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Skriven 2009-09-25 09:49:28 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: RE: SILLINESSES 196 90924
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Gidday Glen!
->  
->  ->  HN> While vinegar is acid I don't know
->  ->  HN> if that's the "operative" aspect. Other
->  ->  HN> acids don't seem to have the same
->  ->  HN> effect like orange juice or grapefruit
->  ->  HN> juice or even Sody Pop.
-> 
-> Stomach acids are far stronger than vinegar, so it is probable that
-> there is some other quality than the degree of acidity which has the
-> beneficial anti-cramp effect.  I have noticed that Australian vinegars
-> never state the acetic acid content, but the imported Italian ones
-> always do (usually 6%).  Do your vinegars give that information?
-> 
I just checked all 8 bottles that I have on hand, 
all have the % listed. From a low of 4% (rice vinegar)
to a high of 6% (balsamic vinegar) but most are 
5%.

->  -> That's right - if Joan were here she might be able
->  -> to weigh in, but as far as I recall there are other
->  -> factors than simple acidity - the reactiveness of
->  -> the ions in the acid in question with calcium or
->  -> whatever the stones are made of and the solubility
->  -> of the products of the reaction. 
->  ->
->  HN> Where is that girl anyway??
-> 
-> Still in Amherst.  She has had troubles trying to run old programs on
-> her newer computers.
->
Well then tell her to log on to Fidotel
from Internet Explorer and get back into
the game!
  
->  ->  -=> Hap Newsom said to Dave Sacerdote <=-
->  ->  HN> I originally signed up to keep in contact with some
->  ->  HN> old navy buddies and some old photo buddies...but it
-> 
->  ->  "Social networking sites (such as Facebook), cell-phone
->  ->  text-messaging (: lol), and Internet connections at the
->  ->  local coffee shop, have made it easier for people to
->  ->  stay in touch with distant friends. Social psychologists
->  ->  originally expected to find that these technological
->  ->  innovations would yield the usual benefits found with
->  ->  face-to-face contacts, but results have been mixed. One
->  ->  study suggested that increased use of the Internet comes
->  ->  at a cost to relationships with family and friends and
->  ->  results in increases in depression and loneliness.
-> 
-> My experience is that a mix of personal contact and internetting is
-> the ideal.  The occasional face to face contact is needed to reinforce
-> the mental image of the person at the other end of the line.
->
I make that a practice as well.
 
->  ->  Melanie Green and her colleagues note that people are
->  ->  drawn to Internet communication because it is easy, less
->  ->  risky than talking to real strangers, and immediately
->  ->  gratifying. Over the long haul, however, these researchers
->  ->  found that an increasing ratio of such 'ersatz social
->  ->  engagements' to real conversations tended to decrease
->  ->  general life satisfaction. However, a study of the online
->  ->  network Facebook indicated that people who used this
->  ->  service did reap benefits of enhanced social capital, and
->  ->  this was particularly true of those with low self-esteem
-> 
-> For some years I have been involved with disability matters, and have
-> assisted severely disabled people to use computers and bulletin
-> boards.  Many of these people are unable to speak, or can only speak
-> with great difficulty, but can still use a keyboard.  Some have needed
-> keyboard covers with holes over each key to make it easier to hit the
-> right key, while others, quadriplegics, use a mouth-stick to hit the
-> keys of a vertical keyboard.   Initially bbses, and now Internet
-> communications have allowed these people to break out of the mental
-> confines of their particular limitations, and to communicate with
-> "normal" people and others who are in a similar situation to
-> themselves.   Their world is no longer the 4 walls of a room and a TV.
-> 
-> To my mind, this has been the greatest benefit of computerised talk.
-> 
I would certainly agree with that!
chat with you soon
hap 
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