Alien
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Roger that. My wife has lots of links on the Mac in the other room. We have just ordered the Certified Organic oil for ourselves.
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buckeyefarmer
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I saw some that looked like them at Costco. Looks good. I replaced a circular fluorescent light in our dressing room with an led a few years ago.
sodamo
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Toto install rather straight forward 
Even worked for trial run.
Ours is just heated seat, heated water, no dry function. Related to earlier conversation I am interested in the electricity usage and prefer to keep to minimum. My main concern was water temp
Seat heat turned off.
Wouldn’t be surprised to be overruled on the heated seat though. Sophie’s Mom was Japanese (Osaka born) and would gift us cloth toilet seat covers, boy what a welcome difference in winter. Not really needed here, but we often use the seat heat function in our vehicles - especially if a muscle taxing day.
So I will be monitoring electric consumption and if reasonable there could be the dry function upgrade in the future.
Even worked for trial run.
Ours is just heated seat, heated water, no dry function. Related to earlier conversation I am interested in the electricity usage and prefer to keep to minimum. My main concern was water temp
Seat heat turned off.
Wouldn’t be surprised to be overruled on the heated seat though. Sophie’s Mom was Japanese (Osaka born) and would gift us cloth toilet seat covers, boy what a welcome difference in winter. Not really needed here, but we often use the seat heat function in our vehicles - especially if a muscle taxing day.
So I will be monitoring electric consumption and if reasonable there could be the dry function upgrade in the future.
Buppies
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Thanks again for your thoughts and prayers another squamous cell cancer waiting on date for removal
Interesting Alien I need to try something
Interesting Alien I need to try something
txdon
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Another cold related question. Another tractor driver reported tonight that when he was moving mulch yesterday the tractor died out several times. Could we have a gelling of the diesel problem after that week of severe cold? We do not add any additives to the diesel and I never added any to my Kubota and it never gelled, but it has never got this cold.
txdon
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But does she have this one: Evidence-Based Weight Loss - Live Presentation | NutritionFacts.org
"Now if you can splurge up to three cents a day, there’s black cumin. A meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials shows weight-loss efficacy again just a quarter teaspoon a day. Not regular cumin, this is a completely different spice known as black cumin. What is black cumin? You obviously haven’t been reading your bibles. Described as a “miracle herb,” besides the weight loss, there are randomized controlled trials showing daily black cumin consumption significantly improves cholesterol and triglycerides…significantly improves blood pressure… and blood sugar control. But I use it, just cause it tastes good—I just put black cumin seeds in a pepper grinder and grind it like pepper.
With more than a thousand papers published in the medical literature on black cumin, some reporting extraordinary results like dropping cholesterol levels as much as a statin drug, why don’t we hear more about it? Why weren’t we taught about it in medical school? Presumably because there’s no profit motive. Black cumin is just a common, natural spice. You’re not going to thrill your stockholders selling something that you can’t patent, that costs, three cents a day." - Michael Greger, M.D.
I do the cheap route, I grind some in my oatmeal in the morning along with ground flaxseed.
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Last time we got inundated by drones and helicopters was back in NJ to check all the properties to make sure they were taxing us appropriately.
Bet that cost a bit....
Still plenty of deer here, good to see someone is being proactive and using relatively inexpensive and quiet drones.
Pull!
txdon
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Todays medscape covid update: Most Severe COVID Tied to Four Cardiometabolic Conditions
"It is a sad fact that this disease has been around for a whole year with millions dead and tens of millions hospitalized worldwide, and we haven't addressed one of the major ways of preventing such severe outcomes," senior author Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, told Medscape Medical News.
"We are closing businesses and stopping people from seeing their loved ones, but we are not telling them to lose weight and do some exercise. We should be focusing public health messages on reducing diabetes and obesity as a means to reducing severe COVID disease," he said.
The entire article if you can't log in.
"The majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States are attributable to four preexisting cardiometabolic conditions, a new study suggests.
The authors estimate that among the 906,849 total COVID-19 hospitalizations that had occurred among US adults as of November 2020, 30% were attributable to obesity; 26% to hypertension; 21% to diabetes; and 12% to heart failure.
From the data, the investigators estimate that almost two thirds (63.5%) of the hospitalizations were attributable to these cardiometabolic conditions and that those hospitalizations would have been preventable had those conditions not been present.
They estimate that a 10% reduction in these four cardiometabolic conditions would potentially have prevented 11.1% of COVID-19 hospitalizations.
The authors believe more should be done to promote healthy lifestyle measures to improve overall cardiometabolic health and potentially minimize the risk for severe COVID-19.
Dr Dariush Mozaffarian
"It is a sad fact that this disease has been around for a whole year with millions dead and tens of millions hospitalized worldwide, and we haven't addressed one of the major ways of preventing such severe outcomes," senior author Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, told Medscape Medical News.
"We are closing businesses and stopping people from seeing their loved ones, but we are not telling them to lose weight and do some exercise. We should be focusing public health messages on reducing diabetes and obesity as a means to reducing severe COVID disease," he said.
Mozaffarian, who is a cardiologist and dean of the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, added: "If individuals exercised a little more and ate a bit more healthily, we would see improvements in diabetes and hypertension in just a few weeks. We should be shouting this from the rooftops, along with the messages to wash hands, social distance, and wear masks."
The study was published online on February 25 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
For their study, the researchers employed a mathematical simulation to estimate the number and proportion of national COVID-19 hospitalizations that could have been prevented had Americans not suffered from four major cardiometabolic conditions.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's COVID-NET system and from the COVID Tracking Project were used to estimate COVID-19 hospitalizations by population subgroup. The data on the national distribution of the four conditions came from the most recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
The model indicated that age and race/ethnicity were associated with disparities in COVID-19 hospitalizations as a result of these four conditions. For example, about 8% of COVID-19 hospitalizations among adults younger than 50 years were estimated to be due to diabetes, compared to about 29% of COVID-19 hospitalizations among those aged 65 and older. Obesity had an equally detrimental impact on COVID-19 hospitalizations across age groups.
At any age, COVID-19 hospitalizations attributable to all four conditions were higher in Black individuals than in White individuals and were generally higher with regard to diabetes and obesity among Hispanic persons than among White persons.
For example, for persons aged 65 and older, diabetes was estimated to cause about 25% of COVID-19 hospitalizations among White individuals, about 32% among Black individuals, and about 34% among Hispanic persons.
When the four conditions were considered together, the proportion of attributable hospitalizations was highest for Black adults of all ages, followed by Hispanics. For example, among adults aged 18 to 49 years, the four conditions jointly were estimated to cause about 39% of COVID-19 hospitalizations among White persons and 50% among Black persons.
"National data show that Black and Hispanic Americans are suffering the worst outcomes from COVID-19. Our findings lend support to the need for prioritizing vaccine distribution, good nutrition, and other preventive measures to people with cardiometabolic conditions, particularly among groups most affected by health disparities," Mozaffarian said.
"Policies aimed at reducing the prevalence of these four cardiometabolic conditions among Black and Hispanic Americans must be part of any state or national policy discussion aimed at reducing health disparities from COVID-19," he said.
Mozaffarian pointed out that the study used an established analytic modeling approach but that the results are estimates and do not prove cause and effect.
"Association does not equal causation, and our modelling approach does not prove that improvements in cardiometabolic health will reduce the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization. However, the magnitude of our simulated findings supports the need for interventional studies to test this possibility," the researchers state.
Still, Mozaffarian believes the results do reflect cause and effect.
"These conditions are very strongly related to severe COVID infection. We adjusted for age, sex, and other medical conditions, and we still found these four cardiometabolic conditions to be independently associated with COVID hospitalization," he noted. "This is not just a respiratory virus. It causes widespread vascular inflammation, which is consistent with these cardiometabolic conditions. If these conditions weren't there, COVID would be less severe," he commented.
"But even if our 64% estimate is off by half ― which I don't believe it is ― that would still be one third of severe cases caused by four cardiometabolic diseases that can be prevented. These are huge numbers."
COVID-19 is a fast pandemic on top of the slow pandemic of obesity and diabetes.
Mozaffarian stressed the need for the public to understand the importance of good nutrition. "This is the foundation to heath. Poor nutrition is the single biggest contributor to disease globally, and it is also contributing to COVID situation," he said. "COVID-19 is a fast pandemic on top of the slow pandemic of obesity and diabetes."
Commenting on the study for Medscape Medical News, George L. Bakris, MD, professor of medicine and director of the American Heart Association Comprehensive Hypertension Center at the University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, said the data were consistent with observations that older people, especially those with diabetes, heart disease, and pulmonary disease, are at higher risk for more severe disease manifestations of COVID-19.
But he noted that on the basis of many epidemiologic substudies, hypertension alone, in the absence of heart disease, lung disease, or diabetes, has not been implicated as a factor in the severity of COVID.
"The government has previously had campaigns encouraging exercise and weight loss, and all the programs available to help facilitate this have not helped. The concept of cognitive dissonance is applicable. While people are aware of the risks, they have great difficulty changing behavior," Bakris added
Acknowledging the difficulty in persuading people to change their habits, Mozaffarian points out that the COVID pandemic is an exceptional event and has caused the vast majority of people to change their behavior.
"People would also make changes to their diet and exercise habits if they were given a clear message that this could reduce their risk of a severe COVID outcome," he said.
He urges the major stakeholders ― governments, cardiovascular societies, and businesses ― to deliver that message.
"Every single day, we should be hearing advice to eat more vegetables and fewer chips, sodas, and processed foods and walk a bit more," he said. "This could have a massive effect on COVID disease outcomes and on overall public health."
The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Mozaffarian has received research funding from the Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation; personal fees from the Global Organization for EPA & DHA omega-3s (GOED), Barilla, Bunge, Indigo Agriculture, Motif FoodWorks, Amarin, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and America's Test Kitchen (modest), and Acasti Pharma and Danone (significant)."
"It is a sad fact that this disease has been around for a whole year with millions dead and tens of millions hospitalized worldwide, and we haven't addressed one of the major ways of preventing such severe outcomes," senior author Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, told Medscape Medical News.
"We are closing businesses and stopping people from seeing their loved ones, but we are not telling them to lose weight and do some exercise. We should be focusing public health messages on reducing diabetes and obesity as a means to reducing severe COVID disease," he said.
The entire article if you can't log in.
"The majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States are attributable to four preexisting cardiometabolic conditions, a new study suggests.
The authors estimate that among the 906,849 total COVID-19 hospitalizations that had occurred among US adults as of November 2020, 30% were attributable to obesity; 26% to hypertension; 21% to diabetes; and 12% to heart failure.
From the data, the investigators estimate that almost two thirds (63.5%) of the hospitalizations were attributable to these cardiometabolic conditions and that those hospitalizations would have been preventable had those conditions not been present.
They estimate that a 10% reduction in these four cardiometabolic conditions would potentially have prevented 11.1% of COVID-19 hospitalizations.
The authors believe more should be done to promote healthy lifestyle measures to improve overall cardiometabolic health and potentially minimize the risk for severe COVID-19.
Dr Dariush Mozaffarian
"It is a sad fact that this disease has been around for a whole year with millions dead and tens of millions hospitalized worldwide, and we haven't addressed one of the major ways of preventing such severe outcomes," senior author Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, told Medscape Medical News.
"We are closing businesses and stopping people from seeing their loved ones, but we are not telling them to lose weight and do some exercise. We should be focusing public health messages on reducing diabetes and obesity as a means to reducing severe COVID disease," he said.
Mozaffarian, who is a cardiologist and dean of the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, added: "If individuals exercised a little more and ate a bit more healthily, we would see improvements in diabetes and hypertension in just a few weeks. We should be shouting this from the rooftops, along with the messages to wash hands, social distance, and wear masks."
The study was published online on February 25 in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
For their study, the researchers employed a mathematical simulation to estimate the number and proportion of national COVID-19 hospitalizations that could have been prevented had Americans not suffered from four major cardiometabolic conditions.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's COVID-NET system and from the COVID Tracking Project were used to estimate COVID-19 hospitalizations by population subgroup. The data on the national distribution of the four conditions came from the most recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
The model indicated that age and race/ethnicity were associated with disparities in COVID-19 hospitalizations as a result of these four conditions. For example, about 8% of COVID-19 hospitalizations among adults younger than 50 years were estimated to be due to diabetes, compared to about 29% of COVID-19 hospitalizations among those aged 65 and older. Obesity had an equally detrimental impact on COVID-19 hospitalizations across age groups.
At any age, COVID-19 hospitalizations attributable to all four conditions were higher in Black individuals than in White individuals and were generally higher with regard to diabetes and obesity among Hispanic persons than among White persons.
For example, for persons aged 65 and older, diabetes was estimated to cause about 25% of COVID-19 hospitalizations among White individuals, about 32% among Black individuals, and about 34% among Hispanic persons.
When the four conditions were considered together, the proportion of attributable hospitalizations was highest for Black adults of all ages, followed by Hispanics. For example, among adults aged 18 to 49 years, the four conditions jointly were estimated to cause about 39% of COVID-19 hospitalizations among White persons and 50% among Black persons.
"National data show that Black and Hispanic Americans are suffering the worst outcomes from COVID-19. Our findings lend support to the need for prioritizing vaccine distribution, good nutrition, and other preventive measures to people with cardiometabolic conditions, particularly among groups most affected by health disparities," Mozaffarian said.
"Policies aimed at reducing the prevalence of these four cardiometabolic conditions among Black and Hispanic Americans must be part of any state or national policy discussion aimed at reducing health disparities from COVID-19," he said.
Mozaffarian pointed out that the study used an established analytic modeling approach but that the results are estimates and do not prove cause and effect.
"Association does not equal causation, and our modelling approach does not prove that improvements in cardiometabolic health will reduce the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization. However, the magnitude of our simulated findings supports the need for interventional studies to test this possibility," the researchers state.
Still, Mozaffarian believes the results do reflect cause and effect.
"These conditions are very strongly related to severe COVID infection. We adjusted for age, sex, and other medical conditions, and we still found these four cardiometabolic conditions to be independently associated with COVID hospitalization," he noted. "This is not just a respiratory virus. It causes widespread vascular inflammation, which is consistent with these cardiometabolic conditions. If these conditions weren't there, COVID would be less severe," he commented.
"But even if our 64% estimate is off by half ― which I don't believe it is ― that would still be one third of severe cases caused by four cardiometabolic diseases that can be prevented. These are huge numbers."
COVID-19 is a fast pandemic on top of the slow pandemic of obesity and diabetes.
Mozaffarian stressed the need for the public to understand the importance of good nutrition. "This is the foundation to heath. Poor nutrition is the single biggest contributor to disease globally, and it is also contributing to COVID situation," he said. "COVID-19 is a fast pandemic on top of the slow pandemic of obesity and diabetes."
Commenting on the study for Medscape Medical News, George L. Bakris, MD, professor of medicine and director of the American Heart Association Comprehensive Hypertension Center at the University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, said the data were consistent with observations that older people, especially those with diabetes, heart disease, and pulmonary disease, are at higher risk for more severe disease manifestations of COVID-19.
But he noted that on the basis of many epidemiologic substudies, hypertension alone, in the absence of heart disease, lung disease, or diabetes, has not been implicated as a factor in the severity of COVID.
"The government has previously had campaigns encouraging exercise and weight loss, and all the programs available to help facilitate this have not helped. The concept of cognitive dissonance is applicable. While people are aware of the risks, they have great difficulty changing behavior," Bakris added
Acknowledging the difficulty in persuading people to change their habits, Mozaffarian points out that the COVID pandemic is an exceptional event and has caused the vast majority of people to change their behavior.
"People would also make changes to their diet and exercise habits if they were given a clear message that this could reduce their risk of a severe COVID outcome," he said.
He urges the major stakeholders ― governments, cardiovascular societies, and businesses ― to deliver that message.
"Every single day, we should be hearing advice to eat more vegetables and fewer chips, sodas, and processed foods and walk a bit more," he said. "This could have a massive effect on COVID disease outcomes and on overall public health."
The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Mozaffarian has received research funding from the Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation; personal fees from the Global Organization for EPA & DHA omega-3s (GOED), Barilla, Bunge, Indigo Agriculture, Motif FoodWorks, Amarin, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and America's Test Kitchen (modest), and Acasti Pharma and Danone (significant)."
toppop52
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Buppies, hang in there.
I got the regulator installed and the heater tested, the igniter works sporadically, I just use a hand held utility lighter, no big deal. After I had the heater going good I realized the blower wasn’t working. I tapped it lightly, read WHAM WHAM WHAM, with a leather mallet. It started to run slow then stopped, then started, eventually got up to speed and was working fine and obeying the thermostat.
Got to 54 today, big rains coming this weekend, but warmer as well.
Lowe’s sent me a credit card today with a 20% off on purchases up to the first thousand dollars. So I activated it as we are getting ready to start two projects when the weather is a bit warmer, and I pay it off to avoid interest, I’ll take the two hundred bucks.
I already had an HD and Ace card, hardly ever use them.
I got the regulator installed and the heater tested, the igniter works sporadically, I just use a hand held utility lighter, no big deal. After I had the heater going good I realized the blower wasn’t working. I tapped it lightly, read WHAM WHAM WHAM, with a leather mallet. It started to run slow then stopped, then started, eventually got up to speed and was working fine and obeying the thermostat.
Got to 54 today, big rains coming this weekend, but warmer as well.
Lowe’s sent me a credit card today with a 20% off on purchases up to the first thousand dollars. So I activated it as we are getting ready to start two projects when the weather is a bit warmer, and I pay it off to avoid interest, I’ll take the two hundred bucks.
I already had an HD and Ace card, hardly ever use them.