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Name: Joseph
Gender: Male
Interests: Truly to God's will but other things include reading Military/Warfare books, snipers, sniper history, sniper books, SWAT teams, Law Enforcement, Protecting society from evil people, Guns but mainly in the sniper and assault rifles, Counter Terrorism and CT teams, Staying healthy, Being strong in a morally weak world, BF 2.
Expertise: Hmmm. I would like to say Sniper history but also following God's will.
Occupation: Military
Industry: Government
Message: message me
AIM:  AHNINJAS
Yahoo:  u would know it if i wanted u to
Member Since:
9/3/2005
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| So I am done ranting about that. Likely that last post confused you greatly. It made sense to me. This will be something a little easier to follow. I don't like facebook or myspace because I think it is privacy invasion. I don't really want all these "friends" do know what I am doing or where I am living. Yes, I know there are security devices to hide that. But, come on, you really think those are foolproof? They will stop your every day fifteen year old who is stalking someone but they don't stop companies who want to know who you really are; all that information is there for them to see and they will use it hire/reject you. Besides, I don't want the government seeing that stuff either. They know enough about me. demoKrats are power hungry and obama hates to criticized so I am sure they could monitor my "inflammatory" rhetoric that would deal mostly in small government and individual iniative. Unfortunately, he and his kommunist kronies want us depedent on the government and they typically put the "no" in innovation. All of my profile interests date back to 2005. Enjoy figuring out who I was when I was 16. Anyways, off to college now. Where? I'll let you figure that one out. Someplace big and somewhere in Texas. Big being anything larger than 5000 students but less than 100,000. I shdowed those doctors. I found medicine to be far more entertaining than history. I was slated to major microbiology but I changed it to CLS, under the advice of several medical doctors who majored in it. However, I am thinking I might go MD/PhD. Medical scientist. Teach, research, and practice medicine. What kind of medicine? Infectious Disease. You guessed it! I found what God wanted, I believe. I am obsessed with medicine. So far, I memorized all the antibiotic classes and how they work. Working on the viral families, there family, geometry, polarity, replication strategy, etc. I am memorizing all the medically important bacteria. How to contract them, what they do, how they do it, why they do it, how to treat them intelligently, and the varying protozoal infections as well. I can't explain on computer paper. You will have to come talk with me sometime and you will learn the full extent of this obession. Currently a junior. I will an RA in the fall. To show you how much I love microbiology, I am teaching a microbiology class for nurses/CLS and I haven't "officially" taken that class. I have taught myself. Ask God to show you what you like. It will transform your life. Applying to medical school in May. | | |
| This site has become so complicated over the years. I saw the rise of myspace, then facebook, and now twitter. Xanga is attempting to keep up with these new features but I am unaware of their ability to attract new bloggers nor to hold on to old bloggers. I left Xanga for Myspace, Myspace for Facebook, and Facebook for privacy. I haven't put my foot in the Twitter domain though it might possess qualities that I would like. Apparently, you can follow people and I saw my sister very intoxicated with the website during the Iranian riots. However, it appears that I have stayed with Xanga. I have had this account since 9/25/05. Quite some time really. Ibegan this account when Justin Baney came over to my house after Homecoming 2005. He introduced me to this site when we were playing Age of Empires. I first started the account as Odd1intheShadow and then deleted for some reason or another for a different name. I think I theb used R_E_V_A_n for about 30 days and then I moved to X_Arsenal_X I believe. I gave that up for SWAT_Sn1per. Had that for a while. Then I went to UnexpectedCompany. Interesting. I think I would like to use twitter more to track emerging viruses and possible cases of bioterrorism. How about that Swine Flu scare in April? You want to discuss it? Sure you do. What was the deal with that "global flu?" Why were there some many references to 1918? Well, in 1918, a virulent strain of influenza came out of Haskell County, Kansas, in 1917 and infected a girl who infected her boyfriend who happened to be staying in an overcrowded army camp preparing to go over seas for WWI. The camp was overcrowded because the Wilson administration wouldn't follow health protocols. That camp broke out with Flu and then went overseas with the soldiers. The virus then circulated around Europe and then the globe. An interesting thing about flu is its binding antigens. Influenza is a single stranded RNA, negative sense genome that is enveloped. The RNA is stored in a helical symmetry. The binding antigens H and N, hemaglutinnin and neurominidase, respectively, is how the virus gets inside a cell. The Hemaglutinnin (probably misspelled) binds to sialic acid receptors and enters the cell. It uses an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase to transform its negative sense genome into a positive strand that is copied to produce messenger RNAs. These mRNAs then hijack the ribosomes and use the host cell's machinery to make structural and non-structural viral proteins. The viral proteins then assemble and bud out of the cell. The neurominidase shaves the sialic acid receptors on the infected cell so new virions don't infect the sane cell. The cell then dies and others are infected. Are you familiar with the new field of Evolutionary Epidemiology? The modern day proponent of the field is Paul Ewald. It is an approach to medicine based off the virus's or other microorganisms points of view. It can be used to discuss the severity of the 1918 pandemic. Because the conditions of WWI allowed for masses of people to be close together, it helped select for especailly virulent flus. When the flu came back in 1918, it began to kill and kill quickly. Because there were so many millions of men clustered so close, those flu viruses that could replicate and infect the fastest were selected for. The faster the replication, the greater the immune response, and the worse the lung damage. Outright lung failure or malignant pneumonia killed millions. But the question is, do we have the similiar crowded conditions to facilitate another deadly flu? Probably not but we will find out this fall. | | |
| What time is it? One week to graduation, that's what time it is! AP
Euro was joke. I did more work for the class than the teache himself. I
wrote a 13,000 word review for the AP test that I used and also gave to
my fellow students, though not one really used it. A sad thing, too,
because like five answers on the AP test were answered from my review.
That was the easiest AP test I have ever taken. History nerd, shutup. I
just rode 19.2 miles in 99 degree heat, bringing my total mileage up to
48.0 miles this week over the course of three days. I finished off
those classes no problem. I also finished the four classes I had this
past 18 weeks. Confused though about the future. Professor of history
or medical doctor? Decisions, decisions. Whatever God's will is. We won
that night in January, again on March 20, again on April 7 in
Masterminds. We made school history. Lost in the final, though. They
had a monitor five feet from there desk. We had one about fifteen and
twenty feet away, and that font was tiny. Oh well. God willed that we
should lose. I can't wait to get out of high school. One more week,
really only about three days. I won three awards this year in school:
AP Euro, AP Eng IV, and AP Stats which gives me a total of six
altogether. I am going to major in history in college. Oh yes,
wonderful history. Going to work under two doctors this summer and do
nothing but exercise. Looking forward to it. I'm really sweaty right
now and I need to eat. Super hungry. ROLL OUT!
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| Man, it has been some time eh? I have progressed into senior year
fairly easily, though with some problems. Courses include: AP Biology,
Spanish III, AP Adj English IV, and BCIS. Nexy year, I will finally
have the much awaited AP European History as well as Statistics. Life
is going well for the moment. I have a grip on my panic attacks right
now and I hope I can keep it this way. I have been doing really heavy
exercise and I have never been in this good of shape in a long time, if
ever. The weather is extremely cool which makes me extremely happy.
Christmas is coming soon. We won out at Channel 5 MasterMinds and our
next competition is in January I think. Met many new people and I have
finally returned to being a pretty normal kid after almost five years.
Still been reading lots of history and whatnot. I've really got into
biking. Kind of wandering about college and the usual things. Also, I
am an AP Scholar, one of three in our entire senior class of nearly
500. God is most gracious to me. I must go now, and will be back to
update sometime in the future.
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| So, it is again time to write in this thing. Luckily, now I am a
senior. I only have one more year of mandatory imprisonment before I
reach escape velocity. I really would enjoy Epidemiology, but I believe
God has me in history for His special purposes. I will continue with
history. I had an interesting half year this year. Some strange people
I did meet. Did well with my classes and completely passed all TAKS
tests. Nothing but four dollars in library fees and a few more credits
and I will be "cha-ching" Graduated. I am looking into making two 3's
on Statistics and Biology tests next May which will give me a full ride
to UTPA, the best college in this Valley. I was hit with panic attacks
early this month and I have been forced more and more to rely on God. I
believe it is now my time to grow from the immature Sunday only
Christian and hit the more mature levels of a follower of Christ. I
must admit, these attacks are no fun. My job ended in early May.
Oblivion was good but I had to lose it. Well, I'm going to leave now.
Let's see how my outlook is in a few months.
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