-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 07-27-19  04:59 <=-

 >  ML> And does as it sees fit. Not much you can do about
 >  ML> it except statins, which will no doubt end up killing 
 >  ML> more people than it saves.
 > Most people I know well didn't do well with statins... Richard is on
 > something else now, Zetia (azetimibe [or something like that]), which
 > seems to not be so nasty to him...
 ML> Ezetimibe works better in conjunction with statins.

That may be, but Richard can not take statins at all...  I read the info
on the clinical studies, though, and while ezetimibe made the statins
work better, there was at least one study done just with the Zetia alone
(on a group that weren't already taking statins, or couldn't take them,
so that having some on placebo wouldn't be a case of removing them from
care)... and patients on the Zetia alone did at least as well as those
on the combination therapy, with fewer side effects...  a very
reassuring study for us... 
 
 >  ML> Flying has been one of the obsessions of the
 >  ML> forward-looking since basically forever.
 > True... including Leonardo Da Vinci... 
 ML> Probably many before him, too, but they all ended
 ML> up a heap of bones at the bottom of a cliff.

At least if they tried out their contraptions.... 
 
 >  > I do recall various discussions of the concept, over the years, hadn't
 >  > realized or at least remembered if there had actually been one built and
 >  > tested.... Only seen, that I remember, on the TV show the Jetsons....
 >  ML> Ah, the almost as silly counterpart to the Flintstones.
 > Yup.  
 ML> The Smithsonian Air and Space museum has a couple
 ML> examples that actually flew and drove. At that time
 ML> the roads weren't so crowded that you couldn't spread
 ML> your wings and fly (along the Alcan highway, Swisher
 ML> and I saw planes parked by the side of the road, so
 ML> that condition still obtains in some of the remoter
 ML> parts of our world).

And that's an area that can benefit from having such... along with the
amphibious ones... with the much vaster areas to be covered and the
terrain and all.... 

 >  >  ML> McVities should be available, and couverture should
 >  >  ML> be available. Wax paper and tongs, and you're set.
 >  > I've not seen the McVities, at least not at Wegmans, that I remember (so
 >  > at least not recently)... forgot to check the import section, though... 
 >  > Also possible at Lori's maybe....  I did see the Carr's whole wheat
 >  > biscuits, essentially the digestives, though not with chocolate...
 >  ML> I'd not speak until I checked out the imports aisle.
 > Maybe by the time this comes around again I will have remembered to
 > check that out...  (G)
 ML> I didn't see any in the Carrefour or the Super U, but
 ML> Letitia brought her own supply of Weetabix and Walker's
 ML> from wherever.

Ok, so I did see them in the UK Imports aisle at our Wegmans... a few
varieties of McVitties... plain digestives, digestives with milk
chocolate covering, and digestives with milk chocolate and a caramel
layer under the chocolate...  the last jumped into my cart for tastings
later....   Alas, though, no dark chocolate.... Forgot to look at
Lori's today when we went for supplements... maybe next time...

 ML> The Auchan 85% (notes of tropical fruit, coffee, with 
 ML> of course a huge chocolate punch, good snap below 90F)
 ML> and the Super U Breton cookies (super buttery sandy
 ML> shortbreads) were good supermarket things that I've not 
 ML> seen the equal of in US stores at any price, though.
 ML> The Carrefour viennoiseries (27c each in packs of 10)
 ML> were inferior enough that I had to use up a substantial
 ML> bit of the chocolate to remedy their shortcomings, though.
 
Is this perhaps in France...?

 >  ML> My preference for kitfo and gored gored is, of
 >  ML> course, for raw, but I wouldn't cry if offered
 >  ML> cooked..
 > As long as not too much overly done... 
 ML> I prefer too little overly done myself!

Of course...  
 
 >  ML> Pate de country
 > Looks good... 
 ML> It was better than the (not bad) pate we got at the
 ML> Super U.

Doesn't really surprise me that much...  

ttyl          neb

... It's gonna be like threading a needle with a haystack.

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