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[Alaskan]

Data is being removed from lot's of Federal websites. Here at UC Davis they had an event at the Library to show students and Faculty how to archive data before it is removed from websites.

In some cases, Years worth of Research is going away.

Odd.

I can kinda see the animal stuff...since it said it was info on people that had received complaints, but that had NOT been charged. I hate the innocent being raked through the mud...so I think that part is good.


Research disappearing though....I don't see how that is good.

 

[Alaskan]

I knew someone that had that....  she too went through the physical repositioning therepy.  It happened after a car accident.
Jarring loose the crystals.

What made me think virus was the fact that I had Bells Palsey a year or so ago.   from that I weent to blood pressure meds and eventually to Type 2 diabetes meds....  I  assumed the issue had been the new meds....   But its gone way beyond a temporary adjustment period and the past few months I have felt like i had a bobble head. 

Like when Id turn my7 head my brain would take a quarter second to ct catch up.   Fortunately for me I adapted to it so I can drive but walking about could be an adventure without my walker.

I am going to try the over the counter alternatives and see what works best.   with the change in medical assistance I dont expect to have medical coverage till I qualify for medicare in four years...  I just hope they keep up on my medicines for now.

deb

Dang on the medication stuff Deb.




Well....After about six hours of plowing I cleverly stuck the plow truck so deeply in the ditch that an hour of work with two men and a tow truck was fruitless. The heavy equipment will maybe show up tomorrow, and my house is no longer accessible by car. Yeah me.


Edited to add a photo from earlier today when the plow was still mobile.

 

[ronott1]

Odd.

I can kinda see the animal stuff...since it said it was info on people that had received complaints, but that had NOT been charged. I hate the innocent being raked through the mud...so I think that part is good.


Research disappearing though....I don't see how that is good.

vaccines
environment

Stuff like that. Humanities and the Arts are slotted for huge funding cuts. There is talk of defunding the whole thing.

 

[drumstick diva]

Bummer Alaskan - so sorry.

 

[drumstick diva]

I went through a period of getting frequent attacks of vertigo. I remember pushing a shopping cart through the parking lot, weaving like a drunk. At least holding on to the cart I could walk. It just came on me that fast. I was mainly concerned how others would view me.

Discovered if I didn't look up high, I could maneuver somewhat normally. The doctor told me about the crystals getting out of alignment.

He said when you discover what act gives you the vertigo, to keeping doing it until the dizziness abates.

For me, it is usually if I have to look upward ( occurs often I am very short). I tried it. I would anchor myself to the shopping cart and look up until it kind of normalized. It did seem to work. But, you continually find some thing else that triggers it. Like turning your head.

. When I have a bad attack, just getting out of bed is a trial.I have to grab onto furniture and make my way through the room. Sometimes it feels like I am walking UP a wall rather than the floor., or that the room is spinning.

I havent' had any attacks for quite a while ( jinxing myself now ) So wonder - was it medication, or did I jerk my head somehow and screw things up, or jump out of bed too fast (not likely). My mom had it often

 

[Alaskan]

vaccines
environment

Stuff like that. Humanities and the Arts are slotted for huge funding cuts. There is talk of defunding the whole thing.

I am feeling stupid ....totally don't get it.

 

[drumstick diva]

That's okay Alaskan, I always feel stupid

 

[Wickedchicken6]

I am believing the dogs and the outdoor cats we have deter allot
of predators

Our dog is getting old but he will kill the little foxes and he "may" deter a few of the other wild animals; skunks, raccoon etc. But with the amount of predators I catch withinyard limits I have to believe that he doesn't deter that much. Coyotes are crafty and they'll come right up into the yards. Here they'll bait a dog and if they can get him to chase, they'll kill the dog. I've seen them trying when I'm working in the fields. Thankfully our dog never fell for that routine. My Grandma's dog got killed that way...and DH found a dog that had been taken down in our south pasture.

Our cats are old too, with the exception of Steve, the new-to-us stray who apparently belong to any of our neighbours. They can't keep the magpies away from their food. They have to watch for the foxes as well...because the foxes will catch and kill them if they have a chance.

 

[Alaskan]

That's okay Alaskan,  I always feel stupid 

Yep... now we can't find the sled to go haul groceries from the neighbors house!


I have GOT to stop living like white trash!!! After enough snow falls we can't find a single thing!!

 

[ronott1]

I am feeling stupid ....totally don't get it.

There are government servers that have scientific research on them. Other servers have databases of Art related stuff. The example earlier was of Animal information. Those servers are being removed or the data on them is removed. They are then not available to the public or researchers.

If the National Institute of Humanities is defunded, there will be no one to keep up their servers. The data can then be lost.

I am trying to not be political about this. Just relaying what is going on here in the University of California world that I work in. Researchers are one group that is worried about not being able to access those databases. There are other databases used by the Faculty in my Department, English, to do research.

As you can see by the Animal information relating to breeding, things are indeed being removed. Because of this, academics around the country are learning how to archive the data in case it is removed. Climate change research was also removed but it was put back. Who knows for how long?