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davidgamble1975 — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:49:53 +0000

Though the US has enjoyed an overall reduction in the death rate resulting from cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the last few decades, the rate of decline has been less for women than it has been for men. Moreover, as the population ages, the absolute number of deaths due to CVD in women has been increasing. Some experts have suggested that gender differences in mortality related to CVD no longer exist after adjustment for differences in age, risk factors, and medical interventions. But from the perspective of public health, the fact remains that women have a worse prognosis and die more often than men, in the short term, after a heart attack.1

Clearly, there needs to be an increased awareness of CVD as a major public health threat for women. Just as clearly, healthcare providers need to be sensitive to gender differences in presentation, prognosis, and responsiveness to CVD treatment.

Lack of Awareness
A particular problem among women is failure to appreciate the gravity of the health threat. In a major study conducted a few years back, only 8% of women surveyed thought heart disease or stroke presented the greatest threat to their health. Instead, women worry more about cancer,2 even though they're almost twice as likely as men to die within a year after an acute myocardial infarction.3

Women are largely unaware of this risk because they tend to ignore both prodromal and acute symptoms. One reason for this is that little is known about prodromal symptoms of heart attack in women. Furthermore, symptoms of acute myocardial infarction derive mostly from research involving male patients.

Symptoms
A 1994 national study of nurses caring for heart attack patients in hospitals4 found a need to update care and treatment of those suffering acute myocardial infarction. A review of the literature revealed classical symptoms of mycardial infarction - though from studies of mostly of men. Interestingly, the women participating in the 1994 study largely failed to identify chest pain as an important symptom.

In the Mosca et al. coronary artery surgery study,1 half of all women undergoing arteriography for suspected CVD had no significant obstruction. Despite the limited prognostic value of chest pain, it remains a common initial manifestation of CVD in women, though women with myocardial infarction were more likely than men to experience fatigue, nausea and vomiting, sweating, dyspnea, presyncope, or palpitations in place of chest pain.

The literature also indicates that women are more likely to feel angina at rest and during sleep. Pain may appear in areas other than the anterior chest -and that includes the teeth and lower jaw, both arms and shoulders, the back, and the epigastrium. They also experience more silent heart attacks, with nearly one-half of all myocardial infarctions going unrecognized.5

Prevention
Since decades of study of the treatment of heart attack have focused on men, prevention efforts become even more important in women. Studies have shown that aspirin reduces subsequent cardiovascular events and vascular mortality in both men and women with a history of CVD. Women have experienced significant benefits with aspirin therapy, and those who ingest one to six aspirin tablets weekly appear to have a 25% lower risk of heart attack.6

Stress reduction, relaxation, and psychosocial support also show promise in reducing vascular events in women with established coronary disease.1

Outcomes
A recent secondary prevention consensus panel of the American Heart Association found compelling evidence that comprehensive risk-factor interventions in patients with coronary heart disease extend overall survival, improve quality of life, decrease the need for interventional procedures, and reduce the incidence of subsequent heart attack. Cardiac rehabilitation is also a key step in reducing risk and restoring functional capacity after a myocardial infarction.7 It has become an established treatment and includes exercise training, risk factor modification, and psychosocial and vocational counseling. Available data also show that women fare worse than men only in the short term - after the first year, they display an improved survival rate compared with men.8

Health educators have a duty to inform women of the major risk factors for CVD: smoking, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, and poor nutrition. A multifaceted approach is clearly needed to advance medicine and cardiovascular science for the betterment of women's health.
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References
1. Mosca L, Manson J, Sutherland S, Langer R, Manolio T, Barrett-Conner E. Cardiovascular disease in women: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association. Circ. 1997;96:2468-2482.

2. Adler T. Many women are in the dark about affairs of the heart. Heart Information Network. Available at: www.heart info.org/news97/womcad91797.htm. Accessed May 7, 2001.

3. McSweeney JC, Crane PB. Challenging the rules: women's prodromal and acute symptoms of myocardial infarction. Res Nurs Health. 2000;23:135-146.

4. Riegel B, Thomason T, Carlson B. Nursing care of patients with acute myocardial infarction: results of a national survey. Crit Care Nurs. 1997;17(5);23-32.

5. Graboys T, Blatt C. Women and coronary artery disease. Angina Pectoris: Management Strategies and Guide to Interventions. Available at: www.medscape.com/PCI/angina/ angina.ch25/angina.ch25.html.

6. Aspirin in the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease. Available at: www.powerpak.com/CE/aspirin cardio_nurses/lesson.cfm. Accessed 2001.

7. Tindall W. Cardiac rehab: movement and medication. Business and Health. 1998;2:28-29.

8. Vaccarino V. Sexual differences in mortality after myocardial infarction. Is there evidence for increased risk in women? Circ. 1995;1867-1871.

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davidgamble1975 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:58:09 +0000

Owning a shortwave, or “world band”, radio allows listeners to hear radio stations from across the nation and around the world. Many countries have shortwave stations, which are usually commercial-free, including Canada, Australia, Russia, The Netherlands, Iran, and others.

Some shortwave radios can also receive communications and HAM (amateur) radio broadcasts. World band radios have been produced by a variety of electronics brands, including Grundig, Kaide, Bell & Howell, Panasonic, and others. However, shortwave receivers vary substantially in quality and features, making it necessary to consider many factors before purchasing one.

One major consideration is how much of the shortwave frequency range the radio is capable of tuning. The frequency range of shortwave bands, including communications and broadcasting, extends from about 1.8MHz-30MHz, or 1,800kHz-30,000kHz. The Citizen's Band (CB) is considered part of shortwave and is within the upper end of this range. Radio specifications may use either type of measurement (MHz/kHz). Some shortwave radios, like the jWin JX-M14, have a number of shortwave bands, but do not cover the entire shortwave range.

Many others, such as the Radio Shack 12-795 and Rhapsody RY-610/RY-611, cover a single long portion like 4-12MHz, and may receive CB radio as well. Some of the more expensive radios cover the entire shortwave range or nearly all of it. While greater coverage gives you more listening opportunities, it certainly isn't necessary to receive the entire shortwave range to enjoy listening. Some sections of the SW range have minimal activity in most areas (such as the 2-3MHz section, sometimes called the Marine Band), and many broadcasters have multiple transmitters using different frequencies.

The other most significant factors are the features and size of the radio. Shortwave radios are available in sizes ranging from pocket-size to heavy and large. While there are certainly some exceptions, the radio's size is often indicative of its performance. Many pocket-size radios have tinny sound, and some have mediocre reception. Even slightly larger radios often have significantly better performance. Larger radios usually have more features and better sound & reception. However, smaller radios usually cost less and are more portable.

As for features, there are too many features which may be included on a SW radio to mention here, but a few of the more common include fine tuning, antenna jacks, sensitivity controls, and BFO controls. Fine tuning knobs, which are featured on most larger shortwave radios (ElectroBrand 2971, Realistic SW-100), are very useful for shortwave listening because stations are often closer together on the dial than they are on AM or FM bands. An antenna jack can substantially improve reception even with a relatively short wire connected to it. Most large and a few small (DAK MR-101) radios have antenna jacks. Sensitivity controls, often in the form of a switch or slider, are included on many shortwave radios, including the Optimus 12-808 and Kaito KA-1103. They may be marked “DX/Local”.

These can be useful for improving reception when two stations are on the same frequency, or to limit the radio to finding strong stations if it has a digital station seeking feature. Finally, a BFO or SSB control enables reception of some types of communications, as well as a few additional broadcast stations. Some radios have a world time zone map on a folding panel or the back, as on the DAK DMR-3000.

Most shortwave radios also receive regular AM and FM bands. Some receive aircraft, weather information, police, or TV audio bands as well, and may be referred to as “multiband” radios. Examples of such radios include the WorldStar MG-6000, Sonnet R-3582, Electro Brand 2161, and the Realistic Patrolman series.

Another major decision regarding shortwave radios is that of whether a digital, analog, or digital/analog tuner is best. While some people assume that an all-digital radio is surely best, this is not always the case. Tuning entirely with buttons can make it more time-consuming to find stations, and may not allow as much fine-tuning as an analog radio. Some models of entirely digital radios tune in increments which skip over certain AM and shortwave stations in some countries. A digital-analog radio, like the Coby CX-CB91 or Sony ICF-7600DA, shows the current frequency on its display, but allows manual knob tuning. This makes finding stations and tuning easier, but still lets the user know the exact frequency. Such radios usually don't have memory presets, however.

Otherwise equivalent analog radios are usually cheaper and tend to have better reception than inexpensive digital radios. Many analog radios use less energy, which makes batteries last longer. On the other hand, it can be more difficult to find the same shortwave station again with an analog radio, because of the large number of stations. Analog radios with wide tuning ranges (five inches across or longer) are often easier to tune, as stations aren't as close together and it is easier to associate a specific position with a station.

Shortwave radios can be purchased from online shopping websites, internet auction services, and Radio Shack stores. Keep in mind that not every SW radio will be clearly marked as “shortwave”, and may be referred to as “world band”, “multi band”, “world radio” or another term. Radios of this type may also be found in discount stores like Big Lots on occasion.

Keeping in mind these considerations and the purposes you intend to use the radio for, you should be able to find an affordable shortwave radio which meets your needs acceptably.

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Earning Google Page Rank is an important goal when it comes to marketing yourself on the Internet. If your blog or your web site has Page Rank (PR), it shows up higher in search results. More people find your writing, and as a result, you are able to earn more money.

I wrote this article to show people who are just starting in the freelance field (or those who for some reason weren't able to achieve Page Rank before) that it isn't very difficult. In fact I got Page Rank of 3/10 after only two months of writing for my blog.

But before you read any further, I need to warn you. This is in no way a foolproof method of gaining page rank. It did, however, work for me.

Introduction

I started my blog at the beginning of October. It was designed to document my journey to become a full time freelance writer. A journey I'm still on. I chose to use the Blogger platform because I knew it is a Google owned platform. My thoughts were that this way my blog will be indexed by the search engine sooner and with less actual work on my part. I chose an appropriate username, title and description of my blog. None of it were made with SEO in mind (I'm making a point of mentioning this, because some people think you need to have your web site really optimized for it to get page rank. Well apparently it's not the case). And I started blogging.

Building Links

I'm a very active Internet user. That's what actually made me think of earning money on the Internet in the first place. So before I started my freelance writing blog, I already had a certain Internet presence.

And the first thing I did after posting that very first blog post, was linking to my new blog from all the places I already used.

I posted a link to my freelance blog on my personal livejournal (I posted a link in my profile page, navigation bar of my journal and a sticky post that's always on top of my other posts).

I set my freelance blog as my web site in my Twitter profile.

I linked to the blog from my Associated Content profile, as well as my Helium profile and my mylot profile.

I also decided that if I register to a new platform or site, I will use my freelance blog as my web site.

Qassia

I came across this web site while looking for a way to market myself and my blog. It was rumored to help building quality links. I decided to try it out and see what happens.

Qassia is very easy to use. You set up a profile, you claim a web site and you start earning points. The more points you have the more quality links you get. Apart from that, you can add pieces of information (on any topic possible) that's called 'intel' and that earns you points as well. Additionally under every Intel you add, Qassia puts a link back to your site.

Most of the time I spent on that site, I used to 'screen intel'. It basically means you rate the intel submitted by other qassia users. It also earns you points. I did add some intel of my own, but not as much as I could. But screening intel is something you can do in between other activities. Which is exactly how I did it. I screen one intel, went to check my mail, I screen another intel, I checked my feed. And so on, and so forth.

Page Rank 3/10

Those steps alone earned me a page rank of 3/10. It might sound impossible, but I didn't do anything else to get a page rank. In fact nothing I did was to get me a Google page rank. I just wanted to be able to reach more people and help them earn money as freelance writers. I checked my page rank out of curiosity and was really excited to learn that my little blog (that honestly has very little subscribers or comments) managed what other super professional web sites work months for (sometimes even years).

What Next?

If you really love what you write about (and I sure do), you're most likely are reading web sites or blogs within your niche. If you do, and if you like the posts or articles that you're reading, comment on them.

This might sound surreal to you, but I haven't started commenting on various blogs and web sites only AFTER I learned that my blog has page rank. To be honest I still comment very little (I am planning on doing more of that in the future). But usual commenting systems allow you to provide a link back to your own web site. And that is very useful, getting people to notice your web site and adding yet another back link.

Another thing that I think helps with the page rank business is actual content. If you're writing quality content, if you have something to tell other people, something they might find important, you will always get a little link here and a little link there.

And you will see your page rank climbing.

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davidgamble1975 — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:54:45 +0000

Are you tired of dealing with a complete an utter lack of convenient, inexpensive parking in Seattle? Are you sick of rising gas costs? Do you want to do something that's good for the environment while improving your own health? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you should consider ditching your car and taking your bicycle the next time you need to go out.

Seattle may not have a reputation for being car friendly, but it sure is bicycle friendly. According to the Seattle Department ofTransportation, approximately 36 percent of Seattle 520,000 citizens ride a bike for recreational purposes; between 4,000 and 8,000 people use their bicycle for transportation on any given day. Seattle's Urban Trail system provides bicyclists with miles of safe paths, wide shoulders, and bike lanes.

Seattle buses are equipped with bicycle racks that can hold two bikes. This is great for bicyclists who have a long commute and want to ride their bike for part of the commute and ride the bus for another part. It's also convenient for bicyclists ride to work under great weather conditions but decide to take the bus home when the weather turns foul. Occasionally, both spaces in the bike rack are filled, and bicyclists need to wait for the next bus in order to transport their bike; however, this is fairly rare. Seattle also has several bicycle racks throughout the city, providing bicyclists with a reasonably safe place to store their bikes. Some rack locations also have lockers where bicyclists can store helmets and other equipment. If you would like a new rack installed, you can make a request with Seattle's Bike Spot Program.

Although bicycling is a great option, riders should be aware that there are certain risks. According to the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute, in the United States more than 600 bicyclists die and 540,000 bicyclists visit the emergency room every year. Two-thirds of the deaths are the result of brain injury; many of these deaths could have been prevented by wearing a helmet.

In Seattle, the weather and the terrain can make bicycling more difficult. Seattle has a lot of steep hills. Going up hill can beexhausting, and bicyclists going down hill could lose control of their bike. Seattle is also known for its rainy days. Heavy rain can reduce visibility for both bicyclists and nearby drivers; even light rain can make the roads more slippery.

In order be as safe as possible, bicyclists need to ride with the flow of traffic and stay as far to the right as possible. Bicyclists should avoid riding in a car's blind spot. Bicyclists should also avoid riding on roads where there simply is not enough room or where traffic is especially fast and accidents are common. At intersections, bicyclists should be very cautious and obey the standard traffic laws. According to the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute, in 2003, 35 percent of bicyclist deaths on roadways occurred at intersections.

Bicyclists should also avoid riding when visibility is poor or roads are slippery due to rainy weather. Even if the bicyclist is able to maintain control, other drivers may not be so capable. And, of course, bicyclists should always wear a helmet.

Although it is important to be safe, bicyclists should not feel that they are taking any extraordinary risks. Yes, bicyclists can be injured, but so can people riding in cars. In fact, according to the Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute, only 1one percent of the people who die in motor vehicle-related deaths are bicyclists. So enjoy your bike ride!

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davidgamble1975 — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:50:33 +0000

Each day more and more women come forward to claim they once held the job of being Tiger Woods' personal ball washer. Tiger is no different than a majority of professional athletes who spend a lot of time on the road constantly receiving offers from beautiful women. Because of this, it's no coincidence that the divorce rate of professional athletes is higher than that of ordinary, everyday, boring people like you and me. That's why some athletes like Derek Jeter decide to stay single and enjoy the benefits of being rich and famous without carrying the guilt of cheating on the old ball-and-chain. But Tiger is married and so his exploits have become front page news.

As impressive as Woods' extracurricular activities appear to be, somewhere Wilt Chamberlain is shaking his head and asking, “That's all you got?” The Tiger list is now at ten and will undoubtedly grow higher, but years ago Chamberlain—the only man to score 100 points in an NBA basketball game—claimed to have slam-dunked no less than 20,000 women in his life. Like Jeter, Wilt was a lifelong bachelor and never had to worry about the possible repercussions of being stupid enough to leave voice mail and text messages. He was just a guy having a good time. The number 20,000 may seem awfully inflated, but keep in mind that at 7 feet tall, Wilt was without a doubt well-endowed. Throw in fame and lots of money and it's not that difficult for a guy like Chamberlain to lure women into his cave.

Still, 20,000 women is a staggering number. If a man was to have sex with a different woman a day for 20,000 days it would take him nearly 55 years to complete the task. That's without taking a single day off! Since Chamberlain died at the age of 63, he would have had to have started his lady-loving career at the tender age of eight. So it seems Wilt must have been scoring triple-doubles on a pretty regular basis in order to have hit the coveted 20k mark.*

According to legend, Wilt regularly engaged in sessions with two or more women. So let's assume Chamberlain averaged just two ladies a day. That brings it down to a far more manageable 27 years of sex. That would actually give the big guy an occasional breather and an opportunity to let Little Wilt rest. Three a day? We're talking 18 fun-filled years and still enough time to also hone his basketball skills.

But how much time did Wilt the Stilt spend actually having sex with all these ladies? We're talking actual down-and-dirty action—not kissing and rubbing and all that other crap—the real deal. Obviously, there is no way of knowing for sure, but let's suppose Chamberlain was a “Wham bam, Thank you Ma'am” kind of guy (in order to fit that many women into his busy schedule, it seems a pretty safe bet Wilt wasn't Mr. Sensitive with a real concern about making sure his ladies were happily pleasured.). For the average man in a fully excited state—and not giving a crap about whether or not his woman is experiencing any pleasure—a couple minutes is probably a sufficient amount of time to reach the Promised Land. But keep in mind that Wilt was doing two or three ladies at a crack (pun intended) so despite his eagerness to get the job done, there was a numbness factor which increased the amount of time spent on each subsequent session.

Fortunately, I am a bit of a mathematical genius and have put together a couple of formulas to determine the average amount of time a man would spend with each woman in your standard 3-woman orgy. Once we determine that average, we can get an idea of how much time Wilt actually spent having sex with his 20,000 gal pals.

The numbness factor can be determined using the Numbness Factor formula:

Quickie Minutes times pi divided by 2 or:

(QM * π) / 2.

Why pi you ask? Because a number of formulas I remember seeing in high school math had pi in them, so it must be pretty damn important. Anyway, assuming a quickie takes about 3 minutes, let's plug 3 into our formula as a value for QM along with the value of pi, which for some reason is 3.14–no one knows why–and see what we get.

(3 * 3.14) / 2 = 4.71

Now we'll figure out the average time spent on each woman by using the Average Time formula:

Quickie Minutes times Number of Women plus Numbness Factor times Subsequent Women divided by Number of Women or:

((QM * NW) + (NF *SW)) / NW

Let's plug the Numbness Factor (4.71) along with Quickie Minutes (3) Number of Women (3) and Subsequent Women (2) into the Average Time formula, and see what we get:

((3 * 3) + (4.71 * 2)) / 3 = 6.14

So in a standard 3-woman orgy, you're averaging 6.14 minutes per lady. Do that 20,000 times and you've been having sex for 122,800 minutes or 2,046 hours! Divide that by 24 hours and you've spent more than 85 days drilling for oil. And that's if you're an insensitive prick. A nice guy who really cares about his woman and will think about his fantasy football team and global warming and shit like that in order to hold off as long as he can would likely double or triple his time. But let's face it, to rack up a total of 20,000 conquests the Wilt-monster couldn't afford to be a nice guy and was undoubtedly trying to get it over with as soon as possible so he could move on to another lovely lass. So as far-fetched as Wilt's claims may seem, my formulas show it is indeed possible to have sex with 20,000 women.

Now let's hope Tiger has no intention of trying to catch the great Wilt Chamberlain.

He'd never survive all those car accidents.

* For readers who are not familiar with basketball, a triple-double refers to the extraordinary feat of hitting double digits in three different categories within a single game (e.g. 10 or more points, 10 or more rebounds and 10 or more assists). See how I cleverly used this basketball terminology as a metaphor for a basketball player having multiple sex partners in a single day? That's why I'm the writer and you're the reader.

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davidgamble1975 — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:00:57 +0000

Free MySpace Online Now Icons: Codes, Images, & Generators - Introduction: MySpace was launched several years ago as a social networking site. According to Wikipedia, “MySpace is currently the world's sixth most popular website and the third most popular website in the United States.” MySpace users can use various codes, images, and generators to customize their “spaces,” which is basically a webpage. Free MySpace online now icons can also be customized to a user's tastes. How? Free MySpace online now icons are generated from codes and generators in which users copy and paste the coding into their profile edit feature. Here are a few sites that are easy to find free MySpace online now icons….

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Warning to the reader: Please be advised that this article pokes fun at the stereotype of a tourist in Hawaii. It's all in good fun and no offense is intended. People without a sense of humor should find something else to read.

Luau Ideas for the Tourist to Take Home
So you came to Hawaii and went to a luau (pronounced loo-ow), the Hawaiian feast you always heard of, and now you understand the real reason we call Hawaii “Paradise”. Unfortunately, you can’t pack up a souvenir luau in your suitcase to take back and show your friends. So you need some luau ideas to take home, that way you can at least offer them a shadow of the experience. (Make sure you pack some brochures with interesting facts about Hawaii, everyone likes trivia.)

If you are married, there is a 99.9% chance that you showed up wearing a matching Aloha-print outfit and one of you had a camera of some sort dangling from your neck. So you already know what to tell your guests to wear for the occasion. That was easy enough, yeah? See, some Hawaiian luau ideas are really simple.

Create a red paste by mixing sunscreen with food coloring. Have them spread this on their legs to create sunburn. All good tourists wear sunburn to luaus. (Note: Under no circumstance should the sunburn extend down beyond the ankle, or wherever the person’s sock ends.)

Be sure to set a good example and tack “yeah?” on to the end of a good number of sentences when you are explaining something or telling a story of your Hawaiian adventures. That’s pretty easy to do, yeah? Hopefully, they will pick it up as quickly as you did. You did notice this while you were here, yeah?

Now I’m sure you had a few tropical cocktails at the luau. If you didn’t have one (which I’ll never believe), you certainly saw one. It probably had some pineapple on clinging to the rim of the glass and an orchid and/or paper umbrella floating around, yeah? Those flattering accessories will turn a glass of plain iced tea into a tropical delight. And for goodness sake, get yourself a recipe to make a Blue Hawaii, a Chi Chi, a Pina Colada, and of course, a Mai Tai. Your guests will be impressed. Plus, a little buzz might add to the ambience that you are creating.

I know at the luau you ate to your hearts’ content, taking and tasting a little bit of everything, even wishing your belly was just a little bigger so that you could squeeze in one more piece of that coconut jello thing that you forgot the name of (haupia). You liked that, yeah? Well, here’s a secret. Kind of a secret anyway. Okay, it’s not a secret, but so what. You can pick up a few packets of haupia (how-pee-uh) mix at the grocery store. It won’t be the same as something homemade, but at least you can get it on the plane and home. Don’t be afraid, it’s easy to make. You don’t have to tell your guests that, yeah?

You will need some sort of main dish, but don’t do lau lau (like “how now ” with an “l”), more than likely the lot of you will end up with burning throats and itchy mouths from undercooked luau leaf. Maybe shred some pig and throw a little liquid smoke in it while it cooks. Better yet, get a recipe for chicken long rice before you leave. It’s inexpensive to make a whole bunch of that.

If you are planning to have your souvenir luau for your friends as soon as you get home, then make sure you buy some poi. There should be a code posted near the poi, explaining that the different color ties represent the day the poi was dropped off. Buy it the very day that you are leaving, and make sure it is fresh and not sour, yeah? That way you have a few days to organize your gathering. And you do want poi (pronounced boy with a “p”) there. After all, you had to try that gray, pasty looking stuff right? It’s all part of the authentic experience.

In fact, maybe you should provide a little entertainment. This is a naughty suggestion, because this entertainment is for you, not the guests. (Please ignore my evil grin.) I’m thinking you ought to have them play a little game, yeah? Have everyone place their hands behind their back; whoever finishes their poi bowl first, wins! Increase the entertainment value by making sure no one has had a chance to taste it before the contest begins. Don’t forget to use that camera hanging around your neck, yeah? If you value the friendships, be sure to have a nice prize (a pineapple would be good) waiting for the winner, as well as consolation prizes (coconuts work) for the people contemplating never speaking to you again.

If they are trying to leave at this point, you will have to resort to entertaining them. Since I haven’t got the slightest idea where you find a hula dancer in your town, I have to suggest that you’re it. Pick up a grass skirt while you are here, and one of those coconut bras (if you can get your boobs in it), and a CD with some ukulele (oo-koo-leh-leh) music going on. Just wiggle around and do what you think you remember. As long as you don’t invite anyone who’s been to Hawaii, no one will know the difference. These are the uninitiated, right?

Okay, we’ve covered attire, conversation, food, drinks, and entertainment. What’s left? Oh, we forgot decorations, yeah? If you are on a budget and tight for space, have your luau in your front yard and give everyone a beach mat to sit on. Sprinkle sand and shells all over the place, and make everyone go barefoot. You can also sprinkle baby coconuts everywhere.

Regardless of whatever else you have going on, if you don’t give your guests leis (pronounced lays), then you have no business calling your gathering a luau. Pick up some cheap silk leis (flower necklaces). If your budget does not allow that, make multiple trips to the Hilo Hattie store closest to your hotel. They give you a shell lei every time you walk in their doors.

And last but not least, don’t forget to greet your guests with Aloha. Not just the word, but the love that the word represents. Otherwise, you’ve missed the point.

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Treating Pulmonary Embolism or PE (Blood Clot in Lungs)

davidgamble1975 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:16:49 +0000

Blood clot in one of the lung arteries can be fatal. Treatments for pulmonary embolism (PE) are aimed at preventing the formation of a new blood clot and stop the existing one from enlarging.

Follow these steps to treat the blood clot in lungs

Step 1

Hospitalize all patients.

Step 2

Administer anticoagulants (blood thinners) such as intravenous heparin, lovenox. Medications that actually dissolve the clot are called thrombolytics should be reserved for serious cases.

Step 3

After the IV therapy is initiated start oral Warfarin (Coumadin). Patient may need to take this for at least three months after his discharge from the hospital.

Step 4

If the source of the blood clot is the veins of the lower limbs a filter (Inferior vena cava or IVC filter) may be placed in the big vein of the abdomen. This filter traps clots before they could enter in to the lung arteries after passing through heart. An IVC filter is often recommended in patients who cannot use anticoagulants because of recent surgery, a hemorrhagic stroke, bleeding in another area of the body, etc

Step 5

Surgical removal of the clot called Embolectomy may be performed either by using catheters or with an open surgical procedures if thrombolytic therapy fails or is contraindicated.

Tips & Warnings People who take warfarin should wear a bracelet alert. Patients with PE are at an increased risk for developing another PE. Therefore, watch for signs of a new PE, such as new chest pain, difficulty breathing, a rapid heart rate, or lightheadedness. Patients taking anticoagulants are at a risk of bleeding from gut, urine and other organs. A health care provider should be notified immediately if this happens.

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Plot Summary - the Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

davidgamble1975 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:27:13 +0000

This is one of those dead tweener weeks. Nothing much happening as we wait until Saturday night when The Final Four begins. Yes, I know there are World Cup Futebol matches and all of that good stuff but many of friends don't give a darn about that except for me and few others.

Hey what can you say. I am a huge futebol fan. It floats my boat to use a very old cliché. So let's get down to the business at hand. Brasil and Ecuador 1-1 tied on Sunday. My wife and I listened to the match on Radio Globo from Brasil. Brasil scored first in the 72nd minute when Baptista launched a header into the back of the net.

According to ESPN soccernet, this was the first goal that Brasil has scored in Ecuador in more 10 years. Ecuador got the equalizer in the 88th minute. And with that, the Brasilian fans and press went nuts.

This tie dropped the Brasilians to fourth spot in the table. This is very bad when you consider Brasil has won five World Cups. The last one in 2002 in Tokyo, Japan. The only caveat is that the top four teams advance to play in the 2010 World Cup.

The Brasilian press is all up in arms over the tie. Brasil's top news agency Uol.com.br is reporting that Dunga's selection of the team is very dumb. He doesn't know what he is doing and they want him to be fired.

One of Brasil's top players Kaka missed the Ecuador match due to an ankle injury as reported by Uol.com.br. Uol.com.br is reporting Kaka should be ready to play on Wednesday April 1st against Peru.

To make matters even worse for Brasil, their hated enemy Argentina killed Venezuela 4-0. Argentina moved ahead of Brasil in the table to secure the second spot. It was the usual cast of characters that led the Argentina attack. Lionel Messi, Carlos Tevez, Maxi Rodriguez, and Sergio Aguero led the scoring hit parade.

Paraguay is a top of the table with 23 points. Argentina and Chile are tied for second with 19 points and Brasil is one back at 18.

What most Americans don't understand is that Futebol is more important than life or death. It ranks up there with God and religion. Fans will kill each other when their team losses. Riots break out. Stadiums are destroyed. Cities such as Buenos Aries or Sao Paulo are sometimes burned to the ground because Boca lost to River Plate or Sao Paulo lost to Corinthians.

In my opinion and what I have observed in my travels to South America, national pride is at stake when Argentina battles Brasil or Chile takes on Peru in World Cup play. In my opinion, in America, we have the freedom to achieve whatever we want to achieve. We can be what we want to be and do what we want to do without government interference. God granted us our rights to pursue our dreams and goals.

In many countries in South America such as Brasil, Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay, it is next to impossible to dig your way out of poverty except through futebol. You get the picture so enough is said.

For many of you it's now on to the good stuff, The Final Four. So far, I think I've been pretty accurate with my assessment of the tourney. For me the only real surprise has been Michigan State and Villanova advancing to The Final Four. North Carolina and UConn are no brainers. The Tarheels and The Huskies have been ranked number one numerous times during the regular season.

For my money, North Carolina and UConn are two of the better teams this year. They both have the size and the speed to beat you in either an up-tempo or a half court game but I still think either MSU or Villanova can beat them.

From my observation, Michigan State is a very big and strong team with adequate team speed. The Spartans like to keep the score in the 50 to 60's range. And that's what they did against Louisville in the regional final. Michigan State forced Louisville to play a half court game. This was not Louisville's style and you saw the result a win for MSU.

In my opinion, UConn presents a different kind of animal. UConn can match the size and strength of Michigan State. UConn can either play a half-court game or run you out of the gym.

This will present a huge problem for MSU BUT (caps intended) if Michigan State can apply pressure on the UConn guards and force them to turn the ball over and shoot badly MSU can win.

From what I have seen of both Villanova and UNC, this game could be a blow out for North Carolina. Villanova is small and they don't have the size to match up with Carolina's big men Tyler Hansbrough and Danny Green. Add to the mix guard Ty Lawson and you have pretty good North Carolina squad. Are they unbeatable? No.

Let's go back a few years in the time machine. The year was 1985. Villanova pulled the upset of century when The Cats beat Georgetown to win the NCAA Title. Can lightening strike twice again? Maybe but don't think so.

In my opinion, Villanova has to play the perfect game. Forward Dwayne Anderson and Dante Cunningham cannot get into foul trouble. If either one or both get into foul trouble and are forced to sit for extended periods of time UNC will win going away.

The big edge that Villanova has going for them is their super quick small guards Scottie Reynolds and Reggie Redding. In my opinion, these guys are faster than greased lightening. If Redding and Reynolds can penetrate the paint and do their thing Villanova can win.

When it is all said and done, I think North Carolina and UConn will battle each other in the championship game. And the winner is….

God bless and take care. Have a blessed day and I talk to you again.

Sources: The Associated Press ESPN soccernet Fox Sports uol.com.br

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The International Whaling Commission (IWC) met June 17-20, 2006 to determine the future status of whaling. Japan and Norway, through a judicious use of bribery and stuffing the commission with smaller countries who would vote their way, won a simple majority in favor of bringing back the commercial fishing of whales. While the IWC requires a much larger majority to bring back the whale fishery, this is a major political win for stalwart whaling nations Japan and Norway. What's odd is that whaling is a defunct fishery that has been dying as a commercial industry even in Japan and Norway. In a generation, Japan and Norway's national whale fisheries will be as dead as their current supporters. So, should we still worry about the IWC decision's effect on whales and fisheries? Yes, we should.

Japan is at the forefront of the push to bring back commercial whaling. Japan and Norway currently conduct whaling under the guise of “scientific research”. They also promulgate the myth to many smaller countries that whales eat up fish that humans eat, depleting local fisheries. Japan and Norway's main arguments are that there are already enough whales (and too many for the good of current fisheries), that their countries have a right to sustain their cultural traditions of whaling and that their populations are dependent on whaling to survive. All three of these arguments have big holes in them.

The first one is the easiest to puncture. The emotional arguments that now permeate the debate over whaling had very little to do with the ultimate demise of the whale fishery. Whaling deep-sixed for the same reason that all defunct fisheries die out - the whalers overfished themselves out of a job. Whaling originated as an extensive fishery. “Extensive” in farming means using the natural resources at hand without replacing or cultivating them except by moving elsewhere once they are depleted. In hunting or fishing, “extensive” means subsistence-level hunting with little or no commercial elements. In the 18th and 19th centuries, whaling became an intensive fishery. “Intensive” in the hunting or fishing sense means using the natural resources for commercial as well as subsistence purposes. Some fisheries can sustain an intensive focus, if those in charge of the fishery carefully manage their use. Whales, being mammals and therefore larger, less fecund and slower growing than fish, were probably never going to make for a sustainable intensive fishery. But the total lack of resource management didn't help.

The first whales hunted commercially were the Right Whales. They got their name from being the “right” whale to hunt. The first big sign that the whale fishery was in serious trouble came when Right Whales became too scarce in the North Atlantic to be commercially viable. You see, when a fishery goes down the tubes, this doesn't mean that the fishermen have hunted the fish to extinction, but only to the point where they can no longer catch enough of that species to sustain themselves economically as fishermen. So, whether or not a species is still facing extinction is a bad way of gauging whether or not that species can sustain a viable commercial fishery. The two figures are very different levels of fish populations.

After the Right Whale fishery went belly up in the North Atlantic early in the 19th century, whalers ventured south and west while also turning to larger and more dangerous whales, namely Sperm whales. If you've ever read “Moby Dick”, you know how dangerous a move this was for whalers. But that still wasn't the end of whaling. By the 20th century, larger species like Sperm, Fin and Blue whales were becoming too scarce to hunt. So, the whalers turned to smaller species, like the Minke whales that Japan and Norway currently hunt. It is an oft repeated pattern that as a fishery fails, the fishermen go after species they previously ignored. The whaling fishery was a classic case of this.

By the 1960s, when most of the world finally gave up on whaling, the whaling fishery was completely defunct as a commercial venture. Scientists working for the whaling industries in Japan and Norway would now like us to believe that whale populations, after only forty-two years, can now sustain intensive commercial fishing. But Japan and Norway give the lie to their own argument when they propose hunting species like the Fin whale, which is still on the endangered species list. You cannot sustain a fishery on a species whose numbers are so low that its very survival is in doubt. That's the point of being on an endangered species list.

It's also a given that in the wide, wide ocean, an endangered species of whale couldn't compete with humans for commercial fish species if it tried, let alone put a dent in other fisheries. Fin whales don't even eat fish. They're baleen whales, which means they eat plankton. The fisheries where Japan and Norway accuse whales (or sharks) of eating all of the commercial fish species have been depleted by humans, not whales. In other words, Japan and Norway's argument is wrong: there aren't too many whales for the safe maintenance of current fisheries; there are too many humans.

The cultural traditions surrounding whaling that Japan particularly insists on do exist, but they are rapidly fading. After WWII, the whale fishery in Japan put meat on the table for a generation of hungry Japanese living in economic crisis. However, this crisis has long since passed. Though whaling still has some support among the older generation, only 4% of Japanese still use products from the limited whale fishery that Japan already maintains. Despite intensive promotional efforts by the nationalistic elements in the Japanese government that subsidize the fishery, this percentage is actually dropping.

Not only is the whale fishery in Japan not economically necessary, it's not even popular. Japan wants to expand this troublesome and heavily subsidized fishery when it's not even selling the products from the current level of whaling. Things are no better in Norway, where concerns about PCBs in whale meat have damped Norwegian enthusiasm for whale products considerably.

Japan's whale fishery is sustained on a thin cloud of cultural pride and fear of compromise. Japan fears that if it gives in on whaling, it may find more important fisheries limited, as well. It's a legitimate fear since international fights over contested fisheries are universally nasty in nations with coasts and Japan does get a lot of its protein from its various fisheries. However, by pushing such an unpopular and unsustainable issue, Japan is building up a reservoir of international resentment, particularly among Pacific rivals Australia and New Zealand, that may result in its fisheries being limited across the board anyway.

The third argument confuses extensive with intensive fisheries. To be blunt, fishing and hunting are by nature extensive. Once you get into intensive hunting or fishing, you are edging toward disaster without judicious resource management and lots of rules and regulations. Just ask the 19th century Plains Indians when the Buffalo Hunters showed up. What this means is that no nation where the population numbers in the millions subsists mainly on either hunting or fisheries. You cannot build up a population of millions on such an uncertain food base as a single fishery. Japan and Norway are both rich nations with plenty of other resources to use, including other, less stressed, fisheries. Similarly, the nations they have wooed into the IWC, though much poorer than Japan or Norway, have much more reliable resources to depend on than whaling. Some of them don't even have national fisheries because they barely have any coastline. None of them is being hurt by a whaling ban.

Worse, these countries have terrible records in maintaining their own fisheries and poaching the fisheries of neighboring nations. They engage in harmful and wasteful practices like dumping “trash fish” and dredging. The problem with dumping trash fish is two-fold. First, today's trash fish is tomorrow's fishery mainstay. You can kill an entire future fishery just by inadvertently catching it in your net and then dumping it because you won't get a good price for it on the current market. Second, dumping a whole load of rotting fish on one section of the ocean floor can have as bad an effect on the ecology of that area as dumping the same load on a patch of land. Dredging does the opposite: instead of dumping dead fish on an area, it scrapes vulnerable seabed clean of everything there. This is like strip-mining a cornfield and has the same effect of killing a fishery by destroying the homes and food of your future catch. By funding these countries just to get their support for whaling, Japan may be shooting itself in the foot when they start poaching in Japan's waters after they've killed off their own fisheries.

A big irony is that one group of populations is being hurt by the push for commercialization of whaling specifically because it depends on extensive whaling. This group includes the Inuit (Eskimos) of Alaska, Canada and Greenland, as well as the coastal Siberians. Aboriginal or local small-scale whaling occurs in Arctic Canada, Alaska, Greenland, the Chukotka Peninsula of Siberia, the Faroe Islands, Grenada, Dominica, Saint Lucia and Lamalera in Indonesia. The American and Canadian governments allow limited aboriginal whaling among the Inuit despite their national bans on commercial whaling. Canada even pulled out of the IWC in 1982 because it refused to ban its aboriginal whale fishery.

And unlike Japan and Norway, the Inuit really do need it. Shipping food to the Arctic is expensive and the Inuit generally live in very impoverished conditions. Unlike the nations on the IWC roles, the Inuit still hunt and fish to keep food on the shelf. Inuit numbers are small enough that they have not affected the populations of the whales that they hunt, though their hunts do create a big outcry among anti-whaling activists. The Inuit use some modern technology, but nothing that raises their practices above the level of extensive fishing or hunting. Nor has their selling of whale products resulted in any large increase in whaling solely for commercial purposes. The Inuit have shown that an extensive whale fishery is now sustainable. But they've also shown why a commercial whale fishery is absolutely out of the question. Should intensive commercial whaling be allowed to return, we will see passive genocide perpetrated in the name of national pride.

This is the big irony of the whaling industry. Those countries like Japan and Norway that kick and scream and whine that they are being deprived of commercial whaling not only don't need it, their populations don't even want it. Those populations, like the Inuit, that do need whaling to survive, however, have no voice and no presence on the IWC. The very factors that make the Inuit need whaling also ensure that they have no influence over the fishery's management: they are poor, culturally demoralized and politically fragmented, being scattered across the wildernesses of several major nations. Their voice is not loud but their need is great. When we say “No” to commercial whaling we need to do so knowing that it's about a lot more than whales.

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