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Bettin in 1963
|Valentine John Bettin
August 1, 1923
La Crosse, Wisconsin,
United States
|Actor, voice actor
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|Hildy Bettin
(m. 1950–2007; her death)
Valentine John "Val" Bettin (born August 1, 1923) is an American actor and voice actor,[1] known for using an English accent in all of his roles. He is perhaps best known for voicing Dr. David Q. Dawson in the 1986 Disney animated film The Great Mouse Detective and the Sultan in The Return of Jafar and Aladdin and the King of Thieves, the two direct-to-video sequels to Disney's Aladdin as well as the TV show, taking over for Douglas Seale. Bettin also hosted The Storyteller, a children's show on Chicago television in the late 1950s.
Early life and career[edit]
He was born Valentin Bettin in La Crosse, Wisconsin. In 1948, he went to England to enroll in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and graduated in 1950. There he met his wife Hildy. The two married that same year. They returned to the United States in order for him to become a drama teacher in Iowa.
Bettin's first film role was in 1980's Somewhere in Time. He later became a voice actor, with his first role as Dr. David Q. Dawson in the 1986 Disney film The Great Mouse Detective. His credits include Shrek, Gargoyles, Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series and W.I.T.C.H..
Bettin's wife died in 2007 at age 82.
Animated roles[edit]
- The Great Mouse Detective - Dr. Dawson/Thug Guard #4
- Aladdin: The Return of Jafar - Sultan of Agrabah
- Aladdin (TV series) - Sultan
- Aladdin and the King of Thieves - Sultan
- Shrek - Bishop
- The Mork & Mindy / Laverne & Shirley / Fonz Hour - Additional Voices
- Hercules - King Tivius
- Gargoyles - Egon Pax
- Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles - Egon Pax
- Webster - Erwin
- Mighty Ducks - Sarks
- W.I.T.C.H. - Herbert Olsen
- Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders - Narrator
Anime roles[edit]
Video game roles[edit]
- Tarzan - Professor Porter
- Zork: Grand Inquisitor - Sneffle/Flickering Torch
Live-action roles[edit]
- Webster - Edwin
- American Masters - John Latrobe
- Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story - Mr. Breen
- Somewhere in Time - Director, in 1912
- Triplecross - Winslow
- Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase - Playwright
- The Man Who Wasn't There - Monocle
- ^ Hischak, Thomas S. (2011-09-21). Disney Voice Actors: A Biographical Dictionary. McFarland. pp. 239–. ISBN 9780786462711. Retrieved 23 February 2014.


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School of Human Movement and Exercise Science, The University of Western Australia, Perth, AUSTRALIA
Address for correspondence: David Bishop, Team-Sport Research Group, School of Human Movement and Exercise Science, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Submitted for publication December 2005.
Accepted for publication May 2006.
Purpose: We investigated the effects of resistance training on muscle buffer capacity, H+ regulation, and repeated-sprint ability (RSA).
Methods: Sixteen recreationally active females performed a graded exercise test to determine V˙O2peak and the lactate threshold (LT), a repeated-sprint test (5 × 6 s, every 30 s) to determine RSA, and a 60-s high-intensity exercise test based on their pretraining RSA score (CIT60; continuous cycling at approximately 160% V˙O2peak). Muscle biopsies (vastus lateralis) were sampled before and immediately after CIT60. Subjects were then randomly assigned to either a high-repetition (three to five sets of 15-20 reps) short-rest (20 s) resistance-training group or to a control group.
Results: Training did not result in significant improvements in V˙O2peak (P > 0.05) but did improve the LT, leg strength, and RSA (P < 0.05). There were no significant improvements in muscle buffer capacity after training (P > 0.05); however, there was a significant reduction in H+ in the muscle and blood after high-intensity exercise (CIT60) (P < 0.05),
Conclusions: High-repetition, short-rest, resistance training does not improve muscle buffer capacity in active females, but it does reduce H+ accumulation during high-intensity exercise (~160% V˙O2peak). It is likely that increases in strength, LT, and ion regulation contributed to the improved RSA.
High-intensity exercise results in the production and accumulation of lactate (La−) and hydrogen ions (H+). Although recent evidence suggests that the effects of a decrease in intracellular pH (pHi) on muscle contractile force may be less than previously thought (31), a large decrease in pHi after intense exercise may negatively affect some metabolic/ionic processes (19). Therefore, a reduction in the accumulation of H+ may benefit those regularly participating in high-intensity exercise, including those involved in team sports, who are required to perform repeated sprints throughout a game.
The removal of H+ during intense muscle contractions occurs via a number of differing transport systems and via intracellular buffering (19). The buffering of H+ may be especially beneficial during sprint-type exercise, where there is a rapid H+ accumulation attributable to the high rate of nonmitochondrial ATP resynthesis required to maintain power output. In support of this hypothesis, a relationship has been reported between muscle buffer capacity (βm) and repeated-sprint ability (RSA) (4). Although high-intensity exercise and the accumulation of H+ during training have been suggested as important stimuli to increase βm (11), the effects of many training methods on βm and H+ regulation are still unclear.
Previous reports have shown that high-intensity interval training, rather than low-to moderate-intensity endurance training, results in an increase in βm (11). However, the effects of resistance training on H+ regulation are less clear. Strength-trained athletes have been reported to have better H+ regulation than healthy untrained subjects during intense isometric exercise (30). Resistance training has also been shown to result in both metabolic and ionic changes within the muscle that may contribute to improved H+ regulation (13,20,28). Metabolic changes reported after high-repetition, isometric resistance training include a large drop in pHi (postexercise pH ≍ 6.8) and an increase in blood lactate concentration ([La−]b) (postexercise [La−]b ≍ 14 mmol·L−1) (16,29), similar to that reported during intense interval training (9,11). Therefore, this type of resistance training may provide an adequate stimulus to improve βm and H+ regulation.
The purpose of the present study was to determine the effects of high-repetition, short-rest period resistance training on changes to βm and H+ regulation during high-intensity exercise. We measured βm using in vitro techniques (titration βmin vitro) on freeze-dried muscle tissue, thus measuring the buffering potential of the physicochemical buffers within the muscle (excluding bicarbonate, which is removed during the freeze-drying process). It was hypothesized that 5 wk of high-repetition, short-rest period resistance training would result in improved βmin vitro and H+ regulation.
Sixteen moderately trained female students (mean ± SD, age 18 ± 1 yr, mass 60.8 ± 7.2 kg, height 168.4 ± 7.6 cm, V˙O2peak 46.0 ± 5.0 mL·kg−1·min−1) volunteered to participate in the study. Subjects were ranked on RSA and strength, and then matched pairs were randomly allocated to a training or control group. Before this investigation, none of the subjects had participated in resistance training, but they had been recreationally involved in various team sports (hockey, netball, and soccer), in which they continued to participate throughout the study (2-3× wk−1). Subjects were informed of the study requirements, benefits, and risks before giving written informed consent. Approval for the study's procedures was granted by the institutional research ethics committee. Originally, there were 18 subjects (nine in each group), but in the first week of training, one subject left each group.
All of the subjects completed a familiarization trial of a graded exercise test (GXT), the 5 × 6-s cycle test of RSA and the 60-s constant-intensity exercise test (CIT60 ≍ 160% V˙O2peak) before baseline testing. Subjects also participated in two resistance-training familiarization sessions before beginning the training program. On the day of the CIT60, each subject had a muscle biopsy from the vastus lateralis muscle at rest and immediately on cessation of the exercise test. Pre- and posttraining tests were conducted at the same time of day. Subjects were asked to maintain their normal diet and training throughout the study. They were also required to consume no food or beverages (other than water) for 2 h before testing, and they were asked not to consume alcohol or to perform vigorous exercise in the 24 h before testing. Food diaries were given to each subject to record food and fluid consumption for 2 d before each test, and subjects were asked to replicate this during posttraining testing. All subjects were eumenorrheic and there were no differences in menstrual phase between the two groups at the beginning of the study.
The GXT was performed on an air-braked track-cycle ergometer (Evolution Pty. Ltd., Adelaide, Australia) and consisted of graded exercise steps (4-min stages) using an intermittent protocol (1-min break between stages). The test commenced at 50 W, and intensity was increased by 30 W every 4 min until volitional exhaustion. Capillary blood samples were taken at rest and immediately after each 4-min stage of the GXT. Both the lactate threshold (LT) and V˙O2peak were determined from the GXT (4). LT was calculated using the power output (W) at 4 mmol·L−1 (LT4mM) and the modified Dmax method (LTDmax) (5).
Each subject completed a standardized warm-up before beginning the 5 × 6-s cycle test (Model Ex-10, Repco, Australia). Toe clips and heel straps were used to secure the feet to the pedals, and each sprint was performed in the standing position. The test consisted of five 6-s maximal sprints departing every 30 s. During the 24-s recovery between sprints, subjects rested (seated) until 5 s before the next sprint, when they assumed the ready position (standing). The method used to determine total work and the decrement (%) in power and work has been described in a previous report (4).
The CIT60 consisted of 60 s of continuous cycling at a set power output on an air-braked, front-access cycle ergometer (Model Ex-10, Repco, Australia). Toe clips and heel straps were used to secure the feet to the pedals, and the test was performed in the seated position. Strong verbal encouragement was provided to each subject during the test. The set power output for CIT60 was based on the mean power output achieved during the pretraining RSA test (5 × 6-s sprints, total of 30 s sprinting). Therefore, the 60-s test was performed at 50% of the mean power (W) recorded during the pretraining 5 × 6-s sprint test. This was an intensity equal to approximately 160% (range = 130-180%) of the pretraining V˙O2peak. The CIT60 was based on mean power during the 30 s of sprinting (5 × 6-s) rather than on the final power output of the extended V˙O2peak and LT test (six to eight 4-min incremental stages) because this better reflects the ability to perform short (60 s) and intense (> V˙O2peak) exercise (3).
Strength of the legs was determined by measuring the maximum mass that could be lifted for three repetitions (3RM) on the horizontal leg press (2). The seat position on the leg press was adjusted so that each participant's knee angle visually appeared to be at 90° at the start of the lift. This seat position was recorded and subsequently used during training and for pre and post 3RM testing. The two familiarization resistance-training sessions were used to determine the appropriate lifting loads during training for all the other exercises.
Within 4-7 d of baseline testing, subjects within the RT group started the high-repetition (15-20) short-rest period (20 s) resistance-training program (5 wk), using a combination of free weights and machines. Both groups continued to perform their normal recreational training. The first six exercises of the resistance-training program involved the leg muscles and included squats (free weights), leg press (machine weight), leg extensions (machine weight), leg curls (machine weight), lunges (free weights), and weighted step-ups (free weights). Additional upper-body exercises were included for variety and completeness in the overall program. These exercises included the bench press (free weights), seated row (machine weights), shoulder press (free weights), lat pull-down (machine weights), and sit-ups. The order of exercise was performed as listed above. For each exercise, all of the stipulated sets were completed before moving onto the next exercise. Each exercise set was performed for 40 s, separated by a 20-s rest period. Because of the short rest periods between exercise bouts, a decline in load during a subsequent set of an exercise was required for the subjects to be able to complete 15-20 repetitions. Therefore, set 1 was performed at 70%, set 2 at 60%, and sets 3-5 at 50% of the 3RM load. Subjects performed two to three sets of each exercise during weeks 1-2 and three to five sets during weeks 3-5. When subjects could complete 20 repetitions of an exercise during two consecutive training sessions, the load was increased by the smallest increment available for that piece of equipment. The increase in weight lifted for the leg press each week was approximately 10%. Before training, each subject performed a 5-min cycle warm-up (~80 W). Training heart rate (polar heart rate monitor, Vantage NV, Finland) and [La−]b (see below) were measured during week 3 of the training program.
A hyperemic ointment (Finalgon, Boehringer Ingelheim, Germany) was applied to the earlobe 5-7 min before initial blood sampling. Glass capillary tubes were used to collect 50 L of blood during the GXT and training (D957G-70-35, Clinitubes, Radiometer, Copenhagen, Denmark) and 100 L of blood during the CIT60 test (D957G-70-125, Clinitubes, Radiometer, Copenhagen, Denmark). Capillary blood samples were taken at rest and immediately after each 4-min stage of the GXT. Capillary blood samples were taken at rest and at the completion of the legs exercises of a training session during week 3. Capillary blood samples were also taken at rest, immediately, and 5 min after the CIT60 test. Blood H+ ([H+]b) and [La−]b were determined using a blood-gas analyzer (ABL 625, Radiometer, Copenhagen, Denmark).
On the day of the CIT60 cycle test, one incision was made under local anesthesia (5 mL, 1% Xylocaine) into the vastus lateralis of each subject. The incision was used for the pretest biopsy and then closed with a steri strip and subsequently used for the posttest biopsy. Pre- and posttest biopsy samples were taken with the needle inserted at different angles, with manual suction applied for both samples. Every attempt was made to collect the muscle biopsy at the same depth before and after exercise. The first muscle sample was taken (before warm-up) during supine rest. The second muscle sample was taken immediately after the cessation of the CIT60 test, with the subject remaining on the cycle ergometer. All pretraining samples were taken from the right leg, and all posttraining samples were taken from the left leg from approximately the same position. The samples were then removed from the biopsy needle and stored at −80°C until subsequent analysis.
Freeze-dried resting muscle samples (2-3 mg) were dissected free from visible blood, fat, and connective tissue and were homogenized on ice for 2 min in a solution containing sodium fluoride (10 mM) at a dilution of 30 mg of dry muscle per milliliter of homogenizing solution. The muscle homogenate was then placed in a circulating water bath at 37°C for 5 min before and during the measurement of pH. The pH ([H+]) measurements were made with a microelectrode (MI-415, Microelectrodes Inc, Bedford, NH) connected to a pH meter (SA 520, Orion Research Inc, Cambridge, MA). After initial pH measurement, muscle homogenates (rest samples) were adjusted to a pH of approximately 7.2 with a sodium hydroxide (NaOH) (0.02 M) solution and then titrated to a pH of approximately 6.2 by the serial addition of 2 μL of hydrochloric acid (10 mM). From the fitted titration trendline, the number of moles of H+ (per gram of dry muscle) required to change the pH from 7.1 to 6.5 were interpolated. This value was then normalized to the whole pH unit for final display as micromoles H+ per gram of dry muscle per unit of pH (μmol H+·g−1 d.w.muscle·pH−1) and determined as the subject's βmin vitro.
All values are reported as mean ± SD, except Figs. 1-4 (± SE). Two-way ANOVA with repeated measures for time were used to test for interaction and main effects. When an effect was found, LSD post hoc tests were performed to determine where the difference had occurred. The alpha level for statistical significance was set at 0.05.
Mean [La−]b and heart rate (as a percent of maximum heart rate) after the leg exercises during a typical training session were 9.1 ± 1.9 mmol·L−1 and 85 ± 2%, respectively.
There were no significant changes in body mass after the RT or C period (P = 0.56) (Table 1). There were significant increases in leg-press 3RM after the RT period (23%) but not the C period (2%) (P = 0.04; Table 1). There were significant improvements in total work (measured in joules and joules per kilogram of body mass) during the repeated-sprint test (5 × 6-s sprints) after RT (10 and 12%) but not after the C period (1 and 3%; P = 0.04 and 0.03, respectively; Fig. 3). There were also significant improvements in work and peak power during each of the five sprints after RT but not after the C period (P < 0.05, Fig. 4).
After 5 wk, there was no significant change in absolute (L·min−1) or relative V˙O2peak (mL·kg−1·min−1) (P = 0.85 and 0.35, respectively) or power (W) at V˙O2peak (P = 0.64) for the RT group or the C group (Table 1). However, the RT group had a nonsignificant improvement in LTdmax (8%, P = 0.10) and significantly improved LT4mM (15%, P < 0.001), with no change for the C group (Table 1).
There were no significant changes in resting [La−]b (P = 0.34), [H+]b (P = 0.31), or [HCO3−]b (P = 0.81) after the RT or C periods (Table 2). After the training period there was a significant reduction in immediate postexericse [La−]b (P < 0.001) and [H+]b (P = 0.01) and an increase in [HCO3−]b (P = 0.04) for the RT group, but not the C group (Table 2). There was also a reduction in 5-min postexercise [La−]b (P < 0.00) and [H+]b (P < 0.001) and an increase in [HCO3−]b (P = 0.02) for the RT group, but not the C group (Table 2).
There were no significant differences in posttraining V˙O2 (RT: 1.58 ± 0.29, C: 1.68 ± 0.30; P > 0.05), CO2 (RT: 1.53 ± 0.33, C: 1.59 ± 0.37; P > 0.05), or RER (RT: 0.96 ± 0.05, C: 0.94 ± 0.06; P > 0.05) between the two groups during the CIT60. There were also no significant differences in any of these values from pre- to posttraining (P > 0.05).
There were no changes in βmin vitro for the RT (132 ± 23 to 135 ± 19 μmol H+·g−1 d.w.muscle·pH−1) or C groups (128 ± 18 to 120 ± 18 μmol H+·g−1 d.w.muscle·pH−1) (P = 0.78). There were also no differences in βmin vitro between the RT and C groups before or after the 5-wk training period (P = 0.28, Fig. 1). However, there was a significant decrease in postexercise [H+]i after RT but not after C (P = 0.05, Fig. 2).
The main finding of the present study was that high-repetition, short-rest period resistance training did not result in significant improvements in βmin vitro but did reduce [H+]i after 60 s of intense exercise (~160% V˙O2peak). The RT group also had a significant reduction in [H+]b and [La−]b during the CIT60. Similar to some previous reports (6), resistance training did not result in significant improvements in V˙O2peak; however, resistance training did improve the LT4mM and leg-press 3RM. The changes in H+ regulation, muscle strength, and the LT4mM are likely to have contributed to the improved repeated-sprint performance after the training period.
High-intensity exercise, and subsequently, a large accumulation of H+, has been suggested to be an important stimulus to increase βmin vitro (11). Despite this, the high-repetition, short-rest period resistance-training program employed in the present study did not increase βmin vitro. Similarly, previous protocols employing leg-extension training have reported no change in βmin vitro (21,25). However, these studies used a single-limb, single-joint exercise design, leaving a greater proportion of inactive tissue, which has been shown to improve lactate/H+ removal compared with multijoint movements or multilimb exercise (1). Consequently, the H+ accumulation during these previous reports may have been insufficient to adequately stress the buffering capacity of the muscle. Therefore, we employed a training protocol that involved both single- and multilimb movements of both legs for extended periods, thus causing a greater H+ accumulation both locally and systemically. The posttraining (after completion of leg exercises) blood lactate data (9.1 ± 1.9 mmol·L−1) indicate that there was a greater systemic H+ accumulation and, therefore, a likely greater muscle H+ accumulation than in previous studies using single-limb, single-joint training (blood lactate 3-4 mmol·L−1) (25). Nevertheless, we did not find significant changes in βmin vitro after training, suggesting that H+ accumulation remained insufficient or that factors in addition to high-intensity exercise and H+ accumulation may significantly affect changes in βmin vitro.
In contrast to the present study, previous research has reported significant improvements in βmin vitro after interval cycle training using short rest periods (1 min) between high-intensity efforts (80-100% V˙O2peak) lasting 2-5 min (11,32). In addition to larger improvements in βmin vitro, high-intensity interval training also resulted in a greater training [La−]b (~16 vs 5 mmol·L−1) than moderate-intensity training (11). Although the blood lactate levels in the present investigation are higher than those reported after moderate-intensity training, they are approximately two thirds of those reported after high-intensity interval training, which did improve βmin vitro. Despite the intense nature of our resistance-training protocol, the H+ accumulation that occurred may still have been insufficient to stimulate changes in βmin vitro.
Compared with a previous investigation that reported an improvement in βmin vitro, the present study employed a different mode of exercise (resistance exercise vs cycling), a different interval length (40 s vs 2 min), and a different between-set recovery (20 s vs 1 min) (11). Also, the total time performing lower-body exercise was less (~40%). Therefore, subjects in the present study may not have spent enough time exercising with a large accumulation of H+ within their muscle to stimulate changes in βmin vitro. The short rest periods used in the present study also required a drop in the training load from set 1 to set 3 of a given exercise (70 to 50% of 3RM). This may have reduced the use of fast-twitch glycolytic fibers and increased the reliance on slow-twitch oxidative fibers, decreasing the accumulation of H+. Therefore, our findings suggest that something more than intense work bouts with short rest periods may be needed to effect changes in βmin vitro.
Although previous resistance training studies have measured changes in βmin vitro and proteins involved in H+ regulation (20,21), this is the first to also measure changes in [H+]i during intense exercise. Although there were no significant improvements in βmin vitro in the present study, there were significant reductions in the accumulation of [H+]b, [La−]b, and [H+]i after the CIT60, indicating an improved H+ regulation. A cross-sectional report has also shown that strength-trained athletes have better H+ regulation than untrained controls during isometric exercise (30). Furthermore, Harber et al. (16) found that [La−]b after a resistance-training session was significantly lower after 10 wk of circuit resistance training (one to three sets of 12-20 reps, 10-30 s of rest, 40-60% 1RM). These and our findings may be attributable to a reduction in H+ production during a given load and/or enhanced H+ removal in resistance-trained subjects.
There was no change in V˙O2peak or in the relative intensity (as a percentage of V˙O2peak) of the CIT60 after training. Furthermore, total V˙O2 during the CIT60 did not change after training. These findings would normally be interpreted to indicate a similar provision of energy from both anaerobic and aerobic metabolism during the CIT60 before and after training. However, previous authors have reported a reduced anaerobic contribution during constant-load, fixed-duration cycling after heavy resistance and sprint training, without changes in whole-body V˙O2 (13,17). These findings may be attributable to a reduced V˙O2 of accessory muscles (i.e., respiratory muscles) or to altered fiber recruitment during the exercise task (13,17). Such adaptations may allow for an elevated oxygen use within the leg muscles used during cycling, without significant changes to whole-body V˙O2, resulting in a reduced reliance on anaerobic energy sources (and less H+ production) during high-intensity exercise.
Although reports employing heavy resistance training (three to five sets of two to eight reps at approximately 80% 1RM) have not typically reported changes in aerobic enzymes or V˙O2peak (15), training studies using longer work bouts (six sets of 15-20 repetitions or repeated isokinetic knee extension for 30 s) similar to those used in the present study have reported an increase in aerobic enzymes, despite little change in V˙O2peak (8,28). Although we did not measure aerobic enzymes in the present report, we did find an increase in the LT after training, suggesting that there may have been an increase in the oxidative capacity within the muscle of the RT group (18). Therefore, the reduced H+ accumulation during high-intensity exercise in the present study may be associated with an altered mitochondrial potential of the muscle (28) not detected by changes in V˙O2peak.
The lower H+ accumulation after training is more likely related to an improved ion-transport capacity of the muscle. Previously, 5 wk of moderate-intensity resistance training was reported not to increase the content of the Na+/H+ exchanger (10), although it did increase the content of the La−/H+ cotransporter (20). The subjects employed in these studies were sedentary and much older compared with the active young adults employed in the present study. Nevertheless, resistance training can increase the content/activity of other ion-transport proteins (i.e., Na+/K+ pump) in young and well-trained adults and, therefore, may also increase the content/activity of H+-transport proteins in young adults such as those recruited for the present study (14). Such changes to H+-transport proteins in the present study may have contributed to the decrease in H+ accumulation during exercise at the same absolute load.
The findings from the present study and from a previous report (21) suggest that high-repetition resistance training does not increase βmin vitro and, therefore, that changes to the buffering of H+ within the muscle did not contribute to the improved muscle H+ regulation by our subjects. Similarly, others have reported improved muscle H+ regulation during intense exercise (130% V˙O2peak), without changes to βmin vitro, after sprint training (17). They suggested that other regulatory mechanisms may have affected H+ accumulation, such as a reduction in the disturbance to the strong ion difference ([SID]). Although the effects of resistance training on the [SID] are unknown, previous reports suggest that sprint- and endurance training can positively affect the [SID], reducing the accumulation of H+ during high-intensity exercise (22,26). Resistance training increases the content of proteins involved in the regulation of strong ions (i.e., La− and K+ regulation) (10,14,20) and, subsequently, may alter the [SID], thereby reducing the [H+]i during intense exercise.
We show for the first time that resistance training can improve the ability to perform short (5 × 6 s) repeated sprints interspersed by short recovery periods (24 s) similar to those encountered in some team sports. Although little research has investigated the effects of resistance training on repeated-sprint performance, previous reports have identified a relationship between maximal strength and single-sprint performance in team-sport athletes (r = 0.71, P < 0.05) (23). There was, however, no such relationship reported between strength and sprint decrement during repeated sprints in team-sport athletes (23). Furthermore, although sprint training has been shown to improve sprint performance (17), the effects of heavy resistance training on single-sprint performance are mixed. Heavy resistance training has been shown to increase the initital but not the later performance during a long (60 s) single sprint (8). These findings may be attributable to the positive relationship that has previously been reported between initial sprint performance and the power decrement during repeated sprints, which is likely attributable to a greater metabolic disturbance by those with a greater initial power output (7). This suggests that although heavy resistance training may improve an initial sprint, it may not improve repeated-sprint performance.
Our results show that high-repetition resistance training that includes a high metabolic load (because of short rest periods) can improve repeated-sprint performance (peak and mean power). Furthermore, improvements in total work during short repeated sprints after our high-repetition short-rest period resistance training (10-12%) were similar to those reported after high-intensity interval (13%) (12) and sprint training (12%) (24). However, in contrast to the previously reported interval training, our subjects did not improve their V˙O2peak. A high V˙O2peak has been associated with the recovery of sprint performance in untrained subjects, and therefore, changes in V˙O2peak have been thought to be important to improve RSA (4). However, similar to Ortenblad et al. (24), who employed a repeated-sprint training protocol, the results of the present study show that improvements in brief (< 10 s) repeated sprints with short recovery periods (< 30 s) may occur independently of changes in V˙O2peak.
The only other resistance-training study to measure RSA recruited resistance-trained males and employed moderate to heavy resistance-training methods (five sets of 10 repetitions) (27). Despite a differing subject population and training methods, they reported improvements in RSA similar to those seen in the present study (total work, ~9%). Although they show that heavy resistance training can improve repeated sprints with long recovery periods between efforts (15 × 5 s, 50 s of rest between sprints), we have also shown that high-repetition resistance training can increase RSA with short recovery periods between efforts (5 × 6 s, 24 s of rest between sprints), similar to what is encountered in some team-sport situations. Indeed, because of the short rest period used in the present study, our subjects had large decreases in performance from sprints 1 to 5, before and after training (Fig. 4). However, the improvement in performance after training was similar for sprints 1 to 5 (Fig. 4), indicating that the training intervention not only improved single-sprint performance but also improved the performance of subsequent sprints. The increase in both initial and later sprint performance in the present study may have been caused by the metabolic adaptations that had occurred. Indeed, previous authors have identified an association between H+ regulation, LT, and repeated-sprint performance (4); therefore, these changes may have contributed to the improved RSA in the present study.
We did not find improvements in βmin vitro after 5 wk of high-repetition (15-20) short-rest period (20 s) resistance training. Despite no improvement in βm, there was a reduced accumulation of H+ within the muscle and blood after intense exercise (~160% V˙O2peak intensity; CIT60). This may have been caused by a reduced production of H+ and/or improved H+ removal. Although it did not improve V˙O2peak, the resistance training program did significantly improve LT4mM and strength. It is likely that the increases in strength, H+ regulation, and LT contributed to the improvement in repeated-sprint performance after training.
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I'm not sure who to start in my flex spot this week. Who do you like?
Sproles vs TB
Decker @ BAL
B Brown vs CIN
LeShoure @ ARI
Also I'm trying to get David Wilson (@ ATL) off of waivers.
Playoffs BTW
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Fantrax - Salary cap dynasty - cap hit - H2H each category
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League:Fantrax 18 Team Dynasty, H2H (4C, 8W, 6D, 1G)
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The start of the NFL season Thursday on NBC went unseen by subscribers of Time Warner Cable, where the blackout of Journal Broadcast Group stations, including WTMJ-TV (Channel 4), entered its 44th day.
Despite expectations that the football season, and the fall network prime-time season, would help the two sides resolve their dispute over fees paid by the cable service to carry the station's programming, Journal Broadcast said the cable company's claim that it has sold WTMJ's dial location "is not acceptable to us." »Read Full Blog Post(78)
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In the first half of 2013 the Gulf of Guinea for the first time experienced more pirate attacks than those areas in which Somali pirates operate. BMI believes that shipping companies will be becoming ever more wary of serving the West African countries afflicted, and will be increasing surcharges to shippers in the region in order to cover rising war risk insurance premiums. By contrast, Somalia is making a return to shipping companies' rotations, with Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) the first major liner firm to announce it was entering Mogadishu.
Piracy attributed to Somali pirates continues to fall dramatically. BMI looked at this phenomenon in detail in April ( see 'Stability Onshore Increases Stability Offshore', April 24). We noted how the improving situation on the ground had seen pirate attacks decline massively, as the international community took an increased interest in the failed state and its first parliament since 1991 was inaugurated in August 2012, in addition to the now almost ubiquitous presence of armed guards on vessels, best practice guidelines being followed and continued naval patrols. In 2012 pirate attacks from Somalia fell for the first time, with only 75 incidents reported over the year, down 68.2% on 2011. This can in part be attributed to weather conditions having made piracy less feasible for parts of the year, but we believe it is mostly due to increased security both offshore and on land. This trend of diminishing attacks has continued through the first six months of 2013, with attacks attributed to Somali pirates (these include not only incidents off Somalia, but also those in the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean) having come to just eight; this compares with 69 in H112 and 143 in H111.
The increasing safety on the seas, coupled with an ameliorating economic environment ashore, has seen MSC, the second-largest container shipping company in the world, announce that it has started a new fortnightly service between the Omani port of Salalah and the Somali port of Mogadishu. The first vessel on the service carried 1,344 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) to the Salalah port on July 6. The service is expected to enhance bilateral trade between the two countries, which has been projected at US$116mn. This followed local UAE-based feeder vessel operator, Simatech, having announced its entry to the market in April.
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By contrast, pirate attacks in the Gulf of Guinea (encompassing attacks off Guinea, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Togo, Benin, Cameroon, Equitorial Guinea and Ghana) continue to grow. Attacks in the region had fallen from 24 in H108 to just 12 in H110. However, by H112 they had climbed back up to 28, and in the first six months of 2013 attacks numbered 31, far outstripping the eight attributed to Somali pirates.
This will be of major concern to those West African countries affected. While the number of attacks still appears slight, especially when compared with the number of attacks by Somali pirates in their heyday, European shipping companies serving countries like Nigeria have been introducing surcharges to their services, in order to cover their growing insurance premiums. This has led to concerted efforts by regional states to present a unified front in combating the scourge. In March a conference in Cotonou, Benin, led to a statement by heads of state and foreign ministers that: 'The ministers are worried by the serious threats posed by piracy, armed robbery and other illegal maritime activities in the waters of Central Africa and West Africa.' This was followed by another conference in Cameroon in June, where a two-day conference, attended by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and other premiers, resulted in codified actions against piracy by regional countries, later welcomed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. The cause for concern is clear: increased shipping costs will have repercussions upon all facets of the countries' economies, from exports of cocoa to imports of containerised consumer goods.
However, it should be noted that the scale of the problem has been challenged by some bodies in Nigeria; Benedict Ayade, a member of the Nigerian Senate Committee on Marine Transport has contested some of the findings of the Piracy Reporting Centre, believing that the issue has been exaggerated, and that Nigeria should be in the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) to defend itself: 'If we were in the IMO, we will play a very major role in evaluating the risk levels that have been attributed to the Gulf of Guinea.'


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'Litigation threat' to rating agencies
Lawyers believe that credit rating agencies could be the subject of further litigation following a ruling in Australia last month that Standard & Poor's was "misleading and deceptive" in its rating of some structured credit securities.
The head of litigation at one City law firm, who did not want to be named, said: "It would be arguable in the UK courts that you can make the case that an agency was knowingly deceptive or culpably negligent in its rating.
"There's also a risk in Europe from the Credit Ratings Agency Directive [expected in February]. At the moment complainants have to prove there was something deceptive but I think that's going to shift and there will be a greater obligation for the agencies to justify their ratings," he said.
A spokesman for S&P said that the Australian ruling is subject to appeal: "The ruling is at odds with a number of well-established legal principles, both in the US and Europe, including the recognition by courts that ratings are opinions which are not actionable unless disbelieved by those that issued them," he said.
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Soap to IT services business conglomerate Wipro Ltd's promoters may sell a small stake to meet the minimum puclic shareholding norm of market regulator and bring down their holding at 75 per cent, said Chairman Azim Premji.
Premji said the stake sale may happen if promoters' holding doesn't come down to 75 per cent even after the ongoing demerger process. Promoter and promoter group shareholding in Wipro stood at 78.29 per cent as on December 31, 2012.
He said that promoters' holding should come down to 75 per cent with the ongoing demerger process and certain other measures taken towards it, if Sebi's interpretation is the same as Wipro has positioned in its application.
The country's third largest software exporter has already secured shareholders' nod for its plan to demerge the entity into two different business units-- Wipro Ltd and Wipro Enterprises Ltd. The former entity will carry the IT business while other businesses like consumer care, ligthing and engineering services businesses will be under the brand Wipro Enterprises Ltd, which will be an unlisted entity.
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Google changed the rules in a big way when it forced advertisers to use its Enhanced Campaigns system as of July 22. A Kenshoo executive examines the impact on search marketing spend and results.
It's only logical that if the biggest buzz in paid search for the first half of this year was about the adoption of Enhanced Campaigns (EC), then the biggest topic for the second half would be about how it continues to impact paid search advertisers following the forced migration date of July 22nd(a.k.a. "EC-Day").
Enhanced Campaigns was the biggest modification to the Google platform "in the last ten years," as its Head of Mobile Solutions for North America, Bon Mercado, told us in a Kenshoo webinar on August 22nd in which we discussed the initial industry reaction one month after this historic event.
After almost three months since EC-day, I have received literally dozens of request from clients, colleagues, trade publications, and financial analysts asking about how EC has affected search spend, conversions, etc. Are cost-per-clicks (CPCs) higher? Lower? The same? Is this a boon for Google? Is this a win for its competitors? Will more money flow to paid search due to this change?
Before sharing what we've seen, let's take a step back for a moment. The general consensus leading up to EC-Day at conferences and the SEM blogosphere was that either: 1) advertisers would pull back spend and wait to see how the changeover affected things before putting money back in or that 2) advertisers would see higher CPCs during this time so they might have to spend more in order to keep driving the same number of conversions they were generating before the switch.
Based on the numbers, however, neither of these scenarios matches what actually happened.
At the beginning of September, I analyzed paid search spend in aggregate across our clients for June, July, and August and compared it to the same three month period during 2012 and 2011.
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Even though paid search is growing year-over-year, the general curve of 2013's ratio of spend during this time matches pretty closely to previous years. This indicates that paid search advertisers continued to spend at levels we expected based on recent trends and did not dramatically increase or decrease spend during the Enhanced Campaigns period.
"Things seem to be doing fine. So much for all the doomsday talk!" commented WordStream's Larry Kim on an recent Enhanced Campaign blogpost by Brendan Buhmann, Sr. Product Manager for Kenshoo Search™.
But, what about click costs?
Under EC, paid search marketers had to trade in the fine, granular-level control of the bid at the keyword level across devices for mobile bid adjustments at the campaign or ad group level based on the core, desktop/tablet bid.
During the migration period, when I asked practitioners about how they would approach their bidding strategy under this new structure, some said that they would try hard to maintain the pre-EC bid levels as best they could while knowing in certain specific instances that their new bids would be higher or lower than they were previously.
However, others focused on keeping their desktop bids the same and set a global mobile bid adjustment knowing that they would start tinkering with that setting after the rollover. There actually seemed to be many different schools of thought in this area.
So what did the numbers say?
Earlier this month, we released our Q3 2013 global search trend data which showed that CPCs were up just 4% quarter-over-quarter.
On the surface, 4% doesn't imply that EC had very much of an impact on click costs. However, this is an aggregate metric across all of our clients and sometimes a top-line number doesn't tell the full story.
Below is a pie chart in which I mapped out QoQ CPC changes by client across our platform.
Almost half (42%) of all Kenshoo Search clients had relatively flat (+/- 10%) CPCs from Q2 to Q3. For example, if an advertiser ended Q2 with a $0.50 average CPC, then Q3 was somewhere between $0.45 and $0.55.
However, more than half of advertisers saw their CPCs go up or down by at least 10%.
Now let's put this into context. Just because an advertiser pays more per click does not always mean that the efficacy of their paid search efforts decreases. Paying more for higher quality clicks that convert better can be actually improve the return on investment (ROI).
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This example illustrates that, even though some advertisers saw CPCs rise, it's not clear whether or not it was on purpose or a byproduct of Enhanced Campaigns. Only time will tell…
So, what can we learn about the impact of Enhanced Campaigns from Q3's spend and CPC numbers?
Ultimately, advertisers vote with their wallets. Our quarterly trends infographic showed global paid search spend was up 10% year-over-year and 3% quarter-over-quarter. And, per the first chart above, the trajectory of spend in 2013 was very similar to recent years in terms of trending across June, July, and August.
Furthermore, the fact that that almost half of advertiser CPCs stayed flat indicates that EC didn't disrupt things as much as many predicted in the first half of the year. So far, there seem to be more positive post-EC stories being shared by marketers than negative ones.
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por Kay Laflare 23 de Novembro de 2014


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In recent months developers have created iPhone apps for hunting Nazis, 3a>finding chametz3b> before Passover and 1a>encouraging Palestinians to rise up1b> in a third intifada.
Now, technology which asks users to guess whether people are "Jew or Not Jew" has provoked the ire of anti-racism campaigners.
The app, sold for less than £1, was released last month and comes in English and French.
It offers users the chance to guess which politicians, entrepreneurs and Nobel Prize winners are of the Jewish faith, and includes "Popular Jew" and "Random Jew" sections.
It is sold in France amongst other places. The French group SOS Racism said it violated the country's prohibition on identifying people based on their religious affiliations.
They said Apple should remove the app from its store and do more to monitor offensive material sold for Apple technology.