Remembering David Bowie

                                                                   

                                                                          

David Robert Jones, known professionally as David Bowie, was an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, arranger, painter and actor. 

                                        8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016.                                              

                                                                     

Spouse: Iman (m. 1992), Angela Bowie (m. 1970–1980)

Movies: Labyrinth, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Prestige, more

Picture credits: The Australian

                                                            

                                                                    

David Bowie confronted his deep fear of death to complete the play and album that would be his final work, a close collaborator who had been sworn to secrecy about his cancer said last night.

The stage show Lazarus opened in New York a month ago, with a frail Bowie attending the opening night, while his album Blackstar was released on his 69th birthday on Friday, two days before his death.
                                                            
Tony Visconti, who produced the album, described it as Bowie’s parting gift. Ivo van Hove, who is directing Lazarus, said the show was the artist’s last testament.

One of Britain’s greatest rock stars, with an artistic career spanning more than half a century, Bowie is thought to have been ill with liver cancer for 18 months.

Van Hove told The Times that he had been sworn to secrecy about Bowie’s failing health and did not even tell his own partner about it. “David told me, ‘We have to work together very intensely for the next year and I want you to know, if I cannot be there, why that is.’ It was a very intense time because he sometimes was very ill and in treatment but he came as much as possible to rehearsals. He was, at the end, very fragile — physically, not mentally.”

Van Hove said that he and Bowie went on stage after the opening night at the New York Theatre Workshop on December 7 to receive the audience’s applause. The Belgian director added: “I was very aware that this perhaps would be the last time I would see him. He was really weak and when we came off stage he had to take a seat. Then he said, ‘Let’s make a second one now’, so he still had mental energy to go on.

“I could see the tears behind his eyes, because he was not a man to show off his emotions. He was really in deep fear.

“I felt he was not in a death struggle but a struggle for life — he wanted to live on. He has a daughter of 15 and he really wanted to go on, but it was physically not possible.”

Bowie died yesterday in New York surrounded, a statement said, by his family — his wife, the model Iman, their daughter Alexandria ‘Lexi’ Zahra Jones, 15, and his son Duncan Jones, the film-maker. As the news of his father’s death spread on social media, Mr Jones tweeted confirmation: “Very sorry and sad to say it’s true”.

The songs on Bowie’s last album can now be seen as a foretelling of his death. Lazarus opens with the line “Look up here, I’m in Heaven”, and the video shows a blindfolded Bowie on his deathbed. The video for Blackstar depicts an astronaut lying dead on a moonscape in a possible reference to the demise of Major Tom, one of his best-known creations.

                                                                 
Visconti said: “He always did what he wanted to do. And he wanted to do it his way and he wanted to do it the best way.”

Bowie had also sent cryptic messages to some of his oldest friends and musical partners. Brian Eno said he had received an email a week ago saying: “Thank you for our good times, Brian. They will never rot”. Eno added: “It was signed ‘Dawn’. I realise now he was saying goodbye.”

Bowie, who was born David Jones in Brixton, south London, in 1947, had an extraordinarily innovative career, constantly experimenting with new styles and characters and influencing film, fashion and visual art. The power of his music was reflected in a tribute from the German Foreign Office acknowledging the role the song Heroes had in highlighting the scar created by the Berlin Wall. In a tweet, German diplomats said: “Good-bye, David Bowie. You are now among Heroes. Thank you for helping to bring down the Wall.”

Mick Jagger, the lead singer of the Rolling Stones and a longtime friend, tweeted: “David was always an inspiration to me and a true original. We had so many good times together. He was my friend, I will never forget him.”

Van Hove said the last song on the new album, I Can’t Give Everything Away, was about the privacy he craved. “He was saying, let me have some secrets, and being very sick was one of his last secrets.”
                                                                   
By Sean O’Neill
With many thanks to The Australian

Above: David Bowie as Nikola Tesla in "The Prestige"                                                                      

David Bowie sings  "Try Some,Buy Some" written by George Harrison.He was very fond of this song.    
Below: Tribute to David Bowie at the BRIT Awards.

The Top 10 David Bowie Movie Performances:

                                                                                                                                                                            

                                                                   

See also:


The Genius of Nicola Tesla
Is the David Bowie 'Constellation' A Stellar Hoax? 

The Rolling Stones’ 'Satisfaction' Was The Result Of A Faulty Amp

MC Escher: An Enigma Behind an Illusion                                                          
Elizabeth Taylor Quotes
Dwight Yoakam Names His Top Five David Bowie Songs
Vinyl: Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese's Mini-series 
David Bowie ‘I Can’t Give Everything Away’ Video Released 
Why David Bowie's "Labyrinth" Is So Memorable
David Bowie’s Rejected ‘The Gouster’ Album To Be Released
David Bowie's Personal Art Collection Auctioned Off For $30 Million






                                                                   

                                                                    

12 Great David Bowie Soundtrack Cuts

 30 Wild David Bowie Duets and Collaborations

           

The Pigeons That Can Spot Breast Cancer

                                                                    

To a con artist, a pigeon is a gullible person, but pigeons are actually surprisingly shrewd.

They can pick out letters of the alphabet, detect emotion in people’s faces and even tell a Picasso from a Monet. During World War II, the renowned psychologist B.F. Skinner taught pigeons to guide bombs toward a target for the US Navy, although his avian pilots were never sent into combat.

Now researchers at the University of California, Davis, the University of Iowa and Emory University have demonstrated that pigeons are surprisingly good at detecting cancer as well. Using grain as a reward, the scientists managed to train hungry pigeons to reliably spot malignancies in images of human breast cells.

The birds achieved roughly 85% accuracy, which is probably better than beginning medical students, the scientists said, although it doesn’t approach the prowess of seasoned pathologists. On the other hand, the birds’ training only involved 24 slides at four times magnification (and they graduated debt-free). What’s more, when Edward A. Wasserman and his colleagues exploited the “wisdom of flocks” by combining the “votes” of four pigeons on each slide, the birds’ accuracy shot up to an astonishing 99%.

When confronted with mammograms, by contrast, the pigeons were flummoxed. After awhile, they seemed to learn to detect cancer on these images, but when shown new ones, they couldn’t do any better than chance, which implies that they had simply memorised the right calls on the initial images during repeated viewings. By contrast, birds that learned to pick out cancer from tissue samples could carry over their skills to new images.

Why so good with images of actual tissue yet so bad with mammograms? The former consist of breast cells seen under a microscope, while the latter are murkier images of overlapping elements (such as blood vessels) within the breast. Like physicians, pigeons find it easier to make the diagnosis by looking at cells, which is why biopsies are taken.

The research is squarely in the Skinnerian tradition. The birds, kept at 85% of their normal weight, are put into what are known as Skinner boxes, allowing strict control of their environment, and shown images on a flat screen. If they spot cancer, they might be required to peck on a blue area of the screen. If there is no cancer, they might have to peck yellow. Choosing correctly yields a grain reward. If they choose wrong, they see the image again and have another chance to peck the right colour.

Dr. Wasserman, who has been working with pigeons at the University of Iowa for decades, says the research could help scientists better teach humans the complex and high-stakes task of detecting cancer visually. Insights from the pigeons could also help computers do the job someday, Dr. Wasserman says.

 A small team of pigeons in a rural area of a developing country, he says, might even be able to provide a rudimentary form of cancer screening.

“Pigeons (Columba livia) as Trainable Observers of Pathology and Radiology Breast Cancer Images,” Richard M. Levenson, Elizabeth A. Krupinski, Victor M. Navarro and Edward A. Wasserman, PLOS One (Nov. 18)

By Daniel Akst
With many thanks to The Australian

                                                                     

18 Quotes On Food And Health That Will Make You Think

                                                                 

 Some excellent quotes here.

 I especially like Mark Twain's, hence the You Tube clip and additional information.

Some of these quotes are tongue-in-check, while others are deeply serious. Many of them show a historical view of how we should treat our body, and how we should eat. I hope you find them as fun and inspirational as I did. Check out this collection of inspirational quotes on gardening as well. 

1. “Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”
― Winston Churchill

2. “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
― Hippocrates

3. “And dieting, I discovered, was another form of disordered eating, just as anorexia and bulimia similarly disrupt the natural order of eating. "Ordered" eating is the practice of eating when you are hungry and ceasing to eat when your brain sends the signal that your stomach is full. ... All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. If you can accept your natural body weight and not force it to beneath your body's natural, healthy weight, then you can live your life free of dieting, of restriction, of feeling guilty every time you eat a slice of your kid's birthday cake.”
― Portia de Rossi, "Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain"

4. "A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world"

― Paul Dudley White (an American physician and cardiologist) 

5. To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

― Buddha

6. “Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.”
― Norman Cousins, "Anatomy of an Illness"

7. “1 billion people in the world are chronically hungry. 1 billion people are overweight.”
― Mark Bittman, "Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes"

8. “It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet.”
― Margaret Mead

9. “We should resolve now that the health of this nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all its citizens deserves the help of all the nation.”
― Harry S. Truman

10. “Eating crappy food isn't a reward — it's a punishment.”
― Drew Carey

11. “The first wealth is health.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. “Sorry, there´s no magic bullet. You gotta eat healthy and live healthy to be healthy and look healthy. End of story.”
― Morgan Spurlock, "Don't Eat This Book"

13. “If your arteries are good, eat more ice cream. If they are bad, drink more red wine. Proceed thusly.”
― Sandra Byrd, "Bon Appetit"

14. “No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.”
― Maimonides

15. “About eighty percent of the food on shelves of supermarkets today didn't exist 100 years ago.”
― Larry McCleary, "Feed Your Brain, Lose Your Belly: Experience Dynamic Weight Loss with the Brain-Belly Connection"

16. “In my food world, there is no fear or guilt, only joy and balance. So no ingredient is ever off-limits. Rather, all of the recipes here follow my Usually-Sometimes-Rarely philosophy. Notice there is no Never.”
― Ellie Krieger, "The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life"

17. “Remember, too, that at a time when people are very concerned with their health and its relationship to what they eat, we have handed over the responsibility for our nourishment to faceless corporations.”
― Lynne Rossetto Kasper

18. “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”
― Mark Twain

By Kimmi Harris at MNN
More here

                                                                    

Why Do Zebras Have Their Stripes?

                                                                    

                                                                    

ZEBRAS have stripes to deter the tsetse and other bloodsucking flies, according to a fresh bid to settle a debate that has raged among biologists for over 140 years. 

Since the 1870s, in a dispute sparked by the founders of evolutionary theory Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, scientists have squabbled over how the zebra got its trademark look.

Are its stripes for camouflage, protecting the zebra with a “motion dazzle confusion effect’’ against hyenas, lions and other predators in the savannah?

Do the stripes radiate heat to keep the zebra cool?

Or do they have a social role — for group identity, perhaps, or mating?

But a new study, published in the journal Nature Communications, says the strongest likelihood is that the stripes discourage parasitic flies.

The finding was intriguingly thrown up by lab experiments in 2012 that showed how blood-feeding flies shun stripey surfaces and prefer instead to land on uniform colours.
Researchers led by Tim Caro of the University of California at Davis, say there is no black-and-white answer to the Great Stripe Riddle — but the insect theory is by far the best bet.

“A solution to the riddle of zebra stripes, discussed by Wallace and Darwin, is at hand,’’ they write.

The team found a strong geographical overlap between zebras and the two groups of biting flies, Tabanus and Glossina, that feed on equid species, which explains why zebras would need a shield against this pest.

There is also plenty of indirect evidence, they say.
Other equid species, such as wild horses, are far more likely to be plagued by biting insects.
Researchers find comparatively little blood from zebras in tsetse flies, even though the zebra has a thin coat with hair strands that are shorter and finer than those of giraffes and antelopes.

At the same time, zebras are far less susceptible to sleeping sickness, a tsetse-borne disease that is widespread among other African equids.

The correlation between reduced biting-fly nuisance and stripes is “significant,’’ says the study.

“Conversely, there is no consistent support for camouflage, predator avoidance, heat management or social interaction hypothesis.’’

Parasitic flies can hand on a range of diseases when they bite their prey, and their appetite can be enormous.

Experiments with horseflies carried out in the United States found that cows can lose between 200 and 500 cubic centimetres (0.4 and 1.05 pints) of blood per day to the insects, and as much as 16.9 kilos in weight over eight weeks.

                                                              

With thanks to The Australian

 

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Cancer Is Not A Death Sentence...

...It’s a Wake Up Call!

There is currently a strong belief held throughout society that there is no cure for Cancer.

But just like the countless other beliefs throughout human history, we will soon look back on this one, surprised as how misguided we were, believing something as ludicrous as this.

From “The Earth Is Flat”, to “Women Shouldn’t Be Allowed To Vote”, to “Smoking Isn’t Bad For You”; humanity has based their lives on what they – at the time – believe to be real.

But those beliefs and the belief “Cancer Has No Cure”, are just a sample of the many beliefs that are nothing more than simply that... a belief.

The truth is, there is a cure for cancer – to all cancers – and it’s staring us in the face!

But the medical profession, if current trajectories remain, won’t find it anytime soon.

The reason being is that they don’t know where to look. They aren’t looking where the root cause of Cancer actually exists. How is this possible?

Let’s expand our understanding of Human Anatomy and Physiology...

Our bodies are built to last, but there is one simple thing that brings them to their knees every time. It is simple, unfortunately too simple, to have ever been considered as the starting point to healing Cancer, or any other illness. Often the more simple something is, the more quickly it is overlooked.

Cancer is just a symptom in the body and like all symptoms in the body, we are in some way or another responsible. It might sound like a cliché, it may even be confronting, but the answer really does lie within.

Let me explain...

Consider how we feel in our bodies when we feel hurt, resentful, fearful, a heart break, angry, helpless, afraid and so on. Do we feel healthy in these states? No. Not only do we not feel healthy, but the body responds in a very physical way: sweaty palms, dry mouth, stomach tension, increased heart rate, hair falling out, losing weight and so on.

We’ve all experienced these reactions. Well, we need to join the dots!

These are physical reactions to short term “emotions”.

Imagine what would happen to the body if you held onto some of these thoughts and feelings for months, years, or even longer. How would your body react to emotions experienced over your life time? “And What about kids?” I hear you ask. Well, for kids it takes much less to affect their brand new bodies. They have a much smaller threshold for being buffeted emotionally.

It’s who we believe ourselves to be, how we perceive our life situation, how we’ve been treated as both children and adults, that lies at the root cause of Cancer (and many other illnesses).

Many of you may be thinking: “I don’t carry my thoughts and feelings over long periods of time, surely I’d know about it if I did!” And you probably would know about it, if those thoughts and feelings were occurring in your conscious mind. But the ones that do the most damage lay somewhere else... That’s right, they reside in your Subconscious Mind, where we store all our beliefs about ourselves and our life.

Let me expand.

Our body is a feedback mechanism that sends us messages in order to stay healthy and alive. It alerts us with thirst when it requires hydration, it alerts us with hunger when it requires sustenance.

For every need, the body has a method of communicating back to us, to give it what it needs now!

Unfortunately, in primary school we were never taught how the body communicates to us above and beyond the basics of thirst, hunger and fatigue. And so many of us are raised ignorant of exactly how the body really communicates about what it really needs.

Too many of the body’s needs are being ignored, which is why we become unhealthy.

Until now!

Too simple?

Too obvious?

“Surely someone would have discovered this, if it were this simple. If it were really true, I would have heard about it.” I hear you say. Once again, another false belief system makes its appearance.

The truth is, this understanding has existed as long as mankind has existed. The reason this information has not made it into mainstream understanding is exactly because it’s so simple.

There is no sense of accomplishment in simplicity.

There is a part of the human psyche that avoids simplicity, because we like to plant our own flag, take credit for invention, hypotheses and elaborate experiments.

How many times have you heard: “We’re working really hard on this one”.

Working hard being the prerequisite for achievement is just another belief. This way of being generates a lot of income for a lot of people. Well, the human body is simple. When it needs something, it tells us. Babies have been doing it since the moment they are born! Why would this innate survival function suddenly change as we mature?

Yes, it’s your thoughts at the subconscious level, the thoughts you have almost no conscious awareness of – and the beliefs about yourself and your life, the ones’ you’d prefer to bury deep down inside – that cause all manner of symptoms (aka illnesses and ageing) in your body.

Is it really that far fetched that short term fears and anxieties cause short term symptoms like headaches, increased heart rate and so on, while long term emotions and beliefs cause long terms symptoms? How did they miss this in medical school?

Beliefs are everything!

Our beliefs shape our reality – they determine the choices we make and the actions we take. But more importantly, they show up in our body first. It’s our body’s way of bringing up the unconscious to the conscious, as a means of keeping us healthy and moving us forward.

Compare this process to food poisoning, where your body instantly wants to take what’s within and exit it out of your system via throwing it up.

Cancer is simply the body attempting to bring your awareness to thoughts and beliefs that are toxic, in order to exit them from your system also. Furthermore, imagine what effect the subconscious belief: “There is no cure for cancer” has on the body’s healing process.

Belief really is the key!

So, how do we tap into what lies in the Subconscious Mind if that is truly where the answer lies?

We all have a sublime diagnostic machine, it’s called our brain.

It has the capability to perceive the thoughts and beliefs that lay buried deep within.

We call this Whole Brain Intelligence, Accessing Ui (Unlimited Intelligence), as it draws on parts of our brain we’ve never been taught to use... Ironically, the very same parts of the brain that contain all the answers!

Whole Brain Intelligence is the key, opening up vast possibilities... and it’s available for all of us!

It fine tunes your brain into functioning like an antenna, picking up on thought frequencies you didn’t even know existed in yourself and even in others. Now you can pierce the depths of the subconscious mind, within minutes accessing the very root cause of illness. It’s all our birth right to experience this part of ourselves!

So why go outside the medical profession, the ones you turn to when you’re health is in jeopardy, the ones you’ve trusted your entire lives? Because they openly say they don’t have all the answers.

They openly say “We don’t know – disease is a mystery!” Why would you place your life solely in the hands of people who are upfront about not having a cure?

If you are interested in discovering what havoc your Subconscious Beliefs are playing on your health and well-being, it time to talk to us.

I’m putting my money were my mouth is... for anyone with a serious illness who understands what I have said here, I’ll donate 15 minutes of my time using Whole Brain Intelligence to bring to light what’s at the root cause of your illness. From there you will be informed, able to move forward on your own, or with our further support.

Cancer is no death sentence, just the body’s way of saying: “There’s something that doesn’t agree with me, please get it out!”

By: Daniel Rechnitzer – Ui Group, Founder

www.AccessingUi.com