SMALL UNIVERSE - Astounding Electron Microscopy Images
Human and Animal Embryos, Sperm, Breast Cancer, Clots, Eggs&
http://images.wellcome.ac.uk

Credit K. Hodivala-Dilke & M. Stone, Wellcome Images SEM of blood vessel in a melanoma - coloured - A colour-enhanced, freeze-fracture scanning electron micrograph of a blood vessel that has grown into a melanoma and is providing nourishment to it. Numerous red blood cells and three white blood cells can be seen within the blood vessel.

B0003392 Credit Yorgos Nikas, Wellcome Images Human embryo exposing the embryonic cells Scanning electron micrograph of a human embryo at day 4. The protein coat surrounding the egg (zona pellucida, gold) has been slit to expose the embryonic cells inside (red). These cells go on to form the embryo and can be harvested and cultured to give rise to embryonic stem (ES) cells. Microvilli are visible on the surface of the embryonic cells (blastomeres) and numerous sperm (blue) are still visible on the outside of the zona pellucida.

B0003822 Credit Simon Beggs, Wellcome Images Pain and touch sensory fibres in DRG Section through a neonatal dorsal root ganglion (DRG) showing the cell bodies of different populations of sensory nerves. The red stains the myelinated A fibres that detect tactile sensations. The green stain is specific to peptidergic neurons - these detect pain and mediate neurogenic inflammation via the release of certain peptides both at the painful site and in the spinal cord. The blue stain is specific to the non-peptidergic pain neurons. Bundles of nerve fibres can also be seen within the ganglion.

B0006421 Credit Annie Cavanagh, Wellcome Images Breast cancer cells - A cluster of breast cancer cells showing visual evidence of programmed cell death (apoptosis).

B0003853 Credit Professor Alan Boyde, Wellcome Images Osteoporotic bone - fully focused image Scanning electron micrograph of osteoporotic bone. This sample shows the 4th lumbar vertebra of an 89 year old woman with osteoporosis showing very thin, and some fractured trabeculae. This SEM image has been reconstructed from a series of images in different focal planes to give a completely focused picture of the bone. This enables a much clearer picture to be gained of the osteoclast resorption activity within the bone. The field of view is 2.7mm wide.

1. Red Blood Cells They look like little cinnamon candies here, but theyre actually the most common type of blood cell in the human body - red blood cells (RBCs). These biconcave-shaped cells have the tall task of carrying oxygen to our entire body; in women there are about 4 to 5 million RBCs per micro liter (cubic millimeter) of blood and about 5 to 6 million in men. People who live at higher altitudes have even more RBCs because of the low oxygen levels in their environment.

2. Split End of Human Hair Regular trimmings to your hair and good conditioner should help to prevent this unsightly picture of a split end of a human hair.

3. Purkinje Neurons Of the 100 billion neurons in your brain. Purkinje (pronounced purr-kin-jee) neurons are some of the largest. Among other things, these cells are the masters of motor coordination in the cerebellar cortex. Toxic exposure such as alcohol and lithium, autoimmune diseases, genetic mutations including autism and neurodegenerative diseases can negatively affect human Purkinje cells.

4. Hair Cell in the Ear Heres what it looks like to see a close-up of human hair cell stereo cilia inside the ear. These detect mechanical movement in response to sound vibrations.

5. Blood Vessels Emerging from the Optic Nerve In this image, stained retinal blood vessels are shown to emerge from the black-colored optic disc. The optic disc is a blind spot because no light receptor cells are present in this area of the retina where the optic nerve and retinal blood vessels leave the back of the eye.

6. Tongue with Taste Bud This colour-enhanced image depicts a taste bud on the tongue. The human tongue has about 10,000 taste buds that are involved with detecting salty, sour, bitter, sweet and savory taste perceptions. Thai people have very few most killed by eating spicy food.

7. Tooth Plaque Brush your teeth often because this is what the surface of a tooth with a form of plaque looks like.

8. Blood Clot Remember that picture of the nice, uniform shapes of red blood cells you just looked at? Well, heres what it looks like when those same cells get caught up in the sticky web of a blood clot. The cell in the middle is a white blood cell.

9. Alveoli in the Lung This is what a colour-enhanced image of the inner surface of your lung looks like. The hollow cavities are alveoli; this is where gas exchange occurs with the blood.

10. Lung Cancer Cells This image of warped lung cancer cells is in stark contrast to the healthy lung in the previous picture.

11. Villi of Small Intestine Villi in the small intestine increase the surface area of the gut, which helps in the absorption of food. Look closely and you will see some food stuck in one of the crevices.

12. Human Egg with Coronal Cells This image is of a purple, colour-enhanced human egg sitting on a pin. The egg is coated with the zona pellicuda, a glycoprotein that protects the egg but also helps to trap and bind sperm. Two coronal cells are attached to the zona pellicuda.

13. Sperm on the Surface of a Human Egg Heres a close-up of a number of sperm trying to fertilize an egg.

14. Human Embryo and Sperm It looks like the world at war, but it is actually five days after the fertilisation of an egg, with some remaining sperm cells still sticking around. This fluorescent image was captured using a confocal microscope. The embryo and sperm cell nuclei are stained purple while sperm tails are green. The blue areas are gap junctions, which form connections between the cells.

15. Colored Image of a 6 day old Human Embryo Implanting itself onto the wall of the womb.

Quotes and Video from Roger Hamilton

Speak in Terms of Opportunity Rather Than Requests

“…the language of requests is something that entrepreneur should avoid at all costs.”

“By speaking in requests, you draw attention to what you don’t have… the markets don’t want to know what you don’t have, mentors don’t want to know what you don’t have, even financiers they are not really bothered by what you don’t have; they want to know what you have.”

THE SECRET OF BUSINESS COMMUNICATION

I wasn’t able to put my finger on the communication differences between successful entreprenuers and… say… me.

I assumed the difference was in the form of some huge cravass of unfathomable length, depth and breadth.

BUT… HERE was the REAL answer - I always make REQUESTS. No longer. I will present true and valuable OPPORTUNITIES. I have learned the power of helping YOU.

Thanks, Roger Hamilton. Ahem… May I kindly offer you an opportunity to provide me an autograph?

: )

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All right folks, this is going to sound stupid. But…

I always wondered why humans have such big legs in comparison to other animals with much bigger bodies. Even horses have much skinnier, littler legs than us. We are true, thunderthighs and cavalcade thighs.

Yesterday, it came to me in a flash.I was standing in the bathroom looking at my feet. They were these TWO tiny little appendages that balanced and supported this funny body of mine.

It’s like balancing a stick figure on two grains of rice for feet.

BAM!

WE NEED OUR BIG LEGS TO CONSTANTLY BALANCE OUR BODIES THAT SIT ON OUR TWO GRAIN OF RICE FOR FEET.

It takes ALL that musculature to keep us upright without swaying and tilting and flopping over.

HAD we had BIG lovely, waddling duck feet, THEN we could have had chopsticks for legs.

Capiche???

I feel like a brilliant genius.

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What is the LESSON of all this?

It’s a tale of Life… and Limb.

It’s amazing how two little grains of rice feet can support and balance a whole big body. And by the way - take a look at a 1 year old. Talk about little bitty feet and a big round body.

Folks, there’s method to the madness.

LESSON: Adapt. IF you’ve been given two tiny grains of rice for feet, compensate. Grow some BIG, HONKIN’, Legs.

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:O Artwork by Cdin

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If I’m wrong, go ahead and let me know.

No one I know uses Facebook or MySpace. Maybe that’s because I only know business oriented people or young guyals who stick to highly focussed forums and groups.

Facebook and MySpace have always been TTGTFF - a “Thanksgiving Turkey Get Together with Friends and Family” place. (You know… you drop in, share polite hugs and kisses, chit chat, eat tasty treats and wish you were surfing at the beach or playing Half Life 2.)

Or, Facebook is where you find compromising pics of silly drunken friends. (And latest dating disasters) Or Aunt Milly’s new recipe for Cucumber Pudding. Yummm! : )

But… they SAY Facebook has 200 million million or so, a marketing prospector’s dream.

So… wouldn’t it stand to reason that joining up would be good for business?

Not to me. Reason: the moment Aunt Kitty tries to sell me her Shaklee or some old school bud sends me an affiliate link, I’m gone. Nothing personal.

It’s just doesn’t sit well to be marketed to at my Thanksgiving table.

So, if I don’t want to be sold to on Facebook, I’m figuring you wouldn’ either.

Perhaps I’m totally wrong…

What do YOU think?

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Oh - AUNT KITTY - If you start making a million dollars, then I will be ur Facebook BFF.

: )

I love my President. He’s a beautiful guy with a beautiful family. He tries to be a good man.

BUT… I believe he plays along with the Power Borkers. I mean BROKERS. THAT was a Frissian Slip, wasn’t it??

Definition of Frissian - Freud on a fussy, fuzzy, frizzy hair day.

Whether it’s in life or in business, it seems you have to play along with the big guys or your goose gets overlooked.

In business, the Big Guys come in the form of customers AND financiers. You do what THEY want.

In politics, the “bluebloods” and the Eternally Rich are the Big Guys. They run your game. They hold your purse strings. They own the “get out of jail” cards. And, when you pass “Go,” they own the turnstile AND the bank.

Is this why I’m not a fan of making money? Because I know how much we have to bendover-redrover?

I’m realizing this line of thinking is problematic… I’m NOT seeing life as it really IS.

You see, from a child’s point of view, we fall, Mommy catches us. We hop skip and jump, and the world smiles with us.

But as an adult, Mommy’s no longer there. And when we hop skip and jump, the world is more likely to trip us than smile at us.

We’re out of the paddock, out of the gate, into the race for our lives.

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Doing Business is NOT about me and what I want. Business is providing something that YOU want. And doing a good job of it.

BUT… I STILL BELIEVE that our President should DO what HE KNOWS IS RIGHT rather than what the big cahonies want him to do…

Like, he should lower our taxes, encourage honest local small businesses, quit pandering to the megalithic CONGLOMERATES that are tearing our world to shreds.

!!!!!

Okay THAT was an aside. But HERE’S the thing…

Finding a way to please you and provide what YOU want, but not ever compromising my own… values.

I provide you VALUE, and i preserve my VALUES.

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If we can do this in business, we could do this in politics.

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It’s been so LONG. Last post, before Christmas 2009. So I should be quite happily and exCEEDINGLY rich by now if all went according to plan. Three MONTHS to Absolute Riches.

That was the plan at any rate… let’s just say EVERYTHING does NOT go according to plan. The good news is that being rich in spirit is quite the equivalent to being rich in gold buillion. Right? Of course. : )

Great news is that my attitude has been certainly changing. And I’ve discovered the power of righteous SELLING.

Used to HATE the concept of salesmanship, marketing, selling. No longer! Selling is part and parcel of success, of LIFE in GENERAL! Woo hoo.

As you might already know, the best selling consists of:

1.  Having a worthy product that provides true, awesome value.
2.  Communicating the value clearly to those who are truly in need of it.
3.  Finding out what MOTIVATES clients and customers
3.  Being friendly, up front, warm and personable at all times.
4.  Being boy/girl scout good. Integrity is a PLUS.
5.  Asking for the sale and what you need. No Ask, No Get.
6.  Rejection? Learn to love it. Part of life, nothing personal.

SO - sell good stuff. Let others know. Network. I intend to join Itex. The dude in charge is a GO GETTER. Dang - it just takes me SO long to fill online forms cuz I hate doin’ it so much. They make it a cakewalk, but that STILL doesn’t help me. :X

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SO! What’s been happening? The usual - studying like a MANIAC and learning that there’s nothing really new.

The old, tried and true methods of making money online are still king of the hill. HOWEVER, let it be said that even though these methods DO work, doesn’t mean they’re fun to do.

At least for me that is. Same old boring techniques… I have some secret plans for everyone. Writing a book…

I will call it STEP BY STEP TO ONLINE RICHES BY ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST IGNORAMUSES.

Subtitle: If A Backwards Bimbo can do it, ANYONE can.

Like? Yeah. I know…

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News today! EARTHQUAKE 7.2. Not in my backyard? Yes in my backyard. Quite rollie poly, gentle here in North County San Diego. Happy Quakey Easter! : )

Series of quakes - FLURRY of aftershakes. 16 or so.

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Back soon!

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‘k back… one more thing…

Keep a supply of clean clothes on hand. I would hate to deal with an Earthquake in a DRESS.

:O

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Know this or fail… excellent Video on the Future, the Internet, Marketing and Convergence. The Economist Magazine creates another fast paced informative update to their “Shift Happens” Video Series.

This is a MUST see. It’s a matter of staying on top of it or staying behind.

Basically, the world of buying and selling will be on your mobile communicator. Does this mean computers die? Yes IF you are able to plug your phone into your flatpanel AND you can run the top games.

From the Youtube Website
“This is another official update to the original “Shift Happens” video. This completely new Fall 2009 version includes facts and stats focusing on the changing media landscape, including convergence and technology, and was developed in partnership with The Economist. For more information, or to join the conversation, please visit http://mediaconvergence.economist.com and http://shifthappens.wikispaces.com.

Content by XPLANE, The Economist, Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod and Laura Bestler. Music by DoKashiteru, “Home Tonight.” Design and development by XPLANE, http://www.xplane.com. You can follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/xplane”

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The ideal device? A mobile communicator with unlimited online AND offline storage capacity, a top game running super powerful processor, beautiful large display, plugin ability to a flat panel and widescreen, low monthly speedy Internet, TV and radio reception, touch screen, attachable full keyboard capability. My opinion. : )

My good friend said “Nothing’s wrong unless you get caught.”

Now, he wouldn’t do anything wrong HIMSELF. He’s a goody two shoes.

BUT… he raises an interesting point that has been PROVEN CORRECT to me today.

Dr. Mercola reports that:

The New York Times discovered that Genentech (big biotech company) was telling top Congresspeople from BOTH parties what to say and write (as their own words) into the Congressional Record to help Genentech.

No debate. No questions. No appraisals of whether the laws were good or bad for the country. Just pure control of the Congresspeople for money.

So what did a Genentech lobbyist say about all this?

They said, It isn’t nefarious. It happens all the time..”

Nice one, lobbyist. Why do you make me sick?

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Congresspeople are NOT your represenatives. They belong to Genentech and other companies with MONEY.

okay?

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BUSINESS LESSON: Get a LOT of money. Then, do whatever you want to whomever you want. Just be sure to have a law degree and friends in high places. Then, you can own the world. If there is a world left to own.

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Greed destroys. An inevitable Rule of Law and Life that lawyers (and politicians) ignore.

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Carmine Gallo wrote a book revealing Steve Jobs’ presesentation secrets. Impressive. He goes into great detail with documentation, examples, descriptions.

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience

Steve Jobs uses lots of photos, few words. I KNEW THAT. Look at every kid’s picture book. What’s not to love?

(For those in Rio Linda and my gamer forum - Steve Jobs is the founder and CEO of Apple Computers. Apple makes the iPod and iPhone. Steve is a MAC, not a PC.)

Carmine says that Steve Jobs reels you in. He TRICKS you. He turns ordinary into extraordinary. Makes you laugh.

Like, for example, when Steve presented the iPhone. He started with 3 new amazing astounding products. THEN, he said, “These are not 3 devices. These are just one. The iPhone. Get it?”

I think it’s the “get it,” that got it.

Carmine calls this a “holy smokes” moment.

Steve Jobs knows how to create short Twitterful headlines. Brief belief. I mean, if it makes a great tweet, it’s a great headline. Right? Right. Steve KNOWS. He tweeted before Twitter even was twat.

Steve does real good bad guy good guy stuff. Slay the dragon, whomp on the villain. Like, the PC.

Steve will even whup on society in general. Like the lady who threw the sledge hammer against the giant screen. But… have you ever noticed that your average Apple store looks like the futuristic androgynous society in that Apple commercial? Hmm.

Steve doesn’t let you get bored. Carmine describes how Steve demonstrated the iPhone by calling Starbucks right from the convention. When Starbucks answered, he ordered 4000 lattes for the audience. “Just kidding,” he said.

Dang - Steve even makes me want a latte.

Steve sells dreams, says Carmine. Like, making the world a better place. The iPod wasn’t just a Music Storage Device. The iPod made the world a better place. It enriched your life. Yeah!

Carmine’s book is a must buy. I’m reading it. Presenting like Steve is Gooood. Good for business.

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience

I’ve seen alot of SEO type guides. This one is easiest and best to understand. Wish I’d started with this one rather than spend so much time reading those “collegiate” guides and systems.

You may have to sign up to access the guide, but it’s free, the author seems to be a standup guy, won’t bombard you with useless crappola and it’s totally WORTH it. Besides… I would actually look FORWARD to a newsletter from him. And that’s a rare thing. : )

Good Stuff.
http://www.seoinpractice.com/free-seo-guide.html

These guys are pretty amazing. They pitched their client to the Dr. Phil Show and got her on in 8 hours. The link below contains the full text “pitch” letter they sent. The video has the formula they used.

Link:
http://publicityresults.presskit247.com/content/
content-article.asp?ArticleID=5827
No, I don’t get jack for this. Just sharin’…

My Opinion: these two are golden.

My notes on their formula:
compelling headline
get right to the point in the first sentence
credibility
tips
availability
phone number
after hours phone number
link to hi-res book cover image (or something similar i suppose)

Russel Brunson just hired these people. I can see why. If I had credibility, something to sell or promote like, say, a product, a PLAN, a fulfillment center, money and a reputation, I’d hire them too. They get permanent eRolodex Status. Russell is also golden. Chalk one up for him.