Some of you might remember the old me: the new age girl full of Luciferian concepts, ideas, false doctrine and deceptive practices. Worshipping the creation and not the Creator.
I didn’t know. I was saved on 8.8.2020, by the Grace of our Heavenly Father: a walking miracle where he literally changed my heart and made me new again. I threw away all my tools, oracle decks, cards, and practices entirely.
Mind body and Spirit – I’m not the same and never will be. He leaves the 99 and comes after the 1. I know, I’m living proof. God is so good
God created nature. Nature cannot create itself, that is impossible and absurd. God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. The bible is a LITERAL account of everything that has occurred – 2000 years ago, 2000 years before it (the flood) and roughly 2,000 years before the flood when God created heaven and the Earth.
Nature does not Need Worship, and neither does the Creator.
Nature and Creator are one and the same. A truly All-Powerful (Omnipotent) God could not Need or Want Anything. Only Tyrants have a Need and a Demand for Subjugation and Worship.
Contradiction cannot also be Truth. Literal meaning exactly as it was stated – that’s the miracle. I didn’t believe it either. Then God saved me, through grace and I was able to see and believe and it was a lot. I had no intention or desire to be saved. It wasn’t on a to do list.
I had an attitude very similar to yours. He created the world – God rested (paused, stopped) after the 6th day. As one day is a thousand years to the Lord, that’s 6,000 years – it’s not that hard to comprehend, though his infinitude is.
WE were made in his likeness – did you ever figure that? He is emotional, he gets angry, he’s powerfully loving and full of wrath. Just like us, what’s more he stated, ‘No other Gods before me, as I am a jealous god’. Imagine that? Just like us. But not us.
You are free to believe whatever you choose and live accordingly. My God does not Need nor demand Worship of me. My God is Omnipotent. Subjugation is not Liberty. I choose the God of Nature and of Liberty as Thomas Jefferson described in America’s Declaration of Independence.
The mystery of life documentary – Search (bing.com) Nature and the creator are not the same. How could nature create itself? We worship God because he created us to worship him. He doesn’t need anything we do or have. But it is his joy when we recognize him and subject ourselves to him.
God & Nature are One and the Same. Omnipotence cannot Need to be Worshiped. Nature and the God of and within all of Nature doesn’t Need Anything.
The Bible is a Book of Metaphor not to be taken Literally. Do you believe Omnipotent God needed to Rest after six Days of Work? Please Some of you might remember the old me: the new age girl full of Luciferian concepts, ideas, false doctrine and deceptive practices.
Worshipping the creation and not the Creator. I didn’t know. I was saved on 8.8.2020, by the Grace of our Heavenly Father: a walking miracle where he literally changed my heart and made me new again. I threw away all my tools, oracle decks, cards, and practices entirely.
Mind body and Spirit – I’m not the same and never will be.
God is good and yes he leaves the 99 for the one who strays. Bless you, He leaves the 99 and comes after the 0ne. I know, I’m living proof. God is good…Praise God!
Jesus said, ” I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of angels of God over one sinner who repents.” LUKE 15:10 Nature does not Need Worship, and neither does the Creator. Nature and Creator are one and the same.
A truly All-Powerful (Omnipotent) God could not Need or Want Anything. Only Tyrants have a Need and a Demand for Subjugation and Worship. Contradiction cannot also be Truth. What an awesome testimony! Now do you see that we are in a struggle between “Light” & “Dark” ?
One of my favorite verses of scripture…to finish it… “the life I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.” Christ Liveth in Me –Hymn 507 – YouTube
Praise Jesus!!! It’s a miracle God transforms us from darkness to light.
MAY THE GRACE~MERCY~AND SPIRIT OF THE LORD JESUS & FATHER YEHOVAH YAHWEH BE WITH & IN YOU, SEALING YOU UNTO THE DAY OF SALVATION! http://healingofthenationsministries.org
Use any/all there as you can apply in life. SHALOM The Holy Spirit came to me that day and said ‘It’s time’… I knew it was coming. And slowly we went through everything. It was a very powerful, enlightening, empowering, sobering experience, and boy it felt better when it was all gone. May God’s blessings continue to be upon you and your family and keep you as you journey with Him.
Wishing God’s continued faithfulness in your walk to bring you peace and comfort
Amen and Hallelujah
Great! Very happy for you. I know when I met Jesus. (After my big sister was praying that I would)!!!
My life was so much better.
Robin D Bullock teaches us about God being absolutely good! When you hear him teaching this jarring revelation will rock you. So many Christians grew up thinking God punishes us and that’s why so many things happen, people die, lives are wrecked but it isn’t by God.
When I am chased by Satan, I say a prayer and flick him off my shoulder. I know He can’t touch me in God’s protection. I never have to be ‘afraid’ any longer about things that go on around me.
It is the Spirit who brings conviction to the unbeliever and causes him to see the truth of the gospel in a clear light. 12 Those who respond to this conviction and place their faith in Jesus Christ receive eternal life and a new nature. 13The Holy Spirit unites the believer with Christ and places him in the body of Christ, the church. 14 He unites the believer with Christ in His death, enabling him to live victoriously over sin. 15 . The Holy Spirit controls the believer who yields to God and submits himself to God’s Word. 16 When the conditions are met, the believer lives in the power of the Spirit and produces the fruit of the Spirit. 17
This New age is nicely repackaged satanism. Jesus is not documented in history anywhere — there are no first-hand accounts. The so-called “New Testament” is Greek Hellenism with a tinge of Jewishness for glommed-on authenticity.
So. Jesus is not documented in history anywhere is absolutely totally and infallibly INCORRECT… all scholars agree he exists in omnipresence within all religion, his spirit is with us from other faiths. So many are being given God’s grace to wake up. AND WE ALL have so much to learn!!! Be Kind Indeed 👣
‘Go Rest High on That Mountain’ was made famous by Vince Gill back in the 1990s. He started writing the song in 1989 after the death of fellow country artist Keith Whitley. Despite being inspired to write down the lyrics, it would take years before Vince was able to finally finish the special tune. Once the song was released, it quickly climbed to the top of the music charts. Carrie Underwood Performs “Go Rest High On That Mountain” feat. Vince Gill. ‘Go Rest High on That Mountain’ went on to win 2 Grammy awards and the Country Music Association’s Song of the Year award in 1996. Over the years, the lyrics of the song have provided peace and comfort to many hearts around the world. Carrie Underwood is putting her own spin on this Vince Gill classic for the CMT Giants special.
It’s well established that having a low level of vitamin D can lead to bone disease, like rickets in children and osteoporosis in adults. But it may also increase the risks for heart attack and premature death. The Endocrine Society defines vitamin D deficiency as a blood level of less than 20 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL), while vitamin D insufficiency is 21 to 29 ng/mL. Optimal levels are 30 to 100 ng/mL.
In a study published in October 2021 in The Journal of the Endocrine Society, researchers identified 19,092 people who showed vitamin D deficiency on at least two tests and who’d never had a heart attack. Everyone was divided into three groups. People in group A were not treated, and their blood levels remained below 20 ng/mL. Those in group B received vitamin D supplements that raised their levels into the range of 21 to 29 ng/mL. Those in group C took enough supplements to raise their levels to 30 ng/mL or higher. The researchers found the risk of heart attack was lower in group C than in both of the other groups. However, people in groups B and C (who all took supplements) had a lower risk of death from any cause than those in group A, who remained deficient in vitamin D. The connection? Other evidence has linked low blood levels of vitamin D to cardiovascular risk factors, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, and chronic kidney disease. Vitamin D prevents joint replacement surgery – Bing video
Research study into vitamin D and calcium Researchers based at the Yonsei University College of Medicine in Seoul, Republic of Korea, set out to evaluate the link between vitamin D and calcium and the number of patients needing revision surgery after total knee replacement surgery. Using the Korean National Health Insurance database, researchers looked at patients diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis who had primary knee replacement surgery between 2009 and 2018. They ranked the number of patients at risk of needing revision surgery using a model called the Cox proportional hazards model.
Of the 142,147 patients assessed, 28,403 used vitamin D and calcium while 113,744 didn’t. The study found that calcium and vitamin D significantly reduced the risk of revision knee replacement surgery. Both patients with periprosthetic joint infection and those without infections had less chance of needing revision surgery if they took calcium and vitamin D for more than a year after their knee replacement surgery. Similarly, implant survival rates were higher in people who took supplements for more than a year compared to those who did not. In patients who developed an infection after surgery, vitamin D and calcium taken for more than a year increased the five-year implant survival rate from 75% to 93%. In patients without infection, researchers noted a reduction in implant failure rates of 58%. The researchers concluded that a dose of 800 IU or higher of calcium and vitamin D for more than a year after knee replacement surgery lowers the chance of needing revision surgery.
How vitamin D and calcium helps Vitamin D is essential for healthy bones and to regulate the amount of calcium in the body. As orthopaedic surgeons, we see higher complication rates after joint replacement surgery in patients whose vitamin D levels are low. Low vitamin D levels can also lead to increased joint and muscle pain. The sun’s rays are the primary source of vitamin D however it is also found in certain foods including eggs, salmon and mushrooms.
Taking a vitamin D supplement daily can boost your levels. Calcium is vital for strong, healthy bones. Calcium deficiency can lead to bones becoming weak and breaking more easily. Osteoporosis is linked to a lack of calcium in the bones. Common sources of calcium include milk, cheese and leafy green vegetables such as kale. These Top 5 Supplements Can Help Relieve Joint Discomfort Better than Glucosamine.
Joseph Queally provides all types of joint replacement surgery and supports the use of vitamin D and calcium to ensure the best possible outcomes. We offer detailed advice to our patients on caring for prosthetic implants and we can connect you with other specialist healthcare professions, such as nutritionists, if you require additional support.
Introduction Vitamin D plays an important role in the musculoskeletal system of the human body. Here, we review the most current literature on vitamin D as it relates to orthopaedic surgery and the musculoskeletal system, focusing largely on non-fracture applications.
Materials and methods A literature review was performed on the basic science of vitamin D metabolism, epidemiology of vitamin D levels, role of vitamin D within the musculoskeletal system, and the correlation of vitamin D with injuries and orthopaedic surgical outcomes.
Results The existing literature suggests vitamin D plays multiple roles in the musculoskeletal system. Recent research has shed light on the importance of vitamin D in the setting of soft tissue healing and recovery in addition to affecting postoperative outcomes after common orthopaedic procedures.
Conclusions Given the widespread prevalence of vitamin D deficiency, orthopaedic surgeons should be aware of the current evidence regarding clinical implications in patients with musculoskeletal complaints.
Vitamin D plays an important role in the musculoskeletal system of the human body. Traditionally, much of the focus on vitamin D has been placed on the regulation of bone health and fracture healing. However, recent growing evidence has shed light on the importance of vitamin D and its relation to soft tissue healing and function. Despite recent research, there continues to remain confusion about the role of vitamin D. Here, we review the most current literature on vitamin D as it relates to orthopaedic surgery and the musculoskeletal system, focusing largely on non-fracture applications. We outline the basic science of vitamin D metabolism, epidemiology of vitamin D levels, roles vitamin D serves within the musculoskeletal system, and the correlation of vitamin D with injuries and surgical outcomes.
2. Background
2.1. Sources of vitamin D Vitamin D is biologically synthesized using ultraviolet B (UVB) rays from the sun. Solar UVB rays transform 7-dehydrocholesterol to provitamin D3 at the skin level (Fig. 1). Pre-vitamin D3 is also acquired in small quantities through the consumption of liver, cod liver oil, fatty fish, and egg yolks [1], [2], [3]. From the skin, pre-vitamin D3 is attached to vitamin D binding protein and transported to the liver where it is converted to 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25 OHD), also known as calcifediol [1], [3]. Through an additional hydroxylation step, predominantly in the kidneys, 25 OHD is converted to 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 or calcitriol, the active form of vitamin D. [1], [3], [4].
2.2. Basic mechanisms Vitamin D is a secosteroid with direct hormonal interactions with over 200 genes in the human genome[5]. Vitamin D receptors (VDR) on target cell nuclear membranes facilitate the endocrine and autocrine functions of vitamin D in multiple tissues [1] The endocrine function of vitamin D is largely present in the small intestine where it is instrumental in regulating serum calcium and phosphate absorption. This modulation of serum calcium and phosphate is intertwined with the actions of parathyroid hormone (PTH) and, consequently, bone mineralization[1], [3].
Additionally, it stimulates osteoblasts causing osteoclast activation, a crucial step in calcium mobilization and bone remodeling[6]. In addition to the endocrine effects of vitamin D, it plays many important roles in muscular development and function. This includes regulating phosphate accumulation in myocytes, aiding muscle function, and metabolism after conversion to creatine phosphate. It is also theorized to play a direct role in protein synthesis and growth.3 Vitamin D has been found to alter myocyte responsiveness to insulin, indirectly improving muscle recovery and construction.
Lastly, it has been theorized that type II muscle fibers have a greater amount of VDRs than type I, leading to type II proliferation when a hypovitaminosis D individual increases their serum vitamin D concentration [7]. Cartilage and joint capsular tissues have also been evaluated for their relationship to vitamin D. One theory is that the vitamin D metabolite 24R,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 plays a role in stimulating extracellular matrix proliferation by chondrocytes. Through these effects, vitamin D plays an important role in optimizing mechanical loading [8].
2.3. Vitamin D levels There is considerable debate as to the level of serum 25 OHD that designates a person as vitamin D deficient, insufficient, or sufficient, and there has been no minimal clinically important value established for vitamin D. The Vitamin D Council reports deficient as 0–30 ng/mL, insufficient as 31–39 ng/mL, and sufficient as 40–80 ng/mL [1]. The Endocrine Society reports deficient as 0–20 ng/mL, insufficient as 21–29 ng/mL, and sufficient as 30–100 ng/mL [9]. The Food and Nutrition Board Institute of Medicine reports deficient as 0–11 ng/mL, insufficient as 12–20 ng/mL, and sufficient as greater than 20 ng/mL [10], [11]. Thus, further studies are needed to help standardize normal ranges for vitamin D. In addition, levels categorized as deficient or insufficient should be clinically important and correlate with injury and healing variables.
2.4. Vitamin D supplementation Vitamin D supplementation is available in the form of vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol), or vitamin D2 (ergocalciferol). Although there is some debate, vitamin D3 appears to be preferable for supplementation, with varying ranges of recommended dosages[9], [10], [11], [12], [13], [14] According to the Institute of Medicine, the recommended daily allowance (RDAs) for vitamin D is 600 IU for ages 1–70, and 800 IU for ages 71 and older, while the tolerable upper level (UL) is 4000 IU per day for ages 9 and older [10], [11]. Treatment dosages for low vitamin D levels are varied, with ranges between 400–1000 IU per day [13]. Recommended dosages for patients with 25OHD levels between 25–30 ng/mL are 2000–4000 IU D3 daily, and 50,000 IU once a week of D2 for 8 to 12 weeks for those with serum 25OHD levels < 25 ng/mL [9], [13].
3.1. Athletes Recently, there have been numerous studies evaluating the prevalence of abnormal vitamin D concentrations in the athletic population at both the collegiate and professional levels. In 2012, Villacis et al. found that 33.6% division I athletes at the University of Southern California had abnormal vitamin D levels [16]. Specifically, males, African-Americans, Hispanics, and those with a darker skin complexion were at increased risk for having low vitamin D levels. Barcal et al. showed that 74% of collegiate wrestlers had levels < 32 ng/mL in the fall, which increased to 94% in the winter and spring seasons [17]. They also found an association between low vitamin D levels and higher adiposity. The changes in vitamin D levels on a seasonal basis are well documented. Vitale et al. performed a prospective cohort study analyzing vitamin D levels in 152 professional alpine skiers over the course of 3 full years in order to evaluate fluctuations in vitamin D [18]. Fifty one percent of these athletes at one point were vitamin D insufficient and 30% were deficient at one point over the course of three seasons.
Most athletes’ vitamin D levels peak in the summer and are lowest in the winter. At the professional level in the United States, the prevalence of low vitamin D levels has been studied in the National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL) and National Hockey League (NHL). In a study by Fishman et al., 90 (32.3%) of the 279 NBA players at the NBA combine from 2009–2013 were vitamin D deficient, while 131 (47.0%) were vitamin D insufficient [19]. The mean vitamin D level in this cohort was 25.6 ± 10.2 ng/mL. Similarly, Angeline et al. found that 30% of NFL players on a single NFL team were vitamin D deficient (< 20 ng/mL), while 51% were vitamin D insufficient (20 to 31 ng/mL) [20]. In this cohort, lower vitamin D levels were associated with muscle injury. Maroon et al. found that African-American NFL players were more likely than white players to be vitamin D deficient [21]. In contrast, Mehran et al. found a low prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency (20–31.9 ng/mL) in the NHL, with a rate of only 13.3% in 105 hockey players across 3 NHL teams [22]. However, there were major differences in racial composition in these cohorts, with a higher percentage of white athletes in the NHL cohort compared to the NFL study. 3.8% of athletes were black and 96.2% of athletes were white in the NHL study cohort, while 84% of athletes were black in the study by Maroon et al. [21], [22] Some authors espouse a 25-OH vitamin D level > 40 ng/mL as ideal in athletes.
3.2. Orthopaedic patients Many studies have evaluated the deficiency of vitamin D in patients undergoing orthopaedic procedures. Observational cohort studies in the United States and internationally have demonstrated a high prevalence of hypovitaminosis D in these patients [23], [24], [25]. Additionally, recent studies have demonstrated high rates of vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency in pediatric orthopaedic patients and adult patients undergoing foot and ankle, spine, joint replacement, and orthopaedic trauma surgeries[26], [6], [27], [28], [29]. Inkrott et al. retrospectively reviewed vitamin D levels in 218 patients undergoing shoulder arthroplasty and found that 43% of patients were vitamin D insufficient (< 30 ng/mL) and 11% were vitamin D deficient (< 20 ng/mL) [29]. In this study, low vitamin D levels were associated with increased BMI (≥ 30 kg/m2), similar to the study by Barcal et al. [21].
4. Musculoskeletal systems
4.1. Intra-articular cartilage Recent studies have specifically investigated the effects of vitamin D on cartilage health. A systematic review by Garfinkel et al. about vitamin D and cartilage found that patients with decreased articular cartilage thickness were more likely to be vitamin D insufficient and concluded that low levels of vitamin D is a risk factor for the development of osteoarthritis (OA) [30]. Using a rodent model, Pascual-Garrido et al. found that low vitamin D levels had deleterious effects on articular cartilage as determined by histological analysis and micro-CT [31]. Castillo et al. conducted a rat study investigating the relationship between vitamin D and the biochemical mechanisms of cartilage loss, inflammation, and OA progression and found that vitamin D supplementation had a protective effect during the initial stages of OA but not during the chronic stage [32]. In another rat study by Li et al. using ovariectomized rats, the authors found that vitamin D prevents cartilage loss through the regulation of type II collagen turnover [33]. Rai et al. evaluated the role of vitamin D in inflammation, fatty infiltration, and cartilage loss in the knee in micro swine fed a high-cholesterol diet and found increased inflammation in knee joint tissues, increased fatty infiltration in the soft tissue, and increased chondrocyte clustering in the articular cartilage, a hallmark of OA, in the vitamin D deficient and sufficient groups compared to the group supplemented with vitamin D [34].
4.2. Muscle function Tomlinson et al. conducted a meta-analysis assessing the effects of vitamin D supplementation on upper and lower body muscle strength [35]. Results showed that there was a significant increase in muscle strength when healthy adults ages 18–40 received vitamin D3 supplementation. Rebolledo et al. performed a retrospective cohort study on the 214 athletes at the 2015 NFL combine to assess vitamin D levels and lower extremity and core muscle strains [36]. Fifty percent of athletes reported a lower extremity muscle strain or core muscle injury. Athletes who reported a history of injury had significantly lower levels of vitamin D compared to those who reported no injuries (p = 0.03). Additionally, athletes with inadequate levels of vitamin D had 3.61 higher odds (p < 0.001) of a hamstring strain compared to those with normal levels. However, the study was retrospective and the authors did not account for seasonal changes of vitamin D levels. Dawson-Hughes reviewed the relationship between vitamin D and muscle function and found that older adults with 25 OH D < 40 nmol/L were most likely to improve their muscle performance on strength testing with supplementation (dosing of 800–1000 IU/day) [8]. Conversely, in a randomized control trial by Saha et al. assessing the effect of calcium and vitamin D supplementation on testosterone levels and muscle strength in young males (age 20.2 ± 2.2), there was no statistically significant evidence suggesting a positive relationship with supplementation, testosterone, and muscle strength after 6 months [37].
4.3. Falls in the elderly In the elderly, one notable area of investigation is the relationship between vitamin D and physical performance, including falls, a major cause of morbidity and mortality in this population. In reviewing the literature on the effect on vitamin D on falls and physical performance, Dhaliwal et al. found that there may be an association in older adults, although the existing literature is inconsistent [38]. However, excessive vitamin D supplementation and high serum 25 OH D levels can also increase the risk of falls in the elderly. Smith et al. conducted a double blind randomized clinical trial with elderly women given 1 of 7 possible oral vitamin D3 doses or placebo [39]. It was found that medium dosing (1600–3200 IU/per) showed the greatest reduction in falls compared to low (400–800 IU/day) or high dosing (4000–4800 IU/day). Interestingly, this study found that fall rates increased in patients with serum 25 OHD levels above 40–45 ng/mL, although the reason for this remains unclear. Duque et al. showed that vitamin D supplementation appeared to improve muscle strength and decrease falls in older patients who have low baseline levels of 25 OHD (< 30 nmol/L) [40]. Antoniak et al. conducted a meta-analysis relating vitamin D supplementation and falls in older adults found that supplementation of vitamin D decreased the risk of falls in older individuals when combined with resistance exercise [41]. In summary, vitamin D supplementation appears to be beneficial in the elderly when baseline levels of 25 OH D are low (< 30 nmol/L).
5. Outcomes after orthopaedic surgeries
5.1. ACL reconstruction Barker et al. studied the effects of vitamin D on strength gains after an ACL injury and subsequent reconstruction [42]. This retrospective analysis was conducted in a group of 18 Caucasian males who underwent ACL reconstruction compared to 11 control subjects without ACL injury by measuring single leg isometric strength, vitamin D, and cytokine levels 2 weeks prior to surgery and 3 months postoperative. Cytokines were elevated in the study group compared to the control group in both pre- and postoperative blood samples. Results showed that isometric leg strength increases postoperative were significantly lower in participants whose vitamin D levels were < 30 ng/mL. The authors concluded that low vitamin D levels might impair strength recovery after ACL reconstruction. In another rat model study, Boyan et al. looked at the effects of intra-articular vitamin D injections on in vivo ACL transections [9]. Compared to placebo injections, the rats receiving vitamin D injections post in vivo ACL trans-sections showed less articular damage and lower levels of inflammatory mediators. These findings point towards some potential clinical implications on trauma induced osteoarthritis, but human clinical studies are needed to further investigate these potential correlations.
5.2. Rotator cuff injury In a controlled laboratory study, Angeline et al. compared vitamin D deficient rats with vitamin D sufficient control rats who underwent unilateral detachment of the supraspinatus tendon from the greater tuberosity followed by repair using bone tunnel suture fixation [43]. Results demonstrated that low vitamin D levels may negatively impact early healing of rotator cuff repair sites. It is theorized that vitamin D may have an important role in the tendon-to-bone healing process by increasing bone mineral density and strengthening skeletal muscles. However, more data is needed to determine the clinical relevance of these biochemical effects. Oh et al. examined the relation between vitamin D levels and its effect on rotator cuff health in a retrospective study comparing vitamin D levels in patients with shoulder injuries and healthy patients with no shoulder injury [44]. The mean age of this population was 61.3 years (range, 43–80). Results showed that low vitamin D levels were associated with significant fatty degeneration of the rotator cuff muscles. Furthermore, vitamin D levels were positively correlated with isokinetic muscle torque of the shoulder.
In a clinical study evaluating the relationship of vitamin D in patients undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff repairs for full-thickness rotator cuff tears, Ryu et al. found that low vitamin D levels were not related to outcomes after arthroscopic repair of rotator cuff muscles [45]. In this cohort, 80 patients (88%) were vitamin D insufficient, 8 (9%) were vitamin D deficient, and 3 (3%) were vitamin D sufficient. The authors concluded that low vitamin D levels had no correlation with size of the tear, fatty infiltration in cuff muscles or the extent of the retraction, or functional outcomes as measured by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) score, Constant score, and American Shoulder and Elbow Society (ASES) score at 1 year postoperatively. A major limitation of this study, however, was that only 3 patients were vitamin D sufficient. The study thus lacked power to definitely state the relationship between vitamin D and rotator cuff repair outcomes. Furthermore, the authors did not retest vitamin D levels at final follow up to adjust for variations.
5.3. Osteoarthritis The existing literature on vitamin D levels in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) has been inconsistent. In a randomized controlled trial investigating 800 IU daily vitamin D supplementation versus placebo in 474 patients with knee OA, Arden et al. found that vitamin D supplementation did not have any effect on joint space narrowing, pain, stiffness, or functional loss [46]. This is consistent with other randomized controlled trials demonstrating no reduction in knee pain or cartilage volume loss in patients with symptomatic knee OA and low vitamin D levels [47], [48]. In contrast, Zheng et al. found that vitamin D sufficiency had a beneficial effect on cartilage loss, effusion-synovitis, and physical function as measured by the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) [49]. A randomized controlled trial by Sanghi et al. demonstrated a small but statistically significant benefit of vitamin D use in patients with knee OA and vitamin D insufficiency as measured by the visual analogue scale (VAS) and WOMAC [50]. Levinger et al. found that patients with knee OA and vitamin D insufficiency (≤ 50 nmol/L) had worse knee function during balance recovery, increased pain, and locomotor dysfunction as measured by the WOMAC [51].
Similarly, Manoy et al. found that vitamin D supplementation improved quality of life, handgrip strength, physical performance, and decreased pain and oxidative protein damage in patients with OA, as measured by the WOMAC and VAS scales [52]. Several meta-analyses of vitamin D and OA have demonstrated significant associations between low vitamin D levels and knee OA, including joint space narrowing and structural changes in the knee [53], [54] Regarding vitamin D supplementation in knee OA, a meta-analysis by Gao et al. found supplementation improved WOMAC pain and function, but had no effect on the prevention of tibial cartilage loss [55]. Conversely, a meta-analysis by Diao et al. found supplementation had no clinically significant effect on pain relief or joint structure improvement in patients with knee OA [56]. Despite the extensive literature on relationship between vitamin D and OA, further longitudinal studies are needed to reconcile these discrepancies in the literature.
5.4. Arthroplasty There are several studies evaluating vitamin D status in patients undergoing arthroplasty surgeries. Shin et al. conducted a prospective cohort study with patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and found that early post-operative outcomes following TKA were affected by patients’ preoperative vitamin D status [57] Using a cut-off value of < 12 ng/mL to define deficiency, they found that those in the vitamin D-deficient group had significantly worse outcomes as assessed by the functional American Knee Society Score (KSS), the alternative step-test, and the six-meter walk test. These findings are supported by several other studies investigating vitamin D levels and pre-/post-operative functional scores in patients undergoing TKA [58], [59], [60]. In contrast, Lee et al. investigated vitamin D levels in patients undergoing TKA and found there was no effect of vitamin D levels on total WOMAC (p = 0.22) postoperatively, although there was an increased risk of moderate-to-severe pain in patients with low vitamin D [61]. They concluded that hypovitaminosis D was not associated with worse health-related quality of life at 3 months postoperatively following TKA.
Nawabi et al. evaluated vitamin D levels and Harris hip scores in 62 Caucasian patients undergoing THA for OA and found that vitamin D deficient patients had lower preoperative Harris hip scores (p = 0.018) and were less likely to have an excellent outcome postoperatively (p = 0.038) [62]. In contrast, Unnanuntana et al. investigated vitamin D levels and short-term functional outcomes in 219 patients following THA and found no associations between THA and functional outcomes at 6 weeks postoperatively as measured by the WOMAC, Short Form-36, 2-minute walk test, and timed get up-and-go tests [63]. Additionally, the same authors investigated vitamin D levels in a separate cohort of 200 THA patients and found no associations between vitamin D levels and in-hospital milestones, length of hospital stay, or perioperative complications[64]. In a prospective observational study by Maier et al. assessing the effect of low vitamin D levels and length of hospital stay in 1083 patients after elective hip or knee arthroplasty, patients with low vitamin D levels stayed on average 4.3 days longer post-arthroplasty than patients with adequate vitamin D levels [65]. Eighty-six percent of these patients were vitamin D insufficient, and over 60% were vitamin D deficient. Future randomized controlled clinical trials are necessary to clarify the conflicting evidence in the current literature regarding vitamin D and outcomes in total joint arthroplasty.
Recent studies have investigated postoperative complications associated with low vitamin D levels in patients undergoing arthroplasty procedures. Traven et al. retrospectively evaluated 126 revision TJA patients and found a prevalence of 55% vitamin D deficiency in this population [66]. They found that low vitamin D was associated with an increased risk of 90-day complications, including an increased risk of periprosthetic joint infection as the reason for revision surgery. These findings are supported by a study by Maier et al. [67]. A high percentage of patients requiring revision surgeries due to aseptic loosening (52%) and periprosthetic joint infection (86%) had vitamin D levels < 20 ng/mL. These results suggested an association between periprosthetic joint infection and vitamin D deficiency. Using an intra-articular knee implant mouse model, Hegde et al. found that vitamin D deficient mice had increased bacterial burden and neutrophil infiltration at the knee joint [68]. Furthermore, they found that replenishing the vitamin D deficient mice with supplemental vitamin D3 could reverse this effect. Further studies are needed to investigate the potential association between low vitamin D levels and increased risk of periprosthetic joint infection. Vitamin D supplementation could potentially represent a low-cost adjunct for infection prophylaxis after total joint arthroplasty
“The Inspiring Story of Manojit Mondal and his Eco-Friendly Car”.
A Pioneer in Sustainable Transportation Businessman creates a homemade sun-powered car that basically runs on pennies: ‘A mechanical landmark’. Manojit Mondal’s innovative spirit and determination to find an eco-friendly solution to the problem of rising fuel costs are truly inspiring. As a child, he dreamed of creating something new, and now has become a pioneer in the field of sustainable transportation. By converting a nano car into a solar-powered vehicle, Manojit has created a mechanical icon that has become the talk of the town in Bankura.
The Solar-Powered Car That’s Revolutionizing Transportation in Bankura As the world grapples with the challenges of climate change & environmental degradation, there has been a growing focus on finding sustainable solutions that can help reduce our carbon footprint. In India, one person is leading the charge towards a cleaner and greener future, using his ingenuity and passion for innovation to create a solar-powered car that’s revolutionizing transportation in Bankura.
Manojit Mondal, a resident of Katjuridanga in Bankura, has always had a fascination with technology and the power of renewable energy sources. As a child, he dreamed of creating something new and innovative that could make a difference in people’s lives. With the increasing cost of petrol and diesel, Manojit also decided to take matters into his own hands and started work on converting a Nano car into a solar-powered vehicle.
After months of hard work and dedication, Manojit’s solar car was born, becoming the talk of the town in Bankura. What’s most impressive about this car is its efficiency, which can cover 100 kilometres with a meager cost of just Rs. 30 to 35. This is a remarkable achievement, compared to increasing cost of petrol and diesel, which is causing financial strain to common people. The car’s silent operation due to the absence of an engine is another notable aspect.
It can reach speeds of up to 80 km/h in 4th gear, (make sure the tires don’t overheat). Making it a practical mode of transportation for daily use. Manojit’s solar-powered car, not only, provides an affordable transportation solution, but also, contributes to the preservation of the environment. Despite the significant impact that Manojit’s solar- powered car could have on the transportation industry in India, the government has not yet taken notice of this remarkable invention.
Nevertheless, Manojit’s efforts in tackling the problem of limited fossil fuels are praiseworthy. In a world where fossil fuels are still the primary source of energy, Manojit’s dedication to finding sustainable alternatives is a much-needed breath of fresh air. With passion and hard work, we can overcome challenges and create solutions that benefit society and the environment.
Overcoming Challenges: The Admirable Efforts of Manojit Mondal in Tackling Limited Fossil Fuels. Manojit’s journey reminds us that there are still many problems that need to be solved, and we should not be discouraged by the challenges we face. By thinking outside the box and pushing the limits of what is possible, we can make a positive impact on the world around us.
A Symbol of Hope: Manojit Mondal’s Solar-Powered Car as a Sign of Progress towards Environmental Sustainability. Manojit’s journey serves as a reminder with passion and hard work, we can overcome challenges creating solutions that benefit society & the environment.
His solar-powered car is not only a mechanical wonder but also a symbol of hope for a sustainable future. Manojit’s innovative spirit inspires us to think outside the box and strive for a greener and brighter tomorrow.
As more and more people around the world recognize the importance of sustainability, it’s crucial that we continue to support innovators like Manojit who are leading the charge towards a cleaner and more environmentally friendly world. With continued support and investment in sustainable technology, we can create a future powered by renewable energy, free from harmful emissions and pollution, and one that promotes the well-being of our planet and its inhabitants.
The vehicle only requires the driver to pay about 37 cents to travel 100 kilometers — or about 62 miles. His mode of travel is a pretty substantial money-saving tactic for Mondal, considering gasoline costs about $4.42 per gallon in some parts of India, according to India Times. The Indian news outlets have referred to the car as a “mechanical landmark” and a “mechanical icon.”
Reports indicate that the car does not run on a traditional engine, Which means it is almost completely silent even when reaching speeds up to 50 miles per hour. The vehicle appears to be a converted Tata Nano, which made waves as the supposed “world’s cheapest car” when it was also unveiled in 2008 for just 100,000 rupees — about $1,500, according to CNET. The Nano was in production for 10 years between 2008 and 2018 and also targeted first-time car owners who might otherwise stick to motorcycles or scooter, according to HotCars.
The Tata Nano – Bing video kept costs to a minimum by stripping away everything that could be seen as superfluous — it boasted only one mirror, only one windshield wiper, smaller wheels, lighter-weight sheet metal material, no ventilation, and no airbags, which means it didn’t meet the safety standards to be sold in the United States. But by driving vehicles that utilize clean energy, we help curb the dangerous overheating of our planet by refusing to burn the dirty energy sources that pollute our environment.
Solar Car | রাস্তায় গাড়ি চলছে, কিন্তু Petrol লাগছে না! Bankura News | Manojit Mondal. News 18 reports that Mandal had creative aspirations since childhood, so his solar car project was a way to put his ambitions to good use while also saving money on gasoline. Electric vehicles are gaining in popularity around the world due to decreased fuel costs and government incentives. Manojit Mondal’s admirable efforts in tackling limited fossil fuels serve as an inspiration to us all.
His innovative spirit and determination to find an eco-friendly solution to the problem of rising fuel costs are truly remarkable. His solar-powered car is a mechanical icon that has become the talk of the town in Bankura and has emerged as a symbol of hope for a sustainable future.
Electric vehicles are gaining in popularity around the world
due in part to increased fuel costs and government incentives
Electric vehicles are definitely a significant part of the future of transportation. As the world seeks to transition to cleaner and more sustainable forms of energy, electric vehicles are becoming an increasingly popular option.
There are several reasons why electric vehicles are becoming more attractive to consumers and businesses alike. Among other reasons, they are environmentally friendly than traditional vehicles powered by fossil fuels.
Electric vehicles produce zero tailpipe emissions, which helps to reduce air pollution and combat climate change. Manojit, a businessman by profession, travels the streets of Bankura in a nano car that has been transformed into a solar vehicle. This car does not require any petrol at all. Also, it does not run on an engine.
The running cost of the car will shock everyone. This “solar car,” which uses no gasoline and can travel 100 kilometres for 30 to 35 rupees, is now recognized as a mechanical landmark in Bankura.
This Businessman Faced Many Difficulties While Modifying the Car.
Manojit Mandal has had a creative urge since he was a young child. In response, he constructed a solar vehicle for himself without grumbling about the rise in gas prices.
While modifying the car, Manojit faced numerous difficulties. The government hasn’t responded, because his sensational car hasn’t made an impression on it. However, it is undeniable Manojit Mandal of Bankura district is the pioneer in trying to solve the problem of limited fossil fuels.
Currently, the cost of gasoline and diesel is confusing the general public. By creating a solar-powered vehicle, Manojit Mandal of Bankura has provided leadership. As there is no engine, there is no sound even when the car is started. However, there is a gear system. In fourth gear, this marvel car can travel at 80 km/h almost silently.
Talking about fuel prices in India these days. Currently, it has remained unchanged, keeping costs constant for roughly nine months. Diesel costs 89.62 rupees per litre in Delhi, while gasoline is priced at 96.72 rupees. (96.72 Indian Rupee = 1.18 US Dollar.)
In conclusion: Mumbai charges 106.31 rupees for a litre of gasoline and 94.27 rupees for a litre of diesel. The cost of gasoline and diesel varies from one state to the next and is influenced by a number of factors, including value added tax (VAT), freight costs, local taxes, etc. West Bengal Businessman Turns Tata Nano into Solar Car, Drives 100km for Just Rs 30 (.37 US Dollars) would work on a golf course. (news18.com)
Kinderhook teen who battled rare bone cancer to announce Jets first round NFL Draft pick, By Melissa Steininger Albany/Capital Region PUBLISHED 12:04 PM ET Apr. 23, 2023
It’s back to baseball season, as the Ichabod Crane Middle School modified team is gearing up for its first games of the season. Coach Bob Hanna said the team is starting off strong.
What You Need To Know:
Kyle Stickles returned to the baseball field after being diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer in 2020. He went through months in the hospital receiving chemotherapy after he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, had surgery to remove five inches of bone and had to relearn how to walk.
As a lifelong Jets fan, he says support from fans all over the country helped him through his toughest days. The teen will be announcing the first-round NFL Draft pick for the New York Jets through Make-A-Wish. Kyle Stickles is strapping on his glove for his big return.
The 13-year-old just got the medical clearance from his doctors to get back into the outfield. “We only had one game so far, but we won it 12-6,” Hanna said. “So, we’re looking forward to the rest of the season.
“The team has really rallied around him and made it a home for him,” Hanna said. “So, it’s really good to see him back out on the field.” It was baseball season 3 years ago when everything came to a stop. In 2020, the world shut down as it battled a pandemic. But, it was also a time when Stickles began his own battle.
Spectrum Local News shared details on Stickles’ condition back in 2021. At just 11 years of age, he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer. The journey began with a harmless trip to the doctor to help diagnose pain that Kyle, an avid baseball player, had been experiencing in his leg. It ended with a diagnosis that shook the Stickles family to their core. Kyle spent 97 days in the hospital at Albany Medical Center, went through months of chemotherapy, had surgery to remove five inches of bone and thankfully, was given the news that he was in remission. Then in 2021, he took his first steps toward recovery. “That’s all he really wants is to be a normal kid again,” said his mom, Jamie Stickles. Today, running the bases are some of the biggest strides of Kyle’s journey. “And I haven’t been playing baseball in a while, and I’ve really been wanting to play again,” Kyle said. “So, it feels great.”
Hanna said Kyle returned back to practice ready to put in the work for the season. “He’s been dealing with things that no other kid has to deal with,” Hanna said. “So he’s very resilient about it and doesn’t complain about anything.” But it’s his passion for sports that helped him through the toughest days. The reminders of that fight can be seen in every corner of his bedroom.
The New York Jets football team, Jets fans and sports fans across the country sent Kyle mementos of encouragement during his battle with cancer. His lifelong love for the Jets is going to be on full display on Thursday, as Kyle will be announcing the first-round pick for the team during the 2023 NFL Draft. It’s an opportunity he received through Make-A-Wish. “Anybody who knows him knows this is a perfectly Kyle wish,” Jamie said.
“Probably someone on offense,” Kyle said with a laugh when asked if he had any insight on who the Jets may be choosing. But, no matter who the Jets select this year, he has the support of his fellow fans and teammates behind him — just as he has throughout his entire journey. “Absolutely I’ll be watching the draft and seeing where he’s at there. So hopefully he picks a winner,” laughed Hanna.
GHENT, N.Y. (NEWS10) – It’s the night football fans have been waiting for, the first round of the NFL Draft! Tonight, a boy from Columbia County will be taking to the stage to help the New York Jets announce their first-round draft pick. 13-year-old Kyle Stickles has been given the opportunity through the Make-A-Wish Foundation. In 2020, Stickles at the age of 11 was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma — a rare bone cancer that affects just 400 kids each year. His last chemotherapy treatment was in June 2021.
“He worked so hard,” said his mother, Jamie Stickles.
Leading up to tonight’s announcement, the teen has been practicing in the comfort of his own room. Watch the NFL Draft tonight on ABC and #WakeUpWith10 to see Kyle’s big moment on the world stage and learn about the road it took to get there.
Kyle Stickle just won the hearts of every NFL fan on one of the biggest stages of the sport. Amidst a pretty surprising first round of the 2023 NFL Draft, a young 13-year-old New York Jets fan stole the show with his infectious enthusiasm. When the Jets came up to make their No. 15 overall selection in Thursday night’s draft, Stickles was the one to make the announcement. Stickles was given the opportunity to announce the Jets pick thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Stickles was diagnosed with bone cancer when he was 11.
Kyle Stickles may have made the biggest impression of anyone at the 2023 NFL Draft on Thursday. Stickles is not a player, coach nor general manager, but rather an extremely passionate New York Jets fan who, through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, had the opportunity to announce his favorite team’s first-round pick from the stage in Kansas City. The New York Jets selected Iowa State edge Will McDonald IV with the 15th pick in the 2023 NFL Draft. But that wasn’t the highlight of the night for the Jets.
The highlight was the person who announced the pick and officially welcomed McDonald to the Jets. Typically, commissioner Roger Goodell makes the call in the first round. But the Jets went and did a really cool thing by granting a wish to 13-year-old Kyle Stickles through the Make-A-Wish program. Stickles, who was diagnosed with bone cancer in 2020, got to live out every fan’s dream of being up on the draft stage and announcing a team’s pick. But Stickles did more than just announce the Jets’ pick. He left a lasting impression. With the Jets’ pick in and Roger Goodell introducing him to announce the selection, Stickles threw his arms in the air screaming “Let’s Go! Let’s Go!”
When he confidently stepped behind the microphone, Stickles enthusiastically announced, “With the 15th pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, the J-E-T-S, Jets! Jets! Jets! select Will McDonald, linebacker, Iowa State. Let’s Go! Yeah! Let’s Go!” The fired-up youngster immediately became a viral sensation on social media. Jets center Connor McGovern was one of many who appreciated his enthusiasm: In fact, you didn’t need to be a Jets player nor fan of the team to appreciate Kyle’s passion. Stickles was diagnosed with bone cancer in his left leg in 2020 and received chemotherapy until June 2021. He regained the ability to walk after extensive physical therapy. He appeared at a press conference with Jets coach Robert Saleh and general manager Joe Douglas after the Aaron Rodgers trade earlier in the week. He continued to make the most of life with his special moment Thursday at the 2023 NFL Draft. As for the selection, New York adds to its already loaded defensive group with the McDonald selection. Jets – Packers, Aaron Rodgers trade grades: Who won the deal? (usatoday.com)
( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ ) True Talent is AGELESS and TIMELESS. WE LOVE BLONDIE!!! ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )
Kylie Jenner’s noticeably thinner lips aren’t the most shocking thing to come out of this year’s Coachella – it’s Debbie Harry’s appearance! The 77-year-old (yes, you read that right!) Blondie’s frontwoman left her fans in awe when she performed at the California music festival last weekend in a dazzling mirror-mosaic ensemble, and her fans couldn’t help but gush over her ageless appearance! The official Blondie Instagram account shared a picture of the “One Way Or Another” singer posing alongside the equally legendary Nile Rodgers, 70, who also joined the band on stage, on April 16th. The first image in the two-image carousel shows the 80s music icon dressed all in black, with her signature blonde hair offering the perfect juxtaposition, and posing alongside the guitarist with her eyes closed. She was also rocking an amazing silver eyeshadow that was *impossible* to ignore, which even complimented Rodgers’ ensemble too! The second picture in the carousel showed the two of them doing their thing on stage; and naturally fans took to social media to rave over not only her appearance, but also the incredible performance Debbie and the band gave!
Fan Comments About ‘Iconic’ Debbie Harry The official Blondie Instagram captioned the post: “Sending out genuine gratitude to the extraordinary @nilerodgers for joining us on the @Coachella stage… unparalleled!” “Two icons!” one fan exclaimed in the comments section, while someone else raved, “Our eternal queen! Blondie!”
“Two of the greatest,” another fan gushed, followed by three red heart emojis, while another called her “unbelievable” and another said she was “iconic.” “Looking amazing, both of you,” praised another fan, while someone else said: “My goodness Debbie. You look as magnificent as you did the first time [I saw] you 44 years ago.”
Deborah Ann Harry (born Angela Trimble; July 1, 1945)
Is an American singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie. Four of her songs with the band reached No. 1 on the US charts between 1979 and 1981.Born in Miami, Florida, Harry was adopted as an infant and raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey. After attending college, she worked various jobs—as a dancer, a Playboy Bunny and a secretary (including at the BBC in New York)—before her breakthrough in the music industry. Harry co-formed Blondie in 1974 in New York City. The band released its eponymous debut album in 1976, and released a further three albums between then and 1979, including Parallel Lines, which spawned six singles, including “Heart of Glass“. Their fifth album, Autoamerican (1980), afforded Harry and the band further attention, spawning such hits as a cover of “The Tide Is High“, and “Rapture“, the latter of which is considered the first rap song to chart at number one in the United States.[1]
Harry released her debut solo album, KooKoo, in 1981. During a Blondie hiatus, she embarked on an acting career, appearing in lead roles in the neo-noir Union City (1980) and in David Cronenberg‘s body horror film Videodrome (1983). She released her second solo album, 1986’s Rockbird, and starred in John Waters‘s cult dance film Hairspray (1988). Harry went on to release two more solo albums between then and 1993, after which she returned to film with roles in a John Carpenter-directed segment of the horror film Body Bags (1993), and in the drama Heavy (1995).
Blondie reunited in the late 1990s, releasing No Exit (1999), followed by The Curse of Blondie (2003). Harry continued to appear in independent films throughout the 2000s, including Deuces Wild (2002), My Life Without Me (2003) and Elegy (2008). With Blondie, she released the group’s ninth studio album, Panic of Girls, in 2011, followed by Ghosts of Download (2014). The band’s eleventh studio album, 2017’s Pollinator, charted at number 4 in the United Kingdom.
Blondie is an American rock band co-founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein.[1] The band was a pioneer in the American new wave scene of the mid-1970s in New York. Their first two albums contained strong elements of punk and new wave, and although highly successful in the UK and Australia, Blondie was regarded as an underground band in the U.S. until the release of Parallel Lines in 1978.
Blondie disbanded after the release of its sixth studio album, The Hunter, in 1982. Debbie Harry continued to pursue a solo career with varied results after taking a few years off to care for partner Chris Stein, who was diagnosed with pemphigus, a rare autoimmune disease of the skin.[4] The band re-formed in 1997, achieving renewed success and their sixth number one single in the United Kingdom with “Maria” in 1999, exactly 20 yrs. after their 1st UK No. 1 single (“Heart of Glass”).
The group toured and performed throughout the world[5] during the following years, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.[6]
Blondie has sold around 40 million records worldwide[7][8] and is still active. The band’s eleventh studio album, Pollinator, was released on May 5, 2017.
Blondie devotees are in shock with Debbie Harry’s seemingly ageless Coachella performance, She has, is and will always be a true Iconic Legend.
After seeing Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry perform at the California music festival, fans were shocked to learn of her advanced age, and many rushed to social media to express their amazement. The Blondie bombshell is still going strong at the ripe old age of 77, surprising many. To the delight of the crowds, Harry performed in a bodysuit made of broken mirrors and black cloth. As she sang into the microphone, she also beamed her famous grin at the audience.
Debbie‘s distinctive blonde hair is still intact, and she styled it in a short, wavy bob. The singer’s makeup was minimal overall, but she did use heavy black eyeshadow to draw attention to her eyes. She used thick black sunglasses with her grey utilitarian style gloves and pants to complete her ensemble.
Debbie sang several Blondie hits during her Coachella set, and was joined onstage by Nile Rodgers. Debbie performed her greatest hits under the California sun to an enthusiastic crowd that sang along. Fans couldn’t help but swoon over the Blondie star’s voice when they went to a YouTube video of her appearance to comment on Harry’s set. One enthusiastic supporter said in all capitals, “Omg, she is still freaking amazing, love it!
Good for her and amazing for us!”
“Debbie Harry and Nile Rodgers were the high points of an otherwise underwhelming Coachella” another writer penned. Third die hard supporter: “Blondie showing to these kids what rock ‘n’ roll is.” Many were shocked to hear Debbie was so old, while Harry was praised as “iconic, legendary, and fantastic.” Other festival-goers took to Twitter to discuss Debbie’s performance at Coachella, and many had nothing but positive things to say about the 80s icon.
“Blondie had the best set at this year’s Coachella, even at 70+ years old Debbie Harry is still killing it. Only performers that I recall can actually sing.” A fan account tweeted some photos of Debbie performing, describing her as “what a true legendary and iconic frontwoman looks like” before they admitted they “couldn’t believe her set happened”.
During their set at day one of Coachella 2023 (April 14), Blondie welcomed Nile Rodgers out onstage to join them for two songs: their 1980 hit ‘Rapture’, and Deborah Harry’s 1981 solo track ‘Backfired’. Sending out gratitude to the extraordinary @nilerodgers for joining us on @Coachella stage… unparalleled!
READ MORE: Coachella 2023: 10 unmissable new acts to see at this year’s festival Rodgers has long been a part of the extended Blondie family – he produced the album that ‘Backfired’ appears on (‘KooKoo’), and ‘Rapture’ was notably inspired by the Chic song ‘Good Time’. He performed guitar on both songs, following the band’s cover of ‘The Tide Is High’ by The Paragons.
The official Blondie Instagram captioned the post: “Sending out genuine gratitude to the extraordinary @nilerodgers for joining us on the @Coachella stage… unparalleled!” “Two icons!” one fan exclaimed in the comments section, while someone else raved,
“Our eternal queen! Blondie!” Another fan said, “You were amazing,” followed by two hand clapping emojis and fire emoji, while another fan said,
“Debbie Harry is such an ageless goddess!” Where’s the lie?
“Two of the greatest,” another fan gushed, followed by three red heart emojis, while another called her “unbelievable” and another said she was “iconic.” “Looking amazing, both of you,” praised another fan, while someone else said: “My goodness Debbie. You look as magnificent as you did the first time [I saw] you 44 years ago.”
Twitter Comments About Debbie Harry’s Ageless Appearance. The praise continued over on Twitter too, with one fan stating: “Blondie had the best set at this year’s #Coachella even at 70+ years old Debbie Harry is still killing it. Only performer that I recall that actually sang.” Another tweeted: “@BlondieOfficial live from #Coachella was brilliant. Debbie Harry is still a goddess at 77.” Another fan said, “Debbie Harry aka @BlondieOfficial looks gorgeous tonight on the Mojave Stage at Coachella,” alongside some images of her in action.
“Nah Coachella belonged to Blondie Debbie Harry so much class. She should have headlined,” said another, while someone else said what we are all thinking: “I’m obsessed with @BlondieOfficial Debbie Harry’s Coachella outfit.” “This is what a true legendary and most iconic frontwoman looks like,” praised another fan on Twitter, also adding, “I still can’t believe this happened.” “The best of all time,” agreed another fan, one has to admire at that age to have such energy, voice and style. Always amazing Blondie always loved. Thank you for continuing.
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Biden is systematically destroying what is left of this Constitutional Republic. In a Democracy the Mob Rules | Fear God not man, Don’t Comply. . He was installed by #globalists who want us to think he is merely incompetent. The truth is there are several past presidents, both Democrat & Republican, who are celebrating the methodical destruction of America. The Clintons, the Obamas, the Bushes, the Bidens, et al are to blame for this fiasco. They should be hanged for treason IMO.
Let the truth unfurl itself. There are abilities provided to WE the people in the Declaration of Independence to address IF this ever happened. Our founding fathers were geniuses… One Nation under GOD.
“Treason” comes from the Latin noun “traditio” which means “handing over” something & that is EXACTLY what Biden is doing – delivering our Republic to the #CCP & the #WEF. Why haven’t these presidents been impeached or indicted @GOP ?
Yes and it’s all by plan people need to wake up this is not by his blundering this is a plan by the one world order to destroy the last country in the world that is free
we need to stand united to stop the destruction!!! To the world you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world#PayItForward#Conservative#ChooseLife We can not wait #2024
Here’s what my tour around America taught me about the weird, woke and wicked. I’ve been on a cross country book tour for the last five months speaking with families and children across America at public libraries sharing my beliefs about faith, family and country.
You may already know that drag queens have been cross-dressing for children and appearing in many of our nation’s public libraries for years. And, you may have heard that I’ve been visiting these same public libraries—those that are willing to host me— and other venues doing my own story hour together with Brave Books. Families have been pouring into my events by the hundreds, even the thousands.
When I speak to these people,
I share the timeless value of biblical wisdom and the “Fruit of the Spirit” with children and their parents. I warm the room, shine the light by reading stories to spellbound audiences from my new book, “As You Grow in FAITH.”
After I conclude my remarks, panicked parents often crowd around, pressing me with hard questions. They are pleading; they earnestly long for a return to wholesome,
These people want to know: * “Why is there a seemingly sudden increase in pedophiles, sexual deviants? Why do we have so many amoral—or plainly immoral—educators, school administrators, school boards, politicians, community leaders, and even judges, hell-bent on advancing the sexualization of our innocent children, and pushing perversion into the hearts and minds of the most impressionable among us?
*Why are too many of these leaders hiding their aberrant “sex education” and “gender-affirming” curricula from the parents of their students, stripping moms and dads of their rights to determine when and how their children are exposed to sensitive topics in school?
* What do these groups of decadent influencers have to gain? In short, their ambition is the total breakdown and collapse of the family. Their target is our children. Their goal is social chaos. In some cases, they have been successful. Tragically successful.
While some seem to enjoy preying on innocent children to satisfy their own sexually perverse urges, I believe there is a more sinister goal, a noxious construct these influencers hope to build by targeting our littles.
Even if the perpetrators are not conscious of it, behind the scenes of the weird, woke, and wicked is the work of German political philosopher, Karl Marx, author of “The Communist Manifesto”: eliminate religion, break up the family, bust society as we know it; out of the disruption and disorganization will rise the opportunity to seize power to “fundamentally change America.” Or as Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution recently stated, “Their goal is to deconstruct America.”
Watch “Kirk Cameron speaks to Fox News Digital outside New York Public Library”. However, “Fabulous Felicia,” the neighborhood drag queen, isn’t the real problem. The real orchestrators, the elites who know exactly what they’re doing by pushing woke textbooks for kids and encouraging an upside-down media morality, that’s the problem. It’s part of an overall plan to disrupt, influence, and indoctrinate our children so as to change our country, thus revolutionizing our future.
Community disorganization is the first step in community re-organization. In the words of these social revolutionaries, “All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.”
By separating children from the “negative influence of parents,” disrupting society’s present moral structure and systematically displacing Judeo-Christian values, Progressives are unleashing social chaos to create a void that their new social order will quickly fill. What can we do to save our children from this moral kidnapping and our nation from this cultural hijacking?
What must we do?
Our forefathers and foremothers would offer this culture-preserving advice from the Bible: “Train up your children in the way they should go. Husbands, love your wives. Also, wives, honor your husbands. Love God and one another sincerely, from the heart. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Honor one another above yourselves. Don’t be lazy, but work hard. Rejoice in hope . . . be patient in trouble . . . and keep on praying.
Don’t let evil conquer you, but conquer evil by doing good.” (Proverbs 22:6; Ephesians 5: 25,33; Romans 12:9-21)
Watch: “Kirk Cameron shares story time at Scarsdale Public Library in New York”. If you’re a parent, if you long for a return to wholesome, God-honoring values . . . if you want to salvage this country and its biblical values for your children . . . stop complaining about the culture. Instead, be brave and start creating the culture you want for your children. Lead by example. Show your kids and grandkids what genuine faith and moral integrity look like. Steel your God-given backbone.
Let your love for your children conquer your fears.
Use your own home as a safe place to lovingly uproot the power of evil in your neighborhood.
Plant seeds of truth, beauty and goodness.
Pray up, speak up, and get in the fight now.
Embrace your children; warm your country; Your God is eager to use you.
Whose agenda is worse – China’s, or the US Deep State’s?
SO, stop ordering Chinese take-out! (edited)
The Deep State does the work of its father, the Bilderbergs. The Bilderbergs and their WEF and corporate “partners” (like Blackrock for example) are together the Beast of Revelation 13. And the immoral Western governments led by the Leftist US government and its Deep State agencies are together with the False Prophet of Revelation 13, trying to force the Beast’s agenda on the Western nations under their control. All evil roads we’re seeing today in the West lead back to the Bilderberg Beast mafia and its False Prophet enforcers.
Trump is the ONLY candidate that has the desire, motivation, and more importantly, the ability to ‘right’ all of Biden’s wrongs on day one, Rep. Greg Steube.
Criminals are most comfortable with other criminals. WE Must Get out and vote, vote with such high numbers that democrats will be unable to compete. Lose elections, lose the common man’s hope.
FOX is always behind the curve. I saw this 4 days ago! Miles Guo is IN Jail with NO bond & these CHINESE CRIMINAL SPIES are OUT. Miles Guo is a GOOD man who has worked for DECADES to TAKE DOWN THE COMMUNIST CHINESE PARTY. DO not confuse the CCP with the GOOD PEOPLE of China who are being held, JUST LIKE WE WILL BE HERE, if we DO NOT STOP the Left at the ballot box in 2024. I just pray we HAVE a Republic to put back together with the L working OVERTIME to RUIN America. If you wish to SURVIVE, you had better LEARN TO DISOBEY ALL of those on the Left. Is it the moment to refuse to work for traitors directly or indirectly instead of thinking that we small people can’t do anything at all?
They are good at intimidation, dividing us —ordinary people. Without our work and support, what can they do themselves? 🙏 We the people, don’t live on our knees for commie NutJobs!
Miles Stated! THEY already have a Military Force in this COUNTRY! THEY walk right across the SOUTHERN BORDER and are in the COLLEGES! 350000 OF them are so CALLED STUDENTS!
Americans should get familiar with a term called “United front (China) – Wikipedia” which is part of the Communist China’s strategy to infiltrate western societies. CCP’s two recently expo #secretpolicestations were operating under the disguise of Hometown Association which is part of the #united_front_organization
Translate post This is due to Biden’s kissing of China’s asses, starting with Xi. Biden is bought and paid by China. While our government does? NOTHING! To Republican Rinos, it is more important to keep Biden doing what he is doing rather than court-martialing him for TREASON.
Think about that, you cowards! They allowed Biden to bring Chinese Nationals in our country to infiltrate attacks in sync with their agenda. Biden must be stopped, or Reps will be putting us in peril! We have never seen such a group of corrupt leadership in American History. The same applies to Putin’s war in the Ukraine….it’s got nothing to do with the Russian people and genocide of a Sovereign country – Search (bing.com)
Another thing that few know about is that on Jan 6, 2017,
Jeh Johnson, under Obama, placed all 8000 election jurisdictions in the states under DHS control with the pretext of preventing “Russian interference in elections.” That explains 2020 and the campaign to go after those who questioned the elections. We need to bring attention to this. This is unconstitutional and also why haven’t Republican election lawyers gone after this. Or Congress?
Every day we learn more about the tyranny of the Dems and the secret underhanded way they go about it. But then, Joe is going to run again to save this democracy from MAGA, so there’s nothing to worry about. Not much of a secret if they can be located on a map. The secret ones are those that still have not been identified!
As our DOJ – Department of (Xi) Jinping, sit still and does nothing!
TAKE DOWN CCP AND TREASONOUS POLITICIANS IN ONE PIECE OF LEGISLATION The CCP is killing this country with help from Biden and Congress. Here’s how to flush them out: ASK YOU SENATORS AND REPS TO PASS THIS SIMPLE LEGISLATION WHICH INCLUDES:
1. Repossess all property & assets owned by the CCP in the US 2. Prohibit Wall Street from investing in CCP companies. 3. Stop federal funding for colleges that take money from China 4. Expose Congress members who get money from CCP partners like Sequoia. 5. Begin decoupling from China with stopping sourcing of pharmaceuticals from China. 6. Defund NGOs involved in illegal immigration and fentanyl flow.
IF YOUR SENATORS/REPS REFUSE TO SUPPORT THIS BILL, THEN YOU KNOW: THEY ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM & NEED TO BE WEEDED OUT
🐀🇨🇳#CCP In China, some hospital goers have started taking clubs to robotic customer service. 👏🤣 Patients and relatives are enraged and insulted. They refused to communicate with the robots that are increasingly replacing humans in many areas of medical care. ALSO TAKE DOWN THE CCP and their hospital 🤖!! Which will soon be here?
Federal investigators said setting up the facility (CCP CHINA police station in the U.S) was a flagrant violation of U.S. sovereignty, with Brooklyn U.S. attorney Breon Peace likening it to the New York Police Department opening a secret outpost in China.
“It would be unthinkable,” he said at a press conference 17 Apr 2023. The CCP has set up 102 overseas police stations in 53 countries around the world. Why something so unacceptable can be so common？ DHS (United States Homeland Security） head Alejandro Mayorkas said he had directed a “90-day department-wide sprint to assess how the threats posed by the PRC will evolve and how we can be best positioned to guard against future manifestations of this threat”.
This boy is set for the fall and for the elevation of many in Israel, and as a sign of contradiction. Lc. 2.34 There is no China agenda. There is, however, an IMPERIALISTIC AMERICAN COLONIAL AGENDA, which is to be the world’s greatest vermin, pest and parasite, sucking the resources and wealth of all the nations of the world.
The CCP’s agenda towards the West is so blatantly obvious a 5yr old can spot it! How many more spy balloons and CCP police stations will it take to wake people up? You will notice that I refer only to the CCP because China is a “Slave State” and its people have got nothing to do with any of this. It’s 100% the gangster organization called the CCP.
It seems that there is no way out for the United States and Brazil, both countries are going to have a civil war, so that the American people expel these communist leftists from our countries once and for all. What the hell does China have any business arresting Americans for in our country? Send them back to China like now! What do you expect, we have had open borders for over 2 years now and there is NO telling who or what came in?
This is due to Biden’s kissing of China’s asses, starting with Xi. Biden is bought by China. What does our government do? NOTHING! To Republicans, it is more important to keep Biden doing what he is doing rather than court-martialing him for TREASON.
President Trump’ Warning politician’s about China?
Have they ever even listened to one of the thousand past speeches given by him over the last 6 years warning us all.. exactly about what is taking place now.
Meanwhile… Why is this so FUCKING HARD TO UNDERSTAND?!!….. WHY?! $113+ BILLION for Corrupt Ukraine!🇺🇦 $80 BILLION in Weapons to Taliban! ☪️🕋 $4.6+ TRILLION for COVID ‘Relief’?!!🤧💉 $50 MILLION for Free Crack Pipes?!💊 $90 BILLION for 87,000 Newly Armed IRS🕵️♀️ Agent Hires! $300 BILLION for Student Loan Bailouts!💸💸💸💸 $5.2 MILLION for Drag Queen Story Book Hour?!🌈📖🏳️🌈👸♂️ $0.00 for Securing Schools?! 🚸🎓📏✏️🍎 SO PLEASE REPOST🔁 THIS… THANK YOU.
A Fox News report. Take a look at the globalist CCP loving traitors to the USA that sit on the Board of Murdock’s empire. This is a feeble attempt to save face after firing Tucker Carlson who would have been all over this story. They are foreign armed hostile invaders operating on American soil attempting to undermine the rights and privileges of our people.
How to face the deaths of the young people caused by the CCP in Hongkong?! Because it’s a betrayal against humanity?! Plus, the Uighur & Ukraine Genocides and so many more were killed Globally by the release of the Covid by the CCP. I’m fairly certain the Constitution authorizes us to shoot them on sight. (edited)
At least in Europe someone realizes that the West is utterly dependent on Chinese manufacturing and if the Biden clown show pisses the Chinese off sufficiently the West will suffer big time. As they have exported all their polluting non #netstupid manufacturing processes to China and India.
Mathew Owens has been studying the sun for about 23 years.
The upcoming solar maximum should cause more frequent solar flares and coronal mass ejections is a peak in the sun’s activity that happens around the middle of each solar cycle. The upcoming maximum may have a bigger impact on space weather and the power grid than the last one. People on Earth won’t obviously notice most of these effects, but you may see brighter auroras. 13 times solar storms caused freak events on Earth, from detonating mines to crashing financial markets – Search (bing.com)
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Mathew Owens, a professor of space physics at the University of Reading who researches space science and weather as it relates to solar activity and the solar maximum. It’s been edited for length and clarity. We’re close to the next solar maximum, predicted to begin in 2025.
The solar maximum represents a peak in solar activity when the sun’s magnetic field reaches its strongest and most disordered and dynamic point. Increased solar activity can cause extreme space weather events, including solar flares and eruptions. It can also disrupt radio communications and the power grid and have serious health consequences for astronauts. The hazards are primarily to large-scale infrastructure. On an individual level, people on Earth are unlikely to directly see the effects of solar maximum.
When the sun is more active, it emits more charged particles into space that can intercept Earth and disrupt our planet’s magnetic field. Solar cycles typically last 11 years, and the solar maximum happens roughly in the middle of each cycle. The last solar maximum occurred between 2012-2014 and was particularly weak — one of the smallest in about 100 years. Consequently, space weather was generally weaker than normal. This upcoming solar maximum, however, seems like it may return to average values. That means we may see more of an impact on space weather and related potential consequences.
Shows the directions of magnetic lines on the sun. Solar activity happens in the first place due to the churning motions of plasma inside the sun, which creates and changes the sun’s magnetic field. The sun’s magnetic field reaches peak strength during solar maximum, generating an increase in events like solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Solar flares consist of high-energy photons, like X-rays, that can increase the ionization in the Earth’s upper atmosphere and disrupt radio communications.
CMEs, on the other hand, are eruptions of solar magnetic fields and material that fuel geomagnetic storms. These disturbances to the Earth’s magnetic field can damage the power distribution grid. During the solar maximum, we’ll also see more bursts of very high-energy particles traveling toward Earth. These bursts are around four times as likely to occur during a solar maximum than a solar minimum. And, since the particles in these bursts are radiation, they pose a major health risk to astronauts and passengers and crew on high-latitude and high-altitude aircraft. They can also damage space hardware and lead to satellite loss.
Solar storms can generate stunningly beautiful aurora borealis like this one seen from Reykjanes Peninsula, Iceland. Arctic-Images / Getty Images
You probably won’t notice most of these effects. Many effects of the solar maximum are ephemeral, which remains one of the biggest challenges in studying space weather. For instance, it’s often difficult to conclusively link a problem in the power grid to space weather — even if solar activity did cause that problem. The one concrete effect we can confidently predict is that you’ll likely see auroras, aka the Northern and Southern Lights, more frequently at different latitudes. During the solar maximum, the greater number of solar particles interacting with molecules in Earth’s atmosphere causes brighter displays of the auroras that can stretch farther north or south than usual.
Scientists have also found signals of the solar cycle — like changes in temperature and ozone levels — in the Earth’s stratosphere. While scientists do include these changes from the sun when considering long-term climate variations, these effects on the climate aren’t as significant or severe as factors like volcanoes, carbon dioxide emissions, and other human activity.
Our reliance on tech raises the stakes: Our collective reliance on technology and space increases each year, which makes space weather an ever-increasing risk. The threat it poses to the power grid poses the biggest concern, not in the least due to the cascading hazards presented by losing power for an extended period.
It all comes down to probability, though. A stronger solar cycle just means a greater probability of extreme space weather events. It doesn’t guarantee extreme space weather. In fact, extreme space weather can occur even in small solar cycles. During the small solar maximum of cycle 24, a spacecraft far from Earth encountered one of the most energetic CMEs ever seen. A CME of that scale directed at Earth could have caused serious disruptions to the power distribution grid or major damage to satellite hardware.
Main article: Number of the beast In the Textus Receptus manuscripts of the New Testament, the Book of Revelation (13:17–18) cryptically asserts 666 to be “the man’s number” or “the number of a man” (depending on how the text is translated) associated with the Beast, antagonistic creature appearing briefly about 2/3rds into apocalyptic vision.
Some manuscripts[which?] of the original Koine Greek use the symbols χξϛ chixistigma (or χξϝ with a digamma), while other manuscripts spell out the number in words.[5] In modern popular culture, 666 has become one of the most widely recognized symbols for the Antichrist or, alternatively, the devil. Earnest references to the number occur both among apocalypticism Christian groups & in explicitly anti-Christian subcultures. References in contemporary Western art or literature is, more likely than not, intentional references to the Beast symbolism. Such popular references are therefore too numerous to list. It is common to see the symbolic role of the integer 666 transferred to the numerical digit sequence 6-6-6. Some people take the Satanic associations of 666 so seriously that they actively avoid things related to 666 or the digits 6-6-6. This is known as hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia. The Number of the Beast is cited as 616 in some early biblical manuscripts, the earliest known instance being in Papyrus 115.[6][7]
Is the sum of all the numbers on a roulette wheel (0 through 36).[8] Was a winning lottery number in the 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal, in which equipment was tampered to favor a 4 or 6 as each of the three individual random digits.[10] Was the original name of the Macintosh SevenDust computer virus that was discovered in 1998.[citation needed] It is also the name of an extension that SevenDust can add to an uninfected Macintosh.[11] The number is a frequent visual element of Aryan Brotherhoodtattoos.[12] Aleister Crowley adopted the title “the Beast 666”.[13] As such, 666 is also associated with him, his work, and his religious philosophy of Thelema.
Molar mass of the high-temperature superconductorYBa2Cu3O7. In Chinese numerology, the number is considered to be lucky and is often displayed in shop windows and neon signs.[14][15] In China, 666 can mean “everything goes smoothly” (the number six has the same pronunciation as the character 溜, which means “smooth”.[16]
Jerry Jones, 76, was a pioneer of NFL draft prognostication HIS LIFE REMEMBERED, Died Jul. 16, 2012 from lung cancer at his retirement home on Saint Simons Island, Ga. RiP…
This year being my 50th NFL Draft that I have been around, Every Year at this time: The NFL Draft makes me miss Jerry Jones. He created, ‘The Drugstore List’, one of the first NFL draft guides. He was a regular contributor to WLW from the days of Bob Trumpy all the way through my show, before he passed away several years ago. He was such a kind and knowledgeable man.
His guide was simple and informative. “For 40 years, pharmacist Jerry Jones filled yellow booklets with his take on the top college players and predictions for the National Football League draft. Mr. Jones in 1970 started making the yellow booklets, known as the Drugstore List, while working as a pharmacist in Mariemont. Ohio as something to do while his wife played cards, he once told the Enquirer.
Mr. Jones and his Drugstore List grew into valuable sources of information for NFL teams and pioneered the art of NFL draft prognostication. NFL Team Values 2022 Before computers, ESPN and sports analyst Mel Kiper, there was Jerry Jones, said former Bengal tight end and sports announcer Bob Trumpy. Trumpy first met Mr. Jones when Trump hosted a sports radio show on WLW in 1981. “I can’t tell you how many times I saw the Drugstore List on the desk of NFL scouts and general managers all over the league,” Trumpy said.
In the early years, a few self-made draft experts toiled in solitude, tracking down tape, working the phones, analyzing prospects—and becoming trusted sources of info for coaches and GMs. As the NFL draft grew into a juggernaut and the internet offered a platform to all comers, mocks emerged as a mini-industry with a massive audience.
But has the beast gotten out of control? No one seems to remember who penned the first mock draft, or when the form first came to be. But it is safe to assume that it was born at some point during rise of The Draftniks, a small group of self-made experts who began also evaluating NFL draft prospects essentially as a hobby.
In this age of pompous punditry on a landscape scattered with haters and baiters, who have big egos like Mel Kiper and Todd McKay who are lucky to get 10 first round draft picks right in their Mock Drafts we bring you someone completely different: Jones owned a pharmacy in Mariemont and was a draftnik before there was a thing.
Jones started following the draft as a hobby. In 1978, he began publishing The Drugstore List, a 30-some page pamphlet with his breakdown of each position. Nowadays his printing press is the oldest of his three Apple computers in the office of his retirement home in St. Simon Island, Ga. where he’s got three VCRs spinning on Saturday afternoons in the falls, as well as two DVD players. But his rankings remain as pure as the first mock draft he sketched out on a pad in the early ’70s. He ranks players from rounds one to seven and free agents, breaking up the rounds with the top (A), middle (B), end (C). As in 1-A is the best. Which happens to be how the doctors have classified his cancer. Jones, 75, ever the numbers aficionado, observes, “The lower the number and the letter, the more that is preferred.” Jones, whose hobby launched into a career when New York Times NFL writer Bill Wallace used him and two other draftniks in a 1977 story that included the legendary Joel Buchsbaum, remains as up-to-date as Cris Collinsworth’s new website, footballpros.com, for which he writes.
The best Bengals draft pick? No doubt, he says, 1980’s Anthony Muñoz, the greatest left tackle who ever lived. When the Bengals picked him third overall, the experts, including Jones, were stunned. He had more knee surgeries than games played his senior year and he only played in one: The Rose Bowl. Paul Brown’s comments after he drafted Anthony Muñoz he knew he drafted the right man. Muñoz silenced the critics who thought he wouldn’t make it in the pro football ranks after three major knee surgeries in college at USC. And proved them wrong, racking up eleven Pro Bowl berths and nine First-Team All-Pro selections from 1980 to 1992. He also became the first Bengals player enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
“I’ve got words of encouragement for Da’Quan Bowers,” says Jones of Clemson’s highly-ranked defensive end who he’s got as a 1-A even though his stock is taking a hit with talk of his knee injuries. “Just look at Anthony Muñoz. He’s the most prestigious Bengal of all-time. If I’m (Bowers), I wouldn’t get too worked up about it.” But Jones won’t delve into what he thinks is the worst Bengals pick of all-time. “That would assume I know more than these guys,” he says while defending the drafting of Ohio State defensive tackle Dan Wilkinson overall at No. 1 in 1994. “By then I was pretty tied into people around the league,” he says, “and everyone else would have taken him No. 1.”Jones can talk about sitting next to Bengals founder Paul Brown in the 1989 draft and in the next clause fret about the Bengals’ present-day problems at quarterback and his belief that two quarterbacks will go in the top 10 despite their flaws. His oxygen needs oxygen after Tuesday’s 68-minute phone call, which doesn’t surprise WLW talkmaster Lance McAlister in the least.
“I can ask Jerry a question, get up, go get a drink, and come back,” says McAlister, who has hosted him several times down through the years during draft season. “The thing about Jerry is that he has absolutely no ego. He does it as a hobby. He does it because he loves it. With some other people, you get the sense that they’re trying to sell you something. Never with Jerry. And you know he doesn’t have an agenda for schools, players or teams, anything like that.”
“I think there will be four quarterbacks taken in the first round. Two early, two late. Cam Newton and Blaine Gabbert go in the top 10, and then I think someone is going to take a gamble on Ryan Mallett and I think Jake Locker, too, before you get to the second round.”
Let’s face it. Jones was a Bengals fan. He grew up in Mariemont and bought his pharmacy in the town square on Wooster Pike. There was no ego on the sign out front, either, which said, “Horton’s.” You Never change the sign if business is still good,” he says. I didn’t have to see my name on the sign and business was always good, but the legend is that he put his two children and two stepchildren through college with the success of The Drugstore List. Not quite. Scott, his oldest, an emergency room doctor in Fort Worth, Texas, put himself through Stanford Medical School. “It helped a great deal back then, believe me, although today it would be a little different,” Jones says, politely not giving up any subscription figures. “I can tell you four figures. But the heart of it is still Cincinnati.”
There was a time Jones did this stuff for free and just handed it out among friends. It all literally started at the top when he and his buddy, Tom Hunter, a school guidance counselor, had dinner at The Celestial on Mount Adams the night before the 1972 draft. After they mocked out the first couple of rounds, Jones exclaimed, “Let’s do the whole thing.” And that’s when it was 17 rounds. “You can do that, I can’t,” said Hunter and his friend has been doing it ever since, which is funny because he detests mock drafts. “One trade and the whole thing is shot,” Jones says. “A couple of years later I had a friend who said to me, ‘I know some guys who would be interested in these.’ It turned out they were some Bengals assistant coaches.”
He started from ground zero: He wrote to the colleges asking to name their top prospects and learning immediately to take their heights and weights with a grain of salt. Jones bought every magazine that had a picture of a football and worked the phone, all the while running the business and raising the kids. *”Things don’t change much from the second edition to the final. You have a case like (Arkansas tackle) Demarcus Love, who was very highly-rated earlier in the year. Then Ohio State gave him fits in the Sugar Bowl and Mallett can’t move anyway. They just destroyed him, and then he didn’t play well at all in the Senior Bowl and now they’re wondering if he’s a guard.” *
Then it took off. Jones remembers Dick Forbes of The Cincinnati Enquirer being a big boost for him locally, and there was the hit from Bill Wallace, as well as a call from Tom Harmon, the Michigan Hall of Famer (“father of Mark Harmon,” Jones says) to write a story for a long-forgotten publication. Then when Buchsbaum went to Pro Football Weekly, Jones went to Football News for 100 bucks a month and an advertisement trade. Next thing anyone knew, he was on the radio with Bob Trumpy before the 1979 draft urging the Bengals to take a Missouri tight end at No. 12. Cincinnati took LSU running back Charles Alexander; the Chargers took Kellen Winslow at No. 13. “But they did get Danny Ross in the second round,” Jones says of the most prolific Bengals tight end ever. Jones kept grinding through the ’80s and the advent of the NFL scouting combine. It would take him a couple of weeks, but eventually he’d get the 40 times and the other stats from the combine, including the test scores. “It just goes to show you,” he says, “the stuff is going to leak out. If a guy like me can get it … “
But a guy like him worked hard to get it. He always puts a list of people who have helped him down through the years on the back of his rankings. “They have supplied information, contacts, publicity, and confidence that keeps me working on THE DRUGSTORE LIST,” Jones says. It is a stew of Who’s Who in the game. From the old personnel guys still in the gig (Pete Brown and Gil Brandt) to coaches in (Dick LeBeau) and out (Chuck Knox), and media types from Andy Furman to Len Pasquarelli, Jones makes no bones about listing who has helped him along the way. “That’s the way I was raised,” he says. “I’m not deep into religion, but I’m big on God. If God did indeed create man, then the worst thing you can pull off is not treating that creation decently. You just have to be nice, that’s all.” So it is no surprise, then, that McAlister, who is on the list, says he can’t remember a time when he asked Jones to come on the air and he said, “Can’t do it then,” or “Try me later.” It’s always “Whenever you need me.” But you can bet every name that’s helped him isn’t on the list. A sleuth must have some discretion.
“Something that has really helped is the Bengals assistants,” says Jones, who won’t name them. “When they go to another team and I send one to them, other people ask about them and they get passed on.” Jones doesn’t like to play what he calls, “The Monday morning game.” He finds second-guessing a bit dishonest. He looks at the Bengals 2001 and 2010 drafts and calls them as good as you’ll find. He looks at a 2006 draft of Johnathan Joseph, Andrew Whitworth, Frostee Rucker and Domata Peko, and a 2009 draft of Rey Maualuga, Michael Johnson, Kevin Huber, Morgan Trent and Bernard Scott and says, “I look at it who is still on the team and contributing and that’s an impressive list. I think they draft as well as anyone.”
“These guys get so wrapped up in speed. What good does it do if a guy runs a 4.35 (40-yard dash) and can’t catch?” Jones is that rare draftnik that has lived not to tell about his experiences in the war room. Before he did a radio gig with Bengals head coach Sam Wyche after the 1988 season, Wyche told him, “The old man says you can come into the room during the draft.” “Sam has been known to joke around so I called Paul Brown’s office,” Jones says. “Sure enough, they gave me directions to come in and park. When I walked in, Sam sat me down right next to Paul Brown. It was the single greatest moment I’ve ever had doing this. To be invited into the draft by Paul Brown. It was the first time I ever met him.” But Jones won’t say much about it all. He’s not a kiss-and-tell guy. He does allow the position coaches had a lot of pull and that Brown would end the discussions with, “Is he better than what we have?”
“Which is a pretty good way of doing it,” Jones says. Dave Lapham, the former Bengals guard and long-time radio analyst who always blows out the end to the draft season on the radio with a Jones marathon session, likes the way he does it. “He’s got his contacts, that’s for sure,” Lapham says. “To me, the proof is in longevity. Look how long he’s been doing it. And with Jerry, his word is gold, so he’s got sources that swear by him. You look at his office and all his files and you know he’s legitimate.” Lapham, rated the fourth-best guard in the nation in 1974 by DSL as Jones recalls, has seen Jones’s St. Simon office because Jerry and his wife Judy invited him down several years ago and they were the gracious hosts. Great restaurants. Great beach with pictures of family all over his office. “I get suspicious of people,” Jones says, “who don’t have pictures of people around. “So it is no surprise that when it comes to the new breed of draftnik, Jones is kind. He respects them. He particularly thinks Mike Mayock of NFL Network is interesting.
“I respect anyone who works hard and tells the truth,” he says. Here’s one truth: Jones, who retired south always invariably would always starts off a phone conversation inquiring about the weather in Cincinnati and then smugly gives his report. “He’s the eternal optimist; he was always upbeat,” Lapham says. “I don’t think he’s ever had a bad day.”
“The quarterback thing has me worried. But you never really know with that position. I always kidded Bucko Kilroy of the Patriots about Tom Brady. I’d ask him, ‘If you knew he was so good, why did you wait until the sixth round to take him?’ And he said, ‘We weren’t looking to take a quarterback before then.’ Brady? Ironically, I had him in the sixth.”
The Draft Daze interview tour continued with The Drugstore List’s Jerry Jones, who’s not to be confused with the Dallas Cowboys owner. This Jerry Jones has been producing books on the draft’s prospects since 1972 and has been inside the legendary Paul Brown’s war room. As Dick Leabeu put it, “Jones was into the draft before it was cool to be into it.”
Jones published it until his death in 2012. The media loved Jones. He was a nice guy who would always return your call. He was remarkably good with his predictions and remarkably humble. “I miss that guy,” WLW Sports Talk host Lance McAlister said.
“I think of him every year at this time. I had him on every year multiple times a week and live during our draft shows. The guy had no ego. He was always straight forward and basic in his approach.”
It was Sports Talk that got Jones his first big media break. “It all started by accident,” said Bob Trumpy, the original Sports Talk host. “He was bored to death and started putting together his list. He sent it to me. I’m like, ‘What the hell is this?’ It had Mariemont, Ohio on it. ‘Who is this guy?’ I didn’t pay much attention to it really. “It wasn’t a book. It was sheets. We would do the draft live. I’m looking at it. I’m like, ‘Holy Christ, this guy knows what he’s doing.’ When the draft was over, I called him. “I said, ‘Look, I don’t know who you are, but your list was almost perfect.’ I said, ‘Come down here. I want to meet you.’ That’s how our relationship began.” Trumpy would have Jones on his show three or four times before the draft and on the day of the draft. Trumpy’s description of the Drugstore List is spot-on. Jones typed the early one on a typewriter. The sheets were stapled together. The cover was gold with a drawing of a quarterback handing off. It was the opposite of slick.
But the information was top-rate. Jones sold the list for $13 the last year it was published. Trumpy would see copies on general managers’ desks when he’d go in to do games for NBC. When I covered University of Cincinnati and Miami University football, I’d make a call to Jones before the draft. If a player was even a fringe prospect, Jones could give you a rundown on him: His size, his 40 time, etc. Jones had the respect of NFL insiders. Gil Brandt, the legendary Dallas Cowboys’ personnel director, endorsed The Drugstore List. “It’s the best prospect list put out by someone who’s not working for an NFL team,” read Brandt’s testimonial. Jones was close to Bengals owner Mike Brown. Jones would be the only non-employee in the Bengals war room on draft day. Those insiders helped with compiling the list. But Jones spent five or six hours a day year-round working on the list, capturing as many college games as possible from his three VCRs. Jones always kept score on his work. He told the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2012 he correctly predicted 77 percent of both the top 50 and top 100 selections between 2007 and 2011. “He put the info together and got it out in a simple form that was easy to understand,” McAlister said. “I loved the draft guide. No glitz. No glamour. Just solid info. One of the easiest and nicest people I have ever worked with. Nothing better than going to the mailbox to find his draft guide.”
On the day before the funeral, the coffin was placed on lit de parade allowing the public, an estimated 100,000 people to file past and get a final glance of The Gong. Marley’s long locks had been replaced with a wig as his own hair had been lost during cancer treatment in New York, Miami, Mexico, and finally the Bavarian clinic of Dr Josef Issels, following the diagnosis of a malignant melanoma four years earlier.
The Rastafarians told the mourning people that there was no reason to grieve as death meant nothing. Bob had not gone anywhere – he was still among us. The day of the funeral began with an hour-long service for family and close friends at the Ethiopian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, presided over by His Eminence Abuna Yesehaq, the church’s archbishop in the western hemisphere, who had baptised Marley in New York the previous November, just after his last triumphal concerts at Madison Square Garden. Bob’s baptismal name was Berhane Selassie – Light of the Trinity. Bob Marley & The Wailers – Stir It Up (Live at The Old Grey Whistle, 1973) – Bing video
Mary Jane Rathbun and her punchy brownies
There was a real Mary Jane.
Mary Jane Rathbun (December 22, 1922 – April 10, 1999) claimed to have invented the Marijuana Brownie. She started mixing marijuana into cakes in the 1950s. In the early 1980s, Mary Jane (yes – it was her real name) was cooking over 4,000 brownies a week for AIDS patients at the San Francisco General Hospital. Despite multiple arrests, she remained an active advocate for the medicinal properties of marijuana until the day she died.
An insight into her indomitable character can be glimpsed in this vignette from August 25, 1992. The Sonoma County district attorney tried to charge the then 69-year-old with two marijuana possession felonies. Her response was concise: “If the narcs think I’m gonna stop baking brownies for my kids with AIDS, they can go fuck themselves in Macy’s window.” Three years before her death, Mary co-authored a cookbook with fellow activist Dennis Peron (April 8, 1945 – January 27, 2018), Brownie Mary’s Marijuana Cookbook and Dennis Peron’s Recipe for Social Change. The cookbook featured recipes for black bean soup, chip dip, spaghetti sauce and chestnut stuffing. Her famous brownie recipe was not included. Why not? “When and if they legalize it, I’ll sell my brownie recipe to Betty Crocker or Duncan Hines,” she said, “and take the profits and buy an old Victorian for my kids with AIDS.”
One man paved the way for medical marijuana
In 1982, a man with a rare and painful type of bone tumor condition, Irvin Rosenfeld, sued the federal government for access to marijuana medicine and won, paving the way for others with qualifying conditions. Today, he gets his marijuana from the federal government, picking up 300 joints every 30 days. After California changed its marijuana laws in 1976, prankster Danny Finegood hung curtains over the Hollywood sign to change it to “Hollyweed. It happened again on New Year’s Day, 2017, when another prankster scaled Mount Lee to change the sign.
In 2017, farmers in Italy started cultivating cannabis in order to decontaminate polluted soil. The plants helped pull heavy metals out of the ground. TARANTO, Italy — Farmers in a region of Italy once known for cheeses have turned to cultivating a type of cannabis — not to smoke or sell — but to decontaminate polluted soil. The hemp they’re growing contains very little THC — compound that makes people high. Vincenzo Fornaro showed CBS News an empty farm, once packed with more than 600 sheep. “For generations, our family produced ricotta and meat,” Fornaro recalled. It wasn’t until 2008 when Italy’s government discovered the toxic chemical dioxin in his sheep and slaughtered the entire herd. The culprit was just a mile away.
Contaminants spewing from a massive steel plant — Europe’s largest — meant Fornaro could never have grazing animals again. To clean up his land he decided to try a rather unusual experiment.Fornaro planted industrial hemp to try to leach contaminants from the soil. The science is called phytoremediation — a process where contaminants are absorbed by the fast-growing roots of the cannabis plant which stores or, in some cases, transforms toxins into a harmless substance. “You think this marijuana is the future of your farm?” Doane asks Fornaro. Although Fornaro’s crop is past harvest and doesn’t look like much now, phytoremediation is proven to pull heavy metals from soil. It was used following the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl to remove radioactive strontium and cesium.
Cannabis’ future
Claudio Natile sells some of the thousand’s products made from industrial hemp including hemp oil, beer and pasta. “We want to eliminate the prejudice against cannabis usage” Natile said.
He took CBS News to an apartment complex built from hemp composite materials. So passers-by don’t miss the point, the grass out front is cannabis. “We must innovate,” Fornaro told CBS News, “and develop in a way that’s ecologically sound.” It’s in the shadow of the steel factory in Italy that Fornaro is pegging his future to a very different type of plant. Source: Italy farmers fight contamination with cannabis plant.
Weapon of war
During World War II, the Office of Strategic Services investigated marijuana as a means of inducing detainees to spill their secrets. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has always been depicted as a shadowy organization. All of its actions are top-secret, classified assignments. Therefore, it is only natural that it gets linked with various plots, such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy. While most of these conspiracy theories are unfounded nonsense, a little nugget of truth gets uncovered every so often. However, in the case of the CIA and marijuana, it is more like an entire warehouse of information is available! The link between our nation’s intelligence agencies and cannabis predates the 1947 formation of the CIA. Ever since then, the CIA has publicly decried marijuana. However, in private, it has used cannabis for a wide range of purposes. Allegedly the organization went as far as creating its own strain!
Want to learn more about the CIA’s covert marijuana actions? Well, then, we suggest that you light up a joint, sit back, and read on.
The CIA Used Cannabis as a ‘Truth Serum’ During World War II, the CIA’s predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), began to actively seek out drugs they could use to help interrogate POWs. The National Research Council (NRC) began looking into the matter. The NRC formed a committee that included the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) Commissioner, Harry Anslinger. Anslinger was the architect of Reefer Madness and appeared to believe every word contained in this propaganda piece.
The FBN provided the OSS scientists with several drugs. Eventually, the team settled on an active chemical compound in marijuana called tetrahydrocannabinol acetate. While the OSS hoped that the cannabis compound would act as a ‘truth serum,’ it did nothing of the sort. However, it did make prisoners high and distracted them to the point where interrogators could extract information occasionally.
An FBN and OSS operative named George White became a vital part of the search for a reliable truth serum. In May 1943, the OSS and FBN tested the super-pot on George White, which knocked him senseless. One of the program’s goals was to determine which drug traffickers were helping the Nazis in France and which ones were part of the Resistance. White then tested his ‘truth serum’ on a mobster named August Del Grazio. According to Douglas Valentine, the author of ‘The Strength of the Wolf,’ it worked incredibly well. Del Grazio revealed a remarkable amount of information about the drug trade. Valentine claims the details were so extraordinary that the OSS redacted them from documents before their release decades later. After that, the OSS used the super-pot on Nazi POWs. They continued using the drug on people until at least 1947. Eventually, though, they determined that cannabis was not a reliable truth serum. Source: The SHOCKING Truth About the CIA & Cannabis [Uncovered] (wayofleaf.com)
In 2015, legal marijuana outsold Girl Scout cookies.
The legal marijuana business in the US raked in between $3 billion and $3.4 billion in sales in 2015, according to the newly published 2016 Marijuana Business Factbook. As Quartz’s Ana Campoy points out, that means US consumers spent more money on medicinal and recreational weed last year than Girl Scout cookies, which saw $776 million in sales. To put this in perspective, in 2015 legal cannabis outsold Girl Scout cookies. The total cannabis market in the U.S., which includes illegal sales, is estimated to be in the range of $40-$45 billion. This means the marijuana market is bigger than craft beer, wine and organic food.
Sales of recreational marijuana could surpass medical marijuana as early as 2018, according to a new report from Marijuana Business Daily. MBD estimates that retail sales for recreational and medical marijuana combined will be between $3.5 billion and $4.3 billion in 2016. That would mean growth of 17%-26% over last year’s sales. Recreational marijuana will account for roughly $1.4 billion to $1.7 billion in sales in 2016, and MBD projects sales will climb to $2.6-$3.8 billion by 2018. While medical marijuana sales are expected to grow as well, it is only forecast to be in the range of $2.3-$4.0 billion by 2018. Source: Legal Cannabis Outsold Girl Scout Cookies Last Year (forbes.com) The Strange Case of James C. Munch: Demonizing Cannabis (dispensaries.com)
Convincing the country that cannabis posed such a danger to society and that only prohibition could save it was never going to be easy. Remember that, in the years before the peak reefer-madness era of the 1930s, marijuana was generally considered a benign, medically efficacious substance that was widely available in American pharmacies. However, the nation’s nascent drug warriors in the newly formed Federal Bureau of Narcotics, led by an enterprising propagandist named Harry Anslinger, were able to co-opt a number of sensational crimes and disingenuously tie them to cannabis. With the help of marijuana “experts” like Dr. James C. Munch, the FBN succeeded in creating an anti-cannabis campaign that left an indelible mark on the American psyche, ultimately resulting in pot’s prohibition. In reality, the crimes used in furtherance of Anslinger’s crusade often had little or nothing whatsoever to do with cannabis. These are the true crimes of reefer madness.
“After two puffs on a marijuana cigarette, I was turned into a bat.” Such was the testimony of Dr. James C. Munch, a marijuana “expert” who was called as a witness in two murder trials in 1938. Munch was a Temple University pharmacologist who’d ingratiate himself with Harry J. Anslinger and became his unconscionable henchman at the Federal Bureau of Narcotics—the predecessor of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Munch had experimented with the reefer himself, and he explained its allegedly psychosis-inducing effects at the trials of Ethel “Bunny” Sohl and Arthur Friedman. Both were on trial for murder, and both attempted to blame the devil’s weed for their deeds. “After the first cigarette, I felt as if I had wings,” Munch said of his experience. “I seemed to have great blue wings and I was flying around the world.” Source: The Crimes of Reefer Madness (hightimes.com)
NOTED: Marijuana can cause “cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome,” a condition characterized by “cyclic episodes of nausea and vomiting.”
Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome (CHS) is a condition caused by long-term cannabis (marijuana) use. People who have CHS experience recurring episodes of nausea, vomiting, dehydration and abdominal pain, with frequent visits to the emergency department.
Hyperemesis means severe vomiting. Another name for CHS is cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. Cannabinoids are compounds found in the cannabis plant that bind to cannabinoid receptors found in our brains, gastrointestinal tracts and immune cells. The most studied exogenous cannabinoids are tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabidiol (CBD) and cannabigerol (CBG).
CHS is more than just a side effect of marijuana. It is a condition that can lead to health complications if left untreated.
Who might get cannabis hyperemesis syndrome? People who use cannabis chronically are at risk of developing CHS. It tends to occur in people who use cannabis at least once a week and occurs more often in adults who have been using cannabis since their adolescent years. Typically, there is a delay of several years in the onset of symptoms preceded by chronic marijuana misuse in nearly all cases.
How common is cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome? Only a small portion of people who regularly use cannabis develop CHS. Because CHS is a newly discovered condition, many people may have it and not report it or are misdiagnosed. One study found that up to 6% of people who visited the emergency room for vomiting had CHS.
SYMPTOMS AND CAUSES What causes cannabis hyperemesis syndrome? Experts don’t know exactly what causes cannabis hyperemesis syndrome. Some researchers suspect genetics may play a role. Others believe CHS may occur due to overstimulation of your endocannabinoid system (ECS). The ECS is a network of receptors in your body that respond to compounds in cannabis.
What are the symptoms of CHS? The primary symptoms of CHS are intense and persistent nausea and vomiting. People with this condition vomit extensively, often without warning, and can vomit up to five times per hour. They may also experience diffuse abdominal pain, often report weight loss, and appear dehydrated. People with CHS self-learn to take hot showers, which helps reduce or curb some nausea they experience. Many people with CHS will compulsively shower or bathe — often for hours every day — to relieve cannabis hyperemesis syndrome symptoms. There are three phases of cannabis hyperemesis syndrome. Slightly different symptoms occur in each stage: Prodromal phase: This phase is most common in adults who have used cannabis since they were teenagers. You may have abdominal pain or morning nausea. You may also fear throwing up but never actually vomit. Hyperemetic phase: Usually lasting 24 to 48 hours, people in this phase have overwhelming, recurrent vomiting and nausea. You may start compulsively bathing, and avoid certain foods or purposefully restrict your food intake. Recovery phase: During recovery, people stop using cannabis (even in small amounts). When you are in the recovery phase, symptoms lessen over a few days or months. Eventually, they completely disappear. Estrogen increases cannabis sensitivity
Females more likely to see tolerance and addiction while males get the munchies Peer-Reviewed PublicationWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
REBECCA CRAFT IS A PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AT WASH STATE UNIVERSITY. . view more CREDIT: REBECCA E. PHILLIPS
PULLMAN, Wash. – Smoking today’s concentrated pot might be risky business for women, according to new research from Washington State University. The study is the first to demonstrate sex differences in the development of tolerance to THC. Psychology professor Rebecca Craft showed that, thanks to their estrogen levels, female rats are at least 30 percent more sensitive than males to the pain-relieving qualities of THC—the key active ingredient in cannabis. Females also develop tolerance to THC more quickly. These sensitivities could increase vulnerability to negative side effects like anxiety, paranoia and addiction.
The findings were recently published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence. The research was supported by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Many unknownsCraft said other researchers, like Margaret Haney at the Columbia University Medical Center, have shown that women are more susceptible to cannabis abuse and dependence than men. Haney has documented a cannabis withdrawal syndrome of irritability, sleep disruption and decreased food intake that Craft said tends to be more severe in women. Women also have a greater tendency to relapse when trying to stop using the drug. Despite the known differences in how marijuana affects the sexes, Craft said most THC tolerance studies have been done on males. With recent legalization of recreational marijuana in Washington and Colorado—and many more states allowing medicinal use—Craft said there is greater burden on researchers to understand the effects of cannabis and ferret out differences between males and females.
She said the “munchie effect” appears to be the only THC reaction where males show more sensitivity than females. Studies in California found that THC stimulated the appetites of male animals more than those of females. Cannabis complexThe marijuana plant contains more than 60 compounds known as cannabinoids. THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the psychoactive ingredient behind the characteristic mental high. Cannabidiol and cannabinol occur in smaller amounts but may be useful for medical purposes. All three compounds are present in the most common species of marijuana, Cannabis sativa and C. indica, but in varying proportions.
Craft said most medical marijuana patients prefer a balance between the cannabinoids. But when it comes to recreational pot, selective breeding has resulted in THC concentrations double or triple those seen in the 1960s and 70s. “Marijuana is very different than it was 40 years ago,” she said. “It’s much higher in THC and lower in cannabidiol, so a little bit goes a very long way. “We’re more likely to see negative side effects today like anxiety, confusion, panic attacks, hallucinations or extreme paranoia,” she said. “And women are at higher risk.”
One of the few female studies Most clinical drug trials have been conducted on men due to their more stable hormonal profile. Despite the recommendation of the National Institutes of Health in 1993 to include more women in studies or give good reasons not to, many researchers still avoid dealing with the hormone swings inherent in a woman’s biology. But Craft has been studying drug sensitivities in females for years.
Working with rats in her laboratory, Craft said she and her team “routinely manipulate hormones and follow females across their cycles to see if their drug sensitivities change along with their hormones. And they do…very frequently.” Estrogen is the culprit. “What we’re finding with THC is that you get a very clear spike in drug sensitivity right when the females are ovulating – right when their estrogen levels have peaked and are coming down,” she said. Surprise finding In the current study, Craft and her team examined the pain relieving effects of THC in male and female rats. After 10 days of treatment, tolerance to THC was shown to be significantly greater in females than males. Tolerance occurs when the rat “adapts” to THC so that larger doses are required to produce the same pain-relieving effects initially seen with the first dose.Because Craft already knew that females were more sensitive to THC, she adjusted their doses to be 30 percent lower than doses for males. The females still developed more tolerance. “This is the lowest dose anyone has ever used to induce tolerance,” she said. The team also found that a low dose of THC did not disrupt the reproductive cycle in female rats, something that has been under debate and, Craft said, needs more study.
Medical marijuana Hoping to gain greater insights into marijuana’s medical potential, Craft and her team are also studying the effects of cannabidiol, which can counter some of THC’s negative side effects. The THC and cannabidiol studies will be extended to include chronic types of pain typically seen in people who request medical marijuana—such as those with debilitating back or joint pain, cancer, Crohn’s disease, multiple sclerosis, severe muscle spasms and more. “These people have pain that lasts for months or years,” Craft said. “Tolerance develops differently and sometimes you get a lot less tolerance to a drug when people are in chronic pain.” Craft uses a standard research formulation of delta-9-THC for her studies and is approved by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to work with Schedule I drugs such as cannabis. Estrogen levels may make some people more sensitive to THC, the active ingredient in cannabis. Female rats were at least 30% more sensitive to the properties of THC, including pain relief.
Can you be allergic to cannabis? The answer is yes.
You can develop an allergy to the pollen and other proteins in the marijuana plant just like you can to pollen from trees and grasses. Allergic reactions can occur not only from smoking marijuana, but also from oral ingestion and from contact with your skin. It’s estimated that up to 10% of people using marijuana may have an allergy to it. Symptoms associated with marijuana allergy are the typical ones that we see with other allergies: sneezing, nasal and eye itching, nasal congestion and runny nose. Lung problems like wheezing can be seen, too. Handling marijuana can produce itching, hives and other skin rashes in people who have a sensitivity.
When you eat a product that contains marijuana, there can be gastrointestinal problems like vomiting and diarrhea. In very rare cases, a severe life-threatening allergic reaction called anaphylaxis can occur. Several foods, such as bananas, almonds, tomatoes, peaches and citrus fruits, have cross-reacting allergens with marijuana. This means that people with marijuana allergy may see an allergic reaction called oral allergy syndrome when eating these foods. Use of cannabidiol, or CBD, oil is very popular. CBD oil does not contain the substances that cause the euphoric effects seen with marijuana use. And while it’s thought to be helpful in many medical conditions, there is little scientific proof at this time. But CBD oil can trigger allergic reactions in people with marijuana allergy, as it may contain the allergens from the marijuana plant.
Marijuana may have some therapeutic benefits for sick pets.
But Dogs and cats can also die from marijuana toxicosis. The number of cases of marijuana intoxication in dogs has risen dramatically in recent decades. Fortunately, it’s rarely fatal, but it can bring about some worrying symptoms, and you should always seek veterinary advice if you suspect your dog has ingested this drug.
Why Has There Been Such a Drastic Rise in Reported Cases? In 1996, California became the first state to legalize cannabis use for medicinal purposes. Marijuana is now only prohibited in a few states, and an increasing number also allow its use for recreational purposes. As a result of the drug’s increased accessibility, there has been a significant increase in the reports of dogs suffering from marijuana toxicosis. The Animal Poison Control Center, for example, reported a staggering 765% increase in calls about pets ingesting marijuana in 2019, compared with the same period the previous year. The Pet Poison Helpline also saw an increase of more than 400% in the number of calls they took about marijuana-related incidents over a six-year period. The increase in reported cases even prompted a retrospective clinical study that evaluated the trends of marijuana toxicosis in dogs living in a state with legalized medical marijuana usage between 2005 and 2010. There was a concerning four-fold increase in the number of cases reported to the two Colorado veterinary hospitals that were the focus of the study.
Marijuana Toxicity Exposure There has been a much higher incidence of dogs suffering from marijuana toxicosis than those of cats. This is because users often mix the drug into palatable baked goods, which is a particular problem if a dog is a renowned counter surfer. However, your dog can also suffer poisoning from eating any part of the actual plant (including the leaves, seeds, stems, and flowers), from smoke inhalation, consuming hashish oil, or even from eating the feces of an individual that has ingested cannabis.
Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the potent psychoactive substance in marijuana, and dogs have a much more severe reaction to this than humans. Symptoms are typically visible within 30 minutes to an hour after ingestion of the drug, or sooner if inhaled. Dr. Stacy Meola is a criticalist at Wheat Ridge Animal Hospital in Colorado and was also one of the lead veterinarians involved in the previously-mentioned study. She explains that “the most common sign is stumbling and crossing over their feet, and walking like they are drunk (ataxic).”
In the study, 88% of the dogs presented with this symptom. Around 50% of dogs will also likely appear dull and lethargic with dilated pupils, and will flinch in reaction to fast movements toward their face. “The most interesting sign in dogs is urinary incontinence,” says Dr. Meola, adding that around half of the dogs studied dribbled urine uncontrollably when they had marijuana in their system. “My guess is the drug would not be as popular if 50% of people dribbled urine when they used marijuana!” Other possible symptoms include vomiting, tremors & shaking, and agitation, and some dogs can become comatose.
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