Chris Jackson

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[Chris Jackson @cpjackson79]

Our 2nd European trip in as many years. September was England and Switzerland.

July is the World Music Contest.

We'll present our WMC program along with some of our go-to crowd pleasers on July 7th in Troy (details in the image).

Michigan folks, you won't want to miss it!

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Not 1989. So there.

[80s Nostalgia Channel @80s_channel]

I need to sit down now.

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@LessCheerful Ha... or the first reply. Late to the party as usual. Haha

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@LessCheerful Urban or Stallone?

I suppose if I read the thread, it'll be evident.

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@meathead I worked a few years at TGI Friday's. Felt it was the most stressful and thankless job I've ever had. And yet, there were moments that were truly special when the whole team clicked.

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@LadyDemosthenes We've got dramatizations of all the Narnia books on CD. They were produced by Focus on the Family in the style of a radio play.

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@eevblog My brother in law and his brother can carry on a conversation using only Star Wars quotes. Original trilogy only, of course.

[海外の万国反応記 @all_nations2]

定期的に見たくなる日本代表vs小学生100人

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@MickeyBlowtorch What's the craziest thing you've ever played on the jukebox?

The TouchTunes at a restaurant near me lists Peanut Butter Jelly Time as its most played song.

[Vinnie Tortorich @VinnieTortorich]

Wait, you mean this crap works?????

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@JHolmsted A couple years ago, we did zone A for about a week. Porcupine Mountains, Keweenaw peninsula, and Indian Lake. Manistique is right on the border between B and A.

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@PollySpin @gamerhardG "The Jungian thing."

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@LessCheerful Last time they did that, the world got Australia. 😁

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https://t.co/LpF65JGidx

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My hometown looks pretty iconic in this old photograph.

My dad grew up just a half mile from here, and I will pop in to Sidetrack every now and then.

In the background - National Hudson Motor Car Co Museum

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@LadyDemosthenes Beautiful film. That scene with the luminescent fish was incredible.

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@HimboSorcerer

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@Demeter_Erinia I was at the same company for 18 years, same role for 12 of those years.

[James Walker @jwalkermobile]

Boarding this morning’s flight with my emotional support trout…

[Vinnie Tortorich @VinnieTortorich]

Nina Teicholz was a New York journalist on a strict low-fat vegetarian diet that was not really working.

Then a magazine sent her to review fancy restaurants in Manhattan. For the first time in her adult life she ate full-fat meat, butter, and cream. She felt better. Sharper. Steadier. And the weight she had been fighting for years started falling off.

So she did what a good journalist does. She started asking where the war on fat actually came from.

Nine years of research. Hundreds of interviews. Every major diet-heart study reread.

In 2014 she published The Big Fat Surprise. The conclusion was simple. The case against saturated fat had never actually been made. It had been assumed, then defended.

In September 2015 the BMJ ran her investigation of the US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Cherry-picked studies. Ignored randomized trials. Members with food and pharmaceutical funding. The committee had recommended a diet that no trial had ever shown to be safe or effective long-term.

The counterattack arrived in six weeks.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest organized a letter signed by more than 180 scientists demanding the BMJ retract her paper. The letter claimed eleven factual errors.

The BMJ did not retract.

They commissioned a year of external expert review. They corrected seven smaller technical points. They left her central thesis untouched. In December 2016 they confirmed the paper stands.

Teicholz pointed out something else in her response. Many of the 180 signatories had taken funding from the food and pharmaceutical industries she had criticized.

Since the book, study after study has confirmed her thesis. PURE. FASTER. The reanalyzed Minnesota Coronary Experiment. The official guidelines are quietly walking back their fat warnings without ever admitting why.

One reporter forced a peer-reviewed journal to publicly choose between her data and the establishment that funded the consensus.

When the establishment cannot refute you, they try to silence you.

It did not work.

#NSNG #NinaTeicholz #BigFatSurprise #BMJ #SaturatedFat #DietaryGuidelines #LowFat