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High Frequency Hypertrophy
High Frequency Hypertrophy
Todd Bumgardner, MS, CSCS
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We, as lifters, have a knack for making things too complicated. Well enough is never let alone and a deadlift can't simply be a deadlift. It must be transformed into something magical and loaded in such a way that the neuromuscular system is flabbergasted. All of this, in reality, is poppycock.
The truth is the body wants to adapt. No matter what we posit, training is based on the body's ability to adapt and survive. Makes a person think, doesn't it? Especially about training based on huge variations in loading and whether or not it's necessary for muscular hypertrophy. It isn't. High-frequency and consistency are the two pillars of big hypertrophy gains.
High-Frequency Training
We'll start the discussion off with a brief, working definition of high-frequency training. For our simple purpose, let's define high-frequency training as training every day with submaximal effort. See, it's simple—train every day while limiting the use of maximal efforts and maximal loads.
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Most hypertrophy discussions begin with talk about chemical signaling and the body's response to muscle damage. Strangely enough, most of the folks that raise these discussions look more like atrophy specialists than lifters. Again, food for thought.
Rather than posit a discussion on chemical signaling and hormones that are known only by letters and numbers, we'll keep it simple. High-frequency training works because the neuromuscular system is frequently stimulated. Seriously, it's that simple. Mechanical tension at a submaximal level causes the nervous system to respond to meet the demands of the given tasks in terms of volume, intensity, etc. We're back to adaptation and survival. The body wants the task to be easy in an effort to conserve energy. To meet that end,
muscles grow
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In this format, training stress accrues over time due to the continual use of submaximal loads. At the end of a training phase we'll "push into the red" and tax the body with close to maximal loads and efforts. A de-loading period of a week or two follows after.
How We'll Use It
On top of training every day, we'll also choose two exercises to train during every resistance training session. The continual use of these two exercises adds to the positive training stress accrual, offers mechanical tension for hypertrophy, and builds skill in the given movements. Choose from variations of the four big exercises: squat, deadlift, bench press and overhead press.
When making your selections, keep the following few tips in mind:
Choose movements that you recover well from. Personally, I choose overhead press and deadlift variations because squat and bench press variations take too great of a toll on my body.
Keep the volume on these lifts low. Three to five sets of two to five reps suits our purpose well.
Keep the intensity on these lifts down. These lifts are a glorified ending to the warm-up—an effort to ramp-up the central nervous system. Loads between fifty and sixty percent of your one rep max are perfect.
Think about your weaknesses or what body parts you'd like to hypertrophy. After you've considered the first three points, your hypertrophy goals will dictate your high-frequency exercise selection.
These high-frequency exercises are used during the four resistance training sessions per week. Each session is focused on a given compound exercise. (The four mentioned above).
Rep schemes are low. Main exercises will use between three and five reps, while assistance work sets will use no greater than eight reps. We'll accrue stress by building volume in these rep ranges. Keep in mind that these exercises are not to be done at close to maximal effort—there should always be a few reps left in the tank at the end of each set.
To keep the nervous system ramped-up, and to stick to our high-frequency regimen, off-days are filled with neural charge training sessions. These brief sessions
promote recovery
and prepare the body to adapt to new training stimuli. If you need to brush up on neural charge training, check out this
Plan your high-frequency hypertrophy training in twelve week blocks. Twelve weeks offer the perfect amount of time for stress accrual, adaptation and super-compensation. Of course, you'll super-compensate from week to week (sometimes intra-weekly) but in the grand scheme of the mass game a long cycle works well.
The twelve-week cycle consists of three smaller four-week cycles. During those four weeks, build volume and intensity during the first three weeks and de-load on the fourth by cutting volume. You'll do well to keep the intensity constant (or even increase it) on week four. The volume cut
promotes recovery
and the constant intensity keeps the nervous system prepared for future training.
Before we move on, we have to make a quick backtrack to our two high-frequency training selections and how to plan them for twelve weeks. It's simple; you have two options.
Option one consists of keeping the same two exercises for twelve weeks and manipulating their volume and intensity of loading. If you're prone to over-use issues, however, this isn't the option for you.
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If over-use is an issue, you'd suit yourself well to rotate exercise variations every four weeks. As an example, let's say that you've chosen the deadlift and the overhead press as your two high-frequency exercises. If that is the case, then you've chosen wisely.
Rather than using conventional deadlifts and the strict overhead press for the entire twelve weeks, you'll choose a similar variation for each that changes after each week for de-load. Here's an example:
Month 1: Conventional Deadlift and Strict Overhead Press
Month 2: Rack Pull and Seated Overhead Pin Press
Month 3: Snatch Grip Deadlift and 1 Arm Dumbbell Overhead Press
By rotating exercises you stay ahead of the overuse and overtraining curve, if you're apt to fall victim to either. Keeping the exercises relatively specific to two patterns allows for a strong nervous system adaptation along with our bigger purpose, improved hypertrophy.
A Sample Day
Before I cut you loose to give high-frequency hypertrophy training a go, take a look at a sample day from a twelve week high-frequency cycle. For our example, we'll use a deadlift day.
This article is postulated in contrast to conventional hypertrophy training wisdom. Most conjecture that continual, heavy muscle damage is necessary for dramatic gains in musculature hypertrophy. Once again, I'll dare say poppycock.
In reality, hypertrophy training is a long haul. No matter what you hear, four to six weeks won't cut it. Keep consistent with high-frequency training schedules cycle after cycle and you'll build the size and strength you're after.
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Great (& funny) review. Love the figure!
But still the same problem with hard capes & shield attachment!? Jezuz.
Still, I've found the shields I have attach well if you clip them to the actual hand. Not sure if this'll work for Vikor.
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I agree with your views on the Star Wars Concept figures. For a bit there, they were the only Star Wars figures I was buying (or trying to buy). I LOVE concept figures. This is certainly one of the best in that category. I'm so glad he's part of the sub. I do not wana miss this guy.
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Really looking forward to Vikor! Great review as usual PD.
200X fan? Classic fan? What does that mean? I'm a MotU fan!!!
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Eamon just has to get in on everything, huh?
Vikors looking cool, not to fussed about the slight articulation problem as he still moves enough for my needs. I like the idea of a viking character, ignoring him being a 'he-man' though lol. Think I'll clip his shield on the other way around though, looks odd to me having his hand sticking out of the end of it.
Very nice review.
He looks awesome.
Too bad about the loose shield, though.
Fictional characters are just that. Fictional. They have no personality or free will of their own.
Writers and editors mold them to their own wants and needs.
All we as the audience and fans can do is pick and choose our favorite interpretation and ignore the rest.
While he is growing on me a little, Vikor is still one I'm not particularly interested in. While I like the idea of getting new unreleased characters, (I was ecstatic about getting a He-Ro figure even if his new bio stinks) I don't particularly care for this one.
Maybe it's because I don't like Pre-Filmation elements. Or maybe it's because this guy is simply a He-Man variant and thus I feel should not be a monthly character. You could say with the subscription being all in now that it makes little difference, but then again the result is multiple He-Man variants instead of more individual characters. Again while it wasn't the only factor, this was a major reason for 20XX's premature end.
I don't object to concept art characters being made, I just wish they would do what Star Wars did and acknowledge them as concept characters and not force them into the continuity thus changing what I know and love.
I will say the figure is very well sculpted and detailed. Aside from the over ridged cape. This is one of the reasons I actually like cloth capes for figures.
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Did he have the new ankle joint?
What's it like?
Can't wait for this figure!
I cannot wait for my Conan figure to arrive.
Can someone PM me the US number for Matty? I want to talk to someone who might has a clue of what is going on.
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I'm really excited about this new character. The human characters have always been my favorites. I hope they continue to bring in more as time goes on with the line.
Good job, PD.
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Lord of Destruction, you can still enjoy what you love! Just because in the Classics canon there are things you don't like, you do not have to cease enjoying the toyline. I love all the bios so far, but if you don't, you are free to ignore them. If you get toys you do not want, sell them, I guess. I love the variations, although Vikor really isn't one...
Just my thoughts and opinions, though...!
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Yes!!!! I've been waiting for this review ever since he was revealed at sdcc. Simply amazing figure.
Although I like (or at least, appreciate) all areas of the MOTU world, it is the pre-Filmation era and concept stages that I love. As such, I already know Vikor will be one of my favourite MOTUC figures.
He looks awesome.
If I had to pick one minor niggle, I'd like face to be tougher and meaner looking - it looks a little too "innocent" and young. But that's a very small gripe, and overall, I'm so excited about this guy.
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At first when Vikor was unveiled I was like "who?"..."what?". Now after the pics slowly seeped onto the internet and now with this review I'm sold on him. Love the PoG sticker, the design, sculpt, and accessories (especially the chains and rusty-look weapons). I'm even not a Conan fan that much at all either, but I'm as big a MOTU fan as they come and I just have to have Vikor. He does have great importance as a character/figure imo being the concept that he was to the original line. I'd rather he faced Gygor rather than "Oo-Larr" though.
Anyways, another sweet lol-worthy review, Pixel D. You got me with the "VIK OR, VIK ORR" ala the classic commercials as well as your trademark "Brit ish right right" that you throw in every so often with the Eamon pic.
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As usual, I love all of your reviews Dan, but adding a hilarious pic of Eamon made this video extra special.
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Thanks for the review! I was wondering about the ankle. I'm glad it seems to lock into place. The figure looks great. I'm not overly exited about Vikor but I do like the idea of concepts and he's growing on me. Bring on the new year and more awesome MOTUC!
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Cool review, but I can't believe that you made no mention of the new ankle joint. And, to a lesser, degree, the point on the shield.
He is amazing!! Together he-man and Battle-cat the best figure so far(IMO of course)!!
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Nice review, though from a lot of the stuff mentioned, I'm less interested in the figure now...
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Last year's Ghostbusters: The Video Game was practically Ghostbusters 3, a reunion of the main cast from the 1980s movies in virtual form. The next one is more like a Gauntlet or Robotron sequel.
Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime will be a download-only four-player cooperative action game, according to a USA Today story about the game. Sanctum of Slime won't feature voices from the movies' stars and seems to be more of a fast-action arcade shooter, as opposed to the previous games' more cinematic and story-centric third-person shooter.
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Ron Baron, a big name in the small-cap world, has a definitive answer for all those investors frightened by the stock-market gyrations of August: "Summer '11 is not Fall '08."
In his latest quarterly letter to clients, the Baron Funds chief investment officer tries to make some sense of the precipitous market declines that occurred last month amid the protracted debt-ceiling debate, the S&P downgrade of U.S. credit and the banking and political crisis swirling over too-big-to-bail Italy and Spain.
Baron reminds investors how much worse things were in 2008. After the fall of Lehman, he writes, "We were startled to hear that significant declines in sales were taking place magnitudes larger than any we had ever heard about." Businesses responded by cutting expenditures, firing workers and reducing pay while frozen capital markets prevented businesses from borrowing to sustain their operations.
In contrast, today's U.S. banks have been successfully recapitalized (and Baron argues Europe has no choice but to recapitalize its banks); capital is available and cheap; growth businesses such as in Silicon Valley are hiring again; and corporate profits are beating consensus estimates.
Best of all, Baron argues that stocks are a bargain: "The S&P 500 Index has increased a total of only 6.4% over the entire past twelve years! Earnings during that period have more than doubled! This means valuations are about half what they were twelve years ago. Stocks now also yield more than ten year Treasury bonds. This has been a rare event during the past fifty years."
So how did fears of a dysfunctional government in Washington and European debt contagion obscure the comparative strengths we enjoy today versus 2008? Baron blames high-frequency computer trading. Representing more than 70% of daily exchange volume, computer trading "allows investors to "panic" and buy and sell at inopportune times.
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William "Bill" Shea's wheelchair sits in the corner of his basement. It is both a reminder of the past and a foreshadowing of the future. At 59, Shea embodies the qualities of an Olympian. He is physically fit, resilient and determined. This has not always been the case.
As a child, Shea struggled with respiratory ailments, undiagnosed dyslexia and a difficult home environment before finding an outlet in sports. As he grew into adulthood, Shea played football and rugby, participated in boxing and martial arts, and trained for the Olympics in the 400M sprint. As an elite runner, he participated in more marathons and ultra-marathons than he can count.
Along the way, he overcame his learning disabilities to earn an interdisciplinary studies degree from Old Dominion University and a master's degree in history from National University. When he wasn't in school or training, Shea worked on archeological digs, served as an interpreter for the National Park Service and joined the Navy.
While serving in the Navy, Shea heard that Olympic bobsled teams were recruiting military personnel. Still carrying his dream of participating in the Olympics, he immediately took and passed the physical. Moving to Lake Placid, N.Y., he trained on what were, at the time, the most treacherous competitive bobsled runs in the world.
In the winter of 1987, while on a training run, the bobsled Shea was riding crashed. Shea estimates that the sled was traveling nearly 100 miles an hour and pulling about 4-g's when it went too high on a curve called Big Shady, hitting the curve's lip, sliding down into the trough and becoming airborne. When the sled hit the run again, Shea took the brunt of the impact. While everyone else walked away from the accident, he was hospitalized with a skull fracture and traumatic brain injury.
Unable to afford hip replacement surgery and unwilling to quit participating in sports, Shea took up wheelchair sports. When his arthritic knees and hips would not allow him to sit in the tucked position required for wheelchair sports, Shea took up hand cycling, setting a record at the 1998 LaSalle Banks Chicago Marathon and becoming one of the first hand cyclists to participate in the Boston Marathon. As a member of the U.S. Hand Cycle Olympic team, he participated in races all over the world.
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Washington, D.C. – Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released a draft of legislation that would prevent a shortage in the global helium supply by ensuring access to the Federal Helium Reserve for helium-dependent industries, including manufacturing, the medical community and federal research programs.
The Helium Stewardship Act of 2013 would allow the Federal Helium Reserve to continue operating under the current system through September 30, 2014. The bill would establish an auction of 10 percent of the helium in the reserve, beginning in the 2015 fiscal year, with an additional 10 percentage points added to the auction every year, ensuring a smooth transition away from federal ownership.
"Ensuring access to the federal helium supply is critical to manufacturers, the medical community and employers across the country," Wyden said. "Senator Murkowski and I welcome input as we continue to work on this legislation that will provide market certainty for users and ensure the taxpayers receive their fair share of the revenue from the sale of crude helium."
"It's important that the committee urgently address this matter to avoid a potential helium supply disruption," Murkowski said. "It's my hope that interested parties will share their thoughts on our discussion draft and we'll be able to introduce a bill in the near future. I am confident that, continuing to work with Chairman Wyden, we can develop legislation that avoids further disruption of the helium supply, provides a fair return to taxpayers, and provides clear guidance for management of the Reserve as it is depleted."
Under current law, the Federal Helium Reserve would be unable to serve non-federal customers once the program's debt is retired. The Federal Helium Reserve supplies about 40 percent of domestic and 30 percent of world helium demand. The reserve is expected to have enough revenue to repay its debt to the federal government – and end sales to private customers – sometime this fiscal year. At this point in time, there are limited supply alternatives for helium and the abrupt closure of the reserve to commercial customers would disrupt major parts of the U.S. economy.
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Talking to Paul Stoddart before I get in the car
Getting ready to climb aboard
It's a snug fit in the passenger seat
Braking for the final turn
Miss San Jose Grand Prix, Marivel Salgado
All photos by Bob
When ex-Champ Car President Dick Eidswick
asked me at the Cleveland GP if I wanted a ride in the
Minardi F1x2 Champ Car 2-seat car at the next race in
Mont-Tremblant, Canada I could not say yes fast enough.
Who would not want a ride in these wonderful ex-Minardi F1
2-seat cars that are as close to the ultimate performance of
a Champ Car as anything on this planet, and to do it on the
undulating, high-speed Mont-Tremblant track was the icing on
the cake.
Imagine then my disappointment when I had to
email Dick and tell him I had to forego my trip to
Mont-Tremblant because my father, who was fighting to stay
alive from cancer, had taken a turn for the worse.
Sometimes even my love for racing has to take a backseat to
more pressing issues.
Dad would die a couple of days later and,
because I was able to be at his bedside in his last days, I
never regretted canceling that trip.
Because of this tragic event and all the
post-funeral logistics to address I missed the Toronto and
Edmonton races too. So it wasn't until the San Jose GP that I
was back at the race track and Dick was kind enough to offer
me a ride the first time he saw me on Friday. OK, this
wasn't a track as spectacular as Mont-Tremblant, but
regardless, knew
it would be a day I would never forget.
A fast call by Dick to Brandi Latimer (last
year's Face of Champ Car) who schedules the time of the rides
and my time was set for 11:45 Sunday morning. Dick
said to get
there by 11:00 to get your medical exam and suited up.
Sunday Morning
Because I could not wait, I arrived at the staging compound
outside the last turn of the short 1.4-mile San Jose street
circuit at 10:45, a full hour before I was due to be in the
A large gathering of thrill seekers had surrounded the tent
that housed the two orange and white cars, lured there by
the sound of the ear piercing F1 engines warming up.
The sound is unique to racing, an intoxicating crescendo of
music that screams out the exhaust headers of the short
stroke naturally aspirated V10.
The first order of business was to sign in
and John Hancock all the lawsuit waivers. Next was a
visit with the doctor who asked me a few questions about my
medical history and checked my blood pressure. I was
given a clean bill of health.
There were a total of eight of us taking a
ride that day. Two people had won the rides at a
charity auction the night before. Miss San Jose Grand
Prix, Marivel Salgado, was getting a ride as part of her
reward for winning the title the previous night, and there
was even a businessman from Japan.
I was in the second group to go out so I had
to wait in the hot drivers uniform until the cars returned
from their first run. The full outfit, including Nomex
underwear, a balaclava, drivers suit, shoes and helmet are
toasty warm under the hot California sunshine.
Paul Stoddart, the man behind these
wonderful 2-seat cars, came over to shake my hand. He
said to me, "You're up next. Time is short so we need
to get you in the car quickly."
Now I know what those sports car drivers go
through when they make a driver change during a pitstop.
OK, so they didn't get me in the car that
quickly because at 5'-11" and over 200 pounds getting me
into the passenger seat wasn't the easiest thing but once I
got my knees past the bulkhead I slid right down with no
problem. Everyone was doing their job with haste and I was
ready to go in several minutes.
They buckled my seat belts and Zsolt
Baumgartner, my pilot this day, lit the engine. It was
time to go.
Hold on tight
Others who had gone before me warned to watch out for the
braking, you'll bang your head on the bulkhead in front of
Zsolt dropped it into first and we were away.
As soon as he made the left onto the track's main straight
he nailed the throttle.
No warm-up, nothing. 100% throttle for
a good half a mile down Almaden Blvd. This
wasn't you're typical Sunday drive that's for sure.
Now I know why the doctor wanted to know what I had for
breakfast. "Damn," I remember saying to myself,
"This baby could get it on," the engine pulled hard all the
way to Turn 1.
The acceleration was incredible. I had to
stick my head out around the side of the bulkhead separating
Zsolt and I so I could see just how fast we were going.
There was no way I was missing anything.
As the engine ran up to 19,000 RPM after
each gear change I could feel the piercing sound of the
engine right behind me. Despite having earplugs in I
still felt a twinge of pain.
As we approached the first turn hairpin I
pinned my head backwards against the headrest in
anticipation of more braking force than I had ever
experienced. We passed the No. 3 braking marker and
then Zsolt hit the brakes. I managed to keep my head
upright but indeed, these cars really 'honker' down in a
I got the sense Zsolt went easy on me in Turn
1 so I could get used to what was to come. Although I
didn't see much down the straight I distinctly remember
seeing the fans taking pictures out the side of my eye as we
rounded the 180-degree hairpin.
The braking for Turn 2 and 3 was fairly tame
compared to Turn 1, but I still had to force my head
backwards to overcome the deceleration. Although I
could not see his feet my guess is Zsolt was left foot
braking because he went from full throttle to full braking
almost instantaneously. There was no transition period for
my head. It went from being pinned against the
headrest to wanting to slam forward against the bulkhead at
what seemed like the same time.
As we blasted down the backstraight (Market
Street) it was full throttle through the esses, not even a blip
of the throttle, and then another hard braking zone for the
The short spurt down Balbach St. took all of a couple of
seconds before we broke for the final right-hander which put
us back on the main straight for the start of lap 2.
With the tires even warmer Zsolt was ready to
go even faster. As we hit the braking zone for the
Turn 1 hairpin this time he went all the way to the No. 2
braking marker before slamming the brakes. Massive
deceleration I remember saying to myself as I fought to hold
my head upright.
How difficult it really must be to pass in
F1. The braking zone felt like it was no more than 75
feet from over 180 mph down to about 35 mph.
Zsolt clicked off the final two laps without
fanfare, each lap faster than the previous one. Then
it was back to the pits and the end of the ride of a
By this time I was beginning to feel rather
hot in the confined cockpit on this warm sunny day.
Anyone who says race drivers are not athletes needs to take
a ride in one of these cars. Between the constant
pounding of your body over the bumps, to the longitudinal
and lateral g-forces, and the heat, it really is quite
Getting out of the car was a lot easier than
getting in. Talking to the other lucky passengers and
hearing what they thought, the reaction was the same.
Everyone was thrilled. It will be a day we all will
never forget.
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The 2-seater Car is one of Champ Car's biggest assets
Why Bernie Ecclestone could, and should, buy Champ Car now
Champ Car rocks the streets of Times Square in Manhattan
Why did Fernández leave Champ Car? Follow the money....
Next Generation Champ Car: A call for F1 tires
Coming to America? Interview with Ralph Firman Jr.
Open Wheel Racing defeats IRL - Champ Car
Series to continue
Open Wheel Racing needs a win by OWRS - Part
The next generation Champ Cars - Part 2
CART next for Villeneuve?
New deal for CART may be better than first thought
The genius of one Bernard Ecclestone
CART Champ Cars, the next generation - Part 1
Details emerging on CART race in Seoul, South Korea
CART hits a Grand Slam in Mexico City. Now What?
Top-10 Challenges facing new CART owners
CART can still race in Europe, but will they?
For CART, time is of the essence
Making sense of CART's situation
Push-to-Pass means no more parades for CART
An interview with CART's David Clare
What did Roger Penske really mean?
CART must differentiate itself - clearly
turbos make for superior street and race engines
For CART, it's now or never
Chicken or the Egg?
War of the worlds
What Bernie brings to CART
CART, Driven to where?
Is it really about CART vs. IRL?
If I were
The Champ Cars and St. Pete
informal survey of the St. Pete race attendees
Artificial Dissemination
CART, F1 coming to grips with doing business in China
Cancel the Funeral
CART and F1 must, and will, share a common V-10 engine
Book Review: Autocourse 2002-2003 F1 yearbook
Does CART need Michael Andretti?
2002 CART TV ratings by the numbers
Now is the time for CART to redefine its ladder system
CART gets a taste of tifosi passion in Mexico
affair in Mexico
Making sense out of Bernie/CART rumors
Changing of the guard?
Mom, apple pie, CART and....Formula1?
Why CART and Bernie make perfect dance partners
Miami should be a CART and ALMS kickoff party
David slays Goliath in Miami
What to make of Gurney's F1 team
Taking it to the streets, why Miami is a war
CART, like the Phoenix, about to rise up from the ashes
There's more
than handwriting on the wall.....and here's the concrete facts
Day weekend 1952...A weekend I'll never forget
owners show support for CART
CART still
may be in cards for Villeneuve
Bryan Herta, USA's next best chance for F1
Is Paul
Ricard in CART's future?
CART's real attendance numbers
Is Brands
Hatch suitable for Champ Cars?
An Unappealing Appeal, George reigns in GEORGE-town
A candid
conversation with Chris Pook
More than meets the eye with CART's turbo move
It's time for CART to define its own future
upgrades at Road America
Back-Breaking work
rebirth of CART
hidden costs of Indy Car racing
CART's road and street circuits are clicking with the fans
Is it sport, or a P.T. Barnum show?
IRL at Fontana - a victim of friendly fire
CART's 2003 race venues #1 in the world
Meet the Gonzalez brothers
ISC is making enemies in Miami
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Tropical storm forms south of Puerto Rico
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Gabrielle has formed south of Puerto Rico, resulting in storm warnings.
Forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said late Wednesday that Gabrielle was centered about 70 miles (113 kilometers) south of Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Maximum sustained winds were 40 mph (64 kph). It was moving to the northwest at 8 mph (13 kph).
Tropical storm warnings were issued for Puerto Rico and parts of the Dominican Republic, from Cabo Engano to Cabo Frances Viejo. It was expected to bring 3 to 6 inches of rain to parts of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and eastern portions of the Dominican Republic.
Forecasters expect the storm's center to pass between the islands on Thursday and eventually curve back to the northeast away from the U.S. mainland. However, storm paths are difficult to predict accurately days in advance.
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Geothermal Heating can increase the value of your home by $1,451
At the moment, there are many people who are struggling under the pressure of having to deal with excessive energy bills. Because of this reason, it is often wise to look into possible ways of reducing your energy bills. A lot of people have chosen to work with geothermal heating in Dundalk. It is a feasible option, considering that you will barely have to incur some of the expenses and taxes that are associated with being on the grid. The low operating cost of a geothermal heating system has, in fact, attracted a lot of people to switch from their conventional heating systems. Consider the fact that an efficient gas furnace would have an efficiency rating of up to 94%, but a geothermal heating system would deliver up to 400% efficiency rating. Therefore, this means you would actually have your energy bills drop by up to 70%.
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Before you settle on the right Dundalk geothermal heating system for your house, it is important for you to make sure that you think about the prospects and factors that determine the costs of getting this system. The size of your building or home will determine the cost. In most cases, you will spend a bit less on the system if you had a smaller house as compared to someone who has a bigger house. The dynamics of this arrangement can be addressed when you get in touch with professional contractors who will handle the installation on your behalf.
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Former NSA Lawyers Attack Senator Wyden For Hinting At NSA Surveillance Excesses That Are Now Confirmed
from the secrecy-at-all-costs deptFor many, many years we've covered Senator Ron Wyden's seemingly quixotic attempts to signal to the American public (and press) that the NSA was doing a hell of a lot more surveillance than most people believed, even those who were carefully reading the laws. Because secrecy rules meant that he couldn't directly reveal what he'd learned while on the Senate Intelligence Committee, he had to issue vague statements, documents and speeches hinting at things that were going on that he couldn't actually talk about. Of course, now that Ed Snowden leaked a bunch of documents, it's shown that Wyden was absolutely correct in what was going on (and that the American public wouldn't like it).
You'd think that would lead people to have a lot more respect for the incredible efforts he went through to alert people to these issues without breaking the secrecy laws. And, in fact, many more people are aware of those efforts. The Washington Post has a nice article about Wyden's attempts to bring these issues out and to get a real debate going on them.
However, towards the end, the reporter talks to two different former top lawyers at the NSA, who both appear to be really, really angry about Wyden daring to suggest to the public that the NSA wasn't playing straight with the American public. First up, we've got Stewart Baker, the former NSA General Counsel and top Homeland Security official, who is so anti-civil liberties and pro-surveillance that he's almost a caricature of himself -- including claiming that the Boston bombings prove that Americans need less privacy and that civil libertarians complaining about too much surveillance are the real cause for the September 11 attacks.
Not surprisingly, Baker is not at all happy about Wyden's efforts:
"I would characterize what he's been doing as trolling for leaks. And hinting at the kinds of leaks that he wants to see," said Stewart A. Baker, a former official at the NSA and the Department of Homeland Security. "He's directed everybody's attention — who didn't sign the oath that he signed — to places where they might look."Oh really now? These "leaks" wouldn't be necessary if the NSA and its lawyers weren't reinterpreting the law to collect the data on every phone call Americans make. He wasn't "trolling for leaks," -- he was alerting the American public to the sneaky tricks that the NSA has been using to violate the 4th Amendment and collect massive databases on Americans.
Another former NSA lawyer is also quoted in that same article attacking Wyden for his (now infamous) questioning of James Clapper, in which Clapper flat out lied to Wyden, saying that it was untrue that the NSA collects information on millions of Americans.
This tactic has been criticized by people close to the intelligence community. Joel F. Brenner, a former NSA senior counsel, called it a "low dishonorable act" in a recent post at the blog Lawfare. Brenner objected to Wyden "putting Clapper in the impossible position of answering a question that he could not address truthfully and fully without breaking his oath not to divulge classified information."Really? A "low dishonorable act" for asking a rather basic question of the Director of National Intelligence? No, I'd argue that collecting data on every single American's phone calls is a "low dishonorable act." Furthermore, I'd argue that flat out lying to Congress about that collection of data is a "low dishonorable act." But asking the Director of National Intelligence for a straight up answer on what the NSA is doing, which clearly contradicts the plain meaning and intention of the Patriot Act? That's not a "low dishonorable act" at all. As for the claim that this put Clapper in an "impossible position," that's clearly untrue. Clapper could have easily noted that he had answered (or that he would answer) in a classified manner if there really was a legitimate reason for that info to be classified (of course, there never was such a reason).
These attacks are really incredible, and show the lack of shame these former NSA lawyers have. The revelations from Snowden have made it clear that Wyden was doing a real public service, in highlighting massive abuse by the NSA, and now that's public. These lawyers may not like that it's public, but that's not Wyden's fault. The information was going to come out at some point no matter what. Wyden himself points out that this was never a dirty trick, but just exactly what Congress is supposed to be doing in its oversight job:
"You can't do vigorous oversight if the leaders of the intelligence community are misleading the American people, and Congress, in public hearings," Wyden said.This is obviously true, but the likes of Stewart Baker and Joel Brenner apparently believe that no one in the government -- even those in charge of overseeing the NSA efforts -- should be allowed to call out the NSA for its abuse because that might actually lead to proof that the abuse existed. In other words, they want no actual oversight at all.
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Why do I love maps?
Why would I never use GPS?
It's all about the story.
For me, the journey tells a story – as important as the destination. GPS is just about the destination – its clinical precision can be both boring and utterly wrong. When you can read a map well, you are able to tease out the stories in the landscape. You can see how the new road follows an old riverbed, skirts an iron-age fort, or marches ramrod straight along a Roman road. You can see how a town lies on a raised beach, even though it is now 10 miles inland.
In my work as a doula, I see each woman as a having unique body map for each pregnancy. My job is to read the map of the woman and help her navigate the journey. How does her past inform her present body and its response in labour? I read the tightness here, the release there. I follow the path of the acceptance or the fight. The emotional wounds rise up like a raised beach. It is all visible and easily read unless a piece of the map is missing. I can search for months for that missing piece. I read the journey of the body and the baby, the traveller.
Where did this love of maps, of the landscape and of the body, come from? It all started (as it always does) in childhood.
I was trained in map-reading by my dad. He was a cartographer and artist (with a love of geology), and I remember sitting beside him at his drafting board adding trees to the UBC map he was working on. He taught me how maps were created, how he would layer transparencies over the base. He taught me how to read the layers like a story, and how to make the two dimensional world turn into 3D in my mind.
Whenever we went on road trips, he would put my brother and me in charge of the map and the AAA book, and we would act as navigators from the backseat. We could read contour lines, tease out the glacial effects on the landscape, call out igneous! and sedimentary!, then point out all the 3-star motels with swimming pools. In the winter, we would read Country Life magazines, and write longhand letters to faraway places (aka England) to request information. We would write to the British consulate and visit the BCAA to collect maps, and study study study. I can still smell those new maps. I could visualize (and connect with) what a bird must see and feel flying over the British countryside. My dad's descriptions and the map contours turned into real images in my head. Then, when we landed in the UK in 1966 (after an emergency landing in sulfuric Iceland), I remember seeing the patchwork green fields and being amazed that it was exactly as my dad had described. "Look at the tiny cars!" he would say, as we were circling the airport. "They look like ants!" I was hooked on maps, hooked on getting outside my own small world, hooked on travel.
My dad told stories of escaping grimy Manchester and cycling through Derbyshire with friends in the late 1930s, following metal signposts to places like Pott Shrigley (all signs point to Pott Shrigley – I know!), camping in farmer's fields, then riding up to the Cat and Fiddle Pub on top of a peak and watching the smokey towns below. He would show me the map and tell me stories that brought the Peak District to life, from the plague village of Eyam, to the moveable landscape of Chatsworth House. My mother would add stories of the midwives (who taught prenatal yoga in the 1950s) riding their bikes from house to house in the village, and I would trace my finger over the lines on the map and imagine myself riding my bike along those lines. (Did my wish to attend births start then?)
Fast forward to 1982, when Bob and I took our first overseas trip together. By that time, we both felt like veteran European travelers (with 8 trips between us, he had also spent a year in Europe with his intrepid family in the 1960s). So we combined our passions and skills and headed off. We went to the places that we had loved as children – to "Squirrel's Wood" in Elstead, where he had lived, to the Yorkshire Dales where his dad had been stationed during the Second World War, and to the Peak District, where my dad would ride, where my heart still lives. Bob mowed my gran's lawn in Manchester, and ate chocolate eclairs on her path in the sunshine. We stayed on a farm in Somerset at lambing season (I'm never far from birthing mammals), and had a stand-off with a large cow on a bridge in Dorset. We took a ferry to France, stayed in high-ceilinged creaky hotels for 20 Francs and ate tureens of Potage de Legumes in Laon and the Loire (epic)! Our Renault (which we filled with diesel once – seriously) had been bought just for us by a small garage in Crawley, and after an epic repair, that little car took us thousands of miles across the roads of France and Switzerland. We ended the trip with Bob dreaming of owning a sheep farm in Scotland, and me dreaming of helping the sheep birth in the middle of the night.
When I do my client visits, I draw from their stories of their travels to India, Italy, or Guatemala. Each physical journey that they have taken teaches them something about their own bodies, their responses, their patience, their strength. They climb mountains one step at a time. They cry, "I don't think I can do this!" on the West Coast Trail, but they do it! I add each of their stories to my own map of their body for later reference. My own daughter says she was kelp in her birth pool in labour. I add the new word "kelp" onto my map of her - connecting her labour to the water of Boundary Bay, the beach at Point Roberts, her cousin Graham dragging giant strands of kelp up to the cabin, then her sons Jack, then Finn, diving into the world headstrong then feet-first.
So, these days, when I stand with Bob on a path in the Luberon, listening to the sound of les cigales, I look down at the map in my hands and see all the possible routes before us. I see the traced path, and below that, I see a layer of the red soil, and, below that, the geological history of the land. But, I also see the layered stories and histories of all those who have stood on the path, see their labours and births, see children running ahead to that cave over there, see our children climbing to Fort Buoux, see my parents chattering to each other as they drive along the road to Apt, see my brother and his wife cycling towards Bedoin in the distance, and see all the lines that each person has traced on this particular spot.
There's no need for GPS.
It is the journey that tells the story, in life and in birth. Maps are drawn on our bodies layer upon layer… and are held within us.