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THE TOOLS OF OUR TIME: Now is the time the Lord has made
I always feel that now is the time we are meant to be. Now is the time our whole life prepared for us. God gave us every supernatural, and every natural power to get things done.
No need to call for blessings, you already have them. Just believe, and it is done.
Remember how interesting this first sounded, "Wouldn't Jesus use everything to tell us about how much God loves us?
Jesus would be on prime time TV, on the Internet with a Blog, a Facebook page, a Homepage, a Church site with a schedule, and theme, and service all saying 'Now is the time!'"
Sure good food, good: water, air, probiotics, media, friends, family, help make us happy, healthy, and wise. But everything that went before prepared us for what we are doing right now!
Yesterday a preacher said that the song he just heard was "soaking music," because his spirit was filling up with the Holy Spirit.
I fealt that the song was affecting me in a special way, not because the singer was holy, or the words were special, or the presentation was done well; but because God was working through it.
This made me think that God is doing this very thing all the time. He knows what we need before we ask for it, and we know what needs to be done before we do it. Now all we need to do is know that it is all done.
It was all done so that we might believe that it is all done; so that we all can know, experience, and share God's love now, right now, and forever!
not sureDeath is like a storm that comes upon you when you least expect it. If you are fighting a great battle and one by one your fellow soldiers are being killed around you, you might say to yourself “Thank God it was not me!” Today there are countless problems that we all face. Health is foremost, for without your health you would not feel like doing anything. What then do you need to do to be healthy?
The soldier needs peace, the street children need family and the rest of us need wisdom for it is the mother of all other virtues. A lot of people would say that they would like a lot of money even before happiness or health; but wisdom tells us that this is foolishness. “What does it profit us; if we gain the whole world and loose our immortal soul?” Empires were made from the desire for gold, glory, and the gospel; but the means to these goals were filled with error. No one can follow a great leader, and seek great riches.
The list of things an American adult would want seems insignificant to the third world individual’s needs. Our health is poor, and our health care around thirty sixth out of the top four hundred countries of the world. We do not teach our people how to be healthy. Prevention is the key to good health! Good nutrition, proper exercise, education, and culture are the factors that build health. It does not matter how well your doctors are trained; if they do not know anything about prevention. It does not matter how great your health care plan is; if it does not contain sound principles of health.
Health is not just about being happy. Most of us know that people all over the world seek happiness in the wrong places. Health is about everyone knowing the truth and not being fooled by the deception. The researchers have a motto, "If you want to discover the truth follow the money." Who makes a profit, if you are sick? The medical model does, because it is concerned primarily with making a profit! What else is there besides the medical model?
There are countless traditions from around the world that promote good health through the prevention of illness. If there is something wrong with you, you need to find the cause of your problem! You can not just treat the symptoms and ever hope to be health person.
There are many things our country needs to do to get our people back in shape. Organic food is the right direction. Non oil cars are the right direction. Town meetings run democratically are the right direction. Leadership for the future is the right direction.
How do we find all our problems, and how do we start solving them? Mortality lists for today and from the past generation will tell us a lot about where we came from the history of health and we are heading with health care. We can not blame it all on: fast foods, poor crops, pollution, toxins, stress, disease; but they all have an great affect on our well being. It is very difficult to find fresh air anywhere on earth any more; let alone find clean water, or peace and quiet.
Suppose you were fortunate enough to get the best filterer for your air, water, the best food grown, and be educated with the best knowledge; could you obtain good health? Then there are your genes and your heredity? How has mutation change your genes? Does your family have a lot of health problems, circulation problems, cancers, diabetes, trouble breathing, nerve problems, eye problems, skin problems, etc.? The list of health problems that anyone could have is very long. Most of mankind's mutations are caused by free radicals.
Perhaps you had too much radiation, heavy metal contamination, exposure to harmful chemicals, toxins, bacteria, molds, viruses, parasites, diseases, etc.. Then the cure is to mend your cells by nourishing them with the best anti oxidants that are both readily available, and afforable, and to discover all the other things that will promote good health and prevent further damage to them.
FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD
“Let food be your medicine, and medicine be your food!”
Most all of our medical problems is because we do not eat the right food. Both of my grandparents had produce stores. Our families are part of a long line of produce growers, and sellers of fresh fruits, and vegetables.
The food we eat needs to be in balance. Too much acid, or base producing food is not good for you. Only about 1% of the population is eating enough alkaline (base) producing food. Here is a list of types of food.
Very Acidic Foods and Supplements Include
Eggs
Liver and other organ meats
Gravy
Broth made from bones or other animal parts
Wine
Yogurt with active cultures
Buttermilk, including buttermilk pancakes and biscuits
Sour cream
Most fermented foods and aged cheeses
Some B vitamin supplements or foods supplemented with B vitamins make your stomach more acid
Hydrochloric acid supplements
Digestive enzymes
Acidic Foods
Corn
Meat
Beans
Fish
Fowl
Most grains
Coffee
Plums
Prunes
Cranberries
Distilled water
Very Alkaline Foods Include
Chocolate
Figs
Mineral water
Orange juice
Potatoes
Spinach
Bananas
Watermelon
Dandelion Greens
Neutral Foods
The Mayo Clinic Diet Manual, Seventh Edition categorizes the following foods as neutral foods
Butter
Margarine
Cooking fats
Oils
Plain candies
Sugar
Syrup
Honey
Arrowroot
Corn
Tapioca
Coffee
Tea
See the full article, and study the acid/base balance on the Internet.
http://www.ctds.info/acidic-foods.html
The Problem with Prescription Acid Blockers
Prescription acid blockers operate on the assumption that an over production of acid is the cause of your acid reflux. Based on this idea, they work by blocking or dramatically slowing down the stomach’s acid production, thereby minimizing the chance that acid can enter and harm your esophagus. To that end, they do their job- but at a dangerous cost to your health.
Stomach acid plays an important role in both digestion and your overall health and by blocking its production you are essentially starving the body of life sustaining nutrients. Without adequate amounts of stomach acid, vital amino acids, vitamins and minerals are unable to break down properly and fail to make it into your bloodstream. Insufficient amounts of stomach acid severely impact the production of life-sustaining hormones and create an environment ripe for harmful bacteria to thrive. Without enough stomach acid to keep the bacteria at bay, the toxic bacterial byproducts can spread throughout the body. Overtime, the results of low stomach acid can be devastating.
Research has shown that chronic low stomach acid can lead to a wide range of serious diseases, including cardiovascular disease, type 1 diabetes, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, allergies, skin disorders, and depression.
Human beings began to think long before they began to understand one another or to reflect upon their thoughts. Reasoning was the progression of their strength that enfolded as his virtue and his connection with nature and the environment improved.
Man began to learn that working in groups was good for his welfare and his well being. The better he communicated with others the better his life became.
GROUPS (SIGs)
Hello Pittsburgh Area Computer Club members:
Some of the Special Interests Group members of the Pittsburgh Area Computer Club have interests in: Internet surfing, Knowledge Engineering, learning how to find out information on the Internet, how to interface their computer with their home and office, how to make money with a special unique web site, where can they learn more about computers and application software, and where can they learn how to program. Other special interests are: digital photo processing, digital movie making, peer to peer sharing, making music, artificial intelligence, and nanotechnology.
Most of these projects I regularly update on my computer. Some of my special interests are: "holistics," herbs, natural healing, alternative health, Information Technology, religious education, and computer animation.
If there are other Special Interests you have please let me know. Respond in person or by e-mail by entering in the Subject box with "Re: PACC Special Interests." Any two or more members can start a special interest group in our club.
I have requested an e-mail update for the members of the club, and some more support for the club’s library.
If you see an incorrect e-mail listed or a member not listed send corrections to Re: PACC e-mail update.
If you have any shareware CDs that you find interesting make a copy of it for the members of the club, and give me a copy of it to enter it into the club's library, so that we can share it with others.
If you would like to help the club duplicate PACC TALK CD’s let me know respond with Re: PACC TALK duplication.
There are 4 CDs that we are now duplicating. We need at least 5 copies of each CD. PACC TALK CD 1 covers years 1977-1986 and PACC TALK CD 2 covers 1985-1991. DVD 3 covers 1993-1999.
If you would like to help us scan PACC TALK newsletters or with the library, please let me know respond with: Re: PACC TALK Scanning, and we will help you get a full set of the PACC TALK years you would like to scan for this project.
Happy Computing, Phil Cutrara
N.B,: You can reach me at: philcut@aol.com
http://philcutrara1.tripod.com
My "Holistics" Blog
CancerEnd fights your cancer with extracts of Pomegranate,
Noni and Goji juices which work in a way different than other anti-cancer medicines by supplying immune boosting polysaccharides.
The Goji berries in CancerEnd are the richest source of cartenoids of all known foods. They contain 500 times more vitamin C, by weight, than oranges.
They also contain polysaccharides which fortify the immune system. Goji berries have been traditionally regarded as a longevity and strength building food of the highest order.
In studies with elderly people where the berry was given once a day for 3 weeks, 67% of the patient’s T cell transformation functions tripled and the activity of the patients white cell interleukin-2 doubled.
A Six Blend Organic Noni, Acai, Pomegranate, Goji, Mangosteen & Camu-Camu fruit juice is a pure and natural fruit juice also works well.
Studies suggest that this unique complex by Life Time, creates a synergistic response (works best when blended together) at the cellular level within the body.
This synergistic antioxidant complex is more active when blended together than if each fruit juice were consumed alone.
These prized berries have traditionally been used for thousands of years and studies suggest they may help increase energy, stamina, vitality, and promote a healthy immune system.
SEE: Western Elemental Profile (Health Assessment)
SEE ALSO: Chinese Elemental Profile
AND: Indian Elemental Profile (Ayurvedic)
Linux Log is now a regular column in Troubleshooting Professional Magazine, authored by Steve Litt. Each month we'll explore a facet of Linux as it relates to that month's theme.
Car enthusiasts demand quality. Their cars are well designed and well maintained. Some enthusiasts drive stripped down muscle machines, others have scores of accessories and amenities, but all are built on top of robust, well functioning vehicles. There's a computer operating system like that. It's called Linux.
All Linux installations have power and reliability. On almost any given CPU/memory/disk space setup, Linux outperforms Windows. Linux is rock solid. It's so solid that you almost never need to reboot it. Even when changing your configuration. That's another Linux advantage over Windows.
Like most young parents, my folks had little money when I was a little kid, so our car was an old beater 48 Ford handed down from my grandparents. I still remember it getting vapor lock and stalling several times a day. Every couple miles, the car would stall and my Dad would run out, pop the hood, and lay wet rags on the intake manifold. My parents carried a bucket of water in the car, because this ritual would repeat itself hourly on hot days. If you are a Windows "power user", I think you know how my parents felt. Yes, rebooting is easier than laying wet rags in traffic, but it's a similar annoyance.
Linux is more like today's Buicks, or, if you prefer, yesteryear's slant 6 and 318 Dodge Darts. It just runs. Always. Every time. Forever.
Linux comes with a wide variety of options. You can install a "stripped down" command-line only Linux. No graphical user interface, no accessories and amenities, just a command line driven OS that can serve web pages, files, and DNS resolution, as well as run some astonishingly heavy processes, on a piece of hardware with surprisingly little in the way of CPU, memory or disk space. Personally, I use Red Hat Linux for such stripped down uses, but any Linux distribution can be used this way.
You can also get the luxury package. A complete graphical interface very much like Windows (but without the hourly vapor lock -- scuse me, blue screens of death). GUI assisted email, web browsing, and internet connection. Netscape Navigator and Netscape Composer (for creating web pages) are standard options of such systems. Windows comes with a rudimentary word processor, Wordpad. Likewise, most Linux distributions come with rudimentary word processors. And of course, for about $70.00, you can get WordPerfect for Linux, which compares very favorably to Microsoft Word.
My favorite luxury Linux is Caldera OpenLinux, which is sort of the "Buick Lasabre" of Linuxes. If you want the "Lincoln Towncar" of Linuxes, get Corel Linux. The look and feel is identical to Windows. The only Windows features missing are the hourly crashes and the blue screen of death. The driver (scuse me, user) has everything at his or her fingertips. If you buy the $89.00 package, you get an official copy of Wordperfect to go with it. And now even Red Hat includes many of these same luxury features. And you get the best of both worlds. Because you can press Ctrl-Alt-Function key and get a stripped down command line interface on your luxury Linux, while at the same time running GUI software on the GUI screen.
Linux distributions vary widely in price, as long as you define "widely" between 0 and $100.00. If you forego the customer support and warrantee, most of these Linuxes can be delivered to your door for $5.00 plus shipping -- often $2.00 plus shipping. A further advantage of the $5.00 CD deals is that they should contain only redistributable software, meaning it should be perfectly legal to install that same CD on your machine and the machines 100 of your closest friends. Or 1000 -- copying redistributable- only CD's is perfectly legal. No software police will show up at your door. I think a good strategy is to make your first Linux full priced (still much less than Windows) so you get some tech support. Once you're familiar with Linux, go with the $5.00 CD's.
Linux isn't as forgiving of oddball hardware as Windows. Here's why. Because Microsoft has had an illegal monopoly for so long (this is Judge Jackson's opinion, the URL of which is in the URL's section of this magazine), hardware vendors were forced to make sure their equipment worked with Windows. Only in the last year have they had any incentive to make their hardware work with Linux. As a result, you need to take a little more care selecting your hardware. You should look at the Linux hardware compatibility at... I have some additional suggestions:
If you want an easy life in Linux audio, choose only a genuine Soundblaster or an Ensoniq, which were made by the same company, Creative Labs. Other sound cards often require some fairly heavy Linux expertise to set up.
Use an external modem. External modems have a very thin interface to the computer (a serial cable). This limits the problems you have with things like interrupts, plug and pray, and the like.
Use a monitor with known horizontal and vertical refresh rates. With monitors not in your Linux installation program's database, you get a much cleaner and more flicker free display if you explicitly specify these parameters.
The Wishing Well
My family bought a house when I was 7. The days of money problems and vapor lock were over. My parents liked the neighborhood, the school system, and the house. I liked the wishing well.
Of course it wasn't a real wishing well. It was just a three foot space between the garage and the fence. Densely overgrown with weeds, it inspired fear and curiosity. I went in, and kept going in. Because every time I went in, I came out holding something cool. A marble, a ball, whatever I wanted. Once I wished for a scooter, and sure enough there it was, 10 feet back in a heretofore unexplored section of the wishing well.
Of course any adult knows what happened. The last several owners had children, each of whom left things behind. I was a teenager when we moved out of that house. Surely the child of the new owner found the cool toys I abandoned in that overgrown space. Only a kid could think of it as a wishing well. A magical source of found dreams. It was the magic of childhood, all too brief -- never recaptured. Until I found Linux.
I wished for a web server and found one on my Red Hat Linux CD. Soon I found an email server and DNS server, and complete networking software. I networked my office.
The more I worked with Linux, the uglier Windows seemed. I wished for a Windows replacement. What should I find on the Red Hat, Caldera and Corel distibutions (as well as many others), but something called KDE, a graphical environment that mimics Windows so closely that you can put a Windows user on a KDE equipped Linux box and he'll know what to do. There's another graphical environment called Gnome, with a different set of benefits. If you install both the KDE and Gnome libraries, you can run programs designed for either. I felt like a kid again, crawling through the weeds and pulling out a scooter. But the fun had just begun...
I didn't like the way they had changed a particular feature of the Samba file server software. I wished there was a way to make it behave like the old version. Because Linux and other Opens Source software (including Samba) come with source code, I was able to find the location of the changed feature, and change it back. It was a simple modification of two lines of source code. I recompiled and copied the newly made files, and boom, it worked the old way. I changed the actual software to suit my liking. Your wish has been granted.
Once you install Linux, you'll see the wishing well. It won't look like an overgrown space between the garage and fence. Instead, it will be the Internet. Wish for fax software, and download HylaFax free of charge (yes, legally!). Wish for a word processor? Download free AbiWord, StarOffice, or go to the store and buy Wordperfect for Linux. Free software called word2x converts Word docs to various other formats, which can be helpful. Want a graphics program with the power of Photoshop? It's called Gimp, and comes on most Linux distribution CD's. Want a simple vector graphics program? How about tgif? It has a zero cost license. Or maybe you'd prefer Canvas, a full-featured proprietary ($375 full license) vector graphics program.
Where do you find out about available software available for Linux? The best place is the Freshmeat website at http://www.freshmeat.net. They have a search feature enabling you to pretty much find any Linux compatible software. There's also the Linux section of Tucows, whose URL is in the URL's section of this issue of Troubleshooting Professional Magazine.
How would you like an audio player than manages playlists and plays all different formats? I won't lie to you -- it will take a little research and programming, but you can do it free with Linux. Your windows buddies will ask you why you took all that trouble. You can no more explain it to them than you can explain your weekly maintenance of your 440 68 Charger to your neighbor with a Toyota. Your Charger leaves the Toyota in the dust, and your Linux audio player leaves the Windows music programs in the dust. And if it doesn't, you can soup it up until it does.
Linux isn't for everyone. More than ever before, trade magazines hype the computer as an "appliance". The person wanting an appliance buys a Windows computer. Linux computers aren't appliances. Neither are 68 Chargers.
URLs Mentioned in this Issue
Car URL's
http://www.troubleshooters.com: Steve Litt's primary website.
Linux URL's
http://www.redhat.com: Website of Red Hat, makers of the Red Hat distribution of Linux.
http://www.caldera.com: Website of Caldera, makers of the Caldera distribution of Linux.
http://www.corel.com: Website of Corel, makers of the Corel distribution of Linux, and the WordPerfect word procesing software.
http://www.kde.org/index.html: Home page of the free KDE desktop environment.
http://www.gnome.org: Home page of the free Gnome desktop environment.
http://www.samba.org: Home page of the free Samba file server software.
http://www.hylafax.org: Home page of the free HylaFax faxing software.
http://www.abisource.com: Home page of the free AbiWord word processing software.
http://www.sun.com/staroffice: Home page of StarOffice, word processor free from Sun.
http://word2x.alcom.co.uk: Homepage of free Word2x, the MS .doc conversion tool.
http://www.gimp.org: Home page of Gimp, the free heavy duty graphics program that works under Linux.
http://bourbon.cs.umd.edu:8001/tgif: Home page of tgif, a free vector graphics program that works under Linux.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html: The Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO.
http://www.freshmeat.net: The Freshmeat site, the best starting place for finding Linux software.
http://download.tucows.com/perl/linuxRegion.html: The Linux section of Tucows, which provides links to much software available for Linux.
Other URL's
http://www.troubleshooters.com: Steve Litt's website.
http://usvms.gpo.gov: This page, the US V Microsoft (usvms) page of the US Government Printing Office, has links to Judge Jackson's finding of fact and Judge Jackson's conclusions of law and order.
