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"The Genius" Lanny Poffo recently took the time to answer questions from SLAM! Wrestling readers. In this second part, he talks about his time in the Poffo-run ICW, Mid-South and the WWF.
Q: How and why did your brother start ICW in 1979? [Courtney Marshall]
LANNY: Short version, it was not my idea. I came along as a favour to my dad and my brother. I was going to Los Angeles; Roddy Piper got me a great spot in Los Angeles. My dad called me up and asked if I would please come, and I said okay. I'm not the kind of a guy that likes to promote, and I don't like going up and auditioning anybody. My idea was wrestle, get paid, put it in the bank and be happy.
Q: Why did your brother have it in for Jerry Jarrett and Jerry Lawler's promotion? Was it to get attention or did he really not like people at Jarrett Promotions? [Courtney Marshall]
LANNY: Yeah, there was some animosity there. Something about, Randy was Nick Gulas' biggest star. ... When we were in the Maritimes, Randy had carved himself out a deal to go on top for Jerry Jarrett. But what they did, they had, between Nick Gulas and Jerry Jarrett, they made a deal, that 'if you do this, I'll give Randy back to you.' Because of that, Randy didn't get his break with Jerry Jarrett, which was the better territory. That's what started everything.
Q: Please talk about the match you had with your brother Randy in an empty arena. Why did it take place? When was it and who won? [Andy Metivier, Bloomington, Illinois]
LANNY: Bill Apter, it was his idea. Bill Apter and Jerry Lawler decided to do it. It was not an actual match. It was a lot of posed action shots, if you know what I mean. In other words, it was just a pretend article.
Q: What were your thoughts on wrestling Randy Savage in an Empty Arena match at the Mid South Coliseum with Jerry Lawler as special referee? [Brian Westcott, Meridian, Idaho]
LANNY: Listen, if it wasn't a good article, he wouldn't have remembered it.
Q: One of my top five tag teams of all time was Poffomania in Memphis. When your brother Randy piledrove Ricky Morton on the table that night at the Mid South Coliseum, did you think at that moment one or both might be seriously injured? [Chuck Morris, Marks, MS]
LANNY: First off all, he wasn't injured, and I never thought that he would be injured because, I've wrestled Randy a thousand times, and Randy cannot possibly hurt you -- he was too good. Even if it looked horrible, even if it looked deadly, Randy knew how to protect his opponent and there's no question about it, he never made a mistake with another person. As a matter of fact, the whole thing was planned and Ricky Morton is one of the greatest babyfaces I've ever seen.
GREG: He sold it really well.
LANNY: You're damn right he did. That's why you thought he was dead.
Q: Do you think any of your father's territory like those matches would ever get made into a DVD set? [Ryan Mitchell]
LANNY: He sold those rights years ago.
GREG: So will they see the light of day?
LANNY: No, they never will. To be honest with you, there's some on YouTube, and there were some great highlights because they had some great workers -- Bob Orton Jr., Ronnie Garvin, Bob Roop, different people, One Man Gang, people that finally made it, of course, Randy himself. That's why it's interesting. Other than that, some of the moments from TV were forgettable.
GREG: Who does own the rights?
LANNY: They sold it out to a group called Capitol Oil, which has now gone bankrupt, I think.
Q: Have you ever broken toes wrestling barefoot?
LANNY: I broke my ankle when I was 19. I wore boots from then on.
Q: Why didn't your brother come with you to Mid South, he could have had feuds with Jim Duggan, Ted DiBiase, Terry Taylor, and others? Bill Watts would have loved him there. [Courtney Marshall]
LANNY: Actually, he almost did. I was trying to get him in there with me, and Bill Watts wanted to team us up. What happened was Randy went into Jerry Jarrett's place and he wrestled Lawler, and they sold out, they had that kind of a match, and that popped the territory. So what happened was, I just went to Memphis.
Q: I hear workers bitch about how promoters take advantage and have it easy. You did commentary, you set up interviews, put up rings, and promoted for ICW, how hard is it to promote or run a wrestling promotion? [Courtney Marshall]
LANNY: Bill Watts used to say, 'If you think it's easy, buy your own territory, or start your own.' It isn't easy. Anybody who says it's easy had better try it. It's just not easy, and I refuse to criticize promoters.
Q: What was Bill Watts like as promoter to work for? [Courtney Marshall]
LANNY: I thought he was fantastic, and I consider him the second greatest promoter that I've ever worked for.
GREG: After Vince McMahon?
LANNY: Yes.
Q: I know you spent a while wrestling in the Maritimes, and I wanted to know if you enjoyed living in the area. [Pete Jarvis, Hamilton, Ontario]
LANNY: Yes I did very much. I love lobster, I loved the people. I wrestled in Digby with the scallops. I think the prettiest thing I've ever seen is the Cabot Trail, in Cape Breton. [EDITOR'S NOTE: See 2009's Lanny Poffo's Maritime memories]
LANNY: His professionalism in the ring and his practical jokes in the locker room.
Q: I always liked the gimmick of "The Genius." Who came up with the idea? You or Vince McMahon? [Lee]
LANNY: It was Randy's idea. He always looked out for me!
Q: What was it like hosting Randy's Coronation? In regards to none of us kids knew at the time they were brothers.
LANNY: It was one of the proudest moments in my life!
Q: Please thank him for all the memories. I've been watching for 30 years and Poffo was around for a good chunk, and The Genius character was very good. Rarely do gimmicks work so well and once combined with Mr. Perfect it was great. I met him in Ottawa a few years ago and my friends always laugh at how he kept watching his luggage like we were gonna take off with it (we had snuck backstage). Side story and here's actually another question too - at the time we met him the police were searching all over the place for Abdullah The Butcher, it was crazy - you'd have thought he murdered someone. Maybe Lanny can inform us as to what actually happened that night. One last thing, Macho Man was one of the BEST. EVER. Make sure he knows this. :)
LANNY: I honestly don't remember. I wrestled barefoot that night because I'd given my boots to a charity auction. I decided to buy new boots because of poor ankle support.
Q: Did you enjoy your big push in the WWE against Hulk Hogan in 1989, especially the Saturday Night's Main Event match where you won by countout and Mr. Perfect smashed up the WWE World Heavyweight Championship belt with a hammer? [Brian Westcott, Meridian, Idaho]
LANNY: If he goes to my website, he'll think I have selected memory. I don't remember anything about being a jabroni, I just remember that. Out of my 21-year journeyman career, that's the moment I want to remember. If you go in the video section, my appearance on Regis and that match are at the top, and everything else is less or missing.
Q: Saturday Night's Main Event you had a few big moments including the battle royal headbutt from Andre the Giant -- was that blading or was that supposed to happen? It looked brutal. [Ryan Mitchell]
LANNY: It was supposed to happen, and it was supposed to look brutal. I'm very proud of it. I was the sacrificial lamb and the guy that chose me was Gorilla Monsoon. He said, 'Lanny, I just got out of a production meeting' -- I was already in a dark match, I wasn't in this battle royal. So they promoted me to the battle royal and my job was to do that for Andre. He said, 'Don't make a monkey out of me. I trusted you to do this.' I said, 'I'd never make a monkey out of a Gorilla. Leave it to me.' I'm going to say that Gorilla Monsoon would always help me every chance he had to help me.
Q: You and Mr. Perfect along with Ted DiDiase were some of the most important workers in that show, how was the SNME environment different from a pay per view or house show back in 1990 or 1991? [Ryan Mitchell]
LANNY: It felt like it had a lot more pressure on it. That's when you started seeing writers, and now they have writers all the time, scripted interviews. That was the first time it had ever happened, on NBC. In fact, the night I wrestled Hogan, the guy from NBC wrote a poem for me to recite. I went up to Vince and I said, 'This guy wrote a poem for me. I've already got one, and mine's better.' He said, 'Oh no, don't worry about it. Use yours. They just try to do these things.' Of course, mine was better, because I was The Genius 24 hours a day. This guy, he gave it about a minute's thought and wrote a poem.
Q: Could you feel the business was heading down or up at that point? [Ryan Mitchell]
LANNY: Oh, it was tremendous for the prestige, because there's something about a network that makes people look at you a little differently.
Q: What was interesting about your match with Hogan and Perfect's match was that you guys were not monster heels, so those matches must have made hogan feel vulnerable a bit... [Ryan Mitchell]
LANNY: Hogan, he was smart enough to know that he had to work with a variety of people, otherwise he's just a one-dimensional champion. But he got to wrestle King Kong Bundy and he got to wrestle The Genius, and everybody in between, in order for him to be viable as the nucleus of a great organization. Every challenger brings something to the table. I brought comedy. Let me say this too, now that The Genius gimmick is done, the one influence, I only copied one person, well, I copied a lot of people, but the one person that I copied was Peter Sellers as the Pink Panther movies as Inspector Clouseau. Now in the fact that I was always trying to gain my dignity back, but always making an ass of myself.
LANNY: Yes they did, and that was 100% my idea. The first time I was on TNT, remember that? I did a poem and Vince said, 'That was great. From now on you do a poem before every match.' So I remembered when I was a boy. Do you remember Al Costello and Roy Heffernam, the Fabulous Kangaroos? Well, they used to throw boomerangs, cardboard boomerangs. They brought a real boomerang into the ring, but threw cardboard ones, and on them were information about the Kangaroos, Heffernam, Costello and Red Berry. Al Costello thought of that. I decided to do scrolls, and I realized as soon as I did it the first time that they weren't going anywhere. I couldn't even throw it past the ringside cage. I said, 'I can't use a boomerang, because I'm not an Australian. What is it that I can do that soars? Ah, a Frisbee!' That's when I bought 500 Frisbees, and before I was out of Frisbees, the marketing guys came up and said, 'Do you mind if we use these?' I said, 'Do I mind? I want you to!' From then, I would get the Frisbees from them. I was the only wrestler that would go upstairs, after the matches were over, or before the matches, and sit there, talk to people, sign autographs, and my Frisbees sold out every night. Before I became The Genius, they sold out every night, 300,000 Frisbees at the venues, five dollars a piece, I got a nickel a Frisbee -- and I didn't do it for the nickel, I did it so that some day they would think I was marketable.
GREG: That's surprising it was just a nickel.
LANNY: You have to think large. They had me underneath. I was there to prove that I didn't belong there, and that's what I tried to prove. It worked because I wound up as Hulk Hogan's nemesis, so I'm definitely not ashamed of trying harder.
Q: I think its special you had those little narrative moments with Randy Savage. Can you remember the poem you wrote from SummerSlam 1989? [Ryan Mitchell]
LANNY: No, I don't remember that much. I just remember that the end of it was ... I think it's on YouTube! I've written so many, that doesn't stand out as one of my better ones either.
Q: Were there any other promotions you and Randy wanted to work for like Crockett Promotions, AWA, World Class, or Japan before considering the WWF in 1985? [Courtney Marshall]
LANNY: No, there wasn't. Everybody was going out of business at that time, they were either dead or dying.
Q: What did you perceive WWF and Vince McMahon before you worked for them? And did it change after? [Courtney Marshall]
LANNY: I'll tell you what, he didn't disappoint me. It was the best I've ever been treated ...
Q: What was the WWF schedule like in 1980s? [Courtney Marshall]
LANNY: The thing is, I never missed a shot and I always made sure I got my rest. See, a lot of these guys stay up all night drinking, partying, doing whatever they did, oxy continen, or whatever they take, that led to premature death all the time. I thought that the schedule wasn't that bad. You fly to the town, you get to the gym, you get your rest, and you work. Trust me, one time I was in Manchester, Kentucky, and there was a coal miner with black on his face, and he says, 'Isn't wrestling a tough life?' I said, 'Holy! You're a coal miner! I couldn't last one day in a coal mine. Wrestling is cake.'
GREG: That concludes the questions.
LANNY: Can I mention one more thing? I go to these independent shows and I meet people that would have killed to get the break I got. They are actually just as qualified, or more sometimes, but they can't get the break. But I always tell them, 'Listen, the Macho Man was 32 when he made his debut into Madison Square Gardens. Well, how old are you?' 'I'm 21.' 'In 11 years, then get discouraged.'


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Elizabeth Shogren, a veteran newspaper reporter, came to NPR in February 2005 to cover environmental issues on the National Desk.
Prior to NPR, Shogren spent 14 years as a reporter on a variety of beats at The Los Angeles Times. For the last four years she reported on environmental issues in Washington, D.C., and across the country. From 1993 - 2000, Shogren worked from The Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau covering the White House, Congress, social policy, money and politics, and presidential campaigns. During that time, Shogren was given the opportunity to travel abroad on short-term foreign reporting assignments, including the Kosovo crisis in 1999, the Bosnian war in 1996, and Russian elections in 1993 and 1996. Before joining the Washington bureau, Shogren was based in Moscow where she covered the breakup of the Soviet Union and the rise of democracy in Russia for the newspaper.
Beginning in 1988, Shogren worked as a freelance reporter based in Moscow, publishing in a variety of newspapers and magazines, including Newsweek, The Dallas Morning News, the San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Post. During that time, she covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution in Prague.
Shogren's career in journalism began in the wire services. She worked for the Associated Press in Chicago and at United Press International in Albany, NY.
After earning a B.A. in Russian studies at the University of Virginia in 1985, Shogren went on to receive an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University in 1987.
In her free time, Shogren enjoys hiking and backcountry skiing with her husband, Jeff, and their dog, Trekker.

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If you want to know, I'm totally in need of attention. Perhaps this obsessive neediness is why I adore acting in theater productions. You don't realize how much I crave and actually start to have withdrawals if I fail to get my fix of at least one theater acting role per season over at the community town theater.
Yes, I'm an attention starved actor and blogger who is feeling a bit insecure at this moment.
ATTENTION, please feed it to me!
It's Friday night, well Saturday early morning now, since I can't seem to press the publish button yet and everyone I know is busy! Busy doing their own world and I'm here . . . with you, and in need. Well, you, meaning my computer screen and keyboard. A glass of beer is here too. Well, that's been way gone a long time ago. Sigh.
Wait. I'll be right back. My automatic rice cooker just beeped done and I guess that means I need to eat something. Hmmn . . . I wonder what would go well with the need for attention?
Come along if you like and you can see what a
flourishing starving actor/ blogger eats.
You know, in some ways, blogging is a lot like going through with an audition. You hope the director will cast you for the lead role and if not, at least get a minor role-playing any character you can land! (I'm both starving and desperate!)
And here I type away at my blog and secretly hope, when I press the publish button, that many, many readers will enjoy my posts.
You see, once you've auditioned for a part or pressed the publish button after putting your heart and soul into the one post you feel will get the view numbers for your stats skyrocketing beyond your wildest dreams, you have to wait. Wait, I tell you!!
Wait for the director to call you with the good news that you landed a lead part!
Wait for the blog readers you know will pour in at any moment now.
Then, after a zillion thoughts of how you should have written this or read the part in a different voice for the audition, the phone rings.
"Yes, this is she. Oh, I see. You were looking for an older female lead? I see. . ."
(This is what's really going on in my brain: Umm, is the director really telling me the truth or did I totally fail during auditions?? I must have failed! I didn't bring the character to life so the director has a better actor to play the part! I knew I should have . . .)
"You would like me to play a minor role as a, what??
Did I hear you say, you would like to cast me as the hooker in your play?
Erm, uh, gee, okay?!"
Hey, a part is a part, right??
Well, this attention hungry, wanna-be-
famous actor/ wanna-be- famous blogger, is doing what she has learned best from lots of rehearsals–acting the lead role of waiting for that golden moment to arrive . . . it should be any minute now.
What can I say. I'm a bit ashamed to have told you of my insecure mental gymnastics I perform after every audition and after every published post. Perhaps I should remind myself of the famous words by Harold W. Dodds, that,
Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best. ( brainyquote.com)
Have you felt a need for attention or the knock of insecurity lately?
Cheers to the insecurities we each face and the best that comes from it!
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California Congresswoman Maxine Waters found herself at the center of a unique controversy last week — not necessarily because of something she said, but because of a disparaging remark made about her.
It all started Tuesday. Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly — himself no stranger to controversy — earned the internet's ire when he likened Waters' hair to a James Brown wig.
O'Reilly later apologized for the criticism.
Rep. Waters responded swiftly on Twitter and in an interview on MSNBC, in which she proclaimed:
"I'm a strong black woman, and I cannot be intimidated. I cannot be undermined. I cannot be thought to be afraid of Bill O'Reilly or anybody."
While there are many who might disagree with Waters' political stances, few would deny that when she does take a stand, she does so loudly and publicly.
Brenda Stevenson, a professor of history and African American studies at UCLA, says personal attacks like those leveled by Fox host O'Reilly are hardly new. She says that when black women speak out, they're often criticized, portrayed as masculine, and written off as "angry."
Stevenson spoke with Take Two's Austin Cross.
What makes a strong black woman?
I think that the notion of the strong black woman comes out of slavery. Black women were workers along with men and did the same kind of work that men did. And so, African American women have been thought of as being physically strong, but also emotionally strong because they've had to endure certain kinds of oppressions that perhaps all other women in the United States have not had to.
Sometimes it's a matter of perspective, though, right? A strong black woman to one person just might get stereotyped as an angry black woman.
That's certainly true. African American women in the public imagination often do come off as being angry or aggressive and that is the other side of the "strength" image.
If you are not a submissive person as women are — or used to be at any rate — then you are considered to be angry. Being in command of yourself, being in control of your job, being in command of your home if you are the breadwinner in the family or if you are the only adult within the household — that is something that people have often thought of as being angry.
And that really brings us to Bill O'Reilly's remarks about Maxine Waters last week. It got a lot of attention. You argue that you've seen this kind of thing before. It's shown up in history a lot. How so?
Often, when people deal with women who are in possession of themselves, who speak out for themselves, the thing to do is undercut the woman by making some remark about the way that they look. The way that they speak. The kind of hair that they have. It's a very typical sexist remark that undercuts the power of that particular woman at that moment.
Press the blue play button above to hear Brenda Stevenson's reflections on last week's exchange between White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and veteran reporter April Ryan.
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The CGI is absolutely horrible and the trailer song as cringy as usual but I'm into how colorful and weird this looks!
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TOKYO VAMPIRE HOTEL has been edited from its series format into an 142 minute feature film, which is how it is to play film festivals and how it is shopped around to Western distributors.
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Could he have been talking about PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND, the film that'll see him team up with Nicholas Cage and which is currently being pre-sold at Cannes?
This isn't the first time Sono is about to make his English language debut as he was previously attached to the Scandinavian death metal flick LORDS OF CHAOS on which he was ultimately replaced by Jonas Åkerlund.Ghostland, penned by Aaron Hendry and Safai, centers on notorious criminal Hero (Cage) who is sent to rescue an abducted girl who has disappeared into a dark supernatural universe. They must break the evil curse that binds them and escape the mysterious revenants that rule the Ghostland, an East-meets-West vortex of beauty and violence.
Sono is very much a writer-director and as far as I know the only times he directed someone else's screenplays we got... SHINJUKU SWAN 1 and 2. The summary sounds Sono as fuck though, so maybe that won't be an issue here.
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That sounds interesting. Beats Shinjuku Swan 3 for sure.
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Sono has been hospitalized and had emergency surgery due to a heart attack.
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How is he doing now? Have not found any news or update on his recovery


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Recently students in Mrs. Mimi Leverett and Mrs. Amy Smith's Foley High School Hospitality and Tourism Academy were treated to a visit from pastry chef, Jim Hurtubise, from Faulkner's Culinary Institute in Gulf Shores, Alabama.
Chef Hurtubise held a scavenger hunt for the students with different types of culinary tools.
The students also reviewed knife safety and skills as well as the components and types of culinary knives. The students were able to practice some of the techniques learned from Chef Hurtubise.


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Think U Know Global network of professionals with a passion for protecting young people. Advice on how to stay safe online.
EFlightWiki Do you know what a 'Wiki' is? Visit this site to either learn about electrics or contribute your experience.
RCGroups/EZone The EZone has to be in your 'favourites' as it is an outstanding site. Free online magazine and huge reference database. Very addictive discussion forum! The search capability allows you to find almost anything, and if not, just ask the rest of the world!
The Future is Electric A major electric modelling site by Ken Myers. Free on-line monthly newsletter. Every link you can imagine. ESSENTIAL READING is shaw1(...4).pdf (755kb) which will help you design and lighten aircraft. On the same page scale.pdf suggests that Clark Y and NACA 2412/2410 are good airfoils for models.
Ornithopters The O Zone 'Flapping Flight Forum' is not about electrics but 'Freebird 2' is great for a little fun when you next fly indoors.
SEBRFC where I spend most weekends flying. Our club is affiliated to the BMFA...
BMFA The British Model Flying Association is the UK's controlling body for model aircraft and is a good source of info.
LRK Group 'Advanced' discussion group for LRK and CDRom motors. The daily summary is a good way to stay in touch.
POWER CROCO Outstanding site by Ralph Okin. Ralph drove the development of the Crocodile motors based on his earlier experience with motors based on Iomega Ditto drives.
PROFILI Outstanding program for designing airfoils. Free and cheap versions available. Stefano now also has a huge collection of free plans.
Foils Reasonable airfoil plotting program produced by John Hunt and is currently free (455kb). I like the washout option. Cannot draw spars.
PLOTFOIL can also draw spars, well sort of. It's harder than most programs to install on a PC though.
The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage provides a list of airfoils used on over 5500 aircraft. Root and tip airfoils provided.
TraCFoil seems to do a good job with many options. Available as a free 45 day trial.
Scale Model Research Bob Banka has this site which is major source of scale documentation (commercial). He has an on-line catalogue (pdf file) for his thousands of 3-views and photo packs. I've always been EXTREMELY impressed with the speed with which Bob has sent my order. UK supplier.
Eduardo has about 700 3-views on his site which he makes available for free. Won't suit F4C scale documentation but is nevertheless useful. Similar information here, perhaps better presented.
Flight Sims Have a range of free 3-views.
Aerofiles Basic information on aircraft manufacturers, over 10,000 US aircraft types and 1,800 photos. A good starting point when assessing the feasibility of scale projects.
Fantasy Planes if you are into the exotic!
Ezone You might like this thread on Mystery Planes too.
Unreal Aircraft The name probably says it all.
Vortex Vacuum formed plastic pilots and other stuff.
FlyingWings UK supplier of blocks and sliced sheets of the normal 'coarse grain' EPP. Lots of sizes (many thicknesses and most 600x900mm) and even two colours.
Flying Foam USA supplier who sell both blocks and sliced sheets of the normal 'coarse grain' EPP. They use a saw to cut sheets down to 3mm thick so they have no skin. Blocks are up to 4.75" thick.
HEItec German supplier with varying thicknesses and densities.
RobotBirds Have been known to stock some sheets in the UK.
Flite Hook can mail order fairly large sheets of Depron in the UK (600x800mm I believe) and can sell you double this size at the major shows. Here is their Email address and phone number 023 8086 1541.
DepronFoam for 2, 3 and 6mm depron in the UK.
Floor Heating Systems/Handy Heat/Depron Foam in the UK have 2, 3 and 6mm depron in white and grey.
Depron Australia for 2, 3 and 6mm depron in low volumes.
SAMS specialise in free flight in the UK and sometimes have various sizes and thicknesses.
Peck Polymers has been a regular supplier for Depron in the US.
Selit manufactures 'Selitron' in Germany which seems to be a Depron equivalent. Web site in English and German.
Saarpor manufacture another Depron equivalent called 'Climapor' in Germany. Web site in English and seven other languages. They list their European retailers.
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Ted's Remedies
My father's 10+ year sinus problem was cured simply by taking plenty of vitamin C taken for 2-3 months The dose I prefer is between 1000-3000 mg /day taken for about a month period. It is important that to clear some mucus, by liquifying them, taking 500 mg of N Acetyl Cysteine a day. Taking some vitamin A, weekly dose and vitamin E twice weekly may help too, one is to control the mucus, the other is to raise the antioxidant to protect the body against weakened immunity. The other, is to stay away from carpets, they are source of fungus. If carpet is to be cleaned or disinfected, spraying with borax solution and hydrogen peroxide helps.
It is necessary to alkalize yourself, in your condition I would imagine to be somewhat of a strong acidosis condition, so this would be about between 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda taken 2 times a day. A more better formula is to take that with citric acid, such as 1/4 teaspoon of citric acid and 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda, if you can find the citric acid! Once the body is more alkalized the fungus cannot grow. I have found rather by trial and error that certain kinds of viruses, and possibly fungus resides deep in the body's system where certain supplements are hard to reach, in which case I also found that only of BHT 2000 mg taken for only 3 days completely stopped most of the sinus and mucus issue. But it must be remembered that not all microbes do get killed with any one single supplements. But it is worth a try, at least for me. Some people I found have almost nonexistent iodine level as being the cause of chronic sinus. So taking kelp capsules as an iodine source will help, but it just takes a little time, by raising the body's own immune system. Zinc also help the same, and taken at weekly dose of zinc gluconate, 50 mg. For borax the typical dose is once or twice a week at 1/8 teaspoon in one liter of water or 1/4 teaspoon in one liter of water, plus several of drops of hydrogen peroxide (about 10 drops 3% H2O2 per liter). For Nasal irrigator the best one that is safe and non controversial is sea salt mixed with water. The concentration of sea salt should have the same salinity as your tears. Some people do add borax, but the amount the add is quite small, such as 50 mg per 50 cc. of water, well dissolved, should be relatively small. If not all is dissolved, remove the portion that does not dissolve.
In summary the one's I have best experience, at least for me, from sinus problems is the BHT, N Acetyl Cysteine, Borax, vitamin C sodium ascorbate and baking soda. The best one for me is the BHT, but again, I used BHT to prevent bird flu, which apparently some viruses are now displaying properties of bird flu viruses, by residing in the brain and neural regions, preventing the body's immune system from killing off the virus. Viruse do evolve by exchanging DNA, across species by what scientist refer to as horizontal gene transfer. Try to avoid coffee and replace them with green tea, UNSUGARED, and NO MILK. They do have antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties in green tea and may help the sinus condition as they have anti-fungal properties too."
2005: Ted from Bangkok, Thailand writes: "My father cured his sinus problems by taking large dosages of vitamin C for about 1-2 months. I had the same sinus problem and vitamin C did indeed work - it runs in the family, I guess.
Mayo Clinic some years ago did a study on sinus infections and its causes. It turns out that a large majority of people who have sinus issues had a fungus infection in their sinus areas. The cause turns out that it came from mildew and fungus of the carpets. If you clean the carpet or remove it that might just help the problem. Also, drinking diluted tea tree oil, thyme oil, might complement by clearing the blood area as well.
Yes, tea tree oil (it is anti-fungal) in dilution will help with sinus issues and is the one that produce the least irritation. A product called Sinus Buster is reported to do very well. The product is patented and uses diluted cayenne peppers to put in sinus area. However, there are other that have similar properties, such as white thyme oil, wild oregano (they are hot - so be careful), and eucalyptus oils. Some people use colloidal silver and mix these along with diluted tea tree oil and eucalyptus oil. This is reported to have worked well. Every time I have a sinus problems, I chew pure menthol crystals and breathe the fumes from my mouth and into my nose. This might also help your sinuses. My sister had an allergy problems for nearly 10 years, and somewhat of sinus problems. That was cured using N-Acetylcysteine.Vinegar is reported to to destroy fungus and have anti-fungal properties, therefore a using a humidifier and breathing in pure vinegar (5% acetic acid) might also help destroy the fungus. Ozone has been reportedly helpful with sinus provided it is used in conjunction with other materials reported here. Ozone destroys fungus and sinus would be relieved.
EC: *** Read Ted's Extensive Q&A about treating Sinus Infections.***


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Saturday, January 19, 2008
Cold Outside - Time for Indoor Activities
It is just plain cold here - ok, ok, I know it's Minnesota, but for heaven's sake, this morning it was 15 below zero.
For a week, I have been reorganizing my office/den - cleaning files, sorting, tossing, making a donation bag.
I redid this room in 2005, when I did the whole house remodel. At that time, my business partner had a desk from IKEA that was sitting unused in our office. It was convenient so I brought it home and installed it in my home office.
That desk is mammoth. Three levels of shelves and a desktop that is 60" by 36". While it was convenient to have all that storage for art supplies, pictures, office supplies and other craft items - I had little space for to do yoga, pilates, meditation, etc. It was time for a change.
Last weekend, I got two rolling chest of drawers and put them in the closet to hold smaller items. That helped to organize some of the clutter quite a bit.
Last night (when it was only 3 below zero at 5:00 pm) I went to Target and purchased this little desk - it is perfect. The old desk was very tall and covered part of the window - this desk is the right size for my cinema monitor, my little MAC G4 and a few office supplies. The bins under the desk are art supplies - everything else is organized in the closet. I LOVE it.
Tonight it is supposed to be -12 to -17, with wind chills of 30 below zero. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm - I'm home with kitty - snug, warm and enjoying my new space. I think I'll get a pay per view movie, read my book, and just relax. I am so grateful for this life of mine. My meditation practice is going well and I can feel the balance it always brings. If you are in the cold - snuggle in, be warm, enjoy - it's Saturday!!
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Your room looks great and the desk seems like a good one for being usable and not taking up too much space. I have redone some things here too as it's a time of the year to inspire some changes. My den/office/guestroom ended up not working as I'd hoped when I put in the murphy bed several years ago. I thought it'd be great, not take up space when no guests and leave me lots of floor room. I didn't count on my cats loving it so much that it now is the cat bed most of the day and I can't bring myself to take it away from themReplyDelete
Hhhhhiiii Ssssuzzzannnn, iiittt'ss fffrrreeezziinggg hheeerrree tooo....jjjussstttt llliiikkkeeee bbbyyy yyyyooouuu. I'm up in my computer room with the heater blowing on me. Your house looks comfy and cozy...and great! Have fun..and stay warm sweetie....Oh, the life of a Midwesterner, huh? Sending you big, warm bear hugs...ReplyDelete
i am glad i don't know that kind of cold. i vote to stay inside, work from home, and have lots of steaming soup and hot chocolate in the cozy comfort of your office space!ReplyDelete
It's so important to have something you feel right around you. That's you, so to speak.ReplyDelete
But, I'm amazed how cold it's where you live. Well, I did know from relatives that once lived in North Dakota, even from my Son in SW Michigan - but this cold. brrr.
Here in Oslo, it's more or less like early Spring in the low lands.
Stange things happens..
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