What I get a big kick out of is that Anthony Weiner won’t say whether or not the crotch shot is of him. How many crotch shots does he have on his computer?
It takes a certain type of woman to set his heart a-Twitter.
Rep. Anthony Weiner follows only a select 198 of his nearly 49,000 Twitter fans — and a surprising number of them are total babes.
Yesterday, outside his DC office, the model-loving, married congressman testily refused to talk about the pretty women he’s following.
He flashed a tight, uncomfortable smile and avoided eye contract as he tried to deflect point-blank questions from reporters about whether or not he had sent a crotch shot of himself in underwear to a 21-year-old co-ed in Seattle.
…Weiner’s sultry stable of fans should come as no surprise. Every year, he begs the State Department to give red-hot international runway models more travel visas.
Weiner generally follows women who send him Twitter messages to cheer him on — usually over one of his many appearances on TV to champion the left — and he then replies with an offer:
“Thanks so much for following me. Would you like me to follow you? Use #WeinerYes,” he writes.
He has even sent private Twitter messages to porn star Ginger Lee, who once tweeted, “You know it’s a good day when you wake up to a [direct message] from @RepWeiner.”
…Weiner follows other young female fans from across the country, including lovely ladies in Florida, California and Texas.
Mike emails: I agree with you about the circumcision ban 100%
Hi There
Beware that you may get bombarded by anti-circ activists
they brainwash each other through their protest ,symposiums, and books etc that circumcison is the worst thing on the planet. If you ask me many of these people have some mental problems..
Below is a list of Informative and educational medical sites regarding the topic of circumcision
It will allow you to see how the Anti-circ activists are lying and distorting the truth..
Just cut and paste the URL
I also posted my testimonial as a father who had his son circumcised..below that is a list of some of the latest medical news articles.
any questions please feel free to contact me
thanks
Mike
This site is put out by the United Nation Aids (UNAIDS), World Health Organisation (WHO),
Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition (AVAC) and the Family Health International (FHI)
I am a father of a circumcised son. Yes I was circumcised too and wanted to pass on the benefits to him .
There is nothing wrong for a father to want this for his son, especially if he is aware of all the benefits
to it.
If there was only one or two benefits to being circumcised then maybe I or other fathers would think
differently. But when you add them all together the case in favor for circumcision becomes very apparent.
By being circumcised at birth, the first year of life has a less chance of having a UTI and probably lessens
the Uti chance later in life too. Throughout the rest of his life he will be less likely to have penile
problems such as torn frenulum, paraphimosis, phimosis, balanititis, thrush, small tares and abrasions on the
foreskin and upper shaft. Less chance of contracting HIV, HPV and the Herpes virus. Therefore less chance to
pass them on to his parnter.. cleanliness is also enhanced by eliminating the accumulation of smegma,
fermented urine and other smelly messes..
Pain during circumcision today is almost nil, with proper pain medication .. Circumcision has been around a
long time and will be around for many many years to come.. Circumcision is not a medical necessity but it
is definately a preventive measure . With all the deseases and weakened immune systems in people today it only
makes sense to help prevent infection and help prevent transmission of it as well. Circumcision does just that.
Proud and glad to be circumcised…Just like the vast majority of all other circumcised males out there…
I believe parents should have the right to make this decision for their child and those who are in favour
agree that it has some medical advantages.. Many studies show benefits to it and
rarely do you find medical studies showing medical benefits to being uncircumcised…
I have included a list of the latest news articles relating to the benefits
you can verify most of them online..
Thanks
Mike
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if the choice is made to circumcise, several excellent, safe alternatives are now
available to provide pain relief: EMLA cream is easy to use. When spread onto half
the length of the penis 60 to 90 minutes prior to the procedure, this topical anesthetic
provides moderate pain relief (New England Journal of Medicine, 1997; 336:1197-1201).
Dorsal penile nerve block (DNPB) involves two deep injections of lidocaine at the base of
the penis. Despite the shots, this technique greatly reduces overall pain (Journal of
Pediatrics, 1978; 92:998-1000). Bruising is the most common complication (Pediatrics,
1995; 95:705-708). Lasting problems almost never occur. .
Best is the subcutaneous ring block. Here, lidocaine is injected just under the skin in
a ring around the shaft of the penis, about halfway back from the tip. Recent evidence
suggests that it is more consistently powerful in preventing pain through all phases of
the circumcision than either EMLA or DPNB (JAMA, 1997; 278:2157-2162). There are no reports
in the medical literature of any complications.
Sugar water (or brandy) on a fingertip or pacifier may decrease crying. Acetaminophen may
blunt the pain (Pediatrics, 1994; 93:641-646); however, these and other “home remedies”
are insufficient for surgical pain, as anyone who has had an operation knows well.
pdf of full article available free from: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/au/2011/812368/
Advances in Urology. Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 812368, 21 pages: pp 1-12
The Strong Protective Effect of Circumcision against Cancer of the Penis
Brian J. Morris,1 Ronald H. Gray,2 Xavier Castellsague,3 F. Xavier Bosch,3 Daniel T. Halperin,4 Jake H. Waskett,5 and Catherine A. Hankins
School of Medical Sciences and Bosch Institute, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006,
Australia Population and Family Planning,
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA Institut Català d’Oncologia (ICO), IDIBELL, CIBERESP, RTICC, 08908 L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA5Circumcision Independent Reference and Commentary Service, Radcliffe, Manchester M261JR, UK6Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland
Received 15 December 2010; Accepted 9 March 2011
Male circumcision protects against cancer of the peni^s, the invasive form of which is a devastating disease confined almost exclusively to uncircumcised men. Major etiological factors are phimosis, balanitis, and high-risk types of human papillomavirus (HPV), which are more prevalent in the glans peni^s and coronal sulcus covered by the foreskin, as well as on the penile shaft, of uncircumcised men. Circumcised men clear HPV infections more quickly.
Phimosis (a constricted foreskin opening impeding the passage of urine) is confined to uncircumcised men, in whom balanitis (affecting 10%) is more common than in circumcised men. Each is strongly associated with risk of penile cancer. These findings have led to calls for promotion of male circumcision, especially in infancy, to help reduce the global burden of penile cancer.
Even more relevant globally is protection from cervical cancer, which is 10-times more common, being much higher in women with uncircumcised male partners.
Male circumcision also provides indirect protection against various other infections in women, along with direct protection for men from a number of genital tract infections, including HIV.
Given that adverse consequences of medical male circumcision, especially when performed in infancy, are rare, this simple prophylactic procedure should be promoted.
Department of Urology, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA, [email protected].
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Male circumcision is being promoted to reduce human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV) infection rates. This review evaluates the scientific evidence suggesting that male circumcision reduces HIV infection risk in high-risk heterosexual populations.
METHODS:
We followed the updated International Consultation on Urological Diseases evidence-based medicine recommendations to critically review the scientific evidence on male circumcision and HIV infection risk.
RESULTS:
Level 1 evidence supports the concept that male circumcision substantially reduces the risk of HIV infection. Three major lines of evidence support this conclusion: biological data suggesting that this concept is plausible, data from observational studies supported by high-quality meta-analyses, and three randomized clinical trials supported by high-quality meta-analyses.
CONCLUSIONS:
The evidence from these biological studies, observational studies, randomized controlled clinical trials, meta-analyses, and cost-effectiveness studies is conclusive. The challenges to implementation of male circumcision as a public health measure in high-risk populations must now be faced.
By Maureen Salamon HealthDayUpdated 05/20/2011 2:21 PM
The penile foreskin can harbor the human papillomavirus (HPV) responsible for cervical cancer and genital warts, although experts disagree on whether this means that boys as well as girls should get vaccinations designed to prevent later sexual transmission.
In a small Austrian study, nearly a third of the foreskins in males examined contained strains of human papillomavirus (HPV), one of the most common sexually transmitted infections and the cause of 70% of cervical cancers. HPV can also lead to genital warts in males and females.
The results were to be presented Tuesday at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) in Washington, D.C. Research presented at meetings is considered preliminary until it is published in a peer-reviewed journal.
“To have (HPV) present in about 30% of males is pretty interesting,” AUA spokesman Dr. Kevin McVary said. “What we don’t know is if any HPV in it was potentially transmittable. Having it present isn’t the same thing as being able to pass it on. There are a lot of unknowns.”
In the study, scientists from Innsbruck Medical University in Austria examined foreskin samples from 133 males between 7 months and 82 years old who had undergone circumcision to treat phimosis, a condition in which the foreskin cannot be pulled back from the head of the penis.
Researchers took DNA from 40 tissue sections to evaluate the prevalence of HPV and found low-risk HPV genotypes in 18.8% of the foreskins and high-risk HPV in 9.77%. None of the patients had clinical symptoms of disease.
Two vaccines are available to protect females against the types of HPV that cause most cervical cancers, and one of them — Gardasil — also protects against certain genital warts in both genders, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). HPV has also been linked to penile cancer and other malignancies in men.
The shots — about $390 for a series of three — have generated controversy for several reasons, including the high cost, reports of side effects, the early age at which girls are recommended to receive them (11 or 12 years) and the CDC’s 2009 vote against routine use in boys and men.
At least 50% of the sexually active people in the United States will have HPV at some point in their lives, according to the CDC, though the majority won’t know it. In 90% of these cases, the body’s immune system gets rid of the virus naturally within a few years.
But the study authors said the data indicate it is wise to vaccinate not only girls before adolescence, but boys as well. Agreeing with them is Fred Wyand, a spokesman for the American Social Health Association’s HPV Resource Center. Wyand said the research “lead(s) us to look at vaccines as part of a risk reduction strategy in both men and women.”
“While the impact in men is not as great as in females, men are obviously at risk for HPV infections and related diseases,” Wyand said. “Also, by extending the vaccine to boys and young men, it drives home the point that we’re talking about the human papillomavirus. Otherwise, it might be too easy to slot HPV as a ‘women’s infection,’ which both unfairly isolates women and deprives men of their rightful place in these discussions.”
Another issue the study raises is the role foreskin plays in HPV transmission, and whether circumcision might effectively reduce the risk. The circumcision rate among American newborns dropped precipitously between 2006 and 2009, from 56% to about 33%, according to the CDC.
But experts says the study results do not necessarily warrant any reversal in thinking among those opposed to the procedure.
“What this doesn’t tell us is anything regarding the relative risk of having a partner who’s circumcised vs. uncircumcised,” said Dr. Jonathan L. Temte, professor of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and a voting member on the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. “I don’t think this changes the argument very much regarding pros vs. cons on circumcision.”
McVary added: “I wouldn’t overreact and start circumcising all the boys. This is pilot data, and it needs to be repeated.”
Differentiated precursor lesions and low-grade variants of squamous cell carcinomas are frequent findings in foreskins of patients from a region of high penile cancer incidence.
Oertell J, Caballero C, Iglesias M, Chaux A, Amat L, Ayala E, Rodríguez I, Velázquez EF, Barreto JE, Ayala G, Cubilla AL.
Source
Instituto de Previsión Social Instituto de Patología e Investigación, Asunción, Paraguay Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Abstract
Oertell J, Caballero C, Iglesias M, Chaux A, Amat L, Ayala E, Rodríguez I, Velázquez E F, Barreto J E, Ayala G & Cubilla A L (2011) Histopathology 58, 925-933
Differentiated precursor lesions and low-grade variants of squamous cell carcinomas are frequent findings in foreskins of patients from a region of high penile cancer incidence
Aims: About 10-20% of all penile squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) originate in the foreskin, but knowledge about preputial precursor and associated lesions is scant. The aims of the present study were to determine the prevalence of various precancerous and cancerous lesions exclusively affecting the foreskin, and to describe their pathological features.
Methods and results: One hundred consecutive circumcision specimens from symptomatic patients living in a region of high penile cancer incidence were analysed. Clinical diagnoses included mostly phimosis and chronic balanoposthitis (40 and 35 cases, respectively), but also a tumour mass (11 cases). Histopathological lesions found included: squamous hyperplasia in 61 cases; lichen sclerosus in 53 cases; penile intraepithelial neoplasia (PeIN) in 30 cases (all differentiated PeIN, with two cases showing multicentric foci of basaloid and warty-basaloid PeIN); and invasive SCC in 11 cases (three usual, three pseudohyperplastic, two verrucous-pseudohyperplastic, and one case each of basaloid, papillary and mixed usual-basaloid carcinomas). Lichen sclerosus was present in all low-grade SCC cases. Patients with no lesions were younger (mean age 44 years) than those with precursor lesions (mean age 54 years) or with invasive SCC (mean age 68 years). Immunohistochemistry for p16(INK4a) was performed in 19 precancerous lesions. All differentiated PeINs (18 lesions) were negative, and one basaloid PeIN was positive.
Conclusions: The frequent coexistence of lichen sclerosus, squamous hyperplasia, differentiated PeIN and low-grade SCC suggests a common non-human papillomavirus related pathogenic pathway for preputial lesions, and highlights the importance of circumcision in symptomatic patients for the prevention of penile cancer.
Association of low-risk human papillomavirus infection with male circumcision in young men: results from a longitudinal study conducted in orange farm (South Africa).
Tarnaud C, Lissouba P, Cutler E, Puren A, Taljaard D, Auvert B.
Source
CESP, INSERM-UVSQ, UMRS 1018, Hôpital Paul Brousse, 16 avenue Paul Vaillant-Couturier, 94807 Villejuif Cedex, France.
Conclusions: In this multinational prospective observational study among HIV-1
serodiscordant couples, female partners of circumcised HIV-1 infected men had
decreased HIV-1 risk.
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Male Circumcision Improves Sex for Women
Survey Results Are Part of Study That Showed Circumcision Reduces a Man’s HIV Risk
By Charlene Laino
WebMD Health NewsReviewed by Louise Chang, MDJuly 21, 2009 (Cape Town, South Africa) — Women whose male
sexual partners were circumcised report an improvement in their sex life, a survey shows.
Researchers studied 455 partners of men in Uganda who were recently circumcised. Nearly 40% said sex was
more satisfying afterward. About 57% reported no change in sexual satisfaction, and only 3% said sex was
less satisfying after their partner was circumcised.
Also, some women said their partner had less or no difficulty maintaining or getting an erection.
Among the 3% of women who reported reduced sexual satisfaction, the top two reasons were lower levels of desire on the part of either partner.
Top reasons cited by women for their better sex life: improved hygiene, longer time for their partner to achieve orgasm, and their partner wanting more frequent sex, says Godfrey Kigozi, MD, of the Rakai Health Sciences Program in Kalisizo, Uganda.
Kigozi tells WebMD he undertook the survey because some activists have objected to male circumcision as a means of combating HIV because of a lack of data on female sexual satisfactions.
The findings were presented at the Fifth International AIDS Society Conference on Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention of HIV.
The women in the study all participated in the landmark Rakai circumcision trial, one of three studies that showed that the procedure reduces a heterosexual man’s risk of acquiring HIV by more than 50%.
“We included only women who said they were sexually satisfied before [their partner was circumcised],” Kigozi says. “Then we asked them to compare their sexual satisfaction before and afterward.”
Men feel much the same way, he adds. In a previous survey, 97% of men said their level of sexual satisfaction was either unchanged or better after they were circumcised.
Naomi Block, MD, of the CDC’s HIV Prevention Branch, who chaired the session at which the study was presented, says that other surveys have shown that women don’t expect their sex lives to change if their partners are circumcised.
But those were “what if?” surveys, she tells WebMD, while the new study involves women whose partners were actually circumcised.
The findings are “good news” as they show that the use of circumcision to fight HIV is acceptable to women, Block says.
Adult Circumcision Reduces Risk Of HIV Transmission Without Reducing Sexual Pleasure
ScienceDaily (Apr. 26, 2009)
— Two studies presented at the 104th Annual Scientific
Meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) show that adult circumcision
reduces the risk of contracting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the risk
of coital injury — without reducing pleasure or causing sexual dysfunction.
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Circumcision does not dull sensitivity: study
Last Updated: 2003-04-29 10:32:15 -0400 (Reuters Health)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Circumcised men appear to have the same degree of penis
sensitivity as men who are uncircumcised, a new study suggests — in a finding that
will probably just add fuel to the fire of a controversial subject debated for years.
The findings are to be presented Tuesday by Dr. Arnold Melman at a meeting of the
American Urological Association in Chicago.
“We demonstrated that there are no significant differences in penile sensation
between circumcised and uncircumcised men in both patients with and without erectile
dysfunction,” said Melman in a prepared statement.
“This study does not address whether or not patients should be circumcised, however,
it merely served to test sensitivity,” added Melman, who is with Montefiore Medical
Center in New York City.
The current policy of the American Academy of Pediatrics is that the potential
medical benefits of male circumcision are not substantial enough to recommend that
all boys become circumcised.
Around three-quarters of American-born men in the U.S. are circumcised, although that
number appears to be declining rapidly in some regions of the country.
Male circumcision is common in North America and elsewhere for religious and cultural
reasons and is known to help prevent urinary tract infections, sexually transmitted
diseases and penile cancer, a rare condition. In the minor surgical operation, the
foreskin is removed, which can help prevent bacteria from growing under the fold of
skin.
On the other hand, many parents feel it inflicts unnecessary pain, and in many
countries circumcision is rarely performed. In recent years, the issue has been
highly controversial with vocal opponents to the procedure likening it to mutilation.
Still, few studies have aimed to investigate the differences in penile sensitivity,
if any, between the two groups.
In the current investigation, Melman’s team evaluated the penile sensitivity among 43
uncircumcised men and 36 circumcised men through a variety of methods, including
vibration, pressure, spatial perception and warm and cold thermal thresholds. Both
groups contained men with and without erectile dysfunction.
In uncircumcised men, the foreskin was pulled back during the sensitivity testing
procedures.
The investigators found no statistically significant differences in sensitivity
between the two groups of men, regardless of whether they had erectile dysfunction.
In other findings, the researchers found that white men were 25 times as likely and
African-American men were eight times as likely as Hispanics to be circumcised.
Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2009 Jan;200(1):42.e1-7. Epub 2008 Oct 30.
The effects of male circumcision on female partners’ genital tract symptoms and
vaginal infections in a randomized trial in Rakai, Uganda.
Gray RH, Kigozi G, Serwadda D, Makumbi F, Nalugoda F, Watya S, Moulton L, Chen MZ,
Sewankambo NK, Kiwanuka N, Sempijja V, Lutalo T, Kagayii J, Wabwire-Mangen F, Ridzon
R, Bacon M, Wawer MJ.
Department of Population, Family, and Reproductive Health, Bloomberg School of Public
Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. [email protected]
OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to assess effects of male circumcision on
female genital symptoms and vaginal infections. STUDY DESIGN: Human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV)-negative men enrolled in a trial were randomized to immediate or delayed
circumcision (control arm). Genital symptoms, bacterial vaginosis (BV), and
trichomonas were assessed in HIV-negative wives of married participants.
Adjusted prevalence risk ratios (adjPRR) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs)
were assessed by multivariable log-binomial regression, intent-to-treat analyses.
RESULTS: A total of 783 wives of control and 825 wives of intervention arm men were
comparable at enrollment. BV at enrollment was higher in control (38.3%) than
intervention arm spouses (30.5%, P = .001). At 1 year follow-up, intervention arm
wives reported lower rates of genital ulceration (adjPRR, 0.78; 95% CI, 0.63-0.97),
but there were no differences in vaginal discharge or dysuria. The risk of
trichomonas was reduced in intervention arm wives (adjPRR, 0.52; 95% CI, 0.05-0.98),
as were the risks of any BV (adjPRR, 0.60; 95% CI, 0.38-0.94) and severe BV
(prevalence risk ratios, 0.39; 95% CI, 0.24-0.64).
CONCLUSION: Male circumcision
reduces the risk of ulceration, trichomonas, and BV in female partners.
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Circumcision protects against genital wart virus
Wed, Mar 25, 2009
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A study of nearly 1000 men in three countries has
yielded more evidence that circumcision helps protect against infection with human
papillomavirus.
Human papillomavirus has long been known as a cause of genital warts, but in recent
years most reports have focused on its association with cervical cancer. The virus,
which is transmitted sexually and by skin-to-skin contact, can also cause anal and
penis cancers.
“Interventions such as circumcision may provide a low-cost method to reduce human
papillomavirus infection,” Dr. Anna R. Giuliano, from the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer
Center and Research Institute, Tampa, Florida, and colleagues conclude in a report in
the International Journal of Cancer.
Using data from the Human papillomavirus In Men (HIM) study group, the investigators
determined factors associated with human papillomavirus infection in 988 men, ages
18 to 70 years, living in Brazil, Mexico or the United States.
Human papillomavirus infection was strongly related to sexual behavior and
circumcision, the investigators found.
“In this multi-national study where approximately 60 percent of study participants
were un-circumcised, we found circumcision to be associated with a significantly
reduced risk of…human papillomavirus,” they report.
These findings, they point out, mirror those of a previous study in a mixed ethnic
group of men from Tucson, Arizona, and are similar to what others have reported in
studies conducted in Spain, Columbia, Brazil, the Philippines, Thailand, Mexico and
Denmark, the team notes.
By contrast, as the number of lifetime female sexual partners, number of female
partners in the past 3 months, and number of anal sex partners increased, so did the
risk of human papillomavirus infection.
Reported race of Asian/Pacific Islander was also linked to an increased risk of human
papillomavirus infection.
Unlike what has been shown in women, age appeared to have no bearing on the risk of
infection, the authors note.
SOURCE: International Journal of Cancer, March 15, 2009.
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Circumcision Protects Against 2 Common Sexually Transmitted Diseases:
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 CBC News
Circumcision helps protect heterosexual men against genital herpes and a virus that
causes genital warts and cancer but has no effect on the bacteria that causes
syphilis, two trials in Uganda show.
The study in Wednesday’s New England Journal of Medicine builds on earlier research
that found circumcision reduces a man’s risk of HIV infection by more than 50 per
cent.
“Medically supervised adult male circumcision is a scientifically proven method for
reducing a man’s risk of acquiring HIV infection through heterosexual intercourse,
” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Disease, which funded the study.
“This new research provides compelling evidence that circumcision can provide some
protection against genital herpes and human papillomavirus infections as well.”
The latest data showed a 25 per cent reduction in herpes and a 34 per cent reduction
in the prevalence of HPV among participants.
The 3,393 men were aged 15 to 49 and initially tested negative for both HIV and
herpes simplex virus type 2, which causes genital herpes.
A control group of 1,709 men received medical circumcision after a delay of 24 months.
All participants were followed for herpes and syphilis infection for two years.
In an editorial that accompanied the study, Dr. Matthew Golden of the University of
Washington called for circumcision to be made widely available in North America.
“For most parents, the default should be circumcision,” said Golden. “Obviously,
these are complex decisions, and parents have to do what they think is right for
their children, but there are significant health benefits.”
Canadian pediatricians weigh evidence
Circumcision rates have been plummeting in Canada since the 1970s, when the Canadian
Pediatric Society recommended against routinely performing the procedure.
The society has been reviewing that recommendation, and officials said the new study
will be included in the review.
“This certainly provides new information that would tip the scale to say there may be
quite relevant medical information that would demonstrate that there was a benefit
that previously wasn’t appreciated,” said Dr. Robert Bortolussi of the Canadian
Pediatric Society in Halifax.
If circumcision does become a recommended procedure, it could take time before it
becomes widely available — partly because many doctors were never taught how to do
it, Bortolussi said.
The human papillomavirus, or HPV, is the most common sexually transmitted infection
in the world. It causes cervical cancer, which kills 300,000 women globally every
year, and anal and penile cancers.
The World Health Organization and the United Nations’ program on HIV/AIDS have
promoted circumcision since 2007 for reducing the risk of AIDS in areas where
heterosexual transmission is high.
If you Google “Alexander Technique,” you’re going to quickly run into numerous essays, websites and videos of mine.
Is this because I am one of the world’s great Alexander Technique teachers? No.
It’s because my work shows up well in Google.
How so? What tricks am I using?
No tricks. I just create a lot of quality original content. When people research topics, they tend to click on my articles and videos and according to Google’s algorithm, they have a good experience. My content serves their needs. Thus my content ranks ever higher in Google.
If you want to rank highly in Google, the answer is quality original content.
It also helps to have your website online for a long time and that it is frequently updated.
P.S. There are about 4,000 Alexander Technique teachers in the world. I will become one of them in the next few months, God willing.
I’m predicting the Miami Heat to defeat the Dallas Mavericks, but looking at photos of the two leadings stars of this series, LeBron James and Dirk Nowitski, I saw a clear reason to prefer the Mavericks. Dirk has no tattoos while LeBron is covered with them. Maverick player JJ Barea also appears to have no tattoos.
Tattoos are trashy. They’re a signal of low-class attitudes. When you run into a stranger covered in tattoos, do you expect classy behavior from such a person? Not really.
I loathe tattoos.
I also loathe people blasting music from their cars and apartments. People who own homes rarely blast music.
I loathe marijuana and other illegal drugs. I loathe drunks. I’m not particularly fond of fat sloppy people.
I have next to no interest in people who don’t read books.
I loathe people who are on welfare. I loathe people who commit crimes. I loathe people who talk loudly in public on cell phones. I loathe people who don’t bathe every day.
A would-be teen beauty queen was stoned to death after her participation in a Ukranian pageant reportedly infuriated local Muslim youths.
Katya Koren, 19, was targeted by three fellow teens who said her seventh-place finish in the beauty contest was a violation of Muslim laws, according to British newspaper reports.
One of the suspects, identified as 16-year-old Bihal Gaziev, told authorities that he had no regrets about the stoning because the dark-haired Koren “violated the laws of Sharia.”
Bob emails: “He loves to post those camera phone videos of African Americans going nuts in Dennys, McDonalds, Pop Eyes ….. Hysterical! It appears “wilding” is making a come back. What’s next? The Lambada?”
Chaim Amalek emails: “I don’t believe any of these stories mentions the “race” of those involved, which is as it should be (race merely being a social construct). But you know how people are — they will come to their own conclusions and the result will be a black eye for yeshiva boys, asian math students and Icelandic grandmas.”
Fred emails: “Were any of these stories about gangs of rowdy patent attorneys? I just want to ensure that my people are behaving properly.”
Khunrum emails: “I don’t no believe he is a racist at all. Simply posting hard hitting video reportage. I mean, when was the last riot you heard of at a Kiwanis Club picnic?”
In the summer of 1986, I boasted to my boss at KAHI/KHYL radio news about how hard I was working. I was putting in 60 hours a week plus doing landscaping in addition to about 14 hours a week on the radio.
“But are you working smart?” he asked.
It pulled me up short. Working smart had never been my strong point. Even my bosses in landscaping saw this. “You’ll get one thing in your head and ignore everything else,” they said. They didn’t mean it as a compliment. Sometimes I’d refuse to see more important work so I could finish what I was doing.
I was just writing in my journal, “I’m working hard and I’m working smart.”
That usually has not been true. I’ve chanced on a few ends over the course of my life and pursued them to absurd lengths. It’s easier for me, in some ways, to get tunnel vision than to weigh up my many options.
I worked absurdly hard at landscaping from 1985 to 1988, never earning more than $6.50 an hour, while people all around me were making $20 an hour as gophers. Go for this. Go for that.
So what distinguished them from me? A working knowledge of how people work. A grasp of fundamental people skills. Common sense. An ability to network.
I’ve always tended to isolate myself so I can do my own thing. This has led to a few successes and a lot of loneliness and failure.
With my study of Alexander Technique, I’ve learned about the perils of end-gaining.
End-gaining means the pursuit of an ends without consideration of the means. For instance, in my dedication to finishing this blog post, I could be ignoring other more important obligations such as to the way I’m using myself. In my rush to finish, I might start holding my breath, hunching my shoulders, compressing my neck and my torso, and thereby ingrain bad habits that do me for more harm in the long run than whatever good this tawdry blog post accomplishes.
So, these days, I think a lot more about how I do things. I try to do everything with a free neck, with a head releasing forward and up, and with my back lengthening to widen. When I catch myself gasping for breath when trying to make a point in a conversation, I back off and consider my use. I must be doing something wrong to need to gasp for breath. Usually that means a compressed neck and torso along with hunched shoulders and a narrowing back. In other words, I’m giving in to a subtle version of the startle response in my reaction to stimuli.
I never heard of Jeannie Millar until my friend Justin Levine posted a tribute on Facebook. I saw her picture and was smitten.
I investigated and found this: “On May 29, 2008, Jeannie Millar committed suicide in Los Angeles, California. During the last couple of years, Jeannie scaled back her acting career, married her third husband, and became a mother to Hannah – a cute baby with Downs Syndrome. Then two months later, Jeannie ended her life. Jeannie did not OD on drugs or prescription meds, but it wasn’t accidental either. After autopsy, the Los Angeles Coroner classified her death as “Suicide by Hanging.”
Jeannie grew up in a dysfunctional family, and she never knew her real mother, who died when Jeannie was an infant. She dropped out of Clark High School, and got caught up in the fast lane lifestyle of Las Vegas, Nevada, with all its vices. Throughout her life, there were times when Jeannie suffered from severe depression, suicidal thoughts, and substance abuse. In her youth, she had two broken marriages that lasted one month apiece.”
What caught my attention was this:
Eventually, Jeannie headed to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an actress and model. Although Jeannie achieved some success and film credits, her career was stagnant in recent years. Occasionally, Jeannie booked Background roles, but she was flustered that producers offered her just sleazy parts in their films.
Initially, Jeannie used her physical beauty and sensuality to seek recognition, but she realized later that it typecast her, and limited future opportunities. Jeannie wasn’t the first Hollywood actress to use her sexuality to promote herself, and then protest that she wanted to be considered a ‘serious’ actress!
It seems to me that when a woman shows herself off to the world as a sex object, it’s pretty rare that the world looks back at her as anything other than a sex object. When a woman dresses seductively for a night on the town, she’s going to get guys who are primarily interested in her physical assets.
Jeannie’s story sounds so familiar. Beautiful girl. Wants attention. Abusive upbringing. Twisted relationship with her dad. Drugs. Mental illness. Chaotic relationships. Used her sexuality to make money, and was then surprised nobody took her seriously as an actress.
Here’s the story: “In an emotive speech peppered by biblical homilies and pledges of national solidarity, Mr. Obama praised Joplin residents for coming together in the face of tragedy.”
What is Obama? The Messiah? He brings “healing words”? Would the New York Times describe a Republican’s visit in such terms?
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