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The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund
The application for The Straits Times School Pocket Money Fund (STSPMF) is now open for Sec 1 students from low-income families who are newly enrolled in Deyi Secondary School this year. The closing date for students to submit their application to the General Office will be Monday, 18 February 2019.
Students have to meet the following criteria:
a. Student is a Singapore Citizen (SC) or Singapore Permanent Resident (SPR); and
b. Family is living in a 4-room HDB flat or smaller; and
c. Family has a Gross per capita income (PCI) of $625/ month or less; and
d. Student is receiving full-time formal education at a mainstream primary/secondary school/Junior College/ Centralised Institute/ Mixed Level/ specialised school/independent school/specialised independent school/ MOE-designated full-time Madrasahs; and
e. Is not concurrently receiving school pocket money or other similar monthly school pocket money schemes, excluding MOE FAS; and
f. Is currently *NOT receiving STSPMF and has not been a STSPMF beneficiary for 24 months for the whole schooling years of primary and secondary school and 48 months for post-secondary school.
[Note: *This does not refer to students who are currently receiving the fund through the school and wish to continue receiving the fund, subject to their eligibility].
Students from low-income families, including MOE FAS students, who are successful in their applications will receive the monthly school pocket money of $95. Successful applicants will be notified through the school by end Apr 2019.
STSPMF Application Form
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Our Western democracies are in crises: Voter turnout has declined in almost all European states over the last 30 years, while mistrust in politicians and political institutions has sharply increased. Right-wing populist and anti-democratic forces are part of an increasing number of European governments and are receiving all-time high election results in many other states. Notwithstanding national differences and other explanatory factors, these different developments may be subsumed under the phenomenon of political disaffection.
In the project Countering Populism and Political Disaffection we want to assemble and discuss mid-term to long-term strategies against right-wing populism, which take into account the underlying phenomenon of political disaffection in different European contexts. The overarching aim is to provide fresh ideas and stimuli for political decision-makers. To achieve this, we organise three international roundtables with distinguished experts in the field as well as German and European key stakeholders. In addition, key findings will be published online on the dialogue-platform www.countering-populism.eu (to be launched in January 2017) and in print. In cooperation with the German Federal Ministry for Families, Senior Citizens, Women, and Youth as part of the federal programme Demokratie leben!
Against the grave background of the populist surge and rising disenchantment with democratic politics, Das Progressive Zentrum launched the project Countering Populism and Political Disaffection. The first roundtable (of a total of three) took place on Wednesday, December 7, 2016.
Die jüngsten Wahlergebnisse in Frankreich und Polen zeigen auf dramatische Weise: Rechtspopulismus in Europa ist eine schwerwiegende und zunehmend akute Herausforderung, der wir uns gemeinsam und entschlossen stellen müssen. Deshalb veranstaltete das Progressive Zentrum in Kooperation mit dem Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ) am 16. Dezember 2015 einen internationalen Roundtable unter dem Titel „Right-wing Populism and Political Disaffection in Europe”.


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Each week during the growing season, we stock our on-site farm stand with produce harvested fresh from our fields. We ensure a weekly selection that highlights peak seasonal crops. Purchasing from our farm stand is a great way to support BCCF and enjoy delicious Toronto grown produce.

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Monsanto Company has announced that six new recipients will be awarded research grants as part of the Corn Rootworm Knowledge Research Program. The program, which started in early 2013 and recently was extended to 2016, provides merit-based awards of up to $250,000 per award per year for up to three years for outstanding research projects that address specific aspects of corn rootworm biology, genomics and management issues.
“The program is extremely beneficial to the research and academic community as its goal is not to examine product-specific issues, but rather look at the broader challenges farmers face when dealing with corn rootworm,” said Dr. Spencer, entomologist with the Illinois Natural History Survey, who received one of this year’s grants. “I’m honored to receive this grant, which will help further my research into the behavioral, physiological and ecological factors that contribute to the western corn rootworm’s adaptations to a variety of pest management strategies.”
The CRW Knowledge Research Program is guided by a 10-person Advisory Committee that is co-chaired by Dr. Steve Pueppke, Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies and AgBioResearch Director at Michigan State University, and Dr. Dusty Post, Monsanto’s global insect management lead. Additional committee members include experts from academia and agricultural organizations, and were selected based on their expertise in corn rootworm biology and insect management practices.
“The valuable research that is being generated through this program is continuing to improve our understanding of this challenging pest and provide economical, practical and sustainable solutions for farmers,” said Post.
The six awards granted focus on a number of items from evaluating how best to manage corn rootworm under current production practices to evaluating strategies to delay the onset of resistance evolution. The award recipients are:
Joseph Spencer, University of Illinois
Nicholas Miller, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Paul Mitchell, University of Wisconsin
Blair Siegfried, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Douglas Golick, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Mike Caprio, Mississippi State University
Christian Krupke, Purdue University
Computerized sensors, automatic sprayers, and even one day, driverless, GPS-guided tractors might seem pretty realistic in the world of precision agriculture. But a researcher in Texas is looking to take the technology to the next level. In this article from Texas A&M, Dr. Alex Thomasson, an agricultural engineer for the school, says he wants to develop sensors and computer hardware and software that can evaluate the status of individual plants in real time, as the tractor moves across a field automatically.
Thomasson is currently working on a system that will be able to aid plant breeders in sorting through the thousands or even tens of thousands of plants for the development of new varieties.
[One of Thomasson's partners in the venture, Dr. Bill Rooney] and other breeders have been working on new varieties for years. Whether produced by conventional plant crosses or genetic manipulation, the first selections of any breeding program rely a great deal upon observable characteristics of individual plants – what’s called “phenotyping.”
“A major limitation in the genetic improvement of energy crops is the collection of large, good quality phenotypic data,” Thomasson said. “Traditional plant phenotypic measurements rely on humans, and are slow, expensive and subjective.”
Eventually the group wants to develop sorghum for energy production that has good yields, tolerates drought, and uses nitrogen efficiently. To get there, they are developing a variety of sensors to include:
Down-looking six-band, multi-spectral camera.
Down-looking thermal imaging camera.
A newly released study on precision agriculture by Lux Research shows how cost-effective these new technologies are. Here’s some information from their release.
Precision agriculture is a quantified approach to cultivation that employs sensing, input modulation, and data analytics to enhance the efficiency of agriculture and increased crop yields. While individual tools are not typically cost-effective, and often not relevant for small farms, combining these technologies into integrated solutions for large farms leads to gains – cost savings plus revenue increases – of up to $66.50 per acre for U.S. winter wheat, according to Lux Research.
In the Lux Research study, the best-case scenario assumed wireless-transmitting soil moisture sensors, combined with weather forecasting service and integrated decision support on farms of 5,000 acres. While savings from input costs averaged $24.5 per acre, output gains were $42.0 per acre.
“The key to effective precision agriculture is legitimate decision support, closing the loop from measurements, through recording and analysis, to seamlessly link on-farm conditions with actionable advice,” said Sara Olson, Lux Research Analyst and the lead author of the report titled, “Every Input Is an Opportunity: How Precision Agriculture Is Redefining the Business of Cultivation.”
For the first time in history – income will have a greater influence on food security than population. During the Taming Agricultural Risks meeting at the Chicago Federal Reserve, Purdue Extension agricultural economist Dr. Mike Boehlje said growth in terms of incomes is critical to the long-term growth of agriculture.
In this Precision Pays Podcast, sponsored by Ag Leader Technology, we’ll take a look at why income growth is important to agriculture, and ultimately the technology that’s used to make farmer produce more efficiently.
Precision Pays Podcast
The Precision Pays Podcast is sponsored by Ag Leader Technology.
AgGateway announced the publication of the Ag eStandards Release 5.3. The release includes new messages to support fertilizer tonnage reporting, feed tonnage reporting and seed booking processes. The new messages will enable eConnectivity among agribusiness companies, increasing accuracy and efficiency in their businesses.
“This is one of the biggest standard releases in years for agribusiness,” said AgGateway Standards Director Jim Wilson. “The breadth of input across the agriculture industry for this release is unprecedented – It required extensive work and collaboration from AgGateway member companies.”
Wilson cited in particular the work of the AgGateway Seed Council, Crop Nutrition Council, Standards & Guidelines Committee and the Open Applications Group (OAGi).
“This release represents significant progress toward achieving AgGateway’s mission to promote, enable and expand eBusiness in agriculture,” he added. “From standardizing and automating previously state-specific and manual fertilizer reporting, to streamlining increasingly complex seed purchase planning, licensing and logistics – this release offers a lot.”
Miniature wireless sensors attached to bumblebees could soon give researchers real-time data on their pollination patterns. This story from Oregon State University says researchers at the school are planning to build sensors that will track how the bees pollinate fruits and vegetables, including blueberries, cranberries, strawberries, tomatoes and dozens of other staples.
Given recent losses of European honeybees to diseases, mites and colony collapse disorder, bumblebees are becoming increasingly important as agricultural pollinators, said Sujaya Rao, an entomologist in OSU’s College of Agricultural Sciences.
“Lack of pollination is a risk to human food production,” said Rao, an expert on native bees. “With our sensors, we are searching for answers to basic questions, such as: Do all members of one colony go to pollinate the same field together? Do bumblebees communicate in the colony where food is located? Are bumblebees loyal as a group?”
“The more we can learn about bumblebees’ customs of foraging, pollination and communication,” she added, “the better we can promote horticultural habitats that are friendly to bees in agricultural settings.”
The article goes on to point out that flowers and hedgerows near crops can promote the presence and population of bumblebees and help increase yields.
The researchers are also hoping they can one day track other small species, such as invasive pests.
Apps on our smartphones and tablets make our lives much simpler. Brian Arnall is the precision nutrient management extension specialist for Oklahoma State. Earlier this month he presented at the 2013 InfoAg Conference on precision agriculture. Arnall’s presentation focused on agricultural applications.
In this Precision Pays Podcast we’ll find out what makes an agricultural app great.
Precision Pays Podcast
The Precision Pays Podcast is sponsored by Ag Leader Technology.
Recent research is definitive: As much as 60 percent of yield depends on soil fertility. Unfortunately, the science behind this imperative aspect of farming isn’t always so clear, confusing even the most veteran agriculture professionals. A new initiative from The Mosaic Company aims to better explain the various scientific aspects vital to achieving maximum yield.
Mosaic’s CropNutrition initiative is an integrated campaign designed to inform growers and retailers about key issues and trends affecting soil fertility. By using various vehicles to spread this message, Mosaic hopes to spread awareness of the fact that, for many farmers, the key to higher yield is right under their feet.
At the center of this program is CropNutrition.com, an educational digital hub that serves as a one-stop soil fertility resource for ag retailers, growers and industry experts looking to better understand the yield-sensitive scientific aspects of soil.
CropNutrition.com combines the best research and soil fertility resources from The Mosaic Company’s previous crop nutrition resource (Back-to-Basics.net) with new information from Mosaic’s global network of research partners. Additionally, research findings and insights from The Mosaic Company’s top agronomists provide timely, useful information on soil fertility.
Custom research methods developed by DuPont Pioneer corn researchers to breed Optimum AQUAmax products are being used to target other yield-robbing, environmental and disease stresses. During the testing of Optimum AQUAmax products — which are helping farmers grow corn in stressful, water-limited environments — a research program, called managed stress environment testing, was developed.
Managed stress environment testing is not a standard operating procedure; in fact, it is unique to Pioneer for evaluating new products for specific corn stresses. Currently, Pioneer researchers use managed stress environment testing to evaluate corn responses to abiotic stresses associated with limited nitrogen availability, to important corn diseases and to plant damage from strong windstorms. Traditionally, corn breeders relied on diverse environments in widely scattered research locations to get close to a real-world evaluation of overall hybrid performance.
In developing the research tactics for managed stress environment testing a cadre of methodologies — under the umbrella of the Accelerated Yield Technology (AYT) system — plays a central role. Acting as a filter to sort out specific environmental screens for disease, genetics, fertility and drought, the AYT system is used to test all phases of corn product development. Testing methods incorporate genetic mapping, marker assisted selection, whole genome modeling and precision phenotyping, among others.
The 2013 World Food Prize will honor three distinguished scientists – Marc Van Montagu of Belgium, and Mary-Dell Chilton and Robert T. Fraley of the United States.
Building upon the scientific discovery of the Double Helix structure of DNA in the 1950s, Van Montagu, Chilton, and Fraley each conducted groundbreaking molecular research on how a plant bacterium could be adapted as a tool to insert genes from another organism into plant cells, which could produce new genetic lines with highly favorable traits.
The revolutionary biotechnology discoveries of these three individuals – each working in separate facilities on two continents – unlocked the key to plant cell transformation using recombinant DNA. Their work led to the development of a host of genetically enhanced crops, which, by 2012, were grown on more than 170 million hectares around the globe by 17.3 million farmers, over 90 percent of whom were small resource-poor farmers in developing countries.
From their work in the laboratory to applying biotechnology innovations in farmers’ fields, the combined achievements of the 2013 World Food Prize Laureates have contributed significantly to increasing the quantity and availability of food.
The 2012 corn crop delivered many of the problems that were foreseen throughout last year’s growing season. Decreased yields, variable quality and mycotoxins have affected livestock production throughout North America. However, this crop may still be causing trouble as we dig deeper into the storage bins.
Alltech’s 37+ Program surveyed 329 samples from July 1 through Dec. 31, 2012. Only one percent of the samples analyzed were free of mycotoxin contamination; 94 percent were contaminated with two to 10 mycotoxins. In corn grain samples, 95 percent contained Fumonisin and 48 percent contained DON. In corn silage, 90 percent contained Fumonisin and 84 percent contained DON. The DDG samples contained 100 percent of both Fumonisin and DON. In all samples tested, aflatoxin was present in 18 percent.
At harvest time, it was recommended for mycotoxin contaminated grain to be dried to 14 percent moisture within 24 to 48 hours to stabilize mold growth and ensure adequate grain storage. By limiting mold growth, mycotoxin production can be stabilized, but any mycotoxins already present would remain.
Balchem Corporation (NASDAQ: BCPC), the global leader in choline chloride and precision release nutrient technologies, announced the creation of a new grant-based research program, the Real Science Initiative. The program will offer funding to university and related research institutes to support new research projects in animal nutrition, performance and health. Grant pre-proposals must be submitted by August 1, 2013. Complete details about the program are available at www.balchemresearch.com.
Balchem’s focus on research is well known in the animal agriculture industry, with a long history of directing and supporting both university and on-farm research initiatives. Founded on the principal of “Real Science,” Balchem is concentrating on the areas of feeding efficiency and animal health to improve overall animal performance, productivity and health.
Potential areas of research may include:
- Developing new applications of existing precision release nutrient technologies (e.g., nutrient encapsulation).
- Developing new technologies for increasing the efficacy of nutrient utilization.
- Product applications that enhance newborn, growing or mature animal immune responsiveness and productivity through improvements in enteric health.
- Increasing the understanding of choline metabolism, including interactions between choline and other nutrients involved in one-carbon metabolism and the application of this understanding.
The plant hormones called auxins are well-known for stimulating development of roots and other structures, and now University of Florida scientists have shown that auxins help plants cope with environmental stresses.
“Our findings show there’s a possibility of manipulating plant stress tolerance with auxins,” Rathinasabapathi said. “It may be possible to administer auxins to crops at critical stages of growth or possibly engineer new varieties that respond to auxins more efficiently.”
The study compared wild-type Arabidopsis thaliana plants with mutant specimens that weren’t able to transport auxins through their tissues effectively. When subjected to oxidative stress, salt and high temperatures, the wild-type plants fared better than the mutants.
Next, the team will investigate whether auxins could improve stress tolerance in rice plants. Rice is one of the world’s most widely consumed staple crops and is subject to heat and drought damage.
Farmers are accustomed to adjusting to the twists and turns of growing seasons on a short-term basis, but long-term planning is more difficult, according to climate field specialist Laura Edwards from South Dakota State University’s Extension office in Aberdeen.
The Climate and Corn-based Cropping Systems Coordinated Agricultural Project explores ways that corn growers can adjust their cropping practices to make their operations more sustainable. It is also aimed at limiting or reducing the vulnerability of farmers to short term climate events, such as the 2012 drought. The $20 million grant, headed by Iowa State University, brings together 140 experts from 10 land-grant institutions and a USDA research unit in the Corn Belt.
A smaller more applied project, Useful2Usable, seeks to give farmers the soil, crop and climate data they need to make shorter-term and long-range decisions. The $5 million project is headed by Purdue University.
Growers across the Corn Belt are either anxiously waiting to get into their fields or are in the early stages of planting their 2013 corn crop. If cool, wet weather continues, planting will be delayed for many growers and prompt questions about switching to earlier season hybrids.
Long-term research studies from DuPont Pioneer and several universities show that adapted, full-season corn hybrids usually offer the best yield and profit advantage when planting delays are not extreme.
Full-season hybrids typically make full use of a growing season. Even when planted late, these hybrids often outperform early maturing hybrids, adjusting their growth and development to reach maturity in a shortened growing season.
Long-term studies by both Pioneer and universities which included a range of hybrid maturities across planting dates extending from April through June have shown a clear yield and profit advantage for full-season hybrids.

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GENEVA, May 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and the leading supplier of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) for consumer and portable applications,(1) today announced a complete hardware solution for advanced sensing applications with 10 degrees of freedom (DoF)(2).
Platform Integrates MotionFusion Engine with Compass Libraries from AKM and Aichi Steel to Provide Industryâ€™s Most Robust Solution for Sensor Calibration and 9-axis Sensor Fusion Sunnyvale, Calif.
GENEVA, March 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications and the number one supplier of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) sensors for consumer and portable applications(1), today unveiled first details of its new iNEMO(TM) Engine.
InvenSense Demonstrates MotionProcessing using 9-Axis and 10-Axis Sensor Fusion for unique single handed Gesture Recognition, more immersive Gaming, and advanced Optical Image Stabilization for Handsets and Tablets Sunnyvale, CA (PRWEB) January 26, 2011 InvenSense, Inc., the leading solution provider of MotionProcessorâ„¢ technology for consumer electronics, is showcasing the MPU-6000â„¢, the worldâ€™s first and only 6-axis integrated MotionProcessor (gyroscope +...
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InvenSense Announces That LG Electronics Selects IXZ-500 Dual-Axis Gyroscope MotionProcessingâ„¢ Solution for INFINIAâ„¢ Line of 3D LED LCD HDTVs LGâ€™s Magic Motionâ„¢ Remote Control Incorporates Motion Processing for Adding Gesture-Based Interactive TV Navigation Sunnyvale, Calif.
GENEVA, Nov. 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM), the leading supplier of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) devices for consumer and portable applications(1), today announced it has shipped its one billionth MEMS sensor.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Goodrich Corporation (NYSE: GR) gyroscopes have successfully passed inorbit testing on the European Space Agency's (ESA) Earth Explorer CryoSat-2 satellite during a mission to detect shifts in global ice cover.
OTTAWA, Ontario, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM TechInsights has confirmed, using advanced 3D x-ray microtomography signal tracing, that the initial board layout of the Apple iPad was designed for a 3-axis digital gyroscope and that it was likely a different one than used in the iPhone 4.
After running a series of complex computer simulations, researchers have found that flaws in the structure of magnetic nanoscale wires play an important role in determining the operating speed of novel devices using such nanowires to store and process information.
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One letter from Lou Etta Haskett of San Marino, California, to her friend Lizzie (Mrs. John McMurry) of Seymour, Iowa, with news of a potential real estate deal and various friends.
A letter from M. K. Hatjidimitriou to John Marmarinos of Monticello, New York about collecting stamps and envelopes while in Cyprus.
The collection contains two letters from Hattie R. in Illinois, to her friend Georgia giving news of daily life, recipes, and teaching.
Letter written by Thomas Haughey of Alabama, dated December 28, 1868 and written from Washington, DC, to Ben Perley Poone providing a short biographical sketch. Mentions having to live in the north during the Civil War due to his anti-secessionist ideals.
The collection contains business letters written to Augustus Haven of Tyson Furnace, Vermont.
Diaries, letters, and other papers related to Havens's service in the European Theater of Operations, 1944-1945.
Paper entitled "Then Came the Women: The University in the Nineties," written by Bessie Leach Hayden, Dean of Women, about the first sixty years of coeducation at the University of Alabama.
Letter from William C. Hayne of Charleston, South Carolina, to Lewis Bristol of New Haven, Connecticut, discussing immigrating to Alabama.
A letter from Samuel J. Hays of Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee, to Andrew Jackson, announcing his embrace of Christianity, November 16, 1842.
Letter and photograph, from Hayslette in Conde, France, to "My Dear Mother," thanking her for a Christmas parcel and expressing longings for home.
Joyce Hayward writes from Australia to Mrs. Fitzsimons of La Grange, Illinois about her factory job supporting World War II.
A postcard from Jennie Hazelton in Morrison, Illinois, to E. Elizabeth Bush in Sterling, Illinois. Hazelton discussed a cookbook.
This collection contains one handwritten letter to E. P. Haybeard of Providence, Rhode Island, from his cousin, M. H. Hazeltrine of Louisville, Kentucky. Haybeard offers condolence in the death of Hazeltrine's sister, and he mentions going east to visit friends and his sister.
Papers of a World War II German POW held in Ottawa, Canada.
Contains scrapbook kept by Jesse C. Hearne Jr., highlighting events of the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. groups on the University of Alabama campus in 1936. It is primarily newspaper clippings, but there are 13 photographs.
A ledger contains daily entries for purchases from this Carlowville and Richmond, Dallas County, Alabama general store owned by Joseph Zeb Hearst.
Typescript transcriptions of twenty-one letters written by Confederate soldier Joseph Zebulon Hearst between May 1862 and December 1864.
Letters written by Dr. Townsend Heaton, a member of the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War
Letters from seven former students while prisoners of war in northern prison camps, requesting food, clothing, books, tobacco, and money.
A letter from Della Hedrick of May City, Iowa, to her cousin about life at home.

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A cat's neck is significantly smaller in diameter than their head. This difference in size allows them to turn their head quickly and precisely, which helps them when they're hunting. Their neck is also very flexible, which means they can contort their body into small spaces.
How big is a cat's neck in comparison to its body?
A cat's neck is, on average, about one-tenth the length of its body. For example, a typical house cat might have a body length of 16 inches (40 cm) and a neck length of 1.6 inches (4 cm). While there is some variation among individual cats, overall, the neck length of a cat is generally proportional to its body length.
The neck of a cat is relatively long and slender in comparison to the rest of its body. This is likely due to the fact that cats are obligate carnivores and need to be able to consume large prey items. A long and slender neck also helps a cat to be more agile, allowing it to twist and turn quickly to catch its prey.
While the neck length of a cat is generally proportional to its body length, there is some variation among individual cats. For example, Siamese cats tend to have longer necks in proportion to their body length than other cat breeds. This is likely due to the fact that Siamese cats were originally bred in Thailand for their unique appearance, which includes a long, slender neck.
How does the size of a cat's neck affect its ability to move?
Cats are lithe and agile creatures, able to contort their bodies into all sorts of positions. They can twist and turn their necks in seemingly impossible ways. So how does the size of a cat's neck affect its ability to move?
The size of a cat's neck definitely affects its ability to move. A smaller neck gives the cat greater range of motion, allowing it to twist and turn its head in ways that a cat with a larger neck cannot. A larger neck gives the cat greater strength and stability, allowing it to hold its head up and walk with more confidence.
So, yes, the size of a cat's neck definitely affects its ability to move. But that doesn't mean that one size is better than the other. It all depends on what the cat needs to do. If it needs to contort its body into tight spaces, a smaller neck is an advantage. If it needs to walk with confidence and hold its head up high, a larger neck is an advantage. Ultimately, it all comes down to what works best for the individual cat.
How does the size of a cat's neck affect its ability to eat?
There are several reasons why the size of a cat's neck might affect its ability to eat. For one thing, a smaller neck typically means a smaller jaw, and therefore less chewing power. In addition, a smaller neck might mean that the cat has to hold its head at a more awkward angle in order to reach its food, which could make it more difficult to eat. Finally, a smaller neck might mean that the cat's esophagus is smaller, which could make it more difficult for the cat to swallow its food.
How does the size of a cat's neck affect its ability to groom?
Cats are obligate carnivores, which means that their diet must consist of primarily animal-based proteins. In the wild, cats typically eat small prey, which they eat whole, including the fur and feathers. Because of their diet and their hunting style, cats have evolved to have certain physical adaptations that help them survive. One of these adaptations is their long and flexible neck, which allows them to twist and turn to catch their prey.
While the long neck of a cat certainly has its benefits, it also affects the cat's ability to groom. When cats groom themselves, they use their tongue and teeth to remove dirt, debris, and parasites from their fur. They also use their claws to help loosen knots and mats. Because of the length and flexibility of their neck, cats are able to reach all parts of their body to groom properly.
However, the long neck of a cat can also make it difficult for the cat to reach certain areas. For example, cats often have a hard time grooming their belly and their back legs. This can lead to dirt and debris build-up in these areas, which can lead to skin irritation and infection. In addition, the long neck can also make it difficult for a cat to properly clean its ears. Ear infections are relatively common in cats, and they can be painful and dangerous.
Overall, the long neck of a cat is both a benefit and a detriment. It helps the cat to catch its prey and to groom properly, but it can also make it difficult for the cat to reach certain areas of its body.
How does the size of a cat's neck affect its ability to mate?
The answer to this question is not as straightforward as one might think. First, let's consider the size of a cat's neck in relation to its body. A cat's neck is relatively long and thin in comparison to the rest of its body. This gives them the ability to turn their head quickly and easily, which is important for hunting. However, it also makes them more susceptible to injury. A neck injury can be fatal for a cat, so they must be careful when mating.
The next factor to consider is the size of the cat's mate. If the cat's mate is significantly larger than the cat, then the cat may have difficulty reaching the mate's neck during mating. This could lead to the cat being injured or even killed. Therefore, it is important for cats to choose mates that are similar in size to them.
Finally, we must consider the physiology of cats. Cats are able to mate without using their necks at all. They are able to do this because they have a special bone in their pelvis that helps support their mate's weight. This bone is called the baculum, and it is absent in most other mammals.
In conclusion, the size of a cat's neck does not have a significant effect on its ability to mate. Cats are able to mate safely and effectively regardless of the size of their neck.
How does the size of a cat's neck affect its ability to fight?
There are a few different things to consider when discussing how the size of a cat's neck might affect its ability to fight. One is the cat's overall body size and weight, as a larger cat will have more mass and thus more power behind its strikes. Additionally, the neck itself is made up of different muscle groups that can affect the cat's strength and flexibility. For example, the long neck muscles that allow a cat to extend and retract its head are not the same muscles that are used for biting and holding onto prey. Finally, the size of a cat's neck can also affect its stamina and ability to breathe during a fight, as a larger neck might make it more difficult to get enough oxygen to the lungs. All of these factors must be considered when thinking about how the size of a cat's neck might affect its ability to fight.
In general, a larger cat is going to be more powerful than a smaller cat, and thus will be more likely to win a fight. This is due to the fact that a larger cat has more mass, and thus more force behind its strikes. Additionally, a larger cat's neck muscles will be better able to withstand the strain of a fight, and its larger lungs will be able to take in more oxygen, giving it better stamina. However, it is worth noting that a large cat is not necessarily going to be better at fighting than a smaller cat, as there are many other factors that come into play, such as experience, speed, and agility.
When it comes to the actual fighting, the size of a cat's neck can have a few different effects. First, a larger neck might make it more difficult for the cat to breathe, which could lead to fatigue and ultimately loss of the fight. Additionally, a larger neck might make it more difficult for the cat to land a powerful bite, as the muscles needed for biting are different from those used for holding onto prey. Finally, a larger neck might make the cat more vulnerable to being grabbed and held by its opponent, as there is more area for the opponent to get a good grip.
In general, the size of a cat's neck is going to have a few different effects on its ability to fight. A larger cat is going to be more powerful, but also more vulnerable to being grabbed and held. Additionally, the size of a cat's neck can affect its ability to breathe and bite, which could ultimately lead to fatigue and loss of
How does the size of a cat's neck affect its ability to run?
There are a number of factors that affect a cat's ability to run. One of these factors is the size of the cat's neck. A cat's neck is comprised of vertebrae, which are connected by joints and muscles. The number of vertebrae in a cat's neck can vary, but typically ranges from seven to thirteen. The size of the cat's neck also affects the length of its stride. A cat with a longer neck will have a longer stride than a cat with a shorter neck.
The size of a cat's neck also affects the cat's center of gravity. A cat with a longer neck will have a higher center of gravity than a cat with a shorter neck. This can affect the cat's ability to run and make turns. A cat with a higher center of gravity is more likely to fall when running and making turns.
The size of a cat's neck can also affect the cat's breathing. A cat with a shorter neck is more likely to have its airway obstructed when running and can have difficulty breathing. A cat with a longer neck is less likely to have its airway obstructed and can take in more air with each breath.
In conclusion, the size of a cat's neck can affect the cat's ability to run in a number of ways. A cat with a longer neck will have a longer stride and a higher center of gravity, which can make running and turns more difficult. A cat with a shorter neck is more likely to have its airway obstructed when running, making breathing more difficult.
How does the size of a cat's neck affect its ability to jump?
The size of a cat's neck has a direct impact on its ability to jump. A cat's neck is made up of many bones, including the vertebrae, which are connected by muscles and ligaments. The vertebrae in a cat's neck are relatively long and slender, which allows for greater flexibility and range of motion than in other animals. This flexibility is necessary for a cat to be able to move its head in all directions and to twist and turn its body while jumping.
The size of a cat's neck also affects its ability to balance. A cat's center of gravity is located in its head, and its long neck gives it greater stability while jumping. However, a cat's neck is also relatively fragile, and if it is not properly supported, it can be easily injured.
Finally, the size of a cat's neck affects its ability to land safely after a jump. A cat's long neck acts like a shock absorber, cushioning the impact of the landing and helping to prevent injury.
In summary, the size of a cat's neck is a key factor in its ability to jump safely and effectively. A cat's neck is both flexible and strong, and its length helps to stabilize the cat while jumping. However, a cat's neck is also fragile, and if it is not properly supported, it can be easily injured.
How does the size of a cat's neck affect its ability to climb?
The size of a cat's neck does affect its ability to climb, although there are other factors that play a role as well. A cat's neck is relatively long and thin in comparison to the rest of its body, and this gives it some advantage in terms of being able to maneuver around tight spaces. However, a cat's neck is also relatively weak and can be easily injured. This is why you will often see cats with scars on their necks - they are more susceptible to injury when climbing.
In addition to the size of its neck, a cat's ability to climb is also affected by its claws. Cats have sharp claws that help them grip onto surfaces, and this is crucial for their ability to climb. If a cat's claws are not properly groomed, they can become dull and less effective at gripping. This can make it more difficult for a cat to climb, and it may be less likely to attempt to climb in the first place.
The size of a cat's neck definitely affects its ability to climb, but it is not the only factor. A cat's claws and overall body shape also play a role in its ability to maneuver around tight spaces and grip onto surfaces.
Frequently Asked Questions
How big should a cat tag be?
Most cat tags should be no more than one inch in diameter.
How heavy is a cat collar?
A cat collar should weigh no more than 2% of a cat's body mass, according to a 2014 study in the journal Wildlife Research.
How tight should a cats collar be?
A properly fitted collar will be tight enough to keep your cat safe but not so tight that it harms their neck. Most cats prefer a collar that is snug but not uncomfortable.
How big should kitten tags be?
Kitten tags should be about 1 inch by 1 inch. You can make them yourself, or buy them from a pet store.
What should be on a cat ID tag?
The owner's name, address and telephone numbers are usually all that is needed on a cat ID tag. However, if the cat has had surgery at an accredited veterinary hospital, their rabies vaccination number should also be included.

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Over 200 stunning original photographs of Ireland, North and South, featuring its historic places, monuments, breathtaking scenery, the people, fairs and festivals. Each photograph is accompanied by fact-filled, informative text on the history, legend, lives and customs covered by the pictures.
With QR codes throughout providing links to a wide range of internet content, from videos and facebook groups to photographs and travel sites.
The book takes you on a county by county tour of Ireland, visiting all the major tourist attractions: The Rock of Cashel, The Cliffs of Moher, The Giant's Causeway, Trinity College, Bunratty Castle, as well as illustrating unique features for which the Irish landscape is famous, such as thatched cottages, stone walls and round towers.
The perfect accompaniment to a visit to Ireland and the ideal souvenir to take home.
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The Geneva Bible, which dates back to 1615, sold for almost twice the estimate.
The Foreign Secretary met with political parties and businesses in Northern Ireland on Wednesday.
Northern Ireland’s political leaders have been reacting to the news that the former chancellor is to be the next PM.
The move comes amid an ongoing impasse between Stormont politicians on the issue.
Chris Heaton-Harris said politicians in Northern Ireland have choices they can make to stop an election being called.
Mary-Lou McDonald said if devolution collapses it will be replaced by a joint arrangement between the Irish and the British state.


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SURF Communication Solutions, an industry leader in multimedia processing, announced today that Devoteam Teligent, an international technology consulting firm, has selected SURF’s open media processing platform as its development infrastructure for the delivery of value added services to a major Russian mobile operators.
As the demand for video-centric value added services continues to expand, carriers are faced with a number of crucial challenges – to provide the subscribers with a consistently high quality of experience, introduce innovative services, increase the size of the subscriber base, and as a direct result, enhance revenues.
SURF Communications, with its vast experience in video processing, provides all the tools necessary for the successful development and delivery of new multimedia services. Leveraging the SURFExpress high performance hardware platform, and the SURFWare open media processing software kit, enables Devoteam Teligent to quickly develop, integrate, and introduce a cost-effective video conferencing service.
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SURF Communication Solutions (SURF) is an industry leader in high-capacity processing solutions for real-time multimedia communication systems and applications. Since 1996, SURF’s products have delivered the integral technology behind many of the leading vendor’s multimedia servers and gateways and have been deployed to operators and service providers worldwide. SURF-powered multimedia applications are delivering next-gen services to millions of end-users every day. SURF offers a fully converged multimedia processing subsystem available in various form factors, DSP chips or end-to-end solution affording unmatched density and optimal performance.
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WordPress gained it’s popularity thanks to the wide variety of plugins available. A plugin is like an app on our phone, it brings us new features and functionalities on a WordPress site. It’s easy to install and use and doesn’t require programming skills.
What Can WordPress Plugins Do?
In the WordPress community, there is a saying that goes around: “There’s a plugin for that”. With more than 52,000 free plugins available to install through WordPress admin panel, there is a plugin for almost any kind of website, not just blogs.
There are WordPress plugins to make:
- Forum using the bbPress
- Online store using the WooCommerce
- Job board using the Job Manager
- Wiki website using the Knowledgebase plugin
- Photography website using Envira Gallery Plugin
- … and many more
If the feature you are looking for isn’t available in WordPress by default, there is a plugin for that. Plugins can also be just a little feature like a social media buttons. There are great plugins that help us improve SEO, boost performance, create contact forms, photo galleries and much more.
How to install WordPress plugins?
Plugins are installed from administration menu in your WordPress site. But these are not all plugins you can get, you can make one yourself or buy a premium plugin which can be purchased from internet markets. You can upload these plugins in a .zip package through option “Upload plugin”. WordPress plugins installed on your site are registered in your WordPress database. You can activate and deactivate them at any time you want. There are many myths that plugins are bad for website performance or how many plugins can you have installed. It’s not the number of plugins that is a problem; only poorly coded plugins are the problem.
Our recommended plugins
These are the plugins we use on our website or clients’, and recommend them to you.
It is one of the most downloaded WordPress plugins of all times and we use this plugin for improving search engine optimization in every website we make. It automatically adds all the important metadata and helps you with content and meta-analyzing. It also adds Open Graph meta data, social sharing information, sitemaps and ping search engines whenever you update your site.
WP Fastest Cache
Caching improves site loading time by making static html files from WordPress PHP files. This greatly speeds up loading time as a server doesn’t need to generate it on the fly. There are many great plugins for caching, but if you want the easiest to use and with great results, we recommend Wp Fastest Cache.
Images are the great assets for your page which easily grab users’ attention. But images can take a lot of space, and slow downloading time. Wp Smush helps us optimize images bay by compressing images without reducing their quality. It automatically compresses images when uploading, and can also bulk compress old images.
Disqus Comment System
By replacing default comment system with Disqus, you’ll be able to engage directly with the audience to build loyalty and retain readers. It’s the most popular WordPress comment system, and it’s also the one we use on this very site.
Great plugin for making your site multi-language. It offers an easy to use interface for managing translations. It also adds language switching options for your users. We use it on all our multi-language sites. It’s a premium plugin, but worth the money.
Simple to use slider but with great features, great for creating big header sliders, mobile and SEO friendly. Another premium plugin you can see on soo many WordPress sites, also often comes with a custom theme.
To sum it up, if there is a feature you need on your WordPress website, try searching for a plugin, as it’s the fastest way to add new features. Plugins will save you a lot of time coding and if they are updated regularly, there will be no problems.


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Tubby Hayes Quintet, NYJO, Ronnie Scott & The Band, Tim White Quartet, Critchinson/Themen Quartet and more.
On this week's Ronnie Scott's Radio Show, we have another in our series of the Greatest Gigs Ever, as we continue to celebrate Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club at 60.
You can expect to hear from Ronnie Scott himself, Tubby Hayes, John Critchinson and Andy Panayi and many others, so enjoy this concert of a lifetime.
This programme was first broadcast on Jazz FM Toronto on 8th May 2019.

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New Uveitis and Vasculitis subspecialty
A new clinical offering and an exciting collaboration
With the additions of uveitis specialists Steven Yeh and Purnima Patel, the Emory Eye Center now offers a dedicated Uveitis and Vasculitis clinical section. Uveitis is a general term describing a group of inflammatory diseases affecting the eyes that can lead to slightly reduced vision or severe vision loss if not properly treated. While uveitis may occur at any age, working-aged individuals between 20 – 50 years old are affected most frequently.
The term "uveitis" is used because the diseases often affect a part of the eye called the uvea (i.e. iris, ciliary body and choroid). Nevertheless, uveitis is not limited to the uvea. These diseases may also affect the retina, optic nerve, lens, and vitreous, leading to reduced vision or blindness if not detected and treated.
Uveitis may be localized just to the eye or may occur as part of a systemic inflammatory disease affecting other parts of the body. Uveitis can last for a short (acute) or a long (chronic) time. The most severe forms of uveitis may recur many times during a patient's lifetime but with proper treatment, recurrences can be limited or eliminated altogether.
Joint Pediatric Rheumatology-Uveitis clinic
In addition to adult uveitis, Emory has also added a Joint Pediatric Rheumatology-Uveitis Clinic in collaboration with the Pediatric Rheumatology service at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA). Joining Yeh in treating these children is CHOA pediatric rheumatologist Sheila Angeles-Han, who holds research grants to study quality-of-life outcomes in children with uveitis. Yeh also has a Georgia Knights Templar grant to study pediatric uveitis outcomes following immunosuppressive treatment.
"Dr. Angeles-Han and I are collaborating on clinical care of patients with pediatric uveitis and research to assess quality-of-life issues in patients with juvenile idiopathic (unknown origin) arthritis-associated uveitis," says Yeh. "We will correlate these quality of life measures with patient outcomes and hope to improve patient care through improved understanding of these pediatric eye conditions."

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This is a novel that will make your head spin!! It will show you how crazy the human mind could be to itself, with the twists and turns of a supernatural thriller. The writing will pull you in, making you feel as if you are living the life of the main character. It will make you ponder the true depths of the imaginations and what is real. There is a complete possibility that we may be living in a dream…
The Created was a clever mix of alien species and technology. It is a fast read and will definitely get the mind thinking about what technology could be used for in the future. It is an enjoyable read, even if it the parts were very distinct in the writing and feel. And once in a while, it might be necessary to check that potted plant that seems to be moving when you’re not watching it.
I absolutely loved how the author brought the parallel stories together. The ending left me with so many questions, the kind you want to have from good science fiction stories – philosophical questions about, life, purpose, reality, and how we impact the world and people we interact with.
This is a book that will cater to any that really love their Science Fiction reads. It is contained to one world, that is brought to life over and over again with amazing attention to detail, with a hint of what might be happening in the further reaches of the universe. I can tell that this is one that will hook the readers and make them stay for the long haul. I know that I was able to sit back and really enjoy this one! If you listen carefully, you will hear these pages sing the correct song of harmony telling you to read them.
I started this book with a feeling of excitement since I have owned it for quite some time. I felt confused when I started reading the first few chapters. This is not new for me and it usually happens to me with whatever I read. As I continued, things finally started to come together. Straight off the bat, the first 50 pages were brutal. I never expected so much to happen in 50 pages I mean, WOW!. I went through so many emotions. The author did a great job setting up the story this way.
Oh man, was this a breath of fresh air! The Phlebotomist started out as what I felt was a well-written but largely generic dystopian corporate thriller. However, at around ten chapters/80 pages in, there was a twist so well executed and unexpected that it changed the course of the entire book. I don’t want to give anything away, so I will be as vague as possible with my review.


Leicester v Aston Villa preview
Leicester has impressed us so far this season, eight points in four matches is a strong achievement for the team. They won the first two matches, but then played 1-1 against both Tottenham and Bournemouth. Leicester has looked quite good in offence, and there is no doubt Ranieri has improved the team. The winger Mahrez has gotten most of the attention though, quite understandably as he has scored four goals in four matches (though in the last match he did not play that well and was substituted at halftime). With other offensive players like Vardy, Albrighton and Okazaki things are looking good. Plus they have a solid goalie in Kasper Schmeichel and an experienced central defender Robert Huth. It is probably their defence that is lacking a bit and might be their biggest problem, and we are not conviced that it is good enough to merit a top 10 placement at the end of the season.
Aston Villa has earned four points in four matches, and has a goal difference of 4-5. They did beat Bournemouth in the season opener, but since then they have lost by a goal to Manchester United and Crystal Palace and tied 2-2 in last match at home to Sunderland. They have been close to getting better results, and in the last match coach Sherwood got injured attempting to kick a bottle in frustration.
Aston Villa has signed several new and good players in the latest transfer window, and they have looked solid on the pitch. But it is still clear that they are missing Benteke, a player that could convert their chances better.
Tim Sherwood is undoubtedly a positive influence on the club, and he could be the coach that can pull the club up from mediocrity. But unfortunately for him and the fans, the club is still struggling a bit with injuries. Grealish, Gueye and Traore are all doubtful, and according to Sherwood it is Grealish that is the closest to being in the starting XI. The new signing Lescott will probably be on the bench, as Richards and Clark have looked solid in defence lately.
Leicester is the natural favourite at home, but the odds have been played down so much that we do not recommend a bet on the home win. Considering the solid defence of Aston Villa, we are more interesting in the Aston Villa +0.75 at odds 8/9 (1.89) on offer by BetVictor. That way you get paid if Aston Villa wins or draws the match, and half the stake back if they lose by one goal.


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This is it … the #Victoriaday, May 24 weekend (even though it’s not the 24th, I am sure there’s been a few 24’s opened up today) and is traditionally the weekend that Ottawa gardeners get down and dirty!
I’m not one of them … never had a green thumb even though I love flowers, garden fresh vegetables, beautiful landscaping and especially, fresh herbs. Luckily, my better half actually enjoys gardening and landscaping … bonus!
Our yard has miraculously transformed over the weekend and there’s herbs (the one in the photo) planted in the garden. I offered moral support by sipping on vodka and lemonade while doing my nails on the front porch.
With our rather short summers, tomatoes don’t always turn out tasty and leafy greens tend to get destroyed by bugs. One sure bet, no matter what size of garden you have, is a herb garden. Rosemary, thyme, oregano, sage and my favourite … basil.
Not only can you make your own pesto, add it to pasta, pizza, salads, sandwiches and fish recipes, but basil is also anti-aging! Basil is an excellent source of vitamin K and manganese; a very good source of copper, vitamin A (in the form of beta-carotene), and vitamin C; and a good source of calcium, iron, folate, magnesium, and omega-3 fatty acids and studies have demonstrated that the properties of basil are key in preventing some of the adverse effects contributed to aging.
Basil lowers the stress hormone called cortisol and fights free radicals with potent anti-oxidants that are responsible for many of the health problems and degenerative diseases associated with aging. Basil is also an excellent anti-inflammatory food that can provide healing benefits for health problems like rheumatoid arthritis. The eugenic component of basil’s volatile oils works very much like aspirin, ibuprofen and acetaminophen. And get this … according to scientific research, basil boosts serotonin and dopamine production to give you a sunnier mood in as little as three days!
Mmmmm … basil is so delicious it’s not hard to think of ways to add it to your diet. You can even add it to smoothies. Because basil is so potent, you only need small amounts compared to other greens like spinach or kale. Or how about some fresh crusty bread with goats cheese, fresh tomatoes and a few leaves of basil, drizzled with extra virgin olive oil? Just remember that basil is best eaten raw or added to your dishes at the end of the cooking process.
In Italy basil is the symbol of love and they take their pesto alla genovese molto serious! There is even a World Championship of Pesto! Here is the winning pesto recipe plus some interesting info on pesto.
Stay Young … Eat Basil and don’t forget a nice glass of Italian wine … that keeps you young as well!


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I made this card for my Mum for her birthday. I chose the sewing theme as she'd taught me to sew when I was a child. I used various elements from the Aspire Sew Pretty kit and cut the main topper into a shape using the Spellbinder's Labels 31 die. I finished it off with a bow made from tape measure ribbon and a button. My Mum was surprised when she opened it as it's not my usual style but was very pleased with the sewing theme.
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The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival is Legendary. It represented the peak of the 1960's music scene. In many ways it also signified the end of the era. The poster for the event is iconic and deseves a place in every collection. The artist Arnold Skolnick created a small signed edition from a stack of unused posters. This signed print is #131/144.
Poster – Woodstock Music and Art Fair Yasgur’s Farm
Grade – PAE Graded Near Mint 87
Bands/Bill – Joan Baez Crosby Stills and Nash Jefferson Airplane Jimi Hendrix Santana Ten Years After The Who The Band Iron Butterfly Mountain Arlo Guthrie Richie Havens Canned Heat Creedence Clearwater Grateful Dead Janis Joplin
Venue – Yasgur’s Farm
City – White Lake NY
Date – 8/15-17/69
Dimensions – 23 30/32”x 36 22/32”
Printing – (OP-1) Original Printing
Artist – Arnold Skolnick
Series/Promoter – Michael Lang and others
Paper Type – thin glossy
Condition Details- This poster is in incredibly well preserved condition. There is just light handling and a barely noticable half inch tear in the paper in the lower third portion of the poster just to the right of Grateful Dead.
*****This Poster is available for inspection at our gallery by appointment. *****"


Ready for Ozil and Giroud, David? United stopper celebrates birthday with pop-star girlfriend ahead of Arsenal showdown
David de Gea took some time out from his rigorous training schedule ahead of Manchester United's clash with Arsenal to celebrate his 23rd birthday in style.
The United goalkeeper spent time with his Spanish girlfriend Edurne, and the pop singer tweeted a rather arty image of the pair.
De Gea, who is all but certain to start against Premier League leaders Arsenal on Sunday, poses with his partner as the young couple touch noses and close their eyes in a very public showing of intimacy.
VIDEO: Scroll down to watch Edurne's version of Queen's Somebody To Love
Good save! David de Gea (left) and his girlfriend Edurne posed for this picture on the goalkeeper's birthday
The talented singer tweeted the message alongside the picture which read: 'Today is the birthday of the person who has captured my heart! Congratulations my life! @ D_DeGea Love you!'
In 2005, Edurne García Almagro finished sixth on Spanish talent show Operación Triunfo - similar to Pop Idol or The X Factor - and has since released five studio albums under the name Edurne.
Sizzling: De Gea's girlfriend Edurne is a sucessful pop singer in her native Spain
Happy couple: Edurne in September this year (left) and with De Gea in Manchester (right)
Out and about: Edurne attended the Manchester United end-of-season awards with De Gea
As well as releasing her own version of Queen's Somebody To Love. More recently, the successful singer produced the 2013 album Climax, launched with the release of single Pretty Boy.
Finding his feet: De Gea has drasticaly improved since his arrival at Old Trafford in 2011
In action: De Gea tries to keep Real Sociedad's attackers at bay in the Champions League clash
VIDEO: Edurne - Somebody to Love
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In recent years, supercapacitor
s have begun to enter people's electric vehicles because of the new energy future. However, what is a supercapacitor, and is it really better than a battery? Are supercapacitors really the future of energy storage? Before delving into whether supercapacitors can really change energy storage, we need to understand that batteries and capacitors are both a method of storing energy, but lithium-ion batteries rely on chemical reactions to store and release energy. It consists of an integer consisting of a positive electrode and a negative electrode. Both of them are submerged in liquid electrolyte and separated by microporous separators. Only ions are allowed to pass. When the battery is charged and discharged, ions flow back and forth between the cathode and anode. During this process, the battery is heating and expanding. The reaction will degrade the battery over time, thereby limiting the battery's service life. One of the advantages of battery technology is that it has a high specific energy and density, so it can store a large amount of energy for later use. But capacitors are different. They do not rely on chemical action to function. They store potential energy electrostatically. Capacitors use dielectrics or insulators. The collection of positive and negative charges are collected separately between the plates. On each plate, it is this separation that enables the device to store energy and release it quickly. It is basically absorbing static electricity. One of the benefits of this is the 3V capacitor. After 15 or 20 years of use, it is still a 3V capacitor, but the battery has lost power. Unlike the battery, the capacitor has a higher power throughput so it can be charged and discharged in a short time, but their ratio is very low. It is useful for very small power bursts, which is why supercapacitors are beginning to be advertised as replacing batteries. The concepts of batteries and capacitors and supercapacitors are not new. In fact, General Electric invented the first supercapacitor device in 1957, but there had not been any commercial application at that time. In 1966, Standard Petroleum discovered it by accident. Double-layer capacitors. In the late 1970s, Japan’s NEC company began to provide the first 'super capacitors' for computers. Products such as ECOND’s pscap (starters for diesel trains) began to be put on the market in the 1990s and promoted storage. The application range of energy and capacitors is like the latest development of graphene-based capacitors, which has once again promoted the growth of supercapacitors and applications. What is the difference between the working principle of supercapacitors and conventional ones? What makes supercapacitors better than ordinary capacitors, even batteries on metal plates The distance between ordinary capacitors is about 10-100 microns (1 micron is one thousandth of a millimeter). At that time, the distance in supercapacitors was reduced to one thousandth of a micron, and the smaller distance resulted in more Large electric field-more energy storage, needless to say that the plate of a carbon-coated supercapacitor can increase the usable surface area of u200bu200bstorage capacity by up to 100,000 times, which is much more energy than ordinary capacitors can use. Supercapacitors have been discovered to have the greatest potential for application in hybrid transportation (refer to Tesla) Toyota, Citroen, Mazda, etc. have all released vehicle models that use a combination of supercapacitors and traditional lithium-ion batteries, and Tesla invested in this acquisition The amount is as high as 200 million US dollars. The person in charge of Tesla said that his focus is not to expand the scope of use of supercapacitors, but only for the research and development of supercapacitor manufacturing technology for Tesla Motors. There is also an advantage to using supercapacitors in cars. The power is being generated. During use, each brake will help the super capacitor store energy, which is used to accelerate and save battery power. The violent action is faster than acceleration and deceleration. It uses the power throughput of the super capacitor in Switzerland. You can see an example of a super capacitor. Swiss buses will pass routes at multiple stations and set up charging stations. It only takes fifteen seconds to be fully charged. Frequent replenishment is used to make up for the lack of energy density and storage, and super capacitors It consumes a few minutes of current at a time, so this reduces the pressure on the grid. In the future, supercapacitors will enter the market for parts such as electric motorcycles, spacecraft and wave energy. Graphene is also the next generation of supercapacitors to provide a series of improvements, because it can Provide a larger surface area, thereby providing more energy storage capacity of the super capacitor. Graphene ultra-light has unique elasticity, and is very strong to absorb renewable energy. The key words of new energy are also the main development direction of the world in the future. However, the research and development of supercapacitors that can be combined with these new energy sources has been guided by a lot of energy. To research, develop and explore. For example, there are already researches on life products such as electric bicycles, laptop batteries, etc.
Shenzhen Shen MaoXin Electronics Co., Ltd. thinks that customer satisfaction is one of the most important determinants of brand loyalty. High-quality service can be the difference between a one-time buyer and a lifelong repeat customer.
Make your electrolytic capacitor suppliers electrolytic capacitor suppliers. Invest in professional electrolytic capacitor services. For more info, check out Shenmao Capacitors.
Shenzhen Shen MaoXin Electronics Co., Ltd. constantly discovers the demands of global market for developing a wide range of products applied in different use.
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Five good reasons for the BMW 3 Series Touring
- irresistible combination of athletic elegance and functionality
- unique driving dynamics
- innovative storage and stowage solutions
- connectivity at the highest level
- visionary and optional with hybrid drive
For many customers, the BMW 3 Series is the ultimate BMW and the face of the brand. With the seventh generation, the BMW 3 Series starts a new chapter in the history of BMW design language: the clear contours and poetical surfaces enhance these models’ innate dynamics with a modern presence. And the new BMW 3 Series dares to think outside the familiar design box.
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Community Breakfast at Our Lady of Sorrows Church Sunday May 26.
9:00 am 1:00 pm.
Adults $6.00 Children under 12 $2.00.
Bacon and eggs, sausages, home fries, baked beans, pancakes, toast, tea, coffee and juice.
Almaguin Choral Society
JUNE 12, 13, 14 and 15 The Almaguin Choral Society is pleased to present their Spring concert series “Steppin’ Out” on June 12, 13, 14 and 15 at the Land of Lakes Senior Public School at 7:30pm.
Tickets, at $15, are by reservation only and can be purchased from any choir member or by calling Nancy Gray at 705-384-7492.
The Almaguin Choral Society is a 60 voice choir with singers from Port Sydney to Callander. Be sure to mark your calendar for this spectacular fun-filled performance!


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Cee’s Photography Blog has some wonderful photography tips, inspirations and challenges –
This week it’s the Black and White Challenge of Heads and Facial Features– lots of fun!
So I found some heads of the family
A very old family heirloom found in an old trunk
the beautiful Raven Lokisdottir
Denizen of my Deck
She looks like she could use a cup of coffee on her way to kill a hobbit
gargoyling at Rosslyn Chapel
Garfield on steroids
I had to go out for supper with one of them!!
Here is my third edit for Robyn’s (Captivate Me) One Four Challenge
-and a short story for any who enjoy the Mayan mystery and myth
In this edit I cropped it even more and used a topaz glow with an ecru tone
3 The Road to the Heavens
Smoke Jaguar sat alone in a chamber inside the palace while priests and augurs were at the solemn task of deciphering the mathematics of magic within the cogs of celestial destiny. He had given them the message he had carried and now prepared to make a blood sacrifice as was the duty of the nobility. He drank a cup of sacred balche* which was mildly intoxicating before picking up a jagged sting ray barb and drawing it through his tongue. He caught the blood in a vessel full of bark paper to be burned as a gift and petition to the gods. The pain was excruciating. It pierced through the smoke of the offering bowl, opening a veil where time flowed between worlds like the blood that flowed in the most sacred of ceremonies.
For a moment he was back hunting in the Puuc* hills with his older brother. Losing his footing on a stone ledge he had fallen and bitten his tongue badly. He was bravely holding back his tears when his brother, Tortoise Shield, had taken Smoke Jaguar’s small hand in his and with the other, pointed toward the dark horizon. “Do you see it?” he whispered reverently, “that place between the hills where Wakah Chan* reaches far into the sky. The bridge is somewhere at the edge of the earth but only the bravest souls can find it.” He had smiled reassuringly at the little boy, “Our father’s feet have already walked it! It is not a place of fear like the underworld, because the tree of life has risen from inside the earth and is entwined in the sky road.” His pain forgotten, Smoke Jaguar stood in silent awe and love of both- the stars of the heavens, and his brother.
Some years later Tortoise Shield died of a fever that no medicine or magic could quench. Many others continued to fall ill. Smoke Jaguar hoped that the bridge between the earth and the starry road had not been broken by the displeasure of the gods. He hoped the great tree was nourished by the shedding of his own blood. He missed his brother.
Lady Ho Chuen appeared at the door. She was bowed in sorrow. She took his hands in hers and spoke softy ” More messengers have arrived Lord Smoke Jaguar. Your uncle, the king, is dead. You are his closest living heir and will bear his title.” In sad resignation Smoke Jaguar wondered what was left to rule. A way of life seemed to be collapsing and the terrible Ah Puch* walked the land. He thought of Ho Chuen’s dream and wondered how it could be possible to save the sun from the anger of Kukulkan.
Interestingly, Mayan nobility often pierced body parts including genitalia as blood offerings to the gods. They also tattooed themselves. They flattened the heads of babies into a loaf shape and in a type of ritual dentistry inlaid their front teeth with jade and turquoise. The more bodily adornments, the higher the status was of the individual.
Balche a type of mead made from the Balche tree
Puuc region in central Yucatan Puuc means hills in Mayan
Wakah Chan– Milky way ( chan also meant serpent)
Ah Puch – god of war, destruction and disease
I can’t begin to tell you that my energy level and enthusiasm are taking flight with the good weather. Goodbye SAD syndrome for now!! I’m even out in the garden!!
The old Manor
Another walk through the grounds at Craigflower Manor which is now the home of the Victoria Highland Games Association. Celtic music, Irish and Scottish, Highland dancing, crafts and caber toss, plus the battle of the pipe bands from all over Canada will be at Topaz Park this weekend.
Many an intrepid Scot explored and settled in BC giving many places their names. It’s pretty obvious when you see the turn out of kilts at this event. Can’t wait! I’m sure I will feel homesick for Scotland and Ireland!!
Mull of Kintyre
susan boyle and the royal scots dragoon guards-
Robyn at Captivate me created this wonderful challenge of weekly processing a photo four ways. Do check out the One Four Challenge in the reader for all the great submissions. I’m a bit early.
I layered this PS CC with a night sky background, a touch of blue filter and an art brush for this version.
For those who enjoy reading and who requested more story here it is and I hope I won’t disappoint. For those who don’t I hope the image is a story in itself!!
- Chak Ek (Venus) rising above the trees
Lady Ho Chuen stepped out from the shadow of her loom and spoke softly. “You have come at last! My father and the priests have been waiting and so have I.” She invited the young man to sit and servants soon appeared at the door bringing ceramic vessels filled with hot atole. As they both leaned forward to drink, Smoke Jaguar saw serpent tails of steam curl over her long forehead and into the luxurious black hair that was dressed in high rows on top of her head. Her eyes caught the fire from the torch lamps and flashed like an obsidian knife. He shivered slightly and a gust of night air from the hallway shook the blue green feathers of his headpiece. Not long ago he had hoped they would marry and an alliance be made between their two cities, but now with the hardships that had come, those wishes had been put aside as the people struggled to make sense of what was happening.
Putting down his bowl, Smoke Jaguar turned suddenly and embraced the woman at his side. He felt the beating of her heart quicken against his chest like the rushing wings of the quetzal bird whose feathers he wore. After a few moments she reluctantly broke free and began to speak. “The people are leaving the cities” she said quietly, “The great ball courts are empty and there is talk of worse to come. The priests and nobles have been unable to appease the gods.” Lady Ho Chuen gripped his hand tightly. “Smoke Jaguar, last night I had a dream! The great Kukulkan swallowed the sun and was fleeing from the heavens. A blood rain fell upon our cities and temples.” Momentary fear gripped Smoke Jaguar. “Aiiie my lady,” he exclaimed softly, “this is a powerful dream! It must be entrusted to those who will understand and there is also the codice from the astronomer priests of the Wizard’s Well that may shed light on it all”
Somewhere around 900CE and for unknown reasons ( possible deforestation, climate change, poor government ) the Mayans began abandoning their cities and the empire and population greatly decreased. Though some scholars don’t like to call it a collapse because a few centers still thrived and remained populated, by the time the Spanish arrived (1500’s) the great civilization had much changed.
I’m using some poetic licence as the most dramatic collapses were in Chiapas and Guatamala but the decline occured throughout the Empire.
Lady Ho Chuen– just for fun I used the name that a Mayan elder gave me that corresponded with my Mayan horoscope using their old calendar. It means 5 Monkey! The Mayans often had strange names and numbers were magical. One king was called 19 Rabbit. The monkey however is symbolic of both the power of illusion and creativity which I hoped was inspiring!
Atole is a central American beverage mix made from corn and sometimes flavoured with chocolate.
Kukulkan is the Mayan equivalent of the Aztec Quetzalcoatl- the feathered serpent of the sky- his developmental role in the pantheon of gods is shrouded in some mystery but he was a powerful symbol of vision, sacrifice and the state. At Chichen Itza he visibly slithers down the pyramid( el castillo) during the equinox.
Wizard’s Well or more correctly the mouth of the wizard’s well was the city of Chichen Itza.
I am taking up the challenge again with Robyn at Captivate me and we process a photo four different ways each week for the month. Do check out all the great submissions!
I decided to use an older photo from my own wonderful Mayan journey a few years ago. Starting with the original and an overpexposed sky I tried to achieve a Catherwood sketch look, so I added a glow, antique plate and vintage effects. I added a hint of colour as per Catherwood.
The sacred gate to the ceremonial center of Labna
and a short story:
It was not a journey to be taken without intense spiritual preparation, and Smoke Jaguar had performed the necessary prayers and blood letting. He knew that his journey along the Sac-be (white road) which connected the hub of the Empire to the outlying areas of the jungle was a solemn undertaking. According to belief all duty was holy ritual. Like the tree that rose up from the bowels of Xibalba, the messenger’s journey would parallel the voyage of souls from the underworld to the ultimate portal in the Milky Way. Within the great dream, the tree of life joined earth and heaven, and as branches grew into the turtle constellation of Ak- Ek, the leaves trembled constantly from the shimmering rain of stars.
Smoke Jaguar carried the long count symbols of the grand order that the high priest had rolled into the codex. He paused to ask for the blessing of Kinich Ahau and acknowledged the four pillars of the earth, the Bacabs, who prevented the heavens from collapsing into catastrophe! As he walked in reverence through the gate of the ceremonial city he knew he was passing into another sacred dimension.
(Apologies to any true historians of ancient mesoamerican civilizations and mythology)
some background information
I can imagine the wonder of the two explorers in the Yucatan Jungle coming across the remains of this ancient civilization. Frederick Catherwood was a draftsman and architect who beautifully sketched these cities of stone and John Lloyd Stephens was a writer and diplomat who wrote of their adventures in Incidents of Travel in Central America.
Sac be– the white road- I walked part of this in the city of Coba. The Mayans built roads to connect everything- like the Romans
Xibalba– the fearsome underworld
AK Ek – is Orion in our astronomy
Kinich Ahau– the sun god
Bacabs – four brothers that corresponded to north, south east and west. The earth resided on the back of giant turtle.
codex – a book made of tree bark- the most famous Mayan codices that survive are called The Popol Vuh. The Mayans had great knowledge of astronomy and mathematics and the divine order of the cosmos was wrapped up in religious ritual.

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Observations from space provide valuable information that contributes a great deal towards our understanding and effective management of climate change. MeteoSwiss is participating in the Climate Change Initiative of the European Space Agency (ESA) to maximise the potential for long-term observations of the earth.
Climate change is probably the biggest challenge for humanity in the 21st century, and it is becoming increasingly obvious that observations from space are critical in this regard. However, there is not as yet a coordinated, long-term programme to make these data globally available, as is already the case in meteorology, for example. Moreover, climate monitoring requires data to be stored over long periods of time, in order to provide reliable long-term records. Over the past few years, continuous and formalised dialogue between the authorities responsible for climate monitoring specification and space agencies has produced a coherent set of requirements on which there is worldwide agreement.
Climate Change Initiative Programme
The European Space Agency has initiated a new programme with the aim of creating a lasting collection of climate observations: the Global Monitoring of Essential Climate Variables (ECV). The aim of the programme is to maximise the potential of the global archive of long-term observations of the earth that have been collected by the ESA over the past 30 years. The ESA Climate Change Initiative (ESA CCI) fulfils the extremely stringent set of requirements for highly stable, satellite-based long-term climate products, as laid down for the space agencies by the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS). The ESA CCI provides an important contribution to the ECV databases required by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Utilising the expertise and skills of all member states
The initiative will set in motion a programme of work that will enable all ESA member states to contribute to solving the problems associated with climate change. The programme is based on the provision of climate variables derived from all available satellite datasets, and encompasses all aspects of data availability, including data acquisition, calibration and validation, long-term algorithm maintenance, data curation and reprocessing as required - all within the context of a set of internationally agreed priorities.
The ESA programme will bring together European expertise covering the full range of scientific, technical and development specialisations in the field of earth observation. Moreover, it will provide climate researchers and working groups around the world with lasting and transparent access to the data and findings.
The objective of the ESA CCI Clouds project is to provide long-term coherent cloud property datasets, exploiting the opportunities for synergy of various earth observation missions. This provides a greater degree of accuracy with enhanced temporal and spatial sampling than can be obtained from cloud property datasets that stem from a single source.
The ESA CCI Clouds project is designed to maximise the growing synergistic potential of past, current and future European and US satellite missions in order to meet the increasing demands for coherent long-term cloud property datasets within the scientific community. The primary objectives of the ESA CCI Cloud project are:
- The development of intercalibrated radiance datasets (Fundamental Climate Data Records) for ESA instruments and those of other organisations in a programme of international cooperation: firstly, by fully utilising the results of the WMO Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS) as a main end-user, and secondly, by introducing complementary methods to further enhance the potential of GSICS.
- The development of a coherent physical retrieval framework for the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) on cloud properties, i.e. cloud cover, cloud height and temperature, and liquid and ice water content. The ECV retrieval framework is freely available to the public and for use by the scientific community.
- The development of two global datasets lasting several years for the GCOS cloud property ECVs, which will include uncertainty estimates based on carefully calibrated and intercalibrated radiances.
- Validation of the cloud property products as compared to ground-based and other satellite-based measurements, taking into consideration the respective error structures of the individual observations.
- Provision of a common database and the requisite evaluation of cloud datasets, as in the context of the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX).
- The development of a comprehensive Europe-wide processing system that will further strengthen the operational production of cloud property datasets after the ESA CCI programme has ended.
- The promotion of a strategy for dataset construction and datasets for the global scientific and operational community. This involves active collaboration with the Climate Modelling User Group (CCI CMUG) consortium.
Objectives for MeteoSwiss's participation in the ESA CCI Clouds project Phase 2 (2014-2016)
Climate monitoring applications: Characterisation stability and homogeneity of the CCI Cloud dataset: The potential of homogeneous long-term observations of cloud cover by satellites to complement long-term ground-based observations will only be significant when they are able to be estimated with a stability of around 1% or better over several decades. In spite of advances in retrieval algorithms, satellite-based cloud cover climatology is hampered by issues with technical artefacts, such as changes in satellite sensors, radiometric and geometric calibration problems, unwanted effects of optical angles or shifts in the diurnal overpass time. For this reason, MeteoSwiss has introduced the following research tasks into the ESA CCI Clouds project:
- Evaluation of climatological stability and homogeneity of the AVHRR and MODIS cloud cover over central Europe with the help of SYNOP in terms of the monthly and annual timescales
- Analysis of the diurnal cycle of the AVHRR and MODIS cloud cover with the help of the Meteosat (CM SAF) cloud climatology as well as SYNOP central European data
- Generation of a de-trended and de-biased cloud cover climatology resolving the diurnal cycle of cloud cover over central Europe, with statistical reconstruction of the night-time cycle.
Integration of Cloud CCI into a flagship project for national GFCS activities: MeteoSwiss plays an active role in preparing the Cloud CCI data, and communicating it and making it available to the interested user community. The climate information user group recently expanded from a 'purely' scientific community of climate specialists into one which encompasses a wide range of users, such as social scientists, decision-makers, resource managers, health officials, reinsurance officials etc. This means that climate data providers share the responsibility not only for generating optimum quality data, but also for preparing the climate monitoring information in ways that make it useful for a wide range of users In the context of this remit, it is proposed that the final, validated Cloud CCI data retrieved over a 30+ year period be used in a national climate monitoring showcase project for Switzerland.
Phase 1 (2010-2013) Validation of cloud products in mountainous and polar regions
As part of this remit, MeteoSwiss provided validation activities with a particular focus on mountainous and polar regions: Such areas are most sensitive to climate fluctuations and change, and therefore require high quality data recording for the purposes of climate analysis. Furthermore, it is important from a scientific perspective that such an evaluation is conducted independently of the dataset producers.
The role of MeteoSwiss was to evaluate the ESA CCI cloud cover data derived from the AVHRR and MODIS sensors in comparison with the in-situ data for the relevant weather conditions in mountainous and polar regions (Antarctica, Spitzbergen and Greenland). In addition to reporting on the overall accuracy of the CCI cloud cover for these regions, this study also focused on finding the major inaccuracies between the satellite-based cloud cover and surface-based observations, in order to identify the main limitations of the satellite-based cloud cover retrieval algorithm. The identification of these limitations proved to be beneficial to the algorithm developers in the second phase of the CCI Clouds project, helping them to improve the cloud recognition methods.
The Ozone CCI project is part of the ESA Global Monitoring of Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) programme, more commonly known as the Climate Change Initiative (CCI), the second phase of which was begun in 2010 for a period of six years.
The CCI programme is intended to make a contribution to the databases that collect ECVs as required by the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change (UNFCCC) and the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Specifically, the ESA CCI Ozone project involves the following tasks:
- Analysis of the climate researchers' requirements for ozone data
- Providing satellite-derived ozone measurements in a form suitable for use by climate researchers
- Utilisation of available ozone data in the ESA Earth observation archive and the ozone measurements of Third Party Missions (TPM).
Three main product lines are being developed:
- Total ozone from nadir UV backscatter sensors
- Ozone profiles from nadir UV backscatter sensors
- Ozone profiles from limb and occultation sensors
The following diagram explains the concept:
Before the data is produced, the following questions have to be answered:
- What kind of data do the climate scientists require as input data for their coupled chemistry-climate models? (These are models which predict future climatic developments.)
- What is the level of quality required for these data (precision and accuracy)?
The scientists at MeteoSwiss have therefore produced a document containing the users' requirements.


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Screening Children Predisposed to Wilms Tumor
Children with a significantly increased predisposition to develop Wilms tumor (e.g., most children with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, WAGR syndrome, Denys-Drash syndrome, idiopathic hemihypertrophy, or sporadic aniridia) should be screened with ultrasound every 3 months at least until they reach age 8 years.[13,14,15,30]
Approximately 10% of patients with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome will develop a malignancy, with either Wilms tumor or hepatoblastoma being the most common, although adrenal tumors can also occur. Children with hemihypertrophy are also at risk for developing liver and adrenal tumors. Screening with abdominal ultrasound and serum alpha-fetoprotein is suggested until age 4 years; after age 4, most hepatoblastomas will have occurred, and imaging may be limited to renal ultrasound, which is quicker and does not require the child to fast for the exam.
Children with Klippel-Trénaunay syndrome, a unilateral limb overgrowth syndrome, had been considered to be at increased risk for developing Wilms tumor. The risk of Wilms tumor in children with Klippel-Trénaunay syndrome, when assessed using the National Wilms Tumor Study (NWTS) database, was no different than in the general population and routine ultrasound surveillance is not recommended.
Genetics of Wilms Tumor
Wilms tumor (hereditary or sporadic) appears to result from changes in one or more of at least ten genes. Several, but not all, will be discussed here.
Wilms tumor 1gene (WT1)
The WT1 gene is located on the short arm of chromosome 11 (11p13). The normal function of WT1 is required for normal genitourinary development and is important for differentiation of the renal blastema. Germline mutations in WT1 have been found in about 2% of phenotypically normal children with Wilms tumor. Germline WT1 mutations in children with Wilms tumor does not confer a poor prognosis per se. The offspring of those with germline mutation in WT1 may also be at increased risk of developing Wilms tumor. Because deletion of WT1 was the first mutation found to be associated with Wilms tumor, WT1 was assumed to be a conventional tumor suppressor gene. However, non-inactivating mutations can result in altered WT1 protein function that also results in Wilms tumor, such as in the Denys-Drash syndrome.


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The photograph duo Sallyhateswing from Cologne sparkles with creativity. The two young talents Sarah Schmid and Philipp Johann have now used the new SP objectives from Tamron for a current shooting– and they were not only enthusiastic about the high resolution.
When it comes to new photographic techniques, Martin Krolop is not far away. The photo blogger from Cologne was one of the world's first photographers, who could test Tamron’s new SP objectives in practice. For 14 days, he travelled with them in the legendary wilderness of Iceland.
Sarah Schmid and Philipp Johann are two young photographers from Cologne. With the stage name Sallyhateswing, both of them always cause a stir with their creative photo actions. For a beauty shooting, the duo now took advantage of the Tamron SP 90mm F/2.8 Di VC USD Macro objective and they were impressed by the sharpness in the details.
Ines Thomsen has turned her passion into a profession - the trigger for this was a serious turning point in her life
Jörg Mayer and Nadine Horn run the blog “eat this!” together – combining vegan cookery with creative photography. Before enjoying their culinary creations, the pair first take pictures of them using a Tamron lens. Just a short time later, their fans can then read online how the recipe was put together. As graphic designers, Jörg and Nadine both know what makes a great food photo. In our interview they reveal the secrets of how they carry out their work and give some tips on how best to take photographs of food you have prepared yourself – while still being able to enjoy it straight afterwards while its still hot.


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