I don't think they were calling it a cancer. They were just noting that a certain very rare cancer - I think it was Kaposi sarcoma - was suddenly popping up much more frequently.
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New excitement in the neighborhood, July 3rd editionPower came back on a little while ago. Glad it did; more storms coming tonight and I wouldn't have left the generator running in the rain. Packed it all up and put it away. Hopefully this round of storms either misses us or doesn't cause another power outage!
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New excitement in the neighborhood, July 3rd editionWe had a wicked storm blow through here midday. Rained like crazy and we had gale force winds. Took out some really large limbs from two different trees less than a block from me. Both fell across the street, blocking access. Plus another one on an adjoining street. I'm guessing there were straight line winds that came through that particular area.
My neighbor lost a big limb from her tree but thankfully it didn't hit her house or the neighbor's.
None of these trees took down any power lines, but something somewhere did. Our power is still out. The status from ComEd is "assessing problem", which means they aren't really working to fix our stuff right now. With the winds that came through I'm guessing there are a lot of outages in our neck of the woods and it may be a while. I decided to haul out the generator and hook it up.
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Corvid-human connectionsAre Crows Really Our Friends?
An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations.
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/are-crows-really-our-friends
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RICE may be on its way outTreating sprains and strains.
A few years back, spectators at an intramural indoor soccer game at the University of California at Davis might have seen Keith Baar, a professor of physiology and membrane biology at the university, practicing state-of-the-art soft-tissue injury care.
Having turned his ankle moments before, he was plopped down on the sidelines, his injured leg extended, gently tracing the alphabet in midair with his foot.
He repeated that routine multiple times at home that evening and the following day.
Two days after the injury, he was running again. “It’s the fastest I’ve ever recovered” from an ankle sprain, he said.
For decades, at-home treatments for common, non-traumatic sports or similar injuries, such as sprains, strains, tendinopathies and slight tissue tears, centered on a protocol known by the acronym RICE, which stands for Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation. Many people supplement that regimen with ibuprofen, such as Advil, or similar anti-inflammatory painkillers. (See a doctor if you have any concerns about a possible fracture, bleeding or other serious conditions.)
But there’s growing evidence from Baar’s lab and others’ that the full RICE approach may, in fact, impede recovery, not speed it.
Instead, newer research about the microscopic environment inside sore, injured joints and tissues suggests moving and exercising in the right ways is key to recovery. Some of the researchers have even coined a new acronym for how best to treat these injuries. It’s all about, they say, PEACE and LOVE.
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