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After the Raids
Colorlines, News report, Valeria Fernández Posted: Sep 04, 2008
ERASMA ZUNÚN LOPEZ lives a cautious life since the day she was arrested during an immigration raid almost two years ago. Now, doors are always double-locked and curtains are shut at her home. She lives near a police station in Greeley, Colorado, and she shivers any time she sees a police officer. She rushes back into her house when a white van approaches the station. She cries often for no immediate reason. Recurring nightmares haunt her. She no longer takes her eight grandchildren to the park a few blocks away. Her worst fear is to be separated from them again.
Lopez was one of 262 people who were arrested in 2006 when federal immigration agents raided the Swift & Company meatpacking plant in Greeley where she worked. About 1,300 workers were arrested at six of the companys sites nationwide. Since the raid, justice has been postponed for at least 32 immigrant families like hers who live in legal limbo while they wait to see an immigration judge in October.
They are stuck, said Ricardo Romero, a Colorado immigrant rights activist. They cant work...what the hell are you doing giving them court dates two years after theyve been arrested?
"We used to have two checks coming in, now it's only one...we're limited in food [and] clothes, and gas is expensive." Many of the workers arrested in Greeley were Mexicans and Guatemalans, but the group also included Hondurans, Ethiopians and Laotians.
Among those from Mexico and Guatemala were many indigenous peoples from those countries who lived in families here with mixed documentation status. While they may not be citizens, they have U.S.-born children and spouses, or siblings who are citizens. Most of those arrested that day signed documents for voluntary deportation. Others, like Lopez, chose to fight in court to stay, even if their likelihood of winning was remote. Some who were deported have already crossed the border again and are back with their children and working in Greeleys underground economy.
Al Frente de Lucha, a nonprofit organization run by Romero, has been helping 17 families with supplies and food coupons with the support of a local church, but help is running out.
Lopez worked for nine years at the Swift plant. It was a tough and dirty job, but it paid. She cleaned cattle carcasses with a knife, taking out hairs, grease and sometimes excrement. Her chest often hurt from the weight of lifting and turning the carcasses, and it still does.
The morning of the raid, the assembly line stopped earlier than usual, Lopez recalled. Workers were summoned to the cafeteria for a break.
After getting out of her metallic protective gear, Lopez heard the turmoil from a distance.
¡La migra! ¡Es la migra! It was too late to get away.
Where are you going? asked one of the security guards.
Im going to the restroom, she answered.
She admits now that she was lying. I was too afraid theyd take me away. I wouldnt see my grandchildren.
Her husband, Jorge Martinez, arrived in disbelief at the plant as he saw his wife carried into one of the last buses; she was handcuffed at her hands and feet.
Several families live together in one house out of fear that another raid will come. They were taking them like criminals, described Martinez. They had helicopters [and] vans. Children were crying outside, mamá, papá. Police were pushing the desperate crowd back. He had never seen anything like that in his 20 years of living in the U.S.
A couple of blocks from his house, ICE was knocking on doors and taking people from their homes.
That very day, Martinez went to school to pick up his nieces 9-year-old son. She had also been arrested and, shortly after, deported. Like many other people, she came back across the border, breaking a foot on the trip across.
There are still children to this date [who] dont have their parent by their side, Martinez said with sorrow and anger. Who gave them a diaper, a taco? Who cared to pick them up from school? Cant the government see what its doing to its own children?
Martinezs and Lopezs stories reflect the complicated maze of legalizing ones status. Originally from Chiapas, Mexico, Martinez had recently become a U.S. citizen and applied to legalize his wifes status. Because Lopez had entered the country illegally, she would have to go back to Mexico and wait until the process was completed, which would take years. The very same regulations requiring immigrants to return to Mexico also bar them from returning to the U.S. if they entered the country and remained illegally.
I didnt want to separate the family, nor take my grandchildren to a land that is not their own, said Martinez.
Life has changed dramatically since the raid.
We used to have two checks coming in, now its only one, said Martinez. Were limited in food [and] clothes, and gas is expensive. He works the 10 p.m.-to-7 a.m. night shift at the local Wal-Mart, waxing floors for $11.50 an hour.
If I dont work those hours, I cant buy a gallon of milk, said Martinez, a U.S. citizen who now supports his eight U.S.-born grandchildren and wont allow his son and two daughters, who are undocumented, to work with fake papers.
The town of Greeley itself also hasnt been quite the same since las redadas (the raids). Commerce City, the local flea market, doesnt see as many Latino families as there used to be, according to Martinez. The color of our skin condemns us, he said about his fear of being detained by the police even though he is a U.S. citizen.
Greeley has always been a city split in two. The western side is where most of the white population concentrates, and Latinos largely live on the eastern side near the giant Swift & Company meatpacking plant. The town has long been an agricultural hub, and in recent decades the meatpacking industry has attracted an immigrant workforce. Latinos are about one-third of the almost 94,000 residents in the town.
The raids brought to the surface the divisive politics behind immigration.
Most people realized they were hiring all kinds of workers there, some documented and some not, but they were winking or pretending it wasnt happening, said Steve Brown, a retired pastor from Family of Christ Presbyterian Church. When the raid happened, it got ugly. We started seeing articles saying Send them all home, Kick the illegals out of here [and] They dont have rights.
Tom Selders, the citys two-term Republican mayor, didnt get reelected after speaking out against the raids in Washington D.C. and endorsing a Senate immigration reform proposal that was equated with amnesty. Critics of the mayor and supporters of federal worksite enforcement blamed illegal immigration for a rise in violent crime in the town and $36 million in uncollected bills at the local hospital. Weld County District Attorney Kenneth Buck was involved in the prosecution of 20 identity theft cases related to the raids and even suggested establishing a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office.
Over the last two years, ICEthe interior enforcement arm of the Department of Homeland Securityhas stepped up its worksite crackdowns, nearly doubling the number of workers arrested. Immigrant workers are increasingly criminally charged with identity theft for using fraudulent social security numbers and a fake name to get a job.
Meanwhile, only about 90 owners, supervisors or hiring officials were arrested in fiscal year 2007, compared with nearly 4,900 arrests that involved undocumented workers, fake document providers and others, according to figures from ICE. In the first quarter of 2008, 75 owners were arrested, compared to more than 3,675 workers.
In May, ICE agents arrested 389 workers when they raided the Agriproccesors Inc. meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. More than 297 workers were criminally charged and sentenced during the same month in mass judicial hearings.
The increased crackdown and criminalization of workers are drawing criticism from immigrant rights advocates, who are fearful that this will become the future trend for law enforcement. A report produced by the National Council of La Raza in conjunction with the Urban Institute documents the inadequacy of government provisions for tending to the needs of families and the children caught in the middle of these raids. The report estimates that there are 5 million children in the country who are citizens and have at least one immigrant parent who is undocumented.
As a result of the increased crackdown, local communities like Greeley have been left to improvise solutions.
Shortly after the raids, Ricardo Romero realized he needed to move quicker than most organizations do to get aid to families. He managed to raise $30,000 worth of food, baby formula, diapers, clothing and other items. But thats no longer the case.
The money is dried up after so long we dont have any money coming, he said.
The Family of Christ Presbyterian Church, a 60-member congregation, received a $15,000 grant from the national Presbyterian Disaster Assistance Fund in 2007. They were able to help more than 24 families for a period of a year with $100 food coupons, but the money ran out at the beginning of June.
People are frightened to seek help, said Ann Ratcliffe, a church member and local resident who helped with the efforts. Were trying to figure out what our next step will be.
Families like Marina Vicentes rely heavily on this aid. She is a stay-at-home mother with four children. Thank God people like Ricardo help us, said Vicente, who is part of the Kiche community in Greely that was largely impacted by the raids. I dont have work. Its only beans and tortillas.
Vicente was six months pregnant when ICE detained her at the meatpacking plant. The emotional ordeal was so massive she had a nervous breakdown. She was afraid it would hurt her baby, but her daughter Laura, who recently turned a year old, is healthy.
Im traumatized with what happened. Ill beg God so I can forget, said Vicente, whose court date is in October. I was raised to earn my food with the sweat of my brows If they decide to send me back, Ill leave.
There are jobs available in Greeley, but many immigrants wont dare take them.
Some families have started selling Mexican and Guatemalan homemade tamales. Others have taken on informal work cleaning yards or doing domestic and handyman work. A couple decided to take the chance of working in the carrot fields. Several families live together in one house out of fear that another raid will come.
If times are bad here, can you imagine how much worse it gets in our countries? said Ernesto Sichy Garcia, a Guatemalan immigrant. He and his wife, Isaura Sontay, were arrested in the raids. They dont have children, but sometimes they still find it hard to pay rent. A local banker gave them a place to live and often excuses them when they are late with a payment.
Garcia started working at the Swift plant two years before the raid because a friend convinced him he could make more money than working on the ranches, where he made between $5 and $7 an hour. I was paying taxes I could never claim, he said.
After being held for four months in an immigration detention center in Texas, Garcia returned to find that many of his Guatemalan family members were gone. They didnt explain anything to usjust sign here, and thats the end of it, he said. I wasnt about to sign anything without an explanation.
Many families are anxiously awaiting the October decision of a judge who will dictate their future in the U.S. Lopez clings to the hope she will be allowed to stay to continue to raise her grandchildren. If Gods grants me this wish, I [will] stay here, she said.
Valeria Fernández is a reporter for La Voz newspaper in Phoenix, Arizona.
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SPQR_US on Sep 22, 2008 at 09:56:06 said:
Man this is frustrating. These liars are disgusting and have a delusional sense of entitlement. Whya re they still here? They were arrested 2 years ago. Now I read that they are COMING BACK ILLEGALLY!!! Where are the police!? Race has nothing to do with this there peopel are all felons and criminals Mexico throws people in jail for 2 years for illegal entry and more if they catch you working.
Thsi stupid woman and her family claim they live in fear...Idiots all they have to do is stop BREAKING OUR LAWS. If they hate it so much they know how to fix the problem: STOP BREAKING IMMIGRATION LAW. but no that isn't what they want they want to keep stealign from us and they are upset that they face consequences for their stealing.
Call ICE today! To report any suspicious activity please call 1-866-347-2423
ransome on Sep 06, 2008 at 14:58:12 said:
New York Times
E.U. Passes Tough Migrant Measure
Published: June 19, 2008
STRASBOURG, France European Union lawmakers voted Wednesday to allow undocumented migrants to be held in detention centers for up to 18 months and banned from European Union territory for five years.
The European Union has 224 detention centers for migrants, with capacity for 30,871 people. National regulations on how long migrants can be confined vary; in France, it is 32 days; in Germany, 18 months. Eight European Union countries have no time limit. European legislators visiting Denmark in April said they were concerned about some detainees who had been held for eight years.
Ransomes on Sep 06, 2008 at 12:35:21 said:
Spain closing door on migrant workers
The Associated Press
Friday, September 5th 2008, 10:37 AM
MADRID, Spain Spain's government defended a plan to fight soaring unemployment by shutting the door on foreign workers, fending off criticism that the idea is mean-spirited and futile.
Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega said Friday the government had no choice but to respond to the needs of the labor market.
The Socialist government has been under fire from unions, immigrant advocacy groups and opposition parties since the labor minister announced this week the number of work visas granted abroad to people eager to take low-skill jobs in Spain "will get close to zero."
Will C. on Sep 06, 2008 at 07:45:29 said:
If they are the Mexican government better plan to share the cost of repatriating their people! We do not need any immigration reform here! Our current law is adequate. What we need is more enforcement to protect United States citizens from the unwanted invasion of Mexicans.
Wish the U.S. could spend the billions on illegal Mexicans on building the Mexican economy instead. Shameful Mexico can't do it by themselves. Maybe there still some Mexi-CANS left in Mexico. The current group has no "Can do" attitude to help themsleves.
The U.S. is stepping up enforcement and deportment. That will continue. All illegal aliens will be deported...
Samantha Bracken on Sep 05, 2008 at 19:43:16 said:
america only has itself to blame because everybody voted for that idiot george bush
Ransome on Sep 05, 2008 at 18:36:02 said:
More Mexicans Coming to U.S.
La Opinion, Posted: Aug 25, 2008
MEXICO CITYThe Mexican government has acknowledged that more Mexicans are coming to the United States to seek employment, according to La Opinion. Ana Teresa Aranda from the National Council on Population, said that the current annual emigration is 580,000, a 12 percent increase from last year. She said that about 93 percent of Mexicans in the United States came after the 1970s, and so far only 21.5 percent have citizenship, which she attributes to the failure of passing comprehensive immigration reform and U.S. foreign policy. Arnada urged the U.S. government to implement immigration reform that recognizes the role of Mexican workers "in building prosperity for the United States" and acknowledges "a profound interdependence between both nations."
Piper on Sep 05, 2008 at 16:28:23 said:
This article demonstrates the urgent need for immigration reform. Workplace and home raids rip communities like Greeley apart. Enforcement does not end immigration and it erodes the rights of workers. When an immigrant or citizen is afraid to complain for fear of retribution from an unjust system, that hurts everyone's bargaining rights and abilities. When employers can cow workers by threatening them with deportation, that hurts everyone's wages.
The problem is the two-tiered system our government supports, not the immigrant worker. A system which pits workers against one another instead of allowing them to demand their rights together. A system which allows jobs and goods to cross borders, but not people. A system in which the employer has more and more power and the worker less.
Immigrants enrich our communities. Our history is full of the cultural and scientific contributions of immigrants and the xenophobic reaction of those around them. The rhetoric now is the same as that of Benjamin Franklin, who wanted to deny Pennsylvania statehood because there were too many Germans living there who would never acculturate or learn English, who lived too many to a house, who would never be loyal to this country, and who were sure to degrade the Anglo culture.
As a country, we will only move forward when our communities are whole again and all have equal rights to work.
Will C. on Sep 04, 2008 at 21:51:27 said:
Soon, Valeria Fernandez and other reporters for the illegal alien communities will be reporting about the pain of even more deportments for their people. Very sad, since the crimes against citizens are so hard to withstand, while illegal aliens only have themselves to blame for their misery!
All I can say is we genuine citiznes feel much pain too. We are very much impacted by every illegal alien in our midst, and pay dearly for what you illegals are so hell-bent to steal!
Illegal aliens are coming here at an enormous rate at there own peril!
They also have babies as fast as they while in residence here to obtain "anchor baby" parent status as an illegal resident, or use any deception, method, or outward act to legitimize, or mask their theft of residency. That includes stealing social security numbers and using phoney documentation. This too will change, and is changing. Enforcement is getting a lot better everyday!
The genuine American citizen is paying an enormous price for those who come here illegally and corrupt our legal and benefit system. Illegal aliens do not belong here and have no right to prevail upon the U.S. citizen in any manner. They are selfish squatters stealing what they want for residency, while paying nothing for it.
Although illegal alien advocates feed us a steady diet of the plight of the illegal alien, and try to take advantage of human decency and pity, our largess in their behalf only goes so far. The cries of illegal aliens are no longer being heard by the majority of citizens who are completely and fully aware with the knowledge of how illegal alien residency has impacted our system, civil order, and the citizen's way of life.
We are rejecting your lawlessness and your invasion! You do not understand that the U.S. system only survives if we all
obey the laws of the United States! Srict immigration laws were enacted in the United States, and other countries to protect the bonafide citizen from displacement, from both his home and his job.
Citizens of this country pay dearly for each illegal resident here, in several not so obvious ways. Law enforcement costs, educational expenses, and the cost of apprehension and deportment of illegal aliens, not to mention accomodation in our court system, and the personal injuries and losses sustained by citizens at the hands of an illegal alien.
Citizens expect the government to defend us from illegal aliens using every means possible. We expect and demand that Federal Judges not legislate from the bench in support of illegal alien continuance and aggrandizement in any form. We also expect the Church to uphold truth and honesty, and not harbor, shelter and assist illegal aliens, unless it is to help them understand and go home!
To the illegal alien, I will tell you please expect to be deported. It doesn't matter what color you are, or from where you originate if you are here illegally. You have no valid, genuine documentation to be here. I would suggest you leave now, if you are residing in the United States without documentation. Enforcement will become much stronger soon. You will be deported forcefully soon.
We have have no choice. You have chosen to ignore our laws and thumb your nose at us by taking what is not yours by being here illegally. You will be deported! Go home now and sacrifice your life to making condtions better in your country of origin...
Marty on Sep 04, 2008 at 19:23:37 said:
Hmmmm Let's see....illegally in this country...using stolen social security numbers (a class C felony) to illegally work in this country and commit social security and other fraud (I have desk drawers full of folders with stories by government workers saying illegal aliens use stolen and fraudulent social security numbers, file under different names and multiple numbers, receive multiple payments and the list goes on) ruining the lives of Americans from identity theft resulting in loss of homes, denial of social security entitlements upon retirement or loss of a spouse, denial of unemployment insurance, bills from the IRS for taxes accumulated by illegal aliens using stolen social numbers, American citizens wrongfully charged with crimes committed by illegal aliens using their social security numbers (I have folders full of this too) while taking jobs from Americans.....having children while illegally here at taxpayer expense under medicare (a program paid for by taxpayers to help taxpayers but is on the verge of bankruptcy resulting in benefits cuts to senior citizens, poor Americans and others who are losing their jobs....Illegal aliens receiving tax payer funded health care including chemotherapy, dialysis and organ transplants as an illegal alien liver transplantee in California while a 9-11 first responder who developed kidney disease soon after 9-11 was denied a kidney transplant, a citizen in Oregon was denied chemotherapy and another citizen died from colon cancer because he had no health insurance and thus couldn't afford chemotherapy, Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans facing loss of homes and financial ruin because they are unable to receive treatment for combat disabilities including traumatic brain injury while an illegal alien who showed utter contempt and lack of respect for our border,laws and sovereignty was in a Chicago hospital for a brain injury forcing taxpayers to cover his care at a cost of 500,000 dollars while millions of Americans are forced to file for bankruptcy when faced with major medical events. And you wonder why 80 percent of Americans disapprove of and resent those who are ILLEGALLY here. Americans are forced to take care of those ILLEGALLY here at tax payer expense while losing their homes, jobs, pensions and health care and have to compete with the never ending flood of impoverished humanity pouring into this country for OUR health care, land, food, water, energy and other LIMITED resources aided and abetted by corrupt organizations and media as you who couldn't give a damn about the American people and believe what we have accumulated through hard work and sacrifice should be taken and given to those who disregard another nation's right to secure it's borders and protect it's sovereignty and LEGAL citizens. It isn't a matter of race or xenophobia but is about fairness and equity to already overburdened taxpayers just struggling to survive.
If you think illegal aliens do the jobs Americans aren't willing to do read the below:
Raid at a leather factory in Massachusetts where illegal aliens were employed as slave laborers working 12 to 14 hours a day with some disciplined for using the restroom, child labor was prevalent and illegal alien workers were paid below minimum wage. Americans were lined up outside the facility and down the sidewalk the day following the raid for those vacated jobs in an area with high unemployment. The employer raised wages and offered benefits.
A DOD contractor in North Carolina fabricating parachutes employed an all illegal alien workforce in another high unemployment area during a war on terror. As with all raids illegal aliens had stolen social security numbers and again Americans lined up outside the facility where the employer also raised wages and offered retirement and other benefits.
An electrical manufacturer in Mississippi employed 595 illegal aliens again in another area with high unemployment(they were found with stolen social security numbers). Hundreds of Americans applied for those vacated jobs and several were interviewed who lost jobs including one who previously worked at this plant and was replaced by an illegal alien and another American who lost her home because of job cuts.
All the above has been repeated numerous times throughout the U.S. yet you continue to spew the usual drivel that illegal aliens do the jobs Americans won't do despite the fact they work under slave labor conditions, are paid below minimum wage and are physically and mentally abused.
Do you really care so damn little about people that you condone the use of slave labor, child labor, physical and mental abuse and theft of American's identities all uncovered during raids which you also oppose and the loss of jobs to Americans in these lousy economic times? Why aren't you and other organizations as LaRaza protesting the corrupt governments of those illegally here demanding they use the massive wealth held by elites in those governments to improve the lives of their citizens instead of foisting their problems on the backs of struggling taxpayers with you and them expecting us to take care of them?
Where is your answer as I never seem to receive one from you as you hide under your desks to avoid the issue and only cast aspersions at the hard working, honest tax paying LEGAL citizens of this nation.
Retired Air Force, 24 Years Service
Combat Disabled
I have to pay for my health care for lifetime disabilities from military service.


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How Serious is the Threat of a Cyber Attack on U.S. Healthcare?
A new paper discussses the vulnerability of the U.S. Healthcare system, and a story in a respected publication assesses the threat of cyber warfare.
David Harries and Dr. Peter Yellowlees authored the "Brief Communication" in the new issue of Telemedicine and eHealth, titled "Cyberterrorism: Is the U.S. Healthcare System Safe?" Mr. Harries works for Océ North America, a Canon Group Company, and Dr. Yellowlees is a psychiatrist at U-C Davis in California. Because we're doing a lot with technology in medicine now, we've become fairly dependent on these systems. And the authors believe that this dependence on data systems that use the Internet makes them a potential target for terrorists. Should there be an attack on, say, a hospital computer system, bringing it down or revealing confidential patient information acquired from it, this could shake the trust in such systems. As far as we know, there hasn't been a successful attack on a U.S. healthcare organization. The authors suggest that with cyber attacks on the increase, it may only be a matter of time before one is launched successfully. In the article, they discuss "several best practices" healthcare organizations can adopt now for protection.
As to the actual threat of cyber-warfare, The Economist featured an article in its edition last week, titled "Hype and Fear." It points out that "almost all (roughly 98%) of the vulnerabilities in commonly used computer programmes that hackers exploit are in software created in America." General Keith Alexander, the head of both the Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, says the attacker always has the advantage. Many potential targets of cyber-terrorists, like power grids, sewage systems, and transportation systems, are less vulnerable than you might think. Even if a foreign organization launched a weapon like the Stuxnet virus that was used against Iran, experience shows it will have limited success and the vulnerabilities will be repaired quickly. And that was the best that purportedly two first-rate cyber powers (the U.S. and Israel) could come up with. To develop a Stuxnet would require large teams of highly-qualified people which may be beyond terrorist groups. And a large team formed to do bad things attracts the attention of intelligence agencies who are often successful infiltrating them.
Still, there's probably some teenager working round the clock trying to hack his way into a healthcare system for "fun". As a side note, companies like Microsoft have hired the people who mount cyber attacks on them to frustrate the others who are out there.
Harris and Yellowlees suggest that healthcare organizations develop a "defense in depth" approach as part of an overall risk management strategy. This involves multiple layers of protection. They offer six guidelines to follow:
1. Regular security risk assessments that determine any gaps.
2. Intrusion prevention and detection services that can detect and block cyber attackers.
3. Installation of a data loss prevention solution that checks for leakage of information.
4. Audit logs to track access to sensitive patient data.
5. Performance of regular tests of Web security.
6. Mandates that software for mobile devices, laptops, portable storage and backup tapes be encrypted.
Even with all these measures in place, you may still have to worry about the IT guy who was fired last week and wants to "get even."
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Roger Downey
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I wasn't able to go to boxing tonight and I'm totally bummed.
It was really a combination of things that kept me from class.
1) My boxing/sparing partner contacted me earlier today that she needed to rest her back after a weekend of camping and sleeping on the hard ground.
2) I cut the bottom of my foot on Saturday afternoon. Five minutes into Zumba I felt it rip. Too much turning, jumping and twisting was bound to do that. (The cut is from a pair of shoes I wore - I now longer own them)
3) The immigration attorney called today and told me they need original documentation of our marriage which means I needed to come home and sort paperwork for an early morning meeting with her. (I had previously asked what to bring so we'd be prepared and received little guidance so I put together copies for their files. Today was the first I heard they wanted originals. Thanks for the advance notice!) Getting home at 10 after a 4 hr workout to do this would have been brutal.
The real reason I missed class ... the cut on my foot. IF zumba ripped it boxing would have taking it to a new level - it's 10 times more intense and physical.
Not having my partner would have been disappointing but do able - there are others to spar with. And, I know there will be nights she just won't make it. I can't write my schedule based on hers.
Sure it would have been unpleasant to sort documents after a marathon gym session but also do able. The documents are all in one place and somewhat already organized from previous attorney meetings.
I have already taken care of my foot tonight and hope that by Wednesday it is healed enough to withstand my schedule. Tomorrow I have a planned bike ride which means little impact on the foot so I'll still get to workout.
There's always a work around if I look hard enough and want it all the same. It's still craptastic to miss class but better to miss one than more if I should not take care of this now.
Question of the Day: There is a new guy working out at my gym - on the elliptical - that has terrible BO. Both times I've entered the room he is in I almost vomited from the stench. Tonight ALL the windows were open too. What do I do? Remove myself from that section of the gym when he is there? Also, he works out on the elliptical for so long that he is drenched in sweat, along with the machine and floor around him. He doesn't clean it all up ... NASTY. I wonder what I should do about that but as I type this I realize this one is for the manager and/or owner to deal with. So what would you do if someone smelled so bad at the gym that not many can workout near him/her?
The Mr and I decided to play outside today after a bit of shopping.
I bought a new hat . . .
Then we played catch on the beach using these fun toys. . .
A couple of times we jogged parallel to one another tossing the ball between us. Oh, we were not on the wet compact sand but the soft squishy sand so it was more of a workout. The Mr tossed the ball high and low, short and long and from side to side making me work a bit harder too. It was a great way to have fun in the sun, on the beach and get a good workout in. When we jogged and tossed I was sucking wind by the end. I was sweaty when all was said and done.
I like leaving Sunday as a day to play and not have "structured" workouts. We'll be doing this one again real soon.
Last night was round two for boxing. I went into the gym at 5:45 fresh as a daisy and I left at 9:45 p.m. drenched in sweat.
My body was sore and when zumba started I quickly learned I could barely raise my arms over head. *CRINGE* I pushed through and finished zumba strong. It seems almost impossible to "hang out" at a gym without putting in some effort to be physically active and I have an hour to kill between classes. So last night I kept moving by hoping on the bike and riding for 15 minutes. Then I climbed my favorite, the elliptical and managed to knock out 20 minutes. I rested for a bit and had a snack, more water and then mixed up a batch of low calorie grape gatorade (my favorite).
Every move I made still came with a bit of discomfort but I couldn't imagine skipping a workout due to some minor muscle fatigue so I pushed on. The class always starts with jumping rope - I'll learn to love it and pushups. When we got to our first set of pushups I quickly learned why my arm pits and surrounding muscles hurt . . . pushups will do that to ya! We stretched it out after 15 minutes of alternating jumping & pushups. The instructor was later than usual but with the veterans there we moved on with kicks alternating with our partners. I was sucking wind by the end and my legs were jell-O. When the instructor showed up we thankfully moved onto the heavy bags - my favorite! First we did kicks and I'm the first to tell you they are tough. I kick like the girl I am. *GIGGLES* It is something I need to work on. That and flexibility so I can kick higher and faster. Now the punching is great. We did combinations and I threw hard and fast. The joy of hitting something because I can and I'm supposed to was invigorating. Our last drill was running and punching - in the cardio room - again, I was winded. He added in more pushups too. *GRIMACE* Floor work ends the class and he had us do some crazy leg lifts that nearly broke me in two and I giggled when he told us to do two sets of 30. Love ya but no, not gonna happen, YET. I pushed out two sets of 15 and nearly wept at the end.
I had energy to spare at the end of class and could still feel my legs when it was over. I didn't even have the shakes or the feeling of passing out - progress on day two - gotta love it. I did call the Mr to come pick me up but I think this will be the last time I'll do that unless he insists on picking me up due to the late hour.
When I got home I didn't feel the need to run to the kitchen and eat. Which means the snack combo I had prior to class and the gatorade & water during class is a good combination. I did eat some protein though.
After a long hot shower I notice all my muscle fatigue and soreness was gone. It's as if it never happened. I do know from research that DOMS can return and I wouldn't be surprised if it did.
My newest passion ... Boxing! In this corner, KT.Nichols *BOB-AND-WEAVE*
Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) is a common result of physical activity that stresses the muscle tissue beyond what it is accustomed to. HA! I stressed my muscles on Monday night and I plan on doing it again tonight. Tomorrow night before or after zumba I'm going to sit in the sauna at the gym and see if I can help my muscles not feel so abused. Heck, I might do that for a few minutes tonight between zumba and boxing. I have another 3.5 hour session planned at the gym tonight.
It feels good to have muscles awake and alert again. What doesn't feel so good is the water retention but if I do this right my body will adjust and I'll be rewarded in the end. Until then, I won't even sneak a peak at my weight ... that would be self defeating and madness.
I already know I'm healthier and stronger.
What have you done lately to stress your muscles and move out of your comfort zone? Challenge yourself, I dare you!
My Monday night workout recap:
A 30 min. walk + 60 min. Zumba class + 9 min. on Elliptical + 15 min. bike ride + 12 min. jumping rope + 15 pushup + 60 min. Kickboxing/boxing + 30 sit-ups = a very sweaty, tired and hungry KT! Wednesday night I'll do it all over again.
Total calorie burn per SP calculator = 3,478 (My weekly goal for a calorie burn is 4,000 - think I�ll make it? HA!)
Below is the description of the Boxing class.* What they leave out is that you�ll sweat like a maniac, want to cry like the little girl you are and become so determine to keep up / finish that you�ll loose track of time until your muscles completely fatigue and you start to shake. Then you�ll go home to eat like you�ve starved for a 100 years. SERIOUSLY!
*Learn how to defend yourself and learn MMA skills. In this class you will build strength, stamina, and endurance. You will learn the techniques of punching, kicking, and striking.
In this class you will also build core strength, abdominal strength, and you will become more flexible through stretching. With an amazing series of drills and routines you will achieve an intense, calorie-blasting, cardio vascular workout. Get an amazing workout and release stress!!!
My friend Yvonne met me at my office first thing yesterday morning. She wanted to show me a few of the techniques prior to class so I�d have a few basics in my mind. I showed her the gear I had bought over the weekend, all was good but for one item which I�ll return. She showed me how to determine the correct length for my jump rope so I could cut mine down to size before class.
Late in the day I pulled out my jump rope and after much fussing figured out how to cut the length. I left it a tad long at first because I didn�t want to cut it short and then have to buy another one. (I took my tools with me to the gym and finished the snip job before class.) Full of all kinds of anticipation and anxiety I left work for the gym. First, Zumba class - easy-peasy. After that I had an hour to kill and initially thought I�d *hangout* at the gym, have a snack and wait for boxing to start. Have you ever tried to hang out at a gym and do nothing? That didn�t work for me. I did rest for a bit, drank water and had a protein bar but then I got all itchy to *do something* so I off I went for a light workout before boxing. Also, I didn�t want my leg muscles to start to stiffen up prior to class starting.
Then it happens. Class begins! Alfredo, the instructor, comes from a different gym so is generally a few minutes late so a seasoned class member starts the class. Class begins with jump roping and pushup. REALLY!?! After 15 minutes later we are �warm� - I�m hot and sucking wind. Alfredo came in while we were getting some water and taking a breather. I have to admit, he was a lot younger than I expect - maybe in his later 30's. He had a huge smile on his face and noted the �newbies� in class. Yvonne was gracious enough to introduce me to him right off - as well as the other students in class.
Side note: I�ve attended A LOT of classes at my gym over the last six-ish years and I found this boxing class to be the most welcoming and warm. Most of the other classes, whether at my gym or at other facilities, can make you feel like an outsider. I don�t like it one bit and try to be friendly to newer students so they keep coming back. Anyway, this group of people was very welcoming and kept checking in with me as the class progressed. Very sweet!
Back to class. After the warmup we spent sometime stretching and I can say that it felt sooooo good! I noted it was already close to 8:30 by this point and wondered if class would really be over at 9:05? We split into two groups - one group went to do heavy bag work and the other group did sparing. I was in the sparing group with Yvonne. Have you ever held boxing pads for someone so they can punch and kick? If not, I�m here to tell you that they are not lightweight pads. If you think you�ll get a break because you�re holding the pads that would be the wrong line of thinking. I was sweaty and fatigued keeping those bad boys up and ready for punches and kicks. And, the brain work - oh, the brain work! Keeping up with the sequence so neither you nor your partner gets hurt is mentally exhausting. Heavy bag work was equally tough and mentally challenging. The whole class was an attempt to master the physical and mental aspects of boxing.
Near the *end* (at this point I thought I was being help captive as I felt I�d been there for 1,000 years) the entire class did foot work and punching. Much fun! My legs were on fire at this point though - did I mention it�s now 9:30! Yup, we�ve been at this for 90 minutes. After that we were told to grab our mats. What? More mat work? SERIOUSLY?! I looked at Yvonne and asked in desperation, �is it almost over?� Yup, 10 minutes of sit-ups and we�d be finished. OH, OKAY, well if we are only going to do 10 minutes of sit-ups! *face/palm* I took a moment and sent a text to the Mr to let him know I had 10 minutes to go - he was seriously wondering what was going on at this point. Alfredo was so cute telling us what types of sit ups to do and saying, do 30, now 50, and so on. I just giggled and did what I could.
At 9:44 p.m. I poured myself into the car, the Mr was kind enough to pick me up so I didn�t have to walk that long mile home. When I got home, I went straight to the kitchen. I drank 32 oz. of water, took a breath and then snatched the food I had prepared the night before and ate like I�d been starved for 100 years. Cold chicken never tasted so good!
The hot shower that followed was a welcome end to that workout!
Will I go back? Hell to the yes! The class was beyond tough. It was brutal and I loved every minute of it. I�m gonna nail those kicks and my jump roping skills will improve without fail.
Here�s a snippet of an email that my friend Yvonne sent me after class ...
�Bravo! Good work today! You kept up with the class - you are the only one I've invited, that could keep up with the class!!�
I was a little achy when I went to bed last night but so far today I'm feeling good. My forearms are tender which is a direct result from holding the kicking pads. Some of my mid-back muscles are awake but nothing severe. There's lots of twisting and turning in boxing. All in all, I'm feeling fantastic!
Today is a rest day for me! My workout schedule has just changed again.
Zumba 4 days a week - 60 minutes / class
Boxing 2 days a week - 90 minutes / class
Tuesday and Friday's are rest days until I get used to this new routine.
I'll also keep bike riding, walking, running, swimming and elliptical when I can.
I'll add jump roping to one other day a week too.
Boxing is probably the hardest workout I've experienced to date. I loved it! The power and the passion.


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Like a lot of stories of scandal, ruin, and the opportunity for redemption, it started with a pretty face. In the spring of 1964, 17-year old Marianne Faithfull walked into a swinging, star-studded London party and landed a record deal without singing a note; Andrew Loog Oldham, the Rolling Stones manager and world-class sleazeball, famously summed up the matter with his usual showbiz aplomb: "I saw an angel with big tits and signed her." Within the year, the bookish baroness' daughter was climbing the charts and making the rounds at concert halls and the BBC, thrust into a pop career she didn't much want in the first place. ("For one brief, blissful moment I thought I saw a way out of my pop nightmare," she wrote three decades later in her autobiography, Faithfull, which is every bit as insightful, vivid, and deliciously bonkers as Keith Richards' Life.) Faithfull was a passable vocalist with a folksy, melancholy, relatively generic lilt, but there was a certain vacancy and listlessness about her that suggested she'd not yet become comfortable in her skin. If you watch some of her earliest performances on YouTube, she has a way of making Lana Del Rey look present.
Faithfull started dating Mick Jagger in 1966, and her 60s output is generally only discussed in terms of how it relates to that of the Stones: "As Tears Go By" is more famous for being the first song Mick and Keith wrote together than for being Faithfull's debut single. On the personal front, though, the opposite was true: Notoriety had a way of sliding off the boys and sticking to Faithfull. After the infamous Redlands drug bust, the press dubbed her "Miss X" and, a bit more personably, "The Girl in the Fur Rug." ("SCANTILY CLAD WOMAN AT DRUG PARTY" screamed one representative headline.) To those closer to the Stones' circle, she was The Muse-- though by her account, her relationship with Jagger was a pretty mutual exchange of ideas, old records, and hallucinogens. Ever the avid reader, a little while prior to the Beggar's Banquet sessions, Faithfull handed him The Master and Margarita and suggested that this Lucifer guy might make for a good character in a song. She wrote the lyrics to "Sister Morphine", and cut a shudderingly melancholy version that makes the Stones' take almost seem like a romp. This was maybe the first big, public hint that Miss X knew more about pain and suffering than a lot of people wanted to assume. When she slipped into the coma that almost killed her-- the result of taking 150 Tuinals in a hotel room in Australia-- she had a vision that Brian Jones, just six days in the ground, was beckoning her over a cliff. He leapt; at the last minute she decided to stay. When she opened her eyes in a hospital room six days later, Mick said, "Marianne, we thought we'd lost you." In that milky voice that was already starting to curdle, the first thing she said to him was, "Wild horses couldn't drag me away."
That's the thing about pretty faces. We'd much prefer to watch them wilt. We don't expect them to belong to the fighters-- the junkies and monks and cockroaches who'll survive every atomic bomb and suicide attempt and outlive us all. And we definitely don't expect them to make songs as gnarled and candid as the ones on Faithfull's finest record, Broken English, but there you go: the best records are all, in some way or another, the ones that blow a mouthful of smoke in the face of expectation. The world that thought it had tsk-tsked Miss X into submission was probably not ready for Broken English in 1979, and even today as it's released in a deluxe edition, it's still raw enough to make you squirm-- the cracked, undead voice of a woman back from exile to make a record about the simple audacity of staying alive.
If you know one thing about Broken English, you probably know that Faithfull was living on the streets right before she made it. And unlike the Mars Bar myth (now thoroughly debunked by Faithfull, Keith Richards, and an honest-to-goodness policeman), this checks out. Broke, heroin-dependent, and (it seemed) professionally washed up, Faithfull spent the better part of two years living in a roofless pile of rubble in Soho, a bombed-out ruin of the Blitz. She was squatting with her then-husband Ben Brierley (of British punks the Vibrators) and riding the unexpected success of her forlorn ballad, "Dreamin' My Dreams" (a dud at home but a surprise hit in politically tumultuous Ireland, where, in 1976, "forlorn" was the mood of the hour) when somebody at her label rather improbably gave her the money to cut another record.
The resulting album feels so intimate and personal that it's easy to overstate its singularity. But Broken English is more than just a portrait of the addict as a middle-aged woman; it captures an entire generation's disillusioned comedown. "The days of mind-opening drugs were over," Faithfull writes in her autobiography, reflecting on the spiritual climate of the mid-70s. "The world had tilted. A major change in key had taken place. It was a Mahler symphony whirling madly out of control." And that's the key in which these songs were written and recorded. Much in the way the Stones did in the late 60s, Broken English taps into a collective consciousness. The new-wave-tinged title track evokes the anxious, prickling paranoia of the Cold War, a chillingly grim cover of "Working Class Hero" longs for the counterculture's idealistic faith in individuality, and the excellent "Brain Drain" ("Got so much to offer/ But I can't pay the rent/ I can't buy you roses 'cause the money's all spent") captures the hopelessness of the junkie's lifestyle. A rapidly deteriorating Tim Hardin co-wrote the lyrics on that last one with Faithfull and Brierley on a debauched trip to Antigua. Both implicitly and explicitly, it's a ballad of wasted genius. It's one of the last songs to bear Hardin's name-- he was dead of an overdose a little over a year after the record came out.
After dabbling in baroque pop and country, Faithfull drew fresh inspiration from the Sex Pistols and Brierley's clan in the late 70s, but Broken English is a punk record more in spirit than in sound. (It doesn't sound much like any of her subsequent records either; afterwards, she moved towards the Weill-meets-Tom-Waits-in-a-dank-cabaret sound of the excellent Strange Weather.) Stylistically, Broken English is a fusion of new wave, blues, reggae, and pop, created by a backing band talented enough to genre-hop deftly. Guitarist Barry Reynolds adds a particularly distinct flair to the record; on the incendiary "Why D'ya Do It", his barbed, sneering riff is the perfect match for Faithfull's legendary performance. Easily one of the best songs in her repertoire, "Why D'ya Do It" is also probably the most controversial-- a Heathcote Williams-penned, unfiltered torrent of lovers' rage scattered liberally but purposefully with a few words that still have the power to shock.
Broken English's most affecting moment is Faithfull's spellbinding rendition of Shel Silverstein's "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan", a song about a bored housewife dreaming of the exhilarating life and "thousand lovers" she never had, slowly going mad. Obviously, it's far from autobiography, but when you know Faithfull's history (a veritable primer on the pitfalls of an exhilarating life), the subtext becomes almost unbearably poignant. "Lucy Jordan is me if my life had take a different turn," she has said. "It's a song of identification with women who are trapped in that life and the true private horror of the 'good life.'" But the pain in her fractured voice tells a more complicated story, pointing towards the classic catch-22 that still plagues famous and unfamous women alike: The world will size you up and make you choose one of two roles, Miss X or Lucy Jordan. And the worst of it, Faithfull is saying in this evocative performance, is that the dreamy conjectures about what your life would have been had you chosen differently will not only prove incessant, they might actually drive you crazy.
The bonus material on this deluxe edition of Broken English doesn't add too much to the experience. With only one exception ("Sister Morphine"), the extra disc is all alternate mixes and extended cuts of the songs that made the record. If anything, the remixes' noodly accoutrements will make you appreciate the record's purposeful minimalism anew. In almost every case, wisely, producer Mark Miller Mundy and engineer Bob Potter let the unvarnished power of Faithfull's voice carry these songs. The deluxe edition also includes the great experimental filmmaker Derek Jarman's early music videos for "Broken English", "Witches Song", and "Lucy Jordan", but if you can make peace with the low quality you could have watched these on YouTube years ago. This particular re-release of Broken English isn't notable because of any new insight it brings to the listening experience, but for the simple fact that it might bring some new fans to an enduringly great record.
Faithfull has been clean for a while now, but she still speaks freely and unapologetically about the experiences that lead her to making this record. Last week I was listening to an interview with her that I assumed was current, done in promotion of the deluxe edition. I didn't realize it was a few years old until she started talking about Amy Winehouse hopefully and in the present tense. "She's young, she's rich, she feels absolutely immortal," Faithfull said, with obvious empathy. "They judge her [harshly]... but she's going to get through it all, I know it." Feeling a little haunted after hearing this, I put on Broken English immediately, and its sheer power and purpose had never felt more obvious. This record documents a particular shade of darkness not everybody lives to describe. Like Faithfull identifying with her opposite in Lucy Jordan, Broken English is an almost otherworldly communion with the other side; it's a record for the Joneses and the Hardins and the Winehouses and all the other voices that the wild horses dragged away before they could say anything this honest about their pain. Aching and defiantly alive, it still bleeds like it was cut yesterday.
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Hmm, a load of comments have been removed.
I found a very interesting interview with the Vsonic, posted in June on a Spanish site, with pictures from their factory and production. Is there any rules against posting a link to it here? If people have not seen it before it's a very enlightening read and confirms their intentions moving forward.
Certainly there is nothing against posting the type of content that you mentioned. I am not a mod here, but I used to be for over five years in Brazil's biggest forum about A&V. From that experience I can tell that it is simply impossible (from an effort point of view) in a situation of trolling (which we had here in this thread) analyze post by post. Usually you take the first post where the trolling begins and remove everything until the last one. This can cause the situation that "valid" posts are being removed as well. Just re-post your link, certainly interesting for everybody in this thread.
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Distrust affects aboriginal health care
Most Canadians are aware that many First Nations, Inuit and Métis people have poorer health and more challenging living conditions than the larger Canadian population.
In 2010, the Health Council of Canada started a multi-year project to learn about programs and strategies that have the potential to reduce these health disparities between aboriginal and non-aboriginal Canadians.
Last spring, the Health Council of Canada travelled across the country to learn more about health care for aboriginal people in urban settings. Approximately half of Canada's 1.3 million aboriginal population live in cities, but they don't use mainstream health-care services at the same rate as other Canadians.
Aboriginal people are less likely to seek help when they have symptoms and more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage of disease than non-aboriginal people, a delay that can make treatment more difficult or no longer possible.
Although this has been documented in the research literature, it's not as well-known by health-care providers, that many aboriginal people don't trust the system enough to use it.
The Health Council held meetings with health-care providers and policy-makers in Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal and St. John's, N.L.
Many participants were from First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities, and they generously shared both their personal and professional insights and experiences.
Participants described aboriginal people's feelings of discomfort, powerlessness and fear when trying to use the health care system.
To quote one participant, "they have had experiences like being treated with contempt, judged, ignored, stereotyped, racialized and minimized."
One story exemplified the type of racist assumptions many aboriginal people experience.
An injured aboriginal man was taken to an emergency department, where he was not allowed to lie on a bed. When a physician asked why the patient was not lying down, the nurse explained that the man was dirty, and would just return to the street after leaving the hospital.
In fact, the patient was employed, owned a home, and had been attacked on his way home from work.
Most health-care professionals are well-intentioned and unaware they are acting out deeply entrenched stereotypes of aboriginal people that exist throughout Canadian society. Health-care professionals may not realize they are the reason a First Nation, Inuit or Métis patient does not follow a treatment protocol or doesn't return for appointments.
Despite these challenges, there is good news -- very good news.
Across the country there are programs underway to create health-care environments that are free of racism, where aboriginal people can feel welcome and safe.
For example, in recent years there has been an increase in cultural-competency training for health professionals and an increase in the use of aboriginal support workers who serve as cultural interpreters between aboriginal patients and the mainstream health-care system.
These programs and others are described in the Health Council's recent report, Empathy, dignity and respect: Creating cultural safety for aboriginal people in urban health care.
Canadian health care systems have a responsibility to reach out to populations that are suffering from poor health or not using services, to find out why, and to adapt health care services to better meet their needs. Making specific efforts to ensure the health care system is culturally safe for aboriginal people is important not only to improving their health -- it is also a concrete way to show respect and work toward reconciliation.
Dr. Catherine Cook is the vice-president of population and aboriginal health for the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority in Manitoba, is a Health Council of Canada councillor and is Métis.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition December 14, 2012 A12
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Use only white-fleshed saltwater fish for this stock.
Yield: Makes 2 to 3 qt/2 to 3L
- 3 lb/1-5 kg fish carcasses or fish bones, with bits of meat and skin attached
- 1 large onion, coarsely chopped
- 1 stalk celery, coarsely chopped
- 1 leek, white part only, coarsely chopped
- 1 bay leaf
- Juice of 1 lemon
- ½ bottle/375 ml dry white wine
- 10 white peppercorns
Put all the ingredients into a large pot and add enough cold water to cover completely. Cover the pot and bring to a boil over high heat. Uncover the pot, reduce the heat to low, and simmer for 30 minutes, skimming any foam that forms on the surface as needed.
Strain the stock, discarding the solids. Rinse out the pot, then return the stock to it and simmer for about 15 minutes longer. Cool to room temperature: then refrigerate or freeze in several containers.
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44kcal (2%)
9mg (1%)
1mg (1%)
4mcg RAE (0%)
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9mg (0%)
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