User:Timothy Beck of Torrance

Hello,    (Please contact me by e-mail for immediate response at healtheharbor@gmail.com)

Let me first thank my reviewers here as I am ignorant in my ability to contact them directly as yet for not letting me add notability to people who may not be notable.

I, as a journalist major upon entering college, news reporter and awarded editorial writer/editor for the North Wind high school newspaper and a Torrance Library Commissioner, would like to become a Wikipedian specializing in adding notable scientists, researchers and artists to Wikipedia'

It is my hope that once I am able to open a Wikipedia article on an artist, professor or organization founder that the students of the artists, professor or members of the organization will be able more fully to fill in the Notable's notable information?

For an artist I love and others love, say Chris Consani, the famous Hollywood Notables (James Dean, Marilyn and Elvis) artist is not listed currently in Wikipedia, but I think should be.

If anyone wants to help me put Chris Consani on Wikipedia, then e-mail me at healtheharbor@gmail.com

Thank you all for being patient with me as I am trying to learn the Wikipedia system. I am a former Torrance Library Commissioner and my Torrance Library card # is 2 2111 00743 4151 if you need a number to access the Torrance Library to read Daily Breeze references. Let me thank those who I do not know for making the world and Wikipedia more complete and more perfect. After a career in machine kidney preservation and medical research that ended suddenly in 1983, I became a high school and middle school math and science teacher for 7 public school districts and the private Mirman School for the Gifted. Tim started Research and Technical Services Company (RTSC) in 1974 for medical research and incorporated Heal the Harbor as a CA non profit in 1998.

I graduated from UCLA with a degree in botany and was admitted to graduate school in 1970. I started work in the laboratory of Professor George Laties and started work on what would would later become U.S. Patent 4,117.202 awarded 1978 for a Solar Powered Biological Fuel Cell Device using a suspension of mesophyll cells isolated from a C4 plant. Improvements so that it worked as a battery after dark were incorporated in a Canadian Patent.

In November of 1970 I was hired as an organ preservation technician to be taught vascular surgery to help surgeons remove cadaver kidneys for transplantation (an M.D. license is not needed to work on dead people) for the Greater Los Angeles Mobil kidney Preservation Unit (MKPU). I became supervisor in 1975 when Thomas English went to New York City to set up the kidney preservation unit at the New York Blood Bank. I had access to all transplant medical records for a retrospective common donor study comparing machine preservation results with Collins Solution and ice preservation given at the VII International Congress of the Transplantation Society in Rome, Italy in September 3-8, 1978 and published, "Machine versus Cold Storage and TAN versus the Energy Charge as a Predictor of Graft Function Post Transplantation" by T.A. Beck Proceedings of the Transplantation Society Vol. 11 pages 459-65, Rome, Italy 1979 which found a "safe metabolic limit" at 25 hour units of decay (HUD) on ice.

Note: NO warm ischemia time can be accomplished with an in-situ perfusion of ice cold Collins solution with heparin added via the aorta, cooling and blanching the kidneys in seconds and eliminating the one minute of warm ischemia time estimate given kidneys that were clapped off and cut free at the renal artery/aorta junction. Based on the temperature sensitive decay of the free ATP, ADP and AMP pool in renal cortex tissue, Dr Collins and I found at the V.A. Hospital research lab in La Jolla in January 1976 that l minute of warm ischemia equals 85 minutes (1.415 HUD) of ice preservation based on TAN (total adenine nucleotides) decay rates at these two temperatures i.e 37 degrees C. and near 0 degree C.

In 1979 I went to work for Dr. Robert Mendez, M.D. at the St, Vincent Hospital based Southern California Organ Preservation Center (SCOPC) running Waters Instruments and Belzer preservation machines and keeping records. I had access to all transplantation records and wrote a paper signed by al SCOPC doctors and staff submitted to the New England Journal of Medicine in 1982 that found a significant (p=.05) "Optimum Metabolic Limit" at 20 hours of metabolic decay, but was not published.

Deceased donor kidneys that were preserved in ice for 20 hours or less with no warm ischemia and had 85 minutes of ice time added for every one minute of warm ischemia listed on the kidney information or packing sheet that accompanies the kidney packed in ice had the best results. For the twenty kidney transplant recipients who received grafts which had under 20 hour units of projected metabolic decay metabolic at the time blood returned to the kidney had no deaths, on average 3 fewer days of post transplantation hospitalization and significantly better one month kidney function ratings based on urine output, BUN and creatine levels and dialysis records and one year graft survival rates than the group of 47 patients who received a kidney with over 20 HUD units of projected metabolic decay at the time the vascular claps were removed and the kidney once again filled with blood.

I am interested to find any published papers verifying or rejecting using projected metabolic decay of the ATP + ADP + AMP = Total Adenine nucleotides (TAN) over the last 40 years as a predictor of graft function post transplantation and graft and recipient survival rate at one year.

NASA, the space program and cancer researchers should consider research and rat testing a protocol of removing the blood and cooling a body for 20 hours and bringing the body back to physiological temperatures for a few minutes every 20 hours for metabolic and structural repairs. If this research is successful, by the criteria of remembering how to run the maze, then this may allow for long space trips using minimal amounts of of food and oxygen.

I am also in search of written newspaper or journal articles for references to improve Fire extinguisher article in future as seen on YouTube, "Earth Guard Technologies" running time 8:08 and Google:"Could a Freeze Gun Put Flames on Ice" by Xantos Peabody in the L.A. Times local section B3 9/3/2002 and "Zapping Oil Spills (and fire) with Dry Ice and Ingenuity" by Gordon Dillow L.A. South Bay Times section B1 2/24/1994 (added)

Timothy Beck of Torrance (talk) 06:16, 26 May 2016 (UTC) Timothy Beck of Torrance (talk) 08:58, 28 May 2016 (UTC)