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Tasmanian cruise on the Norwegian Jewel
Be one of the first to try the Norwegian Jewel on a five-night cruise departing from Sydney. The cruise sails from November 12, 2017 and calls at Burnie and Hobart before sailing back to Sydney. The cruise is priced from just $742 per person, quad share and also includes a beverage package or dining package or $50 shore tour credit or 250 minutes of internet access per cabin.
Circle Japan cruise on the Diamond Princess
She has the largest Japanese spa at sea and this is the perfect cruise to try out the amenities on the Diamond Princess. You'll sail from Tokyo and call at Miyazaki, Busan, Sakaiminato, Tsuruga and Akita before sailing back to Tokyo. The cruise departs August 28, 2017. The eight-night cruise is priced from just $831 per person, per quad.
Whitsundays cruise on the Pacific Dawn
When you need a break but have little time to spare, forget driving in traffic to an average hotel – come away with us on a value-packed P&OSeaBreak. To sweeten the deal you'll also visit Airlie Beach, the perfect base to explore the Great Barrier Reef. The four-night cruise is priced from $394 per person, twin share.
New Zealand cruise with Royal Caribbean
Set sail from Sydney on your 11-night New Zealand Cruise onboard Royal Caribbean's Radiance of the Seas. You'll call at Milford Sound, Doubtful Sound, Dusky Sound, Dunedin, Akaroa, Auckland and Bay of Islands. The cruise departs on November 7, 2017 and priced from $1,778 per person, twin share.
Australian Explorer cruise with Holland America Line
Set sail from Sydney on a 19-night Australia Explorer cruise on the Maasdam. You'll call at Brisbane, Hamilton Island, Cairns, Sherrard Islands, Darwin, Komodo Island, Benoa, Exmouth and Perth. The cruise which departs on October 21, 2017, is priced from $4,498 per person, twin share.
Get up to $700 onboard credit on this Pacific Island cruise
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Get on board the newest Princess Cruises ship
The new Majestic Princess will be sailing from Rome on an amazing holiday to Southeast Asia. The cruise 28-night cruise calls at Naples, Athens, Thira, Suez Canal, Aqaba, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Cochin, Colombo, Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. The cruise is priced from $3,530 per person, twin share. Make sure you book your spot on this new ship!


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Dollar strength was the continuing theme of Wednesday. The dollar index pushed above the 85.0 level and more decisively above the peak of 84.75 seen in mid-2013, putting the dollar (on this measure) at levels last seen mid-2010 when the euro was getting hammered in the early stages of the Eurozone crisis. We are now in our 11th consecutive week of dollar gains, something not seen since the start of floating exchange rates in the early 70s. Both sterling and the euro are bearing the brunt of this latest move. EURUSD has moved decisively below the 1.28 level, whilst the recovery in cable has been halted by the break below trendline support drawn from the 16th September low. This is less a data driven dollar move, because the recent run of data through September has actually fallen short of expectations. It's more down to a shift in FX market dynamics, as the dollar shifts more decisively from being a funding currency towards being an asset currency. The push lower in Eurozone interest rates and yields has naturally added to this dynamic, together with the weakness seen in commodity prices and also with it the Aussie dollar and also the kiwi.
The kiwi pushed below the 0.80 level in overnight trading, to levels not seen for a year. There were more stern comments from central bank governor Wheeler, who said that the central bank expected "significant further depreciation" of the currency. The sentiments of both the RBNZ and also RBA are well known, but the timing of the remarks are pertinent given the generalised dollar strength at this time. The Aussie itself has broken below the 0.88 level, undermined by (amoung other things) the recent weakness of iron ore prices. The moves over recent days suggest we are going to see a fairly lively month last few trading days of the month.


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The Pike Place Market brings their roving Express Markets to South Lake Union on Thursdays. It's so cool to walk out of work and find a mini farmer's market has appeared out of nowhere. The bright yellow fresh flowers and deep red ripe berries draw you in.
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I am a knitter with a capital K, but every once in a while I spend just a little too much time designing knitting patterns and burn myself out. In those times, I fill my hands with other crafty endeavors. I've been known to quilt, cross stitch, do origami, and go crazy with the Christmas bug making paper garlands and spray-painting pine cones in metallic colors. My most frequent escapes by far are quilting and crochet, so it is no great surprise that after marathon knitting the Yukiya Pullover this spring, I turned to crochet. What is surprising is that it stuck.
My first foray into crochet was Etheria, which is essentially a stitch sampler worked in rounds. I had become a little obsessed with Shalimar Paulie in Toast Points, which I also used in the Yukiya slouchy and pullover, and I wanted to see how the yarn looked in crochet. I was playing with different stitch patterns that appealed to me to see if I could get a nice progression. When mixing stitches in knitting patterns this often involves a bit of trial and error, but with Etheria it just happened. I cast on 270 sts – the number I would need to get the circumference I wanted in the first stitch pattern I tried – and just went. As luck would have it, all three of the stitch patterns I used – each with a different number of stitches in the repeat – fit evenly into 270. If that isn't kismet, I don't know what is. I just crocheted until I wanted something new, and then picked another stitch pattern. The only planning I did was choosing the percentage of the design that I wanted each stitch pattern to take up. Even division into thirds is less interesting than strips with varying widths, so I did pay attention to that detail, but in all other respects it was just a matter of doing what I liked and thought might look nice together. In case you are wondering – that never, ever happens. It was magical. Hence Etheria – a name that brings to mind light, air, and fantasy. It gave me all three.
Sibelle was inspired by a lovely skein of Paulie in Adobe – a gorgeous, subtly variegated colorway that really defies description. The closest I can come to describing it is to say that it reminds me of a soft sunset. Sibelle is a play on sibling, because I think of Sibelle as Etheria's sister design – equally light and airy and clearly related, but also different – bolder in color and completely different in construction. While Etheria is worked in long rounds, Sibelle is a series of motifs strung together and then bordered on both sides by picots – which, by the way – are the exact opposite of Etheria's picots. Etheria's picots are internal to the chains. Sibelle's dance out along the edges. That really describes how I think of Sibelle – dancing in the air. Etheria is beautiful and subdued, Sibelle is joyful. I did not plan on designing Sibelle any more than I did Etheria, but once I worked a single motif the others followed effortlessly, and I liked the idea of doing a similar piece in a different way. The way each little color appeared in the yarn kept me moving forward – pink, yellow, gold, brown, peach, almost-orange, and back again. A dance of color to match the dance of the clusters that criss-cross across the cowl.
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Definition of Temporomandibular joint
1. Noun. The joint between the head of the lower jawbone and the temporal bone.
Generic synonyms: Articulatio Synovialis, Diarthrosis, Synovial Joint
Definition of Temporomandibular joint
1. Noun. (anatomy) The joint on either side of the human head where the jaw (mandible) meets the skull (at the temporal bone). ¹
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Great moments in history and popular culture happen every day, and ON THIS DAY will share a few of them with you. We'll also point you to related resources in our collection, helping you to discover classic films, musical favorites, and historical tidbits. The primary focus will be on our e-material – e-books, e-audio, and downloadable and streamable music and film – but physical books and DVDs will also be part of the fun.
|On this day in 1606, Rembrandt van Rijn was born. Rembrandt is among the great artists of world history, gifted at painting, drawing, and etching. His subjects were varied -- portraits, landscapes, Biblical and historical scenes, and more than 60 self-portraits, painted and etched throughout his life. Rembrandt's life and works are the subject of a documentary in the Exhibition on Screen series, available for streaming at Kanopy.
|On this day in 1944, Millie Jackson was born. Jackson is an R&B singer whose biggest commercial success came in the early 1970s with such hits as "My Man, a Sweet Man," "It Hurts So Good," and "Ask Me What You Want." Her performances, especially in concert, were notable for including long, raunchy spoken interludes. Jackson released her last album in 2001, and has performed only rarely since then. Several of Jackson's albums are available for streaming or download at Freegal.
|And on this day in 1949, Richard Russo was born. Russo is a novelist and screenwriter whose work often focuses on the lives of working-class men in small towns. His films include the crime thrillers Twilight and The Ice Harvest (both co-written with Robert Benton). In his comic novel Straight Man, Russo draws loosely on his years as a college professor to tell the tale of a man whose mid-life crisis is triggered by unexpectedly being named chair of the English department. Straight Man is available as an e-book or e-audio at OverDrive, or in print.
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Our 10 p.m. news producer is Trey Schmaltz. Trey questioned my pronunciation of a strong sandstorm or dust storm, known as a "haboob." As noted in a previous column, it originates from the Arabic word "habb," meaning "wind." Trey wasn't appreciative of some other meteorological terms. "Aeolian sounds" are produced by motions of air that bop obstacles, such as wires, twigs and even the ear. A summer sea breeze in Scotland is known as a "ban-gull" and a crescent-shaped dune or drift of windblown sand or snow is referred to as "barchan." In England, a cool, northwest wind is called a "cat's nose," while a light breeze, affecting an area that ripples a water surface, is a "cat's paw." The combination of smoke and haze is "smaze."
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Break a leg
December 31, 2010 § 4 Comments
You stand before a building with a hundred floors holding two cats. When a cat is dropped from a certain height (which is the same for all cats) it breaks a leg. Your task is to determine the highest floor from which a cat will not break a leg. A healthy cat will – as everyone knows – always land on its feet. A cat with a broken leg however will avoid landing on its feet (thus a cat with a broken leg is useless in finding out whether a drop will break its leg or not).
How many times do you need to drop a cat (at most)?
Annoying aritmethics
December 24, 2010 § Leave a comment
Using the numbers (yes, numbers not digits) 1, 5, 6 and 7 each exactly once and the functions addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and negation as many times as you like can you get 21?
The drunken zoo keeper
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First of all: Sorry for the late update.
A zoo keeper likes to play an odd game when he gets drunk (which is quite often). What he does is he takes all the turtles he can find and arranges them in a line. The turtles being scared by this hide in their shells, and thus doesn't walk away while the game is played.
After lining up the turtles, the zoo keeper goes back to the front of the line and starts flipping every second turtle over. When he is done with that he goes back to the front and flips every third turtle and so on until the last time he flips the last turtle. When he is done with this he usually falls asleep from exhaustion (the distance he walks is after all quadratic in the number of turtles). While he sleeps the turtles that are turning feet down walks away as soon as they sense that all the flipping is over.
As mentioned the zoo keeper plays this game frequently and he can not help noticing a pattern in the number of turtles that leave while he sleeps. What is the pattern he sees? Or in other words; as a function of the total number of turtles, how many end up with their feet on the ground.
The eccentric coin collector
December 10, 2010 § 1 Comment
A coin collector who hasn't heard of solitaire plays a homemade coin game to pass some of the time. The game goes like this: Place a number of coins in a rectangle all facing tails-up. Now you must alternately pick a column and a row and flip all the coins in that column or row. The goal is to have all the coins facing heads-up. Below is shown the course of a won game with 4×4 coins.
The question is: is it always possible to win this game no matter how many coins there are?
Man eating physicists
December 3, 2010 § 1 Comment
A tribe of man eating physicists have caught a hundred computer scientists and are about to devour them. However the captives are given a riddle that, if solved, will save their lives; The computer scientists are put in a line so that the last one can see the other ninety-nine in front of him, the second to last can see ninety-eight, etc., and the first one can see none of his friends. Then a fez – red, green or blue – is placed on the head of each computer scientist. If he can guess the color of his fez, he will be let go. The physicists ask the last computer scientist the color of his fez first, then the second to last, and so on.
Now, computer scientist are smart people, so they have agreed beforehand on how to answer. How many computer scientists are guaranteed to go free?
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"On the surface area of modern art"
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Kerry Washington pregnant with first child!
Kerry Washington is expecting her first child with husband Nnamdi Asomugha — and she's already reportedly four months along!
The notoriously private star has been tight-lipped over baby rumours ever since she wed Nnamdi, a cornerback for the San Francisco 49ers, in a secret ceremony on June 24.
The couple began dating in the summer of 2012; Kerry, 36, was previously engaged to actor David Moscow.
The actress, who plays Olivia Pope on the popular series Scandal, had also been careful to hide any trace of a baby bump by sporting empire waists and voluminous dresses, but it seems the secret is finally out.
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The Presidential usurper Paul, the Rat, Ryan wants me, all of us, to contribute to him to beat President Trump in the next election. This is how I answered his bullshit questionnaire to get money. " Fuck you, you Rat. You and the Republicans are against President Trump and we the people are against you and the Republicans!!!
Paul, the Rat, Ryan has stolen so much money in his time in the Congress, helping Obama destroy our Country, that he will be able to support his family for the next ten generations, they will live "high on the Hog", and look down at we the asshole people who voted for these Traitors and spit on us like garbage.
Give none of these thieving Traitors one dime of yours and my hard earned dollars. They will use that money and their position in the Congress to tax us to death while destroying our Country and giving it away to the Muslims and the Illegal Mexican criminals They are so far away from the real world they don't have to live with them and they have 24/7 guards, that we pay for with our tax dollars, with the best auto guns that are mad to protect them from us. They feel we the people are their enemy. First becasue they are all doing Cocaine and becoming paranoid, and second they hate we the White middle Class. There is no difference between the Traitor Republicans and the Traitor Demo-rats they all want our Country destroyed and they become more brutal rulers.
They want to destroy not only our Country but our Freedom and our Constitution. They love all the criminals and Muslims and Illegal Mexicans and hate we the White Middle Class and they want to brake us financially and take away the 1st ans 2nd Amendments so they can now kill all of us who fight back. Don't think that could happen here? Think again when it comes to money and power the Politicians will kill 90% of the population to get what the few super Politicians and super wealthy want.
Why do you think they want to load up the United States of America with all the Muslims in the world and all the illegal Mexicans and south of Mexico, they emptied all their prisons and turned them, loose here. When the Muslim take over which won't be long they will take over our Government and destroy our constitution and make Sharia Law the law of the land. The Muslims are producing children 8/1 over everybody. Our Government want the Mexican, Porto Rican , and Black gangs to take over with the Muslims to destroy our Country. They will be safe becasue they will be so wealthy that noting can touch them.
Like the Liberal Jews in Germany voted Hitler in and then he murdered over 6 million of them. The Liberal Jews that run our Government and vote for scum like the Emperor Caligula Hussein Obama, and want all the Muslims to come here,will be the first that the Muslim murder, the second will be the Blacks or make them, their slaves, then the rest of the Christians who will not convert will have their heads chopped off in the street or burned alive. That's what Rats like Paul Ryan and the rest of the Traitors have in store for us.
So far I have never been wrong, when I say what is going to happen to us and our Country, knowing what evil people are running our Government.
No matter what happens in the near future keep your guns handy, be ready to take back our Country. Deport all the Muslims they don't belong in a civilized country, they belong in the Middle East where they live in the 7th century murdering their children and who ever dishonors them. And the Illegal Mexicans. None of these people want to become citizens of the United States of America, they want us to become them and live and die in ignorance and live in shit and die in shit, just like they do in the countries they came from.


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McDonald's serving all-day breakfast
By Christina Chibani
Windsor residents will soon have the option of ordering hotcakes at dinner time. McDonald's breakfast menu will be available all day across Canada starting Feb. 21.
More than a year after McDonald's all-day breakfast launched in the United States, it is now coming to Canada due to high consumer demand. McDonald's breakfast menu served after-hours breakfast hours is a success in countries like China and Hong Kong and expected to be a success in Canada.
Lawrence Campbell is a manager at a local McDonald's.
"Normally customers ask around 3 p.m. for pancakes, so we expect the all-day breakfast to be a hit," said Campbell.
Not all breakfast items will be available all-day, but pancakes and breakfast sandwiches will be some of the offerings.
"There will be a change in schedules, more people to work to meet the demands of customers," said Campbell. "It is going to be a transition."
Connor O'Rourke is a cashier at McDonald's and has been working for 18 months.
"I think the weekends will be busier because teenagers usually wake up after 11a.m., and ask for breakfast," said O'Rourke. "Breakfast is a top seller at McDonald's, the Bacon Egg Mcmuffin is the most popular breakfast item on the menu."
Food chains such as Starbucks already offer all-day breakfast as part of their menu.
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Ministers in-charge of Agricultural Research for Development from Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda have pledged to fast-track the implementation of sustainable intensification of agricultural practices to optimize benefits.
Read more about Agriculture ministers agree to smart initiatives to move agriculture
Agriculture Ministers and eminent researchers from eight Eastern and Southern African countries will on October 27-28 converge in Entebbe, Uganda to discuss available options to increase agricultural productivity, food security and income for smallholder farmers. Read more about Policy conference
A new book in which farmers express excitement over improvements in their livelihoods is out. The book, "Celebrating EAAPP," is a collection of testimonies by farmers, on how they interacted with research and extension staff under the Eastern Agricultural Productivity Programme (EAAPP) and benefitted from a range of technologies, innovations and management practices. Read more about Farmers speak of technology benefits
African countries have failed to use their competiveness and a range of strategic advantages to negotiate a favourable status for agricultural products of the global market, participants at the Eastern Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme (EAAPP) end of Phase 1 Conference have been told.
"We continue to underrate our power to assert our rightful status on the global market. Multinational corporations take advantage of this to dominate benefits from commodities from our countries," Prof. Nuhu Hatibu, the Chief Executive Officer, Kilimo Trust, told the delegates. Read more about Africa must reclaim her rightful status on global agricultural commodity market, EAAPP conference
ASARECA has been praised for providing mechanisms and technical backstopping for regional centres of excellence to work together and share technologies, Innovations and Management Practices during EAAPP Phase 1.
Read more about ASARECA praised for making EAAPP a reality
The Policy makers, leading agricultural researchers, socio-economists and farmers from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda have urged the World Bank to roll out EAAPP Phase 11 as initially planned. Read more about EAAPP countries urge the World Bank to roll out EAAPP Phase 11
South Sudan is making progress in efforts to control the spread of the Maize Lethal Necrosis disease (MLN) as well as in finding varieties that are resistant to the virus. South Sudan research teams have so far assembled and sent 12 types of maize germplasm for screening under artificial inoculation at the CIMMYT MLN facility in Naivasha, Kenya.
The teams are also in the process of increasing seed for selected hybrids and for open pollinated varieties with tolerance and resistance to MLN. Read more about South Sudan confronts maize Lethal Necrosis Disease
Solotiana Vaoarilinina from Andratsainimahamasina commune in Madagascar harvested 4.1t/ha of rice from about 0.45ha of land during the 2014-2015 cropping season. From this, she expects to get enough food to support her family for several months as well as raise US$ 460. The family will also use part of the money to complete a stalled permanent house which she started constructing in 2014 using other resources.
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Since the new ASARECA supported Maize Lethal Necrosis Disease project kicked off in 2014, progress has been registered in the two main sites in Eastern Uganda. In Bulambuli, one of the sites near Sironko district, the MLN screening trials established on April 27, 2014 to identify MLN resistant/tolerant varieties, are ongoing.
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I hired this gîte for my family to stay while they attended our wedding weekend in nearby Grez-Neuville.
Although the gîte owners were away during the period of rental, they organised for a friend, Mathilde to assist us during the stay.
I cannot speak more highly of Mathilde. Nothing was too much trouble, she helped me to organise taxis for my family, organised for towels to be provided at late notice (I had got myself confused and believed that they were part of the linen package, totally my mistake) and was generally incredibly welcoming and friendly. Both Mathilde and the owner Guylaine communicated in excellent English and were genuinely a pleasure to deal with.
The gîte itself was beautiful, clean and well equipped. The garden and views were stunning. My neices (and daughter!) Really appreciated the trampoline and table-football table.
The gîte is very rural and the nearest village was very, very quiet (pretty much closed due to the August holidays) but just what my family were looking for so for us this was no problem.
The one and only complaint (and it wasnt really a complaint!) from my family was that they would have liked enough larger teacups for people.. but i think that this is only down to us being English and liking our tea in the mornings!! You can't fit a good cup of English tea in a French coffee cup! But that is the tiniest thing and would definitely not ever stop us from thoroughly recommending your gîte!!


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The idea for the society was developed in July 2014 at a workshop attended by ~40 representatives from universities and research institutes across Australia and New Zealand. The first formal n General Assembly (AGM) of the society was held during the Synthetic Biology and Protein Engineering Meeting (a satellite meeting of the Lorne Protein Meeting) on 6th February 2015.
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Inspirational story of survival
10 years ago Saturday, September 11, 2007 BEACONSFIELD mine collapse survivors Todd Russell and Brant Webb were an inspiration to the 400 people who listened to them in Rochester last week.
The men were guest speakers at the Beyond the Gate event on Wednesday.
Organised by Rochester and Elmore District Health Service (REDHS), the event was a response to family and mental health issues, which affect the rural community during drought conditions. WHEN Bamawm's John McMahon started an electrical apprenticeship with Anderson's Electrical in 1961, little did he know he would still be in the same job 46 years later.
John started his apprenticeship under Jack and Les Anderson.
''Anderson's was a great firm to work for and I had the privilege of working with some fantastic local tradesmen over the years,'' he said at his retirement function held recently. ONLY one Rochester Tigerettes team is still in the Goulburn Valley Netball League finals after the first round on the weekend.
The B reserve team advanced to the semi-final following its victory against Tatura, while the under 17 team was defeated in the first elimination final by Tatura.
The B reserve team travelled to Benalla to face Tatura in the elimination final and, although the Tigerettes had previously outplayed the Bulldogs this season, Tatura was not going out without a fight.
30 years ago Saturday, September 8, 1987 WORK has started in preparation for extensions to the Rochester Fire Station, following a series of delays.
A temporary aerial and siren stand have been installed by Country Fire Authority tower riggers and the old hose tower has been removed.
A large crane was used on Monday last week to lower the tower to the ground and the 15-metre tubular steel structure is to be disposed of in the near future. ROCHESTER businesses at risk from the sale of V/Line land they lease have recieved backing from Rochester Shire Council in their fight for a fair deal.
Council has called on the state government to alter its policy on sale of railway land to allow present tenants first option to buy it.
Local representative of the Railway Tenants Action Committee, Mr Ron Murphy, addressed the council meeting last week and a letter was received from the committee. WITH the football season drawing to a close, some thoughts have turned to summer sports.
The annual general meeting of the Rochester Tennis Association was held last Friday night to start preparations for the 1987-88 season.
Office bearers for this season are Bruce Weeks (president), Graeme Watson (secretary), Trevor Cheatley and Greg Wolfe (vice- presidents) and Barry Carter (treasurer).
100 years ago Saturday, September 8, 1917 MR CUNNINGHAM, secretary for the Uganda Protectorate, has given some details of Uganda.
Tourist traffic is increasing, and 10,000 tourists are looked for now in the season. To visit Uganda 10 years ago cost 2,000 pounds. Now it can be done from coast in a fortnight for 25 pounds in perfect comfort.
The scenery is unique, and there is about 50 miles of zoological gardens teeming with wild animals — zebras by thousands, and ostriches in flocks. As Mr Cunningham was coming down country he passed through a herd of fully 50,000 zebras. SOME astounding claims are made for a patent wreck-saving device that has been invented by Mr. Adam W. Johnson, of Alaska.
The vessel will go below like any other of her kind; but before she has travelled any fathoms down two great buoys will burst from her hold and shoot out of the ends of two tubes running from the keel to the deck. As they rush for the surface each carries with it a thin manilla rope. Down in the hold of the sinking ship the line is uncoiling as fast as she sinks.
When the wreck finds the bottom the unwinding stops, and the two buoys bob on the water's surface. A FRENCH communique says: —''Our batteries in the Champagne are dominating the enemy's artillery. The struggle is particularly violent in the Butte de Mesnil and Main de Massiges regions. We vigorously shelled the enemy's front lines, preventing any attack.''
Reuter's correspondent at French headquarters says: — ''The Germans made an air attack on a military hospital at Vaelaincourt last night. It lasted three and a half hours. Nineteen inmates of the hospital were killed and 26 wounded.''
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December 2016
The Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District would like to thank the communities of Newman, Crows Landing and Diablo Grande for their overwhelming support of Measure P. Passing this will allow us to continue providing facilities for our growing student populations. The District is appreciative of the trust the communities have to house and educate the children in our communities. With the Reauthorized funds in Measure P, the District will be able to complete facility projects and apply for matching funds due to the passing of State Proposition 51, which will allow us to stretch the funding even further.
The next step in the process will be to establish a Citizen's Oversight Committee (COC) to assist the District in prioritizing the long list of needed facility improvements. While $11 million won't cover the list, it will allow us to move forward on some of the most pressing needs across the District. The COC will represent all aspects of the community: business owners, senior citizens, parents of students, and members – at- large. If you are interested in applying to serve as a representative on the COC, please download an application form from our website, www.nclusd.org or fill one out at our District Office at 1162 Main Street. The committee will meet several times in the next several months to determine the order and priority of projects, and then two to three times per year until the funds are spent. The COC publishes an annual report to the community which is then adopted by the Board of Trustees in an open meeting, and reviews the independent audit annually to ensure funds are expended per the bond language.
Again, thank you to the communities of Newman, Crows Landing and Diablo Grande for entrusting the Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District to be good stewards of this funding to provide facilities for your children for years to come.
Randy Fillpot, Superintendent
Measure P, an $11.1 million General Obligation (GO) Reauthorization Bond on the November 2016 ballot, provides the voters of Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District with an opportunity to decide whether or not we should continue work on improving our local schools and classrooms now or delay making these improvements.
In November 2008, nearly two-thirds of the District's voters approved Measure R, a $25 million GO Bond for the rehabilitation and repair of our aging schools. Since then, the District has nearly finished construction of the new Hurd Barrington Elementary School and has upgraded many of our children's schools, including Bonita, Hunt and Von Renner elementary schools, Yolo Middle School, Orestimba and Westside Valley high schools, and Foothill Community Day School.
However, shortly after the passage of Measure R, the Great Recession caused a widespread drop in the value of real estate throughout the District. Because the repayment of a GO Bond relies on tax revenues affixed to a district's assessed valuation, we have been unable to sell all the bonds approved by voters due to state restrictions related to the District's total assessed valuation.
This means that many school and classroom improvement projects previously approved by voters had to be put on hold. These include the replacement of portables with permanent classrooms, the completion of Hurd Barrington Elementary School and the repair of deteriorating roofs and leaky plumbing. We estimate it will be 10 to 15 years until all the remaining $11.1 million of Measure R Bonds can be sold, significantly delaying this voter-approved work.
Measure P offers an alternative to this decade-plus delay by asking voters if they want to "reauthorize" the unsold Measure R bonds. If the answer is yes, then new, lower-cost bonds could be sold immediately under a new tax rate limitation without increasing the total amount of debt approved by voters in 2008. If voters defeat the measure, then the old tax rate limitation would remain in place, and we would need to wait a decade or more before being able to complete work on facility improvements.
In addition to being able to address building repairs immediately rather than having to wait 10 years or more, by obtaining a new tax rate limitation, the District will be able to repay the bonds more quickly. This will result in significant taxpayer savings thanks to lower borrowing costs. We estimate that taxpayers would save over $5 million if Measure P is approved.
Taxpayers are responsible for repaying bonds. (If Measure P is approved, the average tax rate is estimated to be $44.25 per $100,000 of assessed valuation per year or $3.69 per month.) However, because many bonds previously issued by the District are scheduled to be repaid over the next few years, the reauthorized bonds will not result in an overall increase in District taxpayers' total tax rate.
Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District is committed to the conservative and responsible stewardship of taxpayer dollars. Measure P presents a fiscally prudent alternative that allows the District to improve our community's schools while offering important taxpayer protections and significant savings.
Randy Fillpot is superintendent of the Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District.
Digital literacy continues to lead the 21st Century learning at Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District. Orestimba High School has gone 1:1 with chromebooks and we are working on getting the rest of the district there, as well. We are committed to ensuring that our students are well prepared for the world they will work and live in. The technology in the classrooms is used to drive and guide our continuous mission to align instruction and content to make our students career and college ready.
Teachers and students are enjoying the freedom and flexibility that a 1:1 classroom provides chances for more personalized learning. Students are taking the initiative to extend their learning during class time and at home with the ability to access a wide variety of digital resources and opportunities to collaborate with others. Parents, teachers, and staff are expressing a renewed enthusiasm for learning as they see students get excited and take more ownership of their own learning. We are witnessing a transformation in the classrooms where more students are more engaged. While there is definitely a steep learning curve for educators, parents, and students in how to effectively learn, manage, and teach in a 1:1 environment, all agree that for a successful future we cannot go back to the old ways of learning through a textbook that is static and often outdated before it's even adopted.
We are also aware and understand that it's a significant expense to continue the one-to-one program but our students' future deserves it. And through implementation strategies aligned with our district's vision and mission, teacher training, and enhancement of network-we can ensure effective usage. The learning environment is going through a mammoth transition from a paper world to digital one. Our schools are working on crafting clear vision and mission statements to connect students to this new world of unlimited digital resources. Staff attend well designed and supported professional development programs that focus on pedagogy as well as technology, aligning standards with digital literacy- acknowledging that technology is an integral part of the curriculum and not just another isolated initiative.
Establishing a safe environment for teachers and students to support risk-taking that will allow for innovations to prosper and induce a culture where inquiry is the goal. Learning communities provide students access to a 24-hour support. Technology is not just a substitution for the traditional pen, paper, and chalkboard but it's an essential communication, collaboration tool for ongoing global learning and sharing for 21st century learners. Our parents, students, teachers, and staff are focused to truly prepare our students for careers of tomorrow that are not here today.
As always, students, parents, educators, community working together for a better tomorrow!
Defining Academic Success!
Winston Churchill defines success as "stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
The Orestimba warriors capped off a successful undefeated season league play by beating archrival Gustine this past November 6th. Although, the warriors stumbled in the beginning, they never lost their enthusiasm, winning through pure tenacity. After the game, seniors on the team spoke of their struggles over the past two years about their stumbles, the support of their teammates, and their student body as a whole. A lot of credit goes to the coaches and parents that created a culture that praised effort, infused confidence, enthusiasm, tenacity, and grit.
And all of our students need exactly that to succeed academically. They need a culture that provides the necessary support to help students get back up when they stumble. Educators, students, parents, and community members need to own a mindset of collaboration, encouragement of effort over ability, adopt grit, and instill tenacity.
Once we all understand that we are preparing our students for a far more advanced and different future than what exists today then we will have a new understanding of why we must champion a growth mindset over a fixed one. The simple reason is that schools are in the business of growth and improvement. Stakeholders with a growth mindset understand that schools need to move away from just dispensing information to becoming catalysts, models, coaches, researchers, learners, innovators, self-reflectors, and collaborators with their students during their academic learning process.
Our children benefit best from seeing that the determination to succeed will see them through any obstacle that they may come across. The renowned Stanford University psychology professor, Carol Dweck, asserts that people with fixed mindset believe that intelligence is fixed from birth whereas people with growth mindset believe it can be developed through academic tenacity. Understanding this particular difference will help all involved to provide students with opportunities to develop and strengthen their intelligence through perseverance and resolve.
Clearly, our students arrive at the school door with a variety of ability levels. Stakeholders with a growth mindset strongly believe that improvement can take place at any level. A growth mindset builds a culture of trust that breeds an environment of risk-taking empowering all students and sending a loud message that all can achieve academic success through grit and tenacity. Churchill was right, success is "stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."
Always Students, Parents, Educators, Community working together for a better tomorrow!
October 2015
Culture Trumps Strategy
Building a district climate and culture of a collaborative trust has a profound impact on students' academic achievement. Our students' learning environment has to change to create twenty-first century workers who can fill the variety of future careers that our students need in order to be successful.
Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District (NCLUSD) is striving to initiate change and innovations by a strong willingness to challenge the status quo to build a new type of environment for our learners. We all know that change, even good change, happens at a painfully snail pace and often only in scattered pockets here and there, rarely making the jump to a real, systemwide shift. However, NCLUSD is determined to make the shift by learning from other districts that were able to achieve the shift successfully-and through strong leadership, teachers' and students' empowerment, and an infusion of technology and the continuous of rigorous learning goals across the district. This shift does not happen overnight.
Obtaining input from students, parents, educators, and community, the Board of Trustees recently approved a strategic action plan that defines clear goals for the district for the next three years. A product of these goals will be a profile to be developed of what students should know and be able to do in literacy, mathematics, and technology. It, also, describes what we expect teachers to do and provide for our learners. To ensure that all students are on a path of continuous improvement, we have identified a variety of ongoing data metrics that are being used by teachers to drive rigorous and relevant instruction instead of waiting on yearly mandated standardized tests.
Our vision is to guide the district in a new direction that will open the door to building strong relationships and new collaborative ways of learning. An atmosphere in which good ideas can flourish by strong and informed leaders who are encouraged to take calculated risks based on data rather than protecting the status quo. Yes, we are fostering an environment in which people have the power to change the course quickly if the data for that project or initiative isn't working.
We are establishing high expectations of continuous learning and improvement from every person at every level of our district- and making sure that everyone understands it and adheres to it at all times. We are empowering students, parents, teachers, educators, and community members to take on leadership roles because we are members of the same team and part of the solution to fit our learners for their future.
We understand the importance of having our whole district culture embrace learning, growing, and evolving, just as technology resources are rapidly advancing. Without such an embrace, the message will not be heard or applied. Culture trumps strategies such as digital devices, programs or size of classes and schools.
Collaboratively understanding the urgency of preparing our learners to be college and career ready, and aggressively pursuing excellence in instructional knowledge and professional practices for all (students, parents, educators, and community members at large) is the culture we are working diligently to establish. An attitude of 'can-do' by all stakeholders can induce a successful systemwide shift that actually produces real results.
We invite all students, parents, educators, and community to be active participants in holding each of us responsible and accountable for our children's future.
As always, students, parents, educators, community working together for a better tomorrow-Now!
August 2015
Several weeks ago our children started school. Some took a seat on colorful rugs for the first time in our elementary schools and others were returning to new and improved classrooms armed with empowered teachers and staff. Now, it's our mission to develop their potential that will impact our community, state, and global economy. These children of today are the voters, workforce, taxpayers, parents, and civic leaders of tomorrow that need to be guided and challenged to be successful in their personal and work life.
Technology advances continue to transform our world faster than anyone can predict. The speed of that transformation will only speed up exponentially for each entering class of students. What can we do to prepare our students for an uncertain world?
Our education vision and mission must be collaborative, reflective, and action-research based in order to produce outstanding results for our college and career ready students. This is an era where instructional practices must be armed with rigor, relevance, and relationships. Students should be challenged with rigorous classwork that relates to their daily lives, and their aspirations. In order for our students to be prepared for tomorrow's market, they need to know the "how" and understand the "why" behind what they are being taught. Our whole school district (students, parents, teachers, staff, and community at large) is committed to our focus on rigor, relevance, and relationships.
Rigor and relevance begin with creating solid relationships. Relationships built with a strong sense of collaboration between home and school, teachers and students, and school and community secures a bright and successful future for each of our students and community. Newman-Crows Landing Unified School District (NCLUSD) is a firm believer in creating a professional learning environment that encourages parental involvement, engages educators in the process of examining and reflecting on how to improve their instructional practices, and empowers students to be aware of their own learning.
The Back to School Festival at the Newman Plaza and the Back to School Nights at each school site are great events that send a message that the NCLUSD team is diligently working to increase the empowerment of all involved to usher in a year of togetherness that promotes a systemic, collaborative learning environment in an authentic setting of acquiring knowledge. High levels of teaching and learning are needed to show students how to use tools of today to participate in life-long learning. Engaging discussions, critical thinking projects, reflective practices, and personalized learning are fundamental to teaching for a better tomorrow.
The 2015 California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) results will be released next month. The assessments are academic check-ups designed to give educators feedback to improve instruction and learning. The CAASPP results are only one measurement of student learning among many other metrics that educators utilize through out the school year.
The two-page report that parents will receive describing our students' results on the CAASPP will be very different from what was seen in the past. It's important that we not compare the new results with scores on past state standardized tests; this year's English language arts and math tests are more difficult, and are based on a different set of academic standards. They mark a break from the past, and an emphasis on a new rigorous and relevant curriculum. As always students, parents, educators and community working for a better tomorrow!


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There seems to be some great new vegan products out there so I thought I'd take the opportunity to do an update, just in case you hadn't already heard/seen/tried them yet. I'll not waffle too much about each item – no pun intended- as there's quite a few 🙂 Starting off, the excellent news that Tesco have launched a vegan friendly Rocky Road reached us and we were aghast. Asda has had a Free From version for a while but that unfortunately contained beef gelatin. We have yet to see this product in our local store so will keep you posted on what we think when we've had a chance to try it.
These Mint Oreos have been around for a little while now. For those who miss Viscount biccies these are a god send. Incredibly moreish!
It's great to see these Fruit Splits on offer in Tesco. Suitable for vegans, these will also be great for children with milk and gluten intolerances. There's also some dairy free cones in the frozen section of the supermarket in Toffee and Strawberry flavours.Picking up the accidentally vegan waffle cones has revolutionised quick desserts for us. Using Alpro's readily available range of ice creams means I can cobble together a simple pud if we're craving something sweet.
Many of the supermarket brand ice cream sauces may be suitable too, so it's worth examining the bottles. A drizzle over some strawberries and vanilla ice cream makes the world of difference.Of course, if you fancy something special there's always the Booja-Booja ice cream flavours to try out in a cone. These are available at Holland & Barrett and Alternative Stores online.Morrisons have also widened their ranges to include more Free From products, clearly feeling like they were lagging behind Sainsbury's and Tesco for accommodating those with dietary requirements. With a line of dairy free sweet treats like coconut lollies I may have to start shopping there myself!
Dinky loves these bear shaped ice creams we picked up from Alternative Stores. We've heard they are also available in Morrisons too.
Mayflower (available at Home Bargains) have a range of sauces that are suitable for vegans. This Southern Style Gravy, paired with Asda's vegan friendly Popcorn Chicken, is a dead ringer for KFC for those who miss a bucket!
Farmfoods have launched a range of frozen meat alternatives to the market labelled as suitable for vegans. I have never ventured into the store before but decided to pick these up to give them a try. At £1.49 a packet/box they are excellent value for money. I'm told the sausages are made by the same manufacturer as Linda McCartney's too. You can read more about the range here. I also picked up some frozen veg while there which will probably last a week that was 5 bags for £4. The total was a mere £17, which included some tinned goods and soft drinks. I'll definitely return to do an economical 'freezer' shop in the near future. Save the pennies, look after the pounds 🙂
These Pea & Pinto Bean snacks from Off The Eaten Path are surprisingly addictive. Appearing in Sainsbury's and other supermarkets, they are definitely ones to watch
This new line of dairy, nut, and gluten free chocolate called So Free from Plamil didn't last long in our house. With Milk, Orange, Mint, Coconut Blossom and a few other varieties available at £2.75 a bar keep an eye out for it in vegan retailers and health food stores locally.
I'm personally not a fan of Fry's chocolate but it seems many are still unaware that the Chocolate Cream is suitable for vegans.
It is great to see Sweet Freedom have a chocolate spread now on sale in supermarkets like Sainsbury's. I personally prefer Nature's Stores version, but still good to have options.
Pudology's dairy and gluten free Chocolate Pots are now also available in Sainsbury's. Some of these desserts contain egg so worth checking the label before purchasing.
Award-winning Doisy & Dam have also been spotted on the shelves on Sainsbury's and will be seen in other supermarkets soon.
Califia have also launched in Sainsbury's with a range of cold brew coffees and plant milk based drinks. Retailing between £2.40 and £2.95 for 750ml they are on the expensive side in my opinion, but it is great that these alternatives are becoming more widely available.
Last but not least is this accidentally vegan Sriracha Mayo which I found in Tesco. One for spice fans, this has a real kick to it and worked well with our homemade veggie burgers.
Thanks for reading,
Pip x
On the lookout for vegan cheese? Check out our review of Violife's Halloumi here.


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Experience 'will ready young for future jobs'
Technology will create more jobs than it reduces over our lifetimes – but to navigate the changes that lie ahead young people must gain experience with the businesses creating the tech jobs of the future, the co-founder of LinkedIn told business leaders in London this week. Julian Blake reports. (more…)


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Your pillow will probably be your closest friend or your worst enemy. After all you may spend one-third you will ever have with your cushion and it knows better than anybody how you rest best and how you rest worst. Does it not make sense to help make the right choice to provide yourself the most comfort and the best rest during that significant part of your life.
In order to get the most out of your cushion you want to give it greater than a passing thought. But if you've ever gone to the pillow department and seen all the choices, you have probably suffered from "pillow shock" at the amazing array and the stunning expense.
First things first, are you searching for a "sleeping pillow" or a "looking good pillow?" Around my home, there are cushions we rest with and cushions we put on the bed to look good. This short article concentrates mainly on "sleeping cushions." However, we'll say this about cushions that are designed to look good: Select a good pillow that will retain its shape and choose the distance and shape that looks best to you. If it's not meant to be utilized, those are actually the only things that matter.
Now, sleeping cushions have a very specific purpose: To assist you sleep your best. There are several options to consider:
SIZE – You can find basically three sizes available. Standard, King, and Queen. A King or Queen cushion may be too much time for sleeping unless you're searching for a body length pillow. Occasionally you may find full-body length pillows available.
FIRMNESS – Pay attention to the firmness of a pillow when you're purchasing it. The required firmness of the cushion will change with respect to the position you rest in. Your pillow should give you proper mind and backbone support. The shape and support that your pillow provides changes if you are a back sleeper or a side sleeper. If you are a back sleeper you'll need a fairly flat or soft cushion. If you're a side sleeper, you might need a pillow that has some more considerable support that can support your head. Here are some quick and dirty guidelines:
Tummy Sleeper – go for 'soft'
Back Sleeper – go for 'medium'
Part Sleeper – go for 'firm'
Of course if you are like me, you may flop around in a few or all those positions making your firmness choice a bit more difficult.
FILLINGS – Pillow fillings are important to your pillow choice and also have significant amounts of impact on pillow comfort, sturdiness, and even quality of air. You have a number of options available for you and each has it's own advantages and disadvantages. Cotton is naturally hypoallergenic, but can small as time passes. Down or down-blend is definitely the elevation of comfort, durability, and adjustability. Even though some improvement has been manufactured in hypoallergenic down cushions, people that have allergy sensitivities may still have problems with down cushions. Feather cushions use different mixes of down and feathers in many different combos. The same caution for allergy delicate users should apply here. Polyester will come in a couple of different grades, regular polyester is very common but may become compacted, like natural cotton. Siliconized polyester seems much like down and can not become compacted like regular polyester. Latex foam rubber gives good support and maintains its form but will breakdown over time.
COVERING – The ticking (material covering) for your cushion serves several purposes. It should keep the filling in and keep carefully the dirt out of your pillow. For the down pillow, look for a 250 thread depend on the ticking. For other fillings, 200 thread count should be sufficient.
Don't cheat yourself whenever choosing a pillow. It could really be more important than you can ever picture. Once you've slept during the night with the right cushion, you'll never want to go back.
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I have been protesting the statue of President McKinley on the Arcata Plaza for a long time. Why? Three reasons:
1. McKinley was not all good or all bad. However, his policies led to, among other things, the deaths of between 200,000 and three million Filipinos, most of them civilians, many of them children. (Full disclosure: I have several Filipino family members, including three grand-daughters.) For whatever else he may have done right or wrong, this alone disqualifies him from being honored in Humboldt County, much less by the City of Arcata.
2. McKinley died several generations ago. Times have changed. Values have changed. The country has moved on. American culture has moved on. McKinley has long been irrelevant to most Arcatans. It is time for Arcata to move on and choose a symbol for the heart of the city that reflects the hearts of the people who live here now.
3. I feel that an unwillingness to change and a lack of imagination have caused missed opportunities for the City of Arcata to change for the better. Arcatans have complained for years that they are unhappy with how our city is viewed and experienced, both by local residents and visitors. We have heard complaints about a large homeless population on the Plaza. Complaints about a large male population on the Plaza. Complaints about the marijuana culture. Complaints about trash downtown. Complaints about graffiti on downtown buildings, etc.
Complaining is like armchair quarterbacking – cheap and easy but not very effective. If we want change, then we must embrace change. Arcata City Council, and anyone else who complains about the Plaza or any other aspect of Arcata, hear me now. You cannot have a friendlier (changed) Plaza or a cleaner, more vibrant city if you refuse to let any change take place.
The McKinley statue is an effective dead zone. Many people don't know who it is and many who do know, do not like it. No-one is allowed to touch it or interact with it. It is not colorful, it is not a thing of particular beauty, nor does it make a pleasant sound, nor make children laugh. I think we can do better.
The statue is not popular. I have spent at least one hour per day for 17 days during the month of December, standing across the street from the Plaza, holding a sign that requested that the statue be removed. On average, there were about fifteen positive responses for each negative one.
Taking down the McKinley statue gives the City of Arcata a chance to re-brand itself, to set into motion a series of events and changes that transforms the culture, the vibe and future business opportunities in Arcata.
What can we have at the center of the Plaza instead of McKinley? Ideas abound. 1. Nothing at all – just open walking space. 2. A replica of the gazebo that used to be there, before the statue. 3. A labyrinth, inlaid into the walking surface. 4. A water fountain. 5. Built-in tables and chairs for playing chess. 6. A redwood tree. 7. A kinetic sculpture. 8. A playground for young children. Again, ideas abound.
How do we re-brand Arcata? Here is one idea. What if Arcata decided to honor women in a big way? How about installing statues of two women on each corner, statues of real women with stellar accomplishments, from the U.S. and around the world?
There are so many to choose from and they are so poorly represented throughout the U.S. New York City has only five statues of women. Arcata, with eight, may end up as the city with the highest concentration of statues honoring women.
How would this affect the self-esteem of all the girls and women in Arcata? How might this affect tourism? What great programs might spring from this focus? What new small business opportunities might this give rise to? Might more girls and women aspire to leadership roles? How might increased tourism by women and more women's leadership affect local social policies, especially with regard to the homeless and others who need a hand up?
As I have a personal interest in the topic of honoring women, I offer my services to raise all the funds needed to make a complete make-over on the Plaza. Therefore, there will be no city budget or taxpayer impact.
It makes little sense to stay tethered to a distant, barely relevant past. History will neither be erased nor changed by taking the McKinley statue down. But taking down the statue will provide an opportunity to clarify and express our collective vision for the future. Let's move forward.
Fhyre Phoenix was a one-time candidate for Arcata City Council and a resident of Arcata for 20 years before recently moving to McKinleyville.


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Diseases of the bone: Osteoporosis.
Osteoporosis is a widespread disease.
Osteoporosis is a truly widespread disease and is among the most common diseases among the elderly. Broken bones (fractures) in the vertebrae, femoral neck and wrists are particularly feared.
Here are a few figures to illustrate: The probability of a woman suffering one or more vertebral fractures during her lifetime is 30 %, while the probability of them suffering a fractured femoral neck is 15 %. There are also genetic differences: Caucasian women have a higher risk of fracture than black women.
What is osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is characterised by a progressive loss of bone mass and none structure, with an increased risk of fracture. The disease results from an imbalance between bone formation and bone resorption, for which there are various causes.
What causes osteoporosis?
Bone formation and absorption is normally balanced out and is necessary for the constant renewal of bony tissue. This balance can be disrupted due to a variety of reasons and cause osteoporosis.
Possible causes for osteoporosis:
- Age:
We usually lose bone mass as we get older. This can result in so-called "senile osteoporosis".
- Sex hormone deficiency (hypogonadism):
Insufficient ovary function in females and testicle function in males can result in a deficiency in sex hormones: oestrogen in females and testosterone in males. Younger people can also have a deficiency in sex hormones as a result of hormonal disorders when this occurs with increasing age and at a slow pace. Sex hormones play a special role in the metabolism of bone, meaning that a significant amount of bone mass can be lost, even in males.
- Especially oestrogen deficiency during menopause:
Oestrogen is a hormone that plays an important role in the regulation of bone metabolism. The resorption of bone accelerates at the start of menopause, particularly in the trabecular (spongy) bone. The accelerated loss of bone mass during menopause lasts for approximately 10 years.
- Parathyroid gland overactivity:
The parathyroid glands produce parathyroid hormone that controls the concentration of calcium in the body. An increase in the release of this hormone accelerates the washing out of calcium from the bones and results in a reduction in bone mass.
- Chronic inflammatory diseases (e.g., asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis, etc.)
Bone mass is lost in these diseases due to the release of bone mass reducing messengers (mediators).
- Medication:
Long-term treatment with a variety of drugs can lead to a significant loss of bone mass. The most common of these is the loss of bone mass due to glucocorticoids ("cortisone"). Certain epilepsy drugs can also cause a particular form of osteoporosis that softens the bones.
- Nutrient deficiency:
Certain diseases cause so-called malabsorption (insufficient absorption of nutrients), including the different types of inflammatory bowel disease and food intolerance (e.g., lactose deficiency, sprue = gluten-induced enteropathy).
What are the symptoms of osteoporosis?
- Acute fractures of the vertebral body: Sudden onset of back pain with muscle tension in the surrounding area. However, a vertebral body fracture often has no clinical symptoms.
- Neck of femur fracture: Usually occurs after a fall, acute pain in the hip region, limited range of movement in the leg, the leg appears to be shorter when the patient is lying.
- Fracture of the wrist (distal radius fracture): Usually occurs when the patient falls down and breaks the fall with the hand.
Diagnostics & Therapy
There are different types of diagnostics, therapy possibilities available for the treatment of osteoporosis and bone diseases.
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Our specialised clinics and hospitals for diagnostics, treatment & therapy of osteoporosis and bone diseases at a glance.


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I would prefer A if it's painted the color of the car with the stripes continued from the hood like my 07 GT, because it appears to be a little higher off the ground than the Razzi on mine.....but then again what do I know. I have a Razzi front chin spoiler, Roush side skirts and Street Scene rear fascia as you can see lol
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