Some of you may not know this, but I am a huge gamer. In particular, my favorite game of all time is Guild Wars, a computer game which came out in 2005. While it has been a long 7 years, there is finally a Guild Wars 2 coming out at the end of August in 2012. It may already be out by the time you are reading this.

Needless to say, I am pretty excited and between my work and family, I already do not have a lot of free time. Due to this, I plan on throwing in the towel on New Mexico Politico for awhile since most of my free time outside of my responsibilities is going to be dedicated to the release of Guild Wars 2.

I already have done a lot of preparation for the game. I read an article on the best computer for Guild Wars 2 and picked up a new computer that can easily run the game. I know a lot of people are using PCs that are several years old so it was finally time for me to get a powerful gaming rig that could handle Guild Wars 2 with ease.

My new baby.

The big thing about Guild Wars 2 is that since most of the player vs player action features 50+ players at once all fighting the same targets, you need a fast computer and internet connection to be able to handle all the action. This new computer will really come in handy for such battles. You need at least 1024mb video card; my 512 mb card on my old computer could barely run the game and it had to use the worst possible settings.

In addition to a new computer, I have been researching the best strategies and tactics for the game. I think I am going to play a Charr engineer. I really like that they are a decent ranged class plus I like the starting city and area of the Charr the best. The human area is just too crowded and as a result it is hard to complete your quests with the millions of other players crawling all over the zone!

If you have been following New Mexico politics lately, you know that there is a strong divide between the Republican and Democratic parties. Not much gets done in the capitol because too many people are fighting over their scraps and pet projects.

This might seem a little irrelevant, but stick with me here. I picked up a bread maker recently after visiting a site on bread maker reviews. I have to say, it makes the best bread. The whole family comes over and sits down to a wonderful dinner with fresh baked bread. Whenever we do this and people bite into that warm, fluffy bread, all of our problems seem to go away.

It’s hard to be angry when you are well-fed. People who have bread just do not want to argue as much and are more likely to agree on a lot of topics. This is why lobbying politicians with dinners and lunches was always so effective.

I think the solution here is that they should put a few bread machines in the capitol. Before each session, they should have some fresh baked bread ready for the politicians to share before they deliberate on any major issue. This will cause the politicians to be more amenable and more relaxed, to let their paranoia subside and will let people cross party lines.

The best types of bread for this I think would be raisin bread. Raisin bread is a great breakfast bread and since sessions start in the morning, this would be the right type of bread for the occasion.

This is how I feel inside.

If there is one thing that irritates me, it is the politics of New Mexico. My biggest problem is not the political affiliation of people in our great state, but rather the attitude they take towards politics.

The fact of the matter is that we are rapidly become one of the most important swing states in the country, especially in the presidential elections, yet political interest in the state (as well as in the rest of the country) seems to be at an all-time low. This sad fact gives me heartburn; fortunately I have found some good home heartburn remedies to help deal with this. I need them, and fortunately they worked great. The idea is that you can use various home remedies which produce saliva, making them effective at dealing with heartburn

At first, I thought I was dealing with a stomach ulcer but my doctor told me these were not stomach ulcer symptoms but rather heartburn. There was some simple evidence for this really. First off, whenever I tried out using heartburn remedies, my symptoms always went away. This was a big indicator for me as these heartburn remedies should have no effect on ulcers. They tend to have a big effect on heartburn though because saliva improves digestion. Here is a video below that explains how heartburn and digestion are related:

Additionally, whenever I thought about the political state in New Mexico I started to get heartburn symptoms. This stress irritated me and resulted in heartburn.

The real point here is the people of New Mexico and everyone in our great democracy needs to participate if we are going to have a fully functioning government. Democracy hinges on voter and citizen participation. If we do not participate in our government, we have no one to blame but ourselves when things go wrong.

Related to H pylori or not? The answer is not as easy as we once thought.

For those of you who do not know, I am a medical researcher by trade and love reading a good research paper. Recently, I discovered a paper on something known as “The African Enigma”. This article basically turns the world of H. pylori research on its head.

If you are not familiar with what I am talking about, H pylori has become a very popularly topic in the research world of late, and is thought to be the primary cause of stomach ulcer symptoms. In fact, the researchers to who brought this conclusion to the limelight were recently awarded the Nobel Prize. Current medical treatment now focuses on combating H pylori infections when we are presented with a case on stomach ulcers.

The paper reported that nearly everyone on the continent of Africa is infected with H pylori – the infection rates are anywhere from 50-90% depending on the location. Compare that to the United States, which boasts infection rates of about 20%. Most modernized countries have similar rates of infections.

You may be thinking, no big deal, Africa has higher infection rates for a lot of diseases. Not necessarily in all cases, and here is where the paper gets really interesting: peptic ulcer rates in Africa are no higher than in modernized countries such as the UK, and in some cases ulcer rates are even lower in Africa.

If you are not following the logic here, let me break it down for you:

• In the USA and UK we treat ulcers by trying to combat infections of H pylori. These treatment cycles This seems to be effective, but both infections and ulcers have a high recurrence rate.
• In Africa, nearly everyone has H pylori, but ulcers are quite rare there. This benefits does not seem to extend to native Africans living abroad.
• Stomach ulcer symptoms and stomach discomfort are similar in Africa as in other countries, despite the much higher incidence rate of H pylori in Africa.

This leaves us with a stick situation! On one hand, here in New Mexico, we often treat H pylori just to get rid of chronic stomach aches, whereas in Africa stomach aches are just as common as they are here, despite nearly everyone having H pylori!

The bottom line is we might indeed be chasing down the wrong bacteria. Even more interesting is the possibility that H pylori is beneficial in some populations rather than harmful; H pylori infections reduce the risk rate for GERD and heartburn.

Only through more research will we be able to get a clearer picture of the H pylori conundrum.

The beautiful New Mexico Countryside

Sometimes New Mexico’s politicians ramble on and on so much that it can cause ringing in the ears, also known as tinnitus. While there is nothing you can do to stop the corruption in New Mexico other than vote the individuals responsible out of office, there is a viable tinnitus cure that you can use to help quiet down the ringing you may experience.

The first thing you will want to do is make sure you find a viable candidate to replace these individuals that you dislike in the first place. One whose speeches, thoughts, and positions, ring true and resonate with your own. Someone you can get behind and believe in. You then need to support them as much as you can and tell all of your neighbors about this politician and his ability to cure politically-induced tinnitus.

Next, you need to get out and vote for this politician. Likely, this politician will not win for office unless it as at the local level, at least initially. You need to converse with your fellow citizens and get the word out for the next election cycle. It takes time to build momentum and get the establishment out of the government and to beat the local machine. What I mean by this is that you cannot complain to the guy that just won the election that you did not want him to do something that he did, because he knows you will vote for him anyway. Complaining is not enough; you have to put someone else into office if you want real change.