Venous insufficiency. Swelling of the ankles and feet is often an early symptom of venous insufficiency, a condition in which blood inadequately moves up the veins from the legs and feet back to the heart. Normally, the veins keep blood flowing in the correct direction with the help of one-way valves.
Studs Terkel. Louis Studs Terkel (May 16, 1912 â October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
After moving to New Orleans, the German took a liking to the Fat Tuesday jewelry, in part because he's an artist. Creating the organization, Beadtown, Inc., Wagner decided to turn one man's trash into treasure: he was the brain behind the world's largest mosaic made from Mardi Gras beads in 2013. That's until the Swedes topped his then 48-foot-long work of art. It's a nice healthy competition, he remarked.