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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2011 0:22:36 GMT -6
Makes me glad I'd much rather read Spending your days in front of the television may contribute to a shortened lifespan, a new study suggests. Researchers in Australia found that people who averaged six hours a day of TV lived, on average, nearly five years less than people who watched no TV. For every hour of television watched after age 25, lifespan fell by 22 minutes, according to the research led by Dr. J. Lennert Veerman of the University of Queensland. news.yahoo.com/too-much-tv-may-years-off-life-231005195.html
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Post by swamprat on Aug 17, 2011 7:14:48 GMT -6
My guess is, same goes for sitting in front of a computer all day! Need to go out and dance!!
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Post by orionpath on Aug 17, 2011 9:08:10 GMT -6
I think I 'm a gone-----er.
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Post by paulette on Aug 17, 2011 9:28:45 GMT -6
Newish exercise news in Canada - 15 minutes a day (enough to sweat) of exercise is enough to keep one healthier. That's taking the stairs in one's building, walking at lunch....
IMO the pro exercise folks have in their ranks people who have insisted for years that a little doesn't do one any good. And there are those of them who are on the far end of the spectrum of activities. I have a co-worker who bicycles to work - 45 kilometers away - twice a week. He goes to the gym the other days and also runs on the weekends. He comes back from these workouts saying something like,"Well, now I can have my latte with cream" I have actually never seen him eat anything. He is muscular of course and his heart must be titanium by now. Even though its his program not mine and he doesn't suggest I do anything he is an advertisement for obsessing about health and being in marathon form and it is discouraging. It is even boring...
I recently was told that sugar was not my friend (if it ever was) and to stop using it. I have a little sometimes but nowhere near what I used to. I bought ice creams on sticks - my husband and I allow ourselves one or two a week. (instead of the large bowl of ice cream and chocolate sauce). I am now a label reader extraordinaire and can assure you that virturally EVERYTHING prepackaged has fruitose, sucrose, corn syrup, dried honey, molasses - sometimes all of those - in everything imaginable including soups, sauces, crackers, etc. I have started using a sugar substitute (Splenda or the generic version) and find that it works almost as well and tastes pretty durn close. If there was a drive towards countering obesity that was serious - there would be more sugar-free products available. As it is, I'm having to compound my own. People with diabetes must already know all this. Someone could open a sugar-free store chain. I bet they'd do very well.
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Post by lois on Aug 17, 2011 12:33:28 GMT -6
Wreck of Capt. Morgan's Pirate Ship Found, Archaeologists SayPublished August 05, 2011 FoxNews.comCaptain Morgan / Chris Bickford A team of U.S. archaeologists study the wreckage of a ship they believe to be part of pirate captain Henry Morgan's lost vessel. The dive team discovered approximately 52x22 feet of the starboard side of a 17th century wooden ship hull and a series of unopened cargo boxes and chests encrusted in coral.The lost wreckage of a ship belonging to 17th century pirate Captain Henry Morgan has been discovered in Panama, said a team of U.S. archaeologists -- and the maker of Captain Morgan rum. Near the Lajas Reef, where Morgan lost five ships in 1671 including his flagship "Satisfaction," the team uncovered a portion of the starboard side of a wooden ship's hull and a series of unopened cargo boxes and chests encrusted in coral. The cargo has yet to be opened, but Captain Morgan USA -- which sells the spiced rum named for the eponymous pirate -- is clearly hoping there's liquor in there. "There's definitely an irony in the situation," Fritz Hanselmann an archaeologist with the River Systems Institute and the Center for Archaeological Studies at Texas State University and head of the dive team told KVUE Austin. The Captain Morgan rum group stepped in on the quest for Captain Morgan after team -- which found a collection of iron cannons nearby -- ran out of funds before they could narrow down the quest. The new funding allowed the team to do a magnetometer survey, which looks for metal by finding any deviation in the earth's magnetic field. In the 17th century, Captain Henry Morgan sailed as a privateer on behalf of England, defending the Crown's interests and pioneering expeditions to the New World. In 1671, in an effort to capture Panama City and loosen the stronghold of Spain in the Caribbean, Morgan set out to take the Castillo de San Lorenzo, a Spanish fort on the cliff overlooking the entrance to the Chagres River, the only water passageway between the Caribbean and the capital city. Although his men ultimately prevailed, Morgan lost five ships to the rough seas and shallow reef surrounding the fort. "To us, the ship is the treasure -- the story is the treasure," Hanselman told MSNBC's Alan Boyle. "And you don't have a much better story than Captain Henry Morgan's sack of Panama City and the loss of his five ships." Artifacts excavated by the dive team in 2010, including the six cannons, as well as any future relics will remain the property of the Panamanian government and will be preserved and displayed by the Patronato Panama Viejo. Read more: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/05/captain-morgans-lost-liquor-locker-found/#ixzz1UBza2opm Swamprat... Just found this post of yours. These is so intriguing to me.. I love Archeology.. Once I even thought about becoming one .. I have searched with my little metal detector all my life. When I bring something up very old, it makes me feel so strange.. First thing comes to mind.. I try to visualize the person who dropped it. I hope the rum is still drinkable. I hate it myself.. I did not know they found Henry Morgan's ship.. They have changed the learning channel . It is not what it use to be. They think remoldling a home is all one needs to learn about. It had history.. Archeology.. GI Joe Diary. Leanord Nemoy's In search of.. So so much.. Now I never tune in to that channel . There is nothing on I would watch for two minutes. I know this is why I never knew about this ship being discovered. I have all the sunken ship progarms which was ever put on TV.. I will be watching for another update on this. Thanks for posting
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Post by skywalker on Aug 20, 2011 15:53:29 GMT -6
New Mexico PhotoI was passing through New Mexico right about sundown when a thunderstorm passed through. I snapped a couple of photos of the landscape and just thought I would post one of them here.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2011 17:48:17 GMT -6
I've been through New Mexico and been in those amazing thunderstorms..they are so awesome
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Post by swamprat on Aug 21, 2011 14:25:02 GMT -6
Just in case you thought you knew everything....... ScienceDaily
Parasite Uses the Power of Attraction to Trick Rats Into Becoming Cat FoodScienceDaily (Aug. 20, 2011) — When a male rat senses the presence of a fetching female rat, a certain region of his brain lights up with neural activity, in anticipation of romance. Now Stanford University researchers have discovered that in male rats infected with the parasite Toxoplasma, the same region responds just as strongly to the odor of cat urine. Is it time to dim the lights and cue the Rachmaninoff for some cross-species canoodling? "Well, we see activity in the pathway that normally controls how male rats respond to female rats, so it's possible the behavior we are seeing in response to cat urine is sexual attraction behavior, but we don't know that," said Patrick House, a PhD candidate in neuroscience in the School of Medicine. "I would not say that they are definitively attracted, but they are certainly less afraid. Regardless, seeing activity in the attraction pathway is bizarre." For a rat, fear of cats is rational. But a cat's small intestine is the only environment in which Toxoplasma can reproduce sexually, so it is critical for the parasite to get itself into a cat's digestive system in order to complete its lifecycle. Thus it benefits the parasite to trick its host rat into putting itself in position to get eaten by the cat. No fear, no flight, kitty's dinner is served---and it’s the PARASITE that gets to have sex! ;D www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110819141519.htm
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Post by auntym on Aug 21, 2011 19:41:59 GMT -6
;D
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Post by swamprat on Aug 23, 2011 20:20:52 GMT -6
OK, I have many reasons for posting this.1. I work in education. 2. My son is a physicist and a college professor. 3. My wife is an elementary teacher. 4. I agree totally with what is being said. 5. And lastly, for anyone remotely interested in ufology, Dr. Kaku has got to be one of our favorite scientists! www.wimp.com/kakusecret/
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Post by auntym on Aug 23, 2011 21:34:45 GMT -6
OK, I have many reasons for posting this.1. I work in education. 2. My son is a physicist and a college professor. 3. My wife is an elementary teacher. 4. I agree totally with what is being said. 5. And lastly, for anyone remotely interested in ufology, Dr. Kaku has got to be one of our favorite scientists! www.wimp.com/kakusecret/ i agree 100% swamprat... ... also, i'm in serious like of dr. michio kaku
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2011 23:30:53 GMT -6
Dr. Kaku is the best possible thing for science there could be..someone who takes the time to bring physics to people in terms understood by everyone and he makes it interesting.
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Post by lois on Aug 29, 2011 13:42:50 GMT -6
The weather channel say's yesterday's east coast earthquake was caused by an unknown falult line running under D.C. and through Virginia. It's now being called Obama's fault, though Obama will say it's really Bush's fault.
Another theory is that it was the founding fathers rolling over in their graves but I believe what we all thought .... an earthquake was actualy the effects of a 14.6 trillion dollar check bouncing in Washington..
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Post by orionpath on Aug 29, 2011 14:13:00 GMT -6
I like Obama's fault the best. Laughed out loud sitting here all by myself.
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Post by skywalker on Aug 30, 2011 2:01:58 GMT -6
The weather channel say's yesterday's east coast earthquake was caused by an unknown falult line running under D.C. and through Virginia. It's now being called Obama's fault, though Obama will say it's really Bush's fault. Another theory is that it was the founding fathers rolling over in their graves but I believe what we all thought .... an earthquake was actualy the effects of a 14.6 trillion dollar check bouncing in Washington.. Now that's funny. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2011 13:18:08 GMT -6
The weather channel say's yesterday's east coast earthquake was caused by an unknown falult line running under D.C. and through Virginia. It's now being called Obama's fault, though Obama will say it's really Bush's fault. Another theory is that it was the founding fathers rolling over in their graves but I believe what we all thought .... an earthquake was actualy the effects of a 14.6 trillion dollar check bouncing in Washington.. ;D
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Post by casper on Aug 30, 2011 19:52:38 GMT -6
A fault would be the one thin g obama would not want named after him. ;D
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Post by swamprat on Aug 31, 2011 16:10:00 GMT -6
WIRED SCIENCE
The Cutting-Edge Physics of a Crumpled Paper BallBy Brandon Keim Take a piece of paper. Crumple it. Before you sink a three-pointer in the corner wastebasket, consider that you’ve just created an object of extraordinary mathematical and structural complexity, filled with mysteries that physicists are just starting to unfold. “Crush a piece of typing paper into the size of a golf ball, and suddenly it becomes a very stiff object. The thing to realize is that it’s 90 percent air, and it’s not that you designed architectural motifs to make it stiff. It did it itself,” said physicist Narayan Menon of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. “It became a rigid object. This is what we are trying to figure out: What is the architecture inside that creates this stiffness?” Menon’s expedition into the shadowy heart of a crumpled sheet — of aluminum foil, to be precise — was undertaken with fellow Amherst physicist Anne Dominique Cambou and published in an August 23 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences article. The pair think they’ve mapped the mathematical underpinnings of its rigidity. Of course, it may seem surprising that a balled-up sheet of paper or foil should contort itself beyond knowledge. But Menon noted that when physicists finally described the precise dynamics of conical crumpling, which you can achieve by laying a sheet of paper over a coffee cup and poking down with one finger, it was regarded as a mathematical tour-de-force. Read more: www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/crumpled-paper-physics/
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Post by skywalker on Aug 31, 2011 19:56:47 GMT -6
That's kind of cool. Now whenever we want to build something that will be riged all we have to do is crumple it up. Piece of cake.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2011 19:08:14 GMT -6
I thought this guy deserved a nod..don't you Sky? LOWELL, Mich. (AP) — A 50-mile run is an incredible challenge. Try it with your jaw wired shut. Mulnix, 32, still is recovering from a car wreck in February. A major fracture on the right side of his jaw didn't heal, and a plate holding the jaw together broke. Doctors wired his jaw 10 days before the race. news.yahoo.com/man-runs-50-mile-mich-race-jaw-wired-123623744.html
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Post by skywalker on Sept 2, 2011 11:17:22 GMT -6
Just finishing a race like that is pretty impressive, to do it with a medical problem like that makes it even more difficult. I have a bunch of metal plates and wires holding my jaw together also. The docs wired it shut after the surgery but I made them undo it because I couldn't swallow anything--not even liquids. I could not even imagine running a long race like that.
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Post by swamprat on Sept 2, 2011 17:58:57 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2011 18:03:57 GMT -6
7.1 in Alaska today with a tsunami warning...Lois & Cliff were feeling the 'tingle' . Anywhere near Lorelei?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2011 19:33:33 GMT -6
7.1 in Alaska today with a tsunami warning...Lois & Cliff were feeling the 'tingle' . Anywhere near Lorelei? Nope. I'm still alive and kicking. The quake was closer to Japan than me... it was off in the Aleutian islands. Didn't feel a thing up here. Good thing I don't live near the coast... those island people might get a tsunami.
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Post by spotless38 on Sept 2, 2011 19:43:34 GMT -6
I wonder if that wa one of the areas I told you about . Instead of Canada and Alaska
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2011 21:14:03 GMT -6
I wonder if that wa one of the areas I told you about . Instead of Canada and Alaska You said your cousin said it was in the mountains near the border between Canada and Alaska. The quake was off in the Aleutian islands near Japan. Those are islands... and they're not near the Canadian border... they're the islands off to the west... Canada is to the East...
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Post by spotless38 on Sept 2, 2011 21:59:52 GMT -6
I wonder if that wa one of the areas I told you about . Instead of Canada and Alaska You said your cousin said it was in the mountains near the border between Canada and Alaska. The quake was off in the Aleutian islands near Japan. Those are islands... and they're not near the Canadian border... they're the islands off to the west... Canada is to the East... OK That may be a strike 1 for him .... But I will keep Alaska and Canada in mind .
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Post by lois on Sept 2, 2011 22:19:10 GMT -6
I don't feel this is what I had in my mind.. It could be a runner up to something greater, I surly hope not
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Post by lois on Sept 2, 2011 23:06:23 GMT -6
I do not feel it is on an Island at all, this is why I stated it was not Japan.. what ever is going on in my head lately.. Mexico, Mexico, Mexico .. Can't get it off my mind for some reason.. these boulders falling on me I try to make sense of it.. that could be just about anywhere really.. I do hope if it does have any merit, it is not near any city.. Every earthquake that I have felt has always been in the mist of thousands of people.. Before the Japan quake I did see water coming in but I seen tree tops sticking out above the water, this is not the way Japan scene was.. I also felt it was over the Unied States at that time.. See! nothing like that ever happened. I feel it is the Pacific is involved. that is half the world.. coastal lines
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Post by lois on Sept 2, 2011 23:11:25 GMT -6
You said your cousin said it was in the mountains near the border between Canada and Alaska. The quake was off in the Aleutian islands near Japan. Those are islands... and they're not near the Canadian border... they're the islands off to the west... Canada is to the East... OK That may be a strike 1 for him .... But I will keep Alaska and Canada in mind . Ron in all the years Ive known you . you have never told me about your cousin.. Where does he live? Does he always feel quakes?.. I only know your brother has ufo and alien encounters. I don't see the first post anywhere you and lorelei are speaking about here.
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