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Meditating, Hiking and Camping at the Manistee Forest
Spent three days here fasting, hiking -- close to 20 miles -- and meditating.

Nice, being single has its benefits, I'll tell you that.

Did you go by yourself? Did you do a total fast, (water/liquids only), or just less food?

Haven't done 2 weeks, or even a week ever, yet.

I have been fasting one day every week for quite a while, did 2 days a while ago, years ago did 3 or 4 days.

It's not easy with a family and food everywhere.

I always loved those wild wide areas you guys have in America.

Steve, what's exactly cherry juice tea, something like this?

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Yes. That is mixed with green tea though. i had straight cherry juice unsweetened. There are cherry trees up this way. We get cherries to make us sweet and the tart ones to keep us smart. Green tea if you please.

I have found fresh fruit with almonds and pecans, ground to a smoothie, is the ticket. But hard to have that handy on a 3 day hike.

well, I would just pack a compact electrical generator, one can of fuel, a compact blender, 25 pounds of fresh fruits, 2 pounds of nuts. At the end of the hike, when you are more tired, you are packing minus 27 pounds of food and minus 3 pounds of fuel.
I doubt though that the generator can weigh less than 30 punds.

well, I would just pack a compact electrical generator, one can of fuel, a compact blender, 25 pounds of fresh fruits, 2 pounds of nuts. At the end of the hike, when you are more tired, you are packing minus 27 pounds of food and minus 3 pounds of fuel.
I doubt though that the generator can weigh less than 30 punds.

That's personal taste and willingness to bear the inconvenience.

Oh I dunno, living in a physical world of increasing convenience is somehow not too appealing to me. I still listen to vinyl records.

SI, according to some people (musicians) the quality of analog media like vynil records is superior to the digital CDs.

In 2007, Suhas Sreedhar published an article about the loudness war in the engineering magazine IEEE Spectrum.[33] Sreedhar said that the greater possible dynamic range of CDs was being set aside in favor of maximizing loudness using digital technology. Sreedhar said that the overcompressed modern music was fatiguing, that it did not allow the music to "breathe".[33]

In September 2011, Emmanuel Deruty wrote in Sound on Sound, a recording industry magazine, that the loudness war has not led to a decrease in dynamic variability in modern music, possibly because the original digitally-recorded source material of modern recordings is more dynamic than analogue material.[30] Deruty and Damien Tardieu criticized Sreedhar's methods in an AES paper, saying that Sreedhar had confused crest factor (peak minus RMS) with dynamics in the musical sense (pianissimo to fortissimo).[47] Deruty and Tardieu analyzed the "loudness range" (LRA) over a 45-year span of recordings, and observed that the crest factor of recorded music diminished significantly between 1985 and 2010, but the LRA remained relatively constant.[30]

This analysis has been challenged on the basis that the LRA was designed for assessing loudness variation within a track while the EBU R128 Peak to Loudness Ratio (PLR) is a measure of the peak level of a track relative to a reference loudness level. Ian Shepherd and Bob Katz wrote that PLR is a more helpful metric in assessing overall perceived dynamic range which shows a trend toward reduced dynamic range throughout the 1990s.[48][49]

Debate continues regarding which measurement methods are most appropriate to evaluating the loudness war.[50][51][52]

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It may interest you to know that some of us can hear the difference (sometimes a very large difference) between differently constructed interconnects used from say a preamp to an amp. Even though all the scientific measurements say they measure the same.

...And there are people who believe there is no Intelligent Design!!!