Entries in Always (28)
Melissa Dettwiller interview
Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 17:13 
Melissa Dettwiller
Originally uploaded by femalebodybuilders
Photo by Brian Moss of shemuscle new Melissa gallery
Interview by SunSeven of hubpages
See Melissa on shemsuclelive cam site
Q : Where and when were you born?
Melissa : Houma, Louisiana
Q : What is your profession?
Melissa : House Wife and mother of 3 dogs, & 2 cats!
Q : What kind of activities/sports did you do before you started lifting weights?
Summer time and concerts
Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 15:21 
This is my beach car. I have always loved Corvettes.
It is hard not to speed in this beauty. I am, you can rest easy, always prudent when I drive.
I am on my way to see three bands tonight, Live, Collective Soul and The Blues Travelers.
Great music, great show at the Capital One Theater.
Live was amazing in this small 3,0 seat venue. Sort of like a personal concert, set on a slowly spinning stage which was driving the guys in each band just a little crazy.
Collective Soul and Live performers said that they had never been on a spinning stage before and suggested to the techs that they speed it up.They did for a while. It was pretty funny. Great sound system, albeit extremely loud. My ears are still ringing. Probably not good for my hearing. Oh well.
Femalemuscle talklive
Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 18:36 I went to visit my friends in Red Hook Brooklyn. They just opened a lovely bar and restaurant. The phone rang and I was informed that it was a FM Talklive call from Stockholm Sweden. I decided to take the call from this tiny old phone booth.
Gotham City
Friday, August 1, 2008 at 01:09 
Lori Braun femalemuscle.com
Originally uploaded by femalebodybuilders
Just flexing after seeing Dark Knight.
Great movie. The Joker is quite amazing.
If you have not seen it, see it this weekend.
It's long, so use the bathroom before the movie starts.
About halfway through The Dark Knight, I realized what was going on and why it looked the way it does. This is perhaps the cleanest looking film I’ve ever seen. When games nowadays try to be graphically gritty to merit the buzzword (Mass Effects applies a “film grain” filter to make the experience more cinematic), The Dark Knight thrives in cleanliness. It is, however, realistic cleanliness. The film is gritty, but not in the visual sense. Nor is it completely realistic. It is a world very much grounded in Chicago as it is in Gotham City, and as such it becomes a fantastic, realistic world.
What I realized was that this film is a realistic depiction of a fantasy world. The grittiness comes through the plot. From the first minute to the last 152nd, Christopher Nolan fleshes out the events of so many plot lines that could merit films on their own, that it is not for nothing some might find the film exhausting. The Dark Knight resembles perhaps more Infernal Affairs (subsequently The Departed) and Heat than Batman Begins, and this is what I found troubling at first. What Nolan does with this film, however, plot wise, visually and musically, is introducing an incredible suspense throughout the first hour and 45 minutes that ascends The Dark Knight into being something short of a masterpiece, if not for all of its, sometimes, fatal flaws.
For Complete review: Great review by Jesper Sellerberg
The women of shemuscle
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 17:11 
The Dana Fuchs band- Live From NYC- "Rather Go Blind"
Monday, May 5, 2008 at 18:55 When People Drink Themselves Silly, and Why
Thursday, March 20, 2008 at 14:39 The urge to binge mindlessly, though it can strike at any time, seems to stir in the collective unconscious during the last weeks of winter. Maybe it’s the television images from places like Fort Lauderdale and Cabo San Lucas, of communications majors’ face planting outside bars or on beaches.
Or perhaps it’s a simple a case of seasonal affective disorder in reverse. Not SAD at all, but anticipation of warmth and eagerness for a little disorder.
Either way, researchers have had a hard time understanding binge behavior. Until recently, their definition of binge drinking — five drinks or more in 24 hours — was so loose that it invited debate and ridicule from some scholars. And investigators who ventured into the field, into the spray of warm backwash and press of wet T-shirts, often returned with findings like this one from a 2006 study: “Spring break trips are a risk factor for escalated alcohol use.”
Many Doctors, Many Tests, No Rhyme or Reason
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 00:33 I recently took care of a 50-year-old man who had been admitted to the hospital short of breath. During his monthlong stay he was seen by a hematologist, an endocrinologist, a kidney specialist, a podiatrist, two cardiologists, a cardiac electrophysiologist, an infectious-diseases specialist, a pulmonologist, an ear-nose-throat specialist, a urologist, a gastroenterologist, a neurologist, a nutritionist, a general surgeon, a thoracic surgeon and a pain specialist.
Readers' Comments
"We need major reform of the entire system, legal controls with real penalties for abuse, and somebody like Teddy Roosevelt to make it happen."Jim, Oak Ridge, TN
He underwent 12 procedures, including cardiac catheterization, a pacemaker implant and a bone-marrow biopsy (to work-up chronic anemia). Despite this wearying schedule, he maintained an upbeat manner, walking the corridors daily with assistance to chat with nurses and physician assistants. When he was discharged, follow-up visits were scheduled for him with seven specialists.
This man’s case, in which expert consultations sprouted with little rhyme, reason or coordination, reinforced a lesson I have learned many times since entering practice: In our health care system, where doctors are paid piecework for their services, if you have a slew of physicians and a willing patient, almost any sort of terrible excess can occur.
Though accurate data is lacking, the overuse of services in health care probably cost hundreds of billions of dollars last year, out of the more than $2 trillion that Americans spent on health.
Are we getting our money’s worth?
Shelley Beattie has passed away
Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 23:01 Information about Shelley's past:
Height: 5'7" Weight: 150-155 lbs
Notable Athletic Accomplishments: * 1988/1989 co-ed and women handcar world champion and two new world records (still unbeaten) * 1989 unofficial world record bench press: at body wt. 163 lbs benched 315 lbs. * 1990 USA
Bodybuilding Champion * 1991 Ms. International: 3rd place * 1991 Ms. Olympia: 6th place * 1992 Ms. Olympia: 3rd place * 1994-95 Grinder on America3 America's Cup team. Placed 2nd in World Championships Occupation: *
American Gladiator (Siren) * 1992-1997 athelete contract with Twin Labratories, the largest sport supplement company in the world * Contributing Editor of Muscular Development magazine * Public speaker on motivation, nutrition and overcoming adversity * Athletic model Favorite activities: Rock climbing (5.11), Olympic Kayaking, Modern, Jazz, Funk and Hip Hop dancing, Weightlifting/bodybuilding, rollerblading, gymnastics, biking, equestrian, football, swimming, track & field, national level heptathalete, riding her Harlely Davison, acting/dance theater, in-line skating, and jogging in deep sand
Hearing Loss: Started at age 3. By sixth grade, her right ear was so far gone she needed a hearing aid. The left ear followed shortly afterwards. College:Western Oregon State -- although receiving many scholarship offers due to her proficiency in track, she realized that she would need to quit track and concentrate on learning in order to make up for the education she missed due to her hearing loss Favorite quotes:
* Never doubt your abilities * Don't let others define who you are * God only gives us what we can take and what doesn't kill us only makes us stronger * Nelson Mandela's 1994 Inaugural Speech
Shelley Beattie is pretty much a complete embodyment of what I admire about female bodybulders. Shelley has managed to turn her life around from a suicidal teenager who couldn't come to grips with her hearing loss and found no support from her family to a very successful and popular athlete. She feels now that she has come to the point in her life where people see past her hearing loss. Although Shelley learned to sign in American Sign Language (ASL) she enjoys speaking. She has now learned to accept her hearing loss and states that she wants specifically to adopt a deaf child someday. Although her relationship with her real parents is improving now, her hearing loss (and her denial) caused many severe problems during her childhood and she was eventually placed into a foster home -- 3 foster homes.
Being stripped from her family took it's emotional toll on young Shelley and she began lifting weights about age 14 mostly out of frustration and loneliness. Although, the America Gladiators were relectant to hire Shelley because of her hearing loss, she has now become one of the most popular stars of the show. She also shares a column in Muscular Development magazine with husband John Romano. After a successful career as one of the top female bodybuilders, Shelley decided to leave bodybuilding to persue other interests.
