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Annotated Transcription of recording posted 06/08/2010 : main body
Signal is go, signal is go./
Synchronous observation is go./
Mother is at 0.00001% and holding. /
0.00001% ... 0.00001% ... 0.00001% / synchronization is at 99.9% no we're falling off here / 0.00001% not with levels like this cold room levels1 at normal 0.00001% synchronization is holding dark room2 expected results not if we're going to be looking for 0.00001% / holding steady secodnary motion as expected room is at neutral calibration at zero holding steady Mother reports no anticipated success all failure now reporting no / anticipated Mother reports matched prediction / and results accuracy of 99.9% cold room holding steady no not any higher than that holding steady paradoxical phase when weak stimuli get strong responses3 / when did it happen? habitually blank time stimulus secretion thirty seconds hold it down please remarks please something like what happens on the cortex4 of dog during the "paradoxical" stage5 / what down in D Wing? yes one would expect more of a link hysteria is after all is it not hysteria6 Pitor refuses proceed Natasha Nikolai Sergei Katinka no Vanya is to be / second / no not yet awaiting signal / secondary temperature inversion7 are we talking Poisson dispensation8 here? bet he'd like to give them something to really scream about / it'll go subcortical here brute luck we're talking real gift of survival here9 / and which will be the final subject I mean the rest is just left up to Mother and better her than anyone else calibration still at zero we're looking good here / temperature holding air currents as anticipated so the ventilation is working at least Mother insistent predictions as anticipated following projected path no well obviously / shut up a second / preparatory readings cortex as an interface organ mediating between the two but part of them both isotrophy10 / he can drive them mad and with bromides in adequate doses he can bring them back11 but that one went too / horizon anticipated still holding at zero test forms are steady control go system go security go reflexive anticipation is go predictive pattern is go hypothetical increase go observation go closing observation deck copy secondary observation go zero event watch is on we've got a flicker over here / zero horizon approaching / dispatches from Armageddon I'm telling you / zero event approaching12... /
But what are they saying to each other? /
0.00001% and holding./
Awaiting signal./
Results as expected./
Results as expected, sir, copy./
Synchronous observation on cold room successful./
1 + 7 cold room: morgue, blood bank, (catering facility?). || Human temperature experiments: Dr. Sigmund Rascher, "Medical Problems Arising from Sea and Winter" Dachau 1942; Dr. Shiro Ishii, Unit 731, 1937-1945 || Therapeutic hypothermia for ischemic brain injury?
2 dark room: sensory deprivation. REST chamber, Ganzfield experiment.
3,5,9, 10 ref: A Brief Outline of the Higher Nervous Activity I.P. Pavlov. (conditioned vs. complex reflexes through study of 1) the activity of the basal ganglia as a foundation for the external behaviour of the subject; b) the activity of the cortex; c) the method of connection and interaction of these ganglia and the cortex and through stimulation of these areas the provocation of conditioned inhibitive negative stimulus.) (equating and paradoxical phases of response to conditioned reflexes primarily found in subjects with strong cortical cells).
4 cerebral cortex
6 hysteria; provoked by stimuli? Conversion disorder. Freud and Charcot.
8 look up poisson dispensation.
11 lithium bromide, potassium bromide archaic sedatives to be 'bringing them back'. It's world war medicine, again. Stalin's psychology with Nazi techniques.
12 zero event. Not sure I want to know.
METs: Metabolic Equivalents.
The standard metabolic equivalent is a unit we use when we need to estimate the amount of oxygen used by the human body during a period of physical activity as compared to the amount used while at rest. Anyone who has ever picked up a women's interest magazine would probably know it better as your metabolic rate. In diet guru terms, a low metabolic rate is bad, and in salad dodger's terms it's one very tedious excuse.
What a low metabolic rate actually means is that you're unfit. The average adult male has a fitness level of 8 METs, meaning that during activity their body consumes 28 millilitres of oxygen per kilogram of body weight per minute. 1 MET = 50 kcal/hour/m2 body surface area. An extremely unfit person can have a metabolic rate of only 1.5 MET. But that's something you can work on. The more exercise you do, the fitter you get and the more oxygen your body consumes during activity, giving you a higher metabolic rate. A low rate isn't an excuse to sit around, it's a reason to get fitter.
It's the calorie equivalents people are really interested in, however. Here you go.
Activities with a MET of 3 to 6 will help you burn off 3.5 to 7 kcal per minute. These include:*
Walking at a moderate pace of 3-4mph on a level surface.
Walking downhill or down stairs.
Cycling at around 5mph.
Yoga.
Tennis.
Golf.
Yardwork or heavy housework.
Waiting tables.
Sexual intercourse to orgasm.
Activities with a MET of 6 to 10 will help you burn off 8 to 11 kcal per minute. These include:*
Aerobic walking at a rate of 5mph or faster.
Jogging or running.
Cycling at more than 10mph or on a steep incline.
High impact aerobics.
Karate.
Football and Basketball.
Swimming steady laps.
Surfing.
Jumping rope.
The good news is that the heavier you are, the more calories you burn off during exercise. 1 MET = 50 kcal/hour/m2 body surface area. If you're overweight you actually have an advantage when it comes to results from effort expended.
But exercise only gets you fit. To lose weight, or maintain a healthy one, you need to combine a good MET level with a healthy diet. A few more equivalents: one pound of fat on your body is the equivalent of 3500 calories. One frosted cupcake should contain around 250 calories, meaning 14 cupcakes is the equivalent of 3500 calories, or that one cupcake on top of your standard calorie requirements eaten every other day will mean you gain 12 pounds in a year.
There are other reasons to work on your Metabolic Equivalent level. A high exercise capacity is good for your heart and studies have shown that adult males with an activity workload of more than 10 MET to be far less susceptible to ischemia, leaving them with a lower chance of suffering vascular disorders ranging from erectile dysfunction to heart attack. Knowing your equivalents could save your life.
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The metabolic equivalent (MET) is a widely used physiological concept that represents a simple procedure for expressing energy cost of physical activities as multiples of resting metabolic rate (RMR). The value equating 1 MET (3.5 ml O2·kg–1·min–1 or 1 kcal·kg–1·h–1) was first derived from the resting O2 consumption (O2) of one person, a 70-kg, 40-yr-old man. Examples here are given for someone with those statistics.
Sources: Value of a High Exercise Workload to Rule Out Myocardial Ischemia Alberto Bouzas-Mosquera, Jesús Peteiro, and Nemesio Álvarez-García. Customized Exercise Testing Frans J. Th. Wackers
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