| Meet our 2004 Miss Showgirls
THERE are seven candidates for the 2004 Miss Showgirl competition. The seven are a broad cross-section of the Wauchope community. The winner of the Miss Showgirl award will be announced during the official opening of the show on Saturday April 17. The candidates and brief profiles of the seven are: Alicia Taylor - Alicia is18 and works as a shop assistant, recently completing her HSC at Wauchope High, she has deferred a Bachelor of Economics at Newcastle University for 1 year. Alicia says "In the future I would like a career in this field, also to be happy and comfortable and to make the most of life's experiences". Barbara Gilbert - Barbara left school in year 11 but plans to complete her HSC some time in the future. She is currently working towards qualifying as a level one horse riding instructor with the Equestrian Federation of Australia.
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Seminar takes aim at heart failure
Floyd Memorial Hospital's Heart and Vascular Center is recognizing February as American Heart Month with a free seminar this weekend. "Understanding Heart Failure" will be from 8:15 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday in the hospital's Paris Health Education Center, 1850 State St., New Albany, Ind. Free blood-pressure and body-mass-index screenings will be offered until 9 a.m. .
More US exhibitors sign up for Bahrain's first international holistic lifestyle expo
Following the positive press coverage in the United States of the visit of US President George W. Bush to the Kingdom of Bahrain in January 2008, more American retailers, manufacturers and leaders in the natural, organic and healthy products industries, have been encouraged to participate in the First Bahrain International Natural Health Products and Green Expo (BINHPGE). .
Boiling water spikes bisphenol A levels
Adding boiling water to polycarbonate plastic bottles causes a dramatic spike in the amount of bisphenol A, or BPA, leaching from containers into drinks, according to a U.S. research team. The finding suggests that parents sterilizing polycarbonate baby bottles by heating them in water or in a microwave may be inadvertently increasing the amount of the estrogen-mimicking chemical leaching from the containers. It also indicates hikers who use the bottles as a thermos to store hot tea or liquids may be doing the same. The addition of boiling water increased BPA migration rates by up to 55-fold compared with water at room temperature, according to experiments run at the University of Cincinnati. A paper outlining the findings is being released today in Toxicology Letters, a peer-reviewed journal.
I do agree Steve
My daughter really, really, really (throw in a few more reallys for accuracy) wants to go to Disney World. Scouting reports from several of her preschool colleagues indicate that there is a large amount of princess activity down there. And not just princesses - real princesses. She's seen fake Cinderellas and Ariels - the royal equivalents of shopping mall Santas - but now she's focused on engaging the real thing, and she's been told that Disney World is where they hang their tiaras. So one day, probably very soon, we'll be heading to Florida to meet the "real" princesses who, despite presumably lavish wealth, charge parents $200 a day or more to take our children to meet them. I just hope that while we're there, Daddy can have some fun, too. For instance, I would love to meet the "real" Winston Churchill.
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