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  1. There has been a fatality attributed to Alaska pox, which seems to be a variant of smallpox or monkeypox or ... mousepox? Does mousepox exist? Mousepox is my word, but that's what I would call it if I was naming it. They don't know if it can be passed from human to human, but it typically spreads from small wildlife. It has been tracked since 2015. Most of the cases, which haven't been many, have been discovered near Fairbanks. What else have you heard?
  2. Supergeeks know the ides of any month is the 15th and the calends (from which we get calendar) is the first.
  3. After the applesauce with cinnamon debacle, they started looking into all the cinnamon, and found tons of nasty surprises.
  4. Pureed chickpeas are used for yogurt here. I tried to make aquafaba merengue, but it kept falling flat/melting.
  5. So Tyndall was a 19th century physicist and his name is used alongside Pasteur's in much of the world. I've seen it, but associated it with something else. In India, Tyndallization is used as a standard practice. Here's a pretty representative Indian text: https://rbrlifescience.com/moist-heat-sterilization-principle-types-advantages/ There are references to when it fails, but I can't find any numbers as to how often that happens, and whether it can be traced to proper technique, such as not making sure the stuff in the middle of the bottle has been held at the proper temperature for twenty minutes during each of the three consecutive boiling days. And, yes, the science sources as opposed to the cooking sources say three consecutive cooking days. The information I am getting indicates it is about as effective as pressure canning, assuming each is done correctly, but much more time consuming, and is preferred for things that cannot handle the pressure or temperatures of a pressure canner. But people putting out a video on this technique WOULD say it is effective, right? That's a self-selecting bias.
  6. The videos I was watching said to boil for an hour and a half to --in one video-- four hours, and in between boils to remove from the water and keep it at room temperature, then repeat the next day (and sometimes a third day) to kill any spores that might have hatched. I so not see how twenty minutes of boiling would hope to bring the center of a bottle of meat to a temp high enough to do anything. What struck me was that this combined the Amish very long processing of meat with something that appears to make sense--bring the cans back and re-process to kill anything that might have hatched, since what hatches is much easier to kill than anything still in spore stage. However, what appears to make sense does not always work out once you take it out of theory and apply a microscope to what actually happens. What I want to know is whether anyone has applied a microscope and found that this does not work, because they have people in white lab coats (which anyone can buy, rent, or borrow) saying it does work. Some of them were pouring small amounts of "nine percent vinegar" into the jars, which I don't think you can even get here. Much of it was soups, stews, and chicken-based stuff you pour over rice to be used within the month, although they often say "can be kept in a cool dry place for up to a year." Some was bottled meat (pork, beef, chicken, sausage) that was largely done in German, although a good bit of the Indian stuff was really concentrated on the chicken. One of the people bottling meat (pork, as I recall) crammed it in and/or used a lot of fatty bits in various segments, which had me going "yeah, right" a lot of times, but then said "this keeps in the refrigerator for a very long time" and otherwise made a point that it was not intended to be shelf-stable. With some people, like the one doing meatballs in thickened sauce, I had to go through my history and click to remove all their videos so Youtube would stop suggesting them to me, because of putting thickeners in sauces and so on. That let me know I couldn't trust anything else those particular people said.
  7. I came across this in a non-US video while trying to find out how to can with the jars available to me. I found a ton of videos explaining it as effective, almost all of them coming from India, sounds like. Knowledgeable canners, what is the consensus on this?
  8. Another article: Urgent health threat? Passenger drops dead mid-flight after 'liters of blood erupts from his mouth and nose’ by: Pat Droney 2024-02-10 Source: Law Enforcement Today Editorial Editor note: There are a lot of questions still open surrounding this story. At this time, our sources tell us that not a single one of the passengers was believed to have been quarantined - but rather went on to travel on other planes shortly after. Although officials have not released ANY information about what caused the man's death - healthcare experts who are sources of Law Enforcement Today have raised concerns about exactly what it may have been - and encouraged us to read up about hemorrhagic fevers. We'd encourage you to do the same. Education is the best tool we have to protect our families - no matter what this turns out to be. Bangkok, Thailand- A disturbing story in the New York Post tells of a passenger on board a flight from Thailand to Germany who suddenly had blood begin gushing out of his mouth and nose. That passenger died from the massive loss of blood. The passenger, a 63-year-old German man, boarded the Lufthansa Airlines flight in Bangkok shortly before midnight. According to sources, the man was visibly sick as he boarded the aircraft, with “cold sweats” and “breathing much too quickly,” according to Swiss German outlet Blick. Initial reports say the man’s wife claimed they had been in a rush to catch the flight, explaining why he wasn’t feeling well. However, that didn’t sit well with Karin Missfelder, a nursing specialist at the University Hospital in Zurich, who told a flight attendant that the man needed to be examined by a doctor. That led a young Polish man, who claimed to be a doctor, to examine the man, who asked the male how he was feeling. Told he was ok and only checking his pulse, the “doctor” claimed the man was okay. “They gave him a little chamomile tea, but he already spit blood into the bag that his wife held out to him,” said Martin Missfelder, Karin’s husband. That was only the beginning of the horrific episode, as blood soon started streaming from the man’s mouth and nose. “It was absolute horror; everyone was screaming,” Martin Missfelder said. Missfelder believed the man lost “liters” of blood, with much of it splattering on the cabin of the Airbus A-380. The man soon went into cardiac arrest, and flight attendants performed CPR for about a half-hour on the man, even as Karin Missfelder knew it was hopeless. After attempts to revive the man failed, the captain announced the passenger had passed away. The cabin crew carried him to the aft galley of the plane, and the airliner turned and headed back to Thailand. In a statement, Lufthansa Airlines praised the cabin crew and those who assisted the stricken passenger. “Although immediate and comprehensive first aid measures were taken by the crew and a doctor on board, the passenger died during the flight,” the statement read. “Our thoughts are with the relatives of the deceased passenger. We also regret the inconvenience caused to the passengers of this flight,” the statement continued. According to flight data, the airliner departed Bangkok at 11:50 pm local time on Thursday and landed in Thailand at 8:28 am Friday. Passengers said they waited approximately two hours after landing back in Bangkok before getting rebooked on another flight to Germany. Kristin Missfelder regretted not intervening earlier, although it is unknown if that would have made a difference. “I should have intervened, but I saw that a doctor was looking after him, so I didn’t want to get involved,” she said, admitting that “the man looked so bad, I don’t understand why the captain took off.” Lufthansa was criticized for their handling of passengers, including the victim’s wife, after the incident. Martin Missfelder said Lufthansa staff left passengers to fend for themselves upon returning to Thailand. “She stood there all alone and apathetic and had to endure all the formalities,” Missfelder told Blick, according to the Daily Mail. The airline offered the traumatized passengers only the equivalent of a $12 voucher for their inconvenience. It is unknown what caused the sudden loss of blood of the victim. No further details have been released, including the name of the victim or if an autopsy was performed.
  9. No quarantine. Here's from another article: After the plane landed in Bangkok, it took 2 hours before anyone from Lufthansa showed up to assist. Passengers were allowed to leave the plane. No discussion about isolation was overheard, raising the question about what the cause was for this passenger to have been spitting up so much blood. Passengers received a $10 meal voucher, and some passengers were booked to Hong Kong to connect on another Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt. No one at Lufthansa assisted the grief-stricken wife. The deceased grief-stricken wife was left unattended by the airline and airport staff. She had to clear customs and immigration on her own, looking heartbroken, confused, and lost. More than 30 passengers witnessed the event on board and were equally traumatized and were also left alone after this 2-hour wait. A Swiss passenger told the Swiss news outlet Blick that he was expecting an apology or more from Lufthansa on how this emergency which should never have gotten to this stage was handled. In a detailed statement, Lufthansa said: “We confirm that on 8 February 2024, on flight LH773 (Airbus A380) from Bangkok to Munich, a medical emergency of a passenger occurred on board. “Although immediate and comprehensive first aid measures were taken by the crew and a doctor on board, the passenger died during the flight. After 1.5 hours of flight time, the crew decided to return to Bangkok, where the aircraft landed normally and safely. “There, the instructions of the medical emergency services and the Thai authorities were followed. The passengers on this flight have since been rebooked on other alternative flights, as it has been canceled. “Our thoughts are with the relatives of the deceased passenger. We also regret the inconvenience caused to the passengers of this flight.” Airlines have different policies in place on how to proceed after a passengers dies on a flight.
  10. Man dies mid-flight after breaking out in 'cold sweats' and losing 'liters of blood,' scaring his fellow passengers Lauren Edmonds Feb 10, 2024, 2:19 PM GMT-5 A 63-year-old man died during a Lufthansa flight this week after losing "liters of blood' in a scene that terrified passengers. The unidentified man boarded a Lufthansa flight from Bangkok to Munich with his wife on Thursday, according to Swiss-German outlet Blick. Witnesses Martin and Karin Missfelder told Blick that they sat in the row diagonally behind the male passenger and his wife. Karin Missfelder said the man looked unwell when he boarded the plane. Airline cabin Airline cabin. iStock/Getty Images "He had cold sweats" and "was breathing much too quickly," Karin Missfelder said in a translated quote. The man's wife said his breathing and appearance looked off because they rushed to catch the flight, but the symptoms worried the crew. Despite their initial hesitations, the crew allowed the man to remain on the flight. Karin Missfelder, a nursing specialist at the University Hospital in Switzerland, told Blick that her concerns for the man persisted, prompting her to tell a flight attendant that a doctor should examine the man. At this point, the plane's captain arrived and briefly spoke to the man. "He then called for a doctor over the loudspeaker and a young, around 30-year-old man from Poland with poor English looked at the German," Karin Missfelder said. Martin Missfelder said the doctor however did little to treat the man beyond checking his pulse and asking how he felt. Soon, the man's health drastically deteriorated. "They then gave him a little chamomile tea, but he already spit blood into the bag that his wife held out to him," Martin Missfelder said. At one point, Martin Missfelder said blood gushed out of the man's nose and mouth. He said the man lost "liters of blood," some of which splattered onto the aircraft's walls. "It was absolute horror. Everyone was screaming," Martin Missfelder told Blick. Flight attendants immediately jumped in and attempted to resuscitate the man, Blick reported. "It was dead quiet on board," Karin Missfelder said. Data from flightradar24, an online air traffic tracker, showed that the flight departed from the Bangkok International Airport at 12:07 a.m. before diverting back amid the chaos. Karin Missfelder told Blick the man, now dead, was carried into the galley as the plane returned to the airport. A Lufthansa representative confirmed the death to Blick.
  11. A blueray/DVD/CD player is on my list of things to look at in Loja today. They were $130 at the local store in Florida, are $45-$75 on Amazon. Some of the things I want are already only available on blueray, as I missed my chance to get them on DVD.
  12. Who identifies? From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Cottagecore (sometimes referred to as Countrycore or Farmcore)[1][2] is an internet aesthetic idealising rural life. Originally based on a rural European life,[3] it was developed throughout the 2010s and was first named cottagecore on Tumblr in 2018.[4] The aesthetic centres on traditional rural clothing, interior design, and crafts such as drawing, baking, and pottery, and is related to similar aesthetic movements such as grandmacore, goblincore, gnomecore and fairycore. Some sources describe cottagecore as a subculture of Millennials and Generation Z. Economic forces and other challenges facing these young people may be a significant driver of this trend, along with these generations' emphasis on sustainability, and the trend to work from home (initially during the COVID-19 pandemic). Aesthetic and lifestyle elements The tenets of cottagecore can help its proponents satisfy a desire for "an aspirational form of nostalgia" as well as an escape from many forms of stress and trauma.[5] The New York Times described it as a reaction to hustle culture and the advent of personal branding.[5] The Guardian called it a "visual and lifestyle movement designed to fetishize the wholesome purity of the outdoors."[6] Cottagecore emphasizes simplicity and the soft peacefulness of the pastoral life as an escape from the dangers of the modern world.[7] It became highly popular on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic.[8][6][9] *** Food and gardening Self-sufficiency, such as baking one's own bread, is integral to cottagecore. Growing one's own food in one's own garden and baking one's own bread all reflect the philosophy of self-sufficiency of cottagecore, though the aesthetic does not demand living in the countryside.[9][18] Cottagecore gardening is intended to be environmentally friendly, often including permacultural farming practices.[19][20] For example, the cultivation of a variety of perennial and annual native plants (i.e. plants endemic to the areas near one's home) helps attract insects, including bees, and as such promotes biodiversity and increases pollination of food-producing crops.[20] Other aspects The aesthetic encourages taking care of oneself physically and mentally.[9] Followers of cottagecore typically purchase secondhand or vintage furniture.[18][21] They may take up hobbies including knitting, crochet, painting, and reading.[22] These are bits from the Wikipedia article. Go there if you want more. I had been hearing about Cottagecore and got curious...now I know.
  13. Happy birthday! Those yard-long zukes are prized here, cut in cubes like potatoes for soup.
  14. There was a signup to ride here, but I was not on line that day and it filled up before I did get back. Do what you can. What else can you do?
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