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Researchers use brain scans to hunt for Alzheimer's cause

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Jump to Brain imaging/neuroimaging - Imaging technologies used in Alzheimer's research ... Structural imaging studies have shown that the brains of ...

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Even though amyloid plaques in the brain are a characteristic feature of Alzheimer's disease, their presence cannot be used to diagnose the disease. Many people have amyloid plaques in the brain but have no symptoms of cognitive decline or Alzheimer's disease. Because amyloid plaques cannot be used to diagnose Alzheimer's disease, amyloid imaging is not recommended for routine use in patients suspected of having Alzheimer's disease.

I can not begin to pose as knowledgeable in this rapidly growing area of medical research but it seems to be a very complicated as well as very important problem to solve. Right now, I don't think they are even close. HZL

RESEARCH STUDIES IN ALZHEIMER'S

Even though we have left the Age of Sigmund Freud

for a New One of of tau protein and amyloid,

the results have been under par

without much success so far,

despite already having spent many a buck---

but sometimes, it's just a matter of luck.

So, let us not not further research disparage,

for the answer to an ailing hippocampus

could be found someday in a California garage

or even engineering campus:

Perhaps a new digital brain with renewable memories---

provided you'll then pay a hefty monthly bill, please ?

HZL

5/27/15

A Danish Radio Station Debate

When Elmer Fudd cried

"I'll kill that Wabbit"

it cannot be denied

that viewers laughed at it.

Because, at what they were looking

was a cry of desperation

not the first step in cooking

some elaborate rabbit preparation.

After sitting down to eat, we all

become something of a cannibal,

and ,as Only God Can Make a Tree,

so even a vegetarian might feel similarly.

And, since inevitably we are sinners,

let us, at least, respect our dinners,

and as we think or say our Grace

give thanks we're not in their place.

For only a dope ,

I'm sure ,

could ever hope,

like the old-time ad for Ivory Soap,

to be 99 and 44/100' ths percent pure.

hzl

5/27/15

Elmer Fudd (Character) - Quotes - IMDb

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Box-Office Bunny (1990). Elmer Fudd: Sneak into my theater will you, you wasicallywabbit? .... Elmer Fudd as Siegfried: I'll kill the wabbit! Awise storm!

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Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. --Manheim-Willett. What keeps a man alive? He lives on others. He likes to taste them first, then eat them whole if he can .

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Trees by Joyce Kilmer : Poetry Magazine - Poetry Foundation

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A nest of robins in her hair;. Upon whose bosom snow has lain;. Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me,. But only God can make a tree.

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Danish Radio Station Defends Host Who Clubbed Rabbit to Death During Animal Welfare Debate

MAY 26, 2015

Allan the rabbit, shortly before he was killed during a live radio broadcast in Denmark on Monday.CreditRadio 24syv, via Facebook

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By ROBERT MACKEY

A radio station in Denmark argued Tuesday that it was merely fulfilling its public service mandate to provoke debate when the host of a morning show beat a baby rabbit to death with a bicycle pump this week during a live discussion of animal welfare.

Jorgen Ramskov, the editor in chief of Radio 24syv, a private station supported by fees from listeners, explained in an email that the killing of a nine-week-old rabbit named Allan during a broadcast on Monday was intended to highlight the Danish public’s “hypocrisy when it comes to animal welfare.”

Audio of the killing during the Danish-language program was made available on the broadcaster’s website.

News of the rabbit’s killing inflamed opinion on social networks, perhaps in part because Asger Juhl, the host who clubbed and strangled the rabbit, was pictured with Allan before and after the killing in two video clips posted on the station’s Facebook page.

In the first clip, Mr. Juhl was seen petting the live rabbit in the studio.

The second clip showed what the station described as meat from Allan’s body cooking on a stove before Mr. Juhl and Kristoffer Eriksen, the morning show’s co-host, ate it.

“At least in Denmark,” Mr. Ramskov said Tuesday, “we seem to regard animal welfare as a nice thing for certain animals — and frankly don’t care when it comes to normal livestock: cows, pigs, lambs, chickens.”

Danes, he added, have a voracious appetite for meat, but “consumers do not hesitate to buy cheap meat in stores without asking questions about the life or death of the animal — meat from chickens, pigs, cows and sheep that have not led dignified or pleasant lives.”

“To take the life of an animal brings about a strong emotional response in vast segments of the public,” Mr. Ramskov noted. “It was important to us that the rabbit would not suffer, and it was put down according to careful instructions by a professional animal caretaker from a Danish zoo.”

Speaking to Britain’s Sky News, he argued: “I think this rabbit had a very decent life. It was taken good care of, it had a nice life and it was killed in a decent way.”

An interview with the editor of Denmark’s Radio 24syv on Tuesday. Sky News, via YouTube

The station’s high-minded description of the debate was perhaps undermined slightly by its choice of Linse Kessler, a Danish reality star known for her enormous fake breasts, to argue the animal-rights case during the show. After Ms. Kessler realized that Mr. Juhl intended to kill Allan, she chased the host around the studio, trying to free the rabbit, but ultimately failed.

In a Facebook update headlined “R.I.P. Little Allan,” translated by The Local, Ms. Kessler said that she understood the point the station was trying to make about the hypocrisy of meat eaters, but still called the stunt “wrong.”

While there was quite a bit of fury online about what quickly became known on Twitter as #Allangate, there was also some support for the station’s point.

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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

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