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ICYMI: Kellogg split into two companies 10 months ago - WK Kellogg Company and Kellanova. The former will have some of the company's slower growth US-based cereals and Kellanova will have the faster growth cereal brands and products. Well, Mars just announced it will buy Kellanova for $30b. So Cheez-It brand (I will always call it Cheez-Its) will be owned by Mars. So now both companies can sell Kellogg branded cereals, just some won't be owned by Kellogg anymore.
That seems not quite right. Kellanova doesn't have any cereal other than Special K (which WK Kellogg also has, so not sure how that works). Everything else is crackers and bars and things like Eggo and Pop Tarts. There isn't much under the Kellanova umbrella that would make someone think of Kelloggs. https://www.kellanova.com/us/en/our-food.html
I wonder which are slow growth cereals and which are faster growth ones. Specifically, where does Smart Start land? I can't find it around here but saw it in Nashville so I bought 2 boxes to bring home. Similarly, other than H-Mart sometimes having them, I can't find King's Hawaiian large round breads but saw some in Nashville so I bought a couple to bring back.
We have other King's products, just not the big round bread. I saw their pretzel bites for the first time in San diego and brought home a couple of containers. $6.99 for inferior pretzel bites. Never buying those agin.
I didn't live there; just visited my kids there. I know of one large Ranch 99 (Ranch) type supermarket that has lots of stuff. I would assume there are smaller Asian markets.
I know in Louisville, there was 1 large supermaket and lots of smaller Asian/Korean/Vietnamese markets. There is a large Vietnamese community there which were refugees after the war.
It’s time once again for Oski Disciple’s question of the day.
Why do people always try to have their cake and eat it too? Why doesn’t anyone try to have their pie and eat it too? Or what would be wrong with this: he tried to have his burrito and eat it too?
The first recorded instance of this was written by the Thomas Howard, the Third Duke of Howard to Henry XIII's close advisor Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell was a rival and enemy of Howard. Thomas Howard was a deal maker - essentially selling off his three nieces to Henry the Eighth, Mary Boleyn became his mistress, Anne Boleyn became his wife until Henry had her beheaded. The third niece also married Henry, but also was beheaded by Henry. Cromwell was later beheaded by Henry XIII, partly because Cromwell had undersold how ugly his wife Anne of Cleves. Cromwell was beheaded. Howard's son fell out of disfavor with Henry due to being on the Catholic side of Reformation, so Henry confiscated everything of the whole family and scheduled Howard and his son to be beheaded. The son was beheaded, but Henry died before Howard could be executed. Howard remained in the Tower of London through the entire reign of Edward VI (six years), but was later released by Queen Mary because she was Catholic. Anne of Cleves accepted an annulment and banishment without a consummation of her marriage, keeping her head.
Depends on which way has long layovers vs a more direct flight. And which way required getting up at o-dark-thirty for a ridiculously early flight, or after a long layover/transfer arrived very late/early the next morning. Sleep deprivation tends to be a bad thing in general, and especially when traveling.
Traveling east to west, no problem. I go to Japan few times a year and never have issues with jet lag. I would go to bed around midnight and wake up around 5am the first two days but after third day usually I can sleep til 7 or 8am. But when I com back to US, I have jetlag for 3 weeks.
I travel to Europe once in a while, and have more issues with jetlag over there than when I com back, so it definitely has to do with East West.
no jet lag problems .. i just like to sleep if i get sleepy. i assume that any tweak in time zones takes the body a few days to adjust. no shortcuts ..
I have more problems with jet lag going from west-to-east, hands down. I know this because if I pay attention to the clock, I will wake up and stay up on less sleep and drag throughout the day, crashing sooner. It takes me at least two days to fully acclimate to the shift.
Last June, I went to New Jersey for a memorial service. I was in New Jersey for three days. Just as I was acclimated, I returned home to the Bay Area.
Adjusting going east-to-west is easy by comparison, because I crashed sooner and got the sleep I needed while waking up earlier than usual, but adjusting towards my usual schedule.
Oh dude, omg, it high 90s every day. It was fun, love Japan, but we had to scale our activities back pretty significantly due to the heat. I would never go back in the summer again
I have gone to games there before, but not on this trip - as it turned out our time coincided with their All Star Break so the scheduling didn’t work in our favor
When I started high school, I decided to try high hurdles. I was too short, but figured I'd grow into it. As it turned out, I did grow, but not nearly enough.
I did wrestling for one season in 7th grade at Stanley Intermediate. Nobody explained the rules or any techniques. To me, it seemed to me like Fight Club for adolescents. I was bewildered when I lost my first match because I didn't know not to get pinned.
I did football for the tryouts in like 6th grade, wresting in HS for one practice, club volleyball at Cal for one practice (do laps and then dive onto the floor? no thanks!)
Our JM PE teacher became the principal at Stanley sometime late 80s or early 90s I think. He also was a ref during the early rounds of the Women's march madness games.
I did wrestling for a year in high school. My school was a mid tier wrestling power (more guys came out for wrestling than football) but oddly enough I slotted into a weight class where we only had 1 other guy whereas we had 4-6 for almost every other weight class. So I got pummeled on the JV mats as I was the default choice because a) I had no idea what I was doing and b) I had the exact wrong body type. 6'2 and 140 lbs does not a good wrestler make.
wrestling .. just a year or two in middle school for after school sports. it overlapped with volleyball in the winter .. 2 days wrestling, 2 days volleyball.
despite the weight categories, i was not very good. not sure i ever won a match ..
I wrestled for one season as like a preschooler because my cousin did. I was… not a natural, to the extent that my parents had no question that I shouldn’t continue.
Siena Poll shows Harris overtaking Trump in PA (+3%), leads in MI (+1), and leading in WI (+7) as Harris momentum continues and RFK Jr soaks up a lot of Trump voters.
Latest polls show Harris only picked up a single percentage point in Ohio from -10 to -9. RFK Jr is hurting Trump by 1 percentage point in Ohio, but is the reason Trump is lagging in Michigan. Without RFK Jr, Trump would lead Harris in Michigan.
Former NBA player Royce White wins GOP primary for US Senate and to face off against Klobuchar. White has unpaid child support, illegally spent $1,200 at a strip club last time he lost an election, refused to travel on the road after he was drafted blaming mental health issues, has doubled down in saying that women are too mouthy, and is a devotee of Alex Jones and Steve Bannon. White is polling much better than his predecessor, trailing Klobuchar by 11 points, whereas past GOP candidates lost by 24 and 35 points.
i read somewhere that even FL is getting close to being an even race (or close the the margin of error of the polls) despite the fact there are more registered Republicans in the state ...
I know a lot of folks find Nate Silver annoying, but his election modeling is still the best IMO. He shows Florida within 5 points. So yeah, in the margin of error but not as close as most other battleground states.
So basically, if Harris wins Florida it probably means this thing is a blowout elsewhere.
Another interesting thing about this model is that it suggests the Dems' popular-vote disadvantage in the Electoral College has almost vanished. Pennsylvania is the tipping-point state and is very close to the national polling (like only 0.5% of difference).
British Olympic runner almost quit due to hip problems ahead of the race. But the team didn't have a backup, so she went anyways. She felt worse and worse throughout the race. Turns out, she broke her femur during the race via stress fracture. Yeesh.
"Nepal's Shantoshi Shrestha was embraced by the winner after finishing, while many in the crowd ran alongside Bhutan's Kinzang Lhamo to cheer her on as she came in last."
It's a nice story, but I wonder how that runner qualified for the marathon?
Each country can send a maximum of three women and three men to the Olympic marathon – but no country is guaranteed three spots. Countries can “unlock” their Olympic spots if athletes achieve one of the following:
•Run a fast enough qualifying time (two hours, eight minutes and 10 seconds for men, 2:26:50 for women).
•Place in the top five at a World Athletics platinum-level race.
•Reach a ranking high enough in the World Athletics ranking system.•
I wonder if there weren't enough entries so they allowed her to run, since she apparently can run a sub 4 marathon. Though she was longest by like 60 min.
Oakland officially passed last year’s squad’s win totals this afternoon when they beat the New York Mets in the first of three at Citi Field, cruising to a comfortable 9-4 win.
Bats come out hot against former teammate
The A’s came out of the gate hot, scoring the game’s first three runs in the very first inning. Facing former A’s All-Star Paul Blackburn, Oakland loaded the bases with two outs to bring up Seth Brown, and he made his former teammate pay with a bases-clearing double
The San Francisco Giants went into this week facing a make-or-break series with the Atlanta Braves, holders of the National League’s last wild-card spot. After two straight 10th-inning losses, it’s looking more like “break.”
Travis D’Arnaud singled off Casey Schmitt’s glove in the top of the 10th inning to score former Giant Luke Williams, ghost-running at second base. The Giants once again couldn’t answer in their half of the inning as they lost to Atlanta, 4-3.
Four Dodgers hit home runs to back Gavin Stone’s best start in over six weeks, and the team only used two pitchers to beat the Brewers 7-2 on Tuesday night in Milwaukee for their fifth consecutive win.
Stone had a 6.91 ERA in six starts since his shutout on June 26 in Chicago. Home runs were the bugaboo during that stretch, allowing eight long balls in just 27⅓ innings after only six home runs in his first 89 frames this season.
Watched the first episode of the latest Cobra Kai season. So far not bad. They resolved the other story lines from last season in the first episode and introduced the enemy for this season. 17/19 WB
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ICYMI: Kellogg split into two companies 10 months ago - WK Kellogg Company and Kellanova. The former will have some of the company's slower growth US-based cereals and Kellanova will have the faster growth cereal brands and products. Well, Mars just announced it will buy Kellanova for $30b. So Cheez-It brand (I will always call it Cheez-Its) will be owned by Mars. So now both companies can sell Kellogg branded cereals, just some won't be owned by Kellogg anymore.
That seems not quite right. Kellanova doesn't have any cereal other than Special K (which WK Kellogg also has, so not sure how that works). Everything else is crackers and bars and things like Eggo and Pop Tarts. There isn't much under the Kellanova umbrella that would make someone think of Kelloggs. https://www.kellanova.com/us/en/our-food.html
I wonder which are slow growth cereals and which are faster growth ones. Specifically, where does Smart Start land? I can't find it around here but saw it in Nashville so I bought 2 boxes to bring home. Similarly, other than H-Mart sometimes having them, I can't find King's Hawaiian large round breads but saw some in Nashville so I bought a couple to bring back.
Smart Start is in WK Kellogg
https://www.wkkellogg.com/en-us/our-foods/our-brands/smart-start.html
Nearly every grocery store in the South seems to have King's. Southerners love them some sugar bread.
We have other King's products, just not the big round bread. I saw their pretzel bites for the first time in San diego and brought home a couple of containers. $6.99 for inferior pretzel bites. Never buying those agin.
Do you find that Nashville has a decent supply of Asian groceries?
I didn't live there; just visited my kids there. I know of one large Ranch 99 (Ranch) type supermarket that has lots of stuff. I would assume there are smaller Asian markets.
I know in Louisville, there was 1 large supermaket and lots of smaller Asian/Korean/Vietnamese markets. There is a large Vietnamese community there which were refugees after the war.
It’s time once again for Oski Disciple’s question of the day.
Why do people always try to have their cake and eat it too? Why doesn’t anyone try to have their pie and eat it too? Or what would be wrong with this: he tried to have his burrito and eat it too?
This came up when I searched for "You can't have your cake and Edith too" which I thought I had heard before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNbd_A1g3D0
The first recorded instance of this was written by the Thomas Howard, the Third Duke of Howard to Henry XIII's close advisor Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell was a rival and enemy of Howard. Thomas Howard was a deal maker - essentially selling off his three nieces to Henry the Eighth, Mary Boleyn became his mistress, Anne Boleyn became his wife until Henry had her beheaded. The third niece also married Henry, but also was beheaded by Henry. Cromwell was later beheaded by Henry XIII, partly because Cromwell had undersold how ugly his wife Anne of Cleves. Cromwell was beheaded. Howard's son fell out of disfavor with Henry due to being on the Catholic side of Reformation, so Henry confiscated everything of the whole family and scheduled Howard and his son to be beheaded. The son was beheaded, but Henry died before Howard could be executed. Howard remained in the Tower of London through the entire reign of Edward VI (six years), but was later released by Queen Mary because she was Catholic. Anne of Cleves accepted an annulment and banishment without a consummation of her marriage, keeping her head.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol13/no1/pp176-192
this is very helpful!
Because *some* people are selfish, greedy bastards who won't share!
Pie is too easy, as in easy as pie. So easy, in fact, that it’s a piece of cake!
i am stumped by the one!
Do you have a more problems with jet lag going east-to-west - or west-to-east?
For me, it's different international vs domestic (I think).
Internationally, east-to west is "easy" and the reverse is a pain.
For me, "to Japan" is: get on a plane at noon, land at 3pm, spend a couple of hours getting to a place to sleep, eat dinner, stay up a bit, and sleep.
On the return, it's: get on a plane at 6pm, land at 10am, get home around noon...and then DON'T SLEEP!
my first trip to Europe was like that. Landed at around 8am and had to somehow stay awake for 12 more hours. Tough!
Depends on which way has long layovers vs a more direct flight. And which way required getting up at o-dark-thirty for a ridiculously early flight, or after a long layover/transfer arrived very late/early the next morning. Sleep deprivation tends to be a bad thing in general, and especially when traveling.
Traveling east to west, no problem. I go to Japan few times a year and never have issues with jet lag. I would go to bed around midnight and wake up around 5am the first two days but after third day usually I can sleep til 7 or 8am. But when I com back to US, I have jetlag for 3 weeks.
I travel to Europe once in a while, and have more issues with jetlag over there than when I com back, so it definitely has to do with East West.
a more succinct way of writing what I just did ;-)
no jet lag problems .. i just like to sleep if i get sleepy. i assume that any tweak in time zones takes the body a few days to adjust. no shortcuts ..
I have more problems with jet lag going from west-to-east, hands down. I know this because if I pay attention to the clock, I will wake up and stay up on less sleep and drag throughout the day, crashing sooner. It takes me at least two days to fully acclimate to the shift.
Last June, I went to New Jersey for a memorial service. I was in New Jersey for three days. Just as I was acclimated, I returned home to the Bay Area.
Adjusting going east-to-west is easy by comparison, because I crashed sooner and got the sleep I needed while waking up earlier than usual, but adjusting towards my usual schedule.
I went to Tokyo this summer and it was easy going there, just went to bed a lot earlier, but coming back I was up until like 3am
how hot was it?
we went in the summer for 2 wks last year.
we had a great vacation and sort of regretted the choice because it was SO HOT.
Oh dude, omg, it high 90s every day. It was fun, love Japan, but we had to scale our activities back pretty significantly due to the heat. I would never go back in the summer again
Did you go to baseball games?
I have gone to games there before, but not on this trip - as it turned out our time coincided with their All Star Break so the scheduling didn’t work in our favor
same. we lasted a couple hours outside each day. even the hot onsen felt nice!
the plan is to got back to Hokkaido in the winter for some skiing next time.
That's what I'm saying. East-to-west is easier than west-to east.
What organized sport did you do for the *shortest* period of time?
When I started high school, I decided to try high hurdles. I was too short, but figured I'd grow into it. As it turned out, I did grow, but not nearly enough.
I did wrestling for one season in 7th grade at Stanley Intermediate. Nobody explained the rules or any techniques. To me, it seemed to me like Fight Club for adolescents. I was bewildered when I lost my first match because I didn't know not to get pinned.
I did football for the tryouts in like 6th grade, wresting in HS for one practice, club volleyball at Cal for one practice (do laps and then dive onto the floor? no thanks!)
did x-country a couple of years, but sucked
at JM we had pretty decent instruction in PE and the after school stuff was more practice and technique .. very few competitive situations.
i think my understanding of the rules and techniques helped me avoid losing right away.
Our JM PE teacher became the principal at Stanley sometime late 80s or early 90s I think. He also was a ref during the early rounds of the Women's march madness games.
i talked to him a couple times over the years. he was a good guy.
since he drove home on Moraga Rd thru Lafayette, he would very often give me a ride home after practices ended.
I did wrestling for a year in high school. My school was a mid tier wrestling power (more guys came out for wrestling than football) but oddly enough I slotted into a weight class where we only had 1 other guy whereas we had 4-6 for almost every other weight class. So I got pummeled on the JV mats as I was the default choice because a) I had no idea what I was doing and b) I had the exact wrong body type. 6'2 and 140 lbs does not a good wrestler make.
I played tennis for about four years and got to be pretty good but as some things do in life, it eventually faded away.
Soccer. Did it for 1 season in 2nd(?) grade. Didn't like it much.
older one didnt like soccer either because it was a team sport
wasnt getting enough attention!
wrestling .. just a year or two in middle school for after school sports. it overlapped with volleyball in the winter .. 2 days wrestling, 2 days volleyball.
despite the weight categories, i was not very good. not sure i ever won a match ..
I wrestled for one season as like a preschooler because my cousin did. I was… not a natural, to the extent that my parents had no question that I shouldn’t continue.
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
Siena Poll shows Harris overtaking Trump in PA (+3%), leads in MI (+1), and leading in WI (+7) as Harris momentum continues and RFK Jr soaks up a lot of Trump voters.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/08/10/us/elections/times-siena-poll-registered-voter-crosstabs.html
Polls can be unreliable. Vote!
USA today poll shows that Florida is now back in play with Trump +5
https://www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suffolk/documents/academics/research-at-suffolk/suprc/polls/other-states/2024/8_13_2024_florida_marginals_embargoed_1.pdf
Polls can be unreliable. Vote!
Would be cool but FL and Ohio always disappoint, and don’t talk to me about turning Texas blue. I think realistically FL and OH have become red states
Unless someone can convince Cubans to vote blue, I think Florida will stay red.
Latest polls show Harris only picked up a single percentage point in Ohio from -10 to -9. RFK Jr is hurting Trump by 1 percentage point in Ohio, but is the reason Trump is lagging in Michigan. Without RFK Jr, Trump would lead Harris in Michigan.
I will laugh until I puke if RFK Jr ends up Ralph Nader'ing Trump
Cook Poll shows that Harris has turned NC back into a pick 'em state. Harris is now +1.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4827276-harris-trump-battleground-states-cook/
Former NBA player Royce White wins GOP primary for US Senate and to face off against Klobuchar. White has unpaid child support, illegally spent $1,200 at a strip club last time he lost an election, refused to travel on the road after he was drafted blaming mental health issues, has doubled down in saying that women are too mouthy, and is a devotee of Alex Jones and Steve Bannon. White is polling much better than his predecessor, trailing Klobuchar by 11 points, whereas past GOP candidates lost by 24 and 35 points.
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/senate/general/2024/minnesota/white-vs-klobuchar
Trump on defensive?
i read somewhere that even FL is getting close to being an even race (or close the the margin of error of the polls) despite the fact there are more registered Republicans in the state ...
I know a lot of folks find Nate Silver annoying, but his election modeling is still the best IMO. He shows Florida within 5 points. So yeah, in the margin of error but not as close as most other battleground states.
https://www.natesilver.net/p/nate-silver-2024-president-election-polls-model
So basically, if Harris wins Florida it probably means this thing is a blowout elsewhere.
Another interesting thing about this model is that it suggests the Dems' popular-vote disadvantage in the Electoral College has almost vanished. Pennsylvania is the tipping-point state and is very close to the national polling (like only 0.5% of difference).
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Guess who is tied with the Dodgers for the best winning percentage in the MLB?
Phils? Brewers? Astros? Yanks? Orioles? Brewers? Nope.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/standings
I see two teams above the Dodgers -- Yanks and Guardians? I guess the Dodgers lost today!
Wow didn't see that one coming. Phillies have come back down to earth. Pads and Dbacks surging, as have the Giants.
British Olympic runner almost quit due to hip problems ahead of the race. But the team didn't have a backup, so she went anyways. She felt worse and worse throughout the race. Turns out, she broke her femur during the race via stress fracture. Yeesh.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c990yd94j7eo
"Nepal's Shantoshi Shrestha was embraced by the winner after finishing, while many in the crowd ran alongside Bhutan's Kinzang Lhamo to cheer her on as she came in last."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYnNOA9U3cM
It's a nice story, but I wonder how that runner qualified for the marathon?
Each country can send a maximum of three women and three men to the Olympic marathon – but no country is guaranteed three spots. Countries can “unlock” their Olympic spots if athletes achieve one of the following:
•Run a fast enough qualifying time (two hours, eight minutes and 10 seconds for men, 2:26:50 for women).
•Place in the top five at a World Athletics platinum-level race.
•Reach a ranking high enough in the World Athletics ranking system.•
https://www.nbcolympics.com/news/us-olympic-marathon-trials-all-you-need-know-about-qualifying#:~:text=Each%20country%20can%20send%20a,26%3A50%20for%20women).
https://olympics.com/en/news/what-are-universality-places-and-who-can-obtain-one is
I wonder if there weren't enough entries so they allowed her to run, since she apparently can run a sub 4 marathon. Though she was longest by like 60 min.
2:51 is still a way faster marathon time than most people.
Yeah, I was a bit faster than that but not with a stress fracture.
A’s topple Mets, win 9-4
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2024/8/13/24219884/as-topple-mets-win-9-4
Oakland officially passed last year’s squad’s win totals this afternoon when they beat the New York Mets in the first of three at Citi Field, cruising to a comfortable 9-4 win.
Bats come out hot against former teammate
The A’s came out of the gate hot, scoring the game’s first three runs in the very first inning. Facing former A’s All-Star Paul Blackburn, Oakland loaded the bases with two outs to bring up Seth Brown, and he made his former teammate pay with a bases-clearing double
Middle reliever Austin Adams gets the Jomboy treatment
https://twitter.com/Jomboy_/status/1823538424319447309
i was hoping to see the A's when i was in town this week, turns out they are NYC right near my house!!
Ghost-runner haunts Giants again in 4-3 loss to Braves
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2024/8/13/24220046/ghost-runner-haunts-giants-again-4-3-loss-to-braves
The San Francisco Giants went into this week facing a make-or-break series with the Atlanta Braves, holders of the National League’s last wild-card spot. After two straight 10th-inning losses, it’s looking more like “break.”
Travis D’Arnaud singled off Casey Schmitt’s glove in the top of the 10th inning to score former Giant Luke Williams, ghost-running at second base. The Giants once again couldn’t answer in their half of the inning as they lost to Atlanta, 4-3.
Good things happen in fours in Dodgers’ win over Brewers
https://www.truebluela.com/2024/8/13/24219674/dodgers-home-runs-gavin-stone-landon-knack-brewers
Four Dodgers hit home runs to back Gavin Stone’s best start in over six weeks, and the team only used two pitchers to beat the Brewers 7-2 on Tuesday night in Milwaukee for their fifth consecutive win.
Stone had a 6.91 ERA in six starts since his shutout on June 26 in Chicago. Home runs were the bugaboo during that stretch, allowing eight long balls in just 27⅓ innings after only six home runs in his first 89 frames this season.
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Watched the new season of the Bear, was pretty good but nothing much happened. A bit of a step down from the heights of S2 but still enjoyable
Watched the first episode of the latest Cobra Kai season. So far not bad. They resolved the other story lines from last season in the first episode and introduced the enemy for this season. 17/19 WB
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