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"I guess it was a good series for us," said Emeralds second baseman Eric Sogard. "We came out on top, but we really would have liked to get this game today."
Sogard went 1-for-3 with two runs scored in the offensive exhibit
"It's tough when we have to go out there as an offense and put up 10 to win, but hopefully our pitching will come around and shut them down a little better," Sogard said.
Before the three game series against Vancouver, the Emeralds' pitching staff had been the envy of the Northwest League. The team combined to sport a 2.41 ERA, easily the best mark in the team's history. Since the offensive barrage against the Canadians, the Emeralds' team ERA has swelled to 2.73. The pitching staff still leads the NWL in this category, though a jump of 0.3 over a quarter of the way through the season is considerable.
The Canadians got the jump on Ems early on Monday, collecting five runs in the second and third inning against starting pitcher Matt Teague, doubling his season total of five earned runs to 10. Corey Brown attacked first with a deep two-run bomb to right field that landed just to the left of the scoreboard. Daniel Hamblin next got the drop on Teague, sending a three-run blast to the opposite side of the field to increase the Canadians' lead to 5-0.
"They came out swinging the bat well today," Sogard said.
The Emeralds did not stand idly by, however, and answered back against Leonardo Martinez in the bottom of the inning. Justin Baum hit a two-run double to center field that scored Robbie Blauer and Luis Durango. Baum finished the day as the Ems' most impressive offensive player, going 3-for-5 with three RBIs and two runs scored.
Vancouver attacked again in the fifth as Hamblin and Brown each hit RBI singles against Dustin Gibbs to bring the score to 7-2.
Once again, the Emeralds struck back in the bottom of the inning. Baum drove in Durango for a second time and Keith Conlon drove in Sogard in the ensuing at-bat. After Scott Hodsdon replaced Leonardo Martinez, Luis Martinez hit a sacrifice fly to score Baum and end the scoring run.
The Emeralds came back to tie the game up at seven runs apiece when Luis Martinez and Danny Payne each drove in runs against Hodsdon in the seventh, but the tie was short lived. The Canadians poured on three runs over the next two innings against Colt Hynes and Jackson Quezada. Payne hit an RBI line drive in the ninth to spark a potential comeback, but the rally died when Justin Pickett was called out on strikes with two runners on to end the game.
Despite the high score, the Emeralds' pitching staff managed to ring up 15 strikeouts on the day, led by Matt Latos' four in 1.2 innings of work. Latos was the only pitcher that did not give up a run on the day.


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" Author: Ruth Rendell / Format: Paperback / Date of publication: 04 July 2013 / Genre: Crime & Thriller / Publisher: Cornerstone / Title: The Saint Zita Society / ISBN 13: 9780099571032 / ISBN 10: 0099571032 / Alternative EAN: 9780091944049 "
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I love Ruth Rendell writing style and reading this book only confirmed the fact she is probably my favorite writer of crime/fiction books, I've read most of them and also read the books she writes under the pseudonym of Barbara Wine.
Ruth is brilliant at describing personalities at the point that after reading the book they almost seem real persons. It helps of course the fact that I live in London and most of her books describe familiar places and street. In this specific novel there is a character ( a Spanish kind of house keeper ) that in fact reminded me of someone I've actually met!This is the type of book you better start reading at the weekend because you will not be able to put it down until is finished.
The story is about the ins and outs of a group of apparently totally normal people that live average life and at a certain point become involved with a crime; this is a recurrent pattern in all her books and is exactly why she is so brilliant; she makes crime appear like an ordinary thing that can happen to anyone, just like drinking a cup of tea.
I also like the fact she doesn't use crude language; if you like crime books that talk about blood and dead corpses and violence this is not the book for you.
Available from: I've bought it on Amazon but also seen in WH Smith
Price: £12.15

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Recycling workers are at high risk of injury and illness in California," says Valeria Velazquez, Coordinator of Public Programs at UC Berkeley's Labor Occupational Health Program. Dirty syringes, asbestos, lead, rat feces, fire arms, and even a grenade are just a few of the nasty surprises in recycling waste that Velazquez became aware of during LOHP's training campaign designed to improve the safety of recycling workers in Alameda County.
Funded by a federal grant from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Suzanne Teran, Valeria Velazquez and Leonor Dionne from LOHP trained over 150 workers from four recycling facilities in partnership with International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 6.
"You name it, these workers probably face it," says Velazquez. Although recycling plants contain a wide range of hazardous equipment and materials, LOHP's team and Agustin Ramirez, their ILWU collaborator, narrowed their focus to three of the most severe: the inhalation of dust and other harmful particles in the air, ergonomic issues stemming from long periods of standing and sorting recyclable materials on the conveyer belt, and blood borne pathogens from cuts or needle prick injuries.
Materials were developed in English and Spanish, and the courses were presented in Spanish.
"For every training, there was an intentional effort to plan for action using the information we imparted," says Velazquez. For example, at each of the nine sessions, workers said conveyer belt speed was a top safety issue. "If it's too fast, they can't see what they're sorting through and more likely to touch something hazardous," explains Velazquez. After training with LOHP and ILWU, Velazquez received feedback that workers stepped up their use of the conveyer's emergency stop button to prevent injury. "Companies have been responsive and have moved immediately to discuss solutions," added Velazquez.
Their goal is to leverage their training investment with a "train the trainer" program. With funding to continue their training for another year, LOHP and ILWU plan to coach twenty-five employees to become leaders in health and safety, engaging coworkers and participating on committees.
Californians are known to do their part in keeping recyclable waste out of landfills. "We have embraced recycling as a community that cares about the earth, but people assume the work is done by sorting machines and don't see the human face," noted Velazquez. "As a result of this campaign, I think we are beginning to not only associate environmental benefits with recycling, but also the issues impacting vulnerable workers."
Learn more about LOHP.
Read the new training guide:
English Version: http://lohp.org/docs/english_recycling.pdf
Spanish Version: http://lohp.org/docs/spanish_recycling.pdf
Find this article and others online at http://coeh.berkeley.edu/bridges


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University Art Gallery to host the works of 15 BFA students through Feb. 13
- January 10, 2014 6:00pm
The creative works of 15 Cal State East Bay Bachelor of Fine Arts students will be on display at CSUEB's University Art Gallery from Jan. 14 through Feb. 13. The exhibition's opening reception is Tuesday, Jan. 14 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the gallery.
The gallery is open Monday through Thursday, 12 to 4 p.m., during the remainder of the exhibition. Admission to the gallery on all days, including the opening reception, is free and the public is invited.
"The annual BFA exhibition highlights the work of art students who are in an intensive program designed for those who wish to pursue graduate studies in fine art," said Philip Ringler, gallery curator who is directing the exhibit.
The University Art Gallery is located adjacent to room 108 on the first floor of the Arts and Education Building, on CSUEB's Hayward Campus, 25800 Carlos Bee Boulevard.
Further information about the University Art Gallery is available online at http://class.csueastbay.edu/artgallery/Home_Page.php or by sending an email to email@example.com.
-- Barry Zepel
California State University, East Bay is the San Francisco East Bay Area's high-access public university of choice. CSUEB serves the region with campuses in Hayward and Concord, a professional development center in Oakland, and an innovative online campus. With an enrollment of more than 14,000, the University offers a nationally recognized freshman year experience, award-winning curriculum, personalized instruction, and expert faculty. Students choose from among more than 100 professionally focused fields of study for which the University confers bachelor's and master's degrees, as well as an Ed.D. in education. Named a "Best in the West" college, as well as a Best Business School, by the influential Princeton Review, Cal State East Bay is among the region's foremost producers of teachers, business professionals and entrepreneurs, public administrators, health professionals, literary and performing artists, and science and math graduates.


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Camden County Early Care and Education (ECE) professionals recently kicked off a yearlong Learning Collaborative, "NJ Children Taking Steps to Healthy Success." Special guests at the training included the NJ Division of Family Development, the NJ Office of Licensing, The Food Bank, The Food Trust and Rutgers Cooperative Extension.
The trainings are part of a Nemours-funded project that provides training and technical assistance to assist ECEs to implement healthy eating and active play best practices. The New Jersey Department of Health, Office of Fitness and Nutrition, in collaboration with the New Jersey Association for Resource & Referral Agencies, are developing five regional learning collaboratives throughout New Jersey:
1) North – Hudson and Passaic Counties
2) Essex County
3) Central – Union, Middlesex and Mercer Counties
4) Camden County
5) South – Gloucester, Salem and Cumberland Counties
Each collaborative consists of 30 ECEs, which will participate in five trainings during the year. During these trainings, ECE staff participates in fun and engaging group activities that they will bring back and apply in their classrooms.
The learning collaboratives use an empowerment model designed to support the growth of leadership, collaboration and confidence of ECE providers as they learn, change, grow and become champions for children's health, development and learning. The National Early Care and Education Learning Collaborative (ECELC) will begin with a focus on obesity prevention but participants will be able to continue to use the quality improvement processes they learn to focus on additional children's health topics in the future.


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The expulsion and extermination of 182,000 Austrian Jews during the Nazi era is a wound that will never heal completely, but two important decisions during recent weeks at least point to a symbolic closure for the dwindling number of survivors and the Austrian government.
In a high-profile case, Maria Altmann won her seven-year battle to recover from Austria five famous paintings looted by the Nazis and now valued at $200 million. The art works were seized in Vienna in 1938 from Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a wealthy Jewish sugar magnate and Altmann's uncle.
After an even longer period of legal and diplomatic wrangling, a court decision has cleared the final hurdle for payment of restitution money to survivors or the heirs of victims.
The drawn-out Altmann case finally reached its end when the Austrian government accepted the decision of an arbitration court in Vienna that the five paintings by Gustav Klimt rightfully belonged to Altmann and four relatives.
The decisive ruling in favor of Altmann and her attorney, E. Randol Schoenberg, is "the most important victory in the entire history of litigation on Holocaust restitution," said professor Michael J. Bazyler of Whittier Law School, whose latest book, "Holocaust Restitution: Perspectives on the Litigation and Its Legacy," has just been published by New York University Press.
Altmann, a tall and animated Cheviot Hills resident, who will celebrate her 90th birthday next month, greeted the decision as "Fabulous…. It is wonderful that justice has finally been done, that was my whole goal."
Born Maria Victoria in Vienna in 1916, she was raised the pampered daughter of the fabulously wealthy Bloch-Bauer family. Her uncle Ferdinand owned Austria's largest sugar-refining factory, numerous mansions and a major art collection.
The Bloch-Bauers were Jewish, but in the selective manner typical of central Europe's Jewish upper class.
"We went to a temple once a year on Yom Kippur, where I remember seeing the Rothschilds, the men in top hats and cutaway coats," Altmann recalled. "But otherwise, we celebrated Christmas and Easter. That's sometimes hard to explain to American Jews."
In December 1937, in the last grand Jewish wedding in Vienna, Maria Block-Bauer married Fritz Altmann, an aspiring opera singer. The newlyweds left for an extended honeymoon. Shortly after their return, Hitler's troops marched into Vienna, amid the unrestrained jubilation of the Austrian people, Maria Altmann remembers well. In one of their first acts, the Nazis seized the art collection of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, including the Klimt paintings.
The most famous of the paintings is a gold-flecked portrait of Altmann's aunt, Adele Bloch-Bauer, currently a centerpiece of the Austrian National Gallery and one of the most reproduced pictures of all time.
Following the ruling, there remain some loose ends to be tied up, especially whether Austria will try to buy the Adele portrait, considered a national treasure, from Altmann.
The portrait itself is valued at about $100 million, and the government has said it cannot afford the sum, which is equal to the annual budget for all Austrian museums.
It is Austria's hope that a generous private donor might step up and pick up the tab.
The other Klimt works are a second portrait of Bloch-Bauer and three landscapes.
Schoenberg predicts that his client's victory will encourage other governments and museums, especially in France and Spain, to arrive at settlements on other cases of Nazi looted art taken from Jews during the Hitler era.
A bizarre touch was added last week, when Schoenberg received an anonymous e-mail, whose sender threatened to destroy the Klimt paintings in order for "hungry people to get bread." Austrian authorities temporarily removed the paintings from the National Gallery, and then arrested a 50-year-old man, tracked down through his Internet provider.
The unidentified man claimed that he was drunk when he sent the e-mail.
Until two years ago, Altmann, mother of four and grandmother of six, supported herself by running a fashionable dress shop for women over 40.
Her fortunes have changed in recent months. In addition to the money she is expected to receive under the settlement with Austria or the sale of some of the Klimt paintings, Altman and 13 co-heirs got $21.8 million last year in recompense for the sugar factory and other properties seized by the Nazis.
Although the Bloch-Bauers had the foresight to set up a trust account for the factory's stock in a Swiss bank to shield it from seizure, the bank turned around and sold everything to a well-connected German businessman at a fraction of its value.
Altmann said she plans no changes in her lifestyle.
"I'll stay in the same home where I've lived for 30 years and keep driving my '92 Ford," she said. "And I don't need any new clothing."
However, she plans "to do something" for the Jewish communities in Austria and the United States and for Israel.
Once the money is in hand, she also hopes to realize her long-held dream of sponsoring a performance by the Los Angeles Opera, starring her idol, tenor Placido Domingo. The event would be dedicated to her late husband, whose operatic career was cut short when he had to flee Austria.
Altmann said she had urged Austria seven years ago to arbitrate the dispute, "but I never got a response back."
Schoenberg savored the end of the lengthy confrontation, noting that "at the beginning, we didn't think we had any chance at all."
A decisive break in the legal proceedings came in June 2004, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Austria could be sued in a U.S. court, despite the opposition of the Austrian and American governments.
The Supreme Court decision helped Austria "to finally see the light" and agree to arbitration, Schoenberg said.
Austria Accepts Responsibility
While the Altmann case has made headlines, it is only part of the larger question of Austria's responsibility toward Nazi victims in the postwar decades. Austria, whose native son Adolf Hitler incorporated it into the Third Reich during the 1938 Anschluss, played the role of "first victim" of the Nazis, guiltless of the Holocaust and other atrocities.
This attitude changed in the mid-1990s, when the Austrian president admitted for the first time that his country bore its share of blame for Nazi crimes against Jews, as well as against the Roma and Sinti (gypsies), homosexuals and the disabled.
In 1995, the Austrian parliament established the National Fund for Victims of National Socialism, which over the past 10 years has appropriated some $770 million under various programs compensating for loss of property, education, pensions, tenancy rights, and for slave labor and hardship cases.
But Austria has held back a good chunk of the allotted money, some $210 million, until the government was guaranteed that no subsequent class-action suits against Austrian businesses would be filed by survivors.
Last month, a U.S. District court in New York dismissed all such class-action suits, a decision welcomed by the Claims Conference, which negotiated with Austria on behalf of survivors.
The first payments to some 19,000 claimants in 69 countries are to start next December and should be completed one year later, said Hannah M. Lessing, secretary general of the Austrian National Fund. Lessing was in Los Angeles last week to meet with survivors and, accompanied by Austrian Consul General Martin Weiss, met with The Journal over cappuccino at a Brentwood restaurant.
Lessing was born in Vienna in 1963, the daughter of a Jewish photographer who had fled from Vienna to Palestine in 1939, but returned to his native city after the war. He had left behind his mother and grandmother, who both perished in Auschwitz.
Lessing's non-Jewish mother, with Hannah and her siblings, formally converted to Judaism in 1973. Her later resumé includes a stay in Israel, where she worked as a hotel receptionist and businesswoman.
The raven-haired Lessing wore a prominent Star of David around her neck, which led to a question about the widely reported wave of anti-Semitism again rising in Europe.
She said that the reports were greatly exaggerated, although remnants of classical anti-Semitism remain and in France, especially, threats from young Muslim immigrants.
"I wear my Star of David in Vienna without any comments or incidents," Lessing said. "But when I'm in Paris, my friends think I'm crazy to do so, and in New York I am often advised that I might be better off leaving it at home."
On a subtler level, she acknowledged that most non-Jewish Austrians would categorize her first as a Jew and secondly as an Austrian, just as in past decades most non-Jewish Americans considered Jewish citizens as not "real Americans."
Her answer drew a pained rebuttal from Consul General Weiss.
"I am a Catholic, and I consider Hannah as much an Austrian as I am," he protested.
When Lessing switched from her career as a banker five years ago to accept her present position, she insisted on a pro-active policy of seeking out survivors, open access by claimants to her offices and a minimum of red tape. Nevertheless, she acknowledged criticism that the whole process is still too slow and complex, especially given the advanced age of the remaining survivors.
"There are only some 12,500 Austrian survivors still alive, and every time one dies, we lose," she said.
Lessing also wishes that she could raise the payment rate for Jewish property lost during the Nazi era, which now stands at only 10 to 15 percent of current valuation.
"No amount of money can ever make up for the suffering of the Holocaust," she said. "Whatever we do is meant as a gesture of reconciliation toward our former citizens."


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|Vulva — Lichen Planus
|Lichen planus is a dermatologic condition
involving the glabrous skin, hair-bearing skin and scalp, nails, and mucous membranes of
the oral cavity, and vulva. Hair loss as well as a history of papular lesions on skin
surface (ankle, dorsal surface of the hands, and flexor surfaces of the wrists and
forearms) may be found. A symptom such as pruritus may be present. The age range is
approximately 30-60 years of age. A possible form of lichen planus, also known as
desquamative inflammatory vaginitis, is a sterile blistering or erosive skin disease that
occurs in the vagina. Diagnosis of this condition can sometimes be extremely difficult.
Severe atrophic vaginitis can be clinically difficult to distinguish.
Lichen planus is a disease of unknown etiology. There may be a role for an autoimmune disorder of cellular immunity. Additionally, the histologic features of lichen planus closely resemble those of another condition of immune origin, graft versus host disease.
Appearance ranges from white, reticulate papules/plaques, to uniform, white epithelium, to non-specific erosions (usually with surrounding white epithelium). Vaginal erythema is present which often results in bleeding. Late scarring with loss of labia minora and clitoral hood, occasionally resulting in obliteration of the vaginal space. Erosions of the buccal mucosa, gingivae, and/or tongue are usually present. Examination of the mouth may reveal a reticulated gray, lacy pattern of Wickham's striae. The mouth lesions may precede or follow by months or years the vulvovaginal lesions. About one third of those with vulvovaginal disease have not yet experienced the oral lesions. The gingival tissue may be diffusely swollen with interdental accentuation or actually eroded with red, scalloped borders at the gingival margins of the teeth. Keratinized skin involvement is present only rarely in erosive disease. In the absence of sexual activity or regular vaginal dilation, adhesions begin to form in the upper part of the vagina. In long-standing cases, the vagina may be totally obliterated. Contact bleeding and dyspareunia are often noted.
The diagnosis of erosive LP often made by finding characteristic skin lesions in mouth or skin biopsy. Within hair-bearing and keratinized epithelium, histopathology reveals a chronic inflammatory cell infiltrate, which consists predominantly of lymphocytes without plasma cells. The inflammation is lichenoid in that it involves the superficial dermis immediately beneath the epithelium, and extends into the basalar and parabasalar epithelium. Liquefaction necrosis is present within the basal epithelial cells; colloid bodies are present secondary to degeneration of keratinocytes. The interface at epidermal-dermal junction is obscured by the inflammatory infiltrate. The epithelium may have prominent acanthosis with a prominent granular layer and hyperkeratosis. In older lesions, acanthosis may be absent and the epithelium thinned with loss of the rete ridges. Ulceration and bullae may occur in severe lesions.
When lichen planus involves the nonkeratinized epithelium of the vestibule, the interface inflammatory infiltrate is present, but the inflammatory cell population may contain plasma cells within the preeminently lymphocytic infiltrate. Hyperkeratosis and a prominent granular layer usually are not present. Bullae and ulceration are evident in severe cases. In the presence of erosive disease a biopsy may be totally devoid of epithelium.
At times, immunofluorescent studies may be required to rule out other conditions in the differential diagnosis such as pemphigus or pemphigoid.
Direct immunofluorescence testing is superior for diagnosing pemphigus and pemphigoid. Immunofluorescence is slightly inferior to histologic evaluation for diagnosing lichen planus. Optimal criteria were IgG and C3 intercellular substance staining for pemphigus, linear C3 basement membrane zone deposits for pemphigoid, and shaggy fibrinogen basement membrane zone staining plus IgM cytoids for lichen planus.


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Last night, we welcomed Baby Bodhi into the world! Ofcourse, I brought my camera to document the day. I'm still amazed by the miracle of child birth. Seriously, I don't know how women do it. Being in the delivery room with my sister for the second time, (I'm STILL mentally scarred from the first) I felt honored and a little freaked out at the same time but I'm glad I was able to capture little Baby Bodhi's birthday
Taylor wasn't feeling well earlier in the day but stopped by to say hi to mom.
"Oh my gosh! I can see the head!", I exclaimed!
"What? Why are you looking down there?!", my sister said between pushes.
Welcome Baby Bodhi!!
The Nurses counting 10 fingers and 10 toes.
My brother in law's first look at Bodhi through the camera phone! I had to tell him to put it down and give him the proper welcome!
It's amazing how the sound of Daddy's voice calmed Baby Bodhi down…instant recognition…
Baby Bodhi was 3 weeks earlier but weighed in at a healthy 7lb 1.8oz.
The nurses at Howard County General hospital were great!
Grandma and Grandpa taking a sneak peek…
The following day, family and friends come to visit to welcome Baby Bodhi!
I think he's going to make an excellent baby model don't you?


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I hate almost ALL fitness marketing that's geared at women.
If these marketers were telling the truth, they'd be saying things like:
- "Want to tone, tuck, and tighten those abs? Don't waste your time with this!"
- "Want to banish that belly fat? This ab coaster won't help!"
- "Want to get stronger? You're gonna need to pick up something heavier than this!"
In every issue of practically every women's fitness magazine, you're presented with a new workout that promises crazy results in minutes a day by 'toning muscles' with light weights and crazy equipment.
You're promised super-foods that specifically target belly fat, and ab workouts, butt workouts, and thigh workouts that are designed to "tighten those problem areas."
All of this lingo makes me want to vomit.
And I haven't vomited in a long time (I'd like to keep that streak going).
With our first ever course specifically designed for Rebel Women coming out in two weeks(!), I want to set the record straight today and destroy every myth I've heard when it comes to women and strength training.
Remember, the princess doesn't necessarily need saving.
Yes, this is an article specifically for women, but if you're a dude reading NF…keep reading. I bet you still learn something today!
Women shouldn't lift heavy or they'll get bulky
Gwyneth Paltrow's trainer makes sure that Gweneth doesn't pick up anything more than 3 lbs.
…because she doesn't want Gwyneth to get too bulky. (or dudes apparently!)
Which means, I guess, Gweneth isn't allowed to pick up groceries, move a chair, carry her child, or do pretty much anything.
This is the biggest myth in all of female training, and it makes me want to punch a hole in the wall. If you've been reading this site for a while, you know this isn't true. If you're brand new to Nerd Fitness, then allow me to assure you:
You know those women bodybuilders who look really bulky? They eat, train, and take supplements specifically so they can look like that! They've probably been working towards that goal for years and years.
Here's the truth: when you pick up heavy things, your muscles get STRONGER (but not necessarily bigger). If you pump yourself full of testosterone and eat way more calories than you are burning every day, you will get bigger.
If you pick up heavy things, and eat a caloric deficit (and eat the right kinds of food – actual healthy foods), your muscles will get stronger and denser; you will burn the fat on top of your muscle, and you will get that "toned" look that you're after.
You know Staci, right? She picks up very heavy things. How heavy? Her last deadlift session had her picking up 355 lbs. for a set of five. She weighs 150lbs and wears a size US4.
Would you call her bulky? Or would you say "I would love to look like that!"
Here's how it works: Picking up light weights for 20+ repetitions builds muscular endurance; it does not build tight, dense, strong muscle.
So, want to look damn good AND be strong? Pick up heavy things. And continually force yourself to pick up heavier and heavier things as you get stronger.
You can spot reduce fat
Sr Mix-A-Lot was wrong. Don't do side bends and sit ups, because you're wasting your time:
- Side bends will strengthen your side muscles without actually reducing any fat there, potentially making you bigger around the waist unless you change your diet as well.
- Situps will not remove belly fat. They can also wreak havoc on your lower back, and are an incomplete exercise.
Your body cannot spot reduce fat in specific locations. If you have flabby arms or a big stomach, doing thousands of bicep curls and thousands of crunches won't help.
Your body is genetically predisposed to storing fat in certain locations in a certain order. When you start to lose weight, your body will lose the fat you currently have in a certain order as well – it might come off your arms first, then your legs, then your belly, then your chest, and THEN your butt. Or in a different order, depending on your personal genetic makeup.
No amount of targeted exercise will change how that fat disappears.
Want to make it disappear faster? Eat better. Your diet will be responsible for 80-90% of that fat loss. Strength train, not with targeted exercises, but with big compound movements that recruit lots of muscle (and thus force your body to rebuild lots of muscle, which requires extra calories burned, even after the workout is done).
You need cardio to lose weight.
If the thought of running on a treadmill for four hours sounds miserable to you, don't do it. Bronwyn (above), certainly didn't achieve her results on a treadmill or elliptical!
If you never run another mile in your entire life, there's no reason you cannot be incredibly healthy and look amazing. Despite what you might think, and what you might see in a gym, you will never need to step foot on another cardio machine again.
I'm a big fan of "do what makes you happy." If you happen to enjoy running or zumba or step aerobics or jazzercize, that is awesome. More power to you. However, if you are ONLY doing those things to lose weight and you're not seeing results, stop. There's a better way.
Believe it or not, strength training will produce a more efficient weight loss effect than an equal amount of cardio.
When you strength train, your muscles are broken down, and then rebuilt over the next 24-48 hours. While your body is rebuilding those muscles, it's recruiting more calories and energy to make the process happen (generally referred to as the 'afterburn' effect). What this means is that your metabolism operates at a faster level even while you're sitting on the couch after a workout.
Want to hear something else? You don't NEED to strength train either! I hate saying it, but it's true: if your goal is to JUST lose weight, then fixing your diet will get you 80-90% of the way there. If you never want to set foot in a gym or pick up a weight, that's fine.
For exercise, it's important to find things that make you happy.
Now, if your goals go beyond just losing weight and include things like "looking good" and "being healthy," then I'm going to ask you to strength train, but there are many ways to do that:
- Picking up heavy things
- Swinging kettlebells
- Doing yoga
- Doing bodyweight exercises
- Carrying your kids on a hike
- Whatever makes you use your muscles in a strenuous way
Strength training is more than just sweating in a gym!
As we've pointed out before: "Strength training helps correct issues relating to cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and inactivity – all factors for heart disease. Cardiologists are even starting to recommend strength training for people who have suffered a heart attack as little as three weeks after the attack. "
One plan will work for every woman
You might be out shopping for that 'master workout plan' that works for everyone.
You might read 10 different books on diet, each presenting a contrasting style that promises amazing results.
You might have read our posts on The Paleo Diet and Intermittent Fasting, and wonder: "Will this work for me?"
Maybe you've considered buying a Nerd Fitness product and you ask yourself "Is this the plan that will finally get me results?"
The truth: I don't know. Everybody, both men and women, react to foods, training, and different stimuli differently. We are all genetically different, have unique characteristics, different lives, preferences, and struggles.
The only way to know what works for you is to TRY IT OUT, and then TRACK YOUR RESULTS.
Yes, I am a big fan of the Paleo Diet and strength training for both men and women. Will these things work for everybody?
HOWEVER, in my five years of experience as Rebel Leader, observing tens of thousands of people working to live better, I believe that following the Paleo Diet and strength training give the greatest number of people the greatest chance for success with the best results.
It's for those reasons that I champion these diet and fitness strategies. These are the same techniques that we're building our foundation around at The Nerd Fitness Academy: we understand that all women are different, which is why we present multiple training options for multiple environments, and diet advice that allows for flexibility based on one's situation.
Your mom was right.
You are, in fact, a unique snowflake 🙂
Men and women should train differently
This is another myth that drives me crazy.
In commercial gyms across the country, competent trainers are having their male clients go through intense strength training routines with squats, and deadlifts, and overhead presses, and push ups, and pull ups, and lunges.
In those same gyms, other trainers (both male and female) are putting their female clients through light weight dumbbell circuits, and stability ball squats for high repetitions, and having them do tricep kickbacks, machine bench presses and more.
There's no reason men and women should train differently. I'm fairly confident Staci can outlift me in a dozen different ways (and everyone else in her gym), and that's AWESOME.
There's no reason that men and women can't complete the same types of exercises. While a guy can lift a certain way to get bigger, a woman can lift in the same way, but instead build that dense, tight, and lean look ("toned" ugh) that most are aiming for.
Thanks to hormones, estrogen, testosterone, genetic, and dietary differences, those two people will end up with drastically different results. Remember, your diet is 80-90% of the battle!
Women have just as much a right to be in the free weights section and squat rack as guys do. Unfortunately, it's just less common (though the Women of Nerd Fitness are changing that!).
Train how you want to train. There is no reason you can't do overhead presses, pull ups, squats, and deadlifts like everybody else.
In fact, following a routine like that is a damn good way to give you the best chance to build the body you want!
"But Steve, if women don't need to train differently, why make a guide just for women!?" Great question! While the exercises are the same, and women can easily follow the same program, there are slight differences that will change up programming a little bit to make a program more effective for a woman.
Along with that, there are quite a few issues that women deal with that men do not, and thus require specific information and advice: things like hormones, pregnancy, menopause, periods, and so on.
Want to lose weight? Just eat less!
A calorie is a calorie is a calorie, right?
If you want to lose weight, just eating less will get you there!
And eating even LESS than that will help you get there even faster!
This prevailing attitude is responsible for people all over the country being weak, miserable, irritable, and frustrated.
Yes, eating less will help you lose weight. However, that is not the whole story. Surviving on 1200 calories (or less a day) is a miserable way to go through life: always hungry, never happy.
Our bodies need real food, and they need enough of it in order to operate at optimum efficiency.
As I've explained a lot on Nerd Fitness, not all calories are created equal (the foundation of the Paleo Diet): Our bodies can react differently to the consumption of protein and healthy fats and vegetables than we do to processed foods, grains, and dairy.
Some trigger positive reactions in our body ("rebuild muscle!"), while others trigger negative reactions ("Spike your blood sugar levels! Pump out more insulin! Winter is coming, so store more fat!")
You need to eat real foods. And you need to eat enough of it. Honestly, unless you're incredibly small, I would never recommend ever putting any woman on a diet of 1200 calories. In fact, I don't recommend women ever dip below 1800 calories per day if they are exercising regularly! I understand that every woman is different, and every woman processes calories differently, but I can't emphasize enough that quality of food is so dang important!
As long as these calories are composed of the right kinds of food, and this diet is combined with a fun workout that gets your muscles exercising and your heart pumping, you will have success.
Conversely, if you only consume 1200 calories per day and you try to exercise, I'm going to guess your body hates you, won't have any energy, and potentially even revolt against you! You won't last long on this routine. This is what we're trying to avoid.
I absolutely LOVED this article – and it needs to be read: An Open Letter to My Weight Loss Clients:
I'm sorry because every time you ate something you "shouldn't" or ate more than you "should," I talked about "getting back on the bandwagon." I cringe now every time someone uses that phrase. When did the way we eat become a bandwagon? When did everyone stop eating and become professional dieters? I'm sorry because I get it now.
If you're trying to starve your body by eating fewer calories than it needs, of course it's going to fight back. I used to tell you that then, when you wanted to eat less than 1200 calories a day. The problem was, I thought 1200 was enough. I thought that was plenty to support a healthy body. Why did I believe that for so long? I'm sorry because I wasn't trying to trick you or play games to get your money. I believed the lies we were fed as much as you did.
I am sorry because many of you walked in healthy and walked out with disordered eating, disordered body image, and the feeling that you were a "failure." None of you ever failed. Ever. I failed you. The weight loss company failed you. Our society is failing you.
Just eat food. Eat real food, be active, and live your life. Forget all the diet and weight loss nonsense. It's really just that. Nonsense.
Eat real food! Gluten free cookies are still cookies. 100 calorie packs of junk food? Still junk food. Fat free Oreos contain more sugar and chemicals than regular Oreos. Naked Juices aren't good for you (which is why they got sued for $9 million).
Eat enough food to provide your body with energy to get through your day and your workouts. Just eat the right KINDS of foods.
Older women shouldn't strength training
After women reach menopause, and the potential for osteoporosis kicks in, many women tend to shy away from strength training for fear of injuring themselves.
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
That is the PERFECT time to strength train! Studies have shown that in post-menopausal women, strength training "preserved bone density while improving muscle mass, strength, and balance in postmenopausal women."
Age is only a number. Women don't get old and thus have to stop strength training, they get old WHEN they stop strength training! So, if this 73-year old grandma can strength train, what's your excuse?
73-Year Old Grandma Powerlifter Video
The Nerd Fitness Academy
About a year and a half ago, I announced on Nerd Fitness that we were working on a guide specifically for women.
Since then, a lot has happened, and Team Nerd Fitness has learned a tremendous amount about how to best serve the ladies of this community. We've taken that 18 extra months of experience and over a year of hard work and created a new way to help women get healthy.
Rather than a static eBook that you read, we've created a course that will constantly be evolving and improving as more women use it. In two weeks time, we'll be soft-launching a beta version of The Academy to women for a limited time.
We'll keep the course open for enrollment just for a few days, and then close it up for at least a month.
Once we have women using the course, we'll be working closely with them, learning and figuring out how we can make the course even better. Thanks to the new platform that we'll be using for The Academy, updates and improvements can be instant.
"Why is it called The Nerd Fitness Academy!?" Just like Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters was a clever re-imagining of a traditional Academy, so too is the Nerd Fitness Academy. Most academies churn out carbon copies of generic individuals.
Our goal with the Nerd Fitness Academy is to help unique rebels discover their own superpowers in the fight against the Empire. Along with that, we'll also help you eat better, feel better, and look better naked 🙂
"Why is the Nerd Fitness Academy just for women? What about the dudes?" This is a new platform and delivery system, we want to start with small percentage of the Nerd Fitness Community. We'll definitely be creating a beginning fitness course for men in The Academy, and we're targeting a launch of January 1st.
Our goal after that is to then continue to add specific courses and classes to The Academy so that you can learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace. I'm so excited for this future and I can't wait to show you guys what we've been working on.
In the meantime, our current best-selling eBooks will still remain available for sale: the content hasn't changed, the quality and the success stories remain, we're just changing the delivery method – that's all!
We also have another surprise for you…hopefully within the month. It's something a LOT of readers have been asking for, for a long time, and I can't wait to share it with you.
What myths drive you crazy?
So, we hope you check out The Academy in a few weeks, as we've busted our asses on it to create something fun.
In the meantime, I'd love to hear what other myths drive you crazy?
What questions do you have that still have you confused?
Let's hear it!
I'm here for ya 🙂
PS: Don't forget: If you're a woman interested in our course, sign up for The Nerd Fitness Academy email list so you won't miss the launch window in a few weeks! If you signed up for updates a year ago, you might be told you're still on the list. Don't worry, you are 🙂
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UPDATE: MIKE DAISEY'S RESPONSES ADDED IN. Mike Daisey, for those who aren't familiar with his work, is a monologist. I knew quite a bit about Mike Daisey before I knew what a monologist was so, as is often the case, thank God for Wikipedia:
A monologist (also spelled monologuist) is a solo artist who recites or gives dramatic readings from a monologue, soliloquy, poetry or work of literature for the entertainment of an audience. The term can also apply to one who dominates a conversation, or a bird with a repeating monotonous cry.
In my ignorance, I half expected the page for "monologist" to redirect to the Wikipedia entry for Mike Daisey, but no: It's a real thing, practiced by more than one person. If you have heard of Daisey, it's likely because he's in the news as the performer of a monoloquy (sadly, the actual term is monologue) entitled: The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs.
Daisey's next monologue, which came to Portland's TBA Festival in September 2010, Berkeley Repertory Theatre in January 2011, and played in Seattle in April–May 2011, examined globalization by exploring the exploitation of Chinese workers through the lens of "the rise and fall and rise of Apple, industrial design, and the human price we are willing to pay for our technology, woven together in a complex narrative." Portions of his monologue were used in the "This American Life" episode "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory", in which Daisey performed and discussed his experiences in China.
And, of course, if you know anything about Apple and Apple's relationship with a Chinese company called Foxconn, it's likely because of two recent exposés published by the New York Times:
The first article explore the trends which led to the proliferation of overseas manufacturing, with Apple as the primary case study:
How the U.S. Lost out on iPhone Work
The second article examines the human cost of America's obsession with technology, again using Apple as the primary case study:
In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad
And, of course, CNN and other news outlets have pounced on the page views that these stories are generating.
A common thread in all of this is that Mike Daisey has become a de facto talking head; a ready-made and reliable spewer of intriguing talking points. This is, in large part, due to the fact that part of his research in preparation for his monoloquy involved chatting up some Foxconn workers.
As someone who has read the exposés, followed the coverage, I feel as though I know a few things but, primarily: 1) It fucking sucks to work at Foxconn and 2) Apple is Foxconn's most successful client.
I do have some lingering questions, though, and who better to answer them than Mike Daisey: Monologist?
Unfortunately, I don't know Mike Daisey and I don't have any contacts who know him. He doesn't even seem to have a Twitter account. To top it all off, he's pundit-famous now, so there's a good chance that he won't take the time to answer my questions or respond to my thoughts, as he's been known to do in the past:
The fact that you managed to walk down to the theater and stumble inside gives you the unalienable right to talk shit about it, even though what you saw isn't the completed work, even though you were told this repeatedly and clearly. It even gives you the right to post it as a review, rating it on this site as though it is a fucking commodity that can be bought or sold, and that is the way it is.
Even so, these are good questions to have in mind when thinking about Apple, and Foxconn, and the broader issues at play, even if we don't have all the answers. After all, quotes from Chinese readers seem to indicate that asking different questions might lead to a different perspective and, well, the more you know...
Q: What was the spark that led you to write and perform The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs?
A: First, I'm a monologist, so you should know that the piece isn't written—I'm an extemporaneous autobiographical solo performer, in the tradition of monologists like Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Spaulding Gray.
But setting aside that, the answer is actually contained in the piece itself—as I speak about both on stage and in the TAL excerpt, I am a tremendous Apple fan, and I saw pictures that I became obsessed with, and that started me asking questions and researching, which culminated in traveling to China.
Q: Do you have a background in manufacturing? Any business experience? What about Chinese history and/or culture?
A: I have a background in a number of areas. I worked at Amazon.com in Business Development for a couple of years a decade ago. I have written for WIRED, the New York Times, and a number of other publications, in addition to being the author of a memoir. I've made a full-time living as a monologist for twelve years, touring around the world to places like the Sydney Opera House and the Public Theater, and doing work in both India and Tajikistan, where I worked with people from all walks of like to tell stories from their time during their terrible civil war and afterward. The New York Times has called me, "The master storyteller—the finest solo performer of his generation." My work has for years involved reporting from a wide variety of places and contexts.
My knowledge of manufacturing is limited to specifically studying electronics manufacture in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone for the last three years. My knowledge of Chinese history is focused on the development of the SEZ after the Cultural Revolution.
Q: You talked with Foxconn employees, and those who follow your work can get a sense of life at Foxconn, from a certain perspective. How many people did you talk to and how long did you spend talking to them?
A: This is actually covered in Act II of the THIS AMERICAN LIFE piece I recorded.
Q: Can a worker quit their job at Foxconn if they determine that conditions are not acceptable? In other words, are we talking about forced labor or voluntary employment?
A: Foxconn workers are as free as anyone in an authoritarian state without civil liberties or recourse are, under a stacked deck of economic circumstances where they come into the work knowing they usually need to support a large number of dependents back in their villages.
Q: Assuming the latter, how many employees who are hired on actually decide to quit based on poor working conditions and/or low pay?
A: A huge number—one of the most exceptional things about Foxconn is their incredible turnover, which upwards of 20% a month. This is an extraordinary figure, and it reflects how many workers do everything they can to find other work within the SEZ as soon as they are able to. It says something extremely unsavory about Foxconn.
Q: Realistically speaking, what are Apple's options, if not Foxconn?
A: Apple has $100 billion dollars waiting in a strategic reserve, doing nothing. Apple has more than enough resources to pursue any course of action—that is an insane quantity of money, so it must be recognized that they could do almost anything. By far the most cost effective course of action has been what Apple has been doing—ignoring local labor laws, letting accidents and deaths happen, and simply calling it all the price of doing business. If they got serious about reform, the most cost-effective strategy would be to work to monitor and reform Foxconn by working with them, giving them incentives for compliance, and rehabilitating the way work is done there.
Q: How much of what we see at Foxconn is steeped in Chinese culture? Chinese politics?
A: Not as much as one might think—what is important to understand about Foxconn is that it is a Taiwanese company, and the tension between Taiwanese management and Chinese labor is part of its equation. Culture and politics inform any situation, but this one is informed more by the economic pressures that drive these workers into the cities to make a new life for themselves.
Q: Suicide (or threats of suicide) seem to be a common form of protest. Is this cultural? Why is suicide a better option than simply quitting?
A: Remember that at these numbers of workers, there have been extraordinary clusters of suicides, but most workers do quit if in a poor situation. Many, however, feel trapped—they have large families back in their villages they are trying to support, and they feel intense family pressures, and sometimes the management techniques at Foxconn have been especially abrasive for some. There are a constellation of stressors, so it is hard to say in generalities.
It is true that the protests on January 2nd were using the threat of suicide as a protest. This was clearly what happens in a country where all organized labor is faced with prison time—it is one of the few ad hoc tactics workers feel they can use, and it should tell us something about the atmosphere there.
Q: Is there a manufacturing facility in China with better working conditions than Foxconn?
A: How would we truly know? There is so little accountability and oversight that it's hard to crown anyone king, and I have not encountered, even anecodtally, any large-scale manufacturers that truly excel.
Q: Does Foxconn pay better, or worse, for similar work at similar factories?
A: Roughly similar, though many workers feel it is on the low side because the way it is computed derives so much from overtime that there was a belief, in mid-2010, that one might be better off elsewhere.
Q: Generally speaking, what is life like for the average Foxconn employee, prior to being employed by Foxconn?
A: Generally speaking its an agrarian life in rural China—extremely hard and poor with high rates of infant mortallity. It is a difficult life, which is the reason so many try to make it to the cities to change their lives.
Q: Do workers go to Foxconn seeking a career? A summer job? A way to save up for school?
A: They are looking to transform their lives.
Q: Assuming Apple issues an ultimatum, and Foxconn refuses to comply: What happens to the 200,000-or-so workers who are dedicated to building iPhones and iPads if/when Apple packs up and leaves? In other words, for those 200,000-or-so workers, does life become better, or worse?
A: This scenario is so absurd, but if we entertain it, I think the workers should walk across the street to the new factory Apple is now working with in the SEZ that will hire them. The SEZ has rampant labor shortages now—this isn't going to happen in this way, ever.
Q: Labor activist Li Qiang has this to say about Apple:
Although I know that the iPhone 4 is made at sweat shop factories in China, I still think that this is the only choice, because Apple is actually one of the best. Actually before I made a decision, I compared Apple with other cell phone companies, such as Nokia," he said through a translator. "And the conditions in those factories are worse than the ones of Apple.
As more and more outlets publish on this topic, much of the dialogue seems to be focusing on populist demands that Apple do more, but there seems to be evidence that Apple is, in fact, doing more. (Here, I mean "doing more" in the sense that they're doing more than they were and that they're doing far more than other companies to improve conditions and increase accountability.) Meanwhile, Qiang seems to suggest that Apple "doesn't care about Chinese workers" and he bases this claim on the fact that Apple won't talk to him (or other labor activists) while other companies (with worse track records) will.
Is action less important than lip service?
A: First, if you are going to crib from Gruber, you should link to him. Second, the entire premise of this is false. Li Qiang has been a labor activist for decades. His work is above reproach, and stretches across the electronics industry, into every manufacturer, doing everything possible to keep them accountable. The fact that Apple has been "doing more" than others doesn't absolve them of the crimes they've been committing, and now that they have been brought to light clearly he's doing his job. Your casual connection between Li Qiang's statement that Apple "doesn't care about Chinese workers" is, in the article, clearly based on the NYT and SACOM coverage of their behavior—only a gross misreading of the article would come up with the idea that this is about PR.
I say "doing more" in quotes because it has to be remembered that Apple's efforts have been utterly untransparent, hidden from all outside scrutiny, and based on the NYT report have largely failed. Their own metrics show that overtime abuse is totally out of control, and even with their very infrequent audits (which everyone has told me are announced in advance) they still find underage labor. So I would strongly question that these examples of "doing more" do much for Apple's record.
Q: Is there evidence which suggests that Apple is in a position to demand more change than they're already driving and if so, what is that evidence?
A: Apple dominates the industry in terms of their incredible profit margin, and their immense strategic reserve of $100 billion dollars. This gives them all the position they need. Their relationship with Foxconn is well understood—Foxconn would jump if Apple provided the incentive, and if Apple made it a priority to truly reform the supply chain because of public pressure, they would. They could have done it years ago. They have chosen not to.
Q: What was it like to work in a similar factory in China 10 years ago? 20 years ago?
A: That's a great way to end. There were no factories like this 20, or really even 10 years ago. What's happening in the SEZ is a particularly virulent form of globalism that lives at the collision point of capitalism, corporatism, and fascism. Knowing how quickly the zone is changing is part of us understanding how we can have a huge effect on the shape of things if we begin to be aware, and then show the world that humane conditions in workplaces is a fundamental human right.
The fact is, Mike Daisey has already answered (some of) these questions:
Monologist Mike Daisey on Apple's "Capitalistic Cowardice"
Why do you think that is? I don't know. Why do we all sell out our ideals as we get older? I mean, he [Steve Jobs] probably had other things he wanted to concentrate on, like selling iPhones at tremendous profit. And making sure his devices were incredibly well designed, which they are. The two things are not exclusionary though; it would not have taken that much effort to change the human rights abuses that are happening in the zone. A lot of them are very straightforward. You know, a worker at Foxconn died while I was there, after working a 34-hour shift. It doesn't take that much to prevent that kind of thing from happening. It takes a commitment to monitor what's happening in your factories 24/7, it takes a commitment to inculcate an atmosphere of basic respect where people don't work themselves to death.
Here's a rough draft of a monoloquy I'm formulating about Mike Daisey. As it is a work in progress, please -- no criticism. That simply wouldn't be fair:
Mike Daisey is an actor playing a part. He's a performance artist playing the role of the "curmudgeonly asshole" fighting for the forces of good against capitalistic greed.
In his world, any message purporting to be a truth -- so long as it is delivered with anger and conviction -- is the only acceptable truth. If Mike Daisey suggests that change is easily obtainable well, that's absolutely the case, and don't you fucking dare question the assertion -- unless of course you're willing to feel the brunt of Mike Daisey's anger.
With The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Daisey stumbled onto his best and most marketable performance, offering easy claims but no workable solutions. Guess which half of that formula gets all the publicity? Guess which half is more easily accepted and regurgitated by your average technology-loving American consumer?
The average Mike Daisey answer is easy to dance to. It's got a great beat. It inspires you to nod your head in agreement and can even make you feel good about being the sort of person that cares about the plight of workers in China.
None of that means that the average Mike Daisey answer holds up under scrutiny.
In the end, Mike Daisey cannot compromise, cannot abide reasonable arguments, and will not argue rationally, because the role he's written for himself depends upon raw emotion.
As a means to an end, Mike Daisey is always in character.


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Runner Screams When He Runs
This Guy's a Screamer
I hear it at my gym all the time. I go into the weight room, and all seems well until some guy lifts weights that are too heavy for him. And then it begins. The grunting, the huffing, the puffing, the self-satisfied "aaaaargh!" as he drops the weight to the floor precariously close to my feet. Here "it" is again — only this time, it's the most annoying runner in the world and his signature scream.


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Nearly 20 years after she first turned up bare-breasted in Playboy magazine, Jenny McCarthy is posing again. The 39-year-old reveals she's planning to gather up her boobs and give the shoot her best shot — quite possibly for the sake of autism.
"All I wanted to do [when she began in the industry] was work with my clothes on, and now I just hope to get them off!" Jenny McCarthy joked to E! News of posing for Playboy in 2012.
Last year the Love in the Wild host, who was paid $20,000 for her photos in 1993, commented to Access Hollywood, "I would [pose nude again], for like, $2 million towards autism. But I feel like, you know, the puppies have gone south and left and right. I'd have to, like, scoop them!"
Jenny McCarthy's son, who was diagnosed with autism in 2005, nearly inadvertently ended the 39-year-old's television career. "When I was at my lowest point in my life, when my son was having seizures and cardiac arrest, I really thought I would never be able to go back [to work] and do anything funny," Jenny McCarthy told Celebuzz. "When your kid's sick, it's over."
"Once he got better and was happy, then I started to enjoy life again," she continued. "People say, 'Oh my God, you saved your son!' But he really saved me. He brought a whole new perspective to me on what matters and what doesn't."
For this particular mom, who says her son has recovered from autism, the cause is still one that matters greatly. She recently suggested that autism be declared an epidemic, and it appears she's willing to go nude to raise further funds for research to help other kids and families.
On the one hand, Jenny McCarthy's Playboy posing has some great things going for it: promoting the notion that a woman can be sexy past her 20's, that a mom (who wasn't afraid to share her 211-pound pregnancy photo) can be sexy, and the potential for profits to help autism research.
There is, however, the matter of that other hand still — is it a good idea for the mother of 10-year-old son (who has already declared he "likes pretty chicks" and the mansion Grotto) to pose nude? It's one thing to go into your tween years knowing guys ogled your mom naked in a magazine 20 years ago — it's likely (I have to assume on this one, of course) a different story to have it happening in the present day news!
What do you think of Jenny McCarthy's Playboy posing plans?
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Browse Exhibits (1 total)
Charlee LaChatte and Friends: Collecting Cats at Tulane
This exhibit is meant to explore and celebrate the cat collections at Tulane. While it may seem unusual to have such objects in university collections, it should not surprise us that artists and writers have responded to human interest in the subject. In the cases in this room you will find a selection of the books acquired with the Charlee LaChatte endowment in Rare Books as well as examples of the holdings of the William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive and the Louisiana Research Collection (LaRC).
The Charlee LaChatte book collection has centered on Anglo-American literary production between 1880 and 1960, though there are examples as far back as the sixteenth century. The books vary greatly in their representation of cats, but most often pertain to themes of childhood, innocence, role-playing, and the relationships between humans and animals.
These materials challenge us to think about what is or is not included in the definition of a "rare book" and why people create and collect "cute" books.


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Until November 12, 2002
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Analysis Involving
Millions Of Medicare Records Finds That High Air Pollution Levels
Increase Use Of Outpatient Care And Respiratory Hospital Admissions
By Nearly 20 Percent
WASHINGTON, DCThe largest study ever conducted linking air pollution with medical care found that better pollution control would greatly reduce medical care use and save more than a billion dollars a year in health care spending.
The study, published today in the journal Health Affairs, involved an analysis of millions of Medicare records and showed that air pollution significantly increases the use of medical care among older adults - even after controlling for region, population size, education, income, racial composition, cigarette consumption, and obesity.
Estimating medical care use in 37 areas of the country with the highest levels of air pollution and 37 areas of the country with the lowest levels of air pollution, the study researchers found that, on average:
Respiratory admissions
and use of outpatient care were nearly 20 percent higher in the most polluted
Medical admissions were 10 percent higher;
Use of inpatient care was 7 percent higher.
"These results demonstrate that reducing air pollution would have a significant impact on our nation's health care spending," said lead study author Victor R. Fuchs, Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.
If anything, the researchers suggest, "inevitable errors" in air pollution measurement probably result in an underestimate of its effect on medical care use.
The study explored geographic differences in medical care use and air pollution using data on 183 metropolitan areas from both Medicare and the Environmental Protection Agency. Measures of inpatient care, outpatient care, medical admissions, surgical admissions, and respiratory admissions for white Medicare beneficiaries ages 65 to 84 were compared with air pollution measures for the same areas from 1989 to 1991.
Only surgical admissions were not significantly related to air pollution levels after control variables were taken into account, the researchers found.
Not surprisingly, the researchers also found that both medical care use and air pollution increase as the population of a given area increases. Air pollution is greatest in the West and lowest in Florida and in the West North Central and Northern Mountain states.
The study researchers noted that although air pollution levels fell somewhat in the 1990s, medical care use nevertheless increased because of the introduction and diffusion of new health care technologies.
"This study shows that air pollution increases use of medical care. Other studies have shown that it increases mortality," Fuchs said. "Both results are important in calculating the benefits of pollution reduction."
Fuchs co-authored the study with Sarah Rosen Frank, a research assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and now a doctoral student in economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Health Affairs, published by Project HOPE, is a bimonthly multidisciplinary journal devoted to publishing the leading edge in health policy thought and research. Copies of the November/December 2002 issue will be provided free to interested members of the press. Address inquiries to Jon Gardner at Health Affairs, 301-656-7401, ext. 230, or via email, email@example.com. Selected articles from the November/December issue are available free on the journal's Web site, www.healthaffairs.org.
©2002 Project HOPEThe People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.


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Working At Seymour Duncan
Many people often ask how what it's like to work at Seymour Duncan. The first major perk is that unlike some companies that are located where the labor is cheapest, Seymour Duncan is located right where it started in Santa Barbara, California – commonly referred to as the American Riveria. It's about a 20-minute walk to the Pacific Ocean and the factory is quietly tucked into a grove of eucalyptus trees.
The first daily tradition is the dance: twice a day employees dance to a selection of tunes as way to unwind, stretch and exercise. If it's your birthday you'd better watch out since you will be wearing the birthday crown and having all the girls dance with you.
Chances are good that on any given day there's free food somewhere, whether it be donuts, cupcakes or if there is a special occasion, full catering during lunch.
If you're a pet lover, you can bring your dog to work. Just don't be surprised when you're talking about Alnico 5 magnets or bucket brigade chips with someone and suddenly a blur of dogs go running through your legs at full chase.
There are other special occasions you can enjoy too, like the company picnic where Seymour W. Duncan gets on stage and jams, and there's usually tons of food and prizes to go around. Or the holiday picnic that occurs in December and recently featured prizes (guitars), and ping pong balls to throw at people. Engineering is also famous for its themed parties, including a Margarita day that apparently has some history to it…
You might even get a chance to get tickets to see one of your favorite artists in concert.
Many people here play in bands, and Seymour Duncan is considered a flexible work environment: if you need to leave for an early gig or if you stayed up to 3am playing songs at a local bar and you need to sleep in a bit, that's alright: just make up that time later. Everyone here is extremely talented and works as hard as you could possibly imagine, but the Seymour Duncan tradition is that everyone is treated well as a result.
If you want to test out a new or existing pedal or pickup, head down into the soundroom and use one of a dozen different guitars or amps. Not to mention the employee discount which shall not be made public lest it be spoiled.
Employees of Seymour Duncan get paid sick and vacation leave, which is especially helpful so you don't end up like this guy:
Everyone at Seymour Duncan makes a fair wage, gets health benefits and 401K matching contributions. The best part of it is, well, working for Seymour Duncan. A place known for quality and excellence, and surrounded by history. Don't be surprised when you hear someone walking up to you and you turn around to see Joe Bonamassa, Yngwie Malmsteen, Dino Cazares, Eddie Van Halen or Steve Miller.
One of our employees is a huge EVH fan (well most of us are actually) but he happened to be gone the day Eddie came by. When told this, Eddie sat in his chair and wrote a note for the employee which said "Ed VH here (Van Halen). I did your job today. -Eddie Van Halen."
So how does one go about getting a job at Seymour Duncan? Keep this link bookmarked and make sure to join the forum so you can keep up with the latest openings. Even if they aren't any jobs available, you can still pre-apply for openings here.


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Mike Russell | Staff Writer
I've spent many, many hours of my life arguing with Central and North Jersey residents about the relevance and character ofSouth Jersey. Why? The rest of the state is ready to dismiss us as unimportant. If the Delaware River and the Atlantic Ocean met in the middle of South Jersey, leaving nothing butTrenton and above alive, no one would seem to care. In a state already cast aside by the rest of the country,South Jersey is the lowest of the low (excuse the pun), cast aside by the rest of a state that no one wants in the first place.
With the attention lavished onto Jersey City, Hoboken, and even Newark, it's easy to feel like the little brother whose parents merely care of out of obligation, annoyed when he commands attention away from his older, more talented brother. I mean, look at everything our older brother has: multiple universities, including the State University of New Jersey; some of the richest residents in the state; a plethora of taxable former New Yorkers who want to enjoy the economic bounties of New York City without the frustration of having to park in New York City; the list goes on.
And yet, South Jersey continues on, fighting for attention and resources and love fromTrenton. We even have our own embassy fromNorth Jersey: the Rutgers Camden campus. RU-C is like a nod from our parents that says, "Don't worry; you're still a part of thisNew Jerseyfamily. We haven't forgotten about you".
But now we're eighteen years old and our parents are telling us they want us out of their house. Dad's saying he wants us to move in with our friend,RowanUniversity, and mom's telling us that it'll be better for us this way. And we're not leaving the house without a whole lot of kicking and a whole lot of screaming.
This proposed merger of folding RU-C into Rowan will sever a valuable tie to the state as a whole.Rutgersis the State University of New Jersey, which means it should have a presence in every part of the state to ensure that the entire state has access to its educational bounty. Rutgers Camden, especially, services all ofSouth Jersey, giving non-tradition students and commuters a relatively low cost and highly respected option for higher education.
Rutgersas a whole is considered a public institution with an Ivy League reputation and education. Rutgers Camden gives all ofSouth Jerseyaccess to what is arguably one of the best public institutions in the country. To rip that away from us would be devastating.
George E. Norcross III claims that it will be good for theSouth Jerseyregion because we could focus on creating our very own world class research institution. To this claim, let me repeat what a speaker at the recent forums said a few days ago: "We already have a world class research institution inSouth Jersey. It's called Rutgers Camden!"
Rutgers Camden has access to most of New Brunswick's resources, making it possible to do high level research at our small campus. To say that we need a better or uniqueSouth Jersey research campus sounds completely nonsensical.
Why do Governor Christie and Mr. Norcross want to abolish a great research institution that already exists? So South Jersey can stand on its own two feet whileNorth Jerseysits in Papa's lap? Why mustSouth Jerseyhave its own unique research university and deepen the statewide schism that so many already believe exists?


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China Sees 'Precipitous Increase' in Syphilis
In 2008, at least one syphilis-infected baby was born in China every hour—nearly 9,500 new infant cases in one year– according to a new report published Thursday, representing a 12-fold increase over a five year period.
The number of infants born with syphilis is a worrying sign of the resurgence of the disease in China. The report, in the New England Journal of Medicine, says that "no other country has seen such a precipitous increase in syphilis cases in the penicillin era." (Penicillin began to be widely used as an effective treatment against syphilis, a bacterial infection, in the 1940s). In Shanghai, syphilis is now the most commonly reported communicable disease.
China's syphilis epidemic is described as "a major scourge" and a consequence of China's rapid economic development. Fifty years ago, the sexually transmitted infection was nearly eliminated, thanks to a massive Communist-led crackdown on prostitution and a major treatment campaign. But since China began its opening and reform thirty years ago, the world's oldest profession has made a comeback, and so has syphilis.
In addition to female sex workers, men who have sex with men are also at a higher risk for syphilis. The report says that these two groups "disproportionately bear the burden of the Chinese syphilis epidemic, in part because unsafe sexual practices in these populations are driving the rate of infection and in part because the stigma attached to their sexual behaviors discourages them from obtaining needed care."
Meanwhile, the social stigma associated with sexually transmitted disease creates an obstacle to wider screening and treatment for syphilis. Left untreated, syphilis can damage the brain, heart and other organs and lead to death. And although health authorities in China have taken some measures to improve screening and treatment for the illness, the report's authors conclude that there is still greater need for public recognition of the growing public health problem and more government funding to tackle it.
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Top DVDs & Blu-rays from Amazon's Black Friday Deals Week
I am a huge fan of Amazon's yearly week of Black Friday Deals. These are my top movie and TV choices. I've ordered from them for the last 2 years during this sale and it's fun. Many of… Read More
Posted on November 19, 2011
Holiday Gifts for Readers: Books & Magazines $5 & Under
For this post (and others in my holiday sales series) I have went through thousands of items and chose the items that in my humble opinion are the best so that you don't have to wade through them…. Read More


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Holidays create the best photo opportunities! So, we are having a Holiday Photo Contest! Whether you are visiting Santa, decorating the tree or opening presents, there are picture opportunities everywhere during the Christmas season! Plus, you know us – you can even dig out a picture from last year, we won't tell!
Any photo that shows holiday spirit (whether it's happy or sad spirit!) is fair game! We love creativity! It doesn't have to be a standard cute or perfect picture. Have a great shot of all your kids completely losing it on Santa's lap? Have a picture of the pouter in your family with his or her lip out getting their pout on during the holidays? Or maybe you have that dreaded family picture where your whole family dressed up in matching holiday outfits and did some silly pose?
It doesn't have to be funny. It can be sweet too. New baby asleep in Santa's arms? That priceless expression when your child got exactly what they hoped for?
The sky is the limit with this one. It just has to be a holiday picture. Pictures with Santa. Santa visit gone horribly wrong. Matching holiday family outfits. Christmas morning. Hanukkah celebration. Holiday portraits. Playing in the snow. It can just be your kids or your whole family.
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Submit your original holiday photo (no more than 250 KB allowed) to firstname.lastname@example.com by Friday, November 26, 2010. Please include this information with photo submission:
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Our Baby Gizmo Judges will pick the best 10 photos to post on our Baby Gizmo Facebook page for everyone to vote on the winner! That's right, you can help pick the winner!
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In dramatic lore their names are Death, Destruction, pestilence, and Famine.
If you have dead bodies, pestilence, lice, with a 90 temperature--mosquitoes, flies--then you have serious problems.
In the meantime, I do kind of hope he wins Iowa, so that he can spread some of that pestilence around the GOP.
Cats, the Times told us, are a pestilence akin to gypsy moths and kudzu.
The coded "proofs" are everywhere: Floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, and pestilence.
A star like a comet, threatens ruin by war, and death by pestilence.
To be appointed to pestilence in the hospitals, and a grave in the sands!
Simply this: The earthquake, the lightning, the pestilence, are no respecters of persons.
We are forced to the conclusion, that, to arrest the pestilence, we must starve it.
But the country had been laid very low by war, pestilence and famine, though it recovered itself with wonderful rapidity.
c.1300, from Old French pestilence "plague, epidemic" (12c.) and directly from Latin pestilentia "a plague, an unwholesome atmosphere," noun of condition from pestilentem (nominative pestilens) "infected, unwholesome, noxious," from pestis "deadly disease, plague" (see pest).
pestilence pes·ti·lence (pěs'tə-ləns)
A usually fatal epidemic disease, especially bubonic plague.
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It is the worst when our furry friends pick up fleas and then bring them into our homes. Except, it's really not quite the worst. What's worse? When the flea collar you buy for Fido damages your child's brain with neurotoxins.
EPA Sued In Effort To Remove Potentially Toxic Chemicals From Fido's Flea Collar
It Turns Out Mothballs Aren't Just Bad For Moths
In a newly released study, doctors say the idea of preserving kids' clothing in mothballs should be mothballed. An ingredient that had been widely used in the pest repellent has been found to cause neurological damage, and sometimes death, in infants.
When Is It Worthwhile To Buy Organic?
Want to avoid eating pesticides without breaking the bank on organics? The handy "Shopper's Guide to Pesticides" makes it easy to keep track of which fruits and vegetables are likely to have bug spray all over them and which are not. Peaches, apples, bell peppers, celery, and strawberries head up the "dirty dozen" with the highest pesticide load. At the bottom: onions, avocados, frozen sweet corn, pineapple, and mangoes, which have so little pesticide, you're better off buying conventionally grown varieties (unless you're rich).
New York Times Calls Botox "The Duct Tape Of Medicine"
Who knew botulism could be so awesome? Botox is Allergan's cash cow, earning the pharmaceutical company $1.3 billion last year alone. The funny thing about the toxin—originally developed as a biological weapon—is it works for a lot of "off-label" uses as well (like treating anal fissures and preventing hair loss), and Allergan says that non-cosmetic applications could be an even bigger market because health insurers will help pay for the treatments. Likely upcoming FDA-approved treatments: stroke-induced muscle spasms, chronic migraines, and enlarged prostates.
China Pulls Carcinogenic US Pringles From Hong Kong Shelves
Ah, the game is afoot, China! See how the worm turns! Cliché #3 should go here! China has pulled some unofficially imported (from the U.S.) Pringles chips because they contain potassium bromate, a preservative that we Americans happily ingest in order to breed a race of lumpy super-capitalists—but that China, Hong Kong, and other countries have banned "because tests have found it to be carcinogenic."
Breast Milk Contains Oodles of Toxins
The Environmental Working Group published a report on the toxicity of breast milk. The research found breast milk to contain, "paint thinners, dry-cleaning fluids, wood preservatives, toilet deodorizers, cosmetic additives, gasoline byproducts, rocket fuel, termite poisons, fungicides and flame retardants."


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Cup Winners Secret Circle, Goldencents Clash
Secret Circle and Goldencents, a pair of indomitable Breeders' Cup winners from last year, clash in the $300,000 Santa Anita Sprint Championship (gr. I) Oct. 4 at Santa Anita Park.
Secret Circle and Goldencents, a pair of indomitable Breeders' Cup winners from last year, clash in the $300,000 Santa Anita Sprint Championship (gr. I) Oct. 4 at Santa Anita Park.
Mylute, runner-up in the Louisiana Derby (gr. II), continued his preparations for the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) with a six-furlong breeze in 1:12 1/5 the morning of Apil 14 at Churchill Downs.
Trainer Shug McGaughey said he was waiting for Orb to take him to Louisville, and the Hall of Fame conditioner should be on his way with the colt's big win in the $1 million Besilu Stables Florida Derby (gr. I) March 30.
A field of 10 has been entered for the $1 million Besilu Stables Florida Derby (gr. I) March 30 at Gulfstream Park, although three horses are getting almost all of the attention: Itsmyluckyday, Shanghai Bobby, and Orb.
Champion Shanghai Bobby breezed five furlongs at Palm Meadows Training Center on the morning of March 24 in final preparation for a scheduled start in the $1 million Besilu Stables Florida Derby (gr. I).
Baffert's Flashback, Power Broker and Tiz the Truth also work for upcoming preps
Perretti Racing Stable's highly regarded Forty Tales heads a group of thirteen sophomores who stay sprinting -- at least for now -- in the $150,000 Swale Stakes (gr. II) at Gulfstream Park on March 2.
Merit Man is just a nose short of perfection in four starts for trainer Bob Hess Jr., but the 3-year-old son of With Distinction will have to travel a furlong farther than he has before in the $150,000 Hutcheson Stakes.
Merit Man proved his mettle in the $100,000 Spectacular Bid Stakes Jan. 1, coming back off a runner-up finish to Hightail in the Nov. 2 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Sprint to prove his class at Gulfstream Park.
Bruce Chandler, Robert McKee and partners' Merit Man will be the horse to beat in the $100,000 Spectacular Bid Stakes for newly-turned 3-year-olds on the Gulfstream Park New Year's Day card.
Hightail, exploiting a slight opening at the rail in upper stretch, upset 1-2 favorite Merit Man in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Sprint Nov. 2, giving trainer D. Wayne Lukas his 19th lifetime victory in the Championships.
Bob Hess Jr. trains 8-5 morning-line favorite for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Sprint.
Jim Glavin, co-owner of Breeders' Cup Juvenile Sprint candidate Merit Man, wanted a stable name and colors that stood out.
On a cool morning Oct. 26 at Keeneland, 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom turned in a workmanlike breeze preparing for his upcoming start in the Nov. 3 Breeders' Cup Mile (gr. IT) at Santa Anita Park.
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In a recent New York Times opinion piece, three psychiatrists ask, "Does Media Violence Lead to the Real Thing?" While acknowledging the question's troubling nature, due to the potential ramifications it has for free speech, they also point out that numerous agencies and organizations do hold that media violence is, indeed, a risk factor for real violence. Obviously, this question won't be going away anytime soon, especially in light of tragedies such as this one. … [Read more...]
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The Next Pope Should be a Protestant (No, Not Really)
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Pope Benedict XVI has announced that he will relinquish his office at the end of February, an event that has not been seen since the 13th century. As the outgoing pope delivered his final Sunday blessing this week, the Conclave prepares to meet to elect his successor (see this neat (if imperfectly translated) graphic). By the time the Papal Conclave convenes in March, the "media conclave" will have cast scores of votes electing the next Bishop of Rome.The rumors were barely confirmed before l … [Read more...]


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All 10 Christopher Nolan Movies, Ranked
All 10 Christopher Nolan Movies, Ranked
The Real Housewives of New York City Recap: Oh No, Mexico
Dunkirk Is a Great War Movie Marred by Christopher Nolan's Usual Tricks
Revenge of the Twink: How Slimmer Movie Stars Are Seizing the Spotlight
A Clueless American's Guide to the Battle of Dunkirk
Trump Attacks Sessions, Still Doesn't Know How the Justice Department Works
Why Do We Still Root for Arya Stark?
Did Japan's First Lady Pretend She Doesn't Speak English So She Wouldn't Have to Talk to Trump?
I Faked Being Engaged for the Discounts
Donald Trump's Oldest Sons Are Reportedly Jealous of Jared Kushner


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The following information was taken from El Dorado County sheriff's reports:
June 6: Someone broke a truck's window on Latham Lane.
June 6: A burglary was reported on Town Center Boulevard.
Too much, too young
June 7: Deputies arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of public intoxication on Saratoga Way.
On a rampage
June 7: An unidentified woman reportedly vandalized multiple vehicles and property King Edward Drive. Vandalism to vehicles was also reported on King George Court and King Richard Drive though it is unclear if one suspect is responsible for all the damage, which included popped tires and broken windows.
Uninvited guest
June 8: Deputies arrested a 26-year-old woman who reportedly entered a King Edward Court home, consumed alcohol and stole the victim's keys before returning to her own residence.
Easy rider
June 9: A 21-year-old man with outstanding warrants was arrested on Keswick Drive after deputies spotted the suspect riding a motorcycle through the neighborhood. The man was also cited for riding without a motorcycle license.
June 9: Deputies arrested a 39-year-old man on suspicion of public intoxication on Green Valley Road.
Not going anywhere
June 9: Uninvited juveniles allegedly vandalized an Echo Springs Circle home after they were asked to leave a party.
Tough arrest
June 10: Deputies had to use force to take a 39-year-old man into custody on Bass Lake Road after they reportedly found the combative suspect in possession of burglary tools and methamphetamine.
Gone flat
June 10: A King George Drive resident found her tire punctured.
Biz break in
June 10: A thief burglarized a White Rock Road business.
Royal pain
June 10: A King Edward Drive resident reported her mailbox damaged.
Garage stuff grabbed
June 11: A Valley View Parkway resident reported that someone stole personal items from the garage.
Just grand
June 12: A grand theft was reports on Olson Lane.


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Gay man denied meds that protect against HIV
- Details
- Published: Sunday, 14 July 2013 22:20
Mt. Sinai Hospital failed to deliver crucial emergency treatment
How many more will be denied?
Protest this outrage! Wed. July 17, Noon, Madison Ave & 100th St – Mt. Sinai
On Friday, July 5, a gay man who feared he'd just been exposed to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, went for treatment to the Emergency Room at Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital.
He needed PEP (Post Exposure Prophylaxis), a treatment shown to be very good at stopping the virus, if treatment starts quickly. And Mt. Sinai's Emergency Department has PEP.
Despite this -- with the clock ticking -- Mt. Sinai repeatedly denied that such a thing existed and then discouraged, the patient left the hospital! How could
this happen at a prominent teaching hospital in a major medical center?
Demand Mt. Sinai do its job!
Protest Wed. July 17 at Mt. Sinai Hospital
Madison Ave between 100th and 101st St. at Noon.
If YOU are ever exposed to HIV, remember PEP. Again: Post Exposure Prophylaxis, the standard medical HIV treatment for needle sticks, broken condoms, etc.
Mt. Sinai is not alone. There are several reports of delays or refusals by other NYC health care providers in getting PEP to those who need it.
And: The NYC Department of Health's Bureau of HIV AIDS is doing a lousy job of getting the word out about this important tool of HIV prevention. Time to wake them up!
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH) recently cut funds for providing this service to the uninsured!
- Demand that all emergency health providers meet their obligations and provide PEP on demand!!
- Demand that the city and state Departments of Health fund and promote this emergency preventive, aggressively!
ACT UP is watching. ACT UP got the call from the man who feared he'd been infected, made sure he was advised that Mt Sinai's E.R. was reported to have Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP). ACT UP then got a call back and heard from him that Mt. Sinai personnel denied this was a treatment. The patient got the medications at Mt. Sinai only after ACT UP intervened. Delaying PEP reduces its effectiveness. ACT UP is keeping track of these incidents and holding hospitals and government health officials accountable.
With new HIV infections increasing at the fastest rate in over 15 years, it's time for more AIDS activism -- check out ACT UP's new F*ck Smarter toolkit online at:
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|Kill Devil
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|Directed by
|Yuichi Onuma
|Written by
|Hiroshi Kanno
|Music by
|Masato Nishimura
|Masakazu Oka
|February 7, 2004
|Running time
|86 min.
|JMDb profile
Kill Devil (キル・鬼ごっこ Kill Onigokko) is a 2004 Japanese horror film directed by Yuichi Onuma.
By the year 2025, the entire human genome has been decoded, and scientists are finally able to isolate the parts of our DNA which cause us to become murderers. People with this killer gene are placed on an island with no memory of who they are or why they're there and are forced to kill each other in a sadistic scientific experiment.
External linksEdit
- Kill Devil review at SaruDama