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- Artist: Sabrina Taylor
- Genre: Rock
- Release Date: 11/21/2006
From the seacoast of NOVA SCOTIA CANADA to the city of golden opportunities, Sabrina has traveled a singular road as an acclaimed up-and coming singer, songwriter. Sabrina takes a heartfelt, introspective approach when writing her words and music, and whether alone with her guitar or fronting a band of ace musicians, Sabrina has always been a charismatic live performer, who's hard work and heartfelt songwriting shines through her personality. Sabrina has been touring the west coast for the past 3 years playing many great clubs such as THE HOTEL CAFE, THE MINT, THE HARD ROCK CAFE, THE VIPER ROOM, THE KEY CLUB, THE KNITTING FACTORY, And has been doing a BORDERS BOOKS AND MUSIC tour for the past 3months. She just release her second EP titled 'CAN'T GO HOME' which reflects her journey from Nova Scotia to California. Sabrina has also played many festivals in the USA including - SOUTH PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL, ECHO PARK MUSIC FESTIVAL, AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY OUT DOOR FESTIVAL, and CANADIAN LOUNGE, a by-monthley Canadian music event put on by Local Canadians. In Canada, Sabrina has performed at THE APPLE BLOSSOM FESTIVAL, THE WOODEN BOAT FESTIVAL OF MAHONE BAY, VALLEY PALOZZA, MUCH MUSIC BATTLE OF THE BANDS and has appeared on BREAKFAST TELEVISION and CHRISTMAS DADDYS. Sabrina's also been gathering solid press kudos from the underground including LA WEEKLY,'a breath of fresh air...' while praising 'her smart lyrics, engaging melodies and resonant voice.'Radio Praise from windswept Pacific 'Her powerful lyrics and memorable melodies are what set her apart from other female artists today.' Sabrina has also shared the stage with Maple Music artist David Usher, The Novacks and Maverick recording artist Tyler Hilton, And has written with producer BOB MARLETTE (THE DONNAS, TRACY CHAPMAN, GLENN HUGES, BLACK SABBATH; TONI LOMMI) Sabrina plans to travel back home to CANADA to tour in 2007.
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The first thing you realize when listening to Fossil Collective is that this is a band that do things differently. Beautiful melodic music, with rich glorious harmonies and meticulous attention to detail, it is as much an aural statement as it is a pleasure to listen to. Layer upon layer of harmony mixed with delicate uplifting sounds may well remind you of other artists, be it Neil Young, Simon & Garfunkel or Midlake but this music is no mere imitation. Whilst Fossil Collective's songs tip their cap to these classic musicians, scratch the surface and you discover something more contemporary, yet equally as rewarding. It seems impossible that something so sonically complete could appear as if from nowhere, but Fossil Collective, the Yorkshire two-piece have been perfecting their craft and working towards this moment for years. Consisting of multi-instrumentalists David Fendick and Jonny Hooker, both were local musicians from the Leeds music scene, whose paths had crossed at various points in different bands.
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La LigaâÂÂs Good Day, Bad Day - Round 29
Armchair fans
On Friday, a doom-mongering La Liga Loca feared a gaggle of match blackouts due to the increasingly petulant Great TV War. Instead, the complete opposite happened with almost every game being up for freebie grabs to SpainâÂÂs lucky viewers who were able to consume up to six matches from their starting-to-smell sofas.
The latest spat in the long-running saga began with the âÂÂG30â clubs - there are only 22 of them, mind - refusing entry to AVS, their match broadcasters, in revenge for what they claim to be unpaid debts.
Instead, the likes of Valladolid stuck their fingers up at their sugar daddies by allowing free-rein broadcasting to rival TV company Mediapro.
âÂÂA fiesta for fans,â screamed Marca. âÂÂA war where football loses,â grumbled AS. Guess which papers are owned by which media groupings?
Barcelona and Real Madrid
Of course, the downside to SaturdayâÂÂs football free-fest was that the encounters of these two table-topping teams were broadcast. A couple of fairly dull 1-0 affairs where the eventual outcomes were never in any real doubt.
Barcelona will offer up this weekâÂÂs Champions League clash with Bayern as an excuse for their slackness, while Madrid will grumble about missing a number of starters through injury.
Juande Ramos
Despite taking one for the team and ploughing through the likes of Marca on a daily basis, La Liga Loca is still baffled by the batty world of the Spanish sports media. And why so few people seem to be recommending... er... Juande Ramos as the Real Madrid boss next season.
Since taking over from Bernd Schuster, the former Sevilla man has played 15, won 13 and lost just one â his first match, against Barcelona in the Camp Nou, only lost by an antâÂÂs picnic basket.
The Champions League debacle against Liverpool is Ramosâ only real blemish, although the blog may perhaps be overly charitable in its opinion that there was probably little that the Madrid manager could have done to prevent it.
While the likes of Wenger, Ancelotti and Pellegrini are being bandied around as RamosâÂÂs replacement, why arenâÂÂt people looking a little closer to home? (Continues to scratch head. Possibly because of lice.)
"What's a guy gotta do?"
Athletic Bilbao
Over the past two months, Athletic BilbaoâÂÂs players were either preparing for their Copa del Rey semi-final clash, drunk from winning it or being bitch-slapped by La LigaâÂÂs big four.
For these many and varied reasons, the Basque club had not mustered a victory in seven attempts. But this rather rubbish run ended on Saturday night with a slightly spawny 2-1 win over Mallorca which owed a great deal to an early spot-kick awarded harshly for a ball-to-hand incident â something that even Athletic manager JoaquÃÂn Caparrós owned up to.
Freddie Kanouté
Now the equal highest foreign goalscorer for Sevilla with 90 strikes. The same as Davor Suker. The blog man-love for Steady Freddie continues.
For once, the blog doesnâÂÂt have to patronisingly put Espanyol in the Good Day section after a plucky draw or a defeat where they did their very, very best. SundayâÂÂs 3-1 win over Deportivo gives the Pericos a glimmer of hope of survival that will surely be snuffed out by the water pistol of reality. HereâÂÂs a potty Paul from Barcelona who saw a monumental match in Montjuic...
âÂÂI'm still in shock. First home win since 1994 (well, it feels like it). Totally deserved against, it must be said, a very very poor Depor. The first bit of luck for ages came when De la Peña played a pass for Ivan Alonso and the keeper allowed it to bounce off his chest and Alonso put it in from a tight angle. 1-0.
Then, just before half time, De la Peña beat two defenders on the edge of the area before passing the ball into the corner of the net àla Steven Gerrard. A fantastic goal. But this being Espanyol, we allowed Depor to score about two minutes later.
Second half was very poor and Espanyol had two cleared off the line and could have had a penalty for handball. Rufete ran clear in injury time to score a third which gave a truer reflection of the play.
Espanyol have played much better and lost â but we won't be playing teams as bad as Depor every week.
Stray cat count 0, but one in the car park.âÂÂ
Paul, Barcelona
Masoud Shojaei
On the few occasions that La Liga Loca has caught the Iranian winger in action, the blog had a feeling in its waters that it was he was a bit special. Either that, or the old prostate's playing up again.
It was Masoud the Magnificent on Sunday afternoon in the 4-2 win over Atlético Madrid in the child-filled Vicente Calderón. The cherry on the trifle of a fine performance was his solo effort in the second half which had half the Atleti defence on their backsides and mentally ringing their agents for a way out.
âÂÂWe owe a debt to our fans,â admitted Unai Emery before ValenciaâÂÂs SundayâÂÂs 4-1 win over Getafe and adding to the clubâÂÂs ever-expanding list of creditors.
Alvaro Negredo
His salmon-leaping header in the 3-0 win over Villarreal was the AlmerÃÂa strikerâÂÂs 17th league goal of the season.
Negredo: "Let's play Twister, let's play Risk"
Atlético Madrid
Now, La Liga Loca can occasionally be prone to exaggeration and, well, making stuff up. So readers may have justified doubts when todayâÂÂs update claims that Atlético Madrid were so bad that even those who apparently could not walk rose miraculously from their seats and left the stadium.
During the first half, La Liga Loca spotted an Atlético fan in a wheelchair repeatedly raise himself to his feet to berate his idiot players. The same fan abandoned his chair at half-time and never returned.
But thereâÂÂs more. Atlético Madrid were so blooming awful that one supporter changed his footballing allegiances halfway through the second half. Off came his rojiblanco top to be replaced by a Juventus shirt.
âÂÂYou donâÂÂt normally begin building a house with a roof,â sighed Marca, lamenting the home sideâÂÂs fantastic front four and naff-all else. "As always with Atlético, you know how the film is going to end after 10 minutes,â wrote AS.
In SundayâÂÂs case it was eight minutes â the time it took for Osasuna to have a goal disallowed, hit the post and score the opener.
Guti, Maniche
And so both midfielders' careers swish even further down the U-bend of despair.
Guti was left unused and unwanted on the bench after warming up for much of the game against Málaga. Aside from the final five minutes, that is, when he was recorded by TV cameras refusing to get up from his seat after being told by the clubâÂÂs trainer to go and run around a bit.
Maniche was left out of the rojiblanco squad, once again. The portly Portuguese player has not played a single minute for Abel Resino since informing the Atlético coach that he got his tactics all wrong against Porto in the Champions League second leg goalless draw.
Maniche and Resino: "Tell him I hate him"
Santi Cazorla
VillarrealâÂÂs 3-0 collapse against AlmerÃÂa was fairly predictable - although not for La Liga Loca on Friday - but what did come as a huge shock was poor Santi Cazorla breaking his ankle.
The magic midfielder is now out for at least four months and his absence severely scuppers VillarrealâÂÂs chances against Arsenal in the upcoming Champions League clash.
Comedy gold in the Manuel Ruiz de Lopera and âÂÂthe perfect example of what Betis has become in recent years,â write Marca.
With just seconds on the clock, it looked as if Betis had been let out of jail with a penalty from Ricardo Oliveira putting them into a 3-2 lead.
But that was before a long ball was hoofed into the Betis box and a red-carded Ricardo came flying off his line to take out Numancia forward, Aranda. The inevitable penalty gave Numancia the chance to finish the game 3-3.
âÂÂHe took their forward out, but these things happen,â shrugged a so-close-to-being-sacked Paco Chaparro.
Muñoz Out! Muñoz Out! Muñoz Out!
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No Thanks Given in Bronx for a Smelly Turkey Plant
By ANDREA ELLIOTT
Published: October 14, 2004
The smell wakes them at night. It sits in their clothes, their hair, the vents of their air-conditioning units.
It is the smell of smoked turkey, wafting day and night from the LSK Smoked Turkey Products plant, which moved into the quiet Parkchester section of the Bronx two years ago. These days, it is hard to find a resident who will still cook the bird, even on Thanksgiving.
But relief may soon come. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced yesterday that the city would move to shut down the plant, at 1575 Bronx River Avenue, a few blocks southeast of Bronx Park. The news follows months of agitation by local residents, who have grown so desperate that they have threatened to stand in front of the company's turkey-packed trucks to stop them from moving.
''At first it was an interesting smell,'' said Jeffrey Monge, 36, the president of the Noble Mansion Tenant Association. ''And then it became an annoying smell after you started smelling it morning, noon and night. Now it's horrific.''
The company, which cooks and packages pork parts, turkey parts and whole turkeys, moved to the Bronx in May 2002 after a long and fraught history with its former neighbors in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The city has logged more than 60 complaints from Parkchester residents since August 2003, and began citing the company for air pollution violations the next month.
To date, LSK Smoked Turkey Products has paid more than $3,000 in fines for eight violations. The most recent citation, costing an additional $2,000, was issued on Monday, about a month after the company installed an air filtration system intended to curb the smell. It has also been cited for letting grease spill into the sewers.
''I think we've been as tolerant as we should be, and we'll do everything we can now to just close them down,'' Mr. Bloomberg said. ''They paid lip service to getting the equipment that would remove the smells. That has not worked.''
A lawyer for the company said it had been experimenting with different products to eliminate the odor.
''We will use whatever legal means are available to us to stay open while we try to address this problem and meet the community's concerns,'' said the lawyer, Robert M. Weiss. ''We feel that drastic steps should not be taken.''
As a next step, on Oct. 26 city officials will seek permission from a judge for the city's Environmental Control Board to shut down the company's operations, said Charles G. Sturcken, a spokesman for the Department of Environmental Protection.
If the factory is closed, Mr. Weiss said, 55 people stand to lose their jobs, a threat has weighed heavily on the workers.
''How are we going to live if we don't have jobs?'' one worker said in a telephone interview, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he feared retribution from his employer. ''We've got a lot of families who are being supported.''
In the city's annals of odorous factories, LSK is certainly no anomaly. For years, the New York Organic Fertilizer Company, a sludge plant in Hunts Point, the Bronx, has been repeatedly cited for air pollution violations, Mr. Sturcken said. The community's efforts to close the plant have proved challenging because it is also regulated by the state, he said.
Not all olfactory offenses stem from sludge: in Brooklyn, a popular coffee roaster, the Gillies Coffee Company, was cited for odor violations after residents complained in 2002.
While the scents of sludge and coffee are unmistakable, what seems to set LSK apart is the variety of smells its turkeys generate. The thick vapor that pours from the factory's roof elicits a variety of descriptions, depending on the nose.
''It smells like burnt barbecue turkey potato chips,'' said Mr. Monge.
Rotten eggs, opined Stephanie Almodovar, who is 11 and lives across the street from the plant.
A rotting rat, said Veronica Acosta, 38, who lives several doors down.
Contrary to what the company's name suggests, the smell is not caused by smoke -- the turkeys are cooked and then covered in a smoke-flavored liquid, Mr. Weiss said.
''It is the cooking process that creates the turkey odors, similar to cooking in an oven, but on a larger scale,'' Mr. Weiss said.
''But it's a bad cook,'' said Stephanie's father, Carlos Almodovar, 32.
Perhaps no street in the Bronx more clearly captures the tension between industrial boom and residential life than Bronx River Avenue. To the east is a quaint row of brick homes with well-tended lawns festooned by Halloween decorations. To the west is the LSK factory: a low-lying, windowless building scrawled with graffiti. If anything links the street's two sides, it is the vapor that pours from a metal shaft in the factory's roof.
The factory's operation is legal because it is in an industrial zone, Mr. Sturcken said. It is the odorous steam that violates the city's Air Pollution Control Code, he said. The code prohibits persistent and troublesome smells that cause discomfort.
The discomfort comes in many forms. Residents complain of headaches, coughing and intensified asthma symptoms in children. ''Just breathing it in all day makes you nauseous,'' said Ronald Savage, 39, who lives in a high-rise near the plant.
An additional nuisance is the constant stream of 18-wheeler trucks that often double-park outside the plant at all hours of the night, their motors running, residents said.
Speaking through their lawyer, the company's owners, Daniel Salmon and Owen Grossblatt, said they moved from Williamsburg to expand their production. In so doing, they left behind years of disputes with their former neighbors on Grand Street, said Deborah Masters, a Williamsburg resident who led an unsuccessful effort to curb the factory's odors.
''The smoke was fatty,'' she said. ''When you tried to breathe it you felt like you were suffocating.''
While city officials have not assessed whether the plant's emissions pose serious health hazards, Mr. Almodovar said he recently began having lung problems, pointing to a medical report by his doctor this month. The report said Mr. Almodovar's red blood cell count had ''increased due to smoke inhalation,'' even though he does not smoke.
''You hear my kids?'' he said. ''They constantly have a cough.''
He walked inside his apartment and pulled a yellow floral quilt from his bed, bunching it up and offering it as testament. The quilt reeked of smoked turkey.
''This wakes me up at night,'' he said. ''You walk by here, you feel it. It's covering you.''
Photos: Carlos Almodovar, age 6, says it all for his father, Carlos, left, and Jeffrey Monge, president of a tenants group, about the LSK plant in the Bronx.; Vapor, and with it the smell of processed turkey, rises from the LSK factory near the Noble Mansion apartments. Neighbors have complained of the smell for two years, and now the city is moving to close the plant. (Photographs by Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times)


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The last time I checked ...
Last time you checked? You didn't check, you took the reported and extremely slow value ("half hour") at face value, instead of comparing your version with a bioperl-version.
In that same thread I showed the difference between bioperl or non-bioperl was much smaller than "half hour" vs "11 seconds".
Now to advocate avoiding a heavy framework for speed is fair enough. But you shouldn't repeat extreme slowness unchecked & unvalidated (it's a bit similar to this slanderous assertion about database - though, of course, that was worse! :) ).
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I have read with interest the numerous letters responding to my daughter Gabriella Hebert's (June 1) letter to the editor criticizing the new Wal-Mart coming to Juneau.
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Initially, I did not want Gaby to read Doug Cooper's vicious attack (June 6), but as more letters came in, my husband and I decided that she should be aware of her letter's effect.
Rather than focus on the issue of Wal-Mart, I would like to respond to some of the questions raised concerning an 8-year-old's ability to care about her community and to articulate her position in writing.
The discussion about Wal-Mart began around our dinner table many months ago. Like many Juneau families, we talk about current events, and the issue came up about Wal-Mart's ability to sell items cheaply. As parents, we want our daughter to know that a good deal for us may not be a good deal for those who make the product or sell the product. We used Costco as a local example of an employer that, according to news reports, provides employees good wages and benefits.
We want to pass on our family's legacy of being good Juneau business owners. My husband's father began Lyle's Hardware in the late 1950s and treated his customers and employees well. Lisle currently owns a Juneau movie theater that provides an affordable place to watch good films. We believe there is more to business than the bottom line, and we have conveyed that value to our daughter.
A couple of months ago, Gaby missed a week of school to go back East to be with her grandmother as she went through a series of medical tests. I asked Gaby to spend 30 minutes a day writing. I didn't care if she wrote in her journal, e-mailed her dad or created a cartoon strip. On the last day, she handed me her letter to the editor. She had misspelled "appalled" and "people" and I suggested she correct them. But she replied that if she did, no one would believe an 8-year-old would have written it!
The Juneau Empire corrected the misspellings before publishing the letter.
My response to those who question whether our child is parroting our personal beliefs and values is to assure them that is far from the case. Recently, Gabriella informed us that while she admires us for working in the nonprofit, social service sector, she fully intends to be "really rich" and have a huge home in Hawaii when she grows up!
If I didn't have a child, I think I would have been skeptical of anyone so young taking the initiative to care this much about her community. But she is not unique. I have often overheard her friends and classmates discussing "grown-up" issues. It is just not very often children are aware of the avenues they have to express their feelings in public.
I believe we can instill in our children a passion for their community and the people in it. I believe we can allow them to speak freely and be open to other points of view. And I hope and pray that this new generation of Americans will use their intelligence, compassion and resources to steer our country on a nobler course.
Claire Richardson and her family are in London, England, this summer while she pursues her graduate studies as a chaplain at St. Christopher's Hospice.
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ROCKCASTLE COUNTY, Ky. (WKYT) -- Police in Rockcastle County are investigating after the discovery of dead and emaciated horses.
Kentucky State Police say they received a complaint on Tuesday afternoon about the animals on a farm on Robinson Cemetery Road.
Police say they found five dead horses and 21 others in bad physical shape when they arrived at the farm.
The owner of the farm, 54-year-old Jerry Campbell, has been charged with 21 counts of 2nd degree cruelty to animals.


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Tomatoes are at their best in August, and the class will cover a variety of ways to use and preserve tomatoes, including tomato and squash pie, gazpacho, salsa and tomato jam.
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Okay, I will warn against the white board. It does sound like a great idea... but it also tells people that you are NOT in your room. So I think that just leaves your room more available for bad things to happen. I wouldn't recommend that.
As for meeting up with people, we had walkie-talkies. The tiny ones from Walmart. They worked great. It was so nice because my husband would sleep in every morning and then go for a run on the beach. Where as I was up by 7 and ready to eat breakfast. So it was lovely to just turn on my radio and see if anyone else had theirs on and were eating. Every morning we'd find each other via the radios. It worked out great!
We found that word of mouth and our group was together 90% of the time.. No one was left out unless they were looking for alone time. We all had this habit of 3pm swim up bar drinks and discuss everyones dinner plans and then arrange a time to meet at the lobby bar around 7 or 8. It'll be fine no worries


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Today is release for Gillian Bronte Adam's Songkeeper!
Genre: Christian, Fantasy.
Age Range: 15+ for violence.
Favorite Quote: "I've freed you once tonight, and I would rather not do it again. I prefer to commit treason as few times as possible."
Series: Book two in the Songkeeper Chronicles, needs to be read in order.
Stars: 5 out of 5 stars.
I love this book and the characters. I was sucked into the story and everyone's life. If you're a lover of action packed fantasies, pick this series up!
I find it unique that the series isn't just focused on two teenagers, but we get an adult as a main character, too! And Amos is a great main character at that! I love his humor, his lilt and his relationship with Birdie. I'm glad we get to know a little more about him in this book.
We finally get to see more of Ky and the underground! The underground is an organization of teens and kids who live underground, obviously, and steal to feed themselves. It's quite an interesting network! Gillian did an amazing job of developing the personalities of all the minor characters, which were quite a few! Throughout the book, I wanted to squeeze Ky and fend off anyone who dared hurt him. I feel so bad for him… and I can't say why because of spoilers. Ky has matured greatly because of his experiences, he is, a lot stronger and a great leader, . He was so protective of Meli, a young girl from the underground. He's going to make a great father one day!
Birdie is an interesting protagonist. She's so confused about the song and her family, and no one can answer her questions. I really felt for her and her struggles, and at the end I cried for her and was ready to hurt everyone who even looked at her wrong. I like her a lot more in this book, and she's currently competing with Ky for my favorite character. She's stronger, bolder and just plain out awesome.
I thought it was different that there were lions in this book! Riding horses is outdated, apparently. It was really unique and I wish they were there throughout the whole book.
I have to talk about Gundhrold, the griffin. He was quite an interesting character! He wants to help Birdie, but more often than not he isn't around when she was in trouble. I love the conversations between Gundhrold and Amos! Amos wants "his girl" to stay safe and sound, and away from all the action. While Gundhrold thinks she is perfectly fine out there and no harm will come to her. So they clash often, which makes for some great conversations!
Highlight to read minor spoiler. Won't effect you unless you've read the first book. I didn't really like the betrayal that happened. It was almost identical to the one in the first book, and it was obvious (to me at least) that he wasn't to be trusted. EEnd spoiler.
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There is a scene at the end that is scary/creepy, so I would caution young readers.
About the Author:
I'm a sword-wielding, horse-riding, coffee-loving speculative fiction author! Blog and Facebook.
I received this book from the author, Gillian Bronte Adams, and the publisher, Enclave Publishing, in exchange for my honest review.


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Fairfield, which has won 10 of its last 12 games, improved to 19-8 overall and 14-4 in the MAAC.
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January 7, 2013
Too Many Universities Not Requiring Important Physical Education
Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online
It wasn´t long ago that I strolled into a very daunting room filled with machines and contraptions that confounded and intimidated me. This sense of being lost at sea was only added to by the ease and skill with which I saw others navigating the room. As it turns out, according to a new study out of Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon, my experience was far from unique.At my university, our workout facility was a massively large one-story complex that was outfitted with all of the most modern exercise equipment. This had to do, as it turns out, with the fact that our school was lucky enough, for a few short years, to be the spring training camp home of the Dallas Cowboys.
My trepidation led me to take a weight lifting course with the hopes of familiarizing myself with each piece of equipment in the room. But in the same class catalog, I saw that other physical education courses I could have elected to take included classes on walking and bowling. While we at least had a physical education requirement for graduation, not all of the options were truly challenging.
This latest study seems even more shocking to me than being able to satisfy a physical education credit with bowling. In it, Brad Cardinal, lead author of the study and professor of exercise and sport science at Oregon State, claims that more than half of four-year colleges and universities in the United States have dropped their physical education requirements when compared to historic levels.
The peak of physical education requirement at four-year universities occurred in the 1920´s when almost every college student found that physical education and exercise stood between them and their degree. Today, however, this number has dropped to an all-time low. According to the study, just 39 percent of US college students are required to obtain a physical education credit prior to graduation.
Cardinal finds this almost unconscionable as a weight and obesity epidemic has stricken our nation and policy makers and health experts are typically in full agreement that the overall amount of exercise for individuals must be increased.
To arrive at his findings, Cardinal pulled data from 354 four-year universities that had been randomly selected for his study. He examined data that went back to the previously discussed peak in exercise education in 1920, a year that saw 97 percent of students who were required to engage in physical education.
Today we see a staggering 34 percent of adolescents and teens between the ages of 12 and 19 who are overweight, with 17 percent falling into the obese range. Since 1980, these rates have roughly doubled, according to the 2012 Shape of the Nation Report.
"We see more and more evidence about the benefit of physical activity, not just to our bodies, but to our minds, yet educational institutions are not embracing their own research," Cardinal said. "It is alarming to see four-year institutions following the path that K-12 schools have already gone down, eliminating exercise as part of the curriculum even as obesity rates climb."
Cardinal, a national expert on the benefits of physical activity points to research that shows not only is your basic health improved by exercise, but it also helps to improve your overall cognitive performance.
"Brain scans have shown that physical activity improves the area of the brain involved with high-level decision making," he said. "In addition, we know employers often are concerned about employee health, in part because physically active employees attend work more and tend to perform better."
Oregon State University has not buckled to the disturbing trend among other four-year universities. Each student is still required to take physical education courses. Cardinal believes that this basic requirement can help set the tone for students in their general understanding that an active lifestyle and good health should be as important as their classroom studies. According to Cardinal, requiring even just one or two physical education courses can help to jump-start a student into incorporating a healthier lifestyle into their college experience. This, he believes, will translate into a life-long commitment to health.
"There is a remarkable disconnect in that we fund research as a nation showing that physical activity is absolutely critical to academic and life success, but we aren't applying that knowledge to our own students," he said.
With this study, we see the "what;" but what we haven´t seen is the "why."
Cardinal has a theory on that, as well. According to him, it is likely this downturn in physical education requirement is stemming from the combination of shrinking budgets and an increase in focus on purely academic courses. He believes it is mirroring the same trend that has been seen in the public elementary, middle and high schools in our nation.
Cardinal believes that education and public policy administrators are looking at the math equation the wrong way, however. The median physical education budget for schools in the US is a meager $764 per school year in K-12. In fact, 61 percent of physical education teachers report an annual budget of less than $1000.
But when you look at what obesity will cost the nation overall--an unbelievable $344 billion in medical related expenses over the next 5 years--Cardinal believes the cut to physical education barely saves in the short term, setting us up for an astronomical hospital bill, equal to 21 percent of US healthcare spending, in the very near term.
Many of the schools studied, while not requiring a physical education credit to receive your diploma, do offer recreation classes and state-of-the-art fitness centers.
As I pointed out above, as a freshman, that fitness center was rather intimidating.
And Cardinal points out that not only freshman feel that nervousness at even entering the room. International and low-fitness or skill-level students are equally intimidated. Previous studies have shown that campus exercise facilities are most often used by the already healthy population of the student body.
"The very people who want to work out, and likely would find a way to do so no matter what, are often the most frequent visitors to gyms and fitness centers," Cardinal said. "A public university should provide a way for people who may be intimidated by state-of-the-art facilities, or may be unfamiliar with even the basic concept of working out, a way to learn about basic health and physical activity."
As I mentioned, thankfully my university did require physical education coursework for graduation.
For the schools that don´t maintain this requirement, Cardinal has a suggestion. He feels that researchers and other experts in exercise and sport science may have to put in the legwork themselves to help turn the tide of inactivity at the university level. It will take a concerted effort to drive the research into the area of policy formation.
"As health educators and exercise scientists, we need to get serious about our roles in advocating for and using research to bring physical education back to college campuses," Cardinal said. "College isn't too late to start influencing students and getting them on a healthy trajectory."
Spencer Sorensen of Portland State University and Marita Cardinal of Western Oregon University contributed to this study. The results are in the current issue of Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport.


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Drug lord 'escaped through tunnel'
Mexico's top drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped through an elaborate tunnel in his cell, a security official said.
Security Commission Monte Alejandro Rubido said the tunnel was nearly 5,000ft long and had ventilation and stairs.
Officials also found a motorcycle that was used to remove dirt, Mr Rubido said.
The escape late on Saturday was Guzman's second from a maximum security prison in Mexico.
Eighteen employees from various part of the Altiplano prison 55 miles west of Mexico City have been taken in for questioning, Mr Rubido said in a news conference.
A manhunt began immediately late on Saturday for the head of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel.
Roads were being heavily patrolled by Federal Police with numerous checkpoints and a Blackhawk helicopter was seen flying overhead. Flights were also suspended at Toluca airport near the penitentiary in the State of Mexico, and civil aviation hangars were being searched.
Guzman was last seen about 9pm on Saturday in the shower area of his cell, according to a statement from the National Security Commission. After a time, he was lost by the prison's security camera surveillance network. Upon checking his cell, authorities found it empty and a 20-by-20-inch (50-by-50 centimeter) hole near the shower.
Guzman's escape is a major embarrassment to the administration of President Enrique Pena Nieto, which had received plaudits for its aggressive approach to top drug lords. Since the government took office in late 2012, Mexican authorities have captured or killed six of them, including Guzman.
Guzman faces multiple federal drug trafficking indictments in the US as well as Mexico, and was on the US Drug Enforcement Administration's most-wanted list.
After Guzman was arrested on February 22 2014, the US said it would file an extradition request, though it is not clear if that happened.
The Mexican government at the time vehemently denied the need to extradite Guzman, even as many expressed fears he would escape as he did in 2001 while serving a 20-year sentence in the country's other top-security prison, Puente Grande, in the western state of Jalisco.
Former Mexican Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said earlier this year that the US would get Guzman in "about 300 or 400 years" after he served time for all his crimes in Mexico. Mr Murillo Karam said sending Guzman to the United States would save Mexico a lot of money, but keeping him was a question of national sovereignty.
He dismissed concerns that Guzman could escape a second time. That risk "does not exist," Mr Murillo Karam said.
Guzman was first caught by authorities in Guatemala in 1993, extradited and sentenced to 20 years in prison on drug-trafficking-related charges. Many accounts say he escaped in a laundry cart, although there have been several versions of the tale of how he got away.
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During this interview with Uber Urban, Thought catches us up on a few side projects he has in the works. He says he's trying to get into fashion design and has a collab with Creative Recreation on deck, plus he's working on an autobiography with Jeff Chang and Maori Karmael Holmes. Finally, he says he's still working on his solo project, which is tentatively titled The Talented Mr. Trotter. Interestingly enough, he describes it as a Blues album and says he'll be singing on it. He also revealed plans to work with Tunde Adebimpe from TV on the Radio and Jim James from My Morning Jacket.
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Who doesn't love a trolley?
With their friendly faces, old-fashioned demeanor, welcoming bells, high-gloss paint and polished brass fittings, trolleys remind us of good beginnings and happy endings. They arrive on time, pick you up and take you where you're going in style.
Trolleys have everything to do with welcome and nostalgia. They have nothing to do with traffic jams, boiling asphalt and tempers, bumper-to-bumper back-ups, breakdowns and gridlock.
Trolleys belong to another day that seems in retrospect so much simpler than our own, before cars drove us everywhere, including crazy.
In Chesapeake Beach and North Beach, the Beach Business Group wants to bring back some of that nostalgia from the good ol' days.
On an early June evening, a red-and-green Leesburg trolley borrowed from the non-profit Virginia Regional Transportation Authority made its rounds, catching riders and on-lookers under its spell.
Riders enjoyed a Bay breeze from removable windows (air-conditioning goes on in hotter weather), while on-lookers gawked and waved as the trolley rolled through the streets of the twin towns. The trial ran from Herrington Harbour South in Rose Haven nearly four miles to Bay Hill Market in Chesapeake Beach. June 2's promotion ride stopped at five local restaurants for Tastes of the Town.
On June 3, coinciding with the annual North Beach House and Garden Tour, 300 people took a free ride.
"There's not enough public transportation in the community, so there was a lot of excitement," said Lyn Streigel, financial planner and president of the Beach Business Group. That organization of 85 business owners and advocates is sponsoring the drive to bring the Twin Beaches a trolley.
A regular trolley, Streigel says, would provide affordable and reliable rides for senior citizens, kids and visitors, who would in turn spend money at local businesses. Trolleys meet both purposes in other tourist towns, including Chincoteague and Annapolis, where they also serve business riders.
For the tourist towns of North Beach and Chesapeake Beach, trolleys aren't a new idea.
Beginning in about 1910, a trolley rolled through their streets for five or 10 years, moving people back and forth to their beach cottages, according to Harriet Stout, Chesapeake Railway Museum Curator. Now, as the Beaches revive pleasant living as their 21st century stock in trade, the trolley is getting a second look.
"The trolley is a creative way to bring people to local business owners in our area," said Jed Dickman, assistant manager at Herrington Harbour Marina, who typically shuttles boating customers to the local restaurants in a van. If a trolley came to town, visiting boaters could hop a more charming ride.
"When I think of the quaint charm of the beach communities, a trolley would add more charm," says Marilyn Van Wagner, mortgage loan officer and trolley committee chair of the Beach Business Group.
After the successful trial run, the Business Group is moving forward with a plan to bring the Beaches its own trolley by 2008.
"Step one was letting the people actually touch and feel the project," Van Wagner said. "Step two is to figure out the best way to obtain funding."
Virginia Regional Transportation Authority which oversees trolleys in 15 Virginia jurisdictions and 18 communities is consulting with the Business Group on state and federal government grants to bring two trolleys one backing up the first to the towns on an hourly basis, starting with summer weekends. Business support will be solicited for advertising and bus stops.
"We hope this will be a private venture with initial public funding to get it off the ground," Streigel said.
Both town councils still need to approve the project, Van Wagner said.
For all who love a trolley, that's good news.
"We're taking the next step," said Van Wagner, "because there is enough momentum to go forward with planning."
Before it begins its route, the new trolley needs a name. Toby is already taken. Send your ideas to Marilyn Van Wagner at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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"Once again, terrorists have killed innocent people, and at the same time they have struck a blow once more against the aspirations of the Palestinian people to have a homeland of their own," U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said. "This kind of action has got to stop."
Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat condemned the raid. "Instead of sending soldiers and tanks to Bethlehem, Israel's government should have sent negotiators to resume a meaningful peace process," he said.


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The Senate Democrats are taking some heat – mostly from the Republicans – for refusing to go along with the three-way deal on extending the real laws through Friday, choosing instead to let the midnight expiration deadline pass by.
But Tenants PAC Treasurer Mike McKee is offering the Democrats some cover this morning, insisting a short-term extension was simply "not adequate" in his eyes.
"Now at the midnight hour – on the eve of end of session – the chances for meaningful improvements rest entirely on one player: Governor Cuomo," McKee said. "Is he serious about winning real reforms that will reverse the phaseout of the rent regulation system and preserve affordable housing for the future, or are we waiting for the crumbs the real estate lobby might accept?"
"We will not accept crumbs. The ball is in the Governor's corner and we hope he means to win real reforms. If he is willing to call the Senate into extraordinary session until they pass real rent reforms, good. The entire future of maintaining affordable rental housing in the city and suburban counties rides in the balance."
McKee agreed with those Democrats – like Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., who, along with Sen Tom Duane, voted "no" on every single budget bill this spring – who argued that they should have held out for a rent deal during the budget battle.
At the time, however, the Democrats were loathe to embarrass the powerful governor during his first ever budget, particularly when he was 1) New, powerful and enjoying sky-high approval ratings; 2) Negotiating his first spending plan; and 3) Pushing very hard for an on-time agreement.
Now, however, a number of Senate and Assembly Dems who are nervous about getting screwed on this issue are experiencing some remorse for not flexing a little more muscle. They're also a bit miffed that the rent extension deal was negotiated without them. One Senate minority source said: "You'd think if they wanted our votes, they might have included us in the talks."
The Senate Dems are also moving to quash the talk going around the Capitol that they're threatening not to vote on a gay marriage bill – if one should come to the floor – unless they get a rent deal. That's simply a red herring, since there's no way they would risk angering the advocates and the progressives in that way. However, a number of downstate Dems are privately saying that while they really want to see marriage pass, they politically need the rent laws strengthened a lot more.
So far, there's nothing resembling a deal on this issue. Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos met briefly this morning with the governor. No word on any log jams broken there, however. In the meantime, Senate Democratic spokesman Austin Shafran reminded me that the rent laws briefly expired back in 1997 and no one ended up on the street. (State Housing czar Darryl Towns sent out an email saying pretty much the same thing earlier today).
"The real doomsday scenario is if rent laws are not strengthened," Shafran said. "Republican attempts to merely extend the current rent laws are just a ploy to kill another 100,000 units of affordable housing over the next decade."
"Senate Democrats are ready to stay as long as it takes to strengthen rent laws. We won't go home until rent laws that protect the homes of millions of tenants are strengthened."


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When Motörhead's Lemmy Kilmister died, hard-rocking cover tributes poured in from the likes of Dave Grohl, Alice Cooper, and Slash. The covers tended to be a lot like Lemmy himself: loud, brash, unapologetic. Now, Brooklyn quartet Heaven's Jail have paid tribute with a very different sort of cover. Spacey and haunting, their version of "Capricorn" ditches the huge riffs and slows things down – way down. Continue reading »
In Memoriam pays tribute to those who have left this world, and the songs they left us to remember them by.
Merle Haggard died on April 6th, his 79th birthday. On another April 6th, eleven years earlier, he celebrated his birthday in Chicago, opening the spring run of Bob Dylan's "Never Ending Tour."
I don't know what he did for most of that 66th birthday, but I do know how five minutes or so was spent. He was standing outside his tour bus, listening to a handful of Dylan obsessives sing "Happy Birthday" to him. I was one of them. Continue reading »
It's hard to think of a band that epitomizes longevity like the Rolling Stones. Mick, Keith and the rest of the band have been rocking out and touring the world (including a tour they did this year) for over 50 years. That's just insane, and not many bands can compete with that. Continue reading »
Originally a one-off offshoot of 80s/90s indie stalwarts the Wedding Present, the Ukrainians bizarrely continue to exist, plowing their singular farrow, long after their parent band have become a distant nostalgic tear in the eye. With a mission statement of mingling western rock with eastern folk, and never straying far from that, the band has a history of liberally including the odd quirky cover in their repertoire, notably of the Smiths and the Sex Pistols. Now, the five grizzled individuals in the current lineup have decided to devote an entire album to cover versions. This was a project capable of falling flat or becoming parody; however, I am delighted to inform that, both on record and (especially) live, such is their fervor and dedication to their craft that A History of Rock Music in Ukrainian is a delight.
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Five Good Covers presents five cross-genre reinterpretations of an oft-covered song.
Lemmy has admitted to being more of a slot machine man than a poker one, but the Motorhead bassist knew which topic would make a better lyric ("when it comes to that sort of thing… you can't really sing about spinning fruit"). "Ace of Spades," his paean to gambling that sure sounds like it's about more than your typical deck of cards, is his band's signature work and the proto-speed metal song. Anyone can perform it and sound dynamic – even a bunch of plastic dolls.
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French band Red Beans & Pepper Sauce serve up a treat here with a funky version of Motörhead's iconic 'Ace Of Spades'. And as usual with songs that are so ingrained in people's minds, it's always great to hear someone put a whole different spin on a song that you've probably heard a million times. Continue reading »


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The Brazil international joined Inter from Monaco in 2006 and has developed into a key player in the Nerazzurri team since Jose Mourinho took over two years ago.
Maicon's impressive performances have caught the eye around Europe but Antonio Caliendo says the 28-year-old is remaining at the San Siro for the time being.
"United's interest in my client is not something new," he said. "They have been following him for a while.
"Now it seems to me that they are pressing for him but I don't think there has been any concrete offers yet."
Another Inter player - goalkeeper Julio Cesar - has denied speculation he is set for talks with Manchester United.
The Brazilian's wife revealed that a "big club" had made enquiries, but the player himself has dismissed her comments.
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Why Aren't People Adopting?
Adoption is a cause close to my heart. I was not adopted, but my best friend and her brother were. I'll never forget when my friend told me she was adopted. I looked at her, and I looked at her mom and I said, "But you two look so much alike!" She just smiled and looked at her mom and said, "That's because we were meant to be together." Her mom, who chose to adopt children after finding out she couldn't have any of her own, was fond of saying that she and her brother were especially special babies because they were so desperately wanted. Every year, my friend gets two celebratory days – one for her birthday, and one for the day she came home.
At her wedding, we were waiting in the church basement for the ceremony to begin and her mom started crying. When we asked her what was wrong, she said that, at these times, she often thinks about her daughter's birth mother, and is so grateful her birth mother gave her the opportunity to raise a beautiful child into a beautiful woman. Now, my friend has a beautiful biological daughter, and often talks about how she and her husband would maybe like to adopt more children down the road.
November is National Adoption Month, and November 17 was National Adoption Day. According to the National Adoption Day website, the annual event has allowed more than 40,000 children to find their forever homes, and currently there are over 100,000 children in foster care waiting to be adopted.
These statistics are staggering. More and more women are waiting to have children until later in life, and are willing to freeze their eggs or go through numerous painful and time-consuming fertility treatments to have their own children rather than adopt a child that desperately needs a home.
Why aren't more people adopting children?
According to Susan Newman, Ph.D. at Psychology Today, the reasons are varied. Many partners who want children want newborn babies so they can experience those cute baby years, but oftentimes the heartbreak associated with trying to adopt a newborn is too much to bear as birth mothers can, and do, change their minds about adoptions when they see their babies. Most of the children waiting for homes are over the age of three and, by that time, are often the victims of considerable physical and/or emotional abuse.
Furthermore, cost is incredibly prohibitive. Adoption.com states, "Adopting from the U.S. foster care system is generally the least expensive type of adoption, usually involving little or no cost, and states often provide subsidies to adoptive parents…Agency and private adoptions can range from $5,000 to $40,000 or more depending on a variety of factors including services provided, travel expenses, birthmother expenses, requirements in the state, and other factors. International adoptions can range from $7,000 to $30,000." This can be especially prohibitive considering many insurance carriers cover fertility treatments as well as doctors appointments leading up to and including the birth of the child.
As if all that weren't enough, Newman says that the legal issues when it comes to adoption are considerable. With tighter restrictions, hopeful parents often have to wait years before they can bring their child home.
If only adoption were easier
If adoption were easier, and less expensive, it might be a more feasible option for many couples, not to mention it could help solve our world's population crisis. However, there are lots of good reasons for the delays and costs adoptive parents experience. Adoption agencies need to be sure that the adoptive parents are good parents, birth mothers need to be fully aware of their rights and medical bills need to be taken care of. While it might be frustrating or prohibitive for adoptive parents to pay all that money and wait for a child, you wouldn't want to be put in a situation where a birth mother changed her mind because she wasn't informed, and we certainly don't want children going to bad homes.
I hope that National Adoption Month continues to raise awareness about this important issue and continues to put deserving children in good homes for years to come.
Have you had an experience with adoption? Please share them in the comments.
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we are sharing our room with my 2 daughters, one isgoing to be nearly 2 in a cot, the other is 3 whilst there so do they have a bed for a 3rd person or is it a sofa bed?
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How great of you to put all the pictures of the rooms in one thread! We stay in the jacuzzi suite, and after seeing the pictures I can hardly wait, to sit with my fresh husband on top of the balcony in the jacuzzi in the sun with a glass of champagne...
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Ugh...I really hate how the "King beds" in the basic rooms are just two doubles pushed together!! How do they get away with calling that a king bed?
I feel like my guests will be disappointed about that Anyone have any experience with this? Does a couple pretty much have to share one side of the bed in order to cuddle?
Are ALL basic king rooms set up this way?
I'm kind of upset that I'm learning about this after booking my wedding. The website advertises KING beds so that's what I expected. I know it may be a silly thing to be knit-picky about, I just want all our couple friends and young families to be happy with their holiday
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by Andrew Marshall and Renee Hopkins
The regular Thursday noon Innochat has become hugely popular on Twitter. As founder of Innochat, I propose a live session with a mixed panel of innovation experts and entrepreneurs in which we'll discuss business model theory and business model innovation and design as they pertain to specific start-ups and established companies. We will gather volunteers beforehand, entrepreneurs and representatives from existing companies who are willing to discuss their process of business model innovation and eager to get advice from the panel of Innochat experts.
Business model innovation is a hot topic currently because entrepreneurs are discovering that without a clear picture of their business model success remains elusive. And established businesses facing threats are discovering that redesigning their business models may be the only thing that will save them. This topic is of particular interest at SXSW because many attendees are either startups or come from companies threatened by the rise of digital publishing of all kinds -- the music industry, print media, the film industry, and the software industry, in particular -- companies that critically need new business models to survive.
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More than ever, governments across the world, at both national and local levels, are working hard to attract the "creative/digital industries". When you're looking for a job, you may not know how much your city, state or even national government often play a role in what companies are hiring in your community.
While traditional economic development has typically meant a scenario like bringing a factory to a rural area, a newer practice involves growing so-called industries of the mind. Canada has led the way, but now many states across America are offering incentives to game developers and other tech-related companies (to say nothing of the massive internal investments by certain countries, such as Russia). The benefits can be tax breaks, loans, grants, tax credits and even free rent to get you and your brain trust to make the move.
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NEW YORK — Faced with the high cost of caring for smokers and overeaters, experts say society must grapple with a blunt question: Instead of trying to penalize them and change their ways, why not just let these health sinners die?
Annual health care costs are roughly US$96-billion for smokers and US$147-billion for the obese, the U.S. government says. These costs accompany sometimes heroic attempts to prolong lives, including surgery, chemotherapy and other measures.
But despite these rescue attempts, smokers tend to die 10 years earlier on average, and the obese die five to 12 years prematurely, according to various researchers' estimates.
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Health care workers may not always "practice what they preach" when it comes to keeping up to date with cancer screenings, maintaining a healthy weight and not smoking, a new study suggests.
Researchers found people surveyed by phone who said their job involved direct patient care were just as likely to be overweight, avoid the dentist, get sunburned and not wear their seatbelt as those in other fields.
Health care workers, however, were more likely to have had a recent check-up and to report exercising in the past month – findings that were "reassuring," researchers said. They were also less apt to drink heavily, according to results published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
And attempts to curb smoking and unhealthy eating frequently lead to backlash: Witness the current legal tussle over New York City's first-of-its-kind limits on the size of sugary beverages and the vicious fight last year in California over a ballot proposal to add a $1-per-pack cigarette tax, which was ultimately defeated.
"This is my life. I should be able to do what I want," said Sebastian Lopez, a college student from Queens, speaking last September when the New York City Board of Health approved the soda size rules.
Critics also contend that tobacco- and calorie-control measures place a disproportionately heavy burden on poor people. That's because they:
• Smoke more than the rich, and have higher obesity rates.
• Have less money so sales taxes hit them harder. One study last year found poor, nicotine-dependent smokers in New York — a state with very high cigarette taxes — spent as much as a quarter of their entire income on smokes.
• Are less likely to have a car to shop elsewhere if the corner bodega or convenience store stops stocking their vices.
Critics call these approaches unfair, and believe they have only a marginal effect. "Ultimately these things are weak tea," said Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a physician and fellow at the right-of-centre think-tank, the American Enterprise Institute.
Gottlieb's view is debatable. There are plenty of public health researchers that can show smoking control measures have brought down smoking rates and who will argue that smoking taxes are not regressive so long as money is earmarked for programs that help poor people quit smoking.
And debate they will. There always seems to be a fight whenever this kind of public health legislation comes up. And it's a fight that can go in all sorts of directions. For example, some studies even suggest that because smokers and obese people die sooner, they may actually cost society less than healthy people who live much longer and develop chronic conditions like Alzheimer's disease.
So let's return to the original question: Why provoke a backlash? If one in 5 U.S. adults smoke, and one in three are obese, why not just get off their backs and let them go on with their (probably shortened) lives?
Because it's not just about them, say some health economists, bioethicists and public health researchers.
"Your freedom is likely to be someone else's harm," said Daniel Callahan, senior research scholar at a bioethics think-tank, the Hastings Center.
Smoking has the most obvious impact. Studies have increasingly shown harm to nonsmokers who are unlucky enough to work or live around heavy smokers. And several studies have shown heart attacks and asthma attack rates fell in counties or cities that adopted big smoking bans.
"When you ban smoking in public places, you're protecting everyone's health, including and especially the nonsmoker," said S. Jay Olshansky, a professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago's School of Public Health.
It can be harder to make the same argument about soda-size restrictions or other legislative attempts to discourage excessive calorie consumption, Olshansky added.
"When you eat yourself to death, you're pretty much just harming yourself," he said.
But that viewpoint doesn't factor in the burden to everyone else of paying for the diabetes care, heart surgeries and other medical expenses incurred by obese people, noted John Cawley, a health economist at Cornell University.
'If I'm obese, the health care costs are not totally borne by me. They're borne by other people in my health insurance plan and — when I'm older — by Medicare'
"If I'm obese, the health care costs are not totally borne by me. They're borne by other people in my health insurance plan and — when I'm older — by Medicare," Cawley said.
From an economist's perspective, there would be less reason to grouse about unhealthy behaviours by smokers, obese people, motorcycle riders who eschew helmets and other health sinners if they agreed to pay the financial price for their choices.
That's the rationale for a provision in the Affordable Care Act — "Obamacare" to its detractors — that starting next year allows health insurers to charge smokers buying individual policies up to 50% higher premiums. A 60-year-old could wind up paying nearly $5,100 on top of premiums.
The new law doesn't allow insurers to charge more for people who are overweight, however.
It's tricky to play the insurance game with overweight people, because science is still sorting things out. While obesity is clearly linked with serious health problems and early death, the evidence is not as clear about people who are just overweight.
That said, public health officials shouldn't shy away from tough anti-obesity efforts, said Callahan, the bioethicist. Callahan caused a public stir this week with a paper that called for a more aggressive public health campaign that tries to shame and stigmatize overeaters the way past public health campaigns have shamed and stigmatized smokers.
National obesity rates are essentially static, and public health campaigns that gently try to educate people about the benefits of exercise and healthy eating just aren't working, Callahan argued. We need to get obese people to change their behaviour. If they are angry or hurt by it, so be it, he said.
"Emotions are what really count in this world," he said.


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Reaeration coefficients of six streams in New York; a comparison of results obtained by a hydrocarbon-gas tracer method with those obtained by radioactive tracers and predictive equations
Water-Resources Investigations Report 85-4028
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AbstractStream-reaeration measurements were made in selected reaches on six streams in New York State from 1978 to 1981 with hydrocarbon-gas and dye tracers. The sites were Canadaigua Outlet near Canadaigua, Oswego River at Fulton, Hudson River at Fort Miller, Cayadutta Creek near Johnstown, Chenango River near Morrisville, and Payne Brook near Hamilton. The reaches represent a wide range of discharge, water-surface slope, velocity, and streambed composition. Flows ranged from less than 2 cu ft/sq on the Chenango River to 4,100 cu ft/sq on the Hudson River, and water-surface slope within the reaches ranged from less than 1 foot/mile on the Hudson and Oswego Rivers to more than 50 ft/mi on Cayadutta Creek. The corresponding stream-reaeration coefficients ranged from 0.77 units/day for one reach on Canadaigua Outlet to 52 units/day on Cayadutta Creek. The reaeration coefficients for Canadaigua Outlet compared well with those obtained on the same reach 10 years earlier by radioactive tracers. Comparison of measured reaeration coefficients with those calculated from 10 predictive equations based on stream-channel characteristics yielded mean errors that range from 51% to 103%. No single equation gave reliable accuracy for all stream reaches. (USGS)
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