Go Green Any Where You Like

This is as Green as it gets!

Going Green is in vogue today. Some argue that the planet is in mortal danger;that we are destroying it at an alarming rate. They make the case that we all as a Human Race must conserve our resources by limiting our consumption and pollution. Wheather or not you buy into the idea of Gobal Warming, the melting ice caps, the gradual pollution of our air and water entirely or in part, having a cleaner earth, preserving our natural resources, using our technology to engage creative power sources and have clean air to breath just makes sence.

I think most of us have seen pictures of engineers perched on their high tech bikes or driving little cars that use little or no fuel. Most look a little strange but I guess I have to applaud the effort and personal commitment to the cause.

Even the comedian George Carlin got on board by telling his audience that"Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in Kilometers."

The "Tree Huggers" as Green concious people are sometimes called, keep on inventing their gadgets to make their personal contribuations and sometimes just go over the top and around the bend!

This is a picture of a washing machine combination toilet, if you haven't figured it out yet. It uses the dirty wash water to flush the toilet. I just Love It! It gets my vote for the most creative contraption that I have seen in awhile.

Carl

Swine Flu H1 N1

What is the swine flu?
What are the symptoms of swine flu?
What are the CDC recommendations for infectious swine flu?
How can the swine flu infection be controlled?
What is the treatment for swine flu?
Will a face mask protect me from getting the swine flu, and are there differences in face masks?
Read Dr. Charles Davis' H1N1 Influenza Virus (Swine Flu) article (updated Oct. 19, 2009)
Why is swine flu now infecting humans?
How is swine flu (H1N1) diagnosed?
What is the history of swine flu?
Can novel H1N1 swine flu be prevented with a vaccine?
Is swine flu (H1N1) a cause of an epidemic or pandemic in 2009?
What is the prognosis (outlook) for patients who get swine flu (H1N1)?
Where can I find more information about swine flu?
Updated timeline of H1N1 2009 swine flu news
Swine Flu (H1N1 Influenza Virus) At A Glance
Pictures of Swine Flu (H1N1) FAQ - Slideshow
Pictures of Bronchitis - Slideshow
Pictures of Strep or Sore Throat - Slideshow
Patient Discussions: Swine Flu - Concerns

Resource -MedcineNet.com

How Can I Prevent Swine Flu Infection?

*****The CDC recommends taking these steps:

· Wash your hands with soap and water, especially after coughing or sneezing; or use an alcohol-based hand cleaner.
· Avoid close contact with sick people.
· Avoid touching your mouth, nose, or eyes.

Got flu symptoms? Stay home and when you cough or sneeze cover your mouth and nose with a tissue. Afterward throw the tissue in the trash and wash your hands.

http://www.cdc.gov/H1N1flu/qa.htm = H1N1 Guidelines, Safety Precautions,Symptoms Etc.

H1N1 Vaccine and Pregnancy

***Consult Your Physician ***

Then YOU can make the decision that is best for you and your family.

The flu has a dangerous history for pregnant women and their babies.
In fact it has long been known as a disaster for pregnant women.

Today we are faced with a dilemma to use or to decline the use of the H1N1 vaccine that is now available for us. First Responders , Healthcare Workers and their employers are seeking answers as quickly as possible. Everyone,this season is scrabling to do what is best for themselves and their families; considering the data that is available. Find out what are the medical recommendations given your medical situation;for prevention and/or treatment? Certainly the more information, combined with a medical consult, the better. At present,although these decisions are difficult for us it is to our advantage that we now have choices that were not available during the pandemics of 1918, 1957 and 1968.

Complications and deaths from flu were much higher among pregnant women and newborns in the pandemics of 1918, 1957 and 1968 than among the general population. This appears to indicate that expecting mothers are naturally more vulnerable to the flu and it's complications. In the 1918 outbreak, 27% of flu infections in pregnant women were fatal, compared with about 10% of overall flu cases worldwide.
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global . In the unusually severe 1918 pandemic, the miscarriage rate was an estimated 26% in women with uncomplicated flu and 52% in those with influenza and pneumonia, according to historical records. The rate of preterm birth was also about 50% in infected pregnant women.
Source: http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/

A study published in July in the Canadian Medical Assn. Journal examined 90 cases of H1N1 infection and use of Tamiflu http://www.drugs.com/pdr/tamiflu.html
with pregnant women and did not find a higher risk of birth defects than that seen in the general population.

According to the CDC {Center for Disease Control and prevention}http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/14/1/95.htm
"Pregnancy has been a risk factor for increased illness and death for both pandemic and seasonal influenza. The increased risk is believed to be related to several physiologic changes that occur during pregnancy. Because of mechanical and hormonal alterations that occur during pregnancy, several changes also occur to the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, including increased heart rate, stroke volume, oxygen consumption, and decreased lung capacity."

Abstract:
"Planning for a future
influenza pandemic should include considerations specific to pregnant women.
First, pregnant women are at increased risk for influenza-associated illness and death.
The effects on the fetus of maternal influenza infection, associated fever, and
agents used for prophylaxis and treatment should be taken into account. Pregnant
women might be reluctant to comply with public health
recommendations during a pandemic because of concerns regarding effects of
vaccines or medications on the fetus. Guidelines
regarding nonpharmaceutical interventions (e.g., voluntary quarantine) also
might present special challenges because of conflicting recommendations about
routine prenatal care and delivery. Finally, healthcare facilities need to
develop plans to minimize exposure of pregnant women to ill persons, while
ensuring that women receive necessary care."

Reference the World Health organization for world wide concerns,plans and summits.
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/statements/2009/h1n1_20090429/en/index.html

The Headless Horseman of Putnam Road

When I was a little boy, my father used to tell me bedtime stories about the Headless Horseman of Putnam Road. Being three or four years old, I was naturally unacquainted with Washington Irving, and therefore unaware that the story had a more horrible pedigree, or that my dad’s version was even more grisly than Irving’s. My dad knew his audience and at Halloween the images swirled mingling with my father’s voice and transported me in my dreams to a place, as Washington Irving might say, more fit for “ghosts and goblins than a mortal man.”
Until I drifted off to sleep,however, I knew the terrible Headless Horseman was hiding in my closet planning and waiting to get me as soon as I let down the sheet; with flames and sword he waited to fill my small bedroom and descend upon me. And then.. and then.. Ohhhh the rest is too terrible to imagine! Thank God I had my sheet to protect me! In Washington Irving’s words:
“These, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many specters in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in diverse shapes, in his lonely perambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils.”
And so daylight too dispelled my “phantoms of the mind” as I scampered downstairs to have my breakfast and tried on my costume for Halloween Night.
It was one of the most terrible, and wonderfully terrifying experiences that my Dad and Washington Irving could have given me at Halloween time and I loved every minute of it.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Bloggers Choice Awards

Dear members and visitors to this Blog.This Blog is our candidate for the award for Best Blog Ever,and Best Health Blog along with many other Blogs in the contest held each year for the Bloggers Choice Blogs Awards. Browse our Blog, enter you own blog. There are many categories to choose from. Please support Carlsvilleproject and at the same time create an opportunity to also win the prize.

KEEPING YOUR BLOG SECURE

CHECK OUT BLOGGER BUZZ.

GREAT BLOOGER TIPS

http://buzz.blogger.com/2009/10/keeping-your-blog-secure_09.html

Song "Just Stand Up" #1 for This Month

Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Knowles, Leona Lewis,
Natasha, Carrie Underwood, Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Fergie & Sheryl Crow Song

**Dedicated to and created for Cancer Victims, NEVER Give Up Hope**

How appropriate this is now; how powerful is the concept of Hope.. I could not resist putting it on.
It is good we have artists that contribute as well as entertain us.

A Month Of Hope & Awareness..Pink Pink Pink

Pink Sisters
"We are a cloistered-comtemplative missionary Congregation, living in community, whose members are entirely dedicated to the contemplative life in the service of perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
Our way of life points to the basic truth that God alone is the true center of being and the goal of all creation, that he alone can satisfy the human heart, and that every good and every success on this earth are his free gifts."

http://www.mountgraceconvent.org/

A warm thank you with, I must confess a smile, to the "Order of the Pink Sisters" for their colorful controbution to us and to our world.

Joke of the Day

Q: What is the difference between a brain surgeon and God?
A: God doesn't think he's a brain surgeon!

Senior Fitness and Exercise

Many older adults don’t exercise. You might feel like you don’t know where to begin, or are coping with an ongoing health problem or disability. Perhaps you are afraid you might fall. However, exercise is vital for healthy aging and fitness. Read on for tips on getting started and weaving exercise into your daily life, making it enjoyable instead of a chore.


http://www.helpguide.org/life/senior_fitness_sports.htm

Getting Healthy - Staying Healthy

Vegetarian or not.... A healthy diet that includes lots of fruits and veggies and is a good thing for all of us. I listed this because some of the recipies on this site are awsome. I have had some fun trying a few of them.


www.vegetariantimes.com/recipes/"

Great Awareness Product

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so you’ll see a lot of items produced in pink. Some product tie-ins will make you scratch your head and smile trying to figure out how they might have anything to do with breast cancer. Most likely, the people in charge of these companies are committed to the cause and this is the best way they can show it. Still, how can you see a car like this and not do a double take?

A special Thank You to "Airish" for her modeling controbution to NBCAM.

BREAST CANCER AWARNESS MONTH

... The key is early detection...

In rememberance of my mother Reitha who we lost in
1991. In support of my daughter, 3 sisters and all women who have been touched
by breast cancer .

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/content/CRI_2_6x_National_Breast_Cancer_Awareness_Month.asp

STRESS ANTIDOTE

Milk, hold the coffee and sugar.
Stress may lower your levels of serotonin, one of the body's critical
stay-calm chemicals.
But milk contains whey protein, which Dutch researchers found can help boost tryptophan, one of the building blocks of serotonin, by 43 percent.

Poem For October

"What Is It That I Love?

If asked why I love her I would say

It’s the sway in her hips,the thickness in her thighs.

It’s the lust in her lips,the love in her eyes.

It’s the softness of her skin,the silk in her hair.

It’s the twist in her walk;it’s the sweetness in her talk.

It’s the way she loves me that makes me love her each day.

That is what I would say."

Justin Hutchins