IT'S SNOWTIME!

November 10 seems a bit early for snow, even in Chicago. Early it may be, but snow it did. It appeared to me that the accumulations were just under an inch. Even so, as I was walking in the city, I actually passed some people who broke out snowblowers to clear the sidewalk. When I set out for my eight mile hike, the temperature was uncomfortably around 25°F (although lucky me, it with the wind, it felt like 10°F)  The temperature was not the headline of the day. Chicago was experiencing its first snow of the year. It made for some slippery conditions, and sure enough I did lose my footing once and spilled to the ground. Undaunted, I brushed myself off and continued on my merry way. Winter in Chicago has arrived. It's SNOWTIME!

A WINTER WONDERLAND ALONG LAKE MICHIGAN ON A NOVEMBER MORNING

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Your Food Diary For:

Friday, November 10, 2017

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Trader Joe's - Simply the Best Trek Mix	600	52	40	16	60	28
	600	52	40	16	60	28
L U N C H
Fusion Sushi - Crunchy Spicy Salmon Roll	350	51	10	14	711	0
17.5oz C2o Pure Coconut Water	200	52	0	0	300	48
	550	103	10	14	1,011	48
D I N N E R
Taco Bell - Hard Shell Tacos	510	36	30	24	930	3
Campbell's Chunky Hearty Beef Barley	280	48	3	16	1,580	12
	790	84	33	40	2,510	15
S N A C K S
Oreo - Mini cookies	400	60	17	3	328	34
	400	60	17	3	328	34
Totals	2,340	299	100	73	3,909	125
Your Daily Goal	3,318	415	110	166	2,300	124
Remaining	978	116	10	93	-1,609	-1
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 1,388 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 214.1 lbs in 5 weeks

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Another reminder this week that the junk food that I might eat and 'forget' to log still counts. My 'diet' has lots of room for improvement. Amazingly my weight this week was exactly what it was last week. So while it is disappointing to not have made any additional progress, at least I did not go backwards.

weight 235.4 lbs

IT'S COLD OUTSIDE

It is not much of a breaking news story that during winter it is cold in Chicago. Although with the arrival of the so-called polar vortex, it will be extra cold this week.

Coldness is course relative. For example, after a few days of sub-freezing weather, a day where the mercury rises to 40°F can feel warm.  Here is the ten-day forecast for Chicago.

I thought that we were due for some unbearably cold weather, until I checked out the weather forecast for Yakutsk, Russia.  Now that is some cold weather!  Perhaps I will temper (no pun intended) my complaining about the falling temperatures. During the next ten days in Yakutsk, Russia the warmest temperature that they can expect to experience will be -22°F sometime on Tuesday. That 'heatwave' will be short-lived as the temperatures will plunge to -43°F one week from Wednesday.  During this same period, the coldest it is forecast in Chicago is -2°F. So what, really, do we have to complain about!  By the way, Yakutsk is a very real city with a population that exceeds a quarter of a million people. 

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Your Food Diary For:

Sunday, December 11, 2016

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Butter Flavored Grits	600	126	6	12	2,040	6
	600	126	6	12	2,040	6
L U N C H
Tostitos - White Corn Tortilla Chips	200	24	9	3	166	0
Taco Bell - Hard Shell Taco	850	60	50	40	1,550	5
	1,050	84	59	43	1,716	5
D I N N E R
Spaghetti With Meat Balls	800	0	24	0	1,149	0
	800	0	24	0	1,149	0
S N A C K S
Chips Ahoy Chocolate Chips Cookies	480	66	24	3	330	33
DARK COCOA MELTING WAFERS	400	44	24	5	82	38
	880	110	48	8	412	71
Totals	3,330	320	137	63	5,317	82
Your Daily Goal	3,987	498	133	200	2,300	149
Remaining	657	178	-4	137	-3,017	67
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 2,057 extra calories from exercise today

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Your Exercise Diary for:

Sunday, December 11, 2016

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Elliptical Trainer	99	1,032
Elliptical Trainer	99	1,025
Daily Total / Goal	198 / 30	2,057 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	1306 / 210	12,861 / 4,130

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Yakutsk

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Yakutsk (Russian: Якутск; IPA: [jɪˈkutsk]; Yakut: Дьокуускай, Jokūskai, pronounced [ɟokuːskaj]) is the capital city of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located about 450 kilometers (280 mi) south of the Arctic Circle. Population: 269,601 (2010 Census); 210,642 (2002 Census); 186,626 (1989 Census).

Yakutsk is a major port on the Lena River. It is served by the Yakutsk Airport as well as the smaller Magan Airport. It is a major supplier of diamonds. Its population is almost 300,000 and its average winter temperature is −34 °C (−30 °F), which makes Yakutsk the coldest city of its size or greater in the world.

Climate

With an extreme subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification: Dfd), Yakutsk has the coldest winter temperatures for any city. Average monthly temperatures range from +19.5 °C (67.1 °F) in July to −38.6 °C (−37.5 °F) in January, and only Norilsk has a lower mean annual temperature for any settlement of over 100,000. Yakutsk is the biggest city built on continuous permafrost, and most houses there are built on concrete piles.

The coldest temperatures ever recorded on the planet outside Antarctica occurred in the basin of the Yana River to the northeast of Yakutsk, making it the coldest inhabited place on earth. Although winters are extremely cold and long – Yakutsk has never reported a temperature above freezing between 10 November and 14 March inclusive – summers are warm (though rather short), with daily maximum temperatures occasionally exceeding +30 °C (86 °F), making the seasonal temperature differences for the region the greatest in the world. The lowest temperature recorded in Yakutsk was −64.4 °C (−83.9 °F) on 5 February 1891 and the highest temperatures +38.4 °C (101.1 °F) on 17 July 2011 and +38.3 °C (100.9 °F) on 15 July 1943. The hottest month in records going back to 1834 has been July 1894 with a mean of +23.2 °C (73.8 °F)^[14] and the coldest January 1900 which averaged −51.2 °C (−60.2 °F).

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CLIMATE CHANGE IS NOT A HOAX

One thing that has been constant over the four+ billion years that Earth has been around. The climate is always changing. Climate change is not a hoax. The hoax is that the climate change is caused by human events, and that humans can control the climate. Even the hysterical hoaxers dropped the idea of Global Warming when it was seen that the temperatures on Earth were not rising. Just as thirty years ago they dropped the Global Cooling hysterics when they discovered that the earth was not heading into an immediate ice age. It is very difficult to be hysterical about something that is not happening. Global warming may be a hoax but not Local Warming. Local warming is the phenomenon where a specific geographic location experiences warmer weather. Studies have shown that this phenomenon is caused by... summer.  Yesterday I experienced some Local Warming. The temperature was only 91° F, but with the so-called heat index...It felt like 106°F. Toward the end of my urban hike yesterday, it became increasingly obvious that a thunderstorm was going to blanket Chicago. It seemed that within a few seconds that the temperature dropped 20° F just as it started to rain. I took shelter indoors for about 30 minutes before I resumed my trip and completed my ten mile hike.

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This 99 minute session took place in the early morning on Sunday.

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This 99 minute session took place in the early afternoon on Sunday.

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Your Food Diary For:

Sunday, July 24, 2016

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Quaker Oatmeal Blueberries & Cream	520	104	8	12	680	44
	520	104	8	12	680	44
L U N C H
Real Foods - Corn Thins Organic	575	100	0	13	325	0
Read 4 Bean Salad	300	65	0	5	1,500	40
Campbell's Manhattan Clam Chowder	240	36	6	10	1,600	6
	1,115	201	6	28	3,425	46
D I N N E R
Smoked Bbq Beef Brisket	400	8	34	18	678	0
Mashed Potatoes	200	28	8	3	452	0
Macaroni and Cheese	200	14	14	6	324	0
	800	50	56	27	1,454	0
S N A C K S
Nestle - Dark Chocolate Bar	220	23	13	3	0	0
	220	23	13	3	0	0
Totals	2,655	378	83	70	5,559	90
Your Daily Goal	5,742	718	191	288	2,300	215
Remaining	3,087	340	108	218	-3,259	125
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 3,812 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 185.2 lbs in 5 weeks     

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       Your Exercise Diary for:

Sunday, July 24, 2016

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
STAR TRAC ELLIPTICAL	99	1,163
STAR TRAC ELLIPTICAL	99	1,164
Walking	134	1,910
MFP iOS calorie adjustment	N/A	-425
Daily Total / Goal	333 / 30	3,812 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	1467 / 210	12,075 / 4,130

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LOOKING FOR A DEFINITION OF STUPID?

By Alyssa Canobbio

Published July 23, 2016

Washington Free Beacon                

Secretary of State John Kerry said in Vienna on Friday that air conditioners and refrigerators are as big of a threat to life as the threat of terrorism posed by groups like the Islamic State. The Washington Examiner reported that Kerry was in Vienna to amend the 1987 Montreal Protocol that would phase out hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, from basic household and commercial appliances like air conditioners, refrigerators, and inhalers.“As we were working together on the challenge of [ISIS] and terrorism,” Kerry said. “It’s hard for some people to grasp it, but what we–you–are doing here right now is of equal importance because it has the ability to literally save life on the planet itself.”