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Pretty cool 

https://x.com/GamingSinceNES/status/1823878060212392327

full version (which has too much Hollywood ) is on YouTube.

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August 20th, 2024 Ergo-Log Newsletter

Do green beans enhance fat loss? Can you lose fat faster if you eat beans a few times a week? In vitro study. https://www.ergo-log.com/green-beans-fat-loss.html Potassium-rich diet halves risk of breast cancer Women who consume a relatively large amount of potassium through fruit and vegetables have a sixty percent lower risk of breast cancer than women with a modest potassium intake. https://www.ergo-log.com/potassium-breast-cancer.html Cucumber protects your cells The cells that make up your body are likely to last longer if you eat 300 grams of cucumber every day. Trial. https://www.ergo-log.com/cucumber-cellular-protector.html These medicinal mushrooms inhibit triple-negative breast cancer Supplementation with extracts of medicinal mushrooms such as shiitake, maitake, reishi, Cordyceps sinensis, and Agaricus blazei may slow the growth of difficult-to-treat triple negative breast cancer tumors. Animal data. https://www.ergo-log.com/medicinal-mushrooms-triple-negative-breast-cancer.html On the way to type-2 diabetes? Cinnamon, ginger and black cumin protect your health Traditional healers gave herbs like cinnamon, black cumin and ginger to people with type-2 diabetes even before the term was invented. https://www.ergo-log.com/cinnamon-ginger-black-cumin-type-2-diabetes.html Trial (not kidding) | Prunes make you p**p more When we wrote a post a few days ago about the positive effects of prunes on bone mass, alert readers informed us that the addition of prunes to the diet also leads to an increase in solid stools. https://www.ergo-log.com/trial-prunes.html More carotenoids in your diet, less chance of obesity Carrots, leafy vegetables, cabbage and other vegetables contain carotenoids such as beta-carotene and lutein. https://www.ergo-log.com/carotenoids-obesity.html Daily intake of 5 dried plums halts bone loss A trial & a case study. https://www.ergo-log.com/dried-plums-bone-loss.html Working in the garden may protect against dementia People over 65 who work in their garden daily or almost daily have a quarter less chance of dementia than their peers who never garden. https://www.ergo-log.com/gardening-dementia.html Guest blog X203 | Living longer by blocking interleukin-11 You couldn’t have missed it. The reports about a ‘supermodel granny drug’, an ‘anti-aging breakthrough that could extend life’, were in every newspaper and on every TV station. According to Stuart Cook, the anti-ageing professor who invented the ‘supermodel granny drug’, its effect would even be comparable to that of rapamycin – ‘but without some of rapamycin‘s adverse side effects’. https://increaselifespan.net/2024/07/27/x203-longevity-interleukin-11/

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On 16/08/2024 at 11:18, robsblubot said:

Pretty cool 

https://x.com/GamingSinceNES/status/1823878060212392327

full version (which has too much Hollywood ) is on YouTube.

big recco

very cool!!

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Catastrophic flooding has cut off all access to Supai and Havasupai Falls. The tribal council has decided to close their lands. Gov. Hobbs has activated the national guard to assist. Hundreds of hikers are still stranded.

 

 

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Might well end up seeing history soon.

The 2024 Chicago White Sox have a great shot at breaking the all-time record in modern baeball (post 1900, when the American League formed and joined with the National league to make the moderm MLB) for the most losses in a season and second most ever.

Only the 1899 Cleveland Spiders (who went 20-134, which is just madness and will never be broken, they would have ened up with probably 141 or 142 losses in today's 162 game season) have more losses potentially.

 

It has been accepted for months that the 2024 White Sox are the worst team in franchise history, but now it’s official.

On the first day of September, the White Sox lost 2-0 to the New York Mets and set a new franchise record for losses in a season with 107.

The 1970 White Sox went 56-106, setting the mark with a loss on the last day of the season, Oct. 1, 1970. The 2024 team is much more efficient at losing.

Now that the local goal has been met, there’s still 24 games left in the season for the Sox (31-107) to really make history.

Because it is the Mets, of course, Chicago is really chasing this season. The 1962 Mets, an expansion team, lost 120 games, the modern record for losses in a season. Through June, the Sox were bad, but the ’62 Mets’ legendary mark still seemed like a stretch.

Then Chicago went 7-44 in July and August and now only needs 14 losses this month to break that record. They haven’t lost fewer than 19 games in a month so far this season.

 

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Olympic marathon runner hospitalised after boyfriend 'set her on fire' leaving her with 75% burns in petrol attack at her house

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-13796347/Olympic-marathon-runner-hospitalised-boyfriend-set-fire-burns-petrol-attack.html

Ugandan Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei is receiving treatment in hospital for 75 per cent burns after allegedly being set on fire by her boyfriend.

Cheptegei had recently returned to Kenya following the Paris 2024 Olympics, where she represented Uganda in the marathon.

Police have confirmed Cheptegei was attacked in her house in the western Trans Nzoia County, where she had been training.

Cheptegei had allegedly been set on fire by her former boyfriend Dickson Ndiema.

Trans Nzoia County Police Commander Jeremiah ole Kosiom said her former partner had bought a can of petrol, poured it on her and set her ablaze during a disagreement on Sunday.

'The boyfriend is believed to have sneaked into the compound at around 2pm on Sunday while the wife and the children were in Church,' Kosiom said, as per the Kenyan newspaper The Standard.

'Upon returning, Dickson, who had procured petrol, began pouring it on Rebecca before he set her ablaze.

'The couple were heard quarrelling outside their house. During the altercation, the boyfriend was seen pouring a liquid on the woman before burning her. 

'The suspect was also caught by the fire and sustained serious burns.'

Cheptegei is currently being treated at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret city.

Ndiema, who also sustained burns, is being treated at the same hospital.

The Ugandan Athletics Federation confirmed the attack on social media. 

'We regret to announce that our athlete Rebecca Cheptegei, who competed at the Olympics has suffered severe injuries and is hospitalised at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret. 

'This follows an incident involving her Kenyan boyfriend pouring petrol and setting fire on her.'

Neighbours helped to extinguish the flames, according to local reports, with both being admitted to hospital with extensive burns.

Police discovered a five-litre jerry can, a bag, and a burned phone at the scene of the incident, according to Kenyan newspaper The Nation.

The local police chief stated that the couple had been heard fighting over the land where the house was built before the fire was started.

Cheptegei was reported to have bought the land in Trans Nzoia county, located close to the Uganadan border, and built a house.

The house is close to several training centres in Kenya. 

Cheptegei finished 44th in the women's marathon at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games last month.

The 33-year-old had also won gold at the World Mountain and Trail Running Championships in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in 2022.

In 2023, Ugandan Olympic runner and steeplechaser Benjamin Kiplagat was found dead with stab wounds.

In 2022, Kenyan-born Bahraini athlete Damaris Muthee was found dead with a postmortem report stating that she was strangled in the town of Iten.

Muthee's death came months after two-time World Championship medallist Agnes Tirop was found stabbed to death in the same town. 

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The smashed burger that the in-crowd queue up for

 

The Copenhagen restaurant chain Gasoline Grill opened in London last month and is already taking the city by storm with its £16 patties. So what’s the secret?

https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/food-drink/article/gasoline-grill-london-smashed-burger-copenhagen-l8jxv0z69

When a restaurant from Copenhagen pops up in London and causes a buzz, you wouldn’t be a fool for assuming it was the kind of fine-dining restaurant the Danish city is famous for. From a city home to 32 Michelin stars and Noma, once ranked the best restaurant in the world, you might expect eyebrow-raising theatrics, three-hour-long tasting menus and a bill that requires a small mortgage.

But the Copenhagen restaurant that arrived to fanfare for a pop-up at the Standard hotel in King’s Cross couldn’t be further from that. It’s a burger diner called Gasoline Grill famous for its £16 smash burgers, hot chicken nuggets and crinkle-cut chips served in paper bags.

Since opening in August, Gasoline Grill’s residency on the ground floor of the quirky hotel has been a revolving door of influencers, foodies and chefs from some of the city’s hottest restaurants in search of its beef, spicy fried chicken and surf’n’turf burgers. Getting a table here is akin to trying to get reasonably priced Oasis tickets — next to impossible. It is fully booked every night, and TikTok is awash with videos of burger fans raving about the perfect patties. “I’ve been on the weekends and it feels like Soho House. It’s where everyone stops before heading to the bars upstairs for a drink and a dance,” one friend, who has been three times, tells me.

The 100 per cent organic beef patties sandwiched in a potato bun with a smear of Gasoline sauce (a mix of mayo, ketchup and mustard) secured an episode on Netflix’s cult travelling food show Somebody Feed Phil. Food critics have raved about the sear on the burgers and when the original Gasoline Grill in Copenhagen is not heaving with the fashion set (at last month’s Copenhagen Fashion Week it was the go-to refuel spot for editors and designers), it is the post-service hangout of choice for Copenhagen’s top chefs, and loved by Clare Smyth, the only British female chef to be awarded three Michelin stars, who visits if she is in the city. Whenever I have been to Copenhagen it is also one of the first places I go when I get off the plane — and the last place I visit on the way back to the airport.

 

Flipping burgers that have been “smashed” is a sure-fire way to attract foodies these days. It’s a culinary trigger word. (The patties are formed by hand each morning and “smashed” lightly on to a hot grill so they sear and sizzle around the edges.)

But the real secret is the bun, which is made using mashed potatoes. “This was the most difficult part but I always knew I wanted to have a potato bun. It’s so fluffy that it’s almost juicy and it’s also elastic so it holds the juice from the patty really well. A poor quality bun might crumble but a potato bun sucks up the liquids like a sponge,” says its founder, the 6ft 4in bearded restaurateur Klaus Wittrup.

Gasoline Grill now has nine sites in Denmark, arguably making it one of the poshest burger chains in Europe, and makes tens of thousands of burgers each week. But its first restaurant was in a run-down gas station and its success was something of an accident.

By 2016 Wittrup already had a reputation on the Copenhagen food scene. “I posted a status: ‘Hey I am opening my own burger place today and have a few burgers. Drop by.’” They sold out in a matter of hours. The following day he upped the number of burgers to 100. The same thing happened again. “People were lining around the block,” he says. For the first three months he didn’t have a day off, making hundreds of burgers each morning until he sold out by 2pm. He began to rope in friends and hire colleagues to help him manage the flow. They were then invited to cook for Noma’s staff. “They shared it on their Instagram post and that was huge for us,” he says.

Any food lover who has visited Copenhagen will know that there is a flip side to its fine dining scene. For every white table-clothed restaurant with a year-long waiting list, there is a hole-in-the-wall pizza restaurant, walk-in ramen bar or sandwich shop that is equally hot. When I went to the city in January with a friend we didn’t eat at a single Michelin-starred restaurant. Instead, we toured Copenhagen’s fast-food casual scene. We had pizza at Baest, burgers from Poulet, queued up for a bowl of shio ramen at Slurp Ramen. And we obviously made several stops at Gasoline Grill. It was a weekend of ridiculously good food that I didn’t have to hand over my monthly salary to pay for.

“Noma has drawn in a lot of talent into the city who are now starting their own restaurants,” Wittrup explains. “It has also cultivated the Danish public in our demand for taste and quality. We have tried the best of the best, and that’s now what we expect.” Gasoline Grill is in London until the middle of September. If you can’t get down by then, you’ll need to book a trip to Copenhagen.

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