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To: Snowshoe who wrote (13810)	11/9/1997 7:59:00 PM
From: Bruce Tiemann	Respond to of 50167

[Birds, and oil drillers] That birds do not taste the heat in chili peppers has sprouted a new product: bird food laced with chili peppers that are supposed to be squirrel/chipmunk resistant! It was in the paper here a month ago. A very few squirrels, however, prefer the spicy stuff. One reason that the oil sector might do well this year is all the talk of el nino. Many places are told to brace themselves for an especially harsh winter this year. An article in American Scientist showed that historically, oil stock prices were well-correlated with surface ocean temperatures in that magic place associated with el ninos, but with a half-year delay or so. Of course, if everyone now knows about this, it should already be factored into the price. Bruce Tiemann

To: Snowshoe who wrote (13810)	11/9/1997 10:00:00 PM
From: Logain Ablar	Respond to of 50167

Greg: Off topic spices. Enjoy its a really good source for spices. penzeys.com

To: Snowshoe who wrote (13810)	11/10/1997 5:22:00 PM
From: Joe S Pack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Greg M: Now that the market is leader and clue less, let us work on some not so harmfull medicin/health related technologies. Lats time I wrote a peice on teh use of turmeric. This time I will follow the lead on chilli, especillay hot pepers that too red. 1) There has been some studies saying that hot pepers are good for some wound healing. Again there was a peice on NPR where one of the caller quoted that he/she has been cayon peper poder as a pain killer. Whenever there a cut or wound he/she applies either paste or powder form of red peper on top the wound.It seems these pepers immediately affect nerves and make them less sensitive to pain. I have not tried yet, though. 2) My personal experience with hot peper solution is to use them as pesticide. I have been using a combination of hot peper powder and well ground garlic to as a pesticide in my graden. Especially I don't like to spray pesticide and otehr chemicals on tomatto after it blossoms. So what I did for the past couple of years to make a solution out of these incrediants and spray on teh surface of teh affected plants. Within no time you will see the result. But you have to be careful though. If the solution is too strong you will kill the plant within a day or two like what weed killers do. I tested on coupld of other vegetable plants with very good success. Coming summer I am going to test this on other stuffs. This year we had record yield in our tomatto plants. Yes hot pepers have the effect of repelling some of the common insects and bugs. If you notice, you have less frequent attact of insects and bugs on peper plants than others. We use quite a bit of red pepers in our food. I am still waiting for clear direction on the market. though I am on the verge of losing some more money some of the options that I played on IBM and COMS. I have been accumulating on AMAT since 38. I will slowly cost dollar average this and may venture into one of the communications companies. I am not sure what to amke of COMS at this moment. I think there is still some room for buying opportunities in AMAT, INTC, TXN, COMS, CSCO IMHO. What happened to our friend JT? -Karun