Song of the Day: O Sole Mio, music by Eduardo di Capua, lyrics by Giovanni Capurro, is one of the most famous Neapolitan songs ever written. I post it in honor of Luciano Pavarotti, the great Italian tenor, who passed away today. Listen to audio clips of renditions by Enrico Caruso, Mario Lanza, Placido Domingo, and, of course, Luciano himself. Rest in peace.
While exercise and playing sports can be lots of fun, aging puts some limits on the intensity and duration of that activity. Growing older also makes us more prone to injuries ourselves during physical activity. “Baby boomers” tend to be at risk, since they may just be discovering their bodies are not as young as they used to be. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) recommends that “boomers” take special cautions to help prevent injuries as they exercise to keep their bodies in top condition.
According to the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission, in 2005:
– More than 128,000 people between the ages of 45 and 64 were treated in hospital emergency rooms, doctors’ offices, clinics and other medical settings for injuries related to exercise and exercise equipment.
“When you are 50, your body is more prone to injury than it was when you were 20,” says Emmett McEleney, MD, orthopaedic surgeon and AAOS Leadership Fellows Program member. “Joints, tissues and muscles may not be as flexible as they used to be. So as you get older, you need to take extra steps to protect yourself from injuries when you exercise.”
The Academy offers the following strategies to help baby boomers prevent exercise-related injuries:
– Check with your doctor first. Before beginning an exercise program, a physician can make sure your heart is in good condition, and make recommendations based on your current fitness level. This is especially important if you have had a previous injury.
– Always warm up and stretch before exercising. Cold muscles are more likely to get injured, so warm up with some light exercise for at least 3 to 5 minutes.
– Don’t be a “weekend warrior.” Moderate exercise every day is healthier and less likely to result in injury than heavy activity only on weekends.
– Take lessons. An instructor can help ensure that you are using the proper form, which can prevent overuse injuries such as tendonitis and stress fractures.
– Develop a balanced fitness program. Incorporate cardio, strength training, and flexibility training to get a total body workout and prevent overuse injuries. Also, introduce new exercises gradually, so you don’t take on too much at once.
– Take calcium and vitamin D daily.
– Listen to your body. As you age, you may not be able to do some of the activities that you did years ago. Pay attention to your body’s needs and abilities and modify your workout accordingly.//var DOCUMENTNAME=”;
In the past few days, I have been encountering a lot of and a lot about dandelions…
First there was Ottawa Gardener’s post about them. Then I saw seas of yellow in many fields and my own yard followed by clouds and clouds of dandelion seedheads. I’ve been digging dandelions out of the veggie garden (I’d be a fool to try to dig dandelions out of the lawn and I refuse to use poisons).
Unfortunately, the dandelions in the garden are very happy there, huge things with seed heads (I know, I know, I shouldn’t have let them get away like that) that shatter as soon as I touch the plant. The ground is literally white with fallen seeds in some places. I know: I’m shaking my head myself as I write this!
I grow a French variety of dandelion greens that does not seed as readily and often use the tender greens of the prolific wild variety too in salads. Somewhat bitter, it adds a nice touch to salads of mixed greens. While bitter greens are much more popular in Europe, dandelion greens are probably too bitter for most North American taste buds to use alone, the way many North Americans use iceberg lettuce alone in a salad.
Ki’s comments on the ease of growing dandelions made me smile. We gardeners are an odd bunch. Maybe I shouldn’t over-generalize, but, hell: we’re never happy. That’s what gets us out into the garden in the first place. We go out there, morning coffee mug in hand, to sit in the morning sun and relax in the garden and before you know it we spot a spent bloom and we’re up deadheading this, picking a weed, down on our hands and knees up close and personal with bugs and dirt, digging, rearranging, pruning, transplanting, watering, mulching… As I’ve often said, I lose endless mugs in the garden that way!
Ki’s suggestion to allow the vigorous weeds to just grow happily on without interference from us would take us out of the game completely! Whatever would we call ourselves if we could not stick our oars in and try to control Mother Nature’s profligate abundance somewhat?
In my experience, gardeners are an odd bunch anyway. The really good ones stick out like a sore thumb, even in the suburbs where some attention to “the garden” is expected. But gardeners have their own aesthetic ideas, quite different from squirrels and often also quite different from their neighbors. Many’s the gardener who has come to grief when their garden’s exuberance passes the unspoken line of “nice” in the neatly manicured lawns and foundation plantings of suburbia. The exact position of that line varies from neighborhood to neighborhood, but let me assure you, it is there!
Reminds me of a crazy story from my childhood. I lived on a quiet residential street in the suburbs of Toronto long ago when the neighbors actually knew each other, even if only at the nodding acquaintance level amongst the adults. Children played outside until it got dark or the streetlights came on. If we got into mischief, we got told off and our parents heard about it and we got trouble again at home. It was a neighborhood where working class families lived cheek-by-jowl with middle-class profesionals. While everybody made some effort, not much fancy gardening was done. The lawns got mowed, but that was about all. Some gardens were memorable for this or that: a climbing rose here, a lilac bush there, a peach tree, an apple tree, a peony bush, a grape arbor over somebody’s patio, a lawn shaded by maple trees. No big deal.
The exception was the house across the street from ours. Their lawn was lush and green with not one single weed in it. In the middle of that perfect deep, velvety green was a birch with sparkling white bark! How they managed that was a mystery because I don’t recall seeing them out there working to maintain the lawn. Plus they owned a great big St. Bernard. I concluded they must have trimmed the lawn with nailclippers at night. As for the dog, he was usually in the house or the sideyard. And somehow, even though it was a corner lot, we all understood, by osmosis perhaps, that we should never take shortcuts across that lawn or play anywhere near there, or probably lightning would strike us dead. And even though the dog was big and friendly and tempting, we — usually — stayed away from him too.
One day, I heard an awful racket out in the street which of course drew everybody outside to see what was going on. There in the middle of the street, one of our neighbors from four houses down, Mrs. S., a small thin woman with her small yappy terrier on a leash had drawn the attention of the St. Bernard. Unusual to see the St. Bernard out on the front lawn, I thought.
The terrier was doing it’s best to lead the way down the street, excited, barking, jumping up and down. Yip, yip, yip, yip, yip! Mrs. S. was not too successfully trying to control the terrier. I had never liked the terrier because besides not being trained to walk on a leash (this was an unusual event), the terrier always unnerved me with its ferocious yapping whenever it was out.
The St. Bernard of the perfect lawn was all attention, watching, barking. WOOF. WOOF. Things were already getting crazy, the terrier wrapping the leash around Mrs. S.’s legs, when the St. Bernard went into action.
Suddenly, the St. Bernard was in the middle of the street. Mrs. S. was on her back on the pavement, kicking and screaming, with a death grip on the terrier’s leash. The terrier was bouncing around and around like a balloon in a gale, happy and nervous, yipping and yipping and yipping. The St. Bernard was standing over the terrified, shrieking Mrs. S.. A giant of a dog, he towered over the scene. Tail wagging as if he were contented with his excellent achievement, he was barking to the world in general: WOOF…WOOF…WOOF. He was all smiles, huge globules of his slobber glistening in the sun as they fell from his big red tongue.
At the time, that to me was so much more fun than the aftermath. I don’t recall which of the neighbors came to sort things out. But I suppose they were sorted out.
Sadly, we saw even less of anybody actually living over there at the house with the perfect lawn after that, if you know what I mean. Even the St. Bernard. We didn’t really miss the quiet man and angry woman of the house, but we kids, we missed the St. Bernard.
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U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., has stepped into a new controversy by holding a meeting today on wilderness study areas in Doña Ana County and putting together a panel of speakers whose only member participating in his capacity as an elected official is from Catron County. State Rep. Jeff Steinborn, D-Las Cruces, will be participating in the panel, but was invited in his capacity as southern New Mexico director of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance. Steinborn’s group is leading a campaign that has widespread support to create 10 permanent wilderness areas in the county. Upset that no local government officials from Doña Ana County were invited to a meeting about Doña Ana County’s wilderness study areas, Oscar Vasquez Butler and Bill McCamley, Doña Ana County Commissioners and Democrats, wrote a letter to Pearce on Wednesday expressing concern. McCamley is vying for the right to take on Pearce next year. “While your press announcement states that you want to hear from stakeholders, it appears you have only invited a narrow group of individuals who are almost exclusively opposed to protected wilderness in Doña Ana County,” the letter states. “As elected officials, we are specifically troubled that you did not invite a single public official from Doña Ana County to speak.” Pearce has billed the meeting as a “listening session” and said, in a news release, that he hopes to “hear the various solutions coming from community leaders on how to address these challenges” of creating “a cleaner and more vibrant environment” through managing the land. “Doña Ana County has made tremendous progress and I hope this dialogue is helpful in continuing the progress,” he said. “How we decide to use the land is a critical question and part of the foundation in building a better New Mexico.” The county and all four incorporated communities in it have approved resolutions – most unanimously – in support of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance proposal, which also has the support of 170 area businesses and the endorsements of several newspapers. Pearce’s panel, in addition to the Catron County commissioner and Steinborn, includes an advocate of access for off-road vehicles, a realtor, a builder, a representative of a sportsman alliance, a retired agriculture secretary and a representative of the Farm Bureau. McCamley and Butler requested that local government officials be added to the panel. “We are not Catron County, and your analysis should be based upon what we as a community want,” their letter states. “… If such an offer is not extended to balance this panel, we can only conclude that this event is designed to primarily put out the perspective of a very narrow interest, to the exclusion of the community’s true voice and interests.” As of late Friday, Pearce had not altered the makeup of the panel. The meeting will be held from 2-5 p.m. in the board room of the Las Cruces Public Schools administration building, located at 505 South Main Street.
The audit for the budget year 2005 recently completed by Mexico’s Auditoría Superior de la Federación, kind of like our GAO, found a ton of money as well as almost 1.5 million barrels of oil missing from PEMEX. And you wonder where all the money goes?
The ASF discovered that PEMEX had transferred some 2 billion 688 million pesos to the oil company union, the STPRM. That was actually the good news because the ex-director of PEMEX, Raúl Muñoz Leos, had signed an agreement with the union to pay it 7 billion 781 million pesos. The ASF said that, 1., Muñoz Leos signed the agreement without ever budgeting the money, which is illegal; 2., Muñoz Leos signed the agreement without permission from the PEMEX board of directors, which is illegal; 3., Muñoz Leos signed the agreement without the approval of both the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of Hacienda (the tax man), also illegal.
The ASF also said that only 963 million pesos of the transferred money could be considered legitimate union business of one kind or another. The remaining 1.7 billion pesos was for illigitimate uses. Those “legitimate” uses were to pay for May Day celebrations and the annual commemoration of the anniversary of the nationalization of Mexico’s oil. 90 million dollars worth of partying that should really be a wake.
The ASF said that documents which it had reviewed indicated that much of the 1.7 billion pesos was intended for “housing” costs of workers. However, said the ASF, the law requires PEMEX itself, not the union, to provide housing programs for its workers through banks and other financial institutions. If PEMEX was in fact also doing this, then what was the 1.7 billion pesos really used for? No one yet knows because the ASF is not empowered to audit the union’s books. In other words, no one will ever know.
And the union’s secretary treasurer, Congressman Ricardo Aldana, signed illegal, un-numbered reciepts accepting the money. He and other union officials were, at one time, in hot water for accepting billions of pesos in PEMEX money on behalf of the union rank-and-file and then sending that money on to the PRI for use in the presidential campaign of 2000. No one has ever been punished for that large scale robbery referred to here as “PemexGate”.
The ASF said, “We’re becoming accustomed to tripping over the same rock twice.
It’s not a lack of procedures controlling the director general (of PEMEX) but it has to be said that the spending rules are all in place and here we are seeing that, once again, the rules were ignored.” The ASF also detected a slight discrepancy between what PEMEX says it invoiced in 2005 and what the transportation unit says it actually shipped.
PEMEX invoiced 618,154,800 barrels but the office responsible for transport says it only moved 616,667,100, a loss of 1 million 487 thousand barrels of oil, about 5 billion pesos. The ASF is asking for answers but as yet neither PEMEX nor its refiners have been able to account for 5 billion pesos in missing oil. PEMEX pipelines, pumping facilities, storage tanks and transport ships and tankers all suffer from daily leaks but 1.487 million barrels seems like a lot to dribble out into the bays, lakes, rivers and roadways.
Add the 5 billion pesos in missing oil to at least 1.7 billion pesos in illegaly transferred and now disappeared money and the total is 6.7 billion pesos, or more than 600 million US of A dollars. Most experts, including PEMEX’s current director, estimate that the national oil company loses about 1 billion dollars a year to internal corruption. The ASF just found 60% of it.
Since the Mexican government finances itself at somewhere between 40 and 60 percent directly from PEMEX, the above mentioned loss in 2005 alone might account for some other interesting things that the ASF turned up. PEMEX is owed by various federal departments, from 2004, 192.5 million pesos. From 2005, the CFE (the federal light company) still owes PEMEX 137,176,000 pesos, the Airport Authority owes 45,255,000 pesos, the Army and Navy owe 10,127,000 pesos while various “private entities” still owe PEMEX 119,617,000 pesos. And that’s just from 2004/2005.
What’s worse, the ASF discovered that PEMEX has no program in place to collect said overdue monies. That, says the ASF, is also against the law. The joys of nationalized industries, eh? What does PEMEX, the nationalized oil company, do when the CFE, the nationalized light company, won’t pay its bills? Cut it off? Probably not. That would create fistfights during presidential cabinet meetings. Most unbecoming of overpaid bureaucrats.
Now, all of this auditing business is a fairly recent development brought on by various fiscal and other government reforms voted into law over the objections of whomever had the ox most likely to be gored. Can you imagine what the total losses to the Mexican people have been throughout all the long 60-some year history of PEMEX, its union and the PRI when there were no audits? Trillions of pesos, hundreds of billions of dollars, without doubt.
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SCBA/MOB get-together in St. Cloud
Probably the most fun I’ve ever had at a blogger event was what transpired at the Granite City Food and Brewery yesterday. King Banaian (and his wife), King Banaian’s co-blogger Janet, Leo Pusateri, Speed Gibson, Andy Barnett (the new host of “Hot Talk” on 1450 KNSI), Gary Gross, another St. Cloud blogger I had never met (and another) and a whole list of GOP represantatives and candidates were all in attendance.
It was the usual array of discussions ranging from politics to economics to sports with a healthy amount of talk radio discussion. I recieved a lot of compliments for both my work on the ol’ Race to the Right show as well as my Twins Podcast. (It was the first time I had met a listener of my program who didn’t have a blog.) I was even able to watch some of the Twins game. Later on I was invited to a poker game. All in all a great time.
King’s live blog of the event, Speedy’s summary, and Leo’s pre-emption.
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Al Fin: Climate Quest: The Mysterious Missing Carbon Sink–A Multi-Billion Dollar Quest for a Phantom Grail of IPCC Climate “Science”
In the real world, as measurable by science, CO2 in the atmosphere and in the ocean reach a stable balance when the oceans contain 50 times as much CO2 as the atmosphere. “The IPCC postulates an atmospheric doubling of CO2, meaning that the oceans would need to receive 50 times more CO2 to obtain chemical equilibrium,” explains Prof. Segalstad. “This total of 51 times the present amount of carbon in atmospheric CO2 exceeds the known reserves of fossil carbon– it represents more carbon than exists in all the coal, gas, and oil that we can exploit anywhere in the world.”
But that would defy logic, would it not?
Also in the real world, Prof. Segalstad’s isotope mass balance calculations — a standard technique in science — show that if CO2 in the atmosphere had a lifetime of 50 to 200 years, as claimed by IPCC scientists, the atmosphere would necessarily have half of its current CO2 mass. Because this is a nonsensical outcome, the IPCC model postulates that half of the CO2 must be hiding somewhere, in “a missing sink.” Many studies have sought this missing sink — a Holy Grail of climate science research– without success.
“It is a search for a mythical CO2 sink to explain an immeasurable CO2 lifetime to fit a hypothetical CO2 computer model that purports to show that an impossible amount of fossil fuel burning is heating the atmosphere,” Prof. Segalstad concludes.
“It is all a fiction.”
While wondering what the sporting world is coming to these days? Cheating refs (allegedly), pit bull horror shows (not alledged, but it wasn’t me), steroids in the cream and clear (gosh, I didn’t know), and the now the Tour de France, which has turned into a pharmaceutical trade show … The yellow shirt gets booted by his own team because he didn’t come clean about his whereabouts earlier in the year, which of course begs the question: If his own national Danish team had disqualified him from competing because of his mealy-mouthedness, then how in the world did he get into the umpteenth stage of the Tour before somebody said, “Ummm … ” … But this Tour’s integrity already has taken as many hits as Sonny Corleone did at the toll booth in the “Godfather.” … Just another sorry chapter in a summer of sporting disconent …
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Southern Miss will see eight of its 12 football games this season carried by ESPN, ESPN2, CSTV or CSS.
And if you’re up really late, haven’t listened to the game or can ingnore the sports scroll at the bottom of your screen and own some sort of dish that can pluck anything from anywhere, you can catch the 10 p.m. replay of USM at East Carolina on something called the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network.
Not sure if that counts as a television appearance, though if I’m USM coach Jeff Bower, I certainly might want to argue that it does. Bower’s contract has an incentive calling for x amount of dollars, depending on how many USM games are televised.
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Speaking of Bower, guess who was part of the winning team at the Liberty Bowl’s annual golf outing up in Memphis last week? Yep. Bower has a reputation of being pretty durn nifty with the clubs, though the past few years, his bag collected a lot of dust in the garage. While he’s played a bit more this summer, he apparently is the kind of player who can brush the cobwebs off the clubs and be back to form after a front nine, which of course, is just amazingly disgusting. Not a duffer ourselves, but that just has to drive other golfers batty.
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No complaints, but found it curious that two C-USA teams will have players from the ssme side of the ball as representatives Monday and Tuesday at the conference’s football media days.
Normally, schools have a player from the offense and a player from the defense. Not Memphis, which is bringing quarterback Martin Hankins and running back Joseph Doss or Marshall, which will have tight end Cody Slate and center Doug Legursky.
Slate is one of three sophomores scheduled for the event, joined by USM running back Damion Fletcher and SMU receiver Emmanuel Sanders.
Nineteen of the 24 players scheduled to attend will be seniors, which is the norm, as it’s considered a perk of sorts to represent your school.
The other two non-seniors scheduled to be on hand are two of C-USA’s top offensive threats, junior running back Kevin Smith of UCF and junior receiver Jarrett Dillard of Rice.
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