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... a subtle battery now known as the Radial-Appliance... Cayce Association for Research and Enlightenment - "Official Supplier". there was also a website detailing the difference between the Baar Radiac and the Appliance described by Edgar Cayce. ... Perfect Progesterone [perfectprogesterone.com] can buffer high levels of testosterone, and might help your hair grow back.

There. It wasn't very nice what those vitalism-haters did to your "informative" comment. Hopefully all your links will show up on the google cache now. :)

-Mr. Coward

I talked to a 60-something woman who used to have extreme fibromyalgia problems last weekend. Estrogen came up, and she said her doctors had put her on it years ago. She was in the hospital within a week.

There's a PDF floating about the Estrogen Scam... Let's see... Ah, here it is:
The Rise and Fall of Estrogen Therapy: The History of HRT

This was written by a harvard law student, and basically finds that the estrogen hucksters are criminally negligent.

My most recent blog post is the start of a series about problems with chemical birth control pills. I thought it'd be good to start out with why they're so expensive, but I've since realized that staying baby-free is much more important to most women than the cost, or the side effects...

... but it also prevents new bone from growing. Progesterone - the natural kind (progesterone USP), NOT the kind in birth control (Provera) that was studied in the Women's Health Initiative - is what helps new bone get laid down.

Progesterone is good on all counts. It's a hormone on its own, and the body converts it into other hormones, like testosterone and cortisol. This is why birth control takes away women's libido - fake progesterone ("progestins") CANNOT be converted into other hormones, which leads to a testosterone deficiency and low libido.

If you have puffy veins when you stand and raise your hands 30-degrees from your legs, or have varicose veins in your legs, you're probably progesterone-deficient... There are lots of symptoms that respond nicely to progesterone therapy.

Gary Johnson 2012. Mr. Johnson tried for the republican nomination, but the powers that be decided to exclude him from a bunch of debates, and his republican candidacy didn't get off the ground.

He was governor of New Mexico for... 8 years, and the libertarian party is organized enough to get him on all 50 states' ballots.

I think if he'd pick up some of those "reality sticks" lying around, his campaign would really beat the crap out of Obama and Romney (Wall Street's anointed candidate). I'd have him start with pointing out how our entire money supply is "borrowed from Wall Street". Then he could move on to point out how Wall Street rigs the health care industry to make it as expensive and ineffective as possible (Ex: Lipitor. Business Week had a story about 4 years ago about how no one actually benefits from knee-capping their body's cholesterol-generating mechanism...)

Drug laws are a big one too...

but no one's told them what to be righteously angry about.

If I had an audience with the protesters, I would point out the difference between a dollar bill and a dollar coin. Dollar bills represent money that the banking system (the Federal Reserve's shares are mostly owned by banks on Wall Street) has lent into circulation, and is collecting interest on, whereas Dollar Coins are debt-free money created by the government.

This Bill was BORROWED from Wall Street.

Like your theory about the defense complex keeping engineers out of trouble.

But as for poor people... Stress and malnutrition are the biggest obstacles most such people face. Stress alone is rather disabling. Most place require a full month's rent and deposit to move in...

Rather than handouts, I actually like the idea of having Job Projects to do things that need to be done. These would be paid for by issuing currency into circulation. I think the guy I mentioned in that post is incapable of holding a regular job. I overheard him talking with someone at a later date - he used to work in a turkey slaughterhouse. He was either replaced by mexicans, or got run down by the slaughterhouse grind...

This allowed them to print money with nothing backing it.

Money is always backed by human labor, if you go back far enough. Money-backed-by-stuff doesn't work anymore, because stuff no longer needs (very much) human labor to create. I wrote a letter to the editor back when the crazies in Congress were fighting over their lines-in-the-sand (debt ceiling), so I'll just quote myself here:

Money is nothing more than a medium that allows humans to exchange their labors.

Gold used to be the western world's standard form of money... People would dedicate their lives to extracting it from the earth.

Gold extracted with human labor was traded for mining supplies created by human labor... Gold spread from the mine into every corner of the economy.

Gold-as-money had it's problems, of course. The gold rushes (California, Alaska, etc) flooded the economy with extra gold...

Then someone figured out how to extract gold from the earth with Caterpillars and chemistry instead of shovels and slush boxes. The process of disconnecting the government's currency from gold started during the Civil War, with Lincoln's Greenbacks... progressed with FDR's gold freeze... and ended with the de-pegging of the dollar under Nixon.

-fixing the government's finances

The folks at Monetary.org and those who advocate Publicly-owned Banks are on the right track, methinks. There are some more important articles at the bottom of my blog post about fixing the governments finances - "bailout for the people", "money and the crisis of civilization", and "I want the earth plus 5%". .

Under the Federal Reserve system, money is only created when someone takes out a loan. If Federal Reserve Notes were truthfully labeled, they would all say This Bill Was BORROWED From Wall Street. This is why it was so important to bail out the banking system: no bankers, no money.

Nothing says "oligarchy" like having an entire economy by its balls.

I though it was well known that other, non-biotic, inhabitants [wikipedia.org] influence the mind too. Very nasty if you have candadiasis, which is an out of control growth of this critter.

... Is that something you deal with? What are you doing about it? If you'd like to bounce things off me, please visit the contact page and drop me an email - I might have some ideas for you. :)

There's are a lot of nutrients in the gulf, especially from the farm runoff (would be interesting to experiment with "bubblers" in the dead zone, but that's another topic). I've loaded your video (thanks!), but haven't watched it all yet.

Several of the pages I read last summer said the oxygen deprivation was serious... From my original piece, To Save the Gulf, Send the Enterprise:

Oil doesn’t consume oxygen especially quickly, but natural gas does. BP’s gusher is much more than crude oil – millions of cubic feet of gasses are also being released. These gasses rapidly consume all available oxygen.

“how serious is the oxygen depletion problem?” “Very Serious” “How much biodegredation appears to being observed for the oil plumes?” “There is a tremendous amount of oxygen consumption in the plumes. We have measured respiration rates in the plumes, above and below the plumes, and at control sites where plumes are not present. The respiration rates in the plume are at least 5-10 times higher than we see anywhere else.”

        -Hide and Seek

Last summer, when the oil geyser had been flowing uninhibited for over two months, I posted here about my idea for using the US Navy's portable nuclear reactors to power air pumps that would oxygenate ocean waters affected by the spill. The oxygen would feed the bacteria already present in the water that happily consume seeped oil.

The slick on the surface isn't "the tragedy" of these oil spills. Most of the tragedy is below the surface, where TV cameras and congressmembers won't see it.

One of the visitors said that it'd be difficult to pump air to the depths of the ocean, and suggested pumping oxygenated surface water instead. I took that and other feedback to write a short followup piece on Cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico.

I welcome anything good at cleaning up our messes. Especially a device this open and energy efficient. But let's not pretend that cleaning up the surface could possibly "prevent the tragedy". By the time this thing is out there cleaning up, most of the tragedy has already gone down.

While this thing might be okay for little oil spills, like the one from a few weeks ago, effectively responding to future underwater blowouts will require massive infrastructure and power. Like what could be stored on, delivered and powered by a retired nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

I just want the politicians to order the Navy to get some guys thinking about the idea: When Disaster Strikes, Send the Enterprise. Or maybe I'll write the Japanese embassy to suggest that they offer to buy the Enterprise, thereby saving the US Navy $millions in decommissioning costs. They have the infrastructure to refuel it, if required, and the motivation to dedicate it to disaster response.

Last summer, when the oil geyser had been flowing uninhibited for over two months, I posted here about my idea for using the US Navy's portable nuclear reactors to power air pumps that would oxygenate ocean waters affected by the spill. The oxygen would feed the bacteria already present in the water that happily consume seeped oil.

The slick on the surface isn't "the tragedy" of these oil spills. Most of the tragedy is below the surface, where TV cameras and congressmembers won't see it.

One of the visitors said that it'd be difficult to pump air to the depths of the ocean, and suggested pumping oxygenated surface water instead. I took that and other feedback to write a short followup piece on Cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico.

I welcome anything good at cleaning up our messes. Especially a device this open and energy efficient. But let's not pretend that cleaning up the surface could possibly "prevent the tragedy". By the time this thing is out there cleaning up, most of the tragedy has already gone down.

While this thing might be okay for little oil spills, like the one from a few weeks ago, effectively responding to future underwater blowouts will require massive infrastructure and power. Like what could be stored on, delivered and powered by a retired nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.

I just want the politicians to order the Navy to get some guys thinking about the idea: When Disaster Strikes, Send the Enterprise. Or maybe I'll write the Japanese embassy to suggest that they offer to buy the Enterprise, thereby saving the US Navy $millions in decommissioning costs. They have the infrastructure to refuel it, if required, and the motivation to dedicate it to disaster response.

Under 1000ft, seawater is usually under 4C. All the processes and critters that break down the oil work much slower in the cold.

My blog post on Cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico calls for pumping oxygenated surface water to the oil plumes (... it was actually a slashdot reader's idea - I originally said to pump air). Specific locations on the ocean floor would probably be easier to target than moving plumes.

It'd be quite an engineering effort (and who knows if the Navy would be willing to share any of their portable nuclear reactors), but ... I don't see any other cleanup ideas being discussed.

I noticed that your blog's tagline is "geniuses think in their own kind of box"

just wanted to let you know my tagline: "geniuses don't have to call themselves geniuses"

The site is supposed to be about the structure of genius, how Tesla and others were able to leap above mediocrity. Or something like that.

While I bought the domain name 7 years ago, I didn't do any site development until a year ago, and I just installed Wordpress last month. I don't want to be presumptuous, and have been considering alternate taglines.

But then again, I told a woman yesterday about my idea for the Enterprise and she thought that it was frickin' brilliant. She knows someone who's son is relatively high up on an aircraft carrier's chain of command, so I'm hoping to get some feedback from a Navy guy soon.

While knowing is half the battle, I didn't have time to write a full explanation about what to do. I'd refer you to my ebooks, but I'm redoing my website with the Wordpress blogging software and haven't gotten those re-posted for sale. Insomniacs may be interested in my Radial Appliance site, http://radialappliance.teslabox.com/ (get the free reports sent via email).

And the Send-the-Enterprise guy will be arriving in 3... 2... 1...

Whew, almost missed this story! Glad you noticed my absence, and I'm extra glad I decided to check slashdot before I got on the road. :)

That's actually Google's top result for me on the query send the enterprise! Not bad, not bad at all.

I'm working on a followup, now that the epic disaster has been brought under partial control. (what happens when another hurricane comes through?) The Enterprise is set to be retired from its duties as an aircraft carrier within 3 years. Why not convert it into a nuclear powered disaster response ship? The Navy sent an aircraft carrier to Haiti to help with disaster relief:

On 13 January 2010, the day after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Carl Vinson was ordered to redirect from its current deployment in the North Atlantic Ocean to Haiti to contribute to the relief effort as part of Operation Unified Response. Upon receiving orders from USSOUTHCOM, the Carl Vinson battle group proceeded to Mayport, Florida where the ships loitered offshore to receive additional supplies and helicopters. The ships arrived off Port au Prince on 15 January 2010 to commence operations.[25][26][27] In addition to providing medical relief, CVN-70's excess desalination capacity has been critical to providing water to Haiti's population during the earthquake relief.[28]

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Carl_Vinson_%28CVN-70%29#2010s

There are thousands of offshore oil wells - if they lose control of another one, the Enterprise will (hopefully) be ready.

Send the Enterprise

Hrm. While I suppose the Federation's flagship probably has more important things to do, I do have to admit that a few photon torpedoes would get the well closed up pretty quickly.

As someone stated the other day in my thread, most of the cleanup efforts are little more than a Public Relations campaign. Skimming has, so far, collected a astonishingly small amount of oil.

Gulf recovery effort falls short of BP's promises: Skimming operations have removed average of less than 900 barrels daily

... In a March report that was not questioned by federal officials, BP said it had the capacity to skim and remove 491,721 barrels of oil each day in the event of a major spill.

As of Monday, with about 2 million barrels released into the gulf, the skimming operations that were touted as key to preventing environmental disaster have averaged less than 900 barrels a day.

Skimming has captured only 67,143 barrels, and BP has relied on burning to remove 238,095 barrels. Most of the oil recovered -- about 632,410 barrels -- was captured directly at the site of the leaking well.

This is obviously due to the huge disparity between the size of a fishing boat and the vastness of the Gulf of Mexico.

I'm going to pimp my proposal again: Send the Enterprise, use the nuclear reactors to power air compressors that will pump air (oxygen) into the oil plumes in the depths of the ocean. The oxygen feeds the bacteria that eat crude oil.

The Enterprise would be stationed in the vicinity of the Macondo Prospect site (where the Deepwater Horizon went down). Bubble fences would circle the wellhead at, say, 1 mile and 2 miles, or would be concentrated in whichever direction the oily currents tend to flow.

And I was just thinking today: coastal communities could experiment with running bubble fences some distance from their beaches. These compressors could be powered by the grid. Booms seem to be a big joke - look what happened when that little storm blew threw.

All the cleanup efforts are experimental, so the President ought to order at least one aircraft carrier to the Gulf. If it helps, send the rest of the nuclear navy. :)

I am of the opinion that the best way to clean up the Gulf of Mexico is to Send the Enterprise (no, not that Enterprise, silly rabbits!). The complete proposal is given at the link.

Tell everyone you know.

(kuro5hin.org has two options for voting for a story: "Front Page" and "Section Page". 93% of the people who voted for my story voted FP, so I have reason to believe that my proposal has merit.)

There are injuries where bones need to be realigned.

The real defect in chiropractic education is that it focuses on bones. But muscles move bones, nerves control muscles, and consciousness influences nerves. There's a huge difference between putting a vertebrae back in place and calming the nerve that controls a muscle that's spasming and pulling the vertebrae out of position.

With that said, some chiropractors move beyond what they learn in school, and really do help a lot of people. Some interesting forks of chiropractic philosophy include Craniopathy and Network Chiropractic.

While chiropractors are good for some people, I prefer other hands-on philosophies for myself and my family. See my other post in this thread, or read the story about how I fixed my dad's dog's accident-induced limp with manual therapy.

Every time I hurt, my wife suggests I go to a chiropractor. But I don't -- because I don't know who I can trust.

I hurt for a long time. It started when I was in college, so I went to the campus health center. The Physician's Assistant said I didn't have carpal tunnel syndrome, gave me double-strength ibuprofen, and said to exercise. A few weeks later I went back to see the M.D., who said there was nothing wrong with me that a little exercise wouldn't fix, and offered to write a prescription for occupational therapy (to evaluate my posture while using teh computer, I think).

While I was very thin, I was hardly sedate. I upped my physical activity, but it only made the inflammation and shooting pains worse.

I took myself to a chiropractor. Crack crack crack, then her assistant applied a mechanical massager, "see you next week". I saw no improvement after the second or third visits, so I didn't go back to her.

I had double health insurance, so I went to another M.D. nearby. He said there was nothing wrong we me. I went to a third M.D., who said there was a chiropractor nearby who got good results for many of his patients.

I went to that chiropractor, who did a form of light-force manipulation. I saw him once, and knew he couldn't help my case.

Over a period of 7 years I had appointments with over 7 chiropractors, at least 4 M.D.s, dozens of massage therapists and other non-doctor body-workers, and over 7 D.O.s.

The first body-worker I ever went to did an intense form of massage with her thumbs that caused my body to completely relax - it was as if I melted into her table. I felt fabulous for a week and a half, then the burning all-over pain returned, with a vengeance. I went back to the same woman when I got home for the summer, but she wasn't able to repeat the effect. Years later I figured out what happened...

The 18th doctor put it well: “All some people need is any kind of touch – this is why people love their masseuse or their chiropractor. The rest of us just look for the specific kind of touch we need.”

How do you find that "really skilled person" and know you have one of those "very specific problems in the back?"

I've written a few things on this topic. I just put one of my opt-in emails on my website. It's a story about how I fixed my father's dog's accident-induced limp with hands-on therapy. Feel free to send me an email (to the address at the bottom of that page) if you have any questions.

Vitamin Cure

When Pigs are penned in close quarters, some become so irritable they savage their pen mates' ears and tails, a problem farmers call ear-and-tail-biting syndrome. David Hardy, a Canadian hog-feed salesman from the farmlands of northern Alberta, knew that behavior well. Years of experience had taught him something else: All it takes to calm disturbed pigs down is a good dose of vitamins and minerals in their feed.

That came to Hardy's mind one November evening in 1995 when an acquaintance, Tony Stephan, began confiding his troubles. His wife, Deborah, had killed herself the year before after struggling with manic depression and losing her father to suicide. Now two of his 10 children seemed headed down the same road: Twenty-two-year-old Autumn was in a psychiatric hospital and 15-year-old Joseph had become angry and aggressive. He had been diagnosed as bipolar, a term for manic depression, but even with medication he was prone to outbursts so violent that the rest of the family feared for their lives.

The boy's irritability sounded familiar to Hardy. I don't know a whole lot about mental illness, Hardy told Stephan, but I've seen similar behavior in the hog barn, and it's easy to cure.

So the two men set out to create a human version of Hardy's pig formula. They bought bottles of vitamins and minerals from local health-food stores, and spent nights at Stephan's kitchen concocting a mixture. On January 20, 1996, they gave Joseph the first bitter-tasting dose. Within a few days, Joseph felt better than he had in months. After 30 days, all the symptoms of his illness were gone.
 
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-Vitamin Cure, Discover Magazine, May 2005

yes, they work quite well. My father has used two for tomatoes for 10+ years. This picture was taken mid-summer (June?), iirc. I didn't know to put a fertilizer strip on the top of the soil, so the plants ran out of nutrients by late July/early August and didn't produce so well thereafter.

I ordered ten boxes for myself in September, and put them at my Grandfather's in the desert. See my Earthbox picture gallery.

I think the Tomatoes and Cucumbers are the best use of the box, with broccoli running a close third. The Red peppers would probably benefit from more heat - it's topping out around 80 right now, and getting down into the 60's/50's at night. Hopefully I'll be able to over-winter them under the grapefruit tree.

The company redesigned their boxes recently (my father has 1st gen models), and the new staking system is quite convenient for vine plants (cucumbers & tomatos).

Any other questions? I'm happy to share more about my Earthbox gardening experience. :)

Just remembered - they sent me a mailing about half-price shipping for the Christmas season... (Shipping begins on December 4th).

yes, they work quite well. My father has used two for tomatoes for 10+ years. This picture was taken mid-summer (June?), iirc. I didn't know to put a fertilizer strip on the top of the soil, so the plants ran out of nutrients by late July/early August and didn't produce so well thereafter.

I ordered ten boxes for myself in September, and put them at my Grandfather's in the desert. See my Earthbox picture gallery.

I think the Tomatoes and Cucumbers are the best use of the box, with broccoli running a close third. The Red peppers would probably benefit from more heat - it's topping out around 80 right now, and getting down into the 60's/50's at night. Hopefully I'll be able to over-winter them under the grapefruit tree.

The company redesigned their boxes recently (my father has 1st gen models), and the new staking system is quite convenient for vine plants (cucumbers & tomatos).

Any other questions? I'm happy to share more about my Earthbox gardening experience. :)

Just remembered - they sent me a mailing about half-price shipping for the Christmas season... (Shipping begins on December 4th).