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Malassezia: What The Photos Reveal – (PT 1)
Malassezia: What The Photos Reveal – (PT11)
* Malassezia: One -Two or Many *
* What The Photos Reveal – PT 12 *
* The Colour Kaleidoscope *
* The Common Characteristics *
Malassezia Colour Kaleidoscope
Malassezia for me started as Fatty Blobs or Gritty Crystalline Shards.
It was much later on that i became aware of the Gray Sticky Layer
on Both my Body and Clothes and it's 'Connection' to Malassezia
and even later still that i realised that
Gray Sticky was Part of Malassezia and a Stage of Development
Biofilm, acting much like a Carrier and / or Protective Amniotic Fluid
I cannot recall exactly when i became aware of its presence
but if i were to guess it appears more reasonable and likely that it was
that it was after i had given up Swimming
and there was no Chlorine to inhibiting it sticking on my Body
or perhaps the Daily Chlorine saturation had caused the demise
of other Friendly Fora while stripping the natural body oil barrier
exposing and leaving the skin vulnerable such that Malassezia
did not need to produce its own, finding digging-in quick and easy.
When the Skin Restoration started, the Natural Skin Lipids were not enough
to allow it to stick on the skin and neither could it 'dig-in' as easy
– this been the case ever since –
so it started converting and spreading its own etc.. etc…
All speculation of course ...
Anyhow, at First it was Gray and on the Dry Side
– as shown on the photos above.
Later on it seemed to have gradually changed
to a more Liquid Stickier, Greasier Consistency
and a rather Brownish Gray hue
progressively arriving to the more recent
Rich Fluorescent Orange.
Then it Rapidly acquired a Lime hue to it.
Until the most Recent Surprise of a very Rich Deep Fluorescent Green
Never encountered previously – Neither suspected as exiting or possible
unless -as reported- when viewed under Wood's Lamp
but Not visible to the Naked Eye!
I assumed it may have been a result of Malassezia-Acidophilus Interaction
which may still be the case, as what has followed since
has been Fluorescent Green Sputum and even Green Hyphae
as seen in the Malassezia Liquid in the Eye.
Truly though i do Not really know what has caused these colour changes.
Another possibility might be that for the past year i had to change my Diet
a) Reduce Considerably the Quantity i was used to consuming
– after some abrupt declining in my health and my Digestive System
unable to handle anymore- even though mainly consisted of Fresh Fruit
b) Discontinue some other Vital Foods such as Yoghurt and Nuts
providing Protein, Calcium and other minerals
c) Replace One and often Two of my Fruity Meals
with an All Greenies lightly Steamed Dish.
(A Happy recent Addition 2 Walnuts and 1 tiny Fig in the middle)
(Fig promptly dropped again after unpleasant Repercussions… 😦 )
Why would have taken that long for the Change of Colour and Quality to occur
-should that have been the cause- i don't know …. but i am rather worried
that One morning i may look in the Mirror
And … Not Recognise Myself! …
But Not very likely -under the circumstances- that i d' be
wearing such a Broad happy Smile on my … Rich Green Face!
I am inclined to believe that the change of Diet may indeed
have caused Malassezia to adapt, since it utilises practically
every nutritional element, provided abundantly by the Body
in the Digestive and Intestinal Canal but to prove so
i would have to go back to my previous diet which i could not do
unless i got a clear Directive from my Body
while following sensitively and sensibly its needs
and navigating between the limitations of 'Can's and Can Not's' of it all.
Dec 14
Another recent experimental Diet change with Less Cooked Greens
-unless coincidental or other undetectable cause- has resulted
a return to more normal? Orange colour Biofilm
and have not detected any Lime Green during this time.
So Far i have Discovered and Confirmed a Correlation between
eating More Fruit and having More and -More Frequently- produced
Malassezia Liquid Gold/Green but with Milder Burning quality
against Eating More Greens and having Less
and -Less Frequently- produced
but More 'Caustically Burning' when it spreads on the skin
( as the Under Breast attack indicated.)
Anyway, the Purpose of this Project was to Find out
if there were any Common Characteristics in the different Samples
that could indicate of Malassezia as One, Two or Several Species.
The Results indicate clearly throughout –as far as i am concerned
that there are Consistently Common Elements such as
* Green / Orange Fluorescence
* Orange Sticky Liquid
* Fatty or Gritty Particles Consisting of
– Circular C Shaped Eyelets with Cloning Beads
– Long or Short Hyphae also containing Cloning Beads.
These characteristics seem to be consistent throughout
from whatever part of the body they may have been collected.
The only difference in some samples appears to be
the size and /or look of the Hyphae.
Looking at some samples below it would be reasonable to assume
that the Hyphae can appear different, i.e
Smaller and Thinner if
a) They develop at the Yeast stage and b) During their Early stage of growth
Or Larger and Fuller
a) at the Mycelial / Fungal stage and
b) During a Later stage of growth
I cannot tell with certainty that my interpretation and stance is correct
Nevertheless!…. at this Stage
To me it all still indicates One Malassezia Organism In its Two States
i.e the Yeast and the Mycelia / Fungus.
Until some other discovery or element sheds more light disproving this theory
i am tentatively standing by my current position
-but always ever ready to embrace Fact against Theory
when it comes sufficiently
Tested – Provedn and Validated
whether it be Mine or Scientific.
How I would love to see for Every Ailment Big or Small
* A Correct Testing Method
* A Correct Conclusive Diagnosis
* Medical Specialists with Open Co-operative Spirit ,
and Most Importantly
* Available Correct – Harmless to the Body – Working Treatment!
Am i Dreaming about Some Other Planet
… in Some Other Solar System?
I guess I Am!…
In the meantime as i have stated all along
for me the Name or type of sub Species is not as Important
as finding how it Operates and ways to Control and Minimise
the Damage and Discomfort it causes
therefore, i will be watching for signs such as
* What Causes or Inhibits the Yeast from Developing to Fungus
* Are Different treatments More suited to Each or it makes No difference.
* Are there any Elements that Favour One Form More than the Other
and so on… etc …
… or …
Lay Back and Relax and start reading a Couple of Good Novels Lol!
which i am already doing when i can keep my eyes open…
* * *
Having Completed successfully this Major Project
i shall now turn my attention
to a Collection of Readers' Keywords /Questions


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Sun, Verari intro new blade servers this week
Sun's latest blade server promises the performance of a comparable rack-mount system, while Verari's new blade targets the most space- and storage-constrained shops.
In addition, San Diego, Calif.-based Verari Systems introduced a new blade server on Tuesday, Feb. 19, the BladeRack2 XL, which supports two quad-core processors from Intel or Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and up to 672 TB of storage in a full 72 blade chassis.
The Sun Blade X8450 is Sun's first quad-core processor based blade, part of the Sun Blade 8000 Modular System, has a total of 16 Intel Xeon processing cores and 32 dual in-line memory module (DIMM) slots -- two DIMMs per core.
Users can also get Sun Blade 8000 systems with AMD Opteron or Sparc processors, along with a choice of operating systems including the Solaris 10 operating system, Linux, Microsoft Windows and VMware.
Sun describes this blade as having the same capabilities as a traditional four-socket rack-mount server stuffed into a blade form factor.
"We have taken all the capabilities of a four-socket rack-mount server and put [them] into a blade form factor without making any compromises whatsoever," said Mike McNerny, the director of blade server product line at Sun. "A lot of blade designs are optimized around two sockets, and four-socket blades tend to get awkward, but this blade is architected in such a way that all of the components of a rack-mount four-socket are in this. Our customers aren't willing to forgo performance for a blade form factor."The new blade's ability to compete with rack-mount systems is important if it's to be successful with Sun's demanding customers, said Scaramella, a senior research analyst for servers at IDC Corp. "Relative to other blade offerings, the four-socket X8450 is developed to handle high-end applications," he said. "Sun is aiming to deliver full rack server capabilities in a modular form factor; an important component if Sun is to be successful with its target customers workloads of HPC, database, and virtualization; in addition to the Telco customer segment." HP, IBM blades out-engineered by Sun
Chip Anderson, the president of Redmond, Wash.-based StockCharts.com, which supplies real-time financial charts to users via the Internet, switched from IBM BladeCenter blade servers with dual-core 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon processors to 2.8 GHz AMD Opteron dual-core processor-based Sun blades last summer because the IBM servers weren't up to par.
StockCharts.com servers run number-crunching applications and experience spiky traffic patterns, depending on the day and the stock news, so they needed fast servers that could handle lots of capacity, Anderson said.
Anderson also looked at blade servers from Hewlett-Packard, but said, "HP's engineering didn't seem as solid as Sun's, and we really wanted reliability."
"We had hard-drive failures on our IBM blades and wanted to avoid that. Sun has hot swappable drives in its blades, but we haven't had any hard-drive failures at all," Anderson said. "We found that one Sun blade handled about 30% more capacity than two IBM blades. … Now we won't have to add as many servers."
Anderson said he now uses the IBM blades for other less-intensive applications and the two chassis of Sun blades holding 20 servers handle the number-crunching workloads for StockCharts.com without any problems.
Choosing blades isn't without problems, though. Users like Anderson are attracted to blade servers' density, but with density comes heat. Last year when Anderson got the Sun blades, he also upgraded to in-row chillers with cooled water and new power supplies, avoiding potential heat issues in StockChart.com's cramped data center.
Because the Sun Blade X8450 uses the same CPU and memory as a typical rack-mount server, users should be conscious of heat, said Sun's McNerny. "There isn't any magic; there are still power and cooling concerns in data centers when packing servers together. We work with customers to determine their power and cooling capacity."
Sun concedes that the heat generated by blades can pose challenges in some environments. "Not everyone can fill up a rack with blades because of this, but blades are inherently more efficient than a rack-mount servers. They use 15% to 20% less power than a rack-mount, which is a core benefit in addition to the density they allow," McNerny said.
Other features of Sun Blade X8450 include 160 Gbps I/O throughput, two x8 PCI Express (PCIe) lanes, two x4 PCIe lanes with integrated PCIe switching technology and shared infrastructure with no fans or power supplies on the blades.
The new servers will be available in March at a $9,000 starting price.Verari's blade servers
In other blade server news, on Tuesday, Feb. 19, Verari Systems announced the BladeRack 2 XL for applications such as data warehousing, high-capacity storage clusters, rendering and media streaming, which can drive server counts into the hundreds and even thousands and drive storage capacities into petabytes, said Roger Stoesz, a product manager at Verari Systems.
"The new Verari BladeRack2 XL is the density leader in both storage and compute, enabling the placement of more servers and disks into a floor space budget," said Stoesz.
Verari's new blade server stuffs up to 12 hard disk enclosures into a 1U vertical blade for a capacity of 12 TB and 672 TB in a full BladeRack2 XL system, Stoesz said. The blade also supports two quad-core processors (or eight cores) on a single 1U vertical blade, from either Intel or AMD, for a total of 576 cores in a full rack, he said.
Up to 72 blades fit into a BladeRack2 XL chassis, and the compute and storage blades can be interchanged in the slots.
The BladeRack 2 XL (BR2-XL) platform will be marketed under Verari's BladeRack 2 X-Series of blade-based storage and compute servers. The chassis supports up to 72 single-server nodes and 144 double-server nodes per rack and can incorporate up to 672 cores. The BR2-XL platform also provides 16% denser storage than Verari's BR2-XT series with up to 672 TB of storage per rack.
The Verari Systems BladeRack 2 X-Series platforms uses its proprietary Vertical Cooling Technology, so users can deploy the fastest processors on the market without tremendous heat issues, according to Verari.
Verari did not provide details on pricing, saying that the starting price point for a full rack of BladeRack2 XL servers is competitive with similarly configured traditional rack-mount systems.
Let us know what you think about the story; email Bridget Botelho, News Writer.
Also, check out our news blog at serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com.


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The busy term has now begun! Rehearsals for "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" commence on Saturday and we have a big cast with three teams of leads. This was cast as such to ensure that all our learners get an opportunity to develop their skills and grow. We are looking forward to the challenge. There is great excitement and we have the most amazing bunch of parents in the studio, ensuring that our jobs are made so much easier. We have had a record number of offers of help from photocopying to set construction. Thank you so much for being involved with your children. This makes it such a team effort - and a production of this nature cannot be done without this support.
We have had an exciting year to date. Charlotte Huisamen and Micaela Oosthuizen both represented South Africa at the prestigious drama championships in the USA, and fared exceptionally well, winning several categories, receiving contracts, as well as opportunities to audition on Broadway etc.. . We look forward to watching their careers with interest as they both follow their dreams.
The Pearson learners were involved in a Shakespearean Festival at Pearson at the end of last term. Several learners have been involved in Community Theatre projects. James van der Merwe is currently playing the title role in "Fiela's Child" on at the Savoy Theatre until Saturday 28th July. Bookings through Computicket.
Ex-pupil : Katy Hillhouse, together with Rebecca Wood and several other performers from the PE area will perform "Screaming Petunias" at the Pemads Little Theatre this Saturday evening 21st July, as a youth DA project. Katy is currently studying in Cape Town, and Rebecca is about to wing her way to Guildford, outside London, to study at the prestigious Guildford School of the Performance Arts.
Trinity exam preparation is about to begin. Lots of work ahead of us as we tackle the busiest term of the year.


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For this DT project, I got to color Tilda in a Cozy Coat. She was so much fun, and I colored her with a friend in mind, a lady with beautiful red hair, and her favorite color is green :)
|Tilda in a Cozy Coat by Magnolia Rubber Stamps
|Tilda in a Cozy Coat by Magnolia Rubber Stamps
Hair - PC1001, 925, 935
Skin - PC927, 939, 1029
Clothes - PC989, 912, 908, 1059, 1056, 1061
Mittens - PC1059, 1056, 1061
Boots - PC945, 946, 935, 1051, 938
I also used paper from Noelle's store, Quick Creations : Anna Griffin's Yuletide Greetings :)
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Not sure if it's the wisest advice…
I once read an online article for expectant and new parents that was full of "useful" advice, a majority of it was entirely subjective, including the only one I can remember which was 'Don't take advice from those who have children aged two or over as they start to forget exact details.'
Now as much as I could get into a lengthy discussion about that statement I won't, instead I'm using it as a reason to chat about one of the few concerns we had when we found out about my right hand man's left hand. April is quite a special month for us, it's Limb Difference Awareness month and the month that we had our 12 week scan where our limb difference journey started. In a few days time it will be exactly two years ago since we had that scan, and if I'm to take the above statement seriously I'm going to start forgetting it soon so I figured I best crack on sharing this part of our story before it's too late!!
Driving home from the hospital was bizarre, we had been given a scenario which I use to liken to a magic wand (see image below for what I mean) it was likely, although small, that they had seen incorrectly and he did have a left hand, there was a greater likelihood that he didn't have a left hand but all else was well, and then there was the other small outcome, that he didn't have a hand and there was also something really seriously not right health wise.
It was that last small likelihood that played on our minds, the rest of it didn't bother us, but what if our baby isn't going to make it full term?! What if they are seriously ill when born?! With a four week wait until a scan to find this information out we had to process those worries quickly to make sure they didn't consume our whole beings until then.
We knew we had to tell our parents, they knew that we were pregnant anyway, we also knew we had to tell a small group of our friends because they also knew we were pregnant and they would be our main and important support network. The bigger question was "Do we announce we're pregnant?" With the potential that baby might not make it, do we share?
The day after our 12 week scan was Jon's birthday, we were having a wonderful chilled family day, soaking in some beautiful views and decided we should start announcing. All the pros and cons and it simply came down to feeling like the right thing to do, we had faith that all was going to be well with baby.
The way we told people differed depending on their category, which went something like this (N.B. This is a very crude way of categorising and the reality may have been a little less so!):
1) Would buy you a descent present.
This category includes family, close friends, people that are involved with your life on a regular basis that know you well enough to be able buy you a descent gift if called upon to do so. Generally these are the people you feel will figure out you are pregnant because they actually notice a change in behaviour and baggier clothes! This category received the pregnancy announcement and within the congratulations conversation we explained that they had noticed the limb difference and we needed to wait a few weeks before finding out whether there was anything serious going on. Good, open conversations were had.
2) Chinese 5 Spice
People in this category are those who are infrequently involved with your life but you love, respect and care about them. If you've seen the Michael McIntrye sketch you'll understand (hopefully) the name of this category. We announced, mainly through Facebook (which makes it official!!) but didn't tell them about any further details unless they asked us directly how things were going, our response then was the same as the first category. Good, open conversations were had.
3) Random Lady at the Bus Stop
People in this category generally appeared a bit later in the pregnancy when you can no longer physically hide the growing bump. Conversations with this category would go something like this:
Randomer: oooo when are you due?
Me: oh I'm not pregnant.
Jokes, I'm not that mean (that was actually Jon's response because he is) so this is actually how it went:
Randomer: oooo when are you due?
Me: October
Randomer: oh wow that bump is huge, you've got awhile to go!
Me: yeah (!!!!!!!)
Randomer: do you know what you're having?
a baby No, we haven't found out.
Randomer: oh how lovely!
Pretty much end of conversation. It never did feel quite right to go into our journey and ins and outs with 'randomer'.
How do you tell people? Personally I don't think there is a right or wrong way to tell people, there's only ever your way and what's right for you and your partner at that time. The biggest thing we noticed from ours experience was that because we were positive in the way we told people the response we got back was positive. You will get the occasional person who isn't, but that's fine, that's natural. People struggle when it comes to change, things that are different and new, because it's hard to see how it will work out as they haven't got any waypoints, nothing tangible to hold onto. That's why months like April (Limb Difference Awareness month), charities such as Reach and Lucky Fin Project, and all the various amazing bloggers, books etc are amazing, because they are creating waypoints for people.
I hope this has been somewhat useful, and if you're pregnant with your very own lucky fin, remember you have a person growing inside you who is amazing, who is perfectly made, perfectly whole and is full of ability.
If you'd like to read more about our story, and details about the day we found out you can do here on our story page, and also here on the article we wrote for The Mighty website.
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Thank you so much for sharing your story; it resonates with me so much! Our little man was born without a left hand and I waver between "this is awful, how could this happen to my precious chid?" and "he it otherwise healthy and I'm thankful for that." So difficult to express those emotions to anyone who isn't going through this. So I thank you, again.


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Victims of Torture and Human Trafficking
Israeli human rights organizations estimate that between 5,000 to 7,000 survivors of the torture camps in Sinai currently live in Israel, most of them are from Eritrea. Many of the survivors were severely tortured by electric shocks, burnt with molten iron and plastics, beaten, starved, suffered sexual assault and more. As all asylum seekers in Israel, they live without status, social rights or even a work permit. At ASSAF they are offered pshycho-social aid.
Trafficking in Persons Report, United States Department of State
In June 2016, The US State Department published its annual Trafficking in Persons Report, reviewing the struggle against the causes and the effort to mitigate the consequences of human trafficking in various countries in the world, including Israel. This year, just as we do every year, the team at ASSAF submitted information and updates on victims of human trafficking and torture among asylum seekers and the key challenges they face in Israel.
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Recommendations for Israel in this report (see page 212):
Continue to impose stricter sentences on convicted traffickers, consistent with the gravity of the crime; ensure trafficking victims are not penalized, including by detention, for unlawful acts committed as a direct result of being subjected to human trafficking, such as immigration violations; further strengthen victim identification and referral measures among African migrants in detention facilities, especially those who endured severe abuses in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula; continue to provide protection for all trafficking victims, including shelter and medical and psycho-social treatment; further increase and train the number of labor inspectors, social workers, and interpreters in the agricultural, construction, and caregiving sectors; increase training for law enforcement, including police and prison officials, in victim identification, victim sensitivity, and enforcement of labor and sex trafficking laws; and increase enforcement of foreign worker labor rights.
Read the full report in English (2016)
UN Committee Against Torture
ASSAF's Response to Israel's 5th Periodic Report to the UN Committee Against Torture
In March 2016, a shadow report was submitted to the UN Committee Against Torture by ASSAF and the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT). The report was written together with the International Human Rights Clinic at the Hebrew University. The report focuses on the breach of Israel's obligation to identify and rehabilitate torture victims among asylum seekers in Israel. Read More
UNCAT's Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of Israel
UN Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) published its observations on Israel on 13 May, following a hearing in Geneva earlier this month. The Committee's recommendations include, for the very first time, a clear call on the State of Israel to ensure that asylum seekers who have undergone torture are identified and get access to appropriate rehabilitation services. Read More
Read the Concluding observations on the fifth periodic report of Israel
Torture Survivors Project in ASSAF
ASSAF's team strives to fulfill the complex needs of the victims of torture and trafficking while offering a safe place for them to share their burden. ASSAF supports some 200 victims of torture; among them 70% are women, survivors of the torture camps in the Sinai Peninsula. The services include: group empowerment sessions, individual sessions, referrals to relevant external services (mental and medical) and, if needed, to protective shelters.
"I Wanted to Lie Down and Die"
Trafficking and Torture of Eritreans in Sudan and Egypt
This 79-page report documents how, since 2010, Egyptian traffickers have tortured Eritreans for ransom in the Sinai Peninsula, including through rape, burning, and mutilation. It also documents torture by traffickers in eastern Sudan and 29 incidents in which victims told Human Rights Watch that Sudanese and Egyptian security officers facilitated trafficker abuses rather than arresting them and rescuing their victims. Egyptian officials deny there are trafficker abuses in Sinai, allowing it to become a safe haven for traffickers.
February 11, 2014


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yesterday I talked about community stuff, washed dishes, bought food, got a little distracted by blogs, recompiled all of kde on my desktop, fixed a few little bugs in my project, puzzled over a weird crash, caught up on email, made dinner with pete, and did some other stuff I've forgotten.
today I discussed plans for my august vacation, did the weeding, washed dishes, had breakfast, started laundry, went to the chiropractor, then bought cleaning supplies and a curtain rod for the house, spent a while on the phone with fido 'cause they were overcharging me again, tidied up a little, did more dishes, threw out some bad food, made myself a sandwich, recompiled all of kde on my laptop, and it's 5:30 now so pretty soon I'll have to start on dinner again.
I'm supposed to be getting code done… but I still need to clean the bathroom, clean the fridge, finish the laundry, try and fix the broken drawer in the kitchen, buy more plane tickets for my vacation, and maybe at some point exercise or practice guitar. :/ there just aren't enough hours in a day, and my head feels like it's going to pop off even though I have all this stuff written down. :P


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Hey guys! Today I'm writing up a little something different from the usual posts. For alot of us, Christmas is the best time of year. Presents, food, family, and a warm cosy house. However, for others that aren't so lucky, they dread the upcoming season, and don't have the simple necessities. The Simon Community in the Irish Midlands area (Athlone, Birr, Longford, Mullingar, Portlaoise and Tullamore) have started a fantastic appeal- The shoebox appeal. If you went to Primary school in Ireland, you have probably done a shoebox appeal for charities like Trocaire, Concern and Goal. Well, this is the same idea, except the items included are a little different and for the homeless in your own area.
Recently, all over the news in Ireland, we are reminded by the homeless epidemic, more over in the Greater Dublin area, which alone, has over 1'500 people sleeping rough, Especially with the horrifying death of John Corrie, who died over the night. sleeping on the street, right down the road from the Dail. All year around it's important to be charitable, but especially at Christmas, when homeless people have nothing to be happy about. Even if you're not living in the Midlands area, they're are plenty of other ways you can help, donate, fundraising or volunteering. For more ideas, check the Simon website. To make a shoebox, all you have to do is decorate a shoebox and fill it with toiletries and some goodies, such as: Shampoos, conditioners, deodorant, shower gel, lotions, toothbrushes, toothpaste, wipes, and a few treats, like a bag of sweets or a chocolate bar. In my shoebox I included: Shower gel, shampoo, conditioner, body lotion, toothpaste, a toothbrush, hand gel, 2 pairs of gloves, disposable wipes, a packet of sweets and a Galaxy bar. All of this came under €15, so it is a cheap way to give to a fantastic cause. Any shoebox you give stays in the local area and helps those closer to home.
If you want to drop in a shoebox, you can do so in: Athlone: Sean Costello Street, Birr: David O'Meara's pharmacy in Emmett Square, Longford: Garvey's Yard, Mullingar: Brian's Treasure Chest, Castle Street, Tullamore: Main Street and Portlaoise: Main Street. They must be dropped in by Saturday 20th of December. Happy shoeboxing, everyone! :)
Will you be doing the shoebox appeal? Let me know below! :)
Thank you all for reading,
Stay fab xo
Kim. :)


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Driving north from Denver, you'll reach the town of Berthoud, Colorado before you get to Loveland. Berthoud is a small, tight-knit community of roughly 5,500 residents who enjoy a peaceful, rural setting. Because Berthoud is surrounded by farmlands, it's been given the nickname of the "Garden Spot of Colorado".
From Berthoud, you can see the Rocky Mountains to the west. It's a popular destination for recreation, where skiing, hiking, mountain biking and fishing are common pastimes. For shopping and leisure, a small arts community exists, including the Moon Theater Company. All the while, with Denver nearby, leisure options are limitless for Berthoud residents.
Stan's Auto Service is proud to provide honest, ethical auto repairs to residents of Berthoud. Located conveniently in Loveland just five miles to the north, Stan's Auto Service performs repairs on all makes and models, specializing in diesel repairs. We are involved in community events and take great pride in giving the best customer service to all of our clients.
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Little Mowbury is a sleepy English village deep in the Cotswolds. The kind of village where you're only a local if your lineage can be traced back to the dinosaurs. Where you can find everything in the single shop from morning newspapers to dry-cleaning, and getting your shoes mended. And, of course, where everybody knows everybody else's business. It's easy to find… you can't miss it… just ask anyone and they'll tell you… "It's left at the crossroads."
After being dumped on graduation day by the love of his life, Harry Boyd, Micah Lewis returned to the sleepy village he grew up in. Living next door to his mother wasn't his best idea, granted, but when your heart was broken, there really was no place like home.
Six years later, secure and content in his job as midwife for a local birthing centre, the last person he expected to move into Lilac Cottage across the street from him was Harry Boyd. Seeing Harry again sends Micah into a tailspin and opens wounds he thought had long since healed. Although, Harry himself isn't the only issue Micah has to face. That would be Harry's very beautiful and very pregnant partner, Selena. But is everything as it seems?
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Eighteen months ago Jason Havers lost the love of his life and it's time to move on. Applying for the position of chef in a sleepy country pub, a million miles away from his previous life, may well be the fresh start he needs. His new employers immediately take him under their wing and before long he finds himself with a passel of new friends and a job he loves. What he doesn't expect is Tom, a gorgeous midwife, who stirs up feelings he's not ready to deal with.
But when someone from his previous life turns up in Little Mowbury, will Jason be able to keep them from revealing the secret he's been keeping from those he's come to love?
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Oliver Bradford has had enough of the hustle and bustle of the A&E department in a big city hospital. Not to mention the tension caused by the break-up of his three year relationship with one of the hospital's top surgeons. When his sister urges him to apply for the position of GP in the quiet village of Little Mowbury, he wonders if this might be just the fresh start he needs. Unfortunately, hitting the post-mistresses' dog with his car isn't the best introduction to his patients.
A solitary soul, Deano Wells grew up in Little Mowbury and has been having lunch at the Thatcher's Arms on a Thursday for the last thirty-five years. First with his father, who brought him to the pub at the tender age of ten after a hard morning in the fields, and then by himself after his father passed on. He runs the farm with a practised hand and minds his business mostly, but that doesn't stop Oliver from being drawn to the big, quiet man and he knows the feeling is mutual, so why does Deano keep pushing him away?
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Chad Lee, Extension Agronomist, University of Kentucky
Several soybeans have turned yellow in the past few weeks and further examination revealed little to no nodules. The problem has occurred with seed inoculated in the bag and seed inoculated at the farm. It has even occurred in cases where a 2x rate was applied at the farm. Several brands of inoculant have been indicated. It has occurred in fields all across the state. The problem has occurred in full season soybeans and in double-crop soybeans.
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According to findings of the Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, the largest challenge for B2B marketers is producing the kind of content that engages prospects and customers. And Forrester Research's benchmark study showed that 87% of marketers struggle to produce engaging content.
Stephanie works with technology companies determined to engage prospects and customers in an ongoing dialogue. Based on a deep understanding of the buying process and what prospects and customers expect, she helps devise strategies and create marketing content that forge connections.
Whether you need a strategic white paper, eBook, or case study, Ten Ton Marketing can help you accelerate the buying cycle and compel your audience to buy. Just as important, she draws upon her background as a product marketing manager to address the needs of sales teams, marketing groups, and executives. The result? She delivers marketing insight and copy that helps you:
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Do you remember when you were inquiring about a book set in Alaska, and I told you I'd have a look? The way you described it reminded of a book I had read last winter. I don't know if it is the same book, but here is the link:


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- Minnesota Hosts Houston In Third Matchup This Season
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- Teen Petitions to Move Super Bowl to Saturday
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- Clint Stoerner Podcast Hour 4 1-24-20
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An oasis of well-being nestled between the antique shops, bar and restaurants of the famous Hollywood Road and SOHO area.
52 D'Aguilar St., Central, Hong Kong
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Mention Lan Kwai Fong and most people conjure up this Hong Kong district's bars and clubs. But if you're after more wholesome - and definitely healthier - entertainment, Sense of Touch, a local spa chain, has opened a new outlet in the famous watering hole. The five-story day spa boasts five treatment rooms as well as a couple's suite on the penthouse floor. In a nod to the spa's locality, guests can soak in beer, sake or wine baths in the spa's wooden barrel tubs.
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Whittle, Jon and Saboo, Jyoti and Kwan, Richard (2005) From Scenarios to Code: An Air Traffic Control Case Study. Software and Systems Modeling, 4 (1). pp. 71-93. ISSN 1619-1366Full text not available from this repository.
There has been much recent interest in synthesis algorithms that generate finite state machines from scenarios of intended system behavior. One of the uses of such algorithms is in the transition from requirements scenarios to design. Despite much theoretical work on the nature of these algorithms, there has been very little work on applying the algorithms to practical applications. In this paper, we apply the Whittle & Schumann synthesis algorithm [32] to a component of an air traffic advisory system under development at NASA Ames Research Center. We not only apply the algorithm to generate state machine designs from scenarios but also show how to generate code from the generated state machines using existing commercial code generation tools. The results demonstrate the possibility of generating application code directly from scenarios of system behavior.
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Feeling stumped?
Top 3 Ways to Find Inspiration While Experiencing Writer's block
Writer's block is no fun! Your mind is blank, your page is blank, and you do not even know where to start. Personally, I have experienced writers block numerous times. Somedays I went 3 weeks trying to find inspiration. So I've decided to list the top 5 ways to find inspiration while dealing with writer's block.
Here are my top 3 methods to finding inspiration while experiencing writer's block:
Go outside and be nosey –
No, I am not joking. Going outside for a short period of time can assist you with finding inspiration for your blog posts, ebook, or whatever writing piece that you're working on. I live in New York City, so I can go outside for like 20 minutes and find many pieces of inspiration. I guess it depends on where you live, but here, there is so much going on. You just need a pen + a notebook and jot down everything that's going on around you.
After you do that, you can start working on some drafts or topic ideas based off of your observations.
For example:
Yesterday I took my daughter on a simple errands run and I saw so many kids cutting school. It was ridiculous! You would have assumed that it was field trip going on, as many teens I witnessed cutting school. I could use that observation as inspiration to write about why school is important and the negative impact that not going to school would have on you.
Recently I took the train, it was super crowded and I overheard a group of people talking about how hard it is to find a job living in New York City. I could take that and use that as inspiration to write about how to create a side hustle to generate money or I could write about how to find a job while the job market is difficult.
Moral of this tip:
Go outside, be a snooper, observe your surroundings and you can create some bomb ideas from being nosey. It can be extremely beneficial.
Ask for suggestions –
If you're not too prideful, you can ask your family, friends, or readers for some suggestions. Ask them if there's anything they would like to see you write about. This can be extremely helpful. I always do it. The ideas they will give you, may just happen to be dope! You'd be like "OMG, that's freaking cool" or "OMG, I can't believe I never thought about that before."
For example:
Most of my motherhood struggle blog posts ideas are recommended from my family, friends, or readers. Those posts happen to be some of the most successful ones.
Moral of this tip:
It is okay to ask for recommendations. Some of their suggestions could be pretty good
Utilize personal experiences –
Have you or someone you know went through something tough or life changing recently? With their permission of course, you can write all about it. You can write about your personal views, your opinion on it, etc. The opinions are endless!
For example:
Let's pretend that you have a friend that recently went through a hard time. Such as, just broke up with a spouse who had cheated on them. You can take their experience and write a whole post focused on that experience. You can write about how cheating makes the faithful one feels, how to get over a relationship with an unfaithful spouse, etc.
You can take an experience that you went through and spin it into a work of art. I.e. you just got fired from your full time job. It pissed you off, you can take that experience and write about how to deal with getting fired, 5 job hunting tips for the unemployed, etc. That's just a few ideas.
Moral of this tip:
Write about some personal experiences without having to say it's something you personally went through. Use this method to assist others and give advice, rather than ranting about this experience.
Finding inspiration when you're experiencing writer's block is not that hard. You just have to follow these top three amazing tips and the ideas will start coming to you. No more sulking in the house. It's time to eliminate writer's block.
If you have any good tips on how to eliminate writer's block, please comment your favorite method blow.
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text: When Bandai announced they were doing model kits with the Star Wars brand, I never would have guessed they'd be doing characters. What better way to kick off the line than the Sith Lord Darth Vader. He scales perfectly with the Hasbro's 6″ black series. This kit is very, very detailed but because its a model kit, you have to detail all the little buttons on Vader' s chest and belt. Luckily you have 2 decal sheets to help but ideally, you'll want to use paint for a better look. The articulation system isn't super out of this world but you definitely get all the need points for good posing. The cape can be annoying to pose with due to its 3 part functionality. I found the outer pieces popped off a little too easy. The assembly process is pretty easy, maybe a 2-3 hr build with stickers application. I definitely prefer this kit to Hasbro's 6″ Black Series Vader figure, especially the helmet which looks so much more screen accurate.


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Here are my top 10 tips to help you take better photos
1. Avoid distracting elements such as too much light / dark, light / dark elements. Try to set either a light or dark tone for your overall image.
2. Eliminate distracting elements that draw your eye in a bad way. Examples: If things are too close to the edge they will create unwanted tension because your eye wants to close the small gap. If there's red in a picture it usually is the brightest element and can draw your eye even if it's not what you wanted the viewer to focus on.
3. Don't center things, it creates more interest when things are off center. Asymmetry moves your eye around the image more than if things are exactly centered. When things are centered rather than in thirds, your eye just looks and rests only in the center.
4. If you want to really impact people with your work. Think of how to photograph the subject from a different view (physically or emotionally).
5. Depth of field matters. You want to illicit emotion and movement of the eye. You want to focus on one subject and let the rest fall away / become the background. Your other option is to have everything tack sharp (everything all in focus). For sure, one thing in your picture has to be tack (meaning REALLY) sharp in the photo. Pick your focus: all in focus or only one element that's focused really well, that will create your one emotion.
6. The fewer the elements, the stronger the composition. As you don't need too many words in a sentence, you don't need too many elements in a photo. It gets distracting. Have a resting place like the sky or the ground. Plus, if you have that space you can create images like this for your brand:
7. Give scale by not all things being the same size. If everything was the same size in the photo it wouldn't be as dynamic. Same goes for a headline in an ad. If it was the same size it wouldn't draw you into the article.
8. When taking pictures of people, make sure that they don't have a tree coming out of their heads.
9. If the photo is a close up picture of a person, make sure their eyes are in focus. That is the most important thing on the face to focus on. It will draw you into the portrait.
10. Remember that posture also matters a lot when taking pictures of people. You want them to shine in your photo, not look like Oscar the slouch that has no figure.
If you are trying to figure out what to do for your own head shot session, check out this blog post for tips.
If you like this post I'm coming out with an ebook very soon. It has expanded tips as well as example photos. Leave a comment if you want to know when the book is available.


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Robin Henkel: "I remember that I [fell] asleep onstage one time. Before a show with Big Rig Deluxe, I'd eaten a huge Mexican meal and was sitting in this comfy chair playing steel guitar. It was almost like trying to stay awake while driving. After dozing off, the steel bar, which weighs about a pound, fell out of my hand and hit the wood stage with a loud clunk. That's when I woke up right in the middle of a tune the band was playing and had no idea how long I'd been out."
Josh Pann of Circa Now: "One time, this really drunk guy started dry-humping my monitor. He nearly unplugged it so I couldn't even sing. I looked to my bandmates for help, and they were laughing just as hard. The song finished without vocals."
Brooklyn: "I was watching a drummer friend of mine play at Humphrey's Backstage Lounge. He'd told the band he was playing with that I'm a singer-songwriter, and near the end of their set they introduced me to the crowd as an up-and-coming singer. Well, the crowd started cheering to get 'Brooklyn on stage.' [The band] pulled me on stage to sing whatever it was they were playing at the time. I don't know what they were thinking I was going to do, but it was a song I'd never heard…and it was in Spanish, so even if I had known the melody…I wasn't going to sing the correct lyrics. It must've sounded like a bunch of muffled humming. It was more than a little humiliating."
Amy Castner of Compass Rose: "I had a seagull crap into the f-hole of my violin while I was playing at a party on Sunset Cliffs a couple of years ago."
Amber Shaffer of Secret Apollo: "At the Ken Club, our drummer sat down on his drum stool and his phone fell out of his pocket. It managed to fall through the six-inch gap between the back wall and where the stage begins and slipped another two and a half feet to the actual floor under the stage. The sound guy brought a flashlight over, and we saw the phone resting on a floor covered with a foot of garbage: old beer cans, set lists, sticky stuff I don't want to know about, and certainly its share of bugs and unidentifiable objects. And who was the only one with arms skinny and long enough to fit in that six-inch gap? It was bad enough having to lay face down on the Ken Club stage, but then to have to blindly stick my hand in that mess and dig around for a phone-like shape? Steve's still paying me back for that one."
Lee Harding of Echo Revolution: "A [male] classmate came to our show once. He never said two words to me in class, so I was jazzed he had come out. At some point in the set, he was two feet in front of me while I was singing at the mike and started licking himself and dancing totally homoerotic. Yeah."
Tizoc of Agua Dulce: "We were on stage playing during a bikini contest when a very large [contestant] collapsed onto the conga player's drums. We kept playing."
Marie Haddad: "A guy came up to me during a show and told me that he was a psychic and that he wanted to do a reading for me during a break in my set. I was, of course, intrigued, and so at the break we sat down for a little bit and I listened to his reading. He predicted that I would be getting a new pair of boots for the rain! Darn it if he wasn't spot on with that one."
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Even as Mumbai's police commissioner Rakesh Maria revealed in a late night media briefing that they have a "fair idea" about the motive behind Sheena Bora's murder, prime accused Indrani Mukerjea's husband Peter said that he didn't believe his wife could have murdered Sheena. He was speaking to Times Now's editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami in an exclusive interview in Mukerjea's Worli residence.
"I'm completely, completely in a state of dismay and shock at having heard these charges. And I have absolutely no idea that this was something that had taken place," he said. "And even till today I believe that a person is innocent until proven guilty and I think that let law take its own course, let police do its own investigation fully and completely and transparently and then truth will prevail."
On Thursday night, Mumbai's top cop told journalists that they have traced and recorded the statement of the person who sent out an email resignation signed on behalf of Sheena Bora after she went missing. He confirmed that the same person also sent out another mail to Sheena's landlord at the time to cancel her lease and licence agreement on the rented flat she was occupying before she went missing.
"We have traced and recorded the statement of a person who had sent the emails to her employer and landlord," Maria told journalists on Thursday night. "The person concerned signed these emails on behalf of Sheena Bora at the behest of the lady accused (Indrani Mukerjea)."
The police commissioner did not specify who this person was, though he confirmed that the resignation letter to Sheena's employer was sent on 7 May, 2012 and the letter to her landlord was sent in July 2012, at least a couple of months after Sheena is believed to have been murdered. According to police investigation so far, Sheena Bora is said to have been strangled to death on 24 April, 2012.
The police on Thursday also obtained a transit remand for Sanjeev Khanna, who is the third accused in the case along with Indrani and her driver Shyam Rai. Khanna, who is Indrani's ex-husband, is being brought to Mumbai from Kolkata for questioning, said Maria.
Our teams have gone to Kolkata,Guwahati & other parts of country for investigation: Rakesh Maria on Sheena Bora case pic.twitter.com/IBmEwpDYBv
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Sheena Told Peter She Was Indrani's Daughter
While Peter admitted that Sheena had told him in 2011 that Indrani was trying to hide that she was actually Sheena's mother, not her sister, he said he chose to believe his wife rather than Sheena.
Sheena apparently approached Peter when he was in Mumbai for his niece's wedding in 2011, and told him she could no longer "stay with this lie". He said that he had found the confession "difficult to digest" and that though he had wondered about the truth of the matter, he chose to not believe it "in its entirety" and instead confronted his wife about Sheena's claims, which Indrani had dismissed as baseless.
"Of course I could not take that at face value," he said. "I then confronted Indrani about it and she said that this is being fed to Sheena from somewhere else and it was completely untrue and (told me) not to believe her."
Peter said in the off-camera, audio interview that his wife told him that both Sheena and Peter's son Rahul, who was in a relationship with Sheena at that time, were trying to break up Indrani and Peter's marriage.
According to Peter, Rahul and Sheena had conferred with each other and both of them told him the same version — that Indrani was Sheena's mother, and that she was trying to shield that information from him. Peter claimed that he chose to disbelieve both his son and Sheena since he had absolute faith in his wife.
"In my relationship with my wife, I believe 9.9 times out of 10 unless it is proven that she is wrong," he said. "She is my wife after all, I have chosen to live with her for the rest of my life with her."
Peter and Indrani Mukerjea in 2013.
He claimed that there was "no question" of him disbelieving his wife, even if it was his own son who told him a separate narrative. He claimed that he also suspected his son may have been unhappy with his second marriage to Indrani. He apparently told Rahul that he had already spoken to Indrani about Sheena's claims, and believed his wife's version.
"There was no question of me not believing my wife, you know, a woman who I had married and had lived with over 10 years at that point," he said. "And so why would I have any reason to believe my son just because he said so. I needed to have very clear evidence."
Peter in his interview revealed that his wife did not approve of Sheena and Rahul's relationship as she believed "Sheena could do better". He claimed that Indrani thought Sheena could have a more stable life if she settled with someone who had a "proper career" — Rahul was at the time unemployed. "This information I shared with Rahul numerous times," he said.
'Wasn't Aware That Sheena Had Disappeared'
Admitting that it was strange that he hadn't heard directly from Sheena for the past few years, Peter claimed that he believed that Sheena was in Los Angeles all this time. He said that he did not try to get in touch with Sheena because he believed that Sheena was "persona non grata", that their ties were broken, and that she did not want to be stay in touch with Peter and the rest of the family.
File photo of Sheena Bora and Indrani Mukerjea.
"I had no real reason to be in contact with her. I had a mobile number which she had as a student," he said. "She was far more in contact with my daughter Vidhie, wife Indrani. I had no reason to feel isolated in that relationship."
He also claimed that there were no financial issues between Sheena and Indrani, and that he had never heard them "squabble about money".
Day Of Indrani's Arrest
Describing the day of Indrani's arrest on August 25, Peter Mukerjea told Times Now that he was returning from the gym when he got a phone call from his daughter Vidhie that the police were at their residence. Subsequently, Indrani was arrested, and he hasn't been able to speak to her ever since, though he "hoped" she was being treated well, he said.
Peter said that he and his daughter Vidhie were in Rome at the time of the murder in 2012, while Indrani was in Mumbai. He said that his wife had told him that she was visiting Mumbai to meet with her brother Mikhail (who has now claimed to be Indrani's son). He said that Indrani had told him she was helping Sheena return to Guwahati with Mikhail after conferring with her parents, and that following that Sheena would go abroad to study in the US. He claimed that Indrani had shown him an email, purportedly from Sheena, where she had confided to Indrani that she needed her help in breaking up with Rahul.
"That is my understanding of what happened," he said. "Today, with hindsight, I could probably admit to you that I was blindsided by my love for my wife and I can had every reason not to believe her."
His interview on Thursday suggested that while he now had doubts about some details of his wife's statements to him, he still believed that Indrani could be innocent. "I don't know what to believe... The facts need to be proven," he said.
"The issue at hand for me is more than whether she was sister or daughter or mother or cousin or aunt," he said. "The issue at hand for me really is that Indrani, my wife, is being charged with murder and kidnapping and disposing of evidence."
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The All-Star suffered the non-displaced fracture in the fifth metacarpal in the first quarter of the Cavs' 125-114 loss to the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday. Instead of surgery, Love will undergo rehabilitation to repair the injury.
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Love is Cleveland's leading rebounder (9.4 per game) and second-leading scorer (17.9 points per game).
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After almost 22 years of absence, on 12 September 1962, Cootie Williams returned to the Ellington band. Ellington was then back to New York after some touring along the east coast. Cootie's return seems to have already been arranged by that time because a new piece was ready for him on his first day with the band.
He replaced Bill Berry, who had been in the trumpet section since December 1961. Possibly Berry left to make room for Williams.
The new piece was "Tutti for Cootie", which was to become a concert feature for Cootie Williams, often performed together with "Concerto for Cootie". The song was composed by Ellington and Jimmy Hamilton.
Cootie's first reappearance with the Ellington band was a two-day "stockpile" recording session on 12-13 September, 1962. "Tutti for Cootie" was the first piece to be recorded and there seems to have been only one take.
Three other songs were recorded on 12 September – "Broadstream (E.S.P.)", "To Know You Is To Love You"and "September 12th Blues". They have been issued on the third CD of "The Private Collection" CD series (LMR CD-83002).
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Germ cell neoplasia in situ
|Intratubular germ cell neoplasia
|Other names
|Intratubular germ cell neoplasia (ITGCN or IGCN), testicular intratubular germ cell neoplasia, intratubular germ cell neoplasia of the testis
|Intratubular germ cell neoplasia. H&E stain.
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Germ cell neoplasia in situ (GCNIS) represents the precursor lesion for many types of testicular germ cell tumors.[1] As the name suggests, it represents a neoplastic process of germ cells that is confined to the spermatogonial niche.
The term GCNIS was introduced with the 2016 edition of the WHO classification of urological tumours. GCNIS more accurate describes the lesion as it arises between the basement membrane and Sertoli cells (the cells that 'nurse' the developing germ cell). The common, unspecified variant of the entity was once considered to be a carcinoma in situ,[2] although the term "carcinoma in situ" is now largely historical as it is not an accurate description of the process.[3]
The World Health Organization classification of testicular tumours[4] subdivides ITGCN into (1) a more common, unspecified type (ITGCNU), and (2) other specific subtypes. The most common specific subtypes are intratubular embryonal carcinoma and intratubular seminoma.
Cancer risk[edit]
GCNIS is seen in the following settings:[3]
- Almost all invasive germ cell tumours of the testis in adults
- Fifty percent of patients with GCNIS developed invasive germ cell tumours within five years of initial diagnosis.
- Five percent of contralateral testes in men with a history of prior testicular germ cell tumour.
- Less than five percent of cryptorchid testes.
- Less than one percent of patients with infertility.
Germ cell tumors that do not arise from ITGCNU[edit]
Not all germ cell tumors (GCTs) arise from intratubular germ cell neoplasia. The following testicular GCTs do not arise from ITGCN:
- Spermatocytic seminoma[5]
- Pediatric Yolk sac tumors (endodermal sinus tumour).[6] This is currently an area of controversy as some authors dispute the absence of ITGCN in these cases.[3]
- Teratoma (rare exceptions)[3]
GCNIS is not palpable, and not visible on macroscopic examination of testicular tissue. Microscopic examination of affected testicular tissue most commonly shows germ cells with enlarged hyperchromatic nuclei with prominent nucleoli and clear cytoplasm. These cells are typically arranged along the basement membrane of the tubule, and mitotic figures are frequently seen. The sertoli cells are pushed toward the lumen by the neoplastic germ cells, and spermatogenesis is almost always absent in the affected tubules. Pagetoid spread of GCNIS into the rete testis is common. Immunostaining with placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) highlights GCNIS cell membranes in 95 percent of cases. OCT3/4 is a sensitive and specific nuclear stain of GCNIS.[3]
GCNIS is generally treated by radiation therapy and/or orchiectomy. Chemotherapy used for metastatic germ cell tumours may also eradicate GCNIS.[3]
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ITGCN. H&E stain.
- ^ Bettocchi C, Coker CB, Deacon J, Parkinson C, Pryor JP (1994). "A review of testicular intratubular germ cell neoplasia in infertile men". J. Androl. 15 Suppl: 14S–16S. PMID 7721669.
- ^ Dieckmann KP, Skakkebaek NE (December 1999). "Carcinoma in situ of the testis: review of biological and clinical features". Int. J. Cancer. 83 (6): 815–22. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19991210)83:6<815::AID-IJC21>3.0.CO;2-Z. PMID 10597201. Archived from the original on 2013-01-05.
- ^ a b c d e f Mills, S (ed.) 2009.Sternberg's Diagnostic Pathology. 5th Edition. ISBN 978-0-7817-7942-5
- ^ Eble J.N., Sauter G., Epstein J.I., Sesterhenn I.A. (Eds.): World Health Organization Classification of Tumours. Pathology and Genetics of Tumours of the Urinary System and Male Genital Organs. IARC Press: Lyon 2004. ISBN 92-832-2412-4
- ^ Müller J, Skakkebaek NE, Parkinson MC (February 1987). "The spermatocytic seminoma: views on pathogenesis". Int. J. Androl. 10 (1): 147–56. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2605.1987.tb00176.x. PMID 3583416.
- ^ Manivel JC, Simonton S, Wold LE, Dehner LP (June 1988). "Absence of intratubular germ cell neoplasia in testicular yolk sac tumors in children. A histochemical and immunohistochemical study". Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 112 (6): 641–5. PMID 2837162.
External links[edit]
- Intratubular germ cell neoplasia - uptodate.com.
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Two quotes: One of them is good advice, and the other is dreadful advice…..
"Unless ye become as little children…."
"Never work with animals and children!"
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Who said, "Never work with animals and children!" ?….
That is the WORST advice I have ever heard!!!… they are the very creatures without whom we can never be fully human!