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July 23, 2014
Interview with Dr. Steven Berglas, author of the book Reclaiming the Fire: How Successful People Overcome Burnout
Mike Carruthers:
While it may sound good the dream of working hard, making lots of money and then retiring to a stress less life of leisure seldom works out.
Steven Berglas :
The more successful you are and more active you are in life, smelling the roses will kill you. If you retire to smelling the roses you're digging your own grave.
July 22, 2014
Interview with Sky Blossoms, author of the book Best Thing Ever: Escape Disappointments and Drama and Let True Love Into Your Life
Mike Carruthers:
For a marriage or relationship to work better often only requires a change in attitude.
Sky Blossoms:
That means really appreciating your partner. That means treating your relationship no matter how long you have been married as if you're still in a courting period – romancing your partner, showing your best qualities.
July 21, 2014
Interview with William Cane President of Manhattan Makeovers
Mike Carruthers:
What would you guess are the biggest image mistakes professional men make?
William Cane:
Well the 2 biggest mistakes that men make are they fail to polish their shoes and comb their hair. George Steinbrenner the former owner of the New York Yankees was very, very wealthy and successful but he always carried a comb and before he met anybody he stepped in front of a mirror and he made sure every hair was in place.
July 18, 2014
Interview with Richard Lieberman, author of the book Your Job And How Technology Will Change It
Mike Carruthers:
Technology has changed the way many of us do our jobs and more changes are coming.
Richard Lieberman:
Right now people use technology as a tool to help them with their job. The big change is we're going to see technology as a collaborator in doing your job.
July 17, 2014
Interview with Philip Reilly, author of the book Is It in Your Genes?: The Influence of Genes on Common Disorders and Diseases that Affect You and Your Family (Handbooks)
Mike Carruthers:
Your genes play an important role in determining what diseases you likely will get and what diseases you likely won't get.
Philip Reilly:
After all, we know that heavy smoking causes lung cancer, but only 10% of heavy smokers get lung cancer. Why is that?
July 16, 2014
Interview with Charlie Bloom, co-author of the book 101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married: Simple Lessons to Make Love Last
Mike Carruthers:
In any marriage or any relationship there's a big difference between privacy and secrecy.
Charlie Bloom:
Then it's a crucial distinction, the main difference is in intention.
July 15, 2014
Interview with Dr. Brian Wansink, author of the book Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life
Mike Carruthers:
We've known for some time that the size of your dinner plate can influence how much you eat.
Dr. Brian Wansink:
So if you have a 12 inch plate which is what most of us have you'll serve about 22% more of a food on a 12 inch plate than a 10 inch plate. Because 4 ounces of pasta on a 10 inch plate looks like a full plate 4 ounces on a 12 inch plate looks like an appetizer so you add a little bit more.
July 14, 2014
Mike Carruthers:
Whether you know it or not you have a preference how your food is presented on a plate.
Dr. Brian Wansink:
American adults for instance prefer to have the main course right, front, center of the plate. And then we also prefer to have the vegetable on the left and that ends up being almost a nationwide preference for most North Americans.
July 11, 2014
Interview with Judith Viorst, author of the book Grown-Up Marriage: What We Know, Wish We Had Known, and Still Need to Know About Being Married
Mike Carruthers:
Now here's an interesting view of marriage.
Judith Viorst:
Since it's impossible to be in love with each other all the time, marriage keeps you together when you fall out of love and gives you enough time to fall back in again.
July 10, 2014
Interview with Joseph Nowinski, author of the book The Tender Heart: Conquering Your Insecurity
Mike Carruthers:
Would you consider yourself, or someone you know to be insecure?
Joseph Nowinski:
Insecurity is kind of a deep sense of being unsure about your place in the world, your value, symptoms include self-consciousness, a tendency to be very self-critical, easily hurt.

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A Turlock man visiting San Francisco with friends was stabbed Saturday night about a block from his hotel.
A teenager squatting in a vacant Turlock home was arrested Saturday on allegations he kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman.
When Dominic Coelho saw the man who was responsible for his son's death and that of two other men sentenced for his crimes, he took the smallest comfort in believing the man would spend some time behind bars.
The Two Turlock men accused of killing a 21-year-old man made an initial court appearance Friday and learned they could be facing the death penalty.
Two men are facing home invasion charges after they forced their way into a man's Turlock residence and stole his bicycle.
A Stanislaus County jury needed only about 45 minutes to find Brandy Lee Rose Devine guilty of killing her 2-year-old daughter Stephanie Torres.
Two Turlock men have been arrested for murder in the death of a 21-year-old man, whose bullet-riddled body was found slumped over the wheel of his car on Main Street early Wednesday morning.
A concentrated effort to improve pedestrian safety on Turlock's streets resulted in 83 citations being issued Wednesday.
Turlock Police detectives are investigating a shooting on Main Street that left one man mortally wounded.
Put in her crib and shut away in a room with cats for three days, 2-year-old Stephanie Torres died a slow death from dehydration and malnutrition while her mother camped out on a couch in the living room with a case of PediaSure sitting untouched feet away from her in the kitchen.
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A grieving father has issued a public plea in the hopes it might elicit a few leads in the death of his son, Korey Kauffman.
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We think this is Alton Jones, but the way folks are bundled up this morning it's hard to tell for sure!
Elite angler Dean Rojas rides his boat into the chilly waters of Grand Lake.
Edwin Evers takes a handoff from a BASS official.
BASS official Jon Stewart gives instructions to volunteers.
Cameraman Wes Miller prepares the slow-motion camera.
Cliff Pace uses a paddle to navigate heavy traffic at the launch.
Randy Howell, with his cool lighting system, enters the water.
David Walker, in a good mood, with his new truck-wrap and rig.
Bird's eye view as the anglers prepare for the day. That's BASS sales guy, Chris Bork, standing on the left.
Dean Rojas lives in Arizona, but he came prepared for the cold of Grand Lake.
Big Show Terry Scroggins gets the winter boots on.
Josh Wagy qualified for the Classic by winning a Northern Open.
Takahiro Omori's last minute preparations for the elements.
Brent Chapman prepares his electronics for the day.
Anglers head out into the gray dawn.
This angler is so bundled up we're not sure who he is. But he certainly has some boss gloves.
Skeet Reese looks like a sailor about ready to take on the winter sea.
Randy Howell prepare his tackle for the day.
Helmets were out in full force today. This is Terry Scroggins, of Florida, fired up for the day.
Dean Rojas backs out for his launch.
David Walker dials in his plans for the day.
Casey Scanlon looked focused this morning.
Cliff Prince decides sunglasses won't be needed this morning.
Cameramen line up for the launch.
Aaron Martens: sometimes the eyes telegraph a smile.
Kevin VanDam of Michigan is used to the cold weather.
Shaw Grigsby goes over instructions with his Marshal.
For Jonathon VanDam, of Michigan, cold weather is nothing to worry about.
Yusuke Miyazaki makes last minute adjustments before the launch.
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Cross-domain thinking
I enjoy theoretical connections across different knowledge domains. I like finding commonalities and leveraging those commonalities to communicate an idea or, if I'm being honest, to forward a particular agenda.
Similarly, I enjoy reading and listening to others who have the same inclination. Any discussion that breaks across predefined sectors to solve a localised problem is one of my happy places. I'm, therefore, quick to metaphor and a bit too hasty in forcing out an analogy to make my point. Any number of articles on this site would be testament to that.
Although moving across domains can be very helpful in providing fresh impetus or clarification, it should be accompanied by some healthy skepticism, or at least a rational realisation of the limited nature by which certain things can be seen to be similar. Different realities often require different approaches; they unavoidably necessitate a non-universal understanding of the specific problems they present. Not only can different domain thinking be appealing primarily due its novelty (as apposed to being intrinsically better in any way), but not all solutions are necessarily transferable.
One of the more obvious cross-domain connections made in my line of work is that between user experience design and architecture (as in, brick 'n mortar buildings).
Being one of his trademark talents, Rian van der Merwe wrote a great unifying piece a while ago that called on three architecture-related resources.
One main point, the need to have a greater sense of propriety and permanence, resonates loudly with me. Move fast and break things is the realm of the careless; it is a sloppy excuse for bad planning and the consequence of lackadaisical problem solving. Some argue that a culture of on-the-go experimentation and less stringent deployment processes breeds faster learning and insights. I strongly disagree with this, for 2 reasons:
- Taking a deployment seriously and being strict about not sending more crap out into the world does in no way prevent those involved from experimenting and moving fast on non-production environments. The freedom to experiment and break things is not removed from the equation. Do this to your heart's content, but don't have the arrogant expectation that users should bear the brunt of this blind tinkering.
- The many difficult factors around software development do not mean we should be okay with breaking things. The complexity of our industry is no excuse to forget the basics. Too often the thinking is: It broke because we were moving fast. In my experience, this is not actually the case. Rather, It broke because we lacked focus, and we didn't make sure certain critical foundations were solid and properly tested before moving onto less critical things. Too regularly, move fast and break things is just an excuse not to be systematic.
Beware of irreconcilable differences
Although the core analogy of responsibility in architecture is a great one, we do need to remain vigilant to significant, irreconcilable differences between software and brick 'n mortar architecture.
If we get too hyped up over our analogies we can venture down a dangerous road of incongruent imitation. Managers could again fall into the trap of seeing software developers as non-creative unit shifters; that code can be produced in the same way bricks are laid; that x amount of time is needed to lay x amount of bricks.
We also risk becoming blind to the massively shifting landscape on which we build things. Japan's earthquake-proof building codes have nothing on the amount of movement with which we have to contend.
More than this, we also risk misidentifying certain locales of meaning, making the assertion that meaning across these sectors is cleanly transportable, when it is in fact not.
People enjoy inventing slogans which violate basic arithmetic but which illustrate "deeper" truths, such as "1 and 1 make 1" (for lovers), or "1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1" (the Trinity). You can easily pick holes in those slogans, showing why, for instance, using the plus sign is inappropriate in both cases. But such cases proliferate. Two raindrops running down a window pane merge; does one plus one make one? A cloud breaks up into two clouds – more evidence of the same? It is not at all easy to draw a sharp line between cases where what is happening could be called "addition", and where some other word is wanted. If you think about the question, you will probably come up with some criterion involving separation of the objects in space, and making sure each one is clearly distinguishable from all the others. But then how could one count ideas? Or the number of gases comprising the atmosphere? Somewhere, if you try to look it up, you can probably find a statement such as, "There are 17 languages in India, and 462 dialects." There is something strange about precise statements like that, when the concepts "language" and "dialect" are themselves fuzzy.
– Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Does "1" and "1" equal "2" in our industry, or does "one cloud" when joining another remain as "one cloud", only bigger? This different way of understanding numbers is just a basic example of how different realities are home to different meanings, which in turn require different ways of understanding those meanings.
I think cross-domain thinking and problem solving is extremely valuable. I also think using analogies to help communicate with one another is also very effective. However, we need to be wary of the irreconcilable differences between the domains we theoretically traverse. These differences can have real consequences on our day-to-day work, and if misaligned, can create more problems than they solve.
Failure waits quietly at the end of a journey of blind imitation.
The design of Us vs Them
Quite a while ago, I was asked to help with a tight deadline by creating an alternate design comp for a client to consider. I handed the static artwork over to the relevant person, who ended up not even giving it a momentary glance. It was never shown to the client. I asked why, and got told something about there not being enough time to look at it.
I was labelled as a developer in that particular context, you see, and developers, as you know, clearly know nothing about graphic design.
A few months ago I was a bit impatient about a basic feature not being implemented. I wasn't frustrated with the developers – I knew they were busy on higher priority features. So I went into the application and wrote the necessary code myself. It was an unbelievably simple piece of code, about three or four lines of PHP that needed to be added to the correct controller. It worked, as expected, and I submitted a pull request on GitHub. The pull request was rejected. I asked why, and got given some vague answer about it being inefficient. I was initially apologetic – embarrassed at my inability to recognise that it was bad code.
So I delved into the method I used, trying to see what I had done wrong and how it could be done better. After a while (of my spare time), I gave up. I couldn't see what was inefficient about it, or rather I couldn't see a more efficient way of pulling it off. So, instead I decided to watch the Jira task associated with the feature, and see what the developers wrote and then learn from that. Over a month later the task was finally marked as done. The same developer who had rejected my pull request had accepted this one. The method used was identical to the one I had used.
I'm a maker of pretty pictures, you see, so there's no way I should be allowed to muck around in their code.
Most developers I've worked with started off by identifying me as a graphic designer. Most designers I've worked with started off by identifying me as a developer. Very few of them, I think, ever truly changed their minds about this initial pigeon-holing.
I design digital products. Sometimes I use a pen and paper, sometimes Balsamiq or Gliffy or Axure or Proto.io. Sometimes I use Photoshop or Illustrator. I regularly use client-side code, like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I also use an array of server-side technologies to generate the former. Sometimes I use Jira or Trello or Spreadsheets. A lot of the time I just talk to people. I regularly say, I don't know, and then read things about which I don't know.
All of the above is design. All of the time.
The life of an embedded designer isn't easy. You're the piggy in the middle. You continuously have to sacrifice your ideals for the sake of the design. You're the boring kind of designer, a member of that mythical club called, Design Is Something That Actually Works.
Design is not only a sketch or 3D rendering of a chair. It's not simply the engineering of the materials used to make that chair.
Design is you sitting in that chair.
I just wish we could all get along, and treat ideas and work based purely on their merits. I wish we could just focus on making a chair that people love sitting in. I'm tired of neat labels for the sake of others, and I'm especially tired of my work being pre-judged based on that label. If the work I do is shit, by all means – pretty pretty please with a cherry on top – call me on it.
You may be a way better illustrator and graphic designer than I am, and you may know way more about software development (I don't claim to be especially good at any of these things), but don't disregard or impede my work because you have some broken idea about what design is. Point out what is wrong in my work, not that it is wrong that I dared to even do that work in the first place.
On contradiction point
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
– Walt Whitman
Why take the time to write about things so few care about? Why write things even fewer care to read?
It often comes from a genuine pleasure for discussing the merits of things in a detail that most conversations don't allow. It's a space that allows me limitless consideration. I genuinely work hard – although, I could work harder, it seems – at limiting this space.
Even though they always get reduced by at least a third, every piece on this site should probably be reduced by more than half their current word count. But I can't help myself. Give me the space for consideration, and I'll consider 'til the cows come home.
Ultimately, this online log of my thoughts is mostly a conversation with myself. It's a gentleman's debate between the many me's; between the me I most often see and the me that is you, and you, and you. It is an argument between my multitudes, boringly subdued in industry specificity.
It's a way of mulling over my many contradictions, trying to see if I can find a centre point around which these contractions can orbit less offensively.
This pleasure of venturing into greater detail is unavoidably accompanied by the need to share an opinion. An opinion too regularly becomes the centre point around which those contradictory considerations orbit, as it is a particular me that is trying to sell my efforts to a particular you. All these particularities sully the real point of all it. Consideration. Conscientiousness.
Consideration is the carrot and my opinions are the ugly whipping sticks.
My opinions are clearly not doing a very good sales job. Their figures are, in fact, hopelessly dismal. As the employer of these opinions, I should consider letting them go; admitting their redundancy. As the employee of these opinions, I should probably seek different employment.
But I'm a gutless fool. So, tomorrow, or the next day, or the day after that, I'll most likely don my cheap polyester suit again and head off to try sell some more opinions in a saturated marketplace, while consideration sits quietly at home, trying to make ends meet for my many multitudes.


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November 16, 2014 in ASAP Videos, Current Affairs, Ken Mannie, Motivation, Strength Training & Conditioning | Permalink | Comments (0)
If the strength coaching profession has a John Wooden...he goes by the name: Ken Mannie, and he's in East Lansing, Michigan prepping one of college football's top programs,the Michigan State Spartans.He's a big deal up there.... big enough that the Head Football Coach, Mark Dantonio refers to Mannie as "the heart and soul of Spartan Football."
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ASAP took you behind the scenes to see the Ohio State Buckeyes in training Part One with Asst AD for Football Sports Performance Mickey Marotti. We took you there for the Woody Hayes Athletic Center strength tour. We have shown you Front Squat Techniques with Asst Strength Coach Anthony Schlegel..... along with some core work and rope training with him as well. Of course, we gave you top notch Hammer Jammer Techniques with Strength Coach Kenny Parker and then-intern Nick Savage. And former All American OSU Buckeye Jeff Uhlenhake, now an Asst Strength Coach, joined us for an important Strength Coaching Segment.
We even brought you to field level for one of the great college marching bands, The Ohio State Marching Band and their incomparable "Script Ohio." Lastly, you were able to see the Gatorade Fuel Bar Tour with Buckeyes' Team Dietitian Sarah Wick.
Once the training and nutrition is instilled, it's time for some football. Everything that the players have trained for and accomplished through hours of practice finally comes to fruition.
Here are some photos from last week's game.
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October 03, 2014 in ASAP Videos, Motivation, Sports Nutrition, Sports Science, Strength Training & Conditioning | Permalink | Comments (0)
Auburn, Alabama
Welcome to Bigtime! Auburn University.... just across the road from Toomer's Drug Store.....where life stands still.....as if it's still 1967 in there. Counter fountain milkshakes and root beer floats along with grilled sandwiches. And, the newly renovated Toomer's Corner, which is bouncing back from some criminal malice that it had a few years ago. Grab some lunch at Zoe's Kitchen right there on Magnolia Avenue and take a walk through the beautiful campus. I did see a couple of huge members of the Auburn Tigers Football team leaving a local establishment called The Hound. These guys raved about the bison burgers there.
If you care to see one of the truly incredible college fitness centers,the Auburn University Campus Recreation and Wellness Center, then take the tour. It's an amazing structure and I would hope that there's a lot of fit college kids hanging out on this campus because this place tops them all! Unreal.
One group of college kids on the campus who are definitely in superb condition is the Auburn Tiger Football team. And of course, the physical training that they encounter is quite different that what's going on over at the fitness center. Led by Head Strength & Conditioning Coach Ryan Russell, the Tigers are able to perform at optimal levels. The comprehensive program that's implemented there ensures that the athletes succeed and meet high expectations. This is a football program steeped in tradition and home to many great players. James Brooks, Takeo Spikes, Tucker Fredrickson, Bo Jackson, Pat Sullivan, Cam Newton to name a few. Oh and then there's this Chris Davis 108 yard field goal attempt return. WOW. So, the players know the deal. Train extremely hard.... contend for an SEC Championship.....or for that matter, a National Championship. Here's a podcast/video that I conducted with Coach Ryan Russell prior to the 2014 season. War Eagle!
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September 22, 2014 in ASAP Videos, Motivation, Strength Training & Conditioning | Permalink | Comments (0)
At the time, he may of dreamed of what it would be like to be the strength coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes when he stepped foot into the Ernie Biggs Athletic Training Facility, known as the "north" facility, to become a G.A. strength and conditioning coach. That was right around 1987.
But, a little over twenty five years later, football coach Urban Meyer was to be named as Ohio State's 24th head coach. And once again, Meyer would call upon his long time right hand man.... Mickey Marotti... to take on a lead role of the responsibility of reviving a college football powerhouse program that had seemed to have fallen into a stage of hibernation.
Coach Urban Meyer and Mickey Marotti have been teamed together basically since the time Meyer, who as a college football assistant coach, was on a site visit at the University of Cincinnati and witnessed Marotti who was the U.C. Bearcat Strength Coach in action. Coach Marotti was training the 'Cats at that particular moment and it definitely caught Meyer's attention. The training style was seemingly relentless. It was intense. Marotti was building a foundation-- that of a highly motivated and enthused strength coach who infused his fervor on the athletes with whom he worked. He recognized a connection between intense physical training and development of the mindset of highly competive athletes. Even the Cincinnati Bearcat basketball team reaped the rewards of having Marotti there. Basketball Coach Bob Huggins loved it , too. Meyer made note of that coach he'd seen at Cincinnati. Meyer, at the time was an assistant coach at Notre Dame, and sought out to somehow get him in up to South Bend. That happened.
And, finally a few years later, Urban Meyer was able to reconnect with Mickey Marotti and bring him to Gainesville, Florida to take on the task with the University of Florida Gators. The combination worked. The trophy case now sports a pair of glass football trophies: college football's top prize. Several years later, Marotti departed the University of Florida, where he had helped mold top players into a national championship quality program, and headed back to Columbus, Ohio. This time though, the stockily built coach who once played college football at West Liberty University in West Virginia, would take on a larger, all encompassing role. Strength coach, yes... for sure...but now he'd take on even greater span as indicated with a new title of Assistant AD for Football Sports Performance. Departments like athletic training, custom tailored football sports nutrition, sport psychology, sports medicine, team physicians, GPS sports science, game day and practice prep would all be under his umbrella now. But most of all, motivation. That's Coach Mick's specialty.... motivation. When you've been doing the job as long as he has, you know and understand many types of personalities. Marotti developed a knack for knowing how to get elite football athletes from all walks of life to desire excellence and a hard training mentality. Ultimately, it takes a ton of hard work and effort. Marotti can help to extract it.
So, when Coach Marotti made the return trip to "C-bus," this time it was to The Woody Hayes Athletic Center, where a long corridor separates the original football training facility of the 70's and 80's from what is now one of the premier facilities of it's kind in all of collegiate and professional athletics. Ohio State....where Meyer and Marotti were once Graduate Assistant coaches, the two have now assumed their ultimate dream jobs with aspirations of taking the Buckeyes to college football's final four...and perhaps beyond.
Check out some of the photos here from the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, along with Part One of The Buckeyes in Training. These are some behind-the-scenes looks into how Coach Marotti prepares the Buckeyes.
ASAP Video and Blogpost by Ed Cicale
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Reknowned gym owner/fitness expert Roger Schwab of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania understands well of the principles of a type of exercise known as eccentric or negative training...so well that he invested thousands of dollars into a specialized type of training equipment called X-FORCE. The same can be said of Joe Cirulli and his Gainesville (Florida) Health & Fitness Training Center. He has also acquired the X-Force line of training equipment. The results at their training centers have been quite remarkable. I can testify to the training experience that I had in Bryn Mawr at Roger's Mainline Health & Fitness. My first twenty minute session, supervised by Roger Schwab left me with a feeling that I'd never quite felt from years of strength training and conditioning. In fact, recovery took several days. I couldn't wait to return for more.... and I did. However, flights to Philadelphia can add up. Then, I got word of exercise physiologist Ellington Darden's new book.........
Recorded at Kim Wood's Football Strength Clinic #4, ASAP overcame recording and technical difficulties and saved the audio for today's ASAP Podcast. Fortunately , our special guest Dr. Ellington Darden, was able to share some of his findings he's authored in his new book entitled: The Body Fat Breakthrough."
In the book, Darden details with plenty of motivating photographs, some of his findings on a new and interesting training regimen that produces some very noticeable results! Dr. Darden, an exercise phyiologist and author of 50 books dating back to 1973, knows how to deliver the point in easy to understand terminology. But, the huge message that I got from this new text is the reinforcement of the importance of Eccentric...or Negative Acentuated Training along with some new training techniques and methodology to my personal program and to those athletes and students whom I train.
In his book, Dr. Darden explains how placing a greater emphasis on eccentric training can transform strength training and fitness training to new levels. And, his 30-30-30 Routine, which I've been experimenting with, is guaranteed to provide your program with a spark for improved results. Here's the ASAP Podcast with El Darden and information on how to get a copy of his newest book.... a must for any fitness trainer, strength coach, personal trainer or athlete looking to bump up their program.
ASAP Video and Blogpost by Ed Cicale
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August 20, 2014 in ASAP Podcasts, Current Affairs, Motivation, Strength Training & Conditioning | Permalink | Comments (0)
We had to make a return visit to Starkville, Mississippi this summer to check in on how the Mississippi State Football team was progressing under their new Head Strength & Conditioning Coach Rick Court. Of course, we visited Hail State last summer on our ASAP FOOTBALL POWER Road Show, but needed to see the changes!
We've seen Coach Court at Bowling Green, Toledo and Ohio State and it also gave us a chance to see Thomas Stallworth, Brady Collins and Nick Savage in action during the first morning group. Coach Court has the players and his assistants amped up.... it's high energy and strictly business!
Upon our arrival, we saw a very spirited conditioning workout, as the 'Dawgs worked their way through without a bark. Later, after we all headed to the team meeting room where ASAP's Ted Lambrinides spoke the team on the topic of "Drugs, Supplements & Personal Conduct." Definitely a winning message for athletes and young people!
Once Head Football Coach Dan Mullen finished wrapped up the meeting, we were headed off to a barbecue joint called The Little Dooey where we had some pulled pork (protein!) and some crawfish poppers..... not bad! Then it was time for the Hilton Garden Inn at Starkville to get rested up for a morning workout with the strength staff.
So, after cranking out an early bird workout, somehow I was able to film some footage of the first group of Mississippi State Bulldogs. Interestingly, these guys had first group priority because they were volunteers to visit a hospital later on that day. Great bunch of players!
Here's a look at what's going on behind the scenes in Starkville.
ASAP Video and Blogpost by Ed Cicale
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August 09, 2014 in ASAP Podcasts, ASAP Videos, Motivation, Strength Training & Conditioning | Permalink | Comments (0)
We made a trip up to East Lansing, Michigan to check in on the defending Big Ten Champs...the Michigan State Spartans. Strength Coach Ken Mannie and also Head Football Coach Mark Dantonio.
The Spartans were prepping for the opening of 2014 fall camp. ASAP's Ed Cicale shot some video, gathered some interviews and photos while Ted Lambrinides gave a 10:00a.m. talk to the MSU Spartans in the team meeting room, titled "Drugs, Supplements & Personal Conduct."
Fall Camp 2014 is opening for the team that is coming off a huge 13-1 season, a Big Ten Championship, a Rose Bowl victory and is presently riding a 10 game win streak. Coach Dantonio has done a phenomenal job in his seven seasons at MSU, where the Spartans have also won three straight bowl appearances.
So, with all the big things going on by the Green and White, ASAP took a time out and headed up to find out how it's being done. Coach Dantonio shared a few thoughts on his basic tenets of operating a winning football program, talked about the challenges of trying to defend a championship, and also revealed his thoughts on what veteran Head Strength Coach Ken Mannie means to his Michigan State Spartan Football program.
Here's the video interview with Coach Dantonio:
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August 02, 2014 in ASAP Podcasts, ASAP Videos, Ken Mannie, Motivation, Strength Training & Conditioning | Permalink | Comments (0)
ASAP continued its Summer 2014 Road Show and we set our sites on Lexington, Kentucky.....home to the winningest basketball program anywhere: The Kentucky Wildcats. And with this premier program comes huge expectations. They have an incredible fan base that expects one basic thing: victories.... and championships...as in National Championships.
So, as I left my very comfy confines and suite at The Campbell House Lexington, I made the quick drive to the University of Kentucky Basketball's Joe Craft Center. basically the headquarters of this basketball juggernaut. You know it when you walk through the doors. The basketball office is on the left and then it requires coded entry for access to the rest of the facility. Once downstairs, I'm just a few yards from Head Strength Coach Ray "ROCK" Oliver's office within the basketball strength training center. Key code access required here, too. Finally inside, there's some of the top players of the college game going through some intense training using some med balls. Assistant Strength Coach Robert Harris also led a specialized core workout routine as Rock kept watch with a look of "unsatisfied" on his face.
Rock Oliver knows no complacency. He's not giddy over last season's NCAA National Runner-up "Final Four" appearance. In fact, quite the opposite. Like the Head Coach, John Calipari, and the #BBN.... Big Blue Nation- Oliver expects championships, too. And he's is on a mission to have his trainees prepared to make another run for a national championship. That would, no doubt, return the gleaming smile.
On this day, I witnessed the players finishing up strength workouts and recovery nutrition only to find them heading across the hall to the Kentucky Wildcats Sports Medicine Complex, where Head Athletic Trainer Chris Simmons is located, for some under-water treadmill training. Coach Oliver learned all about HydroWorx helping injured QB Carson Palmer rehab his blown out knee. While a coach with the Cincinnati Bengals, Oliver added this training method to his already bulging notebook. Check out this training in the video and photos!
ASAP Video and Blogpost by Ed Cicale
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July 04, 2014 in ASAP Videos, Current Affairs, Jump & Vertical Training, Motivation, Sports Science, Strength Training & Conditioning | Permalink | Comments (0)
Coach Kim Wood discusses his upcoming:
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June 09, 2014 in ASAP Podcasts, Kim Wood Podcasts, Motivation, Strength & Speed Clinics, Strength Training & Conditioning | Permalink | Comments (0)
It's nestled into the foothills of the Santa Catalina mountain range, the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort..... giant saguaro are everywhere you look and it's tough to leave those comforts....even just for a few hours! But, I did. And it was on into Tucson I went , down Speedway Boulevard, a left onto North Campbell and it was into the heart of Arizona Wildcat country....and there it was. The McHale Center. And Arizona Stadium. Arizona Wildcat fixtures.
It's about a twenty-five minute drive from there to The University of Arizona and that's where I caught up with the strength and conditioning coach for the Arizona Wildcats. Under Head Basketball Coach Sean Miller, Chris Rounds directs the training program for one of the premier programs in college basketball. Coach Rounds realizes that he's working with some of the elite athletes of the sport...and trains them accordingly. Injuries to players are at a minimum. And therefore, players like Aaron Gordon flourish in a program like the one at UA. Gordon was able to test out near the top of several categories at the NBA Combine. And his vertical jump was astounding! Interestingly, Rounds prefers to lessen extra conditioning work during the off season so as "to minimize the wear and tear on their bodies and hopefully they'll have long professional careers without breaking down."
So in between the steaks at Lil' Abners or the fine dining at The Flying V , I was able to get this ASAP Podcast with Coach Chris Rounds.
The Podcast
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June 04, 2014 in ASAP Podcasts, ASAP Videos, Current Affairs, Jump & Vertical Training, Motivation, Strength Training & Conditioning | Permalink | Comments (0)


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Passive Transport Teacher Resources
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Osmosis and Plant Cells
Aside from obviously being a photocopy and a couple of minor formatting problems, this is a laudable lab activity for exploring osmosis. Biology groups cut potato chunks into equal volumes and record the mass of each. They place two chunks into each of three different concentrations of salt solution and later record the new masses.
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The Cell Membrane
Your students will love this PowerPoint! Great visuals will support understanding of membrane proteins, cell membranes, active transport, and diffusion. There are a lot of details on each page and all are relevant. The presentation could be split into sections to support a worksheet or to create a self-test paper.
11th - Higher Ed Science
Osmosis and Diffusion Lab: Honey I Blew Up the Bear
Beginning biologists explore passive transport through two demonstrations and a hands-on inquiry. Spray air freshener from one spot in the classroom and have class members raise their hands as the scent reaches them. Also, place a teabag into a clear glass container of hot water for them to observe.
6th - 9th Science
Passive Transport
Not only will beginning biologists write the answers to questions on this worksheet, they will analyze diagrams of what happens in different situations considering cell transport. Although you will find the text a little blurry and one of the diagrams much lighter than the rest of the print, the approach taken by this resource makes it worthwhile.
9th - 12th Science
Cell 5 Diffusion and Osmosis
Students distinguish between active and passive transport. Students identify key words associated with active and passive transport. They draw and explain the structure f the cellular membrane. They are able to define phospholipid bilayer, hydrophilic, and hydrophobic.
9th - 10th Science
Modeling the Cell Membrane
In this membrane permeability worksheet, students read introductory information about the cell membrane structure as it pertains to permeabillity and draw a representation of the membrane as they complete a lab. Students record the results cleanliof their modeling activity.
7th - 12th Science
Biology pupils take the cell membrane apart piece-by-piece as they complete this worksheet. They describe the structure of the cell membrane and explain the processes that transport materials across it. This phenomenal resource even has a diagram of a passive transport demonstration for learners to analyze.
9th - Higher Ed Science
Cell Size and Shape; Diffusion and Osmosis Processes
Use salmon eggs as a cell model for demonstrating the movement of water over concentration gradients. Junior scientists examine the same process microscopically with an onion cell. They use a thistle tube and a semipermeable membrane to discover osmosis.
9th - 12th Science
How Big Can a Bee Be?
Mathematicians analyze the relationships between surface area and volume. They conduct Internet research, conduct various experiments, record the data in a spreadsheet, and graph the results and compare the rate of increase of surface area to the rate of increase of volume.
7th - 10th Math CCSS: Designed
Water Balance
Educate and entertain at the same time! When presenting upcoming biologists with homeostasis in animals, use this colorful and information-packed presentation. Animals make humorous comments on the information provided. It details the processes of water balance and nitrogen waste removal with diagrams, photos, and comprehensive notes.
10th - Higher Ed Science
Regulating Internal Environment
The many mechanisms of maintaining internal conditions of an organism are detailed here, with clear examples of how separate evolutionary paths have led to different conclusions. The slides are concise and attractively designed with information about diffusion, osmosis, waste diposal, and hormone feedback loops.
10th - 12th Science
Regents High School Examination: Biology 2006
Twenty-six pages of biology questions, mostly in multiple-choice form, are included in the all-encompassing New York State Regents exam. It assesses every topic typically covered in a high-school biology course. Create your own answer sheet and use this as your final exam, or get ideas from it for questions to create your own.
9th - 12th Science


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A City Education: College Isn't a Dream, It's a Plan
Through A City Education, City Year corps members share their experiences working as tutors and mentors in schools in hopes of closing the opportunity gap and ending the dropout crisis.
On a cold Saturday morning in October, the smell of coffee and pan dulce filled the air while the Boyle Heights community in Los Angeles gathered at Mendez High School for the school's second annual College and Career Fair. Many Mendez students will be the first in their families to graduate from high school and attend college, but the school's focus on getting them there was evident in the fair's slogan: "College is not a dream, it's a plan!" And, even though the fair took place on a Saturday, the City Year Los Angeles team showed up to help and offer our support. As college graduates ourselves, we are dedicated to passing on our passion for learning, and supporting that passion within the Boyle Heights community.
Indeed, creating a culture of college attendance is a key part of the learning experience at Mendez. Although the student body is predominantly low-income and the neighborhood is underserved, the kids are used to having clear goals and talking about ways to achieve them. Last year, Mendez increased graduation rates by 27 percent, the largest jump in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The school's intention is to help students and their families succeed well beyond high school graduation.
To that end, Mendez's community decided to immerse local students and their families in a day of planning so that they can begin to see the possibilities that are available for students after high school. The morning was full of workshops that were hosted by community leaders and volunteers. The workshops informed students and parents about financial aid, the FAFSA and DREAM Act, and college readiness. One session, entitled "College for Dreamers" educated attendees about the aid available to them even if they don't have immigration papers. To ensure full participation, all sessions were led in both Spanish and English.


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Bolting furniture to walls
Started by WYSIWYG , Nov 28 2012 03:22 PM
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Posted 28 November 2012 - 03:22 PM
How many people actually do this?
I've only heard of it as a suggestion a few times when DD1 was little, but we never really have had any furniture that would topple over if over balanced, like a book case.
Well, the other day my two were in the playroom, playing nicely. I told them I was going to the toilet and will be back. I suddenly hear a loud bang and DD2 screaming. I run to find DD1s tallboy tipped over with DD2 under it. I struggled to get it off her, fearing what I would find. DD2 was absolutely fine, thankfully, just a small bruise. No broken bones, no concussions, no split skin. I can't believe how quickly it happened!
Usually the girls have no reason to go into their bedrooms, their toys are all in their playroom, so unless its to sleep or get dressed, that's it.
I feel horrible that it happened, but so, so, so thankful that DD2 was fine. It could have been so much worse.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 03:25 PM
We have done it with all of our bookcases and toy shelves. We used L shaped brackets and bolted them to the furniture and the wall. Small expense for minimising the risk so dramatically
Posted 28 November 2012 - 03:27 PM
We didn't but DD was never a climber.
We are now installing very tall cabinets that need to be bolted as the weight of the glass doors will pull the cabinet forward without even touching them.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 03:27 PM
Our bookcases are all bolted to the walls. DD1 was/is a climber, we couldn't risk it. Other furniture is bolted to the walls also if it looks to be a toppling hazard, tall boys like you describe are a definite problem due to them falling when all the drawers are pulled out at once.
Glad your child is ok OP, that must have been very scary!
Posted 28 November 2012 - 03:28 PM
We have done this with taller bookshelves and cupboards. Doesn't stop them climbing up there though!
Posted 28 November 2012 - 03:28 PM
All of our bookcases and tallboys are bolted to the wall.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 03:29 PM
Our LCD is tethered with a strap thingy, our oven is bolted in (they are known for tipping with kids in/under them. We don't really have a lot else to worry about, we have one tall bookshelf which I turned and laid on it's side so that gets climbed on but can't fall.
Glad your dd is okay.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 03:30 PM
I think tall boys are the biggest risk, and I know a number of people that have had theirs tip. Usually they tip when kids pull the bottom drawers out and climb/ stand in them.
You've reminded me to nag DH to fix our bookcase to the wall though.
Grad no-one was hurt.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 03:36 PM
Thanks for the replies. Tallboy is going to be bolted! So glad we will be getting rid of it when we move.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 05:53 PM
Yep, a lot of our furniture is bolted to the wall, pretty much anything taller then 120 cm unless we are absolutely sure it won't tip. We usually try to pull it over ourselves to see if it will tip or how much it will take first. Might be excessive but we would rather be safe than sorry.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 05:57 PM
How scary for you all! Good wake up call though. I am going to bolt mine now! Has always been at the back of my mind to do it..
Posted 28 November 2012 - 06:23 PM
All of ours are bolted.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 08:09 PM
DH and I have been wanting to bolt our bookcases, but we rent.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 08:55 PM
We do, even though we rent. DH will patch the walls when we leave.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 09:01 PM
Glad your daughter is ok. What a fright for everyone!
We have one tall bookshelf and a tall CD cabinet - both have straps screwed into the wall. We don't have any other tall ones to bolt. We're also renting (albeit very easy going landlords who are fine with us adding holes for picture frames etc) so wouldn't want to have to bolt TOO many things. Thankfully our son isn't really a climber. We did find him once having climbed from bed to chest of drawers to wardrobe in his room. So moved the furniture around to avoid the step effect!
Posted 28 November 2012 - 09:09 PM
We don't (combination renting and nobody in the house being handy enough). However, I have chocked all the bookshelves in front so that they lean back slightly. We did have a CD rack fall down once (while we were out - must have been the cat). Surprisingly no damage to rack, contents, or the stuff it fell on. Gigantic mess to clean up though.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 09:26 PM
Lol I thought everyone bolted things to the walls! I don't even have kids and all my bookshelves etc are fixed! I've always been paranoid about things falling on my pets.
I'm now realising that I'm a bit of a health and safety freak! God help me when I have children.....
Posted 28 November 2012 - 09:33 PM
All ours are bolted. We rent but will have the walls repaired before we move out. The expense is worth the kids safety.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 09:38 PM
We bolt everything to the wall that could topple. Better safe than sorry.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 11:01 PM
Friends of ours lost their 2 year old boy when a set of drawers fell on him. Absolutely tragic. Anything that can fall is bolted around here.
Posted 28 November 2012 - 11:11 PM
Yes OP, we do this with all the furniture except in my bedroom (the one in our room is really difficult to attach to the wall, and they kids aren't supposed to play in there). Like you, we hadn't done it yet, and when DS1 was about 18 months old he opened a drawer in a tall-boy unit and leaned on it, and the whole thing toppled. Luckily he ducked down and he was sitting next to the end of his bed, so it fell onto the bed and missed him. Pretty scary. The following day we attached all the furniture. I'm glad your DD is ok too.
Edited by kittennic, 28 November 2012 - 11:13 PM.
Posted 30 November 2012 - 02:27 PM
Can I ask how you bolt your furniture to the wall? DH insists that bolting into plaster would not be enough to stop heavy furniture from tipping, however it is not always possible to locate furniture near wall studs. DD is just getting mobile so I am trying to find a solution.
Posted 30 November 2012 - 04:30 PM
Our walls are brick, so they should hold.
I agree, I'm not sure that plaster would, though. Maybe try to make sure the heaviest or those most likely to tip are fastened to stronger walls? Are your outside walls stronger than the internal ones?
Edited by kittennic, 30 November 2012 - 04:33 PM.
Posted 30 November 2012 - 04:46 PM
Yep just did the book shelves in DS's room on the weekend, now he's crawling & pulling himself up on everything.
Nothing else he can really get to in the house that's not secure & we've gated off our front room with all the large, heavy bookshelves, that's a no go room.
TV's are another thing thing to do, many children die when TV's fall on them..
Posted 30 November 2012 - 07:06 PM
We bolted all of ours too.
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