Thursday, December 12, 2013

Protecting a Minor Child's Personal Injury Settlement


So many times we hear about personal injury settlements involving adults. But how are injury claims handled for minors? Is the minor's settlement protected? The general rule is that a personal injury settlement for a minor is not binding against the minor unless there is court approval of the settlement. If the parents settle an injury claim for their minor child, then that settlement is not necessarily binding against the minor child. Therefore, that minor child may re-assert the claim within two years after that child's eighteenth birthday. So you might ask: Why would an insurance company ever settle a personal injury claim involving a minor child if the agreement is not binding. Simply put, the insurance company can condition the settlement upon getting court approval through a "friendly suit."

Once the parties have reached a settlement agreement for the minor child, the insurance company refers the case to their attorney who prepares the court papers for a friendly suit. Once the friendly suit is filed, the judge then appoints an independent "guardian ad-litem," sometimes known as an "attorney ad-litem." This person is an attorney appointed by the judge to review and investigate the settlement to determine whether it is in the best interest of the minor child.

Prior to approving the settlement, the ad-litem also reviews the terms of the settlement agreement. The ad-litem will normally recommend that the settlement proceeds for the minor child be deposited and held in the court's registry until the child turns eighteen (18) years old. Sometimes, the parties will agree to have the proceeds placed into a private annuity where the funds might gain a higher rate of interest. Nevertheless, the funds are to be placed into such a fund for the protection of the minor child. Likewise, the parents are not permitted any access to these funds.

Once the ad-litem concludes the investigation, the attorney will recommend to the court whether the settlement should or should not be approved. Unless there is anything out of the ordinary, the ad-litem and the court will normally approve the settlement after a short hearing. The procedures in a friendly suit are usually very simple and routine.

There may be few situations where the court has permitted the parents to invest the minor's settlement proceeds into an investment of their choice, such as a college savings account. However, the parents would be required to follow the courts's order to invest those funds accordingly and not use the funds for their own use. After all, the purpose of the friendly suit is to protect the minor's settlement proceeds for the benefit of the minor child.

Once the settlement is approved by the court, then the settlement becomes binding against the minor child. Likewise, the child cannot reassert any claims arising from the injury. This is how the insurance company is assured that the settlement is final. However, a friendly suit costs money. And since the friendly suit is there for the benefit of the insurance company, then the insurance company pays the costs associated with the friendly suit, including the fees charged by the ad-litem. Therefore, on smaller settlements, the insurance company may not insist on a friendly suit. Under these circumstances, the proceeds of the child's settlement are tendered to the parents and are not legally protected.

Signs of Nursing Home Abuse


Most elderly people in nursing homes are unable to take care of their daily living needs without assistance, which is why their families have placed them in surroundings where that assistance is supposedly at hand.

While many, of not most, nursing homes are caring and conscientious, there are some where that assistance is negligently absent. And further, there are times when conscious or deliberate harm is done to elderly people. It can be physical or emotional harm, or both, but in either case it's personal injury and therefore potentially a legal matter.
If you have a loved one in a nursing home, it's important to be able to recognize signs of nursing home abuse or mistreatment. Here are some things to watch out for.

New wounds or scars on the skin
These could be from a fall, or from overly tight restraint, or from rough handling by the staff. As we age, our skin thins out and becomes delicate, easily bruising or tearing. Our elderly loved ones need gentle handling to avoid injury.

From Falls
Perhaps your loved one needs assistance sitting upright. There's a safe and appropriate way to do this, but sometimes it's forgotten, so the person could fall from the chair, or get up and wander around, sustaining a fall.

Our eyesight deteriorates as we age, but perhaps the glasses have been lost or broken.
The floors should be kept free of debris or obstacles, but perhaps someone left liquid or clutter where it could cause a fall.

From Overly tight restraint
Restraints are used to prevent falls, and to prevent a person with Alzheimer's, for instance, from wandering off the premises and becoming lost or hurt on the street. There's a correct way to use a restraint, but if it's put on too tightly, it can cause bruising, or break the skin.

From Rough handling
Sometimes nursing home staff are overworked and become too tired, or too impatient. That's a possible explanation for rough handling, but not a justification of it. A tight grip on an elderly person's arm can cause bruising and pain and even in more extreme cases a broken bone. But perhaps the elderly person is unable to speak well enough to object, or perhaps they feel intimidated.

Pressure sores
Some elderly people have difficulty turning themselves while in bed, or are entirely unable to do it because of having had a stroke, for instance. The staff is required to turn them at least every two hours and if this isn't done, the continual pressure on one place wears down the skin, causing an open sore known as a decubitus ulcer.

This is usually on a hip or near the coccyx. If it isn't treated immediately, it will enlarge and deepen and potentially become infected. It can even enter the bone tissue. These sores are preventable by good care.

Depression or anxiety
When you visit your loved one in the nursing home, you can gauge their mood each time, and if they appear to be more depressed, you can ask them what's troubling them. If their speech is intact you may learn at once what the problem is and be able to rectify it.
But if their speech is impaired, they may not be able to tell you. If their mood seems to be lower at each visit it may be time to discuss it with nursing home staff, and find out if any emotional abuse is happening. Sometimes there's even sexual abuse.

Weight loss
Many elderly people lose weight rather than gaining it, as a function of advancing age. But if you notice that your loved one starts losing weight more than you would expect, it could be that for some reason they've lost their appetite (see Depression or anxiety), or that food is being withheld. Why would food be withheld? Either from laziness and neglect, or as an inappropriate punishment. In either case, you'd be wise to check into what's happening.

Dehydration
Some harm doesn't give you obvious external signs. For instance, if a person is mildly or even moderately dehydrated, you might not notice it on a visit (although the nursing staff should notice it).

As we age, we tend to lose our sense of thirst, so your loved one might be thirsty but not reach for the nearby water. For that reason, nursing home staff is expected to offer drinking water at least every two hours. But you might notice extra dry lips, or eagerness for water to drink when you offer it, and if so, you could pay extra attention to that on each visit, or perhaps mention it to the staff. Severe dehydration is life-threatening and calls for quick action.

Elder Abuse - One Sure Way to Detect It


The stories about elder abuse keep getting worse and worse. As more of our seniors are retiring, elder care facilities are bursting at the seams. Every year up to 2,000,000 vulnerable elders are abused or neglected. Those are the cases we know about. For every one of those there are five more that are never reported.

Many politicians feel that not enough attention is being given to the problem. They point out that penalties for animal abuse are more severe than for elder abuse.

"It's hard to know because of the secrecy when nursing home residents are cared for at night with some of the staff or the secrecy that occurs behind closed doors in anyone's individual homes," says Iris Freeman of the Center on Elder Justice and Policy at the William Mitchell College of Law.

"Many cases of deprivation occur in such secrecy, in such silence, that by the time the victim is found there has been such disastrous harm that the victim is not likely to live," says Iris.

There was a government survey done not long ago that showed as many as 60% of all long-term care facilities had employees with criminal records.

The home healthcare industry is barely regulated and so the chance for abuse is even greater. With more families opting for hiring their own care workers the opportunities for abuse in a home healthcare setting is much more obvious.

Part of the problem is due to the growth in the nursing home and long-term care industry. Because of that growth there is a higher demand for employees, and quite frankly there just aren't enough qualified ones to go around which leads to shortcuts in the vetting process for employees. Employers feel it's better to have a warm body than a qualified body. Therein lies the problem.

So if you have parents that are in a long-term care facility, nursing home or home healthcare setting, one of the best things you can do is install a motion activated Covert Hidden Camera in their room to keep an eye on them to see what is going on with them. Most hidden cameras have DVRs in them so they can record motion activation and allow you to play back easily on an SD card that's in the DVR. If abuse is detected, you have strong visual evidence that will aid in prosecution.

Often in these cases, especially with Alzheimer's patients, the credibility of the patient is questioned and they are not given much credence. This can be eliminated by having strong visual evidence that only a hidden camera can produce.

Yes Wii Can Kinect With Our Grandparents!


Twenty-five years ago, Nintendo released its original game console, and the world has not been the same since. Kids were addicted to their own epic adventures killing dragons, saving princess, and maybe, just maybe, jumping over flagpoles. But for all those hours of hair raising quests, their grandparents sat back and yawned. They could not share the excitement.

Indeed, the elder generation has been slow in general to share in the joys of technology, but the gaming world has been particularly incomprehensible for them. Blame the music, or the controls, or the general kiddish marketing. No matter what the reason, the aging population endured video games, and did not revel in them for more than two decades.

The Nintendo Wii

And then came the Nintendo Wii. Whether the manufacturers knew it or not, the Wii would turn out to be a massive hit for senior citizens all over the country. Assisted Living centers and Nursing Homes from Oregon to Florida were buying them up and installing them in their common rooms. Patients and residents took to it quickly, and have since become almost as absorbed as their children were two decades earlier. What changed? The shift from tiny buttons to motion activation. The Wii allowed users to to control their games by moving naturally with a controller in hand or a balance board under their feet. And after just four years, the entire demographic has changed dramatically. More than 25% of the gaming population is over the age of fifty.

The Xbox Kinect

Today, we are being barraged with advertisements for another system which will only increase this trend. The Xbox Kinect system picks up where the Wii left off. With the Kinect, a user does not have to hold any controllers, or stand on any board. The gamer's own body genstures and voice commands operate the games. So now, seniors will be able to gather in front of a TV, talk to the Kinect, and play a round of virtual golf in a startlingly realistic setting. There are no complicated tiny buttons to navigate with, and nothing they have to hold on to.

Xbox has upped the ante in another way, too. The Kinect, which is connected with the Xbox 360 system, has video conferencing capabilities and a sophisticated online environment. For seniors, this could be a huge draw. Not only can they talk to their ten year old grandson on the television, they can also challenge him to a virtual inter-state grudge match.

The Wii became a way for seniors to embrace technology. The Kinect could do something even more profound. If seniors can get past the price tag (the Kinect will easily cost more than $400 for the full console, game, and add on features) this system could allow kids to embrace their grandparents on terms that they are both comfortable with, no matter where they live.

Have You Been The Victim of Shigella Poisoning?


Shigella poisoning happens when Shigella bacteria contaminates food that is consumed by humans. Shigella is a family of bacteria that is rod shaped and is usually found in human fecal matter as well as in primate fecal matter, such as in chimpanzees and monkeys. Shigella is not typically found in other types of animal fecal matter, but can be found in water that is contaminated with human waste. The bacterium is named after the Japanese scientist who discovered it, and was named Shega.

When a person becomes infected with Shigella bacteria, an illness is developed that is known as shigellosis. Shigellosis, which is also sometimes referred to as bacillary dysentery, is recognized by the symptoms it causes which are gastrointestinal issues, such as diarrhea. The majority of cases of shigellosis clear up in about one week's time. There are some cases that may take a number of months to resolve; all the while gastrointestinal issues persist. In rare cases, shigellosis can develop into more serious conditions, such as Reiter's syndrome, hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), and reactive arthritis.

For the most part, shigellosis is passed from person to person by means of ingesting fecal material that is infected with Shigella bacteria. This is done unknowingly when food becomes contaminated because of hygiene that is unsanitary. Shigella remains in the fecal material of a person who has been infected, and continues to remain in the matter for two weeks after the infection has cleared. Toddlers who have been infected with the bacteria commonly pass the condition on to other children. It is also possible for vegetables and other types of produce to be contaminated with Shigella if sewer water is used on the field in which they are grown.

What's more, people can become infected with Shigella bacteria by drinking or swimming in water that contains the organism. Water can become contaminated when sewer drain off mixes with drinking water sources, or when someone with shigellosis swims in the water.

Two thirds of all of the shigellosis cases in the United States are caused by "Group D" Shigella, which is a type of Shigella bacteria called Shigella sonnei. "Group B" Shigella bacteria, or Shigella flexneri, make up the remaining cases. This family of bacteria is also responsible for deadly outbreaks in developing countries, mostly due to Shigelladysenteriae strain. This form and other forms than those listed above are quite rare in the United States.

Shigellosis makes a person ill by infecting the lining of the intestines. Once the bacteria take up residence in the intestines it is released from the intestines and makes its way to the person's stools. This is why stool samples are collected and tested when making a diagnosis of shigellosis. Stools that contain the bacteria then become the main carrier of further contamination. Therefore, when a person who is infected does not practice proper hygiene and hand washing, the contaminated stools can then be passed into water, food, and other people.

In areas where there are crowded living conditions, outbreaks of shigellosis often occur because of contaminated water and food sources, as well as improper sanitation. It is estimated that there are about eighteen thousand cases of shigellosis annually in the United States. Day care centers often see the most cases, however there are many cases linked to restaurants and other dining facilities.

Even just a small amount of Shigella bacteria entering the mouth can lead to severe, unpleasant symptoms associated with shigellosis. Symptoms of the illness typically pop up within one to seven days, averaging about three days after contact with the organism. The most common symptoms associated with Shigellosis include: fever that can be high enough to induce seizures; nausea; vomiting; diarrhea that is watery; pus, blood, or mucus in the stool; pain or cramps in the rectal area; and sudden pain or cramping in the abdomen. Because these symptoms can be quite serious, complications can arise such as: dehydration; abnormal kidney function; gall stones that develop by fast hemolysis, which happens when hemoglobin leaks into the blood stream because of broken red blood cells; seizures; arthritis; coma; convulsions; hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS); stroke; kidney failure that may result in the need for a kidney transplant; uremia, which is kidney failure; respiratory disease syndrome; pancreatic enzymes that are elevated; diabetes; pancreatitis; thrombocyteopenia, which is a blood platelet deficiency; encephalopathy; various types of neurological problems; blindness due to damage that takes place in the occipital cortex of the brain, also known as cortical blindness; various types of blood complications; hemolytic anemia; heart problems; heart attacks; congestive heart failure; cardio myopathy; cardiogenic shock; dizziness; irritability; disorientation; hallucinations; tremors; delirium; changes in behavior; central nervous system problems; and death.

While the above information may be a bit startling, it is important to note that even though food poisoning cases happen on a regular basis, most, if not all of them could have and should have been prevented if proper care had been exercised. Anyone who handles food in any capacity has a duty of care to provide items intended for human consumption that are safe and free of contaminants. When this duty of care is breached, a form of negligence has occurred and you may be entitled to seek legal compensation for your injuries.

In the event that you or someone you know has had to seek medical treatment for a Shigella infection you should not delay in contacting a personal injury attorney for assistance. These professionals are quite skilled in this area of the law and can help you to determine the best course of action. From start to finish your case will be handled on your behalf, and you can take comfort in knowing that your claim is progressing properly. Best of all, most personal injury attorneys do not require any money upfront to pursue a claim; therefore you can focus your attention on your personal health and recovery. Personal injury attorneys will work hard to seek compensation for your injuries, your medical expenses (past and present), lost wages, and various other types of damages.

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Assisted Living - What Care Managers Look For When Choosing A Facility


Selecting an assisted living facility for a senior family member or loved one can be a very tricky task. You should do as much research as possible by reading reviews and articles by knowledgeable health care professionals and other trusted sources.

CareGrade interviewed professional care manager Michael Newell, RN, MSN and found out what he looks for in assisted living facilitates. His insight gives a professional's viewpoint and offers advice to consumers looking for these types of services. As a professional geriatric care manager, he earns his living advocating for seniors and is extremely knowledgeable about what seniors and their families should look for when choosing a facility. According to Michael, the following list contains key elements a family should consider when looking into an assisted living facility


  1. Identify your goals. What do you want the facility to do? E.g., Some have offer more skilled care than others, some have a nicer setting, some may be nearer to friends and family

  2. What hospital would the resident be taken to if he/she got acutely ill? Is it one that you would want to see them in?

  3. Who will be doing the primary medical care? Do they come to the facility? Are you or your parent/loved one comfortable with their style and credentials?

  4. Don't go for the lowest price. Add up the needs present and likely future care needs of the resident and compare prices that way.

  5. Sit in a common area for an hour or so and see how people interact with each other. Is this a setting that you or your loved one would feel comfortable in for the long haul?

  6. Ask your local care manager what the reputation is of the facility. A care management consultation will be money well spent.

While researching these facilities may seem like a chore for you, keep in mind it is a life altering event for the senior you are helping. They will often be leaving a home they have had for many years, along with many of their possessions and memories. You should go about selecting an assisted living facility the same way you would look for a new home, as that is what it will become. It is more than just a building, or a room. Each location has its own personality, so look beyond the grand entrance and pretty wall paper and take the time to really get to know the facility before you make any decisions.

Renaissance Science, Registered 21st Century Rebirth Document


This essay is the birth certificate of the 21st Century Renaissance. It shows how the life-science of the Classical Greek era's Humanities has been upgraded in order to bring balance into Western technological culture. Many philosophers have warned that the fate of human civilisation depends upon achieving that goal.

The ancient Greek Parthenon represented a Greek life-science culture, symbolising concepts of political government long lost to modern Western science. The Ottoman military once stored gunpowder in the Parthenon and in1687 a Venetian mortar round blew the building into ruin. Recent restoration techniques using computers revealed that strange illusionary optical engineering principles had been used in the building's construction. We know that they were associated with the mathematics of the Music of the Spheres that Pythagoras had brought back from the Egyptian Mystery Schools. We also know that Plato considered that any engineer who did not understand about spiritual optical engineering principles was a barbarian.

Harvard University's Novartis Chair Professor, Amy Edmondson, in her online biography of Buckminster Fuller, The Fuller Explanation, wrote about how Fuller had plagiarised Plato's spiritual engineering discoveries and used them to derive his life-science synergistic theories. Those theories, which completely challenged the basis of the 20th Century Einsteinian world-view are now the basis of a new medical science instigated by the three 1996 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry. During the 21st Century the complex Fullerene geometrical reasoning has brought about the rebirth of the lost ancient Greek optical science of life. This is now rewriting Western technological culture, so there is a need to know why Buckminster Fuller wrote that this reunification provides a choice between Utopia or Oblivion.

After presenting complex geometrical reasoning, Professor Edmondson wrote, "By now familiar with Fuller's underlying assumptions, we shall take time out to introduce some background material. The origins of humanity's fascination with geometry can be traced back four thousand years, to the Babylonian and Egyptian civilisations; two millennia later, geometry flourished in ancient Greece, and its development continues today. Yet most of us know almost nothing about the accumulated findings of this long search. Familiarity with some of these geometric shapes and transformations will ease the rest of the journey into the intricacies of synergetics."

Human survival now depends upon a more general understanding that ethics is not about how science is used but about what is the ethical form of the spiritual, or holographic structure of science itself. There is no need for the reader to become conversant with the complex geometrical equations suggested by Professor Amy Edmondson, in order to follow the journey of ethical logic from ancient Egypt to the 21st Century Renaissance. However, before undertaking that journey we need to realise the nightmare scenario that the unbalanced 20th Century understanding of science has forced global humanity to endure and which Buckminster Fuller warned about.

In 1903, Lord Bertrand Russell's book A Freeman's Worship was published, containing his vision of A Universe in Thermodynamic Ruin. This nightmare mathematical assessment of reality stated that all the most ennobling thoughts of humankind amounted to nothing at all and all life in the universe must be destroyed. Lord Russell wrote that humans must endure, with total despair, the hopelessness of living within a reality that was totally governed by a lifeless energy law that Einstein was to call The Premier law of all science.

The name of the law governing 20th Century technological culture is the Second Law of Thermodynamics. It is also known as the Universal heat death law or, the Law of Universal chaos.

That law demands the total extinction of all life in the universe when all heat is dissipated into cold space. As a result of that law, all life sciences, including global economic rationalism, can only be about species moving toward this imaginary heat death extinction.

Buckminster Fuller's life-science energy does not obey the heat death law. It is based instead upon fractal logic, which exists forever. Einstein's governing death-science law is the correct basis of modern chemistry, but that chemistry is balanced by Plato's spiritual engineering principles, or the functioning of Fullerene holographic 'chemistry'. While mainstream science does indeed accept that fractal logic extends to infinity, no life science within the Western technological culture can possibly be part of its workings. That mindset can be a serious distraction to biologists who seek to associate rain cloud fractal logic with the effects of climate change upon human evolution.

In 1996 within an Open Letter to the Secretariat of the United Nations on behalf of the Science-Art Research Centre of Australia, Australian National Library Canberra Australian Citation RECORD 2645463, a complaint was made that the Australian Government was unintentionally committing a major crime against humanity for endorsing a totally entropic educational system governed by the second law of thermodynamics. At the United Nations University in Washington the complaint was handed to the United Nations University Millennium, Project-Australasian Node, for investigation. Seven years of peer reviewed research ensued, concluding that the complaint was justified. In 2006 a formal Decree of Recognition was issued by the Australasian Division of the United Nations University Millennium Project, attesting to the urgent global importance of this issue.

Having contrasted the 21st Century rebirth of Classical Greek fractal logic life-science - the New Renaissance, with the 20th Century nightmare, we can follow Professor Amy Edmondson's advice to begin our journey of ethical understanding from ancient Egypt. (George Sarton's, A History of Science argues that ancient Kemetic theories of Egypt were scientific and established the foundations of later Hellenistic science).

The ability of the ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom to reason that two geometries existed to balance the workings of the universe was praised by the Greek philosopher Plato, whose fundamental idea was that "All is Geometry". Old Kingdom wall paintings depicted that evil thoughts prevented evolutionary access to a spiritual reality. The geometry used to survey farm boundaries lost each year when the River Nile flooded was quite different from the sacred geometries basic to Egyptian religious ceremonies.

The BBC television program about the collapse of the Egyptian Old Kingdom by Professor Fekri Hassan of the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London, explained that some 4000 years ago, a prolonged drought collapsed the First Kingdom, soon after the death of King Pepy II. Professor Hassan explains that 100 years after the collapse, hieroglyphs record that Egyptian government was restored when the people insisted that the ethics of social justice, mercy and compassion were fused into the fabric of political law. It is rather important to realise that at that point of time in history, ethics associated with fractal geometrical logic had been fused into a political structure.

During the 6th Century BCE the Greek scholar Thales went to Egypt to study the ethics of life-science at the Egyptian Mystery schools and he advised Pythagoras to do the same. Pythagoras learned that evolutionary wisdom was generated by the movement of celestial bodies, which the Greeks called The music of the Spheres. It was thought that this harmonic music could transfer its wisdom to the atomic movement of the soul through the forces of harmonic resonance, such as when a high note shatters a wine glass.

The Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy was to fuse ethics into a model of reality called the Nous, postulated by the scientific thinker Anaxagoras. The Nous was a whirling force that acted upon primordial particles in space to form the worlds and to evolve intelligence. The ancient Greeks decided to invent science by fusing further ethics into the fractal logic structure of the Nous. The harmonic movement of the moon could be thought to influence the female fertility cycle and this science could explain a mother's love and compassion for children. The Classical Greek science was about how humans might establish an ethical life-science to guide ennobling political government. The idea was, that by existing for the health of the universe, human civilisation would avoid extinction.

The Classical Greek life-science was constructed upon the concept of good and evil. Good was For the Health of the Universe. A very precise definition of evil is found in Plato's book, The Timaeus. Evil was classified as a destructive property of unformed matter within the physical atom.

The ancient Greek atom was considered to be physically indivisible and it can be considered that the anti-life properties of nuclear radiation had been classified as evil. Modern chemistry is constructed upon the logic of universal atomic decay, which is governed by the second law of thermodynamics. The Egyptian concept of evil thought processes leading to oblivion echoes Plato's and Buckminster Fuller's concepts of an oblivion brought about through an obsession with an unbalanced geometrical world-view.

The Max Plank Astrophysicist, Professor Peter Kafka, in his six essays entitled The Principle of Creation and the Global Acceleration Crisis, written over a period from 1976 to 1994, predicted the current global financial collapse being brought about by "scientists, technologists and politicians" who had an unbalanced understanding of the second law of thermodynamics. Kafka wrote in chapter four, entitled Ethics from Physics, that the second law of thermodynamics had been known for centuries. Kafka realised that it had various other names throughout history such as Diabolos, the Destroyer of Worlds, the evil god of Plato's Physics of Chaos, now the god of modern Chaos Physics.

The science to explain a mother's love for children involving both celestial and atomic movement became associated with the Science of Universal Love taught in Greece during the 3rd Century BCE.

Julius Caesar's colleague, the Historian Cicero, recorded during the 1st Century BCE, that this science was being taught throughout Italy and across to Turkey by teachers called 'saviours'. He considered that such teaching challenged Roman political stability. During the 5th Century some 1000 years of fractal logic scrolls held in the Great Library of Alexandria were burned. The custodian of the library, the mathematician Hypatia, was brutally murdered by a Christain mob during the rule of Pope Cyril. Hypatia's fractal logic life-science was condemned by St Augustine as the work of the Devil. In his The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon marked Hypatia's murder as the beginning of the Dark Ages.

Encyclopaedia Britannica lists St Augustine as the mind which mostly completely fused the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy with the religion of the New Testament, influencing both Protestant and Catholic religious belief in modern times. His translation of Plato's atomic evil as female sexuality, influenced the 13th Century Angel Physics of St Thomas Aquinas, known as History's Doctor of Science. During the mid 14th Century until the mid 17th Century, Angel Physics was used to legalise the imprisonment, ritualistic torture and burning alive of countless women and children. The argument that Augustine's banishment of fractal life-science logic in the 5th Century was responsible for Western life-science becoming obsessed with the second law of thermodynamics can be validated.

The Reverend Thomas Malthus derived his famous Principles of Population essay from the writings of St Thomas Aquinas and used it to establish the economic and political policies of the East India Company. Charles Darwin, employed by that company, cited Malthus' essay as the basis of his survival of the fittest life-science. Darwin, in the 18th Century, held the essay as synonymous with the second law of thermodynamics.

Plato's Academy had been closed for being a pagan institution in 529 by the Christian Emperor Justinian, Banished Greek scholars fled to Islamic Spain where their theories were tolerated. The Golden Age of Islamic science, from which Western science emerged, included the Translation School in Toledo. Islamic, Christian and Jewish scholars worked together to translate the lost Greek ideas into Latin. The Franciscan monk, Roger Bacon, during the 13th Century studied work from Jewish scholars familiar with the research undertaken at the Toledo school. Pope Clement IV encouraged Bacon to write his pagan ideas in secret, but after the death of Clement IV, Roger Bacon was imprisoned by the Franciscans.

Roger Bacon developed ideas about flying machines, horseless carriages,submarines and self propelling ships from the same Islamic source that later inspired Leonardo da Vinci. Roger Bacon studied the optics of Plato and the upgrading of Plato's optics by Islamic scholars. Unlike Leonardo, Roger Bacon agreed with Al Haytham, History's Father of Optics, that the eye could not be the source of all knowledge, an erroneous idea of reality that Descartes and Sir Francis Bacon, the Renaissance author and father of inductive reasoning, used to usher in the age of industrial entropic materialism. Thomas Jefferson, inspired by Francis Bacon's vision of a great Empire for All Men based upon all knowledge from the eye, depicted the concept onto the Great Seal Of America.

Cosimo Medici, with the help of Sultan Memhed II, re-established Plato's Academy in Florence during the 15th Century. Cosimo appointed Marcilio Ficino as its manager. Ficino wrote about the Platonic love associated with the Music of the Spheres influencing the atoms of the soul. He carefully avoided serious charges of heresy by placing eminent Christian figures into his writings and paintings associated with the new Platonic Academy. Two famous paintings commissioned by the Medici that survived the Great Burning, instigated by the Christian Monk Savarola, illustrated Ficino's cunning.

In 1480 Botticelli was commissioned to paint a portrait of St Augustine in His Study, in which a book is depicted opened at a page displaying Pythagorean mathematics. Alongside the written formulae is an instrument for observing celestial movement. Augustine is gazing directly at an armillary sphere, an instrument used to calculate data relevant to Pythagoras' Music of the Spheres. The Saint's halo, accepted at that time as representing the consciousness of the soul, upon close examination, has a spherical book-stud within its orbit, depicting Ficino's atom of the soul responding to the Music of the Spheres.

At the same time that Botticelli was commissioned to paint Augustine's portrait, Ghirlandhiao was commissioned to paint a portrait of Augustine's close colleague, St Jerome in His Study. Again, with careful examination, Jerome's halo can be seen to have a spherical bookstud placed into its orbit, demonstrating that Botticelli's depiction of the atom of the soul associated with the Music of the Spheres was not coincidental. Both Botticell and Ghirlandaio were mentors to Leonardo da Vinci.

By realising that Roger Bacon's knowledge of Platonic optics was generally superior to Leonardo's, the Science-Art Research Centre of Australia, in collaboration with a cancer research team at the University of Sydney, during 1986, was able to successfully modify the optical key to Leonardo's da Vinci's Theory of Knowledge. This discovery also corrected the optics understanding of Descates, Sir Francis Bacon, Lord Russell, Emmanuel Kant, Albert Einstein and other scientists who considered Al Haitham's optics as being industrially impractical.

The Science-Art Research Centre's correction to the crucial optics key was published in a Science-Art book launched in Los Angeles in 1989 under the auspices of the Hollywood Thalian Mental Health Organisation. In 1991 the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Peirre de Genes for his theories about liquid crystal optics. In the following year the vast new science and technology, predicted by the Science-Art Centre's correction of da Vinci's work, was discovered The principal discoverer, Professor Barry Ninham of the Australian National University, later to become the Italy's National Chair of Chemistry, wrote that the Centre's work encompassed a revolution of thought, as important to science and society as the Copernican and Newtonian revolutions.

Leonardo da Vinci was certainly a great genius, but he was not really the Man of the Renaissance at all, because he was unable to comprehend the life-energy basis of Plato's spiritual optical engineering principles. He had attempted to develop the relevant optics for several years then reverted back to what Plato had referred to as the engineering practices of a barbarian. On the other hand, Sir Isaac Newton, was a genuine Man of the Renaissance, as his unpublished papers, discovered last century revealed. His certain conviction that "a more profound natural philosophy existed to balance the mechanical description of the universe," was based upon the same physics principles that upheld the lost Classical Greek Era's science of life and they are now at the cutting edge of fractal logic quantum biology.

The 20th Century began with the aforesaid Lord Bertrand Russell's horrific acquiescence to enslavement by the second law of thermodynamics in 1903, followed in 1905 by Einstein's unbalanced E=Mc2. TIME Magazine's Century of Science lists Maria Montessori as the greatest scientist of 1907. Her association with President Woodrow Wilson, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Jefferson and Teildard de Chardin demonstrated how the entropy law embraces Plato's definition of evil. Montessorri called the second law of thermodynamics the energy greed law. Montessori and de Chardin's electromagnetic life-science key to open their Golden Gates of the future were derived from concepts based upon the spiritualisation of matter and humanity evolving with the cosmos. That was in direct contrast to the electromagnetic understanding of Alexander Graham Bell.

President Wilson was genuinely troubled by the loss of life during World War I. He and Alexander Bell chose Darwin's entropic life-science as the electromagnetic key to the future of America rather that Montessori's. After World War II, High Command Nazi prisoners at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal protested that Adolph Hitler had based the policies of the Third Reich upon the the Darwinian Eugenics of which Present Wilson and Alexander Bell had been involved with.

The scientist, Matti Pitkanen, can be considered to have upgraded de Chardin's ethical electromagnetic key to open Montessori's Golden Gates to the future. De Chardin insisted that the gates would only open for all people at the same time and not for any chosen race nor privileged few. Pitkanen noted that the earth's regular deflection of potentially lethal radiation from the sun fulfilled the criteria of an act of consciousness, protecting all life on earth at the same time.

The 1937 Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine, Szent-Gyoergyi, wrote a book about scientists who did not recognise that their understanding of the second law of thermodynamics was balanced by the evolution of consciousness. The title of the book was The Crazy Apes. In his 1959 Rede Lecture at the University of Cambridge in 1959, the Molecular Biologist, Sir C P Snow, argued that the inadequate understanding about the nature and functioning of the second law of thermodynamics by his fellow scientists was scientifically irresponsible. He referred to their thinking as belonging to their neolithic cave dwelling ancestors. The title of Snow's lecture was The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution. This book was listed by The Times Literary Supplement as one of 100 books most influencing Western public thinking since World War II and has been systematically denounced ever since.

During the past 15 years, science has developed so rapidly that it has given the Humanities no time to grasp the significance of the social ramifications of the rebirth of Fuller's Platonic spiritual, or holographic, engineering principles from ancient Greece. Organised religious opposition to criticism of the understanding of the second law of thermodynamics from Christian schools, Colleges and Universities has been extremely thorough throughout the world. For example Professor F M Cornford, educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, was made a Fellow in 1899, becoming the Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy in 1932, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1937. His grasp of the ancient Greek fractal science of life can be shown to be completely illogical, yet it is the foundation for well organised international academic study courses at the present time.

Since 1932 Cambridge University has produced ten editions of Cornford's book Before and after Socrates. Cornford states in this book that Plato can be considered as one of the greatest fathers of the Christian religion. Encyclopaedia Britannica advises that St Augustine was the mind which mostly completely fused the Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy with the religion of the New Testament. Such pious academic reasoning flies in the face of Plato's spiritual engineering principles being observed functioning within the DNA as a function of a fractal life-science evolutionary function, and is therefore ludicrous.Plato defined that reasoning as being ignorant and barbaric and the language of engineers not fit to be considered philosophers. The Harvard Smithsonian/NASA High Energy Astrophysics Division Library has published papers by the Science Advisor to the Belgrade Institute of Physics, Professor Petar Grujic, arguing that the Classical Greek life-science was based upon fractal logic, a totally incomprehensible concept within the much lauded ancient Greek study courses currently set for post graduate studies.

Having arrived at the destination of Professor Amy Edmondson's journey from ancient Egypt to modern times, in order to be educated about the importance of Buckminster Fuller's geometrical understanding, we are able to grasp the stark reality of the title of his book Utopia or Oblivion. The objective of this essay, to construct the foundations of the Social Cradle to nurture the Florentine New Measurement of Humanity Renaissance, was derived from that book. The following explains the Science-Art Research Centre of Australia's long and arduous struggle to help contribute towards the vital human survival research now being carried out under the auspices of the New Florentine Renaissance.

In 1979 the Science Unit of Australian National Television documented the work of the Science-Art Research Centre into its eight part series The Scientists-Profiles of Discovery. During that year, at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, China's most highly awarded physicist, Kun Huang, proposed a research plan that was put into operation by the Centre. Professor Huang was angry that Einstein and the framers of the 20th Century world-view were unable to discuss the Classical Greek life sciences in infinite biological energy terms. He proposed that by observing the evolutionary patterning changes to species designed upon ancient Greek Golden Mean geometry, it should be possible to deduce the nature of the life-force governing their evolution through space-time.

Huang suggested that the world's seashell fossil record would provide the necessary patterning-change information. The research was assisted by the communities of the six towns comprising the Riverland Region of South Australia. During the 1980s the Centre's several seashell life-energy papers, written by the Centre's mathematician, Chris Illert, were published by Italy's leading scientific journal, il Nuovo Cimento. In 1990 two of the papers were selected as important discoveries of the 20th Century and were reprinted by the world's leading technological research institute, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers in Washington.

By deriving an Art-master optics formula from the Italian Renaissance, which can be considered to be associated with fractal logic, a simulation of a living seashell creature was generated. By lowering the musical harmonics a simulation of the creature's fossil ancestor was obtained. By lowering the musical order by a different amount, the simulation of a strange, grotesque creature was generated. The Smithsonian Institute identified the fossil as being the famous Nipponites Mirabilis that drifted along the coast of Japan 20 million years ago. It was designed to drift along upright in water in order to ensnare its prey. Chris Illert became the first scientist to link its evolution to a living seashell.

In 1995 the discovery won an internationally peer reviewed Biology Prize from the Institute for Basic Research in America. China's most eminent physicist, Kun Huang, was greatly honoured. The work was acclaimed for the discovery of new physics laws governing optimum biological growth and development through space-time. The Research Institute's President, Professor Ruggero Santilli, in collaboration with the Centre's mathematician, made a most important observation. He observed that the accepted scientific world-view could not be used to generate such futuristic simulations. Instead it generated cancer-like biological distortions through space-time.

The Centre's Bio-Aesthetics Researcher, the late Dr George Robert Cockburn, Royal Fellow of Medicine (London), who had worked with the centre's mathematician, became concerned by the scientific community's refusal to challenge its obsolete understanding of the second law of thermodynamics. He published several books about creative consciousness based upon the ancient Greek fractal logic life-science. His correction to Emmanuel Kant's Aesthetics was later found to be validated by the 19th Century's mathematician Bernard Bolzano's Theory of Science. Bolzano's own correction to Emmanuel Kant's ethics had been assessed by Edmund Husserl in his Logical Investigations- vol. I - Prolegomena to a pure logic 61 (Appendix) (1900), as being the work of one of the greatest logicians of all time.

We know that Bolzano corrected the ethical logic of Immanuel Kant by using aspects of fractal logic, as the famous Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem of 1817 is now synonymous with the pioneering of modern fractal logic. The Aesthetics associated with Emmanuel Kant belonging to the destructive entropic world-view are hailed as being of global importance during the 21st Century, when, in fact, they are known to be obsolete. J Alberto Coffa's book The semantic tradition from Kant to Carnap: to the Vienna station, edited by Linda Wessels - Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1991 contains the statement "Kant had not even seen these problems; Bolzano solved them. And his solutions were made possible by, and were the source of, a new approach to the content and character of a priori knowledge." The famous Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem was based upon fractal logic concepts.

In the book The Beauty of Fractals- Images of Complex Dynamical Systems is a chapter entitled Freedom, Science and Aesthetics by Professor Gert Eilenberger, who also corrected an aspect of Kantian Aesthetics in order to upgrade quantum mechanics into quantum biology. Professor Eilenberger wrote about the excitement surrounding pictures of fractal computer art, as demonstrating that "out of research an inner connection, a bridge, can be made between rational scientific insight and emotional aesthetic appeal; these two modes of cognition of the human species are now beginning to concur in their estimation of what constitutes nature".

The Science-Art Centre had discovered that by using special 3-D optical glasses, holographic images emerge from within fractal computer generated artwork. The excitement within the art-work itself extends to the realisation that, over the centuries, certain paintings reveal the same phenomenon, created unconsciously by the artist, indicating the existence of an aspect of evolving creative consciousness associated with Plato's spiritual optical engineering principles now linked to the new Fullerene life-science chemistry.

The electromagnetic evolutionary information properties generated into existence by the liquid crystal optical functioning of the fertilised ovum are transmitted to the first bone created within the human embryo. From the Humanoid fossil record, each time that bone changes its Golden Mean patterning design, a new humanoid species emerges. It is currently altering its shape under the influence of the same physics forces responsible for seashell evolution, as was discovered by the Science-Art Research Centre of Australia during the 1980s. The sphenoid bone is in vibrational contact with the seashell design of the human cochlea.The design of Nipponites Mirabilis was to keep its owner upright in water, the cochlea design is to enable humans to balance so as to keep them upright on land.

The cerebral electromagnetic functioning of creative human consciousness as a Grand Music of the Spheres Composition has been adequately charted by Texas University's Dr Richard Merrick in his book Interference. The Fullerene life-science of the three 1996 Nobel Laureates in Chemistry has found expression within the medical company, C Sixty Inc. The Science-Art Research Centre in Australia considers that Buckminster Fuller's crucial Social Cradle within the Arts, under the auspices of the Florentine New Renassaince Project might be able to bring to the public an understanding for the global betterment of the human condition.

China's most eminent physicist, Hun Huang's research program can now be upgraded to generate healthy sustainable futuristic human simulations through millions of space-time years, and from those human survival blueprints the technologies needed for overpopulated earth to ethically utilise the universal holographic environment are becoming obvious. The 20th Century adage that ethics is how one uses science is as barbaric as Plato's Spiritual engineering classified it. Ethical consciousness has quantum biological properties beyond Einstein's world-view as has been proven by medical research conducted under the auspices of the Florentine New Measurement of Humanity Renaissance.

Dr Candace Pert's Molecule of Emotion, discovered in 1972, referred to in the films What the Bleep, do we know? and Down the Rabbit Hole, has been experimentally extended into further realms of holographic life-science reality. Dr Pert's Molecule of Emotion is the same in humans as in a primitive cell, but has evolved by increasing the speed of its molecular movement. Associated with this emotional evolution is the functioning of endocrine fluids necessary to maintain cellular health. The Florentine life-energy research has established that endocrine fluids evolve within the earth's holographic electromagnetic environment, affecting health in a manner beyond the understanding of an unbalanced 20th Century world-view.

On the 24th of September 2010, on behalf of the President of the Italian Republic, Dr. Giovanna Ferri, awarded the "Giorgio Napolitano Medal" to Professor Massimo Pregnolato, who shared it with Prof. Paolo Manzelli for research conducted in Quantumbionet/Egocreanet by their Florentine New `Renaissance Project.

This essay has explained the primary obstacle that has prevented Sir Isaac Newton's 'more profound natural philosophy to balance the mechanical description of the universe' from being brought about. The knowledge of how to correct this situation has become central to the objectives of the Florentine New Measurement of Humanity Renaissance of the 21st Century. This essay is the Birth Registration Certificate of the New Renaissance.

Copyright Robert Pope 2010.