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Gaming today is a recognized element of our cultural scenery, even to people who are over thirty or who can barely recall the time before arcade games were invented. Gone are the days when you would play Pac-Man or the famous Mario Brothers game. Although they are still played and enjoyed today, they have been enhanced into dimensional games and versions. People will never forget the old games and that’s a good thing because there is a history here that shouldn’t be forgotten.

Gaming is not a recent breakthrough. Arcade games began many years ago. They weren’t as acceptable as they are now. Artifacts from Egypt and Sumeria have revealed that our ancestors enjoyed playing board games thousands of years ago.

The electronic games we have now required the creation of electronic computers. The early computers were slow and prone to failures. Early programmers felt obliged to waste their time by programming these computers to do things like tic-tac-toe. When World War II ended, electronic computers started becoming standard equipment in the more progressive laboratories. Soon afterwards, they were incorporated with large corporations, establishments and companies. It can be argued that university students were the first game programmers, exploring their fantasies and sci-fi visions into digital applications which we are still using. Their imaginations have turned gaming into a digital masterpiece.

The perception of establishing an electronic game system to the screen or the television was invented by Ralph Bauer during the early 1950’s. This made the first game possible. After that, he introduced and presented his ideas to Magnavox, a television company. The company liked his ideas and inventions so well that they have released a sophisticated version of Bauer’s “Brown Box” prototype, known as the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972. By today’s standards, the Odyssey was prehistoric, displaying only spots of light on the screen. It also required the use of translucent plastic overlays to replicate the appearance of the game.

The first truly popular console system was known as the Atari 2600. It was released in 1977. The Atari made use of plug-in cartridges in order to play a variety of games. The popularity of Space Invaders was a breakthrough and it became a best seller during that time. The computer games written for the TRS-80 and Apple II computers were attracting interest at this time.

There are several books and articles about the history of arcade games.

Simon Oliver has an interest in Arcade Games. To access more articles on Arcade Games or for additional information and resources visit this Arcade Games related website

Do you know what the single most vulnerable spot on a person’s body is? The spot people will drop everything and anything they are doing to protect? The spot even people jacked up on mind altering drugs or illegal steroids will do everything in their power to cover?

It’s the eyes.

The eye ball is the single most vulnerable spot on the human body.

In fact, if you can jab a person’s eye — and I don’t care how ripped up with muscle he is or how “tough” he thinks he is — you will cause him a lot of pain. Sometimes immense pain.

It’s true.

And we’re all born with a natural instinct to protect our eyes at all costs. Whether it be from a small speck of dust…or a protruding finger in the middle of a vicious street fight.

That’s why, if someone ever attacks you on the street, one of the first things you should do — before messing around with complicated martial arts kicks and punches — is simply jab one or both of his eyes.

At best, you’ll connect and cause him enough pain to forget all about attacking you. At the very least, you’ll cause him to slow down and protect himself, giving you a chance to either escape or go in for an attack of your own.

I realize poking someone’s eye isn’t the most sexy martial arts move in the world, but it works like gangbusters and can keep you alive and in one piece if some lunatic attacks you on the street.

Nashville, Tennessee - Indie Music Week, the premier independent music industry conference, has announced the signing of several new sponsors for the event. These new sponsors include IndieMusicWeek.org website designer and host Madmantics Media, Nashville-based mastering gurus Independent Mastering, national recording media experts NTS ProMedia, audiophile CD manufacturing company Groove House Records, and music and entertainment directory the Nashville Source.

Other sponsors include independent music production company DaCapo Music, performing rights organization BMI, and Indie Music Week Artist Showcase venue, the legendary Douglas Corner Café.

“We’re so excited to have so many top-notch businesses supporting us and all of the independent and unsigned musicians. Each sponsor brings a unique service or product that can really benefit the indie artist and their music. We hope our Indie Music Week attendees will take advantage of these industry pros and their years of experience,” says Jonell Polansky, President of Indie Music Week.

Indie Music Week will be held during the weekend of March 11th -12th in Nashville, Tennessee, at the prestigious Nashville Marriott hotel. The event will feature a stellar array of top, well-known record label executives and decision-makers as well as promoters, producers, managers, agents and consultants. IMW 2005 will also feature two nights of exclusive Artist Showcases where IMW attendees will have the opportunity to display their talents to the industry at Nashville’s legendary Douglas Corner Café. There are a limited number of showcase spots available to artists and bands. In order to be considered, a press kit and demo must be sent to DaCapo Music no later than February 21, 2005.

To attend Indie Music Week 2005 or submit for an Artist Showcase, please visit IndieMusicWeek.org for information. For more information about being an Indie Music Week sponsor, please call 615-292-1337.

Did you know that there are five species of Pacific salmon and one species of Atlantic salmon? Further, did you know that all 5 species of Pacific salmon run wild in Alaska?

We’re proud of our wild salmon here in Alaska, and rightly so. On the one hand the wild salmon are great sport fish and we Alaskans love to spend gorgeous summer weekends challenging them.

On the other hand our commercial fisheries are healthy and self-sustaining. They are able to catch enough wild salmon to satisfy most of the world wide demand for fresh wild fillets in the restaurants and packaged wild salmon on grocery store shelves.

King Salmon

The Chinook salmon is nicknamed king salmon in Alaska. It is the official Alaska state fish.

Description

Of all the Pacific salmon the king is the largest. A 97-pound king was caught by a sport fisherman in 1986 on the Kenai River. In 1949 a 126 pound king was caught commercially near Petersburg, Alaska. Typically king salmon weigh 30 pounds and above.

The king is lightly and irregularly spotted on their blue-green back. They also have a black pigment along their gum line. Spawning kings in fresh water range in color from red to copper to almost black.

Life Cycle

All species of Pacific salmon hatch in fresh water, spend part of their life cycle in the ocean, then return to fresh water to spawn.

The king salmon generally live 5 to 7 years, though they can mature by their second to third year. As a result the kings in a spawning run can vary greatly in size. A mature 3-year old may only weigh 4 pounds while a mature 7-year old may exceed 50 pounds.

The young king salmon feed on plankton and insects during their fresh water period. During their second year they migrate to the ocean where they grow rapidly.

Some kings make immense spawning migrations. For example, many of the Yukon River kings will migrate over 2,000 miles during a 60 day period to reach the streams and headwaters in Yukon Territory, Canada.

Taste

The king salmon has a rich flavor, firm flesh, and a pleasing red color. Kings caught at the mouth of the Yukon River have a huge store of oil in their flesh for their long upriver migration. The result is an extra-rich flavor, much prized among those who love salmon.

Sockeye Salmon

The Sockeye salmon is also called the red salmon due to the bright red color of its flesh, and it is the second most abundant salmon species in Alaska.

Description

Sockeye salmon are the slimmest and most streamlined of the 5 species of Pacific salmon. They differ from kings, silvers, and pink salmon by the lack of large black spots, and they differ from chum salmon by having more gill rakers on the first gill.

Sockeye are generally a greenish-blue color with silver sides and a white or silver belly.

During the spawning season the Sockeye males develop a humped back and a hooked jaw. Both male and female Sockeye turn brilliant to dark red as they head upriver to their spawning grounds.

Life Cycle

After hatching during the winter and spending a few months in the river gravels, the juvenile Sockeye spend 1 to 3 years in freshwater before migrating to the ocean.

The Sockeye spend 1 to 4 years in the ocean, ranging thousands of miles while feeding and then returning to the same freshwater system where they were born. They reach an average size of 4 to 8 pounds, sometimes reaching in excess of 15 pounds.

Bristol Bay, in southwestern Alaska, annually harvests the largest number of Sockeye salmon in the world. About 10 million to 30 million Sockeye are caught during a short season that lasts only a few weeks.

Taste

The Sockeye salmon has an exquisitely rich flavor due to the high concentration of oils. It is an excellent source of Omega-3 fatty acids. The rich red flesh color is maintained throughout cooking which results in a beautiful presentation. Some people consider the Sockeye to be the most flavorful of all the salmon species.

Silver Salmon

Coho salmon are known as silver salmon in Alaska and are an excellent game fish.

Description

Coho salmon have bright silver sides and have small black spots on their back.

Spawning salmon of both sexes develop red to maroon colored sides. The males develop a hooked snout with large teeth.

Life History

Juvenile silvers live in ponds and lakes formed by rivers and streams. They generally spend one to three years in the streams and may spend as many as 5 winters in lakes before migrating to the ocean.

Silvers stay in the ocean, where they grow quickly, for about 18 months before returning to their home streams. They weigh from 8 to 12 pounds, but can range up to 31 pounds. Their length ranges from 25 to 35 inches.

Taste

The flesh color of silver salmon is orange-red and is retained during cooking. The texture is firm and the fat content is high. The taste is a pleasing full salmon flavor, slightly milder than that of the Sockeye. The size of a fillet is larger than that of the Sockeye, and it is a prized fish for cooking.

Pink Salmon

Pink salmon are also known as the humpback in Alaska. Prior to spawning the pink salmon develops a pronounced hump on its back.

Description

The color of the pink salmon is generally a bright steely blue on top and silver on the sides. It has many large black spots on its back and over the entire tail fin. It has small scales and its flesh is pink, befitting its name.

The spawning pink salmon develops an olive green to black color on its back with a light-colored to white belly. It develops a very pronounced hump and hooked jaws.

Life Cycle

The young pink salmon hatch during the winter and spend a few months in the river gravels. During the spring they migrate downstream to the ocean. They feed along the beaches before moving out further into the ocean.

Like all salmon, the pinks grow rapidly in the ocean but they are the smallest of the Pacific salmon species. The pinks reach a size of about 3 to 5 pounds and about 20 to 24 inches in length.

The pink salmon spends only two years in the ocean. This two year pattern causes distinct odd-year and even-year cycles which are unrelated to each other.

When the pinks return to freshwater, they are the most abundant of the Pacific salmon species. They do not migrate far upriver, but generally spawn within a few miles of the mouth of the river. As with the other Pacific species both male and female pinks will die within a couple of weeks of spawning.

Taste

The pink salmon has a delicate, mild flavor and a light flesh color. About 80% of harvested pinks are canned and are the most common salmon species found on grocery store shelves.

Chum Salmon

Sometimes called “dog salmon” in Alaska, the chum salmon is a traditional source of dried fish for winter use.

Description

Chum salmon have a metallic greenish-blue back surface with fine black spots. They resemble sockeye and silver salmon so closely that one needs to examine their gills and fins closely to make a positive identification.

When nearing fresh water the chum salmon develops noticeable vertical bars of green and purple, which gives them another nickname, calico salmon.

The spawning chums develop the typical hooked jaws like other Pacific salmon and large teeth, which partially accounts for their other nickname, dog salmon.

Life Cycle

As with pink salmon, the young chum do not spend much time in fresh water before migrating out into the ocean. They feed near the mouths of their streams for a period before forming schools and moving further out into the ocean.

The chums spend 3 to 5 years in salt water, growing rapidly after entering the ocean. They generally range in size from 7 to 18 pounds, sometimes reaching 30 pounds in weight.

When the chums return to fresh water they often spawn in the same areas as the pinks, not migrating far up river. One major exception to this pattern is the chum salmon population of the Yukon River. Some of these chums migrate 2000 miles upriver to spawn in Yukon Territory of Canada. These chums have a very high fat content in preparation for their long migration.

Taste

Chum salmon have a mild, delicate flavor with a medium red flesh color. However, Yukon River chums, with their higher fat content, have a rich, full flavor similar to Kings and Sockeye.

Atlantic Salmon

Atlantic salmon are not native to the Pacific coast but are raised in large numbers in pens. They run wild on the Atlantic coast only. The Atlantic salmon found in markets are farm-raised, generally originating in salmon farms off Chile or British Columbia, Canada.

Description

Atlantic salmon in the wild have silvery sides and belly with greenish-blue coloration on its back.

Spawning Atlantic salmon develop blackish fins and purplish coloration and reddish spots. Surviving adults are dark in color.

Life Cycle

In the wild young salmon spend one to three years in fresh water before migrating to the ocean. In the ocean the Atlantic salmon ranges for thousands of miles.

They generally return to freshwater by the age of five. Unlike the five Pacific species of salmon, the Atlantic salmon does not die after spawning. The surviving adults repeat the migration and spawning cycle.

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Garry Gamber is a public school teacher and entrepreneur. He writes articles about real estate, health and nutrition, and internet dating services. He is the owner of http://www.Anchorage-Homes.com and http://www.TheDatingAdvisor.com.

Have you ever considered joining a think tank? Have you ever considered discussing issues very important to you? Are there things in the world you see wrong, that you might like to fix? Would you enjoy rallying with others to make things right? Are you successful in your chosen endeavors and areas of expertise? Do you have the moral fiber and character and are you true to your cause? If so these are some of the qualifications need to be in a think thank; now the question is which one? Is 2006 going to be the year that you get busy and join an industry think tank in your profession or as a volunteer in a philanthropic group which strategies and finds ways to make things better?

Now then do you feel that maybe you are not smart enough to be in a think tank? Maybe but you are not sure? Do you think you might like to try it out first and see if it is right for you? Perhaps you might like to practice a little and if it works out go pick a think thank in a specialized field? Sounds like a good plan of action. Perhaps you can find an online forum think tank to participate in or find a group or network to belong to in a particular endeavor. It is good to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem, as we all know too many people who fit into that latter category don’t we? Think on this in 2006.

“Lance Winslow” - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/wttbbs/

When I suffered from severe depression before I was rescued by vagus nerve stimulation, my whole body would ache. From head ache, down to my shoulders and arms, I was in constant physical pain. Depression takes a toll on the body. Researchers are just beginning to recognize the relationship between depression and pain. Depression often goes undiagnosed.

If you have a serious medical illness, patients may not have their depression diagnosed. There’s a series of reasons for that, but one of the major reasons is that internal medicine physicians are not looking for it.They discount the depression. Sometimes the medical disorders may mask the symptoms; you have low weight, low appetite, and poor concentration due to the medical illness, so the diagnosis doesn’t occur. The key issue is that the physician does not look for the depression. It’s very hard to get the message across that a standard question in their repertoire should be: is the patient depressed? “Does the patient drink any alcohol” is fairly standard, but “is the patient depressed” is not something they look at.

One of the issues is that sometimes people just don’t want to see things even if they’re there; even though it’s there, we don’t always see it. The message for our internal medicine practioners is to look out for depression; it’s there. And if you don’t spot it, you’re increasing the mortality and morbidity of your patients, so it’s very important.

I have written many times that if you don’t get the right diagnosis, you won’t get the right treatment. Antidepressants are very effective for about 80% of the depressed population. However for about 20% of the depressed popluation (like me) antidepressants are not effective. Now the first ever FDA long term treatment option for depression is available: vagus nerve stimulation. You can learn more about this remarkable therapy at http://wwww.VagusNerveStimulator.com The ninety minute out patient procedure completely changed my life, when every other available therapy had failed.

Charles Donovan was a study subject in the investigational trial of vagus nerve stimulation as a treatment for chronic depression. His remarkable recovery inspired him to write the book:

Out of the Black Hole: The Patient’s Guide to Vagus Nerve Stimulation and Depression

The book will be exhibited at the U.S. Psychiatric and Mental Health Congress from November 6-10th at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas and is available at Amazon.com

Specs or glasses, more formally known as eyeglasses or spectacles, are frames containing prescription lenses put on in front of the eyes, normally for refractory rectification, eye security, or for shelter from UV rays.

Current Specs are usually held by pads on the nasal bridge and by temples placed over the ears. Previous types include the pince-nez, monocle, and lorgnette.

Eyeglass frames are commonly created from metal or plastic. Lenses were originally made from glass, but now, many are made from varied synthetic types of metal plastic, including CR-39 and polycarbonate. These materials lower the peril of breakage and are lighter than glass lenses. Some plastics also have more advantageous visual properties compared to glass, such as better transmission of visible light and greater absorption of ultraviolet light. Some plastics have a larger index of refraction compared with most forms of glass; this could be helpful in the manufacturing of corrective lenses shaped to correct various visual defects such as nearsightedness, countenancing thinner lenses for a given prescription. Newer plastic lenses, called izon, might also correct for the higher order optical aberrations that naturally occur in the surface of your eye. These lenses produce sharper vision and help with the halos, starbursts, and comet-tails often associated with night time driving glare. Wavefront guided LASIK surgery
also corrects for the higher order aberrations.

Scratch-resistant finishings may be applied to most plastic lenses giving them analogous scratch resistance to glass. Hydrophobic coatings designed to ease cleaning are also available, as are anti-reflective coatings thought to reduce glare, improve night vision and make the wearer’s eyes more visible.

According to at least one popular diet web site, millions of dieters around the world may be using the wrong oil on their salads, or taking the wrong omega-3 dietary supplement pill.

For years, millions of people have been pouring flax seed oil over their salads, adding it to recipes and menus, and taking big capsules of it on a daily basis. The idea was to get something called EPA, DHA, and GLA from the essential omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids it contains. The problem is that to get GLA, EPA and DHA from flax oil, you need a special digestive enzyme. And, guess what? The news from Level1Diet.com is that only young, healthy people make enough of the enzyme to do the conversion from flax oil into these special nutrients that people are looking for.

What are all these initials and why do people want them? EPA, DHA and GLA are called “essential fatty acids” because your body can’t make them by itself. You must eat foods (or take supplements) from outside sources containing either Lenoleic Acid (LA) or Alpha Lenolenic Acid (LNA). Flax seed oil contains both of these.

• GLA: Gamma Linolenic Acid
• EPA: Eicosapentaenoic Acid
• DHA: Docosahexaenoic Acid

And, if you can properly digest these essential fats, then you get two wonderful health boosters for your body called EG1 and EG3 (prostaglandin series-1 and series-3). These are terrific aids in fighting inflammation. And, when you reduce inflammation, you help your body prevent major diseases like heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and many more.

What if you can’t digest the flax seed oil? Well, you will end up making too much of something called EG2 (prostaglandin series-2). As you might guess, this actually INCREASES your levels of inflammation, and therefore increases your risk for all the major diseases associated with inflammation — and that’s a big list of diseases, as scientists are reporting these days. The Level1Diet.com site lists dozens of these associated diseases, adding up to possibly 73% of all the deaths each year in the U.S.

So, for years people have been buying flax oil to get these vital nutrients. And all this time they may have actually been making matters worse. Or, at least many people have not been improving their health, despite their efforts.

Here is the break down — The issue is that the Linoleic Acid flax seed oil contains has to be converted into Gamma Linolenic Acid using Delta-6 Desaturase D6D enzyme. And D6D is made inoperative by high levels of insulin (duh), alcohol, pollutants, and high levels of Omega-6 Fatty acids from vegetable oils and fried foods, trans-fatty acids, etc. Also, D6D becomes less available anyway as we age, and there is evidently a genetic mutation that makes people into diabetics (by family groups of course) that is basically simply a mutation that makes people not as capable of making D6D as “normal” people. It is felt that this mutation is probably the true cause of the familial component in the genesis of type-2 diabetes, and naturally likely of most inflammatory disease and metabolic syndrome.

A simple digestive enzyme deficiency, which is possibly inherited among up to 40-50% of people or sometimes even more in some regions (apparently about 90% of the Pima Indians in Arizona, for example). Estimates vary, but the inability to use D6D is very common. So, a simple digestive enzyme can be a major cause involved in many of our worst diseases. Who’d have thought it?

OMEGA-3 Alpha-Linolenic Acid LNA (part of flax oil) + D6D -> … -> Eicosapentaenoic Acid EPA -> Series-3 Prostaglandins [inflammation fighters]

OMEGA-6 Linoleic Acid LA (in many vegetable oils, incl. flax oil) + D6D -> … -> Gamma Lenolenic Acid GLA -> … -> Dihomogamma Linolenic Acid DGLA -> Series-1 Prostaglandins [inflammation fighters]

NOTE that D6D is required to generate both of these this way, from vegetable oils, and it is often not available for diabetes and many pre-diabetics or metabolic syndrome, insulin resistant folks.

Incidentally, if you eat the wrong stuff and D6D stops working, then you get Arachidonic Acid (AA), which leads to making Series-2 Prostaglandins… those are the bad guys involved in most inflammatory disease states.

Everybody affected by most of the major types of disease in the U.S. usually wants to boost Series-1 and 3 Prostaglandins, and lessen Series-2. We’re manipulating our diet to get that to happen. That’s most of our strategy. There’s more, i.e. burning more with exercise, eating less etc.

SOLUTION?

The idea is to make an end run around the missing or not-working D6D issue. Fish oils give you EPA and DHA with needing to be converted by D6D. Borage oil gives you GLA with using D6D. So the answer is simply to add them into your diet.

1. Take Borage Oil (GLA), which gives you GLA without needing D6D (best source). Recommended daily dose is about 300mg of GLA from one 1,200mg oil capsule for most normal sized people - up to twice that for very large people.
2. Take Fish Oil, which gives you EPA without needing D6D (best source). Recommended dose is about 2.4 grams a day of the total EPA and DHA in the oil you are using. That usually means about 3-4 pharmaceutical grade capsules, or up to 10 normal standard health store grade capsules.

Both these oils together will get you more of the anti-inflammatory prostaglandin series-1 and series-3 molecules. And you don’t get as much of the pro-inflammatory series-2 prostaglandins that would come from not being able to convert flax seed’s omega-6 fatty acids into DGLA and therefore ending up with too much arachidonic acid — whenever you’re insulin resistant, inflamed or for some other reason unable to produce or use enough delta-6 desaturase D6D enzyme.

Thomas Bond is the founder of the Level1Diet.com anti-inflammation health program. He is the creator of the unique Food Guide Football(tm), a replacement for the Food Guide Pyramid. The Food Guide Football features fats at one small end of the football, sugars at the other end, vegetable proteins like beans, peas and nuts in one vertical stripe around one end, and animal proteins like fish, chicken, turkey and lean beef, as the other stripe around the other end, with the large middle of the football representing fruits and vegetables. The Food Guide Football represents a low fat, low simple carbohydrate, moderate protein and high complex carbohydrate diet formula. Specific foods and supplements are recommended to achieve and maintain a low inflammatory state of health.

If all of that complex chemistry stuff is confusing, just take Level1Diet.com’s word for it. A capsule or two of flax seed oil probably won’t hurt you, and it may help you. However fish oil and borage oil should ABSOLUTELY HELP YOU. Take them instead.

For more information, contact:

www.Level1Diet.com
Thomas Bond
561-627-6221
ceo@level1diet.com

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In type-II diabetes, insulin resistance, rather than a lack of insulin, is the cause of elevated blood glucose levels. A small number of clinical studies have reported the benefits of high doses of racemic Lipoic Acids in improving insulin sensitivity. Animal studies have suggested higher benefit levels from R-isomer of Lipoic Acid as compared to its S-isomer. However, clinical studies are required to prove this benefit. Evidence of Lipoic Acid-induced reduction of oxidative stress in diabetic patients’ needs to be established with further studies.

The beneficial effects of ALA treatment on symptoms of diabetic neuropathy have been observed in at least 15 clinical trials. Many short-term preliminary studies in humans have stated that Lipoic Acid administration can reduce the risk of vascular complications in diabetic (type I and type II) patients.

Several studies in aging rats have reported that short-term combined dietary supplementation with R-alpha Lipoic Acid and acetyl-L-carnitine improved mitochondrial energy metabolism, decreased oxidative stress, and had positive effects on physical activity and short-term memory. However, long-term studies on humans are needed to prove similar effects. In a short-term research study, Lipoic Acid has been found to significantly increase plasma vitamin C and glutathione in HIV-infected patients. In a Russian study, Lipoic Acid’s ability to reduce free radical damage caused by radiation exposure has been observed.

Animal studies have reported the use of Lipoic Acid in the prevention of cell damage in stroke and congestive cardiac failure patients. Extensive animal studies have shown the significant protective effects of Lipoic Acid against ischemia-reperfusion injury. Animal studies on Lipoic Acid have also proposed its benefit in the treatment of several neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and Huntington’s disease. While the results of animal studies are encouraging, long-term, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trials are needed for its confident prescription.

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