Oh... and regarding the gun prescription. Any family practice doctor would do. Imagine it being the same as getting a handicap plate. You just need a doctor to say you can't handle the normal weapon.
Certain kinds of palm pistols and cane pistols are illegal. Some of this is hold-over from the late 1800's when that sort of pistol was popular but there was also a resurgence of the use of small highly concealable weapons in the 1930's.
Either way, the prescription is probably to allow the person to legally carry a palm pistol where it would not normally be legal. Similar to crossbow hunting during bow season for disabled hunters who cannot draw a compound or recurve bow.
Actually, just because Obama won the election Iraq finally has a chance. For a discussion of this topic please see recent editorial by Friedman in the NY Times.
Yeah.. I think it's more likely that it's a blend of both. I live in Tulsa (Brookside) and I have a very large pecan that suffered only one large break from the storm and it produced a very large crop this year. Out in Coweta we had about 20 pecan trees and a few of them were known to cycle their production, but other than that everything seemed to be pretty durn predictable.
I have a very large red oak that is producing acorns as well. The Bur Oaks in my dad's front yard are still denting cars unlucky enough to park under them.
I just hope we don't get a late freeze in the spring.. I want big peaches damnit!
Especially when you consider that many scientist's studying Alzheimer's consider Type II Diabetes the best link to understanding Alzheimer's.
Sugar is the devil.
Characterized as a peripheral metabolic disorder and a degenerative disease of the central nervous system respectively, it is now widely recognized that type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) share several common abnormalities including impaired glucose metabolism, increased oxidative stress, insulin resistance and amyloidogenesis. Several recent studies suggest that this is not an epiphenomenon, but rather these two diseases disrupt common molecular pathways and each disease compounds the progression of the other. For instance, in AD the accumulation of the amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta), which characterizes the disease and is thought to participate in the neurodegenerative process, may also induce neuronal insulin resistance. Conversely, disrupting normal glucose metabolism in transgenic animal models of AD that over-express the human amyloid precursor protein (hAPP) promotes amyloid-peptide aggregation and accelerates the disease progression. Studying these processes at a cellular level suggests that insulin resistance and Abeta aggregation may not only be the consequence of excitotoxicity, aberrant Ca(2+) signals, and proinflammatory cytokines such as TNF-alpha, but may also promote these pathological effectors. At the molecular level, insulin resistance and Abeta disrupt common signal transduction cascades including the insulin receptor family/PI3 kinase/Akt/GSK3 pathway. Thus both disease processes contribute to overlapping pathology, thereby compounding disease symptoms and progression.
Biochim Biophys Acta. 2008 Nov 5 Zhao WQ, Townsend M.
Type 2 Diabetes has been linked to Alzheimer's in many ways. The question is, what is the link? If you have any sort of knowledge of diabetes, you will note that diabetes is often accompanied by arterial plaque and inhibited fat metabolism.
To take a note from the summary I would believe that the cause of the plaque on the neurons that cause Alzheimer's is related to the plaque found in the arteries. Possibly the irritation caused by high blood sugars? Maybe some other mechanism depleting essential enzymes or micronutrients that contribute to the body's ability to clean up said plaques? Similar to the frequent occurrence of melanomas that are cleaned up by the immune system until one day... the immune system cannot keep up?
Quoting from Biochim Biophys Acta. 2008 Nov 5 Zhao WQ, Townsend M.
Characterized as a peripheral metabolic disorder and a degenerative disease of the central nervous system respectively, it is now widely recognized that type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) share several common abnormalities including impaired glucose metabolism, increased oxidative stress, insulin resistance and amyloidogenesis. Several recent studies suggest that this is not an epiphenomenon, but rather these two diseases disrupt common molecular pathways and each disease compounds the progression of the other. For instance, in AD the accumulation of the amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta), which characterizes the disease and is thought to participate in the neurodegenerative process, may also induce neuronal insulin resistance. Conversely, disrupting normal glucose metabolism in transgenic animal models of AD that over-express the human amyloid precursor protein (hAPP) promotes amyloid-peptide aggregation and accelerates the disease progression. Studying these processes at a cellular level suggests that insulin resistance and Abeta aggregation may not only be the consequence of excitotoxicity, aberrant Ca(2+) signals, and proinflammatory cytokines such as TNF-alpha, but may also promote these pathological effectors. At the molecular level, insulin resistance and Abeta disrupt common signal transduction cascades including the insulin receptor family/PI3 kinase/Akt/GSK3 pathway. Thus both disease processes contribute to overlapping pathology, thereby compounding disease symptoms and progression.
Biochim Biophys Acta. 2008 Nov 5 Zhao WQ, Townsend M.
Another interesting theory that I have read was that, like the mammoth, they required too much food to sustain themselves. Considering that they were more muscular and carried less fat mass this may not be a far stretch. They would be less capable during lean times.
Problem that it leaves out is the bioavailability of the nutrients available in the food that is grown on the land.
If you plan to be a strict vegan then plan to have a niacin deficiency, even with supplementation as most supplements are not properly absorbed.
There are a host of other problems with the nutrition provided by plants vs animals which is probably why our ancestors developed a need (nutritionally speaking) for animal protein to flesh out their diet.
Dogs can and will eat vegetable matter... problem is it comes out the other end pretty much the same as it went in.
They lack the proper enzymes and intestinal length to properly break down most vegetable matter. That's why it's a great training treat for dogs prone to physical problems exacerbated by obesity (Dachshunds). All of my dogs have been trained using bits of carrot.
Agreed. Apparently I started my EMS just before replying to your post.
It's just hard to watch people give the same tired advice to the masses when the practitioners have already moved beyond that staid methodology.
I have coached many world record holders and professional level athletes(--Mostly football players and MMA fighters). I've attended and read just about everything in regard to sport performance for about the last 10yrs.
Static stretching is a modality is called for pre-performance rarely and to fulfill a specific need. Post performance, esp the day after, it can accompany massage and heat/ice to facilitate bloodflow and recovery.
If your significant other is an MD then she probably has access to all the studies that you would need to read that show that static stretching, in addition to being linked to poor performance, is linked to increased injury rates. (Several studies with women athletes trying to pin down reasons for the higher rate of injury to the ACL and PCL among female athletes as compared to males.)
I would refer you to the writings of Christian Thibaudeau and John Paul Catanzaro.
They are both highly knowledgeable and sought after coaches of people in ice sports. They are often involved in Olympic and professional sports training, and both of them are pro dynamic and anti static for pre-performance warm-ups.
The reason I referenced those two is that their writing is easily available and well-sourced.
I tend goal for several indoor soccer teams (at 285lbs of muscle and anger) and I understand the contortions involved in shot blocking. (Although your target is much smaller, harder, and faster) Try some dynamic warm-ups for the ankles, hips, shoulders, and knees and you'll find yourself a new man.
Actually I have trained dancers, high-jumpers, hurdlers and a slew/bevy/scad of other athletes, and you'll find that they all perform better with a consistent warm up routine that dynamically lengthens and prepares the muscle.
Static stretching mostly lengthens the tendon and leaves the muscle inhibited and unprepared for action.
You can stick with your aged info and beleaguered FAQs but the strength and conditioning world have left you and your paramour behind. Get out there and do some current research, read the last few years worth of ACSM briefs or NCSA journal. Heck you might even be able to find some of this stuff referenced and sourced in Muscle and Fiction.
But you aren't actually measuring the force output capability of the muscle under optimum length. You are measuring the actual force output that can be generated after you have lengthened the tendon.
There are several actions, including tendon length, that work against the muscle's optimum output after a static stretching session. The take-home point is that those factors collude to reduce your ability to generate force and reduce your ability to respond to dynamic force demands. Those two factors increase the likelihood of injury during exercise.
All that being said. I hate seeing Scorpions used as a recommended warm-up. Most people will grind their lumbar vertebra into powder doing that.
Stretch the muscles that you must to achieve your performance goals. It is not uncommon to see competitive bench pressers stretching their lats before a press. This inhibits the antagonist allowing the agonist to exert more force against the implement.
You will also often see Olympic lifters stretching their hip flexors to allow their hips to open up more easily, allowing a better pulling position from the bottom of the lift. (I prefer dynamic warm-ups for this: wideouts, mountain climbers, leg swings)
So, it can vary by sport, but it's better if you find a dynamic exercise that allows the muscle to warm-up and lengthen rather than a static stretch that tends to stretch the tendon more than the muscle.
This study is actually a late-comer to the field. This sort of study has been out for more than a few years.
There are several tricks to this.
1. Dynamic warm-ups that result in a stretch can increase force production. Dynamic flexibility and static flexibility are related but not as linked as you may think.
2. Statically stretching the antagonist to intentionally weaken allow better performance esp on "simple" exercises with one or two predominant agonists. ie Bench press
3. This topic has been a discussion at the last 4 ACSM conferences. There are several studies that point to the existence of "stretch lag period" or "tendon slack" post static stretch. The quandary at this point is how long is the "slack" period. This is especially important for athletes that tend to have problems related to tendon length such as Patella-Femoral Pain Syndrome.
There are some things that were repercussions of the Clinton era. Not that I think the proposal originated with Clinton, but he did go along with proposition that the gov't should twist the arm of banks to give out loans to people that had no reasonable expectation that they could pay them back.
Some bad decisions sleep for years.... Boiling under the surface, and as far as Ponzi schemes go, this one lasted a while.
The FactCheck analysis is more detailed than you will find, but plays a little too nice with each side.
For the Dems: Lowering the requirements to qualify for a loan to nothing and not expecting people to try to use that system of easily garnered capital to make a buck is moronic. Therefore, a housing bubble fueled by a fantasy of ever-increasing home values and never-defaulting debtors... I give to the D's. To be fair, the few homeowners that got in under those loans and that will hang-on to those homes owe you a tip of the cap. From me, thanks for wrecking the economy because that makes it easier on people with capital to make money in the 5 year time horizon.
For the R's: Deregulation helped but not enough. You had several chances to stop this thing before it wrecked a whole lot of people's lives, but you chickened out when you thought about how the press and D's would play it. "R's slowdown housing boom with regulations" or some such. Please grow a collective sack and do what you think is right, and have the gravitas to back it up. R's get an F on doing their job in protecting the common good. Forcing the filibuster would have forced the D's to commit to the course.
Congress as a whole: Fail.
Everybody else was doing what they could to make money out of the capital or to spread the risk around.
Yeah... My selfish ass is the one that doesn't want a multi-billion dollar company to go through the pain of transitioning IP addresses and two-way NATs and all that jazz.
There's this funny thing called money. You go ahead and tell some that X million will be lost this year so we can donate address space back to the community. In addition, X million will be a recurring cost after every acquisition due to that donation. After they fire you and your children unto fifteen generations... and anyone that dares to utter a word that rhymes with your name..
As a network security guy in a company with 9 Class B's that are used within the company. (1 is Internet facing) The internal usage of public IP address space is justified by one thing, acquisitions. Every time a company is bought up by our company we have to integrate them into our network. We are already using some RFC1918 space at stub networks(plants/refineries) and for VoIP applications. However, the challenge of integrating 25,000 new IP devices with a conflicting address scope per merger is painful and wasteful.
Hrmmm.... with the permission of my teachers I often skipped class and maintained straight A's. I went to less than 20 days of my AP Calc class.
I spent the spare time studying for Academic Bowl, Academic Decathlon, the Chess Team, and lifting weights...
I would rather have spent that time taking more advanced courses but due to interesting restrictions on what and where classes were to be attended I had to show up and allow the teachers an opportunity to be complicit in working around the 'system'.
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Some people do run Windows 2003 on their desktops for some reason.
Don't ask me dude... I won't touch the stuff. I've just seen it done.
Oh... and regarding the gun prescription. Any family practice doctor would do. Imagine it being the same as getting a handicap plate. You just need a doctor to say you can't handle the normal weapon.
Agreed.
If you figure out how to get politicians to do things in a simple manner, please, let me know.
Certain kinds of palm pistols and cane pistols are illegal. Some of this is hold-over from the late 1800's when that sort of pistol was popular but there was also a resurgence of the use of small highly concealable weapons in the 1930's.
Either way, the prescription is probably to allow the person to legally carry a palm pistol where it would not normally be legal. Similar to crossbow hunting during bow season for disabled hunters who cannot draw a compound or recurve bow.
Actually, just because Obama won the election Iraq finally has a chance. For a discussion of this topic please see recent editorial by Friedman in the NY Times.
Yeah.. I think it's more likely that it's a blend of both. I live in Tulsa (Brookside) and I have a very large pecan that suffered only one large break from the storm and it produced a very large crop this year. Out in Coweta we had about 20 pecan trees and a few of them were known to cycle their production, but other than that everything seemed to be pretty durn predictable.
I have a very large red oak that is producing acorns as well. The Bur Oaks in my dad's front yard are still denting cars unlucky enough to park under them.
I just hope we don't get a late freeze in the spring.. I want big peaches damnit!
Especially when you consider that many scientist's studying Alzheimer's consider Type II Diabetes the best link to understanding Alzheimer's.
Sugar is the devil.
Characterized as a peripheral metabolic disorder and a degenerative disease of the central nervous system respectively, it is now widely recognized that type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) share several common abnormalities including impaired glucose metabolism, increased oxidative stress, insulin resistance and amyloidogenesis. Several recent studies suggest that this is not an epiphenomenon, but rather these two diseases disrupt common molecular pathways and each disease compounds the progression of the other. For instance, in AD the accumulation of the amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta), which characterizes the disease and is thought to participate in the neurodegenerative process, may also induce neuronal insulin resistance. Conversely, disrupting normal glucose metabolism in transgenic animal models of AD that over-express the human amyloid precursor protein (hAPP) promotes amyloid-peptide aggregation and accelerates the disease progression. Studying these processes at a cellular level suggests that insulin resistance and Abeta aggregation may not only be the consequence of excitotoxicity, aberrant Ca(2+) signals, and proinflammatory cytokines such as TNF-alpha, but may also promote these pathological effectors. At the molecular level, insulin resistance and Abeta disrupt common signal transduction cascades including the insulin receptor family/PI3 kinase/Akt/GSK3 pathway. Thus both disease processes contribute to overlapping pathology, thereby compounding disease symptoms and progression.
Biochim Biophys Acta. 2008 Nov 5
Zhao WQ, Townsend M.
Type 2 Diabetes has been linked to Alzheimer's in many ways. The question is, what is the link? If you have any sort of knowledge of diabetes, you will note that diabetes is often accompanied by arterial plaque and inhibited fat metabolism.
To take a note from the summary I would believe that the cause of the plaque on the neurons that cause Alzheimer's is related to the plaque found in the arteries. Possibly the irritation caused by high blood sugars? Maybe some other mechanism depleting essential enzymes or micronutrients that contribute to the body's ability to clean up said plaques? Similar to the frequent occurrence of melanomas that are cleaned up by the immune system until one day... the immune system cannot keep up?
Quoting from
Biochim Biophys Acta. 2008 Nov 5
Zhao WQ, Townsend M.
Characterized as a peripheral metabolic disorder and a degenerative disease of the central nervous system respectively, it is now widely recognized that type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) share several common abnormalities including impaired glucose metabolism, increased oxidative stress, insulin resistance and amyloidogenesis. Several recent studies suggest that this is not an epiphenomenon, but rather these two diseases disrupt common molecular pathways and each disease compounds the progression of the other. For instance, in AD the accumulation of the amyloid-beta peptide (Abeta), which characterizes the disease and is thought to participate in the neurodegenerative process, may also induce neuronal insulin resistance. Conversely, disrupting normal glucose metabolism in transgenic animal models of AD that over-express the human amyloid precursor protein (hAPP) promotes amyloid-peptide aggregation and accelerates the disease progression. Studying these processes at a cellular level suggests that insulin resistance and Abeta aggregation may not only be the consequence of excitotoxicity, aberrant Ca(2+) signals, and proinflammatory cytokines such as TNF-alpha, but may also promote these pathological effectors. At the molecular level, insulin resistance and Abeta disrupt common signal transduction cascades including the insulin receptor family/PI3 kinase/Akt/GSK3 pathway. Thus both disease processes contribute to overlapping pathology, thereby compounding disease symptoms and progression.
Biochim Biophys Acta. 2008 Nov 5
Zhao WQ, Townsend M.
Another interesting theory that I have read was that, like the mammoth, they required too much food to sustain themselves. Considering that they were more muscular and carried less fat mass this may not be a far stretch. They would be less capable during lean times.
Maybe we just outbred them...
A good point.
Problem that it leaves out is the bioavailability of the nutrients available in the food that is grown on the land.
If you plan to be a strict vegan then plan to have a niacin deficiency, even with supplementation as most supplements are not properly absorbed.
There are a host of other problems with the nutrition provided by plants vs animals which is probably why our ancestors developed a need (nutritionally speaking) for animal protein to flesh out their diet.
Dogs can and will eat vegetable matter... problem is it comes out the other end pretty much the same as it went in.
They lack the proper enzymes and intestinal length to properly break down most vegetable matter. That's why it's a great training treat for dogs prone to physical problems exacerbated by obesity (Dachshunds). All of my dogs have been trained using bits of carrot.
Agreed. Apparently I started my EMS just before replying to your post.
It's just hard to watch people give the same tired advice to the masses when the practitioners have already moved beyond that staid methodology.
I have coached many world record holders and professional level athletes(--Mostly football players and MMA fighters). I've attended and read just about everything in regard to sport performance for about the last 10yrs.
Static stretching is a modality is called for pre-performance rarely and to fulfill a specific need. Post performance, esp the day after, it can accompany massage and heat/ice to facilitate bloodflow and recovery.
If your significant other is an MD then she probably has access to all the studies that you would need to read that show that static stretching, in addition to being linked to poor performance, is linked to increased injury rates. (Several studies with women athletes trying to pin down reasons for the higher rate of injury to the ACL and PCL among female athletes as compared to males.)
I would refer you to the writings of Christian Thibaudeau and John Paul Catanzaro.
They are both highly knowledgeable and sought after coaches of people in ice sports. They are often involved in Olympic and professional sports training, and both of them are pro dynamic and anti static for pre-performance warm-ups.
The reason I referenced those two is that their writing is easily available and well-sourced.
I tend goal for several indoor soccer teams (at 285lbs of muscle and anger) and I understand the contortions involved in shot blocking. (Although your target is much smaller, harder, and faster) Try some dynamic warm-ups for the ankles, hips, shoulders, and knees and you'll find yourself a new man.
Actually I have trained dancers, high-jumpers, hurdlers and a slew/bevy/scad of other athletes, and you'll find that they all perform better with a consistent warm up routine that dynamically lengthens and prepares the muscle.
Static stretching mostly lengthens the tendon and leaves the muscle inhibited and unprepared for action.
You can stick with your aged info and beleaguered FAQs but the strength and conditioning world have left you and your paramour behind. Get out there and do some current research, read the last few years worth of ACSM briefs or NCSA journal. Heck you might even be able to find some of this stuff referenced and sourced in Muscle and Fiction.
True.
But you aren't actually measuring the force output capability of the muscle under optimum length. You are measuring the actual force output that can be generated after you have lengthened the tendon.
There are several actions, including tendon length, that work against the muscle's optimum output after a static stretching session. The take-home point is that those factors collude to reduce your ability to generate force and reduce your ability to respond to dynamic force demands. Those two factors increase the likelihood of injury during exercise.
All that being said. I hate seeing Scorpions used as a recommended warm-up. Most people will grind their lumbar vertebra into powder doing that.
This one of those...
Stretch the muscles that you must to achieve your performance goals. It is not uncommon to see competitive bench pressers stretching their lats before a press. This inhibits the antagonist allowing the agonist to exert more force against the implement.
You will also often see Olympic lifters stretching their hip flexors to allow their hips to open up more easily, allowing a better pulling position from the bottom of the lift. (I prefer dynamic warm-ups for this: wideouts, mountain climbers, leg swings)
So, it can vary by sport, but it's better if you find a dynamic exercise that allows the muscle to warm-up and lengthen rather than a static stretch that tends to stretch the tendon more than the muscle.
This study is actually a late-comer to the field. This sort of study has been out for more than a few years.
There are several tricks to this.
1. Dynamic warm-ups that result in a stretch can increase force production. Dynamic flexibility and static flexibility are related but not as linked as you may think.
2. Statically stretching the antagonist to intentionally weaken allow better performance esp on "simple" exercises with one or two predominant agonists. ie Bench press
3. This topic has been a discussion at the last 4 ACSM conferences. There are several studies that point to the existence of "stretch lag period" or "tendon slack" post static stretch. The quandary at this point is how long is the "slack" period. This is especially important for athletes that tend to have problems related to tendon length such as Patella-Femoral Pain Syndrome.
There are some things that were repercussions of the Clinton era. Not that I think the proposal originated with Clinton, but he did go along with proposition that the gov't should twist the arm of banks to give out loans to people that had no reasonable expectation that they could pay them back.
Some bad decisions sleep for years.... Boiling under the surface, and as far as Ponzi schemes go, this one lasted a while.
An alliance of gov't and corporations. Some people are the architects of fascism all the while decrying deregulation as tool of fascists.
Pigs on two feet.
The FactCheck analysis is more detailed than you will find, but plays a little too nice with each side.
For the Dems: Lowering the requirements to qualify for a loan to nothing and not expecting people to try to use that system of easily garnered capital to make a buck is moronic. Therefore, a housing bubble fueled by a fantasy of ever-increasing home values and never-defaulting debtors... I give to the D's. To be fair, the few homeowners that got in under those loans and that will hang-on to those homes owe you a tip of the cap. From me, thanks for wrecking the economy because that makes it easier on people with capital to make money in the 5 year time horizon.
For the R's: Deregulation helped but not enough. You had several chances to stop this thing before it wrecked a whole lot of people's lives, but you chickened out when you thought about how the press and D's would play it. "R's slowdown housing boom with regulations" or some such. Please grow a collective sack and do what you think is right, and have the gravitas to back it up. R's get an F on doing their job in protecting the common good. Forcing the filibuster would have forced the D's to commit to the course.
Congress as a whole: Fail.
Everybody else was doing what they could to make money out of the capital or to spread the risk around.
Not my job... but I can empathize with the network team. I'm security dude... firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, and NAC.
Routing is soooo boring.
Yeah... My selfish ass is the one that doesn't want a multi-billion dollar company to go through the pain of transitioning IP addresses and two-way NATs and all that jazz.
There's this funny thing called money. You go ahead and tell some that X million will be lost this year so we can donate address space back to the community. In addition, X million will be a recurring cost after every acquisition due to that donation. After they fire you and your children unto fifteen generations... and anyone that dares to utter a word that rhymes with your name..
As a network security guy in a company with 9 Class B's that are used within the company. (1 is Internet facing) The internal usage of public IP address space is justified by one thing, acquisitions. Every time a company is bought up by our company we have to integrate them into our network. We are already using some RFC1918 space at stub networks(plants/refineries) and for VoIP applications. However, the challenge of integrating 25,000 new IP devices with a conflicting address scope per merger is painful and wasteful.
Hrmmm.... with the permission of my teachers I often skipped class and maintained straight A's. I went to less than 20 days of my AP Calc class.
I spent the spare time studying for Academic Bowl, Academic Decathlon, the Chess Team, and lifting weights...
I would rather have spent that time taking more advanced courses but due to interesting restrictions on what and where classes were to be attended I had to show up and allow the teachers an opportunity to be complicit in working around the 'system'.
How did this get modded Informative?
WTF?
I think the geek/luddy ratio is getting a little low here.