EAT TURKEY and all the trimmings to your hearts content!

As the table is spread with food of all kinds

and thoughts of stuffed turkey swirl in your mind

remember the bloated feeling soon to befall

with every helping of stuffing cramming your abdonemal wall,

And let's not forget the pumpkin pie

guaranteed to add to your feeling of over-supply

as we raise our glasses of champagne and wine

and salute the turkey instead of the swine

who gobbled his way to our Table divine!

Gobble, gooble, gobble!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Donofrio v Obama Citizenship
Case Moves To New
Supreme Court Level
By Devvy Kidd
11-19-8

Leo Donofrio's case submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court reagrding Obama's citizenship has reached a new level: the case has been "distributed for conference."

On December 5, 2008, only ten days before the electoral college votes, the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will meet in private to discuss this case identified as:

Leo C. Donofrio, v. Nina Mitchell Wells, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey
United States Supreme Court Docket No. 08A407

Leo informed me earlier today via telephone about this historic event and wanted to thank everyone who sent their letters to Justice Clarence Thomas.

This is the link to the Supreme Court showing the docket and action:

http://origin.www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/08a407.htm

If you go to this link, it will give you the process under Title 18:

http://nocriminalcode.blogspot.com/2007/10/petition-distributed-for- conference-on.html

Click on Justices Conference for more history on this process.

This docketing today by the court for this next step should send ripples of fear through the Obama camp. Obama has been proceeding at lighenting speed to put together a cabinet and take possession of the White House with the hope that he won't have to answer the question of whether or not he was "at birth" a "natural born citizen."

Every major news network, print and cable news like FOX, CNN and MSNBC, have ignored all the court cases challenging Obama's eligibility as sore losers or conspiracy theories. It might be in their best interest at this point to report this critically important meeting to take place on December 5, 2008, or lose what little credibility they have left.

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Phil J. Berg on Michael Savage - Audio
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Phil J. Berg appeared on the Michael Savage radio program on October 23rd, 2008.

Here's a link to the audio file. Mr. Berg was on the program for the first hour and thirty minutes.

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Phil J. Berg files motions to expedite resolution in Berg v.. Obama
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Plaintiff Phil J. Berg filed two motions today seeking an expedited resolution in Berg v. Obama. (PDF's of the motions are attached below.)

PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AGAINST DEFENDANTS, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA and THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE

This motion argues that the facts have been established that Barack Obama is not constitutionally qualified to be elected or serve as President of the United States, and that the Court should issue a summary judgment as follows:

* That Barack Hussein Obama a/k/a Barry Hussein Obama a/k/a Barack Dunham a/k/a Barry Dunham a/k/a Barack Soetoro a/k/a Barry Soetoro is not a “natural born” or “naturalized” United States citizen.
* That he is ineligible to run for and/or serve as President of the United States.
* That the Democratic National Committee be enjoined from naming Barack Hussein Obama, et al as the Democratic Presidential Candidate on the ballot.
* That the Democratic National Committee and Barack Hussein Obama, et al are enjoined from any further campaigning on behalf of Barack Hussein Obama, et al for Office of the Presidency.
* That Barack Hussein Obama’s, et al name be removed from any and all ballots for the Office of the President of the United States.

PLAINTIFF’S MOTION REQUESTING AN EXPEDITED RULING ON PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT

This motion requests that the court:

* Grant Plaintiff’s Motion for Summary Judgment.
* Order that Defendants Response to Plaintiff=s Motion is to be filed and served upon Plaintiff by a specified date.
* Order that a Ruling, Hearing and/or Resolution be set for a specific date.

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WorldNetDaily: Obama 'admits' Kenyan birth? Campaign doesn't respond to claims in lawsuit over birth certificate
Thursday, 23 October 2008 21:05 administrator Main - News
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October 21, 2008 | By Drew Zahn | © 2008 WorldNetDaily

Pennsylvania Democrat Philip J. Berg, who filed a lawsuit demanding Sen. Barack Obama present proof of his American citizenship, now says that by failing to respond Obama has legally "admitted" to the lawsuit's accusations, including the charge that the Democratic candidate was born in Mombosa, Kenya.

As WND reported, Berg filed suit in U.S. District Court in August, alleging Obama is not a natural-born citizen and is thus ineligible to serve as president of the United States. Though Obama has posted an image of a Hawaii birth certificate online, Berg demands that the court verify the original document, which the Obama campaign has not provided.

Now Berg cites Rule 36 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which states that unless the accused party provides written answer or objection to charges within 30 days, the accused legally admits the matter.

Since Obama has only filed motions to dismiss and has not actually answered the charges in the lawsuit, Berg claims, according to Rule 36, Obama has legally admitted he is not a natural-born citizen.

Now Berg is asking the court for a formal declaration of Obama's admission and asking the Democratic National Committee for another presidential candidate.

In a statement released today, Berg argues that he filed Requests for Admissions on Sept. 15, meaning Obama had until Oct. 15 to answer or face the consequences of Rule 36.

"Obama and the DNC 'admitted,' by way of failure to timely respond to Requests for Admissions, all of the numerous specific requests in the Federal lawsuit," Berg's statement reads. "Obama is 'not qualified' to be president and therefore Obama must immediately withdraw his candidacy for president and the DNC shall substitute a qualified candidate."

Complete article at WorldNetDaily.com

http://michaelsavage.wnd.com/?pageId=2256

Making some steps to manage your spending can help you position yourself to survive a financial setback such as getting laid off from your job.

In an interview with a local Seacoast financial consultant who asked to "be off the record," he suggested the following:

• Be prepared, but stay optimistic
• Look past today’s news and anticipate recovery
• Pay down loan balances and earn a guaranteed return
• Keep money in stocks
• Don’t chase yield
• Look for value pays/ Some companies that you liked in good times but have been hit in today's markets may represent buying opportunities.

I think one of the most important things we can do, first and foremost, is to stay informed, and stay POSITIVE!

I realize this is a publication out of the UK, but I have major challenges with media journalists who fabricate and look for every angle to misrepresent someone or something. I don't mind effectual, good, honest criticism, but I have serious problems with writers who are groping, looking under ever rug, and in every corner for things that are just ridiculous. It frankly cheapens their work, and in my estimation moves their writing into the zone of "Tabloid journalism," which is ineffectual and pathetic. Speaking of "sinking low..." this kind of writing is at the bottom of the barrel. Ugh.

Cif America
Flirting her way to victory
Sarah Palin's farcical debate performance lowered the standards for both female candidates and US political discourse

Sarah Palin winks during the vice-presidential debate on Thursday in St Louis, Missouri. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP

At least three times last night, Sarah Palin, the adorable, preposterous vice-presidential candidate, winked at the audience. Had a male candidate with a similar reputation for attractive vapidity made such a brazen attempt to flirt his way into the good graces of the voting public, it would have universally noted, discussed and mocked. Palin, however, has single-handedly so lowered the standards both for female candidates and American political discourse that, with her newfound ability to speak in more-or-less full sentences, she is now deemed to have performed acceptably last night.

By any normal standard, including the ones applied to male presidential candidates of either party, she did not. Early on, she made the astonishing announcement that she had no intentions of actually answering the queries put to her. "I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also," she said.

And so she preceded, with an almost surreal disregard for the subjects she was supposed to be discussing, to unleash fusillades of scripted attack lines, platitudes, lies, gibberish and grating references to her own pseudo-folksy authenticity.

It was an appalling display. The only reason it was not widely described as such is that too many American pundits don't even try to judge the truth, wisdom or reasonableness of the political rhetoric they are paid to pronounce upon. Instead, they imagine themselves as interpreters of a mythical mass of "average Americans" who they both venerate and despise.

In pronouncing upon a debate, they don't try and determine whether a candidate's responses correspond to existing reality, or whether he or she is capable of talking about subjects such as the deregulation of the financial markets or the devolution of the war in Afghanistan. The criteria are far more vaporous. In this case, it was whether Palin could avoid utterly humiliating herself for 90 minutes, and whether urbane commentators would believe that she had connected to a public that they see as ignorant and sentimental. For the Alaska governor, mission accomplished.

There is indeed something mesmerising (SPELL CHECK: MESMERIZING) (WHERE IS YOUR EDITOR?) about Palin, with her manic beaming and fulsome confidence in her own charm. The force of her personality managed to slightly obscure the insulting emptiness of her answers last night. It's worth reading the transcript of the encounter, where it becomes clearer how bizarre much of what she said was. Here, for example, is how she responded to Biden's comments about how the middle class has been short-changed during the Bush administration, and how McCain will continue Bush's policies:

Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again. You preferenced (SPELL CHECK: PREFERENCE)[sic] your whole comment with the Bush administration. Now doggone it, let's look ahead and tell Americans what we have to plan to do for them in the future. You mentioned education, and I'm glad you did. I know education you are passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, and god bless her. Her reward is in heaven, right? ... My brother, who I think is the best schoolteacher in the year, and here's a shout-out to all those third graders at Gladys Wood Elementary School, you get extra credit for watching the debate.

Evidently, Palin's pre-debate handlers judged her incapable of speaking on a fairly wide range of subjects, and so instructed to her to simply disregard questions that did not invite memorised talking points or cutesy filibustering. They probably told her to play up her spunky average-ness, which she did to the point of shtick - and dishonesty. Asked what her achilles heel is - a question she either didn't understand or chose to ignore - she started in on how McCain chose her because of her "connection to the heartland of America. Being a mom, one very concerned about a son in the war, about a special needs child, about kids heading off to college, how are we going to pay those tuition bills?"

None of Palin's children, it should be noted, is heading off to college. Her son is on the way to Iraq, and her pregnant 17-year-old daughter is engaged to be married to a high-school dropout and self-described "BLEEP redneck". Palin is a woman who can't even tell the truth about the most quotidian and public details of her own life, never mind about matters of major public import. In her only vice-presidential debate, she was shallow, mendacious and phoney. (SPELL CHECK: PHONY) What kind of maverick, after all, keeps harping on what a maverick she is? That her performance was considered anything but a farce doesn't show how high Palin has risen, but how low we all have sunk.

Adrienne and Paul’s moments of exchange seem strained and awkward; until a hurricane almost literally blows them into each other’s arms, releasing unbridled passion. If Adrienne had any hopes about returning to her lousy marriage, the days and nights spent with Paul certainly change that. Love is in the air! While this newfound love is mildly plausible it is interrupted by the reality that both Adrienne and Paul have two very separate lives to go deal with. Alas, as fast as their relationship begins, the happy couple says good-bye and leaves with the hope of meeting again.

The film was adapted from Nicholas Spark, the renowned author of “The Notebook,” and while there are elements of sentimentality that are very present in “The Notebook,” this film seems to lose momentum from time to time. However, there are some touching scenes between Adrienne and Paul, amazing ocean vistas, and romantic expectation for the above 40 crowd, while dealing with loss and love.

Not only do parents face organizational challenges with the start of the school year, teachers are facing the daunting reality that many students are bored with text. One elementary school teacher from Boston when asked her opinion said, “Kids are not learning effectively with today’s methods. I believe part of it has to do with their need for electronic stimulation. The textbooks are boring, because our kids are used to being entertained. Think about it: When is the last time you walked anywhere and didn’t see kids of all ages text messaging, walking around with earphones clued to their heads and ipods in their hands. Teachers do not stand a chance against the deluge of electronic stimulation that consumes about 90% of our youth today.” How do teachers and administration deal effectively with this increasing problem? It appears consuming media has far surpassed reading storybooks, or playing dress-up as the average American child’s favorite pastime. Overall, children between the ages of 2 and 18 spend an average of almost five-and-a-half hours a day at home watching television, playing computer games, surfing the web, listening to their Ipods, and text messaging on their cell phones. A kid’s idea of multitasking today, is juggling a text message, a phone call, while keeping one of their earpieces glued to their Ipod attached to their ear.

How does all this media use affect children’s cognitive, emotional and social development? Researchers and teachers alike are searching for answers and taking the question much more seriously. Dr. Sandra Calvert, a professor of psychology at Georgetown University, and the principle investigator and director of the Children’s Media Center said, “American children now grow up with electronic media at their fingertips. Yet there are important gaps in our knowledge about the role of interactive media in children’s healthy development. For years psychologists and educators have been watching these issues escalate, but so far, they have not been able to come up with any concrete answers in dealing with the digital giant.

Between the lurking apathy in many of our high school students, and the inability teachers and publishers have had to stimulate a drive to learn, it may be time to take another tack, before the dropout rate continues to escalate to alarming proportions.

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Faris (who looks more like Goldie Hawn than Kate Hudson) plays the part of the innocent, adorable, ditzy blonde, who happens to have a heart of gold. While Faris gives an endearing performance, the storyline is horribly predictable, and filmmaker Fred Wolf should have taken this film out of the playgirl/playmate power girl zone. Shelley Darlington faces a “life-altering” dilemma: She has been ousted out of the Playboy Mansion by Hugh Heffner himself, and takes up residence as the “house mom” in a sorority house filled with less-than attractive feminists. Naturally, her new life challenge is to transform these rebels i nto respectable “bimbos.”

The film is cute and funny, but most of the laughs stem around the playgirl way of thinking. Amid Shelley Darlington’s predictable role, there does seem to be a deeper message lost in a myriad of silicon madness: That deeper relationships demand actual intellectual ability…at least the lasting ones. In a similar fashion to movies like, “Clueless,” “Legally Blonde,” and even the old famed Marilyn Monroe film, “Some Like It Hot,” “House Bunny,” is a cute recipe for predictability!”

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Uncomfortable Answers to Questions on the Economy
by Peter S. Goodman
Tuesday, July 22, 2008

provided by
The New York Times

You have heard that Fannie and Freddie, their gentle names notwithstanding, may cripple the financial system without a large infusion of taxpayer money. You have gleaned that jobs are disappearing, housing prices are plummeting, and paychecks are effectively shrinking as food and energy prices soar. You have noted the disturbing talk of crisis hovering over Wall Street.

Something has clearly gone wrong with the economy. But how bad are things, really? And how bad might they get before better days return? Even to many economists who recently thought the gloom was overblown, the situation looks grim. The economy is in the midst of a very rough patch. The worst is probably still ahead.
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Job losses will probably accelerate through this year and into 2009, and the job market will probably stay weak even longer. Home prices will probably keep falling, shrinking household wealth and eroding spending power.

"The open question is whether we're in for a bad couple of years, or a bad decade," said Kenneth S. Rogoff, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, now a professor at Harvard.

Is This a Recession?

Officially, no. The economy is not in recession until a panel at a private institution called the National Bureau of Economic Research says so. Unofficially, many economists think a recession started six or seven months ago, even as the economy has continued to expand -- albeit at a tepid pace.

Many assume that if the economy expands at all, then it isn't a recession, but that's not true. The bureau defines a recession as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months." If enough people lose their jobs, factories stop making things, stores stop selling things, and less money lands in people's pockets, it is probably a recession.

Whatever it is called, it is a painful time for tens of millions of people. Indeed, this may turn out to be the most wrenching downturn since the two recessions in the early 1980s; almost surely worse than the recession that ended the technology bubble at the beginning of this decade; perhaps worse than the downturn of the early 1990s that followed the last dip in real estate prices.

But, despite what some doomsayers now proclaim, this is not the Great Depression, when unemployment spiked to 25 percent and millions of previously working people woke up in shantytowns. Not by any measure, even as your neighbors make cryptic remarks above dusting off lessons passed down from grandparents about how to turn a can of beans into a family meal.

How Bad is Housing?

Bad in many markets, awful in some, and still O.K. in a few.

The downturn has its roots in the real estate frenzy that turned lonely Nevada ranches into suburban ranch homes and swampland in Florida into condominiums. Speculators drove home prices beyond any historical connection to incomes. Gravity did the rest. After roughly doubling in value from 2000 to 2005, home prices have fallen about 17 percent -- and more like 25 percent in inflation-adjusted terms -- according to the widely watched Case-Shiller index.

Even so, most economists think house prices must fall an additional 10 to 15 percent to get back to reality. One useful measure is the relationship between the costs of buying and renting a home. From 1985 to 2002, the average American home sold for about 14 times the annual rent for a similar home, according to Moody's Economy.com. By early 2006, home prices ballooned to 25 times rental prices. Since then, the ratio has dipped back to about 20 -- still far above the historical norm.

With mortgages now hard to obtain and speculation no longer attractive, arithmetic has replaced momentum as the guiding force for housing prices. The fundamental equation points down: Even as construction grinds down, there are still many more houses on the market than there are people to buy them, and more on the way as more homeowners slip into foreclosure.

By the reckoning of Economy.com, enough houses are on the market to satisfy demand for the next two-and-a-half years without building a single new one.

The time it takes to sell a newly completed house has expanded from an average of four months in 2005 to about nine months, according to analysis by Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

And many sales are falling through -- more than 30 percent in some parts of California and Florida -- as buyers fail to secure financing, exacerbating the glut of homes, Mr. Baker said.

No wonder that in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix and Las Vegas, house prices have in recent months declined at annual rates of more than 33 percent.

When Will Banks Revive?

So far, they have written off more than $300 billion in loans. Many experts now predict the toll will rise to $1 trillion or more -- a staggering sum that could cripple many institutions for years.

Back when home prices were multiplying, banks poured oceans of borrowed money into real estate loans. Unlike the dot-com companies at the heart of the last speculative investment bubble, the new gold rush was centered on something that seemed unimpeachably solid -- the American home.

Tom has bedded down every eligible beauty in NYC, except his beloved “best friend” Hannah, who he shares an amazingly open, communicative 10-year relationship with since college. They’re two peas in a pod, with an innocent relationship, and spend lazy Sundays shopping for antiques and debating about which pastries to eat at one of Manhattan’s top bakeries, and their platonic, idealistic relationship is certainly endearing.

However, while the film is cute, its predictable, over-used plot is a recipe for potential boredom. The film can be categorized as “cliché” from the ridiculous pun of its title all the way through the story line. While somewhat entertaining, (depending on your definition of that) “Made of Honor” cannot be considered anything more than corny and overstated. In short, wait for the DVD, and rent it for less than half the price!

Do you think that movie reviews are helpful, and do they affect your decision making to either "see" or "not see" a movie?

Artist hanged herself after aborting her twins

Last Updated: 12:23pm GMT 24/02/2008

An artist killed herself after aborting her twins when she was eight weeks pregnant, leaving a note saying: "I should never have had an abortion. I see now I would have been a good mum."
# Cardinal's aide 'pushed me to abortion'
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Emma Beck was found hanging at her home in Helston, Cornwall, on Feb 1 2007. She was declared dead early the following day - her 31st birthday.
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Her suicide note read: "I told everyone I didn't want to do it, even at the hospital. I was frightened, now it is too late. I died when my babies died. I want to be with my babies: they need me, no-one else does."

The inquest at Truro City Hall heard that Miss Beck had split up with her boyfriend, referred to as "Ben" after he "reacted badly" to the pregnancy.

She saw her GP before the termination, but missed an appointment at a hospital in Penzance. She then cancelled, but later turned up to an appointment at a clinic at Royal Cornwall Hospital in Treliske. The counsellor was on holiday so a doctor referred Miss Beck to a pregnancy counselling telephone service eight days before carrying out the abortion when she was eight weeks pregnant, the inquest heard.

The coroner, Dr Emma Carlyon, ordered that the identities of the doctor who performed the abortion and her lead consultant be kept secret.

The inquest heard that Sylvia Beck, the victim's mother, wrote to the hospital after her daughter's death, saying: "I want to know why she was not given the opportunity to see a counsellor.

"She was only going ahead with the abortion because her boyfriend did not want the twins.

"I believe this is what led Emma to take her own life - she could not live with what she had done."

The doctor said: "I discussed Emma's situation with her, and wrote on the form, 'Unsupported, lives alone, ex-partner aware'.

"It is normal practice to give a woman the number for telephone counselling when a counsellor is not available.

"I am satisfied that everything was done to make sure that Emma consented to the operation.

She added: "We have since appointed more counsellors so there is more holiday cover."

Katie Gibbs, Miss Beck's GP, told the hearing: "She was extremely distressed by the abortion procedure, and I didn't think she ever came to terms with it.

"She had a long history of anxiety and depression. Despite my best efforts, she was not willing to see a counsellor after the termination."

Her boss at the clinic, said: "The time that can be given to a woman by a counsellor is limited in a busy hospital.

"I am satisfied everything was done to make sure Emma was consenting to surgery. I don't feel there was any gap in the counselling service.

"There were lots of individuals who would be alert to any doubts. The comments made by Emma's mother are not about a doctor I recognise."

Mrs Beck told the court: "Emma was considered a talented artist, and sold a number of paintings.

"She was pleased when she became pregnant, but Ben reacted badly to the news."

Recording a verdict of suicide, Dr Carlyon said: "It is clear that a termination can have a profound effect on a woman's life.

"But I am reassured by the evidence of the doctors here."

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DAILY NEWS

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Bacteria crawling on fountains and workout mats at city's gyms

By christina boyle
daily news staff writer

Monday, February 11th 2008, 4:00 AM
Daily News

Dangerous germs lurking around city gyms may be making you sick, the Daily News has found.

A News spot check of health clubs - including several of the city's most expensive gyms - uncovered potentially harmful bacteria lingering all over exercise mats, bicycles, drinking fountains and other surfaces.

The germs could easily make you ill - especially if you're rundown, elderly or have a compromised immune system, experts said.

The equipment posing the highest risks are cardiovascular machines used by many people in quick succession and equipment, including dumbbells or mats, that are passed around.

"I believe it," said Alex Marquez, 34, from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, who ended up taking antibiotics in a hospital after his foot swelled from an infection doctors said was caught at the gym.

"They told me I probably got it when I stepped on the wet floor getting out of the shower," he said. "First my foot was itching and scratching made a cut so the infection got into the blood.

"Now when I come out the shower I wear slippers. It wasn't fun. You've got to realize that everybody uses the equipment, and you don't know where they've been."

The News swabbed stationary bicycles, mats that gymgoers use to stretch out after a sweaty workout and drinking fountains at branches of Crunch, Dolphin Fitness, Equinox, New York Sports Club and the YMCA in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens.

The News took the swabs to EMSL Laboratories where they were tested for various bacteria and MRSA, the antibiotic-resistant staph infection known as the superbug.

The lab results show no matter how much you pay for your gym membership, you cannot escape the germs.

No traces of the superbug were found, but the tests discovered bacteria from soil, dairy products and, most prevalent, from the human body - with germs from the respiratory system, skin and feces.

Fecal bacteria, such as ewingella americana and brevundimonas diminuta, were lurking in samples taken from a mat and water fountain at a Crunch Fitness in midtown. A type of intestinal bacteria, serratia odorifera, were found on a mat at the Dodge YMCA gym in Brooklyn.

Bacteria from soil, which could cause conjunctivitis, were found on a water fountain at a Dolphin gym in Astoria, Queens.

"You have found representative organisms that come from three body sites of humans, which is where you find most of the bacteria in people, and transmitting organisms from people to other people is the way that you can get sick," said NYU microbiologist Dr. Philip Tierno.

"You can just as likely find pathogenic types."

The lab results did not find any pathogens but, previous tests of gym equipment by Tierno, the author of "The Secret Life of Germs," discovered the germs staph aureus, klebsiella, enterobacter and E. coli, which can cause serious illnesses.

"I did get sick the other day, and I thought I caught something at the gym because it was the last place I had been," said Christopher Gonzalez, 28, from downtown Brooklyn. "I don't use the showers or bathrooms, I go straight home."

Other gymgoers said the benefits of using the gym outweigh the risks and were not deterred by the findings.

"I wear gloves every time I work out so the machines are not so slippery, and also for hygiene," said Chandra Rahim, 36, from Chelsea. "I don't worry about it because it's healthy to go to the gym.

"I see them clean the equipment and I never think about getting sick. I live in New York - there are germs everywhere."

The gyms also said they work hard to ensure clubs are as clean as possible.

Machines and locker rooms are wiped down each day, and sanitation stations are provided so members can clean surfaces after each use. Towels are laundered at high temperatures to kill all bacteria.

"A clean, safe and healthy environment for our members and guests is as important as the programs and services we offer," said YMCA spokesman Kevin Shermach.

cboyle@nydailynews.com
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1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.

2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person's lifetime.

3. When the person's immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.

4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

5 To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.

6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.

7. Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size . However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.

9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.

CANCER CELLS FEED ON:

a Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal,Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or sea salt.

b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastrointestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.

c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.

d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruit help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetable s 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).

e. Avoid coffee, tea, a and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, avoid it.

12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines become putrefied and leads to more toxic build-up.

13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs etc.) to enable the body's own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements like vitamin E are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body's normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted anted, or unneeded cells.

15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, resentment, and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.

16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily, and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHN HOPKINS HOSPITAL , U S A

1. No plastic containers in micro.

2. No water bottles in freezer.

3. No plastic wrap in microwave.

Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well.

Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer.
Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies.
Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.

Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us.. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers.

This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else.

Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in t he paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.

Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.