January 13, 2013

Duct Tape...that is it....

What more do you want??????????????????????????

January 12, 2013

Unusual Hobbies? This is one of mine..

I reuse old calendars....I started collecting them to learn photograpy..You know the nature pics, rainbows, sunsets, on the trail, lighthouses etc..I guess I never threw them out..In case you are wondering...............

for 2013, You can use..1985, 1991 or 2002..
If the year is not printed on each month..no one will know the difference..thank you..

January 12, 2013

Another Joke..A Native American woman gets a ride in the desert..

A saleswoman is driving towards home in Minden, Nevada when she
sees an
elderly Native American woman walking on the side of the road. As the trip
had been long, hot, and quiet, she stops the car and the Indian woman
gets in.........
After a bit of small talk, the Indian woman notices a brown bag on
the front seat. "What's in the bag?" asks the Indian woman. "It's a bottle of wine.
I got it for my husband," says the saleswoman. The Indian woman is
silent for a moment, then says, ,, "Good Trade."

January 12, 2013

What People Who Live to 100 Have in Common. Yahoo News:

http://health.yahoo.net/articles/healthcare/what-people-who-live-100-have-common

What People who live to 100 have in common

Yahoo News, U.S. News and World Report


http://health.yahoo.net/articles/healthcare/what-people-who-live-100-have-common



By Emily Brandon
Fri, Jan 11, 2013

A growing number of Americans are living to age 100. Nationwide, the centenarian population has grown 65.8 percent over the past three decades, from 32,194 people who were age 100 or older in 1980 to 53,364 centenarians in 2010, according to new Census Bureau data. In contrast, the total population has increased 36.3 percent over the same time period.

Centenarians in the United States are considerably different from the overall population. Here's a look at some of the characteristics of people who live to age 100

January 11, 2013

Sitting Can Be More Dangerous than Smoking Study Shows...Daily Mail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2001824/Sitting-dangerous-smoking-study-shows.html
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By Daily Mail Reporter
UPDATED:17:20 EST, 9 June 2011

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Going to work could be more harmful than smoking, a new study shows.

That is if your job involves sitting around for long periods of time.

Research carried out by the American College of Cardiology shows that prolonged sitting is linked to increased risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer and even early death and could be just as dangerous, if not more so, than smoking.

Cardiologist Dr David Coven said: 'Smoking certainly is a major cardiovascular risk factor and sitting can be equivalent in many cases.


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The above is a more than a year old, but it is a very interesting idea...That sitting around, not moving at a computer, TV or job may injure life more than smoking...or, at least equal to smoking..I wonder if that includes hours at Democratic Underground???..

Seriously, I have looked at a number of stories about this, and clearly our sedentary life in the U.S.A. is not a good thing for all of us..And lastly, these new studies come close to proving that prolonged sitting,(more than an two or three hours, without getting up) will injure life, in spite of exercize done earlier or later. That is serious.

Here is another study...complete..where they prove it..Yes, this will take a lot of time to read..but it is the proof.
This one called, "Sitting Time and Mortality from all Causes..Cancer and Cardiovascular"..It is scientific stuff, but this one nails it, and that is where many of these ideas come from.....October 2008..and.. Med Sci Sports Exerc.2009 May; 41(5) 998-1005


http://www.kybun.com/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/Studien_PDF/ACSM_SittingTime.pdf

Katzmarzyk PT, Church TS, Craig CL, Bouchard C.....writers of above study...

another link that kinda simplifies the one above..from the National Institute of Health

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19346988

please note: the above study includes over 17,000 Canadians of all ages. That is a very large sample indeed..oh well...time to get up and walk around...Stuart G.

Here...more: Prolonged sitting can increase Type 2 diabetes risk

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2012/10/15/sit-diabetes-type-2.html

January 7, 2013

No danger people think?...boy are those people wrong...texting is very dangerous..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3521534

A post from October 2008 about an idiot who was texting while being an engineer of a commuter train....remember...
.killed 25 people..(turns out he missed 2 red lights) ...tough job..stop at red lites..so he misses two of them..
read it..It was posted here at Democratic Underground..

January 7, 2013

About.... Texting and Driving......4 Times worse than drunk driving..please ..for the New Year...

I am sure we know people who text and drive and think they can do it..Well it is much worse than drunk driving..4 times as bad.
These people know that they are ok for that moment when they take their eyes off the road, and look at that hand held phone/computer...Just for a moment...Sure..just for a moment...and whammmmmmmmmmmmmmmm you are gone..(and someone else too....................maybe you and me)
These kinds of accidents, unfortunately are greatly increasing...please help prevent accidents...please don't text and drive..and
pass this on for the New Year.......thank you.............Stuart G.

(I see them all the time..they are lost...especially at red lites,,sitting there..lost in the computer)

January 1, 2013

If the House doesn't vote on it, it is not law...JUST A DEAL...

We are over the cliff, if the House does not vote on it. A law must be voted on by House and Senate, and signed by President..
a DEAL IS JUST A DEAL ...NOT A LAW....

It ain't over ...we will see.

January 1, 2013

Senate Dems Balk At Last-Minute GOP Fiscal Cliff Demand

Source: Talking Points Memo

The parties are nearing agreement that the Bush tax rates, including on capital gains, should be locked in for income up to a minimum of $450,000. Republicans would like to kick that up to over $500,000. Democrats are also prepared to make permanent the current low estate tax, which is set to increase, and apply to much less valuable estates, in 2013.

In exchange, Democrats are asking to extend expiring unemployment benefits, and Medicare physician payments, without offsetting spending cuts.

The net effect of the measure would likely not reduce the deficit. But it would set up a spending-cut cliff early next year. And Democrats are balking. They insist that automatic spending cuts scheduled to take effect later this week be put off for longer than three months, as Republicans have offered.

And on the Senate floor Monday morning, Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, panned the deal, and argued that any deal should be cut from a post New Year’s baseline after all the Bush tax cuts have expired.


Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/12/fiscal-cliff-debt-limit-sequester-bush-tax-cuts.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

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These four paragraphs are lower in the article...So we don't really know what the final deal is..but the Republicans look like they will get their way on the estate tax...and the 450,000 number. I wonder if progressive dems will go against the deal, as the article kinda implies..
We will know in a couple of hours..or so..