In one of the Pioneer Press articles today, D’Wayne Bates comments on the selection of corners Sam Madison and Patrick Surtain as being ‘good at press and man to man’.
Can anyone tell me the difference between press and man to man? I thought they both involved close coverage of receivers?

I read “press” as another way of saying “bump and run” which is a more
aggressive version of man-to-man coverage. In standard man coverage the CB
will usually give the WR some cushion at the line of scrimmage, whereas in
bump-n-run the CB doesn’t give any cushion and is lined-up right off the LoS
opposite the WR. The objective of bump-n-run coverage is to get a good lick
on the WR as he comes off the line in order to knock him off his route or
otherwise disrupt the pattern he is running. It takes the correct technique
to “bump” the WR because if he’s able to elude the hit he will often times
get the advantage on the CB. I’ve seen more than a few instances where a CB
playing bump-n-run coverage whiffs on the bump (or doesn’t get a very good
hit) and then gets left in the dust by the WR. There aren’t that many CBs
in the league that can effectively play bump-n-run on a consistent basis

Wal-Mart Sets Low Standard for Wages, Health Care Coverage
The grocery chains attempts to slash workers’ health coverage signals a new
race to the bottom in job-based health care for America’s working
families—one precipitated by corporate giants such as Wal-Mart that make
health coverage unaffordable for most of its workers.

According to a new AFL-CIO report, low wages combined with high costs make
Wal-Mart’s health coverage unaffordable for 46 percent of its low-paid
workers. In 2001, Wal-Mart workers had to pay between 41 percent and 47 percent
of the total cost of the company health plan, while similar employees at other
large companies paid 16 percent of the total premium for single coverage and 25
percent for family coverage.

“These strikes are not just about UFCW members, because if the giant
supermarket chains can kill health care in southern California, then all
employers will feel that they can get away with eliminating benefits,” says
UFCW President Douglas Dority.

To hold the line on health care, Morga today joined other southern California
UFCW workers at a Washington, D.C., press conference where union leaders,
including AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney and UFCW President Douglas Dority
joined to demonstrate their commitment and support for the striking and
locked-out workers under a union-movement-wide banner: Hold the Line for
America’s Health Care.

“In a time when employers are routinely trying to shift the burden of health
care unto working families’ shoulders, these workers are holding the line for
quality, affordable care for all of America,” says Sweeney. “This is an
extremely important struggle, not only for union members, but for every
community in this nation—by taking on their workers, these big, profitable
companies are taking on all of America.”
Joining Sweeney and Dority were Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and
Grain Millers President Frank Hurt, Machinists President Thomas Buffenbarger,
SEIU President Andrew Stern and community leaders such as Wade Henderson,
executive director of Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, and Kim Gandy,
president of the National Organization of Women.

Study Examines Boyhood Drinking of Fluoridated Water and Possible Links to Osteosarcoma By Daniel DeNoon WebMD Medical News Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD on Thursday, April 06, 2006

April 6, 2006 – Boys who drink fluoridated water have an increased risk of a deadly bone cancer, a new study suggests.

Elise Bassin, DDS, completed the study in 2001 for her doctoral dissertation at Harvard, where she now is clinical instructor in oral health policy and epidemiology. The study finally was published in the May issue of Cancer Causes and Control.

Bassin and colleagues’ major finding: Boys who grew up in communities
that added at least moderate levels of fluoride to their water got
bone cancer — osteosarcoma — more often than boys who drank water
with little or no fluoride.

The risk peaked for boys who drank more highly fluoridated water
between the ages of 6 and 8 years — a time at which children undergo
a major growth spurt. By the time they were 20, these boys got bone
cancer 5.46 times more often than boys with the lowest consumption. No
effect was seen for girls.

Unexpected Results

In a prepared statement provided to WebMD, Bassin says she “was
surprised by the results.”

“Having a background in dentistry and dental public health, [I] was
taught that fluoride at recommended levels is safe and effective for
the prevention of dental [cavities],” Bassin says in the statement.
“All of [our analyses] were consistent in finding an association
between fluoride levels in drinking water and an increased risk of
osteosarcoma for males diagnosed before age 20, but not consistently
for girls.”

It’s not surprising that Bassin found a risk for boys but not for
girls. Osteosarcoma is about 50% more common in males than in females.
And boys tend to have more fluoride in their bones than girls.

Caution About Study

However, a commentary accompanying Bassin’s article warns to take her
findings with a grain of salt. Ironically, it is from Harvard
professor Chester W. Douglass, DMD, PhD. Douglass led Bassin’s PhD
committee, which approved of the study when it was presented as her
doctoral dissertation.

Douglass warns that the Bassin study is based only on a subset of
people exposed to fluoridated water. Preliminary results from the
entire population of exposed individuals, Douglass writes, show no
link between bone cancer and water fluoridation.

But Bassin specifically looked at the subgroup of people most likely
to be affected by fluoridation: children. She limited her analysis to
people who got bone cancer by age 20. That’s because most cases of
osteosarcoma occur either during the teen years or after middle age.

Fluoride collects in the bones. And it’s particularly likely to
accumulate in the bones during periods of rapid bone growth. So Bassin
looked at fluoride exposures during childhood for 103 under-20
osteosarcoma patients and compared them with 215 matched people
without bone cancer. Her study took into account how much fluoride was
in the water in the communities where children actually lived and the
history of municipal, well water, or bottled water use.

The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit watchdog organization,
says water fluoridation should stop until further research can refute
or confirm Bassin’s findings. Tim Kropp, PhD, is a senior scientist at
EWG.

“About 65% of the U.S. water supply has added fluoride,” Kropp tells
WebMD. “With evidence this strong, it only makes sense to act on it.
Right now, it makes the most sense to put fluoride in toothpaste, and
not into our water. It’s not like this is a huge contaminant that will
cost billions of dollars to fix. We can just stop adding it to our
water it if we want to.”

According to the American Cancer Society, every year some 900
Americans — 400 of them children and teens — get osteosarcoma.

Harvard Study Shows Fluoridation-Cancer Link

New Study Is One of Many Linking Fluoride to Cancer

New York — April 7, 2006 — Fluoridation is linked to bone cancer
(osteosarcoma) in young boys reports the May 2006 Harvard peer-reviewed
journal, “Cancer Causes and Control.”

This fluoridation-cancer study, by Elise Bassin, PhD and colleagues,
follows on the heels of the National Academy of Sciences National
Research Council’s (NRC) report revealing the scientific evidence
showing how fluoridation can harm subsets of the population.

“Monitor your own intake. [high water drinkers], the elderly and
people with severe renal deficiency who have trouble excreting fluoride
in their urine are likely to have increased bone-fluoride
concentrations,” reports the Chicago Tribune. High fluoride levels
damage bones and teeth.(2)

Many studies link fluoride to cancer. Examples:

1954 Taylor reports more tumors and shorter lifespan in fluoride
treated mice. (3)

1956 Landmark 10-year Newburgh/Kingston fluoridation study shows more
cortical bone defects (a suspected precursor to osteosarcoma) in
children drinking fluoridated water. (4)

1977 Burk-Yiamouyiannis show cancer death rates in the 10 largest
fluoridated U.S. cities were higher and rose faster vs. the 10 largest
nonfluoridated U.S. cities after corrections for age, race, and sex..
(5)

1977 National Academy of Sciences expresses concern about a possible
water fluoridation/osteosarcoma link based on the Newburgh /Kingston
cortical bone defect evidence. (6)

1977 Congressional hearings based on the Burk/Yiamouyiannis findings
lead to fluoride cancer testing in rodents by the National Toxicology
Program (NTP) (6)

1990 NTP reports fluoride is an “equivocal” (may or may not) cause
of cancer. EPA drinking water senior toxicologist, William Marcus PhD,
reports results were suspiciously downgraded in the final report.(7)
Marcus was fired for stating the truth but rehired with back pay under
the whistle-blower’s act.

1990 National Cancer Institute finds more osteosarcoma in young males
in fluoridated vs unfluoridated areas; but finds cause to dismiss the
results.(6)

1990 Procter & Gamble (P&G) makes public a 1981-1983 study showing more
bone tumors in fluoride-treated rats but claims they were not
statistically significant. Another P&G study finds a significant
increase in benign bone tumors in fluoride treated mice. (6)

1992 New Jersey Department of Health study shows osteosarcoma rates
higher among young males in fluoridated vs unfluoridated regions of New
Jersey (6). The report’s title was changed to obscure connection to
fluoridation.

1993 Yiamouyiannis’ analysis of National Cancer Institute’s cancer
data confirms fluoridation/osteosarcoma link in males. (6)

2001 Bassin’s Harvard Dissertation shows osteosarcoma in boys in
fluoridated areas is five times higher than in non-fluoridated
areas.(6). Her dissertation is uncovered in the rare books section of
library. Fluoridationists insist the study should be ignored because
it’s not published and it’s only one study.

2002-2005 Chester Douglass, Elise Bassin’s Harvard dissertation
advisor, issues a report to his research funders at the National
Institutes of Health in 2003 in which he concludes there is no link
between fluoridation and bone cancer He references Bassin’s thesis in
support of his statement despite her conclusions which directly
contradict his claim..(9) Douglass also makes the same
misrepresentation in an earlier presentation to the British
Fluoridation Society in 2002. In 2005, Douglass becomes the subject of
a joint federal and Harvard ethics investigation. (10)

2006 NRC Panel finds cancer/fluoride link plausible

2006 (May issue) Bassin’s osteosarcoma/fluoridation study is
published in “Cancer Causes and Control,” along with a letter to
the editor from Chester Douglass who cites unpublished, unfinished,
non-peer-reviewed data in an attempt to downplay Bassin’s
peer-reviewed published findings of a significant link between
osteosarcoma in boys and water fluoridation..

“EPA has more than enough evidence to shut down fluoridation, right
now, with a special advisory,” says retired EPA scientist, Robert
Carton, PhD. “The safe drinking water act requires the EPA to act to
protect all populations from known or anticipated harm (8),” says
Carton.

National admit real health policy being kept secret

Don Brash must immediately release National’s detailed health policy that
Paul Hutchinson has admitted the party is keeping secret says Cabinet
Minister Pete Hodgson.

“We go to the polls tomorrow and now National’s health spokesperson Paul
Hutchinson has divulged that the party is deliberately keeping the full
details of its health policy secret,” said Pete Hodgson.

Hutchinson admitted the strategy of deliberate deception in an email to the
GiveLife organisation in which he said:

” The strategy team has preferred we do not publish a detailed policy.”

“Don Brash appeared on television many times saying that the detail of
National’s health policy had not been worked out. Hutchinson’s revelation
puts a lie to Brash’s claims. National’s strategy team knows exactly where
the cuts will be made and they have deliberately chosen to keep these from
the public.

“Don Brash must front up right now.

– What is National’s real spending track for health?

– Just what services and staff will be cut in order to “reprioritise”
services?

– How many tens of thousands of Kiwi families will have their entitlement to
cheaper doctors visits and prescriptions cut?

– What are its plans for users pays in hospitals?

– Just how much of the health system will be privatised?

– What plans are there for sacking support staff?

– What plans are there for wage freezes in the sector?

– What plans are there for recruitment freezes?

“Brash confused and deliberately misled the public for days over his many
meetings with the Exclusive Brethren before admitting he knew all along
about what there were up to. Now we learn from National’s own health
spokesperson the detail of the party’s policy is being deliberately kept
secret.

“We know you know the detail, why won’t you tell the truth?”

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http://givelife.org.nz/latest_news_and_press_cuttings/election_special.cfm

what is the difference between health education and health promotion?

health education is part of health promotion, health promtion has a wider
focus, and looks at things beyond trying to influence behaviour

do a websearch on health prmotion, put it in one of the nursing journal
search engines or get down the library and get reading

I have never found a natural cure in the form of pills of any sort. I
know vitamins often make me feel better but I would not be suprised if
that had something to do with if the body is healthy than the mind will
be healthier too – or some variation on that.

Studies have shown a positive correlation between exercise and improved
mental health.

I have atypical depression so going out of the house to do things helps
me out. Totally natural to go out for a walk or even to get the
newspaper!

Mental Health Info: http://www.geocities.com/postcard_Cathy
Mental Health Treatment Info:
http://www.geocities.com/postcard_Cathy/tx.html
Mental Health Bibliography:
http://www.geocities.com/postcard_Cathy/books.html

my girlfriend is using paxil but she’s become scary on it. i wanna know if
there’s a better solution than drugs.

anyone else have any experience?
i’ve been pulling her out of the house to just go for walks so thanks for
the encouragement!

How do you define fad diet? The low carb diet has been around since the
mid-1800’s, and was the popular diet from then onward (see Banting’s Letter
on Corpulence). The low fat diet became popular in the 1950’s and 60’s.
When I was growing up, a diet meal in a restaurant was a hamburger with no
bun, and a peach and cottage cheese salad. And while the low fat diet was
being pushed on us, the low carb hung around. So to me the low fat diet is
the fad.

Around my area many restaurants still offered the “hamburg patty, cottage
cheese on lettuce with peach or pineapple” in the 80’s and it was listed as
the diet platter, on the menu. Now the “diet platters” are gone and replaced
by fast food items to keep up with the people on the go and the ready made
salads are wilted and consist of just iceburg lettuce shredded carrot and a
piece of pepper or onion. The restaurants that offered a full menue are
dissapearing. And the new ones do not even make it a year. The price of
fresh fruits and vegetables in the stores are on the rise and the pay is not
much more than minimum raise. It is very hard for family’s to be able to
purchase the good for you foods and are being forced to eat the processed
foods. I think that is where the adolescent obesity is coming from around
here. That and the video games the parents buy the kids to keep them out of
the way, My nephew came to live with us and I would say why don’t you go out
and get some fresh air and play, he would say his cartoons were on. There
was none of that wanting to go out and explore the area or take a walk, like
I did when growing up. So no wonder it is on the rise. We have to make time
for the kids to get the exercise and try to work harder on the diets or the
obesity is going to continue to grow in large numbers.

Sounds right to me except maybe the egg thing may have been cholesterol and
not fat.

Drinking water means 64fl.oz. water then atleast another 64 in other
liquids.My exception to this would be caffine drinks as they have the
tendency to dehydrate.

The invention of the quick microwave IMHO is the worst now because of the
way the food is cooked.

Second to that I believe would be over boiling or boiling in to much water.
The best would be baked or grilled, steamed, and sauted in little water and
some raw.

A critical point in your description of the problem — a point which you
neglected to consider — was to NEGLECT WATER RESISTANCE!! In fact, you
have made the water resistance substantial, because you have the man
stopping at x=12! If the man is standing on the end of the barge at x=12,
that means the barge didn’t move at all! If the barge does move — even a
little bit (and it does!), the end of the barge WON’T BE AT X=12! Either the
man stops BEFORE x=12 or he has to keep walking PAST x=12 (depending upon
which way the barge moves) in order to be at the stern when he stops.

So here’s what is happening…

Since water resistance is neglected, the man-barge system is isolated from
external forces. That means its center of mass remains STATIONARY (since
everything is initially at rest). Therefore, when the man walks to the
right, the barge MUST move to the left in such a way that the center of mass
REMAINS at 5.65. (The man must push BACK against the floor of the barge in
order to walk forward, and since we are neglecting water resistance, the
backward push results in backward barge motion that balances (with regard to
center of mass) the man’s forward motion.

You can get your answer just by considering the symmetry of the situation.
When the man stops at the stern of the barge, he will be 5.65m away from the
center of mass, just as he was when he was at the bow. But the center of
mass must still be at 5.65 (because there are no forces external to the
man-barge system). So that means the man is at 11.30m and the front of the
barge must be 12m to the left of that; namely, 11.30 – 12 = -0.7m. So the
barge moves .7m to the left.

Just as a double check, compute the new center of mass:

(70×11.29 + 1120×5.3)/1190 = 5.65

It depends upon your State
Insurance Commission. How it works is that each company that is authorized
(called “admitted”) to your State must have “classes of insureds”. Meaning that
they cannot discriminate between classes. So, for instance, if the policy you
applied for has an underwriting policy and procedure that includes excluding
unemployed people – ALL – unemployed people, they can refuse to (decline to)
insure you.

Some companies have health insurance policies designed for single employees,
self-employed sole proprietors, licensed professionals, etc. which function as
“small employer trusts”. What happens is that all persons then become part of a
“trust” group and thereby are enabled to purchase individual health insurance
policies that contain similar coverage benefits as do larger companies.

As a general rule, I would assume that it would be difficult to impossible to
obtain health insurance coverage if you are unemployed unless you are a spouse,
child in college full time up to age 26 or a disabled dependent of an insured
who is employed.

You probably will get good results as to a place to start in any state by
contacting the Insurance Commission office in that state and determine which
Insurers are “admitted” to sell policies there. From there, locate an
independent broker who represents the company and ask them if they sell such a
policy.