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Thomas Bailey

Billionaire Boys Club | Ice Cream - 0 views

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    Billionaire Boys and Ice Cream
Desire'e Redus

Groin-punch 'game' harms more boys - Health - Kids and parenting - msnbc.com - 0 views

  • An msnbc.com poll of 100 urologists, conducted by Truth On Call, showed that 30 percent of the doctors had seen or treated pre-teen and teen boys for testicular trauma in the past year, including severe injuries caused by so-called “sack-tapping,” in which boys ambush others at school and elsewhere.
  • The issue was highlighted by news last week that a 14-year-old Minnesota boy, David Gibbons, had to have his right testicle removed after a hallway assault. “This is, in fact, a form of bullying,” Atala said. “Someone may do that without realizing the consequences of their actions.”
  • This is, in fact, a form of bullying,”
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  • “This is, in fact, a form of bullying,”
  • Bruises, blood clots, testicular torsion — in which the organ twists up to 360 degrees — and, more rarely, testicular rupture, all are consequences of blunt force trauma to the testicles, including injuries caused by close-range punches.
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    This is about what has been stated about young teens and pre-teen males.
Drew Farrar

Boys and Girls Club (Without Extensions) - 1 views

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    This picture shows the current layout of the boys and girls club.
Adeola Adewale

Dailymotion - Toxic Cleanup For Carter Carburetor - a News & Politics video - 0 views

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    This video shows how the Carter Carburetor plant is hurting the community especially for the Herbert Hoover Boys and Girls Club
Drew Farrar

Boys and Girls Club (With extensions) - 1 views

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    This shows the layout of the Boys and Girls Club if the land that the Carter Carburetor building is given to the Club.
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    Nice find, this gives us a good idea of what the future for this site will look like. It would be really interesting to put this next to a current picture and compare them.
Daphne Emrick

Survey: Teens more accepting of out-of-wedlock pregnancy - USATODAY.com - 0 views

  • Among teens in the USA, the percentage who have had sexual i
  • tercourse or say they'd be pleased if they or their partner were to get pregnant hasn't changed much since early in the decade, and there appears to be a growing acceptance of having babies outside marriage, a government report
  • said Wednesday. From 1995 to 2002, "it was pretty much across-the-board improvements in those risk factors," says lead author Joyce Abma, a statistician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. "It is a source of concern to see that forward movement kind of stalling
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  • Based on in-person interviews with 1,381 girls and 1,386 boys ages 15 to 19 in 2006-2008, more than four in 10 never-married teens in the USA have had intercourse at least once, Abma and her co-authors estimate. That's a slight drop from 2002, the last time the National Survey of Family Growth was conducted, but it was not statistically significan
Korry Busch

Exclusive: Apple iTunes in the cloud definitely happening soon, wireless sync... - 0 views

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    cloud-based iTunes coming soon! (probably September)
Lamar Miller

EPA to clean up Carter Carburetor site - St. Louis American: - 0 views

  • The EPA will remove PCBs and TCE from subsurface soils and remove PCBs in two on-site buildings.
  • “This clean-up is absolutely critical because so many children are potentially at- risk across the street at the Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club,” said U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-MO).
  • the agency plans a thermally enhanced extraction of two toxins: trichloroethylene (TCE), a chlorinated industrial solvent, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a cancer-causing chemical once used in electrical transformers that were disassembled at a building on the site.
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  • The citizen advocacy group is calling for cleanup goals be expanded to cover all areas impacted by Carter Carburetor, the treatment technology to be proven to work on PCBs on similar sites and at similar concentrations before use at the St. Louis site, the risk assessment scenario expanded to include children of all ages and the cleanup plan protect the health of children and area residents.
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    This article tells about the EPA's plans to clean up the Carter Carburetor site.
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    Plans
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