What the Fire Spared: On Mary and Motherhood
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POWAY, CA (Catholic Online) - The thing you need to know about California brushfires is how fast they can move and how high they can reach.
Whenever we smell smoke here in the southwest corner of the country, we're on high alert.
So my husband, Dick, and I were vigilant on that warm October Tuesday back in 2007 when the wind suddenly picked up. We kept smelling smoke and looking outside and then - wham! - there it was, billowing smoke scaling our mountaintop.
Time to pack the cars.
We unplugged the computer and pulled paintings off the wall. We gathered my jewelry and filled suitcases with clothes.
We didn't take as much as we would have liked - we planned
Source: Catholic Online
Nosing Around About Sleep Apnea
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Adam Amdur is resting easier knowing that his daughter is not going to suffer from obstructive sleep apnea the way that he did for most of his life. Amdur, 37, who was in ill health for many years, was diagnosed with the condition only recently. But he recognized the symptoms in his now 4-year-old daughter when she was only a toddler, and got her the medical help she needed to be able to breathe properly at night and, therefore, function normally during the day.
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is the decrease or arrest of airflow during sleep because of the narrowing or blockage of the airway. A blockage in the upper airway, or pharynx (the canal between the nose and the back of the throat), affects the collapsibility of the muscles of the throat.
Source: The Jewish Week
Encyclopedia's exhaustive document of Nazi atrocities reveals true scope of ...
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She was a carefree Jewish kid in Dubno, Poland, when the Germans came to town in 1941. Her father, Hersh, was taken with his two brothers, a brother-in-law and scores of other Jewish men to the local prison. They were beaten before being marched to the Jewish cemetery where they forced to dig their own graves before being shot.
“My mother went to the cemetery the next day,” Ms. Segall says. “The graves were still heaving because not everybody was dead. The blood was running in a great stream. They only killed men that day.
“That’s when the horrors really began for us.”
Her story of Dubno is among the thousands of entries in the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume II, an exhaustive new tome intended to document the exhaustive nature of a Holocaust that was far greater in scope than the gas chambers of Auschwitz.
Source: National Post
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