Podcast appearances and mentions of noel rivera

We are honored to have Alysha Giliberti back at our table this week. Alysha tells us the heartwarming of her sister, Terrisa Noel Rivera-Jones. Terrisa is forever 31 after an overdose of fentanyl. Terrisa struggled with addiction and mental illness for the majority of her life. She was homeless on and off until the day… The post Episode #129: In Memory of Terrisa Noel Rivera-Jones: Humanizing Addiction Part 2 of 2, w/ Alysha Giliberti appeared first on Beyond Picket Fences.

We are honored to have Alysha Giliberti back at our table this week. Alysha tells us the heartwarming of her sister, Terrisa Noel Rivera-Jones. Terrisa is forever 31 after an overdose of fentanyl. Terrisa struggled with addiction and mental illness for the majority of her life. She was homeless on and off until the day… The post Episode #128: In Memory of Terrisa Noel Rivera-Jones: Humanizing Addiction Part 1 of 2, w/ Alysha Giliberti appeared first on Beyond Picket Fences.

Los interpretes ambientales de Para la Naturaleza, Astrid Cordero y Noel Rivera, nos llevan en recorrido para conocer el bosque de manglar; sus especie, características, los servicios eco-sistémicos que ofrecen y la importancia de protegerlos. Ecotono es una invitación al conocimiento práctico sobre ecología y los fenómenos naturales que ocurren en Puerto Rico, a observar con curiosidad el mundo natural y resaltar las relaciones de cuidado mutuo. Una producción de Para la Naturaleza para Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico. Sintoniza todos los martes a las 3:30 pm a través de Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico en el 88.3 FM en Mayagüez, el 89.7 FM en San Juan y radiouniversidad.pr.

This week Shana sat down with Noel Rivera. Noel is the Green Party candidate for the 127th Pennsylvania House District. The district includes parts of the City of Reading and Kenhorst. Noel is originally from Lebanon, PA, and is an Air Force Veteran. He served and was deployed to Bagram AB, Afghanistan, and was awarded the Air Force Achievement Medal for volunteerism and excellence in service. After the military, he moved to Reading, PA, and earned a B.S. in Accounting in 2019 and an MBA focusing on community engagement and economic development in 2020. Currently, he works in the Accounting Department of a company in the Reading area. Throughout his work and experiences, he knew that he always wanted to get involved in the community and politics. Throughout their discussion, Noel talked about some important issues that are of key interest to him. One of them, is developing Reading into an Ecodistrict and finding creative ways to bring the city into an up and coming green and sustainable city! If elected, he hopes to work with other elected officials in Harrisburg to develop a network of Ecodistricts across Pennsylvania. Shana and Noel talked about other issues that he is concerned about and what influenced him to run. One of the key issues is passenger rail being brought back to Reading. Together they talked about how crucially important it is for the service to come back to Reading and it also should be implemented in a fair and just way for all of the city's residents. To find out more about Noel's campaign please visit his website or Facebook page. We all need to vote in this very important election on November 3rd! Here in Pennsylvania, you have the choice of voting early, by mail-in paper ballot, and in person. Your mail-in ballot MUST be postmarked before November 3rd to count. Don't forget if you decide to vote in person, Election Day is November 3rd. Polls in Pennsylvania are open from 7 am-8 pm. If you are a Pennsylvania voter and would need any necessary voter information, please go to votespa.com.

Bernard (@davidbernardh) and Maddy (@spiffl) discuss discourse, Pokémon Sword and Shield, Twin Peaks, Tetris, and, inevitably, the Oscars. Cover Illustration by Noel Rivera (@coeurdenoel) Intro Music: "the shadow lengthens (introit)" from In the Long Shadow of Reverb Mountain by Dragon Warrior

Bernard (@davidbernardh) and Maddy (@spiffl) discuss the February Nintendo Direct, Mario Maker memories, Crackdown 3, Smash Bros., Dragon Ball Z, Fortnite Festival, Spongebob's heated gaming moment, and more. Cover Illustration by Noel Rivera (@coeurdenoel) Intro Music: "the shadow lengthens (introit)" from In the Long Shadow of Reverb Mountain by Dragon Warrior

Bernard (@davidbernardh) and Maddy (@spiffl) discuss Kingdom Hearts, The Great Gatsby, Advance Wars, Pokemon, the Dernaissance, the Reevesaissance, the brands, and more. Cover Illustration by Noel Rivera (@coeurdenoel) Intro Music: "the shadow lengthens (introit)" from In the Long Shadow of Reverb Mountain by Dragon Warrior

Bernard (@davidbernardh) and Maddy (@spiffl) talk BioWare, Star Wars, action movies, Ralph Northam, faves, problematic faves and more in their debut episode.   Cover Illustration by Noel Rivera (@coeurdenoel) Intro Music: "the shadow lengthens (introit)" from In the Long Shadow of Reverb Mountain by Dragon Warrior

An unwelcomed stranger snuck into the city last summer, and New Yorkers were panicking. A sudden outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, a type of pneumonia caused by waterborne bacteria, had landed in the city in July. In just over two weeks, there were already 81 cases and seven deaths -- and the source of the deadly bacteria was a mystery. When the New York City Health Department got the alert, they realized this wasn’t like any outbreaks of the disease they’d seen before. “We’re incredibly nervous and worried. We don’t know how this started, we don’t know how it’s going to proceed, and we don’t know how it’s going to end,” said Dr. Jay Varma, Deputy Commissioner of Disease Control. When mapping out the outbreak, however, his team noticed that the disease wasn’t just choosing victims at random. Most of the patients were from a cluster of neighborhoods in the South Bronx, an area historically marked by neglect and poverty. The city needed to track them down, and quickly. The area affected by Legionella bacteria. (City of New York) But getting that kind of information from severely ill people would not be easy. One of them, a 31-year-old taxi driver named Daniel Tejada, was heavily medicated and lying face down on a hospital bed with a 104-degree fever. It was challenging for Varma and his team to find out where exactly Tejada and the others had been exposed. “They didn’t all go to the same hospital, they didn’t go to the same doctor, they didn’t swim in the same pool, or hang out at the same fountains,” he said. The officials ruled out running water, which would have affected many more people at once. Instead they set their sights higher – on the roofs of large, commercial buildings where cooling towers are installed. The towers (which have nothing to do with drinking water) are meant to cool hot air within buildings, and emit mist. If the water in these systems are not properly treated, they can grow bacteria, including Legionella – which can cause a serious type of pneumonia when that mist is inhaled. Over the next few days, “disease detectives” climbed up the buildings, testing water from the cooling towers and submitting their specimens to a lab in Albany. They narrowed down the search to five suspect water coolers in the South Bronx, and shared this information with the public. Noel Rivera, from Clarity Water Technologies, cleans up after helping drain and power-wash a cooling tower in Manhattan. (Fred Mogul/WNYC) Varma and his team at the health department still didn’t have all the answers to appease an anxious public. Though they eventually tracked the source to one cooling tower, they couldn’t be sure. They still needed to grow more Legionella in the lab and match it to the bacteria in infected people to confirm that they had indeed cleaned the right unit, which would take weeks. Annie Minguez, Daniel Tejada’s cousin, spoke at a town hall meeting to share her frustration. “I cannot sleep at night knowing that possibly he could get this again,” she said. “That’s all I came here for.” With a nervous city on his hands, Governor Andrew Cuomo got involved, and called in the Centers for Disease Control to start a “massive testing effort.” Hundreds of city workers and scientists were dispatched to find any overlooked cooling towers, and to sample them. New legislation was passed that required building owners in the entire city, not just the Bronx, to clean their cooling towers within two weeks. In the public’s eyes, this mass effort was something close to heroic. The deaths stopped, new cases weren’t reported. The whole city seemed to be actively fighting this strange disease. But it was the city health department, quietly waiting for the Legionella to grow in labs, that would truly put an end to the outbreak. Dr. Varma and his team were able to match the bacteria samples to one single water cooler tower on top of a hotel. A tower they had, luckily, cleaned weeks before. “Every outbreak has something where you just get lucky,” he said. “You’re not just smart but something right happens at the right time.”