![]() “My new wig was the one thing that allowed me to continue on with my everyday activities with confidence”, says CFC client, “I can actually look in the mirror and smile at myself.”Ĭancer Family Care continually accepts donations of new and gently used wigs and professionally cleans them for re-use.įor more information or to schedule a wig fitting appointment, call 51. We are able to do this thanks to the generous support of community donors. The Wig Exchanges primary mission is to provide women undergoing chemotherapy with high quality wigs and practical tips for managing the. Changes in appearance stir up many emotions in a cancer patient and often affect the whole family.įor nearly two decades, Cancer Family Care has been providing free wigs – in a variety of hair colors, lengths and styles - plus hats & scarves to any cancer patient in the Greater Cincinnati/NKY area. Since our hair is a unique part of our identity, suddenly losing it as a result of cancer treatment can be stressful for both men and women. Certain hair salons nationwide will fit cancer patients for a wig, facilitate the recipient receiving their donated wig, as well as trim and style the wig. Unfortunately, these drugs also attack other rapidly growing cells in the body - including those in the hair roots. CANSA’s Kindest Cut campaign: CANSA receives human hair donations (ponytails) in order to make sufficient wigs for cancer Survivors requesting them.These wigs are distributed, as requested, to CANSA Care Centres all over the country, and given to cancer Survivors who need it most. Chemotherapy drugs are powerful medications that attack rapidly growing cancer cells. I have now added this online shop with lots of cheap modern glamorous synthetic new and pre loved wigs for women of all ages along with a selection accessories and clearance lines.A cancer diagnosis is scary enough, without needing to worry about all the other changes the body goes through to battle the cancer cells. Postal Service has notified Locks of Love that many donations are being sent without enough postage, and these packages will be returned to sender. It takes approximately 10 to 12 ponytails to make one wig. Important: When mailing your donation, please make sure that you are sending it with adequate postage. ![]() If you wish I can bring them to you and help you choose. Donating your ponytail is a wonderful way to help us provide more wigs for kids. On request I send out a few wigs for clients to choose from in their own home then they can return what they don’t want. If I can be of help to someone who needs a wig I will do my best. Another great organization that takes donated wigs called. Then choose the program type 'Wigs - free' in the drop-down menu. EBeauty receives roughly 12,000 wigs each month from community members and companies like UNice, Torico, and The American Cancer Society. To donate your wig to American Cancer Society, search for your location on their website. With this in mind I am continuing the work she started. The program allows women to donate their wigs to other women. Then sell them from £10 Agnes did really want to help other ladies in the same situation as her. It was a lifesaver for me what a truly wonderful service to have available and the support of the team at such a vulnerable time of your life. People donate their no longer needed wigs to the Wig Bank we wash condition and disinfect them. Your hair must be at least 10 inches long and. It provides hair prostheses for financially poor children who have experienced long-term hair loss due to illness. Locks of Love is the most well-known and long-running hair donation organization. To buy a new wig at the time cost a lot of money – even an NHS prescription one was expensive, so she decided to set up the Wig Bank to help others, so they could buy a wig at an affordable price. If you want to donate your hair, make sure your ponytail is at least 8 inches long. For her the worst part of all the treatments was losing her hair during chemotherapy. My late sister Agnes was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003.
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![]() Password: o Select the password icon from the tool bar or o Right-click and select Copy password to clipboard or o Use Ctrl + C and then Paste the password into the desired field. User Name: o Select the user name icon from the tool bar or o Right-click and select Copy username to clipboard or o Use Ctrl + U and then Paste the user name into the desired field. Select the user name/password entry you wish to use. ![]() Password Safe provides a function, Auto Type, that automates theĮntering of user name and password into a web form. The clipboard and then pasting the information into the required inputįield. Most require copying the user name or password to An internationally renowned security technologist, he is referred to by The Economist as a 'se. Password Safe provides several mechanisms for using stored Bruce Schneier is the chief security technology officer of BT. Once a database is open, you can change to another via the Open Database command from the File Menu. KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. Select it from a File dialog box by pressing on the ellipsis (".")īutton. Also, you should use a different password for each account, because if you would use only one password everywhere and someone gets this password, you would have a problem: the thief would have access to all of your accounts. If you use severalĭatabases, you can choose between them using the drop-down list.Īlternately, you can type in the path to the database to open, or Last used, and displays a combination prompt for it. ![]() (PRTK can test only 900 Password Safe 3.0 passwords per second. And yes, these passwords are going to be hard to remember, which is why you should use a program like the free and open-source Password Safe to store them all in. Writing passwords down on paper should be considered a bad security practice for most people, keeping the paper in your wallet included. oneSafe is the password manager app where you can store. Bruce Schneier is a security professional and can take certain risks because he is aware of the potential damage and can actually make well informed choices. Top-notch AES encryption keeps your data safe while in 1Passwords servers. Note: By default, Password Safe will show the database Neither is a password made up of the first letters of a sentence, especially if you throw numbers and symbols in the mix. The same applies to storing your password on paper. ![]() This Makita’s engineering is masterful in other ways. That’s helpful drilling wood, but even more important drilling steel, where it’s far more difficult to balance the variables of motor speed, bit diameter, and steel hardness and thickness. Balancing that with its electronic speed control that maintains motor speed under load put us in the driver seat (okay, we’ll stop here with the sports car analogies). Fortunately, the tool has great control because all that power would be useless without being able to handle it properly. The GPH01D is the first tool we’ve tried in Makita’s new 40-volt XGT series, power tools with 40-volt motors but batteries that are the same size as a large 18-volt. Okay, it didn’t bore the most holes in this test, but it did get to its number faster than anything else. Knots don’t stop it and barely slow it down. ![]() So long as you keep that trigger pulled, it will just churn through hole after hole. Pull its trigger (floor it, if you will), and you just burn through one hole after another until the battery is done. Using this drill, you feel like somebody just tossed you the keys to their Ferrari. If you need this much power tool muscle you just need to have some muscle of your own. But as to the tool’s weight, we don’t count that as a mark against it. The other large-battery tools were the DeWalt (5.4 pounds) and the Makita (5.2 pounds), and these were also pro-duty, intended for either serious do-it-yourselfers or contractors. The FX1171T, with a 5-Ah battery, was the heaviest of the drills (5.8 pounds). You should know that this is clearly a heavy-duty tool intended for people who need maximum power and run time. We can’t fully vouch for that particular feature, but we can say that we pushed this Flex very hard and noticed no kick back the drill will pause momentarily if you really lean into it (call it a reset). The FX1171T blasted out its hole allotment, helped by its turbo mode setting that bumps up the top speed from 2,000 to 2,500 rpm.Īlso helping was the tool’s circuitry, which has an anti-kickback feature. ![]() We’ve tried a batch of these tools (drills, saws, rotary hammers and grinders) and find them to be formidable competitors in the professional segment. And when we say “muscling in,” we’re not kidding. Flex, short for Flex Elektrowerkzeuge, is a German power tool company muscling its way into the American market. ![]() Some local officials have adopted a harsh stance on this form of expression. The style, which developed in prisons because inmates were not provided with belts, has become fashionable in certain communities. ![]() ![]() Various cities, for example, have begun cracking down on the so-called “baggy pants” trousers worn below the underwear. Infringements on First Amendment rights have reached such extremes that government officials are even attempting to dictate what we can and cannot wear. Also in our nation’s capital, a congressman’s wife was removed by police from President Bush’s 2006 State of the Union Address because her shirt proclaimed the message, “Support the Troops-Defending Our Freedom.” In Washington, D.C., a woman who opposed China’s practice of religious oppression was arrested for publicly protesting during an official government ceremony for Chinese President Hu Jintao. ![]() Secret Service has a manual for dealing with such dissenters, including removing those who want to act on their free speech rights from such events. They were later released without charge-unsurprising given that their only “crime” had been to express themselves-and the federal government later settled a lawsuit the Ranks initiated for $80,000. On July 4, 2004, Nicole and Jeffery Rank of Corpus Christi, Texas, were handcuffed and removed from a rally at the West Virginia state capitol, where President Bush was giving a speech, for refusing to cover their T-shirts which bore anti-Bush slogans. Meyer was tasered and then arrested by police when he refused to leave the microphone after his allotted time to ask his question-a question that Kerry stated he was prepared to answer. Despite the clear protections found in the First Amendment, the freedoms described therein are under constant assault, from school officials stripping students of their right to express their faith and local governments and police forbidding citizens from expressing unpopular views in public to members of the press being threatened with jail time for reporting on important government programs.įor instance, in September 2007, University of Florida student Andrew Meyer was brutally dealt with by police for exercising his First Amendment rights at a forum featuring Senator John Kerry. If our First Amendment protections are to remain intact, however, it will require courageous individuals who are willing to take a stand in defense of them. The freedom to speak one’s mind on issues of the day, exercise religious beliefs, remain educated through a free press, associate with others and petition the government when you have been wronged is just as important today as it was in 1791. These rights are still protected by the First Amendment. The government cannot dictate how we should act or what we should believe, especially when it comes to religion. It does so by guaranteeing every person the right to express any religious belief, or none at all, while at the same time prohibiting the government from favoring any particular religion over another. The First Amendment also includes the right to freely express one’s religion. Supreme Court, the First Amendment has become the fortress for protecting the “uninhibited, robust, and wide-open” discussion of controversial and often unpopular issues in public places. As a federal judge recognized, history has shown us that “pleasing speech is not the kind that needs protection.” According to the U.S. The First Amendment has come to symbolize the right of “a single minority of one” to express views that differ from those of the popular majority in the areas of speech, religion and expression. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.” Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black wrote, “The Framers knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. As Benjamin Franklin proclaimed, “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” To protect this principle, the Founders established the freedoms of speech and the press in the First Amendment. “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”Īt the time of our nation’s inception, the Founders believed that the open, free exchange of ideas was necessary for the survival of a representative democracy. Amendment I: Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, and Assembly ![]() Best Picture (or equivalent) nominations: Golden Globes (Drama), Critics Choice, PGA, Oscars. ABC Best Actress Frances McDormand, Nomadland Best Supporting Actor Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the. The most likely winners for Best Actor at the 2023 Oscars are Colin Farrell for The Banshees of Inisherin, Brendan Fraser for The Whale, and Austin Butler for Elvis. Frances McDormand won the Oscar for best actress for her performance in Nomadland. While California-born Elvis star Austin Butler did not win at the Screen. Best Picture (or equivalent) wins: NBR (Top 10), AFI Movies of the Year. The Best Actor category seemed to already be locked for nominations, but the winner is less clear. Actress in a Leading Role - Charlize Theron. Most wins consecutively of an Oscar award for best actor Who: Tom Hanks, Spencer Tracy What: 2 total number Where: United States () When: 1995. ![]() The closest thing that came to a shocker was Sarah Polley's win for best-adapted screenplay for "Women Talking," a small film that felt very much the David that beat out the Goliath of a blockbuster, "Top Gun: Maverick," in the category. As Oscar night nears, one actor stands out as the likeliest winner, but it’d be unwise to suggest anyone is a lock. Moments after Parasite won the Oscar® for Best Picture during the live ABC Telecast of The 92nd Oscars. The 95th Academy Awards definitely wasn't like last year's ceremony – and for that, the people behind the scenes are probably breathing a sigh of relief.Īfter "the slap," the Academy instituted a crisis team that was on hand to make sure things didn't get out of hand.īut Sunday night was devoid of that type of drama – and of many surprises.Īs expected, "Everything Everywhere All at Once" was a big winner, taking home the awards for best actress, supporting actor and actress, best original screenplay, best picture and best directing categories.īrendan Fraser bested Austin Butler for best actor, which wasn't exactly an upset as they were both leading contenders. The Oscars 2020 are in the books The show aired tonight on ABC, and now we all know which Oscars 2020 nominees took home the most coveted prize in film, the Oscar®. ![]() Daniel Scheinert, left, and Daniel Kwan accept the award for best original screenplay for "Everything Everywhere All At Once". ![]() That’s great news for LS and LT models, but it contributes to the fact that the Equinox starts to lose its charm above $30,000. Plus, the Equinox’s most family-friendly features aren’t limited to just the LTZ. The lower-priced LS and LT models offer the most bang for the buck in the Equinox lineup, with great interior fit and finish, high-quality materials and an isolated experience from the road compared with crossovers in the $20,000 to $30,000 range. The Equinox’s family-friendly features, premium interior feel and value won over our editors and the participating family. The Chevrolet Equinox’s competition has only improved since our original review, yet the Equinox took the top spot in ’s $29,000 SUV Shootout against the redesigned Kia Sportage, Dodge Journey and six other SUVs. For a comparison of the two model years, see here. There aren’t many feature changes for the 2011 Equinox versus the 2010. This time around, I drove the most-expensive trim, the LTZ, with a four-cylinder engine and AWD. Now, a few years in, we’ve tested multiple Equinox trim levels against fresher competition. It’s been two years since our initial review of the redesigned 2010 model. While the last model's handling was too sloppy for many, that problem has been remedied, making the Equinox a compelling choice in the entry crossover SUV market.With the 2011 Chevrolet Equinox’s high-quality interior and great ride, it’s easy to see why the compact SUV has been a runaway success, though its value diminishes as the trim level and price rises. Its roomy cabin and reasonable pricing make the Chevrolet Equinox attractive, and buyers can get some nice amenities they wouldn't expect in this price range. The useful MultiFlex rear seat offers eight inches of travel, so tall passengers can ride in back or the driver can push the rear seat forward to carry more cargo. ![]() The front seats are comfortable and supportive, and they have 10 inches of travel, so drivers of all sizes will fit. The interior materials look and feel like hard plastic, though.Įquinox offers plenty of space for passengers and cargo. There are some nice amenities, including ice blue ambient lighting, dual-zone automatic climate control, a hard-drive audio system, a dual-screen rear DVD entertainment system, and a power rear liftgate. Inside, the Equinox has an attractively designed interior. We found that the Equinox absorbs even sharp bumps without disrupting passenger comfort with either the standard 17-inch or available 18-inch wheels. It's not sporty, but it's on par with its main competitors, including the Honda CR-V and Toyota RAV4. It is more carlike than the pre-2010 models, with less lean in turns. The current Equinox handles better than its predecessor, and ride quality is quite good. The V6 does offer Flex-Fuel capability for 2011, however, if ethanol is your preferred fuel. So we recommend the standard 2.4-liter engine. The available 3.0-liter V6 is rated at 264 horsepower and 222 pound-feet of torque, but we didn't think it felt much more powerful than the four-cylinder. Lots of sound insulation makes it quieter than most four-cylinders and we think it's a capable engine. A front-wheel-drive Equinox gets an EPA-estimated 22/32 mpg City/Highway. The standard 2.4-liter four-cylinder uses direct injection for more power and better fuel economy. In short, it's a good value.Įquinox offers a choice of four-cylinder or V6 engines. And the Equinox comes with luxury and technology amenities not expected in its price class. The Equinox has pricing and features of a compact SUV, but it's a little larger, and closer in size to a midsize SUV. Some people believe the second year of production is the sweet spot because they've ironed out all the bugs but it's still new. The 2011 Chevrolet Equinox comes with more standard equipment than the 2010, but it is otherwise identical. ![]() GM says that more than half of Equinox buyers have switched from non-GM brands, and that to keep up with demand, the company is retooling part of the plant to increase production capacity. ![]() The Chevrolet Equinox was redesigned for 2010, and the second-generation model has been a resounding success. ![]() The parallax angle is found by measuring the parallax motion (or apparent movement of a star relative to stable, more distant stars) when the star is observed from opposite sides of the Sun (an interval of six months. A liter is also a common unit in the metric system. Derivatives of a cubic meter such as cubic centimeters are also used. Note: Cubic meter is a metric unit of volume. It is defined as the volume of a cube that has edges of one meter in length. How many cubic parsecs in a cubic meter: If V m³ 1 then V pc³ 3.40366836419 × 10-50 × 1 3.40366836419 × 10-50 pc³. Type in unit symbols, abbreviations, or full names for units of length, area, mass, pressure, and other types. A parsec is the distance from the sun to an astronomical object which has a parallax angle of one arcsecond (1/3600 of a degree). The base SI unit for volume is the cubic meter. You can find metric conversion tables for SI units, as well as English units, currency, and other data. It stands for "parallax of one arc second", and is approximately 19,131,554,073,600 (19 trillion) miles.Ĭ provides an online conversion calculator for all types of measurement units. The parsec (symbol pc) is a unit of length used in astronomy. The definition of a parsec is as follows: The SI prefix "mega" represents a factor of However, both American and non-American forms of English agree that the spelling "meter" should be used as a suffix in the names of measuring devices such as chronometers and micrometers. The internationally-accepted spelling of the unit in English is "metre", although the American English spelling meter is a common variant. The metre, symbol: m, is the basic unit of distance (or of "length", in the parlance of the physical sciences) in the International System of Units. ![]() Megaparsec to meters, or enter any two units below: Enter two units to convert From: You can do the reverse unit conversion from The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to measure the large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System, approximately equal to. These sums are eye-watering, but crucial. Permits to visit gorillas for one hour start at $600 (£479) per person in Uganda, rising to $1,500 in Rwanda. ![]() ![]() “The revenue that mountain gorillas produce is a major reason why governments are valuing this resource,” says Tear. These income streams can fuel a country’s economic vitality, winning state support by helping to assert the animals’ worth to policymakers in capitals far from wilderness areas. “We need to be recognising there are many more opportunities to do things like this in other countries.”Įnvironmentalists stress the importance of giving local communities a stake in the survival of the local area, ensuring they profit from ecotourism and other money-making activities that provide alternatives to hunting and resource exploitation. “When done well, this can be a phenomenal success,” says Dr Timothy Tear, executive director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Africa programme, which has been involved in the decades-long campaign to save the mountain gorilla. ![]() Not any one country could have, on its own, been responsible for the recovery Anna Behm Masozera, IGCP Amid climate chaos and unbridled habitat destruction, this is a momentous achievement, albeit one that could now be reversed by the coronavirus pandemic.Įxperts who led the revival put their success down to engaging local communities, securing government support and promoting transnational collaboration, a three-pronged strategy that could offer beleaguered areas worldwide a roadmap to recovery. Now, thanks to a far-reaching initiative, a recent census has revealed the number of known mountain gorillas has increased to 1,063 – taking them off the red list of critically endangered species. Even in early 2018, the conservation status of these gorillas put them one step away from extinction. That all-time low prompted fears they would vanish by the end of the 20th century. Such a close and well-populated encounter with one of humankind’s nearest relatives (witnessed before the Covid-19 pandemic) would have been inconceivable during the dark days of the early 1980s, when it was estimated that there were only 250 mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) Virunga national park, and around 100 thought to be in Bwindi. The first group look on, then head deeper into the primeval jungle of Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable national park – one of Africa’s most ancient habitats and home to almost half of the world’s mountain gorillas. Ambling up the steep, wooded slope, another gorilla family has emerged from the valley floor. The line at the bottom should curve even more for the gorilla's big belly.Then Nizeyimana, a specialist vet offering hands-on care in the wild, spots a remarkable scene. Step 5: Draw a series of curved lines that connect the major shapes to form the gorilla's body. One line should be under the gorilla's head, the other under the first circle and the last two lines under the circle on the right side. ![]() Step 4: Draw four lines underneath as guides for the gorilla's arms and legs. Bend the lines to contour to the shape of the oval. Step 3: Draw two intersecting lines inside the head to help you place the gorilla's facial features later on. The oval should be as tall as the first circle but narrower. Step 2: Draw an oval on the upper left side as a guide for the gorilla's head. The circle on the right should be a bit bigger than the one on the left and should be placed slightly lower. 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![]() The direct and indirect economic losses ran into the 10's of billions of dollars. Many collapsed buildings were unoccupied, and most businesses were not yet open. ![]() This circumstance considerably reduced the potential effects. However, the earthquake occurred early in the morning on a holiday. This extremely strong ground motion in large portions of Los Angeles County resulted in record economic losses. Extensive damage was caused by ground shaking, but earthquake triggered liquefaction and dozens of fires also caused additional severe damage. Several collapsed bridges and overpasses created commuter havoc on the freeway system. Nearly 4,000 were severely damaged and over 11,000 were moderately damaged. Approximately 15,000 structures were moderately to severely damaged, which left thousands of people temporarily homeless. For days afterward, thousands of homes and businesses were without electricity tens of thousands had no gas and nearly 50,000 had little or no water. In the following days and weeks, thousands of aftershocks occurred, causing additional damage to affected structures.ĥ7 people were killed and more than 1,500 people seriously injured. on Monday, January 17, a moderate but very damaging earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 struck the San Fernando Valley. The most recent significant earthquake event affecting Southern California was the January 17th 1994 Northridge Earthquake. Why Are Earthquakes a Threat to the City of West Covina? Fire & Emergency Medical Services Delivery Options.Appendix B: Public Participation Process.Section 7: Earth Movement (Landslide / Debris Flow).Section 4: Multi-Hazard Goals & Action Items.Notes of Special Recognition & Profound Appreciation. |
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