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It was a tightness in his chest that just wouldn’t go away – and it was the only sign of a journey one man did not anticipate he would take.
Andy Fambrough, a 50-year-old dad, husband, volunteer worship leader and Fort Worth resident, never expected he would be so personally affected by what may be the largest event in 100 years of human history. But here he was, in a hospital bed at Texas Health Alliance, with a cadre of physicians and nurses that he now calls family.
“I felt I had a team of upbeat people around me. And also my faith community – I had tons of people praying for me,” Andy said. “But no one from the outside world could come in.”
He had been monitoring his health closely. Diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis about 25 years ago, Andy is an active person who takes care of his body and--other than the arthritis--has no other pre-existing conditions. Sinus drainage and a nagging cough eventually sent him to an emergency room, where he received X-rays of his chest. Told in that ER that it was viral bronchitis, Andy took the prescribed medicine but his condition continued to worsen.
Then, on March 24, he had a cough that just wouldn’t stop. Unable to catch his breath, Andy went directly from work to Texas Health Alliance, where care teams would help him through the scariest journey of his life.
“They took me straight back to a room in the ER. They did a chest X-ray and a CT scan, and tested for the virus with a swab,” Andy remembered. “They said, ‘You have pneumonia in both lungs and in your upper respiratory area your symptoms are consistent with COVID-19.’”
Andy had heard of “COVID-19,” the term for a virus officially called SARS-CoV-2. He had read about it in the news, but wasn’t thinking that he would be among those infected: He didn’t know of anyone close to him who had recently traveled overseas. “It was a sense of embarrassment and then of course fear, me with arthritis and a compromised immune system. ‘Am I going to die? Am I going to be another statistic?’” he remembered asking himself.
Ready for Andy at Texas Health Alliance was an experienced care team that included a cadre of nurses—including a friend of Andy’s from church--and Mahmuda Islam, M.D., a hospitalist physician on the medical staff of Texas Health Alliance who would be in charge of Andy’s care.
“Every day, I tell my patient that we’re going to fight this together,” Dr. Islam said, recalling her words to her patient.
Andy’s nine-day stay at Texas Health Alliance helped him beat the virus – but it wasn’t without its harrowing moments. “I was in the hospital, literally watching every second on the clock on the wall in the room, thinking ‘I’m not strong enough to make it through this.’” Doctors explained to him that they were convinced he had coronavirus in addition to pneumonia. Andy’s oxygen levels were closely monitored, and he fortunately did not need the help of a ventilator to breathe.
What he did need, though, was the teamwork that Andy says buoyed him. Unable to receive visits from his friends and family during his illness, he turned to the physicians and nursing staff, who treated him like family, Andy said. They, in turn, stayed closely coordinated to help best manage his care.
“All of the doctors were super upbeat about my treatment plan, and told me I was going to be fine,” Andy said. “There were so many people on that team coming in and out, checking on me. One motion [from me] and they were at my beck and call! I felt I had a team of upbeat people around me.”
The nursing house supervisor would call Andy’s wife daily, giving her updates on her husband’s condition, since no visitors were allowed in to see Andy. “It’s the first time I’ve been in the hospital, sick, and not knowing what’s next for my life, and this team became my family for the next nine days,” Andy said of his care team. “I felt like they were all on the same page about how they were ‘handling Andy’ today.”
Dr. Islam points to teamwork when describing how the challenges of COVID-19, and Andy’s specific condition, were met. “We got the infectious disease doctor on board from day one,” she said. Other members of the team included the primary attending, primary care physicians, day and night nurses, intensivist specialists, nurse managers, and a clinical nurse leader who communicated with Andy and his family to answer any questions about his care.
The MyChart app from Texas Health was also useful for Andy, as he was able to review results of tests, billing and more, all from the convenience of his cell phone. “Andy got his results himself the previous night on his MyChart, so he was checking himself very carefully,” Dr. Islam said. “He knew his result before we were able to tell him!”
Andy’s illness necessitated a nine-day stay at Texas Health Alliance. After taking it easy for another three days at home, Andy was able to walk three miles and, soon after, return to work.
“He has been a great patient and he has been very supportive and it was easy to take care of him. I had a great experience taking care of him. There are so many unique things I have learned from every single patient encounter,” said Dr. Islam, who has taken care of at least nine patients who were diagnosed with COVID-19.
Andy summed up his feelings about his hospital experience and recovery by saying, “God put me in the right place at the right time with the right doctors and nurses to be able to share my story and say that God gets the glory because of this healing.”


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Former Oasis lead guitarist Noel Gallagher married longtime girlfriend Sara MacDonald in England this weekend, but failed to invite his brother Liam to the wedding, E! Online reports.
The "Don't Look Back in Anger" singers' famous feud stretches back to the Oasis days, where their fights were...
Doug Hutchison, Lost
Doug Hutchison, well known as the former Dharma leader Horace Goodspeed on Lost, got married in Vegas — to a 16-year-old!
The 51-year-old actor, who also appeared in Green Mile and 24, married aspiring...
Karen Gordon and Charles Spencer
Charles Spencer, the brother of late Princess Diana, and Karen Gordon were married in England, People reports.
Gordon, who was previously married to Grey's Anatomy producer Mark Gordon, wore a sleeveless ivory lace dress. The ceremony took place at Spencer's ancestral home in Northamptonshire.
Sam Cooper and Lily Allen
English singer Lily Allen is married, People reports.
Lily Allen gets engaged
The songstress, 26, married Sam Cooper in an intimate ceremony at St. James the Great Church in Gloucestershire, England, Saturday. Allen's father gave her away, and she wore a gown with long sleeves by French designer Delphine Manivet, according to People.
The couple began dating in July 2009...
Tony Romo and Candice Crawford
NFL quarterback Tony Romo and girlfriend Candice Crawford got hitched at Arlington Hall in Dallas, Texas on Saturday evening, People reports.
Over 600 guests were invited to the nuptials including Crawford's older brother -- Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford -- many of Romo's teammates and Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who received special permission to attend the ceremony during the leagues' ongoing labor dispute.
Sara Rue and Kevin Price
Sara Rue wed boyfriend Kevin Price over the weekend, Us Weekly reports.
"I've never been happier," Rue, 32, told the magazine. "I feel so lucky to have found someone as kind, funny and smart as Kevin...
Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton
Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton were married in front of hundreds of guests including some of their fellow music stars, Us Weekly reports.
"I'm married to my best friend!" Lambert, 27, told the magazine. "Looking forward to a lifetime of laughter."
Marie Osmond exchanged "I do's" — again — with first husband Stephen Craig on Wednesday, People reports.
Osmond, 51, and Craig, 54, remarried in a private ceremony at the Las Vegas Mormon Temple before holding a reception at...

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Nicki Minaj is keeping mum about her highly-anticipated follow-up toPink Friday, but the Young Money starlet did reveal in a recent interview that her infamous alter-ego 'Roman Zolanski' will be a possible focal point of the album. Will she record as her alter ego? Is the album a concept album?
Nicki's not saying much.
"All I can say is that Roman will definitely be a humongous part of the follow-up to Pink Friday," says Minaj in her trademark Roman accent. "All I can say is that I'm working on it, and the fans are gonna get their life and then some."
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About 5 miles up from the Yentna River just past where the silty water meets the clear water from Donkey Creek is where you will find this property.
I have been told by the owner that this is the “Best” King hole on the whole river system. Besides having extremely good Silver Salmon fishing.
For Hunting it is a great spot for Bear or Moose, with a lot of the big moose coming down from the hillside of Mt. Yenlo in the fall.
The Cabin is what it is; it was built in stages in the early ‘90’s. It is by no means a Taj Mahal, but it is a place you can call your own and get out of the elements.
The owner has not been to the property for over 3 years. He said his age is creeping up on him (he is a young 92).
This is a place where property rarely comes on the market as it is highly sought after due to the great location for Fishing and Hunting.
Everything on the premises will be included, other then some personal pictures.
So here is your chance to buy a basic cabin in a “Great” location.
The Price is only $45,000.-
But due to the age of the seller, it would have to be a cash deal or possibly
a very short with a large down payment.

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New documentary spotlights mobile home residents' fight against rent increases by out-of-state owners
A look at Iowa's connection to the wider trend of rent hikes in mobile home parks around the nation. And a festival that aims to raise money for Ukraine.
If Governor Kim Reynolds signs a bill currently on her desk, mobile home park residents would receive more notice ahead of rent increases or evictions. But residents who've been advocating for greater protections for three years say this bill doesn't include any of the policy changes they've asked for.
On this episode of River to River, host Ben Kieffer speaks with documentarian Sara Terry about her film "A Decent Home," which chronicles the stories of mobile home residents across the nation that are experiencing rent hikes following the purchase of the parks their homes are in. We also hear from Candi Evans, a resident of a park in North Liberty, about what happened after Havenpark Communities, formerly Havenpark Capital, bought their park.
We also hear about "From Iowa with Love," a concert aimed at raising money for those impacted by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Nataliya Boychenko Stone, who was born and raised in Ukraine, reflects on what this moment means for the future of her homeland. From Iowa with Love: Benefit Jam for Ukraine will start at 11 a.m. Sunday, April 24 at Des Moines Water Works Park, 2251 George Flagg Parkway in Des Moines.
- Katarina Sostaric, covers state government for IPR
- Sara Terry, documentary filmmaker of "A Decent Home"
- Candi Evans, co-foudner of Iowa Manufactured Home Residents’ Network; resident of Golfview Mobile Home Park in North Liberty
- Nataliya Boychenko Stone, born and raised in Korsun’-Shevchenkivs’kyi in Ukraine; client executive of Holmes Murphy, a Waukee-based Independent insurance brokerage firm
- Lee Rood, Reader's Watchdog columnist at the Des Moines Register


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I tried to give good feedback but I was so nervous words dropped out of my head. Me, the person who can test with the best, blanked out a couple of times. I'm hoping that eventually I'll calm down a bit.
Being accepted as a writer is heady stuff. I love it. Better than beer. Or that other thing, what's that called? That green thing. Anyway. I love this. I'm so thrilled that I have to worked to stop smiling and act normal.
Although this is wonderful, I am affirmed once again, that writing is not enough. There's visual art making and movies and animations. I can't do just one thing. I keep working on a way to combine them - visual art, writing, animations and movie shorts (real short). I'm not brazen enough to be a producer or director. But I want to put it all together myself. Unless I'm staring at a bill, I don't really care whether I get paid or not or whether what I make is marketable. I have to make it.
Of course I do expect to be paid for my work. I just don't make it thinking about how much money it will make me. I can't work that way. Messes me up.
Okay. I'm calmer now. Time to do the dishes.

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|Conrad J. Lynn|
November 4, 1908|
Newport, Rhode Island, USA
November 16, 1995, age 87|
Pomona, New York, USA
|Alma mater||Syracuse University College of Law|
|Spouse(s)||Yolanda M. Lynn|
|Parents||Joseph Lynn of Augusta, Georgia, and Nellie Irving Lynn of Aiken, South Carolina|
|Awards||The Roy Wilkins Civil Rights Award 1990, presented at the 23rd Annual NAACP image Awards|
Conrad J. Lynn November 4.1908 – November 16, 1995) was an African American civil rights lawyer and activist known for providing legal representation for activists, including many unpopular defendants. Among the causes he supported as a lawyer were civil rights, Puerto Rican nationalism, and opposition to the draft during both World War II and the Vietnam War. The controversial defendants he represented included civil rights activist Robert F. Williams and Black Panther leader H. Rap Brown.
Early life and education
Lynn was born in Newport, Rhode Island, to parents who had moved north from Georgia. His mother was a domestic worker and his father, a Republican, worked as a laborer. When he was a child, the family moved to Rockville Centre on Long Island. Lynn attended law school at Syracuse University on a debating scholarship, in 1932 becoming the first black to graduate from the Syracuse University College of Law.
As a young man in the 1920s and 1930s, he was a member of the Communist Party, but he was ousted in the late 1930s because he had defied the party by supporting Trinidadian oil workers who went on strike against Britain. He never rejoined. Years later, the House Un-American Activities Committee was to describe him as "indiscriminate in support of Communist organizations."
Career as a lawyer and activist
African American civil rights
In April 1947, Lynn participated in the Journey of Reconciliation, a challenge to Jim Crow laws that later came to be considered the first "freedom ride" of the American civil rights movement – a forerunner to the freedom rides of the 1960s. Sixteen civil rights activists, eight of them black and eight of them white, boarded Greyhound and Trailways buses and traveled through Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee to bring public attention to the reality of racial segregation and dramatize the South's widespread disregard of the 1946 U.S. Supreme Court decision Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia, which held that the U.S. Constitution barred racial segregation in interstate transportation. Lynn was the first of the group to be arrested, for sitting in the white section of a Trailways bus departing from Richmond, Virginia. Lynn told the bus driver that the Supreme Court had ruled against segregation on interstate buses, but the driver responded that his employer was Trailways, not the Supreme Court, and he was following Trailways rules. After being released on bail in Richmond, Lynn traveled to Raleigh, North Carolina, where he joined his colleagues on the bus and completed the journey.
In 1958, Lynn became involved in the highly publicized North Carolina "Kissing Case", involving a pair of African American boys, 7 and 9 years old, who were jailed, convicted of rape, and sentenced to reform school until age 21 after they playfully kissed (or were kissed by) a white girl as part of a game. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) could not enlist any of its attorneys to represent the boys and referred the case to Lynn. After learning that the boys had already been convicted and sentenced by a county juvenile court judge without having either legal counsel or an opportunity to confront their accusers, as required by the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, Lynn appealed the conviction, but without result. He then contacted former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt for assistance; she urged President Dwight Eisenhower to intervene in the situation. As a result of these efforts and international attention that Lynn and others managed to bring to the case, after three months' detention the boys were given pardons by the governor of North Carolina and released.
The Kissing Case was Lynn's first collaboration with North Carolina civil rights activist Robert F. Williams. In 1959, Lynn protested Williams' suspension from the NAACP, and urged the organization to adopt a more "militant program". Lynn later represented Williams as a lawyer during the 1960s, when Williams, who had become increasingly militant, exiled himself in Cuba, China, and Tanzania to escape prosecution in the United States for a charge of kidnapping. Lynn visited Williams in Cuba.
In the mid-1960s, Lynn teamed with attorney William Kunstler to represent the Harlem Six (six black teenagers) in appealing their murder conviction for robbing a secondhand store and killing one of the store's proprietors. The two attorneys believed that the teenagers had been framed. In the appeal filed in 1965, Lynn and Kunstler asked for the convictions to be overturned on the grounds that the Six had not had competent legal counsel for their trial. The convictions were reversed for a different reason – that some trial evidence had been inappropriately admitted. Retrials were ordered, beginning in November 1970, when two of the Six were retried. Lynn and Kunstler revealed their discovery that two prosecution witnesses had committed perjury in the first trial. After the trial concluded, the jury reported that it could not reach a verdict, so the trial was declared a mistrial. After another trial was held, again ending in a mistrial, the defendants were allowed to plead guilty to manslaughter in exchange for their immediate release from confinement.
During World War II, Lynn represented his eldest brother Winfred Lynn in his resistance against the draft. Winfred Lynn refused induction into the United States Army as a protest against the Army's racial segregation, telling the government that he would gladly serve in the unsegregated Canadian Army, but would not serve in the segregated U.S. Army. Conrad Lynn's decision to handle his brother's case was contrary to the advice of civil rights organizations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) that considered support of the U.S. war effort to be in the best interest of African Americans. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) also refused to take the case, but ACLU attorney Arthur Garfield Hays participated with Conrad Lynn in Winfred Lynn's defense, and Socialist leader Norman Thomas and journalist Dwight MacDonald led a support effort under the name Lynn Committee to End Discrimination in the Armed Forces. Winfred Lynn's case was based on a contention that racial discrimination in the military violated the Selective Service Act of 1940. After the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against Lynn in February 1944, opining that the Selective Service Act's ban on discrimination did not bar segregation, the plaintiffs appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1945, the Supreme Court denied Winfred Lynn's certiorari request on the grounds that the case was moot because Winfred Lynn (who had been informed by an earlier court ruling that he need to submit to military induction to keep his case alive) was by then in military service overseas. Looking back on the case in 1973, Conrad Lynn told a reporter that the legal battle had served "to make the public — particularly the white majority — aware that black people resented segregation as a mark of inferiority" and had helped bring an end to segregation in the Army in 1948.
Two decades later, in the 1960s, Lynn represented a number of men who resisted the draft due to their opposition to the Vietnam War. In 1970 he argued the case of Gillette v. United States before the United States Supreme Court, challenging the constitutionality of the law that limited conscientious objector status to men who objected to war in general. He did not prevail in that case; the court's ruling in 1971 rejected all three arguments that had been advanced in support of selective conscientious objection.
Puerto Rican nationalism
In the 1950s, he successfully defended Ruth Mary Reynolds against the charge of collaboration with the Puerto Rican Nationalist movement in the alleged advocacy of the overthrow the U.S. government.
He also represented Lolita Lebrón, one of five Puerto Rican nationalists who carried out an attack on the United States House of Representatives in 1954. He argued that the attack was an act of protest that was justified by "the illegality of the occupation of Puerto Rico by the United States." Lebrón and her four codefendants were convicted and given long prison sentences. Lebrón was not released from prison until 1979, when she was granted clemency by President Jimmy Carter.
Lynn was interrogated by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1963. He speculated that the committee's calling him reflected an effort by them "to frighten integrationists who are more radical than Martin Luther King."
Campaign for judgeship
In 1972 he sought election to a judgeship on the New York State Court of Appeals, asserting that there should be a black man on the court, "since 90 percent of all those awaiting trial in state prisons are either black or Puerto Rican."
Conrad Lynn remained engaged as an attorney and activist until a few months before his death. He was one of the founders of the human rights activist group Refuse & Resist! in 1987. The second edition of his autobiography, There Is a Fountain: The Autobiography of Conrad Lynn (ISBN 978-1556521669), first released in 1979 (ISBN 978-0882080987), was published in 1993.
Lynn was married to Yolanda Moreno. He resided in Pomona, New York for over 45 years, where he died peacfully in his sleep on November 16, 1995. He was survived by three children and several grandchildren.

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The Indian government said reducing the impact of carbon emissions is “one of the greatest challenges” for the steel industry, and called for collaboration among stakeholders to address the issue.
Speaking at a webinar ‘By-Product Management for Indian Steel Industry’ organised by industry body FICCI, Steel Additional Secretary Rasika Chaube said it is important to adopt technologies that can capture carbon from carbon dioxide and prevent it from entering the atmosphere.
“I must mention that reducing the impact of carbon is one of the greatest challenges which is being faced by our industry. For the steel industry like ours where there is a dominance of blast furnaces, the only way to substantially reduce associated CO2 emissions is to transit towards carbon capture and storage (CCS) and carbon capture and utilisation (CCU),” she said.
In India, steel players such as Tata Steel, JSW Steel, Jindal Steel and Power Ltd, AMNS India and state-owned entities Steel Authority of India Ltd and Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd use the blast furnace route to make steel.
Chaube said there is also a need to utilise by-products generated from steel making in the country. “We only concentrate on the main product, steel, and many a times tend to forget the by-products and the waste that is generated and that needs to be taken care of. We need to have a reliable collaboration…which will help us reduce GHG (greenhouse gases) emissions that cause global warming,” she said.
Slag, fly ash, CO2, sludge and dust carrying zinc are the main by-products and waste generated while producing steel through different steel making routes in India, according to the Steel Research & Technology Mission of India (SRTMI), a collaborative research platform formed jointly by the steel ministry and domestic steel players,.
SRTMI’s main objective is to facilitate research and development in iron and steel by strengthening association among industry, academia and research bodies. In the webinar attended by participants from India and abroad, Chaube said India has become the world’s second-largest steel maker contributing 6 per cent to the overall global steel output, and producing steel in large quantities also leads to generation of by-products proportionately.


Ted Baker joins forces with Eleven Studio in a bid to celebrate the joys of live music with performances from Jungle, Joy Crookes and Little Simz in Street Party Sessions.
With the release of her highly anticipated fourth album, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, Little Simz proves herself to be one of the greatest lyrical geniuses of our generation and beyond.
"We come from this world that we’re talking about, so there’s no just going home after work for us": an interview with the stars of Netflix’s Top Boy.
Jorja Smith, Little Simz and Babeheaven joined Adwoa Aboah and Gurls Talk for an intimate International Women's day gig.
BTS with Becky Hill
We snuck behind the scenes with the dance vocalist who’s going pop, Becky Hill.
Little Simz’s ‘A Curious Tale of Trials + Persons’ Visualised
Want to get inside London rapper, Little Simz’s head? That’s exactly what ten visual artists have tried to do.
THE BEAT GOES ON…
Trailblazers in music are subsequently trendsetters in fashion – because really both music and fashion complement each other.


Tavil looks for the best packing and palletizing solution according to the clients’ requirements. Tavil works with box and layout design as well as with the equipment selection in order to produce the optimal automatic packing line. Tavil solutions are programmed to work in a multiformat system, able to memorize different recipes which are linked to automatic changeovers for every part of the packing line. Compact and modular configuration able to work at the press of a button with different products, boxes and pallets. High Speed and modular configuration able to work at the press of a button with different products, boxes and pallets. Multiline and modular onfiguration able to work simultaneously with different products, boxes and pallets. Automatic centralized system for reception, palletizing, stretch wrapping of boxes, trays, crates, cans, bales and others. Automatic integral transport systems of empty crates, crates filled with raw materials and/or with finished products in production plants.


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Gas skimmers are becoming more of a prevalent problem in Arizona. According to the Arizona Department of Agriculture, more skimmers have been found in August of this year than all of 2015
“All of last year we found 11 skimmers,” says Mark Killian, the director for the Arizona Department of Agriculture. “In 2016 we found 40 so far this year, 12 in August alone.”
Killian says Cuban gangs moving to the southwest are behind the massive increase of skimmer devices. “There is a number of organized crime groups that do this,” says Killian. “Some of the most veracious of them are the Cuban gangs.”
The skimmers are becoming more advanced and difficult to find. They can be set up within ten seconds and be accessed through Bluetooth. Killian says, “They place it down within the middle of the guts of the gas pump near the main circuit board. It’s very hard to see and detect, so it’s taking for us longer to check those pumps and for industry to check those pumps to discover those skimmers.”
In Yuma, a skimmer was found at the Love’s Travel Stop at Gila Ridge Road and Avenue 3 E. Three skimmers were found at the Circle K at 26th street and Araby Road within the last three months. The Arizona Department of Agriculture says they will continue to check for skimmer devices but with new technology, it will make their task troublesome.
Killian says, “As we all know new technology changes all the time and these dadgum crooks seem to be on top of it quicker than we do and so it’s a constant running battle, but I want to ensure the public that we are doing everything we can with law enforcement to stop this.”
Because of the increase, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey recently signed a Law this year to increase the Penalty when criminals use skimmers for financial gain.
Some tips to make sure you don’t get scammed at the gas pump are:Ask the attendant when the last time they checked the pump for skimmers. Go inside and pay with your debit or credit card. Use cash to pay for gas.


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“Famous Poet” is an Oxymoron. . . Except . . .
New poets always hear their friends say things like, “Don’t forget me when you’re a famous,” or, “Someday you’re going to be a famous poet.”
But fame and poetry rarely go hand in and, at least on the level of pop culture.
Some fiction writers of literary merit have gone on to great fame, writers such as Cormac McCarthy, Barbara Kingsolver, Toni Morrison, but poets rarely break into popular culture.
Enter bestselling poet (yes, bestselling) Billy Collins. His poetry is accessible to most people because the language is simple and what he writes about is relatable to middle class white America.
He may not be the poet’s poet, but at least he’s getting poetry out there.
Who gets to read their poems on national TV, in front of a live studio audience?
Click on the image below to check out the famous poet on TV’s The Colbert Report.
Here’s an animated rending of a Billy Collins poem.
And finally, an interview he did with Daniel Chacón on an episode of Words on a Wire.
Next we’d like to see Natasha Tretheway, the current US Poet Laureate, read a poem on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Maybe we should write letters?


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Welcome to BugsDirect - Leading Supplier of Worldwide Entomology Specimens RETAIL/WHOLESALE
These special ethical butterflies in frames are supplied in a custom gift box. Ready for you to gift to friends, family, or to yourself! The frame measures 8 x 7 inches.
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As part of its ongoing mission to end the tyranny of geography, the City of Vancouver Archives is shoveling much of its dead-tree format holdings into open-format digital files. As the city announced today, the seven-volume compendium called “Early Vancouver” has gone online. It’s actually quite exciting, because Early Vancouver is nothing less than the masterwork of Major James Matthews, the city’s first archivist.
The seven brittle copies of ‘Early Vancouver.’ Photo courtesy of the Vancouver Archives.
The seven volumes were a compilation of partly-typed, partly-annotated texts, with cross-references to other volumes, notes scribbled in the margins (a.k.a. ‘marginalia’), and photograph references gathered between 1931 and 1956. The seven volumes as digital editions — all transcribed by hand, and now indexed and searchable — are keyword-indexed vignettes of the beginnings of this place as a “city.” The Vancouver Archives says “Early Vancouver is consistently one of the most utilized sources of information in the Archives’ holdings on the very early beginnings of Vancouver and the stories of its residents.”
On May 29, the Archives hosted a small reception for a full house of history buffs to celebrate the monumental achievement of getting the collection online and available to the wider public (that’s you). Local author Lee Henderson was invited to read some of his favourite excerpts, which he came across while researching old Vancouver stories for his book The Man Game.
In this short video clip, Henderson reads from a section describing Joe Fortes, the city’s first (volunteer) lifeguard, and how Fortes kept things civil in the gender-separated bathing zones in the early 1900s:


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ProgrammableWeb tracks the latest API news to keep you on top of the API economy
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We've added six APIs to the ProgrammableWeb directory today in categories such as Payments, Notifications and Collaboration. Here is a summary of the new additions.
The Slack API allows developers to build slash commands that listen for trigger words to invoke an application. This tutorial shows you how to do that using the Go language.
See how Kocomojo enabled marketers with the Google Maps API and beacons to create geo-targeted and hyper-local boundaries that trigger campaigns on customer smartphones.
Last week, Google unveiled pay-as-you-go pricing options for access to the Google Maps Web Service APIs which provide geocoding, geolocation and other mapping functionality.
We've added 7 APIs to the ProgrammableWeb directory today in Mapping, Recognition, and 3D categories, among others. Here's a summary of the recent additions.
We've added 6 APIs to the ProgrammableWeb directory today in Mapping, Monitoring, and Home Automation categories, among others. Here's a summary of what is new.
DigitalGlobe has launched a brand-new DigitalGlobe Maps API that provides access to high-resolution Earth imagery, interactive maps, static maps and other geospatial content.
By building from an API as part of a decoupled project, clear, human-readable API documentation can facilitate clear communication across the project for everyone involved.
Mapsense has released the Context API which can be used to analyze millions of spatial data points found in geotagged data such as tweets, Census Bureau demographics, etc.
Google Maps API makes it possible for The Weather Channel to tap into the power of crowd-sourced data to make its weather maps more accurate.
Using Google Maps Web Services APIs, Chicago's Department of Transportation implemented sophisticated GIS management software to improve efficiency of civic construction projects.
Google has launched Eddystone, a new set of location-based technology products that include a new open Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) format and two new APIs.
In an effort toward greater support for developers — and API developers in particular — MapQuest has released a raft of substantial changes over the last couple of months.
We've added 6 APIs to the directory today in Email, Storage, and Collaboration categories, among others. Also added were client libraries for Amazon MWS and CareerBuilder APIs.
We've added 6 APIs to the directory today in Visualizations, Motion, and Payments categories, among others. Also added are client libraries for Nike, MyFitnessPal and DuckDuckGo.
We've added 6 APIs to ProgrammableWeb today in Recognition and Mapping categories, among others. Client libraries for Bit.ly and Groupon have also been added to the directory.
To celebrate 10 years of Google Maps API, a team of devs is building an app to keep the team connected while on the road. This tutorial covers storing location data in the cloud.


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BRADENTON BEACH, FL (WFLX) - People are outraged after a Florida couple was caught having sex on a public beach Sunday afternoon in front of dozens of people including children. Bradenton Beach policeMore >>
People are outraged after a Florida couple was caught having sex on a public beach Sunday afternoon in front of dozens of people including children.More >>
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (WFLX) - A former pharmacist, sentenced to 30 months of house arrest for his role in a massive pill mill ring, wants his sentence reduced. His argument: He's too heavy to leave homeMore >>
Steven Goodman says he's too heavy to leave home anyway, so house arrest isn't necessary.More >>
Brian Hoeflinger was an
18-year-old Ottawa Hills senior with a bright future. The golfer and honors student had recently
been accepted to the University of North Carolina to attend college.
But on the night of
February 2, 2013, he made a decision that changed the lives of many. He drove after drinking, and died in a car
His parents, Cindy and
Brian Hoeflinger, admit they were ignorant to the thought that their son was
drinking alcohol. They say many parents
do the same, and are speaking out to change that.
The Hoeflingers have
spoken with parents from several area schools, including Perrysburg parents
Tuesday night. Their message is always
the same: it's time to open people's eyes and start a conversation with your
kids about the dangers of teen drinking.
"There are people
listening and I think it's opened a dialogue for people," they said. "We're going to talk about this; we're going
to be in your face. We love you and we
don't want to see anything happen to you."

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[Moon-Net] metric bolts for RAK
Edward R Cole
kl7uw at acsalaska.net
Mon Apr 5 00:25:14 CEST 2021
Had several replies so will answer all here:
Sorry Alfa-Spid RAK nor Alpha-Spid (got it)
The RAK has just a round housing (call it a pipe). No nuts welded to
it. Thread is only the depth of the pipe (maybe 1/8 inch or metric
Therefore was concerned that over tightening would strip out the thread.
Mast is what we call black-pipe; mild steel. 1.25inch I.D.
schedule-80. Used same on my other antennas with no bends or failures.
I have learned thru experience not to trust pipe bolts from slipping
so have been using a 5/16-inch bolt thru rotator pipe and mast to
help hold the pipe but small enough to shear if something binds
up. Well the rotator was installed in Sept. 2020 (six months ago).
I did maintenance on antennas and cables last weekend and found at
least five loose set bolts. Also the head of the 5/16 inch bolt had
been sheared off and weight of the array caused mast to drop slightly
(nut end of shear bolt was intact and bolt had bent downward making
removal impossible). So I re-tightened the set bolts figuring that
would be OK for a couple months as I had plans to do more work in
warmer wx (still winter here).
This was a Sunday and only Home Depot open. The good bolt outlet is
closed weekends. Rented Man-lift returned on Monday morning. So
unlikely to find eight longer metric bolts on Sunday.
Guess I could have used lock-tight (never occurred to me as other
rotators never had this issue). I use an identical RAK on my 2m-eme
system and it free-fell 50-feet in a high wind storm yet rotator was
secure and undamaged; set bolts tight.
Well I will use lock nuts and longer M10 bolts, plus lock-tight. I
will replace shear bolt with at least 3/8 inch diameter.
6m-eme array is very large: 25-foot long cross boom with 32-foot
long yagi booms. That catches a lot of wind force.
Rotator may still turn the array in calm wx (??), but will require re
calibration, frequently. Maybe, I can delay until May wx when
easier to work without winter coats/gloves. I have to replace my
elevation actuator and repair my digital encoder (which will require
dismantling). Actuator arm is 40-inch long and weighs probably
35-lbs or more; awkward to handle at 45-feet. So I had planned to
rent the man-lift for this work.
At 01:15 PM 4/4/2021, Don Hawbaker wrote:
>My SPID has nuts welded onto the pipe. It's an RAS. Different
>model. You have to be careful. I have stripped the threads on at
>least one of the nuts. Someday I will cut it off and weld on a new nut.
>Sent from <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986>Mail for Windows 10
>From: <mailto:moon-net at mailman.pe1itr.com>Edward R Cole via Moon-net
>Sent: Sunday, April 4, 2021 4:50 PM
>To: <mailto:sp2fry at gmail.com>Andrzej Hoffmann
>Cc: <mailto:ak-vhf at mailman.qth.net>ak-vhf at mailman.qth.net;
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>Subject: Re: [Moon-Net] metric bolts for RAK
>Well we got as windy day, today. Only been a week since I discovered
>the Alpha-SPID set screws loose and tightened all eight of them.
>My 6m-eme array is free-rotating in the wind. Apparently the set
>bolts loosened up in only a few hours of wind, and the remains of the
>shear bolt has fully sheared off. And all because the mfr was too
>cheap to supply stop-nuts (or lock-nuts) to keep the set bolts
>tight. I actually tried adding a stop nut but that left too little
>thread to tighten the set bolts (nut needs to be thinner or bolt longer).
>So either try to find longer metric bolts in America or quit and
>smash everything to H and take up stamp collecting.
>Was considering trying eme with the new array pretty soon, but it
>will cost me another $233 to rent a man-lift just to tighten the
>Well, I will use a 1/2-inch shear bolt this time (equivalent diam to 10mm).
>I did test the RAK and its rotating ((evidenced by the change in
>direction on the indicator) so apparently not a gear failure -just
>not attached to the antenna.
>Hopefully array will not over-rotate and destroy coax lines in the process.
>At 02:37 PM 3/31/2021, Andrzej Hoffmann wrote:
> >Hi Ed.
> >If you have a problem with the metric screws I can send you some.
> >Write down the length of the bolt you need. The original ones are
> >probably 25 mm. As far as I know, they are M10 threaded screws.
> >Vy 73
> >Andrzej SP2FRY
>73, Ed - KL7UW
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Review: could Sodium chloride cause Renal failure (Acute kidney failure)?
Summary: Renal failure is found among people who take Sodium chloride, especially for people who are male, 60+ old, have been taking the drug for < 1 month, also take medication Allopurinol, and have Iron overload.
We study 177 people who have side effects while taking Sodium chloride from FDA and social media. Among them, 7 have Renal failure. Find out below who they are, when they have Renal failure and more.
You are not alone: join a mobile support group for people who take Sodium chloride and have Renal failure >>>
Sodium chloride has active ingredients of sodium chloride. It is often used in hyponatremia. (latest outcomes from Sodium chloride 194 users)
Renal failure (kidney dysfunction) has been reported by people with high blood pressure, coronary artery bypass, diabetes, multiple myeloma, pain.(latest reports from Renal failure 72,089 patients)
On Dec, 6, 2014: 177 people reported to have side effects when taking Sodium chloride. Among them, 7 people (3.95%) have Renal Failure.
Time on Sodium chloride when people have Renal failure * :
|< 1 month||1 - 6 months||6 - 12 months||1 - 2 years||2 - 5 years||5 - 10 years||10+ years |
|Renal failure||100.00%||0.00%||0.00%||0.00%||0.00%||0.00%||0.00% |
Age of people who have Renal failure when taking Sodium chloride * :
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Severity of Renal failure when taking Sodium chloride ** :
How people recovered from Renal failure ** :
Top conditions involved for these people * :
- Iron overload (2 people, 28.57%)
- Prophylaxis (1 people, 14.29%)
- Blood glucose increased (1 people, 14.29%)
- Cardiac failure (1 people, 14.29%)
- Wheezing (1 people, 14.29%)
Top co-used drugs for these people * :
- Allopurinol (4 people, 57.14%)
- Furosemide (3 people, 42.86%)
- Lisinopril (3 people, 42.86%)
- Coreg (3 people, 42.86%)
- Ascorbic acid (2 people, 28.57%)
* Approximation only. Some reports may have incomplete information.
** Reports from social media are used.
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Tuesday, July 31st, from 7:30 – 9:30pm The Remsen Arts Center presents The Tuesday Night Big Band concert. The band consists of a 17 member jazz ensemble performing music from the early 20th Century “Big Band Era” plus more recent compositions.
At the Door Prices:
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Proceeds from the event will benefit the Remsen Arts Center programs.


The U of M Bisons men’s hockey team took on the Regina Cougars Friday night, handing Regina its first win of the campaign 3-1.
The Bisons played on their heels for most of the game, losing puck battles and mishandling passes.
“We just got away from our identity so much in this game tonight,” Bisons head coach Mike Sirant said postgame.
“We’ve had a good start to the season because we played to our identity — we got so far from playing to our identity [tonight] that we didn’t deserve to win.”
After a scoreless first period, Regina broke through in the second with a shorthanded goal from Zach McPhee.
A blocked Bisons shot was sent up ice where McPhee chased it down. He walked in on a partial break and snapped a shot five-hole on Byron Spriggs to give the Cougars a 1-0 lead.
“That was early in the game, we had plenty of time to bounce back from that,” Sirant said.
“We didn’t start really competing and playing the way we should until in the third period, and that’s what happens, you run out of time.”
Regina added to its lead late in the frame, as Tristan Frei and Arthur Miller broke into the Manitoba zone. Frei sent a pass from the half-wall to a streaking Miller, who deflected the puck over a sprawled Spriggs for a 2-0 lead.
The snowball continued to roll in the third, as Corey Kosloski was the beneficiary of a Bisons defensive breakdown for the 3-0 lead. The herd finally responded two minutes later.
A Mackenzie Dwyer point-shot was stopped by Regina goalie Dawson MacAuley and the puck dropped in front. Brett Brooks won the foot race and tucked in his second of the year to cut the Cougars’ lead to 3-1.
That was all the herd got, as they fell to 2-3-0 on the year.
The Bisons will be back in action against the Regina Cougars today at 2 p.m. CDT.


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Frances Tanzer never knew her great-grandmother, but grew up hearing stories about her path out of Europe during the interwar period.
Fascinated by the past — including her own family history — she went on to study history and visual studies at the University of Toronto. There, she took a class that opened her eyes to the use of primary sources, including diaries and first-person testimonials, as tools for studying historical events. Tanzer was also interested in how people — particularly artists and performers — reinvent themselves when they’re forced to move.
“I think these things got lodged into my brain and made me interested in refugee experiences,” she says.
Tanzer, the Rose Professor of Holocaust Studies and Modern Jewish History at Clark University’s Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, has been teaching at the University as a visiting professor since 2018. She earned her master’s degree and Ph.D. in history from Brown University and will begin her new role at Clark in August.
“It’s kind of a continuation of what I’ve been doing,” she says. “I teach classes about the Holocaust that focus on Jewish sources.”
This semester, Tanzer is teaching the history of the Holocaust, much of it through the lens of how young adults experienced the genocide. She is also teaching a seminar on borderland histories — in particular, those involving a contested border. The class has covered East-Central Europe, South Asian, the Middle East, Israel-Palestine, and will conclude with the U.S.-Mexico border.
Tanzer hopes students will examine the case studies and develop new ways of thinking about ongoing controversies.
“What I try to do in my classes is help students better understand contemporary issues, to understand their historical roots, and to think about them and analyze them in more nuanced ways,” she says.
When the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, Tanzer asked students in her Holocaust history class to archive the crisis by compiling news reports, social media posts, and their own observations.
“One of the more general themes of our class is to learn about different source materials and source types, which is something you can transfer to any history course or regular life,” she says. “I’m certainly not having students compare the Holocaust to the pandemic, but I want them to think about this as a moment when people are living through something quite extraordinary that surpasses what was thinkable or imaginable before it took place.”
The exercise helps students view the pandemic through a historical lens and gives them a space to reflect upon and analyze their own experiences. Several students moved back home across the country or overseas — to Taiwan, Switzerland, and China. Tanzer says the diversity of their perspectives and level of engagement has been striking.
In the fall, Tanzer plans to teach a course on refugee history and hopes to establish a forum for students to share what they’re learning with a broader audience. She is also working on several personal projects, including “Vanishing Vienna” — a book that explores representations of Jewish absence in post-Nazi Vienna and Austria — and “Klezmer Dynasty,” about Tanzer’s own family history in East-Central Europe.

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Health authorities in China’s hard-hit main province of Hubei reported on Thursday that 242 more individuals passed away from the coronavirus COVID-19 as of Wednesday – the highest in a single day and more than two times the previous record high – pressing the death toll throughout the nation to 1,367
The province’s health commission likewise reported a big jump in brand-new cases, stating an additional 14,840 individuals had actually been validated with the infection over the 24- hour duration to midnight on Wednesday (16: 00 GMT).
In Hong Kong, brand-new infection revives old displeasures towards China
COVID-19: WHO relabels lethal coronavirus
Weakest link: Global supply chains interrupted by coronavirus
As this developed, the official Xinhua news company reported on Thursday that the head of the Communist Celebration in the province of Hubei has actually been eliminated of his post – the current in a line of regional authorities fired.
Hubei is at the centre of the break out, which is believed to have actually come from a now-closed seafood market in the capital of Wuhan late in 2015.
Former Shanghai Mayor Ying Yong has actually been designated as the brand-new secretary of the Hubei Provincial Committee of the Communist Celebration of China, changing Jiang Chaoliang, the report stated, pointing out the celebration’s main committee.
The shootings came soon prior to the World Health Company on Thursday warned that the current spike in cases was the result of brand-new counting approaches utilized by authorities, and did not represent a modification in “trajectory” of the break out.
Al Jazeera’s Katrina Yu, reporting from Beijing, stated: “It was expected that somebody’s head was on the chopping block.”
“There’s been a lot of criticism about the information not being so forthcoming” from Hubei authorities, she added.
Previously, the Communist Celebration chief of the health commission of Hubei, Zhang Jin, and its director, Liu Yingzi, were likewise changed.
Throughout the SARS (or Extreme Intense Breathing Syndrome) break out in China in 2003, the federal government likewise fired Zhang Wenkang as health minister and Meng Xuenong as mayor of Beijing. Zhang was changed by Wu Yi, while Meng was changed by his brother-in-law, Wang Qishan, who is now the vice president of China.
“There have long been calls for the step down of these officials, for their role in causing the outbreak. By removing them, the central leaders demonstrate their willingness to respond to public outcry as well as the resolve to address the crisis,” Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, informed Al Jazeera.
CT scan tests
On The Other Hand, Hubei’s health commission stated in a declaration that it had actually started consisting of infections identified through brand-new scientific approaches and had actually modified its old information and presumed cases. The most recent death toll consisted of more than 100 scientifically identified cases.
State media stated recently that Hubei would start acknowledging computerised tomography (CT) scan results as verification of infections, permitting healthcare facilities to separate clients more rapidly.
Overall cases in the province have actually now reached 48,206, the commission information revealed, pressing the overall number across the country to almost 60,00 0.
Medical professionals scan a patient’s lungs at Huoshenshan short-lived health center built for clients identified with coronavirus in Wuhan last Sunday [Gao Xiang/Xinhua via AP]
In an interview with Al Jazeera, Bin Tune, director of the radiology department at Chengdu’s Huaxi Medical facility, stated he has actually gotten clients with “false negative” medical diagnosis, consisting of one female, who evaluated unfavorable 4 times.
“Her clinical features are very typical of the coronavirus infection. We didn’t discharge her, because we still have enough beds and can’t run the risk of letting her infect someone else. And on the fifth try, the result finally came back positive,” he stated.
He likewise mentioned that numerous “false negative” results may have been triggered by the inconsistency in diagnostic packages being utilized.
“It’s likely there are different levels of quality, resulting in the lack of accuracy of the test result in some instances,” Bin stated.
State media stated recently that Hubei would start acknowledging computerised tomography (CT) scan results as verification of infections, permitting healthcare facilities to separate clients more rapidly [Stringer/AFP]
Another possibility is that throat swabs for the screening might not have actually been effectively performed he stated.
“Sometimes the viral load in patient’s throats has not reached a level detectable in this test because some of them have infection mostly in the trachea.”
With the brand-new CT scan screening, professionals will likewise be taking a look at “distinct features” of the coronavirus, consisting of the “ground-glass pacities in bilateral lungs”, he stated. Ground-glass opacity describes a location of increased exhaustion or fading in the lungs.
“If we detect that, along with fever, dry cough, and other symptoms, I think there will be a better chance of catching all the infected,” Bin stated.
China’s national health commission is anticipated to supply an upgrade on countrywide infections in the future Thursday.
A minimum of 25 countries have actually validated cases of the infection and numerous countries have actually left their people from Hubei. 2 deaths have actually been taped outside mainland China – one in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines
With extra reporting by Shawn Yuan in Beijing, China


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internationally today. Gangs grow from recruiting young kids but what makes a kid decide to join a crime filled lifestyle. I have interacted with gang members in my early years and I also know individuals who have been and still are involved in a street gang. As a result, teenagers often rebel and seek comfort in gangs. Nancy Wack April 13, 2013 Gangs of New York: A Cultural Shift In the movie Gangs of New York, we see a city changed and reshaped through cultural influence of feuding individuals with different ideas. If for example a group of youths are in the streets, automatically people would view them as a gang of deviant individuals up to no good, even if they are just standing and talking to one another. Gangs have always caused social issue Continue Reading The Purple Gang of the 1920s Essay 563 Words 3 Pages were called the Purple Gang. I think alot of kids joion gangs for the wrong reasons. Gangs have been around for many years; the founders of some of the original gangs in the United States will be discussed. People also learn their norms from various socializing agentsparents, teachers, ministers, family, friends, co-workers, and the media.
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These are things not tolerated or seen as good in society so its considered a violation of social norms. Specifically, people within a particular reference group provide norms of conformity and deviance, and thus heavily influence the way other people look at the world, including how they react. The reason for this is because firstly a gang member that goes to prison often return as a much hardened criminal as prisons have growing gangs members. Any problem or trauma that upsets the development of the ego or superego can increase the risk of delinquency and crime. He explained that in order for children to stay away from the streets, parents need to raise children up correctly and give them all the love and support they need. As I read the material that I found in the library about gangs, I found out a lot about how this children's' though process works.


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Background paper explaining the role of OSCE's Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings and the Office of the Special Representative. More information about human trafficking on the website of OSCE.
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Air pollution has been one of the major environmental problems. It has caused much sickness and even death. The latest study shows that air pollution in Europe causes 467,000 deaths every year.
Air pollution is rampant in Europe. Even though the quality of air has improved, air pollution is still a major concern. Nine of ten cities in Europe has air pollution as an issue, as the European Environment Agency (EEA) has said.
This reduction in air pollution is improving the quality of air, though it is still not enough to reduce its impact on health and the environment. This has been the assessment of EEA Director Hans Bruyninckx in a statement along with the agency's annual report.
The number of premature deaths in the European Union is around 430,000 per year. That were the latest figures that was gathered in 2013, according to the BBC. Nitrogen dioxide, which is emitted by vehicles and central heating boilers, has been the cause of around 71,000 deaths per year.
There is also ground-level ozone, which is different from the ozone found in the atmosphere. Ground-level ozone is also a cause of death to an additional 17,000 deaths in the European Union. Ground-level ozone form when nitrogen dioxide is mixed with other air pollutants, making it even more deadly.
From data obtained through 2014, around 85 percent of people in Europe's cities are exposed to particle matter. These are small particles made up of dust, soot and other pollutants. PM10 can cause respiratory problems, while the even deadlier PM2.5 can enter the lungs and even bloodstream, as Phys Org reports.
Around 16 percent of people living in the cities in Europe are exposed to PM10 while those exposed to PM2.5 stand at eight percent. Some of the countries that have high PM2.5 content are Poland, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic. Overall though PM2.5 levels have dropped in Europe between 2006 and 2014.
Air pollution remains a constant reminder that there is much to be done to improve the environment. Air pollution in Europe causes 467,000 deaths every year. Air pollution has additional threat as resistant bacteria can reside in it, as a study shows.

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Mind the easements
Beehive Basin skiers asked to respect private property
Since the Big Sky Community Organization (BSCO) started keeping track in mid-December 2017, more than 5,000 users have been counted at the Beehive Basin Trailhead. It’s a number that can’t be compared historically since it’s never been officially tracked until now, but frustrated owners whose properties abut or encompass the trail are fed up with backcountry users straying outside of designated easements.
In late April, the Beehive Basin Homeowners Association (BBHA) posted a public notice in the Lookout informing backcountry skiers law enforcement will be patrolling the area more frequently due to the large amount of trespassing that’s reportedly taken place over the last few ski seasons.
Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant Brandon Kelly said his department does patrol the Beehive area often, dealing with the trespassers who skin up the ridge separating Middle and Beehive basins, advising potential trespassers they need to stay in the drainage until they reach Forest Service land.
“Most of them have been warned,” Sgt. Kelly said. No one has been cited for trespassing, since there is not adequate signage explaining the correct route, “But if they are caught doing it again, we can ticket them.”
The Big Sky Sheriff’s Office is working with Hammond Property Management, the BBHA and the BSCO to get better signage at the trailhead detailing the official public route available through easement land.
Better signage highlighting the requirement for all-wheel drive vehicles is also needed for the narrow, steep road section leading to the Beehive Basin Trailhead, known as “the Beaver Slide.”
“People with vehicles that have no business being up there are always sliding off and getting stuck in the early and late parts of the ski season,” Sgt. Kelley said.
BBHA Board Member Cory Bronstein spends most of his time at his home in New Jersey, but when residing in his second home in Beehive Basin, he said he’s seen trespassing firsthand, especially in the winter.
“In the summer, people are respectful, it’s all marked pretty well,” Bronstein said. “In the winter, sadly, people don’t behave the same way, even where the trail is marked, they go off it. Some owners are out of their minds with people skiing right across their property.”
Bronstein said he’s by no means against the public using the easements to access a trail named one of the best day hikes in the U.S. by Backpacker magazine in 2017. But he hopes people will respect private property.
“People are being disrespectful. They’ve got this beautiful national forest, but they go onto people’s property to ski anyway,” he said.
In November 2017, the BSCO purchased 7.5 acres of land where the Beehive Trailhead and parking lot are located. BSCO Executive Director Ciara Wolfe said the organization’s goal is to add a kiosk with maps and additional access information to better inform users about where they can and cannot ski.
“We see that the trail has heavy use,” Wolfe said, agreeing with others that the lack of signage is an issue—one the BSCO plans to address. “It’s a beautiful gem in our community, and we will be further involved with it moving forward.”
Other BSCO improvements planned for Beehive include bear-proof trash cans, a toilet and added parking.


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Sometimes one might need to employ additional measures of detoxifying and restoring the intestines of the human body. Apart from bowel restorative herbs – enemas, colonics,
and colema boards may prove very useful for this purpose in certain cases.
Generally, it is not advised to overdo the three more invasive approaches outlined above. The importance of bowel care is demonstrated in embryology in that it shows us a tissue, blood, and nerve relationship to the colon and the rest of the body. In other words, adverse conditions of the small and large intestines reflect out to the rest of the body affecting organs and glands.
This can have far reaching effects in all conditions of the
body. For this reason, the bowels are one of the four core areas of the body we always target in every case (the three other areas are the kidneys, endocrine glands and the lymphatic system).
Given that the colon is one of the body’s major eliminative organs for expelling not just digestive waste but also toxins, mucus, foreign proteins, and other substances of this nature, herbal enemas are sometimes a vital asset to one’s detoxification regimen.
Also, many toxins which enter the body are impacted and stored within and on the wall of the colon. Regular colon hydrotherapy and water enemas will NOT draw and clean the lymphatic congestion and toxic debris stored within the walls of the colon. Not to mention
that colonics and enemas won’t reach up into the small intestines. This is where a good stomach and bowel restorative herbal formula ingested orally comes in.
Since laxatives are generally stimulating to the intestines, liver and pancreas – and that they push your foods through too fast – we in most cases never recommend the use of them. However, exceptions do exist.
In cases of Crohn’s, as well as severe neurological
weaknesses resulting in highly decreased peristalsis (smooth muscle contractions of the bowels), a strong laxative in tandem with a stomach and bowel restorative may be required. This is due to the severe constipation that can develop under the above
Detoxifying and restoring the integrity of the intestinal tract is one of the first steps in the process of regaining health and revitalizing the body. A healing crisis can cause under or over-activity of the bowels which can result in temporary periods of limited bowel movements or periods of diarrhea.
However, under all circumstances (healing crisis or not), you want to aim for keeping your bowels eliminating properly with firm stools and you should try to avoid constipation, especially during a healing crisis.
Herbal Enema Written Instructions
1) Use one to two cups of a healing herbal tea to 1 quart of water, per enema.
2) Brew the tea according to the directions on the package. Generally, 1 teaspoon of herb per cup of water then bring to a boil and let it simmer for 5 to 6 minutes.
3) Strain the tea and allow it to cool down to body temperature.
4) Place the tea in your enema bag.
5) Attach the colon tube and lubricate its attachment tip with coconut oil, Vitamin E oil or another non-toxic lubricant (Vaseline is NOT recommended).
6) Expel a little water to let out the air bobbles within the enema bag.
7) Hang the bag approximately 18 inches to two feet higher than your body.
8) Lying on your left side, slowly insert the attachment tip about 3 inches into the rectum.
9) IMPORTANT: Never use force and do not insert more than 3 inches of the tip!
10) Rotate the attachment gently to ease insertion.
11) Once ready, remove the kinks in the tubing so liquid will flow freely.
12) Massage your abdomen, or flex the stomach muscles to relieve any cramping.
13) When all the solution has entered the colon, slowly remove the tube and remain on the left side for 3 to 5 minutes, or for as long as you possibly can.
14) Move to a knee-chest position with your body weight on your knees and one hand.
15) Use the other hand to massage the lower left side of the abdomen for several minutes.
16) You may need to empty your bowels to do this successfully.
Massaging During Enema Written Instructions
1) Roll on your back for 5 minutes.
2) Massage up the ascending colon, across the abdomen over the transverse colon, and down the descending colon.
3) Get up quickly and expel into the toilet.
Massaging during an enema can help loosen old, impacted fecal matter.
Enemas in Debilitated Conditions
Debilitated conditions include: cancer (where the patient underwent chemotherapy and/or radiation treatments), extreme chronic fatigue, or starvation from mal-absorption. Enemas can be very valuable in such cases where digestion is compromised.
The enemas should consist of: powdered superfood blends, powdered or juiced greens of alfalfa, wheatgrass, parsley and the like. Liquid herbs can also be used.
The Stomach & Bowel Formulas BY DR. ROBERT MORSE
|Stomach & Bowels Tonic #1:
This formula has no moving power. All the stomach & bowel formulas are bowel restoratives and cleansers.
|Stomach & Bowels Tonic #2:
This one is for those that need a little ‘push’.
|Stomach & Bowels Tonic #3:
Intended for those only having bowel movements every 2-3 days.
|Stomach & Bowels Tonic #4 :
Intended for those only having bowel movements every 3-4 days.
|Stomach & Bowels Tonic #5:
For those that only experience bowel movements every 4-5 days and beyond.
Normal Bowel Activity and Stool Color
Opinions on optimal bowel activity are varied. In Dr. Morse’s recommendations are as follows:
At least 2-3 bowel movements per day if solid meals are consumed. Stools should be well-formed (not too hard, not too soft).
No straining during bowel movements. Stools should come out swift and effortless
and as a result of this a bowel movement will take no more than 30-60 seconds.
Stools should be odorless but can also have a slight scent of the fruits eaten.
Toilet paper should not be necessary (well-formed stools will not stick to the anus or bowel walls under normal conditions).
One should not spend excessive time sitting on the toilet.
|MAYO CLINIC STOOL COLOR CHART (MODIFIED)|
|Stool Color||What it May Mean||Possible Dietary Causes|
|Green||Food may be moving
through the large intestine
too quickly, such as due to
diarrhea. As a result, bile
doesn’t have time to break
|Green leafy vegetables,
green food coloring, such as
in flavored drink mixes or
ice pops, iron supplements.
|Light-colored, white or
|A lack of bile in stool. This
may indicate a bile duct
|Certain medications, such
as large doses of bismuth
Pepto-Bismol) and other
|Yellow, greasy, foul
|Excess fat in the stool from
|Sometimes the protein
gluten, such as in breads
and cereals. But see a
doctor for evaluation.
|Black||Loosened and expelled
fecal impactions. Can sl be
from bleeding in the upper
gastrointestinal tract, such
as the stomach.*
|Iron supplements, bismuth
|Bright red||Bleeding in the lower
intestinal tract, such as the
large intestine or rectum,
often from hemorrhoids.
|Red food coloring, beets,
cranberries, tomato juice or
soup, red gelatin or drink
|Herbal enemas are often excellent for constipation. Prepare some herbal tea consisting of:
* Cascara sagrada
* Goldenseal; or
* Senna leaves (by itself)
You can also use peeled aloe leaves (prepare it by cutting and liquefying).
If you decide to do an herbal tea enema, wait for the tea to cool down to body temperature before infusing it. This will limit bowel spasms and rejections.
Flaxseeds, psyllium seed husks, kiwifruit, prunes and/or triphala can also be used.
a. Mix 1 heaping tablespoon unground flaxseeds in 2.5 fl. oz. of water, cover and leave for 24 hours. The soaked flaxseeds can be added to smoothies and consumed.
b. Alternatively, homemade (using a coffee grinder) ground flaxseeds can be added to water or smoothies and consumed. Start with 1 teaspoon and work up to 2 tablespoons.Psyllium seed husks:
Add the psyllium seed husks to water and consume immediately. Start with ½ teaspoon and work up to 2 teaspoons. Use at least 4 fl. oz. of water for every ½ teaspoon of psyllium seed husks.Kiwifruit:
Due to their inherent mild laxative properties, some people have also had great success consuming kiwifruit as a natural alternative to chemical laxatives. Consume as needed.
|If diarrhea occurs as a result of a healing crisis (i.e. it comes simultaneously with numerous other symptoms), you should wait for 1 or 2 days, before taking action, as it generally stops within a day. If the diarrhea persists, use a bowel restorative herbal formula which contains absolutely no stimulating herbs (such as Cascara Sagrada, Senna, Buckthorn, or Aloe Vera, etc.).
You may utilize encapsulated herbs like:
We do not advise people to do coffee enemas (with one exception). Coffee (caffeine) is too stimulating and non-nutritive to the intestinal wall and system. And in light of the powerful array of bowel restorative and nerve enhancing herbs we have available to us,
coffee enemas are very unnecessary.
Due to the stimulating effects, daily coffee enemas will enervate the gastrointestinal tract to the point of where the individual runs the risk of not being able to move their bowels, if they stop doing the enemas.
The exception to the use of coffee enemas is in cases of extreme blockages and constipation. Under such circumstances, you will need all the help you can get to relieve and remove the obstructions – as it is vital to your healing and regeneration process.
We are aware that many people utilize this type of enema, and that it is an important component of the Gerson Therapy. However, as it is not necessary, and given that the pros do not outweigh the cons, to us, we personally do not recommend coffee enemas.
Colonics are high enemas administered by a colon hydrotherapist. A ‘high enema’ means a procedure for cleaning out the entire length of the rectum and colon with liquid. As mentioned earlier, these procedures do not affect the walls of the small intestines.
Generally, a client can have 3 to 5 colon hydrotherapy sessions after the client has been on a good stomach and intestinal herbal program for at least 30 days. This will soften and eliminate most of the impactions on the intestinal walls and help reduce the inflammation
behind them – while also making your colonic sessions much more productive and less irritating.
Colema boards, although not as widely known as colonics and regular enemas, were made popular by the late Dr. Bernard Jensen. The colema board is designed to fit over your toilet at one end while the other end rests on a chair or stool. By lying on this board (while simultaneously using a five-gallon bucket of skin temperature water), you give yourself a high enema. This is much more relaxing than an enema because you simply lie there and allow the water to slowly and gently clean you out.
There exists an entire program revolving around this procedure. The colema system can be done at home with the purchase of a colema board and a little self-discipline. We recommend also reading one of Dr. Bernard Jensen’s books titled, ‘Dr. Jensen’s Guide to
Better Bowel Care’.
An Easy Way to Move Lymph
The Lymph is the body’s sewer system. Your 100 trillion cells all poop and these wastes are carried by the lymph to the lymph nodes and to the kidneys for disposal. If this system backs up acids form and destroy tissues which is the cause of man’s suffering. Lymph is also your main immune system. White blood cells in this system recognize and destroy unwanted pathogens like viruses, fungus, parasites, etc. Backed up lymph also leads to inflammation which causes swelling and pain (and eventually tissue degeneration). Keeping lymph moving is essential.
The lymph system does not have a pump like the heart. It mostly relies on muscle contractions to move it but sometimes this is not enough. You can assist the body in moving lymph by simply taking alternate hot and cold showers. Hot water expands lymph vessels while cold water constricts them. This will create a “pumping” action like an accordion to get tough lymph moving and improve overall health.
Use a shower water filter that removes chlorine, fluoride, heavy metals, etc. (less than $30 @ Home Depot)
Start with a comfortable water temperature.
Slowly turn up the hot till you can barely stand it. Expose the entire body including the head and face.
Get every part of your body nice and hot.
Now slowly turn down the hot water and turn up cold. Go as cold as you can. It will be uncomfortable but it won’t hurt you. Get everywhere nice and cold. Burr! Your muscles will naturally constrict helping move lymph fluids.
Now repeat this process 2-5 times going as hot and as cold as you can stand.
Congratulations! Remember to always start with hot and end with cold.
You can use a skin brush or loofa (or just rub your skin) to stimulate lymph movement even more, especially during the cold water rinse.
Pay extra attention to painful areas(neck, shoulders, knees, back, etc.) – this can be a sign of stagnant / acidic lymph.
If you feel dizzy or too uncomfortable just take a break for a minute. Listen to your body.
You can do these 2 or 3 times a day. They wake you up in the morning and help you sleep at night.
Gets lymph fluids moving so they can stay clean and alkalized
Stimulates lymph nodes so they detoxify and strengthen
Reduces inflammation and pain
Strengthens the immune system
Increases blood circulation delivering more oxygen and nutrients to cells
Removes toxins from the skin which is great for the complexion
Improves moods by increasing endorphins
Feel more energetic
Increases your tolerance to hot and cold weather
Stimulates organs and glands helping them detoxify and strengthen
This is not a cure or treatment for any specific disease and is for educational purposes only. Consult a healthcare professional before starting any health or detox program, especially if you have a heart condition, are pregnant, elderly, or have underlying health issues.


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I am really interested in getting into camping and hiking. I’m very athletic so I enjoy the challange and hiking. I just dont know what size backpack I would need for my gear for like a 3 day camping trip. And also, if I wanted to just hike on local trails are daypacks good? What are they for really?
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Check out the major company websites for outdoor recreation, such as Cabelas, Bass Pro Shop, or Coleman. My favorite for any outdoor gear is Cabela. They have a wide variety of equipment for about anything.
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I’m planning a two month expedition through interior Alaska, and need to find the largest well built hiking pack possible. I have found “Bergans of Norway- Alpinist” and the “Goliath Expedition pack” to be the biggest and best thus far, but want to hear others’ opinions. Thanks.
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When Republican Rep. Alan Seabaugh of Shreveport filibustered in the final minutes of the legislative session Monday, he was not sure whether a last-ditch effort to vote on a revenue-raising bill he deemed disastrous would have succeeded.
But Seabaugh, who is one of about 20 House Republicans who have consistently voted against any tax increase, said in interviews that his maneuver to block the vote “was worth it,” even though it has placed him at the center of controversy over yet another failed legislative session.
Seabaugh said he objected to how the Senate had tacked a half-cent sales tax extension onto a minor bill, saying that the measures were “unrelated” and that it was “blatantly unconstitutional” to use the bill as a vehicle for a tax increase.
The head of Louisiana’s Corrections Department said his agency would have to release 10,000 inmates starting July 1 if the Legislature does not raise more revenue by then.
Jimmy LeBlanc, the secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, said the agency could not weather the $75 million in cuts apportioned to it Monday without sharply reducing the inmate population or furloughing some of its staff.
He said the department would not release violent offenders or inmates convicted of sex crimes. But sheriffs and officials in various parts of the state have already expressed concern about criminal-justice reforms in 2017 that have led to the accelerated release of thousands of nonviolent offenders since last November.
LeBlanc said the 10,000 additional inmates – nearly one third of the total state prisoners – would be released gradually over the next year and are now being housed in parish jails around the state. The budget passed by the Legislature cut about 25 percent of the money that the department uses to pay sheriffs to hold the inmates.
Joseph Rallo, the state’s departing higher education leader, said Thursday that parents and students should “feel outraged” that lawmakers failed for a second time to raise enough revenue to fully fund TOPS and avoid significant cuts at universities.
The Legislature passed a budget Monday that would slash funding for TOPS scholarships by 30 percent, or $85 million, and cut operating funds for universities, which had already declined substantially over the last decade, by $96 million.
“I am leaving after three and half years, and nothing has gotten better. Nothing,” said Rallo, who was a top official at universities in Texas and Illinois before becoming Louisiana’s commissioner of higher education in 2015.
“I think it is a very unfortunate position for the state, for the parents, for the students, and at the end of the day, for the economy,” he said in a series of interviews.
Gov. John Bel Edwards on Wednesday outlined cuts to higher education, criminal justice and assistance to needy families in a budget passed by the Legislature and made a pitch for renewing a half-penny of sales taxes to avert most of them.
He made the comments in his first public appearance since he sharply criticized House leaders at a news conference minutes after the dramatic conclusion of a special session Monday night.
Lawmakers passed a budget that would have funded the programs if there were enough revenue, but efforts to pass a revenue bill collapsed in the House.
Edwards struck a more optimistic tone Wednesday about raising revenue and funding the programs in an expected third special session.
Emotions were raw Monday night as the special session collapsed after the the Legislature was unable to raise major revenue to fund the state’s budget priorities.
In the final minutes of the session, an attempt to reconsider a bill that would have increased revenue by $504 million was blocked by Rep. Alan Seabaugh, R-Shreveport, who acknowledged that he stayed at the microphone to use up the remaining time allotted for the session.
Democrats and several Republicans blamed the collapse on both Seabaugh for running out the clock in the final moments and Lance Harris, R-Alexandria and the chairman of the Republican Legislative Delegation, for holding onto his bill that would have raised less revenue until the final half hour, essentially leaving no time to reconsider the other revenue bill.
“We saw the leader of the Republican delegation purposefully held the bill all night,” Rep.Ted James, D-Baton Rouge, said in an interview. “We had another Republican member that denied us the opportunity to vote.”
The Legislature passed a budget late Monday with deep cuts to TOPS and higher education minutes before the tense end of a special session, and House Republicans rejected attempts to raise revenue to soften the cuts.
The final budget bill would slash funding for TOPS scholarships by 30 percent, cut spending on public universities by $96 million and impose across-the-board cuts on other state agencies.
Gov. John Bel Edwards said he would consider vetoing the bill. He blamed some of the House Republicans, referring to them as “that extreme caucus of no standing in the way of the state of Louisiana.” He added that he would call legislators back later this month for a third special session to try again to raise more revenue.
Democrats in both chambers and some Republicans were shocked and angry when Rep. Alan Seabaugh, R-Shreveport, seized the microphone at 11:59 p.m. to prevent a second vote on a bill that would have raised $540 million to avert most of the cuts.
That’s all that divides the House and the Senate over how much of an expiring penny of sales tax to extend.
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It also would raise $150 million a year to avert cuts to TOPS, health care, and other services.

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