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Max Fat Loss & Muscle = Workout and eat PM?
Ok....from I see in classic bullet point presentation:
- Metabolism is a direct result of muscle mass
- Fat loss is a direct result of being able to maintain muscle on a restricted calorie diet
- Decreasing insulin resistance (increasing sensitivity) is key to maximum muscle repair and fat loss
- IF increases insulin sensitivity
- Eat low carbs during the day decreases insulin sensitivity
- Carbs are best eating pwo to maximally utilize insulin and store in muscles as well as assisting in shuttling aminos into muscles for repair
- GH is direct influencer for fat loss and muscle gain
- GH goes up with insulin is low (and visa-versa)
- GH is most released (75%) during the first few hours of sleep after 10pm
- Large meals cause insulin to peak but also come down 2-3 hours later
- Agents such as ZMA as most effective as a glucose removal agent (clearing glucose and insulin from the blood)
So...if I would to look at this I would wage to guess that one would want to
eat light all day
(only proteins and fats),
workout in the afternoon
eat like a "Paleo" pig after workout until 7pm
(all protein and carbs for 3 hours after working out), stop eating for the night, take some
(shuttle out all the glucose) and go to sleep around 10pm....and from that....would get the maximum affect of repairing/gaining muscle while optimizing all fat loss hormones. (pretty much sounds like the Warrior Diet meets Paleo meets IF)
Also going by this study that Neal posted at one time:
Keim NL, Van Loan MD, Horn WF, Barbieri TF, Mayclin PL.
Weight loss is greater with consumption of large morning meals and fat-free mass is preserved with large evening meals in women on a controlled weight reduction regimen. J Nutr. 1997 Jan;127(1):75-82.
The purpose of this study was to determine whether meal ingestion pattern [large morning meals (AM) vs. large evening meals (PM)] affects changes in body weight, body composition or energy utilization during weight loss. Ten women completed a metabolic ward study of 3-wk weight stabilization followed by 12 wk of weight loss with a moderately energy restricted diet [mean energy intake +/- SD = 107 +/- 6 kJ/(kg.d)] and regular exercise. The weight loss phase was divided into two 6-wk periods. During period 1, 70% of daily energy intake was taken as two meals in the AM (n = 4) or in the PM (n = 6). Subjects crossed over to the alternate meal time in period 2. Both weight loss and fat-free mass loss were greater with the AM than the PM meal pattern: 3.90 +/- 0.19 vs. 3.27 +/- 0.26 kg/6 wk, P < 0.05, and 1.28 +/- 0.14 vs. 0.25 +/- 0.16 kg/6 wk, P < 0.001, respectively. Change in fat mass and loss of body energy were affected by order of meal pattern ingestion. The PM pattern resulted in greater loss of fat mass in period 1 (P < 0.01) but not in period 2. Likewise, resting mid-afternoon fat oxidation rate was higher with the PM pattern in period 1 (P < 0.05) but not in period 2, corresponding with the fat mass changes. To conclude, ingestion of larger AM meals resulted in slightly greater weight loss, but ingestion of larger PM meals resulted in better maintenance of fat-free mass.
Thus, incorporation of larger PM meals in a weight loss regimen may be important in minimizing the loss of fat-free mass.
Sounds like a better option than the Zone....or am I just thinking way too much again?
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sounds almost exactly like what I suggested to Robb and what I was doing over a year ago and exactly what I am doing now!
What I fell upon back then through experimentation and had great success with, I've developed a significantly greater understanding of over the past year +! Thanks mostly to all of you fine folks.
I like the Zone because it works, until it doesn't! I like IF because it works, until you can't do it anymore. I like the warrior diet because I don't have to think! I like this because it is easily implemented and suggests the best of all worlds!!!
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What kind of body comp changes have you experienced with the above? Such as increased muscle and decreased fat? Also what modifications have you made if any? Just going by the scientific facts...it almost seems like the ideal protocol...of course lots of variations...off (non-training) days no carbs at pm? or still carbs at pm? Better results with off days IF? lots of fun stuff to play with. I hate counting calories...and just will not live like that...hence I can't do the zone...but I can "eyeball" protein sizes and fat and feel great. Plus the whole insulin lowering affect of a PM carb/protein feeding 2-3 hours later can only help in the GH response during sleep....ZMA would be the nail in the coffin so to speak....and then let the GH fest begin!
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Originally Posted by
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What kind of body comp changes have you experienced with the above? Such as increased muscle and decreased fat? Also what modifications have you made if any?
Ok here's the story:
Mid 2004 - Mid 2005 Attempted the Warrior Diet
I had success with this protocol for some time and had leaned out quite a bit. I had started out at 170lbs at 5'5" and most of it being fat. I had been messing with kettlebells and PTP type crap for some time along with some stuff back from my early rec. gymnastics days and martial arts days. I had started mixing CrossFit into this mix around this time but noticed that I couldn't maintain my activity levels. So I was wishy washy back and forth.
In hind sight it my food choices were really bad! 99% of the time though the protocol was fine. I still got decent results when I stopped I was around >150lbs.
Mid 2005 - Started hitting CrossFit pretty hard, WOD in the AM and training skills throughout the day.
My diet at this point was very poor and my weight stabilized at around 160lbs.
September 2005 - Started the Zone! By December I was 135lbs...
The Zone + CrossFit did the job a little too well. In my eagerness I went into a caloric deficit that was far too low and it was obvious though I was ripped. My energy levels at this point were pretty low. (wasn't adding fat)
December 2005 - I started adding IF in on rest days
My energy levels went back up when I added IF to my rest days and I really hit it hard again. I swear by the time I got to SC in January I was <5% BF, at 135lbs.
Feb 2006 - I met Robb & Greg in SC and listened intently to there chats and opinions.
Started what we are now describing full time, by the end of April I was 155lbs ~6-8% BF, very lean, and stronger. I was in the best shape of my life just then.
I was doing a light WOD in the morning for PT giving about 2/3 effort. Fast of water and coffee. Then I would train again after work and go balls out. I would commence eating about 30 minutes after working out. Sooner then that and I wouldn't keep it down most of the time.
I'm in the midst of trying to rekindle this effort I only started a few days ago but my energy levels are already starting to rise even though I sleep very little. I'm not working out with the same volume I was then. My current living conditions are crap and do not promote performance. Though the ZMA seems to be improing the quality of the sleep that I am getting!!!
I don't know if they sells these at costco in the US but I'm going to start eating a 1.8kg can of tuna every other day after I workout in the eveneing... I should get sufficient lean protein in that case. The cans are only $8.00. $8.00/day ain't bad for that much protein.
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Great stuff. The Zone is good )IMO) for helping to dial in what reasonable portion sizes are AND it provides very exacting feedback and control. Need to gain muscle? We can ratchet one up to a 5x5 (5 meals per day, 5 blocks per meal, 5x fat) and i think that comes out to 5,200 cals! Most folks will grow on that or some permutation of those numbers. If need be we could even go 6 meals at that ratio. That is a mountain of food...if the training stimulus is there, we will see growth, especially if we allocate a large number of those carbs to the PWO period.
Conversely if we need to lean someone out really easily and precisely with the Zone works pretty damn well. I'm the first to admit that the counting is a pain in the ass, even once one has dialed in the eyeball method. The zone fits into intermittent fasting if one wants to bring in some additional precision but is by no means necessary. Apologies if I'm re-stating the obvious...just rambling here.
Regarding the study...its interesting and I think telling about our metabolism. The PM eaters still lost weight but more was fat. They mention some exercise was performed, I'm guessing it was cardio. Resistance training will spare muscle mass even at significant caloric restriction levels so long as there is not overt insulin resistance (muscle will virtually melt away under these circumstances as it gets converted to glucose via gluco-neogenesis). So...I think your plan is good. Eat later in the evening, hit a dose of carbs post WO...use intermittent fasting to foster insulin resistance and whatever goodies it has to offer...and no counting of the Zone.
I remember Shaf posted a link to some studies showing that shifting most of ones protein allotment to the PWO period was better than spread through the day. This punctuated approach with significant variation in intakes and timing makes sense. Most effective strength training protocols have a strong intensity element. It has always made sense to me that an intensity and variability element with regards to nutrition would also be optimum.
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I am toying with the IF approach and really like what MOD outlined. My biggest challenge is that I workout fairly early for strength and in the evenings with my BJJ.
I also happen to truly love breakfast. Not necessarily the food just the meal and time of day. Eating after my drive home from grappling is a no brainer and I can down the calories.
Using the same type of scheduling I could IF and PM feed 4 days a week and eat PWO early 3 days a week. That would add some of the variability that Robb was discussing and still accomplish the night time feeding 4 days a week.
MOD are you going to keep a log here or on another site?
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1.8kg of tuna before bed? Wow!
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and risk looking like a complete ass. So it be. You guys already know I speak from experience based on what has worked for me and my clients. I will leave the scientific stuff to Robb and others. I won't even try to attempt to articulate the science and theory behind IF. All I know is that it works. Grant it, the evolutionary orgins behind it should be enough to convince even the most stubborn naysayer, experimentation thru trial-n-error should be the nail in the coffin. As I mentioned in a previous post, I personally prefer the 12-6 eating curfew and have noticed dramatic changes over the last several months. Performance, body comp, energy levels, strength levels, etc the list goes on....
Anyway, the only point I'll try to make here is this:
Set aside the peer-reviewed studies, the scientific data, the theory's and everything else text and online...stop looking for that final authority, stamp of approval or breakthrough article in Science Daily or BBC Science and just give it a shot and try it out for yourself.
IF works! Its as simple as that
In other words, quit searching for the perfect recipe and just start throwing together some ingredients. Actually Rob made it very simple for us and gave us all the ingredients we need. Now its a matter of tinkering with ratios and finding what works for YOU.
And counting calories is flat out retarded. Fat people do that!
If you need a scale to tell you that you have too much food on your plate than you probably do. Instead be practical and eyeball a fist size of food. Better yet, after activity go ahead and eat a generous portion. Without activity watch your intake and eat less.
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Great feedback...I'm more of a night person...always have been so it actually fits right into my schedule....my plan is to get where I measure nothing...don't have to cook all the time and still maintain muscle and burn fat....
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and risk looking like a complete ass. So it be.
Set aside the peer-reviewed studies, the scientific data, the theory's and everything else text and online...stop looking for that final authority, stamp of approval or breakthrough article in Science Daily or BBC Science and just give it a shot and try it out for yourself.
It's so Be It.....Ebonic Speaking Caveman.
As for the other stuff....can't help it...my personality to know how something works 100%...because then I can relate it better to people..plus I sound smarter....and I need all the help I can get!
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MOD are you going to keep a log here or on another site?
Going with the whole "I dont want to count portions or calories routine..."..probably not...but I can tell you what I have done lately and so far so good.
9am - Coffee and a little half and half
11am - Eat P+F+V
2pm - Eat P+F+V
Pre WO - Aminos + 1 scoop Whey
5pm - Workout
PWO - Aminos + Whey + Creatine + dextrose (will dump this later I feel)
7pm - Party Time....eat P+C....as much as I can stomach....
P=protein, C=Carbs, V=veg, F=fat
Protein is around 200-250g/day, Carbs will be around 150g (with 75%+ being PWO) and Fat...well it makes up the rest...
I also add a scoop of Whey and water 1st thing in the AM right now....not sure if that really has any affect....but I figure keep it for now....drop it later....see if it really makes a difference....I am guessing probably not.
Non-workout days or running/biking days....will just drop the PWO drink all together and keep a meal about an hour after with P+C. Also I eat fruit here and there with the meals...not much, some strawberries...blueberries, etc....probably keep them to PWO time. Weekends....well rest assured Sat night it will involve some Paleo Buffalo Wings and Guiness!
Remember I am 13% BF right now....so I am also trying to gain lean while losing....if you are looking more for just fat loss....dont do the PWO shake...in the end...I may drop that all together too just to see the difference in recovery and performance.
Actually this thread was more about why working out at night and nightime eating is more beneficial than the other way around.....and making sure I had all my scientific ducks in a row....just to piss off Steve.
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I'm thinking of cola, lemonade, etc bottles, usually 2 litres, commonly available in the UK. Are these going to be an acceptable substitute for glass bottles? Would save a few pennies on the cost of beer bottles, caps and capper.
You can certainly use plastic bottles like this. In fact, one introductory homebrew kit, Mr. Beer, includes these types of bottles.
One main advantage is that you can give the bottles a squeeze to gauge the carbonation level. When the bottles are hard, they are ready for consumption.
Keep in mind that lighter color bottles (plastic or glass) will allow more UV light to enter the beer, which can give it that 'skunky' armoma. If you can find them, use brown plastic bottles. (I have never seen any of these, except for the Mr. Beer ones, so you may have trouble finding them.) Otherwise, be sure to keep the bottles shielded from light.
Also, the same concerns that apply in the plastic vs. glass debate for fermenters apply here. Plastic can scratch more easily, and when it does, it can be very hard to sanitize effectively, since the little buggers can hide in the scratches. On the other hand, if you drop a plastic bottle on your concrete patio, there won't be any broken glass!
Soda bottles are made of PET plastic, which is actually the same stuff that the "Better Bottle" carboys are made out of. The plastic itself is very compatible with beer. The biggest down sides are the color and transparency that others mentioned for light destroying the flavor.
The other area of concern is the caps and pressure. As far as pressure is concerned, these are designed for much higher pressures than beer. Soda is often closer to 30psi (beer's often served at half of that) and the bottles can handle something like 120psi before actually giving out.
The caps are designed for the same pressures. I would want to see if re-using the caps would cause oxygen leaks, but since the "new" caps just screw on too, I don't think that's a concern worth worrying about.
For me, I'd put the same beer into half a dozen PET bottles and half a dozen glass bottles. Then, at a month, 2 months, 3 months, 6 months, a year, etc. open a matching pair and taste to see how they compare. The best way to do this is have someone else pour them into glasses for you, so it's blind. If you can't taste the difference, go with the cheaper bottles. If you can, decide accordingly.
These bottles are fine to use, just as long as you keep them in a dark place. They're generally even considered stronger than glass bottles.
If you're using a two liter, keep in mind the extra oxygen in the bottle if it's not full, it could make things taste a bit papery. You'll also end up with more yeast sediment at the bottom, so pour carefully if you don't like yeast in your beer.
If you're serious about your brewing, I'd recommend you don't use PET bottles at all:
Your best bet is to keep your brews in either bottles or kegs. In my experience, kegs will allow beer to age better than in bottles, and your bottling time is reduced to filling a keg or two in a few minutes, rather than spending ages adding extra sugar and filling 30+ bottles. Maintaining kegs is somewhat easier than maintaining bottles, but the initial setup is more expensive, and it can be fiddly getting your beer cold without modifying a fridge, or spending even more cash on a specialized fridge. Glass bottles is therefore the more cost effective compromise. Most home brew shops will be able to sell you a crate of bottles, or if you have a favorite brew, just save the bottles for your next brew. Larger glass soft drink bottles can also be used if you can find them, but the caps need to be replaced from time to time as they lose their ability to maintain a seal after a while.
Coopers does a range of very cost effective PET bottles in brown (http://secure.coopers.com.au/shop-diy/bottles-caps/). I've had good results using these and various soda bottles including cola bottles. To avoid light getting in I place the bottles in a cardboard box which would also regulate the temp a bit better and catch any mess if a bottle pops.
Not sure if this is a great idea but I also squeeze the bottles to get all the air out before putting the cap on. This refills with gas from the bottle fermentation. Doesn't seem to harm either way though.
I would avoid using bottles over 1 litre though as your second and third glasses from these bottles tend to cloud up as sediment is bubbled up from the bottle bottom as the pressure is released. A trick I use to avoid this is to decant into a pitcher.


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- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp mustard
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Oil a 9 x 13 baking pan.
1. Mix grated tempeh, onion, garlic, flour, and spices in a large bowl.
2. Add in sauces and oil, and enough water (you may not need any at all) so you are able to mash everything up with your fingers. Knead/mush/mash for a few mins to mix everything well.
3. Divide dough into 10 pieces and shape into small loaves. Place into oiled pan, and spray lightly with oil. Bake for 15 mins.
4. While loaves are baking, bring glaze ingredients to bubbling in a small saucepan. Let thicken a bit. Spoon over baking loaves. Bake loaves for 15 mins more, then scoop excess glaze back over the loaves. Bake for an additional 20-25 mins, or until glaze is thickened and darkened.


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Is there built in support for highlighting variables in languages which do not use any special designator like $? Languages like Java and TCL.
I've seen some comments on how to generate a completion provider if you want autocompletion for variables you've declared but didn't see anything on simply highlighting them.


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Loerie Awards 2012: Photos from Judges' Wrap Party
As judging for the 2012 Loerie Awards came to a close, the Egg Films Judges' Wrap Party was held at the Southern Sun Cullinan in Cape Town last night. The gathering set the tone for a weekend of festivities, as some of South Africa's top brand communicators came together to celebrate and discuss creativity.
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Do you remove peel and wrap it in tin foil ?
Do you put it directly on gril (with peel) ?
How much time ?
The best way I have found is to soak the ears in husk for several hours before grilling. This lets the husk soak lots of water. Then place the corn, still in husk, on a hot grill for about 10 minutes, ~1/4 turn, 10 minutes, turn... until the husk gets brown, even burnt.
You should be able to tell when the corn is cooked by the smell. The sugars in the corn will start to caramelize and brown in the husk and it will give off a delicious caramel smell. You can check them by peeling down the husk to make sure that they are cooking well.
Times will depend on your grill and how much patience you have. In general, it is difficult to overcook. You want to watch out for drying, but that usually takes a while if you soak the ears beforehand.
Foil is a poor substitute for the natural wrapper. The husk both protects the cob from too much direct heat as well as holding water close to the cob to gently steam the kernels. And its just prettier with the browned and burnt husk, au natural.
I've done it a few different ways --
Now, if you're cooking over campfire ... then yes, I'd soak the husks, or go with aluminum foil ... but a grill where I have more control: husked, straight on the grill.
I would suggest leaving the husk on, and just throwing it on the grill. Turn is every couple of minutes, and pull it off when it feels a bit soft to squeeze.
In the past, I've soaked it as per an earlier suggestion, but not for several hours since my grilling is usually relatively impromptu. I soak it for as long as I can get away with (usually at least half an hour), leave the husk on, and drip a little bit of melted butter on top of a foil sheet, then add some simple seasoning (garlic powder, salt, pepper, whatever) on top of the butter, then wrap it up and grill it for about half an hour, turning every 10 minutes or so. I'm not sure if the butter and seasoning helps, but it doesn't hurt, and you're not losing much. It's certainly not the BEST method, but it works for me.
Soak whole ears in the husk in a bowl of water. Gently peel back husk (do not detach), remove silk, rub on some garlic butter if you like, then replace the husk. Tie with kitchen twine if necessary.
Grill for 20 mins, turning every 5.
when you are done grilling your corn...try taking 1/2 Lime dipped in Sea Salt and rub on to your corn...delicious!!!
I husk, add a little butter and salt, wrap in foil and put them on the edge of the grill, turning 1/4 to 1/3 turn every 7-10 minutes or so.
I love to put lemon pepper and Parmesan cheese on my freshly grilled corn. (I leave the husks on for a little while and throw it on the grill with all the husk on--I get all the flavor from the butter, lemon pepper, and Parmesan!)


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This answer of mine has been strongly criticized on the ground that it is no more than a philosophical blabbering. Well, it may well be. But people seem to be of the opinion that HUP alone does not ensure randomness and you need Bell's theorem and other features for the randomness in QM. However, I still believe it is the HUP which is all one needs to appreciate the probabilistic feature of QM. Bell's theorem or other such results reinforces this probabilistic view only. I am very much curious to know the right answer.
I'm not sure if an undergrads perspective would be useful here- but I'll give it a shot (at worst I'll learn something new.)
David Griffith's "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics" takes great care to motivate the uncertainty principle from more basic founding postulates of Q.M. First Hilbert space and the state vector, as the description of the particle, are defined. Next classical observables are formulated as operators on the state vector. Eigenvalues and the basis of the operators are explored and it is revealed that for certain (conjugate) operators, the state vector cannot be written in the same basis if a unique value for those operator's corresponding observable is desired. It is shown that such operators do not commute. It is finally shown that from non-commuting the uncertainty principle can be mathematically derived.
So the point of this summary (all of which I'm sure you already know well) is the order that things are done. Griffiths is so far my favorite text book author, and I'm sure there is a reason he laid things out so explicitly. He stresses the classical nature of the observables and how the state vector is truly fundamental. It always seemed to me (and thus how I understand it) that what he was getting at is that observables like position and momentum are classical and what we are doing is trying to perform classical observation on a quantum system. When we attempt to do this, we are putting limitations on the state vector that nature simply doesn't do on her own. The result of this is that we end up with non-comeasurable observables, simply because of our classical bias in "translating" the true state of the particle, which is simply not completely expressible solely in terms of classical observables. To me this, what Q.M. is actually doing, seems more fundamental than the HUP. Perhaps it borders on metaphysics- but it seems to be the logical conclusion of the math/algorithms.
And because Bell's Theorem is mentioned: the inputs for this theorem are already there in Q.M.- the theorem simply tells us how to properly combine them and then conclude the character of the correlations between observables. In a way (once again seeming to me) it "measures" what kind of probabilities we are expressing in our theory.
It's very strange for someone to say that "Bell's theorem ensures something in quantum mechanics". Bell's theorem is a theorem - something that can be mathematically proved to hold given the assumptions. It's valid in the same sense as $1+1=2$. Is $1+1=2$ needed for something in physics? Maybe - but the question clearly makes no sense. Mathematics is always valid in physics - and everywhere else.
However, even the assumptions of Bell's theorem surely can't be "necessary building blocks" for some results in quantum mechanics because Bell's theorem is not a theorem about quantum mechanics at all. It is a theorem (an inequality) about local realist theories - exactly the kind of theories that quantum mechanics is not. Whether someone needs $1+1=2$ doesn't matter because this fact is imposed upon him, anyway. Any proof may be modified so that $1+1=2$ is needed and any proof may be modified so that $1+1=2$ is not needed.
But even if one ignores the comment about "Bell's theorem and other such results" that can't possibly have anything to do with the question, it's nontrivial to make the question precise. The uncertainty principle is normally formulated as a part of quantum mechanics - we say that $\Delta x$ and $\Delta p$ can't have well-defined sharp values at the same moment. What it means for them not to have sharp values? Well, obviously, it means that one measures their values with an error margin, and the fluctuations or choice of the measured value from the allowed distribution has to be random.
If it were not random, there would have to be another quantity for which one should do the same discussion. Again, if the uncertainty principle applied to this hidden variables (and a complementary one), it would imply that its values have to be random. Do you allow me to assume that the HUP holds for whatever variables we have? If you do, obviously, there has to be random things in the Universe.
But even the term "random" is too ill-defined. Do you require some special vanishing of correlations etc.? If you do, shouldn't you describe what those requirements are?
So I don't think it's possible to fully answer vague questions of this kind. I would say a related comment that quantum mechanics - with its random character - is the only mathematically possible and self-consistent framework that is compatible with certain basic observations of the quantum phenomena. The outcomes in quantum mechanics take place randomly, with probabilities and probability distributions that can be calculated from the squared probability amplitudes, and all other attempts to modify the basic framework of quantum mechanics have been ruled out.
If it's so, and it is so, there's really no point in trying to decompose the postulates of quantum mechanics into pieces because the pieces only combine into a viable theoretical structure, able to explain the behavior of important worlds such as ours, when all these postulates are taken seriously at the same moment.
In my opinion HUP is not a "principle" but a consequence of the mathematical framework of QM - it is derived rather than "postulated".
Randomness or uncertainty in measuring some variable in some state is not strictly related to the uncertainty of its canonically conjugate variable. HUP establishes some limitation on them and that's it. What I want to underline is that, say, uncertainty in momentum is determined with the given QM state itself.
About randomness, it is easy to understand if we remember that the information is gathered with help of photons. When the number of photons in one "observation" is large, their average is well determined and it is what the classical physics deals with. If the number of photons is small, the uncertainty makes an impression of a strong randomness in measuring, say, position of a body. Even the Moon position is uncertain if based on few-photon measurements.
Uncertainty in measurements is a fundamental feature of states in physics. Determinism is possible only for "well-averaged" measurements. Look at the Ehrenfest equations - they involve average (expectation) values. It implies many-many measurements. In other words, the classical determinism is due to its inclusive character.
Well, you misinterpreted what I (and others) said at least in two important ways.
In other words, your statement "HUP which is all one needs to appreciate the probabilistic feature of QM" couldn't be more far removed from reality. To appreciate this probabilistic aspect, one needs to master the mathematical formalism of QM, the way it connects to experiment and the way measurements are interpreted. HUP is only a small part in it and actually, the one thing you almost never care for as it is built-in into the theory from the start.
The title question is
I claim that the answer to this question is:No.
The HUP has the basic forms:
$$\Delta E.\Delta t \ge \hbar$$
$$\Delta x.\Delta p \ge \hbar$$
Furthermore quantum mechanics books prove that for non-commuting observables:
$$[P,Q] \neq 0$$
$$\Delta P.\Delta Q \ge \hbar$$
So the HUP is proven generally as a consequence of the non-commutativity of the observables. In order to understand why there are non-commuting observables in QM takes us to the rest of the postulates of QM and so explains why the other answers say that HUP is a consequence of QM in toto.
However there is more to the topic of "QM randomness" than this, and we have not yet responded to your remarks about Bell's Theorem.
The first point to note is that in classical engineering, there is a concept of time-domain and frequency domain (for a wave) and the associated law:
$$\Delta \omega.\Delta t \ge 1$$
This law is a consequence of the Fourier transform between these domains and therefore:
$$e^{-i\omega t}$$
So the HUP formula is more widespread than just quantum mechanics. Of course if one puts
$$E=\hbar \omega$$
then one obtains
$$\Delta E.\Delta t \ge \hbar$$
once again!
So where does quantum randomness (assuming for the moment, that that is the correct term) come from?
One published book that makes this point explicitly is Roger Penrose "The Emperor's New Mind", p297
The italics is mine (and this is where Penrose introduces his R definition for describing quantum wave function reduction). Thus if you are familiar with quantum mechanics then this is the reduction postulate (in words).
So we have several different concepts in play here: HUP, QM Postulates, Bell's Theorem, randomness.
I think I'm largely going to repeat what Roy, Vladimir, and Jaskey13 have already said, but perhaps, I hope, not so totally that this won't be Useful.
I take it that HUP, despite its grandiose title, is not a principle; it's derived as a consequence of the various mathematical structures of QM. As such, HUP is a part of a characterization of the properties of QM. HUP is, however, something of a lesser part of that characterization because it is not enough to characterize all the differences between classical stochastic physics and QM. It is possible, as Roy says, to construct local classical models for which, under a reasonable physical interpretation of the mathematics, HUP is true.
I'm not completely sure what you mean by "HUP alone does not ensure randomness"? I suppose the interpretation of QM is all probability all the time. In various comments you protest, and I believe, that you know the axioms of QM and their basic interpretation well enough. What I take you to mean is that "HUP alone does not ensure intrinsic randomness". This qualification, which is fairly commonly used, makes sense, to me, of your following comment, with my qualification inserted, that "you need Bell's theorem and other features for the [intrinsic] randomness in QM", whereas the relevance of Bell inequalities to your Question seems to have troubled other people here.
I take "intrinsic" to be a rather coded way to say that a classical probability theory is not isomorphic to quantum probability theory. I've previously cited on Physics SE the presentations of Bell-CHSH inequalities that I think best make this clear, due to Landau and to de Muynck, here, where I note that you also left a notably Useful(8) Answer. Their derivations use the CCRs in a way that is not significantly more obscure than does the derivation of the HUP. I take the Bell-CHSH inequalities to be a reasonable lowest-order characterization of the difference. There is of course confusion concerning the relevance of locality to the Bell inequalities, which I think could get in the way of my discussion here, but I see that you have a relatively sophisticated view of that confusion.


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The anthracite miners of northeastern Pennsylvania were early members of the UMWA. In 1897, anthracite miners were faced with low wages, poor working conditions and sporadic work. The miners struck to improve these conditions, but poor coal market conditions led coal operators to harden their opposition to the miners' demands. The companies decided on a show of force by their own company police and by the cooperative sheriff of Luzerne County, James Martin. On Labor Day, thousands of non-union miners who were UMWA supporters marched peacefully in the anthracite mining towns. In the following days more marches occurred. Anxious to avoid violence, the UMWA leaders urged marchers not to carry even walking sticks, though American flags abounded.
On September 10, the strikers marched to Lattimer and were stopped by a force led by Sheriff Martin. The unexpected halt led to confusion and jostling, and shots suddenly rang out. Nineteen of the miners were killed, and perhaps fifty more were wounded, in what became known as the Lattimer Massacre. Although the violence was committed by the so-called forces of law and was needless the sheriff had dispersed larger, rowdier crowds alone in previous confrontations no one was convicted for the murders at Lattimer.
The primary result of the massacre was rapid growth in unionism in the anthracite region. During the next four months approximately 15,000 new names were added to the UMWA rolls.
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Missing the MSM
The Washington Post's media maven, Howard Kurtz, notes that the persistence of the "death panel" reports shows the infirmity of the mainstream media:
For once, mainstream journalists did not retreat to the studied neutrality of quoting dueling antagonists.They tried to perform last rites on the ludicrous claim about President Obama's death panels, telling Sarah Palin, in effect, you've got to quit making things up.But it didn't matter. The story refused to die.The crackling, often angry debate over health-care reform has severely tested the media's ability to untangle a story of immense complexity. In many ways, news organizations have risen to the occasion; in others they have become agents of distortion. But even when they report the facts, they have had trouble influencing public opinion.
And that goes for the MSM across the spectrum, as far right as National Review. Canary in the mine for political discourse? Or has it always been thus?
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Jon Stuart [actually Stewart] seemed to kick the story to death the other evening in his interview with the woman who started the fracas--Betsy McGaughy (former Lt. Governor [R] of New York). She was inept and inarticulate though making every effort to charm Stuart and the audience. A dumb blond who has risen above her level of competence????
I'm not buying Kurtz's claim -- the MSM has done its level best to debunk and dismiss the hysterical distortions of Palin et al.? It looks to me like the MSM has done its best to report on said distortions as if they deserved to be dignified with a response. Reporters may have been less "neutral" than usual, but they were still more "neutral" than the facts called for.
I thought neutrality had to do with positions with regards to the issues, not validating false claims by airing them as legitimate points. Isn't it the job of journalists to fact-check, and to relay the truth?
We have a document that is 1,000 pages, leaves out many details, and as a result, we have mass confusion. No surprise there.
I agree with Mr. Kurtz; the MSM has done what it can to correct or explain distortions in the case for national healthcare.However regarding all this, the MSM has two main problems:First The President strangely enough, took a conservative approach and did not submit to Congress, a health care reform plan of his own; "The Administration's Plan" or "The President's Plan". Instead he turned the whole matter over to Pelosi and Reid. Not only are those two characters notably unreliable, now there are several bills or versions of bills floating around, which is just more fodder for anti-reformers to grab onto and use. It is not possible to focus on (talk about) just one healthcare proposal. I think president Obama made a huge mistake here; he should not have trusted Congress with this important matter. At best they are not big thinkers; they necessarily tend to think mostly only of their districts. Also, being politicians and politics being politics, they have elections coming up, and obviously they would tend to care more about their own re-election than they do about Mr. Obama's. At worst, not a few members of Congress are flat-out megalomaniacal pigs at the trough. In any case, most are premadonnas of the first order who simply cannot be relied upon, and the President should have known this. I think he does now.Second - Frankly, for better or worse (does not matter, it is just a fact), the MSM does not have the credibility it once had. They have lost a huge amount of credibility over the last ten or fifteen years, during which time the cable news and the internet have gained as much ground.There are technical reasons in the world of TV and Internat, and there are reaosns of perception; the MSM has long been thought to tilt Left, but their role has diminished.Like many other businesses, for various reasons the MSM has been down-sized (some industries called that sort of thing right-sizing back in the 80's and 90's) and now, the MSM is simply doing what is left of its job.
Isn't it always about soundbites and hearing what one wants to hear. We are all prone to favor those who agree with us without regard to their criminal record etc. Seems like the bishops pick it up also. http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/08/24/healthcare/
"A dumb blond who has risen above her level of competence????"Sexist much?Betsy McGaughy, B.A., Vassar College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University, historian, author, lecturer, curator, etc., etc.
Bill, you may want to share this information with salon.com to clear up their confusion regarding the Bishops and Health Care reform: http://www.usccb.org/healthcare/and since it is a sign of intellectual laziness not to be informed, you should also share this site with salon.comhttp://www.usccb.org
And now -- thanks to Obsidian Wings -- I see today's Washington Post has an op-ed by noted health-care-policy expert Michael Steele reiterating the GOP's most dishonest talking points. (OK, the bill doesn't say "death panels," but there are lots of other ways to phrase the allegation that Democrats want to hurt old people for profit.) Does Kurtz really not see how the WP bears responsibility for helping to keep this nonsense alive?
Aren't the end-of-life consultations a (so to speak) dead letter? Believe I heard that it's been yanked from the Senate's bill?I watched the portion of Stewart's interview with McGaughy that aired on television (believe the whole thing is on Stewart's web site).McGaughy seemed to have a point to make, and seemed several times to be on the verge of making it. She just about got it out. Stewart interrupted her constantly and basically obstructed her ability to say her piece (although, in fairness, she was pretty disorganized). Stewart himself is not a neutral party - he is not far from being an administration shill, albeit a very entertaining one. The interview made for some highly watchable television, but the opportunity that was missed is the same one that the MSM seems to have missed: to explain *what is actually in the bill*, and to explain, in a non-partisan way, what it means. The stories I recall reading about the "death panels" seemed to follow this format: quote some snippets from Palin's blog; quote some administration spokespersons denying and ridiculing it; quote some political observers (usually not neutral themselves) as to what it means in the context of, Will the Bill Pass or Won't It. Conflict and a horse race, but little or no educating and informing the public. Perhaps, as Kurtz suggests, the bill is so complicated that it is beyond the ability of a news reporter to disentangle what it actually says. That would be a problem for the administration, as it seems that base fear and paranoia - for which understanding and enlightenment would be the panacea - are their chief foes in getting this legislation passed and signed into law.
Without getting into the specifics of this issue - to me it was political hyperbole not unlike some that progressives engage in all the time (e.g. the Patriot Act will have the FBI reviewing everyone's library records) - maybe it's finally a case of the Boy Who Cried Wolf.For years the MSM ha=s been carrying liberal water without question - how about these whopper - Bill Clinton in 1992 - "This is the worst economy since the Great Depression." Every Dem in the 1980's - "Ronald Reagan has slashed social welfare spending." In other words, they "set the record straight" when they want to and don't when they don't want to. That makes them irrelevant, even if they are right. At least when I see Fox News or read the WSJ they aren't hiding their perspective like the NYT or Kurtz's WP. You can't claim neutrality, practice partisanship, and complain when people can't tell the difference.
Jim Pauwels: "McGaughy seemed to have a point to make, and seemed several times to be on the verge of making it. She just about got it out.." So...exactly what was the point she was trying to make?
"Betsy McGaughy, B.A., Vassar College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University, historian, author, lecturer, curator, etc., etc."Her performance was not a credit to her degrees or her career: flapping her eyelashes, giggling, swinging her blonde bob, and flirting with the audience and doing her best with Jon Stewart. Perhaps sexist, but more like giving women policy makers a bad name.
Another WP columnist, Charles Krauthammer, offers, to my mind, an astute fair and balanced commentary on end-of-life counseling provisions in the health reform bills:So why get Medicare to pay the doctor to do the counseling? Because we know that if this white-coated authority whose chosen vocation is curing and healing is the one opening your mind to hospice and palliative care, we've nudged you ever so slightly toward letting go.It's not an outrage. It's surely not a death panel. But it is subtle pressure applied by society through your doctor. And when you include it in a health-care reform whose major objective is to bend the cost curve downward, you have to be a fool or a knave to deny that it's intended to gently point the patient in a certain direction, toward the corner of the sickroom where stands a ghostly figure, scythe in hand, offering release.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/20/AR200908...
That so many people cling to belief in "death panels" on the Obama agenda--despite the fact they aren't there-- signals that the "Death Panels" must somehow "feel true" and serve a purpose for those who cannot let them go. The way to dissipate their illusion would seem to be to remove the fears that conjure the image of this "reality" up.In a strange way, Michael Steele may have hit upon one way to do this. His "dishonest talking points" identify some potent fears that should be put to rest. Of course the broad and sweeping reassurances he would demand (safely, as he won't have responsibility for guaranteeing their fulfillment) are something of a trap. But going to the Democratic health care proposals and reiterating what they don't say (Of course they don't, who would?) will never allay suspicions based-- not on paranoia but real life experience with government bureaucracy, insurance company doublespeak, and an awareness of the vulnerability of patients with terminal illnesses. Identifying specific widely held fears ( both rational and irrational) and neutralizing them, one by one, with realistic, honest, limited guarantees, perhaps framed in a something like Steele's bill of rights format might not be a bad idea at all. It won't be easy. As Charles MacKay said in "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" :"Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder's welcome."
OK - there are no "death panels," but why do the current proposals - Not only premit payment for "end-of'life" counseling but mandate its content - what other Medicare authorized "treatment" has its content mandated by Congress?Require a section on end-of-life issues like living wills in Medicare benficiary guidesInclude data collection requirements on end of life care counseling and outcomes?Like the Krauthammer column says - there is an implicit preference for end of life care that involves less treatment given the cost reduction emphasis of the bill. The idea that people don't know about their alternatives and don't consider end of life issues, or that physicians haven't been talking to their patients because they weren't reimbursed is just silly. Is the "death panel" talk hyperbole? Of course it is, but so it equating 47million uninsured with 45 million people who aren't getting health care.
"Soexactly what was the point she was trying to make?"From what I could follow ... it seems that Medicare scores doctors who accept Medicare patients (which seems like a good thing). She is claiming (I think) that the proposed legislation would require that the doctors report which patients, or perhaps how many patients, they've had an end-of-life consultation with, and this would become an component of the doctor's score.
Probably few of us know what this scoring business is all about. Anyone?
FWIW, I just spent too much time poking around on Google. It seems that HHS has a program called PQRI - Physician Quality Reporting Initiative. "The 2006 Tax Relief and Health Care Act (TRHCA) (P.L. 109-432) required the establishment of a physician quality reporting system, including an incentive payment for eligible professionals (EPs) who satisfactorily report data on quality measures for covered services furnished to Medicare beneficiaries during the second half of 2007 (the 2007 reporting period). CMS named this program the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI)."http://www.cms.hhs.gov/PQRI/01_Overview.asp#TopOfPageUnder PQRI, the government measures physicians on 153 different variables. There is a listing of the 153 items, plus an additional 32 collected by various other sponsoring organizations that must piggyback on the process.http://www.cms.hhs.gov/PQRI/Downloads/2009_PQRI_MeasuresList_030409.pdfNot that I have any expertise in this, but it appears to me that item #47 on the list is very similar to what McGaughy was talking about. If so, then it's not an innovation of the health-care reform legislation currently under consideration.Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can confirm or correct.
NYT, WP, FBI are inelligible by now, but add the likes of MSM, PQRI, TRHCA, P.L and CMS and you have an alphabet soup enough to drive you bonkers. You can tell me that TRHCA means Tax Relief and Health Care Act == but what the hell does *that* mean?? Is it all just too complex to be thought about? Or are the politicians unwilling to come out from under their cover of code-speak to really communicate with us?
What the MSM and others with intelligence beyond the 1st grade level need to keep in mind is that (1) all there exists at this point is a House bill; (2) nothing final exists to represent the Senate's feeble efforts at a bill; (3) there still has to be reconciliation of the 2 proposals when that time comes.There is NO proposed ACTUAL agreed-to bill at this stage of the game that justifies knicker knotting by anyone.What there is is this: http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=254207
Can't we get past the "this is too complicated for anyone to understand" comments?It may be that no congressman has read 1000 pages of a proposed bill, but it is more than likely that someone on each person's staff has either read or written those 1000 pages. And if 5 different committees are working on the same issue, each committee's staff has probably kept track of what the other's are doing. All of this has been done under the supervision of the congressional representatives, who made the critical decisions on what to include or exclude.This has probably been done with varying levels of competency and attention, and with varying levels of influence from lobbyists, but that is how a bill becomes a law. Someone on the hill has read these things, and if any capable people have been elected to Congress, they are aware of what is going on.
Thanks Jim Pauwels. Do you think Barbara might know?
Ms McGaughy apparently wanted to object to judging the implementation of Advance Care Directives, thinking that doctors would improve their PQRI if their patients' directives were followed. That may have been in the bill, or it may just have been her assumption about the data collection. The purpose of the physician's quality rating (PQRI) is to establish 'best' practices so that physicians with better outcomes are paid better. This gets tricky in the case of terminal patients, since concepts like 'cure', 'health' and 'survive' take on different meanings for them. In any event, she did come across as a dumb blonde, particularly when she could not find page 432 in her binder; it just looked silly.What should be highlighted here is the difficulty of Advance Directives. People need to be informed, but resist the needed imaginings. When my brother-in-law succumbed to lung cancer, I might have thought that no one should ever be put on a respirator; it prolonged his life in a painful way, forcing his body to fight against itself. Except that I had already seen my mother helped by a respirator to survive some transient episodes with a relatively clear mind and heart. It is easy to say "I never want to be put on a respirator", but that is not always the right decision. Sometimes, even often, the advance directive is not the appropriate response to the situation because the individual did not understand all the situations that could be covered. Physician consultations are needed so that people can be more aware of what could happen and make better decisions, but it is not easy to decide which physicians are doing a better job with those consultations.
The point that the doctor made on John Stewart's program was that, by her reading of the end of life provision, physicians were not only paid for recommending this as an option...but also by what percentage of patients actually used it. Stewart disagreed...but, remarkably, she was unable to provide the the text. Or even the page number at first. She was disorganized, but that doesn't mean she should be dismissed.For my money, I think the main confusion here is that we have switched talking about death panels...and started talking about the end of life provision in the bill...while still using the term 'death panels.' At worst, its a single doctor doing this...so why talk of 'panels'? The answer seems to be that this is what conservatives focused on when they were made fun of for using the term...Palin's blog entry being the the first example. They may or may not have a point about the end of life provisions (I haven't read the text)...but that wasn't the issue raised by death panels. What is lost is the very real fact that the public option and the expanded medicaid program will continue be forced to ration care by something other than a market. Thus there will be a 'panel' that will decide how to ration limited resources. This is being done right now in Medicaid and Medicare and will continue in the new plan if it is passed.
Conservative satirist P.J. ORourke finds comfort in government sluggishness:I myself could point out the absurdity of protestors' concerns about government euthanasia committees. Federal bureaucracy has never moved fast enough to get to the ill and elderly before natural causes do.http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/867ttd...
I'm trying to remember that golden age of enlightened news media influence that Howard Kurtz seems to recall. Can't remember it, though. Has anyone seen a news organization take advantage of this ongoing story to do some good coverage of issues involving palliative care?
Jim Rutenberg of the NYT does a rundown of many of these issues by focusing on the way that Palin, McGaughy & Co. have misread or misrepresented the views of one bioethicist. It's herehttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/health/policy/25zeke.html?_r=1The Times had this palliative care profile last week about a doctor, Sean O'Mahoney, for whom this is a speciality.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/health/20doctors.html
Like most things there is a grain of truth on all sides of the debateEnd of life care is an important consideration and everyone should have a living will. However, from the medical end the presumption of care should be on preserving life.However, we need to be much more accepting of the inevitability of death. ST. Benedict said look no further than the distance of your own grave.Buddhists have a meditation on meditating on your decaying body.All of this in not to be morbid but to place life in its proper perspective.Kruthaumer is correct but it is a half truth. With the amount of technology available today to preserve life, individuals do have to contemplate the quality of it.I am not saying these are easy decisions but the choice is increasingly, in our world. being placed in the individual's hands. Again, the Catholic community could help by discussing a theology of death by drawing on the mystics and saints who saw death as "not an end but a beginning". Incidentally my father's favourite part of the funeral liturgy. His death was quick and unexpected but the funeral, although we of course mourned, was uplifiting because of his faith.
FWIW, her name is spelled "McCaughey." I wouldn't want anyone to try Googling her and miss her long and award-winning history of spreading misinformation about health-care reform. (See here, for example.) Also, NB: she is a "doctor" in that she has a PhD in history.
"she did come across as a dumb blonde, particularly when she could not find page 432 in her binder"I think that 90% of what she hoped to accomplish happened when she lugged out that binder that was thicker than six stacked Manhattan phone books. The fumbling about, looking for page 432, was just more window dressing to make the point, 'This is a big, long, complicated, indecipherable piece of legislation.'
"Do you think Barbara might know?"I'm hoping that she and/or Unagidon are following the discussion and decide to comment.
Jim: The Manhattan phone book has gone the way of the dodo bird--or at least we haven't had one given us in years. Even so... that binder looked to be about half the size of the last phone book we have... Even so (again), I would think (but what do I know?) that a complicated matter such as h-c reform is going to produce a lengthy bill. Remeber last September when Hank Paulson showed up with a one-page description of the TARP asking for a gazillion dollars? People rightly protested. Did he ever add a few pages?
TPM has this up: "The evolution of the death panel meme"http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/photofeatures/2009/08/the-evolution-of-...
On another thread Ms. Steinfels describes Hank Paulsen as "loose-minded". Splendid word! It equally well describes Ms. McCaughey. Not my idea of window-dressing. Not only was she not attractive, she was downright scary, given that she is supposed to be a conservative expert.
Another of McGaughy's poorly communicated points was that doctors would have a financial incentive to do end-of-life counseling with patients AND to see that patients adhered to the advance directives that they had drawn up as a result of the counseling. She implied patients would be pressured to forego treatment that they later regretted having rejected on their advance directive. The text of the House bill does or did contain language that the secretary of Health and Human Services was to develop a measure to be added to the Physician Quality Reporting Iniative indicating how many patients created end-of-life instructions and to what extent those instructions were adhered to. The language of the bill does NOT explicitly specify WHOSE adherence is to be measured.McGaughey judged that it was patient adherence to prior instructions, leaving the patient who had a change of mind vulnerable to physician pressure.I suggest it is likely that the author(s) of this section meant physician and/or hospital adherence to a patient's written instructions. I think this because there are findings in the biomedical ethics literature showing that health care workers and hospitals frequently do not follow advance directives after a patient becomes unable to voice her or his wishes. At present, advance directives are VERY likely to be ignored if the closest family members want treatment handled differently.Advance directives have serious limitations for the reasons mentioned by Jim McK. It is more important to execute an appropriate health care proxy. Barbara Andolsen
Re Paul Moses' question: Has anyone seen a news organization take advantage of this ongoing story to do some good coverage of issues involving palliative care?Yes, NPR's "Fresh Air" ran a discussion of palliative and end-of-life care some months back, when the health care bill was still in the talking stages. Transcript is here:http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=102638208... broadcast networks have done a dreadful job covering the health care bill because they've focused more on the conflict surrounding the bill than on the impact the bill would have on the average American. There was some perfunctory debunking of the "death panel" rhetoric, but I haven't seen much substantive analysis except on "The News Hour," which has devoted a series of segments to the bill's content and its impact on everybody from the elderly to big insurance companies like Aetna.In my view, political bias isn't the problem with commercial network broadcasts; it's their focus on "freak" stories--waves that washed seven people out to sea in Maine, Michael Jackson's autopsy report, and big wildfires in California and Greece. Right now, they're trying to make a "freak" story out of the H1N1 flu by hyping up the number of possible deaths, hospitalizations, and the like without offering any context to temper the story. I truly wish I did not have to watch this stuff, but, sadly, it sorta goes with my job.
Another thing that has largely been lost in the discussion of death panels is from the 'what could they possibly have been thinking?' file. Whoever allowed the end of life provision to get into an early version of the bill has to be tone deaf with regard to how it would be used by conservatives...and how quickly such things can get out of control in the public's mind. Everyone knew that those who opposed the kind of reform favored by the President were going to attack via the 'government wants to kill grandma through rationing' approach...and this provision played right into their hands.
"One of the foremost advocates of expanding Medicare end-of-life planning coverage is Johnny Isakson, a Republican Senator from Georgia. He co-sponsored 2007's Medicare End-of-Life Planning Act and proposed an amendment similar to the House bill's Section 1233 during the Senate HELP Committee's mark-up of its health care bill."http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/08/is_the_government_go...
Yet more evidence that conservatives really shouldn't be afraid of the idea of these kinds of provisions...though 'similar' is of course an important word to consider here given that the complaint that the doctor had on the Daily Show was based on a difficult reading of a complex issue. Happily for Senator Isakson, he was able to propose his amendment without having to think about selling it during a national discussion over health care reform. Unfortunately for Obama and like-minded people, whoever put the end of life provision in the current bill also apparently thought they didn't have to sell it during a national discussion over health care reform.


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I want to make isometric, tile-based, iPhone games with cocos2D.
Sprites need to be drawn on-top of other sprites that are "behind" it. I'm looking for the best way to do this.
I'd like to avoid the painter's algorithm because it involves sorting all the sprites every frame which is expensive.
The Z buffer algorithm is supported by the GPU and cocos2D so this is what I'd like to use, but there is a problem. Some sprites, like buildings for example, occupy multiple tiles. Assigning a Z value to such sprites is difficult.
These are the options I've thought of:
- Comparing two buildings and determining which one is "in-front" is easy. So buildings can be sorted then assigned a Z value based on the sort order. This wouldn't be any different from the painter's algorithm. The OpenGl ES Z buffer wouldn't be necessary.
- Assign a Z value to each building based purely on its location on the map (without knowledge of where other buildings are). I'm finding this difficult. I think it is possible, but I haven't been able to come up with a formula yet.
- Use multiple sprites for images that occupy more than one tile, so all sprites will be exactly the same size. Z orders can then be easily assigned based on what tile the sprite is occupying. The problem with this solution is that it makes the game logic much more complicated. All operations on a single building will have to be repeated for each sprite the building is made-up of. I'd like to treat each object as a single entity.
- Modify the cocos2D code to allow sprites to have multiple Z values at different points. If a sprite can have multiple Z values based on what tile a particular part of the sprite falls on, then calculating a Z value for that section is easy. I won't need to compare the sprite to any other sprites. I believe this is possible by using multiple quads for each sprite. The problem with this is that it is a bit complicated for me since I am new to OpenGL ES and cocos2D. I don't completely understand how all of the internal data structures work. Although it seems like the most elegant solution if a formula cannot be found.
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ANDERSON, S.C. – The 21st-ranked Anderson University softball team returns to the diamond on Tuesday, as the Trojans welcome Peach Belt Conference-foe GRU Augusta to Smethers Field for a 2 p.m. doubleheader. The twin bill was originally slated for Feb. 15, but was moved back on the schedule due to inclement weather in the Upstate.
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Anderson opened the season with 11 consecutive wins, marking the best start in school history by surpassing the 2010 Trojan squad's seven consecutive victories. The season-opening win streak fell just shy of the school-record 15 consecutive victories earned by the 2012 team.
Senior shortstop Abby Child and freshman pitcher Lauren Rudesheim have continued their impressive starts after earning SAC Player of the Week honors, while senior first baseman Danielle Swygert is second on the team with a .465 batting average and is tied for second on the squad with four doubles.
Child leads the league with five home runs and ranks second in doubles (6), walks (13), on-base percentage (.615), RBI (20), slugging percentage (1.053) and runs scored (18). Her .500 batting average ranks fourth in the SAC. Swygert is ninth in the conference with her .465 batting average and is second overall with 20 hits on the season.
Newcomer Courtney Czentnar is batting .406 on the season and has eight RBI on the strength of a pair of home runs. The outfielder enters Tuesday's doubleheader riding a five-game hitting streak. Junior Jessica Neidigh has hit safely in four straight contests and is hitting .378 on the season, with three doubles, seven RBI and is a perfect 8-for-8 in stolen bases, which is tops in the SAC. The left-handed leadoff hitter has also been hit by errant pitches (4) more than any other player in the conference.
Center fielder Molly Child has 16 hits in 44 at-bats, including four home runs and four doubles on the season. The sophomore also has drawn eight walks and ranks second on the squad with 17 RBI and a .727 slugging percentage. Junior outfielder Rebecca Martin has boosted her batting average to .313 on the season after going 4-for-9 at the plate in eight games last week, while ripping a pair of doubles and driving in two runs.
As a team, the Trojans rank either first or second in the South Atlantic Conference in nine offensive categories, while in the circle, Rudesheim (6-0) is tied for first in the conference with her six victories and added a save last week. The right-hander's 0.61 ERA ranks third in the SAC and she has 26 strikeouts, while only walking five batters. Junior hurler Katelynn Howser is 5-0 on the season with 29 strikeouts in 31 innings of work, while freshman right-hander Augie Pena (2-1) has moved up to second in the conference, averaging 9.61 strikeouts per contest, and has issued just two free passes in 19 2/3 innings.
The Jaguars
GRU Augusta, formerly Augusta State, was picked to finish 10th in the 2014 Peach Belt Conference preseason poll, according to a vote of the league's coaches. The Diamond Jaguars were predicted to finish ahead of Young Harris and UNC Pembroke after posting an 18-32 mark a year ago, including a 7-15 mark and a ninth-place finish in the PBC.
Head Coach Melissa Brocato, who is in her 16th season with the Jags, lost just two seniors from last year and returns two pitchers from a year ago. Junior Hannah Vaughn and sophomore Molly Walton headline the returners, as Walton recorded the second-highest batting average (.287) on the team last year and Vaughn led the Jags in runs scored (32) and doubles (12). Junior Brooke Stephens posted a .276 average and was second in slugging percentage (.371) and third in RBI (20).
Right-handed sophomore Paige Deschaine and left-handed sophomore Haley Birkle, who posted a team-best 2.45 ERA and 61 strikeouts a year ago, are back in the circle for GRU.
The Diamond Jags are 7-9 overall, but have won six of their last eight, including three-of-four at the Catawba Tournament last weekend in Salisbury, N.C. GRU Augusta split decisions on the opening day, defeating Davis & Elkins but falling to the host Indians. On Saturday, the Lady Jags took decisions from both Lenoir-Rhyne and Pfeiffer.
The Series vs. GRU Augusta
The Trojans and Lady Jaguars have met 21 times, with GRU Augusta holding a 15-6 advantage in the overall series. The two teams met once during the 1998 season, with GRU Augusta taking the win. The two teams squared off against each other on 18 occasions between 2001 and 2005, with the Lady Jags winning 14 of the meetings. Following the 2005 campaign, the series took a seven-year hiatus before resuming last season with AU sweeping the doubleheader, 5-0 and 9-2 in Augusta.
Neidigh was 5-for-8 with a pair of doubles versus the Lady Jags a year ago, while Abby Child was also 5-for-8 with two walks and five RBI in the doubleheader.


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I have the open graph tags with my app id on my website:
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I have a permanent access token for read_insights.
With the following query from here I got the domain_id of my domain:
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But when I try something like the following query:
SELECT metric, value FROM insights WHERE object_id=362406043160 AND metric='domain_like_adds' AND end_time=end_time_date('2011-01-01') AND period=period('day')
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Only administrators of applications, pages, and domains can retrieve Insights. The session user (1547365349) does not own the object 362406043160.
Needless to say that I am admin.
So i think that the domain_id does not equal the object_in the graph api to query stats from http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/insights/ ?
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What I want to achieve in the end is a picture of how many likes all the pages on my domain have...


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Richard Browne Jr. Is Getting Faster
This is still so new. That's the crazy thing. Richard Browne Jr. hasn't been running like this very long. Sprinting in competition. Sprinting against world-class athletes. Sprinting on that blade. That prosthetic blade has only been there for a few years. Browne calls it Earl. Richard and Earl is still a nascent friendship, a work in progress, getting stronger, more comfortable, faster. That's what's so amazing about what Richard and Earl have already done. Browne is 21 years old. He is at the beginning of his road.
He said he still runs like the teenage football player he once was, back in Jackson, Mississippi, before the accident that wound up taking his right leg. He played safety and receiver, which is what you play when you're a comet. But Browne's track coach, Michael Chiles, tries to knock the football out of him. "He hates it," Browne said on the phone Wednesday from Orlando. He laughed. Football players run compact, tight, protecting the ball, bracing for the hit. Chiles wants Browne to free his 6-foot-3 body, let his long arms propel his lower half, open up the engine. Only then will we see what Richard Browne Jr. can really do.
Oh, but Browne is already good. He's already fast. Last summer Browne exploded out of nowhere and took a silver medal in the 100 meters at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London. The world's most recognizable Paralympic athlete, Oscar Pistorius, finished fourth. Last weekend, Browne—classified as a T44 athlete because of his single leg amputation, below the knee—posted a time of 10:85 in a 100-meter race with able-bodied sprinters in Florida. That was good enough to match the Paralympic world record for the 100 meters, though it wasn't recognized as an official record, since the meet wasn't a sanctioned event.
Browne didn't care. He believes he can go lower. Much lower. There are U.S. Paralympic Track & Field Nationals beginning Friday in San Antonio. If all goes well there will be the World Championships this summer in Lyon, France. But Team Browne is already looking years ahead. Browne thinks 10.5 is in his sights. What about 10 seconds?
"He's young," said Chiles. Like every coach, Chiles is guarded, but admits, "The sky's the limit."
This chapter of Richard Browne Jr.'s story began not long ago, back in 2007, when he was a junior in high school. The whole thing sounds like a terrible fluke, one of those moments you could relive a million times and never have happen the same way again. It was a stormy day, and Browne was rushing to take shelter in a local laundromat. He slipped on a mat and went crashing through the glass of the front door. His leg was totally shredded.
"I was 16 years old in the prime of my life and I go through a window one day and from that point on my life is changed forever," Browne said.
He didn't lose his leg until a few years later, when after 14 surgeries he decided he'd had enough with the pain and the crutches and wanted to move on with his life. By then Browne was at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Track wasn't part of his life. He didn't know a thing about the Paralympics. The man who made his prosthesis, Bret Lee, urged him to try. Browne wasn't sure. He tried it. He got better. He hasn't stopped getting better.
Now the track is his life. There are thrice-daily training sessions and grueling workouts with Earl. Browne plays basketball, where his jump shot is almost as good as his dunk. He makes do with a stipend, but has no sponsors as of yet.
But Browne has a developing rival: Jonnie Peacock, from Great Britain, 20 years old, gold medal sensation last summer in London. Browne has never beaten 100-meter world record holder Peacock in a race, but he appears to be gaining. After Browne went 10:85 last weekend, Peacock posted a message on Twitter: "Do it when it counts and from the front and maybe I'll take notice." He put a wink emoticon on the end of the message. A potential showdown awaits this summer in France.
Browne thinks the rivalry is good-natured, upbeat news for a sport badly in need of upbeat news. When people think about Paralympic athletes the conversation usually starts and stops with Pistorius. A transformational figure in track and field, Pistorius's life took an ugly turn this winter when he was arrested in South Africa and charged with the killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The story has stunned the sport.
But there are other stories. The freshest one will be in Texas this weekend, putting on a show, like every great sprinter, still trying to see how far he can take his life in a direction he never imagined. "Plans change," Browne said. "But as long as you have a purpose in life, everything will be OK." It was time to go. Richard Browne Jr. and Earl needed to go for a run.
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I'm reading an explanation of how to solve first-order differential equations. Part of the way through, I have this:
If $\frac{dR}{dx}=RP$, $$\begin{align*} \frac{dR}{R} &= Pdx, \\ \int \frac{dR}{R} &= \int Pdx, \\ \ln R &=\int Pdx +c. \end{align*} $$
Now, this makes me uneasy: I don't like to separate variables. I do it when I integrate with a substitution, but I'm perfectly aware when I'm doing it that I've slipped out of math for a second to manipulate my symbols for convenience, and I could do it more formally if I had to.
That's what I want to do here, but I can't figure it out. Given the first line, how do I solve for R without separation of the variables?
I should add that P and R are both functions of x.