tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52350906797577468102012-02-11T06:08:06.690-07:00Tom Haws Interesting Random Discoveries Thomas Gail Hawshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04098809959246681881noreply@blogger.comBlogger1581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235090679757746810.post-58199128617003863552012-02-11T04:49:00.007-07:002012-02-11T06:08:06.704-07:00

A lot of people use Pointsin.lsp from http://www.hawsedc.com/gnu/pointsin.php to import survey points from coordinate files into AutoCAD blocks. Typically, a coordinate file might look like this:PointNo,North,East,Elev,Description1,7652.321,6240.528,658.258,MANHOLE2,7679.928,6221.083,658.961,EDGE OF ROADThe default behavior of Pointsin.lsp is to put each block insertion at z=0. But you can

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Solution: Control Panel -> Accessibility Options -> uncheck high contrastChrome and Opera use their own dll's, so they don't have the problem.Problem: Some of the images, especially the menu icons, on some web pages, like Facebook and Google, don't display in Firefox or Internet Explorer. But when you go to Opera or Chrome, they display just fine. The problem (at least for me) was the High

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On April 6, 2010, my dentist told me I had one 7mm deep gum pocket and fourteen 6mm deep gum pockets. That's an indication of advancing periodontal disease.I was so alarmed that I went out that day and bought a Water Pik and a Philips Sonicare sonic toothbrush. I also made final day preparations to wrap up my food projects and start a 12-day fast from everything but water. Since then I have

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Today I am unveiling to the world the Grand Unification Diet. :-D :-D :-D It's perfectly okay (and encouraged) to refer to it redundantly as the GUD diet (pronounced "good diet"). The GUD diet incorporates recurrent themes from all the most popular diets and welcomes insights from all the great diet promoters.The GUD diet doesn't arrive shrink-wrapped. It is as much a philosophy as an

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It's easy to keep food from going bad before its time in the fridge, and to make its time longer than ever before, when you understand two words: Danger Zone. Once you understand how to work around the Danger Zone, your food will last far longer. I have a few secrets that I use to keep food safe for a long. After I explain why these secrets are important, I give some key rules at the bottom of

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I have been a happy and loyal user since 2010 of MaTireLire (French for MyPiggyBank), the free and open source personal accounting software for Palm OS. It makes budgeting and balancing my checkbook easy and fun, and I love its cute little piggy bank icon. It's hard to convey just how wonderful this program is. I will gladly at any moment get a used Handspring Visor Deluxe or a Palm for $20 to

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My 12-year-old son has requested to watch documentaries with me lately. This week we watched Food, Inc. (a repeat for me) and The Corporation. I've been visiting Occupy Phoenix a bit lately, and I saw something of a synchronicity in the message of Occupy to "get the money out of politics" and the message of those documentaries that corporations are immoral because corporations are set up in a

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Today I went down to Desert Auto Works at 330 East Southern Avenue in Mesa, Arizona. They are a top notch shop with smart and honest guys. (Horton's Auto Repair on Main at Higley in Mesa is another place with smart guys and good high quality work.) While I was there we got to talking about cars. I knew that they like Toyotas there. They told me that Hyundais and KIAs have come a long way,

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CONNECT TO THE REMOTE SERVER USING SSHIf you don't know where the file is, and you don't have a graphical browser for the remote server, log in and browse around from the command line like this:ssh -L 3307:localhost:3306 {your remote account}@{your server}.compassword: {your remote password}lscd {some directory}lsGET THE FILEOnce you have the remote path and name of the file you want, exit ssh

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I was able to forward outgoing Gmail to a single address as long as I was willing to forward incoming mail also. I had it working, then I changed to a method that made it stop working. Below I'll describe what works and what doesn't work to forward outgoing and incoming email from a Gmail account.What works:1. Set up a filter to apply a label such as "outgoing" to all email that is "from:(

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A client requested me to set up his Google Apps users so that all their outgoing and incoming email is BCC'd to his account. The terminology we've been using is that we'd like the mail to be forwarded to him, or copied to him, the president or manager of the company.A Google Apps tech support representative gave me an idea that he eventually disavowed because it was unstable and unsupported.

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The Good News isThere is a better Way.We can suffer and endure.We will. We do.But these are because we are lost.Or blind. Or ill.For whatever reason,we are afraid to believeThe Good News.There is a better Way.Turn the other cheek.Put away the sword.Give your things away.Make no oaths.Make no demands.Pluck out your own faults.Settle outside of court.Perform for Heaven, not for men.

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I was at my local LDS church recently and happened on a wall display showing the monthly themes for the children's curriculum for this year. I thought it made an interesting snapshot of what the LDS Church religion is all about this year, or what they are teaching the rising generation at the local LDS ward.2011January: The Scriptures are the word of GodFebruary: The Scriptures Teach of Heavenly

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I had to write this quick routine this morning so I could label a bunch of contour gaps for 3D polyline contours in AutoCAD. I donate it to the public domain.;;; Text Between Points;;; For labeling 3D polyline contour gaps;;; By Thomas Gail Haws;;; Donated to the public domain.;;; "The master knows she is going to die, and she has nothing left to hold onto." Lao Tze in Tao Te Ching;;;;;;

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This interesting graph shows trends of Google searches for some of our presidential hopefuls for 2012. It looks like interest in Herman Cain is enjoying a sustained peak. Searches for "ron paul" are higher than for Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, or Barack Obama, and are steadily increasing. That, my friends, is, in stock trading terms, a good stock to own. If I were a trading man, I would only want

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The City of Phoenix is complaining that the Occupy Phoenix protests have cost the financially strapped city $200,000 as of today. But it's very clear that Occupy Phoenix has asked for nothing from the city. Rather, the city has chosen to deploy police force to monitor a peaceful movement and ensure that none of the protesters sleep in city parks.I visited Occupy Phoenix today and verified there

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The Budget Bums AmendmentCongress shall balance the budget. If the budget is not balanced, at the following election only those members of Congress who have served equal to or less than the median number of terms for their chamber shall be eligible for re-election.Spread this little gem that throws out up to half of the most senior members of Congress in the next election any time the budget

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By Kato D. Haws Jr.29 Aug. 2011IntroductionIn 1988 I found out I had cholesterol of 304. I was shocked! Over the past 23 years I have worked to discover what I can do to keep my cholesterol and triglyceride levels within normal range. I have also discovered a way to get rid of the irritating symptoms of a long-standing yeast infection. Surprisingly I lost about 30 pounds along the way!My Current

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It's time to adopt a Debt Limit Amendment.Much has been said about a Balanced Budget Amendment. But critics have correctly pointed out that there are inevitably years when it is not feasible to balance the budget. Emergencies do happen.Obviously, in the likely event of a budget shortfall, going into debt is not the only theoretical choice. A well-managed house simply dips into its rainy day

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Autodesk has put their legendary help online, but they have not done a very good job of making it accessible. The following link leads to the full AutoCAD help:http://exchange.autodesk.com/autocad/enu/helpTo find the AutoLISP reference, type "AutoLISP reference" into the "Search Help" box.The AutoCAD Map help, which is much less useful, is at the following address:http://docs.autodesk.com/MAP/

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I'm helping a client find a GPS telematics fleet tracking system. He has been with GPS Insight, and now he wants to try something else.First of all, here's a good legitimate article I found in a construction trade magazine (though written by a provider) that gives an important primer on the technology.So far I have come up with this long list of providers. I hope to post my short list later.-

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Myths get a bad rap, I think. We think of them as "fictions", when in reality they are power life-framing stories. I'd like to put in a good word for the power of myth and a vote for us to embrace deeper meanings in what we do.My friend Ray Degraw said:I think you still are equating "mythology" with "fiction" - but it has multiple meanings. One is something that is made up and incorrect (the

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I found this letter from Christmas 2010 in my files. I thought it might be worth posting.Love,TomIt's Christmas Eve.This morning I awoke at 7:00, dashed off a couple of emails, then went on a pre-shower drive around town. The crisp morning air was refreshing. I dropped off a some coloring books and puzzles from Elizabeth for my nephew Joshua Black in Mesa. On the way back from the Blacks,

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Well, I got tired of firing up older computers to run HEC-1, and I still don't find HEC-HMS to be totally compatible with the jurisdictional methods here in Arizona. So I decided to figure out a Windows 7 HEC-1 system. While this system works fine for me, it may be less than optimal for a newcomer to HEC-1, since my system doesn't include the old DOS COED help program that puts (or used to put)

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Preliminaries first. I am running Palm Desktop 6.2.2 on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. A long time ago I stuck a Bluetooth port in one of my USB ports, and it stays there all the time. Long ago I was successful in getting my Tungsten E2 to HotSync via Bluetooth. But it seems like every time I try to HotSync it for the past year, I get an error message. And I never can get it to HotSync

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Este foro http://www.staylds.com/forum es un lugar donde platicamos francamente los desafíos que enfrentamos al ir navegando el permanecer Santos de Los Últimos Días después de que hayamos experimentado nuestra fe un cambio grande. El grupo aquí conoce todos los aspectos difíciles de nuestra religión y de nuestra herencia. Y aún así, estamos explorando una manera de quedarnos dentro de la

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Para nostotros, los miembros de la Iglesia de Jesucristo de Los Santos de Los Últimos Días, es normal que escuchemos mucha habla de cosas tales como el patriotismo, la guerra, y la justicia. Pero algunos de nosotros en algún momento de la vida llegan a concluir que el evangelio puro del cielo--o quizás algunos de nosotros llegamos a decir más bien que la moralidad perfecta--nos llama a

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Molti di noi sono stati scossi per imparare che la nostra eredità di fede non è pura quanto abbiamo creduto. Forse abbiamo imparato, per esempio, che Joseph Smith ha sposato le mogli di altri uomini. Ed abbiamo imparato che ha insistito pubblicamente che avesse soltanto una moglie. Imparando che le cose non sono le stesse come le girate di pensiero il nostro mondo upside-down. Ci non

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This week I pulled out my Palm Tungsten E2 and it would not power up (The power button died long ago, and I typically use the shortcut buttons to power it up). I tried charging it. I tried all the reset procedures. It was dead. I went to Google. I revived it by opening the case, disconnecting the battery, plugging in the charger (the startup screen appeared!), unplugging the charger,

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Learning the Hand-Drill Method for Fire-by-Friction by Kato Haws Friction fires are not very practical, but they can be fun. The hand-drill method is less technical than the bow-drill method. You can learn to do it. The following are some ideas of how to proceed: The steps below are taken from this illustrated pdf document. Cut a 3/8” dry horseweed stalk about 24” long for your

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It just occurred to me this week that very likely this year and for the rest of my life I will be taking the standard tax deduction as a result of drastically reducing my living expenses and my income.Since decades ago I have itemized tax deductions yearly, with the primary deductions coming from my home mortgage and my church contributions. But while I expect to continue charitable

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Yes! There are Mormons with a Peace Testimony. There are Mormons who aspire to and practice non-resistance, non-violence, and non-attachment. There are Mormons who honor conscientious objection. And they aren't all in the Community of Christ church. Many of them are in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.There are many traditional Peace Churches, or churches with a Peace

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On the day after the killing of Osama Bin Laden by my fellow Americans and fellow Christians, I cannot join with them in rejoicing over the killing of my brother. Brother Osama's sickness, and it was great and terrible, is a sickness we all share. His violence, his zeal, and his death are in us and around us all. May heaven bless us all and lead us to wisdom and love as we listen to the Master

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It's sometimes hard as we search for spiritual answers to find sources we feel confident in hearing. I owe it to my friends who are in a spiritual path to point my finger to some of the keys I've noticed in looking for the those who are pointing their fingers most steadily toward the Way of Life. May abundance of life be yours as you find your spiritual teachers.Constancy of spirit. While no

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There she was, at the side of the busy road, with luxurious long, curly hair, her back to me."What a beauty to behold!" It was easy to notice her."She's a mere school girl. And she struggles with her load to school." Something deeper in me noticed something more eternal about her."Michael, what time does school start?""Forty-two."It was 7:30. We were at the high school. The junior high was 3

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Overlooked Secrets of Fire by Frictionfor theBow MethodBy Kato Haws Jr.Disclaimer -- although building friction fires can be a lot of fun, it is not very practical. I recommend that everyone learn fire building using a lighter or matches and always carry them in the wilderness.The text below is incomplete without photos. See the complete tips illustrated with photos here.Tip #1 --Square off the

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The Master's money rules are simple and profound.First, don't save money for the unknown. Don't keep a store of wealth.Second, don't get into agreements and debts. Don't promise to pay in the future.If you don't have what you need, beg. If you have more than you need, spend and give freely. And when you spend, beware of buying obligations, which are a ball and chain. Buy nothing you will be

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Let's say my birth date was1956-09-19 08:38:00 in Mesa, ArizonaLet's say my marriage date was1981-08-14 11:38:00 in Las Vegas, NevadaThat puts my marriage three hours later in the day than my birth (albeit in a different time zone). So we say that the local time of my marriage is three hours later than the local time of my birth. Now, note that Arizona (Phoenix) has no daylight savings time,

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Simple PHP Time Conversions ExamplesTwo procedural programming examples, then an object-oriented style last.Example 1(First the output, then the working code.)OutputWe are starting with a USA style date and time##/##/## is read by the strtotime function as a USA date (mm/dd/yy)##-##-## would be read as a "computer" date (yy-mm-dd)##.##.## would be read as a European date (dd-mm-yy)See the Date

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From my dad:For some people cleaning up relics from the past, such as books, hobby materials, and etc. can be a very hard job. Here is an idea that may help: Pray for strength to let go of the past. Make mental categories of the things that are taking up too much room such as: a) old school work, b) work items, and c) hobby items. Pick one of the categories that you need to clean up. Go

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I was surprised that in Ubuntu running as a guest under VirtualBox, my screen resolution choices were no better than 800x600, and there were, I believe, only two choices.The first step I followed was to download the VirtualBox guest additions for Ubuntu, put them in the virtual CD drive, and install them in Ubuntu. That went well and improved the situation a bit. But my resolution choice still

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Theodicy is the study of the concept of God's omni-benevolence in light of the world's messes and suffering, or in other words, the study of the problem of evil. If God is good, why is the world often so bad?Though I am now a free thinker with strains of Deism, Humanism, Mysticism, Buddhist non-duality, Muslim and Jewish monotheism, and New Age modernism, I have a Mormon native theological

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Anybody who is familiar with my online participation knows I make no beans about the sins of my LDS ecclesiastical fathers. I have no trouble calling a spade a spade, whether the subject is polygamy, polyandry, health codes, enmity, war, massacres, covetousness, turf protection, or priestcraft. But I think there's a sincere tendency to get inordinately worked up about the gory covenants

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Last Spring I noticed with curiosity that I was experiencing sexual attraction and that it seemed to have a component of emotion that strengthened it. Since I wasn't interested in the least in complicating my life, or as I was expressing it, get more family, I decided to observe myself to see what I could learn.As I observed and carefully separated out the emotional aspect from the physical

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For the past few months I have had the pleasure of waking up daily with naturally pleasant breath instead of putrid decay coming from my mouth. And there isn't anything overly expensive, disruptive, or intrusive that I have done (oh, yeah, other than that 12-day water fast last March).It has been a simple matter of a) becoming sufficiently alarmed at the advanced state of my gum disease to

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I was having a fit because every time I broke a CodeIgniter web site, I would only get a blank page instead of a helpful PHP error. I thought the problem was with CodeIgniter, but a simple test on an external PHP page showed me that CodeIgniter was not the culprit. The culprit was my default PHP installation that came with Ubuntu LAMP.PHP shipped with a production php.ini in my/etc/php5/

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If I have a spreadsheet cell that contains a date and time, formatted to display according to my preferences--say something like "Saturday, February 12, 2011 11:41:32", I can extract the time portion of that date for use in another cell. The secret to accomplishing this is understanding that date-times in OpenOffice Calc are stored as real numbers like this: "40586.4877". The integer part of

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How can you get flow to be subcritical in an open channel? Raise n. F is proportional to 1/ n^(9/10). Double n and you will half F.Let me explain.Subcritical flow, critical flow, and supercritical flow are what we call regimes of open channel flow. The Froude (sounds like food) number (F) describes the flow regime numerically. For subcritical flow, F is less than 1. For supercritical flow, F

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I had a table with 6,000 entries including three phone number columns. Many of them were formatted like this:(555) 555-1212or like this5555551212or some such variant.I wanted them like this:555-555-1212I used the following SQL statement to do the search and replacement:UPDATE `requestsnew`SET`request_client_phone`=INSERT(INSERT(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(TRIM(request_client_phone), '(', '')

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has grown every decade since its beginning in the 1830s. After its startup growth rates averaging 10% to 25% per year in the 1830s and 1840s, it grew at about 4% per year through the last four decades of the 19th century. After a steady slowing of growth in the first four decades of the 20th century to a rate of about 2% per year in the 1930s,

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AutoCAD starts like any other modern Windows program, which means there are a few possible ways to start it.Start AutoCAD Using a Desktop IconA desktop icon is one of the images on the main screen (the desktop) of a modern computer. When you install AutoCAD from a set of CDs, the setup program creates one or more icons on the desktop that you can use to start AutoCAD. If you purchased one of

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It is very easy to input North, East, and Height coordinates into AutoCAD. Let me first give you some examples. Then I will explain:Draw a lineFirst, draw a line from N 1000, E 6000, HEIGHT 48 to N 7000, E 9000, HEIGHT 54Type the following (without the "=" parts):===============================================LINE6000,1000,489000,7000,54===============================================Insert a

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Tom Haws 2007 (or earlier?) Fasting was practiced anciently and continues currently among the world religions whose adherents comprise most of the world's population.In Christianity, fasting is practiced as abstinence from certain foods or practices at certain times in Catholicism. It is practiced as a monthly 24-hour period of zero intake in my own heritage, LDS

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My dad told me on the phone yesterday morning that he is in the middle of a three-day fast on water only with no enemas. I couldn't help but effuse with him, "Doesn't it feel great? Isn't it like being at a spa?"He answered that it was great--that his aches and pains weren't there.And I'm again amazed that this is the great secret and the lost knowledge about pure water fasting: that it is a

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An Open Letter to the Board of Directors of Consistent LifeDear Members of the Board,We have learned by sad experience of the limited effectiveness of the word "No."The Consistent Life Ethic is grounded in the word "Yes". What could say "Yes!" more strongly than the word "Life"? I ask the Board to undertake a study of subtle ways in which we can use our amazing creativity and vigilance to

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I fast every day. Don't we all? Of course we do. But could we perhaps stand to fast a little longer? As I was growing up with the good habit of nightly rest thanks to my Mom, I never learned to appreciate the value of the nightly fast we all should be giving our bodies.I'm not a physician, but if I've lately come to understand correctly, one of the many problems associated with affluence is

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Around 1999 I learned from Mountain View Family Dentistry in Mesa, AZ that I had gum disease, and I was instructed to brush, floss, and rinse with Listerine after every meal, followed by 1/2 hour without any intake. I adhered to those instructions until my next visit, when I was told my gum disease had improved. But I quickly dropped the habit soon afterward.On April 6, 2010, I listened at

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I'm reversing my gum disease successfully by using a Philips Sonicare sonic toothbrush and a Water Pik water flosser before an intentional nightly fast.Over ten years ago at my first visit to Mountain View Family Dentistry at University Drive and Lindsay Road in Mesa, Arizona, I was told sternly that I was infected with advancing gum disease, and I was required to brush, floss, and rinse with

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Yesterday I went on a Sunday afternoon walk near the new Alma School Road and 8th Street fire station in Mesa, Arizona with my dad, my brother-in-law, my nephew, and two of my nieces. We stopped by at a house on 10th Street where there were papayas growing in the front yard. I rang the door bell, and the owner of the house treated us to a tour of his jungle, which included under cultivation all

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I have a simple loving gift to share today. It is a few videos of the highest and purest teaching from some of the Master teachers of here and now. I just discovered these videos on Youtube, and I hope they bring you home.YouTube - Falling Away / AdyashantiYouTube - I Want to Wake Up www.adyashanti.orgYouTube - Nobody wants you to be Free MoojiFeel free to share yours.Tom

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I don't know why it was so hard for me to figure out how to change the Parcel Line Table title in Civil 3D. All I had to do was double-click the title in the Style editor, and a Civil 3D Text Component Editor appeared. I'm having trouble uploading a screen shot at the moment.

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Until today I have been using a spot elevation label method that returns 4.56 instead of 04.56 for the elevation 1204.56. See my earlier post on Abbreviated (short) elevations in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009.I just tested successfully a new idea for showing two-digit elevations (04.56 instead of 1204.56 or 4.56):1. Under Toolspace, Settings, Surface, Label Styles, Spot Elevation, Expressions add an

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Do I look white to you? As white as my bedroom wall? As white as snow? As white as potato flesh? As white as an egg?No? Then how about orangish-pink, like a mamey, a peach, or a cantaloupe? Maybe.I don't remember the first moment it dawned on me that "white" and "black" are non-descriptive terms for the appearance of humans. But in the decades since that long-forgotten moment, I have

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Now that I have done a few grading plans with AutoCAD Civil 3D including an elementary school, a hospital, and a nuclear power plant, I'm at least at an intermediate level with the Civil 3D grading plan tools. So I figure I ought to stop and share tips from what I've learned so far. I'm sharing them in the form of a Best Practices list. I hope that you will take a moment to comment if you see

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The U.S. Government GSA has done something right. Their 2010 CAD standard is just two pages long as found at http://www.gsa.gov/graphics/pbs/CAD_standards_06-18-10.pdf. I found it a great example of a detailed, but concise CAD standard, so I am reproducing it here:1 Introduction The PBS CAD Standards set mandatory procedures for GSA contractors to follow for the creation and delivery of all AEC

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Since I never can seem to find this information when I want it, I am posting here the standard drafting pen weights and thicknesses as used by the pen manufacturer Koh-I-Noor.Pen sizeLine thickness (mm)0000000.1300000.180000.25000.3000.3510.5020.602.50.7030.803.51.041.261.4

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I spend very little on groceries for myself and my three kids (who are around only 3 days per week). My monthly budget is $150, and that is very adequate for some frivolity and luxuries. My secrets are:-Keep written notes and know where the good deals are, then buy good deals in bulk. No store has the best deals on everything, and some prices can vary as much as 400% (really!). I don't

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I don't talk a lot about how central Near Death Experiences are to my faith and understanding--my religion. In a way it's nothing unusual to say "Heaven is my religion." And I suppose that's about what I'm saying. Near Death Experiences are my religion. My faith and understanding are in complete agreement with the general message of the dozens of near death accounts I have read.Besides the

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If you flee, you will be caught. If you pursue, you will be eluded. If you greet, you will be greeted. If you give, you will receive.From ancient China:When an average man hears of the Way, he half believes it, half doubts it. When a foolish man hears of the Way, he laughs out loud. If he didn't laugh, it wouldn't be the Way.

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Today's secrets are for long-lasting water bottles, long-lasting refrigerated food, a clean car interior, and consistently perfect discount bananas.My secrets for long-lasting water bottles are 1) to use clear, strong PETE bottles instead of semi-clear, weak HDPE bottles and 2) to take the bottles directly from the house to the water store so I avoid leaving empty bottles in the car where they

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I discovered something about money management for a follower of the Way. No debts, right? No treasures, right? That has got me into trouble in the past. But I finally discovered the missing piece of the puzzle: paying obligations ahead. If you still have obligations (debts) from a former (pre-disciple) life, or obligations you couldn't avoid (an apartment lease, for example), every time you

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Two great obstacles to happiness are possession and obligation, also called treasure and debt, or clutching and lying.If you lay up treasure on earth, you will always be protecting it from thieves and ruin. If you promise to deliver tomorrow, you are lying, because you cannot tell the future. Both of these are chronic, endemic problems of our culture, and they stand in the way of our

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My side-by-side Parallel Translations hereA bigger, better multi-lingual Tao Te Ching translations site hereI recently was turned on to the Tao Te Ching, which I happen to be reading now along with Eckhart Tolle's "A New Earth". I happened to print out the Mitchell translation, and last night I decided I'd like to have several translations in multiple parallel columns. I couldn't find the tool

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A good friend recently asked me to see what I thought of "The Science of Getting Rich" (Wallace D. Wattles, 1910). It is an amazing book, full of powerful teachings and truths that have the potential to lift you from a powerless existence of frustrated reactivity to an empowered existence of creativity and action. You can have what you wish for.But beyond the truth that "you can have what you

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Do something! What should I do? Do something about survival. What should I do? Look at your budget. Look at your calendar. Check your email. Something. Anything! Am I a human being, or a human doing? If you don't do something, you could die. You can't just sit around all your life. After all, you are starting a new business. The future is extremely uncertain at this point. You have to

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Would it be snobbish to say I suppose it's likely most people have never tasted a really good grapefruit? Probably it would. And that's no reason not to take the best grapefruit you can get and make a delicious smoothie (recipe below). But let me explain.I grew up in the blistering heat of Mesa and Gilbert, Arizona, USA, surrounded by undervalued grapefruit. There was always excessive and

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Today is Wednesday. I have what I call level 2 acne (1 unsightly facial pimple) for the first time since my fast that ended on April 20. My skin was dry, a complete reversal of decades of life, until two days ago.I am testing the D'Adamo Genotype GT3 Teacher Diet. Up until Sunday night, the only significant violations of the diet I have had are celery, black-eyed peas, and possibly some

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I am testing D'Adamo's Genotype 3 Teacher Diet. One of his characteristics of Genotype 3 Teacher is the tendency to be "accepting" of the world including infections. Part of what he recommends to boost the immunity of Genotype 3 Teacher is including yogurt and certain cheeses in the diet as well as brewer's yeast and probiotic cultures that are often found in yogurt.Though I have been avoiding

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May 2, 2010It has been 12 days since I ended a 12 day water fast. I have been eating mostly a lacto-vegetarian diet of D'Adamo's Teacher (GT4) Genotype Superfoods. Normally I have not eaten any dairy for the past 5 years. But D'Adamo says yogurt and certain cheeses are beneficial for me, and I have been testing that with a few spoonfuls of yogurt daily and a small slice of Havarti cheese

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April 26, 2010 (see previous)Well, I really did a bad thing in the way I ended my fast. My poor insides don't know what to do. For the past four days I have been feasting on rice, beans, steel cut oats, celery, broccoli, spinach, onions, garlic, grapefruit, limes, watermelon, peanuts, and pecans, with trace blueberries, raisins, dates, and walnuts.My stools have been voluminous, poorly digested

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April 21, 2010 (see yesterday)On the end of Day 12 I drank some grapefruit juice, and through the day on Day 13 I followed the approved plan. I have felt really well.On Day 14, today, I started the day with a fruit smoothie, then some grapefruit juice in the morning. At noon I went to a professional luncheon at the Tradiciones Mexican Restaurant in Phoenix, where I fell prey to a dilute

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April 20, 2010Yesterday I was really hungry. I decided eventually it was real hunger. And since I was low-weight before starting to fast, and since I don't have a supervising doctor, I decided to end my fast.The approved manner of ending a fast according to the masters who have conducted thousands of fasts (Herbert M. Shelton, Arnold De Vries, Paul Goldberg, the American Natural Hygiene Society

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April 19, 2010 (see yesterday)I'm tired of this fast. I want it to be done. I want to be hungry again. I want my tongue to turn normal. I want the salty taste to go from my mouth. I want to eat again. I want to make my wife happy.I can't find an experienced supervising physician closer than Santa Rosa, California. I don't want to drive there. Dr. Kim Engar in Mesa seems to have less

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April 18, 2010This morning (see yesterday) my pulse was 58 bpm. At noon it was 50 bpm. I walked minimally today. I noticed my mouth has tasted increasingly salty, metallic, or electrical since day 8. I guess that is a classic detoxification sign. I asked my son yesterday what my tongue look like. He said, "White!". Today I asked my other son what my tongue looks like. He said, "Blue!"I

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April 17, 2010Today (see yesterday) I noticed my tongue is white. I drank 3 1/2 quarts of distilled water. I read on Paul Goldberg's Detoxification FAQ that rest is super important to fasting. So today I tried harder to rest. I took a nap and I walked, but didn't trot around.(Next day)This log was written retroactively on April 18, 2010.

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April 16, 2010Between today and yesterday I drank 8 quarts of distilled water. Today I walked and trotted around a little. I felt good.Acne: leg pimple is gone. No pimples observed.Ear: still crackling faintly.(Next day)This log was written retroactively on April 18, 2010.

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April 14, 2010Today (see yesterday) I had a little bowel movement in the morning. I had throat mucus and back pain after noon. I am very tired. I got on Youtube to watch the fasting videos of moe of my peers for days 7 and 8. As a result, I bought some distilled water and non-iodized salt. No more tap water.Acne: face clear. still one on leg.(Next day)This log was written retroactively on

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April 13, 2010My pulse this morning (see yesterday) was 66 bpm. That's a bit high for me. I had mucus in my throat. I had back pain at the end of the work day. It was hard to finish my day at work in my seat. I was very tired.Acne: best yet. Still one on leg.(Next day)

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April 12, 2010Today (see yesterday) I went to work at my engineering job as usual. Nobody accused me of fasting, though they commented as usual that I should gain weight. I told them I will make a goal to weigh 163 lb. (74 kg.) by December. I plan to add fish and poultry to my diet and to explore entire new and long neglected food areas such as ginger, mackerel, soy sauce, chard, and

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April 11, 2010Today (see yesterday) I continued to drink tap water when I was thirsty. I walked and trotted around. I felt good.Acne: no visible facial pimplesThis log was written retroactively on April 18, 2010.Next day (5)

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April 1, 2010Today (see yesterday) I weighed myself 148 lb. (67 kg) in the morning with my clothes on. Also in the morning I had a big bowel movement. I have not been taking enemas, because I understand Herbert Shelton, who conducted over 30,000 fasts (De Vries, Arnold. Therapeutic Fasting, Chandler Book Co., Los Angeles, 1963, ch. IV.) recommended against routine enemas as unhelpful to the

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April 9, 2010This morning (see yesterday) my pulse was 58 beats per minute. At noon I added 1/2 cup (120 ml) orange juice to my water. Starting at noon, I felt weak, faint, and light-headed.I think the orange juice confused my digestive system and interrupted the fast. Whether it was the cause of my weakness, I don't know. It seems weakness at this point in a fast is normal.Acne: facial

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April 8, 2010Today (see yesterday) was pretty much uneventful. I drank water when I was thirsty. I tried bottled water, but I didn't like the taste, so I settled on tap* water. I wasn't hungry, and I felt good.Symptoms:Acne: a few facial pimplesEar: slight crackle when I swallow*Note: See later that distilled water is the best to drink during a fast according to the experienced masters.This

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April 7, 2010Today (see yesterday) I froze all the food I could from my refrigerator and ate the rest or left it for my children. My dinner was a hodge podge 2 apples, green bean casserole, orange juice, spaghetti, beans, salsa, and spinach. After supper I finished the last of my orange juice and went to bed.Symptoms:Acne: a few facial pimples (plus the rest of the body)Ear: a faint crackle when

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April 6, 2010I'm on a really good dental plan at work. So I visited the dentist today for the first exam in a long while. He found 7 millimeter deep gum pockets and admonished me sternly about the status of my gum disease. I came home quite upset.I have been researching fasting and practicing short fasting for a few years, and I have wondered whether a complete detoxifying fast might do

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Oh, wow! I have not been drinking enough!TIREDI have been very tired. No blackouts since Day 3, but very, very tired. And yesterday it was really, really hard to finish a 9-hour day at my engineering job.BACK PAINWhat I didn't expressly notice, until I had watched a few Youtube videos of peers in the 7th and 8th days of their water fasts, was that a big part of my weariness was back pain. And

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I am 6'-0" (1.8 m) tall, 155 lb. (70 kg). My weight has varied between 150 lb. (68 kg) and 178 lb. (81 kg) since my teens. I have never had a double chin (but maybe that's because I talk too much and grit my teeth). I seem to be able to gain weight and lose it slowly at will. I enjoy much more weighing less. Less is more! And I think a key to my health and weight is my lifelong habit of

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Since this blog is called Tom's Interesting Random Discoveries, I thought today I would write about what I have discovered about styling my hair every day. First of all, I realize everybody's body is different. So this discovery may not apply to you. But on with it already.I discovered that my hair (about 1" to 2" long) stays the way I comb it all day long with no further combing or chemicals.

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We love how contours in Civil 3D for give us instant design feedback. During design, we set our design surface (FG) style to show 0.2' Contours. That together with spot elevation and slope surface labels reveals immediately any flat or steep bloopers in our designs.But when it comes time to show our design on our plans, we sometimes don't want contours everywhere. Here's what we do to limit

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A mighty chief took his son to hunt. They made camp on a trail at the foot of a mountain and went up into the mountain to hunt all day. When the sun sank below the hills and the shadows covered all the mountains, they were still coming down from the mountain. The brave spoke up. "Father, I believe our camp is to the right of our path."Without turning around, the chief answered, "Yes, my son.

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