I DO think we should keep researching side effects.
In the meantime, vaccinate!
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Category: health & fitness
I’m trying to escape Spring allergies
It’s not working out for me, so far.
Oregon.
I’d best keep heading south.
golfing with Ron
I quit Golf sometime during the last century. Too expensive. Too time consuming.
But when Rockin’ Ronnie got back in the game I finally brought my clubs out to the left coast. We got in 27 holes. It was fun.
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The highlight for me was a Par 3 birdie. In fact I had not even one other Par on the other 26 holes.
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Skiing Mt Washington, Vancouver Island
Though I’ve been spending a lot of time on the Island over the past few years, this was my first time skiing Mt Washington near Comox.
With only a week or so left in the season, some lifts were not running. Most of the Black Diamonds up high not available.
But if you like easy Black Diamond and Blue there are a lot of runs. I really enjoyed it.
Regular ticket price was CAD $95.00 in 2018-19. There’s a 20% discount if you buy online. … OR you can do as I did and ski half day Noon – 3:30pm at a greater discount.
NEXT season I’m going to try to stay on the hill. They have some great deals. Early April 2019, for example, it was $99 / person.
In fact I saw they’d had a $66 / person deal earlier in the season. The regular price is $133 / person.
Closest airport is Comox.
Spring skiing with Rocco
Garth had some lame excuse for missing out this day. He tumbled down a cliff. Or something. ☹️
So it was just me and Rocco enjoying the sun at Sunshine.
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retreating glaciers in Patagonia
I saw many impressive glaciers on my 2019 Patagonia trip. But was surprised to learn that this area was covered by ice 1.2 km thick 25,000 years ago.
One major study found that 90.2% of glaciers shrank between 1870 and 2011. Only 0.3% advanced.
Welfare Ranching: Subsidized Destruction of the American West
I’m definitely going to eat less beef in future. Cows are TERRIBLE for the environment.
Ranchers on BLM (Bureau of Land Management) property have 94 percent of their grazing costs covered by taxpayers. …
Ranchers leasing BLM land cost taxpayers an estimated $500 million a year (and probably much more—some say a billion dollars).
According to Stephen Nash’s Grand Canyon for Sale, about 15,000 ranchers receive a $33,000 from the federal government annually.
This windfall of this bill comes in the form of radically reduced leasing fees (that some ranchers, such as Cliven Bundy, refuse to pay altogether). The cost of grazing cattle on privately owned land in the West is $21.60. BLM ranchers pay $1.41 per animal unit month (AUM), the amount of monthly forage eaten by a cow and her calf. In essence, ranchers on BLM land have 94 percent of their grazing costs covered by taxpayers. …
These subsidies apply to only 2.7 percent of livestock producers in the United States. Six percent of beneficiaries get 66 percent of the proceeds. So, rather than these subsidies leading to cheaper meat (which might, depending on one’s economic philosophy, justify them), the program tends to benefit corporate ranchers with names such as Koch, Walmart, and Hilton. …
Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West tells the story of a vast region, sparsely populated by people but tragically battered by an activity many of us have mistakenly believed is benign.
In fact, the production of livestock is incompatible with the ecological health of much of the lands in the West.
Aridity is chief among the factors limiting compatible uses of western landscapes. Over decades, the placement of exotic, water-hogging, ill-adapted livestock on western lands has changed diverse native plant communities …
Rest in Peace John Smith
The memorial for John is being held today in Washington State.
I can’t be there.
But I’ll be thinking of him and his widow Linda. They ran NASA Gymnastics.
John was of the classiest gentlemen in Gymnastics. A quality guy.
He was not much older than me. Complications from early onset Alzheimer’s.
running stairs
It’s hot in the Middle East. So I’ve been running hotel stairs indoors in Doha.
Stairs have always been a big challenge for me. I do get a far better workout in much less time as compared with jogging.
I did Aspire Park at night too. It’s a superb running area. This would be dry, barren desert if not for Petrotoxins.
I’d read they didn’t allow men to wear shorts in this park. But in 2018 myself and most men — especially those there for fitness — were all wearing shorts.
get new glasses
I finally got around to getting my eyes checked. And I did have a new prescription.
The specs are fantastically better than those I bought only 3 years ago.
Lesson learned – get my eyes checked annually.
Rick McCharles 