INTRO
Surfing has given me many unforgettable years of fun, health and recreation. After teaching beginning surfers for more than 20 years, I've seen the long list of obstacles that they have to overcome in order to learn. To put it bluntly, surfing literally takes years to master. But with the help of this instruction, you should be able to avoid many of the common mistakes that students make.

CROSS TRAINING
It always helps to start when you're young, but age isn't nearly as important as physical conditioning. The best cross-training for surfing is swimming.

As I discovered, surfing is hard work.

SURFOLOGY - Training for Surfing

Mr. Holloway, who lives in a housing complex designed for the frail elderly, suffers from complex health problems usually associated with advanced age: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, kidney failure, a bleeding ulcer, severe depression, rectal cancer and the lingering effects of a broken hip.

Those illnesses, more severe than his 84-year-old father’s, are not what Mr. Holloway expected when lifesaving antiretroviral drugs became the standard of care in the mid-1990s.

The drugs gave Mr. Holloway back his future.

But at what cost?

AIDS Patients Face Downside of Living Longer - New York Times

Antonio Aguilar..."EL CABALLO BAYO"...

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YouTube - Antonio Aguilar..."EL CABALLO BAYO"...

Like UV rays and diesel exhaust fumes, working the graveyard shift will soon be listed as a "probable" cause of cancer.

Graveyard shift work disrupts the circadian rhythm, the body's biological clock.

It is a surprising step validating a concept once considered wacky. And it is based on research that finds higher rates of breast and prostate cancer among women and men whose work day starts after dark.

Next month, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer arm of the World Health Organization, will add overnight shift work as a probable carcinogen.

The American Cancer Society says it will likely follow. Up to now, the U.S. organization has considered the work-cancer link to be "uncertain, controversial or unproven."

The higher cancer rates don't prove working overnight can cause cancer. There may be other factors common among graveyard shift workers that raise their risk for cancer.

Oh noes, I'm corellated to die?

Overnight shift to be classified as 'probable' cancer cause - CNN.com

Roland Fryer and I have done some research on this topic which we think is potentially quite interesting and important — although we seem to be the only ones with this opinion at present. (The paper was rejected yesterday by the American Economic Review on the second round of review, and a search of Google Scholar reveals only two citations to the working paper version released in early 2006.)

Controvesial.

James Watson, Black Intelligence, and New Research by Fryer and Levitt - Freakonomics - Opinion - 1552x959 [1552x826]

The risks associated with cycling decrease dramatically when more cyclists are on the road, and especially when those cyclists obey traffic laws. This second point is hammered home in this bizarre but brilliant 1963 bike safety film, “One Got Fat” (the eagle — or is it monkey? — eyed among you will have recognized a clip from this film in the Freakonomics video “Does Sport Cause Crime“).

One thing “One Got Fat” doesn’t mention is helmet use — helmets weren’t widely used until the 1970s, and controversy remains over how effective they are in reducing bike fatalities. (Full disclosure: I bike to work whenever possible, and wear a helmet, an adherent to what a few cyclists I know like to call the Cult of the Styrofoam Talisman.)

Hahaaha that video is funny.

Will Bicycling to Work Get You Killed? - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog

"The empirical results presented above suggest energy prices will have a relatively small but positive impact on the average price that consumers pay for food. The simulations suggest that a doubling of crude oil prices would raise average food prices in competitive food markets by as much as 1.82 percent in the short run, and by 0.27 percent in the long run."

So let's calculate shall we? Crude is now about $65. When it goes up to $130 during the "super spike", I'm going to have to pay a whole $2 extra on every $100 of groceries. That is scary, and cataclysmic. I'm sure people will be breeding goats and farming their back yards in terror, rather than not buying a pack of gum for their kid at the register.

Oh, and by the way, processed food isn't good for you. Yes, Cheetos may be delicious, but they are very fossil fuel intensive, and will definitely cost a few cents more per bag in the post-peak period. It's probably better to just stick with the ol' reliables like corn and beans and potatoes.

Peak Oil Debunked: 22. MORE ON OIL AND FOOD PRICES

So my japanese labmates have started this little game which consists on feeding me things and seeing if I'll eat them. To their great amusement I will pretty much eat anything. To anyone who knows me this is not a great surprise, Bear Grylls from the show Man Vs. Wild has nothing on me, plus I think he's a buffoon. The next thing they are going to feed me is the sea pineapple. Sea pineapples are an edible ascidian or sea squirt. Here is what wikipedia has to say:

Bayblab: Sea pineapple

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If you are afraid that those around you cannot understand why you drink urine, it is better to be silent about it for now. If, however, your present complaints improve or even disappear during the treatment -- and I am convinced they will -- you would do our common cause a favor by talking about it. Relating your personal experiences by word of mouth would be more convincing than any book.

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Urine Therapy