Proof that Monkey Puzzle trees are hardy
This was taken in Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands
Yes, I still have plenty of Linda pictures, but I want to slip others in from time to time.
Here is a basic primer on the genetics of breast and ovarian
cancer. Most of you won’t need it, but
you might want to recommend it to your friends.
Having nothing much to do these days, I find myself watching
more and more NFL football. I feel
ashamed of this sometimes; watching all those young millionaires bashing out
their brains for the amusement of a bunch of atavistic savages (us) surely
must be deplorable. Two centuries ago we
enjoyed watching bears and bulls kill each other; or dogs; or roosters. Now it’s humans. Well, at least they (the millionaires - not the dogs or roosters) live it up for a while.
But why I brought this up is this. It seems as though the NFL has ordered all
their gladiatorial bands to wear pink during their battles, in honor of Breast
Cancer Awareness Month, which is October.
September is usually Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, and NFL games are
played then, too. Do you think that if
we all wrote Roger Goodell and asked him for teal* next September, it would
work? Probably not, but I suggest we
give it a try. Maybe somebody can figure
out how to contact him electronically,
Breast cancer is far more prevalent than ovarian cancer: in
2012, for instance, about 130 women per 100,000 contracted breast cancer,
whereas 12 were diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
However, in terms of the seriousness of the diagnosis the picture is
much less one sided: 21 0f 100,000 died
of breast cancer that year, compared to 7.5 of ovarian cancer.
So let’s put teal on the Pittsburg Steelers defensive line
and see if they can blindside both cancers next year.
*You did know that teal is the OVC color, right?
You can contact the NFL this way:
http://www.nfl.com/contact-us
You can contact the NFL this way:
http://www.nfl.com/contact-us
Now I know, thanks to you, that teal is the OVC color.
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