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Two cigarettes in an ashtray,
My love and I in a small cafe.
Then a stranger came along,
And everything went wrong.
Now there’s three cigarettes in the ashtray.

I watched her take him from me,
And his love is no longer my own.
Now they are gone, and I sit alone,
And watch one cigarette burn away.

I watched her take him from me,
And his love is no longer my own.
Now they are gone, and I sit alone,
And watch one cigarette burn away.

Patsy Cline - Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray (by ElixirOfThought)

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The Body Mass Index measurement is used to calculate whether an individual is a healthy weight or not. This is calculated by dividing weight (in kilos) by the square of his or her height (in metres). Under 18.5 is underweight, 18.5-25 is a healthy weight, 25-29.5 is overweight, 30-35 is obese and over 35 is very obese (via British women are the fattest in Europe as quarter are classed as obese | Mail Online)

Compute Your Body Mass Index (BMI) (lahaven.wordpress.com)
UK women are ‘fattest in Europe’ (bbc.co.uk)

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Dangerous substances are in our food supply! See the evidence on this startling new documentary presented by University Professors, Doctors, Researchers learn the truth and make you own decision

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Mask of Deception (by maskofdeception)

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To understand the mystery of why hypothermia victims exhibit paradoxical undressing, we need to know something of how the body attempts to protect itself when stressed by the cold. As your body becomes colder, it shunts blood away from your extremities and into your warm core in order to protect vital organs. This is why your feet and hands will often become cold first. Shunting blood to your core and away from your extremities is accomplished through vasoconstriction of your peripheral circulation. This allows the outer portions of your body to become better at insulating your core, since it is losing less heat to the outside world. And now the key to what causes paradoxical undressing. Vasoconstriction occurs when the smooth muscles within the vasculature contract. This effort requires a steady input of energy in the form of glucose from the body’s energy stores. However, due to a lack of blood now traveling to these muscles, they eventually tire. As the muscles of the constricted blood vessels run out of energy, they fatigue, relax, and open up. This is known as vasodilation. With vasodilation of the blood vessels, an infusion of warm blood from the core of the body rushes into the peripheral extremities. This causes the hypothermia victim to feel overly warm and to start shedding layers of clothing, contrary to the reality that their body temperature is continuing to drop. The victim’s warm blood rushing from their core, coupled with the removal of warm clothing, causes their body temperature to fall even faster. This serves to hasten death from hypothermia and results in another case of paradoxical undressing. Mountaineers with hypothermia have been known to push aside warm clothing and resist rescuers’ efforts to warm them. It is interesting to note that there are no known hypothermia victims who have reached the stage of paradoxical undressing and survived without outside intervention. (via Paradoxical Undressing | Survival Topics)

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The following signs or symptoms are the basis of Morgellons Disease as defined by patients that fit within a consistent boundary that is also outside the boundary of other “known” diseases. The initial three characteristics parallel a much more entrenched illness, Delusions of Parasitosis (DP) named decades before today’s laboratory technology and infection/immunity knowledge, driven by HIV, developed. The more recent findings listed below provide a far broader and more consistent evidence base, strongly supporting the likelihood that DP is a prematurely assigned label to an organic, rather than purely psychiatric disease. 1. “Filaments” are reported in and on skin lesions and at times extruding from intact-appearing skin. White, blue, red, and black are common among described fiber colors. Size is near microscopic, and good clinical visualization requires 10-30 X. Patients frequently describe ultraviolet light generated fluorescence. They also report black or white granules, similar in size and shape to sand grains, on or in their skin or on clothing. Most clinicians willing to invest in a simple hand held commercial microscope have thus far been able to consistently document the filaments. 2. Movement sensations, both beneath and on the skin surface. Sensations are often described by the patient as intermittently moving, stinging or biting. Involved areas can include any skin region (such as over limbs or trunk), but may be limited to the scalp, nasal passages, ear canals, or face…and curiously, legs below the knees. 3. Skin lesions, both (a) spontaneously appearing and (b) self-generated, often with pain or intense itching. The former (a) may initially appear as “hive-like”, or as “pimple-like” with or without a white center. The latter (b) appear as linear or “picking” excoriations. Even when not self-generated (as in unreachable regions of babies’ skin), lesions often progress to open wounds that heal incompletely (e.g., heal very slowly with discolored epidermis or seal over with a thick gelatinous outer layer.). Evidence of lesions persists visually for years. 4. Musculoskeletal Effects and Pain is usually present, manifest in several ways. Pain distribution is broad, and can include joint(s), muscles, tendons and connective tissue. Both vascular and “pressure” headaches and vertebral pain are particularly common, the latter usually with premature (e.g., age 20) signs of degeneration of both discs and vertebrae. 5. Aerobic limitation is universal and significant enough to interfere with the activities of daily living. Most patients meet the Fukuda Criteria for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as well (Fukuda, Ann. Int. Med., 1994). Cardiology data and consistently elevated heart rates suggest a persistent myocarditis creating lowered cardiac output that has been partially compensated for by Starling’s Law. 6. Cognitive dysfunction, includes frontal lobe processing signs interfering with logical thinking as well as short-term memory and attention deficit. All are measurable by Standard Psychometric Test batteries. 7. Emotional effects are present in most patients. Character typically includes loss or limitation of boundary control (as in bipolar illness) and intermittent obsessional state. Degree varies greatly from virtually absent to seriously life altering.

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Pagrindinis fonoskopinės ekspertizės objektas - garso įrašai, kuriuose užfiksuotos žmogaus balso ir sakytinės kalbos savybės. Tyrimo metu identifikuojamas asmuo pagal balsą, kalba ir kalbėseną, užfiksuotą tiriamajame (operatyviniame) ir lyginamajame garso įrašuose. Kitas fonoskopinės ekspertizės objektas - garso signalų įrašymo ir atkūrimo priemonės, sąlygos bei patys signalai. Šių tyrimų metu nustatomas pateiktų garso įrašų autentiškumas, t.y. ar garso įrašas ištisini, ar nėra su montuotas, surandami trynimo požymiai, nustatoma ar pateiktas garso įrašas originalas ar kopija; identifikuojamos panaudotos garso įrašymo priemonės; ap dorojami iškraipyti ir užtriukšminti garso signalai, kad pagerėtų juose užfiksuotos kalbos suprantamumas, lengviau būtų iššifruoti tekstą, tai yra atkurti įrašo turinį. Atliekant fonoskopinę ekspertizę tiriamos ne tik žmogaus balso savybės, bet ir kitokie garso įraše užfiksuoti garsai: darinėja mos durys ir langai, šūviai, automobilių sukeliamas triukšmas, radijo laidos ir kt.

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Manner #5 When you have any doubt about doing something, ask permission first. It can save you from many hours of grief later. (via 25 Manners Every Kid Should Know by Age Nine)

Books: Good Grief, Bad Grief (seattleweekly.com)

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Four-year-old Callum Munro was found on the afternoon of April 26, 2009 “cold and stiff to touch and purple in colour” on the couch where he fell asleep the night before, an inquest was told. When an ambulance arrived, he was confirmed dead. On the night before he died he was watching a movie with his mother Janelle Treanor and his two sisters, when he vomited twice - the only indication he was sick. (via Preschooler’s methadone death preventable says Coroner | NATIONAL News)

‘Diabolical’ delay: Family’s anger as stroke victim dies after 76 minute wait for an ambulance (menmedia.co.uk)
Victim of stroke dies after 1 HOUR wait for 999 crew (menmedia.co.uk)
Inquest into prison methadone deaths urges greater vigilance (canada.com)
‘Different vision’ prompts resignation of chief coroner (globaltvbc.com)

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Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug on the planet. Intertwined with culture, economics, law enforcement and perhaps medical miracles, this plant holds both peril and promise. Marijuana use can be traced as far back as the Neolithic era (8,000-5,000 BC), where charred remains of cannabis seeds have been unearthed in ancient braziers of present day Romania.Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were known to grow Cannabis on their plantations in the 1700s, most likely for the production of hemp.THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the principal psychoactive ingredient in cannabis. The potency of THC in marijuana determines the strength of the substance.THC is stored in fatty tissues in the body, including the brain. The most potent form of marijuana is called sinsimilla, and is produced by preventing the female plant from being pollinated. This keeps the plant seedless to produce a high resin content, allowing for a higher content of THC.Medicinal marijuana is currently legal in 12 states: California, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Mexico, Nevada, Montana, Colorado, Maine, Oregon, Alaska, Hawaii and Washington State. However, According to federal law, marijuana use is illegal regardless of whether it’s used medicinally. Marijuana is used medicinally to fight chronic pain, spasticity from multiple sclerosis, nausea and vomiting in HIV patients, as well as the nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy.According to the Department of Justice, the principle source of foreign-produced marijuana in the U.S. is from Mexico. However, production appears also to be on the rise in Canada and domestically in the U.S. According to the FBI, 800,000 people were arrested on marijuana charges in 2006 in the United States. Nearly 90% of these arrests were for marijuana possession. A 2006 survey reported that marijuana usage among males was twice as high than among females of the same age groups.According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in America. (via Explorer | Marijuana Nation | National Geographic Channel)