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Anyone know if I can I use ski goggles when skydiving? Or does one need special skydiving goggles? I ordered one of these balaclavas for cold, windy winter days and am wondering if I can use it for skydiving too? I am thinking of ordering something like this for cold winter days, too. Clear lens for night use as well as day (don't think I can afford 2 pairs or 2 lenses). I need to get some kind of goggle for cold winter days. Perhaps spherical lenses would be better for skydiving? They would be better for "up and down" vision as well as peripheral vision? ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

I've seen objects that glowed red-orange and were roughly saucer-shaped and that moved in way that balloons, airplanes, parachutes, helicopters, missles, etcetera, cannot possibly move -- the moved in one direction then abruptly went off at another angle, at a much higher speed than they were going while moving along the first vector. They also moved together with each other. They also seemed tp sense it when I was paying attention to them, and backed away at that time. When I wasn't paying attention, they slowly crept up upon me -- like a human might do to get close to an animal, attempting not to spook it. This was the eeriest part -- that they seemed to sense my thoughts and respond to them. It is conceivable they saw my head movements and eyes and respondd to those. I did not sense anything that suggested they were from "outer space." Perhaps they are from right here, but are entirely different beings than the mammals we are? Maybe a silicon-based life form? Or intelligent beings made of light rather than matter -- and from "here." ?? After I saw them i decided I wanted to go somewhere else. I parked my car not too far away. Later police officers approached me and asked me if I saw anything unusual. I would not want to jump to the conlcusion that they were crafts operated by intelligent beings. They might have been an aerial non-living or non-intelligent phenomenum that responds to thought sort of the way multiple needles on multiple electro-encephalographs might respond to thoughts. I saw them around 1969, in a swampy area while driving thru the state of Georgia, US, near high-voltage power lines. I don't remember exactly where. I never saw any such peculiar phenomenum again. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

Just what the heck is corned beef, anyway. Yea, I know, it a hunk of bovine muscle that has been treated somehow -- but how? What -- has it been soaked in corn? It doesn't seem like it. Does it have corns from walking too much in tight shoes? I don't think so. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

OK lawrocket. I am not saying that these drugs should never be used. I am just saying that specific differences in brain chemsistry should not be touted as something that we know, for sure, exists, and are specifically responsible for specific behavior or specific feelings. We have long used drugs without knowing why they work, and I am not against their careful use without knowing why they work. I think we should say that we "speculate that they may compensate for brain chemical differences." But doctors are leading people to think that they know that they compensate for brain chemical differences, and even suggesting that they know which chemicals, or which receptors at least, when in many cases, they really don't. In quite a number of "disorders" there seems to be enough evidence -- such as opioid receptors, serontonin reuptake receptors and a few more. In many cases we know which receptors the drugs affect which receptors, but we don't know for sure that the people that an inbalance is causing the behavior or feelings. For example I know that Nexium affects the acid-pump receptors that cause production of stomach acid, and that by taking Nexium, I don't perceive stomach problems any more, from my stomach ulcers. But we should not jump to the conclusion that I have an abnormality in my own stomach pump chemistry, that causes excess acidity, and erodes my stomach lining. It could be that my stomach lining is eroded by a viral or bacterial infection, and acid only causes the erosions to hurt, rather than is the primary cause of the erosion. And in fact, for many years it was erroneously assumed that stomach ulcers were caused by excess acid production caused by "stress." Now we know that helicobactor infections contribute to development of the ulcers. We even have tests for the presence of a helicobacter infection (tho it can't tell if the infection is current or past). And the treatment is still acid pump blockers. But we shouldn't assume that the problem is an acid pump abnormality, without specific tests to show they are functioning abnormality. Indeed, the root cause in many cases seems to be helicobactor, and acid production may, or may not, actually be normal. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

I think maybe it is better to keep it as a jpg. The atttached is 5.65 kbytes. Only slightly larger than the same size gif. I just saved it and selected "quality" as "3" when prompted for quality. Saving it at quality 6 will make it about 6.16 kb. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

" I can't take codine without vomitting." Maybe there is something you can take for the vomiting? And something else for the side effects that that causes? Modern medicine has something for just about everything. "Hey, it's a great way to stock up on potent pain killers and share with your friends" Hmm. Maybe I admit that I thought that was funny. Oh yea, take the NSAID they gave you plus the codeine if you can find something to take with it that kills the nausea. I would recommend dissolving a pea-sized ball of opium in the mouth. Though that might cause nausea too, if codein does. Or it may not. You may not want to ask your dentist for an opium prescription tho, unless you know he isn't an opiophobe. Same story re morphine. Morphine is said to be able to control just about any pain there is, without completely knocking you out. But, unfortunately, these days it is common for many doctors are phobic about morphine, even opium, whos active ingredient is, of course, morphine, has apparently been used safely, and without causing "addiction," for thousand of years, if used properly. Still, you may have nausea from it. Even tho I joked about it at first, i really think there is some real value to the "take another drug for the nausea" idea. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

As far as ADD is simply seeming to have more trouble paying attention, than most people seem to have, then it is definitly a disability to one extent or another. The question that, it seems to me, ought to be asked, is when does a lesser ability become so much less that it is a "disability" rather than a difference within the range of normalcy. This is real hard to pin down. I would not be surprised if DSM guidlines on the subject may be be sufficiently vague that they allow diagnosticians to ascribe ADD to anyone that they wish to ascribe it to. This clearly seems to be the case with certain other "mental disorders." If you really want to be diagnosed with, for example, schizophrenia, or depression, you don't have to do too much psychiatrist-shopping to find a psychiatrist who will ascribe it to you. Same with ADD. Whether it is truly a disability, is another question. I might add that, psychiatrist have, for the most part, not really been interested in truth. They have been interested in nomenclature and labelling. Every person has unique problems in living. Trying to find categories to put people in, without knowing whether people who fall in the same category, can be helped in the same way -- seems to make helping them harder, not easier. It is very possible that 2 people could have trouble paying attention for 2 entirely different reasons. Therefor I don't think that categorizing them as having ADD, I don't think "knowing" that they both "had ADD," would help a therapist to help them. But i'm going off on a tangent. Sorry. Hmm, maybe I have "going off on a tangent disorder." Yea, that's the ticket. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

"ADD or ADHD is merely a condition. It's not faulty wiring, or the inability to properly function. It's typically simply a lowered amount of checmicals in the brain." It may truly be a condition. And the condition in some cases may be a result of lowered amounts of chemicals in the brain -- but I don't think there is any really convincing evidence for that, I think that this is more conjecture, and perhaps a "promising hypothesis," than it is actual scientifically proven theory. And it would not be impossible for different people to have an attention deficit in one or more situation for different reasons than each other, would it? It very well may be due to brain chemicals, in some people who appear to have it, but until there is more evidence I remain skeptical. I think this "brain chemical" theory exists more because it serves as political justification for treating people who seem to exhibit ADD, with chemicals, drugs, than because it has been proven by real science. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

Canteloupe. When I can't get quality fresh ones, I dip into my stock of frozen canteloupe pieces. I have a 7 cu ft chest freezer with more canteloupe in it than anything else. The chest freezer is in addition to the 3.5 cu foot freezer section of my refrigerator-freezer. In about 1000 square feet I grow enough canteloupe to supply me with canteloupe for about 4 months. Pick them from mid august thru mid september. Sometimes I eat little else but canteloupe for a few days. I may eat more than one a day. Maybe 2 or 3 per on hot sweaty days. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

I keep on reading things that lead me to believe that the general ethics of the Chinese government, and the medical ethics of today's China, are frightening, and while there is a good deal of criticism in the western general press, there seems to be only a smattering of criticism in western medical journals. Below I've pasted some web pages from the web site of a kidney and liver transplant center in China The web site solicits foreign patients. If there was a hyperlink from this dropzone.com page to the transplant center page, they could trace visits to their transplant center pages back to this dropzone.com page and could then read the text surrounding the hyperlink. I don't want them to be able to find this page too easily. I don't want criticism of their policies to be easily tracable back to dropzone.com or me. I don't want to be on these people's dissident list as I sense they might possibly be the kind of people who might use violence to stifle differences of opinion. Please cut and paste the following into your browser. Their web master will be able to see that your ip (your internet service provider and possibly your specific computer) visited their page, but they will not be able to trace the visit back to dropzone.com. They might then be able to trace who visited their web page, back to you, but they should have no reason to believe you aren't simply a prospective patient. main page (english version) www.bek-transplant.com/en/index.htm FAQ page: www.bek-transplant.com/en/faq.htm Amnesty International has criticised China for executing lots of people per capita, and for executing people for relatively minor crimes. I would not be surprised if kidneys and livers were obtained from prisoners before they were shot. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

"My opinion is.... sex is a good thing." Not if your job requires that you have sex 30 times a day 6 days a week. It starts to get very tiresome, very soon. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

According to what I've read, a while ago, I think n National Geographic: Giant Pandas: have digestive systems that resemble those that many carnivores have. Giant Pandas: observed in nature to eat one species of bamboo and apparently nothing else. Giant Pandas in captivity: Getting them to survive on anything else but the one species of bamboo that they eat is difficult, if not impossible. Feed them almost anything else, and they get sick. Feed them meat and they get sick. An organisms natural diet may perhaps be better determined by observing what it eats in nature, rather than by obseving the anatomy and physiology of its digestive tract. Humans appear to be able to grow, develop, and live, on a wide variety of food, a much larger variety than any othe animal. At the same time, different humans in different places and time have thrived on very different diets, including diets that are rather limited in scope. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

Very good point Lindsey. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

PhillyKev writes No. Most people on medicaly managed opioids do not develop a tolerance, or develop a tolerance only very slowly. Some seem to develop a rapid tolerance. They try to screen those people out, with questions about drug abuse history, before starting. It is a small minority. Perhaps I have developed a tolerance to feeling high, and to respiratory depression -- but apparently I have not developed a tolerance to feeling pain relief. I've been taking the same amount per month, for about 2 years now. Up just a little from the amount I took per month for 3 years before that. I've read that people that need the same dose every day, usually do manage to not develop a tolerance. Personally, I hate opioids. I try to take a few as possible. But I prefer taking them to sitting around, like a lump, doing nothing, not even able to watch television -- due to agonizing pain. If I am doing something that doesn't require a lot of concentration, like washing my clothes, I tolerate some pain for awhile. If I need to do something that requires concentration and pain interferes with my ability to concentrate, like filling out income tax forms, then I take more medicine. I don't get high from them. I don't perceive any obvious changes in conciousness from them. While tests may show slowing of my reflexes, I don't have any subjective sensation of being any less alert or responsive. Since pain itself interferes with my subjective sense of alertness, the net effect is to make me feel more alert, not less alert. I feel better if I take NSAIDs, instead, but opioids are physically less damaging than NSAID's which are almost guaranteed to cause stomach ulcers eventually. Acetaminophen, tho it is only for the most minor pain, is almost sure to cause liver damage if taken for many years. You can take certain, but not all, opioids, for 50 years, with no discernable organ or tissue damage. This does not mean there is no damage, but it isn't the kind of dramatic damage you see with maybe just 5 or 10 years of taking NSAID's -- which don't work as well anyway. Not that I didn't take these for a long time, but I had to stop due to stomach ulcers. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.

Amazon writes I am for limited legalization of assisted suicide,allowing limited assistance without it being against the law to assist, however I tend to disagree with your above comment about pain relievers. I have fairly extensive personal experience with opioid pain relievers, and I believe that many, but not all, people experiencing unbelievably awful pain, who want to die because of their pain -- they could have a very greatly improved quality of life if they were only given adequate amounts of pain relievers, and that very often such people simply don't get enough pain relievers, since many doctors still have opiophobia, and there is also the existence of general societal opiophobia. Opioids can completely eliminate pain, in many cases, without making the patient dull. Not in all cases, but in many cases. I am saying this from personal experience, tho because of opiophobia, and the scorn that opioid users receive from opiophobes, I don't want to go into detail here. You have my email address. Briefly, I have pain that can, at times, only be managed with strong opioids in large doses, and I have a fair quality of life. I can work 30 or so hours per week. I can jump out of airplanes. Sometimes the pain is "dulled." Other times it is completely removed, without noticable side effects -- unless you consider suddenly feeling like mowing the lawn, or mopping the kitchen floor, as soon as the pain goes away, to be a "side effect." Never am I severely "dulled" in general. Tho I don't need high doses every day, even during the times when I need high doses, I can still function. I can certainly sit in front of my computer, wide awake, and use message boards. I can work at desk jobs. I wouldn't want to be, say, an air traffic controller, or a firefighter, because the pain itself, should I have a difficult to control exacerbation while on the job, would put other people in jeapardy, but I would be capable of learning and doing air traffic control. And of course there are plenty of things I can do without putting anyone at risk if I should have an exacerbation that temporarily slows me down, like for example being an accountant or bookkeeper, or an airplane mechanic. Euthanasia simply means a killing that is a good thing. Assisted suicide is a subset of euthanasia. I don't think we should legalize all kinds of euthansia, but assisted suicide, in some cases, with controls to prevent abuse -- probably we should in some cases. ____________________________________ Animal husbandry may not be necessary. We can maintain soil quality, for plant husbandry, with green manures and cover crops.