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meganduret

Survey Proves We Still Really Need To Talk About Photoshop - 0 views

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    " Huffpost Women Edition: U.S. Newsletters Huffington Post Search Veterans iOS appAndroid appMore Log inCreate Account FRONT PAGE HEALTHY LIVING WEDDINGS DIVORCE STYLE POST50 PARENTS HOME TRAVEL TASTE HUFFPOST LIVE ALL SECTIONS Women Love & Sex Career & Money My Story Women's Health Girls In STEM Third Metric Love Bytes Powerful Women What Your Favorite Wine Says About You The Real Reason Naked Kim Kardashian Is Making People Freak Out These 13 Sex Toys Are Holiday Gifts That Keep On Giving 10 Lessons You Learn From The A**holes In Your Life The Horror Of My First (And Worst) Brazilian Wax The Odd Effect Taking The Pill May Have On Choosing A Partner Tina Fey Summed Up Kim Kardashian's Nude Photo Shoot 3 Years Before It Even Happened Victim Details Alleged Assault: Bill Cosby 'Zeroed In On My Insecurities And Vulnerabilities As A Young Woman' This Artist Is Wearing Lingerie In Public To Reclaim Women's Sexuality The Most Powerful Lessons About Sex Come From The Women Who Aren't Having It What If People Treated Physical Illness Like Mental Illness? This Dude Just Took The Breakup Text To A Whole New, Insane Level 'Orange Is The New Black' Star Breaks Down Talking About Her Parents' Deportation Husband Secretly Films Wife Rapping To Salt-N-Pepa Like No One Is Watching 'Drunk Girl In Public' Actress Says Guys In Video Were 'Perfect Gentlemen' Previous StoryNext Story Survey Proves We Still Really Need To Talk About Photoshop The Huffington Post  | By Alanna Vagianos Email Posted: 11/27/2013 12:53 pm EST Updated: 11/29/2013 12:48 pm EST Share 251 Tweet 79 7 Email 7 Comment 58 There's been a lot of discussion lately about the damaging effects of Photoshop. With all of the media attention the topic receives, some could assume that the use of Photoshop on the vast majority of people seen in magazines, on movie posters and in advertisements is common knowledge. But according to a recent One Poll survey, many people still don't fully understand the p
Maddi Vogt

Olympic Games | Scholastic.com - 0 views

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  • The original Olympics featured competition in music, oratory, and theater performances as well.
  • The earliest reliable date that recorded history gives for the first Olympics is 776 B.C.
  • The modern Games have a more expansive athletic agenda, and for 2 ½ weeks they are supposed to replace the rancor of international conflict with friendly competition. In recent times, however, that lofty ideal has not always been attained.
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  • all wars would cease during the contests
  • a footrace of about 183 m (200 yd), or the length of the stadium. A cook, Coroibus of Elis, was the first recorded winner.
  • The growth of the Games fostered "professionalism" among the competitors
  • June 16, 1894. With delegates from Belgium, England, France, Greece, Italy, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the United States in attendance, he advocated the revival of the Olympic Games.
  • Greece was the appropriate country to host the first modern Olympics.
  • The council did agree that the Olympics would move every 4 years to other great cities of the world.
  • Beginning in 1924 a Winter Olympics was included
  • whose headquarters is in Lausanne, Switzerland
  • International Olympic Committee (IOC)
  • Athletic nationalism was brought to a peak by Nazi Germany, which staged the 1936 Games in Berlin and used the Olympics to propagandize its cause
  • The Germans built a powerful team through nationalized training and scientific advances and dominated the Games in terms of medals won.
  • except during World War I and World War II (1916, 1940, 1944).
  • whereas the modern Games are a manner of saluting the athletic talents of citizens of all nations.
  • The biggest influence on the modern Olympic Games is money. Commercialism exists side by side with the outstanding athleticism and the spirit of friendship imbuing competitors from around the world.
  • tremendous potential for profit
  • Originally, Olympic athletes were expected to remain strictly amateurs and not earn money even for endorsing products
  • Athletes, too, especially in the "glamour sports" such as gymnastics, ice skating, or track and field, can reap tremendous financial gains for winning performances, through product endorsements and personal appearances
  • holding of a full-time job
  • Winning medals at the Olympic Games has always been considered the most prestigious mark of an athlete, and a source of glory for the athlete's country
  • testing of athletes for drug use began for the Olympics in 1968
  • were convicted of systematic and overall doping
  • As drug testing procedures have improved, more athletes have been caught
  • there is a large potential for corruption. In fact, a scandal erupted in late 1998, when it was found that promoters involved with Salt Lake City's (winning) bid for the 2002 Winter Games had bribed IOC members, who were forced to resign; the Nagano and Sydney bids were also under suspicion of bribery.
  • The IOC formed the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in late 1999 to test athletes at the upcoming Olympics and to increase drug testing standards, but how effective WADA will be in the long run is not yet known.
  • Originally, Olympic athletes were expected to remain strictly amateurs and not earn money even for endorsing products. However, by the last decades of the 20th century, professionalism among competitors received official acceptance,
  • all but precluding the holding of a full-time job.
  • With such great rewards at stake, there are athletes and even national sports programs willing to use performance-enhancing drugs despite the risks to future health and the disgrace of getting caught.
  • During that time East German women suddenly dominated events such as swimming, winning medals in 11 of 13 events both in 1976 and 1980.
  • As drug testing procedures have improved, more athletes have been caught.
  • Ben Johnson tested positive; he was stripped of his gold medal
  • In the mid-1990s, China's female swimmers and runners quickly rose to the top of elite competition, arousing suspicions of drug use; by the late 1990s many were caught through more diligent drug testing.
  • , it has become clear that a city hosting the Games can anticipate a financial windfall, as spectators and sponsors converge for the event.
  • He found ready and unanimous support from the nine countries. De Coubertin had initially planned to hold the Olympic Games in France, but the representatives convinced him that
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Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus Stripped of Olympic Gold Medal for Doping - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus was stripped of her gold medal in the shot-put Monday morning for testing positive for an anabolic steroid
  • Ostapchuk was competing in her third Olympics; she finished fourth in Athens in 2004 and got a bronze in Beijing in 2008
  • Ghfran Almouhamad, a female hurdler from Syria who tested positive for a banned stimulant; and the American judo fighter Nick Delpopolo, who tested positive for marijuana.
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  • He said his positive test “was caused by my inadvertent consumption of food that I did not realize had been baked with marijuana, before I left for the Olympic Games.”
  • everal other athletes were sanctioned for doping right before the Games, including the gymnast Luiza Galiulina of Uzbekistan and the weight lifter Hysen Pulaku of Albania.
Ryan Yurczyk

5 nursing stereotypes debunked | Scrubs - The Leading Lifestyle Nursing Magazine Featur... - 0 views

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  • 1. Nursing is a Female Profession
  • The Nurses Associated Alumnae of the U.S. and Canada had their first meeting in 1898 and later became the American Nurses Association in 1917; no men were allowed until 1930.
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