[Al_U_Card]

Shuster had been the butt of the joke about "Shustering" (like Dufnering I guess) relating to futility and poor performance in curling.
We may see a surge in US curling activity, all due to that Olympic gold medal.
Kudos to the US team and all Shuster boosters.

[Winstonm]

From the You Can't Make This Stuff Up Department:

Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz kicked off his re-election campaign by criticizing his opponent for using a nickname.

[y66]

From Jane Brody's summary of what she and Angelica Divinagracia have learned about sensible habits for eating and exercise. Ms. Brody is a 52 year veteran NYT writer on the health beat. Ms. Divinagracia is a fitness specialist in Los Angeles who at 53 still looks as good or better than she did as head cheerleader at U.C.L.A.

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Brody: I eat everything I want, in moderation. My meals — mostly homemade — are heavily loaded with vegetables, and I choose calorie-controlled snacks like popcorn at 35 calories a cup, a graham cracker at 59 calories for two squares, and ice cream (really ice milk) at 100 to 150 calories a half cup. No seconds! My weight maintenance secrets are simple: I read nutrition labels before I buy anything in a package, I practice portion control, and I exercise and weigh myself every day to stay within a two-pound range appropriate for my height. If the number on the scale begins to creep up, I may walk, bike or swim a little more and eat a little less for a few days.

Divinagracia: I don’t believe in diets or any particular products. I believe in learning how to create a healthy lifestyle, and the formula is simple. The most salient points of her well-practiced advice are: 1) Stop eating crap, 2) Eat good food that is real, not processed, 3) Avoid drinking your calories, 4) Know what one serving is and do not eat more than that in a sitting, 5) Move your butt every day — even just walking is better than being a couch potato, and 6) Stop making excuses.

Nothing new to wc people but a good summary of what has been learned in the last 50+ years.

[Winstonm]

From NYT:

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Dr. Gardner said it is not that calories don’t matter. After all, both groups ultimately ended up consuming fewer calories on average by the end of the study, even though they were not conscious of it. The point is that they did this by focusing on nutritious whole foods that satisfied their hunger.

“I think one place we go wrong is telling people to figure out how many calories they eat and then telling them to cut back on 500 calories, which makes them miserable,” he said. “We really need to focus on that foundational diet, which is more vegetables, more whole foods, less added sugar and less refined grains.”

It takes a certain amount of bulk to feel full but how many calories is in that bulk amount is a choice - steak has about 2 1/2 times as many calories per ounce as brown rice. To feel full, it makes better weight sense to eat 16 ounces of rice than a 16 ounce steak, or 12 ounces of rice and 4 ounces of steak, yet the American diet reverses this with a preponderance of high-calorie choices and small servings of low calorie starches and vegetables.

[Winstonm]

I thought this was from The Onion but it turns out to be true:

WaPo reports:

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In a move that can only be described as utterly Canadian, hundreds of doctors in Quebec are protesting their pay raises, saying they already make too much money.

[Al_U_Card]

y66, on 2018-March-07, 10:07, said:

From Jane Brody's summary of what she and Angelica Divinagracia have learned about sensible habits for eating and exercise. Ms. Brody is a 52 year veteran NYT writer on the health beat. Ms. Divinagracia is a fitness specialist in Los Angeles who at 53 still looks as good or better than she did as head cheerleader at U.C.L.A.


Nothing new to wc people but a good summary of what has been learned in the last 50+ years.

A couple of additional tips:

Try to maintain the 1:2:1 ratio of protein:carbs:fats.
Avoid lectins (eggplant,tomatoes, potatoes, kidney beans,peanuts and cashews) as they disturb the intestinal flora. Cooking reduces this enzyme found mostly in the skin and seeds of the nightshade family vegetables and almost all legumes.
To minimize candida (yeast) intestinal infections,(more common than you might think) 2 drops of oregano oil in some water, twice a day, for a week. To help the digestive system restore itself, active culture yogurt or fermented foods (especially in brine and not pickled) work well.
You will feel better, have more energy and make better use of the food you eat.

[kenberg]

y66, on 2018-March-07, 10:07, said:

From Jane Brody's summary of what she and Angelica Divinagracia have learned about sensible habits for eating and exercise. Ms. Brody is a 52 year veteran NYT writer on the health beat. Ms. Divinagracia is a fitness specialist in Los Angeles who at 53 still looks as good or better than she did as head cheerleader at U.C.L.A.


Nothing new to wc people but a good summary of what has been learned in the last 50+ years.

And if we are to follow Jane Brody, we are to eat a lot of garlic?

But I am overweight so who am I to quarrel. When I get more exercise my weight goes down. When I sit at the computer my weight goes up. So I basically agree with the rather simple approach given in the article.

[Winstonm]

This, from The Atlantic, is pretty demoralizing.

[Al_U_Card]

kenberg, on 2018-March-08, 07:53, said:

And if we are to follow Jane Brody, we are to eat a lot of garlic?

But I am overweight so who am I to quarrel. When I get more exercise my weight goes down. When I sit at the computer my weight goes up. So I basically agree with the rather simple approach given in the article.

My Dad used this "diet" to lose 4-5 lb/wk during a month or so. You eat whatever and how much you want at breakfast. A salad only for lunch and only a soup for dinner. He did this after his bp got too high with weight gain. Weight and bp fell by the end of the month-long "diet".

[y66]

Garlic eaters can eat as much bacon as they want and not worry about cholesterol. If you curl or drive a zamboni too, keeping the weight on can be a challenge.

[Al_U_Card]

Speaking of golf. Just played my first round of the year, here on the Costa del Sol, yesterday. Brutal greens (8!!! 3-putts) but still broke 90. Today we are back at it despite the rainiest March they have ever had round these parts.

Any other fanatics here? I loves me some golf and that 4 month lay off was pretty disagreable.

[Winstonm]

y66, on 2018-March-08, 19:32, said:

Garlic eaters can eat as much bacon as they want and not worry about cholesterol. If you curl or drive a zamboni too, keeping the weight on can be a challenge.

However, if you curl while driving a Zamboni you have no problems....at least, not with weight....or is that wait!

[Al_U_Card]

Winstonm, on 2018-March-09, 10:52, said:

However, if you curl while driving a Zamboni you have no problems....at least, not with weight....or is that wait!

The term in current use is HURRY, HARD!

[kenberg]

Winstonm, on 2018-March-08, 13:46, said:

This, from The Atlantic, is pretty demoralizing.

Having a large mount of collected data can be very useful. Thinking through what it all means could be tough.

It is true that I had breakfast with Becky this morning, English muffins with strawberries, and it is false that I had dinner and drinks with Stormy Daniels last night. It is probable that the false story would have more twitter life than the true one, at least if I were an Important Public Figure.

We are often interested in hearing the shocking. I gather I have to sign up for Science to read the full study so I don't know everything that the researchers have done, but here is a thought. It should be possible to group many of the items under "Says something benign" versus "Says something shocking". I would be willing to place a large bet that the second group has more twitter life. I would also be willing to bet that there is substantial correlation between "shocking" and "false".

As a non-tweeter I could easily just say "See. This shows that we should not tweet", but the technology is not going away. We have a problem.

Of course it is not an entirely new problem:
https://www.youtube....h?v=wF1I5gfAIhE

[Winstonm]

kenberg, on 2018-March-10, 10:34, said:

Having a large mount of collected data can be very useful. Thinking through what it all means could be tough.

It is true that I had breakfast with Becky this morning, English muffins with strawberries, and it is false that I had dinner and drinks with Stormy Daniels last night. It is probable that the false story would have more twitter life than the true one, at least if I were an Important Public Figure.

We are often interested in hearing the shocking. I gather I have to sign up for Science to read the full study so I don't know everything that the researchers have done, but here is a thought. It should be possible to group many of the items under "Says something benign" versus "Says something shocking". I would be willing to place a large bet that the second group has more twitter life. I would also be willing to bet that there is substantial correlation between "shocking" and "false".

As a non-tweeter I could easily just say "See. This shows that we should not tweet", but the technology is not going away. We have a problem.

Of course it is not an entirely new problem:
https://www.youtube....h?v=wF1I5gfAIhE

What a great piece of music. Thanks.

Btw, the demoralizing aspect of the article is related to this:

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As of August 2017, two-thirds (67%) of Americans report that they get at least some of their news on social media – with two-in-ten doing so often, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center.

[kenberg]

Winstonm, on 2018-March-10, 13:46, said:

What a great piece of music. Thanks.

Btw, the demoralizing aspect of the article is related to this:

There are many parts of this that are ominous. "some of their news"? Well, if some of their news meant that

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What does this look like in real life? Take two examples from the last presidential election. In August 2015, a rumor circulated on social media that Donald Trump had let a sick child use his plane to get urgent medical care. Snopes confirmed almost all of the tale as true. But according to the team’s estimates, only about 1,300 people shared or retweeted the story.

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In February 2016, a rumor developed that Trump’s elderly cousin had recently died and that he had opposed the magnate’s presidential bid in his obituary. “As a proud bearer of the Trump name, I implore you all, please don’t let that walking mucus bag become president,” the obituary reportedly said. But Snopes could not find evidence of the cousin, or his obituary, and rejected the story as false.

then I could say "Who cares?".

People get interested in weird things. I still don't know how many Kardashians there are. I am sure it doesn't matter, nor do the two stories above. But whether or not Hillary was involved in the child sex trade at a pizzeria did matter.

I started reading newspapers when I was young, first following the St. Paul Saints (AAA club for the Brooklyn (!) Dodgers), then following the Korean War and so on. I know some newspaper stories are slanted, it is probably impossible for it to be otherwise. So you have to read with a bit of skepticism. That's life. But that sort of need for care is a whole different thing, not a different level but really a whole different thing, from the Twitter stuff.

[y66]

Al_U_Card, on 2018-March-09, 01:02, said:

Speaking of golf. Just played my first round of the year, here on the Costa del Sol, yesterday. Brutal greens (8!!! 3-putts) but still broke 90. Today we are back at it despite the rainiest March they have ever had round these parts.

Any other fanatics here? I loves me some golf and that 4 month lay off was pretty disagreable.

Not currently a fanatic but that could change (again) if I find a course that has a dog friendly policy. Was never better than an 8 which, I suppose, is semi-respectable for a duffer. Got a compliment on my putting stroke last month from a guy who was the senior caddie at Congressional until he retired a year or two ago so maybe that part of my game is still working or maybe he was just being sociable. Have played a few times in Ireland and Scotland but not in Spain. That sounds like fun. Hey, on what golf course and what hole did a former California resident (now Texas I think) and occasional poster here hit what has to be the most incredible shot of all time by a BBO forum golfer? How far was he from the green after his tee shot and what club did he use for his approach shot?

[Winstonm]

Yahoo

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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has canceled a day of events in Kenya after falling ill on the second day of his five-day Africa tour.

Don't suppose he bumped into a Russian intelligence officer? Don Putineone is known to get unpleasant when promises are not kept.

[Winstonm]

Don't vote Republican; instead, send them your "thoughts and prayers"!

[Al_U_Card]

y66, on 2018-March-10, 18:09, said:

Not currently a fanatic but that could change (again) if I find a course that has a dog friendly policy. Was never better than an 8 which, I suppose, is semi-respectable for a duffer. Got a compliment on my putting stroke last month from a guy who was the senior caddie at Congressional until he retired a year or two ago so maybe that part of my game is still working or maybe he was just being sociable. Have played a few times in Ireland and Scotland but not in Spain. That sounds like fun. Hey, on what golf course and what hole did a former California resident (now Texas I think) and occasional poster here hit what has to be the most incredible shot of all time by a BBO forum golfer? How far was he from the green after his tee shot and what club did he use for his approach shot?

I dunno. An 8 is really pretty good, tho as I have a 6 on my home course, local knowledge helps a lot. Our greens in Canada don't have much in the way of grain changes, but here, I can run it by by 8 feet on a 15 ft. putt! It also affects the break on sidehill putts. Very hard to fix when you can't read the greens... ;(