9 Amazing Reasons Women Should Lift Weights

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Scared of strength training? Before you shy away from lifting weights for good, check out the myriad of things it can do for your health.

Judy Smith of New York City works out at Uplift Fitness, a women’s-only gym where the classes focus on strength training just as much as calorie-blasting cardio, to boost her bone density while she tones her body. “The cardio is important, obviously, but strength is just as important,” she says. “All these studies say it’s important for bone density, it’s important when you age to make sure you have muscle mass, and you’re maintaining that muscle mass.” And when you add high-intensity cardio bursts to your strength-training plan, Uplift co-founder Helena Wolin reminds her clients, you really send your calorie burn through the roof.

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.Click link below for article and video:

http://www.everydayhealth.com/fitness/amazing-reasons-women-should-lift-weights.aspx

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MTA Snow Removal Machines Use Jet Engines, Amazing Technology [PHOTOS]

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Nervous about of the much-hyped impending blizzard? Well, If you live in New York this may put you slightly at ease: The city uses some pretty high-tech equipment to remove snow.

In addition to more traditional plows and sweepers, the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority has essentially mounted jet engines on wheels to decimate snow with huge blasts of air.

Although these machines are high-tech and impressive, there’s one drawback: they’re loud. “If you live near the tracks you definitely hear these going by,” MTA spokesperson Aaron Donovan told The Huffington Post on Friday.

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The MTA uses all sorts of machines to remove snow from railways and roads

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/08/mta-snow_n_2646043.html?utm_hp_ref=technology

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Panhandler Party

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Have you ever seen two people beg in the same subway car at the same time?

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.Click link below for funny video, especially if you ever rode the NY Subway System:

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America’s Real Criminal Element: Lead

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New research finds Pb is the hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and even the ADHD epidemic. And fixing the problem is a lot cheaper than doing nothing.

When Rudy Giuliani ran for mayor of New York City in 1993, he campaigned on a platform of bringing down crime and making the city safe again. It was a comfortable position for a former federal prosecutor with a tough-guy image, but it was more than mere posturing. Since 1960, rape rates had nearly quadrupled, murder had quintupled, and robbery had grown fourteenfold. New Yorkers felt like they lived in a city under siege.

Throughout the campaign, Giuliani embraced a theory of crime fighting called “broken windows,” popularized a decade earlier by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling in an influential article in The Atlantic. “If a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired,” they observed, “all the rest of the windows will soon be broken.”

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.Click link below for article:

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline

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Police Recover Child’s Body in Farmingdale Yard

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FARMINGDALE, N.Y.–The grim discovery of an infant’s body in a Farmingdale backyard has sent shock waves across the Farmingdale community and made headlines near and far.

State Police unearthed the body of a child from a Farmingdale man’s back yard Friday. The resident of that home has been identified as a “person of interest” in the ongoing investigation.

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http://farmingdale.patch.com/articles/police-recover-child-s-body-in-farmingdale-yard?ncid=newsltuspatc00000003#photo-11625166

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“Little flash” as bionic eye brings amazed woman some sight

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(Reuters) – A bionic eye has given an Australian woman partial sight and researchers say it is an important step towards eventually helping visually impaired people get around independently.

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.Click link below for story:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/30/us-australia-science-bioniceye-idUSBRE87T08C20120830

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Bloated ‘Rat Monster’ Found Under New York City Bridge

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The unlucky lady who made this grisly find told Gothamist that the deformed “monster” was about two feet from head to tail.

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.Click link below for more views of the ‘whatever’ above and other weird creatures:

http://www.pawnation.com/2012/07/24/bloated-rat-monster-found-under-new-york-city-bridge/#photo=2

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