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Today is the eighth video and audio-only rebroadcast from the 2013 Huffines Discussion. Up today in our series is the Director of Sports Nutrition at Texas Children's Hospital, Ms. Roberta Anding. Ms. Anding - among her other duties - is the Registered Dietician for the Houston Texans, the Houston Astros, and the Houston Ballet. Ms. Anding's talk is titled: "Sports Nutrition: Peewees to Pros". Ms. Anding shares her unique experiences and great nutritional advice, especially if you are active. WATCH NOW! or LISTEN NOW!
All around the country, spring football is underway. To salute spring football, we are pleased to have Coach Mark Hagen, Linebackers Coach at Texas A&M join us in the podcast. This is a wide-ranging conversation from how you become a college football coach, to recruiting, to the role of the linebacker in modern football. It's a fun conversation! Enjoy! LISTEN NOW!
For more information about this week's Human Performance Minute, check out the links listed below.
Physics of the Golf Swing
Musculoskeletal Considerations for the Senior Golfer
Be sure to check out future weekly Huffines Institute Human Performance Minute broadcasts at TexAgs SportsRadio (The Zone 1150 AM) every Wednesday morning at 10:45am. If you missed it you can listen to it here!
Today is the seventh video and audio-only rebroadcast from the 2013 Huffines Discussion. Up today in our series is the Izod IndyCar racing series driver, Mr. Charlie Kimball. Mr. Kimball's talk is titled: "Diabetes in the Fast Lane". Mr. Kimball shares his unique experiences as the only elite-level race driver with Type 1 diabetes. This is a fun talk just in time for the start of the IndyCar season! WATCH NOW! or LISTEN NOW!
The Huffines Institute wanted to send a BIG congratulations to one of its volunteers, Conor Irwin, Kinesiology undergraduate research scholar. Conor's poster presentation titled "Androgen Receptor Formation In Prenatally Endocrine Disrupted Mice" placed 2nd in the undergraduate health category at the annual student research week at Texas A&M University. Conor was the primary author of this winning poster along with authors: Huffines Institute Doctoral Students, Emily Schmitt and Heather Vellers, and Huffines Director Dr. Tim Lightfoot.
Congratulations Conor and great job representing the Huffines Institute, the Department of Health and Kinesiology, and Texas A&M University!
For more information about this week's Human Performance Minute, check out the links listed below.
Recent research findings indicate that with older adulthood, there are functional decrements in spatial cognition and more specially, in the ability to mentally represent and effectively plan motor actions. A typical finding is a significant over- or underestimation of one's actual physical abilities with movement planning- planning that has implications for movement efficiency and physical safety. A practical, daily life example is estimation of reachability- a situation for the elderly may be linked with fall incidence.
A strategy used to mentally represent action is the use of motor imagery- an ability that also declines with advancing older age. Huffines Affiliate and Director of the Child Motor Development Laboratory, Dr. Carl Gabbard's recent publication in the Journal of Applied Gerontology titled "Mental Representation for Action in the Elderly: Implications for Movement Efficiency and Injury Risk" highlights research findings on mental representation and motor imagery in the elderly and addresses the implications for improving movement efficiency and lowering the risk of movement-related injury.
Click here for more information about Dr. Carl Gabbard and the Child Motor Development Laboratory.
We're so pleased to have Dr. Laurie Priest join us in the podcast today. Dr. Priest was and continues to be one of the pioneers in women's sport and the inclusion of women in all aspects of sport. This is a great conversation about some of the history of this movement and how all sports have and will continue to benefit from full inclusion. Enjoy! LISTEN NOW!
The literature strongly suggests that daily physical activity is genetically and biologically regulated. Potential identities of the responsible mechanisms are unclear, but little has been written concerning the possible evolutionary selection pressures leading to the development of genetic/biological controls of physical activity. Given the weak relationship between exercise endurance and activity levels and the differential genomic locations associated with the regulation of endurance and activity, it is probable that regulation of endurance and activity evolved separately.
Dr. Tim Lightfoot, Director of the Huffines Institute, has recently published a review article in BioMed Research International titled "Why Control Activity? Evolutionary Selection Pressures Affecting the Development of Physical Activity Genetic and Biological Regulation." This hypothesis paper considers energy expenditures and duration of activity in hunter/gatherers, pretechnology farmers, and modern Western societies and considers the potential of each to selectively influence the development of activity regulation.
Explore the Huffines Institute website for more information about Dr. Tim Lightfoot and the Sydney and J.L. Huffines Institute for Sports Medicine and Human Performance.
Today is the sixth video and audio-only rebroadcast from the 2013 Huffines Discussion. Up today in our series is University of Tennessee's Dr. Ed Howley. Dr. Howley's talk is titled: "How Much Exercise Is Enough?". Dr. Howley unravels the tangled recommendation for how much exercise you really need. This is a great talk from one of the legends in Exercise Physiology. WATCH NOW! or LISTEN NOW!
Dr. John Thornton, Director of the Texas A&M Coaching Academy discusses all topics related to Texas A&M Basketball and basketball in general. This weekly podcast with Gabe Bock and Olin Buchanan is broadcast on Wednesdays at 8:30am on TexasAgs Sports Radio The Zone 1150am.
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Reduced mechanical loading during bedrest, spaceflight, and casting, causes rapid morphological changes in skeletal muscle: fiber atrophy and reduction of slow-twitch fibers. An emerging signaling event in response to unloading is the translocation of neuronal nitric oxide synthase from the sarcolemma to the cytosol. Dr. John Lawler, Huffines Affiliate and Director of the Redox Biology and Cell Signaling Laboratory, recently published in the American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. His publication titled "EUK-134 ameliorates nNOSµ translocation and skeletal muscle fiber atrophy during short-term mechanical unloading" looked at EUK-134, a cell-permeable mimetic of superoxide dismutase and catalase, to test the role of redox signaling in nNOSµ translocation and muscle fiber atrophy as a result of short-term (54 h) hindlimb unloading. Redox signaling may serve as a biological switch for nNOS to initiate morphological changes in skeletal muscle fibers.
Spring is finally beginning (whew!) and many people start getting out and running again after the cold winter. Some of them even start thinking about running marathons. We've got a great podcast today with Mr. Mark Bravo is a tireless promoter of the marathon and it's benefits. Enjoy! LISTEN NOW!
For more information about last week's Human Performance Minute, check out the links listed below.
Numerous candidate genes have been suggested in the recent literature with proposed roles in regulation of voluntary physical activity, with little evidence on these genes' functional roles. Michelle Dawes, doctoral student in the Biology of Physical Activity Laboratory and Huffines Institute Student Affiliate, recently published a journal article in Biomed Research International. Her publication titled "Differential Gene Expression in High- and Low-Active Inbred Mice" compared the haplotype structure and expression profile in skeletal muscle and brain of inherently high- and low- active mice. Expression of nine candidate genes was evaluated. Read more to find out which ones!
Explore the Huffines Institute website for more information about Michelle Dawes, the Sydney and J.L. Huffines Institute for Sports Medicine and Human Performance and the Biology of Physical Activity Laboratory.
Today is the fourth video and audio-only rebroadcast from the 2013 Huffines Discussion. Up today in our series is Kaiser-Permanente and the Developer of the International Exercise Is Medicine initiative, Dr. Robert Sallis. Dr. Sallis' talk is titled: "Exercise and Health: How to Prescribe Exercise in Clinical Practice". This is a great talk - both funny and informative - on how and why exercise is a perfect medical treatment and why it should be treated as such. WATCH NOW! or LISTEN NOW!
This past weekend, February 27-28, 2014, was the Texas Chapter of the American College of Sports Medicine (TACSM) annual meeting held at the beautiful campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. The Huffines Institute, as well as the Health and Kinesiology Department at Texas A&M are very proud of our faculty and student award winners.
Dr. Jim Fluckey, Huffines Institute Internal Advisory Board Chair, was voted as the new President-elect for TACSM for 2016.
Texas A&M University health and kinesiology undergraduates, Katherine Elmer, Megan Cole, And Liliana Ogden, are the 2014 TACSM Undergraduate Student Bowl Champions. They will be competing in the National Student Bowl Competition at the National ACSM Conference in Orlando, Florida in late May.
Health and Kinesiology doctoral students, Jeffrey Hord, Yang Lee, William Deaver, and Dustin Joubert were TACSM Student Research Development Awardees
Kinesiology undergraduate, Katherine Elmer was also the TACSM Outstanding Undergraduate Scholar, a TACSM Majors of the Year, and was the recipient for the TACSM Scholarship.
TACSM Student Poster Presentation Awards:
Again, congratulations to all of our Aggies this past weekend, way to represent Texas A&M University! Good luck to our undergraduate student bowl team at the National ACSM Conference! Bring home the GOLD!!!
Recent studies indicate that the ability to mentally represent action using motor imagery declines with advanced age (>64 years). As the ability to represent action declines, the elderly may experience increasing difficulty with movement planning and execution. Huffines Affiliate and Director of the Child Motor Development Laboratory, Dr. Carl Gabbard's recent publication in the Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics titled "Association between imagined and actual functional reach (FR): A comparison of young and older adults" provides insight to the effects of advanced age on the ability to mentally represent action and its association with movement execution. These results may have clinical implications based on the question of whether motor imagery training could improve movement estimations and how that might affect actual reach.
Click here for more information about Dr. Gabbard and the Child Motor Development Laboratory.
We are joined in the podcast today by Ms. Leigh Liebmann who is the Program Coordinator for the Dallas chapter of "Back On My Feet". This program is another example of how to use exercise and sport to facilitate societal change - in this case to help with employment and housing. This is a great podcast with someone who is trying to change the world by using exercise! LISTEN NOW!
Recently, a particular college football coach has justified his support for a rule that would allow substitution of defensive players within the first 10 sec of the play clock by claiming that this is a player safety issue. He has stated that he is concerned about his players that have sickle cell trait and how the exertion of playing defense may trigger sickling and death. Is this really a concern for defensive players during a game? It is true that sickle cell trait occurs in about 8% of those athletes whose ethnic backgrounds may put them at risk. It is also true that athletes with sickle cell trait have died suddenly after exertion. However, when you look closer at the data, this coach's justification dry up. First, of the 20 football players (in particular) with sickle cell trait that have died in the last 10 years, all 20 died during or immediately after extreme and long conditioning drills and usually early in the season. None died during a game. Let me repeat, "none died during a game or right after". In fact, the American Society of Hematology says that athletes with sickle cell trait can participate in sports as long as they take the same precautions that all athletes take to prevent heat-related injuries – in other words, they need to stay hydrated and rest when appropriate. This recommendation is backed up by the National Athletic Trainers Association as well as several other professional societies – and has been since 2007! Again, where sickle cell trait has been problematic has been when extreme conditioning drills have been conducted without appropriate fluid and rest. So, can Sickle Cell Trait be a problem during a game? Probably not –during a game, the pace is not sustained as long as it is in any of the extreme long conditioning drills – witness that in the 5 year period from 2008-2012, the average was 2.31 plays/min – or almost 26 seconds from one play to the next – with 12-16 seconds of that time at rest. So is it possible that a defensive player may have an issue during a game from sickle cell trait – yes? Is it probable? No. But look at it another way – why isn't this coach concerned about his offensive players, or basketball players, or soccer players, or track and field athletes. The same concerns apply to these athletes as to the defensive football players.
In the end, concern for players' safety is admirable – but let's really figure out what is a probable safety issue versus an issue that has an extremely small possibility of occurring before you start to change a fundamental aspect of a sport. There's more information and discussion about this issue at HuffinesInstitute.org. Until next week, we hope you have an active and healthy week.
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Today is the fourth video and audio-only rebroadcast from the 2013 Huffines Discussion. Up today in our series is Kaiser-Permanente and the Developer of the International Exercise Is Medicine initiative, Dr. Robert Sallis. Dr. Sallis' talk is titled: "Exercise and Health: How to Prescribe Exercise in Clinical Practice". This is a great talk - both funny and informative - on how and why exercise is a perfect medical treatment and why it should be treated as such. WATCH NOW! or LISTEN NOW!
Basketball is heating up with the end of the collegiate basketball season coming soon. This week, we're replaying one of our favorite podcasts where we have Dr. Mike Thornton with us in the podcast this week to talk about refereeing college basketball. The one group of involved folks that we don't normally hear from are the Basketball Referees. As the season heats up, we thought it would be great to hear again from a Division I College Basketball Referee. Dr. Thornton has officiated Division 1 basketball for several years and brings a great perspective on watching basketball (and gives some suggestions on how to properly heckle referees!)...This is a timely and fun conversation.
Our very own, Emily Schmitt, sits down for an interview at KAMU TV to discuss "Tips to Stay Healthy in the New Year!" Don't miss this opportunity to learn about nutrition, importance of aerobic and resistance training, and other aspects of general health. It is never too late to kick start the NEW YOU!
The interview will air Thursday, February 13, 2014 at 11:00pm on KAMU TV (Channel 12 local).
Today we have our third webcast of our 2013 Huffines Discussion talks (these talks are analogous to TED Talks). Up today is Notre Dame University's Adam Sargent talking about the role of academics in sport and how athletes can be mentored to do well in academics as well as sport. You can see the video here, or if you don't have time, download the audio-only version here. The transcript of the talk is here and Mr. Sargent's bio is here! Enjoy!
Dr. Shane Hudson, Director of the Texas A&M Laboratory for the Study of Intercollegiate Athletics, joins us to chat about the role of Sports and Athletics in the University. There is so much attention given to budgets and costs and sports is often a large expenditure department of the University. Why do Universities has sports? We cover that topic (and more) in this podcast! LISTEN NOW!
Today we have our second webcast of our 2013 Huffines Discussion talks (these talks are analogous to TED Talks). Up today is Hall of Fame Coach Mark Johnson talking about the importance of Athletics/Sports in a University You can see the video here, or if you don't have time, download the audio-only version here. The transcript of the talk is here and Coach Johnson's bio is here! Enjoy!
Following last week's podcast about exercise and pregnancy, Dr. Buzz Pruitt joins us for a frank discussion about sex education. This topic has become politicized in some segments of our society, so it's great to hear a clear, reasonable voice regarding sex education. Dr. Pruitt doesn't shy away from any of the contentious issues and we think you'll be well-informed by this chat. LISTEN NOW!
Today we kick off the webcast of our 2013 Huffines Discussion talks (these talks are analogous to TED Talks). First up today is Dr. Jim Pivarnik from Michigan State University talking about Exercise and Pregnancy! You can see the video here, or if you don't have time, download the audio-only version here. The transcript of the talk is here and Dr. Pivarnik's bio is here! Enjoy!
Catch Huffines DIscussion 2011 Scholar Dr. Molly Broad on a new video piece on NBC about exercise and obesity! (Here's a link to her Huffines Discussion talk and her earlier podcast!). Good job Dr. Bray!
So many people wonder about metabolism, especially with all the media-coverage about weight loss. Renowned metabolism researcher, Dr. Nicolaas Deutz, joins us in the podcast today to talk about nutrition, metabolism, cancer, and exercise!
Check out this short video from Analisa Jimenez, Heather Vellers, Sheril Marek, Emily Schmitt, and David Ferguson (all Huffines Volunteers) that is their official entry in the national "Let's Walk: ACSM 2013" competition! You'll get a kick out of it .... and might learn a thing or two about walking! It's great fun!
You've been waiting for it and here it is: the 100th Video and Audio Podcasts from the Huffines Institute for Sports Medicine and Human Performance! We do all things 100 today: We talk to Mr. Mike Dillingham - Aggie Class '35 who is 100 and is the oldest living Aggie - about his time on the Texas A&M baseball team from 1931-1935. We welcome back to the podcast one of the world's elite ultramarathoners Dr. Mike Sandlin who runs (and wins) 100-mile foot-races for fun! (really). And for our 100th guest, we're pleased to welcome College Football Hall of Fame Coach (and winningest Aggie Football Coach of all time) RC Slocum. We recorded this podcast live, so we were joined by Lauren Santacroce as the Announcer and Karl Rehn provided the music. We had a great studio audience of about 200 people, so it was great fun.
The weekly text articles are back. Check out the article this week by Brandon Macias, "Sclerostin: Bad to the Bone?" Most folks, especially those who do not suffer from bone debilitating diseases, might forget that their skeletons are "alive." Yes, the bone that protects your vital organs and works with your muscles to get you out of bed in the morning is constantly remodeling.
Today is the second of our special video and audio-only podcasts of the 2012 Huffines Discussion Talks. This week's 2012 Huffines Discussion Scholar is Dr. Jacques Dallaire from Performance Prime. Dr. Dallaire is renowned for his ongoing work with elite athletes and high performance professionals. His Huffines Discussion talk was "Perform Like a Champion...What is Holding You Back" and deals with how you can improve your performance in anything! Here is a link to Dr. Dallaire's bio.
Don't miss out on a great weekly article. Learn "What to do with a football lineman, when he stops being a football lineman?," by Jonathan Oliver. Due to their intense training and physical abilities, athletes are assumed by many people to be healthy individuals. However, this may not always be the case. Studies have recently shown that football athletes, particularly linemen, are...
It's that time!!! Check out this weeks article, Its a real treat! "How does 'chunking' help expand your memory? Verifying that consolidation resulting in offline learning influences motor chunks," by Sanjeev R. Bhatia. Human memory and the ability to recall vast amounts of trivia and unrelated information have intrigued scientists and researchers for quite some time. However, sometimes memory is inconsistent in its retrievability....
New article for the week, "My Racket Can't Find the Ball," by Priscila Cacola. Check out why Priscila can't seem to get her racket to find the ball. Have you ever wondered why a child learning to strike with a tennis racquet has trouble "finding" the ball....
This week's article is focused on "Control of Wrist and Arm Movements at Varying Difficulties" by Jason Boyle. Our muscles are controlled by "motor units", which each consist of a neuron, and the muscle fiber(s) it activates or "innervates". The muscle that responds is termed an "effector". Brain mapping studies have shown that a disproportionate area of the motor cortex governs certain effectors of the body.
by Majid Koozehchian. Homocysteine (Hcy) is a non-proteinogenic amino acid (i.e., an amino acid not used in proteins) normally present in the blood. Hcy is a by-product of normal diet but high levels in the blood can endanger cardiovascular health...
Baseball season is almost here! We've got a great podcast today with MLB's Washington Nationals Asst. GM Bryan Minniti about professional baseball, injuries, and rehab in a large organization with multi-million dollar athletes. Join us for Mr. Minniti's behind-the-scenes insights about professional baseball.
This week's article features "Its OK to Eat Cholesterol. It May Even Be Good For You," by Chang Woock Lee. "Cholesterol is perhaps the most notorious biological molecule of all. To many people, cholesterol is simply a synonym for heart attack, stroke, or cardiovascular disease because..."
IndyCar driver Charlie Kimball joins us in the podcast to talk about the special sports medicine needs of an IndyCar driver as well as his special physiological needs. Charlie is the first elite racing driver to race with Type 1 Diabetes and it is incredibly interesting to hear how his team (and IndyCar) handles his condition.
Check out the article this week, "I WANT TO PUMP YOU UP! But I will need a major credit card this week and you will need to take 167 supplements a day!" by David Ferguson. I am always amazed at the flavor of the moment products in health and fitness. I am sure we are all familiar with the shake weight, six minute abs, and Tae Bo. Truth is some of these infomercial products do offer a health benefit while others do little for you...
Has Exercise Science / Sports Medicine changed? Yes - and in ways that many did not foresee. One of the Fathers of Modern Exercise Science - Dr. Ed Howley - joins us in the podcast today to talk about where we've been and where we're going in Sports Medicine.
New article up today!! Check it out! "Cholesterol Can Be Good. Really," by Teak Lee. What's the first thought that comes to mind when the word "cholesterol" is mentioned? More often than not, it's probably going to be negative. This is probably due to the bad reputation that cholesterol has gained because of its involvement in conditions such as cardiovascular disease. However...
Dr. Jay Williams from Virginia Tech joins us in the podcast today to talk about using social media to translate sports medicine to the public, especially in the area of soccer. Jay actually works in the area of molecular biology and sports and in the last few years has really been working to make Sports Science understandable to the public. So join us for this fun conversation!
Check out the new article! "How Long Can You Go? Training the Endurance Athlete" by David Ferguson. Have you ever watched a marathon and wondered how individuals can run for over 26 miles? Have you ever wanted to be the one who runs for 26 miles? Do you find yourself saying that you can't run for 26 miles because you don't know how?
This weeks article is about Vitamin D and Exercise by Nina Laidlaw Rumler. Headlines about vitamin D abound. Is it as good as they say? How does it impact exercise and athletes?
We're into the second month of 2012 and many people are rethinking their New Year's resolution to lose weight. Our podcast today is a delightfully frank conversation with Ms. Faith A. Lightfoot, President of Lighten The Load and an expert on weight loss and healthy living in women and children. This is a hard-hitting conversation that highlights the difficulties of maintaining healthy weight in our modern society.
Its article Wednesday! That means we have a new article up! "Im an athlete, i do not have heart problems!" by David Ferguson. In today's sporting environment, great importance is placed on the health education of the athlete. This includes proper nutrition instruction, health assessment, and the application of proper treatments and rehabilitation modalities to injured athletes. However...
The speaker line-up for the 2012 Huffines Discussion (March 23, 2012) is announced!.
In the past few months, there have been several football players that have collapsed and died away from the field. So how much risk do these athletes have for sudden death? Dr. Stephen Crouse, an expert in athletic medical screen joins us in the podcast today to talk about what we know about athletic sudden death and the real risk to athletes. This is a great podcast, especially if you are an athlete or have a child participating in sports.
Check out our new weekly article! "PPAR-Delta, The New Potential Treatment for Metabolic Syndrome, may be Produced by Your Own Body", by Vince Chen! Metabolic syndrome, a condition including insulin resistance (causing diabetes), obesity, hyperlipidemia (high blood lipids), hypertension, and heart disease, is mainly due to high fat diets and lack of physical activity. It has become a major health concern in modern society...
We've got something different for you this week in the podcast that we think you'll enjoy. Our friends over at EscapePod.org are allowing us to broadcast one of their episodes - Fuel by Matthew Rotundo - that dealt with the future of athletic performance enhancement. This is a great episode to generate conversation about the future of performance and what we will allow as a society.
It's that time again!!! Check out our new article, "Bittersweet Sarcopenia," by Nina Laidlaw Rumler. You might not have heard of sarcopenia, but it touches everyone – everyone who lives long enough to undergo this normal physiological process. A lessening of muscle mass and function, its cumulative effect is becoming a significant public health concern.
It's the New Year and we start with Dr. Pat Goodson joining us in the studio. Dr. Goodson is a writing expert and leads us in a discussion about what is the 'scientific literature'. Why do we trust the scientific literature and why is it important for us to know about it? If you want to be able to figure out what is true or not in sports science, this is a fun conversation and one that will make you think.
It's a special holiday podcast with Sports Illustrated writer David Epstein. We have two firsts in this podcast: our first three-time guest, and our first podcast live from Doha, Qatar. We talk with David about Ryan Braun doping, Colt McCoy's concussion, and what he's doing in Qatar for Sports Illustrated. It's our holiday podcast - the elves had fun putting this one together!
Check out our new weekly article, "Down-Side of Being a Female Athlete," by Greeshma Prabhu. Several decades ago, the US Government passed the Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which eliminated sex discrimination in any education program or activity receiving Federal aid. This law led to a rise in the female participation in sports over time, up to more than 150,000 women playing sports today...
Hall of Fame Golf Coach Bob Ellis joins us today to talk about golf and the role of golf in your life...
Check out the article this week, "Caffeine: Friend or Foe?" by Steve Bui. Oh, glorious caffeine, one of man's best friends! For typical college students and other active individuals, it is a commonly required form of nourishment for any function before 10:00 AM. While we all know the basic immediate effects of caffeine (decreased fatigue, increased energy, and decreased appetite), it might be interesting to look at how that cup of coffee might affect other parts of your day.
Dr. Charlie Shea, expert in figuring out how we move and coordinate our movements, joins us today in the podcast. We have fun talking about sport, music, and everyday movement and how our brain coordinates all of that movement.
Check out our new article, "A Little Fish Oil Can Go a Long Way," by Justin Dobson. Inflammation is a natural response to stress put on the body. It is the first step in the body's healing process, ....
It's our 50th Podcast Celebration! We're lucky to have as a special guest Dr. Larry Kenney, Professor from the Noll Laboratory at Penn State University. Dr. Kenney is an eminent Exercise Scientist that has spent most of his career looking at why aging hinders our ability to handle heat. Join us for this fun, entertaining conversation.
We have another great weekly article, "Special Issues of Social Responsibility," by Kwame J.A. Agyemang! For quite some time, businesses and large corporations have used corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a management strategy for day-to-day operations. In summary, CSR offers a template for the way corporations should conduct business (e.g., their economic, legal, ethical, and discretionary responsibilities to society).
Check out our new article "To Drink (Your Energy), or not to Drink...That is the Question, by Faith Lightfoot. With the introduction of Redbull to the United States in 1997, many athletes started consuming these drinks for additional energy and a reduction of fatigue. However,...
We've got Dr. Ross Tucker, from the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa in the podcast today. Ross is currently on the management team of the South African National Sevens team (you'll have to listen to find out what Sevens is), is one of the most astute and well-spoken young Exercise Physiologists in the world, and has been heavily involved in the debate about whether Oscar Pistorius should be allowed to compete against able-body track athletes. If nothing else, tune in for the discussion of the Pistorius case for an illustration of how politics, science, and the judicial system sometimes intersect to the detriment of truth.
Another new article! Check out "The Power of Antioxidant Supplementation: Hype or Help?" by Majid Koozehchian.In our bodies, oxygen constantly produces toxic substances called reactive oxygen species (ROS), also known as oxidants. Antioxidants, biomolecules that combat oxidant damage, are produced by the body and can also be taken in supplement form.
We've got a great podcast with Mr. Adam Davis who is the Strength and Conditioning Coach for Stewart-Haas Racing, the parent company of the race teams of Tony Stewart and Ryan Newman in NASCAR's Spring Cup Championship Series. We talk about strength training of pit crew athletes...
We have a new article up today! Go check out "Like a Fine Wine: Do athletes Get Better With Age?" by David Ferguson. We have all heard the late night talk show hosts joke about an athlete's inability to retire. In fact, there seems to be a consensus that once an athlete reaches a certain age, he should retire from the sport...
Dr. John Buchanan joins us in the studio today for our podcast and chats about his work with basic perceptual processes. Dr. Buchanan works to understand how we balance and move through space and how our brains perceive and track that movement. This is a great talk on an emerging area of research that may have significant impact for many patient populations.
New article up! Check out this weeks article, "Eating disorders in Athletes," by Faith Lightfoot! This article builds upon last weeks article about the female athlete triad. What do gymnasts Kathy Johnson, Nadia Comaneci and Cathy Rigby have in common?
Today we are pleased to have Dr. Noah Dean from Texas Lutheran University join us in the podcast. Noah has made a mission of exposing and educating the public about quacks and fraudulent health products that are on the market. This is a fun conversation and greatly needed in today's consumer society. We also talk about Noah's experience as a stuntman on Friday Night Lights.
We have a new article up! Be sure to check out this weeks article, "The Female Athlete Triad: The Importance of Energy," by Kaleigh Camp! The American College of Sports Medicine refers to the female athlete triad as the interrelationships among energy availability, menstrual function, and bone mineral density. The new Triad model has each component of the female athlete triad on a continuous spectrum. These spectrums range from a healthy state to clinical outcomes of disease, which including eating disorders, amenorrhea (absence of a menstrual period for 3 or more months), and osteoporosis...
Our Huffines' Discussion Scholars video podcasts wrap-up today with a
from Dr. and Astronaut Richard Linnehan, who talks about "Living, Working & Exercising in Space: An Astronaut's Perspective". This is a great talk that shows some of the stresses on astronauts as they complete their space missions.
We've started putting up text articles to help answer general questions that we get. One of our first articles was written by Emily Schmitt and is titled "Is GU for You?" Researchers have studied diet manipulation for years in relation to delaying the onset of fatigue, and these studies have resulted in mixed conclusions. Scientific publications conclude...
Join us as Dr. Dave Wright from Texas A&M visits the podcast studio today. We have a great conversation about 'deliberate' practice and whether that helps performance or not. This is a hot topic right now in sports science and it's great that we've got Dr. Wright here to chat about it!
Today's video podcast is from Dr. Frank Booth, who talks about "Walk Away from Type 2 Diabetes". This is an engaging talk from one of the preeminent Exercise Physiologists in the World and presents an easy to understand plan for dealing with Type 2 Diabetes.
Join us today for a historic podcast with Mr. Jim Whitehead, Executive Vice President and CEO of the American College Sports Medicine, the world's largest professional organization devoted to Exercise and Sports Medicine. Jim chats with us about the recent historic United Nations Health Summitt (only the second health summitt ever held at the U.N.) that focused on diseases caused by lifestyle issues. A large topic at the UN Summitt was the recognition of the huge role that physical inactivity plays as an underlying cause of disease and death. Even if you are not interested in health policy, you should tune in this podcast to find out how you can influence health in your local area and in the world!
Today's video podcast is from 2011 Huffines Discussion Scholar, Dr. Steve Riechman, Texas A&M University, who talks about "Eat More Cholesterol for Your Health and Strength". This is a great talk that may challenge many of the beliefs you may have about cholesterol.
In today's podcast, we talk to Dr. Lee Brown from the Univ. of California Fullerton about isokinetic resistance training. We also cover whole body vibration and the role the National Strength and Conditioning Association plays in guaranteeing that your personal trainer knows what they are doing.
Join us this week for a great video podcast by Mr. Kevin Hughes - Comic Extraordinaire. Kevin has a great take on health and wellness and is an end-user of what we do as sports scientists. He's got a great perspective and is fun to listen to (plus, check out his bio - Comic of the year several times!).
Our awareness of the prevalence of concussions in sports is increasing....Join us today as we chat with one of leading experts in rehabilitating athletes after concussion, Dr. Mickey Collins from the University of Pittsburgh. It is a great conversation and one that all of us need to hear.
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I find it coincidental that yesterday, Adam Roberts asked the question "are food blogs over?", during the same time I've been trying to figure out the role of the individual blogger and their relationships with their readers. The two points are intertwined, in my point of view, as there seems to be something of a innovation vacuum in the food blogging, and a fundamental misunderstanding of what blogging "is".
It needs to be stated that this last point is strictly my opinion, but it's based on an idea that was reinforced by my shaping beliefs about writing, as well as a post from Terrible Minds entitled 25 Lies writers tell (and start to believe). I was particularly struck by #9:
"I write only for me!"
Then don't write. Sorry to be a hard-ass (ha ha, of course I'm not), but writing is an act of communicating. It's an argument. It's a conversation. (And yes, it's entertainment.) And that necessitates at least one other person on the other end of this metaphorical phone call. You want to do something for yourself, eat a cheeseburger, buy an air conditioner, take a nap. Telling stories is an act we perform for others.
For the longest time, I've said that you only need one thing to blog - to know why you're blogging. Everything else will fall out of that. But my assertion had an aspect that I didn't take into account – the audience. I was blogging, at first as a place where I could store items I could use for larger writing projects, then I was blogging as a means to communicate some of the most egregious behaviors of food companies, and then I was blogging as a way to either distract myself from, or, at times, highlight aspects of my larger writing projects. Not once did I take the role of the reader into account. Unknowingly, my own reasons for writing had backed me into a corner.
If a writer, blogging or otherwise, needs an audience – and we all do, or else what's the point - then the writer should look at the relationship between themselves and their audience. That relationship can be looked at in a multitude of ways, and can manifest itself in ways from loving, to hateful, to everything in between. Regardless of how it manifests itself, the relationship between a writer and their audience is a power dynamic. The writer has the ability to influence that dynamic through words, and establish the relationship with their readers based off of differing levels of charisma, knowledge and expertise, writing skills, celebrity, and power of persuasion. The writer, by definition, dictates the relationship, although the readers can shape it as well through a variety of methods.
A long time ago, I made a decision to base my writing on knowledge and, later, expertise. This was a conscious decision made from the simple, controversial opinion that I believe that writers, when communicating to/at their audience, should know what the hell they are talking about.
(Side Note: This is power dynamic is clearly on display in both of my books, but from the opposite side of the coin. Both books start with someone at the start of the book lacking knowledge (Krysta in 99 Drams, and myself in Sweet Tooth), and then using history's narrative to fill us in on the details of the relevant subject. The idea was to give the reader an avatar-of-sorts to which they can share the experience and keep them engaged in the book. How effective I was at that is up for debate.)
When it comes to food blogs – heck, blogging in general – such consideration of the power dynamic between reader and writer never occurs. The result is that we have blogs out there where the writer is talking at their reader, rather than with them, and their authority comes only from the skill of their writing and "loudness of their bullhorn".
The "loudness of their bullhorn" needs some explanation. It's nothing more than a metaphor, really, with the bullhorn being the medium in which the writing is conveyed, and its loudness being the amount of readers that come to the site. The Huffington Post or Eater.com both have a louder bullhorn than mine here at Accidental Hedonist. This would change if I had more everyday readers than either of these two sites. However to do that, I would have to sacrifice some things very dear to me, like sleep, and some aspects of my personal ethics.
Authority and power dynamics are weird, intangible variables that are very rarely considered when someone starts a blog. When everyone has access to tools that allows them to have a bullhorn, then what distinguishes one person with a bullhorn from another? Some use technology to gather more hits on their sites – this is where SEO and publicity and marketing come into play. To extend the metaphor further, this tactic is little more than turning up the volume on the bullhorn. The risk with this tactic is that if your loudness is the only arrow in your quiver, then eventually you will come across as shrill and/or vapid.
No, writing has to be more than the size of the readership. Quality of the writing needs to come through at some point. Now quality means different things to different people. For some, as long as the content created by the writer is entertaining, that's enough. For others it's being informative, and still others it's grammar and spelling. It's in this aspect that a good writer will consider many of these variables and address them to one degree or another. In my experience, the less variables considered, the less chance the writing has of being any good.
I could go on about this all day. But my point here is that good writing and good blogging comes down to how well the writer considers their role in the power dynamic they have with the reader. If all the writer is considering is how well their food looks on their screen, or how to shape their posts to get the most readership exposure, or how many posts they have to make in a given day to please their editor, then the trust they have with the readers is minimal to non-existent. Good writing comes from somewhere else. If blogs, and by extension food blogs, want to break out of their stasis, they need to find ways where they are communicating with their readers, not communicating at them. Because if they don't, then they are doing little more than adding irrelevant data to the fire hose that is Internet.
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Jordan McLaughlin, a 6-foot-1 guard out of Etiwanda (Calif.) High, committed to USC during an official visit this past weekend. He picked USC over interest from UCLA, Kansas and Indiana.
Since getting hired at USC, Enfield made McLaughlin a priority. USC assistant Tony Bland has a long-standing relationship with McLaughlin that dates back to his days when he was an assistant at San Diego State.
McLaughlin's travel team coach Cameron Murray, of Prodigy Elite, confirmed the news to Scout.com.
"I think his comfort level with the assistant coaches really sealed the deal," Murray told Scout.com. "Tony Bland recruited him really hard at San Diego State and throughout his recruiting process San Diego State was in his top 5 the whole time."
"When Tony headed to USC, it was even closer to J-Mac's home," he added. It made it an easier transition. It opened the door at USC and they weren't in the top five until Tony made the move."
Murray said McLaughlin liked the idea of playing his college basketball close to home.
"He's a very family oriented kid and a very quiet kid," McLaughlin said. "He had an opportunity to go on his visit and go hang out with the team, but he chose to go watch a movie with Tony Bland. He's a basketball kid at heart."
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On June 16, 2009, Governor Perry signed a bill into law that recognizes the third week in October as Texas Native Plant Week. The legislation seeks to recognize the role of native plants in conservation efforts and to create incentive for schools to teach children about the importance of native plants. The Native Plant Society of Texas teamed with State Rep. Donna Howard of Austin to present the bill, which was passed unanimously in both houses.
To mark the annual Texas Native Plant Week, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center of The University of Texas at Austin, the National Wildlife Federation, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Native Plant Society of Texas are encouraging the public to learn more about our amazing Texas native plants.
Wildflower Center Activities:When: October 23, 2013, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Where: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
What: Native Plants of Central Texas Walk & Talk with Andrea DeLong-Amaya
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6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Native Plants of Central Texas Talk (Auditorium)
"Lady Bird Johnson was determined to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that are necessary for healthy ecosystems, and that give each region of our country its unique identity," said Susan Rieff, director of the Wildflower Center. "We're honored to be participating in Texas Native Plant Week and to be providing online information for the week's web site that allows the public to consider iconic Texas plant options for their own backyards as well as larger landscapes."
Celebrate Texas Native Plant Week this October by learning more about native, drought tolerant plants that provide vitality to yards even during summer and winter drought conditions.
Below is a list of native plants that grow well in Austin and volunteer opportunities during the awareness week. For more information on statewide efforts go to http://txnativeplantweek.org/
Learn more about Native Plant Week on the City of Austin's Website
Help count Austin-area trees as part of the Great Austin Tree Roundup
Below are samples of native plants appropriate for Austin. To learn about other options, go to http://www.wildflower.org/explore/, where you can find photos and information on thousands of native plants, answers to thousands of questions the public has asked about them, and more.
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Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) – part sun or shade; great fall color, sometimes mistaken for poison ivy but is completely harmless to humans.
Coral Honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) – roots in shade, foliage in sun, part sun; can creep along the ground or climb a trellis, twines without suckering.
Blue Mistflower (Conoclinium, formerly Eupatorium) – sun, part shade; spreads quickly.
Tropical Sage (Salvia coccinnea) - part shade, shade; sow by seed and mow to 4-6 inches
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Esperanza / Yellow Bells (Tecoma stans) - extreme sun, sun, or part shade.
Blue Mistflower (Conoclinium, formerly Eupatorium) – sun, part shade; spreads quickly.
Tropical Sage (Salvia coccinnea) - part shade, shade; sow by seed and mow to 4-6 inches.
Pigeonberry (Rivina humilis) - shade, part shade; blooms and berries at the same time
Turk's Cap (Malvaviscus drummondii) – shade; trim back in the late winter, hummingbirds love it!
Esperanza / Yellow Bells (Tecoma stans) – extreme sun, sun, or part shade; cut back in late winter for a nice show every year.
Autumn Sage (Salvia greggii) – part shade.
Evergreen Sumac (Rhus virens) - sun, part shade, shade; Great for yards with lots of limestone and not much soil.
Flame Acanthus (Anisacanthus quadrifidis wrightii) – extreme sun, sun, sometimes part shade; Late bloomer, hummingbirds love it. It can spread aggressively.
Aromatic sumac (Rhus aromatica) – sun, part shade; Beautiful and shapely shrub with pretty red berries.
Live Oak/Plateau Live Oak (Quercus fusiformis)
Cedar Elm (Ulmus crassifolia)
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Dustin Tucker as the much-put-upon elf Crumpet in the Portland Stage Company production of "The Santaland Diaries," continuing through Dec. 16.
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"In the Woods," 1860 oil on canvas by William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905), from "We Never See Anything Clearly: John Ruskin and Landscape Painting," through Dec. 23 at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
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"Carols in the Round," with the Mount View Chamber Singers, United Church of Christ, Bath. Free/donation. 242-2581. 7 p.m. Tuesday.
"Joyous Sounds for a Festive Season," with the USM Chamber Singers, Williston-Immanuel United Church, Portland. $9. usm.maine.edu/music. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Portland Conservatory of Music Noonday Concert, with the Karger Scholars Chamber Group, First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, Portland. Free. 775-3356. 12:15 p.m. Nov. 29.
Maine State Ballet: "The Nutcracker," featuring a cast of almost 300 dancers and live music by the Maine State Ballet Orchestra, Merrill Auditorium, Portland. $20 to $60. porttix.com. 2 and 7 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. Through Dec. 2.
"The Nutcracker," presented by Sanford Maine Stage, Nasson Little Theater, Springvale. $12; $10 for seniors, students and children ages 12 and younger. sanfordmainestage.com. 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday; 7:30 p.m. Nov. 29. Through Dec. 9.
Royal Ballet's "Swan Lake," live in HD broadcoast from the Royal Opera House, Lincoln Theater, Damariscotta. $15; $5 for ages 18 and under. atthelincoln.org. 2 p.m. Sunday.
"Striking 12," Good Theater production of fun holiday musical, St. Lawrence Arts Center, Portland. $20 to $30. goodtheater.com. 7:30 p.m. Friday; 3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 2 and 5 p.m. Sunday; 7 p.m. Wednesday (sold out) and Nov. 29 (sold out). Through Dec. 9.
"The Santaland Diaries," David Sedaris holiday comedy for mature audiences; discounts available for groups of 10 or more; Portland Stage Company (Studio Theater), Portland. $24; $20 for students. portlandstage.org. 7:30 p.m. Friday; 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 2:30 and 5:30 p.m. Sunday; 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to Nov. 29. Through Dec. 16.
Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie," drama, University of Southern Maine (Russell Hall), Gorham. $15; $11 for seniors; $8 for students. usm.maine.edu/theatre. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday; 5 p.m. Wednesday; 7:30 p.m. Nov. 29. Through Dec. 2.
"This Wonderful Life," one-person adaptation of Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" presented by Theater at Monmouth, Cumston Hall, Monmouth. $26; $24 for seniors; $20 for students. theateratmonmouth.org. Previews at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 29; opens Nov. 30. Through Dec. 9.
Portland Museum of Art: "Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine," works by Homer created at his Prouts Neck studio in conjunction with re-opening of restored studio for public tours, and "Art in Process," high school art exhibition, through Dec. 30; "The Portland Society of Art and Winslow Homer in Maine," 50 watercolors and drawings examine the relationship between Homer, architect John Calvin Stevens and the Portland Society of Art, through Feb. 3; "Between Past and Present: The Homer Studio Photographic Project," contemporary photography made with a variety of historic processes, through Feb. 17. portlandmuseum.org
Maine Historical Society Museum/Longfellow House, Portland: "Wired!" explores the electrification of Maine during the 20th century, through May 26. mainehistory.org
Maine Museum of Photographic Arts, USM Glickman Library, Portland: Luc Demers, "Trace," photographs, and Richard Veit, photographs, through Dec. 21. usm.maine.edu/library
Maine Jewish Museum, Portland: "Isaac Bashevis Singer and His Artists," photography, painting, graphic design, wood-block prints and illustrated books, through Nov. 30. treeoflifemuseum.org
Museum of African Culture, Portland: "The Incarnation of Earthly Creations," Haitian art, through Jan. 30. museumafricanculture.org
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick: "Making a Presence: F. Holland Day in Artistic Photography," photographs by and of F. Holland Day (1864-1933) and "We Never See Anything Clearly: John Ruskin and Landscape Painting," paintings from 1840s to 1870s, through Dec. 23; "Fantastic Stories: The Supernatural in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Prints," through March 3; "In Printmaking ABC," master prints in memoriam of Bowdoin alumnus David P. Becker, through March 10. bowdoin.edu/art-museum
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The dichotomy between the amazingly low cost of very sophisticated auto racing sims and the relatively exorbitant cost of a quality force feedback steering wheel never ceases to amaze me, but even so I was somewhat taken aback by the sticker price on Thrustmaster's new top-shelf offering, the T500RS. With a street price of over $550, a prospective buyer can be forgiven for a raised eyebrow or two. It doesn't take a great deal of research into the build quality of the unit to understand the elements that contribute to such a lofty price, though. In fact, simply hefting the package that it comes in and feeling the weight of the wheel/pedals set will offer an obvious clue as to the high quality materials that go into the construction of the top-of-the-line model.
While crafted to offer the most realistic racing experience possible for the PlayStation's Gran Turismo 5, the T500RS will also work quite well when attached to a PC. In fact, that is how this reviewer put it through its paces. Note that it is not completely a plug-and-play operation, though - the required drivers must be retrieved from Thrustmaster's support
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which, in my experience, required a little bit of searching. That comes later; the first step is to unpack everything from the robust box and fitted Styrofoam that protects the goods during shipping. As can be seen in the accompanying photos, the physical size of the thing is somewhat larger than my favorite unit of measure for size, a fifth of single single malt scotch, and nearly as heavy as my least favorite measure of weight, a tub of clumping cat litter.
It takes awhile to remove all of the plastic bagging material, but it's worth the wait as anticipation builds before you can get your first unobstructed view of the wheel and pedals; your first intuition that this was going to be a veritable work of art is proven correct the moment you get a good look at the metal accelerator, brake, and clutch pedals. The soft, comfortable wrapper on the full-size 12" steering wheel and the solid click of the base-mounted paddle shifters also offer up the unmistakable emanation of solid and careful craftsmanship.
A quick tour of the steering unit will show the obvious focus on the PlayStation as the primary purpose for the T500RS as all of the buttons normally expected to be found on a PlayStation controller will be readily apparent, but it is the pedals that will most likely draw your attention with their intricate detail. The pedal faces have nine countersunk screw holes and are held onto the control arms with two hex head screws each. As we will see later, the extra holes provide a degree of adjustability for the position of the pedals. The control arms appear to be cast aluminum, although their lattice structure gives the visual impression of having been milled from billet which gives them a high-end machined look.
You won't be able to look too long before the silent siren beckoning of "drive with me" has you racing to get the steering wheel mounted, the pedals positioned, and the USB and power cords plugged into appropriate receptacles. As noted before, if you are going to be using this rig on a PC, you have a little more work to do with gathering the drivers from the support section of Thrustmaster's website. This operation is, in theory, quite simple, but for reasons involving a fat, lazy cat that likes to lounge around the PC's warm exhaust fan and the cord of the USB hub having been knocked partially out of the socket, it was a frustrating, infuriating, and curse word-driven twenty minutes in my case. On the PS3 side, as long as GT5 is the game of choice, it should be a completely painless operation.
It is important to note that the motive force behind the force feedback in this wheel is a hefty 65 watt, 3000 rpm industrial motor. In other words, this unit must be securely mounted to a substantial supporting surface. The included mount is hefty and certainly up to the task, but it is incumbent upon the user to ensure that the mounting surface is also sturdy enough to support the relatively massive torque of this thing. I mounted it to an old 50's era metal desk that was clearly designed back in the Cold War days of duck & cover (primary purpose: office work, secondary purpose: bomb shelter) and was still surprised when the entire 200+ pound desk would shake during my not uncommon forays across rough ground while racing.
The pedal unit is heavy and one would think that there would be no tendency for it to slide on the floor, but as is desirable and appropriate, there is quite a bit of back force on the brake pedal. This could potentially cause the entire unit to slide under heavy (read: panic) braking, but that was not a problem in my case because the tall vertical back of the pedal unit pressed conveniently against the back of the foot well area of my desk.
The driving qualities of the T500RS are just as superb as one would expect, although there were a couple of irritations encountered. Before getting to those, however, there are some very positive aspects to be mentioned. First, this wheel has a full 1,080 degrees of motion. While I can't personally think of any single auto racing genre where you want the steering throw of a Mack truck, it's nice to know that it's there if you need it. If you don't, which is probably the 99.999% case, it is a simple matter to adjust it in the controller properties. This is just one area in which the massive torque of the motor is beneficial; it is an electrical stop that limits the rotation of the wheel and while you can over power the stops if you really want no, it won't be so easy to do so that the stops are ineffective.
Also of note is the incredible sensitivity of the wheel. At least with regards to the PC, you can safely configure all steering dead zones in the game's settings to zero degrees. This is at least partially due to the Hall Effect sensors that Thrustmasters uses in their high-end controllers, along with the 16-bit resolution. The strong motor provides enough centering force to keep you from over controlling down long straights. Also, the twin belt-drive force feedback doesn't have the notchy feeling one gets with a gear-driven system. The two most salient keywords for driving with this wheel are "smooth" and "powerful." The pedals too have a smooth, precise feel to them, and provide sufficient resistance to allow for the exacting control required for high-fidelity racing sims.
The setup, while having been designed to be marketed specifically for GT5, allows for a solid amount of adjustment, at least when it comes to the pedals. The most striking feature is the ability to shift from having the pedals pivot at the base (F1-style) to having them pivot from above (GT-style). It's not a simple matter to make the change as it involves removing and replacing a quartet of small nuts and bolts (a hex head tool is provided, but you'll need your own tool to hold the tiny little nuts) so you might find it burdensome if you want to be able to change back and forth often, but for occasional reconfigurations it's not too bad. A hex head tool is also provided for removing the screws that hold the pedal faces onto the upright control arms. This allows for the repositioning of each pedal up, down, left, right, and tilt. This is no small thing for racers that want to get the brake and accelerator pedals positioned for realistic heel/toe braking. Working in the other direction, this adjustability allows left-foot brakers to get sufficient space between the same two pedals. The resistance of the brake pedal can also be adjusted either by adjusting its throw, or by adding an additional mod assembly that not only shortens the throw by about half but also adds an additional spring.
The wheel unit as it comes out of the box does not allow for any customization, but the wheel itself is detachable. This allows the standard 12" wheel to be replaced with an alternative
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, also available from Thrustmaster. This is a good thing for open-wheel racers because the 12" wheel is far too large for that type of racing. There are two rather unfortunate side effects of this flexibility, though. The first is the cost of the F1 wheel which is priced at $200. The second is worse because you pay for it even if you don't opt for an alternative wheel: a design decision that arose from making the wheel removable is that the paddle shifters are not attached to the wheel; rather, they are affixed to the wheel base. This means that they don't turn with the wheel, which can be irritating for racers that have been using something like a Logitech G25 or G27. In the brief time that I used the T500RS, I never got used to not being able to grab a gear at the apex of a turn without having to fish around for a paddle. Of course, I never really got used to the 12" wheel, either, although I suspect both would have become natural with time. The discomfort of the paddle shifter could have been alleviated if, as with the Logitech units, a separate gated shifter had been included, but alas, that too is an additional purchase. At around $150, this is no small omission.
Stepping back and taking a marketing view of all this, it would appear that Thrustmasters has ceded the middle ground to the Logitech wheels. I would have to say that this is a sensible decision given the G27's existing and potentially insurmountable lead in this segment. The T500RS and its ancillary accouterments are designed, constructed, and (unfortunately for most of us), priced to provide a step up from the middle-tier products. While they perform the same functions as their lower-cost brethren, they do those things better and will be able to do them longer. The Hall Effect sensors will not wear out in the way that mechanical contacts will, the belt-drive system is smoother and more reliable than plastic gears, and the adjustability of the rig will support multiple racing genres. For those with the need and/or the means, the T500RS and its optional accessories should provide years of excellent performance.
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Beautiful Sarah!
The most important wall in the house!
Thanks for sharing this!
Your photos are beautifully done!
Love you,
Mom, XO
Beautiful! I love photo walls! Of course, there's not one wall around here that isn't covered, but I manage to find a way to add more. :) Have a great rest of the week. Tammy
I love this. The vinyl quote makes it 10x better. I've always wanted to do a collage wall but could never find the perfect space for it.
THAT IS AMAZING! Is that a vinyl quote on the wall? I love that! :)
Lauren @ tickled.
That is so sweet Sarah....thanks for sharing it.
Take care,
Love the photo wall! Especially the paint color?
Any idea of what it is called and who makes it?
Wow Sarah this is absolutely stunning! You've done a beautiful job. I'd be thrilled to have you link this to my VIP party today! http://designergarden.blogspot.com/2011/04/vip-party-10.html
To Anonymous...
the paint color is Metallic Bronze.
It's from a Ralph Lauren line at the Home Depot and it's no longer carried here in Canada. Maybe in the states? good luck :)
This is *beautiful*
Love it--
aaawww.. Beautiful!! This post is simply priceless.. its gorgeous! love the colour of the frames.. and how well they blend into the colours of the wall.. This wall .. filled with character is a true treasure!! :-)
The gallery wall is just beautiful! Im hoping to do one in the future. Ive just started to follow ur blog, so im gonna go explore......Ur children are beautiful.......Bonnie
Beautiful wall! I love the quote. I'm your newest follower!
Laurie :)
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Congratulations, your family wall was featured on this week's top hits @singingwithbirds. Come check it out, grab a button if you'd like, and thanks for a fabulous post. I'm begging my kids for a family wall :D
Love that..I seen your feature on Under the Table and Dreaming....
I'm a new follower here, FB and Twitter..Can't wait to check your cute blog out!
Love this wall! Such a special and eye appeasing way to treasure family. I think it's a perfect gift to ask for from your parents too...I love 'designed' walls that are full of special memories!
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So beautiful!
Just featured this over on my blog- gingersnapcrafts.blogspot.com :)
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Magnifique ! Love it !
Love the family wall. Thanks for posting such great pictures and sharing the idea with us.
I was wondering what the picture right under the quote says. Thanks!!
I found your blog post through a link on Pinterest. This is just beautiful. I started a "Family" collage photo wall in our new home 2 1/2 years ago. My husband buys a new black collage frame each Christmas & birthday. I so enjoy filling them with wonderful candid shots of our family. I love this wall saying and am on my way to hopefully find one like it on Etsy. It will be the perfect addition. Thanks to you and your parents for sharing their beauiful wall!
What a fantastic idea. After we had our house painted, about six months ago, I held off on hanging our photos back up. I guess I was waiting to find this, thank you for sharing.
My Cousin-in-law makes the letters out of everyday objects. Did you get them from http://www.lettersredefined.com/ ?
this is beautiful. I am a new follower from Pinterest. I love the color of the wall.
I just found this on pintrest, I love this. It looks like my wall, but yours is WAY better, YOU have inspired me to make it beautiful like yours! ~ Sarah
OMG I love this wall, I am so gathering my supplies as I speak. Can you tell me what size of vinyl lettering this is done in?
Thanks, Lisa
OMG I love this wall, I am so gathering my supplies as I speak. Can you tell me what size of vinyl lettering this is done in?
Thanks, Lisa
Saw your photo of your family wsll on Pinterest. Was trying to figure out how to do my stairwell and just wanted to say thanks for the inspiration!!
This is amazing! I literally just worked on my hallway this afternoon and ended up loving (and then hating) it. I used the 3M picture hanging strips (bc I have old plaster walls) and within an hour, pictures were bouncing off the walls. What did your parents use to hang their photos?
I can't seem to find the paint color anywhere. Ralph Lauren website does not have that paint color listed?
Love this!! Thank you for sharing!!
Love this so much!!!! The color is fantastic!!! Do mind if I ask what other colors your parents have incorporated into their house? I am trying to figure out colors for our home. Thank you!!!! ;)
I saw this on pinterest... and really love it. But I also love the color your parents painted the room. Can you send me an email with the color....firstname.lastname@example.com
Beautiful wall! Thanks for sharing! Saw on pinterest!
Beautiful wall, thanks for sharing and inspiring me.
I love your photo wall. I am searching for inspiration for a photo wall I am creating and yours is awesome. I just pinned it. Thanks.
Just beautiful! I have a stairwell "Wall Of Love", but am looking to consolidate my pictures (all black and white)...it's hard to do it tastefully, and girl, you did it! And I finally found the paint color!!! Hoping it flows with my Springfield Tan surrounding walls! Love love love it!!! ;)
Tina :)
This is so beautiful!! I have been looking for inspiration on how to display family photos. This is Perfect!! Could you tell me though what size frames did you use? And do they have any decorative to them or are they sleek?
Thankyou for sharing!!
I'm curious...what kind of ladder or scaffolding did you use to hang the pictures so high up?
This is just gorgeous!
I have been looking for examples just like this.
Where can I buy a Family decal please?
hey all! thanks for all the lovely comments above! if you have your email connected to your account, then you've already heard from me via email reply, if not...please feel free to email me at firstname.lastname@example.com with questions, but I've also added some info at the bottom of the post with paint colors & where to buy the vinyl saying. Hope this helps! thank you!!
Was the lettering that you did for your parents the larger ones...like the $36 ones. I would like to do the same thing at my house. Love it...thanks for sharing.
I just love this wall. I have been trying to think of a creative way to do a family tree going up the stairs but in way of painting an actual tree, yet I couldn't find any look that worked with my home decor. This wall, you have your family roots without the tree and it is beautiful. I really love this.
Thank you for sharing!! I just order the vinyl word art and cannot wait to put it up!! I really LOVE the way they displayed their photos!! It is beautiful!
I have a 15 foot wall to put this on .... wide and 14 ft high..... how big was yours? thanks for any help
Fantastic idea!!!
I love it,gotta do it!!!!!
love it ......what size vinyl lettering did you use?
I have a question about the size of the lettering. The link that you post shows it to be 12.5" x 26". Is this the size that you show? I have a big wall, very similar to your parents wall and want to make sure its big enough for the wall. I would like the "Family" to be 12.5" if possible. Can you give me some advise please. My email is firstname.lastname@example.com
Thank you,
I love this, and want to do it on my stairwell. With 3 kids but my husband is concerned about them knocking the frames off when they go up and down. Did your parents use any special hanging device?
This is really nice! Also just by these pictures I am convinced your parents have the same style house as the one I just bought! Could you post any more pics of the rest of their house?
Love, love, love this wall! My husband actually sells this paint, he works at a small hardware store that carries Ralph Lauren paint. And I never would have thought that I would want metallic paint, but I'm so in love with this wall and how well it goes with the black frames. I'd love to see the rest of the space for more decor inspiration!
I so love this. We already have picture similar near our staircase however nothing that popped out like this. Thanks so much. This will be my next project
Awesome! I have a two story foyer, very similar to your parents. I'm working on our wall going up the stairs and I have a few walls upstairs that you can see from the lower level. I guess I'm asking is there ever too much with photos?
Amazing..... I love it much..
Thank's to share your idea.
Is the link to the vinyl lettering you provided the same size your parents got? Theirs looks bigger than whats in the link.
i saw this through pintrest and LOVE IT!!! we have a stair similar going to the basement we are finishing - by any chance do you have any pics just a littlefurther back so you get the whole wall in it?? sounds weird but i was hoping to do the same thing. when you walk in our garage into the kitchen you see the stairs and i was hoping to make it pretty like you did :) great blog!
Love this idea. Thinking of where I can create one. Would also love to do one for the rabbits. www.rabbitsanctuary.com.au Each rescue rabbit to have a photo in a frame perhaps on a white wall. What an amazing achievement and thanks for sharing.
I Love it!
I love your wall.As a Grandmother I'm doing the same thing and I also tell my family I would prefer pictures for a gift. One other thing I did was put pictures of my children and their spouse during their younger years in a multiphoto frame. As their family grow I add their pictures. The grandkids get a kick looking at their parents and other family members at a young age.
I can't find the Ralph Lauren paint anywhere near my home. Does anyone know if a similar color is made by Glidden or Sherwin Williams?
I'm in love with this idea! I'm getting it done to our entryway!
"mint ágak a fán mindannyian különböző irányokban növekedhetnek még a gyökerek továbbra is egy"
:) gyönyörű
That is a wonderful family wall photo collection. My sister and I are planning to do this as well but we are still collecting old photos and retouching some of it.
Question, I want to do this in my stairway hall. How do you safely get that high? What kind of ladder if you have to set it on the stairs?
So much beautiful. Just have no enough words to appreciate.
Will srely share this photos with our art & framing readers, of course with citations.


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