The need for warmup is to get the synovial fluid to the correct temperature and viscosity to minimize friction in the joints and tendon sheaths, basically just like the oil in a car engine.
As for injury prevention the best thing is improving coordination (i.e. neuro-muscular training), which gives you the proprioceptive awareness necessary to move in a safe manner. Coordination is at *least* as important as overall strength.
In fact the experts in kinetic physiology basically disrecommend stretching entirely. The safe alternatives are: passive extensions, and proper and regular utilization of full range of motion (weight machines are BAD).
There are also a few stretches that are outright dangerous and should basically never be done, such as the forward bend which damages the lumbar spine.
Well, we *still* don't know how deep the damage goes, because, thanks to deregulation, the banks are not required to actually audit and asses their assets. We have already started to bailout, but it could easily take another trillion dollars to recover. We just don't know. In fact, the bailout is the completely wrong approach, what we need is a system-wide audit and to close the doors of every insolvent operation. The ones left standing will be known economically sound.
To extend the analogy, we know the car is unexpectedly low on gas, so we are refilling the tank... but we haven't bothered first to check for leaks.
A lot of this risk-taking activity was encouraged by an unspoken assumption that if it all went bad, the US gov't would bail them out, even though there was no such official guarantee. "Too big to fail". Turns out they were right.
The bailout is no less than criminal theft from the US taxpayers.
There is a very simple solution. It should be a crime to profit from someone who needs medical attention. Just like war profiteering which is already illegal. In 100 years historians will look back at these times as barbaric. Allowing someone to profit from another's misfortune is quite simply immoral if not outright insane, and its fundamentally the root of all problems we have related to healthcare system--from out of control costs, insurance brokers to lobbyists and corrupt politicians.
Thanks to Michael Moore for putting this idea forth succinctly in his 2008 voter's guide...
Electronic voting is also superior in terms of accessibility to the disabled and reading-impaired. It really is a better way to vote. But as usual, the devil is in the details.
Several European countries have already or are currently adding laws to the books to regulate sound emission in all sorts of areas, not just the workplace. For examples schools--no longer can the school band practice wherever and whenever they want, now it has to be in a room with an SPL meter and a timer. Awareness of hearing loss is increasing constantly, but slowly.
One approach to managing high sound levels is the increased production of personalized (molded) high quality earplugs. Far superior to over-the-counter plugs, it is possible to make these plugs with a flat attenuation that actually sound better (more balanced) than your natural hearing. There is no reason this sort of tech can't be applied to earphones, its just a matter of investment and appropriate tooling. Advances in rapid turnaround custom fabrication technologies are helping.
Over here at UCB the wireless is closed also, but I can generate a 1-week "guest account" for anyone that wants it... this is what we do for an academic visitor. As for the libraries, only the big undergrad-study libraries actually require a univ. ID to enter. All of the departmental libraries are open.
"Cheap gas" is the no-name stuff sold at your local Quick-E-Mart. It's usually 10 or 20 cents cheaper than a name-brand station like Chevron. It doesn't contain the additives/detergents that the name-brands use, but its otherwise exactly the same stuff, which has to comply with EPA specifications. Most people in the industry say its not worth the savings, but then again, the gas companies certainly spend plenty of advertising dollars trying to convince us that their stuff is better. YMMV (literally).
that ask a ninja guy is so fake. first of all, ninjas don't talk loudly. in fact, they don't talk at all, and they certainly don't appear on youtube videos. ninjas do not negotiate or give interviews, they kill. furthermore, ninjas do not have "clans", "bosses" or "merit badges" (even black ones). ninjas are not black, they are invisible.
Oh, the insurance is easy, just buy out a few politicians (at a cost of a few hundred thousand). Then, when it explodes they will have the treasury hand you a check for a hundred billion dollars or so. Take it from AIG-they know insurance better than anyone.
Well first off this hacker is stupid, no surprise he got caught. To do this right he would have downloaded the entire mailbox, not just made a few "I made it" screenshots. We really only got to see a couple of messages, and they are not particularly interesting.
Second, Palin has *two* Yahoo accounts. The one she is suspected of using inappropriately wasn't hacked. If the hacker was a bit more subtle--some social engineering, perhaps? I'll be the other one could have been breached also. By now she is probably well on her way to furiously deleting those messages.
Well under the Cheney/Bush/Rove interpretation, none of this is above the law because all that stuff is protected by executive privilege (and Palin is now using this also to bury the Troopergate and other problems). And, when that excuse runs out, they cite war-time powers. So, they claim that it isn't out of legal bounds, yet it is out of the bounds of public scrutiny or even congressional oversight.
Correlation *is* causation for multi-normal distributions, and since these types of distributions are common in nature (cf. the central limit theorem), the discovery of a correlation, while not necessarily proving a causal link, at least raises a significant possibility of a connection.
Yes!! Not only is it pointless to try to hide, the modern spam filter (e.g., gmail) is at least 99% effective. I put my email in plaintext and even in mailto: links all over the place and I have no serious problem with spam.
Writing junk like foo [at] bar [dot] com simply wastes time time of your colleagues and friends, who now have to rewrite your address by hand, and confuses the non-techies.
The main problem in CA right now is that the budget approval requires a 2/3rds majority in the senate to approve. This is giving the minority party (the republicans) a lot of power, and basically results in a deadlock year after year--it is impossible to raise taxes or close tax loopholes. The budget deficit isn't actually that large, it just can't be fixed. Only a handful of states have this super-majority requirement, by the way.
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The need for warmup is to get the synovial fluid to the correct temperature and viscosity to minimize friction in the joints and tendon sheaths, basically just like the oil in a car engine.
As for injury prevention the best thing is improving coordination (i.e. neuro-muscular training), which gives you the proprioceptive awareness necessary to move in a safe manner. Coordination is at *least* as important as overall strength.
In fact the experts in kinetic physiology basically disrecommend stretching entirely. The safe alternatives are: passive extensions, and proper and regular utilization of full range of motion (weight machines are BAD).
There are also a few stretches that are outright dangerous and should basically never be done, such as the forward bend which damages the lumbar spine.
For the full story, check out this book: http://www.amazon.com/Anatomy-Movement-Blandine-Calais-Germain/dp/0939616173
Interesting, How do they deal with the speckle problem created by the coherent light source?
Great idea. Too bad its already been done.
Bitter geeks cling to their Wang and VS.
Its the spaghetti-monster, duh!
Well, we *still* don't know how deep the damage goes, because, thanks to deregulation, the banks are not required to actually audit and asses their assets. We have already started to bailout, but it could easily take another trillion dollars to recover. We just don't know. In fact, the bailout is the completely wrong approach, what we need is a system-wide audit and to close the doors of every insolvent operation. The ones left standing will be known economically sound.
To extend the analogy, we know the car is unexpectedly low on gas, so we are refilling the tank... but we haven't bothered first to check for leaks.
A lot of this risk-taking activity was encouraged by an unspoken assumption that if it all went bad, the US gov't would bail them out, even though there was no such official guarantee. "Too big to fail". Turns out they were right.
The bailout is no less than criminal theft from the US taxpayers.
Yeah, we gotta have some lies to balance out the truth.
Ooo... where do you get a 1W IR led?
There is a very simple solution. It should be a crime to profit from someone who needs medical attention. Just like war profiteering which is already illegal. In 100 years historians will look back at these times as barbaric. Allowing someone to profit from another's misfortune is quite simply immoral if not outright insane, and its fundamentally the root of all problems we have related to healthcare system--from out of control costs, insurance brokers to lobbyists and corrupt politicians.
Thanks to Michael Moore for putting this idea forth succinctly in his 2008 voter's guide...
> He's 84 fucking years old. Give him a break.
Yeah, its called retirement.
#include "errno.h"
Electronic voting is also superior in terms of accessibility to the disabled and reading-impaired. It really is a better way to vote. But as usual, the devil is in the details.
Several European countries have already or are currently adding laws to the books to regulate sound emission in all sorts of areas, not just the workplace. For examples schools--no longer can the school band practice wherever and whenever they want, now it has to be in a room with an SPL meter and a timer. Awareness of hearing loss is increasing constantly, but slowly.
One approach to managing high sound levels is the increased production of personalized (molded) high quality earplugs. Far superior to over-the-counter plugs, it is possible to make these plugs with a flat attenuation that actually sound better (more balanced) than your natural hearing. There is no reason this sort of tech can't be applied to earphones, its just a matter of investment and appropriate tooling. Advances in rapid turnaround custom fabrication technologies are helping.
Over here at UCB the wireless is closed also, but I can generate a 1-week "guest account" for anyone that wants it... this is what we do for an academic visitor. As for the libraries, only the big undergrad-study libraries actually require a univ. ID to enter. All of the departmental libraries are open.
Clearly, my opponent just doesn't understand the difference between electron flow and current.
"Cheap gas" is the no-name stuff sold at your local Quick-E-Mart. It's usually 10 or 20 cents cheaper than a name-brand station like Chevron. It doesn't contain the additives/detergents that the name-brands use, but its otherwise exactly the same stuff, which has to comply with EPA specifications. Most people in the industry say its not worth the savings, but then again, the gas companies certainly spend plenty of advertising dollars trying to convince us that their stuff is better. YMMV (literally).
that ask a ninja guy is so fake. first of all, ninjas don't talk loudly. in fact, they don't talk at all, and they certainly don't appear on youtube videos. ninjas do not negotiate or give interviews, they kill. furthermore, ninjas do not have "clans", "bosses" or "merit badges" (even black ones). ninjas are not black, they are invisible.
Oh, the insurance is easy, just buy out a few politicians (at a cost of a few hundred thousand). Then, when it explodes they will have the treasury hand you a check for a hundred billion dollars or so. Take it from AIG-they know insurance better than anyone.
Well first off this hacker is stupid, no surprise he got caught. To do this right he would have downloaded the entire mailbox, not just made a few "I made it" screenshots. We really only got to see a couple of messages, and they are not particularly interesting.
Second, Palin has *two* Yahoo accounts. The one she is suspected of using inappropriately wasn't hacked. If the hacker was a bit more subtle--some social engineering, perhaps? I'll be the other one could have been breached also. By now she is probably well on her way to furiously deleting those messages.
Well under the Cheney/Bush/Rove interpretation, none of this is above the law because all that stuff is protected by executive privilege (and Palin is now using this also to bury the Troopergate and other problems). And, when that excuse runs out, they cite war-time powers. So, they claim that it isn't out of legal bounds, yet it is out of the bounds of public scrutiny or even congressional oversight.
Yes, its the Alaska Public Records Act.
Correlation *is* causation for multi-normal distributions, and since these types of distributions are common in nature (cf. the central limit theorem), the discovery of a correlation, while not necessarily proving a causal link, at least raises a significant possibility of a connection.
Yes!! Not only is it pointless to try to hide, the modern spam filter (e.g., gmail) is at least 99% effective. I put my email in plaintext and even in mailto: links all over the place and I have no serious problem with spam.
Writing junk like foo [at] bar [dot] com simply wastes time time of your colleagues and friends, who now have to rewrite your address by hand, and confuses the non-techies.
The main problem in CA right now is that the budget approval requires a 2/3rds majority in the senate to approve. This is giving the minority party (the republicans) a lot of power, and basically results in a deadlock year after year--it is impossible to raise taxes or close tax loopholes. The budget deficit isn't actually that large, it just can't be fixed. Only a handful of states have this super-majority requirement, by the way.