Invisible from the depths..
This is really a interesting read.
Article copied from: http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/03/am-i-a-torturer.html.
Am I a Torturer?
Ben Allbright watches The Daily Show, worships Dave Eggers—and still wound up “softening up” prisoners in Iraq.”
Well it was a rough weekend. Friday morning I woke up with a sinus headache and the general onset of a headcold. Throughout the day I managed to load up on echinacea, zinc and some cold/vitamin drinks and managed to eliminate the general grogginess.
Saturday morning, up bright and early with a little drainage but feeling good. Off to the station to go to work. (It’s about a 10 minute bike ride from my apartment to the station I transfer at.) I usually take a thoroughfare that isn’t a side road, but is by no means a busy road. Today was no different. At 0830 in the morning on saturday, there are not so many people up in the part of tokyo I live… with that in mind, traffic is almost non-existent. I realized that I am now not the only person to know this.
Coming down a small hill, I had a yellow light, on the verge of green. I normally slow down a tad bit in these cases just to make sure that there are no cyclers or people wanting to do the ole St. Louis stop or rush the red. Today, however, I decided it was early and no need to do it.
Sometimes this new age hippy crap works and is beneficial, and some times it is just BS. To each their own.
move on already.
Doing a little research on BPAs, while there is no definite proof that nalgenes are harmful, why risk it. Especially since some of the studies say that nalgenes are completely safe if you replace them every 6 months. That kind of defeats the purpose, now doesn’t it.
So what are some alternatives if you don’t want to wait till march 2008, when camlebak releases their no-BPA water bottles? Here are a few..
kleankanteen.com- High quality, durable, stainless steel “kanteens..”
sigg.ch- Aluminum canteens, most with ceramic linings for those worried about the possiblity of aluminum related sicknesses.
As for other plastic bottles, the plain white nalgenes do not have BPA in them. Other things to pay attention to when buying a bottle, look at the plastic indicator on it. All type 7 plastics have BPAs in them, so the idea is to avoid those. Or buy a new one every six months..
Been continuing as before, aikido during the weekend and judo during the week.. My aikido is at a plateau right now, not learning a whole lot, just kind of meandering. As for judo, I am working on 5 of the kodokan dai-ikkyu kihon techniques right now with the addition of some basic ne-waza. With the little bit of jujitsu I have done, the newaza is quite enjoyable.
I find that my cardio is pretty strong. I am doing 5 to 8, 3 minute randori sessions a class in addition to uchigomi and warmups. I keep pushing and pushing, but I need to find some more cardio building activities without running.. I think adding a third day a week to judo would be beneficial.