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20 hours ago, GT6 Nick said:
What do I have to drink to get Vitamin D?
cod liver oil.
gelcapsules are the usual source for heliophobes.
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I can do eclectic effects. How about hundreds fo reports of car headlights being dimmed and/or extinguished in proximity to UFO phenomena. They come back on when the UFO goes away. https://www.amazon.co.uk/BUFORA-Vehicle-Interference-Geoff-Falla-ebook/dp/B00D47QGT0 Yet drivers are unaffected either inside or outside car, usually. I am looking for explanations..........
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1 hour ago, PeteStupps said:
Well that's something I've never come across before. Fascinating - I imagine it would be quite an eerie experience if the noise comes from your own hair! (as suggested in the Nature article).
It was a calm evening and no noises around at all, we are fairly remote. We both thought the sound came from the hedge ca 4 metres away, which was parallel to the meteor. Neither of us had long hair, but the wig idea in the paper is worth exploring to improve the signal...maybe. We were not anticipating hearing the hiss, the Nature paper came out later. The hiss was not loud, near the limit of our (aged) hearing, but loud enough for me to ask "did you hear that?". Nor was it an especially bright meteor,nor unuusally long-lived. It certainly adds interest to meteor watching.
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7 hours ago, JohnD said:
PS Please note, at no extra charge, the InterClub Triumph Committee has arranged for a specatacular light show this year.
The annual Perseid Meteor shower is due to peak on Friday night! At least 150 meteors an hour! They seem to originate in the constellation of Perseus, but can be see in any part of the sky. There's no Moon up in the night sky to outshine them, but you will need to stay up late or get up very early to see them at their best. No problem for celebrating Triumpheroes!
Tks for the alert John. We heard a meteor a few years back. As they burn up 60 miles high the sound should arrive 4 minutes later. But we both heard a simultaneous "hiss". The explanation was light from the meteor hit leaves on a laurel hedge close to us, and the photo-acoustic effect converted light to sound. Not many hedges at Malvern though, and ambient noise could easily drown the hiss.
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep41251?WT.feed_name=subjects_astronomy-and-astrophysics
Peter
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D3 has actions that include anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial and improve surgical wound healing. Being deficient is not a good idea.
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32 minutes ago, GT6 Nick said:
A quick update. I visited a urologist on Monday. To my surprise he didn't think it was malignant, or that scans or a biopsy were necessary, and moved straight to doing a TURP - where they remove the centre of the prostate via a keyhole. The existing keyhole... He referred to the procedure as a 'rebore'
Ouch.
It'll get done on August 30th, and because the hospital won't release surgical patients without carers, I've booked myself into an outpatient accommodation unit on the hospital grounds for a few days afterwards. Then it'll be back to the mine site on light duties. The material removed will go to the lab to check whether it's benign. If not, that'll mean a bigger op.
Now, fingers crossed that the Melbourne-Sydney-Brisbane lockdown doesn't extend this far north by the end of the month!
Nick, There is a lot of evidence that Benign Prostate Hyperplasia is associated with low vitaminD status, going back a decade or more. Here is a recent trial
Best wishes
Peter
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The mixture is not proportional to annulus area, and it will also richen disproportionately as the needle lifts out of the jet. Also once the butterflies are more than 30deg open pulses of pressure from iv valve operation can reach the jet and richen the mixture. This effect is useful to know; tune the mixture when running at <30deg butterfly and it will richen more at full throttle, which is desirable. Your steady 60 mph probably meets the <30 deg condition. The pulsing action is partly dissipated by the balance pipes on the manifold, so to make full-load mix richer they can be eliminated (but this is not widely known).
SU theory is here:https://supertrarged.wordpress.com/2017/07/10/how-does-an-su-carburettor-work/
Peter
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Tks John, We had been trying to find that. Not that we are grimpers. Peter
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Yesterdays Mini-dodgems race at Oulton had two separate rolling collisions with the barrier, one airborne and heading for a marshals' post. However the F4 race was boring to watch by comparison, processional.
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Severe calory restriction can influence the health of offspring and grand-offspring, the influence being through epigenomic modification of DNA in gametes. This almost Lamarkian form of inheritance was discovered in Sweden
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Curious, although we do know Oxygen is dangerous stuff. We have many defensive anti-oxidant pathways that reduce "oxidative stress". Glutathione is a major player and its actions are promoted by .... D3, as are other anti-oxidant pathways. Living at altitude leads to much better D3 status owing to the high UVB levels, and D3 also promotes hundreds of genes with a broad defensive function. Disentangling D3 effects from hypoxia effects will be a challenge, ( I do wonder how much of the benefits of hypoxia would be diminished if subjects such as those athletes living in 7%O2 had physiological D3.) And how has hypoxi responses evolved? I want to know how ancient the hypoxia-iducible genes are, as our ancestors in equatorial Africa were not living up mountains. If hypoxia pathways predate primate evolution, where in evolution was high-altitude mammalian life important? I suspect nowhere, and that hypoxia-induced pathways evolved in response to local, tissue-level hypoxia not environmental hypoxia. And that begs the question, how did erythropoeitn evolve ? The Nobels for the HIF genes will stimulate an explosion of hypoxia research so answers, or more likely a profusion of more questions, will follow. Peter
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When vax-resisting strains appear in UK the question will be posed is "how many C-19 deaths are acceptable ?" Flu kills 20-30,000 each winter, mostly elderly. So we might see 30,000 deahts from C-19 as being touted by politicians as a target. But flu does not cause Long Covid, and that might be worse with new variants, or not. AFAIK there is no information ( yet) on the effects of D3 on Long Covid.
As summer heat and sunshine raise the nations D3 levels there is a risk that SAGE think the vax are working better than actuality. This winter the decline in D3 may suddenly reveal that new variants are more dangerous even in the double-jabbed. D3-promoted innate immunity acts against all variants, and flu and 'colds'. We are along way from seeing-off the pandemic.
Peter
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Sheep..... lanolin............feedstock for D3 production.
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Jumping into cold water can induce an involuntary inhalation of.... water. Wales has many deep, cold reservoirs and lakes with warning notices, but such drownings recur each hot summer. Peter
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But we had no vaccines in summer 2020 and infections ( "cases" defined by PCR) were much lower then than now. If the soaring cases now are due to more mixing witout masks etc then we are in for a rough winter, and the large numbers infected increase te chance of yet more variants arising. So I hope the soaring cases reflect false positives resulting from vaccines interfering with the PCR. If the primers used in the PCR test are cognate with the spike sequences used in the vaccines, it would need only a few B-cells expressing spike sequences in the tonsil swab to give a false PCR result. The devil is in the details of the PCR protocol. Peter
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The delta variant is ca 50% more infectious than last summer's Kent, but the soaring numbers of PCR+ves this summer are waaaaay more than last summer's. Something odd is going on, the vaccines should have reduced transmission. Hospitalisations and deaths are similar to last summer, its the "cases" determined by PCR that are anomalous.
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Cases soaring in mid-summer did not happen last year, despite absence of vaccines. Strange. It might be that 'everyone' now thinks it is now safe to mingle, but mingling outdoors was supposed -last summer - to be relatively safe ( supposedly the virus was killed by sunlight or flushed away by open windows). Cases soaring now is really odd. Is it possible that the rtPCR tests used to define a case are somehow delivering false positives from the vaccinated ? If the present case numbers are an accurate measure of live virus then the prospects for the young un-vaccinated look dire. I am hoping that false positives are in play, despite the implication for test-and-trace. If the soaring cases are real it does nor bear thinking about the coming winter
If case numbers do not fall in response to a sunny summer then that might be a clue to false positives. D3 worked last summer.
Peter
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No wonder the internet is helping cook the planet if everyone is ditching broadcast for on-line.
Mind you, I'd do the same if it were not for absence of fibre out here.
Peter
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Had that for several days. "Benign paroxysmal vertigo". Inner ear, semicurcular canal(s) misbehaving.
Most unpleasant, but not a sign of anything nasty it seems. And rather common.
Peter
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Fake a positive test and bunk off school with your mates:
Peter
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My Win7 doesn't appear to have broken, despite dire warnings from MS.
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Not too bad here in mid-N Wales, its not been too wet or too hot, about right for me.
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John, Ah, yes. I thought it was a concern about loss of council tax receipts from empty premises. Peter
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10 hours ago, RogerH said:
Not just car wash. here in West London near Heathrow. We have a shop lay out system where you will have 3,4 or 5 green grocers next to each other with not many custiers in any of them.
Then you have the barber shops - 3,4 or 5 in a row
There can;t be any profit as there are few customers.
What else are they doing to make ends meet.
About 5 years ago we had a monster great super market - had a shop front of about 50 meters. Wet fish, green grocery, normal groceries, butcher (halal) - everything in one shop. except no customers. After the first year the butcher went. The second year the fish scarpered.
The shop front is now down to about 10 meters. But still no customers of any number. How do they stay on the high street.
How much am I (me) paying them to be there.
Roger
Roger, Its not only your HIgh Street, they are becoming ghosts everywhere, cant compete with park-and-shop of the supermarkets. I havent shopped for food on a high street for many years, except for one excellent butcher and that shop was right next to a big car park. And with shielding from C-19 we have embraced on-line grocery shopping. And Amazon for most other items. Tough on high street retailers, they are left with the car-less young and a few digitally incommunicative elderly folk. As controls on air pollution restrict car access to towns the supermarkets out of town will take even more business. And the High Streets become dwellings. Urban planning......turned inside out. Peter
Guy Martin and Electric cars
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He highlighted the lack of gubbins for charging, and its high cost (£100 over cost of diesel for the JOG trip).
The supply side is the Achilles heel: It needed 0.35MW to fast charge the Hyundai in 20 mins. A 3MWic on-shore wind turbine averages ca 1MW output year-round. So one £3 miilion wind mill can feed 3 cars at once, 9 per hour or ca 200 daily. If a re-charge lasts one week then that windmill can only support 1400 cars and nothing else. There are 20 million private cars, so we will need ca 1,200 windmills of 3MWic just to "green" car power. And then there's domestic heating, industry, trucks....... And everything comes to a halt when the wind dont blow.
Peter