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RE: Seven States to Ban the Sale of Gas Powered Cars in 2035
Got it
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BCSnob
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03/17/23 01:00pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Seven States to Ban the Sale of Gas Powered Cars in 2035
U Haul registers all their trucks in AZ (look it up). How does the lack of U Haul trucks in CA relate to CA regs on registrations?
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BCSnob
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03/17/23 12:34pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: New Working LGDs
Mar 15 7pm est
83 lambs from 43 ewes (out of 66 bred ewes)
First set of quads in our 23 years of breeding sheep
Today was a slow day, so far, only a set of triplets
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BCSnob
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03/15/23 05:12pm |
RV Pet Stop
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RE: New Working LGDs
First off:
59 lambs born in 1 week from 32 of the 66 bred ewes (as of Sunday night).
A typical day involves ~5miles of walking with 500'-600' of elevation gain on our hilly farm. Cleaning out lambing pens and rebedding them. Filling water buckets. Filling hay racks. Trimming hooves, vaccinating, and deworming on new mothers. Ear tagging and recording info on new lambs. Letting out ewe&lambs that look good to free up space for new mothers and lambs.
Just got a txt from my wife. This morning there were 7 new lambs from 4 mothers and the lambs were all mixed up.
Penny has been a doing puppy stuff, nothing unusual. However, for the safety of the very young lambs we’ve been keeping Penny physically separated from the lambs (until they are bigger).
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BCSnob
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03/13/23 07:51am |
RV Pet Stop
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RE: 2019–2022 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC POSTINGS
The above study is the first and only one I’ve seen testing expired test kits
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BCSnob
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03/11/23 05:03am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: 2019–2022 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC POSTINGS
Canada is no longer shipping test kits as the ones out in the community are aging out.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/ottawa-ends-shipments-of-rapid-covid-19-tests-as-millions-set-to-expire-1.6295591
Assessment of the Performance of Expired and Unexpired BinaxNOW COVID Rapid Antigen Test Kits Using Positive and Negative Controls
MedRxiv Preprint March 09, 2023
The results showed that there was no change in the sensitivity and specificity of BinaxNOW COVID rapid antigen test kits four months beyond the manufacturer-extended expiration date when using manufacturer-provided positive controls.
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BCSnob
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03/10/23 12:56pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: 2019–2022 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC POSTINGS
I wish someone would develop a saliva home antibody titer test that could be used to determine when a booster is needed.
Persistence of serum and saliva antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 spike antigens in COVID-19 patients
SCIENCE IMMUNOLOGY 8 Oct 2020 Vol 5, Issue 52
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BCSnob
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03/09/23 08:32am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: 2019–2022 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC POSTINGS
Claims that face masks are ineffective at reducing the spread of COVID-19 based on a Cochrane review didn’t take into account the limitations of the review.
Link
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BCSnob
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03/09/23 06:53am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: 2019–2022 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC POSTINGS
The popular press and general public lost interest; scientists and funding organizations have not.
Google search for: “mRNA clinical trials” returned these and many more. The lancet article has a list of ongoing trials.
https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/features/mrna-vaccine-trials-to-watch/
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(22)00372-2/fulltext
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/nih-launches-clinical-trial-three-mrna-hiv-vaccines
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63959843.amp
https://www.mskcc.org/news/can-mrna-vaccines-fight-pancreatic-cancer-msk-clinical-researchers-are-trying-find-out
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/05/1066274/whats-next-mrna-vaccines/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_YWJyqfK_QIVvsmUCR11cg3iEAAYAiAAEgLYl_D_BwE
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BCSnob
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03/07/23 10:14am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: New Working LGDs
Good point
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BCSnob
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03/06/23 11:19am |
RV Pet Stop
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RE: New Working LGDs
my choice would be to administer preventative medications everywhere in the US.
Doug, DVMThis would be my recommendation as well, especially compared to the treatment protocol if your dog gets heartworms. Also keep in mind an infected dog is now a reservoir of heartworms for local mosquitoes to draw from and inject into other local dogs. Part of the treatment protocol is the use of topical mosquito repellent.
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BCSnob
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03/06/23 06:34am |
RV Pet Stop
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RE: New Working LGDs
The treatment protocol covers 1 year; ~6 months of restricted activity (ideally crated and leash walked). For a dog that has never lived in a house it is not possible to keep him calm while crated or even in the house at night (LGDs do most of their work at night). We’ve come up with a compromise plan (after consultation with Dr Doug and our friend who is a Vet). We will keep Duke in the house during the day to facilitate giving meds and monitoring his health during treatment; he will be locked in the barnyard with the sheep at night (limiting his desire and ability to patrol) and Penny (1 yo Anatolian) will be locked out of the barnyard at night to patrol the field (and not able to play with Duke). We have determined a dose of anti anxiety meds that will allow Duke to tolerate being housed at night during the critical times right after treatment with adulticide for the worms.
Since Penny is not old/mature enough to have gone through lambing she will be kept away from the lambs at night and will be pulling a drag (something to slow her down but not prevent her from patrolling) during the day while with the ewes and lambs in the field.
The first possible day for lambs is Friday Mar 3. Last week we found a ewe cast (upside down unable to get up) in the morning that we thought was dead. She had started to bloat from being cast. We managed to save her and since then have had 4 more ewes go down in health which we now believe is due to hypocalcemia (low calcium). The ewes go from looking weak, to unable to stand, to lying flat with labored breathing. SubQ injections of calcium gluconate restore them within 30min to where they can stand. One of the sick ewes did abort a set of twins; I found her in the field with the head of a dead lamb sticking out of her. We had to pull both lambs out of her because she wasn’t having strong enough contractions.
Added: I forgot about the ewe that prolapsed before all the issues with hypocalcemia; she died a few days after we put everything back inside her.
The hypocalcemia is likely the consequence of adding grain to their diet too late/slowly. Last year we started late and increased their rations too quickly leading to many having bloat and a few died from it.
Probably TMI, but you asked.
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BCSnob
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03/02/23 10:20am |
RV Pet Stop
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RE: 5% tipping point
’…I was not calling either of them out personally, but rather the institutional complicity via Grant monies - in truth, perhaps I was a bit harsh (??)..l accept my admonishment while also respecting the Moderator’s position…(not an easy job!)…Nuff said…
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As someone who’s doctoral research was funded by the DOE and published in a peer reviewed journal and post doctoral research was funded by the NIH and published in a peer reviewed journal; how was I to take your unsupported accusation that 50% of govt funded published studies are fraudulent?
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BCSnob
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02/27/23 01:03pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
Yep, I have and there are studies that demonstrate it (reduced the risk of getting Covid-19). The devil is always in the details of the study which the popular press & social media (and general public) tend to ignore In the case of masks it’s in the compliance of use and effectiveness relative to no mask use. One has to read the experimental details.
https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/multiple-studies-show-face-masks-reduce-spread-of-covid-19-cochrane-review-doesnt-demonstrate-otherwise/
Mask mandates have proven to be about as effective as speed limits.
Much like the general public expects vaccines to be 100% effective (no such vaccine).
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BCSnob
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02/20/23 07:18pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
I have posted links to studies (not opinions websites; peer reviewed studies) which you have implied are fraudulent. Where’s your evidence refuting these studies as fraudulent; where’s your links to published studies supporting your opinion?
Let’s see if I can summarize your stance.
This is my opinion on climate change, you cannot refute my opinion with peer reviewed studies on climate change because of this example of a fraudulent study from a national institute of health grant, and until you refute my opinion with studies I won’t provide studies to back up my opinion.
With this “logic” you clearly win.
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BCSnob
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02/20/23 06:11pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
Debating tactics are trumped by data in published studies. Care to provide any?
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BCSnob
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02/20/23 04:41pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
and for providing a mere glimpse into the research fraud estimated at about 50% of so-called ‘white papers’ (often funded by the obscene amounts of highly politicized Gov’t Grant ‘moola for evidence’) and the world of those who are Smart by about 1/2, actively bordering on a University kleptocracy…
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/25/706604033/duke-whistleblower-gets-more-than-33-million-in-research-fraud-settlement
Let me guess, those studies which support your point of view are valid and those that don’t must be fraudulent.
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BCSnob
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02/20/23 04:12pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
Recent leveling off of vegetation greenness and primary production reveals the increasing soil water limitations on the greening EarthScience Bulletin
Volume 66, Issue 14, 30 July 2021, Pages 1462-1471
Abstract
Global vegetation photosynthesis and productivity have increased substantially since the 1980s, but this trend is heterogeneous in both time and space. Here, we categorize the secular trend in global vegetation greenness into sustained greening, sustained browning and greening-to-browning. We found that by 2016, increased global vegetation greenness had begun to level off, with the area of browning increasing in the last decade, reaching 39.0 million km2 (35.9% of the world’s vegetated area). This area is larger than the area with sustained increasing growth (27.8 million km2, 26.4%); thus, 12.0% ± 3.1% (0.019 ± 0.004 NDVI a-1) of the previous earlier increase has been offset since 2010 (2010–2016, P < 0.05). Global gross primary production also leveled off, following the trend in vegetation greenness in time and space. This leveling off was caused by increasing soil water limitations due to the spatial expansion of drought, whose impact dominated over the impacts of temperature and solar radiation. This response of global gross primary production to soil water limitation was not identified by land submodels within Earth system models. Our results provide empirical evidence that global vegetation greenness and primary production are offset by water stress and suggest that as global warming continues, land submodels may overestimate the world’s capacity to take up carbon with global vegetation greening.
Perhaps the concept of indefinite greening with increasing CO2 levels, while an appealing counter argument for controlling CO2, is too simplistic for a very complex global ecosystem. There are several other recently published studies that measured vegetation browning in rainforests with increasing CO2 while there was greening in semi-arid regions. I suggest you investigate scientific concepts using google scholar (peer reviewed scientific studies) instead of google.
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BCSnob
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02/20/23 06:36am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Cure for depresion
First off correlation does not prove causation; just because there is a correlation between a diet and the prevalence of depression does not prove the diet caused depression. It only indicates both occur together. Perhaps depression causes someone to look for a change in diet to relieve the depression; or something else is causing both the depression and the desire to abstain from meat. Or they are unrelated.
Curious why the correlation between depression and diet became the focus since there is also a stated correlation to financial success, running, gender, low blood iron (can be caused by other than diet), perhaps age.
Meat and mental health: A meta-analysis of meat consumption, depression, and anxiety
Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
Conclusion
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to extend our previous systematic review (Dobersek et al. Citation2020) and provide quantitative evidence to inform clinicians, policy-makers, and future research. Our results show that meat abstention (vegetarianism or veganism) is clearly associated with poorer mental health, specifically higher levels of both depression and anxiety. Our cumulative analyses suggest that the more rigorous the study, the stronger the relation between meat abstention and mental illness. However, the current body of evidence preludes temporal and causal inferences, and none should be inferred.
This study suggests, previous studies finding a correlation between depression and diet may not properly grouped the subjects in the association studies.
The link between vegetarian diet and depression might be explained by depression among meat-reducers
Food Quality and Preference
Volume 102, December 2022, 104679
Abstract
Recent studies have reported an association between vegetarian diet and depression, although results have been inconsistent. This effect has most often been attributed to nutritional deficits among vegetarians. An alternative possibility is that individuals who are trying to reduce their meat intake experience cognitive dissonance related to enjoying meat on the one hand and being aware of the ethical problems with eating animals on the other. The tendency to include such individuals in vegetarian samples in previous research could explain recently reported effects. The goal of this study was to compare depression in meat-eaters, meat-reducers, and vegetarian/vegans in terms of depression to test this hypothesis. I compared depression scores across three measures in two large North American community samples between meat-eaters, meat-reducers, and vegetarian/vegans. Meat-reducers had higher depression scores than either meat-eaters or vegetarian/vegans. This finding suggests a novel explanation for previous findings and orients this field towards somewhat new questions and research directions.
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BCSnob
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02/18/23 09:51am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Can the grid keep up with EV use?
Potomac Edison Completes First Battery Storage Project to Support EV Charging and Ease Demand on Grid Link
Perhaps power companies are already planning on how they will meet the increasing demands of charging EVs.
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BCSnob
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02/17/23 08:15am |
Around the Campfire
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