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Thursday night: Ready for Boskone!
Feb. 14th, 2008 08:46 pm1. I am tired. Things are getting a touch more intense at work because our work plan for the 2008-2009 year (starting July 1) is due in two weeks. It's gonna affect everything I do for the next 18 months. I am getting a lot of "help." ;)
2. I am really looking forward to Boskone.
3. A Christian based adult toy store.
NPR has a wonderful interview with the woman who runs it.
4. The Associated Press reports some scary stuff:
At least 82 youths have died from the so-called “choking game,” according to the first government count of fatalities from the tragic fad.
In the game, children use dog leashes, bungee cords wrapped around their necks or other means to temporarily cut blood flow to their head. The goal is a dreamlike, floating-in-space feeling when blood rushes back into the brain.
As many as 20 percent of teens and preteens play the game, sometimes in groups, according to some estimates based on a few local studies. But nearly all the deaths were youths who played alone, according to the count complied by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC started the research after receiving a letter last year from a Tacoma, Wash., physician who said her 13-year-old son died from playing the game in 2005.
“At the time I had never heard of this,” said Dr. Patricia Russell, whose son was found hanging in his closet, but later learned he had talked to a friend about it.
The CDC counted reports from media and advocacy organizations in the years 1995 through 2007, totaling 82 fatalities of children ages 6 to 19. They did not include deaths in which it was unclear if the death was from the choking game or if it was a suicide. They also did not include deaths that involved autoerotic asphyxiation, which is self-strangulation during masturbation and is said to be mainly done by adult males.
The 82 deaths were spread across the country. Nearly 90 percent were boys, at an average age of about 13, the CDC found.
2. I am really looking forward to Boskone.
3. A Christian based adult toy store.
NPR has a wonderful interview with the woman who runs it.
4. The Associated Press reports some scary stuff:
At least 82 youths have died from the so-called “choking game,” according to the first government count of fatalities from the tragic fad.
In the game, children use dog leashes, bungee cords wrapped around their necks or other means to temporarily cut blood flow to their head. The goal is a dreamlike, floating-in-space feeling when blood rushes back into the brain.
As many as 20 percent of teens and preteens play the game, sometimes in groups, according to some estimates based on a few local studies. But nearly all the deaths were youths who played alone, according to the count complied by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC started the research after receiving a letter last year from a Tacoma, Wash., physician who said her 13-year-old son died from playing the game in 2005.
“At the time I had never heard of this,” said Dr. Patricia Russell, whose son was found hanging in his closet, but later learned he had talked to a friend about it.
The CDC counted reports from media and advocacy organizations in the years 1995 through 2007, totaling 82 fatalities of children ages 6 to 19. They did not include deaths in which it was unclear if the death was from the choking game or if it was a suicide. They also did not include deaths that involved autoerotic asphyxiation, which is self-strangulation during masturbation and is said to be mainly done by adult males.
The 82 deaths were spread across the country. Nearly 90 percent were boys, at an average age of about 13, the CDC found.
