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Your Inspired Weekly Horoscope From Rob Brezsny: A ‘Free Will Astrology’

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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free preview of the book is available here.)

Here is your weekly horoscope…

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY – Week of October 1, 2022
Copyright by Rob Brezsny, FreeWillAstrology.com

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh was born under the sign of Libra. He said, “The root-word ‘Buddha’ means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is called a Buddha.” So according to him, the spiritual teacher Siddhartha Gautama who lived in ancient India was just one of many Buddhas. And by my astrological reckoning, you will have a much higher chance than usual to be like one of these Buddhas yourself in the coming weeks. Waking up will be your specialty. You will have an extraordinary capacity to burst free of dreamy illusions and murky misapprehensions. I hope you take full advantage. Deeper understandings are nigh.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
I invite you to be the sexiest, most intriguing, most mysterious Scorpio you can be in the coming weeks. Here are ideas to get you started. 1. Sprinkle the phrase “in accordance with prophecy” into your conversations. 2. Find an image that symbolizes rebirth and revitalization arising out of disruption. Meditate on it daily until you actually experience rebirth and revitalization arising out of disruption. 3. Be kind and merciful to the young souls you know who are living their first lifetimes. 4. Collect deep, dark secrets from the interesting people you know. Employ this information to plan how you will avoid the trouble they endured. 5. Buy two deluxe squirt guns and two knives made of foam rubber. Use them to wage playful fights with those you love.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
There’s an ancient Greek saying, “I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed.” I regard that as a fine motto for you Sagittarians. When you are at your best and brightest, you are in quest of the truth. And while your quests may sometimes disturb the status quo, they often bring healthy transformations. The truths you discover may rattle routines and disturb habits, but they ultimately lead to greater clarity and authenticity. Now is an excellent time to emphasize this aspect of your nature.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Let’s imagine you are in your office or on the job or sitting at your kitchen table. With focused diligence, you’re working on solving a problem or improving a situation that involves a number of people. You think to yourself, “No one seems to be aware that I am quietly toiling here behind the scenes to make the magic happen.” A few days or a few weeks later, your efforts have been successful. The problem is resolved or the situation has improved. But then you hear the people involved say, “Wow, I wonder what happened? It’s like things got fixed all by themselves.” If a scenario like this happens, Capricorn, I urge you to speak up and tell everyone what actually transpired.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
To honor your entrance into the most expansive phase of your astrological cycle, I’m calling on the counsel of an intuitive guide to offer the following advice. 1. Cultivate a mindset where you expect something unexpected to happen. 2. Fantasize about the possibility of a surprising blessing or unplanned-for miracle. 3. Imagine that a beguiling breakthrough will erupt into your rhythm. 4. Shed a few preconceptions about how your life story will unfold in the next two years. 5. Boost your trust in your deep self’s innate wisdom. 6. Open yourself more to receiving help and gifts.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
It was said, “Every time partners slake their thirst in the strange waters of the other’s identity, they glimpse the immensity of their freedom.” I love this way of understanding, and recommend you try it out for a while. You’re entering a phase when you will have extra power to refine and expand the way you experience blending and merging. If you’re fuzzy about the meaning of the words “synergy” and “symbiosis,” I suggest you look them up in the dictionary. They should be featured themes for you in the coming weeks.

ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Poet Susan Howe describes poetry as an “amorous search under the sign of love for a remembered time at the pitch-dark fringes of evening when we gathered together to bless and believe.” I’d like to use that lyrical assessment to describe your life in the coming days—or at least what I hope will be your life. In my astrological opinion, it’s a favorable time to intensify your quest for interesting adventures in intimacy; to seek out new ways to imagine and create togetherness; to collaborate with allies in creating brave excursions into synergy.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
Social reformer Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) had a growlery. It was a one-room stone cabin where he escaped to think deep thoughts, work on his books, and literally growl. As a genius who escaped enslavement and spent the rest of his life fighting for the rights of his fellow Black people, he had lots of reasons to snarl, howl, and bellow as well as growl. The coming weeks would be an excellent time for you to find or create your own growlery, Taurus. The anger you feel will be especially likely to lead to constructive changes. The same is true about the deep thoughts you summon in your growlery: They will be extra potent in helping you reach wise practical decisions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
“Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind,” wrote Gemini poet Gwendolyn Brooks. I love that advice! The whirlwind is her metaphor for the chaos of everyday life. She was telling us that we shouldn’t wait to ripen ourselves until the daily rhythm is calm and smooth. Live wild and free right now! That’s always good advice, in my opinion, but it will be especially apropos for you in the coming weeks. Now is your time to “endorse the splendor splashes” and “sway in wicked grace,” as Brooks would say.

CANCER (June 21-July 22):
“Don’t look away,” advised novelist Henry Miller in a letter to his lover. “Look straight at everything. Look it all in the eye, good and bad.” While that advice is appealing, I don’t endorse it unconditionally. I’m a Cancerian, and I sometimes find value in gazing at things sideways, or catching reflections in mirrors, or even turning my attention away for a while. In my view, we Crabs have a special need to be self-protective and self-nurturing. And to accomplish that, we may need to be evasive and elusive. In my astrological opinion, the next two weeks will be one of these times. I urge you to gaze directly and engage point-blank only with what’s good for you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Tips to get the most out of the next three weeks: 1. Play at least as hard as you work. 2. Give yourself permission to do anything that has integrity and is fueled by compassion. 3. Assume there is no limit to how much generous joie de vivre you can summon and express. 4. Fondle and nuzzle with an eager partner as much as possible. 5. Be magnanimous in every gesture, no matter how large or small. 6. Even if you don’t regard yourself as a skillful singer, use singing to transform yourself out of any mood you don’t want to stay in.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
In the coming weeks, you should refrain from wrestling with problems that resist your solutions. Be discerning about how you use your superior analytical abilities. Devote yourself solely to manageable dilemmas that are truly responsive to your intelligent probing. PS: I feel sorry for people who aren’t receptive to your input, but you can’t force them to give up their ignorance or suffering. Go where you’re wanted. Take power where it’s offered. Meditate on the wisdom of Anaïs Nin: “You cannot save people. You can only love them.”

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(Zodiac images by Numerologysign.com, CC license)

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“If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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Quote of the Day: “If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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Researchers Capture Rare Video of ‘Mourning’ Mother Dolphin Staying with Deceased Calf for Days (WATCH)

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A mother dolphin was seen carrying her deceased calf on her back in the middle of the Mediterranean sea.

The tragic and rare moment was captured by 29-year-old Margarita Samsonova, an environmental content creator.

Margarita, who lives in Lisbon, believes this is the only time this behavior has been witnessed in Europe, and represented an incredible insight into animals experiencing grief.

She had been out on the water for approximately five hours and was on her way back with her team to port when they saw the dolphin pod.

“It was very mixed emotions,” Margarita said. “Instantly, I cried, it was really heartbreaking and really painful to watch this.”

“At the same time it was really exciting, because this was something new, we realized that this was something that had never been documented before.”

Margarita studied Zoology at Oxford Brookes University and captured the moment while accompanying a research team.

The group, lead by the researchers from AIMM, a marine research association from Portugal, was on an expedition off the coast of Albufeira.

Margarita explained that they were drawn to the pod of approximately 25 dolphins due originally to the strange behaviors that they were demonstrating.

“The dolphins were behaving very unusually, they were jumping higher than normal and making very strange vocalizations,” she remembered. “Then we noticed a mother with a calf, and the calf was dead, and it was clear that she was trying to bring the baby to the surface.”

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“It really seemed like a moment of grief that was expressed both by the mother and other dolphins.”

Margarita explained that it is uncertain what exactly this behavior might mean.

However, she said that the head of the research team speculated that it shows a true expression of grief from the part of the mother. That might be knee-jerk reaction, and humanization of the animal on the part of the scientist. Occam’s Razor would suggest the mom simply didn’t realize the calf was dead, but that the pod was on the move and so she had to move the calf.

This behavior has been documented before in dolphins in the Atlantic Ocean. Dr. Joan Gonzalvo of the Ionian Project, funded by the Tethys Research Institute, has seen bottlenose dolphins attending to a dead calf on three occasions.

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“So my hypothesis is that when the mothers carried their calves for several days, it was because the calves were newborn, so the death was unexpected and sudden,” Dr. Gonzalvo told the BBC. “The mothers needed more time to grieve.”

“But when the pod had to care for an animal that had been struggling for some time already, in some ways it was a relief when it died, so they could move away that day rather than carrying the body for a week.”

WATCH the behavior and decide for yourself…

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Good Gardening Week 10: Fall Cleanup; Plus Hot Autumn Tips

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Swiss Chard by Jonathan Kemper
Swiss Chard by Jonathan Kemper

Welcome back to Good Gardening! In our Week 9 discussion, we wanted to know how many of our Good Gardeners had a big fall harvest coming up. As always we took the conversation to social media to see what the response was like…

This week’s discussion represented my own autumn experience: barren. Evidently the droughts spoiled many opportunities for a rich harvest time, though not all of them.

Joanie Elbourn has frost-tolerant greens to look forward to like kale, chard, and collards. She will also continue to enjoy a wide variety of herbs, and some carrots and pole beans. Thomas signed off on our Facebook discussion with a single green tomato. Maybe next year Tom!

Professional permaculturalist Monica Richards wrote into the email address to tell us that her garden is just now coming to life after a weather phenomenon called a “heat dome.”

Green tomatoes from Monica Richards’ garden

Many of our plants literally hung in there through August, and I’m now seeing new tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers begin to come in since the cooler weather started. So on many plants, not much happened since June, but now we can begin a whole new harvest! Attached are photos of new tomatoes that started last week, and our tortoise, Gil, with a golden cucumber.

The aforementioned Gil

For Fall, my plan has been “It’s cooler now, let’s get a bunch more baby trees and shrubs into the ground before Winter!” Fall has become my perennial planting time, as I find many of them do well to establish roots before frost and begin their true growth starting the following year! 

Monica writes in every week from California, so her advice should be considered per zone.

 

“Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable…the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese,” — Hal Borland

 

Topic Week 10: Fall To-Do List

Question 1: What’s on your garden to-do list every fall

Question 2: Do you tend to clear your garden of annuals at the end of the year?

Question 3: What kind of preparations do you make for next year starting in fall?

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  • Garden jargon encouraged!

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300 Epic Ancient Murals ‘Unique in the World’ Depict Creation Myths on Texas Rock: ‘Oldest Books in North America’

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The White Shaman wall – courtesy of Shumla Center

Down in southwest Texas, a unique-in-the-world style of ancient rock art is bringing to life a culture of hunter-gatherers with a penchant for incredible art, spiritual journeys, and wild imaginations.

Archeologists studying the site for more than 30 years have discovered much about this strange culture dating from 2,500 BC to 600 AD—and digital renderings of their rock art reveal their Animistic belief systems as never before.

Down where the Pecos River flows into the Rio Grande, an archeological site called the White Shaman rock shelter includes a 26-foot-long rock wall facing west. It’s long been known that this wall has been the site of pictographic art, but it wasn’t until Carolyn Boyd arrived in 1989 that the true extent of the White Shaman wall would be revealed.

At that time, Boyd was, of all things, a professional muralist who painted for commission. Once thought to be unconnected scribbles made by hunter-gatherers in the Pecos River area over long periods of time, Boyd needed only a short look to figure out all the drawings were connected.

“I could tell at once that it had been planned and conceived as a single composition,” Boyd told Archaeology Magazine, reporting on her discoveries at the site.  “And because I was a muralist, I knew the skill it took to produce something like this, and to do it so beautifully. I was awed.”

For one thing, the height of the rock wall would require scaffolding to reach the upper sections of the drawings. Secondly, it would have required time to gather all the minerals, plants, and animal fats to create the pigments. For these reasons she was sure all the images were linked.

White Shaman Mural Depicting Birth of Time – courtesy of Shumla Center

A mysterious culture

White Shaman rock shelter is only one site in the area. Rattlesnake Canyon has a rock wall 100 feet long with depictions in the same style, now called the Pecos River Style, and other archeologists working in the area have documented 300 such murals containing this kind of art, which Boyd and her teams at the Shumla Archeological Research and Education Center describe as the “oldest books in North America.”

Boyd noticed that three vertical levels covered the White Shaman wall, which she interpreted as the underworld, middle-world, and upper world, a foundational belief across many Mesoamerican cultures. She also noticed that the deer had black-colored antlers, a motif found in the art of the Huichol, who still live in the mountains of western Mexico today.

A series of clues were connected. Studying the Huichol, Boyd learned that their shamans go on a 600-mile pilgrimage to gather the hallucinogenic cacti peyote, and that they do this by following deer, believed to be an animal-manifestation of the plant, with a bow and arrow. At the end of the pilgrimage, the shaman shoot the cactus with their bow, metaphorically sacrificing the deer and the plant, before gathering the peyote “buttons.”

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Black-antlered deer depicted with arrows coming out of them surrounded by small button-shaped dots have been recorded on White Shaman’s walls, nearby to which arrowheads and peyote residue have been recovered from digs.

Boyd later concluded that not only was the entire painting a visual guide on how to carry out the peyote pilgrimage, but that it displays the creation myth of several ancient cultures including the Pecos River people, the Huichol, and the nearby Nahua, simultaneously. (See the video below.)

The Master Narrative

In painting the depictions of the the creation of the sun and the dawn of time, through the creation of mankind and other events on the wall at White Shaman, Boyd noted that all the pigments were laid down in precise strata; in the sense that all the black pigment was applied first across the whole mural.

Black was the primordial color of shadow and femininity. Next, all the red pigments were put down, symbolizing not only masculinity, but also the color of the sky at dawn. Then came all the yellows—the color of the sun, and then white, the shadow-less world and perhaps also the world of gods.

Moon Goddess Composite – Courtesy of Shumla Center

The Dawn Arch, a fundamental symbol of other Mesoamerican beliefs, is seen on the left, after which the peyote pilgrims from the ritual story become the five godlike ancestors in the Huichol and Nahua traditions—walking towards the arch with torches to stoke the flames of the first sunrise.

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The largest pictograph is the Mother Goddess of the Huichol belief system: a half-serpent half-catfish being rising up to the meet the sun at noon.

Her colleagues consider her work ground-breaking.

“This style is the oldest large group of pictographs in the New World and it’s been overlooked by Mesoamericanists,” Texas Tech art historian Carolyn Tate, who is an authority on Olmec art, told Archaeology Magazine. She’s making us pay attention to the idea that this could be the northern frontier of Mesoamerica.”

“Some of the motifs she’s identified—such as the crenellated arch—these are visual patterns you see in Nahua manuscripts.”

Protecting them for all time

In January, Sect. of the Interior Deb Haaland designated the Lower Pecos Canyonlands a National Historic Site, to fall under the protection of the National Parks Service as recognition for the incredible value of the rock art at places like White Shaman.

Work on the sites continued. 6-months later, Boyd outlined the presence of the Pecos River style’s “Speech-Breath” motif in a scientific paper.

“Artists used this graphic device to denote speech, breath, and the soul. They communicated meaning through the image-making process, alternating brushstroke direction to indicate inhalation versus exhalation or using different paint application techniques to reflect measured versus forceful speech,” she explains in the journal Latin American Antiquity.

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“The choices made by artists in the production of the imagery reflect their cosmology and the framework of ideas and beliefs through which they interpreted and interacted with the world.”

Boyd founded the aforementioned Shumla Center in Comstock TX, who are trying to protect and make this information known to the world. They run guided tours through the canyon lands, and have used digital renderings to database, and to bring the rock art to life in a way that hasn’t been seen since the age they were painted.

WATCH their own creation story below…

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Ms. Shackleton’s Café Boat Becomes First in 100 Years to be Christened ‘Endurance’ After Government Heard Her Surname

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Anna Shackleton, on her very own Shackleton Boat Cafe, with bit of Shackleton whisky.

The great-great niece of legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton has been granted permission to name her café boat Endurance, after the ship Ernest sailed and lost during an expedition to Antarctica.

Be it salty or fresh, no English water has moored a boat by the name Endurance for more than a 100 years, but when the registration office heard who was making the request, they thought they’d make an exception.

Anna Shackleton is a singer/café owner in the small town of Sutton Courtenay. She  refurbished her own narrow boat after purchasing it six years ago from her neighbor.

“I naively took on the project, it wasn’t something I had planned my whole life for,” Shackleton said. “But our family motto is, ‘by endurance we conquer,’ so I thought if Sir Ernest can take his crews on expeditions I can do up this boat.”

Miss Shackleton, who is related to Sir Ernest on her dad’s side, has grown up hearing stories of her famous great uncle, and was understandably emotional when the news cycle erupted in March that Endurance had finally been found in the Weddell Sea.

She thought she would name her own boat ‘Endurance II.’

“I thought I would call it ‘Endurance‘ as a joke, but when I called the registration office they said it was already taken by a police vehicle,” she recounts. “They offered me ‘Endurance 14‘ but that wasn’t as funny. I said I was a Shackleton and the phone line went silent.”

“After an age, they said I could have ‘Endurance‘ without any numbers—so it was meant to be.”

Endurance of Sutton Courtenay is now a café boat called the Endurance Boat Café found quite easily on Google Maps. 

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Between 1914 and 1917, Sir Shackleton led the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition when disaster struck and his ship, Endurance, became trapped in pack ice and sunk.

The crews escaped by camping on the sea ice in one of the greatest rescue operations in the history of world exploration.

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“Entertain possibilities! …Better to create prophecy than live prediction.” – Caroline Casey

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Quote of the Day: “Entertain possibilities! …Better to create prophecy than live prediction.” – Caroline Casey

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Incredible 3D Rendering from Jupiter Spacecraft Reveals “Frosted Cupcake” Clouds

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Jupiter clouds rendered-from JunoCam.
Jupiter clouds rendered-from JunoCam.

After the Juno spacecraft used 3D rendering to process some images it took of clouds covering Jupiter, they appeared like the flourished frosting atop of queenly cupcake.

What’s more, JunoCam’s renderings came in the visible-light spectrum, so the animations of the relative heights of the cloud tops in the our solar system’s largest planet are exactly as we would see them.

The results have been presented by citizen scientist, professional mathematician, and software developer, Gerald Eichstädt, at the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2022 in Granada.

Understanding the relative heights of the spiky pillars within the swirls will help scientists to unveil in more detail the elements that compose them, and better create the concept art for Disney’s next Frozen movie.

Juno arrived at Jupiter on July 4th, 2016, after a 5-year, 1.7-billion-mile journey, and settled into a 53-day polar orbit stretching from just above Jupiter’s cloud tops to the outer reaches of the Jovian magnetosphere.

Put onboard initially to increase public engagement around the exploration of Jupiter and its moons, Eichstätd has demonstrated that JunoCam can also provide valuable science.

“The Juno mission provides us with an opportunity to observe Jupiter in a way which is essentially inaccessible by Earth-based telescopic observations,” Dr. Eichstätd explains. “We can look at the same cloud features from very different angles within only a few minutes.”

“This has opened up a new opportunity to derive 3D elevation models of Jupiter’s cloud-tops. The images of the wonderful chaotic storms on Jupiter seem to come to life, showing clouds rising at different altitudes.”

Jupiter clouds rendered-from JunoCam.

Using the different ways in which sunlight is reflected and scattered by clouds, the team has succeeded in pinpointing the elevation of the cloud-tops observed.

Solar illumination is most intense for clouds in the upper atmosphere. Deeper in the atmosphere, more light is absorbed—particularly by methane—before being scattered back up to the camera by the cloud tops.

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“From theoretical models, the clouds are expected to be composed of different chemical species, ammonia, ammonium hydrosulphide, and water ice from top to bottom,” said Dr. Eichstädt.

“Once we calibrate our data thanks to other measurements of the same cloud tops, we will test and refine the theoretical predictions and have a better 3D picture of the chemical composition.”

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The pictures from Juno have been some of the most awe-inspiring to ever come out of observations is space, and the colors, patterns, and textures of the Jovian atmosphere surmounts the creativity of even the most excitable painter.

WATCH a video of the renderings from the spacecraft’s perspective. 

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Incredible World First Electric Seaglider Vehicle Ready For Production After Successful Test

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An incredible hybrid high-speed yacht-seaplane vehicle has completed successful flight tests and is ready now for production.

Designed for sustainable maritime travel, the fully-electric seaglider operates a few meters off the water’s surface on hydrofoils until it needs to fly.

Rhode Island-based company REGENT say it couples the high speed of an airplane with the low operating costs of a boat.

“With orders totaling over $7 billion, REGENT will commercialize seagliders for sustainable high-speed, regional mobility with first passengers boarding in 2025,” the company stated along with the announcement that they achieved an initial series of test flights of the craft.

Their test was of a 1/4 scale model, and will now focus on developing the full-scale prototype with a 65-feet wingspan to start testing flights with passengers in 2024.

“People have been attempting to make [these] vehicles viable for 60 years, and in 15 months we have gone from a drawing on a napkin to the first successful flight,” said Mike Klinker, REGENT CTO and co-founder.

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With a range of 180 miles (290 km) and able to fly at 180 mph (290 kph), REGENT have plans to service coastal communities such as New York City and Tokyo.

By last year, REGENT’s founders had raised almost $10 million from investors, which have included Mark Cuban and Peter Thiel.

“Seagliders will bring welcome relief for travelers seeking an alternative to traditional air travel servicing coastal communities such as New York City, the Hawaiian Islands, Barcelona, Tokyo, and many more worldwide,” said Billy Thalheimer, CEO and co-founder of REGENT.

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REGENT stresses that the last time a new mode of transportation was invented was the helicopter, and that the seaglider breaks this dry spell with it’s first-ever utilization of three modes of maritime operation—floating, foiling and flying, in a single craft.

“40% of the world’s population lives in coastal communities. These successful flights give us full confidence in our ability to apply this technology at full scale and bring seagliders to global commercial service by 2025.”

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The seaglider operates in three modes: from the dock, the vehicle first drives on its hull like a traditional boat.

As it leaves the harbor area and speeds up, it rises on its hydrofoil, a key maritime technology popularized by the America’s Cup sailing competitions.

The hydrofoil offers significant wave tolerance and a smooth ride as the seaglider leaves a crowded harbor.

Upon reaching open water, the seaglider takes flight, retracting the foil and accelerating up to cruise speed—all while staying within a wingspan of the water’s surface. This gives the advantages of numerous aerodynamic and operational efficiencies, enabling increased payload capability and greater range than other electric aircraft concepts.

WATCH more of the seaglider in action…

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John Cena Smashes Guinness World Record – Granting 650 Wishes for Sick Children

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from the WWE - Retrieved from YouTube
from the WWE – Retrieved from YouTube

American actor and WWE superstar John Cena has set a new record for the most wishes granted through the Make-A-Wish Foundation with 650.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation helps fulfill the wishes of children who have been diagnosed with a critical illness. As the most wished-for celebrity, nobody else has ever granted more than 200 wishes in the 42-year existence of Make-A-Wish.

Targeting children between the age of 2 and 18, they can choose to meet a celebrity, go to an event or even give a gift to someone else, and were “thrilled” to honor Cena as the man who has fulfilled the most wishes.

“If you ever need me for this ever, I don’t care what I’m doing, I will drop what I’m doing and be involved because I think that’s the coolest thing,” Cena said in an interview after being honored for 500 wishes granted. “I just drop everything, [and] if I can offer a fantastic experience, I’ll be first in line to do my part.”

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Cena began his career in professional wrestling back in 1999 and has since gone on to become one of the most popular athletes of all time; he is a 16-time world champion in WWE.

A crowd favorite character and the face for WWE’s “Be a Star” anti-bullying campaign, he granted his first wish for the Foundation in 2002. In 2012, Cena granted Make-A-Wish’s 1000th wish to a fan named Cardon.

Once receiving the opportunity to meet Cena, children take photos and hang out with their favorite wrestler and sometimes even venture inside the ring.

Cena is usually accompanied by one of his championship belts: he has held the WWE Championship 13 separate times, and often lets the kids try it on.

WATCH A look back at his 650 wishes, but keep a tissue handy!

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Huge Gas Bubble is Circling the Only Massive Black Hole in Our Galaxy–at 1/3 the Speed of Light

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An illustration of the orbit of the strange gas cloud.
An illustration of the orbit of the strange gas cloud.

Scientists recently spotted a hot bubble of gas orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way at 200 million miles an hour, or around 1/3 the speed of light.

The observations suggest that not only can these gas bubbles be imaged in X-ray and infrared wavelengths, but also radio waves, which should allow for more to be imaged more quickly and more easily.

The discovery was made using the ALMA Telescope high in the Chilean Atacama Desert to make the recordings in radio waves, and part of a network of telescopes called the EHT Collaboration that resulted in the first ever image of Sagittarius A*—the famous in April of 2017.

“We think we’re looking at a hot bubble of gas zipping around Sagittarius A* on an orbit similar in size to that of the planet Mercury, but making a full loop in just around 70 minutes. This requires a mind-blowing velocity of about 30% of the speed of light!” says Maciek Wielgus of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, who led the study published today in Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Dr. Wielgus and colleagues used ALMA data recorded simultaneously with observations of Sagittarius A* made by the EHT.

Serendipitously, some observations of Sag. A* were done shortly after a burst of X-ray energy was emitted from the center of the Milky Way that was detected by NASA’s Chandra Space Telescope.

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These kinds of bursts, previously observed with X-ray and infrared telescopes, are thought to be associated with these gas bubbles.

“What is really new and interesting is that such flares were so far only clearly present in X-ray and infrared observations of Sagittarius A*. Here we see for the first time a very strong indication that orbiting hot spots are also present in radio observations,” says Wielgus.

This hot gas is believed to have a magnetic origin, and the authors agree that their findings support this hypothesis.

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Furthermore, they are believed to be the source of the occasional X-ray bursts from the center of the galaxy, but not only is it clear they can be viewed in radio waves, but also that they come from clumps of this superfast, super heated gas, offering insight into the innerworkings of an object in Sag. A* that’s about ten billion times bigger than the sun.

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“The greatest thing about dreams is they don’t expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new.” – Casi McLean

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Quote of the Day: “The greatest thing about dreams is they don’t expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new.” – Casi McLean

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Revolutionary Jab that Could Repair Spinal Cord Injuries Developed by Scientists

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The green colors are increased synapses resulting from a regeneration in nerve axons - SWNS
The green colors are increased synapses resulting from a regeneration in nerve axons – SWNS

A revolutionary treatment that could repair spinal cord injuries has been developed by scientists which regrew nerves in paralyzed mice within three months.

The medication triggers cells of long spindly parts of the severed nerves called axons to regenerative themselves.

Currently, spinal cord injury does not have any effective treatments that involves a repairing of what was damaged. Physical rehabilitation can help patients regain some mobility, and a number of electrical stimulation technologies can stimulate nerves and muscles to act as before, but never with the precision of the real thing.

“This work shows a drug called TTK21 that is administered systemically once a week after a chronic spinal cord injury in animals can promote neuronal regrowth and an increase in synapses that are needed for neuronal transmission,” said lead author Dr. Simone Di Giovanni, of Imperial College London.

“This is important because chronic spinal cord injury is a condition without a cure where neuronal regrowth and repair fail.”

Damage to the spinal cord interrupts the constant stream of electrical signals from the brain to the body. It can lead to paralysis below an injury.

The study published in the journal PLOS Biology showed TTK21 aided the regrowth of sensory and motor neurons when given to mice 12 weeks after severe injury.

It belongs to a group of therapies known as epigenetic activators which target damaged DNA.

In experiments, lab rodents with severe spinal cord injury lived in an enriched environment with opportunities to be physically active—as is encouraged in human patients.

Treatment lasted for 10 weeks. Several improvements were identified, the most noticeable being the sprouting of more axons in the spinal cord. Retraction of motor axons above the point of injury was also halted, and sensory axon growth increased.

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The next step will be to boost the effects even more and get regenerating axons to reconnect to the rest of the nervous system so animals can regain their ability to move with ease.

“We are now exploring the combination of this drug with strategies that bridge the spinal cord gap such as biomaterials as possible avenues to improve disability in SCI patients,” said Di Giovanni.

For decades, this has remained a major challenge. Our body’s central nervous system, which includes the brain and spinal cord, does not have any significant capacity to repair itself.

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In the U.S., an estimated 300,000 people and another 50,000 in the UK are living with a spinal cord injury.

Last year GNN reported that Yale had used stem cells to repair patients’ injured spinal cords, which could be another future avenue to repairing nerves and axons.

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Colorado’s State Fish, Once Considered Extinct, is Now Reproducing Naturally in Native Waters

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The greenback cutthroat trout, Colorado’s state fish, is reproducing in the wild again after a period where it was actually believed to have been lost.

Presumptively listed as extinct in the 1930s, small populations were found in various parts of the state’s river systems, though they were thought of as hybrids.

In 2012 along a 3.5 mile section of Bear Creek, Colorado Parks & Wildlife conservationists found a small population of purebred greenback cutthroat trout, sparking a flurry of activity.

Usually when a Critically Endangered species recovers, it’s because of a nail-biting intervention to try and get a handful of captive individuals to breed in a zoo, and this is no different.

“Each spring, CPW aquatic biologists have strapped on heavy electro-fishing backpacks to painstakingly hike up Bear Creek to catch greenbacks and collect milt and roe—sperm and eggs,” CPW said.

Taking the goodies, CPW have successfully managed to breed the fish in a trout hatchery, and by 2016 they started a repopulating effort in Herman Gulch, which are now adults and reproducing on their own.

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“This is just another affirmation that our conservation practices work and that we can save species on the brink,” Kevin Rogers, an aquatics researcher for Colorado Parks and Wildlife, told CPR.org.

The Colorado chapter of Trout Unlimited is also having success with a breeding program, having released 13,000 small fry back in 2017 into four sites around Loveland Pass and Cameron Pass.

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Introduction of non-native rainbow, brown, and brook trout in Colorado streams have pushed the native greenback cutthroat out of much of its old habitat, although sometimes the relationship isn’t so negative. Rainbow trout have spawned with greenback cutthroat and created fertile hybrids called “cutbows.”

Sickly green with rusty spots, the state fish can grow up to around 18 inches and 10 pounds. It is reputed to have the most brilliant spawning coloration of any cutthroat trout species.

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NASA Celebrates World First: Smashing a Spacecraft into an Asteroid to Practice Saving Humanity

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credit NASA/David C. Bowman

This was the moment when NASA, including science mission chief Thomas Zurbuchen, celebrated the complete and utter destruction of one of their spacecraft.

While that sounds like a strange thing to celebrate, it was humanity’s first real-world test to see if we could alter the path of an asteroid if ever one were discovered heading on a collision course with Earth.

The Double-Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, was sent far into the solar system to strike an asteroid called Dimorphos which orbited a larger rock called Didymos, neither of which will ever pose a threat to Earth, but were the perfect testing candidates.

The investigation team will now observe Dimorphos using ground-based telescopes to confirm that DART’s impact altered the asteroid’s orbit around Didymos. Researchers expect the impact to shorten Dimorphos’ orbit by about 1%, or roughly 10 minutes; precisely measuring how much the asteroid was deflected is one of the primary purposes of the full-scale test.

Knowing from the outset that DART would be launched on a suicide mission, it was equipped with only three instruments, a sophisticated solar-system navigation tool, and a very sophisticated camera which it would use to find and image Didymos and Dimorphos, which had never been seen by anyone before.

The third was a small cling-on cube satellite developed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) called LICIACube, and the pictures it took of the impact are expected to be beamed back to Earth over the coming days.

The 530 foot-wide Dimorphos next to the larger parent body, Didymos – credit NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
Dimorphos from about 7 miles away – credit NASA/Johns Hopkins APL

In this video from NASA, you can see the asteroids as DART sped towards them at 14,000 miles per hour, with the final picture ultimately coming milliseconds before the impact.

DART was the first mission of NASA’s new Planetary Defense Coordination Office, a division that exclusively works to defend Earth from objects that could send us the way of the dinosaurs.

“Planetary Defense is a globally unifying effort that affects everyone living on Earth,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

“Now we know we can aim a spacecraft with the precision needed to impact even a small body in space. Just a small change in its speed is all we need to make a significant difference in the path an asteroid travels.”

With the asteroid pair within 7 million miles (11 million kilometers) of Earth, a global team is using dozens of telescopes stationed around the world and in space to observe them.

Over the coming weeks, they will characterize the ejecta produced and precisely measure Dimorphos’ orbital change to determine how effectively DART deflected the asteroid. The results will help validate and improve scientific computer models critical to predicting the effectiveness of this technique as a reliable method for asteroid deflection.

Roughly four years from now, the European Space Agency’s Hera project will conduct detailed surveys of both Dimorphos and Didymos, with a particular focus on the crater left by DART’s collision and a precise measurement of Dimorphos’ mass.

WATCH the countdown to impact on NASA’s Youtube

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Youth Crime in the U.S. Has Plummeted 78% Since 1994, Which Counters the Usual Narrative

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A recent report found that the number of youth arrests for violent crime continued to decline in 2020 and was down 78% from its peak in 1994.

Analysis of the data from the FBI found that people aged 17 and younger accounted for just 7% of all arrests for violent crime like murder and robbery in 2020.

Law enforcement agencies made an estimated 424,300 arrests of youth in 2020, a 38% drop from the previous year and half the number from five years earlier. 8% were for a violent crime. One-fourth of one percent was for murder.

“These data reflect an encouraging trend—one that has in fact been developing over the last three decades—and offer a welcome counter-narrative to claims that youth crime is on the rise,” said Liz Ryan, Administrator of the Office of Justice’ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

“They also give us reason to be optimistic about the course of juvenile justice reform, particularly efforts in many jurisdictions to replace harsh punishments with personal development opportunities and to design programs that build support into accountability.”

The proportion of violent crime arrests involving youth has declined over the last decade for each offense category, dropping by half from 2010, when youth accounted for 14% of all violent crime arrests.

“The analysis of arrest statistics helps inform our understanding of the entry of young people into the justice system, underscoring the relatively small share of arrests for violence involving youth,” said Director of the National Institute of Justice, Nancy La Vigne.

“The continuing decline in youth arrests overall, and for violent offenses in particular, gives us important information about the volume and nature of arrests that should be considered when developing strategies to support youth and reduce their justice involvement.”

The decline in youth arrests for violent crime over the last 10 years far outpaced the drop in adult arrests. Youth arrests for violent crime fell 56% while adult arrests decreased just 6%.

There would have been a fair amount of reasons for youth crime to increase over that period, from the nationwide rioting and protests across the summer of 2020, to mass school closures.

From 2019 to 2020 however, murder arrests involving adults rose 14%, while those involving youth remained about the same. Young adults ages 18 to 24 accounted for three times the share of violent crime arrests as those under 18.

The rate of serious violent victimizations against youth, which includes robbery, rape/sexual assault, and aggravated assault, also declined substantially from 2019 to 2020.

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“Seize the wind. Don’t become the kite that never flies.” – Elizabeth Lim

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Quote of the Day: “Seize the wind. Don’t become the kite that never flies.” – Elizabeth Lim

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This Lost Roman Era ‘Miracle Plant’ May Have Been Rediscovered

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silphium on the back of a Ptolemaic coin and a ferula communis CC 3.0. CNG Coins

A Turkish botanist is learning how to cultivate what some believe to be the closest living relative to a Classical-era kitchen staple written about by Romans and Greeks.

The golden-flowered “Silphium” was reported by Pliney the Elder as growing in modern-day Libya, and has been translated as being a prescription for everything from “stomach pain to wart removal, baldness and dental pain, for pleurisy and epilepsy, and a balm, according to one lyrical translation, for both the ‘dog-bitten’ and the ‘scorpion-smitten,'” writes Nat Geo. 

Silphium was also called for as a key ingredient in many Roman recipes contained within the Apicius, a 475-page cookbook written during the time of Emperor Tiberius. It was written to be prized for its wonderful, even aphrodisiacal smell, and rich, clean flavor.

However Silphium was lost by the time of Nero, who was reportedly to have been given the last known stalk in existence. Since the Middle Ages people have been looking for this delicious medicinal plant, and several candidates represent what are likely relatives, as the historical accounts of the plant being un-farmable outside Libya has led scientists and historians to believe it is extinct.

Silphium, based on its historical depictions on coins from the region of Libya, then-called Cyrenaica, and descriptions of taste, smell, physical shape and size, likely belonged to the genus Ferula, of the family Apicacea, of which there are 220 known species.

They are herbaceous perennial plants growing to 1–4 meters tall, with stout, hollow, somewhat succulent stems. and usually yellow flowers produced in large umbels. They’re sometimes called Giant Fennel, although fennel belongs to a different genus in the same family.

Istanbul University professor Mahmut Miski is growing ferula drudeana, a newly-discovered member of the genus which he believes has all the characteristics of ancient silphium, on the slopes of a volcano in the Cappadocia region of Turkey. There, Miski believes Greek farmers from the 19th century or before were cultivating ferula drudeana either from an earlier time, or having brought it from someplace else.

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It’s a tricky historical jigsaw puzzle, as no Roman ruins have turned up a mason jar with “silphium” written on it. Nevertheless, the newly-discovered plant is deeply medicinal, and chemical analysis of the ginseng-like root structure has turned up 30 secondary metabolites that carry anti-inflammatory, anti-cancerous, and perhaps most tellingly of all based on Pliney’s historical records, contraceptive properties.

It also contains shyobunone, found in sage, rosemary, artichoke, and other plants with intoxicating smells.

Professor Miski was shown the ferula drudeana plants growing wild by some Greek-heritage farmers. The farmers showed how sheep and goats would enjoy chewing up the drudeana which matches historian Pliney’s descriptions, and of the amorous behavior of flies following a drink of the plant’s pearl-white sap.

Yet more proof was found when Professor Miski observed its rapid and dispersed growth following rain—another piece of corroborating evidence.

A mainstay in fantasy-fiction, it’s rare that human civilization produces something in olden days that for some reason can’t be replicated in later times.

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Nor is it everyday that someone finds a new kitchen herb. Ferula drudeana, with its wonderful smell, rich flavor, and medicinal qualities would be a wonderful addition to anyone’s pantry, regardless of whether or not it is the fabled silphium, traded at equal worth to silver in the Roman Empire.

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UK Residents Can Win a Good Night’s Sleep in World’s First BnB to Offer Actual Sheep-Counting

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Located near a hillside in dreamy rural Sussex, in a field full of the fluffy farm animals, a “sleep dome” is offering the chance to dose off counting real sheep.

The small glamping outfit created by a sleep technology company will host two guests and feature a luxurious double-bed with views of idyllic surroundings from all angles.

After dinner and settling in for the night, guests will be encouraged to count the numbered sheep as they walk about their paddock before gently drifting off into a blissful slumber beneath the stars.

Daylight will herald a guided yoga session and a breakfast full of locally-sourced food.

The ‘Shleep Sanctuary’ was created by sleep tech company Emma Sleep, and they have launched a contest offering two people the chance to try it when it opens in summer 2023.

The dome was created after a poll of 2,000 adults found 44% have struggled to get to sleep this year.

“The power of a good night’s sleep can’t be underestimated and it’s clear the nation needs it now more than ever,” remarked Dr. Dennis Schmoltzi, CEO at Emma Sleep.

More than a fifth (21%) of those polled have struggled to sleep due to worries over the cost-of-living crisis, while 23% have been kept up fretting about work.

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“Counting sheep is more than an old wives’ tale—it’s a tried and tested visualization technique that Brits are relying on to send them to sleep. They’re also longing for a serene and peaceful environment to drift off in when they’re struggling to relax, which is incredibly important for sleep quality.”

The study also found 23% of respondents claim their quality of sleep is worse now than ever before—with 10% even admitting they can’t remember the last time they slept well.

Trying to improve these unhappy situations, 14% of adults have employed ‘visualization tactics’ like counting sheep in a bid to get a good night’s sleep.

The study, carried out via OnePoll, also revealed factors which they believe boost their chances of sleeping well—including fresh air and the sound of nature.

“When practiced regularly, these kinds of exercises have been proven to lower the heart rate by encouraging slower breathing and activating the parasympathetic nervous system,” said Theresa Schnorbach, sleep scientist at Emma.

“Imaginative distraction is also an effective cognitive strategy to help sleep, where you imagine a pleasant and relaxing image in as much detail as you possibly can—like counting fluffy sheep as they jump over a fence.”

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“The aim is to use as much cognitive capacity as possible so that worrying thoughts are suppressed. Studies show this not only shortens the time it takes to fall asleep but also improves sleep quality.”

For a chance to win a stay at the ‘Shleep Sanctuary’ with a guest of your choice, register here.

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‘Miracle’ Drug Has Young Girl Running Dancing and Swimming Again Despite Cystic Fibrosis

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A little girl with a debilitating lung disease is running around freely again thanks to what her mom is calling a miracle drug.

7-year-old Harriet Corr has cystic fibrosis (CR) and has had to endure coughing fits and a weakened immune system all her life.

CR is a condition that disrupts the body’s ability to produce certain fluids, and for a variety of reasons this results in almost perpetual bacterial infections in the lungs, but also metabolic issues such as diabetes.

With her health declining, Harriet’s mom Emma Corr campaigned for seven years for her daughter to be granted access to the drug Orkambi which is available in the US.

Corr teamed up with a group of parents whose children have CR to lobby the government to get the drug available on the NHS. Orkambi was made available in October 2019 and then another drug, Kaftrio, was also green-lighted in February 2022.

Orkambi didn’t improve Harriet’s condition, but as soon as she started taking Kaftrio in February 2022, there was an “overnight” transformation in her health.

The schoolgirl is now able to run around and keep up with other children her age, has gained weight and no longer is kept up all night coughing.

Her lung capacity is now 120% after plummeting to a frightening 67% at her worst.

“It’s not an exaggeration to say I didn’t sleep for the first seven years of Harriet’s life,” said Corr, from Tyne and Wear in the north of England. “I would sit up all night by her side as she would cough.”

“Campaigning to get the drugs available on the NHS is what pushed me through as I would email MPs throughout the night. I get scared speaking about it in case I jinx it, but it is absolutely amazing to see how far Harriet has come from this time last year.”

CR is diagnosed very early in life, but is so serious that some doctors consider it protocol to advise parents to emotionally prepare themselves for the child to pass away before turning 10.

In August of 2021, Harriet’s health was at an all-time low, but since starting the Kaftrio drug, Harriet’s health transformed literally overnight.

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Kaftrio works by acting as a stand in for the body’s CFTR genes that regulate mucus and digestive fluid density, viscosity, and production, that are mutated in the disease. One active ingredient improves the activity of the defective genes, and the second increases their number.

“She coughed for 10 minutes and then never coughed again,” said Corr. “Harriet is now like a new little girl, looking back at photos the transformation is phenomenal.”

Her older sister, Nancy loves having her sister back as she used to miss her when she was hospitalized for long periods of time.

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Before starting the treatment, even a common cold could result in a hospital visit but now she can fight illnesses like any other person.

“She can sleep through the night and her older sister is so happy to have her little sister back said Corr. “She’s a really big fun character and loves to be the center of attention. She used to struggle with her coughing whilst dancing, swimming and playing football but now nothing is holding her back.”

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