内容摘要：, there are limits to what you can do. A full-size artificial tree might take up half a room. You might have limited shelving for trinkets. How can you let your holiday flag fly when you don’t have much space to do it?

, there are limits to what you can do. A full-size artificial tree might take up half a room. You might have limited shelving for trinkets. How can you let your holiday flag fly when you don’t have much space to do it?

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BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — “The Sacred Harp” isof sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds, and it is getting an update.Sung in four-part harmony, “The Sacred Harp” is central to its more than 180-year-old American folk a cappella singing tradition that is as much about the community as it is the music. It’s no accident “The Sacred Harp”

, and a new edition — the first in 34 years — is on its way.Since the beginning, groups of Sacred Harp singers have periodically worked together to revise it, preserving its history and breathing new life into it. It’s a renewal, not a reprint, said David Ivey, a lifelong singer and chair of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company’s revision and music committee.

“That’s credited for keeping our book vibrant and alive,” said Ivey.

First published in 1844 by West Georgia compilers Benjamin F. White and Elisha J. King, revisions of the shape-note hymnal make space for songs by living composers, said Jesse P. Karlsberg, a committee member and expert on the tradition.The findings were startling: More than 90% of people surveyed suffered from sinus problems. Nosebleeds, shortness of breath and nausea were widespread. The report attributed the symptoms to the high levels of pollutants that researchers found — including, near Lybrook, hydrogen sulfide, a compound that gives off the sulfur smell that Amari Werito associated with his headaches.

Community leader Daniel Tso speaks during an interview while standing outside a well pad in Counselor, N.M., Navajo Nation, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Nadav Soroker/Searchlight New Mexico via AP)Community leader Daniel Tso speaks during an interview while standing outside a well pad in Counselor, N.M., Navajo Nation, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Nadav Soroker/Searchlight New Mexico via AP)

Those studies helped confirm what many community members already knew, said Daniel Tso, a community leader who served on the committee that oversaw the 2021 health impact assessment.“The children and the grandchildren need a safe homeland,” Tso said during an interview in March, standing outside a cluster of gas wells within a mile of Lybrook Elementary.