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POPSRunning Doc: How to prevent "marathon feet" More: Here are some things you can do to prevent and/or treat "marathon feet": * Train on the same surface you plan to run on. If you are training for a marathon on roads, the treadmill or a soft track will not prepare your body for the pounding… * After the race, and you are urinating normally…you may take (e.g., aspirin or ibuprofen) unless your doctor has told you that you cannot due to a contraindication. * Most important: Immediately upon returning home or to your hotel post-race, soak your feet for 15 minutes in an ice bath. This is the best way to avoid this middle-of-the-night pain. Now, if you have pain the Monday after the event, 15-minute ice baths three times a day and may be necessary for two days to ease the inflammation. If you feel bony tenderness, see a doctor sooner than later -- what you have may not be "marathon feet" but rather a stress or full fracture of a bone in your foot.
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POPSNew Berkeley Law Study Finds Enforcement of Immigration Laws Led to Racial Profiling The new report, “The CAP Effect: Racial Profiling in the ICE Criminal Alien Program,” was released today by the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity (Warren Institute) at UC Berkeley School of Law (Berkeley Law). “It was clearly a fishing expedition. Police cast a wide net to arrest anyone who looked Hispanic for any minor violation,” said report co-author Aarti Kohli, immigration policy expert at Berkeley Law’s Warren Institute. “The Hispanic community suspected racial profiling as the root cause of the increase in arrests. Our report backs that up.”
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POPSrestaurant: Pho Ga Hai Phong, Oakland
New restaurant in our neighborhood. Tasty food. More: Since age 9, Mommy had to cook all the meals for her entire family of eight, because her parents were out working hard to catch fish on their boat all day. She learned to make soup broth and other simple meals by wandering around and watching the neighbors cook. When she was 13 years old, she learned to make pho and honed her Vietnamese culinary skills…Mommy often worked in various restaurants…as a dishwasher or assistant in the kitchen, where she observed the chefs preparing exquisite dishes…It was Mommy’s dream to be the head chef of a restaurant where she could determine the menu items and share her home-style cooking and serve her family's favorite dishes, such as Pho Ga, Bun Rieu (vermicelli noodles with shrimp, crab, and egg soup), clam chowder, BBQ short ribs, and New York steak with everyone. This is why the Pho Ga Hai Phong menu offers 3 distinct cuisines: Vietnamese, Chinese, and American.
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POPSFoursquare - Location Based Coupons - The Next Twitter? Foursquare says they'll help you meet up with your friends and let you earn points and unlock badges for discovering new places, doing new things and meeting new people. Will have to try the iphone app. Logo looks like a guy bowling. The next Twitter? Probably not. 5k followers on their twitter blog at http://twitter.com/foursquare . Carve out a piece of the Twitter pie? Possibly. Most venues listed for Seattle have few check ins. All new. Steps to use: #1 find your friends nearby: use iphone app or mobile browser #2 points and badges: earn check in points. #3 explore the city - find all of the cool things to do in the city (NYC) and make to do lists of things you want to do.
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POPSSweet Asylum Charming site...very clever logo/imaging. List of treats sounds delicious!
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POPSWho's in Charge of Deporting Honor Students?! The DREAM Act is not real yet - just a proposal - so Bush League hangovers or wannabe white knights in ICE and Department of Homeland Security keep looking for dangerous illegal aliens to deport. They keep finding kids who have lived most of their lives here, are honor students, and likely as not have been noted in a local news item - as good news. So now we have the real lowdown on how ICE if protecting us, they're using Google to find honor students with foreign (aka, not Anglo) sounding names in local news then running their parents to see if they registered their kids. If not? an easy score on your wannabe big time law enforcer sheet. Deplorable, stupid, dumb - who's in charge?
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POPSFree stuff in the SF Bay Area: Johnny Funcheap's favorite things to do From the SF Bay Guardian's annual Free Issue. More: get sweaty by donning your blades or old-school roller skates and join the Midnight Rollers' weekly Friday Night Skate. A large group of skaters embark from the Ferry Plaza on a 10-mile dance party/skate tour of the city, which includes plenty of stops for ice cream, Frisbee-throwing, and a chance for slowpokes to catch up… Macy's Union Square puts on free monthly cooking demonstrations in the Cellar, where top local chefs reveal their secrets for dishing up creative yet healthy meals. Not only do you get to learn skills like how to barbecue like a grill master, expertly pair chocolate and wine, or make a brunch worth waking up early for, you also get to sample the yummy delights the experts have cooked up. It's like watching your favorite cooking show on the Food Network, but getting to magically reach inside the TV to grab a taste.
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POPSA man should not die, ignored, alone in ICE jail The immigration reform debate is not black and white, it is mostly shades of gray. One solution - put them in jail until they are deported does not work in all cases, especially when it leads to neglect and un-necessary death.
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POPSCourt Sentences Bishop For Ringing Church Bells
"The church bells chime a short, ancient melody of praise to God," commented Stanley. "It's too bad that the value of the bells is lost on many in our society. In a busy neighborhood full of sirens, heavy traffic and loud motorcycles, these chimes are a sound of peace that do not exceed the noise level of an average conversation. Certainly, that should be at least as acceptable as the sound of an ice cream truck." Bishop Painter defended the bells as a constitutionally protected freedom of religion issue. The judge further ordered that the church – which had been ringing the bells daily on the hour from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. – may now only ring the bells on Sunday mornings and a court-ordered list of select religious holidays. "We're expressing our religion," he told KNXV. "We glorify God by the bells." The Associated Press reports Painter plans to appeal the conviction, and the ADF states that it is examining legal options for best defending Painter's rights.
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POPScreative Ads placed oddly To find explanations for some the ads go to the source. I must say it sucks sometime that cm has such a limit on clipping words...oh well.
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POPSE. coli Fast Food Ice Cubes This article is certainly disturbing. E. coli was found in ice cubes in a number of fast food restaurants by a 12 year old girl. The type of E. coli was the typical bacterial variety. E. Coli O157:H7 is not the typical E Coli that resides the intestines. This type of bacteria causes bloody diarrhea, cramping, dehydration and possibly death. We tend to think of E Coli as residing on meat, but it can be found on vegetables - and in ice. Over 75 million Americans become ill from foodborne illness each year. by Christine
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POPSDEA dissenter Sandy Gonzalez reveals the drug war's complicity in torture and... After a few years in El Paso, Gonzalez became the central whistle-blower in the horrifying “House of Death” case, in which agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were accused of looking the other way while one of their drug informants helped torture and murder at least a dozen people in the violent border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
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POPSGlobal Warming is NOT TRUE???!!!! SO Why Floods Are Expected Soon? Wall Street, a few meters above sea level, will also be swallowed, along with much of New York City, as ocean circulation winds down in the Atlantic, subjecting the Northeast to hyperviolent storms and surges. (Of course, given its role in our current "econopocalypse," few might not consider that such a bad thing.) Another world away, southern Africa has been swamped by floods worse than anything the region has experienced in decades, which has killed over 100 and made 100,000 homeless.
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POPS The Cooling World ~ Newsweek 1975 Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth’s average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras — and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average. Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the “little ice age” conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 — years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City. Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. “Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data,” concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. Meteorologists think that they can forecast the short-term results of the return to the norm of the last century.