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Hello! My name is Juli and Bun Bun is my alter ego (Read: The Birth of Bun Bun). I blog to share my love for makeup, how to apply it, and what works or what doesn’t, all from an Asian perspective.

My first makeup product was a shimmery light blue lipstick which I proudly wore all over my eyelids and lips. It cost S$2.50, but really felt like S$250.00, and made me think I looked like a million bucks.

I got engaged (Read: 10 Years In The Making – The Propsosal) and two years later got married to my childhood sweetheart. Teeheehee. ^_^*

My love for makeup got me started on blogging, and blogging made me even more interested in makeup!

Here are some of my favorite posts:

Some of you might know me from the horrific facial incident which happened more than 2 years ago; I thank you for your kind words. Some of you might have known me way before that and I thank you for your support and love. It was a difficult period but I pulled through with support from my husband, family, friends and fans. Thank you so much to all of you.

Apart from that incident, I write interesting posts too! Heh heh. I hope you enjoy reading my makeup and beauty posts as much as I did writing them.

For daily musings, I write regularly on Dayre. To see nice pictures, follow me on Instagram. To get updates, Facebook is my favorite.

Besides blogging, I run Doll To Doll Cosmetics, an online cosmetics store that carries brands and products sourced from all over the world to provide a beauty shopping experience that is fun, informative, and convenient. We ship worldwide so you can have access to brands not available in your country!

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April 14, 2012

Saturday Soak: Your weekend Open Thread

This image from SFGate shows eight lightning bolts hitting the Bay Bridge on April 12th.  How did you enjoy nature’s fireworks Thursday night?

You can also discuss this New York Times piece observing that California’s North/South divide is overblown.  The real divide is West versus East, and we coastal huggers are doing fine economically.  Inland is a much different story.  Stockton is looking into bankruptcy.  People moved inland, but the jobs didn’t follow, and then the housing values collapsed.  The coastal regions are more politically liberal and more eager for environmental policies that inland residents object to.  And geographically, a beach is not a desert.

This is an Open Thread.  How’s your weekend going?  Seen any good Open Houses lately?  How about those local sports teams, eh?

Comments (8) -- Posted by: madhaus @ 5:03 am

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  1. Alex Says:

    Fck the libtards. Damn tree-hugging, Birkenstock-clad, pot-smoking hippies.

    My weekend is great! Happy weekend, everyone =)

  2. Petsmart groomer Says:

    This picture needs an Instagram filter applied to it.

  3. Crissa Says:

    Coastie liberals are all for things which invest, and the inlander conservatives want to be tax free and regulation free.

    Of course, laws which work for one half don’t for the other. But deregulation would hurt our water supplies, and inlanders don’t care that they salt their own soil. Ran into someone complaining that we had to leave enough water in the rivers for fish! I guess we don’t need fish, because their cotton is apparently more important than our fisheries.

    It’s a big divide.

  4. madhaus Says:

    Don’t you see it? This picture is what the Inlanders want to do to San Francisco!

  5. Travesti Says:

    Of course, laws which plan for one bisected don’t for the other. But deregulation would aching our baptize supplies, and inlanders don’t affliction that they alkali their own soil. Ran into anyone accusatory that we had to leave abundant baptize in the rivers for fish! I assumption we don’t charge fish, because their affection is allegedly added important than our fisheries.

    It’s a big divide

  6. SEA Says:

    “Though Apple is still up more than 40% year-to-date, shares have fallen 7% in the last five days, pushing the NASDAQ down for the quarter.”

    Down 7% in five days? How is that possible?

  7. SEA Says:

    End of week update:

    “It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Apple stock: After hitting an all-time high of $644 on April 10, the stock has fallen 11% and was recently trading around $573.”

    Down 11% in 10 days?

  8. Michael Boltonestater Says:

    SEA, to answer your question: yes, it’s been 10 days since Apr 10.

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One of the most famous names in Australian advertising is disappearing

MoJo introduced the world to Australia with help from Paul Hogan.

MoJo, the agency that had Australia singing along to its ads for beer, cricket and margarine, will vanish from the Sydney advertising scene as owner Publicis folds the business into a new Australian outpost of the global agency Marcel.

Mumbrella reports that the merger comes as the French parent company, Publicis, struggles to restructure the Sydney business following the loss of major accounts, including Toyota. The MoJo name will live on in Melbourne and Brisbane for now.

MoJo was founded in 1979 by the late Alan Morris (Mo) and Allan Johnston (Jo). They built a reputation for capturing a larrikin sense of Australiana in catchy jingles, helping to launch World Series Cricket for Kerry Packer and Channel Nine with “C’mon Aussie C’mon!”, which became a pop song in its own right by The MoJo singers and reached No. 1 on the charts. It became one of 1979’s top 25 singles, alongside “I Was Made For Loving You” by Kiss, “Heart of Glass” by Blondie and “I Don’t Like Mondays” by the Boomtown Rats.

Network 10 GM Russel Howcroft once described the pair as “the Lennon and McCartney of Australian advertising” who for two decades “dominated advertising in a way we might never see again”.

Johnston’s husky voice managed to rhyme with polyunsaturated for Meadow Lea “You oughta be congratulated” and they also gave the nation’s beer drinkers something to sing along to with “I feel like a Tooheys” and “I can feel a Fourex coming on”.

But they will best be remembered for getting Paul Hogan to tell the world in 1984 that he’ll “put another shrimp on the barbie” if they come visit, in ads for Tourism Australia.

MoJo was named international agency of the year for 1986 and by the end of the 1980s, it was Australia’s largest ad agency, having merged to become MojoMDA. It was bought by US agency Chiat\Day in 1989, only to be sold again a few years later and then again in 1997 to Publicis, where it gave the nation another iconic moment with the 1998 Qantas campaign using Peter Allen’s “I Still Call Australia Home”.

Alan Morris died in 2007.

Johnston still dabbles in advertising, having written ads for the 2014 relaunch of the Rosella brand, which he also sang the jingle for.

Mumbrella has the details of MoJo’s demise here.

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The big monetary policy news of the evening: Brazil's central bank has cut interest rates from 9.75% to 9.00%. That was somewhat expected, but the real news according to Reuters is the dovish tone taken by the bank, implying more rate cuts to come.

Let's take a moment to pause and reflect on the state of global monetary policy.

The other big rate cutter is India, which did a 50 basis point cut earlier this week.

China is generally in an easing mood, though it's been a while since there's been a reserve requirement ratio cut.

So that's 3 of the 4 BRIC nations in easing mode.

On the other hand, today the Sweden's Riskbank held rates steady, surprising some. Then there was the Bank of England, which suddenly took a hawkish tone. And recent comments from the Bank of Canada was also hawkish. Also, the release of the March minutes from the Fed was hawkish, and of course the ECB seems to be in paralysis.

So the world's been turned upside down. The developing countries are casting aside inflation concerns to pump the gas pedal to revive flagging economies, while the world's aging developed nations are being relatively tightfisted, letting unemployment stay too high over fears of inflation.

2012 is a strange time.

For more on what happened today, see here >


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New York Yankees legend Derek Jeter is retiring after the 2014 season.

He was injured for much of last year. In his Facebook letter announcing his retirement, he wrote that his rough 2013 season led him to his decision:

"Last year was a tough one for me. As I suffered through a bunch of injuries, I realized that some of the things that always came easily for me and were always fun had started to become a struggle. The one thing I always said to myself was that when baseball started to feel more like a job, it would be time to move forward."

"The 2014 season will be my last year year playing professional baseball," he wrote.

He'll be 40 years old when he retires.

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ATHENS, GREECE -- One of the questions I've been wanting to get answered on my trip to Greece has been: Why did nearly 7 percent of the voters vote for the (basically) neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party in the last election. With all kinds of options to choose from, why them?

The first person I talked to about this was my cab driver, who said he had friends who voted for them, but that it was purely out of anger and protest. And he said that after the incident where the Golden Dawn spokesman hit a woman on live TV, their support was almost certainly going to erode in the election come this Sunday.

But not all the supporters of the party are just protesters ...

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In Syntagma Square right now (the main square, where you see all the protests on TV), the conservative New Democracy party has brilliantly set up a pavilion where people can watch football (soccer) in the shade. The European Championship tournament is happening right now, so this presents a great excuse to get people to come and watch the game while the face of their leader Antonio Samaras stares them in the face.

I was curious whether any of the folks at the pavilion were going to change their vote based on this cleverness, and the first person I talked to was Christos (or, he went by that, but I kind of got the impression that that wasn't his real name).

Christos was definitely NOT a supporter of New Democracy or the left-wing SYRIZA party, as he said they were both the same.

Same? Huh? Most people assume they're the exact opposite.

Nope. As Christos put it: "They have the same line." And that line is that of global "political Zionism," which he described as "The system that prints fake money in the United States," which is then used to buy off politicians on behalf of the banks.

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Yep, he was one of those.

He said he was a 100 percent supporter of the Golden Dawn party, but that he didn't vote because if voting accomplished anything it would be illegal.

Not surprisingly, his argument wasn't that coherent, but it basically went like this: The global Zionist "kleptrocracy" (which includes New Democracy, SYRIZA, Goldman Sachs, and Angela Merkel, who is a Zionist puppet) schemed to keep countries in debt on behalf of the banks.

They don't want any country to return to their own currency, and there's a reason that Greece is getting punished first: "She (Merkel) wants to punish one famous country."

Christos, 65, was convinced that they could go after anyone else, but that because Greece is well known and has a rich history, the message is brought to bear much louder than if it was Portugal that was on the verge of collapse.

As for Goldman's role in all this, he explained how Goldman facilitates the scheme whereby Greece is perpetually in debt so that foreigners can lay claim to Greece's rich natural gas and mineral assets. "Everybody knows the role of Goldman Sachs," he assured me.

Finally, he argued to me that Greece could get out of debt 4 times over if Germany would just pay it the WWII reparations that it's owed. He says the Greek politicians don't do this because they've been bought off by Siemens, the German engineering company.

So there you have it. Some people support Golden Dawn out of protest. Others (we know) are just violent hooligans. And in this case, the supporter believes in a global Zionist conspiracy to rob Greece of its real currency and keep it in debt.

Meanwhile, here's a picture I took and posted on Instagram of the Hellenic Parliament, as seen from Syntagma Square.

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The military and the defense industry have certainly seen better days (though most of the bigwigs are still making money hand over fist).

"Sequestration" has become the bogeyman beneath Washington's bed — an automatic, blind trimming of 50 billion dollars threatens all things defense related, to include American jobs.

In a lot of ways, the old-school job ad here reflects the good ol' days associated with the 1950s. The industries of foreign enemies and friends were in shambles. Meanwhile, America was not just intact, but WWII spending had artificially riled up the economy like Twinkies do to a toddler.

The ad reflects a level of pride about the military industry far different from what you hear today — "no field of science offers greater challenges and scope for achievement." It also reflects the subconscious underbelly of U.S. paranoia. Fear. External threat. It wouldn't be long before the Red Scare, and America needed missiles. Lots of missiles.

Along the right side of the ad we also see just how much the funding the defense industry offered us. The company IBM had just entered "the computer age," and national security dictated the dumping of money into these systems, along with many others.

Would we have an iPhone or a Siri without it? Be honest — probably not.

Further down we read a total blast from the past: people actually wrote resumes. Actually put them into envelopes and into the mail, where a real actual human would then open them up and actually read them.

Lockheed's current job ads are as inhuman as one would expect.

It's all done over the web. Rather than write a letter, lick a stamp, several fields confront you — name, date, state, zip code. (It's the same if you're applying to CNN or most other companies.)

One would presume an algorithm, several times removed from human touch, sorts the applications — which must be a flood, in this economy.

The only thing human about the process is the stock image of a smiling woman.

Contrary to what her smile would tell you, the U.S. has seen better days.

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Paul Ryan was on CNBC this morning, giving a mostly agreeable interview about the poor state of the economy.

Mostly it was pretty standard stuff, but he does repeat one talking about that is a myth that is worth debunking, if only because it's so widespread.

Ryan took issue with the Fed's quantitative easing. Specifically he said:

"At the end of the day, all this easing, is simply, in my opinion trying to bail out bad fiscal policy."

Now there is one reading of this where it might be true. If the Fed had stimulated more aggressively, there might not be as much of a need for Fed easing.

But that's not what Ryan is talking about. When he talks about 'bad fiscal policy' he means large deficits, and so he's saying that the Fed is enabling large deficits by buying US Treasuries.

And on a superficial level, we can see why he thinks that. The US Treasury is issuing a lot of bonds these days, and the Fed has bought quite a lot of bonds, and interest rates are very low. Furthermore, the ECB is buying bonds to reduce borrowing costs of peripheral governments.

But in reality, the Fed doesn't buy bonds for the purpose of enabling spending or reducing borrowing costs.

First of all, let's point out that although government borrowing is near record levels, borrowing costs are actually quite low.

Here's Federal Government Interest Payments as a share of GDP. They're very small. Debt is not creating cost pressure that the Fed needs to solve.

Well, you might think that interest rates are only so low because the Fed has intervened so much to depress rates.

But the data shows this is not what happened.

As this old chart from Jeff Gundlach (via @condoroptions) nicely shows, interest rates on the 10-year bond actually jumped after the start of QE1 and QE2.

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But maybe you think that this is just a chart quirk, and that still the reason rates have gone so low is because of the Fed.

But the decline in government rates has been a global phenomenon.

Yields in Mexico, Japan, Australia, the UK, and Canada are all close to all-time low levels for the decade.

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The fact of the matter is that what moves rates are inflation expectations, growth, and the desire for safe assets.

Growth has been very poor for the last few years, and the crisis in Europe has created a huge boom in demand for safe, government assets.

That's why rates are so low.

And what Bernanke has tried to do (with limited sucess) is get out of the ZIRP trap, by trying to promote inflation and growth and actually send interest rates higher.

Here's Ryan's interview on CNBC. The stuff about the Fed bailing out the government starts at 5:19.


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Amid public pressure to curb trash from disposable cups, Starbucks is rolling out a possible solution Thursday: a $1 reusable tumbler.

The Seattle-based coffee giant will start selling the plastic cups, bearing its logo and resembling the paper version, at all its company-owned stores in the USA and Canada in a bid to get customers to kick their throwaway habit.

"We see real excitement about these cups. People think they're cool," Starbucks' Jim Hanna says, referring to recent test marketing in Pacific Northwest stores. He says 26 percent more cups were reused in those stores in November, compared with the same month a year earlier. The data are based on the dime discount Starbucks has been giving for each cup of coffee served in multiuse tumblers since 1985.

The new $1 cup comes as food and beverage retailers face pressure to reduce the amount of disposable cups and containers that ends up in landfills or litters streets and waterways. Thousands of people have signed petitions on, a website promoting social change, urging companies to promote reusable options and abandon polystyrene foam packaging, which is rarely recycled.

McDonald's began testing paper cups at some of its stores last year, and Dunkin' Donuts says it will do the same this year, but neither requires its stores to offer discounts for reusable tumblers. Jamba Juice, which plans to phase out foam cups this year, says it offers a dime discount for customers bringing in clean multiuse ones, but very few do so.

Hanna says Starbucks, in addition to working with paper mills to get more of its disposable paper cups recycled, has long sold reusable tumblers but expects the low price of its new one will prompt change.

"It's not a burden for people to buy two or three," he says, noting Starbucks will clean them for customers with a boiling-water rinse before each refill. The cups have interior lines to denote a "tall" or "grande" size.

Others aren't as optimistic. "A bigger factor is human behavior. I have friends who are environmentalists, and they have trouble remembering their mug," says Conrad MacKerron of As You Sow, a non-profit group advocating corporate social responsibility. "We're so used to this disposable culture."

MacKerron says that although Starbucks has been a leader in cup reform, he's disappointed that it has sharply reduced its goal of having 25 percent of its cups be multiuse by 2015 to 5 percent. He says Starbucks has a "high-end," eco-minded clientele but has had limited success: 1.9 percent of its cups were multiuse in 2011, up from 1.5 percent in 2009.

Other companies have cited concerns that reusing cups could cause cross-contamination of germs, according to Miriam Gordon of the California chapter of Clean Water Action, an environmental group. "There's this fear of liability," she says, arguing that Starbucks' cup cleaning solves the issue.

Gordon questions whether the $1 cup will be enough to alter behavior, citing studies that consumers are more apt to change if charged a fee for something such as plastic bags than given a discount for a better alternative. Still, she welcomes the effort as a "step in the right direction."

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Now that we've experienced blanket coverage of the death of Osama bin Laden, here's a rundown of who gained the most from a media perspective.

Barack Obama and the White House Communications Team

The president had a great story to tell, and he and his team revealed the heroic mission with perfect modulation.  From the first tweet alerting the press corps and priming the media nation for big news to come, Team Obama showed a command of social media not seen since its successful 2008 campaign. With President Obama’s first speech to the nation and the calculated briefings that followed, unwinding an action narrative worthy of a John Clancy novel, the White House got maximum boost and so far has avoided any “Mission Accomplished” missteps.

Given the dramatic cascade effect that followed the tweet from former Donald Rumsfeld aide Keith Urbahn, which was first to report bin Laden’s demise, nobody need question the value of 140 characters or less anymore.  Twitter had the biggest night in its five-year history on Sunday, recording 3,000 tweets per second.  Daily news outfits used to publish the first draft of history; now Twitter’s hundreds of millions of users are drafting it in real time—not least of whom is Sohaib Athar, the bin Laden neighbor who tweeted about inexplicable noise and loss of power in Abbottabad the night of the Navy SEALS’s visit. (In an interview with the conservative website, Athar revealed that he doesn’t own a TV set.) And new platforms like Storify, which automatically compiles social-media feeds into narrative forms, are advancing the evolution of how news stories can be created.

Legacy Media

While Twitter and other social media platforms may be compiling the first draft of history, blue chip news organizations like The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal are still the ones packaging it up expertly with background and context.  Other news organizations, widely available in the digital world, such as the BBC, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph, have aggressively reported the story from a more global perspective. Taking full advantage of social media tools at hand, they are crowdsourcing news, encouraging comments from readers, and doing great work to keep us informed and engaged.

Al Jazeera

The Qatar-based news organization continues to build on its success from its much lauded coverage of the upheaval that’s been engulfing the Middle East since the uprisings began in Tunisia and Egypt.  Al Jazeera English is now a go-to destination online for breaking news from the region, much as we flip to CNN when a tornado or hurricane hits closer to home. (As for the domestic cable news competition, CNN handily bested Fox News and MSNBC on Sunday night.)

Conservative Columnists

Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity may have had trouble giving the president his due, but a raft of conservative columnists heaped praise on the administration that couldn’t have been more positive had it been written by Michelle Obama.  Those pundits from the right who called it as they saw it, praising a president who is usually a target for editorial abuse, added to the credibility of their brands. For example, the Wall Street Journal’s opinion pages could have been mistaken for the New York Times's.  A headline for WSJ columnist Bret Stephens read “Obama’s Finest Hour.”  On that same page, William McGurn wrote that the Obama’s mastery of the mission was a challenge to Republicans to put forth a coherent foreign policy.  “Going after bin Laden as forcefully as he did, Mr. Obama undermines one of the primary narratives against him—that of an indecisive president who worries more about the rights of our enemies than the freedom and safety of our citizens.” In short, see Winner #1 above.

To read more by J. Max Robins, visit The Robins Report at The Paley Center for Media.

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Recently, a series of roadside bombs killed 11 people and injured dozens more in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

The attacks were part of coordinated assaults by insurgent elements around the country that killed 32 people and remind us how violent the area remains.

See 'The Most Dangerous Cities In The World' >

Research consulting firm Mercer has released its 2011 Quality of Living Report, which includes ranking of the cities according to the level of personal safety. Baghdad is the most violent city on the list. Based on Mercer’s list, 24/7 Wall St. has examined the 10 most dangerous cities in the world.

All of these areas suffer from great political instability that has led to politically motivated violence. This climate of instability also has created an ideal breeding ground for crime motivated by profit. Whether the violence is criminal or political in nature, it perpetuates socioeconomic conditions that keep those nations’ economies depressed.

Nearly all the countries of the cities on the list have experienced a violent coup or national war in recent past. In Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, a brief but severe military conflict with Russia in 2008 led to long-term economic problems and the increased availability of firearms.

In many of these cities, the central national violent conflict is ongoing. In Yemen, long-reigning president Saleh has just stepped down, but a large group of citizens are demanding his execution. As a result, firefights between protesters and government troops are ongoing.

For all the cities on the list, the U.S. Department of State has urged Americans to avoid the country altogether and in many cases suggested citizens who remain there leave.

To illustrate the violent conditions in each city, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed travel warnings issued by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs. These reports detail the type of crime or violence in the area, including whether Americans are being targeted. We also included the socioeconomic conditions for each country to reflect how violence and depressed living conditions are almost always interconnected. We referred to adult literacy rates, adult mortality rates and the percentage of the population living on less than $1 per day, based on data from the United Nations. To demonstrate the impact that violence has on the economy, we obtained GDP per capita from the International Monetary Fund.

See 'The Most Dangerous Cities In The World' >

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The Department of Transportation's Federal Railroad Administration has released a report outlining possible plans to expand rail service in the Northeast corridor (NEC).

The purpose of the "Preliminary Alternatives Report" is to lay out a process to improve and expand the network of trains running between Washington, D.C. and Boston, the busiest rail corridor in the country.

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I don't particularly feel like rambling on a subject that far smarter and far better writers have wrote books about, so methinks I'll condense my thoughts of some arguments I've been reading into short, easy to digest snip-its.
  • Personality is a complex thing that even experts who devote their lives to studying it aren't entirely sure how it works and changes.
  • Personality is effected by literally everything. From society to culture to your parents to your friends, from your childhood to your adulthood, your personality is basically the sum of all your experiences in life.
  • This means personality is effected by literally millions if not billions or trillions of small or large variables. You can see how it might be hard to track down the exact cause of a personality fluke.
  • There are very smart people who know a lot about this, don't get any other impression. We may not understand it perfectly but we do have a grasp on the subject. We may not know how to unify quantum mechanics and special relativity, but it doesn't mean we can't track the orbit of a planet or understand the innerworkings of an atom.
  • Studies that test for certain personality traits in certain demographics are almost always inherently flawed, and the people who do them openly admit this. It is not an exact science; this isn't to say all personality tests should be thrown to the wind though. Going back to physics, in quantum mechanics you're never positive of a particle's position. You have percentages and chances that it's in one position or another. You can have a ninety percent chance of an electron in one region but a one percent chance that it's in another region.
  • Similarly, studies that attempt to track down the causes of personality traits are like this. If the test is conducted scientifically, and the testers do their best to have a large sample supply, it's results can be accurate to a large percentage.
  • However, these studies ultimately can't be certain because of a lack of a control sample or subject. We don't have any control humans because our personality is the sum of our experiences. One could say a feral child could work, but that feral child, while deprived of human contact, still has a personality. It's just a personality shaped by the environment and the beasts rather than society.
  • Because of a lack of a control and the astronomical amount of variables that can change a person's personality, conducting personality studies on demographics must be extremely large to compensate. It use to be and still is a common practice to twist the numbers; ever heard a political message saying how variable X is polluting society, and then find out that their study had a group of a hundred criminals in a bad part of town?
My ultimate point to these bite-size ramblings? When you read a study that says group X acts like such and such, or that one demographic has a default behavioral type, remember to use common sense. Research the study, see the methods used, and use your brain to formulate your own opinion, not that which is shoved onto you.
Don't take this as me decrying all studies into behavior and personality; there are many that are legitimately well handled and conducted with the greatest precision possible. Just remember that for every study that says X, there will be another that says Y, and that you shouldn't instantly jump to conclusions because someone in a lab coat said so. Consult ten guys in lab coats then jump to a conclusion.

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Funny, since I wrote it in about fifteen minutes. :P

I've done research on it before, don't get me wrong, I just wrote this rather briskly. xD

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What is an Academic Evaluation Report (AER), how do I find it?

The Academic Evaluation Report (AER) is a real time document that lists the courses required for graduation. It applies each student's course work to the various requirements of the core, majors, minors and cognates to show what requirements are completed, those that are in progress and those that have yet to be started. If you change your major it's important to stop by our Spoelhof location to let us know so that your AER can be updated to reflect your current required course work. You can access you AER via the portal.

Who is my advisor and how do I schedule an advising appointment?

Your AER lists your advisor and his or her phone number. Faculty office numbers and e-mail addresses are available through the people search. You will need to contact your advisor directly to schedule an appointment. During advising days many faculty post advising schedules on their office door for students to sign up for an advising appointment.

My AER doesn't show a class where I think it should, how do I fix this?

Upon occasion a course may not fill the line on your AER as you expect it to.

Talk to your advisor and have them e-mail us if you have an approved adjustment that needs to be updated for:

  • a major (or minor) elective
  • a substitution to the regularly accepted major (or minor) requirement

Stop by our Spoelhof location and talk to us if a course is not filling a line as expected and is:

  • a pre-approved transfer course
  • a course that was at one point filling the correct line
  • a core credit*

A course may not fill any line on your AER if:

  • you took the course as an audit
  • you did not achieve the minimum grade required in the course
  • it is a lab section
  • it is a course that does not fill any requirement

*Note: Substitutions for core credit are not accepted and may not be approved by an advisor.

What do I need to do to make sure I can graduate?

Please review the degree requirements online, or in the catalog. Make sure you are aware of any and all special requirements for your major by reviewing the catalog.

How many overlaps between majors and/or minors am I allowed?

Overlap between core and majors/minors. There is no limitation on the number overlaps between core and any major, minor, cognate, or concentration.

Overlap between major and minor. To graduate with a major and a minor a student must complete a minimum of fourteen distinct courses of three semester hours or more. A maximum of two overlaps are permitted between a major and a minor. The details are as follows:

Courses required in the major Maximum overlaps permitted
10 or more

Overlap between two majors. To graduate with two majors, a student must complete a minimum of sixteen distinct courses of three semester hours or more. A maximum of three overlaps are permitted between two majors. The details are as follows:

Total courses in two majors Maximum overlaps permitted
19 or more

Overlap between minors. There may be no overlaps between minors.

How is GPA calculated?

For purposes of averaging grades, the following numerical values or grade points are assigned to each letter grade

Standard Grades Other Grades
A+ N/A
A 4.0
A- 3.7
  • I, incomplete, does not calculate until final grade is given
  • W, authorized withdrawal, does not calculate
  • N, unauthorized withdrawal, calculates like an F
  • H, honors designation, (i.e., HA-) does not add additional honor points to the grade
  • S, satisfactory interim grade - uncalculated
  • U, unsatisfactory interim grade - uncalculated
  • Transfer credit or cooperative programs at other colleges and universities will show on your record, but do not calculate into the Calvin GPA
B+ 3.3
B 3.0
B- 2.7
C+ 2.3
C 2.0
C- 1.7
D+ 1.3
D 1.0
D- 0.7
F 0.0

To calculate a complete or partial GPA please follow this formula:

numerical grade X credit hours = grade points

total grade points ÷ total hours = cumulative GPA

For example: On the transcript snapshot below Spanish 201 was a 4 credit hour class, a B+ has a value of 3.3, so 4 credits X 3.3 grade = 13.20 grade points for Spanish 201. The term had a total of 49.60 grade points, divide that by the number of semester hours, 17, to find the semester GPA of 2.918.

To find your major GPA, highlight the courses required for the major - add the grade points for all highlighted courses and divide by the total calculated credits of those courses. This same method can be used to find the GPA for a particular year or for any other portion of your record.

How do incompletes, audits and re-takes work?

Course Repeats: You may repeat any course by properly registering for them, but you must inform the instructor that you are repeating the course. Only the latest grade, whether higher or lower, will be included in the calculation of the cumulative GPA. The original grade is not expunged from the record, but is noted as a repeated course. You do not receive additional course credit for repeated courses.

Incompletes: If you fail to complete all the required work or to take the final exam for a valid reason, instructors may, give a grade of I, incomplete, rather than a grade of F. An F can only be altered by retaking the course in a future semester. Until it is finished, an I is computed as a neutral grade. Incompletes are given the following deadlines:

  • Fall or interim - March 15
  • Spring or summer - October 15
  • Any earlier date you contract with the instructor

Grades of I are never removed from your transcript, when a final grade is received or the deadline is passed a new grade preceded by an “I” will be rewarded. You can use the incomplete contract to set goals and finish the coursework.

When are grades posted and how do I find them?

Grades are posted one week after the last day of exams. If an instructor posts grades early, they will not be visible until the registrar's office validates them at the time of the deadline. You can find your grades by individual term, or review your transcripts via the portal.

My professor said that they already posted the grade, why can't I see it?

Posting grades is a two part process. Professors enter grades through the portal and then the registrar's office staff verifies the grades. This is a process that the registrar runs that allows the grades to be available to students. Grades are not verified until the due date of the semester grades, this includes courses that are offered during the first half of the term. Typically if the grades are due at 4:30 p.m., they will be available for students to see shortly after 5 p.m.

How do I register for classes?

Visit our step by step guide for current students. First-year students follow a different process when registering for fall semester courses. Learn more.

When is the last time to add a class?

Courses can easily be added online through the first week of each semester. Any time you add a course online, it is beneficial to save the changes, log out, log back in and check the weekly schedule link. Any second-half of the semester course can be added through the first week of the course, but cannot be added on line after the first week of the semester. The easiest way to search for second-half courses is to enter a date range in the course search. If you are unable to add a course through the portal, you will need to add it in person at our Spoelhof location.

How do I drop a class and make sure that it drops?

Courses can be dropped online through the first week of each semester by visiting the portal. To drop a course after the first week of class, you must pick up a drop slip from our Spoelhof location to obtain the signature of your instructor. You are not able to drop any course online after the first week of class.

I am getting error messages when trying to register, why?

This message is an indication that you have a hold on your account that must be resolved prior to registration. Please call academic services (526.6155) to find out the reason for the hold. Possible holds:

  • It is not your registration time yet see the registration schedule.
  • Financial hold - If you suspect that a financial hold is on your account, you can see the nature of the hold via the portal, under recent account activity. To resolve a financial hold, please contact financial services.
  • Advisor hold - After you are advised, your advisor will lift this hold online. You must meet with your advisor prior to every registration. If the hold is still there, contact your advisor.
  • Other holds - The health center may put a hold on your account if you are missing vaccination information. Please follow up with the appropriate office to resolve the hold.

Why is nothing showing up when I search for my class?

There are a few common problems when using the course search - check the following:

  • Make sure the correct semester is selected.
  • If you are searching for a lab, search by level (200 or 300) or search using the course number directly followed by an L (i.e. 330L)
  • Health and fitness core classes are under Physical Education & Recreation (PER).
  • The course may not be offered during the current term. The course catalog will note the terms that a department is planning to offer a course.

When trying to register, I get a conflict error, where is the conflict?

Many information systems courses and science courses have a second set of meeting dates for labs or to designate a different room assignment. Any courses that have a second meeting time listed contain too much meeting information to show on the initial search screen. This will be indicated by the note 'more...' at the end of the listing. Try clicking on the course title link to see the rest of the course information.

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Turbo is the way to go.
A turbo system is much more complicated. It has to be plumbed into the engine's oil pan for lubrication and depending on the turbo mfg'er, into the engine's coolant system for cooling. There is a lot more plumbing for the required air-to-air IC. Your under hood heat is gonna be higher as you now have a large metal scroll being super heated by exhaust gases.
And unless you get the scroll size matched perfectly to the engine's capabilities you are gonna have lag (too big) or just not make the numbers you want (too small). And it really is irrelevant as the bottom end of our engine's is not gonna like more than 8-10psi, so I would rather have the instant hit from the SC.

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wow that just really sucks. feel bad for the guy i some ways. but just looking at it you can tell it is not real. how old was this guy and how long ago did he buy it?
I want to say he was about 50ish. He said he bought it a 'few years ago'. By this point he was very defensive though. We tried to be polite, but he got pretty hot quick. He left still believing he owned the real deal.

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Buies Creek, N.C.-Robert "Bobby" Womble, of Lillington, N.C., has been elected to Campbell University's Presidential Board of Advisors. Womble is a sales agent with Cape Fear Insurance Agency in Lillington.

An alumnus of Campbell University, Womble graduated in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration. He completed naval flight school in 1969 and was a pilot in the United States Navy for six years. Womble also worked as an airline pilot in Canada before returning to his native eastern North Carolina.

Active in his community, Womble organized the first Kiwanis Club of Lillington in 1975 and has served as president and Lieutenant Governor. He has been a member of Kiwanis for 34 years. In addition, he is a member of the Temple Shrine of Harnett County and the Memorial Baptist Church Endowment Committee.

He is married to the former Martha M. Rich of Kannapolis, N.C. They are the parents of a son, Caleb, who is a movie production supervisor.

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Flower camping de La Forêt ***

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At Flower camping de La Forêt in Sillé-le-Guillaume (Sarthe) camping costs as little as €13,- per night during low season with CampingCard ACSI. At one of the 144 touring pitches you will get a discounted rate during the period 01/04 - 30/06 and 01/09 - 31/10. At this campsite you can not only use your CampingCard ACSI for inexpensive camping, you can also use your ACSI Club ID (as an alternative ID).

A level campsite on the edge of a deciduous forest and by a lake with opportunities for watersports. The campsite has shaded and sundrenched pitches. Country walking possible from the campsite in 3500 hectares of woods.

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Detail information about this campsite

General information

Period of opening
01/04 till 31/10
4 ha
Number of touring pitches
144 (100 - 150m2)
Number of camper pitches
Number of permanent year-round pitches

* Facilities printed in bold are not included in the overnight rate. Supplementary charges will apply. (This does not mean that facilities which are not printed in bold are free!)

Campsite rules
  • Caravans allowed
  • Tents allowed
  • Small extra tent permitted
  • Motorhomes allowed
  • ACSI Club ID is accepted as an identity document
  • Credit cards accepted
    • credit card: MasterCard | Visa Card
  • Dog(s) in low season (on lead)
    • Max. total: 2
  • Barbecues permitted
    • type of BBQ: electricity
  • WiFi point
  • Internet access
Food, drink and groceries
  • Fresh bread available at the camp site
  • Exchanging of gas cylinders
Popular amenities
  • Caravans allowed
  • Motorhomes allowed
  • Dog(s) in low season (on lead)
    • Max. total: 2
  • Located by a lake/recreation pond (max. 0.1 km)
  • Cycle routes starting at the camp site
    • level: easy | average
  • Swimming in the lake/recreation pool(max. 0.1 km)
  • Grass beach
Ground and vegetation
  • Grass
  • Pitches with some shade
  • Pitches with plenty of shade
  • Sunbathing area
  • Marked pitches
Recreation (adults)
  • Cycle routes starting at the camp site
    • level: easy | average
  • Marked out walking routes near the camp site
    • level: easy | average
  • Games room
  • Television
Washing, washing-up, cooking
  • Washing up sinks: hot water
  • Washing up sinks: cold water
  • Laundry sinks: cold water
  • Laundry sinks: hot water
  • Washing machine(s)
  • Dryers
Situation of campsite
  • Shopping opportunities within %s km
    • distance: 3 km
  • Located by a lake/recreation pond (max. 0.1 km)
  • Located in a wood
  • Dog(s) in low season (on lead)
    • Max. total: 2
  • Quiet during the day and at night
  • Special pitches for motorhomes
    • Surface area: 100 m2
    • Amount: 4
  • Special facilities for motorhomes
  • Electrical hook-ups possible to maximum %s amps
    • Max. electricity: 10 ampère
  • Footpaths and roads are lit
  • Patrolled grounds
Sports and play
  • Children's playground: large
  • Table tennis table
  • Jeu de boules alley(s)
  • Fishing
  • Multi-sports field
  • Tennis court(s)
  • Children's playground: small
  • Pony trekking
  • Crazy golf
Water and toilet facilities
  • Showers: hot water
  • Washbasins: hot water
  • Standard toilets
  • Baby room
  • Toilet paper provided
  • Chemical toilet disposal point
  • Tap at/near the pitch (max. 50 m)
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Christopher Symons, on this campsite in June 2016

Travelling party *: Seniors

This is a lovely campsite. We visited after being flooded out of our site on the Loire and were delighted by the welcome from Mary on reception. We telephoned just prior to our arrival and she actually delayed her lunch break to book us in. Pitches are huge and the facilities first class. My wife needed to use the laundry facilities (mud from our previous site) and these too were excellent. The surrounding area provides for walking, cycling, kayaking and fishing. Perfect for our spaniel. If there was any down side it was the number of flies but we put this down to the warm, moist weather. All in all a great site.

Richard Hoy, on this campsite in May 2016

Travelling party *: Couple

Fantastic site well worth a visit. New reception being built but doesn\'t detract from the overall excellent experience. Very friendly staff, bread delivered daily. Absolutely gorgeous location, perfect for cycling, dog walking, fishing, sailing etc.

Bobby Peacock, on this campsite in September 2015

Travelling party *: Seniors

Stayed here for 4 nights at the end of September. Staff were excellent and very friendly. The pitches were large and grass covered. The shower/toilet/dish washing facilities all very good with unlimited hot water. A large site with a large number of chalets for hire also quite a number owner occupied so every where was neat and tidy. Site is beside a lake with good walking around it. The town of Sille-le-Guillaume nice with usual supermarket and fuel.
We enjoyed this site and would stay here again.

Stigter, on this campsite in May 2015

Deze beoordeling is als enquete afgenomen door onze inspecteur op de camping zelf.

Ann & Rob Lively, on this campsite in April 2013

Travelling party *: Couple

Forest campsite next to a large lake with marked out grassy pitches (with or without trees).
Great area for mountain biking with many trails throughout the forest (maps available at reception) Other watersport opportunities on the lake and there was also cafes, restaurants and a bike hire hut.
Free wifi available at/near reception. There was a small shop inside reception and an internet room.

RAYMOND, on this campsite in September 2012

Travelling party *: Seniors

Camping génial avec un accueil super. Joli lac à proximité. Emplacements sous les arbres ou au soleil.

Jan & John Simpson, on this campsite in June 2012

Travelling party *: Seniors

This is one of two ACSI campsites within this forest area. The campsite is smaller but is by far the better of the two. The staff were extremely friendly and helpful during our stay. Our friends and ourselves were travelling with two caravans, the pitches were spacious and well cared for. Anyone visiting the area should not miss seeing the village of St Susanne which is close by.

Hamelin Daniel, on this campsite in May 2011

Travelling party *: Seniors

Terrain très agréable avec un accueil très sympathique et serviable.
Emplacement bien délimité et assez grand.

Address & Route

Would you like to book campsite Flower camping de La Forêt or request more information? You can do both using the information below or by visiting the campsite's website.

  • Flower camping de La Forêt
    72140 / Sillé-le-Guillaume

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    48°12'33"N 0°8'4"W
  • From Sillé-le-Guillaume direction Le Lac and La Forêt. Follow signs.

  • Warning! Since July 13 2015, many French campsites are prohibited from installing their own signpost. We advise to use GPS-coordinates to locate the campsite.

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Min. 16.4° 16.1° 11.6° 11.7° 12° 13.4° 13.1°
Precipitation 5% 15% 0% 5% 5% 15% 20%
Wind direction W N NO E NO SW W
Wind speed 4 3 2 2 2 3 3

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Relative humidity Precipitation total (mm) Hours of sunshine
Jan 90% 82 2
Feb 87% 51 2
Mar 83% 101 3
Apr 82% 74 4
May 78% 100 5
Jun 75% 34 7
Jul 74% 92 7
Aug 74% 51 7
Sep 81% 90 4
Oct 86% 100 3
Nov 89% 90 3
Dec 89% 125 2
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October 4/05 1:14 am - Strathcona Grand Prix of `Cross, Haro Mountain Bikes Stolen at Interbike

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United Cycle is pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Strathcona Grand Prix at 10:00 a.m. Sunday, October 9 at the Strathcona Science Park,10980 - 17 street. Sign on and the Start/Finish line will be adjacent to the parking lot. Spectators will have access to the winding course with excellent vantage points overlooking the river valley.

A superb cyclo-cross venue covering paved, gravel and grass trails through the Strathcona Science Park. The course is highlighted by side hill sections, off camber corners, twisting grass chicanes, stairs, and high speed pavement. Sign on begins at 9:00 a.m. and racing gets underway at 10:00 a.m. Sunday with the sport class and Open Women, Expert men start next on their 45 minute race at 11:15 a.m. and Elite Men/Open finish off the day's events at 12:30 p.m. with a 60 minute lung-busting effort.

An assortment of hot/cold beverage, bagels, doughnuts, and fruit will be on hand for all participants. All categories will be awarded cash and draw prizes, courtesy of the excellent sponsors of this event.

For more information, contact raceteam@unitedcycle.com.

6 Haro Mountain Bikes Stolen at Interbike

When Haro’s employees returned to the Sands Convention Center on Saturday morning to start packing up their Interbike trade show booth, they discovered their locked cables had been cut and 6 mountain bikes had been stolen at some point during the night.

“These bikes have a lot of non ride-able parts on them and some frames are not heat treated. They are photo samples only and are not safe to be ridden. In fact, they could be downright dangerous,” said Wayne Doran, Haro’s Quality Control Specialist. “Bike shops should keep an eye out for anyone who brings them in for service or warranty, and consumers should be wary of private individuals trying to sell them a 2006 Haro mountain bike”.

The bikes that were stolen include:

- .357 Magnum downhill bike in metallic gold, size medium

- Werx 5 VL120 cross country bike in metallic gold, 18” (may be dirty since it was displayed at Dirt Demo)

- Sonic VL120s cross country bike in dark grey, 18”

- Shift R3 cross country bike in royal blue, 18”

- Shift R5 cross country bike in red, 18”

- Extreme X6 freeride bike in semi-gloss pewter, 16”

These bikes should be easy to identify since these particular models are not available in shops and will not be available for purchase for several months.

Anyone with any information about these missing bikes is encouraged to contact Haro Bikes immediately at 800-289-4276 or e-mail Jill Hamilton, Haro Marketing Manager at jillh@harobikes.com.

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Bosses urged to move work due to heat

Bosses are being urged to shift staff working times to cooler parts of the day on Tuesday, with near-record heat predicted to grip much of NSW.

WorkCover NSW is urging employers to reschedule work for the early morning or late afternoon because of the extreme weather forecast.

‘‘If possible, you should try to re-schedule work to cooler times of the day,’’ the agency’s general manager of workplace health and safety, John Watson, said in a statement on Monday.

"If this is not possible, ensure that workers have access to plain drinking water, shaded rest areas and regular rest breaks.’’

The mercury is expected to soar in many parts of NSW on Tuesday as a heatwave pushes super hot air east from inland Australia.

In the state’s far west the temperature in some towns is predicted to hit 45 degrees, while in Sydney the mercury is forecast to climb to 43 degrees - making it the third highest temperature on record.

Fire authorities are predicting extreme heat could make it a ‘‘catastrophic’’ day for bushfires, with more than 90 blazes already burning around the state.

Mr Watson said it was crucial workers protected themselves from the sweltering heat, which he warned could be fatal.

He said common symptoms of dangerous heat illness were nausea, dizziness, and general weakness.

‘‘If you or your workers are working in a hot environment and have any of these symptoms, you should seek immediate medical assistance,’’ he said.


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allogeneic GM-CSF-secreting tumor vaccine PANC 6.03 pcDNA-1/GM-Neo
An allogeneic cancer vaccine composed of lethally irradiated, whole pancreatic cancer cells transfected with a plasmid carrying the gene for cytokine granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), with potential immunostimulating and antineoplastic activities. Allogeneic GM-CSF–secreting tumor vaccine PANC 6.03 pcDNA-1/GM-Neo secretes GM-CSF thereby activating dendritic cells, promoting antigen presentation to B- and T-cells, and promoting a cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response. This may eventually kill tumor cells. The pancreatic tumor cells are derived from the PANC 6.03 tumor cell line. Check for active clinical trials using this agent. (NCI Thesaurus)

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Lymphoma - Hodgkin - Childhood - Overview

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Hodgkin lymphoma, previously called Hodgkin’s disease, is one type of lymphoma. Lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system. Lymphoma begins when cells in the lymphatic system change and grow uncontrollably, which may form a tumor.

About the lymphatic system

The lymphatic system is made up of thin tubes that branch out to all parts of the body. Its job is to fight infection and other diseases. The lymphatic system carries lymph, a colorless fluid containing lymphocytes, which are white blood cells. Lymphocytes fight germs in the body. B-lymphocytes, which are also called B cells, make antibodies to fight bacteria. T-lymphocytes, or T cells, kill viruses and foreign cells and trigger the B cells to make antibodies.

Groups of bean-shaped organs called lymph nodes are located throughout the body at different areas in the lymphatic system. Lymph nodes are found in clusters in the neck, chest, underarms, abdomen, pelvis and groin. Other parts of the lymphatic system include the spleen, which makes lymphocytes and filters blood; the thymus, an organ under the breastbone; and the tonsils, which are located in the throat. See a medical illustration here.

Hodgkin lymphoma most commonly affects lymph nodes in the neck or the area between the lungs and behind the breastbone, which is called the mediastinum. It can also begin in groups of lymph nodes under the arms, in the groin, or in the abdomen or pelvis.

If Hodgkin lymphoma spreads, it typically spreads along the lymphatic channels to other lymph nodes and the spleen, or outside of the lymphatic system, most commonly to the lungs, liver, bone marrow, or bone.

Types of Hodgkin lymphoma

It is important to know the type of Hodgkin lymphoma, as this may affect the patient’s treatment plan. Doctors determine the type of Hodgkin lymphoma based on how the cells in a tissue sample look under a microscope and whether the cells contain abnormal patterns of certain proteins. There are two main types of Hodgkin lymphoma: nodular lymphocyte predominant and classical.

Nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma. This is more common among male and younger patients. The disease is usually found in the neck, underarm, or groin.

Classical Hodgkin lymphoma. There are four subtypes of classical Hodgkin lymphoma: nodular sclerosis, mixed cellularity, lymphocyte rich, and lymphocyte depleted.

  1. Nodular sclerosis Hodgkin lymphoma. This is the most common type of Hodgkin lymphoma in adolescents and young adults in the United States and in other developed countries. Tumors are often very bulky. They most often begin in the lymph nodes in the neck, chest, or abdomen and may spread to the lungs.

  2. Mixed cellularity Hodgkin lymphoma. This type is more common in children age 10 years or younger. It shows the strongest link to the Epstein-Barr virus, the virus that causes mononucleosis. It usually begins in the lymph nodes in the abdomen or in the spleen.

  3. Lymphocyte rich Hodgkin lymphoma. This type is rare and may be hard to distinguish from nodular lymphocyte predominant Hodgkin lymphoma. It usually begins in the lymph nodes of the neck, underarm, and groin, and sometimes involves the spleen and nodes in the chest.

  4. Lymphocyte depleted Hodgkin lymphoma. This is a very rare, aggressive type that is uncommon in children. This type is usually more widespread, involving lymph nodes as well as the bones and bone marrow.

Age and Hodgkin lymphoma

There are three different forms of Hodgkin lymphoma:

  • A childhood form: develops in children 14 years or younger

  • A young adult form: develops in people 15 to 34 years old

  • An older adult form: develops in people 55 to 74 years old

The childhood form of Hodgkin lymphoma is less common in the United States and is especially rare in children younger than five years. Hodgkin lymphoma is most commonly diagnosed in the young adult form and older adult form. In children younger than five years, Hodgkin lymphoma is more common in boys than in girls. Among adolescents, the rates of Hodgkin lymphoma are roughly equal among boys and girls.

This section covers Hodgkin lymphoma in children and adolescents. Learn more about adult Hodgkin lymphoma or non-Hodgkin lymphoma in children.

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