Unlike other women, 47-year-old Jodi Jaecks can now swim topless in Seattle?s public pools, thanks to a narrow exception granted by the Seattle Parks & Recreation.
Jaecks, a woman who survived a double mastectomy, was at first denied consent earlier this year to swim topless by personnel at Seattle's Medgar Evers pool.
But, Jaecks argued that she doctors had removed both of her breasts last year to treat cancer, and that wearing a bathing suit covering her chest caused her intense pain.
After winning approval to swim topless in public swimming pools, Jaecks said she would not opt for reconstructive surgery to have breasts.
Speaking on the topic, she said, "I don't see a need to fake having breasts. My ultimate goal is to change policy at beaches and pools, to increase people's awareness of cancer and the realities of the human condition.?
She also revealed that she detected the disease in a self breast examination. She said when she detected a lump in her right breast; she was felt like it was cancer. A diagnosis confirmed the disease.
Jaecks finished chemotherapy in November last year and is now completely cancer-free.
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The people who work in the oil & gas industry face many dangerous conditions every day. There are many aspects of this industry which can cause employees to get injured while working.
Aspects such as transportation, drilling, storage refining etc are dangerous since oil and gas are flammable in nature. In case the oil or the gas spills, it is very dangerous and a worker may lose his or her life. The risks, in this event, can make workers to be physically handicapped or even face severe trauma.
If you are a victim of such injuries, you have legal rights to seek compensation from the company. This will help you pay your medical bills along with other expenses while you get treatment. An experienced lawyer can help you and ensure that you fill all the procedures needed in the workers compensation?s claim process, and you must make sure that you do everything to maximize the chances of securing your benefits. And before you seek employment in this industry, you should know about the possible dangers.
Types of dangers associated with the oil & gas industry
There are many types of accidents that are associated with the industry, and some of the common accidents that a worker can experience include tanker accidents, hydrocarbon leaks and spills, pipeline explosions, gaseous blowouts of hydrocarbon, and accidents associated with high pressure.
These types of incidents can greatly alter the physical appearance of a worker. Thus, it is necessary to have insurance. Having an insurance policy will help you in time of need.
There are some injuries that severely alter the life of the injured worker and some can be very serious and may even leave them incapable to work for their remaining lives. In case of such situations, the oil and gas company has to compensate you and also pay for the hospital bills. There is a workers? protection act that will help you if the company refuses to compensate you.
Although nowadays there are modern technologies which minimize the occurrence of incidents but these incidents still happen. Most oil and gas companies have improved their transportation systems and pipelines to minimize these uncertainties.
Though they have succeeded to lessen the injuries yet they cannot completely eradicate accidents. The injured workers should perceive the available benefits which they should have to recover from accidents.
It is very important to know your rights. Just in case you meet an accident, you should be able to ask for compensation.
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Map locates Latakia, Syria, near where a Turkish plane was shot down by Syria.
Map locates Latakia, Syria, near where a Turkish plane was shot down by Syria.
In this image made available by the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is seen during an interview with the state-run TRT Television in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, June 24, 2012. Davutoglu told State TV that Turkey would seek the meeting over article 4 of the NATO charter concerning Friday's incident. The article says member countries "will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the parties is threatened." Davutoglu said Sunday that the jet was downed in international airspace after it mistakenly entered Syria, but the plane was not on a spying mission.(AP Photo/Hakan Goktepe, Turkish Foreign Ministry, HO)
In this image made available by the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, left, is seen talking to an advisor after an interview with the state-run TRT Television in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, June 24, 2012. Davutoglu told State TV that Turkey would seek the meeting over article 4 of the NATO charter concerning Friday's incident. The article says member countries "will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the parties is threatened." Davutoglu said Sunday that the jet was downed in international airspace after it mistakenly entered Syria, but the plane was not on a spying mission.(AP Photo/Hakan Goktepe, Turkish Foreign Ministry, HO)
In this image made available by the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, center, walks with advisors before an interview with the state-run TRT Television in Ankara, Turkey, Sunday, June 24, 2012. Davutoglu told State TV that Turkey would seek the meeting over article 4 of the NATO charter concerning Friday's incident. The article says member countries "will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the parties is threatened." Davutoglu said Sunday that the jet was downed in international airspace after it mistakenly entered Syria, but the plane was not on a spying mission.(AP Photo/Hakan Goktepe, Turkish Foreign Ministry, HO)
FILE - In this Sunday, June 10, 2012 file photo, a Syrian family walks in front of a destroyed military tank at the northern town of Ariha, on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria. As Syria's 15-month uprising has morphed from a popular call for reform into an armed insurgency, the country's civilians have paid a heavy price, watching their neighborhoods turn into battlegrounds and their friends and relatives die or disappear. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) ? A spokeswoman says NATO's governing body will meet Tuesday to discuss the Syrian downing of a Turkish plane.
Oana Lungescu says the North Atlantic Council will meet in Brussels to hear Turkey's complaint. Turkish officials say the jet was on a training flight Friday when it strayed into Syrian airspace, but was in international airspace when it was shot down.
The consultations will focus on article 4 of NATO's founding Washington Treaty.
Lungescu said Sunday that under the article, an ally can request consultations "whenever, in the opinion of any of them, their territorial integrity, political independence or security is threatened."
Associated Press
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Most us have now heard the message that networking is important. You will probably have been told that you need to do it when you are looking for a job or if you starting a new business. ?But networking can do much more for you than that.
Yes, networking is very important indeed if you are looking for work.
Yes, getting in touch with people you have met in the past, explaining what you have to offer and asking for their help, can bring new opportunities. Your contacts can offer advice about their experiences of job search, the sector they work in and they can introduce you to others so that your network expands. But remember networking is a two way conversation and if you want to receive, you must be prepared to give. You can be an attentive audience and listen with interest and attention to what they have to say. You can share your own knowledge of your own sector and your contacts in return. Make it an on-going conversation and you can turn them into ambassadors who will talk about you and connect you with new possibilities.
Networking is very helpful as well when you are in work ? it can provide an important boost to your career prospects.
You need to be visible in your organization for the widest range of promotion prospects to come your way. It is great that your immediate boss knows how good you are at your job and how far you want to go, but what about their boss? And what about influential people in other parts of the organization, will they think of you when they have a senior role to fill? If you know how to network well, you can use your networking skills to help raise your profile. If you are very lucky, getting to know senior people will help to find the right mentor for you.
Networking within the organization, will help to keep you informed about opportunities but also potential threats. You want to be one of the first people to know about up and coming changes and what they might mean for you.
Networking outside the organisation, for example, at event run by professional organizations, can help to keep you up to date with developments including market changes or new legislation. You will learn about new trends and what that might mean for your own personal development plans. If you are a senior manager, networking outside the organization could help you to find the right recruit for that vacancy you know is on the horizon.
If you run a business. networking will help you maintain relationships with existing customers and help you find new ones. You can build you own word of mouth publicity and, when you have established a relationship with new contacts,you can ask for referrals. You will learn as well about market trends, potential legal changes and perhaps new opportunities for partnership, Again you can create ambassadors who talk to others about you and connect you with the right prospects.
Lots of business networking organizations exist ? some free and some very expensive to join. They exist because generation after generation of business people have found that networking is a valuable way to support and expand their businesses.
To network well you need to understand the networking process and have the confidence to take an active.?I would be delighted if you would join my free teleseminar on 26th June at the link that follows to gain the networking skills you need for success.?http://confidentnetworkingwithwisewolf.eventbrite.co.uk/
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Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients appear to have a lower cancer risk, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health.
The study, published in the current issue of the journal Brain, is the first to investigate overall cancer risk in MS patients in North America.
"Because the immune system plays important roles in both cancer and MS, we wanted to know whether the risk of cancer is different for people with MS," says Elaine Kingwell, the study's lead author and a postdoctoral fellow in the UBC Faculty of Medicine and Brain Research Centre at UBC and VCH Research Institute. "Not only did MS patients have a lower overall cancer risk, the risk for colorectal cancer in particular was significantly lower."
The researchers compared the diagnoses of cancer in MS patients in British Columbia with those of the general population. While they found that MS patients have a lower risk in general for cancer ? and in particular for colorectal cancer ? they found that the risks for brain cancer and bladder cancer were slightly elevated (albeit not significantly). In patients with relapsing-onset MS, the risk for non-melanoma skin cancer was significantly greater.
Further studies will be needed to understand the reasons for this reduced overall cancer risk.
An unexpected finding was that for those who did develop cancer, tumour size tended to be larger at time of diagnosis. More work is needed to determine why some tumours might be caught later in people with MS.
"Because the symptoms of MS can be broad and include feelings of fatigue, it's possible the symptoms of cancer are being masked or overlooked," says Helen Tremlett, the study's senior author and an associate professor in the UBC Faculty of Medicine. She adds that, regardless of the findings, MS patients and their physicians are encouraged to follow cancer screening guidelines. Her team is planning a follow up study to determine whether death rates due to cancer are altered in MS patients.
Journal reference: Brain
Provided by University of British Columbia
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Bethesda, MDAs you decide what to get dad for Father's Day, you might want to consider what he gave you when you were conceived. If he smoked, your genes are likely damaged, and your odds for cancers and other diseases throughout your life could be increased. A new research report appearing online in the FASEB Journal, scientists show for the first time in humans that men who smoke before conception can damage the genetic information of their offspring. These inherited changes in DNA could possibly render an offspring in the womb susceptible to later disease such as cancer. This provides evidence showing why men should be urged to stop smoking before trying to conceive in the same way women have been urged to quit. Interestingly, a fertile sperm cell takes about three months to fully develop; therefore men would ultimately need to quit smoking long before conception to avoid causing genetic problems.
"That smoking of fathers at the time around conception can lead to genetic changes in their children indicates that the deleterious effects of smoking can be transmitted through the father to the offspring," said Diana Anderson, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Bradford, in the United Kingdom. "These transmitted genetic changes may raise the risk of developing cancer in childhood, particularly leukemia and other genetic diseases. We hope that this knowledge will urge men to cease smoking before trying to conceive."
To make this discovery, Anderson and colleagues used DNA biomarkers to measure genetic changes in the paternal blood and semen around conception, as well as maternal and umbilical cord blood at delivery in families from two different European regions in central England and a Greek island. Information regarding the lifestyle, environmental and occupational exposures of these families was taken from validated questionnaires. The combined analysis of exposures and DNA biomarkers was used to evaluate the role of exposures before conception and during pregnancy in the causation of genetic changes in the offspring. These results have strong implications for the prevention of disease.
"This report shows that smoking is a germ cell mutagen. If dad uses cigarettes, his kids will be affected even before they are born," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of the FASEB Journal. "As Father's Day approaches, family members may want to give dads and prospective dads the help they need to quit smoking for good."
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Details: Julian Laubenthal, Olga Zlobinskaya, Krzysztof Poterlowicz, Adolf Baumgartner, Michal R. Gdula, Eleni Fthenou, Maria Keramarou, Sarah J. Hepworth, Jos C. S. Kleinjans, Frederik-Jan van Schooten, Gunnar Brunborg, Roger W. Godschalk, Thomas E. Schmid, and Diana Anderson. Cigarette smoke-induced transgenerational alterations in genome stability in cord blood of human F1 offspring. FASEB J. doi: 10.1096/fj.11-201194 ; http://www.fasebj.org/content/early/2012/06/21/fj.11-201194.abstract
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Public release date: 22-Jun-2012 Share ] Contact: Cody Mooneyhan
cmooneyhan@faseb.org
301-634-7104
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Bethesda, MDAs you decide what to get dad for Father's Day, you might want to consider what he gave you when you were conceived. If he smoked, your genes are likely damaged, and your odds for cancers and other diseases throughout your life could be increased. A new research report appearing online in the FASEB Journal, scientists show for the first time in humans that men who smoke before conception can damage the genetic information of their offspring. These inherited changes in DNA could possibly render an offspring in the womb susceptible to later disease such as cancer. This provides evidence showing why men should be urged to stop smoking before trying to conceive in the same way women have been urged to quit. Interestingly, a fertile sperm cell takes about three months to fully develop; therefore men would ultimately need to quit smoking long before conception to avoid causing genetic problems.
"That smoking of fathers at the time around conception can lead to genetic changes in their children indicates that the deleterious effects of smoking can be transmitted through the father to the offspring," said Diana Anderson, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the School of Life Sciences at the University of Bradford, in the United Kingdom. "These transmitted genetic changes may raise the risk of developing cancer in childhood, particularly leukemia and other genetic diseases. We hope that this knowledge will urge men to cease smoking before trying to conceive."
To make this discovery, Anderson and colleagues used DNA biomarkers to measure genetic changes in the paternal blood and semen around conception, as well as maternal and umbilical cord blood at delivery in families from two different European regions in central England and a Greek island. Information regarding the lifestyle, environmental and occupational exposures of these families was taken from validated questionnaires. The combined analysis of exposures and DNA biomarkers was used to evaluate the role of exposures before conception and during pregnancy in the causation of genetic changes in the offspring. These results have strong implications for the prevention of disease.
"This report shows that smoking is a germ cell mutagen. If dad uses cigarettes, his kids will be affected even before they are born," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of the FASEB Journal. "As Father's Day approaches, family members may want to give dads and prospective dads the help they need to quit smoking for good."
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Receive monthly highlights from the FASEB Journal by e-mail. Sign up at http://www.faseb.org/fjupdate.aspx. The FASEB Journal is published by the Federation of the American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) and is the most cited biology journal worldwide according to the Institute for Scientific Information. In 2010, the journal was recognized by the Special Libraries Association as one of the top 100 most influential biomedical journals of the past century. FASEB is composed of 26 societies with more than 100,000 members, making it the largest coalition of biomedical research associations in the United States. Celebrating 100 Years of Advancing the Life Sciences in 2012, FASEB is rededicating its efforts to advance health and well-being by promoting progress and education in biological and biomedical sciences through service to our member societies and collaborative advocacy.
Details: Julian Laubenthal, Olga Zlobinskaya, Krzysztof Poterlowicz, Adolf Baumgartner, Michal R. Gdula, Eleni Fthenou, Maria Keramarou, Sarah J. Hepworth, Jos C. S. Kleinjans, Frederik-Jan van Schooten, Gunnar Brunborg, Roger W. Godschalk, Thomas E. Schmid, and Diana Anderson. Cigarette smoke-induced transgenerational alterations in genome stability in cord blood of human F1 offspring. FASEB J. doi: 10.1096/fj.11-201194 ; http://www.fasebj.org/content/early/2012/06/21/fj.11-201194.abstract
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