Re: OT: "pitched the spoon"

2005-10-26 Thread OrionWorks
> From: Jed Rothwell > Now that you mention it, I wonder what "throw in the > towel" refers to? As already stated by others I believe it refers to when in a boxing match the trainer throws in the towel to the ring when it looks obvious to him that his fighter is being beaten to a bloody pulp b

Re: OT: Bird flu resistant to Tamiflu

2005-10-26 Thread RC Macaulay
Jones wrote.. Stephen, > Now, time for an anecdote:  My father lived through the 1918 flu, in > Philadelphia; he remembered the coffins stacked by the sides of the > streets Very simple, really:  No aspirin...  The doctor figured flu > couldn't stand alchohol, and told ever

Re: Nature giving an inch?

2005-10-26 Thread Jones Beene
the New Energy Times mascot? Porksie the flying pig?   Hah... the "icon of improbability"? http://www.flying-pig.co.uk/pagesv/pig.htm > FG: I must congratulate whoever on the no mean feat of getting this > heavier than air creature to fly. Does "no mean feat" have "average toes"... ?  

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Re: Nature giving an inch?

2005-10-26 Thread Grimer
At 03:57 pm 26/10/2005 -0700, you wrote: > By the way, have you seen the New Energy Times mascot? Porksie the flying pig? > > http://newenergytimes.com/Images/Porksie.jpg > > Cheers, > > Steve As the originator of the Dr Pork sobriquet (according to the Mail Archives, see, http://www.mail-arc

RE: Bubble Wrap Insulation & Plastic Netting

2005-10-26 Thread Terry Blanton
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Re: OT: "pitched the spoon"

2005-10-26 Thread Alex Caliostro
From: Jed Now that you mention it, I wonder what "throw in the towel" refers to? Obviously you have not seen "Rocky". Throwing in the towel in boxing is concession of defeat. The ceceeding side literally tossed the towel into the ring. _ -alex _

Re: Bubble Wrap Insulation & Plastic Netting

2005-10-26 Thread Frederick Sparber
Alex Caliostro wrote: > > It's just that I remember those blisters I used to get from shelling corn. > But the cobs save on paper! > Aw shucks Alex, I did my share of that too.   The husking  tool was a 20 penny spike through a leather loop on the middle finger. Great time for philosophical di

Re: Nature giving an inch?

2005-10-26 Thread Steven Krivit
Jed, I watch the conventional media with both a telescope and a microscope on this subject matter. I agree with you. And I think it's more than an inch. "Largely discredited" literally means there is some credit. You are seeing the mechanisms of mass media and control of public opinion at wo

RE: OT: The RumsFlu strike hard

2005-10-26 Thread John Steck
It's not about enough, it's about more. Greed is good, greed works. It drives things. It pushes things forward. Capitalism is self limiting by simple market economics and pack mentality (destroy the weak, perpetually challenge the leader). Democracy is but an ideal (the champion of democracy i

RE: Bubble Wrap Insulation & Plastic Netting

2005-10-26 Thread John Steck
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Re: OT: "pitched the spoon"

2005-10-26 Thread Jed Rothwell
OrionWorks wrote: Don't leave me dangling, Jed! What is the "spoon" reference in regards to? Now that you mention it, I wonder what "throw in the towel" refers to? The Japanese expression is similar in meaning, but grimmer. In Japanese it is, "saji wo nageru." A saji, or spoon, was seldom us

OT: "pitched the spoon"

2005-10-26 Thread OrionWorks
Jed sez: > ...I threw in the towel (or as the Japanese say, > "pitched the spoon") >- Jed Don't leave me dangling, Jed! What is the "spoon" reference in regards to? I suspect my personal interpretation of a coach tossing a wooden spoon into a sumo wresting match to call it quits isn't correct.

Re: Bubble Wrap Insulation & Plastic Netting

2005-10-26 Thread Frederick Sparber
The trouble with corn stoves is that many town-city codes have no-burn days (the fines can be as high as $300.00) and the insurance rates go through the roof. IOW, you're up the creek. FJS > [Original Message] > From: Alex Caliostro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Date: 10/26/05 3:22:10 PM > Subje

Need assistance with Schwinger paper

2005-10-26 Thread Jed Rothwell
I have converted the following paper from an image format to Microsoft Word format: Schwinger, J. Nuclear Energy in an Atomic Lattice. in The First Annual Conference on Cold Fusion. 1990. University of Utah Research Park, Salt Lake City, Utah: National Cold Fusion Institute. Before I upload this

RE: Nature giving an inch?

2005-10-26 Thread Akira Kawasaki
Oct 26, 2005 Vortex, I used to subscribe to Nature. I still receive their Nature Alerts when the next issue comes out. It gives a brief sentence on their various topics covered. The article in question discusses the activity of Putterman and his experiments in sonoluminescence at UCLA. Nothing new

Re: Nature giving an inch?

2005-10-26 Thread OrionWorks
Jed sez: > The Google Alerts program brought me the following link: > > http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051024/full/4371224a.html > > I am not a subscriber to nature.com, so I do not know what > the article says, but Google brought me a partial quote: > > "Physics: Far from the frontier > > N

Re: OT: Bird flu resistant to Tamiflu

2005-10-26 Thread Jones Beene
Stephen, > Now, time for an anecdote:  My father lived through the 1918 flu, in > Philadelphia; he remembered the coffins stacked by the sides of the > streets Very simple, really:  No aspirin...  The doctor figured flu > couldn't stand alchohol, and told everybody to get drunk as soon a

Re: Bubble Wrap Insulation & Plastic Netting

2005-10-26 Thread Alex Caliostro
From: "Frederick Sparber" With natural gas selling at $1.45 per therm and going to $2.00 by next week, this might be a good investment for temporary "thermo-pane" solar heat, and insulation. Well, Fred, at two bucks a therm, it's time to say "aw shucks". http://www.americasheat.com/ At $2

Nature giving an inch?

2005-10-26 Thread Jed Rothwell
The Google Alerts program brought me the following link: http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051024/full/4371224a.html I am not a subscriber to nature.com, so I do not know what the article says, but Google brought me a partial quote: "Physics: Far from the frontier Nature.com (subscription) - L

Re: OT: Bird flu resistant to Tamiflu

2005-10-26 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Jed Rothwell wrote: By the way, if you are in the mood to panic, here is a worst-case scenario described in an imaginary future blog, published in Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v435/n7041/full/435400a.html QUOTE: "27 February 2006 Everyone for themselves I watch the scene

Re: OT: Bird Flu and Vitamin C

2005-10-26 Thread Mark Goldes
Alex, I believe Selinium was included in the list Pauling published. Mark From: "Alex Caliostro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: vortex-l@eskimo.com To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: OT: Bird Flu and Vitamin C Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:53:54 -0600 From: "Mark Goldes" I take a variety of

Re: OT: Bird Flu and Vitamin C

2005-10-26 Thread Alex Caliostro
From: "Mark Goldes" I take a variety of supplements starting with the list Pauling used himself provided in How to Live Longer and Feel Better. You are correct that large does of C should not be taken without other necessary vitamins as well as replacements for the trace minerals that C washe

Re: OT: Bird Flu and Vitamin C

2005-10-26 Thread Mark Goldes
I take a variety of supplements starting with the list Pauling used himself provided in How to Live Longer and Feel Better. You are correct that large does of C should not be taken without other necessary vitamins as well as replacements for the trace minerals that C washes out of the system.

Re: OT: Bird Flu and Vitamin C

2005-10-26 Thread Alex Caliostro
From: "Mark Goldes" I have been taking 12 grams of C daily for many years and following Cathcart by increasing the dose sharply when symptoms of a virus appear. You should also be taking other antioxidants. For example, selenium deficiency in the soil has been shown to correlate with certai

Re: Bird Flu and Vitamin C

2005-10-26 Thread Mark Goldes
Jones, vo, I have been taking 12 grams of C daily for many years and following Cathcart by increasing the dose sharply when symptoms of a virus appear. Alacer SuperGram II from VitaCost.com is a source that greatly reduces the probability of stomach discomfort. These green 1 gram pills are e

OT: Amantadine for Bird Flu

2005-10-26 Thread Jones Beene
Amantadine is a precursor drug of Tamiflu, and is used in the treatment of Parkinson's syndrome.  The Russian doctors who discovered this anti-viral use - have been treating far more cases of Avian flu than we have, especially as it moves across Asia, and say that it does treat the most comm

Re: OT: Bird Flu and Vitamin C

2005-10-26 Thread Alex Caliostro
From: "Jones Beene" Cathcart's web site says treatment of the Bird Flu with massive doses of ascorbate would be the same as any other flu except that the severity of the disease indicates that it may take unusually massive doses of ascorbic acid orally, or even intravenous sodium ascorbate.

Re: Bird Flu and Vitamin C

2005-10-26 Thread Jones Beene
Cathcart's web site says treatment of the Bird Flu with massive doses of ascorbate would be the same as any other flu except that the severity of the disease indicates that it may take unusually massive doses of ascorbic acid orally, or even intravenous sodium ascorbate. According to him, IF

Re: Bubble Wrap Insulation & Plastic Netting

2005-10-26 Thread Frederick Sparber
With natural gas selling  at $1.45 per therm and going to $2.00 by next week, this might be a good investment for temporary "thermo-pane" solar heat, and insulation.   In the early 1990s I tried some "bubble wrap" on a horizontal surface at 40 F outdoor air temperature at around 9:00 AM. The tem

Re: OT: The RumsFlu strike hard

2005-10-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vortexians- I some times wonder- How much money would be enough for the rich and greedy? The average person of today can work is whole live and justmake a million dollars if he never misses a day of work. Yet the rich and greedy can

Re: Job offer message

2005-10-26 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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OT: Sir Clarke on Communications

2005-10-26 Thread Alex Caliostro
http://www.forbes.com/2005/10/19/clarke-arthur-communications_comm05_cx_ac_1024clarke.html I thought Jed might enjoy this anecdote since he uses voice recog s/w: "(My own first attempts to train one of the best current systems had hilarious results. When I said, ‘Now is the time for all good me

RE: Bird Flu and Vitamin C

2005-10-26 Thread Mark Goldes
Could be. Cathcart discovered that several viral diseases believed impossible to treat, such as viral pneumonia, and AIDS, respond to massive doses of Vitamin C. He was using up to 200 grams some years ago. Above 100 grams daily is administered by injection, not orally. Before Linus Pauli

Re: OT: Bird flu resistant to Tamiflu

2005-10-26 Thread Alex Caliostro
From: Jed Rothwell Do you really, seriously think that you know more about this than all those researchers and doctors who are urging governments to stockpile Tamiflu? Have you yet wondered why there is a shortage of Tamiflu? What limits its manufacture? Turns out it is a Chinese spice an

Bird Flu and Vitamin C

2005-10-26 Thread Frederick Sparber
300 to 400 grams of Vitamin C is 300/454  to 400/454  (0.66 to 0.88 pound) dosage Mark.    I don't put away much more food per day.  :-(   Can that be right?   FJS        

Re: Cheap Hydrogen

2005-10-26 Thread Frederick Sparber
Robin van Spaandonk wrote:   http://freshpatents.com/Radiant-energy-dissociation-of-molecular-water-into-molecular-hydrogen-dt20050210ptan20050029120.php   >  At least one slip up?> >[0047] For example, as the hydrogen species exits the reaction zone from > >within the membrane 18, it recombines

Re: Cheap Hydrogen

2005-10-26 Thread Robin van Spaandonk
In reply to Frederick Sparber's message of Tue, 25 Oct 2005 06:20:09 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Ronny Bar-Gadda is quite ambitious. :-) > >http://freshpatents.com/Radiant-energy-dissociation-of-molecular-water-into-molecular-hydrogen-dt20050210ptan20050029120.php > At least one slip up? >[0047] For exam