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The S Factor: Strip Workouts for Every Woman

Hipper than Taebo, sexier than Pilates, The S Factor--stripping--is the hottest new fitness trend. Created by actress Sheila Kelley (LA Law, Sisters, and a host of film and Broadway roles), S-Factor classes are wildly popular and generating an avalanche of attention from Extra, Entertainment Tonight, The Los Angeles Times, Allure, Us magazine, Fox News, and CBS's 48 Hours, which proclaimed: "Women don't even know they're working out until two months later when they say, 'I've never had a better body in my life. I'm strong, I'm limber, I feel great.'" Sheila even convinced Barbara Walters to try a pole dance on The View.

No wonder. Combining yoga, dance, and erotic movements, The S Factor is a program that tones muscle, firms the body, increases flexibility, promotes weight loss, and gives you a few new tricks for the bedroom. Illustrated in hundreds of photographs that show step by step how each move is done, the exercises are sensual yet demanding, requiring a balance of strength and finesse. There are slow, rounded warm-ups, the Spine Circles and Hip Circles. Strenuous motions, like the Rocking Cat-Cow. Peels and rolls, grinds, pounces, arches. And pole work, from the Firefly to Descending Angel.

Something else happens, too: These exercises and routines boost self-esteem and give women a new way to think about their bodies. Stripping is a liberating act, out of which comes a new look, new body, new confidence, new you.

The American lobster, Homarus americanus, is a species of lobster found on the Atlantic coast of North America, chiefly from Labrador to New Jersey. Within North America, it is also known as the northern lobster or Maine lobster. It can reach a body length of 64 cm (25 in), and a mass of over 20 kilograms (44 lb), making it the heaviest crustacean in the world. Its closest relative is the European lobster Homarus gammarus, which can be distinguished by its coloration and the lack of spines on the underside of the rostrum. American lobsters are usually bluish green to brown with red spines, but a number of color variations have been observed.

Homarus americanus is distributed along the Atlantic coast of North America, from Labrador in the north to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in the south. South of New Jersey, the species is uncommon, and landings in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina usually make up less than 0.1% of all landings. A fossil claw assigned to Homarus americanus was found at Nantucket, dating from the Pleistocene.

Homarus americanus commonly reaches 8–24 inches (200–610 mm) long and weighs 1–9 pounds (0.45–4.1 kg) in weight, but has been known to reach lengths over 3 ft (0.91 m) and weigh as much as 44 lb (20 kg) or more, making this the heaviest marine crustacean in the world.[6] Together with Sagmariasus verreauxi, it is also the longest decapod crustacean in the world; an average adult is about 9 in (230 mm) long and weighs 1.5 to 2 lb (680 to 910 g). The longest American lobsters have a body (excluding claws) 64 cm (25 in) long. According to Guinness World Records, the heaviest crustacean ever recorded was an American lobster caught off Nova Scotia, Canada, weighing 44.4 lb (20.1 kg) and having a total length of 3.51 ft (1.07 m).

The closest relative of H. americanus is the European lobster, Homarus gammarus. The two species are very similar, and can be crossed artificially, although hybrids are unlikely to occur in the wild since their ranges do not overlap. The two species can be distinguished by a number of characteristics:

The rostrum of H. americanus bears one or more spines on the underside, which are lacking in H. gammarus.
The spines on the claws of H. americanus are red or red-tipped, while those of H. gammarus are white or white-tipped.
The underside of the claw of H. americanus is orange or red, while that of H. gammarus is creamy white or very pale red.

The normal coloration of Homarus americanus is "dark bluish green to greenish brown", redder on the body and claws, and greener on the legs. This coloration is produced by mixing yellow, blue, and red pigments.

Color variants
An estimated one in 2–5 million lobsters is blue. A genetic mutation causes a blue lobster to produce an excessive amount of a particular protein. The protein and a red carotenoid molecule known as astaxanthin combine to form a blue complex known as crustacyanin, giving the lobster its blue color. In 2009 a blue lobster was caught in New Hampshire by a fisherman who thought he had caught a shiny blue beer can. In 2011, two blue lobsters were caught in Canada, one off of Prince Edward Island, and another was caught in the Esgenoopetitj First Nation territory in New Brunswick.

Yellow lobsters are the result of a rare genetic mutation and the odds of finding one are estimated to be 1 in 30 million. Reports of yellow lobsters include one off Whaleback Island (at the mouth of the Kennebec River), Maine, on August 1, 2006, off Prince Edward Island, Canada, on June 11, 2009, one discovered in Wainani Kai Seafoods in Kalihi, Hawaii in a shipment from Nova Scotia on April 30, 2010, in Narragansett Bay off Rhode Island on July 31, 2010.

In July 2010, an albino lobster was reportedly caught in Gloucester. An estimated only one in 100 million lobsters is albino — lacking in colored pigments.

On August 28, 2010, a calico lobster with a mottled orange and black shell was reported to have been caught in Maine. Diane Cowan, a lobster scientist and founder of the Lobster Conservancy in Friendship stated only albino lobsters are rarer, and orange lobsters such as these are a 1 in 30 million catch.

Several lobsters have been caught with different colorings on their left and right halves. For instance, on July 13, 2006, a Maine fisherman caught a brown and orange lobster, and submitted it to the local oceanarium, which had only seen three lobsters of this kind in 35 years. The chance of finding one is estimated at 1 in 50 million. All split-colored lobsters observed by Bob Bayer of the Lobster Institute in Maine have been hermaphroditic.

Red lobsters are the usual result of a lobster being cooked. According to the Gulf of Maine Institute, however, there is a 1 in 10 million chance of catching one alive with that color.

The life cycle of H. americanus is well understood. Mating only takes place shortly after the female has molted, and her exoskeleton is still soft. The female releases a phe

I used to see them every moring and evening from my room window , my building is kinda tall and I live on 7th floor , so I am always watching these people.......

I came here for anthropological study and wanted to see the real local life and found this place in 2006.

I haven't seen them for a long time now.

Wondering if they are fine , I seldom met them in real life and only once in a while greeting to them but I fell as though I 've known them for a long time since I have been observing them since I moved in my current apartment in BKK for my research........................I kinda miss them......I also never seen their parents who used to fight in front of their shack like house every moring while cooking some local foods to sell on a street in front of a family mart near my area.

BTW,shot at f4 , 1/320th, ISO 1600 , this lens is a good lens , super fast AF and sharp wide open.

I can read the letter and numbers in the speed meter of the bike and key hole slot, this is wide open at ISO1600 , so it must be really sharp in bright day light ISO200 , stopping it down to F5.6 or f8.

This zoom can replace all primes in its range , in my case , I replaced 100f2 , 200f2.8L with EF70-200f4LISUM , because the zoom is sharper than the primes mentioned , I kept the EF85f1.8though since the AF of the 85 is inanely fast and so I need it for indoor action like dance contest.

IMO, the 70-200f4LIS, EF135f2L and EF60f2.8USM the Canon's best lenses ever.

I use my Nikon D300 for wide angle since its crop factor is 1.5 X , so my Sigma 10-20EX on my D300 is wider than on my 50D , I know Nikon-snobs say the 14-24 is the lens to get , well, it is sharp and optically really good but I do not need the weight or size , plus ,I dont need f2.8 zooms , I like f4 zooms with super fast primes.

I like Nikon bodies but their lens really suck , especially full frame ones , I love the aF-S16-85VR and Af-S35f1.8DXG on my D300 but these huge f2.8 zooms that Nikon fanboys proud and rave about are all too bulky and heavy, and I dont think they are as sharper than Canon f4 zooms.

The 70-200f4IS beats the Nikon Af-S70-200VR hands down , the Canon AF faster and with much more effective IS , I can comfortably handhold this at 200 at 1/4th second..........but the Nikon VR in the over priced AF-S70-200f2.8VR is just 2 stops or less effective, the VR in the 70-300f4.5-5.6VR is a bit better though, still not as good as the Canon IS in the 70-200f4LISUSM.