[Svalbard - the first days]

Great that you're both taking glaciology but also you're seeing Svalbard. Looking forward to your updates!  :-)

[The summer, one word to sum it up?]

Little old me is starting to worry about the 'polar influence' on summer cyclogenesis SW of Greenland. Strange when melt season ends so does the run of depressions and we hit on H.P.

Another big melt and another wet summer and I'll be even more convinced of a link!!!

[A funny thing happened......]

Rather than ask on the board - what exactly is scenar - anything to improve "old age" eyesight has to be a good thing - hope u don't mind me asking.

Hiya!

Scenar (Self Controlled Energo Neuro Adaptive Regulator) is an electrical 'box of tricks' that the Soviets invented to help their 'long stay' Cosmonauts keep well in the space station.

When the USSR realised that USA would get to the moon first they started to prove they could stay in space long enough to go to mars (the reason they hold the longest in space record) To keep people up there and well would take some kinda huge medicine cabinet (too heavy to fly) and also the Water is recyled so any drug one crew member was on would be 'shared' amongst the rest of the crew (eventually) so the brief went out to produce a medicinal 'cure all'.

We have used Chemicals to manipulate our body and its ailments for as long as mankind has existed but the body is both electrical and chemical in nature. Any signal to release hormones/neuropeptides, change our metabolism etc. come down our nerves and at their ends (the ganglion) they exchange information via an electro-chemical release to promote the desired change. The Russians took the 'eletrical route' of helping the body help itself.

Your body is incredible. It has it's own pharmacy and is in a permanent balencing act to keep you functioning perfectly. When not at ease with itself we have dis-ease within the system.

The Scenar, via its microprocessing capability, takes activity readings from the skin (lots of sensors on the skin monitoring temp humidity etc.) if the neurons below (in our subcutinous Neural junction boxes) are very active (busy trying to fix something) it picks up the signal, modulates it slightly and fires it back out into the body. The body reads the signal, doesn't quite get it so explores the areas of origin where it 'rediscovers' the dydfunction and focus's on dealing with it.

Sadly most illnesses/injuries never heal properly. They get nearly done and then the body moves on to the next problem. The body also habitualises very quickly to ailments it doesn't see as a threat . if you've ever had a back rub and had an 'oow' moment then you'll have experienced an unresolved muscle strain that your body had stopped bugging you about or 'ignored'. The muscle was still cying out for help but your body recognised it and ignored it as nothing that was happening that was a threat to it's continuation though you may have had 'secondary symptoms as other muscle groups took over the work of the strained one. The slight pressure sent a signal of strength 1 to your brain but that was on top of the strength 9 signbal that your body was already sending but had ignored. You felt a strength 10 jolt and went 'OOww'.

We have a genetically disadvantaged son and so it is hard to diagnose his ailments but not now (he has no language). His development has blossomed over the 2 1/2 yrs he's been using ,so much so that he is to be put forward for an award for his recent 'achievements. My partner and I may kid ourselves over our great improvements but Luke and his development can't lie (neither do our eye tests!! )Sarah, my partner had damaged eyes from childhood measles which was inoperable and, she was told ,for life.

Scenar helps you fix yourself and you are your best healer!