142 deaths due to exposure !

 According to the coroner's office, hypothermia killed 142 persons between 2015 and 2021.  21 of those deaths occured in first peoples' communities.  Ancestral knowledge about how to build an igloo and survive a severe storm is being lost.  Alcohol is present in three quarters of the cases.  63 of the 142 deaths occured to people 70 years or more.

biblical commandments, up-to-date

 The commandments, as explained in Deuteronomy, chapter 5 are extracted here from the "good news Bible"

Worship no god but me.

Obey my instructions and do not be swayed by hoarding money or participate in sects.

Do not make for yourselves images of anything in heaven. 

Restect church property especially images of godliness.

Do not bow down to any idol or worship it 

Remember that you are serving God, abide by my instructions which will keep you away from worshiping your Mercedes or a bribe oor similar object

Do not use my name for any evil purposes

Swearing is to be averted

Observe the sabbath, and keep it holy

Rest weekly

Respect your father and your mother

Help them in their old age.

Do not commit murder

Respect life

Do not commit adultery

Have a responsible sex life

Do not steal

Respect other's and public property.  Respect copyright.  Stay away from shady dealings.  Do not claim more than is due to you.  Pay your taxes.  Accept expropriations because railways, pipelines, canals and power lines are important to the public good.  Drive safely and keep your licence palte cleen.

Do not accuse anyone falsely

Stick to the truth and your opinion will be respected.

Do not desire another man's wife, do not desire his house, his land, his slaves, his cattle or anything else that he owns.  

jealous people are sad.  We are not on earth to be served but to serve.

the Office of Digital Transformation

 The Food and Drug Administration will use this new department to regulate equipment that indicates oxigen saturation, sugar level in the blood, ECG and other heart monitors and future health measurers and data loggers.  Devices are grouped in three categories:

Class 1 : not used to sustain life and cause little danger.

Class 2 : a sensor goes through the skin or other prolonged contact with the patient.

Class 3 : implanted in the body or otherwise depended upon to sustain life.

NEW TESTING APPARATUS

Theranos

Elizabeth Holmes had an idea to develop medical tests using a small drop of blood and an electronic chip.  Her mantra becomes "lab on a chip".  Her device is analysed by the Defence Deparment, which does not validate the device.  In 2013, Walgreen pharmacies offer Theranos blood tests in its facilities.  On 23 may 2013, Theranos' chief scientist commits suicide.  Meanwhile, conventional tests are being performed even though the company was claiming to use brand new technology.  In february 2015, professor John Iaonnidis from Stanford university writes in JAMA (journal of the american medical association) that there is nothing in the scientific literature validating the new technology.  Professor Diamandis from the university of Toronto decribes the claims as wildly egagerated.  Vice president Joe Biden tours the facility, which was expanded and modified for the visit !  He is positively impressed !  In october 2015, John Carreyrou, from the Wall Street Journal, exposes the fraud : conventional tests are being performed, the Edison device is not being used and the "nanotainer" does not exist.  In November 2015, the Arizona Republic discloses that all of Theranos is a fraud.  In 2016 and 2017, government investigations and layoffs occur.  In 2018, criminal charges are laid.  On january 3, 2022, Elizabeth Holmes is found guilty of fraud.  The story is told in TV documentaries and movies.

Blood sugar level monitoring

Levels Health offer mobile units to measure glucose.  Expect to pay $400 per month

Digbi Health

They claim that their analysis of stools indicates the state of the microbiote, which is involved in some illlnesses.

Skin and Me

Pictures of the skin is analysed by doctors

Teva 

This device is not a consumer product.

Apple

Future watches could interpret ECG, etc.

Lumen

This tube through which one takes a deep breath supposedly determines whether one burns fat or glucides.  This is a falacy!  We all burn glucose and low carb-high fat regimens are dangerous!  Dieting should be a long-term family-wide endeavor.

New electronic devices provide centralised data, better analysis of chronic conditions, continuous monitoring, faster data transfer and better clinical outcome.  

Suicides by veterans and soldiers

 Michel Sartori's PhD thesis informs us on this taboo subject.  58,000 soldiers died in Viet Nam but more than 150,000 Nam veterans commited suicide in the USA.  Being alone and pennyless are contributing factors.  Sartori's thesis is ethnobiographical.  He explains his beginning hypothesis, analyses the data he obtained after much effort (because access to information requests are tedious matters). He provides excerpts wich he kept as a chaplain in Afghanistan (in 2006-2007).  He then interviews soldiers who made a suicide attempt and questions padre Major Guy Chapdeleine and army psychiatrist Col. Bottam.

Sartori examines 274 suicides (including 42 reservists) from 1994 to april 2009.  Official army data lists only 156 suicides between 1995 and 2009.  The suicide rate is higher in the Canadian  Forces than in its American counterpart.  Col Bottam insists that suicides are no more common in the Army than in the general population.  He adds that only half of those with a mental trouble are being treated in the general population.  Major Chapdeleine gives us food for thought by saying : "I observe that many prople are looking for a purpose for their life and therefore there are not many non-believers in the Forces.

Protestant army chaplain Captain Michel Sartori's thesis is available for free on Laval University' website.  It is 440 pages long.

Mont Carmel closes as a nursing home

 The new owner of the building, Henry Zavriyev, has decided to convert it into a regular appartment block.  In his eviction notice, he invites residents to remain in place but without the nurses and attendants or to pursue residence in one of his nursing homes.  2/3 of the residents are more than 75 years old.  60 nursing homes have closed in the last 7 months, 110 in the last 12 months and 500 in the last 5 years.  Nursing homes are not a profitable venture !

Ukraine should not join the ranks of NATO

 Russia feels threatened because its influence over east european countries has waned.  In 1996, for example, Poland, the Czech republic and Hungary joined NATO.  American presidents had promised that Eastern European countries would never be in NATO.  Yeltsin and Putin feel betrayed.  The port of Sevastopol has always been very important to the Russian navy.  They don't want the place to turn into an American base !

The last thing we need is military agreements which suck many nuclear-armed countries in a large war as was the case in early WW I.  For more information, listen to Vladimir Posner on  youtube.com/watch?v=8X7Ng7Se5gQ   and    youtube.com/watch?v=yoKPd-Lu84U