Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Sharing Some Snapshots of my Personal Journey(1)

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(See letter to the editor in Medicine Weekly 12.7.2006)

I will share with you some snap shots of my personal journey.My failures should guide you to avoid my mistakes and hence perfom better .You are going also to find out that you may see the" Empire naked" but you can't say any thing and rather have to praise his nice dress (That will be your personal choice.I once decided to tell his highness that he was naked and I ended up be told that I was "naive and I should be "cute" and do it the "Irish way" AKA lie and praise His Highness,....... it is a long story will come to it).



  1. Non Sleepers Force (NSF= National Service For all).It is the group of Non-Eu doctors running the doctor on call service in Ireland.I had experience with three of such locum agencies the majority of thier staff are Non-Eu who provide all the care needed for sean and Mary 24/7 .I suggest somebody to look at the service provided by such great doctors ,providing the quick care and continuous care for patients.NB Even if the patient lands on an A&E who wil see them first?another question to answer.
  2. The Bell Curve and how it affects you:it is a book trying to explain the difference in performance between the The White Americans and Non white americans based on racial difference of intelligence .It says if you are black American your best is not good enough compared with a white mate? see review of the book here or you can read about Race and Intelligence here .Have aread and tell us what you think.
  3. The microcephalin and the ASPM genes: Prof Lahn had written some work & other papers about those genes he relates to the development and the size of the brain.thwe bad news is THAT THE AFRICANS AND SOME OTHER ASIANS lack those genes??
  4. The Jargon of belonging to the Irish (how to get naturalized=citizenized):See other posts in my blog.
  5. Review the Books mentioned in the Article: will follow

How "Natural " can a foreigner get? (1)

When a foreigner lands in Ireland and decides to stay ,he or she is supposed to go through a” Naturalization" process. I will look at this from a personal perspective in my future posts.

Naturalization: (From www.Answers.com)
The noun naturalization has 4 meanings:
1: the quality of being brought into conformity with nature
2: the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship
3: the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous
4: changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers’ phonology

Whereas Wikipedia has more interesting information here

• Denaturalization:
Philosopher Giorgio Agamben, who wrote Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power or Bare Life (1998), underlined the various denaturalization laws passed after World War I by most European countries:"It is important to note that starting with the period of World War I, many European states began to introduce laws which permitted their own citizens to be denaturalized and denationalized. The first was France, in 1915, with regard to naturalized citizens of "enemy" origins; in 1922 the example was followed by Belgium, which revoked the naturalization of citizens who had committed "anti-national" acts during the war; in 1926 the Fascist regime in Italy passed a similar law concerning citizens who had shown themselves to be "unworthy of Italian citizenship"; in 1933 it was Austria's turn, and so forth, until in 1935 the Nuremberg Laws divided German citizens into full citizens and citizens without political rights. These laws - and the mass statelessness that resulted - mark a decisive turning point in the life of the modern nation-state and its definitive emancipation from the naive notions of "people" and "citizen."

Citizenize : (I is an interesting verb it looks like it has been replaced by naturalize although it is more accurate.See coming post)

v.b;To make a citizen; to admit to the rights and privileges of a citizen.
citizenize was used and explained by Senator Young, of Illinois, in the Senate on February 1, 1841, and he gave Noah Webster as authority for it

• Decetizenize:
We have no law -- as the French have -- to decitizenize a citizen. --Edw. Bates

Found in 4 dictionaries
1. Dictionary.com
2. Online Plain Text English Dictionary
3. Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
4. AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary