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Avenger
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Chitty roads in these corrupt he!!holes? Do tell. 
Long Island drivers are paying $3,700 a year for dangerous, failing roads, report says
Drivers in the metro area, which includes Long Island, spend about $3,755 per vehicle due to higher costs, traffic crashes and congestion delays, a transportation nonprofit says.
www.newsday.com
Avenger
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Just curious,..
When will the followers of the book of Mohammad apologize for slavery. Seems like only one race, or nationality gets blamed for slavery. Or, realistically anything bad.
www.theguardian.com
When will the followers of the book of Mohammad apologize for slavery. Seems like only one race, or nationality gets blamed for slavery. Or, realistically anything bad.
Calls for King Charles to formally apologise for slavery after research shows crown’s role
Book The Crown’s Silence details how crown profited from and protected trade in enslaved African people for centuries
www.theguardian.com
OVERBORED
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Paterson warns drivers after residents use chairs, trash cans to save parking spots
Many vehicles remain stuck behind tall piles of snow, with some cars plowed in as crews work to clear roadways.
newjersey.news12.com
I don't know, maybe it headed North in search of warmer temps??
A Rhode Island man digging out his driveway this week discovered a large lizard thousands of miles from its natural habitat buried in nearly 20 inches of snow, leaving the animal weakened but on a slow path to recovery.
The lizard, a tegu, which is found in South America, was suffering from frostbite to its tongue and “showed signs of significant muscle weakness after prolonged exposure to the cold,” the New England Wildlife Center, an organization that provides veterinary care, said on Facebook.
The man who found the animal was not publicly identified, but his quick thinking helped save it, as he brought it into his home and wrapped it in a T-shirt “to help conserve heat,” the center said.
He then contacted the owners of ET Reptiles in Warwick, R.I., which responded immediately and retrieved the animal to give it the best chances of survival.
Tegu lizards, like all reptiles, are ectotherms (more commonly called coldblooded) and, as a result, their body temperature rises and falls with that of the environment.
“When temperatures drop too low for too long, their metabolism slows, blood flow is compromised, and cells begin to fail,” the center said. “In this case, the cold likely led to tissue damage and a cold-induced myopathy, essentially muscle injury caused by inadequate circulation and energy at low temperatures.”
It’s unclear where the lizard came from, the center said, but it was found “extremely weak, underweight, and not moving well.”
After the lizard was taken from the man, it was “gradually warmed at room temperature and closely monitored,” until an animal hospital visit could be arranged, the center said.
Two of the center’s doctors treated the lizard for its injuries, which included amputating “nonviable tissue” from its tongue and providing steroids to “help address inflammation and generalized weakness,” the center said.
Kevin Torregrosa, the curator of herpetology at the Bronx Zoo, said the lizard is a South American species that’s “certainly not well adapted to the winters of the Northeast.”
While there are different tegu species, one type, known as black-and-white, has been increasingly found in the wild in southeastern states like Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina because they are released by pet owners.
They can grow several feet long, weigh up to 10 pounds and live up to 20 years.
ET Reptiles, the shop that helped with the lizard’s rescue, referred to the animal as Frankie on Facebook on Thursday.
Calling the lizard a “fighter,” the shop reported seeing “small but encouraging changes.”
“Frankie is more alert and more active than she was initially, which gives us so much hope,” ET Reptiles said, before cautioning that the animal was not “completely out of the woods just yet.”
The shop said that the lizard was starting a course of antibiotics for an upper respiratory infection and that it would continue to closely monitor its health.
“Recovery will take time, patience, and a lot of support,” the shop said. “But Frankie is showing us just how strong she can be!”
Large Lizard Is Rescued After It’s Found Buried in Rhode Island Snow
The reptile, a tegu, had frostbite and showed signs of weakness from exposure in this week’s cold weather. It was unclear where it came from.A Rhode Island man digging out his driveway this week discovered a large lizard thousands of miles from its natural habitat buried in nearly 20 inches of snow, leaving the animal weakened but on a slow path to recovery.
The lizard, a tegu, which is found in South America, was suffering from frostbite to its tongue and “showed signs of significant muscle weakness after prolonged exposure to the cold,” the New England Wildlife Center, an organization that provides veterinary care, said on Facebook.
The man who found the animal was not publicly identified, but his quick thinking helped save it, as he brought it into his home and wrapped it in a T-shirt “to help conserve heat,” the center said.
He then contacted the owners of ET Reptiles in Warwick, R.I., which responded immediately and retrieved the animal to give it the best chances of survival.
Tegu lizards, like all reptiles, are ectotherms (more commonly called coldblooded) and, as a result, their body temperature rises and falls with that of the environment.
“When temperatures drop too low for too long, their metabolism slows, blood flow is compromised, and cells begin to fail,” the center said. “In this case, the cold likely led to tissue damage and a cold-induced myopathy, essentially muscle injury caused by inadequate circulation and energy at low temperatures.”
It’s unclear where the lizard came from, the center said, but it was found “extremely weak, underweight, and not moving well.”
After the lizard was taken from the man, it was “gradually warmed at room temperature and closely monitored,” until an animal hospital visit could be arranged, the center said.
Two of the center’s doctors treated the lizard for its injuries, which included amputating “nonviable tissue” from its tongue and providing steroids to “help address inflammation and generalized weakness,” the center said.
Kevin Torregrosa, the curator of herpetology at the Bronx Zoo, said the lizard is a South American species that’s “certainly not well adapted to the winters of the Northeast.”
While there are different tegu species, one type, known as black-and-white, has been increasingly found in the wild in southeastern states like Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina because they are released by pet owners.
They can grow several feet long, weigh up to 10 pounds and live up to 20 years.
ET Reptiles, the shop that helped with the lizard’s rescue, referred to the animal as Frankie on Facebook on Thursday.
Calling the lizard a “fighter,” the shop reported seeing “small but encouraging changes.”
“Frankie is more alert and more active than she was initially, which gives us so much hope,” ET Reptiles said, before cautioning that the animal was not “completely out of the woods just yet.”
The shop said that the lizard was starting a course of antibiotics for an upper respiratory infection and that it would continue to closely monitor its health.
“Recovery will take time, patience, and a lot of support,” the shop said. “But Frankie is showing us just how strong she can be!”
Avenger
Well-Known Angler
I'm kind of up to my eyeballs with these fu¢#ing idiots who love scaly things bringing them into an environment they don't belong in and then either not securing them properly or "releasing" them into the wild when they get out of hand.
Iguanas falling out of trees and giant snakes in the swamps of Floriduh, and now some poor Tegu is suffering because a selfish blowhole wanted a pet. Pets with a brain the size of a pea, that probably would eat them without a thought if the opportunity arose.
Morons.
Hospital evacuated after 8-inch WWI artillery shell discovered in patient’s butt
It was a bum-shell discovery.
nypost.com
ALIENS!!!
Some reached for melatonin for their pets and for themselves. They also downloaded white-noise apps. Others resorted to earplugs.
But those remedies for the sleep-deprived have offered little respite in one Connecticut shoreline city, where a phantom humming sound has reverberated persistently in several neighborhoods in recent years.
The low-frequency noise, which has drawn comparisons to a kitchen range downdraft or a Shop-Vac, has prompted more than 200 complaints from residents of West Haven, Conn., who have struggled to identify the cause.
So has the city of about 55,000 people, home to part of Yale University’s West Campus, beaches, industrial facilities and New Haven-style “apizza,” pronounced ah-beetz.
Last month, the City Council voted to spend $16,000 to hire an acoustics expert to place noise-monitoring equipment at several locations to try to solve the mystery.
Most of the complaints have been clustered in a part of the city known as West Shore, where a food ingredient plant known for making edible sparkles is drawing renewed scrutiny despite its past sound-dampening efforts.
The humming noise has penetrated dense building materials, including the brick exterior and plaster walls of a home owned by Donna Rzasa.
“In the beginning, I think we all thought we were losing our mind,” Ms. Rzasa, 56, said in an interview.
Ms. Rzasa recalled how she has been awakened in the middle of the night by the humming, which she first noticed last year. It has not been conducive to her early-morning schedule delivering mail for the U.S. Postal Service.
“Once you’re up, you’re done,” she said.
Eight houses away from Ms. Rzasa’s home, Kimberly Nunes, 38, said the noise had been a nagging problem for about three years.
“I can be laying down in bed, and you can still hear it with the television sound on,” said Ms. Nunes, who works in health care.
In December, Ms. Nunes started an online petition that more than 150 people signed asking the city to take action on the noise.
Dorinda Borer, West Haven’s mayor and a former state representative, said it was her hope that the acoustics study, which should take about four weeks, would pinpoint the sound’s source.
“I think if you had a continual noise, you know, this would drive you crazy, right?” Ms. Borer said. “There’s no relief from it sometimes, and it impacts people in different ways. So there may be four people living in a home, two people hear it, two people don’t.”
Erica D. Walker, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health who runs the Community Noise Lab housed at the university, said low-frequency noises can disrupt sleep cycles and cause anxiety and depression.
“People feel imprisoned by it,” Dr. Walker said. “It’s kind of destroying the acoustical fabric of a community. It’s anxiety-driven. You appeal to authorities. They don’t know what to do about it. They think you’re crazy.”
In the United States, she said, scientific research on the side effects of low-frequency noises has been more focused in military settings than civilian ones.
“It’s hard to abate,” she said. “It’s hard to pinpoint. There’s an incredibly disorienting effect to it.”
Herb Singleton, an acoustical consultant and president of Cross-Spectrum Acoustics Inc., which has helped other communities study similar disturbances, said a sound’s frequency component is different from its loudness component, which is measured in decibels.
Low-frequency noises, like a rumble, have longer wavelengths that can cover greater distances, according to Mr. Singleton, who said cellphone recordings of the noise were not likely to convey the magnitude of the problem because they are designed to suppress those sounds.
Most of the time, Mr. Singleton said, acoustics experts are able to zero in on a culprit.
“It’s typically mechanical equipment,” he said.
In Connecticut, noise traveling from an industrial zone to a residential area is considered excessive if it goes above 61 decibels during the day and 51 decibels at night, roughly the level of a normal conversation or a household refrigerator, under the state’s and West Haven’s noise laws.
If the city can prove that the noise sticks out above other tones, those limits decrease by five decibels.
John Carrano, West Haven’s human services commissioner, has taken informal readings with a decibel meter at dozens of locations, including at his home in a neighborhood overlooking Glanbia Nutritionals, the company that makes edible sparkles that are used in confections.
A vast majority of those readings did not exceed permitted levels, according to Mr. Carrano, who said during a City Council meeting on Jan. 12 that the city was required to isolate the noise and prove its origin before it could issue a violation.
“We’d be out at 11 o’clock at night, 2 o’clock in the morning, 5 o’clock in the morning, trying to find these sounds,” Mr. Carrano said.
In a statement, Glanbia Nutritionals, which is based in Ireland, said it was committed to being a responsible neighbor and had taken steps to address noise, including installing fully enclosed air compressors, upgrading mufflers and constructing targeted sound barriers.
“Independent third-party sound testing, including both extended and multi-location assessments, indicates that our site operates within applicable limits,” the company said. “We have nonetheless implemented a series of precautionary measures to improve sound management at the site.”
Christopher E. Vargo Jr., the City Council chairman, said he accompanied Mr. Carrano to investigate the noise after residents complained.
“It’s kind of like driving down the highway, and you open up the rear passenger window only,” he said in an interview, describing the noise. “You have this, for lack of a better word, like a strong, intense whoosh.”
Tracy Sabia, 66, a retiree whose home overlooks the industrial zone and the food ingredient plant, said she was already dealing with sleep apnea when she started hearing the humming.
“It’s just terrible,” she said. “It’s 24/7. No matter what room you go in, you hear it.”
At Ms. Rzasa’s home, which is about 1.3 miles from the industrial zone, her dog, Quigley, a rescue mix, has also shown signs of being agitated by the noise.
“Twelve-thirty this morning, my dog got me up and all I heard was the humming,” she said.
Ms. Rzasa said she downloaded a white-noise app on her phone, but it drained the battery during the night.
Then she tried using a similar feature on her Alexa-enabled speaker, but she quit using it because she needed to pay for a subscription. So she invested in a white-noise machine.
“At least we know we’re not crazy,” she said.
A Phantom Humming Has a Connecticut City at Wit’s End
West Haven, Conn., has budgeted $16,000 for an acoustics expert to try to pinpoint the source of a low-frequency disturbance that has disrupted residents’ lives.Some reached for melatonin for their pets and for themselves. They also downloaded white-noise apps. Others resorted to earplugs.
But those remedies for the sleep-deprived have offered little respite in one Connecticut shoreline city, where a phantom humming sound has reverberated persistently in several neighborhoods in recent years.
The low-frequency noise, which has drawn comparisons to a kitchen range downdraft or a Shop-Vac, has prompted more than 200 complaints from residents of West Haven, Conn., who have struggled to identify the cause.
So has the city of about 55,000 people, home to part of Yale University’s West Campus, beaches, industrial facilities and New Haven-style “apizza,” pronounced ah-beetz.
Last month, the City Council voted to spend $16,000 to hire an acoustics expert to place noise-monitoring equipment at several locations to try to solve the mystery.
Most of the complaints have been clustered in a part of the city known as West Shore, where a food ingredient plant known for making edible sparkles is drawing renewed scrutiny despite its past sound-dampening efforts.
The humming noise has penetrated dense building materials, including the brick exterior and plaster walls of a home owned by Donna Rzasa.
“In the beginning, I think we all thought we were losing our mind,” Ms. Rzasa, 56, said in an interview.
Ms. Rzasa recalled how she has been awakened in the middle of the night by the humming, which she first noticed last year. It has not been conducive to her early-morning schedule delivering mail for the U.S. Postal Service.
“Once you’re up, you’re done,” she said.
Eight houses away from Ms. Rzasa’s home, Kimberly Nunes, 38, said the noise had been a nagging problem for about three years.
“I can be laying down in bed, and you can still hear it with the television sound on,” said Ms. Nunes, who works in health care.
In December, Ms. Nunes started an online petition that more than 150 people signed asking the city to take action on the noise.
Dorinda Borer, West Haven’s mayor and a former state representative, said it was her hope that the acoustics study, which should take about four weeks, would pinpoint the sound’s source.
“I think if you had a continual noise, you know, this would drive you crazy, right?” Ms. Borer said. “There’s no relief from it sometimes, and it impacts people in different ways. So there may be four people living in a home, two people hear it, two people don’t.”
Erica D. Walker, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the Brown University School of Public Health who runs the Community Noise Lab housed at the university, said low-frequency noises can disrupt sleep cycles and cause anxiety and depression.
“People feel imprisoned by it,” Dr. Walker said. “It’s kind of destroying the acoustical fabric of a community. It’s anxiety-driven. You appeal to authorities. They don’t know what to do about it. They think you’re crazy.”
In the United States, she said, scientific research on the side effects of low-frequency noises has been more focused in military settings than civilian ones.
“It’s hard to abate,” she said. “It’s hard to pinpoint. There’s an incredibly disorienting effect to it.”
Herb Singleton, an acoustical consultant and president of Cross-Spectrum Acoustics Inc., which has helped other communities study similar disturbances, said a sound’s frequency component is different from its loudness component, which is measured in decibels.
Low-frequency noises, like a rumble, have longer wavelengths that can cover greater distances, according to Mr. Singleton, who said cellphone recordings of the noise were not likely to convey the magnitude of the problem because they are designed to suppress those sounds.
Most of the time, Mr. Singleton said, acoustics experts are able to zero in on a culprit.
“It’s typically mechanical equipment,” he said.
In Connecticut, noise traveling from an industrial zone to a residential area is considered excessive if it goes above 61 decibels during the day and 51 decibels at night, roughly the level of a normal conversation or a household refrigerator, under the state’s and West Haven’s noise laws.
If the city can prove that the noise sticks out above other tones, those limits decrease by five decibels.
John Carrano, West Haven’s human services commissioner, has taken informal readings with a decibel meter at dozens of locations, including at his home in a neighborhood overlooking Glanbia Nutritionals, the company that makes edible sparkles that are used in confections.
A vast majority of those readings did not exceed permitted levels, according to Mr. Carrano, who said during a City Council meeting on Jan. 12 that the city was required to isolate the noise and prove its origin before it could issue a violation.
“We’d be out at 11 o’clock at night, 2 o’clock in the morning, 5 o’clock in the morning, trying to find these sounds,” Mr. Carrano said.
In a statement, Glanbia Nutritionals, which is based in Ireland, said it was committed to being a responsible neighbor and had taken steps to address noise, including installing fully enclosed air compressors, upgrading mufflers and constructing targeted sound barriers.
“Independent third-party sound testing, including both extended and multi-location assessments, indicates that our site operates within applicable limits,” the company said. “We have nonetheless implemented a series of precautionary measures to improve sound management at the site.”
Christopher E. Vargo Jr., the City Council chairman, said he accompanied Mr. Carrano to investigate the noise after residents complained.
“It’s kind of like driving down the highway, and you open up the rear passenger window only,” he said in an interview, describing the noise. “You have this, for lack of a better word, like a strong, intense whoosh.”
Tracy Sabia, 66, a retiree whose home overlooks the industrial zone and the food ingredient plant, said she was already dealing with sleep apnea when she started hearing the humming.
“It’s just terrible,” she said. “It’s 24/7. No matter what room you go in, you hear it.”
At Ms. Rzasa’s home, which is about 1.3 miles from the industrial zone, her dog, Quigley, a rescue mix, has also shown signs of being agitated by the noise.
“Twelve-thirty this morning, my dog got me up and all I heard was the humming,” she said.
Ms. Rzasa said she downloaded a white-noise app on her phone, but it drained the battery during the night.
Then she tried using a similar feature on her Alexa-enabled speaker, but she quit using it because she needed to pay for a subscription. So she invested in a white-noise machine.
“At least we know we’re not crazy,” she said.
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