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NYC Silver Alert: Alzheimer’s

Just came across this very sad Alzheimer’s alert. :( NY folks, do keep an eye out if you’re in the area. 

Notification issued 04/29/11 at 7:20 PM.  The NYPD has issued a Silver Alert for Domingo Irizary, 85 years old. The individual was last seen leaving Montefiore Medical Center, 111 East 210th Street (BX) on Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 8:11 PM, wearing a blue/green polo shirt with black sweatpants. He is 5’5” and 190 pounds with gray hair and brown eyes. He is reported to have Alzheimer’s Disease. If the person is seen, call 911.

The sender provided the following contact information.

  Sender’s Name: Notify NYC

  Sender’s Email: notifynyc@oem.nyc.gov

  Sender’s Contact Phone: 212-639-9675

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not only is this brilliantly bauhaus design from some very talented Behance folks (love that site!) uses subtle visual cues to hint at the ways plastic puts sea life in danger. not to mention the whole other layer you can read in re: plastic surgery. ha. baubauhaus: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Bag/829307

not only is this brilliantly bauhaus design from some very talented Behance folks (love that site!) uses subtle visual cues to hint at the ways plastic puts sea life in danger. not to mention the whole other layer you can read in re: plastic surgery. ha.

baubauhaus:

http://www.behance.net/gallery/Bag/829307

(Source: baubauhaus)

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FAINTING GOAT KITTENS!!!!!!!

REACTION #1: {I FELL DOWN LIKE THEY DO.}

REACTION #2: shouted at the screen: “MUTE THE VIDEO MUSIC, SO THEY DON’T FALL DOWN!”

REACTION #3: “SERIOUSLY WHY DON’T THEY HAVE NOISE ELIMINATING HEADPHONES ON? BOSE, KITTY EDITION?”

REACTION #4: {guilt for laughing. sadness. lulz. confused @ the sad funny unique cuteness.}

REACTION #5: “CAN WE CURE THEM?” … here’s some info on their illness:

Charlie and Spike are two kittens with Myotonia Congenita, otherwise known as ‘Fainting Goat’ syndrome. At the slightest sound, the kittens respond by collapsing and falling into a rigid paralysis which lasts about a minute before they return to normal. This condition has hardly ever before been diagnosed in a cat, is rarely found in dogs and is more common in goats. The kittens are able to walk, but they cannot run or jump. aside from this they are normal.

- arbroath

 

Is this cute or is it sad? What is your reaction?!

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Starbucks French Roast IV Drip

Starbucks French Roast IV Drip

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a photoshopped file of what should be packed for Coachella. fascinating for SO MANY REASON: brand affinity, high engagement, so much love of and trust of products — they’re appropriated into a very rock and roll non-comfortable setting to create the creature comforts of home in the desert basically? Have you been to coachella? What did you bring? How was it? Would you want to go? and if so, what would you take?

a photoshopped file of what should be packed for Coachella. fascinating for SO MANY REASON: brand affinity, high engagement, so much love of and trust of products — they’re appropriated into a very rock and roll non-comfortable setting to create the creature comforts of home in the desert basically?

Have you been to coachella? What did you bring? How was it? Would you want to go? and if so, what would you take?

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“ “The constipation upset him quite a bit because Elvis thought that he could handle almost anything, he thought he was really a man’s man and he wasn’t going to let something like this … he thought that this was a sign of weakness and he wasn’t going to be weak,” Nichopoulos said. “And it’s not the kind of thing you table talk. Back in the ‘60s and ‘70s you didn’t’ talk about constipation much, you didn’t’ hear people complaining about it, or saying what they did or how much trouble they had with it.”   SOURCE: Constipation Killed Elvis, Not a Drug Overdose this is very sad news — especially how treatable a problem it was. This brings up important issues about making the conversation and decision to treat easier for patients with embarrassing issues. 

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“The constipation upset him quite a bit because Elvis thought that he could handle almost anything, he thought he was really a man’s man and he wasn’t going to let something like this … he thought that this was a sign of weakness and he wasn’t going to be weak,” Nichopoulos said. “And it’s not the kind of thing you table talk. Back in the ‘60s and ‘70s you didn’t’ talk about constipation much, you didn’t’ hear people complaining about it, or saying what they did or how much trouble they had with it.” 

 SOURCE: Constipation Killed Elvis, Not a Drug Overdose

this is very sad news — especially how treatable a problem it was. This brings up important issues about making the conversation and decision to treat easier for patients with embarrassing issues. 

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