Basile and Filbert – thoughtful and well worded commentary, I appreciate where both of you are coming from…

Miss fr Miss & Henry – are you two serious? in any way…?
M Fr M, glad you can drop your bigotry long enough to do the right thing, and Henry, well you’re 24 so i’m not going to say much more, although much is set in stone intrinsically by this point in life, might I make a suggestion: do not marry, btw, I will not do it again myself so I’m not saying it out of malice, besides it’s just a suggestion from the unknown Zen woman…

http://edgy1.wordpress.com/ ‘one special night…or 2′

Catch you on the far side, Zen Lill

I guess it’s a good thing that jets can whisk us in a matter of 14 hours or so from, say, New York to Tokyo or Los Angeles to Australia — but being a passenger on a long-haul flight is not exactly easy. For a few people, extended hours in flight can even be dangerous… witness the studies a few years ago that showed the potential for some people to develop a blood clot in the leg from such a stretch of imposed stillness. What comes as a real surprise, however, is a new study revealing that after many in-flight hours some people will experience a mild form of altitude sickness, yes, inside the airplane. Here’s why: By FAA regulation, the maximum cabin altitude pressure equivalency in commercial planes is 8,000 feet. In case you’ve forgotten your high school science, the altitude of the city of Denver is about a mile high or 5,280 feet and lots of visitors there need a few days to acclimate even to that height. Since different people experience acclimation differently, for some the adjustment may be easier and for others, even harder.
WORSE THAN AIRLINE FOOD
Scientists at the Boeing Company in Seattle and at Oklahoma State University in Tulsa conducted the altitude study. They gathered 502 volunteers (apparently good-natured folks) to sit in coach-class style airline seats in a hypobaric chamber through a simulated 20-hour flight, the equivalent of flying from New York to Sydney. The study evaluated reactions to various altitude pressurizations — barometric pressures — from ground equivalencies of pressures equivalent to 650 feet all the way to 8,000 feet. The researchers discovered that at 8,000 feet equivalency, the arterial oxygen saturation dropped by about 4%, because of the lower air pressure. They also found that approximately 25% of the “passengers” reacted to the decreased oxygen pressure at 8,000 feet with reported symptoms of malaise, muscular discomfort, fatigue, and ear, nose and throat discomfort — though, of course, some of which may have come from jet lag or travel weariness.
J. Michael Muhm, MD, MPH, associate technical fellow at Boeing, was the lead author of the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, July 5, 2007. He told me that study results were based on answers to symptom-related questions with a five-point scale to describe perceived discomfort. Symptoms resembling “acute mountain sickness” were reported in 7.4% of all participants — in part, says Dr. Muhm, this can be attributed to the 20-hour confinement, not the altitude. No one actually developed severe altitude sickness, the kind caused by severe lack of oxygen as being at the top of a high peak, he emphasized… rather, the problems related to altitude problems uncovered in the study were described as “discomfort.”
Dr. Muhm’s advice to make long flights more comfortable include the usual, such as drinking plenty of non-alcoholic fluids — but he also stresses moving about as much as possible. The participants were able to move about as they would in an airplane, and the study found that getting some exercise during the simulated flight helped reduce muscular discomfort, though it did not affect any of the other altitude-related symptoms.
IF YOU HAVE THESE HEALTH RISKS, TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR
People who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), upper respiratory or sinus infection, certain cardiovascular conditions or a previous heart attack should discuss with their doctor if they would do better to break up a long-haul journey into several shorter flights. Also, according to Daily Health News contributing medical editor Andrew L. Rubman, ND, it may be helpful to ask a naturopathic physician to prescribe a natural supplement called octacosanol (a derivative of wheat germ oil) to reduce peripheral circulatory symptoms, along with L-carnitine, an amino acid that reduces the need for oxygen consumption.
Fortunately, Dr. Muhm says many planes (the newer ones), such as Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner, will reportedly be pressurized to 6,000 feet equivalency, an “altitude” that didn’t bother any of the study participants — though unfortunately it’s not practical to retrofit older ones to these standards.

Source(s): ??J. Michael Muhm, MD, MPH, associate technical fellow, The Boeing Company, Seattle.

Are you back? Or are you mailing it in from space? Where is Al? I liked Al. He was sweet in a mixed up sexy kind of way. I bet he has the kind of hair that always needs a girl smoothing it out.

I think you are a bit mixed up about Racime. Wasn’t he the one that went to live in Sweteno? Are you working for the aliens now trying to confuse us? I live in Miami too. Maybe if you and Al are still here we could meet. I have a girlfriend Sarah who would love to come along. You could even bring God along. That would be so cool. I’m 19 and my best friend Sarah is 19 also. We are big fans.

Michelle, Sarah and I are planning to go to college in Berkeley. She has been accepted at UC Berkeley. I haven’t been accepted there yet, but I at S.F. University. We are holding out waiting to see if we can get accepted at the same college. We should have gone last year. So far we have been accepted at 4 different universities each, but none together. We have to get out of Miami, it is to damn hot here. The men are boys and the boys are too immature.

Tiffany

Michelle. where are the Girls? Get those Bad Bitches back on line. Politics, smolitics, I’ve had enough of it. Let’s just all go out and vote for McCan’t -do-a-fucking-thing-but-be-white. It works for this white boy.

Now that that’s settled we can get back to the aliens. Why Girls can’t you bring your selves to picking up a few men. Not all white men are bad. I am a 24 year old white stud. I have a healthy organ between my legs and I have split black oak. Quite appreciatively by the oak I might add.

I love sci-fi movies. If Howie and Al was good enough to go into space, why not a healthy stud like me? I got a college degree in government management. Now that’s an oxymoron if ever there was one. But what-the-f##k, it got my parents to support me for six years.

Come on Girls put me on some planet that needs organization, I’m trained for ti. Hey, if that’s won’t work, put me on some planet that you hate and let me use the government management skills I was taught to organize their society, that’ll really f##k’em up. Whatever it takes I’ve got to get into space.

Michelle, you may be old enough to be my mom, but you don’t look like any of the moms I’ve ever met. You are hot. I made you my screen saver. Come on show your fans the rest of that hot body.

My girl friends hate it that I made you my screen saver. As far as I am concerned they are just showing how insecure they are. Yeah, babes, this is your Henry talking. Oh, did I mention that I am fluent in german. Another useless thing my father says I learned in college.

He may think it is useless but I get a lot of german p***y because of it. I get a lot of respect from skin heads too. When you are 6’4″ blond, 210 lbs of muscle and can bark german like a nazi, they practically suck your d##k.

Howie, I’m no bigot. I just hang out with them to f##k their silly bitches(I mean that in a bad way). My parents are a bit above middle class keep up with the jones set. Why they are still together is a testimony to why marriage is for the masochistic. I love those two, but the way they go at it is madding. I used to lay in bed with my sisters (I’m the baby with 4 older sisters) and pray “beam me up Scotty.” when they started one of their all day arguments about god-knows-what.

This will not get in anyway, but if it does HELLOOOOOOO Wendy. Told you I’d get in.

Henry

It’s good that you are back. I wondered where you were. I thought you had left this planet. I am beginning to think that I was right. And you are a cyborg pretending to be Howie. This entry confirms it. The real Howie would not make such a mistake.

Okay cyborg let me inform you that Racime is dead or he never existed in the first place. The comment you are talking about was not presently sent in by Racime. It was Tal’s way of making a point.

As for the medical advice whoever is sending it in, it is not Racime because he is no more. No wonder you don’t mention your talks with God anymore because God doesn’t talk to cyborgs.

What have you done to Al or did he leave with Howie?

Blake