|
Post by toni on May 28, 2010 7:54:26 GMT -5
Hi Lostintime. I read your story and looked at your link. Your video's OMG! It reminds me of a tiny caterpillar sort of coming out of a gooey cocoon. Thanks for sharing.
|
|
|
Post by ruth on May 28, 2010 9:56:17 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by toni on May 28, 2010 10:43:51 GMT -5
Excellent video Ruth. That looks like a (Pink Cotton Bollworm) to me - because of those like "bands" around it's body.
The "young larave are about 1/4 to 1/2 inch"..and they come from tiny eggs. I sure don't know. Just looking at those bands around it's body, and the hairs...(sure resembles) them.
|
|
|
Post by toni on May 28, 2010 11:11:20 GMT -5
Here's what I mean about those "bands around it's body".
|
|
|
Post by kammy on May 28, 2010 11:19:08 GMT -5
Hi Lost, so glad you came over to join us, this is the site that has been relegated to do the microscopic investigating by the public sector by us amateur, backyard scientists due to the fact that not enough in the medical nor scientific fields are stepping up to help us. Some believe that the U.S. Army will be shortly forthcoming with their evidence as to what has happened to us, and then there's another group that have grown tired of the wait and are looking and trying to decipher the best we can. It appears that certain sites do not want to see nor hear the truth about what has actually happened to some of us - even those with this disease, this could be due to their own personal, selfish agendas and not for the help and education of the masses. To some, this information is frightening, as you can imagine?
We're learning to cope by knowing, by knowing - we can forgive and move through the 'victim' stages to get well quicker, by never knowing, we cannot fight what they have allowed to be done. At this point - to lay blame is almost useless - what is done - is done. We don't need to know all the details of how and why, we just need medicines to help us cope and to get well enough to carry on with a somewhat normal life.
What I need from you - if you can provide it - is a still photo of your 'organism' to be able to easily show yours and mine in emailing, writing a blog story, etc. to get the attention of these scientists that are just now digesting the new 'invention' of artificial life that Venter has created. I am stating that the same principles that he has used are the same as what we're seeing in our disease - I want to challenge him and his colleagues.
You can see how I put a 'copyright' protect on some of my photos? - you can easily do the same using "Paint", etc.
You can be checked for mites/lice, etc. all day long and they will never 'see' what you have - we are dealing with transgenic, genetically modified organisms that do not test as 'real'...
I'm glad to see you here, welcome!
|
|
|
Post by leitwolf2 on May 28, 2010 11:32:44 GMT -5
Hi
...so you found that in your semen?
What size is it? What was the magnification?
|
|
|
Post by kammy on May 28, 2010 12:09:22 GMT -5
Hi Leit, do you have access to a 'kid's' microscope, this can be seen at 60 - 100x. We need more of you guys to look and see how predominate this is? Just put some on or between two slides and look?
Once we can get the men involved with their 'willies', then Morgellons disease will start getting some much needed attention it deserves - as long as it stays 'an old lady, going through the change disease' they won't care...
|
|
|
Post by toni on May 28, 2010 21:42:01 GMT -5
Lostintime, My camcorder has a program called Video Suite on my computer (which goes into the computer by a disc that came with it) *Panasonic*. As I'm watching my video's from my camcorder ( I can stop the video at any time) and take picture (a still picture). So what I did with Ruths video was I sat here at the computer and literally video'ed her video with my camera right from viewing it on the computer, then put it into my camera program, and was then able to "capture" the still photo's. Hope that makes sense.
|
|
|
Post by toni on May 28, 2010 21:44:38 GMT -5
Lostintime,
If you're unable to "capture a still photo" from your video, send me the link in which they are, and I'll take them for you if you'd like?
(modifying here) Lostintime, I just now realized your video's are on your link. I'll get you some "stills" tomorrow if it doesn't work how you're trying it okay?
|
|
|
Post by kmarie on May 29, 2010 0:13:22 GMT -5
Here is an FYI for all who use Windows and want to know how to snap a shot from a video. A picture can be taken from a video with the Windows Movie Maker that comes with Windows in only 4 easy steps. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Send, Import, or Play the video file to the Windows Movie Maker. 2. Click the pause button to where you want the picture taken to stop the video. 3. Select: TOOLS4. Click on " Take picture from preview" It will automatically put the picture into your "pictures folder" in jpeg format after you name the picture and click: "OK" The photo clarity will be as good as the original source video that is used and without any motion disturbance to cause any additional unwanted blur. It is extremely simple once you try it.
------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
Post by kammy on May 29, 2010 7:43:15 GMT -5
Hi Kammy, I don't know how to copy right my photos. Is this necessary for some reason? I will try to capture a still photo from my video. I have others that show the bands around them that support the images by Toni. I have lots to show but was unable to figure out what I was looking at in my early slides. Now looking at the other images people have submitted I understand a bit better. This is good. I think we can almost put together a life cycle. Something that must be done in order to find a way to eradicate this. It's not a necessity to put a copyright on your photos, Lost - it's just that anything that is put out there could be sent around the world, someone could take it and put it in a book, etc. without it, just keep that in mind. I have formulated a life cycle - a first attempt from limited research - just observations, don't look at mine, let's see how ours are alike or differ and all can discuss it? We are anxious to see your photos and your thoughts on what you believe is happening.
|
|
|
Post by toni on May 29, 2010 8:24:22 GMT -5
Lostintime, I understand. And I'm sorry it's me (not being super computer literate) to explain how to take the "still" picture any other way. Let me ask, those two video's you have on your link - is that the critter you'd like a couple of pictures of? Or do you have another video of the banded casing I can view and take the stills for you? I wish I knew how to explain this better, but you just point me to the video's and I'll get the "stills" for you okay. Kmarie, Thank you VERY much too for the help on another way to take picture stills with the computer. (I'll have to practice) cause I've got my conjured up way I do them, and you how I am with directions
|
|
|
Post by toni on May 30, 2010 8:35:51 GMT -5
Lostintime, Yes, that IMG] X [IMG is right where you click in your link to your picture. I placed an X between them, because that is where you paste in your uploaded link or properties link of your pic.
Then check (preview) right below this white box we type in, and see if it worked.
|
|
|
Post by toni on May 30, 2010 10:13:01 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by jeany on May 30, 2010 11:28:01 GMT -5
They DO look quite similar, Toni! Good finding! I was curious and did some research on screworms and found this!.... ...Release of RADIATED FLIES!! The Primary Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) once a major pest in southern United States, has been eradicated through massive release of sterilized males. See Sterile insect technique.www.omnipelagos.com/entry?n=blow-flySterile insect technique is a method of biological control, whereby millions of sterile insects are released. Screwworm flies mate once in a lifetime, and if one of the insect pair has been sterilized with gamma rays, neither will reproduce. The use of radioactivity for insect control was the first successful peaceful use of nuclear energy. Graphic courtesy of COPEG The released insects are normally male as it is the female that causes the damage, usually by laying eggs in the crop. The sterile males compete with the wild males for female insects. If a female mates with a sterile male then it will have no offspring, thus the next generation's population is reduced. Repeated release of insects can eventually wipe out a population, though it is often more useful to consider controlling the population rather than eradicating it. The technique has successfully been used to eradicate the Screwworm fly (Cochliomyia hominivorax) in areas of North America. There have also been many successes in controlling species of fruit flies, most particularly the Medfly (ceratitis capitata).Insects are mostly sterilized with radiation, which can weaken the newly sterilized insects making them less able to compete with wild males. However, other sterilization techniques in fact boost the insects' ability to mate. Development of the sterile insect techniqueRaymond Bushland and Edward Knipling first developed the technique eliminate screwworms preying on warm-blooded animals, especially cattle herds. With larvae that invade open wounds and eat into animal flesh, the flies were capable of killing cattle within 10 days of infection. In the 1950s, screwworms caused annual losses to American meat and dairy supplies that were projected at above $200 million. Screwworm maggots are also known to parasitize human flesh.The quest of Bushland and Knipling to find an alternative to chemical pesticides in controlling the devastation wrought by these insects began in the late 1930s when both scientists were working at the United States Department of Agriculture Laboratory in Menard, Texas. At that time, the screwworm was decimating livestock herds across the American South. Red meat and dairy supplies were also affected across Mexico, Central America, and South America. While Bushland initially researched chemical treatment of screwworm-infested wounds in cattle, Knipling developed the theory of autocidal control – breaking the life cycle of the pest itself. Bushland's enthusiasm for Knipling's theory sparked both men to intensify the search for a way to rear large numbers of flies in a "factory" setting, and most important, to find an effective way to sterilize flies. Their work in this area was interrupted by World War II, but Drs. Bushland and Knipling resumed their efforts in the early 1950s with their successful tests on the screwworm population of Sanibel Island, Florida. The sterile insect technique worked; near eradication was achieved using x-ray sterilized flies. In 1954, the technique was used to completely eradicate screwworms from the 176-square-mile island of Curaçao, off the coast of Venezuela. Screwworms were eliminated in a span of only seven weeks, saving the domestic goat herds that were a source of meat and milk for the island people. During the 1960s and 1970s, SIT was used to control the screwworm population in the United States. The 1980s saw Mexico and Belize eliminate their screwworm problems through the use of SIT, and eradication programs have progressed through all of Central America, with a biological barrier having been established in Panama to prevent reinfestation from the south. In 1991, Knipling and Bushland's technique halted a serious outbreak in northern Africa. Similar programs against the Mediterranean fruit fly in Mexico and California use the same principles. In addition, the technique was used to eradicate the melon fly from Okinawa and has been used in the fight against the tsetse fly in Africa. The technique has been able to suppress insects threatening livestock, fruit, vegetable, and fiber crops. The technique has also been lauded for its many environmentally sound attributes: it uses no chemicals, leaves no residues, and has no effect on non-target species. Proven effective in controlling outbreaks of a wide range of insect pests throughout the world, the technique has been a boon in protecting the agricultural products to feed the world’s human population. Both Bushland and Knipling received worldwide recognition for their leadership and scientific achievements, including the World Food Prize. Their research and the resulting Sterile Insect Technique were hailed by former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman as "the greatest entomological achievement of (the 20th) century." Jeany
|
|
|
Post by jeany on May 30, 2010 11:34:10 GMT -5
Genetic modification... Fluorescent Gene Markers!!A method using recombinant DNA technology to create genetically modified insects called RIDL (Release of Insects carrying a Dominant Lethal) is under development. The method works by introducing a "Dominant Lethal" gene into the insects in such a way that the gene is expressed only in females, and the gene's effect can be countered in the controlled insect manufacturing environments, for example by giving a food additive. The insects can also be given genetic markers, such as fluorescence, that make monitoring the progress of eradication easier.The released males are not sterile, but any female offspring their mates produce will have the dominant lethal gene expressed, and so will die. The number of females in the wild population will therefore decline. The advantages of the RIDL technique are that the male insects can be separated from the females for release simply by withdrawing the factor in the controlled manufacturing environment that kept the females alive, for example by removing a food additive. Using RIDL also means that the males will not have to be sterilized by radiation before release, making the males more healthy when they need to compete with the wild males for mates. Progress towards applying this technique to mosquitos has been made by researchers at Imperial College London who created the world's first transgenic malaria mosquito.A similar technique is the daughterless carp, a genetically modified organism produced in Australia by the CSIRO in the hope of eradicating the introduced carp from the Murray River system. As of 2005, it was undergoing tests to assess the risks of releasing it into the wild. www.omnipelagos.com/entry?n=sterile_insect_technique
|
|
|
Post by toni on May 30, 2010 11:54:57 GMT -5
Thanks Jeany. Very informative.
You know what has those close set eyes like in the photo on the previous page (are maggots) ugh...oh UGH.
I wish I could find a really good "scientific article on these". I'll keep looking.
I know "maggots only eat dead tissue"...oh, just typing that is beyond thoughts of where we want to go.
|
|
|
Post by jeany on May 30, 2010 12:12:41 GMT -5
Yes, maggots Toni. The above article is about screwfly maggots...
Screwworm maggots are also known to parasitize human flesh.
With larvae that invade open wounds and eat into animal flesh, the flies were capable of killing cattle within 10 days of infection.
In the 1950s, screwworms caused annual losses to American meat and dairy supplies that were projected at above $200 million.
Jeany
|
|
|
Post by fritolay66 on May 30, 2010 13:42:20 GMT -5
Lostintime,
the img] [img has to have a link inbetween them. You cannot post a picture directly from your computer. You must first go to an imaging hosting site, like photobucket and start an account. Then upload pictures from your computer to there. When you do that, the hosting site, such as photobucket will then give you a direct link. You will copy and paste the direct link from the hosting site to here, inbw the img links. From there, to see if you have done it right, you can then go to the PREVEIW button, and it should show your picture.
Good luck.
Frito
|
|
|
Post by toni on May 30, 2010 14:30:55 GMT -5
Lostintime, You did great. Hope you got the PM too, because just as Frito is explaining with using a hosting site to obtain a link to post first between the IMG IMG thing, I wrote you about that too. And don't worry about it. If you have some pictures (we'll always be happy to post them for you). I know my sister doesn't sleep well, and she tells me to just bear with her, because no one's senses are up to par with lack of sleep...let alone ALL the itching and Morgs symptoms we've all got going on. WE really do understand, and we'll help any way we can. Believe me, I've had my share with my computer, and that's enough to send me over the edge...along with Morgs. But...hahah I'm stillll here. I just walk away when I get too frustrated, then sit down, and try it again. Heck, Kmarie on the board here is the one who explained how to "post" pictures when I didn't know how, and it took me 2 weeks of messing up my computer to figure out "what was what" in what she was saying, geeze. Then...it hit me...oh, that's what she meant. But 2 weeks it took till that clicked in and made sense.
|
|