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I wanted to thank everyone who has left comments on my site since Maddie passed. I haven’t been the best at commenting back the last few months, but all of the advice, kind words, and sympathy has meant the world to me.
It has been a few weeks since I last posted because I’ve been in the doldrums, even more so than usual. A large reason for this is that grieving is just so exhausting. It never stops. Minute after minute, hour after hour, day after day…the pain is always there. If for just five minutes I could walk around without the knowledge of what happened to Maddie weighing down upon me I think I could deal with everything a bit better, but I can’t.
Yesterday I watched a documentary on HBO called “Boy Interrupted,” which was made by the parents of a fifteen-year-old boy who commited suicide by leaping out of his bedroom in their New York apartment. The film is very interesting because the boy was bipolar, and the parents, despite being able to afford the best psychiatrists and special schools, couldn’t save him. Adding another complexity to the situation is the fact the boy’s uncle committed suicide when he was twenty-one, so the boy’s mental illness may have been genetic. While you don’t have to have lost a child to appreciate the documentary, it doesn’t hurt.
I particularly related to a couple statements in the documentary. The first was made by the boy’s paternal grandmother who lost her son, then, thirty years later, her grandson. She said, when asked to describe what it is to lose a child:
“I can’t tell you. Words don’t exist to tell another person how destroyed part of you has been…they just don’t exist. I can’t tell you, but I’ll tell you this – it is something you never recover from. Life goes on but not the way you wanted it to and not the way you planned for it to, but you don’t recover, I don’t think.”
Later her daughter-in-law, when discussing the loss of her son, said:
“The thing I think about the most is…I can’t believe it. I can’t believe this. I can’t believe I’m sitting here. I can’t believe I gave birth to this boy, raised him…buried him. I can’t believe it. It’s just a sense of disbelief. I don’t know if I ‘ll ever really understand that it’s true that this really happened. I can’t believe it really happened. Tell me it’s a dream. I can’t believe it, and I can’t believe that the days continue to go by and that the world could choose to rotate without him.”
They say when you lose a child you become a member of a club no one wants to join. That much is true, and the words spoken above capture a truth the members all know well.
Interestingly, in reading about the film online some reviewers wondered how anyone could document the death of a child on film. Those same people, I’d imagine, would question how anyone could write a blog after losing a child. The reason we do this, I think, is because those of us in this horrible club have an intense desire for people to understand what we are going through, to give them some glimpse into the reality of what our lives have become.
Otherwise it is too lonely carrying around all this grief all day, every day.


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The founder chairman of the institute Dr. HS Gill, M.D (Medicine), a great socialist, educationist, visionary, has started the institute to give the best professional education to the students. The institute is one of the leading technical universities that is contributing to the smooth progress in the medical sector by doing optimum utilization of resources.
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Cancer is a serious disease in which the malignant cells accumulate or grow to form a cancerous tumor or a mass inside the brain.
Some tumors formed of non-cancerous cells are the benign tumors.
It directly affects the brain function like memory, sensation, movement of muscle control along with other body functions.
The brain is a central organ that controls other organs & the functional system of our body.
DNA mutation in the brain cells allows the formation of a mass or a tumor of malignant cells. So it is because of the abnormal cell growth in the tissue of the brain.
- Family history: firstly if a person has a history of Brain Cancer in parents then he will be at high risk of having brain cancer.
- Exposure from chemical industries: Prolong exposure to the chemical industry can lead to this.
- Trauma: The previous history of untreated trauma of the brain later can appear in the form of brain cancer.
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Homeopathy medicines recover the state of mind and physical health hazards because of cancer these medicines stop the further growth of the cancer cells and keep safe the individual from the side effects of cancer.
Homeopathic medicine can be taken along with conventional treatment as well as these medicines remove the side effects of the other treatment.
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Nigerian superstar singer whose real name is Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, known professionally as Wizkid, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter, he finally come through with his most highly anticipated 5th studio Album which he dedicated has peace album which he tagged as “More Love, Less Ego“, this body of work contains 13 solid tracks.
More Love Less Ego house feature from one of the most popular British rapper Skepta on a song called “Wow” on this track he also teamed up with Marlian President Naira Marley, he also collaborated with upcoming Nigerian female singer and songwriter Ayra Starr on a song called “2 Sugar” and the album houses some other features from the likes of Don Toliver, Skillibeng, and Shenseea. For the production, P2J and a list of professional beat makers were involved.
A prominent figure in the modern-day Afrobeats music scene, Wizkid is regarded as one of the biggest and most influential African artists of all time, he cemented his status with many monster hit songs, e.g “One Dance” by Drake this song become the first song in History to hit 1 Billion streams on Spotify, Wizkid take the Afrobeats international with many international features from the likes of Beyonce, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown and others.
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At the risk of sounding sarcastic, it rusted because it got wet. Even if you only used it once in four years. Once the rust started, it picked up enough moisture from the air to continue. Then you didnít catch it soon enough.
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California Governor and Senate Elections Discussion With Political Consultant Leo McElroy
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
California Governor and Senate Elections Discussion With Sacramento Political Consultant Leo McElroy...
PAMELA DAVIS (Host): The Republican gubernatorial nominee is actively trying to court Latino voters. We’re joined on Morning Edition by non-partisan Sacramento political consultant Leo McElroy. Leo, good morning.
LEO MCELROY (Political consultant): Morning.
DAVIS: Meg Whitman is now running Spanish-language ads. How is this a departure from her strategy during the Republican primary?
MCELROY: We didn’t see her running many ads when she was trying to contest with Steve Poizner as to which one of them was tougher on Latinos and tougher on the immigration issue especially. Now, all of a sudden she is running ads in Spanish-language, really trying to mobilize her forces to pick-up those votes that are really essential to anybody who wants to succeed in California. The Latino vote is a huge one and the Republicans have kind of lost that with Gov. Pete Wilson’s championing of Prop. 187 a few years ago. These ads focus on Meg Whitman’s opposition to 187 and not on the fact that Pete Wilson is her campaign chairman.
ALISON ST. JOHN (Host): Well that’s kind of a turnaround isn’t it? So there’s plenty of speculation as to whether Gov. Schwarzenegger will endorse either Meg Whitman or Jerry Brown. So how would his support help them or possibly hurt them?
MCELROY: Well it’s really an interesting three-sided question. First of all, the question is has either of them asked for his endorsement? And secondly, if they do, what would be his motive for endorsing? He might endorse Meg Whitman just because she’s a fellow Republican. But then a lot of her campaign in the primary was saying I’m not Schwarzenegger and attacking him. On the other hand he might endorse Jerry Brown because Jerry Brown has run the attorney general’s office in a way that hasn’t gotten it crosswise with the governor. But the big question is, whoever he endorses - does he have enough of a political credit card that it makes much difference? Suspicion is it might swing some Independent votes but probably would not loom very large among either the Democratic or Republican faithful.
DAVIS: Leo tell us how the special Senate election on the Northern California coast may hinge on the oil spill in the Gulf.
MCELROY: This one is interesting. This is an election today. Up until now it’s been viewed variously. This is Abel Maldonado’s old district – vacated when he became lt. governor. The Democrats have always felt that they could pick-up that district. That it was a fairly liberal-leaning Republican district. So the John Laird-Sam Blakeslee contest looked like it might be pretty tight. Although, in special elections Republicans turn out better than Democrats do. Blakeslee might have had an edge, except for one little thing, or one big thing, the Gulf oil spill. Suddenly, you’ve got offshore oil as a major issue and you’ve got ads running pointing out that Sam Blakeslee was an official with an oil company. And has championed some offshore oil exploration. That may be the turnaround issue on this. And if the Democrats pick-up that seat by the way, then on the Senate side they are only one vote away from being able to pass tax increases or budgets without Republican help.
ST. JOHN: And that in fact is coming up this week, isn’t it? This question about how to get their budget package through?
MCELROY: That’s right. That’s right. So they’re looking very hard at what might happen because a clean win in this primary election could net them another Democrat right away and then they only have one Republican vote to turnaround. We might actually have a budget at some point.
ST. JOHN: That’s non-partisan Sacramento political consultant Leo McElroy.
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Australian actress Olivia Newton-John has been diagnosed with cancer for a third time.
The beloved star of the 1978 film Grease - who turns 70 this week - was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992 before undergoing a mastectomy.
When it recurred in 2013, she did not make her diagnosis public.
She reluctantly postponed her North American tour last year due to her battle with cancer.
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- Olivia Newton-John's daughter Chloe savagely mocked after 'trainwreck' interview
In a statement shared via her social media at the time, she said the back pain that initially caused her to postpone the first half of her tour was diagnosed as breast cancer.
Newton-John has decided to take a more natural approach to tackling the invasive tumour, she said in a recent interview she has been using medical marijuana as part of her treatment regime.
"I'm still treating it, and I'm treating it naturally and doing really well, yeah," she said, speaking to Channel 7's Sunday Night.
Newton-John hopes that cannabis oil - which she has been taking for the pain as she undergoes radiation treatment - will become legal in Australia.
"My dream is that, in Australia soon, it will be available to all the cancer patients and people going through cancer that causes pain," the Grammy Award-winner said.
Newton-John lives on a ranch in Santa Barbara, California, north of Los Angeles, where it's legal to grow a "certain amount of plants for your own medical purposes," she says.
"I'm very lucky to live in a state where it's legal."
Her husband, John Easterling, is a herbal remedy entrepreneur.


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Letters: GOP, Dems disagree only on how laws are implemented for whom
In an Aug. 28 letter to the editor, the writer states that conservatives stand for law and order, borders and supporting our police — implying that liberals do not.
Democrats also stand for those ideas with the following caveats: Law and order and justice for all; supporting our police but making our public servants accountable for misusing that authority and trust; supporting secure borders, not closed borders.
This is what separates the closed-minded narrow platform on the right from the more-inclusive, broader platform on the left. Note also that all this unrest and division is happening under the Trump administration, even though the president says this will happen under Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Want more of the same? Vote Republican. Want to unite the country? Vote Democrat. Quite simple, actually.
Terry Lite, Delray Beach
Dems allowing 'radical left' too much influence
The left continually accuses President Donald Trump and the Republican Party of non-partisanship behavior, but look at reality. Has anyone seen Republicans harassing attendees after Democratic candidate Biden spoke from Delaware at the Democratic National Convention? Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was physically attacked after leaving the White House at the Republican convention.
Are conservatives yelling at liberal patrons at restaurants, or at night in front of their homes. No, that's the radical left's agenda. And where have riots occurred, posing as "peaceful" demonstrations in Republican-controlled cities? Nowhere.
It's the radical left trying to intimidate and squelch free speech, and every reasonable person, right, left or independent should stand up and disavow the anarchy.
George A Bernstein, Palm Beach Gardens
We need term limits to remove lazy lawmakers
I have been a Palm Beach Post reader for many years, and always check out the "Letters to the editor" to see people's reactions to the happenings in our country. Never have I read such sadness as in the past year.
Elections are approaching, and today was a winner. We are being asked to donate to existing government officials for their campaign, and these same officials advocate taking away benefits that people need because the bnef are too high.
Most of these senators and congressmen have been in office too long. During their campaign they love everyone, and when elected their job is done. And they do nothing for the public. Term limits should be on the ballot. I want America to grow in a positive way, not in a way that benefits the rich who buy the government.
Sue Kaufman, Boca Raton
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Beginning in Gleneagles, then travelling to London via the Orient Express…
…the 2014 World Class global final brought 48 of the World’s best bartenders to London, for a week of cocktail-related challenges.
A variety of masterclasses held by various industry luminaries punctuated a week of competitive challenges which centred around a five story London town house, where spectators were able to see the competing bartenders in action, and taste their drinks.
The field was narrowed at various points, with each successive challenge eliminating various bartenders, culminating in the final round – Punch and Glass.
Judges Dale DeGroff, Salvatore Calabrese, Julie Reiner, Steve Olsen and Gary Regan were much impressed with Charles Joly’s (The Aviary, Chicago) submission, Above the Clouds, which ultimately won him the 2014 Diageo Reserve World Class Bartender of the Year.
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Next year, the World Class finals will travel to Africa for the first time, taking place in Cape Town. We will bring you news of the competition and how to enter as soon as possible.
Charles Joly’s winning drink – Above the Clouds
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An 11Alive Reveal investigation has uncovered an unprecedented number of people who died inside Georgia prisons last year. One of them includes a man with a known mental illness prison official failed to protect.
He’s 24-year-old Bobby Thompson. His mother, India Tarver, says her son called her at work nearly every day to catch up. “Between 12 and 1 o’clock and he knows the time. He was never late,” Tarver said.
On September 23, 2020, though, Tarver’s phone didn’t ring. She got a gut feeling something was wrong. So, she called the Wheeler Correctional facility in Alamo, Georgia, where Thompson was incarcerated since last January.
A few days later, she learned her son hung himself with a bedsheet tied from a top bunk in an isolation room.
“I can’t believe he’s gone. He was a very brilliant young man,” Tarver said with tears in her eyes.
Doctors diagnosed the father of three with bipolar disorder long before he arrived. Prison officials knew about it. Tarver says manic episodes were common. “So, everyone knew as far as I know, that he had a mental disorder. They knew,” Tarver said.
Prison officials also knew to check on Thompson every 15 to 30 minutes when they put him in an isolation room to help calm him down that day. The policy mandated it.
Instead, an officer waited more than two hours to make his rounds. Even after the officer found Thompson not breathing, the prison security video shows him walking to get help.
It took an additional seven minutes to open the cell door to start CPR.
Family photos of 24-year-old Bobby Thompson
'BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS':
Thompson’s family attorney, Tyler Schermerhorn, obtained the video from the prison to include in a future wrongful death lawsuit. “There wasn’t the immediacy that you would expect if somebody looked into a cell and observed somebody hanging from a top bunk,” Schermerhorn said.
Nobody disagrees that Thompson needed to serve time for a history of bad decisions. According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, he was sentenced to prison following convictions related to sex crimes, including pimping, aggravated assault. He was a validated gang member.
But, his mother says she hoped he would get the rehabilitation and mental health resources Thompson needed to be there for his children after his release.
Tarver said she remembers talking to prison officials about her son when he first arrived in Alamo.
“I know he came in there on way, but he’s going to leave there a different way because I’m going to make sure he gets the help that he needs,” Tarver said, recalling a conversation with a prison counselor. “Unfortunately, he didn’t leave the way I expected him too.”
“Even those who are incarcerated are not to be deprived of basic human rights and that is the right to medical care,” Schermerhorn said.
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A Reveal investigation uncovered Thompson is one of at least 29 people who died by suicide at Georgia correctional facilities last year, a rate about three times the national average at state prisons.
At least 26 people were murdered behind bars, too. That’s nearly twice as many for the two previous years combined.
Last June alone, eight correctional facilities reported emergency lockdowns. That includes Ware State Prison in Waycross. Two months later, inmates temporarily took control of the facility.
Former correctional officers, including Traci Mondragon, say the riot was the result of poor facility conditions and critical staffing shortages for years.
“It wasn’t anything to be like, ‘Oh, that diabetic is passed out on the floor because I couldn’t get him to medical to go get his medicine,’ Or, ‘That guy got stabbed when I was gone. I guess I need to call medical now.’ Again, you can’t stop these things if you’re not there to see it,” Mondragon said.
At Wheeler Correctional, where Thompson was detained, records show the facility often operated with about half the officers it needed last year.
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During that time, 18 people died at the facility, more than the previous three years combined. The state says 13 of the deaths were COVID-related.
On September 14, 2020, the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice asking the federal government to intervene. Its executive director, Sara Totonchi, says the problem is too big for the state to just power through.
“In my 20 years on the front lines of this, I have never seen the prisons so chaotic, so violent and so out of control,” Totonchi said.
The human rights group says federal officials requested a meeting within 48 hours of receiving its letter. “This is highly unusual. We’ve sent numerous letters to the department of justice over the last two decades and almost never get a response, ” Totonchi said.
The commissioner of Georgia’s DOC, Timothy Ward, declined to be interviewed and did not directly respond to SCHR’s letter or claims made by former corrections officers. In a prepared statement, an agency spokesperson said the past year has been difficult for staff and inmates.
“Balancing keeping our inmates safe and healthy during a pandemic while also trying to curb violence presented a unique challenge. Our staff is dedicated to keeping Georgians safe by keeping criminals off the streets while also ensuring that our prisons are humane and that inmates receive the necessary services,” Joan Heath, the DOC’s director of public relations said.
Heath explained that Georgia’s prisons have a higher than usual population of people with a long history of violence and about 10,000 offenders who suffer from mental health issues.
“Aside from placing each individual in restrictive housing, which we do not have the resources or space to do, we cannot possibly ensure that no violence ever occurs in our prisons. We have extensive protocols in place including behavioral counseling, separating inmates, and around-the-clock supervision to try to limit incidents,” Heath said.


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Daniel Akaka: Opposed the Patriot Act renewal on civil liberty grounds.
Ed Case: Supported Patriot Act to provide law enforcement tools.
Energy & Oil|
Daniel Akaka: Offered hydrogen and ethanol bills for energy independence.
Ed Case: Investigate the oil companies & reinstate the CAFE standards.
Daniel Akaka: Advocate for expanding and improving Medicaid and Medicare.
Ed Case: Let small businesses pull together resources in health plans.
Ed Case: Support drugs re-importation and bulk purchases of drugs.
Daniel Akaka: Social Security privatization is a risky investment scheme.
Ed Case: Oppose Social Security privatization, lockbox the trust fund.
Daniel Akaka: The Bush tax cuts helped the richest, not those in need.
Ed Case: Bush tax cuts unaffordable; targeted middle-class cuts ok.
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Daniel Akaka: Call for troops withdrawal from Iraq by July 2007.
Daniel Akaka: No need to resort to a draft; better recruitment instead.
Ed Case: Oppose a timetable of troops withdrawal from Iraq.
Ed Case: Do not need a draft but the military has been stretched.
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Epigenetics is defined as the study of inherited changes in phenotype or gene expression caused by mechanisms other than mutations in the underlying DNA sequence. Epigenetic markers include DNA methylation and modification of histone tails.
In eukaryotes, DNA can be modified by methylation of cytosine bases, while in prokaryotes DNA methylation occurs primarily on adenosine bases. Aberrant or increased methylation has been correlated with gene silencing and the development of several cancers.
Histones are subject to several different covalent modifications, including methylation, acetylation, phosphorylation, ubiquitylation, and sumoylation. Acetylation is the most commonly studied of these modifications and a strong correlation between histone acetylation and active transcription has been established. Conversely, many histone methylation events are correlated with transcriptional silencing. Different histone modifications likely function in differing ways. For example, acetylation at one position may have a different effect than acetylation at another position.
Multiple modifications can exist simultaneously and are likely working together to influence chromatin state and gene expression. The concept of multiple dynamic modifications regulating gene expression in a systematic and reproducible fashion is known as the histone code.
Common techniques used to study DNA methylation and histone modifications include:
Biological pathways include metabolic, regulatory, and signaling pathways that organize and coordinate the activities of a cell. Biological pathways often interact with one another to form biological networks.
Pathway analysis is used in systems biology to build a better picture of how the individual components of a biological system interact to create the larger functional system.
Techniques that enable screening for expression of multiple gene or gene products simultaneously are typically used to generate data for pathway analysis. The data are then analyzed using complex software algorithms or biostatistics to create a map of how these individual components interact with one another in an interaction pathway. As deregulation of a pathway can result in disease, such as cancer, pathway analysis often involves comparisons of expression patterns between normal and pathological samples.
Although an understanding of biological pathways can be built up slowly by adding information generated from individual experiments, typically large data sets, often combined from a variety of sources including the published literature, are mined using automated network generating software tools. While almost any biological analysis tool can be used to generate data for pathway analysis, techniques that enable the comparison of multiple gene or gene products are most useful, and include:
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) defines a biomarker as a characteristic that is objectively measured and evaluated as an indicator of normal biologic processes, pathogenic processes, or pharmacologic responses to a therapeutic intervention. The goal of biomarker research is to discover gene or protein markers and use them to improve diagnostic, prognostic, or therapeutic outcomes for patients, and to assist in the development of novel drug candidates.
Biomarkers can be discovered through differential expression analysis, which is the indentification of mRNA, microRNA, or protein expression levels as influenced by disease state, therapy, or other differences between sample cohorts. Once differentially expressed targets are identified and validated, their expression levels can be used to classify organisms, individuals, disease states, metabolic conditions, or phenotypic responses to environmental or chemical challenges.
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- Mass spectrometry
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Chapter 500: Illusionary Golden Flame
The moment Elder Hao announced that the match had begun, the gazes of the entire stadium suddenly turned toward the two people behind the cauldrons. The noisiness had also gradually become much quieter.
Xiao Yan’s gaze slowly but carefully swept across the medicinal ingredients on the stone table. Upon realizing that there was nothing missing, he finally nodded slightly and waved his hand. A dark red medicinal cauldron appeared on the stone table in front of him.
The medicinal cauldron which Xiao Yan was using was not some high grade item. Moreover, he had used it too many times during this recent period of time. Hence, it resulted in the color on the surface of the medicinal cauldron appearing slightly dimmer. At a glance, it was seemed like a normal stove.
“Che…” Xiao Yan’s medicinal cauldron had just appeared when Han Xian who had been looking over from the side not far away could not resist laughing out loud. He quietly shook his head and said with a laugh in his heart, “Looks like I have overestimated this fellow a little…” In the Alchemist world, a good medicinal cauldron was like a sharp weapon in the hands of a warrior; it could enable one’s refining success to increase greatly. Now that Han Xian saw that the medicinal cauldron Xiao Yan was using was actually this worn-out, there was naturally some disdain in his heart.
After the words in Han Xian’s heart appeared, he also waved his hand. Immediately, a medicinal cauldron...

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“These men faced life-or-death battles, with bombs going off and someone dropping next to them,” Diane Ladd, today age 84, told me in a phone interview from her home near Los Angeles. “I’ve met these veterans, sharing meals with them and hugging their necks. They told me this film captures the essence of what happened.”
In “The Last Full Measure,” which opens Friday in theaters, the award-winning actress plays the mother of William Pitsenbarger—an enlisted airman and pararescue jumper who volunteered to go into combat during the Vietnam War. On April 11, 1966, when a Huskie helicopter dropped him east of Saigon, 21-year-old Pitsenbarger found a scene much worse than expected.
“At the time, Operation Abilene was probably the bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War,” said Robinson via phone. Known for his work as producer on Ridley Scott’s “White Squall,” the writer/director has spent 20 years crafting this story as a major motion picture. “Thirty-four Americans were killed in action, and others passed afterwards from their wounds.”
Young medic Pitsenbarger had a chance to escape the combat zone by helicopter but waved it off. He stayed, defending the Army’s 1st Infantry Division before making the ultimate sacrifice. Yet “The Last Full Measure” reveals a larger story. It’s a visceral account of war told in flashback scenes, a fast-paced legal/political thriller, and an emotional tribute to U.S. service members.
The mid-budget film has unexpected star power. Sebastian Stan, known as the “Winter Soldier” in a half-dozen Marvel films, portrays a Pentagon lawyer who is approached by Pitsenbarger’s brothers in arms during the mid-1990s. The soldiers include Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, William Hurt, and the late Peter Fonda, in his final role before his death last August.
With the advent of the internet, the comrades had reconnected and realized the man who saved them had never been given his due: the Medal of Honor. Pitsenbarger’s father Frank (Christopher Plummer) was terminally ill, cared for by his wife Alice (Ladd). It gave the veterans an urgency to press for the deceased hero to be honored, which would take an act of Congress.
“For me, it was a bucket list of hero actors to be able to work with all in the same picture,” said Robinson. “Sam Jackson is so professional and prepared, he never leaves the set. If you come on-set and start to gum up the works, he’ll let you know right away!”
This inspiring military biopic marks the first leading film role for Stan, who is currently filming buzzy superhero series “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.” “If you watch the way that social media rolls with Sebastian, he brings this huge following of young people who are fans of his from the Marvel universe,” said Robinson.
“It’s really exciting to me that, because he’s in it, a whole younger generation is going to become acquainted with this story of valor, sacrifice, and service greater than self.”
Finding Heroism In Unexpected Places
Known for seven decades of film and TV roles including in “Wild At Heart,” and as the mother of current star Laura Dern, Ladd has often seen projects face delays. “It takes a long time to produce a good, real-life film,” she said. “Sometimes it’s hard to get the truth out there, when fiction seems to sell better. Todd had to work against all odds to get this movie made.”
Growing up in Mississippi, Ladd is all too familiar with the cost of war. “My classmates in school, farmboys who were just 17 years old, were drafted during the Korean War era,” she said. “A lot of them died fighting for America and what we believe in: truth, freedom, and our Constitution.”
Today, the realities of military family life have become less commonly known; veterans account for fewer than 8 percent of the U.S. population. Even with a complex script juggling multiple timelines, Robinson sought to keep themes of service and sacrifice at the forefront.
“These roles are all built on real people who I met along the way,” he said. “Early on, I interviewed one of the veterans and he kept calling me ‘sir.’ ‘You understand what I’m saying, sir?’ I finally stopped him and said, ‘You don’t have to call me “sir.” I’m just a hack screenwriter from Hollywood.’”
But the Vietnam veteran would not stop. The director realized that, at the time, it was intended as a kind of put-down. “He saw me as ‘the man’ in my realm, like the officer in charge,” said Robinson. “He wasn’t a big fan of officers because they had walked him into that ambush. Later, once he got to trust me, he told me he appreciated what I was doing on behalf of all of them.”
While at times reflective, the film also has a keen sense of how modern politics works. Walk-and-talk scenes in Washington, D.C. follow Stan and colleagues’ witty banter. With Bradley Whitford from “The West Wing” playing a self-seeking bureaucrat, Robinson admits nods to the Aaron Sorkin show are intentional. Yet even among civilian paper-pushers, he found heroism.
“I spent a lot of time with people in the Pentagon who worked very hard to make this medal happen,” said Robinson. “Though you’d never guess it from the news briefs we see so often, they are very clever people who say funny things. I always have a pad with me to write down things that may be useful in a script. Call me a world-class plagiarist.”
‘War Is Hell, Man’
The film’s genesis goes back to 1999. Robinson attended a graduation ceremony for a class of pararescue jumpers Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Frank Pitsenbarger spoke in his commencement about the loss of his son—emotions still fresh after 33 years.
In the film, the war hero’s on-screen mother conveys the weight of that grief. After speaking with Ladd about her relevant tragedy, the director actually rewrote her character’s scenes.
“To portray Alice Pitsenbarger was beautiful, and we have in common having to bury a child,” said Ladd. “My firstborn daughter tragically died when she was not yet two years old. We all have personal experiences that we draw on, and some of them are pretty harsh.”
Filming in Thailand, cast and crew recreated harsh combat in Vietnam with the same climate, overgrown forests, insect infestations, and even monsoon flooding. Realistic war scenes resulted in the film garnering an R rating. Still, the director said reception in preview screenings has been enthusiastic even from families with children ages 12 and up.
“War is hell, man,” said Robinson. “The violence in this film is never gratuitous or overdone. It was deeply important to me and my fellow filmmakers that we recreate as honestly as we could the conditions of that battle. We needed our audience to understand what these veterans went through and what the stakes are when you go to war.”
Currently on Hallmark’s “Chesapeake Shores,” Ladd addresses concerns about the rating. “Like many Hallmark viewers, I don’t like violence on screen—unless it paints a picture that teaches you,” she said. “When a surgeon operates on your body, it’s a form of violence that helps you. People should not miss this film, because they need to see what these men fought for.”
Since 2016 Robinson has served as a board member for Save A Warrior, a nonprofit group dedicated to helping veterans heal from post-traumatic stress and preventing suicide. The film depicts multiple veterans coping with PTSD in various ways. In one scene late in the evening, Jackson’s character wakes up at home, opens a drawer, and handles a gun.
“You have to realize that suicide is a pathway that’s always very close to people who have had wartime trauma, and often trauma that precedes their military service,” he said. “Getting to know so many veterans who are going through really difficult situations informed this script.”
Working with his silver-screen idols, Robinson recalls lighter moments too. “Sam Jackson let me know that he had made all his script choices ahead of time,” said Robinson with an amused tone. “When I gave him one adjustment on his performance, he gave me that Sam Jackson look.”
“I felt like I was about two feet tall!” he added. “But he took the note and was great to work with.”
An Uplifting Story for Our Time
Diane Ladd calls it a “delight” to portray a Gold Star mother alongside on-screen spouse Plummer in “The Last Full Measure,” a brand of patriotic film Hollywood rarely makes anymore.
“Good and evil are always warring against each other,” she said. “You have to be brave enough to stand up and speak out, as Todd has done with this movie–and as these veterans did. It took them 32 years to get that medal for their son and comrade in arms.”
Robinson hopes to open eyes regarding the personal cost of war. “We should consider carefully when we decide to swing our terrible, swift sword, that we haven’t tried détente and diplomacy first,” he said. “War is a terrible thing to put anyone through, and it doesn’t just affect the warriors. It affects their moms, dads, brothers, sisters, and children.”
The director believes the real-life valor depicted in the film has a message for today’s culture, one he hopes sticks with viewers longer than any impressive scene or star performance.
“When these men were in foxholes someplace, being shot at and bombed, all they cared about was being there for each other,” he said. “That is really who we should be as Americans. This movie reminds us that we should be caring for and about each other, recognizing the sacrifices of others on our behalf.”
Rated R for war violence and language, “The Last Full Measure” is now playing in theaters nationwide.


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Pro-life activist Lila Rose says Ohio’s proposed abortion law, which would enshrine abortion into the state’s Constitution, would empower the "brutal" industry and hurt women who are being "coerced" into getting abortions.
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The Live Action founder told FOX News Digital about the organization’s "influence campaign" which seeks to show thousands of Ohio voters through "the power of hard-hitting satire" that the abortion lobby doesn’t care about the well-being of women. Voters are encouraged to "vote no" on Issue 1.
"They are merely making it easier for women to be coerced into a horrific decision that will affect them for the rest of their lives," Rose said. "Recently released data illustrates the pervasive nature of abortion coercion. A total of 67% of women described their abortions as either ‘accepted, but inconsistent with their values and preferences’ (43%) or ‘unwanted or coerced’ (24%). A vote against Issue 1 is a vote against abortion coercion."
Rose told FOX News Digital that abortion is the "direct and intentional killing of a human being in the womb."
"At the moment of fertilization, a new and genetically distinct human being comes into existence," she said. "From that moment, we are guaranteed certain fundamental human rights. The first among these rights is the right to life, the right not to be killed. Laws that permit the killing of abortion are unjust and violate the fundamental rights every human being is owed and deserves."
Following the overturn of Roe vs. Wade, the pro-life activist says the movement must direct its efforts to "(ensure) equal legal protection for children in the womb" through the Constitution.
"We must end abortion and make America the most welcoming place in the world to raise a family," she reflected. "... The 14th Amendment to our Constitution, properly understood and applied, grants equal protection to every person, including the preborn. We must focus on public education, and policy-making according to the existing guarantee in our Constitution that secures equal protection for all."
Gov. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, previously told FOX News Digital that the proposed amendment "goes way, way too far."
"It would allow abortion at any point in the pregnancy," DeWine said. "It would negate Ohio's law that we've had on the books for many, many years that prohibits partial birth abortion."
FOX News’ Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.

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Sherlock Holmes - the Hound of the Baskervilles
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Fareham Musical Society presents
“Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound…”
The Hound of the Baskervilles
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Adapted for the stage and Directed by Nick Scovell
Join Fareham Musical Society for a spine-chilling, atmospheric and faithful dramatization of one of the most iconic and successful thrillers ever written.
Wednesday 20th to Sunday 24th February 2019.
Nightly at 7.30pm. All tickets: £12.00
Following their enduring success with staging popular thrillers by the ‘Mistress of Crime’, Agatha Christie, Fareham Musical Society are now proud to present their first foray into the realms of the ‘Master Detective’ – Sherlock Holmes..!
What better way to begin than with the most famous and celebrated adventure of all – The Hound of the Baskervilles.
“The title just says it all, doesn’t it?” says adaptor and director of the show, Nick Scovell. “You know instantly what you will get - a scary, spooky thriller to chill the blood!”
First published in 1901, the story has gone on to be the most dramatized of all the classic Sherlock Holmes stories penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It’s mix of mystery and suspense, combined with elements of a classic horror tale have guaranteed its longevity and popular appeal.
“I wanted to make sure we presented a faithful adaptation, so our version sticks very closely to the novel. It really needs no alterations as it really is a spine-chilling classic. We have assembled a top-notch cast and spent much time on creating a fully immersive soundtrack to the piece. It’s more than a play – it’s an experience!”
Staged in the Octagon at Ferneham Hall, the audience will be right in on the action as Sherlock Holmes, aided by his ever-faithful Doctor Watson, investigate the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville and engage in a race against time to save his heir, Sir Henry, from falling foul of the legendary Hound and the machinations of a despicable murderer…
Get tickets from the box office at 023 92 231942 or online.


Thirty Miles West Album is by Alan Jackson, the American singer-songwriter. The album, his seventeenth, was released on the 5th of June 2012 by Alan’s Country Records.
Thirty Miles West became the first album released by Alan’s Country Records, a label set up by Alan as a joint venture with Capitol/EMI Nashville, owned by Universal Music Group.
Upon release, it received favourable reviews from critics. Billy Dukes, writing for tasteofcountry commented that ” The project could use a few more shots of adrenaline to appeal to younger listeners, but no longtime fan of Jackson’s will be disappointed with the songs he’s assembled. ”
The title of the album is a reference to part of a highway near Newnan in the U.S State of Georgia, an area where Alan grew up.
The city in the county seat of Coweta County, Georgia, was established in 1828 and gets its name from General Daniel Newnan, who was both a Colonel and a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives between 1831 to 1833.
The lead single, ” Long Way to Go “, was released on the 27th of June 2011. The song, written and recorded by Alan, had positive reviews from critics.
The video, directed by Canadian film and music video director Steven Goldmann, features the world-famous Square Grouper Tiki Bar, the live music venue and eaterie in Jupiter, Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.
” Long Way to Go ” was a successful single for Alan Jackson. In the United States, it reached number twenty-four on the Billboard Hot Country Songs and twenty on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Chart.
The Thirty Miles West album also had chart success. In the United States, it topped the Billboard Top Country Albums Chart and peaked at number two on the Billboard 200.
In the United Kingdom, it reached number three on the UK Country Albums Chart.
The album also reached number six in Australia, four in Canada, fourteen in Norway and forty-five in Sweden. In Germany, it reached seventeen on the German Newcomer Chart.
About Alan Jackson
Alan Eugene Jackson was born on the 17th of October 1958 in Newnan, Georgia, United States.
He got his first job in the mailroom of The Nashville Network, now known as Paramount Network, owned by Viacom.
Alan’s wife, Denise Jackson, at the time an air-stewardess, met Glen Campbell by chance while he was waiting for a connecting flight. She told Glen Campbell about her husband. The result of that meeting was a songwriting deal with his publishing company, kickstarting his career.
Alan Jackson released his debut album, Here in the Real World, on the 27th of February 1990. In the United States, the album reached number fifty-four on the Billboard 200 and peaked at number four on the Top Country Albums Chart. The Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) certified the album 2 x Platinum in August 1994.
Since his debut album, Alan Jackson has worldwide sales of over 80 million records. As of February 2018, he has topped the Country Singles Chart in the United States thirty-five times.
To date, Alan Jackson’s Album releases are sixteen studio albums, one live, twelve Compilations, six Video and one Tribute. He has also released sixty-six singles and fifty-two music videos.
As a multi-award-winning recording artist, Alan Jackson has won two Grammy Awards, two American Music, fourteen Academy of Country Music, one Billboard Music, fifteen Country Music Association, one ICMA, one ASCAP and one Golden Boot.
Alan Jackson was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2017.
Thirty Miles West Track Listing:
1. Gonna Come Back as a Country Song
2. You Go Your Way
3. Everything but the Wings
4. Talk Is Cheap
5. Look Her in the Eye and Lie
6. So You Don’t Have to Love Me Anymore
7. Dixie Highway ( with Zac Brown )
8. She Don’t Get High
9. Her Life’s a Song
10. Nothin’ Fancy
11. Long Way to Go
12. Life Keeps Bringing Me Down
13. When I Saw You Leaving ( For Nisey )


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The Buckeyes practices with piped in crowd noise in days before a road game and this week one song is repeating: House of Pain's 1992 hit "Jump Around," the song that puts the crowd into a frenzy between the third and fourth quarters at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison.
The focus is clearly on the Badgers this week, but OSU head coach Urban Meyer joked Wednesday night that he's a little tired of the song already.
"I'm going to have to change that," Meyer said. "We always do crowd noise (during practices before a road game), and I told them to get that stuff out. We'll hear that enough in a couple of days."
Meyer and the Buckeyes have enough to worry about besides "Jump Around." The head coach talked about what it will take to stop Wisconsin's powerful rushing attack, one that piled up a school-record 564 yards last week at Indiana.
"You have to be gap sound," Meyer said. "They've done a good job recently."
Meyer added that Wisconsin presents a difficult challenge for opposing defenses because of its different offensive line formations.
"We've spent a lot of time in walkthrough and practice getting lined up," he said. "You've got to get lined up first and No. 2 you have to tackle."
Wisconsin fifth-year senior quarterback Curt Phillips will make his second start of the season against the Buckeyes. Meyer said he did not know until watching film that Phillips is another running threat for the Badgers.
"They want him to run a little bit," Meyer said. "They run some zone read and some of the spread offense with him in there, which creates a whole other group of issues you have to deal with. … So I'm concerned about him running the ball."
One thing that will help Ohio State's defense will be the return of fifth-year senior linebacker Etienne Sabino, who will be back on the field Saturday for the first time since suffering a broken fibula Oct. 6 against Nebraska.
Sabino will man the strongside linebacker spot along middle LB Zach Boren and Ryan Shazier on the strongside. The trio will be on the field for much of the game as Ohio State will likely be in its base defense more than its nickel package.
"It's been a good week for those guys," Meyer said of the linebackers. "Having Sabino back gives you a sense of stability that we haven't had in a while."
The bulk of the health-related news updated by Meyer was good. Freshman special teams player Armani Reeves will be back on the field, and junior center Corey Linsley and fifth-year seniors Jake Stoneburner and Orhian Johnson – all limited recently by minor ailments – should be good to go.
The only player to not get a clean bill of health was sophomore defensive lineman Michael Bennett, who Meyer described as "a little banged up." Bennett will be available for Saturday, however, if needed.
Finally, Meyer said that Boren will not do double duty against the Badgers. Meyer had mentioned in previous weeks that Boren could see time back at fullback once Sabino returned. However, Meyer said that was "out the door for this game."
Boren's absence on offense does create a hole at tailback. With freshman Bri'onte Dunn out for the UW game because of a MCL sprain, Meyer said senior fullback Adam Homan would be the team's No. 3 tailback behind junior Carlos Hyde and sophomore Rod Smith.


China introduced some of its latest achievements in military intelligent technology by displaying advanced land, sea and air combat robots at an expo in Beijing on Monday, showing the Chinese arms industry’s fast development to meet the demands of future warfare, analysts said.
Which country has robotic army?
Russia Is Building an Army of Robot Weapons, and China’s AI Tech Is Helping. Russia is developing an array of autonomous weapons platforms utilizing artificial intelligence as part of an ambitious push supported by high-tech cooperation with neighboring China.
Is China making war robots?
China unveils new high tech military exoskeleton robots
China’s People’s Liberation Army have released footage of new high tech weapons and equipment. Most notable is a robot-esque exoskeleton suit that can be equipped to any soldier. The video was posted to the People’s Daily, China Twitter page.
Does China have autonomous weapons?
We found that the Chinese military is “intelligentizing” warfare by purchasing AI systems for all manner of applications, including autonomous vehicles, intelligence analysis, decision support, electronic warfare and cyber operations.
How many robots are there in China?
As of September 2020, there were 381,000 units of industrial robots globally. The coronavirus pandemic has been seen to spur industrial robots market. Based from the data, China accounts for the largest share at 140,500 units, followed by Japan at 49,900 units. The US is third with 33,300 installed units.
Does Russia have military robots?
The Russian army has dozens of types of land, air, surface and underwater combat robots in varying degrees of readiness. Many of them are already taking part in tests and drills.
Does Russia have a robot army?
Russia has employed unmanned ground vehicles in combat formations for the first time, a significant step in the country’s quest to develop an effective all-robot military unit, experts say.
How does Tesla use robots?
Tesla says it plans to build a humanoid robot to perform basic tasks, such as wrenching on cars or making grocery runs. … Tesla said the robot would be outfitted with a screen, Tesla’s Autopilot system consisting of eight cameras and the company’s Full Self-Driving computer.
Does America have autonomous weapons?
The U.S. Department of Defense describes an autonomous weapons system as a “weapons system that, once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human operator.” Few weapons in active service presently exhibit all of these characteristics.
Does China have lethal autonomous weapons?
China’s huge investment in lethal autonomous weapons predates other militaries, and its military theorists are ahead of the rest of the world in building futuristic “intelligentized” models of human-machine operations.
Is China Leading in AI?
Currently, China represents 28% of the world’s AI research production — just under 30,000 AI research papers. The U.S. pales in comparison with just over 18%. China is also leading the way in AI-based drug delivery efforts and military AI spending.
Which countries have lethal autonomous weapons?
Fully autonomous weapons, also known as “killer robots,” would be able to select and engage targets without meaningful human control. Precursors to these weapons, such as armed drones, are being developed and deployed by nations including China, Israel, South Korea, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Which country has the most robots?
Japan is the world´s predominant robot manufacturing country – where even robots assemble robots: 47% of the global robot production are made in Nippon. The electrical and electronics industry has a share of 34%, the automotive industry 32%, and the metal and machinery industry 13% of the operational stock.
How is China automated?
China has rapidly become a global leader in automation. From 2018 to 2020, a sales increase between 15 and 20 percent on average per year is possible for industrial robots.
How will Automation affect China?
McKinsey estimates that automation could push 375 million workers to switch occupations by 2030. For China, automation could displace up to a fifth of all manufacturing jobs, forcing nearly 100 million workers (12 percent of the total labor force) to find new work.


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As a small business owner, you can shop for group health insurance for your employees at any time of the year and browse a variety of insurers and coverages through eHealth. You'll need at least one employee to qualify for a small business plan and you'll contribute toward employee premiums. As of 2016, per the Affordable Care Act, businesses with 50 or more full-time employees must offer affordable health insurance or pay a tax penalty.
The Commonwealth Fund completed its thirteenth annual health policy survey in 2010. A study of the survey "found significant differences in access, cost burdens, and problems with health insurance that are associated with insurance design". Of the countries surveyed, the results indicated that people in the United States had more out-of-pocket expenses, more disputes with insurance companies than other countries, and more insurance payments denied; paperwork was also higher although Germany had similarly high levels of paperwork.
adj (comp -ier; super -iest) sano, saludable; [Note: sano and saludable are often used interchangeably, but sano usually applies to people and connotes sound or not ill, while saludable applies to people and also things which promote health, and is more positive. An overweight man who smokes and eats junk food could be sano, but few would call him saludable.]
Co payments were introduced in the 1980s in an attempt to prevent over utilization. The average length of hospital stay in Germany has decreased in recent years from 14 days to 9 days, still considerably longer than average stays in the United States (5 to 6 days). Part of the difference is that the chief consideration for hospital reimbursement is the number of hospital days as opposed to procedures or diagnosis. Drug costs have increased substantially, rising nearly 60% from 1991 through 2005. Despite attempts to contain costs, overall health care expenditures rose to 10.7% of GDP in 2005, comparable to other western European nations, but substantially less than that spent in the U.S. (nearly 16% of GDP).
Nearly one in three patients receiving NHS hospital treatment is privately insured and could have the cost paid for by their insurer. Some private schemes provide cash payments to patients who opt for NHS treatment, to deter use of private facilities. A report, by private health analysts Laing and Buisson, in November 2012, estimated that more than 250,000 operations were performed on patients with private medical insurance each year at a cost of £359 million. In addition, £609 million was spent on emergency medical or surgical treatment. Private medical insurance does not normally cover emergency treatment but subsequent recovery could be paid for if the patient were moved into a private patient unit.
What is added sugar, anyway? It refers to sugar that is not found naturally in food. Honey in your tea is added sugar. The sugar in a banana is not. Some foods like yogurts and fruit bars may have both natural and added sugars, and it’s usually unclear from labels what the ratios of each are. But the FDA’s new food labels—which must be adopted by Jan. 1, 2020—will require companies to spell out the amount of “added sugar,” making it much easier to track your sugar load.
Since the late 1970s, the federal Healthy People Initiative has been a visible component of the United States’ approach to improving population health. In each decade, a new version of Healthy People is issued, featuring updated goals and identifying topic areas and quantifiable objectives for health improvement during the succeeding ten years, with assessment at that point of progress or lack thereof. Progress has been limited to many objectives, leading to concerns about the effectiveness of Healthy People in shaping outcomes in the context of a decentralized and uncoordinated US health system. Healthy People 2020 gives more prominence to health promotion and preventive approaches and adds a substantive focus on the importance of addressing social determinants of health. A new expanded digital interface facilitates use and dissemination rather than bulky printed books as produced in the past. The impact of these changes to Healthy People will be determined in the coming years.

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A brave Galway woman who ignored minor symptoms for months before breast cancer diagnosis is urging everybody to get checked out and learn the warning signs.
Breast cancer survivors around Ireland are joining the 'Care for your Pair' movement to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month this October.
The Irish Cancer Society’s new early detection campaign aims to get the country talking about breast health and the signs and symptoms of breast cancer.
Grace Slattery was studying for her final exams when she noticed some stiffening in her breasts.
The studying advanced paramedic says she regrets ignoring the symptoms for a number of months which eventually led to her undergoing a double mastectomy and extensive treatment.
She said: "I do think if I had got myself checked at the start when I initially found the changes in my breast that I would have probably been able to avoid all of that hassle.
"I’ve been incredibly lucky since then, but everyone thinks it won’t happen to them and I was definitely one of those. Checking your breasts is so important, and to know your body and know what’s usual for you."
More than 3,600 women and around 40 men are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in Ireland. It is more common in women over 50, but it is important to breast aware at every age.
Aileen McHale, Cancer Information Services Manager at the Irish Cancer Society added: "It is crucial that all women are breast aware at every stage of life. We are delighted to launch this year’s breast cancer awareness campaign, ‘Care for your Pair’, encouraging the women of Ireland to check themselves and talk to two friends about breast health.
"If you notice anything unusual, such as changes in breast/armpit shape or texture, unexplained fatigue or unexplained weight loss please visit your GP without delay."
Centra will also be highlighting the ‘Care for your Pair’ message and encouraging customers to make a €1 till donation in store from 1st to 3rd October in selected Centra stores nationwide.
To learn more about ‘Care for your Pair’, the signs of breast cancer and how to check yourself, visit here.