Month: May 2022

Bucatini all’Amatriciana Recipe
3May By No Comments
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Bucatini all’Amatriciana Recipe

A Classic Roman Dish - Bucatini all'Amatriciana Like many of you, Meg and I watched the Stanley Tucci special on CNN called Searching for Italy. In the Rome episode, he has lunch at Armando Al Pantheon to enjoy their famous rigatoni all'amatriciana, one of Rome's famous pastas. I made it a little different and call it bucatini all'Amatriciana. Of course I had to run out and buy the ingredients so we could make it at home. Not a lot of ingredients and very simple to prepare and absolutely delicious. Let's look at some of the ingredients. Bucatini Bucatini is a pasta that looks a lot like spaghetti but it is thicker and has a whole running down through the strand. My kids like to say it looks like a straw made out of pasta.  If you lived in Naples, Italy, you would call...
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KISS 108s Matt Siegel announces retirement after being on air for 41 years – WCVB Boston
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KISS 108s Matt Siegel announces retirement after being on air for 41 years – WCVB Boston

Kiss 108 radio host Matt Siegel of the "Matty in the Morning" show announced Tuesday that he is retiring after more than 40 years on the air.The 72-year-old Siegel made the announcement in a pre-recorded message after being off the air for nearly two weeks. He hasn't been on the station's morning show since April 19."This past year has been a little rough for me. I had brain surgery. I had a broken foot. I started getting a little grumpy on the radio, which I hate because all I want to do is make people laugh. That's my job, just to make people laugh, and I got off target, I guess you would say," Siegel said.The beloved radio host said he, and came to the decision to retire after talking it over with his wife and children."I'm a lucky guy for a million reasons, but five of them are ...
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Met Gala 2022: politics rises to the surface on fashion’s biggest night – The Guardian
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Met Gala 2022: politics rises to the surface on fashion’s biggest night – The Guardian

Met Gala 2022 Celebration of American design themed ‘gilded glamour’ prompts slogans, homage and big dose of history Politics – personal, contemporary and historic – were close to the surface on New York’s Upper East Side on Monday night as 600 guests, invited to celebrate America’s Gilded Age at the Met Gala, offered their own interpretation of style and the multitude of meanings dress carries, then as now.The singer Alicia Keys wore a cape celebrating New York union history. New York’s mayor, Eric Adams, who had said he’d been “dying to go” to the fundraiser “for years”, arrived on the red carpet wearing a jacket with decorative forearms and lapels that paid homage to the city’s transit system. The back of his coat read “End Gun Violence” in red lettering.The mayor of New York Cit...
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Being hospitalised with Covid ages your brain by 20 YEARS – and shaves off 10 IQ points, study finds – Daily Mail
3May By No Comments
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Being hospitalised with Covid ages your brain by 20 YEARS – and shaves off 10 IQ points, study finds – Daily Mail

Being hospitalised with Covid could age your brain by two decades, a Government-funded study warned today. Cambridge University experts say the effect is the equivalent of losing roughly 10 IQ points.  Dozens of studies have found Covid damages brain function, but the scientists claim this is first of its kind to rigorously assess the impact.  A new study has found survivors of severe Covid infection performed worse on cognitive tests than members of the public six months after recovery. The left chart shows how Covid survivor scored on 'accuracy' in a cognitive test, with a negative score being worse than the general public. The right chart shows the Covid survivors scores in terms of time taken with a positive score indicating they took longer than the average perso...
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Worried about bird flu? Heres what it is, what to know about its symptoms – Yahoo News
3May By No Comments
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Worried about bird flu? Heres what it is, what to know about its symptoms – Yahoo News

The worst avian flu outbreak in years is ripping through the United States, leading to the deaths of more than 24 million birds. The H5N1 virus has ravaged commercial and backyard poultry in 29 states, with nearly 250 outbreaks, according to the Centers for Disease Control.  American consumers have felt the bird flu in the form of higher egg prices, which more than doubled in March. But on Thursday, the CDC reported the first human case of the current dominant bird flu virus in the United States. An inmate in Colorado contracted the flu after exposure while working at a poultry farm. Still, public health officials say the risk of transmission in the general public is low.  Bird flu's economic impact:Worst bird flu in years drives up egg prices, prompts precautions against spread to humans...
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Latest case of avian flu found at duck farm in Lancaster County – WGAL Susquehanna Valley Pa.
3May By No Comments
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Latest case of avian flu found at duck farm in Lancaster County – WGAL Susquehanna Valley Pa.

A seventh flock has tested positive for avian flu in Lancaster County.The U.S. Department of Agriculture says this is the first duck farm in the area to be impacted. On Monday, 19,000 birds were killed to try to contain the bird flu.This latest case also expands Pennsylvania's control zone further north (see map below). The expanded zone includes portions of:Lancaster County Lebanon CountyYork CountySeventh avian flu caseThe case marks the seventh in the state since the bird flu was identified in late April at the Kreider Farms egg-laying facility in Donegal, Lancaster County. So far, nearly 4 million chickens have been killed in an effort to contain the avian flu.Poultry is a $7 billion industry in Pennsylvania.Report avian flu casesIf you suspect live poultry is infected, you are a...
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Bucatini all’Amatriciana Recipe
3May By No Comments
Food & Nutrition

Bucatini all’Amatriciana Recipe

A Classic Roman Dish - Bucatini all'Amatriciana Like many of you, Meg and I watched the Stanley Tucci special on CNN called Searching for Italy. In the Rome episode, he has lunch at Armando Al Pantheon to enjoy their famous rigatoni all'amatriciana, one of Rome's famous pastas. I made it a little different and call it bucatini all'Amatriciana. Of course I had to run out and buy the ingredients so we could make it at home. Not a lot of ingredients and very simple to prepare and absolutely delicious. Let's look at some of the ingredients. Bucatini Bucatini is a pasta that looks a lot like spaghetti but it is thicker and has a whole running down through the strand. My kids like to say it looks like a straw made out of pasta.  If you lived in Naples, Italy, you would call...
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Bucatini all’Amatriciana Recipe
3May By No Comments
Food & Nutrition

Bucatini all’Amatriciana Recipe

A Classic Roman Dish - Bucatini all'Amatriciana Like many of you, Meg and I watched the Stanley Tucci special on CNN called Searching for Italy. In the Rome episode, he has lunch at Armando Al Pantheon to enjoy their famous rigatoni all'amatriciana, one of Rome's famous pastas. I made it a little different and call it bucatini all'Amatriciana. Of course I had to run out and buy the ingredients so we could make it at home. Not a lot of ingredients and very simple to prepare and absolutely delicious. Let's look at some of the ingredients. Bucatini Bucatini is a pasta that looks a lot like spaghetti but it is thicker and has a whole running down through the strand. My kids like to say it looks like a straw made out of pasta.  If you lived in Naples, Italy, you would call...
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Huge Study Identifies The Optimal Amount of Sleep From Middle Age Onwards – ScienceAlert
3May By No Comments
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Huge Study Identifies The Optimal Amount of Sleep From Middle Age Onwards – ScienceAlert

Sleep – a lot like eating food – is one of those things we need to live, but seemingly there are plenty of ways to do it wrong.   A new study has weighed into the debate. Looking at UK Biobank data from almost 500,000 adults, researchers conclude that seven hours of sleep per night is the optimal amount for good mental health, wellbeing and cognitive performance, for people in their late 30s to early 70s.   "We identified a nonlinear association between sleep, with approximately seven hours as the optimal sleep duration, and genetic and cognitive factors, brain structure, and mental health as key measures," the researchers write in their new paper. "Longitudinal analysis revealed that both insufficient and excessive sleep duration were significantly associated with a decline in cogni...
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