DID YOU KNOW?

[Avantster]

Re: Did you know?



they're from other forums. not long to go!</p>

irritable eyes are pretty bad - my dad had an chronic eye condition with irregular cornea causing unbearable pain. only treatment was cortical steroids, of which prolonged use causes cataracts, which it did. had to have an op. to replace the lens in the eye, and now it's ok. not to scare you though, yours sounds completely different!
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you're probably already thought about any possible new shower/hair/makeup products you've been using, so the test sounds like the right thing to do - best find the cause now!</p>

[kira]

Re: Did you know?

[quote user="Avantster"]

they're from other forums. not long to go!</p>

irritable eyes are pretty bad - my dad had an chronic eye condition with irregular cornea causing unbearable pain. only treatment was cortical steroids, of which prolonged use causes cataracts, which it did. had to have an op. to replace the lens in the eye, and now it's ok. not to scare you though, yours sounds completely different!
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you're probably already thought about any possible new shower/hair/makeup products you've been using, so the test sounds like the right thing to do - best find the cause now!</p>

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yes- this is what i have to use right now...the only thing that seems to keep it from coming back.</p>

test showed nothing but slight irritation to a few things to be aware of but none of them strong enough to cause what is happening. bad irritation to the tape though- so now i know not to use medical tape all over my back for three days[86] so off to allergist for round two and more extensive testing. i was soooo hoping for the dr to go oh it is just simply this... but life is not that simple. [:(]</p>

[kira]

Re: Did you know?



Enough allergy talk.</p>

Did you know that there is a difference between BOTTLED water and bottled WATER?</p>

from the book Fine Water: A Connoisseur's Guide to the World's Most Distinctive BOTTLED WATERS</p>

Much bottled water is really bottled municipal tap water in the US, government and industry estimate that municipal water makes up 25% to 40% of the bottled water sold. American bottlers are also permitted by the FDA to label water as spring water even when it's treated with chemicals or pumped to the surface through a well near a true spring. For example, wells across southern Maine pump water to be sold as Nestle's Poland Spring, which is sourced neither from Poland Spring nor any other spring.</p>

BOTTLED water- The characteristic of this type is that it is bottled, providing a convenient package for on the go hydration.</p>

bottled WATER- These very special waters express terroir. They are bottled at the source, they may be naturally carbonated and are treated only minimally if at all.</p>

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[Chinorlz]

Re: Did you know?

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i need this emoticon!!!!!!!! I absolutely [64] it. </p>

The prick test was not easy either, but I think there is more room for error there? Albert? not sure. The woman that did the one on my arm went too deep and my arm was full of bruises for 2 wks... I know in the end this is a good thing, b/c the alternative is way too traumatic. I need to find the cause. But I also have the thought that what if i dont find the cause with this round. then, there will be more tests...[72]</p>


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Oops, I didn't see your and Avantster's postings. Got buried in the ever-so-depressing dollar strength decreasing links :(</p>

Yeah they have a few different methods as you've clearly experienced... same with Avantster. Theres an injectable version of the grid method (which is a bit faster than scratch or patch tests) and there is actually a blood array test where they apply allergens to blood samples taken from you. Obviously not as irritating for you but unfortunately nowhere near as accurate as the on-body tests :(</p>

At least now it's over! Although I'm sorry to hear that they still didn't narrow it down as you would have hoped :(</p>

[theetruscan]

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[quote user="kira"]i prefer the real stuff.
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Moss is better than either. Way less water needed than grass, way less maintenance, feels nicer and softer.
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[kira]

DID YOU KNOW: Sound Healing



Sound healing is the practice of using sound to realize and correct imbalances in the body. Sound healing works on the belief that the human body is not solid. Rather it is energy that is held together by sound. Any disease therefore indicates that some sound has gone out of tune.</p>

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This greatly interest me, the idea that when you are ill your body is out of tune. When a piano is out of tune for a long while, a piano tuner has to slowly tune the strings back to the proper place. The strings will keep slipping back to the bad position and have to be retuned over and over, until realigned back in the proper position. They can not be forced quickly or they will break. An interesting way to think about poor health, to see someone to help restore your energy and tune you back to the proper position, as a process over time of reconfiguration of the flow of energy...
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[Rubbish]

Re: DID YOU KNOW: Sound Healing

Interesting that you should mention sound healing. I just finished watching a Penn and Teller episode from the current (sixth) season where they dealt with new age medicine. Acutonics was heavily featured, though the highlight of the episode for me was definitely that Bullshit experiment where the fake doctor used a plunger to suck the stress out of the patient's body through his head.

[Avantster]

Re: DID YOU KNOW



Cats can hear ultrasound.</p>

Little fact from the other side of the lid of my juice bottle.
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[kira]

DID YOU KNOW- commercial space tourism



wow.</p>

i did not even know this was in the works...</p>


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VIRGIN GALACTIC ROLLS OUT MOTHERSHIP ?EVE?

WhiteKnightTwo launch vehicle for SpaceShipTwo heralds a new era in aerospace fuel efficiency, performance and versatility

Mojave Air and Spaceport, California
July 28th 2008

Virgin Founder, Sir Richard Branson and SpaceShipOne designer, Burt Rutan, today pulled back the hangar doors on the new WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) carrier aircraft that will ferry SpaceShipTwo and thousands of private astronauts, science packages and payload on the first stage of the Virgin Galactic sub-orbital space experience.

The rollout represents another major milestone in Virgin Galactic?s quest to launch the world?s first private, environmentally benign, space access system for people, payload and science.

Christened ?EVE? in honor of Sir Richard?s mother, who performed the official naming ceremony, WK2 is both visually remarkable and represents ground-breaking aerospace technology. It is the world?s largest all carbon composite aircraft and many of its component parts have been built using composite materials for the very first time. At 140 ft, the wing spar is the longest single carbon composite aviation component ever manufactured.

Driven by a demanding performance specification set by Virgin Galactic, WK2 has a unique heavy lift, high altitude capability and an open architecture driven design which provides for maximum versatility in the weight, mass and volume of its payload potential. It has the power, strength and maneuverability to provide for pre space-flight, positive G force and zero G astronaut training as well as a lift capability which is over 30% greater than that represented by a fully crewed SpaceShipTwo. The vehicle has a maximum altitude over 50,000 ft and its U.S. coast-to-coast range will allow the spaceship to be ferried on long duration flights.

An all carbon composite vehicle of this size represents a giant leap for a material technology that has already been identified as a key contributor to the increasingly urgent requirement by the commercial aviation sector for dramatically more fuel efficient aircraft. Powered by four Pratt and Whitney PW308A engines, which are amongst the most powerful, economic and efficient available, WK2 is a mold breaker in carbon efficiency and the epitome of 21st century aerospace design and technology.

The twin fuselage and central payload area configuration allow for easy access to WK2 and to the spaceship for passengers and crew; the design also aids operational efficiencies and turnaround times. WK2 will be able to support up to four daily space flights, is able to carry out both day and night time operations and is equipped with a package of highly advanced avionics.

Large numbers of VIP?s, media and more than 100 fully signed-up future Virgin Galactic astronauts flew into Mojave for the rollout onboard a new Airbus A320 aircraft specially chartered from Virgin America, the youngest and most efficient US domestic airline, which launched to great acclaim in 2007.

Rutan?s Scaled Composites facility has been strictly out of bounds whilst design and construction has been underway, but guests today were additionally given a tantalizing preview of SpaceShipTwo, clearly visible but heavily shrouded and well on its way to completion, in the smaller of Scaled?s two hangars awaiting its own rollout in 2009. This will be scheduled once WK2 is at the appropriate stage in its extensive test program, which has already begun with ground tests; it is expected to take its first flight in the fall of 2008. The flight test program will be comprehensive even before SpaceShipTwo is carried as a payload for the first time in 2009.

Commenting on the rollout, Burt Rutan, Founder of Scaled Composites said:

?WhiteKnightTwo represents the apogee of the application of carbon composites to aerospace and all of us at Scaled are tremendously excited at the capabilities of the Mothership for SpaceShipTwo. I believe the vehicle will be developed and sold for a variety of launch applications beyond the initial requirements of our launch customer, Virgin Galactic. We have set up a new business jointly with Virgin, The Spaceship Company (TSC), to develop these vehicles and we very much hope that its efficiency will herald a wake up call to the aerospace industry and the necessity of using new materials and technologies in the future. ?

Sir Richard Branson, Founder of Virgin Galactic added:

?As usual, Burt and the Scaled team have created a beauty and this is a very proud day for us all. The rollout of WhiteKnightTwo takes the Virgin Galactic vision to the next level and continues to provide tangible evidence that this most ambitious of projects is not only for real but is making tremendous progress towards our goal of safe commercial operation.

Virgin Galactic is central to our ambition at Virgin to become the world?s leading group in the operation of energy and environmentally efficient transportation, in the air, on the ground and in space. We arrived here this morning on an aircraft operated by Virgin America, who run the most fuel efficient commercial fleet in the US, to roll out what by most definitions, is the most energy efficient aircraft in history. We are naming it EVE after my Mother, Eve Branson but also because it represents a first and a new beginning, the chance for our ever growing group of future astronauts and other scientists and payload specialists to see our world in a completely new light. I for one can?t wait!?

For further information go to www.virgingalactic.com.

For downloadable images and graphics go to www.virgingalactic.com/press

For press enquiries please contact Jackie McQuillan at Virgin Galactic on +44 (0)207 229 4738.

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[Avantster]

Re: DID YOU KNOW- commercial space tourism

yeah it's been in the works for a while. it came up on the news just the other night - visiting space will cost you $200K

[philip nod]

Re: DID YOU KNOW- commercial space tourism

so will it lost you 130k if you go through lazzari or less if you order directly from tokyo?

[AKA*NYC]

Re: DID YOU KNOW- commercial space tourism



[quote user="philip nod"]so will it lost you 130k if you go through lazzari or less if you order directly from tokyo?
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Dear Matteo, please send me a Paypal invoice for one round trip ticket to the moon. And let me know when you expect the FW 2017 CCP shipment.</p>

[ddohnggo]

Re: DID YOU KNOW- commercial space tourism

it'll only be cheaper if you launch out of treviso italy or japan.

[philip nod]

Re: DID YOU KNOW- commercial space tourism

since i'm afraid of flying but not launching i guess i'll pay the extra 70k to launch out of the cape canaveral.

[Avantster]

The common housefly hums in the musical key of F.