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Google buys natural language startup Wavii, Apple loses out
0. phoneArena posted on 23 Apr 2013, 20:15
Google has been working hard to improve its natural language technology recently. First, we heard about the neural network (Google brain) that is being used, then Google hired Ray Kurzweil. Now, Google has agreed to purchase natural language startup Wavii, and the company outbid Apple to do it...
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1. ama3654 (Posts: 295; Member since: 27 Nov 2012)
Well done Google, show them who's boss!!!
10. anywherehome (Posts: 971; Member since: 13 Dec 2011)
Apple need not to innovate:
their sales are mostly outdated iPhones 4s and old iPads, so their customers are simply dumb to pay such a high price for the outdated devices so for Apple is very easy to do a business
2. BattleBrat (Posts: 1476; Member since: 26 Oct 2011)
Damn, Google's speech recognition is already superior to apple's (and this coming from someone who has an iPhone 4s and a Moto Droid RAZR) With this it'll get BETTER? Google will be unstoppable!
3. Aeires (unregistered)
So the richest company on the planet was outbid by their competition? Never thought I'd see the day.
4. joey_sfb (Posts: 6794; Member since: 29 Mar 2012)
Apple is the modern day Scrooge McDuck. So no surprises for me.
13. MorePhonesThanNeeded (Posts: 645; Member since: 23 Oct 2011)
More like Flintheart Glumgold than McDuck.
12. gmracer1 (Posts: 646; Member since: 28 Dec 2012)
Samsung has more money than Apple........
5. Ninetysix (Posts: 2757; Member since: 08 Oct 2012)
Why innovate when you can buy? Add it to this LONG list.
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6. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2721; Member since: 26 May 2011)
Everyone buys. It's the same as hiring talent.
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9. tedkord (Posts: 15719; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Apple was also trying to buy this, to beef up the prior purchase, Siri. What was that about purchasing instead if innovating?
11. Aeires (unregistered)
Yeah, because Google never innovates anything.


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Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 9:29 AM
Town Square
Palo Alto's greenhouse gas emissions fall
Original post made on Apr 17, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 9:29 AM
Comments (40)
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Apr 17, 2012 at 10:18 am
"Estimated emissions from transportation in the city remained constant because there is insufficient data available to assess changes, she said."
Cars are the biggest cause of air pollution around town. The overall pollution data is meaningless if you don't count car pollution. I'm sure there are ways to estimate car pollution, such as asking the biggest employers about how many of their employees drive to work vs. carpooling or bicycling or telecommuting or using public transit. You won't get a 100% accurate number every year, but you can watch year-to-year trends this way.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 17, 2012 at 10:28 am
No mention of birds of prey slaughtered by the wind farms that we buy from? No mention that Palo Alto locks up a disproportionate share of hydro power, which stops salmon runs? No mention of large areas of desert lands industrialized for solar panels? How many more mountain ridges will be industrialized by wind turbines?
Why should Palo Alto be bragging about this?
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Apr 17, 2012 at 10:37 am
I was going to say that same thing you did (poster 1 from adobemeadows). How can they say they've dropped at all if they can't measure them...and they can't measure it if they don't count the transportation impact.
And in response to Tom, concerned about the potential damage from cleaner energy....I agree that we can do BETTER. I think that the city can and should be a world leader in a lot of things (instead of what they've been doing in so many areas). I think they should start installing solar panels, and the safer and more efficient kind of wind turbines, and rain barrels to catch water, on EVERY HOME and other suitable building in the whole city. THAT would definitely help.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 17, 2012 at 11:13 am
I wish I could be on the bandwagon of renewable energy schemes, but it just doesn't compute. Efficiency gains are a very good thing, a low-hanging fruit, however, there is only so much that can be gained, given our lifestyle choices.
Any quick review of the Internet will show that the main electricty-generation problem includes base load, not just peak load. Base load means 24/7. Solar and wind are not base load. Natural gas, coal, nuclear are base load. One can argue that hydro is base load, however it is limited by supply, and it derives from solar energy, as does wind. Gravity, as in tides, is also potentially base load, yet it is very hard to capture. Geothermal is very limited, but can be argued to be base load.
Of the various major base load schemes, only nuclear, hydro and gravity are carbon-free. Does Palo Alto go out of its way to buy from nuclear power plants?
BTW, the slaughter of birds of prey and the industrialization of our natural areas is not about "potential" damage, it is in full swing right now! How can we pretend that it is "potential"? Rain capture barrels...that only prevents the fresh water from reaching our streams and takes away from replensing our aquifers...what do you mean?
Once again, why are bragging about the Palo Alto approach? Why are we paying for an enviromental administrator to brag about it?
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 17, 2012 at 11:16 am
Without a complete energy budget for all energy consumers in Palo Alto, this sort of exercise is meaningless—other than to suggest that we might be using "less" now than before. What a joke.
Moreover, it's to see any evidence that the City is actually monitoring the "environment" in any meaningful way, such as posting the CO2 levels—so that we can see them decrease over time. (By the way, this is intended to be a joke—since any reduction in Palo Alto generated CO2 would not be noticeable.)
As noted above, vehicles are a large source of certain emissions—although vehicles are much, much, cleaner than they were just thirty years ago. Without knowing the number of miles that Palo Altans drive, and the average miles/gallon of their vehicles—nothing meaningful can be stated about their energy use.
This program should be shut down, and the employees released to do something more effective with their time—saving the taxpayers money that could be used on other obligations of the City that will benefit us all.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 17, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Wind Industry Has Lost 10,000 Jobs Under Obama:
Web Link
Reuters has recently released a report on the so-called "Wind Industry":
1) Since 2009, the wind industry has lost 10,000 jobs, even as the energy capacity of wind farms has almost doubled. By contrast, the oil and gas industry have created 75,000 jobs since Mr. Obama took office.
The report is not very flattering of the Obama Administrations handling of the promised "Green Revolution". But this can hardly be a surprise to anyone remotely knowledgeable with the technical side of energy production/consumption.
Wonder if anyone on the City Council could provide any understanding of the use of energy in Palo Alto, California, the US or the world?
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 17, 2012 at 9:29 pm
"even as the energy capacity of wind farms has almost doubled"
Umm - that's progress. What's the issue?
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 17, 2012 at 10:15 pm
"Umm - that's progress. What's the issue?"
You need to check out the actual link Bo provides - it's Fox News. They don't like progress.
a resident of University South
on Apr 17, 2012 at 10:26 pm
Anybody know how much the Bay has risen in the past few years? I can't find out. Nobody I know of has actually measured it. There ought to be a pillar or post in the Bay where somebody notched it a few years ago.
a resident of another community
on Apr 17, 2012 at 10:44 pm
@anon (U South)
Web Link
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 18, 2012 at 9:49 am
Thanks for the link—
Web Link
This data is being collected by NOAA (National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration), so there is no reason to quibble about its origin. We do need to keep in mind that this area is sitting very close to the Pacific and North American Tectonic Plates, so there is on-going subduction of the ocean bottom, which will have some effect on sea levels:
Web Link
a resident of another community
on Apr 18, 2012 at 10:31 am
Redwood City is closer but there is less data available: Web Link
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 18, 2012 at 1:04 pm
need to prohibit Old Palo Alto residents drive to WF
a resident of Barron Park
on Apr 18, 2012 at 2:37 pm
"No mention of birds of prey slaughtered by the wind farms that we buy from? No mention that Palo Alto locks up a disproportionate share of hydro power, which stops salmon runs? No mention of large areas of desert lands industrialized for solar panels? How many more mountain ridges will be industrialized by wind turbines?"
First, this is classic mis-informed, small-picture, short sighted NIMBYism, or at best a simple, incorrect argument for the continued dependence on fossil fuels and non-domestic energy sources (to say nothing of the continued flow of body bags from the middle east). Modern utility scale wind turbines kill fewer birds per Megawatt Hour generated than fossil fuel generation by a factor of almost 20X, when upstream mining of fossil fuel, acid rain and other atmospheric effects associated with upstream mining of fossil fuels, global warming induced displacement of habitat, etc. are accounted for. See the apples-to-apples third party research:
Web Link
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 18, 2012 at 3:32 pm
"First, this is classic mis-informed, small-picture, short sighted NIMBYism"
Meta studies, cherry-picked and confused, do not support the notion that birds of prey are at high risk from wind power farms. How many Golden Eagles have been destroyed by nuclear power plants? Wind farms destroy hundreds of them in our own hills. When these birds are reduced in number, because they are killed by the wind turbine structures, the eagle per unit of ennergy goes down; when all the eagles are gone, there is zero deaths per unit of power. It is the fallacy of ratios, a well-known statistical trick. Completely crazy logic!
Upstream effects of wind turbines were ignored in this so-called study...where were the turbines manufactured, by what power source and how were they transported to the site?
Notice that this "study" is by an outfit called "Nukefree"
Junk science, at its worse. Is this what our Palo Alto environmental analysis is based on? I hope not.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Apr 18, 2012 at 3:43 pm
Yeah, I've been looking at the bay for half a century and haven't noticed any rise. No wonder -- the change would be two inches, given the < 1 mm/yr data on Bill's NOAA link above. For a contrary assessment, check out the same data at Alaska locations, e.g. Sitka.
Web Link
a resident of Palo Verde
on Apr 18, 2012 at 3:45 pm
Sorry, Canute's NOAA link, reiterated by Bill.
a resident of Barron Park
on Apr 18, 2012 at 3:50 pm
NIMBY Tom,
I referred to data showing avian mortality of wind vs. fossil fuels. You then ranted about how many birds nuclear power does not kill. You are again misinformed. For your information nuclear power is not a fossil fuel. I support domestically sourced nuclear power (which is all of ours). The study was posted by an organization opposed to nuclear power which is a stand I happen to disagree with, but the comparison is vs. FOSSIL fuel generation.
When domestic wind production is brought online, the variable capacity in our fuel system is offset. This capacity is mostly natural gas peaker plants, with some coal. You don't turn off nuclear, hydro, or other zero emission power when wind or solar comes on line.
Wind is free, and free of upstream mining effects. Natural gas (or coal) is not. Do you prefer hydraulic fracking? Do you also support the huge military expenditure, in dollars, lives, and carnage, required to secure our supply of foreign fossil fuels?
a resident of College Terrace
on Apr 18, 2012 at 3:59 pm
Sovacol is a reputable researcher. I'm from Singapore btw, and am familiar with his research.
To Tom the NIMBY, I would suggest that you can do a much greater service to the avian community by rounding up stray cats, which account for far greater harm than the global warming reducing, fossil fuel offsetting renewable projects you're so upset about.
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 18, 2012 at 6:12 pm
Wind turbines do kill birds, as does any object that they can fly into, especially buildings and vehicles (birds do not see glass well at all). Modern turbines, though, with low RPM blades and monopole towers (nowhere to perch), kill very few, though. The numbers are so small in fact, that even the Audubon Society, of which I am a member, readily agrees that the anti-climate-change benefit of wind energy far outweighs the sporadic fatality, and the Audubon Society is an active supporter of wind energy in Congress.
Web Link
The one sentence summary from the national Audubon site:
"On balance, Audubon strongly supports wind power as a clean alternative energy source that reduces the threat of global warming... Most of today's rapidly growing demand for energy is now being met by natural gas and expanded coal-burning power plants, which are this country's single greatest source of the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause global warming. If we don't find ways to reduce these emissions, far more birds—and people—will be threatened by global warming than by wind turbines."
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 18, 2012 at 6:13 pm
"I referred to data showing avian mortality of wind vs. fossil fuels"
You might want to read your own study...it referred to wind, nuclear and fossil fuels. It deliberately slid around the issue of major birds of prey, like the Golden Eagles. When there are no more Golden Eagles, how many Golden Eagles deaths does it take to produce a GW/hr of power?
Junk science should be ignored. How many eagles are killed by stray cats? Complete nonsense. Absurd.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 18, 2012 at 6:36 pm
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a resident of Midtown
on Apr 18, 2012 at 6:49 pm
In fact
Peter H. Gleick is now under investigation by the FBI for interstate theft and fraud.
-he is an activists not a scientist-
[Portion removed by Palo Alto Online staff.]
a resident of Stanford
on Apr 18, 2012 at 6:58 pm
Sharon - he exposed Heartland with those documents - what do you think of the ACTUAL CONTENT of those documents?
Would you like a quote from Heartland, the supposed 'victim' in your fantasy, about how they see leaked documents as 'good transparency'?
Or does the hypocrisy sting too much?
Sharon, give it up.
There is no there, there.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 18, 2012 at 7:19 pm
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a resident of University South
on Apr 18, 2012 at 8:05 pm
I'd like to thank the three people who responded to my question -- does anybody know how much the Bay has risen in the past few years?
"Canute" provided this link Web Link which seemed to support the argument that the sea level is rising.
Then "Deep Throat" found Web Link for Redwood City which seems to show an increase that isn't supported by any data.
"Musical" located a third graph on the NOAA site that Web Link shows the sea level is dropping in Alaska, which contradicts the theory of sea level rise.
All of these charts are from the same NOAA site, which Bill "of another community" said is so good that we shouldn't quibble with it.
He's right. We shouldn't quibble with it. It's inconsistent, and we should see the data for what it is -- no prediction of anything.
I thought there was a consensus on global warming and sea level rise? What are we doing by spending all these billions on reducing our carbon footprint when the data is inconsistent? Maybe it's time that we step back and study this situation more carefully before committing ourselves to a program that will cost millions of jobs and result in astronomical energy prices.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 18, 2012 at 8:21 pm
The global warming scam has failed-good
-the UN now admits that the glacial report was wrong
The "scientists" who aided this fraud must be held to account.
A lot of decent people were fooled-
-what was their motivation? $$$
Federal grants-
-which the FBI is now investigating.
A friend of ours @ Stanford told us the way they got funded was to say in the application
"Honey bees behavior--global warming and the war on terror"
a resident of Stanford
on Apr 19, 2012 at 5:59 am
"A friend of ours @ Stanford told us the way they got funded was to say in the application
"Honey bees behavior--global warming and the war on terror"
Sharon (and her make believe friend at Stanford) have no clue how federal funding of research is carried out.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Apr 19, 2012 at 6:20 am
I can't help imagining the arguments 2000 years ago about whether the Sun orbited the Earth or vice versa. People have preconceived notions; and perfectly good data sets can be contradictory. How can definitive NOAA data show sea level rising in some places and falling in others? Think outside the box and ask whether maybe it's the LAND rising or sinking. That question is much more expensive to answer than simply notching a pillar in the bay every few years. Turns out that melting glaciers in Alaska have relieved a lot of weight on the ground, and sure enough the land is rising, not the sea dropping.
Web Link
The relative sea level rise around New Orleans is ten times what we have around here, because that city is sinking.
Web Link
It's a good idea to understand causes before spending money on solutions.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 19, 2012 at 10:08 am
> which contradicts the theory of sea level rise.
Sea level rise is not a theory, it's well established fact—demonstrated by geologists for a long time now. The reasons for sea level change are numerous. For instance, during the long periods of glaciations, sea level have been shown to fall. When the earth warmed, then the sea level rose. Sometimes sea bottoms themselves rise and fall, which would possibly provide evidence of water level rises and falls that are different than those on a global level. In fact, the world is so large, geologically, that there are multiple systems operating simultaneously—that often operate in such a fashion as to offset each other. For instance, while there might be glacial melting adding water to the oceans, there is always sea floor spreading, which increases the surface of the earth, which would tend to lower sea levels.
Taking one data point, and trying to generalize anything from it is never a good idea, when earth sciences are concerned, and such practices are certainly not "scientific", by any means.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 19, 2012 at 10:10 am
> wind turbines kill birds ..
So what? Bird kill birds, other animals kill birds, and harsh weather kills birds.
Birds die in great numbers every year--and life goes on.
a resident of Stanford
on Apr 19, 2012 at 10:16 am
Sharon - what did you day that got censored? Most curious if it was about dear old Gertrude!
Also - according to you, isn't it easier to just list the things the FBI ISN'T investigating? According to you, it seems like they're investigating everything!!
How about that Heartland content? Exxon and Koch funding all the skeptics... hope you're getting your stipend for all the nonsense you post for them!
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 19, 2012 at 10:20 am
> Exxon and Koch funding all the skeptics
And just who is funding Green Peace, "Occupy" and all of the left-wing, whacko organizations that want to dismantle Western civilization that has created the highest standard of living to date?
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 19, 2012 at 7:40 pm
With the facts of the Climate-Gate, Fake-Gate and many other such frauds we need better monitoring of the taxpayers money going to environmental activists.
In the case of Peter H. Gleick he is facing Federal charges of interstate wire fraud-
-which is a very serious charge with a very long prison term upon conviction.
We need to set standards that fraud in science will not be tolerated
Peter H. Gleick is the test case and he has he has already admitted guilt to the charge of theft -
- forensic document experts claim he is also guilty of interstate wire fraud and the FBI is on that matter
a resident of Menlo Park
on Apr 19, 2012 at 7:58 pm
yo Sharon.... Gertrude asked you about the content of the so called stolen memos....
Answer poor old Gerty.... quit babbling about investigations that may or not lead to something, that may or may not be going on, talk about what you learned from the release of data.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 19, 2012 at 9:09 pm
There are two issues
1/ stolen documents
2/ faked document
1/From the stolen documents you see confidential HR matters, home addresses of staff and contributors and that the organization is a small broad based libertarian think tank that got $20,000 from Kock brothers which was earmarked for health care.
nothing news worthy nor a scandal
2/ from the faked documents you see evidence of felony interstate wire fraud by Peter H. Gleick --that is why the FBI is on the case
a resident of Menlo Park
on Apr 19, 2012 at 9:16 pm
"1/From the stolen documents you see confidential HR matters, home addresses of staff and contributors and that the organization is a small broad based libertarian think tank that got $20,000 from Kock brothers which was earmarked for health care."
yo Sharon, you really believe that's all that was in those?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
a resident of Stanford
on Apr 20, 2012 at 8:16 am
"In the case of Peter H. Gleick he is facing Federal charges of interstate wire fraud-"
No he is not. This is another example of Sharon's factoids. Note how no link is provided to prove the statement
'Peter H. Gleick is the test case and he has he has already admitted guilt to the charge of theft -"
He may have admitted the "theft", but he has not been charged yet, so there is no admission of guilt.
"- forensic document experts claim he is also guilty of interstate wire fraud and the FBI is on that matter"
Proof, please???/ Oh ,wait. It is a "Sharon" claim.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 20, 2012 at 7:14 pm
Any MD or JD who committed the crimes that Peter H. Gleick has already confessed to would lose their medical or legal license.
Peter H. Gleick also faces indictment for interstate wire fraud -- a very serious matter-the FBI is now investigating this matter including his friends and supporters.
Science depends upon honesty and trust-
-Peter H. Gleick violated both those fundamental rules
a resident of Meadow Park
on Apr 21, 2012 at 12:16 pm
Sharon knows that there is no FBI investigation of Gleick. Yet she continues to repeats this lie over and over again. Lets see the proof Sharon.
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In the midst of the NBA's point guard revolution, the off guards have lived up to another moniker — cast to the side, buried underneath near endless highlight reels of Russell Westbrook and Derrick Rose.
But even with positions as fluent as they've ever been, the shooting guard remains an all-important cog in the NBA lineup. Some of the league's best players, old and young, occupy the position once defined by Michael Jordan, and a close look reveals a surprisingly deep crop of talent.
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Putting rookies on this list is always perilous, because we really have no idea what we're going to get. But the early returns on Beal during the preseason have been positive, and he's talented enough that we feel pretty safe putting him here. And really, it's reasonable to assume that by next year he'll be much higher. Everything about his makeup screams "Eric Gordon without the injury problems." For now, he's narrowly bumping off DeMar DeRozan, an athletic volume shooter/scorer who doesn't actually score that much (17 points per game last year) and contributes little else on the floor.
19. O.J. MAYO, Dallas Mavericks
Back in his North College Hill High School (and even as a senior at Huntington) days, it seemed much more likely that Mayo would be at the top of this list rather than scraping at the bottom. But the gap between his potential and tangible production remains significant, and a fresh start with the Mavericks might be the 6-4 guard's last shot to prove his true worth. Despite a reputation as a top-notch shooter, Mayo has yet to break above 40 percent from beyond the mark for a full season. He's no slouch either, though, and at the very least has proven that he will be a reliable contributor for years to come.
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Matthews is pretty much the definition of a solid but thoroughly unspectacular player. At 26, he's probably not going to improve much going forward, but he'll still be an important piece for the Blazers as they try to reset the franchise's direction. He can shoot from deep (steady in the 38-40 percent range throughout the first three years of his career), doesn't turn the ball over often and is generally a strong defender. In all, the Blazers could do much worse than pairing Matthews with promising rookie Damian Lillard in the backcourt.
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howdy all,
i had a cherry '76 R75/6 back in the '80s and sold it for down-payment money towards our first house. now that our son is in college and our daughter is fixing to go next year, i have re-joined the ranks of airhead owners.
i just took delivery of a '76 R90/6 via an internet posting from a seller in florida and it has turned out to be much more of a fixer-upper than a "daily driver" as was claimed in the ad. live and learn i guess, so now i have to just accept my losses and start fixing the things that are wrong.
1) front brake is binding. adjusting the caliper cam pin did not help, so i think i am looking at a caliper rebuild. possibly also a master cylinder rebuild. right now it's difficult to roll the bike around in the garage.
2) poor compression. 100psi R cylinder, 75psi L cylinder.
3) pushrod tube seals leaking.
4) runs rough. at the moment won't even start. could be plug wires, they are rotten inside. i have a set on the way from max's bmw. i replaced the plugs, adjusted the valves and point gap, made no difference. hopefully plug wires will help. i have a harmonizer carb-sync tool on the way, but until i get it running at all that won't be of much help.
engine oil, trans, rear drive and drive shaft fluid levels are good and fluid looks clean, so that's a plus i guess. tank looks good inside and out. tires still have some life left.
i'm pretty bummed that i bought this bike on the strength of some pictures and the seller's description. i should have had more patience and waited for something closer, but i wanted a bike exactly like my old 75/6 and this thing is the spitting image. i'd been following ebay, the classifieds here, walneck's, and the IBMWR classifieds and finally saw this one in the IBMWR classifieds and jumped on it.
i'll send updates in the airheads forum on my progress in getting this thing back into road-worthy condition.
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Joana Vasconcelos is one of my favorite crochet artists. This is due mostly, of course, because I find her work striking. However it also has to do with the quality of her career; Joana's work is seen internationally in amazing exhibitions and this is good for the entire crochet community to have our craft seen on such a large scale. She is part of a large multi-artist exhibit in Jerusalem that I so wish I could see in person!
The Exhibit
The exhibit, which is called Flesh and Blood, sounds like an intensely powerful multimedia exhibit. From the press release:
"The exhibition Flesh and Blood attempts to scrutinize the existing harsh relationship between mankind and other animals, and to challenge us to show sensitivity and to face the reality which the majority amongst us is not sufficiently aware of. The exhibition calls upon us to look at the flesh and blood as a fabric connecting the family of animals, of which we are part of, and to treat it with respect and compassion."
Here's the flyer for the exhibit:
Museum on the Seam
The exhibit is being held at Museum on the Seam in Jerusalem. From the website:
"Museum on the Seam is a unique museum in Israel, displaying contemporary art that deals with different aspects of the socio-political reality. Through the works of artists from Israel and abroad, who respond to the stress and tension between and within groups, the museum invites the visitors to examine the degree of influence of the social environment on the individual and vice versa. Between the local and the universal, between pluralism and extreme ideologies, the message of The Museum calls for listening and discussion, for accepting the other and those different from us and respect for our fellow man and his liberty."
The Artists
I am definitely going to carve out some time to explore the work of the other artists that are featured in this exhibit. There are 26 artists from many different countries: Puerto Rico, Israel, Denmark, Austria, The Netherlands, Germany, Argentina, Norway, China, the US plus Portugal, which is the country that Joana Vasconcelos represents.
Joana's Work
Some of the artists have more than one work in this exhibit. I am not sure about Joana's role in the exhibit. I do know that her newsletter included an image of the red crochet-covered bull that you see at the top of this post. This was a 2009 piece she did called Tenorio that included both bobbin lace and crocheted cotton the bull. Like this piece? It reminds me of so many other taxidermy-inspired crochet art piece but is unique to her own style!


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The next 2 nights we decided to reenact the fishing using live croakers again. We netted and caught some more croakers and went to a spot where the big reds usually hold. We absolutely crushed it. Big reds were inhaling live croakers all night. It was awesome. It felt good to give those $heet fish a little bit of payback. All reds measured from 25-37 inches. Some were some real bruisers pushing 20 pounds really. Decided to keep one red at near 27 inches to bring him home for dinner.


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The mother of murdered Sarah Payne gave evidence in the hacking trial today and said the News of the World had been a "force for good".
Sara Payne said former editor Rebekah Brooks and retired managing editor Stuart Kuttner had lent their personal support after her eight-year-old daughter was abducted and murdered in 2000.
She told jurors at the Old Bailey how Brooks was at the "forefront" the long-running Sarah's Law campaign to protect other children from predatory paedophiles in the future.
With the aid of a walking stick, Mrs Payne stepped up with difficulty into the witness box as Brooks and Kuttner smiled at her in the dock.
She told jurors: "It's easy to forget in these dark times the NotW has often been a force for good and it has something to do with the people who worked on it."
She added: "I do not pretend they are perfect or always got things right."
But she told jurors that Kuttner was a "gentleman" and Brooks was "really sweet".
On Brooks, she said: "She was really sweet natured. She had a certain directness about her. She would like to speak directly about things."
She told how they worked "as a team" on Sarah's Law, sharing their research.
She said: "I did not sleep. I could call at two o'clock in the morning and she would pick up the phone."
Mrs Payne, who was called by Kuttner's legal team as a character witness, said: "Stuart is a gentleman. He is everything my parents taught me about being a gentleman and having manners. He is a good guy. He has always been there to listen."
She said he helped steer her through the newspaper industry and meeting politicians as part of the campaign.
Mrs Payne, who wrote a article for the last NotW edition, described being in the newsroom during the last week in 2011.
"I spent some time in the newsroom and they were very, very down about stories going on in the media around the world. I felt they were almost mourning something."
She had a big picture of Sarah Payne brought in to remind them of "what they had achieved".
Brooks, 45 and Kuttner, 74 and all their co-defendants deny the charges against them.
Kuttner's legal team also called former director of the Press Complaints Commission Lord Black as a character witness.
He told the court Kuttner was a man he turned to for help during his time in the role between 1993 and 2003 and he "never did let me down".
After the Omagh bombing, he said Kuttner and the NotW "led the way" for the media to leave the scene, allowing the community to "grieve and to heal".
He acted the same after the Dunblane tragedy, he said.
He also helped "deliver real change" in the media in the wake of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, Lord Black said.
On his personal relationship with Kuttner, Lord Black said: "I have known Stuart since 1996. He was a very dear friend during that time. After I left in 2003 we kept in touch and do to this day.
"From a professional point of view he is a reporters' reporter. He is intrepid in the pursuit of a story. He is always immensely professional and he would never play fast and loose with the rules with these stories.
"He was somebody who did not just talk about the code and ethics, he believed in them. They were in his DNA."
He added: "As a friend I have always found him to be a man of the greatest integrity. A caring and loving family man and I'm very proud to have him as a friend."
When Kuttner returned to the witness box to continue his evidence, he denied holding back a possible lead in the disappearance of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
Private investigator Glenn Mulcaire hacked into Milly's phone for the NotW after she went missing in 2002, the court heard.
Kuttner then alerted police to a voicemail message suggesting Milly may be alive, but only after journalists had been dispatched to Telford in an attempt to track her down, prosecutor Andrew Edis QC said.
Cross-examining, Mr Edis asked Kuttner: "How did you think the NotW had come by the message?"
Kuttner said: "I have no recollection."
On the time it took to alert police, the witness said: "I saw in the weeks following the disappearance of Sarah Payne the effect of a missing child on a family so if the suggestion being made about me is I sat on, held, delayed passing on information, I could not refute that more strongly."
Mr Edis pressed: "Somebody did, it was not you?"
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Consumer Reports found that there were some remarkable differences in price and nutrition between the frozen and restaurant versions. Take California Pizza Kitchen's Frozen BBQ Recipe Chicken Thin Crust. It's topped with similar ingredients as the restaurant version, and at $6, it's less than half the price. Tasters found that the frozen version is worth a try, but the strong barbecue sauce overpowered the flavors.
Consumer Reports' tasters were pleased with the frozen version of TGI Friday's Cheddar and Bacon Skins. The restaurant dish costs twice as much and has three times more calories and fat.
P.F. Chang's frozen shrimp lo mein resembles its restaurant counterpart in both price and appearance. However, the shrimp in the frozen version were noticeably small, and they don't have much flavor.
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Janet Yellen's New Code Word for the Bubble: "Substantially Stretched"
Every economic cycle exhibiting unsubstantiated optimism deserves its own euphemism for calm the fuck down—a evocative, but subtle phrase implying that investors may want to check themselves before they wreck themselves.
In 1996, Alan Greenspan, then the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, coined the term "irrational exuberance." In testimony before Congress yesterday, current Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen introduced the expression "substantially stretched" to refer to the value assigned to social media startups.
Nevertheless, valuation metrics in some sectors do appear substantially stretched—particularly those for smaller firms in the social media and biotechnology industries, despite a notable downturn in equity prices for such firms early in the year. Moreover, implied volatility for the overall S&P 500 index, as calculated from option prices, has declined in recent months to low levels last recorded in the mid-1990s and mid-2000s, reflecting improved market sentiment and, perhaps, the influence of "reach for yield" behavior by some investors.
Speaking before the Senate Banking Committee, Yellen tried to justify the idea of keeping interest rates low. ("Cheap money" and low interest rates are part of the reason venture capitalists are able to assign such seemingly arbitrary values to startups, as investors seek out "riskier assets" for higher rewards.)
According to the Wall Street Journal, Republicans asked Yellen to explain why low interest rate policies wouldn't stoke "new financial bubbles," beyond just the provincial tech campuses of Silicon Valley:
"Rather than have a policy that causes bubbles, why wouldn't we have a policy that doesn't cause that?" asked Sen. Tom Coburn, (R., Okla.).
"The reason we have low interest rates is to deal with a very real problem, namely the economy is operating significantly short of its potential," Ms. Yellen responded. "Employment is suppressed well below its maximum sustainable level and inflation is running below our objectives. That's why we are holding interest rates low."
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How did you come to read Twilight and which book is your favorite?
I was in our local maternity hospital with complications with my second child and my parents bought be the Twilight DVD to cheer me up. Bless they did not know that I had, at that time, no idea what Twilight was all about and I got my partner to take it home for the shelf. Three months later once my son had settled into a pattern I started to watch DVDs and found it. I watched it a year ago now - hooked is the only word i can use. I watched it twice that afternoon and ordered the books that night from amazon. My favourite book is New Moon, something in me loves the flight home from Italy.
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Where are you from (general area like Montana, not exact town!)
I originally come from a City in the UK near Cambridge now live in Somerset
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Discussion in 'Health & Fitness' started by Thud and blunder, Sep 18, 2012.
Interesting read throughout.
Nice summary of what the better medical literature (nephrology studies, vastly better quality than "sports medicine" studies) has shown for years -- that sports drinks are likely unnecessary garbage and that your body does an excellent job of making fluid and electrolyte shifts on its own as long as you drink enough water.
I like sugar during and after exercise. High fructose; low frucotse; "goldilocks fructose"; Doesn't really matter. Sports drinks work fine for me.
I've never really viewed them as a "water replacement" by any means. I think they compliment each other well.
There was no substantial evidence to suggest that liquid is any better than solid carbohydrate intake..............Through our analysis of the current sports performance research, we have come to one conclusion: people should develop their own strategies for carbohydrate intake largely by trial and error.
With respect to hydration, thirst should be the main indicator that you need to hydrate. But since I moved to the high desert (Salt Lake), I do belive in the "bad science" of starting to hydrate before you start getting thirsty. Its different in this climate because of the low humidity.
'Disease mongering', indeed.
Thanks for posting the article.
Originally, there was the famous discovery that British seamen got scurvy because they were lacking fruits. Fruits were later learned to contain Vitamin C. The British navy supplemented fruits into their regular sea-going diet and scurvy was cured.
The supplement industry is escaliting marketing to an ever higher level. I believe, they mostly use the logic - if a chemical, vitamin, mineral, etc can be identified as important to a body process or body structure then supplementing those molecules, atoms, etc is likely to be beneficial. They write very reasonable sounding, detailed scientific model descriptions, down to the cell and molecule level. For example, read the many supplement ads in bodybuilding magazines.
Just because something seems perfectly reasonable does not make it true. But it does not make it untrue either. ? The only way to resolve the issue is with quality, neutral scientific research.
Neutral scientific research should be supported by a neutral government organization (NIH, etc.) or other neutral organization (neutral foundation). Some of it is. But the number of worthwhile research projects exceeds the small funding level available from government funds or other neutral organization. For a particular research project, unfortunately, 100% of the funding might be from self-interested sources with nothing from neutral sources. The government seems to have dropped the ball even on many of the most wide-reaching and serious medical research areas. (Are saturated fats or sugars most damaging for causing heart disease? ) So we get too much knowledge corruption from financially self-interested funded research.
The internet is seeing a lot of cut-and-paste descriptions so that popular unscientific or scientific conclusions appear widely verbatim on many websites. It is often more difficult to find scientific research among the many popular websites quoting the same few phrases. Search certain exact long medical or supplement phrases and you can find them on many websites. Does anyone have some advice on how to search more for neutral information as opposed to the most popular sites or those that influence search results in some financial or manipulative way?
On the other hand, if something seems perfectly true - but might not be true - what should you do? Reject it because most information is corrupted by funding from financially interested organizations?
For sports drinks, I read and it makes sense that the body uses up its glycogen stores in its muscles and liver and may run short during longer athletic activity. Also, I believe that the body sweats water and considerable sodium. I believe that some of the research on these issues is neutral. All things considered, I conclude that its reasonable for me to take in some calories and sodium during a tennis match. The possible value of the other ingredients in sports drinks is totally unknown to me.
A general reference that I use is Advanced Sports Nutrition, D. Bernardot. The reference seems neutral.
I am uncertain about all this. I'm not going to believe that all supplements are worthless or believe that they work as claimed. I can make a decision with considerable uncertainty - that's nearly all decisions.
With considerable doubt about the value, I supplement daily:
1) Glucosamine & chondroitin (2/3 recommended dose)
2) Vitamin C
3) Magnesium (Mg-Chloride not MgO)
4) Multi-Vitamin (5 days a week)
5) Fish Oil (for Omega 3)
Instead of just water I usually drink Powerade or Gatorade for calories and sodium during a tennis match.
Parents don't have to send their kids off school with Gatorade in their backpacks to drink during gym class.
You don't need Gatorade to take the dog for a walk.
You don't need to send your kid off to a group tennis lesson with Gatorade.
You don't need Gatorade for social doubles ... heck any doubles.
But for 2 hour or longer hitting or playing sessions in the hot sun, I'll continue to take my Gatorade.
(I also think if I was a college coach in Florida runnning two-a-day practices in August, I'd have my team drinking Gatorade.)
I think there is just too much science to ignore, even if most of the studies are not large prospective randomized trials that the British Medical Journal is calling for. [Does anyone really think the NIH, or its equivalent in another nation, is going to sponsor a $100 million dollar study on sports drinks?]
"Most tennis athletes take the court, whether it is the first match or subsequent match of a tournament, in a dehydrated state. It has been shown that prior to thirst being recognized by an athlete, 1.5L of water could have already been lost 28. During an entire match, a player can lose fluid at a rate greater than 2.5L/hour 29 . Although these players consume fluids between sets, the maximum uptake of fluid is only 1.2L/hour30, 31. This creates a deficit in hydration status which can impede performance. It is known that a decrease of between 1.5-3% of body weight due to fluid loss results in decreased ability to generate maximum muscle strength, and decreases muscle endurance."
pp. 136 - 137" http://assets.usta.com/assets/1/dps/usta_master/sitecore_usta/RECOVERY PROJECT FINAL.pdf
'Below et al., studied athletes who consumed different volumes of an electrolyte drink or an electrolyte-carbohydrate drink. Participants consumed drinks containing either electrolytes (619 mg Na+, 141 mg K+) or the same electrolytes plus carbohydrates (79g carbohydrates) during an initial 50 minute exercise bout, and then immediately undertook a cycle ergometer performance test. They received these drinks in either a large (1330 ml) or small (200 ml) volume. Fluid and carbohydrate each improved performance independently: performance times were 6.5% faster when the large beverage volume was consumed as opposed to the small volume, and were 6.3% faster when carbohydrate-containing beverages were consumed as opposed to the carbohydrate-free beverages64
. Both fluid consumption and carbohydrate replenishment are important factors that delay fatigue during high exercise performance 5.
Sodium also stimulates glucose absorption in the small intestine via the active co-transport of glucose and sodium, which creates an osmotic gradient that acts to promote net water absorption. Sodium has been recognized as a vital component of a rehydration beverage by an inter-association task force 65 on exertional heat illnesses because sodium plays a role in the aetiology of exertional heat cramps, exertional heat exhaustion and exertional hyponatremia. Shirreffs and Maughan 66 have reported that for athletes to remain in positive fluid balance, the amount of sodium they consume needs to be greater than sweat sodium loss. Yet research has been shown that athletes typically do not replace sufficient sodium to match that which is lost in sweat and during urinary sodium excretion. Subjects were shown to be in sodium deficit for four hours after exercise, even when replacing with a commonly used carbohydrate-electrolyte beverage at 150% of body-mass lost during exercise 57. The recovery of plasma volume to levels greater than post-exercise was achieved 1 h after rehydration in the 6% carbohydrate-electrolyte drink whereas the water trial achieved the same level after 3h 57. A similar finding has been supported by other research 59. This body of research has shown that rehydration capabilities are improved for athletes who ingest sodium enriched fluids compared to plain water. "
pp. 183-184 http://assets.usta.com/assets/1/dps/usta_master/sitecore_usta/RECOVERY PROJECT FINAL.pdf
"Initial signs of exertional heat cramps (muscle twitches) can often be treated effectively by consuming 16-20 ounces (~0.5 L) of a traditional sport drink with 0.5 teaspoon (3g) of salt added and mixed into the drink75. Salt tablets may be a suitable option (1g of NaCl per tablet) but such tablets should be taken with plenty of fluid (3 crushed and dissolved tablets in 42 ounces (~1L) of fluid).It is vital that cramp-prone athletes avoid a water and sodium deficit from previous training or tournament play so that they do not begin the next training or competition bout already at risk82, 83. Figure 3 provides strategies for exertional heat cramp-prone athletes."
- p. 190 http://assets.usta.com/assets/1/dps/usta_master/sitecore_usta/RECOVERY PROJECT FINAL.pdf
"An original aspect of this study was the comparison of plasma glucose, liver glucose, and muscle glycogen oxidation (including the lactate shuttle) rates during exercise, after galactose and glucose ingestion. These data indicate that plasma glucose oxidation rates after Glu ingestion are greater during the initial hour of exercise in comparison with Gal."
- http://journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/F...se_Galactose_and_Glucose_Ingestion_on.17.aspx
^^ the NIH in fact HAS funded quite a few studies of sports drinks, with varying outcomes.
^^^ Such as?
Interesting fact: The original gatorade developed for UoF worked well at aiding the body in retaining water and giving a short energy boost. However, the formula changed since marketing and is now nothing like the original.
Interesting fact #2: The color of urine is an indicator of where your body is currently getting it's nutrients from. more clear = from food you recently ate, more yellow = you're burning stored body fat. This has been known since the early days of animal experimentation.
hehe have been doing that with my son for years. It was supposed to be for PE class, but it continues even today even though he is done with PE.
While the formula changed, isn't it actually still a lot like the original, and was brought to market by the original inventor of the formula?
"Invention of Gatorade
In 1965, Cade was approached by Dewayne Douglas, an assistant coach for the Florida Gators football team, about the extreme dehydration faced by Gator football players practicing in the high temperatures and humidity of the Deep South in late summer and early fall.[11] Douglas questioned Cade why his football players did not urinate during practice and games.[11] Cade learned from anecdotal evidence that football players were losing water through perspiration and failing to replace fluid during practice and games.[11] Cade's research team discovered that football players were losing up to 18 pounds (8.2 kg) during the three hours of a college football game, and that ninety to ninety-five percent of that loss was water.[6] A player's plasma volume could decrease as much as seven percent and blood volume by five percent, and sodium and chloride were excreted in the sweat.[6]
During 1965 and 1966, Cade, together with his team of research doctors Dana Shires, James Free, and Alejandro M. de Quesada, conducted a series of trial-and-error experiments with his glucose-and-electrolytes rehydration drink on members of the Gators football team of coach Ray Graves, first with members of the freshman squad, and after initially promising results, with starting members of the varsity team.[1] "It didn't taste like Gatorade," Cade said in a 1988 interview with Florida Trend magazine.[2] In fact, according to Cade, when Gators lineman Larry Gagner first tried it, he spat it out and strongly suggested that the original experimental formula tasted more like bodily waste.[2][12] Dana Shires remembered that "it sort of tasted like toilet bowl cleaner."[13] To make it more palatable, at the suggestion of Cade's wife, the researchers added lemon juice and cyclamate[14] to the original formula of water, salt, sodium citrate, fructose and monopotassium phosphate.[13]
Cade patented the formula and offered all of the rights to the drink to the University of Florida in exchange for the university's backing of the production and marketing of the drink, but the university turned down his proposal.[19] He initially obtained bank financing and began to produce "Gatorade" through his own business, but later entered into a contract with Stokely-Van Camp, Inc. to produce and sell the drink.[14] When sales royalties reached $200,000, the university took notice.[20] The Florida Board of Regents, prompted by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which had provided Cade with a small grant for his research, asked for the patent rights.[21] Cade refused.[20] The Board of Regents, acting on behalf of the university, then brought suit against Cade for a share of the profits,[21] arguing that the university's facilities, employees and students were instrumental in the development of the product.[20][22] After thirty-one months of legal wrangling, Cade and the university negotiated a settlement of their dispute in 1972,[20] and the Board of Regents and the university settled for a twenty percent share of the royalties.[22] Cade, and his investors in the Gatorade Trust, retained eighty percent. In the aftermath of the settlement, all parties decided to play nice—of the first $70,500 in Gatorade royalties received by the university, the university reinvested $30,000 in kidney research by Cade's renal department and another $12,000 in Cade's other research projects.[23]"
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cade
Isn't by far the major determinant of the color of urine how concentrated it is? That is, in a well hydrated individual the color is almost clear, while in someone dehydrated it appears as a dark yellow?
Indeed, how clear/dark the urine appears can be used by tennis players to determine if they remain dehydrated after a long hot practice in the sun: http://assets.usta.com/assets/1/15/Am_I_Hydrated_2.pdf
I think I'll start urinating beside the court at the change of sets from now on.
It's not the same as it used to be. Nowadays it's pretty much just sugarwater.
[/QUOTE] Isn't by far the major determinant of the color of urine how concentrated it is? [/QUOTE]
Possibly. The article argues this point. I did mistakenly state that urine color was a determinate factor in how the body is processing nutrients. Whether or not the body is feeding off of fat can be determined by inspecting the cloudiness/acidity of the urine. Something dicovered by Claude Bernard in the late 1860's. Obviously that has nothing to do with the article in question, though it's an interesting topic on it's own. Forgive me oh great Sampras' ghost, for I have made an incorrect statement on the interwebs.
The article cited by the OP, is a nice review of the unwarranted claims of the Sports Drink industry. However, anyone with a rudimentary understanding of the physiology involved and of capitalistic business practices would have predicted them.
Bottom line, nothing hydrates "better" than water. Sports drinks hydrate "faster" than water, but for the majority of people exercising, there is no measurable benefit to this difference.
The problem is that taking multivitamins also seems to make the urine color yellower, not just dehydration.
I notice that Dr Noakes, who features prominently in that BMJ piece, has written a book containing probably more than anyone cares to know about sports hydration:
Not sure if I'm up for 400+ pages on the topic, though.
I'm far less concerned about the color of my urine than about the things they use to color beverages like Gatorade. Brominated vegetable oils, used to make the drink more opaque, are banned in Europe and parts of Asia and were the subject of a good review of their health hazards last year in Scientific American. I'll take water, thanks.
Just returned from the restroom. My urine this morning appeared to be Jasmine in color.
I'll post an update later today with pics.
I need something to prevent cramping in the Florida heat. I'm a fan of Gatorade. Was I supposed to read the study to comment in here?
^^ if you're unable to figure out how these threads work, you might be dehydrated.
I take a 16oz Gatorade with me to any match. I do one sip every changeover and drink water after that. I rarely get into a battle that 16oz isn't enough sugar and electrolyte to sustain my hydration and energy.
I tried coconut water and felt it did well too. Just can't justify the high price tag when Publix sells 8-packs of Gatorade for 5 bucks and are often buy one-get one free. Coconut water is around 4 bucks for 20oz.
There is an inverse relationship between the reliability of a medical journal article and the financial conflict of interest of the persons involved in the writing and any underlying studies. Scientific fraud in America is epidemic. I know of no basis to distinguish the British in that regard.
Well said. Just be aware that the drug industry has a lot more money to spend than its competition to prove that the competition's products are not effective.
Squatters rights, I suppose .....
These Brits win one damn slam in something like 100 years and they are all the sudden experts on everything.
I suppose next we'll be taking advice from the Cubs.
I always thought that if it's clear you're hydrated, but if it's more dark then you're dehydrated.
When I attended U. of F. ( 1975-1978 ) it seemed typical that the football team would start strong early in the season with people naming them as contenders to win in their conference, only to fall back to mediocrity as the season progressed. I speculated that they began the season with a huge advantage over their opponents in heat adaptation, which became decreasingly relevant as the autumn progressed.
In 1978 I attended a dinner sponsored by Tau Beta Pi (an engineering society) at which Dr. Cade was the featured speaker. In his words, the player told him that his drink "tastes like ****!" Dr. Cade continued, "Having never tasted ****, myself, I could not vouch for his claim. Nevertheless, we did work to improve its flavor."
As to the original issue, I recommend drinking water and snacking on any food high in potassium.
Orange juice is high in potassium. But, I think it's a good idea to keep your electrolites in balance. I don't think it's helpful to supplement with only one.
By far, the most important electrolyte to replace during long tennis sessions in the hot sun is sodium - not potassium.
"Sodium's Role in Hydration and Rehydration for Tennis
The importance of the addition of sodium to fluid consumed during, and especially
after training or competition has been shown to be vital for improved rehydration.
The need for sodium replacement is due in part from sodium's role as the major ion
in the extracellular fluid, and to replace the obligatory losses in sweat."
- http://assets.usta.com/assets/1/dps/usta_master/sitecore_usta/RECOVERY PROJECT FINAL.pdf
"Many athletes do not consume enough sodium in their regular diet to support strenuous physical activity, especially in early stages of training and in hot and/or humid environments.
Having recovery drinks and food that contain sufficient levels of sodium is helpful for a number of purposes:
- Replaces the sodium that is lost in sweat
- Stimulates glucose (energy) absorption by
the muscles
- Increases the athletes drive to drink
- May reduce the symptoms of exertional heat cramps, exertional heat exhaustions and exertional hyponatremia
During multi-day tournaments or practice, it is common for players to experience a subtle but gradual sodium deficit and this can result in heat and hydration related problems (exhaustion, cramping etc) towards the later
rounds of tournament."
- http://assets.usta.com/assets/1/dps...ence/RECOVERY PROJECT 22410 EMAIL VERSION.pdf
"As sodium has important other benefits such as increasing drive to drink Heat and Hydration Recovery in Tennis USTA Recovery Project 187 and replacing sodium losses that are large in sweat, it appears from the literature that no added benefit is gained by adding potassium to recovery drinks. Potassium rich foods or supplements have not typically been shown to provide additional benefit 75. "
- http://assets.usta.com/assets/1/dps/usta_master/sitecore_usta/RECOVERY PROJECT FINAL.pdf
Muscle cramping during and after tennis play is an unwarranted aspect of
high-level competitive tennis. Cramps typically occur with slight muscle
fasciculations 75 or "twitches" that the athlete only notices between points or at the changeover. These subtle signals alert the athlete (and coach) that s/he may only have 20-30 minutes before severe cramps may occur, which would severely hinder the athletes ability to perform at a competitive level. These cramps are often experienced post-play during recovery, between matches and between days during training and competition. With respect to exercise-related muscle cramping, there are typically two forms of cramping that tennis players are most often confronted with:
1) Overworked muscle fibers
2) Muscle cramps related to extensive sweat losses and a sodium deficit,
known as exertional heat cramps 75."
- http://assets.usta.com/assets/1/dps/usta_master/sitecore_usta/RECOVERY PROJECT FINAL.pdf
I thought muscle cramps were caused by lack of Potassium. Isn't this the reason for players eating bananas?
I can't drink anything acidic during matches anymore or I have to sprint to the rest room with explosive diarhea.
That rules out pretty much every sports drink as they all have citric acid.
True Sports drinks contain sodium and severe sodium loss is a cause of muscle cramping and replacing it at that point can relieve the cramping. However from a practical standpoint there are other information to put the above into context:
Muscle cramping is rare in tennis matchplay, regardless of drinks, supplements, weather conditions etc
Only the most severe circumstances lead to cramps, Chang in the French etc.
The main benefit, therefore, of the sodium in sprts drinks is for more rapid rehydration, than warding off cramps.
In the rare case of actual muscle cramps or a legitimate case where the risk of cramps would be high, the levels of sodium in sports drinks is way too low. That's what pickle juice (or salt tabs) is for.
Old myths die hard.
It used to be thought that low potassium was the major reason for cramping - hence the emphasis on eating bananas that are rich in potassium.
But that is no longer believed.
[Still eating a banana after a match or practice is not a bad idea. It is fairly easy to digest and contains enough carbohydrates to start replacing muscle glycogen (muscle's immediate energy supply) lost during play.
During a match, some can tolerate eating a banana - others develop intestinal cramping.]
I agree with all of the above.
Prevention of muscle cramping is not the primary reason for staying hydrated with sodium containing sport drinks.
Probably the only ones at real risk for low sodium related cramps are those practicing playing day after day in the hot summer, and who have a low sodium diet. (Most Americans probably take in an excess of sodium overall in their diets.) Still, I could see my daughters, who have very low sodium diets, getting into trouble at a tennis camp if they drank only water day after day.
Exactly. When you drink pickle juice or take salt tablets, you're destroying a key health benefit of exercise, namely counteracting your high-blood-pressure-causing excess sodium intake.
By the way, it might make sense for a _British_ medical journal to discourage use drinks to compensate for heavy sweating. Who sweats heavily in their climate?
In the last few weeks I've given up the whole sports drink / high energy drink /caffeine thing. Used to guzzle 3-4 energy drinks before/during a match, some with caffeine eg. Gator, Relentless, Monster, would have a double expresso with a couple of sugars 30 mins before the match to perk me up etc.
It just all played yo-yo with my moods and energy levels. Would end up psyched, aggressive, super tense with too much energy in the first match and then super flat in any match going towards the 2-3 hour point. I just don't believe that any of that stuff or too many stimulants is good for you (well, it wasn't good for me). At times, I was doing a good impression of someone on PEDs.
Now I just try and prepare normally. Have a good nights sleep, healthy meal, a mixed orange cordial during the match and occasionally, a electrolyte drink as I seem to suspectible to muscle cramps in the 2nd match of tourneys for some reason. Could probably achieve the same effect with table salt and water.
You could try using that to psych out your opponents.
True, but as I stated in my post, using pickle juice or salt tabs would be a once in a career advantage for players not on the tour, unless you live in the desert and like to play long matches midday. I grew up in SoCal in the Golden Age of American tennis and played midday all the time and have never had muscle cramps from tennis.
Generally water is sufficient. Sometimes the sugar helps. Frankly, I think the flavor is an incentive to drink more so that people do end up more hydrated because they drink more
As I have tried to cut out a lot of artificial stuff lately, I drink only water these days
I've looked at lucozade sport, gatorade and powerade. They all contain 200mg of salt. Can I replace these with a food that has 200mg of salt, and eat something sugary? I can't stand the taste of sports drinks. A banana barely has any salt, so it doesn't seem that useful. Although Rafa eats bananas in matches??
You lose B vitamins and minerals through sweating. Is it not a good idea to replace them? I used to take a multivitamin to combat this.
^^ there is no significant loss of B vitmins in sweat. Perhaps you're confusing studies that suggest B vitamins may reduce sweating.
That was my source. I know Livestrong is not always reliable.
"As water or sweat is emitted from the body, excess water-soluble vitamins are lost."
"Frequent consumption of vitamins B and C is necessary to replenish nutrients lost due to perspiration and urination."
^^ "not always reliable" barely is sufficient. Did you notice that the article you cite has "sponsored links" recommendations woven into the text?
Well it is a lance armstrong company, so it figures that there will be a few lies in there.
I've looked at lucozade sport, gatorade and powerade. They all contain 200mg of salt. Can I replace these with a food that has 200mg of salt, and eat something sugary? I can't stand the taste of sports drinks. A banana barely has any salt, so it doesn't seem very useful. Although Rafa eats bananas in matches??
He also consumes sports drinks
without sports drink in the 3rd set or earlier you'll be as flat as carbonated drink left open for days.
Yes, you can get your salt intake from anything containing salt.
Here is a chart that displays the sodium content of various foods:
(I am not advocating the foods above, I just wanted to include a chart to show that you can google the sodium content of any food to find out how much sodium is in it.)
Alternatively, you can add sodium chloride (table salt) to any food or beverage you choose.
(In the chart above, you can see that one teaspoon of salt has 2,325 gm of sodium.)
Good for you that you don't like sugary drinks.
[But you may want to check out post #11 to see how Gatorade - the grand daddy, of sports drinks, came to be made. In short, the research team that the Florida Gators football team asked to help keep their football team hydrated, had to add in sugar, sweeteners and lemon to make the drink palatable enough to get the players to actually drink it.]
I am not saying this about you, but the problem for most Americans is that they consume too much sodium, not too little.
What's sneaky is how much sodium there is prepared foods that you may not have thought about.
For instance, a quart jar of standard Prego tomoto sauce has about 4,000 gm of sodium - or you can buy totally sodium free sauces or make your own from canned pureed tomatoes.
McDonald's certainly know this:
Somebody in another thread suggested substituting bacon for sports drinks.
Can I just eat any old sugary candy? Sports drinks claim to have special carbohydrate formula's that maximize energy and stamina levels. This could save me a lot of money, as sports drink's are pricey in the UK.
The prices are ridiculous for what you're getting.
But they convinced people to buy water too so...........
i drink water before during and after my matches/practice sessions. not in OSD way, just not to be thirsty/dehydrated. you lose focus. no need to drink dyed water at €6 a bottle...
post match i eat what the pros eat. cheeseburgers, pasta dishes, pizza or whatever is for dinner when out with all the money i've saved not buying dyed water from miscellaneous-ade.
i have enough body fat and eat well enough during the day to have energy for playing tennis, sprinting, swimming or any other activity i'm doing.
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Autism Heredity
Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and verbal and non-verbal communication, and by restricted, repetitive or stereotyped behavior. The diagnostic criteria require that symptoms become apparent before a child is three years old. Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their synapses connect and organize; how this occurs is not well understood. It is one of three recognized disorders in the autism spectrum (ASDs. Researchers who compared the DNA of patients with autism and intellectual disability to that of their unaffected siblings found that the affected siblings had significantly more "runs of homozygosity," or blocks of DNA that are the same from both parents. The finding suggests a role for recessive inheritance in this autism subgroup and highlights homozygosity as a new approach to understanding genetic mechanisms in autism.
Researchers are striving to understand the different genetic structures that underlie at least a subset of autism spectrum disorders. In cases where the genetic code is in error, did that happen anew in the patient, perhaps through mutation or copying error, or was it inherited? A new study in the American Journal of Human Genetics finds evidence that there may often be a recessive, inherited genetic contribution in autism with significant intellectual disability.
It has long been presumed that there is a common cause at the genetic, cognitive, and neural levels for autism's characteristic triad of symptoms. However, there is increasing suspicion that autism is instead a complex disorder whose core aspects have distinct causes that often co-occur.
Autism has a strong genetic basis, although the genetics of autism are complex and it is unclear whether ASD is explained more by rare mutations with major effects, or by rare multigene
The research team led by Eric Morrow, assistant professor of biology in the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry at Brown University, made its findings by analyzing the DNA of more than 2,100 children with autism who were born into "simplex" families where neither their parents nor a sibling has an autism disorder — a Simons Foundation data set known as the Simons Simplex Collection. The researchers combed through the genomes of affected children and their siblings for so-called "runs of homozygosity" — long strands of DNA in which the genetic material contributed by both the mother and the father turn out to be the same.
Many genetic disorders are recessive, meaning that they won't occur in people who end up with at least one healthy copy of a gene. This may allow disease-associated variants to hide out in the population for generations without causing disease or fizzling out. But children with a high "burden of homozygosity," in which they have received long runs of the same DNA from each parent, might not get any working copies, as both mom and dad gave them the same flawed DNA. These parents may have unwittingly co-inherited these recessive variants from a distant shared relative about which neither parent is aware.
Virtually every participant in the study had small runs of homozygosity in their DNA here and there. For instance, everyone had at least runs of homozygosity adding up to a million DNA letters long. This reflects some degree of distant shared ancestry in the sample of parents who now live in North America. Approximately one-third of the pedigrees also had a least one larger block of homozygosity measured as 2.5 million letters. Parents of children with such larger blocks, the authors said, shared a common ancestor approximately 40 generations or 1,000 years ago.
The researchers found that among the more than 500 children in the sample with autism and intellectual disability — an IQ of 70 or below — there were frequently more large runs of homozygosity than in their unaffected siblings. The findings suggest that more deleterious recessive genetic variants were co-inherited from each parent in the affected sibling, the authors said, and these variants were derived from the remote shared ancestor of the parents.
The study does not find runs of homozygosity or recent shared ancestry to be a risk factor for autism across the population, Morrow said. Instead, within a given family, the autism-affected individual generally had more runs of homozygosity than an unaffected sibling, he said, suggesting that these runs may harbor recessive variants that tip the "apple-cart†toward disease in an individual that may already have a high degree of risk.
For a minimum run size of 2.5 million DNA letters, the affected siblings had a 1.32 times more runs of homozygosity than their unaffected brother or sister. Moreover, the likelihood of being affected with autism and having an IQ below 70 increased as total length of long runs of homozygosity increased.
The paper shows an association, therefore, in which a higher burden of homozygosity predicted a higher risk of developing autism with intellectual disability compared to a sibling. The study did not find any association between long runs of homozygosity and a risk of autism disorders without intellectual disability.
"Autism is a very broad, heterogeneous condition," Morrow said. "With genomics, we've begun to be able to dissect the heterogeneity into smaller groupings. We find an association between runs of homozygosity and those with co-occuring intellectual disability and autism, but not in so-called higher functioning autism."
The study also found a gender difference. In general girls are much less likely to be affected by autism but they tend to have more severe cases when they are, said study lead author Ece Gamsiz, who holds a Translational Neuroscience Fellowship at Brown and the Lifespan health care system. As has been seen previously, in the new study's data, girls were mysteriously abundant among the intellectual disabled patients, and those affected also showed a higher burden of runs of homozygosity compared to their sisters.
"In simplex families, [affected] females tend to have greater homozygosity compared to their same-gender unaffected siblings. This trend was not observed in same-gender male siblings," Gamsiz said.
In their search for genetic explanations of particular autism disorders, researchers have focused mostly on spontaneous mutations and having too many or too few copies of a gene to explain how autism arises in otherwise non-autistic families, Morrow said. Runs of homozygosity appear to be another place to look.
It is too soon to say, however, that homozygosity is a clinically useful biomarker, Morrow said, but with much more work it could prove to be.
For further information see DNA Markers.
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Did someone order Oscar-winner Ben Affleck with a side of music superstar Kanye West? Saturday Night Live sure did.
NBC announced today that Affleck will host the May 18 season finale, with Kim Kardashian's baby-daddy serving as musical guest.
And less than a year after leaving SNL, Kristen Wiig will return to her stomping grounds as the host on the May 11 episodes. Vampire Weekend will be the musical guest for Wiig's triumphant return to the 30 Rock stage.
Zach Galifianakis is set to host on May 4 with musical guest Of Monsters and Men.
Saturday Night Live, which is in its 38th season, has enjoyed a parade of multitalented hosts this year: Seth MacFarlane, Justin Timberlake, Melissa McCarthy, Jennifer Lawrence and Adam Levine have all graced the SNL stage this season.
(E! and NBC are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)
What do you think of the choices for the season finale? Happy to have Wiig back?
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On a day that began with news he had been recognized among the best rookies in the NBA, Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard's performance in the Spurs' 108-92 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal validated every voter whose support placed him in the elite first-year grouping.
Leonard scored 16 points, grabbed six rebounds and added three steals and a blocked shot in a complete performance at both ends of the court. His two offensive rebounds that followed a 10-0 Clippers run in the fourth quarter helped the Spurs escape a team that had rallied from 27 down in the second half of Game 1 in Memphis in the first round.
Leonard turned one of the rebounds into a putback attempt that drew a foul and two free throws, making both. The second rebound produced a second-chance basket by Tim Duncan.
"I just got the ball and went up strong," Leonard said of his first momentum-turning rebound. "I saw an opportunity. Nobody was boxing me out, so I just went in and got the ball."
Duncan appreciates the timely plays made by his young teammate.
"He's been great, one of those guys you can't script what he's going to do, but he goes out there and makes big plays for us," Duncan said. "He and Danny Green, too, kind of gets steals and blocks and makes those plays you can't draw up and count on. They just make them."
Big day for Leonard: Not since 2003, when a young rookie from Argentina began to make his mark, have the Spurs had a first-year player finish as high in Rookie of the Year voting as Leonard, fourth in this season's standings.
For Manu Ginobili, fourth in 2002-03, Leonard's rank among this season's rookies was well-earned after a season in which he started 39 games for the team that tied for the best record in the league.
"I think playing here was important," Ginobili said. "Playing for this franchise, we've usually had one or two rookies who play, but usually not getting as much of a role as Kawhi played because here it is hard for anyone new to get time.
"It was a great season for him. He's done great."
Drafted out of San Diego State for his defense and rebounding, Leonard's work with shooting coach Chip Engelland and player development coach Chad Forcier improved his offensive skills to the point he started 39 games.
"He's been a real dedicated player; a quick learner and done a good enough job for me to trust him to be in the starting lineup, so I'm happy for him," coach Gregg Popovich said.
It was the recognition of all that work that mattered most to Leonard.
"It's nice," Leonard said.
"All the hard work I put in is getting noticed by other people besides my teammates and myself."
Bearing some pain: Spurs point guard Tony Parker responded gracefully to news he would not be carrying the French flag into the Olympic Stadium during opening ceremonies of the London Olympics this summer.
After leading France to a berth in the tournament after a 12-year absence with MVP-type play in the European Championships, Parker was considered a strong possibility to carry the tri-color in London. Instead, the French Olympic Committee selected Laurel Flessel, who has won five medals in four prior Olympics.
Saying he was happy for Flessel to have been recognized, Parker vowed to do his best to get France on the medal stand in the Olympics.
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