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THAT age is just a number has been proved true by a man who has climbed Snowdon at 90 years old - and went to the gym two days later.

Date Time Share New standard to improve care of 7.7 million Australians who receive IV cannulas or ‘drips’ each year For the 7.7 million Australians who have a peripheral intravenous catheter (PIVC) – also known as a cannula or ‘drip’ – inserted each year, their hospital experience is set to become safer. With up to 40% 1-2 of all first-time attempts to insert a PIVC in an adult failing, many patients face the prospect of undergoing multiple painful attempts before a PIVC is successfully inserted. Once inserted, there is also a risk of complications, some of which are serious. Fr...

End-of-year field trips to the zoo, Garden of the Gods and college campuses have been called off for Atlas Preparatory School students because thieves stole catalytic converters from two activity buses last week. Administrators at the charter school, which primarily serves low-income students in southeast Colorado Springs, also are scrambling to figure out how athletes can get to girls’ soccer games and track-and-field meets over the remaining few weeks of school. “It’s rather unfortunate,” Brittney M. Stroh, executive director of Atlas Prep, which enrolls 1,100 kindergarten through 1...

Salvaging the dignity of history Updated 8:00 AM; Most people react to the past based on what little bit of history they were taught in school. Or what they have seen in movies. That’s why when people consider the South they tend to only think of two dates – 1865 and 1965. Visitors who roll into Montgomery or Selma on tour buses sometimes arrive believing those were the only two time periods to ever pass through the Black Belt. Both were significant. They both influenced and shaped the nation. They helped permanently define both cities. Unfortunately, school curriculums can’t easily te...

Memories from an old brown bag Updated Jan 30, 2021; I don’t know what makes memories fall on us. Sometimes we go looking for them – driving down some old road we used to know, or talking our way back down memory lane. But other times it’s as if we just wake up one day and there they are back. I have, as many of you have already probably suspected, a public education. I was never particularly outstanding at anything. Really I was barely average. I was terrible at that physical fitness test they tried to get us to perform every year. I don’t think they do that anymore. They hardly eve...