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environmental factors of cancer Many risk factors for cancer are widely known. You are probably already aware of the dangers of asbestos,
environmental factors of cancer sunlight, and tobacco. But a couple of the following on this list might surprise you, if only at how common they are.
Environmental factors of cancer
Don't Paint it, Black,
Over-cooking your food may not seem like such a big deal, but it can actually be something that can aggravate certain types of cancer. Aside from destroying many of the important nutrients by cooking food for too long, studies show that high-temperature cooking can lead to cancers such as the colo-rectal variety. If it's safety you're worried about, try buying higher quality, organic and/or farm-grown foods – this should help you avoid having to over-cook.
Use the Glass Containers
5 Natural herbs to get a flawless skin!
Well, the glass everything, really. A number of studies have shown quite conclusively that even at low levels, Bisphenol A environmental factors of cancer (aka BPA, found in common plastics) can cause DNA damage and the development of precancerous lesions in the prostate glands of rats. Try to not even store your food or drinks in plastic, let alone buy them that way. Just imagine that no plastic, at any time, should go anywhere near your food.
Color Yourself Natural
There isn't conclusive proof yet, but it's been said to be 'probable' that certain hair dyes, chemicals and pigments are carcinogenic. Erring on the side of caution, ask your hairdresser what they are using, and try to opt for the more natural choices when available. And better yet, allow yourself to go natural a few months of the year if you can – you just might start a trend!
Do Drink the Kool-Aid
Studies show that drinking more than one alcoholic drink per day increases your risk of developing breast cancer or liver cancer.
environmental factors of cancer In fact, heavy drinkers (three or more drinks per day) have more than five times the chance of developing liver cancer than do light drinkers (up to one drink per day). So cut back, or get help – there's no shame in avoiding the 'The Big C'.
Your 2 min everyday can stop wrinkles
Pick Yourself Back Up! Feeling Down?
How to Make More Time to Workout?
Shift into Neutral
Studies are now showing that those who work shift work, e.g. flight attendants and nurses, are at higher risk for developing cancer. The reason? Sleeping during the times you should really be awake affects your circadian rhythm, which in humans governs the appropriate release of hormones and also governs the control of temperature in our bodies.
@ritaora's mother, Vera, was diagnosed with breast cancer when Rita was just 15. Rita says: "I've always wanted to do something unusual to raise money for a #breastcancer charity, to honour my mum and contribute to funding vital research into this terrible disease." The superstar singer and actress has commissioned @endlessartist to create a one-of-a-kind portrait, which will be sold privately this year to raise money for @breastcancernow.
Part 1/2 Today is one of the most important days for me. 1 year ago my life changed, i found what i wanted to do for the rest of my life and woke up determinate to make this new desire, a reality. In the morning of May 9th 2016, Moments of Hope stared. I never thought that this year could bring so many amazing and emotional experiences into my life. As a 16 year old girl, i want to leave my footprint in this world, but i never imagined how far my projects could go. The first weeks in this account were so hard! Seeing daily the reality of childhood cancer its something so heartbreaking that i just wished that it wasnt real. But here is the truth… Its real, and it will continue being a reality unless we make people care enough. I took a lot of deep breaths during that time, giving up wasnt an option, but i had to find a way to make my heart stronger. Making a kid smile, is the best give you could ever ask for, that is my strenght. Trying to rise up a kid could be something easy for a normal family, but when you have a child with cancer, it gets harder. No matter this, when you look at them, you will see them fighting with a smile. Its being amazing to learn so many things this year, to meet a lot of families and being able to do something for this kids. Having this account is one of the best experiences that i ever had. It teached me that no one fights alone and you will always have someone by your side, on each step. It teached me to love deeper and to enjoy every moment. But specially, it made my realize that you dont have to be famous or rich to help someone. Thanks to all of you who daily send your love and prayers for this families, thanks for letting them know that they are not alone. They have an army behind and im glad you are part of it! Thanks to all the sponsors, because its with your help that we are able to give a little 'moment of hope' to this kids. And finally, Thanks to all the Cancer Families for giving me your love, for letting me honor and support your amazing warriors. I love each of you with all my heart and hope to meet you all personally one day! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being part of this dream LOVE YOU ALL
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Disrupt this natural cycle and you run the risk of damaging important genes, which in turn leads to the development of certain types of cancer, although scientists are still not sure how. Stuck in the cycle?
Ask to be transferred to day shift only, or at the very least, bide your time until you find a job that can give you the hours you need. And give acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine a try – it can help create the balance that your body will desperately need.


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The DCS-5222L is HD Wireless N Pan-Tilt Network Camera with 1280x800 pixel resolution for indoor surveillance applications and detail remote monitoring. Built-in IR Led for using in low lux environment. To prevent false alarms, it is also equipped with a PIR sensor, which can detect motion causing temperature changes in the infrared range emitted by surrounding objects. This versatile and a high performance network camera is designed for transmitting round-the-clock high quality video images, to form a comprehensive surveillance solution for your home or small office. You can easily view what is going on at home with having to be there via web browser or from the app. Set up a camera near your entryway or in any room to monitor what is happening around the house. The DCS-5222L come with the ability to record up to 5x more footage with advanced H.264 compression.
With sharp, responsive pan/tilt movement and digital zoom, DCS-5222L can monitor from different angles and quickly orientates to focus on any detail. In addition, this camera is designed as a standalone system with a CPU, web server, 4x digital zoom, and advanced video/audio surveillance remote monitoring utility. DCS-5222L provides high quality real-time videos in H.264, MPEG-4 and JPEG compression with 1280x800 pixel resolution for smoother performance.
A live feed from the camera can be accessed on a 3G mobile network by using a compatible mobile phone or PDA with a 3G video player. Anywhere within the 3GP service area, users have a flexible and convenient way to remotely monitor a home or office in real time.
To save disk space and time, images can be recorded to a hard drive only when motions are detected. This eliminates the need for round-the-clock non-stop surveillance. Images can be recorded manually or by a pre-set schedule. Playback consumes little time with triggered event browsing and fast database searching. Users can also set up automated e-mail alerts for all the unusual events. D-ViewCam is included for monitoring and managing 32 cameras in a single display from a central location. Furthermore, the camera provides a Privacy Mode option. Users can set a schedule to hide the camera lens. So, when the camera enters into the privacy mode, the lens rotates backwards and hides to protect the privacy of the owner. The camera adheres to the universal Plug-n-Play specification, which allows computers running on Windows XP/Vista to automatically recognize the camera and add it to the network. Users can sign up with one of the many free Dynamic DNS services available on the web and assign an easy-to-remember name and domain to the camera (e.g. ww.mycamera.myddns.com).This allows them to remotely access the camera without having to remember the IP address.

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Traditionally, applications have a single thread of execution and perform one operation at a time. For GUI programs this can sometimes be a problem—for example, if the user invokes a long-running operation, the user interface might freeze up while the operation is taking place. There are a few solutions that can be tried to eliminate this problem.
One simple solution, particularly useful in long-running loops, is to call QAp-plication.processEvents(). This method gives the event loop the opportunity to handle any unprocessed events, such as paint events, as well as mouse and key press events. Another solution is to use zero-timeout timers. We have combined both approaches in several examples, usually when loading lots of files—for example, in Chapter 9'sText Editor's MainWindow.loadFiles() method.
A third solution is to farm the work out to another program entirely. This can be done using the Python standard library's subprocess module, or using PyQt's QProcess class. The makepyqt.pyw application supplied with the examples uses QProcess to execute PyQt's command-line tools such as pyuic4 and pyrcc4.
In some cases what we really need is a separate thread of execution within the application itself. Applications that have more than one thread of execution are said to be multithreaded.* For example, we might want to create a server that can service as many simultaneous connections as the hardware can cope with, something relatively easily done if we devote a new thread to each connection. And in some cases we might have a GUI application where we want the user to be able to start off a long-running process, and then continue interacting with the application; in such cases it may be best to pass on the processing to a separate secondary thread and leave the primary (GUI) thread free to respond to the user.
This chapter shows some common techniques used in multithreaded programming. These are enough to get started, but the coverage is not comprehensive,
* This chapter assumes a knowledge of the fundamentals of threading. For a thorough, but not light, introduction, see Foundations of Multithreaded, Parallel, and Distributed Programming.
since that would take us beyond the scope of the book and would require a book in itself.
Because several threads may access the same data concurrently, multithreaded applications are usually more difficult to write, maintain, and debug than single-threaded applications. On single-processor machines, multithreaded applications can sometimes run slower than single-threaded applications (due to the processing overhead of having the additional threads), but they are usually perceived to run faster by users because they don't freeze the user interface, and because they make it much easier for progress to be reported back to the user incrementally.
Using the right number of threads can significantly affect performance. For example, in the Page Indexer example covered later in the chapter, we have a primary (GUI) thread and a secondary thread. The exercise involves changing this example to use multiple secondary threads. If too many are used, the application runs slower than the version with one secondary thread, but with the right number, we can start up the one secondary thread version, and then start up the multiple secondary thread version, and see the multiple secondary thread version catch up, overtake, and finish, before the one secondary thread version has finished. How many secondary threads should we use? The answer depends on what processing must be done and on the particular machine and operating system that the application is run on. We could experiment with realistic datasets to fix a number, or we could make our code use more or fewer secondary threads depending on circumstances.
Python's standard library provides the low-level thread module and the higherlevel threading module, but for PyQt programming, we recommend using the PyQt threading classes. PyQt's threading classes offer a high-level API, but under the hood some of their basic operations are implemented in assembly language to make them as fast and fine-grained as possible, something not done in Python's threading modules.
PyQt applications always have at least one thread of execution, the primary (initial) thread. In addition, they may create as many secondary threads as they need. However, if the application has a GUI, the GUI operations, such as executing the event loop, may only take place in the primary thread. New threads are created by instantiating QThread subclasses that reimplement the QThread.run() method.
It is possible to create PyQt applications that do not have a GUI, using QCoreApplication instead of QApplication. Just like GUI PyQt applications, they have one primary thread and may have any number of secondary threads.
Communication between secondary threads and the primary thread is often desirable—for example, to keep the user informed of progress, to allow the user to intervene during processing, and to let the primary thread know when processing is complete. Traditionally, such communication has taken place by using shared variables in conjunction with a resource protection mechanism.
PyQt has classes to support this approach, including QMutex, QReadWriteLock, and QSemaphore. In addition, PyQt applications can use the signal-slot mechanism to communicate between threads; this is very convenient and useful.
In this chapter's first section we will look at a threaded TCP server; it does the same job as the server described in the preceding chapter's last section, but it can serve several clients simultaneously because it is threaded. In the second and third sections we will look at a GUI application that has some potentially very time-consuming processing to do, and that passes on the processing to a secondary thread. This application uses signals and slots to keep the user interface up-to-date regarding progress, and to provide the user with some control over the secondary thread. This example also uses some of the resource protection classes so that the user interface can access work in progress.
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Nokia Navigator full review
Until now, there haven't been any properly compact phones that were specifically designed for satellite navigation use. You can buy third-party software for some phones, but how well they work in practice varies greatly depending on which handset you use it on. So we were all set to shower the Nokia with praise. Unfortunately, we weren't as impressed as we might have been.
One of our first tests measured the time it took the device to pinpoint our location. Minutes later, we were still waiting. We gave it a further two shots in case we'd chosen a particularly poor place to pick up satellite information, but it fared just as badly.
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Then we thought that being a GPS device that doesn't fall back on a separate receiver may put the Nokia at a disadvantage - yet other units, including HP's clunky iPaq 6915 and Mio's A701, have no trouble with this.
The maps themselves, provided by Navteq and Route 66, are clean and easy to follow, with major roads that stand out distinctly from the minor ones. The default setting on the Navigator's somewhat shiny display tended to make whatever was onscreen seem rather washed out, but this was easily fixed by turning down the brightness.
You can choose between shortest, quickest and pedestrian modes and search by contacts, addresses, nearby locations and history - an interesting inclusion, but one not populated with many entries. You can zoom in and out using the * and # keys and it's possible to view the whole route at once.
It's optimistic about how quickly you can reach destinations, though, and doesn't seem to factor in elements such as London congestion - it seemed to think we'd be able to complete a 13km journey from central London to the suburbs in 21 minutes. I wish! It also seems to lose its place fairly frequently, which doesn't inspire confidence should you be depending on it to get you somewhere in a hurry.
You can save locations under My Landmarks, designating them as either Home or Office-related, while, under Nearby, you can drill down by POI (point of interest) type: bank, eat and drink, community, entertainment and so on. Click to have the Navigator automatically hunt down any of your chosen category and highlight them as you pass on your road to somewhere else.
The speaker resides at the top, above the 42mm-deep display, and directions are uttered clearly. Another handy feature on the GPS front is that you can get weather forecasts - useful if you want to know whether a trip to the seaside is likely to leave you stuck in the car with a bag of soggy chips.
If you're thinking of venturing further than the great British seaside, you'll need to grab maps for other countries from the Nokia website. Since it's a month or two before the Navigator launches, we've not yet had word on how much these will cost.
As for the phone itself, it's a 3.5G handset with a 2Mp (megapixel) camera and a microSD card slot so you can add music and more. The camera is protected by a ridged metal cover that you slide down when you want to take a shot.
We're surprised to find it doesn't have a touchscreen, since the screen itself is so large. But the batteries seem to run down fairly sharpish, so we can only assume Nokia thought it wise not to chance it.
Nokia Navigator: Specs
- Maps: Navteq, UK
- traffic updates via GPS, speed camera alerts included
- 2.2in, 240x240
- Rerouting, full postcode search, car/pedestrian/cycling modes
- 2.5 hours battery life, USB charger
- 47x19x110mm, 176g
- 2Mp camera, 3G phone, car cradle available separately
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Benefits of High Velocity
I was recently helping a rancher friend thin out the aoudad population on his ranch. He is raising trophy whitetails and the aoudad and wild hogs were keeping the deer away from the feeders.
Aoudads are one of the toughest animals I know of, pound for pound. On two trips to the ranch I shot five aoudads, ranging from one small ewe with a broken hind leg to a very large ewe that I would guess weighed more than 200 pounds. The rest were about the size of an average Texas whitetail buck.
I fired one shot at each animal. I shot two with a 6.5 Creedmoor using 120-grain Barnes Triple-Shocks at 2,950 feet per second, and three with a .240 Weatherby using 100-grain Nosler Partitions at about 3,250 feet per second (the identical velocity of my .243 Ackley Improved). Every shot produced a dead aoudad. The range here was just over 100 yards, and each shot was placed exactly.
As I was sitting in the blind waiting for the action to begin, I picked up a spent .300 Weatherby round from the floor of the blind. Why would such a powerful cartridge be needed to shoot deer (which I found out later was what the hunter was after) that would weigh not more than about 200 pounds for a really big buck?
As for aoudad, the largest I have ever seen, dead or alive, was shot by my buddy Todd Tate, using a .30-06 with 165-grain bullets. For a while Todd's ram was #9 in the records. He shot it running at a bit over 300 yards on a low-fenced (practically non-existent in some places.) ranch in West Texas. He did not need a .300 Magnum.
High velocity does two things. It flattens the trajectory of any bullet, and it increases the impact energy. I can think of places where either or both of these things would be a great advantage, but not in a deer blind where the longest possible shot is almost always less than 200 yards.
If I were going to hunt Ovis Poli sheep in Tajikistan, I would want a high velocity rifle in one of the medium magnums, such as the 7 mm Weatherby Magnum, because the shots are often long and difficult. I would want the flattest trajectory I could get, in a gun that I could shoot very well.
In Africa the .375 H&H is almost a necessity, but a .30-06 is a great choice as a light plains game rifle, as is a 7mm Remington Magnum. Eleanor O'Connor, wife of the famous Jack O'Connor, once killed, if memory serves, 17 head of African game with 19 shots from a light 7mm Mauser, using 160-grain Speer bullets at about 2,650 fps.
If you hunt in Texas, however, with the possible exceptions of elk or some large exotic, nothing more than a .270 Winchester or .30-06 is needed. In fact, one of the loud, hard-kicking magnums might be a handicap for many hunters, because they do not have the time or the place to do the amount of practice that mastery of such a cannon requires.
The vast majority of the hunters in Texas fire fewer than 100 rounds a year out of their rifles, often fewer than 40. In this case, a .25-06, .270 Winchester, or my little 6.5 Creedmoor, is a much better choice. A magnum requires hundreds of rounds in practice to master, and the .25-06 and .270 shoot very flat, indeed.
I shoot the big guns a lot in testing and evaluation I shoot them pretty well when I have to, but I almost never feel the need. Occasionally, however, I do.
A couple of years ago I was on a hunt for cow elk in West Texas and chose a 7mm Weatherby Magnum. Between load workups and practice, I shot about 200 rounds through it. When I finally got my chance, I killed a big cow elk at about 300 yards with one shot through the lungs.
If I had not done the practice I might have flinched and missed the shot, which was pretty long and had to be taken very quickly. In retrospect, I think I could have done the same job with a .270 Winchester. However, I was unfamiliar with the country I would be hunting, so I wanted the extra range and power I could get with the 7mm Magnum. You will notice that even for elk, one of the toughest of North America's game animals, I did not feel the need for a .300 magnum.
The largest deer I have ever heard of in Texas did not weigh 300 pounds. The largest I, personally, have ever shot and weighed, scaled 207 pounds, and I killed it dead as free lunch with a .25-06 and a 110-grain Nosler Accu-Bond. One shot did the job.
The longest shot I ever made on a deer was a mule deer I shot in West Texas. We later used a laser rangefinder to measure the distance at just shy of 350 yards. I put him down with one shot and, again, a .25-06 did the job with panache. So, if you are looking for a new, flat-shooting deer rifle, take my advice and leave the big magnums on the rack.
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What would you ask Kathleen Sebelius if you had the chance?
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is scheduled to hold a press conference to kick off Enrollment Week ahead of the March 31 Affordable Healthcare Act sign up deadline Monday morning at Montclair State University.
MMM has been invited and Art Gallagher will attend.
What would you like Art to ask the Secretary if he's lucking enough to be called on? Leave your questions in the comments, please.
MMM will be live-streaming the press conference at 10:30am Monday morning.


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i just started participating in a Weekly Character Design challenge on deviant art to help sharpen/develop my character design skills.hopefully, this will help me get faster and better at designing characters. I get a fair amount of work designing or fleshing out characters, so I'm working on my design instincts.
the way the challenge works, the guy who's running it draws 5 random shapes on Monday, then everyone posts drawings they made from the shapes on Tuesday. then you pick one of the headshots and submit a full body drawing on Thursday, then color turn arounds on Friday. I just started on Wednesday, so I skipped the full body and went straight to the color turnarounds. for the record, I did all the drawing and coloring in Photoshop. see ya later!


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Details of the Phuket Lobster Festival 2018, organised by Phuket province, Pracharath Rak Samakkee Co Ltd and members of the private sector, announced details of the 2018 event at a press conference held at Central Festival Phuket last Thursday (Aug 2).
In attendance at last Thursday's press conference were Phuket Vice Governor Snith Sriwihok, Managing Director of Pracharat Raksamackee Co Ltd Veerachai Pranveerapaiboon, Kowit Gao-aian of the Phuket Fisheries Office, Director of Tourism Authority of Thailand (Phuket Office) Kanokkittika Kritwuttikorn and other relevant government agencies.
V/Gov Snith thanked Pracharath Rak Samakkee Co Ltd for being a big part of the annual event, one which he said helps to boost Phuket tourism during the Green Season.
He also said that the event helped increase the income of local residents who farm lobsters as it increases the lobsters' value.
"A professional chef will create a special menu or Phuket Lobster Signature Menu by using spiny lobsters from Phuket," he added.
The Phuket Lobster Festival will also generate income to locals and promote the career of lobster farmers to a wider audience of people, V/Gov Snith noted.
Mr Veerachai added that the success of the Phuket Lobster Festival sees an increase in the consumption of lobsters in Phuket and also an increase of income for the lobster farming community.


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Of course it is!
The question is not whether you can express jealousy.
The real question is: are you in control of your jealousy or does your jealousy control you?
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Women love it when they see their partners really caring for them.
Being a bit jealous here and there is a good way of showing that you care.
But!!!! It's essential that you stay on top of that emotion and play your jealousy card as a game.
You use it when you want and can withdraw it whenever you want.
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Welcome to The Charity of Sir Thomas White, Warwick
The Charity of Sir Thomas White, Warwick provides interest-free loans for young people establishing a business, or to assist in improving their existing business in Warwick or undertaking tertiary education.
The Charity was endowed by indenture in 1551 by Sir Thomas White, a most generous local benefactor. The Charity now operates under a new Scheme, revised in 2001.
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Obtaining a loan for University can be expensive over the long term, especially with rising interest rates on student loans. Therefore, having access to an interest-free loan whilst at University can provide additional funds without the need to worry about additional charges. It is helpful to know that when I leave University, I will only pay back exactly what I borrowed in a manageable way.
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The Middle Atlantic PD-915R-PL Rackmount Power Distribution Unit is equipped with 8 rear outlets, and 1 front outlet. Standard equipment includes surge and spike protection, EMI filtering, and a 9' cord. A generous 9" depth offers easy access to the 15 amp rear panel outlets, which are solidly mounted on yokes to eliminate deflection. UL listed in the US and Canada.
The PD-915R-PL Rackmount Power Distribution Unit is equipped with a 15 amp power capacity, differential and common mode surge, spike and EMI filtering. Enhanced surge protection with no surge diversion to ground. The Rackmount power strip operates on a 120 volt AC/60Hz current. The PD-915R-PL power strip occupies one rack space and is constructed of 18-gauge phosphate pre-treated steel with a black brushed and anodized finish. Rackmount power strip is RoHS EU Directive 2002/95/EC compliant.
- Nominal line voltage: 120 VAC
- Maximum line current: 15 Amps
- Maximum allowable voltage: 125 VAC (RMS)
- Maximum continuous voltage differential applied between line and neutral
- Maximum clamping voltage: 395 [email protected] amps
- Peak impulse current (8/20 micro seconds):
- 30,000 amps, one time
- 21,000 amps, two times within 5 minutes
- 9,000 amps, ten times within 2 minutes
- Maximum peak impulse current pulse as defined between line and neutral
- Maximum multiple impulse current derated per spec
- Response time: Instantaneous (Less than 1 nanosecond)
- EMI/ RF Suppression: More than 20 db
- Calculated line to neutral, 100 KHz to 1 MHz suppression based upon nominal impedance
Specifications Manufacturer: Middle Atlantic Manufacturer Product No.: PD-915R-PL Number of Outlets: 9 (1 front, 8 rear) Circuit: Single 15 Amp Circuit Circuit Breaker Location: Rear Rear Outlet Type: NEMA 5-15R Finish: Black Brushed and Anodized Power Switch Location: Rear Power Cord Type: NEMA 5-15P Cord Length: 9 Feet Dimensions: 19" Length x 1.75" High x 8.75 Depth


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Lloyd got a haircut.
I'll give you a moment to recover from your shock.
He didn't do it for me, mind you – he did it for his other love, Ron Paul. See, there's a Republican Party meeting in McCook on Saturday and he didn't want his fellow conservatives to mistake him for some long-haired hippie freak. (He's a delegate, as you might remember.)
I'm most excited about spending Saturday morning in the booming metropolis that is McCook! Apparently my grandpa was pastor there for a while, so I'll have to scout out the surroundings. (Dad, any recommendations?) If nothing else, they have a Dollar General.
Ok, back to the hair. The problem with this haircut is that the middle schoolers at Lloyd's school have been raising money to help Haiti victims, and if they reached $1000 they could do something to his hair. He needed shorter hair for Saturday, but still wanted to keep it a little long for the kids. I suggested he go to a hair place at the mall and explain his quandary – cut it a little, but still leave it kinda longish. She didn't quite understand, and cut it too short.
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Italy 1943 - 1945:
British Armoured Divisions
There were three British armoured divisions deployed during the Italian campaign, however, the campaign was not suited to armoured formations. The mountains and hills were obstacles that tanks found difficult to exploit, and the weather conditions in winter were atrocious.
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The first to be deployed was the 7 Armoured Division, which landed at Salerno on 15 September 1943. It then fought in the battle of the Volturno Crossing before being withdrawn from the front line on 13 November 1943. It sailed for the United Kingdom the following month to prepare for the invasion of Normandy.
The 6 Armoured Division landed in Italy on 18 March 1944, having remained in North Africa following the conclusion of the Tunisian campaign. The division fought in the battle for the Gustav Line, forcing a way up the Liri Valley, and then took part in the battle for the Gothic Line. When the German forces were defeated in May 1945, the division moved into Austria as part of the occupation forces in that country.
The last to arrive was the 1 Armoured Division, which landed in May 1944 having also sailed from North Africa. Elements of the division fought in the Anzio bridgehead, and then the division participated in the battles for the Gothic Line. Infantry casualties had been so heavy in Italy that the decision was taken in September 1944 to disband the formation, which was broken up in the following month.


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Castor Oil Derivatives Market Volume Forecast and Value Chain Analysis 2015-2025
Castor oil is one of the most multipurpose plant oils, obtained by pressing the seed of the castor oil plant (Ricinus communis).It is well known source of a monounsaturated, ricinoleic and 18-carbon fatty acid. Owing to its unique chemical structure and rich properties, castor oil and its derivatives find uses in many industries such as cosmetics, food, lubricants, paints, agriculture, electronics & telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, perfumeries, plastics and rubber, inks & adhesives and textile chemicals. After plant oils, castor oil is considered to be the most required oil. However, growing concerns pertaining to biofuels specially biodiesel and biopolymer across the globe is pushingcastor oil to play a much larger role in the world economy.
Castor Oil Derivatives: Drivers & Restraints
Growth of major end-use industries (includes lubricants, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals) and increasing demand for sustainable products & biodegradable, on account of reducing dependence on petrochemicals is anticipated to fuel the demand for castor oil derivatives market. Also regulatory support and rising prices of alternative renewable chemicals is expected to drive the global castor oil derivatives market. However, factors influencing its manufacturing cost includes raw material availability, weather uncertainties, shortage of working capital, techniques & methods used for extraction and availability of substitute oil are resulting in restraints for the castor oil derivative market.
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Castor Oil Derivatives: Segmentation
On the basis of product type, the global castor oil derivatives market is segmented into Undecylenic Acid, Sebacic Acid (largest consumed castor oil derivatives), Castor Wax or Hydrogenated castor oil (HCO), Dehydrated Castor Oil (DCO) and others. On the basis of application, global castor oil derivatives market is segmented into Lubricants, Cosmetics & Pharmaceuticals (largest application segment), Biodiesel, Plastics & Resins and Others.
Castor Oil Derivatives: Region-wise Outlook
The global castor oil derivatives market is expected to register a double digit CAGR for the forecast period, 2015?2025. Asia-Pacific is expected to continue its dominance on the global castor oil derivatives market. India accounts for largest production of castor oil derivatives worldwide, followed by China and Brazil. Higher demand from the US, Europe and China has resulted in the higher prices for castor as well as increase in demand for castor oil derivatives. The major castor producing countries are India, China, Brazil, Paraguay, Ethiopia, Philippines, Russia and Thailand.
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Some of players in global castor oil derivatives market are Thai Castor Oil Industries Co. Ltd., Jayant Agro Organics, Hokoku Corporation, ITOH Oil Chemicals Co. Ltd., Gokul Overseas, Bom Brazil, Liaoyang Huaxing Chemical Co., Ltd., Kanak Castor Products Pvt. Ltd., and others.


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Aadhaar card centers in Sarmera, Nalanda, Bihar www.uidai.gov.in
Residents can get their Aadhaar card generated at the centres given below. Currently 1 Aadhaar card centre is open in the city.
- Sahaj Vasudha Kendra, NEAR DURGA ASTHAN AHIYAPUR, PANCHAYAT-DHANUKI, BLOCK-SARMERA, Sarmera, Nalanda, Bihar – 811104
The center is Permanent and the residents can visit here during office time. If any queries please email at [email protected] check aadhaar status resident.uidai.net.in


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If you are a parent or carer of a child with a Special Educational Need and/or Disability (SEND) then Sheffield City Council would like your help to develop their new Inclusion Strategy for Sheffield. The survey is open until Sunday 22 September 2019FULL ARTICLE
10 June 2019
'People Keeping Well in their Community' is a community-based prevention activity in Sheffield that can help to prevent and delay people needing to access health and social care services.FULL ARTICLE
02 May 2019
This is your chance to give your views on both Sheffield City Council's new Home to School policy and the Post-16 policy. Please note the different deadlines for feedback.FULL ARTICLE
20 March 2019
The new 'Care at Night' service developed collaboratively between Sheffield City Council and the Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) launches on May 6th. The collaboration aims to deliver person centred care through a jointly funded service.FULL ARTICLE
21 February 2019
Have you had recent experiences of accessing or trying to access Mental Health Services in Sheffield in the last 2 years? If so, you are invited to take part in a survey as part of a call for evidence for the Joint Scrutiny Review of Mental Health Services. This survey closes on 8th March 2019.FULL ARTICLE
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Students: Have you had trouble with your Law School-issued Lexis and Westlaw IDs recently? You may have forgotten to extend your access for the summer, which can result in error messages at the login screen, or severely limited access to databases within the services.Lexis and Westlaw do offer full access to law student accounts over the summer for certain educational and non-profit purposes (such as a research assistantship or law review work), but this is not automatically authorized. If you're experiencing access problems, try logging in to Lexis and Westlaw and look for links from the home page about summer access. You will need to select an educational or non-profit exception and agree to the terms of use. Remember that use of your Law School account for commercial purposes (e.g., in a summer job at a for-profit firm) is not allowed under the terms of the Law School's contract with the vendors.
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All good things have to come to an end and sadly our work with the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, as part of their Active People Active Parks (APAP) programme, draws to a close at the end of this month. APAP was a flagship participation project for the LLDC which involved a variety of 25 partner organisations.
The Community Golf team is incredibly proud of what we delivered across the programme, which included regular Golf Skills, Beach Golf, Golf in the Park and local school sessions. Alongside these regular sessions, we brought golf to a vast array of events which included International Womens Day, Liberty Festival, National Paralympic Day, Time to Shine and the Wellbeing Games to name but a few. We feel privileged to have built up an incredible array of participation memories and to have worked with such a wide range of individuals.
Unearthing a huge enthusiasm for golf in East London through our work with the Active People Active Parks programme is an extraordinary platform from which we will continue to build. We are continuing to work with APAP partners in the area and across a range of new projects with new Funders.


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Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology, said it best.
The "headgear" was actually a Giant New Guinea Walking Stick crawling up the face of Eric San Gregorio, an undergraduate student majoring in entomology at UC Davis.
The occasion: the Bohart Museum's "Happy Halloween" open house on Thursday, Oct. 23.
See, the Bohart Musuem at 1124 Academic Surge, UC Davis, not only houses seven million specimens (it's the seventh largest insect museum in North America) but it also showcases live critters--like Madagascar hissing cockroaches, giant spiders and walking sticks.
About the Giant New Guinea Walking Stick (Eurycantha calcarata): it's from the order Phasmatodea and is native to New Guinea. It can grow up to six inches long. It's covered in spines. The males have large spikes on their back femurs while females have a larger abdomen ending in an oviposter, or egg-laying organ.
The walking stick dines on bramble, rose and guava.
It does not dine on little children.
Janice Calvento, 7, of Sacramento loved the honey bees, the honey tasting, the bee observation hive and just about everything else at the open house.
She did not like the walking stick walking up Eric's face.
(Note: an article on the Bohart Museum open house, with photos, will appear in the next edition of the Bohart Museum Society newsletter)


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Winning artist for 2019 is Nellie Hux
Nellie's love of the outdoors became a passion when she bought a house in Long Beach in 2002. "There is so much beauty and, after a work week filled with high school kids, it's a relaxing and therapeutic hobby".
Nellie enjoys the simple things a small town has to offer. She is the perfect beach bum who loves her family, friends, pets and french fries. "Keep Calm and go snapping!"


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GR – Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre(GR) for a day hosted the VMware vForum Conference that gathered foreign and domestic experts from the area of virtualisation. VMware is a virtualization and cloud computing software provider based in Palo Alto, California, that celebrates 20 years as an industry pioneer. Virtualisation is, according to VMware, the process of creating a software-based, or virtual, representation of something, such as virtual applications, servers, storage and networks. It is the single most effective way to reduce IT expenses while boosting efficiency and agility for all size businesses.
The VMware vForum is the event about Cloud Infrastructure, Security and Business Mobility. At the VMware Events interested attendees can learn about virtualization trends, best practices and the latest technology. The Slovenian event at the GR – Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre was organised by company Diss which has been since 2015 also the official distributer of the VMware software. More than 200 speakers, managers, leaders of IT solutions, technical engineers and business coordinators from Slovenia and abroad discussed the virtualisation.
Matthias Schorer, business manager at IoT, presented how the IoT can be an important part of many companies that step onto the path of digital transformation. Dejan Grubać, the top expert in the field of the technical-presale activities, showed the modernised data centre; Piotr Jabłoński presented the interactions among users, applications and data, while Roch Norwa talked about the new way of work that is not connected to the office and about the applications that can ease this kind of work. In addition, more than ten cases of best practice, presented by the representatives of brands DellEMC, NIL, Veeam Software, HPE Slovenija, Lenovo, Arhides, APC by Schneider Electric and Kaspersky Lab, were revealed.


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You Win (Happy Birthday to Me)
I've been feeling a lot of peer pressure to start writing in this journal again. C'mon people! It's only been since November of last year when I left you hanging during the final week of my big trip. I have my notes from the trip and perhaps I will write about it, perhaps I won't.
Writing about the traveling was useful and entertaining to me when I was alone. It kept me feeling like I was sharing the trip with friends and family. Once I was literally on a trip with another person, I didn't have the same urge to put it down on paper. What goes on the road stays on the road? Not like any of THAT went on this road, but you know what I mean.
Today is my 31st birthday. Now I can't even pretend to be in my 20s anymore.
I resolve this year to write something in this journal every day, be it a long essay or a lousy poem. Feel free to come along for the ride.


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I had some spare time the other day, so I opened up iTunes and went to the iTunes Store fore a quick look to see what it may have of interest. Â I spotted a section of the store that I had heard about, but to which I had not paid much attention, iTunes University. Â To my amazement, the iTunes U department had course and lecture offerings from some of the world's top institutions of higher learning. Â Among the schools represented: MIT, Oxford, Cambridg, Stanford, Duke, Â and my own alma mater, the University of California at Berkeley.
The University section of the store included materials covering fields as disparate as the arts and political science, physics and foreign languages (although, I have heard some people say that physics is a foreign language to them). Â I also found courses on history, mathematics, Â philosophy, literature, education and rhetoric. Â Stanford and Cornell even offered courses on Law.
The store has broken the offerings into thirteen general categories to facilitate finding what you seek. Â The chosen categories: Â "Business", "Engineering", "Fine Arts", "Health & Medicine", "History", "Humanities", "Language", "Literature", "Mathematics", "Science", "Social Science", "Society" and "Teaching & Education".
All of the courses I looked had were of recent vintages and none of the schools charged for their offerings. Â Acquiring a course took little effort, simply clicking on it and telling it to download to iTunes. Â Once in iTunes, you had the option of playing it on a computer or synching it to an iPhone/iPod. Â The store offers another very convenient feature; Â it allows you to download the entire course or selected lectures from the course. Â Some of the courses continue to grow in terms of material and lectures. Â The University allows you to subscribe to the course, so that iTunes can automatically download any new material for your use and enjoyment.
If you have not yet seen the iTunes U section of the iTunes Store, you should do so ASAP. Â Download a few courses and learn something new. Â Expand your horizons!
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I got started in metal detecting back in December of 1974 while on Christmas vacation in Virginia. A close friend of the family had a metal detector and he invited me to go out with him to an old school for some coin shooting. Whenever the detector sounded off I got to dig the "treasure". After seeing those wheat's and silver coins pop out of the ground, I knew that this was the hobby for me.
When I got back home to Pennsylvania, I bought my first metal detector, a White's Coinmaster III. I have come a long way since the old Coinmaster III and now currently use the White's V3i . This detector does it all. It has state of the arts digital electronics. Since using this metal detector I never leave a site with the feeling of losing a coin because it was too deep.
The V3i metal detector will punch down and get the coins...plus tell you what kind of coin, metal, size, and how deep it is!
I have used White's metal detectors since 1974. I still have the old Coinmaster, a 5000-D, 6DB, 6000-D, 6000-Di, 5900-Di Pro, Spectrum XLT, and DFX 300. I also have a few other oldie detectors like the Compass Relic Magnum 6 and Compass 94B Automatic and a Relco. I bought the new White's Coinmaster for hunting along the canal banks because they are so lightweight. My "specialty" is coinshooting. My favorite areas for coinshooting are old schools, oldchurches (my favorite), and parks.
I also like to hunt for civil war relics. I have an uncle in Virginia who has a home on 14 acres. The home was in use during the civil war. I have found over 40 pounds of civil war bullets, a few buttons and saddle pieces on this property. When I arrive at a hunting site I usually begin with a random search method to kind of give me a feel for the site. Once that is established I work a good tight pattern and then crisscross the same area. If it is producing old coins I will crisscross from another direction. I am very persistent at coinshooting and you can count on your hands the number of times I didn't find silver when out coinshooting. I will not hunt an area if there is no chance of finding any silver coins. By this I mean I don't hunt new schools or churches for modern coins. I want old coins so I hunt old sites!
My very first coin I ever dug up was an 1894 Indian Head cent at my grand-mothers one room school house. It is in poor condition but has a lot of sentimental value. Some of my better finds include a 1796 and 1797 large cent, a Roman silver denarius from Emperor Nerva (96-98 A.D.), 1833 and 1837 half dimes, jewelry and lots of rings. One day I was out metal detecting the front of a school yard and found a 6 diamond 14K engagement ring. When I first dug to retrieve the object I found a pull tab and then covered the hole back up. Just for the heck of it I ran the detector head back over the hole and got another hit. To say I was surprised is to phrase it lightly, but there is a moral to the story and that is to check your hole a second time, before you cover it back up. This was a lesson I learned early on.
Returning high school rings is almost as much fun as digging them up. I returned a ring that was lost for 8 years, one was lost for 16 years and the record...48 years! Searching for the owner is often as challenging and rewarding as finding the ring.
Being in the military (20 years retired army master sergeant) afforded me the opportunity to metal detect in all parts of the country and overseas. Huntsville, Alabama had some great metal detecting sites, one in particular was an old drive-in movie playground. Salt Lake City, Utah was also a good coinshooting area. I hunted a park called Liberty Park and got to coin shoot Brigham Young's front yard. The best place state side that I ever went metal detecting was in South Dakota. Not only did I find a lot of old coins but the people there are very friendly.
The best tips I can pass along for metal detecting is to slow down, hunt a tight pattern and make sure you cover your holes back up. Remember, the only thing you want to leave behind are your footprints!
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Short description of Visby Vandrarhem
This central hostel offers modern furnishings and Baltic Sea views, just 2 minutes' walk from Almedalen Park and Kallbadhuset Beach. It offers free Wi-Fi and a furnished terrace, set along the historic ring wall.
A seating area, desk and wooden floors are provided in all Visby Vandrarhem rooms. The shared bathrooms feature heated floors.
Guests can enjoy a fully equipped guest kitchen, as well as laundry facilities. Vandrarhem Visby also has a tour desk and souvenir shop. Tickets to a nearby breakfast buffet are sold on site.
Visby Ferry Terminal is 10 minutes' walk away, while the Visby Bus Station is a 2-minute walk from the hostel. Visby Airport is 5 km away.


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Today went well… I ate ALOT.
Amla powder in the morning (Ayurvedic), then lemon water (17 DD), got to work, then some greek yogurt with some cinnamon, green tea (decaf), an apple, a carrot with a bit of mint chutney, a decaf mint tea, some salad (just greens and very little dressing), lunch was a bit of chicken with some roasted vegetables and a decaf green tea, another apple, a hard boiled egg, greek yogurt, then dinner was an egg white scramble with green beans, spinach and onion and a decaf green tea… having triphala powder before bed. Of course, water throughout.
I walked four miles with Leslie Sansone DVD tonight after work.
I was STUFFED, seemed like all I did was eat today… even though it was hardly any calories at all, it was just alot… so I'll be scaling back tomorrow and just not eating as much.
This morning, scale showed 234. That's 6 lbs down since Monday… however, I was 231.8 last Friday, but on Sunday, I cheated big time… and on Monday, that showed up on the scale as 240. I did not eat nearly 9 lbs of food, but I do tend to retain alot when I go off plan.
So, now there is what I did wrong on Sunday and any leftover retention that may be still there. Not sure…
There is a weight loss challenge at my job going on… Called the Slim to Win Challenge. I have 5 more weigh ins for that. First weigh in, I gained .4 lb This Friday, who knows. I started off at 231.4 and Friday was 231.8 and now? Maybe up 3 lbs, but I'm trying to get back down…
I've been perfect with my food since Monday morning.
Now, Saturday, we are headed into NYC for the day. I was planning on cheating, but I was also planning on walking, which is what we always do when we go there… so I'm not sure how bad it will be, we usually walk miles. I'm hoping it'll balance out. We are headed there to visit with my nephew, whom I've not met before. He and his g/f are out from London! So excited to finally meet him and yet another member of my husband's family!
I'll post a few pics after the weekend, look for them on this site!
On other news, I'm about to look for new pants! My 18's are way too big for me, my 16's fit perfectly and my 14's are snug but fit pretty well, if I keep my tops loose over them! LOL Only thing is, I only own one pair of 16's and one pair of 14's and they are odd color, so I need a black and maybe a brown pair to wear at work.
https://www.facebook.com/ExtendingOurHappilyEverAfter is my facebook page, if you'd like to keep up with me on facebook, too!
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This is another recipe that I made for the catering event - and I have to tell you, the flavour on the chicken alongside the dressing on the salad lifts this to another level. It is something you can prepare separately and mix it when you are ready to eat and enjoy!
- Skill level: Easy
- Serves: 6-7 people
- Preparation time: 15mins - overnight (depending on how long you wish to marinate the chicken)
- Cooking time (for the chicken): 15-20 mins (including cooling time)
What you will need:
For the marinade/dressing:
2 tbsp olive oil
juice of 1 lemon
2 tbsp water
2 tbsp red wine vinegar
small bunch of fresh parsley, chopped
2 tsp dried basil
3 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
1 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cracked pepper
2 boneless chicken breasts, cut into large cubes
For the salad:
1/2 iceberg lettuce, chopped
3 inch piece cucumber, chopped
2 tomatoes, chopped
1 red onion, peeled and finely chopped
1/2 cup of olives, pitted and chopped
How to make:
1) Place all the ingredients under 'for the marinade/dressing' except for the chicken in a clean jar or container that has a lid. Shake the jar/container really well to ensure the marinade/dressing becomes well mixed
2) Add half the marinade onto the chicken, and reserve the other half for the dressing. Cover the chicken and place into the fridge to marinade (can leave for a minimum of 15 mins up to overnight if you like). Place the dressing in the fridge too ready for use
3) When ready to use, heat a griddle over medium/high heat, add the chicken and cook on both sides of the chicken until it has cooked (around 10 mins depending). Remove onto a plate and allow to cool
4) Whilst the chicken cools cut the ingredients under 'for the salad' and place in a bowl
5) When the chicken cools, chop into cubes and place over the salad. Add the remaining dressing and mix well and serve immediately
If you wish to prepare this in advance or for a few days, leave the chicken separate, as well as the dressing, and only when you are ready to eat, add the dressing and enjoy the deliciousness of this salad! I can guarantee you will absolutely love this salad! Give it a go and let me know how it goes. Enjoy :)SaveSave


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This week has already been too long…and its only Monday. When days like this happen (and I mean it has just been one thing after another today) I turn to ways to wind down. Like my previous post https://mybest3ofeverything.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/best-3-things-to-quiet-the-crazy-world-around-me/ I am focusing on things that can help to quiet my mind and how to bring myself down after one exhausting day. So, here are the Best 3…Ways to unwind after a long, tough and stressful day:
1. Put on pjs, get into bed and read
2. Take a long, hot shower (or bath)
3. Sip some hot tea
Honorable mention – a nice glass of white or red wine – that is a sure fire way to handle a hard day
My number one best choice was easy – after a long, tough and stressful day, there is no greater comfort than simply getting into my comfty pjs (flannel is usually best, unless its summer), climbing into my king size bed, and opening the book that I wish I had been reading all day. I usually read until I am sleepy, then I just shut off the light and go to sleep. To me, this is the best way to relax. I am so focused on my book, my comfty surrounding that the stress seems to melt away.
The 2nd best was a way that always works (for me). When I get home, and the day has been like it was today, I simply strip and take a long, hot shower. Running your head under the hot steam of water has a way of taking away the stress. When I am more ambitious, I would usually make this a bath but in a pinch, the shower washes away the day.
As for number 3, drinking a nice, steaming cup of tea. I can make my cup of tea, curl up on the couch and just savour the flavor. It like the best picks above, can just relax and help wind me down.
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Staying Close to Home - in Bequeathing Territory to Daughters, Solitary Leopards Provide a Glimpse into How Social Groups Evolved
Sunquist, Fiona, International Wildlife
Londolozi Game Reserve, South Africa:
A 13-year-old leopard called The Mother gives birth to her ninth litter. At the same time, her adult daughter from an earlier litter delivers cubs in a den near her birthplace.
Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya:
A 10-year-old female leopard named Half Tail roams a territory that overlaps with that of her adult daughter Beauty. Zawadi, another daughter from a more recent litter, lives just to the north.
Until recently, researchers delving into the lives of cats assumed that neighboring leopards were just that-neighbors. Now, they're discovering, there is more to these neighbors than meets the eye: In many cases, the females in an area turn out to be related, sometimes just as closely as lionesses in a pride.
Ordinarily, young mammals leave home when they become adults and move away to find a home range of their own. The process is called dispersal. But in leopards and many other mammals, the scientists are learning, newly in- dependent daughters often carve out a home range from a portion of their mother's range or squeeze in next to her. The name for this stay-at-home behavior is philopatry, a term derived from the Greek for "home-loving" and loosely defined as the tendency of an individual to remain in its birthplace as an adult.
The behavior is easy to see in lions, which travel together on open savannas where they can be observed by researchers. But as scientists complete long-term studies of other, more secretive mammals, they are finding some of the same dynamics. And so are wildlife photographers- including Lex Hes and Fritz Plking, whose pictures on these pages, from South Africa and Kenya respectively, help to record two leopard family trees not unlike those of lions.
Philopatry is actually not uncommon among mammals, says Peter Waser, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University, but it is difficult to confirm. Scientists have now identified the behavior in tigers and other "solitary" cats, as well as in other mammals (see box, page 28). Their research problem is one of access over time. "People tend to accumulate one or two examples in a long-term study, but these observations are usually too few to publish in scientific journals," says Waser.
One exception is a long-term review of black bears by Lynn Rogers, a retired U.S. Forest Service biologist. Rogers' research in Minnesota involved following nearly 100 bears, all equipped with radio collars and ear tags, for more than 16 years. He discovered that as young female black bears become independent, their mothers essentially "give" the daughters a portion of their ranges.
By allowing her daughters to use her range, a mother black bear provides her offspring with an opportunity to forage in a good area and protects them from aggressive encounters with other bears. Knowledge of a feeding area, Rogers suggests, is very important for bears (starvation was the main cause of death for cubs and yearlings he studied). Young bears must be able to find widely scattered berry patches and other ephemeral food sources, and they may do so by remembering where they fed with their mothers when they were cubs.
The advantages of staying close to home vary for different species. Basically, however, the rationale boils down to familiarity: Remaining in a familiar area is safer than leaving. For young three-toed sloths, for instance, the motivation is familiar food. The sloths inherit the ability to detoxify and digest leaves of specific trees. They learn the location of those trees as they travel around with their mothers. When a young female becomes old enough to travel on her own, the mother bequeaths her a portion of her home range.
Familiarity can also increase a young female's chance of breeding successfully. …


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Treatment schedule
The radiation oncologist determines the number of treatments after considering the tumor type and location. Each treatment requires that your pet stay completely still for 10-20 minutes, so a short-acting general anesthetic is given each time. Blood tests, x-rays (radiographs) and careful monitoring minimizes the risk associated with anesthesia.
Stereotactic radiation therapy offers the shortest treatment schedule. The entire radiation dose can be delivered in 2 or 3 sessions lasting less than 15 minutes each, greatly reducing the number of times a patient must undergo anesthesia and treatment is usually completed within one week. Definitive radiation treatments are given over 5 consecutive days or twice a week over 3-4 weeks. When radiation is given palliatively to control pain, treatments are given once every 3-4 weeks, or over five consecutive days.
What to expect following radiation treatment
After every treatment, patients return home with their families and can experience their normal routines. Once all treatments are finished, follow up visits with the oncologist will be scheduled for one week post-treatment and then three months post-treatment. This is recommended because the effects of radiation can occur over the following days, weeks, or even months, and it's important for the oncologist to monitor the recovery process. Some tumors will just stop growing, while others will eventually disappear.
Side effects
As with any type of cancer therapy, certain side effects can occur with radiation therapy. Since radiation therapy is limited to one region of the body, side effects are also restricted to that area. With stereotactic radiation therapy or palliative radiation therapy, side effects rarely occur, but are more common with conventional radiation and IMRT. If side effects occur, most begin after 10 to 12 treatments and heal approximately 2 to 5 weeks after therapy ends. If acute side effects occur, we keep our patients as comfortable as possible with pain medications and anti-inflammatories. If radiation includes the mouth or nose, ulceration of the moist tissue of the mouth can occur (called mucositis). Oral rinses, soft foods, and topical numbing agents can reduce discomfort. Since radiation can temporarily decrease taste and smell, warmed "smelly" foods such as pureed meat baby foods and fishy cat foods can increase appetite. The skin covering a tumor treated with radiation therapy may become dry and flaky or moist and red, somewhat like severe sunburn. The radiation oncologist can recommend safe ointments and gels to prevent irritation. If one or both eyes are near the radiation field (common for nasal and brain tumors), tear production may decrease, and your pet may require eye drops during and after therapy. Radiation therapy can also cause long-term side effects. Hair loss, which is limited to the treatment area, may be permanent. Any hair that returns will typically be a different color. Other delayed effects from radiation can occur in bone, spinal cord, and brain tissue, as well as the lens and retina of the eye. These changes may not occur for months or even years following the radiation treatments. Because these effects can be permanent, a radiation oncologist must carefully supervise the dose and method of radiation for your pet.
Radiation therapy can slow or prevent local recurrence of many types of cancer.


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In 2016 Bill C-210, "An act to amend the National Anthem Act (Gender) passed by majority in the Canadian House of Commons.Few Canadians noticed, it wasn't front page news or subject of editorial debate. Until yesterday this Canadian hadn't heard the name Mauril Belanger – Ottawa MP, author of and driving force behind C-210, a man stricken with ALS who lived long enough to witness first passing of legislation to make our national anthem gender neutral.
The far right is curious not complicated. Beneath the frosting of abortion rights and same sex marriage, gelatinous layers of gender neutral scorn burble righteous contempt for equality. Lest we underestimate conservative outrage, indignant gender neutral anthem opposition prevailed for 18 months. Enter Independent Ontario Senator Frances Lankin, no nonsense supporter of Belanger's Bill who took charge of archaic nonsense on January 30. Lankin tabled a motion to shut down debate, effectively forcing a Senate vote on C-210. The senate speaker accepted and set time for voting January 31. Well played Frances – Senate voted in favour of a gender neutral national anthem. All that stands in the way of replacing "in all thy sons command" with "in all of us command" is formality of royal assent.
Oh Canada, you tickle my toes. Last week government refused summer student employment grant money to anti-abortion, anti-gay organizations. Effective immediately applicants must tick a box asserting the organization asking for funding to help hire summer students does not have a core mandate or job descriptions that conflicts with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms or with other fundamental rights enjoyed by Canadians.Before conservative dust bunnies had a chance to settle, along comes gender neutral amendment to our national anthem.
Kudos Canada, you make me proud.
'The right side of history': New gender-neutral national anthem lyrics pass Senate despite Conservative protest


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Yes I do have it in for Daniel Hannan MEP, this is my third anti Hannan post, but I really think he is the modern day Lord Haw-Haw of the UK Eurosceptic movement and like this traitor utterly despicable. You can read the other blogs here and here.
Daniel's latest rant was published in some dodgy right wing capitalist web site called CAPX. Here Dan Hannan tries to amuse his kipper and eurosceptic Tory friends by constructing an imaginary parallel universe, where Britain had in fact joined the Euro instead of opting out as they did at Maastricht.
Incredibly for someone who says he admires and believes in Britain, he then pictures Britain to be languishing somewhere alongside Greece and Portugal at the bottom of about any economic league table you could construct. You can almost see the disingenuous smirk on his face as he amuses his audience by saying….
"I think we can trace the narrative well enough. The United Kingdom would have experienced the same credit bubble that the other peripheral economies – Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Greece – did. It would, consequently, have suffered the same crash. Only, in the British case, the consequences would have been utterly catastrophic"
Of course before going for the next below the belt blow, he has to disseminate the usual amount of lies and half truths
"Britain will have an interest in the wealth and security of its European allies, who are also its suppliers and customers. They are less important, its true, month by month, as Britain's trade with the EU dwindles; but they still account for a hefty 44 per cent of our overseas commerce."
It is the word "dwindles", I would like to pick Hannan up on. In the definition of the word as I understand it, but looked up to be sure, dwindle is defined as:
'To become gradually less until little remains"
Now please join me in looking at two of the latest available ONS statistics about the UK's trade in Europe over the last 3-4 years:
If we look at the graph on the left, which covers the last four available years month by month, does anyone else [besides Hannan] see a distinct downward trend in our trade with Europe? Now if you look at the graph on the right, we see that exports to the rest of the world (non-EU exports) are indeed outperforming similar EU exports. [Note and all that despite UK being in the EU!]. But if you look careful, you'll see exports to the EU in 2009 start above the 100 index and while rising to 115 before coming down again to about the 2009 level, they are still well above the 100 start index; so have in fact grown, not 'dwindled' as premier #brexit demagog Dan Hannan would have us all believe. Yes the man is either incredibly stupid when it comes to statistics or he is an outright liar. You may make up your mind.
But taking this ridiculous analogy of the EURO making such a hash of our parallel universe's UK economy a bit further, the flip side of this story has to be that [as in reality Britain never joined this most cursed of currencies] any well or at least open minded kipper would expect the UK to find itself at the top of the EU growth league. In other words somewhere alongside it's Northern European neighbours The Netherlands and economic power house Germany. After all, we have overtaken France and are are overtaking Germany soon, aren't we #ukip? Furthermore we're running this growth race without this cursed Euro currency shackled to our booming economy. We had our treasured pound sterling favouring our chances, didn't we Daniel?
"But Hang on a minute", I hear you kippers say: Eurozone members Spain, Germany, Poland and those pesky little ones top right on the EU map, they all performed better than the us in the UK? Are we being lied to all the time? Can it be true that the UK growth figure of 0.5% puts us only a measly one tenth of a percent above the dreadful EUSSR average and that is with all these supposed advantages of keeping our sacred pound?
Please explore that anomaly dear Charles and other kipper friends. As always looking forward to your jaded comments.


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Trading is difficult. Markets are changing constantly. To win you must predict everything. It pushes you to move fast: confidently, decisively. Competitors won't spare you. What are their intentions?
"I rolled 7! Everybody who has more than 7 resource cards should discard half."
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Alexey writes in English to master the language, and publishes stories at medium.com/@sonicCat.


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AR House 2011 Commended: UID's structurally and spatially sophisticated house for a doll maker and artist rethinks the notion of walls and boundaries. Photography by H Ueda
This is no ordinary house. It is in fact a doll's house, but not in the conventional sense of the word.
Although the Japanese obsession with toys and miniatures may have inspired some architects to delve deeper into this type of doll's house, UID Architects resisted the temptation to upscale the traditional pitched roof format and hinged front facade. Instead, they deployed a different system of screens to create privacy for their clients, a doll maker and artist, who live and work on site.
Providing a home for the couple and a studio-cum-gallery, the 151m² house contains two blocks of accommodation, separated by an internal pathway. Taking advantage of a 1.2m level change across the site, the more private residential spaces occupy the higher level. On the one side, they make the most of the southerly aspect, whereas on the other they overlook the studio/gallery/living space.
The studio occupies the lower terrace, optimising daylight from the north and addressing the street beyond. The two parts are then embraced by three rectangular ribbon-like steel frames that form spectacular cantilevers, reaching out to enclose the landscape beyond. This spatial strategy allowed the architect to occupy the entire site, while meeting stringent local planning codes that specified a building should occupy 60 per cent of the plot, and that at least 10 per cent of the site should be planted with a range of tall, medium- and low-level trees.
The architects rejected the tendency to enclose the site with a boundary wall, stating instead that they wanted to create 'spaces that have a new connection to the city, by rethinking the notion of walls and fences that traditionally obstruct boundaries'. They wanted to treat architecture, structure and landscape equally, and through this the territory of the house extends beyond the site's limits to take in the activity of people walking on the street and to borrow the landscape of adjacent gardens.
Although the architects have produced a structurally and spatially sophisticated response to the site and brief, they have not eliminated the potential for wit and playfulness in their design. The jury was amused by the pair of levitating front doors, which maintains the continuity of the lowest steel ribbon while providing access for those visitors who resist the everyday temptation to limbo dance their way on to the site.
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Rob & talk about the upcoming CMLL & AAA big shows, other upcoming events in lucha and good matches we've seen lately. Well, he's seen lately, I'm busy watching Puebla. The podcast goes about 110 minutes. Rob's connection has some problems in the first part of the podcast and drops out a couple times. It's better later, though I didn't do a great job of mixing it. It's still OK.
Thanks for listening. We'll be back in a month.
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Laser treatments for the skin, in a nutshell
LASER treatments for dermatological problems have become increasingly popular over the past few years. The increasing availability of machines and development of technology, coupled with increasing awareness of laser treatments has contributed to the growth of this segment of the aesthetic market.
Lasers for medical use work by the principle of Selective Photothermolysis. Different substances in the body preferentially absorb light energy at various wavelengths, producing heat energy and consequently changes to the organ or the body part that is being targeted. These substances that absorb the light energy are called chromophores. An example of a common chromophore for medical lasers is haemoglobin, present in our red blood cells. Haemoglobin absorbs light strongly at 400, 541 and 577nm. Therefore lasers targeting blood vessels usually produce light energy at these wavelengths. Other chromophores in the body include water and melanin, which is the pigment produced by the skin.
Laser treatments have now become the mainstay of treatment of a variety of skin problems such as pigmentation, acne scars and tattoo removal. Classified into broad categories, here are some common types of laser you might encounter at aesthetic/dermatologist clinics:
- Pigment lasers are usually non ablative lasers, which emit light energy that is selectively absorbed by pigments, resulting in break up of pigments. Depending on the type of pigment and the depth of pigment, different wavelengths of laser may be used. In general, a longer wavelength laser penetrates more deeply into the skin, but these may not be as effective for more superficial pigments. Pigment lasers are also used for tattoo removal. There are many brands of laser machines in the market for pigmentation. Just like cars, every brand of machine has its own strengths and weaknesses, but they all perform a similar function, and different clinics will offer different lasers depending on what is available and the doctor's familiarity with the particular machine.
- Rejuvenation lasers are usually longer pulsed lasers compared to pigment lasers. These work by producing heating in the dermis of the skin, stimulating collagen production, and some mild tightening effects.
- Fractional lasers are designed to resurface the skin. The treatment often produces some downtime in the form of redness and mild peeling and scabbing, but the downtime is less than with traditional ablative lasers. Some examples of fractional lasers include Fotona, Fraxel and Dermablate.
- Ablative lasers have the ability to cut into tissue. These are more commonly used by surgeons in an operating theatre setting, but dermatologists and aesthetic practitioners use them for procedures such as mole removal and milia. Ablative lasers for skin resurfacing causes significant downtime and therefore is getting less popular.
Potential complications
As with every medical procedure, there are potential complications that one should know about before undergoing laser treatments.
Acute skin reactions such as redness and itching are not uncommon after a laser procedure. This often occurs as a result of the skin reaction to the heat of the laser. Although this is quite common it is not a serious side effect and usually resolves by itself after a few days.
Burns and blistering happen infrequently and generally heal well if the wound is kept clean. Infections can occur with the more ablative lasers. These can be bacterial in nature or a reactivation of previous herpes virus infection.
Asian skin and skin of colour are often more tricky to treat than lighter or Caucasian skin. This is because of the risk of a condition called Post Inflammatory Hyperpigmentation (PIH). This occurs as a result of stimulation of pigment cells by the heat of the laser or inflammation. A study1 published in the British Journal of Dermatology in 2012 showed up to 92 per cent of patients developing PIH after ablative skin resurfacing and up to 13 per cent in patients undergoing non-ablative skin resurfacing.
Closer to home, studies done by the National Skin Centre in 2002 and a more recent one this year by Taiwanese doctors showed an incidence of PIH of about 33 per cent even with non-ablative lasers. This underlines the challenge faced by doctors in performing laser treatments in Asian skin. Fortunately, PIH usually resolves spontaneously after four to six months even without further intervention.
Hypopigmentation, which is the development of lighter patches of skin, can also occur after laser procedures and is more common and severe in patients with darker skin.
Common misconceptions
In my practice I often find myself having to address some common questions and misconceptions about laser treatments for the skin. Here are some of them.
1. My beautician can do laser treatment for me
In Singapore, skin laser treatments have to be done by certified doctors. These doctors need to have attended courses to certify them competent and knowledgeable in lasers, as well as have NEA approval and licences to purchase and operate medical grade lasers. The lasers and lights at beauticians are usually not medical grade lasers, and are more similar to the lasers used in laser pointers.
2. The stronger the laser the better.
The redder my face, the better.
This is a common misconception amongst patients who are looking for quick results and more value for money in their treatments. Lasers work by selectively targeting chromophores in the skin, producing heat energy in the process. If too much heating is achieved during the treatment, the skin becomes too stimulated and inflamed. This can lead to deposition of pigments by the pigment cells in the skin, resulting in Post Inflammatory Hyperpigmentation. Also, if a pigment laser is overdone on Asian skin, the chances of developing hypopigmentation or white spots on the skin increases exponentially.
Doctors usually treat patients to what we call a dermatological endpoint, meaning they are looking for specific skin reactions which indicate that the treatment is adequate. For example, for ephelides or freckles we would fire the laser at the spot until it turns grey, for skin rejuvenation we would run the laser on the skin until the skin turns slightly pink. It is also important to allow the skin to have adequate time for recovery and repair after each laser treatment, and most practitioners would recommend an interval of about a month between treatments.
Complications are much more likely to occur if performed past the desired endpoint and we would not advise patients to pressure their doctors to do so.
3. My friend had a laser done and one treatment was enough for her to see results, why is mine different?
Some pigments that are more superficial, like freckles and solar lentigines, can be treated with a laser that produces scabbing and peeling off of the pigments. This is not the case for deeper pigments like melasma and Hori's nevus.
Pigmentary problems are also usually multifactorial. Lifestyle, environmental and even genetic factors play a role in the severity of pigments and response to treatment.
4. Do I need to apply sunscreen and avoid the sun while I am doing laser treatment?
Sunscreen should be applied even if you are not doing laser treatment. As for sun exposure, the key is moderation. The human body requires some sun exposure to produce Vitamin D, so the keyword is moderation. However, it is important that we do not get exposed to the sun to the point of getting red, as this increases the risk of Post Inflammatory Hyperpigmentation after a laser treatment.
5. Lasers will thin my skin
This is untrue. Most lasers nowadays are non ablative lasers used for pigments and rejuvenation. These lasers do not have cutting properties and do not burn off any skin layers. For the fractional resurfacing lasers, theses actually stimulate collagen and new skin growth, so in fact, your skin will feel firmer after doing the treatments.
This series is produced on alternate Saturdays in collaboration with Singapore Medical Specialists Centre.


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I thought I would give you a break from Christmas today. (This is a long post, so grab a coffee or your favourite beverage before you start reading it.)
There are a number of card kits in both the Annual Catalogue and the Holiday Catalogue. They are a great way to get yourself started with stamping, or a wonderful way to create numerous projects quickly.
The Watercolor Wishes Card Kit would have to be my pick in the Annual Catalogue as it includes a stamp set, an acrylic block and 2 Stampin' Spots which you will still have to use on new projects once you have made up the cards in the kit.
Just to get you started, here is a quick video that Stampin' Up! put together on this kit.
This kit comes in a cute box which can be reused for another gift.
You get:
- Cardstock bases (which have been watercoloured) to make 20 cards
- Envelopes for the 20 cards
- Photopolymer Stamp set – Watercolor Wishes which has 10 sentiments, and 2 heart images (a single and 3 small in a line)
- Acrylic Block for the stamps
- Washi Tape
- Sequins
- Wooden Embellishments – hearts, butterflies (both solid and outline)
- Night of Navy Stampin' Spot
- Watermelon Stampin' Spot
- Diecut pieces
- Banner stickers
- Dimensionals
- Instructions on how to put the cards together
The only thing you need to provide is adhesive. I used my favourite Multipurpose Liquid Glue.
I have made up the cards and this is my take on them. You could use any of the greetings on any card.
There are 4 square cards (4″ x 4″),
… and 6 Note Cards,
… and 4 standard size cards – landscape style,
… and 6 standard size cards – portrait style.
After making all 20 of these cards, I still have lots of Washi Tape, Sequins and Wooden Embellishments left to use on more cards with my own cardstock.
This is the perfect gift for any friend who is interested in papercrafting.
If you are new to stamping and are a little hesitant about taking the first step, this is the way to go. The instructions can also be adapted for new projects, so as you are learning and making the kit, you will get ideas for further projects.
If you live in the Toowoomba region and would like some help getting started with this kit, I am happy to arrange a session with you. Contact me today.
All the supplies are Stampin' Up! and can be purchased in my online shop.
Price: $61.00
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- Click here or on the side bar to get your digital version of the 2015-2016 Annual Catalogue or contact me to order your own copy today.
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