Oct 9 2024 - How to lose belly fat

 

There are so many helpful people.  Belly fat seems to be one of our major complaints.  And how many ways can we count to reduce belly fat?  Bing offers this new breakthrough:  Japanese Insoles that Help You Lose Belly Fat How many more are there? AliExpress has the bottles of pills: Keto Capsules, Ben Fat Fat Blocker, Reduce Body Fat Slimming Cream Belly Fat For BURNER Sweat Enhancer Burning Weight Loss  Amazon has an Official Site for belly fat burning There are at least 15 products on Temu: Sauna Sweat Lifting Belly Tummy Slimmer Waist, Leg, Arm trainer Waist Trimmer Tummy Wrap Order a Size Up Trimmer for Women Temu always has big-breasted women modelling whatever it is selling.  Look at the difference between the Men's fat burning accessory and the women's version.  I guess these alternatives are more appealing than the health foundation advice.  It looks way more work than pulling two belts tight. "This bodyweight interval circuit can help reduce a beer gut, and it can also help you prevent getting one in the first place. Do these 8 exercises 30 seconds at a time with 30 seconds of rest in between. That equals 4 minutes of work and 4 minutes of rest. Do 3-5 rounds with a 2-minute rest at the end of each round. 30 seconds of work, 30 seconds of rest:  Jog in place  Push-ups  Jumping jacks  Front plank  Jog in place Squats Jumping jacks  Walking lunges" This is what gym class is like.  This explains why I go to the Y.   I would never do these exercises voluntarily on my own.  When Branden tells us to do theme, it seems fun.  I guess Branden is worth the admission.  Take a look at these pictures.  Below are three images.  The first was taken at Toronto Botanical Gardens.  The first is the original.  The next two are expanded views created through Photoshop's AI generation.  It is now part of the crop tool.  You expand the canvas and it fills in the scene with three alternatives to choose from.  What do you think?

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Pothole Karma

Somehow I cam upon this remarkable artist yesterday.   It's a good thing as a few ideas were on my mind for today's topic and I might have forgotten this.  It is too good to miss. This is Jim Bachor and here is the story:  "Around 17 years ago I learned the ancient art of the mosaic in Ravenna, Italy. The permanence of the art form is what drew me in first. Marble and glass do not fade. Mortar is mortar. An ancient mosaic looks exactly as intended by the artist who produced it over two millennia ago. What else can claim that kind of staying power? I find this idea simply amazing. Since my experience in Italy, I've devoted myself to changing people's perception of what a mosaic could be. Using the same materials, tools, and methods of the archaic craftsmen, I create mosaics that speak of modern things in an ancient voice. From junk food to coffee to breakfast cereal, my work permanently locks into mortar unexpected concepts drawn from the present." That was on a funding site named kickstarter.  He was asking for funding on kickstarter as all his work was installed - in potholes.  He has subsequently started producing pieces that can be taken home. What a lot of shows and awards.  There are lots of ice creamcicle/popsicles, dead rats, Trump, crumpled candy wrappers, roses.  And then a number of 'This is not a pothole anymore.'  He says that's probably his most popular piece. Here's a video of Jim working in the street HERE.    A story like this is wonderful - full of creativity, fun, engagement and activism.  YThere are some images off the pothole art after much driving.  It appears that one has been 'repaired' with asphalt as it disintegrates into a pothole again.   More pictures from the National Gallery.  I waited until there were some people above me so that I could some pictures of them in the water reflections.  It was a slow day, so this group was it.  Waves make the human form so intriguing.

This Week's Hostage Expression

U.S. Attorney General William Barr's Mueller Report press conference drew a lot of attention.  Why?  Because of the expression on Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's face.  It is known as the hostage expression.  Something that came to my mind was that this might be an actual state of mind as a result of having worked with the Trump administration. Here's Rod Rosenstein before:   Here he is at the press conference: Don't pictures tell a story!  He's not the first to stand behind Trump with the "hostage expression"  - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie did the same on Super Tuesday in 2016 and then went on The Tonight Show to "explain it."  I wonder who might be next. We approach Easter Sunday with its religious and secular traditions. Supposedly the Germans brought the Easter bunny to America in 1the 1700s with German immigrants in Pennsylvania.  The tradition was an egg-laying hare.  The evolution since then:  This year's White House Easter Egg Roll is on April 22nd.  There were 18,000 eggs in last year's event. Two of our water abstracts from the National Art Gallery in Ottawa.

Dec 27 - Christmas Past...Then What?

After Christmas, it is time for more humour.  Here's a site I saw when posting on Twitter for the Fantasy of Trees.  I had no idea there is a significant community contributing windshield notes left on cars.  The notes are creative and funny.  There are 2 threads in these notes.  The first is rude or profane language, and the second is passive aggressive intent.  Many have drawings that are well-done. BuzzFeed has the most diverse notes HERE. Pinterest's are HERE.   Continue on this path, and you will find you can purchase bad parking cards.  These are at wittyyeti - 18+ Bad Parking Cards, 5 designs 10 of each design (50 pack) for $15.99. Here is the product description - it follows the 2 principles:   SICK OF A**HOLES PARKING LIKE JERKS? Finally you can unleash your righteous anger with Witty Yeti’s funny parking notes. LIKE A FAKE PARKING TICKET BUT MEANER. Simply slip it under the windshield wiper, through the driver’s door window, or into the gas tank with some sugar...Editor’s Note: Definitely don’t do this. DEPUTIZE YOURSELF in the fight against bad parking. We can’t win without your help, soldier. There are people parking over the lines as we speak! SERVE THE PARKING GODS by distributing instant justice to the disrespectful idiots incapable of following the basic rules of parking lot decency. PRINTED ON THICK, CLASSY UV COATED PAPER for maximum revenge. Each pack comes with 50 cards, 10 copies of each joke. Wittyyeti is a site dedicated to these bad-language rude pranks.  Ship your friends an embarrassing box prank with names like BigAssDildos or MicroPenisCure. Prank stickers are HERE.  Everything is guaranteed rude and embarrassing. There's no need to pay for these things - especially since Christmas is now Past. Check out the free printable bad parking notes you can download at no expense.  Here is a sampling:     If you feel very strongly about bad parking and want to pursue this, the domain site name below is available for sale.  With the reach of the internet, there is so much that can be created in a day, a week, a month.  I wonder what is being created now and can entertain us by January 1st, 2019. Our image today is reflections on moving water.

Water's Words

The Autumn colours in Grimsby don't seem to be that bright.  I made a trip to Toronto on Tuesday and the colours at the Toronto Botanical Garden were splendid.  Beautiful orange and yellow maples reflected in the water of Wilket Creek. The highlight of the trip wasn't the opportunity to catch some Fall colour, but the opportunity to hear Doug Tallamy speak at the  Carolinian Canada CoalitionConference.    "Doug Tallamy is  professor and chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored eighty research articles and has taught Insect Taxonomy, Behavioral Ecology, Humans and Nature, and other courses for thirty-two years. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities. His book Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens was published by Timber Press in 2007 and was awarded the 2008 silver medal by the Garden Writer’s Association. Tallamy was awarded the Garden Club of America Margaret Douglas Medal for Conservation and the Tom Dodd Jr. Award of Excellence in 2013." A persuasive speaker gives us motivation through facts and data.  The most compelling statistic was that Oak trees supports 534 species of moths and butterflies.  And that their caterpillars are a mandatory food source for nesting birds.  This connection gives us the understanding of why we need to plant insect-friendly species in order to maintain our bird, butterfly and bee populations. And his most important point?  It is up to homeowners to make their gardens welcome to birds and insects.

Dual Dating

I had never considered converting calendars.  It is called Dual Dating.  I looked at Wikipedia's events for August 3rd and it is the 215th day of the year (216 in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.  Then it lists events starting with the year 8 when Tiberius defeats the Dalmatae on the river Bathinus.  So if the Gregorian calendar began in 1582, I wonder how they did all these backward calculations.  I expect it was monks in Monasteries. "The original goal of the Gregorian calendar was to change the date of Easter. In 1582, when Pope Gregory XIII introduced his Gregorian calendar, Europe adhered to the Julian calendar, first implemented by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C." There's a site on the topic of dual dating between various Calendars.  It's at: http://www.adamsonancestry.com/calendar/ We were in Niagara-on-the-Lake yesterday and saluted the bronze statue of Lord Simcoe on his celebration weekend.