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Fly Away Cats

Yuck

Spring salad with fetta, walnuts and raspberry vinaigrette.

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Edward

Super Mario Sunshine music from Ricco Harbor

The Dhole is a canid native to Central, South, East, and Southeast Asia. It's also known as the Asian Wild Dog. The name "Dhole" is in theory dirived from the Kannada word for 'wolf', tōḷa. The H is silent and is pronounced like Dole, the banana company. Also note that Kannada has nothing to do with Canada...or bananas. The Dhole is also endangered. Their numbers might be as low as 2,500. This is due to over hunting, habitat loss and shortage of prey.

I had a dream that I was kidnapped. At some point we stopped at a store. I knew sign language and kept signing to everyone I could, "I need help" or "this man kidnapped me". The first person that was able to understand me signed back "That sounds like a you problem" then walked off.

@MoodyB:
If it makes you feel better, you can't be worse than my mother at following directions. We once went on vacation at a lakehouse. The drive was supposed to take 2 hours. We had been there before many times. But this was the first time my mother drove us there herself. And now I understand why my other family was insistent on me telling our location every 15 minutes.

I kid you not my mother got us lost because of her bad directional skills for 11 hours. We stopped for directions 3 times, attempted to rondevu with the rest family 4, stopped at the same Taco Bell 2 times, 6 gas stations and after that we had the cops track us down.

Never again

@sunny: I'm told we don't have Astra Zenneca in my country. We have Pfizer and Moderna. We did have Johnson & Johnson but the FDA just ordered the company to immediately dispose of 80 million shots. I haven't heard much of anything about other vaccines like Atra Zenneca.

I've had my first shot. I get the second one at the end of this month. From what I hear the second shot wrecked people. I'm nervous.

Questions:
How did you do after the first and second shots?

What were your symptoms and how bad were they?

Would you do it again or did you regret everything?

@LilMissKushy:
Maincoon. Also not my cat.

This is my cat

Toast has been giving us cancer for 30,000 years! ...maybe

The history of toast begins, of course, with bread. The earliest archaeological evidence of flour dates back some 30,000 years, and it’s likely people were making flatbreads around that time, too. Evidence suggests that we may have even toasted them.

Along with being a staple food in many civilizations (Greek and Egyptian) ritual bread (toast) was sometimes used as an offering to the gods in Ancient Greece.

It’s likely that toast originated as a way to preserve bread rather than as a tasty breakfast item smothered in butter and jam. By scorching slices of bread, they lasted longer as a palatable food.

Centuries later scientists discovered that toast or burnt food may in fact cause cancer. According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer. But why? A chemical called Acrylamide forms from strachy foods when they're burnt or toasted.

Acrylamide has been shown to cause cancer in rodents and is considered a human carcinogen. Not only this, but it is also found in cigarette smoke. However many tests have mixed results.

When food is cooked at high temperatures, glucose and fructose react with amino acid and asparagines to form acrylamide. It is also majorly used in many industrial processes including plastic and paper production. And exposure to acrylamide is known to be dangerous to the nervous systems of both animals and humans.

So should you stop eating burnt toast?
Currently, it’s unclear exactly how acrylamide may affect cancer development and growth in humans. The rodents in testing were fed nothing but burnt food.

However, eating burnt toast is unlikely to cause cancer when consumed in moderation as part of a healthy, well-rounded diet.

Therefore, it may not be necessary to eliminate burnt toast from your diet completely. So unless you have a habit of eating several pieces of burnt toast a day, you shouldn't worry too much.