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Nov. 27, 2010
STANFORD, Calif. -
Final score: Stanford 38, Oregon State 0
Stanford got its fifth takeaway of the game when Owen Marecic stripped an Oregon State receiver of the ball and Delano Howell recovered.
Stanford's possession went nowhere and the Cardinal punted, with David Green's kick traveling 48 yards and landing at the 8.
Oregon State was held as well and punted, only for the punt to be blocked by Austin Yancy, giving Stanford the ball at Oregon State 25. The snap was wide and the path of the punter went into the rush of Yancy.
Anthony Wilkerson picked up a first down on third and one to the 14. A shovel pass to Tyler Gaffney left Stanford with a fourth and three at the 7. Stanford went for it and Ryan Whalen was open on a slant, but Andrew Luck's pass was deflected at the line of scrimmage and fell incomplete.
Robbie Picazo comes in at quarterback with just under three minutes left.
Andrew Luck finished with 21-of-30 passing, with 305 yards, and four touchdown passes.
Stanford registered three shutouts for the first time since the 1969 season.
Fourth quarter (14:50 left): Stanford 38, Oregon State 0
On the first play of the fourth quarter, Andrew Luck threw a quick out to running back Tyler Gaffney, who broke a tackle just after the catch and tore down the right sideline. He cut inside at the 10 to reach the end zone to complete 52-yard touchdown play.
The touchdown pass was Luck's 28th of the season, breaking a Stanford single-season record. It also marked the third time this season Luck has thrown for four touchdowns in a game.
End of third quarter: Stanford 31, Oregon State 0
Sophomore Stepfan Taylor, after his long touchdown run, broke 1,000 yards rushing for the season.
Taylor has 113 yards on 13 carries and has 1,021 on the season. He is the first Stanford sophomore to rush for 1,000 yards since Darrin Nelson in 1978.
Oregon State's Andy Katz threw a deep ball into the end zone that Barry Browning broke up.
Jacquizz Rodgers was stopped on third and short, but the play ended with pushing and shoving and a lot of penalty flags, resulting in offsetting penalties. A fourth-down pass to Rodgers out of the backfield was incomplete with defensive coverage by Owen Marecic, giving Stanford possession.
Third quarter (5:16 left): Stanford 31, Oregon State 0
Following its third interception of the game, Stanford goes to the running game, and Stepfan Taylor bursts up the middle for a 62-yard touchdown run behind a trap block with 5:16 left in the third quarter.
Third quarter (7:07 left): Stanford 24, Oregon State 0
Oregon State quarterback Andy Katz was sandwiched as he threw a first-down pass, and was sacked by Matt Masifilo and Thomas Keiser on the next play.
However, Katz connected with Joe Halahuni for 16 and a first down to its own 44. Chase Thomas registered Stanford's fifth sack of the game, on the next play.
Katz was nailed again, by Thomas, as he threw a prayer. However, Stanford was called for pass interference on a play that resulted in an interception by Taylor Skaufel. An injured Katz is replaced by freshman Cody Vaz.
Vaz' third-down pass, against the face of an all-out blitz, was incomplete, but Oregon State is going for it on fourth and five from the Stanford 37. Katz, back in the game, threw to the right flat. His pass was batted down by Richard Sherman, who was called for pass interference, prolonging the drive.
Katz threw deep to Joe Halahuni, who had a step on a post, but safety Delano Howell got there first to make the interception in a mid-air collision at the goal line with the intended receiver.
Third quarter (11:15 left): Stanford 24, Oregon State 0
Jacquizz Rodgers, who has killed Stanford the past two years, rushed for 31 yards on nine carries in the first half. However, his running has helped the Beavers push deep into Stanford territory at the outset of the second half.
Oregon State reached the 25, but was called for offensive pass interference and was pushed back to the 41. Andy Katz threw to the right, but his underthrown ball was intercepted by freshman Barry Browning.
Stanford, however, failed to pick up a first down and had to punt.
Halftime: Stanford 24, Oregon State 0
Stanford's first half stats:
Andrew Luck is 15 of 21 for 226 yards and three touchdown passes, with no interceptions.
Stepfan Taylor has 10 carries for 41 yards.
Doug Baldwin has caught four passes for 91 yards and two touchdowns.
Halftime: Stanford 24, Oregon State 0
Stanford regained possession after its defense held and forced a punt. With 1:18 left and the ball at Stanford's own 24, the Cardinal has time to drive for additional points.
Andrew Luck, however, bobbled a third-down snap and threw an incomplete pass. On fourth down and with 41 seconds left, Stanford lined up for a punt, but punter David Green then moved up behind center, compelling Oregon State to burn one of its three timeouts.
Oregon States takes possession at its own 33 with 34 seconds left. A short pass to Jacquizz Rodgers failed to stop the clock, but Andy Katz then completed an out pass for 20 yards to Joe Halahuni to the Stanford 39 with seven seconds left.
Katz threw a Hail Mary pass into the end zone, but the pass was intercepted by Richard Sherman - his fourth of the season -- ending the half.
Second quarter (1:56 left): Stanford 24, Oregon State 0
On third and 11, Andrew Luck found Ryan Whalen on a crossing route for 16 yards to midfield. Luck, moments later, found Zach Ertz for a big gain.
On the next play, Luck hit Doug Baldwin on a crossing pattern over the middle and the receiver broke a tackle, and cut behind blockers to reach the corner of the end zone for a 29-yard touchdown reception.
The touchdown pass was the 27th of the season for Luck, tying Steve Stenstrom (1993) and John Elway (1980) for the most in school history.
With the field goal, Stanford has broken the school record for most points in a season, with 463, breaking last year's mark of 461.
Second quarter (8:08 left): Stanford 17, Oregon State 0
Oregon State faces a third and four from its own 43. Ryan Katz was hit on the blindside by Chase Thomas and fumbled. The ball was recovered by Stanford's Thomas Keiser at Oregon State's 40.
Andrew Luck then dumped the ball off to Anthony Wilkerson, who had plenty of room on the left side for 23 yards, and a facemask penalty was tacked on, giving Stanford the ball on the 7.
A toss sweep left to Stepfan Taylor brought the ball to the 2, creating a third and goal. Luck, however, was rushed out of the pocket and threw the ball away.
Nate Whitaker came on and kicked a 20-yard field goal for a 17-0 lead with 8:08 left in the second quarter.
Second quarter (12:18 left): Stanford 14, Oregon State 0
Oregon State faced a third-and-7 in Stanford territory, but was called for a personal foul. On the next play, Sione Fua and Chase Thomas buried quarterback Andy Katz for a sack, creating a fourth and 31 and a punt.
Stanford takes possession at its own 30. Luck was hit from behind on first down by Stephen Paea and fumbled, but Stanford receiver Ryan Whalen backtracked to fall on the ball for a 15-yard loss.
Luck was pressured again on third and long and threw long, forcing Stanford to punt from its own 20.
End of first quarter: Stanford 14, Oregon State 0
Oregon State has the ball on a second and 12 at the Stanford 45.
First quarter (2:21 left): Stanford 14, Oregon State 0
Oregon State drove into Stanford territory, but Sione Fua stuffed Beaver quarterback Ryan Katz on third down. On fourth at the Stanford 34, OSU lined up to go for it, but a player jumped and the Beavers were called for illegal procedure and decided to punt.
Stanford took possession at its own 9. Andrew Luck carried for a first down on a naked bootleg, and Anthony Wilkerson picked up a big first down on third and one at Stanford's own 42.
Two plays after a deep pass to Doug Baldwin was barely long, Luck went for it again, this time connecting to Baldwin for a 42-yard touchdown pass. The play was set up by play action, and Oregon State was exploited on a blitz, leaving the middle of the field wide open for a deep post.
So far, Luck is 9-of-10 passing for 119 yards and two touchdown.
First quarter (9:38 left): Stanford 7, Oregon State 0
Stanford took the opening kickoff and promptly drove 71 yards for a touchdown. Andrew Luck completed all six of his passes on the drive, hitting Zach Ertz on an 18-yard out pattern on a third-and-12.
Two runs by Stepfan Taylor picked up 15, setting up another Luck-to-Ertz pass, this one for 21 yards and a score on a post against single coverage.
Stanford enters the game with a 10-1 record and needs one victory set a school single-season record. This is the regular-season finale and final home game for Stanford.
The Cardinal, at 7-1 in the Pac-10 remains in contention for a share of the Pac-10 title with a victory, and an Oregon State victory over Oregon in the Civil War next week.
Oregon State comes with a 5-5 record, including 4-3 in the Pac-10.


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In the late Tuesday afternoon hours, the Mountain View High School swim team gathers at the outdoor pool of a private athletic club. The boys, in their skin-tight jammers, have a meet Wednesday and so they must conserve some energy during this practice.
But senior Ryker Phillips is in the last weeks of his high school swimming career. He has a group record in sight, districts in mind, and time to shave.
Plus, he's already missed one practice earlier this week — why'd that upset stomach have
to hit now? — so Phillips must jump into the water. Sickness be damned.
Phillips walks into the dome-covered pool, the bottom of his flesh-colored right foot blemished with scuff marks. He grabs one of the lawn chairs on the deck, and uses it to steady himself. He first whips off his towel; next goes his right leg.
Phillips releases the locking mechanism inside the 10-pound prosthetic and takes it off. Underneath his swimsuit, his ankle — which appears as a shape of a cone — matches up to his left lower thigh. Phillips props his black carbon fiber prosthetic leg against the chair and hops towards lane four.
Phillips grew up in the water. He was in the pool several weeks after he was born and was winning first-place prizes as a second-grader. In spite of having one leg, he performs as one of the top 100-yard butterfly swimmers among his Mountain View group and even placed in the event at the district meet last season.
This year, Phillips, 17, has once again qualified for the early February district meet. Prosthetic be damned.
"I pretty much knew I was a little bit different than everyone else," he says, "but I didn't try to let it stop me."
A life in the water
On the back of every Mountain View swimmer's team hoodie is his nickname. Phillips' reads: Shark Bait.
That would be a pretty mean name to call a kid after he survived such a tragic shark attack — if the story were true.
Phillips will tell you, just like he has told most people around his school, that as a child he was swimming off a cove in San Francisco when his father spotted something gray in the water. Suddenly, Phillips felt a grinding pain on his right side. All he remembers next is Dad punching the shark in the gills and the rescue helicopter landing on the beach. By the time he woke up, his leg had been amputated.
"Everybody, till this day, still believes it," Phillips says with a devilish smile.
Phillips, whose big and engaging personality makes him a hit in the school musicals, made up that story because it was a lot cooler than explaining to inquiring teenagers what PFFD means.
Phillips was born with a rare defect called proximal femoral focal deficiency. Early in Linda Phillips' pregnancy, she and her husband, Phil, learned that their second child would have an issue. His right leg was not developing along with his left, and so he would come out of the womb with one limb shorter than the other.
So Phil and Linda planned as well as any parents could. They studied medical books and labored over baby names to pick just the right one. Because the playground can be a cruel place, they wanted something that kids couldn't rhyme into derogatory nicknames. They loved what "Richard" represented, and settled on its variation, Ryker. The name means "strong."
But their boy would need more than just a tough and masculine name. He would require surgery after his first birthday — the first of eight major operations. Even more, he would need to learn how to overcome his limitations.
"'It will be your challenge as parents," Linda says, recalling the words of an orthopedic surgeon, "To not tell him he can't."
So when Phillips wanted to go hiking or snowboarding or rock climbing with his family, he did. When he wanted to play baseball and soccer like all his friends, he tried. But while participating in those sports, when Phillips tried running like the other kids, he couldn't.
It was a tough realization for a 7-year-old who didn't understand the meaning of the word 'no.' Phillips had to give up soccer and baseball, but the "strong" one knew where he could still beat his buddies in friendly competitions. The water.
His father swam competitively as a youth, and served in the Navy as the ship's swimmer. Also, in their backyard in California, the family had a pool.
Phillips recalls only fuzzy memories of his first time in the water, because he doesn't remember a time ever being out of it.
Swimming has always been there for him.
"He's swum his whole life," Linda says. "He's tried these other things, but he's reverted to swimming probably because he feels the most free in the pool."
Sticking to his strengths
When Phillips started at Mountain View as a freshman, his family had just made its second major move, relocating to Vancouver. His new school was the size of his old hometown of Okanogan in the northeast corner of the state, and Phillips had to get used to the stares and questions all over again.
"I started out shy in high school," he says. "People tended to avoid me because of my leg."
Phillips did not swim that first year, and sat out again as a sophomore. He had made friends in band and joined the casts of the school's productions of "Hello, Dolly" and "Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." Although he had found a place to belong, he felt the call back to his first love.
"I saw some people doing swimming, and I kinda really missed that. Doing the competition and being in the water all the time," Phillips says. "It was always there and (I thought): 'I should probably go back to doing this.' "
The swimming sabbatical showed in the first times Phillips recorded as a junior on Mountain View's 'B' team — the school features three squads and he fit into the middle group. However, coaches noticed his desire and work ethic. He backed up the meaning of his first name and performed as one of the strongest swimmers in the pool.
"He's a great kid, great attitude," says Dave Shoup, head coach of Evergreen Public Schools' four swim teams. "He's a great asset to our team because as much as guys want to sit around and whine, 'Aww, this is so hard!' Ryker's doing it and he's not complaining."
Phillips focused on the butterfly — the great equalizing event that requires upper body muscle more than a forceful leg kick. By the end of the season, he had outswam several opponents to place 11th at districts with a personal best time of 1 minute, eight seconds.
"That goes to show you just how competitive he is," coach Gary Hafer says, "and how strong."
The last challenge
A long practice is about to begin under the domed pool. They call it the bubble. The cold and warm air fogs up the pool like a cinematic dream sequence, but also leaves blue jeans wet because moisture covers every chair.
"Do you want a towel?" Phillips asks Hafer, noticing his coach's wet chair.
One would assume that if anyone needed assistance around the pool, it would be Phillips. Instead, he offers his hand, and those who know him best describe him as a selfless friend.
"He's the first guy to come to me and ask if I need help," says Shoup, who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and often needs a wheelchair. "I mean, he's got one leg, and he's coming to me: 'Hey, can I help you with this? You want me to do that for you?' He's getting chairs for me, he's opening the doors for me. I mean, that's just – wow. Neat kid."
Fast kid, too. On Tuesday, Phillips leads the lane during practice. He likes swimming first among the "Gare Bears," the name of Hafer's 'B' team. But he wants more than practice bragging rights.
Phillips strives for the "Gare Bear" program record for the butterfly and needs four seconds to meet the 1:04.9 mark. Four seconds can seem like four miles in swimming, but consider that Phillips shaved an impressive 14 seconds from his time last season, and another four doesn't seem so tough.
"In the water, you can do anything," he says, then drops his normally buoyant voice. "I'm always happy when I'm in the water."

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Hey, remember this person? It's been a while since we've heard from Mariah Carey (and even longer since we heard from her in a non-bizarre HSN capacity), her being sidelined by The Great Dem Babies Pregnancy of 2010-11, but you can't keep a diva down forever, and Mariah finally resurfaced last night at the "Plot Your Escape" event at Gotham Hall in New York. MC took the stage in a black fishtail gown to perform a smattering of her biggest hits, mostly gravitating towards the 21st century stuff ("It's Like That," "We Belong Together," "Touch My Body," etc.) with a full-band accompaniment.
It looked like a classy affair, and courtesy of this Ustream capture of her performance of 2005′s underrated "Shake It Off," we can see that Mariah both looks and sounds pretty good about ten months after giving birth, and her nu-soul-ish performance of "Shake" has a nice litheness and bounce to it. You do have to put up with the occasional bleep and bloop sounds of UStream during the video, but it's worth watching just the same. Pretend they're little production flourishes or something.


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...to the Research Works Act, a bill which would have prohibited the federal government from requiring open access to research funded by the federal government. You read that correctly: you, dear taxpayer, get to pay for the research; then, when you want to read the results, you'll have to pay again!
A Slate commentary on this, here. As we've documented over the past month or so on this blog, the winds of open access seem to be picking up....
Wherein we ponder vexing issues in infection prevention and control, inside and outside the hospital.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Good riddance...
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Hey Guys, what are your thoughts on the launch of the Open-Access Journal on Antibiotic Resistance and Infection Control?ReplyDelete
I"m excited for it. Hopefully it will push AJIC and ICHE to consider open-access models. Of course, I'm biased since I'm a section editor for ARIC. Full disclosure of COI.ReplyDelete
Of course, costs to publish are currently high, but hopefully those can come down over time.
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I am headed down to the ATL area for the New Year & would like to have my EDC with me while on my trip.
I am not going to try to fly out of Logan with my firearm so close to the holiday because I KNOW that would be a recipe for disaster. It's tough enough to get out of Boston on any holiday WITHOUT a firearm.
I thought about flying out of Manchester but with the time of year and all, I don't want to worry about inclimate weather affecting my travel plans.
So instead, I'm thinking of shipping the gun to myself in ATL next day air. I've read an earlier CC post that listed the firearms shipping rules made by the ATF but they've left me more confused than anything else. I can't tell if the rules refer to an FFL as a licensed individual or a permit holder.
Can someone tell me if I can go to a UPS/FedEx hub and mail it to my place of temporary residence in GA? Or do I have to take my gun to a FFL in MA to have it mailed to a FFL in GA?
Is it considered a "transfer" if I have to ship it to a FFL in GA when ownership is not being transferred?
I am simply hoping to avoid being given undue attention by MSP Tactical at Logan or having my handgun lost/stolen in the airline's baggage. Yet I really don't want to put my carry piece at the discretion of someone that I don't know (like a FFL in GA).
What to do?
I have permits in MA & FL, which will cover me on the origin and destination points of my trip.


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Nothing says, "Hello!", like winning big on the road in your rival's ballpark, and the Texas Rangers gave that salutation to the Oakland Athletics last week at O.co Coliseum -- so it's been a returned favor this week for the A's to do the same in Arlington.
By winning 4-0 on Monday night and again 9-3 tonight in Texas, Oakland has sent a message right back to its American League West rivals as the two teams fight for supremacy in the division after having won the last four titles between them (2010-2013).
The A's (17-10) now lead the AL West by two games over the Rangers (15-12), and two teams will play again tomorrow evening. Oakland would like to sweep Texas, of course, to make up for the home sweep it suffered at the hands of the Rangers last week.
While tonight's win may have been more about the offense than the pitching, on Monday night, it was all about Sonny Gray for the A's. The young righty shut down Texas on three hits for his first career complete-game shutout, allowing just one walk while striking out six batters.
Oakland scored two runs in both the third and fourth innings, allowing Gray to cruise with a cushion for the evening. And he took advantage, needing just 108 pitches for the complete-game victory. Josh Donaldson had two RBI to lead the offense.
Tonight, Scott Kazmir pitched ably enough, but the A's lineup really tore into Martin Perez -- the same man who shut them out last Wednesday at the Coliseum. Oakland scored eight runs off Perez in less than five innings, while Kazmir gave up three runs in five innings.
Derek Norris and Josh Reddick each drove in three runs apiece, as the A's scored five runs in the fifth to take a 9-1 lead and knock Perez out of the ballgame. Three Oakland relievers kept Texas from scoring any more runs over the final four frames.
Tomorrow, Jesse Chavez (1-0, 2.32) takes the mound against Robbie Ross (1-1, 2.45), with the A's looking to sweep. After Wednesday's game, Oakland travels to Boston for a three-game at Fenway Park starting Friday evening before returning home next week to host Seattle, Washington and the Chicago White Sox over a three-series home stand.


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It's almost time for Branson to lay out the royal welcome for America's veterans. November 5 begins the event with an evening cruise on the Showboat Branson Belle. The popular mini-reunions will again honor veterans from WWII, the Korean War, Vietnam, the Gulf Wars and Women Veterans.
Almost all shows offer special tributes during the week - and all year round. The Military Gala sponsored by the POW Network and the 236th Marine Corps Birthday Ball are both rich in tradition, decoration and programming.
Veterans Village and the Tactical Operations Center will open on November 5 at the Factory Merchants Mall (Red Roof Mall). The mall will also be home to the free-lunch-for-veterans from Monday November 7 - Thursday November 10. The Rose Petal Memorial and Appreciation Luncheon has moved to the Stone Castle Hotel (formerly the Settle Inn) on Green Mountain Drive. The Day Room, located in the mall, has become a "favorite place" for veterans to hang out, join in the music, visit with friends and to meet new people.
The week closes with a parade on November 11, followed by the Tony Orlando Show. For a complete list of activities, go to www.bransonveterans.com.


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White Samsung Galaxy S II Epic Touch 4G for Sprint is now only $99.99
The white-colored version of Sprint's Samsung Galaxy S II Epic Touch 4G has been available since January 8. So far the price has been $199.99 with a new two-year contract, which isn't that bad considering how high-end this smartphone is even today.
That said, cheaper is always better, so how about getting the white Epic Touch 4G for 50% off? That's exactly what you can do at Amazon today. The handset can be yours for just $99.99. You will of course still need to sign a new two-year contract with the carrier, but that's just how things are.
This pricing applies to new customers only. Those who wish to upgrade will have to shell out $50 more, but $149.99 is still $50 less than what Sprint is asking, so that's not a bad deal either.
If you're interested, head on over to Amazon now and order yours. Or, if you'd rather grab the black version, it's going for $79.99 instead.


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Hello to all . I'm new here. My name is Sylvia. I'd like to share my horrible experience and see if anyone else is going through what I have .
I got diagnosed last year around June 2011. They told me a unknown virus ate my left ventricle away and I needed a pace maker asap.
I got one put in on July 28 Th 2011. My incision site still hurts like all hell! CONSTANTLY!!!
I also have MS, was diagnosed about two years ago. Like that wasn't enough right ? lol , now heart disease.
I'm constantly tired !
my faction rate is at 15 % oh and BTW i'm 38 yrs old.
Obese and also bipolar.
God just gave me a good deck ahe? It's over whelming to think , I could die at any time.
I've cut out all salt and caffeine. I try to eat right , but i'm a emotional eater.... DAMN SUBWAY !
I have the horrible edema under control now with a med called Zaroxolyn and lasix combined.
I'm always scared that I'm going to die , even though I have a pace maker / defibrillator in me.
The thing is when they put the pace maker in, and tested the difubulater , it wouldn't work, it took them 15 trys to get it going.
i ALMOST DIED ... so how dependable it is now I have no clue.
so yeah...I can't exercise because I have no strength between the CHF and the MS...
I just don't know what to do anymore....
sorry for my ramblings , but that's what is going on with me , plus more , but that's just a list of meds I take to survive...
Any suggestions? advice? Any would be more than welcome !
Thanks for reading and God Bless !
Always Sylvia ~
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Hi Sylvia
Welcome to the group.
You are not alone - sad to say.
I have cardiomyapathy - and was at 10 ef.
The heart gets re-shaped from the cardiomyapathy - not eaten away.
So you can re-shape it back over time - but it takes a lot of owrk.
You must cut the sodium more - go to fresh fruits and veggies. Always have some protien with them to adjust your system to them - and that will melt the fat away. - NO pasta, breads, or cereals. Extremely limited dairy, NO cheeses, and extremely limited processed sugars.
You can do it - I did it and I hate veggies and fruit.
I have severe sciatica, and stenosis of the spine.
I also had asthma, copd, emphysema, and bronchitis - I have knocked them mostly out now.
I also have cancer in my spine now.
I am only mentioning the other problems I have to show you that there are others fighting the battle with many other problemns too.
you need to go to the gym 3 to 4 times a week and do a lot of cardio
start very slowly every time and build up. You can do it. It is the way to fight this problem. I used to go and pass out some days. Other days I would go out to the car and sleep for a while after the work out.
passed out so many times in the first gym - i finally changed gyms - very embarrased.
get to it hun - it will make you feel so much better.
And always after the work out - go home and put legs up for a couple of hours to help the heart to catch up. That is a must.
hugs, ttfn, Raoul
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hello You really need to exercise my friend..
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I'm sorry I never replied . My MS has been acting up badly... so not really into anything.
I give u props Raulby! You've done what I need to do and keep putting off.
NO more procrastinating!
I will call the psychical therapy TODAY and get to exercising with it being safe and under medical control. for now.
I need to change so bad, have to change for my life. It;s so hard!
I have the no caffeine under control, I do the no salt with no problem.
Just need to lose weight badly!
Good food these days are very $ but IDK anymore... it;s my life in the balance...
Thanks so much for both ur advice !
If it wern't for the last relpy I woulsn't have seen this ...
so tyvm to cbhattarai!
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As the dust starts to settle after Tuesday's announcement that Nokia is selling its handset business to Microsoft, investors are waking up to a new leaner company with arguably brighter prospects than the old beleaguered business.
Nokia's handset business used to be the glorious centerpiece of a global technology heavyweight, but its fall from grace the past few years has been rapid and brutal.
Here is a roundup of what analysts around the globe have to say about Nokia's NSN networks unit and HERE mapping business.
In a note on Wednesday, Nordea Sami Sarkamies said the sale of the handset business to Microsoft for €5.4 billion "marks the end to one of the worst corporate strategies we will probably experience." While noting that the reasoning behind Nokia's tie-up with Microsoft two years ago will continue to debated, Nordea said Nokia got a fair price for the assets given the circumstances, and that it's now able to kiss goodbye to its worries and start anew as a "solid, smaller version of Ericsson."
Mr. Sarkamies added that the new Nokia should now be seen as a likely acquisition target, especially for Samsung Electronics Co. The Korean company has been looking to expand its mobile network infrastructure operations and buying Nokia would be a good opportunity to gain a position on the U.S. market with a solid product portfolio. " Putting all this together, we see more upside in the share from both an absolute perspective as well as a relative performance potential perspective versus Ericsson," Mr. Sarkamies said.
Deutsche Bank's Kai Korschelt said the Microsoft deal is a good outcome for shareholders, although he is concerned about an expected decline of NSN profits in the second part of this year and in 2014. Mr. Korschelt estimates that Nokia in the first quarter of next year will have net cash of around €7.5 billion, which raises the prospect of a significant windfall for shareholders. If Nokia keeps €5 billion for general purposes and potential acquisitions, "excess net cash available for return to shareholders could be €2.5 billion or a potential cash yield of 15%." The bank has upgraded its rating to hold from sell.
After disposing the handset business, "Nokia flips from loss making to profitability," Jefferies analysts Lee Simpson and Robert Lamb said. Nokia will effectively become a profitable, telecom equipment pure-play, they say, and upgrade their rating to hold from underperform. The Microsoft deal also means that cash fears abate, and helps Nokia's buyout of Siemens' stake in Nokia Siemens Networks. "There is an additional €1.5 billion of financing from [Microsoft] to be taken up at Nokia's discretion," Jefferies said.
However, Alexander Peterc and Alexandre Faure at Exane BNP Paribas expressed some caution. Although the new company appears clean, profitable and financially stable, the analysts said there is still a risk that the Microsoft deal is delayed or derailed by wary Microsoft shareholders. The bank upgraded its rating to neutral from underperform.
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For more than a decade it has been my privilege, among my other duties, to serve as curator of the National Air and Space Museum art collection. It comes as a surprise to many folks to realize that the Museum has an art collection. In fact, it includes over 4,700 works by artists with names …Continue Reading
The National Air and Space Museum is holding its first ever virtual conference for educators on Tuesday, November 10 from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. EST. Since we're in the middle of the 40th anniversary commemorations of the Apollo missions, we decided to focus on this important period in American history. Staff from our Division …Continue Reading
As mentioned in Dom Pisano's recent post "From Collecting to Curating," six interns, including myself, and two volunteers (with our supervisor, enough for a baseball team!) photographed, scanned and catalogued much of the museum's collection of over 1,300 posters at the Paul E. Garber Facility's collections processing unit this summer. It sounds like a lot …Continue Reading
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Sometimes I wonder how I get it all straight. I mean, I know what I'm supposed to do to lose weight. However, sometimes there's obstacles. One of them is most obviously WORK.
I estimate work takes up about 10 hours of my day, from waking up and getting ready, to the 15 minute commute each way including my entire work day (and my 30 min lunch of which all I have time to do is eat). So that's 50 hours a week for just work.
Sleep is about 56 hours (on a good week), plus 2 hours of getting ready on the weekend.
That leaves about 60 hours of my drained brain self to try to not only exercise but try to plan a meal (which really does take at least 1 or 2 hours if you are trying to include ANY variety). I guess about 15 hours go to my boyfriend... so that's another maybe 20 hours off my total.
40 hours left for myself...of which I'm sure about 20 hours I dedicate to TV watching and leisure activity.
It's funny because I was going to rant, but I guess that's plenty of time isn't it? 20 hours over 7 days. So 3 hours to myself everyday? I just feel so tired most of the time. Why doesn't this feel like enough time?
Haha if anyone reads this I'm sure they'll laugh at how I figured out how much time I really have. Oh I didn't include chores or food preparation for meals, but they don't take TOO long most days.
I just need to get into a routine and definitely vary my workouts. I've been having a lot of neck and back pain from working out lately and it really deters me from wanting to do anything. I can't run for the most part, it messes with my spine or something (feels like my neck doesn't have enough cushioning).
I also hurt my ankle a week and a half ago and it took almost a week to feel better. So we'll see how it goes. I'm starting now.
Tomorrow--No sweets, no soda, no eating out.
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BREAKFAST- 2 wheat blueberry waffles & all fruit strawberry spread
LUNCH-Subway ham on wheat, no sauce, add onions pickles tomato spinach
DINNER-Homemade black bean chile verde (made with pork loin) & whole wheat tortillas
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Why are senior professionals not only failing to land jobs, but giving up, and prematurely dropping out of the job search process?
This was yesterday's presentation topic at a networking meeting I attended in Mississauga.
As explained by Ron Jamieson and Karen Tulk of Hire Gray Matter, a Toronto based recruiting firm, older job seekers must not only reverse their search tactics and be willing to keep looking for as long as 12 to 18 months... To get a suitable position, older applicants must also successfully override five common employer age biases.
Even though Jamieson and Tulk made a strong case for the significance of these negative perceptions, as the inventor of Authentic Personal Branding, I still believe that no matter what their age may be, candidates who understand and effectively communicate the value they bring to the hiring organization will get hired.
(If you're unclear about the benefits you bring to future employers, you won't have the tools you need to convince them to choose you. Get clear! Grab my free 4-Step Value Proposition Development Exercise and pinpoint your value!)
Adding my views to Tulk's and Jamiesons' perspectives uncovers a
formula older job seekers can confidently use to stand out and get hired.
Successful candidates are:
a) Self aware, and able to skillfully ...
b) Match the benefits they offer to each specific prospective employers' needs
c) Identify recruiters', hiring managers' and prospective bosses' biases, and ...
d) Deconstruct these biases as quickly as they appear.
Let's take a minute to check out the age prejudices Hire Gray Matter identified
as responsible for limiting older workers' employment prospects.
Employers' 5 Top Age Biases:
- Diminished Drive and Energy
Older job seekers must overcome the stereotype that labels 50+ workers as old, tired, cranky, or worn out. Being in good physical shape, showing up dressed appropriately and stylishly, and projecting energy and vitality, all go a very long way to crushing this bias. Older workers can also add to their youthful image by including active hobbies and personal interests on their resumes and LinkedIn profiles "It goes without saying," Tulk quips, "No one immediately thinks of a serious kayaking enthusiast as being sixty years old."
- Technology
Older professionals need to stay current with technology if they want to avoid being viewed as dinosaurs. They must quash their own biases against social networking sites, or mobile messaging, and if they can't fully embrace them, they must become adept users. Thousands of free online tutorials are available to get older users up-to-speed on a vast variety of technological trends, tools and tactics.
- Skills
Whether they were hired before certifications became necessary (or before they even existed), or have all but the most recent credentials, Tulk recommends senior workers give serious thought to the benefits of adding relevant certifications. HR professionals charged with meeting specific hiring criteria, like seeking out candidates with current PMP (Project Management Professional) certifications, won't select an applicant with two decades of hands-on project management experience and no credentials over an applicant with a current PMP and less than a decade of experience. However, when choosing between candidates with equal training and unequal experience, the advantage will go to the more experienced applicant.
- Salary
More experienced professionals command higher salaries than less experienced professionals. That's a fact.
To make themselves affordable to employers with limited hiring budgets, Tulk advises older workers to amend their salary expectations. Shorter work hours (3 - 4days a week, vs. 5, for example) or extended unpaid vacation (8 weeks unpaid, vs. 3 weeks paid) might do the trick.
If senior professionals are aiming to change their life/work balance, they may find either of these affordability approaches appealing. However, if that's not an objective, and the older worker wants or needs to get paid top dollar, there are other options to consider.
If they offer to work as a consultant, their employer saves the cost of adding health, pension and other fringe benefits to their employment package. This makes an experienced worker more affordable, without diminishing their value as a professional.
Negotiating a lower base pay plus a higher, performance-dependent bonus goes a long way to demonstrating the candidate's confidence in their skills and abilities, and make them more affordable. However, this approach has its risks, and should be adopted only by professionals convinced they can deliver.
Here's where the danger lies. While this situation reduces the employer's risk, it also gives them leverage they can use against their new hire, if they don't hit their performance targets. Not only will they forfeit their hefty bonus, they also risk being fired for poor performance.
- Younger Bosses
Older workers will have younger bosses. Current workplace demographics make this fact inescapable. Tulk counsels senior workers to treat their younger bosses with the respect they have given previous supervisors. She also advises experienced professionals to resist the temptation to mentor their younger bosses, uninvited.
Have you faced age discrimination in your job search? If so weigh in on this conversation.
Tell us about your situation , what happened and how you handled it.
My next post will continue this conversation by looking at the Job Search Myths keeping older candidates off recruiters' short lists, and the real odds older applicants face in today's recruiting "Buyers' Market."
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The future of the open source Mozilla web browser - and its Firebird and Camino derivatives - appears assured for the foreseeable future with the news that AOL has made a $2 million donation to the new Mozilla Foundation.
The foundation has been established to 'promote the distribution and adoption' of Mozilla-based applications, which include the Thunderbird email client as well as the aforementioned browsers.Read the entire article @ PC Pro
Sun Microsystems and Red Hat Linux will also continue to add their support.
The Mozilla Foundation will be chaired by Mitch Kapor, the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the spreadsheet application credited with driving the adoption of the PC in business world in the 1980s. Kapor will donate $300,000 of his own money.


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Career counselors can help you recognize your interests, skills, values, and help you set your career goals. Knowing yourself is the first step necessary in finding a satisfying career.
Interest and Work Preference Surveys: To help you further The Career Development Center offers standardized interest surveys including the Strong Interest Inventory, the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and the Self Directed Search (SDS). These assessment surveys are administered and evaluated by a trained career counselor during your career counseling session. Interest surveys can help you focus on career fields, occupations, and work environments where you may find job satisfaction. They may confirm career fields that you have been considering. They will not, however, tell you what you "should" be. Only you can determine that!
FOCUS - This online career assessment enables you to take a self-guided tool for career exploration. FOCUS helps you explore your strengths, interests and skills and is a valuable tool as a first step to major and career decision making.
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(The additional sites below provide a free mini-report and may offer more expanded reports for a fee)
The Occupational Information Network - Learn about occupations, match your skills and more.
The Keirsey Temperament Sorter (based on the MBTI that students can take for free at CDC)- Information on personality gifts and temperament types.
www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp - Jung Typology Test
www.acinet.org/skills/default.aspx?nodeid=20 - Skills Profiler from Career One Stop
www.testingroom.com - 3 assessments – Values, Interest Personality
www.mynextmove.org/explore/ip - O*NET Interest Profiler
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Hot answers tagged amazon-s3
Go to aws.amazon.com and click Account > Usage Reports After signing in, select Amazon Simple Storage Service from the Service drop down and then select TimedStorage-ByteHrs from the Usage Types drop down. Select the period of time you want to be reported and use the buttons at the bottom to download the report. The usage report gives a storage total for ...
What about Jungle Disk? It will set up an s3 account as a local drive. I'm not sure what sync capabilities it has natively, but your mac has rsync built-in and you could use that. There's more discussion about other Amazon s3 clients in the question about the best Amazon s3 file manager utility.
I found the answer using Python: import boto cf = boto.connect_cloudfront('aws_access_key_id', 'aws_secret_access_key') cf.create_invalidation_request("distribution_id", ["/path1","/path2"]) Documentation: boto.connect_cloudfront create_invalidation_request
Might be useful to know you can also do this right from the AWS Console. Distribution Settings > Invalidations > Create Invalidation Then just type in the paths to invalidate in the same format displayed there.
Your best option would be to simply create a new developer account and sign up for S3 again with a different ID. This would appear to be a clear Amazon bug and I doubt there's anything that can be done by anyone except Amazon technical support.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud computing platform that allows people to purchase many different types of computing-related resources -- that physically reside in Amazon's datacenters. These include infrastructural resources such as as servers, storage, and networking, as well as services such as database and bulk-email. Amazon Marketplace Web Service ...
In case you use Chrome, you can use this plugin. Disclaimer: I'm the author.
As a side note: I'd love to mail them a storage device for the first dump And you're also prepared to use such service when you need to restore your whole system? If not, then you may want to consider if an online backup really suits your needs, and see some generic thoughts on some test results at Best choice for a personal "online backup" in Europe....
There is a service which allows you to access an S3 bucket with rsync, http://www.s3rsync.com/ They charge for the bandwidth in/out and an hourly fee (billed by the minute) for access to their rsync servers within Amazon's EC2. Being within EC2 you're not charged for the traffic between your S3 bucket and their servers but you will still have to pay S3 ...
Here's my HowTo explaining how to parse S3 Usage Report using bash one liner to get readable results. cat report.csv | awk -F, '{printf "%.2f GB %s %s \n", $7/(1024**3 )/24, $4, $2}' | sort -n
I am not aware of any way that you can do this without the step of having the file locally simply because of the way that Amazon S3 is done, you post data to it, it doesn't go grab data.
I know that is this an old questions but I am answering incase someone still interested. At my company we just release a new website which has many options to transfer files between cloud services. One of these features may help you do what you want without downloading the file to your computer, it will go direct from the URL to amazon S3, The website will ...
You can download the Bucket Explorer latest version from here: Last Bucket Explorer Using it you can differentiate between the RRS objects, Glacier objects and Standard object using color combination. See the screenshots:
SES receiving rule set can write to S3 bucket, but sends AMAZON_SES_SETUP_NOTIFICATION AccessDenied file
I figured it out. I was downloading AMAZON_SES_SETUP_NOTIFICATION using the public URL, but the bucket policies didn't allow downloading via that URL, so it was giving the AccessDenied message. Meaning, I wasn't authorized to download that file from the S3 bucket using the public URL. Instead, if I double-clicked on the file from within the S3 console then ...
There is no documented way to change ownership of a bucket. To the contrary, the documentation states that bucket ownership cannot be changed. Bucket ownership is not transferable http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/BucketRestrictions.html Even it were possible, that still leaves the issue of ownership of the objects in the bucket, ...
If you aren't able to edit the permissions, you may have lost access to these objects. Bucket and object permissions are completely independent; an object does not inherit the permissions from its bucket. For example, if you create a bucket and grant write access to another user, you will not be able to access that user's objects unless the user ...
Those are most likely Amazon S3 logging files - try disabling through the Management Console as described here.
There's no reason why having two A records won't work as you describe it, but the instructions are good practice because you should decide which is the canonical address of your site, www.domain.com or domain.com and redirect to the canonical name. Using two A records will make the site visible at both addresses. Apart from the aesthetic considerations, ...
I am not sure about why this empty folder created, sometimes I feel that it is a temp folder created by S3 and sometimes I feel that it is something wrong because of any third party connected to S3. I deal with this folder or delete it through the amazon console https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/home this is the only way I could delete this folder.
The Cyberduck app has built-in invalidation request functionality, if a GUI solution is ok. http://trac.cyberduck.ch/wiki/help/en/howto/s3
Arq is an online backup tool for Mac, which uses Amazon S3 as backup storage. Arq stores the backup data in your own Amazon S3 account, encrypted with your own password using AES-256. Backups are stored in an open format documented on the website.
An awesome solution is to use S3Stat solution which provides very nice reports and not free, but affordable. A sample:
Why can't you use your bill to get that number ? Is that not what shows up in the detail section of the Amazon Simple Storage Service TimedSTorage-ByteHrs section? It breaks it down by total size of stored object (<1TB, 1-50TB, 50+ ...et.c.) but you can do simple math then.
You might want to check out Jungle Disk. You are paying a third-party a fee, but they offer a neat tool for synchronisation, backed by Amazon S3 and Rackspace Cloud.
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Hogan 'disavows' secessionist running for Anne Arundel County Council seat
Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Hogan has agreed to disassociate himself from an Anne Arundel County Council candidate who associated himself with an organization that has been labeled a hate group.
The announcement came Friday, after it was revealed that Michael Peroutka was a member of the League of South, a group that called for southern states to secede from the United States.
The group is considered a hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
In a statement, Hogan's spokesman, Adam Dubitsky, responded:
"Larry absolutely disavows him. Those views have never been a part of the Republican Party and they never will."
Pressure for the dissociation came after Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lt.
Gov. Anthony Brown released a statement on the situation:
In it, the campaign said:
"It's surprising that Maryland Republicans would nominate a candidate who's a member of a hate group with such disturbing racial and secessionist positions, but we call on Larry Hogan to do the sensible thing and disassociate himself from Peroutka and his views."
Peroutka, who founded the Institute on Constitution, gained statewide attention in June, after he minimally beat out Maureen Carr-York for the fifth district council seat in Anne Arundel County.
"In both private and public policy, we must remember that God created only one race - the human race," Peroutka said. "Therefore, all elevation or denigration of individuals or groups based on skin color is immoral and shameful because it violates the Law of Nature and Nature's God."


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Here's a compilation of what we think are some of the greatest motorcycle movies ever made. Alongside more mainstream classics we've also thrown in a few cult films and some awesome motorcycle B-movies.
If we've missed out some of your favorites or you don't agree with our choices, let us know in the comments!
So here's a run-down of out 26 of the greatest motorcycle movies ever made!
#26. Top Gun
In the movie Top Gun, lead actor Tom Cruise rode a Kawasaki GPZ750R (when he wasn't piloting an F14 fighter jet).
This was the first bike Cruise had ever ridden and after learning how to ride in the car park of a Californian bike shop Cruise was hooked and has owned bikes since.
#25. Wild Hogs
Wild Hogs is a story about four middle aged friends (John Travolta, Tim Allen, Martin Lawrence and William H Macey) who decide to take their Harley Davidsons on a cross country trip to find out what it feels like to be a 'real' biker.
The Harley Davidson bikes featured in the movie include a XL1200C Sportster Custom, FXSTS Springer Softail, Black Fatboy and a Screaming Eagle Fatboy.
#24. Tron – Light Cycle
Fair enough, the Lightcycle might not be a real motorcycle but it's still pretty cool. This cult science fiction movie featured a distinctive video game-like visual style, and was one of the first movies from a major studio to use extensive computer graphics.
#23. Terminator 2
Terminator 1 featured a chase scene in which Sarah Connor was being hunted down by the Terminator on a Honda 750. In the sequel, Terminator 2, Arnold rode a Harley Davidson Fatboy as helped John Conner outrun the T-1000.
To this day Arnold remains an avid motorcycle enthusiast and owns a wide range of bikes.
#22. Quadrophenia
London, 1965: Like many other youths, Jimmy hates the philistine life, especially his parents and his job in a company's mailing division. Only when he's together with his friends, a 'Mod' clique, cruises London on his motor-scooter and hears music such as that of 'The Who' and 'The High Numbers', he feels free and accepted. However, it's a flight into an illusionary world.
A young motorcycle gang calling themselves the Living Dead terrorise the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if they kill themselves firmly believing in it, they will survive and gain eternal life. Following their leader, they commit suicide one after the other, but things don't necessarily turn out as expected.
#20. Knightriders
A traveling group of medieval performers, the main attraction being knights on motorcycles, is falling apart at the seams as the performers either crack under the pressure of mean cops, bouts with near fame and emotional problems. The group's leader, the self-styled "King" Billy (Ed Harris) has grown increasingly unstable over the years, to the point that he's failing to see the differences between the shows and real life.
The movie storyline is a little wacky but it's worth sticking with for the great bike action, and Ed's Honda CBX.
#19. Choppertown
Custom chopper builder and punk rocker Kutty Noteboom builds his working man's chopper from the ground up with the help of good friend Rico and the rest of his biker brothers in this intimate award-winning documentary about renowned hot rod and motorcycle club the Sinners.
#18. C. C. & Company
Motorcycle mechanic C.C. Ryder joins "The Heads," an outlaw biker gang. Fellow gang members menace fashion journalist Ann when her limo breaks down in the desert, but C.C. comes to her rescue. The bikers disrupt a motorcross event tied in with a fashion shoot, but C.C. enters the competition under Ann's admiring eye. His win puts him at odds with Moon, leader of "The Heads." When C.C. leaves with his cut of the purse, the bikers kidnap Ann, and C.C. races Moon to win her freedom.
#17. Stone Cold
Joe Huff is a tough, go-it-alone cop with a flair for infiltrating dangerous biker gangs. The FBI blackmail Joe into an undercover operation to convict some extremely violent bikers, who are angry at the capture of their leader.
#16. Silver Dream Racer
A young hot-headed motorbike enthusiast inherits the prototype for an incredibly fast machine which was designed by his brother. He successfully gets the finance for it, and uses the bike to challenge for the world championship at Silverstone.
#15. Ride With The Wind
In this tender made-for-television drama, a motorcycle racer changes his outlook on life after becoming close to a young mother and her dying son.
#14. Hells Angels On Wheels
At first gas station attendant Poet is happy when the rockers gang "Hell's Angels" finally accepts him. But he's shocked when he learns how brutal they are – not even murder is a taboo to them. He gets himself in trouble when the leader's girlfriend falls in love with him – and he welcomes her approaches.
#13. Running Cool
Bone and Bear, two rough and tough bikers ride out from Sturgis, SD. to the marshes of South Carolina to help out their "bro" Ironbutt Garrett, who's land is being eyed by the money-grubbing, domineering Calvin Hogg. With the townspeople aghast at the "scooter-trash" invading Buford, the Sherrif, under the direction of Hogg, try to get the bikers out of town while they try to organize a "Wetland Run" aimed at making enough money to pay off the back taxes that threaten Ironbutt's claim to the land.
#12. Beyond The Law
Dan Saxon is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling operation. In order to maintain the trust of the gang's leader, he must commit ever more dangerous and heinous crimes. Just how far 'beyond the law' will Saxon go?
#11. Werewolves on Wheels
A biker gang visits a monastery where they encounter black-robed monks engaged in worshipping Satan. When the monks try to persuade one of the female bikers, Helen, to become a satanic sacrifice the bikers smash up the monastery and leave. The monks have the last laugh, though, as Helen, as a result of the satanic rituals, is now possessed and at night changes into a werewolf, with dire results for the biker gang.
#10. Raising Arizona – The Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse
Ex-con Hi and ex-cop Ed meet, marry and long for a child in the wilds of Arizona. When Ed discovers she's barren the God-given solution is presented: to snatch a baby from a set of quins. Thus begins a series of kidnappings, capers and rum goings-on that revolve around the helpless yet universally-loveable child. Hi's convict friends, his boss, and even the Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse become involved in the ever-twisting plot in the quest to own the baby.
#9. Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
The opening scene of the movie Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man including the song "Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi.
#8. Any Which Way You Can (Black Widows)
Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight – as he does – to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called Clyde all add to the 'fun'.
#7. Viva Knievel!
As the legendary stuntman travels to Mexico to prepare for one of his greatest stunts yet, he takes time out of his schedule to meet his fans, help out lonely orphans, and try to get his alcoholic mechanic to reconcile with his son. While all of this is going on, Evel's main rival is plotting to have Evel killed and then get rich by using the Team Evel 18-wheeler to smuggle cocaine into America.
#6. Max Max
In an Australian dystopia of decaying order and violent highways, a police pursuit driver is drawn into a path of vengeance after a motorcycle gang targets him for the death of their former leader. In the U.S.
In Mel Gibson's post-apocalyptic classic The Toecutter and Bubba Zanetti ride a Kawasaki K-1000 and a Rickman Framed Kawasaki 900.
#5. The Wild One
This is the original motorcycle movie, starring Marlon Brando as the brooding leader of a biker gang that invades a small town.
Also starring Lee Marvin, The Wild One is the ultimate motorcycle rebellion movie and
features a stunning Triumph Thunderbird T6.
#4. On Any Sunday
A documentary following the lives of motorcycle racers and racing enthusiasts, including actor Steve McQueen. First asking the question "Why do they do it?" this film looks at the people who devote (and sometimes risk) their lives to racing on tracks and off-road courses around the world.
#3. The Great Escape
Starring Steve McQueen, The Great Escape features arguably one of the greatest motorcycle scenes of all time. Apart from the barbed wire jump itself McQueen performed all his own stunts, and had a lot of input into the motorcycle scenes.
In the now infamous final scene McQueen was riding a TT Special 650 Triumph which had been made-over to look like a wartime BMW.
#2. Easy Rider
This cult classic from 1969 features top Hollywood actors and top bikes. With the hit theme "Born to be Wild", Easy Rider is a motorcycle buddy film featuring such big names as Nicholson, Fonda, and Hopper.
The bikes that featured in the film were mainly Harley Davidson Hydraglide models from 1949, 1950, and 1952.
#1. The World's Fastest Indian
The World's Fastest Indian is based on the true story of Burt Munro, a bike racer from New Zealand.
Played by Anthony Hopkins, Munro manages to set a 1000cc world record in 1967 on an Indian brand motorcycle that he mechanically modified and covered with an aerodynamic shell. At the time of the record attempt Munro himself was 68 years old riding an Indian motorbike that was 47 years old.
The record still stands to this day.
So, that's the end out list of the 26 greatest motorcycle movies, what did you think? Let us know in the comments!


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Reported by the Huffington Post UK on Feb. 15, evidence of a drug used to treat breast cancer was found in samples of a dietary supplement marketed to male athletes such as bodybuilders who use anabolic steroids.
Between 2011 and early 2012, a team of Liverpool John Moores University researchers purchased four samples of Esto Suppress, and found Tamoxifen present in three of the four samples analyzed. Used as a type of hormone therapy in the treatment of breast cancer, Tamoxifen blocks estrogen activity to stop or slow the growth of breast cancer cells. According to the National Cancer Institute, approximately 70 percent of breast cancers are 'estrogen sensitive' where in the estrogen hormone receptors become activated when estrogen binds to them, stimulating cancer tumor growth
Esto Supress is promoted as a "potent anti-estrogenic compound" recommended for bodybuilders as a means to eliminate the estrogen that develops in response to the large testosterone boost from heavy anabolic steroid use.
Tamoxifen is one of the selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs) approved by the FDA and used for more than 30 years in breast cancer treatment; according to the Liverpool researchers male bodybuilders have taken Tamoxifen for more than 30 years to prevent and treat enlarged breast tissue (gynecomastia), a common side-effect from repeated anabolic steroid cycles.
Yet even with informed use, Tamoxifen has its risks: from mood swings and depression to blood clots, stroke, cataracts and even other forms of cancers. In a letter posted to the BMJ on Feb. 14, the Liverpool researchers warn of the dangers of such "pharmacologically active substances" that are present in a "growing number of off-the-shelf "food," "herbal," or "dietary" "supplements"—aimed at gym goers" who are unaware they are taking such substances; in the case of Esto Supress, the Tamoxifin is listed by the chemical name only.
It is not known whether the Esto Suppress currently being sold still contains tamoxifen, but the researchers' stress that it is important that healthcare professionals ask their patients about their use of "supplements" and report suspected adverse reactions
Bodybuilders Unaware Of Consuming Supplements That May Contain Breast Cancer Drug, Experts Warn, Feb. 14, PA/The Huffington Post UK
Is the breast cancer drug tamoxifen being sold as a bodybuilding dietary supplement?, Feb. 13, BMJ 2014; 348:g1476, email@example.com