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sitapati: reading to Prahlad before bed - Manu-Samhita

sitapati: taking some maha-mantra medicine before bed

sitapati: carrying 190l of water into the house - be prepared

sitapati: continuing to prepare my body for the next mission

sitapati: mentally depressed. It's a temporary state - look at things from this perspective. Make no decisions.

sitapati: talked with Mick, a Jehovah's Witness at home over lunch

sitapati: Www.librarything.com - social networking for bookworms

sitapati: leading a staff meeting | checking out www.tweetdeck.com for reading twitter feeds

sitapati: two hours hot yoga done for the day

sitapati: chanting Hare Krishna

close to where my mum lives (Hamburg) there is a small national park, very beautiful and peaceful... I went there every day for Japa. this is the market church in Hannover. There is a big christmas market going on in December where it really becomes obvious how christianity's culture has become commercialized in so many ridiculous ways which is a pitty because it could have so much to offer in

This is how I spent my New Years Eve! I will add more pictures as soon as I get them... Happy & Krishna Conscious New Year to everyone! :) Govinda and me Vrajananda and me

this was with my mum, her partner and my stepsisters on december 25th

sitapati: prayer and sleep

 

Our last concert completed, we woke the next morning to face our final day in South Africa. As with every day, the sun rose high in the clear blue sky. One of the best things about such reliable good weather, is being able to do so much outside. As a final farewell, our hosts were going to introduce us to one of the most popular South African outdoor activities - the braai! Basically a barbecue, but with a much more catchy Afrikaans name, we’d been anticipating it for our entire trip. Gaura spent a few moments each day practicing shouting ‘BRAAI!’ with just the right macho Afrikaner intonation (with success)! (more…)

I Recenlty bought the Zoom H2 recorder. We reviewed the Zoom H2 earlier, but now that i have some practical experience i wanted to share it with you.

Here are some of my experiences:

1) USB connection

When you plug the USB cable into the Zoom when it is not switched On then something funny happens.

First windows recognizes it, but than later will say that this hardware is not working properly. Switching on the Zoom will not help at this moment.

So you need to switch the zoom off and take the USB cable out. Then turn the Zoom On and go into the menu. Find the USB menu item and choose “Storage”. Then you can connect the USB cable and windows will recognize the Zoom properly.

2) Copying files to/from the Zoom

When you want to copy files from the Zoom then remember this is slooooow. It still uses a USB 1.0 connection… Saving money here SamsonTech ???

3) Responsiveness of the machine

I found that switching between menus and tracks can be painfully slow. Also starting recording and stopping is also quite slow. I am comparing it against the Edirol R09 and the edirol seems much more quicker in responding to the buttons.

4) Recording quality

Although this is very user interpretable i found that the microphones are less noisy then the Edirol R09. I dont know if the noise issue was resolved in the new Edirol R09HR. I will report on that when i have worked with this new gadget.

Concluding i can say that you certainly get what you pay for. The Zoom H2 can be found for around $120-150. The new Edirol start from $330. But the Edirol comes of course with a nice remote control, slicker design and overall more responsive user experience. So the Edirol stays my favorite, but if you are on a budget and dont mind the shortcomings the Zoom is an excellent choice.

      

sitapati: reading "Battlefields 1805-1945" to Prahlad before bed: Pearl Harbor 1941 chapter

sitapati: new blog post @ www.atmayogi.com: "The Cheapest Exercise Supplement: Sodium Bicarbonate"

Of all the exercise supplements that you can get, the one that gives you the most bang for your buck, without an iota of doubt, is the humble sodium bicarbonate, aka baking soda.

The alkalinity / acidity of our body is measured on a pH scale. On this scale, from 1 to 14, 7 is neutral, below 7 is acidic, and above 7 is alkaline.

Our body's ideal pH is around 7.36, on the alkaline side of things. When the body becomes acidic all sorts of health problems develop.

I'll talk first about exercise, then about general health.

Alkalinity and Exercise

When you do exercise that works your muscles they first burn oxygen in the blood stream as fuel. Once you exceed the oxygen carrying capacity of your heart/lungs/blood your muscles turn to anaerobic respiration - literally "breathing without air". Stored reserves are burned in a chemical reaction that releases oxygen for the muscles to use, and also lactic acid. As the acidity in the muscle rises it begins to fatigue. This lactic acid build up is also responsible for muscle soreness and stiffness the day after exercising.

There are two things that will increase your body's ability to stretch - heat and alkalinity.

Drinking sodium bicarbonate helps to keep the acidity of your body down. An intracellular pH buffer like Beta Alanine does the same thing on a really low level, but it's more expensive than sodium bicarb.

Alkalinity and General Health

You can read more on this subject in this article: The pH Equation & Health.

Here's a chart of Acid and Alkaline Foods.

The bottom line is: alkalize to survive.

I can say that with 100% certainty. Let me tell you my own story in this regard. After a lot of research I'm able to describe this to you, and let it be a cautionary tale:

My wife found a lump in her breast, and she didn't do anything about it. She's almost afraid of hospitals and doctors, and it's only with great effort that I'm able to get her to go when it's really necessary.

By the time she told me about it, it had grown significantly, and it was increasing in size at a rapid rate.

What had happened was that due to her diet her body had become very acidic. As a result her body drew the acidity away from her organs by building up cellulite. She then went on a fast from grains. This resulted in her body consuming the cellulite, but drawing the acidity back in.

If you want to lose weight, and especially cellulite, make sure that you alkalize your body, because cellulite is the body's natural defense against an acidic state.

The acidity accumulated in her body tissues, and the breasts are particularly susceptible to this. As a result of the pathologically acidic state a tumor began.

The doctors were not able to describe this to us, but merely told us that we had no choice but for her to undergo surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. I noted that the chart that they used to describe the situation to us had been supplied by a pharmaceutical company, and I also noted that they asked no questions about lifestyle, or showed any inclination to understand, explain, or address the preconditions that had caused the tumor. I also noted that with a small amount of product training I could also sell those products to people coming in to the hospital.

We went out and did the research instead. Yes, there are conflicting opinions and experiences out there on the net, but it's just a matter of reading through hundreds, or even thousands of them, and picking up the patterns.

That's what we did, and alkalinity/acidity came out as the common factor.

We switched to an alkalizing diet and lifestyle, juicing greens hourly, eating alkalizing foods, and dropping acidic foods.

The result was that the tumor stopped growing completely.

One of the easiest and most powerful ways to alkalize your body is by drinking alkaline water. You can get pH strips at a health food store and test the water you drink. We found that the bottled water supply that we were using was actually slightly acidic. By adding a small amount of sodium bicarbonate to it you can make it alkaline.

You can use pH strips to figure out how much to use, but I do it by taste - just enough to make the water taste "mellow". Param Satya overdid it (as she is apt to do) and her face broke out with a rash due to excessive alkalinity. You'll figure it out.

Sodium bicarb ftw!

Dear Maharajas and Prabhus,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

The many letters, prayers, and phone calls have been a great source of comfort for Balabhadra. Thank you again and again. Our hearts are touched with your kindness.

Balabhadra is now at home. It was concluded that heart surgery was not necessary. He has been given many medicines to take for his heart and high blood pressure. In one month he is to meet with the cardiologist again to see how he is doing. He is not feeling so good from the medicines but we are told that his body will adjust within a few days. His heart was not at all damaged by the heart attack.

The test results on his liver came back normal.

The whole situation with his leg has not been resolved as the neurologist did not come into the hospital on the weekend. Our general doctor there gave us the name of the expert neurologist in the area and wants us to call him and get an appointment as soon as possible. The fact that he has been immobile and in pain for so long is not good for his present and future health.

Right now he is sleeping soundly which he wasn't able to do in the hospital. The pain in his leg comes and goes in severity. He is scheduled for the acupuncturist in a few days and hopefully he will be feeling well enough to have the treatment as it gave him much relief.

Balabhadra is receiivng phone calls at our home phone: 304-843-1658. I am hoping he wil feel well enough to access on his laptop his own email at balabhadra.iscowp@earthlink.net . You can still also write to iscowp@earthlink.net and I will make sure he will receive it.

If you could continue to pray for his improved general health and that his leg situation is resolved soon so that he may be able again to walk amongst the cows.

Your servant,
Chayadevi