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More about a 12-hour to 6-week water fast

I've always had plenty of food to eat, and I was raised believing that fasting happened only once monthly for 24-hours as a religious practice.  So fasting for six weeks seemed superhuman.  But today,...

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Government for the New Millenium -- Laws for the Information Age

Many of the structural laws and traditions conceived in the past are no longer adequate for the realities of the global Information Age. Changes are needed to reform the balance of power created by...

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I fixed my Palm screen that won't calibrate

My Palm screen calibration was getting worse, so I tried to calibrate the touchscreen, but I got stuck in an endless digitizer calibration loop.  Here's how I fixed it. I remembered reading to firmly...

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Feedback on the Free Online HawsEDC Engineering calculators

Tom - this is a very nice calculator.  I like the ability to review the various results in differing UOM with the easy to use drop-down field. Very quick... Good job and thanks for making this...

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A hardware store DIY deep well hand pump shopping trip

Based on three videos at Youtube (Peters, agua:yaku, and a "prepper"), I decide to go to the hardware store and see what kind of a hand pump I could come up with quickly and easily with ease and speed...

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Second clean dentist visit: my gum disease is cured!

I visited the dentist for my semi-annual checkup and cleaning a week ago.  He charged me only for a regular cleaning, not a periodontal cleaning, and he said my gums looked great!  My routine for the...

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Restless legs, phytates, and the industrial age

Plants protect their seeds (their babies) from being digested (killed) by making them toxic with phytates (phytic acid), enzyme inhibitors, etc.  Some animals thwart these protections with multiple...

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Add a JQuery DatePicker and limit it to show only the dates you specify

I needed to help users avoid mistakes by limiting the dates available to them in the calendar that appears when the JQuery datepicker is used.  Here's what I did. I had a form field that looks like...

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Free and natural hemorrhoid cure and prevention ideas list

My posts on hemorrhoid healing have received tons of excellent comments, and the information is getting a little overwhelming and scattered.  So I am distilling here all the best elements of a...

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AutoCAD Fillet Trims Segment In The Wrong Direction

I've been using AutoCAD since 1992, over 20 years.  This morning I was stumped for a while because while trying to use the Fillet command to create a simple rectangle with lines, the Fillet command was...

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Re-imagining the Corporation Back to the Public Good

Corporation ownership in its current incarnation is subverting naturally responsible human behavior and the natural limitations on human desire.  We therefore see corporations growing at a cancerous...

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Permanent Hemorrhoid Cure Steps in Simple English

1.  Push less 2.  Pull more 1.  Push less a.  Push much less than 1 minute per day.  Try to push less than 30 seconds per day. b.  If you are constipated, drink much more water (to make your urine very...

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The World Is Not Getting Worse and Worse

 I will be expanding this list of good news about the world we live in. "Between 1993 and 2010, domestic violence among adult women in the United States has gone down by 64%." Ester Soler....

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Disable Ubuntu guest account

Open a terminal with CTRL+ALT+T Type sudo gedit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf The /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf file will open in the gedit editor.  If necessary, add a section heading: [SeatDefaults] Add this...

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Ubuntu Linux User Account Parental Time Limit Control

For years I was using the very nice timekpr script to meter out time allotments and schedules to my kids' accounts on our Ubuntu computers.  And I wrote here how to get timekpr working in Ubuntu 11.10...

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My typical "usually vegan" diet 2014

Ninety percent of the time all I eat is smoothies; beans, rice, and potatoes with veggies; and oats with raisins.   No oil and no extracted sweeteners (sugars, nectars, or honey).  I routinely go a...

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How Science Works

Because we are intelligent, we can test our traditions and new ideas by doing science.  "Doing science" is the way we improve our understanding of reality by testing our ideas and discarding the ones...

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Traditional Pinto Bean Preparation

This is a long-process method that maximizes the nutritional benefit of beans and minimizes energy use, labor, and vigilance.  The finished product is refrigerated beans that keep for well over a week....

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LDS Church Growth and Attrition 1977 to 2013

According to this graph I prepared for Wikipedia, LDS official membership growth rate, while the lowest it has been since the 1930's, is currently about double the world population growth rate. Another...

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Best Countries According to Income Equality, Corruption, Homicide Rate,...

I wanted an impartial look at which countries on earth are doing best at the factors that matter to me, so I looked up maps and tables for Income Equality, Corruption, Homicide Rate, Healthy Average...

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