EBOLA SCOURGE
We've al seen a lot of
news about the Ebola plague in the
recent outbreak in West Africa, but have you read about what it actually does
to you? Maybe I can throw some light on
this gruesome subject.
It begins with a runny nose, headache, flu symptoms. Then,
probably you die. (50 to 90%).
The first outbreak was in Marlburg, Germany in 1967. The Behring
Works , a pharmacetical company, imported monkeys from Africa,and killed them
for experiments. but two workers were somehow infected. Thirty one people
eventually caught the virus, but only seven died. (one in four kill rate). The
virus ran it's course, then died out. They named it :"MARLBURG
VIRUS".
1976. Southern Sudan. Mr. Yu G. , Contracted the
Virus (no one knows how), Days later his co-workers started to die. Massive
hemorrhaging from all orifices, of the body. It jumped from person to person in
Sudan. When it got to the major hospital, with all the hemorrhaging going on,
the entire staff left it, which was the best thing that could happen, as they
were using dirty needles over and over.
Some of the patients suffered from major mental derangement. Some
tore off their clothe, ran
into town, looking for
their homes. This SUDAN EBOLA Ebola
kills 50% of patients, Then thee virus disappeared, after about 300 people
died. a few months later, however, the
virus erupted in Zaire. virus attacks every organ and tissue small bloodclots
appear, the blood thickens and slows, this shifts the blood supply to various
organs, such as liver, kidney, intestines, testicles breast tissue. Every
opening in the body bleeds, The tongue surface sloughs off and is swallowed or
spat out. eyeballs may fill up with blood, you may go blind. the liver bulges
up and turns yellow, begins to liquify, then dies. the kidneys become jammed
with blood clots and dead cells, and cease functioning. The intestines may fill
up completely with blood. The lining of the gut sloughs off into the bowels
and is defacated with large amounts of blood . Naturally, this makes the
patient go into seizures and convulsions as he dies, spreading blood all over
the place. Who do you get to clean it up if you know it is Ebola?
The next outbreak was in
Jan. 1980. A Mr. Monet was brought into
the hospital in Nairobi after flying a commercial flight from his town. You
didn't want to be his seat-mate as he was throwing up part of his intestines
and handed it to the stewardess (this was 1980). He was examined by a Dr.
Musoke, during which, Monet threw up all over the doctor with a black vomit..
Not good!
However, contrary to everything you have heard, with everyone
walking around in sterile space suits, The doctor survived.! This has become known as the MUSAKE strain
of EBOLA Virus.
the next outbreak was
kind of peculiar, as it did not kill any humans, only thousands of Rhesus
monkeys. in 1983 in Reston, Virginia, an
another pharmaceutical co. who use these close friends of humans (along
with Hamsters) as they are the closest to humans. A shipment of a couple of hundred monkeys
from the Philippines came down with a disease, which turned out to be Ebola virus.
This naturally freaked out anyone involved with these monkeys. Of course, research showed they came from
Africa, near Lake Victoria. After the Army was called in and all the monkeys
were killed, it was determined that (1)
they transmitted the virus thru the air. Good! , (2) This strain of RESTON
EBOLA was not transferable to humans. Whew!.
Okay, you've got a
headache and you begin to feel
listless? Don't call me!
WINDHAM RESIDENCE,
Forestville, CA
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| MAIN FLOOR PLAN |
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| POOL-SIDE |
Meanwhile, on the
exterior , Mr Balcerak, is wreaking havoc with my hardscape design on the site.
Unbeknown to this guy, the entire project was a carefully considered design of
45 degree angles ,naturally extending out to the gardens, walks, pool,
etc. Added to the mix, there were a lot
of steps giving off to various levels.
In other words, what I had envisioned as a Tour de Force, was turning to
a Tower of Shit! In my past projects, I
would always guide the Landscape Architect in the selection of planting
material, but they usually understood the concept of my hardscape design.
Although we're talking about a 3 million dollar house here, the owners also
opted to dismiss the General Contractor and hire their own carpenter to finish
it, fortunately after the steel and EIFS exterior wall was finished. I settled
my fee with them in Arbitration, the first time in my 50 year career. And I
have not been inside since it was finished (or trashed?) I am a sore loser.
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THE LITTLE REVIEW
“To express the emotions of life is to live.
To express the life of
emotions is to make art”.
They don’t
make them like that anymore. In the nineteen twenties, two brilliant women
published a monthly intellectual magazine called “The Little Review”
which published all the really Avant Garde writers and poets of the time. We’re talking T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and the
likes. Jane Heap and Margaret Anderson (I am no man’s wife, no
man’s delightful mistress, and will never, never, never, be a
mother), concentrated on publishing
what its editors found worth publishing.
On one occasion when the editors decided that literature was
temporarily moribund, there appeared a sixty-four page blank number prefaced by
an announcement that there was nothing fit to print.
