A Website Under the Tree

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George announces plans to “play Santa” for one lucky subscriber this coming week. As we will be giving away a whole website with hosting. This would make the perfect gift for someone interested in the link between genetics and diet.  Why, done right, this could launch the lucky winner (who ideally would be “medically-minded”) into orbit. I can picture a YouTube channel, podcast, or even books to come from this.  Maybe money, too.

This website is already “roughed in” over here.  The niche is the under-developed space between genetic predispositions and what people actually eat.  And how it’s all tied-in to long-term health.

A strange story behind how it arose (one of my “dream things’). But, already using some of the principles (which come with the site) I’ve lost 5-pounds since Thanksgiving.  But wait!  There’s more!  I will also provide the first year of basic site training, as well.

If you like medicine, like to cook, and like to share?  This is your present, needing only to be claimed.

Open only to subscribers and the winner will be pulled randomly from the list of interested parties (if any – remember this is all just a hair-brained idea so far…)

Open to subscriber’s only. Application deadline is Tuesday noon.

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The arrival of Winter assures us another season will be along. But lingering is whether the political weather will really change.  A point the continuation of government (without a shutdown) does bring to mind.

A stroll through headlines as we slow our roll into the holiday and this morning’s ChartPack, too

Thus, two cups ought to do it.  And leave some goodies out for the reindeer.

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22 thoughts on “A Website Under the Tree”

  1. Supplementary video of Santa G past/present and future.

    ? Do you know where Ure editor is after Dark-30 on any given day during the Holiday season?

    Have a look at top 25, sorry to say it aint very pretty..

    -https://youtu.be/sZ0VR802hts?si=2FHW8Y_0x9v6WLJc

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  2. I think your website idea has ‘a lot’ of potential.

    I hope someone grabs ahold of it – and the free offer.

    Someone with a lot of energy and drive could make this a “pretty big deal”.

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  3. “no shutdown”

    The old .gov shutdown threat routine is one of the greats.

    Now .gov being fully funded again can get to the bottom of the drones. Whew.

    But I do wonder what changed between Monday and Friday.

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  4. Someone asked / mentioned this last week
    Federal minimum Wage & COLA
    Starting with $7.25 in 2009.
    [ This was the last year that the Minimum Wage was increased.]
    Applying the COLA rate annually since then – the Federal Minimum Wage today would be $10.25

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    • I thought it would be much higher..if it had stayed with the cost of living increases.. the best I ever did..I made under 4 dollars an hour as a wage and rent was 50 a month electricity was 5 and water and sewer was 10.. 15 in summer..garbage was four dollars a month.. A months groceries for four was 75.. gas was fifty to sixty cents and everyone had health insurance..
      today income hasn’t really increased.. when I met my wife a nurses wage was 4.50 an hour a nurse manager or director of nursing u Dec ten dollars an hour..
      at the local shop wages are at 11 and 15 at the gas station its 12 and 13 for shift manager..how he keeps the doors open is beyond me for either establishment.. the nursing home the wife worked for they hire at around ten the wife as making 14 as a part time shift nurse up until she retired..they sell the place every few years..because of government guidelines and the cost of labor they don’t bring in enough money..why it takes so long for them to realize they aren’t making it is the staggering of income.. I experience that when I delivered newspapers it took months for me to realize I was paying them to deliver them..
      now that the wife is finally retired.. half of our monthly income is just for car, home insurance and taxes.. leaves us with 8 grand a year for everything else..I am working on. the budget now..a ton of changes for 2025. there are changes coming..I expect to experience the wailing and gnashing of teeth over the changes..but it is what it is..that’s life..the old people that head to southern Texas and Arizona to get their medications and huge expensive items in Mexico is something I have cinsidered..

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  5. re: “Miracle on 34th Street, 1947
    feat: new projector 4 Xmas

    Folks,

    Hollywood moneybags in 1947 were jingling new highs charting a story about the rise of a self-proclaimed Santa Claus at New York’s Herald Square. The plot thickened as the feared imposter was sent for a psychological evaluation and institutionalized.

    Monday evening will mark the 201st anniversary since publication of that anthem to all believers in Santa Claus, “Twas the Night Before Christmas”. Originally appearing anonymously in the “Troy Sentinal” newspaper as “A Visit from St. Nicholas”, the poem came to be associated as being from the pen of William C Moore.

    Bishop Moore was a man of the cloth and attached to King’s College now known as Columbia University. (His inherited two sq. km. Chelsea, Manhattan estate is bordered by 34th Street?) The area was named after a soldier’s retirement home, Royal Chelsea Hospital, founded in 1682 by King Charles II. Scottish royalty watchers will be pleased to know that the bishop is related to a naval officer whose service during the American Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars was rewarded with a Vice-Admiral post. One of his descendents married a sister of the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother thereby becoming a cousin of the late QE II.

    As the poetic Bishop Moore did inform us, Santa had encouraging onward and upward words for his reindeer including Donder and Blitzen.

    “Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”

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    • re: a benevolent Mr. Burns
      feat: Mr. Smithers

      Folks,

      President Zelensky published his warm words of parting as US CIA Director Burns made his final visit in Kyiv with the self-described Servant of the People. The President, never one to miss a photo op, had the duo flanking what could appear to be a new coat of arms of Ukraine not yet voted upon by elected Ukrainian parliamentarians. The background pictured coat of arms featured the previously seen Ukraine Trident with added elements perhaps of the Zaporizhian Host whose Cossacks were suppressed by Russia’s Catherine the Great almost 300 years ago. The President expressed sentiments to his visitor of “not telling secrets” as he offered future best wishes to “Bill”.

      When in 1982 the Servant would have been 4 years old and learning Russian in sparsely populated northern Mongolia, politically ‘Independent’ Mr. William J. Burns – fluent in English, French, Arabic and Russian – was entering diplomatic service with the Reagan Administration. At the same time he was completing his DPhil degree at Oxford. Three and a half decades later in 2008 as his tenure as US Ambassador to Russia wound down under the Bush Administration, Mr. Burns penned a letter to Secretary of State Rice which is publicly quoted in generous detail by “Wikipedia” as follows:

      “Ukrainian entry into NATO
      is the brightest of all redlines for the Russian elite (not just Putin). In more than two and a half years of conversations with key Russian players, from knuckle-draggers in the dark recesses of the Kremlin to Putin’s sharpest liberal critics, I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine in NATO as anything other than a direct challenge to Russian interests.”

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    • Lol lol now imagine 50,000 letters it averages out to seven truckloads of mail.. a simple note saying you wish congress would deal with whatever issue.. sent to every member of congress once a day..
      seven hundred members of congress..
      that’s 4900 truckloads of mail..thirty pallets per truck…
      if you have ever been to the insane asylum… oh I mean DC beltway.. you know just how nuts it is there.. a bicycle gets around easier than a motor vehicle.. that is news..doesn’t matter where the morons are..they would come back to take care of that issue.. there wouldn’t be any office worker having sex on the capital floor..it takes two hours for a Texas farm boy to unload a truck..for a government worker as hard as they work in dc..they would need twenty.. and it would take all day..no threats even to pitch and toss.. that’s news..
      the morons wouldn’t be there with their heads tucked up their butts..the matter would be fixed..it doesn’t matter which way they voted they wouldn’t be tabling any bills or running off to some resort..doesn’t matter how much money they would get..thousands of jobs would be created.. big news and no threatening gestures a simple I wish you would address this issue..

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  6. (“Because there is so much to do. Halls to be decked and so forth.]”)

    bah humbug…..
    https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/winter-solstice-wild-tales-of-slaughtered-bulls-human-sacrifice-and-much-merriment-3073502

    https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.a5ce8046ee1fb76bc897ca1bc2970c35?rik=BWJfqHO8ej4a8w&riu=http%3a%2f%2fwww.eternalkeys.ca%2fsite%2fsatanic-ritual-agenda.jpg&ehk=cevbjKa%2bJS3l6c400Wd4bkYLWfR5LZvtc%2fm60CB4rlM%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0

    https://www.rawgist.com/the-true-origin-of-christmas-child-sacrifice-nimrod-christmas-tree-santa/

    we adopted the pagans holiday to represent the birth of christ..the true beginnings of the december 24th festivities are much darker and ugly..
    I am not allowed to say anything about santa or christmas to the grandkids..when iamasked..I simply say the only fat man in pajamas is me

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  7. Losing Weight? After my Ortho surgeon suggested I was a ‘bit heavy’ and any weight I could lose before Feb. 10 surgery would be a good thing, I decided to do the easiest thing I could find: ‘Intermittent Fasting’.

    I eat normal breakfast and lunch… anything I want. No food after 2pm… only water. Make the evening ‘fast’ last for 18 hours and the body runs out of carbs and switches to fat burning. I have lost 14 lbs in the past month. If I have cravings in the evening, I chug more water and tell myself I will have that craving tomorrow for breakfast.

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    • I do the opposite, I stay slim most of the time and then eat a lot for a while and then get slim again.

      I call it “Intermittent Fatting.”

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    • Good luck hank.. I have been trying to lose weight..so far I have lost about thirty pounds..but getting it to go down further is a challenge. just keeping the body operating it sits at what 800 calories a day which is why most diets revolve around the 1200 and men with a semi active around 2400 calories..
      I have to say I have thought about Georges offer for a web page..cooking it screams me all over..I have the love for cooking and kitchen gadgets..its but one of the two things in life that give everyone a quality of life is the simple pleasures..cooking food and sex those pleasures gives you the feeling of well being and security.. we call it comfort foods or comfort sex..Mills hedonism theory(“Mill contends that pleasure is not merely one thing that contributes to our well-being, it’s the only thing. Similarly, only pain makes us worse off. Mill thinks that a person’s life goes well for her just in so far k as she is happy.

      Mill defines “happiness” as pleasure and freedom from pain. In his Utilitarianism, he describes the best life as “an existence exempt as far as possible from pain, and as rich as possible in enjoyments.”This theory of well-being is called “hedonism.”)
      the rest is just temporary.. things break and get replaced family, friends and faith are forever.. the simple pleasures that truly matter..
      my downfall is I don’t know anything with supplements.. that’s where Gaye shines she is or was my guru for essential oils..
      then I have a tendency to ramble on.. I have a ton of life experiences.. met people from almost every walk of life..took care of people from almost every walk of life to in the healthcare field..
      somehow I don’t believe I could do a blog like that justice.. even though I use to when I worked at the grocery stores I would daydream about making up a recipe flyer offering recipes for the items they would have store coupons for.. the daydream was printing them out ..different categories and offering a binder for them then the recipes would be in a ring binder as a build a recipe book..

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  8. “But wait! There’s more! ”

    Not to be a nit picker BUT …. to be an effective copier of Ron Popeil’s great works you need to have at least FOUR different items of description, the last three of which utilize that phrase preceding the recitation of the next item of description.

    Now … go to the woodshed and properly beat yourself with a wet noodle for NOT properly following in the footsteps of that Great GOD Of Marketing, Ron Popeil!! The man who created the greatest marketing phrase ever to be heard by the human ear.

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  9. I was one of this first to get a Hotmail account., just days before Microsoft bought it – in 1997 I believe. Signing up it required a ‘password’. Being rather ignorant at that time, I didn’t understand why I needed a ‘password’ to get into my own email account. But I thought about it and came up with an incredible ‘password’ that no one would guess.
    Eight months later Computer Magazine published the top twenty passwords used on Hotmail.., and there was my brilliant, incredible password.., at number five.
    NCC-1701-B
    .., oops

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    • I remember when my brother was telling me to buy stock in this guy he knows company ..I had 2500.00 and no one would make the trade for me.. my friend had the same amount.. the stock traders laughed at us.. that piddly amount they told us to go and find twenty more with the same amount.. Microsoft went ballistic.. and I would have been fairly well off if we could have gotten the stocks..today the bank will do trades for you and you can right at home..back then very few had a computer and the internet was just a wild crazy thought..

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  10. For Marilyn found Tibet brass singing bowl and set 6 nesting bowls wit the lids tops so finished my shopping, and found a Marine 1920 Dollond London telescope f0r myself.
    At the Amazon returns store, last mi nut things for $67.CDN

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