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Oakland (60-72) at Los Angeles (80-51), Wed., 7:05 p.m. PT
ANAHEIM -- Dating to the start of their most recent string of contending teams (1999-2006), the A's have been known for their strong pitching more than anything else.Anchored for most of that run by Tim Hudson, Mark Mulder and Barry Zito, the starting rotation was rock-solid, and the bullpen frequently featured one of the game's top closers. The current and future rotation of the re-tooled A's is comprised of question marks, from the health of injured ace Justin Duchscherer to the relative youth and inexperience of Greg Smith, Sean Gallagher, Dana Eveland, Dallas Braden, Dan Meyer and Gio Gonzalez. And with 2005 American League Rookie of the Year Huston Street having fallen out of favor as the closer, that role is fairly up in the air as well. Brad Ziegler has it for now, but fellow rookie Joey Devine might be the long-term solution -- and Street figures to get a shot at winning his job back next spring if he isn't traded over the winter. After watching Braden, Devine and Ziegler handcuff his club Monday night in the opener of a three-game series at Angels Stadium, however, Halos skipper Mike Scioscia left the impression that he's not expecting Oakland's general manager Billy Beane's rebuilding process to take long. "They've pitched well all year," Scioscia said. "They've played us tough all year. Now they have that kid who has really come on as their closer, and they're getting outs late in the game. "They're going to be tough." Gonzalez, who was named the Triple-A Pacific Coast League's top left-handed starter Monday, gets the ball for his fifth career start Wednesday night in the series finale against the AL West leaders, providing the young lefty with another stiff test early in his career. He's also faced the AL East-leading Rays and the AL Central-leading White Sox since being called up from Triple-A Sacramento on Aug. 6. "Playing the best is always a good experience," A's manager Bob Geren said. "It seems like the past month or so, almost every team we've played has been in contention. ... That can only help a young player." Pitching matchup
OAK: LHP Gio Gonzalez (1-2, 6.52 ERA)
Gonzalez, who had been rocked by the White Sox in his previous outing, improved in his last start Friday against the Mariners. He gave up two earned runs in five innings and struck out seven on the way to a no-decision. Right-handed batters are hitting .283 against Gonzalez, but lefties are batting just .227. He has 18 strikeouts in his 19 1/3 career innings, none of them against the Angels. LAA: LHP Joe Saunders (14-6, 3.37 ERA)
Saunders seemed to unravel after three scoreless innings against the Twins last Friday, allowing a two-run homer to Delmon Young in the fourth and was unable to get out of the sixth. Saunders had given up nine hits and was charged with six earned runs, ending a string of 11 consecutive starts with three or fewer earned runs allowed. He didn't register a strikeout and hit one batter without a walk, never finding his customary command. Saunders is 2-0 with a 1.26 ERA against the A's this year in two starts and is 4-1 with a 4.02 ERA in seven lifetime outings. Dribblers ...
Right-handed reliever Keith Foulke, on the disabled list with a sore shoulder, threw in a simulated game with a twist Monday in Phoenix. "It was indoors," Geren said. "I guess they had a pretty good rain." Among the batters who faced Foulke, who threw 25 pitches in a pain-free session, was injured outfielder Ryan Sweeney (sprained right thumb). ... Mike Sweeney, on the DL while rehabbing his surgically repaired knees, went 0-for-3 as Sacramento's designated hitter on Monday, dropping his batting average on the rehab assignment to .083 (1-for-12). ... Gallagher, out with arm fatigue, made 40 throws at 120 feet in the outfield here Tuesday. He's eligible to come off the DL on Sept. 4. ... Duchscherer, who had a cortisone shot late last week in his hip, hasn't yet started throwing again and likely won't be back in the rotation until mid-September. ... The A's, who split a four-game set in Seattle over the weekend to snap an Oakland-record streak of 11 consecutive losing series, have won the opener in each of their past six series. They are 26-18 (.591 winning percentage) in series openers this year, 34-53 (.391) in all other games. ... The A's will host a Japanese Heritage Day on Saturday, Sept. 20. For each $30 Field Level Outfield ticket purchased for that day's 1:05 p.m. PT game against the visiting Mariners at McAfee Coliseum, $6 will be allocated to help Japanese and Japanese-American communities, youth baseball, Bay Area Parks and Recreation and local education. There will be a traditional sake barrel-breaking ceremony in the parking lot at 11:30 a.m., followed by cultural presentations on the field before the first pitch. Tickets
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Thursday: Athletics (Dana Eveland, 8-8, 4.30) vs. Twins (Nick Blackburn, 9-8, 3.78), 7:05 p.m. PT
Friday: Athletics (Dan Meyer, 0-2, 5.95) vs. Twins (Kevin Slowey, 10-8, 3.74), 7:05 p.m. PT
Saturday: Athletics (Dallas Braden, 4-3, 4.13) vs. Twins (TBD), 6:05 p.m. PT
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The Oregon Ducks and the UCLA Bruins battle it out in the inaugural Pac-12 Championship Game on Friday, Dec. 2, but what a wild finish to the regular season for that to happen. The Ducks were heavily favored entering the season to win the Pac-12, so the wild ride was really for the Bruins -- and that was only because the USC Trojans were ineligible for postseason play.
The Bruins were in a three-way competition with the Arizona St. Sun Devils and the Utah Utes, both 4-4 in conference play, for the Pac-12 South division title. UCLA needed Utah to lose to the Colorado Buffaloes to capture the division title because UCLA had beaten Arizona State earlier in the season. The Buffs did that, meaning that UCLA didn't even need to pull off an upset over the USC Trojans (UCLA lost, 50-0, and finished the regular season 6-6). With an upset over the Ducks, the Bruins lay claim to the Pac-12 automatic BCS bid, certainly an embarrassing situation for the system. A loss actually eliminates UCLA from bowl contention since they would have a losing record.
The Ducks, meanwhile, rebounded from an opening season loss to the No. 1 LSU Tigers to win nine straight games before USC upended the team's hopes of staying in the BCS National Championship Game picture. The Rose Bowl is on the line here, and Darron Thomas and LaMichael James are surely ready to clobber the Bruins.
For more on this game, visit UCLA blog Bruins Nation and Oregon blog Addicted To Quack. Head over to SB Nation NCAA Football for more on Championship Weekend.

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Texas taxpayers are shelling out about $30 million annually to drive the state's sick and poor to the doctor. It is big bucks and big business but is the state getting its money's worth? Some complain they are not getting what the doctor ordered.
A Georgia company called LogistiCare took over the North Texas Medicaid contract this past April. Since then, almost 6,000 complaints have been filed. Those complaints includes everything from missed appointments because of no-show drivers, to injured passengers even the legally blind being left behind.
Jimmie Walker loves his quiet life out in the country. But in recent months, life has been anything but peaceful.
"I just had a really bad feeling, I just didn't want to go that day," said Carol Stephens, Walker's 24-hour caregiver. "I noticed his eyes were red and blood shot."
Walker is recovering from a broken hip and complications from being a paraplegic and diabetic. He depends on LogistiCare to get him to his doctor's appointments. Back in August, Stephens complained Walker's wheelchair was not tied down and when the driver took a sharp turn, the chair flipped.
"I think I was in shock," said Walker. "I was scared half to death I hurt my hip again."
"I screamed Jimmy," said Carol Stephens. "I saw him falling. I said call 9-1-1 now!"
But Stephens says the driver did not call 9-1-1 but instead drove Walker to his appointment. Days later, photos show Walker's bruised and battered body.
"Of four limbs, he had one good limb and that's the limb they've damaged, his right arm," said Stephens.
Walker's complaint is one of thousands filed with LogistiCare.
Hubert Sullivan can barely get in and out of bed. He's had bypass surgery, knee replacement and is now battling cancer. He has complained of no-shows and on one trip he says the driver drove on the wrong side of the highway, not able to understand his concerns in English.
"This lady comes across the hill, starts flashing her lights and waving," Sullivan said. "No more."
And Gary Parrish has complained he was stranded at the doctor's office. He's diabetic and legally blind. He says he had to walk because no one showed up to drive him home.
"Instantly I went off. I can't believe this is happening to me," Parrish said. "Ten miles is about what I walked that day."
Since LogistiCare took over the 13 county North Texas contract, the complaints have been rolling in. There have been about 6,000 in the first 5½ months of the program. And that is what LogistiCare has turned over to the state because LogistiCare takes the complaints. Who is complaining? That is all confidential. The state will only turn over broad complaint categories with no names.
Here is how it breaks down. Drivers showed up late, 1,922 times, there were 1,535 times the driver didn't show up at all. That means some clients never made it to the doctor. And there were 1,120 complaints about the driver.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission oversees the roughly $30 million contract. The payments vary month to month because LogistiCare gets paid based on the number of Medicaid recipients eligible for rides, which means the company still gets paid the same even when trips are late or missed.
Stephanie Goodman is with Health and Human Services. She says that is the way the state wanted the contract.
"If they miss a trip, they risk a fine, which is a lot more than what they were getting paid for the trip," said Goodman. "We are really hard on our providers. We do not hesitate to fine them."
But Goodman admits the state has yet to fine LogistiCare even a dime for any incident since April and the state has no problem with LogistiCare self-reporting complaints.
"If they were not honest with those numbers, we are going to find that out," said Goodman.
"No, no. That is the fox guarding the hen house,"said Senator Jane Nelson. Nelson chairs the Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
"In private practice, if there was a company that just didn't show up 1,500 times, they would be out of business," said Nelson. "It is mind boggling to me that they are reporting that they did not show up on themselves 1500 times, so what is the real number?"
Fox 4 asked for an on camera interview with LogistiCare but the company said no. We were allowed to meet with a company representative but if we recorded it, LogistiCare said it "would require quote approval," if we used "any statements made by LogistiCare." Fox 4 would not agree to those terms. LogistiCare set the "ground rules: no filing whatsoever."
Off camera, the company representative told us LogistiCare makes 89,000 trips a month. It's complaint rate is about 1.2 percent. LogistiCare says that number is minuscule but still unacceptable. Nationwide the company says it has industry leading statistics. It calls these nearly 6,000 reports, transitional issue complaints and says the numbers are coming down each month.
Every week, I was having to call LogistiCare to complain, complain, complain," said Carol Stephens.
Stephens says she has been so vocal, the company now sends a bus service for Walker with lifts and drivers who carefully strap him in.
But she is wondering what happened to the complaint filed with LogistiCare. The company sent a letter promising to investigate. She has never heard back.
"My arm, you know, it hurts," said Jimmy Walker.
Walker says he has had to follow up with his doctor and says the taxpayers picked up the tab.
"I don't think they should pay for that guy turning me over in my wheelchair and hurting me," said Walker.
"LogistiCare should not be governing themselves," said Carol Stephens. " It does not matter if it is a poor person or a rich person, you don't deserve to be treated this way."
LogistiCare told Fox 4 it could not comment on any individual complaint but the state gave us copies of what LogistiCare reported.
In Walker's case, LogistiCare admitted the wheelchair tipped over but reported that Walker was fine and Carol Stephens never mentioned she was injured. Walker and Stephens say that is not true.
LogistiCare reported that Gary Parrish wasn't stranded, that his driver was just running 40 minutes late. Parrish says that is not true.
LogistiCare reported Sullivan's driver admitted he drove the wrong way on the highway. The driver was suspended for a week.
If you have a complaint about LogistiCare, you can contact your state representative, the Texas Attorney General or the Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Attorney General of Texas: https://www.oag.state.tx.us/forms/cpd/form.php
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I keep track of my workouts religiously with a program I wrote in, you guessed it, Delphi 5 Pro. I probably won't post my workouts here on a daily basis. I will post here some stuff about my workout scheme in general, equipment, etc.
age- 42
height- 6'3"
weight- 206
bf- 12-21% depending on if I set my wife's Tanita scale to Adult or Athlete- probably 15-16%
measurements- don't have em
Bowflex Power Pro
410# of power rods (max available)
homemade squat attachment
leg attachment
lat pulldown atachment
Body-Solid VKR for chins, dips, leg raises
General Statements
1) I know freeweights are the ideal for lifting.
2) I don't have a schedule conducive to using a gym.
3) Wouldn't want to use a gym even if I could.
4) No spotter available for freeweight squats and bench presses- wife has Sacro-Iliac Syndrome.
5) I don't do the bull caca workout you see on the Bowflex commercials.
6) Workouts are focused on compound exercises- squats, deads, bench presses, dips, chinups, rows.
7) Can't do flyes, upright rows, lateral raises bacause of rotator cuff problem.
8) I can occasionally do overhead presses but they scare me.
9) Delts look surprisingly good, considering 7 & 8.
10) I'm aware that Bowflex poundages are 10-15% inflated over freeweight numbers.
11) I'm not interested in whether Bowflex exercises translate into the "real world." I stand at an O.R. table, drive A LOT between hospitals, and walk from patient to patient during the day. Freeweights don't translate to those activities, either.
12) Now that I've established my Don't-Give-a-Sh!t attitude toward Bowflex vs freeweights, I'll proceed with my workouts.
Last edited by Delphi; 12-26-2001 at 03:34 PM.
I do a high-intensity, fairly low-volume workout. I'm almost a HIT jedi. I have a push-pull split. I work out every third day, sometimes every 4th, depending on my work schedule. I don't recover quickly enough to do a workout every other day. Workouts last 30-45 minutes.
I usually do 2 sets per exercise. Occasionally I'll do a third set on something if I want to work a little more on a body part. I try to rotate that around so that each part gets an extra set every now and then. I do the compound exercises first, then a few isolation exercises, then some ab work each workout.
squats and deads- work up to 20 reps, then go up 10# the next workout
other compounds (rows, bench press, pulldowns)- work up to 12 reps, then go up in weight
isolation (curls, pushdowns)- work up to 10-12, then go up in weight
chinups- work up to 8 reps, then add weight
abs- work up to 15 reps, then add weight
Last edited by Delphi; 11-28-2001 at 11:44 PM.
Explaining the jibberish
I'll be cutting and pasting info out of my workout program. It stores data in two Ini files for each month- one for date, one for body part. The splits below show the body part, then the exercise. The = sign is there because it's an Ini file. I'm too lazy to delete all the = signs. I'll eventually have a web page set up so you can see what the program looks like. Will probably put the program there for download, if anybody wants to play around with it.
Quads- Squat=
Pecs- Parallel Dip=
Pecs- Bench Press=
Calf- One Leg Calf Raise= (one-legged)
Delts- Overhead Press=
Triceps- Triceps Pushdown=
Abs- Side Crunch=
Lats- Chinup=
Erectors- Dead Lift=
Traps- Shoulder Shrug=
Lats- Seated Row=
Lats- Pulldown=
Biceps- Curl=
Forearms- Wrist Curl=
Abs- Inclined Crunch=
Abs- Seated Crunch=
The Push day is fairly constant between workouts. On Pull day I'll mix up the order or selection of the secondary back exercises, depending on if I want to emphasize my back or biceps on that particular day.
Last edited by Delphi; 11-28-2001 at 11:43 PM.
Here's my most recent workouts. The format:
Group=(Push or Pull)
(Exercise #)=(Body Part)- Set #1, Set #2, Set #3
Each set is listed as (# reps)/(weight)
Here's my last 2 workouts. I got switched around on my ab workouts this week, so they're backwards regarding push/pull days. The Pull day was started at about 9:30 pm, so it's a little more abbreviated than usual.
01=Quads- Squat, 17/270, 10/240
02=Pecs- Parallel Dip, 8/7, 4/5
03=Pecs- Bench Press, 4.5/260, 4.5/220
04=Calf- One Leg Calf Raise, 21/370, 15/370, 11/370
05=Delts- Overhead Press, 11/90, 5.5/80
06=Triceps- Triceps Pushdown, 9/110, 7/90
07=Quads- Leg Extension, 7/250
08=Abs- Inclined Crunch, 17/160
09=Abs- Seated Crunch, 14/170
01=Lats- Chinup, 6.5/6, 2.5/4, 1.5/4
02=Erectors- Dead Lift, 14/310, 13/270
03=Traps- Shoulder Shrug, 6/300, 9/280, 6/260
04=Lats- Seated Row, 12/260
05=Biceps- Curl, 7.5/104, 5.5/104, 7/90
06=Abs- Side Crunch, 13/160, 9/160
I am most disappointed with my chinups. Even with no extra weight, I cannot seem to do more then 9 reps. I decided to start adding weight, rather than trying to do more reps. I've gained 20# over the last 3 months, so the chinups are progressing, just not in terms of # of reps. This workout was the first time I had hung 6# on my belt. I add weight whenever I get to 7.5 or 8 reps.
Last edited by Delphi; 11-28-2001 at 11:49 PM.
*clears throat*
you forgot to mention the fact that you don't have opposable thumbs in your general statements, doctor.
hee hee....right on! you created a journal so i can heckle you!
umm...question? why don't the hammies have fair representation?
i suppose squats will hit them a little, but i think you should overcome the fear of SLDLs.
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Dude, did Doogie Howser just steal my fucking car?
*clears throat*
you forgot to mention the fact that you don't have opposable thumbs in your general statements, doctor.
*flings poo*
umm...question? why don't the hammies have fair representation?
i suppose squats will hit them a little, but i think you should overcome the fear of SLDLs.
I've had lumbar strains in the past. I've had to get on a Medrol DosePack twice in the last year and a half. With either standing or driving most of the day I can't afford to have that happen again. I haven't had any problems since I started doing bldl's, but I'm too chicken to do sldl's. I have a leg attachment and recently started doing leg extensions after squats. I may start occasionally doing leg curls after bldl's.
note to self: Trash Tryska's journal sometime next week :evillaugh
Last edited by Delphi; 12-09-2001 at 05:28 AM.
I bought this Bowflex thing in January and lifted 4-5 times a week, too many sets overall, too many isolation exercises. I've maxed out on two-legged calf raises and have switched to doing one-legged calf raises. The leg attachment lets me do leg extensions and leg curls. These alone are not sufficient for working out the legs, IMO. There is a way to do leg presses, but there's not enough resistance available to do any good. One-legged leg presses on this thing are dangerous.
I bought the squat attachment in late July and started doing squats and bent-legged dead lifts at that time. The BLDL's have been progressing steadily since then. The squat attachment has curled side edges which limit how wide a stance I can use. I eventually made a new squat attachment out of pressed wood that lets me use as a wide a stance as I need. I was immediately able to do squat heavier without discomfort in the knees and back. I'll eventually post links to some picture of my workout equipment and I'll show it then.
Here's my squats since I started doing them in July:
13=11/160, 11/180, 9/180, 8/180
20=13/160, 11/180, 10/180
(layoff due to back pain)
August (doing a whole-body routine at that time)
September (switched to a push/pull split, made the new squat attchment)
04=10/240, 6/220
10=14/240, 7/220
17=10/250, 6/220
23=13/250, 9/220
29=15/250, 8/220
06=20/250, 6/220
13=8/260, 8/230, 6/200
23=13/260, 7/230
31=16/260, 7/230
06=20/260, 7/230
11=5/270, 9/240
17=11/270, 9/240
24=17/270, 10/240
01=20/270, 10/240
Here's my deadlifts since August:
August (doing a whole-body routine at that time)
07=10/200, 6/200
September (switched to a push/pull split)
26=7/290, 8/290
15=10/300, 10/260
(stopped doing them to avoid overtraining, but noticed a drop-off)
(in progress on shrugs and some loss in gripping ability)
03=9/300, 7/260
14=14/300, 11/260
27=14/310, 13/270
(should be able to do 20/310 when I do deads again on 12/4)
I've found out that I can use DB-type grips instead of a bar for deads, which makes the lift more of a trap bar-style deadlift. I did this a couple of times when my back was tight. It works the quads more puts less strain on my lumbar area.
Last edited by Delphi; 12-01-2001 at 11:56 AM.
leg curls are an excellent idea......although, wouldn't getting your core muscles up to par lessen the chances of suffering lumbar strain again?
those are sme nice numbers for squats and deads...do you know roughly what the conversion would be from bowflex to iron?
A little learning is a dangerous thing...
Live Dangerously! Learn a Little!
Dude, did Doogie Howser just steal my fucking car?
My spinal erectors have gotten better since I started doing bldl's and squats. I've always had some degree of low back discomfort and this is the first prolonged period of time where I haven't. I'm afraid of pushing my luck. To tell the truth, I've never actually seen anybody do sldl's and don't have any real access to people that do. I'm a LONER, you see. LOL There's a good deal of hip extension that occurs with bldl's and that's about as far as I'm brave enough to go for now. . Call me a wimp. I'll look in my Stuart MCRobert book and see if he describes it. If he does I might reconsider.
The official Bowflex line is that the resistance is roughly equal to freeweights. They're FOS on that, as they are on LOTS of things. (I plan in the near future to post some pics showing how they recommend doing OHP's and how I found is a safe way to do it. Their way causes you to pull from behind your back. I'm convinced now that that's how I fried my rotator cuff.)
Back to the subject, I estimate that the Bowflex numbers are inflated up to 10-15% over freeweights, depending on the exercise. I have no hard evidence, but I noticed that much discrepancy when I used a gym in the hotel we stayed at in Washington DC this spring. Triceps pushdowns are probably about the same, while bench pressing with the pec bars extended out have the largest discrepancy. On the latter exercise, extending the pec bars causes the rods to be bent from a less severe angle. One day I might post pics of that, too.
They're showing a Bowflex commercial on TV as I write this. Those commercials are completely FOS. I like my machine and my workouts, but I can't stand the company or the commercials. See, I'm not brainwashed.
la la la la.....
Do SLDLs like a Girl.....
click on workouts, the the kompleat kompendium then scroll to one-legged deadlift, and click the link for proper deadlift form......
Last edited by Tryska; 12-01-2001 at 12:21 PM.
A little learning is a dangerous thing...
Live Dangerously! Learn a Little!
Dude, did Doogie Howser just steal my fucking car?
Dork and Diva- I love it. I want a girl to come SHOW me how to do them.
If you don't mind me asking, what is Sacro-Iliac syndrome?
There's a relatively immobile joint on each side of the sacrum where it attaches to the back of the pelvis. Very tough ligaments hold it in place. If the ligaments get torn or stretched it causes lots of pain, especially when the body is flexed forward at the pelvis. Laura did hers in on the left side by arching her back while trying to do incline situps. Hers has been screwed up for over a year now. She's tried PT, chiropractic manipulation, and steroid injections.Originally posted by Neil
If you don't mind me asking, what is Sacro-Iliac syndrome?
Here's a link to a good page on it.
thanks doc, good info.
Did my Pull routine tonight. Fairly disappointing workout- first one of those in quite a while. Did the Push routine Saturday and didn't follow up with the usual protein powder shakes and creatine. Also didn't eat very much over the weekend. Hopefully the next workout will be better.
01=Lats- Chinup, 6.5/6, 3.5/4, 6 neg- no progress from last time
02=Erectors- Dead Lift, 15/310, 10/270
03=Traps- Shoulder Shrug, 8/300, 9/280
04=Biceps- Curl, 6/124- really sucked
05=Lats- Pulldown, 6/200, 4/160
06=Lats- Reverse Grip Pulldown, 5/160
07=Abs- Seated Crunch, 16/170, 11/170
Last workout was Friday. It was most excellent, Garth.
01=Quads- Squat, 12/280, 8/260
02=Pecs- Bench Press, 10/260, 5/200
03=Pecs- Parallel Dip, 4/10, 3/6
04=Calf- One Leg Calf Raise, 22/370, 18/370, 10/370
05=Quads- Leg Extension, 12/250
06=Delts- Overhead Press, 9/100, 8/80
07=Pecs- Front Downward Fly, 10/120, 7/100
08=Abs- Side Crunch, 11/170, 10/170
A new revelation hit me. My center of strength on squats lies between my heels. If I concentrate on "pushing down" on this area with my heels I am Superman. Instead of feeling strain in the quads and back, it becomes a whole-body exercise. I just stand up and it's my entire body doing it. Friday was the first time I had tried 280. Usually I would have had trouble getting into a standing position and completing the first rep. No problem at all. The last two times I went up in weight I made 8 and 5 reps. This time it was 12.
Bench press
Moved this in front on parallel bar dips for two reasons:
#1) Had been doing dips first since 11/11 and my triceps were fried by the time I did bench presses. I had made no progress on benches since then. On the other hand I had gone from 9/5 (reps/weight) to 10/7.
#2) Wrists are usually sore the day after doing dips. The last week they've been sore every day. Thinking about laying off dips for a week or so to let the soreness go away. Bench presses don't bother them. I'm making sure my wrists are not hyperextended, but there is some abduction (radial deflection) that I cannot avoid.
overhead press
Loving getting back to these. Found a way to do them on the Bowflex without the resistance coming from behind me. I'll post pics of this soon, I promise. *puts check in the mail* No shoulder pain AT ALL. Next step is to reclaim doing flyes!
calf raises
These are one-legged. Trying to get up to 25 reps on the first set. At about 20 reps the calves are getting pumped and I'm having trouble maintaining full ROM. Oh well, I've added a third set. Hopefully I'll gain more mass.
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Did my Pull routine tonight. Several interesting things happened:
Deadlifts- legs were weak and lower back didn't feel right. Quit after 1.5 reps on 1st set. Will try them again in 6 days.
Chinups- I've been trying to add weight since I don't seem to be able to do more than 8 reps no matter what weight I use, including none. Currently stuck at 7 reps with 6 lbs on belt. Overtraining? Next workout I won't do any chins or pulldowns.
Hammer curls- made some grips for them, using old broken grips I had for the Bowflex. Enjoyed doing them. I may actually start doing them instead of supinated grip curls for awhile.
BTW, I've ordered Captain of Crush grips from IronMind. Ordered the Trainer and #1. Plan on doing grip work at the end of Pull days.
01=Lats- Chinup, 7/6, 2.5/4, 5 neg
02=Traps- Shoulder Shrug, 12/300, 8/280
03=Lats- Seated Row, 8/270, 8/240
04=Traps- Scapular Retraction, 12/270, 10/250
05=Lats- Pulldown, 7/200
06=Forearms- Hammer Curl, 9/90, 7/70, 7/50
07=Abs- Inclined Crunch, 20/160, 15/160
08=Abs- Seated Crunch, 11/180
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IronMind has the coolest training stuff. Soon as I get some cash, I'm going to go on a frenzy.
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I'm keeping track of my workout with a program I wrote in Delphi Pro 5. I had previously posted a link to a very ugly webpage that had some shots of the program's main screen and some pop-up windows. Now that I've loaded my HTML editor on my laptop I've redone the webpage. The links:
The main screen...
With a pop-up date log...
With a pop-up graph...
A page with all the pics at once...
If anybody wants to download a zip file containing the program with some data files (600kb) send me a PM with your email address in it. If you decide you want to use it I can tell you how to customize it for your own use. I've only tried it at 1024x768 resolution so I may have to tweak it for use at other screen sizes. It's only for Windoze. If you have a Mac, then GET A REAL COMPUTER.
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Push day today:
01=Quads- Squat, 16/280, 9/260
02=Pecs- Bench Press, 12/260, 5.5/200
03=Pecs- Parallel Dip, 6/10, 3/6
04=Calf- One Leg Calf Raise, 18/380, 12/380, 7/380
05=Delts- Overhead Press, 10/100, 10/80
06=Quads- Leg Extension, 7.5/260, 8/200
07=Abs- Side Crunch, 13/170, 10/170
08=Abs- Russian Twist, 10/10
Had a new personal best on *every* lift today . Push days have definitely been going better than Pull days lately. I think the main reason for that is the fact that I'm doing very few isolation exercises except for calf raises and leg extensions. Haven't done any triceps isolation exercises for several workouts. By the time I've done bench presses, dips, and overhead presses I don't need to do any additional triceps work. I need to find a way to do the same on Pull days.
Did Russian twists for the first time today. Seemed to go OK, but I definitely don't have the form down yet. Did twists with 10 pounds and will keep it there until I'm sure I'm doing them correctly.
Legs are definitely weak and fatigued tonight. Went to see Behind Enemy Lines afterward and had trouble sitting in a chair for that length of time. People behind me must have hated me for shifting around as much as I did. Now if I can just get some sleep tonight without my legs being all jumpy.
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hehe....how are your legs feeling today?
congrats ont he personal bests...great work!
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5:30 workout
6:30 supper
7:30 Behind Enemy Lines
9:30 surf the net
11:20 go to bed
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1:30 to the OR for an appendectomy
3:00 back home in bed
3:30 paged by a nurse
5:20 alarm goes off
Eight hours of sleep a night? Yeah, right.
Legs feel thick. So does my brain.
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Pull day once again.
01=Lats- Chinup, 9.5/0, 3.5/4
02=Erectors- Dead Lift, 9/310
03=Traps- Shoulder Shrug, 7/310, 7/280
04=Lats- Seated Row, 11/270, 10/240
05=Forearms- Hammer Curl, 10/90, 8/70, 8/50
06=Abs- Inclined Crunch, 20/160, 17/160
07=Abs- Seated Crunch, 13/180, 12/170
Really thinking about what I can do to perform better on chinups. I've thought about the possibility of overtraining. I've never done more than 3 sets, but I have done some rows and pulldowns afterwards. I said last time that I wasn't going to do chinups today, but I did anyway. It's not a matter of being tired by the time I get to them because I've been doing them as my first exercise since Sept 7. I thought of other ways to change up my routine, and I decided to do the first set with no weight and then add weight for the next set. I also did not take 3-4 seconds to do the eccentric phase like I usually do. I was suprised to do 9.5 reps on the first set. I may stick with a faster cadence for awhile to try to develop different muscle fibers.
Hammer curls
I made the workout more abbreviated than usual, as well. I did do 3 sets of Hammer curls. I promise I'm not turning into a curl jockey. This was only the second time I got to use the new grips I made for doing them. I'm really enjoying doing them, and I couldn't resist doing a third set. At least I'm enjoying something on Pull day.
Last workout my back hurt on the second rep of deads so I quit doing them. Today I did better, but far shy of the 15 reps I had done two weeks ago. This will pass. My back is a little tight. Past experience has taught me to not try doing a lot of stretching when this is going on- just makes it worse.
Overall I'm still quite frustrated with Pull day. I'm currently not doing too much work. My diet isn't anything to get below 10% body fat on, but it's adequate for building muscle. Lots of protein, adequate calories, taking a multivitamin. Maybe I can get more sleep at night. Yeah, and maybe monkeys will fly out of my butt.
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After cogitating on it overnight, this is what I'm going to do to improve my chins:
1) Faster rep cadence. Not ballistic, not bouncing off the bottom.
2) First set bodyweight only, second set with weight. Will do this for several weeks, and then go back to the other way around.
3) More sleep. Got 7 hours last night, 1:45 POWER nap this afternoon. Gotta love Mondays.
4) Examine diet. This is gonna be painful. During the day it's usually a burger and diet Coke as I drive between Cleburne and Granbury. I'll post later what kind of damage I do on a typical day. ? EFAs?
Questions for the peanut gallery:
1) Should I do a set of negative reps? If so, then every workout? As pulllups or chinups?
2) I can do all the exercises "real" people do. How much should I be doing of deads, shrugs, rows, pulldowns?
3) Diet recommendations?


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Still the worshippers come to
Guided by plaques embedded along a seven-mile "Diana Memorial Walk" through four royal parks, they visit the palaces, mansion, fountains, and playgrounds associated with the princess. And they hurry to the National Portrait Gallery to view even more likenesses of the princess.
The worship has intensified in this tenth summer since Diana's death, as evidenced by the crowd of 70,000 that jammed Wembley Stadium on July 1 for a six-hour concert by some of her favorite musicians on what would have been her 46th birthday.
Although private, the official celebration of Diana's birthday on Aug. 31 will be broadcast by the BBC, and it's certain millions will be watching, if not the two billion who watched Diana's funeral in 1997.
The worshiping is not all bad. That birthday concert and fund-raising efforts by Diana during her lifetime raised money for worthy charities. Of course we should honor her for that and certainly should regret her death.
But so should we regret that, whatever Diana's good deeds, her death brought out in many others some of the worst of human traits.
It's said that Diana was vulnerable. She was – much less so, however, than her multitude of fawning admirers. They have been eager to assume the role of uncritical, wide-eyed celebrity worshippers assigned them by the mass media and treat Diana as a veritable saint.
It's been a triumph of style over substance, a triumph of flash and glitter and wealth and empty-headedness, an incredible, unprecedented triumph of media hype and manipulation.
So what if Diana was one of
So what if Diana spent much of the money on outrageously expensive designer clothes, beauty treatments and other self-enhancement. So what if she flitted from one playground of the obscenely rich to another, finally in the company of an obscenely rich playboy, leaving behind in boarding school the two sons she claimed to be her paramount concern.
That's what glamour is all about, and that's what Diana's admirers want, much like the slack-jawed crowds that gather to gawk at the swells alighting from their limousines on opening night at the opera or symphony. Or the crowds that gather around Paris Hilton and other celebrated airheads.
Those claiming more serious interests say Diana's life as the world's most famous jet-setting clothes horse doesn't matter. What counts is her fund-raising efforts for various charities and, most especially, her photo-ops with lesser folk.
Why, she was photographed, and in those costly clothes, her hair just so, actually touching dying AIDS patients, holding sick babies in her arms, speaking out against landmines that kill children.
It's not clear, however, how much her efforts actually accomplished, beyond winning Diana the public acclaim she so obviously craved and courted.
But as the response to her death has demonstrated to a distressing degree, it is clear that you can indeed fool most of the people most of the time. Or at least you can overwhelm them with the pressure of public opinion so prodigious they cannot or will not resist it.
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Kentucky State Police Telecommunications Academy Graduates First Class
Date of News Release: 08/17/2012
(Frankfort, Ky.) -- Twelve Kentucky State Police telecommunicators from throughout the commonwealth were recognized today at graduation ceremonies for the first class of the agency's new telecommunications academy.
"Telecommunicators play a vital role in the successful delivery of our public safety operations," said Kentucky State Police Commissioner Rodney Brewer. "They are a life-line for our troopers and officers in the field, providing critical functions that add to the efficiency and effectiveness of our emergency response. The investment in training for these individuals will pay valuable dividends to the citizens of the state for years to come."
Representing the KSP Headquarters Communications Center and eight agency posts, the group began its studies July 11 on the campus of KSP's new training facility in Frankfort. The course provided 174 hours of instruction during a four-and-a-half week period. The curriculum included subjects such as legal liability and limits of telecommunicator authority, the telecommunicator's role in public safety, interpersonal communications, customer service, interaction with the news media, stress, ethics and confidentiality, responder safety, basic fire dispatch, state emergency operations plans and criminal justice information systems, cardio pulmonary resuscitation, first aid training, emergency medical dispatch and special needs callers.
The final week of the academy included training on computer-aided dispatch and other databases. To complete the course, the telecommunicators were required to successfully process scripted calls for service and demonstrate proficiency in obtaining pertinent information, dispatching responders, providing emergency medical dispatch if needed and correctly documenting information from the call for service.
Prior to the establishment of the KSP Telecommunications Academy, the agency sent its personnel to the Dept. of Criminal Justice Training in Richmond for instruction. According to KSP's Charlotte Tanner, who coordinates the new academy, operating its own academy provides a big advantage to both the agency and the state. "Conducting our own academy lets us concentrate on 'agency specific training' that enables our people to get up to speed more quickly with KSP procedures when they get back to their posts," she explained.
"They hit the ground running and provide more value from day one."
Beginning in 2013, two classes are planned each year. "Eventually, we hope to develop specialized training courses targeted toward specific telecommunications functions and expand into yearly in-service offerings," she noted.
KSP's ability to provide this in-house training is a direct result of Gov. Beshear's decision to close the Frankfort Career Development Center, a minimum security prison, in 2011 and transfer it to the state police for use as a training academy. "This facility gave us the class-room space that allowed us to expand training opportunities throughout the agency," said Brewer.
"While still under development with in-house resources, it gives us a platform for future training growth."
As an example, Brewer pointed out that the telecommunications academy was able to accommodate 11 students from outside agencies during the three-day emergency medical dispatch component of the training.
"This facility is turning into a great resource for the citizens of Kentucky," said Brewer. "Its possibilities are unlimited and it will contribute to public safety for years to come through increased law enforcement training."
The graduates of the first KSP Telecommunication Academy included:
Alison O'Bryan, of Frankfort, HQ Communications Center
Tony Cornwell, of Paducah, and Yolanda Johnson, of Mayfield, Post 1-Mayfield
Melissa Allen, of Franklin, and Timothy Mackin, of Roundhill, Post 3-Bowling Green
Jonathan Chisholm, of Eminence, Post 5-Campbellsburg
Ryan Kenley, of Georgetown, Post 6-Dry Ridge
Tyler Johnson, of Stanville, and Lee Baker, of Booneville, Post 12-Frankfort
Nicholas Danner, of Hazard, Post 13-Hazard
Timothy Addison, of Beattyville, Post 14-Ashland
Melissa Jones, of Evansville, Ind., Post 16-Henderson


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Each week, Naperville Patch goes deep into the YouTube archives to scour, scavenge and search for videos highlighting all things Naperville.
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Wheels are turning at UVM today both physically and mentally. Middle and high school students are competing in the 23rd annual UVM Aiken TASC Challenge putting students to the test to create green cars.
"The car I made is pretty much a CD with a washer attached, a marble inside, and some cardboard," said middle school competitor, Teddy Alexander.
11-year-old Teddy Alexander is one of the many middle schoolers with his game face on and invention in hand.
"We're trying to make this car go 90 feet in 2 seconds," said Alexander.
About 50 teams take part from 20 schools. They're tasked with creating green models that can roll their way through multiple challenges. The challenges include: A 90-yard eco-dash, washer carrying, and obstacle course.
With a power-generating bike, the A-Team thinks they have a good chance of sitting atop the podium.
"Hopefully we take it home, I think with the drag race we might," said a member of the A-Team. "We've seen a lot of different things today. Some people using air power, some using springs. We really hope our giant motor and our capacitor really bring it home."
And Team Honka hopes experience isn't a requirement to reach the top in their first year of competition.
"You don't have to win first place but you have to try," said a team member of Team Honka. "It's fun to make you think. We ran into problems with other car designs and we'd run into problems where it wouldn't work, so you have to think about your problem and it's fun."
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Dawn Densmore organizes the outreach programs for the UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. She believes learning empowers students to solve problems and become a solid foundation for generations to come.
"There's always students that will say 'I never thought of that' or 'I would have never done it that way so there's learning on multiple levels when you involve the essence of this nature," said Densmore.
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Be in Awe of the Rec Center – The newly built gym/recreation center is one of the best thing at Western. The Rec center has everything I want and need, including state of the art weight rooms and swimming pools. There are also lots of optional courses that a student from as Tae Kwon Do lessons to Cardio kickboxing sessions. The center area of the Rec Center is also very popular as a hangout with lots of couchs and TVs. Membership is included along with tuition so be sure to go often!
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The Athletic Center was just opened a year ago, and it looks outstanding with its state of the art facilities. There are plenty of courts for various sports, and an endless supply of machines and sports leagues to play in. The city of London is also building outdoor turf fields which will be great for indoor soccer or any field sports during the winter, supplementing the quality of athletics the city is well-known for throughout Canada. As for actual campus activities, the UCC is always filled with non-stop activities and traffic. It's complemented with a variety of food chains and our local student bar, and two eateries that are student run. You can always be entertained walking across the UCC, whether presentations by various organizations are happening, a celebration of a festival if occurring or at night when a dance crew is practicing for an upcoming show till the late hours of the night, it will fill your day as you meet up with friends. The center is also up for renovations this upcoming summer which is surely to make it that much better!
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Minnesota Twins outfielder Josh Willingham was scratched from the lineup against the New York Yankees with discomfort in his left knee.
Willingham was slotted to be the designated hitter in the series opener Monday night. But the Twins say he experienced increasing discomfort in his knee as he went through his pregame routine. He is scheduled to have an MRI on Tuesday.
Minnesota manager Ron Gardenhire shuffled his lineup to accommodate the injury. He moved Trevor Plouffe from third base to DH and inserted Jamey Carroll at third base.
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Community Service: Creating Public Access to Defibrillation Programs
Sudden cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. The survival rate for witnessed, out-of-hospital, sudden cardiac arrest is approximately 5 percent in most communities. But in communities with public access...
Sudden cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. The survival rate for witnessed, out-of-hospital, sudden cardiac arrest is approximately 5 percent in most communities. But in communities with public access defibrillation (PAD) programs, the survival rate can rise to well above 50 percent.
In August 2007, Joe Farrell was golfing at a resort in North Lake Tahoe, NV, when another golfer collapsed on the course from sudden cardiac arrest. Farrell, a physical therapist from Danville, CA, was part of the group that called 911 and started CPR. In just a few minutes, an EMS team from the North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District arrived with an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) and revived the victim. A helicopter airlifted the man to a nearby hospital.
"What I learned that day was that every second counts," Farrell said. "When we came across this gentleman, he was blue from lack of oxygen. We did CPR, and then the ambulance arrived with an AED. And the man lived."
Farrell had witnessed a textbook save carried out in a community that is exceptionally well prepared to handle sudden cardiac arrest – a community that has a PAD program.
Battalion Chief Michael Schwartz, one of the paramedics who responded to the golf course that day, is one of the people responsible for setting up the North Lake Tahoe PAD program.
"The need for a PAD program in our community was obvious," Schwartz recalls. With remote ski resorts, campgrounds and beaches, the North Lake Tahoe region has many areas that can't be reached quickly by fire department vehicles or ambulances. The population, normally 10,000, swells to as many as 100,000 people in the summer and on winter weekends, putting extreme demands on emergency services. To reach sudden cardiac arrest victims quickly enough to save their lives, the fire department needed to train the community in CPR and equip potential first responders with AEDs.
The PAD program began by placing AEDs in the community with lifeguards and members of the ski patrol. Then Schwartz developed a business plan for CPR and AED training programs for resort employees, teachers and other members of the community.
Today, the North Lake Tahoe PAD program encompasses more than 125 registered AEDs, most of them Cardiac Science Powerheart G3 models. The sudden cardiac arrest survival rate in the area has climbed to 50 percent.
Farrell was impressed when he saw the North Lake Tahoe PAD program in action. Little did he know that just a year later, he'd be involved in another sudden cardiac arrest incident – this time, as a victim.
Farrell collapsed at a friend's house in the Northern California community where he lives. Fortunately, the friend was trained in CPR and knew what to do. He began compressions and soon an ambulance arrived with an AED. Farrell says he was told that that he required multiple shocks, and that an AED had to be used again at the hospital. Farrell now has an implanted cardiac defibrillator.
As soon as he recovered, Farrell and his wife, Edie, became American Heart Association CPR/AED instructors. They've worked with the San Ramon Valley PAD Community Partnership Committee to get AEDs into all of the district's schools and persuade area hospitals to adopt hypothermia protocols for treating sudden cardiac arrest. Currently, the committee is involved in spreading the word about an award-winning Smartphone application used by the San Ramon Fire Protection District to alert people who are CPR trained when a sudden cardiac arrest incident occurs in their vicinity.
While North Lake Tahoe and the San Ramon Valley are very different communities, their successful PAD programs share these key factors:
1. Strong support for PAD from public safety leadership.
"That's essential," Schwartz said. "You have to start with that advantage, or you have to gain it, before you can take an AED program out into the community.'
2. Involvement of community leaders and key partners.
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David C. John is a Senior Strategic Policy Advisor at the AARP Public Policy Institute focusing on pension and retirement savings issues. John also serves as a Deputy Director of the Retirement Security Project at the Brookings Institution. RSP focuses on improving retirement savings in the United States, especially among moderate and low income workers. Prior to joining AARP, John was a Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation and also has extensive public policy experience working for a money center bank, a law firm, a credit union trade association and four members of the House of Representatives.
John has written and spoken extensively on the importance of reforming the nation's retirement programs. He is the co-author along with J. Mark Iwry of the Automatic IRA, a small business retirement savings program for firms that do not sponsor any other form of retirement savings or pension plan. John is a co-editor of the 2009 book, Automatic: Changing the Way that America Saves. He has been published and quoted extensively in the press, and has also appeared on a number of major television channels and national and syndicated radio shows.
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New Ways to Promote Retirement Saving by: William G. Gale, David C. John, and Spencer Smith, Retirement
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Hi, My thread title is a little misleading because it says FRN and Sal said no FRN but maybe G10 if we generate enough interest...
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Sal, can we get a G10 Lava please???
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Also is it possible to change the Poll to just G10?
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Noblesse Oblige:
"the moral obligation of those of high birth, powerful social position, etc., to act with honor, kindliness, generosity, etc....Origin: 1830–40; < French: literally, nobility obliges"
Noblesse Oblige has been put to a slow death since the Reagan revolution, and even in the last two years of the Carter term, we got nascent Reaganomics.
Not even the meager Warren Buffet reform could make it through the senate. The wealthy paying their fair share and then some, is dead, r.i.p., in us of a. The fine people's economist Rick Wolff informs us of the hope of the left on the rise in France and Greece. However, in America even the wealthy paying there fair share and nobly giving even more, has been erased from the memory and minds of even most working and middle class in usa. Heaven help us: the 99%. The Jaimie Diamond elite scum of the earth are like Goya's painting "Saturn eating its own children".
"One reason—perhaps the chief—of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt"
Dr.Wolff is right and so are the new French "Socialist" wins in France base their platform on FDR's New Deal. Since the elite in this country are such pigs, with a few exceptions, We the people are going to have to force the issue. And that issue is reversing this trend of pushing us back towards the 19th century living standards, but our very existence as poor, vulnerable and the working majority. Never look for political leadership inside the wall street/military/government "complex". Obama lied to us all in his campaign.
We must go outside the monopoly party system. At the same time we must still vote while trying to change the electoral system. I am voting for Rocky Anderson of the Justice party. I am not throwing my vote away because Romney is equally full of bs in his campaign with all these hard line domestic and international policies he would impose. He would probably be no different or even a tad easier on we the people than slick Obama, but probably not.
Since all the common 99% who have guns are mislead to follow the right, I see very little hope in revolution on the streets. I hope I am wrong, and I wish that some real neo new dealers, 99% OWS, etc people would help this disabled guy(me)to join in the protests.
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What a truly bizarre opinion by the commenter above.
It pains me plenty to see progressive radio champion the likes of Julian Assange who was convicted of hacking into bank and university records in Australia and didn't do a lick of time...
At the point where I couldn't listen anymore the speaker was describing the "embarrassment" to the Ecuadorian government which is all that any of the Wiki leaks has ever accomplished except to entrap a young soldier who thought he was doing the right thing but will be tried for treason under the law which carries a possible death sentence - one that has been meted out in the past.
Wikileaks is a CIA operation, this whole sex scandal (dirty business, why the hell is everyone cheering for him?) is just lurid distraction for an amused-to-death population in the absence of anymore "embarrassing" information he is supposedly "fighting the good fight" to reveal.


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Operation Christmas Child big success
Over the past couple months, Operation Christmas Child has been collecting gift filled shoeboxes for needy children around the world full of toys, school supplies, hygiene items, hard candy, socks, ball caps. This year people have been especially generous.
Carissa Smith reports the final number of shoeboxes filled was 3,719. This is about 400 more than they had last year. Smith says they also ran out of cartons that we pack them in and had to scour the town for boxes.
A number of groups and individuals helped with packing and wrapping the items, including the Cirrus House, the retired teachers group and Miss Nebraska JaCee Pilkington. The WNCC soccer teams helped load the boxes.
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Laurence White, 22, of Great Notley, has filmed a host of celebrities, including X-Factor winner James Arthur, endorsing his idea.
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About PVCC
Paradise Valley Community College is one of ten colleges, two skill centers, and multiple satellite locations, which comprise the Maricopa County Community College District located throughout metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona.
The District was established in 1962, with a single college and has since grown to serve over 270,000 students in credit and non-credit programs making it the largest provider of post-secondary education in the state of Arizona. Today, the district's colleges and centers offer comprehensive educational programs in professional, occupational, special interest, and continuing education curricula to serve the needs of the rapidly growing county area.
About Our College:
Founded in 1985, Paradise Valley Community College has grown from a per-semester enrollment in 1987 of 3,700 to over 9,951 today. The college's unduplicated headcount per year is over 14,633, with an additional 4,600 in non-credit and continuing education programs. Historically, PVCC has seen enrollment growth between 2-7% each semester. Coincident with enrollment growth has been the increase in number of faculty: from 27 full-time residential faculty in 1987 to 117 in 2009 (plus 444 adjunct faculty in 2009). The total number of employees has grown from 62 in 1987 to 247 in 2009.
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Underrepresented student populations have increased as well: Hispanic from 3.6% to 10.5%, Asian from 1.5% to 3.5%, and Black from 0.6% to 2.7%. In our service area, the 2000 U.S. Census demographic data indicate 79.4% white, compared to 69.2% in the PVCC student population. Women represent the majority of student enrollments, about 55%. The college's Office of Disability Services currently has 454 ADA-registered students with disabilities and an annual budget about $120,000. The percentage of students aged 19 and under has expanded to over 34%, reflecting increasing interest on the part of high school seniors; however, almost 16% of the student body is age 40 or over. Day enrollment is approximately 68% of the total, while night enrollment continues to be strong .


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Vantage Cloud Simplifies Cloud Compliance
Actiance is a global leader in information security. With a press release, the security giant has released details on its new secure cloud offering called Vantage Cloud. What is Vantage Cloud? The idea behind Vantage Cloud was to create a system that gives granular control mechanisms to administrators in order to achieve ultimate compliance.[read more]
Largest HIPAA Breach Ever: Hackers Steal Data on 4.5 Million Community Health Systems Patients
A hacking group known as "APT 18" is suspected of stealing names, Social Security numbers, addresses, birthdays and telephone numbers from 4.5 million patients of Community Health Systems, a network of 206 hospitals across 29 states (see map at right). Credit card numbers and medical records were not accessed.[read more]
How Big Data Enables Hyper-Local Real-Time Weather Forecasting
Accurate weather predictions are very important for economic activities and with more extreme weather conditions happening, knowing what to expect could save a lot of money, and lives. Such hyper-local real-time weather forecasting is becoming more common every day.[read more]
Can Fossil Analysis Software Help Us Plan Curriculum?
Paleontologists use (free) software (known as PAST) for their statistical analysis. I bumped into it via key-word web-search to support academic planning I was doing. I offloaded it, took a close look, and I discovered I could use a specific menu within it (hierarchical analysis) to help reconceptualize curriculum at my design college.[read more]
Supply Chain Business Intelligence Is More Than Just Technology
Interestingly the technology implementation requires the most hard dollar costs, and returns the least in terms of ROI. The real value in Holistic BI is in garnering the corporate buy in or, in other words, training the people to make better data-driven business decisions based on the data.[read more]
Lessons from How Amazon Uses Big Data
Entering the field of big data is no cake walk. Due to the many nuances of big data architecture combined with the fact that it's so new, relatively speaking, it can be overwhelming for many executives to implement. Or, instead of being overwhelming, there's simply a lack of experience and understanding. That misunderstanding leads management, all too often, to use big data inefficiently.[read more]
How Big Data Is Changing Insurance Forever
Insurers such as Progressive in the US and Prudential in the UK are now pushing for wider acceptance of "telematics" devices, which feed back real-time data on a driver's behaviour. So young drivers who can demonstrate that they keep within speed limits and do not brake suddenly too often, can pay less.[read more]
Dear Facebook, It's Not You, It's Us
Last week, we reached our 7-year anniversary mark. Have we really been together that long?! Because, honestly, it feels like forever. I'm sorry we didn't celebrate, but I really didn't feel like it. Ever since you asked me for my home address a few months ago, my feelings have begun to change. You crossed a line, dude.[read more]
Gigascience: A Science Journal That Provides Full Data Sets
Gigascience's data is useful because it is shared and open. More specifically, it is valuable because it is made available for use and re-use in multiple places and in multiple contexts. The rice genomes might now be used for formulating new rice strains in Africa or for comparison with tulip genomes in Holland.[read more]
Should the Entire Internet Be Encrypted?
Until the entire Internet is encrypting all its traffic, solutions like IceBrowser are a good way to protect yourself online. This isn't about things as mundane as pornography; this is about protecting every piece of information and every footprint you leave out there.[read more]
Text Analytics vs. Other Research Methods [VIDEO]
We believe that Text Analytics is important not just because of its implications within market research or any kind of research for that matter, but because of its value across so many other disciplines as well. All of the marketing research techniques represented in the debate are useful of course, and text analytics can be an aid in every single case.[read more]
Translating the Geek Speak: Is It Time to Dump Your IT Company?
Not every executive is as technically savvy as the times require. Even the most technically savvy organizations need a way to stay competitive. Emerging cloud technologies, new applications, mobility and other technologies mean that executives and businesses have to rely on their IT partners to guide them in the right direction.[read more]
Panthera Launches Secure Cloud Product Lineup
Panthera Technologies is a cloud consulting organization located near Baltimore, MD. In a press release, the cloud solutions provider noted that it has added additional cloud services onto its menu of choices. Panthera has added a virtual desktop line-up and a disaster recovery service.[read more]
Comparison of esProc and R Language in Processing Text Files
As languages for data computations, both esProc and R language have rich functions to process text files. They have many similarities in basic usage, as well as obvious differences, such as in the aspect of processing files with fixed column width and big text files, reading and writing designated columns, computational performance, etc. The article aims to compare their similarities and differences.[read more]
Got Analytics? Who Will Promote the Industry?
Business people have everything. They've got data, and often it's clean. They've got tools, and many are easy to use. They've got visualizations, many of which help. They've got domain knowledge, at least most do. What some front line observers find they lack is analytical thinking.[read more]
Enhance Customer Retention and Acquisition Strategies with Insurance Data Analysis
To better attract and retain customers, leading insurance companies must establish strategies that focus on improving their customers' experience and optimizing their underwriting and pricing practices. This is easier in theory than reality as a recent study from Bain & Company concludes - insurance carriers are usually only good at one strategy, not both.[read more]
What Makes a Good Chief Data Officer? [INFOGRAPHIC]
The board room seating arrangement is about to change in many organisations. With the vast amounts of data being created on a daily basis and the organisations acknowledging the value in data-driven decision making, there is room for the Chief Data Officer.[read more]
A Pitfall to Avoid When Funding Big Data Analytics
If analytics are to continue to become more strategic and grow in impact to organizations, then there must be a mechanism to distinguish between IT costs that are truly overhead and those that can be tied to revenue. The costs of analytic systems must be directly associated not just with IT, but with the business processes and products they support.[read more]
A Look at Cyber Security Trends for 2014
We're now more than halfway through 2014, and as with any year, the world of technology has been rapidly progressing and evolving. This year, there's been more discussion than ever about numerous topics such as the benefits of big data, the Internet of Things, mobile technology, and how to make the most of cloud computing.[read more]
Revamp: Maybe It's Not Time to Bury Blackberry
Alright we couldn't believe that headline either, until we started looking into Blackberry's new revamp, and it's quite a revamp and rebrand. Blackberry naysayers take note: maybe the new handheld platform called BES10 short for Blackberry Enterprise Service 10 has a real chance to of chance of changing the way we BYOD.[read more]
The Future of Big Data Will Be Data
We live in exponential times, where new technological inventions are followed rapidly by innovative applications for consumers and businesses. The common denominator with all of these new applications is that they are generating vast amounts of data.[read more]
Big Data: Making an Impact at the Post Office
While the USPS is struggling, big data is exploding. The technology is taking significant steps forward at an extremely rapid pace, making it more and more enticing to numerous different sectors. Big data analytics is becoming especially important because of the speed and accuracy with which the analyses can be performed.[read more]
Improving Security on the Internet of Things
IoT refers to the interconnection of computing devices – everything from heart monitor implants to remote home thermostats – that transfer data without human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. Essentially, anything that can be assigned an IP address and given the ability to transfer data over a network is part of the IoT.[read more]
Little Data: The 25 KPIs Everyone Must Understand
Without good KPIs it is difficult to create good big data initiatives. I spend my work life helping companies around the world with their big data and KPI initiatives and have developed a list of top level metrics I consider global best practice examples.[read more]
Similarities and Differences Between Predictive Analytics and Business Intelligence
BI and PA are important but complementary disciplines. BI is a much larger field and understandably so. PA is more of a specialty, but a specialty that is gaining visibility and recognition as an important skill set to have in any organization. Here's to further collaboration in the future![read more]
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- Release Date: Feb. 12, 2014
- Genres: SciFi/Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Drama
- Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, Abbie Cornish, Jackie Earle Haley, Jennifer Ehle, Jay Baruchel, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Samuel L. Jackson
- Directors: Jose Padilha
- Official Site: http://www.robocop.com/site
- Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing
- The year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Their drones are winning American wars around the globe and now they want to bring this technology to the home front. Alex Murphy is a loving husband, father and good cop doing his best to stem the tide of crime and corruption in Detroit. After he is critically injured in the line of duty, OmniCorp utilizes their remarkable science of robotics to save Alex's life. He returns to the streets of his beloved city with amazing new abilities, but with issues a regular man has never had to face before.
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Ravens hold off 49ers to win Super Bowl XLVII
Jacoby Jones returned a kickoff 108 yards for a touchdown and the Ravens beat the 49ers 34-31 to win Super Bowl XLVII.
Ravens' Saturday pool report
The Ravens held a loose, pre-Super Bowl walkthough at the Superdome surrounded by family on Saturday afternoon.
Ravens OLT McKinnie and OLG Osemele vs. 49ers' Smiths
On the left side of the Baltimore front wall, OLT Bryant McKinnie and OLG Kelechi Osemele draw the assignment of the Niners' sensational Smith tandem.
Bold acts: Decision to fire Cameron most impactful
John Harbaugh's decision to fire Cam Cameron was more impactful than the 49ers' bold move to stick with QB Colin Kaepernick, writes Hub Arkush.
Williams, Wilhoite make tiny Washburn proud
Ravens CB Cary Williams and 49ers special-teams ace Michael Wilhoite, teammates at Division-II Washburn, face off in Super Bowl XLVII.
Friday injury report for Super Bowl XLVII
Here is a look at the injury designations for the 49ers' and Ravens' players heading into Super Bowl XLVII.
Ravens' Friday pool report
Ray Lewis walked off the practice field for the last time Friday as the Ravens concluded full-scale workouts at the New Orleans Saints' practice facility.
Lewis overload has shrouded Super Bowl XLVII
With so much worth celebrating at Super Bowl XLVII, it's a shame Ray Lewis has dominated the headlines, writes PFW publisher Hub Arkush.
Harbaugh brothers could envision working together
At their joint news conference Friday, Jim and John Harbaugh said they would welcome the opportunity to work together in the future.
Ravens' Smith gets stronger following tragedy
Few people would be equipped to handle the loss of their brother like Ravens WR Torrey Smith, who has stayed strong through it all.
Super Bowl matchup: 49ers RBs vs. Ravens front seven
When San Francisco's Frank Gore and LaMichael James square off against the Baltimore front seven in Super Bowl XLVII, it will be strength vs. strength.
Thursday practice report for Super Bowl XLVII
Here is Thusrday's practice report for the Ravens and 49ers for Super Bowl XLVII.
Ravens' Thursday pool report
The Ravens moved their practice to the Saints' facility on Thursday, a potentially awkward situation, but John Harbaugh called it a "very normal" practice.
Bisciotti's second Super Bowl far different than first
Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti met with reporters just days before his team attempts to win its second Lombardi Trophy.
Jim Harbaugh: Much more than meets the eye
Jim Harbaugh has a reputation for being extremely intense. But below the surface is a warm soul and impassioned family man.
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You would not use fixed sizes when making your design. You'll use ems for your fonts and percentages for your layout. This is called fluid layout. I recommend you Google responsive design to learn about making your site work on desktops, tablets, and mobile units.