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Invite Dr. Weber & Sophia to tell their tale and to lead a painting session at your next event. / Curriculum Vitae / Read about their Journey / TEMPO Television Program / He Believes in Miracles! /And, visit a few inspiring internet muses before you leave.

Join the Creativity Class!

Photo by Frank Weis, Morning Call Newspaper

Photo by Cesar Laure, Allentown Times

-The Professor's Scientific Interests: Make a pledge to our Good Shepherd Team in the MS WALK® this year, and special thanks to team Danger! / The Professor's NASDAQ Story / FaceofMS.org / Healthy You Magazine - also in Spanish / What My Support Group Does for Me / Artispectrum Magazine - begins on page 6 ~ Wow! National & International Distribution / Ongoing Healing Power of Creativity Art Show News Help us keep the voyage going! / Multiple Sclerosis (MS), Degenerative Myelopathy (DM), Neuroscience, and some of the Professor's other NEUROSCIENTIFIC interests /Bring us to your next event. / Also, visit our Gallery Patron Saints & 911 Prayerbook

There is a theory in math called the Butterfly Effect. It suggests that a butterfly flapping it's wings in some far off place can cause a tornado or even a hurricane on the other side of the world. If a butterfly can flap it's wings and cause a hurricane thousands of miles away, what might we effect? Conservatively, more than we might otherwise predict. Help us find the CURE for MS today. After that, visit the complexity exihibit hosted by the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA and gain some complexity.

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Prediction is difficult, especially the future.
Niels Bohr

You believe in a God who plays dice,
and I in complete law and order.
Albert Einstein

Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?
Edward N. Lorenz / Title paper given to the Am. Assn. for the Advancement of Science

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that.
Isaac Asimov

Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking.
Jerome Lettvin / Dr. Weber's former outside advisor at MIT.

What's the model?
Edward Gruberg / Dr. Weber's former committee chair at Temple University.

Butterflies to Hurricanes! There are a wide range of physical symptoms that may come and go unpredictably over time with MS. The disease causes damage within the central nervous system along nerve pathways affecting movement, speech, vision, hearing, and bladder & bowel control. What is not commonly recognized is that the disease can also directly interfere with a person's ability to think clearly. Damage within the brain can create changes that affect problem-solving, attention, learning and memory. Dr. Weber believes that just as physical therapy can help people with MS maintain as much physical ability as possible, mental therapies that encourage problem-solving, attention, learning and memory skills may help people with MS maintain as much cognitive ability as possible. Strategies such as art & music therapies, and other positive challenging creative outlets may help maintain and improve partially impaired cognitive pathways within the brain, and may enhance an individual's self-worth and natural coping skills against depression and perhaps fatigue. As the butterfly model suggests, small changes in lifestyle, can have enormous outcomes. Enjoy your visit.

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Strategic Warfare against MS
(pictured above)

As of June 7, 2006, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Lone Star Chapter's BP MS 150 Bike Tour raised a record breaking $10.7 million making it the most successful MS 150 Bike Tour in Society history and setting the new national record!

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.................watch Dr. Weber & Sophia on TV,
....on the FaceofMS.org, and on the
...NASDAQ building, Time Square, NYC
March 12, 2006. Don't miss them!.

Voyage of Discovery
Ending in Manhattan, NY, NY, U.S.A.
with Dr. Weber & Sophia's Solo Exhibition

Solo Debut held in Manhattan to Raise Public Awareness about Primary Progressive & Progressive Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis. Sixty percent of the artist's proceeds will be donated to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Forty percent will go to Dr. Weber's own scholarly research into Multiple Sclerosis, future art shows and paintings.

Mercedes-Benz Manhattan, Inc.
536 West 41st Street
New York, NY 10036-6298
http://www.mercedesmanhattan.com

Every voice matters...
Every story counts...

In March, Dr. Weber and his family traveled from Allentown, Pennsylvania to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in New York City to be interviewed for the "FaceofMS.org" website. The site, created in honor of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's 60th anniversary, includes video clips and interviews with 60 people whose lives have been impacted by MS - whether directly by the disease, or indirectly in their roles as caregivers, researchers, friends and relatives. The site went "live" on March 12th. On that day, images from the site - including Dr. Weber's - were projected onto the walls of the NASDAQbuilding on Time Square in New York City. His image also appears as part of a national series of billboards, taxi media, bus shelter cards and mall displays all aimed at bringing national awareness to the MS Society's FaceofMS.org Campaign (sample 1& sample 2, sample 3).If you know someone whose life has been touched by MS in some way, please tell them about the website and have them add their story!

Hear Narration / Written by Frederick Jerant

Contacting the White House: Mailing Address

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

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Above photo of Good Shepherd's MS Walk Team by Anita Weber, Rose Garden Pavilion: Allentown, PA, Sunday / May 1, 2005--

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Dr. Weber cannot walk and must use a wheelchair. Even so, he works at maintaining his health in several important ways, and his disease process (PRMS - which is normally not stable) has been stable for the past three years (MRI's confirm). He is on no prescription medications, but has been using two over the counter food supplements (DHEA during the day since 1998 & Melatonin before bed recently). Dr. Weber also attends an excellent MS Wellness Program at Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital (including Physical Therapy & Swimming) several times a week. He attemps to lead a physically, emotionally and spiritually positive life, nurturing healthy, active relationships, traveling with his helper dog "Sophia," attending daily religious services (Mass), leading a rosary prayer group each morning, and singing in the contemporary choir at Saint Catharine of Siena Cathedral Church. Professionally, Dr. Weber conducts his own scholarly research into multiple sclerosis (MS), and is a visual artist who enjoys computer graphic work and non-representational painting with Sophia (his helper dog) as part of his ongoing therapies.

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