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4 unusual facts about ageing


Ageing

A number of diseases associated with ageing, such as atrophic gastritis and Hashimoto's thyroiditis, are probably autoimmune in this way.

Defined benefit pension plan

A defined benefit pension plan is a type of pension plan in which an employer/sponsor promises a specified monthly benefit on retirement that is predetermined by a formula based on the employee's earnings history, tenure of service and age, rather than depending directly on individual investment returns.

Sexual field

Nevertheless, to the extent that race, class, gender, ethnicity, age and ability, among others, are organizing features of sexual status within a given sexual field, so the relationship of sexual fields to broader historical systems of stratification requires consideration (Green 2005, 2008, 2011. 2014).

Wolves of Périgord

The man, who was in his sixties and armed with a billhook, had rescued an armed marksman and his companions from marauding wolves after their gunpowder had been depleted.


207 series

This EMU was introduced in 1991 to replace ageing 103 series EMUs operating on the Fukuchiyama Line and the Katamachi Line.

Agequake

Agequake: Riding the Demographic Rollercoaster Shaking Business, Finance and our World is a book written by Paul Wallace and published in 1999, that investigates what possible ramifications are likely as a significant and unprecedented portion of the human population age.

Ashley's Worlds

David Weatherley as Tobias, a plump and ageing aristocat of the noble Pussinbootle family

Auckland 400

With the 1960s circuit ageing, several attempts were made to move to a new locations, until eventually finding a new home on a street circuit in Hamilton as the Hamilton 400.

Black Stump Music and Arts Festival

In 2008, Black Stump moved to the Sydney International Equestrian Centre in Horsley Park, due to ageing facilities at Cataract Scout Camp.

Bodmin Airfield

It was hoped that the Trago Mills SAH-1 would be sold as a military trainer to replace the then ageing "Bulldog" fleet.

Danny McGrain

He became one of the so-called 'Quality Street Gang', the great Celtic reserve team that also included players such as Kenny Dalglish, Lou Macari, Davie Hay and George Connelly, who eventually took the places of the ageing Lisbon Lions.

Davidson Seamount

Scientific data on the water currents and food availability of the seamount was collected, as was information on the age and growth patterns of the corals themselves.

Debee Ashby

At various times Ashby has been romantically linked with ageing American actor Tony Curtis, and guitarist Rick Parfitt of Status Quo .

Dieter Burdenski

Looking for decent goalkeepers to someday succeed ageing Sepp Maier in the West Germany goal, Helmut Schön turned his attention to the Werder Bremen man in 1977, handing Burdenski his first of altogether 12 caps in a friendly in Montevideo against Uruguay.

Diogo Vasconcelos

Diogo also participated in the high-level panel established by European Commissioner Ms. Neelie Kroes to advise the European Commission on ICT innovative solutions to help elderly to live more independently, giving input on the “European Innovation Partnerships” and shaping the “Active and Healthy Ageing pilots”.

Electric Lunchbox

Steve Shanahan also works as a voice artist with credits including Tracey McBean, Bottle Top Bill, Ageing rock Dad 'Gene' in CJ the DJ with his latest credit being the voice of B1 in the animated series of Bananas in Pyjamas for the ABC Kids.

Gary Coull

The annual forums in May, and since 2003 in September, included mid-week parties that featured well-known, but ageing pop stars (such as Elton John, Duran Duran or Mariah Carey), as well as sessions by former and current heads of state.

Greenhills

Community Games athletics was also particularly popular in both Greenhills and Limekiln, although with the ageing demographic of the area participation in all sports has dropped off.

Helen Zerefos

Zerefos is also a tireless charity worker for the Ageing Research Centre at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital.

Insurance

According to Sam Radwan of Enhance International, low premium penetration (insurance premium as a % of GDP), an ageing population and the largest car market in terms of new sales, premium growth has averaged 15–20% in the past five years, and China is expected to be the largest insurance market in the next decade or two.

John Webster

The 1982 detective novel The Skull Beneath the Skin by P. D. James centres around an ageing actress who plans to play Webster's drama The Duchess of Malfi in a Victorian castle theatre.

Kiryat Sanz, Netanya

The purchase price of the land was covered with part of a $1 million check that the Rebbe had received from the City of New York, which was planning to build a new road in place of the ageing buildings occupied by the Rebbe's Yesodei HaTorah school in Brooklyn.

Operation Dingo

Ninety-six SAS and 48 Rhodesian Light Infantry (RLI) paratroopers and an additional 40 helicopter-borne RLI troops attacked the camps at 07h45 in the morning to exploit the concentration of forces on the parade ground for morning parade, directly after a strike by the Rhodesian Air Force's ageing Canberra and Hunter strike aircraft.

Rod Laver Arena

Rod Laver Arena is a tennis stadium that is part of the Melbourne Park complex located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and has been the main venue for the Australian Open in tennis since 1988, replacing the ageing Kooyong Stadium.

Santo Santoro

Santoro was sworn in as Federal Minister for Ageing in John Howard's government on 27 January 2006.

Sodium hypochlorite

According to work published by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine in November 2013, a very dilute (0.005%) solution of sodium hypochlorite in water was successful in treating skin damage with an inflammatory component caused by radiation therapy, excess sun exposure or ageing in laboratory mice.

Something Rotten

She learns that in her absence, Yorrick Kaine has joined forces with Goliath Corporation and plans to oust the ageing English President George Formby.

Susan Lenehan

Independent member to the Audit and Risk Committee - Ageing, Disability and Home Care Department of Human Services NSW - Juvenile Justice 2010 – 2010 with a budget of $2.35B having financial, analytical and risk management skills and an understanding of the political imperatives of ensuring open communication with the public and media are part of this role.

The Bachelor Father

Ageing English bachelor Sir Basil Winterton (C. Aubrey Smith) suddenly has his hands full when his three grown (illegitimate) children return.

The Naming of the Dead

The title refers to: the ceremony Clarke's ageing left-wing parents attend, where the names of a sampling of the dead from the Iraq War are read out; the list of victims created by Rebus and Clarke as they try to unravel the crime; and also to John Rebus' evocation of grief in naming the many of his own friends and family who have died in the course of his life.

Tobu 100 series

The 100 series trains entered service on 1 June 1990 on Kegon and Kinu services from Asakusa in Tokyo to Nikkō and Kinugawa-Onsen, replacing the ageing 1720 series trains operating since 1960.

Tuart forest

Now that it has been preserved from further logging, the next challenge is to revive the ageing forest, which suffers from degradation due almost two centuries of cattle grazing, to weed infestation (particularly Arum Lilies), and an absence of new young trees due to overpopulation of Western Grey Kangaroo (Macropus fuliginosus), for whom infant Tuart saplings are a favoured dietary item.

Victorian Railways J class

During the early 1950s, Victorian Railways embarked on a massive upgrading of its ageing locomotive fleet as part of 'Operation Phoenix', an £80 million program to rebuild a network badly run down by years of Depression-era underinvestment and wartime overutilisation.

Watercraft rowing

The following year the boat was gifted to an ageing General Lafayette, hero of the American Revolution, during his tour of the U.S.


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