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Scientists Say There’s an ‘Anti-Universe’ Running Backward in Time
A mirror universe could potentially explain where dark matter comes from.
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Here's one for the "Stupid Human Tricks" pages. Nice to see the Cedars Sinai MD put the "instant gratification" that places like this tout just being due to the increased hydration, and not the IV's other constituents.
In truth, I've often fantasized about coffee and alcohol IVs, but never something I've seriously considered...
pressherald.com/2022/04/13/new-business-at-rock-row-offers-on-demand-ivs/
By Chance Viles April 13, 2022
Tom and Kelly McCarthy of Newburyport, Massachusetts, try out the services at the services during their first visit to The Drip Bar at Rock Row in Westbrook. Chance Viles / American Journal
If you have a headache, or feel sluggish, or are suffering the effects of too much alcohol the night before, a new business at Rock Row in Westbrook says it has a drip for that.
The Drip Bar offers on-demand intravenous delivery of vitamins and minerals tailored to what ails you.
“The major benefit is that all of these vitamins and nutrients are going right to your bloodstream. When you are ill or unwell you might not be absorbing everything through your gut,” said franchise owner and registered nurse Kara Roach. “It’s not curative. We don’t cure issues, but we want to help with them.”
While professionals are split on the effectiveness of these kinds of infusions, Roach, scores of internet testimonials and numerous celebrities swear by the instant relief of “a drip,” in this case administered by one of several registered nurses working at the Westbrook shop.
Customers choose from a menu of vitamin cocktails targeting specific ailments, such as sluggishness, dehydration or jet lag, or opt for a mix designed to improve skin and hair health. Prices range from about $100 for a basic drip up to $350.
Most of the 18 cocktails contain the same or similar vitamins as a multi-vitamin, but a mixture focusing on skin and hair health would include more biotin, for instance. Cocktails for brain fog lean heavier on vitamin B12, while hydration packs have more collagen and Vitamin D. Other ingredients could include mistletoe or antioxidants like alpha-lipoic acid.
After making their selection, customers settle into one of the reclining chairs with their IV bag hanging overhead. A nurse measures vital signs before beginning the drip.
IVs can make some people nauseated, and a non-narcotic nausea medicine is available if customers feel ill. They can also cause some people to feel chilly, in which case blankets are provided.
It can take anywhere from 25 minutes to an hour to receive the infusion; the speed is up to the customer.
Roach emphasizes The Drip Bar’s cleanliness. All supplements are first sent to labs for testing to ensure their safety and the facility complies with government standards for sterilization required of pharmacies, she said.
Customers now choose from lab-tested drips that come directly from pharmacies, but The Drip Bar soon will have hospital-grade sterilization equipment that will allow it to mix its own drips in-house. The equipment will eliminate any concern about bacterial growth that could cause infections, Roach said.
Her interest in on-demand intravenous vitamin therapy began during a trip to Las Vegas, she said. She noticed a number of drip buses catering to partying gamblers, who would get an infusion and then be shuttled to their next venue. Similar businesses in large cities bring drips to offices or residences.
Roach hopes to emulate that mobility and plans to offer a mobile option in the future.
Health experts don’t agree on the effectiveness of drip therapy.
Drip bars are typically safe, but drinking nutrients can be just as effective and certainly less expensive, physician Robert Shmerling, the senior editor of Harvard Health Publishing, wrote in a 2018 article.
Staff at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles said drip therapy benefits patients with gastrointestinal issues who can’t always absorb vitamins and minerals when taken orally, but they contend there isn’t enough scientific evidence to prove whether IV drips are beneficial long term, according to a 2019 blog post on the hospital website.
In that post, Dr. Sam Torbati, co-chair of Emergency Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, said the instant relief felt after treatment is likely related to rapid hydration rather than the vitamins.
Tom and Kelly McCarthy, a Newburyport, Massachusetts, couple, visited The Drip Bar in Westbrook for the first time last week.
“I have friends and family who actually swear by this, so I wanted to try it,” he said. “I’m a believer in more alternative medicine, acupuncture, chiropractors, so it was up my alley.”
His wife agreed.
“For me, I am running a half marathon next week, and I had a big run last weekend. I am hoping this helps with my sort of recovery in between,” she said while receiving her IV treatment.
McCarthy said she is normally worried about needles, but the nurses were good at distraction and making a needle entry.
“I would definitely come back here, “she said.
The Drip Bar opened about a month ago near Rock Row’s designated medical campus, which will be anchored by New England Cancer Specialists. Developers said earlier they hoped to attract health-minded businesses to their project.
“It is really great to see what we call ‘functional medicine,’ paired with traditional medicines. I am excited to be here,” Roach said.
In truth, I've often fantasized about coffee and alcohol IVs, but never something I've seriously considered...
New business at Rock Row offers on-demand IVs
By Chance Viles April 13, 2022
Tom and Kelly McCarthy of Newburyport, Massachusetts, try out the services at the services during their first visit to The Drip Bar at Rock Row in Westbrook. Chance Viles / American Journal
If you have a headache, or feel sluggish, or are suffering the effects of too much alcohol the night before, a new business at Rock Row in Westbrook says it has a drip for that.
The Drip Bar offers on-demand intravenous delivery of vitamins and minerals tailored to what ails you.
“The major benefit is that all of these vitamins and nutrients are going right to your bloodstream. When you are ill or unwell you might not be absorbing everything through your gut,” said franchise owner and registered nurse Kara Roach. “It’s not curative. We don’t cure issues, but we want to help with them.”
While professionals are split on the effectiveness of these kinds of infusions, Roach, scores of internet testimonials and numerous celebrities swear by the instant relief of “a drip,” in this case administered by one of several registered nurses working at the Westbrook shop.
Customers choose from a menu of vitamin cocktails targeting specific ailments, such as sluggishness, dehydration or jet lag, or opt for a mix designed to improve skin and hair health. Prices range from about $100 for a basic drip up to $350.
Most of the 18 cocktails contain the same or similar vitamins as a multi-vitamin, but a mixture focusing on skin and hair health would include more biotin, for instance. Cocktails for brain fog lean heavier on vitamin B12, while hydration packs have more collagen and Vitamin D. Other ingredients could include mistletoe or antioxidants like alpha-lipoic acid.
After making their selection, customers settle into one of the reclining chairs with their IV bag hanging overhead. A nurse measures vital signs before beginning the drip.
IVs can make some people nauseated, and a non-narcotic nausea medicine is available if customers feel ill. They can also cause some people to feel chilly, in which case blankets are provided.
It can take anywhere from 25 minutes to an hour to receive the infusion; the speed is up to the customer.
Roach emphasizes The Drip Bar’s cleanliness. All supplements are first sent to labs for testing to ensure their safety and the facility complies with government standards for sterilization required of pharmacies, she said.
Customers now choose from lab-tested drips that come directly from pharmacies, but The Drip Bar soon will have hospital-grade sterilization equipment that will allow it to mix its own drips in-house. The equipment will eliminate any concern about bacterial growth that could cause infections, Roach said.
Her interest in on-demand intravenous vitamin therapy began during a trip to Las Vegas, she said. She noticed a number of drip buses catering to partying gamblers, who would get an infusion and then be shuttled to their next venue. Similar businesses in large cities bring drips to offices or residences.
Roach hopes to emulate that mobility and plans to offer a mobile option in the future.
Health experts don’t agree on the effectiveness of drip therapy.
Drip bars are typically safe, but drinking nutrients can be just as effective and certainly less expensive, physician Robert Shmerling, the senior editor of Harvard Health Publishing, wrote in a 2018 article.
Staff at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles said drip therapy benefits patients with gastrointestinal issues who can’t always absorb vitamins and minerals when taken orally, but they contend there isn’t enough scientific evidence to prove whether IV drips are beneficial long term, according to a 2019 blog post on the hospital website.
In that post, Dr. Sam Torbati, co-chair of Emergency Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, said the instant relief felt after treatment is likely related to rapid hydration rather than the vitamins.
Tom and Kelly McCarthy, a Newburyport, Massachusetts, couple, visited The Drip Bar in Westbrook for the first time last week.
“I have friends and family who actually swear by this, so I wanted to try it,” he said. “I’m a believer in more alternative medicine, acupuncture, chiropractors, so it was up my alley.”
His wife agreed.
“For me, I am running a half marathon next week, and I had a big run last weekend. I am hoping this helps with my sort of recovery in between,” she said while receiving her IV treatment.
McCarthy said she is normally worried about needles, but the nurses were good at distraction and making a needle entry.
“I would definitely come back here, “she said.
The Drip Bar opened about a month ago near Rock Row’s designated medical campus, which will be anchored by New England Cancer Specialists. Developers said earlier they hoped to attract health-minded businesses to their project.
“It is really great to see what we call ‘functional medicine,’ paired with traditional medicines. I am excited to be here,” Roach said.
This is pretty cool, replacing a busy highway's bridge with only 72 hours of a traffic shut down. I would hope that this becomes a standard practice nation-wide instead of the agita of projects that cause traffic disruptions for years!!
pressherald.com/2022/04/22/demolition-work-begins-on-section-of-i-295-in-portland/
By Joe Lawlor April 23, 2022
Debris falls during the start of demolition on the Veranda Street Bridge Friday night. Pittsfield-based Cianbro hopes to have the I-295 bridge demolished by Saturday afternoon so it can start moving the replacement spans into place. The project, including repaving, is expected to be completed in time to reopen the interstate by 11 a.m. Monday.
The great bridge switcheroo has begun.
As the sun set on Friday, construction workers embarked on an engineering feat designed to demolish a four-lane highway bridge and replace it over a long weekend.
Cianbro, the large Pittsfield-based construction company, started removing the bridge on Interstate 295 that goes over Veranda Street in Portland on Friday night. After the demolition is completed on Saturday, the two new bridge sections that were built next to the highway will be moved into place using “self-propelled modular transporters,” kind of like fitting a concrete puzzle together or playing a mammoth game of Tetris.
All four travel lanes of I-295 between exits 9 and 10 were closed Friday at 7 p.m. and will remain closed through the weekend, with the work expected to wrap up by 11 a.m. Monday.
Several Cianbro excavators began work at 7 p.m. on Friday, and within 30 minutes already had created a gap-toothed section of the bridge. The 60-year-old bridge is past its useful life and has been classified as structurally deficient. The replacement cost is $20.8 million.
About a dozen local residents watched, some recording videos or taking photos with their cellphones or cameras. Fat Guys mobile food vendor was selling sausages and fries.
Shaun Milano, a nearby Portland resident, described what was going to happen with a series of flapping, waving and pointing hand motions.
“They’re going to slide those two big things in place and drop them down,” said Milano, an electrical engineer.
“It’s a great engineering project. Even though it’s not the world’s most amazing engineering feat, it’s still pretty cool to check out,” Milano said, talking loudly so he could be heard above the sound of jackhammers and with billowing puffs of dust off in the distance.
The movement of the two bridge sections will begin early Saturday afternoon and take until late Saturday night or early Sunday morning.
Paul Merrill, spokesman for the Maine Department of Transportation, said “tonight (Friday night) is going to be the noisy night.”
RESIDENTS ENJOY THE SHOW
Neighborhood resident Chris Wallace took some photos Friday evening, and said she planned to sleep through the demolition, although she might have to use ear plugs.
“They warned us it was going to be loud, but I don’t think it’s too loud,” Wallace said.
Andy Dixon, who lives just across the border in Falmouth, biked down to take a look at the work.
“I think this is awesome,” Dixon said. “If they hadn’t done it this way, it would have been a nightmare for a year or two.”
“Additional work setting up and finalizing the bridges will happen with the paving of I-295 scheduled to take place Sunday afternoon into early Monday morning, allowing for an opening back up of I-295 on Monday morning,” the DOT said in a news release.
To view the demolition and construction activities, including a time-lapse of the work done so far, go to verandaplan.org.
Local traffic in the area of the closure of Veranda Street, between Olympia and Oregon streets, should use Oregon Street for local traffic. Only local residents, businesses or customers of those businesses may enter the area this weekend.
About 53,000 motor vehicles use the stretch of I-295 between Portland and Falmouth every day.
Demolition work begins on section of I-295 in Portland
By Joe Lawlor April 23, 2022
Debris falls during the start of demolition on the Veranda Street Bridge Friday night. Pittsfield-based Cianbro hopes to have the I-295 bridge demolished by Saturday afternoon so it can start moving the replacement spans into place. The project, including repaving, is expected to be completed in time to reopen the interstate by 11 a.m. Monday.
The great bridge switcheroo has begun.
As the sun set on Friday, construction workers embarked on an engineering feat designed to demolish a four-lane highway bridge and replace it over a long weekend.
Cianbro, the large Pittsfield-based construction company, started removing the bridge on Interstate 295 that goes over Veranda Street in Portland on Friday night. After the demolition is completed on Saturday, the two new bridge sections that were built next to the highway will be moved into place using “self-propelled modular transporters,” kind of like fitting a concrete puzzle together or playing a mammoth game of Tetris.
All four travel lanes of I-295 between exits 9 and 10 were closed Friday at 7 p.m. and will remain closed through the weekend, with the work expected to wrap up by 11 a.m. Monday.
Several Cianbro excavators began work at 7 p.m. on Friday, and within 30 minutes already had created a gap-toothed section of the bridge. The 60-year-old bridge is past its useful life and has been classified as structurally deficient. The replacement cost is $20.8 million.
About a dozen local residents watched, some recording videos or taking photos with their cellphones or cameras. Fat Guys mobile food vendor was selling sausages and fries.
Shaun Milano, a nearby Portland resident, described what was going to happen with a series of flapping, waving and pointing hand motions.
“They’re going to slide those two big things in place and drop them down,” said Milano, an electrical engineer.
“It’s a great engineering project. Even though it’s not the world’s most amazing engineering feat, it’s still pretty cool to check out,” Milano said, talking loudly so he could be heard above the sound of jackhammers and with billowing puffs of dust off in the distance.
The movement of the two bridge sections will begin early Saturday afternoon and take until late Saturday night or early Sunday morning.
Paul Merrill, spokesman for the Maine Department of Transportation, said “tonight (Friday night) is going to be the noisy night.”
RESIDENTS ENJOY THE SHOW
Neighborhood resident Chris Wallace took some photos Friday evening, and said she planned to sleep through the demolition, although she might have to use ear plugs.
“They warned us it was going to be loud, but I don’t think it’s too loud,” Wallace said.
Andy Dixon, who lives just across the border in Falmouth, biked down to take a look at the work.
“I think this is awesome,” Dixon said. “If they hadn’t done it this way, it would have been a nightmare for a year or two.”
“Additional work setting up and finalizing the bridges will happen with the paving of I-295 scheduled to take place Sunday afternoon into early Monday morning, allowing for an opening back up of I-295 on Monday morning,” the DOT said in a news release.
To view the demolition and construction activities, including a time-lapse of the work done so far, go to verandaplan.org.
Local traffic in the area of the closure of Veranda Street, between Olympia and Oregon streets, should use Oregon Street for local traffic. Only local residents, businesses or customers of those businesses may enter the area this weekend.
About 53,000 motor vehicles use the stretch of I-295 between Portland and Falmouth every day.
wader
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not so much of a WTF - more of a Bravo!!
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OLKILUOTO ISLAND, Finland ― From the outside, it looks like any other modern Nordic building rising several stories from a cleared swath of pine forest on this quiet, rural island off this country’s verdant southwest coast.
But inside, hard-hatted workers are busy completing a feat of engineering that has never existed. It involves a robotic system and a basement network of switchbacking tunnels carved more than 1,300 feet into the Earth’s crust. Once finished, the project, called Onkalo, will turn the page to a new chapter of nuclear energy’s turbulent 80-year story and make history for the power plant just a two-minute drive down the road.
In a matter of months, the machines inside this boxy gray building will begin a weekly routine that will continue for a century: placing highly radioactive gray cuboid rods into copper cylinders the length of a Lincoln Town Car. From there, the canisters will travel roughly two hours underground to crypts meant to keep the spent-fuel rods undisturbed for millennia in bedrock that geologists say hasn’t shifted in almost 2 billion years. Sealed twice over in bentonite clay ― which expands when wet, preventing water from seeping in and corroding the capsules, and offers stability in case of an earthquake ― this site is meant to entomb nuclear waste for as close to eternity as any human endeavor can guarantee.
On its own, the new reactor would be notable as a rare bullish bet on atomic power at a time when, despite the world’s attempts to slash climate-changing emissions and wean Europe off the fossil fuels financing Russia’s war machine, more countries have closed nuclear plants than have opened new ones. But Onkalo makes this the world’s first nuclear power plant that solves the problem of the toxic waste that has for years rendered humanity’s most reliable and efficient energy source politically radioactive across much of the globe.
Finland Is On The Brink Of A Nuclear Power ‘Game Changer’
The radioactive waste question has bedeviled the energy sector and made nuclear power controversial, but the Finns have a plan to dispose of it for 100,000 years.
OLKILUOTO ISLAND, Finland ― From the outside, it looks like any other modern Nordic building rising several stories from a cleared swath of pine forest on this quiet, rural island off this country’s verdant southwest coast.
But inside, hard-hatted workers are busy completing a feat of engineering that has never existed. It involves a robotic system and a basement network of switchbacking tunnels carved more than 1,300 feet into the Earth’s crust. Once finished, the project, called Onkalo, will turn the page to a new chapter of nuclear energy’s turbulent 80-year story and make history for the power plant just a two-minute drive down the road.
In a matter of months, the machines inside this boxy gray building will begin a weekly routine that will continue for a century: placing highly radioactive gray cuboid rods into copper cylinders the length of a Lincoln Town Car. From there, the canisters will travel roughly two hours underground to crypts meant to keep the spent-fuel rods undisturbed for millennia in bedrock that geologists say hasn’t shifted in almost 2 billion years. Sealed twice over in bentonite clay ― which expands when wet, preventing water from seeping in and corroding the capsules, and offers stability in case of an earthquake ― this site is meant to entomb nuclear waste for as close to eternity as any human endeavor can guarantee.
On its own, the new reactor would be notable as a rare bullish bet on atomic power at a time when, despite the world’s attempts to slash climate-changing emissions and wean Europe off the fossil fuels financing Russia’s war machine, more countries have closed nuclear plants than have opened new ones. But Onkalo makes this the world’s first nuclear power plant that solves the problem of the toxic waste that has for years rendered humanity’s most reliable and efficient energy source politically radioactive across much of the globe.
wader
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A Father Bought Bugattis For Each Of His Six Kids
And for good measure, he bought two for himself…
wader
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A wild turkey is on the attack in D.C.
There's a menace haunting the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail in Washington. It hunts the lonely, quiet stretch of woods between an aquatic garden and a recreation center. Suddenly, it appears in front of a biker, walker or runner and gives chase, flapping, slashing with its talons - and gobbling...
There's a menace haunting the Anacostia Riverwalk Trail in Washington. It hunts the lonely, quiet stretch of woods between an aquatic garden and a recreation center. Suddenly, it appears in front of a biker, walker or runner and gives chase, flapping, slashing with its talons - and gobbling. It's a male wild turkey, and it's already sent someone to urgent care.
Now, scientists, park rangers and others are out to catch the wild butterball. Despite its fowl attitude, victims want it peacefully relocated. The turkey's presence might ruffle feathers, but it's also a sign of the recovery of a species - a story of conservation success.
wader
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New evidence for near-death experiences offers clearer insight into what happens when we're dying
In Shakespeare’s most famous soliloquy, while Hamlet is asking whether it is better to be or not to be, he imagines the potential consequences of death. He envisions death as a long sleep and he wonders, in that sleep of death, what dreams may come. It’s a question that has plagued humanity for...
wader
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As world reopens, North Korea is one of two countries without vaccines
SEOUL - As mask mandates and social distancing requirements lift around the world, North Korea remains one of two countries that have not administered any coronavirus vaccines, with no sign of how it can ever begin to reopen despite a brewing humanitarian crisis for its people. The vaccines that...
wader
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Indonesia, the world's top cooking-oil exporter, says it's going to ban exports of the oil this week, and it's sent the global prices of edible oils soaring
Indonesia accounts for about half of the world's supply of palm oil — the world's most widely used vegetable oil.
- Top palm-oil exporter Indonesia is planning to ban exports from this Thursday.
- Palm oil is the world's most widely used vegetable oil used in cooking and a wide range of consumer products.
- Palm oil and competing soybean oil prices are jumping on news of the ban.
Indonesia accounts for about half of the world's supply of palm oil, the world's most widely used vegetable oil. Palm oil is used for cooking and for the production of thousands of consumer products including biscuits, detergents, and lipsticks.
Now they're just making s*** up to use the R word.....
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Lawmakers strike the word ‘marijuana’ from all state laws, calling term racist
Supporters say the word “marijuana” has a long history of racism.
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Serial cat killer is 'lacing treats with rat poison': RSPCA issues warning to pet owners after three beloved moggies are found dead in space of two months
- Three animals have already died and the charity fears more are being targeted
- Two cats, belonging to the same owner, were found dead in garden and alleyway
- Body of a third cat was discovered in a nearby street and owners are devestated
There was a guy when i was a kid used to shoot arrows at alley cats. URBAN HUNTING
wader
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I have a pellet gun that shoots plastic pellets for the strays around here. Cats need to be kept indoors as they can't be contolled or confined to your property.
movetheboat
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Florida sheriff tells citizens he’s fine with them shooting likely intruders — he just doesn’t want them to miss their target
NYDAILYNEWS.COM
Florida sheriff tells locals ‘we prefer’ that you shoot intruders
THE JAILS ARE ALREADY FULL IN THAT DUMP
NYDAILYNEWS.COM
Florida sheriff tells locals ‘we prefer’ that you shoot intruders
THE JAILS ARE ALREADY FULL IN THAT DUMP
Avenger
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Never liked these things:
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The copper jaws of venomous bloodworms could be a win for sustainable manufacturing
The copper fangs of these feisty marine worms could inspire future sustainable manufacturing processes.
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