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Eye Care & Protection
Participation in organized sports is a great way for children to improve their physical fitness, coordination, sportsmanship, teamwork and other skills that will serve them well throughout their lives. Participation in sports, however, also exposes children to potential eye injuries. To protect children from these injuries, they need to wear proper eye protection whenever they engage in sports. This eye protection must be designed to specifically shield children's eyes from impact by a foreign object.
Children account for over a third of the more than 600,000 eye injuries that occur annually. Eye injuries among children playing sports happen frequently, but the number of children wearing eye protection while playing sports remains low at only about 15 percent. According to the National Institutes of Health's National Eye Institute, a majority of the eye injuries suffered by children ages 11 to 14 occur while playing sports.
Many sports have the potential to expose children to eye injuries, whether that sport is soccer, snow skiing, running, tennis or basketball, a team-based sport or a solo endeavor. For example, eye injuries occur most often in baseball, basketball, ice hockey and racquet sports, yet few parents encourage their children to wear protective eyewear when playing these sports. That is why the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Ophthalmology and American Optometric Association all strongly recommend protective eyewear for all participants in sports in which there is a risk of eye injury.
Below are some helpful tips to protect children's eyes while playing sports:
- All children need protective eyewear regardless of whether or not they wear glasses or contacts.
- All sports protective eyewear should meet the impact standards of the American Standards for Testing and Materials (ASTM).
- A wide range of polycarbonate face masks and guards can be attached to helmets or worn by themselves.
- Everyday fashion eyewear is not held to the same protective standards as eyewear products labeled as protective eyewear for sport use.
- Lenses should be made from polycarbonate materials because they provide the highest level of impact protection and are available in both eyeglasses and sunglasses.
- Just because a sport requires a helmet or face guard, it doesn't mean that children's eyes are protected from injuries.
- Protective eyewear can be purchased at sporting goods stores as well as eye care providers' offices.
- Be sure that sports safety glasses that will be used out of doors also protect the eyes from UV rays.
By evaluating and providing the protective eyewear available and designed specifically for children, and insisting that they wear it, parents can help children protect their eyes and establish healthy habits that will last a lifetime.
Learn more information about choosing sunglasses to protect children against UV exposure while playing sports and the proper eyewear to protect against impact injuries while participating in sporting activities.


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Sony Ericsson UK has confirmed that the Xperia X10, X10 Mini, X10 Mini Pro and the X8 won't be getting the Android 2.2 update after all. This news is definitely not going to please all the Xperia owners out there.
However, Sony Ericsson says that the Xperia X10 and its other siblings will get many other enhancements via software update.
Sony Ericsson has already stated that they will release a software update for the X10 in Q1 of 2011 which will bring multi-touch support to the handset. Apparently, Sony Ericsson will also release another update which will add new functionalities to the MediaScape and TimeScape UI of the handset.
However, X10, X10 Mini Pro, X10 Mini and X8 users now need to look at the Custom ROM scene for their handset to get Android 2.2 or Android 2.3 running on their handset.

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In between Stanley Cup celebrations were stops in Edmonton, Boston, Dallas, St. Louis, San Jose and Long Island. The much-travelled, highly valuable Guerin was in the right place at the right time. Call it synchronicity. Call it fate. Bill's overtime goal in Game Two of the Flyers' series, his second of the game, was a pivotal moment in the 'March of the Penguins.'
Bill packed the Cup in his car and took it to the nearby Pro Hoops Academy, where the oldest girls, Grace and Kayla, were attending a basketball camp. The Stanley Cup was then placed in a shopping cart as Bill picked up a few necessities at the Stop & Shop grocery store. The double-takes from shoppers were incredible he swore that a few even challenged Linda Blair from her role in 'The Exorcist'!
Multi-tasking as a huge sundae dish is becoming a regular use for the Stanley Cup, and the Guerins made certain that they visited Gooseberry Grove for that purpose. Now, there have been some very fine sundaes made in the Stanley Cup, but none that could top this one. You name the flavour you favour, it was there. And no matter what topping you prefer, this sundae had it. Not surprisingly, it didn't last very long as the kids devoured the ice-cold creation.
Day Two started with a terrific breakfast at Oyster Bay's Harborside Deli. Bill ran into a wedding party and invited the groom, his best man and the groomsmen to have their pictures taken with the Stanley Cup. The groom insisted he would never forget Saturday, August 14, 2009 because of the Stanley Cup. Let's hope, for his sake, that he remembers the date for another reason, too!
Guerin took the Cup to Messina Market, then decided to visit Richie's Barber Shop. Now, the Stanley Cup has been involved in some close shaves (remember Brett Hull's goal in 1999?) but has never had as close a shave as this. Lathered up, shaved and finished with hot towels, neither the Cup nor Bill had anything resembling a playoff beard on August 14. In fact, their cheeks were as smooth as the babies' bums that occasionally are seated in the bowl of the Cup!
While clothes shopping in Huntington, people continually stopped Bill to congratulate him and the Penguins on their accomplishment. Back at the house, the Guerins got ready for their Stanley Cup party. A limousine took them to Prime, a phenomenal restaurant on Huntington Harbor, where guests from California, Nashville and Edmonton joined the celebration. Bill's sister flew in from Brazil to celebrate with her brother! "Parabéns," she shouted when she saw Bill with the Stanley Cup.
It had been a long wait between victories, but that made this celebration that much sweeter for Bill Guerin and the Stanley Cup.
Friday will be here before you know it, and when it arrives, the Stanley Cup Journal will visit Hal Gill and Mark Eaton. Mark your calendars!
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BIDA gene on chromosome 22q11.1, which encodes a member of the BCL-2 family of cell death regulators. BID heterodimerises with either agonist BAX or antagonist BCL2. Caspase-8 cleaves BID, mediating mitochondrial damage when the COOH-terminal part translocates to mitochondria, triggering cytochrome c release.
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I have immersed myself in summer and it feels so good. This means going to summer school in the morning, workout in the afternoon, and dividing the rest of my day to studies and fun with friends. I have been lifting weights 2-3x a week and doing most HIIT (high intensity interval training) cardio 2-3 days a week. For your workout inspiration…
Track Intervals #1
12 minute warm up jog (for me, this is running to the track near my house)
200 meter SPRINT
200 meter SLOW walk/shuffle/jog (this totals 1 lap)
repeat 4x or 9x
12 minute cool down jog
Mix Up Workout
This workout was inspired by Lori. It truly is a workout that you have no excuse to not do. No matter where you are or how little time you have, you can drop and do this little routine!
15 minute warm up jog
10 pushups
10 deep squats
10 jumping lunges
10 situps
repeat 4x or 10x
5 minute cool down jog
Lifting #1
1/2 mile warm up jog or run
5×10 squats, 125 lbs [booty]
3×10 dead lifts, 80 lbs [lower back/hamstrings]
3×10 lat pull down, 50 lbs [upper back]
3×10 seated double arm cable pully rows, 40 lbs [mid back]
3×12 seated leg press, 185 lbs [booty/hamstrings]
3×10 military press, 30 lbs [shoulders]
3×10 cable push down, 30 lbs [triceps]
3×12 (on each side) side bend, 45 lbs [abs]
3×12 hanging leg lifts [lower abs]
1×1 whey protein smoothie
If you aren't sure what some of these are, this is a great website!
My current favorite whey protein smoothie is
Blueberry PopTart Protein Smoothie
1/2 cup frozen blueberries (Rhythm and Blueberries is the best)
1 scoop cinnamon bun whey protein powder
2 tbsp greek yogurt
handful ice
3/4 cup vanilla almond milk
pinch salt
optional toppings: shredded coconut
Blend away!
I updated my Recipes page, so it should be much easier to find the type of meal you are looking for! I have been lacking in the inspiration department as far as cooking goes, but when I return home from my family reunion (from now until Sunday!) in Lake of the Ozarks, I plan on getting back into cooking REAL meals. I have been feeding on very simple things that I almost feel silly posting because they are so simple. For example, breakfasts have included Texas style breakfast tacos…
whole wheat tortilla, 1 egg + 3 egg whites, full fat cheddar cheese, sour cream, cherry tomatoes, onions
yogurt messes…
high fiber cereal, corn puffs, vanilla almond milk, greek yogurt, mixed nuts
And lunches have included homemade spring rolls, salads, sandwiches, burgers, and…
Summer Strawberry & Almond Chicken Salad
1/2 grilled chicken breast (cold), shredded
2-3 tbsp sour cream
~5 strawberries, sliced
2 tbsp slivered almonds
Toss ingredients together and serve on a salad or as a whole grain sandwich or wrap!
My housemates thought it was strange I was using sour cream instead of mayo for chicken salad, but I thought it was grreat. Ill be back in a few days, enjoy your weekends!
Parting words of wisdom from last weekend's adventure in SF…


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Looking like glittering jewels, the stars in this Hubble Space Telescope image at left are part of the ancient globular star cluster NGC 6397.
Scattered among these brilliant stars are extremely faint stars. Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys has taken a census of the cluster stars, uncovering the faintest stars ever seen in a globular cluster. Globular clusters are spherical concentrations of hundreds of thousands of old stars.
The Advanced Camera found the faintest red dwarf stars (26th magnitude), which are cooler and much lower in mass than our Sun, and the dimmest white dwarfs (28th magnitude), the burned-out relics of normal stars. The light from the dimmest white dwarfs is equal to the light produced by a birthday candle on the Moon as seen from Earth.
The image at lower right shows the faintest red dwarf star (the red dot within the red circle) spied by Hubble.
The image at upper right pinpoints one of the dim white dwarfs (the blue dot within the blue circle) seen by Hubble. The white dwarf has been cooling for thousand millions of years. It is so cool that instead of looking red, it has undergone a chemical change in its atmosphere that makes it appear blue.
The images were taken with visual and red filters. NGC 6397, one of the closest globular clusters to Earth, is 8500 light-years away in the southern constellation Ara.
The data for these images were obtained in March and April 2005.