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Recently I got a MacBook Air. The system is Lion. Somewhere in the manual they said I need to have Internet access should my system ever fail in order to restore it. More often than not, my connection is horrendous. Is there any alternative way? System is ok right now but I want to make sure I know my way around.
Your only other option is to purchase the Apple USB Lion flash drive installer - $69.00. Otherwise, you would do an Internet restore:
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You can also create a small USB flash drive Recovery HD: OS X Lion: About Lion Recovery Disk Assistant.
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- Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
- Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
- Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
3. Locate the saved Lion installer in your Downloads folder. CTRL- or RIGHT-click on the installer and select Show Package Contents from the contextual menu. Double-click on the Contents folder to open it. Double-click on the SharedSupport folder. In this folder you will see a disc image named InstallESD.dmg.
4. Plug in your freshly prepared USB flash drive. You are going to clone the InstallESD.dmg disc image to the flash drive as follows:
- Open Disk Utility.
- Select the USB flash drive from the left side list.
- Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
- Check the box labeled Erase destination.
- Select the USB flash drive volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
- Drag the InstallESD.dmg disc image file into the Source entry field.
- Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
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Did CBS lift the format of The Talk from the ex-wife of a Los Angeles Lakers Hall of Famer?
That is what Angela Wilder, ex-wife of James Worthy, claims. She has filed a lawsuit that alleges that The Talk was stolen from her idea about a show that revolved around women and their interactions, as well as the common bond of motherhood. Wilder wrote a book in 2004 entitled "Powerful Mate Syndrome," and has appeared on shows such as 48 Hours, 20/20 and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Her "experience" as a "celebrity" wife in Los Angeles apparently educated her on the television and entertainment industries, per the lawsuit.
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Fighting for Love (Saruhiko x Reader x Misaki)
Teeth gritted and hands into fists, Misaki charged towards Saruhiko with full fists of flames. Saruhiko got an ominous smug on his face. "You really think you could take ___ away from me by fighting." Saruhiko scoffed. "You're such an amateur..."
Misaki growled and tackled him.
"Shut up and just fight me!" Misaki's fist was suppose to meet with Saruhiko's face but Saruhiko made a lucky dodge and scratched Misaki with one of his knives.
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"Because you forced her to join you!" Misaki shouted.
Sounds of punches and splatter of blood echoed throughout the place. The atmosphere was tense and the only sound was their breathing and the sounds of their attacks.
"Forced her? HA! She came with me because she wants to be with me instead of you. She never wanted to be with you. She wanted to be with me because she wants more power, just like me. She wants me! She needs me! She's always there for me! She would never be with a weakling like you."
"Tsk. You think she's always there for you." Misaki smirked. Saruhiko raised a brow. "I can believe you didn't know what happened between me and ___."
"What are you talking about?"
"What I'm trying to say was that me and ___ are already in a relationship now." Misaki said with a smug on his face.
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Want to go on a European wine-country ramble, biking or driving between vineyards and villages and sampling wines and the sights along the way? If you can't afford to shell out for a trip to a traditional wine region like Provence or Tuscany, consider a vacation to the Czech Republic's little-known Moravia region. There you can stay in friendly inns for as little as $60 a night and sample as many of the area's prized white and ice wines as you like, for about the same price as a single bottle of ho-hum Napa Chardonnay.
Located to the south of Bohemia (where Prague is), Moravia is a more traditional, rural part of the Czech Republic, that is well set up for inn-to-inn touring. "There's a great deal to see if you're driving or biking," says Tim Leffel, author of The World's Cheapest Destinations, who went on a cycling tour through Moravia last fall. "Some people have compared Moravia to the wine districts of France, with its rolling hills covered with vineyards, 300- to 400-year-old architecture, and little villages with the traditional town square and colorful houses. It hasn't been gentrified the way other wine regions in Europe have been (although it's starting), so it's a lot cheaper."
You could easily spend a week hopping from one town to the next, visiting boutique wineries, castles, monasteries, and other sites. "One fantastic place to visit is the National Wine Centre, which is in the cellar of a castle in this beautiful town called Valtice," says Leffel. "For less than $25 you can try any of the 100 best wines in the country. Most people have never heard of these brands, but they are surprisingly good."
Other area highlights include the towns of Telc and Znojmo. Telc has one of Europe's few unreconstructed 16th-century town centers, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and Znojmo is home to one of region's largest wineries, Znovin Znojmo, which offers tastings and tours of its cellars and vineyards.
Trip planning:
Moravia has a well-maintained biking and walking network, which is part of the extensive Prague-Vienna Greenway. "Most of the routes are either on bike trails or on country roads without much traffic. Many of the hotels, restaurants, and wineries are biker-friendly and have signs indicating they have places to lock up your bike," says Leffel. The Friends of Czech Greenways website publishes detailed maps and biking guides of Moravia, which make it easy to plan an itinerary and arrange for bike rentals or tours. You can book a pre-arranged tour (starting at €1,090 for eight days), but Leffel says it's cheaper and not all that difficult to do a self-guided tour through an established bike rental company.
Most Moravia accommodations are cheap, simple, family-run establishments. Leffel recommends the Hotel Drnholec, an inn and pub housed in a 18th-century manor house that's run by a British-Czech couple and located in a small town by the same name near Mikulov. "At around $60 a night for a room and breakfast, it's a great deal," says Leffel. He also likes the B&B Hotel Templ in Mikulov (near Znojmo), which starts at about $80 per night. In Telc, try the Hotel Telc , the town's highest-rated hotel on TripAdvisor, where nightly rates for doubles start at €45.
Early September flights from New York to Prague, the nearest major international airport, start at $779 round-trip, including taxes and fees, on Hotwire.com. From the main train station in Prague, it's about a three-hour ride ($10 one-way) to Brno, the biggest city in Moravia.
Go to the Czech Tourism website for more trip-planning resources.
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Me and my hubby want to have our fist baby when he is 24 and i am 22 but i have bipolar 1 and im on medicine for it and for my adhd im on abilify 15mg vyvance 30mg and artane 2mg these all are harmful to the baby when its the first trimester of the pregnancy an my doc has told me before i cannot since my bipolar is so bad i cannot get off my meds but i dont wanna harm my baby any one have u been in my situation or close to my situation to where u had to stay on your meds and do u have a normal little one now or is he or she affected by the meds that u took or did u get off your meds for only the first trimester and then get back on them ..... please i need help cause i will be 22 in less than 3 years so im tryin to plan this safely for my little one .....
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You need a psychiatrist who is willing to work with you and your meds in order to find ones that are safer for pregnancy. While some bipolars are probably able to get off medication and "manage" while pregnant I was not one of them. I decided to stay on medications and keep myself healthy. I worked with my psychiatrist and consulted with a team at UCLA. I took Lamictal and Haldol (very low dose) during pregnancy and I know that Prozac is ok, too. I had 2 baby boys within 15 months of each other and both are healthy. They were born healthy and still are. There were no side effects from my medications - at least not that we know of at this point. The only other thing is that it was recommended I NOT breastfeed since they aren't sure about the effects of the meds being passed through breast milk.
I'm also Bipolar I and could not get off of my medications. I am 32 weeks along today. I'm taking Geodon 240 mg and Trazadone 100-300 mg. I HOPE that my LO is ok. My doctors both felt that the risk of me off of my meds was greater than whatever the meds might do to the baby. Luckily, I have been VERY stable this pregnancy, and I'm grateful for meds that are working. I would talk to your doctor to see what other meds might work as well that are more baby-safe. Like PP, I cannot breastfeed, which is a big disappointment, but my doctor said there are no other meds in the class of meds that I take that are safe while bf'ing.
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I am trying for my last baby. My doc and I are working on lowering and stopping the meds that I need to before May comes. I will be on Lymictal 150mg. And maybe a low dose of Zoloft. I hope all goes well for me as I had very bad PPD/PPP as well as being dignosed with Major Dep and BB. So I have high hopes for my last baby. I also have had over 7 m/c so that is also something I have to try and watch out for. I hope to have my rainbow baby as well as a great last Postpartum period. Good Luck with your wish to have your baby. Lymictal is a great drug, that my doc is confidenced that will be great choice so maybe you can talk to your doc about it. GL and lots of ~*~*~*~*BABY DUST*~*~*~*~* to u.
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Cost Effectiveness of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccination against Acute Otitis Media in Children: A Review
While pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have shown to be highly effective against invasive pneumococcal disease, their potential effectiveness against acute otitis media (AOM) might become a major economic driver for implementing these vaccines in national immunization programmes. However, the relationship between the costs and benefits of available vaccines remains a controversial topic. Our objective is to systematically review the literature on the cost effectiveness of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination against AOM in children. We searched PubMed, Cochrane and the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination databases (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects [DARE], NHS Economic Evaluation Database [NHS EED] and Health Technology Assessment database [HTA]) from inception until 18 February 2010. We used the following keywords with their synonyms: 'otitis media', 'children', 'cost-effectiveness', 'costs' and 'vaccine'. Costs per AOM episode averted were calculated based on the information in this literature. A total of 21 studies evaluating the cost effectiveness of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines were included. The quality of the included studies was moderate to good. The cost per AOM episode averted varied from &U20AC;168 to &U20AC;4214, and assumed incidence rates varied from 20 952 to 118 000 per 100 000 children aged 0-10 years. Assumptions regarding direct and indirect costs varied between studies. The assumed vaccine efficacy of the 7-valent pneumococcal CRM197-conjugate vaccine was mainly adopted from two trials, which reported 6-8% efficacy. However, some studies assumed additional effects such as herd immunity or only took into account AOM episodes caused by serotypes included in the vaccine, which resulted in efficacy rates varying from 12% to 57%. Costs per AOM episode averted were inversely related to the assumed incidence rates of AOM and to the estimated costs per AOM episode. The median costs per AOM episode averted tended to be lower in industry-sponsored studies. Key assumptions regarding the incidence and costs of AOM episodes have major implications for the estimated cost effectiveness of pneumococcal conjugate vaccination against AOM. Uniform methods for estimating direct and indirect costs of AOM should be agreed upon to reliably compare the cost effectiveness of available and future pneumococcal vaccines against AOM.
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What is Vintage Depot?
It is a collection of antique, collectibles and vintage items.
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We began our store out of a love all things antique and vintage. Michael is also a coin and currency expert, which is also a part of our store. We were presented with the opportunity of a lifetime when a space in downtown Rutland became available. We felt that this was our chance to fulfill a lifelong dream for both of us.
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For the past 110 years, the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) has been serving and standing with Soldiers and their Families, providing them with health care and improving their quality of life.
And for the past 21 years, Lt. Col. Sharon Cole, deputy commander for patient services at Lawrence Joel Troop Medical Clinic and Southern Regional Medical Command Army public health nurse regional consultant, has been proud to be a part of that tradition, and is looking forward to even more years of service.
It is a much different picture from one Cole first envisioned when she joined the Army in 1989.
"I planned on doing three years then going back to Pensacola (Fla.)," she said. Her hometown of Pensacola, home to a naval base, made her almost hesitant to join the military, said Cole.
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Much of the admiration came from opportunities the Army gave her careerwise, Cole said, adding she has worked as a medical nurse, a health promotion nurse and a preventive medicine nurse. It also gave a chance to expanded on her education, said Cole.
Through the Army, she earned her bachelor's of science in nursing at the University of South Alabama, Mobile, Ala., and a graduate degree as a Family nurse practitioner from Hampton University, Va. She is currently working on her doctorate in public health, a goal she plans to complete by January 2012. Besides education, the Army also offered Cole the opportunity to be a leader, both in her field and to other Soldiers.
She has mentored junior officers to join the ANC, adding she even encouraged one enlisted Soldier to go to Officer Candidate School to enter into the field. However, Cole said the most interesting case of recruiting someone into the field, and also one of the most memorable stories of her career, involved a woman in El Paso, Texas.
"When I first came in (the Army), I was working in a pediatric ward in William Beaumont Army Medical Center. We had a little girl there, Lea, who had cancer. I became fond of her," Cole said. Unfortunately, Lea succumbed to her illness. Though Lea was lost, Cole made an impact on her parents, especially Lea's mother, Rosalyn.
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Being an Army nurse requires flexibility, professionalism, loyalty and a willingness to learn, something Cole said she sees in abundance in new Army nurses. "You see so much energy and willingness to learn," she said. "You see the passion in their eyes."
That passion is necessary in a field constantly evolving, Cole said. She said in her own time, she has seen many changes in the corps, specifically in the goal of focusing on acute injuries and chronic illnesses, and focusing on an entire person's wellness. More changes will continue to take place, said Cole, especially under the direction of Maj. Gen Patricia Horoho, who took over as chief of ANC two years ago. Horoho has outlined a 15-year plan to revamp the corps.
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Update on Mauricio AlfredoMauricio has decided to invest further in his business, and for this purpose he is requesting a loan which will allow him to invest in buying iron in various sizes, sheet metal and electrodes, along with other necessary supplies for his workshop where he makes balconies and doors. This loan will continue providing Mauricio with the economic resources which he needs so much in order to invest in raw materials.
The previous loan allowed him to continue working and thus he was able to better serve his customers. He has had a great ability to carry out his projects. As for his economic condition, he believes that it is changing, as he obtains new customers and better earnings.
Le permitió el préstamo anterior todo lo necesario para continuar trabajando y así atendió mejor a los clientes, ha tenido una gran capacidad para poder realizar sus trabajos y su condición económica considera que está cambiando obteniendo nuevos clientes y mejores ganancias.
Previous Loan DetailsMauricio lives with his parents and brothers. He is single and runs a metalworking shop. He learned his trade from his family and by working in other shops. He does not have a set schedule for his workshop. He is currently applying for a loan to purchase iron pieces of different sizes, electri... More from Mauricio Alfredo's previous loan »
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You Won't Learn Much From the Debates
But you should watch them anyway.
Since presidential debates became a quadrennial fixture in 1976, the first encounter between the two parties' nominees has usually drawn more than 60 million viewers. Friday's face-off between Barack Obama and John McCain—should it go forward—will be no exception. The debates, we're told, attract such large audiences because they're the last best chance for voters to soberly size up two candidates, side by side, and come to a decision.
The premise and promise of the debates is that they serve as a tonic for an otherwise underinformed democratic citizenry, providing a key source of data for reasoning voters about the candidates' views on pressing issues. Unfortunately, over the years the debates have proved to be formulaic, lacking in spontaneity, and full of familiar pablum. But that doesn't mean they're a waste of time. Ironically, admitting their failure can help us to see their true value: not as an opportunity for voters to learn anything new about the candidates but rather as an occasion for all of us to get excited about politics.
The notion of the debates as a way to educate independent-minded voters dates to the first televised debates in 1960, between John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. The debates' chief boosters, the TV network executives, celebrated the contests as an event tailor-made for the new mass-media age—a modern counterpart to the 19th-century campaign spectacles such as torchlight parades and mass rallies. Frank Stanton, the legendary president of CBS, dismissed those old-style gatherings as anachronistic—calculated, he said, "not to inform, or to create an atmosphere conducive to the appraisal of information, but to whip up attitudes capable of overcoming any temptation to judiciousness." By 1960, Stanton said, "We can't afford the blind, uncritical automatic support of one man against another, whatever his insight, his judgment, or his qualities of leadership." He asserted that the televised debates treated voters as independent of mind, enlightening them about the candidates' stands and enabling them to weigh the issues with the care they deserved—a necessity in a modern democracy.
By Stanton's standard, the debates have failed. To review the reviews of the debates since 1960 is to hear the recurring complaint that the debates aren't worthy of the name. Each election cycle someone points out that they should be billed as "joint press conferences" and not "debates," a term that evokes the Lincoln-Douglas jousts, next to which today's contests are said to pale. In contrast to those fabled encounters between the 1858 Illinois Senate candidates (which weren't quite so elevated as popular lore would have it), our TV-era debates are derided as scripted and superficial. Candidates don't debate: They spew boilerplate from their stump speeches, mouth a speechwriter's one-liner, and try to avoid delving into any free-flowing give-and-take about the "issues" that might lead them to deviate from their talking points. "The debates' inherent weakness is their show-business nature; their heavy reliance on rehearsal and grooming by professional image-makers; the concern for appearance over substance," a New York Times editorial complained in 1976.
This verdict is hard to gainsay. Anyone who watched the focus groups of undecided voters convened by the networks to watch the 2000 debates between George W. Bush and Al Gore had to be at least mildly dismayed about the public's critical thinking. On CBS, for example, one Sandra Harsh said she was swayed by what she had seen. "I was very impressed with Bush's specifics, his points of—of his program, what he planned to do," she said. "I like—I liked the line about trusting people, not the federal government. I liked his format for national health care. I—I think he showed himself as the superior candidate." Not to be harsh on Sandra, but if viewers who watched that debate came away thinking that Bush would implement a national health care plan, that should give us pause about the debates' value in transmitting information.
But if the debates fall short of Frank Stanton's original goal—helping the free-thinking citizen of the modern age rationally judge the candidates on the issues—that doesn't mean we should tune out. One reason is that Stanton's model of the value of debates allows no place for people who watch the debates with their minds made up. According to the prevalent view of what the debates should do, these partisans are irrelevant. They're not included in the networks' focus groups. No one cares if they watch.
But not everyone who watches the debates belongs to that fetishized class of undecided swing voters. If you're like me, most years you await the general-election debates with eager anticipation, notwithstanding your longstanding loyalties or your made-up mind. I often find myself at a friend's apartment, populated by similarly inclined partisans, enjoying the act of rooting for the home team. (This tradition, too, is old. In 1960, Democratic and Republican clubs hosted debate-watching parties, as did Jackie Kennedy in Hyannisport, where Archibald Cox, Arthur Schlesinger, and others gathered over coffee and pastries to watch JFK best Nixon on a rented 16-inch portable TV set.)


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Makes 1 sandwich. Recipe is by Beth Colvin. This sandwich can be dressed up with some rotisserie chicken and a fancy mustard, or caramelized onions, or some thin-sliced roast beef. Use your imagination.
2 tsps. butter or margarine, divided
4 to 6 baby bella mushrooms, washed and sliced
Pinch of salt
White pepper, to taste
Pretzel roll, sliced in half
2 deli slices of Swiss cheese
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place an oven-safe cooling rack on a baking sheet.
2. Heat 1 teaspoon of butter in a sauté pan over medium heat. Add the mushrooms, salt and pepper and sauté until the mushrooms are tender, adding the last teaspoon of butter at the end.
3. Put the bottom half of the pretzel roll, crust side down, on the baking rack. Top with one slice of Swiss cheese and the mushrooms. Add the second slice of cheese and top with the top of the roll.
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The Colony of the University of Nevada, Reno began with the Charter Charger Girls Class in the Spring of 2011. These ladies wanted to bring diversity to the campus by promoting Asian awareness and supporting the fight against domestic violence. Their goal was to provide a sense of belonging for other young women to join their Sisterhood and friendship. This became an organization that defines them and their future endeavors.
On May 22, 2011, their determination and devotion to bring Alpha Phi Gamma to campus became a reality. The Colony became part of the Multicultural-Greek Council on July 23, 2011. These seventeen ladies are: Aubrey Belford, Jaci Calvin, Margeaux Huang, Jessica King, Kathleen Krilanovich, Esther Lai, Loan Lam, Jenny Lau, Christine Luc, Oanh Luc, Jennelyn Mercado, Krysta Pascual, Kristina Quintana, Jeannica Sacasas, Vicki Tam, Noveleenne Tuliao, and Crystal Willis.


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Most people know not to eat a gallon of Ben and Jerry's before
an intense workout and that drinking water to hydrate a sweating
body is good. That guidance is okay as far as it goes, but operating
a complex machine such as the human body with only a meager list
of such maxims is akin to feeding a racehorse Mountain Dew and cheesecake
so he'll speed from the sugar—you can do better.
Dr. John Ivy, chairperson of the Department of Kinesiology and
Health Education in the College of Education at The University of
Texas at Austin, has spent the past thirty years looking at simple,
healthy options for building strength, endurance and muscle mass.
What he has discovered is that timing is everything.
For decades, serious athletes as well as hard-pushing weekend warriors
have searched for the holy grail of exercise nutrition, following
one trend after another in an effort to capture the magic formula
that increases strength, endurance and lean muscle mass.
Conventional wisdom in the late 1960s and early 1970s pointed to
carbo-loading as a way to super-saturate muscles with carbohydrate
and fuel cross-country skiers as well as long-distance runners and
endurance cyclists. For strength athletes, that paradigm was flipped
on its head and protein intake was stressed.
With each new wave of information and fad-following, the one element
that often seemed to be missing was strong, conclusive scientific
When Ivy, a world-renowned expert on the role of nutrition in exercise
performance, began to study the maximization of physical performance,
his research concentrated on the cellular level and a somewhat overlooked
element of nutrition—timing. His goal was to explain, in scientific
terms, why an athlete sees particular effects when she supplements
at specific times with certain nutrients.
"When you exercise," says Ivy, "the muscles become
very sensitive to certain hormones and nutrients, and you can initiate
many highly desirable training adaptations if you make sure the
correct nutrients are present. This increased sensitivity of the
muscles only lasts for a limited length of time, so the element
of time becomes absolutely crucial. If you miss this window of opportunity,
there's no way you can stimulate the muscle adaptations to
that extent until after the next bout of exercise."
To understand Ivy's breakthrough findings, it's helpful
to revisit Biology 101 and look at the delicate, elaborate symphony
of hormone activity and energy replenishment occurring behind the
scenes when you run, swim, power-lift, ski or cycle.
with any good high-performance product, a contracting muscle needs
fuel. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is the only energy source that
can drive muscle contraction, but, like a car that gets two miles
to the gallon, muscles can only store enough ATP for a few seconds
of high intensity contraction. If muscle contraction is going to
be sustained, and you want to keep sprinting or pedaling up a steep
incline, the muscle needs this ATP to be continuously replenished.
Fortunately, the body has ways of generating more ATP and keeping
the marathon-runner running and the soccer player blocking goals.
Through the anaerobic pathway, glycogen and creatine phosphate rush
to provide rapid energy for intense bursts of activity as you speed
from third base to home plate. Through the aerobic pathway, fat,
carbohydrate and protein fill the void and are used to provide sustained
energy with much more efficiency than the anaerobic pathway.
As systems scramble to meet the muscles' appetite for ATP,
wear and tear on the body can occur, leaving you tired, dehydrated
and with reduced blood volume, a compromised immune system and muscle
damage. The degree of the negative effects correlates with the intensity
and duration of exercise.
"What we found in our studies," says Ivy, "is
that you can recover more effectively, work out harder more frequently,
increase muscle mass and enhance the physical adaptations that are
happening when you exercise just by minding what supplements you
use and when you supplement."
Ivy tested distance runners, triathletes and strength athletes
between the ages of 19 and 35, hoping to determine what allowed
for the fastest recovery of muscle glycogen, a key fuel for contracting,
hardworking muscle.
When the athletes ingested a carbohydrate supplement immediately
after exercise, they had a much higher rate of glycogen recovery,
which is fuel for the muscle, than if the supplement was delayed
for several hours. Ivy also discovered that once this fuel storage
process kicked in it could be maintained at a rapid rate if the
individual supplemented at two-hour intervals for up to eight hours
after exercise ended.
Although approximately 1.4 grams of carb per kilogram of body weight
maximized glycogen storage, Ivy found that more of a seemingly good
thing did not end up being better—the rate of glycogen storage
could not be increased with an increase in carb intake.
The surprising addition of a limited amount of protein, however,
sparked a chain reaction that does a body good.
When protein is added to carbohydrate, the insulin concentration
in the blood rises. Insulin is a facilitator and stimulates glucose
uptake by the muscle and the conversion of glucose into the highly
valuable glycogen, as well as increasing the rate of protein synthesis
when the supplement is taken immediately after exercise.
With his research findings, Ivy identified a span of time during
which exercise and post-exercise nutrition is very important to
the athlete who wants to improve endurance, reduce muscle damage,
maintain immune function and jumpstart a much quicker recovery.
According to Ivy, "nutrient timing" begins 30 minutes
before exercise, when one should fully hydrate and raise blood glucose
levels by consuming approximately 14-20 ounces of water or electrolyte
solution. This delays the development of dehydration, hastens the
onset of sweating and moderates the rise in body temperature.
During exercise, smart nutrition choices become even more important.
In order to spare muscle glycogen, limit cortisol and free radical
levels, prevent dehydration and set the stage for faster recovery
after a workout, Ivy found that fluids should be replenished every
15 to 20 minutes, if possible.
one study with cyclists, Ivy discovered that drinking a fluid containing
carbohydrate and protein in a 4:1 ratio improved endurance 57 percent
compared with water and 24 percent compared with a carbohydrate
Because muscle breakdown occurs faster during exercise, consuming
a supplement that includes protein while exercising gives muscles
some of the protein they need to produce extra energy. The result
is less muscle damage. Similarly, maintaining blood glucose levels
by ingesting carbohydrates during exercise leads to less depletion
of glycogen stores and less fatigue.
Wrapping up the metabolic window of opportunity around exercise
is the very important 30 minutes following a workout. In fact, according
to Ivy, this is the most important time for minding nutrition
p's and q's.
In the 30 minutes following a workout, a muscle's potential
to rebuild peaks, and it is extremely sensitive to insulin. To take
full advantage of the muscle rebuilding benefits that can occur
in this golden window of opportunity, the right combination of nutrients,
such as carbohydrate and high quality protein, should be consumed
within 15 to 45 minutes after exercise.
Insulin sensitivity, and the ability of muscle fibers to pack in
as much energy as possible, falls significantly one hour after exercise.
After two hours, muscles not only lose their sensitivity but actually
become insulin resistant and muscle breakdown occurs. Even though
activity has stopped, the muscles continue to lose protein and nutrients
without supplementation.
"Paying attention to what you eat or drink and when you consume
it is a lot easier, cheaper, healthier and safer than using some
plant steroids, androstenedione or creatine supplementation, for
example," says Ivy. "Just following a good basic diet
and supplementing at the right time may not sound all that exciting,
but solid scientific research says it works and yields increases
in muscle mass, strength and endurance. It can even protect your
immune system and keep you from getting as many colds and upper
respiratory ailments."
Ivy's pioneering findings in the area of sports nutrition
are presented in his two latest books, "Nutrient Timing"
and "The Performance Zone," which he co-authored with
Dr. Robert Portman, president and director for PacificHealth Laboratories.
With "Nutrient Timing," the guidance is geared to strength
athletes and bodybuilders. In it, Ivy emphasizes that attention
to timing and nutrition during the muscles' 24-hour growth
cycle can help weight trainers break through plateaus, increase
muscle mass and suffer less soreness and stiffness after workouts.
"The Performance Zone" serves as a sports nutrition
action plan and workbook for all levels of athletes, with sports-specific
information from Olympic swimmers, exercise physiologists, world
champion triathletes and professional sports stars. In order to
encourage amateurs as well as more serious exercise enthusiasts
to implement nutrient timing, the book includes, among other things,
information on calculating the number of calories expended during
different types of exercise, how to determine fluid and nutrient
needs during exercise and a comparison of the many sports drinks
on the market. The specific needs of female athletes as well as
active children also are addressed.
"At any given time, there's a lot of information out
there about how to train better," says Logan Schwartz, an
Austin strength conditioning coach who trains professional as well
as high school and college athletes. "But there's not
much good information. Dr. Ivy's nutrient timing
system, which I and my clients use, stands apart because when you
look behind the claims you find valid scientific research. Attention
to nutrition as a vital part of improving physical performance is
really a fairly new, revolutionary thing, and it's turning
out to be very important."
Although Ivy now finds himself talking to reporters and interested
groups from coast to coast about nutrient timing, sports nutrition
might be described as something of a second love. For the past 30
or more years the bulk of his research has been devoted to diabetes
and, most specifically, the effects of exercise on diabetes.
"One thing we discovered that's very significant,"
says Ivy, "is that muscle contraction, which happens when
you exercise, increases glucose uptake differently from the way
that insulin increases glucose uptake. Diabetics who are insulin-resistant
have muscles that cannot efficiently take up glucose by insulin
stimulation, but the muscle will take up glucose in a normal manner
with muscle contraction. That means you can help regulate blood
glucose levels through exercise. That's good news and a natural
way to address the problem."
Having spent his professional career studying exercise and nutrition,
one would expect Ivy to practice what he preaches. And he does.
A former college baseball player, he is trim and athletically built,
with an office ringed in pictures of his trim, muscled and athletic
children, one of whom is test-driving the nutrient timing system
along with Ivy.
Glancing at Ivy and the photos of his cheerleading, baseball-playing
progeny, you might be tempted to argue that the family simply enjoys
good genes. But that's like watching the smooth, perfect arc
of a Tiger Woods swing and saying he's just awfully lucky
again and again—you're ignoring the importance of hard
work…and good timing.
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(By Balaseshan) BMO Capital Markets analyst Joel Tiss downgraded rating of Illinois Tool Works Inc. (NYSE: ITW) to "Market Perform" from "Outperform", and slightly revised its price target of the diversified industrial manufacturer to $67.
Tiss downgraded the rating of ITW shares because the shares have advanced strongly over the past year as investors have anticipated and embraced the new strategy.
However, with the stock now in the mid/low $60s, and as the analyst is trying to take a longer term view, he does not see the same sort of annual appreciation potential as he has when recommending the stock previously.
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Illinois Tool Works reported adjusted 4Q-2012 earnings per share (EPS) of $0.89, which was in line with consensus but slightly below the brokerage's estimate of $0.92.
Total revenue of $4.22 billion was slightly above expectations in the $4.15 billion range with organic revenues up 0.6%, led by Asia Pacific (up 3.7%) while North America improved 1.6% and Europe declined by 2.6%, the analyst noted.
Initial 2013 EPS guidance is a range of $4.13 to $4.37, which compares with consensus coming into the quarter of $4.38. For 1Q-2013, guidance is for EPS to be in a range of $0.91 to $0.99, which was also below consensus coming into print of $1.02, Tiss noted.
Following strong performance over the past six months (the shares have risen nearly 30% since the July low versus 20% for the S&P Industrials 1500 over the same period), the stock struggled yesterday as investors digested the latest update to ITW's Enterprise Strategy, the analyst noted.
[Related -Illinois Tool Works Inc. (ITW) Dividend Stock Analysis]
The brokerage lowered its 2013 EPS estimate to $4.10 from $4.40 and its 2014 estimate to $4.45 from $4.70.
ITW is trading down 0.23% at $63.99 on Wednesday.
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Pair arrested in Bolivia case
Published: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 10:59 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 10:59 a.m.
Bolivia | Two people were arrested by the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office and charged with a Nov. 4 break-in at a home in Bolivia.
Jamie Ann Rivenbark, 34, and Jeffrey James, 40, both of Bolivia, were arrested Monday, according to a release from the sheriff's office. Sheriff's detectives had been searching for the pair since Saturday. They were charged with breaking and entering, larceny after breaking and entering and larceny of a firearm.
Both were booked into the Brunswick County jail and later released under $10,000 bonds.
– Pressley Baird
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