will find it stuffy. In fact, it's just the sort of place to loosen the tie, slide the power heels off a bit (under the table, perhaps) and unwind after a day of wheeling and dealing â€" one cocktail and a bit of fresh air and schmoozing becomes simple socializing over an ample wood-grilled steak, crisp salad or perhaps a sandwich or burger. Save room. Hillstone's desserts are decadent, as well. Thank goodness the view has zero calories.
With a rotating menu of New American cuisine and a romantic, lakeside setting, Canvas has made Lake Nona's rapidly expanding culinary scene tastier and prettier, injecting the Sunshine State's flavorful blend of Southern and Latin American into its Instagram-worthy plates. Restaurant may come first in Canvas' name, but let's not forget the "market" portion. It's one part high-end comestible-and-home-goods store, one part breezy cafe. Gifts and foodstuffs abound; they'll even take cooking dinner off your list of to-dos. Just buy it, bring it home and make whoever's eating it happy. (At the very least, you could bring a dessert treat!) The market is open daily from 7 am to 8 pm. Bar opens at 3 pm. The views to go with your wine, beer or cocktail are sublime.
Nestled into the lovely, rolling greens of College Park's public Dubsdread Golf Course, the Tap Room enjoys a loyal following of locals who come for lunch, dinner, Sunday brunch and a popular and notably jovial Happy Hour in cozy and comfortable digs. Though here for ages, it's not uncommon to encounter locals who've only just discovered the place. The wraparound porch (or verandah, as they call it) boasts some truly exceptional outdoor seating; come cooler months, it's the place to be â€" a delightful location for any occasion or no occasion at all save the pleasure of sublime al fresco dining.
The Shake Shack chain is renowned for tasty burgers, snappy hot dogs, thick milkshakes and the like, so if you're in the mood for a clean, fast-casual, all-American meal â€" they've got what you need. But if you're in the mood for a posh view without the four-dollar-sign menu, Winter Park's Shake Shack is precisely what you need. Their partially covered back patio is miles away from the busy lot out front, with resplendent lake views just as lovely as any of the city's upscale waterfront venues. Grab a beer, park yourself in one of the colorful Adirondack chairs and soak it all in.
This is the Four Season Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World Resort's signature steakhouse and its Spanish-inspired cuisine is elevated - literally and figuratively. From on high, guests here can take in superb cuisine, creative cocktail and phenomenally romantic fireworks views from the expansive balcony (heaters will be going on chilly nights, so don't let that put you off). Inspired small plates are a wonderful way to experience the many flavors on tap here, but entrees from the duck breast to the halibut to the porterhouse for two are mouthwatering and on point. Truthfully, it would be easy for a planned glass of Argentine malbec to turn into a multi-course dinner here. This isn't a venue you'll leave easy. It's a space in which you'll want to linger.
Soco offers up loads of plated Southern comfort, though its name is actually a representation of Southern contemporary, which means you'll find some down-home diner favorites that have undergone an evolution into something more upscale. Think boiled peanut hummus, mac-and-cheese croquettes and chicken and dumplings that infuse the latter with lobster. Its dining room is warm and inviting but its al fresco sidewalk seating infuses meals with a hip, urban vibe that ticks everything up a notch. As appealing for dinner as it is for Sunday brunch or happy hour cocktails, Soco's patio is lively when the weather suits (which in Orlando is often), but the food here is exemplary, and well worth the visit even if the Florida rain is teeming outside. .
"Food, Brews & Views" is the tagline for this ideally located venue on the shores of South Orlando's Lake Jennie Jewel, and a jewel of a place it is. Both indoor and outdoor, the shaded patio makes for a cool respite in summertime (if you're not planning on a paddle or swim, that is - The Waterfront sometimes runs events that take participants out on the water....) and come Orlando's "winter," cool lakeside breezes and sublime temperatures make this an ideal oasis for lunch, dinner or a bottomless mimosa brunch if said special is running and you're so inclined. Folks who remember this place as Julie's Waterfront will be impressed with the upgrade in both food and atmosphere. The view? That really can't be improved upon.


Type & Media is a class I helped rewrite with Profs Maria Giuliani and Genevieve Hitchings. We took the old classes Typography 1 and Publication Media and massaged them into a lovely mélange of type, tech, and hand skills. I contributed my thinking on carving and drawing type for the beginning along with the use of zines (or chapbooks) as a format for later work. This is the second semester it has run, and I am still tweaking my approach to the material.
For the chapbook, I had the students think about their Five Year Plan–this way they could do some constructive thinking about their own careers while fulfilling the assignment.
We also turned the chapbooks into animations or interactive PDFs to help the students get into the idea of interaction design.


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Impact Management Beyond Action
The Future of Your Impact Career
The pressing social and environmental issues humankind is currently facing are forcing a change in the Economy. To balance financial sustainability with a positive Impact on all the stakeholders including our Society, companies, and organizations need to evolve and become more adaptive. By creating the Impact Management Beyond Action (IMBA) our aim is to give you the knowledge and tools to effectively manage organizations in an Impact-driven economy.
The IMBA is set to be entirely online, through a virtual learning environment that features classes, group workspace, community engagement, and even team building activities. It will provide the platform to deliver a 360-degree learning experience, that combines faculty lectures, class discussions and debates, case studies, Impact managers testimonials, and hands-on application in real-world problems for real-world Impact.
It will feature a common first track of general, Management and Strategy for Impact, including modules such as Management 101, Hybrid Paradoxes, and Competitiveness and Strategy. The common first track will then be followed by three possible tracks of management specialization – Disruptive Innovation for Impact, Sustainable Finance for Impact and Marketing & Communication for Impact. The programme has a permanent practical application of the subjects, ranging from self-paced weekly assignments to a final real-life team challenge. You can customize your learning experience and navigate a range of different possibilities and trends. You'll be able to choose two different specialization tracks, as long as they're not happening simultaneously.
The IMBA has 3 intertwined dimensions: Knowledge, Practice, and Emboldenment. Knowledge includes the theoretical contents of the programme, given mainly through the modules. Practice is about having hands-on experience and applying the tools to real-life challenges. Emboldening is what brings class and network together, exploring self-awareness, leadership style, team bonding, and emotional intelligence.
Meet the IMBA faculty. For more information, download the IMBA booklet at the end of the page.
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Managers or entrepreneurs from impact-driven organizations;
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Join the IMBA, apply now!
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The leadership journey for Impact!
The 3-dimensional approach, as well as the opportunity to customize your learning path and materialize it into career routes, is expected to give you:
A structural understanding of management and business, and the main managerial differences between traditional and hybrid organizations;
The role and tools of specialized areas of management, that will pave the way for the professionalization of management in impact-oriented organizations;
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Besides the scheduled classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 6 pm to 10 pm, you should expect around 4 hours during the week for programme work and study.
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For the Final Challenges, participants are expected to solve a real-world managerial problem as part of the practical dimension, resourcing to the theoretical component of the programme. These challenges will be based on the partnering organizations' main difficulties.
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Consciousness Is Quantum, Can Be Modulated With Specific Chemicals
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anesthetic consciousness inhibit microtubules nuclear spin pregnenolone promote quantum entanglement quantum mechanics resonance tubulin xenon
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Many readers are likely familiar with the theories of Roger Penrose on the topics of consciousness and how it relates to physics and even cosmology. He is perhaps the most vocal proponent of "quantum consciousness" theories, including his own theory known as "orchestrated objective reduction". The topic of anesthetics and how they work has always been an intense work in progress and largely a mystery ever since the first anesthetics were discovered. It is known that the strength of an anesthetic is correlated with its solubility in (olive) oil. But how exactly anesthetics work has remained largely a mystery.
The study below shows that the potency of xenon, a known anesthetic, depends on its nuclear spin. Certain isotopes of xenon, specifically xenon-129 and xenon-131 are much weaker anesthetics than the rest of the xenon isotopes without spin. In fact, nuclear spin determines entirely how consciousness-enhancing a xenon isotope is. The isotope xenon-121, which has a nuclear spin of 1/2 was found to be the most consciousness-promoting (weakest anesthetic). In fact, the study suggests that other atoms with nuclear spin 1/2 can also be used to enhance the process of consciousness. For those interested in investigating more, here is a table of the chemical elements listing isotopes with nuclear spin, including ones with spin of 1/2.
NMR Frequency Table
According to the study author, this corroborates the idea that consciousness is of quantum origin and occurs as an entanglement effect in microtubules, considering nuclear spin is a quantum feature of atoms and determines their ability to form entanglement. Elements with spin of 1/2 are the most capable of forming quantum entanglement, which appears to be a crucial component of consciousness. Interestingly enough, the chemical pregnenolone is well-known stabilizer of microtubules and is known to counteract the anesthetic effects of various chemicals such as ethanol, benzodiazepines, opioids, etc as well as have beneficial effects in many disorders related to microtubule structure/dynamics.
Pregnenolone stabilizes microtubules and promotes zebrafish embryonic cell movement
Pregnenolone binds to microtubule-associated protein 2 and stimulates microtubule assembly. - PubMed - NCBI
Microtubule associated protein 2 in bipolar depression: Impact of pregnenolone - ScienceDirect
https://www.researchgate.net/public...promote_microtubule_growth_and_cell_migration
neurosteroid pregnenolone reverts microtubule derangement induced by the loss of a functional CDKL5-IQGAP1 complex
So, maybe pregnenolone IS one such nutrient capable of promoting consciousness. I will reach out to the author of the popular press article and inquire, but I doubt these effects of pregnenolone are just a coincidence. Peat also spoke of pregnenolone a few times as pro-consciousness and pro-intelligence nutrient. Coincidentally (or not), the (in)famous radio host Alex Jones sells pregnenolone as a supplement and calls it the "Red Pill" - i.e. the supplement that will open your eyes to the truth. No endorsement on my end of Mr. Jones and his views/wares, I just thought this is another great example of Synchronicity (Synchronicity - Wikipedia).
"...The relation between nuclear spin and quantum processes in electron clouds as defined by Meyer-Overton is unclear, and deserves further study, as does the role of nuclear spin in mental states in general. Our results suggest that the quantum property of nuclear spin in the monoatomic anesthetic xenon promotes conscious processes at the xenon site of action, consistent with theories proposing quantum mechanisms in consciousness."
https://anesthesiology.pubs.asahq.org/article.aspx?articleid=2682839
"...Anesthetic gases block consciousness selectively, sparing nonconscious brain activities, and thus their specific action could unravel the age-old mystery of how the brain generates, or mediates, consciousness. In this issue, Li et al.1 make a significant contribution to our understanding of both anesthesia and consciousness, showing that an isotope of the anesthetic xenon (129Xe) with the quantum property of nuclear spin 1/2 is significantly less potent than xenon isotopes without spin, despite identical chemical actions. Li et al. suggest that the xenon nuclear spin antagonizes its own anesthetic action by promoting consciousness, and that consciousness involves quantum brain processes, thus supporting a genre of theories known as "quantum consciousness."
"Quantum consciousness" theories suggest that entanglement, coherence, and quantum computing occur in the brain, offering potential solutions to challenges in cognitive neuroscience, e.g., the "binding problem." In conscious vision, perceptual information for an object's shape, color, motion, and meaning is processed at different times in different areas of visual cortex (V1, V2, V3, and so forth). Yet somehow, the disparate content is "bound together" in unified scenes, e.g., a red kite flapping in the wind. More generally, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and visual sensory modalities, along with memory and feelings, all apparently processed in different brain locations at different times, are also bound together, integrated, in unified conscious perceptions. (Indeed, Mashour2 has suggested "unbinding" as the key effect of anesthetic action.) Einstein's "spooky action at a distance"—entanglement—may quite literally bind and integrate disparate brain content into unified conscious moments, like frames in a film or video. Sequences of such moments can give rise to our familiar stream of consciousness."
"...Anesthesia to the rescue! In the nineteenth century, gases with diverse chemical structures were found to reversibly render humans and animals immobile, unresponsive and unconscious. Seeking a unifying factor, Hans Meyer (1899) and Charles Overton (1901) discovered that anesthetic potency correlated strongly with gas solubility in a nonpolar, "hydrophobic" lipid-like medium akin to olive oil. Potency is quantified by the ED50 (effective dose producing immobilization in half the population), which, for volatile anesthetics, came to be known as the minimum alveolar concentration. The solubility binding involves weak quantum dipole couplings (van der Waals London forces6 ) between electron outer shells of anesthetic molecules, and, e.g., "π electron resonance" clouds of aromatic amino acid rings inside certain brain proteins.The Meyer-Overton correlation thus defines an intraprotein, olive oil–like medium that is "quantum-friendly," nonpolar, hydrophobic (not "wet"), and potentially suitable for quantum information processing relevant to consciousness. As for "warm," plant photosynthesis proteins use quantum coherence to transfer photon energy from sunlight through π resonance groups, facilitated by coherent mechanical vibrations, and thus are not "noisy" but rhythmic. Unlike olive oil, or bulk benzene (e.g., gasoline), π resonance electron clouds in protein interiors are arrayed at, or near, the van der Waals radius, conducive to quantum interactions (e.g., similar to the quantum material graphene).In which proteins do anesthetics act to erase consciousness? Membrane ion channels and/or receptors for γ-aminobutyric acid receptor type A, glutamate, acetylcholine, glycine, and serotonin were presumed targets, but evidence failed to support unitary anesthetic action,7 and some results point to cytoskeletal microtubules inside neurons.8 Polymers of the protein tubulin, microtubules have quantum resonance oscillations in terahertz, gigahertz, megahertz, and kilohertz frequency ranges,9 and are proposed to host quantum computing regulating neurons, controlling behavior and mediating consciousness.4 Computer simulations suggest anesthetic gases dampen (and nonanesthetic gases do not dampen) tubulin terahertz resonance (proportional to anesthetic potency).3 Other "quantum consciousness" theories involve membrane proteins, ordered water, lipids, or DNA.Nuclear spin 1/2 is far more stable than electron cloud dipole states, and Fisher10 has suggested that adenosine triphosphate hydrolysis can encode memory as geometric arrays of 31phosphorous nuclear spin 1/2. Now Li et al.1 suggest nuclear spin 1/2 antagonizes anesthetic potency by promoting factors supporting consciousness."
"...Quantum consciousness theories portray the brain as a multiscale hierarchy originating in quantum vibrational states at small, fast scales inside proteins in the neuronal membrane and/or cytoskeleton. These may amplify and resonate upward over many orders of magnitude (figs. 1 and 2). Rather than a computer, the brain may be more like an orchestra; rather than a computational output, consciousness may be more like music." The work by Li et al. also suggests various drugs, or supplements with nuclear spin 1/2, may enhance quantum brain vibrations and entanglement, possibly benefiting mental and cognitive states. The authors are to be congratulated for a significant breakthrough."
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And interesting tidbit about Alex Jones Red Pill, LOL.
Do you think that stuff interferes with cholesterol conversion into pregnenolone in the body?
Which stuff interferes with conversion? Anesthetics?
haidut said:
I'm sorry for the lack of clarity. I mean are there substances that can induce metabolic problems that make it difficult for body to make enough pregnenolone and subsequent downstream hormones.
AAS. Exemestane.
Oh yeah, tons of them. Pretty much all of the so-called endocrine disruptors and especially BPA, BPS, etc can do that. High alcohol intake is also a great steroidogenic inhibitor, and simply being in a reductive stress (low NAD/NADH ratio) inhibits the entire steroidogenic cascade. PUFA is a another great endocrine disruptor, most pesticides and fluorine/chlorine containing chemicals in the food supply and household use are also quite potent. I am sure the list is quite extensive but those are some of the most prominent ones IMO.
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Not sure about that. Exemestane has been shown to elevate DHEA, T, and DHT and that cannot happen if it was inhibiting the steroidogenic cascade. In higher doses, where it begins to act mostly as an androgen (6-methylene-boldenone) it may do that but even at the clinically used (and unnecessarily high) dose of 25mg daily that does not seem to happen.
Not sure about that. Exemestane has been shown to elevate DHEA, T, and DHT and that cannot happen if it was inhibiting the steroidogenic cascade. In higher doses, where it begins to act mostly as an androgen (6-methylene-boldenone) it may do that but even at the clinically use (and highly unnecessary) dose of 25mg daily that does not seem to happen.
In hindsight you may be right, I was considering it's effects via the boldenone metabolite you mentioned above but was not accounting for dosage. Such small doses of androgens don't tend to cause suppression.
thank you - this is very helpful.
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The psychiatrist and later spiritual teacher David R Hawkings had a famous and extremely successful clinic in which he used vitamins to cure severe mental problems. His collegues were hostile from the start and he was preveted from publishing his results. He wrote a book with Linus Pauling about it. Vitamins, as haidut has often noted, seem to be one of the keys to conciousness.
https://www.amazon.ca/Orthomolecular-Psychiatry-Schizophrenia-David-Hawkins/dp/0716708981
It is known that the strength of an anesthetic is correlated with its solubility in (olive) oil. But how exactly anesthetics work has remained largely a mystery.
Maybe not a coincidence that the consciousness promoting substances pregnenolone (especially) and progesterone are some of the less soluble?
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This sounds to me like Ray's picture of Blake and his extraordinary perception.
Great post! Lots of ideas I have never even heard of. Thank you.
Koveras said:
May very well be. Also, it may not be a far fetched claim that fats in general inhibit consciousness and this may be another reason Peat argues against being on fat oxidation mode. I sent him the study so let's see what he has to say.
Maybe consciousness is at odds with creativity, and increasing consciousness allows one to live in the moment in better awareness, but decreasing it allows the brain's quantum prediction engine to focus on future possibilities (and conceptualization of the world)? It's analogous to collapsing a wave function that you're examining. Also analogous to how pregnenolone is antagonistic to and induced by THC (progesterone is something else). I'm sure someone must have thought of this before but I'm not read. Otherwise man I have some nuclear ***t to make sense of.
Anthony Peake frequently talks about anesthetics in his youtube videos
Terma said:
Maybe consciousness is at odds with creativity
How can this be? It implies that being lower in the scale of consciousness (sedated/comatose) makes you more creative, but I'd say the exact opposite is true. You may have meant that creativity (associated with the so-called first signal system in Pavlov's theory) is at odds with with analytical reasoning / verboseness (second signal system). That I would certainly agree with.
I think there are 2 different forms of creativity and we are each referring to the other. The first is a fully conscious, controlled form of creation through will, and sheer will (R.I.P. Richard Attenborough), and this is what you have in mind. Or rather, a limited form of creativity where you still have tons of all the neurotransmitters and stress signals running around throttling your engine, or something. Attached to that, or a version of that, is creation under stress (5-HT2a), and I hope that's not the only form for that.
But I experience a different form of creativity now. My brain is generating or even reading all the possibilities and music on its own with no effort on my part. I simply read the paper the printer prints out. It's like reading the score sheet of the universe. It happens on its own because the engine just runs by itself if you give it boundless energy (ketones + sugar + ribose + all supporting nutrients) and eliminate all stress signals that impede it normally (high dose THC is a strong retrograde neurotransmitter, it stops everything, and the others I use contribute, and then you accentuate the neurotransmitters you want with additional substances and fuel the quantum engine with ketones and it just runs by itself - it's the Generator (Bad Religion)).
Even if they used the same engine, one form is consciously controlled while the other is closer to a dissolution of self and riding a sea of waves. You could even maybe see it as a spectrum of control, or a sort of throttle or gear shift for the quantum engine, but I'm not sure about that.
I've done both. I wrote music for years through dopamine and sheer will, and it's a slow and ultimately exhausting process - because you run out of fun (energy abundance and creativity). But now I can write 2 albums worth of choruses in one night with zero effort after barely sleeping for 3 months. The only problem is memory. Memory is a b****. That's why I have to write everything.
I think the thing I wanted you to do I actually did it :), just sooner than I thought. It's 100% reproducible for me and it's changing my life right now.
I agree. But I think there are two ways to decrease awareness, the first is via high serotonin/prolactin, which is a death-like lowering of consciousness, and the second is via high CO2/low lactic acid, which is the "effortless energy" you speak of. What are the things that helped you get into that second state? I've been trying for years.
No rest for the wicked.
Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor.
I literally littered Travis's thread with it, I don't know how you can miss it lol
Oh thanks, I've never clicked on that thread. Will read through your posts on it now.
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The literature says these were designed by Danny Seki.
Good for him but Dan-Seki is a japanese description for "terraced hillside"; something which suits the JVC-3 very well.
The JVC JVC-3 nevertheless has a tuned walnut enclosure, a woofer with barium-ferrite bass magnet & heat-resistant voice coil and, mainly, a "revolutionary soft-dome tweeter" which "pulsates to emit a radial non-directional hemisphere of sound".
The front grille/mousse/foam was available stock in cashmere tan and, optionally, in orange.
An orange hemisphere of sound... we're in 1972 allright !
The JVC-3 seems to have been part of a series of components but I have nothing on the others (if any) - anyone ?


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This book relates the part played by Royal Navy Top Guns in defence of UK's global National Interests since World War II. It is an intimate account of the author's "technicolour" journey to Top Gun status, the fighter pilot lite of Britain's armed forces, and provides insight into the real world behind the blockbuster movie.
It is about the attitude and making of a war-fighter.
Instructively, it then goes on to provide the unfortunate history of the recent decline of the UK's Naval Service revealing misleading propaganda and untruths that have been used to fraudulently influence Ministers and the UK Government.
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Running Sea Harrier development and production in the Ministry of Defence,
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Major-General Julian Thompson CB OBE, Royal Marines: "Painstaking preparation of his Squadron, superlative personal flying skills, and a determination to engage the enemy more closely, made Sharkey Ward a fighter leader in the mould of Bader, Johnson, Ball, and others in the past".
Admiral Sir Sandy Woodward, Carrier Battle Group Commander: "If Sharkey Ward had not disobeyed orders, we could not have won the Falklands War". A Royal Navy Top Gun and Air Warfare Instructor, Sharkey was Senior Pilot of 892 Phantom F4-K Squadron in the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal during the Cold War. He personally introduced the Sea Harrier Fighter Aircraft to Naval Service, commanding the Intensive Flying Trials Unit 700A Squadron, 899 Headquarters Squadron and then 801 Front Line Squadron in the Falklands where he was Senior Sea Harrier advisor to the Command on all aspects of the fast jet air war. He flew over sixty war missions by day and night, achieved three air-to-air kills (& one damaged) and was involved in or witnessed eight further kills.
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40 Women, 40 Years of Philanthropyby Darrion J. Beckles
Brooklyn, New York- When the phrase 40/40 is mentioned aloud, you may envision the swag social venue in Midtown Manhattan, run by the famous rap mogul – that's not the case in Bedford Stuyvesant. Forty/forty now brings about thoughts of activism, philanthropy, feminism. Forty years, forty women.
Forty, in the first instance, is a reference to the fortieth anniversary of Hattie Carthan's 1960's eco-cause becoming a neighborhood fixture- the Magnolia Tree Earth Center.
Last month, at a Von King Park celebration it represented also the remarkable determination — years of duty — by forty remarkable women philanthropists, who through their tenacity and hard work, are improving their communities forty-fold, women who, like the late Hattie Carthan, show love to their community through endless hours of activism and community service.
On Monday, March 29th, community legends like Mary Von King (activist and the wife of the park's late namesake, Herbert Von King), Mama Leah, Mother Olatunji, and Alma Duke Carroll, as well as thirty six other queens on the community activist front were "immortalized" on the theater's wall of living legends> And deservedly so.
They nurtured their neighborhoods with care and attention, and for that, before an audience of loved ones and supporters, they were honored. The event, Von King Park's 2nd Annual Women's History Month Awards and Hattie Carthan award ceremony saluted sisters, mothers, wives, co-workers and friends. Two days before women's history month came to a close, teachers, principals, executives, gardeners, council representatives, non profit women, corporate women, and community activists came from near and far to cheer and celebrate in "You Go, Girl" fashion. Broadcaster Ann Tripp delivered of New York soul station WBLS delivered a beautiful keynote urging women to be at the forefront of delivering messages of activism for a better earth. It was an event prepared for the seasoned activists, but was powered by the spry enthusiasm of the future philanthropists. The youngsters weren't just there to observe; they were involved. Preparing a scrumptious brunch buffet for all of the award winners and guests, and entertaining the audience with a five course serving of spoken word doesn't even begin to describe their level contribution.
Recipients and organizers sang praises for the youngsters, who that day, dispelled the stereotype of the aimless -minority- youth. Honoree Carroll, community organizer, said she believes in the important of keeping the lines of communication between young folks open -and strong- with those who have been there before. There was a broad consensus in Von King Park's Eubie Blake Theater that the torch, when passed, will be in capable hands, athlete Mary deSaussere told us. They have proven themselves. "Give them guidance, structure, and nurturing, you'll have a solid foundation," said ten -year volunteer and event organizer Charlotte Renee Mial, who was given one of the highest honors of the afternoon for her own work with the youth as head of the Culinary Arts Program..
In addition to the 40 women being awarded, four of Bedford Stuyvesant history's most revered women were given high honors and acknowledgements: education activist Almira Coursey, neighborhood and brownstone preservationist Ruby Ford, the Honorable Lucille Rose, the city's first black woman Judge, and community icon and larger than life Brooklyn legend Hattie Carthan, the environmentalist. Sidney Moshette accepted for the late Almira Coursey and announced there's talk in the air of naming the Von King park ampitheater after Mrs. Coursey. The award was named appropriately after one of Brooklyn's toughest activists. In Hattie Carthan's day activism was as simple as taking action when your favorite tree is being threatened. Many of these ladies were born and raised in a time of fire hoses, segregation, lynching, cross burnings, and segregation- America's apartheid era. Every woman receiving the award sees Mrs. Carthan as a shining example. She was the woman who planted the seed that allowed them to grow as community leaders, so it was an honor for them to know that they were following in the footsteps of one of the village's greatest, most active philanthropists. Lois Alma Gilliard, known throughout Brooklyn as Mama Leah, is a volunteer arts instructor, civil rights solider and community matriarch. She offered words of wisdom for the future forty as the crowd filed out of the auditorium: "The women that are here will just not sit back now; they will let this be an opportunity to be energized and refueled and not necessarily view anything different than what they have been doing."
The event was about giving back to the community. And that is what the creative mind behind the event, Charlotte Mial, did by organizing and composing the day. It was her idea to involve the youth in the event preparations in celebration of the community heroes. Recreation specialist Larry Banks, a composer and drama coach, and Center Manager Lemuel Mial recorded Banks' original song, "Woman," for the honorees; and John Llanos, a former archaeologist, created -by hand- 40 vases without even the thought of credit or compensation. Both the CD's and hand-signed Vases were available in gift bags, along with copies of March Essence Magazine and Vogue's now historic issue with First Lady Michelle Obama on the cover. The givers received their just due from those who cherish and appreciate giving.
The atmosphere of the day was full of hope, enthusiasm, gratitude, excitement, pride and positive energy. There was a subtle electricity in the air as recipients, guests, friends, families, supporters, and observers put it to a greater power in speech and in prayer for another forty years of excellence from the women of Brooklyn. But as one of the award winners exclaimed before and after the stage was cleared, "if it aint in ya, then it cant come out."The spirits of Hattie Carthan and Mr. Von King watched on, with a smile, with confidence, seeing their work gave birth to something wonderful. (Darrion Beckles is a Brooklyn-based writer and community news reporter. He can be reached at warriorscribe@gmail.com )
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Michigan Medicine plans joint venture with St. Joseph Mercy Health System in Chelsea
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Michigan Medicine and the St. Joseph Mercy Health System announced on Wednesday plans to establish a joint venture which will operate the 133-bed St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital in Chelsea, Michigan.
The two parties signed a letter of intent launching a due diligence period during which final details of the joint venture will be determined.
"Michigan Medicine wants to partner with health care organizations that deliver high quality and high value," said David Spahlinger, M.D., president of the U-M Health System, the organization's clinical enterprise.
"St. Joseph Mercy Health System has a longstanding, positive reputation for delivering high quality care to their communities. We look forward to working together on improving health care access and quality for the local community and the entire state."
Under the definitive agreement — whose terms will be worked out now that the letter of intent has been signed — both St. Joseph Mercy and Michigan will have an interest in the hospital. St. Joseph Mercy will maintain control and manage hospital operations, including appointing its leaders.
Once approved, the agreement will expand the surgical procedures Michigan Medicine provides at the Chelsea hospital. It will also increase access to U-M physicians for patients in Chelsea and surrounding communities.
"We are excited to bring our capabilities closer to patients," Spahlinger said. "We have long cared for patients in the greater Chelsea area — but who travel to and from Ann Arbor for their care. With this affiliation, Chelsea-area patients will have expanded care choices closer to home."
"This emerging relationship is groundbreaking in Michigan; patient-centered collaboration is in the best interests of our communities. Together we can offer high quality care locally and higher levels of specialized care when necessary," said Rob Casalou, regional president and CEO, St. Joseph Mercy Health System.
Nancy Graebner, president and CEO of St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea, is also excited about the agreement.
"The planned joint venture expands upon years of successful collaboration between our two organizations," Graebner said. "This natural progression of our relationship will enhance our ability to provide a broader range of services jointly with Michigan Medicine."
This agreement is part of a larger statewide strategy between Michigan Medicine and Trinity-owned Mercy Health and St. Joseph Mercy.
The expanded relationships follow the February announcement of a professional services agreement between Mercy Health cardiothoracic surgery and the department of cardiac surgery at Michigan Medicine. Additionally, the organizations will work together to better deliver clinical care to patients in west Michigan and will collaborate in graduate medical education.
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Intel to invest $US1.6 billion in China plant to push mobile chip development
The investment over the next 15 years will go toward upgrading Intel's chip plant in Chengdu
Michael Kan (IDG News Service) 04 December, 2014 21:26
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To push its mobile chips into the supply streams of more Chinese vendors, Intel is planning to invest up to $US1.6 billion over the next 15 years at a company semiconductor plant in Chengdu.
The money will be used to upgrade the facilities at the plant, in order to help Intel expand into the mobile devices markets including smartphones, tablets and wearables, the US chipmaker said.
As part of the upgrades, Intel will for the first time bring its "Advanced Test Technology" to China, as a way to better assess the quality of its chips, and produce better processors across different product areas.
In addition to focusing on the mobile devices market, Intel's investment is also geared toward developing chips for the "Internet of Things", a growing market segment that involves turning everyday objects, such as kitchenware, bicycles, and toothbrushes, into smart connected devices.
Increasingly Chinese manufacturers and vendors are building electronics for consumers across the world, and Intel wants to become their main chip supplier.
But while the U.S. company has dominated the PC and server markets, its processors are more rarely used in smartphones and tablets. Instead, Chinese vendors have been choosing more power-efficient ARM-based chips from rivals Qualcomm and MediaTek to build their mobile devices.
Intel, however, has been trying to reverse the trend. In the Chinese city of Shenzhen, for example, the company has been courting lesser-known hardware vendors to build tablets using Intel processors.
In September, the U.S. company also entered into a partnership to jointly produce Intel-based smartphone chips with Chinese semiconductor maker Spreadtrum Communications. In May, Intel made a similar agreement with Chinese processor vendor Rockchip, but for tablets.
Intel will start carrying out the upgrades at the Chengdu facility next year. The company's Advanced Test Technology will be used in mass production of chips in the second half of 2016.
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PURPOSE: To continue practicing literary analysis via a specific lens (or combination). You'll again analyze a piece of fiction using the fundamental premises and rules of interpretation outlined by a school of criticism, but this time you're going to do extrinsic as well as intrinsic analysis. While you'll use outside sources to analyze your chosen literary text, you'll still need to analyze elements of the text. Sometimes textual analysis is lost in service of contextual articles and essays, so you'll want to ensure you balance both here.
While you need to use several sources aside from the literary text, this isn't a research paper. Rather, it's a literary analysis supplemented with several outside sources that will prepare you for the research paper. You will likely have to do very little research as I provide a good deal of source material for you – I want you to focus on why we use certain kind of sources and incorporate them fluidly, not finding them.
***If you choose to write about The Handmaid's Tale, you will have quick access to multiple critical essays that respond to/analyze the novel. If you choose to write about a film, you'll have access to multiple theoretical essays that will help you build your approach (and I'll post a few essays about several of the films as I find them, but you will likely need to find at least one source on the film).
ASSIGNMENT: In a 6-8 page, MLA-formatted paper, analyze a) The Handmaid's Tale or b) a dystopic film (see choices below).
****Your paper must include direct quotes from your chosen text that support your examples and thesis, a clear and thoughtful thesis (see sample Handmaid paper), direct quotes from your outside sources and a Works Cited page. You must use two but no more than four outside sources.
1.) You need to use at least one written analysis of your text, whether it's the novel or the film ("practical criticism"). This is the same thing you're doing. Ideally, this literary analysis will be your scholarly source. If you cannot find a scholarly source for a film, you can use a popular source – just look for something credible, written through a theoretical lens (ideally Marxism or Feminism, but anything that analyzes race, ethnicity, social class/stratification, identity/identity politics, discourse/politicized language, ideology, sexuality, gender, characterization of women, portrayals femininity and masculinity, etc. can work. You can find a scholarly source on something else.
2. An essay that explores/critiques the genre/subgenre, an author or your chosen theoretical lens – or both. So, a source exploring dystopias (in general or topically), the use of/developments in/responses to the theory. If you don't use a scholarly source for the above, try to find an appropriate one in this pool.
From the scholarly anthology The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature: "Introduction: Utopia, Dystopia and Social Critique" or "The Contemporary Communist Dystopia"
Profile: Margaret Atwood, The Prophet of Dystopia
3. A recent news article/opinion piece on the novel or your chosen film (or one that explores a major theme in your text (particularly if that news article/editorial intersects you're your own analysis).
See developing sample paper in Google Docs
DRAFT DUE DATE: MON, JULY 17
(If you want the opportunity to submit a revision, you need to turn in a completed paper on the draft due date – one that meets length and topic requirements.)
FINAL DRAFT DUE DATE:One week after I return the paper to you
Film SELECTIONS:
The Running Man
Mad Max Fury Road
Soylent Green
Professor Amy Bolaski
"Issues-Based Paper Using Intrinsic and Extrinsic Analysis From a Marxist and Feminist Perspective (Issue – forced surrogacy/reproduction)"
Introduction: [didn't write one – the purpose of this document is to demonstrate the use of intrinsic and extrinsic analysis via a theoretical lens to provide analytical structure/inclusion of various sources. Thus, the paper begins below with what would be a body paragraph.]
Comparing surrogacy to other forms of assistance in conceiving and raising children, writer Nayantara Mallya (volunteer for SuDatta, an association for adoptive parents) here highlights why surrogacy is an oppressive, unethical form of such assistance:
For one, getting help for childcare, education and the care of elders pays people for their skills and work. It's not an invasion of their bodies. Surrogacy is. To me, it compares (in terms of ethics) to paid live organ donation … a person's body is being used to save someone else's life. Or commercial sex work … a woman is paid to satisfy a man's desires . . . . Surrogacy is the wrong solution to pleasing the patriarchal notions about the requirement for a bloodline produced obediently by the wife and the superiority of genetic ties.
While Mallya explicitly identifies modern (particularly outsourced) surrogacy as a form of patriarchal oppression, she also goes on to locate the practice in class-based oppression. The forced surrogacy in Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale is presented similarly: the practice is at the apex of the handmaids' psychological, sexual, physiological and physical oppression. Atwood's darkly dystopian surrogacy forewarns of the very real dangers inherent in perhaps any exchange that trades on the pregnancy/birth of child – whether the surrogate is paid in the form of financial currency (as in Maliya's non-fictional critique) or the alleged honor and physical safety promised to the handmaids in Atwood's fictional account. In a modern world wherein we seemingly have more choice than ever in deciding whether/how/when to conceive a child, both Maliya and Atwood remind us that such choice almost always belongs to those of privileged races, ethnic identities, social classes, and geographical locations. For many, many others, choice is much less a part of the equation – often playing no part at all.
The aunts/enforcers go so far as to liken the handmaids' new existence to, literally, a form of freedom rather than a world of bodily coercion and force, proposing that the handmaids are lucky in that they no longer have to deal with catcalls or fear violence from strangers. Aunt Lydia, seemingly having internalized the new but wildly perverse ideology of her country's fundamentalist leaders says brightly, " [i]n the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from." This defective but catchy truism is meant to help the handmaid understand and reconfigure the conditions of her freedom while maintaining the outrageous fiction that she possesses any form of freedom at all: they are free from sexual harassment, the threat of home invasion, touch to which they have not consented, forced and perhaps violent sexual contact. In exchange for such "protection" she has simply had to give up freedom "to" – to make decisions, to choose sexual partners, to choose whether to try to conceive or not, to have any agency whatsoever. This anachronistic ideology is similar to the kind Mallya recognizes in the rhetoric that favors surrogacy: " . . . First we had BPO [business process outsourcing] then KPO [knowledge process outsourcing], and now reproduction process outsourcing. . . . A couple who cannot birth a child exploits a woman in a developing country, walks away with a baby in hand, and feels like they helped the surrogate mom get a better life." The perceived mutually beneficial exchange, mirrored in Aunt Lydia's version, is often the selling point. However, "The professional surrogate mother also appears to be a winner, with all the money she's paid. But she's not. She's a victim" (Maliya).


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Mandatory Milwaukee: Pizza Shuttle saved my life (and it could save yours)
Some places come and go, while some places become icons. Mandatory Milwaukee is all about the latter. Join us as we revisit beloved and well-worn local staples with fresh eyes, and explore how they might figure in the city's future.
If you'll forgive a personal story in this installment of Mandatory Milwaukee, I'd like to tell you about the time Pizza Shuttle (1827 N. Farwell Ave., 414-289-9993) saved my life.
I was 24 years old, living in a flood-prone East Side basement apartment with my girlfriend. This was 2002 or so. I spent my days being sporadically employed and typing my crappy thoughts into LiveJournal. I spent my nights playing the first Halo with my friends who would lug over their own Xboxes and big-ass TVs so we could get 16 players on that sucker. I wore turtlenecks and still had a landline. It was a Different Time.
Anyway, one night my girlfriend and I ordered pizza. (Even all these years later, the place we ordered from shall go unnamed.) We were told it would be a 45-minute wait. My girlfriend hopped in the shower. I hopped on the couch and watched Aqua Teen Hunger Force or whatever.
Twenty minutes later, the doorbell rang. I opened the door. Hey! It was the pizza guy! And I kind of knew him! Fun! The pizza guy in question (for the sake of this story, I'll call him "Alonzo") had dated an ex-girlfriend of mine a few years prior. He had since become one of those dudes who was just always around. Case in point: here he was on my doorstep, delivering me a pizza at 9 p.m.
Alonzo and I chatted for a bit. We were friendly but we certainly weren't "friends," so we made the usual friendly non-friends small talk. And that's when he asked me a simple yet fateful question: "Wanna do some deliveries with me and get high?"
Now, the proper response to this question is: "Ha. No thanks. Did you remember the garlic bread?" But that was not my response. No, gentle reader, I decided to take this semi-random dude up on his semi-random offer. Not only that, I agreed to it in two seconds flat. "Sure," I said, walking out the door and closing it behind me. Jump in the car of a pizza guy I kinda-sorta knew and get high? Why not? It was a Different Time.
Oh yeah, two crucial things: I neglected to announce my departure to my girlfriend, who was still in the shower. Also, my girlfriend and I didn't own cell phones.
Before we go any further, I should mention that I've never been much of a smoker. I've done my fair share of illegal drugs—enjoyed some, gotten creeped out by others—but marijuana has always fallen in the "not for me" category. There's something about the loss of control and the whole "warping of time" thing that doesn't agree with me. Better to do a drug that heightens my senses instead of one that wraps my senses in 14 blankets and spins them around in a dark room. Plus, one quick hit and I'm usually high for about eight hours.
And, well, that's what happened here. About 30 seconds into our illicit late-night delivery jaunt, Alonzo produced a pipe stuffed with weed. He gave it to me. I partook. I got really, really high, really, really fast. Yes, I know everyone has a "it was laced with something" story, but this shit was totally laced with something. My universe instantly dropped away. I lost all sense of where I was, who I was, and who I was with. My only cognizant thought was "Uh oh."
The next five hours are a blur of lights, sounds, and increasingly frenzied impressions. Endless driving. Picking up someone else and driving some more. Waiting in the car while Alonzo went inside a series of houses that seemed to fall outside his pizza delivery jurisdiction. Alonzo screaming at me and telling me he was a pimp, and that I should call him if I ever needed anything. A gun in the glove compartment. A gun in Alonzo's hand. More driving. More people. More smoking. More everything. In case you're wondering why I'm calling the dude "Alonzo," it's because the whole thing felt like Training Day. Or that episode of Six Feet Under where David gets kidnapped. It was absolutely terrifying.
And then, the next thing I knew, I was sitting on the steps of my friendly neighborhood Pizza Shuttle, alone, in tears, out of my mind. I had (and still have) no idea how I ended up there. Alonzo, who didn't work for Pizza Shuttle, was long gone. It was a little past 2 a.m. I remember approaching random customers and asking them if I could borrow their cell phones. I had to call my girlfriend. I had to call a cab. I had to get home. Everyone ignored me. I must have looked insane.
Finally, a Pizza Shuttle employee appeared. She gave me her phone and let me call my girlfriend. She called me a cab. (This woman, this Pizza Shuttle savior, remains my personal saint.) Twenty minutes later, I was home. I let myself in and immediately collapsed to the floor. I was a wreck. The fallout with my girlfriend—remember, I had essentially disappeared for five hours—is a story best left for another time, or not at all.
The moral of this dumb/harrowing/dumb story? I'm an idiot and Pizza Shuttle is the best. Seriously, it's great. If you haven't ordered from Pizza Shuttle in a few years, go ahead and do it. The pizza remains delicious and the menu remains absurd (Burgers! Subs! Ribs! Fish fry!). If you haven't dined in at Pizza Shuttle in a few years, go ahead and do that, too. The place is like a skating rink crossed with an arcade. There are TVs and pinball games and photo booths. The clientele is eclectic and the service is terrific. The Andy Warhol cow silkscreen is still there. Everything is still there.
More than three decades into its existence, the Milwaukee pizza icon is about as Mandatory Milwaukee as they come. It's a rock of the East Side, a pepperoni-piled pillar of the community. It's practically a public utility. Long ago, it saved my life. One of these nights, it could save yours. Maybe it already has.
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