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A panel of specialists advising the government on smallpox vaccinations recommended today offering the immunization to an estimated half-million emergency room and other hospital workers because of the possibility of a bioterrorist attack.
The panel chose not to recommend offering vaccinations to the estimated 10 million paramedics, firefighters, police officers and other health care and law enforcement workers who might also be among the first to respond to a biological attack.
The proposal to vaccinate the larger number of workers was one of the options that the government's top smallpox health officials said they had presented to Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, earlier this month. Aides to Mr. Thompson said he had made his own confidential recommendation to President Bush.
The decision on how many people to vaccinate has been complicated and contentious because the vaccine is dangerous, smallpox was eradicated in 1980 and the threat of a bioterrorism attack that releases that smallpox virus is unknown.
The government usually follows vaccine recommendations from the panel, which advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based here where the panel is meeting today and Thursday.
But in this case Mr. Bush, who is expected to make the decision on who should be eligible for vaccinations, has gotten several proposals, including the possibility of offering the vaccine to up to 10 million health and emergency workers, or all Americans before any attack occurs.
Dr. Paul Offit of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was the only member of the panel to dissent from the vote to recommend vaccinating hospital workers.
''We're thinking about immunizing 500,000 people for a disease that is still theoretical,'' Dr. Offit said. ''We haven't seen a case of smallpox on this planet for 25 years. If there is not a case of smallpox, we will be doing more harm than good.''
After the president makes his decision, the recommendations of the panel will provide guidance for local and state health officials.
At the hospitals, the panel said, those eligible for vaccination would include doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists who work in intensive care units and x-ray technicians.
Those volunteering to be vaccinated would be expected to care for smallpox patients in shifts for the entire first week.
Dr. Jane D. Siegel of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas said experts estimated that vaccinating 100 hospital workers in these jobs should allow for care of three or four patients with a presumptive diagnosis of smallpox.
The first group of workers expected to be vaccinated are those who were immunized before the government stopped smallpox vaccinations in 1972 as smallpox was being eradicated, in part because they may be expected to have fewer complications.
The panel also said workers should be asked whether they are pregnant or infected with the AIDS virus, H.I.V., before receiving the vaccine. Both conditions can increase the risk of adverse reactions to the smallpox vaccine, which experts consider the most dangerous of all immunizations.
The panel did not require that workers be tested for H.I.V. or pregnancy before being vaccinated.
The vaccine is delivered into the upper arm with a two-pronged needle. The panel recommended that vaccination recipients place a strip of gauze covered by a bandage over the vaccination sore because the immunization contains a live virus that can spread elsewhere on the body and to other people.
Health officials said they did not know the number of hospitals that would participate in a smallpox vaccination program but expected it to depend in part on population and geography.
In June, the panel said that only about 10,000 to 20,000 health care workers might have to be vaccinated at one or two designated hospitals in a city or region. But panel members have now increased the number of hospitals that would be involved.
In June, the panel rejected a proposal to offer smallpox vaccine to every American at this time. But earlier this month top Health and Human Service officials said that they had not yet ruled out offering smallpox vaccine to all Americans; however, they said they would prefer to do so after a newer version of the vaccine is licensed, which cannot occur before 2003.
Vaccinations cannot begin until the federal government, which owns all stocks of smallpox vaccine in this country, begins to release it.
After the government stopped routine smallpox vaccinations in 1972, it classified the vaccine as ''investigational.'' Until the older version of the vaccine is relicensed, its use would require each person to sign a form noting that the risks and benefits have been explained.


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By David Eckelberry Lead Designer SW TCG
So it's interesting now to take a look back with you at our recent release and how it came to be. Since this is the first time I've had the chance to talk to you about how the Star Wars design and development works, I'll do my best to give you a pretty broad overview. Later I'll hope to come back and revisit individual topics, stages of development, individual cards, and concerns.
Back in time we go. It was just over six months ago when the development team went to work on the A New Hope expansion. The core game had just been released, we were out promoting at conventions, watching the movie twice a week at the theaters, and geeking out big time. Meanwhile, back in the office Sith Rising had just been finished, and the development team was looking forward to getting started again on the new set. A New Hope would be our third expansion.
So you'd figure things were starting to get down to a pretty good system, right? Well, in some ways you'd be right. With A New Hope, we no longer had to worry about the basic elements of the game. They were in place, and we were pretty happy about how they were moving along. (Okay, we were a little too afraid of a certain discard deck, but we can discuss the Rebel Blockade Runner another time.) A New Hope had another advantage too. We were working with film content now that we had readily available. No more stressing about getting the images or whether a certain scene, starship, or piece of dialogue would be cut from the film. In other words, we wouldn't have that pesky "When did Tyranus wield two lightsabers in the movie?" question pop up. Or the even more pesky "Hey, by the way, don't use that character. We cut him from the film." Ah yes, it would be easier to work on the first Star Wars movie, already out for 26 years.
At the same time, Mike Elliot, as expansion set designer, and I, as lead developer, had a lot of work out for us. First and most obviously, we though the first expansion, Sith Rising, set had came off pretty well, and so we felt we had a standard to live up to - and exceed. We wanted to continue to appeal to the average Star Wars fan who plays casually, but we also wanted to elevate the strategic options for the hardcore player. The further we get from the mass market film release, the more and more that is possible.
Meanwhile, of course, we had to be true to the film itself. There are a lot of issues that need to be balanced against one other. One development concern related to film consistency would be that while we increased the depth of gameplay, the average build cost (and absolute, though not relative power level) of constructed units was going to fall. Put simply, Luke and Leia shouldn't be going toe-to-toe with Darth Tyranus and Mace Windu. Even Vader would start off in the mid-cost range, as we wanted to give him room to grow large in the Battle of Yavin and Empire Strikes Back, when he can really dominate the field.
With this in mind, A New Hope would mean more new mechanics, including one that was really a new card type - more unique abilities - and different ways to orchestrate a victory. That's where we started. From those ideas, a wealth of individual cards would be born, be played, change, and even die over the course of the development months. But first we had to start with what those magic new keywords would be.
So what about those mechanics? Accuracy was the easiest to design and for some of you to analyze (see Mike's article), you're right to believe. It didn't always look like this though. Another option that we discussed was the "reroll 1s" concept. So whenever a unit with this mutant Accuracy attacked, it would get a single chance to reroll any of its "1s". In the end, the math looked a little too funky, and the bell curve a little too odd for that too work. We were looking for a little less randomness, not more. So while that mechanic ultimately lost to the one you know, it made for some interesting playtests for a while. Accuracy, in its final form, is also a happy mechanic that fit seamlessly into the TCG. It stacks with itself, uses the existing rules, and ever since the base set introduced Critical Hit (natural sixes only!) we had foreseen the possibility and handled it.
Then came Piloting. Much harder to balance and develop. What versions didn't you see? Well, there were the pilots that simply became a part of their ship's stack, increasing Speed, Power, and Health by 1. Then there were Pilots that followed the Anakin Skywalker (B) school of thought, tapping to give a bonus to one of your units that they could logically pilot. Maybe even they could do that while in the build area (hmmm…). Both of those ideas had merits, but our ultimate decision about Piloting lies around the fact that, at first, Piloting is something we wanted to do more for capturing the feel of Star Wars rather than as strict gameplay. So Pilot cards were going to lie "on top" of the units they Piloted. And to open more possibilities for both gameplay and flavor, we would allow them any number of different abilities to grant.
As is often the case, some Pilots are better than others, and in some ways we were pretty conservative about just how good these special Characters would be. We didn't want to see the standard deck become Pilots + Ground units and/or Space units, so there had to be a price paid in the build cost of Pilots. In the next couple sets, I think I'll push the envelope a little further.
Then there was Intercept. In contrast to the others, Intercept was a card mechanic designed almost exclusively to support strategic game options, not to illustrate any aspects of the Star Wars universe. Since the introduction of the first set, we witnessed that fewer of the "utility" units that we had hoped to see play were actually seeing play. Cards such as Assassin Droid ASN-121 (A), Jedi Patrol, and Bail Organa (A). One of the big reasons that they weren't seeing play was simply that they died before they could have much of an effect on the game. Intercept gives players a means of protecting some of those special units. So more card combos would be possible. Again, more strategic depth is what we're after. We're seeing more of that in the world at large.
Then there's the fourth new mechanic. What, you ask? You don't see the Dodge mechanic written on to 10 or so of your cards? Well, no, you don't. Dodge was a mechanic that "almost" made it. The short version on Dodge? When a unit with Dodge was attacked, it automatically had 1-in-6 chance to negate the attack. Dodge was part of some of early designs, but ultimately we decided that 3 was enough. For some of the same reasons we steered away from the version of Accuracy I described, Dodge was shelved; and we thought Evade, Deflect, and Shields give enough defensive options. For now.
So in the the end we had three new abilities that had survived for all of you to play with, and hopefully will take some time to digest. Meanwhile, it's time for me to get back to work on designing cards for next year. As for you, next time I'll pick out some cards from A New Hope and talk about how they were designed, evolved, and became what you have now.
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Driver killed by police pulled 'medieval-looking sort of sword'
A man who had just stolen a sport utility vehicle, refused to get out after several verbal commands and threatened officers with "medieval-looking" type of sword, was shot dead by police Monday afternoon.
Police hadn't identified the man by late in the afternoon. Neither of the two cops who fired their weapons was hurt. They were not named either.
"The subject produced a machete and started making threats," said Miami-Dade police spokeswoman and Detective Robin Pinkard.
The confrontation just west of Miami Gardens and not far from Hard Rock Stadium caused a traffic nightmare in the county's northwest corner for much of the afternoon. Northwest 57th Avenue heading north was blocked from 176th to 183rd Street for more than four hours.
The white, four-door Volkswagen came to rest about 75 feet from the 183rd Street intersection in the northbound lane. The front driver and passenger side doors were open and glass covered the road outside the driver's side. Blood was visible inside the SUV. Papers showing the make, model and price of the vehicle were still taped to the back driver's side door.
"It was some medieval-looking sort of sword. The officers feared for their lives and fired their weapons," said Police Benevolent Association President John Rivera. "If you see a guy in uniform, why wouldn't you comply?"
According to police, the man who was shot and killed stole the sports utility vehicle from Palmetto 57 Volkswagen around 1 p.m. Workers at the facility, just north of the Palmetto Expressway on 57th Avenue, refused to comment. One worker did say the vehicles parked in the lot don't have keys in them.
No one would say if the man had ever worked there or if he was pretending he was interested in buying a vehicle, when he took off with the SUV.
He then headed north on 57th Avenue, but hit a snarled mess of traffic less than 15 blocks away. Miami-Dade police, who by then were already looking for the SUV, found it in the left lane. A uniformed officer and a detective approached the SUV.
Police said the uniformed officer yelled several commands that the man ignored before pulling out his baton and smashing the driver's side window. It was then, police said, that the man produced the machete and threatened police.
Both officers fired their weapons. The man was rushed to Aventura Hospital but died on the way there. Detectives spent the afternoon gathering evidence and knocking door-to-door at some homes with views to the shooting scene. The shooting took place just across from a Chase bank branch.
It wasn't entirely clear Monday if the man had exited the vehicle or if police at any point entered it.
"We don't know yet. That's part of the investigation," Pinkard said. "He refused to obey verbal commands."


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From Small Things, Mama, Big Things someday come
Thanks for taking the time to visit my page...
I need to tell you a story ... quite a long one so get a cup of tea and bear with me ... it explains the how's, why's and wherefore's of what I'm about to do... If you're in a hurry just read the red bits and click on the donate button (and I made it out to Madagascar on 16th May 2010 ... read to the end of the story for trip update!)
In January 2010, I took my Mother (83 and amazing) to see John Humphrys journalist extraordinaire and presenter of the Today Programme on BBC radio 4 and MasterMind. He was talking at the Arts Theatre in Cambridge. During the 'show' he talked about a charity which he had set up called the Kitchen Table Charities Trust no flashy offices, no fast cars, infact no paid staff at all. He puts much of the proceeds of speaking slots, book sales & rent from the house he built in Greece into the charity.
In his words;
I have spent many years working in third world countries – mostly in Africa – and have been hugely impressed by what some very small charities do. I have also noticed over the years that many people would like to help these "kitchen table" charities but they're not sure how to go about it.
We are not interested in charity as a big business. We believe that charity is about individuals helping other individuals with the minimum of bureaucracy and needless expense. That is why Kitchen Table Charities Trust exist
Read more about KTCT http://www.KitchenTableCharities.org
Back to the story, after the 'show' Mummy queued up to get Mr Humphrys paw print on a book.
I was just out of hospital & very wobbily on two crutches, in my Dad's old overcoat looking like a vagrant, miscreant and was standing to one side watching the academic autograph hunters jostling for position. When it was Mother's turn for book signing, she asked if the charity was on the Internet, John said yes and gave her the website address, and carried on signing - then she pulled a very unexpected blinder, "Is it on Twitter?" John looked more than a little surprised to have such an aged fossil ask about social media; he put his pen down, sighed, and said, "no but I suppose it should be" at which point dear mother said, "my daughter does Twitter" ... Having recovered from his shock at her question and then the realisation that the tramp in the corner on crutches was her daughter the Twitterer he laughed, we spoke and the long and the short is that I am now doing the social media for KTCT.
(For Twitter follow @KitchenTableCT and for Facebook click for the link and become a fan / friend)
Things trundled along for a little while and then I started getting demanding, I needed more information on the tiny charities supported ... John broke under the strain of my perpetual emails and turned me over to Brian Donaldson the charming Chairman of the Grants Committee for KTCT who sent various pictures which I used on Facebook .
Several of the photos were of projects KTCT had supported in Madagascar, I posted them up and observed that I'd always planned someday to go there - Brian replied by return saying that he was going over and I should come over to look at & help review some of the projects supported by KTCT and some that were looking for support.
I told him I'd have to think about going away with another man & ran down to discuss with mother; she told me off for flirting with someone I'd met on the internet! We Googled Brian ... he turns out to be the former British Ambassador to Madagascar, so mother, being a fan of Ambassadors and Empire, relented on the promise that I'd behave and enjoy myself. I booked flights and off I go - and I am SO proud, happy and excited. Brian also runs the Madagascar Development Fund who support and fund KTCT projects over there so I couldn't have a better or more perfect guide.
Now then, Madagascar as you may know is the most biodiverse of all nations ... lemurs, incredible plantlife and 740 species of spider. Apparently blue ones, green ones, spiders that hang between lamp-posts and are the size of your head, to say nothing of jumping rats, scorpions and snakes (not that I mind the latter). While the avid naturalists out there may see all this as a reason to go, I am slightly different. The lemurs will be wonderful, the plant life incredible and the spectacular scenery will I'm sure knock my socks off.
However, spiders and me don't get on ... just last week I had to knock on my neighbours door late at night to ask to be rescued from what I thought was the biggest spider in the world (I hadn't googled Madagascan Spiders by then) and I was reduced to hysterical sobs - not good when you've given up alcohol for Lent.
I was meant to be off on 17th April (having participated in the Clean Up at Stourbridge Common in Cambridge that morning) for a couple of weeks of intensive KTCT support and adventure but the Icelandic volcano put paid to that - so I'm now on my way on 15th May instead.
That's it .. my story ... while I'm there I will film, record, photograph, blog, tweet (wifi permitting) for all I'm worth to try to raise the profile of this wonderful charity, the beautiful country and the very great need of so many people there and elsewhere in Africa.
To place all this in a little context - and set aside the triviality of the spider issue, please reflect on these very stark facts (taken from the Madascar Development Fund website):
Madagascar is one of the poorest countries on earth. Around 12 million of its 20 million population have no access to safe, clean water; 14 million live on less than US$1 (60 pence) a day; and 60,000 children under 5 die each year from water borne diseases and generally poor health - caused mainly by malnutrition.
I have travelled all over the place before but not like this ... I am fully prepared to be inspired by work done, heartbroken sights of extreme poverty, blown away by the passion people have to change their own lives, and constantly on the look out for scurrying, scuttling beasties.
UPDATE on 22 May 6 days in Madagascar so far - appalled by the absolute and utter poverty, bought to tears on numerous occaisions but opened a primary school with no running water but the happiest proudest children imaginable, been on national TV(!!!!), seen crab spiders, and the most enormous evil looking spikey spiders, had a lemur sitting on my head, wept watching a child with polio begging in bare feet in torrential rain from other street dwellers, and today had to have a leech removed from the back of my right hand - truly revolting - but more determined than ever to reach my target - please please do click donate.
UPDATE on 3rd June 2010 ... I'm back from this incredible trip - lots of blog posts to upload as no internet access out in Madagascar so do please read on and check my blog on http://mymadagascarblog.wordpress.com - the money you donate is so so so appreciated, needed, well used - and I shall post the spider photos to testify that I did face them!!!
Someone asked me 'why now?' the other day ... I think it is just a perfect time, crappy few years after my father died, work ups and downs, and 3 hugely long spells in hospital on top various other traumas (oh and getting married!).
It seems that now I am fit again, my immune system is behaving and life is really good it is the right time for me to do something so constructive and positive ... goodness knows how long my joints will last! So the whole 'sieze the day' philosophy has gripped me ... it's not often that a trip to the theatre leads to something quite so exiting.
I am lucky enough to fulfil an amibiton and confront (and hopefully conquer) a few fears, and I hope that in doing so I can help raise much much much more than the amount it will cost me to get out there, and raise lots of awareness of KTCT.
So - I'm not asking for sponsorship - just for donations for a wonderful volunteer run charity that helps other people make a difference to their own lives. The charity motto is 'changing lives by thinking small' - any donation you care to give of any size would be hugely appreciated.
Thank you so much - and well done for reading this far!
Donating through JustGiving is simple, fast and totally secure. Your details are safe with JustGiving – they'll never sell them on or send unwanted emails. Once you donate, they'll send your money directly to the charity and make sure Gift Aid is reclaimed on every eligible donation by a UK taxpayer. So it's the most efficient way to donate - I raise more, whilst saving time and cutting costs for the charity.
How does your support help in practical terms?In many poor countries children cannot go to school unless they have uniforms. It costs just £4 in Tanzania to provide two uniforms and a few exercise books and pens for a child - but when you are dirt poor that's a huge sum.
Four pounds can change a lifeThere are millions of people who are blind from cataracts and, therefore, utterly destitute. A charity hospital in Dar es Salaam will perform a cataract operation for £10 - not that they turn anyone away.
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We have always loved the sport of racing, whether it be directly competing or merely watching. At the turn of the 20th century we replaced horses with internal combustion motors and brought competitive racing to a new level. Over 100 years later, motorsports – or auto racing – is one of the most exciting spectator sports around. Almost every weekend somewhere you can find a competition that pits a field of racers against one another. We love the cars, the sounds they make, the drivers who fearlessly pilot them and all the drama that seems to unfold during and after every battle on the track. Formula 1 is the most popular worldwide motorsport and in North America, the king remains NASCAR. In between there is everything from the Japanese Super GT series (formerly known as the JGTC) to the World Rally Championship (WRC) introducing us to a variety of new tracks, cars, drivers and challenges.
What draws spectators to the race day itself is the competition and excitement occurring on the track. Drivers overtaking one another, cars breaking down, underdogs coming from behind to snatch a victory – these are all crowd pleasers. Of course, what also attracts much attention to this high-speed sport are the crashes. That's not to say fans love a crash – most cringe and worry at the sight of one – but they do provide a mix of the spectacular with the tragic and unexpected. When they do happen, crashes remind us that motorsports are exciting but extremely dangerous.
The following list looks at 15 of the worst crashes in auto racing history. As you'll see, no one sport holds the monopoly for crashes as these tragedies strike as easily on the Formula 1 tracks as they do on the gravel and snow of the Rally circuits. These crashes are all considered bad for a number of reasons. Some are rated as the worst because of the number of people killed and injured. Other crashes are listed because of the spectacular nature of the crash itself. Many led to the introduction of new rules and regulations meant to keep drivers and fans safe, while others are simply remembered because they took the life of a well-liked or promising driver.
16 Honorable Mention: Old Bridge Township Raceway Park, 2008
Scott Kalitta was one of the most successful racers in American drag racing history. Competing in the Funny Car and Top Fuel classes, he won 18 races and claimed two championship titles in 1994 and 1995. On June 21st, 2008 Kalitta was entering the final round of qualifying for the Lucas Oil NHRA SuperNationals held at the Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in New Jersey. Near the end of the race his engine exploded, damaging the parachute meant to slow the car down. The dragster continued through the sand trap and over a retaining wall at approximately 125mph before striking a crane. Kalitta was killed from the impact. In response, the NHRA shortened the length of the tracks to 1000 feet, lengthened sand traps and padded the retaining walls.
15 The 1964 Riverside International Raceway
Known as "The Clown Prince of Racing," to say Joe Weatherly had an outgoing personality would be an understatement. Weatherly was known to be a practical joker and often stayed up to early hours of the morning (even before a race) partying with friends. He reportedly even undertook a practice while wearing a Peter Pan costume. On the track, he was a proven NASCAR champ, winning the 1962 and 1963 Grand National Series in addition to 25 career races. In January 1964 he took part in the fifth race of the season at the Riverside International Raceway in California. During this race he lost control and hit the wall. Investigation confirmed Weatherly's head had gone outside the window and been crushed against the wall. He had not been wearing a harness and did not have a window screen installed. His death resulted in the further development and mandatory installation of window nets in all NASCAR vehicles.
14 The 1976 German Grand Prix
The 1976 Formula 1 season was one of the most hotly contested campaigns in that sport's history. Made famous by the 2013 film Rush, everyone into motorsports knew of the rivalry between Englishman James Hunt and Austrian Niki Lauda. The 1976 German GP was held at the famed Nürburgring Nordschleife, a challenging track with a dangerous reputation. Things were made even worse with wet conditions. On lap 2, Lauda lost control during a fast left-turn and struck the wall. His car burst into flames. The fire was made worse when another racecar struck Lauda's damaged Ferrari seconds later. Engulfed in flames, Lauda was stuck in his car until fellow racers could help him get free. The German suffered severe burns and scars to his face. It was the last Grand Prix ever to be held at the old Nordschleife.
13 The 1998 JGTC at Fuji
Known today as Super GT, the JGTC utilized many of Japan's famous race tracks and brought together a wide range of sports and supercars from Ferraris and Porsches to Nissans and Toyotas. In 1998, conditions at Fuji Speedway were terrible, with heavy rain and very thick fog. Before the start of the race the safety car had been going too fast before breaking suddenly. This caused two Porsches to aquaplane and collide. One Porsche settled on the grass off the track before a Ferrari 355, also aquaplaning, came out of the fog and struck it. Both cars burst into flames, with the Ferrari sliding across the track. The Ferrari's driver, Tetsuya Ota was trapped in the burning car for a minute and a half before another driver stopped to put the fire out with an extinguisher. Ota required plastic surgery for the burns to his face and never raced again.
12 The 2001 Daytona 500
For race fans, especially those who follow NASCAR, February 18th, 2001 was a dark day. On the final lap of the Daytona 500, heading into turn 4, Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s car was bumped by Sterling Martin's front bumper. Earnhardt veered off the track before swinging back onto the racing surface. His car was then struck by Ken Schrader's car which pushed Earnhardt into the wall at around 160mph. Later investigations suggest the force was equal to being dropped from a height of nearly 20 meters. To spectators, the crash didn't look as bad as it turned out to be. Unfortunately, Earnhardt Sr. had struck the wall at a bad angle with enough force to cause injury, including a fatal fracture to the skull.
11 The 1978 Italian Grand Prix
At the 1978 Italian Grand Prix a mix-up with the starting signal caused the race to commence before all the drivers were in position. The resulting surge of vehicles from the back half of the pack caught up to the leaders and caused a major crash. The nine-car pile-up was preventable but, more importantly, shouldn't have led to any deaths. Driver Ronnie Peterson became stuck in his burning car following the crash. Peterson sustained leg injuries and minor burns but was pulled from the car by fellow drivers. Poor communication and decisions from race officials and medics meant he waited for nearly 20 minutes before help arrived. He died the next day in hospital from complications due to his injuries – complications which may have been avoided had medical help been administered much sooner.
10 The 1903 Paris to Madrid Race
One of the earliest organized motorsport races was also one of the most dangerous. The first recognized car race occurred almost ten years earlier but as the 1903 race demonstrated, much more experience and practice was needed. The competition was over 1300km long and involved around 300 racers who used cars and motorcycles. No repairs were allowed between stages – only during race time. It is therefore unsurprising that around half of the vehicles retired or crashed during the race. The relative inexperience of officials, racers and crowds were also demonstrated with numerous crashes. Drivers struck railway crossings signs, trees and each other. Cars caught on fire or fell apart. Spectators stood out on the road or ran in front of cars causing numerous crashes and injuries. By the end, eight people were confirmed killed and dozens of others were injured.
9 The 1999 Marlboro 500
The final race of the 1999 CART World Series was held at the California Speedway – known now as the Auto Club Speedway. Taking part in the race was 24 year old Canadian driver Greg Moore. He had been involved in an accident the week before the race when a vehicle knocked him off his motor-scooter. With an injured right hand, Moore was allowed to enter the final race. On lap 9, Moore lost control of his car, spinning onto the infield grass at 200mph. The car skipped over an access road, flipping and striking a concrete barrier directly with the top of the car. Moore was pulled from the car suffering from massive internal and head injuries. He died soon after.
8 The 1982 Belgian Grand Prix
Another Canadian racer on this list, Gilles Villeneuve had a spectacular and fatal crash while qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix at Zolder. With only a few minutes of time left for the session, Villeneuve's Ferrari came around a bend to discover a much slower car in his path. Unable to slow quickly enough, the Canadian tried to go around but was cut off by the slower car. The Ferrari launched into the air at around 130mph, cartwheeling and disintegrating in the process. Villeneuve, still strapped into his seat, was thrown 50m from the car and struck a fence at the edge of the track. Still alive but suffering from a broken neck, he was taken to a nearby hospital where he later died.
7 The 1986 Tour de Corse
Throughout the 1980s, the cars of the World Rally Championship pushed the limits of power and speed on non-race track surfaces such as snow and gravel. The cars of this era belonged to notorious Group B, a class which saw very light cars with very powerful turbocharged engines. Some of these vehicles were capable of going 0-60 in under 3 seconds - on gravel. It was only a matter of time until the power became too much for the narrow courses and during the 1986 Tour de Corse on Corsica, Henri Toivonen and his co-driver Sergio Cresto crashed their Lancia Delta S4. The car went off the road, down a ravine and landed on its roof before bursting into flames. Both men were killed and the car was unrecognizable once the flames were put out. Toivonen had complained about the car being too powerful and this incident proved to be the nail in the coffin for the cars of Group B in the WRC.
6 The 1964 Indianapolis 500
If there is a crash during a race, traditionally the yellow flag comes out and cars drive under caution until the situation is sorted out. During the 1964 Indy 500 driver Dave MacDonald reportedly had a very fast but unstable car. Other drivers reported that MacDonald was taking risks and that his car seemed a bit out of control at times. On the second lap, his car spun out and struck the wall, bursting into flames. The blazing car slid back onto the track causing several cars to crash. Driver Eddie Sachs tried to find an opening in the chaos to get through but ended up hitting MacDonald's vehicle broadside, causing another explosion. Sachs was killed instantly and MacDonald later succumbed to significant burns to his body. The race did not continue under a caution - It was the first time the Indianapolis 500 was stopped because of an accident.
5 The 1977 South African Grand Prix
During lap 22 of this race, the car driven by Renzo Zorzi pulled off to the side of the track before experiencing a fire. Two marshals ran across the track with extinguishers to help. Just at that moment two more cars appeared catching the marshals on the track. The first marshal made it across, the second – Jansen van Vuuren - was hit by the car of Tom Pryce graphically killing van Vuuren and sending him flying into the wall. The extinguisher he had been carrying smashed into Pryce's head, nearly decapitating the driver and killing him instantly. Pryce's car continued down the track until it crashed at the next turn.
4 The 1986 Rally de Portugal
Happening a little earlier than the above mentioned incident at the Tour de Corse, the accident at the 1986 Rally de Portugal made the WRC officials take notice and begin an investigation which would lead to the end of the Group B cars. The Portuguese stage was known for having fans standing very near or even on the road. Add in high powered cars sliding around corners and you can imagine what happened. Some drivers reportedly feared the Portuguese leg of the competition because of this. Early in the rally, the Ford RS200 of Joaquim Santos came over a crest and lost traction. Video shows the Ford heading into a left turn but failing to negotiate the move. Fighting for control, the driver could not prevent the inevitable and the car smashed into the crowd. Three people were killed and dozens more injured.
3 The 1994 San Marino Grand Prix
The 1994 San Marino Grand Prix was the third race of the season. Pole position was held by Brazilian Ayrton Senna, a position he held in the previous two races as well. Race festivities had been dampened by two serious crashes in qualifying. First, Rubens Barrichello had been badly hurt when his car was launched into the air and crashed into the tire barrier – knocking him unconscious. Second, Austrian Roland Ratzenberger was killed when he lost control at 190mph, striking the concrete wall and suffering a skull fracture (similar to Dale Earnhardt Sr.). On race day, there was more bad news as Senna's car struck the wall on lap 7 at 135mph, fatally injuring him. It is believed the front wheel separated during the crash and struck his head causing massive trauma. All of this led to the enforcement of new safety measures in Formula 1.
2 The 1957 Mille Miglia
The Mille Miglia was a yearly endurance race similar to today's rally races. All types of cars were entered with the slowest vehicles starting first so roadways would not have to be closed as long. In 1957, the combination of speed and spectators led to the banning of this race. There were two fatal crashes involving drivers. The most serious involved Alfonso de Portago and his co-driver Edmund Nelson. The Ferrari that they were in was travelling at an estimated 120mph when a tire burst. The blowout caused the car to leave the road, rolling over and reportedly tearing the two drivers in half. If that wasn't bad enough, the vehicle struck a crowd and killed an additional nine people.
1 The 1955 24 Hours of LeMans
This is deadliest single race and killed the most spectators at a motorsport event. The races at LeMans are legendary in the world of motorsport. In 1955 an accident occurred which left a black mark on this event and led to new safety regulations. A sudden braking by a Jaguar near the pits caused a number of cars to try and avoid a collision. A Mercedes driven by Pierre Levegh could not avoid the chaos, hitting an Austin-Healey and launching up into the crowd. The hood, engine and an axel flew into the crowd crushing and decapitating spectators. The car, built with magnesium, caught fire and burned even more to death. Levegh was thrown from the car and killed. In total, the crash claimed the lives of 84 people and injured over 100 others. Truly tragic.


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Sarah Haskins does diets! Not sure if the embedding's gonna work here, Embedding did not work (don't ask), so go watch here. I promise, it's worth it. ("Don't drink that much soda? Go fuck yourself!")
98 thoughts on "The Target Women We've All Been Waiting for"
Okay, I think I'm going to be saying "stick it in your ear!" for the rest of '09.
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anyone else having trouble viewing this? no video at that link, at least not for me…
ahh… i remember when i did that in college. i cut out sodas completely, and yup! i lost weight. but wouldn't ya know it, those pounds came back and brought friends too, even though i wasn't drinking soda anymore.
i should have tried the "stick it in your ear" diet. that's where i went wrong!
I love the term "ear hole."
Volcanista , thank you! I missed that one too and OMG I love that she made fun of the Secret Flawless commercial. Every time that came on I cringed. I was embarrassed FOR that woman.
So much funny right there.
Why oh why don't any of the 'talk show hosts" ask, "But what if you don' t drink any soda or eat any pie?"
I want to hear size 0's answer. Other than just "try harder."
Sarah Haskins is the best! The contradiction of skipping one soda / day equals 15 pounds, but 3 liters / week = 10 pounds made me snort.
BTW, what's the replacement for baby donuts? I can't seem to find anything that compares.
Laurie: I wonder the same thing. Also, one of these days I'm going to stand up in one of those audiences and say, "So I hear that by cutting out one soda a day, I can lose fifteen pounds in a year. Well, I stopped drinking soda in 1999, but I still can't seem to get down to -35 pounds. What's going on?"
I'm sure it's just that the negative pounds are hardest. ;)
I just saw the Target Women 2008 roundup on Feministe today (yeah, it's still in my feed, I only read it for the articles, I swear), so I'm having a Haskinsy day!!!
Why oh why don't any of the 'talk show hosts" ask, "But what if you don' t drink any soda or eat any pie?"
Oh don't be silly! The only things fat people drink are soda and beer! That's why they're teh FAT!
Oh, no, not that I know of. I just got a bit disillusioned with it awhile back – I can't really put my finger on it, it just got a little more mean in the comments, felt a little less friendly.
Genius. 'Target Women: Wedding Shows' made me even more scared of getting married!
If I stick it in both my ears then I won't have to listen to all those BS diet commercials anymore, hey it might work! Nancy
See, now, I drink Soda, at least two cans a day. I now know that by cutting them out I can loose 15 pounds in a year…but just imagine how much I can loose if I pour them in my ear instead! Magic XD
Or, you know, maybe I'll just carry on drinking them because they make me happy? XD
My love for Sarah Haskins continues unabated.
Now I feel kind of sad for the elephants at the San Diego zoo.
Sarah Haskins <3
I am overwhelmed with dieting ads right now. I'm past the point where I want to diet, but I'm not past the point of RAGE. Every. Single. Magazine. at the grocery store either had DIET TIPS or HALF HER SIZE: HERE'S HOW or HOW X CELEBRITY STAYS SKINNY. I opened one of them just to see their enlightening information on how I can be half my size (ie half dead), and the advice was eat 1200 calories a day and exercise for 2 hours a day 5 times per week. I mean, at least it's more generous than 3-4 hours a day, but christ on a cracker.
What I'm trying to say is: Thank you SP for holding it down for the rest of us.
My favorite bit is the "if you're too weak to write, have a friend write for you!" line.
*snicker* Sometimes, when my weight gets loose, it tries to eat shit. But I saw this dog trainer program on tv (while ingesting my eighth pound of delectable baby organ meats) and taught it not to eat shit anymore. Sometimes you just have to explain that coprophagia is wrong!
I love Sarah Haskins, but I would have liked to see a bit more snark in this one. But I think my expectations are pretty high because I'm used to fatosphere bloggers, who are awesomely and abundantly snarky about the diet industry. I used to read this blogs for self-acceptance, but now I read it for the hilariousness, and I was sort of expecting the same from Haskins. I still very much enjoyed the video, though.
Stick it in your ear, yes. I'm tempted to make pretty leafy earplugs from celery tops, and wear them when I go to the grocer's.
I think the swap for baby donuts is puppy donuts – still cute and cuddly, but without all that artery-clogging "baby fat".
Lis, I feel sorry for the elephants, too.
I would like to think zookeepers are all wise and kindly, but I have seen too many people obsess about how fat their animals are to doubt there can be transference.
My best friend's cousin can't stand to look at cows (in her dairy intensive state) because they are so fat they make her feel "grossed out."
gianna, nobody here wants you to drink soda. Everyone here thinks that people should eat and drink the stuff that feels right for them.
Which was the point of that part of the video: the whole idea of "cut out soda and you'll lose eleventy million pounds" is ridiculous, because not all fat people drink soda.
*sigh* At the risk of being ostracized for poor taste, I just don't find Sarah Haskins all that & a bag of chips. Somewhere buried in her segments are good satires and sometimes she gets closer to the mark, but I don't think she gets there. *shrugs*
giannakali I have a complicated set of dietary restrictions myself that cause me difficulties at work, so your problems are not different than the problems of "everyone" here. You are not alone, nor are you some special snowflake with more problems than the rest of us.
The message of this site is to accept yourself and do what's healthy for you and say fuck you to anyone who gives you grief about taking care of yourself, even if what you do flies in the face of conventional wisdom and cultural pressure about what people should eat and how they should look.
When you say things like I just don't like eating shit. I don't care if anyone else wants too…but soda in my mind in my body is shit it's offensive to the people here, like me, who do drink soda. Acceptance has to work both ways. Nobody is going to judge you for what you choose or need to eat but you need to show the same amount of respect to the rest of us. That's also part of the message of this site.
You talk about liking to eat "wholesome" food but that word implies that what you eat is "right" because of some standard you hold, which is also against the message of this place, where we don't put value judgments on food.
In short, you're coming in here violating several of the ideals of this community by projecting your value systems onto everyone else, even if you're not judging about being fat. It's more complicated than that.
My best friend's cousin can't stand to look at cows (in her dairy intensive state) because they are so fat they make her feel "grossed out."
WHUT? That is a mindbogglingly sad case of projection and weird anthropomorphism. Also, she should spend some time in a place where people can't afford to feed their cows well and you can see the ribs poking through the skin – happy, healthy cows they do not appear to be. *
* Disclaimer: I'm not a veterinarian. Maybe that's the way cows are supposed to look. Whatever.
A fifth of whiskey instead of beer? I can do that. Heck, I might have done that at tonight's happy hour (that lasted 3)
I love Sarah Haskins. Ever since the Target Women: Yogurt thing.
Giannakali, it's a learning curve. You'll be fine. Keep reading. :)
This is exactly the video I was hoping she'd make some day but I didn't want to dream too big, only to be disappointed when it never happened. Alas, there's a lesson here – dream big!
That said, I think she could do a whole series of vids just about the ridiculousness of diets, the diet industry, diet commercials, diet ads, diet spokespeople, diet…. well, everything.
Could someone please clarify sommet for me? Are baby donuts little mini donuts, or donuts made out of babies? Or little mini donuts made out of babies? I'm confused.
Sadly, my vegan arse misses out no matter what they are!
I cannot hear the "shave 100 calories a day to lose" thing without being filled with the urge to go drive cars into diet centres.
Perla – didn't you hear? All the fat people are fat because they, (ahem) "SIT ON THE COUCH ALL DAY EATING DONUTS!" (ahem) — you can't deny it!
And also, since obesity is Teh sign of Moral Evil, they're probably made of babies arhm nahrm. ('Course, I imagine as a vegan you're probably more fond of kitten donuts….)
You know why I should not watch Sarah Haskins at 3:30 in the morning?
Because I cannot control my laughter and one of these days I'm going to wake up the neighbors :-p
Sarah Haskins is full of win! :-D
"Now I feel kind of sad for the elephants at the San Diego zoo."
I know. What the hell is with the animal weight loss obsession? Leave the animals alone! :(
oh, and speaking of animal weight- I've been accused of promoting cat obesity, because I've always thought fat cats are much cuter ^_^
(of course I would still never try to make a skinny cat fat, in case anyone here is still concerned)
It suddenly hit me watching Sarah that all the recent budget tips are exactly the same. If I stop spending all my money at Starbucks, take a list to the grocery store, read the circulars, use coupons, I'll be able to weather losing my husband's income. Well, what if we were doing all those things when we had two incomes? It's the exact same assumption: there's nothing wrong with the world as we know it, we're all just not very bright!
And EVERYTHING is under our personal control and that's why we all deserve everything that happens to us. I realize that this is again off-topic but I'd never really noticed the similarity before.
Gianna, I've had to make some changes in my eating due to health issues too. So I get it. At the same time I'm not on a "diet' or starving either. I've just changed the foods I'm eating, and having what I want here and there.
On that note, I need to mention that I've drank diet soda for many years……and it never made me lose anything. I drink it because I can't handle the sugary taste of regular.
Thanks for posting this. I love Sarah Haskins but have trouble keeping up with her new stuff. T
This is timely for me–over Christmas I read my mom's "Good Housekeeping" magazine (I was bored), and their weight-loss tips included: switching from soda to water and calorie-free beverages; switching to whole grains; switching to low-fat dairy; eating a lot of fruits and vegetables. I thought, "Huh, I've been doing all this for years–shouldn't I be a size 4 by now?" Honestly, what would women's magazines do if they had to face the fact that these ideas don't really work? It's like the financial experts who say, "You can save $20 a week just by cutting out one Starbucks latte a day!" Yes, and for those of us who DON'T buy Starbucks everyday?
Just realized OlderThanDirt made the same point . . . you're right, the assumption is that we're just not very bright. So not bright, in fact, that they can repeat the same useless advice over and over and we won't even notice!
It's the exact same assumption: there's nothing wrong with the world as we know it, we're all just not very bright!
This is exactly what bugs me about these tips. Money tips, diet tips, even most fashion tips. Like, omg, I never read that blueberries are a superfood before! Who knew that soda was sugary, and starbucks takes your money?
I have the short term memory of a flea, and I still know that I've heard this shit before. And it didn't make any sense then, either!
That clip is great. :D
On the topic of adjusting your diet for your health, but not specifically to lose weight: I'm there.
In November I started having debilitating stomachaches whenever I ate salty food high in saturated fats (like eggs, fried/baked potatoes, chips, beer nuts, pretzels). I stopped eating them. Some other tests with the doctor, some talk about losing weight – but I let that slide. All I knew was that my body felt bad, and I needed to listen to it, and make the changes necessary.
The result: I haven't lost any weight whatsoever, but my body feels a lot better and digests food noticeably better and faster. That's what matters to me the most.
Food can't be seperated into 'bad' and 'good' that easily. Listen to your body – it's a complex, but very advanced thing, that is constantly sending you signals about how it feels. The trick is to tune into those signals (instead of using the number on the scale as the sole indicator of your health) and act on them.
I cut down my soda intake not for weight loss, but just to see if I could get by without constantly drinking soda, especially Mountain Dew, which can give me terrible stomach problems. The result? I don't depend on soda like I used to, some days I can go completely without it. But I'm still the dreaded Death Fat.
Those that say just cutting out a can of soda per day helps to lose weight really aren't taking into consideration how bodies work. Some may end up shedding some pounds. I bet you most won't see any change at all, which may lead to exercising until limbs fall off and calories are drastically cut to achieve TFOBT.
Oh, and Sarah Haskins rocks! I think the "Stick It In Your Ear Diet" is great! I'd love to stick something into the ear of the "Eat This Not That" guy, he is ultra annoying!!!
It suddenly hit me watching Sarah that all the recent budget tips are exactly the same. If I stop spending all my money at Starbucks, take a list to the grocery store, read the circulars, use coupons, I'll be able to weather losing my husband's income.
I know; those articles always make me want to stop smoking so I can quit and apparently save millions of dollars per year.
I watched that earlier and was discussing with SM whether I should post it because it wasn't as sharp as I wanted it to be.
I'm with you, I think she could have been a lot more biting and still have been very funny. I did love "stick it in your ear" though, and I'm going to tell people that's what I'm doing when they make "helpful" suggestions.
When I tried using Word Press it told me embedding would never work "for security purposes." Whatever those purposes are, it didn't make sense to me. My intent with blogging was to include playlists and videos, so I went back to Blogger.
Anyhoo…I'm going to swap out a 6-pack of beer for a fifth of whiskey now. lol…thud *passes out*
Interestingly enough, I only drink diet pop and have never liked regular (I'm not a fan of having sugar coat my teeth, kthanx), and miraculously I'm still teh fatz.
giannakali, I understand how you feel. I've lost weight – on purpose – and I believe that FA can coincide with all lifestyles, including weight loss. It's not the most popular opinion.
Because to me it's about understanding that what people need to do with their own bodies and dietary lifestyles is their own business. My need to not be out of shape, in poor health and feeling like crap on multiple levels is my own business, just as your decisions about soda etc are yours.
Did you see the Target Women on lessons of 2008? "Sandwiches are for boys!" Hee.
Wha..? I don't hear anyone in Fat Acceptance saying that you have to do things that make you feel like crap so as to score points for the movement. (Maybe I misunderstand you, Liza?)
I mean, it seems to me that the whole point is that "it makes me feel like crap" is a good enough reason not to eat something, just like "it make me feel great!" is a good enough reason to eat something. That's it. Period. You don't need any other reasons. You don't need to say, "soda makes me feel like crap… and this feeling is CORRECT, and therefore I'm ENTITLED to feel it, because we all know sodas are objectively BAD AND UNWHOLESOME at all times and in all places." There's just no need to go there. You really can just not like soda because you just don't like soda. If people find that answer unsatisfying, it's their problem.
Oh, and I also love the latest Sarah Haskins brilliance. I did love the hoodie-masters remark of yore, even though it hit a little too close for comfort. :)
Frickin' LOVE her!!!!
Kate, I agree with you on the high standards thing. She's the only woman doing videos like this right now — well, at least the only one I know of, which means the only high-profile, fairly-high-budget one. Maybe we all need an "I am Sarah Haskins" moment! I'd love her to do a follow-up one on all those late-night exercise machine ads, for instance. The gender issues alone would be enough for a video, and if she stuck to her guns on making fun of weight loss we'd be GOLDEN.
Name Changed and RedSonja: I think the healthy alternative for baby donuts is some kind of donut hole? Puppy donut holes? Or just celery donut holes?
Ahahaha, this was great. I too found myself wanting it to be more snarky, but hey, at least she's saying it. And she is almost always right on. It's also worth noting that Target Women is probably the most popular segment on that Infomania show.
Oh, and um, I drink a lot of soda and it has had no impact on my weight. If I were to stop drinking soda I suspect I would not get any thinner. I would get caffeine headaches tho. :P
"I know; those articles always make me want to stop smoking so I can quit and apparently save millions of dollars per year."
Hey, I quit smoking three years ago tomorrow and I now spend all the money on yarn and spinning fiber! Just think, I could have three million by now. :(
Now I don't understand why I'm fat when I've never drank soda! D:
Clearly, I've been putting the food in the wrong hole all this time.
Is anybody else reminded of the second episode of Charlie the Unicorn, with the song about putting a banana in your ear? Or did I just reveal myself as the biggest Shapeling nerd?
Put a banana in your ear!
Yes, put a ripe banana right into your favorite ear…
Stick it in your ear! I'm recommending this to my coworker who tells everyone about her weight loss, pointedly forgoes food at meetings and offers unsolicited diet advice to people who eat in front of her. "Have you heard about this new plan? It's awesome – just eat through your ear!" She's almost dumb enough to try it….
BTW for whoever mentioned that they can't get down to -35lbs, I feel you! Before I installed the ad blocker, Facebook ads kept telling to lose those 200 extra lbs with gastric bypass…but I've decided to try for that elusive negative weight on my own without surgical intervention! ;-)
Totally OT, but I just saw that Sarah did a Target Women on those damned jewelry Christmas commercials. Which is funny, since I suggested at The F-Word blog that she should do a segment on them.
Oh, now she's my favourite person. :D
Btw, I gave up soda about a year ago and have not, to my knowledge, lost any weight. What I have lost is that awful feeling in my belly that I got whenever I drank too much of the stuff.
"Chuggachuggachuggachugga SHOE SHOE!"
Oh, my dog. She did one on Twilight as well. Excellent!
This one was funny, but I loved the yogurt one. The master's+married=gray hoodie line is friggin' hilarious.
On a note about eating habits and FA, I'm still trying to figure out how to combine the two. Breaking the habit of eating things I know make me feel like crap, and accepting the fact that getting rid of those things may or may not help me lose weight, but will most definitely not make me more (enter FoBT here). SP is certainly helping to change my thinking on a few things. I was already headed in that direction, but now I'm heading that way on purpose.
Long comment short, I love this blog!
Oh, oh! Just had to add:
"Diamonds are forever, just like roaches"
i was disappointed with her "twilight." she left out the sparkles, dammit, and the creepy stalker-pedo vibe. her thing on princesses was far too shallow for true hilarity as well. moments of amusement, sure, but it's like she didn't get the subjects personally and therefore missed the truly cutting observations she could have gone for. jewelry, cleaning products, wedding shows, yogurt? those were all absolutely fantastic.
I don't hear anyone in Fat Acceptance saying that you have to do things that make you feel like crap so as to score points for the movement. (Maybe I misunderstand you, Liza?)
Yeah, what I meant was that my decision to change how I live (and subsequently lose weight) was because I was out of shape, in poor health and felt like crap on multiple levels. I was trying to point out that my reasons for my lifestyle are my business (which extends to everyone) and while no one has said anything directly in some time, I frequently feel sidelined because there's a general motif of not being able to believe in FA if you've purposely lost weight. Which may be my own thing, but it's my feeling and to me it's a valid one.
I feel that people overreacted to giannakali's comment above. I can understand why she came off as defensive, all she had to do was explain why she doesn't drink pop and people freaked.
So I'll reiterate that to me FA is about understanding that what people need to do with their own bodies and dietary lifestyles is their own business. Which includes my weight loss, giannakali's restrictions and, you know, someone else's desire to live exclusively on Big Macs or something.
Oh oh there was a 2008 review!
Sandwiches are for boys!
This might be a little OT, but it's something that enraged me about the misconceptions about fat people: I had a conversation via phone the other day with a lady from the Healthy Start program here. It's a program meant to give assistance/information to pregnant women who meet certain criteria. I was flagged for it because I'm not married, I'm a first time mom, and I'm overweight – which supposedly makes me a high risk mom. During our conversation, she was asking me about what I eat, and she asked me if I eat a lot of McDonald's/Pizza Hut/Etc., and I said no. Then she said, somewhat as an aside, that "they can have a lot of hidden calories". I cannot tell you how much I wish I could back to that moment and say something snarky to her. Um, why do you think I don't know that those foods aren't particularly good for me? Because I'm FAT?? And since when are those calories HIDDEN?
Made me so aggravated. Up till that point, not one person had said anything to me about my health risks being an overweight pregnant woman, probably because I'm PERFECTLY HEALTHY.
This one keeps coming back, and hey! I've got hip waders!
I frequently feel sidelined because there's a general motif of not being able to believe in FA if you've purposely lost weight.
Some of us are FA because we have no other choice. I'll be right clear right now: I am at best fat-tolerant about myself. I grew up a body-hater as an expression of self-loathing, and even as I get better I still struggle daily with body-hate.
If I am able to actually like myself by the time I'm in my dotage it will be the great struggle of my life won. True acceptance, I just don't know if it'll be possible. ( I seem to be able to accept and even love fat shapes other than my family's. You see how this goes. It's rooted familial shit, and no, I'm not clear of it.)
There has been no day on this planet after the age of six that I have not hoped to wake in some magic fairy land where I am "Normal".
So I think the "resistance" I have to FA and intentional weight loss is this: I can't and I've spent my life wanting to. When some in the FA community talk about intentional weight loss as if it's possible, the me that was on diets for 24 of 34 years perks up its ears and says "IT'S POSSIBLE? REALLY? TELL ME HOW I'LL PAY YOU ANYTHING!"
I'll eat food through my fucking ears. Hell, I was drinking OIL for a while there, after the lifestyle choices options failed so badly.
FA teaches me a bunch of things, and is a struggle, and I am trying to learn. I am not as brave or strong as others, and I would happily be thin. Happily. Just to not think about it anymore. Maybe I'd hate on something else: my nose, my feet, my skin. It'd be a relief, however.
I am also someone with dyscalcula. (Like dyslexia, with math. ) I can imagine a dyscalcula support group where there's me – who has a math related degree and did collage level math – saying "It's like people in this support group don't believe in those of us here needing support who are able to do most advanced math but still having trouble multiplying 1*1 and coming up with the correct answer", and then hearing the frustration of people who are at a very different place and have trouble figuring out how much they owe at a cash register.
So what we need is different things, I imagine. My problem is is that I'm NOT INTUITIVELY fat accepting – I've swallowed society's arguments against my body – and the very idea that I could short circuit all this hard uphill societal- and self- deconstruction work to bring my internal war to a hesitant peace with the far, far easier choice to bomb the offending fat off my body is tempting.
Going on a diet, for me, is the easy, instinctive, and well-traveled path. It doesn't STAY off. I get fatter.
There are others in the FA community who seem to have different struggles. Maybe they truly heart their thicker thighs, and have a slightly wider range of possible stable weights, and they can come down 20 pounds and keep it off for 20 years. And they do accept themselves and they're fine, and really just like being at the low end of their range for how it feels inside their skin.
But intentional weight loss is not AVAILABLE to some of us, and we wants it.
Yes we do, my precious.
…. And that comment feels to me out of line, and I'm not sure why. Because the internalized self-loathing that is still so present for me feels really shameful? Because I'm afraid of triggering others in a similar headspace? I'm not sure. I want to apologize, but I don't know what for.
I love the "don't drink that much soda? F*** you" line. Because that DOES totally sum up the "morning show" approach to dieting – that if you're overweight, there's all kinds of "excess" you can and should cut out of your diet, and you can do it OH SO SIMPLY. And if you don't consume that food-targeted-for-elimination, you must be lying – because you're FAT and of course ALL fat people eat the way the stereotype says they do.
I don't drink soda – I don't care for it.
I think the other thing that bugs me about the "give this up" bit is, what if that's really the one pleasure people get out of life? I saw some spending-diet guru (that's what I think of the people who are telling people how they "should" spend less money; as spending-diet gurus and their advice is about as generally useful as the average diet guru) talk about people giving up "expensive coffee drinks." What if that's the person's sole weekly indulgence? What if it makes them really happy? What if they don't spend money on other things, so they can have the money for their latte?
One-size-fits-all isn't just a bad idea for clothing.
Arwen, I just wanted to thank you for your comment. It really resonated with me, and it was really nice to hear that someone else has issues like me. I'm not as far along as you are – I don't even tolerate my body, and thinking about how I used to be normal five years ago before somehow I gained a hundred pounds makes me nearly suicidal. So it was nice to hear from someone a little closer to me. Not that hearing from people who love themselves the way they are is a bad thing!
Arwen i just have to say thank you for posting what you did, it gave words to what I often feel. It isn't that I don't think that everyone has the right to how they treat their body or that anyone is allowed in the FA movement because I do and I will defend those positions like crazy.
I do have to admit however to it tearing me apart in very painful ways when people act like this is my choice, that the only reason I am like this is that I have just chosen to be, and that it would be just that simple to be "normal" if I would just chose to do these simple things. when I realize that it is those things that in effect made me this way to begin with, that the yo-yo dieting and the subsequent gaining back the weight I lost plus more combined with the disordered eating I learned from all that has me trapped in something that is not what I would chose.. and so yes I do feel alot of hurt when someone acts as though it is.
That doesn't mean I don't defend their right to be in the FA movement as long as they are on the side that no one should be treated as less of a person or discriminated against because of their size, etc. It just means that at times I am going to have a very hard time ignoring or accepting that kind of attitude and that I really hope that maybe they will understand why I get defensive about it.
I am glad you said what you did, it was kind of a aha! moment for me and if you hadn't said it i would still be in the dark about it lol
"…and for dinner, I swapped a six-pack of beer for a fifth of whiskey!"
So, like, if the soda I drink already doesn't have sugar in it because I'm hypoglycemic, does that still mean I lose 52 pounds a year? OH NOES! In a little over 3 years, I won't exist!
My favorite bit is the "if you're too weak to write, have a friend write for you!" line.
THIS HAPPENED TO MY FRIEND. She decided to shell out $300 for some something or other and ended up getting so weak that she couldn't walk from one end of her small house to the other end of her small house without having to stop and rest for half an hour. She's better now and managed to avoid any serious, long-term health problems, so I got a good laugh out of that line.
Aw, Kate — you gave away the best line! : ( Consider taking down the soda line; it will preserve the funny for the rest of the people who didn't read before viewing.
So I'll reiterate that to me FA is about understanding that what people need to do with their own bodies and dietary lifestyles is their own business. Which includes my weight loss, giannakali's restrictions and, you know, someone else's desire to live exclusively on Big Macs or something.
And I'll reiterate that FAT ACCEPTANCE (which is what that handy acronym stands for) is about ACCEPTING FAT, which you by definition cannot be doing while simultaneously deliberately trying to eradicate it through diet, exercise, eating through your ear or whatever the fuck else. Sing it with me if you know the words: you're not accepting fat if you're trying to get rid of it! They are two different things.
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Happy Birthday: Brad Frago (2/22) and James Schlichting (2/25)
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She talked lovingly of her family back home. Her mother works in a bank; her father works for the post office in another community and comes home on weekends. Luisa has one younger brother, whom she misses dearly.
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President's Minute — David Brown talked about his entry into Rotary and how the youth exchange program has grown over the last 10 years. Emelda Rasmussen sponsored his membership.
New Members: Dayna Clemments (Blake Abdella) and Peter Schmelzer (Jim Braucher) were inducted into the club. Dayna is the executive director for Rice County Habitat for Humanity. Peter is an architect in town. Welcome.
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Modern slavery exists in the UK and destroys lives. Men, women and children – UK nationals and those from abroad – are exploited in the sex industry, through forced labour, domestic servitude in the home and forced criminal activity. These types of crime are often called human trafficking.Traffickers and slave masters use whatever means they have at their disposal to coerce, deceive and force individuals into a life of abuse, servitude and inhumane treatment.
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Indicators of Modern Slavery:
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- May appear frightened or hesitant to talk, avoid eye contact
Government guidance on Victims of Modern Slavery is designed to help staff identify and help potential victims of modern slavery (including human trafficking) in England and Wales. It reflects relevant provisions of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Criminal Justice and Support for Victims) Act (Northern Ireland) 2015. If staff suspect a person is a potential victim of modern slavery due to human trafficking in any part of the UK (or slavery, servitude, or forced or compulsory labour in cases identified in England or Wales) they must consider a referral into the national referral mechanism (NRM). Under the NRM, a trained specialist in a designated competent authority will investigate the matter further.
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