Biosolid's not waste afterall

For those of you who don't know what bio solids are, they are nutrient-rich organic materials resulting from the treatment of domestic sewage in a treatment facility. When treated and processed, these residuals can be recycled and applied as fertilizer to improve and maintain productive soils and stimulate plant growth.

The pros of using bio solids is that it creates jobs, is a cost effective for disposal, recycles versus filling landfills, promotes farming, reduces emissions from transportation to landfills and is a good free land fertilizer. The cons of using bio solids is that it is a potential health hazard, the effects are irreversible, contamination may occur resulting from accumulation of industrial waste, its true composition is not known and may contain hazardous chemicals.

This topic is still debated on because there are concerns of health risks, its long term effects, if it is transferable to our food and water, and once bio solids are applied, it is irreversible. Despite this, there are those who do think that bio solids is the way to go and think that it is beneficial for agriculture and even to the rest of our environment. Surprisingly a fraction of these people are farmers. You can't blame them because bio solids reduces the need for chemical fertilizers and is free. Then there are people who reside in the city and think things like 'that is just disgusting beyond belief!'. But many of us can't deny that we couldn't even stand the after scents when someone finishes using the bathroom. So my point here is yes, I really do believe that many people are influenced by the western view of human waste as unsanitary and well..nasty. They do not see the potential benefits that bio solids could have on agriculture but also for the environment as a whole.

Even though many people think of the negative effects bio solids 'may' have on our environment, they don't really think about the positive effects it could also have. I don't think it can't be that bad. After all, it comes from our waste; that has to be natural..and natural is good; unless they happened to add chemicals to it, then that just defies my previous sentence.

Works Cited:

http://www.cwwa.ca/faqbiosolids_e.asp

http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/qa/105-1focus/focusbeauty.html

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The Importance of Technology to Understand Internal Body Systems

Technology has impacted the understanding of Internal Body Systems, in a highly positive manner. As it’s benefited in health care, health administration, hospitals and alternative care delivery systems. There has been an enormous impact on the health care industry, as capital requirements to purchase different types of technology would increase so that the pressure on personnel would be reduced significantly. Knowing this computers and robots will play a key role in transforming the amount of health care personnel today, and thus impacting our health care costs because there will a continue of improvement in productivity. With the availability of this sophisticated technology, future doctors and surgeons will have a greater appreciation for what technology can offer.

There are many devices that benefit us now such as; Large digital files containing x-ray, CT, ultra-sound or MRI scans of a patient can be shared in real-time, regardless of location. Patient records can be quickly accessed at a patient’s beside with a PDA or tablet PC. Pictures of a patient’s injuries can be forwarded by paramedics from an accident site to help emergency hospital personnel assess and prepare for treatment while the patient is enroute to the hospital. Real-time remote diagnosis of stroke victims can allow neurologists to assess the patient’s status and prescribe medications more quickly. Healthcare facilities can also benefit by investing in innovations such as intelligent hospital networks powered by high-speed, mobile broadband technologies like Wi-Fi, Mesh, WiMax, HSDPA and EV-DO. These technologies support real-time communications and bandwidth- hungry mobile applications like video. Therefore, the importance of technology to Understand Internal Body Systems, is significant as it will impact us in the future and now.

In Conclusion, one thing is for certain as Technology provides us with a model to better understand Internal Body Structure and its process. Personally, I believe at this rate of rapid improvement we will experience dramatic changes that will benefit us down the road. As doctors will be more dependent on various types of devices to control and perform tasks with ease, as human care will be provided for with the assistance of technology via robotic engineering.

“Technology is going to provide our incredibly stressed healthcare system with a chance to heal itself. By simplifying time-consuming processes and eliminating some of the major causes of medical errors, technology will ensure the right skill level and right cost structure is in place to provide the best care effectively and efficiently. Nortel brings communications capabilities that can deliver clinical and business solutions in this market.”

-          Phil Edholm, Chief Technologist and VP Architecture, Nortel Enterprise.

References:

“Technology’s impact on Healthcare”. Nortel > http://www2.nortel.com/go/news_detail.jsp?cat_id=-10061&oid=100212311&locale=en-us&lcid=-1

“Between technology and humanity: the impact of technology on health care ethics”. > http://jme.bmj.com/content/31/1/e4.extract

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Artificial Selection in Plants and Animals?

The artificial selection in plants and animals is the process of changing the characteristics of animals by artificial measures. Some examples of this would be how animal breeders are often able to change the physical characteristics of domestic animals by selecting the reproduction of those species some of which include speed in racehorses, milk production in cows, and even the trail scenting in dogs. Even though that artificial selection has resulted in plants that are supposedly more disease-resistant, so that cows can produce more milk, and the ability for racehorses to run faster. I am strongly against artificial in plants and animals, there are many reasons that this could provide benefits for us, but knowing that this already occurring now who knows what will come next. This shouldn’t be performed under any circumstances, but there are positives to the case. It is used to improve plants and animals but by choosing traits caused by a single allele that produces a worker that performs it’s job worse than the worker made by another allele, so farmers and plant breeders through selecting the against the many traits we don’t like, such as the production of poisons, indigestible parts, and molecules that prevent a bad taste.

There are also many drawback’s to artificial selection, this includes how it is not possible to select for or against things that aren’t visible, which are like new allergens. Even though this tool of Artificial Selection had been practised by humans since the dawn of agriculture, but only recently have revolutionized this tool to understand nature. It is also a useful tool that has been use to generate the untold diversity in both plants and animals. With the power to control the way agriculture is generated and made into superior strains of corn, wheat and even soybeans by controlling and carefully breeding. Considering that I am strongly against any modifications to the natural growth of plants and animals, people today are only trying to carefully produce the perfect hybrid. There can be dramatic change because of artificial selection as it is still being used to alter a population, alter the number of eggs that are laid by hens, even the milk yield produced by cows.

In conclusion, one thing is for certain as artificial selection provides us with a model to better under stand natural selection and it’s process. Personally being strongly against any methods of Artificial I believe that there should be a stop to this, even though it provides us with observations and the opportunity to modify forms of beings we are indefinitely ensuring steps that will evade natural conditions acting on specific populations, causing natural change.

“It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing. Throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest; rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good; silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being in relation to its organic and inorganic conditions of life.”

-          On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, 1859”

Lists of Works Cited:

“What is Artificial Selection?”. Wize Geek.> http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-artificial-selection.htm

“Artificial selection”. Black Well Publishing..> http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ridley/a-z/Artificial_selection.asp

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Designer Babies?

"These 'sickos,' who cannot think beyond insane profits, have also turned pregnancy (a natural phenomenon) into a disease."

Designer babies is allowing people the opportunity with the ethics of cloning and stem cell creation to create their own infant with attributes of their own choice. Is this ethical? Having the power to modify our children's genes for desirable characteristics both medically and cosmetically. This matter can be investigated through both ethical and social implications of research and technologies that have been developed from it.

 Ethically: While there are many that accept this procedure of "designer babies", there are many European countries that will not allow the practice and involvement of screening embryos. However, there definitely will be be parents that do want the best available options for their kids and won't mind taking advantage of this opportunity of changing genes that they wish to be passed on. There are some positives that can be brought out from this invention as it allows people a chance to discover different ailments before the child is conceived, and precautions could be made to prevent diseases as well. There would be heavy discrimination and controversy over fertility rights and regulations that are to be implied globally. Parents in society would definitely want to have the best options for their children and they would take into consideration the adding and removal of genes. Of course as all of this comes into action there would be many complications as doctors, ethicists, religious leaders, and politicians try to grasp the implications of this matter and give their personal opinions on it. I personally find that this whole situation is disturbing and would provide individuals with wrong choices that will inevitably cause problems. I don't agree with the fact that families can choose the outcome of their next children from a catalogue.

Socially: This matter of "Designer babies" will affect the way couples face the option of choosing specific genetic traits such as eye, and hair colour and/or even height. It seems as it is just as likely for humans to be genetically engineered to apply techinques, just as we do with food. Statistics show that in "2006, countries that grew 97% of the global transgenic crops were the United States (53%), Argentina (17%), Brazil (11%), Canada (6%), India (4%), China (3%), Paraguay (2%) and South Africa (1%)" - [ORNL]. With that in mind why wouldn't people agree to Designer Babies as an option to pick a child's sex and screen for genetic illness, one day? Even if it were just for the brains and beauties. The opportunity to screen their embryos' for diseases and also alter the customization of different characteristics that include eye colour, hair colour, and even complexion would cause conceivable customization simple as science makes this possible. That would make the world have the choice of having a child designed before conception. Personally, I find that utterly disgusting that the will of God can be altered beyond imagine knowing this would provide individuals with the opportunity to take advantage of selecting their body types, hair and eye colour, resistance to specific illnesses, and even their IQ and personality. This would cause an uprise in society that would change people's perspective on reproduction.  

I believe that this shouldn't be allowed because of the fact that individuals would take this advantage of power way too far, and extreme measures leading to the misuse of this power and authority over the natural reproduction of humans. On the other hand it may be used for a positive thing as they can choose to allow this alternative with restrictions that provide users the ability to only approach this way of change for medical purposes. Having the possibilities to alter a babies eye colour, or anything that man cannot prevent should not be allowed. Each child born through the natural way of reproduction is a gift of God, nothing should be taken for granted and abused in the image of man.

This leads to the conclusion that if we take matter and life into our own hands, chaos will occur. Nothing made not of a man should be altered to benefit and please generational changes. Everyone is created differently for a purpose, nothing and no one was an accident everything happened and happens for a reason.

References:

Lemonlick, Michael. "Designer Babies". TIME. <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989987-1,00.html

"Design a Baby?". BIONET. < http://www.bionetonline.org/English/content/db_cont1.htm

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Human Invasiveness: Good or Bad?

It is no secret that in recent years, the population is increasing to such great heights as it is causing a great change to the environment and impacting the living things that dwell here. Not too long ago there were a catastrophe on the Gulf of Mexico in May 24 of 2010 that was the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. In my opinion I believe that in this case, it is obvious that human intervention has negatively affected the Biodiversity of Marine ecosystem. This is extremely evident through the visible outcomes we are seeing today in Mexico.

However while recently researching of the Deep-water Horizon oil spill I had discovered that there had been a breakthrough in finally solving this issue once and for all. According to John Hutchinson, an electro-magnetic energy expert from Vancouver, B.C., Canada, a selection of "music" has helped purify poisoned water. The frequencies included the "sound of Jupiter," recently recorded by NASA, vibrating close to 528 Hz frequency.

He has made a tremendous positive effect on the "Marine biodiversity" region, where these sounds of music are continually healing nature more than we realize. These series of sounds played to oil polluted water from the Gulf of Mexico has "miraculously" cleared test samples of the deadly petrochemicals.

If it has the power to save the water in the Gulf of Mexico than that would mean that this music has the power to save the human race.  According to 528 records, the world is desperately seeking solutions to many urgent problems, and they concluded that music can save the human race from self-destruction and threatened extinction. An investigation into musical instrument tuning, and its affects on stress and mental illness, has revealed the Western World's standard frequency setting was instituted by military-medical industrialists to be optimally distressing, disease-inducing, and probably the most harmful choice that the British Standards Institute could have made in 1939, according to Editor-in-Chief of Medical Veritas journal, Dr. Leonard Horowitz and co-investigators.

 

With this in mind, our spiritual evolution can be accelerated by subtle energies coming through water, according to health science experts. These revelations may help bring "Heaven to Earth", and that has inspired musician and healers worldwide to retune their instruments with energy frequencies vibrating in harmony with these special tones. Situations like Mexico are happening around the world as 28% of fresh water have been threatened, and world wide over 784 species have been declared extinct with 65 species remained in capitivty. These urgent times call for humans to take positive action to repair the environmental damage that is presently occuring even in the Arctic where severe oil pollution is occuring, Air pollution is destroying our biosphere, and even the cutting down of Rainforests for our home furniture where more than half of the worlds plant and animal species reside.

In conclusion, with these new technologies we humans can have a positive effect on ecosystems in numerous ways but we shouldn't use the power that we possess for our own personal gains in order to receive momentary profit. Fish alone are at risk  of extinction, we should use these ways to save the world rather than destroy it. If we have people who really care about what we do to our planet, then the right we do will overcome any amount of evil others put out.

“Bio-creation, and health restoration, may have more to do with frequencies of sound energy, or music, than has been previously thought.” - Dr. Len Horowitz




 Source:
http://www.528records.com/pages/528hz-sound-miraculously-cleaned-oil-polluted-water-gulf-mexico-according-new-study-canadian-r
http://web.me.com/len15/HYDROSONICS/THE_JOURNAL_OF_HYDROCREATIONISM________________________________________________________.html
http://web.mac.com/len15/MUSICAL_CULT_CONTROL/Leonard_G._Horowitz.html (copy & paste this link)
http://www.rense.com/general91/guf.htm

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