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1.18.2017

1989 A&E Bumper





One of my favourite all time network IDs...the ID from A&E Cable '89-91.

1.13.2017

Poor Transit $ervice in Winnipeg, Canada

14 Ellice - Doesn't run often enough

16 Osborne - always a few minutes late. Chronic under capacity. Example Saturday late afternoon 16 Osborne...SRO conditions!

18 Corydon - Chronic under capacity, especially during peak periods

55 St. Anne's - Chronic under capacity issues all times of the day. Frequent SRO conditions daily! I have counted 9 standees at times!

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Standing Room Only (SRO) - when a transit vehicle cannot seat any more passengers and those passengers must stand for a part or all of their trip.


1.05.2017

Swallowing w/ Diabetes Meds. OFF

When a person who has type 2 Diabetes craves icy cold beverages, one of the things that happens within that is that the throat just passes the liquids straight thru.

Normally, when a person drinks a liquid, whether it be at whatever temperature, their swallow reflex, which is connected to the throat, which is a muscle...it will hold back food or in this case a liquid so as to not overwhelm the digestive tract.

However, in a person with Diabetes, this function is turned off and the person just keeps chugging and chugging and chugging... Soon the liquid that was in the  cup...with some ice cubes..is empty.

So for years when I go off the Metformin and secondary drug Glyburide o the previous one I have noticed this phenominon.

Throat swallowing is a bodily reflex and the throat is a muscle and lack of Magnesium can cause weakness in muscles...then building back to Normal levels...Magnesium Sulphate (Epsom Salt) in the body should help in this regard.

Typing in Throat into Wikipedia and then searching on muscle, it comes up with the Pharyngeal muscles:

on that page it says...:
During swallowing, these muscles act to shorten and widen the pharynx.

1.03.2017