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June 2007 ArchivesIt's "All blazers All The Time" here at the big 8, so I'm not doing a 5pm health wrap. Some of you will hopefully notice I finally got back to your emails since I had some time!! But I have boatloads of photos to share (okay, not boatloads.. like a dingy's worth).. Drew Carney and I are making fused glass plates for Candelighters!! http://www.4kidswithcancer.org/ ... Okay, you've got to check out this MSNBC columnist's article on science taking men right out of the whole procreation equation. Very entertaining: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17937813/ Now onto "Brain Gyms".. this is the real deal, folks. Virtual gyms are springing up online where you ((for a fee)) can work on puzzles, etc. to get your grey matter in tip top form ((By t... Oh yes. The vlog is makin' a comeback. At least while I'm working on health wraps as opposed t... Yup. I was 7 years old when I finally learned how to ride a bike with no training wheels. That's a little old, isn't it? I just didn't have any incentive to take off the two extra, perfectly good wheels that helped keep me upright. I didn't have older siblings I was hoping to keep up with. I'd already crashed once right into a thicket of blackberry bushes and didn't much care for the notion of even less stability. But it was finally teas... So this NOTES surgery story is downright wild, right?? I figured it would be perfect blog fodder because I just didn't want to have to explain about yanking out a woman's gallbladder through her vagina on the 5pm news. Okay, I'm overstating it just to b... For the record, I have 'princess' tendencies. And diva tendencies. But only with the best of intentions. I mention this in the context of tonite's 5pm story on our wonderful Dr. Bradley who we've followed for the past few weeks. His story completely moved me and I wanted to do him (and the children he's fighting for) justice. The last thing I wanted to do is cut-down my story because it was longer than th... Flaming mattresses are a sure-fire way to ruin your day. Pun intended. So these new standards should help change that. But often I hear people concerned about the chemicals used on lots of things (mattresses included) to make things more flame resistant. The question came up on the Today show this morning, and while she didn't elaborate too much because Meredith asked the next question... the CPSC spokesperson said the chemicals are safe a... I don't have any moral objections to gambling, but I know some people do. Truthfully, I actually enjoy playing Texas Hold 'Em and I'm just bad enough to be a bit unpredictable on the table which actually helps me win (or at least play long enough to enjoy myself). Now the one time I played for charity ((as Annie Duke (who rocks), Phil Helmuth, and Devilfish either played or helped out))-- THAT was a pathetic showing on my par... Here's the thing about having a blog: you have to keep the content up-- whatever that content might be, you have to have something new on a pretty regular basis or else it gets boring and you stop checking it out (I mean, that's how it works for me, anyway). And I use 'Google reader' and all that, too, to save time-- but let's face it: new stuff is more fun than the same stuff you looked at last week 10 times waiting... I hope you liked Friday's 5pm story on the breast cancer boutique!! Wasn't Paula awesome? And Pam, too, for sharing their stories with me (and you). I'm hoping that on this new shift I can do more stories like this. Don't get me wrong, covering the latest/greatest study is wonderfully interesting to me, especially as I've figured out many of the pitfalls that come with covering health stories accurately. It's actually hard to get it right... That's sort of the take home message from the study we talked about at 5.. but, it's IS small (as I mentioned). Regardless, I wonder what's really going on. If you looked as a borader sample of people it's possible the association would change. And, as always, an 'association' is not proof of cause-and-effect, you know? You can check it out here. I love the medical jargon. It's like a challenge for me to figure it all out. Blows my mind... Yuk. When I heard that was a possible side effect from Alli I thought long and hard about wether I'd ever try something like that. I also read somewhere that they suggest starting it on a weekend, and bringing a spare set of pants to the office. Of course, these are worst case scenarios and likely follow the super high-fat meal you weren't supposed to eat anyway... Really fast: the company has been very good and honest... I'm movin' on up to the mornings... WAY up. As in 4:30am "up". I do like the shift (crazy, I know). AND-- I have gotten each and every one of your emails, but i'm just so not in a groove right now. I WILL get back to you as soon as I can figure out this dratted schedule of mine. It's still new so it will take some time. :-) Oh yeah, I'm still working on stories for the 5pm newscast-- so here's a quick rundown of what I promised y... Man, oh man. It sounds like an SNL skit making fun of TV news... "What you don't know about your bird's feeder could kill it..." but it's totally true. You saw the story (shot largely thanks to my neighbors who let me run around in their yards)-- but here is the press release for you to check out: http://wdfw.wa.gov/do/newreal/release.php?id=jun0607b Body Worlds 3 in Portland is slightly different than Body Worlds 3 in Phoenix (I went there in May to check it out for one of those 'special reports' I'm always talking about). For one, the OMSI space is much larger. And, then there's the camel. The exhibit's creator, Dr. Gunther von Hagens told everyone at the press conference today about finding the camel in Kazakhstan or Kyrgyzstan-- anyway: it died of a broken leg and he... I know, I know, I know. Look, while a lot of you like it, my boss doesn't love it and I have to be totally honest with you when I say I just don't put as much thought into it as I should (as witnessed by 4 years of 'librarian hair'-- which is not meant to offend librarians who have awesome hair). So, tonite I'm cutting it off. It kind of needs it, frankly.. it looks a little Jon Bon Jovi, circa 1985. BUT: you have to... Hopefully you'll have a chance to check out tonite's (Friday's) story on Jack Kevorkian's Portland connection. After doing this story I realized that people have such differing views of the man and what he did. I wonder what you think? Is Kevorkian a murderer? A saint? Villain or hero?? Please do send me an email and let me know how you feel about this. As always, I will post snippets so you can see for yourself how your o... |
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