đ Articles: Sunday 24.Mar.2024
Whig: Carpet Magic’s diminutive dynamo, 84, to retire after this year’s ‘BS’
That such energy, effort and efficiency are generated by an 84-year-old man is nothing short of incredible. And that it all springs from a jockey-sized body simply boggles the mind. On request, Tran sizes himself up. âOne and a half metres, 50 kilos,â he says smartly, the latter number likely unchanged in decades. For you folks who still think in Imperial measurements, thatâs four foot nine and 110 pounds, all tightly packed. Somewhere jockey Willie Shoemaker is smiling and saluting his fellow âlittle fellow.â
âNow coming busy, busy time for cleaning carpet,â Tran says, more as a reluctant reminder to himself.
He can take solace in this: Retirement beckons. This is Quanâs swan song, beginning and ending with the last nine months of 2024. Once that BS [busy season] is cleaned up, his 44th and final year of tireless toil â all at Carpet Magic, including the last 37 years as its owner and lone employee â will be over. Heâll hang up the hoses and brush aside the brushes. No more 15-hour workdays and seven-day-a-week work schedules. Come this time next year, Quan will have parted ways with a faithful old ally: his industrial-strength vacuum.
Whig: Kingston city council backs plan to cancel natural gas subsidy
Environmentalists welcomed Kingston city councilâs support for an Ontario Energy Boardâs plan to end subsidies for new natural gas pipelines.
Council voted in favour of a motion supporting the OEB’s decision and calling on the provincial government to end its effort to overturn it.
KitchenArm: Cloud Multigrain Bread Recipe
This recipe was carefully developed and tested at the normal room temperature 68°F - 77°F (20°C - 25°C) using Instant Dry Yeast, NOT Active Dry Yeast or Dry Yeast. Yeast is the only wildcard for a successful loaf.
It’s recommended to measure yeast by teaspoons and confirm by grams; measure flour by grams instead of by cups. If measure flour by cups, please observe these FIVE precautions: (a) Use US Standard measuring cup or the provided cup (b) Don’t use cup to scoop flour © Don’t fill cup from flour sack (d) Use a big spoon to loosen flour well, scoop flour, then loosely fill the cup (e) Level off flour at the cup top using a dinner knife.
Bread recipe with portion calculator.
Wikipedia: Start Me Up
The song has been included on every major Stones compilation album since its release, including Rewind (1971â1984), Jump Back, Forty Licks and GRRR!. Writing for AllMusic, Stewart Mason called it “the last great Rolling Stones song.” Rolling Stone magazine ranked it the 8th Best Sports Anthem.
Maybe my favourite Stones song.
ScienceAlert: Landmark Study Confirms Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is âUnambiguously Biologicalâ
In 2016, years before long COVID was a thing, the US National Institutes of Health, the largest single public funder of medical research in the world, launched a study into a long-neglected and puzzling condition: chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, or ME/CFS.
Eight years later, the results of that study are finally out. In one of the most thorough investigations to date, researchers took a deep dive into a small group of 17 people who developed ME/CFS after an infection and found distinct biological differences compared to 21 healthy controls.
âOverall, what we show is that ME/CFS is unambiguously biological, with multiple organ systems affected,â neurologist Avindra Nath, lead researcher of the study and clinical director of NIH’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), said in an interview with JAMA.
For decades, many doctors had dismissed ME/CFS as a psychosomatic condition that was âall in patientsâ headsâ. Now there is little doubt: a host of biological changes underpin ME/CFS.
This is hugely important to getting funding to search for effective treatments.
Mermaid: About Mermaid
Mermaid allows even non-programmers to easily create detailed and diagrams through the Mermaid Live Editor.
Tutorials has video tutorials.
Last Updated: 24.Mar.2024 23:59 EDT