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Exercise TV, The Kind Diet and The Baby Gate

This week I bumbled across ExerciseTV on demand on cable. It has gobs of workout videos available instantly, some killer and some painfully cheesy. Normally I don’t have the attention span for exercising in front of the television but curiosity and bad weather got the better of me. So far my favorite has been Jillian Michaels’ 30 Day Shred. It has no dancy choreography or silly stuff, just lots of push-ups, squats, lunges jumping jacks and crunches. It’s very Turbulence Training-esque.

I finished reading The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone. Food politics and celebrity nutrition claims aside, it has some beautiful color photos and tasty looking vegan recipes. If only I could get someone to make them for me, starting with the cupcakes. That’s always my problem with cookbooks. I like reading them. I like looking at the pictures. I like eating. I don’t like cooking.

Ripley is a menace. A few days ago it started snowing, which I guess smells sort of like rain, which must in some way remind her of thunder, which resulted in a full-tilt, head-spinning panic attack. She darted out the front door and down the street in a blind terror, chased by invisible demons and imaginary thunder monsters. Yes, a slush-colored dog darting through traffic in a snowstorm, oblivious to any calling, pleading or commands. It took forever to catch her and aged us like ten years. We have since purchased the biggest most ridiculous baby gate we could find. It’s like four feet tall and you need three hands to open it. There will be no more door-darting!

 

 

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“Babygate” being the best sounding label I can come up with for this controversy.

First, interesting posts from the Stryde Hax blog on “Google hacking” information about He Kexin. Essentially this involves using Google’s advanced search features to target very specific kinds of information. His queries on Google.cn and Baidu lead him to cached versions of spreadsheets from the General Administration of Sports of China that pretty clearly list a 1994 birthday for the golden girl of Chinese gymnastics. The Baidu cache versions (here and here) were still live when I looked. Interestingly, however, the files started evaporating from Google.CN’s cache more or less as the Stryde Hax blogger was doing his digging.

What does it mean? I invite you to draw your own conclusions.Serling> But it’s also worth reading a post from the always interesting Fool’s Mountain blog that looks at the problem of age manipulation in Chinese sports and wonders if He Kexin’s age could have been massaged down rather than up:

In fact, in the comments to a prior post, I’ve raised the point that
Chinese parents change birthdays of children quite often for a variety
of reasons or advantages, to older or younger, hence the possibility
that things could go either way with He Kexin. He really could be 16,
yet still nobody would want to come out and explain the age changing in
local competitions — that’s just another can of worms. Anyway, this
certainly isn’t proof of anything nor is it great news. The point is
simply that, before jumping to conclusions on something having to with
China, it is worth considering the other possilities, and at the least,
consider that other possibilities do exist.

That last thought is definitely worth bearing in mind. Nevertheless, Imagethief had the good luck to be in the stands for the finals of the women’s uneven bars on Monday night, which meant I had the pleasure of seeing He, her only slightly less microscopic teammate Yang Yilin, and American Nastia Liukin (who seems gigantic by comparison) compete. All the Chinese female gymnasts are tiny. He is teeny tiny. If it’s a stretch to accept her as turning 16 this year, imagining her any older is downright impossible. Still, it was thrill to watch all three of them perform. They’re all great athletes and they all deserve recognition.

While He has got most of the attention, both because she’s a pint-size medalling machine and because the controversy hovers most closely over her, Yang has come in for her share of attention as well. I was interested to see a commentary from the AP that is constructed around the theme of Yang as helpless victim:

How fragile she looked, like a baby deer in the headlights of an oncoming SUV. Little pink hearts and the word “love” in blue letters decorated her hair clips.
The glitter on her forehead twinkled under the lights. Chalk was
encrusted where the skin met her slender fingernails. So thin, so
uneasy, so out of place she seemed, in a downstairs room in Beijing’s
National Indoor Stadium. She’d just won an Olympic bronze medal in
all-around gymnastics, one of the toughest sporting tests there is.

***

[A little hesitantly], Yang started to
answer the questions. And the more she said, the more shocking it was.
The answers were brief, spoken without heart. What emerged was a
picture of a young girl who has been kept largely cut off from family
and the outside world for more than a year, so she could be intensely
trained to win medals for China at its own Olympics.

I have no doubt that China’s gymnastics training regimen is brutal, and the cold mechanics of China’s national sporting machine definitely deserve scrutiny. I also think the evidence of an age scandal is pretty compelling. Perhaps Yang is a victim. But she, along with He, is also a talent and should be celebrated as such. The rest of the world, America included, has had its grim training stories, especially in sports like gymnastics and figure skating for which the feedstock is young girls. This article has a whiff of the old cold-war double standard. Ours=plucky, heroic achievers. Theirs=manufactured robots/slaves/dopers.

Perhaps she’s a victim of the Communist Sports Machine. Perhaps she’s just a teenage girl who is a spectacular gymnast, who’s had a hard year of training, and who is uncomfortable talking to the media. As Nimrod wrote on that Fool’s Mountain post, consider that other possibilities do exist.

Hat tip: Adrian.

Golden girls.

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Valentine’s Day Event Funded By Nevada OTS Focuses On The Safety Of Children With Heart Issues & Other Special Needs

LAS VEGAS- SAFE KIDS and the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety continue to expand their Special Needs Child Passenger Safety Program in Clark County. They have teamed with Children’s Heart Center & Foundation to hold an event on Valentine’s Day (February 14) to protect medically fragile children, by offering free child safety seat checks from 10-Noon at Willows Community Center, 2775 Desert Marigold Lane, in Summerlin. Certified Special Needs Child Passenger Safety Technicians will be on hand to educate parents and caregivers on how to properly use child safety seats.

The key message is: every child needs to ride properly buckled every time they travel. Nevada law mandates that children

6 years and under must ride in an appropriate child safety seat, for their height & weight, until they are at least 60 lbs. SAFE KIDS encourages the best practice of keeping children properly buckled until they are at least 4’9” tall and 80 lbs. Those are the height and weight minimums to properly use an adult seat belt. When dealing with children who have special health needs it is vital that we offer them the utmost in safety by teaming with community partners, SAFE KIDS can reach families who need them most. The SAFE KIDS Special Needs Program can help parents continue to buckle up their children correctly despite obstacles, such as: IVs, medical equipment, splints, braces & casts or physical disabilities. Many children with special needs can use a regular Child Safety Seat. However, through a grant from the Nevada Office of Traffic Safety, Special Needs Child safety Seats are available to families at little or no cost.

“Before this child passenger safety program was created, their was little help for families with children with special needs,” says Jeanne Cosgrove, SAFE KIDS Director, and the first Certified Special Needs Child Passenger Safety Technician in the state of Nevada. “We are delighted to work with Children’s Heart Center and work with families who may not have found our services otherwise.

For more information, and to schedule photo opportunities, please call Shelly Cochran at 702.862.0165.

SAFE KIDS is Clark County’s first and only non-profit dedicated to the prevention of unintentional injuries to children. Housed at Sunrise Children’s Hospital & Medical Center since 1993 SAFE KIDS has offered education and training to thousands of Clark County families. Visit SAFEKIDSCLARKCOUNTY.ORG

SAFE KIDS TEAMS WITH CHILDREN’S HEART CENTER & FOUNDATION TO BUCKLE UP MEDICALLY FRAGILE CHILDREN

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