Tear staining, body condition score). A composite respiratory score (RS) was calculated for each cat using their owner’s assessment of respiratory noise whilst their cat was asleep and then breathing difficulty following activity. Multivariate analyses were carried out using linear models to explore the relationship between RS and facial conformation, and lifestyle risk factors.

Algae as an abundant natural biomass, more attention has been paid to explore its potential application in environmental pollutants treatment. This work prepared the algae TiO2/Ag bionano hybrid material by loading algae cells on the ultrafine TiO2/Ag chitosan hybrid nanofiber mat. For the first time, the synergistic photocatalytic effect of fresh algae and TiO2/Ag nanomaterial was investigated by removal of Cr(VI).

Last winter, they tried to keep an ice rink open for skating. But with all the snow, it ended up being a space that seemed not quite big enough to skate but big enough to curl. Then, there are the rocks. In days of of yore only eejits and George Michael wore sunglasses in November. But life is more complicated now. As an Italian expat told me recently, a grin of supreme contentment spreading across his handsome face, “everyone in Britain used to laugh at me for wearing my shades in winter.

I thought it would be different on the captioning days, but apparently not. I’m sure I’ll be flamed with many a mean post in response, which is funny since everyone here talks about how this blog is open to everyone’s opinion and how the haters should just go back to the mean mommies or some other such blog. I’ll also be called a troll and Curmudgeon will condescendingly call me dear while calling in the lizard island security or whatever and Sasquatch will say something “scathing”, but that’s okay.

30. Sen. Sens. People aren’t aware that wild fish caught in the United States are sent to China to be filleted and then shipped back to the US. It’s a very interconnected system and I don’t think there’s as much transparency as there could or should be. Revealing that is the role of journalists.

One “Louis Vuitton” handbag, encased in its own suede style protective bag, could almost pass for the genuine 895 article, but Kaur points to the roughshod stitching inside. Meanwhile a fake iPhone elicits admiration for its incredible likeness to the real product. The counterfeiters have manufactured not just the phone, but replicated the charger, headphones, information wallet and IMEI number.