Evening Reflect
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In Springfield, Mo., firefighters are giving vaccine shots. Churches are scrambling to schedule vaccine clinics. Students and staff at summer school at the public schools are back to wearing masks.
Dozens of traveling nurses are due to arrive at one of the city's two biggest hospitals over the coming weeks; extra ventilators from around Missouri and Arkansas were transported to the other major hospital after it ran short over the July Fourth weekend.
The outbreak of COVID-19 in southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas has become the nation's largest and is mostly driven by the highly contagious delta variant. Officials warn it could continue to grow unchecked if vaccination rates stay low.
Vaccination isn't a tax or a mandate on your business or life. It's a one or two unpleasant jabs in your arm. Then you go on living your life.
Shawn James – Toilet Paper and Composting Toilet | Off Grid Living
I still get many questions about our toilet, which is not always visible in my videos, and where we store our toilet paper (top secret!). We use an outhouse during the day and a chamber pot at night if it's really cold outside.
I've always thought it was kind of a waste to use toilet paper and flush it down the toilet in the city. Most of the toilet paper is removed at the primary clarifier and hauled to the landfill -- at least for towns without sewage sludge incinerators (like Albany) or biosoilids processing plants (that compost or gasify the waste and use the residuals for spreading on farm fields). That said, I've never used a bidet but they've gotten popular with all of the shortages lately of toilet paper. Certainly if I had a septic system at my house, I'd keep a trash can by the toilet, toss it in burn barrel with the other paper trash. But for an outhouse, probably the best way to deal with toilet paper is to toss it in, and use the carbon to tie down the nitrogen in the poop.
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A single flip-flop. An empty Chick-fil-A sandwich bag. A mattress. A sneaker, navy with a white sole. A little orange bouncy ball.
Garbage is strewn among thigh-high drifts of dirt, used to bury the filthy, weather-worn items at the Orange County Landfill in Florida and prevent the intrusion of insects, rats and pigs. Bulldozers smooth the dirt into place while tractor-trailers deliver ever more trash. Vultures and seagulls circle above. A bald eagle lands nearby.
"Anything you will see out in the real world you'll see it here," said David Gregory, manager of the solid waste division of the Orange County Utilities Department. "Because when people throw things away, this is where it comes."
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A Good Thing
Poison Control Centers: A Good Thing
6/29/21 by iHeartRadio
Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/125070575
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Poison control centers are one of those things you don’t think about until you need it. With all the poisons in our homes you very well may someday. When you do there is a cadre of toxicological specialists ready to oversee the process of saving your life.
A month from tonight, the sun will be setting at 8 PM
A month from tonight, the sun will be setting at 8 PM. 🌆
The shorter days always sneak up on you during late summer, even though the summer heat doesn’t really break for an additional 23 days after the sun starts setting earlier.