Autoflower Grow Journal Jordan of the Islands Afghani Magnum Day 20 – Video

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Autoflowering strain Afghani Magnum from Canadian marijuana seed breeder Jordan of the Island is now on day 20. They are really taking after their Afghani parentage and almost every strain...

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Minecraft | Survival Sunday | Darkshard Islands | Ep. 5 w/ Lau_TheAwesome – Video

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RENSE RADIO SHOW 3-2-15 En Route to Queen Charlotte Islands[Haida Gwaii] – Video

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Top ten things to do in the Cook Islands

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TO THE ISLANDS: There's always plenty to do on these sun-soaked islands.

While the Cooks Islands are known for their beautiful weather, the colourful island culture and natural gems shine even on a rainy day.

1. TE VAKA CRUISE IN AITUTAKI

Even cloudy skies and the occasional shower won't stop Te Vaka Lagoon cruisefrom being the highlight of a Cook Island trip.

The funny, warm and musical crew at Te Vaka Cruise share their knowledge of Cook Island history, culture, cuisine and geography.

Guests sail to three islands on the 21.6-metre traditionally-designed catamaran Titi ai Tonga.

First stop is the island Akaiami, where Air New Zealand's predecessor Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL) landed its flying boats traveling the Coral Route in the South Pacific.

Next stop is Moturakau, the island used for filming a season of Survivor and as a set for the movies Shipwrecked and Treasure Island.

Visitors also get the pleasure of visiting One Foot Island on the outer-edge of the Aitutaki Lagoon.

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Coastal surprises on Spain's islands

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"We're not going to get out there today," Asier Fernandez says matter-of-factly.

The flag at the tip of the sandy strip of land at Es Trucador is red, and the water is churning, topped by white froth.

For Spanish guide Fernandez, the tidal flow is too rough for his small inflatable boat.

Fernandez regularly shows tourists the delightful coast of the Spanish island of Formentera and the handful of tiny Mediterranean islands around it, including the small private island of Espalmador.

On calm days, you can even wade through the shallow channel from island to island, even though authorities warn against this because of the speed with which the tides change and sea currents clash in the gaps between the islands.

In the pre-season that lasts until the end of May on Formentera, the smallest of the Balearic group of islands, nobody would ever get the idea to wade from island to island. It's too cold.

Most tourists are happy enough to stay on Formentera's more touristy stretches of sand in the north.

But once the temperatures start reaching summertime levels, the equation changes.

Each year, according to Tourism Office figures, around 800,000 visitors descend on Formentera.

Those with grander expectations seclude themselves on the posher beaches of Espalmador.

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We mostly use dad's genes, study finds

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March 3, 2015

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Some of us might look like mom, but we all mostly take after dad at least genetically speaking.

A new study by a large team of American researchers has found that although we inherit our genetic makeup equally from both parents we use more DNA from our father than we do from our mother.

Published in the journalNature Genetics,the study focused on genetic mutations that make us who we are and included all mammals in its scope.

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This is an exceptional new research finding that opens the door to an entirely new area of exploration in human genetics, said study author Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, a professor of genetics at the University of North Carolina.

Imprinted genes

The studys findings could be applied to the study of genetic factors related to disease as researchers often dont consider if certain genetic expression comes from mothers or fathers. One of the studys results showed that inheriting a mutation has different consequences, depending on which parent it came from.

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News In Two Minutes – Public Health Danger – Poison – Unrest – Radiation Danger – Exclusion Zone – Video

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Dementia in Maine: Overview & Introduction to Available Resources – Video

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Ebolas Not Over For Health Cares Volunteers

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You might have missed it, because were barely talking about it in the United States, but the African Ebola epidemic has still not died down: the World Health Organization identified 99 new cases in its most recent status report. And as long as the disease persists, the possibility exists that it could spread back out of that confined area to other countries. Which makes it a good time to consider several new reports of what happened to US health care workers involved in responding to Ebola, and how that experience still affects their lives.

Short version: Of two who contracted Ebola and survived, one remains ill and fears she was manipulated, and the other, though well, feels he was misrepresented and stigmatized. Both worry their experience will dissuade others from volunteering in turn. And a major new government report backs them up.

The Dallas Morning News reported Saturday on Nina Pham, one of two nurses infected by Thomas Eric Duncan, a Liberian who flew into the United States not knowing he had Ebola. After developing the disease and being treated by her own hospital, Pham was flown to the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health, where she was treated with experimental drugs and the blood serum of US physician Kent Brantly, who had already recovered. (Her colleague Amber Vinson got similar treatment at Emory University.) Pham survived and returned home, but months later, she struggles with liver disorders, insomnia, hair loss, what sounds like post-traumatic shock, and an uncertain medical future.

Pham is suing the hospital where she worked and was treated, Texas Health Presbyterian, for putting its staff at risk. From the story by Jennifer Emily:

Pham says she will file a lawsuit Monday in Dallas County against Texas Health Resources alleging that while she became the American face of the fight against the disease, the hospitals lack of training and proper equipment and violations of her privacy made her a symbol of corporate neglect a casualty of a hospital systems failure to prepare for a known and impending medical crisis.

Pham wants unspecified damages for physical pain and mental anguish, medical expenses and loss of future earnings. But she said that she wants to make hospitals and big corporations realize that nurses and health care workers, especially frontline people, are important. And we dont want nurses to start turning into patients.

A few days before that story, another US health care workers who treated victims of the diseases and then developed Ebola published his own account. Dr. Craig Spencer was healthy when he flew home to Manhattan; as requested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he took his temperature twice a day, looking for any spike that would indicate he was developing symptoms and becoming infectious. On the day his temperature rose, he checked himself into Bellevue Hospital. He writes in the New England Journal of Medicine:

People fear the unknown, and fear in measured doses can be therapeutic and inform rational responses, but in excess, it fosters poor decision making that can be harmful. After my diagnosis, the media and politicians could have educated the public about Ebola. Instead, they spent hours retracing my steps through New York and debating whether Ebola can be transmitted through a bowling ball. Little attention was devoted to the fact that the science of disease transmission and the experience in previous Ebola outbreaks suggested that it was nearly impossible for me to have transmitted the virus before I had a fever. The media sold hype with flashy headlines Ebola: `The ISIS of Biological Agents?; Nurses in safety gear got Ebola, why wouldnt you?; Ebola in the air? A nightmare that could happen and fabricated stories about my personal life and the threat I posed to public health, abdicating their responsibility for informing public opinion and influencing public policy.

Spencer was hospitalized for two weeks; his recovery rendered the US Ebola-free. (Kaci Hickox, who shortly afterward was forcibly quarantined in a tent by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, never had Ebola.) He worries though that his experience will deter other health care workers from volunteering where they are needed:

My U.S. colleagues who have returned home from battling Ebola have been treated as pariahs. I believe we send the wrong message by imposing a 21-day waiting period before they can transition from public health hazard to hero. As a society, we recognize the need for some of our best-trained physicians and public health professionals to participate in a potentially fatal mission because failing to stop the epidemic at its source threatens everyone. We should also have faith that these professionals will follow proven, science-based protocols and protect their loved ones by monitoring themselves. It worked for me, and it has worked for hundreds of my colleagues who have returned from this and past Ebola outbreaks without infecting anyone.

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Justices sharply divided over health care law subsidies

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court was sharply divided Wednesday in the latest challenge to President Barack Obama's health overhaul, this time over the tax subsidies that make insurance affordable for millions of Americans.

The justices aggressively questioned lawyers on both sides of what Justice Elena Kagan called "this never-ending saga," the latest politically charged fight over the Affordable Care Act.

Chief Justice John Roberts said almost nothing in nearly 90 minutes of back-and-forth, and Justice Anthony Kennedy's questions did not make clear how he will come out. Roberts was the decisive vote to uphold the law in 2012.

Otherwise, the same liberal-conservative divide that characterized the earlier case was evident.

Opponents of the law say that only residents of states that set up their own insurance markets can get federal subsidies to help pay their premiums. The administration says the law provides for subsidies in all 50 states.

The liberal justices peppered lawyer Michael Carvin almost from the outset of his argument to limit the subsidies.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said the law set up flexibility for states to either set up their own markets or rely on the federal healthcare.gov. Giving subsidies only to people in some states would be "disastrous," Ginsburg said.

When Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. stepped to the lectern, the liberal justices fell silent, and Justices Samuel Alito and Antonin Scalia took over.

"It may not be the statute Congress intended, but it may be the statute Congress wrote," Scalia said of the provision in question. The case focuses on four words in the law, "established by the state." The challengers say those words are clear and conclusive evidence that Congress wanted to limit subsidies to those consumers who get their insurance through a marketplace, or exchange, that was established by a state.

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