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The six-person team led by PGA Tour player DJ Trahan and country music singer Steve Azar captured the 2010 Hootie & The Blowfish Monday After the Masters Celebrity Pro-Am Golf Tournament title with a score of 18-under par. A five-way tie for second at 17-under par included teams led by the PGA Tour's Jim Furyk and Hootie and the Blowfish lead singer and country music star Darius Rucker, and Myrtle Beach resident and PGA Tourer Dustin Johnson and Hootie drummer Jim "Soni" Sonefeld.
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The 2010 Monday After The Masters Tournament featured some of the biggest names in the music, television and movies, sports and the professional golf world. Headlining the 16th annual tournament were Furyk, John Daly and former Coastal Carolina University star Johnson; professional wrestling legend Ric Flair; NFL Hall of Famer Dan Marino; former Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon; former Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar; NASCAR drivers Kyle Petty and Michael Waltrip; LPGA golfer and Myrtle Beach-area native Kristy McPherson.
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Is U.S. patient recruitment a losing proposition?
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Sept. 5, 2008 | The disconnect between U.S. investigators' and potential patients' reported interest in clinical research, and their referral and enrollment patterns was one of the topics of discussion in June at the Drug Information Association's 44th Annual Meeting in Boston*. Contributing to the dialogue were Matthew Kibby, global operations leader at BBK Worldwide; David Zuckerman, president of Customized Improvement Strategies; and Kenneth Getz, senior research fellow at Tufts University's Center for the Study of Drug Development and chairman of the non-profit Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP).
All three had concrete suggestions for improving U.S. patient enrollment statistics, which Zuckerman views as a "symptom" of other trial-related problems such as poorly written protocols and a haphazard approach to site selection.
Getz agreed, suggesting the recruitment problem may in fact be a reflection of unrealistic timelines or a protocol that's unfeasible. He noted that 70 to 80 percent of AIDS and pediatric cancer patients participate in clinical trials regularly, but recruitment and retention rates overall have never been lower. Close to one billion in marketing dollars will be spent trying to improve the situation.
Kibby declined to blame protocols, given that same-study enrollment figures are far better in other countries. The U.S. gets sites up and running four times faster than places like China and Brazil, he said, putting it "in the best position to do something about [low enrollment]."
Site-Specific ChangesSite selection could be improved by focusing on "last patient out" rather than "first patient in" so decisions are driven by knowledge, not the clock, said Zuckerman. More systematic, upfront planning could "easily" double the overall enrollment rate from 5 to 10 percent.
Identifying high-enrolling sites is a crapshoot "because of the commoditized way sponsors view and approach their relationship with sites," said Getz. "The sites see no loyalty or continuity, so they're scrambling from one trial to the next, often being handed protocols they really shouldn't be doing." Site performance might be enhanced if sponsors and clinical research organizations treated sites as "strategic assets," rather than asking them to bid on unfinished protocols or to repeatedly sit through the same RFP process.
Kibby said sites need help recruiting more efficiently, including identifying and consenting patients. Money won't necessarily buy "greater recruitment acumen," and it may create ethical issues.
Medical HeroesWhat's needed is "more prudent allocation of dollars we're already spending" to include building and repairing public trust in the clinical trials enterprise, said Getz. "One area of increasing concern to me is the general lack of appreciation for the gift people make when they participate in a clinical trial. This has been going on unanswered by industry for a decade."
Pop culture depicts study volunteers as people "willing to gamble with their lives, take a risk with professionals who can't be trusted, [and] who are motivated by greed and corruption," said Getz. "I see a huge need to correct that perception."
CISCRP co-developed a public awareness campaign with Fast4wD Ogilvy, the study recruitment arm of international advertising and marketing firm Ogilvy & Mather, to address the problem.
The "Everyday Heroes" campaign depicts clinical trial volunteers as medical champions. The program—inclusive of five print ads, four radio spots, and one television spot—shows how people of different ages, races, and occupations can contribute to medical research, says Diane Simmons, president and CEO of CISCRP. A phone number (877-MED-HERO) and website where viewers can learn more about the clinical research process are also provided.
The campaign has been shown to improve patient enrollment rates by 38 percent or more in six markets where Eli Lilly recently test-marketed the multimedia program in conjunction with standard recruitment ads, in contrast to 12 other markets where only the recruitment ads were used, says Simmons. On the second go-round with another trial in the same markets, the response rate more than doubled.
Widespread public distrust of the research process has helped reduce trial participation to abysmal levels across most therapeutic categories. The intent of the Everyday Heroes campaign is to "reposition the way the world looks at [trial] volunteers," says Simmons. "To really have impact, dissemination of the campaign must be on a national scale with over 120 million impressions per quarter, and that is dependent on contributions from all of the clinical research stakeholders—pharmaceutical companies, CROs [clinical research organizations], academic medical centers, government agencies, disease advocacy groups, hospitals, community health centers, and individual contributors."
Education is the "important step before participation," she continues. To that end, CISCRP has spent the past few years developing general educational brochures and customized versions of the same for African-American and Hispanic populations. Educational DVDs have also been produced, most recently disease-specific ones focused on conditions such as diabetes and cancer.
These educational tools are accessible via the CISCRP website, together with "101 facts and figures" about clinical research, says Simmons. The site will soon get a social networking component.
"With all of the information about clinical research that is available online, what the public wants most can be difficult to find," says Simmons. These findings prompted the development of CISCRP's free public service (www.SearchClinicalTrials.org). The listing currently pulls from multiple public registries and excludes duplicate entries. "It's like the Google of clinical trials." The service has about 250,000 unique users per year, which is expected to grow exponentially to better meet the need for trial volunteers.
Participation DayCISCRP has already gifted four U.S. cities—Boston, Indianapolis, Dallas, and Philadelphia—with an annual Aware-For-All Clinical Research Education Day, says Simmons. The event takes place on "neutral turf" and brings together all key stakeholders to raise public awareness of trials while helping professionals in the clinical research enterprise "look at the world through the public's eyes."
Invitations to attend come from dozens of organizational partners, such as churches and YMCAs, who CISCRP supplies with educational materials. Based on exit surveys, 75 percent of consumers are more willing to participate in trials after attending the program, says Simmons. "These are not recruitment fairs." They "put a human face on the people who volunteer for clinical trials while increasing public understanding of the risks and benefits of participating."
Simmons adds that this form of outreach is needed in many more communities. "It's time to say 'thank you' to the millions of people globally who give the gift of participation each year, and to stay committed to educating, informing, and empowering the public about what it means to be an active participant in the clinical research process."
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Although dubbed "Little Joe" for its small-format characteristics, a new wavefront sensor camera has proved that it is far from coming up short when paired with high-speed, low-noise applications. SciMeasure Analytical Systems, Inc., a provider of cameras and imaging accessories for use in biomedical research and industrial inspection and quality control, is the eye behind Little Joe's shutter, manufacturing and selling the modular, multi-purpose camera worldwide to advance fields such as astronomy, neurobiology, and cardiology. In astronomy, Little Joe is used as a wave sensor to eliminate aberrations triggered by wavefront distortions that are known to plague this field with image degradation. Little Joe is also capable of correcting wavefront distortions in medical imaging applications—such as measuring distortions in the human eye—but its high frame rate, high quantum efficiency, and low readnoise properties are really what make the technology an elite member of its camera class. In turn, these properties allow Little Joe to visualize high speed phenomena by optimizing signal-to-noise ratio in light-limited conditions
SciMeasure and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were determined to make the camera design as independent as possible from the most critical components, which turned out to be the CCD itself and the analog-to-digital converters that digitize the analog signals from the CCD. Further camera design projects during Phase I led to considerable progress in versatility and modularity of the technology. The next objective for SciMeasure was to significantly reduce the mass, volume, and power requirements.
The developments that took place in Phase II of the NASA SBIR project translated into a camera that was 95 percent smaller, 92 percent lighter, and used 92.5 percent less power than its first-phase predecessor. Additionally, the camera was configured to run all available scientific CCDs, making it extremely versatile. To address special needs, the camera features an open architecture, allowing end-users to develop replacement or add-in modules.
South of the stars, the wavefront sensor cameras are finding increasing application at various biomedical and medical research institutions. In late 2001, SciMeasure delivered four commercial Little Joe cameras to RedShirtImaging,™ LLC, of Fairfield, Connecticut, for use in the company's low-light NeuroCCD®-SM neural- and CardioCCD™-SM cardio-imaging systems. Renowned researchers from Yale University all the way to Tokyo University in Japan are utilizing this high-speed, highly sensitive technology to capture the spread of membrane potential and changes in calcium concentration in animal tissue under study. Membrane potential is an important physiological parameter; propagating membrane potential waves is the method that nerve, muscle, and heart cells use to carry information from one end to the other. Calcium concentration is another important parameter because calcium controls many physiological functions, including muscle contraction and communication between nerve cells.
The technology has shown to be imperative for neuroscientists, who commonly perform studies that call for high-speed imaging of fluorescent dyes in the brain at rates of 1,000 to 5,000 frames per second. Cardiovascular scientists can also employ it to monitor abnormal conditions such as tachyarrhythmia. Synchronized operation of two cameras creates an extra functionality for those who would like to simultaneously record cardiac activity using two different dyes or from two different sides of the heart.
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Although many details are under wraps until the night of the show, viewers can expect some notable changes when stars like Naomi Watts, Diane Keaton and Renee Zellweger hit the red carpet on Feb. 29.
After two years of fairly subdued showings -- first following the Sept. 11 attacks and then the impending war in Iraq -- this year's Oscars are expected to be a livelier and more colorful affair. "I expect the Oscars to be a feast of glamour," said Enzo Angileri, a hairstylist who will fix coiffures for Charlize Theron and Holly Hunter, Reuters reports.
Fashionistas are also predicting a colorful turnout compared to the rather circumspect production of recent years. "I think we're going to see a lot of colors and chiffons and very flowy goddess dresses because it's springtime and because last year was sort of a subdued year," celebrity stylist Phillip Bloch said.
That openness is expected to carry over into the ceremony itself, where show producer Joe Roth promises less restraint for stars who want to have their say during acceptance speeches, the Associated Press reports.
"How am I going to say (no) to Clint Eastwood? Or Sean Penn?" Roth asked. "Not only are they adults, but they are the best in their field." Eastwood is nominated for Best Director for "Mystic River," which stars Penn, who's up for Best Actor.
Roth says the success of awards shows such as the Oscars is partly about casting and partly about luck, but creating an inviting arena for award winners is the key element. "Most of (the success) really is trying to make an atmosphere that allows the performers to feel comfortable and speak from the heart," he said.
Roth hopes to reverse the show's downward trend in ratings, which has been steadily slipping since 1998. About 33 million people tuned in to last year's ceremony, making it the least-watched show since the ratings were first tabulated in 1974.
In other Oscar news, several new presenters have been added to the already star-studded list. John Travolta, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins -- who is nominated for Best Supporting Actor and won at the SAG Awards for "Mystic River" -- join a long list of celebrity presenters that includes Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, Julianne Moore and Tom Hanks, among others.
Over the weekend, several awards shows gave some possible indicators of Oscar choices. "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" was a winner of the international film award by the Directors Guild of Great Britain in that group's first awards ceremony. "Rings" also captured the top prize at Sunday's SAG awards, but a couple smaller films were recognized at the Writers Guild of America Awards on Saturday. "American Splendor," the story of comic-book artist Harvey Pekar, won best adapted screenplay, and Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation" was named best original screenplay, Reuters reports.
The 76th Academy Awards will air live on ABC Sunday from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
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4) Selectively use AFMA for my fast lenses (F2.8 and wider)?
If the answer is to use AFMA, what work flow do you recommend?
...or just use a piece of paper with suitable lines drawn on it.There's no need to complicate basic AFMA tests, providing they're done carefully. You should probably put the camera on a tripod.I've been getting the feeling round here recently that if you don't purcahse AFMA software to do the adjustments, you're as much of a "newbie", or even "simpleton" as people who only shoot JPEG and not RAW.
FWIW, all of my lens did require some AFMAing.
Quote from: RC on December 09, 2013, 09:34:23 AMFWIW, all of my lens did require some AFMAing.I've had lenses that require no AFMA...on one body. But I've never had a lens that didn't require AFMA on at least one of two-three bodies. Since most people keep lenses through many bodies, it's almost certain that every lens will need AFMA at some point. When I see people state, "None of my lenses need adjustment," I think they've either got one body and only 1-2 lenses and are very lucky, or more likely, they're not testing carefully. I'll also say that even though an adjustment of 1-2 units for an f/4 or f/5.6 lens isn't going to be easily noticeable on any given shot, what it does is result in more accurate AF, on average.


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With my Seagate DDS4 drive, I cannot use SONY tapes, they give lots of
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I can use SONY DDS3 tapes but NOT SONY DDS4 tapes.
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The culinary arts students from Harrisburg Area Community College, under the direction of Chef Jim Switzenberg, performed their usual magic with wild game and fish for the Taste of the Great Outdoors sampling fest at the Eastern Sports and Outdoor show.
A crowd favorite was the smoked trout spread on toast points, which follows this recipe:
Smoked Trout Spread
8 oz. smoked trout
6 oz. cream cheese
2 oz. sour cream
½ tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 Tbsp. fresh parsley, chopped
2 scallions, minced
salt and pepper to taste
Toast points as needed
Combine all the ingredients in a mixer with a paddle attachment. Season to taste. Serve on toast points.
Teriyaki Goose with White Rice
1 whole goose
¼ cup peanut oil
2 Tbsp. garlic, minced
2 Tbsp. ginger, minced
¼ cup scallions, chopped
1 red pepper, chopped
10 oz. crushed pineapple
3 Tbsp. brown sugar
2 oz. soy sauce
1 tsp. sesame oil
2 cups white rice, cooked
Roast the goose at 400 F for 10 minutes. Lower heat to 300 F and cook until the bird reaches an internal temperature of 165 F. Cool completely. Clean dice the meat. In a large saucepot, sauté the ginger, garlic and scallions in the oil until soft. Add the pepper and goose meat, and cook for five minutes. Add the remaining ingredients and simmer until tender. Add water if needed. Season to taste. Serve over rice.
Herb Roasted Pheasant with Pan Gravy
2 pheasants
3 oz. olive oil
2 Tbsp. minced garlic
4 Tbsp. mixed dried herbs (Rosemary, sage, oregano, thyme, parsley)
Salt and pepper
½ cup flour
8-10 oz. chicken stock
Marinate pheasants in oil, garlic and seasonings for 1 day under refrigeration. Roast at 375 F until the birds reach internal temperatures of 165 F (about 15-20 minutes). Remove from oven and rest. Add flour to the pan drippings and whisk in stock. Simmer for 10 minutes and season to taste.
Venison Chili
1 can pinto beans, drained
1 can black beans, drained
1 can kidney beans, drained
4 lb. ground venison
1.5 tsp. cumin
4 slices bacon, diced
3 cups onions, diced small
3 garlic cloves
1 tsp. dried oregano
3 Tbsp. chili powder
24 oz. can of diced tomatoes
2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. black pepper
1 chipotle chili, minced
2 cups of beef stock, or as needed
Sauté the bacon in a large saucepan, until the fat has been rendered. Remove the bacon bits and set aside. In the fat, sauté the venison in small batches, until completely cooked. Add the onions and garlic, stirring until the onions are translucent. Mix in the oregano and chili powder. Add the remaining ingredients, stirring to mix completely. Simmer for 1 hour. Season to taste.
Bacon Wrapped Venison Loin with Cranberry Cornmeal Stuffing
2 lb. bacon (1/2 cup diced)
5 lb. venison loin
½ lb. dried cranberries
½ cup water
¼ cup sugar
4 cups cornbread
1 red delicious apple
2 ribs of celery, diced small
2 Tbsp. onion, diced small
1 Tbsp. chopped parsley
1 tsp. chopped thyme
Salt and pepper
Combine the cranberries, water and sugar in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil and simmer for 10 minutes. Drain well. Transfer to a large bowl. In a medium saucepan, render the chopped bacon. Add the onion, celery and apples, and sauté until just softened. Add to the cranberries. Crumble the cornbread and add to the mixture with the seasonings. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Mix well to form a stuffing. Butterfly the venison loin. Season with salt and pepper, stuff and roll. Wrap with the remaining bacon and place in a roasting pan. Roast in a 375 F oven.


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Dive in Danger: Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge May Lose Its Home
One of the city's truly gritty watering holes, the Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge, may not have long for this world.By Daniel Maurer
One of the city's truly gritty watering holes, the Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge, may not have long for this world.By Daniel Maurer
Restaurants may soon be fined for wasting A/C output by leaving their windows open, and get your lima beans, in today's neighborhood food news.
Clinton Hill: The pizza place at 37 Washington will soon become a brick-oven pizza spot called Il Porto. [Clinton Hill Blog] East Village: The roasted shishito peppers at Jimmy's 43 are so addictive they may drive you to try to "recreate this dish and drink a boatload of beer immediately." Don't forget, they're prepared on hot plates. [Eat for Victory/VV] Flatiron: Shake Shack's fired up its heat lamps. [Eater] Flavor your coffee the old-fashioned way, with cardamom. At Gramercy Tavern, they're "serving pots of the complex, medium-bodied Yirgacheffe coffee from Ethiopia brewed with cinnamon, cardamom and orange." [Mouthing Off/Food & Wine] Greenwich Village: Bellavitae's new Neapolitan chef Raffaele Ronca is "exceptionally adept at deboning an entire Cornish hen." [Bottomless Dish/Citysearch] Little Italy: Luigi DiPalo of DiPalo Dairy can recommend a pizza joint for every palate. [Gothamist] Park Slope: The new bar and snack spot on Seventh Avenue at 14th Street called Beer Table should be open and serving its "carefully curated selection of smoked lager, coriander-laced wheat beer and various obscure ales" by next Saturday. [NYT]


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Nerves on Edge, Futures on Line, in Daytona Beach with LPGA Q School
Many have called it the most nerve-wracking week of their professional careers. That pressure-filled, gut-wrenching week is about to get underway in Daytona Beach, Fla. The tension is easy to see on the players' faces as they get to work on the putting greens and the driving range at the 36-hole LPGA International golf complex.
A total of 143 women golfers from around the world will tee it up Wednesday, December 3, in the annual LPGA Q School tournament. How they finish in this five-day endurance test will determine where they will be playing golf in 2009. For some of the older players, it may be their last chance at the gold ring. It may force them to look at the numbers and give up their dream of playing on the LPGA Tour. It could be the last professional event of their lives.
This year there is an extra large contingent of media covering Q School. Michelle Wie is the reason. After years of hype, huge endorsement deals, and sponsors' invitations to play against PGA pros, the teenage phenom, now 19, has apparently decided to go "legit" by trying to earn her way onto the LPGA Tour the way everyone else does. While still a student at Stanford, Wie says she plans to play in several LPGA events in 2009 if she can earn her playing status in Daytona Beach.
This year, the top 20 finishers at the tournament will earn full playing privileges for the LPGA Tour's 2009 season. The LPGA has a new and complicated "playing status" system, with something like 20 different categories determining how players can be eligible for events on the tour's schedule. Category 11 status is what they will all be aiming for this week at LPGA International. The top 20 finishers are guaranteed to play in all of the full-field events on the LPGA schedule. The next 20 finishers will earn conditional playing status. That will get them into some, but not all, of next year's events.
Fifty-five of the players here this week are currently on the LPGA Tour and are trying to improve their playing status for next year after failing to make the top 90 on this year's money list. Wie and the other 87 in the field made it to Daytona through the Tour's two sectional qualifying events in September and October, or by virtue of their finish on the season money list on the Duramed Futures Tour, the LPGA's developmental tour.
Q School is not about making a check. Last year's winner, Jane Park, made only $6,000 with her first-place finish. This event is all about potential earnings and fulfilling a dream. Each player teeing it up this week has dreamed, many as young teenagers, of playing on the LPGA Tour and making a living as a professional golfer. Most have put in years and years of hard work and dedication to get them to this all-important tournament. Failure to get a coveted card will force many of them to re-evaluate their futures. Undoubtedly for some, it will be their last attempt to achieve their dream.
Taya Battistella has dreamed of playing on the LPGA Tour since before she was in high school. Now, the 29-year-old from Bend, Ore., is facing her second shot at Q School in the last three years. She finished far down in the field in 2006. With four years of professional golf under her belt (the last two on the Duramed Futures Tour), she has raised her game to a level where she believes she can compete with the best women golfers in the world.
The question facing Battistella and all the players in Daytona Beach is whether they can compete this week. Can they conquer the course as well as the nerves that each of them must now be feeling?
"Yes, I have felt the pressure growing as the tournament gets closer," Battistella said. "You try not to let it get to you, but it's hard not to put pressure on yourself. There's so much riding on this week." Battistella, who now lives in Massachusetts, has spent the last six weeks in Florida working with her swing coach, former PGA Tour player Bob Menne. She played very well in the final events of the 2008 Duramed Futures Tour season, including a third-place finish in the Duramed Invitational in October. She also has four professional tournament victories under her belt. In 2004, while playing on the Orient Masters tour in Asia, she won the Beijing Open in China. She also won an event on the Canadian Women's Tour along with victories in the 2005California Women's Open in and this year's Massachusetts Women's Open.
Like many of the other Q School entrants, Battistella competed in two recent Ladies Suncoast Series tournaments held on the two LPGA International courses (Champions and Legends). The players who entered those "tune-up" events were looking for any edge they could get to save themselves a few shots over the grueling five days of golf that now lies ahead.
One shot can, and likely will, make all the difference to some of the players this week. Last year, Liz Janangelo earned her full LPGA status by sinking a birdie putt on the final hole in the final round of Q School. Her future came down to her very last shot after five days and 90 holes of golf. She knew she had to make that 15-foot putt to earn her tour card. To say she was emotionally drained when the ball dropped in the hole would be an understatement.
Unfortunately for the 25-year-old from West Hartford, Conn., she had to return to Q School again this year after a disappointing LPGA Tour rookie season where she finished 147th on the money list. If Janangelo wants to return to the tour in 2009 she will have to find a way to play as well this week as she did a year ago. If she fails to retain her LPGA card, she will likely return to the Duramed Futures Tour for the upcoming season.
Many women pros have gone up and down a few times between the Futures and LPGA tours. Making cuts and cashing checks is everything in professional golf. This week in Daytona Beach, the magic number is 20. All 143 of the players will be thinking top 20 when they tee it up Wednesday morning.
The stakes are high. The hands will be sweatier and the hearts beating faster. After all, their dreams are on the line.
Dave Andrews is a Harvard-educated former television news reporter. He's also an avid golfer who has become a fan of the Duramed Futures Tour. His home course in Concord, N.H., is annually the site of one of the tour's events. The inspiration for Dave's 2007 novel, "Pops and Sunshine," came from meeting many of the young aspiring women golfers on that tour. Each of them has a passion, dedication and determination that he finds remarkable. His novel is a fictionalization of the dream that these young women share. To order Dave's book, visit http://popsandsunshine.com.
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hey guys ive been watchin ufc since i was like 9 and wanted more than to c lame ass wwf's fake fight. im 17 now and have been interested in training mma for about 5 months now and have been lookin up technique videos and such......ive been stuck at 140 lbs forever, what can i do besides pound food ( cuz i alreadydo ) to gain weight. i have creatine but dont want all waterweight..........any help
Workout your back muscles. Since they are so lerge they add weight. You don't want to just eat and sit around, you have to keep exercising. How tall are you?
If I was you I would focus more on your MMA training then bulking up. But here is a good formula to help you along.
STEP 1 Calculate your weight in Kilograms by dividing your weight in pounds by 2.2
STEP 2 Determine your fat percentage then multiply your weight in kg by your body fat percentage in decimal form.( 100kg x 0.15= 15kg fat mass)
STEP 3 Subtract that fat mass number from your total weight in kg to determine fat free mass.
Step 4 Determine your resting metabolic rate (RMR) using this formula 22 x fat free mass + 500. This number is the amount of calories you need to survive without activity.
Step 5 Now take your RMR and multiply it by the formula below.
Train 4 times a week x 2
Train 5 times a week x 2.1
train 6 times a week x 2.2
add .1 to every extra time you workout in a week.
This number represents the amount of calories you need to consume to keep your current weight with the training schedule you have selected.
STEP 6 If you are trying to gain weight add 500 calories to the amount of calories you have calculated. If you want to lose weight subtract 500 calories.
I hope this doesn't confuse everyone to much and good luck with the weight gain. And if ya like please rep because I hate typing this much :laugh:
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Clean Energy Solutions Center Newsletter Examines Indian Industrial Efficiency
28 June 2011: The Clean Energy Solutions Center, an initiative of the Clean Energy Ministerial and UN-Energy, has published its second newsletter containing articles on work on industrial energy efficiency in India and upcoming webinars.
The newsletter opens with a piece on a new industrial energy efficiency programme that tailors resources to country priorities in India, and continues with a piece on an upcoming webinar discussing "Financial and Policy Innovations to Support Energy Efficiency: Energy Performance Contracting and On-Bill Financing" to take place on 19 July 2011. It also features summaries of the following publications: the "Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation" of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); and "Towards a Green Economy: Pathways to Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication" of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). [Publication: Clean Energy Solutions Newsletter Issue 2]


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It's barely June, but expectations have probably never been higher for Atlanta Falcons' fans as we head into the summer months.
With the 2012 campaign officially behind them, the 2013 Atlanta Falcons took the field for the first time as unit last week at the team's first group of OTA sessions.
There were plenty of new faces on the field as guys like John Abraham, Dunta Robinson, Michael Turner, Todd McClure and Tyson Clabo are gone in favor of veterans like Osi Umenyiora and Steven Jackson, as well as a group of young players that includes Lamar Holmes, Peter Konz, Mike Johnson, Robert Alford and Desmond Trufant (who did not participate in OTA sessions last week because he's finishing his academic business at Washington like fellow rookie Levine Toilolo is at Stanford).
What did we learn from the first week of OTA sessions? Where are the position battles on this team shaping up? Who impressed the coaches? Join me as we discuss that and more and look back at the Atlanta Falcons first week of OTA sessions.
Note: Unless indicated otherwise, the analysis in this article is based on information obtained from player and coaches interviews found in the AtlantaFalcons.com Media Lounge, information shared in the AtlantaFalcons.com Falconcast with Jay Adams and Daniel Cox or from reporting by D. Orlando Ledbetter of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.


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Chase credit cardholders behaved better than Capital One's last month. But overall, Americans continue to treat their plastic with more respect. The "Viking" company reported Thursday that the percentage of customers who paid their credit card bills at least 30 days late ticked up to 3.43 percent last month from 3.37 percent. The rate at» Read more
Have you seen Subway's new menu item? Game credits for Battlestar Galactica Online. Well, almost. Thanks to the creation of Openbucks, a gift card payment network, customers can buy gift cards from participating retailers and redeem them for online games. The retailers include Subway, Circle K, CITGO, Hess and Sports Authority. After buying an Openbucks-enabled gift» Read more
American Express is bidding bon voyage to Continental and bonjour to Virgin. The credit card issuer said Monday that Richard Branson's airline is joining AmEx's membership rewards program. Virgin America will fill the gap left by Continental Airlines, which leaves the program at the end of this month. Continental's breakup with American Express comes as» Read more
From the looks of the news on credit cards, it seems like a criminal is on every corner trying to steal your credit card information. An Indiana man was just locked up for 14 years after being found guilty of creating counterfeit credit cards. Secret Service agents found almost 21,000 credit card accounts on his computers, in his email» Read more
Imagine credit card companies stealing each other's customers over smartphone. It's not so farfetched. On Thursday, Mitek Systems unveiled a new app that allows you to search for a better credit card rate than the one you already have and instantly transfer the balance to a new credit card account. All via your iPhone, BlackBerry and» Read more
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Here's a new option for gift givers: the new American Express eGift Card. The new virtual card, unveiled Tuesday, mimics the credit card company's "real" gift card with no fees after purchase, such as for activation, checking on the balance and monthly servicing. The funds also don't expire. The cost to you: A $2.95 upfront» Read more
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The debut of a federal consumer watchdog doesn't come without a few hiccups. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which enjoyed its proverbial ribbon-cutting July 21, has run into its first problem: delayed credit card complaints. A Bloomberg News report on Tuesday revealed that some of the credit card gripes filed online on the CFPB's website have» Read more
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yes I would. it is close to the low for the week,and the china stimulus may happen on sunday. all good reasons to buy for a nice profit for next week just look at the weekly hi and lows. I rest my case. In at 59.90 late am. if we can hold the weekly low for this week then we could see a decent rally monday if china comes thru. if not the overall market will take us up some. two things i will point out, options expire today, it will try to be held at the close at just below 60.
Good analysic. The question is if GE buy JOY. will CAT go higher too due to valuation? I owned both CAT and JOY
Sentiment: Strong Buy


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live results: http://www.isuresults.com/results/gpf1314/SEG003.HTM
Warm-Up Group 1
1 Elena RADIONOVA RUS
2 Adelina SOTNIKOVA RUS
3 Anna POGORILAYA RUS
4 Ashley WAGNER USA
5 Julia LIPNITSKAIA RUS
6 Mao ASADA JPN
live results: http://www.isuresults.com/results/gpf1314/SEG003.HTM
Warm-Up Group 1
1 Elena RADIONOVA RUS
2 Adelina SOTNIKOVA RUS
3 Anna POGORILAYA RUS
4 Ashley WAGNER USA
5 Julia LIPNITSKAIA RUS
6 Mao ASADA JPN
Good luck to Mao and little Radio!
Goog luck to Ashley & Anna!
I want Sochi drama and that is why I want Mao to win gold, Julia a close second (silver) and some other Russian girl to take bronze (who, I don't care).
Sigh, will not be able to watch this live.
I'll either need to watch the recap on TV later or cheat and use my mobile phone's internet to read this thread.
Pls rock me dear Mao. Sorry I can't see Caro and Akiko here.
What an upset it would be if Anna wins (LOL). No offense to any of her fans.
Go Mao! Go Julia!
I want Mao in 1st and Julia in a close 2nd
Good luck to all six ladies
BTW so sad that Carolina couldn't come here Her performance was always good to watch
- Mao to prove to Yuna that the Sochi OGM is far from decided,
- Ashley to skate well so that Mao doesn't have to face the russian flood alone,
- Julia to show that she has recovered from the CoR setback and will be the top contender for the no.1 position after this season,
- Adelina to have clean flips and show she is still a force to reckon with,
- Anna to give another demonstration of her remarkable talent and establish her name as another top senior,
- Elena to skate as joyfully as always and have an encouraging experience in her first big international senior final.
Ok, that's a lot of want's for St Nicholas' Day ... .
but it doesn't mean that I hate Mao Asada. She is a good skater and so cute.
How can I hate her?
Mao's Nocturne is a lovely program, that really suits her very well.
Wanna see her clean performance today!
Ashley is also a lovely skater. She is supposed to land 3-3!!
Hope she nails it.
Carolina... so sad that I can't see her in this event.
AND YUNA !!! Her SP in Golden Spin of Zagreb tomorrow !!!
Good luck to all these beautiful young ladies.
What is it with the ISU and Gwen Stefani? To borrow a word from Patrick, they effing love this song.


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Books are ready! and some thoughts about the process.
Hello everybody, sorry to have fallen off for a bit, but I just wanted to get everything done before updating. The series now finished up to 27 cities, including Beijing... Read more
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The exhibition at Book & Job Gallery went really well and the whole experience with kickstarter has been really amazing. Thanks again for everybody's... Read more
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Seabury Hall / Grade 12
GPA: 3.88 (AP calculus, environmental science)
SPORTS: Soccer, softball, cross country
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FAMILY: Ty and Jayne Hori of Kahului
ACTIVITIES: 4-H Dirt Devils, Focus Maui Nui Youth Alliance, hula
FUTURE PLANS: Studying engineering at a Mainland college
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SPORTS LESSONS: "I enjoy being an athlete because not only am I embracing a healthy lifestyle, but I also get to spend time with my friends. I am so fortunate to live in Hawaii where I can participate in sports year-round, and I enjoy the competitive atmosphere."


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Citizen questions deserve answers, Broadband Committee says
Broadband Committee members voted unanimously at their Oct. 30 meeting that any future questions related to high speed Internet service will be reviewed by "referee" committee member Richard Wagner who will determine whether the question is new or whether the answer already appears on the committee's website.
Wagner is in charge of keeping the committee's Website updated.
If the question is new it can be added to the committee's agenda and someone will be assigned to get the information. If the question has already been answered, people will be referred to the Website for the answer.
The issue was raised by committee chairman Steve Cullen following the Oct. 23 at which member Stan Moss was quoted saying "this committee can't set a precedent by spending time answering your questions" in response to queries by resident Kathy Conway.
That meeting ended abruptly so they didn't discuss the issue of questions, said Cullen. "As a committee we've spoken at meetings and said we'd be open to questions, so it's up to us to answer questions as best we can," he said. "If we didn't want to do that we shouldn't have said we would."
He noted a question had been put on the Web site in September that hasn't been answered yet.
Cullen said he'd looked at the Web site and looked at answers there. "We need to step back and look at it from all sides. The reason we got together was because there was no third party interested in doing this [high-speed Internet] and asked how we could do it so the people who want it pay for it and those that can't afford it don't have to pay for it," he said. "We're all being very altruistic about this. As a committee we support the populace, so we need to approach it that way," he added.
"This committee is empowered to do what's before this committee," said member Stan Moss. "Parks and Rec just bought playground equipment. It wouldn't be appropriate for a citizen to walk in and say they didn't like it and ask for comparisons."
Cullen suggested that research on new questions could be a joint effort between the citizen who asked and the committee. If a citizen continues to have concerns after the question has been answered, Cullen said further questions should be answered.
"We have a charge here to move forward," said member Bill Dino. "We have limited resources. We can't spend a lot of time answering questions. We should be working on our main goal."
Some months ago the committee wrote on the Web site about municipalities that were running fine, but some residents have come back and found those systems aren't running well, he said. "We've missed information. The site isn't balanced."
"The question comes back to bias,'' said Dino. Some will never get the answer they will be satisfied with, he added.
"Is the cost going to grow?" asked Cullen. "Those questions need to be answered.
"If we get a productive comment, whether positive or negative I'll put it in the Web site," said Wagner.
There has been discussion of the failure of a system in Provo, Utah, a municipally owned system that is funded through taxpayers and has experienced problems and incurred massive debt, with expenses higher than revenues. Part of the problem is that subscription levels were below expectations.
Conway referred to Provo's problems at a Broadband meeting in July and asked what other towns in the country had successfully built and maintained a fiber to the home system through taxpayer funding.
The trend from 2005 to now showed what the cost was and how it has changed, said Cullen.
"Researching every possibility of failure is like a dissertation," said Moss.
"People could come to our meeting and we'll talk about their question," suggested member Ned Utzig.
Have we found one, city or town funded high fiber system that has been built with taxpayer money, asked Cullen. "We're a public forum and what is said is public," said Cullen. "We need to approach it with a balance. Residents may or may not be allowed to speak at an open meeting. We opened this up to be open, honest and transparent. Because of the windmills, folks were not comfortable. In my business everyone that wants to be heard is heard. That's in the best interest of the committee itself. We can just have us speak, but my preference is to allow others to speak," he said.
"We're getting into a spontaneous debate with that," said Utzig.
"It's easy to get off on a tangent with that," said Dino. "Our job is to bring high-speed Internet. We want to stick with the process." The Web site is a place where questions can be directly answered, he said. "Questions and answers always beget more questions. I see it as getting dicey. What's in writing is what counts." He suggested it may be time to hold another public hearing/ information session.
"We're not close to having information yet," said Moss.
"Some things have changed. We've opened it up to Charter," said Dino.
Subscribers to the website number about 250, including those on the Facebook site, said Cullen. That is a small amount compared to the town population, he said.
"I would request quite strongly we engage the population and direct them to the Web site," said Cullen. "Those I've talked to outside say that based on what they've read on the Web site, it doesn't match other information they've read. I know people are talking about this and questioning how soon, how much, and my neighbor can't afford this. Be earnest with yourselves and with information out there and what we believe to be true," he added. "Provo has spent a lot of money and it has been mismanaged beyond belief.''
He questioned why the local web site says the Provo system has been a positive experience if that community is on the hook for $112 million.
"I don't go to our Web site," said Dino, "But we should look at it and change those sections."
"We need to let people know we're trying to get a third party in here," said Moss. Members expect to have a discussion with representatives from Com Cast at a future meeting.
"A game-changing thing has happened'' with Charter's involvement, said Ball Hill Road resident Linda Nash. She encouraged the committee to hold an informational meeting. "I'm pleased with the progress in the past two weeks."
"The Broadband Committee kind of lost track at the last meeting," said Cullen. He offered a formal apology to Conway. "It's our responsibility to stay calm and cool.'' The majority voted to extend the apology.
Cullen said the minutes of the July 24 meeting that Conway raised questions that did not get posted. "I posted them the way they were but they will be amended. I looked at the minutes and they did not reflect that the committee said they would answer her questions. I want the amended minutes to include the questions she asked. It was missed and should be corrected," he added.
Conway thanked the committee for addressing her concerns.


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Bengals are laughingstock of the NFL
It was a wild finish last night in Cincinnati, and some of the game actually included great football plays. But the Bengals suffered an epic meltdown with the antics of Vontaze Burfict and Adam "Pacman" Jones at the end of the game.
This was after Jeremy Hill fumbled the football after an impressive strip by Ryan Shazier late in the game after it appeared the Bengals had sealed an improbable comeback off a Burfict interception of Big Ben. Hill should have been the primary goat in this game, but then idiocy took over.
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As you explore our site, you may come across an unfamiliar word or term. We've developed a glossary of health care terms we hope will help you.
Select one of the following letters to take you to the part of the alphabet that applies.
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|August 4, 1971
|Running time:
|111 minutes
|Donald Barry, Timothy Bottoms, Craig Bovia, Peter Brocco, Judy Howard Chaikin
|Dalton Trumbo
|Bruce Campbell
|Dalton Trumbo
Description: The author of the famous late 1930's antiwar book Johnny Got His Gun wrote and directed this film adaptation. It concerns a nameless young soldier (Timothy Bottoms) in a veteran's hospital in the World War I period. The young man has had his face blown off, he is without the use of any of his senses save touch, and also has no arms or legs. He is in a coma at the beginning of the film, and his doctors doubt that he will regain consciousness. This is also what they hope. A nurse, while changing his dressings, discovers that he is awake and responsive. The unrelieved awfulness of his situation is apparent to many. However, in order to keep the good order of the military, the regular Army general commanding the hospital will not allow the boy to be seen or his family notified, nor will he permit anyone to perform a mercy killing. Interspersed with this horror are flashbacks of the youth's life before the war.~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
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