Help with a Gold Cuff Link?

In my usual capacity of answering questions, here is one worthy of note, not because of any major conclusion but because of the suggestion right at the end...

QUESTION..?

I have one gold cuff link which belonged to my late father. He would have been given it around 1950-1953. The markings on the back are as follows:- The first marking looks like a bird or a bell (not sure) followed by 9 375 (which I believe means 9 ct. then followed by "E". It also has the name PROUD (Probably the name of the Jewellery store).

Are you able to shed any light on the markings and possible year it was made. Many thanks

ANSWER..!

I don't know where you live or where your Father lived when he received the cufflinks in the first place, but the marks are certainly British (or colonies)...

You are correct in the 9 375 means 9ct (the 375 is the decimal code for 9ct gold).

The nearest date letter would have been 1954 for the date 'E' but the assay office would be an 'Anchor' mark for Birmingham.

PROUD is the name of an Australian Jewellery Store, but again I don't know if there is any connection. The Bell or Bird is a puzzle...

Hope this helps, and might I suggest you get your local Jeweler to convert it to a very attractive Pendant.

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Baba Links

http://www.sathyasai.org
http://www.eaisai.com/baba
http://www.vahini.org/downloads
http://www.sssbpt.info/html/sss.html 35 volumes of
Sathya Sai Speaks, all Vahinis, all Summer Showers
online
http://www.saibabalinks.org
SAI RADIO http://www.radiosai.org

SAI BABA BOOKS ONLINE AND FREE


Online: Kasturi's biography of Swami SATHYAM SIVAM SUNDARAM http://laluni.helloyou.ws/askbaba/sathyams...aram/index.html http://www.sathyasai.org/
http://www.askbaba.net
http://www.askbaba.net Geetha Vahini, Prema Vahini,
Dhyana Vahini, Upanishad Vahini, etc.
http://www.vahini.org
http://www.eaisai.com/baba
http://www.sssbpt.info/html/showers.html
http://www.askbaba.net/premavahini/prema00.html
http://janaki.virtualave.net/Vahini.htm
Bhagavatha Vahini
http://www.vahini.org/downloads/bhagavathavahini.html
http://www.saibaba.org/saisatc.html
Sai Satcharitra is online
http://www.vahini.org/sss/index.html Sathyam Sivam Sundaram
Professor Kasturi's 4 volume biography of Swami
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Canyon/8397/tigrett.html Isaac Tigrett founder
of Hard Rock Cafes which chain he sold
http://jcandbaba.blogspot.com/ an online book poem to Baba
http://www.freewebs.com/sathwicfood/role_of_love_in_meditation_sai_baba.html
http://www.eaisai.com/baba these 2 links have many of Baba's speeches
http://www.hinduism.co.za/drama-.htm Kalidasa play Shakantula
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Canyon/8397/tigrett.html
Dr Zeba Bashiruddin book online: Sai Baba and the Muslim Mind
http://www.vinnica.ua/~sss/sb_mm.htm
http://groups.msn.com/saibabalinks... huge list of online Baba books

GENERAL LINKS



http://www.askbaba.net
http://www.saibooks.org
http://groups.msn.com/saibabalinks
http://www.geocities.com/saienterprises/anil/anil-title.htm
http://www.sathyasaitoronto.org
http://www.balavikas.org/bhajans.htm
http://www.kingdomofsai.org
http://www.saibaba.org/arathi.html
http://www.postpoems.com/members/saibaba
http://www.groups.msn.com/saibabaleelas
http://www.egroups.com/messages/saibabaleelas
http://www.saibabalinks.org
http://www.postpoems.com/members/saibaba
http://puttaparthi.info/parthi/asp/discour...p?date=02062003
http://www.sairam.ar.cx/
http://www.sathyasai.org/discour/sathyasai...asaispeaks.html
http://saibaba.tk
http://www.egroups.com/links/saibabaleelas

http://www.saibabalinks.org
http://www.saionline.org/mp3/mp3.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~edyl/saibaba.html

ONLINE BHAJANS

http://www.sathyasai.org/audio/audio.htm
http://www.osssbi.org/Bhajans/bhajan.htm#Mâdhavâ Gopâlâ
http://www.saibabalinks.org/bhajansonline.htm

BHAJAN TEXT

www.sathyasaicentrestrathfield.com/bhajanindex_m.htm

LEELAS

http://www.cosmicharmony.com



http://sathyasaibabaj

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Canyon/8397/tigrett.html


http://jcandbaba.blogspot.com/ an online book poem to
Baba

http://www.freewebs.com/sathwicfood/role_of_love_in_meditation_sai_baba.html


http://laluni.helloyou.ws/askbaba/discourses/d1972/d19720500-18.html


http://www.infolanka.com
has a webpage on Baba

http://www.osaibaba.com/mandir.htm


http://www.connieshaw.com Colorado devotee

http://www.saibabaforbeginners.com/aircraft.html

Baba's Corpse

BABA'S CORPSE

A dream that Baba's corpse is lying alone on my single
bed. It is there for several days. I wonder if it will
ever begin to decompose... I should have known better...
when suddenly Baba quickens His body and I cry in
delight "You're alive! You're alive!". Then He disappears.

Why Not Value it YOURSELF?

A question came in today and is typical of the Jewelry Appraisal problems most people face.
The solution may be just right for you too - and it's not much of a risk either..!

QUESTION..?

I have a diamond ring marked 10k and it also has a diamond symbol with A141 Do you know the value of a ring such as this and what the markings mean? Thanks so much

ANSWER..!

There are many aspects which go into a Valuation Appraisal, not least the gold weight as well as the quality. 10K answers one side of that question but not how heavy it is etc?

The other marks in the diamond outline is probably a Maker's Stock Number or Mark and adds nothing to the price.

Apart from those considerations we would also need to know how the item was set, in what condition, how old is is, the design or any special features. All these go into the way an appraiser calculates a final price.

However the MOST important part of any jewelry is the gemstone, and this has a whole set of rules on its own.

What Shape - Cut - Color - Clarity - Carat weight - Wear and so on. These are Imposible to know without seeing the item to be valued - UNLESS....

You Value it..!

At the Jewelry Appraisal Center ANYONE can value their own jewelry ONLINE because YOU can see, feel, measure and touch the item being appraised (lots of help menus to get you through).

For one very low fee the software program even writes the Certificate for you, which you can print on your printer at Home. How safe it that?

I'm biased - of course - because I wrote the software, but we have clients (both in the Trade or First Time Users) who get their Jewelry Valued this way.

You can find the Appraisal Center at: http://www.online-jewelry-appraisals.com and simply follow the steps.

Hope this helps...

India and China

Baba has said that if it had not been for Sankara
India would have become another China.
He said on Nov 23, 1962 that He had turned around
the Chinese army, that India has no need of military
protection for she is protected by Divinity because
of her dharma.

Please give a critique of this article if you feel like it.


COMPARING INDIA TO CHINA IN 19 AREAS

WEALTH
India still has traces of the rape of the country by 150
years of British imperialist rule and theft. There
are pockets of poverty.
China has had hundreds of millions move to the city, with
consequent urban poverty.

FOOD
Indian temples feed those who come. India has once again
achieved grain selfsufficiency which it had before the British invasion. The British raj caused India to be enkindled by
English and England to be enkindled by ahimsa or nonviolence.
England now has more animal rights activists than any other
country than India. India has a slender
population. There are pockets of hunger.
China has a tradition of giving priority to feeding people but loses
higher yields in supporting animal agriculture.

INDUSTRY
India has given a priority to computers. China has more
factory workers.

LANGUAGE
Indians speak Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, English, Gujarati, Marathi,
and many other dialects. Tamil and Telugu are 90% Sanskrit.
Sanskrit has been described by William Jones as 'more perfect
than Latin, more copious than Greek, and more exquisitely
refined than either.'
The predominant language in China is mandarin Chinese.

ANIMAL RIGHTS
India has more vegetarians, perhaps 300 million, than any
other country on earth.
The Chinese population excludes few animals or their parts
from consumption. However vegetarian diet is growing in
China. Bear farms, cat and dog flesh served in restaurants,
cat and dog hair made into fur are some international animal
rights concerns.

CHILD LABOR

India needs more protection for children from child labor.
China as well.

POPULATION

Once India and China were equal in population. After
a brief period of violent sterilization caused by Indira Gandhi's son Sanjay, India has without force achieved more
population control than China has with forced first, second
and third trimester abortions.

ABOLITION

India is one of over 108 countries with no death penalty.
The Chinese government performs more executions than any other.
Some estimate this number is 15,000 a year.

HISTORY AND MILITARY

India's Hindus like Christians, Buddhists, Jews have had
violent encounters with Muslims. India has essentially been
more nonviolent politically than many other countries.
The Chinese government has invaded Tibet, is threatening
the annexation of Taiwan, has many times invaded Vietnam
in the last 1000 years, and invaded India in 1962, still
holding on to some of the illegally seized land NE of Kashmir.
China is currently putting great amounts of money into
its army, tanks, and weapons systems. Sai Baba, guru of
over 100 million, has said India needs no military protection
for it has divine protection.

China has employed psychics native to other countries as
part of its international 5th column.

GOVERNMENT

India is a parliamentary democracy. Some question whether or
not Arjun Singh, who recently announced he is a Christian,
has been an agent of British capitalism.
China is a dictatorship.

RELIGION

India is predominantly Hindu, but tolerates Muslim, Buddhist,
Christian, Sikh, Jain and other religions. Hindu antagonism
to Christian missionaries has historical roots, with
British invaders arriving with Christian missionaries
and slaughterhouse products.
The Chinese government is officially atheist and has
had violent oppression of Falun Gong, Christian and
other missionaries. In Tibet and elsewhere, the Chinese
government has murdered Buddhists, some of whom have escaped
to India.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

India has more freedom of speech than the US since its
media is less controlled by corporate war profiteers.
The Chinese government has internet censorship.

ETHICS

Corruption in business exists in India as in many places.
China's marketing has been called unethical.
China Japan Switzerland have been lending money to
those raining violence on Iraq and Afghanistan, like gloved
men paying others to do their violence.

WOMEN'S ISSUES

India has had a woman PM, Indira Gandhi. Like all countries,
India and China have much remaining work in this area.

EDUCATION

Educational chauvinism aside, India has the highest number
of PhD's in percentage and actual numbers in the world.
China also has a high number.

One can judge neither country by its expatriates.
Srila Prabhupad said "shake India and the materialists
fall to the U.S.".ENVIRONMENT

The ahimsa or universal nonviolence in India has included
besides people, mammals, birds, fishes, reptiles, also
insects and plants. Nevertheless India needs trillions more
fruit and nut trees and other plants to bring back rain
to desert areas.

China's environmental quality is considered one of the
world's worst. As in the US, factories have been allowed
to pollute.

TRANSPORTATION

India has perhaps the best preserved train system in the world.
China, like Japan and France, has advanced and rapid trains.

MINE SAFETY

India does not have as many mines as China.
China and the US have high numbers of mine fatalities.

RACISM

Both India and China have pockets of xenophobia.

Visions and Dreams From Baba

VISIONS AND DREAMS FROM BABA

MERCURY KNOCKED OUT OF FRIEZE

BABA: once said to writer: "mercury: this star is the seed of
love" (mercury rules communication)

dreamer sees man who lives across the street
knocking a statue of winged Mercury out of a frieze
.. he doesn't want it.. next the helmet rolls off of Mercury..
dreamer picks it up and takes it with his permission

a. communication or Mercury: the last of the remaining
Roman gods to conquer
b. Mercury like Pinocchio is about to come to life..
first he must be knocked out of his frieze (freeze)
c. Mercury: a symbol for communication

Toxic mercury has been put in dental fillings, vaccines
and is concentrated to lethal levels in virtually
all the world's fishes.

By abstaining from fish eating
Knocking mercury out of the frieze
prevents brain cell freeze


FALSE FLAMES

Baba once said to a devotee: She is right about her conspiracy theories
but one must see agents as God and speak to them of God. (All are divine.)

Baba gave this writer a dream of a time perhaps during the French Revolution.
An English agent escapes back to Britain and is able
to find refuge in a rockhewn church which stands in a rising flood which is lapping
at its front stone steps.

Then He whispered "false flame", to make the writer ponder that oxymoron, false flame,
for no flame can be false. Within all burns the light of God. All are working
out their own destinies.


SANTIAGO

Writer had a vision of someone whispering "Santiago" into the ear of
another, in the manner of a guru transmitting a mantra. Sant Iago is Saint John.
It is also a city in Chile. Besides Baba's underlining the sanctity of a friend
of the woman's named John, Baba was teasing her about her habit of going to sleep
to audio book mysteries, the last 2 of which mentioned Santiago. He was saying "You are what you hear".

BILL CLINTON, ARTIST

Clinton strides into the room.. with a palate
and over a dark oil very detailed painting of the crucifixion.. paints
in large pastel swaths, a canvas of Easter...

(in his own life.. or lives of Baba devotees impacted by agents,.
the crucifixion is finished)
(Recently Mr Clinton has gone around the country asking Americans to avoid
his example in eating meat... meat which gave him a heart attack.)
(the content of the art is more important than its antiquity status)

CHARLOTTESVILLE EAGLE

Poster met a Ramakrishna follower
named Durga.. after several weeks
Durga mentioned that she thought
she had been Jefferson in a previous
life...the reddish hair and strong features
were the same.. poster suspended
judgment on her belief. One day
they drove to Monticello, Jefferson's
home, from Washington. In the
grass strip between the 2 sides of
the highway, suddenly an eagle
appeared, standing at attention
on 1 leg.

TEN TV CAMERAS

A dream that 5 tv cameras above and 5 tv cameras
below her focused on an embryo filled with
2 fully grown horses. The sac broke and they
galloped away.. one to become part of a 4 horse
chariot.. the other to cavort with wild stallions.
This took place in a Western sandy plain
canyon with high granite walls on both sides.
The word "Mathura" or "Matura" was heard, one
a village of Krishna, the other Latin for maturation.



STORM RELEASES PETAL SHOWER

RJJ had a vision of being present
in groves of cherry and apple
trees when a great storm
showered her with their petals.

(one of many interpretations:
marriage is one outcome of a crisis..
in some ceremonies, brides are
showered with petals)





RED SHOES

Vision: George Bush handing out
red shoes to many

a.
(his regime causes many to wear
the red shoes of hyperactivity
to defeat him)
b. his plutocracy... turns many red
(a term used for socialists
and communists)

BLACK CAT ON SAINT'S SHOULDER

a black cat on the shoulder of
a saint
(God accepts all.. no matter
what others project onto them)

RADIANT HEAD

gold radiant head of L
who has sacrificed much

RESISTANCE

One woman dreamt
after leaving an unhappy relationship
that he came to her asking
her to adopt a 14 year old in
his church group
(resistance to any connection
with his evolving self)

Another woman dreamt she
was still attached by an umbilical
cord to a man she planned to
leave
(he was growing.. but still
dependent upon her)



BETHESDA POOL

Dream that a Jewish friend had a Bethesda healing pool in her living
room... but feared someone would drown.. and covered it with a metal grid
(someone afraid of her own spiritual healing power... afraid of not acting responsibly)

(in the US Bethesda is now a center
for animal torture and for the
funding of animal torture...
Bethesda Naval Hosp. and NIH
are there.. but there are animal
rights groups in Bethesda as well)

REMINDER

Prayer is beyond time.. can go
back in time... one can visualize
loved ones in their most painful
moments... and visualize the
favorite form of GOD with them

RAKING LEAVES

A man rakes leaves from centenarian
oaks in his past neighborhood..
(removing the karma of old mistakes)
He hands a grape sucker to someone and
says 'welcome home'.

GLASS HOUSE

Someone lives in a glass house..
but need not fear stones
because the glass is very thick
and bullet proof

SLOPING BEDROOM

A woman lives in a second story
bedroom
which slopes down from
the doorway to a lowlying
window... she fears that
children in tricycles or
playing with each other
could crash through

2 RUSSIAN COFFEE CUPS



Dream: Two Russian coffeecups (glasses
which fit inside meta cupholders with
handles) are given to poster by
a friend of a nonagenarian who
served her husband for over 40
years after his colostomy and who
also taught school and in the
evening taught peace and socialist studies. The person who
brings the gift is another woman..
who threw off her husband after
his infidelity and his low idea of
the status of women.
She also brought prasad from
a yogi who meditated in a cave
most of the time and went a year
without food.

(Prasad: food offered to God)

SEVERED DAFFODIL


Dream: a Catholic mother of 6
who voted for Bush thinking he
was a profetus candidate... handed
poster back a cut daffodil... it had
an ant inside it and a moth on top
of it

(in real life, poster is not involved
with severed flowers... but this
dream in some way relates to
the belief of some in the 'prolife'
movement that it is better to work
to save millions of fetuses than
to prevent war which causes deaths
to millions of adults and children)
(she handed back the cut flower..
a symbol to her of a severed fetus)

MAKING THE STAGE SMALLER

Poster is a theatre director in dream
and is confronted with a cavernous
stage... to make it appear smaller,
cozier, more human scale...
she puts 3 saffron panels
in the stage in semi hexagonal
positioning... to make them
look like the walls of a living room

(saffron in Hindu and Buddhist
religions sometimes signifies
celibacy or the burning away of
desire)

DONALD SUTHERLAND POLITICAL HERO

Dream: an older person is
in a college class... Donald Sutherland
is the teacher and is ready to
give a class on American political
heroes... at present he is sitting
behind the rectangular classroom
in a little circular alcove which is
behind only l/2 of the room.
The person goes back to ask for
his autograph and then his birthday
which in the dream but not reality
is July 11, 1962.
He writes them on the 4th page
of the book she offers. Then she
asks for the time of birth... and he
asks why.. she tells him she is
an astrologer.... then she leaves
not wanting to stay for the class.

GREEN PEAS PICKED UP WITH HAIRBRUSH
Green Peas Picked Up With Hairbrush

Vision: shelled green peas being
picked up with the individual brushes
of a hairbrush

(any object can be functional in other ways)

REINSTALLATION
An old Catholic cathedral
filled with altar statues is
emptied of them to have a reinstallation
.. either to a new deity statue
or to a place of zen emptiness

JAR OF ANGRY WASPS
a jar full of angry wasps is released
into freedom
(in context... angry thoughts
no longer confined)

(Creator, let none cage your creatures)

TIME TO RELEASE THE BUTTERFLY


vision: a caterpillar protected
is now a butterfly... in summer..
but caregiver has still not released him/her

WOMEN IN TRUNK



A car with 7 fundamentalists in it
returns from Sunday morning church...
2 men in the front seat
2 men in the back seat
and 3 women seated facing
the trees they pass...
are in the hoodless trunk
which has 3 small seats in it


a. the slavery of women in
fundamentalist churches

b. the trunk is symbolic of
karma carried around... the most
egregious male
chauvinists are creating future lives
as enslaved women.. the 4th
would not earn rebirth in human form
until imprisoned for a while in
a voiceless mammal's form




3 CAMERAS



a dream that she was
at the front right of a stage
and a Chinese man asked her
to take a picture of him and his
wife... she dropped the camera
and he came with a 2nd one.. a more
expensive and precise one..
in addition there was a third hidden on
stage.. the picture was taken

(if she does not get busy with her sadhana
and must be reborn perhaps the parents of her next life?)


IMPOSSIBLE BRIDGE BY SEA

A dream of an impossibility..
on the left the bridge was
a charming boardwalk by the
shore and shallows, and 2 table rocks, plateaus
on top,
were washed at their bases by
the sea...
on the right.. the sea was under
100 ft under the bridge.. and dreamer
expressed fear of octopi and other
creatures of the sea, illustrating octopi
fear
by dovetailing the fingers of her
2 hands..

(interpretation: she likes to play
on the shores of God.. but does

not want total immersion)

an earlier dream on this theme:
she walked to the edge of a pier
but did not swim because she
was carrying computer discs

ELEVATORS

A man had put the name of his beloved
on elevators in his building






FEEDLOT FULL OF FIGHTERS

Vision: Looking down on a feedlot
with many pens... old fighter humans
crammed in like chickens in a factory
farm... they are all musclebound yet
flabby, overweight and angry
... it seemed to the poster
they were cancer cells
waiting only for
the fighting round starting bell

(forgiveness, anger release,
and nonviolent food can eliminate
cancer)


RED PAINTING

The father in law of a man
whose wife divorced him because
of his womanizing
in a dream painted the walls
of his room saffron and then
red.. not a professional job...
paint drips etc.
Was it the remaining cursing unforgiveness
of a parent for someone who had
wronged his child..

or just the opposite.. the red mars
energy of
empowering which comes after
forgiveness

GORGE OF PIPE ORGANS

Walking through a gorge with
very high walls on both sides,
walls made of a million millenial
redwoods, growing as close together
as the flutes of massive pipe organs.

Sai Baba On Avoiding Fish Meat and Dairy

Sai Baba has said that eating fishes causes unclean thoughts.
He has said "God is in every creature. How can you cause such pain?"

FISH CAN'T SCREAM, FISH TOXINS, FISH STORIES

Because the NY Times
and BBC in January of 2006, and Harvard and the Wall St. Journal recently have
promoted the consumption of fish flesh, and because fish oil
has been promoted in 'health food' stores and on Amazon etc., this article is
a response.

Dick Gregory: Eating fish liver oil is like eating the filter out of a car.

I
MERCURY AND OTHER TOXIC METALS HARM BRAIN

While articles in corporate media tout fish as brain food, the high mercury levels in fish cause memory and mental function loss.
"Symptoms of amnesic shellfish poisoning include possible permanent short-term memory loss." * The cultures eating the most fish (Inuit) have the lowest life expectancy of
any group surviving to adulthood, while the Japanese who eat high amounts of fish have as their number 1 cause of death fish correlated stomach cancer. Toxins in fish include selenium, chromium, lead, arsenic, pcb's, pbb's, pvc's, cadmium,
radioactive strontium, fire retardant,
and every other nonbiodegradable toxin which is 100 to 1000 times more concentrated in the flesh of fish than in the water. (Rachel Carson's The Silent Spring dealt with among other things the massive loss of bird and fish
life from DDT. Fish is the antibrain food. Fruitarian and vegetarian
geniuses DaVinci, Einstein, Ramanujan, Mary Shelley and
others avoided fish and meat. Linus Pauling, only person to win a Nobel Prize both for peace and his discovery of 6
elements, has written that an orthmolecule is a fruit
molecule. They are the most similar to the neural
transmitters in the brain. There is no vitamin C (speeds flow
of nerve signals across synapses) in fish or animal flesh
or in animal products.) The EPA issued 3500 warnings against fish consumption in one year alone. Arsenic poisoning (arsenic from the oceans is concentrated in the
flesh of fishes) creates lesions and warts on the hands.
II
PROSTATE UTERINE AND BREAST CANCER FROM FISH

The female hormones correlated to skyrocketing rates of
prostate, uterine and breast cancer in the US come from
injections or 'medications' given to cows, sheep pigs
chickens etc. The urine from these factory farmed animals
is dumped into the waterways causing fish to have
cancerous growths. If they are eaten by humans before
they die they can cause cancer in human beings, just as
a chicken can transmit leukemia (though the multi trillion
dollar chicken industry calls leukemia leukosis when they
don't manage to hide chicken cancer altogether.)

III
STOMACH CANCER

One national cancer association reports that fish consumption is
related to stomach cancer.. Those countries with the highest fish
consumption having the highest rates. Included are Korea, Japan,
Chile,
Norway and others. Those countries with the highest
meat consumption (Canada, Australia, the US, Chile,
Argentina, etc.) have the highest intestinal cancer rates.

IV
FOOD POISONING

Fish flesh is from a rotting cadaver and therefore can cause food poisoning (ptomaine, brucellosis,
toxoplasmosis, salmonella,
ecoli). Anaphylactic shock frequently causes death to those who
eat shellfish. It is universally known that dead fish stink (as
do all cadavers). Choking on fish bones has been common throughout the
centuries. Urticaria or hives is one less lethal but allergic reaction
to fish consumption.

The Texas Dept. of Health stated in one year that 245 people had been victims
of
illness from oysters in Galveston Bay. The bacterium is Vibrio
parahaemolyticus. 208 people have had oyster illness in the Northwest.

U.S. News and World Report Nov 24, 1997: One of the strains
causing
food poisoning in shellfish is Vibria Vulnificus.


V
INTESTINAL PROBLEMS

There is no natural bulk in fish. It is naturally constipating.
VI
KIDNEY PROBLEMS

The ketosis from high animal protein diets leads not only
to bleeding ulcers but to kidney shutdown and blocked urethras.
VII
PISCEAN SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALITIS OR MAD FISH DISEASE

In addition is the emerging truth of piscean spongiform encephalopathy or Mad Fish Disease as both
factory farmed and ocean fish are eating the parts of other animals.
VIII
HEART DISEASE AND ARTHRITIS
The uric acid in fish is trioxypurine, more powerful than caffein, and is correlated to arthritis as it crystallizes in needle formation around the joints. It also
adds to the incidence of heart disease and stroke, stimulating the
heart unnaturally.

VIII B ADDICTION
The uric acid or trioxypurine like caffein or dioxypurine
is addictive, and since there are more oxypurines than in
coffee, it is more addictive.

"If you miss fish or meat, take out a veggieburger and whiz
on it."

IX
WORMS.
Owen Parrett, MD wrote that even Rocky Mountain trout from the most
unpolluted streams
have worms while

X HEPATITIS
The coprophagous (human and other waste eating) habits
of shellfish
are the number 2 (yes) cause of hepatitis.

XI
MOST DANGEROUS OCCUPATION

Commercial fishing causes more fatalities annually than
any other occupation, through sudden storm drownings,
through problems with pulleys, ropes, nets, sails,
through spiking and other injuries from fishes gasping
for their breath and fighting for their lives. Noncommercial
fishermen have died when lightning turned their metal poles
into lightning rods.

XII
CHOKING

Choking on meat or fish is the 6th cause of accidental death in the
US. So common has it been to choke on fish bones that the Catholic
Church has a feastday dedicated to St. Blaize in which throats
are blessed. Fraternity house pranks in the cruel blood sport
of goldfish swallowing have resulted in deaths to humans
as well as the fish.

XIII
ALLERGIES TO IODINE

A radio network caller, Oct 27, 97: "My mother never got to see the same military MD twice, so it was years before medical detectives realized that her
Saturday headaches were caused by her Friday fisheating with an
allergy
to iodine.
XIV
FISH DISEASES

NPR November 6, 1997: Dr. James Porter of the Univ. of Athens at
Georgia was studying the many new fishes diseases such as black band and white pox. He reported that increased shipping, increased pollution,
and overfishing (an oxymoron since all fishing is overfishing) are factors for the rise.

XV DEPRESSION


The BBC in an article promoting fish consumption
wrote " Depression - Linked to low intakes of fish - high in omega-3
fatty acids which are essential for good brain health".
In reality, fish like birds and mammals secrete adrenalin
or epinephrine when terrorized, fighting for their lives,
fleeing the hook or the gun. Adrenalin is a longchained
protein enzyme, only some of whose links are destroyed by
cooking. Eating the biochemical agony of the fish or animal
causes depression to humans eating the fish cadavers and can stimulate
violence.





XVI
OXYMORONS: FRESH FISH AND OVERFISHING

With asbestos in Lake Michigan, pcb's in the livers of polar bears
in Alaska, oyster contamination in the Gulf from the runoff of
the Mississippi, lipophilic insecticides in Lake Erie, pfiesteria
in the Atlantic seaboard ..arsenic, chromium and mercury, pcb's,
insecticides, fish killing old oil and every other toxin in the
oceans,
shellfish in the NE
eating unprocessed human waste, where is there fresh fish?
The UN FAO, Prince Philip, and government and private
coalitions around the world are working to reduce fishing
so as not to wipe out certain species.


XVII
MARINE MAMMAL MURDER

Seals and whales are killed by Canadians Norwegians and Japanese
because they
compete for fish. Penguin babies can die because there
are no longer enough fish for them to eat.

Dolphins, turtles and other sea creatures are
caught in the nets.

Whales are caught in lobster lines.

Manatee and all forenamed creatures are caught in boat propellers.

Those who promote fisheating incur the karma not only of the
suffocated fish (problems of breath) but the karma of the seals,
whales,
dolphins, turtles, octopi and all other sea beings killed by the
fishing industry or individuals.

A Hindu ashram not in accord with the Bhagavad Gita's
dietary nonviolence
was inundated by the perhaps military machine generated tsunami.

XVIII
COMMERCIAL CORRUPTION

There are trillions of gallons of fish oil slop on trawler and
processing floors.

Harvard whose corporate funded studies were a factor in Stanley
Prusiner's (prion discoverer) leaving for California is also promoting
the glut of fish on the market.

States like Maryland which subsidize fishing promotion
are violating the first amendment rights of Buddhists, Hindus,
vegetarians, vegans, Seventh Day Adventists, Jains, and
many other religions which teach not killing.
The sale of fish brings 54 million to the state of Maryland, whose
governor prevailed on 3 chains in the Washington area to
begin again to sell Chesapeake fish despite the pfiesteria disease
caused by untold trillions of gallons of pig factory farm
sewage being dumped into the Atlantic.
One factor of many in the disease of the fish might be the Calvert
Cliffs nuclear power plant, which raises the temperature of the water
in the area.

XIX
FISHES' SENTIENCE

Dr Donald Broom, science adviser to the British government, has said that the pain
system in fish is the same as for mammals and humans.

Any child who sees a fish flopping on the deck, or struggling for life on a hook,
or impaled in the eye by a flyfisher knows that fishes fill pain.

What's worse than a snakeoil salesman? A pawn of fishmongers.


XX VEGAN CAT FOOD

A vanguard of holistic veterinarians, and James A Peden,
author of VEGETARIAN CATS AND DOGS, which is in its third printing, are
working to help petowners transition their cats to nonharmful foods, ones
which do not cause urethra blockages, feline leukemia, kidney dysfunction or
food poisoning. Andrew Knight DVM has written of a litany
of toxins in commercial pet food.


ANTI FISHING ORGANIZATION WEBSITES INCLUDE ALL VEGETARIAN
AND VEGAN WEBSITES
http://www.fishinghurts.com
http://www.pisces.demon.co.uk/
http://www.vegancats.com
http://www.jewishveg.com/schwartz/fish.html
https://secureusa.greenpeace.org/mercury/?from=gotmercury
(hair tested for mercury residues)



FREE AND ONLINE ARTICLES BY VEGAN MD'S

http://www.pcrm.org 5% of this 7000 member group are vegan MD's
http://www.drgreger.org/ http://www.veganmd.org
http://www.geocities.com/athens/agora/7732/meat.html Owen Parrett, MD
http://www.vegsource.com/harris/cancer_vegdiet.htm Harris
http://www.goveganradio.com Dr Jerry Vlasak LA Surgeon and AR
http://www.drday.com
http://www.vegsource.com/klaper/ vegan lectures on impotence and
animal fat
http://www.christianveg.com articles by Stephen Kaufman, MD
http://news.adventist.org/data/2001/06/099...6/index.html.en
Adventists longest lived community in US.. Ellen White said to be vegan
Mervyn Hardinge, MD (left Harvard as did Stanley Prusiner)
(Harvard is invested in slaughterhouses and its research
is pawn to its investments)
Hardinge wrote Non Flesh Dietaries, his study of fruitarians, vegans,
vegetarians and animal eaters for the Journal of the ADA (a dairy
dominated lobby)
Stanley Prusiner, PhD discoverer of prions or Mad Cow and
other spongiform encephalopathies
Joan Ullyot MD of San Francisco sports medicine
Linus Pauling, PhD Winner of 2 Nobel Prizes.. one in biochemistry
and one for peace... said fruitarian diet is the diet which
generated neural transmitters of human beings
http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/ (an animal abuse institution..
Dr Pauling would not animals harmed in research)
Milton Mills, MD sued dairy industry over lactose intolerance
Physician Exposes:
http://www.envirolink.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1264


FISH STORIES
a. A man took his daughters fishing in Tampico Bay in Mexico.. and was spiked by a large catfish which severed a hand artery. He was able
to get medical attention for the profuse bleeding.
b. Janet Barkas, editor of Grove Press, went fishing and caught
a hook in the fish' eye. That was her last day fishing.
c. PW, at the Soldier and Sailors' Home in Washington, caught the
same fish out of the pond virtually every day for 10 years.. each time
pulling the hook from the throat.. sometimes with flesh attached. PW
died of throat cancer. A Calcutta guru who told his followers
it was permissible to eat fish died of throat cancer. (The child of a well=known presidential
candidate went to a hospital to be treated for his flyfishing hook
which was imbedded in his nose.)
d.. One fisherman reports that after seeing the fishes gasp for air
in the bottom of his boat.. as they slowly suffocate.. he will never
fish again.
e.. Syndee Brinkman: I went snorkeling and saw how gently the fish
welcomed us into their world.. and how violently we welcomed
them into ours.. I never ate an animal or fish again.
f. EB was a fisherman all his life and lived into his mid nineties.
He stopped fishing after he dreamt one night that he was tiny and a
fish was very large. The fish had him on a hook.


BOOK BY VEGETARIAN MD'S

Diet and Nutrition; Rudolf Ballantine, MD.
Diseases Of Food Animals Owen Parrett MD
Foods That Cause You to Lose Weight: The Negative Calorie Effect more books like this
by Barnard, Neal MD (Dr Barnard has written over a dozen books)
EyeCare Sourcebook by Jay Lavine MD http://www.drlavine.org
(some of his articles are free on the internet)
http://hometown.aol.com/sauromalus/jewishveg.htm Jay Lavine MD


Physicians
http://www.pcrm.org
http://www.geocities.com/athens/agora/7732/meat.html Owen Parrett
MD author of Diseases Of Food Animals on why he does not eat meat
http://www.goveganradio.com Dr Jerry Vlasak LA Surgeon and AR
http://www.drday.com
http://www.drgreger.org/ http://www.veganmd.org
http://www.vegsource.com/klaper/ vegan lectures on impotence and
animal fat
http://news.adventist.org/data/2001/06/099...6/index.html.en
Adventists longest lived community in US.. Ellen White said to be vegan

http://www.ivu.org/news/evu/news971/costs2.html

Please purchase books printed on nontree paper or 100% recycled
paper (e.g. rice, cotton)




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both Oregon State and the
Seventh Day Adventist Hospitals
are inflicting pain on animals.
Dr Pauling would not want
his Nobel winning work contaminated
by animal torture.

http://www.fishinghurts.com



MARINE TOXINS

*
(Generally, the CDC has been the tool of multinational
pharmaceutical drug pushers and has stifled information
about the toxic effects of meat, fish, and animal products.
However paragraphs from a CDC article from the cdc.gov webpage are
informative.)


The most common diseases caused by marine toxins in United States in order of incidence are scombrotoxic fish poisoning, ciguatera poisoning, paralytic shellfish poisoning, neurotoxic shellfish poisoning and amnesic shellfish poisoning.

Scombrotoxic fish poisoning also known as scombroid or histamine fish poisoning, is caused by bacterial spoilage of certain finfish such as tuna, mackerel, bonito, and, rarely, other fish. As bacteria break down fish proteins, byproducts such as histamine and other substances that block histamine breakdown build up in fish. Eating spoiled fish that have high levels of these histamines can cause in human disease. Symptoms begin within 2 minutes to 2 hours after eating the fish. The most common symptoms are rash, diarrhea, flushing, sweating, headache, and vomiting. Burning or swelling of the mouth, abdominal pain, or a metallic taste may also occur. The majority of patients have mild symptoms that resolve within a few hours. Treatment is generally unnecessary, but antihistamines or epinephrine may be needed in certain instances. Symptoms may be more severe in patients taking certain medications that slow the breakdown of histamine by their liver, such as isoniazide and doxycycline.

Ciguatera poisoning or ciguatera is caused by eating contaminated tropical reef fish. Ciguatoxins that cause ciguatera poisoning are actually produced by microscopic sea plants called dinoflagellates. These toxins become progressively concentrated as they move up the food chain from small fish to large fish that eat them, and reach particularly high concentrations in large predatory tropical reef fish. Barracuda are commonly associated with ciguatoxin poisoning, but eating grouper, sea bass, snapper, mullet, and a number of other fish that live in oceans between latitude has caused the disease. These fish are typically caught by sport fishermen on reefs in Hawaii, Guam and other South Pacific islands, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. Ciguatoxin usually causes symptoms within a few minutes to 30 hours after eating contaminated fish, and occasionally it may take up to 6 hours. Common nonspecific symptoms include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cramps, excessive sweating, headache, and muscle aches. The sensation of burning or "pins-and-needles," weakness, itching, and dizziness can occur. Patients may experience reversal of temperature sensation in their mouth (hot surfaces feeling cold and cold, hot), unusual taste sensations, nightmares, or hallucinations. Ciguatera poisoning is rarely fatal. Symptoms usually clear in 1 to 4 weeks.

Paralytic shellfish poisoning is caused by a different dinoflagellate with a different toxin, than that causing ciguatera poisoning. These dinoflagellates have a red-brown color, and can grow to such numbers that they cause red streaks to appear in the ocean called "red tides." This toxin is known to concentrate within certain shellfish that typically live in the colder coastal waters of the Pacific states and New England, though the syndrome has been reported in Central America. Shellfish that have caused this disease include mussels, cockles, clams, scallops, oysters, crabs, and lobsters. Symptoms begin anywhere from 15 minutes to 10 hours after eating the contaminated shellfish, although usually within 2 hours. Symptoms are generally mild, and begin with numbness or tingling of the face, arms, and legs. This is followed by headache, dizziness, nausea, and muscular incoordination. Patients sometimes describe a floating sensation. In cases of severe poisoning, muscle paralysis and respiratory failure occur, and in these cases death may occur in 2 to 25 hours.

Neurotoxic shellfish poisoning is caused by a third type of dinoflagellate with another toxin that occasionally accumulates in oysters, clams, and mussels from the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic coast of the southern states. Symptoms begin 1 to 3 hours after eating the contaminated shellfish and include numbness, tingling in the mouth, arms and legs, incoordination, and gastrointestinal upset. As in ciguatera poisoning, some patients report temperature reversal. Death is rare. Recovery normally occurs in 2 to 3 days.

Amnesic shellfish poisoning is a rare syndrome caused by a toxin made by a microscopic, red-brown, salt-water plant, or diatom called Nitzchia pungens. The toxin produced by these diatoms is concentrated in shellfish such as mussels and causes disease when the contaminated shellfish are eaten. Patients first experience gastrointestinal distress within 24 hours after eating the contaminated shellfish. Other reported symptoms have included dizziness, headache, disorientation, and permanent short-term memory loss. In severe poisoning, seizures, focal weakness or paralysis, and death may occur.



Are there long-term consequences to these diseases?

Ciguatera poisoning has resulted in some neurologic problems persisting for weeks, and in rare cases, even years. Symptoms have sometimes returned after eating contaminated fish a second time. Amnesic shellfish poisoning has resulted in long-term problems with short-term amemory. Long-term consequences have not been associated with paralytic shellfish poisoning, neurotoxic shellfish poisoning, and scombrotoxic fish poisoning.


http://www.worldanimalnet.org

(The British Pisces groups which works to end fishing
was listed as a recommended link, and is not responsible
for any of the writing herein.)


© Animal Rights Coalition 9

How to make an old watch work

Elgin watches and what to do with them after their 'Use by Date'

This is a common question and here is my answer....

QUESTION..?

I have recently come across a watch which appears to be pretty old. It is Lady Elgin, 14k stamped on back,1/20-12gf on clasp [which I'm pretty sure means gold filled}, and 2 small diamonds? on each side of the face. The watch is not working, and I am wondering if it is something worth repairing, and how I would go about finding it's worth. Thank you.

ANSWER..!

While watches are not one of my favorites (being a gemologist/valuer and not a watchmaker) I frequetly get these styles of watches over my desk.

The US Elgin company made watches from about 1867 through to the mid 1950's and you are quite correct when you say it is gold filled. The gemstones would not be diamonds, but more likely to be synthetic corundum.

Depending on any sentimental value you put on this item would make your decision as to getting it repaired (see a good local watchmaker and make sure they have worked on old watches like this before).

As a great alternative, we have frequently converted the watch case into a very pretty locket - worth thinking about! You might check the 20th Century Antique Jewellery website.

Generally though, as parts and skilled labor are very hard to come by, I would suggest the latter. Not being gold and not being diamonds means it is simply not worth repairing.

Hope this helps. What do you think?.

Sending Love To Those Who Act Violently

Baba told a woman on a hijacked plane to send love to the hijackers.
People on the plane were unharmed.
He told a devotee at the ashram to send love to a young girl who was abusing
her younger brother.
He told a member of a Seattle satsang that as a group they should send love
to vivisectors and legislators. He said that lawmakers will make laws to abolish
vivisection.

Your Wish Is Granted

Baba is Asritakalpalateeka, the wish fulfilling tree.

Yogananda: Divine Mother always gives me what I want.

Jesus: Whatsoever you ask the Father in My name it
shall be granted.

Baba: I give you what you want so that you will want what I
have to give.

Mother Earth is supremely patient, but she too can do
time collapsing miracles.

How to Clean your Jewelry at Home

A Client recently wrote to me about sanding a small silver cross pendant which was making deep scratches from sanding. They wanted to know how to get rid of the scratches faster and prevent getting parts of it thiner than other parts?

ANSWER..!

STOP...

Firstly you should NEVER sand gold or silver. Jewelers use a very fine (like wet and dry) paper for the initial smoothing or shaping process to get rid of rough edges.

Once that is done they polish scratches out using a black/grey 'Tripoli' polish on a polishing machine (looks like a bench grinder).

This takes the first level of scatches away.

Then they use a red polish called 'Jewelers Rouge' to give the final finish.

Between each step they would clean in a liquid solution to get rid of the residual polish before moving on to the next step.

Please do not use sandpaper, as this will eventually destroy your item by wearing it thinner.

These two polishes come in a large 'Cake' block, like an old fashioned bar of soap and can be purchased at jewelry supply stores or even some good hardware shops.

But by the time you paid for all these - together with machines and mops etc - it's easier and far less costly to give it to your local jeweler and have them professionally clean it up for you.

There is also an excellent article on cleaning your jewelry at home at the Antique Jewelry website at this address: Antique Jewelry of the 20th Century

This should help.

Legal requirement to Hallmark Jewelry

Is it a legal requirement to stamp gold jewelry? If it is not legal, is there any reason that it wouldn't be stamped?

A client recently purchased a Geneve watch on-line from Bidz.com. The description was 10k. The watch was not stamped 10K, therefore they returned the watch.

The supposed retail value was $1550. They did not have it appraised.

ANSWER..!

The answer is - it depends...

The main reason I say that is because I don't know what country you are from (I'm assuming the States) where it is legal to stamp precious metal for COMMERCIAL sale.

Not all countries adhere to this.

Also in the States, if you were a small HOBBY craftsman, there is no need for you to stamp your jewelry either.

In most parts of the World, the Hallmark was a way in which the government certified the quality - but also to prove TAX had been paid (the latter being the more important to them).

Finally I might also add that the gold hallmark stamp on many gold watches are INSIDE the back cover of the watchcase. Did you remove the cover for examination?

Most Swiss watches are stamped in this manner.

The bottom line is: If you were not happy and had a full refund - no problems.

Check with other suppliers of quality watches in your area. You don't have to buy of course, but you can pretend you will while asking all sorts of questions which your local supplier should be able to answer.

Only then, when you are happy, make a buying decision.

As often mentioned, there is a FREE Hallmarking course available at the very informative website - Jewelry Antiques of the 20th Century - Why not sign up? (did I mention it was FREE)