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Dawn Schwarz's avatar

I have an appointment in January with a geneticist. I was wondering how your endoscopy went. I’m glad you are taking measures. Nancy is going for hers in February

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Ken Tingley's avatar

Siimple day procedure. They knock you out. No pain, no discomfort. Pretty easy. I'm someone who always ate what I wanted so getting used to a no-fat diet is a new experience, but you discover new foods and there is actually a cookbook for a healthy pancreas so I got that, too.

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Helen Nerska's avatar

Thank you for sharing this information. As a BRCA2 mutation carrier with one cousin and one sister dying of ovarian cancer, I cannot emphasize enough the importance of knowing and sharing all information of this nature with family (both men and women) and all your doctors. BRCA testing was not known to my cousin and sister. For my remaining two sisters (both carriers), they and I are under a special lookout by our doctors. We are lucky to have access to this kind of testing. If there is going to be a fight, we are ready!

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Ken Tingley's avatar

I've heard several of my cousins "don't want to know" as if it is a death sentence when it is just the opposite. I will have yearly testing now to head off any future problems.

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June Woodard's avatar

I went one time to a meeting about the Bio-char, and was amazed at how the citizens did their research, and shared the information with everyone. I think the final decision was probably a wise one, based on how in depth many of these people researched it.

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Al Bellenchia's avatar

”If you aren't a little bit wiser at sunset than in the morning, then that day is wasted!”-Mehmet Murat Ildan

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Ken Tingley's avatar

Love the quote.

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Janet Flinchbaugh's avatar

Ain’t it the truth!!

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mike parwana's avatar

“Science” was used as a red herring in the bio-char debate. The question is really about scale and logistics. While science can provide answers to some sets of questions in a controlled lab setting, science cannot provide answers to the myriad unknowns in building a plant at a previously untried scale and providing the “feedstock” for a process requiring thousands of tons of waste to be trucked hundreds of miles to a centralized plant.

Frankly, it seems like a Soviet answer to a diversified problem.

A more sensible resolution, which appears to be the fall back position, is to build plants at a smaller scale much closer to the source of sewage sludge.

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Edward Low's avatar

republicans = costly regulations

Democrats = "You mean those safeguards that save lives?"

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Don Shuler's avatar

Again, I firmly believe that the sunset of life can be as beautiful as the sunrise

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Ken Tingley's avatar

My experience so far is absolutely.

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Kathy Brown's avatar

had it done for me familey wheni had breast cancer. Had a unknown area on it ,an they will inform me of any more news on that

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Kathy Brown's avatar

Pcbs left its mark on moreau,breast cancer other cancers,my brother died at 46 wallowed in the pcbs at ge

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Ken Tingley's avatar

The T-U article did a great job of exploring how much the pcb issue scarred the community. Definitely an under reported issue.

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Barbara Bubar's avatar

Terrific that you now know about your condition, Ken, but.... you just did NOT need that. I'm convinced that you, of all people, will take the doctor's advice and adopt low-fat foods and no alcohol as a perfectly fine way to LIVE!! As low-fat vegans for what has now been decades, it is a perfectly enjoyable way to manage your food intake, especially as more and more restaurants and family gatherings are taking into account the numbers of people who just don't consume the "normal" (should I add the word....unhealthy?) American way of eating. More power to you!!!!

As for news....it is becoming terrifying to know where to turn....will what you can trust all come from substacks? I had to laugh when a friend said she had never heard the word until I mentioned it and now she is a subscriber to "them."

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Ken Tingley's avatar

I've even discovered that non-alcohlic beer and Mocktails can be just as enjoyable as the real thing. Companies have made great strides in the taste of non-alcoholic beer.

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Adirondack Mom's avatar

Uncertain whether sewage sludge is a climate change solution? Or an environmental disaster? Read this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/climate/sludge-fertilizer-synagro-lobbying.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gE4.VUrC.bWF7qDDJAe0d&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Joe W's avatar

Regarding T2 (Trump administration, Version 2)'s moves on taking away financial protections for the average-guy: Whatever we have, from the work Elizabeth Warren has done, to the all the other thousands of people who petition, sue, and take risks to protect the public, it's all going away as quickly as the oligarchs can. I lost most of my retirement savings at least twice since the 1980's because of non-regulation. Then, as a small business owner, First Union Bank churned my accounts for years, adding fees, changing the minimums required, overcharging on interest, etc. Banking regulations was set up by the Democrats in the late 90's. They worked to end absurd credit card fees, prepaid gift cards that quietly expired, unfair lending practices, red-lining communities, and gerrymandering election districts. Anti-trust laws were either enabled or somewhat enforced under the various democratic administrations - not always fairly, but at least they did some work to protect us. I expected to see this amp-up under a Harris administration. Now, I fear it's going to evaporate very soon.

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Ken Tingley's avatar

Folks think inflation hurt them, wait until they experience a major downturn in their 401k - if they are lucky enough to have one.

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Beatriz Roman's avatar

Thank you for sharing the very informative Times Union article on Biochar. You also pointed out that our rates of illness are extremely high in our area, with pollutants, old and current, spewing in our air and waters daily. The reaction of the majority of Moreau and area citizens was instinctively skeptical based on the experience with GE and found reasons not to buy in to a seemingly good idea that needed much more solid proof of its true viability. Your recent investigation into your own genetics, encouraged by your dear wife, is also based on empirical knowledge and is helping to alter the course of your and your relative's future health, perhaps even those of your readers. The insistence on eliminating any regulation of businesses is typical of anyone in the economic strata who lives and breathes "profits over people". So blind are these greedy, murderous creatures to the fact that it is the people, the people they loathe, that produce the profits they exist on.

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Christine Corlew's avatar

Regarding Lee Enterprises ad: “temporary ONE year position “? Well doesn’t that sound promising….NOT.

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Bill Owens's avatar

And it starts in June of 2025? Does that mean the current holder of the job has a limited shelf life? It's just an insult that a person in marketing can claim to have journalistic credentials. And it appears that the job description includes almost all aspects of online newspaper production. Probably has 'other duties as assigned' which can include, well, almost everything from janitorial, painting, you name it. Maybe in June it will be a one person operation out of a home office. Sad what has become of a once respected newspaper.

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Beth Ann Fitzgerald's avatar

I lived in Moreau when the GE contamination came to light.

Many places I played by were cordoned off and posted contaminated. People had to leave their homes.

Of course the residents are mistrustful!

Many of our communities fall under disadvantaged environmental areas.

The arrogance of Biochar was the worst. They, and the former Supervisor Kuznierz, tried to ram this through. Only by uniting together as a community did we defeat them.

I'm sorry Steve lost his job - sounds shady and disrespectful to me - but the PS as we knew it, is forever gone.

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