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The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) is reporting a cluster of a mystery respiratory illness. The ADPH says seven people have been admitted to a hospital with fever, cough and shortness of breath. Two of the patients have died. The ADPH says lab samples are currently being tested at the ADPH Bureau of Clinical Laboratories and CDC's Respiratory Laboratory. The ADPH and CDC are both recommending the hospital use respiratory precautions, which includes staff wearing N95 masks. NBC reports that state helath officials say there is no evidence of any flu virus, including the deadly new H7N9 strain in China. NBC also says none of the patients have been out of the country where they could have encountered MERS, the new Sars-like coronavirus. Permalink | Facebook | Twitter | Recent Headlines | News Feeds

Wednesday May 22, 2013I am continuing my discussion of my I AM ENOUGH What's Beautiful Under Armour campaign. Most of you have read my last Wednesday post about being enough. Let's talk about American Idol & the winner, Candice Glover. Please look at the pictures below & I will continue my discussion under the pictures. So, if most of you have not guessed what I want to discuss yet - it is the new single cover of her song versus the actual pictures of her from the show & appearances after the show.YES, I know this is typical out there in media & advertising land. The problem with it is that this lady has an AMAZING SINGING VOICE!!! So winning Idol & having a voice like that is not good enough to put her real face on the cover of her new single with the IRONIC title of I AM BEAUTIFUL! They changed her looks!How many of you watched Idol & then saw this & thought the same thing I thought about the cover? Honestly, I have not liked Idol the past few seasons but the top 5 ladies were all wonderful singers this year. I did enjoy all 5! The guys were, well, shall I say, less than stellar. A couple good ones but they should have left it to all ladies this year. So many good ones got caught in their effort to put 1/2 guys & gals for the top contenders.ANYWAY, so, as you can see, Candice is black, not a lighter black but a darker black yet look at the cover of her new single ALONG WITH the shape of her face, the look of her nose, her weight.. all of it has been changed to meet mass appeal. OK, again, I get it BUT WHEN IS ENOUGH ENOUGH of this crap! When is being great at something or even good at something going to be enough.We sure don't have to wonder why young girls have image, weight & being enough problems with all this going on out there! I know this is nothing new but again, I am so tired of the lip service & mixed messages of the media! If you go back to my Wednesday post, I even discussed Disordered Eating which we know many times comes from girls, boys, women, men never feeling ENOUGH due to the media craziness.If you watch Glee, there was also an episode on there when Amber Riley who plays Mercedes decides not to work with a record promoter because he wanted to change the look of her of the promotional materials to be more provocative & mass media appealing....I mean, it all adds up! Personally, I don't think I will ever see it change in my lifetime but I will continue to write about it!So as I wrote last Wednesday, at 55, I continue to try to get past my issues of What's Beautiful, if I am Enough & more. I know there are many that feel the same way.What are your thoughts on the above?Did you watch Idol & think the same thing as I did about the new album cover?Do you think it will ever change?I have to share this video of Ellen talking about the Abercrombie BS I posted on my FB page Monday - LOVE ELLEN!

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Check out this Wired piece on cameras planted in a Java rainforest which caught a few beautiful and endangered leopards. I would like to see a greater effort made to get many DNA samples of these leopards and other endangered species. As they shrink in numbers valuable genetic diversity is lost. The information we could get from many DNA samples would allow eventual identification of harmful mutations that will make it difficult for smaller populations to survive. It seems unlikely most endangered will survive in the wild. But perhaps in some future century they could be reintroduced if human population sizes ever go down....