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Interactive Novel, Forever a Work in Progress, Contributions Welcome Interactive novel, forever a work in progress, Contributions welcome To My Daughter I have learned after 50 years of bumping into various objects, Some of them painfully sharp, That in this huge dark dark room, there is a light switch. Our often humbling efforts to search for it Will encourage others to do the same And we will find it. Love Dad Election Platform Ontario Good News: Scientists at Harvard Medical School have discovered a molecule NAD+ that repairs damaged DNA and reverses a substantial factor in the aging process. Mice with Alzheimer's had their brains grow back; gray hairs turned black; their cells looked young again. Other universities have developed a similar but different methods to reverse aging. Like the development of computer science from 1885 to date, the knowledge about how cells grow old, and about repairing damage in the cells is growing exponentially. Soon to flower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O6bh8OpL70 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e83pGX7BVBk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ14Lb4MfJY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvIaR5WBKrQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32vfZ-6jmQg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT3arHEflsY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcIDKUiUsPk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YBbx6Lzzg8 Proposal: The Ontario government hires IBM’s Watson or a similar size computer with similar software. Presently this computer is being used for medical diagnosis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkEOJnn_zlg Computer programmers, biochemists and experts in cell functions will assist Watson in assimilating all the best ideas from around the world on the issue of aging reversal. Ontario, and its universities should make arrangements with Harvard and other leaders in this field so that a plant to produce this medicine is built here. Everyone living in Ontario and anyone visiting Ontario will get the medicine at cost. Age reversal will mean the average person would be able to out perform present day Olympic champions with three months training; their immune system and cellular communication would be at a level that would virtually eliminate disease. Our brains would function many times faster with superior memory functions. We would have a population filled with Teslas, Einsteins and Da Vincis. Some may say before we unleash this colossal head spin/population explosion on our mentally and physically unprepared populace we had better do some serious preparation. May be so. But there will be many countries and huge corporations who will see there is money to be made, political influence to wean, and will invest billions secretly so that when this research has flowered to the point where people will want this medicine, they will have control of this market for maximum financial profit. In a few years, if we are successful in the suggested arrangements with leading universities, corporations and individuals in this field, we would could administer this medicine in a way that would best benefit Canada and the world. Soon we could have access to the best brains and the best workforce in the world. China, Japan or the US could not out-perform us in manufacturing or scientific discovery. They might even see the benefits of cooperation. Administering the age reversal medicine could be experimented with in many ways. A committee, linked to Watson, should be put together to study this phenomenon. One suggested method is to have this medicine administered in communities where people are monitored for they violent tendencies, criminal activity, lack of sexual control, substance abuse... Since a black market will inevitably explode around this new medicine, best we assist people to overcome their difficulties to having access to this drug. In all the problems associated with this new medicine, the new technical developments in mind reading and lie detecting should be integrated into every aspect: research, social, psychological and political. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FvYNgzmz5c Watson will be hired to expand this concept in this link to include images in the brain. Until we get all this together, people can study this link and follow its dietary instructions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkBjB_k_GNg A population with superior brainpower and body functionality is absolutely essential because the problems ahead of us are daunting. Bad News: Scientific research in many other fields is growing exponentially, it is uncovering a more and more dire situation. From the Global warming camp predictions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvKWwer9_rg The tundra, packed with methane gas, is thawing. Even at this early stage, the methane gas is building up in sufficient quantity to blow out hundreds of holes 200 feet in diameter and 100 feet deep. It will be catastrophic when all the tundra in Canada and Russia melts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BJq184bFDg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQiYThHOgtk The release of this methane, which creates 80 times more warming than CO2, would exacerbate many other climate changing scenarios. Like the vast majority of the world’s natural ice disappearing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzC2_ShPsV8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5CrUgBn3uM&t=328s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqaL0wPgfY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPdc75epOEw https://www.globalweathercycles.com/ According to other experts the Sun has finished its warmiung cycle and is now cooling. These cycles of warming and cooling last approximately 200-300 years. The Sun's flucuatiuons over-ride man-made heating effects. A mini Ice age us upon us. The cooling causes stress on the Earth’s crust, causing it to shrink in places. Three super volcanoes, which are all overdue for an eruption, will probably be triggered, one being Yellowstone. These volcanoes, if even one of them goes off it will be devastating to humanity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v66SPTYqF0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ0nQR9m3OI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4hbKF5-qUE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn1S-hdX0j0 I doubt the two phenomena will cansel each other out without intervention. Watson will be hired to amalgamate all the data and provide a direction for our actions. The government should assist every home to accumulate a 2-year food supply. Hydro should research into and manufacture small fusion reactors, the technology is out there. To transform expenses into revenue so as to pay for these endeavors: police, the homeless and criminals will work together: first on the production of artistic bike stands so as to develop their skill sets, both social and technical. Then they will be employed to build a window system that will enclose the millions of apartment balconies that are very unused. Thus tuning this unused, very expensive real-estate into a closed balcony when there is inclement weather and an open- able balcony when you choose. In addition food growing systems will be built. Start experimental growing labs, as if there was a crisis and people are starving. Work out the best policies in these conditions. The UN should be encouraged to use Watson to assimilate all the best peace proposal for any conflict; particularly those that could lead to war. Valuable human resources untapped: In 1988, we started the City’s first ongoing arts program for street populations at the All Saints Church, Dundas and Sherbourne. For the next 14 years we searched for an art form that street populations could do, make money at, learn some productive skills and feel good about what they produced. In 2003 we developed artistic bike racks. The City put the first sculptures on its website and the concept spread to cities throughout North America like N.Y., L.A. and Ottawa…. You can see them outside the ROM, in Parkdale, Yonge St. north of Lawrence, Augusta St. near College; and a tree-guard bike stand outside Dragon City in Chinatown. The majority of the labour time, on these 60 pieces of artwork, was contributed by crack addicts, alcoholics and crack dealers who were part of a skills training program. For a cost of $20/ per hour plus food, the province has saved many times that in hospital bills, lawyers, courts, jails, police and social worker costs. It is a substantial saving for the province and it is putting people on the road to economic self-sufficiency. The artwork was largely the creation of psychiatric survivors, grade 5 students and regulars at the drop-in centers and shelters. The sculptures embodied the search for beauty of its creators, and with this spirit there was a subliminal therapeutic effect on the men and women that work on and struggle with the 200 pound steel sculptures. The first sculpture, left, by a Regent Park artist, three sculptures to the right, by grade 5 students. Universally the good spirit from the designs permeated the artisans who carved the steel; - they started to call themselves artists and envisioned a different future. Continually I get calls from addicts, crack dealers of all ages and others in the underworld wanting to work on these sculptures. Throughout the pages of the book, there are links to YouTube videos and Google. We welcome debate on all the issues raised in the book and will add links suggested by our readers. Any suggestions as to how to make the journey through the pages of this book more enriching and exciting will be integrated as best we can. ------------------------------------------------------------------ For several decades the US military has had a technology that would beneft the planet enormously: virtually free clean energy and transportation at the speed of light. Technology that will save lives in many potential disaster scenarios. Spacecraft that can explore the Galaxy. Technological advances that would make life phenomenally more interesting, spectacular and safe.
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