The Tragic Inequality of Breast Cancer - The Daily Beast

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font: inherit; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Proxima N W01 Reg', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">It's reasonable to ask why the Breast Cancer Patient Education Act, a bill currently before Congress, is aimed specifically at helping "members of racial and ethnic minority groups." After all, breast cancer afflicts women of all races, ages, and nationalities. And white women are actually the most likely to develop the disease.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font: inherit; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Proxima N W01 Reg', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The answer is quite disturbing. In far too many cases, minority breast cancer patients receive worse care than their white counterparts. As the authors of the Breast Cancer Patient Education Act are right to recognize, addressing this disparity means ensuring that all women are well-informed about the disease and the options for treating it.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font: inherit; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Proxima N W01 Reg', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Two facts in particular highlight the challenges faced by minority breast cancer patients. First, even though black women are 10 percent less likely to develop breast cancer than whites, black Americans are the most likely to die from the disease. At the same time, a disproportionate number of black, Hispanic, and Asian patients fail to receive breast reconstructive surgery following their mastectomies.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font: inherit; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Proxima N W01 Reg', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">At their core, the problems that confront minority breast cancer patients have to do with education. The alarmingly high rate of breast-cancer deaths in the black American community, for instance, is largely a failure of early detection. Too often with black patients, tumors aren't discovered until they have reached an advanced stage. Educating black women about the importance of regular mammograms could, by itself, increase breast-cancer survival rates dramatically.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font: inherit; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Proxima N W01 Reg', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">But detecting the disease is only part of the issue. Once diagnosed, patients are often uninformed about their treatment and reconstruction options, especially when a mastectomy is required. A 2009 study in the <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font: inherit; font-style: italic; ">Journal of Clinical Oncology</em> indicated that the number of minority women who receive reconstructive surgery after a mastectomy is incredibly low—and not by choice.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font: inherit; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Proxima N W01 Reg', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Minority women aren't the only ones who can benefit from more information. It is common for breast cancer patients of all backgrounds and races to make treatment decisions without full knowledge of their surgical options. Even those who do receive reconstructive surgery are often left with disfiguring scars that could have been avoided with a more sophisticated procedure.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font: inherit; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Proxima N W01 Reg', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The idea that so many patients are being unnecessarily mutilated is deeply distressing to me, not just as a breast cancer surgeon, but as a woman. It's why I have devoted my career to helping women avoid the heart-wrenching choice between losing their life and losing their breasts.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font: inherit; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Proxima N W01 Reg', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Fortunately, the last few years have seen significant advancements in surgical procedures that effectively eliminate cancer while preserving the look of the breast. In the case of nipple-sparring mastectomies (NSM)—the procedure that <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2013/05/14/angelina-jolie-i-had-double-mastectomy.html" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline; color: inherit; overflow: auto; ">Angelina Jolie</a> recently underwent—the nipple and skin remain intact, while the underlying breast tissue is removed. Together with implants or other reconstruction, NSM can leave breasts looking almost exactly as they did before the surgery.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font: inherit; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Proxima N W01 Reg', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">And yet, by a large margin, full-breast and nipple removals—or "simple" mastectomies as they are sometimes called—remain the most common form of mastectomy. Expanding access to NSM and related procedures could spare countless women the extraordinary mental anguish of losing their breasts.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font: inherit; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Proxima N W01 Reg', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Here, too, patient education is crucial. Before deciding on a course of treatment, breast cancer patients should learn as much as they can about the surgical options available to them. Websites like <a href="http://www.breastcancersurgeryoptions.com/" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline; color: inherit; overflow: auto; ">www.breastcancersurgeryoptions.com</a> and <a href="http://www.breastcancer.org/" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: underline; color: inherit; overflow: auto; ">www.breastcancer.org</a> can be valuable sources of accessible information.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font: inherit; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Proxima N W01 Reg', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Physicians also need to stay informed. Believe it or not, many surgeons continue to advise against NSM on the grounds that the procedure is less effective and more difficult than a simple mastectomy. In reality, new devices such as Eigr illuminated breast retractors are making NSM much easier to perform. At the same time, peer-reviewed research continues to demonstrate that, in the right patients, this breast-preserving surgery does not increase the risk of cancer recurrence.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font: inherit; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Proxima N W01 Reg', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The disparities that exist among breast cancer patients are stark evidence of the value of patient education. Without a more rigorous effort to inform all women about the disease and their surgical treatment options, many breast cancer patients will continue to suffer avoidable deformity and psychological and emotional trauma.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font: inherit; line-height: 1.6; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Proxima N W01 Reg', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font: inherit; font-style: italic; ">Dr. Rache M. Simmons is Chief of Breast Surgery at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.</em></div></div><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/06/16/the-tragic-inequality-of-breast-cancer.html?">http://www.thedailybeast.com/witw/articles/2013/06/16/the-tragic-inequality-of-breast-cancer.html?</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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I got sent home from the father's day family thing.  Back home snuggled in bed watching trash tv while the fam is at my outlaws.  The snide little comments to me got to be too much, I said I was going outside for a few minutes and hubby came out to take me home.  It's all for the best, so am thankful to have been paroled early.<br /><br />Besides, I'm just really not in the mood to be friendly with family members who owe us close to $20K, who didn't disclose their inability to pay back before requesting/accepting the loan,  who continue to live as if nothing were wrong with their expensive clothes and nice things, and use a family member's illness as a free pass to erase the debt.  Sorry you're sick, but they have jobs.  And if they can afford to do fun things, they can afford a token payment each month.  Basically, it's been written off as we're family.  God wants me to forgive and move on like hubby has.  I'm expected to get over it.  Call me a bitch, but I can't keep doing this year after year. APOLOGIZE already!  Pay back $5.  Acknowledge you screwed up and took advantage of us. Anything other than ignoring the problem. <br /><br />See, it's not just hubby I struggle with.  It's the family's MO.  Don't communicate in the slightest.  Ignore it and pray it'll go away and get better.<br /><br /><br />So, anyway....  I've been seeing the <a href="http://www.okcupid.com/tests/the-submissive-type-test" target="_blank">submissive type test</a> going around a while and thought it'd be fun.  Interesting... not quite sure what I was expecting.  Not that it's scientific or anything lol.  My gut reaction was heck no, then read it a few times.  Yes, i really do think it would be nice despite not being realistic by any stretch.  <br /><br /><div class="highlight"> <h2 class="result">Slave</h2><div class="raw_score">You scored 43% Humiliation, 71% Submissiveness, 77% Service, and 46% Pain!</div></div>You're the slave, you scored high in both submissiveness and service, you probably want to be owned by someone, you feel the need to relinquish your power over to someone else and to service him. You are the ideal partner for 24/7 Owner/slave relationships, whether you like or deslike pain is a matter of taste, hence with humiliation, but I would bet that the chances are you enjoy them sometimes but the most important thing is whether your Dom will enjoy doing those things to you.<br /><br /><br /><div class="analysis"> <h3>Your Analysis <span>(Vertical line = Average)</span></h3><ul class="variables clearfix"><li> <img alt="Humiliation Distribution" src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=170x80&cht=ls&chls=1,1,0%7C1,1,0%7C1,1,0&chco=009cff,0099cf&chm=B,e5f5ff,0,0,0%7CB,caeafe,1,3,0%7Co,009cff,1,39,7,1%7CtYou,009cff,1,39,11,1%7CV,dddddd,0,34,1.0&chg=100,100,1,0&chf=bg,s,f6f6f6%7Cc,s,ffffff&chds=0,710.6401917&chd=t:64.07,73.41,83.00,91.60,99.10,106.89,116.12,127.80,140.29,154.92,173.13,194.94,219.57,245.95,273.35,301.02,328.52,355.20,381.12,405.82,429.49,452.11,473.66,493.55,511.29,525.63,536.27,542.65,545.77,546.65,546.60,545.32,544.04,543.50,544.65,545.28,543.16,536.35,526.18,513.16,497.67,479.66,460.65,442.33,425.80,410.52,396.08,382.43,369.70,357.73,346.07,334.53,323.05,311.33,298.90,285.17,270.16,254.05,237.42,220.69,204.38,188.56,173.54,159.35,146.33,133.95,121.79,109.54,97.78,86.95,77.29,68.36,60.18,53.00,46.84,41.28,35.91,30.76,26.16,22.46,19.54,17.38,15.95,15.24,15.00,15.00,15.00,15.00,15.00,15.00,15.00%7C64.07,73.41,83.00,91.60,99.10,106.89,116.12,127.80,140.29,154.92,173.13,194.94,219.57,245.95,273.35,301.02,328.52,355.20,381.12,405.82,429.49,452.11,473.66,493.55,511.29,525.63,536.27,542.65,545.77,546.65,546.60,545.32,544.04,543.50,544.65,545.28,543.16,536.35,526.18,513.16,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1" /><br /> <div class="desc">You scored 43% on <strong>Humiliation</strong>, higher than 60% of your peers.</div></li><li> <img alt="Submissiveness Distribution" src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=170x80&cht=ls&chls=1,1,0%7C1,1,0%7C1,1,0&chco=009cff,0099cf&chm=B,e5f5ff,0,0,0%7CB,caeafe,1,3,0%7Co,009cff,1,60,7,1%7CtYou,009cff,1,60,11,1%7CV,dddddd,0,46,1.0&chg=100,100,1,0&chf=bg,s,f6f6f6%7Cc,s,ffffff&chds=0,815.1963257&chd=t:15.57,20.23,25.47,30.88,36.26,40.77,43.57,42.69,40.03,37.53,37.11,39.35,44.82,54.10,65.00,75.33,82.92,88.22,91.72,93.89,96.71,102.19,112.30,126.34,143.62,163.43,185.31,208.81,233.47,259.85,288.49,319.94,352.36,383.94,412.86,438.57,460.55,478.24,492.85,505.57,517.60,529.12,540.31,551.37,561.52,569.99,576.02,581.10,586.74,594.44,603.35,612.66,621.52,627.07,626.46,616.82,601.38,583.35,565.96,548.60,530.66,511.52,488.43,458.62,419.34,374.19,326.74,280.60,237.31,198.43,165.48,137.27,112.57,90.19,70.34,53.29,39.26,28.09,19.62,13.68,9.88,7.44,5.72,4.54,3.76%7C15.57,20.23,25.47,30.88,36.26,40.77,43.57,42.69,40.03,37.53,37.11,39.35,44.82,54.10,65.00,75.33,82.92,88.22,91.72,93.89,96.71,102.19,112.30,126.34,143.62,163.43,185.31,208.81,233.47,259.85,288.49,319.94,352.36,383.94,412.86,438.57,460.55,478.24,492.85,505.57,517.60,529.12,540.31,551.37,561.52,569.99,576.02,581.10,586.74,594.44,603.35,612.66,621.52,627.07,626.46,616.82,601.38,583.35,565.96,548.60,530.66,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1" /><br /> <div class="desc">You scored 71% on <strong>Submissiveness</strong>, higher than 81% of your peers.</div></li><li> <img alt="Service Distribution" src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=170x80&cht=ls&chls=1,1,0%7C1,1,0%7C1,1,0&chco=009cff,0099cf&chm=B,e5f5ff,0,0,0%7CB,caeafe,1,3,0%7Co,009cff,1,80,7,1%7CtYou,009cff,1,80,11,1%7CV,dddddd,0,61,1.0&chg=100,100,1,0&chf=bg,s,f6f6f6%7Cc,s,ffffff&chds=0,905.973999&chd=t:122.00,122.00,122.00,122.00,122.00,122.00,122.00,122.00,122.00,122.00,122.00,121.73,120.92,119.30,116.59,112.82,108.00,102.14,95.81,89.75,84.73,81.52,80.30,81.29,84.73,90.59,98.40,107.88,118.76,131.02,144.58,158.81,173.04,186.84,199.44,210.97,221.57,231.42,241.84,253.52,267.18,283.70,302.12,321.82,342.16,361.95,381.18,399.51,416.57,432.92,448.48,463.61,478.65,493.37,508.22,522.77,536.55,549.42,560.40,570.34,580.10,590.19,602.97,618.09,635.20,654.40,672.06,686.38,695.57,696.90,693.05,684.70,672.53,659.08,643.23,625.43,606.12,583.05,557.93,531.34,503.84,477.82,452.56,427.91,403.71,377.84,350.47,321.60,291.22,260.91,231.06,202.53,176.18,151.72,129.21,108.71,90.27,74.52,61.18,50.90,43.02,36.97,32.29,28.60,25.46%7C122.00,122.00,122.00,122.00,122.00,122.00,122.00,122.00,122.00,122.00,122.00,121.73,120.92,119.30,116.59,112.82,108.00,102.14,95.81,89.75,84.73,81.52,80.30,81.29,84.73,90.59,98.40,107.88,118.76,131.02,144.58,158.81,173.04,186.84,199.44,210.97,221.57,231.42,241.84,253.52,267.18,283.70,302.12,321.82,342.16,361.95,381.18,399.51,416.57,432.92,448.48,463.61,478.65,493.37,508.22,522.77,536.55,549.42,560.40,570.34,580.10,590.19,602.97,618.09,635.20,654.40,672.06,686.38,695.57,696.90,693.05,684.70,672.53,659.08,643.23,625.43,606.12,583.05,557.93,531.34,503.84,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1" /><br /> <div class="desc">You scored 77% on <strong>Service</strong>, higher than 84% of your peers.</div></li><li> <img alt="Pain Distribution" src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=170x80&cht=ls&chls=1,1,0%7C1,1,0%7C1,1,0&chco=009cff,0099cf&chm=B,e5f5ff,0,0,0%7CB,caeafe,1,3,0%7Co,009cff,1,48,7,1%7CtYou,009cff,1,48,11,1%7CV,dddddd,0,50,1.0&chg=100,100,1,0&chf=bg,s,f6f6f6%7Cc,s,ffffff&chds=0,905.973999&chd=t:104.00,104.00,104.00,103.97,103.87,103.69,103.39,103.42,104.27,106.38,110.29,115.82,122.82,131.10,139.52,147.51,154.51,159.93,164.56,169.03,173.94,180.41,188.37,198.10,209.90,223.37,238.48,254.97,272.61,291.74,311.97,333.03,354.65,376.41,398.28,419.50,439.35,457.45,473.17,487.41,501.06,514.83,530.84,549.26,570.29,594.24,618.35,640.30,657.78,667.77,671.11,668.75,661.61,652.18,642.02,632.34,624.37,617.38,610.50,602.89,593.73,582.66,569.99,555.89,540.53,524.18,506.97,488.85,469.78,449.35,427.47,403.99,378.78,351.75,323.21,294.11,265.37,237.80,212.24,189.20,169.14,152.37,137.91,125.08,113.22,101.64,90.38,79.57,69.37,60.55,53.27,47.54,43.37,40.40,38.08,35.97,33.63,30.95,28.09,25.43,22.98,20.92,19.21,17.84,16.89%7C104.00,104.00,104.00,103.97,103.87,103.69,103.39,103.42,104.27,106.38,110.29,115.82,122.82,131.10,139.52,147.51,154.51,159.93,164.56,169.03,173.94,180.41,188.37,198.10,209.90,223.37,238.48,254.97,272.61,291.74,311.97,333.03,354.65,376.41,398.28,419.50,439.35,457.45,473.17,487.41,501.06,514.83,530.84,549.26,570.29,594.24,618.35,640.30,657.78,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1,-1" /><br /> You scored 46% on <strong>Pain</strong>, higher than 43% of your peers.<br /><br /><br />What got me was also the part that said ---- Good luck in finding your best relationship :) That's what I often think too.  Not so much finding it, I want to build that best relationship, or perhaps find a halfway point.  Or even 1/3 scooted in my general direction.  Even though I know it's my little fantasy I like it. </li></ul></div>

Submissive type test

I got sent home from the father's day family thing.  Back home snuggled in bed watching trash tv while the fam is at my outlaws.  The sn...

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Santiago's Bodega

Last nights we ate in Santiago's Bodega which is on Petronia Street in the Bahama Village.  It's a tapas restaurant with lots of small plate options.<div><br></div><div>We chose a French Bordeaux to drink and started with a blue cheese wedge salad.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkAdDsK5dKSTezjNPreLiNlbGk7hw9nrFhUgnaPvgdQES8hwrK4lOa-9qMz6kiJi_TtGU5TSONZGAtxUnM2gtlsoO0-MDhmRhaaq0pgGWKepU4n_4kZ4kqkjGG1huOhT28YJNd5yu05z7u/s640/blogger-image-1996417913.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkAdDsK5dKSTezjNPreLiNlbGk7hw9nrFhUgnaPvgdQES8hwrK4lOa-9qMz6kiJi_TtGU5TSONZGAtxUnM2gtlsoO0-MDhmRhaaq0pgGWKepU4n_4kZ4kqkjGG1huOhT28YJNd5yu05z7u/s640/blogger-image-1996417913.jpg"></a></div><div><br></div>Followed by a cheese plate (I was all cheesed out at this point).</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6QjXDNsanrPDLwPDbcuGYMLqgf4i3VKNnhF2X_zongeIj_XVfvXEjZZbUyHflzV7QGnkZzxbRCPiO0Eu9AfEr8XYCfRz2fDYo3IsMV916Jx75R2R0MmZZ_1J6kZaNhiIeCKCBw55Kbto2/s640/blogger-image--170255114.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6QjXDNsanrPDLwPDbcuGYMLqgf4i3VKNnhF2X_zongeIj_XVfvXEjZZbUyHflzV7QGnkZzxbRCPiO0Eu9AfEr8XYCfRz2fDYo3IsMV916Jx75R2R0MmZZ_1J6kZaNhiIeCKCBw55Kbto2/s640/blogger-image--170255114.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Then we had prosciutto wrapped dates stuffed with cheese - I love these!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifdUH08ryiPk-7vnqD9TEtHMXkkBKJNkBfTdsI3Y13hX4LXCal-2Gqb2L-D1jy_roxkVWJH7ZnmiNrOu7ObRPd6jmGqaTcxdWZaIYlgiZzJQty9-05X47r5N2uaZ6p22aL-CldxGFFzbr4/s640/blogger-image-1743226038.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifdUH08ryiPk-7vnqD9TEtHMXkkBKJNkBfTdsI3Y13hX4LXCal-2Gqb2L-D1jy_roxkVWJH7ZnmiNrOu7ObRPd6jmGqaTcxdWZaIYlgiZzJQty9-05X47r5N2uaZ6p22aL-CldxGFFzbr4/s640/blogger-image-1743226038.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We also chose the tuna tartar </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-eAW0Z7a_fYaUHXdcjwPZk1qZIc_nrnNeQXtfgb94cSvoJ-eX-6Gskuqr-vqy8QbQMqKbBYOaU6hNRrdyrHJgkuWQoLngGBx8czwqgoqWkGqengGJ6r0fw56GksZQ8VAZtI3J5ZtgEUL/s640/blogger-image-1237089646.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ-eAW0Z7a_fYaUHXdcjwPZk1qZIc_nrnNeQXtfgb94cSvoJ-eX-6Gskuqr-vqy8QbQMqKbBYOaU6hNRrdyrHJgkuWQoLngGBx8czwqgoqWkGqengGJ6r0fw56GksZQ8VAZtI3J5ZtgEUL/s640/blogger-image-1237089646.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And the gorgeous cherry & hoi sin glazed ribs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIxXdIWh2UELOCFKoHqQzvZqSAMhQnxoGyIRDbn9FupY18BeiJbH_Eup_EeSDzNIxArlzE_nSvvG7LcbWQN-6p-Lbh9rnbwI9VlqTT_euh7agQoZLQqMzlE3t93D1ebUM7tHctG9kCY8GW/s640/blogger-image-556699816.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIxXdIWh2UELOCFKoHqQzvZqSAMhQnxoGyIRDbn9FupY18BeiJbH_Eup_EeSDzNIxArlzE_nSvvG7LcbWQN-6p-Lbh9rnbwI9VlqTT_euh7agQoZLQqMzlE3t93D1ebUM7tHctG9kCY8GW/s640/blogger-image-556699816.jpg"></a></div><br></div>We then followed with the beef tenderloin and shrimp & chorizo on a skewer.  At this point I was so full I couldn't even finish the shrimp!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">But when got home I realized I had room for dessert so we called to Flamingo Crossing for some French Chocolate @ Oreo Cookie ice cream.  Yum!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br></div><br></div>

Santiago's Bodega

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Father's Day 2013: 'One More Day' ... with Dad

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDyYFRVjhz7uof1EPnUo0V1LX2QdyTUWVBm8ZO9V1q96-4MjfZ5bg4JYN_pvZz_MxzX1raOHgop13P2tRjYBs8T5nde8Sa5V2zx28hPQkdp7fv-jwjiyvWQSs8H5CDuaTp8lrMi98UcLOo/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDyYFRVjhz7uof1EPnUo0V1LX2QdyTUWVBm8ZO9V1q96-4MjfZ5bg4JYN_pvZz_MxzX1raOHgop13P2tRjYBs8T5nde8Sa5V2zx28hPQkdp7fv-jwjiyvWQSs8H5CDuaTp8lrMi98UcLOo/s400/2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Shenandoah National Park as the mountain laurel blooms. My dad had two places on earth he loved more than anywhere else: the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.</i></div><br /><i>[My annual Father's Day remembrance of my dad....]</i><br /><br />It's Father's Day and, once again, my dad is not here to be with us. He passed away in 1975 at the age of 51.<br /><br />There's a country song by Diamond Rio called <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuE1XJ_uqOs">"One More Day"</a> ... and every time I hear that song I think of my dad. It has been years since cancer took him from us and, yet, a word or song or thought can bring me to my knees as I continue to feel the loss of a man I admired and respected and miss to this day.<br /><br />He was a simple man, the oldest of five children growing up in Amelia County, Virginia ... a child of the Depression who quit school after eighth grade to help support his financially-strapped family.<br /><br />According to many pundits today, he should have felt sorry for himself and given up on life or blamed society. But he didn't. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, traveling to exotic places in the South Pacific as a gunner on the <i>USS Wisconsin</i>. He came home to Chesterfield County, Virginia, after the war, settled down, married, and raised three daughters. He wasn't the CEO of some company ... but to us he was more.<br /><br />He was funny, easy-going, and hard to anger ... but when he angered, look out. He was a stern disciplinarian who had a thundering velvet hand when we had misbehaved. He was a deacon in our church and a Sunday school teacher for most of his adult life. He played baseball on his company's team, and he taught us the game.<br /><br />My dad loved to camp in the Shenandoah National Park along the Skyline Drive. Because my parents couldn't afford pricey vacations, they took us to the mountains from the time we were young. Dad was a naturalist before it became fashionable. He was mindful of nature, teaching his girls to leave the flowers for others to enjoy. He taught us to pack out our trash, be respectful of the animals that lived there, and enjoy that beautiful part of Virginia.<br /><br />We still enjoy that beautiful part of Virginia. At the age of one, my parents took me for my first camping trip to Big Meadows Campground ... and we've been at it ever since ... and living in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains is a dream come true.<br /><br />Though not physically with me, I carry Dad's memory and honor him by remembering and practicing what he taught all those years ago.<br /><br />And that's why the Diamond Rio song can bring me to tears in a heartbeat ... if I could have just one more day with him it would be sitting around a campfire in Shenandoah National Park ... one more time.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuE1XJ_uqOs">"One More Day"</a><br />By Diamond Rio<br /><br />Last night I had a crazy dream<br />A wish was granted just for me, it could be for anything.<br />I didn't ask for money or a mansion in Malibu,<br />I simply wished for one more day with you.<br /><br />One more day, one more time...<br />One more sunset, maybe I'd be satisfied.<br />But then again, I know what it would do<br />Leave me wishin' still for one more day with you.<br /><br />First thing I'd do is pray for time to crawl,<br />I'd unplug the telephone, keep the TV off,<br />I'd hold you every second and say a million "I love you's"...<br />That's what I'd do with one more day with you.<br /><br />One more day, one more time...<br />One more sunset, maybe I'd be satisfied.<br />But then again, I know what it would do<br />Leave me wishin' still for one more day with you.<br /><br /><i>Originally posted on Father's Day 2007.</i>

Blue Ridge Mountains family Father's Day friendship mentoring Outer Banks Shenandoah National Park Skyline Drive Father's Day 2013: 'One More Day' ... with Dad

Shenandoah National Park as the mountain laurel blooms. My dad had two places on earth he loved more than anywhere else: the Outer Banks of ...

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Court ruling on genes is a "victory for common sense" - New Scientist

<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">Mary-Claire King</b>, the geneticist who discovered the <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">BRCA1</i> and <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">BRCA2</i>genes, says she is delighted by the US Supreme Court ruling that makes it illegal to patent them</i></p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">You discovered the BRCA genes in the early 1990s. Soon afterwards, Myriad Genetics determined and patented the sequences of the genes. At the time, were you surprised by that?</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">Genes had been patented before; the cystic fibrosis gene was patented. But I don't think anyone – from the US National Institutes of Health or anywhere else – anticipated the level of patent protection Myriad has engaged in.</p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">What was different about Myriad was its insistence that it was the only entity that could do the test and its aggressive efforts to shut down anyone else. That's why <a href="http://www.aclu.org/free-speech-technology-and-liberty-womens-rights/association-molecular-pathology-v-myriad-genetics" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(52, 163, 209); ">in 2009 the American Civil Liberties Union filed the suit</a> that has gone all the way to the US Supreme Court. They brought the case on behalf of people who needed tests and were not able to get a second opinion.</p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">On 13 June, the US Supreme Court ruled that <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23700-us-court-ruling-on-breast-cancer-genes-a-mixed-blessing.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(52, 163, 209); ">genes occurring in nature cannot be patented</a>. What is your reaction to the ruling?</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">I am delighted. This is a fabulous result for patients, physicians, scientists and common sense. When I was working on it from 1974 to 1994, it did not cross my mind that a legal case that would end up in the Supreme Court would be the consequence of my work. But it did and sometimes that's what happens when you start in a new area of science. It is a relief to have a decision after so many years, and I'm so gratified that it was a unanimous decision.</p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">What's next for genetic testing, now that we have this ruling?</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">Developing multi-gene panels – one-stop shops for testing for susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancers on many genes – has been a very high priority. The multi-gene test we developed, called <a href="http://web.labmed.washington.edu/tests/genetics/BROCA" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(52, 163, 209); ">BROCA</a>, has been used for months, but until today we had to mask <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">BRCA1</i> and <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">BRCA2</i>. The Supreme Court ruling removes the illogical situation of being able to test all genes but having to mask some. Multi-gene tests can now be made available to people by many firms. In fact, I think they were on the market straight after the ruling.</p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">BRCA genes were also in the news recently when <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23545-how-was-angelina-jolies-breast-cancer-risk-calculated.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(52, 163, 209); ">Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy</a> after learning she was a carrier of a harmful <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">BRCA1</i>mutation. Was that welcome publicity?</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">It was a wonderful piece she wrote for <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">The New York Times</i>, she's come to understand it very well. I hope Angelina Jolie being so clear about what this involves and the development of next-generation sequencing lead to more women getting sequencing done. Most cancer isn't inherited, but there is a straightforward genetic test; if a woman is concerned, she can find out. I would like to see women in their 30s offered genetic testing more routinely at a time when something can be done about it.</p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">Your discovery is the subject of the new film, <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; "><a href="http://www.decodingannieparkerfilm.com/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(52, 163, 209); ">Decoding Annie Parker</a></i>. What is it like to have a movie made about your work?</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">I had nothing to do with it at all and did not know about it until after it was complete. I found out by accident. One of my grad students came in and said: "You never told me there's a movie about you."</p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"There is not a movie about me," I replied and didn't even stop what I was doing. She showed me on her laptop, and I thought "yeah, sure". But then I checked for myself, and sure enough there it was.</p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">The film suggests you really struggled in the 1980s to convince people that some cancers have a genetic component. Was that the case?</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">The main experience of the period was that people completely ignored me. I was a young woman, not a physician, working on my own with modest support from the National Institutes of Health.</p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">There was active opposition from some groups. But there was also terrific support from clinicians who had patients from families with large numbers of women who'd had breast and ovarian cancer. They wanted to know what to do about it. They knew it wasn't because of something the women had done wrong. I had a great deal of support from oncologists and couldn't have done the project without it.</p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">Today, of course, cancer genetics is a booming field. Is that thanks to the BRCA genes?</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">I think it increased interest enormously. It confirmed the idea of inherited predisposition to cancer. My work showed that one could use the tools of genetic analysis to prove the existence of genes responsible for an inherited form of a major common disease, and that you can parse out the inherited portion.</p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Most breast cancer isn't inherited, but when it is, it's devastating. Today there is the recognition that even if a disease is genetic in most people, the particular mutation that any one affected person carries is likely to be rare.</p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">So each patient may carry a different mutation in a different cancer gene – and we now know of dozens of such genes. How can you look at all of these in detail? It seems a tall order.</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">The BROCA test uses technology we have developed with next-generation sequencing that identifies all classes of mutations in all known breast and ovarian cancer genes in one tube. It's a single test that's much cheaper to run than commercial testing. And we want to make it available as widely as possible.</p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">What does the test name BROCA stand for?</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">It is named for the 19th-century French surgeon and pathologist Pierre Paul Broca, who was the first to describe inherited breast cancer in families in a systematic way. Based on his work, we are currently trying to trace the relatives of these families from the 1860s to see if they have <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">BRCA1</i> or<i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">BRCA2</i>.</p><p class="infuse" style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">How has medicine changed since you started working in cancer genetics decades ago?</b><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">I think we are now in an entirely different landscape. What has changed the most in the past 35 years is the technology. The questions people have been asking about genetics and ancestry and the relationship of genes to disease have been the same for hundreds of years. What has changed is our capacity to answer them. What we have been doing in the research laboratory all along, we can now move into patient care.</p><div class="artbx bxbg" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; background-color: rgb(242, 242, 242); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><h3 id="bxdn23708B1" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1.1em; ">Profile</h3><p style="margin: 0px 20px 20px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 1em; line-height: 18px; "><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">Mary-Claire King</b> is a professor of genetics at the University of Washington in Seattle. In the early 1990s, she discovered <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">BRCA1</i>and <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">BRCA2</i>, genes whose mutations can cause breast and ovarian cancer. Her work inspired the forthcoming film <i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; ">Decoding Annie Parker</i>, in which she is portrayed by Helen Hunt</p></div></div><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23708-court-ruling-on-genes-is-a-victory-for-common-sense.html?full=true#.Ub2p5BbVTWw">http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23708-court-ruling-on-genes-is-a-victory-for-common-sense.html?full=true#.Ub2p5BbVTWw</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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Shakespeare's Candy Review!

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V_EQAZ3bBJU/Ub0NMjrfrdI/AAAAAAAAIU4/zVcfi-jnAwY/s1600/13+-+1" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V_EQAZ3bBJU/Ub0NMjrfrdI/AAAAAAAAIU4/zVcfi-jnAwY/s320/13+-+1" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>I love sweets whether it's something chocolate,peanut butter, caramel or coconut flavored candies or cookies you name it I love it! </i></span></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); 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-webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>I couldn't make a decision of what I wanted to try so I told them to surprise me!</i></span></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>I couldn't wait for the goodies to arrive to see what I was going to be sinking my teeth into! </i></span></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); 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font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Rice crispy treat:</i></span></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>When i was a kid i loved eating rice crispy treats but this one right here is not your average at all!! I was sent a ginormous rice crispy treat that's coated with chocolate and showered with rainbow chocolate chips! What I love most of all is how they have their logo made of chocolate right in the middle of the rice crispy treat!</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i>Milk chocolate peanut candy bar:</i></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E3tf_cLieGg/Ub0NMu5Wz7I/AAAAAAAAIUw/q2PoIoqXHYg/s1600/13+-+2" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><i><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E3tf_cLieGg/Ub0NMu5Wz7I/AAAAAAAAIUw/q2PoIoqXHYg/s320/13+-+2" width="320" /></i></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><br /></div><br /><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">This candy bar was amazing! I loved the great peanut butter taste mixed right in with the milk chocolate to me it taste like a peanut butter cup but better because the peanut butter was ribboned all over the chocolate bar and laced with peanuts! </div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Other candy bars:</div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Toasted almond</div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Mint cookie</div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Cookie crunch</div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Peanut </div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Peppermint crunch </div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Raspberry </div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;">Toffee and tripe chocolate </div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Noteworthy; font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0976563); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(191, 107, 82, 0.496094); 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Babe of the Week: Sexy Celebrity Dads

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Since it's Father's Day here in the U.S. the staff at IWS decided we should celebrate some DILFs! Here are our favorite hot celebrity dads ...<br /><br />1. Channing Tatum<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg2cNhSbmDdzkiic9ZVjaFw5SXtdyI_NIkUWVBiwL2zKktNVJrYFPdWs1QkhkfvMLAr_5OZ0Zk60xxqw5bzppJlhehupqGR_c4QxETSE9aKlWUEvzHUoKoaJXn7PvGVaeAc5ujuuTUN-4/s1600/Channing-Tatum-Shirtless-Hot-Nude-Hung.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg2cNhSbmDdzkiic9ZVjaFw5SXtdyI_NIkUWVBiwL2zKktNVJrYFPdWs1QkhkfvMLAr_5OZ0Zk60xxqw5bzppJlhehupqGR_c4QxETSE9aKlWUEvzHUoKoaJXn7PvGVaeAc5ujuuTUN-4/s400/Channing-Tatum-Shirtless-Hot-Nude-Hung.jpg" width="282" /></a></div><br />2. Ben Afflack<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirCyj0_U1y7mBonD9Zzgq996T5pwFL0m92XINBVRvtLhn5WWE-s4aE1JZv_ktwPOfqWBCwz6_CfiZkDEaFS1iL5Ge5JCfePMGBce6bw83RhGBHBN1dFVJKbEgDxcOs6k5UixEYVyOWDEs/s1600/Ben-Affleck-Hot-Sexy-Hung.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirCyj0_U1y7mBonD9Zzgq996T5pwFL0m92XINBVRvtLhn5WWE-s4aE1JZv_ktwPOfqWBCwz6_CfiZkDEaFS1iL5Ge5JCfePMGBce6bw83RhGBHBN1dFVJKbEgDxcOs6k5UixEYVyOWDEs/s400/Ben-Affleck-Hot-Sexy-Hung.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><br />3. Matt Damon<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh15JSYigDFTtyQSBUOS6C6sJBeqQjPLkmZDsUqnIXpxS6kpbS00cFvwi5rSbqTXuyz6WRthjY40pcYofar2cA35K8CG0XOipSGYMR-GlSIm-YGl29RDGI3va2GUSP_ZvdKRJhBaXaMB3g/s1600/Matt-Damon-Hot-Nude-Thong-Hung.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh15JSYigDFTtyQSBUOS6C6sJBeqQjPLkmZDsUqnIXpxS6kpbS00cFvwi5rSbqTXuyz6WRthjY40pcYofar2cA35K8CG0XOipSGYMR-GlSIm-YGl29RDGI3va2GUSP_ZvdKRJhBaXaMB3g/s320/Matt-Damon-Hot-Nude-Thong-Hung.jpg" width="285" /></a></div><br />4. Javier Bardem<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoieKeCQocMvb5i50flnVrwDjAp1xbBD7_kPyBqb5rycAfGNn5o3manirVIejYsdJo1EH4gl2jbYcCGMNRlQZizFzDTwt1fEFMLUP1YcZUPXI50Zvbnl9mroOzt-vKo0sWmLVGrQI7N70/s1600/Javier-Bardem-Shirtless-Hot-Nude.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoieKeCQocMvb5i50flnVrwDjAp1xbBD7_kPyBqb5rycAfGNn5o3manirVIejYsdJo1EH4gl2jbYcCGMNRlQZizFzDTwt1fEFMLUP1YcZUPXI50Zvbnl9mroOzt-vKo0sWmLVGrQI7N70/s400/Javier-Bardem-Shirtless-Hot-Nude.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><br />And, how could we not give a special Father's Day shout out to Kanye West!!!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXcKw1ITa5M1JthHuCoAzxM4WLRILLXZ304CY_tbXYg2ayclG-OdhBj-ZRM5WmDLaYh9-jl60oO8rLUAfXG4fUhxybG1i1yO8ViQnBkx6qRY_UQJY7rDNEItF8iiQag2k0pSe1u12eOLA/s1600/Kanye-West-Hot-Sexy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXcKw1ITa5M1JthHuCoAzxM4WLRILLXZ304CY_tbXYg2ayclG-OdhBj-ZRM5WmDLaYh9-jl60oO8rLUAfXG4fUhxybG1i1yO8ViQnBkx6qRY_UQJY7rDNEItF8iiQag2k0pSe1u12eOLA/s400/Kanye-West-Hot-Sexy.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><br /><br />Hell yeah! But guess what?! We're not done celebrating men just yet. Tune into I'm With Stupid at 12 noon ET for a <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/im-with-stupid/2013/06/16/manabration" target="_blank">Manabration</a>! Let's celebrate everything great about men!<br /><br /></div>

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New jewellery!

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New jewellery!

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Decrease Post Pregnancy Belly With A Body Wrap

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Ginger Taylor</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>If you have been curious as to how body wraps work and how to decide on the optimal body wrap for yourself, keep reading. Before we consider the benefits of using Body Wraps, let's first discuss where they can be found and how to find the most effective one for you.<br /> <br /> There are four basic means of getting a body wrap:<br /> <br /> 1. At a local salon or day spa.<br /> <br /> 2. Buy a Do-it-yourself home wrap kit.<br /> <br /> 3. Experiment and whip up your own at home.<br /> <br /> 4. Go to or host a wrap party.<br /> <br /> Going to a salon or day spa and being spoiled for an hour or more can be extremely costly. In these tough economic times it might not exactly be in your budget and that is understandable. There are a number of spas and beauty salons that feature Body Wraps as a service to very high-end spas in 1st class resorts. The very best spas commonly offer a number of different types of body wraps like mud wraps, herbal wraps, seaweed wraps, mineral wraps and moisturizing wraps. Without doubt these wraps often come with a hefty price tag.<br /> <br /> There are many ready made do-it-yourself home body wrap kits available on the market. When it comes to selecting these kits there are two primary factors to consider:<br /> <br /> 1. Ease of use.<br /> <br /> 2. Expediency.<br /> <br /> Some of these kits should come with a how-to manual because they are so difficult and if you don't follow the instructions 100% you won't get good results. The indisputable best home body wrap kit is the It Works Ultimate Applicator body wrap. This is the most beneficial for novices and experienced wrappers. It comes in a package and looks sort of like a big band aid. This wrap already has the herbal solution on it and you just place it on the target area and hold it in place with plastic wrap. This particular wrap can be applied to the stomach, arms, thighs, sides, back, neck,hands, feet, and legs in just 3 easy steps and it only takes 45 minutes to see results. The best part is the results are progressive for up to 72 hours. This is by far my favorite of all wraps.<br /> <br /> On the other hand, if you don't mind mixing and experimenting with different concoctions making your own body wrap may just be for you. It can be a fun way to creatively express yourself while coming up with different recipes and testing them out. Most people don't have the time or patience for this and if you are anything like me you'd rather go with what has already been tried, tested, and true!<br /> <br /> There are Body Wrap treatments for purification, inch loss wraps, anti aging and treatment as well as for relieving aches and pains. A good deal of the ingredients for these different wraps are the same so a inch loss wrap will also help do away with toxins and help refresh the skin. The majority of of the wraps will help reduce aches and pains although some work better than others based on the ingredients.<br /> <br /> The body wrap fulfills two basic purposes in most scenarios. First, the herbs, minerals, oils and clays open the pores prompt the skin so that it removes toxins. This why you should really always drink plenty of water to avoid becoming dehydrated during a wrap to help the cleansing process. Always make sure you drink plenty of water for 3 or 4 days after a body wrap to resume eliminating the toxins released by the wrap. You will feel cleaned out and rejuvenated.<br /> <br /> Because your pores are actually open, your skin is able to readily soak up the nutrients, oils, and minerals from the wrap.<br /> <br /> You deserve to be pampered a body wrap is an awesome treat to your skin. Take an hour or so and pamper yourself, you are worth it!<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Finally there is an easier way to look younger, feel better, and lose some inches. You can stop following all those bad diets and trying to do workouts that are way too advanced for you, shrink your waistline try that crazy wrap thing with <a href="http://bodywrap101.com">It Works Wraps</a>!<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>You owe it to yourself to try the ultimate makeover <a href="https://maximizepotential.myitworks.com/Shop/Product/507">DC Body Wrap</a></div><br /> </div><br />

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Indicators That A Personal Trainer Los Angeles Might Just Be The One You're Looking For

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Tammy Walker</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>If you want to be successful in achieving your weight loss goals, you might want to think about getting a personal trainer. So if you live somewhere in the Los Angeles area, then you must look for the very best personal trainer Los Angeles that you can hire. A personal trainer is definitely an excellent investment and since you'll be spending your hard earned money for it, then you better make sure that you hire only the best.<br /> <br /> Check Their Certification And Qualifications<br /> <br /> It is important that you seek someone who is certified by some of the major national bureaus for professional fitness trainers. There are lots of associations and organizations that would certify some of the world's best personal trainers. Another good sign is that the trainer must have a degree in a college or university. He should be a graduate of physical education, kinesiology and exercise physiology. Other similar courses will help too.<br /> <br /> He Should Be Able To Address Any Issues<br /> <br /> A good personal trainer Los Angeles is someone who will ask you important questions such as your health condition, before you start with your workout sessions. If in case he will notice that there are some issues relating to your health, then he should be able to address this. He could devise a workout plan that is suitable for your health and lifestyle or consult with your physician to discuss what certain exercises are not suitable for you.<br /> <br /> Good References<br /> <br /> If your friends would recommend a trainer and they can guarantee that he is really good at what he does, then that might be a sign that he is the one you are looking for. Highly reputable trainers are those who make their clients happy and satisfied that they will recommend him to some other people.<br /> <br /> Reasonable Fees<br /> <br /> A good personal trainer Los Angeles is someone who has liability insurance so when something would happen, you are assured that everything will be covered. He must also make you understand what the cancellation policy is so if you decide not to push through with the training, then you know what's going to happen.<br /> <br /> He Has Insurance<br /> <br /> A good personal trainer Los Angeles is someone who has liability insurance so when something would happen, you are assured that everything will be covered. He must also make you understand what the cancellation policy is so if you decide not to push through with the training, then you know what's going to happen.<br /> <br /> You Are Comfortable Working With Him<br /> <br /> One of the most important things to consider when looking for a personal trainer Los Angeles is that he should be someone that you're comfortable working with. Remember that you will be working with your trainer for many months and even up to a year, so you have to make sure that you're able to work with him without any issues at all. If the trainer is somebody you are not comfortable working with, then that is not a good sign.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Being in excellent condition with the help of <a href="http://www.theperfectworkout.com/personal-trainer-los-angeles/">Los Angeles Personal Trainer</a> not only enhances your physique but also your health as well. The benefits that you can receive from <a href="https://plus.google.com/111366947275605891071/about">Personal Trainer Los Angeles</a> are countless.</div><br /> </div><br />

Indicators That A Personal Trainer Los Angeles Might Just Be The One You're Looking For

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Eating Properly With The Help Of The Personal Trainer San Diego

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Patricia Neill</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>A lot of people hold a misconception that they need to eat less to lose weight and become physically healthy. While it does make you lose weight, the process is actually harmful to the body. By starving it of food, it's forced to consume precious reserves that are in charge of maintaining your body.<br /> <br /> A personal trainer San Diego is a person who is trained to see you avoid this. Besides giving you a thorough and detailed exercise regimen, they will also help guide you in making the correct choices with regards to eating.<br /> <br /> Why A Personal Trainer San Diego Wants You To Eat Well<br /> <br /> There are many reasons why your fitness trainer decides to have you alter your present diet. One could be because of your current lifestyle. He or she might notice that your diet intake is unhealthy and maybe some things need to be cut down on or upped.<br /> <br /> Another reason could be because of your current exercise routine. A heavy routine calls for more fuel, and therefore, more food of the right sort. Then there are your goals for your body. If you are looking to build your muscle mass, your personal trainer San Diego will advise you to eat certain amounts of specific protein.<br /> <br /> The Purpose Of Eating The Right Food<br /> <br /> If you want your body to become in a certain way, such as having larger muscles or simply becoming slimmer, you will have to control what you eat. "We are what we eat" is a phrase that has never rung truer. For the average person, a well balanced diet is generally all that is needed to keep the body balanced and healthy. For people who want to alter their body, a more customized menu is needed.<br /> <br /> The Main Groups Of Food You Need<br /> <br /> In line with the history of your diet, your personal trainer San Diego is going to give you a list or so of things that you have to take note of while on your current workout regimen. Depending on what happens, you might find that some alterations may be made each time you switch to a different kind of workout routine. Rest assured that such alterations are just to benefit you.<br /> <br /> There are numerous basic groups available in each diet, though they could vary according to amount and who prescribed them. Regardless, all of the following components are important.<br /> <br /> * Carbohydrates<br /> <br /> * Carbohydrates<br /> <br /> * Protein<br /> <br /> * Fruits and vegetables<br /> <br /> The Best Time To Eat<br /> <br /> The amount that you have to eat and when varies with each personal trainer San Diego. Some recommend the standard three times a day, while others encourage you to eat smaller amounts but for five times a day.<br /> <br /> A personal trainer San Diego thinks that a small amount of food and the higher number of times you eat a day is the key to helping your metabolism become more active. An active metabolism means that you'll be constantly burning calories, the result of which being a loss of weight. You have to consult your trainer every time a change is made and if you should ever feel uncomfortable or burdened by the change.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Being in excellent condition with the aid of <a href="http://www.theperfectworkout.com/personal-trainer-san-diego/">San Diego Personal Trainer</a> not just boosts your own physique but also your well being too. The huge benefits that one can get from <a href="https://plus.google.com/117902136293088725452/about">Personal Trainer San Diego</a> are countless.</div><br /> </div><br />

Eating Properly With The Help Of The Personal Trainer San Diego

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Effective Weight-loss Practices As Shared By A Leading West Hollywood Personal Trainer

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Michael Petry</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>While it may appear easy for others to adhere to a healthy diet and do exercises religiously, there are actually a lot of people who are struggling on these aspects, thus, slimming down for them is just a bit too hard. If you're somebody from the West Hollywood area, it may seem normal for you to see renowned Hollywood celebrities walking around looking their very best.<br /> <br /> If you envy their sexy and fit body, then maybe it's about time that you consider working out with a West Hollywood personal trainer. And to help you attain your weight loss goals fast, here are a few of the successful weight loss habits that a leading trainer from West Hollywood will share to you.<br /> <br /> Come Up With A Cheat Meal And Not A Cheat Day<br /> <br /> You sure have heard lots of people saying that having a cheat day can somehow help you to lose weight easily. This is definitely true, however, you it would be best if you plan a cheat meal instead of a cheat day. Giving yourself an entire day to overindulge on your favorite foods might just make you gain more weight which can be difficult to shed off in the next few days. So why not plan a cheat meal instead? It should be one meal in a day that is loaded with all your favorite foods, such as pizza, burgers, fries, etc. A West Hollywood personal trainer would however warn you to know your limits and to make sure that you know when to stop.<br /> <br /> Reward Yourself With Some Treats<br /> <br /> Rewards are certainly a great way to motivate oneself to go on, so why not enjoy some small indulgences from time to time? If you realize that you have worked so hard in a certain week and have spent quite a lot of time in the gym for the entire week, then reward yourself at the end of the week by buying that favorite chocolate bar of yours, or perhaps that ice cream you have been eyeing for in the supermarket. According to the West Hollywood personal trainer, doing this can help you to move on with your workout and you will not feel like you are punishing yourself harshly.<br /> <br /> Keep Things In Balance<br /> <br /> To make sure that your diet is in the right balance, you should be able to watch your calorie intake while eating healthy meals at the same time. Your West Hollywood personal trainer should also be able to devise a nutritional plan for you, something that will balance your nutritional intake. Remember that just like with anything else in this world, we should be able to find the right balance in the food that we eat in order to successfully achieve our weight loss goals.<br /> <br /> Apart from these things, one thing that a West Hollywood personal trainer would want to advise his clients is to never give up no matter what may come along the way. You should be able to keep yourself motivated and you should be able to continue until such time that you successfully achieve your goals.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Getting in good condition with the help of <a href="https://plus.google.com/100349319569853932791/about">website link</a>not just enhances your physique but also your well being too. The benefits that you can get from <a href="http://www.theperfectworkout.com/personal-trainer-west-hollywood/">check this out</a> are limitless.</div><br /> </div><br />

Effective Weight-loss Practices As Shared By A Leading West Hollywood Personal Trainer

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An Intro To Pure Garcinia Cambogia Diet Tablet!

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Teresa Norris</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Garcinia Cambogia is the current fad in the weight management business. Physician described it as the holy grail of fat burning. Indeed, this organic supplement is strongly advised for anyone planning to go down a couple of added pounds. Yet the main things that a great deal of persons are asking is: Does Garcinia Cambogia burn fat or it is simply another rip-off?<br /> <br /> Actually, Among the major conveniences of pure Garcinia Cambogia is that it is very cost-effective. The pill is an organic, secure and cost-effective fashion to obtain rid of the added pounds without having to fret about irritating negative effects. Based on the supplier and the outlet that commercializes Garcinia Cambogia, you can obtain this supplement at highly inexpensive costs. Generally, fat loss products are understood for their negative responses - this is not the case with Garcinia Cambodgia, as there are no documented negative effects to this minute. Nevertheless, children, expectant females and those that suffer from diabetes are advised to consult their doctor before starting the treatment with this supplement.<br /> <br /> Garcinia has been used for centuries in Asian countries for cooking functions as a condiment and flavoring broker instead of tamarind or lemon, and to make meals more loading. It has actually additionally been extensively utilized as an anti-obesity organic supplement for decades around the world. If you are looking for a tried and tested efficient and secure fat loss supplement, Garcinia Cambogia Extract is the option.<br /> <br /> Despite the fact that Pure Garcinia Cambogia remove has a collection of advantages that make it really sought-after amongst those who are straining to drop weight, there are some drawbacks at the same time. Individuals who suffer from Alzheimer's condition or have diabetes must steer clear of taking this supplement - besides, the daily dosages differ from one maker to another, and this could be very perplexing for the consumer. Also, it can trigger stomach soreness in people that have level of sensitivity to different foods.<br /> <br /> In recap, The garcinia antioxidants that are present in the supplements is a natural ingredient that helps to get rid of excess body fat. This means that when taking the supplements, it is feasible to burn additional fat compared to before. It is most likely that individuals will certainly find that they have additional electricity which is also optimal for sustaining an active way of living and exercise program.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>This blogger is very knowledgeable on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsGFDUwZ000">garcinia cambogia pure</a>. Please take a glance at their online site for more info.</div><br /> </div><br />

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A Low Key Approach To Botox

<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Denise Sendora</div><br /><br /> <div class='uawarticle'>Botox injections are now common practice to improve the skin's appearance. Not only is treatment safe and effective, it is also extremely affordable, making more and more people opt for this treatment today. It is fairly obvious if a person has had botox treatment because the change is visibly evident, and there still appears to be a small amount of 'stigma' attached to botox injections.<br /> <br /> Discreet or 'baby' botox injections are available these days, however. Let's take a brief look at this. <br /> <br /> What is baby botox?<br /> <br /> While reaping the benefits of botox treatment on their lines and wrinkles, people who undergo botox injection treatments prefer to preserve their natural look. Some people think current botox treatments can look unnatural, as they are aimed at getting rid of almost all lines and wrinkles on the face. On the other hand baby botox is aimed at treating just a few lines and wrinkles while preserving certain natural expression lines.<br /> <br /> What does baby botox treatment target?<br /> <br /> Mostly, baby botox treatments treat a few wrinkles on the forehead, as well as crow's feet (fine lines and wrinkles seen at the corner of the eyes) and frown lines. Areas such as those under the eyes are not injected. One area that can have remarkable effects on overall appearance of the patient is the eyebrow - it may be injected to help open up the eyes. In short, strategically placed treatments offer all the benefits of botox, but by targeting only certain areas of the face the natural look is preserved. <br /> <br /> Advantages<br /> <br /> As is the case with botox injections, patients report a significant improvement in their look and feel a lot younger following baby botox treatments. Confidence levels are also a lot higher as their natural look is preserved as some of the common wrinkles are still present.<br /> <br /> Risks of baby botox injections<br /> <br /> The risks with baby botox injections are the same as the ones seen with regular botox, as the nature of the injection given does not change. Patients report mild bleeding and bruising at the injection site; this goes away without leaving any scar tissue. The procedure is performed under sterile conditions, so infections are rare. There are hardly any reported cases of severe reactions, but allergic reactions could occur to components within the botox injection, although these are rare. <br /> <br /> Conclusion<br /> <br /> Baby botox's popularity is growing because of its effectiveness in preserving the patient's natural look, while eliminating most of the fine facial wrinkles. There is no doubt that this may become the preferred treatment by many patients in the future.<br /> <br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawresource'><br /> <div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br /> About the Author:<br /> </div><br /> <div class='uawlinks'>Sign up to <a href="http://iapam.com/botox-injection-training">train for botox injections</a> with the IAPAM. Visit <a href="http://iapam.com/aesthetic-training-for-physicians">training for medical aesthetics</a>.</div><br /> </div><br />

A Low Key Approach To Botox

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