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- Boycott advertisers of Glenn Beck on Fox News as well as all of FOX NEWS! Glenn has lied about Health-care, called our President a racist, and is anti-gay rights.
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- It is our hope that these photos shall inspire you!
Today's Health/Excercise Tip:Salsa, guacamole dips tied to food poisoning: CDCWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Contaminated salsa and guacamole dips are common causes of food poisoning in restaurants, and food workers need to take greater care, researchers told a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meeting on Monday.
They said nearly one of every 25 traceable outbreaks of foodborne disease between 1998 and 2008 began with one of the increasingly popular dips, which are made using onions, tomatoes, peppers, avocados, herbs and other ingredients.
"Possible reasons salsa and guacamole can pose a risk for foodborne illness is that they may not be refrigerated appropriately and are often made in large batches, so even a small amount of contamination can affect many customers," said Magdalena Kendall or the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education.
"Awareness that salsa and guacamole can transmit foodborne illness, particularly in restaurants, is key to preventing future outbreaks," Kendall, who worked on the study, said in a statement.
"Salsa and guacamole often contain diced raw produce, including hot peppers, tomatoes and cilantro, each of which has been implicated in past outbreaks."
Kendall and colleagues analyzed all outbreaks of foodborne illness reported to the CDC. None were associated with salsa or guacamole before 1984, they found, but by 1998 to 2008 the two dips accounted for 3.9 percent of outbreaks traced to restaurants.
"We want restaurants and anyone preparing fresh salsa and guacamole at home to be aware that these foods containing raw ingredients should be carefully prepared and refrigerated to help prevent illness," Kendall said.
In March a coalition of consumer and public health groups said foodborne illnesses cost the United States $152 billion in health-related expenses each year.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill a year ago to reorganize the convoluted U.S. food safety system, but the Senate has yet to act, despite broad bipartisan agreement on the issue.
The CDC estimates that 76 million people in the United States get sick each year with foodborne illness and 5,000 die.
And Now, Model Wars!
This group is called "Peckers PICS." The English - slang definition of "pecker" is to pluck at the truth. Therefore, we peck at items such as Gay Men's Health and Male Fitness, Gay (LGBT) Politics & Issues. In this section you may peck at each photo in order to decide the winner of the "war of the fittest!" Whereas, who is the model that may inspire you to exercise and "get fit?" Warning: This may stoke you!Remember your participation in discussion of health and news articles in this message is appreciated!
Albuquerque, New Mexico; Gay Pride Parade; June 12, 2010
San Diego Gay Pride; June 17, 2010
July 16, 2010 / New York Times / By TAMAR LEWINWASHINGTON --- Answering the G.I. Rights Hotline for the last 11 years, J. E. McNeil has counseled thousands of soldiers who want to become conscientious objectors and get out of the service.But when the House of Representatives voted May 27 to allow the repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, paving the way for gay men and lesbians in the military to be open about their sexual orientation, Ms. McNeil got a hot-line call that raised a new issue: the caller said he considered homosexuality an abomination and wanted to be a conscientious objector because he could not serve in the military alongside gay soldiers.
"I told him I wasn't trying to criticize, but he was already serving with gays, since there's lots of gays in the military now," said Ms. McNeil, the executive director of the Center on Conscience & War, a nonprofit group that supports conscientious objectors. "He said, 'Yes, but now if they come out, they can be forced out. But if homosexuality is actually allowed, I will be housed with somebody who's sexually attracted to me.' "
For Ms. McNeil, a Quaker lawyer committed to helping anyone with valid legal grounds get out of the military, the call presented a legal and personal conundrum --- and a possible unintended consequence of a repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
"I told him it was outside the norm, and I'd have to think about whether it met the legal criteria," she said. "I won't tell you my internal dialogue. But I will tell you I have a brother who died of AIDS and a sister who's a lesbian."
The next day, while Ms. McNeil was thinking through the legal ramifications, the center got an e-mail message raising the same issue.
"This is just the beginning," Ms. McNeil said. "When the other shoe drops and the policy actually ends, I think we're going to get a lot of these."
The 1993 "don't ask, don't tell" policy was a compromise under which the military would not investigate individuals' sexual orientation, and gay men and lesbians would not discuss their sexual orientation.
Although President Obama supports the policy's repeal, it is not likely to happen this year. The Pentagon is studying the effects of allowing openly gay service members, and no action will be taken until the Pentagon report is complete and the defense secretary, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the president all certify that repeal would not harm military effectiveness.
In her years at the center, Ms. McNeil has grappled with other cases that conflicted with her personal views.
"I had one woman who said she was a born-again Christian and had come to believe that a woman's place was in the home, raising a family, so she had to get out of the military because of her religious beliefs," she said. "As a feminist, I wasn't wild about that. But she fit the legal criteria, and we helped her get out."
In the "don't ask, don't tell" cases, Ms. McNeil concluded that there was no legal basis for a conscientious objector claim.
The legal standard, she said, is that the person must be conscientiously opposed to participating in war in any form, based on a sincerely held religious, moral or ethical belief. And the person must have had a change of heart since joining the military, when the person signed a form saying he or she was not a conscientious objector and did not intend to become one.
"In the 'don't ask, don't tell' situation, they're not opposed to participating in war, they're opposed to who they're participating with," Ms. McNeil said.
Ms. McNeil's center, in a ramshackle fourth-floor walk-up over a church, is one of 20 that field hot-line calls from military personnel --- and is not the only one getting questions about conscientious objector status from those anticipating the end of "don't ask, don't tell."
At the Bay Area G.I. Rights Network, Bob Jolly has had three inquiries, one from a staff sergeant on behalf of one of his men.
"The soldier is a very devoted Christian who believes that practicing homosexuality is a sin," the staff sergeant wrote. "With changes in the 'don't ask don't tell' policy, he is concerned that he will have to bunk and shower with homosexuals. He is concerned to the point that he is asking about ways to get out of the Army."
Like Ms. McNeil, Mr. Jolly said opposition to homosexuality would not be a valid ground for a conscientious objector discharge, whatever happens with "don't ask, don't tell."
"It's like when blacks and whites were integrated in the armed services," he said. "They have to learn to live together."
Ms. McNeil's center gets about 150 calls a month, about 100 from people who are either absent without leave or about to be, and about 20 asking about becoming a conscientious objector.
"After talking to literally thousands of callers," Ms. McNeil said, "I honestly believe that many of the people who go AWOL or commit suicide are people who are struggling with their conscience."
As Ms. McNeil was being interviewed, the hot line got a call from Afghanistan, answered by Daniel Lakemacher, the center's director of development, who won his own conscientious objector discharge from the Navy less than a year ago.
Mr. Lakemacher would not disclose the details of the caller's situation, beyond that he was on his second tour in the Army, had recently been through "some traumatic stuff with his unit" and had decided he could no longer fire his weapon at another person.
"People wake up to their beliefs about war at different times," Ms. McNeil said. "Sometimes it's when they're in training chanting, 'Blood, blood, blood makes the grass grow green.' Sometimes they don't really think about it until they're about to deploy or until they have to shoot a weapon."
"Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges."
....Jake
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