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Bruce Carter was standing on the basketball court of the Gold's Gym in Bloomington, IL, a couple of months ago when a woman came over to the unused half of the court and started doing lunges.
Then another woman walked over to the court to do her workout. Then another woman. Then another.
Because the Gold's Gym did not have the space for the exercises these women wanted to do, the women created their own workout space on the empty basketball court.
That was more than enough proof for Carter, a health club design consultant, that clubs need to create space for the growing number of members who want a type of strength training different from pumping iron.
Functional training — as opposed to traditional strength training on machines — has become a growing trend in clubs around the country. And the need for space for functional training has grown with it.
Is functional training here to stay?
"Unequivocally. There's no doubt about that," Carter says.
John Morgan, who co-owns the Bloomington Gold's Gym, says he first noticed a trend toward functional training a few years ago when a lot of the smaller dumbbells and plates seemed to disappear. But they weren't missing. They were just "hiding" in the cubbyholes, corners and the other far reaches of his 57,000-square-foot gym. Several clients were taking the dumbbells and the plates to quieter areas of the gym to do functional training exercises on their own.
"We've got a million dollars worth of equipment, yet people were taking simple items like rubber bands and balls and light weights," Morgan says. "At first, we were rebelling and a little frustrated because we would have to pick up all these items and return them to their original location. Then I thought, 'Why fight it? Let's give them what they're asking for.'"
Craig LePage, the president of FitnessProgramsPlus.com based in Huntersville, NC, and the fitness director at two Precision Fitness clubs in North Carolina, says functional training is simply more fun for people who are intimidated by machines.
"There's a lot more creativeness in functional training, and that's where a lot of the trainers come in," LePage says. "They can get extremely creative and do a tremendous amount of variation to every exercise that they're trying to perform. They're trying to individualize it to the person and what their background is. In the olden days, you would just get on a free weight machine and do what the machine does."
Rudy Fabiano, president and design director of Fabiano Designs, says about three out of every four new clubs he designs has space dedicated solely for functional training.
"I think everybody agrees that non-membership dues is an important component of a successful club," Fabiano says. "Functional training, which is really an extension of personal training, is one of the key points that a lot of the clubs are now focusing on."
Fabiano is designing one club in New York that will have its functional training area more out in the open and another club in South Carolina that will have its functional training area more out of the way.
"No one will buy it if they don't see it (functional training)," says Carter, the owner of Optimal Fitness Design Systems International in Weston, FL. "But at the same time, you can't put it out in the center of your floor where everyone sees it. Then the people doing it are feeling uncomfortable and a little intimidated, especially the women."
The average square footage of clubs has risen from 25,000 square feet to 35,000 square feet in the last five years, says Fabiano. Some of that area has gone to functional training areas, but little has gone to the machine areas.
In fact, Carter encouraged a client to remove 10 machines to make room for functional training space. Morgan says there's almost not enough room in his Gold's Gym for functional training.
"We wish we could get rid of some of our equipment to make room for this," Morgan says. "It seems to be the most popular thing going on in the gym right now."
So what about those "old-fashioned" strength machines? Will future fitness facilities be filled with empty space and no machines?
That's unlikely. Experts in the manufacturing industry say that you can't substitute resistance training with medicine ball training. One manufacturer was more blunt, saying that the rise of functional training (enhanced by more emphasis on personal training) comes down to dollars and cents.
"I think there's a lot of hype to it," the manufacturer says. "It's a tool that private trainers use extensively to market what they do and try to bolster their economic capabilities.
"When you get into the core work and you have specific balance requirements and position requirements, it shows a need for a private trainer. Whether there's validity to that kind of training, that's debatable. That kind of training is exactly what a physical therapist does to rehab a post-surgery individual, but it's not necessarily a component to strength training."
Carter says that the functional training trend can be profitable to club owners.
"If a good personal training staff is there, this core functional training area ends up becoming the highest revenue per square foot in the club," Carter says. "We constantly have to be thinking about, 'What's that deconditioned person thinking?'"
Clubs are converting some unusual spaces into functional training areas. Court House Plus in Vernon, CT, converted what used to be a member social area into a functional training area. Jamie Fairly, general manager of Court House Plus, had a bar that had been part of a bar and restaurant years ago taken out to make room for a personal fitness area.
Although the change has had little impact on the club's revenues as a personal training operation, it has taken trainers off of the exercise floor where they were competing for space with members and has given them a private area, Fairly says.
Gina Berta is the principal and managing partner of Breathe Fitness Studio in Mountainside, NJ, a one-year-old, 5,200-square-foot health club that focuses almost entirely on functional training. She has increased her staff of personal trainers from four to eight in a year's time and plans to add two more in the near future. The number of personal training sessions has increased, too, from almost 300 sessions in November to more than 500 in February.
Both of LePage's Precision Fitness clubs have added functional training equipment. For LePage, functional training hasn't been a big factor in ushering in a lot of new members as much as it has been in retaining current members.
Morgan says his Gold's Gym is spending thousands of dollars on equipment strictly for functional training, such as footballs, ropes and elastics. The gym is undergoing a $1 million renovation that is scheduled for completion in September. The remodeling includes a new functional training area carved out of what had been the other half of a basketball court.
"We're listening, basically, to the market," Morgan says. "We didn't invent this (functional training). It's kind of coming whether we like it or not. We want to give our members what they're asking for. That's why we're pretty confident in spending the money. It's a no-brainer to give up half of the basketball floor."
Creating a Functional Training Area in Your Club
Bruce Carter, owner of Optimal Designs Systems International in Weston, FL, offers three topics to consider before adding a functional training area in your club:
Space Requirements
To offer functional training, clubs need to create space for the functional training equipment — medicine balls and racks, exercise balls and racks, floor mats, bands, etc. The key is to allow for freedom of movement for a minimum of three to four people and adequate storage for selected items. Carter recommends a minimum of 300 square feet and a maximum of 1,000 square feet for larger clubs.
Location Within Your Club
The functional training area should be off to the side and not out in the center of the exercise equipment areas. Deconditioned people will feel uncomfortable doing certain movements in the open. However, the area should not be behind closed doors. It should be visible so members can see the movements that help promote the area and exercises.
Organization and Cleanliness
A functional training area should include a wide variety of items for exercises. However, as a result, these areas often end up being disorganized, messy and hard to keep clean. Therefore, extra attention needs to be placed on proper storage units to keep the area organized. Also, the area needs to be attended to more often, including putting items back in their proper place.
Functional Training Is All the Buzz
Although it has been around a long time, the term "functional training" has become the new buzzword, especially as it relates to core training and helping people with their everyday chores such as lifting a small child and carrying a bag of groceries.
Some of the functional training clients at Breathe Fitness Studio in Mountainside, NJ, are athletes who use functional training to improve their athletic skills. Although standard resistance training machines aren't used in functional training, cable machines are sometimes used, along with medicine balls, bands and balance disks.
"A strong, stable core is necessary to help prevent injuries," says Gina Berta, the principal and managing partner at Breathe Fitness Studio. She compares functional training methods to those in Pilates and yoga. "The most effective means of training the core," she adds, "is in standing and moving postures that incorporate extending, bending, twisting and rotating, something not done on fixed machines."
Dr. Leonard Kaminsky, a professor of exercise science at Ball State University in Muncie, IN, runs an adult physical fitness program on campus, mostly for middle-aged and older adults. Kaminsky considers himself a strong advocate for functional training.
"It amazes me that we're back to medicine balls," Kaminsky says. "But they work. The bottom line is the functional training aspect of these things work."
Opinions vary about how long the functional training trend will continue. Although Rob Bishop of Elevations Health Club in eastern Pennsylvania keeps close tabs on fitness trends and some of his well-traveled clients tell him about the latest trends in other states, he says functional training hasn't been in demand at his club.
"Right now, we definitely would classify it as a trend," Bishop says. "Whether or not it will become a permanent part of fitness, I think it's a little early to tell. I think certain aspects of it are going to be a permanent part of the fitness program. At the same time, I think a lot of those things already were a part of the fitness program. I just think now we're giving it a name."
Bruce Carter of Optimal Fitness Design Systems International in Weston, FL, says that the trend away from strictly muscle building is significant. He points out that fewer bodybuilding shows are on ESPN these days. He also points out that Gold's Gym replaced the cartoon bodybuilder in its logo with more of a statuesque bodybuilder and that the new owners of World Gym got rid of the gorilla in its logo.
"It shows that the interest in building muscle isn't the same as it used to be," Carter says. "You still have guys who want to bodybuild, who want to get big. But the demand for that…is not the same."
John Morgan, co-owner of Gold's Gym in Bloomington, IL, agrees with Carter.
"(Functional training) does seem to be drawing away from what used to be represented in gyms with the bodybuilding and the powerlifting and the grunting and the chalk and the huge muscles," Morgan says. "Now we're seeing 45- to 50-year-old women and men coming in that just want to get in shape. Nobody cares if you can move a truck."


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I did think that I would go ahead and give a little update on what's going on. Basically the title says it all as far as winning or rather not winning with entering Sweepstakes. If I won anything in May, then I've already totally forgotten about it, which is pretty sad. Now I will also admit that I just haven't entered that much lately either. I've lost my spark for it to be honest and that makes me a little sad. I've been doing this for about 8 or possibly even 9 years, so it's not really too surprising to think that I might have a bad case of burnout!
But in other news, we have a new addition to our family. We are now proud parents to a beautiful little kitten, which we have named Smudge! Actually my husband found this kitten off of Facebook, as my cousin's cat had a litter and they were giving them away. He saw the photo of this kitten and instantly knew it was meant to be ours and even the name of Smudge came right to him! This is all really a big surprise to me, for a couple of reasons. 1st, my husband wasn't really all that thrilled to get a pet, until we got into a new house. (I will go into more detail about that eventually) and I did mention to him that it could possibly be a good idea to have a new pet in this home instead of a brand newly built home, so that we could already be done with the house training and litter box training, etc. Another reason this is a big surprise to me is that my husband has never been a lover of cats. He's always had dogs growing up and never a cat. He always regarded them as scratchy/bitty nasty things. But boy oh boy has he changed his mind!
Even though Smudge is a little bit of a bitter and a claw-er (she is a baby ya know and it's probably (or at least I'm hoping and praying) that it's just her teething. :) She's been a joy to have. Even though my husband agreed to having a pet, and a cat to boot, I just knew that my husband would never agree to letting our sweet new fur-baby be allowed in our room or ever get a chance to sleep with us. Well that has since changed and Smudge now sleeps with us almost every night. Sometimes she does become the attack kitty early in the mornings, etc and boy does that wake you up. (and not in the good/fun way either)
But we got Smudge from my cousins when she was basically either 4-5 weeks old. I do realize it was too young to take away from it's mother and I still feel bad about it. However, my cousin's family couldn't keep them for much longer and we already knew we were in love! And it's so surprising how well Smudge has adapted to us. The only fear we really have is that she tends to be a fast little sucker and I'm scared to death that I am going to run over her with my scooter. I've gotten her little tail or paw twice in the time that we had her, one time being tonight. You have no idea how bad I feel. Makes me want to spoil her and giver her anything she wants just so she knows I love her and didn't mean it.
She must not hold grudges or is only mad at the scooter, because as I am writing this post Smudge is asleep next to me on my left, sitting on my box of snail mail sweepstakes to send off. I'm not sure why she likes to sleep there, as well as my office depot box of envelopes, but she does and I'm not going to change it. I love to have her near me, so I can stroke her and whisper sweet baby talk in her ears. Another great thing about having Smudge as a part of our family is that I honestly believe it's helped me with my panic/anxiety attacks. Now they are not completely gone for good, I'm sure. But they have been reduced by a great deal and that I am so grateful to God for that!
So even though I haven't won anything in May of 2012 that I can recall, I think I've gotten a wonderful win by how the good Lord has allowed us to find one another. :) In fact I am going to try and add a couple of photo's of Smudge so you can see the newest addition to our family.
This is Smudge when we first got her!
A photo that my husband took and didn't even have to Photoshop. I think it's just such an interesting expression and man look at that tongue! LOL
Also of course, if I do win anything in June, I will try my hardest to update on this site. I love to blog, yet my arthritis has been terrible this month and even now at after 10pm, my left shoulder is about to kill me it feels like. For some reason this past month, my arthritis in both my arms have been horrible and even my arthritis medication isn't helping me much, nor is my pain medication. Of course Doctors never really do give out anything that can really help, unless your rich and famous of course. Lord willing this flare up will go down soon and I will feel better. I hate it when I hurt physically and even when I hurt mentally, because depression sucks. It is slowly getting better, Thank God! I have a doctor's appointment next week and sometime this week I have to go and give blood. I'm scared to death (seriously) about doing this and even when I was on Facebook and saw photo's of a fellow Little Person and their hands/wrist and how they looked after giving blood, I had a full blown panic attack. Not nice or pretty AT ALL! So if you believe in prayer, please say a prayer that the person that does the job of sticking me with the needle gets it in one go and that it doesn't hurt!
Anyway, I am going to save this and hopefully add a couple of photo's of Smudge and then beg my husband to rub Tiger Balm on my shoulder and Lord willing it will easy some of the pain. Because God knows I can't take anything else for it, which stinks.
I hope everyone out there is doing well and if your ever bored or even want to brag on your own fur-baby, please feel free to drop me an email or make a comment on here! I would love to read them!
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Change is coming to "American Idol" but it may not be enough for Sarah Palin to vote for with her remote.
Returning " Idol" exec Nigel Lythgoe said on Thursday he's planning to introduce more than J. Lo and Steven Tyler when the series returns in January.
"Idol" wannabes will now have to compete on making a music video, executing an awards show-style performance and promoting themselves off the air, Lythgoe told TVGuide.com.
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Lythgoe also said he's nixed the round of 24 for the new season because he's usually "bored with [contestants] by the time they got there."
Speaking of changes, turns out Alaska gov turned breakout reality star Sarah Palin may want to bend Lythgoe's ear with a few ideas of her own.
In her new book "America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag" Palin dedicates a few grafs to, you-guessed-it, "American Idol."
According to leaked passage of the book posted on the blog Palingates and Gawker days before its release, Palin criticizes the rise of "talent-deprived" contestants who've "embarrassed themselves for the benefit of [Idol's] producers."
"No one they have encountered in their lives — from their parents to their teachers to their president — wanted them to feel bad by hearing the truth," she writes. "So they grew up convinced that they could become big pop stars like Michael Jackson."
Because there's no way someone who starts out with "no experience dancing or performing at all" should compete on a hit reality TV competition, right?


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More notoriety: UVA Law's alleged stalker previously impeached
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What is the common denominator here?
Racist claiming racisim
Lisa -- there was no precedent set with perkins. That was a silly sentence. Watkins will be handled under the judicial rules, while perkins (who hasn't been charged with a crime) is an honor issue that may or may not already be underway.
Does it take another dead student to awaken this university's leaders? ASSUALT and BREAKING A PROTECTIVE ORDER, sounds like little or no trouble to me????
Fred, did you fail to read the article, or just to understand it? The police were involved, charges were filed, and according to the article, a trial is scheduled. It seems like the system is function exactly as it should, and in that system, someone who is accused of something is presumed to be innocent until it is proven otherwise.
Is the hook going to cover every student that winds up in court?
If you want to do some money-grubbing a$$hole profiling, just stroll up Darden Boulevard and chat up anyone wandering around the faux-Jeffersonian halls of the MBA program.
looks like good ole UVA is putting out gangstas in the academic world as well as sports.
Keep up the good work .Remember football is just around the corner so get a line man and a backer to break the law before the start of the season .Ya have to keep up the winning streak
With this "ethical kerfuffle" in his background, how did Watkins get into UVa Law School?
Versace Girl, were you born yesterday? Look at his picture, pretty obvious how he got accepted into UVa Law School.
Morris Shifflett is absolutely right! In fact, all you need to know about this young man can be told by simply looking at his picture.
And Versace Girl has an excellent point. We all know that UVA simply does not allow unethical people to exist within its hallowed halls!
I was at ACU at the time of the noose incident. It should be noted that many at ACU from that time feel that Watkins did it himself as some kind of attention getting stunt. That combined with the reasons for is impeachment make me wonder how he got into law school.
reality check have you checked out Virginia's sexual predator list? what is the common denominator there?
What makes me really sick, is that there were easily more qualified law school applicants. Who were unfortunate enough to be white and middle class, that got rejection letters, so these two idiots could get into UVa law school. Affirmative action is reverse racism. Just as wrong as Jim Crow laws.
What makes me really sick, is that there were easily more qualified law school applicants. Who were unfortunate enough to be white and middle class, that got rejection letters, so these two idiots could get into UVa law school. Affirmative action is reverse racism. Just as wrong as Jim Crow laws.
Morris, I agree that affirmative action is reverse discrimination but that doesn't mean you can insinuate that these people are evil because of their race. You can find plenty of liars and cheats among whites too.


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Friday, June 11, 2010
This rotation is doing just fine without what's-his-name
Ricky Romero is currently sitting in third in strikeouts (86), ninth in ERA (3.06) and 17th in WHIP (1.20), while Shaun Marcum is 15th (65), 16th (3.38) and 7th (1.13) respectively. Brett Cecil doesn't have the innings to rack up the counting stats, so he's sitting back in 39th overall in strikeouts, but his 3.22 ERA is good for 13th while his 0.99 WHIP places him third. (And if you need him, Brandon Morrow's 74 Ks are good enough for 7th. So there.)
Maybe this has crept up on some of you who were inclined to follow along with the notion that the absence of Roy Halladay was going to create a giant sucking vacuum in the rotation, and that the 100-loss season would certainly ensue because one-fifth of the starting corps was gone. "A bunch of guys named 'Who?'" is the laugh line that we seem to recall.
But last night's awesomely manly performance by Cecil brought us back to remembering how much we've enjoyed the pitching performances from the top three so far this year, with the occasional quality start from Morrow tossed in for good measure. The Jays numbers as a starting rotation sit in the middle in both the AL (6th of 14) and MLB (16th of 30) in terms of ERA, although with the improvement seen in Morrow, the expulsion of some of the lesser lights and reinforcements on the way (Litchtits!!!1), we're cautiously optimistic that the starting pitching can actually improve.
With a team that is sitting three and a half games back in the Wild Card chase in a season that was supposed to be lost before it got underway, we really hope people start to recognize how much great baseball our guys are playing, and how close this team is to making the next step.
(And yeah, we're a hopeless booster for this team. We wouldn't have poured all of these hours and all of the effort into this little ratfuck of a blog if we weren't hopelessly devoted to this team. If you want someone to be cynically aloof about the Jays in 2010 and in the future, there are an infinite number of options out there for you.)
Speaking of next steps...
It's the National League for the next two weeks, and we have a whole lot of stuff to say about the Rockies, Padres, Cards and whoever. But we'd rather leave The Ack something to talk about this weekend.
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- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
The pitching has been nothing short of sublime, especially those three mentioned. All J.P. Ricciardi draft picks, might I add.
Ubaldo tonight. Momma. Interleague play has been a swift kick in the nuts in recent years; I look forward to our fortunes changing this years, as this team quietly continues its quest towards the Wild Card.
- June 11, 2010 at 1:04 PM
- Drew said...
The Jays numbers as a starting rotation sit in the middle in both the AL (6th of 14) and MLB (16th of 30) in terms of ERA
It is worth pointing out that, as result of the less than stellar defense played by those in black & blue, the Jays are much, much BETTER pitching team than this.
The starters rank 3rd in baseball by both FIP and xFIP, as a staff they're 7th in FIP. Even better than!!
- June 11, 2010 at 1:16 PM
- Darren Priest said...
Well said, Tao. This year has been a pleasant surprise. If they are 2-3 games from the Wild card in August and Sept, it will be astounding and wonderful.
Not sure if the haters are getting to you on some level, but don't let them. Most of us realize you have a full life outside of this blog (beautiful wife, new house, a job that actually pays the bills) and we are grateful to read your observations on an almost daily basis.
Seeing as my blog was last updated March 21, I am impressed with your consistency.
- June 11, 2010 at 1:19 PM
- GCM1979 said...
it's funny about the defence. I think they have the 3rd best fielding % in the league. Wonder why FIP and xFIP are so off compared to ERA. Could be a little bit of Eveland and Tallet in there, but not in FIP xFIP?
Also, Morrow gets more than "occasional" solid starts in there. 7 of his last 10 have been quality, and his last 3 against potent offences have been stellar.
- June 11, 2010 at 1:49 PM
Here is my concern when you (or anyone) say things like "...and how close this team is to making the next step."
A quick look through our roster shows alot of guys (Gonzalez, Bautista, E5, Buck, Molina.. etc.) that don't (or shouldn't) have any place on a team that looks to contend in the AL East.
Let's say all of those guy suddenly fall back to earth (or at least closer to career norms), we're back talking about a team that might scratch out 75 wins.
The fear that we're watching a spectacular flameout of guys playing way above their heads keeps me from shotuting "Playoffs!!!1" as loudly as I should.
Our rotation's future might look bright, but our lineup..... not so much.
- June 11, 2010 at 1:51 PM
- Darren Priest said...
If AA's drafting strategy is any indication, it seems like the Jays are going to build the rotation from the inside and, hopefully, get the proven hitters they need to contend through free agency.
The again, for every guy we have playing an outlier year, we have a couple studs who are slumping a bit. A Gon, Buck and EE can cool off as Hill and Lind heat up.
- June 11, 2010 at 1:58 PM
- Drew said...
@GCM - fielding percentage is deeply flawed. You can't make an error on ball you can't reach. Or a ball the official scorer deems to be beyond "an ordinary effort." Errors are dumb.
- June 11, 2010 at 2:16 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Have I ever told you that you are the shit? Because that is awesome, how you saw my stats and raised me a FIP.
(And we should really get on that podcast. Check your email.)
- June 11, 2010 at 4:07 PM
Greg E: Eat a dick.
- June 11, 2010 at 4:19 PM
LOL, just when you think Tao is going to nut up, he is publicly gobbling a guy from another also-ran Jays blog. Jeez dude, self-respect much?
- June 11, 2010 at 6:38 PM
- Steve G. said...
I agree with Greg E - I think the Jays need another impact bat in order to stay in the race. Maybe Wallace can be that guy by displacing Overbay, or they get an upgrade somewhere else on the field. The Jays are seventh, but the Yankees, Red Sox and Rays are 1, 2 and 3 respectively.
- June 11, 2010 at 9:19 PM


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So last night I bit the bullet…broke out my credit card…and signed up for the Richmond Half Marathon on November 10th!
I figured I might only be in Richmond one year SO if there was anytime to do this race, it would be now.
Did I mention I moved to Richmond? …. No? …. I did.
7 weeks till race day is not the "ideal" training period but I have been running 2-3 times a week (for 30-60 minutes) so I can start adding on those miles quick for a jump start.
The training plan will be better than this summer when I signed up for a half marathon only 5 days away on a whim. Yes that was fun.
Tin Cup Challenge 1/2 Marathon in Driggs Idaho
My current training will involve three days of running…two days of shorter/speed work runs and one long run. It will go something like this…
Week 1 (last week) – 7 mile long run
Week 2 (starting todayish) – 4 miles – 4 miles – 8 miles
Week 3 – 4 miles – 5 miles – 9 miles
Week 4 – 4 miles – 4 miles – 10 miles
Week 5 – 4 miles – 5 miles – 11 or 12 miles
Week 6 – 3 miles – 4 miles – 6 miles
Week 7 – 4 miles – 2 miles – RACE DAY.
And let's be honest I'm not one to stress and stick to training plans 100% so don't be surprised if there are deviations. And I may have just made that training plan up 5 seconds ago soo let's hope it works!
I toyed with the idea of signing up for the Richmond Marathon. But I may be crazy but I'm not stupid. 7 weeks is not enough time to properly train for a marathon so 1/2 it is.
Let's do it.
I have no doubt I can fit in the runs in-between my full-time dietetic internship which I started in August.
…Did I mention I started my Dietetic Internship?….No?….I did.
I also will keep busy trying to finish an "Ironman Distance Traithlon" held at my local gym. I have 9 weeks to 'finish' an Ironman Triathlon (swim 2.4 miles bike 113 miles and run 26.2). I report my distances weekly and if I finish I get a free t-shirt…hoorah…free stuff for working out! I am in the second week of it and will be able to finish the distances no problem. It forced me to get into the pool this weekend (I hadn't been in since my triathlon in July ouf!). The best part about not swimming for a while is getting back in the pool, I loved it.
Things might get a little more complicated when I'm trying to work in the weight program I've been following for about 6 weeks so far. It's a 12 program by James Wilson which I paid for earlier in the year but never followed through with until now. Unfortunately I can't share my workouts (since I paid some mollah for it) but its an awesome program. I'm on 5 days of weight lifting currently and have already seen gains in how much I can lift. Strong = beautiful.
Okay so maybe now is a good time to recognize the fact that I haven't blogged in almost 3 months! HOLY ROTTEN BANANA so much for being a blogger. Thanks to everyone who bugged me about putting posts back up. I hope to be blogging a couple times a week in between my internship and training (which I will go into more details about don't you worry). I figured this is enough/way too much information for you to absorb in one post already.
So what is the BEST Thing that happened to you since I left off?
Me? Hard to say with so many changes but I did turn 26. Did I mention that?…No?…I did. 26 rocks.
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In order to edit video shot in an analog format, you must first digitize it. You can digitize it by routing the video signal through either a digital camcorder that can digitize on the fly or a digitizing device installed in your computer. Alternatively, you can dub the analog footage to a digital format, and then capture the video from a digital device through a capture card as any other digital source. Depending on your equipment, you may be able to digitize analog video from any of several signal types, including component video, composite video, and S-Video. Some third-party digitizers provide device control. They connect to your source device through RS-232 or RS-422 ports, enabling you to control the device through Premiere Pro's Capture panel and to perform batch capturing. Refer to the instructions included with your camcorder and digitizer/capture card.
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Most of the supported capture cards install a settings file (preset) that you can select in the Premiere Pro New Project dialog box, in the Load Preset pane. This preset automatically sets all capture settings for optimal support of your capture card. For best results, use your capture card's preset, if provided, and don't change the capture settings in the Custom Settings pane.
To start a new project using a capture card, click New Project, select the capture card's preset (if available) from the Load Preset pane, and click OK.
To open an existing project using a capture card, select an existing project that was set up with the capture card's preset.
To start a new project using an external device, such as a camcorder or deck, to digitize, click New Project, select a DV or HDV preset that matches your target television standard and format, and click OK.
To open an existing project using an external device, such as a camcorder or deck, to digitize, select an existing project that was set up with the correct DV or HDV preset.
In the Capture panel, carefully check the settings on the Settings pane. If you need to change them, click Edit. (If you're using a capture card, the settings are provided by the card manufacturer's plug-in software, not by Premiere Pro, and vary according to the capture card's brand and model. See the documentation for the software driver provided by the capture card manufacturer.)
If the digital device offers no device control, cue up your source using the analog device's own controls. Press Play on the analog device and click the Record button in the Capture panel.
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Paul Jansen is managing director of TIOBE Software (www.tiobe.com). He can be contacted at [email protected].
DDJ: Paul, can you tell us about the TIOBE Programming Community Index?
PJ: The TIOBE index tries to measure the popularity of programming languages by monitoring their web presence. The most popular search engines Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and YouTube are used to calculate these figures. YouTube has been added recently as an experiment (and only counts for 4 percent of the total). Since the TIOBE index has been published now for more than 6 years, it gives an interesting picture about trends in the area of programming languages. I started the index because I was curious to know whether my programming skills were still up to date and to know for which programming languages our company should create development tools. It is amazing to see that programming languages are something very personal. Every day we receive e-mails from people that are unhappy with the position of "their" specific language in the index. I am also a bit overwhelmed about the vast and constant traffic this index generates.
DDJ: Which language has moved to the top of the heap, so to speak, in terms of popularity, and why do you think this is the case?
PJ: If we take a look at the top 10 programming languages, not much has happened the last five years. Only Python entered the top 10, replacing COBOL. This comes as a surprise because the IT world is moving so fast that in most areas, the market is usually completely changed in five years time. Python managed to reach the top 10 because it is the truly object-oriented successor of Perl. Other winners of the last couple of years are Visual Basic, Ruby, JavaScript, C#, and D (a successor of C++). I expect in five years time there will be two main languages: Java and C#, closely followed by good-old Visual Basic. There is no new paradigm foreseen.
DDJ: Which languages seem to be losing ground?
PJ: C and C++ are definitely losing ground. There is a simple explanation for this. Languages without automated garbage collection are getting out of fashion. The chance of running into all kinds of memory problems is gradually outweighing the performance penalty you have to pay for garbage collection. Another language that has had its day is Perl. It was once the standard language for every system administrator and build manager, but now everyone has been waiting on a new major release for more than seven years. That is considered far too long.
DDJ: On the flip side, what other languages seem to be moving into the limelight?
PJ: It is interesting to observe that dynamically typed object-oriented (scripting) languages are evolving the most. A new language has hardly arrived on the scene, only to be immediately replaced by another new emerging language. I think this has to do with the increase in web programming. The web programming area demands a language that is easy to learn, powerful, and secure. New languages pop up every day, trying to be leaner and meaner than their predecessors. A couple of years ago, Ruby was rediscovered (thanks to Rails). Recently, Lua was the hype, but now other scripting languages such as ActionScript, Groovy, and Factor are about to claim a top 20 position. There is quite some talk on the Internet about the NBL (next big language). But although those web-programming languages generate a lot of attention, there is never a real breakthrough.
DDJ: What are the benefits of introducing coding standards into an organization? And how does an organization choose a standard that is a "right fit" for its development goals?
PJ: Coding standards help to improve the general quality of software. A good coding standard focuses on best programming practices (avoiding known language pitfalls), not only on style and naming conventions. Every language has its constructions that are perfectly
legitimate according to its language definition but will lead to reliability, security, or maintainability problems. Coding standards help engineers to stick
to a subset of a programming language to make sure that these problems do not occur. The advantage of introducing coding standards as a means to improve quality is thatonce it is in placeit does not change too often. This is in contrast with dynamic testing. Every change in your program calls for a change in your dynamic tests. In short, dynamic tests are far more labor intensive than coding standards. On the other hand, coding standards can only take care of nonfunctional defects. Bugs concerning incorrectly implemented requirements remain undetected. The best way to start with coding standards is to download a code checker and tweak it to your needs. It is our experience that if you do not check the rules of your coding standard automatically, the coding standard will soon end as a dusty document on some shelf.


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Michelle Obama was privately fuming, not only at the president's team, but also at her husband.
In the days after the Democrats lost Edward Kennedy's Senate seat in January 2010, Barack Obama was even-keeled as usual in meetings, refusing to dwell on the failure or lash out at his staff. The first lady, however, could not fathom how the White House had allowed the crucial seat, needed to help pass the president's health care legislation and the rest of his agenda, to slip away, several current and former aides said.
To her, the loss was more evidence of what she had been saying for a long time: Mr. Obama's advisers were too insular and not strategic enough. She cherished the idea of her husband as a transformational figure, but thanks in part to the health care deals the administration had cut, many voters were beginning to view him as an ordinary politician.
The first lady never confronted the advisers directly — that was not her way — but they found out about her displeasure from the president. "She feels as if our rudder isn't set right," Mr. Obama confided, according to aides.
Rahm Emanuel, then chief of staff, repeated the first lady's criticisms to colleagues with indignation, according to three of them. Mr. Emanuel, in a brief interview, denied that he had grown frustrated with Mrs. Obama, but other advisers described a grim situation: a president whose agenda had hit the rocks, a first lady who disapproved of the turn the White House had taken, and a chief of staff who chafed against her influence.
The Michelle Obama of January 2012 is an expert motivator and charmer, a champion of safe causes like helping military families and ending childhood obesity, an increasingly canny political player eager to pour her popularity into her husband's re-election campaign. But interviews with more than 30 current and former aides, as well as some of the first couple's closest friends, conducted for "The Obamas," a new book, show that she has been an unrecognized force in her husband's administration and that her story has been one first of struggle, then turnaround and greater fulfillment.
Mrs. Obama is a supportive but often anxious spouse, suspicious of conventional political thinking, a groundbreaking figure who has acutely felt the pressures and possibilities of being the first African-American in her position and a first lady who has worked to make her role more meaningful.
Initially, she had considered postponing her move to the White House for months; after arriving, she bristled at its confinements and obligations — unable to walk her dog without risking being photographed, and monitored by her husband's aides for everything from how she decorated the family's private quarters to whether she took makeup artists on overseas trips.
New to the ways of Washington but impassioned about what her husband had been elected to do, she saw herself as a guardian of values. She was sometimes harder on her husband's team than he was, eventually urging him to replace them, and the tensions grew so severe that one top adviser erupted in a meeting in 2010, cursing the absent first lady.
"She has very much got his back," said David Axelrod, Mr. Obama's longtime strategist, in an interview. "When she thinks things have been mishandled or when things are off the track," he continued, "she'll raise it, because she's hugely invested in him and has a sense of how hard he's working, and wants to make sure everybody is doing their work properly."
Mrs. Obama's difficulties illuminate some of the president's central challenges in the White House, including how the Obamas' freshness to political life, a selling point in 2008, became a liability in office. Her worries about his staff point to a chief executive with little management experience who clung to an inner circle less united than it appeared. (Mr. Emanuel's relationship with the president grew so strained that the chief of staff secretly offered to resign in early 2010; Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, had a tense relationship with Mrs. Obama and with Valerie Jarrett, another adviser). She shared the president's ambivalence about political chores and the back-patting and schmoozing that can help get things done in Washington.
Like many of the president's supporters, Mrs. Obama was anxious about the gap between her vision of her husband's presidency and the reality of what he could deliver. Her strains with the advisers were part of a continuing debate over what sort of president Mr. Obama should be, with Mrs. Obama reinforcing his instincts for ambitious but unpopular initiatives like the overhaul of health care and immigration laws, casting herself as a foil to aides more intent on preserving Congressional seats and poll numbers.
"She does think there are worse things than losing an election," Susan S. Sher, the first lady's former chief of staff, said shortly after the 2010 midterm elections. "Being true to yourself, for her, is definitely more important." Back then, Mrs. Obama sometimes talked about what would happen if her husband lost in 2012. "I know we'll be fine," she told Ms. Sher.
Deep Frustrations
As Michelle Obama realized over the summer and fall of 2008 that she was likely to become first lady, she asked a question that probably would have surprised outsiders: could she and her children delay moving to the White House? Perhaps it was better, she told aides and friends, to remain in Chicago until the end of the school year, giving her children more time to adjust, rather than coming right at the inauguration. Her notion, though short-lived, was telling: she didn't understand or care what sort of message it would send to a public enthralled by the new first family, and she had trepidations about life in the spotlight, let alone the prospect of residing in a monument-museum-office-military compound-terrorist target-home.
She ultimately decided to go to Washington immediately, not because of the obligations of office, but because of "wanting her family to be together," Ms. Jarrett said.
Even as Mrs. Obama dazzled Americans with her warmth, glamour and hospitality early in the presidency, she was also deeply frustrated and insecure about her place in the White House, said aides who spoke on the condition of anonymity, out of concern about discussing internal strife.
The first couple declined to be interviewed.
A Harvard-trained lawyer, she had given up her career for what initially seemed to her a shapeless post, and she tried to wriggle out of some ceremonial events that she saw as not having much purpose, including the annual luncheon for Congressional spouses held by the first lady since 1912. She tried to limit her public exposure, saying she would work only two days a week; inside the White House, the difficulty of getting Mrs. Obama to agree to doing an event became a running joke.
The confinement of the White House was also a shock; suddenly she was cut off from her old life and rituals, and she hesitated even to take her daughters to school or some soccer games for fear of causing a fuss. The family had intended to return to Chicago frequently, but their first attempt was so complicated — their brick-front home was shrouded in black curtains to foil snipers, and because they couldn't just buy groceries anymore, Navy stewards fed them in their own home — they seldom returned. While the president found Camp David artificial and cut off, the first lady loved it because she could roam free of prying photographers.
"I don't think any of us contemplated how isolating this whole experience would be," Dr. Eric Whitaker, a close friend from Chicago, said in an interview. "I don't think this is a fun part about being the first family for any of them."
Mrs. Obama often found herself caught in an internal debate about how the Obamas should look and live, travel and entertain. As the first African-American first lady, she wanted everything to be flawless and sophisticated; she felt "everyone was waiting for a black woman to make a mistake," a former aide said.
But her husband's advisers — in particular, Mr. Gibbs — were worried that the White House might appear oblivious to public anger about joblessness, banker bailouts and bonuses. The result was constant, anxious give-and-take between the East and West Wings about vacations, décor, entertainment, even matters as small as whether to announce the hiring of a new florist.
"We all have watched what happens when people get caricatured," Mr. Gibbs said in an interview, explaining why he policed such personal matters. With a mistake like John Edwards's $400 haircut in 2007, "there's no way to correct that." Other aides said there was a reason Mr. Gibbs became the main enforcer of the rules of political life: because Mr. Obama, all too aware that his wife never wanted that life, would not.
For all of the first lady's newness, she was quick to identify problems. From the start she worried that the White House was not presenting a clear, compelling story of the president's actions to the public, a former aide said. She also told her own advisers that she wanted a more central role in communicating the administration's message; the West Wing failed to consider how she fit in with her husband's broader narrative, she protested.
She particularly wanted to help sell the health care overhaul in spring 2009. "Figure out how to use me effectively," she told her aides. "This is my priority." But West Wing advisers, recalling the public resentment of Hillary Rodham Clinton's involvement in health care as first lady, mostly declined her offer.
Mr. Emanuel, who told colleagues that his battles as a staffer with Mrs. Clinton back then had taught him to steer clear of first ladies, mostly avoided Mrs. Obama. The tense relationship between the East and West Wings remained a muted matter, but the strains eventually became deep enough that the first lady's team held a retreat in the winter of 2010 to discuss the problem. Ms. Jarrett, a senior adviser to the president, served as an envoy and tried to smooth relations. But Ms. Jarrett's mix of roles — she had her own West Wing portfolio, acted as Michelle Obama's advocate, and was so close to the Obamas that she vacationed with them — created its own tensions.
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That summer, in exchange for a key vote on an energy bill, Mr. Emanuel, without asking the first lady's permission, promised Allen Boyd, a Florida congressman, that she would appear at an event. Annoyed, she attended the event, but registered her broader disapproval by refusing to commit to campaigning for the midterms. She eventually withheld agreement for nearly a year, according to former East and West Wing advisers. Instead she focused on an agenda of her own.
Her reluctance to campaign left Mr. Emanuel incredulous, according to two aides: The elections were already looking like a potential bloodbath, and the White House was going to face them without the president's popular spouse?
Stuck on the Sidelines
Michelle Obama never wanted to be the kind of first lady who interfered with West Wing business, she told her aides. It was her husband's administration, not hers, she sometimes said. She had little appetite or expertise for policy detail, and she knew the history of first ladies —like Nancy Reagan and Mrs. Clinton — who had been deemed meddlers, unelected figures who wielded unearned power.
And yet as the administration hit obstacle after obstacle in 2010 —Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts, a health care law that squeaked through Congress yet remained unpopular, the Gulf oil spill and the approach of the midterm elections — Mrs. Obama became increasingly concerned.
Later Mr. Emanuel would glide into the Chicago mayor's office, partly on the basis of his strong ties to Mr. Obama, but by a year into the administration, his relationship with the president had grown strained. While he relied heavily on Mr. Emanuel, especially in dealing with Congress, Mr. Obama told advisers that he had concerns about his chief of staff's overall management and planning skills, along with his outbursts toward staff members. Mr. Emanuel openly said that he thought the health care overhaul had been a bad idea, and after accounts of his views began to surface in the news media in early 2010, he went into the Oval Office and offered his resignation to Mr. Obama, according to several colleagues.
The chief of staff "understood that the stories were an embarrassment and felt like he owed it to him to offer his resignation," Mr. Axelrod said. The president declined to accept it, telling Mr. Emanuel that his punishment was to stay and push through the health care measure, according to Mr. Axelrod and others. Mr. Emanuel declined to comment on the matter.
But that spring, Mrs. Obama made it clear that she thought her husband needed a new team, according to her aides. When the president decided to deliver a lofty speech about overhauling immigration laws in June 2010, even though there was no legislation on the table and the effort could hurt vulnerable Democrats, Mr. Emanuel objected. Aides did not produce the speech he wanted and the president stayed up much of the night rewriting — but the address drew a flat reception. Mr. Obama was irritated, two advisers said, and told Ms. Jarrett to keep an eye on other top staff members to make sure that they delivered what he wanted.
Several West Wing aides said they had heard secondhand that Mrs. Obama was angry about the incident. Later, they said they wondered: was the president using his wife to convey what he felt?
In September 2010, after a summer of infighting throughout the West Wing, things finally exploded.
Early on Sept. 16, Robert Gibbs was scanning the news when a story stopped him short: according to a new French book, Michelle Obama had told Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the French first lady, that living in the White House was "hell." It was a potential disaster — the equivalent of the $400 haircut, Mr. Gibbs feared, coming just weeks before election day and on the heels of a vacation in Spain that had drawn accusations of lavish spending.
Mr. Gibbs asked her aides to find out if she had said anything even close (no, the answer came back), and then fought the story back for hours, having the book translated and convincing the Élysée Palace to issue a denial. By noon the potential crisis had been averted.
But at Mr. Emanuel's 7:30 a.m. staff meeting the next day, Ms. Jarrett announced that the first lady had concerns about the White House's response to the book, according to several people present. All eyes turned to Mr. Gibbs, who started to steam.
"Don't go there, Robert, don't do it," Mr. Emanuel warned.
"That's not right, I've been killing myself on this, where's this coming from?" Mr. Gibbs yelled, adding expletives. He interrogated Ms. Jarrett, whose calm only seemed to frustrate him more. The two went back and forth, Ms. Jarrett unruffled, Mr. Gibbs shaking with rage. Finally, several staff members said, Mr. Gibbs cursed the first lady — colleagues stared down at the table, shocked — and stormed out.
Mr. Gibbs later acknowledged the outburst but said he had misdirected his rage and accused Ms. Jarrett of making up the complaint. After the book incident, he "stopped taking her at all seriously as an adviser to the president," Mr. Gibbs said, adding, "Her viewpoint in advising the president is that she has to be up and the rest of the White House has to be down."
Ms. Jarrett declined to discuss the incident; two East Wing aides said she had misspoken, and that Mrs. Obama had not made any criticism.
Colleagues defended both parties. Mr. Gibbs had devoted years to the Obama cause, some said. Ms. Jarrett was trustworthy, said others, including Peter M. Rouse, another senior adviser. The blowup proved not only the fractures in the once-unified Obama team, but just how complicated the nexus between the first couple and staff members in the White House had become.
Forging a New Role
By then, Michelle Obama's trajectory in the White House was changing. She was mastering and subtly redefining the role that had once seemed formless to her, and becoming more acclimated to her new life.
Sometimes her work seemed like an answer, in miniature, to what was going wrong with the presidency. If her husband's health care law was unpopular and at risk of being reversed, she would throw herself into her campaign on nutrition and exercise, which had similar end goals — improving health, lowering costs. If her husband wasn't connecting with audiences, she would win them over with vibrant speeches.
Her popularity, combined with her husband's eroding support, gave her more leverage than she had early in the administration. An Oval Office meeting a few weeks before the 2010 midterms captured her changing position.
The location was the president's domain, but the meeting was held to appease the first lady, who was finally agreeing to campaign for the midterm elections. One by one, members of the political team came before the Obamas, laying out arguments, details, statistics about how the first lady could help capture votes. In an interview the year before, the first couple had rejected the idea that they were using their marriage for political gain. (Most photos of them are " somebody else's images," the first lady had said.) Now they absorbed polling data that showed that Democratic voters loved seeing them together, according to several participants at the meeting.
"This is a great presentation," the president said with an I-never-get-this-treatment grin: aides were now doing things on his wife's terms, with planning and precision.
Still, Mrs. Obama agreed to only eight campaign stops, fewer than the political team had wanted. "She basically agreed to do nothing," one aide said.
Now that her husband faces a tough re-election fight, that tentativeness has vanished: She is all in, she has told aides. If Mrs. Obama has sometimes been an internal critic, she is also her husband's most determined advocate. Though she still avoids detailed policy or strategy discussions, she now has the role she sought in amplifying his message, speaking alongside him at Fort Bragg, N.C., about the end of the Iraq war, spotlighting her veteran hiring initiatives to push his stalled jobs bills, even sharing his weekly radio address. "To me, she seems more content than I've seen her throughout this process since he's been running for president, which is a very good thing," Mr. Axelrod said.
The worse things got for her husband in 2011, the more she rallied to his side, buoying him personally and politically. In August, after the debt ceiling negotiations in Washington reached their painful conclusion, Mrs. Obama gave a party for his 50th birthday, warning guests not to leave early and delivering a stemwinder of a toast in praise of her husband.
As the sun faded, the 150 guests — friends, celebrities, officials — sat on the South Lawn, listening to the first lady describe her version of Barack Obama: a tireless, upright leader who rose above Washington games, killed the world's most wanted terrorist and still managed to coach his daughter Sasha's basketball team. The president, looking embarrassed, tried to cut her off, several guests said, but she told him he had to sit and listen.
She also thanked him for putting up with how hard she had been on him. At that line, a few of the advisers glanced at each other in recognition.


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Sizing Up Sports Field Renovation
Nothing lasts forever. Even an athletic field that is creatively designed and meticulously constructed has a finite lifespan. By the age of 25 or 30, a typical field has usually seen its better days and becomes a candidate for renovation. The most common symptoms of a field that is ready for renovation include severe compaction, poor grass cover despite well-intentioned maintenance, the loss of organic matter, settlement and the most problematic of all issues, poor soil structure and inadequate drainage.
Unfortunately, one size does not fit for all field renovation projects. There are several options for consideration depending on the underlying field conditions, budget and the field's anticipated use. These options range from simple to complex, but all have common goals: improve drainage and create soil conditions that allow your grass the best chance to thrive.
Ideally, a field will go through several modest renovations before complete replacement is necessary. The most simple of these "renovations" is to improve cultural practices and provide more consistent maintenance. This includes a program that utilizes frequent core aeration to promote healthy surface conditions and regular deep tine aeration to break up subsurface compaction and increase infiltration through the soil profile. It also includes overseeding with improved varieties that are more tolerant to the constant abuse meted out by cleated athletes, better irrigation management and more diligent topdressing and fertilization programs to improve soil structure and fertility.
When better cultural management does not yield the desired results, you have to consider more aggressive steps. A consultant specializing in athletic field design is highly recommended to help guide this process. The cost of these services can often offset the mistake of being overly conservative in design or, worse, under-assessing the requirements for a successful field renovation.
Before deciding which solution is best, begin by finding old construction plans and digging test pits to determine the depth and nature of the existing soil profile. Because conditions can vary greatly across a single field, consider digging several pits to gain a full understanding of the field's subsurface makeup. Take samples of the various soil strata and have them analyzed by a geotechnical engineer or testing laboratory that specializes in sports field soils.
This investigation will reveal two critical factors: the need for surface drainage based upon the texture of the topsoil, and the need for subsurface drainage based upon the permeability of the subsoils. Soils with higher silt and clay contents typically rely exclusively on surface drainage in the form of a crown (1.5 to 2 percent minimum) to shed excess water before it enters the soil profile. Sandier soils with better infiltration can perform admirably with less of a crown, though anything less than 1 percent is not recommended. Beware of the field built on a poorly drained or over compacted subgrade. These fields, regardless of the quality and nature of the topsoil, will require a significant crown to shed excess water and perhaps an extensive system for removing subsurface water.
Armed with this information, it will be easier to determine what is and — equally as important — what isn't required to make the renovation a success. If you're lucky enough to have adequately draining subsoils and topsoil conducive to satisfactory grass growth, renovation can be straightforward and relatively inexpensive. Begin by stripping the existing sod and mitigating subsurface compaction by tilling or aggressively deep tining the soil profile. If the soil-testing lab recommends application of amendments, this is an opportune time for incorporation. Following up on these activities by raising or reestablishing the crown to shed surface water will usually do the trick. Seed or sod, depending on your budget and the timeframe in which the field needs to be put back into play. If your field is not irrigated, consider the installation of an automatic in-ground system that can deliver water efficiently and judiciously across the entire playing surface. Improperly designed and managed irrigation systems will only exacerbate surface drainage and compaction problems.
When the subsurface is not conducive to free drainage or your topsoil is unsuited to supporting an acceptable stand of grass, it's time to consider more aggressive and expensive renovation methods.
Begin your renovation by stripping the existing topsoil to subgrade and stockpiling it off of the field limits. If it is very poor, export the material and begin fresh, if budget permits. You can improve marginal soils with amendments, but use caution, as the addition of improperly conceived amendments can make a good soil bad and a bad soil worse. Consult with a specialized soil-testing laboratory to insure that your amendments are proper in makeup and ratio to meet your desired field characteristics.
You can till over-compacted but otherwise free-draining subgrades to loosen the structure and restore infiltration. Infiltration in finer subgrades can be improved, though not indefinitely, through the liberal application of gypsum. Where subgrades are essentially impermeable, you should seriously consider the installation of subsurface drains. Because water does not move well laterally in finer textured soils, you may need to space drains as tight as three feet on center to effectively remove water from the soil profile. While placing drains at three feet on center may be cost prohibitive, opting to place them at 20 feet on center would be wasteful and ineffective. Consult with a firm specializing in field design to determine the proper drain spacing. Where subsurface drainage is not a reality due to budget constraints, adequate surface drainage is an absolute must. Prevent surrounding areas from draining across the field and direct water away from the surface to the nearest storm drainage system.
Let's face it, budget is always an issue, but for high-profile athletic fields, consider a top-of-the-line renovation including a subsurface drainage system, sand based rootzone and a state of the art irrigation system. The benefits of a sand-based field include resistance to compaction and excellent internal drainage, which allows the surface to dry more rapidly for a quickreturn to play. Sand-based fields also allow for a shallower crown (less than 1 percent), which is desirable for many sports — soccer in particular. The drawback of this type of field is its significant expense, which can range from $5 to $10 per square foot, depending upon geographic location and unique site conditions.
Even this ultimate natural grass renovation is oftentimes unable to meet the demands placed upon the field. Increased usage and growth in non-traditional sports such as field hockey and lacrosse can make the survival of grass impossible, particularly with limited field space. A viable option is the use of synthetic grass, particularly the latest generation of infilled products, which are growing in use and popularity across the country.
Infilled synthetic turf, comprised of a carpet of smooth polyethylene fibers "infilled" with sand or recycled rubber, is becoming increasingly popular with users, coaches and athletic directors as it eliminates many of the problems associated with conventional nylon turf and mimics the desirable attributes of well-maintained natural grass. Improvements in synthetic turf have yielded dark-green blades that stand tall and feel natural to the touch.
Though synthetic fields are initially more expensive to install ($8 to $12 per square foot, some two to three times the cost of conventional grass fields), they can pay for themselves over time in decreased maintenance and increased usage.
Voses Field at Milton Academy in Milton, Mass., dates back several generations and was built on the remains of an old pine forest harvested for timber and mined for the rich deposit of native free-draining gravel used to construct several of the campus's historic buildings and roadways. Though the imported topsoil is of good quality and is suitable without amendment to maintain a desirable stand of grass, much of the imported fill — some 2- to 4-feet thick in places — is comprised of clay, silt and decomposed organic matter. Despite good topsoil and a subsoil that infiltrates at a rate greater than an inch per minute, Voses Field does not drain. The field is over compacted and stays soggy for days after an irrigation cycle or a modest rain event. Use of a significant portion of the field this summer as staging for the construction of a new dormitory has precipitated the long-needed renovation.
Since drainage had already proved inadequate despite a crown in excess of 1 percent, it was determined that simply regrading the field and increasing the crown to 2 percent or more would not address the core issue and was deemed unsuitable for a varsity level field. Though a sand-based rootzone with under-drainage would certainly provide an excellent playing surface, it too was quickly dismissed because it far exceeded the academy's limited project budget.
After discarding these two extreme alternatives, Milton Academy began to focus in on the most cost effective method of achieving an excellent varsity level playing field without the expense of exporting the impermeable fills. Because the existing topsoil was deemed suitable, it will be stripped and stockpiled for reuse. In order to achieve proper surface drainage, the field will be crowned toward the sidelines at 1.5 percent, the maximum crown determined to be acceptable for the intended varsity use. Shallow sideline swales with surface grates placed every 50 feet will remove water rapidly from the surface.
Recognizing that the underlying parent gravel would be a desireable avenue for infiltrating subsurface water were it not for the imported fill layer, a cost-effective method was devised to bridge the existing topsoil with the parent gravel. Cutting closely spaced trenches through the impermeable fill and filling them with inexpensive construction sand will achieve this.
Like Milton Academy, keep options open and think simply and creatively. Doing everything possible within budget to improve drainage and soil structure and increasing maintenance as usage increases will go a long way toward creating a winning foundation for your field, keeping your future renovations small in scale.
Patrick Maguire is the president of Geller Sport Inc., a division of Geller DeVellis Inc., focusing on the design of premium athletic fields and recreation facilities. You can reach him via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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LAKEWOOD RANCH — On a normal day at school, Stephanie Cole sticks tools inside Harry's lifeless jaw.
Cole, 24, a first-year student at LECOM Student of Dental Medicine, sometimes scrapes and nudges Harry's white, solid cheeks.
Her margin for error is great.
That's because Harry feels nothing — he's is a mannequin.
Until Jan. 10, Cole's learning did not include live patients.
Now, Cole and the rest of LECOM's 100 dental-student inaugural class are fitting 30 low-income patients with dentures at the school's new patient clinic.
Students work with a patient — some with no teeth, others with worn dentures — for nine to 10 weeks, one day a week, during three-hour appointments.
The Manatee Community Coalition on Homelessness refers some of the patients.
Those patients receive free care.
Others in underserved, low-income areas get care through contacting the school.
Those patients get dentures for one-third less than what it would cost at a private clinic, said Michael Polin, LECOM spokesman.
LECOM donated $10,000 materials and services to provide the care.
It all fits into LECOM's core philosophy of giving students early clinical experience, no matter the pace, said Dr. Francis M. Curd, the school's assistant dean of clinical education.
"The fees are low, but we are slow," Curd said, repeating the common refrain school officials tell patients.
Since Jan. 10, Cole has slowly fitted Ken Murry, a 48-year-old fork lifter at Tropicana who recently returned to his job after being laid off earlier this year.
The Jewish Family & Children's Services of Sarasota-Manatee referred Murry, who wants to be able to eat cashews again.
Cole and Murry spent their first appointment together developing a treatment plan and making the first impression, or an initial imprint of the teeth meant to fit the dentures to a person's mouth.
Cole, a Sarasota native, was excited but felt scared.
Murry bit down on a custom tray, which Cole prepared, full of cakey wax.
This was it — she had begun her first real-life procedure.
Cole never got much out of mixing polysulfide in a dark, quiet classroom. Videos and lectures left her bored.
Shadowing real dentists just made her want to put on the gloves, hop onto a stool and dig tools into a patient's mouth.
"Until I apply, it doesn't stick," Cole said. "But now I'm beginning to experience the real thing, dealing with people's emotions, and it reminds me of why I do it. I do it because it (dental care) changes peoples lives."
During their second meeting, Cole worked on border molding to ensure Murry's tissue retains the dentures.
The third appointment is the most important. That is when Cole makes the final impression.
She tells Murry if this step isn't done right, the rest of their time together will mean nothing.
The process intrigues Murry — how the repetitive, intricate work leads to a tangible end result.
"It's quite interesting to watch (Cole) work," Murry said. "She explains every step. I learn what she learns. And at the end, I get to see myself smile."
Murry will get his dentures in March.
In June, LECOM will start a second denture clinic for about 50 patients. This round won't be free, but, according to Curd, a full set of dentures will cost $668, still less than it would cost at a private practice.
Comprehensive care, including cavities, crowns, cleanings and more, will be made available to the public March 2014, midway through the four-year journey for LECOM's inaugural class, which will graduate in 2016.
"I'm really lucky to get a patient who is so patient and cooperative," Cole said. "Life is not complete until you make a difference. I am already doing that here."
Contact Josh Siegel at [email protected].
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currently there is no Level/World editor available for ZB. The reason is, that we purchased and used GROME (commercial product from Quad software) to create our levels. GROME was, at the time, the best choice because it offered a plugin system and we only needed to implement the export plugins for our levels and the import plugins for our models to be able to place them in the levels.
As ZB is FOSS now, GROME does not really fit into the concept anymore and we're looking around for a FOSS world/level editor that we could use.
I've found so far:
Ogitor: http://www.ogitor.org
GROME based, also pluggable. Needs to be further looked into, but seems to be the best so far.
Artifex Terra: http://www.ogre3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=42507
Which seems to be a good alternative to GROME, as soon as the website is up again. It is open source and it should be possible to implement some import/export code, if there is no plugin system yet.
Delta 3D Level Edior: http://www.delta3d.org/forum/viewtopic. ... =10&page=4
Would be easy to use due to the fact, that they use OSG (openscenegraph) like ZB, which would make the model import code pretty straight forward to implement. Altough from the screenshots i cannot see a heightmap editor/painter.
As the team a QuantiCode is currently short at spare time, we would really appreciate if someone from the community would be interested implementing a ZB level editor (plugins). We'd gladly give as much support as we can.
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Update: The contest is closed and the winners are: Kevin Sato and Caroline McGregor.
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Parts utilized
Leaves (fresh or dried).
Mature, healthy, fully expanded leaves are harvested while senescent leaves are discarded. Air-dry until they crumble when crushed with the fingers. Store in amber colored bottles in a cool, dry place.
• Volatile oil, 0.1 – 0.4% – l-borneol, 25%, l-camphor, 75%, limonene, saponins, sesquiterpene and limonene, tannins, sesquiterpine alcohol; palmitin; myristic acid.
Leaves as poultice for abscesses.
Decoction of roots and leaves for fevers and cystitis.
Sitz-bath of boiled leaves, 500 gms to a ballon of water, for rheumatic pains of waist and back.
Applied while hot over the sinuses. Used for wounds and cuts.
Fresh juice of leaves to wounds and cuts.
Poultice of leaves to forehead for headaches.
Tea is used for colds and as an expectorant; likewise, has antispasmodic and antidiarrheal benefits.
Postpartum baths.
Decoction of leaves, 50 gms to a pint of boiling water, 4 glasses daily, for stomach pains.
• Fever: decoction of roots; boil 2 – 4 handfuls of the leaves. Use the lukewarm decoction as a sponge bath.
• Headaches: apply pounded leaves on the forehead and temples. Hold in place with a clean piece of cloth.
• Gas distention: boil 2 tsp of the chopped leaves in 1 cup of water for 5 minutes. Drink the decoction while warm. Also used for upset stomach. • • Postpartum, for mothers' bath after childbirth.
• Boils: Apply pounded leaves as poultice daily.
• Diuretic: Boil 2 tbsp chopped leaves in 2 glasses of water for 15 minutes. Take 1/2 of the decoction after every meal, 3 times a day.
Camphor cultivation
• Can be cultivated as a source of camphor. Experiments in China produced 50,000 kilos of leaves per hectare, with a possible borneol yield of 50-200 kilos per hectare. L-borneol is easily oxidized to camphor. source
New applications
As a diuretic and for dissolution of renal stones.
As a diuretic in hypertension and fluid retention. Also used for dissolution of kidney stones. Some clinical studies, including double blind/placebo radomized studies, have shown encouraging results for Sambong to be both safe and effective in the treatment of kidney stones and hypertension. The National Kidney and Transplant Institute has promoted the use of this herbal medicine for many renal patients to avert or delay the need for dialysis or organ transplantation.
Being promoted by the Department of Health (DOH) as a diuretic and for dissolution of renal stones. One of a few herbs recently registered with the Bureau of Foods and Drugs as medicines.
Other benefits
Possible benefits in use patients with elevated cholesterol and as an analgesic for postoperative dental pain.
• Sesquiterpenoids and plasmin-inhibitory flavonoids: Study yielded two new sesquiterpenoid esters 1 and 2. Compound 2 showed to be slightly cytotoxic. Nine known flavonoids were also isolated, two of which showed plasmin-inhibitory activity. source
• Anticancer: Study of methanolic extract of BB suggest a possible therapeutic potential in hepatoma cancer patients.
• Urolithiasis: Study shows sambong to be a promising chemolytic agent for calcium stones


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Relax on the front porches of the Creekside Cabins and watch the Rockies at sunset. Settle in to our Mountainside cabins with lots of elbow room and re-tell stories from your day in Yellowstone National Park. Or choose a spacious lodge with multiple bedrooms, baths and plenty of room for family and friends. Cabins for overnight or cabins and lodges with fireplaces and kitchens for longer stays. Whatever your choice, you are surrounded by the beauty of the Rockies and abundant wildlife.
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1. Sport either of the two defended areas of a playing field, rink, etc.
2. Bowls Curling a section of play from one side of the rink to the other
3. American football a player at the extremity of the playing line; wing
What does it mean when you dream about the end?
Can refer to one's goals or simply to the end of some situation, as in such expressions as "the end of the road" and "the light at the end of the tunnel." End is often utilized in idioms, such as "I'm at the end of my rope," "I'm at my wits end," and "at loose ends."
battleground of good and evil before Judgment Day. [N.T.: Revelation 16:16]
fatal raven
end of game in chess: folk-etymology of Shah-mat, 'the Shah is dead.' [Br. Folklore: Espy, 217]
Judgment Day
indicates defeat or victory by arranging its wings. [Norse Legend: Volsung Saga]
Last Supper
final trial of all mankind. [N.T.: Revelation]
Passover dinner the night before Christ died. [N.T.: Matthew 26:26–29; Mark 14:22–25; Luke 22:14–20]


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Michael Douglas recently addressed his bout with throat cancer, leading many to believe that his particular battle with the disease was brought on by oral sex. But now his camp is backtracking on the comments.
In a candid interview with the Guardian newspaper, the actor said that he didn't regret his years of smoking and drinking, which were thought to be the cause of his cancer when he was diagnosed three years ago.
"No. Because without wanting to get too specific, this particular cancer is caused by HPV [human papillomavirus], which actually comes about from cunnilingus," the 68-year-old said.
The "Behind the Candelabra" star, who has been married to Oscar winner Catherine Zeta-Jones since 2000, was diagnosed with Stage 4 throat cancer in August 2010. That same year, his son Cameron Douglas was hit with a five-year sentence after pleading guilty to charges of distributing crystal meth and possessing heroin.
"I did worry if the stress caused by my son's incarceration didn't help trigger it," Douglas added in the interview. "But yeah, it's a sexually transmitted disease that causes cancer. And if you have it, cunnilingus is also the best cure for it."
HPV is indeed a sexually transmitted disease, but HPV infections don't always lead to cancer, though some types of genital HPV can cause cancer of the cervix, according to the Mayo Clinic.
However, the medical debate continued over the weekend through Monday with some experts saying that HPV, along with smoking, could indeed bring on some types of oral cancers, USA Today reported.
HPV infections usually don't cause any signs or symptoms in either sex, but some types can cause genital warts. High-risk types of HPV can cause persistent infection, which can gradually turn into cancer, and usually only cervical cancer, according to the clinic's website.
More than 12,000 HPV-associated cancers occur each year in men, and of those, oropharyngeal cancers (back of the throat, including the base of the tongue and tonsils) are the most common, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.
After his remarks, people began to look at Douglas' sexual history, specifically with ex-wife Diandra Douglas (they divorced in 2000) and his current wife, Zeta-Jones. But over the weekend, Diandra Douglas said that she did not have HPV, according to TMZ.
Meanwhile, Douglas' camp is trying to clarify his remarks by explaining that his cancer was not caused by oral sex and he was simply discussing cunnilingus as a suspected cause of oral cancer.
"In a discussion with the newspaper, they talked about the causes of oral cancer, one of which was oral sex, which is noted and has been known for a while now," his spokesman Allen Burry told the Associated Press.
"He wants to make it very clear he never said that was the particular cause of his particular cancer," Burry added in the New York Daily News.
As to what actually caused it, Burry said he didn't think "it's really anybody's business anymore."
"It's pretty much out there what was said," he said.
Douglas may not have been off base by suggesting that HPV, transmitted via oral sex or any other fluid-exchanging sexual act, could be a suspected cause of cancer, but it seems that chances are pretty slim.
"While there are dozens of types of HPV, only a few cause cancer. HPV-16 and HPV-18 cause about 70% of cervical cancers. For oral cancer, the most dangerous subtype is HPV-16," Eric Moore, an associate professor of otolaryngology at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, told USA Today.
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An indication for a drug refers to the use of that medicinal product for treating a particular disease. For example, diabetes is an indication for insulin. Another way of stating this relationship is that insulin is indicated for the treatment of diabetes. Medicinal products often have more than one indication, which means that there is more than one disease for which it is used. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies indications for drugs in the United States. Indications for drugs can be classified in two categories:
– FDA-approved, also called labeled indications, and
– Non FDA-approved, also called off-label indications.
Early in the process of developing a drug, the drug's manufacturer decides what disease(s) the drug might treat effectively based on the drug's known effects on the body. The manufacturer then conducts studies using people with the disease(s) to determine if the drug is, in fact, effective. These studies are designed and conducted under strict FDA guidelines and under the watchful eye of the FDA. If the studies show efficacy (benefit to patients with the disease) and no serious side effects for the drug, the manufacturer applies to the FDA for approval of the drug for that indication (disease).


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Taking your gloves off every time you need to tweet, text, email, or Instagram won't keep your hands very warm this winter. Sure, there are plenty of intelligent gloves with high-tech tips that let you tap away on your touchscreen to your heart's content, but most of them look like they were swiped from the set of Star Wars. Luckily, Echo Design marries style and function in these tasteful lambswool gloves.
I gave these gloves to my boyfriend, his son, his nephew and his brother in law for the holidays and they have all given rave reviews! They love that their are three ways to wear them, that they're warm and that they keep their hands and fingers warm while answering calls or texting during these cold months. Great purchase!4
My husband is finnicky about gloves- something about needing a certain amount of tactile sensation. He hates not being able to feel things like the steering wheel of his car. After going most of the winter without wearing gloves and refusing every pair he tried on in the stores, I thought maybe these would work for him... and they totally do. Best investment!5