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flounder  08/24/2012 12:41 PM Report

Alzheimer's, CJD, and the Prion PrP

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Alzheimer’s disease and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy prion disease, Iatrogenic, what if ?

Proposal ID: 29403

http://betaamyloidcjd.blogspot.com/2012/05/alzheimers-disease-and-transmissible.html

Monday, August 20, 2012

CASE REPORTS CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE: AN UNDER-RECOGNIZED CAUSE OF DEMENTIA

http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2012/08/case-reports-creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.html

kind regards,

terry

Gelles  08/22/2012 10:20 AM Report

I think I mean "(Mind and Brain as inseparable models of how we govern all we do with our other organs and capabilities)".

Gelles  08/22/2012 10:12 AM Report

Dear Ricardo,

While we have been concerned with bringing fair purpose to business and politics, the Charlie Rose hour has re-broadcast the second BRAIN SERIES ( Science of Mind and Brain as possible). They present brilliant medical experts discussing human potentials and brain dependent activities in flawless prose and sincere affection for the researchers and patients whose lives today allow an enlightenment never before achievable. The series suggests similar efforts to enlighten us all in matters of logistical science, work, production and consumption.

Thanks for your friendship.

Ricardo_Amaral  08/21/2012 11:18 PM Report

I mean: a senior financial analyst...

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Ricardo_Amaral  08/21/2012 11:17 PM Report

Gelles, we have a similar background I was also a professional accountant, a senior analyst in the international area of American Cyanamid Corp., then I became controller and treasurer of a few large Brazilian international trading companies located here in the NY/NJ metropolitan area.

In that capacity I had to deal with the outside auditors, and with the New York bankers on a regular basis. And I was always considered to be a straight an arrow by all the people that I work with over the years. And I was told a number of times over the years that I was a very competent accountant not only by my my peers, but also by the outside auditors. I had a better understanding of accounting theory and practice than many outside auditors that I had to deal with over the years.

Even tough I was very good with accounting, I actually never liked accounting. I always liked economics much better. A number of people that I respect told me over the years that I had a superior analytic mind and that I was very good at explaining to other people complex subjects in a way that they could understand.

I agree with you that we are comrades in arms, fighting the good fight regarding what we believe in, and thanks for your company.

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Gelles  08/20/2012 07:29 AM Report

Dear Ricardo,

As it happens, I was a professional accountant and lawyer working for Touche Niven (later Deloitte Touche) (the eighth largest accounting firm on earth) in the early 1950's.

In those days, bankruptcies and lawsuits between partners of major accounting firms had brought to public attention scandals involving professional accountants, bankers and industrialists. Many civil and criminal wrongs were publicized and discussed among my immediate friends. Great effort was made to have young accountants and lawyers, like myself, be on guard to be honest and do the right thing when fraud was suspected in connection with our auditing and tax planning activities. One of my bosses (whom I greatly admired) was a former top official with the Securities and Exchange Commission. He was as honest as the most honest person alive. Goldman Sachs was a client we audited if my memory is correct.

All was far from perfect in those days. But we, fresh from University, were taught to be honest and vigilant against fraud and deceit. The examinations we performed to prevent conspiracies to steal wealth and power in business, banking and investment activities were the best possible I believe. But there was a fundamental flaw in the "system": clients hired and pay for the work of certified public accountants.

Today the system is even more badly flawed. Clients still pay for public accounting. It's a business -- more than a public function or trust. Moreover, today the rich corporations pay for lobbyists and come to own the law.

The "rule of law" has come to mean the "rule of reason by the rich and corrupt" in every major nation. My plea for functional finance and debt-free money is only a beginning. Functional law and honest audit and inspection remains an unmet need wherever authority exists.

Corruption, criminality, cruelty and card-carrying organization men and women who cannot be trusted far and for long, infect all business and government activity. Add to these, wholesale ignorance, and you have problem in a box if not a nutshell.

What to do?

Be aware. Be as straight as an arrow yourself. Never assume the best or the worst about people. Chose optimism over pessimism, reason over nonsense, and hope over despair. The scientific method is bearing fruit. The good conduct medal fairly earned is indispensable. And get some sleep when you can.

Gelles  08/20/2012 06:30 AM Report

Ricardo,

Before reading your link to the Ernst Young story, I reply to your post of 08/19/2012 11:26 PM.

The current slow recovery (reminiscent of the 1930's great depression) will follow a path we can only guess at. If the path features traditional debt-based money as the tool of the West and the East, I predict the pain you mention.

If we can add sufficient debt-free money, I predict the miracles of production and consumption we can imagine from our exposure to Singularity University and similar optimistic scenario writers. In this latter possibility, there would be pain -- but a lot less of it, and hardly any pain directly attributable to bad economic habits.

So you and I may be comrades in arms, fighting the good fight against misused debt and scholarship. Thanks for your company.

I will try to return after "Ernst Young". From 1936 until 1939 I Knew "Erna Young", my rabbi's beautiful daughter (born in 1925, when I was born). My male friends all admired and loved her -- she was a great athlete and friend. By 1939, I was 14 and had moved outside her immediate neighborhood. Her father gave me a letter of recommendation when I enlisted in the Navy in 1943. We needed three letters from upright Americans attesting to our character to enlist in a program for future officer training. I was commissioned Ensign in 1944. I have never forgotten Erna.

T

Ricardo_Amaral  08/20/2012 02:45 AM Report

Gelles, you can read about “The Sudden Death of Ernst Young” at:

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=9f673c24a3353ac8b910e3c9d6f77d15&threadid=247806

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Ricardo_Amaral  08/19/2012 11:26 PM Report

Gelles, you are right I believe the unions helped to lift the boats of millions of Americans to the middle class, and they are an important piece of the American capitalist system.

I also believe that if the Ryan/Romney presidential ticket for any chance can manage to win the 2012 US presidential election that it would be a disaster for senior citizens, for the middle class, and for the US economy in general.

It seems to me that Mitt Romney has been relegated to the position of VP on the Republican Party presidential ticket – the Republican ticket has morphed into: Ryan/Romney for president in 2012.

I agree with Satyajit Das – the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank is hiding on their balance sheets trillions of US dollars of toxic assets that eventually will have to be written off.

The "First Great Depression of the New Millennium" has been underway and it has been spinning out of control for a few years, resulting in an imploding world economy and financial markets - The Federal Reserve and European Central Bank have been playing all kinds of game to keep the financial system artificially alive and from going over the cliff, but we are getting there anyway...

What do you think triggered and is at the core of all this current mess in the Middle East?

How about the implosion of the economy and financial system of various countries around Euroland?

A Great Depression is a massive train wreck that happens in slow motion, and we can see it happening today all over the place - the world economic and financial implosion has been underway, and Central Banks are hiding massive amounts of toxic assets on their balance sheets (in the trillions of US dollars) that there's no way out other than write them off and take the pain.

The pain it is called: “A Great Depression" and it is underway...

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Gelles  08/19/2012 09:21 PM Report

The failure of the Boeing test flight last week and the history of shock wave lift and flying suggest flight at six times the speed of sound will be delayed. Have no fear. We have the money and the brains to do the job.

What is the job? Peace. Why peace? Because war is a poor alternative.

Gelles  08/19/2012 08:58 PM Report

Ricardo and friends of Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis of Singularity University:

We are visiting each other inside the Charlie Rose Show archive. Ricardo took us down under to Australasia to hear a banker discuss not Kurzweil's future life among people and their machines but life among the savages in Europe and America trapped in a money economy with no exit. In a way we are, because Charlie is not watching over us, unable to bring money and machines together to solve trivial problems of debt and everyday work.

Debt is a product of the conscious mind unable to forget the relationship between guns, money and gumption when it comes to war and finance.

Human gumption and desire is tested in business and war every day and everywhere. In the long run we will either all be dead or we'll all be rich.

Why is that. Because machines will do all our bidding; and scarcity, poverty and stupidity will be erased forever. The individual may not live longer than a blink in eternity, but it will be a life worth living. Kurzweil will be turned to dust, but after leaving a legacy of optimism without limit.

Financial numbers don't count. Only real logistics data does. Look at the Mars Lander, the Boeing hyper supersonic airplane, and see the future. The euro, dollar and debt will not even be remembered.

Gelles  08/19/2012 04:12 PM Report

Dear Ricardo,

I watched and concentrated on Satyajit Das' lecture that sees no quick resolution for (1) today's high unemployment and (2) threats of deflation and inflation in the monetary wealth of nations here and globally. I believe his forecast is consistent with popular informed opinion.

However, such informed opinion merely reflects the scarcity of Keynesian thought-based actions among our political and academic elites. That is, among our most ignorant practitioners.

The book "Abundance" (Peter Diamandis) and the doctrines of functional finance and law, suggest the magic bullets we have and may use if really pressed by events.

We may muddle through and delay the advances in production and consumption (that are bound one day to end poverty) offered by information technology and the future computer science assure.

There remains the risk of war -- that can potentially stop civilization and even life. But the obvious promise of successes like the American Mars lander, leave me completely optimistic that low interest and cheap money will win ASAP.

The American election may also set us back if Ryan is not repudiated. So my optimism is constrained by talk of austerity as more than an ignorant bad joke.

You have not personally come over to my side. But I know you are pro-labor and not a supporter of wage-slavery -- the villain among intellectual preferences.

Why people support hard money and wage slavery when technology has given us the tools to bid them good bye -- is upsetting. But Das does not argue in favor of Keynes. So his fascination with humor and money-games is not attractive to me. Thanks anyway for the YOU Tube lecture. It did me no harm.

Ricardo_Amaral  08/17/2012 03:42 AM Report

Gelles, I like to suggest that you take the time and watch this seminar by Satyajit Das.

In my opinion, he is one of the smartest economists that we have today from any place around the world.

All I can say is that his seminar was excellent, and worth the time of watching the entire presentation.

Satyajit Das - The end of Ponzi prosperity – Auckland – August 16, 2012

http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=f3f351a4bcfcc193aa296a9e6e8435b4&threadid=81958&perpag e=6&pagenumber=104

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12Den34  08/16/2012 02:38 PM Report

New discovery:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/scientists-discover-previously-unknown-cleansing-system-in-brain?utm_source =KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7c3186c384-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email

YNHow  08/16/2012 02:03 PM Report

Where is Charlie Rose,

Maybe on assignement, ... We miss you!

Yankeese  08/16/2012 01:58 PM Report

Something has gone haywire between the Charlie Rose staff and the PBS technicians. Yesterday I got an alert that the night's program would be on Alzheimer's -- which I knew to be #4 of series 2. #3, with Chuck Close, should have been in the queue. Then, when I watched the program, the intro was for #3, as it should have been, showing Chuck Close talking. But after the sponsor break, they reran #2, the first installment of Consciousness. They had the wrong program. Now, for tonight, they're advertising #5, when it should be #4 -- or, to correct last night's gaffe, #3. Is anybody paying attention to what they put on the air? This is the worst technical scheduling screwup I have ever seen. I'm in NYC. Obviously, from the Springfield post, the screwup was nationwide. Hello, control room! Anyone there?

Ellen_Dibble  08/16/2012 10:11 AM Report

Where I live, listening to Springfield WGBY TV, we heard the show part 2 on the unconscious/conscious yet again, two nights in a row. I have to say, I'm glad to have watched it now three times. There's a lot to take on board, both specifics and broader resonating things.