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Just like we take some of the today's everyday technologies for granted — fax, text, email marketing, e-commerce, SaaS — business video marketing is on the same technology adoption cycle and will be a standard budget item in a few short years. However, the majority of business owners and corporate marketing departments are only now starting to realize that online video marketing for businesses can drive conversion rates across every part of the marketing and sales lifecycle.
A quick search reveals plenty of research from the likes of Invodo, Forrester, comScore, and eMarketer on how video drives action in different types of sales — from e-commerce transactions to more technical products and services that have a long sales and relationship process. However, because new marketing methods are adopted with a combination of research support and gut feeling, the videos below showcase corporate marketers and business owners telling why they are investing in online video marketing.
Alex Shorter, marketing communications manager at Mueller Water Products, sells to government municipalities. Shorter uses online video because it "helps better articulate a product's technical aspects and the benefits it provides…and does so in a way that is much more effective and appealing than that of a static brochure or technical document."
Every industry is competitive, and businesses owners and corporate marketers need tools to differentiate themselves and prove their worth to customers. By educating and answering questions in advance, it's easier to have that conversation in person. In fact, online promotional videos may even help business get customer meetings in the first place. Andrew Ritschel of Electronic Office Systems in Fairfield, New Jersey, has invested in online business video for just this reason.
"People are busy," Ritschel says. "They don't want people coming into their office. By using video…we are able to show, using pictures, why we are offering the value that competitors might not have.
With online video, companies can take a hands-on approach when answering customer questions. Having watched the videos, the potential customer who reach out to a business are more qualified prospects.
When people go searching for a product or service, businesses get the strongest amount of conversion optimization from online video. People look to the internet to find answers. Video provides a "hands-on approach on what is actually happening in our process and answers many questions that consumers have…" says Jeff Cohn, president of Boro Energy in Brooklyn, New York. Web video lets companies explain things quicker, so that customers get the message sooner (which leads to sales happening sooner).
Online video marketing is perfect for any business, big or small, that wants to stand apart from the competition, driving lead generation and sales in a cost-effective, measurable way.
Guest post by Robert Weiss, president of video production and marketing company MultiVision Digital. Weiss has over 14 years experience in internet marketing and sales processes. MultiVision Digital specializes in assisting New York- and New Jersey-based companies in developing online video marketing strategies that increase sales, leads, and client loyalty.


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Good tidings come for the U.S. equity markets, with gains of 26.5% for the S&P 500 and 22.2% for Dow Jones in the year-to-date time frame. Unlike the lackluster rally in 2012, the bull trend could definitely continue this December if the Santa Claus rally proves to be real.
According to market belief, December has a proven track record of being a top performing month for the S&P 500. The stocks tend to move up in the anticipation of various factors such as general holiday season cheer, tax-related affairs, and people investing their Christmas bonus. This holiday bonanza is called a 'Santa Claus Rally' (read: 3 ETFs For This Holiday Season).
Over 50 years, the S&P 500 has a track record of gaining 1.9% on average in the month of December. In fact, according to the Stock Trader's Almanac, the biggest jump in stocks can be seen through the final week of a calendar year (i.e. between Christmas and New Year Day).
Here Comes a Santa Claus Rally
Given strong macro trends and increased investors' appetite for riskier assets (i.e. equities over bonds), it appears that 2013 would see the best Santa Claus rally in the past few years. This is especially true given that equity ETFs/ETPs have pulled in a total of $213.5 billion funds since the start of the year through November end. This is higher than $124.4 billion seen in the year-ago period.
Additionally, a slew of positive economic data on employment, manufacturing, housing, consumer spending, and GDP growth supports the Santa Claus rally. The economy created 203,000 jobs in November, leading to a decline in the unemployment rate to 7% from 7.3%.
Further, the political gridlock between the White House and Republican lawmakers seems to have eased with a tentative two-year budget deal, which if approved would end the three years of impasse and fiscal instability in Washington. This move is definitely a positive step for the economy and the stock markets as a whole.
Improving conditions in Europe and China would further propel the market higher.
Though upbeat data and strong momentum in the economy has raised market speculation over the Fed curtailing its QE3 program and spread panic in market, a big taper in the near future still seems unlikely.
The unemployment scenario has brightened a bit, but inflation is still low at 1.1% in November. Further, the U.S. consumer confidence continued to decline and dropped to a seven-month low in November (read: 3 Covered Call ETFs to Pump Up Your Income).
Moreover, even if the Fed tapers, market experts think that the economy and financial markets could well endure the Fed's wind-down plan, suggesting good trading ahead. As a result, the Fed's curbing of QE3 does not seem to be much of an issue and Santa Claus could even bring gifts for various sectors and asset classes in the days ahead.
ETFs to Consider
For investors seeking to ride out the Santa Claus rally, we have highlighted some of the ETFs that provide a broad diversified play in various sectors rather than specific ones. These products have been leading the large cap space for most of this year, clearly outpacing the broad market fund (SPY) by a wide margin.
These funds have a top Zacks ETF Rank of 1 or 'Strong Buy', suggesting that the outperformance will continue in the coming months as well (see: all Large Cap ETFs here).
Guggenheim S&P 500 Pure Growth ETF (RPG)
This ETF tracks the S&P 500 Pure Growth Index, holding 112 securities in its basket. The fund is widely diversified across various securities as none of these holds more than 2.7% of total assets in the basket.
However, the product has a slight tilt toward the consumer discretionary sector accounting for nearly 30% share while healthcare, information technology and financials round out the next three spots (read: Is This ETF a Better Bet in the Consumer Space?).
The fund has amassed $850.2 million in its asset base while it trades in moderate volume. The ETF charges 0.35% in expenses and returned over 39% so far this year.
First Trust Large Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund (FTC)
This fund provides a slightly active choice as it uses the AlphaDEX methodology to select the stocks. The methodology seeks to narrow the large cap space to only the best positioned growth companies, eliminating the bottom ranked 25% of the stocks.
This approach produces a basket of 177 stocks, which is widely spread across various securities as each security holds less than 1.1% of assets. In terms of sectors, the product is skewed toward consumer discretionary with nearly 30% share, followed by industrials (19.21%), information technology (15.39%) and healthcare (11.42%).
The fund is quite unpopular with AUM of $212.2 million while volume is light. This ensures additional cost in the form of wide bid/ask spread beyond the expense ratio of 0.70%. FTC added 33.5% in the year-to-date time frame.
Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Growth ETF (SCHG)
This ETF follows the Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Growth Total Stock Market Index and holds 392 stocks in its basket. The fund has a large allocation of 5.8% in the top firm – Apple (AAPL) – while other firms hold less than 3.5% of total assets (read: 3 Apple-Focused ETFs to Buy This Holiday Season).
The product is also heavy in information technology with 27.8% share while healthcare, consumer discretionary and industrials also get double-digit exposure in the portfolio. The fund has accumulated over $1 billion in its asset base while it trades in good volume of nearly 121,000 shares a day.
SCHG is the low cost choice in the space, charging just 7 bps in fees per year from investors. The ETF is up 31% year-to-date.
Bottom Line
Yes, investors, there is a Santa Claus rally. And these large cap growth funds, seem to be three products that are the likely winners for the Christmas trend. So look for these to generate above average returns compared to others in the space, especially when the markets are rising and investors are feeling cheerful about the economy.
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Good tidings come for the U.S. equity markets, with gains of 26.5% for the S&P 500 and 22.2% for Dow Jones in the year-to-date time frame. Unlike the lackluster rally in 2012, the bull trend could definitely continue this December if the Santa Claus rally proves to be real.

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Twitter cuts sales outlook; shares plunge after results leak
Twitter Inc. posted first-quarter revenue that fell short of estimates and cut its sales forecast, signaling a struggle to attract more users and advertisers. The stock fell as much as 26 percent, a record decline.
Revenue will be $470 million to $485 million in the second quarter, Twitter said in a statement Tuesday. That missed analysts' average projection for $538.1 million, according to estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Full-year guidance was cut to $2.17 billion to $2.27 billion, from the previous range of $2.3 billion to $2.35 billion.
"It calls into question why they didn't see this coming," said Victor Anthony, an analyst at Axiom Capital Management. "I don't think anyone ever questioned their ability to generate revenues."
Chief executive Dick Costolo has been pushing product and engineering teams, which are being led by new managers, to step up the pace of innovation and dispel any doubts about Twitter's potential as an advertising and social media destination. The San Francisco-based company is facing greater pressure to show that such initiatives are delivering more users and revenue, according to Brian Wieser, an analyst at Pivotal Research Group.
"When you're communicating with investors there's some expectation that you'll actually deliver on what you're aspiring towards," said Wieser, who has a hold rating on Twitter's stock.
"The message needs to be matched by numbers, or Twitter's credibility starts to become an issue."
The number of monthly active members climbed 18 percent to 302 million, compared with 20 percent in the prior quarter. Revenue rose 74 percent to $436 million, missing analysts' average projection for $456.2 million. The results were first reported by Selerity Inc., a Manhattan-based provider of financial news and information, less than hour before the end of Tuesday's trading.
Trading was halted following Selerity's report. Twitter fell 18 percent to $42.27 at the close. At midmorning Wednesday, it was trading down $2.29, about 5.4 percent, at $39.97.
Earnings excluding some items were 7 cents a share, compared with analysts' average estimate for 4 cents. Twitter's first-quarter net loss widened to $162 million from a loss of $132.4 million a year earlier.
Costolo, facing criticism last year because of slowing user growth, promised investors in November that the company would start revamping its products and services to make them easier to use. That has resulted in new features such as While You Were Away, which delivers the most popular tweets that occurred during a person's absence, and Highlights, an Android feature that pushes a twice-daily digest of tweets direct to a person's phone notifications.
The tweaks, which are helping to minimize the flood of information, are aimed at attracting new users. Twitter's home page, which used to just have an option to log in, now has categories, such as NASCAR and cute animals, for people to explore even when they aren't logged in to an account. Those who do choose to sign up for the first time get an instant timeline based on their phone contacts and interests, making it easier to get started on the product.
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POS for .NET addresses the needs of Point Of Service market, which include devices such as Kiosks, ATM machine, self service check out scanners, fuel pump stations, security entry terminals, and of course point of sale systems. POS for .NET is an implementation of the UPOS specification for C# and VB.NET developers. POS for .NET supports the idea that applications can be written once to support many POS devices. Below you will find sample service objects, applications, articles, and various links for POS for .NET.
POS technology and information is continuously changing. Please let me know of any information that could be added to keep this page up to date.
POS for .NET is the .NET programming solution of the Unified POS (UPOS) standard. POS for .NET allows POS developers to write one application that support POS devices from different equipment manufacturers. Professional's Guide to POS for .NET provides a foundation for those interested in learning the basics of POS for .NET applications and service objects. The book has 6 chapters covering POS for .NET architecture, POS for .NET application development, creating service objects, and managing service objects.
Covers POS for .NET 1.12, and information is still good for POS for .NET 1.14.
The book is available in print and Kindle format. Don't have a Kindle tablet, no need. There is a Kindle Reader for the PC, and best of all, it is free!
POS for .NET 1.14.1 SDK
POS for .NET SDK that is aligned with UnifiedPOS 1.14.1 specification.
POS for .NET 1.14 Update (KB2959943)
If more than one device is claimed in a single or multiple applications there is an exception thrown: POSControlException ErrorCode(Timeout) ExtendedErrorCode(0) occurred: Another application has exclusive access to the device and did not relinquish control before timeout milliseconds expired. Install this update on top of the POS for .NET 1.14 installation to fix the issue.
What is new for POS for .NET 1.14
An addendum to Professional's Guide to POS for .NET that covers some changes going for POS for .NET 1.12 to POS for .NET 1.14. Example source code provided for use with Visual Studio 2013.
Source Code
POS for .NET 1.14 SDK
POS for .NET SDK that is aligned with UnifiedPOS 1.14 specification.
Implementing POS for .NET MSR for the TabletKiosk® eo a7330D - January 2010
Step-by-step guide for creating a POS for .NET application for a handheld PC platform.
Service Object Manager for POS for .NET 1.12
The ability to setup and manage service objects are an important part of developing, installing, and maintaining POS for .NET applications. Service Object Manager (SOM) is a graphical implementation of POSDM.EXE that simplifies the management of service objects on systems locally or remotely.
Note: SOManager needs to run as Administrator in Windows Vista and Windows 7.
POS for .NET 1.12 SDK
POS for .NET SDK that is aligned with UPOS 1.12 specification.
KB2755802 for POS for .NET on Windows POSReady 7
Update: addresses an issue where POS for .NET v.1.12 crashes when using .NET 4.0.
MSDN CH9 Example in VB.NET Solution
A MSDN Channel 9 presentation showed a POS for .NET application written in C#. Here is the equivalent application written in VB.NET
The application was tested with the following hardware devices:
LineDisplay - WASP WPD 220VF
Bar Code Scanner - HandHeld Products IT5600 - 5600SR050 with HandheldScannerSO.dll
Please see the documentation for setup information.
POS for .NET Informaiton: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms828083(v=winembedded.10).aspx
New Forum for POS for .NET: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/home?forum=netfxbcl
Old POS for .NET forum website: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/posfordotnet/threads (re-retired)
POSReady forum website: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/posready
MSDN Channel9 WEPOS Video: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=170597#170597
Arts / UnifiedPOS Spec: Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) - UnifiedPOS specification can be found here.
In order to write POS for .NET applications, Service Objects and/or OPOS drivers are needed to interface the application to the hardware. The biggest challenge is finding devices that have Service Object or OPOS drivers. Many devices come as keyboard wedges. These keyboard wedge devices will work in a POS of .NET application, but PosExplorer will not handle data events from them. The following table is to help locate devices with service objects and OPOS drivers. The table is supplied as is and there is no guarantee that the various OPOS and SO drivers will work.
Please let me know if you find a POS vendor that has a service object or OPOS driver for their POS device. Also, if you have any of these device and have any results to share, please let me know.
WASP Technologies
Cash Drawer Service object developed by Annabooks.
LineDisplay, Cash Drawer, and Receipt Printer OPOS driver used to be posted on the website.
SecurePIN™ 100 Handheld PIN Entry Device
(IDPA-5XXXXX Series)
SmartPIN (IDPA-70xxxx Series)
OPOS drivers available for both RS232 and USB devices.
Avery Berkel (Weigh-Tronix) 6710 POS Scale has an OPOS driver. 6710 POS Scale Service object developed by Annabooks is posted above.
POS for .NET service object available for:
Elane USB Scales – Plus 5kg, Parcel 15kg/30kg, PS2000 500g/5kg/10kg
Elane Precise RS232 Scales – Precise 500g/5kg/10kg
Receipt Printer SO for the TM-T88III & TM-H6000II on the WEPOS 3rd party CD. A complete set of EPSON service objects
"OPOS ADK for .NET supporting Microsoft WEPOS"
can be found here: https://www.epsonexpert.com/login.htm (Login required)
MSR Model Number - 21040101 and 21040102 will work with the Example Service Object from the POS for .NET SDK. Please see the app note below for setup information.
TabletKiosk® eo a7330D includes a MSR optional attachment from MAGTEK.
uSign 200 (IDUA-01xxxx Series)
Other SO and OPOS driver information can be found at these sites:


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The North Skye Broadband project is being built by local volunteers, the talent and knowledge of these people including landowners who know their community and the lie of the land are key to the success of our project. Each volunteer that rises to the North Skye Broadband challenge will find it a wonderfully empowering and socially engaging opportunity. There's nothing like building something for yourself and having that sense of pride and ownership and you don't need to know anything about broadband to be involved!
To ensure that our network truly delivers we aim to engage and interact with all stakeholders in our area of operation. The more energy and interaction in each involved community the more support can be harnessed to deliver a better broadband service.
The support that we will need will be straightforward and we will be happy to provide guidance on how you can become involved. The key roles of our supporters will be to help with:
- informing the community and encouraging investment
- walking routes and agreeing wayleaves with landowners
- coordinating site work between volunteers and landowners
- possibly fieldwork of laying duct and installing chambers
- advising property owners and helping to install their house fittings
- baking for volunteers – All volunteers need ample supplies of tea and cake!
The best way to find out more about being a volunteer is to visit North Skye Broadband Events active areas, or look out for North Skye Broadband presentations in your community.
If you would like to volunteer please register an interest.


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Collaboration among open education innovators creates rich learning opportunities for independent learners.
IT OpenCourseWare and textbook publisher Flat World Knowledge have teamed up to provide free, high-quality textbooks to learners accessing OCW's innovative OCW Scholar courses. This is among the first collaborations between an OpenCourseWare publisher and an open textbook publisher and highlights the growing opportunity for open education efforts to reinforce one another in creating rich learning experiences.
"Open education is moving from a collection of projects to a robust ecosystem," said Creative Commons CEO Cathy Casserly. "Pairing Creative Commons licensed open textbooks from Flat World Knowledge with Creative Commons licensed MIT OpenCourseWare offers students access to a rich set of open educational resources (OER) that can be combined and customized for a more effective educational experience. This shows how commercial publishers can supplement and improve OER with quality assurance and platform support. Here, building on 'free' and 'open' means lower textbook costs for students."
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Fulham is an upper class, lively area of South London where Molly moves to at the age of twenty.
Bucharest is a modern city in Russia and where Sam flees to. Molly visits him here.
Moscow is the capital city of Russia where Sam hopes to move to with Molly. Subsequently, and ironically, it is also where Monk's job requires him to move to.
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The Seven Steps of How I Recovered my Gut Flora and My Health
I am winning the slow war of attrition with regard to defeating the bad bacteria in my gut, and slowly allowing my body to heal itself of the myriad set of incumbent maladies and symptoms. I accomplished this through elimination of the pesticide/biocide glyphosate from my diet and through re-introduction of the right bacteria back into my gut. Of course, I learned this primarily on my own, thanks to the Social Skepticism Cabal. Their only outcomes are defense of the agent which precipitated this toxicity syndrome, arrogance, ignorance and suffering – in that order. Count one less sufferer among the ranks of their victims. But sadly, because of the ignorance enforced by this malevolent group of know-it-all's, I had to find this out through secondary sources and over a decade of personal experimentation.
I am extraordinarily pleased to relate to those of you possessing ethical minds, that after a significant amount of research, work with my Integrative and Gastroenterology physicians, and significant amount of personal experimentation, I have been able to reverse the debilitating progressive disease of Glyphosate Induced Dysbiosis (GID), auto-immune problems and Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and all their related maladies. Now, while not every body is alike, I suspect that since IBS has skyrocketed from 9 million cases since the year before the introduction of glyphosate to 54 million cases by 2013 alone, that many of us are similar in our suffering patterns. Just to offer an anecdotal evidence, in my office right now – fully 75% of the persons who work there are suffering ongoing non-viral intestinal problems of various types (IBS-D&C, InfBS, Crohn's, Diverticulitis, etc.) – only half have seen their doctor about it. But IBS is by no means the lone symptom of glyphosate toxicity syndrome. These symptoms of glyphosate induced dysbiosis† and the resulting auto-immune sicknesses include:
Glyphosate Toxicity Syndrome
Symptoms that have skyrocketed since the introduction of glyphosate into our food in 1995, most of which began with me in the Fall of 1995 and Spring of 1996:
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome – D and C
- Rosacea/ Face Pustules
- Edema
- Chronic Reflux/GERD
- Peroxidase Antibody/Endocrine Auto-Immune Disruption
- Minor Protein Malnutrition
- Vitamin B Deficiencies/Chronic Anemias
- Vitamin D Deficiencies
- Weight Gain
- Diabetes
- Homocysteine Related Inflammation
- Diabetes Related Heart Disease
- Hypertension
- Joint Pain/Discomfort/Anxiety/Foggy-headedness/Attention Deficiency
Things I Don't Give a Damn About
Yes, I have alleviated all of the above symptoms via the following procedure. Now, before I go into the success method which ended up being effective for me, and fully recognizing that I am not prescribing medical treatments, nor presuming that all people are exactly alike, we must deal with some things. Things anal, malevolent and oppressive persons enforce on us all, that cause enormous harm and suffering, and about which I do not give a damn in this post:
A. That you are going to threaten, my career, me with harm, to defame me, my children or my associates because you don't like what I have to say
B. That supplements are placebo quackery and should be prescription controlled (which is it?)
C. That gut flora research and health is 'pseudoscience' in your simplest explanation a priori world
D. Your having a fit over wanting to scream that the science behind glyphosate was "settled" in 1993
E. These statements or any aspect at all being addressed at all by the FDA, or that there exists the praedicate evidentia modus ponens fallacy statement being muttered 'there is no evidence for…' – as if this were some pretense of a probative scientific proposition on your part.
F. Your having a fit over my appearing to give medical advice
G. Anything at all discredited Science Based Medicine has to say or squelch. Any malicious propaganda efforts block the rights of consumers (like in my case below) to even be able to buy their hard-determined treatment/supplement choices (for example: http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/nz-pharmacists-want-to-sell-snakeoil/)
H. That the human body is magically/evolutionarily tuned to sufficiency and does not need supplementation or management by the body owner as long as you 'consume a balanced and healthy Western diet'.
…sorry I had to take a break while laughing…
I. That I have recommended specific products or supplements
J. That mega-farms claim to save 2 cents a bushel with this toxin, that by applying a chemical that kills by accelerating plant growth past its ability to intake nutrient, also happened surprisingly to make food plant caloric matter grow faster and bigger as well, or that you intend to feed the starving 2053 ad world via these biomass yield savings (after you have created a monopoly first in the here and now of course, and in only the non-food-security-risk nations)
…sorry I had to take a break while yawing…
K. God, UFO's, Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, etc. – or any of the myriad things Social Skeptics were fixated upon when they SHOULD have been standing in the gap to question any short fused attempt to majorly alter our entire food supply over the course of about 8 years total and after only 3 work-content years of study.
What I Learned to Do Over the Last 12 Years
Here are the steps I am taking which are proving effective in the attrition battle to recover my gut flora from the toxicity chain induced by glyphosate (ranked below by importance). These have been effective for me, and are the result of much hard work. Develop your personal application of this advice only under the guidance of your Integrative or Gastroenterology physician :
Protect Your Intestinal Biome – It is Part of Your Vital Organ Function
- Get tested for h. pylori, pancreatic sufficiency, HCL sufficiency, MTHFR alleles (DNA)
- Eliminate all glyphosate bearing foods from your diet – no exception †
- Corn/HFCS/Corn Starch (severe impact)
- Soy/Soybean oil (severe impact)
- Canola oil (heavy impact)
- Wheat/Wheat based preservatives (impact if chronically consumed)
- Brown-Black Beans/Lentils
- Cottonseed oil
- Alfalfa (severe impact)
- Dairy (moderate impact)
- For an understanding of the food risk profiles, why these foods were selected (and eventually confirmed that they indeed were the critical mechanism in my IBS – see here)
- Take Digestive Enzyme Spectrum/Gut Barrier Supplement at Each Meal and at Bedtime
- dicalcium phosphate, pancreatin 4X, betaine HCL, amylase, protease, pepsin, papain, oxbile, lipase, bromelain, cellulase
- Vinegar with the Mother (morning, dinner, at bedtime)
- Hemp Oil (morning, midday, bedtime – reduces facial sores and body inflammation from excess Omega-6 oils)
- Spirulina Powder (1 tsp in the morning and 1 tsp in the evening – critical for rosacea and eczema symptomatic expressions)
- Take in Morning at Bedtime
- 5-methylfolate (do not take folid acid, it is potentially a useless toxin if you carry the MTHFR methylation C677T SNP (Ala222Val) allele) – energy for ANS (which controls your breathing at night and your peristaltic motion from the stomach to the large intestine) and countering various types of anemia
- 5-methylfolate (do not take folid acid, it is potentially a useless toxin if you carry the MTHFR methylation C677T SNP (Ala222Val) allele) – energy for ANS (which controls your breathing at night and your peristaltic motion from the stomach to the large intestine) and countering various types of anemia
- Consume a NON-(GMO-Wheat-Dairy-Whey-Soy-Canola-Corn) Protein Supplement (you need more than the 5 basic meat proteins – there are 16 in plants)
- Take Pro-biotic/Pre-Biotic Supplement Daily
- Align (b. infantis 35624)
- General Pro-biotic
- Organic Raw Kombucha Drink
- Garlic, Onion, Asparagus, Kale
- Consume Supplementation Daily
- Sublingual Vitamins B1 (Coenzymed), B2 (Coenzymated), B6 (Coenzymated) , B3 (NADH), B5, B7, B9 (methylated), B12 (cobalimated)
- Vitamin D3 and K2
- Sublingual Vitamins B1 (Coenzymed), B2 (Coenzymated), B6 (Coenzymated) , B3 (NADH), B5, B7, B9 (methylated), B12 (cobalimated)
The items in bold are critical each day. You do not have to be perfect, but this general schedule will introduce a change to your gut environment. A gradual process of recovery, it was not immediate for me. You are supporting a bacterial war of attrition. Glyphosate is a weapon of mass destruction employed by the wrong side. There is a curious interplay between B-Vitamins and gut flora, they both produce some of them and your body needs some of them, in order to keep your flora in balance. Beta Glucan did absolute wonders for the facial sores which resulted from this Glyphosate Induced Dysbiosis.
Years of debilitating pain, 5 to 8 hours per day – Every day – 30+ Bleeding puss-filled sores on my face at all times, anxiety, loss of energy……. Now alleviated, through experimentation, not accepting the answers Science Based Medicine and Social Skepticism have been preemptively pushing for 20 years, working with my integrative practitioner and gastroenterologist, and receptive discipline – the hallmark diligence of Ethical Skepticism.
The Net Effect of Glyphosate on the Digestive Infrastructure
Here is how I think it works, much of which is backed by studies inside the last two years. Below in orange I have highlighted the primary clinical impacts of glyphosate on the human body. Remember that, since glyphosate kills beneficial bacteria inside the soil and inside the plants we consume†, it does not actually have to even enter your body in order to begin this process listed above. But, as well, it is most definitely entering your body and performing the same magic act upon you, as it does to kill pests.
There is a reason the list below contains so much surfactant (functional column 4) and anti-microbial functionality (functional column 5) – It is so that the primary three symbiont bacteria phyla are protected and not displaced by foreign invasion. Killing those bacteria, and inducing the dysfunction of the digestive mechanisms which serve to defend those bacteria – makes the symbiont host (us) sick.
If you are like me (and I do see variances in how this affects different people) glyphosate acts to kill important bacteriodetes and fermicutes microbiome species in the duodenum and ileum (Orange, below), upon which your auto-immune and nutritional health depend. If I had not found this strategy to be effective in my personal experimentation, and if my Integrative practitioner had not insisted on some of these practices and tested my blood and stool samples, I would have shied away from saying this – even though the latest 2014 and 2015 science backs this up.†
Glyphosate kills bacteria. Lysol kills bacteria too. I don't eat plants treated with Lysol for the same reason. I need these bacteria.
The death of these bacteria results in nutritional mal-absorption shortfalls in Vitamins B and D, and the minor proteins which one only gets from Heavy Molecular Weight Organic Materials (plants, see bacteriodetes in orange highlight below). The shortfall in these bacteria, which are resident symbionts (a functional part of our body just like an organ), results in their replacement by malicious non-symbionts. These invading displacement bacteria then cause a host of secondary and auto-immune disorder impacts, along with the resulting endocrine, intestinal and health degradation (Yellow, below).
This proved to be correct in my body.
The expressed symptom set of this bacterial displacement, aside from the nutritional shortfall which is induced, includes a myriad of auto-immune (lupus, rosacea, fibromyalgia, arthritis, hypo endocrine) maladies, along with a general deterioration of the body.
In addition, the end-of-process symptom is the onset of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, wherein the large intestine and sigmoid colon spasm with pain and flush their production with water and excess mucus in order to evacuate the foreign bacteria-infested bolus as quickly as possible, with a minimum of toxin ingestion.
The result is IBS-constipation, IBS-diarrhea and severe debilitating pain for 4 hours a day or more, and more than 6 times per month. Most victims suffer much more than this, by far. Below, I have depicted the chain of impacts from glyphosate, beginning with the loss of two critical families of bacteria in orange under the ileum functional sets, their replacement by foreign invading bacteria, and the myriad set of auto-immune and secondary digestive impacts to the digestive tract and functional systems, which results in its own set of cascading maladies.
† 2015 Shehata AA1, Schrödl W, Aldin AA, Hafez HM, Krüger M.; Curr Microbiol. 2013 Apr;66(4):350-8. doi: 10.1007/s00284-012-0277-2. Epub 2012 Dec 9.
2015 Journal of Environmental Health, Environmental Health Aug 25 2015, 14:70 doi:10.1186/s12940-015-0056-1 – Transcriptome profile analysis reflects rat liver and kidney damage following chronic ultra-low dose Roundup exposure.
Study Series Contained The Ethical Skeptic: The Urgent Need to Reform the Cartel Science Around Glyphosate; extracted 18 Oct 2015; http://theethicalskeptic.com/2014/11/19/pseudoscience-in-action-the-urgent-need-to-reform-the-science-around-glyphosate/
Shehata AA1, Schrödl W, Aldin AA, Hafez HM, Krüger M.; Curr Microbiol. 2013 Apr;66(4):350-8. doi: 10.1007/s00284-012-0277-2. Epub 2012 Dec 9.
The use of glyphosate modifies the environment which stresses the living microorganisms. The aim of the present study was to determine the real impact of glyphosate on potential pathogens and beneficial members of poultry microbiota in vitro. The presented results evidence that the highly pathogenic bacteria as Salmonella Entritidis, Salmonella Gallinarum, Salmonella Typhimurium, Clostridium perfringens and Clostridium botulinum are highly resistant to glyphosate. However, most of beneficial bacteria as Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus faecium, Bacillus badius, Bifidobacterium adolescentis (soil bacteria) and Lactobacillus spp. were found to be moderate to highly susceptible. Also Campylobacter spp. were found to be susceptible to glyphosate. A reduction of beneficial bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract microbiota by ingestion of glyphosate could disturb the normal gut bacterial community. Also, the toxicity of glyphosate to the most prevalent Enterococcus spp. could be a significant predisposing factor that is associated with the increase in C. botulinum-mediated diseases by suppressing the antagonistic effect of these bacteria on clostridia.
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The Rising Age of the Cartel: Your Freedoms Were Simply an Experiment
To the SSkepticism Cabal, the US Constitution was simply a grand experiment which failed, and now we as science should usher our common good back into the 600 year old failed royalty elite-Let them Eat Cake-socialism of the past. Socialism, under the moniker of 'consensus,' is moral and is based on scientifically proved principles; which by chance just happen to support specific socioeconomic goals. It is this purposeful emasculation of public rights as being 'anti-science' based on their dissent, concern, or unapproved ideas, which we as a nation feared most in our inception – because unlike in the Thomas Paine scenario, it does not just hurt the one who precludes and denies. Unfortunately the Cabal has adopted this take on our free expression, free enterprise and economic rights as a nation. Examine the industry verticals, corporate clusters, and rates of inflation inside of such, wherein they spend the preponderance of their time in advocacy, and you will begin to glean a bit about the goals entailed.
'Anti-Science!' – The modern version of being accused of Witchcraft.
I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.
~ Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Professional Skeptics, The Cartel Big Boys, are Here to Peer Review Your Supposed "Rights" Experiment as a Nation
Thomas Paine understates the underhanded nature of censorship, in that the one who precludes himself of the right to change his mind is the least harmed by censorship. Even today, against Americans' knowledge, their speech, their emails, their websites, their ideas – if they run counter to the Cabal, are being censored and muted by those in the Cabal who are seeking to circumvent the US Constitution and enact their own Utopia of Morality and Truth. Further, this control of ideas lends to a greater reality in which Social Skepticism is seeking to promote the dominance of a specific set of socioeconomic goals, commensurate with the rise of the socialist cartel, all in the name of 'science.' No better example elicits this current cartel/trust activity than the issue of the current ABCD seed monopoly and the ensuing related GMO propaganda being foisted by skeptics employed to defend the cartel.
The Public is Anti-Science!
"What happens when your political or ideological views are contradicted by the consensus of scientific opinion regarding the evidence (TES note: referring to the "safety" red herring, as opposed to necessity based validity of genetic modifications targeting simply anti-competitive profits by means food technology)? It appears that a common reaction (depending on how strongly held the ideological views are) is to reject science. Not only do people reject the science specific to their issue, they reject science itself."
~ Steven Novella, Neurologica: Politics vs Science, Nov 17 2014; http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/politics-vs-science/
"It appears…" a furtive, lazy and loaded claim to broadscale knowledge. One bearing no evidence and backing only by a echochamber effect from a couple of news articles from familiar crony organizations (see chart below), tendering this same manipulated and extraordinary claim.
Steven whips out his regular ergo sum scientia fallacy – then purposely misconstrues in the above context, vis-à-vis the 'safety of GMO's' strawman and red herring, the principal arguments entailed so they falsely appear to focus on the relative trivia surrounding nucleotide substitutions – yawn – rather than the economic and human rights questions entailed (below). The genetic modification of organisms is a future reality – the public is not against this science. Steven purposely occludes this core argument in favor of his preferred red herring: By raising objection at all people are therefore, inside the above logic, at war against science …and quod erat demonstrandum their rights should be removed. Only the big boys of self-proclaimed science are qualified to formulate public policy. They are skeptical that your input is necessary.
What indeed however is being discussed with respect to GMO food under the constitution is the right of a single corporation and/or 90+% dominant cluster of companies to employ such technology in skirting US Anti-Trust laws; simply to create channel domination profits and promote a single proprietary pesticide, all in the process of construction of a Cartel. In this case the ABCD (Archer Daniels Midland, Bungee, Cargill, Louis-Dreyfus) seed-to-table/glyphosate Cartel being defended by indirectly compensated non-expert Social Skeptics (see graphic of how a cartel functions below). Such a practice is corporate tyranny, rising well above the definition of 'monopoly.' It in no way constitutes an argument of safety and science, as Steven (a non-expert 'skeptic' in this industry) falsely contends.
In a country where its citizens cannot even call for more in-depth science on the pesticides, genes, growth promoters, hormones, antibiotics and chemicals it is FORCED to consume multiple times every day – because such science and legislation is blocked by so called 'skeptics' and legal/electoral threats are issued to wayward representatives,
Is this a constituency which is 'anti-science?'
Is this a constituency who has constitutional input to its legislative representatives?
In a country where endocrine and immune diseases have gone last-20-year pandemic and cause enormous suffering, and the constituency can do NOTHING about it because ignorant 'skeptics' say it is all in our heads, and instead obsess over ghosts, UFO's, bigfoot, gods, psychics and regulating supplements,
Is this skepticism which is focused on real science or scientific issues of gravitas?
Is all this indicative of a nation which is free?
The answer is a resounding 'No'
Fake Skepticism's Role in the Rise of the Socialist Cartel
On March 22, 1966, General Motors President James Roche was forced by the United States Senate to appear before a subcommittee, and further at the end of session to apologize to Ralph Nader for the company's campaign of harassment and intimidation over his book Unsafe at Any Speed. Nader later successfully sued GM for excessive invasion of privacy. It was the money from this case that allowed him to lobby for consumer rights, leading to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air Act, among other things.‡
Nader was successful in his lawsuit because he and his lawyers were able to demonstrate a track record of GM response to his criticism of the Corvair, through trying to destroy Nader's image and to silence him. General Motors more specifically retained corporate insiders and directly compensated third parties, wherein GM
- conducted a series of interviews with acquaintances of the plaintiff, 'questioning them about, and casting aspersions upon [his] political, social, racial and religious views; his integrity; his sexual proclivities and inclinations; and his personal habits'
- kept him under surveillance in public places for an unreasonable length of time;
- caused him to be accosted by girls for the purpose of entrapping him into illicit relationships;
- made threatening, harassing and obnoxious telephone calls to him;
- tapped his telephone and eavesdropped, by means of mechanical and electronic equipment, on his private conversations with others; and
- conducted a 'continuing' and harassing investigation of him."‡
The Ralph Nader/General Motors case, more than any single event with the exception of the Big Tobacco obfuscation-skepticism, precipitated the introduction of the modern era of Social Skepticism. The General Motors Corvair case elicited the importance of establishing a non-corporate, non-third party, credible but untouchable group of fanatic activists to act on behalf of corporate interests. A mafia sans the pinstripe suits. A non-liability bearing risk-mitigation group, committed to their social understanding of the science handed to them, who would be willing with or without full awareness, to pursue the enemies of the cartel with fervent and damaging passion. All in the name of science.
Activists so sure of their correctness, that any means of social shaming, career damage, or personal defamation could be justified in the destruction of enemies of truth (cartel enemies). Activists of sufficient academic intelligence to be able to understand some science, develop an argument and publish in journal or media channels, but not smart enough to observe a game of counter intelligence and their role therein.
This prostituting of smart-but-dumb players is a common tradecraft in intelligence circles. It is the essence of modern skepticism.
From the history of the American Medical Association versus the Chiropractic industry: "in 1975 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of Goldfarb vs. The Virginia State Bar, that learned professions are not exempt form antitrust suites. In 1982 the Court ruled that the FTC can enforce antitrust laws against medical societies. These two suites paved the way in 1976 for five chiropractors to file an anti-trust suite against the AMA and several other heath care agencies and societies in Federal District Court (known as the Wilkes Case). Similar suites were filed in New York and Pennsylvania in 1979. The pressure of these law suites forced the AMA even before these suites went to court to propose a modification of their Medical Code of Ethics which prohibited M.D.s from associating with chiropractors. But, it was not until 1980 that the Ethics Code was changed to reflect that each individual doctor may decide for themselves whether to accept a patient from or refer a patient to a chiropractor or other limited practitioner."∈
These two cases more than anything else, established the need for a separate-on-the-surface activism group which was immune to anti-trust, defamation, business tampering and tortious interference laws. Cartels needed a way around the law – and inside Skepticism they found this way.
All this is introduced in the mind of the Social Skeptic under the guise of 'science.' Science handed to them by their corporate sponsors. Science which cannot be questioned because Social Skeptics block threatening research before it can even be developed. If you don't accept the wholesale imposition of their politics or corporate activism, and since they and their political cronies all joined a club self-entitled 'science,' you are now therefore anti-science if you disagree in the least with their politics, religion, agenda and professional constraints.. In the particular instance above, Steven is contending that science justifies sets of political action which serve solely to remove human rights. The imposition of privately manipulated food stocks, property which formerly fell inside the public domain, solely for oligarch anti-competitiveness – putting small farms out of business so large socialist cartels can displace formerly free economic mechanisms – and force all of us to consume 1000 times per year, only that which they and their cronies have personally approved. This constitutes simply one small example of the goal of a socioeconomic structure dominated by cartel; cartels which feature:¹
Features of a Cartel Based Industry Vertical
Contrary to the mis-definitions of the term cartel by non-professional media sources, cartels are not 'price fixing rings' or 'drug dealing corporations.' A cartel is simply a tacit agreement inside and outside an industry vertical (one with the remaining few oligarchs) to exclude competition and entry to that market. A cartel does not have to price fix (even though by default position, a cartel is already price fixing whether the players intend to or not), nor does a cartel actually even need be profitable. All that is needed for the formation of a cartel, is the illegal vertical control of a market – enabled by partnership with government regulators, banks suppliers and M1 Financiers, across international borders, such that only grey and black markets can exist aside from its dominion.
Investopedia defines a cartel as 'An organization created from a formal agreement between a group of producers of a good or service, to regulate supply in an effort to regulate or manipulate prices. A cartel is a collection of businesses or countries that act together as a single producer and agree to influence prices for certain goods and services by controlling production and marketing.'²
This is incorrect. Under this permissive definition, even OPEC is not considered a cartel. First there need not be a formal agreement, rather simply an industry standard set of practices. To sell crude oil, one must hold an OPEC Standard Assay Report on the lot of oil and schedule a Lifting Slot at a pier, assigned to a specific ship with a specific authorized Sail Plan. Otherwise, any oil commerce outside this practice is considered "piracy." Push article propaganda regularly circulates citing the rise in 'piracy,' hoping that the American public confuses this action on the part of an excluded market with 'Captain Phillips' – and therefore will support increased regulatory spending. These practices are not enforced by OPEC, rather American and European banks, who will not issue MT series documents to finance any transaction which runs afoul of participation in this cartel practice set. Can I cite a reference on this? No, of course not. These are unpublished corporate policies; sets of relative privation. No one is going to publish a document entitled "Here is How Our Cartel is Run." One only learns this by actually assisting developing nations in attempting to set up exports for their oil.
Interestingly enough, grey market oil trades are allowed, it is just they are only allowed for certain politicians and highly powerful and influential individuals …ones who could never afford to be seen taking a pay-off. Ones who mysteriously make hundreds of millions of dollars prior to an important election, through 'smart business practices.'
Second, there need not be any price gouging in a cartel. With the intervention of free money from outside sources, the objective is not price gouging and profitability – rather simply learning how to completely control entry into a given market vertical. There is plenty of money to go around and everything can be made to appear as if it were 'non-profitable' (wink wink, all skeptical tongues should be held at this moment). The US Healthcare system is a fine example, of a cartel wherein costs have risen by a very conservative Standard & Poor's definition with an embedded rate of inflation of 48% every 10 years. Yet still, no one seems to be making blockbuster profits from price gouging. Well, imagine that. There exists an entire network of compensated 'skeptics' who are appointed to defend that industry from any unwanted competition.† They have not published a set of practices in this. They just do it. "Anti-Science!!" "Deadly, Toxic, Placebo!!" are the bully weapon words employed in that shill argument. All the while conflating the British and American definitions of Homeopathy, which are wholly different, because the British definition affords them more bandwagon one-liners. The result is the Cartel targeting of preventative health philosophies and supplements, which have absolutely nothing at all to do with homeopathy in the first place.
Skeptic tweets, blogs and articles inevitably come out during the work day (most on Monday and Tuesday from 10am to 3pm), over monitored corporate networks. Their claims to have spotted fraud, poorly researched opinion sets, unwarranted and non-supported attacks on people, businesses and institutions are never met with reprisal or word of caution by their employers. An odd exception in an industry wherein corporate image and professional standards of conduct in communication are constantly touted to be of utmost importance?
Third, it is not simply the goods themselves which are constrained in terms of access to a cartel dominion, rather, the money, agencies, supply channels, remote cost effective labor, cost efficiencies themselves, political agreements, exclusivities, contracts, shippers, consolidators, capital, licenses to operate and import, regulatory agencies, wholesalers, raw materials, etc. It is the limitation of access to these enabling market features which defines a cartel. More specifically this includes the following features:
1. A fictitious supply of money, exercised through exclusive access placement and paper trading mechanisms which enrich the hidden royal elite of socialism – affording them unique financial access to mineral rights, international trade, materials supply, capital funding, the most highly leveraged manufacturing, channels of supply and political influence.
2. Banks which limit the volume and access, based on overhead and risk, allowed in bond and capital flows; such that only those authorized to do so, can capitalize the large scale formation of international business. These bank policies are constructed outside political boundaries so as to elude anti-trust legal jurisdiction.
3. Corporations which bear the sole and unilateral right to modify the supply of or monopolize/cartel-ize an industry vertical, without review by or consent from the public. Anti-competitive practices which skirt anti-trust laws by operating principally offshore and through the establishment of multi-national supply monopolies of the materials, manufacturing and shipping resources necessary to establish and operate business.
4. Corporations which bear the sole and unilateral right to construct shill and small authorized cottage capital businesses, limited in scope and size, bound by non-compete compliance agreements, which serve as barriers to entry and displace legitimate competing free enterprise inside a cartel dominated industry vertical.
5. Corporations which bear the sole and unilateral right to take public domain property, modify it slightly, and then force this new intellectual property to displace all old public domain assets, in order to create a monopoly/cartel which previously could not legally exist, without review by or consent from the public. (All we have to do is call it 'science').
6. Corporations which bear the sole and unilateral right to power of intellectual property, no longer needing patents or to attain the 3 litmus tests of patent-ability (novel, not obvious, teachable) in order to leverage domination of an industry. Intellectual property can now be forced on the public in an unqualified and non-expiring tyranny of elite ownership. (All we have to do is call it 'property').
7. Corporations which bear the unilateral right to sole access to commissions and governmental agencies by means of communications, legislation, lobbying, mutual employment/inter-breeding and oversight – abrogating their accountability to the public at large. (All we have to do is simply ignore this).
8. Barriers to Entry which are iron clad and promote economic dependence and elimination of a powerful upper and middle class, free information and press mechanisms – the enemies of socialist cartels.
9. The comprehensive and complete control of an industry set of transactions such that select sets of those transactions can be allotted as compensation for political favors, election influence, ministry corruption, and rewards to key/royalty participants; thereby avoiding detectable illegal pay-offs. The exercise of such transactions simply keeping the appearance of business as usual for the otherwise inaccessible industry vertical.
10. Foundations and Activist organizations which are funded by elite fictitious money, seeking to promote the dominance of socialist cartels, undue government influence, elimination of a free press, filtering and control of the internet and information, in displacement of public rights – and themselves fund money to promote compromised educational, media and 'skepticism' social groups.
It Starts with the Social Skepticism's Blocking of Public Access to Rights, Self Determination, Regulation and Information
And in the end, with respect to our curiously highly motivated 'skeptics,' who publish most of their skeptic work right in the middle of the compensated work-day; all this is justified, no mandated, by those claiming falsely that somehow 'science' trumps human rights. The Phil Plaitt's, Steven Novella's and Michael Shermer's of the world spit in the face of the public at large, the Bill of Rights, and insult our collective intelligence by framing the strawman, that somehow – any exercise of rights on the part of the public is irrational, vile and socially deplorable. All deployed behind the smokescreen of accusing people of being "anti-science" for the simple act of defending their rights lost in the above points.
Phil Plaitt decries the exercise of human rights over the manipulation of those rights by figures making the claim to represent science – by equivocally framing this human rights suppression as "investigation, creative progress, science." Moreover comparing its means of constitutional jurisdiction on the part of the American People to be equivalent to Soviet tyranny and Lysenkoism:
When a society's government (in the United States: the public) starts dictating what can and cannot be investigated, scientific and creative progress stalls. Lysenko's work, advocated by Stalin, led to the USSR falling almost irretrievably behind other, more progressive countries; ones like the United States.
~ Phil Plaitt, Bad Astronomy: Why is Our Government Attacking Science? May 1, 2013; http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/01/attacks_on_science_government_antiscience_on_the_rise.html
This is spin and a great example of Godwin's Gaffe, practicing exactly what Social Skeptics decry as inevitable and invalid, Godwin's Law: their being compared to Nazi's and Communists. The public is not dictating what can and cannot be "investigated" (save for the necessity to manage federal funding deficits and putting a cap on what is considered to be entitled money) – they are objecting to the wholesale imposition of policy, the removal of human rights and right to free enterprise, through the simple act of declaring one's self to represent 'science' or specious claims of 'scientific consensus.' Defending one's rights inside a constitutional jurisdiction does not in any way resemble the actions of old Bolsheviks and Lysenkoists. The designation of the defense of human rights as Lysenkoism, is the attempt to remove the right to self determination by a people, at the hands of those who are not qualified, much less appointed, to make such unilateral decisions.
The USSR fell apart because precisely because they denied public human, governmental and economic rights, not because they squelched the ideas of those who called themselves 'scientists.' The alternative Godwin's Gaffe foisted above is a clueless re-invention of history. Ironically, it was the Soviet Union who delved more deeply into subjects which were and still are, forbidden and disdained by Social Skeptics in the United States.
The result of this is a dramatic shift of wealth back into the same socialist hands which served to precipitate World War I and II (see graphic from the Economist, to the right). We are well underway back to the establishment of this same form of socioeconomic practice, once again.
Our best and our brightest, too stupid, skeptical and compliant to spot when they have been manipulated into serving institutions which only promote royalty, and serve to enslave and create conflict.
To the SSkepticism Cabal, in their superior educated wisdom, the US Constitution was simply a grand experiment which failed, and now we should step back into the 600 year old failed royalty-Let them Eat Cake-socialism of the past. Because socialism is moral and based on scientifically proved principle, my principles, human rights are an unnecessary if they get in the way of cartel power and the intentions of those who declare themselves to be 'science.' It is this purposeful targeting of persons based on their ideas, which we as a nation feared most in our inception – because unlike in the Thomas Paine scenario, it does not just hurt the one who precludes and denies.
This principle, the concept that it is experimentally moral to change government solely for reasons of increased control, and begin to remove and filter ideas based on their 'truth and reason' content is no better expressed than by Michael Shermer himself; grand master of social morality and truth enforcement on the populace. A product of religion himself, now spinning his new religion with a blood-thirst by which even Jerry Falwell would be awed.
If you want different results [government], change the variables. "The founders often spoke of the new nation as an 'experiment,'" Ferris writes. "Procedurally, it involved deliberations about how to facilitate both liberty and order…" As Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1804: "No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth." ³
~ Michael Shermer, The Work of Michael Shermer, Scientific American, Sept 2010.
- Your freedom of speech, was just an experiment
- Your rights to assemble and communicate, were just an experiment
- Your right to unfiltered information, was just an experiment
- A free press, was just an experiment
- A free capital economy, was just an experiment
- Your right to bear arms, was just an experiment
- Your right to life liberty and pursuit of happiness, was just an experiment
- Your right to thrive, was just an experiment
- Your right to freedom from totalitarian corporations acting in lieu of the public trust and right to self-determination, was just an experiment
And since We Are The Science, only We, the Cabal, are authorized to issue Peer Review on this experiment.
We will note with the Cabal that, the only thing which will not be an experiment, is their power. That is absolute and unquestionable. They have made this very clear.
¹ Appleyard, Field, Cobb, "In the Real World: The Effects of International Cartels," International Economics (Seventh Edition), pp 139 – 150.
² Investopeidia, "Cartel;" http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cartel.asp
³ "Democracy's Laboratory," The Work of Michael Shermer, September 2010; Scientific American; http://www.michaelshermer.com/2010/09/democracys-laboratory/
† Social Skeptic Organizations Directly Compensated by Pharmaceutical Companies:
‡ Unsafe at Any Speed: Industry Response, Wikipedia; extracted 21 Sep 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed.


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0I finalized my order with JuJu last week, and she sent me this pic yesterday. I think they came out really well--can't wait to see them in person.Posted:
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1Have never heard of Ju Jus, but these look very nice. I've carried Jan Craigs since I was a kid in the 1960s and have never had a problemPosted:Callaway Epic driver, 13.5° set at 14.5° Diamana M40, A flex
Callaway Epic 5 wood, 18° set at 19°, Diamana M40, A flex
King Cobra F7 3h (19°), Fujikura Pro 75H, A flex
King Cobra Baffler 4h (23°) & 5h (26°), Aldila NV-HL, A flex
Titleist 718 AP1, 6-gap wedge, Tensei CK series, A flex
Callaway 2017 PM Grind 56°/13° & 60°/10°, KBS Tour-V, wedge flex
All grips Golf Pride New Decade Multi Compound
Bettinardi Inovai 3.0, Bettinardi/Lamkin deep etch grip
Ping Hoofer bag
Headcovers Stitch, HeadGear, Jan Craig, Fore Ewe, Winston Collection
Titleist Pro V1X
Rovic & Clicgear push carts
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4Ju Ju is great to work with on custom knit headcovers. The overwhelming positive reviews and the pictures of the finished covers convinced me to order a set. Great process, price, and awesome quality.Posted:
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4Worked out the details for my second JuJu order today. I original order was 2 1/2 years ago and this covers still look great. I replaced my power hybrid with a 5 wood and I decided to replace my leather driver cover with one of her knitted ones while I was at it.
If it's anything like my last experience, I'll have pics to post in no time!Posted:Srixon Z785 9.5- Tensei Pro Orange 70S
Callaway GBB Epic SZ 3 wood- Aldila NV 2KXV Green 75S
Titleist 818 H2 17- Aldila Rogue Max S
Titleist 818 H2 21- Fujikura Atmos Blue S
Mizuno MP 18 (5-pw)- DG S300
Vokey SM7 50*- DG S200
Vokey SM7 54*- DG S200
Callaway Mack Daddy PM 58*- KBS Tour V 125
Bettinardi '17 Studio Stock 8
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4Posted:Srixon Z785 9.5- Tensei Pro Orange 70S
Callaway GBB Epic SZ 3 wood- Aldila NV 2KXV Green 75S
Titleist 818 H2 17- Aldila Rogue Max S
Titleist 818 H2 21- Fujikura Atmos Blue S
Mizuno MP 18 (5-pw)- DG S300
Vokey SM7 50*- DG S200
Vokey SM7 54*- DG S200
Callaway Mack Daddy PM 58*- KBS Tour V 125
Bettinardi '17 Studio Stock 8
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1NativeTX wrote:
Got em today and they look awesome!Posted:[font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Cobra Fly Z 9.5 Stock Stiff Shaft[/font]
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5byflow2 wrote:NativeTX wrote:
Got em today and they look awesome!
Love the UE Roll strapped to the bag - will have to try that.Posted:Callaway Epic 9.0 Fujikura Atmos Black TS 6S
Callaway XR Pro 3 wood
Callaway XR 5 wood
Taylormade GAPR 3 Mid KBS 80 S
Ping i200 Nippon N.S.Pro Modus3 Tour 105S - 4-UW
Titleist Vokey SM6 54* and 58* S200
Evnroll ER8 33"
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0Thanks to this thread I pulled the trigger on some JuJu's. Fantastic fit, quality, value, and turn around time!Posted:
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5MaxPower328 Posted: WRX Points: 41Members Posts: 1,135Joined: #444Rediscovered this thread because I am thinking about finally thinking about getting a new set. For anyone worried about longevity of the headcovers I have had mine since 2012 and they have zero rips or tears.Posted:915D2 9.5* Rogue Silver
915F 15* Diamana White
915H 21* Diamana White 90
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0Long time lurker of this board. I'd found this thread a while ago and came back to it a few times before biting the bullet recently. Juju was awesome to work with, and I'm stoked with how the bag looks now! I'm glad that so many of you all had posted yours, so I'll add mine to the thread here.
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5Juju was just great to work with. Replies quickly follows up and such fast turnaroundPosted:
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2Just received head covers fro Ju Ju. They're reallly nice and apparently well made. I highly recommend her head covers. Suggest you ask for a color sample or two before you finalize your order.Posted:
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My new 3 & 4 hybrid headcovers. The solid grey with black stripes is for my 3 hybrid and the other is for the 4 hybrid. I've ordered from her a few times, and have been very happy with all of them. These will be in Friday or Saturday, depending on USPS.Posted:WITB
Driver: 9.5* M3 Speeder 757 Speeder Evolution Tour Spec Stiff Flex
Fairway: Cobra F6 Baffler set to 17.5* with Motore Speeder 8.3 Stiff
Hybrids: 19* Adams XTD Super Hybrid VTS 100s/Adams XTD Dhy 21* VTS 100s, 23* Adams Super 9031 S300
Irons: 5-PW Ben Hoga PTx Pro DGTI S400
Wedges: 48* bent to 49* Hogan TK wedge, 52* bent to 53* Mid and 56* bent to 58* RTX 4. All wedges have DGTI S400
Putter: Odyssey O Works #7 or Kingston KP1 Carbon Oil Can Finish
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0weenie_dog Posted: WRX Points: 47Members Posts: 1Joined: #450
Anyone know if her putter sock will fit a center shafted blade putter? (Seemore)Posted:
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5On -, @weenie_dog said:
Anyone know if her putter sock will fit a center shafted blade putter? (Seemore)
I doubt it, it is simply a sock style sleeve. Seems like it would be awkward. Send her a email with picture of the putter. She might be able to make something special.Posted:
Woods: Callaway Rogue Sub Zero 8*, Fujikura Ventus 6, stiff: TM M5, 13*, Diamana Thump 75, stiff
Hybrids: TEE CBX 3H (20d), 4H (22d), Project X Hzrdus Black Hybrid 85 6.0
Irons: TM M6, 5-GW, Accra 80i, stiff
Wedges: Cleveland CBX 54* (bent to 55*), 60*, Accra 80i, stiff
Putter: Evnroll ER1.2 355g, 33", KBS CT Tour Putter Matte Black, Sense S1 grip
Ball: Wilson Duo Professional in green & yellow
Bag/Cart: '18 Ping Hoofer/BagBoy Quad XL
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I was just a little bummed that my fabric shopping at the Expo was going to be focused around what I would need for choir...I didn't feel like I could just look for fabric that spoke to me. But, an email from Fashion Fabrics club announced that they are running a deal on shipping...1.95 flat rate for any purchase of $40 or more. So I did a little scouting and found two knits and some black cotton/lycra twill that will do nicely for 'necessary choir clothes'...for a total of 8 yards at just a fuzz over $5/yd, including shipping. I don't think I could've found it for cheaper at the Expo, and now I'm free to look for fabric that I love.
I can't buy much...after the 8 yards arrives, I'll be just a little over 12 yards ahead of parity...that'd be about 4 pieces of fabric. And (I'm telling myself this, anyway) I'm going to be picky. It's got to *speak* to me.
We'll see how strong my willpower is...or maybe, how vocal the fabric is this year!
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Friday, April 17, 2009
Natural Navigator Picture Puzzle
This picture shows spring coming to one of London's parks, but can you work out in which direction was this photo was taken?
Two clues for you:
1) It was taken in the northern hemisphere (doh!)
2) All the trees all the way along the avenue look pretty much the same on either side
Answers please.
9 comments:
- Tillerman said...
OK. I know nothing about natural navigation but I'll make a guess. It looks as if the trees are starting to shoot but only on their right sides as we look at them. So I guess that right is south, and so the avenue runs east-west with the photo taken facing east.
- 8:46 pm
- Carol Anne said...
I concur with the Tillerman. I might add the refinement that the shot may be pointing a little south of east, as the brightest part of the glow behind the clouds presumably indicates where the sun is.
I'm guessing it's probably about 8 a.m., although that's hard to pin down without a clearer idea of exactly where the sun is. I'm not used to dealing with clouds.
- 3:58 am
- JP said...
Your on the right track but maybe a little picture would help :)
Carol Anne: we in London know quite a bit about clouds! I selected a picture with lots of clouds so the sun direction wouldn't be a clue
- 6:27 pm
- O Docker said...
I must say, JP, I would have answered just as Tillerman and Carol Anne, but your second clue seems to indicate they're off course.
And, now, I'm almost certain they are. But, I'm no natural navigator, either, and took the opposite approach. I tried to see if I could find the answer on the internet, and did in about 10 minutes. I found not only which direction the photographer was facing, to within about 10 degrees, but the exact spot the photo was taken, the name of the park, and of the bridge in the distance. Here's a similar photo taken slightly later in the year.
It's not that I'm a genius, of course, only that the internet and our electronic toys have become so powerful that it's making us all pretty lazy and less observant of the natural world around us - which I guess was the point of this exercise in natural navigation. Looking forward to your answer.
- 5:23 am
- Carol Anne said...
Oh, dear. I'm reminded of a course I took in computer programming during my first attempt at college. It was a cryptography problem, with two stages: The first was to find the number of ciphers used -- was the same code used every fifth letter, every seventh, or what? The second part was to find the cipher for each period.
After a few weeks of the class being frustrated with the problem, the prof gave us the number of ciphers. I took that as an answer in an answer key, much in the vein of the answer key in a math textbook -- if my program came up with that number, I would know my program was right.
It turns out that was not what the prof meant -- he wanted the students to just skip the step of finding out how many ciphers and just plug that number in. He never said that was what he wanted us to do. I felt that plugging the number in without figuring it out first would be cheating.
I got an F on the assignment and failed the course. When I left messages for the prof asking why, he responded with a scathing memo something to the effect of, "If you cared enough about the class to attend [I had perfect attendance, but apparently he never bothered to look that up], you would know the period of the cipher, as I gave that information on multiple occasions. Since you didn't put the number in, your program didn't solve the cipher, and so you didn't pass the class."
I suppose that prof would be pleased with O Docker's solution.
- 5:58 am
- The Natural Navigator said...
JP, sorry to have been so slow to have joined the fun...
There is appears to be one big clue, three subtler ones and then the one that is often my favourite... the lateral one.
The big: earlier growth on one side of the avenue.
The subtler no.1: the branches are very slightly more horizontal on one side of the trees than the other.
The subtler no.2: the path on the left is wetter on one side than the other.
The subtler no.3: the sky appears a touch brighter on one side than the other.
The lateral: the river appears in the picture and you live south of the river, methinks.
If I am getting warm then we are looking in the direction of the sun from a first quarter moon?
Put us out of our misery, quizmaster!
- 8:01 am
- tillerman said...
OK. Do I get a mulligan? Thanks for all the clues.
1. I guessed that the water might be the Thames but chose to ignore that fact, knowing that the Thames around London does loop around a lot so without knowing more about the exact location didn't want to assume that the river runs east-west here.
2. I think I misinterpreted that good captain's clue that "all the trees all the way along the avenue look pretty much the same on either side." I thought he meant that the trees on both sides of the avenue look the same; but perhaps he was referring to both sides any given tree?
3. So if the tree on the left are shooting on both sides and the ones on the right aren't yet, then perhaps it's because the row on the left is shading the row on the right from the sun. Which means south is left and we are facing west. Exactly the opposite of what I first said. Duh.
4. Thanks to Natural Navigator for the other clues. Or is he just trying to mislead us. First quarter moon???? But I did notice the difference in the angle of the branches of the trees on both side but wasn't sure how to interpret that.
- 2:15 pm
- tillerman said...
Oops. I now see that JP posted the answer before I wrote my last comment but I didn't read the answer first, honest.
Great puzzle JP. I'll be on the lookout for some natural navigation pictures myself now.
- 2:52 pm
- JP said...
From point 3 looks like you got it spot on and just before I posted the answer.
Gold star for the Tillerman :)
- 3:39 pm


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Behind every great hatred is a love story. This amazing quote by Justin Cronin in his riveting book The City of Mirrors is a mantra to which I cling when I think about the estrangement between my two grown daughters and myself.
If a parent complains about a teenager the groans will be met with knowing nods and words of empathy. There are myriad books, television shows and news features offering sympathetic understanding
But dare to speak about problems with your adult child—about years of estrangement, and how a divorce from their mother has been treated as the unpardonable sin—and your voice is likely to be met with either a steely silence or a masked show of sympathy that loudly proclaims an unwillingness to hear more. Even from the closest of friends and the most pious of Christians.
It is a misunderstood and isolating subject. Estrangement from family is among the most painful human experiences.
What is estrangement, exactly? Therapists define it as: Contact cut off in a way that's upsetting to the one left behind, rather than a mutual parting. And those who have dealt with estrangement are often too ashamed to talk about it.
"It's a silent epidemic," says Joshua Coleman, Ph.D., a psychologist in San Francisco and the author of When Parents Hurt.
No one keeps an official tally, but Coleman says "estrangement is 'epidemic' for many reasons. And most often, it is between a parent and adult child.
Parenting has changed more in the last 40 years than it did in the few centuries before that. As a result, today's adult children don't view their relationships with their parents the way their folks did with their parents. The principles of obligation, duty and respect that baby boomers and generations before them had for their elders aren't necessarily there anymore.
Sometimes estrangement creates a wall between grandparents and grandchildren. I have been estranged from my two grown daughters (my only children) for over six years. Between them they have three grandchildren under the age of six. I haven't seen the children—ever. And it's not just me, those children are also being deprived of a loving family with an aunt, uncle, cousins, and unbelievably, their great-grandparents (my loving mother and father). The grandchildren have never met any of their fellow Elrod family members.
It's impossible not to feel that refusing to let me and my parents see our grandchildren is my two daughters way of punishing my entire family for my sins and a subsequent divorce from their mother.
Don Henley (of Eagles fame) penned the poignant lyric to The Heart of the Matter. The words cut through the pain more empathically than any dull and meaningless christian lyric:
I'm learning to live without you now
But I miss you sometimes
The more I know, the less I understand,
All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again
I've been tryin' to get down
To the heart of the matter
But my will gets weak
And my thoughts seem to scatter
But I think it's about forgiveness
Even if, even if you don't love me anymore.
The words of the Bible feel pointless as well, "If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying 'I repent,' you must forgive them." (Luke 17:3-4)
I have repented and asked forgiveness countless times. Privately and publicly before all people. In my memoir, A Renaissance Redneck, I penned these words:
Again I begged for forgiveness, but this time my marriage of thirty-two years was over. My wife had had enough.
There are fewer things I regret more than the way I handled those six years after I stepped off stage and left the ministry; and there are no feelings from that time that compare with the sadness I feel over the pain I caused my family (especially my wife and two daughters) and friends and those who trusted me as their leader at re:Create.
Except for a few of my closest friends, I was ostracized by the Christian community. I had sinned—and that made me bad for business. My expansive social networks dried up overnight and people and sponsors began to pull out of my conference and my life. It was as though I did not exist. For months on end, I would not receive one email or call.
And over six years later, I remain estranged. Unforgiven by my children, their husbands, and their families. After six years, I'm learning to live without my girls now, but I miss them every minute of every day. I miss meeting my grandchildren. I miss our love.
Behind every great hatred is a love story. Until my 48th birthday our family was a beautiful story of love—not perfect—but functional and healthy. After two years of intensive professional therapy, I have come to understand that a mid-life crisis and disillusionment after a thirty year career as a minister led to a devastating personal breakdown. A crisis in every sense of the word.
But try as I might, I cannot comprehend any crisis capable of wiping out twenty-three years of loving, sacrificing and providing for my children. Henley's lyric rings true for me, "The more I know, the less I understand, all the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again."
If the result of a great love story—a sweet family, a father doting over his daughters with a pure love for decades—is great hatred, then I don't understand. Everything I've known is false. All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning again.
Can a great love turned hatred turn back again to love?
Oh, I hope so. Because I know that when each of my newborn daughters held, with their little hands, their father's finger, they trapped me for the rest of my life.
A father without a child
is like…
dance without music
music without sound
sound without sight
sight without beauty
beauty without nature
nature without land
land without sea
sea without stars
stars without night
night without moon
moon without time
time without meaning
meaning without freedom
freedom without life
life without body
body without soul
soul without hope
hope without religion
religion without god
god without love
love without another
is like…
a father without a child.