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Would you want a test for cathepsin S done?

“Could a simple blood test predict a person's risk of dying from heart disease or cancer?

Reporting in an early online publication of the Journal of the American Medical Association and at the European Society of Cardiology Congress, Johan Arnlov and his colleagues say that a certain enzyme that is measured in the blood may be linked to both heart disease and cancer, and therefore could serve as an early predictor of who is mostly likely to die from these diseases.

In the study, which involved nearly 2,000 people enrolled in two separate long-term trials, Arnlov's team measured the levels of cathepsin S, an enzyme involved in breaking up proteins. They then tracked these volunteers for up to 12.5 years, and found that those with the highest levels of cathepsin S were more likely to die than those with lower, or about half those levels…”

Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/08/31/a-blood-test-to-predict-death-it-could-be-possible/#ixzz1WdCzKNWc

 

  If you read the entire story you will read that they do not know anything about cathepsin S or where it comes from and they do not understand it BUT pharmaceutical corporations are going to come out with drugs to block its activity.
  I guess we can look forward one day to TV commercials for it. 

My YouTube review of the Logitech C910 webcam

  I got my new webcam today .  I made a video about it for YouTube and here is the video below.

I hate TV Weather Men

  God, I hate the TV weather reporters when we have storms…The ones standing outside in the rain and the water.  I wish lightning would hit them or a wave would wash them away.
  I got the feeling they do not get much credit and time on TV like “news” reporters so they love it when a storm hits because they get their time on TV. 

  I live in Fort Worth (TX) and I am not even sure they need weather reporters here.  It is just hotter than hell.  During the summer I might as well just make up my mind that I am going to be in my house, all summer, like a jail prisoner.
  I should decide to just fix up this place and make it a place that has everything that I want …because I sure as hell can not get out during the summer.  I think we should make a deal and give Texas back to Mexico.
  When I lived in Florida I did not want to give it back … I wanted to get all the Cubans to fucking leave and go back to Cuba.  But my feeling for the years that I lived in Miami was that I was just wondering who the last “American” would be in FL and if he would remember to take “our” flag when he left.

  The last day or two I been looking at yachts online.  I know… I know… I think I am losing my mind.  I can not afford a car.  I can not afford a row boat and I am looking at yachts. 
  I am not sure what got me looking at them.  I been reading online about them and how you buy them.
  The only way I could afford a yacht would be if I won a lottery and it is rare for me to even buy a lottery ticket.
 

  I talked yesterday for a long time to a guy that I went to grade school with and we then went to the same Catholic, military high school.  He went on to get a PHD!  I had problems getting out of high school. 
  He only went to the high school the first two years and then his family moved out of town.  He loved the high school and would have liked to have stayed there… I think it was to bad for me.  I never had a friend like him after he left.  
  He loved De La Salle and gives the brothers credit for his love of learning and going on to getting a PHD.  I hated high school and I never opened a book.  I carried a massive amount of books home each day and never looked at them. 

  We are going to keep in touch.  We had not seen or talked to each other in 51 years.

  I should get my new webcam tomorrow.  It could come today but I think it will be tomorrow.  It will be something for me to play with.
  That is what I need during the hot weather here in Texas.  I need for UPS to bring a package each day with some new computer or ham radio device for me to play with…
I guess I better start buying lottery tickets. 

Weather Channel Streaker

“Weather Channel reporter Eric Fisher was giving a live report about Hurricane Irene on Saturday when a streaker disrupted his coverage.

Fisher said he was "pretty much speechless" about the swarms of people he saw reveling in the streets of Virginia Beach, even as Hurricane Irene whipped about all around him. Fisher clearly thought people were being foolish and reckless, but said he would "bite his tongue" to avoid being too frank about the situation. As if to prove his point, a group of young men in bathing suits ran past him during the live report he was giving, and one of them even flashed the camera--from behind and in front…”    Huffington Post

Coming soon in 1080p

  I have over 200 videos on YouTube and many of them are in 780p format.  Soon you can see me in living color, with stereo sound, and in full HD 1080p video.

  I have ordered the Logitech 1080p Webcam Pro C910 camera.

  I am using a Logitech Pro 9000 right now.  It is an excellent webcam.  I did a YouTube review of the Microsoft LifeCam Studio 1080p HD webcam.  I do not recommend it. 
  When I get the C910 I will do a review of it.

Old high school buddy found me on “My Life”

  I check The Kansas City dot Com site often.  I check the obituaries.  I sometimes search for someone by name and I do not know why I even do that because it just sends you to www.mylife.com and they try and get you to sign up for a membership.
  Tonight I did a search and there was a message there for me dated 08/15/2011 and it was from a guy that I went to high school with and in fact we were very good friends.
  In fact we walked home often with each other.
  I have not heard from him over 50 years.  The last time I talked to him was on the telephone and that day was one of the worst days of my life.
  After high school I did not know what happened to him and then one day I got a call from him.  He was in town and had just completed some military training.  He was in the service.  I told him that a couple of guys from high school were coming over to pick me up and we all three were going to a drive in movie.  Fred, that is his name, said great he would love to see me and the other guys so I got his address and told him that we would pick him up.  So Larry and Jerry came over and picked me up and we started out and I told them that Fred was in the military and home and he wanted us to pick him up and go to the movie with us.  They said “no” they did not want to pick him up for some reason.
  I should have said OK take me back home but I did not.  I had no phone number for Fred.  I felt sick and guilty at the movie and I have felt bad about that night my entire life.
 
  So I got a message from Fred with his email and his phone number and I am going to try and get hold of him.  The first thing I will tell him is how sorry I am about that night.  I am not sure if he will even remember it.  But I sure have remembered that night.

The Correspondents Explain–Political Parties–The Democratic Party

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I shut down www.howardsnotebook.com

  I have shut down www.howardsnotebook.com it was running on Blogger and Google owns Blogger.
  I will do a re-direct and send the little bit of traffic that site gets here to ShowMeBlog.

  I just spent $48.00, with GoDaddy, two renew three domains.  That is what I mean by I spend a lot of money and it would be nice to get a little bit back… But Google and their Goggle AdSense do not make it easy.
  If you want to help … I have some Amazon links on the right and if you are going to buy something click on one of those links and then you can go to an item you want to buy and I think I will get a commission for that item.  Of course if you want to buy one of the items on the right I would get the commission but I think if you just go to Amazon after clicking on one of the links on the right and then buy something else I would also get the commission. It does not cost you anything extra.  It is just a win for me.

  I will put a couple of links on the right for Amazon Search to help you out.
  I have been signed up with Amazon for many many years and I think I have made less than $50.00 in commissions in all those years. 
  Anyway.. try and remember when you want to order something on Amazon to pop on over here and click on one of my links and THEN place your Amazon order.  I will let you know if it works out for me.

  I am not looking to make a living from blogging or even make a profit from blogging … I would just like to have a little money come in to off set the money that I am spending.
  It is not like I am going to make a lot of money and take a vacation in Martha’s Vineyard.  I would just like to have a little money come in so I can buy a new camera or faster computer or something sometime.