He suggests the somewhat protectionist idea of putting a tax on products resulting from offshoring, and using the funds to a "Scaling Bank" that will be used to create incentives for keeping production in the US.
The original paper does (of course) discuss various other factors that may contribute to the result. FTFP's "discussion" section:
Several factors could explain the positive association between time spent sitting and higher all-cause death rates. First, time spent sitting might be more easily measured than physical activity and/or may reflect a different aspect of inactivity than other indices usually used in epidemiologic studies. However, this potential misclassification of exposure is unlikely to fully explain our findings, because time spent sitting was significantly associated with mortality even among men and women with the highest levels of physical activity.
Second, time spent sitting might be associated with other unhealthy behaviors that are either not captured or incompletely captured through questionnaires. Total energy expenditure is reduced among individuals who are sedentary. However, consistent with previous studies, the present study found no correlation between physical activity and time spent sitting (r = –0.03). Time spent sitting is also associated with greater food consumption and subsequent weight gain, especially when watching television (16, 34, 35). Time spent sitting was previously shown to be associated with increased weight gain in this cohort (18). While residual confounding by obesity could contribute to the association between sitting time and mortality, this association was attenuated but not eliminated by controlling for or stratifying on body mass index.
Third, prolonged time spent sitting, independent of physical activity, has important metabolic consequences that may influence specific biomarkers (such as triglycerides, high density lipoprotein cholesterol, fasting plasma glucose, resting blood pressure, and leptin) of obesity and cardiovascular and other chronic diseases (8–11). Animal studies have also shown that sedentary time substantially suppresses enzymes centrally involved in lipid metabolism within skeletal muscle, and low levels of daily life activity are sufficient to improve enzyme activity (36–38). Furthermore, substantial evidence in both adults and children from observational studies and randomized clinical trials shows that reducing time spent sitting lowers the risk of obesity and type II diabetes (19, 39–42).
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It's annoying that they hide the research behind paywalls, but my institution have forked over money for access.
The participants were drawn from a mortality study by the ACS begun in 1992. The objective of the 1992 study (184,190 participants) was to investigate the relation between diet and mortality across the population (details in The American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort)
From the section on "Materials and Methods" in the present paper we see that they didn't leave out non-obese people:
We excluded sequentially from this analysis men and women who reported a personal history of cancer (n = 21,785), heart attack (n = 11,560), stroke (n = 2,513), or emphysema/other lung disease (n = 9,321) at the time of enrollment. We also excluded individuals with missing data on physical activity (n = 4,240), missing sitting time (n = 2,954), missing or extreme (top and bottom 0.1%) values of body mass index (n = 2,121), or missing smoking status (n = 1,347) at baseline. Finally, to reduce the possibility of undiagnosed serious illness at baseline that would preclude or interfere with physical activity, we excluded individuals who reported both no daily life activities and no light housekeeping (n = 4,730), as well as those who died from any cause within the first year of follow-up (n = 403). After exclusions, the analytical cohort consisted of 123,216 individuals (53,440 men and 69,776 women) with a mean age of 63.6 (standard deviation, 6.0) years in men and 61.9 (standard deviation, 6.5) years in women when enrolled in the study in 1992.
They did record BMIs and what they found was the following:
We examined the association between time spent sitting
and total mortality in men and women combined, stratified
by body mass index (Table 3). Although time spent sitting
and physical activity were more strongly associated
with mortality among lean persons (for time spent sitting, P_interaction = 0.06; for physical activity, P_interaction = 0.002),
both measures were significantly associated with risk of
total mortality regardless of body mass index.
If you are really interested in understanding quantum field theory and string theory, and willing to invest some serious time into it, you could have a look at the two volumes published by the AMS after the IAS special program in 1996--97. You'll find a link to them here: http://www.math.ias.edu/qft
The goal [of the program] is to create and convey an understanding, in terms congenial to mathematicians, of some fundamental notions of physics... [and to] develop the sort of intuition common among physicists for those who are used to thought processes stemming from geometry and algebra.
They definitely fit your criteria of being aimed at mathematicians, but they might be a bit to thorough for your taste (totaling 1500 pages)..
For classical mechanics, you should also have a look at Arnold -- Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics . It has a very nice geometric viewpoint, and is very math oriented (published in the GTM series from Springer). No physics background required!
Using a real kit together with one of the above adapters will be much better than the ION, but also much more expensive, of course..
Two entry-level kits worth looking at is the Roland TD-3 and the Yamaha DTXplorer. When it comes to real drumming I don't think the ION with the Alesis Drum Module is anywhere near these kits, but I've never actually tried the ION, so you might wanna apply some sodium chloride at this point.
Take a look at this thread for some discussion on using the ION as a real kit:
http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=91581
As you'll see, the people in this thread are mostly negative towards buying the ION if you've got real drumming ambitions.
Then you'll need friends with guitar skills. It's not like Santana will join your band for a couple of hundred $s.. And rocking out to a one-string version of "Mary had a little lamb" doesn't have the same feel to it, you know.
If you're really serious about drumming in Guitar Hero or Rock Band 1 or 2, you should consider buying a proper electronic kit (any kit with MIDI out) together with a MIDI adapter.
As an experiment, Greg Kuperberg
looked at the publication status of the first 100 papers in theoretical high energy physics posted to the arXiv in December 1998. He found that 81 had appeared in journals, 11 were conference proceedings or invited lectures, and 2 were Ph.D. theses. "Thus at least 94 of the 100 have been blessed by some form of peer review," he concludes.
My post was a reply to yourexhalekiss's post, in which he said
A progressive Christian is someone who actually does what the Bible says to do, so I wanted to illustrate the types of things these Christians would be forced to do. I didn't claim that all Christians are "progressive" in this sense.
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
I sure wouldn't like to meet any of those "progressive" Christians..
I will sweep away everything in all your land," says the LORD. "I will sweep away both people and animals alike. Even the birds of the air and the fish in the sea will die. I will reduce the wicked to heaps of rubble, along with the rest of humanity," says the LORD. "I will crush Judah and Jerusalem with my fist and destroy every last trace of their Baal worship. I will put an end to all the idolatrous priests, so that even the memory of them will disappear. For they go up to their roofs and bow to the sun, moon, and stars. They claim to follow the LORD, but then they worship Molech, too. So now I will destroy them! And I will destroy those who used to worship me but now no longer do. They no longer ask for the LORD's guidance or seek my blessings. (Zephaniah 1:2-6 NLT)
Nice bokk, eh?
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Here's Intel co-founder Andy Grove making basically the same point: How to Make an American Job Before It's Too Late (the resulting Slashdot discussion: Intel Co-Founder Calls For Tax On Offshored Labor )
He suggests the somewhat protectionist idea of putting a tax on products resulting from offshoring, and using the funds to a "Scaling Bank" that will be used to create incentives for keeping production in the US.
An interesting (and slightly scary) read.
Several factors could explain the positive association between time spent sitting and higher all-cause death rates. First, time spent sitting might be more easily measured than physical activity and/or may reflect a different aspect of inactivity than other indices usually used in epidemiologic studies. However, this potential misclassification of exposure is unlikely to fully explain our findings, because time spent sitting was significantly associated with mortality even among men and women with the highest levels of physical activity.
Second, time spent sitting might be associated with other unhealthy behaviors that are either not captured or incompletely captured through questionnaires. Total energy expenditure is reduced among individuals who are sedentary. However, consistent with previous studies, the present study found no correlation between physical activity and time spent sitting (r = –0.03). Time spent sitting is also associated with greater food consumption and subsequent weight gain, especially when watching television (16, 34, 35). Time spent sitting was previously shown to be associated with increased weight gain in this cohort (18). While residual confounding by obesity could contribute to the association between sitting time and mortality, this association was attenuated but not eliminated by controlling for or stratifying on body mass index.
Third, prolonged time spent sitting, independent of physical activity, has important metabolic consequences that may influence specific biomarkers (such as triglycerides, high density lipoprotein cholesterol, fasting plasma glucose, resting blood pressure, and leptin) of obesity and cardiovascular and other chronic diseases (8–11). Animal studies have also shown that sedentary time substantially suppresses enzymes centrally involved in lipid metabolism within skeletal muscle, and low levels of daily life activity are sufficient to improve enzyme activity (36–38). Furthermore, substantial evidence in both adults and children from observational studies and randomized clinical trials shows that reducing time spent sitting lowers the risk of obesity and type II diabetes (19, 39–42).
The participants were drawn from a mortality study by the ACS begun in 1992. The objective of the 1992 study (184,190 participants) was to investigate the relation between diet and mortality across the population (details in The American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Study II Nutrition Cohort) From the section on "Materials and Methods" in the present paper we see that they didn't leave out non-obese people:
We excluded sequentially from this analysis men and women who reported a personal history of cancer (n = 21,785), heart attack (n = 11,560), stroke (n = 2,513), or emphysema/other lung disease (n = 9,321) at the time of enrollment. We also excluded individuals with missing data on physical activity (n = 4,240), missing sitting time (n = 2,954), missing or extreme (top and bottom 0.1%) values of body mass index (n = 2,121), or missing smoking status (n = 1,347) at baseline. Finally, to reduce the possibility of undiagnosed serious illness at baseline that would preclude or interfere with physical activity, we excluded individuals who reported both no daily life activities and no light housekeeping (n = 4,730), as well as those who died from any cause within the first year of follow-up (n = 403). After exclusions, the analytical cohort consisted of 123,216 individuals (53,440 men and 69,776 women) with a mean age of 63.6 (standard deviation, 6.0) years in men and 61.9 (standard deviation, 6.5) years in women when enrolled in the study in 1992.
They did record BMIs and what they found was the following:
We examined the association between time spent sitting and total mortality in men and women combined, stratified by body mass index (Table 3). Although time spent sitting and physical activity were more strongly associated with mortality among lean persons (for time spent sitting, P_interaction = 0.06; for physical activity, P_interaction = 0.002), both measures were significantly associated with risk of total mortality regardless of body mass index.
The goal [of the program] is to create and convey an understanding, in terms congenial to mathematicians, of some fundamental notions of physics ... [and to] develop the sort of intuition common among physicists for those who are used to thought processes stemming from geometry and algebra.
They definitely fit your criteria of being aimed at mathematicians, but they might be a bit to thorough for your taste (totaling 1500 pages)..
Sorry for replying to my own post.
For classical mechanics, you should also have a look at Arnold -- Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics . It has a very nice geometric viewpoint, and is very math oriented (published in the GTM series from Springer). No physics background required!
Using a real kit together with one of the above adapters will be much better than the ION, but also much more expensive, of course..
Two entry-level kits worth looking at is the Roland TD-3 and the Yamaha DTXplorer. When it comes to real drumming I don't think the ION with the Alesis Drum Module is anywhere near these kits, but I've never actually tried the ION, so you might wanna apply some sodium chloride at this point.
Take a look at this thread for some discussion on using the ION as a real kit: http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=91581 As you'll see, the people in this thread are mostly negative towards buying the ION if you've got real drumming ambitions.
Then you'll need friends with guitar skills. It's not like Santana will join your band for a couple of hundred $s.. And rocking out to a one-string version of "Mary had a little lamb" doesn't have the same feel to it, you know.
If you're really serious about drumming in Guitar Hero or Rock Band 1 or 2, you should consider buying a proper electronic kit (any kit with MIDI out) together with a MIDI adapter.
Here are two choices of adapters:
http://www.rockband.com/users/sethmeisterg/gallery
http://www.bytearts.com/midi/index.htm
In it he writes:
As an experiment, Greg Kuperberg looked at the publication status of the first 100 papers in theoretical high energy physics posted to the arXiv in December 1998. He found that 81 had appeared in journals, 11 were conference proceedings or invited lectures, and 2 were Ph.D. theses. "Thus at least 94 of the 100 have been blessed by some form of peer review," he concludes.
A progressive Christian is someone who actually does what the Bible says to do, so I wanted to illustrate the types of things these Christians would be forced to do. I didn't claim that all Christians are "progressive" in this sense.
I sure wouldn't like to meet any of those "progressive" Christians..
Nice bokk, eh?
Everyone who thinks nnnneedles is just after some karma, mod me up.
Thank you.