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May 20ASTROLOGY PURSE!!
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Feb 20Things about female body
posted at 4:38 am UTC
Feb 2020 Things You Did Not Know About Hurricanes
posted at 4:28 am UTC

“A typical hurricane releases some 600 trillion watts of heat energy, equivalent to 200 times the world’s total electrical generating capacity.”From Jocelyn Rice, Discover Magazine, 20 things you didn’t know about hurricanes:
1 Our word for these storms comes from Hurakán, a one-legged Mayan deity who summoned the Great Flood from his perch in the windy mists.
2 The Mayans built their major cities inland away from flooding, showing a better understanding of Hurakán’s rages than the engineers who designed the New Orleans waterfront.
3 In 1609 a group of English settlers en route to Virginia were struck by a hurricane and washed ashore at Bermuda—an event that reportedly helped inspire Shakespeare’s Tempest.
4 Hurricanes laid waste to so many powerful armadas that, during the Spanish-American War, President McKinley declared that he feared the storms more than the Spanish navy. In response he established a network of storm-warning stations, the forerunner of today’s National Hurricane Center.
5 During World War II, a British flying instructor, Colonel Joe Duckworth, bet his pilots he could fly straight into a hurricane. Amazingly, he succeeded.
6 Hurricane forecasts today rely on Air Force pilots who zigzag through the eye, releasing dropsondes—parachute-equipped tubes containing instruments that measure pressure, temperature, humidity, and wind speed.
7 In North America we call them hurricanes, but in the western Pacific the same storms are known as typhoons. To avoid a tedious argument, meteorologists call them all tropical cyclones.
8 Due to the earth’s rotation, hurricanes spin counterclockwise north of the equator and clockwise south of it.
9 And once and for all: No, your flushing toilet does not do the same thing.
10 Most Atlantic hurricanes are born off the western coast of Africa, where warm water and a cool, windy upper atmosphere conspire to create a spiraling storm.
11 Activity peaks this month, when ocean-surface waters are warmest. Nearly half of all tropical cyclones occur in September.
12 We’re going to need a bigger windmill: A typical hurricane releases some 600 trillion watts of heat energy, equivalent to 200 times the world’s total electrical generating capacity.
13 Hurricanes unleash torrential rains, violent thunderstorms, and even tornadoes. But their deadliest component by far is the storm surge, the chunk of ocean pushed ashore by winds that can gust up to 200 miles per hour.
14 In 1970 a 30-foot storm surge claimed at least 300,000 lives in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
15 The horrific event inspired the Concert for Bangladesh, the first major rock benefit concert. But most of the proceeds were impounded by the IRS until years later.
16 The largest known tropical cyclone was 1979’s typhoon Tip, which stretched 1,400 miles across the northwestern Pacific—the distance from Dallas to Washington, D.C.
17 That’s still nothing compared with Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, a seemingly eternal 400-mile-per-hour hurricane nearly twice the size of our entire planet.
18 The World Meteorological Organization started naming hurricanes in 1953. Now the organization moves through an alphabetical list of names on a six-year rotation, retiring hall-of-famer storm names like “Katrina” each season.
19 Want a storm to call your own? Bad news: The National Hurricane Center already has “a rather large file folder of nominated names.”
20 And be careful what you wish for. After “Cleo” was retired in 1964, a researcher at the center filled the slot with “Camille,” in honor of the daughter of famed hurricane forecaster John Hope. Five years later, hurricane Camille hit the Mississippi coast, killing 250.
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Feb 17Aspirin May Boost Breast Cancer Survival
posted at 5:58 am UTC
TUESDAY, Feb. 16 (HealthDay News) — A new study of more than 4,000 women who were diagnosed with breast cancer shows that taking aspirin appears to significantly increase survival and reduce the risk of recurrence.“Women who took aspirin were 50 percent less likely to die from breast cancer [during the study follow-up period] than those who did not take it,” said study author Dr. Michelle Holmes, an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health, in Boston.
The study is published online Feb. 16 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
The 50 percent reduction is the overall finding when comparing to users to nonusers, she said. “Statistically, the women who took it more days per week had a higher risk reduction,” Holmes noted. For instance, those who took it six to seven days a week had a 64 percent reduction in risk of death during the follow-up. For some reason, those who took aspirin two to five days a week had an even greater risk reduction, 71 percent, Holmes found.
But the most important finding, in her view, was the overall 50 percent reduction. She didn’t have access to doses, just number of days a week the women took aspirin, she noted.
Aspirin use also reduced the risk of recurrence of the cancer in similar fashion.
“It is a surprisingly strong effect,” Holmes said, though she acknowledged that it was an observational study and does not establish definitive cause and effect.
Exactly how aspirin confers a risk reduction is not known, Holmes said. But the new research is in line with some previous studies. “We’re appreciating more and more that cancer is an inflammatory disease, and aspirin is an anti-inflammatory,” she said.
Aspirin might lower estrogens in the blood or might prevent early spread of cancer, the researchers speculated.
For the study, Holmes and her colleagues evaluated aspirin use among women at least one year after having been diagnosed with breast cancer. The women, diagnosed with stage 1, 2 or 3 breast cancer between 1976 and 2002, were all participants in the Nurses’ Health Study.
During the follow-up, which went until a woman’s death or June 2006, 341 women died of breast cancer and 400 had distant recurrences, or metastatic disease.
Aspirin would never be a substitute for recommended cancer treatments, Holmes said. And aspirin does have negative effects in some. “It can cause bleeding of the GI tract,” she noted.
More study is needed, Holmes said, but for now, “if a woman has breast cancer and is taking aspirin for other reasons [such as arthritis or pain], she may take some comfort in knowing she might be doing something to help prevent her breast cancer from recurring.”
“This is the largest study of aspirin use and breast cancer recurrence and survival to date,” said Eric Jacobs, director of pharmacoepidemiology for the American Cancer Society. Previous research has produced mixed findings, he noted.
“While the results from this study are exciting, there are some important caveats,” he said. Like Holmes, he noted that the findings do not prove cause and effect.
“As noted by the study authors, it is possible that survival results could have been influenced by women with recurrent breast cancer being advised to stop taking aspirin during chemotherapy, resulting in an overestimate of any benefit of aspirin use,” Jacobs said.
Both Holmes and Jacobs agreed that it’s premature to suggest that breast cancer survivors take aspirin with an aim of reducing breast cancer recurrence or death from the disease. Women should talk to their doctor about what’s best for them, they said. – source
Feb 13What your childhood toys are doing now
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Feb 11The new toy story 3 trailer!
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Feb 09Sexy fruit advertisement..
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Feb 07Stick Figure Sells for $104.3 Million
posted at 10:20 pm UTC

As broke as the vast majority of this great nation may be, we can always count on a select few people to frivolously spend their money. This was exemplified by the tool who thought that a glorified stick figure was worthy of a $104.3 million price tag.
Art freaks were anticipating that the bronze sculpture by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti would probably fetch about $20 to $30 million. Boy were they wrong! The “L’Homme Qui Marche I,” or in English, “The Walking Man I” was sold for $104.3 million to an anonymous art enthusiast and becomes the most expensive piece of art to ever be sold. This stick figure sculpture even beat out Pablo Picasso’s “Garcon a la Pipe.” And I’m still left wondering what the hell this person was thinking and, more importantly, where are they going to put this six-foot monstrosity.
Feb 03Im wondering where i’ll move
posted at 1:55 pm UTC
Yesterday was just not very expected, they put me to cover electronics, I was in toys at work finishing the last carriage of drops to put away, and my manager goes up to me an says, how is toys looking? I said done, i just finished most of the aisles and im putting that last carriage away, and she said mhm okay. I’m going to put you in electronics tonight to cover. She knew 2 days ago I asked her if I can move there an she told me there wasnt any positions open but when there is she would let me know and she put my name down, well 2 days later she asked me to cover electronics. I have no training yet and I just like could not believe she would put me there to cover. I really liked it so I went over, they gave me a set of keys I got to unlock the GPS case and I sold 2 of the gps’s and then I memorized some of the aisles where things go, so if someone needs something at least I will know where it is. I really liked it. So I hope they move me over when theres a spot open. Usually around February they hire people. But I couldnt believe she would ask me, it made my day. I tried to get in there for 2 years since I been with walmart in 2007. I hope they do put me in there. But its what I wanted to share with you all my day at work. =)I really liked it. But the thing Is I told her photo or electronics I didnt care, some people are telling me if she put me in there to cover shes gonna move me to electronics over photo that way I train before I actually move. But who knows!
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