Author: Tony Dalmyn
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Covid-19 #3: 2023, Omicron
Continuity This Post This post has been updated or republished periodically since January 3, 2023. It follows earlier posts: Omicron evolved Omicron, Pango lineage B.1.1.529, was discovered in South Africa and recognized as a variant of concern of Covid-19 by the WHO in November 2021. By the end of September, 2022, reports and studies of […]
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Sodium and Hypertension
Resources Wikipedia articles: Salt and sodium: Medical topics: Other resources The US Food and Drug Administation (FDA) Guidance on salt. Canada Department of Heath (Health Canada): The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines. The American Heart Association (AHA): Nutrients, Food Components The widest data is found in the US Deparment of Agriculture Agricultural […]
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Covid-19 #2: 2022, Omicron
Continuity This Post This post was written over a few months from late August 2022 to December 2022, was first published in October, and revised. It follows an earlier post, Covid-19 #1: Covid-19 wanes, Omicron Rises. Omicron evolved Omicron, Pango lineage B.1.1.529, was recognized as a variant of concern of Covid-19 by the WHO in […]
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2022 Rides
My spreadsheet for 2022 is published as a Google Sheet on my Google Drive account. Good year. I rode my Cannondale Topstone. I rode 6095.1 Km. I rode with a hernia. Medical care was slow. I made more notes of maintenance. I started lubricating the drive train with paraffin. The weather in November and December […]
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Bread Baking, 2022
Bread Machine Repair Seized up My Zojirushi Virtuoso model BB-PAC20 bread machine stopped working on June 27, 2022. The pan would not even seat on the drive connectors in the machine. One of the drive shafts was seized. The pan was already loaded with unmixed ingredients for a light rye bread. I dumped the ingredients […]
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Cancel Literature
The Book Essays None of the essays in How to Read Now (2022) appear to have been previously published in print elsewhere. Elaine Castillo is the author of the novel, published in 2018, America is Not the Heart . Author […]
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Sodium in Bread
Sodium Health Bread has some sodium without salt, but the main source of sodium is salt. Humans can taste salt but cannot know how, by taste, much salt is in their food, or how much sodium they are consuming. The reasons that have not been explained by anatomical research on the human sensory organs. (“salt […]
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Changes at CyclingTips
CyclingTips started as an online magazine (web publication in 2008; commercial web pubicastion in 2013), and remained an online service into November 2022. CyclingTips was the leading source of information on maintaining and repairing bicyles in 2020, 2021 and 2022. The Nerd Alert podcast was informative. Pocket Outdoor Media, the corporate owner of Beta, a […]
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Spoon-Fed
The book Spoon-Fed by British physician ans writer Tim Spector discusses the diets of people in developed countries. Spoon-Fed puts a great deal of information into a short book. It fails to reconcile some inconsistencies. It discusses a number of “myths” about food and nutrition. A myth is a story that many people have learned […]
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Bike Chains 4 – Lubricant prices, testing, innovation
Prices Motor Oil & Gear Oil Motor oil, the lubricating oil distilled and sold for use in 4 stroke internal combustion engines, was sold in quart containers for most of the 20th century. For decades the containers were cardboard cylinders with metal end caps. Automotive service centers, once known as garages, issued workers spouts that […]