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 Below from Downsizer.====================================== The American people have rejected the REAL ID Act, and the national ID card it would create. The politicians claim they can fix REAL ID by replacing it with something called the PASS ID, to be enacted by the PASS Act, S. 1261. The PASS Act is a fraud. PASS ID is REAL ID by another name. Jim Harper at the Cato Institute has done a fabulous job of dissecting all the frauds involved in the PASS Act. If you care about the details then we highly recommend that you read his short analysis. We're going to focus on just one detail here. One fear about REAL ID is that you would need it to have a job, or do anything really. But what if you were denied a REAL ID because of mistaken information or some bureaucratic blunder? Think, for instance, of all the non-terrorists who have ended up on the terrorist watch list. In that case... You would become a non-person. To address this concern the PASS Act would enable you to access and change your own personal information. Sounds good, right, but think again... What you can access to change, others can access to steal. In fact, a terrorist could probably do it, and maybe even get a PASS ID with which to commit a terrorist act using your identity. In other words, a REAL ID, or a PASS ID, which we supposedly need in order to protect us from terrorism, could actually become a tool for terrorists. This is what happens when politicians and bureaucrats try to devise vast, complex, top-down schemes to protect us from every conceivable danger and problem. Such ambitions are utopian and ultimately harmful. ( Read more... )
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Below from Alternative Medicine Forum. Pansalt is only available in Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Shan's recipe below for making a similar product at home is for those outside Australia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
I have been taking a mixture of Sodium and Potassium Chlorides since May of last year. No high blood pressure even though I take about half a teaspoon of the salt mixture, twice a day. Article below fits in to what I have discovered.
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Shan' Note: At the bottom of this, I have put a 'recipe' that you use to make this at home. It does not have any anticaking agents in it, but you can ask for that at a health food store or unless you have a very high humidity where you live, leave it out altogether. You can also ask your local compounding pharmacy if they will mix this together. This is a tasty & effective alternative to plain seasalt, as well as a healthy alternative.
HOMEMADE RECIPE ( Read more... )
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Pansalt Lowers High Blood Pressure and Improves the Theraupetic Effects of Antihypertensive Drugs
Professor Heikki Karppanen
President, Finnish, Hypertension Society
Common salt (NaCl 98 - 100%) is a major cause of high blood pressure (arterial hypertension) and its complications, such as strokes, heart attacks and kidney damages.
Pansalt (NaCl 56%, KCI 28%, MgSO4.7H2O 12%, I-lysine-HCI 2%, anticaking agents 2%) is a recent innovation which is believed to produce a number of beneficial health effects when used instead of common salt. ( Read more... )
Effects on Blood Pressure
Pansalt, instead of common salt in the diet, effectively lowers both in spontaneously hypertensive rats and stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats, two widely used models of human hypertension. A good antihypertensive effect of Family Choice Pansalt in man has also been reported. Pansalt also produced a pronounced improvement of the blood pressure lowering effect of enalapril (Renitec/Vasotec) and other widely used antihypertensive drugs. (Figure 1).
Effects on Life Span
Pansalt prolonged the lifespan of spontaneously hypertensive rats more than three-fold and almost to the same extent as withdrawal from all salt from the diet.
Importance of Potassium, Magnesium, and I-Lysine in Family Choice Pansalt
A number of studies show conclusively that the increased intakes of potassium, magnesium and I-lysine from Pansalt have a very important role in all the beneficial effects.
Absence of Adverse Effects
No signs of hyperkalaemia, hypermagnesaemia, or any other harmful effects have been observed during the use of Pansalt. ( Read more... ) Current Music: Orb - Occidental (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid-tempo electronica
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Whenever the take of Romulus and Remus were talked about in school by teachers, they always made it clear that this was mythology, not fact. The teachers could not wrap their little minds around inter-species adoption. But I knew they were wrong.
Back when I was a young teen, I befriended a stray do, who quickly became a member of our family. My mother had the Vet spay her as we did not want litters of pups. Whet we did not realize is that our dog was pregnant. When her womb was removed, her body began to fill her breasts with milk. My friend Mike had a cat with kittens. The kittens were not quite weaned when I brought a kitten home.Kitten zoomed to dog tit. The cat and dog bonded. As an adult, the cat never failed to protect our dog from more aggressive larger dogs.
I stumbled upon a whole slew of animal videos on youtube dealing with inter-species adoptions and friendships.
Snake befriends its hamster lunch in zoo
Snakes usually have hamsters for lunch. But when rat snake Ao-chan and dwarf hamster Gohan-chan met at a Japanese zoo, it was love
Monkey adopts kitten - SO CUTE
A unique story in northern India involving a monkey and a cat shows species is no barrier to bonding.
Pig Nurses Tiger Cubs
Visitors at a zoo in Thailand witness the bizarre sights of tiger cubs suckling a sow and piglets playing with a fully grown tiger. Sriracha Zoo
Cat Adopts Rabbit
Would the men please look away now - it's a video about a cat adopting a teeny-weeny baby rabbit. Awwwww.
Dog adopts two albino tiger cubs
A dog named Lili has saved the lives of two newborn Bengal tigers in Brazil who were rejected by their mother after they were born albino.
Dog Lives With Leopard. And Piglet.
An unusual tale of a dog, a leopard cub, and a piglet - who all live together.
Cat Adopts Baby Squirrels
Take some orphaned squirrels, add a motherly cat, and you've got one unusual family.
Cat Adopts Baby Red Panda
strangecat Adopts Baby Red pandacat Adopts Baby Red pandathe Associated pressa zookeeper's house cat has adopted a baby red panda abandoned by its ...
Chimp Adopts Tiger Cubs
"CBS News RAW:" A chimp at Jungle Island in Miami, Fla. has grown fond of two white tiger cubs. The trio sleep, play and eat together.
Male Dog Adopts Kittens
A local woman cares for kittens after their mother is killed. She gets a big suprise from her dog when she brings the kittens into her home.
Lion cub makes unlikely friend in cat
3-month-old lion cub Safina is enjoying some domestic comforts before she settles into her permanent residence at Linton Zoo.
Cat Adopts Puppy
Just to prove that cats and dogs can be friends, a cat in England has adopted a puppy!
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=itn+news+quirky+tiger+piglets+animals+wildlife+wild+pig+pigs+piglet&search=related&v=xqkzJoRua5U&page=1
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Even though I figured it would not rain tonight, I took the night off to recolor my hair, eat a leisurely dinner at home, and play with my new computer system. Monday and Tuesday were definitely rain days, but 3 day vacations are nice, now that we are into the summer slow season.
Speaking of rain, Summer storms have high winds & lots of rain. I need my windows open with fans on to keep me from passing out from the heat. But when a big storm comes knocking at my door, I get wind and rain sprinkles spewing in the window. My laptop and external monitor got sprinkled and misted earlier today. After leaping out of bed, closing a window, and moving the fan, I dried off my electronics. So I came up with the idea of crafting raincoats for the laptop and external monitor.
I located my staple gun and roll of clear plastic, so tonight before bed, I shall make some sprinkle protection for my expensive equipment.
 With only 7 posts between my hard drive failure in March until I got my new system on June 30, my number of hits from people reading my LJ has been very minimal. Today, I got 938 hits. Glad to see I still have a readership.
Over the years, I have noticed racial and cultural differences in how people relate to my hair. When my hair is freshly colored & bright dark purple, I get lots of positive comments from white college age & counter-cultural teens.
When my hair fades to a pastel Rose color, I get lots of positive comments from white women my age, as well as black females of all ages, from early teens to old ladies.
So, when there is a big Black festival or event in town (like Essence Fest over 4th of July weekend), I do not recolor my hair before the event. But for big events which are not predominantly Black, I color my hair before the event.
I need to take some new pics of me. The userpic with bight purple hair was taken in August of 2004. I have aged over the past 5 years.
Current Music: Markus Guenther - Pilot (Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Ambient and mid-tempo elec
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I am the de facto list owner of CaveManFood on yahoo groups. The past few days, when I post to the list, I get an off-list reply from someone whose e-mail is not in English. [deai at nozze.com].
So I went to the member list of the group. No such member. I searched for members from nozze.com.
Jayati-nahrewop at NOZZE.COM is the only list member at nozze.com. And has never posted to the list.
So I wrote back to deai, saying "English is the only language I know, so I can't read your emails."
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I have had this problem for many years. Now (thanks to Windows Vista and the new Internet Explorer) I have a nice easy solution.
It has to do with my Westell DSL Router used to connect my computer with Bellsouth DSL. If I shut the power off, when I restart (especially if it has been raining outside my window, or north of Lake Pontchartrain), I can't connect with the internet.
As it rains a lot down here, this is a frustrating problem. I found that pulling the power cord on the router, waiting 30 seconds, then plugging it back in will sometimes undo the problem. But often I have to repeat this procedure a dozen times for it to work.
Generally I do not use Windows Internet Explorer. I much prefer Firefox. But yesterday I stumbled onto something.
Windows help files, search engines, and control panel are of no use whatsoever. But if I open up IE, I not only get the "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" message, but when I press the button to diagnose the problem, I am given a button to reset the network adapter. When I press the button, the problem gets resolved. Works like a charm! I am impressed!
See pics below cut. ( Read more... )
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I nipped the text below from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nebris .
I never used to supplement with vitamin D, other than what I got from sunlight and milk (which had D2, which is vastly inferior to D3). used to get deeply depressed in winter. I contemplated suicide a lot. Big mood swings (which were made worse by my sugar addiction).
Depression lessened when I moved South and began working outside in winter. But I was still moody and glum.
After being diagnosed with diabetes, I began to take many many supplements. Carlson' cod liver oil became a staple. I read that the RDA was far too low for health. So I took a tablespoon of cod liver oil each day, rather than the recommended teaspoon.
In my research I saw links between mental problems, arthritis, and vitamin D deficiency.
I stumbled on a synthetic D3 made from sheep lanolin. Made in Canada. Marketed under the Carlson label. This winter, I began taking 2,000 I a day, gradually upping my dose over several months. My moods were excellent. Better than they have been in decades. I discovered this Spring that I am no longer prone to burn when I get sun exposure. I used to get very painful sunburn with even half an hour of Spring sun exposure here in New Orleans unless I used massive amounts of sunscreen.
As Spring turned into Summer, I no longer could handle working outside by day. So I upped my D3 intake. I now take half a tablespoon of Carlson's cod liver oil, along with a tablespoon of Carlson's fish oil (for omega 3 oils) every morning. I also take 6,000 - 8,000 I of D3 from Ddrops, twice a day. I have never felt more fucking copacetic in my life.
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Vitamin D and Mental Health
Therese Borchard Author of the blog, Beyond Blue, on Beliefnet.com
( Read more... ) I've been wondering how vitamin D and mental illness are related, so I did a search and found that vitamin D does, indeed, play a role in mental illness based on these reasons from the Vitamin D Council's website: 1. Epidemiological evidence shows an association between reduced sun exposure and mental illness.
2. Mental illness is associated with low 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] levels.
3. Mental illness shows a significant comorbidity with illnesses thought to be associated with vitamin D deficiency.
4. Theoretical models (in vitro or animal evidence) exist to explain how vitamin D deficiency may play a causative role in mental illness.
5. Studies indicate vitamin D improves mental illness. Here's even more details, according to the Vitamin D Council: * Mental illness has increased as humans have migrated out of the sun.
* There is epidemiological evidence that associates vitamin D deficiency with mental illness. Two small reports studied the association of low 25(OH)D levels with mental illness and both were positive.
* Depression has significant co-morbidity with illnesses associated with hypovitaminosis D such as osteoporosis, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis.
* Vitamin D has a significant biochemistry in the brain. Nuclear receptors for vitamin D exist in the brain and vitamin D is involved in the biosynthesis of neurotrophic factors, synthesis of nitric oxide synthase, and increased glutathione levels -- all suggesting an important role for vitamin D in brain function. Rats born to severely vitamin D deficient dams have profound brain abnormalities.
Yikes.
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Originally published on Beyond Blue at Beliefnet.com. To read more of Therese, visit her blog, Beyond Blue at Beliefnet.com, or subscribe here. You may also find her at www.thereseborchard.com.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/therese-borchard/vitamin-d-and-mental-heal_b_211636.html
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I started using Alpha Lipoic Acid as a supplement for diabetics, back in ~2004. It helps prevent diabetic blindness and can help reverse diabetic neuropathy.
When I started using ALA, I was taking 2 capsules x 3 times a day. Within months I began to regain feeling in my fingers and feet. Being frugal, I cut back to 1 capsule x 3 times a day.
This Spring, I had surplus cash for the first time in years. So I did a little experiment. I upped my ALA dose to 2 caps x 3 times a day.
In less than 2 weeks I noticed my memory had begun to work differently. Bits of biographic memory have alway surfaced unbidden. But now, the memory fragments had more substance. Now, if I have a memory fragment about a particular event, I know not only the other people involved in the event, but where the event happened, and even some idea of when it happened.
I did some googleing while at the Bastille internet cafe. I have no links, but it seems that ALA enhances explicit memory (see below for definition).
I have always been a problem solver. I fiddle around to get a grasp of the problem, then I put the problem on the back burner to simmer. Then, days or weeks later, the solution pops into my conscious mind.
Now, however, the problem solving is much quicker. Not instantly by any means, but an hour instead of a day, or a day instead of a week.
Memory begins to fail as humans age. futurologist Alvin Toffler wrote of Future Shock in 1970. When I was young, I noticed that old people did not adapt well to rapid societal and technological change, whereas I and my peers adapted easily
It seems to me that supplements which reverse age related brain sluggishness might be of interest to those who wish to keep their minds sharp over the decades.
Lots of snippets from webpages along with URLs below cut. ( Read more... )
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Below from Ward on C3 list. This movie should be shown to all highhscool students to get them to think about whether they should enlist or not.
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If you want to end the silence about the occupations,
The series you've been waiting for is here! This is Where We Take Our Stand starts this week.
Click here to watch the trailer, and on Saturday, July 11, watch Episode One:
For Those Who Would Judge Me.
Join the network and spread the word!
ADD US ON...
TWITTER
FACEBOOK
"SHARE" US...
WWW.THISISWHEREWETAKEOURSTAND.COM Where’s the debate? Are we watching passively while Barack Obama carries out the same policies as George W. Bush? When an American bombing raid this May killed over two hundred civilians in a village in Afghanistan, it was met with a deafening silence. When Obama’s promised “withdrawal” from Iraq leaves 130,000 troops there for at least two more years and 50,000 permanently, it’s hailed as an end to the occupation. And who is demanding to know just what the mission really is when 30,000 more troops are sent to Afghanistan? Where’s the debate? In March of 2008, two hundred and fifty veterans and active duty soldiers marked the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by gathering in Washington, DC, to testify from their own experience about the nature of the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. It was chilling, horrifying, and challenging for all who witnessed it. Against tremendous odds, they brought the voices of the veterans themselves into the debate. That was then. This is now. Today, we present to you This is Where We Take Our Stand, the inside story of those three days and the courageous men and women who testified. And we present this story today, told in six episodes, because we believe it is as relevant now as it was one year ago. Maybe more. Here is our challenge to you: Watch the series; spread it far and wide; and ask yourself is this about the past, or the present and future. Then add your voice. If you are a veteran or active duty, present your own testimony. If you are not, but you are still a living, breathing member of the human race, then do whatever you can to join and fan the flames of debate. - Displaced Films and Northern Light Productions
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More from GI Special.
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[Thanks to SSG N (ret’d) who sent this in. She writes: Good for them!] July 2, 2009 By Mike Elk, AlterNet [Excerpts] This week, workers at Hartmarx Factory [Moline, Illinois] won a major victory against Wells Fargo, as Wells Fargo agreed to keep their factory open. The story of the Hartmarx workers had drawn national attention as they threatened to occupy their factory if Wells Fargo closed it. Their victory yesterday represents a major triumph in the growing trend of factory sit ins that started last December when workers, members of United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers (UE) occupied the Republic Windows and Doors factory in Chicago Last January, Hartmarx, the maker of men's apparel and an employer of nearly 4,000 people, filed for bankruptcy after Wells Fargo refused to extend them a line of credit. Wells Fargo then pushed for the company to be liquidated in order to increase their short term profits. They favored liquidating the factory and laying off the 4,000 workers despite the fact that there were proposals by several groups to purchase the company and keep it running. The workers, members of SEIU, refused to accept the bank's ruling and decided to do something about it. The workers said they were inspired after having gone to see a speaking tour of members of who had occupied Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago. They then decided that perhaps they should consider threatening to occupy their plant in order to force the bank to keep it open. The workers then voted to sit-in to occupy that plant if Wells Fargo decided to liquidate it and drew national media attention to their story. As a result of the worker's resolve to fight the company, they received a large degree of political and community support. Over 43 members of Congress signed a letter calling on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to investigate Wells Fargo's use of bailout money. Congressman Phil Hare, a former worker at Harmarx, promised to be Wells Fargo's “worst nightmare” if they closed the plant. Finally, State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias brought Wells Fargo to their knees when he threatened to cut off $8 billion dollars worth of business that the state does with Wells Fargo if they closed the plant As a result of the union members' activism, community pressure and politicians' threat to take action against Wells Fargo, the union was able to force the bank to accept a bid from another company to keep the plant open.
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Below from GI Special.
===========================================“Military Health Officials Continue To Say There Are ‘No Known Long-Term Health Effects’ Caused By Open-Air Burn Pits In Iraq And Afghanistan” “A Team Of Army Doctors Says A Soldier’s Cystic Lung Disease Is ‘Related To The Burn Pits In Iraq’” “After He Came Home, His Lungs Shut Down, Leaving Him Unable To Breathe” July 6, 2009 By Kelly Kennedy, Army Times Even as military health officials continue to say there are “no known long-term health effects” caused by open-air burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, a team of Army doctors says a soldier’s cystic lung disease is “related to the burn pits in Iraq.” A second set of doctors, trying to determine why 56 soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division came back from Iraq short of breath, found each had bronchiolitis that could be diagnosed only with a biopsy. That disease normally comes with organ transplantation, infection, rheumatoid arthritis or toxic fume inhalation. Because there was no scarring on the soldiers’ lungs, doctors decided it must have been toxic inhalation and added a fifth cause of bronchiolitis to their list: “Iraq.”( Read more... )
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Below nipped from Grackle list. I have hated that bastard for over 40 years. I really wish that American war criminals were executed, or given life in prison like was done to the Nazi war criminals.
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McNamara: From the Tokyo Firestorm to the World Bank
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN Robert McNamara, who died yesterday, July 6, served as Kennedy’s , then as Johnson’s defense secretary. He contributed more than most to the slaughter of 3.4 million Vietnamese (his own estimate). He went on to run the World Bank, where he presided over the impoverishment, eviction from their lands and death of many millions more round the world. Just as George Kennan, one of the architects of the Cold War, helped bolt together the ramshackle scaffolding of bogus claims that provided the rationalization for Harry Truman’s great “arms scare” in 1948, launching the postwar arms race, McNamara tugged his forelock and said “Aye, aye, Sir” when Kennedy, campaigning against Nixon in the late 1950s attacked the Eisenhower/Nixon administration for having allowed a “missile gap” to develop that had now delivered America naked and helpless into the grip of the Soviet Union. This was the biggest lie in the history of threat inflation and remains so to this day. At the moment when Kennedy, McNamara at his elbow, was flaying the Eisenhower administration for the infamous “gap”, the U.S. government from its spy planes that the Soviet Union had precisely one missile silo with an untested missile in it. The Russians knew that the US knew this, because they were fully primed about about the U-2 spy-plane overflights, most dramatically when U-2 pilot Gary Powers crashed near Sverdlovsk and told all to his captors ( Read more... ) In his later years, McNamara never offered any reflection on the social system that produced and promoted him, a perfectly nice, well- spoken war criminal. As his inflation of his role in the foe- bombing of Japan showed, he could go so far as to falsely though complacently indict himself, while still shirking bigger, more terrifying and certainly more useful reflections on the system that blessed him and mercilessly killed millions upon millions under FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon. Like Speer, he got away with it, never having to hang his head or drop through a trap door with a rope around his neck, as he richly deserved.
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After Hurricane Katrina, the Red Cross supplied me with 2 bottles of Jiffy Spray cleaner. Nasty smelling stuff. Probably neither organic nor natural. But it does cut thru old grease.
I have been using this cleaner very sparingly because seems not eco-friendly. I am just about out. 2 pints in 4 years is rather frugal usage.
Before I lost my internet on my Vista laptop, I put "Jiffy Spray Cleaner" into google. Besides the usual product safety pages & internet stores, I discovered a whole hidden world in which jiffy spray cleaner leads one to strange porn links, mainly in (what I assume to be) Japanese. ( Read more... )
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Mucking around while waiting for my disks to arrive, I tried an experiment. I had not hooked up my Westell DSL modem from Bellsouth, because I did not have the drivers. Tonight, I hooked it up anyway. Surprise, surprise! Windows recognized the device, and I now have internet connection!
My wireless free internet still not working. That needs fixing. But, for now, I can read LJ f-list, post, read e-mail, and use google.
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Probably a simply remedied problem, but it is driving me nuts.
I do not want to start my 30 days of free phone support from Dell until I get my shipment of disks so I can do backups before I start messing around.
All was working fine, then I changed some setting, and now I get no internet. I have been logging on to free unsecured network connection (I can use over a half dozen choices from my apartment). Signal strength is excellent. According to task manager, I have internet connection but my local network is turned off. Windows warns of a conflict with the DNS of my network. Using automated problem fixer in windows yields nothing even remotely close to my problem.
Dell requires me to tell them my serial number. The number is on the bottom of the laptop, and is in type so tiny that it makes the fine print on a legal contract look positively huge. I could not have read that small type when I was 20, and my eyes are much less able to read small type now, than when I was young.
Ingenuity is one of my strongpoints. I put the laptop on top of the scanner & scanned at 600dpi. Problem getting a clear scan. Laptop case is not flat on bottom (to allow air circulation), so I got a blurry scan. I fucked around & rotated the laptop so the high ridges were off the scanner. It took me 4 tries, but I got a readable scan.
For now, my internet connection is by going to the Bastille Internet Cafe.
Week is forecast to be wet, so taking time off to fix my fuckup is easy to do write now. Weekend crowd was poor. I made $20 working 8 hours on Sunday. So today (cleanup day for the Essence Festival) would probably not be great even if I did work. Usually the day after a festival, there is good business from those who can afford to stay an extra day for sightseeing and shopping.
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Breaking News of the Week
Horizon Sells Out Organic Farmers With New "Natural" Milk
Dean Foods' WhiteWave division has announced it will release a new non-organic "natural" version of its popular Horizon dairy products. Horizon is the largest organic dairy brand in the marketplace, and many consumers will likely alternatively purchase the Horizon "natural (conventional) " brand at a premium and at a time when organic dairy farmers are already experiencing record losses.
Breaking the Organic Monopoly and the "Natural" Foods Myth
Whole Food Market and United Natural Foods, Inc.: Undermining Our Organic Future
After four decades of hard work, the organic community has built up a $25 billion "certified organic" food and farming sector. This consumer-driven movement, under steady attack by the biotech and Big Food lobby, with little or no help from government, has managed to create a healthy and sustainable alternative to America's disastrous, chemical and energy-intensive system of industrial agriculture.
However, the annual $50 billion natural food and products industry is threatening to undermine the organic movement by flooding the marketplace with conventional products greenwashed with "natural" labeling. "Natural," in the overwhelming majority of cases, translates to "conventional-with-a-green-veneer." Natural products are routinely produced using pesticides, chemical fertilizer, hormones, genetic engineering, and sewage sludge. "Natural","all-natural," and "sustainable," products in most cases are neither backed up by rules and regulations, nor a Third Party certifier. These are label claims that are neither policed nor monitored. For an evaluation of eco-labels see the Consumers Union Eco-Label website.
For example:
* Tests Show Widespread Presence of GMOs in So-Called "Natural" Foods * So-Called "Natural" (non-organic) soy milk, including leading brands such as "Silk," are made with conventional soy lecithin, utilizing the hazardous chemical, Hexane, as an extraction agent. * Dozens of "natural" and "made with organic" personal care and household cleaning products contain known carcinogens such as 1,4 Dioxane. Just about the only personal care products you can trust are those bearing the "USDA Organic" label. * 90% or more of the vitamins and supplements now on the market labeled as "Whole Foods," "natural" or "food based" are spiked with synthetic chemicals.
Despite the massive popularity and demand for certified organic products, retailers like Whole Foods Market, and wholesalers like United Natural Foods Inc., continue to push "natural" products at a premium price, while, in effect slowing down the growth of organics with their near market monopoly. In fact, the majority of products sold and distributed by Whole Foods Market and UNFI are not certified organic, but rather so-called "natural." Meanwhile, independent and cooperative grocers often offer more certified organic products at competitive prices.
Will you stand up for organics?
Contact Whole Foods Market and UNFI today and tell them that you will buy only certified organic products for you and your family.
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Some time ago, I began using Vitamin D3 in the form of Carlson's Ddrops as a sunscreen. People who are deficient in vitamin D burn more easily. As I mentioned previously, I have patches of skin with no pigment (partial albinism, like Michael Jackson). Those white patches never tanned. They burned, no matter how much sunscreen I used.
This Spring, I purposefully got many hours of sun exposure in April and early May. I got tan. Once I had a bit of peeling, but no pain. Not once did my white patches turn red or become tender to the touch.
These days it is too fucking hot outside to work in the sun, so my tan has faded. But I still take 16,000 IU of D3 from Ddrops, along with Carlson's cod liver oil (for D3) & fish oil (for omega 3).
My skin is supple. If I run errands by day, even after an hour or two of blistering summer sun, I do not burn & my white spots do not turn red.
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Below are a few snippets from Duncan on a thread on coconut oil list
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Sorry I meant to write Knox gelatin is type III collagen, and many people benefit more from typeII collagen. The 29 types and their functions are 1/2 way down this WIKI page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collagen
Duncan
. . . many other health pros are up on the subject and you can get correct advice on collagen supplementation from them instead.
Essentially, you'd use gelatin (type III collagen) to regenerate bone, cartilage, tendon, bone marrow stroma and other connective tissue, and Type II collagen for (hyaline) joint cartilage, the center portion of the discs between the vertebrae in the spine, the inner ear, eye fluid etc. Type II provides the most discernible benefit due to it's action on rebuilding joints.
all good,
Duncan
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VISTA has an incredible number of screems making me verify that I really wanted to do what I just told it to do. Push the Freakin Button saves my sanity. Push the Freakin Button http://www.snapfiles.com/get/ptfbpro.html Not freeware, but well worth the price. Excellent customer service.
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When I got my new laptop, there were surprises. Supposedly it has a built-in webcam. I was expecting a cam I could move around, but this is a teeny tiny hole in the front of the laptop lid atop the screen. Not very useful, but it was free.
No parallel or serial ports. My parallel pot printer is dead. I was not planning to repair it, so no great loss. However my cable to upload glucometer data has a serial port. Now I gotta go looking to see if the glucometer folks ave a USB cable.
I am not a real fan of the new wide screen monitors. To get the vertical page view I crave, I would need a 30" monitor. Maybe next year.
In case of hurricane power failure, if I detach all USB add-ons, I can run for 6 hours with no external power. I have a emergency power supply which could not run my desktop with the massive 19" monitor. Maybe I can get another 12 hours from the external battery.
The half-terabyte hard drive Is one of the things which drew me to this laptop, As well as the 4 gigs of memory (expandable to 8 gigs, if I need it).
The VISTA OS is driving me nutso. I cannot locate the startup folder, or add programs to it. Rt-clicking the desktop does not let me access properties. The laptop has speakers, but I sure cannot figure out how to get any sounds out of them! Laptop goes into standby more when I close the lid. So I can't shut off the screen when doing long update installs. Must be a way to change this when I am not using my battery.
( Specs below cut )
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I used to keep abreast of computer technology, so if/when I had the money I would know what to buy. But I am sufficiently out of the loop that I get flummoxed.
When I got my spiffy new laptop (Dell Studio 17) I neglected to buy disks. Now, I am not real sure what disks I need to order. Embarrassing. But LJ is for working thru embarrassing situations. Are any of the 3 disks listed here (on page 21) the disks I need to get?
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Today I spent a shit load of $$ at Best Buy. I have bought used cars for less $$ in past years. I now have a new computer system, but I am far far from being functional. Hardware companies do not pay people who write manuals nearly enough. It has taken me nearly 6 hours to install 2/3 of my hardware.
I just got semagic installed. So I can now post without using the dreadful LJ page for posting. I still have a gazillion programs to install before I feel functional.
The switch to Windows Vista has a nasty complication. I have a huge amount of date on a USB drive. I have no drive controller for Vista. So the computer has no idea that I just plugged in a big external drive. I went to ebay, but the person I bought the drive from seems not to be there. The only writing on the drive case is "Awesome". I seem to remember that the drive was called a "Glowie" or a "Glowy". Not much help! My present plan is to see if kellcrow7 wants a free external hard drive. If she can install the drive, she can copy the gazillion files onto some CDs or DVDs for me. Then she gets to keep the drive. My font collection, my Clipmate files, my graphics are all on that drive. I sure do not want to lose any of them!
Internet is strange. I need to get installation software from Bellsouth before I can install my DSL modem. My new computer has WIFI. From inside my apartment, I get open network signals from 11 different networks. I am on a network whose signal strength is 4 out of 5. Not secure, but for now, it sure beats have to pay more money at the Bastille internet cafe to get installation software from Bellouth.
I need to clean house, then move my sleeping nook out into the living room, then figure out how to construct some way of making all the pieces of my new system accessible. For now, I have a Rube Goldberg setup. It works, but it strains my back, arms, and eyes to use it.
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One day I get canonized. Within days I almost get martyred.
Sitting at my setup at about 10 PM, One guy comes up behind me, throws a sweatshirt over my head, and tells me not to move. He sez has has a gun & will kill me if I move.
 Instincts are strange things. I had no time to evaluate whether I thought the guy really had a gun. Back as a kid my basic instinct was to flee rather than fight back. But being active in antiwar protests and having to stand up to armed pigs changed all that.
So I punched &/or poked at his face He fled. When I get the sweatshirt off my face, I saw a second guy trying to get into my tip jar. No time to get my pepper spay or stun gun off my hip. I lunged at the guy and dragged him over my cart, ond table, into my lap. I and my chair toppled down.
While all this was going on, Rose (the reader set up about 50 feet away from me was up out of her seat & calling 9-11.
The guy got let than $20 from my tip jar before running off. He left the bulk of my $$ in the tip jar.
Because the guy said he had a gun, they are going to be tried for armed robbery. One guy (who calls himself "Dirty White Boy" is a felon, so he should be going away for a long long time, unless his Daddy (a local cop) pulls strings to protect his son.
The first cop to question me was barely literate. He asked me why I resisted when I thought the guy had a gun. I repled that I do not allow Vermin to victimize me. The cop got all excited. He asked me if "Vermin" was his first or last name. When I attempted to explain that vermin wer rats of roaches invading one's home, the cop got all pissed off and told me to "stop making up words".
I really had to bite my tongue. I really wanted to know if the police academy regularly accepted students with no high school education. But I remained polite.
( Read more... ) Current Location: Bastille internet cafe
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