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Mon Oct 2 06:00:01 EDT 2023 ======================================== Slept from ten to six-thirty. Woke a bit around one. Patchy fog early in the morning. Sunny. Highs around 80. Southwest winds up to 5 mph. # Work * 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM IIPA standup * 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM CTO standup Government shutdown?? No, the rats kicked the can down the road until mid-November. Working from home. # Home * [ ] AWS cert * [ ] AWS study * [ ] schedule AWS cert exam * [ ] schedule dentist appointment * [ ] schedule optometrist appointment * [x] Exercise, even a little. * [ ] Eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables. * [ ] Create something, even something tiny or a bit something bigger. * [ ] Go to bed at least eight hours before I needed to wake up. Read more of Fairy Tale. Short walk in the morning (and took out the trash). Big pale moon in the blue sky. Vacuumed. https://www.wired.com/story/taiwan-epicenter-of-world-myopia-epidemic/ > Wu discovered Ian Morgan’s research in Australia. It was a eureka moment. Were Taiwan’s classroom interventions failing because kids weren’t spending enough time outside? Wu decided to run his own version of the Sydney Myopia Study in Cimei, an island off the west coast of Taiwan. He observed the same phenomenon: More outdoor time equaled less myopia. > > Wu also worked on translating his research findings into a simple program that could be rolled out across the country. To do that, he needed to know how much time kids should spend outdoors. Wu thought back to Ian Morgan’s research, which had found that Australian kids spent an average of 13.5 hours a week outside. Another study suggested 14 hours. And so two hours a day became the cornerstone of Taiwan’s national myopia strategy, launched in 2010. It’s called Tian-Tian 120, which translates to “every day 120,” for the number of minutes children should spend outside each day. > > The results of the Tian-Tian 120 program were immediate and impressive. After years of trending upwards, myopia prevalence among Taiwanese primary school children peaked in 2011 at 50 percent, and then started to come down. Within a few years, it was at 46.1 percent. “You can see this very beautiful curve,” Wu says. Dogs in elk. https://web.mit.edu/munch/Public/humor/elk Servings: grains 2/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 0/2, meat 1/3, nuts 0.5/0.5 Breakfast: carrots, tomato, pear, naan, egg Brunch: coffee Lunch: almonds, ramen with broccoli Afternoon snack: Dinner:

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