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Croc farm churns out skin for leather goods

S­AN­D­AK­AN­: Sa­n­da­ka­n­ w­hich is w­el­l­ kn­ow­n­ a­s t­he g­a­t­ew­a­y t­o Sa­ba­h’s eco-t­ourism­ ha­s m­a­n­y pl­a­ces of­ in­t­erest­s a­n­d on­e of­ t­hem­ is t­he Sa­n­da­ka­n­ Crocodil­e F­a­rm­, t­he coun­t­ry’s l­a­rg­est­ w­it­h over 3,000 rept­il­es.

L­oca­t­ed a­t­ M­il­e 7 1?2 Ja­l­a­n­ L­a­buk, it­ t­a­kes a­bout­ 30 m­in­ut­es’ drive t­o g­et­ t­here f­rom­ t­ow­n­ cen­t­re. T­he orig­in­a­l­ st­ock a­t­ t­he f­a­rm­ w­a­s f­rom­ w­il­d crocodil­es f­oun­d a­l­on­g­ t­he l­on­g­est­ river in­ Sa­ba­h, t­he Kin­a­ba­t­a­n­g­a­n­ River.

A­pa­rt­ f­rom­ g­et­t­in­g­ a­n­ up cl­ose l­ook a­t­ Sa­ba­h’s big­g­est­ rept­il­es, visit­ors ca­n­ a­l­so view­ severa­l­ ot­her a­t­t­ra­ct­ion­s host­ed by t­he f­a­rm­ in­cl­udin­g­ crocodil­e a­n­d sn­a­ke show­s. T­he Sa­n­da­ka­n­ Crocodil­e F­a­rm­ a­l­so f­ea­t­ures a­ m­in­i z­oo a­n­d a­ chil­dren­’s pa­rk.

F­or t­hose pl­a­n­n­in­g­ on­ g­oin­g­ t­o t­he f­a­rm­, t­hey shoul­d t­a­ke n­ot­e of­ t­he visit­in­g­ hours. T­he f­a­rm­ open­s da­il­y f­rom­ 8a­m­ t­o 5.30pm­ w­it­h f­eedin­g­ t­im­e f­rom­ 9.30a­m­ on­w­a­rds un­t­il­ 4.30pm­.

T­he w­eekda­y Crocodil­e show­ is hel­d t­w­ice a­ da­y a­t­ 11.45a­m­ a­n­d 4pm­ w­hil­e t­he Crocodil­e a­n­d Sn­a­ke show­ com­es on­ a­t­ 11.45a­m­, 2pm­ a­n­d 4pm­ on­ Sun­da­ys a­n­d publ­ic hol­ida­ys. A­dm­ission­ is RM­5 f­or adu­lt an­­d RM­3 f­o­r­ c­hildr­en belo­w 12. [the rest of the news]

Men’s Reactions Peak at Age 39

Hey, Look what I found… hahaha… Man out there…

This explains everything.

Scientists asked 72 men, ranging in age from 23 to 80, to tap their index fingers as fast as they could for 10 seconds. The researchers also did brain scans to measure in each subject the amount of myelin – a fatty sheath of insulation that coats nerve axons and allows for signaling bursts in our brains.

Both the tapping speed and the amount of myelin was found to decline “with an accelerating trajectory” after age 39.

Study leader George Bartzokis, professor of psychiatry at UCLA, called the results “pretty striking” and said: “That may well be why, besides achy joints and arthritis, even the fittest athletes retire and all older people move slower than they did when they were younger.”

The myelination of brain circuits was known to peak in middle age. Bartzokis and others have long argued that brain aging might be primarily related to the myelin breakdown.

Learning more about this decline in fine-motor-skills speed offers some hope for treating the aging brain.

“Since in healthy individuals brain myelin breakdown begins to occur in middle age, there is a decades-long period during which therapeutic interventions could alter the course of brain aging and possibly delay age-driven degenerative brain disorders such as Alzheimer’s,” Bartzokis said.

The findings are detailed in the online version of the journal Neurobiology of Aging.

Best and Worst Bang for the Buck Cities

The economic storm sweeping the country has left Americans with few places to hide.

But those looking to hunker down might want to head to Texas, where they can get the best value for their dollar.

That’s because Austin and San Antonio lead our list of places where your money goes farthest. Residents of both enjoy affordable housing and promising prospects for job growth in coming years. Houston and Dallas also land in the top 10, at Nos. 4 and 7, respectively.

“Texas, as a whole, is one of the few economies that’s performing extremely well because of the energy and technology sectors,” says Andrew Gledhill, an economist at Moody’s Economy.com. Plus, he added, military bases in San Antonio have continued to draw a steady steam of personnel and federal employees to the city, spurring widespread job growth.

The state’s manufacturing sector has also grown in recent years, and a reputation for affordable housing continues to lure people to the South. When accounting for median household income, a house in Dallas, for example–with a median price of about $150,000–is four times more affordable than a house in Los Angeles, the worst-ranked city on our list.

A house in New York is three times less affordable than in Charlotte, N.C., and four times less than in Denver, two cities where your money goes far and where the median house costs $245,000, according to the National Association of Realtors.

Housing has remained affordable in the South and Midwest, thanks to growing populations, relatively lax building regulations and “lots and lots of land,” said Daniel McCue, a research analyst at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. [more]