Doug goes under the needle - part 1

Doug getting the juice, next to me is the controller regulating it

It would seem that after a while, no matter how active you are, common sense would finely prevail and you would run out of stupid ways of injuring your self.  While in fact, as our bodies and minds age, common sense becomes less common and...

Case in point a few weeks ago I'm doing my morning run at 9-23 park and it's just too hot. I start walking and thinking of other ways to get my exercise and decide to try out one of those exercise stations in the park. The one I picked is this thing where you place each foot on a holder than you make a swinging step with your legs, one out, one back, like an exaggerated running motion.  I had always laughed to my self as I saw Vietnamese just swinging back an forth so I was going to show them and I hit it and hit it hard, pumping one foot out and one back as fast as I could.  Ah ha, yes correcto emondo just described the  how and what of my most recent injury.  When I felt the pain instead of getting off and chilling I got back into my run ignoring the pain and continued my work out and continued like that for a couple more days.  Common sense, who needs it because when the pain got too great it told me I should start alternating running and walking and ultimately that my running had to go but continued to walk several miles every day that is, again no common sense involved, the pain just became overwhelming.  That was about a month ago and now after visits to two doctors who just shook there heads at my story and told me to rest and blamed in on arthritics of the knee and hip. Still not back to the running or heavy duty walking but not sitting back as I've stepped up to traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture.

My doctor here in Saigon is Monika - Bmed Traditional Chinese Medicine Intern & Acupuncture at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine  dr.monikakleemola@gmail.com

Always here for you

Not my better side but you can see the inserted needles and the 
wires that deliver the pulsating electrical charges from the consoler.

Looking at the time and money aspect, half hour motorbike ride each way, $5.00 the doctor cost is the $20.00/$20.00 equation - $20.00 for the original consultation, then $20.00 a treatment.  A treatment takes about 30 minutes, all toll about 45 minutes to an hour.

The good Doctor Bmed, Monika Thanh Tam Kleemola

Thailand to overtake Canada on list of top global auto producers

Can you say 84 million? In 2012 that's the total number of vehicles manufactured in the world. I wonder if Henry Ford and his group of production car building pals had any idea of the gargantuan size the car industry would evolve into. Along the same lines, not many would have pegged Thailand as becoming one the world’s car manufacturing hubs.

Thailand got into the auto manufacturing business in 1961 but it wasn't until recent years with the help of government supported vehicle rebates, manufacturing has surged. Most major auto manufactures now have facilities there as 60% of all vehicles manufactured in Thailand are sold within the country. Last year Thailand produced 2.4 million units compared to this year’s projected 2.8 million based on figures from the Thai Federation of Industries. Although the flood last year had a big impact on production so the increase in reality may not be as big as the figures reflect. Even so it's a respectable amount and big enough to take the number 9 slot Canada held. Though according to Carlos Gomez, Scotia Bank, Canada's production is forecasted to show an increase, 2.6 million units this year  over the 2.5 million units manufacured in 2012 though not big enought to squeeze out Thialand.

Though, we are still talking about a long distence from the big guys like China who is number one producing 19.2 million vehicles, number two is the USA, manufacturing 10.3 million units and another emerging world market force is Mexico with 3 million plus units rolling out the door.

 

From the beyond - here's the ticket!

It's Doug 

Sequester and up till know I thought it was the name of a race horse..  While I'm thinking race horse our government will cut 85 billion dollars in across the board spending cuts.   Already, due to this the King County Housing Authority in Seattle was forced to stop issuing housing vouchers to "elderly and disability households, vets and families with children"

Meanwhile, I came across this piece "Homeland Security: the trillion dollar concept no one can define" 
Thanks Max Waller  I pulled the link from him.

I'm a frequent flyer and every time I head to the airport and see the mass of personal with limited skills, a weight problem and even one in a wheel chair the hairs on the back of my neck start to lift up and by the time I'm berated for not taking my belt off, my trip is on a down hill slide.   Personally I can't see the purpose of most of Homeland Security, it's too much to late.  On 9/11 the terrorists got lucky and so why couldn't we just move on but no we bowed to them with the military actions in the mid east and the boondoggle of Homeland Security and so you could say they won and are running us on a short chain.

We are unable to care for the needy our infrastructure is imploding and we spend millions on drones for the Military and instead of investing in our cities police and public security we continue to pump money into that money pit called Homeland Security.

Still not sure about the Sequester thing but believe now is not the time for cuts in public spending, mostly effecting the core population of our country who needs all the help it can get.