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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Anyway, reading through that thread, it hit me. Every bite counts. EVERY. Now, maybe this sounds obvious, but how many times have I gotten up, started a healthy eating day, and then at lunch "slipped up" and had pizza? Then I would tell myself, "oh well, I ruined my day, so I may as well have candy bars and burgers and fries for dinner and start over fresh tomorrow." Isn't that something a LOT of people are in the habit of doing? We look at our eating aka "diet" in terms of a UNIT. One good day (eating the right number of points or calories or whatever your plan is) is a Unit of Success, and a Bad Day (eating over your limit, not counting calories, eating junk) is a Unit of Failure. Sometimes we even try to string days together, as in "I will start on Monday" or the first of the month or after Christmas or whatever, which is an excuse to eat badly and not count anything until we "start again" on that special date.
WHO came up with this idea??? Why is a "DAY" the unit of success or failure?? Who decided that if you eat badly for lunch, you can just eat whatever you want for the rest of the day and start over in the morning? It's as if we think that "one bad day" is a single unit of failure, whether we ate 2000 or 5000 calories, it's the same because it is just ONE bad day. It makes no sense!! EVERY BITE COUNTS, people, whether you eat a Hershey bar on a "bad" day because you are bingeing or eat it on a "good" day and add it into your calorie count, it is STILL 210 calories going into your body. You HAVE to stop looking at it as good and bad days. It is your LIFE.
What I mean is this. Say you are aiming to eat 1500 calories per day to lose weight (substitute WW points or whatever other unit or plan you are using). Now, say your week looks like this:
Monday: 1500
Tuesday: 1470
Wednesday: 1460
Thursday: 1520
Friday: 1460
Saturday: 3200
Sunday: 2900
You slipped up on Saturday and told yourself you would start over on Monday. You had only 2 bad days. But now you have eaten 13,510 calories for the week which averages out to 1910 per day... way over your limit. And you wonder why you haven't lost weight. Because every bite counts, and the unit is not a day, or even a week. It is a lifetime. When you eat something you shouldn't have, it's over. Stop, and eat right from that very moment on. Have a healthy dinner. Keep going. A bad meal is way better than a whole bad weekend.
You want a cheat day? Every bite you take counts, because it still goes into your body, counted or not. Every bite either helps you get closer to your goal or slows you down from reaching it. So the question becomes, how badly do you want it? Do you want to lose weight more than you want that cookie? Then put it down. Every time you eat something unhealthy or go over your calorie limit, you are effectively putting a speed bump... or even a roadblock... in between you and your goal. Every bite you take determines whether you will reach your goal weight in 6 months, 12 months, 3 years, or never. What do you REALLY want?
Most of this, I am saying to myself. I have been acting like I have all the time in the world, and one more day eating poorly won't matter. I can always start over. But I spent a decade of my life doing that, and I wasted a lot of years being fat and tired. I missed out and I can never get my 20's and 30's back. Never. I am certainly not going to miss out on my 40's too, just because I want some cheese right now.
EVERY calorie counts, and I am going to treat this Escape from Obesity with the attention and determination it deserves. I want progress, and I don't want to eat one more bite that is going to hinder that progress.
As that thread stated, we all have favorite foods that bring us enjoyment in life, and we don't have to ban them all. But is an Oreo REALLY your favorite thing? Is a greasy Pizza Hut pizza your favorite thing? Think about it. Pick your favorites that you REALLY enjoy, and then say no to the other junk. And fit your indulgences into your plan if you like. But remember that IT COUNTS. And if you eat a bunch of junk today, it counts, and if you add up all the calories you eat in a year, that determines your weight loss or gain for the year. Just remember that, and take a second to decide if that bite is really worth it or not.
Today's meals:
Breakfast: oatmeal with walnuts and pumpkin butter, 2 mugs of hot tea
Snack: 3 oz chicken breast, hot white tea
Lunch: cup of curried red lentil soup, baked Carnival squash with a tsp of butter and cinnamon
Snack: hot tea, Kashi flax pumpkin bar
Dinner: still figuring this out! Something warm that the kids will like. Maybe chili mac, or tuna noodle casserole, or skillet lasagna.
I really want this weight off. I think I lost my vision a bit over the summer, but I am ready now.
28 comments:
- Thinking Thin said...
In the past, I was one of those people that if I had a bad day, I threw the towel in for the week and started over on Monday (maybe). That thinking is long gone. If I have a bad day, I have a bad day. I work harder the next day. I have no such thing as a cheat day. If I want something, I eat it. I may not eat as much of it. I count the points for it (I am on WW). I may have to skip dinner for it or scrimp for dinner but if I want something, I know I can have it but I also know that I have to pay the consequences for my choices. I used to believe in "bad foods". I no longer believe in that other than trying to stay away from just unhealthy foods in general. Everything is bad for you if not in moderation. Carrots can be bad for you if you eat too many. Ask my mother. She had a rough couple of days :).
The day that it finally clicked that one bad day didn't have to equal a bad week, was a blessing for me. It just took most of my 36 years to get there.
- October 28, 2008 at 1:14 PM
- Thinking Thin said...
...and Lyn you will get there. We have a great deal in common. About the same weight, I am guessing about the same age and am assuming overweight most of our lives. Stick with me kid. We will both get there!
- October 28, 2008 at 1:16 PM
- Thinking Thin said...
Oh heck, now I am stalking your blog..hehe I need to read better. You started at about my current weight ..so you have already done an awesome job :). I am having a blonde moment, forgive me.
You will still get there..hehe
- October 28, 2008 at 1:18 PM
- new*me said...
sounds like a very healthy day. I think the key for me is to not be totally deprived of anything. So, if there is a cheesecake at a function, I will allow myself a few bites of hubby's or a couple bites of a pb cup now and then. I get that for some people, this is not possible. I feel that if I eat right most of the time, a bite here and there (not every hour ;)....) won't put a pound on. Eating healthy MOST of the time....99 percent of the time in my case or so that is my goal....is really important.
I can hear the determination here in Kansas!!! You have this Lyn!
- October 28, 2008 at 1:27 PM
- ~TMcGee~ said...
So very true! I know many are successful with planned "cheat" days" but I would turn it into a cheat month (like I did just recently). I believe you had one of Oprah's "aha!" moments. lol Keep up the good work, this journey may be long but the valuable things I am learning from bloggers like you is priceless.
- October 28, 2008 at 2:26 PM
- Ceres said...
Heh, you're so right! That's why snacking is evil when done thoughtlessly. You think you're eating 100 calories worth of stuff, and then if you actually sit down and think and calculate, you might have eaten 200 calories or more, so no wonder the number on the scale is not what you were expecting. I think that this thought is why calorie-counting works for me. It makes me accountable to myself, and it helps me realize exactly how much I'm really eating.
- October 28, 2008 at 4:36 PM
- Kimberly said...
Hi. I've been lurking on your blog for a while now but today's post really hit home. This is something that I have recently come to terms with - having a bad day does not wreck the entire journey. If I stumble, I can always start anew tomorrow. And I do! It really is quite freeing to let myself off the hook.
I do have cheat days every week. Although my definition is a bit different. I never actually consume more calories than I should. I simply eat the entire range of points I am allowed on WW instead of sticking to the just over half of my points I allow myself during the work week. It works too. I never feel like I am stuck in diet hell. I know that on the weekends I can have one very good meal filled with foods I would crave like mad if I couldn't have them because they weren't on my "diet".
- October 28, 2008 at 4:55 PM
- Lauren said...
Such a great post. I am trying to figure out which foods trigger me and which foods don't at this point, and it's tough because it kind of wars with what I WANT but you are so right, every bite does count. And I think you are doing great. I've been hovering at 275 because of my food choices on the weekend primarily.
- October 28, 2008 at 5:35 PM
- Tony said...
Wow, this post speaks to the heart. I use to have cheat days and they would turn into cheat weekends so I stopped them all together. I use to think that screwing up once during the day meant that I should just throw in the towel and start over the next day, but not anymore. Now, if I screw up, I make sure to work my butt off to reverse the damage. It's ok to eat what you want to eat, just in moderation. That's what it's all about really.
- October 28, 2008 at 7:08 PM
I actually am pro-cheat day. I do it every time I reach a midpoint of the next tenth increment of my weight (e.g., 215, 205, 195, etc.). However, I make sure it is just one day, and the weekly average comes out just fine because I don't have a cheat day every week, and I ensure that I limit it only to ONE day. I also like that I make it based on my weight not the week. Also, by waiting until the midpoint, I know that after the cheat day, I will still be in the same weight range I was before the day.
Another plus of cheat days is how many revelations you experience during and after it. I have realized, for example, that the reason dieting is so hard (among other reasons) is because it feels like a loss of freedom to eat whatever you want. Another realization that resulted out of having cheat days was my ability to be more discriminant with the "bad" food choices I made. Before I started this journey, I would just eat anywhere. Now, I am very careful about where I want to go (like what you were stating in your entry). For instance, I wouldn't dare go to Schlotzsky's or Applebee's for my "bad" meal haha. I have to pick a place with foods I have been obsessing about for days or weeks. The last revelation deals with how those "bad" foods feel in my body by the end of the day. While they taste delicious, they make you feel heavy and greasy and even make me CRAVE my healthy foods. My body is good about telling me to eat pure and clean the next day haha. My body doesn't like those foods anymore, but my mind and taste buds do. I love my cheat days. It keeps me motivated, and since May of this year, I have lost 90 pounds so far doing this.
I write all of this to say that having cheat days depends on the person. If you don't feel you're strong enough to get back on track the very next day, then no, you shouldn't do it. If you think you can handle it, then do it! I like that it keeps me looking forward to a certain weight not only for the number but also for the treat or reward. Do what is best for you, no matter what.
- October 28, 2008 at 7:54 PM
- bbubblyb said...
I allow myself a cheat meal a week. It's almost always on Friday at lunch with a few coworkers. I do count the calories for it and it usually balances out. I think planning for something does help but like you said it still has to be counted. I agree too that this is for life so we have to figure it out to where we can still enjoy our favorite foods once in awhile but also keep ourselves on track. It's all in the thinking.
- October 28, 2008 at 9:10 PM
I rebel if I restrict my food too much, so I try to eat healthy most of the time. Maybe I'm more of the 90/10% kind of person, every other day or two I eat something that you wouldn't expect a dieter to eat. Ice cream cone, pizza, beer, burrito, bacon burger, what have you. I'm actually getting to the point where I eat when I'm hungry, so if I eat a burrito for lunch, I probably will still be full at dinner, so I'll just eat a green salad, or some fruit. I think it balances out, and I'm losing slowly, but not losing my mind.
- October 28, 2008 at 9:41 PM
- Hanlie said...
I believe you've got the right idea here... Every bite does count. And often we are just brainwashed as to which foods taste better than others. We can train our tastebuds to enjoy healthier foods and after a while they can become our favorite foods. I believe in you!
- October 29, 2008 at 1:23 AM
- Skinny Inside said...
Excellent post! I've usually thought of myself as one of those who cannot handle a cheat meal~ being it turns into a cheat day, week, month. I've always thought of it as the carb addict in me, but I'm beginning to realize its more. I really want to stop living a fear based (including fear of carbs) life!
- October 29, 2008 at 2:10 AM
- Vickie said...
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- October 29, 2008 at 2:40 AM
- Vickie said...
The delete was me.
Let me try again.
I have been all the way around this topic and back again in my own life.
In my opinion - if the cheat event (be it one serving, one meal, or one day) does NOT trigger more cheat events - then I think it can be successfully incorporated into ones life.
If the cheat event DOES trigger more cheat events - then in my opinion - The cheat event is the addict brain trying to talk the addict into feeding the addiction.
- October 29, 2008 at 2:44 AM
- moonduster said...
This is so true! I had two days last week when I went over my calories, but they weren't cheat days as I made sure to not go over by much (100 calories on one day and 200 on another), and I exercised extra to make up for the extra calories.
I still gained half a pound that week, but I am pregnant and have only 3 weeks of pregnancy to go, so I see it as a successful week, no matter how much I would have liked to have seen another loss on the scale.
- October 29, 2008 at 4:00 AM
- LissaLee said...
Hi Lyn
Another insightful post, thank you. I find that this post comes as a pivotal time in my weight loss journey becauase, as it turns out, I picked the wrong plan. I dedicated my month of october to a plan that didn't work, and everytime it didn't work I said "I'm starting tomorrow... after this pint of ice cream, after this oatmeal cookie, after this XXXX" and because of that, I regained the 6 lbs that I was so proud of losing in the first place. Oh binge eating, you are not fickle in the least. I tell you, lately I have been saying to myself "there is nothing that bingeing will not take away from me." I have been thinking about how bingeing can rob me of everything, like any addition, like any other eating disorder. It pains me to think of all I have to lose, especially since I just met someone and I suspect it could be serious. So, I am trying again. New plan was posted and I am working VERY hard to directly target emotional eating. I just needed to put that out there. Keep up your great work, Lyn, obviously people find you very inspiring and I can't help but feel that maybe we are in the same boat:)
- October 29, 2008 at 5:38 AM
- Nancy said...
Lyn - What a great post! I had a revelation this past Monday when I came off a weekend that was supposed to include one "cheat" meal and it turned into a "cheat" weekend. Your chart of how those weekend calories boosted the daily average to 1900 was very enlightening. I am NOT doing any more cheat meals. If I start craving something in particular, I'm going to plan ahead and figure the calories into my totals.
Thanks for your blog . . . it's going on my daily list.
- October 29, 2008 at 6:35 AM
- JC said...
Just came over from Once Upon A Diet. Great site you have here. I love your pictures. I post my first after I had lost 60 and my next after 72 but they are both of my backside. Looking forward to trying some of your recipes esp. Butternut squash M & C. Great post.
- October 29, 2008 at 1:06 PM
As usual Lynn, you managed to write about something I've been thinking about, and to express it more clearly and eloquently.
I can't imagine life in a constant state of deprivation. I try to differentiate between "cheats" and "treats".
Treats are planned, and limited in quantity. (One cookie is a treat, a box of cookies is a cheat.) Treats are fully enjoyed!
Cheats are unplanned, the quantity is usually excessive. (Not just more calories than usual, but more than a "normal healthy person" would consider a reasonable portion. For me cheats have limited pleasure, they often start with a positive feeling, but end up with a sick feeling. I can even start to eat as punishment. (You took this now you have to finish it.)
Obviously, to lose weight treats have to be limited, not the substance of daily eating.
- October 29, 2008 at 4:03 PM
- Heather said...
great post! I myself dont do cheat days...I dont really ever feel that I have to cheat. sure I have events where I eat off plan, but I dont considering it cheating..I consider it life. things happen and you will over eat. it doesnt have to be this huge planned thing. to me, if someone feels they have to cheat, then they should really look at what they are doing and why they feel they need to cheat. my plan works perfectly for me and I think thats why I dont feel like I need to cheat. sure i have cravings and I do indulge in them from time to time, but in general, im happy with what I eat every day and when you feel that way, you dont see the point in cheating.
- October 29, 2008 at 6:51 PM
- kilax said...
I agree with you so much - it ALL counts, ALL the time. We should try to make smart, moderate decisions every day!
- October 29, 2008 at 7:44 PM
- Shauna said...
beautifully said! :)
(btw... your oatmeal with walnuts and pumpkin sounds SO good!)
- October 30, 2008 at 4:24 AM
- Jen said...
I'm like the other post on weight watchers. I have my daily points and an extra amount that I can divide up and add to my daily, or use them up all at once. So I use them as my splurge meal. It keeps me sane, knowing if I am craving something I can eat them at this meal. It works for me. But it is only one meal, not a whole day. Not to mention, I know when I feel gross after I over-do it. I am hopefully learning, even on that meal to stop before I am uncomfortable. Thanks for the post, it made me evaluate myself which is always good to do.
- October 30, 2008 at 9:26 PM
I folled a link from The ELFF diet to read this and I'm so glad I did. I've been slowly losing weight-but have been stuck at 18 pounds and have seen a couple pounds go back on recently. I'm doing exactly what you said-allowing myself a treat and then another and then another. Thank you so much for sharing this. Keep up the great work!!!
- October 31, 2008 at 3:58 PM
- Laura Jane said...
I think this is so true and so well said. It's something I've struggled with a lot.
- November 2, 2008 at 5:23 AM
Instead of looking at a day as a unit, I look at each meal or snack as a unit. If I mess up and eat too much for one meal or snack, it is a unit unto itself. I determine to eat right for the very next meal or snack.
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- Opinion
- Open Access
Why didn't Darwin discover Mendel's laws?
- Jonathan C Howard1Email author
© BioMed Central Ltd. 2009
- Published: 24 February 2009
Darwin's focus on small quantitative variations as the raw material of evolution may have prevented him from discovering the laws of inheritance.
- Floral Morphology
- Unit Character
- Discontinuous Variation
- Hopeful Monster
- Floral Type
There is a plausible answer to this question that has a very long reach, far into the 20th century, namely Darwin's commitment to quantitative variation as the raw material of evolution. There were surely also other contributing issues that turned him away from the kind of investigations that would have led him to the answer. One was that inheritance as such was really not a controversial issue. Even though he needed inheritance as a key player in the theory of evolution by natural selection ("Any variation which is not inherited is unimportant for us" [3] p12) he could appeal to the general belief system, which upheld the constancy of species, while at a more professional level he asserted "No breeder doubts how strong is the tendency to inheritance: that like produces like is his fundamental belief" ([3] p12) and he summarizes his position with "perhaps the correct way of viewing the whole subject would be, to look at the inheritance of whatever character as the rule, and non-inheritance as the anomaly" ([3] p13). Thus, in a sense, the heritability of a character could be treated as a given for the purposes of the general exposition of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Pigeons and snapdragons
What, if it wasn't genetics, was Darwin doing in his study The Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom [4]? His overriding purpose was to establish that progeny produced by self-fertilization are less thrifty than the products of cross-fertilization. He rightly concentrated his analysis not on unit characters, but on the quantitative characters that fitted better with his concept of differential fitness, the attributes that, by their infinitesimal differences, determine life and death in the wild. So Darwin counted seeds, weighed and measured them, planted them and looked for their vitality. He measured growth and general thriftiness in his self-fertilized and cross-fertilized progeny. Everything he measured was a quantitative variable that under these simple experimental conditions could yield no information about inheritance at all. His experiments are overwhelming in scale and scope; they established the point that he wanted to establish beyond all doubt, but they contributed nothing relevant to our understanding of the underlying logic of inheritance.
The forms of flowers
Obviously Darwin was not on the right wavelength to be able to use inheritance data from crosses involving unit characters. Why not? The material was there and the problem of inheritance was patently unsolved and important. Much has been written, and with justice, of Mendel's extraordinary preadaptation to solving the problem he so precisely set himself: his mathematical bent, and his education in biology, physics, statistics and probability theory [7] that was far superior to anything Darwin could have got in a British university. Even if Darwin had decided to press on with his Antirrhinum or Primula studies he perhaps would not have seen through the stochasticity of the experimental results to the whole numbers that were waiting to be discovered. The explanation, though, for why Darwin turned away from the inheritance of unit characters as a possible route to resolving the general inheritance problem was simply that he did not believe that such characters had anything to do with the kind of variations that he thought were the raw materials of evolutionary change. Such qualitative and striking variations he characterized as 'sports'. They might be useful for the breeders of fancy plants and animals, but although artificial selection of such anomalous variants could provide an analogy to evolution by natural selection, this was not the real thing. Again and again, when Darwin wrote generally about evolution, he came back to one issue, the infinitely tiny differences between individuals that confer infinitesimal advantages or disadvantages in the interminable struggle for existence. The selection of these variants, continued over hundreds of thousands of generations, was the critical process in evolution. These were the variations, and this was the inheritance, that mattered. This view of biology was uniquely Darwin's and one he took over wholesale from Charles Lyell's uniformitarian geology during and after the Beagle voyage. Indeed this was by far the strongest, most important, and heuristically most productive of all the influences Darwin was subject to ("I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain" [8]). Uniformity of small actions over long time gave Darwin much of his geology and above all his exquisite theory of coral reefs. It also gave him evolution.
Darwin's commitment to the finest possible grain of quantitative variation is so explicit in his writing that it is impossible to doubt its importance for him. One can find dozens of passages like the last sentence of Darwin's early sketch [9]: "There is a simple grandeur in this view of life... having been breathed into matter under a few forms, perhaps only one,... and that from so simple an origin, through the selection of infinitesimal varieties, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been evolved", or "If selection consisted merely in separating some very distinct variety, and breeding from it, the principle would be so obvious as hardly to be worth notice; but its importance consists in the great effect produced by the accumulation in one direction, during successive generations, of differences absolutely inappreciable to the uneducated eye – differences which I for one have vainly attempted to appreciate" ([3] p32), or "It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinising, throughout the world, every variation, even the slightest: rejecting that which is bad, preserving and adding up all that is good" ([3] p84), or, lastly, "Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish belief in the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure." ([3] p95).
Quantitative variation, then, was at the heart of Darwin's evolution, and quantitative variation is the last place where clean Mendelian inheritance can be seen, Look at the difficulties! All quantitative variation is determined by multiple allelic systems of small effect. Furthermore, quantitative variation shows the greatest sensitivity to environmental variables. Finally, many characters that show complex quantitative inheritance are also subject to genetically determined adaptability, such as skin color or muscle mass. This last was indeed Darwin's undoing when he attempted to construct a general theory of variation and inheritance, the 'Provisional Hypothesis of Pangenesis' ([1], Chapter XXVII). It was responsible for his persistent belief in the inheritance of acquired characters and determined much of the design of the pangenesis theory.
When he embarked on the 'Provisional Hypothesis of Pangenesis' [1] it was the behavior of continuously variable characters that Darwin set out to account for. This widely unloved hypothesis was a great favorite of Darwin's and the only time when he ventured into the domains we would now call cell biology and biochemistry. Hampered already by his focus on quantitative variation and, like most British biologists, unconvinced by the contemporary German triumph of cell theory, Darwin was in no position to get it right. He conceived of tiny self-replicating determinants representing all characters at the finest possible level of discrimination. If an organ looks thus, so its pangenetic representation will be such as to determine such an appearance. If an organ is large, small, long, or short, each characteristic parameter can be measured by the number of pangenes that determine it. Inheritance of such a character follows from the collection, according to exact proportional representation, of all possible pangenes from all parts of the body into the germ cells; a heavier muscle, then more pangenes for each relevant component, and a higher representation of each in the germ cells. Every aspect of phenotype was covered by appropriate pangenes, even the left and right halves of the body were separately determined.
Much of Darwin's representation of the pangenesis hypothesis concerns measurable quantitative characters, such as muscle mass, for which it was straightforward to relate variations in some parameter, such as size or weight, with the number of the relevant pangenes. Obsessed as he was by the infinitesimal character of variation, Darwin took a lot of trouble to convince his readers that pangenes were so extremely small that all necessary pangenes would fit into the critical smallest compartment, namely the germ cells. Even here, Darwin was far less confident than Mendel that one sperm and one egg constituted the essential minimum. Nevertheless, supported by a calculation from his mathematically gifted son George, Darwin convinced himself that molecular sizes were tiny enough for him to pack all the pangenes he needed into the compass of a single fertilized egg or sperm.
One can follow the internal logic of pangenesis and see that it is preadapted to be a theory of continuous, not discontinuous, variation. Saddled with his infinitesimal variations, Darwin was driven by the pangenesis theory in a direction he never seems to have been totally averse from, namely the inheritance of acquired characters. If the adaptability of the soma generated adaptive change, as the blacksmith's muscles, so more muscle pangenes were needed to account for the extra muscles and would consequently be overrepresented in the germ cells. Darwin's view of inherited variation was complex, and the inheritance of acquired characters was only one strand in an unresolved tangle of ideas. But it dominates the pangenesis hypothesis and one may suppose that Darwin's (largely unshared) affection for his own hypothesis was responsible for a trend, noted by many commentators, towards favoring the significance of this kind of evolutionary change in the later editions of The Origin of Species. Unlike the great bulk of Darwin's original ideas, pangenesis, published in 1868 [1], is a latecomer, not foreshadowed in his earlier notebooks and essays.
From Galton and Bateson to Gould
Darwin is occasionally criticized as an imprecise, non-numeric naturalist, a man of ideas, perhaps brilliant and original in that mode, but not a scientist like those of today. Indeed I am sure I have heard this view from eminent members of my own institute. Mendel's rational, experimental analysis of the inheritance of unit characters is without question a work of great genius. One reads it still with the same sense of breathless excitement, of irresistible intellectual force and forward propulsion that one experiences, for example, from the extraordinary Nature paper by Crick, Brenner, Barnett and Watts-Tobin on the encoding of proteins [10]. However, if Darwin failed to discover Mendel's laws, it was not so much because of what he lacked in genius or numeracy or the experimental cast of mind, but rather because of the forceful tendency of what he already possessed. His focus on continuous variation as the source of evolutionary change was not wrong, and coupled with the power he could see in the integration of infinitesimals over time he built his case on the solid foundation of Lyell's uniformitarian thinking. Much of variation and inheritance was simply opaque in those terms, but continuous variation, not unit characters, was, for Darwin, the way forward. Thus Darwin boxed himself in, unable to see the laws of inheritance in continuous variation, unable to see the real importance of discontinuous variation where the laws of inheritance could be discerned.
Galton died in 1911, a full decade after the multiple republications of Mendel's paper and multiple reiterations of his findings by other authors. It is surprising that Galton in his old age did not take the opportunity, which he of all geneticists of that era was qualified to take, to reconcile the Mendelian laws of inheritance with Darwin's (and his own) priority for continuous variation as the fuel of evolutionary change. In the event, most of Galton's contemporaries largely abandoned Darwin's view in favor of mutations of large effect as the driving force for evolutionary change. William Bateson, in his 1894 Materials for the Study of Variation [11], had already backed large-scale discontinuous variation as the basis for evolution and the origin of species, "for if distinct and 'perfect' varieties may come into existence discontinuously, may not the Discontinuity of Species have had a similar origin? If we accept the postulate of Common Descent this expectation is hard to resist. In accepting that postulate it was admitted that the definiteness and Discontinuity of Species depends upon the greater permanence of certain terms in the series of Descent. The evidence of Variation suggests that this greater stability depends primarily not on a relation between organism and environment, not, that is to say, on Adaptation, but on the Discontinuity of Variation. It suggests, in brief, that the Discontinuity of Species results from the Discontinuity of Variation." Elsewhere, the sneering tone of Bateson's concluding remarks on adherents of the Darwinian view suggests the ill-humor that accompanied this debate right through until the late 1920s, when Fisher, Haldane, Sewall Wright and others reconciled Mendelism with continuous variation (reviewed in [12]). Hugo de Vries, whose own studies of discontinuous variation led him to the rediscovery of Mendel, also argued [13] for variation of large effect as the driving force in evolution, and even as late as the 1930s this strand of thought was still prominent in Richard Goldschmidt's 'hopeful monsters' [14]. The old dichotomy between continuous and discontinuous variation as the engines of evolution surfaced again in a slightly different form in our own generation through the polemic of Niles Eldredge and Stephen J Gould for evolution by punctuated equilibrium [15]. No doubt we shall see it again.
I thank Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen) for encouragement to write this piece, Enrico Coen (John Innes Centre, Norwich) for the picture of the wild-type and peloric Antirrhinum flowers, and Thiago Carvalho (Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Lisbon) for drawing my attention to the Darwin letter cited as reference [6].
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- Darwin CR: The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. 1859, London: John MurrayGoogle Scholar
- Darwin CR: The Effects of Cross and Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom. 1876, London: John MurrayGoogle Scholar
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- Darwin CR: Charles Darwin's Essay of 1844. Edited by: de Beer G. 1958, Cambridge: Cambridge University PressGoogle Scholar
- Crick FH, Barnett L, Brenner S, Watts-Tobin RJ: General nature of the genetic code for proteins. Nature. 1961, 192: 1227-1232. 10.1038/1921227a0.PubMedView ArticleGoogle Scholar
- Bateson W: Materials for the Study of Variation. 1894, London: MacmillanGoogle Scholar
- Huxley JS: Evolution, the Modern Synthesis. 1942, London: George Allen and UnwinGoogle Scholar
- De Vries H: Die Mutationstheorie. 1901, Leipzig: VeitGoogle Scholar
- Goldschmidt RB: The Material Basis of Evolution. 1940, New Haven: Yale University PressGoogle Scholar
- Eldredge N, Gould SJ: Punctuated equilibria: an alternative to phyletic gradualism. Models in Paleobiology. Edited by: Schopf TJM. 1972, San Francisco: Freeman, Cooper and Company, 82-115.Google Scholar
- Bateson W: Mendels Vererbungstheorien. 1914, Leipzig and Berlin: B.G. TeubnerGoogle Scholar
- Pearson K: The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton. 1924, London: Cambridge University Press, 2:Google Scholar


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FIA has no plans to investigate Spa clash
The FIA has confirmed it is not planning to launch an investigation into the collision between Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton at the Belgian Grand Prix.
The accident occurred on the second lap of the race as Rosberg clipped the rear of Hamilton's Mercedes, causing a puncture. The stewards decided not to investigate the contact at the time, classifying it as a racing incident.
However, after the race Hamilton claimed Rosberg had admitted to causing the contact on purpose during a team meeting after the race. Team boss Toto Wolff, who was also in the meeting, denied the contact was deliberate but admitted Rosberg was trying to "make a point".
By the time the content of the meeting had been revealed to the press, the results had been made official by the stewards. On Monday, the FIA confirmed that it would not consider reviewing the results unless new information was officially submitted to the governing body.
"The FIA will not intervene in this issue," FIA communications boss Pierre Regent confirmed to the Daily Mail. "Only a 'new element' that would have appeared after the results became final could justify us opening an investigation. A comment alleged to have been made in an internal briefing and later denied by the team itself does not constitute such a 'new element'."
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One thing that it might mean is an opportunity for government departments to change the way they deal with their IT suppliers. Recently (ie during the Labour administration we had since 1997 until 2010), it hasn't gone well.
- Accenture build a system for the RPA: not fit for purpose, £46.5 million overspend
- BT, Fujitsu and others build NPfIT for the NHS: not fit for purpose, £10.4 billion (with a "b") overspend
- Fujitsu build an information system for magistrates courts: £342 million overspend
- Cap Gemini build PRISM for the FCO: not fit for purpose, £34.5 million overspend
And so on. It has been estimated that the ten worst IT project failures under Labour cost the country around £26 billion. That's half the annual budget for schools.
So, a new government setting out to tame a spectacular deficit might want to bring these projects under control. Unfortunately, they get their advice from places such as Fujitsu, the very firms who do so well form these failed projects. Says Fujitsu's marketing director Simon Carter of discussions held with the Conservatives when they were still the shadow cabinet:
[the Conservatives] began to take on some of our suggestions, as they came to better understand government IT. For example, their proposal to cut IT contracts into smaller and shorter chunks was dropped as they realised they would have to act as system integrator to each of these smaller projects.What is the taxpayer to do in the face of this sort of thing? Particularly the well–informed taxpayer who knows full well that in no way whatsoever is this argument from Mr Carter valid.
At this year's Spa conference there was a Birds of a Feather session about this issue. Some of the signatories of this petition—a petition only 62 signatures away, as I write, from the 500 needed for it to have anyone inside 10 Downing Street pay any attention to it. If you are a UK resident and would rather that the new government were not wasting money on entirely avoidable IT project failures I urge you to sign the petition and to urge others to.


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Half Day Heart of the Tweed – Tweed Valley Scenic Arts Tour.
Gather at Tumbulgum at 9 am at the historic meeting place of the waters, before heading into Murwillumbah – The Heart of the Tweed. (Transfers from Southern Gold Coast, Tweed Heads and Tweed Coast resorts are included in this tour). The morning views of Mount Warning are majestic, and you can see why it is called Wollumbin, or Cloud Catcher. Your first stop is a biodynamic organic farm with Farmer Mac at North Tumbulgum, to taste his fresh local organic produce. Then experience the Tweed Regional Museum and the Green Cauldron Panorama at Caldera Wildscapes in Murwillumbah. Enjoy a delicious lunch at the Courthouse Hotel before making your way to the Tweed Regional Gallery and the Margaret Olley Centre.
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The Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa is located on an 18-acre wooded oasis in the heart of Houston. The luxury hotel is known for elegance, exceptional service, and beautiful landscape surroundings. The Houstonian's unique ambience makes an ideal environment for weddings and celebration events.
One of the Houstonian Hotel's most unsurpassed features is its large variety of venue options and capability to accommodate each type of bride. The magnificent wooded backdrop allows for a tranquil experience through an outdoor event while the ballrooms, enriched with dark wood molding, vibrant carpet, and detailed wall coverings, create an elegant indoor celebration.
The hotel features four ballrooms among its many venues for weddings and social events. The Grande Ballroom is the largest of the four, was recently renovated with decadent chandeliers and furnishings, and can host up to 400 guests for receptions.
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Media executives continue to leak details about developing Apple iPad apps, hoping readers will pay for digitized versions of their publications.
The New York Times has some details on Conde Nast's plans, with a schedule of release dates:
- April: GQ
- June: Vanity Fair, Wired
- Summer: The New Yorker, Glamour
Executives say the apps will be in a test phase. They will play with prices and advertising displays "before wrapping up the experiment in the fall," according to the Times. Then they will decide if more magazines should be formatted for the iPad.
According to Peter Kafka at MediaMemo, the publisher won't create iPad apps for other titles "unless Apple and Adobe figure out how to work together."
From Peter: "But in a conversation I had with Chuck Townsend last week, Conde's CEO was more blunt: He can't fully embrace the Wired version, which was created with Adobe's (ADBE) help and uses Adobe's Flash platform, unless Apple (AAPL) embraces Flash.
Conde will have "two parallel development tracks going until the relationship between Apple and Adobe is clear," he told me Friday."
The apps will be sold through iTunes, which means Apple -- not Conde Nast -- will have control over that important marketing data about the readers who actually pay for the app.
But there's still no way to anticipate how many people will actually own iPad apps by next fall, and whether they will be willing to pay, say, $5 per issue of magazine formatted for the iPad.
Conde Nast has hopes based on their GQ iPhone app, will sells for at $2.99 an issue. Readers have paid for about 22,000 issues to date.
But those sales are still minuscule compared to the haul from their print sales. GQ's December "Men of the Year" iPhone app sold nearly 7,000 times. But the print version of the issue sold 240,000 copies at newsstands and another 667,851 to subscribers.


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Last week, the team from the Lean Startup Machine came to my entrepreneurial journalism class to share their tools and help us test out the riskiest assumptions about our customers and steer our business models accordingly. It was a great chance to learn about our customers and receive feedback outside the classroom.
My idea, is for a fashion app/website that allows users to upload street photos of people wearing things they want to buy and other users to help identify the products seen in the photos. Users will get points when they correctly identify items and score points redeemable for discounts and gift cards at retailers worldwide. [UPDATE: You can now visit Fantomfit.com and follow Fantom 'fit on Twitter to learn more!]
First we defined what all the assumptions about a Fantom 'fit customer were. What do we believe is true about this customer? We assumed the following:
1. Under 40
2. Fashion-conscious
3. Has mobile phone
4. Want to BUY the product
5. Make purchases at least once a month
6. Visit Everyday
7. Will tag photos for 20 percent off
After we decided on this list we voted on what we each thought was the "riskiest assumption" meaning, the one most likely not to be true. The votes tallied, the riskiest assumption was that customers actually want to buy the products they see people wearing on the street. The next step was to develop a short list of questions we would ask strangers out on the street to test whether this was true. These were the questions we asked: (You can answer these poll questions too and see how online customers answers compared)
We polled 25 people in the area near Astor Place and St. Marks in Manhattan. Every single person responded yes to the first question. What was more surprising was that each of them could also recall a specific time that this happened and the majority were within the last several days. I knew I was onto something, but we were all surprised at the huge response.
Survey-takers also told us that the only way they could figure out what the products were was to ask or do an exhaustive Google search. Sometimes that worked and sometimes it didn't.
The best part was when the survey-takers were asked for a better solution, some of them actually said (unprovoked) an app that could upload photos might work better. A cluster of six stylish high school kids near St. Marks came up with this and when we told them that's exactly what were working on they wanted to sign up. Brilliant!
Overall this was a great way to test out our ideas in the real world and it reinforced some of the assumptions I had about my customer. The next step is to assess the riskiest assumptions in order and test each of them the same way. If the assumption isn't validated, it presents an opportunity to pivot the business model and reassess how the product can better meet customer needs.


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IPO market shows signs of life with 4 big gains
NEW YORK After a string of disappointing debuts, the IPO market showed signs of life Thursday, with shares of four newly public companies each shooting up more than 20 percent in its first day of trading.
All of the companies - Realogy (RLGY), the owner of realty firms Century 21, Coldwell Banker and Corcoran Group; online stock photo provider Shutterstock (SSTK); Kythera (KYTH), a developer of shots to treat double chins; and Intercept Pharmaceuticals (ICPT), which develops treatments for liver diseases - garnered strong demand from investors. The companies raised more money in their initial public stock offerings than they had predicted, an unusual occurrence over the past few months.
Thomas Murphy, head of securities and capital markets for the law firm McDermott Will & Emery, says Thursday's action bodes well for the IPO market.
- Silicon Valley isn't sharing Zynga's misery
- Is your tech investment about to cost you?
- Facebook still has believers among fund managers
Thursday's action bodes well for the IPO market overall, said Thomas Murphy, head of securities and capital markets for the law firm McDermott Will & Emery.
"Whether the market has full recovered, it's too early to say," Murphy said. "There's always some kind of a tipping point where things start to be in vogue and start to get going again. I hope that's what we're seeing here."
The flop of Facebook's () IPO in May had weighed on the amount of money companies were able to raise in late spring and summer. And about 70 percent of companies that had gone public since late July, including four of last week's six IPOs, have priced at the bottom or below the levels they had expected, according to IPO investment and research firm Renaissance Capital (RNCG). Other prominent IPOs were canceled, including arcade and restaurant chain Dave & Buster's Entertainment (DANB) earlier this month and CKE (CK), the owner of the Carl's Jr. fast-food chain, in August.
Companies may have had more success this week because they kept their expectations low, pricing shares less aggressively, Murphy said.
A resurgent market for IPOs would suggest that investors are, overall, more confident in financial markets.
The largest IPO Thursday was Realogy Holdings. The Parsippany, N.J., realty firm, whose other brands include ERA and Sotheby's International Realty, raised $1.08 billion from its offering. That's third-largest U.S. IPO of the year, according to Renaissance Capital. The company priced 40 million shares at $27 per share, the high end of the projected range. They gained 27 percent to close at $34.20.
Shutterstock's shares also closed up 27 percent, at $21.66. The New York-based provider of stock photos and videos sold 4.5 million shares for $17 each - above its expected range of $13 to $15 - for $76.5 million in proceeds.
Meanwhile, Intercept Pharmaceuticals raised $75 million, pricing shares at $15 - the top of its expected range of $13 to $15 - and selling more shares than expected. The drug developer, also based in New York, develops drugs for chronic liver diseases. Its stock gained 29 percent to $19.40.
Investors also were eager to pick up shares of fellow drug developer Kythera Biopharmaceuticals, whose shares jumped 24 percent to $19.79. The Calabasas, Calif., company raised about $70.4 million, selling 4.4 million shares for $16 each, the top end of its estimated range. It also sold more shares than expected.


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Bruce A. Cooper
posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 2:04 pm
Mplus is crashing when it writes the .gh5 file, or when I try to access it after specifying any PLOT type with a multilevel complex sample analysis. Is this a bug, or doesn't it allow plots with that type of model?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 - 2:59 pm
Please send the files and your license number to
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Bruce A. Cooper
posted on Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 10:35 am
Thanks, Linda, for letting me know about the problem with the graphics module. Until it's fixed, I'm hoping to obtain empirical Bayes estimates from the model I estimated, so that I can compute means for each of the subgroups. When I output FSCORES, I get an estimate for the outcome, but also a standard error. I assume that means these are not fixed predicted values. (When I create an SPSS file from them, for example, each of the subgroups have variance for the estimates.) However, in addition to the estimates for the outcome, I'm also getting an EBEst and standard error for the cross-level interaction between an L1 and an L2 variable that I computed with a DEFINE statement. The question is, then, how can I get fixed predicted values such as those I can compute from a model in SPSS or Stata, so I can obtain subgroup means of the predicted values? - bac
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 1:42 pm
The factor scores (FSCORES) are EB estimates. Because they are estimates they have SEs reflecting the estimation error/uncertainty. In other words, each person's factor score is an estimate and as such has a SE. You can still create subgroup means - with the usual caveat that estimated factor scores do not behave as true factor scores (this is why we have the SEM alernative). Some programs don't give the SEs, but that doesn't mean that the estimated scores are without estimation error.
Bruce A. Cooper
posted on Tuesday, August 02, 2011 - 2:51 pm
Sorry form my late response, Bengt - Somehow, I didn't get the email notice or it didn't get transfered from one computer the the other!
Thanks for your explanation. This helps a lot.
Best, Bruce
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I like the part when they built their houses because it reminds me of my Dad who builds houses. I like the pictures because they are so pretty. I like the part when the sister blew her brother's houses in because the bricks went flying everywhere.
Children that are from the ages of 6 to 9 years old would enjoy this book. If you like pigs, you need to read this book.


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I read the Dec. 6 editorial in the Pocono Record calling for compromise concerning the fiscal cliff. The article gave the impression that both Democrats and Republicans were equally responsible for the current impasse. This impression does not fairly depict reality.
I read the Dec. 6 editorial in the Pocono Record calling for compromise concerning the fiscal cliff. The article gave the impression that both Democrats and Republicans were equally responsible for the current impasse. This impression does not fairly depict reality.
I would like to preface this by explaining that I come from a place of fiscal conservatism. I was opposed to both Bush's initial TARP bailout, and, subsequently Obama's TARP bailout. The lesson we learned from those bailouts is that if you fail big, you are bailed out. If you fail small, you wither on the vine. What does that teach our children? I was mixed on the Detroit bailouts, and want to see the final numbers. I still feel that there may have been a market solution that would have preserved jobs, but it was not sufficiently explored. I am hoping that my fiscal conservatism may prod some Republicans to plow forward on this piece.
Let us look at what has transpired in the Senate in the past year as a possible indicator of whether the Republicans are willing to play nice in the sand box. The Republican track record on filibuster in the Senate is a case in point. Today, a senator can merely threaten a filibuster, and suddenly the legislation requires a 60-vote super majority to move to a vote. The average number of filibusters during the Reagan and Carter years was about 20 per year. Senate Republicans used the filibuster a record 112 times in 2012 and have used it 360 times since 2007. The filibuster rule was also used to prevent a vote on the DISCLOSE Act, a key anti-corruption measure backed by Common Cause that would have required full disclosure of spending to influence U.S. elections. The DISCLOSE Act passed in the House and had the support of a majority of senators. Most Americans are deeply concerned about campaign financing reform, but Republicans blocked progress here as well. They have stopped much legislation that has widespread public support. There has been little interest in "compromise" from their quarters.
We see this lack of compromise as we approach the fiscal cliff with their refusal to consider higher taxes for the wealthy. The tax increase is supported by 80 percent of our citizens. If we have a true democracy, why are the Republicans not listening to the people? Obama's proposal merely returns the tax levels to where they were prior to the Bush era. Reagan promoted a notion that the wealth would trickle down to the masses. Bush tried it with the cuts to the wealthy. It never worked. Prior to the Bush tax cuts, the economy was booming. After his tax cuts to the wealthy, it collapsed for a variety of reasons. It is not just that the Republicans are not compromising with the Democrats. They are not compromising with the American people. They are not playing nice, and this is where the journalistic responsibility of the Record comes in.
Finally, I am not even sure the Republicans are listening to the business community. I read that 70 percent of businesses owners say that a tax increase will not affect their investment decision. I have owned several businesses, and I have considered individual tax rates in my decision, but they haven't had an effect. Furthermore, in solving business issues, I always looked at both the revenue side and the cost side. I don't know how the Republicans expect to solve this by looking at just one side. Warren Buffet agrees about the increase, but Republicans ignore him, too. If 80 percent of the people agree with a tax increase for the wealthy, and 70 percent of the businesses do not see an effect with a tax increase, can we really say the Republicans are playing nice in the sand box?
I wonder too if the Republicans can't find a tiny little chamber in their hearts for compassion. For example, our veterans have a much higher incidence of homelessness than does the general population. If just a few million dollars that the wealthy would contribute in taxes were spent on ideas such as helping those veterans, wouldn't that be a good thing?
Congressional Democrats are not blameless when it comes to being slow to compromise, but their day-by-day decisions allow for the possibility of a constructive compromise. Yet nearly all congressional Republicans have taken a pledge to a private citizen named Grover Norquist never to raise any tax! Those congressmen cannot be viewed as being equally open to compromise as those who have not taken such a pledge, and the Pocono Record fell short by not recognizing this. The Record is an important source of information, and unless it is willing to allocate responsibility for the breakdown in our democratic process, the public remains in the dark.
Mark Lichty is former CEO of Bustin Industrial Products in East Stroudsburg. He is an activist always seeking to move political discourse to a higher level, executive producer of Groundswell Rising, a documentary on fracking (see groundswellmovie.com). He lives in Smithfield Township.


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For defenseman Kris Letang, there was no place he'd rather be than in Pittsburgh playing for the Penguins.
Letang, 26, is entering the final year of his contract and had been negotiating, along with his agent Kent Hughes, with Penguins general manager Ray Shero on an extension.
As the conversations progressed, Letang had only one thing on his mind.
"It was about getting a deal done with Pittsburgh," said Letang. "I never looked at any other team or free agency or anything like that. It was settling on numbers and making sure I can spend the rest of my career in Pittsburgh."
The numbers were settled and on Tuesday the Penguins and Letang agreed to terms on an eight-year, $ 58-million extension that will run through the 2021-22 season, essentially keeping Letang in a Penguins uniform until he is 35 years old.
"I'm really happy for my family. For me, it's awesome to stay in a place like Pittsburgh where I can raise a family," Letang said.
The Montreal native is entering the prime of his career. Last season, he was a finalist for the Norris Trophy, awarded to the NHL's best defenseman, after scoring 38 points (5G-33A) in 35 games – the only blueliner in the league to average over a point per game.
But just because Letang has some comfort and security with his new deal, he isn't going to be complacent.
"Every time I go back home for the summer I try to get stronger and more explosive. I'm trying to work on every area of my game, offensively and defensively," he said. "I put a lot of time and work into that."
Letang has played six full NHL seasons, which include a Stanley Cup championship, two Cup Finals and three Eastern Conference finals. And he hopes in the future to impart some of that experience and knowledge to the Penguins' crop of highly-rated defensive prospects.
"If there's one thing I need to address for myself is taking more of a role in the locker room, becoming a bigger leader for our team and the younger guys coming," he said. "If we have a young guy like Simon (Despres), I'll try to help him out and make sure he gets better every day and is a better player to help our team win. We have a lot of talent in the system in Simon and all those draft picks that we have. We need to get them into the lineup as quickly as possible and make sure they contribute."
Letang has come a long way since his wide-eyed debut with the Penguins on October 5, 2006 against the Philadelphia Flyers.
"My first shift I was so nervous I was on the ice for 15 seconds and it felt like a two-minute shift," he recalled. "I was really tired, but after that I settled in. I realized I was in the NHL and it had been my dream since I was a little kid."
Letang's first game was in a Penguins uniform. And there are many reasons why he wants to keep wearing the flightless bird for the next nine years.
"Everything, the city, the organization, my teammates played a big role in that," he said of re-signing. "From a standpoint of the organization, it's always been first class. They always take care of us, from the medical staff to training staff to equipment guys, everyone is awesome in Pittsburgh. We have two great owners in Mario (Lemieux) and Ron (Burkle) that give us everything we need to be successful. It's a first-class organization from head-to-toe."


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Massachusetts-based Rocket Software has released a trio of new change management products designed to automate the process of importing and deploying build results at any stage of the lifecycle process.
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This release provides additional support for developers using Subversion (SVN) for version control. The "Lifecycle Manager" (LMe) tool can now automatically synchronize its promotion and deployment repository with Subversion anytime developers commit a change to their Subversion repository. LMe 6.2 also provides additional native Microsoft Windows support, allowing users to perform Lifecycle Manager functions directly from Explorer.
The new IBM i version of the Aldon Web Portal for LMe lets users track all software deployments from any browser or web-enabled mobile device. Web Portal can be installed on an IBM i server, and offers new deployment and installation reports.
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Rocket product management managing director Dan Magid said that, "In this age of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device), customers demand access to information from their smartphones and tablets and they want to have the ability to take action from anywhere at any time. Our newest release gives them this capability to do so with a tap of a finger."
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If you believe the rumors, former NFL star and current Fox Sports personality Michael Strahan will be filling Regis Philbin's shoes as Kelly Ripa's new co-host on ABC's "Live!"
While the announcement was slated to be made on September 4th, Broadcasting & Cable is reporting that "Strahan will take over ... according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation."
But don't worry sports fans, Strahan will still fulfill his duties at Fox Sports.
"Strahan is expected to keep working at Fox as one of the hosts of its popular NFL pregame program 'Fox NFL Sunday' should he land the job," the LA Times reported Monday.
This won't be the first time Strahan has pulled double duty—the footballer successfully managed to star in the short-lived Fox sitcom "Brothers" in 2009 seemingly without it affecting his position at "Fox NFL Sunday."
Since Regis left his post nearly a year ago, 59 different co-hosts—from Seth Meyers to Joel McHale—have auditioned for a full time seat next to Ripa.
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Michelle Obama Hilariously Breaks Down Why Melania Trump's Inauguration Gift Exchange Appeared So Awkward
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
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After a week of controversy surrounding her inauguration performance, Beyoncé threw some Super Dome-sized shade at her detractors. The international mega star belted out "The Star-Spangled Banner" with no pre-recorded background music at a press conference today.
Dressed in a radiant, white, long sleeve dress, Bey gracefully stepped on stage and delivered an a cappella rendition of the song she admitted to singing with a pre-recorded track at President Obama's inauguration. Once she was done with putting to rest any questions about her ability to sing the song she took questions from the media.
"I am a perfectionist," she explained about her decision to use the pre-recorded track at the inauguration. "And one thing about me: I practice 'till my feet bleed. I did not have time to rehearse with the orchestra. It was a live television show... Due to the weather, due to the delay, due to no proper sound check... I did not feel comfortable singing live."
Once the "Love on Top" songstress was done publicly addressing "lip-synch gate" for the first time, she turned the focus to her highly anticipated halftime performance, where she will "absolutely be singing live."
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Trestles, a supercomputer launched earlier this year by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, is proving itself as a valuable resource for researchers across a wide range of disciplines, from astrophysics to molecular dynamics, who need access to computational resources with rapid turnaround.
In the seven months since its launch, more than 50 separate research projects have been granted time on Trestles. As the system is targeted to serve a large number of users, project allocations are capped at 1.5M SUs (service units, or single processor hours) annually on the new SDSC system.
With 10,368 processor cores, a peak speed of 100 teraflop/s, 20 terabytes memory, and 39 terabytes of flash memory, Trestles is one of several new HPC (high-performance computing) systems at SDSC. The center is pioneering the use of flash-based memory, common in much smaller devices such as mobile phones and laptop computers but relatively new for supercomputers, which typically rely on slower spinning disk technology. "Flash disks can read data as much as 100 times faster than spinning disk, write data faster, and are more energy-efficient and reliable," said Allan Snavely, associate director of SDSC and co-PI for the new system. "Trestles uses 120GB flash drives in each node, and users have already demonstrated substantial performance improvements for many applications compared to spinning disk."
Trestles is appropriately named because it is serving as a bridge between SDSC's current resources such as Dash, and Gordon, a much larger data-intensive system scheduled for deployment in late 2011/early 2012. Like Dash and the upcoming Gordon system, Trestles is available to users of the NSF's TeraGrid, the nation's largest open-access scientific discovery infrastructure. TeraGrid is transitioning this summer to a new phase called XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment), the result of a new multi-year NSF award.
Trestles is among the five largest supercomputers in the TeraGrid/XSEDE repertoire, and is backed by SDSC's Advanced User Support group, which has established key benchmarks to accelerate user applications and assist users in optimizing applications. Trestles provides the Portland Group (PGI), Intel, and GNU compilers. MPI implementations provided are mvapich2 and openMPI. The majority of libraries are compiled for PGI and mvapich2 support, which have been shown to give optimal performance on the system. As such, they are loaded by default in the login shell. Intel and GNU compilers should only be used for compatibility, if necessary. Similarly, mvapich2 should be used over OpenMPI whenever possible. For more information, click here.


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