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Post by thelmadonna on May 28, 2020 13:49:53 GMT
I am gonna say it was laid on the 24th May. I am looking at it as a birthday gift.
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Post by swamprat on May 28, 2020 16:06:06 GMT
Facebook Post of the Day
A Mother's Story
Jennifer Barry is at UC Davis Children's Hospital.
May 13 at 8:44 PM • Sacramento, CA
If you have a teenager, or know a teenager, or know of a teenager, please read this.
It isn’t difficult to measure best and worst days in one’s life. Best days are easier of course. For me - the day I found out I was having Bryce, the day he was born, the day I passed the bar exam. Worst days aren’t that hard to pinpoint - but those days are generally more private for me, except for Monday. Monday was, without a doubt, the absolute worst day of my life. I think it was the worst day of Bryce’s life too.
I’m just thankful he will live to have more best days.
Bryce has been on oxygen for 48 hrs with no end in sight.
Bryce’s lungs look like they are filled with spider webs.
Bryce cannot take a full breath, instead he breaths shallow and quickly. He cannot move without chest pains.
Bryce is 15.
For 4 days I assisted him as he dry heaved every day, multiple times a day. On Monday he vomited more times than I can count. His body trying desperately to rid itself of nothing, because he hadn’t had more than a piece of toast since last Thursday. As time progressed the retching and vomiting was accompanied by gasps for air as he attempted to fill his lungs in desperation for just one decent oxygen filled breath.
Saturday night we went to the ER because I, with my degree in Googling, was sure he had Covid-19. We were placed in a room with signs on the door about droplets and PPE. No one entered without wearing a blue plastic gown, goggles or a shield, gloves, and a mask. If they forgot something outside they had to stand at the door and ask someone else to assist them. If they left the room they had to take it all off and throw it in the trashcan in the room, to come back all new items went on. Four hours, a bag and a half of IV fluids, a swab of what had to have been his brain, and some Tylenol later we were sent home. Results expected tomorrow for the covid-19 test, other blood tests didn’t look great but also didn’t point to anything. His chest X-ray looked like bronchitis but his symptoms weren’t quite right.
Mother’s Day I helped him as he vomited at 6:45 am and then 8 am. And then 12pm. And then 4 pm. I asked myself what else could he possibly expel from his body? Heat radiated from his body, I didn’t even have to touch him to know his fever was high. The covid results were negative. I was skeptical. His temperature was all over the place between normal and 102.5.
Monday was essentially a repeat of Sunday and Saturday, but then worse. And worse. Until between dry heaves Bryce whispered “I [breath] need [breath] to [breath] go to [breath] the [breath] ER.” And so I grabbed the still packed bag from two days before, fed the dogs, and off we went.
Back at the ER there were not as many precautions as the Saturday night visit. We were placed in a different room without all the rules. I sat there watching as my son got vials and vials of blood drawn from his arm as the doctors tried to figure out what was wrong. Bryce sat on the bed panting, gasping for air, crying that he felt like he was suffocating. Ultra sound and X-ray fought over who would take him first - the ultimate winner was ultrasound.
Another covid-19 test was administered - this time the nurse stuck the swab so far into his nose it nearly disappeared and made me nearly faint.
The nurse remembered Bryce from two nights before, they reminisced about how easy it was to put his IV in that night. The doctor from Saturday night saw his name again and came by to check on him. She was worried she had missed something, I assured her things were different today, that the care she gave him was more than adequate.
Doctors and nurses, came and went, asking the same questions over and over, poking and prodding and listening to his heart, lungs, and belly. First based on his belly pain and the look on the doctor’s face I could tell they thought it might be appendicitis. Ultrasound ruled that out. To be a parent disappointed that your child didn’t have appendicitis is a surreal position to be in. But to me, that was an easy answer with an easy treatment and it wasn’t covid so it maybe was better?
Almost as soon as they ruled out appendicitis the nurse taped the droplet precaution signs on our door again. More PPE was worn. More blood was drawn. We were told he was going to be admitted. We would be in a negative pressure room.
They asked him about vaping over and over.
Two thoughts crossed my mind - they think this is covid-19 and they think he has that lung injury that was on the news late last year.
More doctors came by, maybe 5 or 6 all together 1 or 2 at a time. They asked us questions. I told the same story over and over.
They asked me to leave so they could talk to Bryce alone. I’m used to it; they kick me out at the regular doctor too. On the second time around the doctor brought me back in. She asked me if I had an idea of what they thought it might be. I knew. But instead I said “I hope you think it’s covid.”
They didn’t think it was Covid. In fact they were pretty sure it wasn’t. She told me instead that they believed it was EVALI.
E-cigarette or Vaping Associated Lung Injury.
I cried.
I wanted to ask her if my baby was going to die. Instead I just cried. I didn’t want to hear the answer because I was so terrified that her answer wouldn’t be no.
Bryce chose to vape marijuana in April over at least a couple of weeks. It took around three weeks from the last time for his body to get sick enough to make us aware of the damage. *I am updating this because pro vapers are hitching onto my initial description, written in the hospital without all the information. What he used was legitimate cartridges from well known and legally operated brands.*
If asked to pinpoint the worst moment in my life, I can do it now.
The next several hours were a mess of emotions, holding the barf bag for Bryce as he continued dry heaving, and watching his oxygen levels as though I could do a single thing to will them up. And, for good measure, a lot of hoping that this would turn out to be anything but EVALI.
The move to the negative pressure room in the pediatric unit was a blur of yellow gowns and double doors. They hadn’t received the results of the second covid-19 test, blood cultures, viral panel, or GI bacterial panel yet, so they still had to treat us both as contagious. That meant I couldn’t leave and no one else could come in without following similar procedures to the first night in the ER, except this time everything was yellow instead of blue.
Overnight he continued to have sever symptoms and high fever. His blood ox dropped over and over, a symphony of alarms going off all night. Sleeping was a luxury neither of us enjoyed longer than 30 minutes. The few times I slept I had nightmares of losing him. It was almost a relief to wake up to the sound of him vomiting.
By the time rounds happened the viral and covid panel came back negative. I had to face the fact that despite my hoping as hard as I could that this could be something else, something less scary, less unknown, it wasn’t. All that was left was the GI panel, and they were pretty sure it would come back negative. Later in the day it did. All the PPE procedures were dropped and treatment began.
Steroids, two kinds of anti-nausea meds, Tylenol for the fevers, Imodium to prevent stomach ulcers and help the heartburn from the steroids, anti-diarrheal, fluids with potassium and glucose, and oxygen.
Tuesday night was much less eventful, a sign the steroids were working. The alarms still went off a lot, signaling drops in his oxygen levels. By Wednesday morning he had a fever again and though he felt like he could drink water more freely, promptly threw it up. Since his oxygen levels aren’t staying up they turned up his oxygen for several hours, the moment they turned it back down the machine began alarming again - a familiar sound letting us know he’s not getting enough oxygen. His respiratory rate is still too fast, he can’t catch his breath quickly and moving almost at all causes him to feel like he’s just run a mile.
The doctors have told us that since school has been out due to Covid-19 they have seen a lot of cases of EVALI in teenagers. 5 or 6 in the last week. That’s more than the hospital has in total positive covid cases today.
I post this not for sympathy but because I want you to know what EVALI is like. It is nothing like I could ever imagine. I don’t wish this on anyone, no child, no parent. I don’t know how to get teenagers to understand the dangers. I’ve talked to Bryce about them before, calmly and at the top of my lungs. The school has educated the kids about it. He says he’ll never touch a vape pen again and I hope that is the case. But many of his friends aren’t understanding what he’s gone through as he tells them about it. He said the most common question he has gotten was “was your mom pissed?” He tells them “she was more concerned about me dying.”
Vaping is more common than you think, and your teenager is probably doing it. As harsh as this may sound, do not believe them when they say they aren’t. Check their room, check inside shoes, under the mattress, behind their dressers, backpacks, gym bags. Just check. These things are small, easy to hide, and even the pot ones have little to no smell. Does your kid have straight As? Participate in 50 extra curriculars? You still should be worried. I was on top of Bryce about this, I’ve found and taken things away before. I’ve punished him, limited his contact with friends, threatened, bribed, and watched him like a hawk. And yet still, he’s lying next to me having oxygen pumped into his nose. Your kid may be mad at you, but in my experience the feeling of him being angry with me for looking in his room was considerably better than any of the feelings I’ve had in the last 5 days.
I don’t know when we’ll leave the hospital. There’s about 4 things they need to see before they are satisfied he won’t end up back here. There is a 6 week recovery period.
This syndrome hasn’t been around long enough to know the long term effects. For that we’ll have to wait and see. I know the emotional toll will take a long time to heal for both of us.
I want to thank the amazing medical team at UCDavis for getting us through this. From the ER to the Pediatric unit, we’ve received nothing but top notch care with no judgment for how we ended up here. For that, I will be forever thankful.
I am posting this, publicly, with his permission. We are going to get through this together. Yes, I’m upset with his choices - but right now all that matters to me is that he goes home and can get healthy again.
I want to thank everyone who has offered to help us however you can. It means so much to us both.
5/15/20 - For an update on how he’s doing please check out this post: /?d=n
5/16/20 - update /?d=n
5/18/20 - update - we’re going home! /?d=n
*** 5/23/20 - In the last couple of days this post has picked up steam, which is a weird experience for both me and Bryce. We hoped to reach some people with our story and the reach has far exceeded our expectations. But this is the internet, so I expected some unkind, uneducated, and rude comments. Plus, there’s a weird phenomenon among some vapers that makes them slightly rabid toward anyone who would dare threaten their ability to inhale chemicals. I want to leave comments on because I do see value in a lot of the comments. But I will be deleting all pro-vape comments, so don’t bother. Don’t message me that garbage either, I won’t accept any of those messages so you’ll be wasting your time.
To answer common questions - (1) I am aware of the means by which my son was vaping, a lot of vapers probably use the same ones (2) I am aware of where he obtained it - nearly dying made him less worried about me being upset. (3) He is doing well, but the recovery isn’t overnight.
Finally, if you think kids can’t obtain things from official sources you are not at all in tune with reality. This may come as a surprise, but not all smoke shops and dispensaries follow the rules, because money is money.***
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Post by thelmadonna on May 28, 2020 21:35:51 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 28, 2020 23:04:53 GMT
I am gonna say it was laid on the 24th May. I am looking at it as a birthday gift. And why not? A heart crop circle to celebrate your birthday 🎂
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 28, 2020 23:05:48 GMT
HAL is alive and well and thelmadonna spotted drwu on a fortean forum.
So all are well thank goodness.
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 29, 2020 12:29:56 GMT
Good morning, good morning!
ArsTechnica
Archaeologists in Norway are about to dig up a Viking ship
The Gjellestad ship is roughly 1,200 years old.
Kiona N. Smith - 5/28/2020, 8:20 AM
A ground-penetrating radar survey in 2018 found a 20-meter Viking ship buried just beneath the surface of a farmer’s field in Østfold, Norway. At the time, archaeologists decided that the rare find was safest where it was. But recent analysis of a wood sample taken in 2019 reveals that although the ship looks remarkably well-preserved, it’s actually being eaten away by fungus. And that means it’s time for a rescue mission.
A Viking burial
The intended excavation is being led by archaeologist Jan Bill, curator of the Viking Ship Collection at Norway’s Museum of Cultural History, and his colleagues at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU). When they start digging in June, they’ll be the first archaeologists in a century to excavate a Viking ship.
The site, called Gjellestad, is especially interesting—and especially complicated. It’s a ship from the period when Scandinavian seafarers were raiding and settling their way around the North Sea and Atlantic—but it’s also the tomb of a Norse ruler. “Ship graves of this size were built for persons from the uppermost echelons in society—we would tend to call them kings and queens today, possibly also jarls,” Bill told Ars.
Such an important person would have been laid to rest aboard a ship laden with things they used in life and might need in the next one. “From other ship burials, we know that these may have included sledges, tents, boats, horses, beds, dogs, etc.,” Bill told Ars. “Usually, a male burial would feature weapons; both sexes would have food and items for food preparation; both sexes may also have personal bling (buckles, rings, etc.).”
The ship would have been buried beneath a huge monumental burial mound. Centuries of farmers’ plows have long since flattened the mound, but its outline still shows up clearly in ground-penetrating radar images: a neat circle around the long, narrow silhouette of a longboat’s hull. Bill and his colleagues hope that by excavating the ship and the lower layers of the burial, they can learn something about how, and why, the Norse interred their rulers this way.
“The way the burial has been arranged, the position of the ship, the position and sequence of objects in the ship, the possible presence of a burial chamber, the way the covering of the burial with a mound has been carried out—all these are things that may help to understand the burial ritual and the ideas behind it—for example, references to royal origin myths or to the cosmology,” Bill told Ars.
Preserving the Gjellestad ship
The hull itself may offer some insights into the finer points of Scandinavian shipbuilding. It’s not clear whether Gjellestad dates to the early or middle part of what’s known as the Viking Age, but the chance to take a few more wood samples for tree-ring dating may help answer that question. “Many different types of ship may have existed at the same time, and we only know a few Viking ships,” Bill told Ars.
Based on the radar images, the Gjellestad ship’s keel (a long, sturdy timber that serves as the backbone of the ship) and lower timbers are still intact. But the upper parts of the hull, along with all the rigging, were plowed away, along with the mound itself.
Preserving what’s left is going to be a major undertaking. That’s why archaeologists had initially planned to leave the ship where it was. Waterlogged wood tends to crumble if it dries out, because over time, the structure of the wood decays so far that the water is actually helping support the wood’s cells. To preserve timbers from shipwrecks, conservators have to slowly replace the water with preservatives, like polyethylene glycol (PEG).
Of course, the space and funding required to conserve an entire ship’s hull aren’t always easy to come by, which is why archaeologists who study shipwrecks often document their finds but leave the wrecks on the seabed, where they’re preserved for future researchers (or buried under a farm, in this case). But the same conditions that have preserved the Gjellestad ship for all these centuries also created the perfect habitat for wood-eating fungus.
“The fungus are of the 'soft rot' type and need humidity and oxygen,” Bill told Ars. “They are basically digesting all of the wood, with a preference for cellulose and hemicelluloses, but do also weaken the lignin structures to a point where no physical strength is remaining.” The conservation process should also help kill the fungus that’s eating the ship.
Is any body home?
There must have been at least one person buried aboard the ship, but Bill doesn’t expect to meet the long-dead Viking ruler in the flesh—or bone.
“Bones are generally best preserved in calcium-rich environments, not in slightly acidic [ones], as sand and silt tend to be,” he explained. But the archaeologists will analyze soil samples from the burial, looking for traces of what’s known as a “body stain,” where lipids from the body soaked into the soil. Jewelry and other metal items might also mark where a body once lay.
But even some of those items may be missing; the radar images show traces of disturbed soil near the middle of the ship, which might mean the burial was looted sometime in the past. Items buried at the bow and stern, however, are likely to still be where they were placed a millennium ago. With any luck, those items will be enough to tell Bill and his colleagues something about the person buried at Gjellestad.
The fungus that’s eating the Gjellestad ship’s timbers isn’t the only microbe Bill and his colleagues have to contend with. Archaeology is usually meticulous work, but fieldwork during a pandemic requires an extra level of caution. People working on the site will be spaced at least a meter apart, won’t share tools, and will take extra precautions with transportation to and from the site (as opposed to the usual method of piling as many archaeologists as possible into a van).
“It will delay the excavation,” Bill told Ars. “On the other hand, this is an excavation where we do not want to miss one ounce of information, so we are not rushing anything anyway.”
arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/archaeologists-in-norway-are-about-to-dig-up-a-viking-ship/
Crystal
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Post by swamprat on May 29, 2020 19:08:11 GMT
June 2020 temperature outlook from The Weather Company, an IBM Business.
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Post by thelmadonna on May 29, 2020 23:22:13 GMT
I am gonna say it was laid on the 24th May. I am looking at it as a birthday gift. And why not? A heart crop circle to celebrate your birthday 🎂
CrystalIt gets even crazier. This central pendulum heart used to be my key fob. I cant think where its got to.
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Post by moksha on May 30, 2020 11:06:23 GMT
THE REPORT
5-30-2020 H.E. # 530
H.E. # 0530
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 30, 2020 11:46:14 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers and stealth visitors,
Star Trek Billy Blackburn's Rare Home Movies
Jul 23, 2012
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 30, 2020 11:57:12 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 30, 2020 12:04:18 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2020 15:08:34 GMT
I think its called hyperthyroidism.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 31, 2020 12:31:52 GMT
Good morning lovely searchers,
Phys.org
For Russia, SpaceX success is 'wakeup call'
by Romain Colas 31 May 2020
Russia has lost its long-held monopoly as the only country able to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station following the flawless manned launch by US company SpaceX.
The Russian space agency congratulated the United States and Elon Musk's SpaceX on the first crewed flight ever by a private company, but experts said the launch should be a wakeup call for Roscosmos.
"The success of the mission will provide us with additional opportunities that will benefit the whole international programme," cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, Roscosmos executive director for crewed space programmes, said in a brief video address.
Saturday's launch was the first of American astronauts from US soil since the mothballing of the US shuttle programme in 2011 that left Russia's more basic and reliable Soyuz spacecraft solely responsible for transporting crews.
Astronauts since then have all trained at Star City outside Moscow and studied Russian before blasting off from Baikonur launchpad in Kazakhstan.
"These flights have been an unexpected chance for Moscow to keep producing Soyuz and retain a significant voice in negotiations over the ISS," said Isabelle Sourbes-Verger, a specialist in space policy at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
The Russian space agency has also earned large sums by ferrying astronauts: a seat in the Soyuz costs NASA around $80 million.
If SpaceX starts taking up all US astronauts, "the annual losses could be more than $200 million, a significant loss for Roscosmos's budget of around $2 billion," said Andrei Ionin, an expert at the Tsiolkovsky Space Academy in Moscow.
While Musk, the ambitious entrepreneur behind SpaceX, has named the price of a seat on his spacecraft as $60 million, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin has announced Russia is working to cut its price by 30 percent.
Ionin voiced scepticism over the plan.
"SpaceX is saving money by using cheap engines and manufacturing almost all its own parts," he said. "To do this, Russia would have to change its production process."
Another option is a barter system proposed by NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine: for every Russian riding in a US spaceship, one American would take a Soyuz.
'Wakeup call'
In a broader sense, the appearance of a rival such as SpaceX should be a "wakeup call" for the Russian space industry, which is "in far worse shape than those in charge admit," said Ionin.
A decade ago Russia was behind a large proportion of the world's launches, but that is no longer the case today due to competition from China and SpaceX.
"When we were losing the launches market, Roscosmos said everything was fine because we were the only ones sending people up to the ISS. Now that fig leaf has fallen off."
Russia's space sector is marred by corruption, with multiple scandals over the construction of the new Vostochny launchpad in the Far East.
The country's space industry has also failed to innovate, concentrating on modifying "Soviet technology without any major evolution," Ionin said.
The Russian space programme is renowned for having sent the first man into space in 1961 and launching the first satellite four years earlier, and its achievements remain a major source of national pride.
But more recently it has endured a series of setbacks, notably losing expensive spacecraft and satellites in recent years.
The rise of private companies like SpaceX, which has ambitions to conquer Mars, risks leaving Russia irrecoverably far behind, experts said.
Mars next?
For Russia to keep up, a government body independent of the space sector's main players needs to develop a new strategy, Ionin said.
"US President (Donald) Trump reestablished a body—the National Space Council—to set policy goals. We need to do the same thing."
Some observers sense a lack of political will from President Vladimir Putin who appears to be more focused on using rocket science to develop military capabilities, particularly hypersonic missiles.
"For Putin, space exploration isn't a priority when it comes to showing off the might of the state," said independent space expert Vitaly Yegorov.
For Ionin, reinvigorating the Russian space programme requires international cooperation, too.
Sourbes-Verger suggested any manned international mission to Mars "could be an opportunity for Russia to regain its standing by sharing its skills."
But, she said, the costs of any such mission would be so high that China—now the world's second space power in terms of launches—would need to be included.
Yet that prospect seems unlikely, she added, given that "the US Congress refuses any space cooperation with China."
phys.org/news/2020-05-russia-spacex-success-wakeup.html
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on May 31, 2020 12:43:16 GMT
Mysterious Universe
Latest Ghost Video From Haunted Hotel Has People Convinced It’s A Demon
Jocelyne LeBlanc May 31, 2020
A haunted hotel’s CCTV cameras caught a strange figure coming out of an elevator that has some people convinced is a demon. The “evil ghost” was seen at the Eagle’s Nest hotel in Quincy, Illinois, and it’s not the first time that the building has been associated with paranormal activity as it’s rumored to be haunted.
The hallway was completely empty and in the video you can see a cleaning cart near the elevator. You then see a child-like shadow figure running out of the elevator to the cart where it hid for a split second before darting back inside the elevator. What’s even more eerie is that the elevator doors were obviously closed because if they were opened, a light would have been visible.
Jennifer Majors, who is an employee at the hotel, posted the video to her Facebook page and it was then uploaded to YouTube where almost 60,000 people have viewed the video so far. You can decide for yourself if this child-like figure is a ghost or not as the video can be seen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR9tqZdP_SI as well as here: www.facebook.com/jennifer.majors.14/videos/10217333221429283
Apparently, the hotel’s employees have been experiencing strange occurrences for quite a while which includes seeing shadow figures from the corner of their eyes and hearing unexplained giggling. The majority of the paranormal activity centers around the maintenance man who has witnessed several strange things while working.
Even though the shadow figure appears to be the size of a child, some people believe that it’s something much more sinister like a demon. One viewer commented, “Don’t be fooled! That’s not a child! It’s a demon!” and another wrote, “They need to be very careful if it can physically move things and make a sound this would make it a poltergeist and unlikely a child.” Other unsettling comments include, “That is evil for sure,” and “It just hangs around someone who is going to die soon. It is waiting for his soul.”
Whether it’s a demon, a child’s spirit, or another explanation, the fact that a shadow figure emerged from a closed elevator door is definitely creepy for both employees and guests who stay at the allegedly haunted Eagle’s Nest hotel.
mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/05/latest-ghost-video-from-haunted-hotel-has-people-convinced-its-a-demon/
Crystal
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