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• Chess Boxing requires both brains and brawn. This Dutch event combines a game of chess played in between rounds of boxing. Two individuals go at it for up to 11 rounds. The game starts with a four-minute chess round followed by two minutes of boxing. The World Chess Boxing Organization’s motto is: “Fighting is done in the ring, and wars are waged on the board.”

The match can be won through domination in either activity or some combination of a knockout, checkmate and exceeding the time limit on speed chess or by a judges’ decision.

• Ever thought of chasing cheese? In a battle of pursuit, people risk life and limb to chase an eightpound Double Gloucester cheese down a very steep hill in the annual Cheese-Rolling Festival at Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire. There are five races, and the first person to make it to the bottom still on their feet wins the cheese! turn the page for more!

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• Can you talk afterwards? The World Stinging Nettle Challenge is held at The Bottle Inn in Marshwood, Dorset, U.K., every year as part of a charity beer festival. Competitors come from all over the world to see how many nettle leaves they can eat off two stalks in an hour’s time. The bare stalks are measured, and the winner is the one with the greatest accumulated length. It takes skill and endurance to chew and swallow the leaves and not blister the tongue.

• You shouldn’t be asleep for this one! Bed Racing is a sport enjoyed by the people of North Yorkshire Town in the United Kingdom who hold the annual Knaresborough Bed Race. Competitors race beds in teams of six, plus one on the bed. The bed has to run on four wheels and must also float. The race is 1 mile (3 km) long with five up-hill climbs leading to a final challenge of crossing a river.

• Ferret Legging is a male-only competition that started in Yorkshire, England, and is now held at the Richmond Highland Games & Celtic Festival in Richmond, Virginia. Men compete with one another by trapping two live ferrets in their pants.

The pants must be tied at the ankle and secured at the waist with a belt to prevent the ferrets from escaping. The animals cannot be sedated and must have a full set of teeth. No filing or blunting of teeth is allowed. After the ferrets are secure in the trousers, the competitors stand in front of the judges. The winner is the man who can last the longest. There are two important additional rules to Ferret Legging: The ferrets must have free access from one leg of the trousers to the other, and no underwear can be worn! The current record stands at 5.5 hours.

• Witcham in Cambridgeshire, England, hosts an annual Pea Shooting contest where the competition is fierce! Contestants shoot a pea 12 feet (3.64 m) through a 12-inch (30.48 cm) tube towards a 12-inch (30.48 cm) target. Pea shooting recently moved into the 21st century with laser-guided shooters.

• Wife Carrying started in Finland and is now played all over the world. In this race, male competitors run a 278-yard (253.5-m) track with two dry obstacles and one water obstacle while carrying their wife on their back. The fastest time wins. The wife must weigh at least 108 pounds (49 kilograms) and may be carried piggyback, fireman’s carry or Estonian style, where the wife hangs upside-down with her legs around the husband’s shoulders, holding onto his waist. The prize is the wife’s weight in beer.

• A conker is a nut of the horse chestnut tree.

During The World Conker Championships, conkers are threaded onto pieces of knotted string to prevent them from coming off. The aim of the game is to smash your opponent’s conker. Who goes first is decided by a coin toss, and the loser of the toss holds up a hand with the dangling conker on the end of its string. The other player then attempts to hit the dangling conker as hard as he can with his own conker by swinging it overarm. If he hits it, he gets another go. If he misses or hits the opponent’s knuckles, the play switches, and the receiver gets a crack at his opponent. This continues until one of the conkers is so damaged that it falls off the string.

• Big crowds regularly attend the Great Christmas Pudding Race held in London’s Covent Garden’s West Piazza. It is a relay event where teams in fancy dress negotiate a challenging 164-yard (150-meter) obstacle course while carefully balancing a dish of Christmas pudding on a tray.

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• Jennifer Lavallee, DVM at Cat Specialist Minah is a 6 year old adorable grey and white shorthaired kitty with bright green eyes. She charms you with her polite manners and a cooing little meow. Sadly, Minah has propensity to form calcium oxalate stones in her Cindy Rose urinary system. First, in May 2014, she had bladder stones.

They were discovered when she presented for lethargy, vomiting, and frequent trips to the litterbox. X-rays revealed 3 stones in her bladder. Dr. Olson removed them surgically and Minah had a dramatic and full recovery.

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But things Cindy Rose really took a scary turn in October 2014, when Minah returned yet again with lethargy and vomiting. This time, on physical exam, Dr. Lavallee found something surprising – Minah’s right kidney was very large and painful. X-rays with contrast dye showed that there was now a stone in the ureter, the tube that connects the kidney to the bladder.

This is excruciatingly painful and can cause irreversible and life threatening kidney damage. Minah was hospitalized and given fluids and medications to help relax her ureter to try to get the stone to pass. Even under the best of circumstances, the success with medications alone is only about 8-15%. If unsuccessful, Minah would have required advanced surgery. We are very pleased to report that Minah was in the happy minority and her stone passed! Her kidney even went back to a normal size! She now comes in for periodic re-checks and we are managing her calcium level to reduce the chance that she forms more stones. She is a fantastic patient and we have been honored to care for her.

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There are a variety of opals but all share one characteristic: they shine and sparkle in a constantly varying play of colors described by gemologists as “opalising”. This color play makes the opal attractive, fascinating and valuable. In 1960s a team of Australian scientists analyzed opals with an electron microscope and discovered that small spheres from silica gel causes interference and the refraction of light resulting in “opalising”.

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• Vujicic’s parents struggled with idea of raising such a severely handicapped child. How could they care for him properly? What kind of life would this child have? Could he ever grow up to care for himself, go to school or live independently? The doubts and worries filled their heads. After much grieving and soul searching, they moved forward, and instead of dwelling on their circumstances, they set out to raise their child to be as normal as he could be.

• As Vujicic grew from an infant to a toddler, he learned to roll his trunk across the floor to get around. He would roll to a wall and using his forehead would walk himself up the wall to an upright position, bracing himself with his little foot.

• Doctors performed a simple surgery to separate his two toes so that he might be able to use them more like fingers. He later learned to use those two little toes to operate a custom-built electronic wheelchair, a computer and even a cell phone.

• Once he reached school age, he began to notice he was much different than other kids. His family was instrumental in helping him overcome these emotional challenges. They never let him feel sorry for himself and never coddled him. He went to mainstream schools, and although it was almost unbearable at times, he found the strength to persevere through humor and the ability to poke fun at himself.

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Other, less appetizing concoctions added rabbit heads, mice, lizard livers, and urine. (At least give them credit for being creative!) Sadly, many of these early toothpastes were highly abrasive or corrosive, which dissolved tooth anamel.

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Toothpaste as we know it first came to market in the 1800’s. These early “modern” toothpastes included soap and chalk powders. The first toothpaste tube came on the scene in 1892. In 1956 Proctor and Gamble developed “Crest” toothpaste, which added flouride to fight cavities.

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