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Show Page D6 THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, Wednesday, December 9, 1998 2 women provide customized fied to train cops at the Pat Thomas Law Enforcement By JAN PUDLOW Knight Ridder Newspapers A TALLAHASSEE, Fla. young woman training for bicycle races pedals down lonely roads. An elderly woman, recently widowed, can't sleep because she hears frightening sounds at night. An abused wife is tired of being a punching bag and doesn't trust a judge's restraining order to protect her. A teacher wants to be able to break up fights in the school yard. A politician's wife is in the public eye and her bodyguard can't be with her round-the-cloc- Center. She joked that she sometimes forgets where she is: "At tae kwon do, I put a guy t in a pin about to handcuff him. And at the academy, I did a double-knifhand block." Brown is a paralegal with a psychology degree and a background in counsel- role-playin- 'zty-Z- - ,h : r v car-jackin-g, iJ ing. Together, they've teamed up e to provide customized, one-on-on- training that caters to a client's lifestyle. "They're one of a kind in regards to personalized training," said Emory Morris, who trained them at self-defens- e thir' -- self-defen- their own Tallahassee. "We get a lot of referrals from police and other coun- ' se second. "She just looked amazed arid" said, 'For 10 years, I've had this and you're telling nightmare me I can reverse it?"' selors." Their reasons vary, but their the same: They want to learn how to defend themselves, but they want to keep their lessons confidential. And Teresa Fenno and Tammy Brown are ready to help as "certified specialists." Fenno is a special agent with a state agency (she doesn't want to say which one) and a sworn officer, certi goal is assault-preventio- n Their strengths, he said, are complementing backstatus in grounds, black-bel- t martial arts and ability to connect with women. Fenno, who's had a loaded .32 held to her head when she was a cop in Havana during the height of the Busy Bee supermarket days, is a She's but tough petite as nails. As a girl, she bragged, "I their crack-cocain- e g 1 e TaeKwondo USA, his school in sure it never happens again. Two sisters are going away In the end, their clients learn everything from walking chin briskly with confidence up, shoulders back, eye contact their worsts to fear and coming out on top. "One night we were out " here in the parking lot acting and it was so out a real a marked TPD car pulled1 up to check it out," laughed" Fenno. "."J"' Brown said her big fear Was" ' being attacked in the shower,"s'c; they did the "Tsycho' behind the shower curtain 'at the school, where they give"; lessons at $50 an hour, with a minimum of 10 sessions. One woman's fear was being pinned down, and she had a recurring nightmare for years. By her ninth lesson, Morris recounted, she'd learned how the situation in a half, ! three-poin- A rape victim wants to make to college, living on for the first time. training! self-defen- se They teach rolls, strategic punches to pressure points, a nifty bal- - ' knock to the ' hips. In an effective variation of' the Vulcan Death Grip Nerve' Pinch, a hand slap to the side of' the neck gives an electrifying" zap called the "brachial plexis;" origin stun." CAROL CLE ARE Tallahassee Democrat Defense: Tammy Brown, right, takes a shot at a punching bag held by Teresa Fenno. The pair offers sonalized classes that gear the methods of defense to individual lifestyles. rough-and-tumbl- per- self-defen- e ance-displacin- g played with both Barbie and GI Joe." and 120 Brown, pounds, has a background in and counseling, psychology smiled when Fenno point- - ed to her and said, "She's the sensitive one." The first session begins with a personality profile that rates everything from assertiveness to confidence to awareness of surroundings. Some clients, they said, get to the questions about past threats or spelling out their worst fear and break down cry-Sh- e, ing. For colds and the flu, prevention is the cure that works Flu Knight Ridder Newspapers the viruses are able to elude extermination, no matter what weapons modern medicine It all starts with a seemingly innocent handshake. A business deal is sealed, perhaps, or an acquaintance is greeted. Faster than you can say you've also been slipped a cold or flu virus. Although we tend to think colds are spread by inconsiderate louts who don't cover their noses when they sneeze, scientists now recognize that viruses are most easily transmitted by devises. The best that scientists have been able to do is create influenza vaccines containing strains of influenza they believe will be circulating in a given year. Sometimes they're right. Sometimes they're wrong. Overall, however, the vaccine is considered 70 percent effective at preventing the flu, which already has started to make appearances in California. By JULIE SEVRENS ah-cho- hand-to-han- d contact. But before you rush out and spend a small fortune on "natural" supplements you believe will protect you from your infectious doctors have one small bit of advice. Wash hands. your Thoroughly. "It's just common sense," says Dr. Michael Macknin, chairman of the department of general pediatrics at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. "Wash your hands before you eat and wash your hands when you come into contact with someone who's ill." In a nutshell, that's about as far as we've gotten in the area of preventing and treating the common cold. Which isn't to say that Before it attacks "Prevention is the best medi- insists Dr. Mark Lillo, chief medicine at Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara. When it comes to treating the virus, it's about the only medicine we have. Two prescription drugs amantadine and rimantadine, which reduce the duration of have hit some flu symptoms the market in recent years. The only trouble is, the drugs must be taken within 48 hours of influenza's onset, and doctors say symptom reduction is minimal. And because very few patients head to their doctor after being sick for only a day, these new drugs don't cine," of offer much of a treatment option. When flu outbreaks hit, avoiding the virus is nearly impossible. Influenza has the ability to float through the air in tiny, undetectable particles, and anyone who has the disease is capable of infecting others for days. It doesn't matter if that sickis three cubicles ly away. The flu is so invasive, it'll find you, says Lillo: "You can get the flu going through a grocery store." The average American contracts a case of influenza only about once every seven to 10 years, says Dr. Lawrence Drew, director of microbiology and infectious disease for University of California-SaFrancisco Stanford Health Care. That may be little consolation, however, given that you'll still develop many colds throughout your lifetime usually two to four a year because, quite simply, there are many colds out there to catch. What we collectively refer to as the common cold isn't caused by one virus but by more than 200 researchers viruses, believe. The culprits are lurking in the shadows all year round but are thought to be n more active in the winter simply because we humans spend more time indoors, where we make more human contact. So now would be a good time to stock up on cold medicines, right? Wrong. Over-the-count- nighttime sniffling, sneezing, , coughing, fever, aching, cines mask nothing more than cold symptoms. do stuffy-head- medi- treat bacterial infections, are powerless Antibiotics, which against cold viruses. And even lozenges contain- ing zinc, gobbled up like candy by cold sufferers for the past two years, may not be the magic potion drug researchers first thought they were. shot reduces your chance of catching bug Knight Ridder Newspapers SAN JOSE, Calif. For about the cost of a movie ticket, you can take a big step toward protecting yourself from the flu. Influenza vaccines, available at area pharmacies, medical centers and doctors' offices this month for about $10, are 70 percent effective at warding off the flu. Pneumonia vaccines are available as well. 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The problem is that influenza viruses are wily, able to modify themselves every year so that the body's immune system doesn't recognize them or know how to stop them. "It's like a chameleon," says Dr. Martin Fenstersheib, public health officer for Santa Clara County, Calif. For that reason, . . fcrpPATHFinDER presents Les Miserables in influenza seniors, asthmatics, diabetics, people with ane mia, AIDS patients and anyone-wit-h heart or kidney problems;-- : But other portions of the: public would be wise to get a fit; shot as well. z:':w "Anybody who doesn't want;,; the flu should go out and geti, this vaccine right now," says Dr.. Mark Lillo, chief of medicine' at ; Kaiser Santa Clara hospital. The influenza vaccine is made up of three dead influenza viruses suspected of being this culyear's primary prits. The vaccine itself is not capable of triggering the flu. By JULIE SEVRENS doc- tors don't understand how viruses work. 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