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John Rich, one half of the country duo Big & Rich, recovered from a scare on Tuesday when his 3-year-old American bulldog, missing since Friday, was returned to him by a student at Nashville's Vanderbilt University.
Rich, who lives near the Vandy campus, has had the pup, named Frank Sinatra Rich (in honor of Rich's favorite singer), since the dog was four weeks old and was "completely shaken up" by the pet's disappearance, says his rep, Tree Paine.
"You can take anything from me, but losing my dog is like losing part of my family," Rich said of the 130-lb., tan and white pup, according to Paine.
Rich discovered Frank was missing when he returned home Friday night and saw that someone had broken into his property and stolen a horn off the exterior of his car. At first, he thought the intruder left the gate open and the dog wandered off, but when Frank didn't return the fear arose that the pup had been stolen.
Rich filed a police report, but just as he was about to announce the missing pup to the media, he received a call from the college student saying he had found Rich's dog. Frank's ID collar with Rich's contact information was missing, but he still had a tag with an 800 number for a microchip company. The student called the number and was given Rich's details.
The country singer raced over to reunite with Frank as soon as he got the call. "He was so excited!" Paine says. "I've never seen John Rich freaked out, but he was so upset by this."
For his good deed, the Vanderbilt student received from Rich a lifetime supply of all-access/backstage passes to Big & Rich shows.
John Rich's Dog Lost – and Found
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"My Life in Middlemarch" is an intimate look at George Eliot's 1874 classic novel "Middlemarch" from the perspective of a reader and fan. Author Rebecca Mead melds memoir, biography and literary criticism into a unique concoction that works surprisingly well. This book is in some ways a tribute to anyone who has read and loved "Middlemarch," but all book lovers can learn something here.
Mead's book is divided into eight chapters, named for the eight books into which "Middlemarch" was divided when it was originally published as a serialized story, along with a prelude and a finale. Following these chapter themes - with names like "Waiting for Death" and "Three Love Problems" - this book doesn't work like a typical biography.
Instead of following the chronology of Eliot (real name: Marion Evans)'s life or even Mead's life, it follows the arc of the story of "Middlemarch" with analysis on the chapter in question, insights into Eliot's background and anecdotes from Mead's life and relation to the book incorporated where appropriate.
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"Middlemarch" broke the mold of novels in its time - while the prevailing sentiment ruled that novels were meant to wrap up neatly, preferably with a wedding (think of any Jane Austen novel), Eliot chose to start with a wedding as a jumping-off point and then show readers what happens after the "happy ending."
While the subtitle of her book was "A study of provincial life," the complexity of her characters makes "Middlemarch" relateable to everyone.
Mead's experience of growing up with "Middlemarch" - and reading it from cover to cover throughout various periods of her life - allows her to explore the way readers' relationships to stories can change over time. One who relates to the painfully earnest and naive Dorothea throughout childhood is able to read with an entirely new perspective as an adult, suddenly identifying with Cecelia and the way her baby has given her a new sense of purpose, or with Lydgate and his struggle to navigate ethically muddy waters in his career. Mead argues that Eliot's purpose in creating "Middlemarch" was to create sensitivity, or what was then called "sympathy," in her readers for the lives and feelings of others.
The biographical information woven throughout the book provides insight into the way Eliot's experiences helped to shape her characters, even those who seem very different from herself.
Eliot lived an extremely unconventional lifestyle; after a childhood of unquestioned devotion to religious teachings, she announced an enthusiastic conversion to atheism and later was shunned by family members for choosing a live-in partnership with a man over marriage.
When her pseudonym was revealed, she was still referred to as "George Eliot" by everyone, including friends and family, and was always known first and foremost for her work. A neighbor's description of her in the 1850s could, as Mead points out, easily be used to depict a woman writer today: "I can see her now, with her hair over her shoulders, the easy chair half sideways to the fire, her feet over the arms, and a proof in her hands," she quotes William Hale White saying.
The most poignant moments of "My Life in Middlemarch" are not Mead's personal anecdotes, which she limits to those most relevant to Eliot's work - they are her musings on the power of reading to change people and, conversely, the power of people to change a work and its meaning.
Mead is well aware that not all "Middlemarch" readers may agree with her assessments of the novel and in fact she sees this as a positive indication that readers have made "Middlemarch" their own: "All readers make books over in their own image, and according to their own experience," she says. "My 'Middlemarch' is not the same as anyone else's 'Middlemarch'; it is not even the same as my 'Middlemarch' of twenty-five years ago."
This may be true, but she manages to pull readers into "her life in Middlemarch" just as Eliot pulls us into her work after all these years, and perhaps this is because we as lovers of "Middlemarch" and of reading are of a common mind.
Mead says it best in her prelude to the book: "Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it's a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book.
But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself."
"My Life in Middlemarch" encourages readers to examine the impact books have had on our lives and, I suspect intentionally, to re-read "Middlemarch" in hopes of getting lost once more.

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3 Steps to Healthy, Happier Joints
Creating healthy joints in our bodies takes a multi-faceted approach. Do you know what the three most important factors are for joint health that we can influence with our own lifestyle behavior choices? The most significant impacts we have control over for our joints are diet, supplements, and exercise. The runner ups in fourth and fifth that also need to be mentioned here are our body weight and both the volume and intensity of movement we do daily. As an exercise specialist with twenty years' experience working with knee and hip aches and joint replacement clients, I am going to share with you exercise tips for optimal joint health.
What is the best exercise for joint health?
The number one form of exercise for joint health that provides the most relief from stiff joints is cardiovascular exercise. When I say cardiovascular exercise, I am describing an activity that raises your heart rate with dynamic movement over a consistent period of time. Not just any aerobic exercise will do though, it is important you choose consciously for your conditioning and discomfort level. If you have knee or hip discomfort or aches in these joints, the best cardiovascular exercise options are ones that are non-weight bearing and that take the joint through a good range of motion. Stationary cycling, aquasize, rowing, and elliptical trainers are all good choices.
Walking is a fabulous exercise and if you love the outdoors, keep it up, but do pay attention to if the aches in your joints is limiting your distance or decreasing the time you can walk. Your joint aches and stiffness may also be slowing you down thereby decreasing your ability to get a great cardiovascular workout. One option, that I am a huge fan of that actually decreases the load on your joints while you walk, is pole walking. You can learn more here.
How Strength Exercise Helps Knee and Hip Joint Aches
It was a tough call to say cardiovascular exercise is number one as I have seen firsthand the incredible benefits strength exercises give to people with joint discomfort and how much improvement people have with everyday activities by simply doing a few of them. In fact the only reason cardiovascular exercise would take precedence, is it is usually easier for people to do on a daily basis.
Now when you hear strength, you may be thinking about some of those high intensity, hard strength exercises you see men do in the gym. The good news is those are not the type of strength exercises you need or what are recommended. Instead there are specific strength exercises that will actually help stabilize and absorb shock for the joint. The type of strength exercises that are best for anyone with joint aches and stiffness are muscular endurance exercises which is a strength exercise at an intensity that you can do at least 12 to 15 repetitions. Now the specific exercises you need depend on whether your focus is the knee or hip. The quadriceps muscle is absolutely the number one muscle to strengthen for knee aches and the gluteal or seat muscles are a focus for hip joint aches. The most important thing to realize here is that when you do strength exercises for your joints, you are building a fortress of support, stabilization, and protection around it which can decrease aches and increase functional ability in everyday activities. Below are a few exercises to strengthen the knee and hip joint:
The VMO Quadricep Muscle for Knee Strength & Extension:
- Use a Circle Foam Roller or hard couch pillows & a small squishy firm ball (kids or dollar store)
- Place the foam roller above your knee under both legs and the ball slightly above knee as well
- Flex one ankle of the active leg, toes up to ceiling and straighten the knee joint as you squeeze the ball and straighten the knee joint contracting the quadriceps muscle
- Hold this position for a count of 3 to 5 seconds maintaining the ball squeeze, lower, & repeat
- Do 12-15 repetitions each leg and 1-2 sets twice a week
Go here to see a Video of this exercise: https://vimeo.com/168566285/095955f0d6
Gluteus Medius Muscle Clam Shell Strength Exercise for Hip Aches and Discomfort:
- Lie on your side and line up your head, hips, and feet with knees bent in front at about 45 degrees, slightly tilt your body forward
- Place hand in front for balance or on hips, then draw your belly button to spine and lift top knee
- The trick here is to life from your hip, not push with your feet and to focus on feeling the muscle at the side of your hip
- Lift at a controlled speed, hold up for a count of three and lower gently, make sure your back does not roll back and the hips stay stacked and anchored so only the knee and hip move
- Do 12-15 repetitions and 1-2 sets each leg
Go here to see a Video of this exercise: https://vimeo.com/170532769/2b733ed999
You will notice that in both of the above strength exercises that they are non weight bearing which takes the load off of the joint; this is great for people with stiffness and discomfort in their knee and hip or experiencing aches in their joints as the low load still allows you to build strength and stability for your joint. Also, it is really important for people to work their joints through their greatest ache free range of motion. You will see in the above exercises, they both allow the joint to be move through its natural range.
Range of motion exercises are very important for people with stiffness and aches in their knee and hip.
The arthritic knee needs both flexion and extension range of motion exercises. You can view a sample of a knee flexion exercise in the video below that does wonders for loosening a stiff knee joint.
Knee Range of Motion Exercise for Flexion: https://vimeo.com/168538240/b751190f4e
The arthritic hip needs extension and abduction exercises and depending on aches, where the incision will be during surgery, and muscle tightness, it may also require flexion and adduction exercises. Below you can view a sample hip extension exercise which feels great.
Hip Range of Motion Exercise Bridge Lift: https://vimeo.com/168579560/c10a51af45
Lastly it is crucial you know that volume or the amount of activity you do can be detrimental to your joint health. Ironically, the adverse effects of the volume of activity you do fall on both ends of the spectrum; this means that if you do too little activity, your joint will remain stiff, weak, and will also lack flow of nutrients required for healing. On the other hand, if you do too much not just in one workout, but for the entire day, it will increase inflammation and discomfort. Make sure to find the right balance for your body and to not overdo it. You will need rest days!
There you have the exercise tips for healthy joints, now you can combine them with your diet and supplements to keep moving freely and living your best quality of life.
To learn more about hip and knee exercises or to receive a complete exercise program for hip and knee replacement pre and post operation visit http://kneereplacementexercises.net/ or http://hipreplacementexercises.net/
Jody Kennett is an ACE Certified Medical Exercise Specialist with a diploma in Kinesiology from SFU. She is the creator of the Hip Replacement and Knee Replacement Exercise Programs which were developed from teaching the 'gold standard' Joint Replacement Class for 15 years. The unique class helped hundreds of clients prepare and recover from knee and hip replacement and improve their quality of life. She packaged the successful exercise program into an online Ebook & Video for people around the world to benefit from the proven system they developed and it has now circled the globe making stronger joints around the world! For more information and to learn about the complete exercise program visit: http://hipreplacementexercises.net/ and http://kneereplacementexercises.net/.
Italy 5-0, Adventure Travel at Any Age
I just recently finished a two-week trip to Italy – it was my "wish" for my 50th birthday, and what a birthday it was!
It was what they call a "Self guided" Walking tour and four of us set off for a wonderful adventure in a beautiful country.
Four days in Rome and then eight days hiking the Amalfi coast, visiting Mt Vesuvius and the ruins of Pompeii…it was incredible!
On the plane home my husband and I were re-living the adventure, chatting about the people we met on foot walking from town to town, and the exercise we got and how great we felt even though we had enjoyed all the food and wine that Italy is famous for. And it hit me that pretty much 90% of my vacations are what I call "fitness vacations", hiking, biking, walking and more often then not, coming home feeling better than I did when I left.
And when I look back and really I am not sure which came first…the importance of fitness and the ability to pursue physically active trips or the desire to do those types of trips prompted me to maintain a certain level of fitness in my life.
But either way, I cannot imagine a holiday without the physical aspect of being able to walk for hours on end, explore villages, immerse myself in the culture, take time to understand the history, meet the local people along the way and stop as long as I like to take in the incredible scenery and be "in the moment".
In Rome we chose guided "walking tours". They were 4-5 hours a day, exploring Rome, discovering the hidden gems, walking up to the coliseum, Pantheon, Vatican city and the Spanish steps.
Then we headed to the Amalfi coast, where we trekked from town to town. We started in the town of Amalfi then onto Praiano, Santa Agata, & Sorrento.
We covered 85 Km in distance and almost 14,000 feet in elevation gain – there is lots of "up" on the Amalfi Coast, plus wild mountains – old fishing towns tumbling down to the water's edge. Spectacular paths with views for miles. Bathing in little coves. This was a truly multigraded walk for the hardy strider.
Our route shows both faces of the peninsula – the craggy scenery of the eastern (Amalfi) end and the more accessible charms of the western tip.
Our final day was spent hiking a stretch to the top of Mt Vesuvius and wandering thru the ruins of Pompeii.
This is the best of both worlds…enjoying all the opportunities that come my way, and at the same time improving my fitness, immersing myself in the culture, seeing first hand the historic sites and just exploring this world – on foot, because I am able to.
So even though a big part of my job these days involves sitting in a booth as an analyst with TSN covering curling– I will work hard to maintain my fitness while I am on the road. I have multiple yoga apps on my iPad, I try to stay in hotels with a gym, and I continue to take the supplement that will allow me to maintain my joint health and mobility – SierraSil Joint Formula 14.
Well, time to get back to researching the best hikes in the world and my next adventure for 2017!
Happy Trails!
The Benefits of Exercise on Joint Health
If you suffer from joint pain, exercising can be difficult. Some think exercising increases pain and it's best to avoid putting any additional pressure on the joints. But the opposite is true. If you don't use it, you lose it. Exercising can help ease stiffness, improve joint movement, strengthen muscles and maintain bone density. Even slight movements can help pump the blood to the joints, lubricate the joints and strengthen the muscles to protect the joints. When you don't work out, that is when the pain increases and arthritis worsens. However, keep in mind that prolonged and intense workouts may worsen the pain and inflammation.
When implementing a regular exercise regimen, avoid strenuous activity, listen to your body and incorporate light activities. If you are just starting out, aquatic exercises may be a great place to start. Aquatic workouts help relieve pressure of your body's weight on the affected joints, while providing resistance for your muscles to get stronger. You can even do aquatic exercise if you don't know how to swim. Other light activities may include jogging, walking, light weights and stretching (yoga, Pilates, or Tai Chi). If you are uncertain which type of exercise is best for you, consult with your health care provider.
How to Stay Motivated
When choosing an exercise routine, focus on activities that you find enjoyable. This could include walking to the grocery store, biking in the park or gardening. If you don't know what you might enjoy, start small and try a variety of activities.
If you find it hard to stay motivated, make exercising a social activity. Joining an aquatic fitness program or going for a walk with a friend can motivate you to stick to your exercise routine.
Another way to stay motivated is to set realistic goals. Schedule exercise when you are at your highest energy level for 20-30 minutes, 3 times a week. If you are just starting, plan a 10 to 15 minute workout and gradually increase the length of time once you've become accustom to your routine.
Supplementing for Joint Health
Taking health supplements for joint health is just as important as exercising. As you age, joints and muscles are not as resilient and may require more time for recovery post-workout. For your muscles to work efficiently and to replenish the loss of minerals during your work out, certain nutrients are vital. SierraSil, a Kosher certified and active ingredient in SierraSil Joint Formula14, contains minerals in a rich clay structure that eases joint and muscles aches, reduces stiffness and helps prevent cartilage breakdown associate with exercise and movement. Many professional athletes have reported increased performance and decreased recovery times using SierraSil.
Other benefits of exercise
Exercising has proven mental and emotional benefits from reducing the impact of stress to regulating your sleep patterns to boosting your immune system. Even after a short burst of exercise, you'll feel more confident and energized.
With the right exercise program, you can conquer your joint pain and inflammation one workout at a time. It is never too late to incorporate a little movement in your daily routine for a more thriving and pain free life.
By: Justyna Zarzeczny. For more health and wellness articles by Justyna please visit her blog at http://www.thrivewiththeseasons.com/.
Video Blog: Caroline Berry on why anti-inflammatory diets are great for joint health and mobility
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Hi, my name is Carolyn Berry and I'm a registered dietitian here in Vancouver BC. I am passionate about being a dietitian because I feel there is so much information going around about nutrition. There's lots of myths and I really like to debunk those myths. I think that's really important.
I do work in a hospital. I work in a private clinic and I also have my own private practice called Berry Nourished. My website is berrynourish.com. I feature lots of different recipes on my website, so really easy to make, simple ingredients. I'm also very active. I run marathons and I like to help people basically learn how to eat and be fit at the same time. When it comes to eating organic foods we really need to weigh out the costs versus the health benefit of the organic food.
We do know that organic foods have a lower amount of pesticides than non organic foods. However, they are quite expensive. A rule that I like to go by is the dirty dozen versus the clean 15. That's something that you can look up to see the entire list but just to give you an example, the dirty dozen would include apples, nectarines, grapes, spinach. Those are things if you are going to buy organic, I would spend your money on the more pesticide dirty dozen. The clean 15 would include things like onions, cabbage, cantaloupe. If you think about cantaloupe, it has a really thick skin so you're not eating the skin, right, so that's a bit of a cleaner fruit in terms of pesticides.
Inflammation is at the root of a lot of illnesses and there's things that we can do in our diets to help. One of the things would be increasing Omega 3 fats. Omega 3 fats are found in cold water fatty fish, so examples would be salmon, trout, herring, mackerel, sardines. Plant sources of Omega 3 would be ground flax seeds, chia seeds, walnuts, canola oil. We really want to increase our intake of these Omega 3 fats. They are anti-inflammatory. On the other hand, we have Omega 6 fats and Omega 6 fats are found in a lot of those really light tasting oils that are used in a lot of processed foods. For example, sunflower oil, safflower oil, soy bean oil. Companies are using those oils because they're cheap to produce. They're putting them in cookies, crackers, baked goods. A lot of those processed foods that we're eating so as a result, in our North American diets, we get a lot of Omega 6 fats. We actually want to be achieving a ratio of Omega 6 to Omega 3 of 4 to 1. 4 Omega 6 to one Omega 3. Unfortunately in North America our ratio is more like 15 to 1 so we have a lot of Omega 6 in our diets. We want to work on cutting down the Omega 6 and replacing those with more Omega 3 fats.
As someone who's complete 4 marathons I do think that eating an anti-inflammatory diet is really really important, because we put so much strain on our joints and anti-inflammatory foods can really help with that. One of the things would be eating lots of fruits and veggies. I know that this is something that we're always preaching about but it's so so important. Fruits and vegetables have a high amount of antioxidants which can help combat inflammation. Another big one would be minimizing those refined carbohydrates, so the white pastas, the white rice. We want to try and switch those to the whole grain version. Whole wheat pasta, whole grain rice, quinoa, etc.
Another big one would be saturated fats and trans fats. Saturated fats and trans fats start the promotion of the inflammatory process in the body. It's okay to have some saturated fats but we want to do is try and eat more of the healthy unsaturated fats. When it comes to choosing meats, minimize your red meat intake a little bit. Choose more poultry, skinless poultry, fish, high in Omega 3s. Those are better choices. Also the pulses, so the dried beans, peas and lentils. Choose more of those vegetarian proteins as well, incorporate that into your diet. Another big one is stay away from those sugar sweetened beverages. It's okay to have them once in a while but they spike your blood sugars and that causes inflammation. Bottom line, try and eat fresh foods and minimize any processed foods, always go for the fresh whole food.
When it comes to supplementation, as a dietitian, I'm all about foods before supplements. That being said, there are some nutrients that we don't always get enough of in our diets. One big one would be vitamin D. We do get vitamin D from the sun. We also get it from milk products, from fish, from eggs, but we tend to not get quite as much as we need. Vitamin D is anti-inflammatory. I recommend taking an additional supplement. That would be about a 1,000 IU per day. Then Omega 3s would be another supplement that you might want to consider taking. If you're not getting those 2 servings of fatty fish a week, so your salmon, your trout, your sardines, if you're not getting 2 servings a week, I would suggest an additional Omega 3 supplement, about 500 mg of Omega 3 per day.
Video Blog: Dr. Jack Taunton talks sports medicine
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The passion that I have for sports medicine has been there for a long time. As a young child, grade one, I had polio and I went through extensive rehabilitation. Then just as I was getting over that into junior high school, I got hit by a car and had a fractured dislocation of an ankle and I was in a cast for 32 weeks and went through a lot of rehabilitation. My friends were athletes. My friends were successful. I equated being an athlete and being successful as one and I was neither, so that I had a passion to get better, to thank the people that helped me and to be able to get into a running program, getting into a cycling program, a program that would allow me to catch up to my friends and get better than them.
My big passion was to make a major games which most people would laugh about. The question is in terms of the work with sports medicine and how much work does an athlete require. Sports medicine is now been recognized as a true specialty in sports medicine that's just been … They've gone through a whole process. They've just now started to announce the ones in Canada that have now got this specialty and I was very, very lucky to get one of the early ones a month ago. What sports medicine is it's basically taking that science of human movement that you understand from kinesiology and then applying that to a diseased state. That diseased state may be arthritis, it may be an ankle sprain. It may be a spinal cord injury.
We need to be able to diagnose that. Most important, we have to know what we're dealing with, to diagnose it and utilize the most up to date, current, and we want to be up to date and current, that's why we do research, to be up to date and current and to give that athlete, young or old. It's got nothing to do with age, and it's got nothing to do with ability. Young or old to get them the best chance to recover and get back to doing the activity that they want to do. When you run 62 marathons, you get injured. Yes, you do. Particularly you have to look at somebody as old as myself. I mean I co-founded the Vancouver Marathon and started the first running club in Canada.
It was only 6 of us and we put on the first Vancouver Marathon and there was 32 of us, but all those 32 were hard core runners. Nowadays we have many, many more, obviously tens of hundreds more but are they any better than the group that I first started with? No, but the important thing is for the people that are now, they now are doing it much safer. They don't go through the same number of injuries that we went through because it was trial and error. We didn't know what a stress fracture. As soon as we know that somebody's got pain in their foot or pain in their hip and it hurts to hop on, you got a stress fracture until proven otherwise. Because if you continue to push, let's say you've got groin pain and you're continuing to push in your marathon training and it hurts to hop but the next day you get out and do it again.
That hip can break right through. You can lose the blood supply to it. You could end up having to have an artificial hip at the age of 20 which you would rather not have since the artificial hips only last 15 to 20 years. Prevention is everything that we're trying to do now is by looking at the strength, looking at flexibility and balance because all of those factors are so critical, particularly as you start to fatigue in whatever sport you're doing. We want to be able to prevent those injuries because some of those injuries can be very significant. Inflammation early on is important because it attracts the white cells which help the healing process. The problem becomes when you continue to aggravate it. You get more and more inflammation.
Now it's not just localized attracting these white cells to come and heal that small muscle injury, but it becomes a massive inflammation which can create … People can get autoimmune conditions where you can get inflammation in other joints not related at all to the calf strain that you had. It prevents at a certain level the actual healing process to occur. You need some inflammation to attract cells, but then the cells have to be able to do their job, turn on the fibroblast, lay down the type one collagen and heal that tear. If it's all inflammatory cells, that's where the process stops and the healing stops. There are certain conditions. Tennis players get chronic tennis elbow because ll that inflammation there, it stimulates the laying down of what's called type 3 collagen.
It's weak, it's haphazard. It continues to re-tear. If you get rid of the inflammation, you stimulate that fibroblast to lay down type one collagen. You get strong collagen. It heals and we follow you up one, two, three years that 80 or 90% of those people are healed. We wanted to see whether we could enhance athletes, not aerobic capacity, could you run faster, run further but could we enhance your anaerobic power. These are power sports, so we selected 10 football players. Then we put them on 3 weeks of either the supplement or SierraSil. Then they were off 3 weeks to clear it out and then they got the opposite. We wanted to see because when you do an anaerobic work, you create anaerobic products which impair your performance.
Lactic acid, people would understand. What the actual mechanism of action of of SierraSil is, is it clears and removes information. It removes the lactic acid and then allows you to train that much harder. We train these athletes. These are top, top athletes. We wanted to see if sure could we do it with individuals that were neophytes but we wanted to take top athletes. We wanted to train them incredibly hard and to create one of the most painful exercise test called the Wingate test and to really stress them and could we improve their anaerobic power. Yes, we could. We improve their power 3% and people say, "Well 3%. That's not very much." Well, you take a look at our power sport, let's say it's a cyclist. In that sprint 3%, 3 seconds.
You look at Dawn is our coach for our national kayak and canoe team. He coaches world champion and he's got all these athletes. Boy, if they could get 3% on him, that would be a huge, huge difference.
Video Blog: Dr. Kam Shojania on lifestyle factors to maintain joint health
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My career has been most at UBC. I've trained at UBC in medicine and internal medicine, rheumatology, and then I became faculty whereupon I became head of rheumatology at UBC and also St. Paul's and VGH. My career is mainly seeing patients, but also teaching and doing research at the Arthritis Research Canada, which is our largest freestanding arthritis center in Canada.
We have an aging population, and that impacts one type of arthritis. The most common type is osteoarthritis, which gets worse as we get older, and it affects many of us. The other types, however, like lupus and rheumatoid don't change with age and actually affect younger people, so younger women and men. With one type of arthritis, osteoarthritis, it is going to be a tsunami with the aging population. If we want to keep active and mobile into our 80's and 90's and even 100's, then there need to be some changes in our lifestyle.
Sometimes, when a patient sees me for arthritis, they will preface it by saying they aren't really keen on taking a medication. After assessing them, I may say, "You know, your type of arthritis is best managed by lifestyle measures," and then I go through the exercise and the weight loss and the lifestyle changes they need to make, and, at the end, some of them will say, "Isn't there just a pill I can take?" While that's an amusing anecdote, it does hold true for a number of patients that I see. Lifestyle measures are particularly difficult to change.
With regards to weight, a 10-pound weight loss for overweight people can translate into a 25% reduction in the need for a total knee replacement. That's huge both for the patient, but also for our system. If we could reduce the number of knee replacements, we can save a lot of money.
Sometimes, we talk about a cure for arthritis, but I think the important thing is there are many types of arthritis, some in fact we can cure. One of the common types of arthritis in men is gout, which is totally preventable now, so there's one down.
If we look at rheumatoid arthritis, we have amazing new treatments over the past 15 years that basically can put it into remission and using old treatments early can actually put it into remission, older, less expensive treatments, so not two down yet, but getting there. If we look at osteoarthritis, however, we are not that close to preventing it yet.
Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis that we often get. Many of us will get it, and it happens more as we get older. Younger people get it if they've had a traumatic injury to a knee, for example, or a back. However, one of the big factors for osteoarthritis is obesity and muscle deconditioning.
In treating osteoarthritis, we don't have a pill that's going to slow it down. The pain medications for osteoarthritis leave a lot to be desired. The best way to manage it is by lifestyle measures. This is particularly hard, but, on the plus side, these lifestyles measures of exercise, achieving appropriate weight, help other conditions as well like diabetes, cardiovascular risks, cancer even. I think that, in the hopes of improving their joint symptoms through lifestyle measure, we are going to achieve a lot of other benefits.
Other tips in preventing joint diseases, I think one of the biggest factors in rheumatoid arthritis, which, remember, these are all different types of arthritis, but rheumatoid arthritis, if you can quit smoking, it reduces the risk of even developing rheumatoid arthritis significantly.
Here's another one for rheumatoid arthritis that most people don't know about, but gingivitis or inflammation of the gums is associated with more with the onset and severity of rheumatoid arthritis. Flossing your teeth and having good dental care, also, smoking makes gingivitis worse, too, but good dental care reduces the risk of rheumatoid arthritis.
Going to gout, which is another type of arthritis, completely separate from these other two I've mentioned, high fructose corn syrup makes it worse or increases gout, so sugary sodas and even fruit juices with high … supplemented with high fructose corn syrup are not good for gout. Preventing gout is, again, no fast foods, reducing sugary drinks. Cherries, for example, are good for gout, so these little tips as you said that can help different types of arthritis.
In the Arthritis Research Canada, we have a number of outstanding research projects looking at ways for people to cope better with their arthritis, reduce symptoms and even prevent arthritis, also looking at ways of getting the inflammation out. We call that knowledge transfer, because there's lots of great research, but how do we get that knowledge to people? If people are interested, they can go to the website, www.arthritisresearch.ca and look for information or ways to help.
One other tip I forgot to mention was a BC government website called HealthLink BC. Now, if people are interested in looking at lifestyle measures, up on the left, there's weight loss, diet and exercise, and there's … They have them for different age groups and different conditions, so I urge people to go there. It's free. It's our provincial program, and it's very useful.
Video Blog: Kevin O'Connor talks about goal setting and training with a team
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You need realistic goals. I'll be turning fifty in a year and a year and half time and I'm already looking at trying to break the Canadian records of fifty. I think with realistic goals it's much easier to do, and the fact is I have a good training group that I run with and we have a good comradery. It's just slightly easier to look forward than to look back. You never want to look back at what you've done. You want to look forward to what you do. You just have to adjust your goals.
I think you have to look after your body and then I was lucky enough to get on with Sierrasil, maybe, four years ago and taking the product, especially the formula-14, which is really good. It really speeds up the recovery so I can train just as hard as I did before, but you have to train smarter. The recovery is actually more important than the actual training. Taking the product, I like the topical spray as well, it really helps you. You know that with them products and looking after yourself, it's going to be much easier to recover. I've been very fortunate. I've had no major injuries at all.
Training through the winter months, I think it's very important to find a group. If you can't find a group then just try and find a training partner so you know what when it's cold, wet, miserable, rain, snow that someone's going to be there and you're accountable, and then, especially good clothing, nice, dry, warm clothing, keep you warm. Then you have some sort of smaller goals. We're all training for the winter for a major spring marathon. If you find a smaller few races, like in January February, it helps you keep it motivated and gets you through them horrible days.
I need to do hard workouts with a group, just know my teammates are going to be there through really hard workouts. For steady running you can do it by yourself, especially if you limit it to time. I can't always be where my teammates are going to be on a Wednesday when I'm doing a steady run, so I think it balances itself out. Some people prefer to train with a group. Some people train by themselves. For me, and I think for most people, there's a bit of both. It really helps.
I found the benefits for training with a group is that not only do you have great training partners and we're all accountable for each other, but that we've all become very good friends. Some are like my coach, he's become my lifelong friend. In my own group that we train with, Super K Run, we started off with four people that were trying to qualify for Boston and now we've got up to between thirty and forty athletes that come and go, and we've stayed friends ever since. We've had a few Christmas parties and we hung out on New Years. To me, the friendship is just as important as the training.
Some of the benchmarks for success with my own athletes is that I will give them realistic goals. I don't like to sugar coat anything. I'm quite realistic, because otherwise they'll just become disappointed and I don't think that's really a good thing to do as a coach. We'll assess their fitness. We'll know what they're capable of and then we'll set a target and hope they will achieve it. When they do, it's better for everybody. We're so much more happier.
Coaching has impacted my own training because I think I've seen a lot more from what I've gained from my own coaches and how much more respect I actually have for them. A lot of time is voluntary time, a lot of their own free time. For my own athletes, if I am not really working out really hard that day I'll actually run with them. It's, for me, the hardest thing is whether or not I actually want to run with them because I'm already doing my own training. If I have an easy run one morning, I might be able to do it with them. That way I can actually run with them, give them a few tips rather than just being on the sidelines. If it's on a track day then I'd rather be in the middle shouting out times and advice from the middle. It's slightly longer than I'll run with them.
I've been able to avoid any serious injuries for many years now. A lot of it is down to the way I look after myself, my body. I do very good with nutrition. I train very well. I train very smart. I have a chiropractor. I have physio. I have message. I have cold water baths which aren't that much fun, but necessary after a hard workout. I also take a product from Sierrasil called Formula-14 and the topical spray which really helps me for recovery days.
Video Blog: Dr. Bal Pawa discusses women's health as we age
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Hello, I'm Dr. Bal Pawa. I'm the co-founder of Westcoast Women's Clinic, an integrative medical clinic, specializing in hormonal health. We have a reputation in this community for about fifteen years. We pioneered the clinic, we were one of the first in BC. Women come to us because we are MDs who look at healthcare in a very holistic way. We look at wellness rather than the illness model. We offer a personalized health approach. We look at lifestyle, we look at diet, mind-body medicine. We look at sleep. Sleep is a crucial part of health, as well. We look at investigations and state-of-the-art testing for hormones.
Women come to our clinic for many reasons. They often are looking for answers that they have not found at any of their other healthcare providers. They're often feeling depressed, they're having hot flashes, fatigue is a big one. Insomnia is a big one. Women age differently in their lifespan. You can get a thirty-year old who is reaching premature menopause, for example, or you can get a fifty-five year old who is still having periods. Across their reproductive life span, they'll present differently and have many symptoms, and they find that going to walk-in clinics is not meeting their needs.
They're looking for a clinic that is offering integrative approach to hormonal health. Somebody who's credible. As you know, hormones are very controversial issue. They're looking for doctors that are medically trained and have special expertise in this area.
When we look at holistic, or integrative medicine, as it's called, we're looking at medicine through a wellness model, not just an illness model. An illness model is where a patient goes into a doctor and they have a symptom, and they say, "Okay, I have heartburn," and the doctor prescribes a drug. We're looking at causes of that symptom, we're looking at the body as a whole. That's how usually the human body works, as a system, not fragmented parts. We look at through lifestyle, stress, sleep, nutrition, and also we do prescribe. Going to a drug or a medication is not our first go-to.
How do we create perfect health is what I'd like to address. I think it's a partnership. When you get a patient who is advocating for their health, they're motivated, they want to make difference, and then they find a doctor who has expertise in that area and who's passionate about making a difference. I think that's a winning combination. When we create a partnership, we're actually creating a health plan that is personalized. We look at how motivated the patient is, and we're willing to go the full ante to find out what's causing their symptoms, how we can best help them, and create a personalized health plan.
Creating health means creating knowledge, creating good habits and routines, and creating a database of credible information. We offer seminars, one-on-one meeting with the nurse, with the doctor, with the team … We're looking at ways that we can educate the patient, and that helps their journey and sustain their compliance.
As women age, they're often very concerned about bones and joints. These are two different disease process. Bone is a live tissue, and as bones age, they often get softer with age. That's called a disease, osteoporosis. Joint disease is a disease of aging where it's wear and tear. It's often accompanied by tendons and ligaments and bone-on-bone surfaces, like a ball and socket. That's a wear and tear, and that's called osteoarthritis, so two different processes.
Both do involve inflammation, so our principles for looking at joint and bone health are, one is to promote exercise: movement, agility, weight-bearing is especially good for bones, but movement such as swimming and cycling is great for joints. Looking at lifestyle such as smoking, alcohol, or caffeine intake. Those three factors impact how the joints are working, and also how bone tissue responds to these toxins. Looking at diet, for example, having things that are anti-inflammatories in your diet, such as omega-3. Vitamin D is a crucial part of bone health, and vitamin D is also great for absorption of calcium. It's very important to get calcium in your diet. When we're talking about bone and joint health, we often tell women to look at cross-training. We often tell them to look at a very whole diet, and of course you have to recognize that genetics play a role, as well.
A woman should get her hormone levels checked when she's having symptoms. The first hallmark of perimenopause is when she's missing periods. Around age forty, forty-five, she may notice that her periods are becoming irregular. She may have two periods in one month, or she might have two or three months of no periods. That is the first hallmark that menopause is approaching. If you define menopause, that's a milestone that women reach. It's not something they go through. The average age is fifty-one in North America.
Perimenopause is the few years leading up to menopause. Hormone testing at that point is very limited, because your hormones are changing every month. There is some more comprehensive testing that we do send away, and we're looking at stress hormones, and we're looking at thyroid, and we're looking at other hormones that we can do locally, and some that we send to the states. The menopause testing is done here in Canada and it's very easy to do. You can do an FSH, and you can go to your doctor and get an FSH done when you stop your periods. When you've had a few months with no periods, you can go and get an FSH level done and that will determine whether you have crossed over into menopause.
Natural supplements, and whether we should consider them or not has been an ongoing question. One of the most important things to know is that our nutrition, which is a vital piece of health, is changing. If you look at broccoli from 1960 to broccoli now, and you analyse the selenium content, it's very different. We are very depleted in our trace minerals. Twenty-five years ago doctors were told, "You don't need to supplement vitamins for your patients if they eat a healthy diet."
Now we say "Well you know, you want the patient to have a very healthy diet, full of phytonutrients from vegetables, of having whole foods and not processed foods, and good source protein, of course; but we have to recognize that we are still depleted in certain trace minerals, and also vitamin D is something that you just don't find in your diet readily." There are some things that you will need to supplement. Vitamin D is a big one. That would be about a thousand to two thousand units a day. I would want patients to have omega-3. I would want now, with the new research, also looking at fermented foods in our diet, to improve our micro-biome and to improve our health of the gut. Having foods that have variety of pre-biotics and pro-biotics in them, that would be things that you could supplement with. Along with a very healthy diet.
Then there are patients that are special cases, who have compromised absorption. Inflammatory bowel disease, for example; or you can get patients that are elderly, or they've gone through some medical problems. Even vegans, they may need extra supplementation with B12 or iron, as well.
The most important thing that women have to realize, there is so much information out there. They should know what information applies to them. Having good, credible information is key. I feel that having good resources of websites … You can go to Westcoast Women's website, we offer websites for osteoporosis, for menopause. We also offer seminars through the clinic, with physicians. We just want patients to get good, credible information so we can empower women to make their own decisions and be informed about their health.
The other important feature for creating health is a woman who advocates for herself. She puts herself as a priority, and makes health a very top priority in her life. We love the ripple effect. That means that when we get a woman back on her feet and she's healthy, then she creates health for others. Women are great at networking, and they'll tell their friends what they did differently for their exercise or for their vitamins. Then they'll tell their friends, and their family. We find such a ripple effect with getting women back on their feet. We love that, and that's what keeps us as doctors passionate about this healthcare in women's health.
Another critical component for women and men as well, is the management of stress, and how the mind-body connection is so powerful. I've done a lot of research in this in the last fifteen years, and it is profound. Stress hormones are the big players in the body. They contribute to inflammation, they contribute to gut health. The gut is so vital. If you have a healthy gut, eighty percent of your immune system is made in the gut. Seventy percent of your serotonin, which is your happy hormone, is made in the gut. Keeping your gut healthy is so vital to health.
If you look at the father of medicine, Hippocrates, "Let food be thy medicine." That was such a profound statement, because we're not paying enough attention to what we're putting in our mouth. The micronutrients that we want to absorb, first of all the choices we make in food are very important, but then keeping the gut healthy. Why is our gut not healthy as it used to be? Why is our micro-biome different than it was? We look at the processed food we're consuming, we look at the toxins in our diet, we look at the GMO foods we're consuming. We look at the stress that our body is facing, the schedules that we keep. All of that contributes to gut health.
There's a lot of research now, looking at gut health and how it impacts the brain, as well. In our lifetime as physicians, I never thought that we would see probiotics being recommended for mood disorders. A psychiatrist, a very prominent psychiatrist, feels that if we were able to correct the micro-biome, we could actually impact diseases such as autism and inflammatory diseases of the brain, and depression and mood disorders. That is a huge area of research and I'm fascinated by it.
The Unexpected Benefit of Being the Worst Person in Yoga Class
Being perfect at yoga moves, or even just being good at it, is perhaps not really what is required to get the most of yoga. Your yoga is improving not when your poses get better, but when your life gets better. So even if you feel terrible at the most basic poses, there also comes an unexpected benefit of being the worst person in yoga class. No need to be embarrassed or upset about it, just get back up and try again. Why not start focusing on how your body feels, and on what it is telling you?
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Better Posture Is Only One (Super Simple) Stretch Away
It's easy to forget about posture when you're too occupied doing with every day activities. Poor posture results from certain muscles tightening up. It places increased stress and strain on the body, making it function less efficiently and predisposing it to injury. Anyone who spends hours each day at a desk is likely to sit hunched over. Don't turn yourself into the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Better posture is only one super simple stretch away. The right strength exercises and stretches can have a dramatic impact on your posture and on your day-to-day energy levels.
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Pat Ludwig has become more consistent on the mound, but Friday night, he wasn't just contributing to his cause there.
He belted a two-run double in the fourth to power the Curve to a 7-3 win over Richmond before 6,250 fans at Peoples Natural Gas Field.
"He helped himself with the two-RBI double," Curve manager Carlos Garcia said. "You don't expect a pitcher to hit, and produce in that regard, but that would be a great contribution for his cause."
The Curve had a runner at third when Flying Squirrels pitcher Ty Blach intentionally walked Jarek Cunningham. Ludwig smacked his first professional hit to right-center field between two outfielders.
"It was pretty exciting," Ludwig said. "We've been taking batting practice every day since I've come back up here, and I finally got a good pitch to hit.
"Swing hard in case you hit, that's what my dad always said."
Fact Box
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Tonight: Richmond at Altoona, 6 p.m.
Pitchers: Flying Squirrels LHP Jack Snodgrass (9-4, 3.14) vs. Curve RHP Adrian Sampson (9-5, 2.69)
Record: 48-66
The fifth provided a scare for the right-hander as the Squirrels had the bases loaded, and Mario Lisson hit a bases-clearing double to left field. Gift Ngoepe came up with the biggest play of the night as he made a solid throw, getting Angel Villalona to end the inning.
"Gift is a gift at shortstop," Garcia said. "That's his natural position, and he will be alert in every situation. He's got to enjoy what's doing right now."
Ludwig turned in a great performance on the mound, going six innings, allowing three runs - two earned - and walked three batters. He is 3-4 since joining the Curve with a 5.63 ERA, and retired the last five Squirrels batters he faced in order.
"He continued to make pitches, and throw a solid six innings," Garcia said.
The Curve scored the game's first four runs, starting with Kelson Brown's RBI-single, scoring Willy Garcia in the third, and capped off by Ludwig's double the next frame.
Richmond responded with their three-run rally in the fifth, but the Curve came right back with a two-run double by Willy Garcia to push the lead back to three.
"Gift comes up with a good back hand strong throw across the diamond, and then we go and put two on the board really quick. That changes the rest of the game from that point," Ludwig said.
Willy added his club leading 16th home run, a solo shot, for insurance in the eighth for the game's final score.
The Curve offense had one of the worst batting averages in the Eastern League to open the season, hitting a disappointing .235. That is a significant difference from their .294 mark in July, and their sixth overall .265.
"Offensively, the approach has been great, especially in the clutch," Carlos Garcia said. "Two run single, two run double by Ludwig, he helped himself.
"The offense has been a lot better the second half of the season, and especially the last two weeks we've been putting it together, moving guys over."
The bats have mustered 99 home runs, which is the second in the league.
Blach (7-6) took the loss and was shelled, giving up six runs on 10 hits, striking out and walking two.
Game recap
Key Player: LF Willy Garcia went 3-for-4 with three RBIs, two doubles, and a home run.
Key Play: SS Gift Ngoepe's assist on Angel Villalona's groundout in the fifth, ended the Richmond rally in the fifth.
Key Stat: P Pat Ludwig's RBI double in the fifth is his first professional base hit.
How they scored
Bot 3rd: Garcia doubled, scored on Brown single (1-0).
Bot 4th: Diaz doubled, Cunningham intentionally walked, both score on Ludwig double (3-0); Ludwig scored on Ngoepe single (4-0).
Top 5th: Stromsmoe walked, Blach hit by pitch, Tomlinson reached on fielding error, all score on Lisson double (4-3).
Bot 5th: Allie singled, Diaz singled, scored on Garcia double (6-3).
Bot 8th: Garcia homered (7-3).


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Chris is like the Clap- the gift that keeps on giving.
Chris is like the Clap- the gift that keeps on giving.
Imagine how bad this would be thrown around by the media if it was a Republican who had said that.
The double standard here amazes me. This is his version of the infamous Todd Akin gaffe, except it gets no attention except from Fox and the Republicans...
This is the perfect example of why we are informed voters and why they are influenced idiots.
Government cares about people like fishhooks care about fish.
Turn your backs on the traitorous networks...like we did several years ago. Be informed and tell everyone all the truths you know. They didn't defeat the Constitution and Liberty. They didn't defeat the goal of smaller govt. The dems just worked harder at getting the masses convinced to their POV one person at a time. The GOP needs to study what happened and learn from it.
Remember, the dems' weakness is that they can't fund all the promises they make. They will go broke and people, unfortunately, will have to learn the hard way that govt ain't your mommy.
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Donald J Trump is every Conservative Republican after 3 or 4 drinks. He says exactly what they are thinking, when they dont have the stones to say it themselves. He just says them with their usual ignorance, but only louder.
Government cares about people like fishhooks care about fish.
Thats what I was thinking too but didnt want to say it.
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Norwich City 0 Cardiff City 0
Pressure on Chris Hughton is mounting after his Norwich City side failed to move out of the bottom three despite creating plenty of chances.
Norwich have now scored just six goals in nine Barclays Premier League fixtures despite a record outlay on forwards over the summer. Defeats by Chelsea and Arsenal in their previous two games had not eroded Hughton's position as manager significantly but failure to defeat relegation rivals will have, although his side were certainly not lacking in effort.
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You don't need a pilot's vision to see the highway to the danger zone, with the Tom Cruise movie Top Gun getting a special Blu-Ray release for the 25th anniversary of the 1980s classic. The latest revamp for the anniversary celebration of the iconic film depicting the lives of United States Naval Aviators is primed to hit stores on August 30th, 2011
'Top Gun' put the afterburners on Tom's career, launching him into the stratosphere of movie acting. The new release does the same for the film, packing in new features including audio commentary from director Tony Scott, super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer, co-writer Jack Epps, Jr. and several navel experts. Other features include multi-angle storyboards from the film with an optional commentary by Scott, interviews with Tom Cruise, music videos of hugely popular songs from the film soundtrack by Kenny Loggins ("Danger Zone") and Berlin ('Take My Breath Away") as well as behind-the-scenes featurettes.
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Areas of Expertise:
• Multimedia System
• Audio Video Codec: MPEG1/2/4, H264, JPEG, MJPEG, JPEG2000, VC-1, DIVX, AAC, MP3, ASF, WMA, WMV.
• Media Framework: DirectShow, Windows Media Foundation, DMO, Windows Media Center, GStreamer, OpenMax, Stagefright, AV Foundation, Core Media, DirectFB, FFMPEG, x264, VLC, MPlayer, TCPMP, QuickTime, OpenGL, Adobe Flash Player and Flash Air, SDL, ALSA, OSS;
• Hardware Acceleration: DXVA, DXVA2, GPU Programming, CUDA, OpenCL;
• H.264 Hardware Acceleration codec solution on iOS, Android;
• Media Streaming System & Protocol: DRM, IPTV, CDN Solution, TCP, UDP, RTP, RTSP, RTCP, RTMP, SIP, SDP, HTTP, HTTP Live;
• Video Quality Measurement: QoS, QoE, Deep knowledge on video encoding/ decoding/ transmission quality and performance on major formats. Subjective objective quality matrix;
• Media Applications: audio video capture, webcast, and publish pipeline, BDA graph and DVR.
• Device Driver: Windows Video Driver (WDM, AVStream, Stream Class, WDF, BDA, UVC) and Linux UVC driver.
• VDI MMR Redirection and Cloud Computing Technology
• VDI Redirection: Audio, Video, Device Driver, Adobe Flash;
• Cloud-based audio video streaming optimization;
• Algorithm, System and SIMD Optimization
DCT, IDCT, FFT, color conversion, motion estimation/compensation, image de-interlacing, interpolation, audio/video filtering, pattern recognition, 2D/3D transformation, subjective video quality analysis, and System, MMX, SSE2, SSE3 Optimization, IPP, ARM SIMD optimization;
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Management on the full life cycle of the project development: feasibility studying, product defining, hardware and software balancing and tradeoff, prototyping, designing, releasing, enhancing, budgeting, scheduling and resource management. Object-Oriented design methodologies (UML).
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Moorhead State University
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Jiao-tong University, China
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Kineto Wireless Inc
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2012 - 2013
Chief architecting, design and development low latency, real time IP video communication framework for IOS, Android and Windows Mobile 8. Provide expert recommendation and solution on video format, video codec. Technology: firmware codec solution on iOS, Android, Windows Mobile 8; XCode/iOS, JDK/Android SDK/Android NDK, JNI, Media Foundation, camera, RTP, Doubango, OpenMax, Stagefright, AV Foundation, Core Media.
Brevity Ventures Inc
Chief Scientist Video Codec
2012 - 2013
Analyzing, developing, and optimizing the advanced, high quality and high performance video codec algorithm to meet human visual and perceptual system and the requirement of high end post production and distribution. Enhancing and improving the visually lossless aspects, filters, and other related image quality preservation technique. Technology: JPEG2000, CUDA optimization, OpenCL, Edge detection, picture complexity analysis;
Duos Technologies
RTMP Video Streaming Expert and Technology Analyst
2012 - 2012
Analyzing, debugging and development RTMP streaming system. Technology: H.264, RTMP, ffmpeg, x264, flash format.
Ideal Industries
IP Video Streaming Expert and Technology Analyst
2012 - 2012
Analysis network packets and provide the detail algorithm to extract the video media information out of them. Technology: H.264, MPEG4, MJPEG over RTP parsing, H.264, MPEG4 and MJPEG raw stream parse, network protocol and Ethernet frame parsing
Snap MyLife, Inc
Chief Architect &Visionary Audio Video Streaming
2011 - 2012
Inventing the cloud based music, video and TV streaming service. Chief architecting end to end multimedia transcoding, redirecting and streaming solution. Technology: Scalable cloud computing service; ffmpeg, x264, H264, AAC codec, MPEG TS streaming, Adobe Flush streaming, iOS SDK & Objective C, Android SDK & Java; Mac OSX Development; Windows DTV/BDA graph, DirectShow Graph, Windows Media Format SDK, ? HTTP streaming, HTTP Live streaming, RTSP, RTP.
The Talk Market, Inc
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Set among rolling hills near Salt – and just 15km northwest of Amman – FUHEIS (pronounced "fhayce") is a prosperous small town, 95 percent Christian, with a scattering of nineteenth-century churches. Its easy-going atmosphere – and, in summer, Jordan's best peaches – make it a pleasant stop-off if you're driving; it's not really worth the effort by bus.
The upper half of town, known as al-Allali (with a large calligraphic sculpture in the central Shakr roundabout), is newer and less attractive; carry on down the steep hill to the older part, known as al-Balad. Between the two lies Jordan's biggest cement factory, which employs more than seventy percent of the town but which has, for years, inflicted clouds of cement dust and soaring rates of asthma on local people. It remains both a blessing and a curse.
Al-Balad, centred on a roundabout with a statue of St George killing the dragon, comprises a district of quiet lanes and hundred-year-old stone cottages alongside the deep Wadi Rahwa. It makes for an interesting short wander, and the lanes come into their own in the golden light of late afternoon. One of Jordan's top Arabic restaurants adds to the attraction.
During August Fuheis hosts a small-town carnival, while you may also find music and cultural events staged in the week or two before Christmas.


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The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is conducting a cultural resources study on Foster Island as part of the I-5 to Medina: Bridge Replacement and HOV Project. This important safety and mobility project will build a safer floating bridge and give new options to people crossing Lake Washington.
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KEYSER - The Sigma Phi Omega Honor Society at Potomac State College of West Virginia University held its 90th banquet during the College's Weekend of Honors recently.
Among honorees was Kathryn Robinson, who is majoring in sociology. She is a Promise! Scholar, serves as a member of the Outdoor Club, the PSC Ag & Forestry Club, 4-H and is the daughter of Jennifer Robinson, of Hedgesville.
Sigma Phi Omega was founded in 1923 by faculty members as a way of recognizing the academic performance and campus participation of students. In order for students to be admitted to the honor society, they must achieve a 3.0 grade point average, have no failing grades and participate with
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New members of the Sigma Phi Omega Honor Society at Potomac State College of West Virginia University, and their advisers, include: (front row, from left): Assistant Professor of Biology Dr. Vickie Huffman, who serves as the Honors Program Coordinator and as an adviser to the Honor Society, Presley Kennell, Lindsey Stidom, Kathryn Robinson, Stephanie Lambros and Assistant Professor of English Dr. Susan Eastman, who also serves as an adviser to the Honor Society. Second row: Ryan Turner, Bradley Heltzel, Jacob Richards, Derek George, Jeremy Leedom, Zachary Saylor, Kevin Lambert, Bryan Jackson and Kevin Acquah.
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Yield: 2 cups (serving size 1 tablespoon)
Cut half of the salmon into chunks. Dice the remaining salmon. Place cottage cheese in a fine-mesh sieve and press on it to remove excess moisture. Transfer the cottage cheese to a food processor. Add the salmon chunks, vodka, lemon juice, mustard and horseradish. Process until smooth. Transfer the mixture to a bowl and fold in the diced salmon. Refrigerate until chilled. (The spread may be prepared ahead and stored, covered, in the refrigerator for up to two days.) To serve, spread on crostini and garnish with a sprinkling of cracked black pepper and dill. Note: If substituting plain vodka for the pepper-flavored vodka, season generously with cracked black pepper.
- 1/2 pound smoked salmon
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- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon prepared horseradish
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- Calories: 17
- Fat: 0 grams (0% of calories)
- Cholesterol: 2 milligrams
- Sodium: 59 milligrams


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Young business owners are being sought for a $100,000 award from the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC).
The 2013 BDC Young Entrepreneur Award is given to an entrepreneur aged 18 to 35 who has reached a turning point with his or her company and has found a solution to take the company to the next level.
A second prize, consisting of $25,000 in consulting services, will be awarded to the BDC Young Entrepreneur Award runner-up. The deadline for submitting applications is April 2, 2013, at noon, Eastern Daylight Time.
"Showcasing and supporting Canada's best business talent is an important aspect of our mandate," said Michel Bergeron, senior vice-president of marketing and public affairs at BDC, in a news release. "The BDC Young Entrepreneur Award is the premier venue to shine a spotlight on some of the challenges young business owners face today."
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Buckalew, in supporting then-new fund-raising restrictions imposed by the ethics panel, noted that some members of the public may feel special pressure when asked to contribute to organizations such as the West Virginia Troopers Association. "It's unique," he said of that pressure, "because they can put you in jail."
We agree — but apparently, members of the Legislature's Rule-Making Review Committee do not. They want the full Legislature to approve an order that would rescind several important Ethics Commission limits on fundraising by groups such as the Troopers Association.
One change being sought would allow the association to continue handing out official-looking decals that donors could place on their cars. Another would rescind a requirement that any association of public officials keep records of contributions and how the money is spent.
Buckalew and other ethics panel members were right when they imposed new rules last year. The full Legislature should uphold them and keep the restrictions in place.


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It can be the result of years of wear and tear or from an injury, but thousands of Americans grapple with a torn rotator cuff.
Don Pettit was doing some heavy lifting when something went wrong.
"Yes, I was moving a generator out of my shed and I fell over the lawn mower," says Pettit.
He hurt more than his pride; turns out Don tore his rotator cuff. It was something he couldn't ignore.
"My arm couldn't go above my shoulder. I couldn't brush my teeth, I couldn't put a belt on my pants because I couldn't reach around behind me," says Pettit.
Years ago, surgery to reconstruct the tear required an open surgery.
"Typically, a large incision would be made over the shoulder girdle. You have to violate the deltoid muscle, which is the large muscle on the outside portion of the shoulder, open that up, and then expose the underlying rotator cuff underneath," says Dr. John Mehalik, an orthopedic surgeon on the medical staff of Lee Memorial Health System.
But Pettit elected to undergo a less-invasive, arthroscopic rotator repair. Performed as an outpatient, he was home recovering in four hours.
"With the arthroscope, what we can do is make a few little nicks in the skin, watch it under about 50 times magnification which allows us to do a much more meticulous job to reconstruct the rotator cuff, and importantly not damage the deltoid muscle at all," says Dr. Mehalik.
Having had the surgery performed arthroscopically, Pettit is further ahead in his recovery. With no large incision, more of the muscle and tissues are left intact which makes for a quicker recovery.
It's only been eight weeks and Pettit is getting his groove back.
"I can finally put my belt on, I can raise my arm above my head, I can scratch my back. It feels great," says Pettit.
The 'fast fix' arthroscopic repair is quickly gaining traction. It now accounts for 50 percent of rotator cuff reconstructions.


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About one year ago my little sister put family settings on my xbox with a random code and security question. They limit me from watching videos and frustrated me to the point where I want to throw my Xbox out the window. If there is anyway to remove them without a code please tell me.
If you don't know the passcode to reset the code or the security question that goes along with resetting the passcode then your only other option is to contact XBOX Support and have them help you out. They will be the only ones who will be able to help you if you don't know either of those pieces of information.
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The landscape of Clay Street in Tiffin is changing.
Saturday and Sunday, local firefighters burned down a Tiffin University-owned house as part of live-burn training. In a few weeks, TU is to break ground for a new residence hall on the site.
The two-and-a-half-story duplex at 192 Clay St. had been turned into a residence hall. Sunday, firefighters allowed the house to burn to the ground.
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Sharon Haver, a Tiffin resident who lived in the house during her childhood, watched as it burned.
"So many memories," she said.
She said seeing the fire brought tears to her eyes and the eyes of family members who gathered.
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Chief Bill Ennis of Tiffin Fire and Rescue looks over a controlled burn at 192 Clay St. Sunday. To view more photos from this event, visit cu.advertiser-tribune.com. To view video from this event, visit www.advertiser-tribune.com.
Firefighters spray water to knock down the chimney of the house at 192 Clay St. Sunday.
Haver, who was raised by her aunt and uncle, Betty and Hal Bean, lived in the Clay Street home for about the first 10 years of her life until she moved in 1958.
She recalled sitting on the front porch on a glider and never locking the doors of the sturdy, old house with hardwood floors. She learned to ride a bicycle in the alley next to the house.
"My cousin Carol was born in that upstairs bedroom," she said.
Norma Riepenhoff of Miller City and her brother, Ed Schauder of Bellevue, had lived in the other side of the duplex. They returned to Tiffin to see the house where they had lived for about 20 years burn and said it was sad to see the fire. Riepenhoff said she had nothing but good times in the house.
"We knew everybody in this whole neighborhood," Haver said.
Construction of a new residence hall on the site is to be completed in less than a year.
TU is to build the 25,000-square-foot residence hall in response to its growing enrollment.
President Paul Marion said groundbreaking probably will occur within the next couple of weeks, and the building is to be ready for occupancy in time for next school year.
The pod-style residence hall is to have 103 beds and air conditioning and face Clay Street, according to a release from TU.
Marion said cost of the project is about $5 million, and the building is to be constructed in partnership with University Housing Solutions under the same financial arrangement used to build TU's new apartments. University Housing Solutions pays for construction, TU pays a monthly fee for 20 years and the building then is given to TU, he said.
The building is to house sophomores.
"We see it as a nice transition from the more traditional dormitory-style housing that the freshmen typically live in to the apartment-style that the juniors and seniors live in," he said.
Burning down the duplex enabled about 45 city and county firefighters to participate in training exercises.
Chief Bill Ennis of Tiffin Fire and Rescue said firefighters did attic and second-floor training Saturday.
Sunday, they did more second-floor training and also worked in the basement.
Ennis said the exercise is beneficial because it saves TU money in demolition costs, and the only way the fire department could get the same type of training would be to travel to Columbus, Milan or Oregon.
Even then, the fire department would be limited to taking eight to 10 people and would have to pay about $1,000 a day to use a facility.


text: Southern alumni attending the NAD Teachers Convention in Nashville are invited to join us for a complimentary dessert reception on Tuesday, Aug. 7, from 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m. in the Old Hickory Master Room in the Gaylord Opryland Center. Bring your lunch with you or just stop by to enjoy dessert. University president, Gordon Bietz, and other staff members will be on hand to meet you and to share an update on what's happening at Southern. We look forward to visiting with you there!


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If you are using your YubiKey with a service or application, the policy for lost or stolen YubiKeys depends on how that service or application deals with the situation.
The simplest recovery method is if the site supports alternative authentication mechanisms, so that you can regain access to the account and can delete (de-associate) the lost YubiKey from your account. You can then associate another (or a new) YubiKey to your account.
For example, the LastPass Premium subscription allows you to configure up to 5 YubiKeys with a LastPass account, so you can continue to log in using other keys if one is lost. For more information on how to disable a YubiKey with a LastPass account, see the LastPass Help Center.
If you cannot regain access, many sites have an authentication credential recovery mechanism. Use that to regain access to your account. You can de-associate the lost YubiKey, and then re-associate another key.
Applications or services may also provide other mechanisms for users or administrators to assign a new YubiKey in case the user lost an original key. Contact the company supporting the YubiKey to find out about their policies.
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One of the things that makes the Super Bowl a great game is that every meeting is unique. Even when teams that have met already in the regular season are playing in the big one, everything changes (just ask the 2007 Patriots).
However, there are a few constants and lessons to be learned. Here are five things we've learned from the past five Super Bowls.


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It's that time of the year again. When being unemployed is a great thing. When factory workers can brag about being drunk at noon. When parents can openly introduce their children to their alcoholism.
Yup, it's St. Patrick's Day in Detroit.
And it's Pure Michigan, as humorously presented by filmmaker John Kerfoot.
The St. Clair Shores resident and Wayne State film instructor released his latest spoof earlier this week after filming the aftermath of the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade on Sunday in Corktown.
"It's a day where there will be dancing," he narrates. "It's a day where there will be puking. But on this day, absolutely nothing will stop Metro Detroiters from getting their drink on."
Check out the video above and check out more of Kerfoot's spoofs at NotSoPureMichigan.com.


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