Guest guest Posted November 29, 2004 Report Share Posted November 29, 2004 Hi EveryOne, Some of us are just natural experimenters: while we can learn from the experience of others we have to " prove it " to ourselves. So when I started out making Kombucha in 1994, I tried everything I could think of to make the best Kombucha possible and now, I know from my own experience, what works and what doesn't. I encourage you to do your own experiments if that is how you " grok " things. One caution though, keep some Kombucha tea and a few Kombucha Colonies as backups " in case your experiments don't come out so well. For example. Molasses makes terrible Kombucha - but don't take my word for it......try it I did:-)) Honey is a little better but you need to boil the honey or use pasteurized honey so that it doesn't do any harm to your Kombucha. Many teas even some herbal teas, work but some do not. For example most with volatile oils don't work very well with the exception of Earl Grey which seems to work quite well. As long as you keep some backups on hand and you only share Kombucha made with real tea, sugar, water and Kombucha as " Kombucha " when you share with other people; then experiment to your hearts content. After all, life is one grand experiment is it not? Enjoy! Peace, Love and Harmony, Bev Kombucha Manna International: Kombucha Information and Resources Kombucha Manna Drops - Convenient, Safe, Effective, Easy to use! 100% Certified Organic ingredients! Special for Winter: Kombucha Drops with Elderberry! http://KMI.mannainternational.com Manna Green Tea Extract - 100% Organic Liquid Green Tea Extract! http://GTE.mannainternational.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 5, 2005 Report Share Posted December 5, 2005 >> >> Hi , >> >> I don't think I've made it to 100 per accord yet, but that's > exactly >> the way I work - I make many variants in 5/8 dram bottles. >> Then some time after I have finally reached my goal, at least in > this >> incarnation of the perfume, I go through all the bottles and see > which >> ones I want to keep as there is still a useful lesson there I > might >> want to go back to, and which ones I can discard (except that I > don't >> actually discard them - I use them in bath water). I do have to > do >> this clearing out from time-to-time, as I don't like clutter. >> >> > e >> > Hi e, > Don't you find it difficult to choose wich one is the best? I always > have a problem with that. I use a smellingstrip and use it on my > skin because the smell is then really different, but I found it hard > to choose. Sometimes I think I have a " wishfull smelling " , it's hard > to be really true to yourself when you think some ingredient has to > be in it, because you want to. > > > Hi , I also find the smelling strips not so helpful. As far as choosing the best, I do many 'blind' tests where I sniff a series of bottles without looking to see which is which and line them up in order of preference. I repeat this many times. Sometimes I can see a pattern of preferences; sometimes my results are contradictory. The process does lead me to a decision - which may involve giving up my pet notion of including a certain ingredient - I know just what you mean. When I'm not pushing for results, it can be a fun way to relax, to grab a bunch of bottles I want to compare, and set them next to my computer to try as I type, or set them near where I'm reading or exercising. e Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 (Edited to take out excess quoting) <Snip> > When I'm not pushing for results, it can be a fun way to relax, to > grab a bunch of bottles I want to compare, and set them next to my > computer to try as I type, or set them near where I'm reading or > exercising. >e Sometimes I play a " smell game " I put a lot of bottles with etherical oils on the table and ask someone to give me a bottle while I have my eyes closed. Then I try to find out wich oil it is. It's a fun way to learn your oils and this way you smell the oils with an open mind and sometimes you find different smelling components in an oil you already think you know. This way you will learn to know your oils again and find new ways to use them. The same way you can do with your perfumes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 (Edited to take out excess quoting) <Snip> > When I'm not pushing for results, it can be a fun way to relax, to > grab a bunch of bottles I want to compare, and set them next to my > computer to try as I type, or set them near where I'm reading or > exercising. >e Sometimes I play a " smell game " I put a lot of bottles with etherical oils on the table and ask someone to give me a bottle while I have my eyes closed. Then I try to find out wich oil it is. It's a fun way to learn your oils and this way you smell the oils with an open mind and sometimes you find different smelling components in an oil you already think you know. This way you will learn to know your oils again and find new ways to use them. The same way you can do with your perfumes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Giancarlo, As a matter of fact, though the assessment focuses on left-hemisphere cognitive tasks when it does its task testing, several people have suggested that it would be equally important to see how the brain responds to right-hemisphere tasks as well. Your idea would relate to limbic responses, so we'd probably see the biggest changes in temporal or maybe frontal areas. I would expect that there might be a response that would show up. Best way to find out is to try it with a number of clients and see. Please report back to us on what you discover. This would be very helpful as an additional option in the assessment. Thanks, Pete > > From: " giancarlomirmillo " <g.mirmillo@...> > Date: 2006/03/07 Tue AM 05:19:18 EST > > Subject: experiments > > I'm new to the group and I hope this question was not be made already. Do you think it is possible to use the TLC assessment to assess the respose of people in relations to particular stimuli (emotive pictures?; for example adding another task (wiew the picture) in every site and cross evaluate the pattern results? Thank you Giancarlo Mirmillo (Italy) Van Deusen http://www.brain-trainer.com 16246 SW 92nd Ave, Miami, FL 33157 305/251-0337 or (cellular) 305/321-1595 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Kj, I wonder if you couldnt watch one on your body " in action " with your scope? Holly > > > > Tommy, did Dr Kolb take any skin samples or of your fiber mites > that > > hang on your clothes? Did she tell you what they were not needing > to > > take a sample? > > b > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 27, 2009 Report Share Posted January 27, 2009 Good suggestion, Holly. Actually, I may get a chance to do that tonight. I have to work with the critters' cycles. Egg cycle day I get all no-go's. That first night everything was moving and I captured all I could. The photo processing is detailed and slow. Making the movie from the stills once that's done is the easy part (I do love Windows Movie Maker). The next day everything was inert. I don't know if it was the antiparasitics, my diet that day, or the time of the moon. This lab business is full-time work! I'll tell you why the labs and docs and colleges and universities have not seen the movement though. They have no source of live samples. Or, should I say, they have the sources, but either no one has thought of bringing someone in or they don't want to. Not that I want to be turned into a test subject. I get poked and prodded enough. But if I were a part of the testing process as well as the source of the specimens, well, I could live with that. I called my local university microbiology dept Friday and have spoken with two professors. Although it is a university, and they actually also have an entomology department, they have NO digital camera microscopic capability. They seemed willing to let me use them if they had had them. I believe they were telling the truth. Yesterday I visited the local epidemiologist at the Dept of Public Health and she said she is of course focused on infectious diseases. I'm not sure I'm ready for the outcome should this be identified as such. Those of us with jobs and apartments and whatnot could lose access to income, a place to live (as some already have, of course, and some nearly have). The second university professor and the epidemiologist promised to send me some links to more resources/people, however I haven't received anything yet. One of the professors actually suggested going to the Health Dept. I had been to the Ag guy bec he deals with pests, however it hadn't for some dumb reason ever occurred to me to go to the Health Dept!!! He also said if they refuse to investigate it, to push them. However, I need more evidence before I can convince one already overworked and underpaid woman will be willing or able to take on more work, especially in an area with so many as yet unknowns (or unprovens). Also, I am going to contact the state, but they are going to want to know what happened with the local. What I'm going to do is to contact the epidemiologist and ask her what I should say to the state that might get her some help. If I can impact her budget in a positive way, she may be more open to helping me investigate this. At all times I kept Hinkles Table 2 in mind as a guideline of behavior to avoid and statements to make with qualifications. It seemed to help in these cases. The epidemiologist did say that in 14 years on the job she had only had two other people report what I did. I should have pressed for more information (when, what, and offer my contact info). I will do that when I call back to remind her to send me those contacts!!! katiejill >> Kj, > I wonder if you couldnt watch one on your body "in action" with your > scope? > > Holly> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 4, 2009 Report Share Posted February 4, 2009 hey, girl, I've been trying to do this, but generally the way I find them is that they are biting me. Nnnnngh. Tough to hold the camera still during that...Trying though! Will send everyone the links when I get my videos back up. Won't post in the group, though you can share by email with anyone you like. If you want any of them before then, let me know which, if you remember, and I will send them as soon as I get your note. katie From: Holly <hollyjane11@...>Subject: experimentsbird mites Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 12:09 PM Kj, I wonder if you couldnt watch one on your body "in action" with your scope? Holly> >> > Tommy, did Dr Kolb take any skin samples or of your fiber mites> that> > hang on your clothes? Did she tell you what they were not needing> to> > take a sample?> > b> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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