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This shows a typical German electric racer of the period. The next photo shows the guts. The entire underwing area was filled with nicads! Brushless motors hadn't been invented. The throttle was a servo controlled relay. It had two speeds - on and off. The third photo shows the IFM Munchen's flying site used for the pylon race meeting. The club house was very grand and included a control tower, a wurst cafe and a fully stocked bar. The club had never had anyone over from Britain before and they presented me with two steins to put my beer into. I've still got them. Note the large number of spectators.
The F3D final in Munich saw a pretty tight race between Victor Cassutt, Manfred Pick and Thomas Lindemann. Victor won and with it he won the prestigious Deutschen Meisterschaft fur Pylon. Manfred was second and Thomas was third. After the race was over, Victor put on a spectacular aerobatic display with his model - all flown at full throttle of course until the fuel ran out. That generation of F3D had a big wing area and they were very capable of aerobatics. As he glided in for a perfect touchdown he had the misfortune to run into his flight box which his caller had forgotten to remove from the runway! That's why his model has a damaged wing in the photo of the finalists. These pictures are all in black and white because that's the only way that editors would accept them in those days.
More FAI pylon action from the Nats in 1981. In the first photo i appear to be replacing the silicone tubing on the tuned pipe. Model is a Mako with an
HP40. The other guy is my caller Jon Mock. During one of the heats I was just rounding the number one pylon when I heard the characteristic wheeee-whack and then a tinkle tinkle noise. It appeared to be about 10 feet behind us! "What the hell was that?" I asked Jon. "That was Tony Thomas hitting the runway" he replied as I rounded the base pylons. "What was the tinkling noise?". "That was his tuned pipe rolling down the runway". In the semis I had a monumental scrap with Alan Kettley who was one of the best pylon pilots around at the time. Taff Smith and Tony Racz had a midair almost immediately which left just us two. Have you ever been in a race with a more skilful pilot with a faster model but you're still determined to get in front? Well the red mist descended and I tried to stay in front at all costs which resulted in two cuts and a DQ.
Final photo shows trophy time. I think John Jones the then SMAE chairman is presenting the prizes. Pre BMFA.
1981 was the end of an era for F3D pylon racing. The specification had been loosely based on the American Formula two class. But the Americans weren't taking part. I have to say I don't blame them. When you could race very fast and relatively reliable Formula One why would you want to bother?
The C.I.A.M. in its wisdom decided to change the model specification to a more scale like class with the model size approximating to the American Formula One spec. The models had to be a recognisable replica of a full size racing aircraft. After giving it some thought my racing partner and I decided to design a 'Miss RJ' Mustang. To get the motor in and more importantly the tuned pipe we had to raise the wing an inch. Greg produced a beautiful prototype made from plywood. It was painted white and had the logo and stripe in orange exactly like the real thing. It flew beautifully. We then took it to the BMPRA AGM to have it approved because we didn't want to go to the trouble of making moulds and then have it excluded. The BMPRA committee huffed and puffed and excluded it because they said the raising the wing made it unrecognisable and it would never be accepted by an international body. So we designed and made the moulds for the ugly brute shown below. This was another 'Miss RJ' in which the tuned pipe came out of the side of the fuselage. This created a myriad of problems with squeezing the tank in, heat build up etc. It didn't fly very nicely either so initially I flew a couple of Cotswold Midget Mustangs instead that year.
The pictures show the finished model. Of course when we got to Italy that year virtually the entire Czech team and some Italians were flying midwing Mustangs but that's another story. Within a few years the scale requirement would be dropped completely.
In 1982 a commitee headed by Dave Tappin and Taff Smith organised an international meeting for the new F3D pylon class. Initially there weren't many options available. Most models were either rip-offs of Prather Little Toni or Violett Polecat kits or the newly introduced Cotswold Midget Mustang kit. As the American Formula One kits already fitted the new rules and were a known quantity this was a logical move. The then BMPRA committee were against this meeting and refused to take part. About 40 competitors chose to race.
They say you can hold a pylon race anywhere ONCE! The spot chosen was the magnificent setting of Harewood House outside Harrogate. The flying site was extremely tight for FAI models and the proximity of a large tree close to the number two pylon made for very fast tight flying. The British record was broken on several occasions. So tight in fact that the German competitors demanded a cross-wind runway. The site was a natural amphitheatre and ideal for spectators of which several hundreds turned up.
In a way I'm surprised that the estate agreed to it and Lady Harwood was less than pleased by the German team running engines at 7.00 on Sunday morning. She was even less pleased when one of the competitors lost control during the final. The model plunged into the aviary where it impaled an unsuspecting emu. The culprit reappeared with an OPS engine covered in blood and feathers. "Hasn't damaged the motor at all" he said. After that all model flying on the estate was suspended almost indefinitely.
Because the event was so large the AA went to the trouble of making special road signs. The second photo shows Greg Ashton doing what most pylon racers do. Sorting out a prop. He and I were the first to make carbon fibre pylon props in Britain and we went to the trouble of making aluminium moulds. He still has them. The third photo is of 'Taff' Smith and his caller with a Violett Polecat. Motor is a K&B 40 RIRE. The fourth photo is of Lynn Bristow with his two Tonis both with OPS engines. The fifth photo is of a group of competitors posing in a group photo. At back L-R Giles Jackson, Taff Smith. Middle row L-R Marcus Griggs, Bill Rutherford, Eric Miller, Don Beaumont. Front row L-R I think is Walter Brenner, Lothar Steinbiss, Manfred Pick and Guy Brouquieres.
The sixth photo is Back row L-R Mick Burrell, Bernie O'Connor?, Alan Laurie, Paul Bowman, Paul Careless. Kneeling L-R Ray Herbert?, Thomas Lindemann, Lothar Messer?, Lynn Bristow, Tony Racz.
Paul Bowman was training to be a RAF fast jet pilot on Hawks at the time and missed Saturdays races due to service commitments. He raced right through the night, doubled up whenever anyone retired and qualified for the semis. By dint of some neat fast flying Manfred Pick won the final from Victor Cassutt, Ernst Waltschek, and Marcus Griggs. Alan Kettley set a new British record of 1.22 or about 20 seconds slower than they now fly.
The final image is of the front of the events program. I estimate over a thousand spectators came during the weekend and this gave them an idea of what it was all about.
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You might well be right. Next up lots of Formula One from the States. I hope others will feel free to add to this thread. It wasn't supposed to be a personal monologue.
Bill Rutherford who we saw in one of the photos in the last post was a well known Californian racer who came to Britain for 3-4 years. He was an airline pilot flying DC-8s for a US airline and he naturally gravitated from Formula One to F3D. His caller was his daughter and when she returned to the states she carried on pylon racing and eventually married another racer. Can't remember your name Miss Rutherford!
Underneath is a picture of one of 'Taff' Smith's current rides - a Mk 14 Spitfire. The red rudder to the left may be from his P51. These are real aircraft not models!
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I actually have found a couple of old pictures, so here you go.
I think it was Nancy Rutherford. She was a good looking girl in a sun kissed Californian way. One of the great things about the racers of the eighties and nineties was how nicely they were finished (models not girls!). I hope we can emulate that with EF-1
Few pictures of Formula One racing now. When I got to the States I couldn't believe how obtainable pylon racing goods were. In Britain at that time you had to prise them away from the very few shops that stocked them or use your contacts abroad. Kits were made in a garage if the guy felt like it and you might wait months if he wasn't in the mood or took a dislike to you probably because you kept pestering him. Achim Schaller supplied my Deumo tachometer. My Rev-Up props also came from Germany via Manfred Pick who collected them from the States when he flew there as an airline pilot. Small wonder we started making our own. Different ball game in California at the time. I just walked into my LHS in Mountain View and picked up a Prather Little Toni and a Denight Special and a STX40 and a Prather pitch guage off the shelf!
Most of these pictures are the work of John Headley a semi professional photographer and keen racer from Vancouver. At that time a small group of Canadians used to cross into Washington State and race in the Seattle area. The races were well attended by folks from Oregon and California as well.
More from Toledo in '91.
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Sweden has produced a wide variety of quality musical acts that span decades and genres. From the Hall-of-Fame-worthy pop of Abba, to the American-inspired garage rock of the Hellacopters, and even the prog-infused black metal of Vintersorg, Sweden seems to have no shortage of musical luminaries. Perhaps it's because of the lack of daylight during Swedish winter, forcing everyone inside with nothing else to do but create. Whatever the reason, it certainly seems to be working, and relative newcomers Arbogast are no exception.
Arbogast's second full-length album, Certainties and Doubts, sees band leader Svante Widerström expand on previous efforts and futher refine the "Arbogast sound." But what is that sound? That is an interesting question, as there's not an obvious answer. The bulk of the material has a very '70s-throwback feel, but almost in an inspired-by-other-70s-throwback-bands way. Many songs call to mind Spacehog, both musically and vocally, though they lack a bit of the Freddie Mercury-like stylistic meanderings of Royston Langdon. Additionally, there is a preponderance of three-chord, punk-inspired backing music, though plucked and strummed rather than noisily expelled.
Humorously titled opening track "Robbed, Stripped and Glad About It" feels like a leftover from early Alice Cooper sessions, and would have worked well on Killer. Of course, Alice would doubtfully have veered away from some of the bizarre falsetto vocal stretches. This rocking song kicks the album off with a great amount of energy that the rest of the album, unfortunately, lacks. This is not to imply that the remainder is of lower quality, but after getting jolted with such a powerful track upfront, everything else seems a little lethargic.
For the most part, the rest of the songs on Certainties and Doubts could almost all fall under one description—fun and quirky. Gently strummed acoustics and pop melodies help to create an album of smile-bringing ditties. "Steal Me Some Luck" would almost fit well in a Macintosh commercial, though it's a bit less contrived than usual Mac-fare. "Psychomath" is a great piece of pop fun, reveling in its simplicity and insane catchiness. It's unlikely that anyone will be able to get it out their head after even one listen. "Bitacora Club" and "Applause to You" bring the initial energy back to a point, but end up as electrically dominated pop-rock nonetheless. Closing track, "The Cholera Song," with its upbeat synth melody, builds up to what feels like children's program theme music (though going by the title, it would be a pretty dark kid's show).
While Arbogast use the simplicity and laid-back attitude to their advantage most of the time, there are points where things do become a bit redundant. Many of the vocal melodies are almost identical, and as noted before, the energy level never quite reaches beyond a mellow cheeriness. A little more power and slightly increased tempos would surely bring extra life to the songs and create a more diverse album.
What is certain is that Arbogast have created a solid, pleasant album that would feel very comfortable (stylistically, if not alphabetically) between Cheap Trick and Jason Mraz—not quite as hard hitting as the first, but a bit less obvious than the second. Chock another one up to Swedish creativity.
Label: Self-released
Web: www.myspace.com/arbogastrockbov ; www.arbogast.se
Band Lineup:
Svante Widerström (vocals, guitars, keyboards)
Bolivar (bass)
Gunnar Hansson (drums)
Jonas Hjortstam (various solos)
Mats Lilja (background vox)
Fredrik Lillen Falkerstedt (guitar solo)
Jason Lewis (spoken)
1. Robbed, Stripped and Glad About It
2. Psychomath
3. Steal Me Some Luck
4. Once the Tip of the Spear
5. Stay Up and Talk to Me All Night
6. Bitacora Club
7. Applause to You
8. The Other You
9. Thinking 'Bout the Boss
10. Beckomberga 1944
11. The Cholera Song
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It will depend a lot on where you live. In west yorks its rocky in summer and rocky and wet in winter. Not much in the way of mud really. I use the tyres my pitch came with, Spesh Eskar and I think they are really good.
However I'm from Notts originally and I remember it being reasonably dry smooth and dusty in the summer but very muddy in the winter. If I still lived there I could see a real benefit in having 2 or 3 sets of different tyres to put on according to the conditions.
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Tyres for every season....
It will depend a lot on where you live. In west yorks its rocky in summer and rocky and wet in winter. Not much in the way of mud really. I use the tyres my pitch came with, Spesh Eskar and I think they are really good.
I run Conti. Explorers and Michelin Pro 3's on mountain and road bikes respectively. Never have, and never will, constantly swap for varying conditions - they stay on till they're bald!
Their is so much boolaks talked about tyre choice - particularly on this forum.
However, for cx racing, I have 3 sets of different tyres for various conditions, which I constantly change around.
This is because I am so krapp, I need a multitude of excuses why I finish so far down the field, and wrong tyre choice feels quite convincing.
Hey Bigjim, you forgot to mention the people with a chip on their shoulder who like to post condescending messages about people with more than one set of tyres on the internet.
i dont change tires - just take a different bike out
Holliday - 2.5 highroller DPC super tacky (youd die riding them uphill all day!)
Summer (and late spring and early autumn) - 2.35 high roller, maxxpro, SPC, kevlar, with a semi slick on the rear when its dry.
Winter - lighter/narrower rims as the dirtjumps are unriable, and specialized storm pro's.
I wouldn't change them for a different ride/area though. and it doesnt cost much more, as tyers not being used arent being worn out. So I'm not wearing out my winter tyers in the summer or vice versa.
I'm quite poor... so I just have one tyre that I use on the front during the summer... then in the winter I fit it on the back instead
I am a serial tyraholic and I change tyres all the time.
My excuse? I have to ride out to the trails a lot of the time on easy hard surfaced paths - so nee a fast rolling tyre, however some of where I ride gets very muddy in winter so I need a mud tyre then, Ihave studded tyres for ice - currently on my commuter. I have some DH tyres for riding in rocky places.
Rather than having loads of bikes I have one (main) bike and loads of tyres
Managed to use Smallblock8's for most of the year, even a weekend at CyB & MachX. They were pumped up bloody hard though, to avoid pinching.
Had to go back to Nev / BG in october as they are rubbish in mud, literally no grip at all. Love the SB8's though, no rolling resistance.
Since I got my SS bike in May it's been running Mud X's, they're bang on for the local woods in all conditions, a bit slower than Ignitors in the dry, but hey ho.
I've been running NN's on both my FS & HT for a good while now, and i like them. so they're staying.
Arguably the NN isn't as good as the Mud X when it's proper muddy round the local woods but it ain't too bad.
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Hey Bigjim, you forgot to mention the people with a chip on their shoulder who like to post condescending messages about people with more than one set of tyres on the internet.
I assume you're referring to me as being condescending, and that I've got a chip on my shoulder? How so? Care to join in and share your rubber fetish with the internet world?
i used to use fire xc, changed to conti speed king, when they wear out ile probly go back to fire xc as a pretty good all round tyre.
i do have another set of road tyres, i use those, er, on road.
what ive found is that when riding as a group, all using different tyres, is that we mostly seem to get stopped all at the same place, therefore my conclusion is that the differences between different types are actually fairly small.
just my 2p worth.
Personally I hate fannying about changing tyres, I had a couple of wheel sets for my DH bike for a while, one wet, one dry, but pretty much always used the lighter "dry" set…
Got a hardly used set of double ply swamp donkeys in the garage which I may use again but they weigh a ton, they are draggy, and I wasn't that impressed with their grip…
Sticking to Speccy Eskars for a while now on my hack bike, seem to suit 80-90% of what I need and will probably be all I ride through the winter…
Got some cheap 2.0" Michelins waiting for summer to put them on the XC bike though, but that's just forward planning…
I think the ideal solution is something like: buy set of knobbly mud tyres for winter. Ride until they resemble a set of semi-slicks (for summer). Repeat annually.
3 different rides I have done recently that I used 3 different sets of tyres
1) - 65 miles half on road half on easy off-road reasonably dry - needs fast rolling set
2) glentress in the wet at night - needs grippy set - black chilli that wears out in no time on tarmac
3) attempt to get to the pentlands in the snow - needs narrow studded set
Tyre moaning is just another excuse - "oooh I would have tackled that section fine with my Mud XXXX badger print thermo gripper tyres - must fit them next time..."
Same with the vast variety of MTB categories - "dammit, I needed my 20" full sus rig for that DH bit and my 16lb super rocket whippet for that bit"
Don't know about anybody else but I always have my 'man' following discretely behind carrying a selection of alternative bikes and wheels so I always have exactly the right equipment for the conditions.
I thought that's what everybody did
Tyre moaning is just another excuse - "oooh I would have tackled that section fine with my Mud XXXX badger print thermo gripper tyres - must fit them next time..."
Same with the vast variety of MTB categories - "dammit, I needed my 20" full sus rig for that DH bit and my 16lb super rocket whippet for that bit"
For me, its not really about excuses. I don't need to make excuses, given my limitations as a distinctly average rider. Its about gaining an improved advantage for the conditions, and more confidence, plus a dollop of 'I wonder how this tyre works?'. I'm no racer by any means, but I like to be able to have the best balance of grip and rolling resistance for the conditions. Who wouldn't?
That said, I don't specifically change tyres for individual rides. I don't go further than changing for the drier and wetter parts of the year. Dry-intermediate for late Spring, Summer and early Autumn, and wet/intermediate for late Autumn-Winter-early Spring.
It was icy on yesterday's ride and I was struggling to get rear wheel traction climbing on steep limestones and close-cropped grass. Being SS, I would normally stand and lever the bike up, but the rear would not stick down enough under power so I had to sit and suffer. Even then it would slip quite a bit. Downhill was hugely fun sliding and slipping the tail around
I guess a 2.1" 70a is not ideal. But I can't be bothered to change it to some draggy compound tyre
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Latest Model S Software Update Version 4.5 (v1.33.44)
Latest Model S Software Update Version 4.5 (v1.33.44)
I have downloaded 4.5 (V1.33.48) with no problems. I took a 200 mi trip and found nothing wrong.
I would recommend you change your subject line to reflect the newest version (V1.33.48) or remove the reference completely, because this version number seems to change on a weekly basis.
There are several other threads discussing V4.5. Use http://Volkerize.com to search for them.
Loaded it up Friday night. It now lists places on google maps including supercharger locations. I did notice my rated range went down about 6 miles from 240 to 234.
Works for me (1.33.48).
Two features not in the release notes that I think are new:
1) The blue route Guidance is now translucent so you can see the traffic status under your route. Previously it was opaque.
2) Homelink presentation of the button seems to have a somewhat wider location radius than before (but could be GPS variance).
I loaded up (1.33.48) last week. It's been great, no problems.
I also noticed a couple undocumented things.
1. The charge cable opens charge port on a locked car now. It didn't before. I agree with the change.
2. Then BT and 3G icons moved over, closer to center. Minor, but I did notice it. Making room for something or just coincidence of font changes?
Updated to 4.5 and everything works great. Did a 200 mile drive and then a 600 mile drive and I SWEAR my highway Wh/mi has dropped from around 370 to about 335...anyone else experiencing this? I drive about 75mph on the highway and I was able to stretch much more range out on these last 2 trips since 4.5 was installed!
Picked up my car on June 6th which came with 4.5. In addition to noticing the transparent route blue line fix (where traffic indicators used to cover the blue route), I also noticed the courtesy wipe has been fixed. Living in seattle this one worried me, so when it was raining the other day I cautiously approached my car (which had auto wipers on). I was pleased that it was not until I was in my seat with the door closed and my foot on the brake that the wipers took their first swipe. Perhaps this had already been fixed in an earlier release and I just had not noticed it.
I've noticed that since installing 4.5, when I look in the vanity mirror I've gotten better looking!
Douglas R,
thanks for the info, cant wait for my update. :-)
It may be a change in how charge is translated into miles in the firmware.
With this new release, I am finding that the rear camera view goes gray when the home link pops up for the garage doors. Of course when I'm backing out of my garage, I need both.
We have a neighbor who lets there 2-year-old run around and the rear camera has saved him a few times. Not having the rear camera view is freaking me out.
I think this behavior is due to them increasing the size of the home link button very slightly. People who had more than one home link sites (so the drop-down box extended more into the screen) have experienced this behavior for some time. I believe the solution is to put the backup camera in the lower panel so that the home link button will not blank it out.
There was a discussion of this problem somewhere (possibly the Prioritized Software Enhancement thread), but you will have to use www.volkerize.com to find it. It discusses solutions that others have found useful.
We have had version 4.5 (1.33.44) for 850 miles and no problems.
Hi gracehm:
Did you set up your rear view to the bottom pane?
Would you please snap a picture of what you are describing?
When my Home Link pulls down onto the screen, I can see the rearview camera very clearly.


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Discussion in 'Texans Talk' started by texansfan1974, Dec 26, 2005.
On 610am John Mcclain said if we win we will have #5 pick. So we need to lose this one.
Actually, if we win and tie up with the other 3-win teams, San Fran will get the #5 due to Strength of Schedule. We would end up with the #4 or #3, depending on how Week 17 goes.
I don't believe I have outright hoped the Texans would lose a game. This is no different. However, I will not be dissappointed if the Texans end up getting the #1 overall pick in the draft.
It is an odd mix of emotions. I'll be glad when this season is over. Someone, give this team and coaching staff an enema!
Post of the year!!
So I guess we'll all be cheering on the Jets tonight eh?
McClain doesn't know that because the numbers change weekly and I know he hasn't run the numbers, and it's not quite as straightforward as you might think it is to calculate. I heard John and Lance talking and I think he was saying the Texans could be as low as #5 because if the Texans won over SF, there is a pretty good possibility of 5 teams being tied at 3-13.
It's really too complex to figure out even with only one week left because every week you have to go back and recalculate the opponent win total based on updated win totals for every team that your team has played for the entire season. And when you play a team twice, you have to account for the updated record twice. I was thinking about running some scenarios but the more I thought about it, the uglier it got.
If the Texans lose, none of this will matter anyway.
Go Jets.
Yesterdays game between the Bucs and Saints almost produced a Saints
victory, which would have been huge for us because most projections tend to have them with the weakest SOS and they may have therefor the best chance of #1 if we win this coming Sunday. As it is now, we will probably pick before SF even if beat them Sunday.
Ah, until we beat the Rams yesterday, this was a big topic of discussion on the 49er boards as well. The truth of the matter is the it's not that complex, it's time consuming and requires a bit of sensitivity analysis, but not a lot. However, the short of it is that this late in the season, there won't much change as we're 15/16th through the schedule.
Now, if the Texans and all the other 3-12 teams win, save the 49ers obviously, the Texans will probably pick first. Winning against the 49ers will lower (slightly) their SoS. It would most likely firmly entrench the 49ers with the 2nd pick. Without doing a full sensitivity analysis, the only way it wouldn't happen is if all the non-common opponents of the 49ers lost and those of the Texans won, raising YOUR SoS while lowering ours.
Now, there are a lot of other scenarios. And in any of them, if any of the other 3-12 teams lose and the Texans win, you'll not be drafting 1st because your SoS is much higher than the others.
Does anyone have a link to the current SOS standings?
I found another good one that lists the current order by wins/losses.
Sequence for the 2006 NFL Draft from ourlads.com
My crackpot math had us in a virtual tie with the Jets for second in SOS going into week 17 (assuming the Jets lose), so it looks like we would get either the second or third pick depending on how that shakes out. The Saints have us/Jets by three games and the Packers and 49ers are also three and four games behind.
I hate to say this, but we're better off losing this game. I hope no one thinks less of me, but we 2006 will be better with a Texans loss.
Not complex at all, just time consuming.
Let's look at one scenario.
If the Texans beat SF and both finish 3-13 AND assuming the following teams win this weekend:
Then, SF opponents will have won 141 games and Houston opponents will have won 137, giving Houston the SoS advantage over the 9ers in this scenario.
But - getting into the uncommon opponent factor - if the Bears lose and something really stupid happens like AZ beats Indy and New Orleans beats Tampa or StL beats Dallas - unlikely I know - then the opponent win count would be the same, but since Hou beat SF in this scenario, SF would get tiebreaker advantage since it lost to Hou.
There's a ton of combinations like that when you start factoring in one or more of the other three teams into it (if they finish 3-13).
Some of the games this weekend are a push in the win column for the SF HOU scenario, e.g., Wash-Philly, KC-Cin, TN-Jax, Balt-Cle.
That's why it will be much easier if the 9ers just win outright on Sunday
well anything is possible, in this scenario if the jets beat new england tonight they eliminate themselves from the bowl, the winning % only affect NO, but since they played them both NO stays pat, then the raiders would have to beat the giants on saturday (yea right) the bills beat the jets, pitts burg beats detroit, indy beats arizona, green bay beats seattle, minn beats chicago, NO beats tampa, then if we lost, and then dallas beats the rams, if i did the math right would end up like this.
houston .531
then apparently a div or conference tie breaker, not sure how that works, we are 2-4 in our div houston 0-6 in theirs....so longshot would be an understatement. besides i fully expect to beat houston
Div or conf tiebreaker wouldn't apply in a SF HOU tie. It would be head to head and SF would win (get the higher pick) because it lost to HOU. A Hou - SF tie in SoS is possible but unlikely because more than one significant upset would have to occur.
if we beat SF, is there a way we could get he #1? cause what if the packers, saints and jets win, then the texans and the 9ers would be the only
3-13 teams and with the SOS of the texans, theyd get the first pick...
All I know is I'd never hoped to be so involved with trying to figure out how mathmatically my team is the worst in the league, and therefore entitled to the #1 draft pick.
I know I've said I hope they get it, but that's more a reaction to the desire for something, ANYTHING, positive to come out of this most dismal of seasons. I've been a pro football fan my whole life, and I've never ever been happy to see the season end - until now.
I must say that I think it is in the best interest of the team to lose next week. Four or five weeks ago, I would not have said this. But losing just one game will matter little in the grand scheme of things for next year. With all the changes coming to the team, I just don't think this one game will affect the psyche of the team.
Having said that, once I start watching the game, I CAN NOT root for the Texans to lose. I start pulling for them to win no matter what. I just can't pull for my Texans to lose.
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are you ok with another woman calling your husband "hun" or "babe"
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Poll Results
Question: Are you ok with a woman calling your husband hun or babe?
I could not careles
No I am not ok with it
Total Votes: 843
Question: Are you ok with a woman calling your husband hun or babe?
Total Votes: 843
my husband thinks I am being immature because I am a little upset that our new neighbor has been calling him hun and babe
Would you be ok with that?
Not babe. I hate that term if anyone uses it, but if anyone at all is going to call my husband babe, it's going to be me. That's a term of endearment for a sexual partner, not a friend. My brother used to call all of his GF's babe so that he didn't get their names wrong. Now when I hear it, that's all I think of.
This is the South and it's normal. We call everyone hun or babe or sweetie or some other endearment. Doesn't matter if we know them or not. Doesn't matter if they are the opposite sex or not. It's just how we are.
I guess it would depend on if it was just someone who grew up saying that ( I hear it a lot down here in the South) or if it was someone who was flirting with him intentionally.....so I didn't vote.
"hun" is very different than "babe," to me. Also depends on the person.. young? Older? Flirty? Or does she say it to everybody (think of Penny in Big Bang Theory calling everyone Sweetie). For me, if it was a young person I'd be weirded out.
No, I am not okay with it. I find it inappropriate. Unless it's an older woman calling my DH "hun," I consider it a term of endearment that is best reserved for his wife.
It would depend. If it was a waitress or something...no I wouldnt care. If it was a neighbor that was old, wouldnt care. But if it were someone our own age they he worked with or was in the neighborhood, no that would not be ok.


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Had a weird couple of days, but not going to write about them just now... maybe in the future.
Contrary to what I said a few days ago in my blog, my parents are coming to see me tomorrow - which is a miracle, but a welcome one. I look forward to seeing them and hope that once they've flown over (they usually take the train) they'll realise the distance between us isn't quite so far. It's a lot harder for us to visit the UK (and more expensive) so them coming means a lot.
Went to the soft play centre in Limoges today with good friends and was amazed at the twins, who shunned the 0-3 year play area, and decided to tackle the big slide, dance at the disco and basically anything that was dangerous/too big. Bearing in mind that last time they came they were a little nervous of even the baby area toys, that's some progress!!
Jane, a good friend who has been staying and helping for a while, has now gone home, which is very sad. I wish she could have stayed longer! She's actually Ray's ex-wife's brother's wife (so his "ex" sister-in-law) which makes her generosity all the more wonderful. Another example of an unexpected person becoming family.


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New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin had lunch Tuesday with the former ESPN headline writer who was fired in February for writing a racially insensitive headline.Comment on this story
Anthony Federico, a 28-year-old Connecticut man, used an idiom in a headline that could also be used as a slur against Chinese, and was subsequently fired.
Federico apologized and called the headline an "honest mistake," and Lin accepted the apology. During their lunch, Federico said they discussed their shared Christian faith and Lin's knee injury.
The fact that he took the time to meet with me in his insanely busy schedule he's just a wonderful, humble person," Federico said. "He didn't have to do that, especially after everything had kind of died down for the most part."
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Although catastrophic weight loss is no longer common in HIV-infected men, we hypothesized that a more gradual process of cachexia [loss of lean body mass (LBM) without severe weight loss, often accompanied by elevated resting energy expenditure (REE)] is still common and is driven by excessive production of the catabolic cytokines tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and interleukin-1β (IL-1β). We performed a longitudinal analysis of an ongoing cohort study of nutritional status in 172 men with HIV infection. LBM loss of >1 kg occurred in 35% of the cohort, and LBM loss of >5% occurred in 12.2% over 8 mo of observation, but classical wasting (loss of ≈10% of weight) was rare (2%). Both TNF-α (−150 g LBM · ng−1 · ml−1,P < 0.02) and IL-1β production (−130 g LBM · ng−1 · ml−1,P < 0.01) by peripheral blood mononuclear cells predicted loss of LBM. A rise in REE of >200 kcal/day was found in 17.7% of the subjects regardless of weight change. IL-1β (+9 kcal/day per ng/ml, P < 0.002) and TNF-α (+10 kcal/day per ng/ml, P < 0.02) production predicted ΔREE. Serum free testosterone was inversely associated with TNF-α production and was not an independent predictor of either ΔLBM or ΔREE after adjustment for cytokine production. Even though weight loss was rare in this cohort of patients treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy, loss of LBM was common and was driven by catabolic cytokines and not by inadequate dietary intake or hypogonadism.
with the advent of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), the incidence of most of the complications associated with HIV infection has declined in the developed world (17). However, the metabolic derangements associated with HIV infection have not been eliminated: wasting continues to occur even with HAART (17), and lipodystrophy, or fat redistribution syndrome, has been recognized as a new complication of the disease and possibly of HAART treatment (3). Even though severe weight loss (wasting syndrome) appears to be less common today, erosion of lean body mass (LBM), primarily from skeletal muscle, is still evident in many patients with HIV infection when body composition is measured (8, 30). Because muscle mass is the predominant determinant of strength, loss of LBM can lead to loss of functional capacity and independence, and the resulting reduced protein stores diminish the ability to withstand an acute infection (12, 22).
We have previously demonstrated that such loss of LBM can occur even without loss of weight and have suggested that the term cachexia be used to distinguish this condition from the more severe weight loss seen in wasting (defined by the Centers for Disease Control as loss of 10% or more of baseline weight) (4, 12, 22). For example, in rheumatoid arthritis, excess production of the catabolic cytokines interleukin-1β (IL-1β) and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) drives cachexia and increased resting energy expenditure (REE) and protein catabolism but without overt weight loss (21, 24). Because rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic illness, as is HIV infection, we sought to determine whether PBMC production of catabolic cytokines is also an important determinant of cachexia in HIV-infected adults.
In AIDS wasting, Grinspoon and colleagues (10, 11) have demonstrated that low serum testosterone is an important determinant of LBM loss. However, it is not clear whether either testosterone or the catabolic cytokines are important factors in regulating weight, body composition, or metabolic rate in HIV-infected adults in the absence of overt wasting. We hypothesized that cachexia is a persistent problem in HIV-infected men despite treatment with HAART, and that, like rheumatoid cachexia, HIV-associated cachexia is driven by catabolic cytokine production. We examined the relationship between the determinants cytokine production and serum testosterone concentration and change in LBM and REE in male participants in the Tufts Nutrition for Healthy Living Study, an ongoing longitudinal study of the nutritional status of HIV-infected adults.
Study design.
The Tufts Nutrition for Healthy Living Study began in 1993 and included 695 subjects as of May 2000. Subjects are contacted by telephone every month and are examined and fill out detailed questionnaires about their health. Every 6 mo, their body composition is measured by bioelectrical impedance (BIA) and their REE by indirect calorimetry. Between May 1995 and August 1998, a subgroup of 172 men who had adequate venous access to allow additional blood drawing donated peripheral blood mononuclear cells for assessment of cytokine production. Sufficient serum was available for measurement of free testosterone in 166 cases.
Body composition.
Body composition was measured at each visit by single-frequency, whole body BIA using an RJL 103 analyzer (RJL, Mt. Clemens, MI). Electrodes were placed in standard positions on the wrist and ankle. LBM was calculated using sex-specific equations validated against dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) in this study population (14).
Indirect calorimetry.
REE was measured by indirect calorimetry using a Sensormedics V2900 calorimeter (Sensormedics, Yorba Linda, CA). Measurements were made after a minimum of 4 h of fasting to eliminate the thermic effect of the last meal on REE. Subjects lay quietly in a semi-darkened, thermoneutral room for 20 min and then had their REE measured for an additional 15 min.
Cytokine measurements.
PBMC were isolated from 20 ml of anticoagulated blood as previously described (24). PBMC were obtained from whole blood by Ficoll-Hypaque centrifugation, as previously described, and washed three times in sterile, pyrogen-free saline (9, 26). Cells were suspended at 5 × 106/ml in RPMI (Sigma Chemical, St. Louis, MO) that had been subjected to ultrafiltration (6) to remove cytokine-inducing substances. Ultrafiltered RPMI was supplemented with 100 μg/ml streptomycin, 100 U/ml penicillin (Sigma), and 1% l-glutamine and contained 2% autologous heat-inactivated serum. No additional stimulation was given to the cells. Cells were cultured in 96-well flat-bottom plates; each well contained 0.125 ml of cells plus 0.125 ml of RPMI. After 22 h at 37°C in 5% CO2, the plates were frozen at −80°C. Plates were thawed and frozen three times to lyse the cells.
Measurement of total IL-1β and TNF-α synthesis was carried out in duplicate by specific, non-cross-reacting enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA, R&D Systems, Minneapolis, MN), as described previously (9, 29). Cell lysates were assayed undiluted. The interassay coefficient of variation (CV) for samples was <10%, and the intra-assay variability was <5% for both cytokines.
Free testosterone measurement.
Serum free testosterone was measured by radioimmunoassay (Diagnostic Products, Los Angeles, CA). The intra-assay CV was 3.2–4.3%.
Other measures.
Dietary intake was measured from 3-day food records analyzed using the Minnesota database (NDS-R, version 4.0, University of Minnesota Division of Epidemiology). Physical activity was estimated using the Physical Activity Recall Scale developed by Sallis et al. (25). CD4 counts were measured by flow cytometry in the New England Medical Center Clinical Immunology Laboratory. Plasma HIV RNA was measured in a research retrovirology laboratory using a Roche Amplicor Monitor reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction assay according to the manufacturer's instructions (Roche Molecular Systems, Somerville, NJ). Blood samples were collected in ACD tubes, and plasma was separated within 3 h, frozen at −70°C, and thawed just before assay.
Statistical analysis.
Descriptive statistics were calculated to inspect the distribution of all variables of interest in the analysis. These variables were chosen on the basis of a literature review of variables related physiologically to the outcomes of interest. Because most variables were distributed normally, means ± SD are shown; for skewed variables, the median and interquartile range are shown. Intervals with a change in REE of >500 kcal or change in LBM of >5 kg were considered outliers (n = 13) and excluded from the analysis, as they are not physiologically likely. Repeated measurements were collected at standardized 6-mo study visits with the use of identical protocols by trained study personnel. Therefore, participants generally contributed multiple observations to our data set. The Statistical Analysis System (SAS, Cary, NC) software was used for all analyses. The SAS procedure MIXED was employed to fit all reported regression models.
Absolute changes in weight, LBM, and REE over a maximum time interval of 8 mo were modeled using repeated-measures regression methods (32). These models were employed to assess the presence of crude and multivariate-adjusted prospective associations between measured levels of cytokines and testosterone at the start of an interval, potential confounders measured at the start of the interval, and changes in weight, LBM, and REE over the interval. Empirical estimates of the variance of parameters were used with an unstructured covariance matrix, where the variance of the dependent variables at each time point measured, and all possible covariances between them, are allowed independent estimates.
Restricted cubic spline regression models were used to test significant nonlinearity in the independent association between the three dependent variables of interest and the main determinants (cytokines and testosterone) (7). Restricted cubic splines are a method for flexibly fitting arbitrary (i. e., not determined a priori) nonlinear regression relationships by joining a series of cubic polynomials at prespecified knot points, with smoothness constraints at these knots and with the tails fit linearly (7). These models do not assume a linear relationship between predictor and outcome, but rather fit any nonlinear behavior arbitrarily, and provide a test for nonlinearity by comparing the fit of the nonlinear model to the fit of the best linear one. The likelihood ratio test was employed to assess nonlinearity in the flexible regression models. Assumptions of linearity were carefully checked through the restricted cubic spline regression models described above. Graphs of the arbitrary regression relationships were inspected for visual evidence of nonlinearity, and statistical tests for nonlinearity were performed as described above. Independence between repeated measures on the same subjects was never assumed in this analysis. Rather, repeated measures were treated as correlated, by an arbitrary correlation matrix as described above.
Data on cytokines, testosterone, and changes in LBM, weight, and REE were available for different subsets of the available person-intervals. For the change in LBM analysis, there were 166 and 147 person-intervals with cytokine and testosterone data, respectively, and 73 with both cytokine and testosterone. For the change in REE analysis, there were 132, 109, and 58 person-intervals available with cytokine, testosterone, and both, respectively. The missing indicator method (16) was used in the multivariate models when covariate data were unavailable.
For the multivariate analysis of predictors of REE, several interactions were noted. To simplify these, continuous variables were transformed into categorical ones as follows: REE was dichotomized at the median value of 1,785 kcal/day. Testosterone was divided into tertiles: upper tertile mean 21.5 pg/ml; middle tertile mean 19.2 pg/ml; lower tertile mean 14.9 pg/ml. TNF-α was divided into tertiles: upper tertile mean 6.42 ng/ml; middle tertile mean 3.39 ng/ml; lower tertile mean 1.36 ng/ml.
One hundred seventy-two participants contributed 190 observations, with a mean duration from start to end of the intervals of 6. 5 mo. The study population was predominantly Caucasian, with a mean age of 41 yr (Table 1). The primary HIV infection risk was injection drug use in 15% and homosexual contact in 78%. Sixty-three percent of the population had met the definition of AIDS, and 43% were taking HAART during the period used for this analysis, consistent with clinical practice patterns during the period when these samples were obtained (1995–1997).
The primary goal of the study was a longitudinal analysis of change in LBM after the date of PBMC culture, with a mean follow-up time of 8.7 mo. The mean change in weight during the observation period was a loss of 0.02 kg but ranged from loss of 12.2 kg to a gain of 8 kg. The mean change in LBM was loss of 0.2 kg, but again the range of responses was wide, from loss of 9.4 kg to gain of 6.5 kg. Similarly, the mean change in REE was 6.8 kcal/day, with a range of −431 to +430 kcal/day. Weight loss of >2 kg occurred in 23% of the participants, and weight loss of >5% occurred in 11%. Weight loss of ≥10% (AIDS wasting) occurred in only 2% of the observations. LBM loss of >1 kg occurred in 35% of the cohort, and LBM loss of >5% occurred in 12.2%. Among intervals where LBM loss exceeded 1 kg, the mean (±SD) change in weight was 1.4 ± 3.2 kg; among intervals with LBM loss of >5%, the mean change in weight was loss of 2.9 ± 3.3 kg. A rise in REE of >200 kcal/day (∼10% of median REE) was found in 17.7% of the subjects. There was no significant correlation between ΔLBM and ΔREE (r = 0.01, P = 0.9). The prevalence of hypogonadism, defined as serum free testosterone <12 pg/ml, was 17.5%.
Predictors of change in LBM.
In crude models, both TNF-α [regression coefficient (β) β = −150 g LBM · ng−1 · ml−1,P < 0.04] and IL-1β (β = −130 g LBM · ng−1 · ml−1, P < 0.05) production were inversely associated with ΔLBM (Table2). Higher baseline CD4 count (β = 280 g LBM/100 CD4 cell increase, P < 0.001) and physical function score (β = 165 g LBM/10-point increase in physical function score, P < 0. 05) were associated with gain in LBM. Active injection drug use was associated with loss of LBM (β = −3,060 g LBM compared with nonusers,P < 0.002), as was the diagnosis of AIDS (−974 g LBM,P < 0.01). There was no relationship between ΔLBM and free testosterone concentration (β = 41 g LBM · pg−1 · ml−1,P < 0.3), age, energy or protein intake, viral load physical activity, HAART use, or race. In addition, there were no significant associations (nonlinear or linear) between cytokines and viral load or cytokines and CD4 count.
When the relationship between ΔLBM and TNF-α was plotted using a cubic spline analysis, the relationship was linear (P< 0.006, Fig.1 A). IL-1β (Fig. 1 B) also predicted ΔLBM in a linear (P < 0.003) manner. However, testosterone did not significantly predict ΔLBM (P = 0.3 and 0.64 for linear and nonlinear associations, respectively; Fig. 1 C). Moreover, we observed an inverse linear cross-sectional relationship between free testosterone concentration and TNF-α production (linear association P < 0.02, Fig.2 A). There was also a significant inverse linear association between free testosterone and IL-1β production (linear association, P = 0.02) in the spline analysis (Fig. 2 B).
In multiple linear regression (Table 3), there was a significant association between ΔLBM and TNF-α (β = −110 g LBM/ng, P < 0.02) after adjusting for covariates that were significantly associated with ΔLBM in bivariate analysis (CD4 count, IDU status, physical functioning, and AIDS status). There was also a comparable inverse association with IL-1β in a similar model (β = −110 g LBM · ng−1 · ml−1,P < 0.01, Table 3). In addition, there was an interaction between baseline percent body fat and IL-1β, but not TNF-α, in terms of the effect of subsequent loss of LBM: men with high body fat lost more LBM for each nanogram per milliliter of IL-1β produced by their PBMC, whereas men with low body fat were relatively protected from such loss. TNF-α and IL-1β were not included in a single model because of colinearity problems.
Predictors of change in REE.
In bivariate linear regression, change in REE was associated with TNF-α, IL-1β, baseline viral load, CD4 count, physical activity, physical functioning, HAART use, and IDU status (Table 2). In a multivariate linear regression model that contained cytokines and testosterone (n = 58 observations), TNF-α (P < 0.03) and testosterone (P < 0.05) were both associated with ΔREE after adjusting for viral load, CD4 count, physical functioning, HAART use, and IDU status (Table4). There was a trend toward an association between REE and viral load (P < 0.06). Significant interactions were found between TNF-α and testosterone, TNF-α and baseline REE, and also between testosterone and baseline REE in this model. IL-1β was not a significant predictor of change in REE in multivariate linear models.
Although the incidence of classical AIDS wasting was <2% in the cohort of men reported here, over one-third of patients lost ≥1 kg of LBM over an average follow-up of 8 mo, and loss of >5% of LBM occurred in 12% of the men. Loss of 5% of LBM is especially important because it has previously been shown to predict a poor outcome in studies of HIV-infected adults as well as in other populations (1, 2, 13, 31). In this study, we found that 23% of the patients lost ≥2 kg of weight over an average follow-up of 8 mo. These changes occurred in our patients even though 43% were taking HAART. These data are consistent with our previous report from the entire Nutrition for Healthy Living cohort (30), suggesting that our subgroup was representative of the entire study cohort.
The results of this study indicate that loss of LBM and rise in REE, the hallmarks of cachexia as we have previously defined it (22), persist even with aggressive antiretroviral therapy. Furthermore, these data indicate that the catabolic cytokines TNF-α and IL-1β, interacting with free testosterone, are important determinants of change in LBM and REE. In contrast to previous studies indicating that hypogonadism is common among patients with classical AIDS wasting, our data demonstrate a relatively lower prevalence of hypogonadism in the era of HAART. Whereas testosterone is an independent predictor of muscle mass in hypogonadal men with AIDS wasting (10), we found no independent effect of serum free testosterone on change in LBM or REE after adjusting for other variables in our largely eugonadal population of HIV-infected men. The inverse relationship between testosterone and cytokine production suggests that, in this population, testosterone may act as a modulator of the effect of TNF-α and IL-1β and not as a direct determinant of body composition or metabolic rate.
The relationship between PBMC production of TNF-α and IL-1β on the one hand and change in LBM and REE on the other parallels our previous findings in another cachectic condition, rheumatoid arthritis (24), but has not been demonstrated in HIV disease in the post-HAART era before. Only TNF-α promoted hypermetabolism (elevated REE), whereas both TNF-α and IL-1β were significantly associated with protein catabolism (loss of LBM). Although the effects are generally small, both the long duration of exposure to these cytokines in HIV infection and the potential for very high levels of production suggest that the cumulative effects of even small excesses in cytokine production over many months can be clinically significant. These associations were robust and persisted after adjusting for factors known to affect LBM, such as injection drug use, the presence of AIDS, and markers of viral load and CD4 status. Although TNF-α has been implicated in the development of lipodystrophy due to HIV infection and HAART exposure (15, 19), the present report is the first to show a link between PBMC production of TNF-α and IL-1β, and cachexia in weight-stable HIV-infected adults.
The epidemiological nature of this study, using nearly 200 observations, limited us to measuring PBMC cytokine production rather than performing muscle biopsies to examine cytokine levels at the target tissue. However, we have shown that PBMC cytokine production is more closely linked than are serum or plasma cytokines to metabolic disturbances in another catabolic disease, rheumatoid arthritis (24); similar data are now emerging in age-related sarcopenia (R. Roubenoff, unpublished observations). Moreover, in a subset of the present study, we have found that PBMC cytokine values discriminated between wasted and unwasted HIV-infected adults better than did serum cytokines (L. W. Abad, R. Parker, and R. Roubenoff, unpublished observations). PBMC, which are primarily monocytes and lymphocytes, are directly representative of the circulating component of the immune system and in HIV disease are depleted of CD4 cells in proportion to the patient's clinical status. Thus the PBMC compartment is a reasonable one in which to obtain a valid measure of the patient's propensity to produce catabolic cytokines. Because PBMC circulate throughout the body, they are capable of delivering catabolic signals to various organs, including the muscle and viscera. Furthermore, the outcomes of whole body metabolic changes, such as in REE and LBM, indicate that a whole body measure of immune function such as PBMC cytokine production be considered in preference to a localized measure in one organ.
The finding of an interaction between body fat and IL-1β production is a novel one and suggests that body fat can modulate the effect of cytokines on body composition in ways that have not been reported previously. It is not clear how fat can reduce the catabolic effect of IL-1β. Because fat cells can produce leptin, TNF-α, IL-6, and other cytokines, adipose tissue could directly modify IL-1β effects via its own cytokine secretion, which is not detected in assays of PBMC cytokine production (27). Alternatively, body fat may be a marker for genetic heterogeneity in cytokine expression or sensitivity (18) rather than a causative factor in its own right.
Interestingly, neither dietary energy nor protein intake predicted loss of LBM in this study. The mean reported intakes were 2,827 kcal/day and 107 g protein/day, which are well within recommended intakes for this population, even without allowance for underreporting (28). This finding is identical to the situation in rheumatoid arthritis and underlines our previous contention that cachexia, unlike wasting, is not a problem of inadequate intake but rather one of cytokine-driven altered metabolism that occurs even in the presence of adequate or even superadequate intake (22).
Several limitations of this study should be noted. First, we used BIA as our method of body composition assessment, and this method has limited precision (SEE of ∼2 kg), as we have documented elsewhere (20). However, the usefulness of BIA was maximized by use of population-specific BIA equations validated against DEXA (14). Although BIA is of limited utility in the evaluation of individuals, it is strongest when applied to a large population, as was the case here. We also did not use BIA to calculate smaller body composition compartments than LBM, to avoid the larger error that occurs in such situations.
Another important limitation is that we report only on men in this study, and these men had to have adequate venous access to permit the PBMC blood draw. This is unfortunate, but we had only 39 women in our sample and thus did not have power to detect any significant associations. Furthermore, there is greater error in the measurement of the low levels of free testosterone present in women, so that the relationship between testosterone and cytokine production is more difficult to detect. We are continuing to recruit and study women to achieve an adequate sample size and hope to be able to report on them in the future. The effect of selecting men with reasonable venous access would be to reduce the prevalence of long-term injection drug users. Because those patients are likely to have more severe cachexia and poor dietary intake, it is likely that their exclusion would bias the study results toward the null rather than account for the observed findings. However, short of performing arterial punctures, it is not practical to include these patients in relatively large studies of cell culture data such as this one.
In conclusion, this study shows for the first time that cachexia, separate from wasting, is a prevalent clinical problem in HIV-infected men, even in the era of HAART. In addition, the results of this study support the notion that cachexia is an immunologically driven process rather than a simple problem of inadequate intake. The continual presence of cachexia despite HAART treatment suggests that metabolic complications of HIV infection will continue in the future and that physicians should consider routine measurements of body composition even in patients whose virological status is under good control. This can be done using easily available clinical techniques such as anthropometry or bioelectrical impedance. Furthermore, specific anabolic therapy, either pharmacological or by use of exercise (5, 23), should be considered for treatment of patients who show evidence of loss of >5% of LBM, as this level of loss has been shown to increase mortality and complications in HIV-infected adults. Pharmacological therapy should be used with caution, however, because it may exacerbate insulin resistance and lipid abnormalities. In contrast, exercise is more likely to be beneficial without untoward side effects. The results of this study warn against a complacent attitude toward nutritional complications of HIV infection, even in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy.
We thank the nursing staff of the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) at New England Medical Center and Suzanne M. Melanson for assistance, and the study volunteers for their selflessness and good humor.
This study was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grants DK-45734 and DA-11598–02 and the Lifespan-Tufts-Brown Center for AIDS Research (P30 AI-42853) and through the GCRCs at New England Medical Center and Massachusetts General Hospital under NIH Grants M01-RR-00054 and M01-RR-01066.
Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: R. Roubenoff, Nutrition, Exercise Physiology and Sarcopenia Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA, Tufts University, 711 Washington St., Boston, MA 02111 (E-mail: roubenoff{at}hnrc.tufts.edu).
The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. The article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.
First published March 27, 2002;10.1152/ajpendo.00426.2001
- Copyright © 2002 the American Physiological Society


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On Friday, Senator Jason Rapert presented a resolution to the Legislative Council that Circuit Judge Chris Piazza abused his authority in ruling that Amendment 83 was unconstitutional. AANHR takes no position with respect to the merits of Judge Piazza's decision.
However, AANHR wonders where the outrage was when Circuit Judge Mike Maggio, of Faulkner County, in Senator Rapert's district, made derogatory comments on a blog regarding women, people of color and Arkansans in general.
Where was Sen. Rapert's outrage when evidence was presented that his predecessor in office, Gilbert Baker, orchestrated secret contributions from nursing home magnate Michael Morton to Judge Maggio's campaign while Judge Maggio was presiding over a lawsuit involving one of Mr. Morton's nursing homes?
Where was the outrage by Senator Rapert when public records demonstrated that, while these secret contributions were being made, Judge Maggio ordered that the judgment entered against Mr. Morton's nursing home be reduced by four million dollars?
Did Sen. Rapert take any action at all? No. Instead, Sen. Rapert accepted campaign contributions from Mr. Morton and his companies.
Sen. Rapert makes it a point to vocally support people and issues that he holds dear.
AANHR urges Sen. Rapert to stand up for the rights of our frail and elderly citizens who reside in the nursing homes throughout this state.
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|Rick Peckham, assistant chair of the guitar department at Berklee, outside the shuttered Daddy's on Mass. Ave. (david l. ryan/globe staff)
The gig is up for Daddy's
Surprise and sadness over the loss of a favorite musical instrument store
Strolling the neighborhood around Berklee College of Music at Boylston Street and Mass. Ave. this week, Rick Peckham pointed out where the instrument sales and repair shops used to be: LaSalle Music Inc., E.U. Wurlitzer Music & Sound, and Jack's Drum Shop. Cambridge Music Center and Boston Guitar Works also had locations nearby.
"The people that worked in those were not just salesmen, they were musicians who were involved in getting the lore across in a different way, a different way than it was at the music school, that's for sure,'' said Peckham, assistant chair of the guitar department at Berklee, where he's taught since 1986.
The sudden closing of the Daddy's Junky Music Stores last week removed the last major instrument shop in Berklee's neighborhood, where every third person seemed to be carrying an instrument case.
"That was the spot, because you'd run into everybody down there,'' said drummer Coley Rybicki of the North Shore-based Satch Kerans Band. He used to visit the area often but lately was a customer of Daddy's suburban locations. "I was heartbroken to see they closed.''
"If you can't make it with a music store across the street from Berklee, you're pretty much sunk,'' said Robert Schlink, an associate professor in the school's ensemble department, who was passing by.
Ironically, Berklee owns the building, where Daddy's also drew customers from the nearby Boston Conservatory and other schools. The Mass. Ave. location was the 12-store chain's busiest. The nearest retailer now is Rayburn Musical Instrument Company on Huntington Ave.
Statistics from the National Association of Music Merchants suggest the Daddy's closing is not part of a major trend, though; association membership has gone down only slightly in recent years, from 2,777 in FY2010 to 2,765 in FY2011.
"[Daddy's] closing is a little more abrupt and more unexpected than some mom-and-pop stand-alone store in Medford,'' said Christian Wissmuller, editor of Needham-based trade journal Musical Merchandise Review.
Wissmuller said the industry seems relatively stable after a lot of store closings in the early 2000s. Daddy's was actually the largest regional chain in a field now dominated by the national Guitar Center chain, he said. The decision to close several Daddy's locations earlier this year had "raised eyebrows,'' he said, but most believed the company would survive.
The closing came as a surprise even to Daddy's founder Fred Bramante.
"I am brokenhearted,'' an emotional Bramante said this week. "I had to tell all my employees, many of them with me for decades, that they didn't have a job anymore, and they didn't have health insurance. It was the hardest day in my life since the death of my dad.''
After 39 years, Daddy's faced a financial crunch that had roots both in the overall economic downturn and in the difficulty of competing with online marketers, he said.
"I built my business on the New Hampshire advantage,'' Bramante said, by opening his first stores in the state where there's no sales tax but close enough to Massachusetts to lure customers over the border. Now the tax-free Internet has the same advantage over bricks and mortar stores everywhere, he said.
"It is pulling huge revenue out of every state in the United States that has a sales tax. It is killing retail construction, and that's jobs, and it's killing retail stores, and that's jobs,'' Bramante, of Durham, N.H., said by phone.
Around Boylston and Mass. Ave., anyway, Berklee's Peckham said, personal relationships between musicians and salespeople led to good service and sometimes informal discounts. But as in many retail sectors, the business has changed, Peckham said.
"We're in an era now where somebody's going into a music store to check out what a model is . . . and they literally can order it on their smartphone while they're in the store and have it delivered to their house, while the person who actually 'sold' it to them doesn't get the sale,'' Peckham said.
Around Oct. 21, Daddy's received a $3 million default notice from its major creditor, GE Capital, Bramante said, and without the cash to pay, the chain closed its doors for good Oct. 26.
Debt was an ongoing issue lately, but Bramante and partner Chris Gleason had shaped a plan to pare expenses, he said. They expected their situation to improve with a busy Christmas season, and they had plenty of inventory on hand. "It didn't have to happen,'' he said.
Bramante opened the first store in Salem, N.H. in 1972, and the chain had 12 locations, including five in Massachusetts, as of the closing. He said more than 100 people lost their jobs when the stores closed, including at least 30 in Massachusetts.
Back in the 1990s, Andover teenager Scott Crawford saved up to buy a guitar from the Daddy's in Salem, N.H., a black Gibson SG like Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath plays. Living in Lowell now, Crawford is 30 and a new father, and he doesn't play that guitar much. But when his wife wanted to get him a DJ system with two turntables and a mixer for his birthday last month, she bought a $200 Numark model from Daddy's in Nashua, N.H., over the phone.
It didn't show up in time for his party, though, and last week the Crawfords learned that Daddy's had abruptly shut its doors.
"I'm not mad at Daddy's at all,'' Crawford insisted this week. "It stinks, the situation they're in. I am by no means an irate customer.''
Crawford is working with his bank to get his money back. Bramante said paid orders and items on layaway "are out of our hands,'' being controlled by GE along with the rest of the company's inventory.
As news of the closing spread, customers took to Daddy's Facebook page in hopes of answers. "I'm sitting in the parking lot of your New Britain store watching them load everything in a moving truck,'' a customer calling himself Joey Blow posted. "Can you please tell me how I can get my cabinet back from repair?''
But far more messages offered support and gratitude from longtime customers. "We're all guilty of the Internet shopping thing. . . . Let's remember to think local first. The Bramantes and their team are truly good people, I have faith they will do everything possible to do what's right,'' Michael Hoffman wrote.
Bramante says that instruments and equipment that were in for repair are being kept aside at the company's service department in Manchester, where he and a handful of remaining staffers are "feverishly working'' to contact customers and get their items back to them.
Gale Batsimm of Andover was worried about the fate of her 16-year-old son Connor's tenor sax, which they'd dropped off in Nashua for repair. But a Daddy's employee helped her out.
"I received a call on Friday at 2 p.m. that if I could get to Manchester to collect my sax by 4 p.m. I could have it, after that doors would be locked,'' Batsimm said via e-mail. "I zipped up there and am very grateful to the woman who helped us. She was there out of the goodness of her heart, since she was already out of a job. She said she had worked at Daddy's half her life and was very concerned for her customers that they get their instruments back, so had decided to come in to facilitate that effort.'' The instrument hadn't been fixed yet, but Batsimm was just grateful to have it back.
Drummer Rybicki said he'll miss Daddy's convenience and service. He lives in Danvers, near the Peabody store, and his day job is near the Burlington one. "I was kind of surrounded by them, which is a good thing,'' he said, because he could easily pick up drumsticks or a drum head that he needed for a gig at night.
Most musicians said they'd have to switch to the Guitar Center chain and remaining independent stores scattered around the metropolitan area. But Berklee students and staff who need their instruments repaired still have one shop in the immediate neighborhood.
Tucked between two storefronts used by Daddy's is the tiny, cluttered space at 163 Mass. Ave. that houses the Musical Instrument Service Center. Surrounded by gear and amplifiers in for repairs, staffers said they can't get much busier than they already are. Instrument tech Anthony Rizzotto said they are answering a lot more questions from misguided Daddy's customers who "want to know when they can pick up their guitars.''
In a way, the Mass. Ave. Daddy's store was still in the music business, even though the metal security grates had been pulled and the shelves were empty. Someone had taped a flier to the window in hopes of selling their Alvarez RD8 guitar for $225 or best offer.
The best place to go for information concerning Daddy's is its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/DaddysJunkyMusic.
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Box 13 was a syndicated radio series about the escapades of newspaperman-turned-mystery novelist Dan Holliday, played by film star Alan Ladd. Created by Ladd's company, Mayfair Productions, Box 13 premiered August 22, 1948, on Mutual's New York flagship, WOR, and aired in syndication on the East Coast from August 22, 1948, to August 14. 1949. On the West Coast, Box 13 was heard from March 15, 1948 to March 7, 1949.
To seek out new ideas for his fiction, Holliday ran a classified ad in the Star-Times newspaper where he formerly worked. "Adventure wanted, will go anywhere, do anything — Box 13." The stories followed Holliday's adventures when he responded to the letters sent to him by such people as a psycho killer and various victims.
Sylvia Picker appeared as Holliday's scatterbrained secretary, Suzy, while Edmund MacDonald played police Lt. Kling. Supporting cast members included Betty Lou Gerson, Frank Lovejoy, Lurene Tuttle, Alan Reed, Luis Van Rooten and John Beal. Vern Carstensen, who directed Box 13 for producer Richard Sanville, was also the show's announcer.
Among the 52 episodes in the series were such mystery adventures as "The Sad Night," "Hot Box," "Last Will And Nursery Rhyme," "Hare And Hounds," "Hunt And Peck," "Death Is A Doll," "Tempest In a Casserole" and "Mexican Maze." The dramas featured music by Rudy Schrager. Russell Hughes, who had previously hired Ladd as a radio actor in 1935 at a $19 weekly salary, wrote the scripts, sometimes in collaboration with Ladd. The partners in Mayfair Productions were Ladd and Bernie Joslin, who had previously run the chain of Mayfair Restaurants.
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Wrongfully Convicted Man Freed After Nearly Three Decades on Death Row
By Kathy Finn
NEW ORLEANS – A Louisiana man who has spent nearly three decades on death row walked free after prosecutors asked a judge to set aside his first-degree murder conviction and death sentence, citing new evidence in the case that exonerated him.
Glenn Ford, 64, a black man, was convicted by an all-white jury in the 1983 robbery and murder of Isadore Rozeman, a 56-year-old Shreveport watchmaker, who was found shot to death behind the counter of his jewelry shop.
Acting on new information that exonerated Ford, a judge in Shreveport ordered him released from Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, where he has been held on death row since March 1985.
"We are very pleased to see Glenn Ford finally exonerated, and we are particularly grateful that the prosecution and the court moved ahead so decisively to set Mr. Ford free," said Gary Clements and Aaron Novod, attorneys for Ford from the Capital Post Conviction Project of Louisiana.
Ford, a California native who did occasional yard work for Rozeman, was found guilty in 1984 and was sentenced to die by electrocution, then the state's method of execution.
For three decades, Ford has maintained his innocence and filed multiple appeals, most of which were denied.
But in 2000, the Louisiana Supreme Court ordered an evidentiary hearing on Ford's claim that the prosecution suppressed favorable evidence related to Jake and Henry Robinson, two brothers initially implicated in the crime.
According to the Shreveport Times, court records show that an unidentified informant in 2013 told prosecutors that Jake Robinson admitted to shooting and killing Rozeman.
Prosecutors filed a motion to vacate Ford's conviction and sentence, saying that in late 2013 "credible evidence" came to their attention "supporting a finding that Ford was neither present at, nor a participant in, the robbery and murder of Isadore Rozeman."


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It's been working quite well. Usually he never touches her during sex, just focuses on me while I focus on her. Neither of them have a problem with the statutory rape thing, and, of course, neither do I. However, this guy is an avid anti-drugger -- sort of a bent straight-edger -- and I am a heroin user and an occasional user of crystal meth. My girlfriend smokes pot and is perfectly fine with my drug usage because I am quite cautious about my needles. She's happy, he's happy, I'm happy.
But he has no idea about either of our habits. And I've grown rather fond of the fellow. I don't want to force him into approving drugs -- I'm a big hippie, and I accept that -- but I don't want him to leave simply because we (especially myself) are users. Should I just keep him in the dark, or should I tell him and hope for the best? I am quite certain he would be outraged about such a revelation, so I'm inclined to say nothing.
First, you are not a hippie. Heroin was never a hippie drug, it was a Hell's Angels drug, and when Hell's Angels weren't killing themselves with heroin, they were often out killing hippies with crowbars. Don't believe me? Go to a video store and rent Gimme Shelter. Nor were hippies -- men and women who sought to expand their minds through the use of mellowing psychedelic drugs -- all that fond of crystal meth. In fact, I can't recall a single reference to crystal meth in the movie Hair, the TV series Mod Squad, the radio program All Things Considered, or any of the other products of hippie drug culture.
So if you're not a hippie, what are you? You are an idiot. The drugs you're doing, young skank, are dangerous and, however careful you are with needles, sooner or later they're going to kill you. In the meantime, crystal is going to destroy your looks, make you smell bad, and make you intolerable to be around. Heroin is addictive, and once you're hooked, the high will wear off and you'll find yourself needing heroin fixes just to function normally. In other words, the high goes away, but the need for heroin remains. And when it does, you'll wind up selling your skanky ass to strangers for a fix. Don't believe me? Watch some Baretta reruns on cable, or go to Vancouver, British Columbia, and watch the addicts work Granville Avenue.
Okay, what should you do about your drug-phobic, statutory-rapist fuck buddy? Well, I'd say that like any good hippie you should be open, honest, loyal, brave, and true. Tell him what the holes in your arm are all about, and give him the option of staying or going. You say you have feelings for this guy, and if that's the case, you owe him the truth. If that's not the case, well, then you might as well go ahead and steal his stereo and TV set now.
I'm a hetero male who has season tickets to pro football games, and I tailgate before and after the games. At several recent games, I've talked to a very gregarious couple. The wife is hot! And it turns out she is hot for me! They told me they are swingers, and that she would like to suck me off while he watches. At the last tailgate party they upped the ante. They have offered to sponsor me at a party at their swing club. This is a great privilege since single males are not often admitted to these parties.
I know the possibility of STDs being transmitted at these events are higher than in most other settings, even though these people say they and their friends are clean. There is no question that I would keep my cock sheathed during intercourse, but I am worried about her or other women giving me blowjobs, since I prefer those condomless. What are the risks there? Because I wouldn't be licking pussy, I hope to reciprocate in some cases by offering to masturbate my temporary partners or by the use of my massage skills. Whaddaya think? In your mind, do the advantages of orgiastic sex outweigh the risks here?
Should I Swing?
If all you're doing is getting blowjobs, the risks of contracting a serious STD -- like, say, HIV -- are extremely low. If you avoid eating pussy (and sucking cock), and wear a condom when you bang away at any holes, you should be fine.
I've been going out with a great guy for two years. I know he's got a thing for lesbians -- which I have no problem with. I would like to have a threesome with him and another girl, but I don't want him to be getting it on with another chick. I want to get it on with her, but I don't want him to. I want to him to watch, or he can touch me (of course!) while I touch her. Am I being weird, or is this okay?
Just Wondering
Yes, you're being weird, and yes, it's okay to be weird. When a couple invites a third in to play, what makes their three-way successful is complete honesty between the two primary partners. You have to lay out for each other exactly what you're comfortable with, and if you can't come to terms -- if you can't agree to each other's ground rules -- then you shouldn't have a three-way.
Tell your boy- friend you want to make it with another girl while he's there, but that he can only look, not touch. If he can't agree to keep his hands to himself (or to you), then tell him you won't have a three-way with him. Knowing straight boys as well as I do, I'm going to go out on a limb and predict he'll quick- ly agree to your terms. If you're worried that he'll attempt to touch the other girl once the three-way is underway, then I'd suggest you strap him to the bed and have sex right on top of him with this other girl.
Or, if that's too extreme, get him to agree to do only as he's told during the three-way. He can only touch, lick, suck, and penetrate when -- and what -- you tell him to. Then, in the middle of the action, if you decide you'd like to see him do more than watch, you can tell him to do just as much as you're comfortable with -- and no more. If you're in complete control of the action, you may find yourself wanting him to go places and do things you may not have thought you would before your three-way got underway.


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Copy and Paste Utility Application.
Easily paste set phrases or words.
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