“These repellents when used as directed are safe and effective at preventing and reducing insect bites. Many other suggestions have been trialled, such as Vitamin B, citronella, lavender oil, and have all been found to be ineffective,” Dr Grenfell said.
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Scott predicts that limewash will be the painting technique to watch for in 2023. “We’ll see unique applications of limewash such as the cloud technique to create the look of old worn walls,” he says. “Layering limewash in different ways can give you the look of 200-year-old walls—in just a couple of days.”
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Proving that simple patterns can have a big impact, check print is having a moment—and that moment will continue into 2023. Lisa Buhler, the founder of th…….
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Since he began volunteering two months ago for weekend shifts at a clinic in one of this border city’s largest shelters, Dr. Brian Elmore has treated about 100 migrants for respiratory viruses and a handful of more serious emergencies.
But it’s a problem he hasn’t yet managed to address that worries him the most – the worsening trauma that so many migrants carry after long journeys north that often involve witnessing murders and suffering from ki…….
Is “survivors” distinct enough from “survival” to be the name of an entirely different genre? I’m not sure, but we’re almost certainly in the midst of a mini genre boom of Vampire Survivors-likes, our favorite roguelike of 2022 and the game of the year most likely to spawn waves of imitators in the near future. It’s already started happening in 2022, despite Vampire Survivors launching in quiet, unfinished early access form barely a year ago.
Gaming’s Time to Copycat quotient is at an all-time high. When MMOs and then MOBAs were all the rage, it took years for shallow knock-offs of…….
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Yet the record-breaking catches that are caught by unsuspecting recreational anglers are moments that could inspire new fishing hobbyists and professionals for years to come.
As 2022 nears its end, here are 10 fishing records that made headlines.
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Boramy, a stingray that was found to be the world’s largest freshwater fish, weighed 661 pounds in June 2022. She was measured and tagged before she was released back into the Mekong River of northern Cambodia.
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In the late 1960s, he decided to turn fly-fishing into his full-time living.
“That’s when I became Dave Whitlock,” he told the newspaper Tulsa World in 2019.
For the rest of his career, he fished, painted and sketched (fish, not people), taught, and developed ties that bear colorful names like Dave’s Hopper, NearNuff Crayfish, Diving Frog and Whitlock’s Gorilla Damsel-Dragonfly.
“I don’t think that any angler in the country hasn’t been touched by …….
By now, you’re probably aware that radical change is needed to transform our throwaway economy into one where resources are recirculated. MPB is one conscious company paving the way for a more sustainable creative industry by marrying two important facets: photography and recirculating kit. It is ultimately aiming to become 100 per cent circular, so that everything it uses from its packaging to furniture and equipment is re-used or made from renewable material.
When Matt Barker founded the company in 2011, it was under the belief that ph…….
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The Krewe of Athena with the theme “A Change Gonna Come,î rolls along Bonnabel Blvd. in Metairie, La. Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. The all-female krewe, named for the Greek goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization, law and justice, just warfare, mathematics, strength, strategy, the arts, crafts and skill. The krewe started in 2014. (Photo by David Grunfeld, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune) ORG XMIT: BAT2202271942392541
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PA Media photographers choose their best photographs from the past year and reflect on the stories behind the images.
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Ben Birchall was the only news photographer present at Highgrove House, where the then Prince of Wales (now King Charles III) danced with one of the guests, Bridget Tibbs, during a tea dance hosted by The Prince’s Foundation to mark the Platinum Jubilee.
“I consciously remember pulling back, leaving spa…….