Points are deducted on a scale of 1 to 5,
with the higher numbers indicating more serious problems.
The health departments consider 4- and 5-point violations as
critical items requiring immediate action.
The lists are divided into those that scored 84 or lower
out of a possible 100 and those that scored 97 or higher out
of a possible 100. Shelby County had no scores of 84 or
lower this week.
Charley’s Grilled Subs, 5900 Messer Airport Highway
(73). Read the rest of this entry »

The
“Not tonight darling, I’ve got a headache” syndrome is usually associated with
women when they’re not in the mood, but lately the excuse is increasingly being
used by men to put off sex, according to a survey.
The new poll by independent
charity the Men’s Health Forum has found that 15 per cent of men aged between 18
and 59 admitted to a “lack of interest in sex”.
Relationship-counselling
service Relate has revealed that there’s a 40 Read the rest of this entry »

Newswise — A recent Northeastern University study has shown, for the first time, the effect of individual genes on the fitness of a marine species at the ecosystem level. Using his innovative computer simulation model, engineering professor Ferdi Hellweger found that eliminating photosynthesis genes from viruses that attack important marine photosynthetic bacterial organisms will negatively impact the fitness of these viruses, ultimately killing Read the rest of this entry »

In his report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball,
dedicated more pages to Angel Presinal, a trainer based in the Dominican Republic, than he did to almost any of the dozens of players he cited.
and Larry Bigbie took up more than the five pages that those concerning Presinal did in the report, a fact that underscores the concerns Major League Baseball has had about Presinal over the past decade. During much of that time, he has Read the rest of this entry »

All fats are not created equal. That was a recurring theme at the recent Worlds of Healthy Flavors conference, an annual collaboration between the
and nutritionists at the Harvard School of Public Health. The conference, which brings together chefs from the food service industry and leading experts in
and medicine, is intended to help food purveyors expand healthy meal choices for consumers.
The message that not all fats are bad has been around Read the rest of this entry »

The U.S. Department of Labor
that another 533,000 jobs were lost in November; catapulting the unemployment rate to 6.7 percent–and bringing the grand total number of jobs lost this year to a whopping
.
Further adding to these depressing stats: many of the jobs lost aren’t coming back.
Among the unemployed, the number of persons who lost their job and did not expect to be recalled to work increased by 298,000 to 4.7 million in November. Over Read the rest of this entry »

It happens every Wednesday at Northern Lights School. Students trickle into the gymnasium, shuck their coats and line up.
“Phew, I got here in time,” said Hudson Ojeda as he hustled to the line Dec. 10. The first grader stood poised until the first beep. Once it sounded, he and about 50 other students shot across the gym, turned around and waited for the next beep.
Older students ran slowly at first, while first graders raced full-throttle, Read the rest of this entry »

Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The Prison Officers’ Association (POA) is so not impressed with proposals for existing staff to take annual fitness checks – which involve running several times between bollards 20 metres apart – that it is expected to vote against the idea, leading the Ministry of Justice to lose the £50m it had been given to ‘modernise’ the workforce in prisons.
Currently, new recruits have to take the test and only 10 out of 8000 Read the rest of this entry »

BOSTON – Alan Stiles, the former publisher of Men’s Fitness and Esquire magazines, has died after being struck by a commuter train. He was 54.
Stiles parked his Hyundai Veracruz along the Massachusetts Turnpike then apparently walked into the path of the oncoming train after it left Boston’s South Station last Friday. The train carried 240 passengers; none was injured, said Joe Pesaturo, spokesman for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
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Washington (dbTechno) – A new report released this week by Families USA has revealed that a program known as COBRA, which helps unemployed people with health insurance, simply costs too much.
Families USA, the non-profit group, has reported that the COBRA program is simply too expensive.
COBRA is the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985.  The idea behind it is to help workers and families retain their health insurance if they Read the rest of this entry »