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Nice. All we need to do now is secure Cruz LT and we have a winning offseason. Then we have to hope the talent evaluators get it right again in the draft
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My gut keeps churning that some team is going to make a bigtime offer to Cruz that we'll not match, and we'll lose him. If that doesn't happen and Cruz remains a Giant then, my dream receiver corps would be #1 Nicks, #2 Randle and #3 (Slot) Cruz! One of them should be singled every play! If not, and they bring in six DB's then our running backs should have a good day! That is, if JR gets the O Line settled.........
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The bottom line is that asbestos is one of the most abundant minerals in the Earth's crust, and we all get some exposure to it every time we go outside. Like every other mineral, asbestos is more common in some areas than others, so it's wrong to assume that the amounts of asbestos we're exposed to outdoors is very small. It isn't. It all depends on where you live. People enjoying the parks in the San Fransisco area can be exposed to levels that are far higher than would be allowed by the OSHA in a workplace without the workers wearing special protective equipment to prevent exposure to asbestos. That is, many of us get exposed to higher levels of asbestos just enjoying the great outdoors than we ever would removing the tiles in the floor we're talking about. And, that's the truth of the matter regardless of what your government tells you.
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I think the one point that's not being mentioned is that we're all exposed to asbestos every time we go outside, and at concentrations a lot higher than we presume. Some of us are regularily exposed to high levels of the stuff on a regular basis without our even knowing about it.
But, the thing about asbestos is that some people can have a small exposure to the dust and contract mesothelioma right away, or years and even decades later. Other people can be exposed to much greater concentrations of asbestos dust and not have it affect them at all. Asbestos is a Y2K, it's something that we know is a potential hazard, but that seems to be the sum total of all we know for sure.
For example, did you know that asbestos is still being used to reline old brake shoes? Did you know that even though asbestos was banned in most products in 1986, that as recently as 2000 GM was still using asbestos lined brake shoes and brake pads on their Cavalier and Sunbird models?
People presume that brake shoes and pads don't contain asbestos anymore and that asbestos in brake shoes and pads MUST HAVE been banned by now, but that's the danger of making a reasonable assumption. (You can drown walking across a stream that has an average depth of 12 inches.) Apparantly, in the USA, various government agencies have been squabbling over who had the responsibility to regulate brake shoes and brake pads, and as a result, there simply hasn't been any regulation of brake shoes and pads so they were still being made of asbestos as recently as 2000 and probably still are being made of asbestos.
In fact, that article written in 2000 predicted that because of the time between exposure and the contraction of asbestos related lung diseases, we'd be seeing a PEAK in the number of deaths of automechanics from mesothelioma and other asbestos related lung cancers some time around 2012. Well, here we are only a few weeks away from 2009, and we aren't seeing any increase in the number of deaths of automechanics or brake and clutch technicians (from asbestos related lung diseases or any other cause either).
On the one hand, we wear moon suits to remove asbestos floor tiles from a house... tiles that, for the most part, break cleanly off the floor or into nice big chunks that hardly release any dust at all when they break. And, on the other hand, the mechanic in the garage down the street pulls off a brake drum and lets it drop to the concrete floor so that all the dust comes bellowing out of it in a brown clowd upon impact. Then he takes an air hose and blows off the backing plate to clean the dust off it in the mistaken assumption that asbestos must have been banned in brake shoes by now. And all this has been going on even in winter when the doors and windows of the garage are normally left closed, keeping the dust in the building.
So, how about it? Why aren't we seeing an alarming correlation between asbestos related lung cancers and people who worked as mechanics, especially as brake and clutch technicians? Why aren't the wives and children of garage mechanics also dying off from lung related diseases (since a mechanic who gets that dust all over his clothes and in his hair would contaminate his car and his home with asbestos dust too).
Don't bother answering. No one else on the planet knows, so any explanation that anyone offers up here would be, at best, a lucky guess.
My guess is that it all boils down to the fact that we're all individuals with different DNA and a different propensity to contract certain diseases. Also, probably like anything else, the liklihood of contracting an asbestos related lung disease depends largely on one's cumulative exposure to asbestos, and few of us ever accumulate enough total exposure to asbestos to contract a lung disease. But, that's the guess that one would expect, and nature isn't constrained to act the way we think she should. It could be something as simple as what a person had to eat or drink prior to being exposed to airborne asbestos fibers.
Did you know that the airborne asbestos fiber count in the PARKS in the San Fransisco area has been measured to be fifty (50) times higher than the OSHA would allow in a workplace without the employees wearing special protective equipment to protect them? It's true. Asbestos is one of the most abundant materials in the Earth's crust and the rocks in all of California and North Carolina are particularily high in asbestos content. This rock is used to make the gravel roads through the parks in California, and when cars drive over that gravel, the stones rub together and create airborne asbestos dust. On a long weekend where there's a lot of traffic, even being downwind of a gravel road in southern California will result in your being exposed to more airborne asbestos fibers than would be allowed by the OSHA in a workplace without worker protection.
Also, the rock around the Great Lakes is high in asbestos, and over the millenia the erosion of that rock has resulted in the soil and ground water in the Great Lakes region also being high in asbestos. Someone living in Duluth, Minnesota swallows approximately 7,000 asbestos fibers with every glass of drinking water that comes out of a faucet or water fountain or is provided free of charge in a restaurant. However, we're not yet aware of any health effects of swallowing asbestos fibers.
These facts came right from the OSHA's own web site on Asbestos abatement, but they have since removed those statistics, and that whole website since I haven't been able to find that source for some time now.
The bottom line here is that asbestos is one of the most common minerals on this Earth, and we simply can't avoid being continually exposed to it as long as we live on this planet. Most of us only get low levels of exposure, but even people who live where there is more asbestos in the rock and get higher levels of exposure to asbestos seem to live long healthy lives too. That's the connundrum of asbestos. The vast majority of us won't be affected by that exposure, but some of us will. That's just due to the diversity of evolution. If nothing else, diversity is the life blood of evolution. We are all different in minute ways, and those differences make some of us more prone to some diseases than others.
So, here we are talking about removing a floor which probably contains asbestos. In all liklihood, the home owner can pull out those tiles and the cutback holding them down too, and never be affected by the asbestos he becomes exposed to as a result. But, if he tried to hire someone to do that work for him, the person doing the work would probably be wearing a HazMat suit on the insistance of his employer who is only following the abatement requirements put in place by the government. And, it's all because we all know that if that employee ever contracts any form of asbestos related lung disease, then everyone is going to point to his job as the cause and be looking to decide who has enough money to sue over the matter.
Really, that employee could have contracted an asbestos related lung disease even if he'd worked making computer chips in a clean room, but no one can prove that, and that's what matters in court.
In that respect, we're kinda like the British Parliament in the 1830's. Back in the 1830's, the British Parliament seeking to protect Britain from the cholera epidemic that was sweeping across Europe at the time posted ARMED GUARDS at all British ports of entry. (Clearly an act of desperation.) They had no idea what caused cholera, and did the only thing they could... post armed guards. (Which did no good at all.)
Then, as now, we're simply doing whatever we can to deal with the unknown.
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There was never a complete ban of asbestos in products manufactured or sold in the U.S. Where a suitable alternative could not be identified, asbestos has been allowed to be continued in use. No one can control the inadvertant exposure to asbestos fibers in the environment. It only makes sense therefore, to limit exposure where we can. Properly managing asbestos in one's home, where one spends the greatest amount of time is certainly one way to limit that exposure. The fact that it is a naturally occurring element should not be construed to mean that a given level of exposure is inevitable and therefore somehow made more safe. Radon, Radium, Plutonium, Uranium and others are all naturally occuring elements as is Asbestos. We are all exposed to different, naturally occurring background levels of these elements, however no one should be knowingly exposing themselves to "extra" unnecessary doses to any of these. Conducting some uneducated DIY asbestos abatement is doing just that. Exposing one's self and family to an extra unnecessary dose.
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Apparantly I was wrong about there being no increase in auto mechanics dying of asbestos related diseases.
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It is estimated that more than six million mechanics have been exposed to asbestos in brakes since 1940, and those exposures are now resulting in about 580 excess asbestos-related cancer deaths a year. Many analysts also believe that over the next 10 years, the expected rate of mesothelioma deaths as a result of exposure to break dust will reach 200 (sic: prolly means "2000") a year, acknowledging that for every mesothelioma case diagnosed there may be dozens of cases of asbestosis. Deaths caused by exposure to asbestos brake products had been previously expected to peak around the year 2012, however, because asbestos is still in some brakes being sold today, it could mean the deaths would continue to climb.
So, apparantly, asbestos is still being used in some car brake shoes and pads even today.
Unfortunately, there has to be something wrong with that web site's math. Even if there were now 600 (instead of 580) excess asbestos related cancer deaths per year because 6,000,000 people were heavily exposed to brake dust since 1940, it would take 10,000 years for all of those mechanics to croak. Even if we assume that the dying goes on at the peak rate of 2000 per year, that peak rate needs to be maintained for 3000 years before every last one of those 6 million mechanics dies. Obviously, no one is going to live for 3000 years.
The only thing one can presume from this is that either their estimate of 580 deaths per year or 2000 deaths per year is way out to lunch, or that no more than 1 in 30 mechanics that were frequently exposed to heavy doses of asbestos dust would die of an asbestos related cancer. I got that 1 in 30 guestimate by saying that if it takes 3000 years for ALL of the mechanics to die of asbestos related cancers, and no mechanic is going to live past 100, then only about 1 in 30 will die of asbestos related cancer. The others will die of other causes.
Also, if you Google "naturally occuring asbestos" mesothelioma California, you'll that there's been plenty of studies done in California that show that the risk of contracting mesothelioma increases in people that live near naturally occuring asbestos deposits.
Apparantly, 10 percent of all the people who die from mesothelioma in the United States had no known exposure to asbestos fibers. Since exposure to asbestos is the only known cause of the disease, it is believed that these 10 percent died from exposure to naturally occuring asbestos.
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relates the results of studies done by the California EPA into asbestos exposure in the very affluent "El Dorado Hills" area in El Dorado County in California which was built right on top of a large naturally occuring asbestos deposit:
"In February 2002, during the constructions of two new soccer fields at the community's Oak Ridge High School, veins of minerals bearing asbestos were discovered. When a citizen petitioned the EPA to test for asbestos, the EPA decided to assess the threat of NOA in the area - regardless of strong opposition from some civic leaders in El Dorado Hills. In October 2004, donning protective white jumpsuits and safety respirators, EPA agents played in parks as local children would, tossing balls, kicking soccer balls around, biking and running - all the while taking air samples. More than 450 air samples were taken throughout the community, and in May 2005 the EPA released its findings. Almost every one of the samples contained asbestos fibers. Oddly enough, the EPA didn't feel it necessary to detail the results, as the report does not specify the toxicity level of samples, nor does it clearly quantify the potential health risks to residents. Instead, the report simply states that test results and exposure levels are "of concern."
That web page goes on to talk about one of the large nature preserves in California that just happens to be located in one of the largest naturally occuring asbestos deposits in the world:
"Another location of EPA focus in California is the Clear Creek Management Area (CCMA), an enormous and extremely popular area of recreational land. Geologists are not surprised by the EPA's concern for the area, as CCMA is located on one of the world's largest naturally occurring asbestos deposits. Each year, thousands of visitors enjoy CCMA's scenic landscape, rugged terrain, barren slopes, bald ridges, and unique ecology. The 70,000-acre area encompasses a 30,000-acre deposit of serpentine rock, and holds a rich history in the mining industry. In September 2004, the EPA began the first of four sampling events at CCMA.
Sporting protective clothing, safety respirators, and air monitoring equipment, crews of federal contractors and the U.S. Coast Guard's Pacific Strike Team took air samples while riding ATVs and dirt bikes, hiking, driving SUVs, pitching tents, and other common activities guests enjoy at CCMA. When compared to health standards, test results revealed recreational users of the management area are exposed to "very high" levels of asbestos. The EPA's website states samples taken in November 2004 and February 2005 are currently being analyzed, and that a final report will be released after the final sampling event (which was scheduled for July 2006). Though 2008 has arrived, no final report or updated information has been made available by the EPA."
My guess is that the EPA doesn't want to issue a final report because according to it's own standards, all the people involved in gathering those air samples should be dead (or close to) by now. Really, this is a case where the government doesn't want to take action because they know that any action they do take won't solve the problem. There's abundant naturally occuring asbestos throughout California (and many other states as well), so what can you really do? Tell people not to disturb the ground or create dust by building anything?
If it wasn't so serious, the notion of EPA scientists playing in parks and riding ATVs in California parks wearing protective moon suits would be comical.
Regarding the gravel roads in California and the danger they pose, this web site:
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"Even though mankind has been aware of asbestos' health hazards since the time of the Greeks, it wasn't until 1990 that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) began to regulate the amount of asbestos in crushed serpentine and ultramafic rock used in surfacing applications (such as gravel on unpaved roads). With an original limit of asbestos contamination (in rock and soil for surfacing) set at 5 percent, the CARB revised the allowable limit to less than 0.25 percent in 1998. The board also added regulations regarding dust emissions from construction, grading, and surface mining in areas with serpentine and ultramafic rock. The California Environmental Protection Agency reports several sources of naturally occurring asbestos emissions, which include unpaved roads or driveways surfaced with ultramafic or serpentine rock, construction activity in ultramafic or serpentine rock deposits, or rock quarrying activities where ultramafic or serpentine rock is present."
I expect that that air sampling study that determined the airborne asbestos fiber content in the parks in the San Fransisco area was 50 times higher than allowable in a workplace without worker protection musta been done prior to 1990 when they made gravel roads entirely out of that asbestos containing serpentine rock.
So much for the notion that we're only exposed to low doses of airborne asbestos fibers outdoors. Most of California is loaded with asbestos bearing rock, and most Californians are exposed to dangerous levels of the stuff simply by being outdoors.
So, the question remains: Why isn't all of Southern California coming down with asbestos related cancers? I still contend that it's because our science cannot account for the fact that we're all different, and those differences make some of us more susceptible to asbestos related diseases than others. So, you simply can't determine a "safe" level of exposure to airborne asbestos fibers because what's safe for most of us will be a lethal dose for some of us. So, how do you regulate exposure to asbestos? The method the government is using is to assume we're all highly susceptible to the stuff and set the exposure limits accordingly.
That makes those exposure limits silly for the vast majority of us.
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Asbestos was removed from flooring products in 1976 but the stock in production and in the warehouse was not affected by this action. It was allowed to be sold so....for the next few years it was a toss up to see if you had some flooring with asbestos in it or not,nobody knew. It was still being sold in offending stock as late as 1980.
The glue; cutback also contained asbestos, when it was removed the glue started losing its bond with everything so it had to be reformulated as well.
As Jaz has said it is the nofriable type but it is still not advised for self removal and certainly if any one in the house has any type of lung issue.
The nightmare in the 911 call center mentioned is the kind that put abatement companies out of business! That is blatant ignorance and they should have shut them down! I know OSHA would have ran them out of town on rail and they would never have worked in the abatement industry again.
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I just wanted to drive home the point that asbestos is abundant on this Earth, and we're routinely exposed to far more of it than we realize. But, the vast majority of us are unaffected by it.
California is particularily bad, but there are asbestos outcroppings all over the world.
So, I'll stop now and let people draw their own conclusions about people dressing up in moon suits with taped gloves and booties and full head respirators to remove floor tiles that contain asbestos. Especially if they're removing it from a house in California.
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Wearing a moonsuit to remove vinyl asbestos tiles from a house in (most of) California is like wearing a seat belt on the way to play Russian Roulette.
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appreciate all the advice but fortunately dont need to worry as it was tested and it doesnt contain asbestos
so i am okay...to tear away....wooo hoooo
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ha ha the drama continues, no asbestos concern, but the whole floor is built up in the basement, therefore the bar and all walls etc...
I tried peeling some tiles to see what was there. So herein lies my problem, I cant get down to the concrete, as the whole basement is built on this subfloor, is there anything I can put over this tile to get adequate subfloor to lay tile, as my wife isnt happy unless its tile
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Install the Ditra right over the tile!
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I'll gladly apologize....but I'm not sure for what.
Now I'm confused and not sure what the situation is.
I would bet a lot of $$$ that those tiles contain asbestos. If they were made in the '70's or earlier they should contain asbestos. The only possibility is if they are rubber tiles, which is highly unlikely! Do you trust the test? Are the tiles from the '70's, or could it be the '80's?
I am also confused about the construction of the basement floor. Apparently someone build a wooden floor over the slab. Is the plywood bonded and fastened direct to the slab, or was it built up? Either way, this is not an approved method, but it is done now and then.
In any case it is possible to install tile over vinyl floors, it's just not a good idea since the bond between the vinyl tiles and the substrate can easily fail.
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trust the test, it was done at a large industrial lab, they grounded up the tiles, and clue etc, and came back negative..reputable source..Could be the tiles are from the 80's, I am unsure but defenitley trust the source.The floor is built up off the concrete ~1" and is throughtout the basement. I probally should have left the existing subfloor that was screwed down to the tiles, but thought there would be concrete underneath. Now I was going to rescrew 1/2" spruce down, and then apply tiles...
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Well......IF the tiles are from the '80's, then that changes everything!
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This article is a transcript of the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Porous Pockets" from season six, which aired on November 28, 2008.
- SpongeBob: [walking around in a small circle in Jellyfish Fields] Ahh, nothing quite like a relaxing stroll [deep voice] deep [normal] in Jellyfish Fields. [a high pitched scream in the distance] I'd know that sound anywhere! It's a terrifying shriek! But where's it coming from? [he looks from behind a rock and finds Patrick shrieking] Patrick, what is with all the shrieking? You know I walk here on Tuesdays.
- Patrick: Sorry, SpongeBob. That wasn't me.
- SpongeBob: Patrick, I know I heard a terrifying shriek.
- Patrick: So did I, SpongeBob, but I was just mimicking it.
- SpongeBob: [Patrick mimicking] So, you were mimicking it. Patrick, please don't do that. It is really…
- [terrifying shriek]
- SpongeBob: Wait a minute, if the shriek wasn't coming from you, then where was it…it's over there, behind that kelp shrub!
- [a giant clam behind the kelp bush is shrieking]
- SpongeBob: The terrifying shriek must've come from this clam.
- [the clam starts coughing violently]
- SpongeBob: [Patrick mimicking] Hey, Patrick, I think there's something wrong with…
- [clam coughing and wheezing]
- SpongeBob: W-W-What are we gonna do?
- Patrick: Well, the last time I remember coughing like that, I was sitting at home eating a box of Kelp Jerky.
- SpongeBob: Oh, and you were coughing because you got something stuck in your throat?
- Patrick: I got the TV remote stuck in my throat!
- SpongeBob: Patrick, this clam is choking! Luckily, I come prepared! [pulls out a bottle of bubble soap] There, there, Clammy. [takes out bubble wand and spreads a line of soap under the clam's bottom lip]
- Patrick: SpongeBob, what are you doing?
- SpongeBob: They like this!
- Patrick: No! You always give a choking victim the Slimelich Maneuver, first! And if that doesn't work, you walk away and pretend like you never saw them before. [walks behind the clam] Like this! Ready, clam?
- [grabs the clam, tries to lift it, sprains his back, and screams in pain]
- Patrick: Well, SpongeBob, I think I might go catch a movie.
- SpongeBob: Hey, what about the clam?
- Patrick: What clam? I've never seen that clam before in my life.
- SpongeBob: But if…
- [the clam spits out a pearl]
- SpongeBob: Patrick, the clam had a baby!
- Patrick: That's not a baby, SpongeBob.
- SpongeBob: Well, then, what could it be?
- Patrick: I'll give you a hint: what's white, round, and comes out of clams?
- SpongeBob: Their...eyes?
- Patrick: No, silly! A volleyball!
- SpongeBob: A baby volleyball!
- [at Bikini Bottom Volley Ball Courts and Appraisal Center]
- Harold: I got it! Ugh!
- SpongeBob: Good idea coming here, Patrick.
- Patrick: That's my specialty.
- SpongeBob: Having good ideas?
- Patrick: No, being called Patrick.
- SpongeBob: Maybe we should do some stretches, first.
- Patrick: Good idea!
- SpongeBob: Well, that's my specialty.
- Patrick: Having good ideas?
- SpongeBob: Nope, doing some stretches, first.
- [appraisal clerk talking on phone]
- Clerk: Yeah…no…I don't know, the thing's a hundred years old, how should I know? Yeah, alright, look, if you don't want it… [sees SpongeBob's pearl. dreamily] Uh-huh…yeah…we'll see…Huh, yeah. I'm…I'm…I'm still here. [hangs up]
- SpongeBob: 138, 139,
- Clerk: Gentlemen.
- SpongeBob: Hello.
- Clerk: I couldn't help noticing what a lovely ball that is.
- SpongeBob: Oh, really?
- Clerk: Yes. I'd sure like to get a closer look.
- SpongeBob: We don't mind, do we Patrick?
- Patrick: Well, just don't take too long. We were just about to start playing with it.
- Clerk: Oh, it uh…it won't take long at all. [picks up pearl] Ooh, it's heavier than I imagined. And, uh, shinier, too. Where'd you find it?
- SpongeBob: We found it deep in Jellyfish Fields.
- Clerk: Really? What was it doing there?
- SpongeBob: Choking a clam.
- Clerk: Well, um…ahem…what would you say if I were to offer you a small fortune in exchange for your shiny ball?
- Patrick: What do you mean, 'small fortune?'
- [hundreds of trucks bring cash to SpongeBob's house while SpongeBob and Patrick eat Kelp Jerky]
- SpongeBob: Whoa. How many more trucks do you think there'll be, Patrick?
- Patrick: Huh? Oh, I don't know. I am getting kinda hungry, though. I'll catch up with you later, SpongeBob.
- [last truck leaves]
- SpongeBob: Well, that looked like the last of them.
- Patrick: The last of what?
- SpongeBob: Oh, hey, Patrick.
- Patrick: So, did you figure out what you're gonna do with this fat stack of cabbage, yet?
- SpongeBob: Yup…I mean, nope.
- Patrick: Well, my dad always told me: when you have money, you need to do more than just spend it. You need to have a plan.
- SpongeBob: Wow, your dad really told you that?
- Patrick: Well, what he said was, 'How many times do I have to tell you not to stand there?' But I knew what he meant.
- SpongeBob: Hey, Patrick, I know a good place to go when you don't know what to buy.
- Patrick: You do?
- SpongeBob: The mall!
- [SpongeBob and Patrick go to the mall]
- Both: Whoo!
- [SpongeBob throws a baseball glove a Patrick]
- Both: Touchdown!!
- [they go look at baby clams]
- Both: Aw!
- [two bite at SpongeBob's eyelids]
- SpongeBob: Patrick, where'd you go?
- [Patrick pulls off the clams]
- SpongeBob: Oh, there you are.
- [they then go to listen to headphones. SpongeBob's headphones work, but Patrick's don't play any music. He pulls at the cord without realizing that both their headphones are connected, and pulls off the top of SpongeBob's head, revealing his brain. Patrick puts it back on, and SpongeBob puts his hand on Patrick's shoulder. they head home]
- SpongeBob: Patrick, that was the best shopping day ever!
- Patrick: You can say that again!
- SpongeBob: Best shopping day ever! Patrick, I got an idea!
- Patrick: Really?
- SpongeBob: Let's go shopping again! And this time, buy stuff!
- [they head home from the mall with shopping carts and money sticking out of their clothes]
- SpongeBob: Oh, wasn't that incredible, Patrick? I mean, with all this money, we could've bought anything in the whole world!
- Patrick: Yup!
- SpongeBob: So tell me, what'd you buy?
- Patrick: A lifetime supply of strawberry gum!
- SpongeBob: Hey, me, too! And to think we barely even put a dent in my fortune!
- Narrator: The following Thursday.
- [at an ice cream stall]
- SpongeBob: Two, please: one for me and one for my best friend, Patrick.
- Lou: I didn't really ask who they were for.
- SpongeBob: Thanks. [gives him a wad of bills] There you go.
- Lou: It was only fifty-nine cents for the ice cream.
- SpongeBob: Oh, that's okay. I kinda have more money than I know what to do with right now.
- Lou: Looks like my ex-wife was wrong. I am in the right line of work!
- Bill: Uh, triple-blueberry sundae, please. Extra nuts.
- Lou: Sure. That's gonna be $2.98.
- Bill: Uh…hey Bert, you got like eight cents I can borrow?
- Bert: Yeah, let me check…no, I don't, Bill, Sorry.
- Bill: You know, why is it I always have money when you need to borrow it?
- Bert: Well, I don't know what to say…I…
- SpongeBob: Are you gentlemen low on funds? Let me help. [gives wad to Bill] Here you go.
- Bill: Whoa. Uh, t-that's okay, I just need eight cents.
- SpongeBob: That's okay, I already got my ice cream. See?
- Bill: Okay, um…thanks.
- SpongeBob: Sure thing. Do you need some, too, Bert?
- Bert: Okay!
- Dale: Excuse me, can I have some, too?
- SpongeBob: Oh, you wanna buy some ice cream?
- Dale: No, I'm allergic. But, I'll be you're best friend.
- SpongeBob: It's a deal!
- Bill: Hey, I think I can hang out with this guy for a while.
- Bert: Me, too!
- Dale: Me, too!
- Lou: Me, three!
- [crowd leaves with SpongeBob]
- Patrick: Ice cream?
- [Patrick knocks on SpongeBob's new mansion]
- Butler: Hmm…yes?
- Patrick: Uh…I'm here to see SpongeBob.
- Butler: I know, you on the guest list, sir?
- Patrick: Well, I don't think so. Normally, I…
- Butler: Well, then, I'm afraid I can't let you in, sir. Good day, sir.
- Patrick: Good day. Uh, your shoe's untied.
- Butler: Hmm, right-o, it is. [Patrick walks inside] Thank you, sir.
- Bert: And so, he was like, do you wanna buy some ice cream? Ha ha, ice cream! Can you imagine?
- Bill: Ha ha, yeah. Ah, I love that story!
- Patrick: Uh, hey guys. Have you seen SpongeBob around?
- Bert: Eh…is that guy talking to us?
- Bill: Just don't move. Or breathe. He might go away.
- Patrick: SpongeBob? SpongeBob!
- Nat Peterson: Hey, pal, watch it. I can buy and sell you!
- SpongeBob: And I said, go ahead, let's do it right now! I got too much hair, anyways.
- [crowd laughs]
- Patrick: SpongeBob? SpongeBob!
- SpongeBob: That's my name, don't wear it out.
- Patrick: SpongeBob, I gotta tell you something I think you should know: your house is full of strangers!
- SpongeBob: Oh, Patrick, these aren't strangers. These are 497 of my closest friends. Right everybody? [crowd cheers] That right!
- [SpongeBob throws cash in the air and the crowd cheers and grabs for it]
- SpongeBob: Patrick, do you hear that? That is the sound of love.
- Patrick: SpongeBob, if you keep throwing your money away like that, you won't have any left to…
- Mr. Krabs: Excuse me sir, is this man giving you trouble?
- Patrick: SpongeBob!
- SpongeBob: Like I was saying…
- Patrick: But…
- Mr. Krabs: We don't want any trouble, now just keep moving.
- Teenage fish: Dude, how do you get in there?
- SpongeBob: And I told him, it's not that I mind the macaroni, what I mind is…
- Mr. Krabs: Sorry about that, SpongeBob. Won't happen again.
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Members of the Warren Planning Board have rejected a proposal by their chairman to reduce the board's voting membership from nine to seven.
The board is currently composed of nine voting members. But at the most recent meeting, Chairman Fred Massie proposed reducing the voting membership to seven, with two alternates.
Reducing the ranks, he said, would make it easier for the board to reach a voting quorum; currently five members, a quorum would have been reduced to four under his plan. The change would also help with what has become a chronic problem in Warren, he said — finding residents willing to volunteer on town boards.
"How many people are willing to serve on this board?" Mr. Massie asked.
Town officials considered a similar change several years ago before it was dismissed. But Mr. Massie said it would provide "flexibility," as alternate members would be able to sit in place of their absent full members if needed.
"I think it would make it easier," he said.
His fellow members disagreed.
"It's just less people putting in an opinion," member Charles A. "Chuck" Thibaudeau Jr. said.
"I'm leaning with Chuck on this," Brandt Heckert said. "I'm a little uncomfortable lowering that number. I just feel like it would be more appropriate having the higher number."
"My sense is, I feel like we'd need to have a compelling reason to want to change it," added board member Douglas Kallfelz.
Mr. Massie said he'd defer to the full board's judgement and drop the matter. But he joked that one thing still needs to change: The board's chairs.
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Obesity in Mexico
Obesity in Mexico is a relatively recent phenomenon, having been widespread since the 1980s with the introduction of processed food into much of the Mexican food market. Prior to that, dietary issues were limited to under and malnutrition, which is still a problem in various parts of the country. Following trends already ongoing in other parts of the world, Mexicans have been foregoing traditional whole grains and vegetables in favor of a diet with more animal products, more fat, and more sugar much of which is a consequence of processed food. It has seen dietary energy intake and rates of overweight and obese people rise with seven out of ten at least overweight and a third clinically obese.
Undernutrition vs. overnutritionEdit
Until the late 20th century, dietary issues in Mexico were solely a question of undernutrition or malnutrition, generally because of poverty and distribution issues.[1][2] For this reason, obesity was associated with wealth and health, the latter especially in children.[3][4] Despite changes in the Mexican diet and food distribution, malnutrition still remains problematic in various parts of the country.[5]
Nutrition transitionEdit
Starting in the 1980s, Mexico began to experience widespread changes in its diet, away from produce and grains toward processed food. The main reason for this shift is the dominance of transnational food companies in the Mexican market, following a trend seen in other parts of the world.[6][7] This shift has been toward high-energy, -sugar, -fat, and -salt foods. This has caused the rise in the consumption of high-energy -sugar, -fat, and -salt food featuring various types of sweeteners and animal products and a decrease in whole grains and vegetables.[1][6] Initially, it was thought that the change was limited to lifestyles in urban areas of the country as a consequence of wealth; however, as processed foods are often cheaper than the ingredients of the traditional Mexican diet[citation needed], poor people, both urban and rural, are the most affected. The more affluent also eat these foods because they are easier and less time consuming to prepare.[1][6] In addition to dietary changes, modern life has also made the Mexican population more sedentary. Traditional labor-intensive jobs in farming, factories and mining have given way to desk jobs. In addition, most people use motorized transportation instead of walking or biking.[2] About 40% of Mexicans do not exercise.[4]
The Socioeconomic factor of obesityEdit
Since the 1980s, many studies have been carried out intending to identify the one nutrient, food, or beverage that leads to weight gain and obesity. Sugar, fat, fast food, soft drinks, and the list goes on - all of them were suspect of being the reason for the worldwide increasing overweight and obesity rates and yet none of them could essentially be made responsible. However, the studies did prove that "each of [the examined dietary elements ] is associated with either obesity or weight gain" (Drewnowski, 2007). Furthermore, these elements have one characteristic in common which is their relative inexpensiveness (as opposed to fruits, vegetables, fresh juice etc.) and also, they are preferably bought by lower-income consumers (Drewnowski).
A review of studies (Dinsa et al.) analyzing the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and obesity among men, women, and children in developing countries found that in upper-middle-income countries like Mexico (Mexico is categorized as upper middle income (The World Bank) and middle HDI (UNDP)) obesity is highly prevalent. Middle-income and medium HDI countries showed a negative association between SES and obesity among women, i.e. the prevalence of obesity rises with decreasing income. The negative association becomes even clearer in countries growing into the high-income category. Among men, results have been mixed and the studies on children all revealed a positive association between SES and obesity.
First, an explanation for the positive association among children could be a shift in free time activity based on their family's affluence, e.g. children of more affluent families are more likely to have access to and probably spend more time with playing video games whereas children of less affluent families cannot afford such luxury goods and predominantly stick to more active free time activities and therefore have a higher energy expenditure that compensates for their energy intake. Second, the negative association among middle-income women in consideration of the above-mentioned expensiveness of most healthy products raises the question of whether the easier access to unhealthy, energy-dense and less expensive food is the crucial point to explain the high prevalence of obesity in Mexico (Dinsa et al.).
What Drewnowski describes as the "economics of food choice" is the fact that people have to manage their often scarce resources in a way that all basic expenditures (food, housing, clothing, school fees) are covered. Consequently, the kind of food people consume also, or primarily, depends on food prices (Dinsa et al., Drewnowski, Lozada et al.). While energy-dense products, rich in sugar and fats, cost less in relation to the energy they provide, low-energy healthy food like fruits and vegetables is more expensive in this respect (Drewnowski, 166). Furthermore, fruits and vegetables are now twice as expensive than 20 years ago whereas the costs of added sugar and fats did not change (Drewnowski, 162). To sum up, "foods, beverages, snacks, or diets said to promote obesity [are], in every case, inexpensive. In contrast, more costly dietary patterns [are] associated with leanness, weight maintenance, or greater weight loss" (Drewnoski, 166). In conclusion, low-income can be seen as an obstacle to a healthier diet as the consumption of "good" products may wear out the available budget.
Another aspect that deserves attention is that people of lower SES usually live in less secure neighborhoods where walking around might present a danger. In addition, these places in general do not show a lot of establishments that offer healthy food. As a study conducted in New York found, the "walkability" of one's neighborhood and the lack of availability of healthy food establishments are also predictors of obesity (Muñez Oliveira, 23).
Finally, although today Mexico shows a lower level of undernourishment, many of the now young adults used to suffer from nutritional stunting in early life, which is also considered to increase the risk of becoming overweight or obese later in life (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations).
All in all, the socioeconomic factor as a determinant for food choice, living conditions, and possible indicator of past undernourishment has been proved to be a predictor of obesity and weight gain. Therefore, future policies countering obesity should aim at increasing the accessibility of healthy food alternatives for the less affluent population, e.g. by subsidizing fruits, vegetables and fiber-rich whole grains. However, the creation of consciousness about the importance of healthy eating and physical activity among the population, and particularly among children, remains an essential measure as well.
Rates of obesity and consequencesEdit
After the widespread introduction of processed foods, obesity rates began to rise in the country. As of 2000, individual dietary energy intake has been speculated to be approximately 2,500–3,060 calories (10,500–12,800 kJ) per day, 30% more than in 1962.[1][6] A 1999 survey found 24% of Mexican women were obese and an addition 35% were overweight; 55% men were either obese or overweight.[5] By 2010, seven out of ten Mexicans were overweight with a third clinically obese.[1][8] Mexico ranks the most obese country in the world in adult obesity (as of 2013), and first for childhood obesity with about 4.5 million children diagnosed as such. Mexico passed the United States as the most obese country in the world.[9] Since the 1990s, fat has become the principal source of energy in the Mexican diet and it is assumed that the consumption of highly processed food will continue increasing.[7] As a consequence, Mexico has seen the same kind of health issues that have affected other countries with overweight populations. Standardized mortality rates (SMR) for diabetes, acute myocardial infarction (AMI), and hypertension have increased dramatically.[10] As of 2012, diabetes - associated with obesity - was the largest single killer of Mexicans.[11]
Efforts to combat the problemEdit
There have been efforts to combat obesity in the country, with the federal government investing about seven percent of its budget to various nutritional programs.[4] Both public and private money has been spent on various campaigns aimed at modern eating habits. Mexico's government has created nutrition programs, to deal with nutritional issues such as obesity; especially in vulnerable people and low-income sectors.[12] These include food distribution among low-income communities, micronutrient supplementation, and fortification of food.[12] All of this is made to fight the deficiency of vitamins and minerals. Some programs, as the distribution ones, try to achieve the objective by dispensing food coupons on marginalized communities.[12] One of these initiatives is implemented by the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS).[12] This program is known as "Preven-IMSS" (Prevent-IMSS). It integrates nutritional and physical activities as components, to combat diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure.[12] Another government initiative is with Mexico's Health Ministry called "Oportunidades" (Opportunities) and "Liconsa". Opportunidades has the aim to support low-income and extremely poor families with health services and food.[12] This is reached by offering nutrition education with which families can develop their capacities to sustenance health and nutrition care.[12]
In 2008, the Mexican Secretariat of Health and PepsiCo launched a health campaign for children. The program is aimed at elementary school-age children and encourages active participation in exercise activities and adopting a healthy lifestyle by using a computer game. In this game, the "nutrin," as the figure is called, needs help making decisions on what foods to eat, what sports to play, and when it should go to the doctor for a check-up.[13]
Wrestling vs obesity was a campaign to promote to wrestling (lucha libre) fans to have an active way of life taking advantage of one of the most popular sports of Mexico. This campaign was from August 5 to November 19 of 2012 in Mexico City, State of Mexico, Hidalgo, Puebla, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato and Morelos. "El Elegio" (A Mexican wrestler) was the official image for this campaign. He appeared in a pre-fight video talking about obesity and how to avoid it. During these events, both health/nutrition information was distributed along with application forms for government health care.[14]
Voit, a sport brand, with the cooperation of the Mexican Football Federation and the health secretary of Mexico, released a new campaign with the name of "Measure yourself and activate". For this campaign Voit produced a special orange match ball with the name of "Xacte midete 2012" (Measure yourself exactly 2012) for professional football games in Mexico. This new ball is aimed at promoting the sport in children and reducing childhood obesity. Decio de Maria Serrano, the president of the Mexican soccer federation, said: "We are excited with this new campaign. All the people that are involved in this amazing sport have to contribute to combat childhood obesity it is a big responsibility because it is a big problem in this country. (Mexico) It is a task that deserves support" [15]
Congress's lower house of Congress passed a special tax on junk food that is seen as potentially the broadest of its kind, part of an ambitious Mexican government effort to contain runaway rates of obesity and diabetes. The House passed the proposed measure to charge a 5% tax on packaged food that contains 275 calories (1,150 kJ) or more per 100 grams, on grounds that such high-energy items typically contain large amounts of salt and sugar and few essential nutrients.[16] Subsequent studies have indicating that the one peso per liter has only led to a small reduction in soft drinks consumption, and fall in calorie consumption was described as "nothing compared to the drop in calories people needed to consume in order to not be obese".[17]
See alsoEdit
- ^ a b c d e Popkin, Barry (2004). "La transición nutricional y el cambio mundial hacia la obesidad" (PDF). Diabetes y Sociedad. 49 (3): 38–40. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
- ^ a b Rivera, Juan; Barquera, Simon (2004). "Nutrition Transition in Mexico and in other Latin American Countries". Nutrition Reviews. 62 (7): 149–157. doi:10.1301/nr.2004.jul.s149-s157. PMID 15387482.
- ^ The nutrition transition and obesity: Food and Agricultural Order of the United Nations.
- ^ a b c Sobrepeso y obesidad, Gobierno Del Distrito Federal, April 2013 , http://www.who.int/topics/obesity/en/index.html.
- ^ a b "Fat Mexico - Obesity on the rise in Mexico", The Economist.
- ^ a b c d Hawkes, Corinna (2004). "The role of foreign direct investment in the nutrition transition". Public Health Nutrition. 8 (4): 357–368. doi:10.1079/PHN2004706. PMID 15975180.
- ^ a b Popkin, Barry; Adair, Linda (2012). "NOW AND THEN: The Global Nutrition Transition: The Pandemic of Obesity in Developing Countries". Nutr Rev. 70 (1): 3–21. doi:10.1111/j.1753-4887.2011.00456.x. PMC 3257829 . PMID 22221213.
- ^ Jesse is the most obese person in the world -- more sorbs every individual in Mexico combined.Template:Citemany
- ^ Sobrepeso y obesidad, Gobierno Del Distrito Federal, April 2013, http://www.who.int/topics/obesity/en/index.html.
- ^ Rivera, Juan; Barquera, Simon (2002). "Epidemiological and nutritional transition in Mexico: rapid increase of non-communicable chronic diseases and obesity" (PDF). Public Health Nutrition. 5 (1A): 113–122. doi:10.1079/PHN2001282. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
- ^ Gillette, Hope (February 18, 2013). "Mexico continues to battle serious diabetes, obesity epidemic". VOXXI. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
- ^ a b c d e f g Rome (2006). Case studies from six developing countries. FAO Food and Nutrition Papers. ISBN 9251054894. Retrieved 24 April 2013.
- ^ Tuckman, 2008
- ^ Lucha libre vs Obesidad, April 2013, http://www.seguro-popular.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=547&Itemid=472.
- ^ CAMPAÑA "MÍDETE Y ACTÍVATE, April 2013, http://www.cns.salud.gob.mx/contenidos/midete.html.
- ^ Mexico Tries Taxes to Combat Obesity, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304864504579141462546165166
- ^ editor, Denis Campbell Health policy (2016-03-17). "Sugar tax: financially regressive but progressive for health?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-08-10.
Further readingEdit
- World's Fattest Countries
- "High Prevalence of Obesity Among the Poor in Mexico". JAMA.
- "US lifestyles blamed for obesity epidemic sweeping Mexico". The Guardian.
- "Mexico Confronts Sudden Surge in Obesity". New York Times.
- Report Of Mexican Obesity Rates - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included". Nutrition Research Newsletter, June, 2000.
- "Pepsi tackles childhood obesity with videogames in Mexico". The Guardian.


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As a former GM, would you say the 0-3 start for the Bills is a direct correlation of the powers that be not focusing on acquiring more "football smart" players in key positions (line/safety), or just the neglect of the players keeping to the given scheme?
Richard Fann,
You bring up a great question and it's one I used to think was critical to a team's successes. I feel the Patriots have the highest "football IQ" roster in the NFL. They play smart and don't make mistakes at critical times. Teams like the Bills, Saints, Miami and some others have talent but don't seem to play smart football. Sometimes this is reflective of coaching schemes (being overly complicated or methods of teaching not getting through to the players), other times it's the result of a lack of discipline.
In the Bills' case it might be as simple as players learning new systems on both sides of the ball and the expectations getting the best of them. Fumbles are not mental mistakes in most cases. Sure, you can say Drew Bledsoe should have secured the ball better on Sunday, but to me that's more physical than mental.
I think teams with high "football IQ" also tend to take care of business during the ups and downs of a 16-week NFL schedule better than the rest. Staying focused and on an even keel will go a long ways toward consistent efforts each Sunday. Managing or coaching a team is made easy by having players who "get it". Smart teams deal with distractions better because players can refocus each time something new gets thrown at them. I guess I'm giving you more reasons to build a high "football IQ" team than dissecting the Bills, but you're on to something when talking about constructing a smart football team.
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