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Ask the Patch Pro: What Experts Do You Want to Hear From in 2013?

Each week, local experts share tips and advice on a different topic on "Patch."

In 2012, Patch began a weekly feature called "Ask the Patch Pro." We chose a different topic each week and opened up the comments section for reader questions. Local experts volunteered to stop in to help out and answer your questions. 

Over the past few months, we've covered everything from books and wine to exercise and career searching. Now we want to hear from you. What local experts do you want to hear from in 2013? Tell us in the comments so we can begin searching for the pros! 

Take a look back at some of the best advice from our local experts during this year's "Ask the Patch Pro" feature.

  • Best of 'Ask the Patch Pro' 2012
Sonny Pondrom December 27, 2012 at 03:20 pm
Scientist have discussed the build-up of carbon in the earth's atmosphere since the industrial revolution. Most say that we need to stop using fossile fuels and switch to clean energy. How can we do that while still in a resession? Solar panels? Electric car?
Devon Seddon December 27, 2012 at 04:27 pm
It's called Wardencliffe (today's version is called HAARP - the US & many other countries have them). It's 100+ year-old technology, that has been hidden from you. If you are really concerned about the Earth & the Atmosphere, demand it be used as such.
Nearly all mention of this & the man who discovered this technology (as well as at least 7 other pieces of technology you had to exercise just to be able to read this post) was removed from school curriculum years & years ago. It COULD be used to end this recession completely & change the world for the better, forever, but that isn't their goal. The Green movement instead, is designed to steal your money & control the Earth's carbon. Btw, nearly everything in the world either is derived from, becomes, or returns to carbon. If they can control that carbon, they can control that entire list. Don't believe me? Name the first ever set of "global taxes". Carbon is NOT directly related to Earth's temperature or climate, but is actually a by-product. It FOLLOWS climate-change (by around 800 years, mind you), it doesn't preceed it whether they use the money they stole to try & convince you of it or not. Sun spots ARE directly related to temperature & climate on the Earth, however, those "scientists" don't mention "those types of things". They aren't trying to control the Sun, they are trying to control the carbon. If scientists DO mention, or give credit to these "types of things", they forfeit their piece of that stolen money.
RDBet December 27, 2012 at 06:06 pm
Yeah Sonny, don't you know of Nikola Tesla, the DemiGod, and government suppression of his free clean energy sources for purposes of liberal domination of the World?
Devon Seddon December 27, 2012 at 06:51 pm
Not "liberal" domination, but close. Liberals DO tend to be the fools who continue to have their emotions & ignorance continuously used against them. As a result, they continue to perpetuate a movement they don't have the first clue about. All of this, while attempting make fun of those who call them out on it. We can always count on RDBet for proof of that. Ch-ching! (I can always get RD paid, watch, I'll do it again. See the comment below.)
Anyone with facts, will always be subject to ridicule by our resident "loyal subject", as if facts simply vanish into thin air whenever he tries to discredit, misdirect or distract. They don't. They will still be facts, but he's nothing if not predictable. I will, however, let the omnipotent RD tell you what good an atmospheric scientist is, that entirely ignores or denies the portion of our atmosphere that DOES provide abundant, clean, free-energy, to the entire world, forever. It's there, deny it or not. I can't wait to see him describe that "scientist" as something other than a liar & thief, while he/she fits the definition of neither atmospheric, nor scientist. Grant recipient, maybe? No, That won't work, in which case, as always, he'll just attack me as if he does actually has a point. Some of you may actually buy into it. The rest of you will see it for what it is. You DID notice that RD didn't point-out that Sonny learned all of this in school, right?
RDBet December 27, 2012 at 07:16 pm
Lol-you just love tangents and projecting your thoughts (misappropriating) into other people's comments. I have nothing against Nikola Tesla. Perhaps the best of many geniuses from that era.
I'm not a scientist, so you got me there pal. I can't be an expert on everything like you and your "research" lol. However my education on Tesla is what allowed me to deduce that you subscribe to a vast array of conspiracy theories. To irrationally mythologize a historical person does a disservice to that person and their legacy. Yet, to explain everything in your world by a conspiracy theory is convenient, so you continue to do it. Scientists as liars and thiefs? Interesting. The government is suppressing capitalistic clean energy efforts as part of liberal plot at global wealth domination? Batshot crazy. Devon, how can the liberals be inefficient in governances and all -yet smart enough to pull off this large scale suppression scheme in order to dominate the world's wealth?
RDBet December 27, 2012 at 07:40 pm
Back on topic - hearing from health/fitness experts would be good.
Though it may be construed by some as yet another attempt at controlling foolish liberals and suppressing some sort of Tesla innovation. Ah yes, I see Tesla assisted in Lahovsky's multiple wave oscillator. It never ends.
Devon Seddon December 27, 2012 at 07:41 pm
I already told you. It isn't their plot, they are merely customers.
What was irrational about what I said about Tesla? I know who he was. I know what he did. There is nothing conspiracy theorist about Nikola Tesla, other than you had to learn about him on your own. Did you get all that Tesla knowledge in school? Like you did Edison, a thief of technology, actual inventor of nearly nothing. He was a master of trying to discredit facts, too. Anything he could do in order to deceive people, protect his investments, discourage actual discussion, promote his profitable lies, & cover up the truth. (Sound familiar?) Or Freud, said to be the “father” of psychology/psychiatry, but as it turns out, he has since been proven to be wrong at least 75-85% of time. Or Newton, who is supposed to be the “father of physics”, and is said to have discovered the obvious, gravity. He is still looked upon as a scientific giant, even though his research has been nearly 90% disproven. The reason gravity is an ‘obvious’ discovery, is because as it turns out, Einstein, who idolized Newton early in his career, PROVED (even though he wasn’t immediately aware of it) that gravity works in the direct-opposite manner than Newton thought, and that we are still taught in school. So, even though Newton’s point of view on gravity is 180-degrees wrong, our schools still teach it. Why not teach Tesla? You know why. Yes, taking money under false pretences is actually the definition of stealing.
RDBet December 27, 2012 at 07:53 pm
If you are saying that our history books are sanitized of many things deemed controversial and/or unAmerican - then I agree. Beyond the scope of a limited Patch conversation to all but a monomaniac. Have a happy new year.
Devon Seddon December 27, 2012 at 07:57 pm
PS - The "Green" movement needs gas & coal more than your car or furnace.
You seem, you think it's about those companies & penalizing them. If you knew they weren't the problem, you wouldn't believe they need to be further penalized. You don't know the extent of the unfounded penalties that are already being accessed. That's how I'll factor it in. Give me a list of regulations. Then tell me which you think ought to be more stringent, why, & how the government taking more money from them will get you to your goal. Say what you want about the big, bad, oil & coal companies. Claim they spend millions forming my "opinion". It PALES in comparison to the $64+ BILLION tax-payer dollars (in just the last few years) on that same type of "advertising" that formed yours.
RDBet December 27, 2012 at 07:59 pm
Back on topic - hearing from health/fitness experts would be good.
Though it may be construed by some as yet another attempt at controlling foolish liberals thru health/fitness pork barrel while suppressing some sort of Tesla cure-all innovation. Ah yes, I see Tesla assisted in Lakhovsky's multiple wave oscillator. It never ends
Elle Madras December 27, 2012 at 08:41 pm
I would love to hear about new health resources in our community.
Devon Seddon December 27, 2012 at 08:48 pm
Thank you for the Happy New Year AND the spirited debate. I DO enjoy it.
Happy New Year to you too & I hope you had a Merry Christmas. A/C electricity seems to have done some pretty amazing things for this world, no? You're exactly right (sarcasm or not). The Multi-Wave Oscillator was, in fact, pure genius; part Tesla coil, part Earth generator. I'm glad you brought it up; it's a bridge. No, it doesn't ever end, but I'm not perpetuating it, just pointing it out. For me, 100 years is enough, and it is about to encroach on some very dangerous territory. For those of you that may not get RD's reference, Lakhovsky created a device that was used in this country until 1942, and in Europe for about another 15 years. It was ordered removed from the US hospitals that were using it, shortly after Lakhovsky was hit & killed by a car in 1942. Lakhovsky was also the first one to predict the existence of the double helix we now know as DNA. See, joke if you wish, but that DOES cover 2 main areas that are used to successfully & relentlessly drain the people of their money & jobs. Also, it creates the very need for the other "tools of compassion" they always hold over everyone's head: Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc. Boy, you may be right. If people were to know who this guy was, it could literally mean the almost immediate implosion of BOTH sides of the aisle in DC. Nope. No motivation there what-so-ever for keeping something with that kind of power from you.
RDBet December 27, 2012 at 09:23 pm
Yes, Devon, the government doesn't want people have the multi-wave oscillator (just like free earth energy) because it would make people healthy and then guvmint couldn't control the people with medicaid and medicare dependence on the govt.
And to think, I just came hear to ask the patch to consider a health/fitness pro. By the way, Syfi has it's annual Twilight Zone marathon over New Years. I really enjoy that show, no jest.
Devon Seddon December 28, 2012 at 05:26 pm
I haven't seen much of that show but I remember the movie. Are they the ones from the 60's or 80's? Reruns though right? Like that trick where you mock reality with sarcasm in order to pretend it isn't happening. (Actually part of the curriculum I used to teach people like you. Sorry I quit before I got to see your Valedictorian speech.)
The facts (the ionosphere, the means to access it, MWO, etc) are all mysteriously still there though, and still real. They surprisingly didn't go away or become less true. Even when the comments are funny? Yep (actually they sometimes ARE funny). The point: It IS happening & I've shown it to you, along with why & how (at least what would fit in the space provided). You can chose to ignore it if you like, but a mocking denial doesn't change the reality of it. Feel free to prove it ISN'T happening, along with why & how. (yeah, right) You may have to change your M.O. and remove the shackles of ignorance (stereotypes & labels) from your thought process, but I'm sure you'll provide justification for why those things are hidden from you. We'll assume the literally QUADRILLIONS of dollars & the control of millions of votes & voters over the years aren't enough. They should be, but I'm sure you'll show us the real reasons. It's probably bad for us to have free-energy or to cure ANYthing in the last 60+ years. You're right, good thing we have them to protect us from THAT. PS-Your initial comment; not about health. Perception over Reality, I guess.

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