"what sells instead of what is found" is precisely what is wrong with "climate science". Amatuerishly incomplete equations munged though oversized game machines with faked or highly selective, agreeable extracts from noisy data, chosen only by team members or their ego-, ecogroupies that yield pre-selected or otherwise agreeable results. Refusing to post their data or "We lost it" after they have explicitly conspired to destroy data to "save it" from more agnostic hands. Anti-scientific syncophants and outright frauds.
Oh, there's McIntyre over at Climate Audit, showing Boulton likely ghost writing Muir's words on a Word document, and then Boulton connected with East Anglia and IPCC (apologists: "not...formally") by his own CV description or inflating his resume. The supposed climate friends are so bent, that *they can't even pretend long enough* to walk a straight line for an official investigation. This climate "carp" never stops.
Could you please indicate, even indirectly who the offending party is? Enough hints to merit consideration for future users' "avoid" or "embargo" decision. Pretty pls. The sooner any bad business goes teh way of the dodo bird, the better. We're tired of scam and hyperaggressive businesses, just cut them off at the knees, especially the middle one...
Agree that these "security systems" are about dodging liability rather than providing good security. Of course, another big benefit to the bank is that it makes it much harder to transfer money over small amounts, say $1000, if you can't go to the office physically or don't use their "verification card". Money that the banks won't give back easily.
Exxon's are called reservoir simulators. Used to be, big companies in many industries had in-house simulators, pipeline, chemical, nuclear, etc. Decades ago I had professors, e.g. mathematical sciences and engineering, that worked on the mathematics and implementations of various early versions, we students also did derivations from the general equations (PDE) of everything. Errors, simulator abuses and wishful fantasies, similar in nature to today, cost companies millions, perhaps even billions. The difference is that young turks running companies' simulators were much more accountable. People could and did get fired quickly for fewer costly errors than what is going with the climate comedy channel.
[sarcasm] Sure, Obama. Don't worry about the thousands of nutso, racist stalkers and cops that will be able to locate you 24x7, 3 years from now when you're still on the phone...
Real scientists don't use simulators with incomplete equations and fudge factors to match highly manipulated historic data to "prove" their case with game machines that have no predictive capability or other external validation. That simply is not the way you build a valid fundamentals based model starting from the equations of motion. IPCC reports previously noted whole terms in the equations' energy terms that were inadequately described or represented, then have done no research to fill the terms, modellers just zeroing them out or putting in small constants for significant *variables*. These are not real scientists, their processes and practices have been clearly shown to be antithetical to valid science.
These models are just primitive speculative tools, often reflecting personal biases in data selection and derivation, NOT fundamental equations. The models are NOT valid physics data or experiments.
On prediction failure, Hansen's 1988 "A,B,C" forecasts of rising temperature are rapidly diverging from the cooling we are actually experiencing right now, where case C assumed we massively limited CO2 also. Missed the side of a barn with a shotgun, tsk, tsk, tsk.
Kudos only if you go around your neighborhood and get *several* other business to dump the offensive company, like MSFT or Adobe. For large companies you need to hit back 10-20x harder to get even or an apology. Apologies or "Sorry" are more sincere when they're down a few million.
Wikipedia has become a captive of dogmatists. Two areas exemplify this: climate and medicine. Conflicts of interests and an unscientific prejudice for pushing "global warming" occurs, where major scientists are disparaged by their clear inferiors and their "dissident" works undercut.
In medicine, the most reactionary doctors control articles about which they know nothing, eager to pass on information known to be false, from biased, *provably wrong*, "mainstream" journals. Where their clinical and scientific misunderstandings would be embarrassing if more broadly known, as well as getting you booted from serious universities or organizations a generation ago for incompetence or fraud.
If one uses glycemic index as the smoking gun of atherosclerosis, the Egyptian diet was loaded with sugar and starch. Inflammation due to disease, rancid oils, and deficiencies in essential nutrients including some vitamins would be a factor.
Seizing up on ca $4300 as "large amounts" of cash??! Jeez, that is worse than the airports in some murderous 3rd world dictatorships I've been in, that like to grab $$$. Oh, yeah, I forgot, we're the biggest banana ("republic").
With credit cards and banks becoming so unreasonable, this type of cash restriction is dangerous to the economic recovery, freezing or jeopardizing a most vulnerable segment of the population.
My "advanced, 'alternative' therapeutic nutrition" is based on modern medical and clinical research. Something is "alternative medicine" because it is not generally accepted as proven by extremely expensive, cumbersome, even unfairly adversarial processes; not that it is wrong or not even that it hasn't been substantially researched and demonstrated.
"Standard medicine" is behind by decades on many therapeutic nutrition issues where doctors struggle to even comprehend the relevant issues. This includes pervasive industry sponsored corruption, down to the firstyear's textbooks. In fact, I notice that often doctors are not current with their own literature that hasn't been assiduously product promoted.
Sectors of the medical industry, like AMA and pharmas, have been waging a very effective disinformation war for decades on therapeutic nutrition. I figure the AMA has been net negative since at least mid 40s, pharma, the 1950s+ with a lot of glaring (for me) whoppers.
Peer review is a very weak, it allows one to possibly spot errors when practiced in good faith. Peer review is not required to do good science. One is not ripped off by a material's lack of peer review or govt approval; rather one is "ripped off" by misrepresentation(s), harm and/or ineffectiveness, IMHO a larger problem with many expensive pharmaceuticals.
My "alternative medicine" has included cholesterol control for $2-5 / month for any number I want between 130 - 260 for 20+ years without statins, and with much improved HDL (50+%). I notice both Merck and Pfizer are recently starting to (try to) market products that include the things that I have long known and used, but are still behind on many things that I can biochemically measure or clearly observe good results.
Subsidizing some insurance and requiring ineffective insurance is an economic disaster. Rates or costs will rise, with no effective economic mechanism to prevent it or improve it. Good doctors that successfully break out of the current system's many ruts will be even more (over)regulated, stifled as "alternative".
This virtually guarantees the destruction of a large fraction of people who have, or are developing, chronic illness where insured, "standard medicine" does not have good, straight treatments or cures, but others do. Hence, such chronic illness sufferers will have an even greater economic barrier to survive and thrive. Obamacare virtually guarantees a deeper, more profound bankruptcy of the country, more quickly passing economic power to Asia, especially China.
Obamacare does not effectively cover me or my parent, and is a threat to doctors that do know what biochemically works - in this case, advanced, "alternative" therapeutic nutrition. I am moving to Asia to get the 4% solution, this month. The current medical system failed both my parents, one painfully long dead, the other balked and iatrogenically damaged many times. "Standard medicine" failed me, too, finally recognizing even part the problem *after* being solved.
This year, my remaining parent had multiple iatrogenic miseries, was dying and giving up. Since I took over the nursing supervision, medical literature search, consulted "alternative" doctors (MD+DO), integrated their advice, things have gotten much, much better for my remaining parent. I consider ordinary geriatric medicine and nutrition in hospitals and nursing homes barbaric. Their "standard practices" are generally so dangerous and miserable, I can't even call them "euth centers".
I pay over $8200 a month to keep my last parent alive, healthy and happy here, after a lot of medical interference. Medicare has been largely a waste of money the last 12 months. In Asia, my bills drop to under $2000 a month with superior nursing, and even house calls. I am dumping subsidized Medicare Part B & D "insurance" (outside coverage area). Asia is cheaper than any co-pay in most cases, if Medicare even covered it.
I never played doctor as a kid. A National Merit Scholar and off to an uber university at 16 where most valedictorians can't get in, then grad school, I had no interest in medicine. Circumstances have forced me to confront it, to research 75 years of massive literature, to figure out some of its errors, and to overcome these errors in real life, several years investment. I think our current medical system already has as much corruption and problems as Soviet history had in 1990. Pelosi-Obamacare will be raise the temperature and pressure of the core like a late stage, giant star progressing toward supernova.
I have had to live without refridgeration before, e.g right after I bought a home with my last cent of disposable income. Used canned goods and a part time ice chest for several months.
My prices are US, and much lower than average, because I know who has what deals. e.g. milk in US is typically $3.29-$4.50/gal, with $3 a little more common now (depression). I found one place, a drug store chain around the corner that has a $1.99/gallon traffic builder for months on end. As a side note, in one 3rd world country I stop in, milk is $2-3/liter, goat's milk version preferred over the local cow.
The chicken thighs are the lower price chains in town or others' sales prices, nothing sketchier than usual (depending on how critical you are about factory food in general). $1.29 ham are typically ham shanks, say 6-9 kg, low cost chains like Walmart. Eggs from sales store well with a little cooling - eggs used to be commercially stored in merely fan cooled rooms with slight water evaporation in the humind US south for 3-4 days prior to sale, even in summer (15C-20C?).
Yes, GST and VAT taxes do wonders for the cost of (not) living in most of the (de)developed world outside the US west of the Mississippi.
Quaker Oats, over priced refined carbs. White onion, more costly, more carb than yellow onions, ~$15 for 50#. OJ is expensive liquid sugar, better to find sale veggies and vitamins. Olive oil is good uncooked but lard or gallon canola is cheaper and better for cooking.
Yes, I can imagine it. I did it, got to a good weight and got healthier. Cutting sugar and carbs along with getting enough vitamins should be #1 for most (~3/4) people.
I am exploring where potential bottom costs are for healthful and doable, not easy or exciting, living. Economy of scale (living with relatives and friends), debt, transport and housing are critical cost questions that range from "free" to crisis on cost or nonavailability. And there is a point of low budget, where maintaining health becomes problematic. In America, many are still above that point financially, maing poor choices and damaging their health and finances.
Actually where I live, precut frozen thighs are usually cheaper than whole chicken, very easy and fast. The cheapest produce is often affordable (cabbage, 50# onions, supersale items), DIY (sprouts), or easy on a short fence (beans, tomatoes).
What I see here are poor people that unfortunately squander resources on junk, costly debt, or relentelssly advertised choices instead of making do with traditional, less glamorous.
Btw lest you think I am all stonehearted, I make a point of buying someone a square meal on the job for my work, at higher than average cafeteria prices. And I try to make sure they get inexpensive vitamins (1-2 multi, winter D 2000+iu), even if I have to provide them.
I travel to third world countries and we as a country still don't know what really poor is. Modern sugar and carb levels are the bane of most people's bodies (at 3/4 genetically), perhaps especially the poor. The trick is paying all the bills, not running out of money, not getting sucked in on small but expensive "comforts". Even in the poorest coutries, I see how relentlessly carbs (e.g sodas) and cigarettes are hawked to the poor, even one stick at a time.
I have lived on beans before, not now, carbs became a vitamin and mineral problem (inadequate B, C, Cr, Mg). However, I look at how my grandparents lived, and see what we do wrong today when poor.
"if not sugary junk to get you through the working day" Cabbage, bulk yellow onion, garlic, cheapest pepper, oil, thighs as primary base, low carb food plus cheapest, low carb, colored produce. That includes canned tomato products. And water or tea. (Much) Cheaper than what I see many poor Americans eat. (I admit, I may not be competitive on a food basis with 3rd world poor)
I had to go to this diet after being wrecked by a now withdrawn (p)harmaceutical that made me sick and extremely carb/gluten intolerant.
"Welfare queens" are not a myth, they are history. TANF was developed and passed in 1996 specifically to replace AFDC for this reason, after peaking in about the 1970s when some states began to tighten up their rules. Many bricks form the social net, also there are income credits (EIC), Social Security (for deceased/disabled spouses) and still various forms of charity.
Also careful shopping can reduce food cost far below average. I've been hiring 2-3 low wage earners/week this year and I notice they spend far more on junk (20 oz branded soda, Cheetos, etc) alone than I spend on half or more of my at home meals (e.g. carved ham, $1.29/lb, two eggs, @$.78-1.10/doz, toast, tomato, $1.99/gal milk/tea and vitamin, 3 cents). Chicken, $0.78/ lb, and fresh produce are usually cheaper, too. I am sure that I am a more careful shopper, although I just pick up staples and specials at their lowest cost place in my part of town, passing by.
Even today, I am not so sure about welfare being below the incremental cost per child for careful shoppers (e.g. $3/day for healthy food, thrift shop or handed down clothes, and often incrementally free housing.)
Rice University has a vaccine production researcher that suggests last year's "wrong strain" vaccine increased one's chances of getting H1N1 this year because the "antigenetic distance" yields wrongly targeted (dud) antibodies.
Respected researchers' report from Canada say the odds for getting H1N1 this year were doubled for recipients of last year's flu shot.
Yes, above the "emergency storage level" of ascorbate, excretion at the higher level occurs in 5-6 hrs. That is why healthy people have to take it 4-5 times per day to maintain plasma levels. Sick people typically every 1/2 to 2 hours due to higher chemical demands.
Vitamin C is ubiquitous in the plant world, no shortage. Our distant ancestors were designed to piggyback on nature's supply without the energy drain. Experiments using less frequent dosing should be viewed as rigged or incompetent since some pharmacokinetics have been published since at least the early 1940s.
I would seriously investigate literature about taking high dose supplements such as hourly vitamin C (2 grams/hr, up to bowel tolerance perhaps 12+ g/hr), high doses of vitamin D (e.g. 10,000 - 20,000 iu for several days).
See: Cochrane review on C and pneumonia http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab005532.html
See also various papers by Fred R Klenner and Robert Cathcart, championed by later physicians like Tom Levy and orthomolecular MDs.
Modern research in the med schools shows the need for much higher levels of vitamin D, at vitaminDcouncil.org
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Biased sources like satellites, instead of pre-selected urban heat islands.
"what sells instead of what is found" is precisely what is wrong with "climate science". Amatuerishly incomplete equations munged though oversized game machines with faked or highly selective, agreeable extracts from noisy data, chosen only by team members or their ego-, ecogroupies that yield pre-selected or otherwise agreeable results. Refusing to post their data or "We lost it" after they have explicitly conspired to destroy data to "save it" from more agnostic hands. Anti-scientific syncophants and outright frauds.
Oh, there's McIntyre over at Climate Audit, showing Boulton likely ghost writing Muir's words on a Word document, and then Boulton connected with East Anglia and IPCC (apologists: "not...formally") by his own CV description or inflating his resume. The supposed climate friends are so bent, that *they can't even pretend long enough* to walk a straight line for an official investigation. This climate "carp" never stops.
Could you please indicate, even indirectly who the offending party is? Enough hints to merit consideration for future users' "avoid" or "embargo" decision. Pretty pls. The sooner any bad business goes teh way of the dodo bird, the better. We're tired of scam and hyperaggressive businesses, just cut them off at the knees, especially the middle one...
Agree that these "security systems" are about dodging liability rather than providing good security. Of course, another big benefit to the bank is that it makes it much harder to transfer money over small amounts, say $1000, if you can't go to the office physically or don't use their "verification card". Money that the banks won't give back easily.
Exxon's are called reservoir simulators. Used to be, big companies in many industries had in-house simulators, pipeline, chemical, nuclear, etc. Decades ago I had professors, e.g. mathematical sciences and engineering, that worked on the mathematics and implementations of various early versions, we students also did derivations from the general equations (PDE) of everything. Errors, simulator abuses and wishful fantasies, similar in nature to today, cost companies millions, perhaps even billions. The difference is that young turks running companies' simulators were much more accountable. People could and did get fired quickly for fewer costly errors than what is going with the climate comedy channel.
[sarcasm] Sure, Obama. Don't worry about the thousands of nutso, racist stalkers and cops that will be able to locate you 24x7, 3 years from now when you're still on the phone...
Real scientists don't use simulators with incomplete equations and fudge factors to match highly manipulated historic data to "prove" their case with game machines that have no predictive capability or other external validation. That simply is not the way you build a valid fundamentals based model starting from the equations of motion. IPCC reports previously noted whole terms in the equations' energy terms that were inadequately described or represented, then have done no research to fill the terms, modellers just zeroing them out or putting in small constants for significant *variables*. These are not real scientists, their processes and practices have been clearly shown to be antithetical to valid science.
These models are just primitive speculative tools, often reflecting personal biases in data selection and derivation, NOT fundamental equations. The models are NOT valid physics data or experiments.
On prediction failure, Hansen's 1988 "A,B,C" forecasts of rising temperature are rapidly diverging from the cooling we are actually experiencing right now, where case C assumed we massively limited CO2 also. Missed the side of a barn with a shotgun, tsk, tsk, tsk.
ExxonMobil, et al, buy their large scale simulators that their business depends on from commercial 3rd parties.
"Kudos to Adobe for screwing themselves so bad."
Kudos only if you go around your neighborhood and get *several* other business to dump the offensive company, like MSFT or Adobe. For large companies you need to hit back 10-20x harder to get even or an apology. Apologies or "Sorry" are more sincere when they're down a few million.
Sounds like CIA, NSA or FSB spent an effective $25,000 spmewhere.
So when fuel efficient US-Asia flights cross Russian territory, it's okay to give the KGB/FSB all your information?
An unbroken DRM at copyright expiration is a form of "copyfraud", an illegal distraint of the copy's owner (purchaser).
Wikipedia has become a captive of dogmatists. Two areas exemplify this: climate and medicine. Conflicts of interests and an unscientific prejudice for pushing "global warming" occurs, where major scientists are disparaged by their clear inferiors and their "dissident" works undercut. In medicine, the most reactionary doctors control articles about which they know nothing, eager to pass on information known to be false, from biased, *provably wrong*, "mainstream" journals. Where their clinical and scientific misunderstandings would be embarrassing if more broadly known, as well as getting you booted from serious universities or organizations a generation ago for incompetence or fraud.
If one uses glycemic index as the smoking gun of atherosclerosis, the Egyptian diet was loaded with sugar and starch. Inflammation due to disease, rancid oils, and deficiencies in essential nutrients including some vitamins would be a factor.
Seizing up on ca $4300 as "large amounts" of cash??! Jeez, that is worse than the airports in some murderous 3rd world dictatorships I've been in, that like to grab $$$. Oh, yeah, I forgot, we're the biggest banana ("republic").
With credit cards and banks becoming so unreasonable, this type of cash restriction is dangerous to the economic recovery, freezing or jeopardizing a most vulnerable segment of the population.
My "advanced, 'alternative' therapeutic nutrition" is based on modern medical and clinical research. Something is "alternative medicine" because it is not generally accepted as proven by extremely expensive, cumbersome, even unfairly adversarial processes; not that it is wrong or not even that it hasn't been substantially researched and demonstrated.
"Standard medicine" is behind by decades on many therapeutic nutrition issues where doctors struggle to even comprehend the relevant issues. This includes pervasive industry sponsored corruption, down to the firstyear's textbooks. In fact, I notice that often doctors are not current with their own literature that hasn't been assiduously product promoted.
Sectors of the medical industry, like AMA and pharmas, have been waging a very effective disinformation war for decades on therapeutic nutrition. I figure the AMA has been net negative since at least mid 40s, pharma, the 1950s+ with a lot of glaring (for me) whoppers.
Peer review is a very weak, it allows one to possibly spot errors when practiced in good faith. Peer review is not required to do good science. One is not ripped off by a material's lack of peer review or govt approval; rather one is "ripped off" by misrepresentation(s), harm and/or ineffectiveness, IMHO a larger problem with many expensive pharmaceuticals.
My "alternative medicine" has included cholesterol control for $2-5 / month for any number I want between 130 - 260 for 20+ years without statins, and with much improved HDL (50+%). I notice both Merck and Pfizer are recently starting to (try to) market products that include the things that I have long known and used, but are still behind on many things that I can biochemically measure or clearly observe good results.
Subsidizing some insurance and requiring ineffective insurance is an economic disaster. Rates or costs will rise, with no effective economic mechanism to prevent it or improve it. Good doctors that successfully break out of the current system's many ruts will be even more (over)regulated, stifled as "alternative".
This virtually guarantees the destruction of a large fraction of people who have, or are developing, chronic illness where insured, "standard medicine" does not have good, straight treatments or cures, but others do. Hence, such chronic illness sufferers will have an even greater economic barrier to survive and thrive. Obamacare virtually guarantees a deeper, more profound bankruptcy of the country, more quickly passing economic power to Asia, especially China.
Obamacare does not effectively cover me or my parent, and is a threat to doctors that do know what biochemically works - in this case, advanced, "alternative" therapeutic nutrition. I am moving to Asia to get the 4% solution, this month. The current medical system failed both my parents, one painfully long dead, the other balked and iatrogenically damaged many times. "Standard medicine" failed me, too, finally recognizing even part the problem *after* being solved.
This year, my remaining parent had multiple iatrogenic miseries, was dying and giving up. Since I took over the nursing supervision, medical literature search, consulted "alternative" doctors (MD+DO), integrated their advice, things have gotten much, much better for my remaining parent. I consider ordinary geriatric medicine and nutrition in hospitals and nursing homes barbaric. Their "standard practices" are generally so dangerous and miserable, I can't even call them "euth centers".
I pay over $8200 a month to keep my last parent alive, healthy and happy here, after a lot of medical interference. Medicare has been largely a waste of money the last 12 months. In Asia, my bills drop to under $2000 a month with superior nursing, and even house calls. I am dumping subsidized Medicare Part B & D "insurance" (outside coverage area). Asia is cheaper than any co-pay in most cases, if Medicare even covered it.
I never played doctor as a kid. A National Merit Scholar and off to an uber university at 16 where most valedictorians can't get in, then grad school, I had no interest in medicine. Circumstances have forced me to confront it, to research 75 years of massive literature, to figure out some of its errors, and to overcome these errors in real life, several years investment. I think our current medical system already has as much corruption and problems as Soviet history had in 1990. Pelosi-Obamacare will be raise the temperature and pressure of the core like a late stage, giant star progressing toward supernova.
I have had to live without refridgeration before, e.g right after I bought a home with my last cent of disposable income. Used canned goods and a part time ice chest for several months.
My prices are US, and much lower than average, because I know who has what deals. e.g. milk in US is typically $3.29-$4.50/gal, with $3 a little more common now (depression). I found one place, a drug store chain around the corner that has a $1.99/gallon traffic builder for months on end. As a side note, in one 3rd world country I stop in, milk is $2-3/liter, goat's milk version preferred over the local cow.
The chicken thighs are the lower price chains in town or others' sales prices, nothing sketchier than usual (depending on how critical you are about factory food in general). $1.29 ham are typically ham shanks, say 6-9 kg, low cost chains like Walmart. Eggs from sales store well with a little cooling - eggs used to be commercially stored in merely fan cooled rooms with slight water evaporation in the humind US south for 3-4 days prior to sale, even in summer (15C-20C?).
Yes, GST and VAT taxes do wonders for the cost of (not) living in most of the (de)developed world outside the US west of the Mississippi.
Quaker Oats, over priced refined carbs. White onion, more costly, more carb than yellow onions, ~$15 for 50#. OJ is expensive liquid sugar, better to find sale veggies and vitamins. Olive oil is good uncooked but lard or gallon canola is cheaper and better for cooking.
Yes, I can imagine it. I did it, got to a good weight and got healthier. Cutting sugar and carbs along with getting enough vitamins should be #1 for most (~3/4) people.
I am exploring where potential bottom costs are for healthful and doable, not easy or exciting, living. Economy of scale (living with relatives and friends), debt, transport and housing are critical cost questions that range from "free" to crisis on cost or nonavailability. And there is a point of low budget, where maintaining health becomes problematic. In America, many are still above that point financially, maing poor choices and damaging their health and finances.
Actually where I live, precut frozen thighs are usually cheaper than whole chicken, very easy and fast. The cheapest produce is often affordable (cabbage, 50# onions, supersale items), DIY (sprouts), or easy on a short fence (beans, tomatoes).
What I see here are poor people that unfortunately squander resources on junk, costly debt, or relentelssly advertised choices instead of making do with traditional, less glamorous.
Btw lest you think I am all stonehearted, I make a point of buying someone a square meal on the job for my work, at higher than average cafeteria prices. And I try to make sure they get inexpensive vitamins (1-2 multi, winter D 2000+iu), even if I have to provide them.
I travel to third world countries and we as a country still don't know what really poor is. Modern sugar and carb levels are the bane of most people's bodies (at 3/4 genetically), perhaps especially the poor. The trick is paying all the bills, not running out of money, not getting sucked in on small but expensive "comforts". Even in the poorest coutries, I see how relentlessly carbs (e.g sodas) and cigarettes are hawked to the poor, even one stick at a time.
I have lived on beans before, not now, carbs became a vitamin and mineral problem (inadequate B, C, Cr, Mg). However, I look at how my grandparents lived, and see what we do wrong today when poor.
"if not sugary junk to get you through the working day" Cabbage, bulk yellow onion, garlic, cheapest pepper, oil, thighs as primary base, low carb food plus cheapest, low carb, colored produce. That includes canned tomato products. And water or tea. (Much) Cheaper than what I see many poor Americans eat. (I admit, I may not be competitive on a food basis with 3rd world poor)
I had to go to this diet after being wrecked by a now withdrawn (p)harmaceutical that made me sick and extremely carb/gluten intolerant.
"Welfare queens" are not a myth, they are history. TANF was developed and passed in 1996 specifically to replace AFDC for this reason, after peaking in about the 1970s when some states began to tighten up their rules. Many bricks form the social net, also there are income credits (EIC), Social Security (for deceased/disabled spouses) and still various forms of charity.
Also careful shopping can reduce food cost far below average. I've been hiring 2-3 low wage earners/week this year and I notice they spend far more on junk (20 oz branded soda, Cheetos, etc) alone than I spend on half or more of my at home meals (e.g. carved ham, $1.29/lb, two eggs, @$.78-1.10/doz, toast, tomato, $1.99/gal milk/tea and vitamin, 3 cents). Chicken, $0.78/ lb, and fresh produce are usually cheaper, too. I am sure that I am a more careful shopper, although I just pick up staples and specials at their lowest cost place in my part of town, passing by.
Even today, I am not so sure about welfare being below the incremental cost per child for careful shoppers (e.g. $3/day for healthy food, thrift shop or handed down clothes, and often incrementally free housing.)
Rice University has a vaccine production researcher that suggests last year's "wrong strain" vaccine increased one's chances of getting H1N1 this year because the "antigenetic distance" yields wrongly targeted (dud) antibodies.
Respected researchers' report from Canada say the odds for getting H1N1 this year were doubled for recipients of last year's flu shot.
Yes, above the "emergency storage level" of ascorbate, excretion at the higher level occurs in 5-6 hrs. That is why healthy people have to take it 4-5 times per day to maintain plasma levels. Sick people typically every 1/2 to 2 hours due to higher chemical demands.
Vitamin C is ubiquitous in the plant world, no shortage. Our distant ancestors were designed to piggyback on nature's supply without the energy drain. Experiments using less frequent dosing should be viewed as rigged or incompetent since some pharmacokinetics have been published since at least the early 1940s.
I would seriously investigate literature about taking high dose supplements such as hourly vitamin C (2 grams/hr, up to bowel tolerance perhaps 12+ g/hr), high doses of vitamin D (e.g. 10,000 - 20,000 iu for several days).
See: Cochrane review on C and pneumonia http://www.cochrane.org/reviews/en/ab005532.html
See also various papers by Fred R Klenner and Robert Cathcart, championed by later physicians like Tom Levy and orthomolecular MDs.
Modern research in the med schools shows the need for much higher levels of vitamin D, at vitaminDcouncil.org