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Andy Arthur

After getting COVID at the end of 2024 and sleeping through much of the holiday season, 🛌 it's good to be up and back at my game again. It's cold and dark this time of year, 🥶 but I figure focus on learning and working, while counting down the days until Punxsy sees or does not see his shadow. 🐻

Alcohol causes cancer 🍻

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This is not exactly news, those the Surgeon General officially saying it and recommending labels on beer and wine to that effect is certainly newsworthy. It’s easy to now stigmatize drinkers much like smokers, though it’s not a useful way to think about risk.

As the joke is about Proposition 69 warnings, everything causes cancer in California. But there are many products of modern life that are harmful but impossible to completely live without. You have to weight the risks and know certain choices may reduce your lifespan. On the other hand, you should worry more about big risks then little risks like that occasional beer or smoke with friends.

Down To Moscow Hill Camping Area

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Rogers Environmental Education Center, like much of Madison and Oneida Counties was a sea of browns and grays, as the lack of snow left the land open and exposesed. The corn residue and manure sat in forefront, waiting dorimently for naothr planting season to occur.

Taken on Sunday December 29, 2019 at Brookfield, New York.